lineup designed to mash lefties, to either stick with their lineup and forgo platoon advantages, or to weaken their bench for later in the game.

He’s not the first manager to try this maneuver. Bucky Harris, for instance, trotted out Curly Ogden as a stalking horse in Game Seven of the 1924 World Series before switching to a series of relievers, culminating in Walter Johnson pitching four innings to get the win. His goal was to get Bill Terry out of the lineup early. But, according to The Sporting News, the Giants were ready for this, having been alerted in advance to the strategy. “The night before the final game, one of the attaches of the Washington Club found out that McGraw knew all about Harris’s plan and wasbeen a little silly. But more often, norms have existed for good reasons. Like the ones that unofficially governed base running until Major League Baseball had to get involved. Everyone traveled counterclockwise around the bases, largely without fail, figuring that every base gained was important, until one man challenged that.

Germany Schaefer was one of the most beloved players of the first two decades of the 20th century, and maybe the only man who got along with Ty Cobb. He came from Chicago, the son of German immigrants, and he took up baseball, as so many others did in those days, as a way to integrate into American culture and lift himself out of poverty. He spent years in semi-pro ball and in the high minors before getting noticed


by big league teams. After an extended tryout with the Cubs didn’t go well, he latched on with the Tigers in 1905 and became their second baseman.

He was a natural showman who would eventually have a vaudeville act in the offseason. He wore galoshes and a raincoat to bat if it started to drizzle and he hoped to delay the proceedings. And, to the delight of his home crowds, he loved to show up the opposing pitcher whenever he hit a home run into the stands (which was incredibly rarely) by sliding into each base.

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But he’s most famous for a story told by Davy Jones in The Glory of Their Times in which Schaefer stole first base. Now, Lawrencethat this maneuver was practiced by an extreme minority of players. The potential for it invited chaos and confusion into a relatively clean game. Forever after, base runners would move in but a single direction, and no one would be allowed to Barry Sanders his way into an extra run.

Schaefer’s strategy wasn’t a successful one, so there wasn’t much pushback when the league outlawed the practice. But Branch Rickey had an idea that would, in its unbridled success, change the shape of baseball forever.

The minor leagues, originally, were no different from the major leagues. In fact, the American League was a minor league until 1901, when Ban Johnson expanded it and decided to take on the National League directly. But major league teams were primarily located in the


most populous cities with the most economic muscle, and were thus able to dictate terms to many of the smaller circuits. But the so-called “minor” leagues were, by and large, independent from any particular major league club.

As Bill James pointed out in his New Historical Baseball Abstract, “The minor leagues as they existed a hundred years ago were something more like today’s Mexican League, or perhaps a Japanese baseball league, except that rather than operate in another country in a foreign language, they operated in the hinterlands of the United States. They were independent.” If, say, the Detroit Tigers wanted a Germany Schaefer in 1905 (and they did), they would have to negotiate a price in players, cash or both from the Milwaukee Brewers, then a member ofmade his bones with the San Francisco Seals in 1934, they sent four players for the kid so the Seals could stay competitive.

Rickey had very little interest in paying what he saw as exorbitant rates for unproven players, especially because, as the general manager of the Cardinals, he had little ability to pay exorbitant rates for unproven players. The Cardinals of this era were perpetually strapped for cash. In 1919, he had to secure a $10,000 loan to pry Jesse Haines away from the Kansas City Blues. And while that proved to be a savvy investment, he vowed to find a way around it in the future.

So, with the help of new owner Sam Breadon, the Cardinals began buying stakes in minor league franchises around the country, imposing


agreements that St. Louis would provide the seed money to sign the players initially, but that those players would henceforth be property of the parent club as they progressed through the organization. This ensured that Rickey would have the power to shuffle them around and bring them to the majors as he saw fit, without having to haggle.

At its height, Rickey’s system controlled the fates of more than 800 players on at least 40 different minor league teams, including some in the same leagues. It was no wonder, then, that under his stewardship the Cardinals became the class of the National League. With Rickey at the helm, they won six pennants, and four World Series, and continued their dominance after he left to run the Dodgers. It wasn’tagainst the rules to control that many teams or that many players, so Rickey just went ahead and did it. No one was more aggressive or more ruthless.

His efforts did not sit well with the man in charge of the game at the time. Kenesaw Mountain Landis had been hired as the first commissioner in 1920 under the worst possible circumstances. The sport was reeling after its slow response to the federal government’s 1918 Work or Fight Order, as the United States prepared to enter World War I. And it had destroyed public trust in its integrity when news of the Black Sox scandal became public. Landis’ job was, quite literally, to save baseball. Not just major league baseball, but all of so-called organized ball. It was a


responsibility he would carry with him until his death in 1944.

Landis believed that Rickey’s scheme was bad for the game and the minor league clubs, and was preventing the best players from reaching the majors. While the first of these was probably a matter of opinion, the latter two were undeniably true. So in 1937, Landis called Rickey into his office and explained his position that the Cardinals’ control over their affiliates was illegal because it prevented these minor league clubs from acting independently. As a result, just as major league fans in 1920 rightfully had little confidence in the integrity of the games they were watching, minor league fans had little confidence their local club was doing everything it could to win. And that was poisonous. Itwords of Bill James, to “merely boot camp.” Even affiliates not owned by a major league club agreed to serve as a training ground and puppet for their betters. Over time, the leagues became better regulated and structured, and now major league clubs have somewhere between seven and nine minor league affiliates. The current system helps ensure the cream rises to the top, while restricting the freedom of players as much as the old system ever did. The old innovation became the new normal, and the Cardinals no longer had their advantage.

Similarly successful, but far less sinister, challenges to norms came in the form of the various ways players began to defend themselves from the dangers of being hit by the ball in the 19th and early 20th


glove black so that it would stand out. While there was still some stigma attached, Spalding’s status as both an equipment magnate and one of the strongest players of the early game did much to quell the grumbling. And by the end of the century, conveniently timed with the retirement of Bid McPhee, literally every player had a glove of his own.

Similarly, the evolution of catching equipment was pushed forward by brave souls who didn’t care if their manhood was mocked. The catcher’s mask, at first a modified fencing mask, debuted in the mid 1870s. The chest protector was developed in the early 1880s, though its inventor is in dispute. Some accounts attribute it to Hall of Famer Deacon White, who invented one that had to be inflated.Members

Has developed his work as a professional trumpet player since 1995. Member of the Cuban Radio and Television Orchestra, he was selected to be part of the projects like the Afrocuban All Stars where he was for 4 years as the first trumpet player. He’s travelled the world and he is praised for having worked with musicians like Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis. He also participated in CDs with Ibrahím Ferrer and the Buena Vista Social Club project.

Sergio Farías

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Was known as a winner of the demanding television contest “Todo el mundo canta” (“Everybody sings”) and from then on he’s been of a usual presence in TV shows, concerts, festivals and international tours. He turns to be of a wide repertoire when he sings so easily romantic songs as


dancing ones as well.

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Her voice has gone through the most demanding scenarios of Havana nights and also as a guest in several countries. She has an enviable versatility and a special gift for dancing, that night after night she tests on our scenarios.

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Percussionist and tenor. One of the greatest Cuban voices, finalist of so demanding festivals like Tokyo and Dresden. He has some CDs produced and a huge repertoire. His presence is common in different television and radio programs.

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Known as “El Guapachoso”, great at his interpretations of boleros and guarachas. Known in more than 30 countries, has worked with all the stars of the Buena Vista Social Club project.

Young singer with a powerful vocal pitch, she defends with self-confidence romantic songs and dancing as well.

Munditoa while. But all the lights were on. So I finally got up and turned everything off and went back to bed for real.

At work, only a few others had experienced the blackout, as it was fairly localized. I heard stories of what had happened, but didn’t look them up myself until today.

Distraught being

As it turns out, a distraught person – drunk – had been hurtling south on Grand in her 1999 Chevy van, sending several cars to the shoulder or otherwise off the road. One of these cars swerved off the road and rolled down a hill into a power pole. The impact broke the insulators holding up the high-voltage wires, and they fell to the ground. The driver was trapped in his overturned vehicle by these


Table, and I hope our relationship only grows as our companies do. I recommend him heartily to anyone looking for an honest, creative, brilliant partner in any writing endeavor.

Corey personifies the qualities of enthusiasm, dedication, hard work and commitment--and did I mention enthusiasm? He took on a Make-A-Wish Foundation documentary project I proposed to him and he and his team worked on it diligently and steadfastly, dedicating countless hours until they had completed an amazing final product. During the process his project management, communication, and team-building skills were very much in evidence. He also spearheaded a successful fundraiser that showcased his dedication to philanthropy and his ability to bring his ideas to fruition. No small feat in Los Angeles. I should also mention what a blast he isto work with.

"Corey Blake is not only a great business partner, he is a friend as well. Corey and I partnered four years ago to write my book, "Excalibur Reclaims Her King." It started out as just a working relationship where Corey was editing the work as I wrote it. It became much more than that, as we became partners in a collaboration of an amazing work of Literature. Corey Blake is an exceptional source of knowledge on how stories and characters are developed. He knows what the public is hungry for, and challenges his writers to achieve heights with their work, bringing the voice of the author and the voice of the characters to the page. At present, the first draft of my book is done and


dance floor as Kanye West’s ‘Good Life” invigorated the good looking advertising elite. From the tasty appetizers to the Facebook cookies, the event was well run and some good clean fun. It was a tremendous way to close out a week of thoroughly enjoyable panels and events.

It’s that time of year when 60,000 Mad Men and Mad Women gather in New York City for Advertising Week. In its seventh year, the events, speakers, and parties have been top notch. Sponsorship and product placement abound, I had the opportunity to attend several panels and events throughout the week.

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Special thanks to the public relations firm Sunshine, Sachs & Associates for all of their assistance and coordination throughout the week.

Billboard presents: Under the Hood of “Unstaged” (9/27)

This wasa panel discussion led by Bill Werde who is the Editorial Director of Billboard Magazine. John Legend, ?uestlove of The Roots, and Spike Lee were in attendance. American Express has sponsored a new concert series called Unstaged where concerts are live-streamed and directed by notable directors who bring their cinematic skills to the equation.

John Legend, ?uestlove, and Spike Lee

John Legend & The Roots participated in the most recent Unstaged performance (directed by Spike Lee) on September 23rd and they had an candid discussion about the direction of the music industry, their new Album Wake Up!, and why Unstaged offers a unique perspective to experience a concert. For those that don’t know, Wake Up! features eleven evocative songs (pulled from the soulful music of the 60’s and 70’s) touching


personal debt) – an indicator of credit rating possibility – amplified radically for the duration of September 2008.

Although A great deal of the eye has turned to Florida and the massive Hurricane Irma, Restoration in Texas following Hurricane Harvey will acquire months and in some instances original site even a long time. For now, automakers and their dealers are presenting considerable special discounts on new automobiles in areas of Texas influenced through the storm.

As part of the 1995 National Homeownership Method, HUD advocated bigger involvement of point out and native organizations within the advertising of reasonably priced housing.[258] Moreover, it promoted using lower or no-deposit loans and next, unsecured loans on the borrower to pay their down payments (if any) and shutting expenses.[259] This concept manifested by itselfSINGAPORE - Notable opposition figure Nicole Seah has thrown in her lot with the Workers' Party (WP) - with observers saying she is its most prominent newcomer since the last general election.

The former National Solidarity Party (NSP) candidate is now walking the ground with the WP in East Coast GRC and was spotted, for example, at a door-to-door food distribution exercise in Bedok earlier this year.

She began volunteering with the party's media team after the 2015 general election, and wrote parts of the WP 60th anniversary book launched last month, The Straits Times learnt.

Observers say the 31-year-old will add star power to the WP slate in East Coast GRC, if fielded, noting that it was the most hotly contested GRC after Aljunied at the last two elections.

The WP


lost East Coast GRC to the People's Action Party (PAP) in 2011 and 2015, but its candidates became Non-Constituency MPs (NCMPs) as they garnered among the highest votes among losing candidates.

In 2015, the WP candidates were IT consultant Gerald Giam, former librarian Mohamed Fairoz Shariff, sociologist Daniel Goh and consultancy firm chief executive Leon Perera. The latter two are now NCMPs.

They faced off against PAP's Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say, Senior Minister of State for Defence and Foreign Affairs Maliki Osman, former senior minister of state Lee Yi Shyan and a former managing director of Microsoft Singapore Jessica Tan.

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Ms Seah is an advertising executivecadre, who asked not to be named, said Ms Seah would be a strong candidate and hopes that more like her will step forward to be fielded. "As a politician, she is natural and has that X-factor. But WP places emphasis on the team over any individual. If she can fit well into the team, she will be an asset."

After the 2011 election, Ms Seah became second assistant secretary-general of NSP, but left the party in 2014, saying her "job is done". She did not contest the 2015 election, although she made comments on Facebook in support of the WP.

Of Ms Seah's latest move, political analyst Lam Peng Er said: "If Nicole Seah were to run on the WP ticket at East Coast GRC, she will add star


Let’s Tax the Rich

Whatever happened to the notion that rich people should pay their fair share of the cost for their country’s public programs?

Progressive income taxes―designed to fund government services and facilities—go back centuries, and are based on the idea that taxes should be levied most heavily on people with the ability to pay them. In the United States, the federal government introduced its first income tax in 1861, to cover the costs of the Civil War. Although new federal income tax legislation in the 1890s was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, the resulting public controversy led, in 1913, to passage of the sixteenth amendment to the Constitution, firmly establishing the legality of an income tax.

The progressive income tax―levied, at its inception, only on the wealthiestAmericans―was a key demand and political success of the Populist and Progressive reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As might be expected, most of the wealthy regarded it with intense hostility, especially as the substantial costs of World War I sent their tax rates soaring. The development of jobs programs and other public services during the New Deal, capped by the vast costs of World War II and the early Cold War, meant that, by the 1950s, although most Americans paid income taxes at a modest rate, the official tax rate for Americans with the highest incomes stood at about 91 percent.

Of course, the richest Americans didn’t actually pay at that rate, thanks to a variety of deductions, loopholes, and its application to only the


highest increment of their income. Even so, like many of the wealthy throughout history, they deeply resented paying a portion of their income to benefit other people―people whom they often regarded as inferior to themselves. Consequently, cutting taxes for the rich became one of their top political priorities.

Facing a strong backlash from the wealthiest Americans, their corporations, and conservative politicians, the federal government began a retreat. In 1964, the top marginal tax rate was reduced to 70 percent, in 1982 to 50 percent, and, in 1988, to 28 percent. Although it was raised somewhat during the Clinton presidency, it was reduced again during the reign of George W. Bush.

The Trump-GOP tax cut of $1.5 trillion in December 2017 provided the latest payoff to the wealthy. It lowered thetaxation leads to job loss and economic collapse. But, in fact, as even some leading businessmen have pointed out, taxing the rich to fund public programs increases investment, boosts productivity, and creates more and better jobs. Following World War II, when the wealthiest Americans had a 91 percent tax rate and top federal tax rates on stock dividends ran between 70 and 90 percent, America experienced an enormous economic boom. Another surge of rapid economic growth occurred in the late 1990s, following federal tax hikes on wealthy investors. Only after President George W. Bush pushed through sharp cuts in taxes for the wealthy did the American economy slow and, then, collapse in the Great Recession.

Much the same pattern has emerged in the states. In 2012, Kansas slashed its


And that was part of the genesis of deinstitutionalization. AMY GOODMAN: Patrisse Cullors, talk about your life story, with your brother Monte. PATRISSE CULLORS: So, I grew up in the neighborhood in Los Angeles called Van Nuys. And it was — there was four of us in my mother’s home. She was a single mom. And my brother Monte was one of my first best friends. In the film, you’ll hear Ken talk about his sister in the same way. And it was, you know, really amazing growing up with him. He was fun and funny and playful, and I could talk to him about everything. AMY GOODMAN: What was the age difference? PATRISSE CULLORS: We’re only about three years apart. So, at a certain point in histortured by the sheriff’s department. AMY GOODMAN: Talk further about that. He started being arrested when he was like 14? PATRISSE CULLORS: Yes. He was — AMY GOODMAN: You were 11. PATRISSE CULLORS: Yes, his first arrest was at 14 years old, and he was kicked out of middle school and didn’t end up going to high school. You know, he started using drugs around that time, as well. And now, you know, from everything that I know about mental health and substance abuse, they often go hand in hand. It’s called dual diagnosis. And, you know, my mother — we went to lots of jail facilities to visit him. We also went to a lot of rehabs to visit him. And he was never treated for mental


enforcement violence, they were talking honestly and openly about issues of racism and poverty. And I started to make the connection of how I grew up and what was happening to me, my family, and my brother, in particular.

AMY GOODMAN: Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, one of the people featured in the documentary Bedlam, directed by Ken Rosenberg, which is set to air on PBS Independent Lens next April. When we come back, Patrisse describes how she tried to get help for Monte, her brother, while he was in prison and after he was released.

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AMY GOODMAN: “Don’t Let Me Down” by Joy Williams, here on Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue to look at how prisonsand jails have become America’s “new asylums.” That’s the focus of an incredible new documentary called Bedlam. Earlier this year, I interviewed director and psychiatrist Ken Rosenberg, whose own sister struggled with mental illness, and also one of the people he features in the film, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors. During the film, Patrisse’s brother Monte is in and out of jails and psychiatric situations. I asked Patrisse how she sought help for her brother Monte while he was incarcerated and also upon his release.

PATRISSE CULLORS: My brother was 23 years old when he was released from his first prison sentence. And during his time in prison, we would receive letters from him telling us that they had put him in the psychiatric wing of the jail


an intruder in the house. But I knew that the only intruder was in her head and was the voices in her head, which probably commanded her to jump out the window. So I stayed home for two years; I didn’t go away to college. I stayed home for two years to try to help her and help my family. And then, after she could walk, pretty much in the second year, I transferred to college and went to college in Boston, and really never came home and never went again into her room, until just about a year ago in making this film, and decided that, you know, I would kind of confront that demon, if you will, you know, in the room in which she jumped.hope — my hope is that folks watch this film and come out the shadows, come out the shadows for themselves and talk about their mental illness. AMY GOODMAN: Talk about Ezell Ford. PATRISSE CULLORS: Ezell Ford was a young black man from South Central. He lived with schizophrenia. Everybody in the community knew it, including law enforcement, LAPD 77th Precinct. And he would go and play basketball every day at the basketball courts. And on his way home from playing basketball, he was apprehended by LAPD, by two officers, who shot him in the back. And those officers had actually — he had had confrontation with those officers in the past, and they knew about his history of mental illness. And when his mother came forward, Tritobia


with her and Bedlam’s director, psychiatrist Ken Rosenberg, at the Sundance Film Festival.

Since then, the campaign to stop Los Angeles County from building new jails at the expense of medical treatment and social services has been successful. In fact, on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times ran an editorial headlined “2019 was the year L.A. County finally said ‘no’ to new jails.” It describes how a planning group is now working with the supervisors on proposals for alternatives to incarceration and includes attorneys, activists and people who are formerly incarcerated. The L.A. Times writes, quote, “As the proposals come before the board, the coming year will test whether the county’s historic shift from incarceration to a system based on care — mental health care, medical care, reentry services, housing,sense in 2019, does it?

AMY GOODMAN: That’s filmmaker and psychiatrist Ken Rosenberg, director of the film Bedlam, author of the book by the same title. Patrisse Cullors is co-founder of Black Lives Matter. Bedlam will air on PBS Independent Lens April 13th, 2020.

Oh, and this update: Patrisse Cullors told us, about two months ago, her brother Monte stopped taking his medication and was living on the streets. He was released from Sherman Oaks Hospital after being involuntarily detained by the psychiatric emergency team. She then found him at the Los Angeles downtown metro jail and bailed him out. He has been in the hospital since then. With the help of the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health and her staunch organizing efforts, Patrisse is currently in the process


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Lawyers expect a trial of two or three days for a man charged with obstructing police and trespassing as he protested construction of an oil pipeline.

Prosecutors and a lawyer for Christopher Wahmhoff told Calhoun County Circuit Judge James Kingsley on Monday they have not reached an agreement on a plea agreement and they expect the case to be tried.

Wahmhoff, 35, of Kalamazoo, a Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate, is charged with obstructing a police officer and trespassing after he entered a section of Enbridge Inc. oil pipeline that was under construction near Division Drive and 16-Mile Road in Fedonia Township on June 24, 2013.

Wahmhoff said he was protesting the construction of the pipeline, built by the company that owned a line that rupturedFestival and Philly Tech Week 2013 presented by AT&T both return this week, for their coinciding 10-day-long homage to the thriving science and technology communities in Philadelphia. But Philadelphia’s excitement about new, sometimes oddball technology has precedent that reaches at least […]

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Pretty much anything might be found, past or present, at the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, the lesser of Philadelphia’s two World’s Fairs. Mounted at the bottom of Broad Street in 1926, visitors passed


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The Financial Literacy and Education Improvement Act created, in December 2003, the Financial Literacy and Education Commission. Responding to the act's mandate that GAO assess the Commission's effectiveness, this report reviews its progress in (1) developing a national strategy; (2) developing a Web site and hotline; and (3) coordinating federal efforts and promoting partnerships among the federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private sectors. To address these objectives, GAO analyzed Commission documents, interviewed financial literacy representatives, and benchmarked the national strategy against GAO's criteria for such strategies.

The National Strategy for Financial Literacy serves as a useful first step in focusing attention on financial literacy, but it is largely descriptive rather than strategic and lacks certain key characteristics that are desirable in a national strategy. The strategy provides athat GAO spoke with said the strategy would not play a meaningful role in guiding or informing their efforts. The Commission's Web site and telephone hotline offer financial education information from numerous federal agencies. The Web site generally serves as an effective portal to existing federal financial literacy sites. Use of the site has been growing, and it averaged about 57,000 visits per month from May through September 2006. The volume of calls to the hotline--which serves as an order line for a free tool kit of federal publications--has been limited. The Commission has not tested the Web site for usability or measured customer satisfaction with it; these are recommended best practices for federal public Web sites. As a result, the Commission does not know if visitors are


nonprofit, and private organizations is important in supporting and expanding Commission efforts to increase financial literacy. As the Commission continues to implement its strategy, it should consider expanding its activities and work to develop mutually beneficial and lasting partnerships that will be sustainable over the long term.

Recommendations for Executive Action

Status: Closed - Implemented

Comments: In its April 2008 update to the National Strategy for Financial Literacy, the Financial Literacy and Education Commission included in its introductory section concrete definitions for "financial literacy" and "financial education."

Recommendation: To help ensure that the National Strategy for Financial Literacy serves its goal of improving the nation's financial literacy and education, the Secretary of the Treasury, in concert with other agency representatives of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, should incorporate into the nationalstrategy a concrete definition for financial literacy and education to help define the scope of the Commission's work.

Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury

Status: Closed - Not Implemented

Comments: The Financial Literacy and Education Commission released a new strategy in 2011 and subsequently has produced an accompanying implementation plan (still in draft). The strategy and plan do not include the types of goals, performance and benchmarks that we recommended.

Recommendation: To help ensure that the National Strategy for Financial Literacy serves its goal of improving the nation's financial literacy and education, the Secretary of the Treasury, in concert with other agency representatives of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, should incorporate into the national strategy clear, specific goals and performance measures that would serve as indicators of the nation's progress in


improving financial literacy and benchmarks for what the Commission sets out to achieve.

Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury

Status: Closed - Not Implemented

Comments: The Financial Literacy and Education Commission released a new strategy in 2011 and subsequently has produced an accompanying implementation plan (still in draft). The strategy and plan do not include the types of concrete actions that we recommended that would achieve specific goals and benchmarks and make the documents true implementation plans.

Recommendation: To help ensure that the National Strategy for Financial Literacy serves its goal of improving the nation's financial literacy and education, the Secretary of the Treasury, in concert with other agency representatives of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, should incorporate into the national strategy actions needed to accomplish these goals, so that thestrategy serves as a true implementation plan.

Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury

Status: Closed - Not Implemented

Comments: The Financial Literacy and Education Commission released a new strategy in 2011 and subsequently has produced an accompanying implementation plan (still in draft). The strategy and plan do not include a description of the resources required to help allocate these resources or direct implementation of the strategy.

Recommendation: To help ensure that the National Strategy for Financial Literacy serves its goal of improving the nation's financial literacy and education, the Secretary of the Treasury, in concert with other agency representatives of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, should incorporate into the national strategy a description of the resources required, which would help provide policymakers information on allocating resources and directing implementation of the


strategy.

Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury

Status: Closed - Implemented

Comments: The Financial Literacy and Education Commission released a new national strategy in 2011. It also has produced an accompanying implementation plan, which is still in draft form and expected to be released publicly by the end of September 2011. The draft implementation plan incorporates a discussion of appropriate roles and responsibilities for federal agencies and others. For example, it outlines what actions are the responsibility of the Commission as a whole, its working groups, and federal agencies, respectively, and it encouraged roles as well for non-federal entities.

Recommendation: To help ensure that the National Strategy for Financial Literacy serves its goal of improving the nation's financial literacy and education, the Secretary of the Treasury, in concert with other agency representativesof the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, should incorporate into the national strategy a discussion of appropriate roles and responsibilities for federal agencies and others, to help promote a coordinated and efficient effort.

Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury

Status: Closed - Not Implemented

Comments: According to the Treasury Department, the MyMoney website was completely redesigned in 2009. Although a number of best practices were incorporated into that redesign, consumer usability testing was not among them and has not been conducted to date.

Recommendation: To ensure that the My Money Web site best serves consumers seeking financial education, the Secretary of the Treasury and other representatives of the Commission should provide for its Web site subcommittee to conduct usability testing to measure the quality of users' experiences with the Commission's Web site.

Agency


Affected: Department of the Treasury

Status: Closed - Implemented

Comments: From mid-September through mid-December 2008, the Financial Literacy and Education Commission measured customer satisfaction of its MyMoney.gov Web site by using a Web-based survey accessible through a link on the site. The survey included questions about the characteristics of the user as well as the user's impressions, complaints, and suggestions about the site.

Recommendation: To ensure that the My Money Web site best serves consumers seeking financial education, the Secretary of the Treasury and other representatives of the Commission should provide for its Web site subcommittee to measure customer satisfaction with the site, using whatever tools deemed appropriate, such as online surveys, focus groups, and e-mail feedback forms.

Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury

Status: Closed - Implemented

Comments: In late 2008, the TreasuryDepartment signed a volunteer service agreement with a doctoral student whose field of study includes program evaluation to collect, analyze, and report available data on the availability and duplication of financial education resources offered by federal agencies that are members of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission.

Recommendation: To help ensure the efficient use of federal resources, the Secretary of the Treasury, in conjunction with the Commission, should provide for an independent third party to carry out the review of duplication and overlap among federal financial literacy activities as well as the review of the availability, utilization, and impact of federal financial literacy materials.

Agency Affected: Department of the Treasury

Status: Closed - Implemented

Comments: In April 2007, the Financial Literacy and Education Commission established the National Financial Education Network, a network


of state and local governments designed to communicate and collaborate on projects and ideas related to improving financial literacy. In January 2008, with the backing of the Treasury Department, the President created the President's Council on Financial Literacy, which consists of 16 members representing both nonprofit and private entities and tasked, in part, with working together with the public and private sectors to improve financial literacy.

Recommendation: To encourage effective and efficient use of scarce human and financial resources, the Secretary of the Treasury, in concert with other representatives of the Commission, should consider ways to expand upon current efforts to cultivate sustainable partnerships with nonprofit and private entities. As part of these efforts, the Commission should consider additional ways that federal agencies could coordinate their efforts with thoseof private organizations that have wide networks of resources at the community level. The Commission should also explore additional ways that the federal government might encourage and facilitate the efforts of state and local governments to improve financial literacy.

Comments: In April 2007, the Financial Literacy and Education Commission established the National Financial Education Network, a network of state and local governments designed to communicate and collaborate on projects and ideas related to improving financial literacy. In January 2008, with the backing of the Treasury Department, the President created the President's Council on Financial Literacy, which consists of 16 members representing both nonprofit and private entities and tasked, in part, with working together with the public and private sectors to improve financial literacy.

Recommendation: To encourage effective and efficient use


of scarce human and financial resources, the Secretary of the Treasury, in concert with other representatives of the Commission, should consider ways to expand upon current efforts to cultivate sustainable partnerships with nonprofit and private entities. As part of these efforts, the Commission should consider additional ways that federal agencies could coordinate their efforts with those of private organizations that have wide networks of resources at the community level. The Commission should also explore additional ways that the federal government might encourage and facilitate the efforts of state and local governments to improve financial literacy.One of the Gold Coast's most senior police officers has been suspended over allegations she lied to Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission.

Superintendent Michelle Stenner was charged with three counts of perjury and a single charge of misconduct in public office at the Southport Watchhouse today.

The Queensland Police Service has since released a statement confirming the 44-year-old has been suspended from her role.

Stenner, who had been on leave, was released on bail and will face Brisbane Magistrates Court on September 21.

The CCC confirmed in a statement the charges related to evidence given by Stenner during one of its hearings.

Superintendent Michelle Stenner is facing perjury charges. (9NEWS)

It launched an investigation into alleged nepotism following the hiring of Gold Coast Chief Superintendent Terry Borland's daughter for a civilian role within the


2012 was a year filled with firsts for Girls’ Generation. It was a year with Girls’ Generation’s very first performances on American and French television and with Girls’ Generation’s first invitations to fashion events in London and Hong Kong. It was a year when members of Girls’ Generation topped Billboard’s “World Albums” chart, were on television shows during the same time slot, and held a fansigning event in New York City, all for the very first time. Most importantly, however, it was the first time since debut that Girls’ Generation did not make a return as a group to the Korean music scene. Instead, it was a year of individual growth as the members tackled musicals and dramas, became MCs and show hosts, and endorsed everything from bedsto cars. The list of firsts continues, as three members formed Girls’ Generation’s first subunit, three others received their first starring roles in a drama, and another performed in a musical for the first time before dying her hair half the colors of the rainbow. Here is a closer look at what each of the members of Girls’ Generation were up to in 2012.

Taeyeon

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As the years go by, Taeyeon continues to dazzle fans with her various talents, and 2012 was no exception. First, Taeyeon continued to hone her emceeing skills by becoming a permanent MC on MBC’s “Show! Music Core” along with fellow group mates, Tiffany and Seohyun. In addition, she also emceed the “First Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards” together with Joo Younghoon and the “2012 Korean


SM Entertainment employee, where she sang the song “Kiss Me”. She made a comeback to “Legally Blonde”, playing Elle Woods in a second run of the musical. Let’s also not forget the pitch that propelled Jessica into stardom in the sports world, even being reported on ESPN.

While Jessica may have had a busy year, she never forgets to make time for her members and her sister, attending a recording of “Dancing with the Stars II” to show her support for Hyoyeon and revealing numerous pictures of herself with Krystal. She is always grounded with what is important to her life, remaining humble and thankful for the opportunities that have come her way.

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Sunny

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Rather than having been the Year of the Dragon, 2012 should havebeen called the Year of the Sun. Sunny was on fire this year, showcasing her many talents. First, Sunny’s voice acting skills were heard in “Koala Kid: Birth of a Hero”, an animated film released in January, in which she loaned her voice to Miranda, a beautiful and courageous koala. Later that month, Sunny was also featured in “I Love You, I Love You”, a song by Miryo, the rapper of Brown Eyed Girls. A music video was released for the song, which showed Miryo and Sunny during the recording process. Finally, in August, Sunny and f(x)’s Luna released a song entitled “It’s Me” for “To the Beautiful You.”

Sunny also returned to television as an MC for “Music Island” in February, appearing in four episodes. In March, Sunny


an MC on MBC’s “Show! Music Core”. Production on the upcoming “Fashion King” television drama was underway at the time, and Yuri was eager to perform in her first dramatic portrayal. As “Choi Anna,” Yuri played a chic assistant for a high-profile designer, ex-girlfriend to a wealthy young entrepreneur, and target for Young-gul’s (Yoo Ah-in) romantic affections. On shoots in New York, Yuri warmed the hearts of the crew on “Fashion King”, treating them to thoughtful gifts. The rookie actress overcame many adversities with “Fashion King”, from complications with speaking English to adapting her skills as a musician to filming. With the challenges she set for herself, the director and crew could only laud Yuri’s abilities as a newcomer to drama, which garnered her a nomination in thearound her, such as her wreath in commemoration of her sister Soojin’s musical. As a responsible Korean citizen, Sooyoung has attended several general elections and encourages the public to do so as well. When not on stage, this dog-lover regularly wakes up early for school to fulfill her duties as a student in Chung-Ang University. It has been reported that she has attended midterms and submits reports on time. She has also said that she recently developed a new-found love for cooking (she made a cake to support Hyoyeon for her achievement in “Dancing with the Stars II”) and that she craves oysters from an oyster house in Cheongdam-dong.

Choi Sooyoung is indeed a person who has a strong determination and a big heart to complete the package. She


Wales' former top politician has come under fire for likening Brexiteers to Nazis in an astonishing Facebook post she defiantly praised as a 'powerful image'.

Leanne Wood - the former leader of Plaid Cymru who wants Welsh independence - shared a controversial cartoon that showed a figure cloaked in an EU flag arm wrestling with a swastika over a ballot box.

She posted the sketch on social media as the European Parliament election results came in.

But her followers were quick to slam the post as 'idiotic', 'childish' and 'totally inappropriate' - and urged the politician to delete it.

Leanne Wood served as the leader of Plaid Cymru between March 2012 and September 2018.

Leanne Wood posted this image of the EU arm wrestling with a swastika as the European election results cameStarved of success: Wallabies fans are struggling to remember when the team last had a win. Credit:Getty Images The news comes in the midst of a spirited debate about the role of the private school system in Australia, sparked by a Fairfax Media article suggesting the code should no longer rely on a select group of institutions to provide the majority of its top-tier talent. Many will feel this sort of review was at least a decade too late but McLean and other key ARU figures are determined to ensure it is more than just lip service and want to set in stone cultural and concrete change as part the ARU's five-year strategic plan. "When we started working on the strategic plan, it was really important that schools


 Terry removed a jacket from the bag, which he placed in the trunk of the car, and went back into Marshall's house.  Several minutes later, Terry and another man, Dennis Best, again left Marshall's house.  Terry removed the bag from the trunk and placed it in the passenger side of the rear seat of the Cadillac;  he then got in the car while Best entered a nearby Blazer.  Both men drove off with the police on their trails, while some of the officers remained behind to continue watching Marshall's house.

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The police pulled over Terry Marshall several blocks from Marshall's house.  When an officer approached the vehicle, he spotted three bags of white powder inside the partially-open gym bag.  Terry was arrested,and a further search of the bag revealed some clothes and $15,500 in cash.  After being advised of his constitutional rights, Terry informed the officers that the drugs and money were his father's and that his father was expecting him to return to the house shortly.  Officers following the Blazer saw Best throw several items out of the window as he was traveling, and eventually he was arrested as well.

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After hearing of all this activity, Murphy and Gelhot decided to temporarily abandon their efforts and secure Marshall's house before obtaining the warrant.  See Tr. of Suppression Hearing at 30.  At some point, the officers remaining by Marshall's house saw a man and woman leave the house and enter a vehicle.  When officers approached


the car and asked the individuals to get out, the woman dropped a leather cigarette case on the front seat as she exited the car.  A subsequent search of the case revealed one large and two small bags of a whitish powder.

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When Officers Murphy and Gelhot arrived at Marshall's house, they, along with Terry Marshall, who was needed to subdue some dogs, went through the back yard of Marshall's house and into the basement, where Marshall was living.  As they entered, they passed through a laundry room into another part of the basement, where they saw Marshall talking on the telephone while holding a clear plastic bag containing what appeared to be methamphetamine.  When Marshall saw the officers, he placed the bag in a coffeecan on a table.  The officers also found Michael Marshall, another of Marshall's sons, asleep on a bed in the basement.  The officers advised Marshall that they were there to secure the residence and that they would return later with a search warrant.  Marshall indicated that he did not want the police to disturb his mother, who lived upstairs, and he consented to a search of the basement.  Marshall also made several other inculpatory statements at that time, and a search of the basement revealed more suspected methamphetamine, some drug paraphernalia, and $646 in currency.  Marshall was arrested and taken to the police station, where he made a written statement indicating that he was involved in the trafficking of methamphetamine.

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Marshall, along with his


was observed to leave the house with a bag, gym bag, which he placed in the trunk of his car, took out a jacket, put it on him and went back in the house.  Shortly he returned with someone else, then went to get the bag out of the trunk and put it under the passenger side of his Cadillac, and the other individual, I believe it was a Bronco--In any event, the two of them drove off.  They were followed by police officers and one--the two car's paths' (sic) digressed.  The police broke up their chase, or not a chase, but their following of the two cars and one group followed one and one the other and eventually Terry Marshall was pulled over, apprehended,and found to have a substantial amount of a white powdery substance suspected to be methamphetamine together with a large amount of currency and he, in fact, in effect, informed the officers that his father was at the residence and that his place of operation was the basement of the residence.  While this was going on, officers were attempting to obtain a search warrant in that they were in the process of preparing an affidavit for it.  In the meantime, another pair of individuals were observed, a man and woman leaving the same building, and they were stopped and it was found that there was methamphetamine or at least a white powdery substance suspected of being methamphetamine in a leather cigarette case, which the female had


and which she dropped upon getting out of her car.  When Terry Marshall was apprehended, he told the officers that his father expected him to return momentarily for--I don't know if the reason was given.  We were not told about it.  But in any event, young Marshall was expected back at any moment.  All of these events, the people, two sets of people leaving the residence and being found with amphetamine, the statement by Terry Marshall that he was expected to return promptly to the residence and perhaps should have already been back there, the fact that he stated that his father was at the residence, the further fact that the officers had a fear that because of all of the activity outside ofHearing at 23-24.  In addition, several people who had been seen leaving Marshall's house had methamphetamine in their possession when they were arrested.  Id. at 25-28.   This information was sufficient to give the police probable cause that Marshall was indeed in possession of illegal drugs at the time they decided to enter his house.

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The evidence shows that the police had an objectively reasonable basis, from the totality of the circumstances, to believe that exigent circumstances existed which required their warrantless entry into Marshall's house.  The police had information from an informant that Marshall was in possession of a sizable quantity of methamphetamine at his home and began surveillance of it at around 5:30 or 5:45 p.m. At around 6:00, Marshall's son Terry, who


was stopped after leaving Marshall's home, was found to be in possession of methamphetamine and a large amount of currency.  See Tr. of Suppression Hearing at 26.  At some point, Terry Marshall informed the officers that his father was at home and was expecting him to return shortly.  Id. at 29.   Almost contemporaneously, the police also were following another vehicle containing a man who had just left Marshall's house;  the person in this vehicle was attempting to discard items as they drove along.  Id. at 27.   Also about this time, two people were arrested in close proximity to Marshall's house (and after just leaving it), and were found to be in possession of what appeared to be methamphetamine containedthe old guy up. I whipped and flogged him, twisted his sagging ball sack and limp cock into a knot, but the turning point came when I fetched my BIGGEST black strapon from my bag of tricks and bent him over for a good ass pegging!

You should of heard the swearing and crying as I forced that huge rubber cock up his rectum! You’d think he was going to die! He cursed me, he cursed his wife, but in the end I went balls deep in the old fart’s ass and reamed him like a young prison sissy boy bitch!

After that he was pretty meek and tame, so I turned him over to his wife and told her to keep him in panties, but if he ever gets


Leonard Barrie Corbin, known as Barry Corbin (born October 16, 1940), is an American actor with more than 100 film, television, and video game credits.[1]

Corbin was born in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, south of Lubbock in West Texas. He is the son of the former Alma LaMerle Scott (1918-1994), a teacher, and Kilmer Blaine Corbin, Sr. (1919-1993), a school principal, judge, and Democratic member of the Texas State Senate for two terms, from 1949-1957.[2] Corbin was named for author J. M. Barrie by his mother.[3] He played football briefly in eighth grade, but soon moved to the arts, including acting and ballet classes.[3] He graduated from Monterey High School. Corbin studied theatre arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.[4] At 21, he joined the United StatesMarine Corps, served two years, and then returned to Tech.[5]

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Corbin began his career as a Shakespearean actor in the 1960s, but today he is more likely to be seen in the role of the local sheriff, military leader, or some other authority figure, though on occasion, he has effectively portrayed murderous villains, as well. To moviegoers, he is well remembered as General Beringer in WarGames, John Travolta's uncle Bob Davis in Urban Cowboy, co-starring with Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can, or Roscoe Brown, July Johnson's bumbling deputy in the acclaimed western Lonesome Dove.

From 1979 until 1984, he appeared in several episodes of Dallas as Sheriff Fenton Washburn. In 1983, Corbin co-starred in the famed television miniseries The Thorn Birds. Corbin played Mary Carson's stockman


Pete, who teaches the Cleary's sons how to shear sheep on their aunt's gigantic sheep station Drogheda, in Australia. In 1983-1984, Corbin played Merit Sawyer in the NBC television series Boone. Corbin's role was that of a stern father to the young actor Tom Byrd, who played Boone Sawyer, an aspiring singer. The program was set in rural Tennessee during the 1950s and was created by Earl Hamner, who had great success earlier with CBS's The Waltons.

From 1990 to 1995, Corbin portrayed former astronaut and local business leader Maurice Minnifield on CBS's Northern Exposure, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.[6]

In 1994, Corbin narrated the acclaimed TBS documentary MoonShot, telling the story of the 1960s space race from the first-person viewpoint of Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton.In 2007, he played the character Clay Johnson, father of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer series.[6]

In 2000, he Played the role of General Carville in Command and Conquer: Retaliation, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge.

From 2003-2008, Corbin played Whitey Durham, the basketball coach for the Tree Hill Ravens on The WB/CW teenage drama series One Tree Hill.[6] He also had a role in 2008's Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men. Corbin lost most of his hair in the 1990s due to alopecia areata. Since then, he has played various roles with a shaved head, wearing a cowboy hat, or occasionally wearing a full toupee. Corbin is the signature voice of radio station KPLX in Fort


Worth, Texas, and has also voiced trailers and promos for CMT and various other country radio stations.[7] In 2014 he became the spokesman for The Texas Veterans Land Board.

In 2014, Corbin worked with Tracey Birdsall[8] on Dawn of the Crescent Moon,[9] followed by working alongside her for the up-coming science fiction films At the Edge of Time (2016)[10] and The Time War (2017).[11]

Personal life

Before breaking into film, Corbin won many cutting-horse competitions.[3] Much of his spare time is spent riding horses and tending to cattle on his small Texas ranch near Fort Worth. He has volunteered his time to charity for many years, including rodeos and being spokesman for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.[3] In 2006, he participated in the Lubbock centennial.[12]

Corbin lives on the ranch with hisdaughter, Shannon Ross (born 1965) and grandchildren. Shannon had been adopted as an infant; her birth mother, who had an affair with Corbin, gave up the child through the Methodist Mission Home in San Antonio, without having told Corbin of the pregnancy. Corbin found Shannon in June 1991, when she was twenty-six. Corbin has three sons: Bernard Weiss (born 1970), Jim Corbin (born 1979), and Christopher Corbin (born 1982). Christopher goes on to follow in his father's footsteps as an actor. Bernard was adopted by the Weiss family and later in life got in touch with Corbin. He and his second wife, Susan Berger, divorced in 1992.[5]

In 2009, Corbin was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. A recent painting of Corbin has been


placed at the museum exhibit.[13] Corbin has appeared at gatherings of the American Cowboy Culture Association, which holds the annual National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration each September in Lubbock.[14]

In September 2011, Corbin was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Estes Park Film Festival in Estes Park, Colorado.[15] The Texas Film Hall of Fame inducted Corbin into its membership on March 8, 2012.[3]

Filmography

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Red Alert: Retaliation as General Ben Carville. In the sequel, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, he reprised this character with a much larger role. The game also featured a number of cinematics spoofing his role in WarGames.

Tex Murphy:warranted price per day, as discerned at the hospital and ambulatory levels, respectively, and for a given combination of hospital LOS and ambulatory duration. In turn, we report the warranted price per day for fidaxomicin, from the perspective of the US health system, as a percent of the WAC per day for fidaxomicin.

Finally, the warranted price per day for fidaxomicin, from the perspective of the US health system, as a percent of the WAC per day for fidaxomicin, in both primary and secondary cases of CDAD, is weighted by the case mix for CDAD (primary or secondary) in 2009, in order to yield an aggregate appraisal (from the perspective of the US health system) of the warranted price per day for fidaxomicin, as a percent of the WAC


Saudi Consul General in New York, Abdel Karim Alqin assured Okaz that all Saudis have been cleared and two Saudis were injured, including
Alharbi and a Saudi female doctor named Nura Khalid Saleh al-Ajaji.

Three other Saudis were cleared from the forbidden area, two of which were put in a hotel at the expense of the Saudi consulate

Alqin disclosed that he cleared three Saudis from the forbidden area and housed two of them in a hotel; the third stayed with a friend. He also
met with a group of Saudi students, telling them to carry on with their lives and that Saudi ambassadors would handle everything. These students were
also told not to cooperate with any media entities and to lay low.

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Parsons and film-maker Kenneth Anger, showed at the gallery of prominent New York art maven Jeffrey Deitch. A group show titled Language of the Birds: Occult and Art gathered work by the likes of Brion Gysin, Jordan Belson, Anohni, Lionel Ziprin, Carol Bove and many more (including Breyer P-Orridge) in the 80WSE Gallery at New York University. Uptown at the American Folk Art Museum, a show titled Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art drew visitors before closing in May.

Enough interest has been fostered and fanned out to make one wonder about the source of it all. Is it a yearning for art made for purposes other than mere aesthetic enterprise? A desired deferral to forces other than those proffered by markets and asset-class finance deals?The US economic slowdown has brought not only sustained job losses, but also a steep rise in the proportion those unemployed for prolonged periods. The number of people out of work for more than six months has shot up by 37 percent since June of 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Last month, 1.5 million people had been unable to find work half a year or more. Many of these workers, without paychecks or medical insurance and having exhausted their unemployment benefits, are confronted with foreclosure on their homes, evictions and the threat of destitution.

The number of long term unemployed is up from 1.1 million in June of 2007. The average duration of unemployment climbed from 15.1 to 15.9 weeks in June from a year earlier. The


increase in the number of long-term unemployed was twice the rise in the total number of jobless over the same time.

These figures come from the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report, which showed that the US economy shed 62,000 jobs in June, on top of an earlier 62,000 loss in May. The unemployment rate, which shot up in May by the highest amount in over 20 years, remained steady at 5.5 percent, up from 4.6 percent a year ago.

June marked the sixth straight month of falling payrolls, with the US economy having lost 438,000 jobs since the beginning of the year. The total number of unemployed reached 8.5 million last month, up from 7.0 million a year earlier.

The unemployment rate for prime-aged workers, those 25 and up,labor market has softened.

Congress responded to these developments last week by passing a law to extend the duration of unemployment benefits nationwide. The bill adds 13 weeks onto the 26 weeks of unemployment benefits currently guaranteed by state governments. The extension lasts only until March. Moreover, to qualify for the extension, workers must have been on the job for 20 months before being laid off, a provision that excludes 10 percent of the long term unemployed.

The provision is estimated to cost some $8 billion, and was included in a bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2009. In comparison to the war funding provision, estimated at $162 billion, the aid to the millions of unemployed amounts to a pittance.


FG warns ULC over strike threat

The Federal Government, yesterday, warned promoters of United Labour Congress, ULC, that it would not fold its arms and allow an unrecognised group to hold the country hostage.

The government in a statement signed by Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Bolaji Adebiyi, said the strike threat issued by the group amounted to economic sabotage. The ULC, a factionalised body of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, had threatened to commence nationwide strike today unless government addressed its demands, ranging from payment of salary arrears to provision of infrastructure, especially roads.

The statement read: “The attention of the Federal Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige has been drawn to several media publications and statements signed by Mr. Didi Adodo on behalf of the"Countdown the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the National Nightmare of George W. Bush's reign is over. As bad as it gets with war, deficits, injustice and just downright international embarrassment, at least the end is in sight."(National Nightmare Website)

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

She has a rabbit too, you know. A big soft stuffed white one with floppy ears that she named Louisa Mae (thinking Southern Comfort, despite the cliché). A rabbit who was even packed in the computer case and spent Christmas in the hospital. The nurses adored her. She arrived the last day of chemo and has been such a comfort. Finally warm, finally home, they lie down together.

Once upon a time there was a PBS rabbit named Buster. Buster traveled around the country, visiting different


families and learning about their lives. In January 2005 he was in Vermont, learning about cheese and maple syrup. Learning that some families had two mothers instead of a mother and father. Digusting, Bush’s new Secretary of Education called it. Not examples we should hold up before our children.

The room heats up finally, thanks to the space heater he bought just as the cold spell was ending. For him it’s plenty warm in here. Lying under four blankets, she tries to read, her fingers numb with cold. Finally the blood begins to flow again. She bought him a similar heater years ago, but the thermostat never worked.

Trapped under his ATV for three nights and four days under frigid conditions, a man survived by whistling to scare off coyotes.big brass bed… Bush claims to barely know the huge campaign donor. Oh Kenny boy, oh Kenny boy, I love you so.

She missed the shortest day of the year (also probably the day she fell in rehab). She missed Jaqnuary 20, the one-year countdown to the end of Bush’s term (a box over her head that would be used for books any moment). Days she’d been planning to celebrate. Had she taken a gun to her earlobe she’d have probably missed. A woman, friend of friends, stuck a revolver in her mouth, fired, survived. Severely brain-damaged.

She never turned on her computer. Her camera never made it out of her pocketbook. But at least he thought to snap this,the ramp of the van coming right on the porch. He


showed it to her last night, along with photos of Italy and his grandsons at Disney World.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - It's been a chilly welcome for America's president: The Mideast, known for blazing sun and scorching winds, has been hit with an uncharacteristic wave of heavy rain, frigid gales, and even a smattering of snow. If President George W. Bush thought he would escape the winter weather back in Washington when he jetted off to this region for eight days, he should have stayed home. It was nearly the same temperature in Washington on Tuesday as it was in Saudi Arabia.

The furniture’s cold. The storage room’s cold. They won’t let her near it.

The truck spent the night on the street last night. This morning they drove down, unloaded,Washington: Barack Obama's administration believes that at least 12 detainees released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have launched attacks against US or allied forces in Afghanistan, killing about a half-dozen Americans, according to current and former US officials.

In March, a senior Pentagon official, Paul Lewis, made a startling admission to lawmakers when he acknowledged that former Guantanamo inmates were responsible for the deaths of Americans overseas.

Guards and detainees in Guantanamo's Camp 4 detention facility in 2009. Credit:AP

Most of the incidents were directed at military personnel, but the dead also included one American civilian: a female aid worker who died in Afghanistan in 2008. Officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, declined to give an exact number for Americans killed or wounded in the attacks, saying


New Delhi: In what seems to be a serious breach of their social media security, the All India Football Federation has claimed that their twitter account was hacked after the handle published tweets taking potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The tweets, which have now been deleted, were immediately retweeted by other users, and read the following

"Very (pleasantly) surprised to see Modi speak about what's happening in the country, given the violent vile federation they are a part of"

Very (pleasantly) surprised to see em speak about what's happening in the country, given the violent vile federation they are a part of!😀 pic.twitter.com/swTf3jBpDr — Shreyas Rao (@shreyasnrao) June 29, 2017

The tweets came at a time Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a stern message to 'gau rakshaks' on Thursday said thathis wife was at work. The kids were outside playing and I knocked on his bedroom door to ask him a question. The door opened and his hand snaked out to snatch me into the room. The door slammed shut and he had me against the wall kissing me, one hand on my tit the other pushing my tiny pink shorts off. Once that was accomplished, he ripped my tank top open, turned me around, bent me over, held my hips and guided his big thick cock into my dripping wet pussy.

He pounded the fuck out of me making me scream out when I came. Then he pulled me around by my hair and forced me to my knees making me suck the cum out of his dick.


This invention relates to a structure for connecting an instrument panel-side connector to a vehicle body-side connector, and more particularly to a connecting structure for connecting an panel-side harness, mounted on a reinforce, to a connector fixed to a vehicle body.
As shown in FIG. 3, a reinforce 65 for reinforcing purposes is mounted on an instrument panel 61 of a vehicle, and extends between right and left side walls 62 and 63 thereof. In addition, a wire harness 66 for connection to wire harnesses (mounted on a vehicle body) is mounted on and along the reinforce 65.
For mounting the instrument panel 61 and the reinforce 65 on the vehicle body (not shown), first, the reinforce 65 is mounted on the instrument panel 61 to form a module 60.mounting operation, it has been necessary to form holes (used for the bolting operation) respectively in the right and left side walls 62 and 63 of the instrument panel 61 or to divide the instrument panel 61 into two (upper and lower) sections. Thus, it has been necessary to form the working holes in the instrument panel 61 or to divide the instrument panel into the two (upper and lower) sections, and this has prevented the degree of freedom of the design from being enhanced.
In addition, after the right and left ends 65A and 65B of the reinforce 65 are secured to the vehicle body by the bolts, the wire harness 66 on the reinforce 65 need to be connected to the vehicle body-side wire harnesses, and therefore


the reinforce fixed on a part of the vehicle body;
a first connector, provided on at least one of both longitudinal end portions of the reinforce, the first connector electrically connected to electric equipments provided with the instrument panel; and
a second connector, provided on the vehicle body such that electric connection is effected with the first connectors when the reinforce is fixed on the vehicle body.
In this structure, the first (panel-side) connector can be connected to the second (body-side) connector by merely mounting the reinforce on the vehicle body.
Preferably, one of the first connector and the second connector includes a self-alignment member with respect to the other.
In this structure, the panel-side connector can be more positively connected to the second body-side connector when the reinforce is fixed on theat the Thursday morning worship, Barbara Hois, flute, Debbie Grohman, clarinet, and Willie LaFavor, piano, played “Two Epigraphes Antiques,” by Claude Debussy. This week’s services were supported by the Randell-Hall Memorial Chaplaincy and the Geraldine M. and Frank E. McElree Jr. Chaplaincy Fund.

Mary Lee Talbot writes the morning worship column. This past winter she made her acting debut as Miss Maudy in To Kill A Mockingbird at the Lucille Ball Little Theater in Jamestown. She edited the forthcoming history of the Jewish presence at Chautauqua and wrote the history of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd for its 125th anniversary this summer. She is a member of the Chautauqua Lake Central School Board and lives year-round in Chautauqua with her dog, Max.


Springfield. None is in central Ohio.

“Local governments have, by and large, done a pretty good job on some choppy water,” Yost said.

Another 13 cities and two counties are within one indicator of high stress, including Newark, Powell, Cincinnati and Cleveland.

Powell, a wealthy, growing city, got five red “critical” indicators, including liabilities that exceed assets, the ratio of debt to revenues, and the number of days its fund balance would sustain city services.

City spokeswoman Megan Canavan said that all five critical indicators were affected by the city loaning more than $10 million in 2012 to two new community authorities" to help the Delaware County community build sewer systems and other infrastructure for new neighborhoods.

The assets, she said, belong to the county, however, and do not offset the debt onDemocrats to establish a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq should be looked upon as a victory for the antiwar movement. Not only is the Democratic Party clearly aware that its current congressional majority was the result of popular dissatisfaction with the war, but nationwide antiwar rallies have recently driven the point home. Under these circumstances, the Democrats had no choice but to challenge administration policy on the war. However, it would be a grave mistake to conclude from this that the political establishment in the United States is severely split on the question of imperialism, or that the Democratic Party is shifting towards a general anti-imperialist stance… | more |

The concept of the imperialist world system in today predominant sense of the extreme


economic exploitation of periphery by center, creating a widening gap between rich and poor countries, was largely absent from the classical Marxist critique of capitalism. Rather this view had its genesis in the 1950s, especially with the publication fifty years ago of Paul Baran’s Political Economy of Growth. Baran’s work helped inspire Marxist dependency and world system theories. But it was the new way of looking at imperialism that was the core of Baran’s contribution. A half-century later it is important to ask: What was this new approach and how did it differ from then prevailing notions? What further changes in our understanding of imperialism are now necessary in response to changed historical conditions since the mid-twentieth century?… | more |

Most economists continue to celebrate China as onerelocate, most voters do not fail to notice that such company policies are encouraged by a politically driven redistribution of income in favor of profits. People who expected more socially oriented policies from the CDU are turning away from that party, but only some are turning toward the SPD. The latter gained somewhat in recent polls and was able to win state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, but it still is nowhere near its former approval rates. Moreover, the relative distribution of votes hides the absolute decline in voter turnout… | more |

This short work consists of two parts: analytical and programmatic. The analytical emphasis is upon the most important crime of capitalism: namely–its dependence upon alienation/dehumanization… | more |


A Long Island couple and a neighbor with whom they had a threesome have been granted “tri-custody” of their 10-year-old son in a groundbreaking ruling.

“No one told these three people to create this unique relationship,” Suffolk County Supreme Court Judge H. Patrick Leis III wrote in the ruling for the first-of-its-kind case in New York.

Bay Shore residents Dawn and Michael Marano, who wed in 1994, had a conventional marriage until they befriended downstairs neighbor Audria Garcia in 2001.

Garcia had been living with her boyfriend, but when they split up, she moved upstairs and “began to engage in intimate relations” with the Maranos, Leis’ ruling says.

Because Dawn Marano, 47, was infertile, Michael Marano, 50, fathered the boy, born on Jan. 25, 2007, with Garcia, 48, court papers say.

“It wasagreed, before a child was conceived, that [the Maranos and Garcia] would all raise the child together as parents,” the judge said.

Dawn Marano’s insurance covered Garcia’s pregnancy, and the two women attended doctor appointments together, the papers say. They also took turns getting up in the night to feed the baby.

The threesome was one big happy family for 18 months until Garcia and Dawn Marano decided to become a twosome. They moved out and into a new home in nearby Central Islip in 2008.

Then Michael Marano sued Garcia for custody of their son. Dawn Marano then sued her husband for divorce.

Michael Marano and Garcia agreed to joint custody, but Dawn felt left out. As neither a biological nor adoptive mom to the boy, she had no automatic legal


SpaceX’s Elon Musk has made his landmark speech, finally revealing details of his plans to make humanity a multiplanetary species. In a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Musk outlined a monster rocket and huge spacecraft capable of transporting at least 100 people to Mars – a planet Musk appears to have ambitions of terraforming.

Musk and Mars:

Almost from the very beginning of SpaceX’s conception, Musk has been on a mission to change the paradigm of the rocket business.

A multi-faceted approach has been employed, revolving around the reduction of the costs involved with launching rockets, mainly via the technology of safely returning them after launch for reuse on future missions.

While SpaceX has not been immune to the inherent risks of the launch business – sufferingmanaged to get the engine to fire up ahead of the IAC.

The “full flow methane-liquid oxygen” rocket engine has been tweaked throughout its planning stage, initially believed to be part of a nine-engine core.

Mr. Musk and his team have since settled on the option of numerous engines, likely aiding engine out issues and the return/turnaround of the stage back to the launch site.

In all, 42 Raptor engines – each capable of 3,042 kN per engine (684K lbf) – will power the booster stage, with another nine (six mains and three sea-level engines) on the second stage that is effectively the crew transport stage.

The power rating is just short of 29 million pounds of thrust. The Saturn V moon rocket had a thrust level of just short of 8


Mars.

The craft is both a full second stage as well as transfer ship, with the tankage and engines at the base of the vehicle and passengers in the upper decks.

As with the booster, only the center engines gimbal. The remaining engines are fixed in position. The amount of engines on both stages aid redundancy.

It will undergo the trip to Mars before using its PICA Thermal Protection System (TPS) to aerobrake into the Mars atmosphere before conducting a landing burn.

As to when the first vehicles will take the trip to Mars, that remains fluid. However, Mr. Musk showed a slide that pointed to missions beginning in the 2020s, on a timeline that is over 10 years ahead of when NASA expects to send crews to Mars.

Mars Base:

Notable in theother dude in the car".

Later this year, automated taxi pods will start running on the streets of England's Milton Keynes, offering rides around the town. The UK government is updating the highway code to take account of driverless cars.

For the moment though "the other dude in the car" is in defiant mood.

Steve McNamara, head of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association told the BBC that driverless cars didn't threaten his job.

"Autonomous vehicles will need primary legislation changes to operate on UK roads, the technology is in its infancy and untried and tested in busy urban environments, it ain't happening for many a year. In reality it is doubtful if autonomous cars could ever work alongside conventionally driven vehicles."

FACTORY WORKERS

In China, humans are already building robots that will ultimately take


the arrival of FedEx, however, did this possibility come within reach of ordinary Americans.

Look now at a wider span of history – the long run to which Mr. Wallach refers.

Agricultural and transportation innovations improved the diets of middle-class and poor people. The rich in the past seldom went hungry, and always had meat to eat and spices to enjoy. Not so for ordinary people. Innovations in food production and delivery produced much greater relative improvements in the diets of ordinary people than in the diets of plutocrats.

Ordinary Americans today routinely vacation in the Caribbean and in Europe; only rich Americans did so prior to major innovations in transportation. Ordinary Americans regularly send their children to college; only the upper-crust regularly did so prior to WWII. Ordinary Americans todayexplanation for almost five decades. In 1957, John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer (BCS) developed a microscopic theory of superconductivity1 that came to be known as the BCS theory, which describes superconductivity as a microscopic effect caused by a condensation of Cooper pairs into a boson-like state. BCS theory explains the behavior of what are now known as conventional superconductors – metals for which phonons provide the recently controversial "pairing glue" that leads to the effective attractive quasiparticle interaction responsible for their superconductivity. (Phonons are quantized lattice vibrations, and quasiparticles are mobile electrons or holes in materials; both are quantized elementary excitations.)

As it is wont to do, history is now repeating itself: Unconventional superconductors, in which pairing glue and pairing condensate symmetry differ from conventional superconductors,


• The Timberwolves are mired in more bad injury news after this week's revelation that Kevin Lovebroke his right hand again. GM David Kahn announced Monday that Love will miss "a number of weeks". The Timberwolves' creative response to the "Oh no, not another bad season" vibe that was sure to develop: offering a playoff guarantee to season ticket holders. Jon Krawcyznski of the Associated Press with the details.

The Wolves are promising anyone who renews their season ticket or purchases a new one for next season a 10 percent discount if the team does not make the playoffs this year. The Wolves are currently in ninth place in the Western Conference, one spot out of the playoff field.

''It's just the next chapter in that process,'' Johnson said. ''WeHouston was headed for a rebuilding season after dumping veterans Goran Dragic, Courtney Lee, Kyle Lowry and Luis Scola during the summer while pursuing young talent. The opportunity to acquire James Harden days before opening night shifted focus, and rookies Terrence Jones, Donatas Motiejunas and the suspended Royce White have barely played. But the Rockets hardly have sold out their youth movement, favoring second-year big men Marcus Morrisand Greg Smith, who have played well off the bench.

Using Houston's actual rotation (including more minutes for starters) for the team's preseason projection in my SCHOENE system would have pushed the Rockets from 29.6 wins to 37.5 -- still shy of their 48-win pace, but good enough to put them in the playoff discussion. Credit the rest of the difference to


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks could be in for a jolt of volatility in the week ahead as Congress debates whether to authorize a military strike against Syria and as the Federal Reserve's pivotal decision on winding down its stimulus grows near.

U.S. equity markets have remained on a relatively even keel recently even as others such as U.S. Treasuries and emerging markets have been roiled by worries over what the Fed is likely to do at its meeting later this month and by the Obama administration's campaign to punish Syria for an alleged chemical weapons attack againstWednesday, May 14, 2008

First contact?

I just heard that this instrumental, "Rain" by Exposure, was originally commissioned for the soundtrack of "Star Trek: First Contact", but didn't end up being used. Maybe it was supposed to play over the scenes that had "Magic Carpet Ride" or "Ooby Dooby" instead?

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Otherwise known as "Therin of Andor", Ian McLean has had an active association with "Star Trek" and science fiction media fandom in Australia since 1980. Before then he was an avid fan of the "Batman" TV series (60s) and the Australian TV classic, "Number 96" (70s).


the posture of the chip components taken in the taking-in pipe and the posture of the chip components moved in the conveyance pipe by its own weight the same direction.
With even said apparatus, if making the cross-sectional configuration of the inner holes of the taking-in pipe and conveyance pipe conform to the configuration of the end surface of the prism-shaped chip component, when the chip component is taken into the taking-in pipe and when the chip component is moved in the conveyance pipe by its own weight, controlling the posture of the chip component is possible if theoretically.
However, in said apparatus wherein the taking-in pipe is moved vertically on the outer side of the conveyance pipe, even if the cross-sectional configuration of the respective inner holes of thetaking-in pipe and conveyance pipe has been conformed to the configuration of the end surface of the prism-shaped chip component, it is very difficult, in actuality, to cause the prism-shaped component to be taken into the taking-in pipe. As a result, there occurs the inconvenience that the supply of the chip components will be often interrupted due to a decrease in the taking-in probability.
Among others, in recent years, because of a demand to speed up the loading of the components onto a circuit board and the inserting of the components into accommodation recessed portions of a component wrapping tape respectively, there has been demanded the electronic component supply apparatus having a supplying performance capable of satisfying such a speed-up demand.


witnesses. Bolton said he would be willing to testify if subpoenaed by the Senate after previously saying he would do so only if ordered to by a court.

Impeachment: Trump says he may invoke executive privilege if John Bolton is subpoenaed by Senate

More: Here's how partisan wrath over Trump's impeachment changed the future of 2 lawmakers

Critics of House Democrats' handling of the impeachment inquiry have questioned Pelosi's decision not to subpoena Bolton. Pelosi has said that the process was too urgent to wait for the courts to review the case and that there already was enough evidence to warrant Trump's removal from office.

But on Sunday, Pelosi said it was still possible that the House would subpoena Bolton if the Senate does not.

Despite McConnell's refusal to budge on a commitmentexcept the customer hasn't ordered one and the trip is thousands of kilometres away in another country.

George Sfeir, a 49-year-old Toronto man, says he was in his car on the way to his cottage in rural Ontario in July when he got a bill for an Uber ride he never ordered.

It was one of six bills he would receive over the span of two days for trips taken in Las Vegas, Des Plaines, Ill., and other American cities that Sfeir says he never visited.

Most of the trips ranged in price from $10 to $100. But when he received a bill for a whopping $982 rung up for an Uber trip in Chicago, Sfeir says he began to panic.

Since CBC News published a story about a Toronto woman who


more than just the result of phishing expeditions that snared individuals. He thinks Uber should launch an investigation into its own databases to make sure they haven't been breached. (CBC)

After all, the ride-hailing service has been breached before. An investigation by Uber in September 2014 found one of the company's databases was accessed by a third party, leaving the names and driver's licence numbers for approximately 50,000 drivers exposed. The breach also affected up to 200 drivers' banking information and social insurance numbers of up to 100 drivers.

Tobok wants to know if any of the information that might have been compromised in the 2014 breach might have been sold on what's known as the dark web, a part of the internet not indexed by search engines, where illicitin dietitians to discuss the importance of nutrition with young athletes to complete the circle,” Molly Wong Vega, a Houston dietitian who works with several schools, told the Times. “Suggesting a snack of bell peppers with hummus may be a way to help increase vitamin A and C intake and give a little zinc as well,” which may aid muscle and tissue repair, she said. That’s something to cheer about.

Amy Reiteris a writer and editor based in New York. A regular contributor to The Los Angeles Times, she has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour, Marie Claire, The Daily Beast and Wine Spectator, among others, as well as for Salon, where she was a longtime editor and senior writer. In addition to contributing


to Healthy Eats, sheblogsfor Food Network’sFN Dish.

I just came home from a few days on the Outer Banks with a group of friends. While the weather felt more like March than May, we still got in all the beach vacay highlights: pancakes, walks in the sand, a (frigid) dip in the ocean, a new tan line, rainy afternoon reading, board games, beers in the sunshine, beach games, a low country boil and ice cream.in revenue in the same year.) For a start, we know that it is a highly secretive firm, and even ahead of its upcoming listing, its corporate governance and activites remain opaque.

Glencore runs its worldwide operations from its shiny headquarters in the sleepy town of Baar, just some 30 kilometers outside of Zurich, in the low-tax canton of Zug, where discretion remains a key virtue.

Glencore was founded as Marc Rich & Co. by the American now-billionaire Marc Rich in 1974. Rich has long been on the most wanted list of the US Government and was charged with fraud, tax evasion, and illegal business dealings with Iran.

Rich was later pardoned by Bill Clinton. The reasons for one of the most controversial pardons in history of the United States remain


unknown. In 1994, Rich was reportedly forced out of the company after misspeculation in the zinc market and sold his majority stake in the firm to existing managers. The firm was was then renamed Glencore and it continued to be run as a private, employee-owned company, led by a small circle of managers with South African native Ivan Glasenberg at the helm since 1992. Glencore currently employs some 54,000 employees directly and indirectly.

Thanks to the upcoming IPO, that handful of managers at the top of Glencore will now be added to the long list of billonaires in Switzerland. Glasenberg is set to see the value of his nearly 16 percent stake in the company rise to $9.5 billion, while four other key executives will own a combined 22Q:

Hierarchical Query Advantages

I have some huge database tables filled with scientific names, in a parent-child relationship, like this...
TAXON | PARENT
Mammalia | Chordata
Carnivora | Mammalia
Canidae | Carnivora
Canis | Canidae
Canis-lupus | Canis

I installed PostgreSQL and started working on a hierarchical query, but it's far more complex than I thought. So I'm thinking of sticking with MySQL and going back to my original scheme, which looks like this:
TAXON | PARENT | FAMILY | ORDER
Mammalia | Chordata | (NULL) | (NULL)
Carnivora | Mammalia | (NULL) | Carnivora
Canidae | Carnivora | Canidae | Carnivora
Canis | Canidae | Canidae | Carnivora
Canis-lupus | Canis | Canidae | Carnivora

It looks amateurish, but I was surprised to discover that the Catalogue of Life apparently uses the same scheme, with more columns and over a million rows.
With this


and to alter, modify or amend them when reason and experience so demand.

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In our view, a compelling need to alter or amend the common-law rule enunciated in Hawkins is dictated by "reason and experience" in the instant case.  The witness, Elizabeth Trammel, was a co-conspirator, a participant in the heroin importation scheme and transaction.  As such, she was subject to prosecution.  The federal immunity statutes, 18 U.S.C. §§ 6001-6005, represent an accommodation between the right of the government to compel testimony on the one hand, and the constitutional privilege to remain silent, on the other.  United States v. Tramunti, 500 F.2d 1334 (2nd Cir. 1974), Cert. denied, 419 U.S. 1079, 95 S.Ct. 667, 42 L.Ed.2d 673 (1974).  The purpose of the grant ofpractical purposes, indicate that the testimony of Elizabeth Trammel was not the "death knell" to the existence of the marriage.  The parties were extensively engaged in criminal activities shortly following their marriage on May 31, 1975.  The record fairly evidences that commencing in August of 1975, Otis Trammel, Jr., (Elizabeth's husband), Edwin Lee Roberts and Joseph Freeman conspired and "masterminded" the scheme to accomplish importation of heroin into the United States from Thailand.  Elizabeth Trammel may or may not have freely consented to her participation in the scheme.  The record fairly reflects, we believe, that both Elizabeth Trammel and Janice Keenan were "conduits" or "actors" to accomplish the illicit goals of the scheme.  They were being "used."  Whether they participated voluntarily or


otherwise at all times in a matter for rank conjecture.  The record is clear, however, that when their participation in the conspiratorial enterprise was discovered by federal DEA agents who then confronted them, each agreed to cooperate with the federal agents, and they did so.  The record evidences that each woman followed instructions from the three charged co-conspirators.  Neither planned nor "masterminded" the importation scheme.  The same is not true of appellant Otis Trammel, Jr.

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It is inconceivable that the Trammels established a "home" with any of the usual, ordinary attributes of "family life."  There was no domestic harmony in the commonly accepted nature of a marital relationship to be preserved following commencement of the criminal activities in August of 1975.  Beyond this,young lives and exploited the weaknesses of drug addicts for profit, but by their sordid activities they have led us in today's decision to establish a rule for future cases which is unsound and contrary to established precedent.  In so doing they have caused us to ignore some time honored presumptions, to forego an opportunity to continue a modest contribution to the withering but vital institution of the family, and to further expand the already excessive role of the doctrine of conspiracy in undermining fundamental rules of law.

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If today's opinion affected only Otis Trammel and his wife, I would view it with some concern but not with the degree of apprehension expressed in this dissent.  The significance of today's decision is that it establishes a policy


a girl from Arkansas to Oklahoma to work with his wife as a prostitute.  As in the case before us, the wife was an alleged participant in criminal activity.  Unlike the record in this case, however, the evidence showed that the marriage was already in trouble and the parties were living apart.  The court treated the wife's testimony as voluntary, but it reaffirmed the testimonial privilege.  Reasoning that the rule is grounded on the sound policy of fostering "family peace, not only for the benefit of husband, wife and children, but for the benefit of the public as well," the Court declared that even if the marriage was not an ideal one "the law should not Force or encourage testimony which might alienate husbandMr. Hunter, the Monitor article and Bahatiâ€™s statements came as a complete surprise to the NPB officials here. However, in the event the article was accurate, the NPB officials and Congressional leaders were taking action to assure that Bahati did not come to any of the meetings.
I want to make clear that according to the Fellowship the invitation to come to Washington, DC as a volunteer was made prior to the introduction of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in October, 2009.
Then today, I received this statement from National Prayer Breakfast spokesperson, Ambassador Richard Swett. Richard Swett was Ambassador to Denmark from 1998-2001. Prior to that post, he represented the 2nd district of New Hampshire from 1991-1995 as a Democrat.
Ambassador Richard Swett, a longtime associate of the Fellowship Foundation since his