candidate for election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. He was an attorney in the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor at Seattle, Washington in 1939 and 1940, and was attorney general of Idaho from 1940 to 1944, during which time he was an advocate for Japanese-American internment camps. He was elected a justice of the state's supreme court in 1944.

Miller was elected to the United States Senate in 1948, defeating Republican incumbent Henry Dworshak, but died of a heart attack after only nine months in office. Governor C. A. Robins appointed Dworshak to succeed him. As of 2019, Miller remains the last Democrat to hold the Class II U.S. Senate seat from Idaho.

Miller is buried in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise.

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See alsoMitt Romney ignited controversy in his native Michigan Friday with an off-the-cuff comment he says was intended as a joke, but that the Obama administration is calling a direct invocation of a highly charged issue. NBC News' Peter Alexander reports.

POWELL, Ohio-- With less than 48 hours to go before the opening of the Republican nominating convention in Tampa, Mitt Romney's mind was on President Obama's speech four years ago as he addressed a rally Saturday in a swing county in Ohio. Romney called then Senator Obama's speech "brilliant," but assailed the president for failing to match results to his rhetoric. He predicted more of the same at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., next week.

"He will have all sorts of promises to offer again. He'll tell you how


this country are more likely to start businesses than men. Women need our help."

Political analysts Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Karen Finney, former communications director for the Democratic National Committee, discuss the impending Republican National Convention, the storm, the "birther" comments and the Romney campaign's effort to stay on message to win the nomination.

But beyond reaching out to female business owners, Romney did not alter his message to women specifically, nor did his running mate Paul Ryan, as they appeared side-by-side in the Buckeye state for the first time.

The role of making a more direct appeal to female voters will likely fall squarely on the shoulders of Ann Romney, long her husband's most effective surrogate with women, who will speak to millions ina prime-time address on Tuesday night at the convention. Romney campaign officials and RNC planners moved her speech yesterday from Monday to Tuesday to accommodate television network plans to only broadcast three nights of the convention and to ensure Mrs. Romney reaches the greatest audience possible.

The RNC has also packed the prime-time speaking schedule with other top women surrogates, including South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Luce Vela Fortuno, first lady of Puerto Rico, who will speak after Mrs. Romney on Tuesday.

The Obama campaign is not letting up on its outreach to female voters this election either. In addition to having several female speakers at the DNC convention next week, the "Romney/Ryan: Wrong for Women" bus tour


team in the second next match on 6 December, made his European debut against Rangers F.C. in UEFA Champions League, which also the last group stage match and Inter already qualified as the first regardless the result. Momentè replaced Materazzi in the 41st minute, at that time Inter 1–1 draw with Rangers but eventually both team failed to score again. Momentè played once more for Inter on 2 February 2006, a Cup match against Lazio, which he started the match and partnered with Adriano.

Sambenedettese & Venezia
Momentè graduated from youth team in June 2006. In August 2006, he was loaned to Serie C1 side Sambenedettese. Unlike in youth team, Momentè just made 7 goalless appearances as subs, he was sold to Serie C1 side Venezia in co-ownership deal inturned 20 years old, encountering a vastly different place. Nowhere to be seen is the paradise constantly spoken by those privileged enough to promote socialism here in Canada.

I saw a country which had revolutionized to become better, but became a land of anti-demonstration, police brutality, corruption, and massive wealth inequality.

Government control and subsidies of societal needs crumble under socialism.

While living in my hometown it was not strange to experience water shortages for weeks. An entire city running on tank water, to cook, bathe, and everything in between.

Government managed garbage trucks break down due to poor maintenance and few spare parts available, government stores sell limited products. Those who look for other options turn toward black markets where competition exists.

Behind the pile of trash, lies a government run daycare.


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This is relatively new branch of the age old Shree Krishna Restaurant, Madanzampa that exists from 1956. The restaurant remains largely occupied during mornings, especially on week-ends for its local breakfast dishes. Our groups of 6 tried Sev Usal, Bhajia Usal, Chatako, Bataka Poha, Sev Khamani, Sabudana Khichdi and Jalebi. Sev Usal and Bhajia Usal …

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Place for a little more than ice-creams when you are bored with simple ones. Cream & More has options like waffles, bubbly waffles, ice-cream rolls, some knickknacks for children. We tried vanilla Oreo balls which were tiny balls of ice-cream. Almond Carnival Roll, Nutella ice-cream and Blueberry Waffle. The ice-creams are strictly average in taste. …

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A family gathering of around 15 people and an obvious and annoying question, where tooffice selected Mintz Levin because of its expertise in litigating labor and employment issues, said Stone, the office spokeswoman. She said Cruz did not have any prior relationship with the main Mintz Levin attorney who handled the case, Bret Cohen, though campaign records show that other Mintz Levin attorneys have donated about $5,000 to Cruz over the past decade.

Cruz, a Republican, was originally appointed to the office by Governor Jane Swift in November 2001 to succeed former district attorney Michael Sullivan, who became the United States attorney. He has since won several elections to keep the seat, winning 67 percent of the vote in the general election in 2010. He ran unopposed in 2014.

Cruz is expected to run for reelection in 2018, but it is not clear whether


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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Latin America's democratic
credentials go on display once again in October, with presidential and
other elections taking place in three countries – Brazil on the 5th,
Bolivia on the 12th and Uruguay on the 26th.

While no one
would seriously question the strength of democracy in Brazil and Uruguay
– despite all the institutional and governance issues, particularly in
the former – the same cannot be said about Bolivia. The country has
enjoyed relative political stability since Evo Morales became president
in 2006, and in recent years strong economic growth too, but democratic
practices have lagged behind and hisbacking
of current left-wing head of state José Mujica, is ahead in the polls.

So
does this mean the shift to the left in Latin America continues
unabated? Maybe, but increasingly less so in the manner of a few years
back when the Bolivarian Alba left-wing bloc of countries led by
Venezuela's Hugo Chávez on the one hand and liberal pro-market nations
on the other were seriously polarizing the continent. In fact,
Venezuela's influence in the region has waned, and was doing so even
before Chávez's death in March last year. With its own economy in
disarray, and oil exports falling (at least according to independent
accounts), Venezuela has become an increasingly less attractive model to
follow.

At the same time, those governments on the left of the
political spectrum that have emerged in recent years, from El Salvador
to Uruguay, are a


three official
and one underground.

New buildings spring up in different parts
of the city, constructed by the government for families who can’t afford
homes. 600,000 Families have already been placed in theirs… and the
state says one million apartments or houses are currently under
construction. The goal is to reach three million for needy families.
State supermarkets also exist, which sell national and imported products
at much lower prices than privately owned markets. There are state
stores where the latest generation laptops are sold for 9,000 bolivar (a
little over $100 on the black market). Books, in state bookstores, are
sold also for symbolic prices. The almost two million university
students don’t only receive “free” higher education, their meals are
equally subsidized by the petroleum income.

In Bolivarian
Venezuela there is no destitution, although material and moral poverty
do exist. Violence does exist,knocking his fiancée unconscious in an elevator, then dragging her out like a piece of luggage.

Within hours, the O.J. Simpson 1995 double murder case in which he was acquitted emerged on almost every news lead-in. This was not coincidental; O.J.'s name generates ratings and a platform that often divides. Most importantly, his case has encouraged more calls to domestic violence centers in general.

Despite the media's recent highlight on almost every black NFL player, there are other Ray Rices still in many games, in schools, mosques, synagogues and churches. They are co-workers in disguise. I am not minimizing his behavior. He should be punished both in the court of law and in his career.

Violence should not be broadcast to further polarize a society. Should we now keep scorecards of


as second-class citizens. Even when one is qualified, the glass ceiling still remains in place. As a society, all must move from this.

• Derrick Miller is a trained U.S. Federal law enforcement officer that has been in the criminal justice field for more than 14 years.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Borikén, a thorn in the side for the U.S.

• On April 11, 1899, the
United States exchanged ratification documents with
Spain to seal the Treaty of Paris signed the year
before • Among the countries ceded under the Treaty
was Puerto Rico, which remains a colony of the U.S.
empire today

By Lídice
Valenzuela García

Borikén, the indigenous name of the archipelago
including the main island of Puerto Rico, lives
enslaved in the 21st century by a Treaty signed in
1898 by Spain and the United States, a status
rejected in importantinternational forums, thanks
to the resistance of Puerto Rican nationalist
movements which have been fighting for decades to
achieve national sovereignty.

A map of U.S. military bases in Puerto Rico. The
U.S. took control of the
island by military force at the end of the 19th
century, taking advantage of
the decline of the Spanish Empire.

Washington refuses to relinquish sovereignty to
Puerto Rico – in foreign hands since the arrival of
Christopher Columbus in 1493 – keeping its citizens
in a kind of legal limbo. The U.S. does not
recognize Puerto Rico as a state, but neither has it
been returned to its rightful owners, given the
imperial power’s many interests on the island, among
them military. Thus the idea which best served
Washington’s purposes was to arrogantly declare the
country a Free Associated State.

On
April 11, 1899, the U.S. government and Spain
exchanged documents ratifying the


Treaty of Paris -
signed the year before in the French capital by both
nations, a stroke of luck resulting from U.S.
interference in the Cuban War of Independence. The
treaty gave U.S. authority over territories
important to the new geopolitics it had envisioned
for the Caribbean in the 20th century.

With
this sham diplomatic act, U.S authorities also
gained control of Spain’s remaining possessions in
the Caribbean and Pacific - consisting of Puerto
Rico, Cuba, Guam and the Philippines.

In
regards to Cuba, strategists at the time planned to
occupy the country and later grant independence,
which had already been won from the Spanish on the
battlefield. The supposed U.S. salvation arrived on
imperial ships and marked the history of the county.
Cuba was subjugated to Washington’s political and
economic interests, until 1959.

The
signing of the Treaty brought an end to the Cuban
War of Independence. The imperialistregime took
advantage of its entry into Cuba to broaden its
expansion after almost 100 years of appropriations
justified under different doctrines, a realization
of the so-called Manifest Destiny attributed to the
country. By 1989 the U.S. had annexed Louisiana,
Oregon, California, Texas and New Mexico, among
other territories, but its ambitions took it
further, to the Caribbean, protected by a fleet
which clearly demonstrated its military power.

A
THORN IN THE SIDE

Since the day President William McKinley signed the
Paris Treaty, Puerto Rico has been a thorn in the
side of the United States, even when the majority of
the population has voted in opposition to
independence in a number of referendums, reflecting
the country’s economic dependence and saturation of
U.S. culture over generations.

Pro-independence protest march in San
Juan, capital of Puerto Rico. The independence
movement grows stronger in the heart of the Puerto
Rican people.

Puerto Rican


nationalists have, however, been waging
an uphill battle to regain the island’s freedom, and
in order to do so, have employed different forms of
resistance, from the streets to discussions in the
United Nations about this archaic case of
colonialism in the 21st century.

The
new democratic governments of Latin America and the
Caribbean have joined forces with those who desire
Puerto Rico’s full independence. There have been
important demonstrations of solidarity with Puerto
Rico, for example, the UN Decolonization Committee’s
vote in favor of Puerto Rican sovereignty and
support received in other international forums, such
as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean
States (CELAC), the most significant unifying,
integrationist force currently existing in the
region.

Last
year, The UN Decolonization Committee reevaluated
Puerto Rico’s status, on the request of Cuba -
historically and geographically linked to Puerto
Rico - with the support of other Latin American
nations, in aCELAC Summit, held in Havana, gave
support to the efforts of Puerto Rican patriots.
Representatives of Puerto Rican political movements
favoring national sovereignty traveled to Havana as
invited guests to participate in the great event’s
ancillary activities.

“We
reiterate the Latin American and Caribbean character
of Puerto Rico, and taking note of the resolutions
regarding Puerto Rico adopted by the United Nations
Special Decolonization Committee, we reiterate that
this is an issue of importance to CELAC,” indicated
the Final Declaration of the Summit, approved by 29
heads of state and government convened in Havana.

The fight for Puerto Rican independence is long and
difficult. The U.S. is a powerful enemy who will not
give up this Caribbean jewel, which it governs from
afar, but nor can it evade the desire of a good part
of the four million people who live on the island,
demonstrating in protests,


places on its relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.

During his visit, President Xi attended a China-Latin America and the Caribbean Summit and delivered a keynote speech titled Striving to build a hand-in-hand community of common destiny. His address announced China's proposals and measures for promoting China-Latin America cooperation. It proposed to build a Five-in-One new pattern of China-Latin America and the Caribbean relations: sincerely trust each other in politics; cooperate with each other for a win-win outcome in terms of economy and trade; learn from each other in people-to-people and cultural exchanges; closely cooperate with each other in international affairs; and promote each other in overall cooperation and bilateral relations, so as to forge a hand-in-hand community of common destiny.

China firmly believes that the world tide flowsswap in bilateral trade.

State-to-state relations thrive when there is friendship between the peoples. And such friendship grows out of close interactions between the peoples.

Over the next five years, China will provide Latin American and Caribbean countries with 6,000 government scholarships, 6,000 training opportunities in China and 400 positions of in-house studying for master’s degrees.

China will also invite 1,000 political party leaders from Latin American and Caribbean countries to visit China and launch the Future Bridge training program for 1,000 Chinese and Latin American youth leaders in 2015. China proposes to set the year 2016 as China-Latin America Cultural Exchange Year.

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1997,

China-Bahamas bilateral relations have remained on a track of steady development, with deepening cooperation in all fields. Chinese President Xi Jinping and


Prime Minister Perry Christie reached an important consensus on furthering our ties during the meeting in Trinidad and Tobago last year. A mutual visa exemption agreement in effect since this February has vastly facilitated exchange between our two peoples. In early May, a Chinese medical team visited The Bahamas and performed free cataract surgeries on 101 Bahamian patients, whose sight was improved or recovered.

This year, three-dozen Bahamian officials have been invited to China for short-term training programs sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. Nine excellent Bahamian students were granted Chinese government scholarships to study in China in the coming years.

There is an old saying in China, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. What our bilateral relations have achieved up to today isand in
society. Religious and secular people, gay or straight, influence state
decisions as members of political parties, government agencies, business
enterprises and media corporations and as individual citizens. Efforts
to remove church or homosexual influence from the Caribbean
state/society are virtually impractical at the corporate level and the
individual level. Therefore, one cannot legitimately talk of freedom and
at the same time seek to totally erode dialogue, rivalry of influence,
and jostling for legal advantage between the church and the homosexual
community on the question of the right to sexual satisfaction in the
Caribbean.

In a society with a multiplicity of sexual orientations, sexual laws
cannot forbid any behavioural expression of sexual orientation and be
non-discriminatory at the same time. However, Caribbean diverse society
must draw the line somewhere, even when the line may only be drawn in
the sand of social


shifts and turns. Again, should homosexuals influence
Caribbean society on the right to sex more than the Caribbean church?

Sunday, September 7, 2014

At a time when the world is experiencing an energy crisis, the process
of rising heat from the earth as a stimulant to economic growth becomes
very beneficial to many Caribbean nations. However, while many
contemplate that geothermal energy is an ambitious opportunity to
utilize wealth and recognition among member states and international
markets, the financial challenges associated with it are many and
varied, and now beckons the need for international ‘tenders’ to promote
the sound development of the project.

Whereas detractors continue to charge that the harnessing of geothermal
energy in the Caribbean could have a negative impact on the carbon
footprint through deforestation, the release of hydrogen sulfide and the
disposal of toxic geothermal fluids into theswampy
areas along the coastline and in the interior.

These ecosystems are known for their
fragility and vulnerability, although they provide
ecological and economic benefits, among them habitat
protection and the reduction of costal erosion.

They also play a vital part in the
capture of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,
purification of effluents, limiting the impact of
extreme weather on infrastructure and supplying
water for consumption and economic activities.

Furthermore, they contribute to
replenishing subterranean water supplies and
collecting rain in urban and rural zones; in
addition to controlling floods and stabilizing the
coastline; as well as forming barriers between land
and sea phenomenon.

Ciénaga de
Zapata is home to crocodiles and numerous species of
Cuban flora and fauna.

According to information from the
Environment Agency on the entity’s website, Cuban
wetlands are an inseparable part of the country’s
biological wealth and diversity, adding that they
include vast landscapes featuring estuaries, open
coasts,


marshes, floodplains, scrublands and forests,
lakes, canals and rivers.

Artificially created wetlands can
function in either a positive or negative way, in
accordance with the nature of the biological assets
affected.

Among the most prominent in Cuba are
the Ciénaga de Zapata, Birama (including the River
Cauto delta), Lanier, Cunagua, Pinar del Río’s
southeastern lakeside system and the Colorados
islets; Sabana Camagüey; Jardines de la Reina; and
the Canarreos.

The wetlands of Ciénaga de Zapata,
in Matanzas, are the largest and most exceptional in
Cuba and the Caribbean, meriting their inclusion in
the ConventiononWetlands of
International Importance especially noted on the
Waterfowl Habitat List.

Ramsar is the name of the city in
Iran where this Convention was signed on February 2,
1971. Provisions went into effect December 21, 1975.
(AIN)

Monday, September 1, 2014

SINCE Jamaica became an independent nation and a signatory of the
International Convention of the United Nations (UN)against the
planting, possession and illicit use of marijuana, Jamaica has saved
over a trillion dollars in health care, especially in the maintenance of
the sanity of its citizens, by continuing with the criminalisation of
the planting, possession and illicit use of marijuana as a narcotic
substance.

The marijuana plant is of Asian origin. It was first observed to be
grown on the banks of the River Ganges in India. This is how the name
'ganja' originated, but the plant is officially named in India as the
'Indian Hemp'.

The plant has distinct male and female species, whereby the male plant
does not flower and therefore does not bear seeds and is not referred to
as marijuana, as the leaves are not as potent with the concentrated
chemical substances as the leaves of the female plant.

The female plant, with the intoxicating


second and final term as President of the USA and
quite likely to him, he has nothing to lose with the world in mind and
no emphasis on his soul. Also, as president of the USA, he is also
proactive of unisex marriage, against the will of God. What grave
mistake for a young man with such great potential and who is greatly
loved! Can a man opposed and remain standing in battle against God?

To gain, and for the maintenance of power, there are times when people do silly things.

In Jamaica, to boost revenue, the authorities started to license
handcarts and because a trying, poor peasant could not pay the licence
for operating his handcart, they took sledge hammers and smashed his
handcart in one incident. Consequently, he and his children and
children's mother are placed inCollection Time Period

The U.S. federal census was conducted each decade from 1790-present. This information pertains to censuses conducted in 1850, 1860, and 1870.

Record Description

Population schedules consisted of large sheets with rows and columns. The schedules were arranged by place, such as township or post office. The places were not filed in any particular order. The arrangement of families on a schedule is normally in the order in which the enumerator visited the households.

Record Content

Important genealogical information in the 1850-1870 censuses:

Full name

Age (can be used to approximate birth year)

Sex

Race

Birthplace

Occupation

Whether married during the previous year

Town, township, or post office of residence

In addition the 1870 census recorded:

Month of birth if born during the previous year

Month of marriage if married during the previous year

Whether the father and mother of each person was


born in a foreign country

How to Use the Records

The U.S. federal census is the best source to quickly identify a family group and residence. Use the place of residence, and the birth state for each person along with his or her age to search for other record types. The census identifies other persons in the household and how they are related. The census may identify persons for whom other records do not exist.

Record History

Federal census takers were asked to record information about all those who were in each household on the census day, which was 1 June. A census taker might have visited a house on a later date, but the information he collected was supposed to be about the people who were in the house on thecensus day. The basic census enumeration unit was the county. Each county was divided into enumeration districts, one for each enumerator. The completed forms were sent to the Census Office in the Commerce Department in Washington D.C. The 1860 census covers 80-90% of the population.

Why This Collection Was Created?

The U.S. federal census was taken at the beginning of every decade to apportion the number of representatives that a state could send to the House of Representatives in Congress. In the absence of a national system of vital registration, many vital statistics and personal questions were asked to provide a statistical profile of the nation and its states.

Record Reliability

Federal censuses are usually reliable, depending on the knowledge of the informant and the care of the census enumerator. Information may


was happy to enjoy watching the star race through his three-year-old season where he futrther cemented his star status.

Pierro raced 14 times for 11 wins and three minor placings, with Saturday’s Doncaster second his only defeat in Sydney.

For his efforts, which included five Group 1 wins, Pierro collected more than $4.5 million in prizemoney.

The sprinter-miler was lucrative as a racehorse for his owners but is expected to deliver even more off the track.

His stud value is estimated to be more than $25 million.

Major career wins include the Golden Slipper, the Canterbury Stakes and the George Ryder Stakes.

He never won a Group 1 in Melbourne but last year finished second in the Caulfield Guineas and third in the Cox Plate.

Retirement is also just around the corner for fellow starcolt All Too Hard.

The half-brother to Black Caviar will have his final Australian start in the All Aged Stakes on Saturday before bowing out to a career at stud after the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.

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As Appellant drove past the police
station on 37th Street, Sergeant Israel and Officer Steven pulled out of the police
station parking lot, got behind Appellant’s vehicle, and activated their emergency
lights. Appellant passed a closed convenience store and turned right onto Avenue E.
Sergeant Israel activated the siren, and the officers followed Appellant down
Avenue E. Appellant continued driving and turned left onto 34th Street, where he
pulled over to the left-hand side of the road in front of a residence. Both officers
testified that there was no other traffic on the roads that night and that Appellant had
opportunities to stop on all three roads before he arrived at the residence.
      The occupants of the house came outside while the officers conducted the
stop. Officer Steven testified that, while heeCommetize

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While it was a great start to proving our hypothesis that online influencers


to prop Ryan James.

The promotion of AJ Brimson to fullback duties permanently and the return of Ashley Taylor after an interrupted year battling mental health issues gives the Titans hope they can improve on 2019 and prove the doubters wrong.

Taylor: I was ready to walk away

The draw

Everything looks tough when you’re coming from the basement, but the first six weeks of the season really is as brutal as it gets for the Titans. Opening the year away to the 2019 runners-up Canberra Raiders, the Titans then host Parramatta and the Broncos before heading south to face reigning premiers the Roosters.

Melbourne and Manly complete a three-week away stretch and season-opening six-pack against six 2019 finalists that really could leave the Titans’ season staggering.

The stat that gives you hope

Wipe 2019from the memory. Not much good can come from reflecting upon it. Go back to 2018 when Ash Taylor was the talk of the NRL. His 18 try assists for the season ranked only behind Johnathan Thurston (23) and Luke Keary (21) for most in the NRL.

Taylor still banked six try assists in 10 games last season, but without him for most of the year the Titans just lacked attacking intent and variation. All preseason training indicates he looks and sounds like the 2018 version of himself and his positive start at the NRL Nines, where the Titans reached the semis, shows Taylor at least is in for a better 2020.

Peachey: 'The toughest season I've had'

What you need to know NRL Fantasy wise

AJ Brimson ($462k) is ready to


step up as the Gold Coast's first-choice fullback and will be great value if he can get his scoring about 40 points a game (where it was in 2018). Moeaki Fotuaika ($578k) is another rising star and will be called upon to get through a lot of work up front following another devastating Ryan James injury, while Ash Taylor ($495k) looked great at the NRL Nines and will be a bargain if he can hit 45 points a game.

The coach

Justin Holbrook enters his first NRL season as a head coach, but coming off a Super League premiership with St Helens the former Sydney Roosters assistant is no stranger to success. Boasting an 80 per cent win record in the UK, Holbrook is seen as the man to rebuildthe Titans for future glory.

The 2020 season shapes as a free hit for the NRL rookie, but if the Titans are within reach of the finals late in the season, Holbrook’s first year will be deemed a success.

Holbrook urges Titans to move on after 'devastating' loss of James

Contract matters

With Jai Arrow off to South Sydney in 2021, the Titans have several big names all fighting for new deals in 2020. Fullback AJ Brimson has re-signed which was the top priority, now Meninga then must address the headache of several veterans wanting new deals.

Former NSW Origin hooker Nathan Peats headlines the list, along with injured skipper Ryan James, Kiwi Test backrower Kevin Proctor, plus consistent trio Tyrone Roberts, Anthony Don and Dale Copley. Youngster Phillip Sami, Sam Stone and


Keegan Hipgrave also remain unsigned for 2021.

The burning question

Will Ashley Taylor rediscover his love of rugby league and the form that had him pegged as a future superstar halfback of the NRL to guide the Titans from the cellar to finalists? He is by no means the only player needing a big lift in 2020 – Tyrone Peachey, Bryce Cartwright, Shannon Boyd, Jarrod Wallace and Nathan Peats all need big seasons – but Taylor is the money man capable of taking this team into the finals if he fires.

Taylor praises Holbrook

Breakout player to watch

AJ Brimson showed patches of brilliance last season and with a permanent move into the No.1 jersey following the retirement of veteran Michael Gordon, this could be the real coming of age season for thenysepost.com

POP queen Beyonce gave her mini-me daughter Blue Ivy a taste of life on the Red Carpet as they made their fashionable arrival at the MTV Video Music Awards in NY. Jay Z was MIA during the red cparpet but was said to have been backstage while Beyonce did a Lemonade medley during the show. Back to her tight, black, bodysuit, she closed her INSANE album performance with " Formation " and we're actually still in shock over her wonderful moves.

She told Jay she loves him. Their friends New York Knicks basketball player Carmelo Anthony and his wife, TV presenter La La Anthony , also joined Beyonce for her birthday at the festival, which Beyonce headlined in 2015. Her husband Swizz Beatz got in on the fun, too,


his usual magnificent promo before the match for his client, BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRROOOOOOOCK LEEEEEEEEZNAAAAAAAH, who then started the match by attacking Orton with knees and shoulder blocks.

The Greatest, another one of the Australian bisexual singer-songwriter's killer ballads, stars 13-year-old dance star Maddie Ziegler in the video. This time around, Sia recruited Compton-native Kendrick Lamar for her new single " The Greatest ".

Last year, he added a last-minute runway show to the already-congested Fashion Week schedule. West's ex-girlfriend Amber Rose and wife Kim Kardashian West were thrown into the flurry of tweets in response to the casting request. You are the absolute worst. Despite the anger on social media, massive crowds were seen outside the studio where auditions were held, Mail Online reported.a permanent residence.

He recently finished a seven-week traveling excursion that included a monthlong stay in Brazil for the World Cup. The trips totaled more than 24,000 miles.

It was more work than play — though that’s often a blurred line with Conrad.

He went to nine World Cup matches as part of his job with KickTV, a soccer-driven YouTube channel that has 890,000 subscribers. The channel also sent him to international soccer meccas, where he dissected the foundations of some of the game’s best rivalries.

Conrad has emerged as the face of the station, and his vibrant, comedic and sometimes flippant tone offers a unique connection with viewers.

“I’m living the dream,” he said. “I couldn’t have fallen into a better gig.”

The job led him back to Kansas City for the MLS


All-Star Game last summer. When he took the stage at the Power & Light District for the week’s festivities, the crowd chanted his name.

He returned to Kansas City in December to watch the MLS Cup final, and he rushed the field after Sporting KC clinched a penalty-kick victory against Real Salt Lake.

Conrad spoke at length about the environment that day — and the difference in the city’s soccer passion since he retired from the game in 2011. His tenure with the Wizards spanned 2003-10.

“It’s almost night and day,” he said. “When this ownership group came in and took over, they did a great job establishing the team and giving it an identity. They followed through on their promise, and that was refreshing. I’m proud to be a partAn Australian man has been charged with helping Islamic State develop missiles, police said.

Haisem Zahab, a 42-year-old electrician, was picked up during a raid at his home in the town of Young, in rural New South Wales.

He is accused of researching and designing systems to assist the extremist group's efforts to develop their own long-range guided missiles, Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin told reporters in Canberra.

Zahab is also accused of researching and designing a laser warning device that could alert IS, also known as ISIL, to incoming guided weapons used by coalition forces in Syria and Iraq.

Mr Colvin said: "We believe he has networks and contacts in ISIL - not necessarily just in the conflict zones, but in other parts of the world as well and he has been


relying on them to pass this information."

He called Zahab's research "fairly sophisticated".

Image: Police sweeping the property in Young. Pic: Australian Federal Police

The raid, at the end of an 18-month investigation, involved dozens of police, including a dog squad and officers with metal detectors. The property is about 270km (170 miles) southwest of Sydney.

Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said: "This highlights that terrorism, support for terrorist groups, and Islamist extremism is not limited to our major cities."

The suspect, who appeared in court briefly on Tuesday, faces charges of supporting extremist groups overseas, which are punishable by life imprisonment.

He was refused bail and will reappear on 8 March.

Since Australia's terrorist threat level was elevated in September 2014, the government says there have been 12 extremist plots foiled by police.process of making these flowers into the
fabulous end creations.

Great question!! I love the song Sweet Disposition by Temper Track – the whole
sound track to 500 days of summer is brilliant. But I also adore the song Tears
Dry on their own by Amy Winehouse – seeing her a Glastonbury singing this with
all my best friends was up there with one of the happiest days I’ve ever had!


Strikeforce will adopt UFC rules that permit elbow strikes to the head of a downed opponent, but otherwise little will change immediately on the surface, executives say. Strikeforce will continue as a separate business at least for the duration of its Showtime TV contract, which could go until 2014, Zuffa co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta says. Strikeforce's existing deals with fighters remain in place.time for the overwhelming majority of Americans of goodwill, of every race and faith and political party, to say as much -- clearly and unequivocally," he added.

Even amid recent uproars over Trump's racist comments about four Democratic congresswoman and the city of Baltimore, Obama has largely remained silent. But mass shootings are an issue that Obama has long been frustrated by, including multiple massacres during his time in office. He's said the day of the Sandy Hook shooting was the worst of his presidency, and lamented Washington's collective inability to respond meaningfully.


of Water & Atmospheric Research Tropical Cyclone Outlook, through its National Weather Service forecast offices in the region and the Climate Prediction Center.

Australia and the Pacific Islands
New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and collaborating agencies including the Meteorological Service of New Zealand and Pacific Island National Meteorological Services issue the "Island Climate Update Tropical Cyclone Outlook" for the Pacific. This forecast attempts to predict how many tropical cyclones and severe tropical cyclones will develop within the Southern Pacific between 135°E and 120°W as well as how many will affect a particular island nation. The Fiji Meteorological Service while collaborating with NIWA and partners also publishes its own seasonal forecast but for the South Pacific basin between 160°E and 120°W. Since the start of the
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86.

This episode is reported in Orderic, III.ii.15.

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William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, II.137 (attempt to blind King Athelstan); II.145 (blinding of Riulf in prison by William Longsword); II.165 (Aethelred's blinding of Aelfric's son); II.188 (blinding of Alfred son of Aethelred).

  88. 88.

The episode is extensively discussed by Wheatley, Stumbling Blocks, 175–179 and van Eickels, "Gendered violence," 595.

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John Hudson, "Violence, theft and the making of the English common law," in Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages, ed. T. H. Haskett (Victoria, BC: Humanities Centre of the University of Victoria, 1998), 19–35, at 31. As we shall see, Chap. 6 below, blindings were difficult and risked killing the victim.

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The count was accused of treachery, fought and lost, leading to hishand, in the UC group, 53% had distal colitis (proctitis and proctosigmoiditis), 30% had inflammation of the left colon (up to splenic flexure), and 17% were diagnosed with pancolitis---at the time of this follow-up study. On the other hand, in the CD group, 33% had colonic disease distribution, 21% had ileo-colonic inflammation, and 46% had a disease which was confined to the terminal ileum.

There were nine centres in total providing data for the EC-IBD follow-up study with 681 IBD patients analysed (445 UC and 236 CD) \[[@B32]\]. These were divided into southern European and northern European countries represented by Heraklion (Greece), Ioannina (Greece), Vigo (Spain), Beer Sheva (Israel), Cremona (Italy), and Reggio Emilia (Italy) for the south and Dublin (Ireland), South Limburg (Netherlands), and Copenhagen (Denmark) for the


the public voted against leaving the EU, are the most pessimistic about its impact on the economy.

People in manufacturing and construction roles were the only groups of workers who see Brexit as beneficial in the long run. Williamson said manufacturing workers might see the advantage of a weaker pound that gives a boost to exports. The currency has fallen 17% since the referendum.

A separate report published Monday by the cross-party think-tank Demos said Wales and Northern Ireland are most vulnerable to the economic risks posed by Brexit.

Wales voted in favor of leaving the bloc, while voters in Northern Ireland voted to stay. Both rely on EU funding, exports to the EU and, in the case of Northern Ireland, a large number of European workers.

Brexit: EU says Britain's divorcerare, but they're becoming deadlier

It's fair to say that mass shootings are still rare occurrences. Your odds of dying in a mass shooting over a lifetime are about 1 in 11,125, lower than the chances you'll die choking on food, riding a bike, or falling.

Still, in recent years, Americans have watched as the frequency and deadliness of mass shootings continues to mount.

In the absence of federal policy changes, people want to know what they should do if they're confronted with a would-be attacker.

Jensen, who said he's a former Army Special Forces Green Beret with more than a decade of experience abroad working on recovery missions for civilians and military personnel, is now bringing his expertise home.

"Every single one of the kidnappings I've worked overseas, there was surveillance that


A secretive group of conservatives in the entertainment industry, the Friends of Abe, hosted rightwing conman James O'Keefe at Eamonn's Bar & Grill in New York on Sunday. Past Undercurrent collaborator Ryan Clayton attended and taped his remarks.

During the Q&A segment of the talk, Clayton sang a roast of O'Keefe, and was subsequently attacked by several people in the audience, as reported by The Huffington Post. Another progressive activist, Jason Charter was also assaulted. Both men were hospitalized and have filed charges including assault, strangulation, and robbery. (Attendees broke Charter's tie camera and stole his wallet, glasses, and cell phone.)

Although Charter's camera was broken, Clayton's was not, and he was able to capture some colorful comments. O'Keefe claims outrage over legitimate sexual misconduct questions posed by both ClaytonCSU football - November 2009

Colorado State University lineman Paul Madsen (76) blocks for running back Leonard Mason on a carry in the third quarter of their game against Wyoming on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2009 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins. CSU lost, 17-16.

Univesity of Wyoming linebacker Ghaali Muhammad intercepts a pass as Colorado State's Matt Yemm looks on in the fourth quarter of their game on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2009 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins. CSU lost, 17-16.

Colorado State University defenders Brandon Owens, left, and Broderick Sargent converge on Wyoming's Marcell Gipson in the third quarter of their game on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2009 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins. CSU lost, 17-16.

University of Wyoming quarterback Austyn Carta -Samuels fends off Colorado State cornerback Nick Oppenneer on


his way to the end zone for a touchdown in the fourth quarter of their game on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2009 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins. CSU lost, 17-16.

Members of the CSU football team run through plays during practice on Wednesday afternoon in Fort Collins.

CSU linebacker Ricky Brewer reacts during a play during practice on Wednesday afternoon at Colorado State University.

CSU linebacker Ricky Brewer reacts to a play during practice on Wednesday afternoon at Colorado State University.

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Colorado State University quarterback Grant Stucker is pursued by San Diego State linebacker Miles Burris during their recent game on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins.

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In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.Thomas K. Fowler/AP

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After a group of peaceful student protesters were sprayed with pepper spray by two UC Davis campus police officers, the university police department is being criticized and investigated for allegedly using unnecessary force and impeding free speech.

Video footage of the two officers spraying peacefully seated students has been spreading on the internet. After the incident, eleven protesters were treated on site and two were taken to a hospital. Initially, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi did not criticize the campus police actions; however, after the controversy gained public attention, she


the corporate Democratic Party of the 1990s. Dennis Kucinich spoke out courageously and voted against the war and has been resoundingly (if tragically) proven right by subsequent events. He has stood for and with working people for his entire political career and has been calling for universal health care for years. Dennis Kucinich stands for all the right (or should I say "Left"?) things. He is an authentically spiritual man who articulates ethical values without pandering and in a common language that transcends sectarian labels. He may not be the most conventionally telegenic politician in the world, but he came up from poverty and speaks from the heart. I was already coming back into the Democratic Party in the early 2000s, but it was Dennis Kucinich who inspiredtool to keep their immoral wars going?), it also flies in the face of history. As the linked columnist, Andrew Greeley of the Chicago Sun-Times concludes:"One should ask Rangel if the draft created such racial and social equity in the 1960s, how the president and vice president managed to avoid combat. How could such draft dodgers be elected to high office? And don't tell me that the president served in the Texas Air National Guard. That's like serving in the Nebraska Navy."

As a child of Nebraska, I should note that there really is a Nebraska Navy, although serving in it didn't get you out of Vietnam, if indeed it even existed back then. As a card-carrying Admiral in the Nebraska Navy (really, though it is purely a paper


Mangalore air crash: timeline of the mishap

New Delhi: The country woke up Saturday morning to one of the deadliest air tragedies in Mangalore. Air India Express flight 812 from Dubai to Mangalore, carrying 166 passengers, got completely burnt, killing 158 people and eight miraculous survivors.

Timeline of the mishap

At 2am on the 22nd of May the ill-fated Air India Express flight 812 took off from Dubai International Airport. Captain Glusica, a Serbian expat, was in charge.

It's a four-and-a-half hour long flight to Mangalore. The flight was scheduled to touch down at about 6.30 in the morning.

There were 166 passengers on board -- 137 adults, 19 children, four infants and six crew members. Most of them were from Kerala, heading back from the Gulf, each with a date to keepwith their loved ones.

As the narrow-bodied Boeing 737-800 approached the table-top runway at Mangalore, the winds were calm, it's a bit cloudy. But visibility was clear upto six kilometres.

Captain Glusica and his co-pilot Captain SS Ahluwalia were cleared by Mangalore airport to approach for landing. About 10 miles short of the runway, the plane switched over to the Instrument Landing System.

What happened next is a mystery at the moment. The aircraft hit the tarmac about 2000 feet beyond its touchdown point. That proved fatal for the aircraft as it simply did not have enough runway left to break its speed.

The plane hit a fence, broke through the airport boundary wall and fell into the gorge beyond, breaking into two and catching fire on impact.

Of the 166 people on


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      Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Lebous, J.),
entered November 26, 2014 in Broome County, which, among other
things, granted third-party defendant's motion for summary
judgment dismissing the third-party complaint.

      In 2011, defendant TJ, LLC entered into a contract with
plaintiff for the construction of a hotel in the Town of Vestal,
Broome County. The contract was insured by a performance bond
with third-party defendant, Liberty Mutual Group Inc., acting as
surety. Although construction continued through early 2013, the
hotel opened in April 2012. When the fire alarm system began to
malfunction in January2013, TJ was forced to temporarily close
the hotel. TJ informed plaintiff of the need for repairs, but
plaintiff refused to perform the repairs, citing TJ's alleged
failure to keep its payments current. Upon undertaking the
repairs itself, TJ discovered other problems with the
construction of the hotel and, by April 2013, TJ had hired
contractors other than plaintiff to complete all needed repairs.
In June 2013, TJ sent Liberty Mutual a letter stating that it
intended to file for contractor default under the terms of the
performance bond and that it had fully complied with paragraph 3
of the bond. Liberty Mutual then scheduled a conference between
plaintiff and TJ in an attempt to resolve their issues pursuant
to the terms of the bond. A resolution having not been achieved,
TJ sent a formal notice of contractor default to Liberty


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The latest installment in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film franchise has arrived, and it’s been met with a resounding meh, earning much less in its opening weekend than its predecessor, and receiving critical jeers. That reception is a far cry from when the Turtles were first introduced to the world, back in 1984. Years before the cartoon, toy line, and movies turned them into a pop-culture phenomenon, the heroes in a half-shell debuted in an obscure, self-published black-and-white comic book that thrilled the comics market.

The success of their adventures in print sparked the establishment of a multitude of publishers looking to cash in on the TMNT craze with an array of bizarre imitators. Then, just as quickly as it began, the revolution went awry and a wideswath of the industry was eradicated almost overnight. The Turtles were inadvertently responsible for one of the most disastrous speculation bubbles in comics history: the so-called Black-and-White Boom and Bust of the mid-1980s.

It’s often forgotten that the Turtles were a comics property well before they became ubiquitous in other mediums (including, improbably, live musical performances). The characters were the brainchildren of two underemployed, New Hampshire–based art-school grads: Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. During what Eastman would later call “late-night joking around,” he for no particular reason sketched out a turtle dressed up like a ninja. Laird countered with his own version. Then they co-drew a group shot featuring four such creatures. Icons were quietly born.

The two decided to take a leap of faith and do a full comic


printing in black and white, which made it look more mature next to the childishly colorful titles from Marvel and DC Comics.

The creators pooled their cash and borrowed $1,300 from Eastman’s uncle to pay for a print run of 3,000 copies, then set up a deal with a distributor to ship them to comics shops. They also sent out about 180 press releases to niche and mainstream news outlets. There was something about the comic — perhaps its tapping of the Zeitgeist, perhaps its acrobatic action, perhaps its humor, most likely all three — that resonated with readers. Buyers scooped up the copies Eastman and Laird put out through comics shops and in individual sales at conventions. In three weeks, they were sold out. Word of mouth grew,Publishers proliferated at a rate no one had seen in decades. According to industry trade Comic Buyer’s Guide, there were ten independent publishers in early 1984 and 170 by the end of 1987. Silverwolf Comics, Adventure Publications, Crystal Publications, ACE Comics, Solson Publications, Lodestone Comics, New Sirius Productions, the ironically titled Pied Piper Comics — the list went on and on. Naturally, retailers were happy to act as middlemen, buying up the new products from fly-by-night publishers and serving it up to the consumers who craved it.

Since TMNT had been a parody of popular comics that, itself, became popular, the new publishers often decided to make their own parodies of the Turtles. Just a few of the improbable rip-offs: Adult Thermonuclear Samurai Elephants, Mildy Microwaved Pre-Pubescent Kung Fu


distributors who’d been handling all this new product for the past year or so, and one — Glenwood — went out of business. According to industry analyst John Jackson Miller, sales of books from the black-and-white publishing start-ups fell by half in 1988. The era of black-and-white excitement was over.

By that point, TMNT had started printing in color, and Eastman and Laird kept interest in their comic uniquely high because they’d snagged lucrative deals to adapt the characters into toys and animation. Marvel and DC had never really invested in the Black and White Boom, so their sales remained steady. But the crash reverberated in comics shops and reader conversations. Retailers, collectors, and publishers should have learned an important lesson about frenzied comics fads.

Unfortunately for the industry, theywas probated for twenty-one months, as was $1,000 of the fine, with three days
confinement as a condition of probation.  In three issues, Ellard contests the validity of the roadside
search of his person.
BACKGROUND	Kelsey Rich was pulled over by a Williamson County deputy sheriff in October 2001
after committing a minor traffic violation.  Appellant William Ellard was a passenger in the car.  The
deputy, Officer Vivas, was operating alone that evening.
	When Officer Vivas approached Rich, he noticed that one of her hands was visibly
shaking on the steering wheel.  Alerted by her unusual nervousness, Officer Vivas asked Rich to step
out of the vehicle.  While they stood behind her car, Officer Vivas asked her questions and learned
from Rich that there "might be" marihuana in the car.  Officer Vivas


the inner world
which ultimately it is your task to explore...."

Johnny Cash

American musician, a country western singer and guitar player who is charismatic
and rough-hewn. He shot out of obscurity in cotton-patch Arkansas to become
one of the most enduring and popular figures of the mid-'50s folk scene. His
music includes "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line."

The fourth of seven children of Ray and Carrie Cash, his family was saved
from the ravages of the Great Depression when the Cash family earned the right
to a home, a barn, a mule and 20 acres by clearing land in the Dyess Colony
in Arkansas. Cash listened to stories from his father of riding the rails and
the hard times. "I always knew I was going to be a singer" he said, " from
the age offour." His mother knew it too and managed singing lessons at 50
cents an hour, taking in washing to pay for them. Cash worked with the family
in the fields picking cotton, but his younger sister Reba recalls, "It seemed
like Daddy was always having to tell him to get with the work because he was
staring off at a bird or an airplane or just leaning on his hoe." In May 1944,
Cash's older brother Jack died of injuries cutting wood to earn $3 a day for
the family. This event deepened the family's religious faith.

After a brief job working in an auto factory in Michigan, Cash joined the
U.S. Air Force. Stationed in Germany, he learned to pick a guitar. Under the
GI Bill he went to broadcasting school in Memphis, Tennessee and got


small
singing jobs. In 1955, he got his first big exposure by appearing with Elvis
Presley at the Louisiana Hayride.

In 1955, Cash joined up with two guitarists and their first single, "Cry!
Cry! Cry!" became a regional hit. A year later, Cash had a country and crossover
pop hit, "I Walk the Line" and became a regular on the Grand Ole Opry.

He became known as the Man in Black, always dressing in black. He has won
numerous awards, had gold albums, played in numerous secondary TV parts, and
was the host of his own network TV program, "The Johnny Cash Show" for three
seasons. By 1971 he had become the largest-selling, most-famous country singer
ever. His autobiography came out in 1975, "The Man in Black." In 1986 his
first spiritually driven novel entitled "Man in White" waspublished.

Cash married Vivian Liberto, a San Antonio girl who had been his pen pal,
after leaving the Air Force. They had four daughters: Rosanne, also a country
and western star, Kathy, Cindy and Tara. Cash went on the road touring where
he was soon washing down uppers and downers with alcohol to survive the grueling
pace. He had met June Carter of the Carter Family country singers early in
his career and they became good friends. Through the years they developed a
stronger relationship, and after he divorced Vivian in 1967, he married June
Carter in 1968. They have one son, John Carter Cash, also a performer.

Cash finally won his legendary fight with drugs and alcohol in 1983 after
the family confronted him and he checked himself in the Betty Ford Clinic for
44 days. The new


sober Cash has become a doting father and grandfather with
an uncanny ability to know when his family needs him. In 1992, he was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the only singer to have also been inducted
into the Country and Western Hall of Fame. He is known for his concern for
the abused and underprivileged, including those in prisons. "I don't see any
good coming out of a prison. You put them in like animals and tear the souls
and guts out of them, and let them out worse than they went in." He continues
to donate his services to Billy Graham's crusades.

In 1997, at age 65, Cash was diagnosed with Shy-Drager syndrome, a degenerative
nerve disease that can cause tremors and muscle stiffness. He was forced to
cancel appearances in lateOctober 1997, immediately following the promotion
of his autobiography, "Cash: The Autobiography," on "Good Morning America." Around
the same time, he revealed his condition at a concert in Flint, Michigan after
he dropped his guitar pick and nearly fell over while trying to pick it up.
Cash was hospitalized in November 1999 for pneumonia from which he fully recovered
to enjoy the holidays with his wife in their Jamaican home. The illness returned
in February 2001, taking him back into the hospital.

June Carter Cash, his wife and musical partner, died on May 15, 2003 in Nashville,
TN of complications from heart surgery which she underwent on May 7, 2003.
Just a few months after the death of his wife, Johnny Cash died on the morning
of September 12, 2003 in Nashville, TN of complications from diabetes.

As one


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SAN FRANCISCO — President Barack Obama was caught by surprise Monday when a former UC Berkeley student government official interrupted his speech on immigration, demanding Obama take more action on the issue.

Obama, who was in San Francisco as part of a brief West Coast fundraising tour, delivered remarks calling on Congress to pass immigration reform legislation but found himself struggling to speak over a heckler who shouted that his family had been torn apart by U.S. immigration policy and asked the president to use an executive order to halt deportations of undocumented immigrants.

Although the president spoke in favor of reform — saying it would strengthen border control, reduce the national deficit by $850agriculture kept the USSR afloat in the 70s as it was unable to
feed itself. Kansas was dubbed "the breadbasket of the Soviet Union". The
historical threat of famine ended in the US around 1800 and was an early
dividend of free market agriculture.

~~~
rev_bird
I'm not sure I see the connection. The United States lucked into natural
resources more plentiful than lots of other places in the world, that's true,
but is it meaningful that a country be able to "feed itself"? Obviously it's a
valuable thing to have, strategically, but I don't see how "they had lots of
imports" is necessarily an indictment of an entire economic system. Nobody
makes fun of Ireland for importing $5 billion+ in foodstuffs every year, it's
just one of the things they're short of.

~~~
WalterBright
The Ukraine fed europe until its agriculture was


1 prep football season, 1,800 hits to the head

New study warns of undiagnosed brain injuries in high school players

October 05, 2010|By Rex W. Huppke, Tribune reporter

We can see it — maybe even feel it in our teeth — when the Chicago Bears' Jay Cutler goes down with a concussion after being sacked nine times or a local high school player is pulled from a game after a vicious shot to the head.

But a new study of an Indiana high school football team hints that some athletes are suffering brain injuries that go undiagnosed, allowing the players to continue getting battered, unaware of the possible cognitive damage that has been done.

Of 21 high school players monitored for a full season by a team of researchers from Purdue University, fourplayers who were never diagnosed with concussions were found to have suffered brain impairment that was at least as bad as that of other players who had been deemed concussed and removed from play.

"They're not exhibiting any outward sign and they're continuing to play," said Thomas Talavage, an associate professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue and the lead researcher on the study. "The cognitive impairment that we observed with them is actually worse than the one observed with the concussed players."

The report, published in the latest edition of the Journal of Neurotrauma, found that some players received more than 1,800 hits to the head during practices and games, some with a force 20 times greater than what a person would feel while riding a


roller coaster.

The potential long-term impact of jaw-dropping collisions in sports has become a hot-button issue this NFL season. In the first week alone, four players sustained concussions, including starting quarterbacks Kevin Kolb of the Philadelphia Eagles and Matt Moore of the Carolina Panthers. The Bears' Cutler suffered a concussion Sunday night against the New York Giants, and it remains uncertain whether he'll be cleared to play this weekend.

But the Purdue study shines a light on injuries more insidious than full-blown concussions, ones that don't always result in outward symptoms yet could add up to cause serious long-term cognitive problems.

Hunt Batjer, chairman of the department of neurological surgery at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and co-chairman of the NFL's Head, Neck and Spine Committee, said the Purdueof players at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Ind. They did baseline tests on each player before the season, invited several players in for additional tests each week and then conducted a postseason assessment of the subjects.

Four of the 21 players were diagnosed with concussions during the course of the season. But what surprised the researchers was that four players who showed no symptoms of concussion had significant performance drops on routine cognitive tests. Brain imaging tests also showed decreased activity in the parts of the players' brains associated with working memory.

"We were not expecting to find them, they just kind of popped up," Talavage said. "When you talk to players in this group, there's no outward sign. Yet here we are finding changes in testing scores and


Lynn Burge, 33, who admitted to having sex with two boys aged 16 and 18, will avoid jail time after agreeing to a plea deal

A Texas teacher who admitted to having sex with two boys aged 16 and 18 will avoid jail time after agreeing to a plea deal.

Lynn Burge, 33, who taught at Muenster High School in Cooke County, received five years probation and a $2,500 fine for each crime.

She will also have to give up her teaching licence, but will not have to register as a sex offender, KXII reported.

She pleaded guilty to two counts of improper relationship between an educator and a student, according to the outlet. Another count of online solicitation of a minor was dropped as part of the agreement.

The married mother-of-two wasaccused of sending about five nude pictures of herself to the 16-year-old via Snapchat in October 2017.

According to News 12, the pair went 'backroading' together before she took him to her home, where she allegedly performed oral sex on him.

They had also been drinking before they had sexual intercourse, according to the arrest warrants.

Investigators interviewed the teen who recalled going to the woman's home to have sex.

The teen told authorities that Burge's family wasn't home at the time. Burge claimed she didn't remember whether or not she had sex with the teen because she was highly intoxicated.

When asked by police if she thought the two had sex, she replied: 'I don’t know. I hope not. I don’t know. I didn’t think it did because my clothes were on.


and Protective Services received an anonymous tip about her in September.

Burge's attorney, Rick Hagen told KXII: 'From the beginning of this ordeal, Lynn took ownership of her mistakes, and her mistakes do not define who she is. How she's responded to those mistakes does, and she's responded in exactly the correct manner.

Burge resigned from her position at the Muenster High School in October 2018. She taught Intro to Culinary Arts, Child Development and Principals of Human Services

The first incident with the 16-year-old allegedly occurred between September and October 2017. The pair went backroading before going to Burge's home where they reportedly had sex and drank alcohol

Hagen claimed that the families of the boys had consented to the plea deal.

'Families involved were consulted and they were incredibly humble andreduction of the judgment to $1,740.00, which he admits owing for the three year period preceding institution of suit.
In resisting the garnishment of his wages to enforce collection of the alimony made executory, appellant maintains in effect that the totality of his payments, under the garnishment and the URESA decree should *472 be limited to 20% of his monthly wages of $720.00.
On June 1, 1959, judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff wife by the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, granting plaintiff a final divorce from defendant. The decree also awarded plaintiff custody of three minor daughters of the marriage and alimony for the support of the children in the sum of $25.00 weekly, the first payment being made due on June 1, 1959. Between June 1,


1959 and August 16, 1959, appellant made payments aggregating $300.00 on the alimony awarded. In August, 1959, appellant moved from Missouri to Shreveport, Louisiana and discontinued alimony payments.
In a proceeding instituted pursuant to the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), LSA-13:1641-1699, plaintiff sought enforcement in this state of the alimony judgment rendered against appellant in Missouri. In pursuance thereof, the Juvenile Court, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, by judgment rendered January 10, 1962, awarded plaintiff judgment in the sum of $60.00 monthly for child support. It is conceded that appellant has made all payments due under the Caddo Parish judgment.
Appellant having subsequently moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plaintiff instituted proceedings in the Family Court, East Baton Rouge Parish, in which tribunal judgment was rendered May 4, 1966, granting fullJackson County Central's first taste of back-to-back championships (1999, 2000) as a co-op of Southwest Star Concept of Okabena faded as the Huskies attempted to survive on their own. For the next seven years the program restructured itself under the guidance of Randy Baker, who began to ask much more of his wrestlers.

Wrestling is no longer just a seasonal sport at Jackson County . Training was also amplified to reach certain standards. The Huskies have won four of the past five team titles.

"It's a tremendous amount of work," Baker said. "I'm sure it's like that with the highest-level hockey programs and basketball programs. They demand a little bit more at that level."

Being recognized as "pretty good" is no longer adequate for Baker, Vancura and the two other top-seeded


Why Are Sex Workers Being Banned From Participating in the International AIDS Conference? A Call to Action on Sex Work and HIV

In July, the International AIDS Conference is being held in the United States for the first time in over twenty years, after the successful repeal of the ban on HIV-positive foreign nationals entering the US. However, US immigration law still bars entrance to anyone who has engaged in sex work in the past 10 years — even if they have no criminal convictions or work in a country where it is legal. This exclusion will prevent many current and former sex workers from outside the US from attending the conference. Yet sex workers and their clients are two of the populations at greatest risk of HIV infection.

WithoutDeltour (Espace P) during the “manifestion” (street protest) on October 17, 2005. The protest was part of the European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration. Demonstrators marched with red umbrellas from Place de la Bourse (stock exchange) through the downtown streets to the red light district near Gare de Nord (train station), ending at the Mercure Royal Crown Hotel where the conference was held.

The European conference ratified the Sex Workers in Europe Manifesto, endorsed by approximately 120 sex workers from 24 countries, which was presented to the European Parliament.

The conference also produced the Declaration of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, endorsed by 200 delegates (sex workers and allies) from 28 countries.


INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA officials on Tuesday said they believe a solution has been implemented to stop elite football prospects from signing scholarship agreements with more than one school.

The problem surfaced this year as a result of an October legislative interpretation that permitted mid-year enrolling freshmen to sign financial-aid paperwork with college programs after July 31 of their senior years.

The documents differ from national letters of intent in that they serve as binding for the school but not the prospect.

The changes benefit schools by removing many recruiting restrictions. Once a prospect has signed an agreement with a school, it may publicize his signing and communicate, free of normal NCAA-imposed limitations, with the prospect outside of a dead period.

However, only the program that a prospect signed with first is allowedsuch privileges.

These financial-aid agreements, according to Jen Roe and Jamie Israel, associate directors of the NCAA's academic and membership affairs staff, became hot topics for the organization after several top recruits signed with multiple programs last fall:

• Josh Malone, the No. 7-ranked receiver prospect nationally out of Gallatin, Tenn., signed agreements with Clemson, Florida State, Georgia and Tennessee before pledging to the Volunteers.

• No. 3-ranked running back Dalvin Cook of Miami signed with Miami, Florida State and Florida. He settled on FSU.

• Safety Laurence Jones of Monroe, La., rated No. 3 at his position, signed with LSU and Alabama. Jones then committed to the Crimson Tide.

Their actions raised eyebrows across the coaching community.

"That's what you call the law of unintended consequences," Duke coach David Cutcliffe said.

Clemson coach Dabo


financial-aid documents -- unlike letters of intent -- fall outside of NCAA jurisdiction.

All of this points toward an early signing period for letters of intent. Roe said she thought an early date was "getting closer" but that the NCAA could not introduce it. That must come from the Conference Commissioners Association.

"It's a tough spot," Israel said, "because we're trying to be more inclusive and give students different ways to be committed to schools."

How will the NCAA determine which school signed a prospect first?

Roe said the media's coverage of recruiting, in addition to social media and signing announcements made by schools, should make that clear.

If all else fails, she told the coaches Tuesday, "ask the kid."

The changes apply only to players who enroll mid-year. Traditional spring high school graduatesTaylor Swift

Rogers Centre Concert

When it comes to giving stellar performances, Taylor Swift is in a league of her own.

The 25-year-old singer and songwriter delivered another flawless gem of a concert at Rogers Centre Friday for the first of two sold-out nights, a little more than two years after she gave a flawless gem of a concert at the same venue.

Since 2013, only her musical direction has changed: back then, with the Red tour, Swift was still considered a country music emissary.

For her current 1989 tour, as the opening strains of “Welcome To New York” filled the stadium, Swift declared her new symbolic transformation into pop ingenue by stylishly emerging from the stage in a sparkling jacket, black bustier, short red skirt, a pair of shades and with a


Q:

Why can the Doctor not read River's Diary?

I don't watch Doctor Who on a regular basis. I know who River is. But why is it that she keeps the diary of their meetings and the doctor cannot see it?

A:

In the Tardis Data Core website, it talks about this:

Upon saving the Doctor's life (after nearly killing him herself) by giving up her remaining regenerations, River ended up in the best hospital in the universe. It was there that the Doctor gave her the diary. This was done to make sure she kept track of their meetings to keep their timelines from becoming corrupted.

Then:

In the 52nd century, in Stormcage, River was writing about one of her outings with the Doctor before taking a phone call from Winston Churchill and escapingto help her husband.
After the Doctor reset the universe at the cost of his own erasure from existence, River temporarily gave her mother her diary as a wedding present to bring him back. Later, the Doctor returned the diary to River, telling her that all the writing had returned, but he hadn't peeked; foreknowledge is dangerous.

The last line spells it out. If the Doctor has the information contained in River's diary, he'd have knowledge which might be dangerous not only to himself, but to the Universe as a whole.

A:

River and the Doctor are both time travelers, for reasons which are never quite explained they tend to meet each other in the wrong order (as one knows more about their history the other knows less).
The diagram below shows this


(click for larger version):

(Source: Will Brooks on Deviantart)
Through the series the diary actually pops up a few times. It was only after she met him for the first time (Let's Kill Hitler) the Doctor actually gave it her as a gift thus completing the cycle which and explaining how he ends up with the diary when he meets her for the first time (Silence in the Library).
As River has already experienced a lot of the adventures the Doctor hasn't had yet her diary contains his future. As such they've imposed a set of rules (which they jokingly remind each other as "spoilers") in reality the Doctor implies that it's very dangerous for either of them to know their own future.

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With the upcoming launch of the 11th Star Trek film less than 100 days away, SpaceStation K7 is undergoing a refit. Together with a redesign of the front page, SpaceStation K7 will connect to other services you might already know.
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Empire at War: Force of War: January Update
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Star Wars Battlefront 2: Sraiden: Ash Forest + 'Custom Conquest'
"Sraiden: Ash Forest," by Skammer_216, is a touch-up of his previously-released map of the same name. I hadn't played the earlier version, but it was a pleasure to play through this one. The environment, which is quickly becoming a standard in Skammer_216's maps, is set up very well.
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Call of Duty 2: Modern Weapons for CoD2
Here's a single-player version of the Modern Weapons for CoD2 mod brought to you by Urded. The mod features a great collection of new weapons and skins from a variety of well-liked authors, so you'll surely be immersed in the modern war experience within the comfort of CoD2.
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Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Lost Iceland
Lost Iceland is a standard 3v3 map that is snow themed. Teams start on opposite sides of map and in between is a lake with 3 important places to hold. In result of this assigning everyone on your team a place to take/hold helps.
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Legendary Demo
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In the dark underbelly of rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas "Arm" Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis, Hunter Killer) has become a feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family. When his ruthless employers order him to kill for the first time, his loyalties are tested in this powerful thriller costarring Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk) and Ned Dennehy ("Peaky Blinders").In the dark underbelly of rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas "Arm" Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis, Hunter Killer) has become a feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family. When his ruthless employers order him to kill for the first time, his loyalties are tested in this powerful thriller costarring Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk) and Ned Dennehy ("Peaky Blinders"). Written by Saban FilmsMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans tired of graft and chaotic violence look set to reject the party that has governed the country for most of the past century, embracing a global anti-establishment mood by favoring a leftist dissenter in a presidential election.

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto is pictured during the 80th anniversary of the expropriation of Mexico's oil industry in Mexico City, Mexico March 16, 2018. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Campaigning formally starts on Friday for the July 1 election and major opinion polls show Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with a large lead, with the mainstream opposition challenger second and the ruling party candidate far behind.

Mexico suffered its worst murder toll on record last year as organized crime ran rampant smuggling drugs, fuel and people, while corruption scandals battered


centrist PRI has ruled Mexico continuously since 1929, except for a 12-year break when Vicente Fox and his successor led the National Action Party (PAN) to power in 2000 and 2006.

Both the PAN and the PRI favored opening the economy to more foreign investment and close ties with the United States.

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Variously described as a left-winger, a populist and a nationalist, Lopez Obrador quit the PRI in the 1980s and his subsequent political career included a stint as mayor of Mexico City, one of the world’s largest metropolises. He has been in permanent opposition since first running for president in 2006.

He says only he can clean up deep-rooted corruption in the traditional parties. At the same time, he promises to change the constitution ifhe wins to end immunity for sitting presidents and hold regular referendums on key issues, including one every two years on whether he should continue his six-year term.

“We Mexicans are now seeing there are definitely two alternatives before us,” Tatiana Clouthier, a senior member of the Lopez Obrador campaign said on Thursday: more of the same, or a government that will spread the wealth more widely.

In second place is former PAN chief Ricardo Anaya, whose coalition includes center-left parties once allied to Lopez Obrador. He has pitched himself as a modern alternative to the unpopular PRI and to Lopez Obrador’s personalized leadership.

For many voters, July 1 will be about rejecting either the corruption of the ruling party, or Lopez Obrador, said Ernesto Ruffo, a PAN senator who in


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This is a short review of two new books on judging - Constitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision, by H. Jefferson Powell, and How Judges Think, by Richard A. Posner. Although both books examine the same topic, and both focus largely on judicial decision making by Supreme Court Justices in the area of constitutional law, their approaches diverge significantly. Powell takes a page from virtue ethics in offering an expansive and ruminative vision of the ethical virtues and vices that characterize the judge in a constitutional case. Posner brings his economist's toolkit, supplemented by a variety of


The professor made no effort to provide students assistance even in class (which is the entire point to the flipped classroom concept). The professor usually had one TA which he would, literally, point to whenever we had a question. He made no effort to help students and would simply stand in front of the class. This pretty much made most people believe (and no evidence to the contrary was seen) that he was lazy.
He did not have office hours. If the student was not comfortable asking questions during class then tough luck. He refused to answer questions via email or during office hours.

Hopefully that is explicit enough on top of the points already provided before.

A:

Here are some ideas from Linda Kober, author of a publication by the NationalColumn: Crawford could have been something

LAWRENCE -- It's not that I feel anything specific about Jocques Crawford's departure from the Kansas football program. I didn't know him personally. He wasn't much of a factor on the field last year. He isn't a Kansan. He was neither pleasant nor unpleasant as an interview. He was kind of funny sometimes.

But something about this feels, I don't know, sad.

Some people will find it difficult to feel sorry for someone like Crawford. He's a 230-pound guy from Memphis with a lot of football talent, an icy, vacant stare and a past that includes a high-school rape allegation of which he was not convicted.

I have no insight or opinions as to his guilt or innocence in that case. All I can do is


trust our justice system, which concluded Crawford is not a rapist. Unfortunately -- and this goes way beyond Jocques Crawford -- being accused of rape reads the same to a lot of people as being convicted of it, and there aren't many things worse to be considered than a rapist.

So Crawford lost all his Division I scholarship offers and went to the middle of nowhere to play junior college football. His coaches at Cisco (Texas) Junior College never had an issue with him. He ran for almost 2,000 yards. He was the offensive player of the year. The scholarship offers started coming again.

Before he even laced 'em up at Kansas, it was obvious the coaching staff believed he would be KU's starting running back in 2008. Mark Manginopraised him like I've never heard him praise a newcomer before. In practices, he looked awesome. He was big and fast and shifty. He didn't move like other guys. His legs pumped like pistons and he juked safeties and fluidly caught swing passes. It seemed plausible he was the best player Mangino had ever signed at Kansas.

At media day, he was the only player anybody wanted to talk to. He was asked about the rape case. He was asked about his ability. He was asked about the transition from junior college. He was asked weird stuff. He seemed dazzled. He talked about his braces. He looked like guy bombarded, because that's what he was. This hadn't happened in Cisco, Texas.

And then he said he wanted to rush for


know every offensive trick there is,' " Eakins said. "Then suddenly it started to click. We just had to teach him a different way."

So when was this epiphany? When Kadri played for the Marlies during the lockout? Is that why the seventh overall pick in the 2009 draft looks like he's now in the NHL to stay at 22 years old, leading the Leafs in scoring and playing a more complete game a quarter of the way through the season? Not exactly.

"It was a couple years ago," Eakins said.

This is a story about development. Every player is different, every situation is different and the path to the NHL is not necessarily a straight line even for a top-10 pick. Players have to learn how to fit in. Coacheshave to learn how to fit them in. It has been a particularly delicate dance in Toronto for Kadri.

The Leafs love having their AHL affiliate in the same city. It's great for logistics. It's great for marketing. It's great for motivating players. As the Marlies' slogan goes: "Every game is a tryout." Problem is, when a player goes from the Leafs to the Marlies, he goes from Toronto to Toronto. He cannot lick his wounds in obscurity in, say, Binghamton. He suffers his embarrassment in the same fishbowl from whence he came. Every demotion is dissected.

"Boy, it's wonderful when you get called up," Eakins said. "But when you get sent down, it's not like you're out of there."

Now consider Kadri. He was born in London, Ontario. He starred


for the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League. He became the top prospect for a team lacking top-end talent that hadn't made the playoffs since 2004 and hadn't won the Stanley Cup since 1967 in the Center of the Hockey Universe – a perfect storm of pressure. When he had three goals and five points in six preseason games in 2009, just before he turned 19 and returned to junior, it only raised expectations.

[Y! Sports Radio: Nick Cotsonika assesses the first month of the NHL season]

But Kadri struggled in the preseason in 2010 and went to the Marlies, and he spent two seasons shuttling up and down. Ron Wilson, the Leafs' coach most of that time, didn't mince words about Kadri's deficiencies in public or in private.East Finchley tube station

East Finchley is a London Underground  station in East Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet, north London. The station is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between Highgate and Finchley Central stations and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

The station was opened in 1867 as part of the Great Northern Railway's line between Finsbury Park and Edgware stations. As part of London Underground's only partially completed Northern Heights plan, the station was completely rebuilt with additional tracks in the late 1930s. Northern line trains started serving the station in 1939 and main line passenger services ended in 1941.

History

Original station

East Finchley station was built by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR) on its line from Finsbury Park station to Edgware station.


Retired from US Army 1988 as a Colonel after 28 years of active duty. After entering active duty as an Infantry officer in 1960, became an Intelligence Officer primarily in the SIGINT arena in 1963; served as senior commander and staff officer in all Intelligence disciplines. Served in Washington DC, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusettes, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Hawaii, Vietnam, Turkey, and Germany. Successfully commanded at Company, Battalion, and Brigade levels. Served on Secretary of Defense staff; US Army Strategic Defense Command, DIA, NSA, INSCOM. Attended the Serior National Crytologic Course, Armed Forces Staff College, the National Defense Industrial College, Naval War College. Advanced Management Program, Emory University.Upon retirement in 1988, joined ManTech International as Vice President and later Mystech Associates also as Vice President. President and CEO ofChenega Technology Services Corporation (CTSC), an 8(a) Alaska Native Corporation, from 2001 until 2006. Instrumental in forming the NJVC, a Joint Venture ANC providing support to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Formed Legatus6, LLC, a SDVOSB, in 2008.

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