life, with a wife and young children — was put into an induced coma. When the 43-year-old came out, he was paralyzed. Other practitioners at the firm were, fortunately in this case, in place to make decisions and serve clients during this period. Unfortunately, the advisor died shortly thereafter.

In the ensuing period, the lack of clear planning made sale of the business a challenge. The moral of Barbiere’s story was that advisors need to plan for all eventualities not only for their clients but for their business: Sole practitioners particularly must put in place and test mundane matters such as billing authorization and check-writing authorization.

But there are other surprising lessons that emerged from the panel discussion at the Las Vegas conference.

One is that a business involved with investingno child of his own. A Tantrik had asked him to give a human sacrifice of a child from his own family in order to have his own kids. Villagers also informed that Das often suffered seizures and consulted same Tantrik for the medial aide.

Meanwhile, body of the deceased has been sent for the post-mortem. Shivanandan Das and others including Tantrik Vilas Mandal are absconding from the village.

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The Red Devils have been strongly linked with the Borussia Dortmund star in recent weeks, with Sir Alex Ferguson keen to revamp his midfield ahead of next season

By Wayne Veysey | UK Correspondent Manchester United have made their first move to sign Shinji Kagawa , by lodging a €17 million (£13.6m) bid for the Borussia Dortmund star.The Premier League giants have been pressed into action after being made aware last week of growing interest in the attacking midfielder from Arsenal.Reports emerged in Germany on Thursday that United had made a move for Kagawa and sources have confirmed to Goal.com that the club have made a formal bid for the Japan international.United are believed to be hopeful of wrapping up a quick deal but it is understood that Arsenal'sinterest remains strong and the Londoners could also submit an offer for a key figure in Dortmund's back-to-back league titles.Kagawa has only a year remaining on his contract and the Bundesliga club have hinted recently that they will not stand in the way of a transfer this summer.Speaking last week, Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc said: "I had a meeting with his agent and Shinji Kagawa has informed us that he will definitely not be extending his contract. Should we now receive offers for Kagawa, then we will consider and negotiate them."Goal.com exclusively revealed in April that United were lining up a bid to sign Kagawa, whose reputation has grown over the last few months.Manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his assistant Mike Phelan were then present at the


DFB-Pokal final two weekends ago when Kagawa scored in Dortmund's emphatic 5-2 win over Bayern Munich.Arsene Wenger is also an admirer of the Japanese midfielder, who arrived in Germany after the 2010 World Cup for a fee well below €350,000 and has been an influential presence in Jurgen Klopp's team.He has scored 10 times in 30 international appearances, and his 71 appearances for Dortmund have yielded 29 goals, including the opener in the cup final, before setting up hat-trick hero Robert Lewandowski's first of the game.Sex HOT show now with melanieevans

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NFL DRAFT: 5 things to look for in the first round Thursday

Commissioner Roger Goodell says Chicago has "overdelivered" as host of the 2015 NFL draft. And the picks haven't even begun. Here are five things to watch for in the first round Thursday night:

CHARACTER: General managers, coaches, scouts and owners always insist that a player's character is a key component in who gets selected, especially in the opening round.

Now comes a real test.

The 32 teams who will go on the clock Thursday have more than the usual tough decisions ahead. The NFL comes off a year marked by domestic abuse cases that placed the names Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy in the spotlight for their off-field misbehavior, not their on-field skills. The last thing the NFLBryce Petty of Baylor and, well, who knows? Not exactly the 1983 or 2004 crop.

POTENTIAL TRADES: Several personnel people quietly say they expect lots of bartering in this draft, particularly in the first two rounds. Teams dealing from strength would be Cleveland (12th and 19th) and New Orleans (13th and 31st). The Browns have their own pick and Buffalo's, the Saints own theirs and Seattle's for Jimmy Graham.

Speculation on possible dealers has centered on Philadelphia's Chip Kelly, who coached Mariota in college; San Diego, which can't seem to get quarterback Philip Rivers interested in a contract extension; and the Seahawks, who would like to climb back into the opening round.

RUNNING ON EMPTY: Running backs have not been a top commodity in recent drafts as the NFL has gone


pass crazy. Teams tend to look for ball carriers in later rounds, but this draft has a strong group.

Will Todd Gurley of Georgia break into the Thursday festivities now that he has a clean bill of health after a major knee injury? Will 2,000-yard man Melvin Gordon go on opening night?

DEFENSE, DEFENSE: A high priority almost certainly will be placed on the defensive side of the ball in the first round, even if Ray and Gregory plummet. Such standouts as linemen Leonard Williams of Southern Cal, Danny Shelton of Washington, Arik Armstead of Oregon, and Malcom Brown of Texas should go. Ditto linebackers Dante Fowler Jr. of Florida, Vic Beasley of Clemson and Shaq Thompson of Washington; DBs Trae Waynes of Michigan State, Landon Collins of Alabama, andThe Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said said the swearing-in ceremony would be held at 3 pm Saturday.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said late on Friday night that he would reshuffle the cabinet on Saturday replacing four ministers and the swearing-in ceremony would be held at 3 pm.

Ten Congress MLAs had on Wednesday joined the BJP increasing the strength of the party to 27 on the floor of the House.

The chief minister said the three members from coalition partner Goa Forward Party and an Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte would be dropped from the cabinet.

He refused to name the MLAs who would be inducted but said all the four would be from the BJP, with three of them from the legislators who joined the party on Wednesday.

Speculations are rife that


former leader of opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar, Philip Nery Rodrigues and Atanasio Monserratte would be inducted in the cabinet along with Deputy Speaker Michael Lobo.

Mr Sawant said the swearing-in ceremony would be held at 3 pm Saturday.

This would the second cabinet reshuffle by Mr Sawant since he took over as the chief minister three months ago. In his first cabinet reshuffle, Mr Sawant had inducted MGP's breakaway MLA Deepak Pauskar after dropping then deputy chief minister Sudin Dhavalikar.

Asked why allies are being dropped from the cabinet, the chief minister said the decision has been taken as per directives of the central leadership.

"I don''t want to go into details. We have taken this decision to give good governance to the people," he said.

Mr Sawant has the support by three MLAsfrom the Goa Forward Party and an Independent.

Goa Forward Party (GFP) chief and Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai had during the day said they are hoping for an amicable solution to the crisis.

"The GFP is a part of the NDA and had joined the BJP-led government after talks with the saffron party''s national leadership," Sardesai said, adding, "The present state BJP leaders were not part of the discussions then. As such, we will take appropriate steps only after talking to NDA leadership at the Centre."

"We have not yet received any official communication from the BJP leaders. On the contrary, we have received indications that the matter will be sorted out amicably," he said.

Ten of the 15 Congress MLAs, led by Leader of Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar, switched sides and


Have you prepared yourself to return, this Sunday, to Twin Peaks, that small Washington town, so well known for its coffee and cherry pie, once rocked by the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer? Fans of the eponymous television series, which first made surreal prime-time television history on ABC in 1990, have binge-watched and re-binge-watched its original two seasons in advance of the new Twin Peaks' May 21st debut on Showtime. Even fans who disliked the second season, in which series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost gave in to network pressure to resolve the story of Palmer's murder, have re-watched it, and with great excitement.

But can simply watching those first thirty episodes (and maybe the follow-up feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, once booed atCannes, the very same festival which will screen the first two parts of the new Twin Peaks on the 25th) suffice?

To get yourself as deep into the show's reality as possible, we recommend dipping into the Twin Peaks material we've posted over the years here at Open Culture, beginning with the four-hour video essay on the series' making and mythology we featured just this past January. You can orient yourself by keeping an eye on Lynch's hand-drawn map of the the town of Twin Peaks, which he used to pitch the show to ABC in the first place, and which appears just above.

But Twin Peaks has its foundation as much in music as in geography. Just above, you can hear composer Angelo Badalamenti, a frequent collaborator with Lynch,


Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities and culture. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer, the video series The City in Cinema, the crowdfunded journalism project Where Is the City of the Future?, and the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Korea Blog. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook.Report: Millions stolen from banks through sophisticated malware

Hackers were apparently able to impersonate bank officials and transfer money.

Hackers infiltrated over 100 banks in several countries, stealing millions of dollars in possibly the largest bank theft the world has seen, according to a report published by the New York Times on Saturday.

The Times said it received an advance copy of an upcoming report by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab that details how banks in Russia, Japan, the United States, and other countries fell victim to malware starting in late 2013 that allowed the hackers to watch video feeds, view daily operations, and impersonate bank officials.

The malware apparently allowed the hackers to transfer money from the banks to fake accounts. According to the Times, Kaspersky Lab said the total theft could be


white cells and platelets, hair loss and damage to the cardiovascular system, the kidney and the nervous system.
Cardiovascular diseases, and coronary heart disease in particular, are the leading cause of death in the United States. Dysfunctional conditions of the heart, arteries, and veins, as well as tobacco use, physical inactivity and an unhealthy diet are the major causes leading to the disease. High cholesterol levels, with consequent excess buildup of fat or plaque deposits, may cause narrowing of the arteries and veins that supply blood to the heart and lead to ischemic heart disease and high blood pressure (hypertension). Often, there are no symptoms of underlying cardiovascular diseases and a heart attack or stroke may be the first warning and although early medical detection and treatment is available,Pages

December 18, 2015

Miss Canada and the Free Bin

Well, I was hoping this wasn't true, but alas, Miss Canada, Paola Nuñez, wore this lil "Totem Pole" number for the Miss Universe Preliminaries held two days ago in Las Vegas. The pageant will be televised live on Sunday, Dec 20, on FOX.

The past costumers for Miss Canada seem to have an identity crisis of sorts, not really knowing how to authentically represent their unique national identity in a flamboyant soundbite of an ensemble.

What makes Canada unique? In the past, they've featured Mounties, maple leaves, and even hockey sticks, but they always come back to old standby: "the Native."

So, while the Canadian public is so rife with violent racist attacks against Native people that CBC (the national public radio and television


the state of affairs in Canada. Until we start seeing some real respect for our Indigenous sisters and brothers, hands off.

But now, an update.

Estevez's costume sketch.

Well, you may or may not like what I have to say. We've found the designer of this costume. He's actually a young Dominican designer who also designed Miss Canada's evening gown and the outfit for her talent portion. In fact, she is also from the Dominican Republic and immigrated with her mother to Canada at the age of 10. As a newcomer to Canada, she was bullied and teased because of her dark skin and big lips. In addition, from reading the designer’s meaning behind this costume, it is clear that he genuinely tried to do research (if only we could allAs the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices who are also subscribers to its Amazon Prime program.

The program will be limited, at least at the beginning, in what is available to borrow. Amazon will initially offer slightly more than 5,000 titles in the library, including more than 100 current and former national bestsellers, such as Stephen R. Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."...


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The very basic level of sports.

Real Madrid football club are undoubtedly the best team in the world right now. They possess the best players and have an equally great coach- who happens to be a former balon d'or holder and club legend. When Zidane was promoted to being the first team coach, many thought that he would not be able to succeed due to his gross inexperience. Analysts pointed out that even his former boss, Carlo Ancelotti, with all his experience and track record, was promptly shown the door when the going got tough. Tosay that Zidane has exceeded expectations is kind of an understatement, he has delivered beyond what any fan, player and even the club itself expected. Zidane lead Madrid to their 11th Champions league title. After faltering under Rafa Benitez's reign, Real Madrid and most especially Cristiano Ronaldo was able to find his best form back under Zidane. Zidane has been an unprecedented success at Madrid and is also expected to pick up more trophies along the way. However, the journey this season has not been really smooth. Real Madrid started the season with consecutive wins in the super cups against Manchester United and Barcelona respectively. They were heavily tipped to retain the la liga title. Fast forward into 5 matches in the season and there are already rumours


shore of Lake Wabasso. The city has never improved or maintained the avenue (Wabasso Avenue) despite its dedication to public use a century ago.
The property owners have maintained docks on the lake since the 1940s. And for at least 20 years, the property owners, and a number of their neighbors, have mowed the grass within the easement, planted trees and shrubbery, and maintained the shoreline of the lake so it would be suitable for their recreational use. They have also removed lake vegetation and sometimes added fill and constructed small beaches.
Some members of the public currently use the easement for walking and for access to an adjacent county park. In the past, the public has used the easement to camp, swim, boat, and walk. Until the 1960s, thepublic used the area to trap, fish, and frog-hunt.
In 1986, the property owners petitioned the city to vacate the avenue. After a study committee appointed by the city concluded that the shoreline included in the avenue should be allowed to return to its natural state, the city denied the petition for vacation and ordered the property owners to remove their docks from the shore and riparian waters.[1]
The property owners refused to remove the docks and brought a quiet title action to clarify their rights. The trial court found that both the city and the property owners hold riparian rights, but that the city's riparian rights are paramount. The court also found the property owners' docks, beaches, and removal of vegetation to be incompatible with the city's exercise of


its riparian rights. The court ordered the property owners to refrain from any actions that would interfere with the public's right of access to the lake, to remove the existing docks and man-made beaches, and to refrain from any further exercise of any rights other than those granted them as members of the general public. The court also ordered the property owners to refrain in the future from interfering with the city's riparian rights, including the city's right to construct docks or beaches or to allow the shoreline to return to its natural state.

ISSUES
I. Does the dedicated street easement bordering Lake Wabasso confer exclusive riparian rights on the city?
II. Is the city's current exercise of its riparian rights sufficient to require the property owners to remove lakeshore improvements?

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The Daily Roundup for 05.16.2013

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

Despite being officially unveiled at Google I/O, the stock Android version of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 has remained the unicorn of the show, seldom seen by anyone not closely associated with the company's top brass. We ran into Android VP Hugo Barra at the show, who was happy to give us a few brief moments


– Miguel Sano was interviewed by investigators from Major League Baseball on Tuesday, a sign that the inquiry into an alleged assault on a female photographer in 2015 may be nearing a resolution.

Sano, 24, missed the Twins’ workouts Tuesday after his representatives informed the team of his appointment with MLB’s security departments, according to a source with knowledge of his whereabouts. Sano returned to Hammond Stadium by late afternoon, in time for the Twins’ night game against Boston, though he was not in the lineup.

Sano did some weightlifting after returning to camp, Paul Molitor, and the manager decided to stick to his plan to have the burly Dominican make his Grapefruit League debut Wednesday. Sano will bat cleanup and play third base in the Twins’ home game vs.out of its contract with Stockbridge Fabrics Company, Ltd.  ("Stockbridge").

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Par-Knit, a manufacturer of garments, entered into a series of oral contracts to purchase textiles of varying styles, colors, types and quantities from Stockbridge, a distributor and supplier of such goods.  Sometime after the oral contracts were made and before the goods were delivered, Stockbridge sent to Par-Knit documents bearing the term "Contract".  On the front of each document in the lower right corner was a space designated for signature entitled "Buyer's Acceptance".  To the immediate left of this space appeared the following language: "See provisions on reverse side which are an integral part of this contract."  Across the top of the reverse side of each document was the caption "Terms and Conditions


Sverre Fehn, Pritzker Winner, Dead at 84

March 18, 2009

By Sebastian Howard

Sverre Fehn

Sverre Fehn, the prominent Norwegian architect, died on February 23. He was 84.

Fehn, known for fusing Modernism with traditional Scandinavian architecture, was the recipient of many of the profession’s highest honors, including the Pritzker Prize, which he received in 1997. In the Pritzker award citation, juror Ada Louise Huxtable lauded Fehn’s work for its “extraordinary richness, perception, and quality” and said it “represents the best of 20th century Modernism.”

After graduating from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1949, Fehn joined a group of designers devoted to finding a uniquely Norwegian expression of Modernism. In 1954, he formed his own practice, Ark Sverre Fehn, in Norway, where the majority of his work was built. Fehn also taught architectureThe accused stepped out of their car and introduced themselves as police officers (Representational)

Two unidentified men posing as police officers allegedly stole over Rs 4.50 lakh from the wallet of two Iraqi nationals in Gurgaon, officials said.

Karwan Taha Mohhammed, along with his friend, was in Gurgaon for the treatment of his brother at a private hospital.

They were returning to their guest house in an auto when the men, in a white car, intercepted their vehicle near Kanhai traffic intersection.

The accused stepped out of their car and introduced themselves as police officers. They then asked the foreigners to show their visa, passport, purpose of visiting India and wallet.

The accused took away USD 6,000 from their wallet without coming into notice of the victim, Gurgaon police PRO Subhash Bokan said.

"We


who ran as an independent, and in Sherbrooke, where Jean Charest was one of only two PC candidates to win in all of Canada. By 1997, he was PC leader and local candidates running on his coattails did well, resulting in a split between the Progressive Conservatives (four seats) the Bloc Québécois (three seats) and the Liberals (two seats). However, in 1998, Charest moved to provincial politics as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party (which is independent of the federal Liberals, despite the similarity of names), and without him local support for the PCs declined. By the 2000 election two of the PC members, David Price and Diane St-Jacques, had left the party and joined the federal Liberals. André Bachand remained with the PCs in 2000 and wasDon Bloch award, 2013.
Frank deGruy, as recipient of the 2013 Don Bloch Award, presents a brief history of Bloch's contributions to the concept of collaboration in primary and mental health care. Bloch focused on the family as the unit of care for people with mental health problems, but saw something else: a person's psychological state was inextricably linked to his or her physical state. The health of one depended on the health of the other. Bloch started the journal that is now called Families, Systems, & Health, and then decided there was a need for an organization, which became the Collaborative Family Health care Association.


bus carried Sophie & Aurelia; Paula & Natasha and Collin & Adrian on the fourth bus. Paula & Natasha spent time on the bus by begging around for money, and was awarded with quite a lot of cash.

Daichi & Sawaka got on the fifth bus.

At Pila, teams must perform a road block, which requires them to guide a carabao around markers in a paddy (and muddy) field.

Pam and Marc plunged into the field immediately, but Pam got impatient by her bull and started to lose control. Marc did well with his, and finished quickly.

A frustrated Pam was guided by the farmers back to the starting point, and she had to restart.

Back in Manila, Henry & Terri and Edwin & Monica just began their races, and boarded the sixthbus to Pila. Terri lifted the mood by forcing the clearly unhappy passengers on board to sing the national anthem of Philippines, which lead to a monotonous drool.

Kinar & Brett arrived, and Kinar who chose to do the roadblock, misinterpreted the clue and wanted to ride the bull instead of leading it.

More teams arrived. Diane was dragged freestyle by her bull, but she survived.

Teams came and went. The next clue: head back to Manila and load four boxes from a Caltex station into a jeepney and deliver them to an orphanage.

Pam & Van got agitated as they thought the station was in Pila, not in Manila, so they wandered around aimlessly. Marc & Rovilson meanwhile, were already on the bus back to Manila. The sisters got into the


on the top floor of the same building, (she’d already been to that client) and Bianca left the building and headed back to her taxi. Bianca realized she had been played, and fumed at Saleisha. Saleisha was all smiles and joys and kissed more asses.

Heather was lost at her second go-see, and when she decided to head back to the agency she couldn’t find her taxi.

Time was short and Saleisha made a smart move by going back to the agency an hour earlier, which she was thankful for, as the traffic was heavy and it took them 45 minutes each to get back. At about a quarter to six, Bianca ran like crazy into the agency, and they both made it on time. Jenah arrived outside the timein the peanut shop!” (Which, I suppose, is the “fatal mistake” narrated by Tyra in the preview video)

In judging, Tyra revealed that the top 4 will go to Beijing.

Chantal was pointed out to wear skin-toned underwear in the future, and her shoot rocked.

Bianca wasn’t fluid enough with her movements in the photoshoot, and her face looked sleepy in the photo. Nevertheless, nice body language.

The designers love Jenah’s portfolio, but needed to work on her personality. Her photo was good, but Nigel went on about her sarcasm and her sense of humour.

Heather had a great photo, but was stiff during the phot sessions. The judges were disappointed that she only went to one go-see.

Roll call. Saleisha was first given the passport to Beijing. Then challenge winner Bianca. Then Chantal.

Heather


§Prof. Ashwini Bhosale who is the Student Council In charge introduced the College Council Members who addressed presented a brief description about their agenda. The various extra-curricular activities were enlightened by each member of the team.

§Principal Dr. Sudnya Mahimkar addressed the students and parents and gave a brief on Examination system, Submission scheme, Attendance schedule, Anti-ragging committee (Assurance was given that B.R.Harne college of Architecture is a ragging free campus)

§Later on, Parents and students had their tea-snacks sessions.

§The program was concluded by a vote of thanks presented by Prof. Ketaki Gupte.Yesterday, stunning photos of a semi-translucent, gelatinous caterpillar spread quickly across the Internet—probably setting a new speed record for larvae of all kinds. Scuba instructor and amateur wildlife photographer Gerardo Aizpuru spotted the creature in early April on a mangrove tree leaf near Cancun, Mexico. He submitted his pictures to Project Noah, a user-created database of geotagged wildlife photos, where various commenters identified the species as the larva of a fuzzy orange moth called Acraga coa.

Although it's not 100 percent certain that the "jewel caterpillar" Aizpuru photographed is Acraga coa, it almost definitely belongs to the same family of moths, known as Dalceridae. Scientists have identified around 84 different species of Dalceridae moths, whose larvae are sometimes called "slug caterpillars" because they are so gooey. If you search


Roosevelt's campaign. Instead, interpersonal outlets proved more influential than the media. Therefore, Lazarsfeld concluded that the effects of the campaign were not all powerful to the point where they completely persuaded "helpless audiences", a claim that the Magic Bullet, Hypodermic Needle Model, and Lasswell asserted. These new findings also suggested that the public can select which messages affect and don't affect them.

Lazarsfeld's debunking of these models of communication provided the way for new ideas regarding the media's effects on the public. Lazarsfeld introduced the idea of the two-step flow of communication in 1944. Elihu Katz contributed to the model in 1955 through studies and publications. The model of the two-step flow of communication assumes that ideas flow from the mass media to opinion leaders and then to thetheir attorneys for services, and a 1950 Plymouth. Prior to May 19, 1956, said defendants were in the business of operating leaseholds (apartment buildings). Judgment was entered in the original action July 27, 1955. On May 19, 1956, the Jorgensens transferred three leaseholds to their daughter and son-in-law Joyce and Gene Camozzi. No money was paid for these transfers. One lease had 10 months *647 to run, one had four years, and the third three years left. All three leases contain provisions restricting assignment and for termination in the event of transfer by operation of law. The lease of 925 Geary Street provides for cancellation in the event of the appointment of a receiver. Lillian testified that the transfers were made on advice of the landlords who consented


leg. We started with the quarter line to the rail, then the center line to the rail, and it was something sort of magical. She kept her body straight, moved at the angle I requested, and I could simply hold the contact with the outside rein. She got a big pat and lots of praise.

Old media, you can see how much this helped us last year.

Then, I reversed directions and asked for the same from the right leg. Again, I got no response. Cool. I rolled my spur into her, and she moved on her front end. Even more cool. I tried to hold her with my outside rein, but she sucked her neck back, popped her shoulder further to the outside, and twisted her neck to thesouthern Maluku.

Throughout much of the VOC era (17th and 18th centuries), the south Moluccans resisted Dutch dominance. The Banda Islands were only subdued after the indigenous power structure and organisation of trade and politics was destroyed with the extermination and eviction of the Bandanese population in 1621. To repress the autonomous traders of East Seram, the VOC organised ‘Hongi’ raiding expeditions with warrior bands from other south Maluku islands. During ‘Hongi’ raids, houses and vessels were burnt, cash crops were uprooted and most wealth was looted by the ‘Hongi’ warriors. Survivors who escaped had to start from scratch and, during two centuries of resistance, the East Seramese increasingly suffered impoverishment. However, their independent trading network was never completely destroyed.

From 1780 to 1802, the people of Seram joined an


Nasional Indonesia (Republican Indonesian army, TNI) encountered the military prowess of the Moluccan special troops. The heavy fighting triggered them to create their own special troops. At that time the Moluccan special troops' only contemporaries were the Gurkha units of the British Indian Army.

Disbanding the colonial army

During the Indonesian National Revolution, the Dutch had to disband the reinstated KNIL, and the native soldiers had the choice of either being demobilised or joining the army of the Republic of Indonesia. Due to a deep distrust of the Republican leadership, which was predominantly Javanese Muslim, this was an extremely difficult choice for the Protestant Ambonese, and only a minority chose to serve with the Indonesian Army. Disbanding proved a complicated process and, in 1951, two years after the transfer ofAs with the attack in Wassenaar, the aims of these actions were not very clear; apart from restoring unity within the RMS movement, it is difficult to see any concrete objectives in the vague rhetoric and impossible political demands made by the attackers. Attacks on a train and on a village school in 1977 led to a final escalation of the violence. The Dutch government saw no other way out than to use military force to end the action. Meanwhile, support for this kind of action within the Moluccan community was ebbing. Instead of reuniting the Moluccans in the Netherlands, this radicalism threatened to lead to more division. When, in 1978, a group of youngsters raided the seat of the provincial government in Assen, they received not the


Yunus Effendi Habibie, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide in 2009 that Indonesia was pleased that the exiled Moluccan government is no longer striving for an independent state. According to the ambassador, Moluccans already have autonomy, so the present situation need not be changed. He rejects full Moluccan independence. Habibie's comments come in response to a decision by the designated new president of the Moluccan government-in-exile, John Wattilete's words that an independent Moluccan state is no longer its absolute priority. Although independence is still the ultimate goal, he says he would be satisfied with a form of autonomy similar to that introduced in Aceh. "The most important thing is that Moluccans themselves are in charge."

John Wattilete became RMS president in April 2010. He is the first to come from theOne of the amazing things about modern American culture is surely the pathological fear of wasting time. It is especially evident in the attitude to children. Public school kids have their lives scheduled from morning till night; homeschool parents seem to regard any second of the day from the age of two that isn't used to learn Latin poetry or the cello or conversational Swahili as time that is wasted. It's a far cry from my childhood, when school ran from 9 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon, and then I was free to ride my bike, walk on the common, or just sit around with friends. And it continues in to later life: all the technology we have, and people seem to have less free


work.

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JB reports unrestricted educational grants from GSK, Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Limited and AstraZeneca, and funding for the operations of CanCOLD Longitudinal Epidemiological Study from the CIHR/Rx&D Collaborative Research Program with industry partners such as AstraZeneca Canada, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Limited, GSK Canada, Merck and Novartis. DJ has received an unrestricted research grant from Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Limited and an education grant from AstraZeneca Canada. FM received fees for speaking at conferences sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Limited, GSK, Novartis and Grifols; research grants for participating in multicenter trials sponsored by GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Limited, Astra Zeneca, Nycomed and Novartis and unrestricted research grants from Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Limited and GSK.BB, CAW-M, AH and HP report no conflicts of interest in this work.

![Study design for V2 andexpert from the university's school of public policy, who was commissioned to write the report, released Wednesday.

A successful pitch, he said, will require governments to be open and transparent with their plans — a tall task for what Flemming describes as "the most secretive and controlling government in Canadian history." :s

The need to charge user fees is being driven by the retreat of the federal government from stimulus spending as Ottawa attempts to get its fiscal house in order and cut the federal deficit over the coming three years.

Flemming argues user fees, and an even more controversial concept — public-private partnerships including allowing people to invest their pensions in infrastructure projects through "infrastructure banks" — are one way to fill the financial gap left by the end of


stimulus spending.

A second driver is climate change.

Although the report questions the exact cause of climate change, Flemming argues more green technologies in vehicles that decrease the need for oil will, eventually, dry up the one line of infrastructure financing the federal government provides to cities: the gas tax.

"The shrinking of the gas tax base is being recognized everywhere, even by states and the federal government in the United States," Flemming writes. "That decline is already pushing people in other parts of the world towards other revenue sources, such as road pricing, more sophisticated tolling or congestion charging."

Charging tolls or road fees has become a norm in other countries, such as the United States and in Europe, including Britain where cars entering downtown London are charged a congestion fee"We made this game a lot harder than it should have been," said Washington's John Wall, who scored only nine points and missed 10 of 14 shots.

The Wizards opened a 71-43 lead in the second quarter against Milwaukee (12-50), the NBA's first team to lose 50 games. But the Bucks cut the deficit to 104-101 on a pair of free throws by Ersan Ilyasova with 2:13 to go.

"It's unfortunate that we have to learn a lesson from this game," said Martell Webster, who scored 15 points after missing two games with a sore back.

"No disrespect to that team that's over there. Milwaukee's just is in a dysfunctional state," he said. "These are games that we know we're supposed to win by a large margin. In this league, you


said.

Washington made 29 of 43 shots in the first half and took its 71-43 lead on Beal's 3-pointer with 2:24 left in the second quarter. The Wizards led 75-53 at halftime, a season high in points for the first half.

Milwaukee scored the first 12 points of the third quarter to pull within 75-65, but Ariza scored on a driving layup with 4:57 left to snap the Wizards' scoring drought.

Washington scored the final four points of the first quarter and then outscored Milwaukee 30-12 to open the second quarter, opening a 66-39 lead on Ariza's 3-pointer with 4:14 to go in the half.

But the Wizards missed their first nine shots of the second half to let Milwaukee back into the game.

"We kept cutting into the deficit but leads likethat are just very, very hard to overcome," Milwaukee coach Larry Drew said.

Ilyasova returned from a one-game suspension for punching Sacramento's Reggie Evans on Wednesday night and scored 13 points in 27 minutes. His teammate, O.J. Mayo, missed the game after being given a one-game suspension for punching New Orleans' Greg Stiemsma on Friday night.

Ariza made six of eight shots in the first quarter to score 17 points and give Washington a 36-27 lead. Trevor Booker made one of two free throws to give the Wizards the lead for good, 16-15, with 5:33 left in the first quarter.

The game marked the return to Milwaukee of forward Drew Gooden, who signed a second 10-day contract with the Wizards on Saturday. Gooden, who signed a five-year, $34 million contract with


the Bucks in 2010 but was released on an amnesty provision before this season, scored 13 points in 16 minutes off the bench.

Game notes

Ariza went to the court hard with 6:16 left in the first quarter. He stayed on the ground for about a minute before rising and walking to the bench. . The Wizards previous first-half high was 74 points against Philadelphia on March 1. . The Wizards have won 14 of their last 20 road games.the Slitherine Group. "We continually strive to reach new players with fresh and innovative titles, both old and new, to introduce them to this great hobby of strategy and wargames. Our genre is growing exponentially and as market leaders of this sector, we feel it is vitally important that we continue to improve and further expand our reach. The Stratego brand is a wonderful opportunity to do this and many players will welcome such a recognizable brand name, to persuade them to have a go".

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good. Everyone who played center was no good. Xavier Nixon and Lance Louis and Hugh Thornton? Lousy.

Armed with spending money and draft picks this offseason, the Colts addressed one of their worst units with a huge portion of wishful thinking.

They hope Jack Mewhort, a tackle at Ohio State, can be as serviceable this season at right tackle as he was last season at left guard. They hope the light bulb goes on for Khaled Holmes or Jonotthan Harrison at center. They hope Lance Louis doesn't remain lousy at left guard. And they hope their only offseason addition at offensive line, free agent right guard Todd Herremans, is a whole lot better than he was last season.

When he was lousy.

This is harsh stuff you're reading, but sometimes that's theup on in 2012 by the 8-8 Bears and in 2013 by the 8-8 Dolphins. He resurfaced last year with the Colts, was no good for most of the season, then rallied in the postseason when the entire line put together two good playoff games before the 45-7 debacle at New England.

Can Louis be that good again this season? The Colts sure hope so!

And Louis isn't the Colts' biggest question mark on the line. Judging from Pagano's news conference Monday, that would be Holmes. In two days and nearly 25 minutes of interviews, Pagano has used the phrase "right now" to describe just one starter's hold on his position. That player is Holmes, and Pagano used that phrase at least three times to describe Holmes as the starter


and Harrison at backup.

And last season Harrison was lousy.

Floating under the radar is Herremans, whose offseason acquisition as a free agent looks really good – he made 124 starts with the Eagles, sixth in team history for a lineman – until you look a little closer.

For example, Herremans has ended two of the last three seasons on injured reserve. He turns 33 in October. Those are two scary sentences.

Another example? When he was injured last season (a biceps injury after eight games), Herremans ranked 70th among 78 offensive guards in the Pro Football Focus rankings. Those rankings, to be fair, are subjective. It's not something as definable as passes caught or yards gained or even passer rating. Human beings watch film and then decide, on a play-by-play basis,Sophia: The Robot in Africa

Sophia at SAPNow Conference in South Africa. Picture: SAP

Sophia, the 3 year old humanoid robot set foot on the African continent for the first time to attend the SAP Now Conference in August 2018. She was created using breakthrough robotics and artificial intelligence technologies developed by David Hanson and his friends at Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong. She was in Johannesburg,South Africa to take part in the SAP Now conference as one of the panelists. She had a brief conversation with the Managing Director of SAP in Africa, Cathy Smith. She even spoke a local language, isiZulu. Sophia was also interviewed by the Carte Blanche investigative journalist Devi Sankaree Govender.

Robots are often regarded as objects that are distant from human beings. A closer look


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Every human being has citizenship of a country. Being a citizen is a right that distinguishes human beings from other beings such as animals and robots. In 2017 Sophia was granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia. In her announcement speech of her citizenship she had this to say: "I am very honored and proud of this unique distinction. This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship”

This move by UAE was considered controversial due to limited rights for women in the country. It also should get people thinking about the meaning of rights in the age of robots.

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As human beings we value participation in society such as being appointed in roles that allow us to serve and make a difference. AnTag Archives: Mexican Independence Day

The Parks and Recreation Department in partnership with Cigna, invites the community to a festival that celebrates Mexican Independence Day this weekend.

The celebration is slated to start at 5 p.m. on Saturday, September 14, at San Jacinto Plaza, in Downtown El Paso

The Mexican Independence Day celebration includes a variety of musical entertainment such as Banda Sierrena Legion 5.7, Mariachi Alegre, Grupo Silueta, along with Folklorico groups, and other performing artists.

In addition, visitors can enjoy arts and crafts booths, jumping balloons, children games and food from various food trucks.

Visitors are encouraged to bring chairs to the free, family-friendly event. San Jacinto Plaza is a dog-leash friendly park that has a splash pad, horseshoe and washer pits, and chess and table tennis.

Mexican Independence Day marks September


16, 1810, the day when priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla urged Mexicans to rise up against the colonial government of Spain. The call today is referred to as the Grito de Dolores, or Cry of Dolores, named after the town of Dolores where the cry was originally made.

For more information on the Mexican Independence Day Celebration, interested residents call the Parks and Recreation Department at (915) 212-1731.Blocked ventriculoperitoneal shunt causing raised intracranial pressure diagnosed by prominent sinus pericranii.
We present a 3.5-year-old male infant who had been treated at 3 weeks of age with a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt for intraventricular haemorrhage with resultant hydrocephalus. Since his initial treatment he had normal developmental milestones. On this occasion he presented with difficulty in walking, vomiting and irritability. His mother was concerned this was due to his shunt malfunctioning. It had not required revision since insertion as a neonate. He was initially managed at a peripheral hospital without neurosurgical services for 4 weeks as an outpatient. The major clinical concern was a gradually enlarging lesion confined to the top of his head consistent with a vascular malformation. Investigations were focused towards this, with an initial diagnosis made of


Swans vs Wildcats Legends Match and Reunion

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Still suffering from the over-exuberance of the night before, I crawled onto a plane to Melbourne. Less than 2 hours later I was stepping out a cab into the shadows of the MCG. I was here to watch my former Sussex Swans teammates take on former greats from the West London Wildcats in a reunion grudge match. It was great to see so many club legends together at one time and the first time most had played as teammates - as their tenures with the club span over a decade.

We got off to a shocking start, giving them a 6 goal head start with the wind in the first 1/4 - but we outscored them in each of the remainingas the Muslim holy book (54%). Roughly one-third (36%) correctly associate striving for nirvana with Buddhism.

Around four-in-ten Americans know that the Mormon religion was founded sometime after 1800 (44%) and that the Book of Mormon tells the story of Jesus appearing to people in the Americas (40%). About half (51%) correctly identify Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as a Mormon.

In addition to questions about religious knowledge, the survey included nine general knowledge questions (on history, politics, science and literature) for comparison purposes. These show, for example, that about six-in-ten Americans can name the vice president of the United States (59%) and understand that lasers do not work by focusing sound waves (60%). More than seven-in-ten (72%) correctly associate Susan B. Anthony


being released at the God in America National Symposium on Religious Literacy on Sept. 28, 2010, in Washington, D.C. WGBH Television in Boston collaborated with the Pew Forum and the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum on the symposium, which will also feature a screening of the three-part PBS documentary “God in America.” The series interweaves documentary footage, historical dramatization and interviews to explore the historical role of religion in the U.S., including its impact on society, politics and culture.

Footnotes

1 The Pew Forum’s 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey estimated that Jews and Mormons each make up about 1.7% of the U.S. public, while atheists and agnostics combined account for about 4% of the U.S. population. Atheists and agnostics are treated as a single group throughout this report.forced by its creditors to cut spending by €28 billion — quite a sum in a €179 billion economy. A proportional dose of austerity applied to the United States, for example, would come to $2.6 trillion.

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Sitting at his desk at the start of yet another 20-hour-plus workday, Theodoros Giannaros, the head of Elpis Hospital in Athens, chain-smoked cigarettes and signed off on a pile of spending requests that he said he knew would not be fulfilled. Since he started work at the hospital in 2010, Mr. Giannaros has seen his salary shrink to €1,200 a month, from €7,400. His annual budget, once €20 million, is now €6 million, and the number of practicing doctors has been reduced to 200 from 250. Like almost everyone in Greece, he is


the French president, François Hollande, have sealed an agreement aimed at fashioning a tighter political union among the single-currency countries while operating within the confines of the existing treaty. The Franco-German proposals are to be put to an EU summit in Brussels next month, where Cameron is also to unveil his shopping list of changes needed if he is to win support for keeping Britain in the EU.

The Franco-German accord, disclosed by Le Monde newspaper, calls for eurozone reforms in four areas “developed in the framework of the current treaties in the years ahead”. Cameron has persistently called for a reopening of the treaties to enable the eurozone to integrate more closely while providing the British with a chance to reshape the UK’s relations with the EU andhe would renegotiate Britain’s role in Europe, and hold a referendum on the country’s continuing membership of the bloc by the end of 2017. He launched his reform drive at a summit of EU and ex-Soviet states in Latvia last week, saying he was confident of winning concessions although it would not be easy. Cameron has said changes to rules on welfare benefits were an absolute requirement in any renegotiation. He wants to force EU migrants to wait four years before accessing a range of welfare benefits in Britain, and to win the power to deport out of work EU jobseekers after six months.

As of this week, Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland are felons, having pleaded guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges of conspiring


generators imposed after the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, are particularly risky, the physicist He Zuoxiu said, because if there was an accident it could contaminate rivers that hundreds of millions of people rely on for water and taint groundwater supplies to vast swathes of important farmlands.

China halted the approval of new reactors in 2011 in order to review its safety standards, but gave the go-ahead in March for two new units, part of an attempt to surpass Japan’s nuclear generating capacity by 2020 and become the world’s biggest user of nuclear power a decade later. Barack Obama, the US president, recently announced plans to renew a nuclear cooperation deal with Beijing that would allow it to buy more US-designed reactors, and potentially pursue the technology to reprocessplutonium from spent fuel. The government is keen to expand nuclear generation as part of a wider effort to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and cut dependence on imported oil and gas.

He, who worked on China’s nuclear weapons programme, said the planned rollout is going far too fast to ensure it has the safety and monitoring expertise needed to avert an accident. “There are currently two voices on nuclear energy in China. One prioritises safety while the other prioritises development,” He told the Guardian in an interview at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he is still working aged 88. He spoke of risks including “corruption, poor management abilities and decision-making capabilities”. He said: “They want to build 58 (gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity) by 2020


on the other hand, appear to only have open arms and excitement surrounding cryptocurrencies.

In 2008, Zimbabwe experienced hyperinflation, some of the worst ever recorded. Zimbabwean currency inflated by a whopping 79,600,000,000% in November of 2008, valuing the currency near worthless. The Zimbabwean government printed banknotes value from Z$10 all the way up to their highest note of Z$100,000,000,000,000 in one years time. Zimbabweans 100 trillion dollar note, is worth just 40 cents USD.

Since the inflation, Zimbabweans have been unable to use their own currency. The people of Zimbabwe have been searching for alternative ever since, and the the perfect solution to their problem arose with the invention of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the most popularly traded and used cryptocurrency in Zimbabwe. Some people in Zimbabwe have reported paying rent and(CNN) Miami Beach police are investigating the collapse of a 12-story building on Monday during a demolition that left one person injured, a spokesman said.

Samuel Landis, 46, was in critical condition at a hospital, police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said. Witnesses told CNN affiliate WPLG that the man was hit by a projectile from the building's collapse.

Police said he was outside the building; video taken by an eyewitness shows an individual receiving CPR minutes after the collapse.

Rodriguez said the search and rescue efforts have ended and the department is now leading a criminal investigation.

Inspectors confirmed that the adjacent buildings are safe.

Albert Cabada, who owns the restoration company GC Construction, was working on the building next door and filmed the collapse. Cabada told CNN that the building was slated to


be demolished in sections this week, but instead it collapsed completely.

"As far as I could tell they were scrambling before the collapse to close the streets," he said.

Cabada said that demolition workers removed large sections of structural load-bearing walls on the front of the building, a decision that caused Cabada to notify management at the site that the demolition prep concerned him.

"It was poorly planned, in my opinion," he added.

Now the building his company is working on is completely encased in dust, which he worries could be hazardous.

The building that collapsed at 5775 Collins Ave. was the 12-story Marlborough House, which was approved to be demolished to make way for new condos, according to the property developer Multiplan Real Estate Asset Management

The company plans to build a "boutiqueoceanfront enclave" on the site, according to the company's website . The new development will feature up to 87 high-end residences and will include a beach-facing pool, lounge and social area, the company said.

Multiplan Real Estate Asset Management did not immediately respond to CNN's requests for comment.

Police said there was a demolition permit on file for the site, but not an implosion permit. Demolition refers to the general process of tearing down a building, while implosion is specific to the use of explosives to quickly bring down a structure.

A black sign amid the rubble, seen in the bottom left of the image below, says, "Watch it come down."

Miami Beach Fire Department posted an image of the collapsed building on Monday.

Winmar Construction, the general contractor on the development project,


said that a "construction accident" occurred during the permitted demolition, according to a statement from company president Luis Leon.

Leon said Allied Bean Demolition was subcontracted to do the demolition and was responsible for the demolition work. Allied Bean Demolition did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

Miami Beach Police shared this overhead image of the collapsed building.

Leon had identified the person injured in the collapse as a project manager from Allied Bean Demolition.

"We continue to monitor his condition and our thoughts and prayers go out to Allied's project manager and his family during this difficult time," Leon said.

"Safety remains the top priority for Winmar on all of its projects and we adhere to all safety protocols to ensure every precaution is taken. We are working closely withcity officials and industry agencies to understand what happened during Allied's demolition of the structure," he added.

Collins Avenue in Miami Beach was closed in both directions near the collapse as police and fire officials responded.

Vicky Echeverri posted video to Instagram of dust filling the air after the building collapsed.

Adam Thompson, who lives at 57th and Collins near the site of the collapse, filmed the pile of rubble in the aftermath.

"The front of the building looked so flimsy the past couple days I was surprised it was able to stand," he said.

Silvina Chinni took photos of the collapse from the beach.

This building super near me in miami beach just collapsed!!! Pics my mom took at the beach. Cloud of smoke and sirens everywhere pic.twitter.com/lnLZssB5Kq — elo (@elopch) July 23,


As small as a grain of rice, a microchip can make a huge difference to a family of a lost pet. In the case of Ashes, a 3-year-old gray cat who was found at a truck stop in Ohio, his microchip helped reunite him with his owner who was states away.

Kimberly T. was moving from the West Coast back to the Rochester area with the help of a friend earlier this month when she made a pit stop at a Love’s Travel Stop in Ohio. Just before getting back into her car, Kimberly noticed a thin gray cat emerging from the brush. It was a 13-degree day, and the cat appeared cold, emaciated and seeking attention. “He was trying to not put his feet down on the ground,base was in Georgia, Ashes, and Matthew would often travel together in the comfort of his 18-wheeler. Much like cats adopted out of our Working Cat Program, some cats thrive in unique settings like wineries, greenhouses, even enjoying the adventures of the trucking life! Matthew had been passing through Springfield, Ohio in July of this year when his road mate Ashes had accidentally slipped out of the truck while it was parked at the Love’s stop. Ashes had gotten spooked, and ran for the brush. Matthew was devastated and searched everywhere for Ashes. When he couldn’t find him, he had to get back on the road – but Matthew rearranged his routes several times over the next few months and went back to that very spot to search


for Ashes.

It wasn’t until several months later that Kimberly came upon Ashes in that very area, and decided to bring him back to New York with her. When Kimberly arrived at Lollypop Farm with Ashes, our Admissions Team immediately scanned for a microchip, as they do with all incoming pets. Not only did he have one, but he had an owner who had registered him under a Texas address that was over 1,465 miles away! This was one cross-country kitty.

When Matthew got the call that Ashes had not only been found but was safe and sound and receiving veterinary care in Rochester, New York, he was shocked. “I had been thinking about Ashes every day,” said Matthew. Luckily, since Matthew was a trucker, he was able to re-arrangehis driving schedule and make his way towards New York relatively quickly. He was in Arkansas at the time and managed to book a trip to Pennsylvania, and then Rochester, New York. Our incredible Lost and Found Team worked with Matthew to arrange for his visit. About a week and a half after Ashes first arrived at Lollypop Farm, Matthew’s 18-wheeler pulled up in front of the shelter, and the two were finally going to be reunited.

Our Clinic Team brought Ashes out into the cat adoption center, where he was greeted by Matthew, Kimberly, and her friend, who had come to witness the reunion, too.

“It’s my Christmas miracle,” said Matthew.

After traveling all the way from Ohio with Ashes, Kimberly had felt a close connection to his story and


the conference on Friday: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Democratic senators ask inspector general to investigate IRS use of location tracking service MORE (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersThe Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power Bernie Sanders: 'This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy' The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump stokes fears over November election outcome MORE (I-Vt.), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), South Bend, Ind., Mayorthe outreach efforts in Florida come with a sense of urgency.

Even as Democrats scored a slew of wins nationally in the 2108 midterms, Florida’s longtime senator and elder statesman, Bill Nelson Clarence (Bill) William NelsonDemocrats sound alarm on possible election chaos Trump, facing trouble in Florida, goes all in NASA names DC headquarters after agency's first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson MORE, was ousted by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), the state’s former Republican governor. And Gillum, the Democratic former mayor of Tallahassee, ultimately fell to Republican Ron DeSantis Ron DeSantisTrump faces tricky choice on Supreme Court pick DeSantis wants to protect college students from punishment for not following COVID-19 rules Texas governor proposes stiffer penalties for organizing, participating in 'riots' MORE in the gubernatorial race.

While both Nelson


and Gillum won more than half of the Latino vote – about 54 percent each, according to exit polls – their margins fell short of other past candidates running statewide in Florida. Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonFox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio Trump, Biden court Black business owners in final election sprint The power of incumbency: How Trump is using the Oval Office to win reelection MORE, for instance, won about 62 percent of Florida’s Latino vote in 2016. Former President Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaObama warns of a 'decade of unfair, partisan gerrymandering' in call to look at down-ballot races Quinnipiac polls show Trump leading Biden in Texas, deadlocked race in Ohio Poll: Trump opens up 6-point lead over BidenParty launched a Spanish-language radio show in Miami, with hopes of eventually expanding the program into Latino-heavy Orlando and Tampa.

At the same time, the Democratic National Committee has already deployed 90 members of its newly minted Organizing Corps to Florida, including more than 20 people in Miami-Dade County alone, many of whom are bilingual.

And next week, 20 of the 24 Democratic presidential candidates will flock to Miami for the first of the party’s primary debates.

The NALEO conference on Friday gave several Democratic presidential hopefuls not only a chance to introduce themselves to Latino voters and leaders, Ulvert said, but to scoop up valuable airtime on Spanish-language media, a particularly valuable tool in a state where television appearances often resonate more than small town hall events.

Among the top-tier Democratic


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home of young boy from Beit Hanoun was badly damaged by a drone attack. His family offered us what little food they had as ate with them on the street, shaded by what remained of their home In pictures: The children of Gaza Gaza Animators lead the children through one of their games in an outreach program at youth centre in northern Gaza close to the border with Israel In pictures: The children of Gaza Gaza Some children from a bedouin area in Eastern Gaza perform some of their dance routines for the rest of the class In pictures: The children of Gaza Gaza Children from the Camp Breakerz dance crew show off their moves as Sharky looks on. Sharky started camp breakerz in 2012 and now ithas dozens of children attending on a regular basis. Its a chance for them to let off a bit of steam as there are minimal extracurricular activities for children growing up in Gaza today In pictures: The children of Gaza Gaza Dr’s from the Gaza Community Mental Health Program meet with a traumatised family in Gaza City who lost their father In pictures: The children of Gaza Gaza Salma, who was traumatised, receives treatment at her home from the Gaza Community Mental Health Program in Gaza City. She had lost her 18 of her fmaily members when their family home was bombed In pictures: The children of Gaza Gaza Children playing at the Nawa for Culture and Arts Association, Gaza City. The center was started in 2013 by


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But seriously. Is Dermer, one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most trusted advisers, simply delusional? At one point in his extraordinary address, he even referred to the RAF’s carpet-bombing of German cities in the Second World War – as if this was the template for Israel’s “restraint”. It was like the old Blair refrain that whatever mistakes we made in Iraq, we weren’t as bad as Saddam.

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As the most fouled player in the Premier League, you might expect Eden Hazard to be bored of having his legs taken away from under him.

But the Belgian winger, doesn't seem to mind, saying he is used to being kicked by opponents, and it spurs him on to be a better player.

Hazard has suffered 102 fouls so far this season, in League and Champions League games, but the Chelsea star claims it actually makes him happy when opponents target him, and he has learned not to react.

Eden Hazard, the Premier League's most fouled player, endures another tough tackle against Burnley

Hazard has been on the receiving end of a foul over 100 times already this season, the most in England

The Belgian winger insists being kicked by opponents spurs himwork was supported by The Netherlands Center for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC), an NWO Gravitation Programme funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the government of The Netherlands. This work is part of the D-ITP consortium, a program of the NWO that is also funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). We are grateful to Ken Brakke for giving us advice in using Surface Evolver. We also thank S. Karpitschka and C. W. Visser for their insights on this work.


his website and have his partner, "North Dakota", release it for free if he dies, essentially holding the NSA hostage. Strathmore tells Susan that Tankado in fact died in Seville, of what appears to be a heart attack which he is intend to keep a secret because if Tankado's partner finds that he will upload the code. The agency is determined to stop Digital Fortress from becoming a threat to national security.

Strathmore asks Susan's fiancé David Becker to travel to Seville and recover a ring that Tankado was wearing when he died. The ring is suspected to have the code that unlocks Digital Fortress. However, Becker soon discovers that Tankado gave the ring away just before his death. Each person he questions in the search for the ringA sweet tub of 340-year-old cheese (All image: Lars Einarsson / Kalmar County Museum)

An on-going excavation of a Swedish warship sunk in the 17th century recently yielded quite the haul. The newly found treasure includes gold coins, a diamond ring, and a 340-year-old pot of cheese. Truly, the ocean is full of wonders.

The Kronan was a 105-gun battleship sunk in the Baltic Sea in 1676 during a naval battle. It was lost for over 300 years, until archaeologists finally located the wreck in 1980. Since then, it’s been the site of several digs and even now keeps turning out new artifacts from the sea floor.

A beautiful diamond ring!

The latest find is particularly interesting—but not because of the precious jewels. Although it may not sound like a treasure to


rival gold coins and diamond rings, the pot of cheese that’s been marinating in the sea for hundreds of years could end up being one of the more valuable finds archaeologically.

A bunch of beautiful gold coins!

Artifacts from the Kronan have revealed a lot about what life was like aboard these centuries-old warships. An earlier expedition uncovered the ship’s medical and pharmacy kit, for instance, which gave researchers a window into medical treatments of the day. This cheese could give researchers a similar glimpse into how people ate aboard the ships.

Lars Einarsson of Kalmar County Museum led the dig and told The Local that the cheese appeared to be some sort of early roquefort. That identification was due mostly to its exceptionally strong smell, which Einarsson described (very kindly)The New York Grand Opera Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra, conducted
by Maestro Vincent La Selva,
augmented by the Shrewsbury
Chorale, & the Metropolitan Greek Chorale
presented the Verdi Requiem on Saturday,
January 27, 2001,
the 100th anniversary of Verdi's death.The
New York Grand OperaWe
were honored to join with the New York
Grand Opera Soloists, Chorus,
& Orchestra,
the Metropolitan Greek Chorale & the Dalton Alumni Choir,
conducted
by Maestro Vincent La Selva,
in an All-Beethoven concert, including Beethoven'sNinth
Symphony & the Sanctus from Missa
Solemnis onTuesday, March 26, 2002.

We were
pleased to join again with the New York Grand
Opera Soloists,
Chorus, and Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Vincent La Selva,
at Carnegie HallThursday November 7, 2002.
Rossini's Overture from Semiramide,
Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Verdi's Overtureand Triumphal
Scene from Aida.


Gosewisch: Why I'm proud to be a journeyman

An 11th-round pick by the Phillies in the 2005 MLB Draft, Tuffy Gosewisch has spent 15 years in professional baseball, playing 137 career big league games in parts of five seasons with the D-backs (2013-16) and Mariners ('17). He's currently playing with the San Antonio Missions, the Brewers' Triple-A affiliate.

Journeyman: A player who is reliable, but not outstanding

I’ve gone through 14 Spring Trainings, played for six organizations and have three years of Major League service time. I’m a journeyman and I’m proud of it.

Every single day of each of those springs, I woke up before sunrise to be at the field early to make sure to get the most out of that day. Does this make me special? Depends who youthose who have never been tested in that way, because they may never discover what they are truly capable of.

I have played with Hall of Famers, and with guys who deserve to be in the big leagues but never got the break they deserved. The respect that I have for the journeyman of any sport is greater, because they are the people willing to come to work day in and day out no matter the circumstances, to become better.

Guys like my close friend Erik Kratz, who was drafted in 2002 out of Eastern Mennonite University. He didn’t debut until he was 30 years old and has continued to outlast the vast majority of catchers who came into the game at the same time he did.

Erik has been through


Ardkinglas, Scotland

BRIEF HISTORY

The Callender family established the mature conifer collection, for which the garden is renowned, around 1875. The Victorian legacy ensures that Ardkinglas Woodland Garden now has a number of Champion Trees. It was Sir Andrew Noble's son, Sir John, who established the outstanding collection of rhododendrons in 1920.

Encouraged by his early success and with the aid of his son, Michael (later Lord Glenkinglas), he set about planting a gift of rhododendrons from fellow enthusiast Lord Aberconway. Two railway carriages were dispatched from Bodnant, North Wales and sent to Arrochar station in 1935. These splendid mature specimens can now be seen in all their glory upon the aptly named Bodnant Bank. Lord Glenkinglas and his wife, Anne, continued to garden at Ardkinglas until the mid-1980s. Their influenceis demonstrated throughout the woodland garden every March to mid~June with the flowering of the many hybrid rhododendrons that resulted from their extensive breeding programme.

HORTICULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS

Ardkinglas Woodland Garden covers 25 acres of hillside,amongst one of Scotland’s most beautiful landscapes, around the head of Loch Fyne. Visitors can follow a network of informal paths which rise from the tumbling waterfalls of the River Kinglas through richly varied areas of garden and woodland to the hillside above from where there are spectacular views of Loch Fyne.

The Ardkinglas site exploits a combination of high annual rainfall (80-100 inches) and Gulf Stream mildness to provide a unique growing environment. The fertile sandy loam prevalent throughout the garden contributes further to ensure conditions suitable for both ericaceous and temperate conifer species.

The woodland garden


holds a number of ‘Champion Trees’, the tallest or broadest of their species in the United Kingdom. These include the tallest tree in Britain and the ‘mightiest conifer in Europe’.

A woodland lochan, ancient mill, numerous woodland walks and a very visible and thriving population of rare Red Squirrels add to the attractions at Ardkinglas.

A gazebo, made from Argyll oak, houses a unique scriptorium of tree-related poetry and prose to fire the imagination.

There is much to enjoy in the Woodland Garden at any time of the year, but the visitor who arrives in the spring and early summer will marvel at the magnificent flowers of the Rhododendron collection and the spectacular, fragrant carpet of bluebells.

The beauty and sense of history in the garden will appeal to all visitors andhad a short walk to the Tree House or climbed a Munro. Nearby is Inveraray with its Jail, castle and bell tower and just beyond Argyll Adventure a place to let off steam or Auchindrain a unique outdoor museum. Towards Dunoon in the Cowal Peninsular are quad bikes, laser shooting and other activities with many places to eat and the ferries to the Isle of Bute or Gourock.

PLACES TO STAY

Ardkinglas has a unique self-catering holiday apartment, the original "Butlers Quarters" can be rented all the year round, with free access to the House Grounds and the Woodland Gardens.

Inveraray has the atmospheric George Hotel or there is The Creggans at nearby Strachur in the Cowal peninsular

HOW TO FIND US

By Car: From the South: 1 hour drive from Glasgow, by


On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, at the direction of President Scot Medbury, Vice Presidents of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) notified four staff that they had been fired. The administration also chose to shutter and relocate the 330,000 specimen herbarium, cited in botanical literature as BKL, and suspend all field work.

Among those eliminated were the Curator of the Herbarium, the Herbarium Supervisor, and Manager of the New York Metropolitan Flora Project (NYMF). The sole remaining researcher – the Director of Science – exists only on paper; she is on sabbatical for at least a year with a National Science Foundation grant. One Herbarium Technician and one part-time Herbarium Assistant were transferred to the Horticulture Department. There is no longer a Science department at BBG.

These actions halted not onlyability to raise mega-bucks for capital projects, not for any love of nor facility with science and research. The secondary clause in the chairman’s statement – “while …” – demonstrates division among members of the larger board.

Within two years, Medbury began dismantling BBG’s science and research programs. In 2007, he moved Publications from Science to Marketing, in service to the corporate message. Shortly thereafter, he eliminated Dr. Clemants’ position of Vice President of Science, demoting both that senior researcher and the prominence of science itself in the organization.

The last time anyone was hired to fill a vacated position in science was in 2006. Since then, every vacated position has been left unfilled. Through a process of attrition by layoffs, resignations, and even a death, Medbury allowed BBG’s science


Commercial radio

Commercial radio

Bridget Griffen-Foley

In the grounds of a house in Wahroonga once owned by Sir Ernest Fisk, the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd (AWA), lies one of Sydney's least-known monuments. The inscription marks the transmission, on 22 September 1918, of the first direct wireless message from England to Australia. [1] In the years that followed, Australian radio broadcasting developed peripatetically, with various schemes, conferences and a royal commission to pass, in the quest for the basis of a sound regulatory regime.

Amateur experimenters, almost missionary in their zeal, both transmitted and received messages. Enthusiasts, female as well as male, set up clubs across Sydney and beyond, as broadcasting was promoted as a force for family and imperial unity and a symbol of modernity. Manufacturers and retailers, eagerto sell radio parts and sets, were quick to emerge. By 1922, the Wireless Weekly had been established in Sydney, the same year in which the British Broadcasting Corporation was founded, and the United States experienced a remarkable radio boom. [2]

The first stations

On 23 November 1923, 2SB (later 2BL), operating from a studio in the Smith's Weekly building in Phillip Street, became the first station in Australia to go to air. Soon afterwards came 2FC. Both were to become 'A'-class stations, meaning that they were maintained by revenue from listeners' subscriptions; in 1932 they were to help constitute a national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), whose head office was in Sydney. 'B'-class stations, which operated at a lower transmitter power and were reliant on advertising, and appeared


on Sydney's B-class stations a propaganda battle raged. Lang, whose 1927 policy speech was broadcast on 2KY, thought the barrage of Nationalist Party propaganda on 2GB was triggered by his government's provocative pledge to establish State radio, featuring a central metropolitan station with a chain of relays to the country. After losing office in 1927, Lang concentrated his energies on 2KY, to which federal and state Labor Party candidates had free access. [6]

As political and newspaper groups applied to the Commonwealth Postmaster-General's (PMG's) Department for B-class licences, religious interests also became more interested in radio's potential. After buying time on 2UE to publicise the Eucharistic Congress in 1928, and arranging for broadcasts to be relayed interstate, Monsignor James Meany established 2SM (named after his parish, St Mark's ofDrummoyne) in 1931, for use by the Catholic archdiocese. The New South Wales Council of Churches followed suit, launching 2CH in 1932. But it was 'Dr Rumble's Question Box' on 2SM – heard at the same time on Sunday nights as the broadcasts of a trenchant Anglican, the Reverend TC Hammond, on 2CH – that emerged as the most famous religious program on Australian radio. [7]

Sport, too, was a mainstay of radio. By 1928, 2KY was broadcasting descriptions of the boxing from Sydney Stadium in Rushcutters Bay each Wednesday evening, and from Leichhardt Stadium each Friday; the station's commentator, John Harper, became such a fixture at Sydney Stadium that he would not take his seat until he had been greeted by a round of applause. Sports callers and


inviting Guglielmo Marconi to Sydney for Australia's sesquicentenary celebrations in 1938. Although Marconi died before he could take up the invitation, the World Radio Convention of 1938, featuring speakers such as John Logie Baird, was held at the University of Sydney. In his address, HP Brown, Director-General of the PMG's Department, noted that listeners had taken out over 1 million licences across Australia and that Australia's radio stations now broadcast for an average of 11½ hours per day. [16]

The hours were generally longer in the cities. From 1935, 2UW broadcast continuously for 24 hours a day, probably becoming the first radio station in the British empire to do so. Its midnight-to-dawn program, designed to appeal to insomniacs and shift-workers, was promoted as a valuable service during emergencies. Commercialradio's emphasis on being of 'service' may not have been untouched by cynicism, with 2UW's studio manager telling a PMG inspector in 1936 that

he regarded his listeners as morons and treated them as such, hence the popularity of 2UW. [17]

Companion and solace

The industry presented radio as a companion offering solace and escape, particularly during the Great Depression. Radio stations and networks attempted to turn their personalities into the basis of popular social movements. Some broadcasters and executives served multiple roles: 'Uncle Tom' (John Dunne) was lead announcer and studio manager of 2SM; 'Uncle Jack' (JM Prentice) was a news commentator and program manager of 2UW; and 'Uncle Lionel' (Lionel Lunn) was studio manager of 2UE.

Broadcasters often took over town halls and auditoriums, hosting 'Community Singing' concerts. 2GB's 'Uncle


Frank' (Frank Grose) broadcast a 'Cheer-up' session on Saturday mornings, featuring music presented by Sydney's public school choirs. [18] His stablemate, 'Cousin Marjorie', represented radio in the 1931 'Miss Sydney' competition that raised funds for charity. [19] Some broadcasters took their listeners on excursions: 2CH's 'Hello Man' (AS Cochrane) and 'Fairy Godmother' (Margaret Herd), for instance, hosted a visit to the Jenolan Caves. [20]

Most stations had their own clubs, performing promotional and/or charitable functions. The most prominent was the 2GB Happiness Club, founded in 1929 by a former music teacher, Mrs WJ (Eunice) Stelzer, with the motto 'Others First'. Free to join, the club spawned dozens of branches and 'Younger Sets' across Sydney, with thousands of women members visiting the sick, collecting clothes for the needy, and stagingafternoon teas, picnics, musicales and conversaziones. In 1940 the club established 'Eurobodalla' (meaning 'home between two waters') holiday homes for aged and needy couples, in Newport. [21]

The commercial radio sector's anxiety to promote its social utility stemmed in part from a desire to deter the Commonwealth government from becoming more involved in regulating the industry. During World War II, stations broadcast rallies for war loans, fund-raising concerts and appeals for recruits, and formed War Savings Certificate Groups. Leading radio personalities entertained troops in Australian military camps, and read out on air letters from servicemen and women. [22] In 1946 2UW joined with the Daily Telegraph to bring to Hyde Park 'Carols by Candlelight', which had been pioneered in Melbourne before the war to raise funds for charity and


provided radio with a goodwill bonanza. [23]

Steering the shape and prosperity of commercial radio in the 1940s were the Australian arms of leading American advertising agencies. J Walter Thompson, handling the Lever Brothers account, introduced the Lux Radio Theatre and Australia's Amateur Hour, which were recorded live in front of an audience in Sydney, and often went on tour. George Patterson established the Colgate-Palmolive Radio Unit, which in 1942 moved from Sydney to Melbourne. [24] The Macquarie Radio Network, with 2GB as its flagship and a range of member and 'co-operating' stations, formed a production arm, Artransa, to export programs to New Zealand and South Africa. [25]

Challenge and change

The advent of television in the second half of the 1950s meant that radio lost its place as the solemedium of electronic entertainment in the home, and introduced a new competitor for advertising revenue. In 1956, in a memo entitled 'Television Counter Measures', a Macquarie executive wrote of the need to intensify local advertising and an active interest in community affairs, promote microphone 'personalities', and encourage the sale of transistor and car radios. [26] Radio changed from being a family medium to a highly individualised one, with an average of one radio for every person over sixteen by 1962. [27] Broadcasters began targeting separate audiences, especially baby boomers, instead of the whole family. In 1958, an American-style 'Top 40' program was introduced to 2UE by Bob Rogers, and many other stations rushed to follow suit. In the 1920s Wireless Weekly had run photographs of listeners gathered around


a cumbersome radio set at Manly beach; now, at last, the industry could stop fretting about the problem of 'summer radio' as the Top 40 format was heard drifting over beaches all weekend. [28]

News, weather and traffic reports improved. Many commercial stations embraced 'actuality' broadcasts, with reporters like Macquarie's Brian White (who in 1953 had become Australian commercial radio's first cadet journalist) using telephones for broadcasting descriptions of news events and on-the-spot interviews. [29] This technology also allowed for live, rather than delayed, traffic reports. In the late 1970s, 2GB set out to become Sydney radio's first 'helicopter eye in the sky' with the backing of a sponsor. [30]

Talkback arrives

The success of 'conversation' programs in the United States demonstrated to Australian radio executives that the telephone had othernew generation of less authoritarian and more accessible religious broadcasters, such as 2SM's Father Jim McLaren, sometimes complemented by off-air counselling services. [34] Listener participation also became a key feature of a range of other radio programs, from sport to gardening, health to matchmaking.

FM and new broadcasting

If traditional religious programming was in decline due to commercial pressures and changing social mores, so was foreign-language broadcasting. With postwar immigration, several Sydney stations had broadcast programs in languages such as Italian, Greek, Lebanese and Maltese (followed, according to government regulations, by English translations), the most popular of which was that of 'Mamma Lena' (Lena Gustin). But by the early 1970s, such programs were disappearing from the commercial airwaves as managements looked to appeal to general, rather than special interest, audiences.


[35]

The Whitlam and Fraser governments shook up the Australian broadcasting landscape with a range of measures, opening the way for the long-overdue introduction of FM radio (beginning with a fine music community station, 2MBS-FM) and ethnic community radio. In the mid-1970s, meanwhile, the ABC established a new youth station, 2JJ (later 2JJJ), and a classical music FM network. [36]

In 1978, after years of planning, Keith Graham and Mike Webb launched Sydney's first new commercial station in nearly half a century. Focusing on soft rock, with studios at Blacktown, 2WS set out to lure the growing listening and advertising markets of western Sydney. Its neighbour on the AM dial, 2SM, lost a legal case to prevent 2WS from going to air. [37] In 1980 two commercial FM stations, 2DAY-FMit was accused of pre-recording phoney winner calls, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal imposed special conditions on its licence. [41] Possibly the biggest radio prize ever awarded was in 1984, when 2UE's 'Millionaire Mania' promised the winner $20,000 a year for up to 50 years. 2UE's executives were relieved, no doubt, when Premier Neville Wran drew from a barrel the name of an 'older lady'. [42]

With its superior sound quality and appeal to younger audiences, FM radio came to be associated with music and comedy, and AM radio with news and talk. AM stations such as 2GB and 2UE increasingly vied for success by signing up talkback hosts with strong, sometimes confected, opinions. 'The King' of Sydney radio – and of Australian commercial radio more generally – was John


Laws, whose magnificent voice, along with his marriages, health, advertising deals, lunches with politicians, multi-million dollar contracts and threats to quit, kept the wider media industry fascinated, from the mid-1960s, when he first joined 2UE, until 2007, when he retired. [43] A stablemate at 2UE from the mid-1980s, and then a rival in the breakfast slot at 2GB, was Alan Jones, a former private school teacher and Australian Rugby Union coach, known for his conservative views, direct lobbying of politicians and populist appeal to 'Struggle Street'. [44]

Industry turmoil

In the late 1980s, legislative changes to ownership rules, a stock-market crash and a frenzy of interest in the media sector saw more than half of Australia's metropolitan commercial radio stations change hands, sometimes at ridiculous prices, and the entry ofmusical genres, promised listeners never to play more than two advertisements in a row, and poached Merrick and Rosso (Merrick Watts and Tim Ross) from 2JJJ for the crucial breakfast slot. [49] Less immediately successful was DMG's Vega 95.3, whose 'FM talk' experiment, designed to appeal to baby boomers, was abandoned in 2006, a year after the station's launch. [50]

The safest source of advertising revenue for FM stations came to be seen as 25- to 39-year-olds. Station managements competed for this audience through on-air personalities rather than on the basis of innovative music content. In both the FM and AM radio markets, conservative programming decisions privileged music that was already known; [51] this affected the market for new Australian music.

Celebrity and scandal

Meanwhile, on the AM band, controversy was


never far away. In 1999 ABC television revealed that 2UE's John Laws had made a lucrative deal with the Australian Bankers' Association to cease criticising banks on air. The Australian Broadcasting Authority launched an investigation into whether it was 'appropriate in a democracy for a corporation to seek to purchase covert rather than overt dissemination of its opinions'. The inquiry found that the failures of Laws and Alan Jones to disclose commercial agreements had led to numerous breaches of the commercial radio Code of Practice, and therefore that 2UE had failed to comply with the conditions of its licence. New conditions on 2UE's licence required the disclosure of interests and the differentiation of advertising from program material. Laws turned the disclosure of the sponsorships he was 'proud' toand convert to digital transmission.

[21] R Grahame, 'Eunice Minnie Stelzer (1880–1962)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, pp 300–1; See also B Griffen-Foley, 'Modernity, intimacy and early Australian commercial radio', in Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, eds Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon, ANU e-Press, 2007, pp 127–8, http://epress.anu.edu.au/tal_citation.html

[31] L Gould, 'Talk, telephone and the radio: The introduction of “talk-back” radio in Australia', Making a Difference: Australian and New Zealand Communication Association conference, University of Sydney, 2004, http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au


raped her, then ran away. Based on a description given to police by the victim and her companion, appellant was arrested in a nearby bar after police had spotted him running away from the area where the rape had occurred and had seen him run into the bar. He was put into a police car and brought to the victim and her *462 friend, both of whom identified him as the attacker.[1] Appellant was then taken to police headquarters, where his clothes and other personal belongings were taken by police before he was put into a cell. A search warrant was secured for seizure of body samples from appellant, and these samples were taken at about 10:30 that night. Analysis of the clothing and body samples indicated thatthe scene of the incident. Tests performed on the victim revealed the presence of seminal fluid in her vagina, and tests performed on her underclothes showed that the semen was of blood type A, appellant's blood type. Tests performed on appellant's clothing revealed the presence of pubic hairs which exactly matched those of the victim. Although neither the victim nor the eyewitness could identify him positively at trial, there was testimony establishing that appellant was the man who had been identified as the rapist at the time of the incident, and showing that drastic changes in his hairstyle and facial hair might account for the difficulty in making the in-court identification.
Viewed as a whole, we think that the Commonwealth's evidence, presented by credible eyewitnesses and experts, was sufficient