was first recognized in 1919 by His Royal Highness Prince Feisal Husseini, king of Syria and Iraq, son of Sherif Husain and later King of Iraq.

In a letter written to to Felix Frankfurter on March 3, 1919 to an associate of Dr. Chaim Weizmann Prince Feisal indicated the willingness of Arabs to welcome the return of the Jewish people to Palestine, and implicitly recognized that the land of Israel is the historic homeland of the Jews. The Prince wrote:

"We Arabs, especially the educated among us look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organization to Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate proper. We will do our best, in soand abortion (39%). Abstinence-only curricula were used by 74% of teachers, but 33% of these teachers supplemented with "other" curricula. Overall, two thirds met comprehensiveness criteria based on topics taught. Curricular material availability was most commonly cited as having a "great deal" of influence on topics taught. Thirty percent had no training in sex education; training was the only significant predictor of providing comprehensive sex education in multivariable analysis. Illinois public school-based sex education emphasizes abstinence and STDs and is heavily influenced by the available curricular materials. Nearly one in three sex education teachers were not trained. Obstetrician-gynecologists caring for adolescents may need to fill gaps in adolescent knowledge and skills due to deficits in content, quality, and teacher training in sex education. III.


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Matthew Horrell and Kirsty Mcdonald from Mossley are to appear in the English Youth Ballet production of Coppelia at the Plaza Theatre in Stockport.

They both won the parts after gruelling auditions involving over 200 candidates.

Matthew dances with the North West Theatre Company and Kirsty is a pupil at the Aklette Muldoon School of Dance. The opportunity gives the youngsters a chance to work in a professional environment with international artists.

The production is on at the Plaza Theatre from the 13th to the 14th of June.Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers believes that Colin Kaepernick belongs on an NFL roster but his decision to protest the national anthem may have affected his status, he says in an ESPN profile by Mina Kimes.

"I think he should be on a roster right now," Rodgers said. "I think because of his protests, he's not."

Rodgers added that he does not plan on sitting or kneeling during the national anthem out of his personal respect for the flag. Rodgers had a similar view in 2016 when he was first asked bout the national anthem protests by Sporting News and said: "To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst. But different people look at different things and have different feelings


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In a world where countries have isolated themselves from Earth by dispersing into the sky, there is a constant war between those in the atmosphere as well as those still on Earth. Nexan wants to find the reasons of why he was abandoned by his mother and father and why they betrayed their country in the skyline. The only thing left behind by his forgotten parents is the curse of death in which Nexan must learn to live with.

In news straight out of 1957, a high school's production of a show called "All Shook Up" has been canceled because a parent decided that the Elvis Presley songs were too sexually suggestive.

Here's a shocker: This happened in Utah. The AP reports that the show "borrows from Presley's songbook and puts a modern twist on William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night.'" Which means, in addition to lyrics about how some chick's "lips are like a volcano that's hot", there was a bit of cross-dressing involved.

"I'm at a loss," Jill Fishback, whose daughter worked on the production, told The Salt Lake Tribune. "They're singing Elvis songs. A girl dresses up as a boy and kisses a boy. ... It's not promoting homosexuality. It was supposed to be a farce."
It wasn't the


of Sept. 6, she illegally entered Jean’s apartment, which was located one floor above her own, and shot Jean, 26, to death — that much has been established as true. But everything else that transpired during that fatal encounter was not exactly clear, with only Guyger’s word to go on.

She claimed that following a long day on the job as a Dallas police officer, she implausibly mistook his apartment for her own and, after ordering Jean not to move, shot him twice. Her story was greeted by doubt because of several factors, especially her assertion that Jean’s door was ajar. Videos posted on social media by neighbors appeared to show that apartment doors in the building shut automatically, which seemed to indicate that Guyger was lying.

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Omarosa Takesnumber of students in each school was divided by the total number of students in the university. Then, the resulting number was multiplied by the calculated sample size. Finally, a systematic random sampling method (K = 6) was used to select the required samples from a list of students in each school. Not being employed in clinical practice and passing at least one educational semester were the inclusion criteria.

A three-part questionnaire was used. The first part consisted of 12 questions about socio-demographic factors (i.e. the student\'s age, gender, marital status, program of study, academic year in college, history of academic probation, parents' education level, parents' job, family income, type of abode, inhabitation status, and having another family member in healthcare jobs). The second part of the instrument was


the anointing of the Holy Spirit

for the salvation of the poor and the contrite of heart;

guard priests in your heart and in the Church,

O Mother of the Savior.

Mother of Faith,

you accompanied to the Temple the Son of Man,

the fulfillment of the promises given to the fathers;

give to the Father for his glory the priests of your Son,

O Ark of the Covenant.

Mother of the Church,

with the disciples in the Upper Room

you prayed to the Spirit for the new People and their shepherds;

obtain for the Order of Presbyters a fullness of gifts,

O Queen of the Apostles.

Mother of Jesus Christ,

you were with Him at the beginning of His life and of His mission,

you sought the Master among the crowd,

you stood beside Him when he was lifted up from the earth

consumed ascustody, the man from Ludhiana found an outlet in Urdu shayari, publishing his first collection Talkhian (Bitterness) in 1943, when he was just 22 years old. He was in Lahore editing journals at the time.

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A few years later, Sahir shifted to Bombay (now Mumbai), and by the mid-1950s, had established himself among the leading lights of Hindi film music, becoming a favourite of directors and composers like Guru Dutt, S.D. Burman, Yash Chopra, Ravi, Roshan and Khayyam.

Sahir ruled this kingdom for nearly 30 years, till a heart attack ended his journey on 25 October 1980. But even 38 years on, Sahir’s words are foremost in the minds of the millions who love Hindi film music. Sample some of these


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Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Craig Scott, Business Development Director at MLL Telecom, looks at some of the challenges and opportunities around fibre north of the border.

There’s a connectivity sea-change happening in Scotland right now: Inhabitants are demanding to know why they must put up with sub-par broadband speeds and access, compared to those of their neighbours south of the border.

This was illustrated by the fallout from the recent news that Scottish premises have been deemed ineligible for the UK Government’s Universal Service Obligation (USO), despite contributing funding to the initiative. The USO pledges to deliver 10Mps broadband to 100 per cent of premises. According to Rural Economy and Connectivity Secretary Fergus Ewing


explore the e-learning potential offered by Gigabit connectivity in schools and libraries, while improving the use of digital and web-based tools and services for both staff and customers. With the second phase of the project extending the full fibre connectivity to business in the city, Stirling will also benefit economically through increased competition. The vastly improved infrastructure will attract new businesses, support growth among existing firms and create jobs.

The Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN) is a wider public sector initiative that has gone some way to providing consistent connectivity options for the NHS and Local Authorities in Scotland. Announced in 2014, the nine-year contract is now in its fourth year. Organisations have the option to join the framework by 2020, with the last point to consume the servicesThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was surveying sites for the installation of a new ASR11 Antenna to serve the air traffic control system at Reno/Tahoe International Airport in Nevada. The FAA and local authorities, including Reno/Tahoe International Airport, required a complete feasibility study.

This study included environmental considerations such as view impacts. It would consider a number of tower locations and address visual impact concerns from specific areas. POITRA was selected to provide the graphics support for the project. POITRA created a series of photosimulations for the canidate tower sites in Reno near the airport.

Take a closer look! The ASR11 radar antenna and tower was created by POITRA modelers. (click to magnify)

Mouse-over images above to toggle between the existing photo and the photosimulation.

POITRA photographers made excellent photographs representing the


Animals In PrintThe On-Line Newsletter20 November 2010 Issue

EU To Back Sale Of Meat And Milk From Cloned Animal Offspring
By Sean Poulter

The sale of meat and milk from the offspring of cloned farm animals is
set to be backed by EU Commissioners despite mass consumer opposition.

A huge majority of the public is against clone animal farming, according
to studies in Britain and across Europe.

Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the animals
and a lack of research on food safety. However, a leaked report to be
discussed by the EU’s College of Commissioners today comes out in favour of
food from the offspring of clones.

A new report suggests that the offspring of cloned animals could be
consumed

Alarmingly, it appears this food would not have to be labeled, leaving
families completely in the darkabout what they are putting in their mouths.

Specifically, the report proposes a temporary five-year ban on the sale
of meat and milk from clones, but there would be no ban on food from their
offspring.

If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned
super-size animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are
reared for food.

Clones themselves can suffer a range of painful conditions, including
malformed organs and gigantism. Many die in the womb or soon after birth.

More... End of the sticky label: Lasers to etch sell-by dates and price
onto fruit The secret to living longer: It's all down to the right mix of
healthy foods and NOT diets But the Commission and the Government take the
view that meat and milk from the offspring of a clone is


Daily Mail revealed how meat from two
clone-offspring bulls and one veal calf had been sold in butcher shops in
Scotland, North-East England, London and Belgium

The attitude has echoes of the BSE crisis and the way biotech firms tried
to force GM food into the national diet.

A 2008 EU study found consumers across Europe are unhappy at this new era
of ‘Frankenstein food’ farming.

Eighty-seven per cent of Britons said too little is known about the
long-term health and safety effects of eating food from these animals.

A separate study for the FSA found that the more consumers learned about
cloning, the greater were the objections. The vast majority saidfood derived
from these animals should be labeled.

Even if the Commissioners and the Government back the sale of food from
clone offspring, this is not final. MEPs and other,Capone talks THE FIGHTER and UNCHARTED with Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell!!!

As far as I'm concerned, director David O. Russell has a perfect record, 5 for 5, beginning with his weird, dark 1994 comedy SPANKING THE MONKEY, followed two years later with the beautifully satirical FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, both of which he wrote. But it was with 1999's freakishly good and groundbreaking Gulf War story THREE KINGS that the world really got a taste of Russell on a big scale. It was also the film that paired him for the first of three time with actor Mark Wahlberg, who showed the world his most humorous side to date in 2004's underappreciated I HEART HUCKABEES.

It's almost inconceivable that Russell didn't get another movie released for six years after HUCKABEES,


but it wasn't for lack of trying. In 2008, he got well into production (some say it was nearly done, but critical story elements remained un-shot) on what sounded like another great satire, NAILED, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Biel, Catherine Keener, and James Marsden, when the financing suddenly vanished, and the film went into eternal limbo. As Russell put it, between this incident and a reports of on-set fighting on his THREE KINGS and HUCKABEES sets, his stock was decidedly down. But back into his life came Wahlberg and his passion project, THE FIGHTER, which not only got Russell's stock back up, but earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director and the film itself can't stop winning awards for its actors.

THE FIGHTER has been out long enoughinto Uncharted.
Uncharted's focus should be on one guy, his relationships with women he comes across as well as his mentor Sully. And he just so happens to get into screwy situations with organizations and people and local pirates/militia. Not because he's James Bond, sent in by the government to prevent artifacts of great power from falling into the wrong hands. He's in it for money and fame. And he'd rather things went along much easier.
At least get some input from Naughty Dog on this... This is an Indiana Jones movies. Indiana Jones had 'family dynamics', but he wasn't part of some great legacy of a recognized family descendents that was trusted by the governments of the world to be the Justice League of antiquities.

I would rather a visionary


This invention relates to an apparatus for conveying, grouping and storing flat articles such as food products for the ultimate purpose of supplying them to a packing machine. The article storing device of the apparatus has an inlet station from which the products are moved by gondolas in which they are positioned on gondola shelves. The storing device further has an outlet station at which the products exit in the same orientation as they entered through the inlet station. The carrier gondolas move past the inlet and outlet stations in a vertical travel path.
Published European Patent Application 534 902 discloses a storing device comprising gondolas which are suspended from chains and each of which is provided with a plurality of shelves. The shelves, as the gondola passes bySimulation of the leasing portfolio to determine the critical parameters and their impact (e.g. different assumptions on interest rates, terms, growth)

A qualitative survey of the leasing business is also possible on the basis of a brief questionnaire to determine the scope of the project, the organization, and the IT requirements (e.g. lease structure, contract parameters, responsibilities, systems, processes)

Timely familiarization and training of the operating units and affected functions at the HQ

The results are the basis for:

Making a decision on the options in connection with the transition to IFRS 16

Planning of scope and content of conversion project (above all, time and costs)

An improvement in the quality of the current disclosures in the Notes to the financial statements for a "soft transition" to IFRS 16

Simplification assumptions and discussions with the


World Space Week celebrates human exploration in space, the science that makes it possible and the potential it holds for the betterment of humankind.

It is marked in the first week of October, a month that holds a special place in the space history. Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by the Soviet Union on Oct. 4, 1957. The Outer Space Treaty, which established the basic international laws governing space and celestial bodies, went into effect Oct. 10 1967.

As much as advanced spacecrafts and international collaboration are essential to continued human presence in space, so is something a little more basic: food.

The astronaut diet has changed considerably from the earliest days of space exploration. Pellet-like freeze-dried and tubed foods have given way toAdolescent pelvic examination. An effective practical approach.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that pediatric health care be extended through the adolescent years. Thus, there is a need to refamiliarize the physician with the pelvic examination. Formerly, workshops used simulated plastic models ("Ginny") to accomplish this goal. Such workshops have been conducted at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics for several years. At the 1987 meeting in New Orleans, La, two workshops involving live models (gynecologic teaching assistants) were planned and implemented with great success. Following a didactic segment, each participant was given an opportunity to perform the pelvic examination with immediate feedback from the gynecologic teaching assistant as to the completeness and appropriateness of the pelvic examination. The immediate response of the attendees was


the 1990s to 6 percent in 2011. [1] Another example is Vietnam, which—in a single generation—moved from being one of the world’s poorest nations to middle-income status—which has allowed for increased investments in health and education.

Today Vietnam can be proud of the fact that it ranks well above most of its richer peers in basic science, math, and reading skills. Its overall score in the latest OECD survey of 15-year olds was higher than that of France, Germany, the UK, and the US. [2]

But even in advanced economies, economic integration has lifted living standards—because of a more efficient allocation of capital, productivity increases, and lower prices for consumers. Research on the consumer benefits suggests that trade has roughly doubled the real incomes for a typical household. And forthe poorest households, trade has raised real incomes by more than 150 percent. [3]

Along with higher incomes, millions of new jobs were created that tend to pay relatively higher wages. In the US, for instance, workers in export-intensive industries earn a premium perhaps as high as 15 percent over other industries. [4]

In the European Union, more than 30 million jobs—that is, one in every seven—depends on exports to the rest of the world. And in Canada, international trade makes up two-thirds of GDP.

Canada is also a prime example of the benefits of migration. By welcoming about a quarter million migrants per year—and by opening their homes and hearts to refugees—Canadians are supporting growth, rejuvenating their workforce, and adding to the richness and diversity of their society.

As the economist


and Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen, put it: global economic integration “ has enriched the world scientifically and culturally, and benefited many people economically as well”. Many people would agree with that—but it is not the whole story.

Real side effects

The historic events of the early 1990s, when China, India, and the former communist countries entered into the global trading system, had far-reaching effects. The size of the global workforce effectively doubled, putting downward pressure on wages, especially for lower-skilled workers in advanced economies.

In the US, competition from low-wage countries has been one of the factors that have contributed to a decline in manufacturing employment, along with a wave of automation.[5] And this has not been spread evenly across the whole economy, but has been concentrated in some local laborThis means greater public investment in education, re-training, and facilitating occupational and geographic mobility.

For example, the German apprenticeship system is often cited as a model that has provided generations of German youth a successful path into skilled work without a college education.

Similarly, expanding vocational training partnerships between industry and educational institutions would help retool the labor force and boost employment in countries such as Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.

Second—strengthen social safety nets by providing appropriate unemployment insurance, health benefits, and portable pensions—and by stepping up tax and income policies.

The US, for instance, could cushion labor market dislocations by increasing the federal minimum wage and expanding the earned income tax credit.

Another example is the Nordic countries, where workers have only limited job protection, but they benefit from generous


The fall of the eastern rebel-held side of Aleppo at the end of 2016 marked a turning point in Syria’s civil war, shifting the tide of the conflict in President Bashar al-Assad’s favour.

With Isis’s caliphate dismantled after the battle for Raqqa last year, the other long-standing front in the Syrian theatre also began to wind down.

And yet, on the eve of its seventh anniversary, Syria’s war shows no sign of stopping. In some areas it is becoming even more complicated – and deadly. On Monday, the UN said the country is currently experiencing “some of the worst fighting of the entire conflict”.

Syria today is better described as several intersecting wars, rather than the government-versus-rebels narrative it started out as in 2011. In the last few weeks, the proxythe Assad government and its allies – although Israel responded with its most aggressive bombing attack in years, which reports say killed six regime-allied fighters.

The Eurasia Group, a New York-based political risk consultancy, said on Monday that Israel will probably need to continue to carry out strikes in Syria as a means of deterrence, but added that “in a fog of war environment, another incident can easily drag the relevant parties towards a regional conflict”.

Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria – in pictures Show all 9 1 /9 Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria – in pictures Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria – in pictures Smoke billows following a Turkish airstrike on a village in the Afrin district, on 28 January, 2018. Turkey launched operation "Olive Branch"


on January 20 against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in Afrin, supporting Syrian opposition fighters with ground troops and air strikes AFP Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria – in pictures Smoke billows from surrounding villages during the Turkish military operation against the Kurdish enclave on 28 January, 2018 AFP/Getty Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria – in pictures Twenty-year old Kifah al-Moussa, a Syrian Arab woman living among the Kurds of Afrin province, was working on a chicken farm in the village of Maryameen when a Turkish aircraft bombed the building at midday on 21 January, wounding her in the chest. When she recovered consciousness, she found eight people from one family lying dead around her Yara Ismail Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria –in pictures Mohamed Hussein, a 58-year-old Kurdish farmer, lies in the Afrin hospital, wounded in the head and eye after his home was bombed by Turkish aircraft on the second night of the attack Yara Ismail Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria – in pictures Syrian Kurds sit on benches overlooking a street in Afrin, on 28 January, 2018. Above is a memorial to ‘martyrs’ who died in the fight against Isis AFP/Getty Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria – in pictures Smoke is seen rising on the Syrian side of the border, at Hassa, near Hatay, southern Turkey as Turkish jet fighters hit People's Protection Unit (YPG) positions, on 28 January, 2018 AFP/Getty Turkish attack on Afrin, northern Syria – in pictures A Turkish made T-155 Firtina


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Turkey vs Kurds

Turkey, incensed by renewed US support for Kurdish forces in Syria, last month launched Operation Olive Branch on the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin, opening a new front in the war which has already killed dozens of civilians and fighters on both sides.

The Kurds in the north of the country took advantage of the chaos inSyria after 2011 to create a semi-autonomous state.

Turkey views the Syrian-Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or the YPG, as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of south-west Turkey, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by Ankara as well as by the US and EU.

However, the YPG and broader Arab-Kurdish coalition Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have won widespread Western support over the past few years as the most effective ground force against Isis.

The conflict could bring Turkey, a key Nato member, directly into conflict with the US if Turkish-backed forces make good on their threat to move east towards Manbij, where US troops are based.

The new fighting has also pushed the Kurds towards the Assad government, with whom it has at times formed realpolitik military alliances.

Syrian solidarity


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AFP/Getty Images Syrian solidarity with baby who lost eye during government shelling As part of a campaign in solidarity with a baby boy, Karim, a child poses covering one eye with his hand AFP/Getty Images Syrian solidarity with baby who lost eye during government shelling This combination of pictures shows Syrians covering one eye with their hands in the rebel-held town of Douma AFP/Getty Images

Assad vs Rebels

Turkey, Russia and Iran agreed to create four “de-escalation zones” in Syria in May 2017 to calm fighting between rebel groups and Syrian government forces.

But in recent weeks Mr Assad has moved decisively to crush two of those areas – Idlib, the last remaining rebel bastion, located in the north-west, and Eastern Ghouta, a besieged rebel-held suburb of Damascus.

With the help ofbeat the Warriors in the playoffs. Thus, devaluing their success and notoriety."

The obvious: "Because Houston will always be football-first, the Astros just won a World Series and we've seen great regular seasons out of the Rockets before."

The economical and social: "Houston is a very transit town. The big three industries are oil, medical and NASA, where people turn over about every seven years and then move. This is why we have so many fans from other cities."

I know this is a fact. The Rockets are big. But, right now, they should be much bigger.

It feels like the NBA nation is buying into Houston's pro basketball team more than the city.

The city also was forced to endure the human tragedy that was Game 6 against the Spurs last year,


Family of schizophrenic prisoner who committed suicide in his cell sues after watching video showing him slit his throat and bleed to death 'while guards watched'

Anthony Lester, 26, was serving 12 years for stabbing women at party

Mentally ill prisoner mistakenly given razors

Taken off suicide watch two days before he killed himself

Relatives suing for $3million over prison guards' negligence

Family had battle for two years for right to see 23-minute footage

Failed: Anthony Lester, 26, committed suicide in a Tucson prison cell after the schizophrenic patient was mistakenly given a razor by guards

The family of a mentally ill man who committed suicide in his prison cell have seen horrific footage for the first time which shows the 26-year-old bleeding to death while guards stand around and watch.

Anthony Lester took his ownlife after he was mistakenly given razors in a prisoner hygiene pack.

He cut his wrists and jugular vein in a shared cell in Tucson, Arizona.

The Lester family have battled with the state for almost two years to gain access to the footage, filmed by one of the guards Umberto Hernandez who went to Lester's cell after the alarm was raised in July 2010.

Correction officers can allegedly be seen doing nothing for 23 minutes while the young man bled heavily from his wounds while lying on a top bunk bed.

None of the officers attempted to save his life by staunching the bleeding, said Lester's family and their lawyer who have seen the tape, according to 12 News.

Instead the guards wandered around the cell while one wondered if the prisoner,


who was still alive, had left a 'suicide note'.

His family filed a claim last January against the state for $3million alleging that the Department of Correction's (DOC) substandard treatment of patients with mental illness led to the 26-year-old's death.

Anthony Lester had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was in high school and had struggled with his condition, self-harming as a teenager. He told family that the voices were 'getting worse'.

In 2007, he stabbed two female friends at a party and was sentenced to 12 years for aggravated assault.

After receiving medication he was deemed to be fit for trial but a judge and court-appointed psychiatrist advised Lester should be housed in a facility where he would receive the necessary mental health treatment.

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Horror: The aftermath of thecell in the Arizona prison where Anthony Lester slit his throat and wrists

Emergency: A pool of blood can be seen on the floor. The prisoner was mistakenly given razor blades by prison guards despite the fact he had been on suicide watch

However he was placed in the general population of inmates at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson, went off his medication and was sent to a unit for behavioral problems.

In June 2010 he had tried to kill himself in prison - but was taken off suicide watch two days prior to his death and put into a shared cell.

The mentally ill man cut into his neck, wrists and legs and one image showed that in his disturbed state, he wrote 'voices' on the wall in his


own blood.

After the alarm was raised, guards rushed to the cell. In a recording of the 911 call, one officer was heard saying that a prisoner has 'severely cut himself'.

Vulnerable: Corrections officers said at an investigation that they didn't go to Lester's help because they thought he had a concealed weapon

Nightmare: Lester's aunt Patti Jones (right) and his mother (left) have both watched the footage where the young man can be seen bleeding to death in his prison cell while guards stand around talking

His aunt Patti Jones watched the distressing footage of her nephew's last moments along with the young man's mother.

She told 12 News that on the film, guards wandered around the cell, wondering out loud whether there was a suicide note.

She told the station: 'Someone thensays: ''I think he's expired'' and Tony's breath gets shallower.'

The four prison guards on duty that night were later suspended and investigated including Hernandez and a guard with 13 years experience, Orlando Pope.

They said they had not tried to save Lester because his hand was concealed by a blanket and they believed he had a weapon.

Failures: The family of Tony Lester are suing Arizona state claiming that their mentally ill relative was negligently treated in prison

His aunt Mrs Jones angrily denied this allegation, telling 12 News that her nephew was 'weak and vulnerable'.

She added: 'No one knew his medical history... no one knew his name.'

'No one knew his medical history... no one knew his name.' Patti Jones, aunt

According to the family, in the footage paramedics rusedh in and


wheeled the seriously injured prisoner out on a stretcher.

Officer Pope followed, carrying shackles and chains.

The Arizona Department of Corrections did not reply to a request for comment by MailOnline today.

Distressing images of Lester's body after his death show wounds to his neck and wrist held together with staples.

In tapes from the internal investigation, the most senior guard Orlando Pope was asked: 'So you guys just stood around for 23 minutes and watched this guy bleed to death?'

Pope answered: 'No, we kept trying to call him, get his attention and get him to say something... but he was still breathing.'

Pope also told the internal committee that he did not believe he had adequate first-aid training.

Another unidentified officer told the investigation: '...and the amount of blood that was there, wasGeneral, was on brief for appellee.  June 22, 1998
Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

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This is an appeal from the district court's granting of summary judgment in favor of Defendants City of Boston, the Boston Police Department ("BPD"), and other state actors.  The BPD promoted Rafael Ruiz, an African-American, to lieutenant prior to promoting any of the individual Plaintiffs, each of whom scored one point better than Ruiz on the lieutenant's examination.  The BPD believed that promoting Ruiz was necessary to avoid violating an amended 1980 federal court consent decree, as then interpreted by a district court.  The three white officers and the Boston Police Superior Officers Federation (the "Federation") sued in the district court, claiming


extend the decree until 1990 and modify the decree's numerical goals to reflect the increased number of qualified African-American candidates in the BPD.

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However, by 1990, the BPD had given only one "validated-fair" exam, and the number of blacks promoted still fell short of the decree's goals.  As a result, the BPD and MAAAP jointly requested that the court extend the decree until the BPD could give one more "validated-fair" exam in June, 1991.

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Following the 1991 exam's administration, MAMLEO challenged its validity on the ground that it did not comport with the Guidelines.  The parties settled this challenge by jointly proposing an amendment to the consent decree, which specifically reaffirmed that selection procedures for the promotion to the position of sergeant be validated in accordance with theof advancing the BPD's compelling interest in remedying racial discrimination.

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In the meantime, the BPD promoted Aldrich and Crossen to lieutenant in October, 1995, and Slavin in June, 1996.  The consent decree expired in April, 1995, based on the DPA's establishment in January, 1995, of eligible lists from the 1992 exams.  As of July 1, 1996, black representation among BPD sergeants had risen to 17 percent (46 of 269), and the promotion of Ruiz and two other blacks raised blacks' representation among lieutenants to over 6 percent (5 of 77).

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I. Did the Consent Decree Mandate Ruiz's Promotion?

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It is undisputed that Defendants promoted Ruiz in genuine reliance on the district court's then outstanding decision interpreting certain consent decree requirements to apply to all promotions including lieutenants'.  Although


BPD's past discrimination persisted at the rank of lieutenant until Ruiz's promotion.  The BPD had no black lieutenants as recently as 1978, and only two in 1992;  the 1995 promotion of three blacks, including Ruiz, more than doubled this number.  Thus, in July, 1996, only five of seventy-seven lieutenants, roughly six percent, were black.  By then, the number of blacks among the BPD's 269 sergeants had risen to 46, suggesting the remedial effects of the consent decree as to sergeants, but also that such effects had yet to work their way to the rank of lieutenant.

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The BPD had further justification in 1995 for race-based action in the statistical proof of a violation of the four-fifths rule.  As already noted, had the BPD promotedSharing a name with an Oscar nominee isn't all glamour

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CaptionChicago's Julia Roberts

Jose M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune

Julia Roberts, who told me her style was "modern, with vintage" and said she liked "12 Years a Slave" but loved "Wolf of Wall Street," even created a stir. The 63-year-old retired Chicago school principal was having brunch when a restaurant manager, alerted by his hostess, came over to acknowledge that "Julia Roberts is in the house!" She sighed as she told me this: For decades, she hasn't been able to make restaurant reservations without someone cracking a joke. Also, Julia Roberts just had foot surgery and was planning to watch the Oscars alone.

Julia Roberts, who told me her


style was "modern, with vintage" and said she liked "12 Years a Slave" but loved "Wolf of Wall Street," even created a stir. The 63-year-old retired Chicago school principal was having brunch when a restaurant manager, alerted by his hostess, came over to acknowledge that "Julia Roberts is in the house!" She sighed as she told me this: For decades, she hasn't been able to make restaurant reservations without someone cracking a joke. Also, Julia Roberts just had foot surgery and was planning to watch the Oscars alone. (Jose M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune)

Jonah Hill had an unremarkable Oscar Sunday. Perhaps you heard: He won nothing; he did nothing. He woke up early and drove to a Starbucks in the suburbs outside Naperville, where he bought a coffee, thenhe drove home and shoveled the snow from his driveway for the umpteenth time lately: "Yeah, it pretty much sucked," Jonah Hill told the Chicago Tribune in an exclusive Oscar Sunday interview. "I am so sick of this winter." So sick that Hill climbed into jeans, a long-sleeve T-shirt and never once put on a tuxedo. In fact, Hill said he was not planning to attend the Vanity Fair party, or the Governors Ball, or any Oscar soirees at all.

He was going to skip the braised poulard from chef Thomas Keller and get Giordano's. Then he was going to bed. He had to get up at 4:30 a.m.: Jonah Hill, 35, from the town of Yorkville, operates a pile driver; he's working on the CTA Green Line station


I called: "What am I nominated for now?" she asked. Well, Cate Blanchett was nominated for best actress, I explained. "But what movie?" she asked. "Blue Jasmine," I said, and asked what she thought of director Woody Allen. "No comment," Blanchette replied, then added: "Wait, who? I can't put the face to the name."

Blanchette, who is 21 and works as a server at both the Original Mother's bar on Division Street and the Houndstooth Saloon in Wrigleyville, said she was wearing "Target" (but used the fancier, French-sounding Tar-jay). She described her style as "edgy, a little skin, nothing raunchy." She said she planned to drive herself (!) around Oscar Sunday in a 2009 Chevy Avail. Then head to work. Then maybe hit a house party.

Frankly, of all thethat other Sandra Bullock, the one in the space capsule: "Every time I shop at Target, there's this cashier, real loud: 'Hey, guess who I'm waiting on!' It's embarrassing." Oak Park Sandra Bullock has not yet seen "Gravity" and does not know who she would like to work with someday but once saw John Mahoney walking down the street. Coincidentally, she also spent Oscar Sunday teaching Sunday school; Oscar night, she read a depressing novel, then went to bed.

Can you say Oscar trend!

Bradley Cooper — who dressed for Oscar Sunday in American Eagle and Nike, looking perfectly respectable in a new $15 haircut from Great Clips — did laundry, went to the gym, cleaned the house, watched a Matt Damon movie on TV, then went to bed. No


Oscar parties for Bradley Cooper: The 45-year-old engineering manager at Caterpillar lives near Peoria and has young children. Likewise, Jennifer Lawrence — the 34-year-old J-Law from Arlington Heights who telecommutes for a Chicago-area publishing house (she was the only big name I spoke with who was actually in California) — did laundry and ate a gluten-free crepe. That was pretty much her Sunday. Compared with them, Michael Fassbender was a wild man: The 44-year-old insurance-industry data proof reader from Carol Stream wore an Edgar Allan Poe T-shirt all day and played computer chess ("I'm a quiet individual"), then planned to sleep in on Monday morning.

See, for famous names, Oscar Sunday is not all about doing laundry and buying batteries at Target.

Julia Roberts — who told me her stylewas "modern, with vintage" and said she liked "12 Years a Slave" but loved "Wolf of Wall Street" — even created a stir: The 63-year-old retired Chicago school principal was having brunch when a restaurant manager, alerted by his hostess, came over to acknowledge that "Julia Roberts is in the house!" She sighed as she told me this: For decades, she hasn't been able to make restaurant reservations without someone cracking a joke. Also, Julia Roberts just had foot surgery and was planning to watch the Oscars alone.

But David J. Russell, 61, of Peoria, bought two bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches at Hardee's ("sinful, but it's all about the value"), went to brunch with a handful of friends, hit the sauna with his girlfriend, then settled in to


watch the Oscars, which did not award "American Hustle" director David O. Russell with a single Academy Award. "My girlfriend's 22," he offered. To which I asked: "Really?" To which David J. Russell, who once acted in a high-school production of "Our Town" but now works in home remodeling and has seven salesman-of-the-year awards that he keeps on top of a file cabinet in his office, replied: "No."

As for Kate Blanchette: I called her Monday morning to congratulate her on her near-doppelganger's win for best actress. She sounded very groggy, though she politely said: "Thanks. There was a lot of competition."

Stars showed an independent streak at the Academy Awards this year. Though the forecast called for a "Frozen" palette of frost-and blush-colored gowns, many leading ladies diverged fromBeacon of repression

Flashing lights on VIP cars are a symbol
of a false sense of superiority

The prime minister has decided to put an end to the use of red beacons atop cars. It was an issue that was agitating a large number of public-spirited persons. Harish Salve, a leading lawyer, had filed a public interes litigation seeking a ban on their use. The red beacon had begun to symptomise the unpleasant face of the ‘Raj’. It was no less than the imperial British administration creating a divide between them and the lesser mortal – the ‘Indian’.

It had become the proverbial red rag to the bull. The sight of a red beacon vehicle created a feeling of revulsion among the public. A vehicle speeding down congested roads in metropolitan cities


US deploys troops to Chad in search of abducted Nigerian girls

The US has deployed about 80 troops to Chad in hunt for more than two hundred schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in neighboring Nigeria, US President Barack Obama has said.

"Approximately 80 US Armed Forces personnel have been deployed to Chad as part of the US efforts to locate and support the safe return of over 200 schoolgirls who are reported to have been kidnapped in Nigeria," Obama said in a letter to Congressional leadership.

These personnel, Obama said, will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area.

The force will remain in Chad until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer required, heIt started as some getle ribbing about who would have the better-selling autobiography by the weekend.

But a Twitter exchange between Lord Alan Sugar and Chris Evans soon descended into a bitter tit-for-tat with personal insults being traded.

In a conversation about how many copies each they had shifted so far, Lord Sugar claimed Evans had overtaken him in the book charts last weekend solely because people who'd wanted to buy his had been snowed in - and bizarrely said only people who worked in shops had bought the Radio 2 DJ's tome.

Read all about it: BBC Radio 2 and One Show host Chris Evans became embroiled in a Twitter spat with Lord Alan Sugar over sales of their autobiographies

Evans's Memoirs Of A Fruitcake sold more than Lord Sugar's What


Star Trek: Discovery finally debuted last night to mixed but hopeful reviews. The first Trek TV show in a dozen years definitely has promise. What's yet to be seen is whether that promise makes fans open their wallets.

CBS released the first two episodes of Discovery last night. While the first aired on traditional broadcast CBS, the second was tucked behind a paywall at CBS All Access, the network's streaming site/app/service for all things CBS. That's where the remaining 13 episodes of the series' first season will live, which means that, barring any creative Googling, you'll pay $6 or $10 monthly for the privilege of watching the newest version of Star Trek.

Trek often portrays a rosy picture of humanity's future. But CBS's decision to hide Discovery inside its siloThe body of Saanvi Venna, the 10-month-old girl who disappeared from the Marquis Apartments in King of Prussia on Monday following the murder of her grandmother, was found at about 4:30 a.m. Friday in a sauna room inside the apartment complex, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman said.

Raghunandan Yandamuri, 26, described by Ferman as a friend of the Venna family, has been charged in the murders of Saanvi and Satyavathi Venna. Ferman said Yandamuri told authorities that he intended to kidnap the child and hold her for $50,000 ransom. See this article's photo section to see a copy of the ransom note.

"He believed the family was of sufficient means to pay that ransom," Ferman said. As he was leaving the scene of the elder Venna's murder, Ferman said,


Yandamuri "suffocated" the baby with a handkerchief and placed her in a suitcase, later disposing of the body.

The chillingly detailed ransom note allegedly left by Yandamuri threatened that Saanvi would be "cut into pieces" and have her body parts "thrown into your apartments" if the family informed anyone of the abduction. Ferman said that Yandamuri also lived at the Marquis apartments and had known the Venna family "socially" since the summer.

Ferman said authorities believe that Yandamuri did not initially intend to kill the victims and that he had appeared as a support figure for the family in the days since the killing, going so far as to post "missing" flyers for Saanvi Venna.

Suspect said grandmother attacked him as he attempted to take baby

According to an affidavit filed byUpper Merion Detective Andrew Rathfon and Montgomery County Detective Paul Bradbury, the use of the Indian diminutives "shiva" and "lata" in the ransom note helped lead authorities to believe that the note's author was someone familiar with the family. Authorities first interviewed Yandamuri on Thursday, the day after he attended a vigil held in support of the family. He initially denied being involved in the killings but later admitted to them, the affidavit states.


The Greening of Google

Corporate rooftops are the latest frontier in solar energy generation

By Sandra Upson

Posted 28 Sep 2007 | 18:50 GMT

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It's another brilliant day at the world headquarters of the hottest company on the planet. Some shirtless employees are playing a lunchtime game of volleyball while others stride across campus with laptops tucked under their arms. The place fairly crackles with energy, and in more ways than one.

Up here on a roof at Google's leafy and sprawling Mountain View, Calif., campus, with the shouts of the volleyball game just barely audible, sunlight glints off 9212 polysilicon solar panels stretching out toward the horizon. Amid the irregular jumble of angular roofs, a single south-facing wave stands out, a pitch and roll frozen in place against a backdrop of foothills.

Today,like most days, the panels will generate 9000 kilowatt-hours of electricity before the sun fades into a fat orange ball and disappears into the Pacific. All are connected to Mountain View's section of the electricity grid. The solar modules blanket virtually all the free roof space on the eight buildings at the center of the Googleplex [see " "]. Even part of the parking lot is covered: two rows of carports, shaped like miniature gas stations, support yet more panels. When the last building is fully connected, by the end of this year, the panels will produce 1.6 megawatts of electricity. It'll be enough to satisfy 30 percent of the buildings' peak demand or power a thousand California homes.

Google's project is the largest corporate installation of solar panels


in North America. It has grabbed headlines since Google announced it a year ago. That said, it isn't even in the worldwide top 10 of roof-mounted solar projects. A handful of factories in Germany and Japan take that honor, as well as a couple of roofs in Spain and the Netherlands. At the very least, the search giant's solar play adds one more country to the list of star performers in the world of commoditized sunshine. And it seems clear that Google's array won't be tops in North America for long.

After languishing through much of the 1990s, the market for photovoltaic installations in the United States and several other countries took off about five years ago, and it's now increasing by 40 percent annually in the United Statesalone [see sidebar, "Photovoltaic Hot Spots"]. Spain's bullish market grew 100 percent in the past year. And percentages never tell the full story, as Noah Kaye, a spokesman for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), points out. ”The German market was relatively flat in the past year, but Germany still installed more [photovoltaics] than the U.S. did,” says Kaye, on behalf of the trade and lobbying group.

California has nonetheless become the second-fastest-growing solar market in the world, and that surge, especially in the United States, is being driven mainly by activity on corporate rooftops. Travis Bradford, president of the nonprofit Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, in Cambridge, Mass., calls corporate attention to solar power ”an exploding interest.” In 2006, the commercial sector accounted for 60 percent of newly


these costly corporate installations will go down in history as the first of a limited series of impulsive, feel-good publicity moves by tech start-up billionaires, or as the beginning of a longer-term movement that will help sustain the market for solar photovoltaics during the next decade and enable solar to finally become cost-competitive. One thing is certain: the movement will flourish only to the extent it is nurtured by a complex patchwork of economic and bureaucratic conditions. Of the 9509 new grid-tied solar installations in the United States in 2006, which totaled 101 MW, 70 percent of them were in California. And that's not just because it's sunny. As it turns out, California subsidizes solar in a particularly generous way.

Even without subsidies , solar panels may have foundData from the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, a nonprofit that disseminates information on rules and incentives relating to renewables, suggest that Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas are also promising markets. New Jersey, with its second-only-to-California inducements, has the second-highest installed solar capacity, with 18 MW in 2006. By comparison, Florida, the Sunshine State, installed a meager 170 kW of solar energy in 2006, the year that its solar incentives program was launched. Its limited generation capacity speaks to the paltry nature of those incentives.

That disconnect between sunshine and solar output is even more pronounced outside the United States. The global leaders in solar energy, by virtually all metrics, are Germany and Japan. Both countries have sky-high electricity prices: on average 20 cents per kilowatt-hour in both


Germany and Japan, double the average price of electricity in the United States, according to 2006 data from the International Energy Agency, in Paris. Starting in the mid-1990s, both governments began pouring money into renewable energy programs. As a result, today, in cloudy Germany, the renewable energy industry has become the country's second largest source of new jobs after the automotive sector. It employs some 200 000 people, according to Paul Runci, a senior scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland, Wash., who studies energy research and development trends.

But for corporations, the solar story depends on more factors than rates and rebates. In the United States, state-by-state rules on how to attach solar plants to the grid and how to compensate producers for electricity they export tostandard as well as another, UL 1741, as their minimum technical guidelines for equipment and safety requirements. If the political will is there, the environment should improve for photovoltaic installations. In fact, it's already happening: in June, Oregon's legislature approved a set of policies that can amount to a 50 percent tax credit for solar installations and manufacturing. And the historic materials crunch that has held the prices of panels aloft is likely to abate as new manufacturing capacity comes online starting in 2008.

Although California may be alone in the United States in swaddling itself in polysilicon panels, the leadership of the Googles and Wal-Marts of the world could cause corporate solar installations to pop up on rooftops in the rest of the country in almost no time


shots, and Rajiv Goel took orders and followed them.”

‘A good friend’

Eventually, Rajaratnam would convince Goel to provide him with nonpublic information he could profit from.

“It was this friendship that would ultimately lead Mr. Goel — an otherwise hardworking and ethical man — to violate his duties to his employer and lose nearly everything that he had worked so hard to build,” Goel’s attorney wrote in a letter to the judge.

After graduating, Goel went back and forth between India and the United States.

When he returned to the United States in 2000 to work for Intel, the dot-com bubble was reaching its peak. Rajaratnam had succeeded in the financial world — he was head of the hedge fund management firm Galleon Group and was valued at $1.5 billion in theEngineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA (S.S.).

The authors declare no competing financial interest.

Dr. Simrjit Singh received his Ph.D. in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, in 2017. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research work is mainly focused on inorganic and organic/inorganic hybrid perovskites for optoelectronic device applications, self-powered photoelectrochemical devices, and piezo-electric nanogenerators.

Dr. Mohd Faraz received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 2016. He is currently an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanoscale Research Facility, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His current research focuses on development of a novel piezoelectric sensor for energy harvesting, synthesis of 2D materials, and its novel uses in photocatalysis, superhydrophobicity, and thermoelectricity.

Dr. Neeraj Khare


| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama .....
2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell

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Drill down on voice over internet search:

Topic: How to start and operate a successful call center in Pakistan. Note by the author Suzanne Lombard: This is an excerpt of the tiny 26 page book written and published by me in 2002 with the goal to inspire people and...

I read once where someone made fun of a member of the Asterisk-Biz list for making a statement with the phrase "VoIP providers like Shortel" as if Shoretel was synonymoustwisted narrative. Secondly, post 1947, scholars who could have approached this subject and bring out the facts were, for reasons best known to them, not drawn to it. Perhaps they chose to remain politically correct by taking up less controversial subjects.

KL:You have read Kalhana. Who was this writer who dominated whole of history for such a long time? What were his sources of information?

KBA: Kalhana was a twentieth century local Sanskrit versifier. Not much is known about him as he has left behind no account of his life. From whatever little information one gathers from his own work, it appears that he was son of Champak, a minister of the eleventh century ruler, Harsha, in-charge of border areas. Kalhana was a great poet whose power as a versifier


Kalhana are constrained to regard his work as authentic narration only for his own period and a couple of centuries before that. So far as the medieval period is concerned we find a definite bias against Muslim rulers in the narratives of Jonaraja and Srivara, barring Zainul Aabideen who patronized both.

KL: There is a long chapter in your book about a Shahmiri king Sikander who was known to history for idol-breaking. Why was this particular king demonized in comparison to his predecessors and successors? What is the reality about the Bout Shikan?

KBA: In the Pandit Narrative, Sikandar is the most maligned of all Muslim rulers. He is portrayed as a vicious iconoclast who demolished temples “day and night” as if he had no other State business to attendto. There is no extant or non-extant temple whose desecration or demolition is not placed at his door. Worse, he is accused of destroying temples which were levelled either centuries before he was born or did not exist at all. One of the reasons why Sikandar was demonised the most could be the fact that he was the first and the only Muslim ruler who tried to introduce Shariah in administration. However, his detractors completely ignore many other factors that absolve him of his supposed crimes against the minority community. The discovery of an image of Brahma from a Srinagar temple bearing an inscription in Sharda script attributing its installation to Sikandar belies the accusation against him of being the worst idol-breaker. Also, massive earthquakes suffered by Kashmir


throughout its history have now been scientifically established as the real culprit for destruction of huge stone buildings like temples. Sikandar, it may be recalled had married a Hindu woman, who converted to Islam, his senior most minister was Rai Magre, a Hindu, and his army chief, Achaladeva Achala, also was a Hindu,.

KL:The distortions have remained a historical reality in Kashmir. But what were the major narratives that were built around Afghans, Sikhs and Dogras, which as a historian, you think were fake and fabricated?

KBA: I consider myself a student of Kashmir history rather than a historian. Having said that, the Pandit Narrative describes the Afghan rule as the worst period of oppression and persecution. However, from the community sources itself, we come across huge evidence that donot go along with this assertion. We observe Kashmiri Pandits during this period holding high positions in the administration and in the words of a twentieth century prominent Pandit writer, Jialal Kilam, being a happier lot compared to Muslims and the “political power generally and largely centered in their hands”. So far as Sikh and Dogra periods are concerned, the rulers obviously could not be accused of persecution of Kashmir Pandits. Here, the blame was shifted to their subjects in the majority community who were accused of religious persecution and eating out the employment sources of the Pandits. This was the period when Brahman historians and writers had made a comeback. While these worthies added many a tale to their community narrative they remained blind to the worst


US deficit spending are the Fed, China and just as insolvent Japan?

From Reuters:

Speaking to reporters, Kerry inveighed against what he sees as a tendency within the United States to retreat from the world even as he defended the Obama administration's diplomatic efforts from Syria to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In comments tied to the budget that U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to present on Tuesday, Kerry suggested that tighter spending, in part at the behest of congressional Republicans, may limit U.S. clout around the world. "There's a new isolationism," Kerry said during a nearly one-hour discussion with a small group of reporters. "We are beginning to behave like a poor nation," he added, saying some Americans do not perceive the connection between U.S. engagement abroad and the U.S.we want. It's not a budget that does what we need," he said, saying the budget deal entailed cuts demanded by the Republican-led House of Representatives. "It was the best the president could get. It's not what he wanted."

But hold on: wasn't it Kerry's own party that has been urging the defunding of the US defense budget at the expense of overfunding welfare and benefits? The people are confused.

Next, Kerry deflects his own personal failings as SecState, having had to be pulled from his yacht last summer, just as the Syrian conflict was reaching its climax:

In speaking of what he called the "new isolationism," Kerry cited the limited support in the U.S. Congress to back Obama's plan to launch an air strike against Syria last year because of


its suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. Obama, in a decision criticized by some U.S. allies in the Gulf and elsewhere, asked Congress to vote on a strike. With limited congressional backing, he ultimately abandoned a strike and pursued a deal to get Syria to give up its chemical weapons. "Look at our budget. Look at our efforts to get the president's military force decision on Syria backed up on (Capitol Hill). Look at the House of Representatives with respect to the military and the budget," Kerry said. "All of those things diminish our ability to do things," he added.

Those... and the people who are in charge. Hence: defensive mode - activate:

Kerry took particular aim at critics of his efforts to get the Syrian government and theopposition that has sought to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for nearly a year to reach a peace agreement that would entail Assad's departure. A second round of peace talks in Geneva broke up on Saturday, with chief mediator Lakhdar Brahimi lamenting a failure to achieve much beyond agreement on an agenda for a third round. "These people who say that it's failed or that it's a waste of time ... Where is their sense of history?" Kerry said. "How many years did the Vietnam talks take? How many years did Dayton take in Bosnia-Herzegovina?" he added. "These things don't happen in one month. I mean it's just asinine, frankly, to be making an argument that after three weeks it's failed."

What is most ironic about all of the


Coptic Catholics move into new home at the CPC

The Mother of Divine Mercy Coptic Catholic Community celebrated its first Mass in its newly renovated space at the Catholic Pastoral Center on Sunday, June 5. The community, led by Father Elia Francis Gawarge who arrived from Egypt 3 months ago, will celebrate Mass at the Catholic Pastoral Center at 9:30 a.m. every Sunday. Father Elia, above, prepares the altar for Mass. Photos by Andy Telli

The Coptic Catholic community in Nashville has a new home at the Catholic Pastoral Center.

A room at the Pastoral Center has been renovated into a new chapel that is now being used by the Mother of the Divine Mercy Coptic Catholic Community.

“It’s amazing for us,” Father Elia Francis Gawarge, the Mother of Divine Mercy chaplain,said of his community’s new home. He is hopeful the move to the Pastoral Center from the community’s previous home at St. Patrick Church in Nashville will help the community grow.

The church has 30 families, all of whom are from Egypt, the home of the Coptic Catholic Church. The community is appreciative of Bishop David Choby for allowing them to move to the Pastoral Center, Father Elia said. “Bishop Choby supports us because he believes in our Coptic Rite and thinks it’s an important part of the Catholic Church.”

Father Elia gives Communion to Filopater Hanna. In the Coptic Rite, young children, even infants, receive Communion.

The Coptic Catholic Church is one of the more than 20 Eastern Rite churches in union with the Roman Catholic Church. Its roots stretch


back to the earliest days of Christianity when the Church in the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria was one of the most important centers of the Early Church.

The Mother of Divine Mercy celebrated its first Mass in the Pastoral Center chapel on Sunday, June 5. The community will have Mass there at 9:30 a.m. Sundays, followed by religious education classes for the children.

The Burmese Catholic Community is also expected to start using the chapel, which can seat about 80 people and includes a confessional and storage space.

Father Elia is the new chaplain of Mother of the Divine Mercy. He arrived from Egypt in March and is living at St. Joseph Church in Madison.

“I’m happy to be here in America,” said Father Elia, who was ordained in 2007 andQuetzaltepec

Quetzaltepec can refer to:

San Miguel Quetzaltepec, Oaxaca
San Salvador (volcano) (Quetzaltepec is the native name for the volcano.)
Quezaltepeque, Chiquimula, in Guatemala


For an unknown reason, NFL history has robbed the Redskins dynasty of the 1980s and early 90s of the recognition it deserves. But the real question is, why?

NFL fans remember the Packers championship teams of the 60s, the Steelers of the 70s, the 49ers of the 80s, the Cowboys of the 90s, and the Patriots of the present day. But no one remembers the Joe Gibbs-led Redskins.

From 1982 to 1991, the Redskins appeared in four Super Bowls and won three of those games, and in each game, they won with a different starting quarterback and a different starting running back.

Not content with one of the most successful coaching careers in NFL history, Gibbs created his Joe Gibbs Racing NASCAR team in 1992. The team has won three SprintScholz Garten

Scholz Garten (also known as Scholz Beer Garden) is a beer garden and restaurant in downtown Austin, Texas and the oldest operating business in Texas.

Established by German immigrant August Scholz in 1866 after the American Civil War, Scholz Garten became a hub for German immigrants and their culture in the capital city. It was purchased by The Saengerrunde Club in 1914, who still owns it today. It remains a popular gathering spot for both political discussion and University of Texas sports events.

Scholz Garten was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1967, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.  The business lease was purchased in 1986 by Eddie Wilson (founder of the Armadillo World Headquarters and Threadgill's), Phil Vitek, and Michael Osborne


his conviction, that he was denied a fair trial by judicial and prosecutorial misconduct, that evidence and testimony at trial were improperly admitted, and that the district court erred in imposing consecutive sentences.  We affirm.

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In October 1983, the IRS selected for investigation Gold Depository and Loan Company, Inc.  (GDL) for allegedly promoting and selling an abusive tax shelter.  GDL was one of the Co-op Banking Group Companies, sharing offices on Union Street in San Francisco.  The Companies' promotional materials listed Aleksandrs Laurins, a former IRS attorney, tax planner, and real estate developer, as managing director.  The tax shelter under investigation was GDL's "Dry Cargo Marine Container Purchase Program," under which a typical investor might buy $100,000 worth of marine cargo containers with $4,000down.  GDL would arrange for financing of the unpaid balance.  GDL advised the investor that he or she could then take an investment tax credit of 10% or $10,000, as well as a depreciation deduction of $15,000, on his or her tax return in the year of investment.

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The IRS sent a letter to GDL in November 1983 informing it of the investigation and requesting certain documents.  Attorney Bart Lee, whom Laurins had hired in January 1982 to represent both GDL and himself, requested more time to respond.  No records were ever produced.  On January 5, 1984, an IRS summons was served on GDL, requiring the production for inspection and copying of all books and records for 1982 and 1983 related to the investment


scheme.  Lee informed the IRS that GDL was no longer doing business in San Francisco and that its only office was in Maryland, and took the position that the summons therefore was not properly served.  GDL allegedly did business in San Francisco until December 31, 1983, shortly after it learned of the IRS investigation, although evidence at trial disputed that date.  Laurins also claimed at trial that GDL had been sold to another company in the Co-op Banking Group, Mortgage Guaranty Trust, although he could produce no documentation of the sale.

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GDL produced no documents.  In April or May of 1984, Union Street employees boxed company records at Laurins' request.  He then removed the boxes from the office and on several subsequent occasions producedto represent GDL before the IRS in late 1983, and met with Lee to discuss the investigation a number of times thereafter.  Bank records examined by the IRS showed that Laurins signed $4,200,000 in GDL checks from San Francisco checking accounts in January through April of 1984, and Laurins remained the only person able to sign checks on GDL accounts without a cosignor.  In the fall, after the order enforcing the summons issued in July 1984, Laurins sent a Union Street employee to the corporate offices of the Co-op Investment Bank in St. Vincent, British West Indies, to create "records" of lease income from the containers, and provided him with a suitcase full of GDL documents.

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Even if there were no evidence of Laurins' continuing control of


not in existence when the summons was issued, and that the remainder was the property not of GDL but of Co-op Investment Bank as trustee for the Mortgage Guaranty Trust.  A former employee of one of the companies at Union Street testified, however, that GEX 70 contained GDL investor files that he had prepared beginning in January of 1984, and that in April or May of 1984 Laurins ordered him to box up the files and later removed them from the office.  Laurins explained that he had stored the cargo container records in his home, and that in January 1984 he brought those records into the office so that employees could prepare client statements for 1983.  Those records were part of GEX 70.  Hecharacterized the bulk of the documents as records of the Co-op Investment Bank, supporting loans made for the cargo container program.

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Co-op Investment Bank, in which Laurins had an ownership interest, was another of the Co-op Banking Group companies, and according to Laurins financed the purchase of the containers.  GDL's records of purchase and loans nevertheless would qualify as GDL records under the summons, which called for the production of all evidence of indebtedness including collateral agreements between GDL "or any related company" and the investors.  Viewing this evidence in the light most favorable to the government, a rational jury could conclude that the files in Laurins' possession contained a substantial amount of material covered by the summons.  That some of the files belonged to other


the disk contained exculpatory evidence.  He claims the computer records would have shown the sale of GDL before the issuance of the summons.  The evidence at trial was to the contrary.  No contract or bill of sale was produced, and GDL's former controller testified that she never had been informed of GDL's sale.  In view of the evidence of Laurins' continuing control over GDL, its purported sale to another of the Co-op Banking Group Companies, of which Laurins was managing director, was not a central issue.  Laurins has failed to meet his obligation to demonstrate prejudice.

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Laurins also points to remarks made by the prosecutor as injecting his personal beliefs at trial and in closing argument.  A prosecutor may not express his personal1396 (9th Cir.1986).

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Giving the appropriate deference to the issuing magistrate, we find that probable cause existed.  The warrant was based in part on information from three Union Street employees of the Laurins companies, all of whom indicated that Laurins frequently would take work and records home.  One employee also related that Laurins ordered file cabinets for his home, and that in phone conversations with Laurins while he was at home it was clear that GDL records were at the Clay Street address.  An anonymous informant, "Phil Harris," further told the IRS that Laurins kept most of his records at home.  "Harris" knew about Laurins' businesses, and some of the events in Laurins' office.

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The statements by the anonymous "Phil Harris" about Laurins' business activities, problems


to discuss the IRS investigation.  He contends that these notes were outside the exception to the privilege and involved "legitimate defense planning by an attorney for consultation by a client concerned about alleged past wrongdoing."    At that December meeting, Laurins told Lee that GDL had ceased to operate and that its records had been, or would be, sent to London.  The notes thus were covered by the exception, as they related to Laurins' attempt to obstruct justice by concealing the whereabouts of GDL records.

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Laurins next objects to the government's use of evidence that GDL had not purchased the cargo containers that were the subject of the tax shelter.  He claims the evidence was notThe man who brought Tupac back to life on the big screen talks about the impact portraying the legendary rapper had on his career, in addition to his role in RZA's new movie "Cut Throat City."


Polyclinics, a public primary care institution, and a Family Medicine training centre certified by the Accreditation Council of General Medical Education.^[@R9]^ The study was conducted at the site from August 2014 to March 2015.

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The study population comprised of multiethnic Asian citizens or permanent residents, with clinical diagnosis of hypertension based on disease coding by the International Classification of Diseases (version 10 or ICD-10) and were managed at the designated polyclinic. Their diagnosis was confirmed with reference to their electronic health records at the study site. They included patients aged 40 years and above, of Chinese, Malay, Indian, and other ethnic origin and proficient in English. They reported willingness to access the internet via any form of devices to administer the web-based questionnaire twice on 2 separate occasionsNanny sparked firestorm that engulfed OSU coach

BY JAMES DREWBLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF

COLUMBUS - A 47-year-old nanny who has sent shock waves through one of Ohio's most powerful institutions - the Ohio State University athletic department - said it all began fairly innocuously, with a simple telephone call.

On the other end of the line, Kathleen Salyers contends, was Dan Roslovic, a Columbus-area businessman whom she knew after working for him and his wife, Kim, as a housekeeper and nanny.

Mr. Roslovic was calling, according to Mrs. Salyers, to ask her to house and care for an Ohio State basketball recruit, Slobodan "Boban" Savovic.

That phone call set in motion a series of charges and countercharges, lawsuits and countersuits, that led to the downfall of OSU basketball coach Jim O'Brien.

How could this


coach as well.

Mr. Savovic had arrived in Columbus from Newark, N.J. He came to the United States from Yugoslavia in 1997 to play basketball at a Newark high school.

Paul Biancardi, an OSU assistant coach, recruited Mr. Savovic, who accepted a scholarship to play for the Buckeyes.

Mrs. Salyers said Mr. Roslovic told her he was calling from Mr. Biancardi's office.

Mr. Roslovic told Mrs. Salyers that "his company's relationship with OSU as an athletic booster" prevented him from allowing players to live with his family, Mrs. Salyers' attorney wrote.

"He said that he had given money to the Ohio State athletic department in the past, he and/or Kim. And therefore it was a violation for [Mr. Savovic] to stay with them. [Mr. Savovic] had to leave and asked if I wouldtake him. He offered me a thousand dollars a month plus expenses," Mrs. Salyers said in her deposition.

Mrs. Salyers said she agreed, and Mr. Savovic, in July or August of 1998, moved into her house in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna.

Mrs. Salyers said Mr. Biancardi told her that if anyone asked why Mr. Savovic was living in her home, she should say Mr. Savovic had become friends with her son, Robert Huston, while playing basketball.

A few weeks after Mr. Savovic moved in, Mrs. Salyers said she began to give him money.

She said she gave him $200 a week from 1998 to 2000 and then $150 a week from 2000 to 2001, at the request of Ms. Roslovic, who was divorced from her husband in August, 2000.

"My understanding through


to be for his basketball career at Ohio State?"

"His spending money, yes," replied Mrs. Salyers.

Mrs. Salyers' attorney, Jeff Lucas, said she had the money because she remortgaged her home and tapped "multiple sources."

In August, 2003, Mrs. Salyers sued Dan and Kim Roslovic, accusing them of reneging on a verbal agreement to pay her $1,000 a month plus expenses to take care of Mr. Savovic. She says she never received any money from the Roslovics.

Allegations in that lawsuit led to OSU's decision to fire Mr. O'Brien and have raised questions about Mr. Biancardi's future. In April, 2003, he became head coach of the men's basketball team at Wright State University near Dayton.

Mrs. Salyer's 801-page deposition has led to an NCAA probe that could end in sanctions, including probation forOSU's men basketball team, forfeiture of victories from 1998 to 2002, and a ban on postseason play.

Mr. Roslovic said he had no relationship with Mr. Biancardi in 1998 and 1999.

"He never spoke to nor met former assistant coach Paul Biancardi until the fall of 1998 - well after the events involving Boban Savovic's living arrangements - and he never made the phone call that Mrs. Salyers alleges was made at the end of July, 1998," wrote Mr. Roslovic's attorney, Kris Dawley.

OSU telephone records show that four calls were placed to Mrs. Salyers' residence from a cell phone labeled "basketball assistant" - one on July 26, 1998, and three on July 28, 1998.

Mr. Biancardi has declined requests for interviews. He denied any wrongdoing in a statement.

Mr. Roslovic said Mrs.


give it to Mr. Radojevic's mother. Mr. Zeszutek said Mr. O'Brien considered the payment a loan.

He said the money was given after Mr. Radojevic signed a letter of intent to play at OSU but that his mother may not have received it until after he was declared ineligible to play at OSU.

"How could it be a violation?" Mr. Zeszutek said.

The NCAA declared Mr. Radojevic ineligible because he had received money for playing overseas. He entered the NBA draft in 1999 and played for three teams before injuries ended his career.

Mr. Geiger said Mr. O'Brien acknowledged the payment to Mr. Radojevic was an NCAA violation, and OSU disclosed it to the NCAA on May 18. Mr. Geiger said Mr. O'Brien told him about the payment on April 24.

"Whether ornot a student has signed a letter of intent is immaterial, they're still a prospective student-athlete, and that's Compliance 101," Mr. Geiger said.

Mrs. Salyers also said she saw a New York-based sports agent, Marc Cornstein, and his associate, Spomenko Pajovic, leave the OSU locker room several times when Mr. Savovic played for the Buckeyes from 1998 to 2002.

NCAA rules prohibit agents from contacting college athletes.

She said Mr. Pajovic asked her to give his phone number to Scoonie Penn, Michael Redd, and Ken Johnson - key players in lifting OSU to the NCAA Final Four in 1999. She said she gave it to someone in Mr. Penn's family and a woman who knew Mr. Johnson.

Mrs. Salyers also said in her deposition that Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Biancardi were aware


that Mr. Savovic had run up about $10,000 on a calling card that belonged to Mr. Cornstein's father.

Mr. Cornstein didn't return messages seeking comment. He released a written statement saying he "acted appropriately at all times." Mr. Pajovic could not be reached for comment.

Mr. Cornstein is president of Pinnacle Management, and Mr. Pajovic is vice president. Their clients include Mr. Savovic - who most recently played in a French basketball league - and two other former OSU players, Cobe Ocokoljic, who transferred from OSU after two years, and Velimir Radinovic, who completed his eligibility last season.

Mrs. Salyers also said she and Ms. Roslovic wrote papers for Mr. Savovic, and Mrs. Salyers convinced two professors to change Mr. Savovic's grades so he could remain eligible to play.

Mrs. Salyers saidHumans have roughly as many bacterial cells in their bodies as human cells, and most of those bacteria live in the gut. New research released today reveals links between the gut microbiome -- the population of microorganisms living in the gastrointestinal tract -- and brain diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, including potential new ways to track and treat these diseases. The studies were presented at Neuroscience 2017, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

Almost 100 trillion microbes -- some beneficial and some harmful -- live in the human gastrointestinal tract at any time, helping to regulate immune function and inflammation, two factors hypothesized to play a role in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and


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On March 7th, 2002, the uncensored Japanese version of Cybernator was completely translated by Aeon Genesis.

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The Japanese release, Assault Suits Valken, features anime-style avatars of a character whenever his or her speech was displayed across the screen, an element that was omitted from the U.S. release. It also has a story sequence depicting an enemy character's suicide that was later deemed unsuitable for American audiences.An IT worker who downed two bottles of whiskey before mugging two men of their mobile phones walked free after a judge accepted he was in 'real fear of prison'.

Chris Kolajo, 19, spotted Stephen Dyke using his Microsoft Lumia 650 as he parked his motorbike on his way to work shortly after 6am back on August 2.

Mr Dyke became aware of a group of males watching him close to the Vanilla Club in Soho, central London, and quickly put the device away.

Chris Kolajo, 19, (pictured) spotted Stephen Dyke using his Microsoft Lumia 650 as he parked his motorbike on his way to work shortly after 6am back on August 2

But three of the group approached, with Kolajo warning: 'I don't want to hurt you but you need to


give me something - I've got a blade.'

The victim claimed Kolajo kept his hand inside the pocket of his zipped-up tracksuit as he demanded the phone, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Fearing what might happen if he failed to oblige, Mr Dyke handed over the device which was eventually recovered from Kolajo when he was arrested a short while later.

A second man, Leon Garcia, reported spotting a group of about five males with whom he had shared a bit of banter with earlier that same morning.

Kolajo, of Lytchet Way, Enfield, Middlesex, was handed a 12-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to pay £500 costs in addition to a £140 surcharge

But when they crossed paths at around the same time as Mr Dyke's mugging, he claimed the group appearedmore aggressive.

Again, Kolajo was the one to approach, telling Mr Garcia: 'Come on, you know you have to do this because I have got a blade.'

Believing the threat to ring true, he surrendered his Samsung mobile before picking himself up off the floor following a shove from one of the other men and scurrying away.

Kolajo subsequently pleaded guilty to both robberies last month.

The court heard the ashamed and remorseful teenager had necked two bottles of Jack Daniel's in the hours leading up to the muggings while probation officers reported he may have been acting up in front of his cronies, none of whom were identified.

'These are very serious offences,' said Judge Michael Grieve QC.

'You played the leading role in two street robberies, pretending to have a knife.

'Whether or


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When he joined the NA LCS, Impact was immediately thrust into a supporting role — as the top laner for Team Impulse, he was paired with Lee “Rush” Yoon-jae, the Huni of the jungle. Impact played the role of the supportive top laner who allowed his cartoonishly bloodthirsty jungler the freedom to play out the whims of his beautiful insanity. While Impulse didn’t reach the World Championships, they were moderately successful, and Impact was a core piece of their foundation.

Upon Team Impulse’s implosion under the weight of poor management, Impact joined NRG Esports for the 2016 spring split. It was, to put it mildly, an unsuccessful venture — with relatively passive teammates in every role and an


came to realize, there was a lot he thought we shouldn’t know.

Colby was smart and cool. He had parachuted behind enemy lines in France and Norway with the OSS (a predecessor of the CIA) during the Second World War. He had won the Silver Star, as well as commendations from France, Norway, and Britain. During the Vietnam War, he went on to become the CIA’s station chief in Saigon. And he directed the controversial Phoenix Program, which oversaw the capture and assassination of thousands of Viet Cong operatives using US and Australian special forces units.

And then, in 1973, President Nixon appointed Colby as director of the CIA, which he ran for two-and-a-half tumultuous years. They were tumultuous because members of Congress, led by former senator Frank Church, wantedto know what the CIA was up to. Colby told the truth, which is rarely a good idea in Washington. Colby got fired. And then he got whacked…

Face down: Unlike another CIA director, David Petraeus, who leaked national secrets to his girlfriend so she could produce a zippy tell-all book, Colby kept his word and his secrets. But he was helping us understand something more interesting than secrets. He was helping us to see how the Deep State worked.

Unfortunately, he didn’t get very far. We were only a few months into our collaboration when his body was discovered, face down, not far from where his canoe had washed up. The locals thought that was strange, too. They had thoroughly checked all up and down the shore…and dragged the


joined the effort. So far, only eight have joined.

But the elections last month swept 33 Republican governors into office across the nation, and Abbott said that's a hopeful sign for the movement to amend the Constitution. He also pointed to the election of Donald Trump, who has said he supports congressional term limits that convention supporters want.

Lawmakers in Texas tried in 2015 to pass a measure calling for a convention of states. The bill passed in the House, but failed in the Senate.

Miller said he was optimistic the 2017 session would end better.

"We know many states are lined up behind us, just waiting to see what Texas is going to do," he said. "We must lead the way."

A convention is one of two ways that the U.S. ConstitutionNew evidence has emerged suggesting the monster floods that devastated Grantham four years ago was a man-made disaster that could have been avoided, 60 minutes reports.

Helicopter flight logs from the Nine News chopper add to a growing inventory of evidence that locals say was ignored by the commission set up to investigate the causes of the 2011 Queensland floods.

Grantham, in the Lockyer Valley, was described as a "war scene" and "completely and utterly devastated" by the January 10 flood that killed 12 people in the town of 300 residents.

Relying heavily on the expert evidence of hydrologists, the commission's final report concluded that the Grantham quarry wall might have lessened the impact of the floods.


not been defeated, winning the Hennessy Gold Cup, Lexus Chase and Aon Chase. Kauto Star was sent off 10/11 favourite to retain his crown with Denman starting at 9/4. Denman took up the race to lead with a circuit to go and won by 7 lengths with Kauto Star finishing second, just holding off stablemate Neptune Collonges. Kauto Star narrowly lost his last race of the season to Ryanair winner Our Vic in the Totesport Bowl at Aintree. However, this second-place finish ensured he won the 2008 Order of Merit title, becoming the first and only horse to win this two seasons in succession. Kauto Star's owner, Clive Smith, put the defeat down to the horse's busy season and also the short time since the Cheltenham Gold Cup.for the first time. Paul Nicholls announced that Kauto Star would be trained for the Gold Cup as originally planned.

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The Cheltenham Gold Cup marked the first time Kauto Star had not started favourite for a race since 2005. Long Run started as the 7/2 favourite, with Imperial Commander at 4/1, Kauto Star at 5/1 and Denman at 8/1. Kauto Star and Denman led with three fences left to jump, but Long Run stayed on to go past both of them, winning by 7 lengths from Denman. Kauto Star was a further 4 lengths back in third and only just held off totesport Bowl winner What A Friend. Kauto Star then ran in the Punchestown Gold Cup in May. He started as the 10/11 favourite, but was pulled up


and danger." Antonya Nelson writes that Monroe's "characters, like her prose, have hard edges. They also have big hearts, dark humor, and purely unique ways of opening themselves up for our inspection."  Phillip Lopate writes that Monroe's storytelling has "consummate control and aphoristic wit." Her books have been included in Elle's top ten list, in Vanity Fair's hot picks, and were chosen as recommended reading by O, Oprah Winfrey's magazine.  Monroe has garnered praise from several other publications including the Houston Chronicle, Salon, People Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and others. Her essays have been cited in Houghton Mifflin's anthology The Best American Essays in 2012, 2013, and 2015.

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 1990 Flannery O'Connor Awardwell, staleness last season. You're expecting Gasol to have as good a year as last season when his production was a pleasant surprise. I love Pau, but he's 35 and that was the most minutes he's played since his last great season in 2011. You're also expecting Noah to recover from whatever ailed him last year. Tom Thibodeau is gone, but all those minutes are still worn by his players. (Mike Dunleavy's back injury does not help matters at all.)

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2014-15 record: 50-32 (+3.3 net rating)

Best addition: Fred Hoiberg, who was hired out of Iowa State.

Biggest loss: Tom Thibodeau, who was fired despite leading the Bulls to the playoffs in five straight seasons.

Projected starters: Derrick Rose | Jimmy Butler |

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I just bought a 2003 ford focus SVT. So that makes me one of the new guys around here. I always wanted one but I never had a good opportunity to purchase one. I was out shopping for cars in ofallon il, and i wasn't really feeling any of the cars ive looked at. Terrance,the salesman, tells me he has a really nice mini cooper werks but he has to go find it at another lot, so he takes off to find the car and he was gone for a good 20 minutes. Im looking up the reliability ratings on the mini cooper and its not looking good. They were getting ready to close up for the weekend so I was thinking about heading out, and then, heResearch carried out at Victoria University of Wellington shows that exposure to some commonly used pesticides makes an invasive ant species more aggressive and more likely to survive conflict with a native ant species.

At the same time, the native species becomes less aggressive after being exposed to the pesticide.

Led by PhD student Rafael Barbieri, Professor Phil Lester and Associate Professor Ken Ryan from Victoria University's School of Biological Science, the research is the first in the world to demonstrate the impact that neonicotinoid pesticides can have on dynamics in insect communities and invasion success.

Neonicotinoids are the world's most widely deployed insecticides and have been associated with the decline of honey bees and other pollinators. The chemical is often soaked into seeds and spreads throughout the plant as it