'removed or suspended without pay' and for 'cause' within the meaning of the disciplinary provisions of the Lloyd-LaFollette Act.  The two statutes clearly serve different purposes, and are independently operative in their respective fields.  The complaint demonstrates that appellant received medical examinations under the auspices of the Department of the Army as well as the Retirement Division of the Civil Service Commission after which his case was reviewed by the Board of Appeals and Review of the Civil Service Commission and finally by the Civil Service Commissioners.  He had the benefit of all appropriate procedures.

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Site + ClimateThe building envelope was designed to limit glare from low angle sun during the early morning and evenings.

Form + MassingThe massing was predetermined by the footprint of the existing Hearst building. The design of the tower, sought to protect the existing podium, whilst extending the building with a distinctive new tower.

Passive DesignTo minimise solar gain, the building envelope contains high performance low emission glass, with integral roller blinds which can be used to reduce glare. The building is naturally overshadowed by the surrounding buildings so large skylights were used at the podium level to bring daylight into the atrium space.

Environmental SystemsThe atrium contains a radiant floor, a tempered water wall and temperature controlled walls. In the office spaces, an economiser cycle on the AHUs provide fresh


rainwater harvesting system.

Culture + HeritageThe design preserved the façade of the existing structure and establishes a creative dialogue between the old and new. The forty-two-storey tower rises above the old building and has resulted in an award winning addition to the New York Sky Line.

WellbeingAt the base of the tower, there is a large atrium space for the building users. A water feature helps enhance the microclimate by thermally tempering the space, providing acoustic dampening and humidity control. Daylight floods the space through high level sky lights, helping to create a healthy, vibrant space.

ProsperityLocal construction firms were chosen where possible, to enhance the local economy. In operation, the building has helped to regenerate the surrounding area.

Performance in UseFirst LEED Gold commercial office building in New York. Since completionMonday morning, her wallet and mobile phone were missing.

Vogel, an avid surfer and hiker, had been living on Maui for about six months and working as a self-employed tutor, Agan said. She said Vogel planned to spend Sunday night camping alone in her van.

A friend called police to report Vogel missing after she missed a tutoring session Monday morning and friends couldn't reach her.

Anyone who has seen Vogel or who has information about her whereabouts is asked to call the police Criminal Investigation Division at 244-6425 during regular business hours or 244-6400 during nonbusiness hours.

Friends are organizing a land search for Vogel. Anyone who wants to help can call Agan at 633-6707.

Vogel was last heard from Sunday night, Feb. 21. She told a friend she planned to camp


finally reached the EU in the early 1980s when the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) explicitly referred to the Griggs in its Jenkins Judgment,[4] a case which also originated in the UK.

However, this initial influence from the UK and other common law jurisdictions did not halt in this development. Rather, what started as a relatively insignificant equal pay provision in the Treaty of Rome (Article 119 EEC) and a political compromise between Germany and France,[5]has developed into a large equality framework protecting the characteristics of sex, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, age, disability, and sexual orientation (e.g. Directives 2000/43, 2000/78 and 2006/64) and goes beyond employment discrimination by also tackling sex and race discrimination within the access to and supply of goods andToronto police have arrested a man in connection with a stabbing in downtown Toronto on Tuesday night.

The victim, who was rushed to hospital with life threatening injuries, is now in stable condition, police say.

On Tuesday evening, paramedics were called to Dundas Street East and George Street, just east of Jarvis Street, and found an adult male with serious injuries in the lobby of a building.

Police say no other suspects are being sought.


Known for such powerful hits as "Two Minutes to Midnight" and "The Trooper," Iron Maiden were and are one of the most influential bands of the heavy metal genre. The often-imitated band has existed for over nearly four
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Known for such powerful hits as "Two Minutes to Midnight" and "The Trooper," Iron Maiden were and are one of the most influential bands of the heavy metal genre. The often-imitated band has existed for over nearly four decades, pumping out wild rock similar to Judas Priest. Iron Maiden have always been an underground attraction; although failing to ever obtain any real media attention in the U.S. (critics claimed them to be Satanists due to their dark musical themes and their use of grim mascot "Eddie"), they still became well-known throughoutthe world and have remained consistently popular throughout their career. Iron Maiden were one of the first groups to be classified as "British metal," and, along with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and a host of other bands, set the rock scene for the '80s.

Iron Maiden were first formed in 1975 by bassist Steve Harris, who would soon join up with rhythm guitarist Tony Parsons, drummer Doug Sampson, and vocalist Paul Di'Anno. Before finally obtaining a record deal, the group played in local areas throughout the '70s, receiving a fair amount of London airplay. Parsons replaced Dennis Stratton, and the band made its record debut in 1980 with the self-titled Iron Maiden album. Although the release was recorded in a hurry, it was nonetheless a hit in the U.K.


due to the single "Running Free." Iron Maiden's 1981 follow-up, Killers, displayed a harder approach to their music than before, and also saw the replacement of Stratton with Adrian Smith. Due to his uncontrollable alcohol addiction, Di'Anno was forced to part company with the group and would soon be replaced with vocalist Bruce Dickinson in 1982 for the band's groundbreaking Number of the Beast. This album, boasting such songs as the title track and "Hallowed Be Thy Name," would come to be known as one of the greatest rock recordings of all time. Since the unexpected worldwide success of Beast made Iron Maiden international rock superstars, they changed very little of their style for their next album, Piece of Mind. They undertook two major tours before recording 1983'sPowerslave, which would go on to be another cult hit. The product of Powerslave's 11-month tour was 1985's Live After Death, a double live album that featured all of their biggest hit singles.

By the release of Live After Death, Iron Maiden had already established themselves as a powerful and unique metal band. Their long-awaited 1986 supplement album, Somewhere in Time, showed a bit of a departure from their past releases, showcasing the use of synthesizer guitars and songs more relevant to the same themes. Released in 1988, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, a concept album like its predecessor, featured the singles "The Evil That Men Do" and "The Clairvoyant," and soon became Iron Maiden's most critically acclaimed album since Number of the Beast. After another exhausting tour,


Smith departed and the band took a one-year hiatus. With new guitarist Janick Gers, the band resurfaced with No Prayer for the Dying in 1990, a record that returned to the classic sound the group used when recording its earlier releases. One of the album's singles, "Bring Your Daughter...To the Slaughter," was granted the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Song of the Year, but it nonetheless gave the band its first number one U.K. hit. By the time the group finished its 1991 tour, Dickinson expressed his desire to leave and promote another band he had founded, the Skunkworks. Fear of the Dark, the band's last album with Dickinson, debuted at number one on the U.K. charts and became one of Iron Maiden's biggest-selling albums to date. Aftertheir supporting tour, two live albums were released in 1993: A Real Live One, which contained live versions of their newer hit singles, and A Real Dead One, which featured the more "classic" Maiden songs live.

Dickinson's replacement, Blaze Bayley, marked his debut in 1995 with The X Factor. While the record failed to chart as well as some of its predecessors, it was still a minor success in England. Iron Maiden marked the end of 1996 with Best of the Beast, a double compilation album. In 1998, little interest in the Virtual XI album prompted Bayley's termination; Dickinson and Smith returned to the band for a tour in 1999, and a new album, Brave New World, emerged the following year. The band toured throughout the early 2000s, releasing


the live Rock in Rio and the greatest-hits collection Edward the Great in 2002, followed by a new studio album, Dance of Death, in 2003. They followed DOD with the Rainmaker EP, as well as the live DVDs History of Iron Maiden, Pt. 1: The Early Days and Raising Hell in 2004. Sanctuary put out the two-disc The Essential Iron Maiden in 2005 to coincide with the group's co-headlining an Ozzfest tour with Black Sabbath, a tour that found Maiden pulling out due to a series of confrontations with Ozzy's wife/manager, Sharon. They released the live CD/DVD Death on the Road in September of 2005 and a collection of new material, Matter of Life and Death, in 2006. In 2009 the band released the soundtrack for the filmFlight 666, a documentary/concert film recorded in 16 different cities during the group's first leg of their 2008 "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour." In 2010 the band released its 15th studio album, The Final Frontier, followed in 2012 by En Vivo!, a live video/album filmed at Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile in April 2011.


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Jerry and Bronwyn Flynt are leading this group in Sunday School on Sunday mornings, and Nathan & Jill Sullivan lead College Bible Study on Wednesday nights at 6:45 in the house on the corner of the property.After their successful nine-hour dive in January 1960 to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard emerge from the bathyscaphe Trieste. Walsh and Piccard were the first to reach the trench’s lowest point, Challenger Deep, some 35,800 feet below the ocean surface. Piccard, who died in 2008, was posthumously awarded the Hubbard Medal, the National Geographic highest honor, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2012. (Photo: Thomas J. Abercrombie)

Only three men have ever reached the ocean’s deepest point. Capt. Don Walsh and the late Jacques Piccard in 1960 and earlier this year, James Cameron. On June 14th, 2012, National Geographic bestowed its highest honor, the Hubbard Medal, posthumously to Jacques Piccard for his record-breaking dive to the Mariana Trench


with Don Walsh in the bathyscaphe Trieste to a depth of nearly seven miles. Many of his efforts greatly contributed to the fields of oceanography and conservation.

Piccard comes from a family of explorers. His father, Auguste, was a physicist and the first man to take a balloon into the stratosphere. In 1999, Jacques Piccard’s son, Bertrand Piccard, together with Brian Jones, completed the first ever nonstop circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon.

Presenting the Piccard family with the Medal was Don Walsh, who received the Hubbard Medal in 2010 and James Cameron, the last and only other man to reach this depth.pectinases \[[@CR39]\]. Fruit ripening may also be accompanied by increasingly acidic pH \[[@CR73]\]. Nanocarrier systems can be developed to control the growth of contaminant organisms in food, as well as to avoid early maturation. For example, Liang et al. \[[@CR39]\] developed silica nanoparticles coated with chitosan for delivery of the fungicide prochloraz. In the absence of the esterase enzyme and at pH 7, only 18.9% of the fungicide was released for 30 days. However, decrease of the pH and the presence of the enzyme stimulated the system, with 82% release obtained during the same period. At acidic pH, chitosan becomes protonated, exposing the pores of the silica nanoparticles and consequently enabling release of the active agent. Sharma et al. \[[@CR73]\] described a system of graphene oxide nanoparticles for the


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What was the extent of influence of James Byrnes on President Truman in the decision to use nuclear weapons?

Secretary of State James Byrnes was a very influential man and played a key role in foreign policy and the negotiations during WW2. It is known that after the death of FDR, he was the one who informed Truman about the Manhattan project and advised him on many issues.
What extent was he involved in influencing Truman to bombing Japan with nuclear weapons? Looking for insights/references/pointers.

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As a former mentor of then Senator Harry Truman upon his arrival in Washington; FDR's Assistant President for much of WWII; a pre-convention favorite in 1944 to be FDR's running mate; and newly appointed Secretary of State; Jams Byrnes certainly wielded considerable influence with Trumanduring those summer months of 1945.  However it is worthwhile to remember the slogan over Truman's desk for his entire presidency: "The Buck Stops Here". Truman accepted full responsibility for every decision from the Oval Office, and expected to make the final decision on all key government policies.
However, the nature of the allegations made concerning Byrnes' involvement in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki decisions seem to involve more manipulation of Truman than influencing. The distinction I make between these terms is that influencing involves the presentation of all available knowledge accompanied with a strong but balanced argument in favour of a preferred decision; manipulation involves the presentation of only knowledge and evidence in support of the preferred decision, resulting in a biased and unbalanced argument being presented. Byrnes'


Three charged with plotting New York attacks for Islamic State - U.S. prosecutors

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three men have been arrested since May of last year on charges of plotting attacks in New York City for Islamic State in the summer of 2016, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.

The planned attacks, which were thwarted by law enforcement, included detonating explosives in Manhattan’s Times Square and in the city’s subway, according to the office of Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim in Manhattan.

One of the men, 19-year-old Canadian citizen Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, has been in U.S. custody since May 2016, when he was arrested in New Jersey. He pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in October 2016, the prosecutors said.

Talha Haroon, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested in Pakistan, where he lives,around September 2016, and Russell Salic, a 37-year-old citizen of the Philippines, was arrested in that country in April of this year, according to Kim’s office.

Prosecutors said they expected Haroon and Salic to be extradited to the United States to face the charges, which include conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism and to support a terrorist organisation. If convicted of the most serious charges, they face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Lawyers for the three men could not immediately be identified.

Prosecutors said El Bahnasawy bought bomb-making materials and helped secure a cabin near New York City from which to stage attacks. They said Haroon planned to travel from Pakistan to help El Bahnasawy carry out attacks, and that Salic helped fund the plot.

According to documents unsealed in


federal court in Manhattan on Friday, El Bahnasawy and Haroon planned to carry out attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ran from early June to early July.

El Bahnasawy told an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a supporter of Islamic State that he wanted to “create the next 9/11,” prosecutors said. El Bahnasawy told the officer of plans to detonate a car bomb in Times Square and “shoot up concerts,” according to prosecutors.

Salic, who maintained a pro-Islamic State social media presence, told the undercover officer that he had been communicating with El Bahnasawy, and sent the officer about $423 from the Philippines to help pay for the attacks, according to prosecutors.

El Bahnasawy bought bomb-making materials in Canada, and was arrested the same day he cameJALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Three American soldiers were killed and one wounded on Saturday when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan, according to officials.

The shooting occurred in the Achin district of Nangarhar province, where U.S. special forces have been fighting alongside Afghan troops against Islamic State and Taliban militants, said Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial governor.

The Afghan soldier was killed in the incident, Khogyani said.

“The cause of the shooting is not clear. An investigation has already begun,” he said.

A Pentagon statement confirmed that three U.S. soldiers had been killed in eastern Afghanistan and one wounded soldier had been evacuated for medical treatment. The statement provided no further details of the incident but said it was under investigation.

One U.S. official, speaking on


the condition of anonymity, confirmed that the incident was a “green-on-blue” attack by a member of the Afghan security forces in Nangarhar province.

So-called “green-on-blue” insider attacks by Afghan soldiers on international service members were a major problem several years ago, but now occur less frequently after security measures were improved and the number of foreign troops in the country fell sharply.

In March, three U.S. soldiers were wounded when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them.

The attack comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration weighs an increase in troops in the war-torn country.

Reuters reported in late April that Trump’s administration was carrying out a review of Afghanistan and conversations are revolving around sending between 3,000 and 5,000 U.S. and coalition troops to Afghanistan.

Deliberations include giving more authority to forcesstronghold in the region, which borders Pakistan. U.S. military officials estimate there are about 600 to 800 Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan, mostly in Nangarhar, but also in the neighboring province of Kunar.

A White House spokesman said Trump was “following the emerging situation in Afghanistan” where the soldiers were killed.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the shooter was a member of the militant group and had killed four Americans and wounded several more.


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In 2018 the 8th International Conference on Energy and Environment of Residential Buildings comes to Wellington, New Zealand, with an overarching theme of housing sustainability in urban areas. Date: 19th – 21st November 2018 Venue: Wellington School of Medicine Conference Centre, University of Otago, 23 Mein St, Newtown, Wellington 6021, New Zealand

Monday, 19 June 2017 Associate Professor Ralph Chapman was lead author of a Victoria University of Wellington-led study which suggests that despite strong goals adopted by Wellington and Auckland, the cities still have a way to go in reducing carbon emissions from transport.


say that as of July 25, 1967 (the date of the court's order of dismissal), the order was void, when the then record appeared to sustain the legal holding of the court. At this point in time, the order was merely voidable. What appeared of record at that time, however, was itself erroneous, and its very incompleteness constituted the legal misinterpretation resulting in the voidable dismissal. We do not criticize the court, but rather sympathize with it because of the predicament in which the court was placed. Nevertheless, the judgment of default entered on July 1, 1966, was not in truth and fact the judgment of default which the court had ordered. This was established as true by the subsequent corrective judgment nunc pro tunc. Thus, what appeared(CNN) A federal judge has once again cleared the way for some abortions to resume in Texas despite the governor's order restricting them during the coronavirus outbreak.

Judge Lee Yeakel blocked the state from enforcing the order specifically "as a categorical ban on all abortions provided by Plaintiffs" and specifically against those providing medication abortions or providing surgical abortions to abortion-seekers who would reach 22 weeks since their last menstrual period -- the cutoff to receive an abortion in Texas -- by the order's expiration on April 21.

The ruling would also apply to surgical abortions performed on those who, by April 21, would reach 18 weeks since their last menstrual period, rendering them eligible for abortions only at ambulatory surgery centers, and would be "likely unable to reach an


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EPISTEMOLOGY: The Study of Knowledge
KNOWLEDGE: Also called Justify-Truth-Belief
RATIONALISM: Innate ideas, A Priori, Reason, & Deductive
EMPIRICISM: Tabula Rasa, A Posteriori, Inductive & Sensation
SKEPTICISM: To reflect, consider, and to examine
ANALYTICAL STATEMENT: A bachelor is an unmarried man
SYNTHETIC STATEMENT: Lucy is beautiful
ABSOLUTE SKEPTICISM: Everything is doubtful
SYNTAX: Arrangement of a subject, verb, and predicate
JUDGEMENT: To affirm or deny a proposition
A PRIORI: Before experience
A POSTERIORI: After experience
DOXA: Not the truth but an opinion
TABULA RASA: The human mind is like a blank slate
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EPISTEME: Knowledge and Truth
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PROPOSITIONS: Are assertions to be either True or FalsePlay Street Fighter 5 free on PS4 and PC next week The latest free trial to land for Street Fighter 5 gives PS4 and Steam PC players a chance to check out the latest season 3 characters without paying a dime.

In the world of video games, it's very hard to beat a zero-dollar price tag. And while Capcom isn't giving away copies of Street Fighter 5, the developer is hosting another free weekend for the game, giving newcomers the chance to see what Street Fighter 5 is all about or to give those familiar with the series a look at the latest Season 3 characters.

Starting August 1st, play the original Street Fighter V launch roster AND Season 3 characters in #SFV for FREE on PlayStation 4 and Steam!


pic.twitter.com/4GxIZD1hrc — Street Fighter (@StreetFighter) July 29, 2019

This newest Street Fighter 5 free trial will run from August 1 all the way through August 11, giving players nearly two weeks to catch up with Ryu, Chun-Li, and the rest of the gang. Xbox players are obviously left out of the loop, since SF5 is yet to release for Microsoft's console, but the trial is still open to players across the PlayStation 4 and Steam-powered PCs.

As can be seen in the video teaser posted by the official Street Fighter Twitter account, all 16 playable fighters will be present during the free trial, including Season 3 characters such as Sakura, Cody, Blanka, Sagat, Cody, and G. For those who like the big picture, here's the list of each fighter thattrade crafting displays of semi-precious stones, then moved into painting, particularly scenes from the Urals; for years he was the very epitome of a starving artist. He obsessed about painting fires on the landscape, from grass fires to crown fires. His breakthrough came in 1900 with an exhibit, “The Urals in Art,” in which he displayed his climactic effort, Lesnoipozhar, or “The Forest Fire.” More triumphs followed. He agreed to contribute the massive painting (198 by 270 cm; 78 by 106 in.) to the Russian exhibit headed to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

The Russian pavilion, however, was dismantled shortly before the fair opened out of pique over American support for Japan in the Russo-Japanese War. Instead, the 600-piece exhibit was displayed on consignment to a Russian entrepreneur


the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis. Then, in 1979, for reasons that are still murky, August Busch decided to donate the painting to the U.S. government, which, through the vehicle of the National Endowment for the Humanities, repatriated it to the Soviet Union. Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin alluded to plans to send it to a museum in the Urals. In fact, it had again vanished.

The original during the repatriation ceremony in 1979. From left to right: James Symington, a former congressman from Missouri, who assisted in arranging the hand-over; Joseph Duffy, director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, who acted as an intermediary agent between the Busch family and the government of the USSR; and Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet ambassador. (Courtesy Robert Williams)

In 2014 the Yekaterinburg Museum of FineArts hosted a major exhibition on Alexei Kuz’mich Denisov-Uralsky, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth. It tracked down many of his fire paintings, but was unable to locate Lesnoi pozhar. The Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., refused to comment. No art or political authority in Russia knew where it had gone. Months after the exhibit had ended, however, word came that the fugitive painting may have been located in the basement of a museum in Tomsk. A photograph and measured dimensions suggest that it is in fact the elusive original. As yet no one has positively identified it nor restored it, but the curator of the Yekaterinburg exhibit, Ludmila Budrina, is confident this is the original.[1] It seems Lesnoi pozhar has passed yet another


that had been heavily logged and burned over would be reforested. The plan called for 60,000 trees to be planted on 25 to 40 acres set aside for the memorial (we believe it to actually be about 50 acres) in an area between Devil’s Courthouse and Mount Hardy Gap. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) announced at around the same time that they intended to plant 125,000 red spruce and balsam trees nearby to commemorate each North Carolina man who served in the Confederate Army. Today there is a wooden sign for that forest at the Mount Hardy overlook.

The DAR memorial forest project was part of a national conservation campaign by the organization leading up to its golden jubilee in 1941. The nation was facing the twincrises of economic depression and ecological disaster. It may have been the Dust Bowl years on the Great Plains, but in the Appalachian Mountains, forests and watersheds were suffering too. Though the land was within the Pisgah National Forest, logging companies had contracts to cut and proceeded to do so via railroad logging. The rail lines extended deep into the mountains, with the labor of men and machines combining to take a toll on the Southern Appalachian forests.

Railroad logging, as seen in the top photo, left behind landscapes like in the bottom photo. The slash and debris left by loggers was prone to fire, which happened on the land where DAR dedicated its forest. Both photos were taken somewhere in Haywood County, NC, about 20 years before the


DAR plantings. The memorial forest is located in southern Haywood County. (FHS4310 and K_1-166337)

To combat the twin problems of human and environmental poverty, President Franklin Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. Women’s groups of all stripes wanted to do their part, and in the DAR’s case, the jubilee provided motivation. According to the organization’s “DAR Forests” webpage:

In 1939, the President General, Mrs. Henry M. Robert, chose the Penny Pine program as one of her Golden Jubilee National Projects. Each state was to have a memorial forest, beginning in 1939 and culminating in 1941 on the NSDAR 50th Anniversary. Each chapter across the country was to pledge, at the very least, one acre of pine seedlings. Five dollars an acre at a penny each equaled 500 trees.The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC), under the supervision of the U.S. Forestry [sic] Service, would do the actual work of planting and care.

The DAR’s interest in Appalachia’s forests has deep roots, stretching back to the Progressive Era and the debates over the need to protect the headwaters of navigable waterways in the East. According to environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, “In 1909 Mrs. Mathew T. Scott was elected President General of the 77,000 member Daughters of the American Revolution…. Mrs. Scott was an enthusiastic conservationist who encouraged the maintenance of a conservation committee consisting of 100 members representing every state.” (One of the women deeply involved in the conservation committee was Gifford Pinchot‘s mother, Mary.) Under Scott’s leadership, DAR conservation efforts included working towards the “preservation of the Appalachian


over land to the Forest Service.[2]

In the late 1930s the conservation (and patriotic) ethos of the local and state DAR chapters was strong and members were highly motivated to take action on many fronts. This can be seen through reports about the state chapter in the annual national congress proceedings, beginning the same year President General Robert announced the golden jubilee project.

Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC, April 17-21, 1939: “North Carolina—Mrs. Hugh McAllister, Chairman [of conservation]. Chairman urged legislation for eradication of Dutch elm disease and the planting of a memorial forest in Pisgah National Forest in 1940. Thirty acres have already been reforested and 20 acres trimmed. A total of 37,444 trees planted.”(114)

Proceedingsof the Forty-Ninth Continental Congress, April 15-19, 1940: “North Carolina—Mrs. Hugh McAllister, reports that Golden Jubilee Forest has been completed and will be dedicated on May 15th. Conservation of holly and other evergreen trees has been urged and 54,331 trees planted.”(120)

On May 15, 1940, six months after announcing the planting project, state and national DAR leaders drove out a winding mountain road from Waynesville to the Pisgah National Forest for the dedication ceremony along the Blue Ridge Parkway, then under construction. Mrs. Robert traveled from her home in Maryland to accept the forest on behalf of the national organization, and Mrs. McAllister presided over the proceedings. The only man invited to participate in the program was the U.S. Forest Service’s H. B. Bosworth, Pisgah National Forest’s supervisor, who


without the line is either a road or a trail.

Close-up of the area from the same map. The parkway runs on the south side of both forests.

This satellite photo indicates where the forest is located today (1). It’s curious that there are other clusters of what appear to be similar species in the vicinity, as indicated by numbers 2-5. It’s not known if these were planted or naturally regenerated.

UPDATE: 10/18/2016

A re-dedication ceremony was held on October 14, 2016, during which a new sign commemorating the original dedication and explaining the impact of logging on the area was unveiled. The ceremony attracted about 200 people, including the national leadership of the DAR, and was covered by local newspapers the Transylvania Times and the Smoky Mountain News.

The new sign, withthe DAR forest in the background.

Blue Ridge Parkway Superintendent Mark Woods addresses the crowd during the ceremony. Lorie Stroup, acting district ranger for the Pisgah National Forest, spoke on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service.

The DAR Jubilee Forest, as seen from Devil’s Courthouse, Oct. 14, 2016.

Many thanks to Molly Tartt and to the researchers and historians at the DAR library in Washington, DC, for their help and to all who provided photos and other sources.


(£1,318) to $20,000 (£13,181).

It was pretty epic. Although, you can't help but be jealous of people who get paid to play video games for a living.

The DreamHack Open London event was the first of its kind in Britain. It was right next to London's Olympic Park.

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Nerds from across Britain and Europe flocked to the Copper Box Arena in the newly-renovated area in East London to watch professional gamers play various games. However, the day I went was primarily focused on the first-person shooter (FPS) game Counter-Strike (CS).

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DreamHack is the world's largest digital festival and originated in Sweden. DreamHack events host esport competitions – basically professional video gaming – as well as cosplay competitions as a side show. Different heats of the competition now takeof fans trying to grab a picture with him.

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The team players are also treated like rock stars. Fans usually buy white t-shirts from the event vendor to get signed by the players.

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There were also a lot of people who brought their own keyboards to be signed by the professional gamers.

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The first heat of the CS:GO tournament was exceptionally tough. Young British team EZSkins were deemed as outliers of the whole competition but were up against one of the best gaming teams in the world, France's EnVyUs.

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As you can see, EZSkins was struggling to win a round against EnVyUs and the whole match was over in less than half an hour.

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Other teams which competed included Dignitas (not to be confused with the Swiss


euthanasia clinic), Renegades, Team SoloMid, Copenhagen Wolves, G2.Kinguin and SK Gaming.

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However, one of the stand out matches was seeing EZSkins giving the more established team Renegades a run for their money ...

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... and eventually winning against them. This was a huge deal for the team and CS:GO fans in Britain because they were tipped to lose the entire competition.

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Since there were so many heats, the tournament went on until past midnight and most people had to get the train home. However, it didn't stop nearly quarter of a million people watching the finals via livestream.

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Team Solomid (TSM) were favourites to win the competition. Even Anders Blume, tipped TSM to win.

In the end, it was France's EnVyUs that won the $20,000 (£13,181) prize.later I find myself humming a few bars of the relaxation song to calm me down when I am tense. The cd has since been lost to me during several moves, but I truly wish I still had it. Music is very beneficial to the psyche and physical attributes towards preparation and healing and I will use it from now on…

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Dr. Alice Cash is one of the world’s few clinical musicologists. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, she brings to her work over 40 years of professional experience as a college professor, clinical therapist, solo and chamber music performer and composer.
Since 1990, Dr. Cash has been in the field of Music Medicine and conducted clinical research at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, under


the guidance of Dr. Joel Elkes, Dr. Leah Dickstein, and Dr. Rif El-Mallakh. Her clinical work at the University of Louisville lead to her career in music medicine.
In addition to her work with the University of Louisville, Dr. Cash lead the development of using music a hospital setting at Baptist East Hospital, Louisvile, KY. She has founded 3 companies: Healing Music Enterprises, Surgical Serenity Solutions and Crescent Hill Counseling.Paul Manafort, advisor to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign, checks the teleprompters before Trump's speech at the Mayflower Hotel April 27, 2016 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Paul Manafort is in trouble. The onetime Trump campaign manager and longtime political consultant to the dictatorial set is clearly locked in the sights of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

How bad is it for Manafort?

When news of a pre-dawn FBI raid at Manafort's Virginia home broke this week, President Trump took a moment from his daily media shtick of self-pity laced with self-aggrandizement to comment on the raid and the fortunes of his former adviser.

Here's what he said:

I thought it was a very, very strong signal, or whatever. I haven't spoken to him in a long time, but I


there was a hint of pity in Trump's voice that's perhaps because beyond the jarring raid, investigators are circling. On Thursday, Bloomberg outlined the many different agencies that are digging through Manafort's past and the many different ways he appears to be toast. Here's a sampling.

Mueller's team, for weeks, has been issuing subpoenas to global banks seeking transaction histories for accounts involving Manafort and his business interests.

Investigators are trying to use Manafort's business associates, including his son-in-law and a Ukrainian oligarch, in order to turn up the heat on the former Trump aide in an effort to extract more information out of him.

"Jeffrey Yohai, who is the estranged husband of Manafort's daughter, is under investigation by FBI agents working with prosecutors in the US attorney's office in LosAngeles," people familiar with their work told Bloomberg. "US authorities are now looking into claims by an investor that Yohai operated a Ponzi scheme."

Federal prosecutors in New York have handed over the reins to Mueller's team on an investigation started earlier this year into money laundering allegations, where Manafort invested in New York real estate to clean up dirty money from Eastern Europe.

Investigators have been focusing on a Manafort business called CMZ Ventures that received $25 million from Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash to develop a luxury skyscraper on Park Avenue. The project never happened, the money was never invested, and a year later, in 2009, CMZ shut down. Plaintiffs in a civil suit on the matter, "including the former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, alleged the real


the long run, that would likely be decided by political leaders. For now, philanthropic organizations founded by technology entrepreneurs have begun putting money into pilot programs to provide basic income. The Economic Security Project, co-led by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and others, committed $10 million over two years to basic income projects.

A trial program in Kenya, led by the U.S. group GiveDirectly, is funded mainly funded by Google; the Omidyar Network started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar; and GoodVentures, co-led by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.

Providing a basic income in expensive countries like the United States would, of course, be far costlier.

Tom Yamachika, president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, a nonprofit dedicated to limited taxes and fairness, has estimated that if all Hawaii residents were given $10,000 annually,California Refuse Recycling Council: Advocating for the Next Generation of Solid Waste Legislation

Created out of a need for waste haulers to respond to government decisions, the CRRC has grown to a pivotal organization in California that has a hand in influencing the waste industry’s legislation issues.

In the 1950s when several waste haulers in Northern and Southern California saw that pending legislation in Sacramento would impact them and the waste industry, they banded together to lead the fight against a bill that would have cost the industry several hundreds of thousands of dollars statewide. From that first get together, the group decided to form an organization that would represent them in legislative matters and respond to what was happening in state government. These companies knew that they would tackle


these issues better if they were organized and so the California Refuse Recycling Council (CRRC) was born.

Today, the organization consists of two Districts—the Northern District, which covers territory from the Northern border to the Kings County line, and the Southern District, which covers Kings County to the Southern border of California. Two categories of members make up the CRRC. There are regular members who are waste haulers and associate members who are the suppliers to the waste industry. Numbering more than 100 members collectively, the majority of the waste haulers in California are members of the organization. Kelly Astor, General Counsel and Legislative Representative for the Southern District of the CRRC, points out that people join for a variety of reasons. “The essential mission of the organization wastasked with improving the existing program while reducing costs.
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University of Padova; Daniel Judge of Medical University of South Carolina; and Jeffrey Saffitz of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

The work was supported by grants from St. Jude Medical (2015-2016 Heart Rhythm Society Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Fellowship Award), The Aiding Hearts Foundation, the American Heart Association (18TPA34170559), the Gilead Research Scholars in Cardiovascular Disease Fund and the British Heart Foundation (PG/18/27/33616), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1R01HD086026), TEDCO (2015-MSCRFI-1622) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01 HL120959).

Novartis Pharmaceuticals has joined Chelko's efforts in targeting inflammation in ACM and has supplied his lab with canakinumab.is because they have helped create a financial system rigged for those who run it. Hedge fund managers, they note, usually pocket two percent of the funds they manage and twenty percent of the profits. In other words, “hedge funds aren’t so much an investment strategy as a compensation strategy.”

On a more basic level, Billionaires’ Ball makes a refreshingly socialist argument: all wealth is socially created. The fortunes of even the most self-made billionaire owe less to his or her own ideas and strategies than to those of untold numbers of collaborators and predecessors, not to mention school teachers, friends, and loved ones.

In one of their many effective thought exercises, the authors imagine the story of the personal computer as a play, beginning with scenes portraying the development


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William K. Vanderbilt Jr.'s sister Consuelo, the Duchess of Marlborough (center wearing a white blouse) was among the 5,000 spectators gathered at the Mineola grandstand for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race. A 2010 profile from kimmystyle.blogspot.com is reposted here, supplemented by images from my collection.

Consuelo Vanderbilt: Duchess of Endurance

Heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt was born to New York railroad tycoon William Kissam Vanderbilt and his Mobile, Alabama belle and soon to be suffragette Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt on March 2nd, 1877 in New York City. Named after her half-American, half- Cuban socialite godmother Consuelo was the ultimate bachelorette of the Golden Age. Notoriously dominated by her quick-witted, extremely ambitious and endlessly self publicizing mother Alva, Consuelo was groomed for marriage to an aristocrat.

In her autobiography she statedshe was rigorously educated via tutors and governesses and had mastered reading and writing of French and German languages by the age of eight.

Her mother made sure her posture was correct as she had a steel brace fashioned from Consuelo’s forehead to her waist which would later garner her accolades for her regal carriage.

Consuelo was five-eight, very slender with a delicate nose and thick wavy, dark hair. She was warm and very kind and captivated all who came to know the lovely beauty. And it would come as no surprise that the same beauty that was whipped by a riding crop for minor infractions and was told once by her mother when she objected to wearing an outfit chosen by her, “I do the thinking, you do as


you are told.”

Consuelo’s mother would later receive five proposals for her daughter’s hand in marriage but Consuelo was only allowed to choose only one of them, Prince Joseph of Battenberg whom Consuelo did not love.

The lovely Consuelo, whose stunning beauty caused the playwright Sir James Barrie, author of Peter Pan to write, “I would wait all night in the rain to see Consuelo Marlborough get into her carriage,” came to embody the slim, tight look that was in vogue during the Edwardian era and she was the prized marital catch of that period.

And at the age of eighteen Alva devised a meeting between Consuelo and Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough and owner of Blenheim Palace. Consuelo had no interest in the elitist duke for she was secretlyengaged to American Winthrop Rutherford but her mother vehemently forbade it and ordered her to marry the duke.

When Consuelo objected she was locked in her room, yet she still objected. It was only when Alva claimed Consuelo’s stubbornness was causing her health to fail (she acted as if she was on death’s door) did poor Consuelo agree to the marriage that would propel the Vanderbilt’s into an even higher ranking of aristocracy and the money poor, land rich Duke of Marlborough into being able to maintain his beloved Blenheim Palace.

On November 6th, 1895 Walter Damrosch’s sixty man orchestra was completing their set of Wagner and Tchaikovsky, policemen were keeping curious citizens at bay at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City and the bride, Consuelo Vanderbilt was


new role and gave birth to John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blanford, who would later become 10th Duke of Marlborough and his brother Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill.

Consuelo called them the “heir and the spare” and it is said she initially coined the phrase.

The new duchess was beloved by the poor and less fortunate tenants on her husband’s estate whom she often visited and provided assistance.

She became known more so for her philanthropy, especially projects directly affecting mothers and children. Royalty and the aristocracy of Britain adored her as well.

But the marriage was not to last for the ill-fitted match was annulled at the duke’s request and Consuelo’s consent on August 19th, 1926.

The annulment surprisingly was fully supported by Alva who later told an investigator, “I have always hadabsolute power over my daughter, I forced my daughter to marry the duke.”

In latter years Consuelo and her mother enjoyed a closer, easier relationship.

Consuelo did find true love in her life with her second marriage on July 4th, 1921 to wealthy French Air Force officer and aviation pioneer Lt. Col. Louis Jacques Balsan who worked with the famous Wright Brothers.

He was the younger brother of Etienne Balsan, an early lover of iconic fashion designer CoCo Chanel.

Consuelo’s new life with her husband made her very happy and she authored her autobiography The Glitter & the Gold, published in 1953 where she refers to the “Gold” as her time with her husband Balsan and the “Glitter” as her earlier marriage. Her beloved Jacques died in 1956 in America and was


buried in Paris.

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Mother of the Tenth Duke of Marlborough died at the age of 87 on December 6th, 1964 in Southampton, Long Island, New York and is buried alongside her youngest son Lord Ivor in Oxfordshire, England.

Consuelo Vanderbilt endured immeasurable heartache, surviving a very strict upbringing and a domineering mother only to be placed in the hands of a man who did not love her.

Yet, she overcame the numerous adversities set before her to become a legacy of kindness, style and grace that could rival even the most elegant and jaded of social aristocracy.

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(Baghdad) – Iraq’s relatively new Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, has been performing a tricky balancing act for the past few months, carefully keeping the various internal and external influencers satisfied while fighting against the extremist Islamic State group and shoring up his own power base. Up until now he had been fairly successful at this tough job. However over the past fortnight, this has been changing, as the forces arrayed against him have shown they are openly opposed to that balance.

Al-Abadi is a member of the mostly Shiite Muslim Dawa party; former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is also a member. And the Dawa party is part of a larger alliance of mainly Shiite Muslim political parties, including theIslamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the Sadrist movement and the Islamic Virtue Party, or Fadhila.

The basic bone of contention now is the deterioration of al-Abadi’s relationship with some of the armed Shiite Muslim militias fighting against the extremist group known as the Islamic State, or IS – this group bases their ideology on Sunni Islam.

The Shiite Muslim militias have been essential in the fight against the IS group but the Prime Minister’s relationship with them began to worsen after the IS group were pushed out of the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. After the Shiite militias took control of the city there were reports of looting, arson and revenge killings – so al-Abadi asked the members of those militias who were accused of this to withdraw from the


between those who are closer to Tehran and who tend not to obey government directives – such as the Badr Brigades, Hezbollah in Iraq, The League of the Righteous and the Khorasani Brigades – and those who are more inclined to support Iraq and the Iraqi government. The latter group includes those loyal to Iraq’s own senior Shiite cleric, the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and includes the tens-of-thousands-strong militias led by the clerics, Muqtada al-Sadr and Ammar al-Hakim.

Sometimes the friction between the militias on the two opposing sides has turned violent. For example, last week members of Hezbollah in Iraq stormed the headquarters of al-Hakim’s Islamic Supreme Council and stole furnishings and other office equipment. In response the Islamic Supreme Council issued a statement condemning the incident andBilly Bragg

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Billy Bragg On World Cafe The British singer-songwriter plays songs from his quiet and introspective new album Tooth & Nail, inspired by the collection of Woody Guthrie songs he produced with Wilco in 1998.

Billy Bragg Nicknames Himself The "Sherpa Of Heartbreak" on His Quieter New Album

May 6, 2013 - Produced by Grammy award winning producer, Joe Henry,
Bragg draws heavily on inspiration from his collaboration with Wilco on "Mermaid Avenue," a collection of Woody Guthrie songs brought to life by their collaboration, and includes a Woody Guthrie cover.

Bragg is best known for bashing out songs alone on his electric guitar, using his platform as a singer-songwriter to spread his message on love and politics. His pieces blend folk, punk rock, and protest songs, with lyrics focused primarily on


political and romantic ideas. With a career spanning over 30 years, he has continued to spread his message far and wide. Yet Tooth & Nail, which came out March 19, is a quieter, more introspective effort of Bragg.couldn’t find it in her to voice another apology as she watched Celia’s previously lively navy blue eyes grow still.

The wolfess’ grip on her tightened painfully, and then loosened immediately thereafter. The light-furred female then collapsed on top of Delilah, becoming a dead, heavy weight that trapped her. The coywolf began to hyperventilate, incapable of tearing her gaze away from the lifeless eyes of her once-lover, and without the strength to shove the corpse off of her. The warmth of the recently deceased dissipated almost instantaneously, replaced with an unnatural, burning cold.

All at once, the world was enveloped in darkness once more, small hands were wrapped around Delilah’s throat, and a warm breath ghosted across the coywolf’s face. The stench of rotting meat invaded her nose, and as


airplanes," Jim McNerney, Boeing CEO, told analysts and journalists on an earnings call Wednesday. "We expect to complete the bulk of fleet retrofits by mid-May."Although Boeing has been working to return the 787-8 to passenger service, it also has pressed forward with production increases. Boeing has begun the process of increasing output to seven 787s monthly between Everett and North Charleston, S.C., McNerney said. The Chicago-based jet maker remains on track to reach a pace of 10 787s by the end of 2013."And despite the three-month delivery suspension, our forecast remains to deliver greater than 60 787s during 2013," McNerney said.Greg Smith, Boeing chief financial officer, indicated Boeing should reach its break-even point on the 787 "about two years from now." "The per-plane cost has dropped 60 percentfrom the eighth jet to No. 100 on the assembly line," he said.Boeing has wrapped up engineering work on the next Dreamliner, the longer 787-9. Assembly of the first aircraft will being mid-year in Everett, with first flight in the latter half of 2013. The company plans to deliver the first 787-9 early next year.The company also could launch two aircraft derivatives this year: the 787-10 and 777X. McNerney anticipates launching the larger version of the Dreamliner, the 787-10, "sooner rather than later." He indicated Boeing still is working out how that version of the Dreamliner would fit into the 787 production schedule. Due to high demand and initial delivery delays, Boeing already is sold out on delivery spots for several years, leading analysts to question whether Boeing


Stanfield v. Laccoarce, 288 Or. 659, 665, 607 P.2d 177 (1980). On October 11, 1989, plaintiff was fired. He had worked for defendant Tektronix, Inc. (Tektronix), for 15 years and, at that time, was employed as a research engineer in its Solid State Research Laboratory (SSRL). During his employment, plaintiff had received 20 merit pay raises and had been promoted four times. His last promotion had occurred one year before he was fired.
After that promotion, plaintiff was reassigned and began working under defendant Prasad. On April 14, 1988, Prasad told plaintiff that he had to improve certain deficiencies within one month or he would be placed on probation. In May, 1988, Prasad informed plaintiff in writing that, at that time, his work met Prasad's expectations.
In October, 1988, Prasadmet with his supervisor, defendant Sachitano, and Goza, a Tektronix human resources generalist. The three agreed to recommend plaintiff's termination. Their recommendation was based on plaintiff's poor work attendance, tardiness, failure to document work and failure to complete projects and to meet deadlines. The recommendation was forwarded to Long, a Tektronix vice-president.
Shortly before plaintiff was fired, Sachitano met with Long, who signed the appropriate papers and advised Sachitano to proceed with plaintiff's termination. Plaintiff's final performance evaluation stated that he lacked analytical skills, produced less and poorer quality work than expected, needed constant supervision and did not *434 meet deadlines. Prasad and Sachitano then met with plaintiff to terminate him.
During and after the termination meeting, a security guard was stationed 50 feet from the room. After the meeting,


plaintiff went to his work area to pack his personal possessions. The guard stayed where he was posted and did not follow him.
Immediately after the termination meeting, Prasad and Sachitano met with the 8 to 10 members of plaintiff's former research team. Sachitano told them that plaintiff had been terminated for "chronic performance failure." Later, in response to employee concerns about the terminations of plaintiff and another employee, Sachitano called a meeting of all 60 SSRL employees to explain what had happened. He said that plaintiff was fired because of his "chronic performance problems." Prasad also told the group that plaintiff had chronic performance problems and had allowed the unauthorized use of Tektronix labs.
Plaintiff's amended complaint alleges three claims for defamation and one for intentional infliction of emotional595 (1992). To prove an abuse of the privilege, plaintiff had to offer evidence creating a question of fact about the mental states of Sachitano and Prasad at the time they made their statements to plaintiff's coworkers. Plaintiff appears to contend that Sachitano and Prasad had no reasonable grounds to believe that their statements were true, because plaintiff's 15-year employment record contains many positive entries and a satisfactory evaluation that was completed less than five months before his discharge. However, there is also abundant evidence in the employment record of plaintiff's poor performance. It is undisputed that Sachitano and Prasad established that they were *435 familiar with plaintiff's employment history and that they participated in the decision to fire him. They were entitled, on the basis of all


Nancy Kaffer

Detroit Free Press Columnist

Without the Karegnondi Water Authority, there would be no Flint water crisis.

After Flint joined the new regional water system, it began to pull its drinking water from the Flint River while Karegnondi was under construction. Because that water wasn't treated properly, Flint residents were exposed to water contaminated by lead.

That doesn't mean Karegnondi, a new regional water system that will serve Genesee, Sanilac and Lapeer counties, is inherently bad, or that the folks who conceived of the system are to blame for the crisis.

But it does mean that Flint residents harmed by drinking that water, and the Michigan taxpayers who'll pick up the tab for state government's failure to ensure Flint's water was safe to drink, deserve to understand Karegnondi's genesis -- and moresplit from Detroit

How Flint's water crisis unfolded

The Karegnondi authority is brainchild of Genesee County Drain Commissioner Jeff Wright, who envisioned a system that would allow those farflung counties to control their own water supply, free of Detroit. Flint joined Karegnondi in 2013, a decision approved by an emergency manager, appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder and then-state Treasurer Andy Dillon to balance the cash-strapped city's budget. Even though an EM made the call, many locals were tempted by Karegnondi's promise: Cheaper water, freedom from what many viewed as the widespread corruption (and subsequent high prices) associated with the Detroit system. Karegnondi plans to pump Lake Huron water to its member communities, the same water Detroit uses, but at a lower cost. The system should be complete in June of


this year; in Flint, lake water will flow through the same pipes, be treated in the same plant.

Both the decision to join Karegnondi, and to pump water from the Flint River while the new system was under construction, would save Flint money, residents were promised -- the costs of continuing to purchase finished water from the Detroit system were just too high, particularly after Flint announced its intention to leave Detroit, triggering the end of its long-term contract. Flint's cost to purchase water from Detroit while the new system was under construction -- as Genesee County has done -- would have been at a higher rate.

But the local plant -- with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's approval -- didn't properly treat the water it drew from theriver. First, the water was contaminated by coliform bacteria. When local operators added too much disinfectant, a chemical byproduct created by the overdose made the water discolored, bad-tasting and smelling. And because the plant didn't add chemicals used for corrosion control, the harsh river water leached lead from aging service lines and pipes. Lead is a neurotoxin that can cause behavioral and developmental delays. Eighteen months after the switch -- and in the face of mounting evidence that Flint had a serious problem -- Snyder finally acknowledged that Flint's water had problems, and OK'd Flint's return to Detroit water. That was in October. It's still not safe to drink.

When Tucker, Young, Jackson, Tull, a Detroit-based engineering firm, handed its final report to Dillon, its authors didn't equivocate: "Based


it at a local plant, the Flint Journal reported on March 28, 2014. State officials told the Journal that review of the permit would take 30 to 45 days. Flint laboratory and water quality supervisor Mike Glasgow wrote in an April 17, 2014 email that the plant wasn't ready to go. "If water is distributed from this plant in the next couple of weeks, it will be against my direction." But the switch proceeded as planned -- Flint officially began to pump its water from the river on April 25. Glasgow earlier this month pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of willful neglect. A felony charge of tampering with evidence -- he was accused of manipulating testing data after the switch -- was dropped.

Taken in isolation, nonethe pathologist at the diagnostic center knows the location of the field of view of the highly magnified image within the specimen. In a sense, the pathologist is operating in real time in the same way that he would use his own microscope at his diagnostic center except for a slight transmission delay used to transmit the video signals of the highly magnified image over large bandwidth channel. Although the pathologist has a small map or peripheral outline of the specimen, the pathologist's field of view of the actual specimen is only the small circle of view that is coming through the microscope objective lens. This does not help the pathologist locate suspicious areas of interest as in a prescreening of the entire tissue. The pathologist may switch


In an awkward case of foot-and-mouth on Twitter, a Liberal MP has mistakenly broken ranks and declared the recent Free Trade Agreement with China bad for Australian jobs.

On Thursday evening, Northern Territory MP Natasha Griggs chimed into a Twitter conversation with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Maritime Union of Australia, much to their delight.

Northern Territory MP Natasha Griggs made an interesting comment on Twitter on Thursday night.

"The FTA does enable cheap Chinese workers as being claimed by unions" she wrote in a tweet which has since been deleted.

Presumably a typing error of some sort, the tweet was immediately seized by the social media accounts of unions, who declared she should now take her new cause up with the Prime Minister.Lupus erythematosus profundus with unusual skin manifestation: subcutaneous nodules coexisting with eyelid plaques.
A 71-year-old Japanese woman presented with erythematous plaques on the eyelids and subcutaneous indurations or nodules with or without overlying erythema on the hands, thigh, and leg. She also had oral ulcers, arthralgia and a low grade fever. Laboratory tests revealed an elevated titer of antinuclear antibody, an increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate and anemia. Skin biopsy specimens from the hand and thigh showed lymphocytic perivascular and periappendageal infiltrates and vacuolar alterations at the basement membrane zone of the skin appendages. Moreover, there was a dense lymphocytic infiltrate deep in the dermis with extension into the subcutaneous fat, which was compatible with the diagnosis of lupus erythematosus profundus. Although the biopsy specimen from the eyelid lesion did


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The battle of Queenston Heights was fought on October 12, 1812. Queenston Heights was recognized early on as sacred ground, a monument to Sir Isaac Brock is constructed here as this was the site he ultimately lost his life. There is also a monument to Laura Secord there. It was here than an American invasion was a failure. This battle was instrumental in increasing public opinion at the time of one against the Americans and increasing the consciousness of the Canadian people at the onset of the War of 1812.mouth about u..( i still believe u could have been a better hitter) non the less ur the greatest….and if u get a chance to read this tell the famoly i says hello and there in my prayes…ur lost but not forgotten ol pal….Leon Weathersby…..

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Tesla’s biggest market in Europe is not Norway anymore as the Netherlands takes the lead with a surge in Model 3 sales at the end of the year ahead of reduced tax incentives.

Since the European launch of the Model 3 earlier this year, the vehicle clearly reinvigorated Tesla’s sales on the continent.

Several markets in which Tesla was only delivering a few hundred cars per year when it was only Model S and Model X, like Austria, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, are now seeing thousands of deliveries.

The Netherlands was always an important market for Tesla, and before the introduction of the Model 3 in Europe, it was neck-and-neck with Norway as Tesla’s best European market.

Model 3 deliveries pulled Norway ahead again as Tesla has become the best-selling car brandEast

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The East corresponds to the element Air, to the mind, dawn, spring, to pale, airy colors, white and violet, to the eagle and high-flying birds, and the power of knowledge. It is connected to the rising of the sun and moon. East is the portal to enlightenment. Some Witchcraft Traditions orient their alters toward the East, while others have them facing North.


[Application of group psychotherapy in treatment of adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa (presentation of therapeutic work model in the Neurosis and Eating Disorders Treatment Centre "Dabrówka"--the author's own experience)].
The article shows chosen motives from the authors self experience in the specificity and principles of conducting group psychotherapy in treating patients with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. In the first part of the article, the author presents elementary postulates of the working model in teenage therapeutic groups in the Neurosis and Eating Disorders Treatment Centre "Dabrówka", in the years 2002-2004. The second part presents basic postulates of adult group psychotherapy practiced in the "Dabrówka" Centre. Conclusions indicate the main elements of a group therapy process in patients with anorexia nervosa.raising investment from Hian Goh, Founding Partner at Openspace Ventures.

Openspace is a Series A venture capital fund with more then US $150 million AUM focused on Technology and Internet companies in South East Asia. The fund has invested into 16 companies including Gojek, Redmart, Chope and Zimplistic, the makers of Rotimatic.

Key takeaways from the session include:

His personal journey in VC

What Openspace looks for when making an investment into a startup

Successes/failures in his portfolio and lessons learned

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Hian Goh is a Founding Partner of Openspace Ventures, a Series A venture capital fund focused on Technology and Internet companies in South East Asia. The fund has invested into 16 companies including Gojek, Redmart, Chope


and Zimplistic, the makers of Rotimatic.

Hian was the Founder of the Asian Food Channel (AFC), a 24 Hour food and lifestyle Pay TV network, which was acquired by Scripps Networks in 2013.

Hian began his career as an investment banker and was a founding member of the Salomon Smith Barney Technology investment banking practice in Asia, (now part of Citigroup) in 1999.

Hian graduated with a degree in Jurisprudence (Law) from Trinity College, Oxford, and an MBA from INSEAD. He is also a Reserve Officer with the Singapore Navy and is a Board Member of the Singapore Science Centre.WATCH: Hillary Completely Ignores Reporter's Question on Orlando Terrorist's Father

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A New Jersey man was beaten with a crowbar because he was wearing a Donald Trump shirt, authorities say.

The 62-year-old male victim told police that he was walking on Bloomfield street last week when a man in an older-model, gray vehicle began to harass him about his shirt, which read "Trump for President: Make America Great Again," alongside a picture of the Republican presidential nominee.

Police said the man followed the victim to a Friendly’s Restaurant and approached him in the parking lot with a crowbar in hand.

He apparently struck him several times, fleeing before police arrived.

The victim, who was not named,


WWU Queer Con is a single day comics convention that held its first convention on April 29th, 2017, from 10am to 5pm on Western Washington University’s campus in Bellingham Washington. Our convention had an artist alley featuring professional and student artists and writers, vendors, student-led panels, and a costume contest, all focused on queer comics.

With this event, we hope to provide an opportunity to celebrate queer comics and creators and bring further visibility to the queer community in Bellingham. It is also important to us to make family friendly queer events accessible for both WWU students and the surrounding community.

We are currently looking for student artists, advertisers, donors, and especially volunteers for next year. If you are interested, please contact us at wwuqueercon@gmail.com for more details.In the three years that Donald Trump rocketed from candidate to president, the PEN American Center has criticized him as a bully, an autocrat, a user of hate speech and an enemy of free expression.

It has published studies, organized petitions and established a Press Freedom Incentive Fund.

Now the literary and human rights organization, which includes thousands of authors and journalists, is taking a more direct step: PEN is suing the president.

In a suit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, the center, also known as PEN America, alleges that "official acts" by Trump have "violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution." PEN cites such examples as reports that Trump has meddled in the proposed merger of AT&T and CNN, a frequent target of Trump's


anger (the Justice Department has sought to block the merger).

The suit also notes Trump's comments on Washington Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Trump, unhappy with the Post's coverage, has threatened antitrust action against Amazon and suggested raising its shipping costs. According to the Post, he has pressured U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rates. (Last week, the U.S. Postal Service proposed some hikes for 2019, among them increases that would affect Amazon. Shipping costs have been raised several times over the past decade.)

"President Trump has First Amendment rights and is free to criticize the press vehemently, but he is not free to use the power and authority of the United States government to punish and stifle it," the complaint reads.

A White House spokeswoman diddeems just and proper."

Trump has been sued thousands of times over past few decades, and shortly before taking office agreed to pay $25 million in a settlement over fraud allegations against the now-defunct Trump University. He also has been sued as president, including on First Amendment grounds.

Last month, a federal court in Cincinnati ruled that protesters at a Trump rally in March 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky, could not sue him for inciting violence, finding nothing incriminating in his remarks. Earlier this year, the Knight First Amendment Institute sued Trump and his communications team for blocking several people from the president's Twitter account. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where PEN's suit was filed Tuesday, ruled in May that blocking Twitter


critics violated the First Amendment.

"We wouldn't be filing this lawsuit if we didn't think it would be meritorious," said David A. Schulz, co-director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, a Yale Law School program serving as co-counsel with the nonprofit, nonpartisan Protect Democracy on the lawsuit. "There is so much evidence of the president's motives."

One issue for PEN might be how the organization and its members have been affected by President Trump, what is known as legal standing. Kristy Parker of Protect Democracy said that "PEN's members, especially those who are journalists covering current affairs, are indeed directly affected by the President's retaliatory acts and credible threats because they are forced to work in an atmosphere where they could be punished by the President for theirto a growing trend of AI applications in the workplace, the survey found.

Commenting on the results of the poll, Daniel Lee (李大華), head of 1111 job bank's career development and public relations division, said many middle-aged workers are facing a changing work environment due to emerging technology like AI.

Employees in that age category, who are usually on the higher end of the pay scale, are worried about not being able to support their families if they lose their jobs because of an inability to adapt to new technologies, Lee said.

He suggested that employees seek to upgrade their professional skills in the fast changing work environment to become more competitive in the job market.

The survey was conducted July 3-17 and collected 1,089 valid samples. It had a confidence level


LeCompte maneuver

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A 26-year-old man is dead after being hit by a car while skateboarding in Ka'a'awa. It happened around 12:40 this morning on Kamehameha Highway near Crouching Lion. Police say the skateboarder swerved into the path of a black Toyota. The driver of the vehicle was not injured. The skateboarder was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say alcohol appears to be a factor. HE WAS ARRESTED FOR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. CHARGES ARE PENDING ON THAT SO A NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE IN THE FIRST DEGREE CASE HAS BEEN GENERATED The investigation is ongoing. Police closed Kamehameha Highway this morning. The road reopened about 3 hours later.

A bill to rezone agricultural land in West Oahu faced the people who live in that community Monday night. After passing a first readingDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today cited a Ugandan letter to defend Law Minister Somnath Bharti's widely condemned midnight raid targeting African women over allegations of sex and drug trafficking.Mr Kejriwal said that a "woman from the Ugandan mission" had met Mr Bharti and praised his efforts, and handed over a letter that described trafficking of women from that country to India."The woman told Somnath Bharti 'you did very well, many women from our country are being trafficked'. She brought this letter," Mr Kejriwal said waving the letter as he addressed supporters to announce his protest demanding action against Delhi Police officers for not making arrests at Mr Bharti's instance.The letter dated June 19, is reportedly a defence advisory written by 'Defence Advisor GJ Etyang' and addressed to


the Chief of Military Intelligence in Ugandan capital Kampala.Attached to it is the account of a woman who was allegedly duped into coming to India on 30 May. ( read letter )."The girl had hoped to be offered a job...only to be introduced into sex working (sic)" said the letter. "The purpose of this communication is to draw your attention and possibly interrogate the lady."The AAP called the letter a validation of Mr Bharti's controversial raid on Wednesday night at Khirki Extension in south Delhi.The foreign ministry said the Uganda High Commission's staff are currently not in New Delhi and warned the media against "giving credence to rumours."The AAP, however, said they could identify the woman who came to them.

The Delhi Police yesterday registered an FIR, without naminganyone, after a Ugandan woman complained that a group of people from a political party broke into her house, threatened and molested her. Four African women were allegedly abused that night.Two of them have alleged that the crowd forced them to urinate in public for samples to be tested for drugs, according to senior lawyer Harish Salve.


is in danger of being wiped off the face of the globe…

Bananas are in big trouble. While the beloved fruit remains as popular as ever, its crops across the world have been hit with an infectious fungus and the damage is irreparable. The Cavendish species of banana, which was introduced in 1965, is currently the primary banana export in the world. And it’s being completely ruined by Tropical Race 4, a fungal disease that began in Malaysia in 1990 and has since spread to Southeast Asia, Australia, and finally Africa in 2013. Believe it or not, this is not the first time a fungus has wiped out an entire species of the bright yellow fruit. By 1965, the Gros Michel species of banana—which lasted longer, were more resilient,48 million birds have been affected since avian flu first was spotted in the U.S. in December.

And of course there are many, many more examples of significant problems that are hitting our food supply. The following short list comes from one of my previous articles…

-More than 40 percent of our fresh produce comes from the state of California, but thanks to the worst multi-year drought in the history of the state much of the region is turning back into a desert.

-Also due to the persistent drought, the size of the U.S. cattle herd is now as small as it was during the 1950s, and the price of beef has doubled since the last recession.

-Over the past few years, something called “porcine epidemic diarrhea” has wiped out approximately 10


A former star financial broker who got accused of stealing millions of dollars from the aging, demented co-founder of the Home Shopping Network has been banned from the industry.

Ami Forte — who was ranked as Barron’s top female financial adviser from 2010 to 2012, reportedly with $2 billion in assets — was barred from ever managing money again after it was found she had made $9 million in bogus fees during a years-long affair with her now-dead lover, HSN co-founder Roy Speer, according to a financial watchdog.

Forte, 62, and her former employee Charles Lawrence had made thousands of unnecessary trades as she churned Speer’s account from 2010 to 2012, when the TV-shopping tycoon was hospitalized for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a Monday order from the Financial Industry Regulatoryto view one of these somber rituals is rare, however, as most animals don't grieve for very long, and in the wild, bodies are soon claimed by predators.

Death and Loss

A group of researchers in China got a chance to not only glimpse the aftermath of a loss, but the events leading up to it as well. It's an event that they say provides important insights into animals' conception of death and loss. As New Scientist reports, the researchers had been observing a group of snub-nosed monkeys in Southeast Asia, when a female, mated to the group's leader, began to show symptoms of noticeable distress, appearing weak and isolated. Her mate picked up on this as well, and began caring for her with unusual attentiveness, hovering around his mate


and stroking her gently. About an hour after climbing a tree, the female fell to the ground where she passed away some 50 minutes later. All the while, her mate sat silently by her side, still tending to her. After the female had died, the male monkey remained by her side for another five minutes before appearing to accept the reality of the situation. He moved away with the rest of the group, although he seemed noticeably reluctant, and gazed back toward his mate's final resting place on several occasions. Though the researchers buried the body, he returned the next day to hover over the place where she died. The researchers published their observations Monday in the journal Current Biology.

(Credit: Bin Yang, James R. Anderson, and Bao-Guo Li/is present and when it is not. Observing the behavior of the other monkeys both before and after her death revealed information about the monkeys' social structure as well. In social animals such as monkeys, building and reinforcing bonds between community members is crucial to the group's survival. Marking the death of a group member may serve to maintain social solidarity between other group members and uphold notions of caring and support.

(Credit: Bin Yang, James R. Anderson, and Bao-Guo Li/ Current Biology 26) In other groups of primates, such as chimpanzees and macaques, surviving group members engage in more grooming after the death of one of their kin, the friendly activity likely serves to compensate for the tragedy of losing one of their own. This not only strengthens


It is an honour to be bringing Philip Pullman's extraordinary novels to BBC One. His Dark Materials is a stunning trilogy, and a drama event for young and old.

Commissioned by Charlotte Moore, Controller BBC One and Polly Hill, Controller BBC Drama Commissioning, His Dark Materials is produced by Bad Wolf and New Line Cinema which will be made in Wales for BBC One.

Polly Hill, Controller BBC Drama Commissioning, says: "It is an honour to be bringing Philip Pullman's extraordinary novels to BBC One. His Dark Materials is a stunning trilogy, and a drama event for young and old - a real family treat that shows our commitment to original and ambitious storytelling."

His Dark Materials is one of the supreme works of imaginative fiction for both children and adultspublished in the 20th century. Northern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. In The Subtle Knife she is joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As Lyra learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds and leads to a thrilling conclusion in The Amber Spyglass.

Philip Pullman says: “It’s been a constant source of pleasure to me to see this


of the Year Award, in 2007 Northern Lights won the Carnegie of Carnegies and in 2005 Pullman was awarded by the Swedish Arts Council, the children’s literature equivalent of the Nobel Prize, The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

Nicholas Hytner’s stage production of His Dark Materialswas produced in two parts at the National Theatre in 2003-4. In 2006 New Line released a film of The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra.

His Dark Materials is the first commission from Bad Wolf, a UK/US production company founded by Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner and co-sited in South Wales and Los Angeles and is New Line Cinema’s first move into British television.

His Dark Materials will be Executive Produced by Philip Pullman, Jane Tranter and Julie GardnerThe signature by President Putin of a decree entitling, inter alia, people who permanently reside in certain areas of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions to apply for Russian citizenship in a simplified manner, is another attack on Ukraine's sovereignty by Russia.

The timing of such a decision immediately after Ukraine’s Presidential election, which demonstrated Ukraine's strong attachment to democracy and the rule of law, shows Russia’s intention to further destabilise Ukraine and to exacerbate the conflict.

We expect Russia to refrain from actions that are against the Minsk agreements and impede the full reintegration of the non-Government controlled areas into Ukraine.

All parties must fully implement their commitments under the Minsk agreements.

The European Union remains steadfast in its support to Ukraine's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.


appear to have been deliberately cut with a saw. At the time this action was filed all of the holes had been covered by the operators of the premises with plywood. Some of the locks on the booth doors operate and others do not.
"The area of the premises where the movie booths are located is lighted with `black' or fluorescent lights emitting only enough light to see persons within the hallway but generally described as `very dark.' At the time this action was filed the lighting had been increased or turned up to the point that the lighting in the area has been described as `very light.'
"....
"During the twelve months prior to the time this action was filed, twenty-nine incidents of sexual misconduct involving thirty-two persons have beenintentionally exposing themselves or masturbating in view of others by leaving the movie booth door open to view from the hallway or placing their private parts next to one of the large holes in the walls in one of the booths. Some of the incidents involved customers in adjacent booths performing acts of fellatio using the cut out hole in the walls of the booths. In other instances a customer would be shown to have entered a booth occupied by another person and then expose himself or masturbate in the presence of such person for the apparent purpose of attempting to engage that person in a homosexual act.
"It was testified by several officers that the incidents that they witnessed, testified to and made arrests for, were representative of


Rabodirect announced as the title sponsor of new Rabodirect Pro12

It was announced today that RaboDirect, the online banking arm of Rabobank, will become the new sponsor of Rugby's premier professional club competition in Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

From the start of the new rugby season, the competition formerly known as Magners League will become the RaboDirect PRO12.

Commenting on the new four year sponsorship John Feehan, Chief Executive of RaboDirect PRO12 said:

"We are delighted to welcome RaboDirect as our new title sponsor alongside our new brand PRO12 . Securing the support of an international business with the reputation of the Rabobank Group will raise the profile of the RaboDirect PRO12 and enhance the investment in the competition. The Rabobank Group are active and engaged sponsors of a number ofThe memory of a beloved pet inspires one couple's fight against injustice.

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The Siegelman Whistleblower: Did a Notorious Bushie Sweep Her Charges Under the Rug?

An examination of records in the Tamarah Grimes whistleblower case indicate that a controversial Bush appointee might have played a role in protecting Leura Canary, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.

Scott J. Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), appears to have limited the scope of the investigation into Grimes' allegations of wrongdoing by prosecutors in the Don Siegelman case.

Federal agents raided Bloch's office in May as part of an investigation into political bias and obstruction of justice. Just one month ago, the Bush White House fired Bloch.

Before that happened, did Bloch take steps to


protect Canary and her top assistants in the office that directed the Siegelman prosecution?

David Margolis, associate deputy attorney general, issued a report in which he found no violations had been committed by management officials in the Middle District of Alabama, led by U.S. Attorney Leura Canary.

But Columbia University law professor Scott Horton, writing at The Daily Beast, quoted a Congressional staffer as saying Margolis had not conducted much of an investigation at all, not even interviewing key players. Another source told Horton that Margolis was intent on "sweeping everything under the carpet."

What was Margolis determined to sweep under the carpet? And did he receive assistance from Scott J. Bloch?

Let's take a look at some of the key allegations Grimes' leveled at Leura Canary and her staff at theA culture of gossip--Canary and other management types cultivated an office environment where vicious gossip was the norm. The sister-in-law of an assistant U.S. attorney had a case of vaginal warts, and that apparently was discussed openly in the office;

* Waste of government funds--During the Don Siegelman/Richard Scrushy case, known as the "Big Case" in the office, prosecutor Steve Feaga was allowed to keep a contract employee (Vallie Byrdsong) for more than three years, long after staff members could have performed his duties, according to Grimes. The government also paid all expenses for Byrdsong to attend the Siegelman/Scrushy sentencing, which included a "victory party" at the home of prosecutor Louis Franklin;

* Unethical Conduct--Justice Department employees removed documents from the Emelle landfill, even though landfill managers had said the


letter, identifying five areas for investigation in the Grimes case, was dated April 28, 2008;

* Bloch's office was raided on May 7, 2008.

Did Bloch have time, prior to the raid on his office, to tailor the Grimes investigation so as to protect Leura Canary? If Bloch is being investigated for improper political bias and obstruction of justice, is his handling of the Grimes allegations part of that probe? It it's not, should it be?

Is Bloch a political hot potato? It certainly looks like it. He was fired by the White House on October 23."I never, never should have allowed myself to be lured by the United States administration to commit a crime in this country, I wish that the United States administration never manipulate people like myself in the future to commit crimes against foreign countries," Warmbier said during his trial in North Korea.

"I entirely beg you, the people and government of the DPRK, for your forgiveness. Please! I made the worst mistake of my life!"

His parents told the Washington Post he has been in a coma for a year contracting botulism, a deadly nerve toxin.

It is unclear how he got sick, or if he actually is sick — he was reportedly severely beaten by North Korean officials.

There were concerns Warmbier was killed as a result of beatings while in custody,


according to the New York Times.

But reports say he was seen by an American or Swedish medical team on Monday in Pyongyang. Sweden does diplomatic work in North Korea on the behalf of the U.S.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made no mention of Warmbier's condition when it was announced he was coming home.

According to Warmbier's parents, he was allegedly given a sleeping pill shortly after his trial in March 2016, which put him into a coma.

It is unknown why North Korea released him, but the U.S. State Department demanded his release after learning of his medical condition.

Warmbier's parents told the Post they and American officials learned of their son's condition last week.

"Otto's detainment and sentence was unnecessary and appalling," Sen. Rob Portman said in a written statement Tuesday.

"ForNorth Korea to imprison Otto with no notification or consular access for more than a year is the utmost example of its complete failure to recognize human rights and dignity."

Warmbier arrived in Pyongyang in December 2015 as part of a tour group.

North Korea allows a small number of tourists into the country every year through approved Chinese travel agencies. Tourists are always constantly monitored and are given a guided propaganda tour by government officials.

Washington and Pyongyang have a very strained relationship. North Korea still considers itself in an active war against the United States and is moving quickly towards a nuclear weapon it threatens to use in combat.

The fate of at least three other U.S. citizens detained in North Korea remains unknown.

"My first priority will be continuing to


support Otto, his parents and family, whose strength and love of family inspire me every time I speak with them," Sen. Sherrod Brown Brown said in a prepared statement.

"North Korea's despicable actions in detaining and holding Otto were unacceptable and must be condemned. We must continue working to free all Americans who are being held by North Korea."

Numerous Americans have been detained in the country over the years.

Some detainees have been freed after visits by high-profile officials such as President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Charnesia Corley believes newly-released dashcam video will prove her case against the Harris County, TX, Sheriff's Office. The video was recorded two years ago, but she still feels the pain of what happened that night.

Charnesia CorleyMarvel/Disney

Captain America looks to be in all kinds of trouble as he battles Thanos in the new trailer for "Avengers: Infinity War." But Cap is unsinkable, right? Right?

Hold that thought.

While actor Chris Evans has already filmed scenes for April's "Infinity War" and the yet-unnamed "Avengers 4," due in theaters in 2019, he told the New York Times in an article published Thursday that he's moving on after that.

"You want to get off the train before they push you off," Evans told the Times, adding that after some reshoots in the fall for Avengers 4, he expects to be done playing Cap.

Whatever that could mean for the character's life or death in the film of course remains unknown, but it's been long rumored that "Avengers 4" could mean the


end for some super-powered names. And don't worry too much, most comic characters have ways of rising from the dead. Right, Henry Cavill?

As for Evans himself, he's about to make his Broadway debut in "Lobby Hero," a play about four workers on the graveyard shift. Though as Captain America he started out clean-cut, then grew a beard, for his role as a cop in the play, he sports a mustache. And likes it.

"People don't recognize me at all," he told the Times. "I can look them right in the eye -- it's like I'm invisible."icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac also appear courtesy of actors Ben Foster and sexy Jack Huston). Radcliffe and DeHaan are both excellent and share genuine chemistry, with the impressively maturing Radcliffe gaining bonus points for sexually-explicit fearlessness.

As director, Krokidas begins the film promisingly with an intense, attention-grabbing opening and wonderful period detail in the art direction, costumes and music. His screenplay’s similarities to Howl and On the Road become gradually apparent, however, and Krokidas seems to compensate for the story’s familiarity with increasingly over-the-top direction and editing. This reaches its zenith (nadir?) during a four-way penetration scene during which Carr stabs Kammerer, Ginsberg has sex with a man for the first time, Burroughs shoots up, and Kerouac listens to a recording made by a dying soldier