One of the most intriguing aspects of the famed case was the common belief that prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden were more than just colleagues. Sarah Paulson and Sterling K. Brown's chemistry-packed character portrayals of Clark and Darden, respectively, on American Crime Story have further fueled the relationship speculation.

What exactly is the truth, you ask? "Chris and I were trench mates," Clark said. "He kept me from just utter depression so many days."

Clark explained that the jury's blatant disdain for her in the courtroom and the prying eyes of the public often left her feeling "dispirited" and Darden was one of the few people who could cheer her up.

"Sometimes it would really get to me," she spilled. "And he would be there to say, 'It's alright, it'sUniversity of Essex donates maths books to African universities

The maths department at the University of Essex has donated 20 boxes of high quality textbooks to African universities through the charity Books2Africa.

The book donation was arranged as the department prepares to move to a new building at the University’s Colchester Campus, following continued growth in student and staff numbers.

Professor Peter Higgins from the Department of Mathematical Sciences said: “We’ve outgrown our current building, which has been our home since the University opened in 1964. Over the summer we’ll take up residence on the top floor of the University’s new purpose-built STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – building.

“As part of the move our staff organised a donation of books that were surplus to our own requirements, giving them


to our students and now also to African universities to help their institutions grow and build their own library stock.”

13 million books go to landfill in the UK every year. Books2Africa is a charity committed to reducing environmental waste in the UK and improving the quality of education in Africa through the collection and distribution of books.

Founded in 2012 by four African students during their time studying in the UK, the organisation now has Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC.or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $54,892, and the median income for a family was $68,580. Males had a median income of $52,331 versus $34,881 for females. The per capita income for the city was $30,210. About 3.4% of families and 4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.4% of those under age 18 and 3.6% of those age 65 or over.

Arts and culture

Stone buildings
Centerville has the largest collection of early stone houses in the state of Ohio. Many are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Town Hall Theatre
The Town Hall Theatre is


Several of the public and private schools have achieved blue ribbon status.

Public library
Nationally ranked Washington-Centerville Public Library offers residents access to more than 380,000 books, movies, Video Games, and music as well as educational programs, community services, and research assistance for youth and adults.

Notable people
Michael Bennett, NFL defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons
Erma Bombeck, essayist
Stevie Brock, singer
Phil Donahue, talk show host
Nancy Dutiel, fashion and beauty model (Lancôme)
Claire Falknor, professional soccer player for the Houston Dash
Eric Fanning, was appointed 22nd Secretary of the Army by President Obama on May 18, 2016
Andy Harmon, former Philadelphia Eagles player
A. J. Hawk, a former NFL linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, Atlanta Falcons, and Cincinnati Bengals who announced his retirement on January 7, 2017
Kirk Herbstreit, played quarterback at Ohio State before becoming aSocotra earlier this month in a move that drew the ire of Yemenis.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been waging a deadly war on Yemen since March 2015 in a bid to shore up Hadi against the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

The war has killed and injured over 600,000 civilians, according to the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights. The Saudi-led aggression has triggered what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Socotra had been so far spared involvement in the Yemeni conflict.

The UAE deployment came amid widening divisions between forces loyal to the UAE and those supporting the former Yemeni president. Both camps are based in southern Yemen and mostly in Aden as the capital Sana’a still remains under the control of the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Hadi's loyalists have accused


the UAE of abandoning an initial cause of fighting the Houthis, saying Emirati forces are instead providing support to those seeking separation of Yemen's southern territories from the north.

Reports have suggested that the UAE has been actively cementing its presence in Socotra since the very beginning of the Saudi-led military campaign in March 2015.

Socotra, located near Somalia in the Gulf of Aden, is protected by the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO as a world heritage site, meaning that even the Yemeni government is not allowed to interfere in the natural habitats and places of natural beauty in the area.

Satellite image over Socotra Island, made using NASA World Wind using Landsat imagery. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

The occupation of Socotra comes against the backdrop of previous reports showing the UAEwas seeking to illegally exploit the natural resources of the island and turn the place into a permanent military outpost-cum-holiday resort.

The UAE deployment sparked angry reactions among the residents of Socotra where residents took to the streets to protest the increasing presence of the Emirati forces.

A Persian Gulf country rich in oil, the UAE has initiated similar extraterritorial projects in other areas including in Eritrea, Djibouti, Somaliland and the Yemeni islet of Perim.


the titular honeymooners (next to fellow talented Brit, Penny Dreadful‘s Harry Treadaway) – a lovely young couple who experience supernatural goings on at the proverbial cabin in the woods. A great pair of central performances, a smart script (co-written by Janiak herself) and a delightfully folksy tone make this one of the year’s best indie horror features and mark Janiak out as a major talent to watch in future.

Jennifer (daughter of David) Lynch followed up her impressive debut, Boxing Helena, with this incredibly dark but incredibly smart little thriller. Vincent D’Onofrio plays cab driver Bob, who also moonlights as a serial killer in his spare time. Kidnapping young Rabbit, Bob keeps the lad as his butler slash protégé, giving Lynch plenty of room to spin a gritty, frequentlyRunning on Lasix for the first time, the 3-year-old homebred War Front gelding returned to the winning ways that saw him go undefeated in three straight races before the Louisiana Derby. He closed from off the pace to finish 1 1/8 miles in 1:50.78 under wraps as the 9-5 favorite in a capacity field of 14, and was followed home by 23-1 shot Fordubai and 9-1 Siete de Oros.

Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. took a patient approach to Hawthorne's marquee event aboard the Al Stall Jr. trainee, allowing Departing to track along far back behind a pace set alternately by Ground Transport, who went a quarter in :23.10, and Taken by the Storm, who took the advantage for a half in :47.71 and three-quarters in 1:13.03.

"Once he got down


the backside, I thought I was on the best horse," Hernandez said. "He was just kind of cruising and going really easy today. He looks like he's getting better with distance."

Steadily moving along the outside from ninth early, Departing picked off horses one by one until he had just three to collar turning for home four wide. The bay gelding kicked clear at the top of the stretch and increased his advantage for a mile in 1:38.15, finishing the final furlong under a hand ride.

"In the first turn he kind of spun out a little bit, and I don't know what that was about," Stall said. "He was way wide down the backside, but when I saw him really get underneath Brian from the half-mile pole to home,I felt really good about him. He was really traveling throughout the final turn and into the stretch."

Bred in Kentucky out of the Pulpit mare Leave, Departing improved his record to four wins and a third from five starts, with earnings of $628,000.

"That race (the Louisiana Derby) really picked his head up and moved him forward," Stall said. "He was really, really different as far as we’re concerned. He really got the seasoning he needed."

Although the Illinois Derby is not worth points on the road to the May 4 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), the gelding already had 20 points to make the Derby field by virtue of his Louisiana Derby showing. His connections, however, have indicated they will not wheel back to run for


St. Augustine is lovely at night any time of the year, but the holiday season is always special.

Starting Nov. 19, a tradition returns with the 18th annual edition of St. Augustine's famed Nights of Lights, in which the historic district of the nation's oldest city will be illuminated with more than 3 million tiny white lights. The event earned St. Augustine a 2009 ranking by AAA as one of the 12 best places in the United States and Canada to experience holiday cheer. Last year, Nights of Lights was named one of the Top 100 events in the U.S. by the American Bus Association.

It runs through Jan. 31.

This year's light show will mark the return of the iconic Bridge of Lions into the mix. For the past fiveyears, the bridge has been dark during the festival because of renovations. This year, the bridge and two new parks at each end of the span will be home to thousands of new lights in the display.

Activities on the opening weekend will feature the inaugural St. Augustine Marathon on Nov.19 and 20. Race events include a full marathon, half marathon, 10K, 5K and kids' races. Winners will get to drink from the Grail of Endurance filled with fresh spring water from the world-famous Fountain of Youth. (Uh, I've tasted that Fountain of Youth water, and I'd rather have Gatorade.)

Winter Wonderland returns to the St. Augustine Amphitheatre on Nov. 26, with outdoor ice skating, a giant ice slide, carriage rides and snow each night. There also will be appearances


it means having just the necessary services, a quiet community, and safety.

All this until a year ago, when that quiet and sense of safety was shattered in a way that is becoming all too common on the American landscape -- so common, in fact, that within a few days it had all but disappeared from the news media. Just another kid losing it with a gun.

On Aug. 28, 2009, a 10-year-old boy shot his 42-year-old father in Belen, another small, quiet town that lies just to the south of Albuquerque, N.M. The man took one bullet to the head from a rifle around dinner time.

Initially the speculation was that the young boy had been playing with the rifle and it went off accidentally.

By Aug. 29, however, the policeannounced that it was a premeditated murder and that they were charging the boy. What they were going to do with him was another matter. As one cop said, "Where do we put him, with the teenagers in juvenile detention?"

Just a Little Boy in Belen

Within minutes of the announcement, the media on all three local stations had begun their usual interviewing, and they got all the usual responses:

"What I saw... he was a wonderful dad, and those kids were really respectful with their dad," one neighbor, who lived across the street from the victim, stated. "I mean, come on, for a man to raise three kids on his own, you know, it says it all right there."

"He seemed like such a nice little boy."

"He seemed like such a


good father."

"I never heard nothing from them bad before."

Finally, it was revealed that child protection agencies in the area had been called to investigate the family at least four times over the last few years. The parents were divorced, and the mother was living on her own about 45 minutes north of the children. No one was saying anything further, but the confusion and the questions kept flying. What would make a 10-year-old boy pick up a rifle and shoot his own father in the head in front of his two younger siblings?

In a street sweep of interviews by giddy reporters, one boy who piped up before they could turn their microphones away explained it this way:

"He had no friends... Maybe that's why."

I guess it takes a 10-year-oldto even begin to understand.

This is not the first time a child has killed a parent or the first time lawyers, guns and money made it impossible to really understand what destroyed a young life.

It happened in Houston almost exactly six years ago. According to a Houston Chronicle article, "sexual abuse by his father and an increased dosage of Prozac may have helped drive a 10-year-old boy to shoot and kill his father last week, the boy's mother and attorney contend."

Thus, for quite some time, with the media titillating itself over a new sex scandal, the mood of public opinion swung swiftly against the dead father. But things are not always what they seem.

According to a November 2004 attorney report, the boy's behavior was caused by "Parental Alienation


Syndrome," which, the attorney explains, occurs in the context of divorce when one parent turns the children against the other parent, filling them with as much of his or her own rage and hatred as possible. If successful, the alienation puts the children in the position where they must choose. In order to get and maintain the love and support of one parent, they must act out against the other parent.

The case was not about sexual abuse, but about a very contentious divorce. According to that same report, the allegations of abuse (which had been made by the mother against the father) were proved false by two different police investigations and two lie detector tests. As a result of the false allegations, the mother was forced to settlethe case out of court. The father was awarded the home and 50/50 custodial rights.

Right before the shooting, the mother independently decided to have the 10-year-old put on Prozac without notifying the father. When the father came to pick up the children to take them home, the boy slid into the back seat, took out his mother's .40 caliber pistol, and fired three rounds through the seat, wounding his father. He went back into the house, but his mother sent him back to his father's car. He unloaded the rest of the cartridge, mortally wounding his father, and returned to his mother, who, even though a registered nurse, never went to the aid of her ex-husband.

Things can be very complicated.

Kevin Rexroad, M.D., a psychiatrist in New Mexico, stressed


(or issue or need) literally drags a person from one place to another, like a leash leads a dog across the street. Academics create whole schools of thought and therapy around single ideas, which, like the Ouroboros, take us right back to where we started. It seems that people need the reassurance of simple answers, but the truth is almost never like that.

Because in 2001, right after Thanksgiving, the motives of two young Florida brothers were quite different when they bludgeoned their father to death with a baseball bat while he was sleeping. They then set the house on fire to cover the crime.

Within a short time, the boys confessed to the murder but implicated 41-year-old convicted child molester Ricky Chavis, who was involved in a sexual relationshippossibly comprehend. Predators are very aware of this, that children are easy to use as well as hurt, and take full advantage of it.

Sociopathic Children

While children can explode in rage out of pain, confusion, or the terror of nothingness, is it possible that they can also be self-interested sociopaths? Will they shoot just because they want to or out of cruelty? Or because of some perceived gain?

The courts thought they'd seen a true psychopath when they found Jasmine Richardson, a 12-year-old girl, guilty of brutally murdering her parents and younger brother in Alberta. She had run off with her 23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy, whom her parents disliked. She was given the maximum penalty for a child under the age of 14: ten years.

And then there was 14-year-old Michael Hernandez,


who was convicted of the premeditated murder of a classmate. He'd lured him into a bathroom then stabbed him and slit his throat. While he had appeared "so normal" to his friends and "so polite" to his teachers, his journals revealed a youngster fixated on violence and committed to plans of mass murder.

And there's the Bulger Boy Murder in Northern England in 1993, which I personally remember quite well. I still feel a physical revulsion writing about it. Two otherwise ordinary 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, abducted two-year-old James Bulger from a local shopping area, wandered with him for hours before they beat him to death and left him on railroad tracks. They covered his head with rocks. No explanation was offered. None was ever found.

TheThe Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge stands 197 feet above the rushing current of the Yangtze River. Since 1968, the double-decked structure once acted as a symbol of China’s growing industrial strength.

Sadly, the bridge has also been a historically popular site for suicide attempts, many of them successful. Between 1968 and 2006, over 2,000 deaths were recorded. Many of them are impoverished or lost migrant workers who feel that they can never properly succeed or find work in the big city.

In times of great pain and sadness, heroes are more important than ever.

On weekends, 48-year-old Chen Si rides an electric scooter up and down the bridge, scanning for anyone who might be considering or attempting to take their own life. Since 2003, he has saved hundreds of people from


New Noise Magazine Issue 38 – cover ft. Screaming Females, with artwork by the screaming female herself, Marissa Paternoster. The Screaming Females cover issue will feature an exclusive track from the band, titled “Take It Back,” on the flexi disc – recorded by Steve Albini at Electric Audio.

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Be sure to keep up with New Noise Magazine through our socials as well: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Tumblr | Pinterestand Christine Blasey Ford, a college professor who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were in high school, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the allegations.

Kavanaugh denied Ford’s allegations and said during his own testimony before the panel that he did not doubt that Ford had experienced a traumatic event but that he has "never sexually assaulted anyone."

The Judiciary panel voted to advance Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate, but the FBI has been given a week to reopen its background check into him to look closer at the allegations.


where 37 percent are classed as anti-Semites. The exceptions tend to be Protestant countries such as Sweden, Holland and the UK, as well as the US: it would appear that the efforts of fiery Muslim preachers and leftwing zealots concerned with Zionism to revive ancient hatreds have been far less successful than local Jewish leaders fear.

Throughout the Muslim world, virulent anti-Semitism is rampant. This is not surprising: the descendants of the “apes and pigs” Islamic clerics rail against have always occupied a lowly place in their scheme of things. That is the main reason the mere existence of Israel makes not only many Arabs but also pious Pakistanis and Malaysians, who live far away from the shores of the Mediterranean, foam at the mouth. For them, the fatewillingness to resettle the now hereditary refugees in the countries they have been living in for several decades, much as Germany did when many millions of people were driven from their homes in Eastern and Central Europe after the Second World War, and Israel did to house the huge number of Jews that were expelled from Arab countries three years later. But such an arrangement is regarded as unthinkable. Instead, the Palestinians are kept cooped up in “refugee camps” to put pressure on the international community. Should Israel cave in, it would not be replaced by an independent Palestinian state; as on occasion leaders of the PLO have admitted, Jordan, Syria and Egypt would simply take over the vacated territory.

The founders of Israel imagined that, after Jews tired


(CNN) — In 2016, two New York City establishments became some of the newest members of one of the world's most elite travel clubs.

Just 120 hotels and 63 restaurants earned AAA's highest rating over the past year, which the company says represents 0.3% of the nearly 59,000 AAA-approved and diamond-ranked restaurants and hotels.

The travel company's rating system covers the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Hotels and restaurants in contention for five diamond ratings are examined multiple times for their "guest services and physical attributes," says the company.

St. Regis New York's King Cole Bar. Courtesy St. Regis New York

"Five Diamond establishments represent the upper echelon of hospitality, redefining personalized service, using creativity to enhance guest comfort and providing memorable experiences," says Michael Petrone, director of AAA Inspections andDiamond Ratings, in a press release.

In addition to the Modern and the St. Regis, the newest members of this elite list are:

Among existing members of the Five Diamond club, The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs is the only hotel that's kept its Five Diamond Rating since 1976, when the ratings were first announced for hotels.

The Inn at Little Washington's restaurant in Washington, Virginia, is the longest tenured Five Diamond restaurant. It's kept its Five Diamond rating since 1988.


AAC Tournament canceled due to coronavirus

Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson holds up the American Athletic Conference championship trophy as the Cougars celebrate after beating Southern Methodist 90-79 to win at least a share of the AAC at Fertitta Center on Thursday, March 7, 2019, in Houston. less Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson holds up the American Athletic Conference championship trophy as the Cougars celebrate after beating Southern Methodist 90-79 to win at least a share of the AAC at Fertitta ... more Photo: Brett Coomer/Staff Photographer Photo: Brett Coomer/Staff Photographer Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close AAC Tournament canceled due to coronavirus 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

The American Athletic Conference basketball tournament has been canceled, commissioner Mike Aresco said Thursday.

The four-day tournament was set to begin'Writing On The Edge' Excerpt: Paradise Lost For Armenian Refugees

In the collection "Writing On the Edge," fourteen esteemed writers chronicle their travels with MSF teams through countries in crisis. Accompanied by Tom Craig's photographs, Martin Amis, Tracy Chevalier, Daniel Day Lewis and others take readers into rarely seen reaches of Colombia, Burundi, Gaza, Uzbekistan, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and elsewhere. In this excerpt, Booker Prize-winning novelist DBC Pierre recounts his journey to Armenia:

With occasional shelling and sniper fire still erupting around the eastern defenses, and having been told in one town that the mayor has a new gun and might be out shooting stray dogs on the street, I hook up with a team from Médecins Sans Frontières, who have large "No Kalashnikov" symbols plastered over their vehicles.


These suddenly seem more helpful than the skull design on my snowboarding jacket.

It turns out MSF came here in the immediate aftermath of the 1988 earthquake and just never left. When issues of front-line care were dealt with, MSF crews saw a disturbing residue emerge from the depths of the culture. As a result, and unusually in the world of front-line support, the medical charity decided to channel some of its resources into a project that deals with perhaps the most vulnerable target of trauma and neglect: mental health. From a regional base in the lakeside town of Sevan--a collection of glum Soviet buildings scattered over a high plateau, with a decrepit ferris wheel strangely creaking in the wind at its entrance--young Belgian psychologist Dr. Luk Van Baelenleads me on a journey into the dark world of the uncared-for mind.

Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see.

Not far from the house with the missile sits the border town of Chambarak, comfortably settled into the folds of a high valley. The town is a mixture of rural rusticity and post-Soviet neglect, an occasional apartment block rising between traditional houses of lava and stone, and smatterings of hay and dung. Some windowsills sport old US Aid tins as flowerpots or buckets, souvenirs of support long gone. A nutty haze of dung smoke hangs over Chambarak, from ubiquitous solid fuel heaters like large iron shoeboxes with stovepipes attached. The town's market building is a vacant shell, attended every day by a crowd of heavily


wrapped men doing nothing and talking about doing nothing. Only one trader is there, selling twigs for broomsticks.

"There used to be nearly 100 percent employment here," says a man. "Now it's nearly 100 percent unemployment. Every day there are five funerals, but never a birth."

The man, like half the town's population of around six thousand, is an Armenian refugee from the town of Artsvashen, seventeen miles over the mountain in Azerbaijan. He left everything behind to flee the war. With the border so close, combat fatigues and military fur hats are more in evidence on the streets here. Armed watchtowers look down from the mountains. When we take our jeep off-road to view the town from a hillside, soldiers quickly appear out of the snows and make towardto bare sooty concrete, and in places genuinely gutted by fire. Litter migrates in icy drafts. Some flights up, noises can be heard behind a door. We knock. The door opens onto a cloud of dung smoke from a wood stove, thick enough to burn the eyes and throat. In one room just big enough for a single bed, a small table, and a dresser, sits a woman called Hamest. Three children sit with her. They are refugees. They fled Azerbaijan fifteen years ago. The building is a refugee hostel. A handful of families are camped there still, waiting for a change in their fortunes.

And there's something more: a curiousness, an unexpectedness in the makeup of the family's features and in their manner. The boy has a strangely


elongated face and a detached, doleful gaze. Then the father arrives and bids us welcome. And there's something unusual about him too, behind his beard and in his eyes.

Hamest and her husband are mentally retarded. So are all their children. And their life's routine after the door closes behind us is one of unthinkable abuse. Hamest's husband often trades their bread for vodka and drinks with other men in the building, often in that tiny room. He regularly beats Hamest, and there is reason to suspect her daughters suffer sexual abuse at the hands of the men. Hamest's mother is dead, and she has lost all contact with the family she knew when she fled Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, in 1990. She is utterly powerless.
MSF provides Hamest with aMkrttchian. Subscription is steadily growing at her center.

It's also at the day center I see a remembered face. The shepherd who wandered past the house containing the missile. I meet him. His name is Petros, a handsome, weather-beaten, profoundly retarded thirty-five-year-old with airs of great musing and reflection and a fixation with the buttons on his coat. A familiar sight around the district, he simply wanders from morning to night, often in the mountains, often around the prohibited border zone. His family feeds him, but that's as far as his care goes. He's been left all his life to wander. He has never spoken a word.


Andy Murray feeling 'better every day' before Brisbane return

Andy Murray has won seven matches since returning to competitive action in June

Andy Murray says he is physically feeling “a little bit better every day” after returning to the practice courts in preparation for the 2019 season.

Murray, 31, ended his season early to focus on making “big improvements”, having played in six events since returning from hip surgery in June.

The Scot will train in Miami next month before making his competitive return at the Brisbane International in January.

“I’m getting closer,” said the former world number one.

The Briton, now ranked 263rd in the world, has not played since losing to Spain’s Fernando Verdasco in the Shenzhen Open in September.

He has spent “four or five” weeks building his fitness with off-court trainingin Philadelphia and plans to increase his workload in Florida before flying out to Brisbane.

Murray is expected to play at the Australian Open later in January and has also announced his entry to the Open Sud de France in Montpellier – an ATP Tour 250 event which he has never previously played – in February.

“I going to get to Miami for three or four weeks to train in the hot conditions and spend a lot more time on the court to get ready for the tournament in Brisbane,” said the three-time Grand Slam winner.

“I’m planning to get to Brisbane pretty early, probably a week before the start of the tournament.

“I’ve been practising already for a few days and I’ve still got a couple of months to get myself


The Dice Tower: TDT # 552 - Games that teach English

Tom and Mandi record live from a small convention the Gathering of Friends. We talk about analysis paralysis, Choose Your Own Adventure Games, Pie Town, The Mind, Keyflow, Sunset over Water, Thanos Rising, and more! Stephen Buonocore crashes the show to help us answer questions, and we finish up with our top ten games to help teach English!

Top 10 List From This Episode

The flagship podcast of the network, the Dice Tower is an audio show hosted by Eric Summerer and Tom Vasel. Featuring a host of contributors, it covers a wide range of board and card games, with up to the minute news and game reviews.A Nebraska family staying at a Disney resort in Florida was struck by tragedy yesterday (June 14) when an alligator snatched the family's 2-year-old son and dragged him underwater, news sources reported. But despite the horrific incident, experts say it's rare for alligators to attack people.

During yesterday's incident, the boy's father tried to fight the alligator, and the mother also waded in to try to find her son, according to CNN. A dive team found the toddler's body today (June 15), Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said at a news conference, according to CNN.

But attacks like this are relatively rare, said James Perran Ross, a retired associate scientist of wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of Florida. In fact, alligators and crocodiles killed just nine people in


your whole approach."

But, overall, he advised that people in Florida and other states with 'gators "stay out of the water in the summer months, and particularly in the darker hours, from dusk to dawn."

How alligators attack

Alligators are stealthy, ambush predators. They often sit quietly in the water, staying still with little more than their eyes and nostrils above the surface, Ross said. A sensor on an alligator's chin detects vibrations in the water, including those from fish, Ross said.

When the alligator is ready, it will lunge at its prey and often swallow the animal whole. If the prey is too large, the alligator will tear it into pieces and then swallow those chunks, he said.

Most alligators — even the large ones, which measure 10 to 12 feet (3The Mobile Concierge will be working with America's #1 pre-paid wireless service provider. The role is geared towards increasing product sales and knowledge at assigned events in national retail chains.

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Elderly peoples' experience of nursing care after a stroke: from a gender perspective.
This paper is a report of a study conducted to explore, from a gender perspective, older people's experiences of nursing care after a stroke. Little attention has been given to gender differences in nursing care. The majority of people who have a stroke are older. Improving knowledge of the gender perspectives of older men and women regarding nursing care after stroke is crucial. This was a qualitative study based on interviews with five women and five men between 66 and 75 years of age, who had received nursing care at a ward for stroke rehabilitation. The data were collected in 2006. Qualitative content analysis of the interviews was carried out. A main theme and five categories,Disgust as Israeli soldier spotted laughing and drinking in Jerusalem bar wearing a 'Deployed, Destroyed and Enjoyed Gaza 2014' T-shirt

Army reservist pictured wearing the T-shirt while drinking in a Jerusalem bar

Had the slogan 'Deployed, Destroyed, Enjoyed, Gaza 2014' on back

People disgusted with the shirt have taken to Twitter to express their views

Comes as a 72-hour ceasefire is due to expire at midnight

An Israeli soldier has been spotted laughing and drinking in a bar wearing a T-shirt with the slogan 'Deployed, Destroyed, Enjoyed, Gaza 2014' emblazoned on the back.

The man, thought to be an army reservist was pictured wearing the shirt while enjoying a drink and chatting with friends at a bar in Jerusalem in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Pictured from behind, the black shirt has the slogan


Abid also criticise the T-shirt worn by the man while drinking with friends

The picture comes as 72-hour truce between Israel and Hamas is set to expire at midnight local time

The picture comes as 72-hour truce between Israel and Hamas is set to expire at midnight local time with negotiators in Cairo trying to thrash out a more permanent ceasefire arrangement.

Since the latest truce went into effect on Monday, Israel has halted military operations in the coastal territory and Gaza militants have stopped firing rockets.

The ceasefire was meant to give the two sides time to negotiate a more sustainable truce and a roadmap for the coastal territory.

During the ceasefire, people have strewn graffiti across the walls of buildings in Gaza, expressing their views on the conflict

Journalist Simone Camilli, whowas killed while experts tried to diffuse an unexploded Israeli missile in Gaza

The 35-year-old Italian national, had worked for the Associated Press since being hired as a freelancer in Rome in 2005

A member of the Palestinian delegation to Egyptian-brokered talks in Cairo said Wednesday that his team was considering an Egyptian proposal, which was tabled on Tuesday.

The Egyptian proposal calls for easing parts of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, bringing some relief to the territory, according to Palestinian officials in the talks.

Meanwhile six people were killed, including three members of a bomb disposal unit and an Italian journalist, while the Palestinian team attempted to defuse an unexploded Israeli rocket in Gaza.


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All required materials were developed by our study group. The information leaflets and posters were developed in collaboration with the design department of the University Medical Center Utrecht and the information leaflet was pre-tested by three nursing assistants. They evaluated clearness, meaningfulness, and usefulness of the leaflet and were asked if any information was missing. The PowerPoint presentation for the information meetings, the leaflets, the posters, the video, and the website were all designed in a uniform style according to regulations of the University Medical Center Utrecht. For development of the website, we were assisted by our data management section. The video was recorded in a nursing home in Utrecht by a professional cameraman from the design department of the University Medical Center Utrecht. In the video,Download this Image

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This fascinating relief comes from a set of stupas considered to be "pre-Ashokan." The Dharmarajika stupa is close to Taxila, Pakistan. The relief recounts the story of the Buddha's conversion of naga king Apalala which can be found in the Mularsavastivada Vinaya . The term 'naga' in Buddhism refers to serpent and dragon deities, but also has an extensive history outside Buddhist literature, particularly in the Mahabharata. The tale of Buddha's venture into Apalala's palace recounts a typical battle of good vs. evil, or Buddhist vs. non-Buddhist. The Buddha ultimately surrounds Apalala with flames and insists that he repent his ways. Notice the cobra head-pieces on Apalala and his surrounding followers, and the images of naga deities above attempting to throw clods of dirt at


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Indian Freight forwarding Company books air freight contract for Indian recipient for transportation of goods from Singapore to China.

Issue:

i) From which place supply is made?

ii) Whether this transaction is taxable in India?

Reply

The supply which is being made here is a supply of booking service by the Indian Freight Forwarding Company. The Freight Forwarding Company is not actually supplying goods or actually supply transportation services. They are simply doing booking and arranging for the transportation without actually carrying out the transportation or without actually selling the goods.

This transaction is undoubtedly taxable in India. There is nothing extra-territorial in the services being provided. The booking is done by a service provider located in India and the service is being provided to an Indian entity. The actual performance ofcustoms station or on tarmac after customs and quarantine clearance will not amount to crossing the limits of customs area unless those goods have crossed the limits of customs station. Mere parking of the supply unit with goods even after completing the customs formalities will not amount to crossing of the customs frontiers of India.

93. In order to explain concept of crossing of the customs frontiers of India, Mr. Bharucha, relied upon the decision of the Supreme Court in Kiran Spinning Mills v. Collector of Customs (1999) 113 ELT 753. As held by the Supreme Court in the case of Kiran Spinning Mills v. Collector of Customs (1999) 113 ELT 753, which arose under the Additional Duty of Excise (Textiles and Textile Articles) Ordinance, 1978 the taxable event


is the crossing of the customs barrier, and not the date when the goods had landed in India, or had entered the territorial waters. When goods are imported into India even after the goods are unloaded from the ship, and even after the goods are assessed to duty subsequent to the filing of a bill of entry, the goods cannot be regarded as having crossed the customs barrier until the duty is paid and the goods are brought out of the limits of the customs station. In the case of Kiran Spinning Mills. v. Collector of Customs (1999) 113 ELT 753 (SC), the Apex Court has observed thus:

‘In other words, the taxable event occurs when the customs barrier is crossed. In the case of goods which are inthe assessment of duty irrespective of the fact whether the goods are physically cleared from the harbour or not and whether duty is paid or not. As pointed out in the earlier paras after the filing of the bill of entry the assessment of the duty the import stream dries up and ceases to flow after the customs department levies the duty declaring the eligibility of the goods to be cleared and mingles with the general mass of goods and merchandise in the country. Once the duty is levied the import is at an end and the national customs barrier is supposed to have been crossed. The reason being it is difficult to ascertain the point of time or the place at which the goods have entered the


in a case where the capital asset is an equity share in a company which is listed on the date of transfer, and which became the property of the assessee in consideration of a share which was unlisted on 31st January 2018 by way of an exempt transfer under section 47, the “fair market value” shall mean the indexed cost up to the financial year 2017-18.

In this case, listed shares of C Ltd. were acquired through a merger, which is an exempt transfer under section 47(vii). Therefore, the fair market value of the shares on 31st January 2018 would be the indexed cost of shares of B Pvt. Ltd. up to the financial year 2017-18. Since the cost of acquisition was ₹ 50,00,000 in financial year 2008-09, thecompared to several of its earlier incarnations. It encompasses several Acts administered in the State of West Bengal and enlarged the scope of settlement of arrear tax, penalty, late fee or interest arising out of any proceeding including audit, special audit, assessment, appeal, revision, review or for recovery of arrear dues of the following Acts:

1. The West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003

2. The West Bengal Sales Tax Act, 1994

3. The Central Sales Tax Act, 1956

4. The Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941

5. The Bengal Raw Jute Taxation Act, 1941

6. The West Bengal Sales Tax Act, 1954

7. The West Bengal Motor Spirit Sales Tax Act, 1974, and

8. The West Bengal Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2012

For settlement of dispute, a “case pending” means a


occurrences of astronomical demands of assessed dues every year bringing about ruins for hundreds of business enterprises all over India.

The last date for filing application for settlement of dispute in a case pending is 31st March, 2019.

1. Keeping with convention, on 1st February 2019, the standing Finance Minister presented an interim budget with minimal tax proposals allaying rumours that the Government shall present a full budget before the ensuing general elections. Though the main tax proposals have been left for the regular budget, importance of certainty at the beginning of the year for middle class, salary earners, pensioners and senior citizens has led to (and justifiably so) minor yet far reaching changes to income-tax provisions.

2. One particular passage from Finance Minister’s budget speech which gives an insight intoInterim Budget 2019 does not reflect as typical populist budget. However the Interim finance minister has tried to appease the lower and middle class and MSMEs by bringing in a few amendments to the Income-tax act. In this article, we would be analysing the amendments pertaining to Direct Taxes and its impact.

Under the existing provision a standard deduction of ₹ 40,000/- or the amount of salary, whichever is less, was allowed while computing the income chargeable under the head salaries.

Amendment

As per the Finance Bill this limit of ₹ 40,000/- is now been raised to ₹ 50,000/-.

Analysis: The pinch of tax is usually higher on salaried person. Standard deduction for salary earners was brought by the Government in Finance Act, 2018 in place of transport allowance and medical reimbursement.


tax payable, which is determined with reference to total income calculated as per provisions of Income-tax Act. Income tax reliefs are provided to grant relief in specific cases and not as a general relief to all the assessees.

Deductions vis-à-vis Income-tax rebate

It is observed from the history that legislature has in the past shifted the manner of granting relief for same item, such as investment in saving schemes, some time as deduction some time as income-tax rebate. in respect of those items. Up to A.Y. 1967-68 income-tax rebate was allowed on investments in saving schemes. In A.Ys 1968-69 to 1990-91 deduction was allowed for the same under section 80C of the Income-tax Act. Again during the A.Y. 1991-92 to A.Y. 2005-06 income-tax rebate was allowed and again from A.Y.diversion of investment in financial assets, the Finance Act, 2018 withdrew the exemption on transfers on and after the 1st day of April, 2018. A new section 112A in the Act has been inserted from 1-4-2018 to provide that long term capital gains arising from transfer of a long term capital asset being an equity share in a company or a unit of an equity oriented fund or a unit of a business trust, shall be taxed at 10 per cent of such capital gains exceeding one lakh rupees. It will be applicable to such long term capital gains, if (i) in a case where long term capital asset is in the nature of an equity share in a company, securities transaction tax has been paid on both


zones have organised many events with dedication, zeal and enthusiasm.

We started the year with a bash. An International Mini Study tour was organised to Bangkok-Pattaya from 30th January to 2nd February, 2019. The tour was a grand success with around 55 delegates from different cities. The delegates who participated in the tour had a great time together, with some important discussions in the meeting and greatly benefitted by the technical session held at Pattaya.

A two day National Tax Conference was organised by the West Zone of the Federation in the city of Aurangabad, which is famous for the Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga Temple, the 12th Jotirling as per Hinduism believes, seventeen century marble Bibi ka Maqbara Shrine, styled on the Taj Mahal, nearby Shivaji Maharaj Museum and the Aurangabad Cavescomprising ancient, rock-cut Buddhist shrines. The conference, which consisted of five technical sessions, was undoubtedly successful in spreading education amongst the members, keeping them updated about the important recent issues of Direct Tax and GST.

Further, many one day seminars were organised by various zones of the Federation where, I am told, that a large number of delegates participated. It is a bright sign for the Federation that the participations in such events are growing significantly day-by-day.

The North Zone of the Federation has organised a Prayagraj Kumbh Darshan Programme from 2nd to 4th March, 2019 wherein arrangements have been made for stay for as many as 100 delegates which includes Kumbh Darshan and talks and discussions on professional spiritual issues. I am sure that the same would be a


historical event for the members of the Federation and I appeal to the members to take part in the same.

The next two day National Tax Conference is going to be held at Ranchi on 6th and 7th April, 2019. I can gladly inform you all that a large number of delegates have already registered themselves for the conference and I am sure that in the coming days, the number of delegates would break all records. The organizing committee as well as Shri Anand Pasari, present Secretary General is working very hard to make the conference a magnificent and successful one.

Brothers and Sisters, from the very first day of taking over as the National President of the Federation, I have been stating in various events, that professional ethics andseize the moral authority of his office to condemn hate groups.

Trump’s softer statement on Saturday had come as graphic images of a car plowing into a crowd in Charlottesville were playing continually on television. White nationalists had assembled in the city to protest plans to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, and counter-protesters gathered in opposition. Fights broke out, and then a man drove into the opponents of the white supremacists. One woman was killed and many more badly hurt. Twenty-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio is charged with second-degree murder and other counts.

President Donald Trump expressed condolences for the death of Heather Heyer, who was killed by a moving car in Charlottesville Saturday. He also mourned the deaths of two state troopers.

Loath


to appear to be admitting a mistake, Trump was reluctant to adjust his remarks.

The president had indicated to advisers before his initial statement Saturday that he wanted to stress a need for law and order, which he did. He later expressed anger to those close to him about what he perceived as the media’s unfair assessment of his remarks, believing he had effectively denounced all forms of bigotry, according to outside advisers and White House officials.

Reading from a teleprompter on Monday, he made a point of beginning with an unrelated plug for the strength of the economy under his leadership. Then, taking pains to insist “as I said on Saturday,” Trump denounced the hate groups and called for unity.

“We must love each other, show affection for each otherFilmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit", by interviewing philosopher Slavoj Žižek and various artists. However, the term's complexity very quickly becomes apparent and it seems increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to define the Balkans' geographical location, its people and its culture. Indeed, contradiction, chaos and change is at the Balkans very core.


Last Friday India faced a heart breaking tragedy and resulted in the departure of sixty and above precious lives from this world, as a speeding train crushed over them. It was happened near Amritsar in Punjab, where people gathered to see the Ram Leela(a stage play that describing the story of epic Ramayana). Crowd was more t han the expected and people occupied their places in the nearby railway track not expecting a danger. But later unexpectedly train came and people couldn’t escape from the track, and several precious lives our near and dear once departed from us.

It touched my mind the story of beloved Dalbir Singh who saved eight lives and surrounded to death. People says that he was beloved to them in all way, he wasthe person handling the role of Ravana in the play Ram Leela. He would draw great appreciation and applause when he plays the role of Ravana even though it was the main negative role in the play(Ravana one who kidnapped Sita the wife of God Rama. This year also he was handling the same role as previous years. And he made the Ravana a hero by his very life in that sorrowful evening.

Last Friday changed the history of Ravana, when Dalbir Singh saved eight precious lives and surrendered himself to death, when he was wearing the dress of Ravana. When Dalbir Singh saw that train was approaching and people were standing on the railway track, he cried out in loud voice and rushed toward the track and started


east of the highway; and the exception area was not configured to accommodate a stated plan objective of "compact community development" and plan growth management policies favoring a "village center" and a transportation system disassociated from the highway. After summarizing the adopted findings, the board determined:
"ORS 197.298(3) allows the city to include resource land within the [Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)] over existing exception areas if urban services cannot reasonably be provided due to physical constraints. Highway 99W physically separates the existing UGB from the Tampico Road exception area, and the evidence in the record indicates that due to the high cost of extending urban services across the highway, those services cannot be reasonably provided to that area. Coupled with the findings that inclusion of the Tampico Road exceptionALHAMBRA >> A suspected drunken driver accused of injuring 13 people when he collided with two vans Sunday night did not have a valid license because of prior drunk driving violations, according to the DMV.

Of the injured, police said a 27-year-old woman remained in critical condition at a hospital on Monday.

The driver, 28-year-old Ismael Soto of Los Angeles, was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence. Soto also sustained minor injuries in the crash.

His license was suspended in Oct. 2012 for high blood alcohol level. Subsequent suspensions were listed in Feb. 2013 and Nov. 2013, but no reason was listed, according to the DMV. But court records show convictions for driving with a .08 percent of more blood alcohol content and driving under the influence in


controlling the snow blower and passing out bags of chips. One of his neighbors was dressed as Santa Claus and giving Batman and Joker toys, he said.

Then Villalobos heard tires screeching and saw a red truck fishtailing.

“I saw the truck start losing control, hit the (black) van almost corner to corner then start sliding. All at the same time, both cars were moving,” he said.

Villalobos said the black van jumped the curbed, sheared off the cover for a transformer vent, took out the candy cane fence, lights, decor, also hit the chain link fence and ended up in the neighbor’s driveway.

The red truck also crashed into a white van, he added.

Villalobos ran to the black van and saw a woman and a boy he described as about 8was able to get through though, he said.

He saw one woman with her legs under the black van. She had big bump on her head.

All three vehicles were totaled, Villalobos said.

He heard the police ask the driver of the truck if he had been drinking. The man answered, “No.” When asked who was driving, the man told police he didn’t know, according to Villalobos.

“I wanted to punch him so bad. He kept lying to the cops. I told the cops he was the only one (in the truck),” Villalobos said.

Villalobos said it could have been worse if the vans weren’t parked there. At least three people could have died, he added.

The 13 injured included Soto, eight people in the vehicles hit and four pedestrians, according to Lt. La


Guard.

La Guard said 11 were taken to hospitals. Four were in critical condition Sunday night.

By Monday, one remained in critical condition,

Soto remains in custody at Alhambra Superior Court on $130,000 bail. He will be arraigned Wednesday at Alhambra Superior Court.

Online court records show he has prior convictions mostly related to drinking and driving.

On Feb. 19, 2013, Soto was convicted of driving with .08 percent blood alcohol level and of driving with a revoked or suspended license. He was found guilty on Nov. 4, 2013 of driving under the influence and convicted on Nov. 15, 2013 of driving with the knowledge that his license was suspended.

Soto also was convicted of vandalism on July 15, 2005.

He took a plea in a case where he was charged with carrying a concealedfirearm. Court records show he pleaded guilty on Aug. 30, 2005.

And on Dec. 14, 2005, he was convicted of being a felon with a firearm.

After the crash, Villalobos said they were cleaning up the debris when his grandfather found a cell phone. Villalobos looked through the phone, saw “dad” and called the number. The phone belonged to the injured boy in the black van. He said relatives of the boy came to retrieve the phone and told him the child was kept overnight at a hospital.

“It could have been prevented. (The suspect) could have called someone to pick him up,” Villalobos said.

– Staff Writer Jason Henry contributed to this report.


VALLETTA (Reuters) - One day in the summer of 2017, Vince Muscat dropped his friend Alfred Degiorgio at the Busy Bee, a harbor-front café near Malta’s capital renowned for its pastries stuffed with ricotta cheese. Degiorgio didn’t stay long.

FILE PHOTO: People gather at the Great Siege Square calling for the resignation of Joseph Muscat following the arrest of one of the country's most prominent businessmen as part of the investigation into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in Valletta, Malta November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo

A few minutes later, he jumped back into the car to report to Muscat that they had a contract: To kill the island’s top journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Daphne was blown up by a car bomb on Oct. 16, 2017. The murder shockedstage, sandbags were placed on a wall which had a view of the window to provide a stable rest for the rifle.

Muscat told investigators how, as surveillance continued, they followed Daphne on a family outing to the Phoenicia Hotel, by the gates of Malta’s capital Valletta, and to the airport when she and her husband, Peter, went on a foreign trip.

Muscat said that Theuma had helped watch the couple’s car in the airport carpark to identify when she returned home. A member of Daphne’s family confirmed she had visited the Phoenicia Hotel on Aug. 17 and 26 and had traveled abroad with Peter from Sept. 16 to Sept. 21.

After their scouting operation, the gang decided, for reasons not yet explained, that it would be too difficult to shoot


and the Degiorgio brothers realized the car had been parked outside the gate to the compound. In an interview with Reuters, Daphne’s son, Matthew, previously described how he had parked the car in the road that night, something he did quite often.

In the early hours of Oct. 16, police have said in court, the two Degiorgios and Muscat went to Bidnija to plant the bomb.

The person briefed on Muscat’s confession said Muscat alleges Alfred broke into the car by levering open the rear-quarter window passenger side. With George watching out from a high vantage point, and Muscat watching the lane outside Daphne’s house, Alfred crept inside the car and put the bomb under the driver’s seat.

In court hearings, police described how telephone data revealed that George Degiorgio laterLONDON — EU figures are deliberately trying to swing the general election against the Conservatives, Theresa May said in an extraordinary speech outside Downing Street.

The prime minister claimed that European politicians and officials had launched a deliberate campaign to swing the result of the election on June 8th.

"Britain's negotiating position has been misrepresented in the continental press," May said.

"The European Commission's negotiating stance has hardened.

"Threats against Britain have been issued by European politicians and officials. All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the UK general election that will take place on the 8th June."

She added that while "Britain means no harm to our friends and allies" it had become clear that "there are some in Brussels who do not want these talks


to succeed and do not want Britain to prosper."

Watch Theresa May: EU leaders are trying to swing the election

Theresa May says the European Commission has hardened its negotiating stance "to affect the result of the general election" pic.twitter.com/NP0GLam1o0 — Sky News (@SkyNews) May 3, 2017

May's speech follows a series of briefings against May and her ministers in the European press.

Conservative MP Sir Bill Cash, chairman of the Commons European scrutiny committee, told The Telegraph that he was "certain" that Germany was trying to influence the general election that will take place on June 8, this year:

"What they are doing is trying to exploit a new kind of project fear and that is not going to work on the British people. They are playing an unwise and dangerous gameBanyana Banyana have touched down at OR Tambo International from Ghana. The women’s national team were runners up in the African Women’s Cup of Nations after going down 4-3 on penalties to Nigeria’s Super Falcons.

Up against the defending champions, Banyana were looking for their first title in 12 attempts. The Super Falcons were hunting down their record 9th title.

After a long tournament, the fatigue was settling into both sides and the tactical battle ensued. Nigeria had the perfect opportunity to win the match from the penalty spot, but they missed the glorious chance in the second half.

The match fizzled out into a goalless draw after the 90 minute mark and after 30 minutes of extra time. The dreaded penalty shootout ensued.

Linda Motlalo was the unfortunate to miss the


The Athletics claimed outfielder Alex Hassan off waivers again, this time from the Baltimore Orioles. Hassan, 26, was previously claimed from the Boston Red Sox on November 17, and waived on November 20 to allow Renato Nunez to be protected from last December's Rule 5 draft.

The Orioles designated Hassan for assignment on February 25 after the team signed infielder Everth Cabrera. The A's placed A.J. Griffin on the 60-day disabled list to open a roster space as he recovers from Tommy John surgery.

From Duncan Morrow's story in November:

Hassan, a former 20th round pick, is a Duke alumnus and has been in the Red Sox organization since 2009. He hits right-handed and mostly plays right field, and in 114 games in AAA this year he hit .287/.378/.426 with 8HRs. Obviously not a ton of power there, but the OBP skills are very promising. Interestingly, he hit .328/.409/.492 off of lefties in AAA this year. The A's struggled with hitting left-handed pitching in 2014, so Hassan could find a niche as a platoon 1B/COF option at the major league level. He received a September callup this year for his MLB debut, and went 1-9 with a walk. For all you amateur scouts out there, here's a video of his first MLB hit this September:

Hassan should help the A's address a lack of organizational depth in the outfield. Josh Reddick, Coco Crisp, Sam Fuld, and Craig Gentry are the outfield-only members of the expected 25-man roster, with Ben Zobrist, Mark Canha, and Stephen Vogt able to move into


or innovation. Pajamas were a relatively new fashion in the 1920s. The term "cat" was beginning to be used as a term to describe the out going and unconventional jazz-age flappers.

That girl wearing those Paris Hilton sunglasses must think she's the cats pajamas.
Those crazy rinestone studded platinum teeth are the cat's pajamas!

The term "cat's pajamas" comes from E.B. Katz, an English tailor of the late 1700's and early 1800's, who made the finest silk pajamas for royalty and other wealth patrons. This phrase is often likened to and/or confused with the 20's term "cat's meow".Poland: Fire kills 5 girls locked in home-based escape room Investigators in Poland say a faulty heating system appears to have caused a fire at a house in northern Poland where five teenage girls died while locked inside a recreational escape room

WARSAW, Poland -- A faulty heating system appeared to have caused a fire at a house in northern Poland where five teenage girls died while locked inside a recreational escape room that was installed in the rented dwelling, investigators said Saturday.

Firefighters in the city of Koszalin found the bodies of the 15-year-old victims Friday after they extinguished a fire in a room adjacent to the one the girls had entered while celebrating a birthday.

Autopsies showed the girls died of carbon monoxide asphyxiation, prosecutors said, using a technical


term for smoke inhalation.

A 26-year-old man employed at the location was hospitalized with burns.

Players in escape room games are locked inside a room or building and must solve puzzles and find clues that lead them to the key that will unlock the door. Regarded as an intellectual challenge, the games are highly popular among teenagers in Poland.

Koszalin prosecutor Ryszard Gasiorowski said a leak in a bottled gas heating system was a probable cause of the fire. Earlier, firefighters blamed faulty electric wiring and substandard security procedures.

"Preliminary findings suggest that the fire was caused by an unsealed gas container inside a heater," Gasiorowski said.

The fire broke out in a part of the detached house that was being used as a reception room for the entertainment venue and blocked theemployee's way to the girls, he said.

Firefighters and other witnesses were questioned, but the injured employee's condition prevented investigators from interviewing him immediately, Gasiorowski said.

Earlier Saturday, national firefighters' chief Leszek Suski said there was evidence of "a lot of negligence" at the venue, including makeshift electrical wiring too close to flammable materials and the absence of a proper evacuation route.

"Security was not ensured, and that led to the tragedy," Suski said.

A spokesman for local firefighters, Tomasz Kubiak, said the units responding to the blaze had to use specialized equipment and force their way into the locked escape room of some 7 square meters (75 square feet.)

Poland's interior minister has ordered fire safety inspections at more than 1,000 escape room locations across the country. The first inspections were being


held Saturday, the Interior Ministry said. Previously, there was no official requirement for fire safety certificates at such locations.

Teachers, psychologists and local education authorities met Saturday to discuss ways of helping students at the school the five girls attended deal with the trauma.

Students, teachers, city authorities and residents attended a memorial Catholic Mass at noon at the local church. Local residents placed flowers and lights in front of the location, a two-story house with a huge "Escape Room" sign in front.

Koszalin Mayor Piotr Jedlinski declared Sunday a day of mourning and appealed to residents to hold no entertainment gatherings or parties. The annual Epiphany procession was canceled.

"The families want peace and quiet as they face their great tragedy," Jedlinski said.A downtown Toronto Dollarama store's policy to only allow one student in at a time to prevent stealing isn't sitting well with local high school students who pop by the shop for a treat on their lunch hour.

The Dollarama, located in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood near Bloor Street West and Bathurst Street, only permits one high school student to enter at a time. Two hired security guards enforce the policy, while other customers walk in and out without being stopped.

A Dollarama store in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood is under fire for only allowing 1 high-school student into the store at a time. (CBC) The store has increased its security measures to ensure employee safety following disruptive behaviour from groups of students, Dollarama said in a statement.

"Everybody's not stealing," says James,


a student at nearby Central Technical School. "We walk in there, buy our stuff."

He complained that the store is keeping students waiting out in the cold.

But, a nearby store owner, Soo Yoo, reports having similar problems. She's hired her niece to help out — only during lunch hour.

She's tried telling the students to come into her store in smaller groups, but says they mostly ignore her.

Still, human rights lawyer Kate Sellar says Dollarama's actions count as discrimination.

"You have to provide services equally," she says, "and you can't treat people differently based on their age."

But Dollarama says the large-group policy is in place at all of its stores. At the Annex location, high school students happen to be the ones coming in large groups because of the store's proximityalcohol into a strict Muslim country, necessitating the use of coded terminology. At one point, Bernard Woolley approaches Jim Hacker with a phone call from "Mr Haig," to which Jim queries "General Haig?," at which Bernard replies, "No, Mr. Haig. You know, with the dimples."

In Part 2 of The Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?," a mug shot of a battered and bruised Homer Simpson is shown, in which he is wearing a T-shirt with the campaign slogan "Haig in '88" on it.

In the 1986 Sledge Hammer! episode "Over My Dead Bodyguard", Captain Trunk is announced dead after several failed assassinations to prevent further attempts. Sledge Hammer then declares in a takeover ceremony in the precinct "But, in the words of the immortal Alexander Haig: 'As of now,


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“Foreword”. Sovieton winning the argument for a second EU referendum.

Rudd is expected to move next to remove Mandelson, his former friend of 30 years, from the board of Open Britain. Mandelson has tried to resist Rudd’s growing control over the organisation and efforts to change the senior staff.

During a telephone meeting of directors on 9 October, Rudd received support from six other directors to get rid of four People’s Vote directors – Mandelson, McGrory, Will Straw and Joe Carberry. They are due to be removed as directors next week.

Mandelson told the Guardian: “Roland Rudd is like the captain of the Titanic demanding the passengers show him more respect as the iceberg carves open the hull and water gushes into the bowels of the ship.”

Trevor Phillips, the former head of


PRINCESS DIANA brutally snubbed Dodi Fayed, who she had been seeing for two months before they both tragically died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.

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The Princess of Wales had divorced Prince Charles a year before and her affections were now directed towards the Egyptian film producer. Dodi was the son of billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, former owner of Harrods, and there had been rumours that he and Diana were going to get married. However, a friend of Diana’s, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, told the inquest into her death that Diana had no such intentions.

Diana made a brutal comment about the possibility of marrying Dodi (Image:install a few dozen computers and phones. But, because he was not consulted when the furniture was installed, there were no network drops, the electrical outlets were in all the wrong places, the desks had "modesty panels" shoved against walls so that nothing could be plugged in without moving 300 pounds of dead weight away from the wall and back. A circuit breaker tripped every time someone tried to use the copier. Extension cords were run "temporarily" across the floor to the pod in the middle of the room, until your boss tripped over it and broke his arm. You get the idea: you are going to have to live with the consequences of furniture planning, so it is essential to get involved early and be an advocate


New quartet of governors

- Kerala Raj Bhavan vacant with Sheila resignation

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New Delhi, Aug. 26: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh was among four BJP leaders named governors today, the appointments coming amid Sheila Dikshit’s resignation from the post in Kerala.

Kalyan, who will take charge in Rajasthan, was named alongside BJP colleagues Vajubhai Vala, C. Vidyasagar Rao and Mridula Sinha, according to the office of President Pranab Mukherjee who made the appointments. Vala will be the governor of Karnataka, Rao of Maharashtra and Sinha of Goa.

The recommendations were forwarded to the President by the ministry of home affairs, based on names sent late yesterday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office, sources said.

Vala was once Gujarat Assembly Speaker and state finance minister. RaoShekhar Dutt in Chhattisgarh.

Virendra Kataria was sacked as governor of Puducherry and Kamla Beniwal as governor of Mizoram.

Margaret Alva and H.R. Bhardwaj had completed their terms in Rajasthan and Karnataka respectively. The two positions were among those filled today.

Beniwal was first sent from Gujarat to Mizoram, as was Maharashtra’s K. Sankaranarayanan, who refused and stepped down two days ago.

Sources said the transfers to Mizoram had led to resentment, with some state politicians complaining that the north-eastern state had turned into a “dumping ground” for governors.

Keeping the sentiment in mind, the sources said from now on, governors on their way out may not be transferred to the state.


This invention relates generally to railway truck-train systems and in particular to a truck-train system incorporating a simplified method or loading the truck-trailers onto a railway dolly or bogie.
Truck-train systems of the prior art that used a railway dolly or bogie as the interface between the truck-trailer and the railway system rails generally required special lifting equipment when connecting the truck-trailer to or mounting it on the railway dolly.
One system used a separate incline ramp to roll the trailer, on its wheels, onto one end of a first dolly to which the rear axle of the truck-trailer was attached. The trailer hitch end of the truck-trailer was then attached to a trailer hitch mounted on a pylon on a similar second railway dolly. If a separate incline rampwas not available at the destination, the trailers could not be unloaded.
Another system also mounted the trailer wheels on a railway dolly but connected the front end of the following truck-trailer directly to a special swivel fitting attached to the rear end of the front truck-trailer. A special lifting crane was necessary to mount the truck-trailers on the railway dollies and swivel fittings.
A further truck-train system mounted the truck-trailer wheels on a mechanical platform incorporated into one end of a railway dolly with the trailer hitch end fitted to a trailer hitch attached to a mechanical platform on another railway dolly. The trailer was loaded and unloaded by moving the mechanical platforms laterally onto a paved area next to the railway tracks.
Another truck-train system used a railway bogie


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Haunted Chicago on DVD

With a Great Lake on one side and a massive prairie on the other the forces of nature seem to exert a mystic force on Chicago. The capital is home to the world's strangest haunted restaurants and one of the eeriest cemeteries in the country where illuminated orbs purportedly dance through the night. HAUNTED CHICAGO investigates these mysterious legends as well as many others including the Prohibition-era spirits of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre who are said to inhabit the Lincoln Park neighborhood and the ghost of Clarence Darrow who allegedly appears near the Museum of Science and Industry. It is time to find out once and for all: Is there any truth behind the city's famous haunting? Animating the celebrated metropolisas well as the ghosts who lurk beneath it HISTORY takes viewers on a chilling tour of the Windy City.

With a Great Lake on one side and a massive prairie on the other the forces of nature seem to exert a mystic force on Chicago. The capital is home to the world's strangest haunted restaurants and one of the eeriest cemeteries in the country where illuminated orbs purportedly dance through the night. HAUNTED CHICAGO investigates these mysterious legends as well as many others including the Prohibition-era spirits of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre who are said to inhabit the Lincoln Park neighborhood and the ghost of Clarence Darrow who allegedly appears near the Museum of Science and Industry. It is time to find out once and for all:


The U.S. Navy has taken control of a new missile defense base in southern Romania, one of two European land-based interceptor sites for a NATO missile shield which Russia strongly opposes.

The base at Deveselu is scheduled to be operational in 2015 as part of NATO's ballistic missile defense system.

"Ballistic missile threats to the U.S. and our allies are real and growing," said Rear Adm. John Scorby, commander of Navy Region Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia on Friday.

"Fortunately, NATO's capabilities ... against these threats are also real and growing."

The system is the key component in President Barack Obama's plan for a phased deployment of a missile defense umbrella in Europe. Another missile base is scheduled to become operational in Poland by 2018.The alleged thief was covered in clingfilm and left to swelter in the punishing morning heat of Santiago (Picture: CEN)

A mob dished out some very sweaty justice to an alleged thief who was spotted attempting to rob a pensioner with a knife – he was stripped naked, then wrapped head to foot in clingfilm and tied to a lamppost.

People took photographs as 32-year-old Valentino Abeyta Barrera sweltered in Chilean capital Santiago’s 27-degree heat, with his underpants around his ankles.

He was left for 20 minutes before police arrived – and the alleged thief refused to explain why he was there, begging the police to free him.

The photographs stirred up discussion online about vigilante justice – and Barrera was freed, as his alleged victim did not make a complaint to


women to come together to sue as a group, but that fact, she said, will make it more difficult to find lawyers to fight individual suits against large companies. Moreover, she said, the decision will create a "perverse incentive for employers" to set up structures under which individual managers may well use their discretion in discriminatory ways while the company remains immune to class action lawsuits because it has a formal policy against discrimination.

"It sets up new hurdles and new rules for making out a claim of employment discrimination and it actually sets out a perverse incentive for employers ... to be less vigilant in routing out discrimination in the workplace," Greenberger said.

Elise Bloom, who heads the class action section at Proskauer Rose LLP, a law firm thatSouth Carolina at least 13 percent of the county jail population consists of deadbeat dads, and that 98 percent of them did not have lawyers.

Climate Change Lawsuit Blocked

In yet another important ruling, the court by an 8-to-0 vote, limited the rights of states to sue utilities for carbon emissions.

Six states – New York, California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Iowa and Vermont – along with the City of New York sued five major electric power companies – American Electric Power Co., Duke Energy Corp., Southern Co., Xcel Energy, Inc., and the federal Tennessee Valley Authority, all of which combine to produce approximately 10 percent of U.S. annual carbon emissions.

The suit sought to impose emission caps on these power companies under the theory that the emissions constituted a "public nuisance," a


limits of liability and conditions.
On February 12, 1972, while the insurance policy was in effect, plaintiff was severely injured in an automobile accident. She was immediately hospitalized and underwent surgery which required the removal of 1 inch of lateral interior margin of the right temporal lobe of her brain. She subsequently suffered post-traumatic epilepsy and left hemoporesis, or a slight paralysis, on one side of her body, further complicated by poor equilibrium and speech problems.
In a report to defendant, plaintiff's treating physician's prognosis was that she suffered from organic brain disease syndrome and would "probably never" be able to return to work. Her employer tested her ability to perform the job she held at the time of her accident and reported in a letter that she could notperform a simple assignment. As of the date of this appeal, plaintiff was unable to return to work and receives continuous medical care, supervision and treatment to maintain everyday functions at hospitals and at Magnus Farm and Nursing Home.
Pursuant to the terms of the insurance policy, from the time of the accident in February 1972 until about April 1973, defendant made payments to plaintiff for both medical and loss of income benefits. In March 1973, defendant directed an investigation to determine plaintiff's progress and the extent of her disability. Defendant demanded proof that plaintiff's disability continued and plaintiff provided a full medical history, additional medical reports, and reports from the supervisor at the nursing home, all attesting to the fact that her disability was caused by the accident


the tunnel as an anchor which must later be removed from the bone.
In use, the drill guide device tip is placed at the desired exit point of the tunnel and the guide wire sleeve is positioned at the desired entry point of the tunnel. A drill bit is inserted through the guide wire sleeve and a tunnel is drilled through the bone from the guide wire sleeve (entry point) to the tip (exit point). Generally, the tunnel is a straight bore in the form of a hypotenuse across the corner of the bone. With smaller bones, this tunnel can be very close to the surface of the bone, and therefore the tunnel wall closest to the surface of the bone can be thin and weak.
Each of the disclosedbe removed, and which has an insertion compartment for holding an information carrier in the form of a sheet. The insertion compartment is covered toward the visible surface of the insert by a transparent window. The insert is designed as a frame, with the insertion compartment being open toward the opposite surface of the cutout of the table top. The insert is mounted in the cutout of the table top, in the vertical inoperative position thereof, in a manner such that it can be pulled out upward. A respective pivot pin, which engages in a respective lateral displacement groove of the cutout of the table top, protrudes in the lower region of the insert from both sides. In the upper region of the insert, a respective latching projection,


well by their titles alone

Latest 180

Top 70 Played

Newest Songs

Never Skipped

Ok... now lets get a little more complex. My "Newest Hits" playlists brings up songs that appear to be songs that I have just begun to like. Notice that it excludes a song if it was one of the last 180 songs that I have played so that songs aren't repeated too often.

Newest Hits

"Popular Songs" brings up more established songs in my library, but avoids over-played and over-skipped songs. It keeps the music selection fresh by not playing one of the last 180 songs played or a song played in the last two weeks (whichever is longer) and also avoids the top 70 most played songs (because they are likely to be over-played). It doesn't exclude songs until they'veyear for the first time in nearly two decades.

India bought 200 tones of gold from the International Monetary Fund earlier this year, while Russia and others are purchasing bullion from domestic miners on a regular basis, official data show. European central banks, after more than a decade of hefty disposals, have all but stopped selling.

Riyadh is now the 16th largest gold holder, ahead of countries such as the UK and Spain. The US is the world’s largest bullion holder with 8,133.5 tones.

- Additional reporting by Abeer Allam in Riyadh


Iranian Agents in Kenya Planned Attacks on Israeli, U.S. Targets (AP-Washington Post)
Officials in Kenya say that two Iranian agents arrested with explosives planned to attack Israeli, American, British or Saudi Arabian targets inside Kenya.
Kenyan security forces arrested the Iranians in June and were led to 15 kg. of RDX, a powerful explosive, in Mombasa.
One official said the Iranians are members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force.

Rights Group: Syria Running 27 Torture Centers (Reuters)
Syrian intelligence agencies are running 27 torture centers across the country, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
Documented torture methods "clearly point to a state policy of torture and ill-treatment and therefore constitute a crime against humanity," the report said.
The group called for the UN Security Council to refer the issue of Syria to thethe Gulf or back the Brotherhood's views - bearing in mind that the Brotherhood's activities are banned in the Gulf states.

Israeli Technology to Secure France's Louvre - Sagi Cohen (Ynet News)
Synel, an Israeli subsidiary company based in France, has been awarded a contract by the Louvre Museum to install a comprehensive system for security access control combined with electronic attendance.
According to Erez Buganim, Synel's vice president of marketing, "Synel offers a technological solution which will monitor unauthorized entries into the museum and within the museum's exhibition spaces."

U.S. Adds Forces in Persian Gulf, a Signal to Iran - Thom Shanker, Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger
The U.S. has quietly moved significant military reinforcements into the Persian Gulf to deter the Iranian military from any possible attempt to shut the


Strait of Hormuz, and to increase the number of fighter jets capable of striking deep into Iran if the standoff over its nuclear program escalates. The Navy has doubled the number of minesweepers assigned to the region, to eight.
"The message to Iran is, 'Don't even think about closing the strait,'" one senior Defense Department official said. "This is not only about Iranian nuclear ambitions, but about Iran's regional hegemonic ambitions," the official said.
(New York Times)
See also Using Intelligence and Military Means to Bolster Diplomacy with Iran - Michael Eisenstadt (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Already Plagued by Inflation, Iran Is Bracing for Worse - Thomas Erdbrink
Bedeviled by government mismanagement of the economy and international sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran is in the grip of spiraling inflation.
The localcurrency, the rial, has lost 50% of its value in the last year against other currencies. The price of bread has increased 16-fold since the withdrawal of state subsidies in 2010.
On June 28, an Islamic Revolutionary Guards official admitted in an interview with the corps' own publication, Sobh-e Sadegh, that the government had been late in paying soldiers their wages.
Economists say much of the damage to the economy has been self-inflicted, as the Ahmadinejad government went on an import spending spree after oil revenues started hitting record levels from 2005 on.
With the government buying so many goods from abroad, many domestic producers were forced to lay off workers and close factories. Yet Tehran still appears to be thriving; Porsche sold more cars there in 2011 than anywhere else


Lebanon - Joanna Paraszczuk
Hizbullah has upgraded its network of tunnels in southern Lebanon to secure itself against airstrikes in a future war with Israel, according to a report by the Lebanese newspaper Al-Joumhouria on Monday.
The tunnels contain underground stores of weapons and ammunition, and are equipped with ventilation, lighting and communication networks. They contain dormitories, medical facilities, kitchens, toilets, and water and heating systems that allow dozens of terrorists to live underground for weeks at a time.
(Jerusalem Post)

IDF Hopes New Technology Would End Terrorists' Tunneling Activity
The Israel Defense Forces plans to install a new underground system along the Gaza border to detect tunneling activity in its early stages, Army Radio reported Monday. The new system uses existing technologies, such as sensors used by the Israeli Navy and geophonesused for oil exploration.
(Israel Hayom)

Fourth Century Synagogue Discovered in Galilee
A monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman period (ca. 4th-5th centuries CE) has been discovered in archaeological excavations at the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq in Israel's Galilee. Excavations have revealed portions of a stunning mosaic floor with a scene depicting Samson placing torches between the tails of foxes (see Judges 15). In another scene, two human faces flank a circular medallion with a Hebrew inscription.
"Only a small number of ancient synagogue buildings are decorated with mosaics showing biblical scenes, and only two others have scenes with Samson," said Prof. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

For Iran, Sanctions Are a Price Worth Paying to Preserve the Islamic Republic -


Hadi Kahalzadeh and John Schiemann
Sanctions against Iran are predicated on a "rational actor model" in which the West hopes Iran's leaders will eventually find it in their own interests to give up their nuclear program. But for Iran's leaders, ideological and security concerns trump economic ones.
In the eyes of the Iranian leadership,
the "struggle against imperialism," one of the Islamic Republic's founding myths, is of far more importance than losing even billions of dollars.
To supreme leader Ali Khamenei, continuation of its nuclear program and pursuance of its regional ambitions are key to the regime's long-term security.
With Iran and the West playing different games, a peaceful resolution in the near future seems very unlikely.
Hadi Kahalzadeh is a visiting scholar at Fairleigh Dickinson University. John Schiemann is chair of the departmentof social sciences and history at Fairleigh Dickinson.
(Guardian-UK)
See also U.S. Bets New Oil Sanctions Will Change Iran's Tune - Annie Lowrey and David E. Sanger (New York Times)

Bombing or the Bomb? - David Ignatius
Israel faces a decision between "bombing or the bomb." In other words, if Israel doesn't attack, Iran will eventually obtain nuclear weapons. "It's not a bluff, they're serious about it," says Efraim Halevy, a former head of the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. A half-dozen other experts and officials made the same point in interviews last week: The world shouldn't relax and assume that a showdown with Iran has been postponed until next year. In Israel, the alarm light is still flashing red.
The negotiations with Iran by the "P5+1," rather than easing Israel's anxieties, may actually


Last updated on .From the section Championship

Nahki Wells scored his seventh goal of the season to open the scoring for QPR

QPR and Reading played out an entertaining 2-2 draw at Loftus Road, ensuring Mark Bowen remained unbeaten in two games as Reading manager.

QPR took the lead against the run of play after George Puscas' carelessness in possession allowed Ebere Eze to set up Nahki Wells, who rifled the ball into the corner from 20 yards.

Puscas atoned for his error by drawing Reading deservedly level three minutes later, sliding a side-footed finish across the goalkeeper and into the far corner after being released by Ovie Ejaria's defence-splitting pass.

QPR regained the lead through Jordan Hugill's deflected half-volley from the edge of the area after an exchange of headers with strikepartner Wells, but Sam Baldock turned in from close range to secure a point for Bowen's side.

Reading had the better of the early exchanges, with the impressive Ejaria posing Mark Warburton's side plenty of problems.

The midfielder, on loan from Liverpool, combined with Puscas to set up a good chance for Baldock in the eighth minute, but the striker's firm drive was palmed away by QPR goalkeeper Liam Kelly.

Ejaria then threatened himself with a left-foot shot from distance, but Kelly was able to push the ball around the post.

However, the home side grew into the game around the half-hour mark, and found themselves on the wrong end of two moments of controversy before Puscas cancelled out Wells' opener.

First, Reading could have been reduced to 10 men when Matt Miazga


seemed to fling his arm towards the face of Angel Rangel after the pair had tussled in the box, but the incident went unseen by referee Jeremy Simpson.

Simpson then turned down a Rangers penalty appeal after Andy Yiadom blocked Wells' left-foot volley from inside the area with an outstretched arm.

The home side came close to regaining the lead on the stroke of half-time when Miazga's hashed clearance presented a chance for Toni Leistner, but the defender's shot was blocked before Hugill blazed the rebound over.

Hugill spurned another presentable chance shortly after half-time when he missed a good opportunity to get on the end of an inviting Ryan Manning cross, but found the net only minutes later to put his side within touching distance of a seventh win innine games, only for Baldock to pop up with an equaliser for the visitors.

QPR boss Mark Warburton told BBC Radio London:

"The players worked hard and after we got the second goal we looked in decent shape for 10 or 15 minutes.

"It was a sloppy goal to give away. It is about us a team defending our goal better, but the boys are human.

"Tonight was not a good day at the office but we came away with a point and are still in the top six. The league is so tight but all we can worry about is QPR."

Reading manager Mark Bowen told BBC Radio Berkshire:

"Any point away from home in this league in important. QPR have been flying high and scoring goals.

"To come back twice from going behind,


you leave this country, you fight for ISIS, you never come back.

Elsewhere in the interview, he claimed that the Obama administration was planning to let 100,000 new Syrian refugees into the country, which is both untrue—the 2017 goal is 110,000 refugees from across the globe—and largely irrelevant, as the suspects in both New York and Minnesota were not Syrian refugees. Rahami’s family came to the U.S. from Afghanistan in 1995, long before ISIS or the Syrian civil war, and was granted asylum in the U.S. in 2011, and Rahami himself is a citizen. It’s unclear how one would vet a seven-year-old, on which basis Chris Christie in November argued against admitting even five-year-old orphan refugees. The asylum decision came when Clinton was secretary of state, which will almostare not made public.

Run by the younger Doval and BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav Varanasi, the India Foundation lists among its directors defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman and commerce and industry minister Suresh Prabhu, and two ministers of state – Jayant Sinha (civil aviation) and M.J. Akbar (external affairs).

Together, the four ministers, a Sangh parivar heavyweight and a businessman with an influential father in the PMO have given the India Foundation the kind of institutional heft that well-established players in the think-tank space can only dream about. Every event the foundation organises is attended by key decision-makers in that field, which in turn guarantees not just a full house but also sponsorship – both by government bodies and private companies, Indian and foreign.

The source of its success, however,


says Doval

The India Foundation describes itself officially as “an independent research centre focussed on the issues, challenges and opportunities of the Indian polity” but Shaurya Doval, in a video interview, makes no bones about the fact that the foundation “works very closely with the BJP and the government in terms of many aspects of our policy formulation.”

This admission could be an effort at transparency by the head of a think-tank – or an advertisement of proximity to power by someone in the business of ‘corporate finance and advisory’, which may help explain why the interview is posted on the website of Gemini Financial Services.

Doval, who earlier ran the private equity firm Zeus Capital, merged his company to form Gemini Financial Services in 2016. GFS’s chairman is Prince Mishaalis a top official in the PMO whose remit may include being part of deliberations that concern decisions involving companies that may have sponsored India Foundation events. Again, no answer was forthcoming.

Besides, the four ministers, Madhav and Doval, other directors of the India Foundation are drawn from the inner circle of the BJP establishment – Swapan Dasgupta, former columnist and Rajya Sabha member in the nominated quota, Shakti Sinha, retired IAS official and now director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and A. Surya Prakash, chairman of the Prasar Bharti board. Besides these, the other directors are Dhruv C. Katoch, former director of the Indian Army’s think tank Centre for Land Warfare Studies, Alok Bansal, a former navy officer who worked at the IDSA earlier, Ashok Mittal


who describes himself as the managing director of a student mentoring company, Chandra Wadwa, ex president of the ICWA, and Binod Bawari, chairman of Bawri group, Kolkata.

Swati Chaturvedi is a Delhi-based journalist

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From DE 10 2010 061 210 A1, a lighting appliance for vehicles is known, in which a flat light guide is provided for the generation of a specified light distribution. The flat light guide has opposing flat sides, on which the coupled-in light is conducted. On a narrow side, several LED light sources are provided, so that on this narrow side, light is coupled into the flat light guide. A narrow-sided rear has optic elements for the redirection of the coupled-in light into the direction of a narrow-sided front, on which the light is coupled out toward the front. The known flat light guide allows a signal light function having a depth effect. However, due to a further signal light function arranged behind the flat light guide, fasteningshell-2

A cone was generated, and on the surface of the cone, a helix of variable pitch and number of revolutions was generated. The cone was then suppressed, and only the conical helix was made to be visible. After this, a circle sketch was generated at the beginning of the conical helix. An adaptive sweep tool was used to sweep the circle at various diameters and the conical helix as the guide curve, thereby generating the approximate model of natural shell.

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