Marie Nováková

English teacher/ Montessori Assistant Teacher

Marie comes from Liberec, from a big family, with six children. She started working with children in a Scout, spent four summer holidays in GB, eight months in Canada, and two summer holidays in Spain as au-pair. Maria pursued a degree in preschool education at the University of Hradec Králové, has been working in several International Preschools. From 2014 she has taught at a Montessori preschool in Liberec. She is currently completing her 3-6 Montessori training with Claus-Dieter Kaul. The Montessori approach for her, is a way of life.I hear him tell younger son, "um, mom is fine."

By now, my head was banging on the table, rest assure they won't ever ask what this part is ever....... again.

It is a hose faucet. Or, alternately, a flanged hose faucet. Here, we had a Mexican restaurant called the "Pink Taco". Its name was controversial because it is also the street slang for the "C". As a pubilicity stunt, they offered to pay an exhorbitant sum to name the Cardinals Stadium "The Pink Taco". It just went bankrupt this week after two years of operation.

Here's how strange my day was. About 9:00 am, I'm in the hall during passing time, talking with another teacher when I look into my classroom just in time to see one student pick up


complements the broader Colorado Energy Plan, which will deliver 55 percent renewable energy to the grid by 2026 and reduce carbon emissions by 60 percent. The agreement is also part of Xcel Energy’s commitment to collaborate on solutions that benefit customers, communities and local economies.

EVRAZ North America is Xcel Energy’s largest retail electric customer in Colorado and one of Pueblo’s largest employers. The companies agreed to work towards a long-term electricity contract in 2018 that gives the steel mill price certainty through 2041. With its 20-year, fixed rate structure, the project provides EVRAZ North America with predictable electricity prices and allows the mill, which employs about 1,000 workers, to stay in Pueblo.

Lightsource BP and project investors will invest an estimated $250 million into the solar facility. In additionsurgery). So far, this technology is of greatest use for human surgeons, but for their robotic assistants in simpler tasks, by making 3D information about the current state of the surgery available in real-time.

Richard Wildes, an associate professor from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Centre for Vision Research at the York University, has started a collaboration with the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, as well as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The mentioned project he’s working on develops machine learning and computer vision systems to help surgeons and robots assistants during medical operations and procedures. This kind of project uses the video camera input to the computer system, which enables an enhanced 3D visualization of the medical operation as it


a larger study of the rationing practices of IFR panels. The research received ethical approval from UCL Research Ethics Committee (ref: 0363/004), covering all sites involved. We undertook in-depth ethnographic exploration of the work practices of three IFR panels over a three-year period. Panels varied in their composition but typically included staff from the local commissioning organisation (directors of public health, nursing, finance and commissioning); a local general practitioner, pharmacist, and, in one site, a lay representative. In one locality (site A), nearly all panel discussions took place by email and we collected several thousand email exchanges; in the second site we audio-recorded one IFR panel discussion at which seven cases were discussed (site B); and in the third site we observed and took detailed field notes ofprogressively enlarging in size. His father had similar problems as a young man. This cosmetic impediment is causing Jack significant psychological stress and he finds it extremely embarrassing to undress in front of his peers. He is otherwise physically well developed with secondary sexual characteristics consistent with his age and has a slim frame.\[...\]Given the volume of his gynaecomastia he would most certainly require re-position of his nipple areola regardless of whatever kind of surgery he has. There may be some merit in combining liposuction with a more definitive procedure later on to positively influence the eventual cosmetic. Despite his age surgery could be offered to him as the problem is quite clearly present and appears to be largely fatty, incompatible with his physical frame." \[Extract from the


requirements of IFR decision-making as described above), referring to the boy's "*suffering*", *"significant psychological distress", "extremely embarrassing", "the volume of his gynaecomastia"*, all phrases that emphasise the validity of his exceptional status. Within the context of this description of 'exceptionality', the reference to the *"cosmetic impediment"* arguably emphasises the impediment rather than its 'cosmetic' nature. The dissonance between the two words is striking: an impediment is not merely 'cosmetic'. The consultant describes his treatment plan *"to positively influence the eventual cosmetic"*; the word 'cosmetic' here suggests a medical textbook meaning, i.e. surgery altering the appearance of the body.

However, in the email discussion the panel gives a very different evaluative accent to the word cosmetic. Here 'cosmetic' references a category of treatment in their low priority treatment policy thatoverride the considerable work the consultant does to build a case for funding. Following Bakhtin, we suggest that the evaluative accent the panel gives to the word 'cosmetic' is not only a reflection of the here-and-now of policy discourse, but also contains echoes of *"historical and cultural scripts"* \[[@CR42]\], invoking societal views of cosmetic surgery more as 'beauty practice' than 'medical intervention' \[[@CR28]\], and thus as something inherently undeserving of NHS funds.

The data extracts contain other instances of the evaluative accenting assigned to specific words and phrases. The word 'functional' for example, acquires a number of meanings in relation to breasts. The breast functions as an organ of lactation and a secondary sexual characteristic as well as (pathologically) interfering with the functions of other organs and structures (e.g.


the sector's low priority treatments policy."*"

This statement not only places Jack in a diagnostic category that is a *"potential exception"* under local policy, but also serves to set apart the category of *"women with big breasts"* applying for breast reduction from those with the *"unusual condition"* of gynaecomastia, emphasising the exceptionality (and arguably deservingness) of (young) male cases of breast surgery. In the end, however, as we argued above, the labeling of Jack's request as 'cosmetic' trumps all other arguments, and his 'exceptionality' fails.

In Brenda's case the GP on the panel questions the categorisation of patients as set out in local policy. He says that he cannot really see the difference between patients having implants after breast cancer surgery (which the NHS automatically funds) and this patient who       FACTUAL BACKGROUND & PROCEDURAL HISTORY
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was called for a preliminary hearing. Kazeem and his counsel, Jerome A. Kaplan,
were present. On motion of the defense, the hearing was continued to February 29,
2012.
        On February 29, neither Kazeem nor Kaplan was present when the case was
called. Accordingly, the trial court ordered a bench warrant issued and the bail
bond forfeited. Kaplan appeared later that morning, and the following colloquy
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Los Angeles police are investigating almost two dozen cases of alleged criminal sexual misconduct connected to multiple people within the entertainment industry, a senior department official told NBC News.

The cases involve individuals who are known publicly as well as others who have not yet been identified, the official said Friday.

Related: Since Weinstein, here's the list of men accused of sexual misconduct

Allegations span from misdemeanor sexual battery to felony rape, and in many cases, there are multiple complaints lodged against the same individual, the official said. With calls from victims continuing to roll in, the number of investigations is expected to rise.

While police have not said publicly who is under investigation, law enforcement's responseChief of Detectives Robert Boyce told reporters earlier this month.

NBC News confirmed at least four sexual misconduct or sexual assault investigations connected to Weinstein are underway in the Los Angeles area as well. Two of them are being handled by the LAPD.

Harvey Weinstein arrives for the Marrakech International Film Festival in 2013. Guillaume Horcajuelo / Pool via EPA file

The movie mogul's representatives have said in a previous statement that "any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by him" and that he did not retaliate against women who rejected his advances.

In response to the wave of accusations against several individuals, Los Angeles County prosecutors formed a new task force of veteran sex crimes prosecutors to handle possible criminal charges spurring from the investigations.

The task force will "ensure a


20th and 21st centuries.

The 19th-century pair were Darwin and Wallace. Each came up with the idea of evolution independently of the other. When Wallace sent Darwin the paper he had written explaining this, Darwin realized that Wallace had articulated the big idea that he himself had been pondering – dithering over? – since his return from his voyages on HMS Beagle years before.

Darwin’s friend, Sir Charles Lyell, artfully managed to have the two men’s work presented jointly at the Linnaean Society in London in July 1858. Sir Charles relied heavily on the convention of alphabetical order to give the “establishment” Darwin precedence over the interloper Wallace.

Wolfe’s second pair of scientists are Noam Chomsky, who more or less remade linguistics after World War II, and his former student Danieldays, he had been training men from the 1st and 2nd battalions in mock attacks in which each man was put through the part he would be called on to take in capturing the Ruan barracks. We then went on to the position which had been allotted to us.

So far as my party was concerned, nothing happened until after daybreak when a scout came from the direction of the barracks and told us the operation was a failure. About five minutes later another scout arrived with the correct account. The barracks had been captured with all its equipment, and the garrison were prisoners. In a short while, we were called into the village where two of the police, Constables Wilmot and Carroll, were handed over to us, with


the policemans bicycles. The R.I.C. barracks was burned to the ground.

Three nights after the taking of Ruan barracks, John Joe Clohessy, then attached to the brigade staff, came to me with orders to release Constable Wilmot. I cycled with him to Diffleys in Carron and set this prisoner at liberty. The other prisoner's detention was only a sham. He, Constable Carroll was the man who had planned and arranged the capture of the barracks and it was pre-arranged that as soon as this was accomplished he would join the I.R.A. and go into active service with our battalion. Subsequently he fought in a number of engagements with the Mid-Clare brigade.

Back to The War of Independence in West Clare: Monreal Ambush and ReprisalsAustralian man allegedly set alight after row over dog Published duration 25 January 2017

image copyright 9news.com.au image caption Emergency crews at the scene in Wollongong, south of Sydney

A man in Australia is in a critical condition after being set alight following an argument over a dog, police say.

The 45-year-old man suffered serious burns in Wollongong, a city south of Sydney, according to New South Wales Police.

Police said his alleged attacker, 41, doused him with a flammable liquid before setting him on fire.

They described the incident as a "neighbour dispute".

The victim suffered critical injuries and was flown to a hospital in Sydney, police said.

A 44-year-old woman with him at the time also suffered burns while trying to extinguish the flames.

She was taken to a Wollongong hospital in a stable


condition.

image copyright 9news.com.au image caption The victim suffered critical injuries in the incident

One witness said she heard yelling at the time.

"It's pretty bad, it's pretty stuffed up. It's scary," she told Australian Broadcasting Corp

"I stayed inside. It's too scary to come out when there's an argument."

The 41-year-old man was denied bail in the Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday.Ferdinando Paleologus Tomb

Commanding one of the most breathtaking views on the East Coast of Barbados is the St. John's Parish Church. Along with it's view, perhaps the most fascinating feature of the church which is located in the parish of St. John, is the tomb of Greek expatriate Ferdinando Paleologus. Paleologus was a church warden, a surveyor and owner of Clifton Hall, a nearby cotton plantation.

He was a descendent of the brother of the great Emperor Constantine XI, the last of the Byzantine Imperial family from the 1400s that produced the last Christian emperors of Greece. After the Battle of Naseby in England where his family was driven from the throne of Constantinople by the Turks, he took off to Barbados.

When Paleologus died in the 1670s, he was


buried in the grave yard at St John's Parish Church. In 1831, the island of Barbados was struck by a hurricane which destroyed the church. Ferdinando's lead coffin was discovered facing a different position than all the others and his skeletal remains lodged in quicklime. His head was facing West in accordance with Eastern Orthodox traditions.Paris braces for floods as swollen Seine inches higher

Paris was on high alert Saturday as the swollen Seine continued to creep higher, with forecasters warning the river could stay high throughout next week, especially if more rain is dumped on France.

Leaks started to appear in some basements Friday, while some residents on the city's outskirts were forced to travel by boat through waterlogged streets.

The Louvre, Musee d'Orsay and Orangerie museums are on high alert, with the lower level of the Louvre's Islamic arts wing closed to visitors.

A health centre in the northwestern Parisian suburbs, where 86 patients were receiving care, had to be evacuated Friday.

Meanwhile over 650 people were evacuated from their homes in the Paris region, according to police.

Pedestrians and a metro train cross the swollen Seine


river on the Bir-Hakeim bridge in Paris on January 26, 2018. (AFP)

The Vigicrues flooding agency scaled back its peak predictions for the river in the capital, saying it will top out at 5.8 to 6 metres (19 to 19.7 feet) between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, compared with 6.2 metres previously.

But that would still bring the Seine four to five metres above its normal height, causing headaches for commuters as well as people living near its overflowing banks.

It's enough to worry Joao de Macedo, janitor at a residential building in Paris's upscale 16th Arrondissement.

"There are six studios in the basement, and we've had to set up blocks outside to keep the windows from breaking and covering everything in water," he said.

Inside the studios, tables and dressers have beenfrom the middle of next week, something I'm not sure of at this point, we're not necessarily done with this yet," said Marc Mortureux, risk prevention director at the French environment ministry.

The swollen Seine river flowing through central Paris on January 26, 2018. (AFP)

But even once the water levels start to recede, forecasters say it will be a slow process, since much of the ground in northern France is already waterlogged.

A main commuter line, the RER C, has halted service at Paris stops through Wednesday, and some expressways that run alongside the Seine have been closed.

In Paris the Seine flows through a deep channel, limiting the potential flooding damage to riverside structures.

But several areas on the outskirts of the capital are under water, such as the southern suburb


was an unwise reaction to advice from the Republican former governor.

The common sense measures Brown and the department have been implementing since 2011, including realignment, have been kicking around Sacramento for a decade, as has the understanding that reducing the prison population will allow a shift in spending priorities. The federal three-judge panel and Supreme Court rulings enable those reforms to be implemented without risking political careers of timid lawmakers.

In other words, the federal courts can be blamed for results that Ronald Reagan, when governor, achieved of his own initiative by slashing the prison population more than 40 years ago. That neither moderate Republican Schwarzenegger nor mainstream Democrat Brown could imitate the conservative Republican tells us a lot about how politics and priorities changed over time.

More important, itYou cant let her be her can you….she was in a vehicle that was being driven by someone else, not driving under the influence. I think the charge will be dropped, she wasnt driving, and she wasnt out walking the streets causing a disturbance, Albiet she wasnt in a condition to drive herself home but the police could have called her a cab after arresting the driver, but instead they took her in. Ridiculous.

The interviewer kissed her ass. That's why she wouldn't go on Oprah. Easy interview for her vs. facing tough and real questions. Keep kissing butt for more interviews. I will watch the real news makers.

If she was really serious about putting her side of the story out there and making people believe her, she should've


Capital One Bowl 2011: 10 Things To Know About Michigan State and Alabama

The Capital One Bowl promises to be one of the most competitive bowl games of the season this year when the Michigan State Spartans meet the Alabama Crimson Tide in Orlando on January 1st.

For the Crimson Tide, this has to be a disappointing conclusion to a season in which anything less than a BCS bowl berth was going to be considered a failure. Alabama, who started the season at the No. 1 ranking, could not win the close games this season, losing three games to SEC opponents South Carolina, LSU and Auburn.

Michigan State, on the other hand, was surprised by a season that found the Spartans in a three-way tie atop the Big Ten with theOhio State Buckeyes and Wisconsin Badgers. Unfortunately for the Spartans, Wisconsin and Ohio State were chosen as representatives from the Big Ten in the BCS bowl games (the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl). Still, considering Michigan State started the season unranked, the season must be considered a great success and the Capital One Bowl a terrific achievement.

The History

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The Capital One Bowl in Orlando historically features two of the best teams in college football. The game features the SEC No. 2 team pitted against the No. 2 team from the Big Ten. Often, the Capital One Bowl is a more intriguing bowl game than some of the BCS bowl games, which may feature the champion of a weaker conference such as the ACC or Big East.

Despite recent


failures to win the National Championship, the Big Ten has outperformed the SEC in the Capital One Bowl over the last decade. Particularly over the last six games, the Big Ten is 5-1 against the SEC. The one loss, however, belonged to Michigan State against Georgia in 2009.

History tells us it should be a close game. Out of the last eight Capital One Bowl games played, six have been decided by a touchdown or less. Michigan State has the advantage of recent historical success of the Big Ten, but that means nothing in the context of one game.

Can Kirk Cousins Handle a Top Defense?

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In the Spartans' lone loss this season against the Iowa Hawkeyes, much of the accountability for the loss had to fall on Cousins.Despite an otherwise stellar season, Cousins really struggled to move the ball against the Hawkeyes, who had the seventh-ranked defense in college football this season.

In that game, Cousins really struggled with turnovers. He threw a season-high three interceptions to just one touchdown pass. His 198 passing yards were the fewest on the season when he attempted 25 or more passes.

Alabama provides the similar stout defense, which caused so much trouble for Cousins in the game against Iowa. The fifth-ranked Crimson Tide defense could easily match the three interceptions Iowa had against Cousins in the regular season game.

Can Greg McElroy Play Well in a Bowl Game?

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Last year, the Alabama Crimson Tide won the BCS National Championship game against the Texas Longhorns, but it was hardly because of


Greg McElroy.

In that game McElroy had one of the worst ever performances from a winning quarterback in a National Championship game, throwing for just 58 yards and completing just six passes. McElroy later explained that he was playing with two cracked ribs, but if he was truly that ineffective due to injury, Nick Saban would have benched him.

Regardless, questions linger concerning McElroy's ability to play big in a big game.

Michigan State Had the Better Season

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According to the numbers, Michigan State had the better season. The Spartans lost just one game and won 11 this season compared to the Alabama Crimson Tide, who finished the season with their third loss against No. 2 Auburn.

The final BCS rankings told a similar story. Michigan State finished the season atNo. 9 in the BCS rankings and No. 7 in AP and Coaches Poll. Despite three losses, Alabama finished at No. 16 in the BCS rankings and No. 15 and No. 18 in the AP and Coaches Poll, respectively.

At first glance, the respective records of each team would suggest that Michigan State should be a heavy favorite. However, the numbers don't tell the whole truth because...

Alabama Had the Tougher Schedule

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The strength of schedule, however, looks far more difficult for Alabama. Michigan State's lone loss came to a No. 18 Iowa team which had one of the top defenses in the country. Additionally, the Spartans defeated two ranked opponents in Wisconsin and Michigan. Michigan and Iowa, though, finished the season each with five losses.

Alabama, on the


other hand, had all three of its losses against ranked opponents. The three losses came at the hands of LSU, South Carolina and Auburn, all teams that have continued their success throughout the season. Also, with four wins against ranked opponents, Alabama has experienced playing against tough teams this season.

That experience could provide them a major advantage over a Michigan State team which has not played as many games against highly ranked opposition.

Alabama Has Something To Prove

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The Alabama Crimson Tide came into this season with the greatest of expectations. The Crimson Tide entered the first game against San Jose State with a swagger and expectation of going undefeated on the season. As the defending National Champs with a majority of the offense returning, there was noreason to think that Alabama couldn't repeat as National Champions.

Despite an early season injury to 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram, Alabama steamrolled opponents including three ranked teams within the first five games. A road loss to South Carolina in the sixth game of the year dimmed title hopes, but did not eliminate the possibility of returning to the BCS National Championship game. A second three point loss at LSU would completely destroy any remaining ambitions to defend their title.

Alabama knows it is better than a three loss team. The Crimson Tide lost by only one point to Auburn and had them on the ropes in the first half, scoring the first 24 points of that game. Alabama is going to want to prove to the college football


world that this team is not as bad as its ranking would suggest.

Michigan State Is Cinderella

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In more ways than one, Michigan State has been a true Cinderella story this season, except in the end the Spartans don't get to go to the ball. Michigan State surpassed all expectations this season by finishing 11-1 and overcoming a significant health scare to their head coach Mark D'Antonio.

Michigan State finished the year tied with Ohio State and Wisconsin in a three-way tie atop the Big Ten conference standings. Without a conference championship game, the three teams each took a piece of the title.

Stepsisters Ohio State and Wisconsin are getting their chance to go to the ball. The Wisconsin Badgers travel to Pasadena to play in the Rose Bowl againstthe undefeated TCU Horned Frogs. The Ohio State Buckeyes are fortunate to play the Arkansas Razorbacks in the Sugar Bowl down in New Orleans.

Left out of the BCS picture, Michigan State can't be happy that it was not invited to play in a BCS bowl game despite identical records and similar schedules to Wisconsin and Ohio State.

Alabama Has the Statistical Advantage

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In many respects, Alabama is the much better team on paper. Despite the worse record, the Crimson Tide have statistically outperformed their counterpart Michigan State.

Offensively, Alabama is 28th in passing yards with over 260 yards through the air per game. Michigan State is just 44th in the NCAA in passing yards per game with 237.8. The running games of each team tell similar stories as


Alabama is 36th in college football in rushing yards per game, while Michigan State is just a few spots behind at 39th.

Defense is where we see the largest discrepancy between the teams. The Crimson Tide defense ranks fifth in all of college football allowing just 14.1 points per game. The Spartans defense has allowed six more points per game and ranks 21st in college football.

Overall, statistics may show that Alabama is the better team, but as the records indicate great statistics do not always result in victories.

Alabama Has the Better Playmakers

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When two goliaths meet in college football, it generally falls to the playmakers to decide the game. The Capital One Bowl won't be won in the trenches, but will be decided by how the topperformers for each team step up.

Michigan State and Alabama are two of the top teams in the country and consequently have some of the top playmakers in all of college football.

For the Spartans, the player to watch is Edwin Baker. One of the top sophomores in the country, Baker has been stellar for the Spartans this season. He has averaged over six yards per carry for the year and has rushed for more than 100 yards in a game five teams this season. Baker also has a superb backup in Le'Veon Bell who has seen his work and production decrease significantly over the last six games.

The playmakers for the Crimson Tide are some of the best in college football. At wide receiver, Julio Jones cannot be covered at


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Steffan Tubbs is a radio host on Denver, Colorado's  News/Talk 710 KNUS.  He currently hosts The Steffan Tubbs Show on News/Talk 710 KNUS weekday afternoons from 4pm - 7pm. He was the host of Colorado's Morning News and on 850 KOA having begun his radio career at the station in 1994.  His voice was a continued presence during a six-year career with ABC News; he was a national radio anchor for the service on the evening of September 11, 2001.  He returned to the Denver market after reporting and anchoring for WNYW Fox5-TV, the Fox affiliate in New York City.

He is the author of Life, Liberty & Resilience - a look at a segregated World War II veteran from rural Mississippi.  TheClaim: There is not enough time to organise and hold another referendum before the UK is is due to leave the EU, on 31 October.

Reality Check verdict: Constitutional experts say it takes a minimum of 22 weeks to organise a referendum. There are just over 23 weeks until 31 October, so time has almost run out.

Change UK, the new political party created by 11 former Conservative and Labour MPs, says it supports the idea of another public vote on Brexit and that it would campaign to remain in the European Union (EU) if one was held.

However, Chuka Umunna, its spokesman, told BBC News there was no longer enough time to organise another referendum before the UK was due to leave the European Union (EU), on 31 October.

Mr Umunna


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Harvey Browne Preschool has an outstanding faculty with an amazing love for children and a high commitment to quality in early childhood education.

The teachers meet the very high educational standards required by NAEYC ensuring that they are highly qualified in the area of early childhood education. All lead teachers have an undergraduate degree with hours in early childhood education and many teachers have Master’s Degrees.

Our director has a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership with a concentration in early childhood education. Our entire faculty works very hard to build strong relationships with the children, their families and our community.Bloomberg

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Zuckerberg Won Only Half the Battle in Brussels

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had two priorities heading into a hearing at the European Parliament on Tuesday.

First, he had to avoid a serious gaffe that could be replayed again and again as a soundbite on the evening news. Second, he had to convince lawmakers that Facebook Inc. is doing enough to counter fake news, foreign interventions into elections and hate speech to prevent the need for further regulation.

For task


tracking across the web and many more. Most went unanswered.

The bellicose Dutch liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt took Zuckerberg to task after he finished providing his answers. "I asked you six yes or no questions," he said. "I got not a single answer." The Facebook co-founder blushed visibly.

When confronted with questions about data, he responded with answers about content. MEPs noticed the difference.

At one point, Zuckerberg tried to end the proceedings himself. The German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht, one of the architects of the General Data Protection Regulation, which dictates how personal information is handled in the European Union, prevented him from doing so.

On the surface, the hearing may have seemed an easy affair for Zuckerberg. He appeared to turn away the most challenging questions almost casually. ButThe most important divide in America today is class, not race, and the place where it matters most is in the home according to a new book by Robert Putnam

AMONG America's educated elite, the traditional family is thriving according to a new book by Robert Putnam, but the gulf between how the rich and the poor raise their children is growing. Fewer than 10% of births to female college graduates are outside marriage compared to 65% among women with just a high-school education. The children of college-educated parents also benefit from 50% more nurturing time and an ongoing dialogue that helps them to make up their own minds about right and wrong. Working-class and single parents however, who have less spare capacity, are more likely to demand that


an ancient religious practice that still ensnares young girls in India today into a life of sexual exploitation.

In India, devadasi means “servant of god.” Young girls are “married” to an idol, deity, or temple. These girls are often from the lowest castes in India—their parents have given them to temples as human offerings in order to appease the gods.

In the local language, they have a saying about devadasis: “Servant of god, but wife of the whole town.” In reality, they are sexual slaves, and devadasi girls are forbidden from marrying. And they have to earn their own income by begging in the streets.

India's government outlawed the practice in 1988, but it persists in south India, where there are an estimated 50,000 devadasis." (source)

Bollywood movies are probably the onlyworld is shattered when she sends a topless picture of herself to a boy, without realizing that she's actually being pranked. So the next day her picture is circulating around the school and people call her names, she gets depressed and starts cutting herself. Whereas Noor struggles on a daily basis to keep up her family and protect her siblings, Aamaal & Shami. She scrapes money together to buy Shami, who was born with HIV, medicine, tries to hide Aamaal from the daily brothel visitors, while fearing for her own fate of becoming a sex worker.

While part of me was annoyed by Grace, because her problems seemed so trivial compared to Noor's, what I really liked was that Noor never looked down on Grace or whined about her


WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama administration rule requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking.

The administration said in court papers Wednesday that it is withdrawing from a lawsuit challenging the Obama-era rule and will begin a new rule-making process later this year.

The Interior Department issued the rule in March 2015, the first major federal regulation of fracking, the controversial drilling technique that has sparked an ongoing boom in natural gas production but raised widespread concerns about possible groundwater contamination and even earthquakes.

The rule has been on hold since last year after a judge in Wyoming ruled that federal regulators lack congressional authority to set rules for fracking.

Interior Departmentconfirms intent

A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke confirmed the administration's intent to submit a new rule but did not add further comment late Wednesday. Zinke took office March 1 and has promised to review a slew of department rules and policies.

Michael Saul, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, called the Trump administration's decision to withdraw the fracking rule “disturbing” and said it “highlights Trump's desire to leave our beautiful public lands utterly unprotected from oil industry exploitation.”

Backing away from what he called modest rules “is doubly dangerous, given the administration's reckless plans to ramp up fracking and drilling on public lands across America,” Saul said.

The Obama-era rule came after three years of consideration, drawing criticism from the oil and gas industry as


Gloucester City 4 Gainsborough Trinity 1

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Gainsborough Trinity conceded four goals away from home for the second time in four days as Gloucester City made Trinity pay for sloppy defending and a failure to take the chances they were presented with. Inside eight minutes, Trinity had the chance to settle any nerves left over from the Alfreton defeat on Tuesday. Nathan Jarman blazing his spot kick over the bar after Gavin Rothery had picked out the run of Ashley Worsfold, who turned the full back inside out before winning the penalty.

As it was, Trinity were to pay the ultimate penalty, falling a goal behind after a pulsating open thirty minutes or so where the game swung from end to end. Joe Parker wason hand to sweep the ball past Jake Eastwood to put the hosts a goal to the good after confusion in the visiting defence. Ed Williams winning the ball back, before squaring to Parker who netted his second of the season, unchallenged.

Moments later though and Trinity were back on level terms, a Matt Thornhill freekick deceiving everyone, including Jas Singh in the Gloucester goal to get the blues right back into it. Now with a foot hold in the game, Gainsborough began to dominate large periods of play, without really threatening Singh’s goal, but it was the hosts who went in at the break with their noses in front. The Gainsborough rear-guard getting caught out all too easily by a clipped Chris Knowles through ball, expertly diverted over


Eastwood by the Man of the Match Ed Williams.

Dominic Roma looked to mix things up at the break, swapping the workmanlike Worsfold for the pace of Thewlis, but it was a Gloucester substitute who was to settle the game, only on for a matter of minutes before a mazy run by Luke Hopper put the game beyond doubt. Carrying the ball in from the right hand edge of Trinity’s box, he slalomed past several challenges before firing past Eastwood from a seemingly impossible angle.

As frustration in the Trinity camp grew, they looked to be thrown a life line, when Gloucester’s Spencer Hamilton was shown a second yellow card for handball, but despite being down to ten men, the side from Lincolnshire couldn’t find a way through. With Trinitystill pushing forwards, Gloucester pressed high, won the ball back and wrapped the game up, with Hopper squaring for Williams, to take a touch before dispatching a composed finished past the exposed Eastwood.

Trinity now return to the Martin & Co Arena for two home games, looking to make the most of home comforts as they go in search of their first win of the 2016/17 campaign.


Waiting patiently for the end of the world By Emma Tracey

BBC News, Ouch Published duration 25 October 2013

image caption Colin Hambrook's cover illustration for Knitting Time

Colin Hambrook is a poet and visual artist with mental health difficulties and ME. He runs Disability Arts Online (DAO) a web portal for disabled artists which reviews and showcases their work.

In Hambrook's latest autobiographical project, Knitting Time, he recalls being brought up by a Jehovah's Witness mother who was mentally ill. She, Hambrook and the other Jehovah's Witnesses they knew, believed that the world was due to end in 1975. This collection of illustrated poetry, and the accompanying art exhibition, explore the psychosis and grief he experienced as a result.

Why did you call it Knitting Time?

Knitting time is an allegory for psychosis.died, the person we knew before never came back. During my pre-teen and teenage years, I went through a process of mourning. A lot of my psychosis was in response to the grief I felt.

I read a book by Joan Didion about the years following her husband's death, when she went through a psychosis related to her grief. It brought home to me my own experiences as a child. The poetry I wrote for Knitting Time is a reflection on that part of my life and how, like Joan, I came through it with the help of family and friends.

Knitting time is published by Waterloo Press. The art exhibition which accompanies the book is at the Pallant House Gallery until 3 November. Read more about the project on


London (CNN) The Oxford Union -- a university debating society with many top British politicians among its former presidents -- has been criticized for its treatment of a blind student who was "dragged by his ankles" before being escorted from the debating chamber last month.

Ebenezer Azamati, a postgraduate student from Ghana, was at the Oxford Union on October 17 for a debate on the British government when witnesses said security personnel attempted to remove him from the venue by force.

Nwamaka Ogbonna, President of the Oxford University Africa Society (OUAS), told CNN that Azamati had arrived early to reserve a seat. He then stepped out for dinner before returning to "reclaim his seat."

Citing what Azamati and other eyewitnesses told her, Ogbonna said: "He is then accosted by the securitycan't declare a winner. If you want to know who benefits most from free trade, all you have to do is look at the list of co-chairs steering the U.S.-Korea FTA Business Council -- the gold-plated blue chip clearinghouse for corporate support of the biggest of the three trade deals, the South Korea FTA. They include:

Ted Austell, Vice President, Trade Policy, The Boeing Company

Lisa Barry, Vice President and General Manager, Chevron

Joseph Damond, Vice President, International Trade Policy, Pfizer, Inc.

Matt Niemeyer, Vice President, Office of Government Affairs, Goldman Sachs

Laura Lane, Managing Director and Head of International Government Affairs, Citigroup, Inc

That is some multinational, deep-pocketed, globe-spanning power! The second largest U.S. oil company, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, two of the most powerful U.S. financial institutions, and one aircraft maker


a detailed analysis by the United States International Trade Council, the South Korea FTA "would likely generate a substantial increase in U.S. exports of banking, securities, and asset management services to Korea. It would achieve this though such measure as removing obstacles to the "acquisition of existing Korean firms, reduced residency requirements for senior executives, and the elimination of minimum investment restrictions for foreign direct investment." In other words, the big will just get bigger.

And finally, there's Chevron. Chevron is already a big player in South Korea, a partner for more than 40 years with GS Caltex, the second largest energy company in Korea. Chevron is on record as supporting the free trade agreement because it will "strengthen investment protections" -- which essentially boils down to making itFarmVille: Tropic Escape APK Free Download

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Cross country finishes 14th at NCAA Championships

November 27, 2012

Cross country finishes 14th at NCAA Championships

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Going head-to-head with the nation's best, the Nittany Lion women's cross country team turned in an impressive 14th-place finish in the team standings Saturday (Nov. 24) at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, hosted by the University of Louisville. Junior Victoria Perri (Philadelphia, Pa.) led the Nittany Lions individually, claiming 47th-place overall. Perri - in her first NCAA appearance - was also the second-best finisher among Big Ten athletes, following only Iowa's Marieke Schrulle, who placed seventh individually.

"It was a great season," said Director and Head Coach of Track and Field/Cross Country Beth Alford-Sullivan. "We actually started off the year unranked and overachieved the whole way through. This team


really came together at the right time, from a great finish at Big Tens, to a big win at the regional, and capped the season off with another outstanding result today.

Penn State, which qualified for the NCAA Championships for the fourth-straight go around, totaled 387 points in the effort, marking the program's third top 15 finish in the last four years. The Nittany Lions, who have made six NCAA appearances since 2002, were also second among Big Ten competitors, with Michigan leading the way with the fifth-place finish in the team standings. Michigan State followed the Nittany Lions in 16th, while Minnesota placed 22nd.

Oregon won the women's team title with 114 points, with Providence (183), Stanford (198), and Florida State (202) rounding out the top four.

Perri toured the6,000-meter course in 20:21.4 - a PR for 6K - also edging out Big Ten rivals Jillian Smith of Michigan, and Michigan State's Sarah Kroll - the 2012 Big Ten Champion. Smith and Kroll finished 52nd and 53rd, respectively. The junior, who placed 33rd in team scoring, is now one of just five Penn State athletes to score a top 50 finish in the women's race since the field was expanded to 31 teams in 1998.

Classmate Rebekka Simko (Mentor, Ohio) finished as the Nittany Lions' number two, placing 71st overall and 51st in team scoring in 20:35.3, in her first-career appearance at the NCAA Cross Country Championships. On her heels was senior Brooklyne Ridder (Cincinnati, Ohio), who placed 80th overall, and 59th in team scoring in 20:38.9. The


finish was the highest of Ridder's four NCAA races. In fact, Ridder and teammate Natalie Bower (Latrobe, Pa.) are just the sixth and seventh four-time NCAA qualifiers in program history.

Bower would also finish as a member of the Lions' scoring five, crossing in 156th overall and 121st among team competitors, finishing in 21:09.7. Sophomore Katie Rodden(Ardmore, Pa.) - another Nittany Lion in her first-career NCAA race - wrapped up the Lions' top five, taking 159th overall, which was worth 123 in team scoring. Rodden crossed the line in 21:10.

Senior Sam Masters (Columbia, Mo.) represented the Nittany Lions on the men's side, placing 231st overall, with a finishing time of 32:25.9, over 10,000-meters.

"Our entire team really did a great job of representing themselves well this weekend," continued Sullivan. "ItThe band had finished writing the song just weeks before. The classic recording was still in progress. But on this night in 1971, Led Zeppelin decided to trot out their quirky, extra-long ditty for a concert at Belfast's Ulster Hall, a local concert venue.

A brief history of the event posted on a cultural site of the Northern Irish government paints the concert occurring amidst a dramatic backdrop in the region's history:

The decision to play Belfast at the height of The Troubles did not go unnoticed. Mark Bolan and T-Rex had pulled out of their gigs weeks earlier, starving Northern Irish rock fans of their need for live music. Zeppelin's music served to create a unified atmosphere among the fans, and that night music drowned out the sound of


gunfire and rioting only a few streets away.

Jimmy Page would later claim that the audience was indifferent to the song on that debut night. A journalist who had been a young man in the crowd on that night, remembered his own lukewarm reception in a piece he wrote four years ago, celebrating the event's 40th anniversary:

That night in the Ulster Hall was the first public performance of Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and we didn't like it. Too 'ballady' for Led Zeppelin was our thoughts. It didn't really sound like them – at least not until the last minute of the songwhen Jimmy Page launched into that now famous guitar riff. Stairway to Heaven went on to become one of the all time rock classics that has stood theOur party of heroes were far enough into halfling territory that they were able to locate the deceased Wubbles’ former tribe.

They also met a human cleric who was working on converting the halflings info followers of Tellisindar, God of Time.

His name was Kefka and he joined the party to replace Wubbles.

The halflings lead the party to nearby fields where mariposa flower grew in wild abundance. The party was eager to collect the plant to mix with their dreamweed and create a potent smoke that could induce the dinosaurs into an obedient trance.

Once under their control, their plan would be to lead the dinosaurs back into the hole to the underworld from whence they came.

Thus began a friendly competition to see who could collect the most mariposa. They had


to fight a few elementals and gnomes in the contested fields but eventually they did collect all of the prized ingredient.

Truthfully, Dyme won the contest, but Fizban and Praetor (both followers of the evil insect god, Entomon) conspired and cheated to make it look like Praetor was the winner.

Shortly thereafter, they started their bonfire and dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes began to converge on their location and indeed were induced into a passive, trance-like state.

The team began herding the terrible lizards towards the large hole and every time a dinosaur broke trance, Kefka was able to get them back in line through use of his Charm Animal abilities.

Eventually all of the dinosaurs were exiled to their former homeworld and Fizban closed up the hole with some magicalwebbing!

The party had now generated great renown in the northern regions by liberating Edgetown, establishing great trade relations with the Gnomatta tribe, befriending the halflings and removing the dinosaur threat.

They returned to Renaulton where King Warden was also thrilled about their work. The king paid them a healthy reward in gold pieces for their exceptional servitude.

King Warden mentioned that he would now like the eastern Dark Elves to be eradicated (as they have been making brazen assassination attempts on his life). He also mentioned a letter he received from Toros (a minotaur-populated city in the Red Lands). The minotaurs were calling for aid as giants had broken through their city walls were wreaking havoc.

While not really considering plight of the minotaurs to be a high priority, King Warden


did relay the details to the party and would respect whatever quest they decided to undertake.

Before starting any new quests, the party decided to first head back to the Stonecrafter dwarves and make further payment towards a stone keep they wished to be developed in the center of Ashton.

But they first stopped at their favourite watering hole, the Battered Whore in Wurther where they enjoyed free drinks and a rollicking, high stakes game of memory match.Tammy Lynn Michaels Files for Full Custody of Children

Tammy Lynn Michaels says she was "blindsided" by her break-up with Melissa Etheridge.

But she's gathered herself together enough to fight back and file for full custody of the pair's twin children, Johnnie and Miller.

While Etheridge asked for joint legal and physical custody when she initially filed for dissolution of their domestic partnership, Tammy has taken the battle a step farther: she wants full custody, reports TMZ.

Michaels carried the twins to term, following a donation by an anonymous sperm donor.

Tammy has also asked the court for spousal support.

Both sides of the former couple cited "irreconcilable differences" as the basis for their split. They became domestic partners in August 2005 and things will likely get uglier before they get better.

Tammy's lawyer says


James Foley and Daniel Johnson met shortly after each had graduated from college, when they signed up for Teach for America in Phoenix. It was the start of a close friendship that would sustain both for nearly 20 years until Aug. 19 when an Islamist group posted a video of the execution of Foley, a 40-year-old freelance journalist.

“Jim was, and is, a brother to me,” says Johnson, who adds that he cannot speak of Foley in the past tense. “At every juncture of my life I feel Jim has played a formative role.”

Indeed, he’s got photographs of Foley as an usher at his wedding, of the two camping in Western Massachusetts, and drinking beer in Chicago. Foley was godfather to Johnson’s son, Luka. Johnson was “D.J.” to Foley.

Thehe is clearly proud of their work.

He also proudly shows off a piece Foley wrote based on his experiences as a teacher, which won a prize from the Indiana Review. “It’s hilarious,” Johnson says with a broad smile.

Foley, a native of Rochester, N.H., had graduated from Marquette University and, after teaching, earned a master’s in fiction writing from UMass-Amherst. Meanwhile Johnson, who is originally from Ohio and a University of Michigan grad, had moved to Chicago, where he spent time on his own graduate degree in writing. After finishing grad school in 2003, Foley joined him there.

“Jim was really a person of great passion,” Johnson says, recalling their participation in an antiwar protest that blocked Lakeshore Drive. They loved to hike and camp, and spent a week in


“Jim was central to bringing us together.” The couple moved to Boston in 2005, where she, a child psychiatrist, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Courtesy Daniel Johnson

They married in 2006 and have a daughter who just turned 4, and a 16-month-old son. They named Foley the boy’s godfather. “But he never got to meet him,” Johnson says.

In 2008, Foley earned a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, when he was 35 years old. “He’d had success with his fiction,’’ says Johnson, “but I think ultimately he wanted to see the world firsthand.”

Foley was a physically powerful presence who played rugby at Marquette, a guy’s guy who relished hiking into a canyon or embedding with US troops overseas.

His personality was big, too. “He had a jester quality about him,he told Johnson after he returned from captivity in Libya. “With bullets flying and bombs exploding, it’s automatic news.”

But it was more than that, Johnson wrote in a note that accompanies his poem. “It was people’s stories, the stories of mechanics, oil workers, mothers, and fathers, people living in extremis that drew him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and ultimately, Syria. A similar thread, I believe, had led Jim into that South Phoenix classroom years before.”

Foley was with South African photographer Anton Hammerl when Hammerl was shot and killed in Libya in 2011. Foley was captured and held by forces loyal to
Moammar Khadafy. Later, he raised money for Hammerl’s wife and three children, says Johnson. And he raised nearly $12,000 through social media before being taken hostage in Syria


— for an ambulance in Aleppo, to help carry the wounded to medical treatment.

When Foley was released in Libya, he and Johnson met for lobster rolls on the Boston waterfront. At the time, Foley had taken a desk job at GlobalPost, the Boston-based online news service that he’d reported for from the Middle East. But he hated being stuck in the office, says Johnson, who asked him not to go to Syria, his final reporting gig.

On the morning the video of Foley’s murder went up, Johnson was writing a poem: “An Open Letter to James Foley in Syria.” Foley’s family and friends had raised about $1 million in hopes of ransoming him, and in June, they gathered at a barbecue that Johnson and another friend had organized.

“There wasin which we live. This mechanism of self-centered, short-term satisfaction appears to be the secret behind the durability of this particular societal formation.

The supposedly whole and complete sexual form is fragmented again and again in order to ascribe new desires and meanings to it, to implant new urges and new fields of experience, to market new practices and services. In some cases, change takes place rapidly over a period of just a few decades. Somewhat older readers will remember the hullabaloo referred to in the late sixties as the \"sexual revolution\". Those years witnessed the enthronement of King Sex and the denunciation of all previously existing sexual relationships as pathological or, to be more precise, normopathic and the \"happy family\" as totally destructive. Sexuality was attributed such power


that some became convinced that its release from bondage could bring the whole society to its knees, as Wilhelm Reich \[[@R27]\] once promised. Others held up sexuality as the source of human happiness par excellence. Generally speaking, it was to be practiced as early, as often, as diversely and as intensely as possible. Reproduction, monogamy, fidelity, virginity and abstinence were regarded as the products and the essence of repression, the enemy that had to be vanquished. The propagandists refused to see that \"emancipation\" would also be accompanied by new forms of inhibition, internal and external, new problems, and old anxieties. They even advocated sexual intercourse in schools.

No such talk is heard today. The heights of ecstasy and transgression for which the generations caught up in the sexual revolutionfrom the reproductive sphere, not least of all as the consequence of such medical-technical achievements as oral contraception. So complete was this separation that there were times in which people assumed the two had nothing whatsoever to do with one another. The removal of reproduction from the sexual sphere represents something like a \"second cultural birth\" of sexuality - the dawn of a seemingly autonomous, \"pure\" form of sexuality.

Gradually, of course, the now isolated sphere of reproduction itself was fragmented - with earth-shaking consequences. The fetus, once considered a mere appendage to the female body, is now attributed a life of its own. In principle, at least, the processes of conception and embryonic development have been shifted out of the female body. Methods used to transfer stem cells


higher life expectancies in the affluent countries, these \"old\" mothers have a greater chance of living longer to care for children created in this way than the average 20-year-old mother one hundred years ago. Should this development, in which a sperm donor, and egg donor, a surrogate mother, and the future \"social parents\" enter into a dissociative relationship, continue, *social*parents, rather than biological parents, will become the center of focus.

The separation of reproduction from sexuality, the historical roots of which can be traced far into the past, was followed in the 1970s and particularly in the 1980s by the dissociation of the sexual sphere from the sphere of gender relations - a characteristic feature of the neosexual revolution. Female (and thus also male) sexuality was redefined and linked,the background. Even perversion, once regarded as the epitome of compulsive sexual behavior, was desexualized and redefined as a gender identity disorder. This trend became evident in the work of Stoller \[[@R47]\] in the mid-1970s. Today, we have finally come to recognize \"female perversions\" in a variety of forms, as Louise J. Kaplan \[[@R20]\] contends - albeit without sexual manifestations, in the absence of which a veteran sexual scientist, one who by no means underestimates the power of discourse, would hardly speak of \"perversions\".

Interestingly enough, the - previously unexposed - roots of feminist gender discourse lie in a tendency toward sexological differentiation that was for the most part clinically motivated and pursued as early as the 1950s and 1960s primarily by scholars involved in research on intersexualism \[[@R26]\].


efforts to treat erection disorders during the 1980s. What is new today is that the numerous items found in sex shops occupy the gray area between self-therapy and medical treatment. The old wall that once separated sex articles and healing aids has been torn down.

Accordingly, the producers of Viagra, the new sex pill, insist that the substance is a medication which only a physician can prescribe on the basis of a conscientious medical assessment. At the same time, however, the public is being whipped into a frenzy in a carefully planned advertising campaign, while investors speculate on the shudder of renewed pleasure expected to overtake the male gender: the prospect of potency, at any time, whenever the urge arises! The \"stronger sex\" has dreamed of just that forto the treatment of impotence during the past several decades seem certain to decline in popularity: the surgical implantation of prosthetic elements and the injection of vasoactive substances directly into the penis. The fact that these two methods now face competition from a non-invasive technique is a development to be welcomed. The practice of stiffening the penis with surgically inserted materials causes irreversible impairment of its swelling capacity, thus exacerbating in the long run what it was meant to combat: impotence. In imitation of the penis bones of certain animals, segments of bone and cartilage were used for this purpose as long ago as the 1930s. During the 1970s and 1980s, before the triumphal march of vasoactive substances, prosthetic devices were developed to increasing degrees of perfection with


stiffen. This by no means risk-free treatment technique is called autoinjection therapy. During the 1980s, it became by far the most frequently employed approach to the treatment of erection disorders, overtaking even psychotherapy in popularity. This story began in a somewhat unusual way in the early 1980s, when a researcher speaking at an annual conference of the American Urological Association in Las Vegas presented an unforgettable demonstration of the effect of vasoactive substances. At the end of his address he pulled down his pants and showed the audience an erection induced by just such a substance. The horrified response triggered by this demonstration among the attending urologists has been attributed by some to the fact that many of them had never seen another man\'s penis in that state.demeaning to women, sexual harassment in the workplace, everyday sexism, incest, rape, sexual abuse of children, and sexual violence committed against women - these are watchwords we all know well. Once regarded as isolated and mentally ill, the compulsive offender became a ubiquitous, ordinary sex criminal, abuser, and rapist. Men were seen categorically as horny, violent and impotent. In its political form, this dissociation emerged in new penal sanctions that revoked the distinctions between morality and law (and thus the state\'s right to punish) achieved (in part) during the 1960s and 1970s. Initially, the focus of the dissociation of the aggressive-divisive from the tender-unifying aspects of sexuality was the male. Soon, however, its effects touched every individual in society. We now find not only women in heterosexual relationships


classes by describing their moral depravity in vivid detail. They portrayed courtesans as whores and clerics as sodomites. Their obscenity was antifeudal and anticlerical, an outgrowth of the spirit of Humanism and the scientific revolution. Renaissance Italy (and prerevolutionary France) produced an academic, philosophical form of pornography. The great thinkers of the era - Diderot is one example - wrote obscene works. A number of revolutionaries were pornographers as well, Mirabeau among them. The heroine of the equally intellectual and pornographic book *Thérèse philosophe*(1748) was unable to make up her mind whether she found more pleasure in relating her sexual adventures or writing as a philosopher. Even after the French Revolution, moralists and censors continued to throw texts of all kinds into the same pot - the radicalassociated with the first sexual revolution preceding the Second World War; (2) the stratum that typifies the second, or social-liberal revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and (3) the stratum embodied by the third, or neosexual revolution observable since the 1980s. Although it is possible to correlate these temporal or structural strata with specific generations in a general sense, the correlation cannot be applied to individuals. Thus a woman, for instance, who was influenced by the effects of the first sexual revolution, is most likely to have behaved like a woman living during the transition between the second and third sexual revolutions. And a young man who grew up during the neosexual revolution can (almost) feel and act as if the third revolution had never taken place. And


to his hometown of San Diego.

A dominant postseason run might have further convinced Strasburg to test the market.

He finished the regular season with a 3.32 ERA, 1.04 WHIP and 251 strikeouts in 209 innings, and he cemented his place in Nationals lore with a 1.98 ERA, 0.94 WHIP and 47 strikeouts in the playoffs. Washington went 6-0 in games he appeared in during the postseason, and he won the World Series MVP against the Houston Astros by outdueling future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander twice, including with his team facing elimination in Game 6.

Strasburg didn't only shine in the Fall Classic. He threw three shutout innings of relief against the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Wild Card Game and seven shutout innings in his one appearance inthe National League Championship Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Strasburg's decision to opt out of his deal is a welcome development for other teams in need of quality starting pitching.

The three-time All-Star has been a dominant force when healthy and has never finished with an ERA above 3.74 for a single season. He was half of arguably the best one-two punch in baseball alongside Max Scherzer and won't turn 32 until July.

Durability concerns have plagued Strasburg since he made only five starts in 2011 and was shut down before the playoffs in 2012, but he proved this year that he can anchor a staff with Scherzer and thrive under the brightest lights the sport has to offer.

Whichever team signs him will have one of the best pitchers in


[History of Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas, part I: 1909-1959].
Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas was born in May 1909. At first, issues appeared in step with the academic year, but publication began to follow the calendar year in 1957. Volume 18 was skipped in 1926-7 in an effort to correct confusion in the numbering of volumes and pages of earlier issues. October 1928 saw the journal grow from 6 issues per year to 9. Although the Spanish Civil War brought publication to a halt during the 1936-7 academic year, Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas was one of the first Spanish scientific journals to recover from the conflict. The initial print run of 100 copies was increased to 700 after the war. The content evolved over time: while originally conceived to provide a strict account of sessions ofthe Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV) -originally known as the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology- the journal gradually came to include review articles, case reports, a section summarizing the content of international journals, news and various other types of writing. The editorial board and the association's board of directors were one and the same for many years. According to the earliest charter, the editor-in-chief was also the president of the association and the associate editor was the association's vice-president. The subjects of articles provide a faithful portrait of how the specialty has changed. Syphilis, a main concern before the introduction of penicillin in the 1940s, was sidelined afterwards. The appearance of 20th-century pharmaceuticals such as salvarsan, sulfa drugs, thiazides, and corticosteroids were soon reflected in


the number of articles describing their use. Certain original contributions by Spanish authors to international dermatology first appeared in Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas. Examples are Azúa's description of pseudoepithelioma and Covisa and Bejarano's of chancriform pyoderma. Volume 50 (1959), which included accounts of the 50th anniversary of the association and the journal, closed with a biography of Enrique Álvarez Sainz de Aja, the only founding member still living at that time.SEOUL: South Korean activists on Saturday launched around 200,000 anti-North leaflets across the border, a move that will anger Pyongyang which insists Seoul should forcibly prevent such events.

Around 30 campaigners led by a former North Korean defector Park Sang-Hak sent bundles of the leaflets, attached to large helium balloons, from the border city of Paju in a bid to urge the North to end human rights abuses.

"Down with Kim Jong-Un's hereditary dictatorship," read a slogan scribbled on one of the balloons, which the activists hoped would be blown by winds into the North over the heavily-militarised border.

The leaflets were sent in packages that also contained 2,000 United States one dollar bills, 400 DVDs detailing human rights abuses in the North and 300 booklets boasting of the South's economic


achievements.

"We launched the leaflets in order to inform North Koreans that (the) international community is doing its best to help bring them liberty and rights," Park told journalists.

A group of nine leftist activists staged a rally nearby, protesting that the leaflet launch would only raise cross-border tensions instead of improving rights conditions in the North.

On Thursday during a UN review in Geneva of the isolated Asian country's rights record, diplomats urged North Korea to immediately halt a litany of abuses and crimes against humanity.

But North Korea - backed by its main ally, China - hit back at the criticism, saying a recent report by UN investigators was designed to "defame" the country.

At rare high-level talks in February, the two Koreas reached an accord which included a commitment byreal-life inspiration. Thompson, who wrote the original The Fast and the Furious script, told The Ringer in a very excellent feature:

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Rob Cohen, who directed the first film, told the website that he was trying to build a multi-racial cast and that Corona had “significant contingents of Hispanic and Asian consumers.” It was perfect: “I was trying to make an L.A. saga,


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Austria's Most Beautiful Place in 2015

The picturesque Formarinsee shimmers emerald green under the mighty Rote Wand - a natural jewel of a special kind. And not only the Klostertaler and Vorarlberger see it this way: In October 2015 the Formarinsee and the Rote Wand were part of the ORF television program "9 Places, 9 Treasures" voted the most beautiful place in Austria. After the Formarinsee and the Rote Wand had won the preliminary round in their own country, the region around the Formarinsee also prevailed in Austria against the eight other federal states.appropriate courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania exclusively, and subject to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Should there be a conflict between the laws of the Commonwealth and any other laws, the conflict will be resolved in favor of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All Federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Void in Puerto Rico and where prohibited or restricted by law.


High school teammates join the Aztecs' secondary, set lofty goals for 2017

Former Rancho Cucamonga High School cornerbacks Darren Hall and Tayari Venable put on a show in the Cougars' secondary, finishing their high school careers as consensus three-star recruits by ESPN, 247Sports, Rivals and Scout.

The show isn't over.

Hall and Venable will continue to look the part of a perfect pairing in San Diego State's secondary starting in 2017, as both cornerbacks signed with Aztecs this offseason.

With Rancho Cucamonga, Hall and Venable combined for 209 tackles and 38 passes defensed en route to being named the 17th and 18th best cornerbacks in California by Scout, respectively.

Hall, however, didn't see Scout's ranking as a compliment.

"I don't think there are 16 other cornerbacks better than me," Hall said. "I don't thinkhigh school rankings matter, and they really won't matter when I join the team in the summer."

In addition to his ability in both man and zone coverage, Hall takes pride in remaining stout against the run, which bodes well for him finding a spot in the Aztecs' physical defense.

"Playing the run is an important part of my game," Hall said. "I'm not scared to come down and tackle running backs near the line of scrimmage."

Venable, like Hall, prioritizes stopping the run and making tackles near the line of scrimmage.

"You have to come down and be able to tackle," Venable said. "If you can't tackle, you can't play."

Hall declined offers from 12 other schools, including the University of Utah and the University of Colorado, to take his talents to


College Football Playoff. I want to graduate with my degree. And then, the final thing will be to get into the league."

The two hope to establish their presence in the Aztecs' secondary early in their careers, as both cornerbacks have their sights set on earning snaps as freshmen in 2017.

"I'm working on trying to play my freshman year," Venable said. " I don't want to redshirt. I'm doing everything possible to contribute to the team."

To no surprise, Hall set the bar a little higher.

"I want to be Mountain West Freshman of the Year, Mountain west Defensive Player of the Year and surpass the legacy that [Damontae] Kazee has set in place," Hall said.

Filling former SDSU cornerback Damontae Kazee's shoes won't come easy, as he finished his career withback-to-back MW Defensive Player of the Year awards and 15 interceptions in his last two seasons.

Venable, however, praised Hall for his ability to be a playmaker in the secondary, hinting that no shoes are too big for Hall.

"He's a baller; he's a monster," Venable said. "He never gives up on the play. He's a ball-hawk always trying to get after it."

Whether Hall and Venable can live up to such high expectations is yet to be determined. Both cornerbacks will have their first opportunity to steal the show when the Aztecs' spring practice kicks off on February 27.


death and destruction, the world might very well be better of if I was not here. I was the cause of my parent's deaths, indirectly the cause of the Longbottoms being tortured into insanity, Cedric and Sirius died because of me, now almost every friend I have is injured because of my stupidity. They will probably never forgive me!"

These thoughts lasted until they pulled into the drive at 4 Privet Drive, Vernon smashing on the brakes and slamming the auto into Park. He turned in his seat to glare at Harry.

"Get your trunk out of the boot and get inside… NOW!"

Vernon hit the boot latch and stormed out of the car, cursing under his breath. Harry meekly went around to the back and pulled his trunk from thefood, and a good thrashing for dessert. You will also write the letter every three days telling them that you are fine. The first time that you displease me, I will burn your stick, the second time, your ruddy bird dies, if there is a third, you will die, understand?"

Harry nodded his head; he deserved no less. He would not cross Vernon; Hedwig could not be made a victim. He thought about telling her to fly to the Weasley's and stay there; that way Vernon could not take his ire out on her. Dragging Hedwig's cage to his room, he fell inside and heard the door slam and lock behind him. The locks turned back and the door opened once again. He could not see anything more than


a vague shape, but from the size, he could tell it was his aunt. A second later, his glasses bounced off the side of his head and a sneering voice spoke.

"You'll need these to see to write your letter. By the time your freak school starts, my Vernon will either beat the magic out of you or kill you. It's no more than you deserve." The door slammed and locked again with the sound of a prison cell door.

Putting his glasses on his face, he groaned as he realized that the lenses were fractured, making it seem as if he had the vision of an insect. Harry stood and put Hedwig's cage on his small table. Opening the door of the cage, he coaxed his first real friendwhen she tossed his glasses into the room. He wondered how they planned to hide his body so the wizarding world would be fooled into thinking he had run away or something. He snorted; they probably had not thought that far ahead.

Thinking back to the scene in Dumbledore's office, he realized that it didn't matter to Dumbledore whether he lived or died anyway, as long as he took down Voldemort. Dumbledore had been keeping him weak and untrained while setting up situations where he jumped through hoops, going up against Voldemort, or a weakened version since year one. Dumbledore was shaping him into a murderer who would have no regard for his own welfare. The more he thought about his life, the more depressed he got. Not only


did Dumbledore place him with the Dursleys, a more immediate threat than Voldemort himself, but he kept forcing him back there every summer. He realized at that point that even his friendship with the Weasleys had been planned; what witch who not only went to Hogwarts herself, but had sent five children there would be speaking about muggles on a crowded train platform, much less be asking her children if Platform 9 ¾ was the proper platform. This realization that Molly Weasley, a woman he regarded as a surrogate mother was part of the manipulation all along sent him further into a downward spiral.

It was at that point, Harry broke. Without even really realizing it, he had made a decision, one that would have far reaching consequences forboth worlds. At once, he was at peace, no more manipulations, no more pain. He took his wand and placed it to his head. He had no illusion he could do the killing curse, it took more than he had. The Reductor curse, however, was well within his capabilities. It would have the added benefit of making a mess that Petunia would have a hard time getting rid of. Since he was looking down at the floor, he did not notice the black robed, skeleton faced figure slip into his room carrying a scythe. He began the incantation, "REDU.." while looking up. He saw the figure, but with his shattered glasses it appeared to be a Death Eater. In shock, he swung his wand around while finishing the


incantation: "CTO!" A beam shot out of his wand, hitting the figure in the face, blowing its head apart.

Harry Potter had just killed Death.

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Albus Dumbledore smiled as he put the last of the repaired instruments back on his desk. The oddly shaped instruments were his means of monitoring the second most dangerous person in the wizarding world, Harry Potter. The child, in Albus' mind, ranked right below Tom Riddle as a threat, not because he had any dark ambitions, but because if allowed to survive the upcoming battle with Tom, he could replace Albus as the most beloved wizard in the world. This, of course, could not be allowed to happen. He would guide Harry through the process of destroying Tom's Horcruxes, and then give Harry the toolshe needed to kill Tom, but not enough for Harry to survive. It was a good plan, one he had spent years shaping.

A high screech from one of the instruments made him jerk his head up in shock. The object in question was designed to monitor Harry's well being. The screeching and shaking the instrument was doing equated to a wizarding clock reading "Mortal Peril". He gasped a second later as the instrument gave a last, violent shake, then fell apart. Albus jumped up from his chair, crossed to the fireplace and grabbed a pinch of floo powder, throwing it into the fireplace, yelling: "Arabella Figg's House!" He stepped in and disappeared.

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Harry was still staring at the now deceased figure lying on his floor when the door opened


could not be happening. He was going to kill himself to prevent becoming a murderer! Now this person was telling him that he had to kill for a living! He hardly heard her next words.

"Now get the uniform off him, I had Chronos stop time until I could get this straightened out. Come on, get his cloak, watch and scythe. Those are the instruments of your office."

Harry, in a daze, went to the body and began stripping the items from it. Sure enough, the body, past the ruined face, seemed to be him. His glasses fell off during the task, but he found he could now see perfectly well without them. As he gathered his new garb, he noticed that there was no blood on them. A suddencountdown, it read one minute, and the hand showed the location as being in this house. He felt a shudder as the wards fell. A series of POPS announced people apparating in. Looking out the window, he saw a large group of people in black robes and white masks. He gathered up his scythe and went walked out of the room and down the stairs, Lachesis following.

The Death Eaters burst through the door, taking no notice of him. Vernon roared into the room, screaming about freaks. One Death Eater pointed his wand at Vernon and screamed, "Crucio!" Harry saw his uncle fall, screaming in pain. He began to take a step forward to curse the Death Eater, but Lachesis grabbed his arm, holding him back.

"It's not your job


stairs. They never noticed Harry or Lachesis, he going to each body and, reaching in, pulled the quivering souls from each. He gently folded them up and placed them into his bag for later attention. Tonks came running downstairs, ashen faced.

"They got Harry," she cried. "It's terrible. They used a Reductor on him, he is almost unrecognizable. They also took his wand."

Albus looked like he was an extra hundred years older. All of his work for naught! He never saw Harry and Lachesis walk past him to the car at the curb. As Ministry Aurors apparated in, Lachesis gave Harry some last instructions.

"You are now Thanatos, or Death. When you decide to take a break, tell Mortis to take you home. Your home is in Purgatory, you alsoupon him. He looked at the controls of the car, but seeing no key, spoke. "Mortis, head to Diagon Alley, quickly." The car started, and with no input from Harry, headed toward the Leaky Cauldron.

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It was strange going into the Alley as Thanatos. Tom took no notice of him as he passed through, although people at tables he passed seemed to gather their cloaks around themselves as if they could feel the chill of death as he walked by. Approaching the brick wall that separated the Leaky Cauldron from Diagon Alley, he started to pull out his wand, but the wall melted away at his approach. Stepping through, he hurried to Gringotts.

Entering the bank, he stepped up to a teller goblin. The goblin looked up and gave a


conservation measures, and are showing encouraging signs of recovery.

The Action for Species series began with Birds in 2007 and continued with Insects in 2008
and Plants in 2009. 2010 is also the International Year of Biodiversity.

Stamp design and background

Prominent naturalists and representatives of conservation groups were asked to nominate UK
mammal species that fitted the issue criteria. As the UK has comparatively few land mammals,
the selection criteria was extended to marine mammals that spend at least part of their life cycle
in UK territorial waters.

Once the nominations were received a short list was drawn up and Jason Godfrey was commissioned
to find suitable photographic images for the set of ten stamps. While most of the images are
from photo libraries the polecat and hedgehog were specially photographed for this issue.

Stamp by stamp

Humpback WhalePlecotus auritus

Average weight: 6–10g, total wingspan: 26–29cm

A small fluttery bat with enormous ears, this mammal is found throughout mainland Britain,
except for the extreme north of Scotland. It commonly occurs in attics, as well as hollow trees
and bird boxes, and often hovers to pick insects and spiders off trees. Completely harmless and
a gentle creature, this is the bat most often found flying inside houses.

Sperm Whale – Physeter macrocephalus

Average weight: 15–40 tonnes, total length: 10–15m

The sperm whale, with its huge, blunt-ended head, is normally found in deep waters to the west
of Britain, but occasionally strays into estuaries and gets stranded when the tide goes out. Usually
solitary, the sperm whale sometimes lives in small groups. After swimming at the surface for
about 10 minutes, it then dives deep for half an hour


to feed, mainly on squid.

Water Vole – Arvicola terrestris

Average weight: 180–230g, total length: 29–31cm

A rat-sized animal with a chubby face and dark chocolate-brown fur, the water vole is a good
swimmer and lives beside ponds, rivers and ditches, where it digs burrows in the banks and feeds
on juicy vegetation, roots and bark. It is found mainly in the lowlands, throughout mainland Britain,
usually in small colonies.

Greater Horseshoe Bat – Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

Average weight: 15–30g, total wingspan: 33–39cm

Large and broad-winged, this species of bat has a distinctive cone-shaped nose-leaf through
which its echolocation sounds are focused. Its wings and ears are pale brown, and the fur is grey
or buff, with a reddish tinge in older animals. Found mainly in south-west England and south
Wales, it hibernates in caves, cellars and mines from October toMay, wrapping its wings around
its body while roosting. Its food consists of beetles and other large-bodied insects, caught in flight
or snatched from the ground. In summer, females seek out warm places such as barn roofs,
where, after a 75-day gestation period, they give birth to a single baby each year, nearly a third
of its mother’s weight.

Otter – Lutra lutra

Average weight: 6–8kg, total length: 100–110cm

Large, long and sleek with short legs and webbed feet, the otter is normally seen only in or beside
water, where it swims and dives frequently in pursuit of fish, crabs and other aquatic food. More
widespread and numerous in western counties, many live along the shores of Scotland’s sea lochs.
Otters will usually live alone or in a family group of a female and one to three young.

Dormouse


the summer of 1967, a salesman for plaintiff's assignor, which was a California corporation with its place of business at Oakland, California, first approached Taylor, a resident of Arizona at that time and ever since. At that time he discussed the sale of the subject airplane with Taylor, and the latter decided to buy it. Thereafter, on July 19, 1967, a written conditional sales contract for the airplane was executed by Taylor and the president of plaintiff's assignor at Bullhead City, Arizona. This contract was assigned to plaintiff's corporate predecessor-in-interest, also a California corporation, on July 20, 1967, and notice of the assignment was given to Taylor. The contract, as assigned, provided for monthly installment payments to be made to the assignee at its office in Oakland, California.Plaintiff, also a California corporation, succeeded to the rights of the original assignee. Its office is also in Oakland. After the assignment, plaintiff's predecessor disbursed the necessary funds, and defendant Taylor picked up the airplane from the manufacturer's place of business in Kansas and brought it to Arizona, where it remained until it was repossessed.
The contract contained no provisions as to governing law, but it did contain an acceleration clause and an agreement by the buyer to pay any deficiency resulting from repossession and resale and a reasonable attorney's fee in the event of enforcement action. Defendant made no installment payments whatsoever on the contract, and plaintiff elected to accelerate the payments due after defendant's refusal to make any of the required monthly payments. Thereafter, with no notice


to defendant, plaintiff sent its agent to Bullhead City, Arizona, to *506 repossess the airplane. While plaintiff's agent was at the airport preparing to make arrangements to fly the airplane to California, Taylor appeared at the airport and discussed the situation with him. When Taylor objected to the repossession, the agent suggested that Taylor discuss the repossession with plaintiff's attorney in Oakland, which Taylor did on the telephone. Thereafter, Taylor's attitude changed decidedly, and he appeared agreeable to the repossession, handed the airplane keys to the agent, and discussed the flying of the plane with him. The agent then flew the plane back to Oakland. It was later sold by plaintiff at public auction to itself, and then resold for a somewhat higher price, but still substantially lesslocal law of that state will generally be applied (subsection (3)). In this case, both the place of negotiation and the place of performance were in California, and since this case is not within any of the exceptions indicated in this Restatement rule, the law of California is the law to be applied. In our opinion, the place of contracting, the location of the airplane, and the domicile of the parties are nowhere near as significant as the place of performance in making this determination. After the receipt of the plane by the defendant Taylor, the only continuing aspect of this entire transaction was the required performance by him of his obligation to make monthly payments to the assignee in California. We think it is quite reasonable to


Hong Kong (CNN Business) Chinese smartphone maker Transsion, which is dominating Africa with its Tecno brand , has raised nearly $400 million in an IPO on China's hot new tech-focused stock market .

The Shenzhen-based company said in a stock market filing Wednesday that it sold 80 million shares for 35.15 yuan ($4.93) each, raising 2.81 billion yuan ($395 million).

The share sale pushes Transsion's valuation to $3.95 billion and establishes the company as one of the biggest attractions on the Star Market, China's answer to the Nasdaq

The company said that its shares would begin trading "as soon as possible."

Transsion — which also makes Itel and Infinix phones — doesn't do business in China, despite being based there. But it controls a huge part of the smartphone market in Africa.

Itsoffering triggered a rush among investors. Only one in 20 online bidders were allocated shares, while only three in 1,000 offline bidders were successful.

The IPO is on track to be the second largest for the Star Market, a board on the Shanghai stock exchange that launched in July and is viewed as part of China's bid for tech superpower status. The initiative was unveiled less than a year ago by President Xi Jinping.

Alibaba BABA Tencent TCEHY Beijing hopes Star will help China's tech companies tap into vast wealth held by local investors, and entice global leaders such asandto return from stock markets in New York and Hong Kong.

Investors have been enthusiastic about the stocks on the board, hoping to find the next tech giant at an early stage.

So


far 30 stocks have debuted on Star, many of them from the tech and manufacturing sectors. All the stocks have surged above their IPO prices, with an average gain of 160% by Wednesday's market close, according to Wind, a Chinese financial data provider.

The top performer is Anji Microelectronics Technology, a Chinese chipmaker based in Shanghai. The company's stock has gone up fivefold from its offer price.

China has encouraged its companies to become less dependent on foreign money and technology, a campaign that has intensified during the trade war with the United States and since the Trump administration blacklisted Huawei , a leading global smartphone maker and 5G network supplier.

Previous attempts by China to create a rival to Nasdaq in 2009 and 2013 failed because of a lack ofWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton, under fire from rivals for a muscular attitude toward Iran, said on Monday “all options must remain on the table” if Tehran does not comply with nuclear nonproliferation requirements.

Democratic Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, (D-NY) speaks outside Paschal's restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, October 12, 2007. REUTERS/Tami Chappell

In an article for Foreign Affairs magazine, the Democratic presidential candidate said the United States should be prepared to offer incentives if Tehran ends its nuclear weapons ambitions, renounces sponsorship of terrorism, supports Middle East peace and plays a constructive role in stabilizing Iraq.

Oil-rich Iran denies trying to develop a nuclear weapon, saying its atomic program is for peaceful energy purposes. But the United States and its European allies believe Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad


dealing with Iran, not military action, if she is elected president in November 2008.

The commander-in-chief, he said, “does not take options off the table,” but Clinton feels “the preferred approach right now is to pursue intensive diplomacy and economic pressure as the best way to avert a nuclear program in Iran and as the best way to avert a war.”

Clinton has been under fire from Democratic presidential opponents Barack Obama and John Edwards for voting for a Senate resolution recommending the State Department designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. They argued it could be used by the Bush administration to launch military attacks against Iran.

In the Foreign Affairs article, Clinton also said if elected she would direct U.S. military leaders to come up with a planMt Gox Finally Admits It Lost $500,000,000 In Bitcoin

The exchange has launched a dedicated call centre to handle furious investors after admitting that it lost 750,000 bitcoins belonging to customers, and 100,000 of its own

Mt Gox, once the most popular bitcoin exchange in the world, has acknowledged it lost at least 750,000 BTC belonging to its customers, along with 100,000 of its own bitcoins. That much virtual currency is worth more than $500 million (£300m) on the open market today.

The statement from CEO Mark Karpeles posted on the Mt Gox website confirms the information leaked last week in a document called ‘Crisis Strategy Draft’, which suggested hackers had relieved the exchange of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of virtual currency.

The Tokyo-based exchange filed for bankruptcy protection on


is a call to allow them to retain their unearned privilege, pretending that they deserve it.

I’m reminded of a story that I was told by Rev. Bugani Finca who was involved in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation work. A black South African, Tabo, confronted a white man, Mr. Smith, who had disrespected him and stolen his prize cow. With the prospect of amnesty for telling the truth, the white man admitted to having done what he was accused of, recognized how horribly wrong it was and asked for forgiveness, saying that he was truly sorry. Tabo was visibly relieved for having an opportunity to confront his oppressor and get an apology. They shook hands and embraced. As Mr. Smith, stood to leave, free, with his amnesty, the blackUniversity Administration

colleges and universities

colleges and universities, institutions of higher education. Universities differ from colleges in that they are larger, have wider curricula, are involved in research activities, and grant graduate and professional as well as undergraduate degrees.

Universities

Early History

Universities generally consist of groups of schools, faculties, or colleges. They arose in the 12th and 13th cent. in Europe as a means of providing further training in the professions of law, theology, and medicine, and as centers of study for the rediscovered works of Aristotle and the Arab scholars. Of the earliest universities, Salerno (9th cent.) and Montpellier (13th cent.) specialized in medicine; Bologna (1088) in law; and Paris (12th cent.) in theology. Students and faculty were originally organized in guildlike groups. The student groups, known as
"nations"
and comprising students from


particular localities, gradually diminished in power, however, as the faculty, which controlled both teaching and graduation requirements, became more powerful.

In the Middle Ages, universities were usually begun through royal or ecclesiastical initiative or through migrations of students from other universities. The migrations were sometimes influenced by political events. The Univ. of Oxford, for example, was founded (12th cent.) by English students from the Univ. of Paris who were forced to leave that institution as a result of conflicts between England and France; similarly, the university at Leipzig was founded (15th cent.) by German scholars who were driven out of Prague by John Huss's Czech national movement. Medieval universities often had many thousands of students and played an important role in public affairs. Among the famous institutions founded wereSalamanca (c.1230), Prague (1348), Vienna (1365), Uppsala (1477), Leiden (1575), and Moscow (1755). The oldest universities in the New World, both founded in 1551, are Mexico Univ. and San Marcos of Lima.

Nineteenth Century

In the 19th cent. many governments reorganized and nationalized universities, as in Italy after unification (1870), in Spain (1876), and in France, where 17 autonomous regional universities were established after 1876. By 1900 many universities were secularized in administration and curriculum, and religious tests had been largely eliminated (in England by act of Parliament in 1871). Through the centuries, the majority of women were educated in separate institutions; however, since 1870 the benefits of coeducation have impelled nearly all universities to admit both sexes.

In the United States, modern universities developed during the late 19th cent. from