in jail.

Amnesty International says she is being held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, where she was kept in solitary confinement for more than 40 days before being moved to a shared cell.

"She is a prisoner of conscience, arrested solely for taking part in a peaceful protest against the ban on women attending volleyball world league matches in Tehran's Azadi stadium," said Amnesty.

Iran does not recognise dual citizenship and treats all those with a second nationality solely as Iranian, denying them access to consular assistance. The British Foreign Office is pursuing her release but has limited influence.

According to Amnesty, Ghavami has said that while she was kept in solitary confinement, "the interrogators put her under psychological pressure, threatening to move her to Gharchak prison in the county of Varamin,Tehran province, where prisoners convicted of serious criminal offences are held in dismal conditions".

Shiva Nazar Ahari, a leading rights activist, was among the women protesting alongside Ghavami that day. She has written on her Facebook page that their demand simply was to be allowed to enter the stadium.

"We wanted to go to the stadium together. We wanted to go sit on those chairs to scream and cheer for our national team," she wrote.

Ghavami's lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI), an independent US-based rights group: "Unfortunately, I have not yet been allowed to visit with my client, and because she is still in the interrogation stage and no indictment has been issued, I don't know her exact charges.

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elaborate whether that view was solely held by the website or was also shared by the authorities holding Ghavami, a law graduate from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies.

Other Iranian women have also campaigned for female fans to be allowed to watch matches in stadiums. In June 2011, an Iranian photographer, Maryam Majd, was held by officials before boarding a flight from Iran at the airport for campaigning to allow women to enter stadiums alongside their countrymen.

Iran is particularly sensitive about the activities of dual citizens in the country and has arrested a number of them in recent years, including Amir Hekmati, an Iranian-American former US marine, and Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American reporter for the Washington Post.

In May, it also emerged that another British-Iranian woman, Royahad appeared on the Society’s
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Identifying fossil Myrtaceae leaves: the first described fossils of Syzygium from Australia.
Although leaves of Myrtaceae are easily identified to family level, very few studies have convincingly identified fossil Myrtaceae leaves to living genera. We used a broadly comparative approach with a large data set of extant taxa to confidently assign the mummified remains of myrtaceous leaves from early Miocene sediments at Kiandra (New South Wales, Australia) to a living genus. Fossils were identified using a nearest living relative approach, against a database of 232 extant broadleaf rainforest species of Myrtaceae. Leaf cuticles were prepared from 106 species, sourced from herbarium specimens as well as some living individuals, and a further 127 records were assembled from the literature. A set of simple but phylogenetically informative cuticular characters were observed,described, and recorded under both scanning electron microscopy and standard light microscopy. A new fossil species of Syzygium Gaertn. is described from mummified remains found in early Miocene (21.5-21.7 Ma) sediments. The fossil taxon is here named Syzygium christophelii sp. nov., in honor of the late Australian paleobotanist David Christophel. These fossils represent some of the most confidently described Myrtaceae leaf fossils published to date and are the first and oldest described fossil record of Syzygium from Australia. While several fossil parataxa have been illustrated from New Zealand, and several fossil species of Syzygium have previously been proposed in the literature, many of these fossils lack characters for a confident diagnosis.


all he wanted to do was clear things up. At this time, appellant made his second written statement which was later admitted into evidence at trial.
Appellant's father, James Harville, testified that he saw appellant in Montemayor's presence shortly after the second statement was made. When Harville asked his son why he had made the statement, appellant said that Montemayor had told him, "Look, son, we already have enough on you to send you to the electric chair, so if you go ahead and sign the statement, it will go easier for you." Harville related that when appellant made this statement, Montemayor nodded in agreement with what appellant had said.
Appellant testified that while Montemayor was questioning him, he was told that if he did not sign the statement, hewould receive the death penalty. On the other hand, he was told that if he would make the statement, he would only receive life. Appellant further stated that Montemayor threatened that if appellant did not sign the confession, the authorities would hold appellant's brother as a party to the offense. Lastly, appellant related that while he was talking to Montemayor, he indicated that he wanted to talk to his parents about hiring a lawyer.
On rebuttal, Officer Montemayor denied having ever threatened appellant with regard to either the death penalty or filing charges against appellant's brother. He further stated that appellant had not made any statements to his father regarding the death penalty, nor had appellant indicated that he wanted to talk with anyone regarding the services of an


attorney.
At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court found that the confession had been voluntarily made and was admissible. The court later made findings of fact and conclusions of law which recited that appellant had effectively waived his right to have a lawyer present during the time that he was questioned. The court further found that appellant had freely and voluntarily made the statement, without threats, compulsion, persuasion, duress, coercion or any other improper influence. Lastly, the court specifically found that appellant was not threatened by Montemayor with regard to the death penalty and filing charges against appellant's brother.
Appellant maintains that his confession is inadmissible because the record is silent as to a knowing and intelligent waiver of his right to have counsel present during questioning. Heof counsel and alleged coercive acts by Montemayor. We find that there was evidence to support the trial court's finding that appellant waived counsel and that Montemayor did not act improperly in taking appellant's confession. We conclude that under the totality of the circumstances the evidence supports the court's finding that appellant's confession was freely and voluntarily given after he had been fully appraised of his rights and affirmatively waived those rights. Appellant's first three grounds of error are overruled.
In his next ground of error, appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction. He maintains that the State relied on circumstantial evidence.
Jack Roberts testified that he owned Jack's Bar in Baytown. He stated that at approximately 2:30 a. m. on April 5, 1975, he returned


to the bar after going to get something to eat. After entering a storeroom in the rear of the bar, he noticed his wife, Mildred Roberts, on the floor with no pants on. As Roberts started walking toward his wife, he was hit in the back of the head by an individual. The individual then knocked Roberts to the floor and started hitting him with a stepladder. The next event Roberts remembered was going to Gulf Coast Hospital and asking someone to see about his wife. Roberts was not able to identify the individual who attacked him.
Officer James Snow, of the Baytown Police Department, testified that he arrived at Jack's Bar at approximately 2:50 a. m. When he arrived, he noticed smoke coming out the building. After firemenfrom the Baytown Fire Department had controlled the fire, Snow found the body of Mildred Roberts. Snow related that there was a large pool of blood behind the body and blood was splattered both on the body and on the walls of the storeroom.
Dr. Ethel Erickson, an assistant medical examiner for Harris County, testified that the deceased died as a result of asphyxia due to manual strangulation and blunt trauma to the face, head and chest. Dr. Erickson related that some of the injuries suffered by the deceased were consistent with having been stomped with an individual's feet. Lastly, vaginal and rectal smears taken of the body were positive for the presence of spermatozoa.
The State then called several patrons of Jack's Bar. These customers testified that they had


seen appellant in the bar prior to closing time during the early morning hours of April 5, 1975.
Officer Montemayor then testified concerning the arrest and confession given by appellant. The confession was read to the jury. In the confession, appellant stated *868 that he went to the bar at approximately 9:00 p. m. on April 4, 1975. He stated that he drank several bottles of beer and talked to Mildred Roberts. As closing time neared, appellant helped Roberts restock the coolers with cases of beer from the storeroom of the bar. The confession then states:
"... By this time I was pretty angry because Millie had led me on, and now she was refusing my advances. I think I said, `how about me going home with you.' and shesaid, `no.' I then hit her in the stomach and she doubled over, I then knocked her down, I then took hold of her ankles and dragged her to the storeroom which was still open. There was a light in the hall shining into the storeroom. As I let go of her ankles she tried to get out and I again grabbed her and took her to the storeroom. When I got her back again in the storeroom, her head was close to the beer cases and her feet were to the entrance of the storeroom door. I then pulled her slacks and pants off of her. She was hollering and moving her arms around. I kept telling her to be quiet and I hit her on the


that appellant had originally been indicted for capital murder in Cause No. 241380 in the 179th Judicial District Court. On February 18, 1976, the Honorable William O. Olsen, Jr., filed a motion in Cause No. 241380 which recited in part that he was appellant's court counsel. The indictment in the instant case, Cause No. 241691, was filed on March 8, 1976, and recites that it is a reindictment of former Cause No. 241380. The new indictment alleged the primary offense of murder with one prior conviction alleged for enhancement. Trial on the merits in the instant cause commenced on March 8, 1976.
At a pre-trial hearing, the following colloquy took place between the court and counsel for appellant:
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A baby girl found inside a plastic bag in the US has families across the world "waiting in line" to adopt the "miracle" child, an official says.

The baby, nicknamed India, was found on 6 June in Georgia after residents heard her crying and called the police.

Police shared heart-rending bodycam footage of an officer tearing open the plastic bag in which she was swaddled.

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Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence

January 21, 2018 - March 31, 2018

This exhibition showcases a new form of bead art, the ndwango (which translates to “cloth”), developed by a community of women living and working together in rural South Africa. The Ubuhle artists use black fabric, reminiscent of the headscarves and skirts they wore growing up, as a canvas for intricate beaded works of art. Ubuhle [pronounced Ub-Buk-lay] means “beauty” in the Xhosa and Zulu languages, and eloquently describes the shimmering quality of light on glass that is present in the ndwangos.

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Attorneys for Jean's family, along with protesters, have been calling for Guyger, a four-year veteran of the force, to be fired since the shooting.

Earlier, authorities released a video showing Guyger being booked into jail after she was arrested. "The swift termination of any officer who engages in misconduct that leads to the loss of innocent life


is essential if the Dallas Police Department is to gain and maintain the public trust". Gyger believed she was confronted with an intruder and proceeded to shoot Jean.

This is another example of how poorly the Dallas police appeared to handle the shooting. An arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News said Botham allegedly ignored Guyger's "verbal commands" before she opened fire. When she opened the door, she saw the interior was almost completely dark, according to the affidavit.

The statement says she was sacked for "her actions", but does not elaborate on those actions. Following the completion of the Texas Rangers' and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office's investigations in the case, it will be up to a grand jury to decide whether to indict Guyger for murder, manslaughter ornot at all.

She called 911. When asked where she was, she returned to the front door to see she was in the wrong unit, according to the affidavit.

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It was reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter that Gordon suffered the injury during a promotional shoot, as opposed to practice. The Browns wideout was then suspended for the entire 2015 season for again violating the league's substance abuse policy.

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244 U.S. 106 (1917)
ROWLAND ET AL., RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS,
v.
BOYLE, ADMINISTRATOR OF BOYLE, AND THE ST. LOUIS & SAN FRANCISCO RAILROAD COMPANY.
No. 252.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued February 24, 25, 1916.
Restored for reargument June 12, 1916.
Reargued May 1, 2, 1917.
Decided May 21, 1917.
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS.
*107 Mr. Joseph M. Hill and Mr. S.P. Freeling for appellants.
Mr. S.T. Bledsoe and Mr. John M. Moore, with whom Mr. W.F. Evans was on the briefs, for appellees.
Restored to docket for reargument June 12, 1916.
MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.
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Requiem for a TV News Career, and Corporate Groupthink

Via Rob, this insightful entry from Chez Pazienza on his firing from CNN's American Morning for apparently blogging the wrong opinions.

One of the great myths of management in general (under the rubric of "transformative leadership") is that ideally, all employees of an organization should share the same vision and sense of purpose that has been established and handed down through the hierarchy by the leadership (who are seen to be the personification of the corporate consciousness, or some nonsense like that). The leaders hold the vision, inspire and lead the charge - corporate values become individual values in the transformative organization. People are then motivated to give their all, go above and beyond - you know, thatrather than using a conventional border appliqu design. Cutting away the bulk of the repositioned fore fabric, the edges were then trimmed and left raw to become soft frayed edges both for a dimensional look and to maintain the natural comfort of the apron when worn.

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Streaming services like Spotify and Pandora pay many millions of dollars each year for the rights to the music they play. But how much of this ends up back with artists and songwriters?

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The arguments on both sides tend to suffer from misconceptions about the nature of music “ownership”the current relationship between the majors and the streaming services would withstand similar legal challenges from artists, at which point the long-term viability of streaming services will be less than certain.

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July 17th, 2007, 11:59 am

Ulv

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Anyway avantgarde is like atheism: U can't make an organisation (like a church) of atheists, isn't it right?!

July 17th, 2007, 2:56 pm

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Nice analogy Ulv, but I'm sorry to say that there are certain Atheist organisations here in Sweden. Rabid humanists trying to put an end to all "unenlightened" religious people. Narrow-minded pricks, those fellows. Not very humanist at all. But that's another topic.

July 18th, 2007, 3:46 pm

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Shauna Taylor, AM '15, came to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration when she realized she needed to learn more about social work with an international focus to meet her career goals of studying cross-cultural social work practice and policy. “It helped that SSA is recognized as a top school for graduate social work education,” she said.

Taylor, a native of Atlanta, earned her undergraduate degree in social work and psychology at the University of Georgia. While there, a faculty member invited her to work as a camp counselor through the Camp Russia Study Abroad Program in Mari El, a republic within Russia, located 450 miles east of Moscow.

She explained thatare a distinct ethnic Russian group, but look similar to other Eastern Europeans. The republic in the past has been relatively closed off from outside influence, but recently the changing economic climate has brought an influx of refugees from Tajikistan, near China and Afghanistan, to work in a new factory that promises steady jobs.”

She observed that the Mari El people, who had previously lived in a homogeneous society, are now having difficulties adjusting to Tajiks living in the area. “The Tajiks are more Asian than European in appearance, making it easier for them to be subjected to jokes and derogatory comments.”

When she came to SSA, Taylor continued her interest in global concerns, serving as an International House Community Fellow. Through Laura Rosenberg, AM ’13, a staff member at


Mari El-Tajik situation, but ones that apply to any diversity issue so that campers can embark on personal journeys of awareness and acceptance.”

Taylor, who was invited back by camp personnel, not only taught a diversity course but measured changing attitudes. She designed a survey that asked campers to describe their attitudes toward diversity. She gave the survey to campers who were onsite when she arrived. She then taught her diversity curriculum to campers in the following two sessions, giving the survey as campers complete their sessions. The survey measured changing attitudes about diversity as a result of her curriculum.

During her first year at SSA, Taylor’s field placement was in the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the Law School, where she served as an intern with the Criminal JuvenileJustice and Mental Health projects. Working along with the clinic social worker, attorneys, and law students, Taylor helped gather mitigation materials to provide indigent clients with quality legal representation.

Her second-year placement was at Heartland Alliance where she was a part of the Northern-Tier Anti-Trafficking Consortium. She helped survivors find the support and services they needed to begin again. She said she had expected to see some similarities between these clients and the survivors of domestic abuse she worked with at a shelter as an undergraduate.

She looks forward to working with an organization that addresses both domestic and international human rights. “SSA has challenged me in a good way. Although I majored in social work as an undergraduate, I found I was challenged to think about things in a


SAN FRANCISCO -- When John Hampton was honorably discharged from the Army this year, he decided to pursue a lifelong interest: coding. That’s why in May Hampton, 34, applied for and started attending Iron Yard Academy, a coding boot camp in Greenville, South Carolina.

It was a wise decision and one that paid off after 12 weeks of coursework and more than 800 hours of programming. Hampton is now living in Atlanta, where he works as an intern for a Web development firm, an opportunity that lets him continue learning software development as he eases into his newfound tech career.

“There’s definitely a demand of veterans who want to find jobs in the tech industry, and at the same time there’s also a demand from the tech industry of gettingstatement on their website.The same very statement has been used to justify a rash of recent offences currently being investigated by UK police.Last Tuesday, railway services were severely disrupted in Bristol, a prominent city in England’s south-west, after cables were set on fire. The perpetuators had to remove protective concrete slabs to access the lines.It followed an attack on April 11, when several police stations in the same area were forced off the air. A police radio broadcasting mast on Dundry Hill was also damaged. The FAI statement said it “specifically chose” targets in Bristol as the Ministry of Defense has located several installations nearby. A local business park of “military industry companies” such as Raytheon, Thales and QinetiQ can also be found there.“If they are serious about


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A LOSS TO THE WILDCATS WOULD HAVE HAD THE WOLVERINES BATTLING FOR SECOND PLACE IN THE LEGENDS DIVISION. THEY ARE STILL IN THE HUNT.

Saturday, the Wolverines returned to the friendly confines of Michigan Stadium to confront the Northwestern Wildcats for the first of a critical two game home stand, that could play a big part in determining the course of the their season. The Wolverines needed to win to get into position to achieve a shot at the Legends title game, which they will have, if they can win out, and Nebraska losses again. Unfortunately, Nebraska owns the head to head tiebreaker. After the ‘Cats, the Iowa Hawkeyes come next, and then Ohio in Columbus.


All three games are of equal importance, except for bragging rights, but first things first, and that was hosting, and trying to best the Wildcats. The ‘Cats made it a game. The Wolverines dramatic finish made it one to remember.

THIS YEAR’S WILDCATS: Coach Pat Fitzgerald brought a pretty decent Big Ten Football team to Ann Arbor. Seven wins and two losses through nine games is a good record, and three wins and two losses in the B1G is also decent. Their rush defense was fourth in the B1G prior to Saturday. Statistically they were more susceptible to the pass defensively only ranking 8th in the B1G, and the Wildcats were not in the top 100 in pass offense nationally. Actuality: They proved again their vulnerability in that areaWOLVERINES DEFENSE: Looking at the stats from M’s first nine games, it seemed that the Wolverines matched up well with the Wildcats defensively. Actuality: the Wolverines gave up 31 points. What else needs to be said? The Wildcats managed 431-yards against the Wolverines yesterday. NW took the measure of the Wolverine defense. Yet, when crunch time came, it was the Wolverine’s defense that stared the Wildcats down, enabling a win, by stopping the ‘Cats cold in the late 4th quarter, and overtime. Kenny Demens and Desmond Morgan each had 9 stops.

Again, while Michigan’s defense struggled with the fine option running of Colter and Mark, they came alive in time, when the game was on the line. Late in the game, in regulation, a late hit by Beyer almost


torpedoed the Wolverines. It was a possible game changer, but fortunately Beyer did not become a goat.

THE WOLVERINES OFFENSE: Pregame the continuing question was the offense. Could anyone other than Denard (if he played), or Devin (if he played) rack up significant yardage overland? Actuality: Denard wore headphones and Devin played an outstanding game.Would they be able to score in the red zone? Yes. By land and air. Would they avoid offensive errors? Actuality: Devin played a fine game, with only one interception. The Wolverines had a single fumble, after a 50-yard run. Devin was poised, knew when to throw the ball away, took some shots and hung onto the ball, and passed and ran well. His bootleg TD run in overtime provided the winning margin. On hisone interception he may have misread man when it was a zone defense. He is my player of the game. He threw for 286-yards and 2 TDs, and also ran for two TDs, winning the game with the last one, and stretching for the pylon on the first one. He is a great athlete in his own right that has stepped up and out into the limelight.

Coach Hoke on Devin: “I think Devin was very consistent. I thought he stayed in the game and managed the offense. He had the one bad throw, probably two of them during the course of the game. He’s just got to see the field a little better, but he moved our offense. I thought he did a nice job on third down;


the TD strike to Freshman TE Devin Funchess with under 10 minutes in the game. Great throw and catch. The ever improving Funchess is definitely earning his scholarship. M-28, NW-24.

The wily Wildcats set off on a journey of clock domination which lasted about five minutes and ended with a 15-yard scoring pass. The receiver was so open it was painful, and Michigan was behind again M-28, NW 31.

Enter Dennis Norfleet, who hauled the ensuing KO 37-yards to the M 42. Seemingly trapped he reversed direction and scampered up the side line. Gardner then threw an interception and I thought for sure, this time it was over. The ‘Cats ran the clock down to 18 seconds, and the Wolverines had it at their 38.

Enter Roundtree, as he became therecipient of the spectacular 53-yard grab described above, which Gibbons promptly flew the ball thru the uprights for three, and it was 31 all and overtime was on tap.

NW won the toss and forced M to go first. Devin Gardner finished the game with a roll out around end for a third and one, one-yard score. M-38, NW-31 and it was up the defense. They rose to the occasion, and by stopping the ‘Cats cold, preserved the win.

Both teams played well in a very competitive and exciting game that was worth the price of a ticket on a decent football day, in a beautiful setting, played when some feel a football game should be played.

It looks like Devin Gardner can carry the load, and he is a great


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Sex offenders are grooming children on Instagram more than on any other online platform, a charity has found.

Police in England and Wales recorded 1,944 incidents of sexual communication with children in the six months to September 2018, the NSPCC said.

Instagram was used in 32% of the 1,317 cases where a method was recorded, Facebook in 23% and Snapchat in 14%.

Instagram and Facebook said they "aggressively" fought grooming, while Snapchat said it was "unacceptable".

Following pressure from campaigners, sexual communication with a child became an offence in April 2017.

In the 18 months that followed, more than 5,000 online grooming offences were recorded by police, according to the data gathered by the NSPCC.

The charity said the figures did not "fully reflect the scale of the issue", as many


crimes went undetected or unreported.

Where the police logged age and gender, seven out of 10 victims were girls aged 12 to 15. One in five was aged 11 or under. The youngest victim was five years old.

The NSPCC said 39 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales responded to Freedom of Information requests, with only Surrey, Sussex, Northampton and City of London police failing to provide data.

The children's charity is calling for new laws to force social media firms to do more to protect children.

'We exchanged texts which quickly became sexual'

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In one case of abuse given by the charity, a girl was groomed by a 24-year-old man when she was 13.

Emily - not her real name - met the man through a friend.He had introduced himself, saying he was 16, which quickly changed to 18. She told him she was 13. Later that evening he added her on Facebook and Snapchat.

Emily said: "It escalated very quickly from there. We exchanged texts which quickly became sexual, then photos and videos before arranging for him to come and pick me up after school.

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"I was bleeding and crying. This was my first sexual experience."

Emily's mother said: "We felt as though we had failed as parents - we knew about these social media


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The British Queen’s Beast collection of silver and gold coins from the Royal Mint is a brand-new offering from the United Kingdom’s sovereign mint, and it offers a stunning glimpse into the heraldry and images of the British Crown. The planned 10-coin release celebrates the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, as well as numerous facets of British history. Right now, the 2017 ¼ oz Gold British Queen’s Beast Dragon Coin is available to purchase online at Silver.com.

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In 1881, a private club was created in the house. The house still holds the name to this day, “The Standard Club”. As the club outgrew the house they migrated to a suburb south of town, where it is still prominent today.

Through the years the house changed hands many times and was even featured in Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss’ “Whiskey Lullaby”. Not the broken down house in the beginning. Rather it’s the inner atrium that looks like an alley way in the video. They also used the grand ballroom for the dancing scenes and bar fight.

In 2005 the Smith family purchased and restored it to it’s “Victoria-Era glory”. In 2012 it was named in the Robb Report as One of theTop 5 Private Cigar Clubs. The Standard at the Smith House is certainly more than a ‘cigar lounge’. In fact it’s a lot more than that.

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The $ 43 million man is now spying after collecting a final payment of $ 4.67 million from Fonterra

Former Fountain CEO Theo Spears made $ 43 million during his work on the basis of a new disclosure of payments from the dairy company after the Herald's investigations.

The company revealed that the Dutchman received a stimulus payment of $ 4.67 million when he left work last August, despite Fonterra's huge financial losses.

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BCE–24 CE). Strabo was an unreliable witness: in his famous _Geography_ he admitted to knowing little about Ireland "except that the inhabitants are more savage than the Britons, since they are man-eaters as well as heavy eaters," and that they "count it as an honourable thing, when their fathers die, to devour them." However, he confessed to writing this "on the understanding that I have no trustworthy witnesses for it."62 Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser was present at the horrific execution of the "notable traitor" Murrough O'Brien in Limerick in 1577, where he saw O'Brien's foster-mother "take up his head whilst he was quartered and suck... up all the blood running thereout, saying the earth was not worthy to drink it."63 But Spenser's depiction of this as an exampleGallery - Past Exhibitions - 2002 - Ladakh

Ladakh, deep in the Himalayas of eastern Kashmir, is a land both barren and beautiful, mediaeval and mystical. A realm beyond the clouds: of prayer wheels and monks, of dung fires and yaks, of monasteries clinging like wasp nests to mountain faces and of snow leopards illusive as smoke. In the fall, I returned to this area, to draw and paint in two remote villages, which I had seen the summer before. (Zanskar 2001)

Although inhabited predominately by Buddhists, with it's culture heavily Tibetan, Ladakh is in the state of Jammu-Kashmir in northern India. And hence attached to the Hindu-Muslim itch over which Indian and Pakistan scratch. Aspirations of independence from Muslim elements in Kashmir have been the source of three wars


between India and Pakistan in the last 50 years. Another one appeared ominously near.

After four days trekking, I arrived at my first destination, the tiny village of Photaskar. It's tightly grouped houses were perched on the very edge of the Yapola River's deep gorge that carries glacial melt east to the mighty Indus River. Trying to coax grain out of the ground at 15,000 feet, were a string of orbital terraced fields that ringed the top of both sides of the gorge. Behind the village a massive fan of ochre rock, swirled with mocha striations, soared up a thousand feet. This huge granite face was mirrored by an even bigger twin monolith directly across the river canyon. Both were dwarfed by the backdrop of a snow laced mountainwall that folded up into the clouds along the east side of the divide. Nestled in the middle of the brooding giants, the dozen or so tiny worn white-washed dwellings of Photaskar twinkled and humbly sat. The scene was breathtaking.

The Tibetan Buddhists lived and acted as their ancestors before. As the rest of the world embraces societal change like an opiate, attitudes between the generations in Ladakh appeared seamless. Younger people understood they would continue on in life, precisely in their parents' and grandparents' foot steps.

Their religion played a major role in how they viewed life. It emphasised a path to fulfillment and happiness that comes from within, and not predicated on the accumulation of material things. Thinking of others, and not focusing on one's self were instilled


at an early age. Violence against each other was unheard of. They had little and required little. At 15,000 ft, they even used half the oxygen of the rest of us.

My second destination was the Lingshed monastery, another two days trek, which included the heart pounding, air sucking climb of the mighty 16,500 ft. Sengi La.

Walking inside the walls of the Lingshed monastery I felt like I was witnessing a feudal play or going back in time to a place my imagination couldn't conceive. Deep guttural chanting, punctuated by the rumble of a goat skin drum, the soprano prayers of a child lama, the call to assemble from a solo conch shell, and sound of hand symbols and silver bells move through the dark warped passage ways ofIf Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, translated by Anne Carson. Vintage, 2003. Gaut, Berys. "Nehamas on Beauty and Love." British Journal of Aesthetics 50 (2): 199-204. See the whole symposium for interesting discussion and critique of Nehamas's view of beauty.See also Malcolm Budd's later (2011) piece in the same journal, "The Love of Art: More than a Promise of Happiness". Kant, Immanuel. Critique of the Power of Judgment. Translated by Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews. Cambridge University Press, 2000. English translation of Kritik der Urteilskraft, first published in 1790. Moran, Richard. "Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty." Critical Inquiry (38): Winter 2012. Mothersill, Mary. Beauty Restored. Oxford University Press, 1984. Nehamas, Alexander. Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Princeton


University Press, 2008. Plato. Symposium. Translated by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, Hackett, 1989. Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Random House, 1981. Sircello, Guy. Beauty and Love. Princeton University Press, 1989. See also A New Theory of Beauty. Princeton University Press, 1975. Stendhal. Rome, Naples and Florence. Paris, Champion, 1919, pp. 45-46. See also De l'amour. Wollheim, Richard. The Thread of Life. Yale University Press, 1984. See also On the Emotions.Although it was October, the weather was unseasonably warm and humid. Inside Trees, the air conditioner that was set on high was having little effect. As the sold-out crowd made its way into the venue to catch Nirvana — one of the hottest bands in the country at the moment — there was a palpable sense that something bad was going to happen.

"It was very, very hot inside that building," says Jeffrey Liles, current artistic director of the Kessler Theater, who back in 1991 served in a similar position at Trees. "And there were as many people outside the building as inside."

With this week's release of the 20th anniversary, four-CD edition of Nirvana's landmark effort Nevermind, it's time to revisit Nirvana's chaotic and infamous Dallas tour stop from


the original release's promotional tour. In many ways, the concert has become the most legendary show ever to take place in Dallas. Although only about a thousand people were actually in attendance, thousands more claim to have been there. But for those who were there — fans, musicians, security and management — it was an unforgettable experience.

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"I was at Trees that night," says Old 97s bassist Murry Hammond. "I had heard about the band from the first record, but the new one was freaking everyone out. I wanted to see what all the hubbub was about. It was actually the last time I ever slam-danced. I lost my hat during my slam-dance swan song."

Nirvana's second album, Nevermind, had turned the scruffy trio from Seattle into superstars. Successhad seemingly come overnight for the act, and their buzz was sweeping the nation.

"There was this frenetic excitement at Trees where everyone understood that this was the last time a band like this was ever going to play at a venue this size ever again," says another attendee, Lance Crayon, now an English teacher and, at the time, an employee at a local movie theater.

The tour had been booked to Trees months earlier — well before Nevermind's release — and Nirvana's rise had happened so quickly that certain venues just weren't large enough to accommodate the newfound hordes. Trees happened to be one of those clubs. Somehow, though, the show went on.

"The club was too small for the band and there was a bad vibe all night," says


we had to hire three security guards to keep people off the stage," Liles says.

Enter one Turner Van Blarcum, a union stagehand who was brought in at the last minute to complete the trio of bouncers facing a seemingly impossible task.

"I've always felt sorry for Turner," Liles says. "The guy never even liked Nirvana, and he was put in an unmanageable position."

Van Blarcum refused to comment for this article. But his story has reached mythical heights.

Early into the show, it was clear that keeping the fans off the stage was going to be troublesome. Even with security pushing the crowd back, Cobain began gesturing for fans to get onto the stage. He then stage dived into the crowd, jumping off Van Blarcum's back, Liles says. As Van Blarcum,among others, tried to pull the singer back onto the stage, Cobain popped the bouncer in the head with his guitar.

Van Blarcum then retaliated with a right cross to Cobain's jaw. After that, all hell broke loose. Van Blarcum tried to explain what happened to whomever would listen as two band members scattered off stage. Almost immediately, the crowd started chanting, "Bullshit." Watching the now-available-on-Youtube videos from the night (shot by Brad Featherstone from stage left), it's clear: The evening looked ripe for a riot.

"I vividly remember us making the decision to throw on 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when we were trying to get the band back out after the fight," says Alex Luke, former host of "The Adventure Club" on KDGE-FM 102.1 The Edge. "It was a


half-joking attempt to stir up the crowd."

The crowd hardly needed to be stirred up.

"Cobain stayed on stage and made noises with his guitar," recalls Liles. "He did this for a minute or so and then threw his guitar into the drum set and walked off. After a few minutes, I realized that I had to get these guys back together on stage or this show wasn't going to continue."

Fans knew that things could have quickly gotten ugly: "Had Nirvana not returned, I feel certain Trees would have been demolished," Crayon says.

Liles found drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic backstage. They were willing to give it a go. Finding Cobain would prove more difficult.

"He was in a broom closet," Liles says. "And there was some skinny kid tryingto sell Cobain some smack or something. I literally took the stuff out of Kurt's hand and I told him he was coming with me."

Somehow, the show restarted. But Van Blarcum still had revenge on his mind. He waited out front for Cobain to come out after the show. Liles saw Van Blarcum and called a cab with instructions to meet the band in the back of the venue.

"I pushed the band out the door and into the alley and told the cab driver to get the fuck out of here," Liles says.

As the cab slowly pulled away, Nirvana's road manager came out of Trees yelling about the band not knowing what hotel everyone was staying in. When the cab stopped amidst the confusion, Van Blarcum spotted Cobain


“ASTANA CHESS OPEN 2018”, an international chess festival, starts in the capital of Kazakhstan from June 17th. The key events of the celebration will include the 1ststage of adult and the 3rdstage of children’s Cups of the Republic. The total prize pool of the festival will be 6 250 000 KZT.

Kazakhstan Chess Federation (KCF) invites all wishing chess players to take part in the international chess festival. Within the framework of the high-profile sport event held from June 17th through July 4th, the following tournaments are scheduled:Father Groeschel, the highly respected author, psychologist, spiritual director and leader of renewal in the religious life, has written a brief but comprehensive practical guide for all those interested in private revelations, the reports of visions and other extraordinary religious phenomena that are so widespread in these times. Because of the intense interest in extraordinary religious experience that ranges from Medjugorje to the New Age, Groeschel's book is an urgently needed resource that gives practical norms to everyone on how to evaluate these claims. Drawing on spiritual classics and Church documents not readily available, he summarizes the Church's perennial wisdom on this topic.

He also offers an alternative to unusual and extraordinary ways of knowing the things of God, which is a normal everyday opportunity open to all called


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Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR is the director of the Office of Spiritual Development for the New York Archdiocese. He has written numerous books on the spiritual life and pastoral counseling. He is a member of the Franciscans ofthe Renewal who preach evangelical reform and work with the homeless in the South Bronx.

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his forward options.

New York Red Bulls have also looked at Scotland and Dundee United striker Lawrence Shankland but the Aberdeen striker is the preferred choice.

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The club from the Big Apple have gone down the road of big names like Thierry Henry, Juan Pablo Angel and Youri Djorkaeff in the past but now look to sign younger talent that they can develop and sell on to clubs in their organisation or out with.

They have already taken Josh Sims on loan from Southampton and previously had Bradley Wright-Philips at their club.

Sources close to the American club have also suggested that Aberdeen are likely to be sounded out over the coming days for a price and to see if they would be willing to do business.

McInnes has already saidthey are to have any chance of getting a deal done.

It is ironic because Aberdeen have recently announced a partnership with MLS rivals Atlanta United, which will also see them come together on player identification and has been behind the US side’s £200,000 bid for Hearts winger Jake Mulraney.

The Scottish Premiership has become a popular market for MLS clubs.

Scotland and Celtic winger Lewis Morgan is set to move to Inter Miami once he is granted a work permit, ex-Aberdeen player Gary Mackay-Steven is at New York City, Johnny Russell is out at Sporting Kansas City and Sam Nicholson is with Colorado Rapids.

McInnes is still looking to add to his squad and young Ross County midfielder Mark Gallagher will be the next January signing, after the earlier capture of


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These and other objects of the present invention are achieved by providing a rigid ladder having one end which hooks to a powerline support bridge after the ladder is dropped by helicopter. The ladder includes a first section which extends out from the support bridge for the flashover distance to the tower or more, and a second section that extends downwardly from the outer end of the first section to a base which rests on the powerlines spaced from the support bridge. A weight on the base holds it against the powerlines, and the complete structure is formed of electrically nonconductive material. Using this structure, when a lineman hooks up to the powerline, he will be more than the flashover distance from the support bridge.ER doctor who treated Kennedy shunned fame

Sue Carrico, the wife of Dr. Charles “Jim” Carrico, the first doctor to treat President John F. Kennedy upon his arrival at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, reads a letter she penned to Jacqueline Kennedy offering her condolences on the evening of Nov. 22, 1963. She never mailed the card and still has it.

He didn’t like discussing the day in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was wheeled into the emergency room at Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Charles “Jim” Carrico, who grew up in Denton, was 28 and in his second year as a surgical resident at Parkland the day the president was brought into the hospital at 12:35 p.m. with gunshot wounds to the head and neck.

Carrico was the first doctor


the World Turns and caring for her two children at the time and two others when Walter Cronkite interrupted to announce the president had been shot. She said it was shocking. She wanted to talk to someone and went outside to look for a neighbor and found no one.

She said she tried to call her husband at the hospital but she could not get through. Another doctor called her, she said, to tell her Dr. Carrico had been in with the president. She believes she spoke with her husband later that night.

“It was just a strange day, dramatic day,” Sue Carrico said.

She recalls her husband telling that when he left Trauma Room 1 where Kennedy had been treated, he went into the hallway and tried to light athere ... whether you could be saved or not,” she said. “He was such a special person. He was an incredible doctor.”

Dr. Carrico, who was a graduate of Denton High School and what is now the University of North Texas, left Parkland after his residency in 1967. He joined the U.S. Navy and served two years, then returned to Parkland in 1969 and worked there until 1974. In 1974, he and his family moved to Washington state, where he subsequently became chief of surgery at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and where he helped start a Level 1 Trauma Center.

He was chairman of the surgery department at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and in 1990 he joined the staff at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical


Center in Dallas. He retired in 2000 and died in 2002.

During his career, he also served as president of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Thirty years after the president’s assassination, Telaneus said her father shared his oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, and in his later years would talk to graduating medical students about the assassination, Telaneus said.

“He told them that they needed to make sure whatever they did at any moment they were prepared to take care of the president of the United States or a homeless person off the street and give them all the same care,” she said. “And so in that sense, it defined his standard of care, for everyone he took care of needed tothe Latvia’s parliamentary Defense Committee, said in an interview with Re:Baltica, recounting a conversation with Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Daniel Glaser.

A similar message awaited Latkovskis and Solvita Aboltina, head of the National Security Committee, at the Department of State. The need to finally start seriously clamping down on the stream of dirty millions flowing through Latvia, mostly from the former Soviet Union, was constantly mentioned by the new US ambassador in each of her introductory visits to Riga. It was also brought to the attention of Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs by close associates of the US Secretary of State.

In Jan. 2016, the subject was raised in the US Congress. When speaking about the 1 billion dollars stolen from Moldova and the three Latvian banks, Congresswoman


Sheila Jackson Lee said: “These banks appear to be financial institutions controlled by associates and friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin who have a demonstrated history of plundering the national treasuries of the former CIS countries.” She called upon the White House and Congress to investigate whether the funds end up in the hands of terrorist organisations.

The risk now is for the country to be slapped in the face with a “no” from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) which Latvia is eager to join, as well as the possibility of losing its last dollar correspondent account in a Western financial institution that’s still cooperating with Latvian banks, and pressure from the US are the reasons why the political elite and the banking supervisor of Latviahave suddenly awoken from lethargy.

History repeats itself

This is not the first time.

Ten years ago similar pressure from the US on Latvia to get its act together ended in two banks locked out of the US financial market (VEF banka had its license revoked; Multibanka underwent several changes of ownership and names, but until the EU/US sanctions on Russia were imposed they were controlled by the Rotenberg brothers, childhood friends of Vladimir Putin).

In 2005, promises were made to clean up the banking sector and laws were altered to demand that banks identify owners of offshore accounts. Aigars Kalvitis, then Prime Minister, criticized the prosecutor’s office and created a special council to oversee developments, with himself as the head. The structure last met two years ago, in Feb. 2014.

Ten years


later a series of high profile cases revealed Latvian banks as laundering intermediaries between countries of the former Soviet Union. In one case, Latvian banks were found to be transferring dollars defrauded from the Russian state budget, which were investigated by Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergey Magnitsky, who later died in prison. Another case implicated Latvian banks with handling the dollars of Serhiy Kurchenko, a self-declared billionaire and associate of Viktor Yanukovych, the overthrown President of Ukraine, that Ukrainian law enforcement is chasing around the world. Another involved the illegal procurements of “Russian Railways” which were exposed by a Reuters investigation.

The latest scandal is the billion siphoned out of three Moldovan banks.

The political elite of Latvia did nothing but look on — as did the bank regulator (FCMC). Outthe regulation is,” says Mark Galeotti, professor at New York University, who together with his colleague Andrew Bowen analyzed the money laundering situation in Latvia a few years ago.

In Nov. 2015 Galeotti spoke of the relations of the West and Russia in the annual Riga security conference. He urged people to take a look at the laundering of money illegally obtained in the countries of the CIS from a national security perspective, and ask: which side is Latvia on?

The OECD drive

One of the reasons the parliament committee called in the regulator to the hearing was an OECD expert’s report on the accomplishments of Latvia in combatting bribery, including laundering the proceeds of it. “Latvia has significant exposure to corruption and foreign bribery-related money laundering due to a high


proportion of non-resident clients in the banking sector,” the report said. Both the bribery case of Kyrgyz officials, (including the president, who received money from a Canadian company via an unnamed Latvian bank), and the case of bribing Russian officials (with the help of a German intermediary and Latvian banks, admitted by Hewlett-Packard), were mentioned.

The OECD concluded that the existing supervision system has failed to detect several large-scale laundering transactions and instead has found out about them from the press. The penalties imposed have been disproportionately small, the legal requirements for banks insufficient, inspections too few and far between, and the supervisor weak.

In an interview with Re:Baltica Zakulis disagreed and quoted the Council of Europe Moneyval assessment, which concludes that institutionally and regulation-wise Latvia has done what’s necessaryto prevent money laundering. He mentioned sending a permanent FCMC advisor to the US, tasked with maintaining communication between both countries. Arnis Lagzdins, the man appointed for that job, was touted to the press as a well-educated and experienced ex-World Bank employee. It was not mentioned that Lagzdins was also the vice president of Parex Banka, a bank whose collapse in 2008 pushed the government to seek an IMF loan, but before was the crown jewel of the non-residential banking.

FCMC, feeling the heat, announced harsh sanctions just two working days before the impending critical meeting at parliament: a two-million-euro fine for Privatbank, a demand to change the bank’s board, and individual fines for the board members. The next act of the same play involved the State Police. A


couple of days later the police reported apprehending two employees of Trasta komercbanka (TKB) for possible laundering in another case.

However, both the report and the experts interviewed by Re:Baltica confirm that the problem is not in the laws of Latvia, but in the unusually pliable attitude of the regulator and law enforcement personnel. The average police officer or an unspecialized prosecutor, whose best understanding of a financial scheme is making ends meet before payday, has no hope — or desire — to figure out schemes conjured by dozens of lawyers and consultant offices.

New lobbyists enter the circle

With parliament considering deeper checks of banks customers and an increase in fines for money laundering offences being proposed by the Ministry of Finance, the non-resident bank lobby has stepped up activitiestoo.

The ideas are delivered to the parliament by the bank and entrepreneur associations, as well as the new think tank Certus, chaired by the once-promising academic and politician Vyacheslav Dombrovsky. Its first report on Latvia’s competitiveness practically proposed that Latvia should be offshorized.

The authors recommended luring the offshore companies that use Latvian banks to Latvia by offering them exceptionally favourable tax rates. Company tax of less than 2 per cent was proposed (the regular rate is 15 per cent), two years of tax holiday (up to 200,000 euros) for companies that re-register in Latvia and do not exceed a turnover of 50 million euros, and up to a five year exemption from the pension part of social insurance.

The Certus board includes the former ambassador and Minister of Foreign


Affairs Aivis Ronis, who has worked as a non-resident bank representative; Deputy Chairman of the Board at ABLV Vadims Reinfelds; as well as the head of the Association of Latvian Commercial Banks Martins Bicevskis.

In the forum where Certus presented their report on Latvia’s competitiveness, in front sat Latvia’s president Raimonds Vejonis, public face of Certus, former minister Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis, and next to him one of the owners of the biggest non-resident bank, ABLV, Olegs Fils. Source: LV President’s Office.

Dombrovskis refused to discuss the sources of funding, only saying they are 100 per cent private and the same that supported the competitiveness report produced by the think tank. Of the supporters mentioned in the report, Re:Baltica got confirmation only from the bank association and Lattelecom (the rest denied theirNavigation area:

Video Game Exhibition
GAMES AND POLITICS

Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City

Interactive Video Game Exhibition

Games and Politics is an interactive exhibition by the Goethe-Institut, in cooperation with ZKM | Center for Art and Media, which has been touring worldwide. The exhibition features 18 significant politically-ambitious video games, and encourages viewers to examine how they each unfold their unique political potential.

The exhibition is presented in Manila by the Goethe-Institut Philippinen and the Ateneo Art Gallery.

A number of exciting side events accompany the exhibition including some of the most important names in the local gaming scene. Schedule below:

Sep 12, Tuesday

6:00 PM | EXHIBITION OPENING with LIVE PLAYTHROUGH of THIS WAR OF MINE

Oct 6-7, Friday to Saturday

3:00 PM – 3:00 PM | 24-HOUR GAME JAM
Are you a game developer or an enthusiast


housing for supporting a cap in the path of the motion of the neck of the container and a pretightener assembly positioned to level the cap on the neck of the container as the cap is pulled from the housing and to impart an initial rotary motion to the cap prior to entering the cap tightening assembly. The cap tightening turret includes a number of spindles having continuously rotating heads and a corresponding number of pedestals for moving the neck of the container into the rotating heads. Each of the heads includes a resilient ring to frictionally engage the outer peripheral of the cap to rotate the cap into tight engagement with the neck of the container. There is a means provided on the spindle head to hold1. Technical Field
The present disclosure relates to a ceiling-embedded air conditioner that is embedded between a ceiling slab and a ceiling panel. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a ceiling-embedded air conditioner that has a blowoff structure blowing air from a decorative panel to all directions.
2. Description of the Related Art
In a ceiling-embedded air conditioner, a box-shaped casing main body is embedded into a space formed between a ceiling slab and a ceiling panel. A square decorative panel is mounted on the bottom surface (facing the interior of a room) of the casing main body. In general, an air suction opening is provided in the center of the decorative panel, and air blowoff openings are provided around the air suction opening. The casing main body includes a


turbo fan, a heat exchanger surrounding the outer periphery of the turbo fan, and a drain pan disposed under the heat exchanger (for example, refer to Japanese Patent No. 4052264).
In conventional ceiling-embedded air conditioners however, the air blowoff openings are at four places along the four sides of the decorative panel. The conditioned air having passed through the heat exchanger is blown from the sides of the decorative panel to the four directions. Meanwhile, no air flows into the four corners (corner portions). This easily generates variations in room temperature.
Accordingly, the ceiling-embedded air conditioner disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 4052264, air blowoff paths are provided along the entire circumference of the drain pan in the casing. Besides the air blowoff openings disposed along the four sides of thedecorative panel, auxiliary blowoff openings are provided at the corner portions of the decorative panel to connect the adjacent ends of the air blowoff openings. Accordingly, the air blowoff openings form an octagonal ring shape. Wind direction plates are disposed at the air blowoff openings to allow the air to be blown to almost all directions.


Far away on Wilde Island, Princess Rosalind is born with a dragon claw where her ring finger should be. To hide the secret, the Queen forces her to wear gloves at all times until a cure can be found, so Rosalind can fulfill the prophecy to restore the family to their rightful throne. But Rosalind’s flaw cannot be separated from her fate.

When she is carried off by the dragon, everything she thought she knew falls apart. The dragon sees beauty in her talon where her mother saw only shame, and Rosalind finally understands what her mother has truly denied her. Carey has written a stunning portrayal of the complex relationship between a mother and daughter in a lyrical novel sure to thrill readers who love fantasy—and those whohaving front and rear large size main wheels and several smaller stabilizing wheels. The scooter has a pivotal front wheel for turning, and handlebars linked to the front wheel. A doll is mounted on the scooter with its arms secured to the handlebars. The scooter has a motor mounted thereon for actuating at least one of the wheels for forward movement. The doll has a leg and foot assembly linked to the motor for movement up and down, or tilting, and front to rear to simulate scooter actuation motion. In addition, a second motor may be provided, or a coupler from the first motor may be provided, to turn the front wheel of the scooter.
These objects as well as other objects, features and advantages of the invention will


industrial output between 1953 and 1973 was comparable in volume to that of the entire century and a half which separated 1953 from 1800. The recovery of war-damaged economies, the development of new technologies, the continued shift from agriculture to industry, the harnessing of national resources within ‘planned economies,’ and the spread of industrialization to the Third World all helped to effect this dramatic change. In an even more emphatic way, and for much the same reasons, the volume of world trade also grew spectacularly after 1945…”

Importantly, the expansion that took place in the 20 years 1953-1973 was not merely a quantitative growth of the economy of the inter-war years. Rather, 1953 to 1973 saw a qualitative revolution. Physicist Tom Murphy casts light on this in a post– operated a coal-economy which came with a specific suite of technologies – railways, steamships, manufactories, etc. – designed to harness steam power. In the course of the war, the USA supplied six out of every seven barrels of oil consumed (the remainder coming largely from Venezuela and the Caucasus, with much smaller amounts coming from Persia and Romania). The civilian application of American oil power in the aftermath of the war unleashed a new suite of oil technologies (interstate highways, cars, jet airplanes, etc.) that was sufficient to prevent its allies and conquered adversaries from falling into recession (and succumbing to the allure of Soviet communism); to provide them with the aid needed to rebuild their shattered infrastructure; and to provide the wealth to unleash the biggest


economic expansion the world has ever seen.

The story of the economic boom – which was largely limited to America’s immediate allies (Western Europe, Japan, South Korea and the white ex colonies of the British Empire) – is visible in the growth of global oil production and consumption in the boom years; as, of course, is the ultimate cause of the crisis that we have been wrestling with since 1973:

The year 1973 marks the point at which global oil production ceased growing exponentially. That said, the partially artificial cause of the crisis – the OPEC embargo – is reflected in the recovery and peak in 1979 (suggesting that exponential growth might have continued for a few more years; and avoiding the crisis that brought Thatcher and Reagan to power).Less visibly, US conventional oil production had peaked in 1971, leaving the OPEC states and the Soviet Union with the last global reserves of relatively cheap and easy oil. Fields like the North Sea and Alaska were opened up in the 1980s, and the oil industry moved offshore into ever deeper water; but this masked a massive increase in the (energy and monetary) cost of oil recovery (something that has worsened with fracking and bitumen sands).

Go back to the beginning of the industrial revolution, and there was little need for formal education. Most people simply learned skills from parents or, if they were fortunate, secured an apprenticeship with a master artisan. Only the elites and their small clerical retinue required the kind of academic education that we regard


as commonplace today. Entire global empires could be administered with numbers of people that would be regarded today as too small to staff a local government housing department.

Initially, industrialisation was seen as de-skilling; resulting in various protest movements such as Luddisim in which dispossessed artisans railed against the machines they perceive as taking their jobs. In time, however, industrialisation and urbanisation created a skills deficit that required a broader technical and clerical class – in a word, complexity. The number of discrete occupations – each with its own technical competencies – began to mushroom. States across the industrial world had no choice but to institute the first tentative steps toward modern public education systems.

Industrial warfare – or at least the fear of it – dictated even more technicalsoil and toil secured places in the expanding education system that allowed them to move into the “white collar” middle class. Which brings us back to the phenomenal economic growth unleashed by the global switch from coal- to oil-powered technologies during the post-war boom. The need for a massive expansion in education to keep pace with the explosion of new technology had already been understood during the war. In Britain, for example, despite severe manpower shortages, the 1944 Education Act had both expanded public education and increased the school leaving age.

Among the baby boom generation that grew up in the years after the war, there is a small group that benefitted hugely from the expansion of education. These were the four percent of working class kids that passed


the 11-plus exam, went through grammar school and into university. Many of them – now either in or about to enter retirement – became household names in the worlds of business, politics and entertainment; giving rise to the unfounded myth that selective education is superior to comprehensive schooling… it was for them, but there is little evidence that it was beneficial for the wider population.

Those of us that went to university in the 1970s and 1980s were the last beneficiaries of the post-war education reforms. We did not have to pay tuition fees, were exempt from paying rates (now council tax), had our accommodation costs paid by the local authority, and received a modest maintenance grant to cover living expenses. This was possible because less than 10 percentof the population went to university – the majority of further education taking place in industry-related technical and further education facilities, while the majority of the population learned their skills on the job through apprenticeships and employer-provided training. The benefit of this exclusivity, of course, was that there were relatively few candidates for genuine degree level jobs; allowing the majority of graduates to command a high salary within a few years of graduating.

By the time New Labour (and the Clinton Democrats) arrived on the political scene, the economic expansion that had driven the need for educational expansion was long gone. Entirely new skills and competencies were required in a few niche areas (such as banking and finance, tech, pharmaceuticals and aerospace) which continued to pay large salaries but


required far fewer workers. For the majority of the population, however, complexity had already gone into reverse. Those of us who graduated in the 1980s were already becoming surplus to requirement; depending increasingly on state-funded jobs to maintain our incomes. Reforms aimed at pushing half of the population through university in this climate were bound to have unpleasant consequences.

Most obviously, the expansion of university education has necessitated the introduction of student debt. The introduction of student loans to replace maintenance grants was among the last acts of the Thatcher government. So too was the removal of the exemption on paying council tax. But the expansion of the university system after 1997 was so great that debt-financing became inevitable. And while New Labour aimed to keep tuition fees low,Photo : John Parra ( Getty Images )

In a turn oddly fitting for a movie all about deception and controversy, a weird wrinkle has recently cropped up in the backstory of last year’s true-crime delight Can You Ever Forgive Me?. A few weeks ago, Julianne Moore opened up publicly about how she was still kind of miffed about getting fired from the part of author/forger Lee Israel—a role Melissa McCarthy was ultimately nominated for an Academy Award for—a mere six days before production on the movie was scheduled to begin. At the time, Moore didn’t elaborate on why she and director Nicole Holofcener had parted ways on the project, but now one of the movie’s other stars, Richard E. Grant, has shed some light on the reason for


Introducing Century, a series of exciting and wonderfully addictive stand-alone, mixable games. Each title is set in different centuries, from the 15th to the 17th, and depicts the major trading systems and routes of these eras. While quick and easy to learn, the century trilogy will fully engage even the most strategic players.

Discover the beauties of the spice trading road and its colorful markets with the amazing artwork by international renowned artist Fernanda Suárez. Wrap your mind around simple and pure game mechanics combined with a touch of deck-building system that lead to endless strategies and decisions. Century Spice road is truly an outstanding game. One you will play over and over and...over again!May 2012

Maison M. Chapoutier traces its roots to 1808, when Marius Chapoutier and his family moved to the Northern Rhône town of Tain l’Hermitage from the Ardeche mountains. In their new home, Marius broke into the wine business by acquiring an estate owned by Comte Monier de la Sizeranne, but the dedicated acquisition of vineyards didn’t actually begin until 1879 with Polydor Chapoutier. For much of the 20th Century, the domaine was run by the well-known, out-spoken and miniscule Max Chapoutier, though when he retired in 1977, quality went into decline. The revival occurred in 1990, when 26-year-old Michel Chapoutier took over operations, and in the process of building back the family’s reputation and in expanding throughout the Rhône — the company produces wine from every region of


in fact, the wines reminded me. In whatever amount, these were magnificent, complete, confident, rare, expensive — and very different — wines.

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Made completely from marsanne grapes, the M. Chapoutier Chante-Alouette 2007, Hermitage blanc, was made one-third in new oak casks and two-thirds in stainless steel, the understanding being that casks are generally larger than the standard barriques. This is a complex and many-layered wine, packed with detail in deep and broad dimension, exuberant without being flashy. Fairly amazing aromas jump from the glass in a welter of roasted lemons and peaches, buttered cinnamon toast and Bit o’ Honey, jasmine and honeysuckle, bees’-wax and hazelnuts. Plump and fleshy without being quite voluptuous, the wine is steadied bythe Maipu area, at 2,624-feet elevation, and Lujan de Cuyo, at 3,116 feet. The wine aged nine months, half in a combination of stainless steel and concrete, half in French oak barrels. Ñandú Malbec 2010 — named for a large flightless bird indigenous to Argentina — offers a medium ruby-purple color and a purposeful bouquet of black and red currants, black cherries and plums and cherries imbued with cloves and sandalwood, cedar and black olive and intriguing notes of spiced fig and fruitcake. Tannins are smooth and mellow, displaying just an edge of smoke and graphite-like minerality to lend verve to the full-bodied structure, while black and blue fruit flavors are touched with something slightly sweet and untamed, like ripe Rainier cherries; vibrant acidity keeps the whole savory


word. 14.1 percent alcohol. Production was 380 cases. Now through 2014. Excellent. About $25.
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The Grade Cabernet Sauvignon 2008, Calistoga, Napa Valley, spent two years in French oak, 40 percent new barrels. Sporting a dark yet radiant ruby-purple color, the wine feels like classic Napa Valley in its scope and dimension, its intensity and concentration, its remarkable presence and tone, vibrancy and resonance. The bouquet is a beauty, a beguiling and fairly exotic amalgam of cassis, black raspberries and mulberries buoyed by lavender, violets and sandalwood, thyme and cedar, with back-notes of fruitcake, black olive and graphite. In the mouth, the wine forgoes a bit of its seductive power for a more solid, brooding aspect, though there’s nothing heavy or obvious here. Ripe and spicy black and blue fruitof further elevation to full AOC status. Villages that have achieved such beatification, as it were, include Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Beaumes de Venise and Vinsobres. Cairanne, generally rated as the best of the 20 villages, surely deserves that honor, more than Vacqueyras did, in my opinion. By the way, beginning with the 2012 vintage, the abbreviated designation AOC will change to AOP, standing for Appellation d’Origine Protégée.

Before the Revolution, Vaucluse was the domain of the de Sade family. Their ruined castle, last inhabited by the Marquis de Sade in 1777, stands in the hills above the village of Lacoste, about 25 miles southeast of Avignon. The castle is owned and was restored by fashion icon Pierre Cardin; it is the site of a celebrated theater festival every summer.

Anyway, the