was the fire chief for about seven years, beginning in 1992. He testified that even before he became chief, there had been talk about discharging Mr. Smith because of conflicts between Mr. Smith and the previous fire chief. He further testified that he would have had grounds during his own term as fire chief to terminate Mr. Smith's employment based upon violations of department rules, but that he considered Mr. Smith to be a good emergency-service worker. According to Bob Gilstrap, "one of [Mr. Smith's] shortcomings was that he was strong-willed and opinionated.... He had an opinion on just about everything, and he usually stated it. That would put him in conflict with his superiors and the former Chief had problems with him."
On January 1, 1999, Dennis Gilstrapsucceeded his brother, Bob Gilstrap, as Chief of the Van Buren Fire Department. Within one month of assuming his duties as fire chief, Dennis Gilstrap recommended that Mayor Riggs discharge Mr. Smith. According to one witness, Bob Gilstrap disclosed that Dennis Gilstrap had made a statement, shortly after the drowning incident in October 1998, that Mr. Smith's "days were numbered" at the fire department because of his letter complaining about the police officers' actions at Lake Lou Emma. Chief Dennis Gilstrap denied making any such statement. He testified that he had very limited knowledge of the events surrounding the Lake Lou Emma incident and that it was not a motivating factor in his decision to recommend to the mayor that Mr. Smith be terminated.
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not predicated upon the three incidents that occurred at the fire station on January 27, 1999, but that his termination resulted from Mr. Smith's criticism of the Van Buren Police Department. According to the circuit court's order, this determination was based on (1) testimony by the former fire chief, Bob Gilstrap, that he believed Mr. Smith had gone too far by writing the letter; (2) the testimony of several firemen, including former Chief Bob Gilstrap, who indicated Mr. Smith was a good fireman, particularly out on the job, but that problems arose from his being opinionated; and (3) the fact that Chief Dennis Gilstrap had "philosophical differences" with Mr. Smith and had not always gotten along with him. Although the circuit court recognized that Mr. Smith's cursing wouldwhile visiting [*Centre de Recherches Mathématiques*]{} (CRM) of [*Université de Montréal*]{} as a guest researcher during the Theme Year 2005-2006 in Analysis in Number Theory. He would like to thank the CRM for their financial support and warm hospitality during his pleasant stay in Montreal.

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as "Jack's Cheese" and, later, "Monterey Jack". (Now, you sometimes see Monterey Jack called Sonoma Jack or California Jack.)

According to another version of the cheese's provenance, a Spanish woman named Dona Joana Cota de Boronda sold cheese door-to-door in Monterey. She used a press, or "jack", to expunge the whey from the cheese and form the bricks of curd. Boronda's property eventually fell into Jacks' hands, which means that a more accurate box stamping would have been "Jack's Jack Cheese" or "Monterey Jack Jack".to arrival, she experienced an acute increase in the generalized weakness, rendering her unable to ambulate without assistance. Also, she reported nausea and diaphoresis. She denied any additional accompanying symptoms.

The patient\'s past medical history was significant for diabetes, hypertension, lupus, and hypothyroidism. Her current medications were metformin, lisinopril, methotrexate, and levothyroxine. Her surgical and social histories were unremarkable and she was not aware of similar illnesses in her family.

On physical exam, the patient was noted to be in extremis. Vital signs revealed a blood pressure of 190/65, a pulse of 100, and respiratory rate greater than 20. She was pale and diaphoretic in appearance. She was unable to sit upright on the stretcher without assistance or lift her extremities. Also, she was in moderate respiratory distress with tachypnea


Chris Cox captures his third Road to the Horse title and is named the first Legends of Colt Starting Champion. It was without a doubt the most electrifying event in the eight-year history of Road to the Horse; The World Championship of Colt Starting…Morehad more than doubled its online traffic.

Clarity would not comment beyond its initial statement.

Mr. Kristol started the magazine in 1995 with Fred Barnes and John Podhoretz, with financing from Rupert Murdoch, who sold to Mr. Anschutz, the owner of Clarity Media, in 2009.

The Weekly Standard came to define the “neocon” stance of the Bush era. Its role in making the case for the Iraq war placed it in a camp that had little in common with the views of the more isolationist Mr. Trump, who positioned himself during the 2016 campaign as an anti-interventionist opposed to the Iraq war.

Despite its independent stance, the magazine has been supportive of Mr. Trump’s Supreme Court picks and tax proposals. But its most popular story this week was one by Mr. Hayes,


embryonic stem cells nudges more cells to differentiate into neurons.

The researchers say in their published study that the discovery of the specific cholic acid and oxysterol ligands may “contribute to the development of cell replacement and regenerative therapies for Parkinson’s disease.”

Members of the international team included postdoctoral fellows from City of Hope and researchers from the Karolinska Institute, and Center for Biosciences, in Stockholm, Sweden; Swansea University in Swansea, U.K.; Waters UK Ltd in Manchester, U.K.; and the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.Cardiac arrhythmia and suspect cardiomyopathy in a Boxer dog.
A 3 year old Boxer dog was presented with a history of syncope and an irregular heart heat. An arrhythmia characterised by ventricular premature contractions was detected and was thought to cause the syncopal episodes. On the basis of the age, breed and the characteristic electrocardiographic findings, a diagnosis of Boxer Cardiomyopathy was made. The dog was treated with procainamide 500 mg every 8 hours to control the arrythmia and there were no further syncopal episodes in the subsequent 13 months.


JACK Higgins' remarkable mid-air major from last week's win over Collingwood might be the new favourite for Goal of the Year, but teammate Daniel Rioli has jokingly suggested his 2017 winner required more effort.

Higgins was nominated for this year's prize for the incredible feat he pulled off against the Pies where he essentially ran around the goalpost at full pace, juggled the ball while he did it and then kicked it over his head between the big sticks.

Rioli's 2017 Coates Hire Goal of the Year beat majors from Adelaide small forward Eddie Betts and Sydney sharpshooter Lance Franklin.

It saw him gather the ball after it came off his hands in a marking contest, dish off a handball to Dion Prestia from hard up against the boundary line, getthe ball back straight away and kick a silky goal on the run.

In a light-hearted chat, Rioli said Higgins – who is renowned for his love of a goal – had been keen to chat about his heroics this week.

"He did ask me what I got for it, I didn't give him much," Rioli told AFL.com.au this week.

"He loves it, he's been watching highlights of it and showing me and the boys, and we're just like, leave it alone.

"He's that sort of guy, he just loves his footy and he can do stuff that others can't do and that's exciting for our footy club.

"We love him and he's a funny character around the club and you never know what he can produce on the footy field, so we


look forward to every moment when he comes out and plays."

The humble Rioli, who this week will run out for his 50th AFL game, said the players were thrilled for Higgins and hoped his potential Goal of the Year triumph would be a good omen for back-to-back premierships.

However, he did agree his own winning "snag" from last season was harder to achieve than Higgins', which was from point-blank range.

"For sure, [mine involved more work], it was a great goal," he laughed.

"His was right in the goalsquare and mine was in the pocket.

"But mine was better last year, and this year, his is better than mine because I haven't really kicked any good goals this year so his is pretty good.

"He probably knows he's got it under his belt.

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During the past May 4th our Prague Vikings had an acceptable pre-season debut (2-2) to finish 3rd of 5 teams in the 9s International Tournament. Our club had the debut of 4 new rookie players.

The other teams which participated during this tournament were: Pardubice Jets, Chrudim Angels, Hradec Kralove Broncos and Lebanese- American University (LAU). This last team won the tournament undefeated regardless of finishing with 3 injured players.

Our Prague Vikings started their first game defeating their long time rivals, the Pardubice Jets, to follow on with a defeat in the second match against the Chrudim Angels. Thus, the third match against the Hradec kralove was very closed, our club went on to beat the Broncos in the last minute. The fourth and closing tournament match of the


International tournament was a defeat against the LAU.

In 2013 the Prague Vikings rugby league team will be registered in the Second Division Czech Rugby League competition, which is more flexible and less demanding than the First Division.

Our most important tournament in the first half of the year will be a home tournament on 4 May to be held as part of the Prague Sports Tours International 9s tournament. Players and supporters should SAVE THE DATE for this one!

For more information and the dates and locations of other tournaments, read more below.

Touch Rugby is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. It is a non-contact, fun, simple and fast game similar to rugby but without the tackling (Injuries). Therefore it attracts both men and women of allages and skill levels. Touch is easy to learn and is great for fitness.

Our touch rugby team has again placed third in an international competition, this time at the ACC Mens Open Championship in Vienna. Having lost games only to the finalist teams from London and Vienna, our guys prevailed in the 3v4 playoff game against the ACC team by four tries to two. Thanks to all those who participated and well done!

Touch rugby is played in Prague throughout the year on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons in conjunction with the Barbarian Vikings rugby club. For more information, email to touch@techlaw.cz.

Our Prague Vikings rugby league team had another great victory last Sunday at Pardubice, this time winning 48-44 over the 2011 premiers Pardubice Jets in a tight game which


was a thriller down to the last play! The two teams exchanged tries in the first 10 minutes before touchdowns to Pavel Vrana, Fischer, Sapar and Jamie Sherrington put the Vikings out to a 26-12 margin by half-time. The Prague team featured Czech players from their Associated Clubs Usti Nad Labem and Mikulov and these players really stood up when it counted, none more than Czech national captain Petr Sedina in a Man of the Match performance featuring a four try haul. Sedina’s first three tries scored in the second half were the only bright spot for the Vikings as poor options and ball security saw the Jets dominate possession and field position for most of the half. Club stalwart, Aussie Andy Mulhall, played a major role inAftermath by Joel Meyerowitz World Trade Center Archive

After the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th 2001, the world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz felt compelled to visit the site, to document and record the aftermath of the largest ever attack on US soil. Although initially turned away by police (on the grounds that the site was a crime scene and could not be photographed), Meyerowitz was determined to gain access to the area. Within days he had established strong links with many of the firefighters, policemen and construction workers contributing to the clean up. With their assistance he became the only photographer to be granted unimpeded access to Ground Zero. Once there he systematically began to document the wreckage followed by the necessary demolition,


excavation and removal of tens of thousands of tonnes of debris that would transform the site from one of total devastation to level ground. Soon after the Museum of the City of New York officially engaged Meyerowitz to create an archive of the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero and the immediate neighborhood. The 9/11 Photographic Archive numbers in excess of 5,000 images and will become part of the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York.

Joel Meyerowitz, best known for his large-format color work published in Cape Light & Bay/Sky, began his photographic career in the 1960s as a street photographer. He was born & lives in New York City.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

Three people were injured in a fire at Trump Tower in Manhattan Monday morning, authorities said.

Fire Department of New York Chief Roger Sakowich told NBC New York that the fire started in a cooling unit that contains heaters for use during this time of year, and said flames came out a vent just before 7 a.m. on Monday. The fire was reported after Secret Service agents noticed smoke.

The president was not in the building when the fire erupted. The fire was reported under control as of 8:13 a.m., the FDNY said.

A police source had told NBC News that there were no initial reports of injuries or evacuations. Authorities later said there were three


injuries: The fire chief later said there were two injuries: a firefighter who was hurt when debris fell on top of him, and an engineer who was injured but refused treatment. A civilian was also injured but details were not immediately available.

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A fire broke out at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Jan. 8, 2018. @levi1994

More than 70 firefighters responded to the call, a standard number for fire on the roof of a high rise, the NYPD told the Associated Press.

Smoke could be seen wafting off the roof of Trump Tower, but the fire started dissipating within a half hour, witnesses posting photos onsocial media said.

The president's son, Eric Trump, praised the FDNY on Twitter for their speedy response.

"There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of Trump Tower. The New York Fire Department was here within minutes and did an incredible job. The men and women of the #FDNY are true heroes and deserve our most sincere thanks and praise!" he wrote.

The building is Trump's crown jewel, which he purchased in 1979. The real estate mogul turned what was then an 11-story property into a 68-story, 663-foot gilded skyscraper. Located on Fifth Avenue between Gucci and Tiffany, the glitzy building contains offices, eateries, condos, and an atrium that's open to the public.

Trump maintains a three-story penthouse residence there, which has earned Trump Tower the nickname


of "White House North."

Related: Trump Tower Got Its Start With Undocumented Foreign Workers

Trump Tower's history came under scrutiny during the presidential campaign when fellow Republican contender Marco Rubio attacked Trump during a debate for using undocumented Polish workers to build it.

"He brings up something from 30 years ago," Trump responded at the time. "It worked out very well. Everybody was happy."DRC: A new dawn with an opposition leader or Kabila in disguise?

LONDON — It was hoped that the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has waited for democracy since 1960 would finally make the transition during the December 30 election. When the results came in, elation that the 18-year rule of Kabila had finally ended and an opposition candidate, Félix Tshisekedihad won, soon turned to dismay as the runner-up, Martin Fayulu, who was backed by the Catholic Church claimed the election has been rigged. Fayulu is appealing to the country’s constitutional court for a recount and SADC, fearing that the country will slide back into the violence that have cost the lives of so many people, is supporting a recount and has also suggested the formation of a


350 seats, Adam Chalwe, a national secretary for Kabila’s political party – the largest within the group – said by phone from Kinshasa on Saturday, while Communications Minister Lambert Mende put the figure at 300-350 elected lawmakers. In addition to the FCC retaining control over which laws get passed, the constitution obliges the president to choose a prime minister from the ranks of the parliamentary majority. The head of government is empowered to countersign presidential decrees nominating key personnel such as judges, senior military officers and state-owned company bosses.

The electoral commission announced the results of the parliamentary election in the early hours of Saturday but hasn’t yet published the list of successful candidates. Tshisekedi’s coalition won around 50 seats and Fayulu’s alliance secured about 80, Mende said.

Inevitable periodaction of turning your body to grab a car door handle as the “Dutch Reach,” based on information he gathered from a blog and New York Times article from 2011 highlighting an action commonly employed for decades in bicycle-friendly countries like the Netherlands.

According to a Globe article from 2013, recounting a reporter’s visit to the Netherlands, drivers there are required to use their right hand to open a door as part of a driving exam.

Charney is hoping his neologism has staying power, and the Dutch Reach becomes a recognized practice here. He envisions the method one day appearing on driving exams and in driver education classes in the United States. However, he understands that could take time.

So for now, he’d like to make the streets safer for those


a year, I’ve researched countless new companies that are slapping the word “blockchain” on their door, just to attract capital. Most have been opportunists, with nothing material to offer, until a contact of mine, who has an uncanny ability to spot early winners, brought to my attention a private company. BLOCKStrain has since publicly-listed and is a first-mover in utilizing blockchain solutions in the cannabis industry!

The legalization of cannabis, especially in North America, has had huge success, with California, the queen of recreational cannabis markets, opening its gates in January of 2018, Canada coming next this July, and many other developed countries to follow.

As you know, before becoming legal, with plenty of government regulation and oversight, its supply chain management, business practices, and commercialism were subpar, at best.

Checkapartment and returned a few hours later with a package that contained heroin. Exactly what occurred in the apartment is disputed. The only persons present were Inez Anderson, a city of Chicago police officer on loan to the Federal bureau of narcotics; Ruth Killingsworth, who had been a special employee, or informer, for the Federal bureau of narcotics for about nine months, and the two defendants. Of these persons, only Officer Anderson and the defendant Wilson testified.
Both Officer Anderson and defendant Wilson agree that Anderson handed the money to the defendant and that on her return to the apartment the defendant handed the package of heroin to Anderson. They differ as to the circumstances. The officer testified that on the first visit she was lying on the couch,


wearing dark glasses, and that a person could have thought that she was asleep. She said that after some conversation between Killingsworth and Wilson, Killingsworth said to the officer, "Get up and give the girl your money. You want the stuff, why don't you get up and give the girl your money?" She also testified that when the defendants returned the defendant Wilson handed her the package containing heroin while Ruth Killingsworth was talking on the telephone.
The defendant Wilson testified that she had known Ruth Killingsworth for nine or ten years, and considered her a good friend. The two women patronized the same dressmaker and had gone out socially together. On many occasions the defendant had loaned her money. Killingsworth had been a narcotics addict for seven oreight years, and the defendant had seen her on many occasions when she was suffering from the withdrawal of narcotics. Wilson testified that on three separate occasions in 1958, prior to *428 September 8, Ruth Killingsworth had asked the defendant to purchase narcotics for her, but that on each occasion she refused. She testified that on September 8 Killingsworth called her four times. Each time Killingsworth represented herself as suffering withdrawal pains that were becoming progressively more severe. "She said she couldn't hardly move and she and her husband were in agony and pain." Each time she asked the defendant to get her a package of heroin. She said that the defendant was her last resort, since she was unable to buy heroin herself because people said she


was "snitching." Wilson testified that she refused Killingsworth's first three requests on September 8, but finally agreed to go to her apartment when she called the fourth time.
When the two defendants went to Killingsworth's apartment on September 8, 1958, they found Killingsworth lying on the floor watching television and acting as though she was in agony. Officer Anderson was lying on a couch apparently asleep. After a brief conversation between Wilson and Killingsworth, the latter directed Officer Anderson to give Wilson the money. Officer Anderson then handed the money to Wilson. She testified that she returned to her own apartment and telephoned one Bernice Mackey, who brought her an ounce of heroin in return for which she gave Mackey the money that had been handed to her byAnderson. She testified that when she returned with the package of heroin Ruth Killingsworth was talking on the telephone and told Officer Anderson to take the package and that the defendant then gave the package to Officer Anderson.
Wilson testified that Louis Washington, her codefendant, was her friend and was also an addict, and that she bought $25 to $30 worth of narcotics a week from Bernice Mackey, which she rationed out to Washington "to try to keep him down and keep him off of it as much as possible." *429 She was familiar with Washington's sufferings when he was deprived of narcotics.
Wilson testified further that she did not use narcotics herself, that she dealt with them only to the extent of her purchases for Washingon, and that she


the State had replied by giving her address as the local office of the Federal bureau of narcotics. Before the trial the attorney for the defendants moved for the entry of an order directing the prosecution to produce Ruth Killingsworth so that he might interview her in order to prepare his defense, to prepare for cross-examination of the State's witnesses, and to call, or request the court to call, Ruth Killingsworth as a witness. The prosecution resisted the motion, and the court reserved his ruling until the evidence had been heard.
At the trial one of the Federal agents testified that on or about September 14, 1958, he went to Ruth Killingsworth's apartment, and drove her, and a man named Fred Stein whom he described as her "husband," toa railroad station in a government car. There he watched them buy tickets, and put them on a train for Forth Worth, Texas. He further testified that he gave her $60 at this time and *430 had given her $700 a few days earlier. He acknowledged that he was acting in his official capacity and that he used official funds. At the conclusion of the testimony the defendants' motion was renewed, and it was then denied upon the ground that the court did not see "how the production of this witness could help either defendant."
To the defendants' contention that the conduct of the Federal agents deprived her of a fair trial, the State replies that it is not required to call all material witnesses to the commission of


TORONTO -- The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says home sales in February were up 45.6 per cent compared with the same month last year when they hit a 10-year low.

The board says there were 7,256 homes sold last month in the Toronto region through its MLS system. That compared with 4,982 in February 2019.

After preliminary seasonal adjustments, the board says February sales were up 14.8 per cent compared with January.

The average price rose to $910,290 compared with $779,791 in February last year.

New listings for the month totalled 10,613, up from 9,834 in the same month a year earlier.

TRREB's forecast for the year predicts 97,000 home sales in 2020, up from 87,825 in 2019.Tower. WeWork has continued to expand in major markets, while also developing other more specialized ventures (WeLive, WeGrow).

Market segmentation, as well as growth into niche markets, are clear signs of a maturing industry.

Coworking has gone global

Coworking spaces can be found in nearly every major market around the world. IWG, the largest coworking company, was founded in Belgium and swept across the UK before acquiring Spaces to accelerate its growth in the United States.

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank invested over $4 billion into WeWork, much of which will support Asian expansion. This includes a takeover of Singapore’s largest coworking space, Spacemob. The company expects to be in as many as a dozen cities in Southeast Asia in 2018. This was matched by China’s Ucommune, which took over Wedo and Woo


Upon This Rock: St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in Scripture and the Early Church ByStephen K. Ray (Ignatius Press, 1999 331 pages, $16.95)

Along with the recent renaissance of Catholic apologetics has come, appropriately enough, a renaissance in works aimed at defending and explaining the papacy. Any Catholic interested in learning more about the papacy, or seeking to explain it to others, will find Upon This Rock a veritable one-stop-shop for the best supporting evidence.

The work is divided roughly into three sections. The first deals with St. Peter himself. Author Stephen K. Ray starts with a discussion of the biblical data pertinent to St. Peter. There's so much in Scripture that it is amazing that our separated brethren claim the Bible has nothing special to say aboutSt. Peter and his prerogatives.

Ray does a superb job covering the Old Testament background to the papacy, showing that it is a natural continuation of Old Covenant precedents. Any Catholic in dialogue with non-Catholics will find this Old Testament background a significant boost for demonstrating the continuation of the Petrine office in the succession of popes.

The New Testament too brings forth numerous examples of the primacy of St. Peter and the special prerogatives given to him by Jesus Christ. Ray presents the case for the Petrine primacy and engages the non-Catholic arguments that are leveled against this evidence. Upon This Rock soundly and vigorously rebuts the most popular of these arguments.

Also in the section on St. Peter is a lengthy treatment on the evidence for his presence in


Rome. Perhaps the historical evidence the author presents will finally put to rest the contention in some non-Catholic circles that St. Peter never even made it to Rome. Ray traces the history of this rather desperate position, showing that it is a product of anti-Catholic sentiment rather than sober reflection on the available evidence. He asks, “Why would anyone challenge this historical evidence … if it were not that a strong tradition forced them to oppose anything that might substantiate the claims of the historical Catholic Church?”

The second section of the book treats the evidence for the primacy of the successors of St. Peter in the earliest testimony of the Church. So much material has been lost from the first, second and early third centuries of the Churchnow you’re thinking like a data driven nonprofit, which is a good sign.

A version of this article was originally published on Huffington Post.

Steve MacLaughlin

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve MacLaughlin

Steve MacLaughlin is the Vice President of Data & Analytics at Blackbaud and bestselling author of Data Driven Nonprofits.

MacLaughlin has been featured as a fundraising and nonprofit expert in many mainstream publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, USA Today, The NonProfit Times, Bloomberg, and has appeared on NPR.

He is a frequent speaker at events including the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), American Marketing Association (AMA), Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Direct Marketing Fundraisers Association (DMFA), Giving Institute Summer Symposium, National


Association of Independent School (NAIS), Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), Institute of Fundraising National Convention, Civil Society Conference, Resource Alliance’s Fundraising Online, and a keynote speaker at such events as the Crescendo Practical Planned Giving Conference.

Steve serves on the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Board of Directors and supports its focus on both the growth and professionalism of the nonprofit technology field as well as building knowledge and information sharing capacity throughout the sector.

He is a frequent blogger, published author of a chapter in the book People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities, and is a co-editor of the book Internet Management for Nonprofits: Strategies, Tools & Trade Secrets. His latest book, Data Driven Nonprofits, became a bestseller in 2016.

Steve earned both his undergraduate degree andSearch form

Space-based Distance Learning for ITIs

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space (DoS), Government of India represented by its Development & Educational Communication Unit (DECU), Ahmedabad has entered into the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Government of India, New Delhi, represented by National Instructional Media Institute (NIMI), Chennai to setup a Space-based Distance Learning Programme on July 15, 2016.

MSDE has an ambitious target for increasing skill development in the country for creating a large workforce with appropriate skill sets, as a large mismatch exists between supply and demand of the skilled workforce. The vocational training facilities in the country have grown substantially in the last few years. There are around 2,200 government and 10,800 private Industrial Training Institutes


(ITIs), constituting the largest vocational training infrastructure in the country.

MSDE plans to extend distance learning to all ITIs in the country, which has potential to benefit around 18 lakh (1.8 million) students, attending courses in different fields. MSDE comprehends that space technology is an important tool which must be leveraged for enhancing and strengthening the training and outreach activities and is keen on adopting satellite based communication to reach out to this large population in a short span of time. Accordingly, a MoU between ISRO and MSDE was signed in the presence of Secretary and Joint Secretaries of MSDE to setup a Space-based Distance Learning Programme (SDLP), which includes the deployment of both interactive and non-interactive terminals in thousands of ITIs spread across the country.

The MoU was exchangedbetween Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Space and Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) in the august presence of Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee during the "India Skills-2016" event organized at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The occasion was also graced by Hon’ble Ministers Shri Venkaiah Naidu (Urban Development), Smt. Smriti Irani (Textiles) and Shri Prakash Javadekar (Human Resources Development).

The Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee launching the International Skill Centre during the "India Skills-2016" event


books he is made a duke of the city, and must deal with all the responsibilities that come with it.

Perhaps even more interesting is Vimes’ battle with alcohol. His drinking fluctuates throughout the book, with no clear cut off point where he decides once and for all not to touch another drop. It is a slow, painful process for Vimes to sober himself up. In some stories he’s doing very well, and in others he crashes and falls back in his destructive habits.

A final and brilliant twist comes to the character with the birth of his son. Vimes, a character built entirely out of grit and stubbornness, falls completely to pieces in order to nurture his child. An entire plot revolves around him getting home on time topeace.

Discworld also looks at conflict between groups of plain old humans, particularly in Jingo. When Ankh-Morpork goes to war with neighboring Klatch, Pratchett focuses on all the fallout such a conflict creates. First and foremost is the paranoid distrust of anyone who shares an ancestry with the enemy nation. Klatchians in Ankh-Morpork, many of them having lived in the city for generations, become the targets of suspicion and sometimes outright violence.

The parallels to how Japanese Americans were treated in WWII, and how Muslims in the west are treated right now, are unmistakable. It shows not only how the current “other” suffers from this treatment, but how the act of discrimination damages the people performing it as well. Pratchett somehow manages to describe both the laughable absurdity of judging


Sat May 4, 2013

Places Transformed: Syrian Refugees Overwhelm Camps, Towns

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News, I'm Scott Simon. Another 2,000 Syrian refugees fled into Jordan in the past 24 hours, mostly women and children. This happens everyday. A steady stream of humanity escaping the relentless violence of Syria's civil war. Jordanian officials say the growing number of Syrian Refugees threatens their country's stability. Jordan now swells with more than a half a million refugees and that population could grow to over a million by the end of the year. NPR's Deborah Amos joins us from a refugee camp on Jordan's northern border. Deborah, thanks for being with us.

DEBORAH AMOS, BYLINE: Thank you, Scott.

SIMON: Deb, you are at the Zaatari camp which as more than 100,000 Syrian Refugees.It's now the largest refugee camp in the Middle East. Tell us what the place is like.

AMOS: This is a camp that's in the middle of the desert. It's hot. It's flat. There is not one bit of shade. Zaatari is now almost a year old, so it's become the fifth largest city in Jordan, but mostly a tent city. Now, Scott, over time, the refugees have actually transformed this place. They've built shops. There is even a nightclub here, but there is also a lot of tension. Riots are common. There was one today. It is a very difficult place to live. Most of the people have already endured a bad winter. There was snow and rain here. Now summer is on the way with soaring temperatures.


question which I would say to the international community, do you wait for it to start failing on certain points? There's basically a flood or an avalanche or a tsunami of humanity continuing to come across the border. We will hit a million unless something happens.

AMOS: That's Andrew Harper with UNHCR. A million Syrians in Jordan? That would mean, one-fifth of the population of this country.

SIMON: Syrian refugees are also streaming into Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon, including a small town in Lebanon called Shebaa.

(SOUNDBITE OF CONVERSATIONS)

SIMON: Into the rolling hills where Syria, Lebanon, and Israel meet. The interviews you are about to hear were recorded by NPR's Rima Marrouch. Most of the 2,000 people in Shebaa are poor. Most rely on money sent from family members abroad. AndThe opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.

Did you hear about the backlash against Disney for casting Halle Bailey, a young black woman, for the lead in the live-action version of "The Little Mermaid"?

The Washington Post ran an essay on the furor, with the headline, "The white nostalgia fueling the 'Little Mermaid' backlash." The subhead explained, "The uproar over a black Ariel shows how important representation in children's entertainment is."

The essay, written by Brooke Newman, an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, informed readers that, "On July 4, as Americans celebrated Independence Day with barbecue, fireworks and armored vehicles rolling through the streets of Washington, #NotMyAriel began trending on Twitter."

"Outraged by Bailey's casting as Ariel, many (white) Disney fans


of a crime and appealed for people to “handle the subject sensitively” on social media as conspiracy theories spread, with videos and Facebook posts being viewed millions of times.

Interest spiked after Russia’s state-owned Channel One television broadcast an interview with a woman identifying herself as the girl’s aunt, claiming police had orchestrated a cover-up and tried to silence the Russian family.

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Selena Gomez Looks Gorgeous in a Navy Dior Dress for Her 2019 Red Carpet Debut at We Day California

Selena Gomez gave her first interview of 2019 yesterday, and today she's doing her first red carpet. The singer just arrived at We Day California, dressed in a pretty navy Dior dress with a purple cat-eye and her hair in a bun. Gomez is frequently at the anti-child labor organization's annual celebration in Los Angeles; this will be her seventh year at the show.

Gomez was spotted at rehearsals for the event yesterday, wearing a Paco Rabanne shirt with a Réalisation Par skirt.

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region. Landfills created in the Soviet and early post-Soviet period, when there was little consumer waste, have been expanded, often with no community notification and despite being in close proximity to homes and schools. Air quality suffers as the dumps release fumes from decomposing waste.

In addition to established landfills, 52 illegal dumps were identified in the Moscow region in the first half of 2017.

As the stench rises and the public health risks – such as respiratory diseases that most acutely affect children – mount, citizen appeals to regional and national government officials have had little effect.

Local people are left with few options but protest. Demonstrations of more than 1,000 people occurred in at least eight towns and villages near Moscow. Citizens also have organised groups on VKontakte, aRussian social media platform, to coordinate petitions, block roads and even mount hunger strikes.

Children hospitalised

The biggest and most sustained garbage protests have occurred in the town of Volokolamsk, site of the Yadrovo landfill.

For months, residents have complained of foul smells, difficulty breathing, nausea and rashes. In early March 2018, local officials declared a state of emergency due to the release of gases from the dump.

Then on March 21, more than 50 children were hospitalised with symptoms of poisoning. Ekaterina Volkova, the Volokolamsk district deputy head of education, said that the cause was presumably hydrogen sulfide seeping out of the landfill. Official measurements showed that the chemical was present at 10 times the maximum allowable concentration.

Play In late March, as Governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov tries to


fish attractant to the fishing lure or natural bait.
In the preferred embodiment, the controlled release fish attractant includes: an attractant and a substantially hydrophobic, film forming release agent. In the preferred embodiment, the attractant is water dispersible.
The attractant may be an animal by-product. The animal by-product may be an aquatic animal by-product. In the preferred embodiment, the aquatic animal by-product is selected from the group consisting of shrimp, salmon, squid, shad, sardines, anchovies, crayfish, mullet, and animal metabolites, such as pheromones.
The attractant may be a plant by-product. The plant by-product may be an aromatic plant by-product. In the preferred embodiment, the aromatic plant by-product is selected from the group consisting of anise, garlic, banana oil, and plant metabolites, such as pheromones.
The attractant may be an organic chemical. Thereleasing agent is hydrocarbon-based. Also, in the preferred embodiment, the viscosity of the hydrocarbon-based polymer is less than about 2000 cps. The hydrocarbon-based polymer is a hydrophobic fluorocarbon and the balance water.
In still another embodiment, the substantially hydrophobic film forming releasing agent is a polymer. Also, in one preferred embodiment, the polymer is an acrylic polymer and the balance water. One example is sold under the tradename Avalure AC 118 and is available from Noveon of Cleveland, Ohio. Also, in still another preferred embodiment, the polymer is a vinyl homopolymer.
The substantially hydrophobic film forming releasing agent may further include a surfactant. Also, the substantially hydrophobic film forming releasing agent may further include a thickening agent and/or further include an emulsifying agent.
In the preferred embodiment, the applicator for the


LINKIN PARK Members Pay Tribute To CHESTER BENNINGTON On First Anniversary Of His Death

The surviving members of LINKIN PARK have paid tribute to Chester Bennington on the first anniversary of his death.

The LINKIN PARK frontman was found dead in his residence in Palos Verdes near Los Angeles. Although it as reported immediately that he had hanged himself, there were questions about possible drug abuse. It wasn't until the autopsy was released in December, that we learned definitively that drugs and alcohol were not factors in the cause of death.

Earlier today, Mike Shinoda (vocals), Brad Delson (guitar), Dave Farrell (bass), Joe Hahn (programming) and Rob Bourdon (drums) shared a heartfelt note to their late bandmate, remembering him as a "one-of-a-kind spirit" who is missed "more than words can express."

Thewas launched through ChangeDirection.org , which points out five signs to be aware of.

In October, LINKIN PARK took to the Hollywood Bowl stage for an emotional three-hour tribute concert featuring guest such as BLINK-182 , members of KORN , NO DOUBT , AVENGED SEVENFOLD , BUSH , and several others. Some of the band's biggest hits, including "Numb" and "In The End" , were sung entirely by the audience, while a spotlight focused on a solitary mic stand on the stage. Proceeds from the concert, were set aside for the Music For Relief 's One More Light Fund .

Just this week, Shinoda told France's United Rock Nations that he was "open" to the idea of doing shows in the future with LINKIN PARK , saying: "I'm just taking


Gavin Long and Micah Johnson, have been linked to black separatist groups, though the connections are tenuous. Johnson was briefly a member of the New Black Panther Party, but got kicked out years before he launched his attack. Long expressly stated in a video before his attack that he was not affiliated with any groups like the Nation of Islam or ISIS. He was later identified as a member of the Washitaw Nation , which is chiefly a sovereign citizen group, though it has separatist-ish leanings . The Phoenix incident is the most curious inclusion, for reasons I’ll get to later.

CityLab asked the New Jersey homeland security office for their files on these incidents that show the role of black separatist ideology in these attacks. Rosemary Martorana, theNOTES

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As depicted in the film, Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768-1849), who was reared in Virginia by Quaker parents, rose to fame as a premiere White House hostess, during both the presidency of Thomas Jefferson and that of her second husband, James Madison. Although the CBCS list and reviews spell the heroine's name as "Dolly," the correct spelling was "Dolley." The New York Times review notes that, while many basic historical facts in the film are true, the subplot about a romantic rivalry between Madison and Aaron Burr, and the overall romanticized version of Dolley's life, are highly exaggerated. The duel between Burr and Alexander Hamilton which is depicted in the film took place on July 11, 1804. Hamilton died the next day. Burr was acquitted


of treason in 1807 and died in 1836. Universal production notes add that writer Irving Stone purposely avoided repeating the well-known historical episode in which Dolley saved a portrait of George Washington and important state papers during the 1814 British attack on Washington. A January 1946 Hollywood Reporter article reports that Stone had originally intended to use his Dolley Madison research for a novel, but was persuaded by the producers to write an original screenplay instead. Stone had previously written several biographies, and, in 1946, sold the screen rights to five of his novels. Universal borrowed David Niven from Samuel Goldwyn's company for the film. In 1951, Universal entered into a legal battle with the Bank of America when the bank foreclosed its mortagages on several of thestudio's films, including Magnificent Doll. In an unprecented move, Universal countered by launching a suit in which it asked to be found not liable for repayment. According to a December 1953 Variety article, however, the Bank of America was eventually awarded a cash judgment of over $134,000.


Manziel can't run, he's in huge trouble. He showed the speed when dashing 10 yards for a touchdown in a 20-10 loss to Buffalo. He relieved Brian Hoyer in the fourth quarter of that game. But that one play has really been it. Manziel ran for 2,160 yards and 30 touchdowns in two college seasons. And yes, those fears of him being hurt while running came became a reality when he pulled a hamstring late in the second quarter.

4. About the only difference between Manziel's first and second start is that he had the linemen more organized. They didn't have all the false starts and wasted timeouts. The only timeout called to correct a problem was when Josh Gordon lined up in the wrong spot for a play.

5.Who knew that Hoyer (coming off ACL knee surgery) would run for more yards than Manziel? He had carries of 11 and eight yards. Manziel seemed to stumble twice when taking the handoff from under center and dropping back to pass. That is not his comfort zone, and it shows. He will need to learn that to survive in the NFL. Manziel threw out of the shotgun 99 percent of the time in college.

6. Karlos Dansby came off his knee injury to play his first game in a month, and he had 12 tackles. But the run defense remained horrible, allowing 209 yards on the ground. That comes after 234 last week in the loss to the Bengals. The Browns entered Sunday ranked No. 31 against the run.

7.


Part of the problem is that so many defensive linemen are injured. Others are playing hurt. But there also may be some trouble with the defensive scheme. The Browns gave up a lot of yards rushing early in the season when most players were healthy. It's just more pronounced now.

8. Gordon has played four games since returning from his 10-game suspension. He has a modest 20 catches, none for a touchdown. He's averaging 12.9 yards per reception. He continues to struggle with the plays and running the right patterns. He looks nothing like the Josh Gordon who was a Pro Bowl player last season.

9. Manziel mentioned his frustration: "I've never done anything like this ... playing any sport since I was a kid -- whether it's football, basketball,game against the Bengals. He was inactive and/or used only on special teams before that.

12. It's not a second guess, but I was sitting with a few media people and we all thought the Browns should have tried to convert on the fourth-and-13 situation with 3:33 left in the game. They were on the 50-yard line. They were losing 17-13. Their defense had trouble against the run all day. Yes, getting a first down on fourth-and-13 is a long shot, but they needed to take it. The Browns defense never did stop Carolina, which ran out the final 3:33 to win the game.

13. I thought the Browns played hard in this game. You could see the determination in Travis Benjamin running down defensive back Josh Norman. Benjamin ran


more than 50 yards after Norman picked off a pass ... and made a tackle to force Norman to fumble.

14. But the Browns lost because the talent level is thin. Also, this was a huge game to keep Carolina in the playoff race.

15. The Browns still struggled to run the ball. Isaiah Crowell had a 28-yard run. He had only 27 yards in his other 15 carries. The Browns used no other running back. They had 84 total yards rushing. To open the season, they ran for more than 100 yards in 4-of-5 games. In the last 10 games, they have been over 100 yards only three times. Pro Bowl center Alex Mack has been injured for the last 10 games.VK Bečej

VK Bečej (full name: Vaterpolo klub Bečej; lit. Water polo club Bečej), was a water polo club from Bečej, Serbia. Founded in 1947, the club disbanded in 2002 due to the bad financial situation.

History
The club was established in 1947. Its golden years came in the mid-1990s, when the club won the National Championships and National Cups of FR Yugoslavia for six consecutive seasons, from 1995–96 to 2000–01 season. VK Bečej also made LEN Champions League Final Four appearances in 1997 and 1998.

The biggest success in club's history was winning the 1999–2000 LEN Champions League trophy, becoming only the second Serbian team after VK Partizan to win the top-tier European water polo club competition. Aleksandar Šapić led the team to the 1999–00 title, scoring 5 goals in the


no wells and were dependent upon purchasing crude oil to refine and sell to Pratt. A few months later, crude oil prices suddenly increased due to manipulation by speculators. The young entrepreneurs struggled to try to live up to their contract with Pratt, but soon their surplus was wiped out. Before long, they were heavily in debt to Pratt.

Charles Ellis gave up, but in 1866, Rogers went to Pratt in New York City, and told him he would take personal responsibility for the entire debt. This so impressed Pratt that he hired 26-year-old Rogers immediately. In the next few years Rogers became, in the words of Elbert Hubbard, Pratt's "hands and feet and eyes and ears" (Little Journeys to the Homes, 1909). The following year, in 1867, Charlesodds with a Department for Education (DfE) analysis published in July showing that in schools where EBacc entries have increased the proportion of pupils entered for at least one arts subject has also increased.

The figures in the EPI’s analysis show that the 2016 entry rate for arts subjects was the lowest in a decade, with a particular decline between 2014 and 2016 coming after several years of gradual increases.

Arts qualifications are defined as those relating to art and design, drama and theatre, media, film, and TV studies, music, dance, and performing arts.

The average number of arts entries per-pupil fell from 0.80 in 2013 to 0.70 in 2016 (in 2010 it was 0.75). Meanwhile, the proportion of pupils taking at least one arts subject fell from 57.1 per cent


in 2014 to 53.5 per cent in 2016 (in 2010, the figure stood at 55.6 per cent).

It means that, proportionally, around 19,000 fewer pupils took arts subjects in 2016 than in 2014 and early 2017 exam data shows that the trend is continuing.

The proportion of pupils entered for the EBacc in state-funded schools has increased from 21.8 per cent when it was introduced in 2010 to 39.7 per cent in 2016, with the majority of this increase taking place in 2012 and 2013.

However, the EPI analysis says that in 2016 – when Progress 8 was first used – the proportion of pupils being entered for four of the EBacc’s five components rose by 11 per cent.

Progress 8 measures a pupil’s progress across eight subjects: English, maths, three EBaccalso been established by the DfE.

Ministers are adamant that the EBacc has not negatively influenced entries to arts subjects. A DfE analysis – Trends in Arts Subjects in Schools where English Baccalaureate Entry has Increased – drew on data from the National Pupil Database and focused on around 300 schools whose EBacc entry rates have risen by 40 percentage points since 2010.

The report states: “The proportion of pupils entering at least one arts subject has remained broadly stable, both for schools whose EBacc entry has seen a large increase and for other schools.

“There is little correlation between the change in EBacc entry and the change in arts uptake in state-funded mainstream schools. The small correlation that exists suggests that schools where EBacc entry has increased tend to have


Circular Migration between Europe and its Neighbourhood

Choice or Necessity?

Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou

Situates circular migration within a theoretical and empirical framework

Offers new data and evidence, and new analysis of existing policies

Criticises the commonly held assumption that circular migration is a triple win situation and engages critically with relevant policy discourses about the desirability and feasibility of circular migration

Circular Migration between Europe and its Neighbourhood

Choice or Necessity?

Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou

Description

The term 'circular migration' has become a buzzword among European and international policy and academic circles in recent years. Many national and EU policy makers have heralded the idea of 'circular' migration with great enthusiasm as the solution to many of 'our' migration 'problems', supposedly addressing at once labour market shortages (by providing quickly and flexibly labour force on demand) andclassical migration, or a necessity, a creative but not desirable strategy that migrants adopt in the absence of other options.

Circular Migration between Europe and its Neighbourhood

Choice or Necessity?

Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou

Author Information

Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor and Director of a Programme on Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, in Florence, Italy. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. She has been teaching as Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002. Her recent books include Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities (2010, Ashgate), European Multiculturalism(s) (with T. Modood and N. Meer, 2011, Edinburgh University Press), Migrant Smuggling. Irregular Migration from Africa and


The present invention relates to a spacer expander of an oil ring utilized for an internal combustion engine and more particularly to a spacer expander constructed from a strip of metal and composed of a split annular spring body and lugs projected axially from the body to hold a side rail in contact with the cylinder wall of the engine.
A spacer expander is generally assembled with a pair of side rails into an oil ring. The spacer expander comprises a split annular spring body when its opposite ends are in contact. The body is formed with a plurality of alternate corrugations to provide a radial expansive force. The inward corrugations are provided with lugs inclined slightly in a direction radially inward of the body. The lugs form ain cross-sectional thickness at least at the root thereof as the body, thus the root is too rigid to elastically bend. When a part of the lugs are inwardly biased by the side rail, the lugs cause the humps connected therewith to displace inwardly therewith. This leads to an increase of oil consumption in an internal combustion engine under an engine brake operation in which the piston easily swings around the piston pin and easily inclines to the cylinder. Upon the inclination of the piston, one of the upper and lower side rails strongly pushes a part of the lugs inwardly. Then, the body is displaced inwardly to permit the separation of the outer end of the other side rail from the cylinder wall, resulting in a reduction


improved spacer expander is constructed from a strip of metal to form a split annular shaped spring body when its opposite ends are in contact and assembled with a single or double side rails into an oil ring assembly. The body is similar in cross-sectional thickness to the original strip of metal and formed with a plurality of lugs for bearing engagement with the inner radial face of the side rail. The lug is thinner in cross-sectional thickness at least at its root portion than the body so that it is elastically easily bendable when it is inwardly biased by the side rail. The lug may be thinned uniformly or partly to have its root portion thinner than the body. The body can have a thickness required toexert a sufficient radial expansive force on the side rail and cause the side rail to follow the inner surface of the cylinder at high speed running in which the cylinder is distorted. Machining is available for manufacturing a spacer expander with uniformly or partly thinned lugs after press-working of a steel strip with a uniform thickness. However, it is preferable to eliminate the machining by utilizing press-working of the off-shaped drawn steel strip having beforehand a thinned section for the thin root portion.
In a preferred embodiment , the annular body is radially corrugated to form the inwardly extending humps and outwardly extending humps. Each inwardly extending hump is formed at its upper and lower crest with upper and lower lugs of which the cross-sectional thickness is thinner


than that of the hump. The body is assembled with upper and lower side rails and set in a piston ring groove in a piston. When the piston inclines to the cylinder wall, either of the upper and lower side rails biases a part of the lugs inwardly. The thin lug can elastically bend independently from the body whenever it is inwardly biased by the rail, so that the body remains unmoved. This offers an advantage in that the upper and lower side rails are always in contact with the cylinder wall, even when the piston inclines to the cylinder wall. Therefore, whenever the piston oscillates, during engine braking, upper and lower side rails are always in contact with the internal surface of the cylinder and perform aseven-county Pittsburgh region added 22,300 nonfarm jobs in April, and the unemployment rate declined two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.6 percent, according to preliminary figures released on Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The decline occurred as 3,900 more people began looking for work, an expression of confidence in Pittsburgh’s economy.

Locator map of the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Statistical Area in the northeastern part of the of . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

PLAINS TOWNSHIP, PA — More people are moving into the region than leaving.

Migration into Luzerne and Lackawanna counties is on the rise and much of the immigration is coming from New York, New Jersey and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, according to the 2014 Indicators Report from the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development at Wilkes University.

The


report, unveiled Thursday morning to business and civic leaders who filled the convention center at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, analyzed 120 indicators in areas such as demographics, population and migration, jobs and the economy. It was the ninth year for the event, said Teri Ooms, executive director of the institute.

Ooms highlighted the 2010 Census, which shows a growing population for the first time since the 1950s. Some are from the low- to moderate-income demographic and some earn a middle- to upper-middle income, the report showed.

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. employers added a robust 288,000 jobs in April, the most in two years, the strongest evidence to date that the economy is picking up after a brutal winter slowed growth.

The Labor Department also said Friday that the unemployment ratesank to 6.3 percent, its lowest level since September 2008, from 6.7 percent in March. But the drop occurred because the number of people working or seeking work fell sharply. People aren’t counted as unemployed if they’re not looking for a job.

In addition to the burst of hiring in April, employers added more jobs in February and March than previously estimated. The job totals for those two months were revised up by a combined 36,000.

Employers have now added an average of 238,000 jobs the past three months, up from 167,000 in the previous three.

Locator map of the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Statistical Area in the northeastern part of the of . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The tri-county area including Luzerne, Wyoming and Lackawanna ended 2013 just like it began, with the highest


many economists think growth could top 3 percent in 2014. That would be the best performance since the recession ended in mid-2009.

Berks County‘s unemployment rate decreased to 7.3 percent in November from 7.4 percent in October, the lowest unemployment rate since January 2009, when it was also 7.3 percent, the state Department of Labor and Industry reported Friday.

WASHINGTON – A fourth straight month of solid hiring cut the U.S. unemployment rate in November to a five-year low of 7 percent. The surprisingly robust job gain suggested that the economy may have begun to accelerate.

It also fueled speculation that the Federal Reserve will scale back its economic stimulus when it meets later this month.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers have yet to start hiring aggressively — a trend the FederalAnd many people are giving up on the job market in frustration.

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than the government first estimated. The job increases helped reduce the unemployment rate from 7.6 percent to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.

The report today from the Labor Department was a reassuring sign that the U.S. job market is improving despite higher taxes and government spending cuts that took effect this year.

The government revised up its estimate of job gains in February and March by a combined 114,000. It now says employers added 332,000 jobs in February and 138,000 in March. The economy has created an average of 208,000 jobs a month from November through April — above


PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Jeni Stepien waited ten years for this day. On the eve of her wedding day, she finally met the man who’s now living with her father’s heart.

It was a meeting filled with emotion for Jeni and the entire Stepien family. Jeni’s father, Michael Stepien, was murdered in Swissvale back in 2006.

His organs were donated, including the heart Arthur Thomas had been waiting 16 years for. On Friday, Jeni felt her father’s heart beat for the first time in 10 years.

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“I’m so excited. The whole family is here now. It’s like everybody is here,” she said.

UPDATE: Watch Jeni walk down the aisle on the big day.

Thomas and his wife traveled to PittsburghBenazir Bhutto

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, 2007

While no longer a sitting head of state, Bhuto’s influence on Pakistani politics was considerable. A moderate voice in a country fraught with extremism, her death at the hands of Islamic militants may have single-handedly destroyed any chance the nation might have had for political stability and likely contributed to the general downward spiral the nation has experienced ever since. While it’s unknown whether she might have made a major difference in slowing or arresting Pakistan’s increasingly militant tendencies, her death left a void that no opposition leader has been able to fill, leaving nuclear-capable Pakistan an increasingly unstable and dangerous nation.

9. Reinhard Heydrich

Senior Nazi Official, 1942

Only World War Two history buffs would likely know who Reinhard Heydrich was, but he was


the one man who could have won the war for Germany had he not been killed by Czech partisans on the streets of Prague in 1942. How? Every bit as ruthless and twice as smart as his protégé, Adolf Hitler, the man was being groomed to be the Fuhrer’s successor when he died; had he lived, who knows if he might not of eventually found the kahunas to oust an increasingly frail and delusional Hitler and take the reins of the Third Reich himself—a prospect that could have had profound implications for the allies. Certainly, under Heydrich’s leadership, the many mistakes made by Hitler in the last years of the war that all but sealed Germany’s fate may have been avoided; on the other hand, he may haveshort term—be denied.

7. John F. Kennedy

U.S. President, 1963

While Kennedy was just one of four U.S. Presidents to die at the hands of an assassin (and one of no fewer than ten presidents to experience an assassination attempt), none were as public or had as much impact on the American psyche as did the death of the young former senator from Massachusetts. While his death had only a minor impact on the political course he had set for the country (his successor, Lyndon Johnson, continued with many of his programs and policies) it can never be denied how profoundly his death cast a pall over the American people that has, in some ways, remained to this day. But even more than that, his death resulted in the creation of


the entire cottage industry of conspiracy theories, all of which have done much to stoke the fires of paranoia and cynicism that burn so strongly in this country.

6. Mahatma Gandhi

Indian political activist and spiritual leader, 1948

The voice of non-violence in an increasingly violent world, when the emaciated Indian holy man was gunned down on the streets of New Delhi by a university student turned activist, it was a tremendous blow not only to India, but to the entire world. His policies of compassion towards the poor and non-violent resistance served as a blueprint for peaceful change, while his ability to affect both Hindu and Muslim alike made peace—of a kind—possible in his war-torn nation. The only positive thing that can be said—if such is possible—is that it wasblack community and creating deeper divisions than was already evident. Had he lived, it’s possible the late sixties and early seventies would have had a much less militant air about it, though that’s purely speculative.

3. Alexander II

Tsar of Russia, 1881

While not many people likely know much about Tsar Alexander II of Russia, his death at the hands of terrorists (yes, they had them even back then, though at the time they were known as anarchists) in March of 1881 changed the course of Russia for the bad. Something of an enlightened monarch and a reformer, he was on the verge of creating a parliament in Russia at the time of his death, which likely would have led to the countries’ eventual democratization (much as was seen in England


and other European countries around this time). Instead, his successors decided to take a more heavy handed approach, resulting in thirty more years of oppressive and corrupt leadership and sowing the seeds for the 1917 revolution that would introduce Communism to the world, the effects of which we are still feeling today.

2. Abraham Lincoln

U.S. President, 1865

No assassination has had as great an impact on a country than did that of the sixteenth president of the United States. His death at the hands of actor turned southern agitator John Wilkes Booth is not only the stuff of legend, but was disastrous to the south as well, who would have fared much better under Lincoln’s conciliatory hand in the aftermath of the Civil War than it did under Andrew Johnsonthrough the streets of Sarajevo (the capital of modern day Bosnia-Herzogovina but at the time part of greater Serbia) had immediate and profound repercussions. The problem was that the assassin (you guessed it; another anarchist) was part of a group that had ties to the Serbian military itself; as such, in a world-class case of overreaction, Austro-Hungary held the Serbian government complicit in the murder and set in motion the wheels of war which would, in turn, start a chain of events that would, over the course a just a few weeks, not only bring the two countries to blows, but would drag the entire continent into the fray with it. The result? World War One—arguably one of the bloodiest and most futile conflicts in history. (Final death


list, Heydrich and Josef Mengele (“The Angel Of Death)

Well, technically Muammar Ghadafi was not assassinated–he was caputred and killed after a civil war. That’s like saying everyone who dies in battle is assassinated by the opposing army.

As for bin Laden, sure his death was significant, but he was not nearly as powerful or influential (or even significant) as people think. He was broke, and recruitment was falling drastically. The only reason people wanted him dead was revenge. He was not as influential as someone like the leader of a country, he was just a public enemy.

I wrote a comment stating that the writer had made a mistake writing that Rajiv Gandhi was killed by Sikh extremists rather than LTTE extremists from Sri Lanka. Well the writer corrected thiswrong way round as Hitler was in no way Heydrich’s protégé.

“Only history buffs would know his name”? You cant be serious, his infamy among the Jewish people alone will live forever, the master mind behind the “final solution “. Heydrich was the vilest of the vile,his execution changed nothing, the machinery of destruction was well in place by a perverse German people. Had he survived the end was inevitable and he would have been smuggled to some south American country on the “Rat Line” run by the Vatican under the auspices of “Blessed Pius XII” and another Austrian devil Bishop Hudal

Julius Caesar wasn’t the first Emperor of Rome, his nephew, Octavian (later he took the name Caesar Augustus) was technically the first Emperor of Rome. He definitely would


a MAJOR impact on the political course of the country. Kennedy would never had have wished for the radical implement the Great Society and only someone with Lyndon Johnson’s political skills and connections in Congress could have implemented these left wing programs that we are still suffering from.

The failure to mention the Nov. 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a right-wing religious fanatic during the middle of the Oslo peace process is a major omission. Rabin had the security background and credibility to make major concessions and sell them to the Israeli public. Had he not been assassinated there might have been a peace treaty between Israel and Syria.

Hitler was hardly the protege of Heydrich. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party, which was built around hiscult of personality. Heydrich was the protege of Himmler. But ultimately it was Hitler’s poor strategic and diplomatic decisions that led to Germany’s defeat in WWII. Hitler surrounded Germany with enemies with whom he went to war at the same time and he continually interfered with his generals in the running of the war to the detriment of the war effort.

@markusp
Read any account of antebellum American history–clearly the Democratic Party was the party of slavery. It was the Democratic Party in the South that led the secession drive in 1860-61 that led to the Civil War. While the Whig Party wasn’t an antislavery party, it did have an antislavery wing in the North. The Democratic Party in the North supported the spread of slavery to the western territories–the


with growth. One of the best parts of living in Wake Forest is the downtown area filled with local shops, restaurants, breweries and a small town charm that is sure to delight you.

We have helped people a number of people buy and sell homes in Wake Forest and are happy to help you as well. Without further ado, let's jump into the information you're looking for, the town's best spots to live!

Hasentree

Where world-class amenities meet small-town charm, Hasntree is one of the more modern neighborhoods in Wake Forest. With a country club as it's backbone and amenities for everyone, it's a place the whole family willthe comparator unit during the second charging period. PA1 (2) The control unit starts the second charging period in response to one, generated earlier, of the detection output from the first temperature detection unit and the inverted output from the comparator unit during the first charging period, and ends the second charging period in response to one, generated earlier, of the detection output from the second temperature detection unit and the inverted output from the comparator unit during the second charging period. PA1 (3) The control unit starts the second charging period in response to one, generated earlier, of the detection output from the first temperature detection unit and the inverted output from the comparator unit during the first charging period, and ends the second charging period in


in the
front seats of the Excursion.

       Jarrett, Benak, and Bishop approached the Excursion, weapons drawn, and
ordered the occupants to put the vehicle in park and show their hands. As the officers
drew near, they saw that the front seat occupants were Hispanic males, not William
Baber, who is white, but they could not see if anyone was in the rear of the Excursion.
Deputy Jarrett observed both occupants moving their arms and the driver, later
identified as Martinez-Cortes, looking towards the middle console and moving as if

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to shove something between the center console and his right leg. After several more
demands, Martinez-Cortes put the Excursion in park and both occupants showed their
hands. The officers ordered them out of the Excursion and told them to lie on the
ground, where they were handcuffed and asked for identification. Martinez-Cortes
provided a Nebraska identification card. The passenger had no identification but gave
his name and date of birth.

       Deputy Jarrett next called for a routine check for wants and warrants. Jarrett
arrested Martinez-Cortes when the dispatcher advised that he had an outstanding
misdemeanor warrant and his driving privileges had been revoked and suspended. A
search of the Excursion then yielded a small baggy containing two grams of
methamphetamine near the center console, a baggy containing 5.1 grams of
methamphetamine


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Film Group

For the last film group of this season, we have a light, touching Israeli movie for you! When the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives from Egypt to play at an Arab Cultural Center and accidentally gets on the wrong bus, ending up in a tiny outpost in the Negev, the eight band members must spend the night and catch the next day's bus. Their interactions with the locals that night are filled with humor, surprise, and longing. The film won 8 Israeli Ophir awards in 2007, including best film, actor, and actress. The story is now a Broadway musical of the same name that has won universally rave reviews.

Come for dinner at 6:00 p.m. We'll be ordering pizza from Little Red Hen ($5 a person),so please RSVP for dinner to Carol McCardell (847-727-0029) by noon on May 12. Or, simply come for the movie at 7:00.

Hakafa's film group meets once a month, September through May, at 7:00 p.m. on a Saturday evening at the Hakafa offices at the North Shore United Methodist Church (213 Hazel Avenue, Glencoe) to screen and then discuss films of Jewish interest.

Each month, the group meets beforehand at 6:00 p.m. for a light dinner.

All are invited to join Hakafa's film group for dinner and the movie or just the movie. Members should feel free to bring friends, family, and a nosh!

Check the monthly newsletter for movie details and feel free to contact Carol McCardell with any questions.

2017-18 Hakafa Film Group Screening Schedule
September 9, 2017
October 21, 2017
November 18, 2017
January


sentenced to jail for agreeing to get into a car with an unrelated male and needed a royal pardon.”

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A Spanish version of the site reaches millions of readers in Latin America and beyond.

UPI was founded in 1907 by E.W. Scripps as the United Press (UP).$100 fine, suspended imposition of the

sentence, and placed Spears on community supervision for nine months. In a single

issue, Spears challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support her conviction. We

will affirm.

                             II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND

       While Spears was driving her Toyota Tundra in Lewisville, Texas, sometime

between 11:00 and 11:30 p.m. on Friday, April 22, 2016, she drove off the road and

struck a utility pole. The pole broke, and the power in the surrounding area went out.

The impact caused the pickup’s airbags to deploy and caused major damage to the

vehicle. After impact, Spears drove 472 feet


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have been injured and unable to obtain medical attention if she had fallen when she

left the scene, the officers and a K-9 unit searched the area for her.

      Meanwhile, Spears found a woman with a cell phone and asked her to call her

former friend Laura Smith because her number was the only phone number she had

memorized. Smith, who is an officer with the Lewisville Police Department but was

off duty at the time, answered the call and was informed by the woman that Spears

had been involved in an accident, that she was okay, but that Spears would like Smith

to pick her up. Smithagreed and drove from Bedford to Lewisville.

      Smith picked up Spears approximately one-half mile from the accident scene.

Spears told Smith that she thought she had fallen asleep prior to the accident.

Although Smith did not see any injuries on Spears, she offered to take her to the

hospital. Spears declined and said that she had a headache and “was just really tired”

and asked instead if she could go to Smith’s house, to which Smith agreed. Smith

asked Spears if they needed to go get her pickup, but Spears said that she was

exhausted and that she would take care of it in the morning. Smith gave Spears the

phone number for Tommy Thomas, who serves as the Lewisville Police Department’s

hit-and-run accident investigator, and told her to call him


     Spears challenges only the sufficiency of the evidence showing that she failed to

“take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or person in charge of the

property.” Here, it is undisputed that Spears did not personally take any steps to

locate the owner of the utility pole. After parking her pickup next to a curb, Spears

left the scene of the accident in Lewisville and travelled to Bedford, where she spent

the night. After arriving in Bedford, Spears contacted her watch commander, but

Spears did not attempt to obtain information about the owner of the Lewisville utility

pole from her watch commander who was with the Plano Police Department. The

following day, Spears left a voicemail for the hit-and-run investigator with the

Lewisville Police Department but never returned his call.Monuments

Roman Baptistery

The baptistery was declared a national monument in 1931 and is the only one of its type to exist in Spain. This underground chamber dates back to the 3rd century AD. It has a long vaulted corridor that was a mausoleum and a small room covered by a cupola. Here there is a side altar and a spiral staircase in one corner.

The octagonal nymphaeum, a small pool in which to perform the rite of baptism, was located in the centre of the quadrangular room.


as many as possible of the total sample instead of random or purposive sampling. Those who consented to an interview were invited 10 months later with another letter providing an opportunity to decline participation. The interviewer (F. K. A.) met with the participants, most often in their own home. The interviews took 5 months to complete because of the traveling required due to the fact that the participants lived in all parts of Sweden. The interview commenced with establishing rapport and demographic data collection. Then followed the qualitative data collection, a break, and finally, a structured clinical interview. Hence, the interviewer was not aware of the participants' diagnostic status during the qualitative data collection. In addition, the interviewer was blind to the participants' survey responses. The participants providedsufficient availability of support relative to their needs \[19\]. They stated that their need for support declined sharply during the first year and leveled approximately 5 years after the event. One male participant, however, expressed an increasing need for support, reportedly because of a slowly declining reluctance on his part to disclose emotional information. Several participants described an increased need of support in 2004, which they explained was due to the 10-year commemoration of the event and to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

In the thematic analysis, we found that except for the need for support, the participants' descriptions mainly involved two related themes: sources of support and barriers to support. In nearly all narratives \[20\], the participants described themselves as the key agents in their recovery, for instance,


KYODO NEWS - Feb 20, 2020 - 00:50 | Coronavirus, All, World, Japan

More than 400 passengers on the coronavirus-hit cruise ship Diamond Princess disembarked Wednesday in Yokohama after a two-week quarantine period that raised questions about the Japanese government's response to the outbreak.

The disembarkation of the remaining some 2,500 is expected to take three days at least, according to the government. The first group was comprised of 443 mainly elderly passengers who have tested negative for the virus and have completed final checkups with doctors.

"I am relieved I was able to get off. I want to take a good rest since I am returning home for the first time in a month," said a 77-year-old male passenger.

People carrying luggage were seen disembarking the vessel, some waving hands, whilethe ship. The United States has evacuated many of its citizens from the vessel using chartered jets and several other countries have announced they will follow suit.

The Japanese government says it was appropriate to quarantine the vessel, a position endorsed by the World Health Organization.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a press conference the government has given "utmost consideration for protecting the health of passengers and crew."

The passengers were asked to stay inside their cabin as much as possible, and some passengers said they spent their days watching movies and looking at Yokohama from the balcony of their cabin.

The quarantine at Yokohama Port, south of Tokyo, began Feb. 5 after a passenger who disembarked in Hong Kong on Jan. 25 was found to be infected with the new


coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

After departing Yokohama on Jan. 20, the Diamond Princess stopped at Kagoshima, southwestern Japan before arriving in Hong Kong. It then traveled to Vietnam and Taiwan before calling at Okinawa in Japan and then returning to Yokohama on Feb. 3, according to its operator.strategy likens bacteria to science fiction villains that automatically adapt to any weapon used against them, said Victoria Richards, associate professor of medical sciences at Quinnipiac University's Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, in North Haven, Conn.

"Any antibiotic is a weapon against a bacteria," she said. "With this approach, they could break that cycle of bacteria trying to adapt to our weapons."

Richards said doctors and hospitals might want to consider implementing this sort of cycling strategy as soon as possible, as part of their overall plan to prevent resistance.

"It's not like these are experimental antibiotics," she said. "They are commonly used, and can be used in response to the bacteria responding to other antibiotics. It's trying to keep one step ahead of the bacteria, by looking in


UPDATED: Singapore likely to become new home of WTA Championships in 2014

Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova in the final of the 2012 WTA Championships. (AP)

The WTA Championships, the prestigious year-end tournament that features the top eight singles players and beginning in 2014, the top eight doubles teams, is in its last year in Istanbul. The WTA announced the four cities under consideration to host the tournament in 2014 and beyond in October: Mexico City; Kazan, Russia; Tianjin, China; and Singapore. While the award won't be announced until the spring of 2013, Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim reports that Singapore is the front-runner to win the bid.

In his weekly Mailbag, Wertheim reports that "multiple sources say that Singapore is the likely new home of the year-end championships."

With the WTA's focussix citizens top the seven-figure mark) in the world.

But can Singapore build on some of the great strides made in Istanbul? The Turkish fans breathed life into a tournament that seemed like an afterthought when it was in Doha from 2008 to 2010. While the WTA walked away with bags of cash from that deal, the top women were playing matches in empty stadiums in the face of complete apathy.

That changed when the tournament moved to Istanbul, a city so feverish about sports and trying desperately to show the world it has the ability and capacity to host world-class sporting events -- *cough* 2020 Olympics *cough.* Behind the scenes, Istanbul may have been lacking -- the local organization was generally disorganized, and I'm pretty sure the players have


working with the device were recently able to decode tiny inscriptions buried inside the fragmented brass pieces, Reuters reports. The Antikythera Mechanism is comprised of bronze gearwheels, dials and inscriptions.

The connection between the lunar and solar eclipses was an important part of setting the date of the ancient Olympics. The beginning of the ancient games marked the beginning of what the Greeks called “The Olympiad,” a four-year time span that began on the full moon closest to the summer solstice.

As researches began to unravel the astronomical function of the Antikythera Mechanism, x-ray technology dropped another clue in their lap. Amongst the inscriptions on the ancient computer were the names “Nemea” and “Olympia” — both of which were sites that hosted the ancient Olympics.

Like a well thrown shot-put, thepieces began to fall into place for researchers.

“It really surprised us to discover that it also showed the four-year cycle of ancient Greek games, including the Olympic Games,” Tony Freeth, a researcher at the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project who worked on the study, told Reuters.

The Antikythera Mechanism wasn’t done surprising the people studying it either. When it was originally discovered, at the site of a shipwreck in 1901, it was found with other items from the Eastern Mediterranean. This led researches to believe that ancient brass computer originated in that region.

But as researches employed the technology that allowed them to read the inscriptions on the device, they found that the names of the months used were of Corinthian origin — indicating the Mechanism found its origins on the


other side of the Greek world, most likely Corfu or Sicily, in the Northwest part of the country.

The technology used in the Antikythera Mechanism was so advanced for its time that it wouldn’t be seen again in the Western world until the invention of clocks in medieval cathedrals.circular hardware receiving aperture with an inner wall that includes a connection member with a free end and a bushing integrally connected to and emanating from the connection member proximal to the free end thereof. The bushing includes an inner threaded bore and an outer surface and a free end. A number of cutting edges are integrally connected to and emanate from the outer surface of the bushing. A threaded fastener, having a threaded shank and a head, is routed through the circular hardware receiving aperture with the threaded shank in threaded communication with the inner threaded bore of the bushing with the number of cutting edges being embedded in the inner wall of the circular hardware receiving aperture of the corresponding lens. As the fastener is threaded


into the threaded bore of the bushing, the bushing is drawn into the circular hardware receiving aperture to cause the cutting members to dig into the periphery of the receiving aperture and thereby prevent rotation of the bushing and the connection member connected thereto. The bushing may be made of either plastic or metal material.
For the installation of the connection mounting of the present invention, a single round hole is drilled at opposing ends of each of the two eyewear lenses for a total of four holes. One hole of each lens corresponds to a temple connection member while the other hole of each lens corresponds to a bridge connection member. For each connection point, a threaded fastener is routed through the round hole into threaded engagement withFender Roscoe Beck signature 5-string bass

Description:
Three-tone sunburst finish with tortoiseshell pickguard. RB5s now come with a white guard, I think. The fingerboard is pau ferro with nice figuring down its length, and the back of the neck and the headstock have a large amount of birdseye figuring, especially for a neck not explicitly identified as "birdseye maple."

History:
Purchased for me from Music Arts Enterprises in Fort Lauderdale, FL in May 2000. Has stayed in air conditioning its entire life, mostly being used at low volume levels playing by myself or along with CDs or the radio. I have jammed at friends' houses occasionally, and took it with me to college last year. That fully describes the use its had.

Condition:
Completely stock and overall excellent. I regularly wipe down and clean


have a square footage of . (2 bedroom) or . (3 bedroom).

Student Government Association
The College of St. Scholastica Student Government Association (SGA) is responsible for making decisions and advocating for policy that impacts the student body. The SGA has 40 seats, which include 10 each from the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes; as well as representative positions for two graduate students, and two transfer or previously studying-abroad students. SGA officers include the President, Executive Vice President, Financial Vice President, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, Chief of Staff, Speaker of the Senate, and Communications Director. The Senate also has three standing committees, which include the Internal Affairs Committee, External Affairs Committee, and Student Affairs Committee. Each standing committee has a Chair.

Athletics
The College of St. Scholastica fieldsMurphy (DFL) 06B - Minnesota House of Representatives
Michael Paymar – class of 1983, Minnesota House of Representatives Michael Paymar (DFL) 64B - Minnesota House of Representatives
Ellen Pence – class of 1991, leading domestic abuse prevention advocate
Kathleen Seefeldt – class of 1956, former Chairman of Prince William County, Virginia Board of Supervisors
Patrick J. Schiltz – class of 1981, U. S. District Judge, District of Minnesota
Don Ness – class of 2014, former mayor of Duluth
Emily Larson – class of 1995, current mayor of Duluth

See also

 List of colleges and universities in Minnesota
 Higher education in Minnesota

References

External links

Official athletics website

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Category:Education in Duluth, Minnesota
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Category:Universities and colleges in Minnesota
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San Marcos honors its 'champions'

SAN MARCOS  Several community members were honored by the San Marcos City Council at last month’s State of the City event.

The city started the “San Marcos Champions” awards last year to recognize contributions to the community. Each council member selects a champion.

• Pia Harris-Ebert was chosen by Vice Mayor Hal Martin for her two decades of service on the San Marcos City Council.

Harris-Ebert was the first woman elected to the council, and the city’s Redevelopment Agency was established during her tenure. She was also president of the local teachers union.

• Ginger Hitzke, president of Hitzke Development, was honored by Councilwoman Rebecca Jones for her work as an affordable housing developer. Jones called Hitzke’s Autumn Terrace development “a beacon of light for what’s toNew Delhi: India and the US are working on a framework to facilitate transfer of critical military technology and classified information by American defence firms to Indian private sector for joint ventures, authoritative sources said.

The framework will also prescribe specific measures for ensuring safety and security of sensitive technology and classified information when shared with Indian firms.

At present, there is no provision for sharing classified defence information by American companies with the Indian private sector although both countries have been favouring joint development of critical military platforms.

The two countries are working on the specific framework to facilitate sharing of critical military technology by American defence firms with their Indian counterparts, the sources said.

They said the government-to-government framework will also bring clarity on issues relating to liability, intellectual property


were eyeing mega projects in India under the ambitious strategic partnership model but they were apprehensive of safety and security of critical technology when it is shared with Indian private sector.

Under the strategic partnership model, select private firms will be roped in to build military platforms like submarines and fighter jets in India in partnership with foreign entities.

Indo-US defence ties are on an upswing and both New Delhi and Washington have said they are committed to expanding these further.

Both sides have also been pushing for joint venture and collaboration between private sectors of the two countries in defence manufacturing.

In June 2016, the US had designated India a "Major Defence Partner," intending to elevate defence trade and technology sharing with India to a level commensurate with that of itsan image of the Sun.

An image of the eclipsed Sun obtained by projection.

Ryan, Kyle, Myles and Charlie wearing their eclipse glasses.

Miles was surprised by the excellent view through the eclipse glasses!
Photo by Ben Talbot, year 10.

Kim photographing the eclipse through the hydrogen alpha telescope.
Photo by Natt Donaldson, year 12.

Students and staff enjoying the eclipse.

An image of the eclipse taken through the eyepiece of an 80 mm telescope set up with a homemade Baader film filter.

Taken through the 80 mm telescope using a webcam.

Two of our students were selected to view the eclipse from the air with our chair of governors and resident pilot Capt Apos Katrantzis. The students chosen were Aaron Moate in year 10 and Patricia Valimaa in year 12, they were chosen as a reward for