earlier on Wednesday.

Negotiations are continuing in Washington after meetings last week in Beijing, spearheaded by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Kudlow said Chinese vice premier Liu He and his team would remain in Washington for three days and possibly longer.

Officials from the United States and China are still discussing when the leaders of the two countries could sit down to sign off on their trade deal, Bloomberg said.

A meeting date between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping could be announced as early as Thursday, the report said.Watkins Glen, NY. July, 1973.
Police riding horses at the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a 1973 rock festival which once received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "Largest audience at a pop festival." An estimated 600,000 rock fans came to the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway outside of Watkins Glen, New York on July 28, 1973, to see The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead and The Band perform.
Similar to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, an enormous traffic jam...more »

Watkins Glen, NY. July, 1973.
Police riding horses at the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a 1973 rock festival which once received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "Largest audience at a pop festival." An estimated 600,000 rock fans came to the Watkins Glen Grand Prix


The Feloran ChroniclesThe Feloran Chronicles, an epic fantasy action adventure.
Thousands of years ago, the demon lord Daemon Ra rose to power. Defeated long ago, his surprise resurrection and subsequent defeat on Felora now brings his powerful Minions to the world, each with their own dreadful power and sinister agenda...Last update: 2 days ago

Twilight TrustDouglas and Pyotr are agents of the Twilight Trust, specializing in paranormal investigation and monster extermination. On what was supposed to be a routine assignment, all hell breaks loose and it's up to them to keep it from spreading!Last update: 24th Dec 2019Omen star Harvey Spencer Stephens sentenced for road rage attack Published duration 13 January 2017

image copyright PA image caption Stephens sprang to global fame after starring as devil child Damien Thorn in The Omen

The actor who played Damien in the film The Omen has been sentenced for a road rage attack.

Harvey Spencer Stephens, 46, lashed out at two cyclists after getting out of his car following a dispute on 21 August last year, a court heard.

He admitted two counts of ABH and causing criminal damage in the attack on Toys Hill, near Westerham, Kent.

Stephens, of High Street, Edenbridge, was handed a suspended prison sentence at Maidstone Crown Court.

Stephens sprang to fame playing the role of devil child Damien Thorn in the Oscar-winning cult horror film alongside stars including


Gregory Peck.

Knocked unconscious

The film became one of the highest grossing of 1976, raking in about £50m at the box office.

Stephens later went on to work in the City after finishing school.

In court, prosecutor Kieran Brand described how Stephens started sounding his horn when two riders, Mark Richardson and Alex Manley, were side-by-side on the road as one overtook the other.

Mr Richardson flicked his middle finger at Stephens, who then overtook the pair and pulled over.

Mr Brand said Stephens punched Mr Richardson, knocking him unconscious, prompting Mr Manley to intervene.

Dental injuries

Stephens responded by asking Mr Manley: "You want some do you?" before punching him twice, causing him to fall on his back.

Stephens held him down and punched him six or seven times, causing dental injuries and damaging his helmet,Mr Brand said.

Defence counsel Ben Irwin said Stephens, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and accepted he "behaved poorly".

Judge Martin Joy sentenced him to 12 months jail, suspended for two years, for the ABH charges. He was given two months, suspended for two years, for the criminal damage charge.

He said: "This was undoubtedly a serious case of road-rage and quite clearly it has had an ongoing effect on the victims."


Manufacturer and Cartoon Network Enterprises announce a new line of action figures, bobble heads and vehicles based on the Adult Swim Series, The Venture Bros.

LOS ANGELES, CA (January 7, 2010) – Bif Bang Pow! and Cartoon Network Enterprises, the licensing and merchandising arm of Adult Swim, blast off for action with today’s partnership announcement that will bring to market a brand-new line of toys based on the popular animated series The Venture Bros. One of the most highly sought after product lines from Adult Swim’s library, The Venture Bros. collection from Big Bang Pow! will feature an array of articulated action figures, bobble heads, and vehicles, each embodying that distinctive action-comedy mix that has become synonymous with the series.

First to be released from the line is a seriesCalifornication, The Venture Bros., The Twilight Zone, The Big Lebowski, and Flash Gordon. Founder Jason Lenzi is a seasoned television producer and the ultimate fan of cultish pop culture. So when he created his company in 2005, he took the fan’s perspective. His idea was to bring items to the marketplace that he himself would want to own. Cultivated from TV, movies, books, comics, music, and more, Bif Bang Pow!’s mission is to provide high-quality action figures, toys, and collectibles to the massive cult audience (and kids of all ages) that wishes these toys were already in their collection. Bif Bang Pow! is a unit of JLA Direct, LLC.


Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The 11 th New Jersey Regiment of Volunteers at Gettysburg Part II a -Schoonover

Talk about a battlefield promotion.

In the middle of this is the sketch of John Schoonover. Born in 1828 he raised by his parents in Bushkill Falls.

When the war clouds begin to gather they find him living and working as a teacher. He attends the same church as the McAllisters where while there is no mention of it, he steady personality and qualities that will surface during the Civil War, come under the watchful eye of Robert McAllister. When the war opens, he signs up as a Private in the 1st New Jersey Regiment of Voluntees. When the 11th New Jersey is form he is obviously asked by McAllsiter to join the 11thNJ where he becomes its in essence bookkeeper with the rank of 2nd LT. Thats where he is when the 11th faces the elephant for the first time at Fredricksburg. With the 11th serving more as fire supports its not till the 11ths gets into the tough sport it finds itself at Chancelorsville that he earns the notierty that will eventually bring him the command of the 11th. He is lauded by the way in McAllsiters after action report for Chancelorsville.
Gettysburg while it tests the mettle of the regiment as a whole, ir brings Schoonover from bookkeeper to Lt Colonel in command of the regiment. How could that happen you may ask ?
In a spand of roughly 15 to 20 minutes, the regiment loses all its officers above


the rank of 2nd LT and command of the regiment falls to Schoonover, who even though wounded himself three times assumes command of it and retains command till the end of the war. Though not completely uncommon in the Civil War, to go from the secretary of the regiment to commanding it in an afternoon, must have had his head spinning. Though once again its because of bravery and steadfastness that gives him the mantle of command.simply far better at it. Think of Michael Jordan. He was perhaps the best basketball player of all time. Even with his obvious passion and competitiveness he did not rise to the same heights in baseball. He was born with the ability to play basketball, better than anyone else.

The same is true for business. What that means is: business is a team sport. Different people have different abilities, and are able to make different contributions to the business. Let me give you some examples.

Oprah built her own business empire, based on sitting on a sofa talking to people. Donald trump made several fortunes introducing people to one another, and taking a percentage of the business that resulted from the new partnership. George Soros bought low and sold high,


resources department and a member of the Executive Committee, allegedly told plaintiff that she was surprised that H & R had hired a woman for plaintiffs position.
In addition, plaintiff alleges that the other, male portfolio managers were treated better than she was in certain respects. She claims, for instance, that when she joined H & R, she was not initially allowed to vote on the investment committee, whereas male portfolio managers were allowed to do so as soon as they began their employment. Plaintiff also alleges that she was generally introduced to clients as a "co-manager" on the clients' accounts, whereas her male colleagues were simply introduced as "managers" on the accounts.
Still, these alleged indications of bias were apparently not immediately of great concern to plaintiff, since shein a conference call with a new client who was being assigned to plaintiff. The client was a woman. During the telephone conversation, the client began discussing her husband's account. Wolf allegedly asked the client, "Your husband is opening an account with us?" When the client responded that he was, Wolf allegedly began stuttering and became visibly nervous and uncomfortable. When the call was over, plaintiff allegedly asked Wolf, "You thought it was just a woman, didn't you?," and he answered, "Yes, I did." Id. at 130-31.
Plaintiff also testified that at one time, she was slated to conduct a seminar for a women's group. At some point in the planning process, it developed that the audience would consist of both men and women. She alleges that when Wolf


production and a poor attitude lead us to this decision." Def. Ex. EEE.
Plaintiff filed the complaint in this action in April 2002. She has named as defendants H & R, and the individual members of the Executive Committee: Thomas Rusling, Wolf, Cairns, MacInnes, and John Bleyaert. Plaintiff alleges that she was discriminated against on account of her sex, age and disability, in violation of Title VII, the ADEA, and the ADA respectively, and she has also asserted analogous claims under the HRL. Plaintiff also alleges that she was retaliated against for opposing such discrimination, in violation of those same statutes, and that she was not paid as much as male employees performing similar work, in violation of the EPA.

DISCUSSION
I. Summary Judgment Standards
A motion for summary judgment may notShawmut Bank was acquired by Fleet Bank, defendant, First Massachusetts Bank ("FMB"), assumed operations of the former Shawmut Bank branch where the Marengos had their account and became the holder by assignment of the obligation on the unsecured line of credit. At some point, Mr. Marengo became delinquent on the unsecured line of credit and, in February, 1998, FMB exercised a setoff of the Marengo's NOW checking account in the amount of $343.80 to collect at least part of that debt. At the time of the setoff, the only funds contained in the NOW checking account consisted of the Marengo's Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits.
The Marengos complain that they were not given advance notice of the setoff or an opportunity to dispute FMB's right to setoff


an MA in ELT and Applied Linguistics from the University of London, England. From 2008 to 2010 I did an MA in Organizational and Business Psychology at Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina.

In 1995 I entered the academia when I joined Universidad Católica Argentina and Universidad del Salvador to teach undergraduate and graduate courses. Since 2001, I have also been part of Universidad de Belgrano, where I train English teachers and translators in second language Acquisition.

I have been the coordinator of APIBA’s (Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Buenos Aires) BESIG since April 2015.

Which were your first steps in the Business English world?

I have been teaching English as a foreign language since 1990. Except for the first 5 years, I have only taught adults, my passion. Back in 2006 Iin international business of course.
In addition, I work as a translator, author, advisor, examiner and I do teacher
training as well. I am based in the west of Germany where it is quite easy to
find work, and I also spend a lot of time in Scotland, my second home, and on
my island in Sweden.

Which were your first steps in the Business English world?

Like many fellow trainers, I did not plan to work as a
business English trainer. I hold a master degree in media studies and English
literature and was teaching cultural and media studies at the university. But
at some point – around 18 years ago – I began to realize that I did not want to
get entangled in all of those administrative duties and routine work. So I
started working freelance


I would tell the story in stages, stopping here and there to elicit from the students more elaborate descriptions of the people and places in the story. Activate vocabulary, motivate learners to use rarely used adjectives, involve the group in the story”.

BIODATA: Mary Sousa (coordinator of IATEFL Hungary's Business English SIG) is a freelance teacher of business English. Her native language is American English, but she uses her Hungarian language skills both to enhance her teaching and to appreciate the approach of native Hungarian teachers of English. Her special interests include blending traditional and technology-based teaching and interactive storytelling.

Business English and English for Specific Purposes have long been neighbouring fields. As businesses get more complex and specialized, Business English teachers need to address this specialization trend in theirfor assessment goals.

After her presentation at the BESIG PCE in Manchester, in April 10th, we sat down with Dr. Ivana Vidaković who kindly agreed to be interviewed for our BESIG BLOG.

Could you tell us a bit about your academic and professional background? How did you become specialized in testing and assessment?

Everything began with my love of foreign languages, particularly English. I had completed my BA in English language and literature at the University of Belgrade, and then specialised in applied linguistics through my master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of Cambridge. My doctorate in second language acquisition (or foreign language learning) led me to a related area – that of language assessment – so here I am now.

It could be said that my whole career is pretty


English would like to take an exam that is specifically tailored to a business context, Cambridge Assessment offers Business English Certificates (Cambridge English: Business Preliminary, Vantage and Higher) as well as BULATS – the Business Language Testing Service. These examinations are designed for candidates who need to use English in their work or who are preparing for a career in international business. Both Business Certificates and BULATS are suitable for students and professionals, but there are some differences between them.

For example, each Business Certificate is set at a single level on the Common European Framework of Reference (the CEFR): Preliminary is set at B1, Vantage at B2 and Higher at C1. Each of them assesses all four skills - Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing - thereby providing afluency and listening skills as well as working on quick response time.

There are, of course, other challenges and ways to adapt to market changes. If you want to share your tips or ideas, please leave a comment below.

This month the BESIG World Blog takes you back to Brazil to meet Eduardo Santos, a business English teacher based in Brazil who has become known internationally thanks to his blog and the talks and workshops he´s given at conferences. In April 2013, Eduardo gave a talk on BRICS at the IATEFL BESIG Programme Day during the IATEFL Annual Conference in Liverpool. In this interview with Michelle Hunter from the BESIG Online Team, Eduardo shares his take on business English teaching and reflects on his recent experiences.

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Eduardo Santos has been involved


in ELT for almost 12 years, having worked at language institutes in Brazil as an English teacher and teacher trainer. He is currently the Director of Studies of Cultura Inglesa in Recife and also Braz-Tesol Pernambuco President. Eduardo has also been working as a freelance corporate trainer for the past three years, teaching Business English to in-company clients. He has given talks at ELT conferences in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, France and the UK.

Eduardo holds a BA (Hons) in Languages from UFPE and he is also DELTA (Module 2) qualified.

MH: You wrote a blog post recently about the difficulty for many of your students, and indeed yourself, with “Defining Home”. Can you give it a go for us now? Where is “home” for you currently, Eduardo?

ES: First of all,The inventor herein was the inventor in the matter of the Australian Pat. Nos. 432,124 and 434,936 standing in the name of Jury & Spiers Proprietary Limited, and Australian Pat. No. 500,092 standing in the name of Ampliform Pty. Ltd. In all of those patents, there was disclosed a product formed by the process of extruding an aluminium workpiece, slotting the workpiece and expanding it. In the first two said patents, the workpiece was flanked on each side with webs which formed the upper and lower chords of a beam, while in the third patent, the chords were absent so that the workpiece was expanded without the limitations imparted by the chords, and therefore the expansion could be increased. This further feature has proved to be commercially valuable.
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4/19). Abbott spokesperson Jennifer Smother said, "The lawsuit is completely without merit. Abbott will defend against the allegations and continue working to deliver cost-effective medicines for people with HIV." Martin Delaney of the San Francisco-based AIDS advocacy group Project Inform said, "It's become a rallying cry over drug pricing. In the long haul, it creates anti-competitive pressure and continues the process of prices going up and up and up" (San Jose Mercury News, 4/20).

Vigil
A group of protestors on Monday began a 34-hour vigil in front of an Abbott location in South Pasadena, Calif., Reuters reports (Reuters, 4/19). Participants in the vigil include representatives from AHF, the Southern California HIV Advocacy Coalition, Bienestar, Whittier Rio Hondo AIDS Project and other AIDS advocates and patients. The vigil also is beingMonthly Archives: July 2013

Sure, its may be the tagline for Aliens, but horror has long been a component of any sci-fi, including Star Trek. Granted, slasher-horror is rarely the subject, but psychological horror, and even alien/mutant horrors are not unheard of in the Trek universe. Salt vampires, blood-sucking clouds, insanity-inducing parasites, zombie-like assimilating cyborgs, and many more have plagued and terrified crew members of Federation starships in nearly every iteration of Star Trek.

We’ve already had a few of these crop up in our series, and horror is a genre I enjoy, so it was inevitable that it would pop up again, and this time as a central focal point.

The majority of Star Trek episodes also tend to highlight a particular crew member or two, and this one is


beyond the numbers.

This episode of our Star Trek campaign was very personal. In the one I ran, I had a player who played a Caitian Security Officer. In a twist of irony, he came from a family of rogues and ne’er-do-wells. It was this character’s desire to rise above his family’s choices and become something greater, at least in the light of law, order, and civility. From the onset of this character’s genesis, I knew I wanted to target that relationship: it was a plot handed to me on a silver platter.

The Genesis Event offered a prime excuse for a vicious, personal plot: the Genesis Wave had wiped out the Caitian homeworld and the species was in a chaotic state of relocation. This made them prime targets forViola Davis has been the recipient of countless Hollywood honors over her decades-long career, and now she’s received one of the most iconic honors of all: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Davis, who recently received a Golden Globe nomination for her performances in “Fences,” is the first new star to be added to the Los Angeles landmark in the new year.

“Viola is one of the actresses who always mesmerize fans with her talent. She is amazing and we are thrilled that she will grace our world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame,” Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez said in a press release last week.

Davis’s star ceremony took place on Thursday morning at the Walk of Fame, where actress Meryl Streep gave a speech and presented her


Malesani replaces Colomba at Bologna

Bologna FC have appointed Alberto Malesani as coach in place of Franco Colomba, who was sacked on the eve of the club's opening Serie A game of the season.

Malesani has been out of work since leaving relegated AC Siena at the end of last term. The 56-year-old has signed a one-year deal with the Rossoblù, who drew 0-0 against FC Internazionale Milano on Monday with youth team coach Paolo Magnani at the helm.

Malesani made his name at AC Chievo Verona in the early 1990s before joining ACF Fiorentina and Parma FC, with whom he won a Coppa Italia, the Italian Super Cup and the 1999 UEFA Cup. "I had the chance to coach Bologna a few times during my career but it never happened,"determined. The bacteria were Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, a Staphylococcus sp., a coryneform (isolates from a canning factory), and Staphylococcus aureus. The surfaces were tin plate, glass, and nylon. The attachment of each species was either increased, decreased or not affected by the simultaneous or sequential attachment of another species. The results depended upon the species combination, the surface composition, and the sequence of attachment. The detachment of a primary colonizing species was either increased, decreased or not affected by the subsequent attachment of a second species, depending on the species combination and surface. The results demonstrate that bacterial attachment to a surface can be influenced by the composition of the attaching population and can differ considerably from the attachment of the component species in pure culture.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250


their mandate will be to single-mindedly focus on results without having to worry about nurturing a constituency or reporting to a career politician. After her eventful stint in the Commerce Ministry, Ms. Sitharaman was rewarded with the Defence Ministry, making her only the second woman after Indira Gandhi to hold the portfolio. But the choices are also an indication of the small talent pool before Mr. Modi. At the time he was sworn in, he included in his team Arun Jaitley and Smriti Irani despite their having lost in the Lok Sabha election. Manohar Parrikar was asked to resign as Chief Minister of Goa to assume responsibility as Defence Minister, only to be sent back after the BJP all but lost Goa in the Assembly election this year.V.K. Singh, a former Army Chief who joined the BJP just before he was given the party ticket, was made Minister of State for External Affairs. Suresh Prabhu, who was sidelined in the Shiv Sena, was persuaded to join the BJP and given the important portfolio of Railways. And now, despite his offer to resign after a series of rail accidents, he was asked to wait and then made Minister for Commerce and Industry.

Of course, it will be far from the truth to say that nothing but performance has mattered. Ms. Irani, who was moved out of the Human Resource Development Ministry after a string of controversies, retains the key Information and Broadcasting portfolio. Uma Bharti was divested of her pet portfolio of River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation


traveling.
A bicycle seat is provided with a seat frame, a first cushion, a second cushion, at least one first elastomer support and at least one second elastomer support. The first cushion may be joined to the seat frame. The first cushion being adapted to rotate forward and rearward. The second cushion may be joined to the seat frame and the second cushion being adapted to rotate forward and rearward. The first elastomer support being joined between the first seat cushion and the seat frame. The second elastomer support joined between the second seat cushion and the seat frame.
In a first embodiment, shown in FIGS. 1 through 7, the bicycle seat is provided with a seat frame, having a core and a neck attachment.
The first cushion adjustably may bejoined to the seat frame. The first cushion has a first cover joined to a first seat shell. The first seat shell being integral with structural supports and a first knob shroud.
The second cushion is adjustably joined to the seat frame. The second cushion has a second cover joined to a second seat shell. The second seat shell may be integral with structural supports and a second knob shroud.
A mechanism is provided for adjusting the first cushion relative to the seat frame. The first adjusting mechanism has at least one first elastomer support joined to the seat frame and the first seat shell. A first guide core may be movably joined to the first elastomer support. A first threaded shaft is rotatably secured to the first guide core


and a first adjustment knob is operably joined to the first threaded shaft. The first adjustment knob is disposed adjacent the side of the first cushion.
A mechanism is provided for adjusting the second cushion relative to the seat frame. The second adjusting means has at least one second elastomer support, which is joined to the seat frame. The second elastomer support is joined to the second seat shell. A second guide core may be movably joined to the second elastomer support. A second threaded shaft is rotatably secured to the second guide core and a second adjustment knob operably joined to the second threaded shaft. The second adjustment knob is disposed adjacent the side of the side of the second cushion.
A gauge may be joined to the seatframe. The gauge is adapted to indicate the adjustment of the first and second seat cushions. The gauge may have indicia and a center point.
The second embodiment, shown in FIGS. 3 and 8-10, has a related structure to the first embodiment. The primary distinctions are found in the alternate arrangement of the first and second adjustment mechanisms. The second embodiment shows the first adjustment knob disposed adjacent the rear of the first cushion and the second adjustment knob disposed adjacent the rear of the second cushion. A plurality of first and second elastomer supports may be disposed between the first and second seat cushions and the frame.
Advantageously, the present invention provides a gauge for quickly adjusting the first and second seat cushions in situations where the bicycle is


by the network, which was broadcast for six seasons starting in 2009. While it’s true that some of the initial magic was lost during the last seasons of the show, especially with the passing of its beloved star Cory Monteith, Glee was a force to be reckoned with. Not only was it a huge hit ratings-wise for FOX but the show also sold really well abroad, it was critically acclaimed, its merchandising was everywhere and the cast made records, toured the world and even made a movie. Glee wasn’t just a show about the power of dreams, acceptance, tolerance and love; every week, it also taught its audience musical literacy, with many teens hearing Broadway musical classics for the first time (and loving those songs!).

During the six seasonsGlee aired, the phenomenon also caught the eye of many famous stars who were invited (and some even asked) to be part of the show. Neil Patrick Harris and Gwyneth Paltrow got Emmys for their guest roles. The list of Glee guest stars is something to be admired and probably much envied by other showrunners: singers (Britney Spears, Ricky Martin, Demi Lovato, Gloria Estefan), Broadway icons (Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Patti Lupone), TV actors (Neil Patrick Harris, Matt Bomer, John Stamos), movie stars (Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson, Jeff Goldblum) and bonafide legends (Carol Burnett, Shirley MacLaine, Helen Mirren) were part of the Glee family. Most of these stars also performed on the show, and we have chosen our favorite performance from our 15 preferred guest


That I Used To Know” – Gotye

Matt Bomer is one of the most beautiful human beings in the face of the Earth. Not only that, but he is incredibly talented, too. Bomer guest starred on Glee as Blaine’s older (and super successful) brother, Cooper. His comedic timing in the episode, especially when he’s teaching acting to the Glee club, was impeccable. His “Somebody That I Used To Know” cover, performed as a duet with Darren Criss, sold 152,000 digital copies in the US in its first week and charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

8. John Stamos (Carl Howell): “Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?” – The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Ageless vampire John Stamos didn’t get to sing much during his guest time at Glee, but this song made upCity Face Guest Comic 6

Tom 25 Mar 2013 | 12:00 AM

When Lindsey was curious about the girls' activities, Annie and Kat persuaded her to have a go drawing something for them. They taped a marker to one of her claws and she drew on a sheet of paper. Once it was dried, Kat scanned it!


at the time, was located in Orlando, Florida.  After being told that King and Snyder had found a purchaser for the trailer, and upon receiving a check and an option agreement apparently signed by Robert Waldorf, Fuller wired payments of $1,000 to Snyder and $500 to King as 'commissions' for the sale of the trailer.  Waldorf's check was worthless, and Snyder and King made a timely journey to Texas.

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Snyder's role in the scheme was to solicit a 'buyer' for the portrait trailer.  Snyder had known William Robert Waldorf for about five years, and asked Waldorf if he would sign an option agreement to 'buy' an interest in a mobile portrait studio owned by Edward Fuller, as well as to sign a $4,000 check which wouldserve as earnest money.  Waldorf testified that Snyder told him that, if Waldorf would do this, he would receive part of the money Fuller would pay King and Snyder.  Waldorf had no intention of legitimately purchasing part of the business from Fuller because Waldorf had no money, and this fact was well known to Snyder.  Snyder drew up the option agreement and left it with Waldorf, who had his girl friend sign his name both to the agreement and to the $4,000 check.

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The letter containing the option agreement and check was received by Fuller on July 3, 1972, and on the same date Fuller sent the commission payments to Snyder and King via Western Union.  On July 4, 1972, Snyder and King received their


money orders.  On July 6, 1972, Snyder called Fuller, and during the conversation it was agreed that Snyder, King and Fuller would meet in Orlando on July 10 to discuss business matters and the portrait studio.  But that same day, July 6, Snyder and King left Florida and went to Texas, where they stayed together temporarily.  Snyder, having so ignobly departed without paying any money to Waldorf, subsequently called Waldorf to tell him that King, and not he (Snyder), had absconded with all the money.  Snyder was then informed by Waldorf that the fraud had been discovered, and that an enraged Fuller had gone to the authorities.

II.  The Fraud Conviction

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A.  Did the trial court err in not granting Snyder's motion for aas part of the presentence investigation.  Even though he had been defended by appointed counsel, Snyder falsely claimed assets of $68,000 and liabilities of only $6,300, apparently believing that if the court thought him to be a man of property, he would receive a lighter sentence.  After Snyder was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, he moved to be allowed to appeal in forma pauperis.  Noting from the financial statement that Snyder had assets of some worth, the court denied the motion.  Snyder then moved to amend his financial statement, and was obliged to admit that he knowingly falsified the statement.  The court ordered Snyder to show cause why he should not be held in contempt, and he was subsequently cited for contempt and


I remember the first Cape Cod vacation house we were in and how special that first summer was. It was an old farmhouse, down a dirt road, and it had very low ceilings, tilted pineboard floors, and horsehair plaster walls. It was like being on an old ship. That old house was dim, yet inviting and comfortable with its pale palette and exposed wood everywhere; the trees were bright green and the bugs sang you to sleep at night.

Dominic Casserly

I keep seeing that first summer vacation, joined by my brothers and sister, my aunt and uncle, my mom and my cousins, as flashes of memory: beach days, ice cream, watching the nighttime bats catching bugs, wiffle ball, seafood dinners, the discovery of new places, swimming in the oceanDaughter of Murdered Wicomico County Man Speaks Out

WICOMICO COUNTY, Md- One month has past and still no arrests in a deadly home invasion in Wicomico County.

Maryland State Police said, 72-year-old Donald Mariner was beaten to death inside his home on Pemberton Drive near Salisbury on April 16.

Police said a second victim inside the home told them he had been hit with a blunt object.

Authorities said the suspects took Mariner's truck then abandoned it with some of his other possessions on West Main Street in Salisbury.

So far no one has been caught and now Mariner's daughter Dawn Bruning is asking for help.

"I'm very upset that he died the way that he did as hard he worked every day of his life for everything that he had and he just


Lt. Tim Robinson of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office said around 11 a.m., the Sheriff's Office, in conjunction with Wicomico County Animal Control, began an investigation into the report of the presence of deceased horses on the property outside of Hebron.

Authorities investigate after at least 25 dead horses were found on a rural property in Wicomico County, Maryland Friday morning. Lt. Tim Robinson of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office said around 11 a.m., the Sheriff's Office, in conjunction with Wicomico County Animal Control, began an investigation into the report of the presence of deceased horses on the property outside of Hebron.

More details have emerged on a horrific story in Wicomico County. Wicomico County Animal Control and sheriff's deputies were at a Hebron farm Saturday to begin removing horsesand to investigate animal cruelty. This comes after authorities found over one hundred live horses and twenty-five dead on the property. WBOC's Caroline Coles reports.

More details have emerged on a horrific story in Wicomico County. Wicomico County Animal Control and sheriff's deputies were at a Hebron farm Saturday to begin removing horses and to investigate animal cruelty. This comes after authorities found over one hundred live horses and twenty-five dead on the property. WBOC's Caroline Coles reports.

Details were limited, but from the photos provided it was clear to see the extensive damage caused by a fire inside a mobile home early Sunday morning at Malone's Bayside Marina in Millsboro. The Indian River Volunteer Fire Company posted a few photos on their Facebook page that showed the heavy flames


and smoke. According to an update on the page, the fire appeared to be under control just after 5:30 Sunday morning, but the photos show the mobile home is a complete loss.

Details were limited, but from the photos provided it was clear to see the extensive damage caused by a fire inside a mobile home early Sunday morning at Malone's Bayside Marina in Millsboro. The Indian River Volunteer Fire Company posted a few photos on their Facebook page that showed the heavy flames and smoke. According to an update on the page, the fire appeared to be under control just after 5:30 Sunday morning, but the photos show the mobile home is a complete loss.and a meeting of the salespersons. At the latter, a field supervisor would lead the meeting; the salespersons were given training and motivated to go out and sell alarm systems door-to-door. The meetings had a pep rally atmosphere, with yelling, chanting, and cheering. At other offices of Alarm One, the motivational techniques used at the meetings included bonuses, singing in front of the group, pies in the face, eating baby food, wearing diapers, and spanking. Some of these techniques, including spanking with an Alarm One sign or a competitor’s sign, were imported to the Fresno office, which opened in July 2003. Employees would be spanked for arriving late at a meeting or for losing a sales competition.

Respondent was spanked a few times while she worked for Alarm One.


January 14, 2004, was the last date on which she was spanked; Jessica Dakin and three others were also spanked at the same meeting. Afterward, Dakin complained that she had been injured; she had sustained a cut and a bruise from the spanking. She filled out an injury report and was taken to a doctor. After Dakin’s complaint, meetings were held with the supervisors and the sales staff; everyone was informed that the spankings were unacceptable. The spankings stopped.”

The court reversed because the jury instructions did not tell the jury that “in order for plaintiff to prevail, she had to prove she was exposed to a hostile work environment because she was a woman.” The employer made a creative argument on this issue, given that the spanking hadA SELF-DESCRIBED anarchist and "hacktivist" in the US was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for illegally accessing computer systems of law enforcement agencies and government contractors.

Prosecutors said the cyber attacks were carried out by Anonymous, the loosely organised worldwide hacking group, and that participants stole confidential information, defaced websites and temporarily put some victims out of business.

Jeremy Hammond (28) was caught last year with the help of Hector Xavier Monsegur, a well-known hacker known as Sabu who helped law enforcement infiltrate Anonymous.

More than 250 people, including Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked US Defence Department documents during the Vietnam war, wrote letters of support for Hammond.

His lawyers had asked that he be sentenced to time served, 20 months. But Judge Loretta Preska said Hammond's previous hacking conviction


and arrests for other smaller crimes demonstrated his disrespect for the law. She also said she was imposing the sentence sought by prosecutors because his own words from online chats revealed his motive was malicious.

Hammond told the judge he hacked into law enforcement-related sites in retaliation for the arrests of Occupy Wall Street protesters.

"Yes I broke the law, but I believe sometimes laws must be broken in order to make room for change," he said.

Hammond's "motivation was always to reveal secrets that he believes and still believes the people in our democracy have a right to know", the defence wrote in court papers.

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Tracing comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko back to its likely origins

ESA's Rosetta unmanned deep-space probe may have made comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko its final resting place, but researchers are tracing things back to where it all began. Using statistical computer analysis, astronomers Mattia Galiazzo and Paul Wiegert of Western University in Ontario, Canada have reconstructed the orbit of the comet as it's changed over hundreds of thousands of years. Their findings indicate the comet is a recent visitor to the inner Solar System and had its origins out in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto.the U.S. version of Samsung's popular smartphone, the Galaxy S III. He also ruled that Apple could include the Jelly Bean operating system in the Galaxy Nexus handset.

Apple sued Samsung in April of last year alleging that the South Korean company copied the design and feel of the iPhone and the iPad tablet computer.


Arrow Season 5 has shifted the status quo for our titular hero, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). After his team disbanded at the end of Season 4, Oliver has been attempting to clean up the mean streets of Star City solo for six months — both as the Green Arrow and as Mayor of Star City — but the dual jobs have been taking their toll.

In last week's Season 5 premiere, Oliver finally acknowledged that he probably needed some help in his quest to save his city, which will lead to three new members joining Team Arrow alongside Oliver and his former fiancee/current tech guru Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards): Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum), Wild Dog/Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) and Artemis/Evelyn Sharp (Madison McLaughlin).

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The largest vertically integrated agricultural holding in Russia reports increase in feed production by 4.7% year on year. «Miratorg» produced 1.53 million tons of feefstuff in 2018.

The company has already invested over 7.6 billion rubles to build from the scratch its feed production division with four feed mills in Belgorod and Bryansk regions. The feed mill division fully meets the Company's need for animal feed. Now the capacity of feed mill is 1.66 million tons. More than 80% of the total production is feed for the pig production division. The feed plants produce about 30 types of compound feed, including prestarter feeds, sprayed-on wheat and structured grain.

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was dismissed. Appellees say in their brief that "On January 4, 1960, that order of dismissal was itself the subject of an appeal to the United States Supreme Court"; there is no mention of this anywhere in appellant's appeal books.

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While Garfinkle's appeal in the New Jersey proceeding was pending, he started a new state court suit based on the first state action, including among others the present individual defendants. This need not be gone into other than to state that it was dismissed on motion and that no appeal was taken.

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In his original complaint filed in the district court, appellant recounts at length his story of the disagreement between his father and himself and of the state litigation but nowhere presents a federal cause of action. He attemptedsojourn in North America. Britten described the voyage as at first "bloody boring", though there was later a "terrific gale" and even "ice bumping against the ship". Towards the end of the voyage, they gave a recital for voice and piano.

On 2 September 1939 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted into an armed merchant cruiser. On 3 June 1942 the Ausonia was converted to a repair ship. She was laid up during 1945. In 1958 she went to Malta as repair ship for the Mediterranean Fleet. In September 1964 she was laid up at Portsmouth, and in August 1965 she was sold to be broken up at Castellón de la Plana, Spain.

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Perspective: Terrorism And Terrorists

Date: 2012-07-16

“We have nothing to fear except fear itself.” With that pronouncement President Franklin D. Roosevelt rallied the American people in difficult times.

With his big cigar and determination, Winston Churchill for his part also rallied the British people during difficult times – as they were enduring nightly bombing raids during the terrible ordeal of World War II. The era was the worst of times that produced the best of people. Human courage, good will and idealism prevailed over darkness and evil. In a broadcast to America and London on October 16, 1938 after Nazi invasions, Churchill said, “The cause of freedom has in it a recuperative power and virtue which can draw from misfortune new hope and new strength.”

World War II didn’t end with Japanretreat to Formosa of forces loyal to the U.S.

Controlling a population through terror dates from the first human societies. Fear of terrorists has caused our free society, through elected officials, to circumvent civil rights. Lawsuits have been instituted that reveal electronic espionage on innocent U.S. citizens by government intelligence services. Torture of prisoners interned in offshore compounds, shrouded in secrecy, has been revealed by investigations and Congressional probes. The good have become bad and the bad have won a major victory against people they view as infidels.

From the outset of time religion has played a role in terror. Roman occupiers heeded Jewish leaders who demanded the crucifixion of Christ. Christians launched crusades to eliminate Muslims. Extremists in the church embarked on systematic torture of native peoples in the


surrounding regions. Both sides used torture to elicit information and for revenge. U.S. soldiers, some doped up on drugs, were as feared by local villagers as were Vietcong. Air raids using napalm, poisonous defoliants such as Agent Orange, and collateral damage from bombing and artillery put the civilian population in turmoil.

To impose absolute control after defeat of U.S. forces in Vietnam and their removal from the secret war in Cambodia, Pol Pot, a French educated intellectual, embarked on a reign of terror. Millions of Cambodians were killed. Many were tortured. Forced labor was imposed and reeducation mandatory. Anyone who wore eye glasses was beaten to death. Piles of skulls from the killing fields are now on display in Cambodia as a people try to cope with the historyof recent terror imposed while the whole world looked on and allowed it to happen.

Irish terrorists took innocent victims and tortured them. One former IRA marauder, pardoned with the advent of peace, revealed on a television show that he and his fellow terrorists kidnapped young men off the street. They took them into alleys and smashed their hands with cinder blocks. Bombings of markets, pubs, buses and schools was commonplace. A war was waged on civilians to force Britain out of Ireland.

Yesterday the Queen shook the hand of Martin McGuinness, former IRA commander, now Ireland’s Deputy First Minister. The former terrorist’s organization had murdered Lord Louis Mountbatten in Scotland; he was the last Viceroy of India and cousin to the Queen. His little fishing pram was blown apart


bombers trained in Communist Cuba and indoctrinated to Communist ideology, Arab terrorists have been weaned on hatred. Hate is the universal language of terror. Think of anger. Exaggerate it by actual or imagined wrongs done you or your family. Combine it with oppression and add influence of experts in recruiting and training terrorists. They are masters of deceit, monarchs of manipulation, regents of religion.

Terrorist attacks on the U.S., on that balmy day in September 2001, affected immediate and long term ruin. Billions were lost as Wall Street reeled in shock. Government spending rose with advocates of war. Trillions of dollars later the U.S. is still enmeshed in war that never had clear definition. A president lied about weapons of mass destruction and persuaded a Congress to condone militarykid has sentiments linked to it in the way that was represented by Mr. Ricketts,” Kamran Hussain, the president of Chicago’s Muslim Community Center, wrote in an open letter on Tuesday.

Ricketts, 77, is a prominent Republican donor who has given millions to conservative candidates and political action committees. In 2015, the campaign finance watchdog group OpenSecrets noted that he had donated so much money to campaigns over the previous year that he single-handedly made Wyoming, where he lives, the top state in the country for per-capita contributions. His son Pete Ricketts serves as the Republican governor of Nebraska and chairs the Republican Governors Association. Another son, Todd Ricketts, was named the finance chairman for the Trump Victory Committee last week, in advance of the 2020 election.

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CP Fredericton Book Launch & Screening

It was a cool misty night in Fredericton, and given the lack of people on the streets the turnout for the Cinema Politica film screening and book launch was very good. Nearly 30 of us packed into the Conserver House, a three-storey heritage building in a residential neighbourhood just a stone’s throw from downtown bars and shops. On the ground floor, CP organizers had set up a projector and screen among the stacks of books, brochures and various information and knowledge clutter that is typical of delightful community spaces everywhere.

We were all gathered to screen VESSEL, a fantastic documentary about Women on Waves, a Dutch organization made up of fearless doctors who sail international waters providing safe abortions for women in countries wheresuch options do not exist. The women who run the organization and provide much-needed reproductive rights information and health services are an inspiring bunch, and the film is equal parts abortion politics and behind-the-scenes activist strategies and tactics.

Before the screening I spoke for a few minutes about the new Cinema Politica book, and local organizers and a speaker from a high school reproductive rights group also spoke. After the film ended, the chairs were rearranged into a big circle and nearly 20 people stayed to have a post-screening discussion that impressively connected local concerns with issues in the film.

The Conserver House is also a stone’s throw from the abortion-providing Morgentaler Clinic, a vital resource that is now closing down due to lack of resources to keep it running.


finest: multi-generational women and men from various walks of life, including Morgentaler’s sister-in-law and health-providers, engaged in a productive dialogue that took on a strategies and tactics, problem-solving shape.

The conversation oscillated perfectly between local issues and what we had encountered in the documentary, and all who took part seemed, if not inspired, at least completely engaged in ‘talking through’ some of the key issues and challenges activists currently are up against in Fredericton.

I felt completely privileged to be part of the dialogue and the event as a whole. It was a revelatory moment when documentary and activism came together in an inclusive, productive, and politicized community space and spoke to the power of smaller, local events.

Kudos to CP Fredericton for keeping the local strong and vital for ninebetween esteemed
tradesmen and common drug dealers.

Most of the countefeit and substandard drugs in Iraq came from
smugglers bringing in black market product from Iran and China. No
longer required, or rather forced, to undergo rigorous testing by the
Ministry of Health, these counterfeit drugs at best had no effect at
all and at worst could cause serious harm. The black markets stretch into every conceivable pharmaceutical niche, from Viagra to
anti-depressents, even skin care products.There is also no regulation of licensing of pharmacists, so Iraqi patients often have no idea if their pharmacist, or his products, are legitimate.

Lately the Ministry of Health has been attempting to extend its
oversight once again, but the program is still rife with problems.
While the government has been using the Iraqi Army and National Guard to crack down on


in Israel and a post office box number at a business park on the Isle of Man.

The island’s Financial Supervision Commission, which punches well above its weight as a watchdog, says this is hokum. It told me: ‘PO Box 170 is currently allocated to a department of the Isle of Man government.’

Claims by Berger and his company to have links to the island are false, officials added, and anyone who has invested should contact the police.

But the lies do not stop there. For several months Finance Your Dream used an upmarket address in south-west London as its registered office and it still gives it as its trading address – to the dismay of the real occupants of the property.

Chartered accountant Michael Grindle, whose home it is, has contactedwere worsened because NatWest refused to discuss the matter on the grounds that the account was the landlord’s and not yours. Then your landlord claimed £100 from the security deposit you paid before moving in.

The closest you got to an explanation came when you wasted an hour at the branch, only to be told that the mistake was yours and the bank had counted the cash again after you left.

I did wonder why the bank counted the money again, after already giving you a receipt.

NatWest has told me that cash in the till was counted at the end of the day and found to be £100 short.

The bank believes the shortfall was in your deposit because the cashier made a handwritten note that she had received one £10


not only can, he's willing to!

About Me

I'm a Portuguese comics critic. I contributed to the magazines: Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite Internacional, Splaft! and the catalogs of the Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions (Portugal), The Comics Journal, The International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.), L'indispensable (France), European Comic Art (UK). I also wrote the preface to the latest edition of Guido Buzzelli's book I Labirinti (Italy). I co-curated a Buzzelli exhibition in Lisbon and an exhibition of my original art collection in the Beja Comics Convention (Portugal). I wrote twenty three entries in the book 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 I was invited to the seminar Aesthetics of Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway).Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) studies are being completed in the five of the six countries which were initially planned to complete CNA studies by April 2013. These countries include Mozambique, Togo, Ghana, Senegal, Rwanda, Zambia and Malawi. Meanwhile Benin, Ethiopia and Tanzania have completed their CNA studies before the August 2013 deadline set and first drafts of the report have been revised and comments sent to the national consultants. Besides, validation workshops were held by Ghana and Togo in April this year. These two countries plus Benin have gone on to the next step of developing capacity strengthening strategies based on the findings of the CNAs. For Uganda which has ToR in place for consultants, the CNA is still underway. CNA studies which have not yet been launched


in DRC and Burkina Faso due to unforeseen circumstances are expected to start soon as the persons to coordinate the work and the tools are in place.

Launching of SAKSS platforms by June is on track for Togo and Ghana, which as indicated above have their CNA reports validated in stakeholder workshop and their respective capacity strengthening strategies also completed. In the other four countries whose launching of SAKSS platform was planned for June 2013, the drafting and adoption of capacity building strategies which is taking more time is expected to create delay in the establishment of SAKSS platform. As nearly all countries have completed the CNAs, it is expected that ReSAKSS would finalize setting up of country SAKSS in 12 countries by December this year. On the otherECOWAS had signed a CAADP compact, twenty six of which have developed national agricultural and food security investment plans.

International development partners were not lagging behind either. The G8 launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in its 2012 summits. More than 45 private companies from Africa and the world have promised to invest over 3 billion US dollars in Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania, the first three countries covered under the Alliance. A total of 16 million US dollars had been awarded by G8 countries to 11 African countries in 2012 to fulfill their L’Aquila promises.

Africa should see results from all the progress. However, eliminating the chronic vulnerability of food security requires more long-term, sustainable policy actions. The 2011 ReSAKSS Report also shows that future agricultural growth


platform through which efficient investments can be achieved through more effective policies.

The government of Seychelles has tentatively set August 2013 as the date for its CAADP Business Meeting. Since signing the CAADP compact in September 2011, Seychelles has made considerable progress in CAADP implementation. According to the Minister for Natural Resources and Industry, Peter Sinon, accomplishments include the initial drafting of the Seychelles Food Security Policy and preliminary work on the Agricultural Development Strategy document and the National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan (NAIP). Currently, the government is drafting the Medium Term National Development Strategy for 2013-2017, which will include CAADP priorities and programs.

Out of the 19 member states of COMESA, 6 countries have held their CAADP business meetings, including Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Malawiin agriculture. Countries have faced difficulties in maintaining a consistent amount of agricultural funding, with the budget sometimes fluctuating widely between years. One such country is Tanzania, where agricultural spending was as low as 2.5 percent of the national budget in 2008. However, this past week, the country expressed an increased commitment to reaching CAADP targets.

From February 25 to March 1, East and Central Africa held a regional workshop on CAADP Nutrition Capacity Development aimed at incorporating nutrition into the CAADP framework and agenda (See our blog about the workshop). At the opening of the workshop, Eng Christopher Chiza, Minister for Agriculture, Food Security, and Cooperatives in Tanzania, announced that Tanzania expects to allocate 10 percent of its national budget to agriculture by 2015. According to Chiza, the


increase from Tanzania’s current allocation of 7 percent will be used both to increase agricultural production and to enhance the nutrition of agricultural products. Thus, investment in agriculture will not only be increased but also targeted to ensure that the problem of malnutrition is being addressed.

This year, the second and third CAADP Nutrition Capacity Development workshops are scheduled to take place in Tanzania from February 25 to March 1 and in South Africa in June/July 2013. The regional workshops, the first of which took place in Senegal in November 2011, are aimed at incorporating nutrition into CAADP National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans.

Malnutrition continues to be an obstacle for economic growth and human well-being in many African countries. Despite a high level of commitment, many countries indecades to meet the needs of the new generation of students (and educators!), which stimulates entrepreneurial culture, creativity and the search for solutions. Always on the move, just like the new times.

The traditional model:

From leisure to production

School: public or private institution whose purpose is to offer collective education; teachers, students and staff of an educational institution; building where this institution operates.

Skholè: leisure, free discussion.

The word school evolved from the Latin word schola which, in turn, originates in the word skholè, from Greek. The term is the same used to define leisure and refers to the generation of knowledge from a free and fluid discussion model, with organic learning pace and format. But at what point in history did the concept and experience of school begin to pull away


from its original meaning ? Let's go back a little bit in time...

Brief History of Schools

The earliest forms of teaching started in 4,000 BC with the Sumerians in the region of Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Teaching was practiced at home and within the community in an informal way, having parents as the main responsible for transmitting knowledge focused on survival and the perpetuation of cultural standards. Agriculture, astronomy and commercial practices started the cuneiform writing (writing with wedge-shaped objects), used to register harvest seasons, river flood season and other important aspects for community life and for the dynamics of the first towns and cities.

It was only around 387 BC in Ancient Greece - birthplace of Western civilization and modern pedagogy - that the school modelas we know began to be forged. Aimed at teaching the elites, schools were not intended for vocational or manual labor education. Rather, they were places for discussion of themes related to arts, philosophy, politics and arithmetics, with the objective of educating the intellectual and leading class of society.It was also back then that the figure of the teacher was instituted. Philosophers, called masters, usually met with a group of up to five apprentices to teach human virtues and ethics. The teaching aimed at integral formation, which involved body and spirit, preparing men for the exercise of citizenship and social interaction.

The learning spaces were also the most varied - education happened at sports arenas, theaters, through group activities, political meetings and architecture, for example.

But at what point in


history did the concept and school practice begin to distance itself from its original meaning?

Teaching the masses

The growing complexity of trade and economic practices has had a significant impact on the educational model and since 1750, as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the priority of formal education has become training workers to operate in factories and industries.

Large-scale and standardized production has created the demand for laborers with at least a basic level of instruction to operate the machines. At the same time, bourgeoisie began to see schools as a powerful tool to control and discipline working masses.

The great secret of education is to direct the vanity to the proper objectsAdam Smith

In order for teaching to reach as many people as possible in the most standardized way possible,the logic of industrial production was brought into the classroom. Many students in class, chairs lined up, almost exclusively expositive classes, little interaction and silence during classes. The rest is history ... and we all know it well.

A much needed

(and urgent!) renovation

Little or almost no update was made on the teaching model throughout the history of modern education. In most schools the content continues to be transmitted in lectures, having the teacher in the center of attention and as the main responsible for learning, with little space for an active participation of students.

Universities were founded in Western Europe in 1050 and lecturing has been the predominant form of teaching ever sinceScott Freemanprofessor at the University of Washington.

The new generations

The rapid technological evolution in the last decades has been


changing the way we consume, relate to each other and, of course, learn. With each generation, the consequences of technology reflect more intensely in the behavior of young people and their demands in the classroom, creating a huge challenge for teachers and education institutions.

Generation Y, of people born between the 1980s and the mid-1990s, watched closely the democratization of Internet and the transition from analogue to digital. Personal computers, portable games, digital cameras, cell phones (and right afterwards smartphones), the first blogs ... all of that was part of generation Y’s teenage years, which is now in the job market.

These young people demanded some changes and around the 1990s the term Hybrid Learning began to be discussed as an alternative to the traditional model of education. The generationonly alter between two different environments: the classroom - or another place with similar dynamics chosen by the teacher - and an environment with activities on digital media.

Individual RotationIn this model, the rotation path is defined from an individualized script, created especially to meet the needs of the student. It is not necessary to participate in all activities, only those that are pertinent to each one.

Flipped ClassroomInstead of being exposed to the class theme for the first time at school, in the Flipped Classroom model the student has the responsibility of researching the subject before - in his or her own references or the ones indicated by the teacher. That way, students actively elaborate the lesson, sharing the learned concepts with colleagues and teacher, who work as a


reviewing their planning all the time, improving strategies, adding new features or changing the pace of teaching.

An excellent infrastructure, therefore, is not enough: changing school culture does not happen overnight and requires places for group experimentation and reflection to have an effectLilian BacichPh.D. in School Psychology and Human Development and co-author of the book Hybrid Teaching.

Experiences and inspirations:

what has worked in Brazil

Carioca Experimental Gymnasium (RJ)

The Station Rotation model has been applied in the Carioca Experimental Gymnasium, a network of schools created by the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro in 2011. Mathematics and science contents, for example, are taught together in the 7th grade as follows:

1st station:math and science content.2nd station:one student challenges the other with two mixed questions about the animal kingdom and decimal numbers.3rd and 4thLatin American leaders who came to power at the beginning of the 21st century, although his accomplishments as the first Indigenous president of Bolivia represent what is arguably the most remarkable socialist success story of all. However, U.S. corporate-controlled administrations, whether Democrat or Republican, had a hand in the ouster, demise or attempted overthrow of other leaders who supported Indigenous resistance to colonial invasion, such as Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) and his successor Nicolás Maduro, Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), and Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Jacobo Árbenz (Guatemala), Salvador Allende (Chile), Alan García and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil).

Just as the invasion of Indigenous North America and the resultant slaughter of Indigenous peoples may have changed Earth’s climate into a little ice age by 1600, today’s land theft, illegal mining and


a howling wilderness to fend for themselves, a wilderness in which sickness and death, hate and hunger are their constant companions.”

In contrast, we might consider listening closely to an Indigenous story, like the one about how all the water creatures — including dolphins, ducks, whales, pelicans and other ocean birds, sharks, sea horses, muskrats, walruses, eels and otters — helped a woman who fell from an ancient world in the sky when Earth was all water. She was curious – “the kind of curious that doesn’t give up,” King notes. She was about to give birth and needed dry land. She was told there was mud at the bottom of the water, but needed something flat to put the mud on for the birthing. A turtle volunteered. AllA familiar voice has been noticeably absent from the Stanley Cup Final over the last few days, and it's a trend that's gone from strange to problematic.

P.K. Subban wasn't made available to reporters for a third straight day Sunday, hours before his Nashville Predators will attempt to extend their season in Game 6 against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Members of the assembled media refused to leave Subban's stall, and the NHL intervened on their behalf but was denied by the team, according to Yahoo Sports' Greg Wyshynski.

It's unusual, to say the least, for the always forthright Predators superstar to go this long without talking, and particularly odd for him to be unavailable on the day of the biggest game in Predators history.

The whole situation raises several questions:

Was he muzzled?

It's unclear


DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the heated rhetoric of Iran's presidential election campaign on Wednesday as "unworthy", a thinly-veiled rebuke of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's attacks on his main conservative challenger.

The withdrawal of other conservative candidates has turned Friday's election into an unexpectedly tight two-horse race between Rouhani, 68, and hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a 56-year-old protege of the supreme leader.

Khamenei's intervention could help sway the vote by signaling dissatisfaction with Rouhani's conduct.

"In the election debates, some remarks were made that were unworthy of the Iranian nation. But the (wide) participation of the people will erase all of that," Khamenei told an audience on Wednesday, according to his own website.

The two main rivals have traded charges of graft and brutality on live television withan open vehemence unseen in the near 40-year history of the Islamic Republic.

Separately, Rouhani on Wednesday warned the Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iran's most powerful military force, and the Basij militia that it commands not to meddle in the election.

"We just have one request: for the Basij and the Revolutionary Guards to stay in their own place for their own work," Rouhani said in a campaign speech in the city of Mashhad, according to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA).

Rouhani quoted the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, who he said had warned the armed forces against interfering in politics.

PUSHING LIMITS OF DEBATE

While Khamenei did not mention any candidate by name, his criticism appeared aimed in particular at Rouhani, who during a debate last week went


beyond what is normally considered permissible to cast his foes as power-hungry pawns of the security forces.

"Mr. Raisi, you can slander me as much you wish. As a judge of the clerical court, you can even issue an arrest order. But please don't abuse religion for power," Rouhani said at one point. At another point he said to Raisi: "Some security and revolutionary groups are bussing people to your campaign rallies ... Who finances them?"

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For his part, Raisi, a long-serving member of the judiciary who was one of four judges who sentenced thousands of political prisoners to death in the 1980s, attacked Rouhani for failing to deliver promised improvements to the economy.

Under Iran's ruling system, Khamenei, who is 77 and has been in office since 1989, hasmore authority than the elected president but is traditionally expected to remain above the fray of day-to-day politics. He has generally limited his comments about the election to calling for a strong turnout.

THOSE WHO CUT OUT TONGUES

Rouhani came to power four years ago with more than three times as many votes as his nearest rival, on promises to reduce Iran's international isolation and grant more freedoms at home.

His main achievement has been a deal with global powers to lift economic sanctions on Iran in return for curbs to its nuclear program. But widespread economic improvement has yet to materialize, and hardliners accuse him of selling out Iran's interests too cheaply to the West.

The main obstacle to Rouhani's bid for a second term is apathy from reformist voters, many


died and thousands were arrested in protests after reformists disputed the electoral victory of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The two main reformist candidates from that vote remain under house arrest.

Tehran residents said police deployments appeared to have been beefed up in some areas of the capital, a normal practice ahead of national polls in Iran, to prevent unrest.

(Reporting by Dubai newsroom, William Maclean, Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Samia Nakhoul and Peter Graff)Suit: DSU athlete lost scholarship because of church

A former Delaware State University volleyball player says she lost her athletic scholarship because she objected to rules the coach made requiring church attendance and participation in Bible studies.

Natalia Mendieta is suing the university, former coach LaKisya Killingsworth and former athletic director Candy Young in U.S. District Court, alleging they violated the First Amendment by requiring religious activities at a publicly funded university.

DSU Spokesman Carlos Holmes said the university does not comment on ongoing litigation. He said Killingsworth left DSU to "take another post elsewhere."

David Finger, an attorney representing Mendieta, said she wants to return to DSU in the fall but the lack of a scholarship is making it difficult for her to afford it.

The lawsuit alleges that, starting in the


fall of 2013, Killingsworth required volleyball players to attend Sunday church services with her at Calvary Assembly of God, part of a network of Pentecostal churches.

Mendieta claims Killingsworth put "church" on the team's official schedule next to practices, matches and tournaments.

"Ms. Mendieta believed that her relationship with Coach Killingsworth would suffer if she refused to attend the coach's church and, if she did, she would receive less playing time and her scholarship might not be renewed for the following year," the lawsuit says. "Therefore, with great reluctance, Ms. Mendieta attended services at Calvary with Coach Killingsworth and the rest of the team during preseason."

In addition to requiring student/athletes to attend church, the lawsuit claims Killingsworth had the team pray before each match, distributed Bibles to the team and"strongly encouraged" players to join the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and attend Bible studies hosted by the group.

On March 24, Mendieta sent Killingsworth a letter voicing concerns about the mandatory church attendance and stopped attending Calvary.

The lawsuit says Killingsworth told her that she didn't care which church she went to. But it says the coach started to avoid speaking with Mendieta and became hostile.

In the spring of 2014, another player's parents complained about the coach's emphasis on religion, and that player ended up quitting the team, the lawsuit says. Though Killingsworth made church and Bible studies optional again, she continued to put church on the team schedule and treated players who attended better than those who didn't, the suit claims.

In the fall of 2014, Killingsworth began looking for


excuses to kick Mendieta off the team, the suit says, harshly confronting the player after she and a few other students missed curfew by a few minutes during an away game.

The suit says Killingsworth's actions were an "inappropriate and unconstitutional endorsement of religion by a secular state entity," and say Young, her boss, knew about them. Young left the athletic director job to take a new post in DSU's student affairs division, Holmes said.

It also says the coach violated Mendieta's right to exercise her own religion by forcing her to attend a church to which she did not belong.

It also criticizes DSU for not sufficiently training or supervising its employees to make sure they respected students' constitutional rights.

Contact Matthew Albright at malbright@delawareonline.com, (302) 324-2428 or on Twitter @TNJ_malbright.large, outdoor enclosed space attached to the museum. It is the main exhibit in the McGuire Center which is accessed from the main entrance of Powell Hall. At any given time, the exhibit contains over 50 species of butterfly and moth species, totaling some 1,000 individuals. The butterflies are brought from around the world as chrysalises and released into the exhibit after emerging as adults. There are live butterfly releases every weekday at 2 p.m. and on weekends at 2 and 3 p.m.

Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life & Land
Located in Powell Hall, the $2.5 million,  exhibit describes the history of the Florida Platform through five geologic time periods. The exhibition takes visitors on a walk through time beginning in the Eocene epoch, when Florida was underwater.


osprey in flight, bird nests from the museum's collections, a cross-section of a sea turtle nest and coastal water sounds.

The final exhibit in this section is a floor-to-ceiling curved lagoon case, depicting how different sessile intertidal species stratify their habitats in the tidal zone. Jars with preserved specimens from the Ichthyology collection demonstrate the diversity of bony fishes from this habitat.

Florida Wildflower and Butterfly Garden
This garden is located next to the west side of the McGuire Center. The Florida Wildflower Council appropriated funds from the Florida wildflower license tag revenue in order to fund this garden, the accompanying brochure, and a wildflower and butterfly display in the Florida Museum of Natural History. The display shows the life cycles of four butterflies, and depicts how the plants theyin the entire United States with fewer than 50 individuals.

Average growth rate of the collection between 1989 and 1994 is 640 specimens per year, and 800 specimens per year for the previous 5 years; this is double the growth recorded for 1972-1979 of 290 specimens per year as reported in the survey of North American collections of recent mammals. Orphaned or donated collections account for approximately 60% of reported growth.

The mammal collection is primarily a research collection, but experiences a broad range of uses beyond this primary function. It is used as a teaching collection for undergraduate and graduate students; reference collection for law enforcement as a forensic identification of endangered species; as a reference collection for carnivore feeding studies i.e. owl pellet and scat


The Caribbean Archeology Program Collection was founded in 1960 by Dr. Ripley P. Bullen. The program is based around one of the largest systematic collections of pre-Columbian artifacts in North America. What the collection lacks in size is compensated for by its diversity. The collection contains systematic collections from sites on the islands of Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Tobago, Trinidad, Turks and Caicos, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Venezuela, each collection has accompanying documentation.

The "Bullen" collection was recently re-inventoried and reorganized. During this reorganization, type collections; composed of all the artifacts illustrated in Bullen's publications, were also created. These collection catalogs, which are based on the tablessome detail here.

But, on the other hand, the report is a bit old.It was issued as part of the agenda papers
for the City’s Planning & Transportation Committee meeting held on October 14th.The report has been available to the public
on the City’s website for at least two weeks now, so it is hardly news, is it?

It is also not the views of the City of London Corporation,
as claimed in the article, which are reported here.Semantic distinction perhaps, but the City of
London Corporation is the assembly of elected representatives, Aldermen and
Common Council Members.The report was
prepared by their employees, officers in the Planning department.Reports can be adopted, amended or rejected
by the councillors participating in the relevant committee after they have
discussed them in committee, normally in front of the public.While there are


in
the case of NPAs.

NFNPA was one of about half the NPAs in the country to be
successful in applying for a grant, in their case to implement a short-term
cycle hire scheme similar to that seen in London and nicknamed “Boris Bikes”.Under the scheme, bikes could be hired from
docking stations around the railway stations in the south east of the forest
or in nearby villages or other points of interest, and returned to any of the
docking stations where space was available – just like in London.A contractor had been found to operate the scheme
and all was set fair to get started and spend the grant.

Suddenly, in August this year, NFNPA reversed this decision,
and abandoned the proposed scheme.The
reversal is explained in a report* here by NFNPA officers to the authority members
as beingKaren O Releases New Single Anti-Lullaby

Anti-Lullaby was first aired in a trailer for the Amazon Prime series Hanna, which is set to land on the streaming platform in March.

The quiet, simple song centres around a gentle melody from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer, whose vocals are mixed close to the microphone in an intimate production move — a far cry from the band's 2003 heavy indie rock album ‘Fever To Tell’, which saw a re-issue in 2017.

Last year, meanwhile, Karen O released a collaborative album with Danger Mouse in December, and the song Yo! My Saint with Michael Kiwanuka back in January.


The prime minister says the government's candidate in Longman made an innocent mistake when he claimed to have a prestigious military medal.

Trevor Ruthenberg has been forced to apologise to voters in the crucial Queensland seat after he falsely claimed to have a medal for distinguished service in peacekeeping and non-war operations.

He hopes voters will believe that he made a simple mistake in a biography he wrote about himself back in 2012.

He says he does have a lesser medal, recognising his service in the air force, and he simply wrote down the wrong medal name.

"I'm not a military imposter. I did serve in the military," Mr Ruthenberg has told ABC radio.

"I'm not claiming I had two medals. I only had a single medal. I'm not sure why I wrotewhat I wrote, but I did and I'm making steps to make that right."

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the candidate had called him to apologise for the embarrassing error.

"He's very proud of his service in the air force ... so he feels bad about it. I've spoken to him about this morning and I'm satisfied it's an honest mistake," Mr Turnbull told the ABC.

AAP

Mr Ruthenberg said he is solely responsible for an error in his Queensland parliamentary biography, penned shortly after he was elected as part of Campbell Newman's government.

The biography says he holds the Australian Service Medal, which is presented by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Chief of the Defence Force.

In fact, he holds the Australian Defence Medal, which merely recognises four years of service.

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KXL decoction is a traditional Chinese medicine compound for strengthening Qi and removing stasis. It is composed of radix salvia miltiorrhiza (Dan Shen, from province of Shandong) 15 g, rhubarb (Zhi Da Huang, from province of Gansu) 9 g, peach kernel (Tao Ren, from province of Shandong) 12 g, radix angelicae sinensis (Dang Gui, from province of Gansu) 12 g, and radix achyranthis bidentatae (Niu Xi, from province of Henan) 15 g. All the herbal drugs were purchased from Shanghai Kangqiao Pharmaceutical Company. It is mainly used to treat renal fibrosis in the early and middle stages and has been used in the Department of Nephrology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine for many years. In clinical practice, KXL decoction can reduce serum creatinine (Scr),Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement A suicide car bomb has exploded outside the Nato headquarters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing up to seven people, the defence ministry says. The presidential palace and several embassies are also located in the area. The attack comes ahead of presidential and provincial elections due on Thursday which the Taliban have vowed to disrupt. The BBC's Martin Patience says a group affiliated to the Taliban is likely to be responsible for the attack. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack, saying people would not be deterred from voting. "The enemies of Afghanistan try to create fear among people in this election period but people still realise the importance of going to ballot boxes to cast their votes," he


said in a statement. 'People screaming' Initial reports said three people, all Afghan civilians, had been killed and 70 people injured. The Afghan defence ministry issued a statement later saying that it believed seven people had been killed. The blast hit the heavily fortified area of the city at about 0830 local time on Saturday. ANALYSIS Ian Pannell, BBC News, Kabul This is one of the most heavily guarded streets in Kabul. You have to go past huge concrete blast walls. There are men with guns almost everywhere, Afghan forces, international forces. There are barriers and chicanes. It is not an easy area to get into. Security sources are telling us there isn't enough co-ordination between the different security agencies, the Afghan security forces, the police, the specialsays that attacks inside the capital are relatively rare but have tended to be big ones. The last major attack on the capital was in February when several gunmen, some wearing suicide vests, attacked the Ministry of Justice. In July 2008, a massive car bomb killed more than 50 Afghans and two diplomats outside the Indian embassy. These two attacks were believed to have been carried out by a group called the Haqqani network, our correspondent says. It is named after the veteran Afghan militant Jalaluddin Haqqani, who is based in Pakistan's North Waziristan region. He is an old man now and the group is led by his son, Sirajuddin Haqqani.

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petition in due form and bearing the requisite number of signatures seeking a referendum on Ordinance No. 4475 was duly filed; and that by reason of the filing of the notice and the petition, the city lost jurisdiction of such ordinance and was without power to affix the emergency clause thereto. The validity of the ordinance was again attacked on other grounds.
On July 19, 1933, the defendants filed separate motions to dismiss the bill for the reason that it failed to state facts constituting a cause of action cognizable in equity; and on January 14, 1936, the city filed an amended motion to dismiss the bill and the amended and supplemental bill on substantially the same grounds, and for the additional reason that the cause of action hadbecome moot because (1) on September 14, 1934, the city council passed and enacted Ordinance No. 4578, which was identical in all material respects with Ordinance No. 4475 except that it contained a repealing clause and an emergency provision which complied with the law; (2) the referendum on Ordinance No. 4475 was not submitted to the electors at the next succeeding general municipal election held after the filing of the petition, and by reason of the failure to submit it at that time the proceedings for referendum became void and Ordinance No. 4475 was thereafter valid; and (3) the city issued permits to the Denver Company and others to drill seventeen wells within the territory in question, five of which were on property owned by the city in


fee; such wells were allowed to produce and large quantities of oil had been produced from them; the damages of which plaintiff complained had ceased to exist; and the questions involved had become moot.
The court entered an order of April 9, 1937, reciting that Ordinance No. 4578 was enacted on September 14, 1934; that no election had been held on the referendum; that wells had been drilled within the area; that the entire portion of the city in that area was then being developed for oil and gas; and that so far as the relief prayed for was concerned, the questions had become moot. The order concluded with a provision sustaining the motion, and in effect dismissing the action. Plaintiff appealed.
Section 5889, Oklahoma Statutes 1931, 34 Okl.St.Ann. §the state, relating to acts of the legislature, provides that any measure referred to the people by the referendum shall take effect and be in force when it shall have been approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon and not otherwise; and article 18, section 4(a), expressly reserves to the people of a municipality all of the powers of the initiative and referendum reserved to the people of the state and its respective counties and districts. Construing the two provisions of the Constitution together, it is manifest that once an ordinance has been suspended by the filing of a petition for referendum it remains in abeyance without force and effect until a vote is had upon it and it is approved by the requisite vote.
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Nine Arms of Asmodeus The Nine Arms of Asmodeus are a collection of magical items, crafted by Asmodeus from the souls of some of his most ardent followers. Asmodeus hand picked a demon worthy of his attention from each of the nine hells, tore their essence from their physical bodies and crafted from it an item unique to their specific strengths. Listed below are the items and their properties, as well as their true forms. When the items were cast out of the nine hells during a struggle against Asmodeus eons ago, they drifted across the material plane, separated and weakened by their disconnection from their master. As such, each of the items comes in a state that is a shadow of its true form, and needs tosurrounding the most infamous landmark of the second hell, the scalding huge structure of the Iron City of Dis. Minauros To imagine Minauros, is to imagine a place even trolls would consider disgusting. Unrelenting fearsome weather patterns spew over an endless sight of boggy plague stricken swampland. A city of obsidian with the same name settles on the surface of this temperamental land, held up by the efforts of thousands of the sorriest souls to live in the hells. Phlegethos The fourth layer of hell is the one that usually springs to mortal minds when the prospect of eternal damnation arises. It is a truly hellish landscape of fire, quakes, and smoke. The city of Abriymoch is the seat of power in this realm, constructed of volcanic rock,


Its only real hub of life rests in the city of Malagard, an evermoving metropolis. Cania Cold and mountainous, it possesses a bitter temperature that rivals even Stygia in its frigidity. Its terrain is surprisingly free of the monstrous creatures that haunt most of the hells, but it is no less dangerous, threatening to freeze solid any poor unsuspecting adventurer stupid enough to attempt to traverse it. A palace of ice rests at its heart. Nessus The final hell, and the home of Asmodeus himself. Its lands are varied and fearsome, ranging from volcanic nightmares, frozen tundras, to pitch black forests of shadow monsters. The closer to the centre you get, the lower the hell becomes, as a series of chasms fold in on themselves. Its true depthstake 16 (3d10) poison damage. Deceive. As a bonus action, Betray can teleport behind any creature within 60 feet and immediately take the Hide action. Betray leaves behind an after image of itself that looks convincing and lasts until the start of its next turn unless a creature makes a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check, at which point the image vanishes. Betray the Forgotten Betray the Forgotten, the demon blade of shadow. When Asmodeus moulded the dagger that would replace Betray's physical form he took inspiration from all the qualities of Betray himself. Small in stature, light, and incredibly deadly. Betray stood around four feet tall in his true form, face a mask of black smoke and cloaked in the wet leathery skin of a creature whose hide


whatever damage type Devour is currently immune to. If Devour takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, Devour must succeed on a DC 25 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of Devour. If Devour dies, it fades back in to its vessel and all creatures are left in a space previously occupied by Devour. Devour the Defenseless The monstrosity that became Asmodeus' personal suit of armor was known as Devour. His hunger was legend to other denizens of Avernus, his original home, and it was a terrible day indeed when his bulbous form was spied on the horizon. Armies of lesser demons would amasscalled the marshland home, and roamed its borders in search of victims. The fear of those lost in the bogs drew her attention like a moth to flame, and she became a tale of warning for children in the mortal realms. Her greatsword in hand, she would stand on the horizon of her chosen prey, waiting. Over days her silhouette would grow closer, until her blade found their heart and she faded in to darkness. Asmodeus waited for a year and a day, knelt in one of the most despicable swamps of Minauros, until Dismay eventually found him. Asmodeus offered her the chance to be by his side and fulfill her need to find the fear and sadness in others. She remained silent for seven days and seven


a blast of anti-magic within a 30 foot cone from itself. Any spell or spell effect level 5 and lower that is encountered by this blast is dispelled, and any non-legendary and non-artifact magic items have their effects suppressed until the start of its next turn. Hinder the Craven Loyalty and fiends are not two words often seen in the same sentence. Hinder was always a unique demon, singular in his pursuits and almost impossible to deter. Before he took his rightful place as Asmodeus' right hand fiend, he spent his time protecting, of all things, a mortal. Lost in the tundra of Stygia, the birthplace of Hinder, was a human male catapulted through the planes by a spell gone wrong. Hinder found him shivering and dying aStricken Self proclaimed queen of the sticks, Menace was a fiend of renowned prowess with the staff. With a simple limb of a tree, she perched herself at the top of one of the tallest stone edifices in Malbolge and invited any contender to unseat her. Demons and devils from every corner of the sixth hell came to meet her challenge, and all were cast down to break their bodies on the smaller rocks below. Her laughter echoed loud enough to reach even Asmodeus' ears, and a small demon of meager strength arrived soon after. His diminutive form and bony hide were enough to make Menace's laughter shake the rocks from the peaks around, but after he knocked her to her knees with a swift volley of blows


her laughter ceased and he hopped from the mountain with a cackle behind him. Her fury was endless, and though she made every effort to capture the little imp who had humiliated her, she soon found herself lead to the doors of Asmodeus' home. The imp beckoned her to enter, and when she obliged his form twisted in to the king of hell himself. Even her substantial arrogance was not enough to make her attack her foe, and Asmodeus challenged her to beat his enemies as soundly as she beat her challengers. Enthralled by his offer, she accepted and became the staff that Asmodeus would use to entrap and chase his rivals. 10

Persecute the Lonely Medium fiend, neutral evil Armor Class 18 (Natural Armor)

18 (Natural Armor) Hit PointsAbuse. Whenever Scorn, or a creature not hostile to Scorn within 60 ft, rolls a natural 20 on an attack roll, or maximises its damage on an attack or spell, Scorn can cast the vicious mockery spell on a hostile creature, DC 18. This feature can only occur once per a creature's turn. Humiliate (Recharge 5 - 6). When Scorn successfully attacks a creature he can cast the reduce portion of the enlarge/reduce spell upon them, DC 18. Scorn the Abandoned The first of the Nine Arms was Scorn. Before he was the execution axe of Asmodeus, he was the king's favourite jester. A towering demon, infamous for his cutting words as well as his skill have the axe, would stand beside the throne, unleashing a verbal onslaught