to be picked up by us the hottest part of the entertainment. The
tea had unfortunately been left behind, but they had some very good
cocoa, which supplied its place.

[Illustration: The Shooting Party]

At 9 P.M. we rounded the north end of Sibuco Island and passed
through the Sibuco Passage, entering the Celebes Sea at about 11 P.M.

_Saturday, April 16th._--A very hot day. At noon we had steamed 235
miles, and were in lat. 2 deg. 47' N., long. 119 deg. 32' E. Busy settling
down all day. Rather an anxious time as regards navigation. Tom spends
most of his time in the foretop. About 10 P.M. we entered the Straits
of Macassar.

Throughout the day we had been exposed to the danger of collision with
the numerous submerged logs and trunks of trees carried down by the
riverwas being got up. At 8.30 P.M. we started again,
more successfully this time, and proceeded quietly through the night.

_Thursday, April 21st._--Muriel's birthday. Ceased steaming at 6 A.M.
A heavy roll throughout the day, with occasional strong squalls. All
suffering more or less from the motion. At noon we had steamed
sixty-three miles and sailed twenty-one. In the afternoon the weather
improved. At 7 P.M. the ship was put before the wind in order to let
Neptune come on board, after which the ceremony of crossing the line
was carried out with due solemnity and with great success. The
costumes were capital, the procession well managed, and the speeches
amusing. Muriel was delighted with an offering of shells, and Neptune
finally took his departure amid a shower of one rocket (we could not
afford more for fear of accident)


a woman may very
likely have to undertake herself, or to teach an untrained servant to
perform. I should be inclined to add to the list of desirable
accomplishments riding, driving, and the art of shoeing and saddling a
horse in case of emergency; for the distances from place to place are
great, and the men are often all out on the run or in the bush.

About half-past nine Mr. Hassall took me for a drive round the station
and clearing. We saw the remains of the old gold-workings, not two
hundred yards from the house. Up to now they have been unprofitable,
but hopes are entertained that, with better machinery for crushing the
quartz, larger results may be obtained. At present the expense of
working is so great that the gold is not found in paying quantities.

Fromnear our course as circumstances would permit.

There are a good many invalids on board among the crew and servants,
the symptoms in each case being very similar. This morning the two
maids, two stewards, and three of the men had more or less succumbed
to 'malarial colds'--nothing serious, the doctor says, but very
uncomfortable. It is quite certain that many more are now laid up than
we ever had on the sick-list in the tropics; but the sudden change
from heat to cold may of course account for this state of things.

_Wednesday, May 18th._--The wind was rather more favourable; but,
although close-hauled, we were nearly two and a half points off our
course, the head-sea running very high. Although the air was warm I
remained in my cabin all the morning, feeling wretched and
uncomfortable. At noon we


reporter, who had been
hunting Tom down all day to try and interview him, but had always
managed to arrive everywhere just too late. We took him off with us
and gave him some dinner, for which he was very grateful after his
hard wearying day. Presently Tom and Mabelle arrived, and directly
afterwards a boat came alongside with another reporter. More
unfortunate even than the first, he had sat at the semaphore, halfway
between here and Port Adelaide, all night, and then, not knowing where
to go, had oscillated between the two places all day, telegraphing in
various directions for information.

_Wednesday, May 25th._--At half-past ten o'clock we started on an
excursion into the picturesque mountains which lie behind Glenelg, Mr.
Stock driving us in his nice little American buggy, drawn by a capital
pair of horses. The rest offor some miles between banks fringed with willows, the
original cuttings of which had been brought by an old French settler
from Napoleon's grave in St. Helena. The trees have grown
marvellously; and I hear that this year the avenue, if it may be so
called, is to be extended some miles further up the stream.

At about one o'clock we arrived at the landing-pier, where we found
one of the capacious trading-boats, of which we have met many on the
river. It is a regular pedlar's store on a large scale, where one
might buy dresses of the latest fashion, cloaks and bonnets, besides
all sorts of medicines for man and beast, groceries, and stores of
every kind. A most useful institution it must be to isolated toilers
on the banks of the Murray.

On reaching Wellington Lodge we


close of the proceedings it
was growing dusk, and the bright- tongues of flame from the
rifles showed sharply against the dark blue sky. Tom presented the
medals to the men and made them a speech; and after all was over we
returned to Government House.

_Sunday, July 17th._--Tom and Mabelle went on board H.M.S. 'Nelson' at
10.30 A.M. for church-service, and then on to H.M.S. 'Opal,' where
they met Admiral and Mrs. Fairfax, and Captain and Mrs. Bosanquet, and
a few other friends.

[Illustration: Cook's Monument, Botany Bay]

The day turned out so lovely that I was persuaded to go round the
Botanical Gardens in a bath-chair. I admired immensely the taste with
which these gardens are laid out, and the skill with which a great
portion of the site has been reclaimed from the sea. What seems so
puzzling inIt looked a very simple affair, and we were
told that once a year all the sporting population in what Australians
call 'the neighbourhood,' extending for some hundred miles around,
assemble here to try their nags against one another.

We seem rather unlucky about accidents, for on our way down a steep
hill the horses suddenly became restive; and if it had not been that
our driver sent them spinning down one hill at full gallop, and up the
next, thus leaving them no time for kicking, and preventing the
carriage from ever touching them, we should probably have had a
repetition of our smash the other day. We did not see a single
kangaroo all the way, but passed a number of good-looking cattle and
horses. Years ago this country swarmed with game, and was so eaten up
that


rivers, and metalliferous areas, exceptionally rich in
tin, coal, copper, and silver. Thus far mining has been more
successful than agriculture. The Chinese have alone been able to
accomplish anything in cultivation. They have gathered harvests of
rice and sugar-cane from the limited areas which they have taken in
hand. On the banks of the rivers coffee could be grown in many places.

The climate is tropical, and malaria, with its fever and ague, is
prevalent. The mean temperature of the year is 75 degrees, and the
thermometer has never been seen lower than 68 degrees. The atmosphere
is dank, steamy, and heavy with moisture during the wet season, and
parching and malarial during the dry season.

From Port Darwin to the Cape of Good Hope, and thence to Sierra Leone,
the voyage lay for the most part within thesquare.

We found three kind Englishmen leading a life of exile, in charge of
the station of the West African Telegraph Company. St. Vincent, the
only island of the Cape de Verdes which has any trade, is a coaling
station much used by steamers on the South American route.

On the day after leaving Porto Praya the 'Sunbeam' lay becalmed under
the lee of St. Antonio. The anchorage used by us in 1876 was in view,
as was also the house and plantation of which a drawing is given in
my dear wife's 'Voyage in the Sunbeam.' There were many sad
reminiscences as the former track of the 'Sunbeam' was crossed. On
November 29th, without warning from the barometer, a strong gale
commenced from the east, and lasted without intermission for four
days. Under low canvas and close-hauled, the 'Sunbeam'


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Dr., 170, 172

Lampton, 328

Largs Bay, 266

Laughing jackass, 321

Laurence, Maude, 14, 54, 72

Layard, Sir C.P., quoted, 100

Leaf-fungus, coffee, 101

Lee, the gatherer of beche-de-mer, 397, 398

Leeches, 205

Levinge, Mr., 381, 386

Leys, Dr. and Mrs., 156

Life at sea, 92

'Liguria' (steamship), 224

Lilies, 350, 366, 377, 438

Lindsay, Mr. David, 270, 276

Liquid gold, 355

Little, Mr., 172

Little Coco, 116

Liveries in Ceylon, 102, 103

Lizard Island, 394

Loch, Sir Henry and Lady, 289, 292-294, 298

Loftie, Mr. and Mrs., 231, 232

Log of 'Sunbeam,' abstract of--
  Portsmouth to Bombay, 448, 449;
  Bombay to Kurrachee, Rangoon, Borneo, and Macassar, 450-452;
  Macassar to Adelaide, South Australia, 453;
  Adelaide to Melbourne, Sydney, and Port Darwin, 454-456;
  Port Darwin to Mauritius and Cape of Good Hope, 457, 458;
  Cape of Good Hope to Portsmouth, 458-460;
  summary, 461

_Logodium scandens_,Mingo, another fisherman, and Jim, a cotton-hauling stevedore who, tired of his job, decides to give it up and join Jake and the other fishermen. Porgy, a disabled beggar, enters on his goat cart to organize the game. Peter, an elderly "honey man" [honey vendor] returns, singing his vendor's call. Crown, a strong and brutal stevedore, storms in with his woman, Bess, and buys cheap whiskey and some "Happy Dust" off the local dope peddler, Sportin' Life. Bess is shunned by the women of the community, especially the pious Serena and the matriarchal cookshop owner Maria, but Porgy softly defends her. The game begins. One by one, the players get crapped out, leaving only Robbins and Crown, who has become extremely drunk. When Robbins wins, Crown attempts to


ordered to come and identify Crown's body. Sportin' Life tells Porgy that corpses bleed in the presence of their murderers, and the detective will use this to hang Porgy. Porgy refuses to identify the body, but is dragged off anyway. Bess is distraught, and Sportin' Life puts his plan into action. He tells her that Porgy will be locked up for a long time, and points out that he is the only one still here. He offers her happy dust, and though she refuses, he forces it on her. After she takes a whiff, he paints a seductive picture of her life with him in New York ("There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York"). She regains her strength and rushes inside, slamming the door on hisNo. 1 Star: Kyle Palmieri, Anaheim Ducks

Kyle Palmieri had about 100 friends and family in the stands at The Rock in New Jersey. The Smithtown, New York native had a two point night for the Ducks with an assist on the game-tying goal, and scored the game winning goal in overtime. Palmieri went NHL94 on the Devils with the wrap-around deflection.

No. 2 Star: Alexander Ovechkin, Washington Capitals

At 28 years-old, Washington Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin has become the sixth fastest player to reach the 400 goal plateau. While the goal itself may not have been fantastic - it was an empty netter - the accomplishment is.

Ovi continues to lead the league in goals with 29. He's at nearly a goal-a-game pace and could end up with close to 80


goals at the end of the season should this trend continue.

No. 3 Star: Nicklas Backstrom, Washington Capitals

Backstrom assisted on all four Capitals goals in Washington's 4-2 win over Carolina. He leads the league in assists with 33 and is third overall in points at 41.

Honorable mention: The last time Michael Grabner scored a goal was on opening night in October; he potted two goals tonight, one shorty and one empty-net in Isles 5-3 win over Rangers ... The Ducks trio of Palmieri, Mathieu Perreault and Teemu Selanne combined for six points in the Ducks 4-3 win ... Philipp Grubauer stopped 39 of 41 shots for Washington ... Evander Kane had a goal, an assist, four shots, six hits, eight penalty minutes and was a plus-2 for the JetsIt’s time for Maya to move on. Her life left in shambles, she was hoping for a respite from the pain. Mr Brahms, however, has other plans for her.

Rehab was written by Steven Cardinal and starred:

Edie Allen as Maya

David Loar as Mr Brahms


resulting in twelve convictions, six dismissals, and two cases pending at that time.  The informant described the sellers as Negroes, a male named John Cunningham, approximately thirty-five years of age, six feet, 165 pounds, wearing a black, three-quarters length leather jacket and black pants with a brown fedora, and a female, about twenty-five years of age, wearing a tan coat with a fur collar.  Carillo, together with two other detectives, immediately proceeded to the bar, which was located approximately eight blocks from the police station.  As they entered the bar, Carillo observed a couple sitting at a table, along with some other people, who fitted the informant's description exactly.  At the same time, Cunningham looked in Carillo's direction, immediately removed a brown paper bagfrom his person and placed it in the handbag of his companion, later identified as Barbara Davis.  Carillo approached the couple, identified himself, and told them to accompany him to the rear.  After ascertaining that the male was named John Cunningham, he searched Miss Davis's handbag, removed a brown paper bag, and found it contained 120 glassine envelopes of heroin.

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Based upon these facts, the state trial court found that the arrest was made upon probable cause and the subsequent search was therefore valid,5 conclusions with which we agree.  This case is similar to United States v. Soyka, 394 F.2d 443 (2d Cir. 1968) (in banc), except that the facts showing probable cause here are in some respects stronger.  In Soyka, a reliable informant had


attorney had said that if Cunningham wanted to take Miss Davis 'off the hook' he would have to 'take a plea,' and that Cunningham was under the influence of narcotics at the time of the guilty plea.  We have examined the available record of the proceedings in the state court on May 11, 1964, when Cunningham pleaded guilty, and on June 16, 1964, when he attempted to withdraw his plea.  Cunningham admitted that the alleged remark of the prosecutor was not made to him; he also disclaimed any promise from the court, but pointed to the 'pressure' of the indictment, undentiably present but hardly improper.  The transcript shows that the state judge carefully questioned appellant when he took the guilty plea; it also reflects Cunningham's— but only if they have money to do so.

Wiles: Last year, Barack Obama spiritually sodomized the US armed forces by compelling American generals to accept his demand that the military alter its code of moral conduct and permit homosexuals and lesbians to openly serve in the military.

Furthermore, he commanded the military to extend financial benefits to same-sex couples in the military. Additionally, military chapels on US military bases were ordered to permit homosexual marriage ceremonies inside the facilities.

The Boy Scouts of America is the next target of the socialist Obamanistas. Last week the Irving, Texas-based organization delayed a decision until May on whether the scouting organization will change its rules of conduct to allow homosexuals to serve as scout masters, troop leaders, and as Boy Scouts.

What will


policy ideas that they think will help the GOP: pull a Roosevelt (Teddy) and break up the big banks; prison reform; an emphasis on worker training, and some others.

But the real strength of the piece is the historical perspectives they bring to the table. They go over the last few decades of presidential elections, and then trace the rebirth of the American Democratic Party led by Bill Clinton, and of the British Labour Party led by Tony Blair. The modern GOP, they argue, is in the same position and in the same need of dramatic reform.

The line that stood out to me was when they described the 2010 midterms, which marked the rise of the Tea Party.

“The resounding Republican midterm victory in 2010 now seems more like anrecording of private conversations in homes through the company's television sets. The privacy rights group filed a complaint with ...

From the National Center for Science Education House File 272, introduced in the Iowa House of Representatives on February 17, 2015, and referred to the House Committee on Education, would, if enacted, prevent Iowa from adopting the Next Generation ...

When journalist Chai Jing released her documentary on China's air pollution, she probably could not have dreamed that her message would resonate so widely while boosting the share prices of so many "environmentally friendly" companies. On Monday, more than ...

I went out to the post box and found the latest issue of Nat Geo, March 2015, there with this cover photo: And the headlines: THE WAR ON SCIENCE:Climate Change does


Packaging

Though the WIMM One is strictly targeted at developers, you certainly wouldn't know it from the upscale, well thought-out box. It's actually a two-tier box: opening the top tier reveals just the the module itself, and it's the very first thing you see. It's breathtakingly small — though to be fair, it's a little less miraculous in the age of the iPad nano, which is about 4mm longer, 5mm wider, and 4mm thinner. Pulling the top tier completely off reveals elastic bands underneath holding some brief documentation in place, just enough to get you off the ground and direct you to WIMM's website for more information.

In the second tier — the bottom two-thirds of the box — you'll find the wristband, complete with a second dummy module pre-installedsteps under the victim’s free arm, while keeping the hammerlock on. She then bends the victim’s head forward, and puts her right leg behind the victim’s right leg, so when she rolls her over forward, the victim’s leg will end up hooked by her own, similarly to a spladle. Once the victim is rolled forth onto her back, the attacker hooks her free leg with her arm and secures the small package on her, while keeping the hammerlock locked in at all times. The victim will thus end up with her bottom pointing upward and both her legs completely folded up and secured, while the attacker still has her arm in a hammerlock under her body. All the attacker needs to do then is to gently tug on


Kazakhstan or Swaziland; (3) the use of distance education to supplement training while students are based at the international sites; (4) skills training to enhance academic and research capabilities, such as use of the scientific literature, scientific writing an academic presentations; (5) career counseling, tips on graduate school admissions, and information about research funding; and (6) an environment that emphasizes underrepresented students' strengths and competencies and the value of diversity in global health research. Next Generation trainees will come from Columbia College, Barnard College, and the Columbia University School of Social Work, College of Physicians and Surgeons, School of Nursing and College of Dental Medicine. Columbia University is one of the most diverse academic institutions in the country, and strongly supports the proposed Next Generation program.Story highlights The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin

Florida governor's asks the state to assist probe as well

A neighborhood watch captain tells police he shot the teen in self-defense

The 17-year-old was not armed when he was killed last month in Florida

Federal prosecutors and the FBI have opened an investigation into the killing of an unarmed teen by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida.

The death drew protesters Monday to the courthouse in Seminole County, north of Orlando, to demand justice for Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot and killed last month while walking back to his father's fiancee's house in Sanford.

The African-American teen's parents said Monday that they believed race was a factor in their son's death, and the Congressional Black Caucus


had called for a federal investigation, saying local police have shown "blatant disregard for justice."

Late Monday, the Justice Department said it would dispatch officials to Sanford to investigate and "to address tension in the community."

"The department will conduct a thorough and independent review of all of the evidence and take appropriate action at the conclusion of the investigation," Justice Department spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said in a written statement. "The department also is providing assistance to and cooperating with the state officials in their investigation into the incident."

Florida Gov. Rick Scott also weighed in Monday evening, noting that the case has "caused significant concern within the Sanford community and the state" and asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to provide "any assistance necessary" to local investigators.

The man whoI just don't understand why this situation got out of control," Sybrina Fulton said.

CNN has made numerous attempts to contact Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, but have been unsuccessful. In a statement to the Orlando Sentinel, his father says Zimmerman grew up in a multiracial family and has moved out of his home after receiving death threats.

And in announcing the federal probe, Hinojosa cautioned that bringing a civil rights case requires the government prove "that a person acted intentionally and with the specific intent to do something which the law forbids -- the highest level of intent in criminal law."

At the Seminole County courthouse, a handful of student protesters and a law professor from Florida A&M University met with a representative of the state attorney's office to discuss the


ongoing investigation while protesters demanded Zimmerman's arrest. Many carried signs in remembrance of Trayvon.

"Gone but not forgotten," read one that had a picture of the young man wearing a football uniform. "No justice for Trayvon. No peace for Sanford!" read another.

Assistant State Attorney Pat Whitaker told the students it would take several weeks to look at the case, but that the "investigation of the Sanford police needs to be greatly supplemented," Jasmine Rand, the FAMU professor, said after the meeting.

The state attorney's office also said a voice analysis would be conducted on 911 calls from the night of the shooting to determine who was yelling for help, students said.

Zimmerman, 28, called police around nightfall on February 26 to report a suspicious man in his neighborhood.

"Something's wrong with him.Yep. He's coming to check me out," Zimmerman told a police dispatcher in a 911 call released Monday. "He's got something in his hands. I don't know what his deal is. Send officers over here."

The teen started to run, Zimmerman reported. When he said he was following, the dispatcher told him, "We don't need you to do that."

Shortly afterward, neighbors began calling 911 to report a fight, then a gunshot. By the time police arrived, Trayvon lay dead. He was carrying a bag of Skittles and an iced tea that he had purchased at a nearby convenience store, and was headed back to his father's fiancee's home.

Martin said he's "positive" that his son's voice that can be heard screaming for help in the neighbors' calls.

"It's heartwrenching, because those


Since the social distancing and stronger (intensive) social distancing (from late-February), people refrained from going out except for essential situations, and all national public facilities stopped operation. The Korea Ministry of Education reported a strong action to postpone the new school year at all levels from kindergarten to high school ([@bb0070]), and finally planned sequential school openings between May 20th and June 8th. Indeed, in the 1st week of March, immediately after beginning social distancing, the volume of road traffic and public transportation in Seoul had decreased by 7.2% and 34.5%, compared to the weeks before the onset of COVID-19 in Korea ([@bb0100]). In addition, industries temporarily closed, and telecommuting at home was encouraged across many occupations. For example, the operation rate of automotive factories reduced by 50%the business area was very professional - people having a string of meetings and showing off games to people who seem very important. Notably though, some people didn’t actually have games and instead were pitching concepts to publishers and people who could provide funding. Other booths were there to help you with figuring out payment plans and debt management. There were also booths by specific game engines that had talks in them, and highlighted the games made using that engine. On top of that, there were also a lot of booths labeled by country, showing you games that were produced in that specific country. It was an exceedingly unusual mix of games and business stuff.

The games produced in different countries, predominantly from europe, was something I was really


specifically to an audience of business people and press, this was a wonderful way to do so. The business area of the event also wasn’t around for as many days as the other areas, and was packed up halfway through the week.

Another huge highlight for me, was the Indie Arena Booth, a frankly wonderful 1000m2 booth packed with over 80 high quality indie games from 26 countries! This was located in hall 10.1, with the .1 denoting the floor it was on, and made up one of the many entertainment areas of the event. This area was packed! Lines were long, the wait for some games were comparable to mental trials of patience and sheer will, but all of the games were absolutely wonderful. The people who putthe contamination, the shower head 62 and the ashing reaction chamber 56 are used. The inside of the wall of the ashing reaction chamber 56 of Al is adversely heated up to 200.degree.-300.degree. C. under the influence of glowing of the O.sub.2 plasmas in the plasma generating chamber 54 in an ashing treatment. The shower head 62 of Al is more heated.
The oxygen atom radicals, the reaction seed of the ashing, are so unstable in their radical state that when they collide against the inside of the wall of the apparatus, the radicals extinguish with high probability and change into oxygen molecules in more stable state. The experiment conducted by the inventors using an ESR (electron spin resonance) apparatus showed that the extinction of the oxygen atom radicals,


"There's a sign hanging on the wall with a bee and a lightning bolt logo on it," ""auto parts" written underneath." "Lightning bolt plus bee, "auto parts." Checking." "To think I used to love you." "Hey, Zelda, where you going?" "He's having some problems with a girl named Zelda." "She's on the move again." "Looks like Jake got into a fight." "He's got a black eye." "Maybe you're just projecting your feelings about me onto Jake." "Impossible." "He only has one black eye." "Oh, and at the end of this round, it's leggy blonde one, uber-nerd zero." "Back at AVR." "Jake's playing a video game, and he's at a desk somewhere." "He gets to play games at work?" "No wonder it's taking us so long to get toCampbell Soup Co. said Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its Ferndale-based Garden Fresh Gourmet business as part of a turnaround effort.

The firm did not disclose the terms of the deal with the expected buyer, an affiliate of Fountain of Health USA. Fountain of Health makes hummus, dips, salads, frozen desserts and other products.

The news comes just two weeks after Jack Aronson, who founded Garden Fresh Gourmet with his wife, Annette, told the Free Press he was part of a plan to buy the company back.

The Aronsons sold Garden Fresh Gourmet to Campbell in 2015 for $231 million. The purchase was part of Campbell's ill-fated strategy to diversify its product lines.

Last August, Campbell said it was selling Garden Fresh as well as Campbell’s fresh market division and


Campbell International. The announcement came after the firm posted a quarterly loss of $475 million in May, reflecting one-time charges of $619 million at its fresh foods division.

More:Garden Fresh founder attempting to buy business back from Campbell's

Campbell has said it's selling the businesses to sharpen its focus, reduce debt and strengthen its finances.

The company's financial problems prompted changes to top management that led to the recent arrival of new president and CEO Mark Clouse.

Aronson told the Free Press earlier this month that he was part of a group that aimed to buy back Garden Fresh Gourmet. He said he believed he and his team were among the three bidders still in the running.

Aronson said what drove them to bid for the company — which was noted as theat the 9th annual African American Film Critics Association awards in February.

Peele’s Best Original Screenplay win was the only Oscar “Get Out” won, although it also received major nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. Peele was only the third person in Academy Awards history to be nominated for directing, writing, and producing in the same year.


Youth and HIV/AIDS: An American Agenda

A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!

Letter to the President

Dear Mr. President,

Today, one-quarter of all new HIV infections in the United States are estimated to occur in young people between the ages of 13 and 20. That means two Americans under the age of 20 become infected with HIV every hour of every day. The rate of infection among young people are growing as the epidemic spreads into suburban communities and the nation's heartland.

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It is heartbreaking to seeanother generation of our Nation's young people fall prey to this epidemic.

At your direction, the Office of National AIDS Policy has prepared this report, "Youth and HIV/AIDS: An American Agenda," an examination of the current state of the impact of HIV and AIDS on America's young people and a series of actions that can be taken to reverse these very troubling trends.

While progress has been made since this epidemic began, this report underscores a crying need for public and private sector institutions to work together even more vigorously on new prevention, treatment, and care strategies for youth.

This report is the result of a unique collaborative effort of the public and private sectors sponsored by the National AIDS Fund and underwritten by the Until There's A Cure Foundation and


by the Office of National AIDS Policy
Sponsored by the National AIDS Fund
Principally funded by The Until There's A Cure Foundation.

This report is neither a set of new recommendations nor a list of new ideas. It is intended as a catalyst of change in the way Americans view the threat of HIV and AIDS to the next generation.

This report was requested by President Clinton and written after numerous interviews were conducted with young people who are affected by this epidemic as well as professionals who are engaged in HIV research, prevention, and care. What they said, and what is outlined in this report, is that even though progress has been made, this nation must increase its commitment to greater understanding, education, communication, research, and care to bring an endto this tragic disease among America's youth. Until then, adolescents across America will continue to be infected and affected by HIV and AIDS at troubling rates.

One in four new HIV infections in the U.S. are estimated to occur among people under the age of 20.

An estimated 40,000 to 80,000 Americans become infected with HIV each year, or an average of 110 to 220 a day. Under current trends, that means that between 27 and 54 young people in the United States under the age of 20 are infected by HIV each day, or more than two young people every hour. A significant number of young people are engaging in sexual intercourse as well as drug and alcohol use at earlier stages in their lives. This fact, coupled with


policymakers, parents, leaders, and young people. With strong leadership, a shared commitment to action and personal responsibility, and a compassionate nation we can -- once and for all -- stop this epidemic in its tracks.

We thank President Clinton for is leadership in the battle against AIDS and his willingness to focus on this controversial subject. We also thank Patsy Fleming for reaching out to young people for their ideas, their voices, and their leadership.

Part I: A Generation at Risk

Today's youth are tomorrow's future. Yet, every year in the United States half of all new HIV infections occur among people under the age of 25 and one-quarter of new infections occurs among people between the ages of 13 and 21. Based on current trends, that means that an averagebring to their decision-making processes. Adolescents are engaged in a developmental process that includes development of decision-making skills, sexual maturation and experimentation, emotional and cognitive changes, and the molding of identity and self-worth.

Adolescents live in a world in which their families, cultural institutions, religious institutions, media, and peers compete to instill values, dictate actions, and impart positive and negative messages to them. The mass media often glamorizes youth and sex at the same time that parents and schools are encouraging abstinence. Attempts to turn young people into sex symbols are particularly troublesome because of the message that sends to both young people and adults.

Adolescents, particularly those in their early teens, tend to be short-term thinkers. To many, the present is all important and the future often is perceived


percent and the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health has been strengthened. Funding for AIDS prevention efforts has also increased and a new community planning process has directly involved local organizations in the design of prevention programs. Funding for AIDS-related care has increased by 90 percent, including a 108 percent increase in funding going to the Ryan White CARE Act. New efforts have been made to involve young people in each of these areas. The government has vigorously enforced provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibiting discrimination against people living with HIV and approval time for AIDS-related drugs has been cut in half.

In conjunction with this report, the following new initiatives should be undertaken:

Listening to the Voices of Youth.

Young people should be encouragedA Cure Foundation and James C. Hormel. In addition, the Fund recruited the four interns who conducted much of the report's research and preparation. The Fund also arranged visits to local programs of significance. Paula Van Ness, Fund President, brought together funders, youth experts and staff to help make this public-private initiative possible. The project was managed for the Fund by Jerry Atchison, Director of Communications. Providing important oversight and coordination efforts among youth groups around the country was Gretchen Wooden, Senior Program Officer for Youth Initiatives.

In the Office of National AIDS Policy, Brenda Kunkel and Richard Sorian assisted in directing and completing this project along with Jeff Levi, LaHoma Romocki, Jane Sanville, and Carmena Parris. Several White House interns and volunteers were also helpful in the research


and preparation of this report: Jesse Souweine, Julie Blessing, Lisa DaValle, Rachel Garfield, Brenda Hahn, Vanessa Potkin, Jessica Purdy, Katie Smeltz, and Rachel Smith.

Numerous organizations, both national and local, were instrumental in providing us with direct access to young people and their advocates. The AIDS Policy Center for Children, Youth and Families, the National Alliance of Positive Youth (NAPY), Metro TeenAIDS, the National Association of State Boards of Education, and participants at the National Youth Summit on the Prevention of AIDS Among Youth were especially helpful. We also appreciate the assistance of the National Advocacy Coalition on Youth and Sexual Orientation (NACYSO) the National Youth Network, the Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization.

Transportation for representatives of youth and HIV education and advocacy groups was generously provided by USAir.

Several Federalhealth and social problem. It works in partnership with communities to provide care and to prevent new infections through education, research, and outreach. Since it was founded, the Fund has provided almost $50 million to communities for HIV/AIDS programs, supporting more than 2,400 such programs in 31 states. The Fund also provides program and technical assistance for hundreds of national and local educational programs -- such as the Youth and HIV/AIDS Report -- and programs of direct service. The Fund also provides the nation's business community a network of leading corporate, government, and nonprofit experts who deal with HIV/AIDS policy issues, and it publishes a broad range of HIV/AIDS publications for both managers and employers.

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the Youth and HIV/AIDS Report, provides funding for innovative education programs to encourage safer behaviors among teens and young adults through peer-to-peer education. For those living with HIV/AIDS, the Foundation provides financial support for care and other services. For future generations, the Foundation supports AIDS vaccine development with funds being primarily contributed through the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation. Through partnerships with professional sports teams, the Foundation has reached audiences with its message of AIDS awareness. The Foundation was created by Kathleen Scutchfield and Dana Capiello, two mothers and entrepreneurs who have raised funds to support Foundation Initiatives through sale of The Bracelet, a 1/4-inch cuff bracelet featuring a familiar small raised AIDS ribbon.

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It wasn't long before Machinima, a multichannel YouTube network that specializes in video game content, came calling. The network offered him a partnership: It would put ads on his videos, and he would get a cut of the revenue generated from those ads. It sounded pretty good to Vacas, so he signed a contract with the company in November 2011.

But the devil was in the details: After signing with Machinima, he learned the company would own the rights to whatever content he made for the rest of his life and beyond, "in perpetuity, throughout the universe, in all forms of media now known or hereafter devised." Not only that, but his contract with the network was open-ended. There was no point at which it was set to


in the middle of a public dispute with its highest-profile star, Time Warner was raising $36 million in venture-capital funds on behalf of the network. And in May, just weeks after Ben Vacas posted his emotional video, Machinima closed a round of fundraising, led by Google, worth $35 million.

The question, then, is this: Can networks like Machinima and Maker sustain their rapid growth if the creators on whose backs they built their businesses revolt?

"I'd always wanted to be a filmmaker," says Hugh Hancock, the man generally acknowledged as the godfather of the art form "machinima," when reached by phone at his home in Edinburgh, Scotland. "The issue was, back then in 1996, it was before the digital video revolution, it was before 3D animation was in any wayaffordable, so I'd always given it up as a pipe dream."

Everything changed with the release of Quake in June 1996.

The 28-level, first-person-shooter game was one of the first games in which developers opened up the video game's code and gave it to players — saying, in effect, make your own games with this technology. Players could repurpose Quake's characters and settings to create original stories, then render them in 3D animation.

At first, these films were called "Quake movies," but as creators began using other games, they were dubbed "machinima" — a misspelled portmanteau of "machine" and "cinema." A small, devoted community developed around the art form.

Lawyers are expensive and proceedings can take years, cheating is cheaper and more effective. What can they do if the same intellectual product


One of the biggest mysteries of the past two years in the Atlanta Braves system has been the disappearance of the prospect star of Julio Teheran. Once considered among the top young pitchers in the minor leagues, he may struggle to find his way into the top-100 this year.

Braves fans were giddy about Teheran after his 2011 minor league campaign, in which he went 15-and-3 with a 2.55 ERA as a 20-year-old in triple-A. But Atlanta fans were struggling to figure out why his follow up season last year in triple-A resulted in an ERA almost twice as high (5.08), more hits, fewer strikeouts, and a lot more home runs.

One theory was that the "book" was out on Teheran, that the deception he had enjoyed while twirling throughthe minors was solved by Major League hitters during his cup of coffee in Atlanta in late 2011. Another theory looked at his drop in velocity, from the mid-90s to low-90s, and concluded that something might be wrong with his arm, or that he was following in the footsteps of Tommy Hanson.

In their top-10 Braves prospects Baseball America parses through these rumors with their prospect writeup of Teheran:

Teheran has an electric arm, but his delivery had some violence that the Braves wanted to iron out in order to reduce his risk of injury. In 2012, they decided to reduce the bend on his back leg during his windup. He had been turning and coiling his body to generate more momentum toward the plate, placing additional strain on his


right knee and elbow. Atlanta worked with Teheran on keeping his back leg straighter in order to create a better center of balance, particularly in his core.

The Braves tweaked Teheran's delivery, something they also did with Hanson between the 2011 and 2012 seasons. BA says this led to a lot of Teheran's struggles in early 2012, including his home run binge in spring training, and his drop in velocity.

But the Braves were doing this to help Teheran in the long run -- to help reduce the risk of injury and improve his control. BA concludes:

After struggling with his confidence for most of 2012, he regained his swagger as he became more comfortable with the way he was throwing the ball.

That was the 2012 season, but not the 2012quote from Baseball America. I guess their intentions were right, but the results not what they had hoped for, and I suppose we have to give them credit for returning Teheran to his original delivery, from which he had the bulk of his minor league success.

That renewed "natural" delivery is leading to some impressive numbers for Teheran in the Dominican Winter League this month. In his last three starts spanning 16.2 innings, Julio has allowed only 2 hits and 4 walks while striking out 15 batters. I was able to watch an online stream of his start this past Sunday and he did indeed look like the old Julio, with a bit of a dip-and-twist in his delivery and a fastball that was consistently in the mid-90s.

Like Hanson,


the Stuxnet malware operation that in late 2009 or early 2010 began to cause computers in the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran to go haywire. The worm may have set work back by several years in a program that the United States says is aimed at one day producing nuclear weapons with which to threaten its neighbors.

Though Western researchers and Iranian investigators alike point a finger at the United States, frequently alleging a U.S.-Israeli collaboration, U.S. officials will not comment.

Months before the attack was disclosed, Bumgarner, a retired U.S. Army special operations veteran, former intelligence officer and cyberwarrior, penned an article in an information warfare journal that, clearly, no one in Iran’s nuclear program read or took seriously. The article, titled “Computers as Weapons of War,” suggested thatup - not just smoking cessation aids, but increased vigilance for signs of distress that could easily turn into self-harm or worse," he said.

Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said tobacco was an "emotional prop" for inmates, and prisons would have to give them a lot of extra support, such as free patches and extra access to exercise and activities.

The Welsh government had launched a consultation about creating designated smoking cells for a 12-month trial period, and a spokesman said it would keep it open "should there be any delay" in implementing the ban.

The Scottish Prison Service said it aimed to have plans in place by December 2015 on how indoor smoke-free prison facilities would be delivered.

But the Northern Ireland Department of Justice


by NCTA president and CEO Michael Powell, contends its research shows that parents are overwhelmingly satisfied with its work.

The FCC is seeking comments and reply comments by March 12 and March 19, respectively, so that it may meet a congressional deadline of May 15 to make its own determinations.

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Patrick Murray knows what it's like to kick in Cleveland. He had to do it two seasons ago when he kicked at FirstEnergy Stadium with the Buccaneers.

"In my opinion, this is the toughest place to kick in the country," he told cleveland.com earlier this month.

He remembers the fans, too.

"Those fans got after me," Murray told cleveland.com earlier this month. "... It was probably the most hostile environment I'd ever played in."

A few weeks later, Murray was talking to the media at the team's practice facility as the Browns new kicker, officially winning the job when the team waived Travis Coons.

"It's an honor to represent this organization and this city," Murray said on Monday. "It's an honor to


play for the Cleveland Browns and I'm just really looking forward to continuing and representing this organization well."

Murray, in his third season, is back kicking in the NFL following a lost year in 2014. He tore his ACL against the Browns in Tampa Bay's third preseason game and missed the entire season. He was waived by the Buccaneers in May after they traded up to draft kicker Roberto Aguayo in the second round.

Murray said that winning the job is sweeter considering the comeback he had to make.

"There was never a doubt in my mind that I could continue to play at this level," he said. "I was very fortunate to have an amazing support system around me to help me through that process."

Murray said that the rehab fromhis ACL injury was "a grind every single day," but it taught him a valuable lesson.

"It's to never take an opportunity for granted first and foremost and to really appreciate every kick like it's going to be your last," he said, "because you never know when that opportunity's going to be taken away."

Murray is competing with Travis Coons at kicker and he's drawing from his experiences with Gaelic football to try and win the job.

Now Murray gets to face the challenge every week of kicking next to Lake Erie. He said that he can draw on his experiences playing in the Northeast his entire life. He also kicked at the Meadowlands back in high school during state championship games at Don Bosco Prep. He called the stadium a


said. "In my opinion he's a Hall-of-Fame kicker and I hope to live up to the expectation of kickers in Cleveland."

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The National Football League Players Association is the union for professional football players in the National Football League. Established in 1956, the NFLPA has a long history of assuring proper recognition and representation of players’ interests.and a lot of very early morning conference calls with my European colleagues, I am delighted to make this announcement. The core group that worked on this second iteration of the scheme came from:

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Other members were involved in an advisory capacity as well. And, this iteration of the scheme also benefited greatly from the many helpful comments offered during the community review period we conducted in the late summer and early fall of 2010.

There are several key features to the metadata scheme, and my colleague Angela Gastl


book Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond argued that Europe’s key advantage over China during the Age of Exploration was the sheer number of European political entities. Christopher Columbus heard “No” from one sovereign and still had another from whom to seek patronage and sponsorship. According to Diamond’s logic, China’s successful unification was a disadvantage when it came to invention, adventure, and spreading horizons.

I saw this for myself when I sat down at a table in Hannover, Germany, for the first summer meeting of DataCite. I was leading a discussion of the Working Group on Metadata. Included in the discussions with me were representatives from these organizations:

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to appeal the district court's adverse determination on his motion to suppress. Evans now appeals that determination. We affirm.

I. History

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Prior to July 20, 2000, a "parcel watch" was placed with the Richmond, Indiana Post Office for deliveries addressed to "Kristy Kircher, 953 South 23rd Street, Apt. 229, Richmond, Indiana 47374." Pursuant to this parcel watch, the Richmond Post Office was to notify Postal Inspector Steve Sadowitz if any parcel arrived for delivery to that particular address. Sadowitz's office is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sadowitz has been a Postal Inspector for 11 years. He is trained in interdiction of mail that contains illegal drugs, has conducted "thousands" of inspections of parcels that contain illegal drugs, and has interviewed subjects who send illegal drugs through the mail. Sadowitz placed thisparticular parcel watch because he had noticed that previous mailings to the address from Sacramento, California, contained handwritten labels with fictitious return addresses.

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At about 8:00 a.m. on July 20, the Richmond Post Office notified Sadowitz that a parcel had arrived addressed to "Nicole Kircher, 953 South 23rd, Apt. 229, Richmond, Indiana 47374." Kristy Kircher's full name is Kristy Nicole Kircher. The parcel was a "two-day" Express Mail parcel to be delivered to Kircher on July 20 by 3:00 p.m. Sadowitz instructed the Richmond Post Office to place a "notice left" notation in the Express Mail tracking system for the parcel. A "notice left" notation is normally used after an unsuccessful delivery attempt. The notation alerts the intended recipient that a parcel delivery was attempted, and that the individual


can pick up the parcel at the Post Office.

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Sadowitz, who was at his Indianapolis office, and a supervisor from the Richmond Post Office each drove to a point halfway between Richmond and Indianapolis. Upon obtaining the parcel, Sadowitz observed several characteristics that caused him to believe that the parcel contained illegal drugs. The parcel had a handwritten label, which is rare on Express Mail packages, and the return address bore a northern California address. From past experience, Sadowitz knew that 75% of controlled substances seized from the mail were from that area.

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Around noon, Sadowitz met with Detective Thomas Stitt, an Investigator/Narcotics Canine handler for the Indianapolis Police Department, and Stitt's Narcotic Detection Canine Wendy at the Indianapolis International Airport. The suspect parcel was placed on the floor withfour similarly-sized parcels that did not contain drugs. Wendy examined all five parcels and alerted to the parcel addressed to Kircher. Based on this information, Sadowitz obtained a federal search warrant for the parcel on July 20, at 1:34 p.m. Inside the parcel, Sadowitz found a CD player that contained approximately 4.28 ounces of cocaine base ("crack").

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A controlled delivery of the parcel was made on July 21, 2000. Kircher signed for the parcel. Several hours later, officers on surveillance observed Kircher leave her apartment carrying the parcel. Kircher drove to 107 North 18th Street in Richmond. As she approached the front door to that residence with the parcel in her hand, she was arrested. Evans and another man, Robert Harlan, were inside the residence. They were both subsequently


Culture War Rages in Alan Grayson's Florida District

ORLANDO --You wouldn't know it by Alan Grayson's clothes -- the first-term congressman from Central Florida favors ill-fitting, off-the-rack suits, a white shirt ,and garish ties of the sort featuring Van Gogh's "Starry Night" in Halloween colors. But Grayson is a political firebrand who has become a favorite of the Democratic base, a hero of Netroots Nation, and the sweetheart of MSNBC.

When an admirer at an organizer's meeting referred to him as "our rock star," he replied, "Yeah, a rock star who can't sing or dance." But he can mix it up, at least verbally. If high school math and chess clubs had a patron saint, the socially awkward Alan Grayson would be a contender. A veteran of both clubs atthe prestigious Bronx Science High School, and a science fiction buff, he overcame his minimal social skills to acquire three Harvard degrees, a telecom fortune in the tens of millions of dollars, and every Joni Mitchell album ever made.

If you think America's culture wars are over, you should go to Orlando, where the battle for Florida's 8th Congressional District -- home of Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World -- is shaping up as a Sunbelt Classic in the mid-term election. Liberal wild man and House bad boy Grayson, 52, is facing a tough, bellwether district re-election contest, the key to any Republican takeover of the House. Most recent polls say he is in a very difficult race.

Grayson is probably the most outspoken liberal in Congress. He opposes


the first jab, either. During the heat of the health care reform debate, Grayson shot into the media stratosphere by charging on the House floor that the Republican alternative was to not get sick, but if you did, to "die quickly." He suggested jokingly, but without mirth, that former Vice President Dick Cheney was a vampire and characterized Republicans as "unscrupulous...foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who know nothing but 'no.'" Right-wing pundits are targets of particular scorn. Rush Limbaugh, he said, "is a has-been hypocrite loser" who was "more lucid when he was a drug addict."

Grayson's challenger is former state legislative leader Daniel Webster, a longtime veteran of the Florida legislature, who got off to a slow start, bogged down in a crowded GOP primary that sapped his time andmoney. Webster, 61, served as both the speaker of the Florida house and the senate majority leader. In the legislature, he was a longtime hero of the Christian Right, an outspoken advocate of home schooling and government-mandated "covenant marriage," which would have made divorce almost impossible in Florida. In 2008, he supported the presidential bid of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (who returned the favor by campaigning for Webster in the primary) and, in his victory speech on election night, Webster denounced the "mosque at Ground Zero."

"It's no secret that I'm a follower of Jesus Christ," he told the Florida Baptist Witness newspaper. "I have been open to anyone who's open to talk about it." Webster's victory set up a schematic slugfest: a left-wing Jew vs. a right-wing


first this barrage put Webster, who had pledged to wage a positive campaign, on his heels, but a backlash has set in. An array of critics, including The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, claim that the commercial is hyperbolic and takes Webster's remarks out of context. Grayson even clashed with a critical news anchor on the normally supportive MSNBC cable network. Grayson defended the ad in an acrimonious exchange with CNN's Anderson Cooper, but his campaign quietly re-cut the spot, eliminating the Taliban reference.

For his part, Webster has made little mention of his religious views, leaving the negative ads to independent groups. Instead, he argues for an unlimited U.S. military commitment in Afghanistan, which he calls a "democratic beachhead," insisting that the length of the American stay "should notbe shared with the public."

Republicans, independents and even some centrist Democrats in Florida's 8th congressional district sometimes wonder how it came to be that their Sunbelt swing district elected such a brash, outspoken liberal. Perhaps, they speculate, Grayson arrived in Central Florida in 1996 in typically cinematic fashion, in the DeLorean parked behind his house, the same time-traveling vehicle made famous by the Back to the Future movies.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has named Grayson the GOP's Number One target for 2010. Within minutes of his victory in the Republican primary, Dan Webster had heard from Republican officials in Washington, pledging whatever resources it would take to beat Alan Grayson.

"This is a target seat," Webster said, amidst his election night supporters in the gymnasium of his mega-church."If the


Republicans don't take this seat, they can't take the Congress." Lew Oliver, chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, and a longtime Grayson adversary, told the Orlando Sentinel that if the GOP won every race but Webster's, "I'll slit my wrists."

Oddly, the two candidates do have one thing in common: neither likes door-to-door campaigning.

For his part, Grayson argues against Beltway conventional wisdom: namely, the proposition that Blue Dog Democrats in Sunbelt and heartland swing districts -- the most endangered species this fall, by all accounts -- are running in the wrong direction. Rather, Grayson insists the better strategy for liberal Democrats is to cultivate their base, and stop campaigning like moderate Republicans. Go on the attack, or counter attack. Run against Wall Street, the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan and, most of all, battle the GOP as corporate, corrupt, do-nothing tools. Florida's 8th district could offer a laboratory in this aggressive strategy. Grayson has already raised nearly four million dollars for his reelection campaign, without dipping into his own considerable personal fortune, as he did in 2008.

Despite the acrimony he generates, Grayson has his defenders, who cite his work in supporting reforms in health care, defense procurement, Wall Street reform and oversight of the Federal Reserve. He also gets credit for being the driving force behind a new public-private program to bring foreign tourists to the U.S., and especially to his Orlando district, the home of so many theme parks and attractions.

"Different people have different styles," says Florida's Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, perhaps one of the


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Simson on Nietzsche and Art

Von Simson also mentions, "for Nietzsche art is a lie, the consequence of the artist's heroic will to 'flee from "truth"' and to create the 'illusion' that alone makes life livable. The Middle Ages perceived beauty as the 'splendor veritatis,' the radiance of truth; they perceived the image not as illusion but as revelation. The modern artist is free to create; we demand of him only that he be true to himself. The medieval artist was committed to a truth that transcended human existence. Those who looked at his work judged it as an image of that truth, hence the medieval tendency to praise or condemn a work of art in terms of the ultimates of religious experience."(Otto von Simson, TheThe convicted terrorist leader of the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) faction of Los Zetas was singled out by authorities as the man behind a series of beheadings and mutilations intended to intimidate law enforcement and rival criminal organizations.

According to Mexican federal and state authorities, gunmen for Hector Raul “El Tory” Luna Luna were linked to numerous mutilations and other high-impact crimes throughout Nuevo Leon. El Tory recently assumed control of CDN after an early release from a federal prison. The cartel boss was originally imprisoned for drug trafficking and a 2008 grenade attack on the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey.

Since assuming control of a faction of Los Zetas in late 2018, El Tory unleashed a wave of terror targeting rival cartel members where, in 16 separate cases, his men


dismembered the victims. In one, the victim, Luis “El Rex” Reyes Enriquez, was the leader of a rival faction of Los Zetas called “Vieja Escuela” or Old School. El Tory had El Rex’s body dismembered and placed into four ice chests. His gunmen placed three outside state prisons in Nuevo Leon and the fourth in the neighboring state of Tamaulipas. Each chest featured a poster board or a banner threatening local rivals.

Other CDN Mutilations with Threatening Messages

February 14 – Cartel gunmen dumped the heads of Felipe de Jesus Ramirez and Jordan Arcenis Garcia near the Industrial Park in Escobedo. The victims were described as lookouts for the Gulf Cartel. Their bodies were found soon after along a dirt road.

February 7 – Authorities found a severed head with theMonterrey area.

October 25 – Authorities find the dismembered body of Daniel “El Dany” Baez Vasquez by a sidewalk in Guadalupe.

October 19 – Cartel gunmen dumped a mutilated body wrapped in trash bags in the suburb of Pesqueria.

September 23 – Cartel gunmen dump a severed head in Guadalupe.

August 29 – Cartel gunmen dump a mutilated body in Santa Catarina.

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seen dancing on a dark brown floor, which is revealed to be Minogue's hat as the camera pans out. She proceeds to wave to a distant person and then plucks the petals out of a pink rose she is holding. The rest of the video randomly intersperses all of the previous scenes.

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President-elect Donald Trump decided on Wednesday to select Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"Jay Clayton is a highly talented expert on many aspects of financial and regulatory law, and he will ensure our financial institutions can thrive and create jobs while playing by the rules at the same time," Trump said in a statement released on Wednesday. "We need to undo many regulations which have stifled investment in American businesses, and restore oversight of the financial industry in a way that does not harm American workers."

Jay Clayton Sullivan and Cromwell

Clayton, who has worked on high-profile initial public offerings, including that of Alibaba Group, met with Trump last month. He is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, who specializes in public and privatemergers and offerings. Clayton has also advised several high-net-worth families regarding their investments.

Debra Wong Yang, a former U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, was reportedly among those under consideration to head the agency, which polices Wall Street. The agency had been headed by Mary Jo White under President Barack Obama. White is slated to depart at the end of Obama's term.

Activist investor Carl Icahn, who was tapped by Trump to be special advisor on regulation, interviewed the potential SEC candidates, according to Reuters.

Clayton thanked the president-elect for the opportunity to serve, and said, if confirmed, will work with key stakeholders in financial systems to provide investors and companies with confidence to invest in the U.S.

"We will carefully monitor our financial sector, as we set policy that


Members of the Westboro Baptist Church were met with a rainbow surprise when they arrived in Washington, D.C., to protest a local high school with a gay principal.

Wilson High School Principal Pete Cahall came out as gay last week at a Pride Day event at the school alongside D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and openly gay City Councilman David Catania.

“I want to say publicly for the first time because of your leadership, care and support that I am a proud gay man who just happens to be the principal of Wilson High School,” the 50-year-old, who also said he was tired of "hiding," told the crowd.

After making the announcement, Cahall was met with an outpouring of support from the local community. However, WBC challenged that by saying members wouldThe papers consist of diaries, weather journals, commonplace books, reading notes and other material documenting the life, work, and intellectual interests of the Jamaican planter and slaveowner Thomas Thistlewood. Daily entries in the diaries, which Thistlewood kept from 1748 until a few weeks before his death in 1786, are a rich source of information on plantation life and work, including management of sugar plantations and livestock plantations; economic and social relations among landowners, overseers and slaves; and Thistlewood's own professional, intellectual and sexual activities. Thirty-four years of weather journals chronicle the Jamaican climate, including the great hurricane of October 1780, while twenty volumes of reading notes, memoranda, inventories, lists of books, and other papers reveal Thistlewood's intellectual and scientific interests, such as botany and the collection of medicinal


are in contrast with the Koran/Islam. The new secretary general of the Union for the Mediterranean knows better and states that nobody can dictate western democracy to the Muslim countries who want the dictatorial Sharia to govern the entire world.

Today´s Euromediterranean zone is in chaos after the ongoing “Arab Spring” which is rather becoming an icy winter. The US wages war in the whole world against “terrorists” under the generic name of “Al Qaeda” – founded by the CIA as its faithful partner in the role of scapegoat for USA´s false flag operations. NATO and Pres. Obama now recognize the al Qaeda branch, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, as the new Libya´s government – and EU leaders hail the group as well!

Greece is regularly aflame – and afterfact that the EU has now for more than 16 years unsuccessfully attempted to forge the Euro-Mediterranean / Euro-African Union.

Gaddafi´s Rothschild connection
The Daily Mail 23 oct. 2011: Gaddafi´s son, Saif, a former playboy who still owns a £10million house in London, last year described Mr Tony Blair as a ‘personal family friend’ who he said had visited Libya ‘many, many times’ since leaving Downing Street four years ago. He even claimed that Mr Blair had become an adviser to his family, an allegation which the former PM denied. Former EU Commissioner Lord Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Saif could also come under the spotlight. The pair met days before it emerged that Megrahi (Lockerbie bomber) was to be freed. They were both guests of billionaire financiers Jacob and Nat


Rothschild at their Corfu villa in the summer of 2009. In a damning transcript of a conversation obtained by a Sunday newspaper between the pair, Saif told the freed bomber that his name had been ‘on the table in all commercial, oil and gas agreements we supervised during this period’. Weeks later Saif and Lord Mandelson attended a shooting party at the Rothschilds’ chateau-style mansion in Buckinghamshire.
Should Saif take the witness box in The Hague, he could even try to include Prince Andrew in his ‘web of friends’. The Duke of York was accused of holding secret ‘detailed discussions’ over the release of the Lockerbie bomber with Saif in 2009.

EU´s demands to the Arab Euromed. partners so unrealistic as to doom the project to its ultimate demise
EU Presssociety organisations in our neighbourhood develop their ability to monitor reform and their role in implementing and evaluating EU programmes.

European Investment Bank 30 May 2011: Investment of over EUR 300 billion will be required by 2030 to modernise infrastructure and public services in the Mediterranean region. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union’s financial institution (and equally corrupt) and the leading financial investor in the Mediterranean via FEMIP, which was established in 2002. At end-2010, this commitment represented a total investment of more than EUR 12 billion. In 2010, FEMIP had already increased its business volume by 60% – to EUR 2.6 billion . Comment: Huge allocations largely disappeared in corruption by means of the incompetent or fraudulent European Investment Bank, which could not account for


large sums, which ended with corrupt African “partners” and in taxfree havens.

ANSAmed 29 June 2011 – On the second day of the general strike and of violent demonstrations against the Parliament vote the new economic plan to save Greece from bankruptcy (78 billion euros), the entire centre of Athens has become an enormous battlefield, where smoke and flames are rising from burning rubbish containers amid clouds of teargas.

ANSAmed -29 June 2011 – Five months and one day after the first Friday protests which, on January 28, triggered the revolution that forced Hosni Mubarak to step down, Tahrir Square is once again the stage of clashes between protesters and police (below left) after the riots on April 9 in which two protesters were killed.

Middle East Online 6 July 2011:correspondent and author, Douglas Reed, who went from being widely known and respected before, during and after the II.nd World War to becoming an expelled and completely forgotten person.

Why was he “forgotten”?

It was simply because he wrote about “The Jewish Question!”

International Jewry responded to his frank description of the problem with total censorship, so that his new books could no longer be printed and the old ones would disappear gradually from the bookstores and even from the library shelves.

After a short period of slandering he was no longer mentioned at all in the world’s media.

As the author Ivor Benson (who has himself written a book on this subject: The Zionist Factor) says in the foreword to Douglas Reeds masterpiece The Controversy of Zion, which had to wait 22


years before it could be published, “the adversity, which Reed encountered, would have made a lesser personality give up. But not he“.

After his expulsion from the zionist-controlled media-world, he found himself free to start this most outstanding work, which all the years as a foreign correspondent in Europe and his earlier books had only been a preparation and an education for. His vision expanded from year to year and from book to book. It was an education, which was not available in any university.”

He spent more than three years away from his family in the early fifties in New York Central Library or in front of his typewriter in modest surroundings in New York and in Montreal. He rewrote the whole book with an epilogue i 1956, wherethe uprising in Hungary and the Suez-war were scrutinized as further examples of the talmudic co-operation between communism and zionism. Then, as mentioned, the book had to wait 22 years for a possibility of getting published!

It is instructive to observe how Douglas Reed gradually penetrates deeper and deeper into the Jewish problem from that time, when he had hardly even thought about it in 1935 (as he writes in The controversy of Zion) until he delivers his harsh judgement in the shape of The controversy of Zion.

The mood of gloom and doom is not his own, but due to the gloomy character of the subject, as he says in the epilogue to the book. In the cause of his work he has felt the evil as an almost


Insanity Fair, which was published in at least 35 editions in English and published in danish, also in 1938, in 5 editions. In Danish the title was “Galskabens Kavalkade” (can still be ordered from the library). It is scarcely 400 pages and is a mixture of an autobiography and a political description of Europe up to- and during the Second World War.

His predictions of major political events were for many people surprisingly accurate at a time, when the “responsible politicians” of the West were acting in direct opposition to his advice and interpretations, and the unifying principle of the book is one long warning against the threat from Hitler-Germany.

But simultaneously he had, among other things, a few critical remarks about the jews, which he had observed and cometo know during his many travels as a reporter in Europe. In his second book he deals with the subject of the jews a great deal more thoroughly. All of two chapters out of 37 are dedicated to his “becoming clear as crystal“ on the subject, as he says. This book from 1939 had the english title “Disgrace Abounding” and in danish (also 1939) “Grænseløs Skændsel”. (It can still be procured from deposit libraries). The book – almost 500 pages – was also a description of the prewar conditions, as he knew them in his capacity of being one of the leading foreign correspondents in Southeastern Europe, and through his close personal acquaintanceship with many of the leading politicians of the time. It was yet another long warning


against Hitler-Germany and a reproach of the erroneous Western politics, in which he could not find the logic.

As far as the Jews are concerned, he is definitely far more crystally clear in this book than in the previous one, where there were actually just a few good-natured teasing remarks about them.

I have, in Dronten no. 6, (danish) reproduced both of these two chapters and a couple of other interesting descriptions of the Jews in Europe, seen through his eyes, under the menu (in Dronten): “Grænseløs Skændsel” (“Disgrace Abounding”).

By this time he no longer holds any doubt, that there is most certainly a serious Jewish problem. From the on he would get to study the problem thoroughly through the following ten years.

His well-intentioned advice, that the Jewish problem couldonly be solved by the Jews getting their own nation (but not by killing arabs), was abandoned by him again, when his studies of talmudic zionism, and the eventual establishment of Israel, demonstrated to him, that the Jewish question implied much more than just that, and was now so much bigger.

Also, he discovered, it had in reality been laid down in an ancient plan for world-conquest.

He wrote a few more books which he managed to get published somehow (see the list in Dronten no. 4, under the menu “Bibliography”- and now (in english) the homepage Douglas Reed Books, red.).

After the books Somewhere South of Suez (1949) and Far and Wide (1951), which are not translated into danish, Reed was practically banned by the most important publishers and bookstorechains


because of his ever more clear description of the Jewish problem. He does not end up by being optimistic concerning the solution to the problem, as he actually thinks that only God can solve it – in time. Nevertheless, it is also his opinion, that the suffering of mankind, including the Jews, which will result in the meantime, until this solution will appear, may be reduced and shortened by people learning the truth about “The Contorversy of Zion”. In this issue of Dronten (no. 6), I have translated, into danish, two more chapters of this – in my opinion – vital work. With the knowledge, which the book gives the reader, he understands the real background of the invasion of foreigners in The West, the globalisation and thebreak-down of nations, culture and morals. Here, finally, I will relay Douglas Reeds own description of the problems of the banning of Disgrace Abounding – “Aftertale” in the book), and in this way introduce this, his encyclopaedic masterpiece, The Controversy of Zion”:

………”Chance, and possibly my own sense of timing, enabled me to write additional chapters for Insanity Fair immediately after publication, and this time the same thing has happened again. But on this occasion chance has enabled me, in the additional chapter, to give you the best possible example of the way organized world-Jewry works and of the immense power it wields in goading world-opinion against Germany. I imagine anybody who has read these two books will realize that I hold Germany to be a menace to England,


matter of free speech and free discussion. The Jews are for free attacks on Germany, nothing else. The same thing happened in some of the Scandinavian countries, where Insanity Fair had great success and where publishers were clamouring for the next book – until they saw the Jewish chapters. They asked to be allowed to publish the book without them. I refused. The same thing happened in France even with Insanity Fair, where a publisher contracted for the book who apparently could not read English and only realized when he saw the French translation that there was a few passages in it which he did not consider sufficiently favourable to the Jews. He demanded their excision, I refused, and he sold the contract to another firm.

So only inbecomes one of the burning subjects of the day. We have to deal here with a question affecting not only the present, but also the future of the world”.

With the formation of the World Zionist Organization, which the great governments of the West were to treat, in effect, as an authority superior to themselves, the burning subject began to mould the entire shape of events. That it affected “the future of the world” is plainly seen in 1956, when this book is conc1uded; from the start of that year the political leaders of the remaining great powers of the West, Britain and America, observed in tones of sad surprise that the next world war might at any time break out in the place where they had set up


on behalf of the class of physicians, commenced suit against the Defendant Blue Cross & Blue Shield in September 1986. The class of physicians was defined by a court order dated April 2, 1987 to include "all physicians who contract with Ocean State to provide physicians services and who are also reimbursed by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island for the provision of physician services to defendant's subscribers." The Defendant, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, is a nonprofit hospital and medical services corporation which provides insurance for hospital and medical expenses.
Ocean State is a health maintenance organization (HMO) with headquarters in Warwick, Rhode Island. As an independent practice association type HMO, Ocean State contracts with physicians to provide medical care to its subscribers;Ocean State then pays its contracted physicians on a fee for service basis. Initially, subscribers paid little or no additional cost other than the premium paid to the HMO. The physicians' practice remained independent from the HMO.
In 1980, Ocean State submitted its license application to the Rhode Island Department of Health. It began operation by offering hospital and physicians costs coverage to employee groups of twenty-five or more. Originally, Medserco, a St. Louis based company managed Ocean State. Presently, United HealthCare, a Minnesota based company, manages Ocean State and is its single principal shareholder owning 20% of the stock. The remaining 80% of shares are held by some of the physicians who provide services to Ocean State subscribers. New Ocean State participating physicians pay up to $1,000 to


& Blue Shield. It was estimated that 900 physicians were certified as members of the class.
Although in their original complaint Plaintiffs did not request a jury trial, they subsequently demanded a jury trial. At the conclusion of Plaintiffs' case, the Court granted the Defendant's motion for a directed verdict on all claims under Section One of the Sherman Act against Ocean State and the class of physicians. The Court also granted Blue Cross & Blue Shield's motion for a directed verdict against the Plaintiff-Intervenors. At the conclusion of the case, the jury returned a verdict finding Blue Cross & Blue Shield liable to both Ocean State and the class of physicians on the Section Two antitrust claims. The jury, however, awarded no damages. On the claim of tortiousmany years Blue Cross of Rhode Island and Blue Shield of Rhode Island were the unchallenged leading health care financing organizations in Rhode Island. Blue Cross of Rhode Island was incorporated in the 1930's as a non-profit hospital service corporation that provided insurance coverage for hospital services. Blue Shield of Rhode Island was incorporated later and limited its insurance coverage to payment of physician charges. Blue Cross of Rhode Island and Blue Shield maintained separate Boards of Directors, reserves, and auditing of financial statements.
Under an administrative services agreement, however, Blue Cross provided management and staff for Blue Shield. Usually Blue Cross and Blue Shield policies were marketed together as a package to employers. Occasionally, an employer could purchase Blue Cross coverage alone, but employees were not permitted to


purchase only Blue Shield coverage. Neither Blue Cross nor Blue Shield were marketed with other health insurance.
In 1971, Rhode Island Group Health Association (RIGHA) a group model Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) entered the Rhode Island health care financing market. A group model HMO employs physicians to serve the medical needs of its subscribers. Services are usually provided at a fixed location and this was initially true of RIGHA. RIGHA had little impact on Blue Cross & Blue Shield's share of the market. RIGHA entered into an agreement with Blue Cross & Blue Shield whereby RIGHA would purchase hospital services through Blue Cross. Thus, RIGHA enjoyed Blue Cross & Blue Shield hospital discounts; while Blue Cross & Blue Shield benefited because they then claimed, RIGHA subscribers within their membershipand thereby increased their claimed size of the market. As a result, Blue Cross was further able to negotiate favorable agreements for the cost of hospital care.
In addition, RIGHA entered into a joint marketing agreement with Blue Cross & Blue Shield to coordinate marketing activities. Both agreements were terminated in March 1982, after a newspaper article disclosed the arrangement. There was testimony, however, that the sharing of hospital and physician discounts continued through May 1986.
In 1980 at the time Ocean State applied to the Rhode Island Department of Health for licensing as an HMO, Blue Cross & Blue Shield continued to dominate the health care financing market. Blue Cross & Blue Shield controlled a very large percentage of the market. Competition from other health care financing insurers was


virtually non-existent. RIGHA was then the only licensed HMO in Rhode Island and its market share was minimal.
Although Blue Cross & Blue Shield researched the financial background of Medserco, Ocean State's original management company, and considered using that information to discredit Ocean State's regulatory application, it did not do so. Blue Cross and Blue Shield took an active interest in Ocean State's licensing procedure, but did not oppose the application. Subsequently Ocean State's application was approved.
At about the same time Blue Cross and Blue Shield were negotiating a merger. In 1982, after two years of negotiations the two companies merged to form one corporation, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode *57 Island, [hereinafter Blue Cross & Blue Shield] which provided both hospital and physician insurance coverage. Onehealth" benefits. Under HealthMate, subscribers must use participating physicians otherwise the plan would not pay for physician services. In addition, all Blue Cross & Blue Shield participating physicians are required to provide services under HealthMate and to accept the HealthMate payment as payment in full if they wished to remain Blue Cross & Blue Shield participating physicians.
HealthMate was first offered to employees of the State of Rhode Island in July, 1986. This is the largest single group of employees covered by an employer health plan in Rhode Island, and no doubt, that fact prompted the creation of HealthMate. The Department of Administration, the State agency which awarded contracts for health coverage, extended its open enrollment season for selecting a health plan so that HealthMate could be offered. Later,


of Blue Cross & Blue Shield enrollees that switched to HMOs. It found that fewer enrollees dropped traditional Blue Cross & Blue Shield coverage and replaced it with HMO coverage than Blue Cross & Blue Shield had projected. Many employers complained to DBR about the substantial increase in their premiums, partly due to the adverse selection factors, and they threatened to discontinue Blue Cross & Blue Shield coverage. In February 1987, Blue Cross & Blue Shield decided to base its calculation of losses to competing HMOs upon actual lost enrollment. Thus, the second estimate factor in the adverse selection calculation was adjusted as of February 1987.
Ocean State asserted that the overestimate of loss of subscribers to competing HMO artificially increased price differential which discouraged employers from offering acompeting HMO, such as Ocean State. Furthermore, Ocean State claimed that the rate differentials were designed to discourage employers from offering competing health insurance options, or alternatively to force employers to offer HealthMate *60 if a competing health plan was an option.
Meanwhile, the financial circumstances of Ocean State were also under stress. As a new HMO, Ocean State decided in 1983 that it would withhold 20% of the physicians' fee until the end of the year at which time if Ocean State's operational expenses were in the black then the withholding would be paid to the physicians. This was seen as an incentive to its contracted physicians to keep health care costs low. In 1984 Ocean State returned the withhold to physicians. In 1985, however, Ocean State retained


the withhold because cost of operating exceeded Ocean State's estimates. This action occurred in 1986.
Ocean State memberships had risen astronomically, but the rate of increase began to level off. In the spring and summer of 1986, it began to experience financial concerns not different from those of Blue Cross & Blue Shield. Ocean State initiated a drastic management change on July 1, 1986, and designed new incentives for physicians to maintain costs. Not coincidentally, these initiatives were roughly coincident with Blue Cross's trilogy of programs, HealthMate, adverse selection and prudent buyer.
In an effort to control expenses and hopefully to provide a dividend to its physician members, Ocean State implemented the Speciality Incentive Pools (SIPs) as of November 1, 1986. Speciality Incentive Pools is another instance of jargon. Itsimply means that the physician would be paid his or her full charge rather than only 80% of the charge, if there was enough money left in the pool at the end of the year to do so. Ocean State divided participating physicians into specialty categories. Each specialty was allotted a certain sum of money as its operating budget. Physicians were paid 80% of their charges. If expenses for the specialty category did not exceed estimated operational cost, then the remaining funds in the specialty category would be divided among physicians in that group. Each specialty group had a very good reason to provide services at the lowest cost; thus, the name Speciality Incentive Pools. The 1986 operational cost exceeded Ocean State's estimates. Therefore, nothing additional was paid


Ocean State, then Blue Cross would also pay only 80% of physicians charges, as payment in full. Plaintiffs asserted that the prudent buyer policy was fashioned after Blue Cross & Blue Shield's hospital participation policy. Under that policy Blue Cross & Blue Shield participating hospitals who offered competitors discounts, which were comparable or better than the approximate 13% discount provided Blue Cross & Blue Shield, were threatened with termination of their status as participating providers. The hospital participation policy had been successfully implemented and permitted Blue Cross to buy hospital services at the lowest rate.
Under the prudent buyer policy, Blue Cross & Blue Shield would not pay more for physician services than the lowest payment the physician accepted for such services. At trial Blue Cross & Blue Shieldits 1200 participating physicians resigned, Ocean State claimed that it had to pay for the services of more non-participating physicians in order to provide physician services to its members at a level comparable to the level which existed before the physicians resigned. Although the physicians resignations represented a cross section of specialties, Ocean State contended that certain specialties were harder hit, such as cardiac surgery. Thus, Ocean State had to buy more services from non-participating physicians, which was more expensive. As a result, Ocean State contended that it incurred greater cost for providing physician services to subscribers. Therefore, Ocean State claimed that due to the prudent buyer policy, it had to pay an additional $946,260 to non-participating physicians between January 1987 and March 1987.
In addition, Ocean State contended


that the reduction of participating physicians caused a reduction in subscribers. There was testimony that some subscribers dropped Ocean State when their personal physicians resigned from Ocean State. Ocean State would not pay the physician for services rendered to the patient and the patient would have to pay the physician without reimbursement from Ocean State. Ocean State claimed it lost $597,016 in profits on enrolled members who dropped Ocean State between November 1986 and August 1987.
Ocean State presented evidence that under the prudent buyer policy, Blue Cross & Blue Shield withheld more than $1,900,000 from Ocean State's 1200 participating physicians. The certified class, however, included an estimated 900 physicians. During the time between implementation of the prudent buyer policy and the class certification, more than 300 physicians resignedTheir alleged injury is within the target area. Thus, the class of physicians have standing to sue even though they may not be participants in the same relevant market as Blue Cross & Blue Shield.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield acquired its market share before Ocean State's creation. The undisputed evidence is that Blue Cross & Blue Shield was for years essentially the sole private health care cost insurer in the State of Rhode Island. Not only did Blue Cross & Blue Shield have a better "mousetrap," it had the only "mousetrap" in town. As time went on, the industry changed with the development of health maintenance organizations. Rhode Island Group Health Association (RIGHA) appeared in 1971. Its physicians were employed by RIGHA and a subscriber was required to


Island was due for competitive bids at the end of June 1986. At that time Ocean State had not been able to return the 20% it had retained from its contracted physicians for the calendar year 1985. Thus, Ocean State physicians, who had also contracted with Blue Cross, charged 20% less to Ocean State than the same physicians had charged Blue Cross for precisely the same services. In this mix, Blue Cross & Blue Shield created its Healthmate plan, originally called "Z Plan", "MAPS Plus", and "PLAN 100 PLUS". Blue Cross & Blue Shield's market share permitted it to develop both the prudent buyer policy, adverse selection, and HealthMate.
"The connection between market share and market power if far from clear." See P. Areeda, supra at 328. Size alonecompetitive effort in areas where for reasons to its advantage it decides not to compete.
With respect to the prudent buyer program, Plaintiffs asserted that there was sufficient evidence to show that the prudent buyer program was exclusionary. They contended that the prudent buyer had the purpose and effect of maintaining the Defendant's monopoly power and was not a legitimate money saving policy. Noting the testimony of Ronald Battista, Senior Vice President of Professional Relations at Blue Cross & Blue Shield, that prudent buyer was not designed to produce savings for Blue Cross, Ocean State concluded that prudent buyer had an anticompetitive purpose. Relying on Blair Suellentrop's, Chief Executive Officer of Ocean State, testimony regarding the decline in Ocean State's enrollment and resignation of participating physicians, Ocean State concluded