however regretful it was.

But what was the First World War about? I well remember a scene in the great film 'Reds' about the life of the American writer and socialist John Reed.

When asked at a swanky dinner attended by well heeled members of a Rotary club to explain what the First World War was all about he stood up and said "profits" before sitting down again. Plain and simple.

Harry Patch left us with a great philosophy for future conflicts: "The politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder".

He also pleaded the case for those cruelly shot as 'cowards':

"You were in that trench. That was your front line. YouLos Angeles' unique character: a growing region where the desert meets the sea.

About Angeleno Wine Co.

In 1833 commercial winemaking began in downtown Los Angeles. Jean-Louis Vignes built his winery around a 400 year old sycamore near today's Union Station.

Los Angeles used to be the epicenter of winemaking not just for California but for the nation. Angelenos were making beautiful wines well before Sonoma and Napa. We were supplying wine to Northern California and the East Coast, including to New York and Boston. As Los Angeles historian Thomas Pinney put it, “the most striking fact about the history of winemaking in Los Angeles, city and county, is the completeness with which it has been forgotten.”

Our dream is to bring a culture of winemaking back to Los Angeles. With your


heart and soul of Angeleno. We consider him Angeleno’s real winemaker, as the character of his vineyard is what shines through in our wines. We are eager for harvest so we can see Juan again. "You don't have to go to France," Juan says. "We can make as good a wine as anybody."

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Jasper Dickson was born and raised in Northern California. His father was a home winemaker who would take Jasper along when he would go wine tasting. It was there that the seeds were sown. The smell of fermenting and aging wine. The mythic character of wine barrels and tanks, The bucolic, breathtaking vibrant greens of the surrounding vineyards. All made animpression that would last a lifetime. Soon, Jasper moved to Los Angeles, the city that would inspire him and become his home for his adult life. In 2015 he met Juan Alonso and fell in love with the Alonso Family Vineyard in Agua Dulce. This, combined with a deep dive into Los Angeles’ forgotten wine history, convinced him that the city could have and deserved to have its own local wine. The stage was set.

Amy Luftig Viste grew up outside Cincinnati, Ohio. She moved steadily west over time, pursuing a career in public policy and health care access. Along the way, Amy fell in love with this complex and joyful thing that is wine. Amy became single-mindedly obsessed when she volunteered with California winemakers during harvest. She decided


a glance into last week’s mirror.

Emblematic, perhaps, of city malaise was an unfruitful, hourlong discussion over a dog park. Generally speaking, this is the sort of uncomplicated project that most local governments wrap up in a few weeks.

But in Hagerstown, the decision has dragged on, achingly, for months, as the council has failed to decide on a suitable location. The project was handed off to a task force, but now that the task force has reported its findings, the council has balked yet again — making it a mystery why the city entrusted a task force with the matter in the first place.

The aforementioned loss of the school board might, in some areas, inspire elected officials to buckle down and find out how they could make the city(1970)) has described this process as repeated strain in the "fatigue zone". Slow bone deformation is observed, the bone not returning after unloading at the end of a cycle to its precise condition at the start of the cycle. Continual cycling in the fatigue zone eventually leads to fracture. This accumulation of internal damage is not unlike that taking place in a piece of metal when it is bent back and forth or flexed repeatedly. Micro-crushing and micro-fracturing occurs in bone in the process of absorbing shock. Given a period of rest the body restores the strength of bone in a remodeling process. It is important to understand that the bones in the skeletal structure that are subjected to large stresses are constantly going through fatigue weakening on


the one hand and restoration by remodeling on the other.

The present invention is primarily concerned with a way of noninvasively determining the strength of bone in a live animal. The race horse in particular subjects his legs to very large stresses in the course of training and competition. Of every 1000 horses starting races between three and six horses will suffer a fracture and many of these animals will have to be destroyed. This represents an unfortunate loss of animal life and in many cases a severe economic loss. Although a horse may come out of a race in outwardly fine shape, there has been no method of accurately gauging how much subtle wear and tear has taken place. These problems of the horse are shared by otherDistrict Office Civil Defence Bahawalnagar Jobs April 2016 For Driver Career Opportunities

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Maine's 400 person College of The Atlantic, which you might remember from that time you were flipping through the Best 366 Colleges at Barnes & Noble, has reduced its total greenhouse gas footprint to zero. The school, which claims to be "life changing, world changing," is the first among the more than 450 institutions of higher learning that took the "net-zero" pledge to reduce or offset all of their carbon dioxide emissions. The school was also the first to make the pledge.

They've achieved neutrality by investing in a Portland, Oregon project that optimizes traffic lights to reduce CO2 emissions from idling cars. Carbon-neutrality is a bit of a slippery term. You can reduce emissions through using renewable energy or buy so-called offsets. In most sustainability circles, the formerCovenant on Civil and Political Rightsemphasized text" (ICCPR)
the "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" (ICESCR, especially the "right to culturally acceptable food")
the "UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief" (UN Declaration)

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A baby lets go of the furniture and for the first time takes hesitating steps towards his mother. He stumbles and falls, but picks himself up (with help, or by himself). He hesitates, he moves awkwardly and stiffly, but he keeps persevering to reach his mother's arms by his own ambulation. She combines patience and guidance. She won't leave him to himself, but she will try to let him gain strength and ability through his own volition.

He won't be able to walk well until he has tried to walk, even if very awkwardly. Until he can walk well he won't be able to run or hop or skip, and so on. And of course, he's doing this right in public,Presence of Histamine in the Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix.
Consumption of bluefish ( Pomatomus saltatrix ) has been epidemiologically implicated and confirmed by laboratory analyses as a cause of scombroid food poisoning. An examination of marketable bluefish filets in the State of Connecticut found over 6.5% of the filets had histamine levels indicative of decomposition. No direct correlation of the presence of histidine decarboxylating bacteria and levels of histamine was found. The bluefish should be recognized as a food capable of causing scombroid poisoning.


Pakistan is pointing the finger at its neighbour, Afghanistan, after one of the bloodiest weeks in recent memory.

Pakistan has seen one of the most violent weeks in recent memory. More than 100 people have been killed in a series of attacks.

A number of groups have been connected to the attacks in one way or another, ranging from ISIL and the Pakistani Taliban to a faction called Jamaat ul-Ahrar. Security forces have launched a nationwide crackdown, in which more than 100 suspected fighters have been killed.

The Pakistani government is pointing the finger at its neighbour, Afghanistan.

Islamabad accuses Kabul of not doing enough to go after armed groups that launch attacks in its territory.

Pakistan is demanding the government in Kabul take action against 76 fighters it says are hiding inJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Another snag hit South Africa's long goodbye to anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on Saturday when his longtime ally Desmond Tutu said he had not been accredited as a clergyman at the funeral by the government so would not attend.

Mac Maharaj, a spokesman for South African president Jacob Zuma, insisted that Tutu is on the guest list and that he hopes a solution will be found so Tutu is present. He said he had verified that Tutu had been invited.

The 82-year-old retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town indicated he felt he had been snubbed by the current government, with which he has clashed several times in the past.

"Much as I would have loved to attend the service to say a final farewell to someone I loved


in a statement earlier Saturday that her father had not been accredited as a clergyman at Mandela's funeral.

The issue highlights occasional frictions between Tutu and Zuma. Two years ago, Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate often described as South Africa's conscience, slammed the ANC-led government as "disgraceful" for not issuing a visa to the Dalai Lama. He said it was worse than the country's former oppressive white regime.

At that time, South African foreign ministry officials denied they stalled on the visa because of pressure from China, a major trading partner. Tutu, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his nonviolent campaign against white racist rule, had invited the Dalai Lama, a fellow Nobel laureate, to South Africa to celebrate Tutu's 80th birthday. The Dalai Lama's officesaid he was calling off the visit because he didn't expect to get a visa.

Tutu accused the South African government of failing to side with "Tibetans who are being oppressed viciously by the Chinese." He also charged Zuma with ignoring the contribution religious leaders made to toppling the white Nationalist Party.

Before April 2009 elections propelled Zuma to the presidency, Tutu had said he was so skeptical of the ANC leader he was considering not casting a ballot. Tutu cited a rape trial in which Zuma was acquitted and corruption charges that were dropped just before the vote.

Tutu worked closely with Mandela and served as one of the anti-apartheid struggle's most visible public figures during the 27 years when Mandela was imprisoned. Tutu was the chairman of the Truth


Old bangers stir WoF debate

MTA says Government needs to be aware that average age of cars varies widely from region to region.

Government statistics reveal a wide range from 10.3 years in central Auckland to 16.8 years in Waimate in south Canterbury. Photo / Richard Robinson

Motor industry lobbyists are citing "huge" regional variations in the ages of vehicles on New Zealand roads in their campaign against any loosening of the existing warrant of fitness system.

Although the average age of the national fleet is 13.03 years, Government statistics reveal a wide range from 10.3 years in central Auckland to 16.8 years in Waimate in south Canterbury.

That has prompted the Motor Trade Association, representing repair workshops and service stations, to warn policy-makers to think twice before changing the existing requirement fornational average vehicle age of 13 years, high as it is by international standards, did not disclose the true state of the fleet outside the main centres of Auckland and Wellington, where many people use company cars "and most of the drive for regulatory reform comes from".

"There is some very old iron out there," he said yesterday.

"New Zealand's average vehicle age belies regional variations and many of the vehicles outside of the main cities are much older and have many fewer modern safety features.

"This isn't just about driving a new car with all the mod-cons - the increasing number of old, often poorly-maintained, vehicles has serious safety implications for anyone who travels on the roads of New Zealand."

Mr Stronach said vehicle ages tended to increase the further south


they were found, although the average for the Kaipara, north of Auckland, is 14.5 years, and Hauraki is 14.8.

"I think what you are seeing here is a lack of buying power of New Zealanders - we are not a high-wage economy and you can see that outside the main centres."

He noted that even the national average was too high by international standards, ranking against 10 years in Australia, 10.8 in the United States, 7.4 in Britain and 11.8 in "that hotbed of modernism, Russia".

But AA spokesman Mark Stockdale said that regional variations were not the whole story.

"We've got to keep in mind that in the last few decades the quality and reliability of the fleet has improved out of sight.

"Back in the 1970s, people were driving around inAizawl: Major political parties, NGOs and students associations in Mizoram have asked the prime minister not to finalise the Naga Framework Agreement without solving the political problems of the Mizos living in the hill areas of Manipur. A press statement issued here today by the Mizo Students Federation said that the memorandum, signed by presidents of all the political parties, NGOs and student bodies, was submitted to the Prime Minister’s office yesterday. A copy of the memorandum was also given to the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and R N Ravi, the interlocutor for Naga peace talks. The memorandum urged the Centre not to finalise the Naga Framework Agreement without solving the political problems of the Mizos living in the hill areas of Manipur. “The ongoing peace talks


Like to start a new thread which will give some interesting tidbits on events in the entertainment industry, that some might find informative. CLOSE TO YOU was a giant hit song by the CARPENTERS in 1970. However it was not a new song, This BURT BACHARACH song was used in the 1963 film TWILIGHT OF HONOR with RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN.

Like to start a new thread which will give some interesting tidbits on events in the entertainment industry, that some might find informative. CLOSE TO YOU was a giant hit song by the CARPENTERS in 1970. However it was not a new song, This BURT BACHARACH song was used in the 1963 film TWILIGHT OF HONOR with RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN.

The song was not used in the movie Dan. Was in thesoundtrack album and also released as single 45RPM as B side of Blue Guitar. The score of Twilight of Honor was issued on CD by FSM. Greetings Alex

Many times sequels don't make more money then the original does. Sometimes they do but one of the more extreme cases where such an event happened was with MAD MAX-79-[CULT HIT] and the big hit ROAD WARRIER-82.

If you ever see THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN-78- look closely. MICKEY LOLICH solid pitcher for the TIGERS and the NEW YORK METS in the 60's and 70's, plays a cop who gets killed by the title character in a 1 minute scene. MICKEY'S most popular moment was winning the seventh game of the world series in 1968

Long wacky titles were really popular in the mid


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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are recommending allowing a major expansion of the largest hazardous waste dump in the Western United States, even though some residents blame the dump for birth defects and have opposed the expansion, officials said on Tuesday.

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control said it has issued a draft expansion permit that would allow the landfill near Kettleman City — a farmworker community in the state's Central Valley midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles — to expand by 5 million cubic yards.

The landfill, which is operated by Chemical Waste Management, currently houses 10 million cubic yards of hazardous waste.

Environmental organizations and residents have opposed the expansion of the 1,600-acre landfill for years. The landfill has been fined


Moody’s Acquires Amba Investment Services

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Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) has acquired Amba Investment Services, a provider of investment research and quantitative analytics for global financial institutions. Amba will operate as part of Moody’s Analytics majority-owned subsidiary, Copal Partners.

The acquisition will bolster the research and analytical capabilities offered by Moody’s Analytics through Copal, creating a leading outsourcing provider for the global financial sector, including nine of the ten largest global investment banks. Moody’s acquired a majority stake in Copal in 2011.

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During the 2011 fire season, Shaun spent a lot of time thinking about how to effectively fund raise money for his endeavors in Rwanda. He realized that folks who accomplish tough physical feats often portray to people their passion for a cause, thus raising more money. He decided to walk from San Luis Obispo to San Francisco in a weeks time. Claire and Ben (see runners) made rash and not-thought-out decisions to join Shaun on the journey. The walk was more challenging than they could have expected, but they did the entire thing as they had promised. The walk raised more money than Shaun had ever raised before amounting to over $6,000.

The next fire season, many people showed interest in participating in something again for the cause. Therefore,live performances and life story called Brighter Days.

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Subject: Re: JJ Grey & Mofro Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:59 pm

The new song is at like 10:40 of the podcast

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So I played some stuff to my dad, he loved it. There's a JJ Grey & Mofro all ages show in Philly, about 2 hours from where I live on Friday, and he was on board at such short notice which means he must've really liked it. Then mum announced today she would be away on Friday night so there'd me nobody at home


Lt. Gen. Sidney B. Berry, a decorated combat veteran who ushered women into West Point as superintendent of the United States Military Academy in the 1970s and confronted a grievous cheating scandal there, died on July 1 in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 87.

The cause was congestive heart failure, a complication of Parkinson’s disease, his son, Bryan, said.

General Berry was a military luminary from the day a fellow cadet christened him “our leader, owner of the place,” in his academy yearbook. He was the first in his graduating class to achieve the rank of general.

Serving in the Army in the Korean War, he was wounded, awarded two Silver Stars for valor and promoted twice in the field, to captain and major. In the Vietnam War, he was againAuthorities who raided the Pittsfield Township home of Bernie Klein were looking for evidence that he assisted other people in committing suicide, documents released Thursday indicate.

As the secretary for the Final Exit Network's Board of Directors, Klein was involved in speaking engagements, likely wrote a training manual and oversaw four regional case coordinators, a search warrant affidavit released to The News charges.

Bernie Klein

Among the items they were searching for was paperwork "on people Bernie Klein has assisted commit suicide or has assisted with the coordination of their hastened death," the affidavit states.

It's too early in the investigation to say whether any assisted suicides occurred in Michigan, authorities said. But the search warrant affidavit alleges Klein "has served in many roles in the organization, including as a person who


personally assists in a suicide."

The documents detail an organized group of people who didn't have an office, but conferred by conference call and kept meticulous records as they assisted in at least 130 deaths.

Their activities became public Wednesday when teams of law enforcement officers - led by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation - raided homes and businesses in nine states, including Klein's house.

The network's president, medical director and two other members were charged Wednesday in the death of John Celmer, a 58-year-old Georgia man who suffered from cancer. They each face up to five years in prison if convicted on assisted suicide charges.

Klein's home was the only one in Michigan to be raided, and he was not arrested and has not been charged with a crime. A manwho answered the phone at Klein's home Thursday evening hung up on a reporter.

The documents released Thursday do not say authorities have evidence Klein participated in any assisted suicides. But police searching the home got a judge's permission to seize computers and other evidence that could link him to assisted suicides.

Klein was listed as the board secretary, made a $700 donation to the group last July, received reimbursement checks from Final Exit Network for training materials, and last spoke on end of life issues for the group in New York in September, documents said.

Officials with the Livingston and Washtenaw Narcotics Enforcement Team, which assisted in Wednesday's search, referred comment to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Officials there did not return calls Thursday.

The group's activities came under scrutiny after


Celmer's death by helium inhalation. Documents filed in the case say people interested in assisted suicide complete an application and pay a $50 membership fee. On the day of the suicide, the member receives a visit from the "exit guide" and a "senior exit guide" who instruct the member through the process, Georgia authorities said.

The documents also charge that the "guides" clean up the scene afterward, discard the evidence and make it appear the person died while sleeping. The affidavit describes a meticulous record-keeping system, and the searches appeared aimed at seizing those records.

On its Web site, the Final Exit Network says it never encourages people to hasten their death, but serves people suffering from intolerable conditions.

Members defended the Final Exit Network Thursday, saying they don't play andifficulties at the rail car ends where adjacent railroad cars are connected, given the nomenclature xe2x80x9cthe coupler endsxe2x80x9d. Traditionally, a pair of cars to be joined at a coupler would each be equipped with one bridge plate permanently mounted on a hinged connection on one side of the car, typically the left hand side. In this arrangement the axis of the hinge is horizontal and transverse to the longitudinal centerline of the rail car.
Conventionally, for loading and unloading operations, the bridge plate of each car at the respective coupled end is lowered, like a draw bridge, into a generally horizontal arrangement to mate with the adjoining car, each plate providing one side of the path so that the co-operative effect of the two plates is to provide a


moving, to edge along from the ladder to the landing gear, and then to lower (or raise) the landing gear, and then to descend from the car, particularly in bad weather, such as freezing rain.
It would be advantageous to have a ladder abreast of the position of the landing gear, (that is, at a location corresponding to the longitudinal location of the landing gear). Therefore, it would be advantageous to have foot supports, and corresponding handholds, mounted to the body of the railcar abreast of the collapsible hitch and landing gear area to facilitate loading and unloading of the highway trailers.
It would also be advantageous to mount running boards longitudinally inboard of the hitch centerline, abreast of the landing gear position, i.e., the location of the landing gearof 67,200 lbs. Some common sizes of highway trailers are, the 28xe2x80x2 pup trailer weighing up to 40,000 lbs., and the 45xe2x80x2 to 53xe2x80x2 trailer weighing up to 65,000 lbs. for a two axle trailer and up to 90,000 lbs. for a three axle trailer.
In an aspect of the invention, there is a rail road car for carrying wheeled vehicles. The rail road car includes a rail car body having a first end, a second end, and a vehicle deck running between the first and second ends. The first end of the rail car body has a releasable coupler mounted thereto. Curbs extend along the deck to define a roadway therebetween along which wheeled vehicles can be conducted between the first and second ends. At least one bridge


plate is mounted to the rail car body adjacent to the first end of the deck. The bridge plate is mounted to yaw relative to the rail car body when the rail road car is travelling. At least one of the curbs is flared laterally outward adjacent to the bridge plate to accommodate yawing of the bridge plate when the rail road car is in motion.
In another feature of that aspect of the invention, the body includes first and second side sills. Each of the curbs is defined by a respective portion of the first and second side sills. That portion extends to a height greater than the deck relative to top of rail, and is located to border the deck. In a further additional feature, the sidesills have end portions adjacent the first end of the body, and the ends of the side sills broaden out adjacent to the first end of the body. In still another feature, the side sills have end portions adjacent the first end of the body, and the end portions are chamfered outwardly adjacent to the first end of the body. In another additional feature, the curbs are flared laterally outwardly at both ends of the body. In a still further feature, the body includes side sills extending along either side of the deck between the first and second ends, Each of the side sills has a top chord member, and at least a portion of each of the curbs is defined by a respective one of the top


chord members.
In another aspect of the invention, there is a rail road car for carrying wheeled vehicles. It comprises a rail road car body supported for rolling motion in a longitudinal direction on rail car trucks. The body has a first end, a second end, and an end-loadable deck extending between the first and second ends of the body. The body has curbs mounted thereto. The curbs extend along the deck to define a roadway therebetween along which wheeled vehicles can be conducted. A hitch for engaging highway trailer king pins is mounted to the deck between the curbs. The hitch is movable to a lowered position to allow the running gear of highway trailers to pass thereover, and to a raised position for engaging a king pinas the hitch. In still another feature, the decking includes deck plates mounted to either side of the center sill. In a further feature, the deck plates are mounted flush with the top flange of the center sill.
In another aspect of the invention, there is an articulated, vehicle-carrying rail road car comprising a first rail road car unit and a second rail road car unit, the first and second rail road car units being supported by rail car trucks for travel in a longitudinal rolling direction, and being joined together at an articulated connector. The first rail car unit has a first deck along which wheeled vehicles can be conducted. The second rail car unit has a second deck along which vehicles can be conducted, the second deck


being separated longitudinally at the articulated connector. A set of bridge plates extends between the first and second decks to permit wheeled vehicles to be conducted between the first and second decks. At least a portion of the bridge plates being mounted flush with the first deck.
In another feature of that aspect of the invention, the first deck has a first articulated connector end facing toward the articulated connector, and the bridge plate has a second portion overlapping the first deck. In another feature of the invention, the first deck has a first articulated connector end facing the articulated connector. The second deck has a second articulated connector end facing the articulated connector. A support member extends from the second articulated connector end at a level below thesecond deck, and the first portion of the bridge plate bears upon the support member.
In a further feature, the second deck has a second articulated connector end facing the articulated connector. A support member extends from the second articulated connector end at a level below the second deck. The first portion of the bridge plate bears upon the support member. In a still further feature, the bridge plate is maintained in place relative to the second deck by a retainer, the retainer permitting the bridge plate to be lifted relative to the second deck. In another feature, the retainer includes at least one hook member. The second deck has a fitting engaged by the hook.
In yet another feature, the first deck has a wear plate mounted thereto. The


overlapping portion of the bridge plate is located to bear upon the wear plate. The overlapping portion of the bridge plate can slide across the wear plate during curving motion of the rail road car during travel. In an additional feature, the wear plate is a stainless steel wear plate. In a still further feature, the second deck has a hitch mounted thereto for engaging highway trailers, and, in the longitudinal direction, the hitch is mounted within ten feet of the bridge plate. In yet another feature, the first portion of the bridge plate has traction enhancement members mounted thereon. In still another feature, the second rail car body has side bearing arms extending therefrom next to the articulated connector. The bridge plate is mounted over one ofthe side bearing arms.
In a further aspect of the invention, there is a rail road car comprising a rail road car body supported by rail cars trucks for rolling operation in a longitudinal direction. The body has a first end, a second end, and a center sill extending between the first and second ends. The center sill is supported by the trucks. The rail road car having a pair of side sills spaced to either side of the center sill and a set of cross-bearers extending between the center sill and the side sills. A deck is mounted between the side sills and above the cross-bearers, the deck permitting the loading of vehicles thereupon. The rail road car has first and second pairs of laterally extending beams mounted


the center sill, and a second portion distant from the center sill. The first portion has a greater depth of section than the second portion. In a further feature, the rail road car has side sheets depending from the side sills. At least one of the pairs of beams has distal portions extending beyond the side sheets. In a further additional feature, the distal portions having jacking fittings by which an end of the rail car body can be lifted.
In further aspect of the invention, there is a rail road car having a rail car body including an end-loading deck for wheeled vehicles. The rail car body being supported by rail car trucks for rolling in a longitudinal direction. A set of container support beams is mounted toRizvi behind bars

Finally A month later and in a rather bold manner, the government has detained Khadim Rizvi. The chief of the politico-religious party, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), was taken into custody from his residence in Lahore on Friday evening.inally, Prime Minister Imran Khan seems to take seriously his commitment made in the national address in late October, regarding religious hardliners taking law in their own hands. Mr Khan had then warned that the state would take serious action against those trying to disrupt peace.

Soon after hell broke loose as TLP’s supporters clashed with police in the eastern city of Lahore. The scuffles following his arrest left at least five people wounded. To much dismay, Mr Rizvi’s fanbase plans to lock the country down as well. Earlier in the


Vander Kam explains, “A group that set a goal of spreading its religious message to all peoples to the ends of the earth had a very different understanding of God’s plan than ones who seem to have done no proselytizing and had no interest in bringing the nations into the fold.” Nevertheless, there are some similarities between the two groups and their writings, which make for interesting comparisons.

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The project will grant free, global access to the 2,000-year-old text — considered one of the greatest archaeological finds of the last century — by uploading high-resolution images that are exact copies of the originals.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the caves by Qumran, a site in the Judean Wilderness on the west side of the Dead Sea.Vander Kam explores similarities between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament in the March/April 2015 issue of BAR. Vander Kam points out that there is no overlap between the cast of characters in the scrolls and the New Testament (except for figures from the Hebrew Bible). However, they shed some light on the world in which Jesus lived.

What do they say about the world in which Jesus lived? The Dead Sea Scrolls are comprised primarily of two types of texts: parts of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and sectarian works written by the small group (or groups) of Jews who lived at Qumran. Further, it is quite possible that the two groups never interacted with each other.

"Anyone in his office or on his couch will be


interested in the rest". At the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton they are even more selective; the articles to be presented in order to apply to spend a year in the institute which housed the exiled Albert Einstein are three in all. If this approach were to become widespread, many would be persuaded to back quality over quantity.

As stated at the beginning of this article, all of this is being discussed throughout the world, also because the future of advanced and very advanced productive sectors, and therefore millions of jobs, depend on the decisions taken. It is talked about much less in Italy where problems have doubled because of lack of funds and tripled because of the bureaucratic dictatorship, which paralizes the best researchers with periodic lethalwhich included a friend and a cousin. Blessed told us that her family is actually fairly well off compared to many in the area. Doreen, who is eighteen, is nearly finished with high school. She just got her exam results. Because she did well, she'll soon be going to university, and then (she hopes) to medical school. So, in contrast to a lot of what we'd seen on this cultural day, this family seemed to be on a path toward relative prosperity.

This six-minute video mostly features footage from our cultural day.

The Bride Price On the bus ride from Botswana to Zimbabwe, Francis, our local guide, talked about marriage customs in his tribe. Just two generations ago, it was common for men to have several wives. This still happens,


to keep actual cattle (such as Johannesburg), the bride price has become abstracted. Some pay it in gold coins called Kruggerands. Others buy “bonds” (Brian's word, not mine) that represent the cows. Brian says he's been in homes where the certificates representing the cows are framed and displayed on the wall, like a stock certificate.

An informal settlement (or “shantytown”) in Soweto, Johannesburg.

Informal Settlements

e ended our African adventure in Cape Town, a vibrant city on the southwestern tip of the continent. We took the cable car to the top of Table Mountain, walked along the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (which is packed with shops and restaurants), and wandered through the Company's Garden and Greenmarket Square.

On our final afternoon, we went on a three-hour tour of the local townships. Tothere are different levels of wealth in Langa. Some folks have relatively nice homes, with yards and garages and fences; we were told these belong to people who have university degrees: teachers, nurses, doctors and lawyers. These homes would seem small in the U.S., but are positively luxurious compared to the shacks in the informal settlements just a few hundred meters down the road.

Sugar led us on a short walking tour of some of the government-built housing in Langa. We were able to see two homes. I didn't see much of the second because I stopped to talk with a girl in the first house (I couldn't understand her African name, I'm afraid). I started by asking her about her life, but she was actually more curious about


By Nigel Wilson

In the early afternoon heat, the villagers of Bil'in prepare for their weekly demonstration against the Israeli occupation. An old man adjusts a gas mask, while a group of young Palestinians wrap keffiyahs around their necks.

Hanging back, incongruous, a bus-load of elderly French tourists watch silently. A separate group of European backpackers and Asian exchange students bristles with nervous anticipation.

A few hundred metres away, across the valley, Israeli soldiers line up close to a parked armoured car, tear gas and stun grenades ready.

It's a familiar scene for those on both sides, but an entirely novel one for the people who have paid to be here. The Friday protest has become a weekly ritual for the villagers of Bil'in since the Israeli separation barrier was built closeto the village, cutting off farmers from a swathe of their land.

Bil’in residents wave Palestinian flags at the weekly protest against the Israeli occupation

Rateb Abu Rahmah, who is one of the protest organisers, hands out shiny new Palestinian flags to the younger tourists, while a band of international activists congregates with their own well-used banners. The villagers lead the march toward the soldiers, chanting anti-occupation slogans. The activists and tourists eagerly join in.

Over a loudspeaker, the soldiers warn the demonstrators to turn back before promptly launching a barrage of stun grenades and tear gas.

The tourists and villagers retreat, tentatively at first, but more swiftly once the tear gas wafts across the valley. Eyes streaming, gagging and spitting from the effects of the gas, they take refuge behind walls


and bushes.

The scene repeats itself twice before the Israeli army retreats. As the gas clouds disperse, one tourist stuffs a few used canisters into his bag as a memento, others pose for pictures. Today's encounter lasts no longer than an hour.

Dr Rahmah runs from a tear gas cloud, along with internationals

Adnan, a British backpacker on the tour, became interested in the conflict after studying politics at university. "It was shocking and exciting at the same time, because I never expected to experience anything like that," he says. "It was insane. It enforced the idea in my head that the IDF don't see Palestinians as equals."

A Belgian traveller, Dylan, says the protest felt "useless," noting there were more internationals than Palestinians present. "The only goal was to hide fromthe tear gas."

Watching and taking part in the weekly Bil'in demonstration is offered as part of a 'political tour' by a guesthouse called Hostel in Ramallah located in the de-facto Palestinian capital. Its laid-back co-owner Bobo has taken international tourists to the Bil'in most weeks for the past two years.

"It wasn't precisely our plan," he says. "When we opened we started making political tours to different areas. But there was a demand from different travellers for Bil'in."

The village of around 2,000 people came to international attention when the documentary 'Five broken cameras' was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012. It portrayed the villagers' protests against the construction of the separation wall through village land that began in 2005. The situation initially drew international activists and, more recently,


archaeological site of Sebastiya, and lastly dinner at a Nablus restaurant renowned for its Musakhan – roasted chicken on taboon bread, garnished with fried onions and pine nuts.

These kinds of networks that connect Palestinian businesses and international tourists are small for now. But in terms of developing the Palestinian tourism sector, they could play an important role in benefitting local communities, as well as opening the eyes of international tourists who pass through.The heartbreaking life story of the "Titanic Waifs" and the Irish woman who cared for them.

Editor's Note: On April 15, 1912, the Belfast-built RMS Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg, killing over 1,500 passengers and crew on board. This was one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history and among those on board were many Irish.

In the run-up to the anniversary of the disaster, IrishCentral will take a look at the Irish on board – the lucky, unlucky and heroic.

This is an extract from the book “The Irish Aboard the Titanic” by Senan Molony which tells the tales of the people who were on board the night the ship went down. This book gives those people a voice. In it are stories of agony,


luck, self-sacrifice, dramatic escapes, and heroes left behind.

Read more: Cork man survived Titanic tragedy by hiding in a lifeboat

Mary Kelly

Ticket number 14312.

Paid £7 15s.

Boarded at Queenstown. Third Class.

From: Castlepollard, County Westmeath.

Destination: 113 West 15th Street, New York City.

Orphans saved from the Titanic by Mary Kelly (22) created one of the abiding sensations of the tragedy. They were the ‘Titanic Waifs,’ two curly-haired French boys named Lolo and Momon, who found themselves alone and adrift in an open lifeboat with only a young Irish girl to comfort them with her crooning foreign tongue. The children were parentless only because their 32-year-old father, Michel Navratil, had stolen them from their mother Marcelle in a tug-of-love snatch from the south of France. Toddler Michel was aged three and his brother EdmondRoger only two. They were smuggled to Southampton where their father signed aboard under the name of Louis Hoffman.

When disaster struck, ‘Hoffman’ handed his two boys lovingly into the arms stretched out to receive them from collapsible D, the last boat lowered. It was near two o’clock now, and close to the end. Mary Kelly helped take them into the boat and then soothed them in their uncomprehending distress.

Mary Kelly was uniquely qualified to do so. A young girl who loved children, she was planning to have many of her own and was on her way to New York to marry the man of her dreams – boyfriend John Heslin from her home place who had traveled over to America some months earlier to prepare a place for


them both.

Read more: Irish Titanic passenger Mary Burns died while tending to the needs of others

Mary was a domestic and she hoped to get work in the big houses in New York, possibly as a nanny caring for the children of the gentry. With the French boys pressed tearfully to her skirts and bosom, she may have thought it was a little early to begin her calling, but that she needed the practice. When the children were landed safely aboard the Carpathia, a determined effort was made to discover who they were. But the shocked tots were incapable of telling. Eventually, passengers who had known the father on board – he was now floating dead in the Atlantic with a loaded revolver in his pocket – identified themby their false name, Hoffman.

Mary Kelly cared for her charges until they landed in New York when the press had a field day. Eventually, the tots were claimed as a near-trophy by First-Class passenger Margaret Hays, while feverish attempts were made to reunite them with their family. Eventually, Marcelle Navratil came forward and the boys were on their way home.

Miss Kelly meanwhile had moved quietly on and into the arms of John Heslin, with a housewarming gift of $100 from the Red Cross. Not that it compensated for the loss of Mary’s wedding trousseau – the slew of beautiful presents from family and friends – which now lay at the bottom of the Atlantic. Mary and John went on to marry within a year and to have six


because he was surprised at the lack of data analysis to back up some of the criticisms, solutions and arguments that had been put forward about fundraising since the death of Olive Cooke. He believed that doing his own research could offer some insight into the problems facing the sector.

- The article originally said that a total of £18m was spent by the six charities on fundraising in 2013/14, compared with £1.5m in 2011/12.Note: Dr. Laiteerapong and Ms. Cooper had access to the data in the study. Dr. Laiteerapong takes full responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. The authors completed the CHEERS (Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards) checklist ().

Financial Support: Dr. Laiteerapong was supported by grant K23 DK092783 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Dr. Huang is supported by grant K24 DK105340 from the NIDDK. Drs. Laiteerapong and Huang are members of the NIDDK Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at the University of Chicago (P30 DK092949). Dr. Winn was supported by the Royster Society of Fellows at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Editors' Disclosures: Christine Laine, MD, MPH, Editor in Chief, reports that


The Brexit stakes are high for Chayenne Wiskerke, who owns and manages an onion packing and exporting firm in Kruiningen, near the Netherlands' border with Belgium. Wiskerke Onions, a fourth-generation family business, says it packs an eye-watering 185,000 tonnes of onions a year and ships them to more than 100 countries. A whole 20 per cent of production, though, is destined for the United Kingdom. But what will happen as the U.K. moves to leave the European Union, particularly if there is no deal for the divorce by the March 29 deadline? Wiskerke worries about her company's trucks being stopped at the border for inspection, leading to delays for supermarkets that can't stockpile fresh produce. "That's the most difficult thing — you don't know how to prepare," Wiskerkesaid.

As is happening in the U.K., politicians and executives in the Netherlands are working to alleviate the economic fears that could haunt businesses such as Wiskerke Onions while Britain's uncertain political future sends shockwaves to continental Europe.

The Dutch government says it's been in talks with 250 foreign firms considering moving or expanding operations into the Netherlands in the wake of Brexit. At least 42 made the move in 2018, according to figures recently published by a Dutch foreign investment organization. The European Medicines Agency is in the process of relocating from London to Amsterdam. Electronics giants Sony and Panasonic have announced plans to move their European hubs from Britain to the Netherlands.

Not a good outlook

But the outlook overall is hardly positive, even for this country. While some Dutch


group and 21 in the late-onset group. Both the mean duration from onset to rapid cycling and the mean duration of each phase were shorter in the early-onset group than in the late-onset group. There were no significant differences between the groups in period of remission, character of the first episode, heredity, or thyroid function. Lithium carbonate therapy was more effective for reducing manic symptoms in the late-onset group than in the early-onset group, without maintaining a prophylactic effect in either group, whereas carbamazepine was more effective in the early-onset group. Antidepressants used in the depressive phase had a tendency to be more effective in the late-onset than in the early-onset group. However, rapid cycling induced by antidepressants was more evident in the late-onset than in the early-onsetRepublican Herman Cain quoted a Pokémon movie once more as he suspended his campaign for President of the United States today.

"I believe these words came from the Pokémon movie," Cain said during a speech in Atlanta. "Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There's a mission just for you and me....Just look inside and you will find just what you can do."

Herman Cain has used those lines before, citing them to "a poet" rather than, more accurately, from the Donna Summer song called "The Power of One" that was in Pokémon: The Movie 2000. Today, dogged by allegations of sexual harassment and an extra-martial affair, all of which


built to confine the Chernobyl reactor at the centre of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was previewed for the media yesterday (Picture: Getty)

Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded and burned April 26, 1986 (Picture: Getty)

The complex construction effort to secure the molten reactor’s core and 200 tons of highly radioactive material has taken nine years (Picture: Getty)

It was completed under the control of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Picture: Getty)

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development managed a fund with contributions (Picture: Getty)

Contributions came from 45 countries, the European Union and £715 million in the bank’s own resources (Picture: Getty)

Inside the control room for the ‘New Safe Confinement’ at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Picture: Getty)

The shelter is the largestmovable land-based structure ever built, with a span of 257 meters (843 feet) and a total weight of over 36,000 tonnes.

‘This was a very long project,’ said Balthasar Lindauer, director of the bank’s Nuclear Safety Department.

He noted that preliminary studies began in 1998 and the contract for the structure was placed in 2007.

The shelter is the largest movable land-based structure ever built, with a span of 257 meters (843 feet) and a total weight of over 36,000 tonnes (Picture: Getty)

‘This was a very long project,’ said Balthasar Lindauer, director of the bank’s Nuclear Safety Department (Picture: Getty)

He noted that preliminary studies began in 1998 and the contract for the structure was placed in 2007 (Picture: Getty)

A view inside the ‘New Safe Confinement’ of the old sarcophagus entombing the


destroyed reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Picture: Getty)

The power station’s reactor number four exploded in April 1986, showering radiation over the local area (Picture: Getty)

Workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Picture: Getty)

A model of the destroyed reactor number four (Picture: Getty)

Journalists were invited to view the new safe confinement shelter ahead of the handover to Ukrainian authorities (Picture: Getty)

He said Ukraine was a big contributor, contributing €100 million in cash along with expertise and personnel.

Journalists were invited to view the new safe confinement shelter ahead of the handover to Ukrainian authorities.Marda Loop Justice Film Festival: justREEL

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Today is the anniversary of the battle of Dun Nechtáin in which the Picts, led by their king Bridei, defeated the English of Northumbria. It was fought on 20th May 685, one of the most famous dates in early Scottish history. The Pictish victory was decisive: the Northumbrian king Ecgfrith was cut down and nearly all his warriors were slain. His people back home regarded the defeat as a catastrophe, a disastrous reversal of fortune for the royal dynasty.

Years later, the Venerable Bede wrote about the battle in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. He had been a young boy of twelve, a novice monk in the Northumbrian monastery of Jarrow, when news of Egcfrith’s fall came south from the land of the Picts. Looking back inthe twilight of his life, Bede recalled the battle with sadness and regret. ‘From that time,’ he wrote, ‘the hopes and strength of the English kingdom began to ebb and fall away.’

Bede does not name the battlefield, saying only that it took place in Pictish territory ‘in a tight place of inaccessible mountains’. Geographical detail, although useful to modern historians, was less important to him than his key point or ‘message’. To Bede, the Pictish victory was God’s revenge on Ecgfrith for an event of the previous year: a savage Northumbrian raid on Brega in Ireland in which defenceless monasteries were plundered. Another English monk, writing at Ripon in Yorkshire, was similarly vague on the geography of Ecgfrith’s defeat. He was more concerned with describing the battle as


‘a woeful disaster’ inflicted by an enemy who sprang from ‘the bestial Pictish peoples’.

Much of our information comes from other sources, from writers in the Celtic lands where people in the seventh century were no strangers to English aggression. From the Irish annalists, for instance, we learn the Gaelic name of the battlefield:

‘The battle of Dun Nechtáin was fought on the 20th day of the month of May, a Saturday, in which Ecgfrith son of Oswiu, king of the Saxons, having completed the fifteenth year of his reign, was killed with the greater part of his warriors by Bridei son of Bili, the king of Fortriu.’

An Irish monk, probably based at the great monastery of Bangor on the shore of Belfast Lough, composed a poem on the battle.He described Ecgfrith’s demise with grim satisfaction and, like Bede, saw the Pictish victory as God’s punishment for the brutal Northumbrian raid on Brega in 684:

‘Today Bridei gives battle

over the land of his grandfather,

unless it is the wish of the Son of God

that restitution be made.

Today the son of Oswiu is slain

in battle against iron swords.

Even though he did penance,

it was penance too late.

Today the son of Oswiu is slain,

he who took the black draughts.

Christ has heard our prayer

that Bridei would avenge Brega.’

Among the Britons there was a similar absence of affection for Ecgfrith, whose forebears had waged many wars against the native kingdoms of Wales and the North. A Welsh chronicler, writing in the early 800s, compiled a list of Northumbrian kings for his book Historia Brittonum


(‘History of the Britons’). When he reached Ecgfrith he paused to add this note: ‘He is the one who made war against his kinsman who was the Pictish king called Bridei, and he fell there with all the strength of his army, and the Picts with their king emerged as victors, and the Saxon thugs never again ventured forth to take tribute from the Picts.’

Such sentiments appear to conform to the ‘Celt versus Saxon’ view of seventh-century warfare. However, before we run too far with the idea of an inter-ethnic dimension to these military campaigns, we might take note of an old Northumbrian tradition on the fate of Ecgfrith’s body. According to a chronicle written at Durham in the 1100s, the dead English king was not left onis actually caused by sunlight scattering off countless grains of microscopic interplanetary dust spread out to beyond the orbit of Mars.

The vast majority of this dust is concentrated within the plane of the inner solar system near the sun, making the grains’ combined light appear along the ecliptic, the path in the sky each planet follows.

This faint light show is best seen during early spring and autumn, when the ecliptic line is nearly perpendicular to the horizon, as seen from the North Hemisphere.

Visible from the tropics to mid-latitudes, the zodiacal light is a special sight reserved for really dark rural locations far from the blinding light pollution of cities and towns.

Your best bet to catch the zodiacal light will be on the upcoming moonless nights, looking toward the


hour after local sunset. Sweeping the sky with binoculars will help pinpoint the planet.

—Illustration courtesy Starry Night Software

Better hurry though, because by next week the little world will start sinking and fading fast as it approaches the sun once more.

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        tripping and they just fell over. From what I saw the officer did not toss him to
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        like they both fell down.

        In her August 31, 2018 deposition, Hatcher testified that Edwards kicked Deputy Patty
when he opened the door to the SUV, not afterwards when Edwards supposedly ran away from
the officers and Burns caught him, as Burns and Patty stated. Notably, Hatcher did not actually
see Edwards kick Patty but inferred that it happened right before Burns and Edwards fellnot read, the declaration was read to him before he signed;
however, Hickman alleges that the recorded declaration does not match what he remembers
telling Hutchison, what he remembers of the night of the incident, or what he remembers
Hutchison reading back to him for his approval before signing the statement. After he gave his
statement to Hutchinson, he was released soon thereafter and the charges against him were
dropped.

       C. The Investigation

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comes from the depositions.
       Both officers testified they were walking back to Deputy Patty’s car with Mr.
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       Burns caught up with him grabbing Mr. Edwards around the waist.
       But this testimony is contradicted by Ms. Hatcher, the witness at the scene. In her
       telling, Mr. Edwards kicked at Officer Patty when he was opening the door.
       Under1. Chen Hao: is a Chinese actress and model. Chen Hao was first noticed in China award winning movie “Postman in the Mountains” (那山那人那狗) in 1998. Her young talent was vastly recognized and was giving chances to act in a few other movies and tv dramas. Chen Hao is beautiful and lovely celebrity.

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film actress. She graduated in Directing at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing.

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10. Li Xiao Lu: is a Golden Horse award-winning Chinese actress, best known for her role in Joan Chen’s directing debut Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.

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director most famous in mainland China.

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29. Zhou Xun is a Chinese actress and singer. She is regarded as one of the “Four Young Dan actresses” in China.

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Hong Kong, and continues her acting career in mainland China for Feiteng after the contract ended.

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36. Li Qian: is an actress and has participated in famous series such as The Country’s Granary.Baruch College Ranked Among "America's Top Colleges" by Forbes Magazine

NEW YORK, NY - July 25, 2013 - Baruch College was once again included in Forbes magazine's just-released annual listing of "America'sTop Colleges 2013." Baruch is ranked #280, up 71 spots from #351 last year. Baruch was also ranked #105 among the top colleges in the Northeast.

Forbes partnered with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and Productivity to evaluate 650 colleges that award undergraduate degrees or certificates requiring "4 or more years." Each of the colleges must be classified by The Carnegie Foundation as Doctorate- granting Universities, Master's Colleges and Universities, or Baccalaureate Colleges. Forbes compiled the rankings for the "America's Top Colleges" list based on five general categories, taking into consideration: quality of teaching and student satisfaction,


post graduate success, high graduation rates, low-levels of debt and the academic success of its students.

About Baruch College:

Baruch College is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) with a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students, who represent 160 countries and speak more than 100 languages. Ranked among the top 15% of U.S. colleges and the No. 5 public regional university, Baruch College is regularly recognized as among the most ethnically diverse colleges in the country. As a public institution with a tradition of academic excellence, Baruch College offers accessibility and opportunity for students from every corner of New York City and from around the world. For more about Baruch College, go to http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/.the enlarged view of the vicinity of the point of interest is displayed on the whole screen, the driver can view the enlarged view but cannot view the map of the area outside the vicinity of the point of interest, and therefore cannot check the roads existing around the vicinity of the point of interest.
Also, when the enlarged view of the vicinity of the point of interest or the wide area view of the periphery of the area covered by the map is displayed on part of the screen, the driver cannot view the part of the map which is concealed by this display. Besides, there is no continuity between the map and the enlarged or wide area view whose scale is different with the map. This makes


deformed surfaces using the changed altitude information.
According to this construction, the map display device displays the vicinity of the car position flatly and the other area three-dimensionally. Accordingly, in addition to the above effects, the display of the vicinity of the car position is kept from being obstructed by undulations.
(8) In the map display device of (7), the altitude changing unit may further change altitudes in the altitude information that correspond to positions which belong to an area around the first area in the map, in accordance with distances of the positions from the first area.
According to this construction, the boundary area between the flatly displayed area and the three-dimensionally displayed area is displayed so that the flat area and the three-dimensional area show continuity. Accordingly, in additionmap deforming unit may include: an altitude changing unit for changing altitudes shown by the altitude information that correspond to positions which belong to a first area in the map, to a uniform value, the first area being made up of a current position of the map display device and a neighborhood thereof, wherein the map deforming unit changes the first coordinate information in accordance with the changed altitude information.
According to this construction, the map display device displays the vicinity of the car position flatly and the other area three-dimensionally. Accordingly, in addition to the above effects, the display of the vicinity of the car position is kept from being obstructed by undulations.
(16) In the map display device of (15), the altitude changing unit may further change altitudes


Demands for Grants (Railways) for 2015-16; and two appropriation bills relating to Demands for Grants on Account (General) for 2016-17 and Supplementary Demands for Grants (General) for 2015-16.

The legislative agenda for the Rajya Sabha is to pass Bureau of Indian Standards Bill, 2015; the National Waterways Bill, 2016; the Whistle Blowers Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2015, the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012; and The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013.

According to senior ministers the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has succeeded in convincing the Congress leadership, primarily party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, to support the real estate bill.

At least two senior Congress leaders, who are also members of the Rajya Sabha, confirmed that the party will support the real estate bill whenever the government tables it.Eligibility and Overview:
Players ages 6-8 as of December 31 for the current season, who have played one year in the LTPW program, are eligible for Wild Mites (WM). This a developmental House (local) Mite program. Players ages 4-8 (as of December 31) with no organized hockey experience must register first with the Learn To Play Wild (LTPW) Initiation Program. The WM program is important to player development as skating and puck skills are taught and reinforced while the fundamental elements of team/positional play, rules and games are learned. The program is designed so that players can spend multiple years in Wild Mites and it is recommended that players 8 and under consider a second year in the Wild Mite program before moving to travel hockey. The WM program


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This was a game Penn State had almost no business losing. The Nittany Lions had the home environment in their favor. They had the best player on the field, McSorley, who willed the offense into some semblance of cohesion in the second half. They had a 12-point lead with eight minutes left and all of the momentum, only they coughed it up by allowing Ohio State to wrestle away the established pace of play. This was a game Penn State lost just as much as it was a game that Ohio State won, if not more so.

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June 11, 2017

An IBEF view on Indian telecom industry: India is currently the worldâ€™s second-largest telecommunications market and has registered strong growth in the past decade and half. The Indian mobile economy is growing rapidly and will contribute substantially to Indiaâ€™s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to report prepared by GSM Association (GSMA) in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

The liberal and reformist policies of the Government of India have been instrumental along with strong consumer demand in the rapid growth in the Indian telecom sector. The government has enabled easy market access to telecom equipment and a fair and proactive regulatory framework that has ensured availability of telecom services to consumer at affordable prices. The deregulation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)


norms has made the sector one of the fastest growing and a top five employment opportunity generator in the country.

The Indian telecom sector is expected to generate four million direct and indirect jobs over the next five years according to estimates by Randstad India. The employment opportunities are expected to be created due to combination of governmentâ€™s efforts to increase penetration in rural areas and the rapid increase in smartphone sales and rising internet usage.

International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts India to overtake US as the second-largest smartphone market globally by 2017 and to maintain high growth rate over the next few years as people switch to smartphones and gradually upgrade to 4G.

Driven by strong adoption of data consumption on handheld devices, the total mobile services market revenue inPrime Minister Theresa May canceled a meeting of her inner Brexit cabinet scheduled for Thursday as she struggles to break a deadlock within her government about what Britain's future outside the European Union should look like. "Following last week's sub-committee meeting, it was agreed that there are unresolved issues in relation to both mod...

Such has been the impact of Mahathir-led opposition that eight ministers and 19 deputy ministers of the Najib Razak-led outgoing cabinet also lost their seats. Najib's coalition was defeated by Mahathir's opposition alliance in a stunning election upset on Wednesday. Najib has denied wrongdoing and Malaysia's attorney-general has cleared him of a...

The court reserved judgment on her application to have her membership and mayoral position restored. Judgment has been reserved in the urgent matter between


Patricia De Lille and the Democratic Alliance, the municipality, and the IEC. The merits of her removal will then be argued at a later date, while the "status quo" is preserved. At the part...

Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 65 people, a lot of them former, suspected of links to a network led by US-based cleric whom accuses of masterminding a failed coup attempt in 2016. The army is suspected of involvement in oppositional FETO Muslim organizations created by Fethullah gülen, as well as aiding a failed coup in Ju...

The meeting concluded amid new criticism of the trade deal from U.S. President Donald Trump, who described NAFTA as "a terrible disaster" for the American economy. You can not think that in a process of negotiations we'regoing to solve one item without reviewing the overall balance of the agreement", he said. "Business executives complain that the...

But one opposition party said the ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno, the country's first woman chief justice, removed a shield against abuse of power in government and left behind a "puppet Supreme Court". Sereno is facing a separate impeachment bid in the House of Representatives, which is dominated by Duterte's allies. "Sereno's ouster also kicks ...

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The jury deliberated for an hour and a half after a two-week trial in Manhattan and found him guilty of all seven charges he faced, including honest services mail fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors say Silver took $4 million in payoffs disguised as legal fees, with Silver's lawyer arguing there was no crime, calling the fees "common, standar...

Washburn will be extradited to Washington state and charged in the death of Jennifer Bastian, who left her home in Tacoma on a bicycle around 2:30 p.m. Washburn lived less than five miles from the park where Jennifer went missing at the time. "I think everybody who has been involved with this over the years is extremely happy that it's been


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The Prime Minister's Office on Friday said that no summons have been received with regards to a Supreme Court (SC) order seeking Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's presence in court with regards to the case pertaining to fake degrees issued to airlines pilots.

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The U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal is now a fact and the market has reacted as expected, namely with a knee-jerk reaction that saw Brent and WTI both jump by over 2 percent a day after President Trump made his announcement and continue climbing up.

The New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the letter, that Trump actually sent it a couple of weeks ago and has since sent another, further confirming his stance that Gulf states should take on more of the burden in the region, including exercising pressure on Iran, constraining its influence there.

The people spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions. President Trump and the head


Joint Statement between the United States of America and the Republic of the Philippines

U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met in Manila, Philippines on November 13, 2017, to discuss a broad range of shared interests and priorities. Both leaders praised the enduring United States-Philippines Alliance, built on a strong foundation of shared values, sacrifices, and history, and bolstered by common interests, people-to-people ties, and full respect for legal and diplomatic processes. They pledged to expand cooperation and reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the bilateral alliance—a 70-year partnership that has stood the test of time and ensures both countries’ mutual security and contributes to regional peace, stability, and economic prosperity.

During the 50th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the 40th anniversaryof United States relations with ASEAN, the United States and the Philippines commended ASEAN for its important role in promoting regional peace, stability, and socio-economic development. They pledged to continue to work within the ASEAN framework to pursue these goals throughout the Asia-Pacific. President Trump applauded the Philippines for its leadership as ASEAN chair during the past year.

The two sides underscored that human rights and the dignity of human life are essential, and agreed to continue mainstreaming the human rights agenda in their national programs to promote the welfare of all sectors, including the most vulnerable groups.

Both leaders condemned the unlawful nuclear weapons and missile development by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and called on the DPRK to immediately comply with U.N. Security Council Resolutions and


agree to complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. President Trump commended the Philippines for its compliance with the relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions on the DPRK. The leaders also urged all countries, including those in ASEAN, to voice their opposition to these threatening programs and to take steps to downgrade their diplomatic and economic engagement with North Korea.

President Trump expressed his condolences for the tragic loss of life in Marawi City at the hands of ISIS-affiliated terrorists, and congratulated the Armed Forces of the Philippines for its success in liberating Marawi. He vowed that the United States would continue its support and assistance for the fight against terrorism and the rehabilitation of Marawi. Both sides committed to enhance their counterterrorism cooperation through conducting additional exercises, increasing information sharing, andaddressing the drivers of conflict and extremism. Both sides discussed the rehabilitation and reconstruction needs of Marawi and pledged to continue discussions for the rebuilding of Marawi.

The two sides reaffirmed their commitment to the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951, as reinforced by the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. The two sides discussed proposals to support the United States’ efforts to help modernize the Armed Forces of the Philippines, develop capacity and capability for maritime security and domain awareness, and provide rapid humanitarian assistance. They also reaffirmed their commitment to continue defense cooperation, including by reinforcing respective national defense capabilities and interoperability and enhancing joint activities, disaster response, and cybersecurity.

Both sides reiterated their commitment to uphold their principles including the freedom of navigation and overflight, and the exercise of self-restraint.


working with the government of Myanmar to provide humanitarian assistance.

The two sides decided to further deepen the extensive United States-Philippine economic relationship. They discussed ways to expand on their mutual commitment to free, fair, and balanced trade that increases economic opportunity for all. The two leaders pledged to nurture economic ties, including private sector cooperation, to create jobs and opportunities for people in both countries. To this end, both sides will explore strengthening dialogues for innovation and sharing of best practices in technology to optimize the position of the Philippines as a preferred destination for American investments in the Asia-Pacific region.

The two countries recognized the importance of regular discussions under the United States-Philippines Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) to strengthen the trade relationship, including by continuing tomake progress in the areas of market access related to agricultural products, intellectual property, customs and labor, among others. The United States welcomed the Philippines’ interest in a bilateral free trade agreement and both sides agreed to discuss the matter further through the United States– Philippines TIFA.

The two sides discussed the ongoing campaign in the Philippines against criminality including illegal drugs. Both sides acknowledged that illegal drug use is a problem afflicting both countries and committed to share best practices in the areas of prevention; enforcement, including capacity-building and transparency in investigations; and rehabilitation.

Both leaders stressed the strong people-to-people connections between the Philippines and the United States. They acknowledged the many long-standing institutions that connect people of the two countries, including the longest continuing Fulbright program in the


world—a program that has sent more than 3,000 Filipino scholars to the United States and nearly 1,000 American scholars to the Philippines—and the dynamic Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative that held its annual summit in Manila recently, in October.

Both leaders recognized the two countries’ successful cooperation in promoting inclusive development, fueled by good governance, partnerships with the private sector and civil society, and investments in health, education, infrastructure, agribusiness, technology, and democratic institutions. The two sides committed themselves to institutionalizing development capacity, which is the foundation of sustainable stability, growth, and prosperity.

President Trump and President Duterte pledged to continue cooperating to promote the mutual goals of peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and around the world.About chankaiyee2

Author of the book "Tiananmen's Tremendous Achievements" about how with the help of Tiananmen Protests, talented scholars with moral integrity seized power in the Party and state and brought prosperity to China. The second edition of the book will be published within a few days to mark the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Protests All the parts in the first edition remain in the second edition with a few changes due to information available later and better understanding. There are also some changes for improvements of style. The new parts are Chapters 12-19 on events in China after the first edition was published: The fierce power struggle for succession between reformists and conservatives; Xi Jinping winning all elders’ support during his mysterious disappearance for 2 weeks in early


September, 2012; and Xi Jinping Cyclone. Chan Kai Yee's new book: SPACE ERA STRATEGY: The Way China Beats The US An eye-opening book that tells the truth how the US is losing to China. The US is losing as it adopts the outdated strategy of Air-Sea Battle while China adopts the space era strategy to pursue integrated space and air capabilities: It is losing due to its diplomacy that has given rise to Russian-Chinese alliance. US outdated strategy has enabled China to catch up and surpass the US in key weapons: Hypersonic weapons (HGV) that Pentagon regards as the weapon that will dominate the world in the future. Aerospaceplane in China’s development of space-air bomber that can engage enemy anywhere in the world within an hour and destroyunlikely to be true. The police would never allow him to leave the scene of an accident if there was any suspicion that he was impaired. If I detected ethanol on his breath then the police would have too -- it is their job to notice. He would be given a roadside sobriety test, which he would have failed as he did in the ED and would have been arrested. He knew he was circumventing that by leaving the scene of the accident. His admission that his car was extensively damaged implies that the other vehicle involved might have been equally extensively damaged, and that the other occupants in it might be still there, injured at the scene. It is entirely possible they are stranded in a poorly


During the winter solstice season, people around the world practice all kinds of Christmas traditions, from eating candy canes to giving presents. But did you know that many Christmas customs can trace their roots back to pagan origins? Here are nine little-known bits of trivia about Yule season traditions.

01 of 09 Christmas Caroling Witold Skrypczak/Lonely Planet/Getty Images The tradition of Christmas caroling actually began as the tradition of wassailing. In centuries past, wassailers went from door to door, singing and drinking to the health of their neighbors. The concept actually harkens back to pre-Christian fertility rites—only in those ceremonies, villagers traveled through their fields and orchards in the middle of winter, singing and shouting to drive away any spirits that might inhibit the growth of future crops. CarolingSaturnalia was no exception. This holiday, which fell on December 17, was a time to honor the god Saturn, and so homes and hearths were decorated with boughs of greenery—vines, ivy, and the like. The ancient Egyptians didn't have evergreen trees, but they had palms—and the palm tree was the symbol of resurrection and rebirth. People often brought the fronds into their homes during the time of the winter solstice. Over time, this evolved into the modern tradition of the holiday tree.

05 of 09 Hanging Ornaments Patti Wigington During Saturnalia, Roman celebrants often hung metal ornaments outside on trees. Typically, the ornaments represented a god—either Saturn or the family's patron deity. The laurel wreath was a popular decoration as well. Early Germanic tribes decorated trees with fruit and


of soldiers on crusades carrying honey-laden fruitcakes into the Holy Land with them.

07 of 09 Giving Presents Allard Schager / Getty Images Today, Christmas is a huge gift-giving bonanza for retailers far and wide. However, that’s a fairly new practice, developed within the last two to three hundred years. Most people who celebrate Christmas associate the practice of gift giving with the Biblical tale of the three wise men who gave gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the newborn baby Jesus. However, the tradition can also be traced back to other cultures. The Romans gave gifts between Saturnalia and the Kalends, and during the Middle Ages French nuns gave gifts of food and clothing to the poor on St. Nicholas’ Eve. Interestingly, up until around the earlydaddyboylove on only fans Daddy naps as his much younger smooth thin skinny young twink boi son disrupts his nap joining his hairy older masculine masc big chubby muscular thick man in bed. Daddy can't help but get turned on and become rock hard. He begins to pound his erect...

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The California Assembly just passed a misguided bill which puts ideology over evidence by reiterating the state's mulish definition of domestic violence as something which only women suffer. Not only does Assemblymember Rebecca Cohn's AB 2051 turn a blind eye to male domestic violence victims and their children, it may also cost the state tens of millions of dollars in lost federal grants.

California law defines domestic violence as "the infliction or threat of physical harm against...female intimate partners." AB 2051 refers to domestic violence victims only as "battered women." By defining domestic violence as something only experienced by women, both existing law and AB 2051 exclude male victims and their children from receiving state-funded domestic violence services, including shelter, hotel arrangements, counseling and legal aid.

According to the Centersfor Disease Control, men comprise over 35 per cent of all domestic violence victims. A meta-analytic review of 552 domestic violence studies published in the Psychological Bulletin found that 38 per cent of the physical injuries in heterosexual domestic assaults are suffered by men.

The National Institute of Mental Health funded and oversaw two of the largest studies of domestic violence ever conducted, both of which found equal rates of abuse between husbands and wives. California State Long Beach University professor Martin Fiebert maintains an online bibliography summarizing 174 scholarly investigations, with an aggregate sample size exceeding 160,000, which conclude "women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners."

Further, a number of these studies contradict the common claim that


women usually strike in self-defense, and demonstrate that abusive women use weapons and the element of surprise to help compensate for their smaller size.

These cases sometimes turn tragic for fathers and their children. In the Socorro Caro murder case, Socorro often abused her husband Xavier, a prominent Northridge, California rheumatologist, once assaulting him so badly he had to have surgery to regain his sight in one eye. Because the domestic violence, criminal justice and family law systems are almost incapable of seeing a man as a DV victim, Xavier couldn't take his children and leave. Because of his wife's violent nature, he couldn't walk away and leave his children behind. Socorro later shot and killed three of their four children, for which she was convicted and sentenced todeath.

California is currently the target of a controversial lawsuit filed on behalf of a young Sacramento-area woman who spent a nightmarish childhood trapped in a home with a violent, abusive mother. Maegan Black's father David was partially disabled, and thus financially dependent on his wife. His and Maegan's numerous attempts to get help from domestic violence service providers were consistently rebuffed—David was excluded because he was the wrong gender for a victim. AB 2051 could weaken the state's legal position by reiterating this exclusion.

The federal Violence Against Women Act, which funds states' DV programs through STOP grants, was amended last year to include a requirement that DV programs be gender neutral. It was also amended to state that VAWA's title should not "be construed to prohibit male victims


of domestic violence…from receiving benefits and services." AB 2051 again places California at odds with federal law, putting the state at risk of losing tens of millions of dollars in STOP grant funds.

The California Alliance for Families and Children has organized a petition against the bill signed by 50 prominent domestic violence researchers and treatment providers. The signatories, which include many of the biggest names in the domestic violence field, call on California to stop ignoring male victims and their children. They note:

"The data is without question – domestic violence affects both men and women. The politicization of this issue must stop and services must be provided to all children and their parent victims."

"AB 2051 deliberately ignores heterosexual males, even though they account for half of all domesticviolence victims and incur approximately one third of domestic violence related injuries…there is an overwhelming, irrefutable body of research indicating that children are adversely affected by witnessing interparental violence regardless of the perpetrator's gender. Boys and girls who have seen their mother physically assault their father are just as likely as those who witnessed their father assault their mother to perpetrate dating violence as adolescents and assault their intimate partners in adulthood. Research also finds that parents who assault one another are also likely to also assault their children, and this correlation holds equally for mothers and fathers. By ignoring the problem of female-on-male violence, Cohn's bill inhibits our common efforts to effectively combat domestic violence in our communities."

Cohn introduced AB 2051 to address the problem of domestic