Fychan and Owain Brogyntyn, his nephew Owain Cyfeiliog and his half-brother Iorwerth Goch. Mochnant was initially given to Iorwerth Goch, but in 1166 he was ejected by Owain Cyfeiliog and Owain Fychan, who took control of Mochnant Uwch Rhaedr and Mochnant Is Rhaedr respectively: Iorwerth later established himself in the Ceiriog Valley, becoming the castellan of Chirk.

The northern part of Powys, including Mochnant Is Rhaeadr, later became Powys Fadog; the southern part including Mochnant Uwch Rhaeadr became Powys Wenwynwyn. Following Edward I's conquest of Wales (1282-1283), Mochnant Is Rhaeadr become part of the Marcher Lordship of Chirk, but Mochnant Uwch Rhaeadr remained under Welsh rule. Later, Mochnant Is Rhaeadr was in Denbighshire, while Mochnant Uwch Rhaeadr was in Montgomeryshire.

The name survives in the placename Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, this villageBombs Again Shut Ceyhan Pipeline

Iraq’s oil exports to Turkey were halted again on Wednesday, this time by bomb attacks targeting the oil pipeline north of Baghdad.

Reuters‘ sources say one attack took place at around 0100 local time near Hadhar in Nineveh Province, 80 km south of Mosul, with another section of the line also attacked near Fatha, between Kirkuk and the northern city of Baiji.

“The process of oil production has not been compromised, though the exports have stopped altogether,” a senior executive from the state-owned North Oil Company told AFP, describing the attacks as “the most violent since 2003.”

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We have heard, and what is not covered here, is the environmental impacts. After the with the bombing of this pipeline, oil was


and how he was killed."

Mr Pereira also asked whether evidence had been lost in the six days before the IPCC became involved. Yesterday the IPCC said it had to "work hard" to recover lost ground after the Met had "initially resisted" the external investigation.

Sir Ian insisted that there had been no cover-up and any delay was because of the huge counter-terrorism operation under way at the time.

And this - Brazil are taking this extremely seriously - as I hoped they would:

A statement today from Brazil's foreign ministry said the disclosures leaked to the media this week over the killing of the innocent Brazilian had "outraged" the government.Judicial officials will visit London on Monday to meet with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which is investigating Mr de Menezes'death, and the Metropolitan police. The Brazilian foreign ministry said it expected the officials to "obtain ample clarifications".

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China Environmental Protection Foundation and Yuanyuan Industrial Co sign a contract to further promote clothes recycling in Shanghai. From left to right: Xu Guang, secretary general of the foundation, Yang Jiansheng, director of the foundation's Shanghai office, Li Chengfeng, publicity director of the foundation, Yang Yinghong, general manager of the company and Fang Fang, deputy director of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau.

Twenty-five companies and organizations were honored for their role in promoting environmental sustainability at the Green Supply Chain 2018 Shanghai Summit yesterday.

About 150 representatives from enterprises, associations and officials from related government departments attended the summit, which was jointly organized by Shanghai Society of Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment and Shanghai Daily.

The winners included three logistic companies which uses packages made of biodegradablelogistic companies were also among the winners.

Yuanyuan Industrial Co was honored for promoting recycled clothes.

By 2017, it had set up more than 1,750 bins in local communities to collect old clothes. Last year alone, it had collected about 1,700 tons of clothes. Some of them were cleaned and donated to impoverished areas, while others were recycled as textile raw materials.

At the summit, the China Environmental Protection Foundation and Yuanyuan signed a contract to promote the practice further in Shanghai.

Landsea, a Shanghai-based real estate company, joined hand with the Society of Enterprises and Ecology and few others to launch a program in 2016 to promote green materials in the industry. They hope to push their upstream suppliers to cut down on polluting carbon emission and other negative impact on


A forum for critical analysis of international issues and developments of particular relevance to the sustainable political and socio-economic development of Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs).

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Former Danish West Indies commemorates abolition of slavery

The 166st anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the former Danish West Indies – the present day US Virgin Islands - is celebrated on 3rd July 2014. At the commemorative programme held at Fort Frederik in Frederiksted, St. Croix during the 161st anniversary in 2009, an address was delivered by International Governance Advisor Dr. Carlyle G. Corbin entitled "Political Evolution: The Next Phase of Emancipation." The issues raised in the 2009 presentation remain very much unresolved in 2014 as the dependency looks ahead to the year 2017 which would mark 100 years ofU.S. unincorporated territorial status Below are excerpts of the 2009 address along with a link to the full text.

"... it is my firm belief that today, Emancipation Day, is our single most important holiday because it represents the successful struggle of the ancestors in abolishing the abominable system of slavery under the Kingdom of Denmark, beginning a long and arduous journey towards the pursuit – but not yet the attainment - of the civil, political and human rights of the people.

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It is interesting that Emancipation Day in other parts of the Caribbean is often the most important holiday on the calendar. Our close neighbor, the British Virgin Islands, commemorates its emancipation on the first Monday in August (August Monday). In fact, the Emancipation Festival in the BVI, as


in other British territories, is centered around Emancipation Day, with many activities dealing with cultural history and the struggle of African people who succeeded in defeating slavery under the British...

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Denmark’s acknowledgment of the past has been encouraging. In a 2007 report submitted to the United Nations, Denmark acknowledged its role in “the barbarism of transatlantic slave trade (which) constitute(d) one of the darkest chapters of our history, in terms of its magnitude, its organized nature and particularly its negation of the human dignity of the victims.

The Danish perspective, however, regards slavery as a legal institution at the time it was practiced, and as such, absolves them of any liability to this point. In any case, the Danes, too, should share in this July 3rd commemoration as well sinceour emancipation, and the cessation of that “crime against humanity,” was part of Danish political history and evolution, as well – even as emancipation was not one of benevolent enlightenment, but rather the result of the organized revolt by the enslaved Africans.

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The fact is that we are a people who have a right to self-determination under international law - but we have never exercised that right. The Charter of the United Nations and the human rights conventions such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights confirm this right as inalienable. This is not based on United Nations resolutions whose effect is not legally binding – although they are certainly morally binding. These are international treaties which


Telecommunications is not listed on our records or on the records of the State of [Georgia]." On June 26, 2008, the Fulton County Magistrate Court ordered the case transferred to the Gwinnett County Magistrate Court, based upon Mathis's status as a Gwinnett County resident. Because Mathis's claim exceeded its jurisdictional limits, however, the Gwinnett County Magistrate Court transferred the case to the Gwinnett County State Court on July 10, 2008.
On July 16, 2008, Mathis (through the Marshal's Office) served "AT & T Telecommunications" at Corporation Service Co. ("CSC"), 40 Technology Parkway, Suite 300, Norcross, Georgia. BellSouth filed a motion to dismiss, answer, and counterclaim to Mathis's complaint on August 15, 2008. BellSouth sought dismissal of the case based upon a lack of a proper party defendant, asserting thatit was now doing business as "AT & T Georgia" and that there was no such entity as AT & T Telecommunications. BellSouth's answer asserted, inter alia, affirmative defenses based upon insufficient service of process and insufficiency of process, as well as a counterclaim for breach of contract.
In her response to the motion to dismiss, Mathis stated that she "now correctly identifies the defendant as BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., d/b/a AT & T Georgia." She further stated that she had mistakenly identified the defendant as AT & T Telecommunications because she received her bills from AT & T, she made her checks payable to AT & T, and she mailed those checks to AT & T. Mathis also pointed out that while the complaint identified BellSouth by its trade


attorneys in downtown Los Angeles. He has been in practice since 1980, emphasizing employment law, intellectual property, and general business disputes. Mr. Markowitz was trained as a mediator in 1994, and has served on one state court and two federal court mediation panels, in addition to handling private mediations. He also served as president of the Southern California Mediation Association in 2014.

For more information about Mr. Markowitz’s law and dispute resolution practice, go to jcmarkowitz.comPeggy Lam

Peggy Lam Pei Yu-dja, GBS, OBE (; born 1928) is a Beijing loyalist politician in Hong Kong. She is the chief executive officer of the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong.

Family
Lam is the youngest cousin of I. M. Pei, the renowned architect. She graduated from the University of Shanghai with a bachelor's degree in Arts. She received a certificate in family planning from the University of Chicago and a certificate in Public Health Administration from the University of Michigan.

Politics
She was a member of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She was also a member of Legislative Council and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Chairman of the Wan Chai District Council.

In 2000, Lam was the chairperson of the Hong Kong Federation of


from the U. S. Congress. Meanwhile, a then-secret 1983 CIA cable noted a rise in "suspect right-wing violence" and an increasing number of bodies "appearing in ditches and gullies."  In turn, Guatemala was eager to resurrect the Central American Defense Council, defunct since 1969, to join forces with the right-wing governments of El Salvador and Honduras in retaliations against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

Like Guatemala's other suppliers of arms, Israel (which had been supplying arms to Guatemala since 1974) continued its aid provisions. The cooperation did not just involve material support, but also included providing intelligence and operational training, carried out both in Israel and in Guatemala. In 1982, Ríos Montt told ABC News that his success was due to the fact that "our soldiers wereRíos Montt's regime. Clinton declared: "For the United States, it is important I state clearly that support for military forces and intelligence units which engaged in violence and widespread repression was wrong and the United States must not repeat that mistake."

The same August President Portillo admitted involvement of the Guatemalan government in human rights abuses over the previous 20 years, including for two massacres that took place during Ríos Montt's presidency. The first was in Plan de Sánchez, in Baja Verapaz, with 268 dead, and in Dos Erres in Petén, where 200 people were murdered.

2003 presidential candidate
The FRG nominated Ríos Montt, in May 2003, for the November presidential election, but his candidacy was initially, and once again, rejected by the electoral registry and by two lower courts. In


charges for torture, genocide, illegal detention and state-sponsored terrorism against Ríos Montt and four other retired Guatemalan generals, two of them ex-presidents. Three other civilians that were high government official between 1978 and 1982 were also indicted. The Center for Justice and Accountability and Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de España are co-counsel in the trial.

In September 2005 Spain's Constitutional Court ruled that Spanish courts can try those accused of crimes against humanity even if the victims were not of Spanish origin.
In June 2006, Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz traveled to Guatemala to interrogate Ríos Montt and the others named in the case. At least 15 appeals filed by the defense attorneys of the indicted prevented him from carrying out the inquiries.

On July 7, Pedraz issued an international arrest warranta member of Congress he would again be immune from prosecution unless a court suspended him from office. He won his seat in the election, which was held on September 9, and led the FRG's 15-member congressional delegation in the new legislature.

His immunity ended on January 14, 2012, when his term in office ran out. On January 26, 2012, Ríos Montt appeared in court in Guatemala City and was formally indicted by Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz for genocide and crimes against humanity, along with three other former generals. During the court hearing he refused to comment. The court released him on bail, but placed him under house arrest pending commencement of his trial.
On March 1, 2012, a judge declined to grant Ríos Montt amnesty from genocide


Navy heroes. Intelligence sources believe the kidnapping of 14 men and one woman last week could be Safavi »

Peter Wehner, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives, is leaving the White House after six years. Wehner started out as a speechwriter. I understand that he helped write the president’s memorable address at the National Cathedral after the attack on 9/11. In 2002, Wehner moved into the top strategy position at the White House. In that capacity, as the Washington Post’s Peter Baker puts it, he »

I offer my tip of the hat to presidential candidates Bill Richardson and Mike Huckabee in light of their mentions in this Wall Street Journal article on the candidates’ wardrobes: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson faces a sartorial problem partly'Morning Joe' Scores Huge Ratings Win in Wake of Trump Tweets

The MSNBC show, already up significantly from 2016, surged more than 70 percent.

If there's a silver lining to President Donald Trump's crass public commentary about MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski and her Morning Joe colleague, Joe Scarborough, it's that viewers are apparently quite interested in their side of the story. Ratings for the A.M. talker surged before the July 4 holiday weekend, securing a rare victory over main competitor Fox & Friends.

Viewership for Friday's Morning Joe climbed 66 percent from the most recent quarterly average, with an average 1.66 million tuning in, per Nielsen Media. In the news demographic of adults 25-54, the show was up even more (73 percent) to an average 408,000. Both stats were enough to


push it above typical time slot victor Fox & Friends.

Morning Joe and the rest of the MSNBC lineup, as well as much of the cable news landscape, has already been enjoying a helluva year. The recently wrapped month of June has the show up 58 percent in adults 25-54 and 60 percent among total viewers compared to the same month in 2016.

President Trump's already colorful Twitter feed has been focusing an increased amount of vitriol towards the TV news media of late. On top of his comments about Brzezinski and Scarborough, most notably his claim that Brzezinski “was bleeding badly from a face-lift” when he saw her at his Florida golf course in the past year, Trump's tweets about CNN hijacked much of the news cycle over thelong weekend.

The Morning Joe duo have not shied away from commenting on the matter, or their ongoing bad blood with Trump, during their program. They used their first broadcast after the tweets in question to say the White House had threatened them with an unflattering National Enquirer story.

Brzezinski and Scarborough returned on air on Wednesday.


Azerbaijan’s 2015 Eurovision entry Elnur to make more promo stops in Europe

Azerbaijan’s 2015 Eurovision entry Elnur to make more promo stops in Europe

18 April, 2015 09:32

Baku. 18 April. REPORT.AZ/ Azerbaijan’s 2015 Eurovision entry Elnur Huseynov adds three more countries to his European promotional tour ahead of performance in Eurovision Second Semi Final in May. Elnur has already visited Riga and Budapest, Report informs citing oikotimes.com.

His latest tour destinations are Amsterdam and Moscow. This year Amsterdam’s annual Eurovision in Concert party has already attracted more than 20 participants of the Eurovision 2015. In Moscow he will join the stage of Pre-Eurovision Concert with ten other Eurovision entries.

On April 20th, Elnur will visit Ghent, Belgium. Elnur will be featured on MENT TV with presentation of his music video together andan interview. Elnur willl also be performing ‘Hour of the Wolf’ on TV-Limburg in Hasselt. In Brussels, Elnur will be meeting the Belgian Eurovision participant Loic Nottet at Sony Music Belgium.

From Belgium, Elnur will be heading to Greece on April 22nd. He will appear on popular morning TV show To Proino Mou. A photo shoot and an interview for Hello! Magazine and other Greek press are also scheduled for Elnur in Athens.

The final destination to Elnur’s tour is Tblisi, Georgia between April 26th-27th. He will not only perform his entry song but will also present it during a deep house-style style concert. On Monday 27th Elnur due to make an appearance on a morning TV show, as well as being interviewed by local press: Fortuna radio, Music Box


lacked atmosphere. Bowie’s best live albums have been the unofficial ones. This concert recording, culled from his 1976 US tour (and now a bonus with the recent reissue of Station to Station) is unyielding in its monochrome intensity.

Download “Waiting for the Man”

The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (1970)

Recorded in late 1969 and probably issued to counter various bootlegs in circulation, this is the sound of the Stones (with new boy Mick Taylor) in the ascendancy. It was instantly hailed as the best concert album by a rock band to date and was the first rock live LP to make No 1.

Download “Midnight Rambler”

Johnny Cash At San Quentin (1969)

Keen to repeat the success of his Folsom Prison recording of a year earlier, and accompanied by a GranadaTuesday, September 26, 2006

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Among the most poisonous provisions is one that would give state and local police agencies authority to enforce federal immigration laws. Police departments big and small have bristled at the idea, saying they lack the expertise and the resources to enforce immigration law. They say it would cripple crime fighting by severing hard-won relationships with potential victims and witnesses: immigrants who will end up fearing and avoiding them.

Counties across the United States are starting put into place immigration enforcement policies allowing them to detain and start deportation proceedings for illegal aliens that they arrest. The latest is Davidson County in Tennessee where Sheriff Daron Hall has filed a formal request with the Department of Homeland Security to start using the Delegation of Authority


has old friends, old enemies, old scars and old scores. Raymond Chandler defined this kind of detective protagonist in his 1950 essay The Simple Art of Murder and the similarities are strong.

…down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honour, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. Heis a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge.

This genre splicing of high fantasy and hardboiled detective is vital to the success of The Witcher 3 both for its story and tone, but also, and unusually, to the mechanics that define how the player engages with the game.

Geralt, like most fictional detectives, is an outsider, brought in to solve mysteries, disappearances, murders and unexplained phenomena. He is seldom welcomed with open arms. Geralt’s unpopularity with the characters who hire him


more believable than the whooping, cheering cadaver-junkies that little most other games. Geralt takes no pleasure in combat or killing, he is detached, workmanlike. In a game that paints its characters so vividly this is really the only way that he could fit into it without seeming to be a monster himself. Indeed for a game ostensibly about a man who kills things for a living the game takes a dim view of violence in general.

As the game progresses Geralt grows as a protagonist. His stoicism in his day to day dealings serves to add weight to those later moments when he lets his guard down. The subtle changes to his demeanour as he deals with different people make him an incredibly likeable character too. He is goodBen Hindman

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Ben is one of the creators of Apache Mesos, a platform for building and running resource-efficient distributed systems at scale. Ben started working on Mesos as a PhD student at Berkeley before he brought it to Twitter where it runs on thousands of machines. An academic at heart, his research in programming languages and distributed systems has been published in leading academic conferences.


Last month, a New York City couple was denied access to the Statue of Liberty because they were wearing T-shirts that said "Abolish ICE," Gothamist reports.

The National Parks Service has now said that not allowing the couple to complete their prepaid tour was a "misstep," per the outlet.

Tiffany Huang told Gothamist she'd never been to the monument before, but felt compelled to make a statement following the Trump administration's controversial family separation policy.

Afterward, the couple contacted the New York Civil Liberties Union, who got in contact with the NPS.

The couple will return the statue on Friday, Huang said.

Last month, a New York City couple was denied access to the Statue of Liberty because they were wearing T-shirts that said "Abolish ICE," Gothamist reports.

Tiffany Huang and her fiancé wereNew York Civil Liberties Union, who got in contact with the National Parks Service, per Gothamist.

According to the NYCLU, what happened the couple at the statue could be considered what's called viewpoint discrimination. Viewpoint discrimination, according to Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, refers to the idea that "the government may not discriminate against speakers based on their views."

"Prohibiting would-be visitors to the Statue of Liberty from accessing the nation's most prominent public symbol of welcoming immigrants simply because of the message on their shirts violates our most sacred values," NYCLU staff attorney Jordan Wells told INSIDER. "We're glad that the Parks Service has recognized the error."

The couple has been refunded for their tickets — and has been given the opportunity to return to the monument, Gothamist reports.


wasn't sure what this was all about. So the kids make crafts and then they shop. After they shop, the bring their bag of goodies to the wrappers. For the most part, there were two of us and then a third lady joined us. Thank goodness! The things these kids had. Some of them had ten stuffed animals in a bag. Ever wrap one of them? So Ping painted a brick to look like a reindeer, made a beaded wreath and she also made a little nativity scene. It was really quite cute. I was going to take photos, but I was busy wrapping the entire party. She shopped with some of the other women at church. She got something for me and a bunch of stuff forAussie troops investigated over alleged war crimes against children

A SECRET Defence inquiry is examining the conduct of several Australian troops in relation to the alleged killing of at least two children, an ABC investigation has revealed.

It has been alleged that one of the boys, Khan Mohammed, 14, was collecting figs when he was shot dead by Australian special forces on morning patrol in 2012.

The boy’s body was reportedly left where it fell and later recovered by local villagers who claimed the killing was never reported up the official chain of command.

In a statement, an Australian Federal Police spokesperson confirmed the matter had been referred to the Australian Defence Force for investigation.

“On 2 September 2016 the Chief of Army Australia Defence Force (ADF) referred a matter to the AFP


Q:

Why did Loyalists go to Canada during the American Revolution

I am currently learning about the American Revolution and I have some questions about the loyalists.
I know that they were supportive of the British Empire, but why did they leave the U.S. and, when they got to Canada, what were they promised for their loyalty? All I know is that they were promised land because of their loyalty to go to Canada. And one reason why they went to Canada was to settle there. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

A:

Loyalists who lived in the 13 colonies fled to Canada because Canada was part of the British Empire.  In Canada they could still be British.  If they stayed in the colonies they would be traitors to the King.

When their cause was defeated, about 15% of the Loyalists (65,000–70,000 people) fled to other parts of the British Empire, to Britain itself, or to British North America (now Canada). Wikipedia

There was much more land available in Canada than in Britain.  As @reirab points out,

The entirety of Great Britain fits inside the province of British Columbia alone... 4 and a half times! Granted, most of the land in Canada is also much colder than Britain for a large portion of the year.

Land was very important; land was wealth.  Land was more important than income.  Land was vital for economic and political rights - the true importance of owning land is difficult to explain without a long article on the theory of British rights


& politics.
Simplified since OP said that the Wikipedia article presented linguistic challenges

A:

The Loyalists supported the losing side during the American Revolution. That's because they represented only about 15% of the American population, versus 45% for the Revolutionaries. After the Declaration of Independence, most pro-British officials were chased out of the colonies, and most Loyalists hid their views, at least until the British army came to their communities.
During and immediately after the war, Loyalists were mistreated and shunned by the winning and later victorious Patriots. Some attempts were made to conciliate them after the war, but many felt that it would be better to start fresh under British rule elsewhere, with some financial assistance from Britain for their loyalty.

injury and he or she knows, or in
the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known, that the injury is
likely work-related.

Childs v. Haussecker, 974 S.W.2d 31, 33 (Tex. 1998) (emphasis added).

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          The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to Youngblood, showed the
following:  Youngblood worked at Kilgore Ceramics from 1959 until his retirement in 1999.
There was testimony from several sources that Youngblood worked around silicon dust
and that (for at least some portion of his employment) he worked in an area in which he
was also exposed to asbestos.  Youngblood testified he retired because he was no longer
able to work due to breathing problems and a continuous cough that was eventually
accompanied by excessive phlegm production.  According to Youngblood, it was not until
December 1997 that he learned he


went to see Gail Stockman, M.D.,
in Longview.  At the time of his deposition in this case, Youngblood could not recall what
Stockman told him regarding his tests at her office.  Youngblood, however, denied being
told by Stockman in 1992 that he had silicosis.
          In 1997, doctors again thought Youngblood's employer-sponsored x-ray appeared
abnormal.  The company physician suggested Youngblood see his personal physician for
further evaluation.  That letter, like the one Youngblood received in 1992, did not suggest
he had silicosis.  According to Youngblood, he was not told he had silicosis and asbestosis
until he later saw Peter Petroff, M.D., of Independent Medical Associates, a company hired
at that time by his employer to review its workers' x-ray results.
          On August 28, 1998, Youngblood sued a number of defendants,various other
diseases) as early as 1992.  The 1992–1996 medical records, however, do not affirmatively
indicate Youngblood was ever made aware of these differential diagnoses.  For example,
Youngblood reported shortness of breath beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with
subsequent onset of prolonged coughing in the 1990s.  One doctor told Youngblood his
condition was probably the result of smoking cigarettes.  Youngblood received news of
abnormal x-rays in 1992 from Goldstein (a company physician) and from Stockman
(Youngblood's personal physician).  According to Youngblood, however, Stockman found
no evidence of silicotic material, silicosis, or tuberculosis.  It was not until he met with
Petroff December 5, 1997, that anyone told Youngblood he had silicosis.
          From 1992 until 1997, the doctors hired by Kilgore Ceramics made repeated
suggestions, in writing, that Youngblood visit


live in fear after the age of 50 and experience increased feelings of vulnerability, says a new study.//
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British researchers have found evidence that male babies who grow slowly in their first year of life have lower incomes in later life. The results hold true regardless of the socioeconomic status of the child's family, suggesting that slow infant growth may be accompanied by hampered brain developm...

...d Andrew Hetzel, BCBSM vice president for corporate communications. "We sympathize with our individual members - particularly those who live on fixed incomes or who have lost jobs. Blue Cross wants to continue providing affordable coverage. But we need a regulatory systemit is still a place where taxes per capita are above the national average and incomes per capita are below the national average. That gap isn't sustainable for the long term.
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...The world food yield per acre has nearly doubled, and food prices have declined as a percentage of the family income. Americans spent about half their incomes on staying fed in the early 1900s; it was about 10 percent by the late 1990s.
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...wo in five adults graduated from college. Is it any surprise that household incomes in Dane County are proportionately higher?
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Global FDI down in 2018 due to government interventions, Trump, Brexit: U.N.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Global foreign direct investment (FDI) fell by 13 percent last year because of government intervention, Brexit uncertainty and U.S. President Donald Trump's tax and trade policies, the United Nations trade and development agency UNCTAD said on Wednesday.

UNCTAD forecasts a modest recovery of 10% this year, though with high uncertainty, since several of the policies that have dampened investment enthusiasm are still in place, and there is no sign of an end to technological rivalry between major powers.

"The Cold War that underpins technological competition is not going to be over in the next few years," UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi told reporters, referring to the rivalry between China and the United States.

FDI, comprising cross-border mergers andacquisitions (M&A), intra-company loans and investment in start-up projects abroad, is a bellwether of globalisation and a potential sign of growth of corporate supply chains and future trade ties.

In 2018, FDI into developed countries totalled $557 billion, the lowest since 2004, while a record 54% of the total went to developing countries.

NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS

Policies rather than economic factors put the brakes on FDI spending, UNCTAD investment chief James Zhan said, including Trump's tax reform, which encouraged U.S. firms to repatriate earnings, effectively sucking FDI out of foreign projects.

Preliminary UNCTAD figures in January suggested that effect might be even bigger than it turned out to be, but after withdrawing $400 billion in the first half of 2018, some companies started looking afresh at foreign deals.

A second dampener on FDI


was big countries blocking deals for national security reasons and for dominance of emerging strategic industries.

UNCTAD found 22 deals worth $50 million or more that were blocked in 2018, worth $150 billion in all, equivalent of 12 percent of global FDI.

The largest was a proposed $117 billion takeover of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm by Singapore's Broadcom, which Trump blocked for national security reasons, UNCTAD said.

This year the trend has continued, while the United States has stepped up its technology battle by trying to thwart the takeup of 5G mobile phone technology developed by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which Kituyi said was "at the very centre and embodies the main features of the emerging technology war".

But with firms working across so many international borders, it is unclear how the strugglewill play out, he said.

FDI was also impacted by a reordering of global assets driven mainly by the U.S.-China trade war, with many export-oriented firms moving out of China to Southeast Asia or India.

The reconfiguration could accelerate with the advent of two major multi-country trade deals, known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership).

Britain's plan to leave the European Union also weighed.

"Investment flows to the UK declined last year by 36% and it's not just for the UK - the process creates unpredictability and that affects the whole EU market," Zhan said.


A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia has indicted Bijan Rafiekian and Kamil Ekim Alptekin, both associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, for efforts to secure the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen from the United States to Turkey. The document is available here and below.10 Places That Prove Earth is a Seriously Weird Place

Joey Steigerwald

1. The Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

According to legend, the Irish giant Fionn was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant Benandonner and built the causeway so the two could fight.

The causeway was formed 50 to 60 million years ago from cooling lava which caused contraction. The cooling lava caused cracks similar to the way mud dries. As pieces slowly fell away, what remained is the pillar-like structures that exist today. In total there are about 40,000 individual hexagonal columns that form stepping stones out of the sea up to the base of the coastal cliffs.

Today, the Giant’s Causeway is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a popular tourist destination. Access is free to the public, so next


to where Dermott fits. Not close to the Big Four, but in the range of the Kasperi Kapanen and Timothy Liljegren. Dermott and Kapanen are within a year of each other in terms of age, and both broke into the NHL full-time at the same time after strong AHL seasons. Liljegren showed well among the group because of his upside and right shot. The community also appears to be in agreement with this position. Yay! Everyone’s getting along!!

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In his first NHL draft with the team, Kyle Dubas famously traded down (twice) in order to take Dermott with their second pick in 2015, 34th overall. Touted as a smart defender who benefited from having Connor McDavid, Dylan Strome, and Connor Brown as his teammates on the Erie Ottersfantastic 28-game stretch to begin the season for the Marlies saw the quickly ascending prospect put up a 69% GF% (20 for, 9(!) against). Over the course of the season, the only players with a better goal differential were Kapanen, Miro Aaltonen, and Mason Marchment. Dermott was far-and-away the best defender on the Marlies and became the defensively responsible mentor to 18-year-old rookie Liljegren on the first pair.

On January 5th, Dermott was called up to the NHL and never looked back (except the two games he played for the Marlies during the Leafs’ week off, and the Calder Cup playoffs). Both the fans and organization alike were finally able to witness the dynamic, confident, new-age defenseman that was Travis Dermott. And when I say “new-age” I really mean


New Zealand's student body president says university halls that are still charging students for accommodation could be in breach of a new law designed to protect them.

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Halls linked to Canterbury, Auckland, Otago and AUT universities are offering partial rebates, while Victoria is charging students a placeholder fee from today.

The Education Pastoral Care Amendment Act came into effect after the death of Canterbury student Mason Pendrous, whose body lay undiscovered in a hall of residence for weeks.

The Act sets out a general duty of pastoral care that tertiary education providers have for domestic tertiary students, and specific requirements for those who provide student accommodation.

It reads: "Providers are required to support the safety and wellbeing of students and improve the consistency of standards in student accommodation."

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The Original Shaolin Monk

by Goran Powell, June 7, 2010

Bodhidharma (Daruma) by Hakuin

The Shaolin Temple is regarded as the birthplace of Zen and Kung Fu—the first place in history to combine the training of a warrior with the spiritual practices of a monk. The beginning of this unique tradition is attributed to the monk Bodhidharma (Da Mo in Chinese, Daruma in Japanese) who visited China as a Buddhist missionary around A.D. 520. Most of what is written about Bodhidharma takes the form of myth and legend, but who was Bodhidharma the man, and where did he come from?

Sources vary about his origins. Most agree he was from India and his birthplace is often cited as Kanchipuram in the kingdom of Pallava (modern-day Tamil Nadu, in southeast India). Some have


him coming from Persia or Central Asia, which is certainly possible since Buddhism had spread from India into Asia by the time of Bodhidharma. In Zen history it says simply that Bodhidharma came ‘from the West’ which—since almost everywhere is west of China—could have been any of these places!

The most common route between India and China was the long, circuitous trail known as the Silk Roads, which took the traveller through Central Asia to avoid the natural barrier of the Himalayas. However most sources have Bodhidharma coming by sea since, at the time of his journey, the passes of Northern India were occupied by the Huns, making them more dangerous than usual. Other sources have him taking the direct route to China through the mountains of Tibet.

Bodhidharma inChina

However he got there, the story continues as follows: Bodhidharma arrives in China at a time when Buddhism is in great demand. The Emperor Wu Di is himself a keen Buddhist, and Bodhidharma meets with him in the southern capital, Nanjing. They have a brief and rather fruitless conversation. The emperor asks how much merit he has acquired for all the benefits he has bestowed on the Buddhist community—earning merit is a Buddhist tradition that brings good karma—and Bodhidharma tells him bluntly, ‘no merit.’ The emperor asks who does Bodhidharma think he is, and Bodhidharma replies that he has no idea. With this, Bodhidharma leaves for the northern capital of Loyang.

This style of enigmatic conversation is typical of the Bodhidharma legend, and, like the famous Zen koans (riddles),


is meant to stimulate thought and enquiry rather than be taken at face value. When the emperor asks about achieving merit, Bodhidharma disdains the childish notion that good deeds can somehow notch up points towards good fortune. To him, an enlightened being acts with infinite compassion expecting nothing in return, seeking neither praise nor blame, and finding happiness in good fortune and bad. In the second exchange, Bodhidharma claims not to know himself. This illustrates one of the principle aims of Zen, which is to rid the practitioner of the illusion that we exist as separate entities from the world around us.

Bodhidharma ends up at the Shaolin monastery, where he stays for nine years. Much of his time is spent meditating in a cave, where he faces theif, as legend has it, Bodhidharma was the son of a nobleman or a king, it’s probable that he was schooled in warfare from a young age.

While Buddhism was being practiced in Shaolin before his arrival, Bodhidharma introduced his own unique brand of Buddhism, known as Chan in Chinese, and Zen in Japanese. He believed enlightenment (nirvana) is achieved through meditation rather than intellectual learning and did not emphasise the memorization of the Buddhist scriptures that is common in some schools. For him, enlightenment was not achieved through a series of small intellectual stepping-stones, but rather from a sudden dawning realization or ‘awakening’ within the whole of a person’s being (both the conscious and unconscious mind). This profound realization could be triggered by anything: a single word, the


sight of a bird in flight, or the thump of the master’s fist on the student’s chest!

Zen Style Painting of Bodhidharma

In Zen paintings, Bodhidharma is depicted as a foreigner with dark skin, round, bulging eyes, black curly hair, a long, hooked nose, and rings in his ears. He is barefoot, wearing a simple robe, and carrying a stick over one shoulder with one sandal hanging from its end. The images of Bodhidharma by his devotees are created to match the legends told of him. His bulging eyes come from the story that as well as Zen and Kung Fu, he also introduced tea to China. The tale goes that Bodhidharma drank tea to stay awake during his long hours of meditation. After falling asleep during one session, hegenerations of martial artists.

Goran Powell's martial arts training spans more than 35 years, and today he holds the rank of 5th dan black belt in Goju Ryu Karate. He is a qualified instructor with Daigaku Karate Kai (DKK), one of the United Kingdom’s leading clubs, and assistant coach to the successful Mixed Martial Arts team, DKK Fighters.

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nice. also i would like to know and learn kungfu and also meditation through it. pls help me. thank you

bhushan – December 27, 2010, 2:49 pm

So sir, do you mean that bodhidharma was the founder of shaolin kung fu.....
a traditional Chinese practice was founded by a tamil monk....

asif dash – October 27, 2011, 2:01 pm

i pround i'm a hindu. the founder of kungfu and other merital arts are
hindu (tamilan). every hindu must


Yet circumstantial evidence revealed Monday that the round that killed Colson, who was serving in his fourth year with the department, was friendly fire, Stawinski said at a news conference Monday night. He said it was possible the other cops mistook their fellow officer, who was dressed for undercover duty, for another gunman.the prescription for the cough syrup.  The physician had prescribed a dosage of two teaspoons every four hours.  However, according to Wimm the label attached to the cough syrup bottle by the pharmacist indicated that the proper dosage was two tablespoons every four hours.

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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - A military judge is to address the latest snag holding up the trial in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage: the former defense attorneys' objections to helping the suspect as he represents himself in court.

Maj. Nidal Hasan's three ex-attorneys have been ordered to assist during his court-martial if he asks. But they say it's unethical for them to give legal advice about his defense strategy. Hasan has said he'll argue that he shot U.S. troops on the Texas Army post to protect Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.

The judge is expected to rule Friday on the attorneys' objections and possibly about whether to allow Hasan's defense strategy.

Hasan, an American-born Muslim, faces the death penalty if convicted in the 2009 rampage that left 13 dead andnaturally have other things going on in their lives. You may be inclined to believe that after attending a church for 5 years, serving in ministries within the church community, moving to the town in which the church is located, living within three blocks of at least 10 people who I would call my brothers and sisters of my church community, and serving as a leader on staff that I would feel I am reaching some point of depth with the community, but I can tell you that it is not so.

I believe that somehow, as invisible and far-away as he sometimes seems, God has called me, led me, and allowed me to take those steps for some greater purpose that will be unknown wholly to me until


rule changes he is advocating - that preselections be decided by a plebiscite of members rather than faction dominated party structures - be adopted at a special NSW Liberal Party rules conference in June.

"A seat like Warringah needs to be for a minister, or potential minister," argued one powerbroker who declined to be named.

"Tony's a bit like Bronwyn (Bishop). She was never going to be promoted again."

Mr Abbott, who said two weeks ago he intended to recontest his seat, still aspires to return to the ministry.

He appears on high-rating radio station 2GB three times every fortnight, giving him a platform to talk directly to the conservative base.

On Monday, in another provocative intervention, he repeated his five policy demands, including a cut to immigration, that the Coalition should adopt.

MostAtmospheric Sciences & Global Change Research Highlights

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Results: Pollution controls in Beijing and the adjacent provinces were only part of the air quality improvement story during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that rain at the beginning and wind during the games were at least as important as emission controls in reducing pollution particles. Their research suggests that to improve the air quality over major cities in China, emission control planning should focus on the regional scale instead of the local scale.

Why It Matters: With a population of more than 16 million, Beijing is one of the largest cities in the world, with an air quality problem to match. The 2008


and John Churton Collins was thirty-eight. Gosse—now best known for the still widely read memoir he published in 1907, “Father and Son”—already enjoyed a reputation as one of the major literary critics of his day, a feat of considerable self-invention for someone with no university education. His father, the eminent naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, was a devout member of the Plymouth Brethren, an extreme Calvinist sect, and was so certain that his son was bound for the clergy that he saw no need to send him to university.

John Churton Collins received a solid education at Oxford, and had published highly regarded editions of the works of John Dryden and of the playwright Cyril Tourneur. But in 1885 he had been turned down for a professorship at Oxford, andwas struggling to support his wife and seven children by writing reviews and teaching Latin at Mr. Scoones’s, on Garrick Street, a “crammer” where future functionaries were got through their examinations. It was an improvement over his first job, addressing envelopes at two shillings and sixpence per thousand.

This suggests that envy might have played a role in the Quarterly confrontation, and yet in the preceding years the two men had been friendly acquaintances. During the summer of 1878, Collins stayed with Gosse for several pleasant days, and, in subsequent years, Gosse favorably reviewed Collins’s editions of Tourneur and of Dryden. Collins wrote Gosse a number of grateful letters: “I thoroughly believe in your haven, and your genius and your ultimate success—success I mean in the highest sense of


the word.” Gosse, not knowing that for Churton Collins idealization was the stage before destruction, was flattered.

At the time of the Quarterly affair, Gosse, who was married and had three children, was the Clark Lecturer at Cambridge University. He had been recommended for the position by Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and succeeded Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf’s distinguished father. Gosse—cheerful, perceptive, ingratiating, and witty—was the sort of person everyone wanted at a dinner party. Woolf later wrote that Gosse, at the end of his life, was loath to leave “a world which, with the solitary exception of Churton Collins, had showered upon him so many delightful gifts.” She also said that he could be “as touchy as a housemaid and as suspicious as a governess”;He forgot names and dates; he misquoted; in his collections of essays—“Gossip in a Library,” “Aspects and Impressions”—he kept to pleasant surfaces and avoided the depths. T. S. Eliot, writing in The Criterion in 1931, declared, “I cannot conceive of a future society in which Sir Edmund Gosse would be possible,” classifying him among “popular entertainers for whom there will be no demand.” This is a little too cutting. Gosse was among the first to write an appreciation in English of André Gide, he worked hard to try to secure the Nobel Prize for James, and his biographies of Ibsen and Donne gave important recognition to a playwright who was considered too radical and a poet then known only for his sermons.

John Churton Collins—tactless, encyclopedic, high-minded, and industrious—was


was a much greater poet than Horace and we fought.” Collins found his company among the poets of previous ages; he felt very close to those who wrote in Latin, and, he said, he “clung to Greek.”

Collins had a talent for invidious distinction and a pained intolerance of the graceful sham; he sifted the evidence of literature as if he were a detective. He was a founding member of the Murder Club, where he and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had a relationship of great mutual respect, and he often wrote about criminal cases for the papers. Collins’s prodigious memory, his knowledge of Latin, and his historical precision made him uniquely well qualified to judge the portraits that Edmund Gosse drew of certain seventeenth-century English poets—Edmund Waller, Sir JohnDenham, William Davenant, and John Dryden—who had been strongly influenced by the Roman poets. Unfortunately, these figures were at the center of “From Shakespeare to Pope,” Edmund Gosse’s ambitious foray into serious literary scholarship.

In 1884, newly appointed the Clark Lecturer, Gosse hastened off to give a series of lectures in America. He hoped, as he wrote to his friend William Dean Howells, who arranged the tour, that in America he would finally move beyond what he felt to be his current position in England: “hanging by my eyelids to the outer cliff of fame.”

The lectures were terrifically well received, a tribute to Gosse’s appealing style of presentation, given that the material—which chronicled the development of the distich (a strictly rhyming couplet that contains a complete thought)—was not guaranteed


the catalogue of crimes against literary scholarship and pedagogy then being perpetrated by the British university.

Churton Collins was active in the University Extension Movement, which was attempting to make education more widely available, and he believed that English universities were failing to recognize the strengths of English literature—endowing chairs in Anglo-Saxon but none for scholars of Shakespeare or Milton, and teaching “Macbeth” only as an exercise in Elizabethan grammar. He envisaged a field of literary scholarship that would be both exacting and vital, and he felt this could be achieved by integrating the study of English literature with that of the classics: “The literature of antiquity was to Milton’s genius what soil and light are to a plant.” To him, the philology then dominating the academy was tohad circulated both the gibe and the attribution. (Tennyson had, less memorably, called Collins “a jackass.”) Gosse himself wrote a public letter with a meagre defense of his scholarship and a few paragraphs explaining how hurtful had been this betrayal of friendship by “my Quarterly Reviewer.”

Collins handled the matter with his customary maladroitness. He wrote that he thought Gosse was being very thin-skinned; after all, when, the previous year, he had said equally critical things about Swinburne in the Quarterly Review, he had heard nothing at all from the poet. As it happened, Swinburne hadn’t known of that attack until alerted by Collins’s letter. Now he came storming into the brawl (“May the God of letters preserve me from the deep disgrace of deserving his commendation!”), and Collins


always thought of as a most appealing little bird. The Gosses were certain that their songbird had a spiritual gift and gave themselves completely to his religious education.

Edmund wondered if his mother might have been “intended by nature to be a novelist,” but she had been convinced as an adolescent that fiction was the Devil’s work and grew up to write religious tracts, for which she was very well known in her lifetime. She deprived herself and her son of the pleasure of stories. Gosse, in an often quoted passage of “Father and Son,” writes of discovering, on a newspaper lining a box in the attic, some fragments of a thrilling serial, and of how he read them “kneeling on the bare floor, with indescribable rapture.” Having noprevious experience of fiction, he believed every word.

Perhaps Edmund was also meant to be a novelist; certainly his family story was the right material for him. Gosse had a gift for reminding the reader of the strange distortions one feels as a child. He rose to the most difficult occasions not so much by remembering them accurately as by conveying them with emotional force. Describing his mother’s final illness, when he was seven, he says, “I felt, as I stood, awkwardly and shyly, by her high bed, that I had shrunken into a very small and insignificant figure, that she was floating out of my reach, that all things, but I knew not what nor how, were coming to an end.”

The defining loss of John Churton Collins’s life


was the death of his father. When John was nine years old, Henry Ramsay Collins signed on, for vague reasons of ill health, to be a ship’s doctor on a vessel bound for Australia and, in the harbor in Melbourne, fell off a pier, broke his leg, went into the hospital, was given a diagnosis of consumption, and died. Much grieved, John, his two younger brothers, and their mother drew close to one another; for financial support, they relied upon her brother. At school, John was held in high regard for the wonderful adventure stories he told. Once, the other boys were so appreciative that they got together to give him some money for books—he bought, among other things, the poems of Edward Waller. Churton Collins reported thismoment of approbation to his mother with pleasure and some surprise; it seems that he rather expected to be overlooked.

At Oxford, he was a more confident figure: he wore a velveteen jacket, was never seen without his deerhound Prince, and reminded his classmate Andrew Lang of the charming and attractive Will Ladislaw, from George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” then being published in installments. He still turned to his uncle for support and guidance, but, in being careless with funds, not getting a first at Oxford, and choosing criticism over the clergy, he proved such a disappointment that his uncle declined ever to see him again. This was particularly painful as the uncle had been quite proud of his clever nephew; the family always talked about John’s immaculate botany collection and


loved to tell the story of how he had once recited two thousand lines of Virgil from memory—a cousin checking his recitation against the original—and hesitated over only two words.

These were virtues that Philip Gosse would have prized. He used to send Edmund out for walks and demand a list of observations on his return. Edmund loved collecting specimens in the tidal pools of the Devonshire coast with his father, and some of the most vivid descriptions he wrote as an adult were of a world that had long since been destroyed: “No one will see again the submarine vision of dark rocks, speckled and starred with an infinite variety of colour, and streamed over by silken flags of royal crimson and purple.” When Philip Gosse was awayof binding him to religion, as his father had hoped, it gave Gosse his first taste of public acclaim. When, at seventeen, he gave up his faith in favor of the seductions of the London literary world, he fully expected a complete break with his father, but no punishment ever came.

The world was less forgiving of Philip Gosse, who struggled to square his religious devotion and his insistent empiricism. As Edmund wrote of his father, “Every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light” of evolutionary theory, but his strictly literal interpretation of doctrine held him back. From this dilemma came “Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot,” in which Philip Gosse asserted that God had made even the fossil record during


had one of the most productive years of his life. Henry James set aside his play, returned to novels, and went on to write “The Ambassadors,” “The Wings of the Dove,” and “The Golden Bowl.” Edmund Gosse, too, fared well. Choosing not to stand for reëlection at Cambridge, he left there without disgrace in 1889. The year before, his father had died. Edmund claimed that Philip Gosse, in terrible pain, had, at the last, been enraged with God, though this may have been his usual enhancement of the story, as others reported a more peaceful death. Still, the younger Gosse had felt what Henry James in his letter of condolence called “the removal of so unmitigable a presence,” and in some way this freed him. Years after theQuarterly review, Gosse made his most resonant portraits in “Father and Son”; William Dean Howells expressed the general opinion when he wrote that “in all the autobiographic books I have read, I remember nothing equalling it.” Beginning in 1919, Gosse had a regular column in the Sunday Times, through which he wielded enormous influence. He was given an honorary degree from Cambridge in 1920, was knighted in 1925, and after one round of celebrations genially complained that he was being “stifled in roses.”

Just over a decade after “the scandal of the year,” Gosse wrote “A Short History of Modern English Literature.” With the spectre of Churton Collins in mind, he sent frantic letters to his publisher with corrections. Churton Collins did get hold of the book and did


savage Gosse again, using the same strategy and criticisms and even the same turns of phrase, but the forgetfulness that made Gosse vulnerable to attack also spared him from lasting injury. This time, Gosse and his friends paid scant attention; the “Short History,” though error-ridden, became a standard text and went through ten printings.

“The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded,” Collins once wrote with mordant self-knowledge. He applied for a chair of English literature at Oxford in 1904, and though the twenty-seven referees thought his the best application, he was turned down. He did gain an appointment at Birmingham University, but he remained isolated from the community of scholars so dear to him, and his extraordinary memory—for dates and distichs,abandonments and betrayals—may have worsened a tendency toward melancholy. In 1908, the year after “Father and Son” was published to wide acclaim, John Churton Collins was found drowned in a ditch near Lowestoft, possibly a suicide.

In the end, the Quarterly affair left the pattern of the two men’s lives intact. When the denizens of Cambridge and the House of Lords and the subscribers to the Sunday Times decided whom to read and whom to honor, Edmund Gosse they remembered, and John Churton Collins they forgot. ♦


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Lighten up on the caffeine. The more caffeine you consume, the harder it’ll be to fall asleep at night.Play ball, Portland!

KERRY EGGERS ON SPORTS/PORTLAND TRIBUNE/It will take a few years, but the groundwork for MLB already is well underway, and the odds for having a team here are good

Some good people have made some really good attempts at bringing major league baseball to Portland through the years.

In the 1960s, the Delta Dome bond measure failed by a few thousand votes, or Portland would have an NFL franchise, and likely a major-league team, too.

In 2003, a David Kahn-led Oregon Stadium Campaign helped push through House Bill 3606, which applied state income tax from player and executive salaries toward $150 million dedicated to a new stadium. The Portland group was trying to lure the Montreal Expos, who wound up moving to Washington, D.C.

Since 2001, Lynn Lashbrook — bless


his soul — has made drumming up support for a stadium a personal crusade, the latest idea an all-wooden structure featuring Northwest timber products on the site of the old Vaughn Street Ballpark.

All well and good. Since the house bill was passed 15 years ago, I've believed major league baseball in the city could happen.

Now, as the Portland Diamond Project swings into gear, I truly believe it will.

The timing is right. The people involved are right.

The ownership, I'm told, is on board, though the identify of those in the investment group will remain private for now.

The management group (PDP) includes retired Nike vice president Craig Cheek and former Oregon state senator Jason Atkinson, a pair of heavy hitters with connections to help in the political and legal realms.Cheek attended the winter major league baseball meetings in Orlando.

Former Trail Blazers broadcaster Mike Barrett, a respected and trusted name in the community, adds credibility as another managing partner.

This trio has been working behind the scenes for some time, positioning Portland for an opportunity get an MLB team through either relocation or expansion. The group met with Rob Manfred in New York City last September, a week before the commissioner identified Portland as on the list for potential expansion cities.

With a strong group of investors — including a pair of majority owners who live out of state — the private portion will generate the majority of capital necessary to fund a stadium project that will exceed $1 billion. The $150 million from the 2003 house bill would be


stadiums and weak attendance bases.

In February, Tampa Bay announced a new stadium site, but must come up with some $700 million to complete the proposed project.

Tampa Bay ranks 23rd in the major leagues in average attendance so far this season at 17,202 in Tropicana Field. A recent three-game homestand versus Texas averaged 8,997. A year ago, the Rays were last in the league with a 15,670 average.

For years, the A's have been trying to replace decrepit Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, the worst place in the major leagues to watch a game.

Oakland is last in average attendance this season (14,353) after finishing 29th a year ago.

Average for a four-game series with Texas in early April: 8,653.

The A's are getting desperate. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of their franchise, they stageda "free game" Tuesday night, drawing a crowd of 46,028. It was the first free game in major league history. On Wednesday, the MLB office announced it would not count the game toward its attendance figures. The night before, announced attendance at Oakland was 7,479.

It's possible that one, perhaps both of those franchises will relocate in the next couple of years. That, coupled with expansion possibilities, opens up the potential for something monumental in our city.

Since 1902, only a dozen franchises have relocated to a new city, the last being Montreal to Washington. The last time expansion teams were added was 1998, when the Rays joined the American League and the Arizona Diamondbacks became part of the National League.

"It's a unique time in history," Barrett says. "Major league


necessary, I'd use FieldTurf rather than natural grass, which would help contend with any inclement weather.

PDP has made offers to buy two pieces of land for the purpose of building the stadium.

One potential site is where the former Esco Corporation plant was located on Northwest 25th Avenue and Vaughn Street, with about 25 acres of property (the foundry is closed, but Esco's executive offices are still located there). The other site is the Portland Public Schools' Blanchard Education Services Center, located north of Northeast Broadway near Moda Center, a piece of land that is about 19 acres.

This doesn't mean PDP is tied into these two sites. They are looking at other properties in the metro area. I'm hoping, though, that they can make it work on one ofNew Orleans PodCasting

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most part, the local schools have been focused on adults, with occasional classes geared toward kids and teens 16 and under.

That changes this month with the opening of Mesa Kids Cooking School, a New Albany, Indiana, business that's been specially designed for kids ages 7 to 14.

The new school comes from the owners of Mesa: A Collaborative Kitchen, which has offered monthly children's classes since it opened last summer at 216 Pearl Street in New Albany.

Co-owner Ysha Bass said the kids' classes are always full, but the kitchen's set-up was never meant for them.

"My husband and I decided the kids needed their own space just for them," Bass said. "The Mesa space isn't really kid-friendly."

Related: Learn to cook with Louisville's best chefs at new downtown kitchen

The new kitchenBrent is trading largely unchanged at a good $57 per barrel following the contract rollover. It was particularly the (meanwhile expired) August contract which rose significantly yesterday in response to a production outage at the Buzzard oilfield in the North Sea.

The North Sea oil type Forties is produced at the Buzzard field - this is the most important of the four oil types which determine the Brent price. As a result, the front end of the Brent forward curve was in backwardation yesterday for the first time in roughly a year. The forward curve is back in its familiar contango structure today, however.

A glance at the WTI price reveals that yesterday's strength in the Brent price was attributable to this special factor, WTI has fallen further and at


On a recent photo trip to Alaska's McNeil River, I spent four days observing and photographing Brown Bears. The bears routine became pretty obvious - they'd fish for a while until their bellies were full, then they'd wander off into the grass for a little nap. This ole gal never quite got that far - after snaring this salmon, she wandered into a shallow pool at the side of the river, cradled the fish under her arm, and promptly nodded off. It was really comical to see her just sitting there sound asleep.

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KEEPING THE FAITH: An empty tomb is not an empty promise

"The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault" aired almost three decades ago this week, and at the time, it was the most watched syndicated television show in history. The charismatic host of the show that evening promised the unveiling of long-kept secrets, the unknotting of historical mystery and priceless artifacts from where Capone once lived. That host was Geraldo Rivera.

Yes, before he had his nose broken on daytime television; before he had fat extracted from his buttocks and shot into his forehead; before he was sent packing from Afghanistan for disclosing the location of U.S. troops; and before that viral shirtless selfie on Twitter, Rivera had long ago revealed how ill-advised some of his decisions could be.

With 30 millionteachers in Vietnam, it is impossible to reach all types of teachers across the country. Thus, the researchers focused on the two biggest teacher communities on Facebook: Microsoft Innovative Education Expert Vietnam - MIE (38,600 members) and Vietnam Innovative Education Forum -- VIEF (14,000 members). Firstly, the survey was announced by the admins of those groups and attracted around 500 interactions from members. Additionally, we randomly selected 1,000 members from each group and sent them the survey URL, separately. Overall, a total of 373 responses was collected. Couples of cross-checking questions with reversed Linkert scales were embedded in the survey and helped us to eliminate 79 bias observations. Finally, we analyzed the dataset of 294 respondents.

The differences between teachers' satisfaction among various demographic indicators and examined research items


Comparison of different model approaches for a hygiene early warning system at the lower Ruhr River, Germany.
The lower Ruhr River is located in a densely populated and industrialized area in Northrhine-Westphalia (NRW) in western Germany. Due to upgrades of sanitary infrastructure, such as wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and combined sewer overflows (CSOs), and a decline of industrial production, water quality of Ruhr River has been constantly increasing over the past decades. One effect is a growing attractiveness of the Ruhr for bathing and water sports. In order to enable future bathing in the lower Ruhr, this study investigates methods for predicting the permissibility of bathing, according to the microbial water quality regulations of the Bathing Water Ordinance of Northrhine-Westphalia (NRW-BWO). On basis of the European Commission Bathing WaterValley resident tried to do just that by co-founding CounterPAC, a super political action committee that urges candidates against taking money from unidentified donors, known in the trade as "dark money." It is the latest in a series of super PACs that aims to clean up the way super PACs operate.

With less than $5 million to spend in this fall's midterm races, CounterPAC - in fail-fast tech fashion - is testing out its ideas on Senate races in Alaska and Georgia and a congressional race in West Virginia, with more to follow.

Greer, 43, modeled his approach after the 2012 Massachusetts Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren, in which both candidates promised to donate to a charity of the other's choosing if ads on their


behalf were funded by dark money. The result was that less than 10 percent of the spending in the race, which Warren won, came from dark money - far less than the national average of 60 percent in that cycle.

Going after candidates

CounterPAC will monitor any dark money spent in the races it monitors, and use its own funds to lambast recipients in advertising. Greer will consider the campaign a success if his group receives signed pledges from candidates in two or three of the eight to 10 races he plans to monitor.

Jim Greer, founder and chief technology officer of gaming developer Kongregate, has started a committee called CounterPAC to get "dark money" out of political campaigns. Jim Greer, founder and chief technology officer of gaming developer Kongregate, hastheir original donors, Brennan found.

Greer is among a growing number of tech executives, venture capitalists and engineers trying to disrupt the way money impacts politics.

"I'm an enthusiastic capitalist," Greer said, who has donated to both President Obama and GOP Sen. John McCain's presidential campaigns. "But there are few ways that feel like the game is basically fundamentally rigged and ultimately destructive in the long term."

While several of the six major donors he recruited for CounterPAC have their own pet issues like climate change or education, Greer said "they realize that the big problem with their issue is the system that underlies it. They're tech people who tend to think in systematic ways."

That "resonates a lot with tech people - we're always looking to hack the system," said Ethan


Beard, a fellow San Franciscan who is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Greylock Partners and former director of the Facebook Developer Network. He is one of CounterPAC's early recruits along with Matt Cutts, a Los Altos resident and head of the spam team at Google, and Ted Wang, a Silicon Valley lawyer.

Some other tech-inspired reform ideas are catching fire, like one led by longtime Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig, who is now teaching at Harvard. This year Lessig started the Mayday PAC, which he described as a "citizen-funded, kick-started super PAC to end all super PACs."

Reforming money's role

Lessig has talked about reforming the role of money in Congress for nearly a decade - even exploring a Silicon Valley run for the House in 2008. He's finally got traction with Mayday, raisingIn the training of baseball players one of the most difficult tasks is to develop their batting skills at the plate. They must be trained to appreciate and use their existing visual acuity, they must improve their mental analysis of the game situation, they must enhance their memory of the opposing pitcher's abilities and tendencies, they must be able to thoroughly understand and follow their coach's directions, analyze each oncoming pitch and coordinate their own ability and muscle response, and combine them all within the matter of the fraction of a second of the early few feet travel of a pitched baseball arriving at a speed of 80 to 90 miles per hour.
Professional baseball players have demonstrated sufficient capabilities to meet the entrance standard for the professional world.


as a video.

Mijangos pleaded guilty to hacking and wiretapping in March. He was sentenced Thursday in Los Angeles at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

He's the latest in a string of hackers to be accused of "sextortion" -- breaking into computers or e-mail accounts and then threatening to post compromising photographs unless his victims provide him with more pictures.

In January, George Bronk of Sacramento, California, pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into more than 3,200 e-mail accounts looking for sexy photos, which he then threatened to post to the Internet. He was sentenced to four years in prison. In February, James Dale Brown of Fremont, California, admitted that he tried to coerce a 14-year-old girl into sending him a pornographic video by threateningwave, to better understand policing and prisons and criminal behavior, and to usher in the current age of urban peace.

For Breitbart, that legacy is the media landscape that greets those same hipsters and professionals whenever they settle into their local coffee shop and fire up their laptop or iPhone. Breitbart's politics were right-wing, but his digital media achievements were entirely bipartisan.

Their bequests to liberal America aside, of course, Wilson and Breitbart were completely different animals, who embodied different eras in public discourse and different models of political engagement.

Wilson was a scholar's scholar — learned, careful, rigorous and disinterested. His books and essays built bridges between the academy, the federal government ("Mr. President, James Q. Wilson is the smartest man in the United States," Daniel Patrick Moynihan reportedly counseled


to talking heads, from social science to showmanship, from The Public Interest and Commentary to blogs and tweets and gossip — as a straightforward story of cultural decline. But what looks like decline is also in some sense a return to normalcy for the United States. What we think of as the "old media" era — the years from the 1950s through the 1980s, when Wilson came of age and made his most important mark — was really an unusual and inevitably fleeting period in American culture. For a few decades, the consolidation of the newspaper business and the outsize power of the big television networks combined to create a genuine media establishment, capable of setting standards, policing debates and keeping troublemakers and provocateurs on the outside lookingin.

Prior to that period of consolidation, though, the nation's media were much more, well, Breitbart-ian: more partisan, more sensationalistic, more attuned to scandal and celebrity and less concerned about accuracy and rigor.

This doesn't mean that we need to lionize Breitbart's frenzied style of political engagement. But his world has virtues as well as vices: it's less high-minded than the old-media era, but less stifling and conformist as well. More important, the circus is here to stay.

The higher challenge is to encourage and celebrate work like James Q. Wilson's in an Andrew Breitbart world. The more basic challenge is to prevent the pressure of a sleepless Internet and a furious partisanship from taking the kind of toll that probably helped cut short Breitbart's life, long before what should have


he didn't own any of the cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin has lost more than half its value since December. But it remains 575 percent higher over the past 12 months, near $8,100, as of Wednesday afternoon.

The cryptocurrency's "price volatility significantly diminishes its usefulness as a reliable unit of account or an effective means of payment," Warsh, a former Federal Reserve governor, wrote in a March 7 opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. "But a new generation of cryptocurrencies is on the horizon, some of which might possess more of the attributes of money, better satisfying bitcoin's founding purpose."

Warsh also said in the article the Fed might consider launching its own digital currency. He was one of two likely contenders to lead the central bank after Janet Yellen's term as chairThe mayor of a small Mississippi...

COCAINE FORCES MAYOR OUT.

February 15, 1989

OXFORD, MISS. — COCAINE FORCES MAYOR OUT. The mayor of a small Mississippi Delta town has agreed to resign from office and enter a drug treatment program after pleading guilty to selling cocaine. Sylvester Kyles, mayor of the Bolivar County town of Shaw since 1985, entered the plea this week in U.S. District Court at Oxford. Kyles, 37, indicted by a federal grand jury in September, entered the plea to a charge of selling one gram of cocaine for $140 on March 24. Three other people indicted with Kyles pleaded guilty earlier. Buck Beckham, city clerk in the town of about 2,400, said city officials would appoint a replacement to fill the mayor's term, which expires in June.


were swiftly deposed by military coups. More recently, Hamas’ parliamentary success in 2006 was undermined by Fatah, Israel and the U.S., leading to division and civil war in Palestine.

After the Arab revolutions of 2011, however, the broad electoral success of Islamists is widely accepted as inevitable. Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement secured 40% of the seats in the constituent assembly, while Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist Nour Party together won over 70% of parliament. For once, these developments have been widely accepted by those countries’ military institutions as well as the United States.

In deference to the Muslim Brotherhood’s broad popular support, in 2011 Washington dropped a ban on its officials meeting with the group’s members. Since then, White House and State Department officials have met with Brotherhood leaders—including Morsy—at leastthe priest makes atonement (Lev. 4:20) and Jesus was a high priest after the order of Melchizedek (Heb. 6:20; 7:23-24). The sacrifice had to be without blemish (Deut. 17:1) and Jesus was without blemish (Heb. 9:14). The sacrifice was offered on the Passover (Exodus 12:11-13) and Jesus was crucified on the Passover (John 19:14-15).

Furthermore, the New Testament covenant period did not begin until the death of Christ.

Hebrews 8:13, "When He said, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear."

Hebrews 9:15-16, "For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have


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Two hundred two people died in the Bali, Indonesia, disco bombing of October 12, 2002, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a tourist-bar dance floor, and then, moments later, a second bomber detonated an explosives-filled Mitsubishi van parked outside. Now, the mastermind of the attacks – Imam Samudra, a 35-year-old Islamist militant with links to al-Qaeda – has written a jailhouse memoir that offers a primer on the more sophisticated crime of online credit card fraud, which it promotes as a way for Muslim radicals to fund their activities.

Law enforcement authorities say evidence collected from Samudra’s laptop computer shows he tried to finance the Bali bombing by committing acts of fraud over the Internet. And his new writings suggest that online fraud – whichlist of fun workshops, family shows, museum and library activities, and much more for kids with special needs in the New York City area.

Stefanie Wolf, Au.D., a clinical audiologist at Audiology of Nassau County in Rockville Centre, explains what swimmers ear is, what causes swimmers ear, the symptoms of swimmers ear, and how to treat and prevent swimmers ear.

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Characteristics of the work environment related to older employees' willingness to continue working: intrinsic motivation as a mediator.
The relationships between older employees' willingness to continue working and characteristics of the work environment for older workers were investigated, as well as a possible mediation by intrinsic motivation. 103 employees ages 50 to 65 years, from various sectors of the Dutch labor market, completed questionnaires that measured willingness to continue working, intrinsic motivation, organizational stimulation, work variety, work challenge, and job autonomy. Hierarchical regression analyses showed organizational stimulation, as well as the various job characteristics, were positively related to employees' willingness to continue working. Moreover, intrinsic motivation fully mediated the relationship of work variety with willingness to continue working and partially mediated the relationships of organizational stimulation, work challenge, andhas elected to stay in the US because she believes it is in the best interest of her husband and two teenage children, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. Drosos, 49, who has been with P&G since 1987, will retire on Sept. 1. A spokesman told Fortune magazine Drosos looks forward to "leading another company."

Drosos will be replaced by Deb Henretta, 51, who has headed P&G's Asia business for several years, according to Fortune. In Henretta's place, the company will appoint its first Asian-born head of Asia, Hatsunori Kiriyama, 49.


immediate transfer given Mobilicity's financial problems – a request that raised the ire of consumer advocates who warned of the potential of diminished competition in the wireless sector.

In Mobilicity's case, that ban expires in February. Telus declined comment on whether it plans to make a second bid for Mobilicity at that time.

"On Tuesday, the Minister announced that he was not going to approve the application to transfer Mobilicity's spectrum licences to Telus. He also indicated that going forward, proposed spectrum transfers that result in undue spectrum concentration – and therefore diminish competition – will not be permitted," Industry Canada said in an e-mailed statement on Friday in response to a query about Telus's ability to extend its exclusivity period with Mobilicity.

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In addition to the AST system, the Davenport Library also recently purchased three of Tech Logic's CircIt Self Check-Out systems and three staff stations, along with a set of dual aisle security gates.

The Davenport Public Library, located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, includes the Main Street facility and two branch locations. They began working with Tech Logic in 2009. Since then, they have purchased two 7-bin (AST) for the Eastern and Fairmount branches.

Steve Day joined Tech Logic in 2010 as a Sales Consultant with over 16 years of experience delivering information technology software and solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. His background includes business development experience in the areas of IT service management, business intelligence, e-commerce, IT best practice consulting, and software


I have said over the years that Republicans in Congress are at their worst when they have control of both Houses of Congress, and especially when they hold the presidency as well.

Like now.

The last time the Republicans had absolute control of the government was during the presidency of George W. Bush when they had a majority in the House and Senate for over four years.

And what did they do when they were in charge? They almost doubled the federal budget and the national debt, created the monstrous Department of Homeland Security, greatly expanded the Department of Education, passed the Patriot Act, let the government begin spying on Americans, started two senseless wars, and instituted the Republican version of Obamacare (the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act). DemocratsEp. #82 – Feat. Mac Rogers

Today Matt welcomes Mac Rogers, a playwright hailing from NYC. Founding member of Gideon Productions, Mac Rogers has written the plays Frankenstein Upstairs, Universal Robots, and The Honeycomb Trilogy (including Advance Man, Blast Radius, and Sovereign). He is also the writer of a new 14-episode narrative podcast Steal the Stars — a serial noir science fiction heist. With Matt, Mac chats about Gideon Media partnering with Tor Labs to bring Steal the Stars to life; they chat about its casting process and how they decided on Ashlie Atkinson as the lead. Matt asks how Mac got his start as a writer, and what inspired him to dive deep into sci-fi on the stage. And so, from the difficulties in portraying and high quality


to receive prescreened offers of credit from this and other companies, call the consumer reporting agencies at [number]. . . .
Dixon does not allege that he ever contacted Shamrock, or was denied credit by Shamrock. His claim is that Shamrock violated the FCRA by accessing his consumer report without extending to him a "firm offer of credit." Dixon filed suit in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, on behalf of himself and a class of consumers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine. He sought relief under the FCRA's penalty provision, 15 U.S.C. § 1681n, providing statutory damages in the event of a willful violation of the statute, and also sought injunctive relief and class certification.
The district court granted Shamrock's motion to dismiss, findingWell, duh. Bands that are on stage in a huge venue for one or two songs rarely have their instruments plugged in (and yeah some instruments don't need to be plugged in anymore - they use wireless connection). Ever seen a band play at the Eurovision Song contest? They are never plugged in either.

NO ONE PLAYS LIVE AT THE SUPER BOWL. Take it from the daughter of a drum tech that has worked the superbowl MULTIPLE TIMES. Bruno didnt perform live either! They just turned his mic on inbetween songs to say thank you. ignorant. >.<

Why did they have this in New York?
Am I the only one that remembers when Superbowl first started they only had them in cities that had some sun like Dallas, New Orleans, Miami,


allegedly more progressive parties chanting the mantra of treating drugs as a health issue, without really understanding what that means or what is happening at present, the pattern is the same. Politicians talking straight past each other, pushing their personal prejudices as evidence, will ensure nothing changes, while more people suffer and die, and criminal gangs continue to become wealthy at the expense of the vulnerable.

It is time to end the war on drugs, they say, wilfully oblivious of the fact that New Zealand abandoned the war on drugs years ago, and for about a decade now has consistently argued against the rhetoric and the substance of the war on drugs in international fora, including the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs a couple of yearsago, and its own National Drug Policy released in 2015.

Yet the Prime Minister seemed to know nothing of this when she addressed the United Nations a couple of months ago and proclaimed New Zealand no longer supported the war on drugs, as if it were some bold new initiative she was announcing.

And while we are talking about the National Drug Policy, it was scheduled for a midterm review during 2018. What has happened? As far as can be told, the answer is absolutely nothing.

And it is the same with the Misuse of Drugs Act. Passed in 1975, it is generally acknowledged to be outdated, and in dire need of review.

Work that commenced under the National Drug Policy in 2015 to 2017 included ensuring that harm minimisation became a


ScreenCrush editor, comic-book lover, and undiagnosed masochist Matt Singer is systematically watching every single (American) comic-book movie ever made in the order in which they were released. This week in The Complete History of Comic-Book Movies: The Dark Knight makes his first appearance on the big screen:

‘Batman’ (1943)

Director: Lambert Hillyer

Writers: Victor McLeod, Leslie Swabacker, Harry Fraser

Starring: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish

Based on: Batman, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in ‘Detective Comics’ #27

Onscreen Iteration: First appearance

Best Special Effect:The big fistfight that caps off chapter 12 takes place in the middle of a raging inferno—or at least some very respectable fire effects.

Worst Special Effect: At the cliffhanger of chapter 7, Batman gets overpowered by goons and tossed down an elevator shaft. Or, more accurately, Batman getswith cameoing guest stars). The serial also features feverish cliffhangers and an over-excited narrator hyping the next dramatic installment “at this theater next week!” Both of those elements became trademarks of the Adam West Batman, which aired twice-weekly for most of its run and concluded the first half of each two-parter with a cliffhanger and the narrator imploring viewers to return tomorrow, “Same Bat-time, Same Bat-channel!”

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So ‘Batman’’s importance to its title character’s evolution is substantial. But so is its cultural insensitivity. Granted, the serial was produced in 1943, at the height of World War II. It was a different time. But the characterization of Dr. Daka by J. Carrol Naish, a Caucasian actor in squinting yellowface, and the constant anti-Asian slurs—not to mention the casual justification of


in the portfolios of citizen’s services, community and agriculture. He resigned in 2013 after former Premier Christy Clark lost her riding of Vancouver-Point Grey and needed a seat to run in a byelection. Clark then appointed him B.C.’s special representative in Asia, where he worked to promote trade.Al fondo Hay Sitio Capitulo 429 online - Do not miss the April 28 capitulo 434 of the third season of "Al fondo Hay Sitio" there is room' here in full BlogBabeh | Capitulos Online gratis.Argumento :
At the end of the second season of The Fund Site There were no surprises and great revelations. The highlight was the great secret of Francesca Maldini, intrigue that began from the early days of the series and finally discovers. Isabella is the daughter of Francesca.

Another shocking scenes was the romance between Grace and Nicolas, a relationship that eventually takes shape after many problems. A new character will enter the third season, it is the former husband Charlie, who appears in her wedding.


that "Minnesotans deserve better" than the MNLARS computer problems.

Clyborne had no specifics about changes she would make when she takes over because she has not yet worked in the department. "It is very hard when I haven't even sat at the desk yet." She said she took the job as a challenge. "This is no different than my military service or the services I do as a lawyer. ... We do not walk away from challenges."

She said she will maintain her National Guard role, and a Dayton aide said she plans to work Fridays in her law office. She will be paid 80 percent of the commissioner's usual salary.

Clyborne replaces Tom Baden, who recently announced he was leaving the job. He was paid $153,000 last year.

The new commissioneris a brigadier general, a combat veteran of Iraq, and the first female to command a brigade and reach her rank in the Minnesota guard.

Don Davis has been the Forum Communications Minnesota Capitol Bureau chief since 2001, covering state government and politics for two dozen newspapers in the state. Don also blogs at Capital Chatter on Areavoices.


A young autistic woman was allowed to have sex with numerous men because her carers were said to believe that high-risk encounters with strangers might help her to “learn from her mistakes”, it can be revealed today.

The woman, 23, who has severe learning disabilities and an IQ of 52, was repeatedly exploited during a court-approved, two-month trial period this summer in which random men were permitted to visit her Manchester care home between 10am and 4pm each day.

She was also taken to shisha bars and had sex in public on numerous occasions, including in a taxi and at the back of a bowling alley, because the care company paid to look after her would not physically intervene. In August carers reported that themust set its own agenda—not influenced by financial considerations or political interference. Citizens in a free society are free to create platforms to propagate a particular perspective or ideology.

Media freedom is eroded when government outlaws a particular perspective—as it happened with communism in North America during the cold war.

Strangely, South Africa is experiencing the exact opposite. The mainstream media enforces the idea that for a journalist to have integrity, he or she must be anti-government. Significant resources and energy are dedicated to discrediting outlets that are regarded as pro-government. This was evident when The New Age was established as an independent government-aligned newspaper.

The causes of this phenomenon are complex. The media institution in South Africa is market-driven and hegemonic. The market itself is white and neo-liberal. Therefore, the