the United States had not followed other industrialized countries in enacting a system of universal health care coverage during the 20th century, this course examined the major challenges and policy options for expanding coverage, controlling costs, improving quality and increasing consumer involvement in health care.

The course provided students with the latest research and policy analysis on critical issues, including the uninsured, causes and options for controlling health care costs, and the state of health care quality and options for its improvement. The students had the opportunity to hear from leading national experts on coverage reform options, Medicare and Medicaid, and health quality, and from a health futurist and leader of Microsoft’s new initiatives in health information technology and consumer-directed health care.

For their individual papers, the students prepared aIndia will likely have a significant impact on global estimates.

History of vital registration in India
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In India, vital statistics data are available from four major sources: (1) Indirect Estimates from the Decennial Census first initiated in 1881 (2) The Civil Registration System (CRS) which was initiated in 1958; (3) The Sample Registration System (SRS) which began in 1970 and, finally, (4) The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) which was initiated in 1992 \[[@B10]-[@B14]\]. The first three are operated by the Registrar General under the Ministry of Home Affairs in India. The NFHS functions under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India. (MOH) The Registration of Birth and Deaths Act became operational in 1967, twenty years after India's independence, and was extended to the entire


nation in 1969 resulting in the SRS. The SRS registers the events of birth and deaths in some but not all areas of India. In this system, vital events have been registered using a dual recording system. Initially, the resident enumerators record all births and deaths within their assigned geographic area. Thereafter, a full time supervisor collects information during a house-to-house confirmatory survey. The events collected by both methods are matched, and those unmatched are then re-verified to eliminate errors of missing or duplicate events. Statistics from these programs may continue to be appropriate for framing the national health policy and guidelines. However, they may not be sufficiently robust to generate policies that have the desired impact on improving public health programs, especially in rural areas wherein 72%of the Indian population resides \[[@B15]\].

In 1951, India added family planning into its national health care policy to address individual needs and also to contain its population growth. Consequently, the primary health center (PHC) was established as the service nodal point for identifying couples that required birth control services and was incorporated into the "Eligible Couple Survey Register" (ECSR). These registers are still maintained at the PHCs and sub-centers.

In Karnataka, India, the registration of births and deaths became operational throughout the state beginning in 2000. Healthcare providers serving the district health system and other officials at the village and sub-district levels collect vital events information. While, the accuracy and completeness of these government statistics are perceived to be relatively good, they are not as complete as many formal


began in May 2008 in 20 geographic areas, each incorporating a PHC with ≥300 annual deliveries and covering a total population of about 660,000, which is also encompassed in the MWRA catchment area. Although one of the primary sources used to identify pregnant women is the MWRA, registry staff and other health workers attempt to identify all pregnant women, married or not, in the catchment area and these women are included in the registry.

Inclusion criteria for the Global Network MNHR
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In central and southern India, where Karnataka is located, it is common, particularly among nulliparous women, to stay with relatives and deliver where those relatives reside. Similarly, pregnant women may enter the catchment area to deliver at the home of relatives. Recording movement of pregnant women for delivery wasthe results.

An important feature of the quality measurement is having an estimate of the number of births that should occur in each cluster. We use an estimate of the crude birth rate (CBR) within the study clusters as an indicator of completeness of registration of pregnancy outcomes and as a check to ensure complete capture of all births. The CBR was computed from the live births and the estimated population of the cluster. Significant differences of the number of births registered from those expected are investigated.

The time taken in completion after the event of interest and its entry into the data management system has also been considered as a quality indicator, along with documentation of the extent of birth weights recorded and the presence of a healthcare provider


by the research group at the university hospital and the public health infrastructure of the MOH. Research-quality data was perceived as crucially important to both groups. Second, because both groups wanted information on both the births in the resident population as well as the births occurring in the geographic area regardless of residency of the mother, strong efforts were made to capture both types of births. This information is especially useful to health planners and providers in and out of the study area. Third, it became obvious that triangulating outcomes in the various ongoing government registries as a check on data in the MNHR was crucial in getting as close to complete registration as possible. Fourth, the use of the CBR as a way to estimate the expectedTonight`s lead, making progress on guns. Today, a lead on background checks and a key vote set for tomorrow. The prospects of gun reform have never been brighter. But it was the first lady today going back to her home town of Chicago who showed what the debate is all about.

The first lady talked about Hadiya Pendleton, the teenager who was shot just days after attending the inauguration. She talked about attending Hadiya`s funeral and asked if we are doing enough to protect our kids.

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MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES: It was the question weighing on my heart when I met with Hadiya Pendleton`s classmates on the day of her funeral. Dozens of them later spoke at the service, each referring to her as


said, black or white.

He constantly sparred with white supremacist and thumb his nose at Jim Crow laws, he bragged about his fighting skills, dressed like a movie star, bought a home in a white neighborhood and he openly dated and married white women. So, in 1913, after years of trying, the U.S. government used an obscure law to knock Jack Johnson out. He was convicted of bringing a white woman across the state lines for, quote, "immoral purposes" and sentenced to a year today in prison. His life was the subject of a 2004 Ken Burns documentary, "Unforgivable Blackness."

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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Jack Johnson was warned to be more a discreet. He was unrepentant. I have the right to choose who my mate should be without the dictation"I respectfully disagree with your opinions but I still value you as a person …"

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert perform a duet during the Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington DC. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

After the rally proved a success, Stewart took on one of his most frequent sparring partners – Bill O'Reilly of Fox News – for a debate, a month before the 2012 presidential election. It offered a not-so-surprising look into what a potential Stewart campaign platform could look like:

"Give me my money back, the $800bn for the Iraq War, and children's television is on the house," Stewart said. "Give me the money back for the Iraq war, and it's rubbers for everyone, on me."

In December 2010, Stewart also bagged an actual, tangible political accomplishment –


though it relied on The Daily Show. When Republicans stalled the Zadroga Bill, legislation that allots federal funds for healthcare to 9/11 first responders, Stewart delivered a customary rant and continued to cover the issue, oftentimes more than the "real" news media. He then devoted an entire segment to interviewing four first responders.

Shortly afterwards, the bill passed, with The White House, New York politicians and the first responders crediting Stewart for bringing awareness to the bill.

Actor

This brings us to the darkside of Stewart's side-gigs: acting. Maybe a break from The Daily Show would allow him to hew his acting skills a little bit more.

Case in point – Jon Stewart in Half Baked:

Also, see: Jon Stewart canoodling with Fran Drescher on The Nanny and Jon Stewart in Death toSmoochy.

Author

Before Earth (The Book), and the Abraham-Lincoln endorsed America (The Book) that preceded it, in 1998 Stewart penned his own collections of essays and stories: Naked Pictures of Famous People.

Instead of naked pictures of famous people, the book contains a set of letters from Princess Diana to Mother Teresa, the story of Bill Gates selling his soul to the devil and a journal of a man's time spent with the Kennedy family:

Jack and Lem are just now leaving to get ready for tonight's Hyannis event, a costume ball with a New Deal theme. Lem's going as the Tennessee Valley Authority and Jack as a wheelchair. Mr K is fixing all the boys Penicillin Martinis in expectation. Optimists all. All except young Bobby, who has been holding his hand


over an open flame since Wednesday night as penance for incorrectly answering his father's query 'Who is the finance minister of Japan?' Bobby thought Keisuko Okada when it is apparently Korekiyo Takahashi (Okada being prime minister). An innocent schoolboy mistake, but Bobby's quite hard on himself.

CNN executive

Though the 24-hour news networks are Stewart's primary targets, his criticism of CNN tends to be more powerful, as the network was at least sort-of respected, once. Stewart has been its most vocal critic through the years and is thought to be responsible for the cancellation of the Crossfire show, primarily because of this interview:

Crossfire returns this year, without Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, though the latter was last seen sleeping on-air (without a bowtie).

Also, in 2009 Stewart was voted America's Mostto repair the wounds he had caused over a week of tweeted insults.

Instead he casually tore them open, a smile on his face.

In a frequently abnormal afternoon on the island, Trump showed none of the scripted gravitas of his sombre Monday response to the massacre in Las Vegas. Speaking without notes, he behaved as if the ongoing crisis had long since been fixed by his own doing.

It was vintage Trump — informal, freewheeling, self-centred, detached from facts, wholly unlike the behaviour of any other modern president.

His supporters applauded again, pointing to his authenticity and moments of empathy. Puerto Ricans already upset with him before he landed were infuriated.

“He takes two weeks to visit a disaster zone where 3.5 million American citizens live. He arrives with a smile on


visited as often as my schedule would allow. I don't remember necessarily being bored by life in Japan, we were still newlyweds after all, but other than watching AFRTS programming, visiting the O-Club, or playing American tourist, taking in a flick was the height of entertainment for us.

Forrest Gump was no exception. It had already been a big hit back at home by the time it made its way to the overseas bases, and every showing in the theater was packed. It was so popular in fact, that it was held over for a number of weeks, alternating each night between the three local theaters. Many people saw it more than once, my wife and me included.

Forrest Gump is one of those films in our house, that whena colt, the foal of a donkey.’”The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,“Hosanna to the Son of David!”“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”Matthew 21, NIV

All day Saturday we had light snow, very wet, not sticking to anything. The weather-guessers'


call for 1 to 3 inches seemed a bit of an over-guesstimate.Before retiring for the evening, I took a look outside...Hhmm, maybe they weren't so far off......for a change.

Back yard

Ah well, most of the snow which fell in January, February and the beginning of March is gone from my yard. It's still piled up in the yards of the houses across the street, which face north. But I can see that the piles are getting smaller and smaller.I saw a video that an old comrade had posted on Facebook...He went sledding on Saturday. With his new GoPro camera and his dog.The dog appeared to be having a great time.There's still a lot of snow up there in "The Kingdom" where my friend lives.A lot of snow.Here?A lot ofabout his "hard warned pay" being "blown" upon such fripperies as those "long haired ba$tards" from England. (As he put it in his colorful way. Dad was a man of strong opinions, God rest his soul.)At any rate we listened to that record over and over.Now that bit of vinyl, which came out in January of 1964 (I think) preceded another Earth-shattering event which took place on the 9th of February, 1964.Now in those days we gathered as a family in the living room to watch a certain TV program on one of those big, black-and-white console TV sets.The Ed Sullivan Show.As it was a family ritual, Dad couldn't really turn the set off on the 9th of February, as much as he probably would have liked to.For


the band, he was only 23 at the time the show was recorded. George Harrison, the youngest, would hit 21 later that same month.Now John and George are gone. Paul McCartney (Sir James Paul McCartney to us commoners) and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey Jr. as his mum named him) are all that remain.Damn, that was 51 years ago.Perhaps you need to be of a certain age to remember those days but it was pretty exciting. We listened to The Beatles for most of my childhood really.From grade school up through high school, until their last album in 1970, it was all Beatles all the time, musically. (Okay, there were others. Hendrix, Cream, The Byrds etc, etc. But the main focus was the lads from Liverpool.)Still listen to thelads, a lot some weeks.Those were pretty good times.Pretty good indeed.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

I had a cookbook (well, it was the property of The Missus Herself but, rather bemused by the whole thing, she allowed me to use it), I had the tools and I had a kitchen.

With all that, what could possibly go wrong? Just follow the instructions.

It was during my non-traditional undergraduate college days. Non-traditional because when I started my sophomore year in 1983, it had been 11 years since my freshman year.

Along the way I had picked up a wife, two kids and a career in the Air Force.

With that being said...*

It was our first Thanksgiving in our new apartment, in our new location. We had yet to do a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner. The


and historical sites while one chose the natural beauty of a lake for the campaign.

The final nominations were made after the SCO secretariat in Beijing requested its member countries earlier this year to suggest a tourism destination that could be promoted, the people added.

The Time magazine has mentioned the statue as among the 100 places to visit in 2019. It is built on an island in the Narmada river and overlooks the Sardar Sarovar Dam.

SCO secretary-general Vladimir Norov, a former foreign minister of Uzbekistan, launched the ‘Eight wonders” initiative.

Speaking at the 8th summit of the World Tourism Cities Federation in Helsinki in Finland earlier this month, Norov said the campaign was aimed at “creating a common tourism space in all member countries”.

Norov said that the project was developedby the SCO secretariat and supported by all the members.

On the sidelines of the Helsinki summit, the SCO Secretariat set up an exhibition named the ‘Eight Wonders of the SCO’ to promote the sites featuring photos and video clips on the landmarks.

The remaining seven wonders of the SCO are: the Archaeological complex Tamgaly (Kazakhstan), the Imperial Palace of Damin (China) Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan), the heritage of the Great Mughals (Lahore, Pakistan), the Golden Ring (Russia), Palace Navruz (Tajikistan) and the historical spiritual centre (Bukhara, Uzbekistan).

Tourism cooperation is an important aspect of economic cooperation among SCO member states and officials say it will be conducive to consolidating and developing good neighbourliness among them.

In 2017, tourists from the other SCO members made 3.62 million trips to China, up 11.75% year


two-track S-Bahn line.

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Category:Transport in Düsseldorfestablishing time frames in March 2009), but the
effects of such actions have yet to be seen.
The time taken for disqualification proceedings varied and proceedings
took longer when the investigator contested disqualification. FDA may
disqualify investigators who repeatedly or deliberately failed to
comply with FDA regulations or submitted false information to FDA or
the sponsor of a clinical trial. For the 52 disqualification
proceedings GAO reviewed, the length of time from initiation of a
disqualification proceeding to its conclusion (or as of November 5,
2008, for pending proceedings) ranged from 26 days to more than a
decade, with about one-third taking more than 2 years. In general, the
more steps taken by the investigator to contest disqualification, the
longer it took to complete the proceeding. Disqualification proceedings
initiated in 1998 through 2001 generally took longer than proceedings
that were initiated more


of Debarment:
Figure 5: Time Taken for Completed and Pending Disqualification
Proceedings:
Figure 6: Time Taken for Disqualification Proceedings Initiated in 1998
through 2001, 2002 through 2005, and 2006 through 2008:
Figure 7: Time Taken to Complete Disqualification Proceedings:
Abbreviations:
CBER: Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research:
CDER: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research:
CDRH: Center for Devices and Radiological Health:
FDA: Food and Drug Administration:
NIDPOE: Notice of Initiation of Disqualification Proceedings and
Opportunity to Explain:
NOOH: Notice of Opportunity for Hearing:
[End of section]
United States Government Accountability Office:
Washington, DC 20548:
September 25, 2009:
The Honorable Joe Barton:
Ranking Member:
Committee on Energy and Commerce:
House of Representatives:
The Honorable Greg Walden:
Ranking Member:
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations:
Committee on Energy and Commerce:
House of Representatives:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has oversight responsibilities
for clinical investigators who conduct research involving
investigational medical products--including drugs, biologics, and
devices[Footnote 1]--to ensure that their conductreceiving investigational
drugs and biologics (and other products).[Footnote 37] When asked to
explain why the staff responsible for debarment learned of the
conviction years after other FDA staff, FDA officials said that there
may have been confusion about which CDER staff should obtain conviction
information and that such confusion may have contributed to this delay.
After we completed our file review, FDA issued a proposal to debar
letter to the investigator on November 26, 2008, about 1 year and 3
months after CDER staff responsible for debarment learned of the
conviction, and published a debarment order in the Federal Register on
June 12, 2009. Although the investigator, who was not incarcerated, was
disqualified from serving as a clinical investigator for drugs,
biologics, devices, and other FDA-regulated products, the investigator
was not prohibited by FDA from being involved in research in any


of FDA's files revealed no
documented activity. This proceeding was still pending in November
2008--nearly 11 years after the investigator was convicted and nearly 6
years after he was released from prison in 2003.[Footnote 39] As a
result, FDA had not debarred the investigator (which would have
prohibited the investigator from involvement with any entity that has
an approved or pending application for drugs or biologics) since his
release from prison.[Footnote 40]
FDA Has Recently Made or Planned Changes to Its Debarment Policies and
Procedures That Could Improve Timeliness:
FDA has recently made changes to its debarment policies and procedures
that could improve the timeliness of both permissive and mandatory
debarment proceedings. In the spring of 2008, recognizing the need to
improve FDA's debarment process, including the timeliness of debarment
proceedings, FDA established the Debarment Working Group to examine its
debarment procedures andidentify ways to improve them. As a result of
that effort, FDA took steps to strengthen its internal controls by
issuing a new staff manual guide in March 2009 and new standard
operating procedures in April 2009.[Footnote 41] The staff manual guide
establishes systematic procedures for timely communication of relevant
information and time frames for completion of its actions in debarment
proceedings. The changes in FDA's debarment policies and procedures
include the following:
* FDA established systematic procedures to facilitate timely
communication of information about potentially relevant convictions.
Under the new staff manual guide, the Office of Enforcement is
responsible for establishing procedures in cooperation with other
relevant FDA components, including the Office of Criminal
Investigations, and with the Department of Justice to facilitate the
communication of information about convictions and misconduct relevant
to debarment more systematically. The official in the Office of
Enforcement


who will oversee implementation of the new staff manual
guide policies and procedures told us in April 2009 that the Office of
Enforcement had put in place procedures to obtain conviction
information from the Office of Criminal Investigations and the
Department of Justice. Furthermore, according to the staff manual
guide, the Office of Criminal Investigations is to provide quarterly
reports to the Office of Enforcement that include all convictions
occurring within the preceding 3 months that may serve as a basis for
debarment. The Office of Enforcement official told us that the
quarterly reports from the Office of Criminal Investigations are to
cover those convictions in which the Office of Criminal Investigations
was involved and sentencing has occurred. In addition, the staff manual
guide states that all FDA employees are responsible for informing the
Office of Enforcement as soon as possiblecertain disqualification proceedings. For example, in two
proceedings we reviewed, regulatory hearings began with presiding
officers who did not complete the hearings. As a result, new presiding
officers had to be appointed and become familiar with the arguments of
the cases, resulting in longer proceedings. In addition, FDA officials
said that changes in center personnel, and the associated need to train
new staff, contributed to some of the delays in completing
disqualification proceedings that were initiated in the late 1990s and
early 2000s.
FDA Has Made Changes to Its Disqualification Policies and Procedures
That Could Improve Timeliness:
FDA has taken steps to enhance the timeliness of disqualification
proceedings by establishing new policies and procedures that include
time frames for its completion of disqualification actions. Until June
2008, FDA did not have time frames for its completion of any of its
disqualification actions. Recognizing


manual guide that, among other
provisions, established time frames for the steps it must take after
offering the clinical investigator an opportunity for a regulatory
hearing in a disqualification proceeding.
* In January 2009, FDA issued a revised regulatory procedures manual
that, among other provisions, established time frames for the steps it
must take in disqualification proceedings prior to and through offering
the clinical investigator an opportunity for a regulatory hearing.
* In March 2009, FDA issued a staff manual guide that, among other
provisions, established time frames for the steps it must take in
debarment proceedings.
At the time of our review, it was too soon to assess the effect of the
changes in FDA's procedures and guidance on debarment and
disqualification proceedings. Consequently, this report focuses on
FDA's procedures as documented in proceedings that generally took place
prior to issuance ofthe proposal to debar letter to another person
with the same name as the individual involved in this proceeding. When
FDA learned that the proposal to debar letter had been sent to the
wrong person, just over 5 years had elapsed from the date of the study
coordinator's conviction.
[G] This debarment proceeding remained pending as of September 1, 2009.
[H] This debarment proceeding was pending as of November 5, 2008, which
was the last date of our file review, but FDA issued a debarment order
on June 12, 2009.
[I] FDA had not proposed debarment as of November 5, 2008, which was
the last date of our file review, but FDA issued a proposal to debar
letter for mandatory debarment on November 25, 2008, and a debarment
order on June 12, 2009.
[J] This investigator is also known as Maria


The Office of Good Clinical
Practice added a project manager who is responsible for managing all
disqualification matters once the investigator is offered an
opportunity for a hearing. Also, the Division of Scientific
Investigations in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research added
several staff and realigned its Good Clinical Practice Branches. Under
the new organizational structure, some of these additional staff
members focus primarily on OAI cases, where disqualification
proceedings are initiated. The Office of the Chief Counsel also has
seen recent increases in staff. With these overall increases, FDA is
able to handle disqualification actions more expeditiously. Finally,
under the new Staff Manual Guide, FDA highlighted the fact that an
administrative law judge (AU) can be designated to serve as the
presiding officer at disqualification hearings. Although this was an
available option in the past, FDA believes this designation will
improveaimed at facilitating Agency
communication regarding potential debarment actions and ensuring
efficiency and timeliness at every step. In March of this year, FDA
finalized Staff Manual Guide 7712 —Debarment Proceedings (Debarment
SMG), which addresses those issues. FDA believes that consolidating
responsibilities for debarment actions and establishing written
procedures for such actions will help ensure that they are initiated
and processed in a timely, efficient, and consistent manner.[Footnote
69]
As mentioned in the GAO report, the new Debarment SMG consolidates the
responsibility for initiating and pursuing debarment actions in one
central location. In the past, the individual Centers were responsible
for initiating and pursuing debarment actions that related directly to
the Centers' product areas. Now, under the Debarment SMG, the Office of
Regulatory Affair's Office of Enforcement (OE) has the responsibility
for initiating all debarment actions for the Agency and issuing orders
where no hearing


still pending. These
time frames are consistent with the targeted time frames under the new
disqualification procedures.
FDA is also beginning to see similar improvements in the debarment
process. Until this year, the Agency had averaged two or three
debarment proceedings per year over the past decade. Since March 2009,
when the new Debarment SMG went into effect, FDA has initiated
debarment proceedings against eleven individuals and completed the
debarment process for an additional individual. Of the proceedings that
have been initiated, four individuals have been debarred, three have
requested a hearing and those cases have been referred to the Office of
the Commissioner. Five individuals have been issued Proposal to Debar
notifications. With the exception of the first full year that FDA was
granted debarment authority, FDA has initiated more debarment
proceedings in the last six months than in any othercomes from the second row, which includes the carbon tax in the mix. In every model, the carbon tax introduces a small but nontrivial slice of new net revenue.

A carbon tax can reduce overall economic activity and shift the returns to capital and labor. As CBO (2009) notes, when excise taxes, customs duties, and other types of "indirect" taxes are imposed on goods and services, they tend to reduce income for workers or business owners in the taxed industry and for others throughout the economy. That means that while a carbon tax raises revenue, its effects can lower revenues from other taxes, especially corporate and personal income and payroll taxes. Accordingly, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) subtracts an offset, or "haircut", to its estimate of the net


modeling savings.

In terms of the electric sector, the models fall into two groups. For NEMS, NewERA, and USREP-ReEDS, the carbon tax causes a relatively large shift between fuels in electricity generation and a relatively small change in the overall demand for electricity. Substitution between fuels, in other words, dominates the impact of the tax on overall electricity output. As a result, gas consumption rises relative to baseline during part or all of the 2020--2040 period. Fuel substitution will dominate the output effect when either or both of the following are true: the implicit elasticity of substitution between fuels is high, keeping the impact on electricity prices modest; or the elasticity of demand for electricity is low. NEMS and NewERA show relatively smaller emissions reductions than most models, whichLotus Driving Academy

You may have seen the scene from the movie Senna, the 2010 compelling documentary about the late, great Ayrton Senna.

It shows Senna’s fellow racing driver and good mate Martin Donnelly lying motionless in the middle of the track, 50 metres away from where his Formula 1 car hit the barrier at 140mph and completely disintegrated during practice for the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix.

At the risk of understatement, Donnelly’s injuries were critical. He had bruising to his lungs and brain (the impact was so violent it cracked the crash helmet), severe breaks to both legs and resultant massive blood loss.

During a long and painful recovery, the Northern Irishman suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis for weeks. It looked as if his right leg might have to


track, a technical succession of bends, corners, hairpins and straights that places a premium on handling. Which, of course, is right in Lotus territory.

But, more than that, we’re driving in the wheel tracks of legends. Hethel is where a multitude of world champions shook down and developed their Lotus F1 cars that went on to take some 77 grand prix victories. The various aspects of the track carry their name: (Ayrton) Senna Curves, (Nigel) Mansell Main Straight, (Jochen) Rindt Hairpin, (Emerson) Fittipaldi Straight, and (Jim) Clark, (Graham) Hill and (Mario) Andretti corners.

Originally the site served as an airfield to bomber squadrons of the U.S. 8th Air Force during World War 2, flying daring, dangerous daylight raids over Germany and occupied Europe. Group Lotus moved its headquarters to Hethelreturned a verdict for the plaintiff, and after defendant's motion for a new trial was overruled this appeal was perfected.
The refusal of the affirmative charge, with hypothesis, to appellant necessitates the examination of the evidence.
The applicability of the Federal Employers' Liability Act is not questioned. Appellee was employed by appellant as night station porter at its railroad station in Athens, Alabama, and had been regularly so employed since 1940. The duties of his employment required him to handle the mail and baggage arriving at and departing from the station and to transport mail between the United States post office and appellant's station at Athens, and to perform certain other duties around the station. He suffered a double rupture on the morning of October 19, 1946, while handling a


sack or bag of mail preparatory to its being loaded on the mail car of a train operated by appellant. At the time he was about 63 years of age, weighed about 172 pounds and had been in good health up to the date of his injury. For transporting the mail between the railroad station and the post office at Athens appellant furnished appellee with two types of conveyances, one, a four-wheeled, rubber-tired platform truck about 9 or 10 feet long, 3 feet wide *360 and 3 feet high. The other a two-wheeled cart. Both conveyances were operated by hand, that is, pushed or pulled by appellee. At the time he was injured appellee was loading the four-wheeled truck with mail bags preparatory to putting them on thetrain. About 50 bags had been placed on the truck. He attempted to place a bag weighing 100-115 pounds on top of the load piled on the truck but it fell somewhat short of the top and came to rest at about the height of appellee's shoulders. He then attempted to push or heave the bag to the top of the load, a point some twelve inches higher than appellee's head, and when he did so he felt a sudden and sharp pain in both sides of his abdomen. The evidence further showed that appellant's hours of employment were from 10:00 P.M., on one day to 6:00 A.M., the following morning. During appellee's hours of employment four trains arrived at and departed from Athens as follows:


and "turn-around" mail. The mail destined for Athens was delivered by appellee to the post office at Athens, and the "turn-around" mail was retained at the station for reloading on the proper train. The evidence further showed that the volume of mail handled by appellee between the post office and station (not including "turn-around" mail) immediately prior to the time appellee was injured was approximately as follows:

                Number of Bags      Approximate
Train No.    Incoming    Outgoing     Weight
   4            12        a slight upgrade a part of the way from the station to the post office; that Mr. W. E. Flood was the station agent at Athens, and appellee worked under his supervision; that Mr. E. H. Civils, Jr., was the trainmaster of the Nashville division of appellant's railroad; that prior to appellee's injury he had made protest to Mr. Flood and Mr. Civils that he needed help on the job or that the work was too heavy, but that no assistance was furnished him. The evidence further tended to show that the average weight of the bags of mail handled by appellee was about 30 pounds, and that postal clerks regularly and usually handled the bags without assistance, and that appellee had not complained that the bags of


the outgoing mail bags on one truck or to pile them high on one truck. In other words, appellee had ample time, in handling the mail, to make as many trips to and from the post office as he desired, and in handling the mail at the railroad station preparatory to loading it on the trains, to use more than one truck if he desired. The evidence further showed that the volume of mail during the war years was much heavier than at the time he was injured; that appellee always handled the mail by himself except at Christmas time, and upon some occasions when he hired some one to assist him.
The gist of this action is the negligence of the railroad company in its failure to providedanger, unless danger arose from the method employed by Green in its performance. Bags or sacks of mail are ordinarily handled by one person, and the uncontradicted testimony in this case is, that Mr. Calvin, the postal clerk at Athens, and who weighed 143 pounds, handled all the sacks of mail without assistance that appellee handled except the "turn-around" mail. And appellee testified that he thought the sack of *363 mail he was handling at the time he was injured was not "turn-around" mail but came from the Athens post office. True, the height of the lift necessary to handle mail at the post office by Calvin was somewhat less than the height of the lift necessary for appellee to handle the mail at appellant's station. But it


Our team in Indonesia is providing intensive care for a baby orangutan that is seriously ill after suffering months of neglect. For the first year of his life little Budi was kept as a pet in a chicken cage and fed entirely on condensed milk.

Budi arrived at IAR’s Orangutan Rescue Centre in Ketapang in December. A local from Kubing in Ketapang had informed the authorities that she was willing to hand over a small baby orangutan that she had been keeping as a pet. She also admitted that the baby was very sick. The rescue team, Rudi from the Agency for Natural Resources Conservation in Ketapang (BKSDA), Andi from the Gunung Palung National Park, and Dr Ayu Handayani and Riyan from IAR, responded to the call immediately. Aftera journey of more than 10 hours by boat and by road, Budi arrived safely at the centre.

Budi's condition was extremely critical during the journey and on arrival at the centre. "Budi had spent more than 10 months in a chicken cage, drinking only condensed milk," said Dr Ayu Handayani. Ever since Budi was captured while still a small baby, until he was rescued by IAR and BKSDA, this infant had been given no solid food. "The owner said that she was afraid to give Budi any fruits and thought that giving condensed milk would be sufficient.”

Inevitably Budi presented signs of severe malnutrition. His body was swollen up with fluid owing to the lack of protein. Initial reports from Dr Ayu state that Budi was extremely weak, unable


to move and also suffering from severe anaemia. Budi is being monitored and observed round the clock by IAR’s team of vets.

"We cannot even imagine how much pain this small baby has suffered", says Dr Karmele L Sanchez, IAR’s Programme Director in Indonesia. "His eyes fill with tears every time he's moved by the doctors and he screams in pain. It's really amazing that Budi has been able to survive this long."

Budi is now making a slow recovery in the International Animal Rescue clinic. At first he didn’t have the strength even to sit up on his own but can now sit unsupported for short periods of time. He is also being treated for a severe metabolic disease affecting his bones. His limbs are malformed because malnutrition hasprevented them from developing properly. Budi has a very long way to go on the road to recovery and it is still too early to know whether he has sustained any permanent damage.

Karmele adds:"At the moment we are still worried for his life and trying to minimise his pain. But Budi is a very strong little baby and he is fighting very hard to survive."

Video - Crying Budi receives loving care after a year of neglect

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on January 27th, 2013 at 8:05:44 AM

Rogue lost her powers at the end of X3. Why is she coming back?

Xavier's school will need cleaning, and she is part of the Molly Maid crew who comes to do the job.

pornfly writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 8:14:58 AM

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January Jones was lame cress writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 8:19:56 AM

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Singer any ass on set--you don't get asked back. cress writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 8:24:40 AM

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Gabriel?

No..

Daddy's Little Secret?

Archangel Pansy? pornfly writes:

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on January 27th, 2013 at 9:13:44 AM

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cress writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 9:40:01 AM

Rogue started dating Colossus after X3, and his huge metal penis knocked around a tooth here and there. SpookyCupcakes writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 10:34:51 AM

This sounds pretty terrible Avirexwrites:

on January 27th, 2013 at 10:48:38 AM

Someone should invent time travel to stop this sh*tty franchise from ever happening.

It has about as much in common with the X-Men as the Resident Evil flicks do with the games. Fightclub1 writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 11:49:17 AM

Sounds like a cluster Janus writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 11:59:42 AM

@cress: Nobody really lost their power in X3. It was shown that the "cure" wasn't permanent. Magneto started to get his powers back in the ending. cress writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 12:03:33 PM

Not really. It was hinted at with Magneto. I just hope Rogue had enough time to give a blowjob without ending a life. Patrick Bateman writes:

on January 27th, 2013 at 12:22:58 PM

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high school, nevertheless, among white
women and college graduates the number increased more than 50% since 1983 (from
6.7% to 14.6% for white females and from 3.0% to 6.4% for college graduates).
For women with professional or managerial skills, the rate nearly tripled in the
same time period.

Related to the illegitimacy boom is the high U.S. rate
of sexually transmitted diseases the highest in the developed world. Government
officials view the problem as an epidemic. (See Leary, 1996.)

There has also
been a large increase in the U.S. divorce rate, which accelerated in the 1960's
and peaked in 1981; it has leveled off in the last decade and even slightly declined.
In 1970, 4% of the total adult population was divorced, but by 1992 11% were divorced
a 266% increase in 22 years. (See A.F. Saluter, 1992). Today itis commonly
recognized that roughly 50% of marriages end in divorce. This high U.S. divorce
rate has meant that for well over 20 years approximately one million American
children per year have been involved in divorce.

The slight decline in the
divorce rate in the last decade is somewhat encouraging, but many attribute this
to the decline in the U.S. marriage rate, which has gone down steadily over the
last 25 years. In 1970, 72% of the adult population was married; it was 61 in
1992. Among women in their late twenties and early thirties, the proportion who
have never married tripled between 1970 and 1992, from 11% to 33% for ages 25
to 29, and from 6% to 19% for ages 30 to 34. Also the number of unmarried couple
households was 3.3 million in 1992, twice the


favorable well-being, and favorable outcomes were stronger
for wives than for husbands. In addition, the gap between the married and the
unmarried of both sexes was substantial.

One study demonstrated that being
satisfied with marriage was a more powerful predictor of mental health than any
of the following: age, race, education, or income (Gove, et al., 1983). But persons
dissatisfied with their marriages were in poorer mental health than the unmarried.
Similarly, Kiecolt-Glaser, et al., (1987) found that unhappy marriages were stronger
predictors of distress and loneliness than were education, socioeconomic status
and the total number of negative life events.

To rear a child alone is to cope
with serious stress. In a study completed at North Carolina State University and
Johns Hopkins University, Thompson and Ensminger (1989) examined the mental health
of over 800 childrearing women in an urban blackneighborhood in Chicago. The
researchers found that persistent single parenting increases the likelihood of
experiencing psychological distress. Indeed, the authors of the study report
that being the only adult in the household over an extended period leads to distress,
even when economic, educational, and other hardships were taken into account.
Remaining a single parent, observed the researchers, means foregoing personal
needs including intimacy, companionship, or affirmation of one's identity. Further
evidence of greater maternal distress for divorced as compared to non-divorced
mothers is reported by Simon, 1992.

On the other hand, this study found that
mothers who live with a spouse are less likely to report feeling sad or tense
than mothers who live alone. The researchers accordingly conclude that being
married has advantages for the mother's psychological wellbeing. The study did
find that a mother's stress may be alleviated by


looked into the emotional and physical state of 1,543 adults across
the United States. They found that married people scored higher on positive affect
(that is, they felt pleased, good, happy, joyful, and warm about life). Singles,
on the other hand, suffered from higher levels of anxiety, tension, fear, and
depression. Singles also suffered from higher levels of dysphoria (hostility,
depression, and anxiety).

Children's
pyschological health and family structure

Children living in single-parent
and stepparent families suffer more emotional distress and problems in school,
according to a study by Dawson (1991) who documented the pronounced effects of
family structure in her analysis of behavioral and emotional problems. She found
that children from single-parent and stepparent families were two to three times
more likely than those living with biological parents to have received professional
help for emotional or behavioral problems in the yearshowing the serious problems found in stepfamilies include Steinberg,
1987; Hobart, 1988; Mitchell, Wister and Burch, 1989; McKay, 1991; Bray, et al.,
1992; Downey, 1995.)

Psychologists are seeing more teenagers than ever before,
especially from single-parent and step families. In another analysis, researchers
Zill and Rogers (1988) found that the frequency with which young people are taken
to see psychiatrists or psychologists for emotional, mental, or behavioral problems
has increased since the 1960's. At that time, only 6% of adolescents aged 12
to 16 had ever received psychological help. But by 1981, the figure had risen
to 9%. Not only had more young people received therapy, they had received such
care more recently, and apparently, more frequently: between the late 1960's
and 1981, the proportion of adolescents ages 12 to 16 who had received psychological
help within the previous 12


who see their parents divorce
are much more likely as adults to suffer from depression and low self-esteem (Rogers,
1994; Clifford and Clark, 1995; McCabe, 1997), while Lye, Klepinger, Hyle and
Nelson (1995) report that in divorced families, the long-term relationship even
with the custodial parent is of lower quality than are long-term parent relationships
in intact families.

Researchers from the University of Western Ontario examined
the medical records of 100 teenagers released from the adolescent unit of a Canadian
psychiatric hospital. (Merskey and Swart, 1989.) They discovered that of the 100,
84 were no longer living with both parents at the time of admission, and 34 were
living with neither parent. Among these troubled young people, 48% of the males
and 63% of the females had been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment previously.
Family disruption showed up with particular frequencyattitude

One of the most important and
surprising changes in American attitudes in the past decade or so has been toward
divorce. For many years, social scientists and much of the enlightened public''
had been pro-divorce. Feminists and psychologists were especially visible in pushing
for easier divorce laws. Only reactionaries, it appeared, were opposed to it.
In I 970 the pro-divorce momentum was so strong that no-fault divorce laws were
adopted, first in California and shortly thereafter, throughout the country. Today
in most of the United States, either spouse can get a divorce at any time for
any reason, if he or she so decides. It is probably the first time in history
that a society has had such lenient divorce procedures. After the introduction
of no-fault divorce, divorce rates, already rising, jumped still higher before
leveling off (as noted)


in the early 1980's.

Shortly after these legal changes
came the first long-term studies of the effects of divorce on children. Much to
the surprise and dismay of the researchers, the effects turned out to be seriously
negative, and long-lasting. Now, after some 25 years of research, the attitude
among many psychologists and other social scientists has changed dramatically.
Increasingly, divorce, when children are involved, is seen as a tragedy to avoid
if at all possible. Some psychotherapists, such as Medved (1989), are now against
almost all divorces, even when children are not involved.

There is now an abundance
of literature demonstrating the negative effects of divorce, especially on children.
Important examples of this research include the work of Hetherington (1978, 1979,
1988), and Furstenberg & Cherlin (1991). See also Kurtz, 1994. However, the research
of Judith Wallerstein (1980, 1989, 1991)has probably been the most influential.
She and her associates followed 60 families after their divorce in the early 1970's.
Her systematic follow-ups have now covered ten years and provide both qualitative
descriptions and basic quantitative findings.

The
Wallerstein studies: What divorce is like for children

Judith Wallerstein,
from the University of California Berkeley, and Joan Berlin Kelly, a clinical
psychologist, published their findings after following the families for five years
(1980). Their study was the first to track systematically the effects of divorce
on a fixed set of families for so long a time period. Families were not included
in the study if a child had a previous history of psychological difficulty, was
in psychotherapy, was retarded, or was significantly below developmentally appropriate
norms. The 60 families in the study were predominantly middle class.

Wallerstein
and Kelly conducted extensive interviews of all


the members of the families at
the time of the divorce. They intended to complete the study with another set
of interviews one year later, in light of the conventional wisdom which suggested
that the first year was the hardest, and that by the end of that time the families
would have adjusted to the divorce. Instead, the researchers found that eighteen
months after the breakup of their parents' marriage, many children were still
experiencing great difficulties, and were indeed still on a downward course. Wallerstein
and Kelly decided to extend their study to five years after the divorce.

The
authors found that a significant number of the children suffered fear, worry,
sadness, feelings of rejection, loneliness, anger and guilt topics to which
we will return in more detail below. The initial reaction to the divorce of over
90% ofthe children was one of strong fear and anxiety. The parental break-up
brought an acute sense of shock, intense fears, and grieving which the children
found overwhelming. Fewer than 10% of the children felt relieved at the separation.

The children worried about who would provide for their needs. They feared being
abandoned, concluding that if the marital tie could dissolve, the parent-child
relationship could dissolve also. Half of the children feared being abandoned
forever by the parent who had left, and a third had the same fear with regard
to the custodial parent. Many were obsessed with the fear of waking up to find
both parents gone. Older children, between the ages of 13 and 18, worried about
sex and marriage. Many of them began to fear marriage, and they had doubts about
their competence as sexual partners.

The


children worried not only about themselves,
but also about their parents: about the ability of the absent parents to care
for himself or herself, and about the custodial parent's suffering, depression,
and physical health. Wallerstein and Kelly state:

Two-thirds of the children,
especially the younger children, yearned for the absent parent, one-half of these
with an intensity which we found profoundly moving. (p. 46)

It did not appear
that yearning for the father was rooted necessarily in a good pre-divorce relationship,
but rather in the developmental needs and the fantasies of the child. This yearning
was illustrated in the children's play, observed as a part of the evaluation.
The children frequently played house with dolls, and they would reliably put the
mother and father in the same house with the children, and often the parents were
placed holding one another tightly.

Overone-half of the children in the study
suffered intensely from feelings of rejection by one or both of the parents. Young
children could not understand that their father (for example) had left their mother;
they felt that the parent had left them. Many of the boys felt that criticism
of the absent father by the mother was directed at them personally. The children
felt lonely with the father gone and the mother working more. They felt both parents
slipping out of their lives.

Over one-third of the children in the study, especially
the boys, showed feelings of anger. There was a rise in aggression on the part
of children of all ages. One-fourth of the children expressed this anger explosively
toward one or both parents. The children saw divorce as an act of selfishness
on the part of their


to show
significant residues of their continuing anger in their persistent emotional neediness,
unhappiness and somewhat diminished self-esteem.

The most surprising and disturbing
finding of the Wallerstein research was that five years after the divorce children
within a third group consisting of over one-third of the children
were consciously and intensely unhappy and dissatisfied with their life in the
post-divorce family. That is, 37% of the children were described as moderately
to severely depressed. And unhappiness was actually greater at five and at ten
years after the divorce than it had been a year and a half after it. The following
description of the way in which an eleven-year-old member of the group played
is illustrative:

As Barbara entered the playroom, she busied herself with a
dollhouse and began to construct a fantasy story which could have been a childish
rendition ofdisparity in overall adjustment eventually dissipated. As
the young women stood at the developmental threshold of young adulthood, when
it is time to seek commitment with a young man, many found themselves struggling
with anxiety and guilt. This sudden shock... a sleeper effect, led to many maladaptive
pathways, including multiple relationships and impulsive marriages that ended
in early divorce. (p. 299)

The findings of the Wallerstein project are especially
disturbing considering that the children studied were a:

... relatively
sturdy group of youngsters in that they had not been referred for psychological
treatment at any time in their lives and had achieved age-appropriate learning
and behavior within the school, despite their experiences and unhappiness within
the failing and conflicted marriages. They were, moreover, drawn from a predominantly
white, middle-class population and had been relatively protected from economic
and social privation.

Separation
anxiety: The work


so
that the child is protected and at adolescence be set free by both parents to
go out into the world. (p. 359)

High-conflict
marriages: Where separation makes sense

We turn now to evidence
concerning the effects of conflict within families. Research has indicated that
conflict between parents, both during marriage and after separation, is especially
psychologically destructive to children. A study by Hetherington (1979) examined
72 children of divorce during the two years following separation, and 72 children
of intact nuclear families. The behavior of the children was studied through extensive
interviews of parents and teachers, at home and school, and at two months, one
year, and two years following divorce. During these periods, the children from
the intact nuclear families in which there was low or moderate conflict were doing
the best. Only in such families where there was intensecontinuing marital dissatisfaction
and conflict were the children's problems comparable to those from divorced single-parent
families.

The study found that the children of divorced families in which there
was high conflict after the divorce showed greater problems than any of the other
children in the study. The only exception was that girls in high-conflict nuclear
families experienced the same high level of difficulty as girls in high-conflict
divorced families, two years after divorce. This research supports the claim that
in high conflict marriages, separation very probably benefits the children. Wallerstein
estimated that about 10% of divorces were of high conflict marriages; this figure
may be low, but high-conflict marriages are certainly well under half of total
divorces.

The
importance of fathers

The great importance of the father in the
development and education of his children his sons and daughters
is one of the best-documented


depression in daughters of divorce.) An interesting
study by Baydar, Brooks-Gunn, and Furstenberg, 1993, found that among urban black
poor children who learn to read, the best are those who have grown up with married
mothers.

The economic importance of the father for both sons and daughters
is underlined in a study by Furstenberg and Hughes (1995). They report that children
who are born to teenage mothers and who grow up with the biological father in
the home are almost four times more likely to find employment as young adults
and more than twice as likely to achieve stable economic status. Interestingly,
the presence of long-term stepfathers did not show the same influence. The importance
of the father to children was recognized by Wallerstein and Kelly, who observed:

The children who felt rejected by the father were burdened insubsequent studies, contains five dimensions, all evaluations of family
life. These were: father's discipline of the boy, father's affection for the boy,
mother's supervision of the boy, mother's affection for the boy, and the overall
cohesiveness of the family. Divorce becomes a significant cause of low scores
and low scores on these dimensions, especially on all five, reliably predicted
delinquency.

A thorough study by H. Wilson (1980) confirms the Gluecks' conclusions
in a contemporary British environment, and points to the role of the father in
reducing the likelihood of criminal activity in his sons. The study examined boys
growing up in both inner city and suburban areas. It correlated juvenile delinquency
with parental strictness, social handicap (inner city vs. suburbs), and parental
criminality. Parental strictness was measured by such factors as whether a child
was required to be in at


run much the same
in rich and poor neighborhoods, and among black, white and Hispanic populations.
Smith and Jarjura also criticize theories that link crime to poverty since the
removal of family structure differences makes poverty an insignificant factor
in burglary rates. Many observers have pointed out that America's black population
was much poorer in the 1930's and `40's than today, but its crime rate was much
lower presumably because the black family was substantially more stable
then.

In a study from South Africa, Pillay (1987) found that of children taken
to a psychological clinic, 6 out of 10 came from non-intact families. Citing earlier
findings, he noted that both male and female children in one-parent families are
more likely to turn to drugs than those with both parents. But he found that problems
were most serious among fatherless boysstatements on the subject are
starting to occur in the criminology literature. For example, Palermo and Simpson,
1994.

Conclusion:
The family crisis is really a crisis of fatherhood

Looking back
on the extensive documentation of American family decline, we can clearly see
that by far the single most important factor has been the failure of fathers.
The terms single-parent family, broken family, and the like, mean fatherless
families. The well-known expression the feminization of poverty again reflects
the absence of fathers in inner-city and welfare families. That men have abandoned
their role as fathers and in the process brought about a social crisis has been
powerfully demonstrated in David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America (1995). (For
additional support for this point, see Popenoe, 1996.) Blankenhorn discusses many
of the complex factors and reasons behind the loss of fathers but there is no
doubt that he


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Emma Sulkowicz (pictured): Just an expression of her free will of thought or a feminist conduit to disparage gender polarity? Image via youtube screen shot.

Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz has caused disconcert after carrying a mattressalong with her fellow classmates to a podium whilst accepting her graduating diploma.

Met with fervent applause from fellow students, the German student who carries a mattress around campus in protest to a purported rape against her did so because her alleged attacker has yet to be held accountable.

As she stepped up to the podium the student, the visual arts major refused to shake hands with Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger, maintaining her defiance as the university refuses to expel the accused man who was also present at the ceremony.

After collecting her diploma Sulkowiczmade a point of noting that her rapist was in attendance at today’s ceremony, embittering her to continue her protest against the school.

To date the man, Paul Nungesser, who Sulkowicz accuses of having sexually assaulted her and two other students has not been charged with a crime after the district attorney’s office held that there was a ‘lack of reasonable suspicion.’

Undaunted, Sulkowicz said she plans to carry forward a lawsuit against the university which she initiated in April for failing to prevent the sexual assault against her.

The suit was launched three days after a judge tossed out another gender based lawsuit brought by a male student against the university.

Notes the suit: ‘Columbia University’s effective sponsorship of the gender-based harassment and defamation of Paul resulted in an intimidating, hostile,


demeaning … learning and living environment.’

Named in the suit along with the school, are its board of trustees, President Lee C. Bollinger and Professor Jon Kessler.

At present it is not necessarily understood the amount of damages Sulkowicz has sought, that said one presupposes the act of bringing the school to account carries more weight in gold than any sum the student could be offered.

Ironically the visual artist student would earn course credit for carrying a mattress around campus as part of her senior project titled, ‘Carry that weight,’ a symbolic testament to her protest against the school’s alleged tolerance of rape and sexual assault.

Told the student via the Columbia Spectator in September: ‘The past year of my life has been really marked by telling people what happened inJay has an incredible shaft, long and hooded, with great low hanging balls, Evan can't wait to get his lips around it for a thorough servicing. He licks and slurps, plays with his friend's big nuts, tastes the precum leaking from the tip of the incredible length, then gets his own amazing boner out for equal treatment. Indeed, it's perhaps no surprise that he's so skilled with such a big young cock because he has one of his own. With both boys displaying such talents in the art of oral pleasure it would be fair to assume their ability to fuck is equally impressive, something that's soon proven when Evan bends over the end of the couch to give his slim friend a taste of his naked pucker.


Jay licks and tongues his new friend's hole, but it's not Evan who's craving a cock up inside him. The boys switch position and Jay offers his own eager opening for his buddy to ease into, an opportunity young Evan quickly accepts. He might start out slow and easy but soon enough his shaft is pumping in and out of Jay's rump, fucking him deep and hard, his heavy balls slapping and the sounds of hot wet sex filling the room and mixing with their soft moans of pleasure. With Evan's engorged length tapping away at Jay's prostate he can't stop his climax from taking over even if he tried, with semen squirting from his uncut dick and splashing over his thigh in a messy reward. The sightWhy did Ann Clwyd get such an easy ride during her appearance at the Chilcot inquiry this week, from both m'luds and the media? Clwyd is at least as complicit as her former boss Tony Blair in the dissemination of tall tales designed to justify the attack on Iraq.

Clwyd is Labour MP for Cynon Valley and head of Indict, a group that campaigned for many years for the arrest and punishment of Saddam Hussein and his cronies under international law. On the eve of the Iraq War – 18 March 2003 to be precise – Clwyd wrote an article for the Times in which she claimed that Saddam had a people-shredding machine.

Apparently the Ba'athists would dump their opponents into a machine "designed for shredding plastic", and later put


their minced remains into "plastic bags" so they could eventually be used as "fish food".

It gets worse: apparently these unfortunate men were put into the shredder feet first so that they could briefly behold their own mutilation before death.

Not surprisingly, Clwyd's shocking claims spread around the world like a virus. The then prime minister of Australia, John Howard, talked of Saddam's "human-shredding machine" in a speech justifying his decision to send troops to Iraq. Paul Wolfowitz, the Bush administration's hawkish deputy defence secretary, expressed his admiration for Clwyd's article and a link to it was posted on the US state department's website. Numerous pro-war journalists repeated Clwyd's claims.

There was only one problem: there was no strong evidence, and there still isn't, that Saddam had anything like a people-shreddingmachine.

When I investigated this story for the Spectator and the Guardian in early 2004, I found no convincing evidence that such a medieval-sounding contraption ever existed.

It seems Clwyd based her story on the uncorroborated claims of one individual from northern Iraq. Neither Amnesty International nor Human Rights Watch, in their numerous investigations into human rights abuses in Iraq, had ever heard anyone talk of a human-shredding machine.

Worst of all for Clwyd, I interviewed one of the Iraqi doctors whose grisly job was to examine the bodies of executed prisoners at Abu Ghraib, where the shredder was allegedly based, and he said no prisoner was ever killed by being shredded. And for the record, he really hated the Ba'athist regime.

It's worth remembering the role that Clwyd's claims played back


in mid-March 2003. There was widespread opposition to the war, as evidenced by the million-strong march in Hyde Park in February 2003.

People were already asking questions about the "dodgy dossier" and Blair's claims about WMD. The story of the shredder seemed designed to jolt us all out of our stupidity and convince us to back the government's war against evil. As the headline on Clwyd's article in the Times put it: "See men shredded, then say you don't back war."

The shredder story was used in a last-ditch effort to change people's minds. As Trevor Kavanagh at the Sun rather wishfully argued: "British resistance to war changed when we learned how sadist Saddam … fed dissidents feet first into industrial shredders." If Blair's dodgy dossier was cynically used todrum up support in the run-up to the invasion, then Clwyd's shredder story was cynically used to batter the last bit of war-scepticism out of the British public.

And yet Clwyd has not been subjected to anything like the same level of media criticism as Blair has been. This points to a problem with the way we remember the Iraq war. In the mythical version of events that is being promoted by the media off the back of the Chilcot inquiry, Blair, and his evil sidekick Alastair Campbell, single-handedly duped the cabinet, parliament, the media and some of the public into supporting the war.

The truth is that it wasn't only Blair who was spreading tall tales, and much of the media wasn't nearly as critical as it should have


random number to the control group. The exercise leaders at each club received a text message from the UKK Institute\'s research secretary (TI) with the names and phone numbers of the participants in the exercise group, and then made appointments for the first exercise session.

The research secretary was the only person with access to participant identification information other than the study code. The statistician and researchers were blinded to the group allocation until the end of the statistical analysis. The professionals conducting the fitness tests at each club were blinded to the group allocation at baseline, but the participants may have revealed their group during the follow-up fitness tests. The exercise instructors and participants were aware of the group allocation.

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in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts. His teachers there were Angelo Jank, Max Doerner, Adolf Schinnerer, Max Mayrshofer, and Emil Preetorius.

As a set designer, he worked at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as well as at the opera houses in Magdeburg and Bernburg; he also worked at Bavaria Film in Munich, on the sets of feature films Philine with Theo Lingen.

After the war, Gatermann mainly painted landscape oil paintings from the Munich area. The Munich art publishing house Emil Köhn purchased many of his mountain paintings and reproduced them as art postcards. Gatermann declared himself as the first painter of the Munich parkland. His style approached late-impressionism during this period.

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 Wide landscape with grazing cows , oil / board, signed K. Gaterman, localthat claims it was Ukraine, and not Russia, that intervened in the 2016 election. In the process, he used a July 25 phone call to ask President ZELENSKY to investigate both the conspiracies and HUNTER BIDEN’s role at a Ukrainian natural gas company, triggering the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives.

Joseph R. Biden, Trump’s foe Scott Eisen / Getty Images

The former US vice president launched his campaign for the Democratic nomination this April. TRUMP reportedly considers him his biggest threat while running for reelection. Biden bragged at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018 about his role getting SHOKIN fired. TRUMP and GIULIANI now accuse him of doing so to protect HUNTER from prosecution — even though there is no evidence that HUNTER was


been at TRUMP’s side since before the election, at one point lobbying to be secretary of state. Instead, he became Trump’s cybersecurity czar before joining the team of lawyers defending TRUMP personally in the Russia investigation. He has been “investigating” in Ukraine since last year to gain new information on the 2016 election with the aid of FRUMAN and PARNAS. He is reportedly now the subject of a criminal investigation for his work in Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelensky, PRESIDENT of UKRAINE Sean Gallup / Getty Images

Zelensky came to office when a tsunami of support for his once long-shot campaign, which focused on eliminating corruption, took hold with Ukrainians ready for a change. A former comedian, Zelensky has had to balance his need to keep TRUMP happy to ensure that hiscountry receives the military aid it needs to fight Russia with not being beholden to the US president. His July 25 call with TRUMP was the subject of a whistleblower complaint that kicked off the current impeachment inquiry. Zelensky has said publicly that he did not feel pressured during the call, but Ukrainian officials have said they were aware that political and military assistance depended on their cooperating with GIULIANI.

The UKRAINIANS

Ivan Bakanov, a POLITICIAN Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images

Bakanov was head of ZELENSKY’s Servant of the People party until earlier this year, when he became the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU, which is akin to the FBI. He was also ZELENSKY’s campaign chair and was reportedly involved with early lobbying


of the Trump administration soon after Ukraine’s election. He was named in the whistleblower’s complaint as one of several Ukrainian officials who met with GIULIANI.

Andriy Bohdan, an AIDE Nurphoto / Getty Images

A longtime friend of ZELENSKY’s, he was named the president’s chief of staff soon after his inauguration in April. But Bohdan’s role in the YANUKOVYCH government and as a lawyer to KOLOMOISKY has left many, including the International Monetary Fund, wary. GIULIANI has claimed that the State Department warned him not to meet with Bohdan when traveling to Ukraine.

Dmytro Firtash, an OLIGARCH Georges Schneider / AFP / Getty Images

Firtash is one of the richest and most powerful people in Ukraine, having made much of his money in the sometimes unscrupulous gas trade between Russia and Ukraine. Hehas been in legal trouble in Chicago since he was indicted on federal bribery and racketeering charges in 2013. He was arrested the next year in Vienna, where he is still fighting against being sent to the US for trial. In a surprise move, SHOKIN entered an affidavit supporting Firtash in his trial. The former prosecutor alleged that BIDEN had prevented Firtash from returning to Ukraine, where he could not be extradited, in 2014. The BIDEN campaign has denied it, and SHOKIN provided no evidence that explained why he was defending someone the US has alleged has "upper echelon" ties with Russian organized crime. The influential billionaire has employed DIGENOVA and TOENSING as his lawyers attached to his case since July. He has also reportedly been “financing the


later overturned this summer and deemed unfounded. Leschenko has said the lies from GIULIANI and others prevented him from getting a job in the ZELENSKY administration.

Yuriy Lutsenko, a former PROSECUTOR Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images

Lutsenko was named prosecutor general of Ukraine after SHOKIN was fired in 2016. He reportedly clashed early and often with YOVANOVITCH, who told him to focus more on prosecuting corruption. Lutsenko told SOLOMON that she gave him a list of people that the US said could not be investigated, a claim that he later recanted. He has no legal training and a reputation for using his office for political gain. He first met with GIULIANI in January and said it was clear that he wanted HUNTER investigated. Lutsenko also knew that heneeded favor with the TRUMP administration to keep his job as POROSHENKO's stock fell. In March, he announced he would reopen the investigation into HUNTER's company, a development heralded by SOLOMON and TOENSING. After ZELENSKY’s election, he pushed to stay in his position but was eventually dismissed. Lutsenko was mentioned in the call between TRUMP and ZELENSKY as "a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair." He has since said in multiple interviews that there is no evidence of wrongdoing by HUNTER or JOE BIDEN.

Ihor Kolomoisky, a PATRON Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters

A media tycoon, one of the country's wealthiest men, and a former governor, Kolomoisky was a powerful figure in Ukrainian politics even before ZELENSKY, whose hit show aired on the


channel Kolomoisky owned, came to office. During his time as head of PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest private bank, he allegedly funneled massive loans to himself and associates. The POROSHENKO administration nationalized the bank in 2016 it was declared insolvent. The links between Kolomoisky and ZELENSKY — including the president naming BOHDAK, the oligarch's longtime lawyer, as chief of staff — have made many observers wary. (He is reportedly under FBI investigation for alleged money laundering in Cyprus.) PARNAS and FRUMAN visited him in Israel in April, ostensibly to talk about their natural gas company, but in reality to organize a meeting between GIULIANI and ZELENSKY. It went badly and Kolomoisky denounced the two men in an interview, leading GIULIANI to tweet that his clients had been "defamed."

Nazar Kholodnytsky, aPROSECUTOR Efrem Lukatsky / AP

Kholodnytsky is the head of Ukraine’s Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, who was himself accused of corruption in the form of coaching witnesses. YOVANOVITCH called for his firing in a speech in April ahead of her ouster. He met in Paris with GIULIANI in May and has said that he believes (a) that the release of the "black ledger" that ended MANAFORT's role on the TRUMP campaign was suspicious and (b) that Burisma, the company where HUNTER served on the board, deserves to be reinvestigated.

Petro Poroshenko, a former PRESIDENT of UKRAINE Handout / Reuters

A former chocolate magnate, Poroshenko was the first president elected after the protests that caused YANUKOVYCH to flee. Both SHOKIN and LUTSENKO served as prosecutor general during his five years in office.


While initially popular, by the time of the presidential election earlier this year, just 9% of Ukrainians had faith in their national government, thanks to low standards of living, rampant official corruption, and the ongoing war with Russia in the east of the country. He eventually lost his seat in a runoff to ZELENSKY.

Viktor Shokin, a former PROSECUTOR Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters

Shokin was named prosecutor general soon after mass protests toppled the YANUKOVYCH government in 2014. Numerous Western governments — including the US — and anti-corruption groups scorned him for his failure to tackle official corruption. He at one point refused to allow the British to properly prosecute ZLOCHEVSKY. POROSHENKO fired him in 2016. After BIDEN’s January 2018 comments, Shokin began to say the former vice president wasdirectly responsible for his firing. In Shokin's telling, he was preparing to investigate HUNTER when he was removed from office. Shokin also recently signed an affidavit in support of FIRTASH that claimed BIDEN had prevented FIRTASH from returning to Ukraine from Vienna. There has been no evidence so far to back any of his claims.

Viktor Yanukovych, a former PRESIDENT of UKRAINE Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images

Yanukovych took office in 2010 and attempted to play Russia and the European Union off against each other in pursuit of a better deal for Ukraine. A series of protests beginning in late 2013 led to his fleeing Ukraine for Russia in 2014. He left behind a country shocked by the level of embezzling he'd committed and set the stage for


Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea, as well as the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine. The new government passed laws banning most senior aides in his administration from holding office again. Andriy Yermak, an AIDE Yermak, a senior aide to ZELENSKY, contacted VOLKER to set up a meeting with GIULIANI earlier this year after the lawyer described Ukraine’s incoming administration as being filled with “avowed enemies” of TRUMP. He and GIULIANI met in Madrid in August. He later rejected a proposed statement written by VOLKER and SONDLAND that would have had ZELENSKY pledge to investigate Burisma and any role Ukraine played in the 2016 US presidential election, according to text messages turned over to Congress.

Mykola Zlochevsky, a BUSINESSPERSON Pavlo Gonchar / Sipa USA via AP

A former head ofthe Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources under YANUKOVYCH, Zlochevsky is the head of Burisma Holdings, the company that hired HUNTER and ARCHER to be on its board of directors in 2014. Zlochevsky was personally under investigation multiple times in recent years for alleged corruption undertaken either while running his businesses or during his time in government. He has kept a low profile during the current scandal.

THE AMERICANS Devon Archer, friend to Hunter A frequent business partner of HUNTER's, the two participated in several investment groups together beginning in 2008, along with Chris Heinz, his former roommate and John Kerry’s stepson. Heinz later declined to join Burisma’s board with them, and they cut business ties. Archer appeared in a picture first reported on Fox News as HUNTER and


JOE BIDEN golfing with Archer labeled as a "Ukrainian golf exec," a misleading description of their relationship. TRUMP later tweeted a meme of that picture using a song from the Canadian band Nickelback, which the musical group had removed due to copyright infringement.

William Barr, the ATTORNEY GENERAL Erin Scott / Reuters

Barr was confirmed as attorney general in February 2019. TRUMP directed him in May to begin investigating the origins of the Russia investigation, an order based on a number of conspiracy theories, including that Ukraine was actually the originator of the "hoax." Barr and GIULIANI were mentioned in the July call with ZELENSKY as people whom the Ukrainian president should speak to about TRUMP’s political requests. The Department of Justice, which he heads, determined that the whistleblower's complaintdid not need to be sent to Congress and that it would not open a criminal investigation related to the call, as several officials recommended following the whistleblower's complaint.

T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, a COUNSELOR US Department of State

Brechbuhl has served as Counselor at the State Department, a sort of high-ranking catchall role that answers to the secretary of state, since May 2018. A former classmate at West Point and business partner of POMPEO's, he has kept a low profile and focused mostly on recruitment and morale at the department. Brechbuhl was one of several top officials who were warned about the smears against YOVANOVITCH being pushed by SOLOMON and GIULIANI. He also told the State Department's inspector general that a packet of disinformation targeting YOVANOVITCH had "come over" and


he had assumed it was from the White House — GIULIANI later took credit for much of the packet. Brechbuhl was named in the whistleblower's complaint as one person listening to the call with TRUMP and ZELENSKY. The State Department has denied that he was on the call, but Brechbuhl is still scheduled to give a deposition to Congress on Oct. 17.

Joseph diGenova, a LAWYER and husband to Toensing Screenshot / Fox News

John Dowd, a LAWYER Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters

Dowd, a former Justice Department attorney and Washington power lawyer, entered TRUMP’s orbit in 2017 when he agreed to serve on the president's legal team in the Russia investigation. He resigned from that role in 2018 due to disagreements with TRUMP over strategy. Dowd confirmed on Oct. 2 thathe had been hired to represent PARNAS and FRUMAN. In a letter to Congress to push back on a request for documents related to the impeachment investigation, which was written in Comic Sans, Dowd noted that PARNAS and FRUMAN assisted GIULIANI during “his representation of President TRUMP.” The letter laid out several other relationships and noted that his clients had also retained GIULIANI for legal work in their personal and business work. Dowd also said that his clients assisted DIGENOVA and TOENSING in their legal practice. That would render many of the documents requested protected under attorney–client privilege, Dowd argued.

Igor Fruman, an alleged ROGUE Handout / Alexandria, Virginia, Sheriff's Office

Fruman, a Belorussian American living in Florida, worked alongside PARNAS to dig up material that could both disprove Russia's


involvement in the 2016 US election and damage BIDEN's chances in 2020. The two eventually connected GIULIANI with LUTSENKO, ahead of the prosecutor announcing that he would reopen an investigation into the company where HUNTER was a board member. Fruman and PARNAS both spent lavishly in Ukraine and the US during their work, despite having many debts. A mortgage that Fruman took out on a condo he owned provided much of the money that PARNAS spent to finance their travel and numerous donations to Republican campaigns. FIRTASH also reportedly funded unspecified work of theirs in Ukraine. The two met often with GIULIANI in Washington at TRUMP's hotel in the city. Fruman and PARNAS were arrested at Dulles International Airport on Oct. 10 on charges related to alleged campaignfinance violations. Both held one-way tickets to Vienna, where FIRTASH is fighting extradition.

Fiona Hill, a SCHOLAR Alex Wroblewski / Getty Images

Hill was a surprise pick to serve in the TRUMP administration, having spent her time outside of government researching a Russia at the Brookings Institute. But as senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council, she managed to get in, push for a tougher line on countering Moscow, and get out. She resigned from the White House just days before TRUMP’s call with ZELENSKY. She testified in front of the three congressional committees conducting the impeachment inquiry on Oct. 14. During her 10 hour deposition, she reportedly said that she confronted SONDLAND about GIULIANI's activities in Ukraine, which did were not coordinated with the


appropriate officials.

Paul Manafort, a CONVICT Yana Paskova / Getty Images

Manafort had already made a name for himself for his political operative work in Ukraine and elsewhere overseas when he became TRUMP’s campaign chair in May 2016. The appearance of a ledger showing that he made millions of dollars off the official books while working for YANUKOVICH forced him to resign in August of that same year. He later became convinced his downfall was the work of the Democratic Party partnering with Ukrainian officials and told as much to GIULIANI during the transition. GIULIANI and TRUMP have been interested in Ukraine's role in the 2016 election ever since. He is currently serving a little under seven years in jail after being convicted in multiple cases involving a series offinancial crimes related to his work overseas. He still reportedly communicates with GIULIANI about Ukraine while in jail via his lawyer.

Lev Parnas, an alleged ROGUE Aram Roston / Reuters Giuliani has coffee with Parnas at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Sept. 20.

Parnas, a Ukrainian American living in Florida, reportedly knew GIULIANI loosely through Republican circles and in 2018 hired GIULIANI to work for his company, Fraud Guarantee, for which he said he paid the former mayor hundreds of thousands of dollars. The two then began to work on Ukraine-related issues.

It was Parnas who first connected GIULIANI to SHOKIN as part of his and FRUMAN’s mission to find people and information that could be useful in disputing the Russia investigation — which he expected would play into


has denied involvement in GIULIANI’s efforts to produce political dirt, he has reportedly pushed to have US oil executives from his home state of Texas join Ukraine’s national energy company. TRUMP also reportedly blamed Perry for his taking the call with ZELENSKY at all. He has been subpoenaed by the House committees conducting the impeachment inquiry.

Mike Pence, the VICE PRESIDENT of AMERICA Brenna Norman / Reuters

Pence was originally going to attend ZELENSKY’s inauguration in May, but TRUMP instructed him to hang back in favor of PERRY leading the delegation. He eventually did sit down with ZELENSKY in Poland on the sidelines of a conference on Sept. 1. Pence was instructed to cite corruption in Ukraine as a reason the US was withholding military aid, but sources close tohim have said he either did not read the transcript of the call or did not appreciate it. He has further attempted to distance himself from the scandal, refusing to confirm whether he was aware of the effort to take down BIDEN.

Mike Pompeo, the SECRETARY of STATE Erin Scott / Reuters

Pompeo went from being a member of Congress from Kansas to TRUMP’s first CIA director to his second secretary of state, forming a firm bond with the president along the way. He was one of the officials who listened in on TRUMP and ZELENSKY’s call in July, he admitted on Oct. 2, after previously avoiding a direct answer. While some have said that Pompeo worked to shield YOVANOVITCH from GIULIANI’s campaign against her, he still allowed her to


be removed from her post. He has also attempted to prevent officials in the State Department — including SONDLAND and YOVANOVITCH — from testifying to Congress but appears to be losing that battle.

John Solomon, a SCRIBE Screenshot / Fox News

Solomon spent years working for the Hill, a Washington, DC–based publication that focuses on politics. More recently, he became a primary author of “investigative” work into the alleged Ukrainian role in the 2016 election. Beginning in March 2019, he authored reports citing LUTSENKO, among others, that claimed BIDEN had pressured SHOKIN to be fired, that Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 election, and that YOVANOVITCH had obstructed Ukrainian law enforcement. These works were all referenced in the whistleblower’s complaint, though Solomon was not named. Solomon has since left theHill and was recently revealed to have emailed his writing to DIGENOVA, PARNAS, and TOENSING ahead of publication.

Gordon Sondland, a HOTELIER Daniel Mihailescu / AFP / Getty Images

A hotel owner who spent $1 million on TRUMP’s inauguration, Sondland was named US ambassador to the European Union. Despite Ukraine not being an EU member, he became a point person on managing Washington’s relationship with Kyiv. He reportedly plans to tell Congress that in an Oval Office meeting after ZELENSKY's inauguration, TRUMP told him, VOLKER, and PERRY that a meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents would not happen without GIULIANI's approval. Text messages between him and VOLKER show his efforts to push the 2016 Ukraine interference conspiracy and lean on Ukraine to investigate Burisma — though he intends to


Toensing, a LAWYER and diGenova's wife Screenshot / Fox News

A Washington lawyer who practices with her husband, DIGENOVA, Toensing is a frequent TRUMP defender on Fox News. She was originally meant to go to Ukraine with GIULIANI in May, a trip that marked the first time his activities in Ukraine were reported. That trip was eventually canceled. She and her husband were named by Fox News as aiding in the effort to dig up political dirt on BIDEN, with only TRUMP aware of their activities. She has met with LUTSENKO in the past about his claims related to BIDEN and said her trip in May was to help the incoming ZELENSKY administration “promptly understand what [LUTSENKO is] trying to do.” She has also pushed SOLOMON’s reporting on Ukraine’ssupposed role in the 2016 US election. She currently is a lawyer on FIRTASH’s legal team, along with DIGENOVA. The two of them hired PARNAS to do translation work on the case — he also was reportedly instrumental in setting up meetings she had previously had in Ukraine.

Kurt Volker, an EMISSARY Zach Gibson / Getty Images

A former foreign service officer, legislative staffer, and US ambassador to NATO, Volker was named the US’s special representative for Ukraine negotiations in 2017. In that role, he said that he worked to help moderate GIULIANI’s influence on the president and US–Ukraine relations. He resigned from his post Sept. 27, clearing the way for his appearance before the House on Oct. 3. The text messages he provided to Congress show that he was


first venture together, Walsh and business partner Jason O’Connell own nine bars and a thriving craft brewery under the Galway Bay banner, as well as a new beer-importation company. And all without a pint of Guinness to be seen.

Walsh at the Salthouse Bar in Galway

A pizza flop

However their first idea was anything but a resounding success. The pair, who both had backgrounds in the hospitality trade, started off in 2004 with a few thousand euro in their own money and plans for a string of up to 30 gourmet pizza delivery outlets under their Pizza Eile brand.

The idea never made it past the first rented kitchen space in Galway as it became clear consumers weren’t ready to pay a premium for flavours like aromatic duck and banana withPHOTO: EXPRESS

When Gilgit-Baltistan secured freedom from Dogras through a coup in 1947, Naqibullah was among the frontline warriors. He was part of the local army – Gilgit Scouts – that routed the enemy at Pratab Pull, a bridge named after Maharaja Pratab Singh of Kashmir in the 1890s.Taking a trip down the memory lane, the unsung hero, now 115, said: “We defeated the enemy at Pratab Pull, putting an end to their advancement on Gilgit… I was the one who torched down the bridge.”It was one of the most decisive moments of the battle, Naqibullah, who was in his 40s serving as Nike in Gilgit Scouts, recalls during an exclusive interview with The Express Tribune.His claim was corroborated by a certificate, issued on December 12, 1947 by Tiger


Force commander Lt-Col Mirza Hassan Khan. “He burnt the Pratab Bridge when the situation became untenable to our troops. He was brave and among my picked men ever ready to be thrown into any pitched battle,” reads the certificate of valour, acknowledging Naqibullah’s bravery.Before the independence, Gilgit-Baltistan historically remained a part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir as its third province until 1947 under Hari Singh’s rule. Dogras had incorporated the region into the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1846, after many wars and bloodshed.Naqibullah was well aware of the historical background of the region, but India’s latest move of revoking special status of Jammu and Kashmir, which has further tensed relations between the two nuclear-armed arch rivals, came as a surprise to him.Away fromCopyright

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Since 2010, a combined team from the University of Leiden, the University of Leipzig, and the Salahaddin University of Erbil has been conducting excavations at Satu Qala, the ancient city of Idu (van Soldt 2008). The fieldwork continued in 2013 in cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania with a study season to examine all the excavated materials now stored in the archaeological museums of Erbil and Koya. The work was, of course, made possible through the generous support of the General Directorate of Antiquities of the Kurdish Regional Government, the Directorate of Antiquities of Erbil and of Koya, and the Erbil Civilization Museum. The project was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Continue reading In The Field: The Satu