of the Taliban and a mastermind of the Afghan insurgency would seem a counter-productive step for the Kabul government and the US-led coalition.

But Mullah Baradar has been seen as one of the few senior Taliban figures who has shown a willingness to negotiate, our correspondent says.

The government in Kabul has been pressing for him to be free.

Afghan diplomats had suggested Pakistan was trying to hinder the reconciliation process by backing more hardline elements within the Taliban.

The Taliban opened a political office in Doha in June, but it was quickly closed after President Karzai complained that they had flown a flag and put up a plaque as if they were a government in exile.

A key Taliban operative, he was believed to be in day-to-day command of the insurgency andits funding Profile: Mullah Abdul Ghani BaradarWhat next for Mullah Baradar?

Since then the US, UK, and Turkey have all attempted to mediate to reopen talks. President Karzai has appealed to the Taliban leadership to return home and negotiate openly, but has not offered guarantees of security.

Even if a political settlement is agreed, which will be hard, it may be difficult to deliver it, says the BBC's David Loyn.

The Taliban is no longer the monolithic structure it once was, and a new younger generation of insurgents - particularly those fighting in the allied Haqqani network - may not be willing to stop the war.

Some members of the former leadership, such as Mullah Zaeef, who had been living openly in Kabul, have faced harassment and raids on their homes.

There are


also concerns among women's rights activists that the fragile gains made since 2001 could be jeopardised for a peace deal with the Taliban.

A prominent MP, Shukria Barakzai, told the BBC that the government's priority is to do a deal, "whatever the price." She is among those fighting in parliament to defend laws that protect women from violence, and believes that the government does not see this as a priority.

Mrs Barakzai said a deal with the Taliban would make victims of "the people of Afghanistan, and in particular the women of Afghanistan."A number of protesters stormed into the Beirut Justice

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A number of protesters stormed into the Beirut Justice Palace on Monday, chanting revolutions’ slogans.

They also made a series of demands, including the independence of the judiciary and the opening of the tax evasion dossier.


A SONGWRITER IS BORN

Martina's buddies, The Warren Brothers, talk her into co-writing her new single.

Martina McBride's CMA Award Show debut of her new tune "Anyway" was a highlight of the evening, generating one of a very few standing ovations during the show. But the song wouldn't have been written if The Warren Brothers—Brett and Brad—who opened shows for Martina earlier this year, hadn't convinced her to write with them. "They said, 'Why don't we write together?'" she recalls. "And I said, 'You know I'm not really a songwriter.'" Fortunately, she finally gave in when they said, "Sit down with us and see what you have to say." To Martina's surprise, she did have something to say![Dermatitis artefacta].
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Music: Tenor Returns

Seven years ago, Beniamino Gigli, the tops in Italian tenors, left
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in a huff over a salary cut.
Deploring his attitude (his pay was rumored to be almost $3,000 a
performance), the Met's managers tried many substitutes but found
nobody who could fill the bill. Last week Tenor Gigli was welcomed back
to the Met by a shouting throng. Critics still deplored his garlicky
mannerisms and found the part of Radames in Aida unsuited to him, but
had to admit that Tenor Gigli's singing was the finest Italian tenoring...sex workers in her apartment, snorting cocaine, drinking, and doing a strip tease.

"She really puts down her guard in that scene because she's high and wasted and dealing with her pain," Moss said. "That was a pivotal scene for Jeri's journey to hit that bottom like that."

Jeri lets loose in her apartment. Netflix

Moss said the scene was a "fun" one to shoot because of the different layers involved.

"We don't really often get to see a scene like that where a woman is at the center of it so I thought that was pretty cool," she said.

In that scene, Jeri is letting loose, but she's also struggling with a diagnosis she cannot control. Because Jeri received an early diagnosis, Moss said she focused on her character's emotional turmoil rather


Uncial 0126

Uncial 0126 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 36 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 8th-century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Mark 5:34-6:2, on one parchment leaf (30 by 22 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per page, in large uncial letters.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the mixed text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.

It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 8th-century.

The codex used to be held in Qubbat al-Khazna in Damascus. The present location of the codex is unknown.

The manuscript is cited in the Novum Testamentum Graece.

See also

 List of New Testament uncials
 Textual criticism

Referencesneeded oil production facilities for new oil. We have filed legislation to also offer tax reductions if companies increase well drilling activity above their past five-year average. We propose accountability -- tax breaks only with a guarantee of new exploration and development.

The Governor proposes the opposite. He relies on a hope, wing and a prayer that Exxon, ConocoPhillips and British Petroleum will give us any of the $8 billion in tax reductions back. He offers tax credits for work companies are already doing, in fields they are already producing. His bill allows the oil industry to take every penny of his proposed tax reductions out of state, to Dubai, Azerbaijan, and even to places like Libya and Venezuela where Conoco's assets have all recently been lost to nationalization


to do basic work activities").   The mere presence of a medical condition is not enough, the condition must also impact claimant's ability to do basic work activities.

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Here, claimant's medical records show that he underwent arthroscopic knee surgery in March 1982, and that his next medical contact for either his knee or his back was in July 1985, when he was evaluated by physical therapist Walker for pain.   No functional restrictions were noted at that time.   R. II at 10.   In October 1985, claimant was evaluated for an increase in his disability rating.   X-rays of claimant's back and knees revealed "slight" degenerative changes.   Id. at 18.   Based on his complaints of pain and restricted rangesAs part of NHL.com's offseason 30 in 30 package, fantasy hockey insiders Matt Cubeta and Pete Jensen will break down each team's fantasy landscape. They will look at the players at the top of the ranks, an undervalued player, an overvalued player, a deep sleeper (players likely ranked outside the top 200 overall players) and the goalie outlook for each NHL team.

Leading the way: Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews

Kane had easily been one of the best fantasy performers in the game last season prior to missing 21 games because of a broken clavicle sustained Feb. 24. He finished the season with 27 goals, 37 assists, a plus-10 rating, 10 penalty minutes, 22 power-play points and 186 shots on goal in 61 games. Even with the missed time, Kane


still finished as the 53rd best fantasy player in Yahoo leagues. Over the past six seasons, Kane has 415 points in 414 games. His 1.002 points per game ranks seventh during that time. He hasn't finished with a rating worse than plus-7 over that span and while the penalty minutes category will never be his strength, he continues to be a dominant force on the power play (averaging 26 PPP per 82-game season over past six seasons). Looking ahead to this season, Kane is a surefire first-round draft pick and one of the few players capable of posting point-per-game statistics.

As for Toews, I have him ranked 21st among all players in my offseason rankings, making him an outstanding late second-round pick in standard leagues. The career of theDaley

GOALIES

Corey Crawford

Scott Darling

* Red indicates newcomer to team Patrick KaneJonathan ToewsMarian HossaTeuvo TeravainenAndrew ShawKris VersteegDuncan KeithBrent SeabrookCorey CrawfordScott Darling MORE FANTASY HOCKEY STORIES ›

Undervalued: Marian Hossa

Hossa at 36 continues to be a fantasy stud while playing alongside Toews. Hossa finished last season as the 34th-best fantasy player in Yahoo leagues with 61 points while appearing in all 82 games. He had 17 points in 23 Stanley Cup Playoff games. With 1,172 regular-season games and 194 playoff games under his belt, one has to think all that playing time will take a toll on Hossa. But it hasn't to this point, and until it does I will aim to draft Hossa somewhere around the fourth round. A season with 25 goals, 60-plus points, an excellent plus/minus and close to


250 shots on goal seems well within reach again.

Overvalued: Duncan Keith

I've said this before regarding other defensemen (see Ryan Suter of the Minnesota Wild) and it applies to Keith: He is one of the best defenseman in the NHL (if not THE best) in reality, but that doesn't always translate in the same way in fantasy hockey. Keith, a two-time Norris Trophy winner and the 2015 Conn Smythe Trophy winner, had 10 goals and 45 points in 80 games last season. However, he was one of the top five defensemen selected back on draft day last season and despite those point totals, he finished the season as the 19th most valuable fantasy defenseman in Yahoo leagues (124th among all players). Fifteen defensemen had more points than Keith andhis low PIMs totals (20) and modest power-play points (16) and shots on goal (171) also hampered his value. Keith, 32, is still a very strong fantasy defenseman, but he's no longer a top-10 guy in my eyes. I have him ranked 11th at his position. Let someone else overpay for him.

Deep sleeper: Marko Dano

With Dano expected to get the opportunity to play on the top line alongside Toews and Hossa, he makes for the ideal sleeper candidate. Artem Anisimov, expected to play on a line with Kane, is a strong option as well, but his injury history makes me a little more hesitant to select him. Dano, 20, was acquired by Chicago along with Anisimov for the popular Brandon Saad and will have big shoes to fill.


But I think he's capable of doing so as early as this season. Dano had an extremely strong season in 35 games for the Blue Jackets last season despite averaging 13:15 of ice time per game (8 G, 13 A, plus-12, 14 PIMs, 0 PPP, 84 SOG). If he can stick on the Blackhawks' top line, he could end up with the breakout season of 2015-16. Make sure he's on your radar late in the draft.

Goalie outlook: Corey Crawford and Scott Darling

This Blackhawks' goalie situation can be a bit hazy and unpredictable at times. By all expectations, Crawford should again be a strong fantasy option for owners between the pipes. Last season he was the 12th-best goalie and 77th-best player overall in Yahoo leagues. However, during the playoffshe surrendered four starts to Darling because of lackluster play. So where does that leave us heading into this season? Based on Crawford's strong play late in the Stanley Cup Final (two goals against on 82 shots in his final three games) and his usual solid regular season (32 wins, 2.27 goals-against average, .924 save percentage and two shutouts), he should have the job locked up to start of the season. And by all accounts, I expect him to be a top-15 goalie with higher potential by the end of the season. He plays on one of the League's best teams and since the 2012-13 season, he has outstanding numbers. During that time, Crawford's 2.20 GAA is third best, his .922 SV% is sixth best and his 83


wins are tied for eighth. He'll have the occasional bad game (10 games with at least four goals against last season) and may lose some starts to Darling at times, but overall, Crawford remains a solid bet to finish as one of the League's 10 best fantasy goalies.

As for Darling, he proved to be one of the best backup goalies in the League last season, finishing with nine wins, a 1.94 GAA, .936 SV% and one shutout in 14 games. He also showcased his skills during the postseason and should continue to put pressure on Crawford for playing time. If Crawford were to go through an extended slump or suffer an injury, Darling would make for an excellent stash on your bench.

---Less than 48 hours after Paul Scholes took off a Manchester United shirt for the last time, the answer to Sir Alex Ferguson's midfield dilemma materialised from an unexpected quarter on Sunday. As the champions roused themselves to mount a convincing second-half revival against their local rivals, Tom Cleverley, one of three young substitutes sent on by Ferguson after the interval, added the dynamism and the continuity that United, despite enjoying a preponderance of possession, had been missing in the opening period.

Cleverley, who will be 22 on Friday, comes from Basingstoke and has been at Old Trafford since he was 15. In recent seasons he has been sent on loan first to Leicester City, where he played a part in promotion from League One, then to Watford, where


he was voted player of the year after scoring 11 goals in 33 appearances in the Championship, and finally to Wigan Athletic, where he earned praise last season. He has 16 England Under-21 caps, and Ferguson called him United's best player in the 2-1 defeat of Barcelona on their recent US tour. It would be no exaggeration to say that his zest and imagination made the difference on Sunday as United averted what would have been an awkward start to the season.

United played most of the joined-up football before the interval, without threatening to make a real incision. Wayne Rooney looked full of purpose, Ashley Young saw plenty of the ball, Danny Welbeck worked hard at dropping deep to drag markers out of position and Nani flitted hitherand yon, but the danger came at the other end, with two goals which exposed flaws in Ferguson's defence.

The manager's first set of substitutions suggested that he recognised the problem and was not going to wait until later in the season to do something about it. Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand had been on either side of Joleon Lescott when the City defender headed the first goal, while Vidic had also failed to close down Edin Dzeko for the second. Both these vastly experienced men were withdrawn, as was Michael Carrick, who had provided the most insubstantial of midfield shields while contributing nothing to the attack.

On came Jonny Evans, aged 23, and Phil Jones, 19, in central defence, with Cleverley replacing Carrick, and the immediate temptation was to


conclude that here was Ferguson sending a message, at 2-0 down, that this fixture had never been anything but a frivolous exhibition. Nothing, as it turned out, could have been further from the truth, and 13 minutes into the second half United were on level terms.

Chris Smalling, 21, struck an early blow for youth when he guided Young's free‑kick past Joe Hart. Then Cleverley played a full part in a delightfully intricate move which reached its climax when he put Nani in to score with a cool chip. These goals were the reward for greater dynamism and more relevant movement but while Cleverley was pushing up in support of his forwards, Evans and Jones were ensuring that the middle of the defence remained solid.

Ten minutes into the half,in between United's two strikes, Evans made a vital tackle on Dzeko and then carried the ball 60 yards upfield, hurdling several tackles at speed before Yaya Touré ended his run. A further 10 minutes later, when Micah Richards robbed Young and charged upfield, Jones made the sharpest of interventions to cut off a pass that could have been claimed in a dangerous position by any one of three City forwards.

As the two sides fought their way towards what seemed to be the inevitability of penalties, Cleverley continued to make his presence felt, whether dispossessing Touré in the centre circle with a very precise and un-Scholeslike tackle, cunningly crowding out Adam Johnson on the touchline, or narrowly failing to make clean contact with an instinctive swipe at Rooney's


for the last 20 minutes by Rafael da Silva, Evra's direct replacement and now, at 21, among the youngest players to lead United, even if only briefly and temporarily. Faith in youth is a proud tradition at Old Trafford and one from which Ferguson, approaching his 70th birthday, continues to extract the maximum profit. The careful nurturing of Thomas William Cleverley could be the next example to bear handsome fruit.Hillary Clinton has hit back at Bernie Sanders for his “Establishment” argument, hoping to give the Vermont senator a taste of his medicine.

Sanders’ campaign has been heavily reliant on projecting his rivals as part of the establishment, a nexus of politicians, congressmen and corporate elites he believes are responsible for the current economic and political problems facing the country. His campaign has often called for a “political revolution” for and by the masses, a breakthrough from status quoist policies that Bernie Sanders believes have plagued the White House for far too long.

And, while Sanders continues to build support and surge ahead of fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in the primary states, mostly by winning over young people with his “socialist” ideas, the former Secretary of State has


Burning Man is not only the world's most unique and visually spectacular cultural event, but the nexus for a worldwide community that exists all year long. It is a temporary city of 50,000 people which leaves absolutely no trace when it is gone. It is about radical self-reliance in a harsh but incredibly beautiful desert environment, and radical self-expression in a gift-based economy.

Think of "Burning Man 2008: A Photo Essay by Matt Freedman" as a coffee table book for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It contains over 300 extraordinary Burning Man photos, packaged in an easy-to-use full screen photo viewer:
- View the whole set, or browse by categories (People, Art, Art Cars, The Man, Dust, etc.).
- Mark photos as favorites, for quick retrieval.
- Every image has an informativethe
motions to dismiss, and continuing the first appearance and
detention hearing on the petition and supplemental petition.

Continued Detention Hearing on April 9, 2018;
Denial of Motions to Dismiss;
and Detention Order.
   On April 9, 2018, the juvenile court conducted a hearing on
the motions to dismiss, first appearance, and detention. The
family permanency specialist testified that on April 2, the par-
ents were served in the State of Washington with notice of the
April 9 hearing. The special prosecutor offered documents pur-
porting to show service of summons, which the juvenile court
received. At the conclusion of the hearing, the court announced
that the motions to dismiss were denied.
   On April 11, 2018, the juvenile court issued a detention
order that also memorialized its ruling disposing of the parents’
motions to dismiss. It found that the


the stoned water buffalo, and the grieving mongoose. They were all taught to me by a remarkable scientist in Los Angeles named Professor Ronald K. Siegel.

***

The tropical storm in Hawaii had reduced the mongoose's home to a mess of mud, and lying there, amid the dirt and the water, was the mongoose's mate — dead. Professor Siegel, a silver-haired official adviser to two U.S. presidents and to the World Health Organization, was watching this scene. The mongoose found the corpse, and it made a decision: it wanted to get out of its mind.

Two months before, the professor had planted a powerful hallucinogen called silver morning glory in the pen. The mongooses had all tried it, but they didn't seem to like it: they stumbled around disoriented for afew hours and had stayed away from it ever since. But not now. Stricken with grief, the mongoose began to chew. Before long, it had tuned in and dropped out.

It turns out this wasn't a freak occurrence in the animal kingdom. It is routine. As a young scientific researcher, Siegel had been confidently toldby his supervisor that humans were the only species that seek out drugs to use for their own pleasure. But Siegel had seen cats lunging at catnip — which, he knew, contains chemicals that mimic the pheromones in a male tomcat's pee —so, he wondered, could his supervisor really be right? Given the number of species in the world, aren't there others who want to get high, or stoned, or drunk?

This question set him on


a path that would take twenty-five years of his life, studying the drug-taking habits of animals from the mongooses of Hawaii to the elephants of South Africa to the grasshoppers of Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia. It was such an implausible mission that in one marijuana field in Hawaii, he was taken hostage by the local drug dealers, because when he told them he was there to see what happened when mongooses ate marijuana, they thought it was the worst police cover story they had ever heard.

What Ronald K. Siegel discovered seems strange at first. He explains in his book Intoxication:

After sampling the numbing nectar of certain orchids, bees drop to the ground in a temporary stupor, then weave back for more. Birds gorge themselves on inebriating berries, then fly withreckless abandon. Cats eagerly sniff aromatic "pleasure" plants, then play with imaginary objects. Cows that browse special range weeds will twitch, shake, and stumble back to the plants for more. Elephants purposely get drunk off fermented fruits. Snacks of "magic mushrooms" cause monkeys to sit with their heads in their hands in a posture reminiscent of Rodin's Thinker. The pursuit of intoxication by animals seems as purposeless as it is passionate. Many animals engage these plants, or their manufactured allies, despite the danger of toxic or poisonous effects.

Noah's Ark, he found, would have looked a lot like London on a Saturday night. "In every country, in almost every class of animal," Siegel explains, "I found examples of not only the accidental but the intentional use of drugs." In


West Bengal, a group of 150 elephants smashed their way into a warehouse and drank a massive amount of moonshine. They got so drunk they went on a rampage and killed five people, as well as demolishing seven concrete buildings. If you give hash to male mice, they become horny and seek out females — but then they find "they can barely crawl over the females, let alone mount them," so after a little while they yawn and start licking their own penises.

In Vietnam, the water buffalo have always shunned the local opium plants. They don't like them. But when the American bombs started to fall all around them during the war, the buffalo left their normal grazing grounds, broke into the opium fields, and began to chew.were found in clay pipe fragments from William Shakespeare's house. George Washington insisted that American soldiers be given whiskey every day as part of their rations.

"The ubiquity of drug use is so striking," the physician Andrew Weil concludes, that "it must represent a basic human appetite." Professor Siegel claims the desire to alter our consciousness is "the fourth drive" in all human minds, alongside the desire to eat, drink, and have sex—and it is "biologically inevitable." It provides us with moments of release and relief.

***

Thousands of people were streaming in to a ten-day festival in September where they were planning — after a long burst of hard work — to find some chemical release, relaxation, and revelry. They found drugs passed around the crowd freely, to anybody who


wanted them. Everyone who took them soon felt an incredible surge of ecstasy. Then came the vivid, startling hallucinations. You suddenly felt, as one user put it, something that was "new, astonishing, irrational to rational cognition."

Some people came back every year because they loved this experience so much. As the crowd thronged and yelled and sang, it became clear it was an extraordinary mix of human beings. There were farmers who had just finished their harvest, and some of the biggest celebrities around. Their names—over the years—included Sophocles, Aristotle, Plato, and Cicero.

The annual ritual in the Temple at Eleusis, eighteen kilometers northwest of Athens, was a drug party on a vast scale. It happened every year for two thousand years, and anybody who spoke the Greek language wasbrew of hallucinogens would be passed around the crowd, and a scientific study years later seemed to prove it contained a molecular relative of LSD taken from a fungus that infested cereal crops and caused hallucinations. The chemical contents of this cup were carefully guarded for the rest of the year. The drugs were legal – indeed, this drug use was arranged by public officials – and regulated. You could use them, but only in the designated temple for those ten days. One day in 415 b.c., a partygoing general named Alcibiades smuggled some of the mystery drug out and took it home for his friends to use at their parties. Walton writes: "Caught in possession with intent to supply, he was the first drug criminal."

But while it


was a crime away from the Temple and other confined spaces, it was a glory within it. According to these accounts, it was Studio 54 spliced with St. Peter's Basilica – revelry with religious reverence.

They believed the drugs brought them closer to the gods, or even made it possible for them to become gods themselves. The classicist Dr. D.C.A.

Hillman wrote that the "founding fathers" of the Western world

were drug users, plain and simple: they grew the stuff, they sold the stuff, and more important, they used the stuff . . . The ancient world didn't have a Nancy Reagan, it didn't wage a billion-dollar drug war, it didn't imprison people who used drugs, and it didn't embrace sobriety as a virtue. It indulged . . . and frompeople feel that they can approach God on their own. It is no coincidence that when new drugs come along, humans often use religious words to describe them, like ecstasy. They are often competing for the same brain space – our sense of awe and joy.

So when the emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and brought the Empire with him, the rituals at the Temple at Eleusis were doomed. They were branded a cult and shut down by force. The new Christianity would promote wine only in tiny sips. Intoxication had to be sparing. This "forcible repression by Christianity," Walton explains, "represents the beginning of systematic repression of the intoxication impulse in the lives of Western citizens."

Yet in every generation after, some humans would try to rebuild their own


Temple at Eleusis—in their own minds, and wherever they could clear a space free of local Anslingers.

Harry Anslinger, it turns out, represented a trend running right back to the ancient world.

When Sigmund Freud first suggested that everybody has elaborate sexual fantasies, that it is as natural as breathing, he was dismissed as a pervert and lunatic. People wanted to believe that sexual fantasy was something that happened in other people – filthy people, dirty people. They took the parts of their subconscious that generated these wet dreams and daydreams and projected them onto somebody else, the depraved people Over There, who had to be stopped. Stuart Walton and the philosopher Terence McKenna both write that we are at this stage with our

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measure that was phased out in the 1950s.

If an early 1900s trader sold whiskey on a reserve, it would not have been a treaty violation; it would have been a violation of the Indian Act, which was passed in part to enforce treaty measures.

Even modern treaties do not mention the responsibilities of individual citizens. The Nisga’a Final Agreement, signed in 1998, only cites the rights and responsibilities of the signatories; the Nisga’a Nation and the governments of British Columbia and Canada.

Map showing the modern treaties and self-government agreements signed in Canada since 1975.Government of Canada

“I suppose you could indirectly argue, since treaties are part of the law of Canada and indeed of the constitution since 1982, that individual Canadians should be concerned that the government live up tothem,” said University of Calgary political scientist Thomas Flanagan, writing in an email to the National Post.

Even there, an elected Canadian government would not be able to openly flout its treaty obligations without butting up against the courts. As with any legal agreement, First Nations can sue the Crown for breaching contract.

There have been Canadian laws that called on individual Canadians to recognize Indigenous rights, but these have not been treaties.

The most famous is likely the 1763 Royal Proclamation, which King George III enacted in his North American colonies in order to preserve inland native territory by restricting colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Instead, the proclamation ended up being one of the cited causes of the American War of Independence. In the Declaration of Independence, colonists accused


King George III of pandering to “merciless Indian savages.”

SASKATOON,SK;13JUN07Treaty Days were held in Meewasin Park Wednesday and Thursday. As part of Treaty 6 signed in 1876, members of certain bands receive five dollars. Back in 1876, they could also get twine, barbed wire,oats for their horses and ammunition for their hunting guns. Kevin Lysake with Indian Affairs and RCMP officer Cst. Ron McDonald were on hand for the event. SP Photo by Richard Marjan

The text for Canada’s new citizenship oath is taken verbatim from the 94th and final recommendation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The Commission also called on Canada to revise its citizenship guide to include “information about the Treaties and the history of residential schools.”

An internal report from Citizenship and Immigration Canada also noted that citizenshipdirectly at the US government.

[Gomez] is being sued under a criminal law that was reformed in 2006, following the conclusion of a free trade agreement between Colombia and the United States. The new law was meant to fulfill the trade agreement's restrictive copyright standards, and it expanded criminal penalties for copyright infringement, increasing possible prison sentences and monetary fines.

More details on the awfulness of Colombia's law (spurred on by US special interests) are available in the EFF's earlier coverage. Colombia gave the US copyright industry everything it wanted in order to secure this free trade agreement… and then it just kept going.

Colombia passed a criminal reform bill in 2006 that enacted many of these provisions, but Bill 201 goes even further. Under it, copyright infringers could face harsh


Ski Resorts

Airports in Germany

Location

The airport is situated five miles (8km) northwest of the centre of Berlin.

Getting to the city

The most convenient and cost effective way to get to and from
the airport is by bus. Buses connect with the subway and overground
train stations. Taxis are readily available outside the airport
terminals on both levels.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Contacts

Location

The airport is situated eight miles (13km) southwest of the centre of Frankfurt.

Getting to the city

Frankfurt Airport has trains from two railway stations: the
long-distance railway station is at the AIRail Terminal; and there
is a local railway station for S-Bahn, regional, and local trains
in Terminal 1. Both railway stations are linked to Terminal 2.
Buses leave regularly for Frankfurt and other destinations from
outside Terminals1 and 2; tickets can be bought from the bus
driver. Various shuttles also operate from the airport, some run by
airlines.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Contacts

Location

The airport is situated five miles (8km) north of central Hamburg.

Getting to the city

Hamburg Airport is accessible by S-Bahn which takes 25 minutes
to get from the airport to central Hamburg. Buses service the city
centre and other suburban areas. Taxis are readily available
outside both terminals; they take around 30 minutes to get to the
city centre.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Contacts

Location

The airport is situated 18 miles (29km) northeast of the centre of Munich.

Getting to the city

Frequent commuter trains run by day and most of the night


to
various Munich stations, including the main stations for
connections to major European cities. The airport train station is
just outside the terminals. Taxis are available, as are buses to
many regional destinations and the main train station. It takes
about 20 minutes by train and about 45 minutes by road to reach the
city centre.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and last Sunday in October).

Time

Contacts

Location

The airport is located eight miles (13km) south of Stuttgart city centre.

Getting to the city

The airport is connected to central Stuttgart by S-Bahn lines S2
and S3. In addition to the train service, there are several direct
bus links to destinations in and around Stuttgart, as well as a
24-hour taxi service.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Contacts

Location

The airportis located 11 miles (18km) from Berlin's city centre.

Getting to the city

Train: The airport express train station is a short (400 metre)
walk, along a covered footpath, from Terminal A. The Airport
Express train takes just half an hour to reach the main railway
station in Berlin, known as Hauptbahnhof. The train tickets use the
same ticketing system as the buses in Berlin. Passengers need to
pick how many zones they will be travelling through and the ticket
price is adjusted accordingly. A trip from Schönefeld Airport
to central Berlin will cost €2.10. The Airport Express Train
is the fastest train from the airport into the city. It runs every
30 minutes, from 5am until 11pm. S-bahn trains are also available
from the airport station, but they are slightly slower than the
express train.

Taxis: Taxis can be found on


BVG buses
No. 109 and No. 128 all make the trip from the airport into Berlin.
During the week buses tend to run between 4:30am and 12:30am at
30-minute intervals with more buses during the peak hours of the
day. On weekends buses run less frequently.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the Saturday before the last Sunday in April).

Location

Time

Location

The airport is located seven miles (11km) north of Hannover.

Getting to the city

The S5 Hannover Airport Line runs to Hannover Central Station
every 30 minutes between 3:35am and 1am. The 470 bus departs
several times per hour for the Langenhagen Zentrum station from the
stop between the Maritim Airport Hotel and Car Park 3. Several
shuttle services are also available.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sundayin October).

Location

Nuremberg Airport is located about three miles (5km) from central Nuremberg.

Getting to the city

The U2 subway line runs to central Nuremburg in about 12
minutes. A bus stop is located in front of the Departures Terminal,
and one-way tickets cost about €3, although short bus rides
are cheaper. Intercity buses run to Munich, Cologne, Dusseldorf,
Frankfurt, and Dortmund three to six times per day.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Location

Bremen Airport is located about two miles (3.5km) south of Bremen, Germany.

Getting to the city

The No. 6 tram is a convenient way to get into Bremen as it
connects the airport to the main railway and bus stations; trams
operate regularly during rush hour. Buses are available to Bremen,
and operate several times per day.

Time

GMT +1


(GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Navigation

Airports in Germany

Location

The airport is situated five miles (8km) northwest of the centre of Berlin.

Getting to the city

The most convenient and cost effective way to get to and from
the airport is by bus. Buses connect with the subway and overground
train stations. Taxis are readily available outside the airport
terminals on both levels.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Contacts

Location

The airport is situated eight miles (13km) southwest of the centre of Frankfurt.

Getting to the city

Frankfurt Airport has trains from two railway stations: the
long-distance railway station is at the AIRail Terminal; and there
is a local railway station for S-Bahn, regional, and local trains
in Terminal 1. Both railway stations are linkedthe city

Frequent commuter trains run by day and most of the night to
various Munich stations, including the main stations for
connections to major European cities. The airport train station is
just outside the terminals. Taxis are available, as are buses to
many regional destinations and the main train station. It takes
about 20 minutes by train and about 45 minutes by road to reach the
city centre.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and last Sunday in October).

Time

Contacts

Location

The airport is located eight miles (13km) south of Stuttgart city centre.

Getting to the city

The airport is connected to central Stuttgart by S-Bahn lines S2
and S3. In addition to the train service, there are several direct
bus links to destinations in and around Stuttgart, as well as a
24-hour taxi service.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between


the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Contacts

Location

The airport is located 11 miles (18km) from Berlin's city centre.

Getting to the city

Train: The airport express train station is a short (400 metre)
walk, along a covered footpath, from Terminal A. The Airport
Express train takes just half an hour to reach the main railway
station in Berlin, known as Hauptbahnhof. The train tickets use the
same ticketing system as the buses in Berlin. Passengers need to
pick how many zones they will be travelling through and the ticket
price is adjusted accordingly. A trip from Schönefeld Airport
to central Berlin will cost €2.10. The Airport Express Train
is the fastest train from the airport into the city. It runs every
30 minutes, from 5am until 11pm. S-bahn trains are also available
from the airport station, butBus No. X9 as well as BVG Jet Express TXL Bus and BVG buses
No. 109 and No. 128 all make the trip from the airport into Berlin.
During the week buses tend to run between 4:30am and 12:30am at
30-minute intervals with more buses during the peak hours of the
day. On weekends buses run less frequently.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the Saturday before the last Sunday in April).

Location

Time

Location

The airport is located seven miles (11km) north of Hannover.

Getting to the city

The S5 Hannover Airport Line runs to Hannover Central Station
every 30 minutes between 3:35am and 1am. The 470 bus departs
several times per hour for the Langenhagen Zentrum station from the
stop between the Maritim Airport Hotel and Car Park 3. Several
shuttle services are also available.

Time

GMT +1


(GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Location

Nuremberg Airport is located about three miles (5km) from central Nuremberg.

Getting to the city

The U2 subway line runs to central Nuremburg in about 12
minutes. A bus stop is located in front of the Departures Terminal,
and one-way tickets cost about €3, although short bus rides
are cheaper. Intercity buses run to Munich, Cologne, Dusseldorf,
Frankfurt, and Dortmund three to six times per day.

Time

GMT +1 (GMT +2 between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October).

Location

Bremen Airport is located about two miles (3.5km) south of Bremen, Germany.

Getting to the city

The No. 6 tram is a convenient way to get into Bremen as it
connects the airport to the main railway and bus stations; trams
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On Monday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell, and other senior officials called on a federal judge to prevent the disclosure of files related to the role of the government of Saudi Arabia in the September 11 attacks. The officials told the judge in the civil case that the release of the files would endanger national security.

The files are being sought by families of the 9/11 victims who have spent the last two decades attempting to uncover the truth about the attacks. The families filed a lawsuit in federal district court in New York in 2017 as part of their effort to uncover the role of the Saudi government. What is publicly known is that the alleged1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a camera, and more particularly to a camera having a safety lock mechanism for locking a lid of a cartridge chamber.
2. Description of the Related Art
Various kinds of photo film cartridges called as the IX-240 type are put on the market. As to such photo film cartridge, a photo film having a smaller picture size are contained, up to its leading edge, in a cartridge body which is smaller than a film cassette of the 135 type. This film cartridge has a film advancing mechanism and a light shielding lid incorporated therein. The film advancing mechanism advances the photo film through a film mouth by rotating a spool. The light shielding lid opens and closes the film mouth.
Moreover, in


the photo film cartridge of the IX-240 type, is incorporated an indication mechanism for indicating a usage state of the contained photo film. This indication mechanism comprises four openings and an indication plate. The four openings are formed in an edge face of the cartridge body and have different shapes. The indication plate is integrally rotated with the spool behind the openings. Usage states of an unused state, a halfway state, an exposed state and a developed state are assigned to the respective openings. The usage state corresponding to the opening through which the indication plate is visible is adapted to represent the current usage state of the photo film. With respect to the indication mechanism for the usage state, setting the indication is performed such that afterthe whole photo film has been rewound in the cartridge body, the spool is successively rotated in a film rewinding direction to control a stop position of the spool. In other words, a camera loaded with the above-noted photo film cartridge includes a usage-state setting mechanism for carrying out a VEI (Visual Exposure Indicate) process. In the VEI process, the spool is successively rotated in the rewinding direction after rewinding the whole photo film into the cartridge body, and then, the usage-state indication plate is set to a position corresponding to the usage state of the cartridge.
On the other hand, various cameras using the photo film cartridge of the IX-240 type are sold. Such camera comprises a cartridge chamber for containing the photo film cartridge, a cartridge-chamber lid


association therewith to open the cartridge-chamber lid. The intermediate lever is coupled to the engagement lever and abuts on the winding-up lock mechanism and the rewinding lock mechanism. The chamber-lid operation mechanism is changed between a retaining state for keeping the cartridge-chamber lid in a closed position, and a release state for releasing the cartridge-chamber lid.
When a film conveying mechanism starts to wind up a photo film, the winding-up lock mechanism abuts on the intermediate lever to set the chamber-lid operation mechanism in the retaining state. When the film conveying mechanism starts to rewind the photo film, the winding-up lock mechanism is changed not to abut on the intermediate lever so that the chamber-lid operation mechanism is set in the release state.
Meanwhile, when the film conveying mechanism startsto rewind the photo film, the rewinding lock mechanism abuts on the intermediate lever to set the chamber-lid operation mechanism in the retaining state. When the film conveying mechanism starts to wind up the photo film, the rewinding lock mechanism is changed not to abut on the intermediate lever so that the chamber-lid operation mechanism is set in the release state.
Incidentally, when a photo film cartridge is removed from the camera body after rewinding the photo film, both of the winding-up lock mechanism and the rewinding lock mechanism set the chamber-lid operation mechanism in the release state.
In another embodiment, a drive gear and a spool driving member are provided above the intermediate lever. The drive gear is rotated in a forward direction at the time of film winding


and is rotated in a reverse direction at the time of film rewinding. The spool driving member is rotated together with the drive gear to rotate a spool of the photo film cartridge in either of a film winding-up direction and a film rewinding direction.
Between the drive gear and the spool driving member, is disposed a press member for keeping them in a non-contact state within a predetermined region. A part of the press member is bent downward so as to press the top of the press member against an upper face of the spool driving member.Texas. Thorsen contacted Marian Brantley of Financial Advisors, Inc. (a Montgomery-based corporation), in order to secure a loan to finance the project. It was through this initial contact that Thorsen met Lee Wade, Mohamed Benmohamed, and ultimately Clayton Shrout, all of whom played an active role in the transaction.
Following two or three meetings between Thorsen, Brantley, and Wade at Wade's office in Atlanta, the three men went to Paris to meet with Benmohamed, who headed a group that was supposed to loan Thorsen $35 million. Subsequent to his return to the United States, Thorsen went back to Wade's office in Atlanta to work out the details of the loan. There were fifteen to twenty investors at this meeting other than Thorsen, as well as Clayton Shrout, the attorney


met with Shrout in Atlanta, at which time Shrout represented that the loan would soon be made.
In the weeks that followed, Thorsen made several unsuccessful attempts to reach Shrout by telephone to discern the reason for the delay. No loan was ever made to Thorsen, and his $25,000.00 good faith deposit was never returned.
There was evidence offered at trial that an almost identical sequence of events took place in 1982, involving two more Montgomery residents, Mr. and Mrs. James Walden. Also, in the case sub judice, another Alabama resident, Jack Carlson, was brought into the transaction by the defendants in an attempt to secure collateral for the loans. Carlson testified that he was ready to provide an annuity to secure the loans had there actually been any moneyBreaking News Amplifier

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

MOMENT OF CLARITY: Recall Your Mom

JANUARY 17, 2012

Recall Your Mom

And kudos once again to opponents of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker who celebrated their Dr. Martin Luther King Day holiday yesterday by hissing and chanting at the Governor during a solemn proclamation honoring Dr. King at the State Capitol in Madison.

In doing so, the Democrats notched yet another important victory for loutish self-absorption over common decency in the continuing battle for the hearts and minds of independent voters in the Badger State.

The highlights of their perfect season, undefeated by couth, includes shouting down the Pledge of Allegiance, booing the National Anthem, disrupting a ceremony honoring Special Olympians, and hassling returning troops, just to name a few. Their behavior in our Capitol rotunda would get


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Charles Kane had a sex change operation, but hated being Samantha so much that he became a man again. Now he is getting married.

When the millionaire property developer steps out with his new fiancée, people tend to either stare or discreetly do a double take. It may be because Victoria Emms is a striking redhead and, at 28 to Charles’s 50, is young enough to be his daughter.

But they both suspect it is because they look "eccentric" or "odd".

In Victoria’s eyes, Charles is "all man", but others may disagree. Born Sam Hashimi, the businessman and divorced father-of-two had a sex-change operation in 1987 to turn him into glamorous interior designer Samantha Kane, UK's Daily Mail reported.

He spent £100,000 on cosmetic operations and tooth veneers to create the"ultimate male fantasy" and was so convincing as a woman he had no trouble attracting men, and was briefly engaged to a wealthy landowner.

Then, in 2004, after seven years of living as a woman, he decided he’d made a horrible mistake; the result - he believes now - of a breakdown following the acrimonious end of his 12-year marriage and estrangement from his children.

Initially thrilled by his transformation, life as a woman quickly paled despite a jetset lifestyle in Monaco.

He hated the way female hormones made him moody and emotional. Shopping bored him and sex was a disappointment.

No matter how feminine he looked, he felt he was merely playing a role.

So, five years ago, Charles spent a further £25,000 on three operations at the gender clinic at London’s


Charing Cross Hospital to turn him back into a male.

His breast implants were removed and male genitalia re-constructed from skin grafts. The trouble was, he wasn’t the man he had been before.

Two years ago Charles cut a rather sad figure rattling around his £2.6 million West London property. Though dressed in a suit, he looked neither man nor woman, and vestiges of his beautiful alter ego Samantha remained.

His attempts at dating women had met with outright rejection and humiliation and he feared he would never find anyone brave enough to love him.

But now he is smiling next to his fiancee, Victoria, a single mother to her son Albert, two-and-a-half.

They met at an art gallery in her home town of Malvern, Worcestershire, in June 2009 and last month sheaccepted his proposal of marriage.

They do look rather odd together. She looks even younger than her years, while Charles’s dyed blond hair is reminiscent of the style he sported as Samantha Kane.

Though he is wearing a beautifully cut suit, he has teamed it with a pair of dusky pink, suede moccasins.

If this bothers Victoria, she doesn’t let it show. Instead, she proudly shows her diamond engagement ring and insists Charles is a far better boyfriend for having once been a woman.

Because, unlike other men, she says, he truly understands women’s needs.

The couple are planning a church wedding at the end of next year, and Victoria will move into Charles’s West London home with Albert once renovations are complete to make it "childproof".

Although Charles says they could push the


We Are All Savita Halappanavar: Catholic Hospital in Ireland Denies Woman Life-Saving Abortion

Last month, a woman was admitted to a hospital in Galway, Ireland. She was 17 weeks pregnant with a wanted child. She was experiencing severe back pain. She was found to be miscarrying the pregnancy.

Within days, she was dead.

Why? Because she ended up in a Catholic hospital, governed by an ethic that even a non-viable fetus doomed to die is more important than a living, breathing 31-year-old woman.

It really is that simple.

IrishTimes.comreports that Savita Halappanavar, a dentist, arrived at the hospital on October 21st. According to the story:

Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar (34), an engineer at Boston Scientific in Galway, says she asked several times over a three-day period that the pregnancy be terminated. He says that,hundred miles drive from Northern Ireland, where she could have had proper medical care instead of being a victim of medieval Catholic misogyny.

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I’m sorry for anyone who dies from surgical complications. But it’s sad that you seem to feel no sympathy for a woman who died because doctors cared more about the life of a non-viable fetus than her life.

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are not illegal in Ireland. This was a deliberate act on the part of the hospital and it was a deliberate act because the hospital was following the dogma of the Catholic church, a religion that devalues and uses women shamelessly and without regard for basic decency.

Savita could not have availed of an abortion in the North because you may only get a termination up to 9 weeks in


UK manufacturing experienced an unexpected surge in November to record its fastest growth for 16 years, according to fresh data which indicates that the sector is staging a healthy recovery from the recession.

The surge in manufacturing boosted hopes of a revival in the private sector, and comes as separate surveys today suggesting strengthening manufacturing sectors across the eurozone and also in China.

The Markit/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 58 in November. Any number above 50 signifies monthly growth rather than contraction, and the figure is the highest the index has been since September 1994. The hiring part of the index was particularly strong, showing that manufacturers took on staff at their fastest rate since the survey began 18 years ago.

"With the economy having created 343,000 private sectorjobs in the first half of 2010, and added another 167,000 in the third quarter, the surge in the employment component of today's PMI to an all-time high is very good news," James Knightley at ING said. "When combined with robust readings of the Bank of England agents' summary surveys on hiring intentions we are increasingly confident that the job losses resulting from fiscal austerity can be more than fully offset by private sector growth."

Backlogs of work increased for the first time in five months, the data revealed, while new orders rose at their fastest pace since April. Rising prices increased cost pressures, while output prices fell to an eight-month low.

Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said the strong figures might encourage the Bank of England to hold


Body and major organ sizes of young mature microminipigs determined by computed tomography.
To understand the anatomical characteristics of microminipigs, one of the smallest miniature pigs, as a large animal model, we measured the body and organ sizes of four-, five-, six-, and seven-month-old microminipigs (n = 4, females) using computed tomography. In addition, the results were compared with those of young mature beagles (10 months old, two males and three females), which have been widely used as a large animal model. The microminipigs at 4-6 months of age were much smaller than the beagles. However, when the microminipigs reached seven months of age, their overall size was similar to that of the beagles. The thoracic cavity volume of the seven-month-old microminipigs was less than half that of thebeagles, and the cavity was largely filled by the heart. The liver size of the seven-month-old microminipigs was approximately half of that of the beagles. Moreover, the spleen of the seven-month-old microminipigs was different in morphology, but not different in size from that of the beagles. In addition, although their volumes were the same, the kidneys of the seven-month-old microminipigs, unlike those of the beagles, were flattened in shape. Collectively, the major abdominal organs of the seven-month-old microminipigs were either the same size or smaller than those of the beagles, but the abdominal cavity volume of the seven-month-old microminipigs was larger than that of the beagles. Thus, the abdominal cavity of microminipigs is assumed to be filled with the gastrointestinal tract. The anatomical characteristics of the young mature


DNA belonging to the estranged husband of a missing Connecticut woman was found mingled with her blood in her home, a prosecutor revealed Tuesday during a court hearing in which the man and his girlfriend pleaded not guilty to charges of evidence tampering and hindering prosecution.

Fotis Dulos, 51, was arrested with his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, on June 1, more than a week after Jennifer Dulos, 50, disappeared.

New Canaan police said they found blood at Jennifer Dulos's house along with "evidence of attempts to clean the crime scene." Investigators also found her blood on items Fotis Dulos was seen on surveillance video with Troconis stashing into garbage cans in Hartford on the day Jennifer Dulos vanished.

In an effort to have Fotis Dulos' bond of $500,000 increased, a prosecutor revealedenrage him. I know he will retaliate by trying to harm me in some way,” Jennifer Dulos wrote in her application for custody in 2017.

The children, ages 8 to 13, including two sets of twins, are with her mother in New York City.


participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. JPF originally drafted the manuscript in accordance with the awarded research grant from the Dutch Government (ZonMw). All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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KB is currently a medical student at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

RO started his education in physical therapy (PT) at the Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 1963. He received his bachelor degree PT in 1966 and his degree in Manual Physical therapy (MPT) in 1972. He studied rehabilitation sciences (MSc) at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium which he finished in 1984 cum laude. Between 1984--1988 he did his PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Between 1968--1982 he was head of the department of physical therapy in general hospitalsand teacher at the School of Physical Therapy 'West Brabant', Breda, The Netherlands. Between 1988--2007, he became research director of the Dutch Institute of Allied health Care, Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Between 1989--2000 he was full professor Manual Therapy at the Free university of Brussels, Belgium. From 2000 until his retirement in 2008, he was full professor in Allied Health Sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, with a focus on the quality of allied health care and development, implementation and evaluation of clinical guidelines. He has a long-standing practical experience with regards to treatment of patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). He has published about 250 articles in national and international journals. He is member of various national and international physical therapy organizations and reviewer of


national and international journals.

RvD is anaesthesiologist at the Pain Centre of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands since 1988. He participates in all activities in an Academic Multidisciplinary Pain Centre for acute pain, chronic pain, pain in cancer and palliative care. Specific expertise in invasive pain treatment, neuromodulation for pain relief. He is Chairman of the Dutch Society for Neuromodulation and former Chairman of Pain Section of the Dutch Society for Anaesthesiology.

FK is working as a physical therapist since 33 years in his own practice and at the Department of Physical Therapy of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Specific expertise in treatment of patients with chronic pain and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). He is also working as a Quality of Care employee at the Departmentof Physical Therapy.

HS has been working as a clinical psychologist in pain medicine since 1990 and is working at the Academic Centre of Pain and Palliative Care of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. He successfully finished his PhD thesis in 2008, titled Psychological factors in chronic pain: from predictors to implementation. In 2002 he wrote a book titled The psychologist as pain specialist. He is specialized in diagnosing and treating chronic pain within tailored treatment designs and in translating scientific knowledge into clinical practice for doctors, psychologists, physical therapists and nurses.

GJvdW is professor of Health Technology Assessment at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre and professor of Interactive Health Technology Assessment at the Athena Institute, Free University Medical Centre, Amsterdam. He is a member of the Standing


Committee on Medical Technology Assessment of the Health Council of The Netherlands and member of the National Appraisal Committee at the National Health Insurance Board. He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care and is a member of the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA).

EA studied graduated as an economist in 1990. Then a professional career was started as a university lecturer at Maastricht University, faculty of Economics. In 1997, he successfully finished his PhD thesis (promoter, prof. dr. G. Kootstra, surgeon). Earlier, in 1996, he started as an assistant professor at the department of Health, Organization, Policy, and Economics (BEOZ) of the faculty of Health Sciences, Maastricht University. In the beginning of 2001 he started asa senior consultant at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in The Hague, which he left late 2001 for an assistant professorship at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Here, he joined the department of Medical Technology Assessment of which he became deputy head in 2004. Presently the department is merged into the department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA. Several publications about economical aspects of health care are from his hand.

HG studied Biology and Biophysics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Msc; 1985). In 1986, after additional training in information technology, he joined the department of Epidemiology as a scientific programmer. He specialized in methodological and statistical support of several PhD projects. He also lectured in statistical methods for Biomedical students. From 2005 on, he specialized in Health Technology Assessment.


Nowadays, he participates in several research projects of major departments at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre as a methodological and statistical consultant.

HvdM is consultant at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands. He worked at the department of neurosurgery Erasmus UMC Rotterdam and AMC Amsterdam, both in The Netherlands. He worked as post-doc at the Institute for Brainresearch Zurich, Switzerland and as house officer neurology both at the University Clinic Balgrist Zurich, Switzerland and at the NRZ Greifswald in Germany. He was trained as rehabilitation physician at the Sint Maartenskliniek in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Since 2003, he is associate professor at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands with specialization in care, researchand education in management of spasticity in children with cerebral palsy, acute management and rehabilitation of spinal cord injury, development of innovative orthotics and prosthesis for trauma and orthopaedic rehabilitation, early intensive physical and cognitive rehabilitation of patients with critical illness with application of virtual reality devices (X-VR-D) and experimental management and rehabilitation of patients with CRPS-1. He cooperates in the multidisciplinary outpatient department for patients with CRPS since 2004.

JPF is consultant (general and orthopaedic) trauma surgeon at the Department of Surgery from the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in The Netherlands. He graduated from The University of Utrecht Medical School, The Netherlands in 1990 with a specialization in General Surgery in 1996 and a subspecialization in Trauma Surgery in 2001 at the Free University Medical Centre in


Through a new project announced today, WWF and Apple will help China—the world’s largest producer and consumer of paper products—reduce its environmental footprint by producing paper products from responsibly managed forests within its own borders.

The five-year project is an opportunity to position China as a country that uses less land, water and pollution to produce paper, while still meeting the high and growing demand for paper products. This approach to forest management is increasingly common in China but not yet widespread.

The WWF and Apple project demonstrates the dynamic role that companies can play in protecting forests. WWF believes that companies should use paper more efficiently, increase recycled paper content and source paper responsibly, which Apple has publicly stated it is doing. But, to truly secure forests, companies mustOn the positive side, both the Planning Commission in Bellevue and Ecology are prepared to reinitiate communication with each other on the proposal until the issue is resolved. In the end, both sides hope it will be better for everybody, including waterfront homeowners.

A precedent setting dispute and complicated situation for property rights just came to a close. On one side of the dispute was the owner (a former American League baseball player) of a Clyde Hill home who wanted his view of Lake Washington and Seattle improved by having the trees on his neighbors’ property cut down. On the other side of the dispute were the owners of the adjoining property and trees; they wanted to keep their trees (which had been there long before the other neighbor


interesting waterfront community option for living on or by Lake Washington. Its location is very convenient for commuting to either the Eastside or to downtown Seattle, and yet it retains the character of an older established neighborhood with big trees, nearby parks, and a sense of community.

Located just north of I-90 and on the west / Lake Washington side of I-405, it is bounded by the lake, Mercer Slough Park, Beaux Arts Village, and Bellevue. There are many home options here both on the lake or with easy nearby lake access, plus a wide range of home prices to choose from.

The Seattle Times published a nice informative article about Enatai neighborhood today. Check it out, and let me know if you have any questions or interest in Enatai.

Thepreviously reported battle between the city of Bellevue versus a resident of Newport Shores and his community association came to a legal head recently when a federal judge ruled against the resident and Newport Shores / Newport Yacht Club.

At issue was whether or not Bellevue met its obligations in managing stormwater runoff and sediment issues in Coal Creek, and also whether or not the resident created improper salmon habitat enhancement, all of which was part of a prior settlement. Bellevue was found to have met its obligations and the resident was found to have not created an actual salmon habitat enhancement on their property as specified, but instead to have effectively created a small salmon hatchery for introducing new fish into the creek.

And the battle continues on: The


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CHICAGO -- Before Theo Epstein moved into his new Wrigley Field office, he was studying the Cubs' roster. He knew he'd have to hit the ground running now that he's the team's president of baseball operations. He has a lot of work to do.

In 2011, the Cubs didn't live up to their payroll of $134 million, finishing fifth in the National League Central for the second straight year. There is money coming off the books if third baseman Aramis Ramirez leaves via free agency. There would beand lots of question marks regarding the rotation.

In Epstein's first year with the Red Sox in 2003, he not only reshaped the roster, but the personality of the team. He signed free agents Bill Mueller and David Ortiz (a steal for one year at $1.25 million), and traded for Kevin Millar and Todd Walker. Boston's roster at the end of '03 had 17 players who were not in the organization in 2002, including nine who were not in the system when the '03 regular season began.

Now, he's being asked to find the right ballplayers with the right attitude. Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts sought Epstein because he changed the culture in Boston and could deal with expectations. Expect some turnover.

"We're looking for assets," Epstein said. "We're going to scratch


are reasonably honest if carefully read, but even they are misleading and the picture the vast majority of people keep in their heads is an almost complete fabrication. For example, the prevailing idea was that 1929 was a big surprise. Lots of people knew there was a credit bubble well before it burst. Months before black Monday, the Fed (yes, they had a Federal Reserve Banking system then, though it was a new idea) was warning about it, and they raised interest rates to help burst it. Weeks before the stock market crash, it was noticed that market conditions were actually a lot weaker than justified by stock prices. In early October 1929, it was noted, for example, that manufacturing was down and automotive inventory was building upon lots (Oct 12 1929 p 81).

The other prevailing historical idea that appears to be complete fiction is that the Hoover Administration was laissez-faire Republicans who sat on their hands and did nothing. Au contraire: Hoover was hardly a market fundamentalist: he wanted to ban short selling. The LondonTimes estimated that by 1929 the expenditures of the American government totaled 30 percent of the national GDP (April 23, 1932 p 117). They estimated this using a system doubtless obsolete now, but which makes perfect sense: they divided the national income by the national and local government budgets. They also talk about enormous public works projects funded by the Hoover administration to reduce unemployment. Finally, the Republican congress of the Hoover era passed all manner of legislation tinkering with


New York stock market, and money rates fell. Commenting upon this in Berlin on October 8, Mr. Charles E. Mitchen, chairman of the national city bank and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is reported to have said that he was not looking for lower money rates and that the break in the stock market would not have any lasting effect.

~Oct 26 1929 p 130 (two days before the "Black Monday" crash)

The Secretary of Commerce who cited these figures in the middle of February as proof that the country was getting on its feet again, emphasized the fact that the total of new construction was in excess of what his department had estimated four weeks previously, and he predicted that expenditures for the buildingand maintenance of public works and public utility properties this year would total or exceed $7b. But in other quarters there was a disposition to wonder where the money was coming from which were to put through, not the public utility enterprises which are financed with private capital, but the public works.

~March 8 1930 p 584

Recovery, in a sense, has already begun, but the pace is slow. "The buying of goods by ultimate consumers has for several months past been running at a greater rate than production by factories." Dr. Benjamin M. Anderson, Jun. recently told the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce "The year 1930 to date stands well above the first ten months of the year 1921, and the worst of 1930 is not as bad as


the worst of (the depression of) 1921."

~ Nov 22, 1930 p 226

At the beginning of March the Administration in Washington was much cheered to hear from business men and bankers calling at the White House that there had been "a distinct improvement" in business conditions throughout the country "a 10 per cent improvement" as some of them said. Unhappily, however, actual figures of business activity did nothing to bear out these blithe observations. It is true that bank failures decreased until here were only one or two a day instead of 10 to 15, and that hoarding of currency seemed to have diminished somewhat; but sales of goods in stores and by wholesalers, production and sales of motor cars and steel, loadings of freight cars on railways, electriccoming of Donald Trump has not happened. Norbert Hofer and Geert Wilders both fared worse than expected in Austria and the Netherlands before the French first round results.

The EU was very much an issue in Austria and Netherlands as it is in France. It was a delicious irony in the Austrian election that the intervention of Nigel Farage played a key role in Mr Hofer’s loss in Austria. The inability of the garrulous pub landlord of British politics to keep quiet cost the Freedom Party victory.

French Presidential Election Show all 20 1 /20 French Presidential Election French Presidential Election Voters line up to cast their ballots REUTERS French Presidential Election French expats queue along the street outside the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle to cast their vote in


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Election Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, waves hand during in the first round of 2017 French presidential election at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, April 23, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier - RTS13ICH SAA/ French Presidential Election Jean-Luc Melenchon, candidate of the French far-left Parti de Gauche and candidate for the French 2017 presidential election, leaves a polling booth in the first round of 2017 French presidential election at a polling station in Paris, France, April 23, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe - RTS13IKB REUTERS French Presidential Election Front National leader Marine Le Pen casts her ballot Marine Le Pen (L), French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for French 2017presidential election, casts her ballot in the first round of 2017 French presidential election at a polling station in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, April 23, 2017. At R, Mayor of Henin-Beaumont Steeve Briois. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RTS13IEI REUTERS French Presidential Election Early ballots are read as results continue to come in Reuters French Presidential Election Macron supporters react as results come in early in the evening AP French Presidential Election Supporters of Front National leader Marine Le Pen cheer as early results come in Reuters French Presidential Election Alamy Live News. J21KYW Paris, France. 23rd April 2017. Marcon supporters wave French and EU flags after the announcement that he is the leader in the exit polls after the polling stations have been closed. Supporters of Emmanuel Macron, the Presidential


candidate from the social liberal political party En Marche! celebrate the exit polls, that see him in first place, ahead of Marine Le Pen from the Front National in the first round of the French Presidential election. Credit: Michael Debets/Alamy Live News This is an Alamy Live News image and may not be part of your current Alamy deal . If you are unsure, please contact our sales team to check. Alamy French Presidential Election Front National leader Marine Le Pen takes to the stage to address her supporters as fans cheer Reuters French Presidential Election Emmanuel Macron greets supporters on Sunday night AP French Presidential Election Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte Trogneux celebrate the incoming results EPA

That was certainly the view of the Austrian right-wingers. Mr FarageA thick layer of dirt blanketed the floor of the Oracle Arena as a different breed of athlete prepared for battle underneath the brightly lit domed sky. Make that two different breeds: The uniforms consisted of chaps, jeans, boots and hats on one side, and for the other, saddles, horns and hooves in a classic matchup of cowboys and bulls. With a nod and a holler, each pair burst out of the gate - one trying to hold on for at least eight seconds, the other thrashing about, mad as hell.

Mostly, the bulls won.

"It's kinda like dancing," says bull rider J.B. Mauney, coming off his recent victory over Bushwacker, a bull that had bucked off every rider for the past four years. "They make a move and you


follow."

Part sporting event, part pyrotechnic show, the Professional Bull Riders Ariat Invitational took over the Oakland home of the Golden State Warriors in a blaze of fire on a recent Friday and Saturday night in September, marking the 20th anniversary of both organizations. Ariat, an equestrian and western-wear company based in Union City, outfits the Professional Bull Riders' athletes from head to toe, as well as the U.S. Olympic equestrian team. At the PBR invitational, Ariat sponsors a posse of about a dozen, with Mauney and Brendon Clark of Hollister as featured riders, among the sport's international superstars such as PBR World Champion Silvano Alves.

Though Oakland may not be country, the two-day live broadcast event drew nearly 9,000 appreciative fans decked out in their western best, cheering onbetween directors who "adapt" their sources, and those who "transform" them. To my mind, Wyler is an adapter; Hitchcock, however, is a transformer, at least, usually. Very little of the original remains in his finished product. The act of transformation is thus one of original creation. There are exceptions in the Hitchcock oeuvre, of course: Dial M For Murder is almost a direct transplant from a stage production; Rebecca and Under Capricorn closely follow the novels on which they're based. But this is not the usual Hitchcock method: more often than not, AH takes only the premise of a work, throws away the story and then works up a whole new plot (in collaboration with a scriptwriter).

But Tuco Harmonica's caution is a good one: each film has to


it was shot in the vicinity of where the events took place. Its about the first recievers of the Congerssional Medal of Honor.

You don't see these locomotives anymore in modern films, a pitty. This was a two part TV film originally shown on Disney, but it plays a bit more like a docudrama than a typical cutesy Disney film. Slim Pickens is great as a cigar chomping engineer with strip bacon cooking on the firedoor of is locomotive.

I still think a fictional film based on this and Von Ryan's Express would would make a great fictional action Civil War/Western (if it took place in Missouri or another Western state (that had a RR) ), or a great Mexican Rev/Western.

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California's Adolescents have announced a July 26, 2013 release date for their newest full-length Presumed Insolent on Concrete Jungle Records. The band will be supporting the new release with a European tour in July and August. Check under Read More for those dates. Presumed Insolent is now available for pre-order.

The band last released The Fastest Kids Alive in 2011 on Concrete Jungle Records.


of West Africa police information system

LYON, France – In the framework of its West African Police Information System (WAPIS) Programme, INTERPOL held the sixth a series of workshops aiming to prepare the forthcoming implementation of the police information sharing system.

The three-day meeting (26-28 June) held at the INTERPOL General Secretariat brought together representatives from the five WAPIS pilot countries (Benin, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania and Niger), the INTERPOL Regional Bureau in Abidjan, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Civi.Pol, the consultancy agency of the French Ministry of the Interior.

The workshop was opened by Lieutenant Colonel Abdourahmane Dieng, Head of the Regional Security Division of ECOWAS, who emphasized the fruitful collaboration among all the partners involved in the WAPIS.

This final workshop focused on the training needs analysiscases, it's roadkill itself that attracts animals to the road. In one South African study, researchers found that spilled grain along one stretch of highway frequently lured mice. After they were hit by cars, their carcasses attracted scavenger birds, some of which became roadkill, too.

6) Fences alone can't prevent roadkill

Starting in the 1950s, road engineers devised a solution for roadkill: keeping animals off roads. Building fences, the thinking went, would exclude animals from road surfaces, allowing cars to travel quickly to their destinations without interruption.

Except for one thing: these fences can cut down on roadkill, but researchers have found that it spikes near the ends of the fence. When searching for food or migrating, after all, animals often need to cross roads to survive, and they simply go


DUBAI (Reuters) - Elderly Hamama Yousif was rushed to the main hospital in one of Yemen’s largest cities after an artillery round lashed her chest with shrapnel, only to find that the doctors there had run out of the oxygen tanks needed to save her life.

A woman holds her malnourished daughter at a malnutrition intensive care unit in Yemen's capital Sanaa February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

In a video captured by local news station Yemen Youth TV, worried relatives carry her, still talking, to almost every clinic and hospital in the war-torn city of Taiz - none had any oxygen - until motionless and dead, she was finally taken to the morgue.

Once known as “Arabia Felix” or happy Arabia, Yemen has been disfigured by 10 months of war intofrom entering and bombs civilian targets. It is one of the worst fronts of the war, in which forces loyal to a government ousted by the Houthis in March are seeking to fight back to the capital Sanaa.

After the government fled into exile, a Saudi-led alliance of Arab states joined the war to restore it, recapturing the port city of Aden where President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi is now based.

Riyadh and its allies have launched hundreds of air strikes, sent in ground troops and set up a naval blockade to restrict goods reaching the country. The Saudis say the Houthis, drawn mainly from a Shi’ite sect that ruled a thousand-year kingdom in north Yemen until 1962, are puppets of Shi’ite Iran.

The Houthis have allied themselves with army units


the war effort to earn a living, feeding a cycle of violence,” said Salah Elhajj Hassan of FAO.

HIDING IN CAVES

Workers from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), among the few foreign aid groups operating in Yemen’s worst war zones, have suffered repeated attacks in the far northern province of Saada straddling the Saudi border.

An ambulance from an MSF-affiliated hospital rushed to the scene of a suspected Saudi-led air strike on Jan. 21, but just as crowds gathered to assist the victims another bomb fell and killed a medic.

An MSF hospital was bombed on Oct. 27 in what the Saudi-led coalition says was a strike intended to target militiamen nearby.

Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asseri, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, said the foreign forces were working to reduce civilian deaths,CBP Responds to Devastating Hurricane Michael

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October 12, 2018

A U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionBlack Hawk flight crew conducts aflyover of the Florida panhandle in theaftermath of Hurricane Michael as thestorm left a swath of destruction acrossthe area near Panama City, Florida,Thursday. Photo by Glenn Fawcett

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is helping with recovery efforts in the Southeastern United States as another major hurricane blew ashore, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Category 4 Hurricane Michael with its winds near 155 mph – just two mph short of it being the strongest Category 5 hurricane – made landfall in the Florida panhandle and tracked through Georgia and the Carolinas, less than a month after Hurricane Florence came through much of the same, waterlogged area with devastating winds,


aircrews continue to work in the devastated area. In addition, CBP airplanes are helping manage air traffic and doing damage assessments. Originally staged out of Jacksonville, Florida, and Hammond, Louisiana, the assets moved to forward operating bases after the storm passed.

A CBP special response team operatorestablishes a mobile command center tohelp coordinate the federal responsefollowing the impact of HurricaneMichael in Panama City, Florida, Thursday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency asked CBP to provide law enforcement help to the region. Twenty-five CBP officers went to Columbus, Georgia, and another 25 Border Patrol agents went to Atlanta, and are helping local and state law enforcement in communities where needed.

CBP’s Port of Jacksonville, Florida, is the center for logistical support for the region, with generators, water, and meals, ready-to-eat available at thatNigel Farage will be made a “close but unofficial adviser” to Donald Trump after he enters the White House, a key ally of the new president has said.

Phil Bryant, the Governor of Mississippi, made the comments at a party thrown for Mr Farage on the top floor of the five star Hay Adams hotel overlooking the White House on Thursday night.

The news will cause consternation in Downing Street which has repeatedly tried to downplay the significance of Mr Farage to Mr Trump, describing him as an "irrelevance".

Nigel Farage attends a pre-inguration Party credit: Steve Finn/Splashnews

Shortly after he won the US Presidential election Mr Trump said Mr Farage would be a good British ambassador to Washington, forcing Number 10 to scotch the idea.

Mr Bryant described Mr Farage, the former


team after a meetng on the closing night of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in July.

He also said that Britain is “going to be great again” after Brexit which Mr Bryant described as “Trump’s first victory”.

Mr Bryant – one of the few senior Republicans who campaigned for Mr Trump during the presidential election campaign - said: “I remind all our friends here – there is a reason they call it Great Britain. It is going to be great again.”

The party organised by US public affairs firm Goddard Gunster was attended by around 200 guests including Arron Banks, the millionaire supporter of Ukip, Conservative MP Nigel Evans, Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative funder. Mr Trump did not attend.

Mr Farage told an audience of 200 at the party:Court of Federal Claims' dismissal of St. Vincent's Medicare reimbursement claim for lack of jurisdiction.  St. Vincent's Med.  Ctr. v. United States, 29 Fed.Cl. 165, 173 (1993).  We affirm the trial court's decision because of the requirements of the Medicare statute and the doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies.BACKGROUND

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This case involves Medicare reimbursement for certain electricity costs incurred by St. Vincent's related to services it provided to Medicare beneficiaries from 1977 through 1986.  As a result of a defective electrical metering system, St. Vincent's belatedly became liable for additional electricity costs in the amount of $2,592,685.  Because St. Vincent's was unaware of the unmetered electric costs at the time it submitted its annual cost reports and because of limitations on reopening previously settled


Vincent's claims for reimbursement for electricity costs for years 1977-1984 because more than 180 days had elapsed from the notices of final cost determination before St. Vincent's even knew of the additional electric costs.  Accordingly, the government asserts that St. Vincent's is unable to establish either PRRB or federal court jurisdiction over its claim.

4
In November 1992, subsequent to filing the three administrative appeals, but before the PRRB had ruled, St. Vincent's also filed suit in the Court of Federal Claims.  The government then moved to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, and the Court of Federal Claims granted the government's motion.  The trial court noted that St. Vincent's had claimed the same relief in the Court of Federal Claims that it sought in its administrative appeals,late assessments from the Florida Patient Compensation Fund (FPCF).  The FPCF was a self-insuring trust fund established by the Florida legislature to which all Florida health care providers were required to contribute.  Due to unsound actuarial predictions, the fund experienced deficits which required additional assessments against its participants.  The Medicare provider asserted reimbursement claims for these late assessments.  The Claims Court found that there was no statutory scheme which could provide judicial review in the district court to Mount Sinai because by the time Mount Sinai was billed for the assessments, it was too late to include the costs in the appropriate years' cost reports or to establish PRRB jurisdiction.  Given that a PRRB hearing is a prerequisite for review in the district


are and do."

Patrick Norton, associate vice president for finance and controller at Middlebury, said that during its visit from the department -- which U.S. officials had downgraded from an "investigation" to a "review" to "information gathering" -- college leaders explained that Middlebury had conducted a competitive bidding process for a single "suggested" lender when the college began its transition out of the federal direct student loan program last year. Middlebury based its competition on which lenders offered the best benefits for students, notably by not charging borrowers any fee to originate a loan.

Middlebury chose the National Education Loan Network as its sole suggested provider last year, though it permitted borrowers to use other lenders, too, as federal law requires (1,372 of its 1,403 borrowers went with Nelnet). Thethat -- which is what we thought all along."

Department officials could not be reached over the weekend to confirm the outcome of the reviews at Middlebury and Lawrence Tech.

The Education Department's oversight, together with pending federal legislation, appears to be prompting some changes in colleges' behavior, however. Several other recipients of the June letters encouraging colleges to review their practices said that they were altering their policies.

Harry Wilkins, chief financial officer of American Public University System, where all 763 student loan borrowers had loans from Sallie Mae last year, said that even though the university's preferred lender list contains four lenders, officials suspected borrowers were drawn to Sallie Mae because it appeared first on the university's list. Officials at the university system, which owns American Military University and


and Seth Schoen's kernel exploit presented [PDF] at the 2014 Chaos Communication Congress.

The solution is to enable anyone to reproduce a bit-for-bit identical package from a given source tree, and that is what the Debian team has been working toward since 2013. The effort impacts a number of parts of the Debian project, including packaging tools, various compilers and build tools, Debian's infrastructure, and quite a few individual software packages.

Reproducibility work so far

The grunt work of testing a package for reproducibility involves building the package, saving the result, and then repeating the build with slight alterations to the build environment. The reproducibility team has a set of Jenkins jobs running a battery of such tests on its own mirror of the Debian archive. The variations tested include hostname,What Church Do You Go To?

by James Washington
Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times

At times, it is ironic to me that so many different churches profess the belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, was crucified, died and was buried to arise again on the third day and sits at the right hand of His Father in heaven. From Catholic to Pentecostal, from Baptist to Presbyterian, from Episcopalian to Methodist, from Church of God in Christ to Lutheran, from Evangelical to just being saved, each denomination wants to set itself apart from the others based upon its doctrine being more in line with God than any of its Christian cousins. Throughout history so called Christians have persecuted other so called Christians in the name


Salivary Gland Surgery

Salivary glands are glands found in and around the mouth and throat. They secrete saliva into the mouth through tubes called salivary ducts. There are 3 major salivary glands- the parotid, submandibular and sublingual glands.

Besides these, there are 600-1000 tiny glands called minor salivary glands located in the lips, inner cheek area (buccal mucosa), and linings of the mouth and throat. Salivary glands produce saliva that moistens the mouth, acts as a lubricant for speech, helps in swallowing, initiates digestion, has antibacterial properties and protects teeth from decay.

Salivary gland diseasesDisorders of the salivary glands include

1. Hyperplasia or swelling of the salivary glands:
Rarely, the minor salivary glands may be swollen. They are seen as mild, painless masses usually on the roof of the mouth and soft palate.second assignment of error: "2. That the Court erred in the admission of testimony in behalf of the State, in particular, that the Court admitted testimony by one of the witnesses for the State who had been assaulted and beaten by some party or parties a short time prior to the trial hereof; that the witness who testified was allowed to explain that he had been struck and beaten by a man unknown to him and that he was approached by one of the witnesses of the State and threatened. This testimony was highly inflammation and tended to inflame the mind of the jury against the defendant and to all of which the defendant excepted and still excepts."
This assignment is comprehensible only in the light of the following


factual background: On August 31, 1957, Henry E. (Tex) Turner was killed by defendant in a tavern as a result of ill feeling over the attentions paid by Turner to one Nora Dixon. Turner had been a friend of Nora's for ten years. He had gone out with her for a period of about a month in 1956. Nora and defendant had been living together for a period of four years prior to the day of the killing. They were not married. In the past the two men had one heated argument over Nora in Nora's apartment and another argument in a *496 tavern about a year before the date of the killing. On the day in question defendant was sitting in the front booth of the MissouriTavern at 528 Walnut Street in Kansas City, drinking beer, when Nora and Turner came into the tavern. Turner sat down at the bar and Nora occupied a booth in the rear of the tavern. The State's evidence indicated that defendant approached Turner, said "I thought I told you to stay away from that woman and leave her alone." He hit Turner in the jaw. Turner got off the stool. Defendant told him, "I'm going to kill you." Defendant reached in his pocket, brought out a switch-blade knife, with its 3 or 4 inch blade open. Turner turned his back. Defendant caught him, turned him around, cut him across the stomach twice, turned, staggered, and cut him twice more across the back. Turner, who had nothing in his