treatment from Dr. Bruce Hilton, a chiropractor, on 9 November 1992, and on 20 July 1993, he rated her as retaining a five percent permanent partial impairment to her back. At the time of the rating, plaintiff continued to experience pain in her back and right hip and tingling in her right leg. On 19 August 1993, the parties signed a Form 26, "Supplemental Memorandum of Agreement as to Payment of Compensation," stipulating to a five percent permanent partial disability and agreeing to compensation of $226.14 for fifteen weeks, beginning 13 July 1993. Plaintiff continued to work until October 1994, when she was discharged by defendant on the basis that she was not physically able to perform her job.
In 1995, plaintiff saw a rheumatologist, Dr. Dennis Payne, forher back problems, whereupon she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Dr. Payne's opinion at that time was that plaintiff's condition was likely related to her 1992 work-related injury. On 10 January 1995, plaintiff filed a Form 33, requesting that the claim be assigned for hearing, on which she stated that her condition had substantially worsened and that she had been unable to work from 29 August 1994 to the date of the filing. Defendant filed a response on 29 July 1995, stating that there was no medical evidence to support plaintiff's claim.
The matter was heard by Deputy Commissioner Lorrie L. Dollar on 15 August 1995. On 18 October 1996, she entered an opinion and award concluding that plaintiff had sustained a substantial change in condition and awarding plaintiff temporary


total disability compensation from 20 October 1994 and continuing until further order of the Commission. Defendant filed a formal "Application for Review" by the full Commission on 24 January 1997. The matter was reviewed by the full Commission on 7 April 1997. On 2 June 1997, the Commission, with one commissioner dissenting, entered its opinion and award, essentially affirming the deputy commissioner's opinion and award. Defendant gave notice of appeal to the Court of Appeals.
In a unanimous, unpublished decision filed 21 April 1998, the Court of Appeals held that the Commission failed to make sufficient findings of fact to support its order, vacated the Commission's opinion and award, and remanded the matter to the Commission "for definitive findings and proper conclusions therefrom, and entry of the appropriate order."
On28 January 1999, the full Commission, with one commissioner dissenting, entered a new opinion and award, setting out additional findings of fact and conclusions of law and again awarding plaintiff temporary total disability compensation from 20 October 1994 and continuing until further order of the Commission. Once again, defendant gave notice of appeal to the Court of Appeals.
In a published, split decision, the Court of Appeals affirmed the Commission's opinion and award. Defendant appeals to this Court from the decision of the Court of Appeals on the basis of the dissent.
The issue before this Court is whether there was competent evidence presented to establish a causal connection between the original injury by accident to plaintiff's back on 3 March 1992 and her later diagnosis of fibromyalgia. The Court


of the price increase.

Jayant Bhandari is constantly traveling the world to look for investment opportunities, particularly in the natural resource sector. He advises institutional investors about his finds. Earlier, he worked for six years with US Global Investors (San Antonio, Texas), a boutique natural resource investment firm, and for one year with Casey Research. Before emigrating from India, he started and ran the Indian subsidiary operations of two European companies. He still travels multiple times a year to India.Scot Peterson was seen on surveillance video rushing with two staff members toward the building where the shooting happened but he never went inside. He was charged with child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury — allegations that carry a maximum prison sentence of nearly 100 years.

MIAMI: The Florida deputy who knew a gunman was loose at the Parkland high school but refused to go inside to confront the assailant was arrested Tuesday on 11 criminal charges related to his inaction during the massacre that killed 17 people.

Scot Peterson was on duty as the resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on the day of the February 2018 shooting but never entered the building while bullets were flying. He was charged with child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury


County Public Schools, school resource officer Scot Peterson talks during a school board meeting of Broward County, Fla. Peterson, the then-Florida sheriff's deputy assigned to protect the high school where 17 died in a 2018 shooting has been arrested on 11 charges, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. State Attorney Mike Satz announced that 56-year-old Peterson faces child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury charges. (Broward County Public Schools via AP, File)

Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was killed, said she was surprised to hear of Peterson’s arrest. She recalled sending a text to her daughter when she heard there was shooting.

“I told her to hide, that help was on the way. Well, Peterson was that help, but he froze, and he failed us all that day,” Alhadeff said. “He wasIrritable heart syndrome in Anglo-American medical thought at the end of the nineteenth century.
This paper examines the characteristics and the conditions for the emergence of the nosological category known as irritable heart syndrome to be found in Anglo-American medical literature in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the context of the American Civil War, it looks at some of the socio-historical elements, which comprised the medical care given to certain cardiac symptoms shown by soldiers. It emphasizes the moral values influencing the medical attitudes of military physicians towards symptoms of fear experienced by combatants, as well as the British and American etiological theories, which contributed to the nosological characterization of the suffering of soldiers afflicted with palpitations. Finally, it offers a brief analysis of the specific


was approved unanimously in this place at second reading on October 26. All members of all parties supported it at that time. Of course, it is fair for members to support in principle legislation which they then want to see amendments to and then to subsequently vote against it at third reading. However, it is worth noting that at the time, this reflected a very strong consensus of members.

The bill was studied in detail at the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights under the very able chairmanship of my friend from Mount Royal. All of the clauses of the bill were approved in committee. I understand the committee heard from many different witnesses, did a detailed analysis of the bill, and reported it back recommending support. Then,of the committee.

This eleventh hour amendment coming from the government was not simply a matter of the parliamentary secretary showing disregard for the work of the opposition. He was showing disregard for the work of all members of the House, including government members who had worked very hard on this piece of legislation. This bill was moved by a Liberal member, the member for Don Valley West, who has worked very hard on this issue. Many other members of the government have spoken passionately, and I think very effectively, about the merits of this bill.

I say to members who are considering how they will vote when this comes up that this is really an important opportunity to send a signal about the role of members of Parliament in


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David Clarke, the controversial sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, rose to national prominence last year as a vocal supporter of Donald Trump and a frequent guest on Fox News. Clarke traversed the country speaking to pro-gun and religious rights groups, and he endorsed Trump in a fiery pro-police (and anti-Black Lives Matter) speech at the Republican National Convention. After the election, Clarke met with the president-elect at Trump Tower, reportedly under consideration to head the Department of Homeland Security.

But things haven’t gone so smoothly for Clarke back home in Milwaukee County. Four people died last year in the county jail overseen by Clarke, and he has been sued three times sinceDecember over treatment of inmates. Clarke has faced calls for his resignation over the jail deaths and his absenteeism. And since January, he has clashed with other county leaders over immigration enforcement policy. Here’s the latest on what’s been happening on Clarke’s turf:

Deaths in Clarke’s jail

Clarke has faced two federal lawsuits since December, in the wake of four deaths that occurred last year in the Milwaukee County Jail. In mid-March, the family of a man who died of dehydration in April 2016 sued Clarke and the county, alleging that jail staff subjected the man to “torture” by denying him water as he pleaded for it over 10 days. County prosecutors are considering bringing felony charges against jail staff for neglect. Another lawsuit, filed last December, seeks damages for


the death of a newborn in the jail last July, after jail staff ignored the infant’s mother as she went into labor and for more than six hours thereafter, according to the suit.

Clarke visited 20 states in 2016, according to financial disclosures, often to give paid speeches in which he praised Donald Trump.

A lawsuit filed earlier this month also alleges mistreatment of pregnant inmates. In that suit, a woman alleges that, during a seven-month stint at the jail in 2013, she was forcibly shackled with a “belly-chain” that tied her wrists and legs to her stomach during her hospitalization for pre-natal care, while she was in labor, and while she received treatment for post-partum depression after she gave birth. The restraints made giving birth more painful for theleast one county supervisor and the county executive have also called for Clarke to resign over the jail deaths.

Clarke is also facing mounting scrutiny for his repeated absences from the job last year. Clarke visited 20 states in 2016, according to financial disclosure documents he filed with the county, often to give paid speeches in which he praised Donald Trump. He spent about 60 days out of state last year, the documents show. (Before he campaigned for Trump, Clarke took a trip to Moscow in December 2015 with a delegation from the NRA, during which they met with Russian officials.)

Lady came up, told me I should take this hat off. Told her she should go get her money back for her ugly haircut. That ended THAT! Mic drop!


pic.twitter.com/SfQQDMNi9V — David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) February 17, 2017

In January, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an editorial calling for the sheriff to step down, citing the jail deaths, his habit of attacking his political opponents on social media—which he does on his department’s official Facebook page—and the fact that Clarke seemed more focused on “pining for a job in the Trump administration” than on his responsibilities as county sheriff. County auditors have launched an investigation into whether Clarke abused his power following an airplane flight in January when he had six deputies and two K-9 units confront a passenger at the gate with whom Clarke had an unfriendly exchange on the plane.

Although Clarke’s approval rating plummeted to 31 percent among county voters as of February, he hasscoffed at calls for his resignation and been fundraising for a 2018 re-election bid. At least one Super PAC has also begun raising money to encourage Clarke to run for US Senate next year. (Clarke has said he has no intent to run for any public office besides Milwaukee County Sheriff.) At least one person has emerged as a likely challenger to Clarke in the Democratic primary next summer.

A showdown over immigration enforcement

In early March, Clarke sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement expressing interest in enrolling his department in the controversial federal immigration enforcement program known as 287(g). Through the program, sheriff’s deputies would be trained to enforce federal immigration law in the county jail. The move put Clarke at odds with the county board of


counts of robbery. The trial court

sentenced Mize to seven years in prison on one count of robbery and five years of
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community control on the other robbery count. The trial court ordered that Mize's community

control commence after he was released from prison. As part of the community control

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the supreme court, the proper remedy is to vacate the offending portion of the community

control sanction, which involves a CBCF, while leaving intact the rest of the community

control sanctions. The offending portion of the community control sentence according to

Mize was the order to complete the CBCF. Yet, Mize had already completed the CBCF when

he violated his community control by committing an aggravated robbery. Mize's seven-year

sentence for having violated the terms of his community control due to his subsequent

conviction for an aggravated robbery with a firearm specification in Hamilton County was

unrelated to the CBCF residential sanction.


danger he posed to the public given his criminal history.

       {¶ 43} These findings are supported by the record. Mize had a history of criminal

conduct and committed aggravated robbery soon after he was released from prison where he

served time for a prior robbery conviction. Mize robbed banks, intimating that he had a gun

during the robberies, and was convicted for another bank robbery in a different county while

still on community control from his previous conviction. Mize admitted to his repeated

conduct and indicated that his pattern of robbing banks would have continued. After

reviewing the record, we find the trial court's sentence was proper where it made the required

statutory findings, sentenced Mize within the proper range, and the findings are supported by

the record. Mize's secondRachel Maddow

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The global death toll has risen to 38,721, and the number of confirmed cases increased to 799,724 Tuesday.

Italy remains the country where most number of people died of COVID-19 - 11591. It has a total of 101,739 reported cases.

The death toll reached 8,189 in Spain after recording its highest number of fatalities in a single day - 849. The number of infected cases is nearing 100000 in that country.

China has reported 3305 new deaths and 81,518 infections.It is followed by France (3024 deaths and 44,550 infections).

With 3179 deaths, the United States currently stands fifth in terms of COVID-19 casualties.

Germany has reported a further 128 deaths and 4,615 confirmed cases of coronavirus since Monday, while Iran recorded 141 new deaths and 3,111 other infected cases in the past 24


hours.

Botswana confirmed its first cases of coronavirus on Monday.

Australia and New Zealand say a high proportion of those diagnosed with coronavirus in those nations are young people.

A 12-year-old girl has died from the coronavirus in Belgium, CNN reported quoting a spokeswoman for the Belgian Health ministry.

The former president of the Republic of Congo, Jacques Joaquim Yhombi-Opango, has died in Paris from complications related to coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the World Bank said that "significant economic pain seems unavoidable" in the Asia Pacific region.

American Airlines, one of the world's richest carriers, said it will apply for $12 billion in government aid. British Airways announced that it is suspending all flights from London's Gatwick airport.

On Monday, the World Health Organization released guidelines to help countries maintain essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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"Non-Stop," which is basically a "Taken On A Plane." He plays an air marshal who receives from texts from a mysterious passenger on board promising to kill people unless he gets $150 million wire transferred into his account. And Neeson takes care of business in this first clip from the movie, where he roughs up Scoot McNairy. After that you watch a TV spot for the flick. "Non-Stop" opens on February 28th.gather in the holy city of Mecca, which has a tropical arid climate. This has made the Hajj a potential cause of the spread of bacteria and viruses, especially in face of "SARS" and "Middle East respiratory syndrome" and other global infectious diseases. As the world's largest gathering of Islamic pilgrimage activity and transnational movement of population, the Hajj poses a threat to public health to host countries such as Saudi Arabia. Unlike other international political, economic and even cultural activities, the Hajj is a religious assignment clearly requested in the *Koran*. Therefore, it is not possible to cancel the Hajj due to international health security challenges. The only choice is to strengthen the international health management cooperation and minimize Hajj's impact on international health security, on the


basis of accumulated experience and the benefit of human beings.

Early and Modern Ways to Deal with Health Security Issues Associated with the Hajj {#Sec2}
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The Hajj is a bond to connect Muslims from all over the world together on an annual basis. Since the second half of the nineteenth century, cooperation among sovereign states started to become an important way of international health governance, including the growing importance of the issues related with the Hajj. From 1851 to 1938, the International Health Conference was held 14 times. In particular, the Ninth International Health Conference held in Paris in 1894 started to pay attention to international health issues arising from the pilgrimage in Mecca. The conference reviewed the plan to gradually eliminate cholera from Egypt and the Mediterranean, which wasproposed in the fourth conference that was held in Vienna in 1874, and measures proposed to prevent the outbreak of cholera in Europe during the eighth meeting held in Dresden in 1893. It defined health control on the Hajj as the third step of cholera, which was mainly based on several considerations: first, identify the Hajj as a major factor in the spread of cholera in the West, from the perspective of international public health. From 1871 to 1893, there were at least eight cholera epidemics happened in Mecca. The epidemic in 1893 is particularly severe, claimed the lives of thousands of pilgrims; from 1889 to 1891, the epidemic occurred in Mesopotamia and Syria was a proof of the danger of pilgrimage path from Red Sea to the


Persian Gulf. Second, many European colonial powers had a direct interest in the Hajj. For example, the British-owned India had 60 million Muslims; the Dutch-owned East Indies, the French-owned Algeria, the Asian part of Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Bosnia-Herzegovina also have a large number of Muslims. According to the report of the Austro-Hungarian Empire delegation submitted to this meeting, in 1893, among 120 Bosnian Muslim, 59 people were infected with cholera pilgrimage. On the way from Jeddah to Mecca, eroded human corpses could be seen from time to time, and those corpses were food for wild beasts and birds. According to the report that the French Consulate General in Jeddah submitted to this meeting, within 5 days, there were 35,000 deaths. A Mecca medical officer C. Izzedinepointed out that during the Hajj in that year, there were 30,336 people killed Hajj by the plague and the plague outbreak and rapid spread out to kilometers away from Mouna, which located 5 miles away from Mecca. Many corpses littered on the road to Mecca from Muna and the streets of Mecca. In 1893, among a total of 200,500 pilgrims, 15 in every 100 people had cholera. The conference requested the departure port to take preventive measures, and implement health monitoring on pilgrims who went crossing the Red Sea, and develop health guidelines for navigating in Persian Gulf. Among the 16 countries present in the conference, 13 countries (not include the Union Jack of Sweden and Norway, Turkey and the USA) signed the Convention. The UK had


an office in Paris. Together with the Egyptian Ministry of Health, the Maritime and Quarantine Bureau, it managed the implementation of health surveillance in Mecca. Although since then, Saudi Arabia has been constantly complaining about these terms, accusing them of a violation of its sovereignty, the terms stayed effective until being modified in 1957.[13](#Fn13){ref-type="fn"} In 1969, the 22nd World sanitary conference adopted, amended and consolidated the original "International Sanitary Convention," and renamed it as "International Health Regulations (1969)." Since June 2007, the international community has begun to implement the "international Health regulations (2005)."

It is straightforward that from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, the international community concerns about Hajj and the health issues related to it, mainly due tothe protection of the interests of great powers. The majority of the Islamic world almost became colonies or escorts of great powers. They had no independent sovereignty, and therefore unable to protect its own interests in international conferences. Health cooperation among the international community during this period was mainly the maintenance of the health and security of the West. Their concerns and attention on the Hajj were merely because the Hajj activities might have a health and safety threat to the West and their geopolitical power in the Middle East. In particular, the Western countries did not care about specific health and security issues in Mecca---they mainly focused on self-defense. Interests of Saudi Arabia on health security were not respected.

Cooperation of the Contemporary International Community on Health Security


relevant international organizations, cooperating in multiple levels with national and regional governments, or specific religious or health institutions. First, with respect to international organizations, they are mainly the intergovernmental World Health Organization (WHO), regional organizations, and the semi-official international NGO "International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement"; secondly, in terms of the specific country-level organizations, they include Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health, Ministry of Hajj, as well as the Hajj-related departments in the different countries' health sector. Direct or indirect cooperation between these departments play a positive role in the maintenance of international health security in the Hajj.The World Health Organization has played an official role in making global disease prevention policy and guidance

The Current World Health Organization's "International Health Regulations (2005): The Second Edition" has provisions forthe world into a series of formalized regional networks under the auspices of a global agreement".[16](#Fn16){ref-type="fn"} Six regional Offices are involved: offices for African Region, European Region, South-East Asia region, the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Western Pacific region, and the American region. Because Islam has achieved global expansion, so the six areas are involved in health and security issues related to Hajj activities, particularly, the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) covers the Islamic countries in West Asia, South Asia, North Africa and East Africa, and become a main power of Hajj health and security management. Moreover, the regional branch of the Eastern Mediterranean, in coordination with the World Health Organization headquarters, implemented the "WHO Global Arabic Programme," which is regarded as the contemporary "Translation Movement." The program


African and Latin American countries gained their independent sovereign, especially Islamic countries. The "Red Cross Union" was renamed in 1983 as the "Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Union" and in 1991 eventually named as the "International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies"(IFRC). Since then, "The International Committee of the Red Cross" also reached a settlement with "the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies." The two, together with the Red Cross or Red Crescent Societies in their countries, formed the "International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement." "The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies" has five regional offices, including the Middle East and North Africa office located in the Jordanian capital Amman. The Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society actively cooperatesthe Hajj and give out information in their own languages. In particular, the Indian Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Indonesia were summoned by the Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society.[18](#Fn18){ref-type="fn"}(3)Related sectors in Saudi Arabia are responsible for implementation of health security measures associated with the Hajj activities

Hajj-related health governance is a huge project. The relevant departments in Saudi Hajj on health governance have formed an "International--Domestic" connection with the international organizations. The main feature of management of Saudi Arabia is that Ministry of Hajj is in charge, the Ministry of Health and the Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society work on policies and practices as their duties, and the International Islamic Relief Organization has played an auxiliary role in practice. This is the "One body, Two Wings, and


a Supplement" pattern.

As the major responsible authority that is in charge of Hajj affairs, including health and security matters, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Hajj was established in 1960, and was called "the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Fund" at that time. In 1993, this department set up independent sectors including the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Religious Fund, and the Ministry of missionary and Guidance. The Two Holy Mosques and the *Kiswa* management Services were also independent from the ministry and established the "Office in General for the Two Holy Mosques and the Prophet Affairs," then the office was renamed as "the Ministry of Hajj." The Ministry of Health is responsible for contacting World Health Organization, while addressing Hajj health management and staffing services, development of electronic systemsand other health services of Hajj affairs; the Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society is responsible for contacting with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and national organizations. Meanwhile, it is also responsible for general health affairs, epidemic prevention and medical emergency during the Hajj. In particular, it takes care of the establishment of hospitals and with various forms of medical hardware facilities; mutual cooperation between the Health Ministry and the Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society play a significant role in practice, especially when the president of the Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society is the Crown Prince.

As Saudi Arabia is a member of World Health Organization, its Ministry of Health is the dominant sector as well as a representative of the World Health Organization to participate in


the King assumed a post as the Honorary President. The Association aims to rescue the patients and wounded, after which the agency will doubtlessly continue to carry out more extensive work outside the battlefield. In 1940, it joint hands with the Charity Relief Association in Mecca, and extended to the Saudi Red Crescent Society (SRCS). In 1963, The Saudi Arabia Red Crescent Association (SRCA) was established in accordance with Royal Decree, which is headquartered in Riyadh. It has a national coverage. The system is built on the "Geneva Convention" and the basic principles of the International Red Cross Committee, which aims at reducing human suffering and pain caused by disasters without any discrimination. The Saudi Arabia Red Crescent Association is considered the sole representative of the Red Cross/RedAs this receptor barely exists on the surface of respiratory tract, to cause infection, human beings need to inhale a certain amount of the virus in susceptible area. This feature of the disease determines that the SARS virus mainly infects people who live in a crowded environment and have close contact with patients, such as health care workers, family members and so on. World Health Organization confirmed that SARS was originated in Guangdong, China. It was first found in early November 2002. Two to three months later, with substantial population movements, it began to spread to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore and Canada. The international community tried to keep SARS outside of Saudi Arabia during Hajj. Because as a purely lunar, the Islamic calendar has a large difference


with the Gregorian calendar, there is a gap between annual Hajj month *Dhu al*-*Hijjah* and calendar month. In the year 2003, Hajj began in January when SARS had not caused a severe global diffusion yet. The main affected areas were not Islamic countries. Muslim communities in northwest China were not the predominant affected areas as well. Therefore, it did not pose a health and safety threat to the Hajj. However, with the spread of this disease and the full involvement of the World Health Organization, the international community began to realize that the Umrah in 2013 and Hajj in early 2004 might lead to global proliferation of SARS.

There were more than 200 million Muslims around the world participate in the Hajj at beginning of 2003. Certainly, it wasthey had other symptoms of SRAS, such as coughing, difficulty in breathing and shortness of breath; (2) whether they or their family members were diagnosed with SARS (close contact with patients); and (3) in the previous 10 days, whether they had been to any SARS-infected areas. On April 28, 2003, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health established a special committee that is headquartered in Riyadh to handle SARS-related matters. With the close cooperation of the international community, SARS was gradually under control. After the World Health Organization's report of 20 consecutive days without a new case, on July 8, 2003, Saudi Arabia removed the ban on entry of people from SARS-affected areas, and meanwhile still maintained strict immigration health monitoring. On September 27--November 10, 2003, 3 million Muslims attended


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In accordance with new FTC guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials forNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) leads his team onto the field for an NFL preseason football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

It’s his first game in New England since suspending quarterback Tom Brady in the scandal that came to be known as “Deflategate.”

Goodell was in Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s luxury suite as the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars started, according to a photograph posted on Twitter by The Boston Globe. Patriots spokesman Stacey James confirmed to The Associated Press that Goodell was at the game.

Goodell suspended Brady four games after an NFL investigation concluded that he conspired to use illegally underinflated footballs in the 2015 AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.

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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Four people were killed, roofs were ripped from homes and churches, and trees were torn from the earth early Saturday when a tornado hitting in the dark of night ripped through a region in southern Mississippi, officials said.

Four people died after the twister blew through the city and surrounding area, said Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict. The twister was part of a wall of stormy weather traveling across the region, bringing with it rain and unstableconditions.

Authorities have not yet released the names of the four people who died. But at least one family had already gotten the horrific news. Monica McCarty said her father died in the same trailer park where she and her boyfriend live and her son was apparently crushed to death while in bed at her mother’s house where he lived.

“They couldn’t get him out of the house. They said he was laying in the bed,” McCarty said of her son.

Molley said he and McCarty were in a trailer when the storm hit. Molley, whose bare foot was bandaged, said he climbed out through a hole in what had either been the trailer’s roof or wall.

“I had a little hole I could squeeze out of,” he said.

In the surrounding neighborhood,


try to get some help,” she said.

Hours after the tornado, authorities were still concerned about downed power lines and possible gas leaks and were encouraging people to stay home, said Hattiesburg police Lt. Allen Murray.

Greg Flynn of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said “massive damage” was reported across a three-county area that was struck by a tornado at around 4 a.m.

Thousands of customers in southern Mississippi were without power. The three major power companies in the area reported nearly 13,000 customers in the dark. The bulk of those were in Forrest County where the tornado struck early morning.

A college in one of the most heavily affected areas said Saturday it was closing down and students being evacuated.

William Carey University, a Christian university with a campus in Hattiesburg, saidon Twitter that the campus is closed until further notice. Its Tradition campus near the coast is still open.

Students were being escorted from the Hattiesburg campus and arrangements are being made for students who can’t go home.

The university said some students had minor injuries, and some dorms were damaged.

Photos posted on the university’s Twitter feed showed vehicles in a parking lot flipped over and parts of a brick building ripped down.

The three counties affected are Forrest, Lamar and Perry counties. Flynn said the tornado touched down in Lamar, plowed through Forrest and then struck Perry before dissipating.

The National Weather Service said three to five inches of rain have already fallen, raising the risk of flooding. More rain — one to two inches — is possible.

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Basil D'Oliveira

The story of Basil D'Oliveira is a fairy tale come true; the story of a nonentity in the country of his birth who because of the colour of his skin was confined to cricket on crude mudheaps until he was 25, yet after only one season in the County Championship played for England.

No Test player has had to overcome such tremendous disadvantages along the road to success as the Cape coloured D'Oliveira. Admirable though his achievements were against the West Indies in 1966, undoubtedly his triumph in ever attaining Test status was more commendable.

That he did not fall by the wayside of the stony path he was compelled to tread is a tribute to the courage and skill of this player from the land of apartheid. Tosay that he never contemplated giving up the game before reaching the hour of glory was hardly the case. The hazards he encountered were very nearly too great even for the stout-hearted D'Oliveira. Suffice to say that of the 25,000 South African coloured cricketers who would dearly love to make county grade over here D'Oliveira is the first to have done so.

Hundreds of others are doomed to spend their lives in a class of cricket far beneath their skill. They will stay because no one ever sees them in this unfashionable outpost of the game.

Born in Cape Town on October 4, 1934, Basil Lewis D'Oliveira inherited his father's love for the game but until he was 15 practically the only cricket he played was in the street. There


were no facilities at either of his schools, St Joseph's Catholic or Zonnebloem Training College, as money for the promotion of school sport was non-existent.

His schooldays over, he joined St Augustine's, the club for which his father, Lewis D'Oliveira, played as an all-rounder for something like 40 years. There, in one of the South African leagues for non-Europeans, young Dolly began to blossom under the guidance of his father, as a right-handed batsman and medium-paced bowler.

His team-mates would walk miles to a suitable strip of grassless earth, sand or gravel over which to lay a mat after first preparing their pitch with a spade and wheelbarrow. D'Oliveira thought nothing of walking ten miles to his home ground. The alternative was a four-mile stroll to the nearest bus stop.

Hisclub shared the ground with other teams and it was not uncommon for square-leg in one match find himself standing near third-slip in the next.

Yet these primitive conditions served only to imbue D'Oliveira with a zest and enthusiasm for the game. He was deeply impressed on his visits to first-class matches in Cape Town, in particular to see Compton, Harvey and May.

He never missed an opportunity to study closely the manner in which these and other great batsmen moved about the crease and into their strokes. He reasoned for himself why any particular stroke was made, and soon reports of his own phenomenal scoring feats began to trickle through.

D'Oliveira scored 80 centuries in the Cape and once hit 225 in seventy minutes. In a federation tournament he thrashed


168 in ninety-eight minutes and in another innings made 46 in an eight-ball over. English professionals who went to South Africa coaching during the winter, spoke of him as a natural player who moved well and struck the ball hard.

Yet, it seemed, it was not easy to convince anyone that he could be a top-class player against top-class opposition. He played, however, in one or two testimonial matches in South Africa against White teams, then against the Kenya Asians and went on an all-coloured team's tour of East Africa.

For a couple of years, John Arlott, the broadcaster and cricket writer, tried to get people in England to take an interest in D'Oliveira, and eventually, with the aid of the urgings of two other journalists, Middleton, of the CentralLancashire League, after failing to get several better known players, offered him a contract at £450 for the 1960 season. He was then 25.

Raffles, fêtes and matches were organised in the locality of his tenement home in the coloured quarter of Cape Town to raise his fare to England. As an £8 10s. a week machine-minder for a printing firm there was little scope for savings of his own with a wife and baby to support. For an unproved player with the Manchester suburban club he was little or no better off to begin with. He had just enough to live frugally during the summer and pay his return fare home to bring back his wife.

At Middleton, D'Oliveira's competitors included Gary Sobers, Cecil Pepper, John McMohan and Salim


Durani. So that with only 25 or so runs and three or four wickets to show for his endeavours after five matches in the League he was all set to pack his bags. He felt he was clearly out of his depth.

Then, almost suddenly as the weather warmed up and pitches became faster, runs began to flow from D'Oliveira's bat as in his native South Africa. By the end of his first summer he had made 930 runs, average 48.95, which was slightly better than Sobers and the best of the League.

For good measure he gained 71 wickets at 11.72 each. Middleton's gamble had paid off. The coloured cricketer from the Cape stayed for four years.

When he first arrived in England in April 1960 the extremely modest andwell behaved D'Oliveira was quite stunned at being treated as an ordinary human being unaffected by any colour bar. He would have been perfectly content to have spent the rest of his life in Middleton where he established himself with more than 3,600 runs for an average of over 48, and 238 wickets at under 17 each.

D'Oliveira considers he owed a great deal in his successful switch from matting to grass to the kindly advice and help he received at Middleton from Eric Price, the old Lancashire and Essex left-arm slow bowler who played in the league as an amateur. Hours and hours of net practice, sometimes with only schoolboys for company, illustrated his tremendous will to succeed.

It was Tom Graveney who persuaded Dolly that he was good


enough to be a success at county level. They were on a private Commonwealth tour together, and in the face of competition from Gloucestershire (after Lancashire had turned him down) D'Oliveira joined Worcestershire. While qualifying by residence he spent the 1964 season with Kidderminster in the Birmingham League, averaging 78.44, and played the occasional non-Championship match.

In the latter he showed his potential with 370 runs (average 61.66) in eight first-class innings, including 119 at Hastings for A.E.R. Gilligan's XI against R.B. Simpson's touring Australians.

And so to 1965, his first year of Championship cricket. If there were any lingering doubts that at the age of 30 his weaknesses would be exposed these were soon dispelled. He made five centuries, totalling 1,523 runs (average 43.51), and he and Graveney werethe only batsmen in the Championship to exceed 1,500 that season.

D'Oliveira also took 35 wickets, proved himself in the top flight as a slip fielder and gained the distinction in his first county season of helping Worcestershire in no small measure to retain the Championship pennant.

As his captain, Don Kenyon, remarked at the end of a memorable summer, "D'Oliveira did everything we hoped he might do and a lot more ... all the predictions that a turning ball might find him out proved utterly false."

D'Oliveira himself considered that it was in 1965 he played his finest innings -- 51 not out on a turning pitch at Cheltenham against Allen and Mortimore.

Undoubtedly the most memorable year of his life was 1966, by which time he had become a British


citizen. Although he had shown every promise in M.C.C. matches at Lord's, to be selected for England against the West Indies was beyond his wildest dreams. It was D'Oliveira himself who said after his Test debut at Lord's "This is a fairy tale come true. Six years ago I was playing on mudheaps. Now I have played for England and met the Queen; what more could I possibly ask?"

It set the seal on the happiness he and his charming wife, Naomi, and sons Damian, aged six, and Shaun, aged two, have found since coming to this country. He went on to play successfully in the three subsequent Tests, making the jump to international grade in the same facile manner of his previous steps up in status. England hadWhat are classic game-show hosts doing now?

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Bud Collyer, "Beat the Clock," "To Tell the Truth"

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A mercenary blog

May 14, 2014

While we were removing four months and 150B ISK from Goblin's life, our friends Failed Diplomacy contacted us about a contract very similar to the last one we did for them. This time they wanted us to ally on their wardec against Obsidian Front and actually fight compared to being neutral logistics though.

Unfortunately, it got a little crazy! So there were two wars between Obsidian Front and Failed Diplomacy (well, one of the wars was from a corp that was similarly named to Failed Diplomacy). One of these wars was created by Failed Diplomacy and one was created by Obsidian Front. Alekseyev allied with the one started by Obsidian Front accidentally! After realizing he allied with the one with Failed Diplomacy and sent aship was lost in the entire fight. We were asked to stand down by the Failed Diplomacy FC, another job well done.

I've really enjoyed working with Failed Diplomacy over the last six months or so. I think it's great that we were one-time enemies, now they're repeat employers. Obsidian Front is a great group of guys to fight against.

In other news, we've pretty much gotten the entire alliance to our new home. A fleet went out last night made up of two Crows (one of which was flown by a Noir. Academy member named Maddord), one Curse (flown by Fayral), one Ishtar, one Vagabond, one Hawk, and one Cerberus. They start roaming around and in 8W-OSE Maddord saw two Thanatoses on Dscan. He found some Gecko drones in


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counter tenor.North Korea error opens door to fake Twitter account By News from Elsewhere...

...as found by BBC Monitoring Published duration 12 April 2018

image copyright Twitter image caption The fake account contains unflattering images of the North Korean Supreme Leader and calls him an obscene name in Korean

An error on a state-run North Korean website means that users can click through to a Twitter account attacking the government.

The Our Nation School website, which teaches its readers about the philosophy of former North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, should point to the @Juche_School Twitter account, but instead links to @Juche_School1, an account run by an online prankster who identifies as Cyber Anakin, the North Korea Tech website reports.

"I saw that their Twitter username they linked on their website is vacant," Cyber Anakin


said, "so I pulled off the prank". The fake account features unflattering images of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, as well as criticisms of Pyongyang's poor human rights record.

North Korean citizens have no access to the global internet, and Our Nation School is aimed at an audience outside North Korea.

Twitter and other social media services are not available within North Korea itself.

image copyright Our Nation School image caption Our Nation School, like many other N Korean websites, features Kim Jong-un's name in slightly larger, bold text

Motivated by Kim Jong-nam death

Contacted by the BBC, Cyber Anakin says their motivation was the death of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam at Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017, widely thought to have been a state-led assassination by North Korea.

Two women are ontrial over his death, but claim they were duped into the attack thinking it was part of a prank for a TV programme

Cyber Anakin also claims to have hacked the website for the US branch of the Korean Friendship Association, a pro-regime group that publishes pro-Pyongyang articles and promotes holidays in North Korea.

As of 12 April, the China-based, North Korea-run Our Nation School is still linking to the spoof account.


rationing of sugar and the control of sugar prices; that the conspiracy was to be carried out in substantially the following manner: That Bartlett, with the consent of the Company and Kee, its manager at Hobbs, New Mexico, would issue his check for 60,000 pounds of sugar credits, drawn on Bartlett's sugar ration account in the Lea County State Bank[2] at Hobbs, New Mexico, payable to the Company; that such check would be accepted by Kee and deposited to the sugar ration account of the Company in the Bank without the delivery at the time of such transaction of any sugar to Bartlett; that Bartlett, with the consent of the Company and Kee, would agree and arrange with Edwards, the ration bank teller at the Bank, to acceptsuch deliveries of sugar to its sugar ration credits in the Bank created, as above stated, and that such transactions would all be carried out without the surrender of any valid sugar ration evidence when such sugar was sold and delivered.
It further alleged 13 overt acts performed in furtherance of such conspiracy.
The evidence introduced by the United States established these facts:
Bartlett was the owner of a bottling plant at Hobbs, New Mexico, was engaged in the bottling and distribution of a beverage, known as Doctor Pepper, and was an industrial user of sugar. He filed a registration as an industrial user of sugar for the year 1945 and was allotted 25,475 pounds of sugar, payable in quarterly allotment checks. Four checks were issued to Bartlett for such sugar


allotment. An industrial user of sugar was not entitled to receive sugar ration evidence in any manner other than through quarterly allotment checks. During the year 1945, a ration banking plan, which had been set up by appropriate regulations of the Office of Price Administration, was in operation, and sugar ration credits were handled by designated banks in much the same manner as ordinary bank deposits. Under the plan, an industrial user of sugar would deposit his sugar ration evidence in a designated bank and would be given credit therefor and would draw sugar checks against his sugar credits in the bank. During the year 1945, the Bank was a designated depository of sugar ration evidence. Edwards was the ration bank teller for such Bank for approximately oneyear prior to December 16, 1945. Bartlett drew two checks payable to the Company, one dated September 4, 1945, for 20,000 pounds of sugar, and one dated December 6, 1945, for 60,000 pounds of sugar. The check for 20,000 pounds of sugar was endorsed by the Company and was paid September 18, 1945. The check for 60,000 pounds of sugar was endorsed by the Company, was paid December 11, 1945, and the ledger account of the Company shows a deposit to its credit on December 11, 1945, of 66,350 pounds of sugar evidence. Bartlett prepared a deposit slip, dated December 13, 1945, covering 200,000 pounds of sugar ration credits, purportedly supported by sugar *930 stamps, for deposit to the account of the Company. The slip was initialed by


Edwards. On December 13, 1945, the ledger account of the Company in the Bank was credited with 200,000 pounds of sugar ration evidence.
On December 13, 1945, Bartlett gave Kee the duplicate deposit slip for 200,000 pounds of sugar ration evidence and told Kee that he had deposited that amount of credit to the Company on that date.
Combs, a witness for the United States, testified that he was employed by the Bank during 1945; that he became ration clerk on December 15, 1945; that about December 13, 1945, Edwards asked him if he wanted to make some money, and, upon inquiry as to how it could be done, Edwards stated that she had been transacting business with Bartlett by accepting deposits purporting to be supported by sugar stamps, butin the negative; that Bartlett approached him on three subsequent occasions; that they were about three weeks apart and took place when Bartlett came to the Bank for his ration statements; that on each occasion, Bartlett asked Combs if he had changed his mind and if he would transact business with Bartlett.
Moffett, an Enforcement Attorney for the Sugar Rationing Division of the Denver Office of Price Administration, and Charles Hopkins, Investigator for the Office of Price Administration, interviewed Bartlett with respect to his sugar account on January 11, 1947, at Hobbs, New Mexico. After some delay, in compliance with their request, Bartlett produced his ration bank statements, deposit slips, and canceled bank checks drawn on his sugar account. Upon being interrogated about the unusually large amount of stamps,


Bartlett stated that in 1943, he imported 14 carloads of syrup, containing from 85 to 125 barrels per car, which was ration free at the time; that he discovered that the syrup was beginning to spoil, and that he shipped it to a number of friends who were Doctor Pepper bottlers. Bartlett declined to identify the persons to whom he shipped the syrup, but stated that the persons to whom he did ship the syrup sent him sugar stamps. He stated that he kept a record of the transactions on an envelop, but had destroyed the envelop.
The evidence introduced by the United States further established these facts:
Randolph was in the bakery business at Hobbs. On November 11, 1946, Randolph issued and delivered his check drawn on the Bank,payable to Bartlett, in the sum of $1,200. The check was endorsed by Bartlett. Bartlett told Randolph he would arrange with the Company for Randolph to receive sugar; that Randolph called the Company by telephone and inquired if they had sugar for him and received an affirmative reply; that he ordered and received the sugar as he needed it.
Beasley was in the cafe business in Hobbs. In December, 1946, Thomas told Beasley he could help him obtain sugar for use in his cafe. On December 12, 1946, Beasley issued his check for $205, payable to Thomas, drawn on the Bank. Thomas endorsed the check and delivered it to the Doctor Pepper Bottling Company. The Bottling Company endorsed the check and it was paid by the Bank. After Beasley


gave the check, he called the Company and 1000 pounds of sugar were delivered to him, for which he paid the ceiling price.
Thomas paid Bartlett $102.50 and received 500 pounds of sugar from the Company, for which he paid the Company the ceiling price.
No sugar ration evidence was surrendered by Randolph, Beasley, or Thomas for the sugar delivered to them.
*931 Kee entered a plea of nolo contendere. Bartlett and Edwards were convicted. Imposition of sentence on Bartlett was suspended and he was placed on probation for a period of five years to begin immediately upon his release from custody under a sentence imposed in an earlier case, hereinafter referred to. Imposition of sentence on Edwards was suspended and she was placed on probation for a period of twoThai police announces first off-limits areas

BANGKOK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Thai police chief Adul Saengseingkaew on Friday announced the first off-limits areas under the state of emergency decree, including a number of government offices, roads and bridge.

The first notice Adul has issued in his capacity as deputy director of the Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order bans entry to 13 premises, including the Government House, parliament and government complex without permission.

The ban also applies to 25 roads and a bridge, according to the notice.

The Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order is in charge of enforcing the emergency decree, which took effect in the capital and surrounding areas on Wednesday for 60 days.

The Constitutional Court is set to give a ruling on Friday over which one has the authority


to postpone the Feb. 2 election, the Election Commission (EC) or the caretaker government.

Anti-government protesters, who persisted with their Shutdown Bangkok movenment despite the state of emergency, have vowed to disrupt the voting either by blocking roads leading to polling stations or besieging the stations.

Protesters have already laid siege to election offices in 20 provinces, mostly in the south, according to secretary-general of the EC Puchong Nutrawong.film of 1982,  along with film veterans Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor and Sanjeev Kumar. He also starred in movies like Main Awara Hoon (1983). In 1985 he shot Jaan Ki Baazi, his first film in two years.

The 1986 film Naam was a turning point in Dutt's career, it was a major commercial and critical success. Dutt appeared in successful films throughout the '80s such as Imaandaar, Inaam Dus Hazaar, Jeete Hain Shaan Se (1988), Mardon Wali Baat (1988), Ilaaka (1989), Hum Bhi Insaan Hain (1989), Kanoon Apna Apna (1989) and Taaqatwar.

His performances in both Kabzaa (1988) and J. P. Dutta's 1989 Hathyar were both well received by critics although both films only managed average collections at the box office. In the late 1980s he was seen in


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This is a photo of the Erie Canal in the little village of Newark in upstate New York. The Erie Canal is small and easy to overlook, and it is easy to forget the huge effect the canal had on the development of the United States. Today, driving along it is a pleasant pastoral and historical experience.

Monday, December 26, 2016

This is a nice photo of the lovely Paxton Carnegie Library in Paxton, Illinois. The library has been very well preserved, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Small towns in the midwest often have architectural gems like this.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

I mostly stuck to side roads and small highways on my recent trip around Lake Michigan. As usual, I found many old


buildings and evidence of the emptying out of rural areas as the economy shifts. This old store and restaurant, once called Pleasant Corners, is located east of Momence, Illinois, almost at the Indiana state line.

Monday, December 19, 2016

As I left my office on a mid-November day, a flock of crows was making a mighty racket as they prepared to roost for the night. One of the trees they were gathering in was especially beautiful in the light of the setting sun.

Monday, December 12, 2016

This is a photo of an elevated highway in Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. I love the curvy, fluid look of the road. It looks like it should be bouncing up and down and swaying side to side, but it wasquite sturdy.

Friday, December 9, 2016

On my recent trip around Lake Michigan my circle around the lake began and ended in northeast Indiana, in the area of the Indiana Dunes. This photo is of an access road to the dunes in Indiana Dunes State Park in Beverly Shores, Indiana. It is one of the last photos I took on the trip.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

From my recent trip around Lake Michigan, this is a sunrise view of the Gladstone Lighthouse in Gladstone, Michigan. Gladstone is on the Upper Peninsula, on the Little Bay de Noc, which opens onto Green Bay.

Monday, December 5, 2016

I am continuing to post this week with photos from my recent trip around Lake Michigan. This panoramic view of the Milwaukee skyline in late afternoon was taken


For Judy (Blue Note's "Rare Grooves" series) CD compilation of the albums: Legwork and Wayfaring Stranger.

As sideman
With Walter Bishop, Jr. Trio
Illumination (Denon [Japan] Records, 1977)
With Tommy Bolin
From The Archives - Vol. 1 (Rhino Records, 1996) a collection of "grade-A" previously unreleased "rock-jazz-fusion" material.
From The Archives - Volume 2 (Zebra Records, 1998) another collection of previously unreleased material; even better than the first volume.
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grant his motion to suppress all material seized by the government because the second search by customs agents was violative of his fourth amendment constitutional rights. Defendant argues that since he had already undergone a "border search" and had been assessed a duty and had then entered the public area, that the second search conducted by the customs agents not being incident to an arrest nor pursuant to a warrant was constitutionally impermissible. We disagree. The record indicates that the defendant had not been cleared by the first customs agent when the second customs agents arrived to continue the search. The defendant was still loading his luggage on the cart and had not passed through the double doors into the public area. The investigation of defendant's baggage wasZoe MacDonell's latest exhibition Antarctic Fragments, was result of two residencies. She was a guest artist of the Mawson's Huts Foundation, who are responsible for the conservation of Mawson's Hut in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division. It is a great honour for anyone to visit Antarctica, and there is a quota on visitors; part of the duty of this residency is to image the landscape, to report back to those that haven't and won't see it at first hand. Back in Sydney, MacDonell further developed the work in the Studio Residency Program at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney.

MacDonell wrote of her experiences of 2008-2009:

This work has evolved from my time in that remote and otherworldly place. These paintings depict fragments of once living matter frozen in suspension


within the ice. Illuminated by a prolonged light at the continent's melting edge, these small, estranged objects appear irrelevant to the vast landscape. Their singular and disconnected nature rendered them both strange and striking. Their decay radically slowed, these abstracted remains of life reveal a disconcerting beauty that speaks of a profound sense of aloneness. They seek to capture a sense of Antarctica's stillness and silence.

In trying to capture the objects trapped in ice, it is as if the snow has become the painting teacher. The ice and snow behave like layers of paint creating areas that are variously transparent and opaque; liquid and solid; with crisp contours and modulated blurs. In capturing the qualities of the landscape, close up, MacDonell has also experimented further into the limitationsOscar Wong is considered the "godfather" of craft beer culture in western North Carolina. In 1994, he founded Highland Brewing Company, the first legal brewer in Asheville since Prohibition. Today, Highland is the largest homegrown craft brewery in North Carolina.

From the mountains to the coast, new breweries are opening. The national Brewer’s Association put the economic impact of craft beer in the state at more than $791 million dollars in 2012. There are 110 breweries across the state and the industry supports 10,000 jobs.

Craft beer sales have been growing by double digits, even as overall beer sales have flattened. And several independent craft beer makers — all based in the Western U.S. — are expanding production to the East. But to keep the flavor true, they have to


Groups blast Utah's RS2477 claims to 'roads to nowhere'

Cedar Mountain Wilderness area south of Delle in Tooele County is one of the areas that would be reclaimed under RS2477 by the state of Utah from the federal government.

Stuart Johnson, Deseret News

Summary

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is expected to release maps showing the location of thousands of roads that Utah officials are trying to claim through a federal lawsuit.

“The state's intent is not to pave anything. The intent is to perfect the right of Utah and Utahns to access these historical roads.”

Utah's chief deputy attorney general John Swallow

SALT LAKE CITY — A coalition of environmental groups said Utah's claims to rights of way on thousands upon thousands of roads, routes or trails are an "absolute travesty" being pursued despiteeconomic folly and disastrous environmental consequences.

The legal battle over so-called RS2477 roads amped Tuesday to a new level after groups such as the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and the Sierra Club unveiled a map depicting the extent of Utah's claims.

"You've heard of the bridge to nowhere? Well, these are roads to nowhere," said Heidi McIntosh, SUWA's associate director and counsel. "They aren't even really roads."

Joined by the Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance, the National Parks Conservation Association, a private property owner and others, McIntosh said Utah is embarking on a costly, foolhardy legal fight to assert rights to roads so it can grade, pave and improve them.

"These were not mapped to meet Utah's existing transportation needs" hundreds of years ago, she said, and state and local control of them


Terrell Buckley set former FSU QB E.J Manuel on the path to working for the ACC Network

Florida State fans will see a familiar face on the new ACC Network this fall.

Former FSU quarterback E.J. Manuel is joining the network as a studio analyst for football. The network will begin broadcasting on Aug. 22.

It's a process that started almost a year ago when Manuel's football career came to an end.

'When I got let go from Oakland In September, I did a meeting with a talent agency who told me about the network coming out this year," Manuel told the Tallahassee Democrat.

"And obviously, I was super excited about it because I played an ACC, past ACC champion and played in the ACC championship twice. So, obviously, being a Florida Statein this career."

Buckley set Manuel on the path by pointing out the success that other former quarterbacks were having broadcasting football. Tim Hasselback and Jesse Palmer were just a couple of the examples for him at the time.

So Manuel made the switch, and he's very glad that he did so.

"First thing he said was, 'Most quarterbacks go through their career, no matter how long they play, whether it's five years or 15 years in the NFL, and get into ESPN or talking football, whether it’s on a college or the NFL level,'" Manuel said.

"So I started thinking about it and I’m like, ‘Man, he's right.’ I started seeing these guys that have shown up on TV after playing the league, and then they move on to something else,


because at the end of the day, you retire at 30 or 35, you're still a very young man, you still need to go and work.

"I don't care how much money you make. It's not about the money. It's more about the brain stimulation and the challenges and really paying it forward."

Manuel came to FSU from Virginia Beach, Va. as part of the Seminoles 2008 recruiting class. He played at FSU from 2008-12 before being drafted with the No. 16 pick in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills.

He played five years in the NFL before hanging up his cleats for the final time prior to the start of the 2018 season. When he left the Raiders, he knew he needed something toin the corresponding openings in the headlining surface during the preassembly of the roof module. Here it is difficult to structure the grilles in color and design so that they do not intrude visually in the headlining surface.
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According to the present invention, there is provided a vehicle roof, in particular a motor vehicle roof, that has a sandwich-like construction including an outer shell and an inner shell connected to the outer shell formed as a headlining from foam plastic and produced separately from the vehicle body, which can


grille is used as a ventilation element the fin-like ribs allow air flows targeted according to their preset alignment.
To form passage openings in the foaming of the inner shell, the passage openings are first only preshaped, i.e. without wall break-through, by forming thinner wall areas at the points of the passage openings. The passage openings are then cut out subsequently. In this way the roof coating material is also applied fold-free in the preformed recesses at the points of the passage openings and is partly cut away when cutting away the thin wall areas. In this way the roof coating material extends from the visible surface of the inner shell into the passage openings so that the fin-like ribs limiting the passage openings are also largely covered withGorilla walking like man becomes Internet sensation

Ambam, a Western lowland gorilla, has achieved YouTube fame for walking on his hind feet.

Humans are the only hominids that walk upright. But a Western lowland gorilla named Ambam is making an effort to change that trend. Ambam lives with a bachelor group of gorillas at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, England. As Msnbc.com reports, his trainer, Johanna Watson, recently filmed the animal strolling upright on his hind legs through the park. She posted the clip on YouTube, where the 21-year-old Ambam soon become an Internet sensation with almost 1 million hits.

Western lowland gorillas are critically endangered. A group lives at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, which is run by The Aspinall Foundation. Phil Ridges is a gorilla keeper


Africa, preferring the heavy rainforests of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo and nearby areas. They tend to reside in communities of 30 or more with a dominant older adult male at the helm. Biologists refer to these communities as troops. A troop can otherwise consist of younger males with a few females and their offspring. While experts say that these gorillas are usually calm, they can show aggression. In fact, a younger male may challenge the alpha by throwing things, beating his chest and standing upright.by these respective regions. North America dominated the market in 2016, followed by Europe. North America extensively uses connected gym equipment across residential, and commercial areas. According to the research, the U.S. and Canada collectively have the largest number of fitness clubs across the world (in the range of 35,000–38,000), thereby supplementing the North American connected gym equipment market. Cardiovascular training is the most preferred equipment in both the countries in addition to other countries. Global Connected Gym Equipment Market is expected to reach $1,048 million by 2023, registering a CAGR of 31.1% during the forecast period.

North America is the largest market for fitness equipment across the world. Rise in obesity rates, increase in health consciousness, and awareness of benefits provided by these smart devices would lead to


PREJUDICE AS BARRED BY CLAIM PRECLUSION
BORMAN, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION
This dispute over land use between the landowner and the Township where the land is located has been the subject of numerous lawsuits and administrative proceedings in the Michigan courts, a Michigan administrative agency, and this Court. The federal proceeding was filed over nine years ago. The case was originally assigned to United States District Judge Stewart A. Newblatt, who retired from the bench in August, 1997. The case was then transferred to the undersigned judge.
From September 25, 1998 until April 18, 2000, the federal action was stayed while the parties completed several pending state court cases. This Court lifted the stay upon notification that state court proceedings had terminated. Plaintiff then filed several motions, three of which remain before thecomply. In November, 1992, Plaintiff evicted one tenant from N-2, and attempted to relocate four tenants from another building on the property into the vacated space in N-2. The Township, citing Plaintiff's failure to conform to the city building codes, refused to issue certificates of occupancy for these tenants. The Township wrote to the Plaintiff on December 2, stating what would be required for the certificates to issue. On December 7, Plaintiff responded by letter, stating that he did not believe he had to follow those procedures. The next day, he filed Dubuc IV, seeking a writ of mandamus compelling the issuance of certificates of use and occupancy.
In January, 1993, the Township moved for and was granted an ex parte TRO, forbidding Plaintiff or those acting at his


was ready for trial, and a jury had been chosen but not sworn, in mid-1997. No trial was actually held, however, as Judge Newblatt dismissed the jury and retired from the bench in August, 1997. The case was then transferred here by order of October 7, 1997. There followed eleven more months of contentious discovery. In September, 1998, on Defendants' motion, the Court stayed the proceedings here pending the outcome of state court litigation. With the exception of a single emergency motion for a de bene esse deposition, there was no further action on the case until the stay was recently lifted.

II. PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR INTERIM ATTORNEYS' FEES
On the basis of Judge Newblatt's preliminary injunction issued in November, 1994, Plaintiff moves for an interim award of attorneys' feesbe difficult for the Court to read the injunction as "an unambiguous indication of probable success on the merits." Webster, 846 F.2d at 1036. The Court's January 29, 1996 order dissolving the injunction removes all doubt, however. In that order, the Court stated:
on prior occasions, the Court held the belief that the relief sought from this court was requested merely to preserve the status quo and to compel defendants to take action as already required under state law ... The Court intentionally crafted its November 9, 1994 order to provide an avenue for the improvement of plaintiff's property ... only with the assumption that the procedures outlined by the Court would operate to satisfy defendants' requirements for a permanent certificate of occupancy. In doing so, the Court took


For most of the last 10 years UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and now the Department for International Trade has changed from a major supporter of UK industry to one that is almost invisible, unsupportive and at times damaging.

During 2012 to 2013 a significant investment in Tradeshow Access Programme support had lead to a huge increase in SMEs starting to export and going in to new markets.

In October 2014 UKTI decided to cut support to the Tradeshow Access Programme (this programme gives grants to new and new to market SME exporters) mid year, breaking agreements arranged a year previously. This caused the cancellation, where possible, to UK groups exhibiting overseas, financial hardship to companies and some ATO's.

In 2016 UKTI delayed the release of support to companies for theTradeshow Access Programme for the 2016/17 financial year. This reduced the number of events and size, where UK groups were present at overseas exhibitions.The new Department for International Trade has carried on where UKTI left off, again delaying - even further this time - the announcement of support for 2017/18 and then cutting the number of grants available to companies to 6 (from 12).2018 has seen yet further delays and cuts to the number of grants.

Sponsors Alliance members reprent many sectors accross the UK (see member list) and in turn they help their members to export through overseas market information, UK organised groups at overseas exhibitions, providing advice and mentoring.

We take UK companies to export opportunities through exhibitions, missions, market research and general advice.

If the UK economy is


revenue.

The UK Government has continually said that manufacturing and exporting will help lead the UK to narrow the trade gap, yet the Department for International Trade, continues to reduce its budget for International Exhibition Support Schemes (TAP) while expanding its workforce to more than twice the size of UKTI

Funding for the widely acclaimed scheme has yo-yoed from £20 million (across ALL industry sectors in the UK) in 2004/05 to around £6 million in 2011/12. then up to £13.6m in 2014 and back to around £7m in 2017. Germany, for example, budgeting around 46m Euros for last year.

In July 2016 the Department for International Trade was formed and incorporated UKTI. Despite a large increase in staff DIT has continued where UKTI left off. Firstly cutting in half the numberlow rates expected to drive recovery

Markets have recently scaled back their expectations of a rate cut in December, though a move next year is still seen as around a 60 per cent chance.

RBA governor Philip Lowe provided some detail into the board's thinking in October — when it cut rates for the third time, this year.

At the time, he said the RBA was "mindful that rates were already very low and that each further cut brings closer the point at which policy options might come into play".

"It also took into account the possibility that further easing could unintentionally convey an overly negative view of the economic outlook, or that the usual channels of policy transmission might be less effective at low interest rates."

The board still assessed at the


increasing lately, while auction clearance rates have been trending higher too.

Helped by a pick up in home prices the RBA expects household consumption to rise gradually, though "the timing of the turnaround, the speed of its trajectory and the influence of the housing market on it" are key uncertainties.

The RBA also said that the downturn in the housing market which began in 2017 had a more "pervasive effect" on the economy than it had expected.

Reutersfor Xi to change tack and we urge him to launch an open and independent investigation into the violent crackdown of 1989.”

Pervasive repression

Twenty-five years on from the bloodshed, the government continues to use any means necessary to prevent Chinese citizens from expressing opinions at odds with government rhetoric. It jails activists on trumped-up charges, and uses violence against those who seek to protect human rights within the current legal system.

2014 has seen a wider clampdown against citizens calling for reform – most notably those associated with the New Citizens Movement. Several leading activists associated with the network – whose calls for greater transparency and an end to corruption echo many of the calls made by the pro-democracy protests in 1989 – have received long prison sentences.

“This blatant disregard


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They were held after submitting an application for permission to visit her on 12 February, during which her brother held a sign declaring her innocence.From the moment when cryptocurrencies first appeared led by Bitcoin (BTC), there have been many altcoins which wanted a part of the glory. An innumerable amount of them failed and was pushed aside while the lucky few managed to carve their way through the crypto market. However, among those strong and powerful cryptos, there is also one that came to be as a joke but still manages to survive in the harsh crypto-environment.

What is Dogecoin (DOGE)

Dogecoin (DOGE) is one of the many, many cryptocurrencies that came to be since the crypto fever began. It was created back in 2013 by Jackson Palmer, and it has seen its fair share of ups and downs.

The interesting thing about this crypto is that it first came out as a joke, a


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43-year old Vijay Shekhar Sharma who runs e-commerce firm Paytm backed by Chinese investors, on Thursday said that India's traditional business houses should start investing in domestic startups. He added that Indian entrepreneurs need foreign investors largely because of the lack of availability of domestic capital.

"I am all for domestic investments. I want every domestic rich person to start putting money in startups. I truly call upon on them. India's old economy companies should bring that capital back to put money in startups. Why do we need outside investors when we can have people from inside (the nation)," Sharma said on the sidelines of an event.

He was speaking on the issue of capital dumping by global firms, which has closed the doors to entrepreneurship in many sectorssociety”. It took me five more years, after military service and a university education, to fully understand the concept.

In 2008, two of my friends and I established a capacity building center in Sinjar, Iraq, where we taught students public speaking, language skills and formal debate. Our center was a living civil society organization, and we were invited to attend workshops, presentations and seminars with other newly-formed civil society groups.

Over time, I have come to more fully appreciate the significance of what it means to have a civil society and its interlocking components – institutions, organizations and individuals. These entities include, at a minimum, activists, religious organizations, charities, community groups, and nonprofit organizations. Together, they promote democratic activities like voting and assist in shaping the culture, politics, and economies


of their citizens and their nations.

In Iraq, civil society organizations now can play a crucial role in training politicians and future as well as current government officials in a style of public speaking that is less or even non-sectarian. Sanad, an Iraqi civil society organization, has been holding seminars and workshops where they invite the heads of the different tribes from areas recently liberated from ISIL. These tribal leaders come together and discuss their common issues and goals and in so doing step away from the sectarianism and hatred that divides them. It has been a successful experiment in the central areas of Iraq, and it is critical that these institutions spread throughout the remaining regions of the country. Currently, there are about 6,000 civil society organizations inparameters. Contractility, which indicates the contraction ability of a muscle, was calculated by dividing contraction thickness by resting thickness. Contractility ratio, which reflects the difference of contraction ability between both sides of the body, was calculated by dividing contractility of the unaffected side by contractility of the affected side.

A physician with \>2 years of professional experience was appointed as an evaluator. LOGIQ e Ultrasound (GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, USA) equipped with a linear probe (5--12 MHz) for the abdominal muscles and a round probe (2--5.5 MHz) for the ES muscle was used. In the supine position, the linear ultrasound probe was placed transversely 3 cm lateral to the umbilicus for the RA. For the oblique and TrA muscles, the probe was placed vertically at the umbilicus line and


Egyptian state television initially blamed the bloodshed on protesters, who it said had attacked security forces. There were also attempts to portray the violence as sectarian in nature.

But more and more people who were caught up in the violence have been coming forward to point the finger of blame squarely at the security forces, who they say employed brutal tactics to suppress the protest.

Here is the testimony of four people who were involved.

Sherief Gaber, 27, recent graduate

I joined the march because I absolutely agreed with what it was asking for – at the bare minimum some sort of recognition for the church that had been burned and some real action from the government that is claiming to have an interest in protecting minorities – and so I couldn'tviolent show of force … it was chaos for a while.

It was absolutely enraging. Within a few more minutes people had moved backwards towards the Ramses Hilton, the large street in front of it and were setting up some barricades there to stay there.

But all of a sudden several of those sort of armoured personnel carriers driven by military personnel started running up and down the streets through the crowds, deliberately zigzagging and aiming at the people, which was probably one of the most horrific things I've seen, if not the most horrific thing I have seen, in this revolution so far.

At one point I saw some young kids running behind a car to avoid the armoured car which then ploughed over the private automobile to hit these


asked people to come down and help defend the army …

Some people came to help the army so it was people against the people and the attackers thought they were attacking only Christians but there were a lot of Muslims fighting with the Coptics against the people that the army brought … I carried bodies into a building. There were very bad injuries. There were dead people.

Colleagues from my organisation, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, had already been on the scene and started calling me to alert me there were a large number of fatalities …

By the time I arrived most of the killings through shooting and through armoured vehicles of the armed forces running over protesters had already happened but there were still clashes between themilitary police members from one side as well as some Muslim men who were seemingly incited by, instigated by, the state television coverage to come out and defend the Egyptian army as that's what was being said on state TV.

They were firing teargas excessively at us and both sides were also pelting stones at each other. And at different points there were some clashes between Muslims and Christians on the scene, using batons and iron pipes, and, at least in one case, a sword.

I then left the scene and went to a nearby hospital, the Coptic hospital, where we were told that most of the bodies of those killed had been sent, and we were given access to the morgue of the hospital and we counted 17 bodies.

Many


on February 14, 1980. On May 9, 1980, the circuit court entered an order dismissing the cause with prejudice. The case was taken on appeal to the appellate court. On April 24, 1981, the appellate court entered judgment affirming the dismissal of counts I through V. The dismissal of count VI was reversed. (95 Ill. App.3d 444.) On October 19, 1981, we granted leave to appeal.
The complaint alleges that the defendant builder completed the house in early 1976. The plaintiff purchased the premises from the original owners in April of 1977. At the time the plaintiff purchased the house none of the defects complained of were apparent. Soon thereafter the plaintiff discovered that the chimney and adjoining brick wall were beginning to pull away from the rest ofwarranty be extended to the plaintiff as a subsequent purchaser.
Buyers of homes have traditionally assumed the burden of inequitable transactions, as the doctrine of caveat emptor dominated sales of real property well into the 20th century. Purchasers of dwellings that proved to be defective looked for a breach of contract based upon the failure of the builder to do the job in a workmanlike manner. The notion that the builder was an artisan who was amenable to constant supervision by the owner of the homesite came under severe attack as mass production of homes came to be a common practice in the post-World War II building boom. Roberts, The Case of the Unwary Home Buyer: The Housing Merchant Did It, 52 Cornell L.Q. 835, 837 (1967).
The implied warranty


Suffocations in grain bins--Minnesota, 1992-1995.
Suffocation in flowing grain is the most common cause of death associated with grain storage structures in the United States: during 1985-1989, suffocation accounted for 49 grain- and silage-handling-associated fatalities. During 1992-1995, nine persons in Minnesota died in separate incidents from asphyxiation after becoming engulfed in flowing grain within a grain storage structure. The Minnesota Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program (FACE), a program sponsored by CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), was notified of the incidents by the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MN-OSHA), Minnesota Extension Services, and a newspaper clipping service. This report describes the investigation of three of these incidents by FACE, summarizes surveillance for grain bin suffocations during 1992-1995, and provides recommendations to prevent suffocations associatedlittle "rocky", and he was a great help to me and my family during that time period.

Wade's "web blog" back in the 2005 time frame was one of the first "blogs" that was used to expose some shady activities in the Southern Baptist Convention. His boldness in daring to publicly write about his disagreements over significant doctrinal decisions impacting missionaries of the SBC International Mission Board got him into hot water with the heavies (bullies) in the SBC, leading to him eventually resigning his position on the board. But Wade believed it was his moral obligation to shine a light on what was being done behind closed doors at the IMB and adversely affecting many missionaries.

Wade was a trailblazer - who would have thought that someone could use


of Sheri Klouda, the seminary professor at Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary, who was fired by Paige Patterson because, well, she was guilty of the awful "offense" of being a woman who was teaching men at a seminary. I wrote several articles regarding the Klouda controversy as it spilled over into the topics relevant to this blog at the time.

But Wade's book "Fraudulent Authority" is a must-read for baptists who take seriously their church membership. Much of what is taught in Southern Baptist churches - especially in mega churches - regarding the position of "pastor" is not according to the bible. You owe it to yourself and your church to read this book. People are waking up to abuses in the church - not just sexual, but spiritual andthe tithes and offerings of God's people?"

Wade then goes on to explain that the parable of "The Rich Man and Lazarus" in Luke 16 is often used by pastors to tell the peeps that hell is real, and that those who don't let go of their riches in this world and give their tithes and offerings to their church might wake up one day and find themselves in hell begging for a drop of water.

But Wade points out that the "rich man" was not just some random rich man in Jesus' parable. He was Caiaphus the high priest, the equivalent to the modern day "man of God" who got filthy rich from his religious service.

Wade concludes the chapter by saying:

"The great problem of Jesus' day were religious leaders


have made him a unique voice that some people love and others love to hate.

Galifianakis is probably most widely known for his role as Alan in The Hangover films, but he’s also been in everything from Up in the Air, Birdman and Bored to Death. He’s now the star and co-creator of the new FX series, Baskets. He plays a clown who can’t keep up with the tuition or his classmates at his French clowning school, and returns to his hometown of Bakersfield, California to work in a rodeo.

Galifianakis sat down with Jesse to talk about creating a show that revolves around a mean and unlikeable character, how he contended with the sudden fame that came with The Hangover and what it’s like be dissed on public radio.

Basketsairs on Thursday nights at 10 pm on FX.

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Michael K. Williams on His Club Kid Days, Breaking Ground with The Wire and Why a Pop Song Touches Him So Deeply

Michael K. Williams is an actor and dancer who broke out in the role of Omar Little on HBO’s The Wire. His characterization of a criminal “with a code” made the show a favorite among critics and viewers, one of whom was President Obama.

He was a club kid turned professional dancer, and later turned to acting. His resume includes everything from Boardwalk Empire to Twelve Years a Slave to Inherent Vice. He currently co-stars in the new Sundance TV series, Hap and Leonard.

Williams sat down with us to talk about his memories of being