which finally delivers the result of the 2016 referendum and brings to an end far too many years of argument and division.

'We can now move forward as one country – with a Government focused upon delivering better public services, greater opportunity and unleashing the potential of every corner of our brilliant United Kingdom, while building a strong new relationship with the EU as friends and sovereign equals.'

He put pen to paper on the official copy of the Withdrawal Agreement in Downing Street this afternoon, ending months and months of biter and divisive politics

After being signed by the PM it will go back to Brussels tonight and be deposited in the EU archive alongside other treaties

The president of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, endorsed the Withdrawal Agreementtreaty struck between Britain and the bloc at a ceremony in Brussels this morning.

What happens next on Brexit? January 31: The UK will leave the EU at 11pm and enter into a standstill transition period. February: The EU will agree a negotiating mandate for trade talks with the UK. End of February: Trade talks between the two sides will start. December 2020: The end of the transition period and the hard deadline for a trade deal to be completed. Advertisement

She was joined by the president of the European Council Charles Michel and chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.

It was then brought to the UK with an escort of officials from both sides, No 10 said.

After being signed by the PM it will go back to Brussels tonight and be


deposited in the EU archive alongside other treaties.

The UK has three 'certified copies', one of which will be stored in the Foreign Office’s archive of international treaties.

The EU had demanded ownership of the original treaty.

Tory MPs welcomed the move. Transport minister George Freeman said the signing of the treaty proved 'democracy is working' after 'three years of gridlock'.

The result of the EU parliamentary vote is viewed as a formality with the UK now guaranteed to split from the EU at 11pm on the last day of this month.

Ms von der Leyen's signing of the treaty came as it was claimed that Mr Johnson wants to strike a 'trailblazing' trade deal with Japan by the autumn and before deals are done with the EU and US.

Ursula von der Leyensigned the Withdrawal Agreement treaty this morning in Brussels. She was joined by Charles Michel (right) and Michel Barnier

The signing of the treaty means the UK's departure from the EU on January 31 is now all but guaranteed

Downing Street reportedly believes that a quick deal is possible with Tokyo which would show the EU and the rest of the world that the UK is 'ready to go'.

New 'Boris Bounce' sees private sector boom The UK private sector returned to growth for the first time in five months in January as business confidence was boosted by Boris Johnson's election win, new data revealed today. An uplift in business confidence after the Conservatives won a majority in the general election helped to drive growth across the economy, as new work


of Brexit chaos: Key dates in the wrangling June 21, 2016: The UK votes to leave the EU in the referendum. July 13, 2016: Theresa May becomes PM after seeing off challenges from Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. March 29, 2017: Theresa May formally notifies the EU that the UK is triggering the Article 50 process for leaving the bloc. June 8, 2017: The Tories lose their majority in the snap election called by Mrs May in a bid to strengthen her hand on Brexit. Mrs May manages to stay in power propped up by the DUP. July 12, 2018: Mrs May forces her blueprint for the future relationship with the EU through Cabinet during lengthy talks at Chequers. But both David Davis and Boris Johnson resign afterwards.resign on June 7, triggering a Tory leadership contest. July 23-24, 2019: Mr Johnson wins the Tory leadership battle after solemnly vowing that Brexit will not be extended beyond October 31, and becomes PM the following day. August 28, 2019: Mr Johnson announces he wants to prorogue Parliament from September 10. September 3-4, 2019: MPs seize control of Commons business and pass a law requiring a Brexit extension to avoid No Deal. Mr Johnson tries to call a snap general election but does not secure the two-thirds majority of MPs needed. September 24, 2019: The Supreme Court declares the prorogation of Parliament illegal. October 21, 2019: Mr Johnson strikes a new Brexit deal with the EU, incorporating many elements of Mrs May's but deleting the Northern irish backstop


and proposing a much looser alignment. October 22, 2019: MPs approve Mr Johnson's deal at second reading stage in a major breakthrough - but they vote down his proposed timetable and vow to try to amend the Bill later. The PM responds by pausing the legislation and again demanding an election. October 29, 2019: MPs finally vote for an election, after the SNP and Lib Dems broke ranks to vote in favour, forcing the Labour leadership to agree. December 12, 2019: The Tories win a stunning 80 majority after vowing to 'get Brexit done' during the campaign. December 20, 2019: The new-look Commons passes Mr Johnson's Withdrawal Bill by a majority of 124. January 9: The EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill cleared its final Commons stages. January 22: EUWithdrawal Bill completes its passage through Parliament. January 23: The EU withdrawal Agreement Bill is given Royal Assent by the Queen and it becomes an Act of Parliament. January 24: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen formally signs the Withdrawal Agreement Treaty with Boris Johnson due to do the same. January 29: The European Parliament will meet in Brussels to vote on the Brexit deal. The result is a formality. 11pm, January 31: The UK formally leaves the EU - although it will stay bound to the bloc's rules for at least another 11 months during the transition period. Advertisement

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the White House wants a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK done and dusted THIS YEAR in major boost for Boris Johnson

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Secretary Steven Mnuchin today said the White House wants to agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK before the end of the year.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the senior ally of Donald Trump said Britain is 'top of the list of trade agreements' which the US administration wants to get in the books.

Describing the UK as 'our number one ally', Mr Mnuchin said the US 'look forward' to concluding an agreement with Downing Street 'this year'.

He said: 'The UK is our number one ally and it would be at the top of the list of trade agreements. We look forward to getting that done this year.'

His comments represent a massive boost for Boris Johnson as the Prime Minister prepares the government for post-Brexittrade talks.

Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury Secretary pictured in Davos, Switzerland today, said of a trade deal with the UK: 'We look forward to getting that done this year.'

As a member of the European Union the UK is currently barred from negotiating its own trade deals.

But as soon as Britain splits from Brussels on January 31 at 11pm it will be able to pursue its own agreements.

The UK is expected to negotiate a deal with the US at the same time as it discusses one with the EU.

Brexiteers hope the dual talks strategy and the prospect of a swift deal with the US will stop the EU from dragging its feet during talks.

Meanwhile, today it emerged that the PM also wants to target a quick trade deal with


Johnson, pictured in Downing Street today celebrating Chinese New Year, who is hoping the prospect of a swift US trade deal will prompt the EU to also move quickly on a future partnership agreement

But the EU does not believe 11 months is long enough to agree a comprehensive deal, raising the prospect of the transition period ending without a full agreement in place.

If the UK has a trade deal with the US already agreed it would lessen the impact of a chaotic split from the EU at the end of the year and make the bloc more likely to work at pace, Brexiteers have argued.

Mr Mnuchin's intervention came as it was reported that the EU has accepted the transition period will not be extended.

A senior official with theLife was vastly different for people in ancient times, and we must understand our ancestors’ conditions in order to appreciate their lives, comprehend their thinking, and learn from them.

In a time without cell phones, computers, telephones, automobiles, refrigerators, and all of the beeps, buzzes and noises of modern life, silence was common. In a time when the world’s population was less than 50 million, solitude was common. In a time when populations lived or died according to the size of their local annual harvest, austerity was the norm. This paper will mention only a few.

Sensation

By design, man has always received information from the world outside of himself through his senses. However, in ancient times the senses of man were limited in what they could experience by the local


environment. Today such limitations are far less.

Sight

Ancient – Without photographs and with drawings and paintings rare, man’s visual input was limited to the sights of his immediate surroundings. Few people had seen snow and jungles and mountains and forests and oceans because they rarely traveled more than a few dozen miles from home and those features are rarely co-located. Travelers could describe features to friends back home, but direct experience of varied sights was uncommon. With few written documents and little literacy, reading and analyzing documents was unusual.

People in Canaan had an advantage over many other ancient peoples in their visual experiences for two reasons. First, Canaan has snow and mountains (Mt. Hermon and vicinity), forests (Lebanon, Galilee, Jordan River basin), deserts (in the south around Beersheba, Negev),and the Mediterranean Sea. As nations go, Canaan is small (comparable in land mass to modern Slovenia or El Salvador), and residents of the land had only a few weeks travel from the deserts in the mountains in the north (Beersheba to Mount Hermon is just over 200 miles by ancient routes). The distance from the Jordan River to the east, and Mediterranean Sea to the west is only 60 miles. Second, Canaan was a crossroads of trade between Mesopotamia, Arabia, Africa, Asia, and Europe. People could see traders from India bringing peacocks and elephants, those from Yemen bringing gold and spices, and those from Europe trading furs. Assyria and Egypt were mighty empires compared to puny Israel, but while average Assyrians may never have seen an ocean


and average Egyptians may never have seen snow or mountains, ordinary Israelites could easily have experienced both. Few places in the world can boast of such diversity in so small an area.

Modern – Technology allows almost anyone to have almost any type of visual input, regardless of their environment. With millions of documents on every conceivable subject available to most people in an instant, people can spend large percentages of their time on them.

Hearing

Ancient – The sounds of nature, the human voice, and the noises of a few manmade things such as the creak and groan of the oxcart and the clash of swords comprised the sounds available to be heard. The overall noise level, except near inherently noisy places such as waterfalls, was low. Conversation occurs atTactile stimuli are the same throughout the world.

Modern – Ancient man was far less protected from hot, cold, rough, smooth, and other such stimuli than we are today. Many of us spend our days in climate-controlled houses, buildings and vehicles.

It is important to note that while the ancients had a smaller variety of stimuli to observe, they may have observed more deeply than we do today.

Schedule

In antiquity, man was governed by the realities of nature in a way that few people living today can even imagine. Sundials, water clocks and other devices were used to tell time in the ancient world, but mechanical clocks were not invented until the early Renaissance. The rhythms of the seasons dictated schedules.

Time Period

Day

Ancient – Artificial light, usually candles or lamps lit with


are awake 16-18 hours per day, most of it filled with activity and sensation.

Fortnight

Ancient – The phases of the moon and the movement of the stars were important for religious observances and for long distance navigation, especially nautical.

Modern – Navigation is done with timepieces, maps, charts, and radio and satellite navigation aids. Celestial navigation is a vanishing art.

Year

Ancient – As largely agricultural people, the seasons dictated man’s activities. Wars could not occur during the harvest until there were enough people to do both at the same time.

Modern – Few in developed countries are one poor harvest away from starvation, so the seasons have far less impact on the lives of people.

The greatest force available to man in the ancient world was the pulling force of an ox orStents and stent delivery assemblies are utilized in a number of medical procedures. As such, their general structure and function are well known. Stents are generally cylindrical prostheses introduced, via a catheter, into a lumen of a body vessel. Typically, the stent is secured to the catheter in a configuration having a generally reduced diameter for transport and delivery. Once the stent is positioned at a desired location in a target vessel it is deployed by expanding the stent to the diameter of the target vessel. In its expanded configuration, the stent supports and reinforces the vessel walls while maintaining the vessel in an open, unobstructed condition.
Balloon expandable stents are well known and widely available in a variety of designs, diameters and configurations. Balloon expandable stents are crimped


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Therefore, techniques have been developed to test the tensile force required to dislodge the balloon and catheter from theSaudi-Russia oil alliance likely to undercut OPEC

Saudi Arabia hopes to bring Russia into the fold of an expanded club of global oil giants to sustain a stable market, leaving OPEC's role in question, analysts say.

The new union, spearheaded by Riyadh and Moscow, is expected to be larger than the 14-member OPEC oil cartel, which has dominated the global energy market for the past six decades.

But experts say an expanded group that includes Russia means OPEC's sway in global oil is fading, if not all but "dead".

In January, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia floated the idea of extending a cooperation agreement struck in late 2016 by 24 OPEC and non-OPEC producers to trim output and shore up prices.

Top Saudi officials, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Energy Minister Khaled


to overcome "the worst cycle in the history of oil".

Kuwaiti oil expert Kamel al-Harami said "it would have been difficult to achieve that success by OPEC alone".

He told AFP that at its root, the new agreement "basically looks like a Saudi-Russian alliance".

The deal, which cut output by 1.8 million barrels per day, has removed more than 300 million barrels of surplus oil and lowered extra crude stockpiles to just 50 million barrels.

Oil Minister of non-OPEC Oman, Mohammed al-Rumhi, told an oil conference in Kuwait on Monday that the secret of the deal's success was compliance with production cuts.

But he warned that "the game is not over yet," calling on producers to continue cooperating to maintain market conditions.

"The two largest suppliers of conventional oil in the world -- Saudiwith inclusive and broad-based participation, he said.

- 'De facto dead' -

UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said last month that a "draft charter" for the new alliance would be finalised by the end of 2018 when the current agreement expires.

Faleh, Saudi's energy minister, said the partnership with Russia would last for "decades and generations".

He said he hoped it would send a message that the kingdom is looking to expand its partnerships beyond the OPEC circle.

Analysts believe the new alliance will, at the least, weaken OPEC's role in global oil.

"OPEC lost some of its shineafter Russia joined the cooperation agreement... It was a simple message that it could not do the job alone," said Harami.

Seznec, from Johns Hopkins University, said "OPEC is de facto dead", but still useful because it


sun had dropped in the sky and the air buzzed with pre-party vibrations. I was now rightfully back in my blue chair, having grabbed it back from the dealers’ tent when they left for the day. To prevent any further dispute I had drawn a large ‘N’ on the underside of the armrest, in permanent marker.

We were at Boomtown Festival, a four-day music event near the historic town of Winchester, England. Started in 2009, the annual festival is made up of several themed districts spread over a vast estate, including a punk wasteland Diss-Order Alley, the wild west area Copper County and the fanciful Oldtown.

There is a significant theatrical element to the event – the creators have made a backstory for the festival with vague socio-political undertones, whichpure hedonism and focuses on developing skills. Visitors can get involved in diverse activities such as yoga, trapeze, wood carving and sustainable building.

Persistent rain had ensured a low turnout that morning although a small group was gathered under the large gazebo for tai chi. You had to pay to join in, so we declined and took cover in a wooded area at the centre of the district to play some piano.

That night we headed out again into the phantasmogoria of Boomtown after dark. Pumping music, bizarre sideshows and young men with ‘I love ket’ sprawled on their torsos in permanent marker, lay before us. We partied among the throng until the early hours, revelling in the weirdness.

Sunday

The final day. The last hurrah. Stormclouds crawled across the sky as


may also approach the KMi PhD Admissions Coordinator informally for advice.

4.5 OU Induction Process

A University-wide induction programme for research students is organised by the Research School each year in the first week of October. During this week students across all disciplines are introduced to the university, the research facilities, and the social and recreational activities available on the campus. Help with finding accommodation is provided by the Research School through the University's Research Student Residential Accommodation Advice Service. The postgraduate student society arranges several events during induction week to encourage students to meet one another and find new friends.

5. Resource Infrastructure

5.1 KMi Resources

5.1.1 Office Environment

KMi is housed on the top floor of the Berrill Building, a modern purpose-built office building. Students and staff share the same environment. Itactively contribute to the institute and to the circulation of ideas. Being an active member of the KMi research community, sharing knowledge and engaging in intellectual debate, are considered to be as important a part of a research degree as writing and submitting a thesis.

8.1.4 Formal Research Proposal

By the end of their first year, students should have prepared and defended a formal research proposal. To ensure this deadline is met, students are typically required to submit a proposal to their supervisors by the tenth month of their studentship.

The proposed research should build on the work already completed by the student during the first year. By deferring the proposal until after the literature review and some pilot research has been performed, the student and the supervisors should have a


time allocated to each part of the student's research plan.

A list of cited references.

The student should submit their proposal to all members of their supervisory team for review at least six weeks before the end of their first year leaving time for the first year review

8.1.5 Submission of First Year Report

Towards the end of their first year, each student must undergo a formal first year review which determines whether they will pass their provisional status and continue as a PhD candidate. The student's literature review, pilot project and research proposal are milestones in the student's first year that are reviewed and commented upon by their supervisory team. The first year review is a significantly more formal event and will be based on the student's first year report andequivalent to that of other published work.

After the progress review, each member of the supervisory team must complete the standard annual student progress report form provided by the university's Research School. Should a student fail the first year review, he or she may meet with their supervisory team to determine the possibility of pursuing an M.Phil degree.

The student's registration will automatically be terminated by the research school if the completed annual student progress report is not submitted and approved by the end of the student's first year. The student and the members of the student's supervisory team are jointly responsible for ensuring this deadline is met.

8.2 Year Two

8.2.1 Workshop or Conference Submission

Apprenticeship in research involves not only reading and writing, but becoming an active, recognised member of a


student's final year the student's review panel should meet to consider the students progress and discuss potential internal and external examiners for the thesis. Although less formal than the student's first and second year reviews, the third year progress review is an opportunity to discuss the student's progress and encourage the earliest completion of the PhD. As in the previous two years, after the progress review each member of the supervisory team must complete the standard annual student progress report form provided by the university's Research School.Muppets go to school

This is my first fan fiction if its bad sorry. Its about muppets going to school and there adventures but the teachers are watching what will they do?

Chapter 1

It was Kermits first day at school he was shy. He thought that the teachers were quite weird as he walked down a masive corridor people were pushing and pulling through the crowds of people. Kermit got to his first lesson room he sat next to a bear called Fozzie. The weird teacher was blabering on about how to fix a car Kermit was bored. Kermit said "Whats a engine" The teacher said "The thing that makes the car move"Kermit and the rest of the class went outside to play. Kermit could see some people playing football,


some racing and Fozzie bear telling jokes but the big kids were bulling him. "Stop!" shouted Kermit Fozzie said "Thanks"Kermit asked if he wanted to be his best freind"Fozzie said "Of course. Kermit went to the teachers and asked what there names were one was called Statler and the other was called Waldorf "End of break" said Statler so Kermit and Fozzie went back to class.There Kermit met another person he was kind of weird his name was Gonzo the teacher asked Kermit a question he said "Whats 27 + 19" Kermit didnt know.

This is not bad at all. I am sure this was around mid-1960s and way before Kermit got his first job on Sesame Street with Jim Henson. I also like where Kermit told these bullysharp rocks without getting hurt "said Gonzo he failed. "ha ha ha"said one of the bullys Kermit and fozzie finished there sandwichs and cookies and told the bullys to stop laughting and go away. They asked Gonzo if he wanted to be freinds he said"yes". It was time for books kermit saw a pig he asked what her name was she didnt reply. He sat next to Gonzo and Fozzie he really wanted to know her name he asked Fozzie he said" we call her miss piggy" Kermit replied"Miss piggy what a name" "End of book time" said the teacher "Get your coats everyone"said the other teacher Kermit went home to watch TV. When he got home he found a party invite it said "come on down to


Gonzo's party 11:00am till 12:30am.

I'm glad Gonzo became friends with Kermit and Fozzie. When the Muppet Show began many years later, it was true that Gonzo got booed at the audience when his stunts failed. Poor guy! All he had to do was to try again. Miss Piggy's shy? That's interesting! I cannot wait for the next chapter.

Kermit woke up at 7:00am on saturday he remembered it was Gonzo's party he got out of his pyjamas,got dressed,brushed his teeth and went down stairs. He watched 1 hour of TV and got on his way to gonzo's house. When he got to gonzo's house he saw Fozzie,Miss piggy,a boy wearing glasses,a young rat and a dog on Gonzo's toy piano. Kermit asked Gonzo what the dog's name was gonzosaid "Rowlf" Fozzie went over to Kermit and told him a joke Kermit pretended it was funny. Kermit went over to Miss piggy she blushed and ran away. Kermit was confused he asked Fozzie why is Miss piggy so shy its like she's lost her voice.Fozzie said"nah she just like's you" "what" Kermit shouted Gonzo went to check on Rowlf "What's Wrong"Gonzo said "the piano broke" rowlf replied. Kermit come and said"ill help" thanks Kermit got out his screwdriver and fixed the piano Rowlf said "thanks" wanna be freinds? "Ok" said kermit.Kermit now had 3 freinds from his new school he thought they seemed pretty nice.The party ended and everyone went home Kermit remembered it was parents evening in 2 days Kermit was worried because he didn't hand


in his homework so he went to Rowlf's house for help. Rowlf said"Just spend all night working on your homework and give it in tommorow.Kermit went back home to do his homework.

One day later.Kermit rushed to the teacher and gave in his homework the teacher said"next time give it in quick" Kermit sat next to Fozzie and a boy wearing glasse's. Kermit asked what his name was he said"Scooter". Then Scooter had to pick a partner he picked Kermit. Scooter already new Kermit's name they worked on something called the skateboard 3000 it worked fine everyone played on it.It was parents evening Miss Piggy's mum told her to play with Kermit they were outside."Hi" said Piggy shyly they played catch.They became friends but Piggy wasn't just his friend65. Provincial projections estimate that 25 per cent of the province's population will be in this category by the year 2021.

Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton both need to cut millions from their budgets by the end of the fiscal year in March. (Cory Ruf/CBC)

Hamilton has a higher than average percentage of population aged 65 and older, according to the latest census data. The region also has a higher number of people over the age of 50 than the rest of the province — 38 per cent of Ontario's population is over 50-years-old, while 41 per cent of the Hamilton LHIN (which includes Niagara, Haldimand and Brant) is over 50.

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sent Johnson £10 but offered no greater support to Johnson through the seven further years it took him to compile the Dictionary. A degree of genteel mutual antipathy thereafter existed between the two men, Chesterfield regarding Johnson as a "respectable
Hottentot, who throws his meat anywhere but down his throat" and as "uncouth in manners". Johnson, in turn, was disparaging of both Chesterfield's nobility and his intellect: "This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords."

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After seven years from first meeting Johnson to go over the work, Chesterfield wrote two anonymous essays in The World that recommended the Dictionary. He complained that the English language was lacking structure and argued:
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In March, the group Yorkston / Thorne / Khan, featuring Wesleyan graduate student Suhail Yusuf Khan (at right), performed in Spain and the United Kingdom.

Graduate student Suhail Yusuf Khan recently performed at two international music festivals with his group Yorkston / Thorne / Khan. The band comprises James Yorkston, a folk singer and guitarist; Jon Thorne, a jazz bassist; and eighth-generation musician Khan, a sarangi violinist and a vocalist of Indian classical music. The sarangi is a short-necked bowed string instrument from northern India, regarded as sounding similar to the human voice.

And on March 23, Yorkston / Thorne / Khan dazzled a sold-out theater at the Science Museum in London. The concert served as part of the museum’s Illuminating India series, which commemorated 70


with various artists, donated all proceeds to The Hispanic Federation’s UNIDOS Disaster Relief Fund to help the survivors of Hurricane Maria

Additionally, when the Grammy nominations were released on Nov. 28, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s work appeared in two categories, both related to his work on the soundtrack for Moana, Disney’s animated adventure-comedy. Moana: The Songs, a compilation of works by various artists, including Miranda as singer and performer, appears in the category of Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media. Additionally, a song he wrote for that film, “How Far I’ll Go” (performed by Auli’i Cravalho), appears in the Best Song Written For Visual Media category.

In an interview with Hollywood Reporter Melinda Newman, Miranda explained that the insight into creating “How Far..” for the title character of the film came inMusique (also known as World Music Day), the sixth annual The MASH festival on Sept. 9 highlighted Wesleyan’s student music scene, with multiple stages on campus featuring everything from a cappella ensembles to student, faculty and alumni bands.

The MASH was held in conjunction with the City of Middletown’s Main Street Stroll, a family-friendly celebration of Middletown’s Main Street and the new Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore. The stroll featured music, street performers, specialty workshops and more.

The Mattabesset String Collective is a five-piece Wesleyan-affiliated acoustic ensemble playing an eclectic mix of bluegrass, blues, folk, mountain, country and rock, all in a string band style.

The group’s name, Mattabesset, is the Algonquian name for the region that became Middletown. “Since our music reaches back into history, we thought it was appropriate. We


were attracted to the term collective because it suggests the egalitarian nature of our enterprise,” said band member Marc Eisner, dean of the Social Sciences Division, the Henry Merritt Wriston Chair in Public Policy, professor of government, professor of environmental studies.

The band performed July 29 in Higganum, Conn. Photos of the concert are below: (Photos by Olivia Drake)

Pictured from left is Gil Skillman, Rebecca McCallum, Kevin Wiliarty, Marc Eisner and Barry Chernoff. They have about 80 songs in their repertoire, ranging from old-time traditional jug band music, to string band versions of Jimi Hendrix and Guns N’ Roses, and a few songs written by band members. “One of the pleasures of playing in this band involves reaching for, and occasionally attaining, new levels of musical cohesion,” Skillman said.

GilSkillman is professor of economics, tutor in the College of Social Studies. He plays the banjo, cuatro and dobro with the string collective. Skillman taught himself guitar as a teenager. “Once you learn to play one fretted instrument, learning others is primarily a matter of varying the approach to sounding the strings, which is easier than learning to play an instrument from the ground up,” he said.

Tyshawn Sorey MA ’11, assistant professor of music, is called a “preternaturally talented multi-instrumentalist who has built a career in the territory between standard definitions” in an extensive profile in The New York Times.

“In some circles, he’s thought of as a jazz drummer; in others, he fits in more as an avant-garde composer,” the article says of Sorey, who is about to


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Firstly some background – I was the Labour candidate in Southampton Itchen in June’s general election, the seat that we lost by 31 votes to the Conservatives making it now the most marginal Tory held seat in England. I am...

Firstly some background – I was the Labour candidate in Southampton Itchen in June’s general election, the seat that we lost by 31 votes to the Conservatives making it now the most marginal Tory held seat in England. I am also the leader of Southampton City Council, one of those ‘red dot’ councils that have traditionally given us hope here in the South.

I joined the Labour party in 1984 at the height of the miners’ strike with ambitions to fight Thatcher and the evils of capitalism. I have foughtin various ways eight general election campaigns. This without doubt was one of the strangest and my first as a candidate.

From the outset I must say that I am not one of those people who has been working night and day to be an MP. I was as surprised as everybody else to be rung in the pub on the Sunday before Mayday to be told by a regional official that I had got the job.

At the start of the campaign we had three aims all of which were designed to assist my good friend Alan Whitehead in his attempt to hold Southampton Test. Firstly we thought my local profile and name recognition would concern the Itchen Conservatives enough to ensure that they stayed in the East and


did not venture into Southampton Test. Secondly, we wanted to use the campaign to highlight some of the achievements of the Labour Council and build towards the 2018 local elections. Thirdly, we wanted to keep the margin of defeat down to a manageable amount to give the candidate in the 2022 election some chance.

With the polls showing a 20 point Tory lead the national party were throwing the kitchen sink at holding Southampton Test – we had five full-time people working on the campaign including the recently retired Mike Creighton, former national head of compliance and had got off to a flying start with a campaign focused around Alan’s record as an MP and his commitment to the city.

I had a small but dedicated campaign team lead byPaul Lewzey my agent and Gordon Cooper our local campaign organiser. Our first decision was to lift and shift the leaflet strategy from Southampton Test. We spent the Monday in between speaking at the Southampton May day festival and a canvass session in the Bitterne Park ward rushing around the city taking suitable photos to support the first leaflet. We had it designed and written and at the printers (an excellent not for profit outfit in the city) by Tuesday lunchtime and it was back and out for distribution on Friday afternoon. My Conservative opponent – as well as having the advantage of a two week start – was also supported by at least four whole constituency-wide national leaflets which were paid for and delivered by the national


with events, hustings and the occasional media appearance. BBC South asked me to participate in their Southern debate show. This turned out to be a chaotic affair with five candidates and a very engaged audience. It took place after the manifesto launches and it was the first hint to me that the mood of the country had started to shift. It was also the first time I heard the phrase ‘magic money tree’ spouted by a Tory. Their candidate had a set of pre-prepared central office soundbites which she tried to work through. The audience were having none of it and were very anti-Tory. Peter Henley the veteran political reporter said afterwards that even he was surprised that ‘self-identifying’ Tory voters in the audience were critical when heout. This matched a similar Tory effort in the seat.

In Southampton Test they were overwhelmed with volunteers. A few days after polling day a friend told me he was knocked up twice on election day after he had already told the team that he had voted Labour. Reports came in that in the university areas, young people were queuing around the block to vote. It was too late to switch the strategy and the die was cast.

On election night I reflected on the campaign with Alan Whitehead. We both thought he would win and I would do better than our original estimate of a 6,000 or so loss. Then the exit poll came and the game changed.

For an hour or so it looked like we had won. I


Last weekend John and Edward arrived in London as guests of the annual Youtuber event Summer in the City, where they met over a thousand fans in meet and greets, including an eight hour unofficial meet and greet in the boulevarde outside the event. Sunday, at their official meet and greet, they met over 200 people, and had to extend their original 2 hour slot to nearly 4.

The twins proved to be extremely popular with event goers, as well as YouTubers, many of whom featured them in their latest Vlogs.

While at SitC, John and Edward attended the launch of the new YouTube Space, London, which opens its recording studios and edit space to any YouTubers with over 10,000 subscribers. There are equivalent studios in Los Angeles, New York,Berlin, Paris, Mumbai, Tokyo, São Paulo, and Toronto. YouTube Space London is situated next to Kings Cross St Pancras station, and is the largest in Europe, featuring 4K and virtual reality cameras. The 20,000 square foot venue replaces the former 5,000 sq foot YouTube Space London which was situated in Camden, near Google.

YouTubers with at least 10,000 subscribers can book to use the studios at any time, which means as John and Edward have close to 100,000 subscribers on their JedwardTV channel, they are also entitled to use any of the YouTube Space facilities.

John and Edward also gave a very indepth interview to Red Carpet TV, which you can see here:

John and Edward made an incredible impact on everyone at Summer in the City this year, and it


1994 team was built around Linden and Bure. Linden, the 2nd overall pick in 1988, was 23-years-old during the 1993-94 season.

Bure was drafted late in the 1989 entry draft, but only because the Canucks figured out that he’d appeared in a few additional obscure games and was – to the surprise of Vancouver’s NHL rivals – draft eligible. In a more modern context, every team and media outlet would’ve checked eliteprospects.com well before the draft and Bure would’ve been a surefire top selection. He was 22 when the Canucks took the New York Rangers to seven games.

Without picking at the top of the draft, it won’t be easy for the Canucks to find the next Linden or the next Bure, or the next Henrik and Daniel Sedin forThe Music Shop

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It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down suburb there is a music shop that stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. Like a beacon, the shop attracts the lonely, the sleepless, and the adrift; Frank, the shop's owner, has a way of connecting his customers with just the piece of music they need. Then, one day, into his shop comes a beautiful young woman, Ilse Brauchmann, who asks Frank to teach her about music. Terrified of real closeness, Frank feels compelled to turn and run, yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems, and Frank has old wounds that threaten to reopen,


Dec. 1. On Monday, that goal was reached.

She set a new deadline of Dec. 1 for agencies operating in rural areas and the North. On Monday, she declared that the province had achieved that goal.

"We have created more appropriate options for caring for vulnerable children when a crisis occurs in their lives," Irvin-Ross said. "We’ve boosted resources for agencies so they have an appropriate and safe place for children in need of protection.

"We’re also investing more in better supports to help families look after their children at home."

The use of hotels to temporarily house kids in care had long been a controversial issue. However, it came to a head in early April when a teenage girl was found badly beaten outside a downtown Winnipeg parkade. The CFS wardThe superstition that played a major role in Sarah Jessica Parker's new fashion collection

Sarah Jessica Parker has long believed that saying “rabbit, rabbit” on the first of the month brings good luck — and she has incorporated the saying into her clothing line. (Image: The Gap via YouTube)

Aside from that very public spat with Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker has led a pretty charmed life: a successful acting career for decades, a 20-year-plus marriage, three “curious” kids, a shoe and handbag line, and now, a limited-edition collection for Gap. Perhaps her good luck can be traced back to a superstition she’s been feeding since her 20s.

The Divorce and Sex and the City star’s Gap collection went on sale today. The pieces, which are colorful and cute, are part


When the United Federation of Planets was formed and the member nation's space services were integrated these vessels were transferred over to Starfleet authority. Their primary role, along with most of the Andorian ships, was the defense of Federation territory.Islamabad: Pakistan Air Force successfully test fired indigenously developed extended range smart weapon from JF-17 multi-role fighter aircraft, today.

It is indeed a great milestone as the weapon has been developed, integrated and qualified solely through indigenous efforts of Pakistani scientists and engineers.

The successful trial has provided JF-17 Thunder a very potent and assured day and night capability to engage variety of targets with pinpoint accuracy.

Lauding the efforts of Pakistani scientists and engineers, Air Chief Marshal, Mujahid Anwar Khan, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force has congratulated the PAF personnel on the achievement of this monumental indigenous capability.

He further added "Pakistan is a peace loving nation but if subjected to aggression by adversary, we would respond with full force."


to say...

Speak to me, Goddess, darkweaver. Reveal yourself.

Listen. And see.

And feel: what she has to say.

At the end of a long day, the silence of the lonely sailor,
out on the storm-gathered sea, the taste of salt and blood on the lips,
the nectar of the mystery of living, deeply and fully -- bared breast
to the wind of change.

There I am.

It is nice to know that I have a friend in thee -- simply
that, for now.was swaying back and forth in the breeze.

Finally, Pipi's placed his hand on Little Lin's shoulder and held him fast.

Little Lin said, "We'll say you're the faster runner."

"Little Lin, It doesn't matter figs or grapes[10], we're going to the king to ask him if you're my property or not."

So, the dog gentleman dragged him back, followed by the moon with its silver hat.

Pingping continued to cry with his big red eyes fixed on his hat on the moon.

"What's to be done?"

Pipi replied impatiently, " What are you crying about? Wait until the moon becomes round again and the hat will fall off. You should have it in half a month."

Pingping said through his tears, " Okay. So, it's goodbye then. You go on ahead and I'll wait here."

So,


That's not right!"

Sixizi cried:

"Let me go! Let me go! Ai-you!"

Mumu's face was covered in tears:

"Aya! This is horrible--a little lighter please! Lighter please, aya, aya!"

I'm going to take advantage of this moment when they are not screaming to explain. What is foot torture? Well, it's tickling the soles of the feet!

The three of them were tied up very tightly. They couldn't budge an inch. The policemen were tickling the soles of their feet in earnest and the children's feet were itching like crazy. It was unbearable and there was no escape. The three of them laughed so hard they couldn't catch their breath and tears leaped from their eyes. But they also wanted to cry.

The tickling went on for an hour.

Later Sisige came and took them away. Graspinga cigarette?

"Okay, give me one then."

Baha quickly passed a cigarette to Baobao and lit it for him. He sat down in a chair and crossed his left leg over his right and smoked as he said:

"This is a nice cigarette. We can't get these in heaven. But let's get to the point, Baha--you don't have a son, isn't that so?"

"Oh yes, the very thing on my mind."

"Would you like one?"

"Of course, I would. Of course. Can you, Angel, help me in this regard?"

Baobao drew hard on his cigarette:

"That's why I'm here. I see that you're a good person. So, I'm going to send you a son."

Baha was so happy he couldn't catch his breath:

"Really? Where, where? Did you bring him with you?"

Baobao replied:

"Don't be so hasty! Angels don't


door. It had twelve thousand classrooms and six thousand teachers. There were twelve students and with Jiji now enrolled there was a total of thirteen.

The principal was an old scholar. He greeted Jiji:

"Come on in! Let's get our classes underway. Jiji, do you have your servants with you?"

"Yes, I do."

"Are they all here?"

"They are."

The principal walked over to the entrance to take a look. Indeed, there were the two hundred servants that Jiji had brought with him. Wherever Jiji went these two hundred were always at this side. The principal said:

"Order your two hundred servants to take your class with you."

"What's the first class?"

The principal was startled:

"You aren't familiar with the school's regulations?"

"I'm not."

"Let me tell you then."

The principal held a copy of the Regulations of the Imperialthere was a worry that he would bring the floor down. If you smiled at Jiji, Jiji wouldn't smile in return. His face was too fleshy to make a smile. If Jiji wanted to say something, his gums were squeezed right out of his mouth.

Mr. Baha was very pleased:

"Jiji is becoming very good looking. But it would be better if he were a little fatter."

After a while Jiji was much, much fatter. During the winter, Jiji's fingernails began to be covered in flesh.

He was also now doing better in his studies. He was doing well in sports as well. Jiji was good at running races which made Baha love him all the more:

"You're such a good son. Good at your studies, good at running. There's a sports meet


stretched his mouth into a smile.

A little while later, he made another signal which meant:

"Come! I want to sing."

When Jiji wanted to sing, he didn't have to take any pains about it. Servant Three sang in his place.

_"Three sevens are forty-eight_

_Four sevens are fifty-eight_

_There's a chrysanthemum growing on my Baba's head_

_There are insects crawling around the floor._

_The Rose Princess ate ten pumpkins"_

Baha applauded:

"Jiji's singing is very good."

Baha and Jiji were very happy. They were even happier at the end of the school term because Jiji had placed first in his exams. Another cause for happiness was that the Imperial Elementary School was about to hold a sports meet. Baha said:

"Jiji will definitely place first in the races."

# Chapter Thirteen

Two Types of Races

The day for the meet had arrived.

Theproducts of The Gurgle Works and tried to sell them. He was tried by Baobao. People say that it was Little Lin and his group that killed Sisiges Numbers One and Two, but there wasn't any proof. Little Lin definitely had a hand in the harm done to your father."

Jiji went all weak the moment he heard mention of his father and Sisige. He said:

"An evil enemy for certain!"

As they were talking, they heard the prince's angry voice carried from the train platform.

"No way! No way!"

No one in the train car paid any attention. They assumed it was the prince stealing something. This was nothing out of the ordinary. But the sound grew louder and louder and the voice of the station master could also be heard.

"Don't argue,


mine. I'm certainly not going to let any one else come here fishing around or take away any of my stuff."

He looked about him standing very proudly. He approached one of the reclining millionaires.

"Wei! Who are you and what are you doing using my gold ingot as your pillow."

He didn't move an inch and didn't make a sound.

"I'm speaking to you!"

Jiji waited but there was no movement. He felt there was something very wrong.

"What the...?"

He touched him. Haya! Frozen! He was dead!

He went and looked at the others. All the same!

Jiji was terrified and wanted to get away but then he thought about it and calmed down:

"If they're dead, then they can't steal any of my wealth."

However, the three millionaires who were sitting on the shore of theto say. He just lay across his pile of pearls resting with his eyes half closed.

Jiji stood there staring for some time. He thought to himself:

"What a shameful thing to say! Is he really a millionaire?"

Gradually, though, Jiji began to realize that staying on this island was not so ideal.

When Jiji had drifted to Millionaire Island his stomach was full. For a while he'd not felt hungry. Now, however, he was unbearably thirsty. But he had no idea where he would find water to drink. He knew that somewhere in the world there was a person who could dig a very deep hole and from it draw water. But that person wasn't to be found there.

He seemed to remember that there was also a person in the world


positions. A decrease in maximal power output was found for lower saddle positions. Recorded changes in knee kinematics resulted in a decrease in moment generating capacity of biceps femoris, rectus femoris and vastus intermedius at the knee. No differences in muscle moment generating capacity were found at hip and ankle. Based on these results we conclude that lower saddle positions are less optimal to generate maximal power output, as it mainly affects knee joint kinematics, compromising mechanical performance of major muscle groups acting at the knee.operating division comes from content, subscriptions, advertising and delivery.

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CNN, the brainchild of Ted Turner, made its debut on June 1, 1980, from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Competing with ABC, CBS and NBC, CNN became the first channel to provide news 24/7. Despite its humble beginnings, the network earned its reputation in the early 1990s during its live coverage of the Persian Gulf War. CNN was also the first channel to report the 9/11 attacks. While CNN strives for political impartiality, Pew research has revealed that its audience leans slightly to the left. The channel is currently available in 100 million households across the US. CNN has also expanded abroad with channels broadcasting in Turkish, Japanese and Spanish. With news operations in Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and London,


lambasted by Xinhua news agency for offering one-sided coverage of disturbances in Urumqi and Tibet. The same concerns hovered around their coverage of Thailand’s 2010 political protests.

In 2008, CNN showed violent clashes between police and protestors in Belgrade, while speaking of a nationalist threat in the Balkan nation. There was one major problem — the images shown came from Budapest two years earlier. Budapest is the capital of Hungary.

Later that year, during the South Ossetia War, CNN used images from Georgia’s destruction of Tskhinval to illustrate a piece about the Russian bombardment of Gori. CNN ignored the criticism and never addressed it.

Amber Lyon, a former correspondent at the network, claimed in 2011 that she had been instructed by CNN to ensure her reports helped sway US opinion towardsCOMPANY NEWS

Coates Hire joins John Bowe in the fight against silent illness

Coates Hire has thrown its support behind the Black Dog Institute in a bid to help tackle the silent killer affecting one in two Australians.

Mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety are becoming a huge issue in Australia, impacting people at home and at work. As Australia’s largest equipment hire company, this issue is particularly pertinent to Coates Hire who service a large division of Australians that suffer in silence – males and construction workers.

Coates Hire ambassador and Australian Motorsport Legend John Bowe was a prime example of men tackling depression and anxiety silently, representing the 28% of men experiencing symptoms that seek professional help.

Bowe dealt with symptoms that almost ended fatally in his last year of


to the track at the Clipsal 500 Adelaide in March with the Black Dog Institute branding on his car to support the cause.
Black Dog Institute Research
Men and mental illness

Only 28% of all men experiencing symptoms will seek help

80% of all suicides in Australia are by men

When experiencing poor mental health, men are more likely to engage in aggressive, antisocial or risky behaviour

Black Dog Institute research shows men use different language compared to women when talking about their mental health, and prefer to chat with their partner or mates rather than a doctor
Male construction workers

Construction workers are more than twice as likely to suicide than other people in Australia, particularly for lower skilled workers such as labourers or machine operators

Construction workers are six times more likely to die byThe design for phases 2 and 3 of Pinnacle One Yonge appeared before a joint meeting of the City of Toronto's Design Review Panel and Waterfront Toronto's Design Review Panel yesterday at Toronto City Hall. These phases of the development, designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects for Pinnacle International, will respectively add 95 and 80-storey towers to the 65-storey phase 1 tower. All three towers are to be built on the north half of the site the developer purchased from The Toronto Star in 2011.

Looking southeast from up high above Pinnacle One Yonge, image courtesy of Pinnacle International

The design presented to the joint Design Review Panel (DRP) meeting represents a five-year evolution of the plans for the huge complex, first revealed to the public on January 3, 2013. Originally


proposed with six towers (four on the north half of the site, two on the south), a third tower was added to the south half, then two of those towers were combined, and then the four-tower north half was reconfigured for three towers. Heights have changed, along with the arrangement of the buildings and passageways around them at ground level, and a community centre was made part of the mix. It's all made for a protracted process of the developer and architect refining the plans in conjunction with the aims of the City and Waterfront Toronto, looking to create something of significance at the south end of Toronto's main north-south street. Placemaking is the operative term here (read tall, bold, and memorable), all while creating the first buildingsof a new neighbourhood, with an emphasis on liveability: that is paramount for the City's Lower Yonge Precinct Plan.

Pinnacle One Yonge in context of Downtown Toronto, image courtesy of Pinnacle International

A reworked road network for the area along with a new public realm to complement it will account for much of the livability gains. Currently the site of the Harbour-to-Lake Shore S-curve at Yonge Street, traffic patterns will change in the area as Harbour is extended east through this and adjoining sites, allowing the sweeping, land-consumptive curve to be eliminated and the space it takes up to be reallocated to pedestrians. An outdoor square is planned for the northwest corner of the site, and while it is shown below (where labeled 'North Parcel') with landscaping, don't read too


much into the depiction yet: the public space has not yet been designed. The City has mused about creating a competition for the public realm design here, and Design Review Panel members yesterday urged them to do so, noting the significance of this project and its location.

Pinnacle One Yonge Site Plan, image courtesy of Pinnacle International

With its prominent, central location and its size, the importance of getting the project right at both the city scale and local scale was emphasized at the meeting. Panel members were generally enthusiastic about what they saw, with those who had been at earlier DRP sessions remarking on how far the design has come, while still recording some concerns they want to see addressed as the design is further refined.

Looking southeast to Pinnaclethe walls opposite the second floor PATH walkway through the development, below a skylight and above the main ground level shared walkway and drop-off zone, is being explored as an opportunity for a major public art installation.

Looking south from the new public square to the Phase 2 podium with hotel lobby behind, image courtesy of Pinnacle International

With a considerable amount of design work still to do at ground level, more than one panel member stated the importance of creating a ground realm that reflected the importance of this development for the city, one citing Rockefeller Centre in New York and this city's Toronto Dominion Centre as examples of the weight that One Yonge will have in shaping our notions of this emerging area in the future. Summed up


most charismatic species that were discovered, tracked, and modeled in the Census, along with the major findings regarding past, present, and future populations. The map will show Large Marine Ecosystems (LME) or Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW), with photographs of the species inhabiting them. Reverse side tells stories of the ecosystem services provided by marine biota, population and ecosystem trends, and threats to marine species and ecosystem services.

Distribution: ~100,000. A major corporate sponsorship could potentially enable distribution of the map or maps to all 113,000 K-12 schools in the U.S.

Distribution: The website would be accessible to a worldwide audience, and could be promoted, linked to, and/or hosted by National Geographic, the Census of Marine Life, or other partner organizations.Hill). The court also judicially authorized Lynch & Hill to use their property according to the "E" commercial classification with certain limitations as set forth in the Journal Entry of Judgment.
Maureen Anderson and Putnam Heights Preservation Area, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Intervenors) filed a petition to intervene in the action which was granted.
Lynch & Hill made application to City to rezone their lot located at 3523 N. Classen Boulevard. The application asked that the "A" single family dwelling classification be rezoned to "E" local commercial. Intervenors entered the case in support of City and strenuously objected to the rezoning application. After a full hearing before the city council the application was denied. Lynch & Hill then brought suit in district court challenging the validity of the legislative


and submitted proposed construction plans. According to the testimony, this construction would conform the entire block to the same use. Several blocks of Classen Boulevard in this area are strip zoned for various levels of commercial usage. The present single family dwelling classification is obviously a zoning relic reflecting the historic character of the street before the recent commercial intrusion. Directly north of the lot on the same side of the street, Classen Boulevard is strip zoned "D-1" and is being used for office buildings.[2] Therefore, subject lot is bounded on the north by "D-1" zoning and on the south by "E" commercial zoning. It is literally "sandwiched" between two different zoning districts. Across the street from this property is Memorial Park.
A careful review of the photographic andwas operating profitably. City concurred with intervenors that it was commercially feasible to utilize the space for an office building and it could be profitably used as a "transition zone."
Both sides offered testimony as to the relative increases in traffic and other matters pertinent to potential uses. City and Intervenors offered evidence that when property is zoned "E" commercial it has a deteriorating effect on the whole neighborhood due to increases in traffic and visual and noise pollution, not to mention other predictable deleterious consequential effects.
At the close of evidence, the trial judge viewed the premises and rendered a judgment granting an injunction to prohibit City from enforcing "A" single family dwelling restrictions in relation to subject lot. He then ordered rezoning of the subject lot to "E"


While a significant number of workers at the plant, which has a total work force of nearly 6,500, are contract workers who earn lower wages than employees, they were not eligible to vote in the union election.

Publicly, Nissan emphasized how the plant was a lifeline for workers in the area, including one commercial in which a Mississippi pastor described how people were “fluctuating back and forth looking for jobs” before the plant arrived. The message resonated with many workers, although some found it condescending. “They were telling African-Americans, look what they provided for us, but I had a job before I came to Nissan,” said David Brown, who was undecided the week before the vote but ended up supporting the union. “I had a house already, had carsthat anything was wrong, it seems like defrauding investors may remain a safe bet for a while.

(An employee counts Indian currency notes at a cash counter inside a bank in Kolkata June 18, 2012. Reuters photo: Rupak De Chowdhuri)

(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author, and not necessarily of Reuters)

Rahul Gandhi has his work cut out as the new Congress vice president. His speech at the party’s brainstorming meeting on Sunday impressed fans and critics, but it probably is too soon to celebrate.

While he may be the best choice to take charge of the Congress campaign before the 2014 elections, state battles could remain outside his control. No matter how good the 42-year-old Gandhi might prove himself to be, prevailing in the nine assembly elections happening


NDA’s prime ministerial candidate. The 2002 communal riots of Gujarat that killed up to 2,500 people, have made Kumar wary. After all, he has the support of a large Muslim population in Bihar, and the last person they want to support is someone like Modi, who has faced criticism in India and abroad for failing to stop the riots and for reportedly encouraging them.

The BJP has also failed to keep Modi’s apparent friction with party president Gadkari under wraps. Senior RSS member MG Vaidya caused controversy by suggesting that Modi was stoking Gadkari’s resignation demand by a section of BJP leaders following the recent accusations against him.

As for praise showered on Modi recently by veteran party leader LK Advani and the BJP’s leader in the Rajya Sabha, oryou’re out … unless you’re Agatha Sangma.

She is the daughter of Purno Sangma, former speaker of India’s lower house of Parliament, who was forced to resign from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) after refusing his boss’s order to withdraw his bid to become India’s next president. The NCP, a key ally of the Congress party, which rules India under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a coalition government, backs the Congress nominee for the post, ex-Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

Agatha Sangma, an NCP member and representative of the Tura constituency in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, is:

She invited the ire of her bosses when she announced her support of her father’s candidacy in public forums and accompanied him to meet the chief minister of the state of Tamil Nadu,


the opposition in Meghalaya, which has a Congress government.

The Congress party that runs the show in the coalition government in New Delhi may have its own reasons that seem to have stopped it short of showing Agatha the exit.

Axing Agatha would have given Purno Sangma a free boost to his campaign for president and he could have gone around the country drumming up tribal sentiment with his daughter as exhibit No. 1 in the gallery of victims of petty Indian politics.

Agatha also is everything that the Congress party needs — in one package. She represents youth, women, the historically neglected northeast states and tribal communities. It would be difficult to find a replacement with a similar combination.

The question is: will it last? July 19 will be the dayincense and flowers. The museum's sounds are disarmingly disorienting. All at once, there are the howls of a fox, echoes of an opera singer's trills, and a low rumble of bells emanating somewhere from the halls within.

The museum is labyrinthine, like walking into a story by author Jorge Luis Borges, where after a long, winding journey, a lost protagonist stumbles into a dark room, dusted with the weight of an overwhelmingly living and throbbing infinity. The deceptively small museum feels alive and infinite. And it's very dark. Each step into the museum's nearly 20 rooms is a little bit uncertain, but just as one's eyes slowly adjust to the lack of light, your ears begin to accept the coalescing cacophony. Slowly, you too begin to acclimate to the


museum itself. After a while, its most obscure exhibits seem plausible, as one knowingly nods along to a droll, authoritative, voice from a telephone receiver extolling the tale of the Deprong Mori -- a bat who uses X-ray echolocation to fly through solid objects.

The Deprong Mori traveling through a lead block. | Illustration: Isabel Ochoa Gold.

It's best not to worry about what the museum is about. And contrary to its name, there are no dinosaurs or technology here. Like the L.A. County Museum of History, Science and Art, the all-purpose museum that existed in Exposition Park until 1961, this museum does not need a theme.

The museum's founder, David Wilson, offers one thread of a theme: the institution's unofficial motto, translatio natura or "nature as metaphor." This motto isfound almost nowhere, save for the museum's crest.

A polymathic curator, Wilson opened his museum in 1988. After the journalist Lawrence Weschler wrote an article in Harper's Magazine about the museum -- and later expanded it into the 1995 book, "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder" -- the MJT became something of a legend around the world. In 2001, Wilson was awarded a MacArthur prize.

Wilson says they're interested in phenomena that can have metaphorical interpretations. "Although," he adds, "arguably all things have that. The world is full of wonderful and amazing things. You don't even have to look -- it's all right there. It's not as if we go and really seek out the unusual. These things are just there."

The crest of the Museum of Jurassic Technology. | Illustration: Isabel


Ochoa Gold.

I first found Wilson tending to one of his doves in the museum's rooftop aviary. The dove's lids were drooping, and it rested on a nest balancing on top a wooden chair. A patch on its neck revealed pink skin; its feathers were scattered on the ground. The dove was recovering from a rat attack from the night before.

"Sometimes, people don't exactly know what to do with us," says Wilson.

We sit down, and over the course of a long conversation, I begin to stumble towards my own understanding of the museum. We sip from glass mugs filled with too-hot Georgian black tea, from the Tula Tea Room, on the second floor of the museum. It's a small enclave that holds Russian Orthodox paraphernalia, along with an accordiona chance.

A glass of tea from the Tula Tea room. | Illustration: Isabel Ochoa Gold.

Wilson considers Charles Willson Peale, the creator of one of the first American public museums, to be one of the museum's patron saints. Though the museum is often described as a modern-day wunderkammern, or cabinet of curiosities, Wilson doesn't think so. "Wunderkammern," and until recently, most European museums, Wilson says, "were by invitation. They were not for everyone, but for elite groups of people." Wilson admires American museums like the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science), where "everyone could go, and everyone was there."

Wilson is careful to insist that his museum isn't art, and it isn't an art museum -- he doesn't intend for the exhibits to


is parked alongside a 1956 Royal Spartan trailer, once owned by the late, sympathetically-minded Chicago artist Roger Brown: one of the first serious collectors of outsider art. His studio in Chicago, now the Art Institute-owned Roger Brown Study Collection, is an explosion of knick-knacks. His trailer, host to many cramped musical performances, is a similar, if more modest, explosion. Here, find porcelain ducks and all. The two trailers perfectly complement the exhibit, "Garden of Eden on Wheels": a series of trailer dioramas modeled after various trailers in the Los Angeles area, as well as the encased collections of those who make a trailer their abode. The collections are carefully and lovingly displayed, glowing with the same glow one might find in a museum's gem collection.

In this garden ofbestiary to life makes all the sense in the world for the museum -- its "nature as metaphor" in action-- and Wilson has been thinking of making one since the museum first opened.

The walls of the bestiary will be drenched in murals by Jose Clemente Orozco, "the grandson of a very famous muralist of the same name." The bestiary's architectural style uses motifs inspired by his many trips to Eastern Europe. "Of course, everything here is drawn from something else," Wilson says.

Illustration: Isabel Ochoa Gold.

Though Wilson considers his museum to be a continuum, he says that its relationships and connections are all found after-the-fact. "We don't build from concepts. We just know, collectively, instinctively, intuitively, where we need to go. It's like reading literature -- the more you


have a Susan in your life? Are you willing to be a Susan to others?

Last week I watched an interview with Jane Fonda. The 76 year old actress and activist was talking about her role in a new movie entitled This is Where I Leave You. At one point, the discussion turned to mentoring. Jane admitted that when she was young, she had access to so many talented actors, but she never reached out to any of them. She went on to say that in all of her years, only one actress has to come her for advice and council. She seemed disappointed that the life lessons she’s accumulated over her 50+-year career haven’t been shared with more people.

This weekend on CBS Sunday Morning, Lady Gaga and TonyBannon is planning an ad blitz to help the GOP in the midterm elections, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon gestures as he speaks during a conference of Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche in Zurich, Switzerland, March 6, 2018. Moritz Hager | Reuters

Steve Bannon plans to unleash an advertising campaign touting President Donald Trump's achievements to help the GOP ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. It could also be seen as a bid by the former White House chief strategist to revive his own political fortunes. Since May, Bannon has been paying his surrogates to produce political ads in cities across the United States, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The campaign will tout the Trump


administration's accomplishments that dovetail with Bannon's own America First views, including passing a comprehensive tax reform bill and working with Congress to curtail the Dodd-Frank Act's impact on community banks, people said. The ads will argue that Trump needs Republicans to control the House and the Senate in order for him to continue to pursue his agenda, the people added. The ads will not endorse specific candidates but rather the need for Republicans to maintain control of both chambers.

The ads haven't been released, and it's unclear when voters will get a taste of Bannon's messaging. It also hasn't been determined whether the ads will be released on TV, digitally or on radio. However, the plan is to run them across the country, the people said. As part ofto President Barack Obama. "If it's successful, you usually scale up in spending." A spokeswoman for Bannon declined to comment.

Trying to get back into Trump's favor

The effort is the latest example of Bannon trying to get back in the good graces of the White House. Bannon left the Trump administration in August, after run-ins with the president's son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, Trump economic aide Gary Cohn and others. He then returned to his post as executive chairman of conservative news outlet Breitbart News, where he vowed to keep boosting the president while vanquishing his enemies.

But his relationship with Trump took a bad turn in January, when author Michael Wolff published his tell-all book "Fire and Fury." In the book, Bannon called a meeting between Donald Trump


Jr. and a group of Russians "treasonous" and "unpatriotic." He also claimed that investigators were "going to crack Don Jr. like an egg on national TV." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/949498795074736129 That was enough to get him pushed out at Breitbart, as one of its key financial supporters and an ally of Trump, Rebekah Mercer, turned on Bannon. Her father, billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer, also distanced himself from Bannon before the Wolff book was published. A spokesman for Robert Mercer declined to comment. A spokeswoman for Rebekah Mercer did not return a request for comment. While the Mercer family is no longer in his corner, Bannon still has allies on Wall Street who could be a source of funds for his latest political operation. He worked at Goldman Sachs in the1980s and went on to start a boutique investment bank called Bannon & Co. with some Goldman colleagues.

Nationalist agenda

Bannon continues to push his nationalist agenda around the world. He recently toured Europe and met with candidates running for political office, including Italian populists who won the March elections and formed a coalition government in late May.

Bannon also is supporting Arizona Republican Kelli Ward, a hard-line conservative looking to keep retiring Sen. Jeff Flake's seat in GOP hands. A Real Clear Politics poll has her only one point behind the party's front-runner, Rep. Martha McSally, in the Aug. 28 GOP primary.

Donors and strategists skeptical of Bannon's latest efforts

In past administrations, it's common for aides to depart and assist in either the midterms or presidential re-elections. However, some political financiers


A village in the Indian state of Gujarat has decided to fine unmarried women for having mobile phones and offer a reward for information on their illicit use, the Hindustan Times reported.

The Indian government's 'Digital India' campaign to promote the improvement of the country's digital infrastructure and the "digital empowerment of citizens" appears not to have got through to a village in Gujarat, where villagers have imposed a ban on unmarried women using cell phones, the Hindustan Times reported on Thursday.

"Why do girls need cell phone? Internet is a waste of time and money for a middle-class community like us. Girls should better utilize their time for study and other works," said Devshi Vankar, who is 'sarpanch,' or head of the government of the village of Suray inSteve Albini on the making of Pixies album Surfer Rosa 30 years on

Steve Albini spoke to us about making the Pixies first full-length album, as the band announces anniversary gigs at London’s Roundhouse in autumn 2018

Steve Albini told PSNEurope thatworking on Pixies’ first full-length album Surfer Rosa was when he started developing his recording philosophy that formed his reputation as a producer.

Working with the Boston rockers for the first time was when he “took the learning steps” to not make himself a presence on the record.

Read the full-length feature on the lauded engineer and producer here.

He continued: “Surfer Rosa was one of the first records I worked on where I didn’t know anybody involved before we got started. I was fairly green and I feel I was slightly


a pro invitational highlighted by a weekend purse of $1,500.

It is 30-year-old freestyle motocross rider Tyler Polk who has deep Rim Country roots, having been born in Payson.

He continues to call Payson his home and has many family members, including his mother and grandparents, who live here.

While Polk is a nationally known freestyle rider, he will not personally perform due to a broken collarbone that he suffered weeks ago doing a 75-foot back flip.

“I’m still about four weeks away (from returning),” he said.

Polk now lives in Surprise where he runs a motocross school and is a starring member of several riding groups including the Aerial Assault Freestyle Motocross Team.

The extreme motorcycle show group travels the United States drawing throngs of fans to their shows.

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AMA professional rider Chrisat each of a plurality of spaced focal points along the deflected beam. This, in turn, is said to provide a significant increase in the distance that calculated oil or gas bearing formations can be perforated, thereby increasing the yield by more conventional means.
With known laser-based devices for wellbore perforation, perforation depths have been limited to about 4 inches after which further penetration is hampered by hole taper issues and the lack of efficient debris removal. Hole taper occurs when a collimated laser beam is utilized because of the Gaussian beam shape distribution and attenuation of the laser beam with the debris column in the hole. The edges of the beam contain less irradiance than the center of the beam as a result of which, as the perforation


his cozy and very isolated cabin where Aaron will film a personal documentary of sorts. Even though Josef does seem to have honorable intentions, as the day progresses, Aaron gets an increasingly sinking feeling that something isn’t right.

With Creep celebrating its world premiere at SXSW 2014, Duplass, who also co-wrote and produced the film, and Brice, who also co-wrote and directed the film, sat down to run through the rather lengthy process of bringing this 80-minute feature to life and how they discovered its unique ability to bear both a comedic and terrifying appeal. Duplass explained:

“There was a core creative team, which was me and Patrick and our co-producer and editor, Chris Donlon, and the three of us are friends and we kind of worked through this andproject by simply dragging and dropping files from their desktop into their web-browser.

Industry Arctic Data— Signed in August of 2011, a data-sharing agreement between NOAA and three oil companies (Shell, ConocoPhillips, and StatOil) is now providing the scientific community access to a wealth of data collected between 2008 and 2012 in the Chukchi Sea.

The agreement calls for sharing three major data sets in the lease sale areas: real-time weather and ocean observations, environmental information and sea ice and sea floor mapping data. During the open water season, real-time data is available through the AOOS Sensor Map. Historic weather, oceanographic and environmental studies data is freely available through the Research Workspace.

Seabird Portal — This map, funded by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, displays seabird colonies throughout the North


energy from the source and is supplied with coded energy during the passage of a train through the section, including a timing circuit which accumulates a charge from the code pulses received from the track circuit source, a switching circuit responsive, when complete, to a predetermined level of stored timing energy to energize a first relay, a second relay connected to respond to the code pulses from the source to periodically complete the switching circuit at the end of each code pulse so that the first relay is energized during a code off-period, an analog storage network accumulating voltage signals from the track relay means, as code pulses are received through the track and line circuit, and controlled by the first relay to release its energy storage to1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a bank note processing machine having a function of discriminating the bank note types and the genuineness/falsehood of bank notes, and more particularly to a compact bank note processing machine in which a compact discrimination sensor for irradiating bank notes with light having a plurality of wavelengths in the form of slits is provided such that the entire region of bank notes transported therethrough can be scanned to discriminate the bank note types and genuineness/falsehood of the bank notes based on light transmitted or reflected by the bank notes.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Various bank note processing machines (bank note discriminators) having a discriminating function for discriminating the bank note types and genuineness/falsehood of bank notes have been proposed


At least seven vehicles are submerged on I-75 in Hazel Park. At one point there was almost 15 feet of water in the area.

Although the water has receded, it still poses a threat.

Around rush hour Monday night, the flood waters rose too fast for drivers to react.

"But I had a dump truck, so I figured I was going to make it up the ramp, go around and be gone," explained Craig Payne. Payne got caught at I-75 and I-696. He figured wrong.

"I thought I was clear and then over the top came a wave of water and dirt and everything just wiped me out," Payne continued.

The rushing water washed away the embankment and forced the pump station to break.

"Water was shooting out of a pipe, 15-20 feet inKunihito Yuasa

is a Japanese figure skater. He is a three-season competitor on the Junior Grand Prix circuit and placed 11th at the 2005 Junior Grand Prix, Romania.

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Andy Hull is on the latest episode of Matt Pryor's podcast, Nothing to Write Home About. He talks about the new project Manchester Orchestra is working on right now as a "completely alternate version of Cope," called Hope. He says they're "stripping the songs down and re-doing them." He also mentions that he's "mixing lyrics up and writing songs and melodies differently" and that it'll be "its own thing." He says it'll be released in November. He also says they will be touring on this alternate version and will be playing in old churches and venues like that. You can hear the audio starting around 48:35 on the podcast.

Hey everybody. We’ve been in the studio for the last month working hard on something special. We can’t quite announceit yet but stay tuned for details. Before all that we have some festivals and summer shows coming up. We would love to see you out there. Thank you again for your endless support. See you soon! – Andy

Catch up with the latest episodes of Manchester Orchestra's new web-series by hitting the replies and watching episodes 2 and 3 of "Magic Moments with Manchester Orchestra." This time around we see movie reviews, an intervention, more "Inside Andy Prince" and acoustic performances of tracks from COPE.

Watch a new webisode from Manchester Orchestra titled Magic Moments with Manchester Orchestra Vol. 1 in the replies. The first video in their new web series looks at the band's studio during the recording of Cope as well some interviews, acoustic performances and more...much


has not come to pass, the unmade event, as when we read, in Baudelaire's list of petits poe'mes en prose projected and not written: "Captive in a Lighthouse," "Festival in a Deserted City." . . . Suffer these ruins of what never was. -RICHARD HOWARD . as I bobbed over the swells gathering themselves for the assault on the inside bar I kept peering toward where he had vanished, watching for a riderless board washing in. That wave had looked like a leash-breaker. Finally, less than forty yards away, a dim figure appeared, speeding across a ragged inside wall. Whoever it was had not only made the drop but was still on his feet, and flying. As the wave hit deep water, he leaned into a huge, elegantcarving cutback. The cutback told me who it was. Bill Bergerson, known around Ocean Beach as Peewee, was the only local surfer who could turn like that. He made one more turn, driving to within a few yards of me, and pulled out. His expression, I saw, was bland. He nodded at me but said nothing. I felt tongue-tied. I was re- lieved, though, by the thought of hav- . ing company for the passage across the inside bar, which was now detonating continuously. But Peewee had other plans. He turned and, without a word, started paddling back out to sea. S URFING is not a spectator sport. There is an international contest circuit, and a handful of surfers earn a living from competition, but most of the


professionals actually make ends meet by endorsing products-surfboards, wetsu its , or the output of one of the many companies in the surf-apparel industry. Contest surfing is seldom exciting to watch: the ocean cannot be relied on to provide memorable waves on an organizer's schedule, and few of the world's great surf spots happen to be natural amphitheatres. One of the few times I've seen non- surfers get their money's worth was on a minor Indonesian island about a hundred miles west of Sumatra, in 1979. Half a dozen of us, Australians and Americans, had found our way to a fishing village on the south west shore of the island. Photographs of the wave that breaks near the village would later be splashed across the surf magazines,California lawmakers said Monday they have started drafting legislation that would close a loophole in a century-old rape law that fails to protect unmarried women.

The 19th century mandate makes it a crime for a man to have sex with a woman by tricking her into thinking he is her husband. What the law fails to address is if that woman is unmarried.

Assembly Speaker John Perez told FoxNews.com he would prioritize the change in the rape code in the 2013 legislative session, but he did not give a timeline.

The loophole in the law was used by a state appeals court last week to overturn the rape conviction of a Los Angeles County man who had sex with a woman while pretending to be her boyfriend. The woman, who was


Caruana Galizia case: Malta ex-corruption investigator fears for life Published duration 9 January 2018

image caption Jonathan Ferris has given important notes from his time in Malta's anti-money laundering agency to family and friends in case he is killed

A former anti-corruption investigator in Malta has told BBC Newsnight he fears for his life after looking into allegations made by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Jonathan Ferris is seeking full police protection amid concerns he could be targeted after looking into her claims against top political figures.

Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb near her home on 16 October.

She was known for a blog in which she accused powerful figures of corruption.

Prosecutors are looking into the possibility that her murder was carried out by hitmen on the orders of someoneangered by her reporting.

image copyright Reuters image caption Daphne Caruana Galizia published scathing reports alleging official corruption

The Maltese government has vowed to bring her killers to justice and offered a €1m (£890,000; $1.2m) reward for information.

Why is Ferris frightened?

One of the investigations Caruana Galizia was working on at the time of her death centred on allegations against the Maltese prime minister's chief of staff, Keith Schembri, and a senior minister called Konrad Mizzi.

Caruana Galizia said they were both financial beneficiaries of secretive "shell" companies registered in Panama.

Mr Mizzi and Mr Schembri were named in the Panama Papers, a massive data leak from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca in 2015. Both deny any wrongdoing and say their companies were never used.

Mr Ferris says he was looking into the case


last year while working at the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU), Malta's anti-money laundering agency.

But he was sacked in June from the FIAU because, he believes, his work threatened to uncover sensitive secrets.

"We believe there was political interference," he told the BBC's Newsnight programme.

The FIAU has denied this. The anti-money laundering agency told the BBC that Mr Ferris's dismissal was based "solely on an objective and comprehensive performance assessment".

But Mr Ferris has now threatened to reveal information he discovered - "should something happen to me".

"Following 16 October, and what happened to Daphne Caruana Galizia, I divided my work and my information into six different envelopes with specific notes," he said.

"They are distributed to six members of family and close friends, and should something happen to me abruptly -say I'm killed - all that information will go public at once."

Jason Azzopardi, a shadow justice ministry spokesman, said Mr Ferris's fears that he could be targeted were "realistic".

Scared enough to carry a gun

By John Sweeney, BBC Newsnight

Malta is a house divided against itself. Supporters of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat applaud his economic boom while his detractors point to an enfeeblement of the rule of law - and the hard evidence for that is the assassination of his government's greatest critic, Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Unease and anxiety are part of Maltese life. Former money laundering investigator Jonathan Ferris fears for his life enough to carry a gun, legally.

Immediately after our interview, he offered me a ride back to my hotel. We walked through the gloom of an underground car


park to his car and suddenly I felt a stab of terror - that getting blown up was not impossible.

Ferris turned the ignition and the engine started normally and I found myself laughing, too loud and too long. For a second or two, I had tasted the fear that grips those people in Malta who believe they know too much for their own good.

What else was Caruana Galizia investigating?

She alleged that a company owned by the Azerbaijani president's daughter paid $1m to a Panama company ultimately owned by the Maltese prime minister's wife, Michelle Muscat.

Speaking to the BBC Newsnight's John Sweeney, Mr Muscat categorically denied that he or his wife had used secret offshore accounts to hide payments from Azerbaijan's ruling family - and hit back at CaruanaGalizia's reports.

"I know I am in a quite uncomfortable situation having to criticise someone who has been killed brutally."

But he added: "She didn't have any evidence because what she said was totally incorrect."

Mr Muscat also said Caruana Galizia's source was discredited. Caruana Galizia did not produce any documentary evidence to back up her allegation against the prime minister's wife.

image copyright Reuters image caption Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat

In her popular blog, the journalist also alleged that Malta's Economics Minister Chris Cardona went to a brothel while at a conference in Germany in January 2017.

Mr Cardona denies any wrongdoing. He sued Caruana Galizia, saying he was in his hotel room at the time. That case is ongoing.

Who killed her?

Three brothers - George and Alfred Degiorgio, aged 55 and 53,


much more vandalism now,” a representative of the Catholic apostolate Sancta Familia Media told LifeSite concerning the graffiti and the church vandalism. “There’s just a general rise in anti-Catholicism in Scotland.”

The representative speculated that police denied any sectarian motivations in order to avoid raising “community tensions.”

He also noted similar anti-Catholic acts, such an Orange Walk parade participant spitting on a Glasgow priest in July 2018. The Orange Walk is a parade that celebrates British Protestant heritage. The representative also recalled an act of vandalism against a church in Coatbridge in March 2018, in which the culprit deliberately shattered the host used in Holy Communion on the floor.

Various Scottish politicians such as the leaders of the Scotland’s Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats and also decried anti-Catholic bigotry intoday.

Sanders also introduced a $146 billion Puerto Rico recovery plan. Neither bill made it out of committee.

Nonetheless, Cruz said in a statement that Sanders would offer “a new path toward the resolution of many of the issues facing Puerto Rico,” including a “new relationship" with the United States.

“In our darkest hour, he was there for us, not because it was politically convenient but because it was the right thing to do,” Cruz stated.

Cruz vaulted to national attention when she criticized the Trump administration's slow response to the 2017 hurricane.

Puerto Ricans on the island cannot vote in the general election, despite being U.S. citizens, but are able to vote in the primaries. Island residents who move to the mainland can vote in primaries and general elections once they register


No. 12 in single-game history. Jones tied seven other players with three receiving TDs as single-game school record and is tied for the NCAA lead in the category.

Jones had nine catches for 127 yards and three touchdowns in the second half alone and hauled in five catches for 59 yards and two scores in the fourth quarter. Nine of Jones’ 13 receptions resulted in a first down or touchdown.

On the season, Jones totals 29 catches for 475 yards (No. 5 nationally)and six touchdowns (second nationally), leading the heralded Wildcat receiving corps. He averages 118.8 yards per game (No. 9 nationally) and 16.4 yards per catch. His touchdown receptions have been catches of 85, 22, 24, 41, 16 and 15 yards for an average of 33.8 yards per score.

Aftercross-bars; lower parts white, tinged with rufous in places and spotted with brown except on the lower abdomen and lower tail-coverts ; tail marked as in the adults, but more rufous. The sides of the neck soon become rufous and form a partial collar, the spots on the flanks change to arrowhead marks and interrupted bars, then the breast grows rufous and the cap grey. From this there is a gradual passage into the adult plumage.

Culmen and tip of bill black, the rest greenish ; iris yellow or orange in adults, brownish in the young; gape, orbit, feet, and claws yellow, pale or bright according to age.

Distribution. The whole of India and Ceylon, extending to Eastern Bengal (Dacca, Eurreedpore), but not to Assam, the Garo hills, nor Cachar,


and west to Mount Abu, Rajputana, but not to Sind nor the Punjab. This Cuckoo occurs along the base of the Himalayas from Kumaun to Bhutan, ascending the hills in summer to about 7000 feet. It is found to a similar elevation on the Nilgiris and on the Ceylon hills, but on the Palnis and Travancore ranges it is said not to ascend beyond about 1000 feet. Reported occurrences of this bird in Assam and Burma are probably due to error.

Habits, &c. A resident throughout its range, except in Ceylon, where this Hawk-Cuckoo is described by Legge as arriving in November. It is more common in well-wooded country, but is generally distributed throughout the Indian Peninsula, and is well known by its call, or, as Jerdon terms them," its loud crescendo notes," which, as he says, sound something like pipeeha, pipeeha, each repetition higher in the scale. In the breeding-season from April till June this is frequently heard by night as well as by day. H. varius feeds partly on caterpillars, but largely, it is said, on fruits and buds. Its eggs are chiefly laid in the nests of various Babblers and have been taken in those of Crateropus canorus, G. griseus, and Argya malcolmi ; they are blue and measure 1.05 by .79.

BookTitle:

The Fauna Of British India including Ceylon and Burma

Reference:

Blanford, William Thomas, ed. The Fauna of British India: Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol.3 1895.


New York City: Over 50 protesters arrested during attempt to establish new occupation site

By Sandy English

19 December 2011

Police in New York City arrested over 50 protesters on Saturday as they attempted to occupy an empty lot near Lower Manhattan’s Canal Street. The Episcopalian Trinity Church, which owns the lot abutting the site of the original occupation at Zuccotti Plaza, cautioned demonstrators that they would be subject to legal action if they trespassed on the property.

The Occupy Wall Street rally on Saturday

Trinity Church, an institution older than the United States, is one of the largest landowners in New York City. The church’s rector, Rev. James Cooper, told the media, "The health, safety and security problems posed by an encampment here, compounded by winter weather, would dwarf those experienced atban protesters from its property were also arrested.

Most of those who participated in the demonstrations Saturday were drawn from the ranks of those, mostly youth, that had occupied Zuccotti Plaza from September 17 to November 15. On November 15, the New York Police Department (NYPD) cleared out Zuccotti Plaza at the behest of the city’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg.

On November 21, students protesting a tuition increase at a campus of the City University of New York (CUNY) were struck with nightsticks and dragged on the floor by campus police, who called for assistance from the NYPD.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City have faced escalating police violence and arrests since the first weeks of the demonstrations. On September 24, police officer Anthony Bologna was videotaped gratuitously