games had access to superior audio hardware on the Commodore 64, Amiga and Atari ST, but the U.S. market was increasingly turning to the PCs. Unless a PC owner had a Tandy 1000 with its 3-voice chip, he had to settle for the PC speaker, as there was no popular and cheap sound expansion hardware available at the time. Since Microprose was still developing games for the Commodore 64, it seemed a natural idea to interface its SID chip with the PC. They advertised a PC sound board called The Entertainer, which included a 6581 and a joystick port on an ISA card. The only place this advertisement has ever been known to be seen is in an introduction screen and the readme to Gunship v429.04. The readme– not the question they gave to the reports. Obama is smart in the fact that he has fooled a significant part of the population that he is “the one”. He isn’t – what he is – is a man of color – not even with an African-American background – but if you asked those who voted for him if he has African-American roots, I bet you that they will say that he does. He was voted in by people who never voted before, did not vote on the content of the person but the package that they offered – and these same people will NEVER vote again. This was a party for them, this was a joke – let’s put in the most unqualified person on the


trail because he is a wonderful orator and is black.If a Republican were to say the stupid things that come out of his mouth, it would be front page news – but not for Obama.

Obama drops the charges on the mastermind behind the USS Cole attack and subsequent murders – the families get a heads up on it, but are officially told the day after Obama drops the charges (for now as he says) in a meeting with some families. What a dick. One mother of a slain sailor stated she voted for Obama, but now she regrets her vote and even her daughter wants him impeached. While my heart goes out to this mother for the brave sacrifice by her son, she is a prime example ofResults 1–20 of 6009 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:James Brokenshire

James Brokenshire: It is good to be back, and I thank colleagues on both sides of the House for their kind, generous and supportive comments over the past few weeks. What is not so welcome, however, is the continuing lack of devolved government in Northern Ireland, which it desperately needs. I commend the Secretary of State for all her work and for her efforts in seeking to bring the parties together. I also...

James Brokenshire: The threat from Northern Ireland-related terrorism continues to be severe within Northern Ireland, meaning an attack is highly likely. This Government will always give the fullest


possible support to the brave men and women of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and MI5. We remain fully committed to keeping people safe and secure, and to ensuring that terrorism never succeeds.

James Brokenshire: I absolutely will. There have been five confirmed national security attacks so far in 2017, and a small number of dissident republican terrorist groupings continue their campaign of violence. The threat is suppressed by the brave efforts of the PSNI and others, and by the strategic approach that we pursue. The PSNI and others who work to keep people safe have our full support for the public...

James Brokenshire: The right hon. Gentleman may know that we have committed specific funds—an extra £32 million a year over the five-year spending review period—to deal with

Someone (perhaps the False Prophet) Bowing Before the Kalki

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Will the 1.25 billion people in India support the Beast of Revelation? What of the over 800 million Hindus (most of whom who live in India)? Might they accept the final Beast power who is aligned with the final Antichrist?

Bible prophecy teaches yes as the following points out:

4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” 5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell


in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. 11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 Andhe exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as


leader to rise up. Related to that, here is a section of my book 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect that I would like to quote:

A Hindu from India named Vijay Kumar (he refers to himself as “The Man who Realized God In 1993”) makes the following claims…:

For the society to climb back to its pristine glory of the golden era… even the meek would handle metal (pick arms). Whatever the poor and the downtrodden lay their hands upon would become their weapon. In the last phase of the Kali Yuga we are passing through… the complete society has been taken to ransom by about 6% corrupt population comprising of politicians, bureaucrats, judiciary and police force…people await with abated breath the coming of Bhagwan Kalki…one whoof Revelation.

Who is the King of the North? Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies for the Great Monarch point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States? In the Spanish language check out ¿Quién es el Rey del Norte? Here is a link to a video titled: The Future King of the North.


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Liner Notes Released on June 13, 2005, “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was the fourth single from Green Day’s monstrous album, American Idiot, which came out almost exactly nine months earlier. It would also be part of their next album, Bullet in a Bible, a live recording from their American Idiot World Tour taken at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes in England. While this single, unlike its three predecessors, didn’t hit Number One on the Modern Rock Tracks chart (topping out at Number Two), it fared incredibly well on both the Adult Top 40 (also Number Two) and the Mainstream Top 40 (Number Three), introducing the band in a huge way to the adult contemporary market.

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Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, a highly romanticized white-eyes version of Ojibwa legend, telling the story of Hiawatha and his beloved Minnehaha, was the forced gruel upon which a Midwestern 1940s elementary school poetic education was sustained. It was performed in summer pageants, crammed down one's throat in textbooks, recited in class ad nauseam. One famous passage:

By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

Reprieve from The Song of Hiawatha, back then, seemed nowhere in sight. Who knew Lewis Carroll had


accompany this brief excerpt from Carroll's howler of a parody was chosen as the putative kitsch equivalent of the original poem.)

By the time I attended elementary school in the late 1950s, The Song of Hiawatha wasn't taught, but everyone knew it from cartoon and comedy references and parodies. Reading about its history, and Longfellow's life and career (which I never really paid attention to before), is fascinating. My wife, who often seems to know everything, was unaware of Carroll's Hiawatha's Photographing, so thanks for that from both of us, and for providing the information (through Carroll) of the connection between rosewood and camera construction, which has coincidental current relevance for me.

Carroll evidently had fun with this, he was a camera buff himself and went on for some timeSometimes, imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery.

RuPaul's Drag Race star Farrah Moan has a bone to pick with Ariana Grande. But before we dive into the reality TV personality's gripe with the 26-year-old singer, here's some backstory. On Tuesday, news broke that the pop star filed a $10 million lawsuit against Forever 21 and Riley Rose, after accusing the retailers of false endorsement, trademark infringement and copyright infringement (among other complaints).

According to the suit, which E! News obtained, both brands tried striking up a deal with the "7 Rings" singer, however, it wasn't to up to her standards.

Despite never reaching an agreement, the brands launched a "misleading campaign across its website and social media platforms primarily in January and February 2019," the lawsuit claims. "The campaign capitalized


on the concurrent success of Ms. Grande's album Thank U, Next by publishing at least 30 unauthorized images and videos misappropriating Ms. Grande's name, image, likeness, and music in order to create the false perception of her endorsement."

Now, Moan is accusing the 26-year-old pop star of "stealing" from her for similar reasons.guaranteed representation in the legislature and the broad assurance that the nation, represented by Gandhi and the Congress, would do everything in its power to end untouchability and caste discrimination. Thus, reservation is a fundamentally political promise made in acknowledgement of the fact that caste literally excludes sizeable communities from Indian society. Since independence is demanded in the name of the Indian nation, and since the modern nation is supposed to be an egalitarian form of community, the Poona Pact is a compromise whereby the untouchables agree to forego their demand for a nation (electorate) of their own and be part of the larger nation in spite of their caste exclusion. In short, reservation is intended to be the response, from a nationalist movement led by the upper


Wider acceptance of this interpretation of reservation is blocked not only by the natural antipathy of the upper castes, but also by two other difficulties.

The first stems from the need to convert the abstract promise of full citizenship into concrete reality, a conversion that inevitably requires specific entitlements to be created for specific castes. This in turn encourages already prejudiced observers to equate the policy with material benefits unjustly awarded to an undeserving interest group freeriding on the populist compulsions of electoral politics. The second difficulty has to do with the deep intermeshing of the social and economic dimensions of caste discrimination and the related conundrum of evaluating the empirical and legal similarities and differences among the SCs, the STs and the OBCs.

For a rethink

To cut a longGov. Mark Dayton, though pessimistic, breathes a little life into medical marijuana bill

Gov. Mark Dayton has directed two members of his staff as well as the state public health commissioner to work with medical marijuana supporters in crafting a bill he could possibly sign into law within the next two months.

The news came on Thursday after patients and advocates descended on his mansion in St. Paul with strollers and signs that read, "Love Over Law Enforcement."
They called on the governor to stop letting the spokesmen of public safety dictate the conversation and to offer new negotiating partners, now that the bill has been effectively stalled.

Earlier in the day, Dayton made it clear on a conference call that he's
skeptical of the government's ability to properly distribute marijuana
to patients, and


continue to buy marijuana on
the street, explaining that the punishment for possessing less than an
ounce and a half is a only petty misdemeanor.

When pressed, the governor backpedaled into this response: "I'm not advocating
anybody do whatever it is they do. I'm just pointing out the reality in
our society."

Several of the protesters who met with the governor later in the day
described his initial attitude as "bewildered" and "angry." Dayton is
recovering from hip surgery, and the supporters greeted him with a
massive card that said, "We hope your position on the medical marijuana
bill will get better soon!" It also entreated him to "Show some
backbone!"

"That pissed him off," says Patrick McClellan, who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy. However, McClellan walked away from the two-hour conversation feeling that the governor
had been "extremely gracious."

At a certainpoint, though, Dayton
questioned whether supporters even had enough votes to get the bill to his desk,
McClellan says: "He wants to see what our end results are."

Dayton released a statement through his press secretary saying he
was "grateful for the opportunity this afternoon to spend time with
these Minnesotans, and hear their stories. Following the meeting, the
Governor said it was difficult to see that so many good Minnesotans are
enduring such pain and suffering."

Still, one very important question remains unanswered: Why, in the first place, did the
state's top cops and prosecutors have the power to veto legislation?

Several protesters mulled it over on the steps of the governor's
mansion. They included T.J. Nelson, a Brainerd man who uses marijuana to ease the pain cause by Crohn's
Disease.

"I must have missed that part in civics class,"


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to sell more consoles on any of its three platforms when compared to November 2007. Starting with the PlayStation 3, Sony managed to sell 378k units in the month of November 2008, while in the same month one year ago, it sold 466k for a difference of 88k. The story continues with the PlayStation 2 (496k in 2007 versus 206k in 2008) and the PlayStation Portable (567k in 2007 versus 421k in 2008), which is even more disappointing when you consider the overall strong holiday line-up across all three Sony systems.

These numbers weren't entirely out of the bounds of expectation as Sony is still struggling with its overall pricing scheme. It also wasn't a particularly bright idea to offer a new, $499 PlayStation 3 bundle in the middlePages

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DANIEL JOHNSON has had a lifelong interest in ancient cultures, especially from the Americas. His first trip to Mesoamerica was in 1999. Since then he has led friends on excursions to Central America and has given firesides about traveling there. He served a mission in the Buenos Aires North and Mendoza Argentina missions. He works as a lecturer at the University of North Georgia.

JARED COOPER has been fascinated with the history of Mesoamerica all his life. He served a mission in the New York Utica Mission. He works as a finance specialist at Fireman's Fund.

DEREK GASSER has had a lifelong love of traveling and photography. He has traveled to over 60 countries and spent time volunteering in hospitals in both Africa and Asia. He served a mission


in the Philippines Cebu Mission. He works in hospital administration and construction.

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Recent articles show that LIDAR has been used to see through the dense jungles of northern Guatemala and find what still lies underneath. Palaces, elevated highways, and the ruins of more than 60,000 houses have been discovered. What is now seen is a society that is far more complex and interconnected than previously thought.

Ten parcels of land, totaling more than 800 sq. miles was mapped, but this is just a small part of the large northern jungles of Guatemala, known as the Petén. It is likely that much more would be discovered if the unmapped areas were to be scanned. Because of these latest finds, the current estimate for the Maya population athas since been edited out. One example is in Deuteronomy 32:8-9:When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
The immediate assumption is that 'Most High' (El-Elyon in Hebrew), a common title for God in the Old Testament, refers to the the Lord or Jehovah (YHWH). However, some scholars see a connection between the Hebrew 'El' and the supreme Caananite deity, El. The oldest versions of Deuteronomy, including the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls, don't have the phrase 'children of Israel,' but instead say 'sons of El.' The idea behind


this passage is that El divided up the world's people into different ethnic groups to be ruled over by his divine sons. To Jehovah (the Lord), a Son of God, was given the nation or people of Jacob (Israel) as his people. So the Hebrew God wasn't the only God, but a son, and not the only one.

Latter-Day Saints have long identified the Jehovah of the Old Testament as a pre-mortal Jesus Christ, and refer to his Heavenly Father as Elohim, a Hebrew word meaning 'God' or 'Gods.' There is even a belief of a divine council of elohim meeting to create the world, an idea not found in traditional Christianity, but found in many ancient texts from the Middle East. Perhaps this possible evidence of earlier polytheismamong the monotheistic Israelites seen by some non-religious scholars is fragments of this original understanding. This Mormon belief has been mocked by Christians and agnostics alike, but there may yet be some support for it, hiding under our noses in familiar scripture. Many of the Biblical 'contradictions' about the multiple gods El and Yahweh (Jehovah) that could be troubling to Christians are easily explained by LDS theology. Maybe there is something to this multiple gods idea after all.

10 July 2017

In April of this year, a cache of what has been described as 'some of the finest Aztec gold ever found' was uncovered near the main square in Mexico City. The capital city of Mexico, long known as a center of three cultures: Aztec, Colonial Spanish, and modern, seems


the Book of Mormon is not what it claims to be, then it must be the product of an American 19th-century environment. In his presentation, which can be read here, Dr. Clark provides a helpful chart showing 60 specific items mentioned in the Book of Mormon, compared to what what 'known' about the ancient world at the time, many of which have been called 'blunders' by critics from the very beginning. As can be seen, the weight of the evidence was strongly against its authenticity. And this chart may be a bit generous, since it shows stone monuments and large cities as Confirmed in 1842. This is correct, but likely is due to the publication of Stephens and Catherwood's accounts of travels in Mesoamerica a few years previous,but which were unknown when the Book of Mormon was published in 1830. The status of its claims at that date would have been a better benchmark.

But the case was far from closed. Archaeology in the New World was practically non-existant at the time, so the apparent anachronisms lose much of their significance. The problems with this kind of evidence are obvious because of the amount of change newer discoveries can bring to overturn old beliefs, sometimes in just a few years. The chart looks very different when compiled in a more recent setting.

On objective observer should see that the tide of evidence has turned. Keep in mind that even this chart is now at least twelve years old, so its application is limited as well. We are


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leave of the Court, Ms. Maggos amended her petition to allege new

facts.    According to the amended petition, Ms. Maggos' stock was

worth substantially more than $3 million at the time of the

redemption, but Nikita Maggos and certain other persons who were

close confidants of Ms. Maggos fraudulently induced her to sell

her stock to PCAB for less than its full worth.     Ms. Maggos

alleges in her amended petition that she did not make a gift to

Nikita Maggos because of this fraudulent inducement.     Ms. Maggos

alleges alternatively in her amended petition that her sale of

the stock to PCAB was not a gift because the redemption was a

"bona fide, arm's length transaction which proved to be a bad

bargain" for her.


 Ms. Maggos was born in 1906.    She and her former husband,

Gust Maggos, developed PCAB over the course of several decades.
                                 - 4 -

PCAB, which is based in Alton, Illinois, is a regional bottler of

Pepsi-Cola products in the Midwest.      At all relevant times prior

to May 1987, Ms. Maggos owned 56.7 percent of PCAB's stock, and

her only son, Nikita Maggos, owned the remaining stock.     Nikita

Maggos was the president and a director of PCAB, and he oversaw

the daily operation and management of the company.    Ms. Maggos

had little, if any, participation in the operation or management

of PCAB after the mid-1960's, having moved to Honolulu, Hawaii,

from Alton, Illinois, at that time.

     Following her move to Honolulu, Ms. Maggos retained Robert

Hite, a lawyer in Hawaii, to update her estate tax plan.     The

estate plan included Ms. Maggos' transfer of complete ownership

of PCAB to her son, Nikita Maggos, which it sought to accomplish

with minimal tax consequences.    Effective May 1, 1987, upon

consultation with Mr. Hite and certain other advisers, Ms. Maggos

entered into the redemption transaction with PCAB under which she

received a promissory note from PCAB in exchange for her stock.

The note provided for annual payments of interest at a rate of

8 percent per year and


for cash and other consideration totaling more than $22

million; this consideration included the purchase price, the

purchaser's assumption of PCAB's debt, PCAB's forgiveness of

loans to Nikita Maggos, the receipt by Nikita Maggos of certain

assets which had previously belonged to PCAB, and a

noncompetition agreement between Nikita Maggos and the purchaser.

     On August 23, 1994, Ms. Maggos commenced suit in the U.S.

District Court for the District of Hawaii against Nikita Maggos

and PCAB to recover damages for, among other things, fraud with

respect to the redemption.   On August 7, 1995, Ms. Maggos

commenced suit in the First Circuit Court in Hawaii against

Victor H. Bezman and E. Lawrence Helm, Jr., and their respective

firms, alleging fraud and professional negligence.    Mr. Helm, a

certified public accountant, and Mr. Bezman,received less

than fair market value for her shares.    Ms. Maggos sold her

shares to PCAB without an independent appraisal of PCAB's value,

and she bequeathed the promissory note to her son.    The value of

the note was substantially less than the value of her stock, and

the price for the stock was not set through arm's-length

negotiations.   The effect of Ms. Maggos' transfer was to remove

her from a family business that she helped build, passing total

ownership of the business to her family's next generation with a

conscious attempt on the part of Ms. Maggos to minimize the

payment of tax that would be due on the passage.    Bearing in mind

that Ms. Maggos also was astute enough to file a 1987 gift tax

return reporting a


"He's not a war hero," Trump said. Sarcastically, Trump quipped, "He's a war hero because he was captured." Then, he added, "I like people that weren't captured"

...Republican leaders and other candidates have been careful in how they respond to his immigration remarks, but his condemnation of McCain opened the floodgates, drawing swift and sharp criticism from other Republicans.

Former Texas governor Rick Perry, himself a subject of recent attacks from Trump, said Trump was "unfit" to serve as president and should "immediately withdraw" from the race...Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, also chimed in with a Twitter post calling or an end to such "slanderous attacks"...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, campaigning in Western Iowa, denounced Trump's remarks and said McCain is "undoubtedly an American hero." This is a change inattended college in Beijing
10   and received her degree in Foreign Trade in 1989.       From 1989-
11   2000, Chen worked as an importing agent in China.       In 2000, Chen
12   moved to the United States.
13            The record is spotty regarding her employment after her
14   move.      In 2010, she earned a bookkeeping certificate from
15   Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, Washington.       In 2014,
16   Chen and a colleague formed an import/export business called BTS
17   Trading, LLC (BTS) of which Chen owned ten percent.


   That same
18   year, Chen worked for a small Chinese company part-time and a
19   restaurant for two months.
20            Chen was unemployed in 2015 and had no income.   During 2014
21   and 2015, Chen received large wire transfers into her bank
22   accounts from Chinese nationals.        Since February 2016, Chen has
23   been employed by Richful, LLC as a bookkeeper.       In that
24   position, she interfaces with an accountant for payroll and tax
25
          1
26        Unless otherwise indicated,she
 5   purchased this property in 2009 with funds from her father.          In
 6   August 2014, Chen obtained the LOC from East West Bank secured
 7   by the property and began drawing on the credit.        In total, she
 8   drew $669,000 on the LOC.       Chen testified that she drew on the
 9   note to gamble and made payments on the note from gambling
10   winnings.       She also testified that she used the money to make
11   loans to friends for gambling, and paid on the note from what
12


as those with an ICD-9-CM code of 295.xx in any position. Hospitalization rates were examined separately in the Medicaid and commercial payer populations. The proportion of treatment episodes with at least one hospitalization and the length of stay for the first hospitalization were also investigated.

This was a cost of illness study. Due to large differences in payment structures and patient populations, healthcare costs were analyzed separately for the Medicaid and commercial payer populations. Healthcare costs were based on the paid amounts of adjudicated claims, including insurer and health plan payments, as well as patient cost-sharing in the form of copayment, deductible, and coinsurance. Because the most recent year in the Medicaid database was 2012, costs were adjusted for inflation and standardized to 2012 US dollars using the Consumer[The socioeconomic cost of injuries in South Korea].
This study was conducted to estimate the socioeconomic cost of injuries in South Korea. We matched claims data from national health insurance, automobile insurance and industrial accident compensation insurance (IACI), and mortality data obtained from the national statistical office from 2001 to 2003 by patients' unique identifier. Socioeconomic cost included both direct cost and indirect cost: the direct cost was injury-related medical expenditure and the indirect cost included loss of productivity due to healthcare utilization and premature death. The socioeconomic cost of injuries in Korea was approximately 1.9% of the GDP from 2001 to 2003. That is, 12.1 trillion KRW (Korean Won) in 2001, 12.3 trillion KRW in 2002, and 13.7 trillion KRW in 2003. In 2003, direct medical costs were


same speed regardless of the rotation of the Earth. The atmosphere itself is spinning along with the Earth and a plane will not get any sort of noticeable ground speed boost or decrease as a result of flying East or West respectively. However, relative to some reference frame beyond the Earth, then yes, as seen from space the plane will move with the greater velocity thanks to the Earth's rotation. In fact, high speed jets often make a point out of flying against the Earth's rotation (West) at sunrise or sunset at precisely the same speed as the ground but in the opposite direction. Causing the effect that the sun seems to hover at the same height in the sky.

in Berlin.

He advises global clients on commercial strategies, including go-to-market models, medical affairs and market access topics. His consulting practice also focuses on digital transformation, including multi-channel approaches, and performance topics such as operational excellence, research and development and organizational effectiveness, including change management. Prior to joining Roland Berger, Morris Hosseini worked as a researcher in regenerative medicine and co-founded a biotech company on stem cell applications in Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto in Canada.

"Medicine is increasingly becoming predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory. This will create challenges and opportunities to leverage novel therapeutic strategies."


Image copyright AP Image caption Nunn had been battling cancer

US actor Bill Nunn, who featured in Spider Man as well as films by the director Spike Lee, has died aged 63 at his home in Pittsburgh, his wife said.

The actor, best known for his role as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, had been battling cancer.

Mr Lee paid tribute to his "dear friend" on social media, saying he was "resting in power".

Nunn went on to appear in dozens of films and TV programmes, including New Jack City and Sirens.Photo : Denis Poroy ( Getty )

This has been the year of the baseball sons. Vlad Jr. and his tremendous rump have been around since April, and some big taters have been mashed. Bo Bichette and his feathered locks joined the fray about two weeks ago, and he has been a delight. Cavan Biggio has been... around... doing stuff. However! No baseball son we’ve seen this season has been as powerful and spectacular as Fernando Tatis Jr.

Would you like to see Tatis Jr. make a really cool baseball play? Here you go!

Tatis Jr. has been doing stuff like this, both in the field and at the plate, all season. He’s currently hitting .315/.378/.591 with 22 homers, and he makes a dazzling defensive play just about every game. And


forces Vincent to lie to his colleagues, cheat his partner, steal a duffel bag filled with cocaine, and weave his way through the labyrinthine nightclub that serves as headquarters for a sneering kingpin. Most of the movie takes place in and around this overcrowded hot spot, with Vincent being chased or impeded by his cowardly partner, an overeager rookie cop, an intense internal affairs officer, a psychotic triggerman, and two batches of drug dealers thirsting for a fight. Often movies set in one location feel static and confined, but Sleepless Night never loses its edge, finding new inspiration in each room of this gargantuan club. Fight scenes break out on dance floors, in bathroom stalls and even the kitchen—where in a frenzied attempt to get the upper handcircular motion in the Schwarzschild spacetime. The main application of the formalism is presented in the second part of the article, in which I consider the motion of a small black hole in an empty external universe. I use the retarded coordinates to construct the metric of the small black hole perturbed by the tidal field of the external universe, and the metric of the external universe perturbed by the presence of the black hole. Matching these metrics produces the MiSaTaQuWa equations of motion for the small black hole.'
author:
- Eric Poisson
bibliography:
- 'motion.bib'
date: 'October 24, 2003'
title: 'Retarded coordinates based at a world line, and the motion of a small black hole in an external universe'
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Introduction
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In the first part of this article I present a system of retarded coordinates $(u,r,\theta,\phi)$


inbox, Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips celebrates:

If James O'Keefe were a liberal, he would be a national hero today. If his targets were conservatives, the liberal media establishment would be falling all over themselves to see what they could offer him.

Again, for a far-right political movement, this stuff is pure gold. The sense of aggrievement felt by tea-party adherents and sympathisers at the accusation of racism is very similar to that felt by PVVers at any hint of a reference to Nazism. The involvement of government subsidies provides the hook one needs to turn this into a public issue. The fact that one executive of the organisation says he thinks the tea-party movement is racist becomes the trigger not just for an offensive against an organisation unfriendly toinsulted and reacts badly, it is the fault of the person being insulted, and not the person issuing the insult?"

Don't be stupid; I never said any such thing.

When a person gets insulted and responds by punching the insulter in the nose, it is both the fault of the insulter for provoking the person who punched him in the nose and the fault of the puncher for over-reacting to the insult.

Mussolini's fascism was nothing but a retread of his previous efforts as one of the leaders of Italian socialism. And was his conversion unique? Putin and Jiabao are examples of modern Mussolinis.

The difference between socialism and fascism is quibbling over the details - "polishing the turd". Both are statist political movements, dedicated to establishing a monolithic institution that will


                         Plaintiff - Appellant,

          versus

VANESSA ADAMS,

                                              Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria. James C. Cacheris, Senior
District Judge. (1:05-cv-01226-JCC)

Submitted: December 14, 2006              Decided: December 22, 2006

Before MICHAEL, GREGORY,Human Rights Watch (HRW) says armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) have used rape and sexual slavery as a weapon of war in the conflict gripping the country.

In a report published on Thursday, the New York-based rights group documented 305 cases of rape and sexual slavery carried out against 296 women and girls from early 2013 to mid-2017.

The report said the abuses may amount to “crimes against humanity and war crimes,” adding that the number was undoubtedly much higher as stigmatized victims refused to seek justice.

The CAR has been the scene of deadly violence due to political instability since March 2003, when Seleka militants ousted President Francois Bozize and provoked deadly reprisal attacks by a militia group known as anti-Balaka.

The violence between the two groups has


responsible for the crimes.

The UN has 12,350 troops and police forces on the ground to help protect civilians and support the government of President Faustin-Archange Touadera, whose election last year helped significantly contain the inter-communal violence.

On September 22, the CAR’s president urged the UN to send more peacekeepers to his conflict-ridden country and ease an arms embargo in the way of equipping his weak army.

International observers warn that the country is now approaching the levels of violence seen at the height of the conflict in 2014, as more than 600,000 people have fled violence within the CAR and a further 500,000 have crossed borders as refugees.

Courtesy: Press TV

SSto enter Le Mans, resulting in five victories for Jaguar: 1951 1953 1955 1956 1957.

At the end of 1969 he retired as Vice Chairman of Jaguar, after 35 years of being responsible for all Jaguar engineering and design. Following his retirement it was reported that he intended to "devote his energy and enthusiasm to his farm whilst maintaining his close relationships with William Lyons and the Jaguar directors, Lofty England and Bob Knight.".   Shortly before his retirement he was honoured with a CBE for his services to exports and vehicle design. His responsibilities were taken over by R. J. ("Bob") Knight (Chief Vehicle Engineer) and W.T.F. ("Wally") Hassan (Chief Engineer, Power Units), both of whom were appointed to the company's board as part of their promotion.

See


Voting is under way on the French Pacific islands of New Caledonia on whether to become an independent nation, in a closely watched test of support for France in one of its many territories scattered around the globe.

New Caledonia, which is 18,000 kilometres (11,000 miles) from France, is home to a quarter of the world’s known supplies of nickel – a vital electronics component – and is a strategic foothold for France in the Pacific.

Home to 269,000 people, New Caledonia is one of a handful of French island outposts – a legacy of the country’s 19th-century empire – which retain strategic importance.

Voting in New Caledonia’s 284 polling stations opened at 8am local time on Sunday and was to end at 6pm, with results expected Sunday evening.

But there areconspired to possess cocaine with intent to distribute is sufficient if, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, any rational trier of fact could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the elements of the crime.   United States v. Sharif, 817 F.2d 1375, 1377 (9th Cir.1987).

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The evidence showed that on December 6, 1985, Daniel Serrano placed a package in the trunk of his BMW, and that he then drove to an El Toro parking lot and met Guzman next to a Toyota van.  After a brief conversation, the two men switched cars, with Guzman driving off in the BMW while Serrano followed in the van.  Guzman led Serrano to downtown Los Angeles, and the men parked some


distance apart.  After two conversations at the van, both men walked to the BMW;  Guzman drove the BMW to the van, dropping Serrano off and then parking.  Guzman then brought the package from the BMW to a tractor-trailer rig with Florida plates.  Serrano drove the van around to the front of the rig, and surveillance agents then saw Guzman's legs--along with those of Serrano and two other men--walking between the van and the rig.  Guzman then drove away in the BMW.  Serrano left in the van, which now contained cardboard boxes visible through the rear windows.  A later search of the van discovered five boxes containing cocaine with a street value of approximately $26 million.

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From the above evidence, a rational trier[Théodore Simon (1873-1961). The career of a psychiatrist involved in the professionalization of psychiatric nurses].
Well-known for having created the famous Metric Scale of Intelligence along with the psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911), what is less known is that Théodore Simon (1873-1961) was also a major actor of the professionalization of psychiatric nurses in France. From his engaged textbook published in 1911 to his journal, explicitly titled ?L'Infirmier Psychiatrique,? which he created in 1953 via the specialized school he founded and directed between 1946 and 1957 at the Maison Blanche hospital in Neuilly-sur-Marne, Simon worked throughout his career for the acknowledgment and the training of those he considered as true partners. This is what we want to demonstrate in this paper, which redraws the forgotten career history of this militant


Zende under Copenhagen Games 2015. Foto: Hltv.org

This weekend former Fnatic coach Jonatan ”Devilwalk” Lundbergs new team 1337 beat LGB Esports and will now be able to attend the qualifier for ESL One i Cologne.

However, the team faces issues ahead of the offline qualifier in Germany.

– Whatever we do, it will be disastrous for someone of us, Erik ”Zende” Sundeqvist says to Aftonbladet Esport.

1337 will travel to the offline qualifiers in Cologne ahead of the second major of the year. Jonatan ”Devilwalk” Lundbergs new team pulled off a surprising win over Norwegian side LGB Esports to qualifier to the next, offline, stage.

However, a rule at ESL will force the team to leave one of the five behind since the team won over LGB Esports without Devilwalk, Andreas ”Schneider” Lindbergand Mathias ”Pauf” Köhler. According to the rule, the competing team at the offline qualifier must use a majority of the players who played in the online version. This, in short, means that one of the trio will not be able to compete in the offline qualifiers.

– We are simple to many players for the five spots on the team, Erik ”Zende” Sundeqvist says to Aftonbladet Esport.

Since the team left Team Property the former in-game leader, André ”Berg” Kjellberg, was replaced by the former Fnatic coach Devilwalk. The team still lacks an organization backing up their endeavours, but with a possible spot in a major on the horizon, 1337 hopes to be able to sign with an organization.

– We are having conversations with organizations who want to send


JUST IN: Trump says China sending envoy into North Korea

In a short tweet that lacked any real description, President Trump made a major announcement about the situation in North Korea.

The tweet comes on the heels of Trump visiting China during his 12-day trip overseas. Discussions with Chinese leaders covered an array of topics including trade and cybersecurity, but the biggest topic on the table is North Korea and the threat it poses to the United States and its allies.

Trump has put his foot down when it comes to any foreign nation or entity doing business with North Korea. “Do business with North Korea, and you won’t be doing business with the U.S.,” Trump declared more than one month ago.

Here is what Trump wrote in his tweet Thursday morning:and artificial-intelligence advances. And for some, it’s simply the thrill of the hunt.

The manuscript was acquired in 1912 by Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish rare-book dealer. Resembling a modern book rather than a scroll, it is full of looping text handwritten in an elaborate script, accompanied by lavish illustrations. The find failed to make Voynich rich, but the manuscript has continued to make headlines for more than 100 years, challenging researchers in many fields, including linguistics, botany, and machine learning. It now resides at the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

At first, it mainly attracted humanities scholars. In 1921, William Newbold, a philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania who had an interest in cryptography, claimed that a 13th-century friar wrote it as a scientific treatise. Newbold believed that each arcane


letter was actually a collection of minuscule symbols readable under proper magnification, which would have meant the microscope was invented centuries before we thought. After Newbold’s death, John Manly, an American literature professor and fellow code breaker, disproved Newbold’s theory, showing that his methods were arbitrary and scientifically unreliable.

William and Elizebeth Friedman, two founding figures in modern cipher-breaking, continued to apply code-breaker techniques to the manuscript. Though they studied other texts and were recruited to crack messages during both world wars, they were never able to land on a solution to the Voynich.

During World War I, the Friedmans had to perform their calculations by hand, but in the following decades, IBM’s punch-card tabulating machines made the process much faster. Working with the National Security Agency when it wason Albert Graves Road in Jefferson Davis County. Robert had been concerned about Mary Lou because she had missed an appointment that morning, and her truck was missing. On the way to Mary Lou's house, Robert asked a neighbor, Billy Wayne Stewart, to accompany him. The men entered the house and found Mary Lou lying face down on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood. Dr. Steven Hayne, a forensic pathologist, testified that Mary Lou's autopsy showed several types of injuries consistent with being produced by blunt force, with the most severe located on the back of her head. Mary Lou had a large bruise on the back of her head, extensive bruising on her face, five lacerations on the back of her head, two *862 lacerations


on the left side of her head, and two lacerations on the right side of her head. Mary Lou also had bruises and scrapes on her hands and arms consistent with defensive posturing. Dr. Hayne determined that Mary Lou died from the injuries to her head. It was estimated that Mary Lou had died between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on December 5th.
¶ 3. After the police arrived on the scene, it was determined that Sullivan, Robert's son and Mary Lou's grandson, was a possible suspect. Robert had seen Sullivan and another white male near the crime scene on December 5. Micah Fortenberry testified that on December 5th at approximately 6:00 p.m., he gave Sullivan a ride and dropped him off a little less than a mile fromMary Lou's house. Sullivan had told Fortenberry that his car had broken down.
¶ 4. During the course of the investigation, Mary Lou's missing truck was found in a wooded area. The authorities collected a 2x2 piece of wood with blood on it and another piece of wood wrapped in yarn also with blood on it. Testing determined that the blood found on the 2x2 matched Mary Lou's blood sample. Authorities also searched Sullivan's house where they discovered blood spatter on a pair of Sullivan's overalls. Testing determined that the blood on the overalls matched Mary Lou's blood sample. Several pieces of wood were recovered from the crime scene, as well as $20,000 in cash found in a shoe box in a closet.
¶ 5. Sullivan was arrested, read his


rights, and interrogated by Roy Clingon and James Herzog, both special agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. Sullivan was interrogated at the Jefferson Davis County Sheriff's Department. In his first statement, Sullivan stated that Steven Polk had committed the murder, but he had taken the truck and the wood board and hidden them. However, Polk had an alibi and was not developed as a suspect. In his second statement, Sullivan stated that he had gotten a ride from someone and got out near Mary Lou's house. Sullivan stated that he hid a 2x2 piece of wood in his shirt and entered Mary Lou's house. Sullivan admitted to hitting her on the head with the 2x2 in order to steal her money, but he did not intend tokill her. Sullivan also admitted that he "freaked out" and kept hitting her over the head. Sullivan stated that he then grabbed a rifle, picked up the 2x2, and took Mary Lou's truck. Sullivan later pawned the rifle for crack cocaine and left the truck and 2x2 in a wooded area. Sullivan also admitted that he sent his father, Robert, on a false errand in order to keep him away from Mary Lou's house.
¶ 6. During trial, Sullivan asserted that Agents Clingon and Herzog coerced and threatened him into confessing to the murder. Sullivan testified that another man, Dwayne Altman, had killed Mary Lou. Sullivan testified that he had stepped outside Mary Lou's house and heard a loud thump from inside the house. Sullivan said that Altman then


his detainment prior to his confession.
¶ 9. Agents Clingon and Herzog testified about Sullivan's interrogation during the hearing on Sullivan's motion to suppress. Agents Clingon and Herzog first interrogated Sullivan at approximately 1:30 p.m. on December 6th, the day after Mary Lou's murder. According to the record, Sullivan was informed of his Miranda rights and signed a waiver of those rights at 1:36 p.m. Sullivan was questioned for approximately three hours, but his statements were not recorded until the last twenty minutes of his interrogation. Agent Herzog testified during the suppression hearing that they waited to videotape Sullivan's statements because they were unsure what information they would be receiving from him. After doing some investigation into Sullivan's first statement, the agents interrogated Sullivan again at 12:04 on theseal the sides of the opening as well as other various purposes. The drilling apparatus generally comprises a drawworks assembly which includes a cable drum, driving apparatus for rotatably driving the cable drum, a main brake and a secondary brake often referred to as a mode absorber. The drawworks performs various functions including raising and lowering the drilling pipe and bit for bit replacement, and connection of additional stands of drill pipe as well as to control drilling pressure. Also, the drawworks may be used to assist in installation of the casing as well as replacement thereof should the casing become worn due to extended drilling operations. The main brake is commonly intimately associated with the cable drum of the drawworks operating to stop and hold the drilling


limitless potential. We envision: A system of thriving accessible and quality schools that gives each child – regardless of race or socioeconomic background – the opportunity to succeed in college and in life. A school system where teachers and parents hold high expectations for students and work relentlessly to ensure no student falls through the cracks. A system where schools in which every family can choose a school and academic path that is right for their child.

SFER organizes college students to be a powerful force for K-12 education policy and political change through campus chapters that work at the national, state, and local levels to advocate for great teachers and quality school choices for all kids.

SFER primarily serves first-generation college students, students of color, and students from low-incomeachievement gaps in their communities and greater public pressure on elected officials to implement policy solutions.

We build long-term power in underserved communities by providing hands on coaching that gives students the skills, tools and platform to drive the changes needed in their neighborhoods.

SFER empowers college students to champion and organize around education solutions they believe in.

Most SFER members and staff were first-generation college students who came from low-income backgrounds and communities of color, and have had to overcome the achievement gap in heroic ways.

We strive to build a wholly inclusive community and culture that celebrates our identities because we know that our different experiences are a source of shared learning, making us stronger in the process.

SFER members’ vision for urgent education reform is grounded in their experience with


The Spring summer 2015 collection takes its inspiration from cherry blossom. Known as “Sakura” in Japanese, the Cherry blossom trees are common in Japan and are an integral part of native Ja... Read more

Starting in late summer, many species of deciduous plants, including trees and shrubs, turn brilliant colours and shed their leaves. Titled, ‘The Autumn Leaf’, the collection draws its inspi... Read moreIt's been a while since the four Pirate Bay founders lost their case in a Stockholm district court -- April 2009, to be more precise. The verdict was of course appealed, but alas, it was not to be. A Swedish appeals court has upheld the original ruling but changed the sentencing. Three of the quartet have had their jail time reduced: Fredrik Neij gets ten months, Peter Sunde eight months, and Carl Lundstrom four (Gottfrid Svartholm was too ill at the time of the hearing; his "criminal liability" will be determined later, according to BBC News). The fine, however, has been upped from the original 30 million kronor to 46 million (US $6.4m). That's seriously going to cut into their Black Friday shopping plans , but hey, we


performed while a cover is appropriately provided.
However, when livestock is transported using a vehicle, a ship or the like, livestock transportation is performed using a method in which a cargo box is partially opened, or the like, or in a state in which appropriate equipment is installed to prevent mortality of the livestock due to high heat generated from the livestock and various harmful gases generated from the livestock and an inside of the cargo box.
In such a livestock transportation method, due to high heat and humidity and harmful gases, weight of livestock located at an edge side is reduced, and meat therefrom is degraded regardless of season, the heat in summer, or the cold wind in winter. Most livestock mortality occurs during a transportation and shipping process.'Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend'

University of Chicago Press

In "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend," author Joshua Blu Buhs says right away that the beast is nothing but a myth. But he chronicles how Bigfoot is wrapped up in our culture's fantasies of "wildness."

In "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend," author Joshua Blu Buhs says right away that the beast is nothing but a myth. But he chronicles how Bigfoot is wrapped up in our culture's fantasies of "wildness." (University of Chicago Press)

In "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend," author Joshua Blu Buhs says right away that the beast is nothing but a myth. But he chronicles how Bigfoot is wrapped up in our culture's fantasies of "wildness."


requires.

As French further suggests, linking racism to the possession and exercise of power itself becomes a problem when one of the most influential media entities on Earth is elevating someone with Jeong’s anti-white attitudes to its editorial board. And The New York Times is just one prominent example of the problem.

As noted earlier, the current progressive concept of racism comes from faculty lounges at the sort of institutions that engage in “whiteness studies,” permit racial segregation under the rubric of “safe spaces,” and so forth. Progressives dominate academia in America, and from there dominate journalism, law, entertainment, and corporate human resources and public relations departments. That last category encompasses all the Big Tech companies that serve as the infrastructure of the internet.

In short, in the Information Age, mostLance Armstrong's public confession of his longtime use of blood doping and performance-enhancing drugs is about to get very expensive. On Friday, Armstrong's lawyers stated that the US Department of Justice had joined a federal whistleblower lawsuit against Armstrong filed by former teammate Floyd Landis. The DOJ can join any lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act, but the federal government's involvement is also noteworthy because the Armstrong's cycling team's primary sponsor was the United States Postal Service. The suit charges that Armstrong defrauded the USPS by concealing his doping and retaliating against team members who revealed both the doping and the fraud. According to the the Associated Press, Armstrong and the federal government had been in settlement talks, but a source close to the talks says the


early September of each year. Then interviews of candidates for Stephen Minister are held later in September.

Training is expected to begin in October of each year and conclude when 50 hours of training (conducted weekly for about 3 hours) have been completed in approximately in March of the following year. There is a break in training for the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays.

This training is done before a Stephen Minister ever meets with a care receiver.

Is Church of the Redeemer providing Stephen Ministers to those in need?the Moscow Radio Orchestra, and was assigned a smaller post at a Tchaikovsky museum in Klin. That same year, Gusman and his wife adopted Svetlana and Yuri Larin, the infant children of Anna Larina and Nikolai Bukharin, who had been arrested. Bukharin was shot in 1938.

Arrested in one of a series of purges targeting Soviet artists and cultural leaders in 1937–38, Gusman was accused of having written ideologically unsound scripts in the past. While initial purges targeted those linked (or accused of links) to Trotskyism, Gusman's arrest came alongside later, wider purges. Gusman's wife was arrested as well. Gusman himself died on May 3, 1944 in Vozhael, a punitive forced labor camp.

Gusman's son Israel survived the purges, and would go on to head the Gorky Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra


A 26-year-old St. Charles man who was shot in the side by a St. Charles Township man March 17 after authorities say he broke into a home has been charged with residential burglary, authorities said Monday.

Michael G. Huston, of the 300 block of Walnut Street, who was hospitalized for five days after the break-in, also is charged with possession of burglary tools, also a felony.

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He was arrested the morning of March 17 after authorities say he broke into a home on the 38W0-99 block of Mallard Lake in St. Charles Township.

The 43-year-old homeowner fired two shots with a small caliber handgun, hitting Huston once in his side after he broke into the home through a walkout basement door, Kane County Sheriff Lt. PatGengler said.

Huston was arrested a few blocks away and taken to Delnor Hospital in Geneva.

Gengler said last week that it appeared that the homeowner was in a state of shock after the incident.

"Like, 'Did this really happen in my house?'" Gengler said.

"He was thankful his wife and kids weren't home. The whole thing's overwhelming because you're processing so much."

The homeowner has not responded to Daily Herald interview requests.

One neighbor, who declined to give his name, said some neighbors thought of the homeowner as a "hero" over what had happened.

"The intruder is fortunate that he is still alive," the neighbor said. "Everybody in the neighborhood is happy it turned out the way it did, and nobody in that house got hurt."

Huston faces four to 15 years in prison if


4 Mid-South residents compete in international disc golf tourney

Residents from Arlington, Atoka, Munford and Memphis are among the Tennessee residents who participated in the recent Glass Blown Open Disc Golf Tournament in Emporia, Kan. More than 1,600 professional and amateur disc golf players from 42 states and nine nations traveled to Emporia, Kansas, during April 21-29 to complete in the event, the biggest tournament in the history of disc golf.

Local participants were Richard McMorran of Arlington, Konnor Kessler of Atoka, and J. Ray and Philip Belknap, both of Memphis.

Disc golf is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States, growing at a rate of 15 percent per year. For this tournament, the name “Glass Blown Open” comes from the unique blown-glass trophies presented to the winners.also be a C# notated in the other staff, won't there?

A:

Short answer: Yes-ish.
In your case, Piano music is written with a Grand Staff, binding together a Treble Clef (right hand) and a Bass Clef (left hand), which are seen and played together as if they were one measure and one staff. However, when it comes to notating Accidentals, staves are typically treated independently.
Accidentals apply only for the duration of the measure where they appear, and, oddly, only within the same octave. The exception is when Accidentals are tied across measure lines, in which case, you hold the Accidental tone through the end of the tie.
So, in piano music, although an Accidental indicated in a measure of the Bass Clef is "expected" to be played in the Treble Clef


conducted.

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The very experienced trial judge thereupon conducted a full hearing outside of the presence of the jury.  Each of the six witnesses participating in the line-up was thoroughly examined as to the basis of the proposed in-court identification (the hearing consumed some 230 pages of the reporter's transcript).  Four of the six witnesses testified that their present in-court identification was made wholly independent of the line-up.  The court found, by what it termed "clear and convincing evidence", that the identification of each of these four witnesses had an "independent origin" and was not tainted by the line-up.  The other two witnesses were less positive in their testimony and the court excluded evidence of identification by them.

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The procedure followed by the district court comports withVote who you think is the most evil.

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25 Elizabeth Bathory

Elizabeth Bathory was a countess who lived in the Carpathian Mountains. She was one of the inspirations of Dracula and her nickname was Countess Dracula. She was possibly the most prolific serial killer in history. She believed that blood on her skin made her fresher and younger. She was responsible for the killing of 650 girls; many were tortured for weeks and were often naked when they were tortured. They were forced to eat their own flesh. She sometimes drank the blood of the girls and stabbed them with needles. Some had their face, hands and private parts burned and bit their flesh and private parts. Many of them starved to death, others were burned or froze to death


naked. She might have eaten some of her servants. It is possible that she bathed in blood. She was never put on trial, but was forced to stay in one room for the rest of her life. She died 4 years later.

24 Talat Pasha

He was the Grand Vizier of the Sultan in the Ottoman empire from 1917 to 1918. In 1915, Talat declared an order to wipe out the Armenian race. People were whipped, tortured, robbed, raped and killed. All of the Armenians were forced into concentration camps. People were overloaded with supplies and forced to trudge miles with no food and they were killed if they couldn’t continue. People were naked when they marched. The whole male population of Angora was exterminated. Many were forced to rapefamily members. People were killed by bayonets, clubs, axes, hammers, spades, scythes, and saws. Many had their private parts and sexual organs cut off. Tens of thousands were burned, drowned, poisoned, dismembered, crucified, boiled and beaten to death. Out of the population of 2.5 million Armenians, 1 to 1.5 million people were killed. Talat was assonated in 1921 by a Armenian assassination squad.

23 Josef Mengele

He was a physician in the concentration camp Auschwitz and the doctor known as the “Angel of Death.” He was in charge of selecting Jews to be sent to concentration camps or to be killed. He practiced many experiments on people. One of the most common experiments was on twins. He would find the similarities and differences in the genetics of twins, as well


as seeing if the humane body could be manipulated. There were about 3,000 twins, only 200 survived. The twins were arrange by sex and age. During the experiment, he would pour chemicals into the eyes of the twins to see if it would change their colors into sewing them together in hope to create conjoined twins. He sometimes tried to change the sex of the twins. He sometimes forced parents to kill their children. He tortured children to see how long they could survive. He often beat prisoners to death personally. He sent over 400,000 people to their deaths in the gas chambers. Mengele escaped with his family to South America and lived there the rest of his life. It is possible that he used 88 twins inhis medical experiments there. He died from a stroke in 1985 while swimming in the Brazilian ocean.

22 Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich was the chief of the Reich Main Security Office, the second most powerful person in the SS and the mastermind of the Final solution. He was one of the highest ranked of all the Nazis and was responsible for many war crimes. His actions caused the deaths of millions of people. He was responsible for the mass murder of Soviet officials and Russian Jews during Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, which killed over a million people. He forced 60,000 Jew to leave Germany and go into Poland, where they were sent to Ghettos. As he chaired the Wannsee Conference, he presented a plan of transportation and deportation


of 11 million Jews from every country in Europe to be worked to death or killed. Heydrich thought of the pretext to invade Poland, which killed over 80,000 people and started World War II. There was an assassination attempt on him in 1942. He survived the attempt to kill him, but died 9 days later. In response to his death, Nazis killed nearly everyone in the village of Lidice.

21 Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden was an Islamic terrorist leader that lead the terrorist organization called the Al-Qaeda. He is responsible for the 9-11 attack, which injured more than 6,000 and killed about 3,000. He is also responsible for bombing attacks on the United States Embassies in Dares Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. 212 people were killed and 4,000were injured. He sponsored the Luxor massacre of 17 November, which killed almost 70 people. Osama has caused other Al-Qaeda bombings throughout the world. The 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and injured 2,050. In October 2002 in Bali, 3 bombs exploded, killing 202 and injuring 209. The 2004 SuperFerry bombing killed 119 people. Thousands of Iraqis have died from Al-Qaeda bombings. In 2007 alone, bombs exploded in Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing 796 and injuring 1,562 people. Osama encouraged other Terrorist groups to attack the United States. He caused the War on Terror, which killed 127,170 to 1.2 million people. Osama was killed on May 2, 2011.

20 Saddam Hussein

Saddam was dictator of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. During that time, about 2 million people died


as a result of his actions. He authorized many attacks on people like the chemical attack on Kurdish village of Halabja, which killed 5,000 people. Saddam’s 1987-1988 campaign of terror against the Kurds killed 50,000 to 100,000. An Amnesty International report said, “victims of torture in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture, including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings, and electric shocks… some victims have died as a result and many have been left with permanent physical and psychological damage.” Saddam also had approximately 40 of his own relatives murdered. He executed over 400,000 Iraqis. Many of them were tortured to death and filmed so he could watch them at his house. In 2006, Saddam was hanged after being found guilty forbeing convinced of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.

19 Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS, the second most powerful Nazi and the architect of the Final Solution. He, more than anyone, encouraged and facilitated Adolf Hitler’s decision to implement the Final Solution to the Jewish question, as well as other programs of ethnic cleansing that destroyed millions of lives during World War II. He was responsible for 6 to 7 million deaths of Poles, Russians, communists, and other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live including people with physical and mental disabilities. Himmler once said “The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be killed on the battle field and


person by person, and made to bleed to death”. His house contained furniture and books made from the bones and skins of his Jewish victims. Himmler committed suicide in 1945 by eating poison.

18 Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann was the architect of the Holocaust. He was in charge of rounding up Jews into and forcing them into ghettos and concentration camps. He was responsible for day-to day organization of the Final Solution. He organized the registration, cremation and transport of Europe’s Jews. From May until July, 1944 Eichmann organized the deportation and murder of more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews. He was responsible for 5 to 6 million Jewish deaths. He would leap into his grave laughing because the feeling that he had 5 million Jews he killed filled his heartwith gladness and joy. He once said that he would even kill his father if he was ordered to do so. He escaped and made his way to Argentina and lived under the name Ricardo Klement for 15 years. He was captured in May 1960, Israeli Security captured him and took him to trial. He was tried for 15 charges and hanged.

17 Maximilien Robespierre

He was the leader of the French Revolution. Before he became a tyrant, he wanted the people of France to have freedom and rights but when he gained power his personality changed and he became obsessed with guillotining people. He began to create a reign of terror, a 10-month period in which mass executions were carried out. He also began to see everyone including friends


as enemies. People were guillotined for not supporting the French Revolution, hoarding, desertion, rebellion, and other things he saw as crimes. He guillotined entire families of aristocrats and ordinary people. He even guillotined his closest friends. Most were killed without trials. As many as 40,000 were either executed or died in prison including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. He was also responsible for hundreds of thousands that died in battles during the Revolution. Under his orders, his men attacked Vendee, killing well over 100,000 men, women and children. He believed that killing people was better than forgiving people. Ultimately, in 1794, Robespierre was guillotined without trial.

16 Kim Il Sung

He was dictator of North Korea from 1948 to 1972. Kim Il Sung started the Korean War, whichkilled 3 million people. After the war, he brainwashed the people of North Korea into idolizing him, even though he made the country a lot worse than it was before. He killed all of his officers and rivals. In addition, he exiled or executed 90% of his generals that fought in the war. More than 200,000 political prisoners were forced into concentration camps. People were forced into concentration camps for something as little as dropping a picture of Kim Sung accidentally on the ground. If someone committed a crime, the person’s children and the children’s children would also be killed or sentenced to life imprisonment. Prisoners were starved, tortured or worked to death. Prisoners were sometimes forced to kneel in a box motionless for months until he or


she dies. Hundreds of thousands were killed by firing squads and in concentration camps. Of the population of 22 million Koreans, 900,000 to 3.5 million have died in a famine. Kim Il Sung died in 1994 of a heart attack, which was brought on by a row with his son Kim Jong Il, who has proven that he is worse than his father.

15 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

He was the religious leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989. He was also the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which killed 3,000 to 60,000 people. The Shia Islamic Law had a lot of harsh rules for the normal people. Men and women had strict dress codes, citizens lost equal rights and met with very harsh punishments, were brutalized, tortured and killed.were others there for 6 years. They were blindfolded most of the time. They might have suffered a fate worse than death. He spread his ways across the Middle East. Saddam Hussein feared the spread of Khomeini’s militant brand of Shiism so he attacked Iran, which started the Iran-Iraq War, which caused the deaths of 1 to 2 million people. During the war, Khomeini sent young boys to fight and refused to make peace with Iraq even though there was at least one moment when Saddam offered peace for Iran. Because Khomeini refused to settle peace, Iran’s economy was ruined and 500,000 to 1 million Iranians were killed. His hatred of America and Western society inspired and paved the way for terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda. He paved the


way for the Islamic Holy War, which has killed more than 2 million people. Khomeini died from cancer in 1989.

14 Emperor Hirohito

He was emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. In that time he and his army committing many war crimes and killed countless numbers of Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos and Indochinese. He committed the war crime called The Rape of Nanking which killed 300,000. He ordered every Chinese war prisoner to be killed. About 200,000 women were sexually assaulted. Husbands were sometimes forced to rape their wives and daughters. A total of 10 million Chinese were forced into slavery, many were tortured and some even eaten. Many people were shot, beheaded, stabbed, burned, boiled, roasted, buried alive, and impaled. People were sometimes killed by gas, aid, militarydogs and being hanged by their tongues on iron hooks. People were often used for bayonet practice. Between 4 and 10 million people in Java were forced to work by Japanese military, the majority of which died. People sometimes had their bodies sliced in half by a sword. Women were often stabbed by a bayonet or a long stick of bamboo through private parts. The Japanese disemboweled, decapitated, hacked, nailed, crucified and dismembered men. Men and women sometimes had their private parts sliced open. Thousands were frozen to death. 4 million people in Indonesia died from famine and 2 million in Vietnam. Thousands were killed by chemical attacks. About 400,000 were killed by diseases. About 580,000 were killed after being human experiments. The Sook Ching massacre killed 50,000


to 90,000 Chinese. 100,000 civilians in the Philippines died from the Manila massacre. His men said that it was easy to kill because Hirohito told them that their lives were valueless compared to himself. He told his men to kill, burn, and loot all Chinese. Over 20 million Chinese, 10 million Asians in other countries, and millions of people in World War II were killed by the Japanese. He died in 1989 from cancer.

13 Nero

Nero was Rome’s 5th emperor from AD 54 to AD 68. He brought the Roman Empire to ruin. He burned entire cities. He murdered thousands of people including his aunt, stepsister, ex-wife, mother, wife and adoptive brother. He systematically murdered every member in his family. Some were killed in searing hot baths. He poisoned,beheaded, stabbed, burned, boiled, crucified and impaled people. He often raped women and cut off the veins and private parts of both men and women. He is said to have fiddled while Rome was burning. The great fire killed many of Rome’s citizens and left hundreds of thousands destitute. Though Nero probably started the fire, he blamed it on the Christians. Christians were starved to death, burned, torn by dogs, fed to lions, crucified, used as torches and nailed to crosses. He was so bad that many of the Christians thought he was the Antichrist. He even tortured and killed the apostle Paul and the disciple Peter. Paul was beheaded and Peter was crucified upside down. Nero committed suicide when he realized he was losing the rebellion and


his life was in danger.

12 Caligula

He was Rome’s 3rd emperor from AD 37 to AD 41. He was wild, extravagant, with a penchant for sexual adventures. In the first 3 months in his reign of terror, over 160,000 animals were sacrificed in his honor. He later got a brain fever that made him mentally ill. He then believed he was a god. Under Caligula, the law became an instrument of torture. He believed prisoners should feel a painful death. He began to brutally murder for fun. He would kill his opponents slowly and painfully over hours or days. He decapitated and strangled children. People were beaten with heavy chains. He forced families to attend their children’s execution. Many people had their tongues cut off. He fed prisoners toa lions, panthers and bears and often killed gladiators. One gladiator alone was beaten up for 2 days full days. He sometimes ordered people to be killed by elephants. His cruelty caused people to commit suicide. He demanded sex with a lot of women including his 3 sisters. He would force husbands to give up their wives. He exiled his sisters and had his brother in law put to death. He caused many to die of starvation. Sawing people was one of his favorite things to do, which filleted the spine and spinal cord from crotch down to the chest. He liked to chew up the testicles of victims. He killed some of his most important friends and his father-in-law. One time Caligula said “I wish Rome had


but one neck, so that I could cut off all their heads with one blow!” In AD 41, Caligula was killed by Casius Chaerea, a man whom Caligula had mocked at court for his effeminacy.

11 Attila the Hun

Attila ruled the Huns from 434 to 453. He was the leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from the Ural River to Germany and from the Baltic Sea to the Danube River. He was a bloodthirsty, cruel and ruthless barbarian that was a lover of battle. He wanted to destroy the Roman Empire and everyone in his way. If you were a citizen in Rome and begged for mercy, he would kill you. He was as great a menace to the Teutonic tribes people as he was to the Romans.He was so destructive that people believed he was a punishment from Heaven. His nickname was Attila the Scourge of God. Attila and the other Huns thought that other people’s lives were meaningless. He would torture and destroy his enemies, his own people and entire population of cities. He rampaged Roman cities and may have killed up to hundreds of thousands. People were sometimes torn limb by limb. One time Attila found Saint Ursula, the perpetual Virgin, and wanted to marry her. She refused which made Attila angry and had her killed along with 11,000 of her companions. It is said that he might have drunk a women’s blood. He eat 2 of his sons and killed his brother. Attila coughed up blood and died in 453.

10 Genghis


Khan

He was Khan of the Mongolian Empire from 1206 to 1227. In that time he conquered most of China and all the land through the Caspian Sea. He was ruthless, vengeful, cruel, and bloodthirsty. He and his army destroyed countless numbers of cities, solders, civilians and children. People were killed by having molten metal and silver poured into their eyes and ears. In one massacre alone, 700,000 people were killed. At another place, the poor were decapitated and the rich were tortured to find out where their treasure was. Women were sometimes raped in front of their families. Hundreds of thousands had their lives ruined. It is said that if his army of men had no water they would cut a horse’s vein and drink its blood. Hewives and daughters.” Genghis Khan died of natural causes in 1227.

9 Leopold II of Belgium

He was king of Belgium from 1865 to 1909. He ruled the Congo Free State, which was a private project, from 1885 to 1908. The Congo Free State was 76 times larger than Belgium. He is considered one of the greatest liars of all time because he fooled the whole world that he was helping the Congo and the world believed him. Instead he turned the Congo into a country ruled by force labor. He was free to rule the Congo Free State as a personal domain. Leopold ruled about 20 million Congolese. Under his administration, the Congo Free State was subject to a terror regime. The Congo Free State also became one of


countries were taken by European countries. He did all of this just to get more money. Leopold died in 1909.

8 Tomas de Torquemada

Torquemada was the Grand Inquisitor of Spain from 1483 to 1498. He started the Spanish Inquisition, which was established on November 1, 1478 and disbanded in July 15, 1834. The Spanish Inquisition was an ecclesiastical tribunal run by the Spanish monarchy and established to root out heretics and other individuals who threatened the status of Roman Catholic Church in Spain. Torquemada’s spies turned friends against friends and they made sons and daughters testify against their parents. Torquemada without lack of evidence would order Jews to be tortured or killed because of his discrimination towards them. Countless of people were tortured, whipped, subjected to horrific physical punishments,and forced to surrender all of their property. Children sometimes died from starvation. People were often naked when they were tortured. Torquemada favored many forms of torture like foot-roasting and suffocation. People were sometimes burned alive, hanged, and grilled. Some ways of torture often went through sexual organs. One way to torture people was the garrucha, which pulled a prisoner’s arms and legs from their sockets. Another way of torturing Jews was the toca, a water torture, which was when water was forced down the victim’s throat. Another method was the porto which used tight cords to stop blood from flowing. Another method was the turtle which was when victims were crushed with heavy weights. Another method was when a victim would be pushed into a garroting chair,


him. Torquemada died of old age in 1498.

7 Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was dictator of China from 1943 to 1976. Mao’s plan was to make China a superpower country. Mao also said he would turn China into a powerful country that could match the United States and the Soviet Union. In the process however, he created the greatest famine and genocide in history. Under Mao’s rule China endured a series of economic disasters and political terrorism. Millions of Chinese died by execution, starvation and committing suicide. Tens of millions were sent to labor camps. 5 Million were executed. Mao turned neighbors against neighbors and sons and daughters against their teachers and parents. Mao used fear to root out every last hint of dissent. A criticism uttered in private couldthen throwing them to the ground. Ivan killed people when he was a teenager. Ivan found them fun and amusing. When Ivan became Tsar of Russia, he became paranoid and started to see enemies everywhere. Ivan forced thousands to move from their lands and made them homeless. Ivan became obsessed with killing and torturing anyone he saw as enemies but most were innocent people. Ivan destroyed hundreds of villages, towns and cities. In the Novgorod Massacre, 60,000 were tortured to death. Ivan had his own personal torture chamber. Ivan tortured and destroyed entire families. Hundreds of parents were forced to see their children tortured and killed. Ivan ordered hundreds of people to be eaten by bears and wolves. He personally killed and tortured people with his long and


hard staff. If Ivan ordered someone to be killed, he would often want to watch the execution. Some his executions were as long as 15 hours. He enjoyed seeing people’s blood and suffering from being tortured. Ivan ordered people to be beheaded, strangled, hanged, blinded, burned, stabbed, boiled, disemboweled, buried alive, impaled and fried. Ivan would often remove people’s ribs with red hot pinchers. Peasant girls were often tortured, whipped, raped and used for target practice. Religious leaders were tortured and killed if they begged Ivan to stop his killings. He blinded his architect and boiled his treasurer. Ivan killed one of his wives a day after their marriage. He even killed his favorite son in a rage. Ivan died while he was playing chess with one ofhis friends in 1584. Most likely he was poisoned.

5 Idi Amin

Amin was dictator of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin charmed and promised the world that he would bring peace and democracy to the people of his country. Instead he turned Uganda into a poverty-stricken land patrolled by death squads. Amin was possibly the most brutal and merciless dictator of all time. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, ethnic persecution, political repression, massacres and the expulsion of 80,000 Asians from Uganda. Amin pitted his people and executed hundreds of thousands of his people. Amin was probably the most sadistic dictator in the 20th century. He would show executions of people on television. Amin tortured and killed his country’s soldiers, government officials, teachers, artists, doctors, journalists, engineers,


politicians, police officers, photographers, lawyers, business people, ordinary citizens, ministers and children. Amin’s men tortured and killed people with sledge hammers while Amin kept the pictures for fun and amusement. Amin often had his victims buried alive. Amin would often give the heads of his enemies to crocodiles. Hundreds of thousands of dead bodies washed up to the shores of Lake Victoria. Amin killed 4,000 people by throwing them into crocodile infested rivers. About 50,000 people died from disease, most were children. He would cut the flesh of people and force them to eat it until they died. Amin ate human flesh and he said proudly that he was a cannibal. He also drank human blood. Amin mutilated one of his wives and had her limbs sewn upsidedown. Amin killed and tortured 300,000 to 500,000 Ugandans. Amin was forced in exile in Saudi Arabia for the rest of his life. Amin died almost 25 years later in 2003. In that time Amin lived a very peaceful life.

4 Pol Pot

Pol Pot was Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979. His plan was to destroy the civilization of Cambodia and turn it into a new age. He turned Cambodia into a killing field. Pol Pot is the only man in history that ordered an official genocide against his whole country and he killed the greatest percentage in the amount of time he was in power. He declared that the Buddhist religion, money, and personal possessions would all be banned. His communist government forced mass evacuations of


people had no rights to eat. If people were found eating dead humans, they would be buried alive. Pol Pot wanted teenagers to become solders with a love of killing. If Cambodian people married people of Vietnam, the husband and wife would be killed. People that spoke and looked like Vietnamese were also killed. Pol Pot often ordered people to kill and fight Vietnamese. He took pictures of the people he executed and recorded them in detail. Prisoners were forced to drink humane urine. He ordered babies to be torn limb by limb. People were beaten to death by blunt instruments like hammers, spades and axe handles. People were also killed by sharpened bamboo sticks. Some of his men killed people by bleeding them to death. He likedto keep the skulls of dead people. To Pol Pot, his people’s lives were not just cheap, but of no value at all. He killed 1 to 3 million Cambodians, 25 to 33 percent of the country. Pol Pot died in April in 1998 of natural causes.

3 Adolf Hitler

Hitler was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to his death in 1945, becoming Germany’s Fuhrer. Before he gained power, he wanted to be an artist, but he failed. Then he decided that he wanted to be a member of the German army, he became solder in World War I. When the German army surrendered, Hitler escaped and returned to Germany. He believed that Germany lost because they had surrendered, and it made him bitter. He then turned his attention to


the Jews. He believed that the Jews were the cause Germany’s problems and he also believed that the Jews did not count as human beings. His plans were to eliminate every Jew in Europe and to gain world control. He once said “by the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” Hitler would kill any Jew, enemy, or anyone that he thought was a problem. He used wounded people that were in hospitals for test experiments for ways of killing, like carbon dioxide gas. These experiments killed over 300,000 people. Every Jew in Germany was sent to concentration camps. Jews in other countries were also sent to concentration camps. All were expectedactions caused the deaths of over 50 million people. On 1945, Hitler committed suicide by gunshot and cyanide poisoning.

2 Joseph Stalin

Stalin was dictator of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953. When he was young he was a bank robber, an agitator, and an assassin. After a long road to get into power, he became a paranoid, ruthless, unforgiving, brutal and vengeful dictator. He created a 30 year reign of violence, terror, destruction and murdering. Anyone who spied on him, displeased him, or voted against him was doomed to die. His first plan was to create the Soviet Union into an industrial superpower country. To do that would cause the deaths of countless numbers of people. People were sent to slave labors and were forced to work to


death. Huge industrial schemes became a living hell for hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions. He signed the death warrants for tens of thousands of people. Stalin only liked people who fourfold his orders, but if you were a popular figure, an intelligent, and independent person, Stalin would order you to be tortured, imprisoned for many years or life, or shot you. He would kill family members of people who loved him and family members of people who horned him as a god. Stalin once kissed a small girl in public, she had become famous and thought Stalin cared for her and her family, but he later killed her parents. People were sometimes killed with an ice pick. About 10 million people died in a famine.Stalin once said “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is simply a statistic.” He killed the wives of some of his friends. He exiled his daughter’s boyfriend, Aleksie Kapler. Stalin’s wife was driven into despair by his treatment of her, which caused her to kill herself. His son died in a Nazi concentration camp after Stalin refused to trade for his life. He would even kill people who were defending their country against the Nazis. People were in prison were force to fight in World War II, but if they returned they would be sent back to prison. Hundreds of thousands of people from other countries were tortured, raped, or killed. People were often killed by mustard gas bombs. More than 1.5 million German women were


raped from the Soviet Union. Recent evidence shows that Stalin had his own Final Solution in which hundreds of thousands of Jews were exiled or killed. Stalin wanted the Soviet Union to become a country strong enough to rival the U.S., but if they were stronger than the U.S., he would want the 2 countries to fight a war. Stalin killed 20 to 60 million people. He died in 1953 from a stroke.

1 Vlad Dracula

Vlad was prince of Wallachia a total of 3 times, in the years 1448, 1456 to 1462, and 1476. He is best known for inspiring the Dracula ledgend, the cruel methods he used to torture and kill people and how much he enjoyed killing people. His last name, Dracula, means little devil. The mostcommon method he used to kill people was impalement. Vlad had a horse attached to each of the victim’s legs and a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the stake was usually oiled and care was taken that the stake was not be to sharp. Normally the stake was inserted into the body through the buttocks and was often forced through the body until it emerged from the mouth. However, there were many times where victims were impaled through other bodily orifices or through the abdomen or chest. He was so found of doing this that he is now known as Vlad the Impaler. The height of the stake ranked the victim. Vlad also loved to impale animals. It was possibly of the


feet, limbs, and sexual organs. He often cut of peoples private parts (especially in the case of women) and would keep them. People were sometimes worked to death. He also smashed the heads of people into hard walls. He liked to eat and drink around bodies of dead and naked people that had stakes through them. He destroyed many of his villages on his way into battles. He roasted children and forced their parents to eat them. Vlad hated people who were sick, weak, poor, beggars or vagrants. He invited all of the poor and sick of Wallacha to a fake party. He asked them if they wished to be be anything other than poor people. When they all said yes, they were all burned immediately. He murderedincome-based poverty figures.

Rising Living Standards of the Poorest 20% in Pakistan:

According to the latest World Report titled "Pakistan Development Update: Making Growth Matter" released this month, Pakistan saw substantial gains in welfare, including the ownership of assets, the quality of housing and an increase in school enrollment, particularly for girls.

First, the ownership of relatively more expensive assets increased even among the poorest. In the bottom quintile, the ownership of motorcycles increased from 2 to 18 percent, televisions from 20 to 36 percent and refrigerators from 5 to 14 percent.

In contrast, there was a decline in the ownership of cheaper assets like bicycles and radios.

Housing quality in the bottom quintile also showed an improvement. The number of homes constructed with bricks or blocks increased while mud (katcha) homes decreased.