KARACHI: Pakistan’s football issue may take a nasty twist in near future as the world football governing body (FIFA) has warned that it may suspend the country if Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) was not handed over its headquarters in Lahore and its accounts by July 31.

“The situation of the PFF was discussed by the FIFA Member Associations Committee during its meeting on July 4, 2017. It was discussed that the potential extension of the deadline (from 30 September 2017 to 30 June 2019) to revise the PFF statutes and organise elections will be conditional on the strict implementation of an action plan and a regular reporting mechanism,” a FIFA spokesman told ‘The News’ on Wednesday. “Furthermore, the committee pointed out that while court proceedings are still ongoing thecourt appointed administrator continues to occupy the PFF offices and to control its accounts.

“Therefore, the committee decided that if the PFF offices and access to the PFF accounts are not returned to the PFF leadership led by Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat by JuIy 31, 2017, it would recommend to the FIFA Council to suspend the PFF for contravening its obligations under articles 14 and 19 of the FIFA Statutes,” the spokesman added.

Due to the conflict between the FIFA-recognised PFF led by Faisal and Arshad Lodhi group, Pakistan has been a non-playing nation for the last 26 months. If Pakistan is suspended it will aggravate the misery of the players and the whole football community.

The conflict emerged after the controversial elections of Punjab Football Association (PFA) in April


in Islamabad and the occupation of PFF headquarters in Lahore in June 2015, the minister said that Hafiz Salman Butt and a “mafia” were behind that. “They had also done so against former PFF president Mian Azhar. Faisal Saleh Hayat and General Arif Hasan, the POA chief, were brought in by General Musharraf,” Pirzada said.

He said that Faisal had also created problems for himself. “He is stuck because of his own wrongdoings. Some of the federating units rose against him as he failed to run the system in a transparent manner,” Pirzada said.

The PFF case will be heard after summer vacations in September.

On April 6, 2017, the Supreme Court set aside the LHC’s decision of February 2, 2017, and referred the case back to the LHC double benchIraq housing U.S. troops in retaliation for Washington’s killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike a Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.

The Iraqi parliament has passed a resolution ordering the 5,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq to leave the country.

Soon after the Iranian attack, Francis urged the United States and Iran to avoid escalation and pursue “dialogue and self-restraint” to avert a wider conflict in the Middle East.

The pope discussed the Middle East with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday.

The recent tensions in Iraq could make it impossible for Francis to visit the country, which he has said he would like to do this year.

The Vatican said the pope and Salih also discussed “the importance of preserving the historical presence of Christians in the country”.

The


City of Hope (1991) Movie Review Summary

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City of Hope examines the inner machinations of city development and governance through the points of view of various people including building owner Joe Rinaldi (Lo Bianco), who is under pressure to set his own buildings on fire in order to speed inner city gentrification. He and his son, Nick (Spano) are among those who are caught up in under the table dealmaking.

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It exited the wind sector in Europe, and then near the end of last year announced that it would also sell its solar business. The final nail in the coffin to their original renewable energy plan is delivered by their announcement to now sell all US wind farm assets.

A company statement read: “BP has decided to market for sale our US wind energy business as part of a continuing effort to become a more focused oil


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In a statement accompanying the announcement, Henri Mazza, Alamo Drafthouse vp, special events, said that it's "always been a dream to show the original Star Wars trilogy again — somehow, someway. Seeing the original trilogy on the big screen for the first time is a real life-altering event and just a supreme amount of fun. When the films became available to book for screenings like these, we jumped at the chance to do something big."

(For the curious, the editions being screened are not the original theater releases, but the 1997 "Special Edition" versions.)

Locations already booked for the road show include San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Boston and Philadelphia, with more cities to be added. Tickets for the events will, fittingly, be availablehas inhabited this earth for twenty-nine years, and not once has she come up with an original remark, with something absolutely and irreducibly her own.

Yes, I suppose there is something nasty about me at times. But not all the time—and not as a matter of principle. On my good days, I'm as sweet and friendly as any person I know. You can't sell life insurance as successfully as I did by alienating your customers, at least not for three long decades you can't. You have to be sympathetic. You have to be able to listen. You have to know how to charm people. I possess all those qualities and more. I won't deny that I've had my bad moments as well, but everyone knows what dangers lurk behind


sticking with the cab, he wasn't trying to make the best of a bad situation. He was looking for a way to make things happen, and until he understood what those things were, he wouldn't have the right to release himself from his bondage.

He lived in a studio apartment on the corner of Eighth Avenue and Third Street, a long-term sublet that had been passed on to him by the friend of a friend who had left New York and taken a job in another city—Pittsburgh or Plattsburgh, Tom could never remember which. It was a dingy one-closet cell with a metal shower in the bathroom, a pair of windows that looked out on a brick wall, and a pint-sized kitchenette that featured a bar refrigerator and aindifference, a pure spirit detached from her own body. I understand now that she was rejoicing over the success of her mission, giving silent thanks to the all-powerful one for helping her accomplish a miracle. Sitting with her in the car that afternoon, however, I was merely perplexed.

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She gave me a long, impassive stare, and then she nodded her head.

"Don't be upset," I continued. "We'll have the car running again in no time."

Needless to say, I was wrong. It would be tempting to give a blow-by-blow account of the comedy that ensued, but I don't want to try the reader's patience by discussing matters that are not, strictly speaking, relevant to the story. In the case of the car, the upshot


1863. Union troops were sent to prevent the Confederacy from operating in the upper Atchafalaya but the Confederates were successful in driving back the Union forces.

In May 1864, the Confederates were again victorious over the Union troops at the "Skirmish on Bayou Fordoche Road".

The area saw an influx of Italian immigrants after 1890.

Fordoche is the youngest incorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish. It was incorporated as a village in 1961 and became a town in 1994.

Geography
Fordoche is located at  (30.591445, -91.608546).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.

Major Highways
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Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 933 people, 341 households, and 285 families residing in the town. The population density was 383.8 peopleNevada voters picked the people they want to compete to lead the state come November with primary elections this week.

Democrats selected Steve Sisolak and Republicans picked Adam Laxalt

Sisolak told State of Nevada there were clear differences between himself and Laxalt.

"Adam Laxalt and I are on the opposite side of most of these issues, so there is a going to be a clear choice between the two of us," he said

He said he plans to focus on his message during the general election: improving education, addressing health care and continuing efforts to create more jobs.

"Nevadans -- whether they're north, south, east or west -- are looking for the same thing," Sisolak said. "They're looking for quality education for their kids, they're looking for good health care that is affordable


and accessible, and they're looking for a continuation of the job creation that the private sector has done with the help of the public sector."

The Democratic candidate said he is already getting emails, text messages and phone calls from people around the state expressing their support for his campaign.

"I've got a tremendous amount of support -- not just from the Democratic base that we're running on -- but the nonpartisan and Republicans that I've known for many, many years," he said. "I'm confident we can expand that base as we move forward."

Support comes from

Sisolak has long been known as someone who is socially liberal and fiscally conservative. During the primary election, he tacked to the left. Now, he said he accepts the label 'progressive' because he said hethe amount of $15,926.11. On November 1, 1983, in the Circuit Court for the City of Lynchburg, Virginia, the Credit Union obtained a judgment against the debtors for a total amount of $22,060.23 based on their default on this note. On November 14, 1983, that judgment was docketed in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Campbell County, Virginia, thereby perfecting a judgment lien on the debtors' real estate located in Campbell County, Virginia. See Va.Code § 8.01-458.
The debtors filed their Chapter 13 petition on May 18, 1984. The filed amended plan of the debtors proposes to pay all secured creditors except the Credit Union outside the plan. The value of the debtors' unencumbered equity in the real estate to which the judgment lien of the Credit


NCCP

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Rugby Canada has relationships with all rugby unions and have made agreements as to which courses are equivalent to NCCP. Even if you have completed courses in foreign unions, youBiograhical Sketch of Dr. R. V. Williams

DR. R. V. WILLIAMS was born April 1, 1850, in Robertson County, Tenn. He is the son of Rev. R. Williams of the Baptist Church, who was born in 1811, and died May, 1877, in Todd County; his mother was Jane (Fuqua) Williams, who was born in 1812 in Virginia and is at present living with her son, Dr. Williams. In 1870 our subject took up the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. C. A. Elliott, studying four years. He attended the Medical Department of the Louisville University, graduating in the class of 1874. He then located at Woodville, Ballard Co., Ky. He there engaged in the practice of his chosen profession until 1877, when he came to Guthrie, where


he has since resided and followed his calling. He was married in November, 1882, to Miss Mary, daughter of the late Rev. Charles M. Day, of Todd County. The latter died in 1879, at the age of seventy-one years.Whibley Wins Mid-East Hare Scrambles

By Press Release | 3/3/2013 5:38 PM

Gaston, South Carolina, March 3, 2013 - Monster Energy Athlete Paul Whibley got a quality win under his belt before heading off to Florida to attend the opening round of the GNCC series when he claimed a dominating victory this weekend at the Palmetto Hare Scrambles in Gaston, South Carolina.

The race was the first of the Mid-east Racing series and, as usual, it drew a huge crowd, including some heavy hitters like 2010 GNCC champ Josh Strang and Japanese Cross-country champion Takeshi Koikeda, in addition to Whibley.

Whibley came into the race hoping to redeem himself after his disappointing performance the week before at the first round of the OMA series in Alabama. And he did just that in


I held the inside line and ended up coming out with the lead," said Whibley.

Once he got out front, Whibley set about slowly building his lead, which stood at around 10 to 15 seconds over Strang by the end of the second lap. On lap three, Strang got a vine wrapped in his rear wheel and lost considerable time freeing things up before he was able to rejoin the race.

"I think Josh must have had problems because the next thing I knew I was over a minute ahead of him on lap three," said Whibley. "I didn't see what happened to him because I was busy trying to deal with lappers. There were so many riders that you were constantly passing someone. However, the course was nice andflowing, which is what I like to ride."

At the finish, Whibley took the checkered flag with a minute-and-fifty seconds to spare over Strang with Koikeda in third.

"It's definitely good to get a win heading into the Florida race," said Whibley, who will be going for a third GNCC title in 2013. "I think I was a little bit rusty at the OMA race and this weekend served to kind of knock the rough edges off."

Whibley's plan is to leave on Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on the weather, and to start heading to Florida.

"We'll just head out down there and find a nice sandy place to practice until it's time to move into the pits," said Whibley. "Hopefully this race was a sign of good things to come."


PHOTOS

Bio

Lineup

Mark Ryan - vocals

Jon Biviano - guitar

Joe - bass

Andy Guida - drums

Interviews and Reviews

UNWRITTEN LAW
From Music In High Places
Atlantic

A friend of mine was hanging out with New Found Glory and Unwritten Law came up in conversation and the bassist said that they're his favourite band of all time. I guess that would explain what this band sounds like. Bad. Anyway, they have a song called "How You Feel" and for a second I thought it was "How Do You Feel?" by Supertouch, which is a great song.

Supertouch started in 1985 out of the ashes of New York hardcore band Death Before Dishonor, which featured a young Mike Judge on drums. They released a demo and some WNYU tapes, but no actual records. Supertouch, named after a Bad Brainssong, had a different drummer than DBD, since Mike went on to Youth of Today and later, Judge, but it still had the Yu brothers on strings and of course Mark Ryan on vocals. Ryan had been into New York hardcore since about 1982 and was probably the first b-boy in hardcore, along with Eddie Sutton of Leeway, making him cooler than everyone. Keep in mind this was in New York City in the 1980s so chances are they were the first in the world.

If you were at a Supertouch show in '89 you'd see Adidas Ewings, flannel Stussy gear and probably Starter elbow pads on Ryan, and maybe a tie-dyed GB shirt or something. So cool. Anyways Supertouch was a great band, with songs on "NYC HC:


The Way It Is" and the Anti-Matter comp, respectively, as bookends to their 7" and their LP, "The Earth is Flat." The LP was definitely ahead of its time, it's got groove like sick, so sincere and challenging, starting off with the words "I've been drinking all night," keep in mind they had a predominantly straight edge audience. Mark Ryan was NOT straight edge. Anyways they broke up sometime in the '90s before their second LP was recorded. Word was Mark Ryan became a porn star, which is probably true, but now he's in another band, Steady Roosevelt, who are decent but no Supertouch. In conclusion, Mark Ryan is the man, Unwritten Law suck and Mark Ryan is the man.Studies on solution and solution-cast film of polyaniline colloids prepared in the absence and presence of ultrasonic irradiation.
Spectroscopic and voltammetric features for the solution and solution-cast film of polyaniline (PANI) colloids prepared in the absence and presence of ultrasonic irradiation were examined. Significant differences in the color and absorption spectra between the solution of colloids prepared in the absence and presence of irradiation were observed. Effects of ambient atmosphere on the solution of colloids were also studied. A gradual decay in the absorption at approximately 365 nm was occurred upon ageing the solution in air for the colloid prepared under ultrasonic irradiation. PANI film, cast from its colloidal solution, exhibited excellent electroactivity. The films thus cast were applied to electrode modification to control electrochemical reaction. Clear voltammetric response


aeration device includes a hollow cylindrical casing 100, a mixing unit 200 formed in front of the casing 100, an impeller 300 located inside the mixing unit 200, a separator plate 400 located on the front side of the mixing unit 200, an intake housing 500 located in front of the separator plate 400, an air inflow unit 600 located to pass through the intake housing 500 and serving as an air inflow passage, and a discharge unit 700 located on the outer peripheral surface of the mixing unit 200.
The casing 100 has a motor 130 sealedly mounted therein, and a driving shaft 135 of the motor 130 protrudes forward. Further, the casing 100 has an openable cover 120 coupled to the rear side thereof, and the cover120 is provided with a handle 150 and an electric wire 140 for supplying driving power to the motor 130.
The mixing unit 200 has a shape of a hollow cylinder open forward and includes a discharge hole 230 penetrated radially into the circumferential surface thereof. The driving shaft 135 of the motor 130 is extended forward from the rear of the mixing unit 200. The driving shaft 135 is rotatably supported against a bearing member 170 located inside the casing 100, and a sealing member 190 is located between the driving shaft 135 and the inner periphery of the mixing unit 200 at the front side of the bearing member 170.
The impeller 300 is coupled to the driving shaft 135 to generate a thrust force in the radial


direction of the mixing unit 200 and includes a disc-shaped rotary plate 310, a support tap 330 having an insertion hole adapted to insert the driving shaft 135 thereinto, and a plurality of rotary wings 320 protruding forward from the rotary plate 310. The support tap 330 protrudes forward to form a gap in the radial direction between the inside end portions of the rotary wings 320 and the support tap 330. The impeller 300 is rotated unitarily with the driving shaft 135 of the motor 130 through the driving of the motor 130.
The separator plate 400 has a disc-shaped plate having an inflow hole 410 formed on the center portion thereof in such a manner as to be penetrated from the front to the rear. The intakehousing 500 has a shape of a cylinder open on the rear side thereof and includes a plurality of intake holes 510 formed penetratedly in the radial direction on the cylindrical portion thereof in such a manner as to be spaced apart from each other along the circumferential direction thereof. The separator plate 400 is located between the intake housing 500 and the mixing unit 200.
The air inflow unit 600 is penetrated from the front of the intake housing 500 to the rear thereof and includes a hollow inflow tap 610 open on one side and the other side thereof, a hollow inflow pipe 630 connected to the front side of the inflow tap 610 in such a manner as to be open on one side and the


and in her
official capacity as Amherst Family Practice
nurse-practitioner; AUGUSTINE W. FAGAN, indi-
vidually and in his official capacity as Exec-
utive Director of CVCS Board, 1996; JOAN
LAWRIE, individually and in her official
capacity as CVCS Board Chairman, and Campbell
County Citizen Representative, 1996; TERRIE
CONRAD, individually and in her official
capacity as CVCS Board Vice-Chair, Appomattox
County Citizen Representative; SAM MELA,
individually and in his official capacity as
CVCS Board City of Lynchburg Citizen Rep-
resentative, 1996; CYNTHIA MOON, individually
and in her official capacity as CVCS Board
Lynchburg City Citizen Representative, 1996;
NAOMI SPINNER, individually, and in her offi-
cial capacity as CVCS Board Secretary, Con-
sumer Advocate Council, 1996; LEON PARRISH,
individually and in official capacity as CVCS
Board Treasurer, Amherst County Representa-
tive, 1996; JAMES BEGLEY, individually and in
his official capacity as CVCS Board City of
Bedford Representative, 1996; LISA HUTCHINS,
individually and in herofficial capacity as
CVCS Board Lynchburg Area Mental Health Asso-
ciation representative, 1996; LEIGHTON LANG-
FORD, individually and in his official capac-
ity as CVCS Board Bedford County Citizen
Representative, 1996; JIMMY MAYS, individually
and in his official capacity as CVCS Board
Campbell County elected Representative, 1996;
RUSSELL MOORE, individually and in his offi-
cial capacity as CVCS Board Appomattox County
elected Representative, 1996; SHIRLEY MOORE,
(deceased) individually and in her official
capacity as CVCS Board Lynchburg ARC Repre-
sentative, 1996; WAYNE NEWCOMB, individually
and in his official capacity as CVCS Board
elected Bedford County Representative, 1996;
CHAD VALENTINE, individually and in his offi-
cial capacity as CVCS Board Amherst County
Citizen Representative, 1996; D. L. WARREN,
individually and in his official capacity as
CVCS Board City of Lynchburg Elected Repre-
sentative, 1996; NANNIE RUSSELL, individually
and in her official capacity as CVCS Board
Representative,   1996;


LYNCHBURG   GENERAL
HOSPITAL; GEORGE W. DAWSON, President and CEO
of Centra Health, Inc., individually and in
his official capacity and tortfeasor, and in
his official capacity as a member of Centra’s
Executive Committee, individually and in his
official capacity as a member of Centra’s
Board of Directors; L. DARRELL POWERS, Presi-
dent of Lynchburg General Hospital, 1996, in
his official capacity; LARRY BOWEN, RN, indi-
vidually and in his official capacity and co-
conspirator who signed the illegal medical
transfer; MIRANA BREITT, Ph.D., individually
and in her official capacity as Director of
Centra’s Mental Health Department as tort-
feasor; ROBERT WEIMAR, CMH, individually and
in his official capacity as an unlicensed
mental health counselor employed by CENTRA's
Lynchburg General Hospital, 1996, as tort-

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feasor; CARLETON JOHNSON, Ph.D., individually
and in his official capacity as a Centra
psychologist, 1996, as tortfeasor; WALTER B.
BEVERLY, MD, individually and in his official
capacity as President of the Medical Staff, as
tortfeasor, and in his official capacity as
Lynchburg Emergency Physicians employee, in
his official capacity as a member of Centra’s
Board of Directors, and in his official
capacity as a member of Centra’s Executive
Committee; MICHAEL VOTH, MD, individually and
in his official capacity as ER physician
contracted with CENTRA, 1996, as tortfeasor,
and in his official capacity as Lynchburg
Emergency Physicians’ employee; CURT WHITLOCK,
individually and in his official capacity as
Centra's Risk Manager, as tortfeasor; WILLIAM
A. BURKE, individually and in his official
capacity as a member of Centra's Board of
Directors, in 1998; JAMES K. CANDLER, indi-
vidually and in his official capacity as a
member of Centra's Board of Directors, and


in
his official capacity as a member of Centra’s
Executive Committee of the Board; SAMUEL P.
CARDWELL, individually and in his official
capacity as a member of Centra's Board of
Directors; JAMES A. CONNER, individually and
in his official capacity as a member of
Centra's Board of Directors; J. ROBERT
DAVENPORT, individually and in his official
capacity as a member of Centra's Board of
Directors, and in his official capacity as a
member of Centra’s Executive Committee; ROBERT
VINCENT DOLAN, individually and in his offi-
cial capacity as a member of Centra's Board of
Directors, and in his official capacity as a
member of Centra’s Executive Committee; ROBERT
I. ELLIOT, MD, individually and in his offi-
cial capacity as a member of Centra's Board of
Directors; RODGER P. FAUBER, individually and
in his official capacity as a member of
Centra's Board of Directors, and in his offi-
cial capacityas a member of Centra’s Execu-
tive Committee; SAMUEL P. FULLER, MD, indi-
vidually and in his official capacity as a
member of Centra's Board of Directors, and in
his official capacity as a member of Centra’s
Executive Committee; STANLEY GOLDSMITH, indi-

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vidually and in his official capacity as a
member of Centra's Board of Directors; FAY C.
HILL, individually and in her official
capacity as a member of Centra's Board of
Directors, and in her official capacity as a
member of Centra’s Executive Committee; JAY E.
HOPKINS, MD, individually and in his official
capacity as member of Centra's Board of
Directors; ROBERT S. LOCKRIDGE, JR., individ-
ually and in his official capacity as Centra
Board of Directors member, and in his


official
capacity as a member of Centra’s Executive
Committee; JO PENLEY, individually and in her
official capacity as member of Centra's Board
of Directors; AUGUSTUS A. PETTICOLAS, JR.,
DDS, individually and in his capacity as a
member of Centra's Board of Directors; JERRY
T. PRICE, individually and in his official
capacity as a member of Centra's Board of
Directors, and in his official capacity as a
Director of Lynchburg Emergency Physicians;
HAYWOOD ROBINSON, JR., Reverend, individually
and in his official capacity as a member of
Centra's Board of Directors, and in his
official capacity as a member of Centra’s
Executive Committee; MARC A. SCHEWEL, indi-
vidually and in his official capacity as a
member of Centra's Board of Directors; IRMA W.
SEIFERTH, individually and in her official
capacity as a member of Centra's Board of
Directors; RICHARD F. STOWERS, JR., MD, indi-
vidually and in his official capacity asa
member of Centra's Board of Directors, and in
his official capacity as a member of Centra’s
Executive Committee; WALKER P. SYDNOR, JR.,
individually and in his official capacity as a
member of Centra's Board of Directors, and in
his official capacity as a member of Centra’s
Executive Committee; JEFFREY W. WILSON, MD,
individually and in his official capacity as a
member of Centra's Board of Directors;
CONSUELIA K. WOODS, individually and in her
official capacity as a member of Centra's
Board of Directors; DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL
HEALTH, MENTAL RETARDATION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
SERVICES BOARD (DMHMRSAS); RICHARD KELLY,
Commissioner of DMHMRSAS, 1996, individually
and in his official capacity; RICHARD KELLOGG,

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Assistant to DMHMRSAS, 1996, individually and
in his official capacity; JAMES G. LUMPKIN,
individually and


in his official capacity as
current DMHMRSAS     Board  Member;   VIRGINIA
DIFFLEMYER, individually and in her official
capacity as current Vice-Chair of DMHMRSAS;
MICHAEL FLYNN, individually and in his offi-
cial capacity as current DMHMRSAS Board
member; CHARLES A. GENN, JR., individually and
in his official capacity as current DMHMRSAS
Board Member; BARBARA B. SMITH, individually
and in her official capacity as DMHMRSAS Board
Member; RICHARD A. SMITH, MD, individually and
in his official capacity as an ER physician
contracted with Centra, 1996, as tortfeasor,
and in his official capacity as a Lynchburg
Emergency Physicians' employee; ALISHA CALL,
Deputy, Amherst County Jail, 1996, individ-
ually and in her official capacity; TERRY
BARRON, MSW, Amherst Counseling Center, 1996,
individually and in her official capacity; AMY
FRENCH, Program Director, Amherst Counseling
Center, 1996, in her official capacity;
CHARLES INGALLS, Lieutenant, Amherst County
Jail, 1996, individually and               5
official capacity; LINDA EDWARDS, Director of
Mental Health Services, Central Virginia Com-
munity Services, in her official capacity;
MARTHA M. JALLIN, individually and in her
official capacity as current DMHMRSAS Board
Member; JOHN-PAUL JONES, MD, individually and
in his official capacity as Amherst Family
Practice   physician,   1996;  CENTRA   HEALTH
INCORPORATED, Lynchburg, Virginia; WILLIAM W.
SEMONES, Vice-President of Centra Mental
Health Services in 1996, as tortfeasor; CENTRA
HEALTH INCORPORATED’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
THE BOARD; CENTRA HEALTH INCORPORATED’S BOARD
OF DIRECTORS; CENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY
SERVICES,   Lynchburg,   Virginia;   LYNCHBURG
EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS, INCORPORATED, Lynchburg,
Virginia; CENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY SERVICES
BOARD, Lynchburg, Virginia,


Trump travels north to Canada to attend the G7 summit, Canadian officials have been heading south to try to stem a wave of undocumented immigrants headed their way.

In what has become an increasingly regular mission, Canadian representatives visited the U.S this week to warn immigrants fearful over President Trump's immigration crackdown that they can't simply rush north of the border to find safe haven.

Randy Boissonnault, a liberal member of Parliament and a special advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, visited South Florida this week to try to educate would-be immigrants about the limitations of the Canadian immigration system.

In the past year, Canada has seen bursts of U.S.-based immigrants crossing illegally into Canada, mostly into the Quebec province that borders New York and other northeastern U.S. states.

In August,the right thing for their families."

The Canadians started conducting their visits to the U.S. last summer, when they first saw their illegal immigration numbers going up. They've visited Los Angeles, where many Mexican and Central American immigrants live. And they've made several trips to the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami.

This week, Boissonnault met with groups that work with a variety of immigrants in South Florida. He even went on a Radio Caracol, a Spanish-language station, to explain the realities of immigration using his best Spanish.

Olga Radchenko, director of parliamentary affairs for Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, said officials in their 12 consulates around the U.S. have been trying to deliver the same message. And by this summer, the Miami consulate will have a new full-time officer


been trying to limit legal immigration and has at times completely halted the refugee program in the name of national security.

The administration is pushing legislation to reduce the number of legal immigrants admitted to the country, and it set a cap of 45,000 refugees for 2018, the lowest number since Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980. The administration may not even reach that number, however, as it has only approved 14,887 refugees through Friday with less than four months left in the fiscal year.

The Canadian officials would not comment on the Trump administration's actions on immigration, but they emphasized how Canada, like the United States, is a land of immigrants that must always welcome those searching for a better life.

Boissonnault told the story of his forefathers, whoRalph Hassenhuttl made more than one bold decision in the January transfer window at Southampton. The Austrian took over a squad struggling to score goals and struggling even more to keep them out. But instead of recruiting new personnel to solve the issues, he put faith in some of the players previous managers refused to give opportunities to.

In fact, the new boss went one step further than not recruiting, he trimmed the squad, offloading Manolo Gabbiadini, Cedric Soares and Wesley Hoedt leaving the club in some capacity. Jan Bednarek, Yannik Vestergaard, Oriol Romeu, Micheal Obafemi and Yan Valery have all come become more prominent members of the first team as a result of this winter clear out.

All have impressed, with Bednarek being rewarded with high praise from the


Southampton fans across the board for his no nonsense, determined defending style. But it is Valery who in recent weeks has stepped up to the plate. The French-Tunisian youngster scored his first goal for the club at the weekend, a 25-yard thunderbolt against Manchester United in a 3-2 defeat at Old Trafford.

While it was this moment that made those outside of Southampton stand up and take notice, Valery has quietly been progressing as a full back under Hassenhuttl, after being given the opportunity to make himself undisputed number one with Cedric’s departure. The faith in Valery is such, he is currently the only recognised right back in the squad.

Settling into his role has not been easy, having struggled against the likes of Josh Murphy against Cardiff City, andto dance through challenges with fancy footwork to drive into the box and test the goalkeeper or provide a teammate with an opportunity.

The final ball is not always of the highest quality, but Valery is not yet the finished article. On average, only 17.4% of his attempted crosses meet it’s target, although Southampton have struggled with goalscorers in recent years, therefore the blame for a poor conversion cannot lay solely on the shoulders of Valery himself.

Going forward, he has proved a useful outlet for Southampton, using his pace and trickery, he has completed 59.5% of his attempted dribbles and won 55% off his duels in attacking areas. As shown against the likes of Manchester United and Luke Shaw, Valery has the capability to battle with some of the


best there is to offer.

Defensively, the France born defender has impressed, making an average of 4.23 clearances a game, and 4.54 interceptions. Which lends itself to the way the young defender has adapted his positioning and decision making transferring from an orthodox fullback at youth level when being thrust into a wing back role in the Premier League.

At the weekend Valery proved his worth when compared with his opposite number Ashley Young. Despite being moulded into the role at United, Young is a vastly experienced winger-cum-full-back and has performed admirably in that full back role in recent years, at one of the biggest clubs in the world. But statistically, Valery proved that putting faith in those less experienced can sometimes prove fruitful.

Young lost the ball 16 times upagainst Ryan Bertrand, whilst Valery, who had to pit his wits against Paul Pogba, only lost the ball 10 times. Key to that stat is that six of those losses by Young were in his own half, compared to two from Valery. Which lends itself to show the composure shown by the Southampton youngster compared to the more experienced player, despite being up against a higher quality of opponent.

Hassenhuttl has shown an immense amount of faith in Valery. Being the first choice fullback at a Premier League club is a huge responsibility for any 20 year old. Whilst most managers in charge of a club fighting at the wrong end of the table (Southampton currently sit in 17th place) the Austrian has dipped into the famed academy, and


offered an opportunity to a hungry youngster to get the club out of the mess they find themselves in.

Manchester United marked Valery’s 15th Premier League appearance this season, against the same opponents he made his debut, which was Mark Hughes’ final game in charge of Southampton.

There is a lot more to come from the young full back, as there is Southampton as a club. But Hassenhuttl has shown the fans and his bosses that he is capable of utilising the tools he has, improving and coaching players to steer the club clear of danger. For young, hungry and talented individuals like Valery, that is an exciting prospect.President Obama Challenges Iceland Over Whaling

In July, the Secretary of Commerce certified to President Obama that Iceland was undermining the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its treaty because of its rogue whaling (AWI Quarterly, Spring 2011). The certification, made under the Pelly Amendment of the Fishermen’s Protective Act (22 U.S.C. §1978, as amended), triggered a 60-day countdown for the president to respond - with options ranging from trade sanctions to doing nothing. Iceland has been certified in the past but sanctions have never been imposed.

On September 15, President Obama made his report to Congress. He neither imposed trade sanctions nor did nothing - opting rather for diplomatic actions. In a strongly worded message, the president stated that, "Iceland's actions threaten the conservation status of an endangered species and


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How times have changed. It is no small irony in the fact that those South Koreans working hardest to raise attention about the plight of the North Korean people were once pro-North Korea revolutionaries and ardent supporters of Kim Il-sung’s Juche ideology. One such person is Kim Young-hwan, former head of the revolutionary organization (RO) Minhyukdang (People’s Democratic Revolutionary Party), the leftist organization created by Kim Yoing-hwan at the behest of Kim Il-sung and comprised of radical leftists who were active in the 1980s and 1990s. A recent lecture by Kim at Yonsei University (reported on by Daily NK) shows just how much times have changed.

Kim is best known for a secret 1991 trip he took to North Korea (upon invitation), during which he, along with another revolutionary


accomplice, met with Kim Il-sung. It was a transformative experience, according to his retelling of the experience. Witnessing real conditions in the country he had admired was what led him to make an about-face. (That he discovered Kim Il-sung himself knew little about Juche ideology might have also played a role.) There are problems with Kim’s narrative, namely that there was a six-year period between his trip to North Korea and him leaving the Minkyukdang, but let us not go that far down the rabbit hole. Kim would, eventually, go on to be a leading activist and co-found the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKNet), an NGO that conducts research about and raises public awareness of conditions in North Korea. Notably, NKNet helped establish DailyNK, an online newspaper that reports on issues and events happening within North Korea. Han Ki-hong, another former pro-North Korea leftist who “converted” in the 1990s, along with Kim and three others (most notably former Donga Ilbo reporter, Sohn Gwang-joo), founded Daily NK.

Although the politics of human rights activism in South Korea is an interesting topic, and one worthy of further attention, one of the more interesting takeaways from Kim Young-hwan’s account of his revolutionary experience are the conditions under which they took place. As is well documented in studies on anti-government protest culture, the Gwangju massacre in May 1980 produced a major social backlash against Chun Doo-hwan’s developmental dictatorship (a backlash against dictatorial rule that was a long time coming).

Notably, the bloody suppression galvanized the student movement


the U.S. It should be of little surprise, then, that Kim Il-sung’s Juche ideology (convoluted though it may be) was very appealing. Notions of independence and self-reliance were very attractive to many a young radical.

However, mounting evidence that North Korea was not the socialist heaven it proclaimed itself to be (revealed by an increasing number of North Korean defectors who denounced the evils of the North Korean system on South Korean public television), the experiences people like Kim Young-hwan had while visiting North Korea, and South Korea’s democratic transition led to a significant shift in opinion towards North and South Korea among many former radicals. In a series of letters (some public, some private) penned by Kim, he renounced his former revolutionary ways and called for a newFlorida has more people covered under Obamacare than any other state, and is second only to California when it comes to seniors on Medicare. Yet the state's uninsured rate is still higher than the national average.

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The edge to edge display means that while both the LG G5 and LG G6 share the same physicalbe temporary and yielding, such as visualization and non-permanent sand-painting and medicine wheels The "Flower of Life" can be found in all major religions of the world.

It contains the patterns of creation as they emerged from the "Great Void". Everything is made from the Creator's thought. After the creation of the Seed of Life the same vortex's motion was continued, creating the next structure known as the Egg of Life. This structure forms the basis for music, as the distances between the spheres is identical to the distances between the tones and the half tones in music. It is also identical to the cellular structure of the third embryonic division (The first cell divides into two cells, then to four cells then to eight). Thus this same structure


human body to the galaxies. In the first system, for example, it's possible to create any molecular structure and any living cellular structure that exists in the universe. In short every living creature. The most common form of the "Flower of Life" is hexagonal pattern (where the center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter), made up of 19 complete circles and 36 partial circular arcs, enclosed by a large circle. The "Seed of Life" is formed from seven circles being placed with sixfold symmetry, forming a pattern of circles and lenses, which acts as a basic component of the Flower of Life's design. The Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt contains the oldest to date example. it is carvedin granite and may possibly represent the Eye of Ra a symbol of the authority of the pharaoh. Other examples can be found in Phoenician, Assyrian, Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, and medieval art.

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Flower of Life - Amistar, India Flower of Life - Amistar, India (close up) Leonardo da Vinci has studied the Flower of Life's form and its mathematical properties. He has drawn the Flower of Life itself, as well as components therein, such as the Seed of Life. He has drawn geometric figures representing shapes such as the platonic solids, a sphere, a lotus, etc., and has also used the golden ratio of phi in his artwork; all of which may be derived from the Flower of Life design. Flower of life made


of intersecting spheres instead of circles. Crop Circle showing a variation of the Flower of Life

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The flower of life shape contains a secret shape known as the fruit of life that consists of 13 spheres that hold many mathematical and geometrical laws. These laws represent the whole universe. Giving the flower of life to someone is like giving them the whole universe in one jewel. The Flower of Life can be found in all major religions of the world. In Egypt, the source of all the monotheistic religions, the "Flower of Life", can be found in the ancient Temple of Abydos. In Israel, it can be found in ancient synagogues in the Galilee and in Mesada. People reported physicalknow within freemasonry, they call the first entity "the khaibit man". You need to have been initiated into the 10th degree to be aware of the khaibit man. As part of the initiation into the 10th degree, the khaibit man is conjured up in front of you. I am not a Freemason, but my father has been a Freemason for over 40 years. He has been through the 10th degree. When I made this discovery and drew the complete flower, I was living in Edinburgh. I phoned my father who was living at home in Kirkwall on the Orkney isles. When I told my father what I had seen, he could not believe what I was saying. He told me that the only way I could know what


image: Copyright by World-Mysteries.com This image (to scale) shows dance of Venus and Earth - each of the fine lines connects both planets over time

required to complete 8 orbits by Earth (and 13 orbits by Venus). Orbit of Earth is cropped out. Tree of Life Tree of Life The Tree of Life is one of the most familiar of the Sacred Geometry Symbols. The structure of the Tree of Life is connected to the sacred teachings of the Jewish Kabbalah but can be seen in other traditions such as the ancient Egyptian. The Tree of Life is explained in Sefer Yetzira ("Book of Creation"). The book explained the creation as a process involving the 10 divine numbers (sefirot) of God the Creator and the 22 letters of thePress

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"They’ve been playing small club shows downtown, and they brought that informality to the Allen Room," writes New York Times music critic Jon Pareles in his concert review, "punctuating dazzling virtuosity with bluegrass-aficionado banter and 'Fiddle Tune Request Time.'” Read the full concert review here.

June 21, 2011

In the June edition of Rolling Stone, Will Hermes writes of Sleep With One Eye Open: "This ridiculously blazing set...focuses instead on old timey material by Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, and others. Dusty museum pieces they’re not: The uptempo jams are wild-picking shred fests, and the ballads cut deep." You can read the full review online here.

July, 2011

In the latest review of Sleep With One Eye Open, Matthew Milton says of Chris and Michael: "They turn standard bluegrass hot licks


into molten lava without breaking a sweat." Read the full review in the July edition of Songlines Magazine.

May 24th, 2011

Jim Gilchrist, in his review of Sleep With One Eye Open for the Scotsman, writes: "And this is unadulterated bluegrass all right, with tracks such as Bill Monroe's Tennessee Blues taking no prisoners and the duo's uninhibited "high and lonesome" hollering defining such numbers as 20/20 Vision and the title song." Read the full review here.

May 22nd, 2011

In the second part of Mandolin Cafe's feature and interview, Bradley Klein details Chris and Michael's instruments, the recording process, and Chris and Michael discuss the album track-by-track. Read the full feature here.

May 20th, 2011

Nate Dow of the Boston Herald describes Sleep With One Eye Open: "It is pure virtuosity — back-porchraw and without the usual studio sandpapering that often erodes the edges." Read the full review here.

May 18th, 2011

"The entire collection is enjoyable, but the spirited instrumental, "Billy in the Lowground", the jubilant "My Little Girl in Tennessee" and a stirring rendition of the classic "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" are particularly memorable.Both "Rain and Snow" and the gorgeously dreary "Bury Me Beneath the Willow" showcase the duo's vocal compatibility." Read Greg Yost's full review here.

May 17th, 2011

"Thile and Daves, a Georgia-born guitarist, met in New York but this is the music of their roots, the lonesome country blues of "brother groups" such as the Monroes and the Louvins, sung with yelpin' Southern boy passion and dovetailing harmonies and picked frenetically, at times frantically, and adventurously yet


always with awareness of the traditional form. Bill Monroe's Mississippi Waltz and Frank Rodgers' Ookpik Waltz offer more reflection, indeed tenderness, but whether they're working their fingers to the bone or singing their hearts out, this is music of wonderful vitality." Read Rob Adam's full review from the Sunday Herald here.

May 16th, 2011

Rolling Stone offers a first-listen of "Man in the Middle," the A-side of the upcoming 7" vinyl, produced by Jack White. Stream the track here.

May 15th, 2011

Martin Townsend of the Sunday Express gives Sleep With One Eye Open a perfect five-star grade: "This new CD takes Thile firmly back to his roots as he and guitarist Michael Daves play lightning-fast interpretations of traditional bluegrass. The blend of instruments and voices is sublime, particularly on the Everlys-ishYou’re Running Wild, but that wonderful, hypnotic oddness still lurks. " Read the full review here.

May 12th, 2011

"Mandolin player and singer Chris Thile is best-known for leading engaging bluegrass fiddle band the Punch Brothers. Here he foregoes artiness and goes back to bluegrass roots with guitarist and singer Michael Daves. The two make a fine vocal duo, but even more astonishing is their instrumental virtuosity. " Read Ivan Hewett's four-star review here.

May 12th, 2011

Sleep With One Eye Open was recently featured on the "Hit List: Metro Life's Pick of Sound, Screen and Print", in which they wrote: "Mandolin maestro Thile and guitar sidekick Daves bring an up-all-night intensity and blinding technical virtuosity on a series of old-time bluegrass tracks."

May 12th, 2011

"This sums up Sleep, quite well, really. It


does its best to be both old and new. We get the old alongside a succinct lesson in traditional music and in Daves high tenor. The new sneaks its way through in the progressive take on the instrumentation that Thile and Daves so deftly employ." Read the full review here.

May 12th, 2011

Brooklyn Vegan previews Chris and Michael's last night of three at the Rockwood Music Hall, to celebrate the release of Sleep With One Eye Open, read the full preview here.

May 11th, 2011

Michael sits down with Uprooted Music to discuss his musical background and the story behind the new album: "When we were making the album we got a sense of what we were doing and what was coming together, and that kind of continued as we chosehe says "It's quite an intriguing listen, which acts like the album's dirty little troublemaking brother." Read the full review here.

May 8th, 2011

Michael: "When I met Chris, it was impossible for me to push aside this part of my musical background, improvisation, harmony. There is an undeniable conversation going on, on that level as well, and that's what's compelling about this project for me." Read the rest of Bradley Klein's interview with Chris and Michael here.

May 8th, 2011

"It is a pleasure to hear such virtuosic types giving themselves over to high-end ribaldry, in the shape of a headlong charge into the music first offered by the Monroe Bros, the Louvins and Flatt & Scruggs. Daves is a guitarist, Thile a genius of the mandolin. Both sing. Together they


hammer and tongs the songs like smiths." Read the full review, by Nick Coleman, here.

May 6th, 2011

The New York Times previews Chris and Michael's three-night stint at Rockwood Music Hall to open up their tour: "Folk traditionalism also illuminates a rip-roaring partnership between the mandolin virtuoso CHRIS THILE and the flat-picking guitarist MICHAEL DAVES. This week, to usher in the release of “Sleep With One Eye Open,” their Nonesuch debut, they’ll spend three nights at the Rockwood Music Hall. Bluegrass, in their hands, gets roughed up in the best possible way, with skill and fervor, and a touch of abandon." Check out the rest of the preview here.

May 5th, 2011

"Thile and Daves rip through 16 traditional tracks from the likes of Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt. They slowthat the two of you were holding a Walpurgis wake tonight in the cathedral. I would have thought you'd start at sunset. Aren't you going to be late?"

"I know a back door, and Schönborn is perfectly capable of starting without me." Franz smiled back. "I just need to compose my mind before heading uphill to join the others. A wake is all about contemplation and prayer and it's been a very long day. And also a very long year." Franz nodded towards the northwest and Cologne. "It was only about a year ago that I learned about Archbishop Ferdinand's plans to regain control of Bishop's Alley and the middle Rhine. Until then my life had been," he hesitated, "understandable. Not smooth, what with the Protestant armies driving me


(Gibraltar), Metairie Center Phase 1, FGMC, Ltd. and New Orleans Private Patrol, Inc. (NOPPS), were not liable.[1] We reverse in part, affirm in part and render in part.
On the evening of May 20, 1988, plaintiff, a 26 year old male, and a friend, Wendy Whiteman (Whiteman), went to a popular local nightclub, Club Galleria West, located in The Galleria in Metairie, Louisiana. NOPPS provided security services in the garage of the Galleria. Whiteman drove and parked her car on the first level of the six story parking garage near the entrance to the interior elevators. The club was extremely busy, catering to up to 2,000 people per night. The clientele ranged in age from 18 to 30 years old. While there, plaintiff and Whiteman became separated. Around 1:00a.m., plaintiff began looking for Whiteman because he was ready to leave. As he exited the interior of the building and entered the parking garage, two black men dressed in blue jeans and T-shirts forced him into a car at gunpoint. They drove to a house in New Orleans. Before arriving at the house, plaintiff made an attempt to escape, whereupon the men beat him with a pipe. Once in the house, they beat and sodomized plaintiff and forced him to perform oral sex. Next, the perpetrators drove plaintiff to an uptown area, where he was thrown out of the car. The men stole plaintiff's wallet and five thousand dollars worth of jewelry that he inherited from his deceased father. Plaintiff walked to a nearby shopping center where


he received help and called his mother. His mother drove plaintiff to Charity Hospital, where he was examined and treated.
Sometime later, in 1992, plaintiff attempted to donate blood for his mother's surgery. At that time, he discovered that he was HIV (immunodeficiency virus infection) positive and had AIDS (auto-immune deficiency syndrome).[2]*706 Plaintiffs' condition is incurable and fatal.[3]
Plaintiff filed suit against defendants on March 2, 1989. Various parties filed thirdparty actions. Club Galleria West, Inc. and First Financial Insurance Company were eventually dismissed from the suit. A jury trial of the matter was held on December 9-13 and 16-17, 1996. The jury found that plaintiff was abducted from The Galleria and raped, but that defendant, Gibraltar, did not breach its' duty to provide a reasonably safe parking area forwere viewed. Pursuant to policy and procedures, the office guard was to remain in contact with the roving guards by radio. His job also required him to maintain a log describing any incidents in the garage, actions taken by the roving guards and whether the areas were secure, as reported by the roving guards on their radios. He watched the surveillance screens that were located in the building. In addition, he collected the guards equipment when they went off duty and delivered the equipment to the arriving guards. However, there was no written security plan. Furthermore, the defendants did not perform a security analysis relative to this particular arrangement to determine the needs of the building and garage in light of the nature of the businesses and criminal


history of the area. The only security planning that had been done was in the construction phase. A letter was introduced into evidence indicating that a plan was to be forthcoming, but it was never completed.
In addition to the security guards, the management or owners hired four Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office (JPSO) deputies to work detail duty, six days per week in the interior of the building because of the nightclub. However, all four remained on duty inside the building.
The evidence further showed that the building, completed in 1987, initially had security booths installed at the entrances to the parking garage. They were dismantled and removed prior to the abduction and kept in the rear of the garage. Management felt that access controls were not feasible for thein the security of The Galleria parking lot at the time of the abduction was shown by the absence of the log entry.
Fred Jackson (Jackson), a security guard on duty on the shift prior to this incident, testified for plaintiff. He stated that the guards were required to check-in every 30 minutes. He could not explain the missing log entry. He further testified that, when the nightclub was open, there were many people going in and out of the building and garage. May 19th was a Thursday, which was one of the club's busiest nights. In addition, historically there is more criminal activity at night. Jackson stated that it was usual for the guards to challenge people merely sitting in their cars, especially when the nightclub was open


and, had he seen two men doing so, he would definitely have asked why they were there. Jackson testified that since the male club patrons were usually attired in shirt, ties and slacks, he would have been suspicious of two men attired in blue jeans and T-shirts who were just sitting in their car. He noted that the actual entries in the log were made by the guard in the office and a missing entry did not necessarily mean that the guard did not call in.
Whiteman also testified. Plaintiff rode in her car to the club and she was his ride home. Whiteman stated that when they arrived, she parked her car on the first level of the garage near the elevators. She noted that there were nosigns erected anywhere in the garage informing the public where to find the security hut. Whiteman testified that she left the club between 12:30 and 1:00 a.m. and went into the garage looking for plaintiff. She stated that she did not see any guards or JPSO deputies at that time. When she could not find plaintiff, she went home. The next day, Whiteman learned about plaintiff's ordeal.
John Lombardi (Lombardi), an expert in crime statistics analysis, criminology, security, victimology, security litigation and the drafting of security documents, testified for plaintiff. In his opinion, the security in place was inadequate for several reasons. First, he stated that there are three lines of defense in a security plan. Here, the first line of defense was the access to the building in


the garage, the second was the elevators or access to the building and the third was in the building itself. Lombardi testified that here, there was no "first line of defense" to impede the access of criminals to the garage area. Here, the garage was open to anyone. In his opinion, an access control system should have been installed and utilized, especially considering that there was a nightclub serving liquor in the building. Lombardi was explicit that the abduction would not have occurred had there been a booth or arm-type barrier restricting access. Although he noted that the Protection of Assets Manual, commonly used by the security industry, does not necessarily recommend access controls for businesses that have free flowing traffic, such as movie theaters and shopping malls,plan to establish the reasonable standard of care for that facility and there was no input from the tenants, local law enforcement and civic groups or periodic review of the security with community and law enforcement input. He said that these items were important because the JPSO statistics showed a significant increase in incidents from 1987 to the date of this incident in 1988. In the entire year of 1987 there were fifty-six incidents. In the first four months of 1988 there were eighty-seven. He stated that, although many of the crimes *709 listed were property crimes, those types of crime foretell crimes upon the person. Lombardi noted that most of the calls to the police occurred at night. He said that this increase in incidents should have


alerted management and the security company and they should have re-formatted the security accordingly. While he noted that some of the calls in the statistics were for fire alarms and ambulance calls, he said that did not relieve defendants of the need to reconsider the security plan in light of the increase in other incidents.
Referring to the missing log entry, Lombardi stated that it indicated to him that the patrol was not made and the guard was not where he was supposed to be. He noted that a prior entry was made later than at the 30 minute mark, but emphasized that the notation was in fact made. Thus, had something delayed the entry, it would have been noted like the prior entry. Lombardi was also shown anentry that states that the guard who was walking the garage reported that the high-rise staircases were secure. He interpreted the entry to mean that the guard was in the interior of the stairwell, rather than in the garage where he was supposed to be.
Lombardi testified that the guards did not receive proper training. The company did not provide a training program and there were no updates to the training that they did have. The only training the guards had were sixteen hours of state-mandated classwork and on-the-job training. However, the guards assigned to The Galleria were lieutenants and sergeants and The Galleria's manager and a representative of the security company performed random inspections of the security.
Plaintiff cites Romaguera v. Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc. to support his arguments. In


Romaguera, a patron of Piccadilly Cafeteria was shot by a man in a truck as she was exiting her car parked in the Piccadilly parking lot. Plaintiff produced evidence of a prior attempted armed robbery in the restaurant, subsequently, management posted a security guard near the cash register, but not in the parking lot. Piccadilly had not performed any security analysis. The uncontradicted evidence showed that had it done so, it would have discovered a history of numerous crimes with weapons occurring in the area around the cafeteria. The court further pointed to an absence of a written security plan. These factors demonstrated to the court's satisfaction the foreseeability of the attack on Romaguera. In Romaguera and here, the actions of defendants in having no specific security planneither blood nor semen was found when plaintiff went to the emergency room, but that it was not unusual in anal rape cases not to find semen.
Dr. Charles Preston who treated plaintiff in Charity Hospital's emergency room, testified that plaintiff's shirt was torn and had possible blood stains. Plaintiff had abrasions, lacerations, contusions and burn marks on his body. The area around the rectum was red and there was a hematoma in the rectal area, but no external blood was found. He noted that in anal sex, internal tears may occur. Those would not be noticed without a rectal exam, which was not done. In addition, no semen was noted, but the doctor stated this was not unusual in an anal rape. That was further supported by the


testimony of Patricia Daniels, a medical technologist, who works for the Coroner's Office. Dr. Preston testified that when he examined plaintiff, plaintiff appeared to be in pain, had his arms folded, was tearful, talked quietly and looked at the floor.
Dr. Louise McFarland, PhD, the epidemiologist for the Office of Public Health, testified that HIV is contracted through the exchange of bodily fluids, such as blood, from males' seminal fluid or semen, and from female vaginal fluids and breast milk. She stated that, from the information given to her, when plaintiff was examined at Charity Hospital, rectal and oral swabs were taken and there was no evidence of blood or semen. Further, there was no tearing of the anal tissue. She said that it would have been *711 difficultdrinks heavily because of the AIDS diagnosis. Plaintiff testified that he got a cold in 1995 and lost 30 pounds in two weeks. He has not put back on the weight. He noted that he is on a regimented system of medications: seven pills in the morning, five pills eight hours later and three pills in the evening. He drinks a bottle of bad-tasting chalky medication once a week and is examined at an AIDS clinic once a month. His medications give him headaches and diarrhea, but help some.
Plaintiff testified to his work history. At the time of the incident, he worked for a company that owns several shops, including shoe stores and he managed one of the shoe stores. At the time of the trial, he was


working for Dillard's Department Store (Dillard's).
Plaintiff responded to questions about why his watch was not listed as one of the stolen items after the abduction. He said that, if he failed to list his watch as stolen when he listed the other items of jewelry in the police report and when questioned later, he must have forgotten it. However, he thought that he told the police about the watch. It was apparent, however, that plaintiff was dazed for some time after the incident and his immediate memories following the incident were foggy.
Plaintiff said that he dated women and that he recently started dating Debbie Eubanks again. He would like to marry and have children, but cannot because of the disease. He has no brothers and one sister. Plaintifftestified that he feels terrible emotionally. He feels that his life is over.
Debbie Eubanks testified that since the abduction, plaintiff is moody, drinks more alcohol than he should sometimes and is generally depressed. She and plaintiff would have liked to marry, but cannot because of plaintiff's illness.
Plaintiff's mother, Marion Peterson (Mrs. Peterson), testified that she found out about the incident when she was at work. She worked for Holmes Beauty Salon and went to work that morning at 7:30 a.m. Plaintiff telephoned her. He did not know where he was and the security guard at Uptown Square Shopping Center had to explain. When she arrived, plaintiff was in a daze and incoherent. He was bloody and black and blue. Mrs. Peterson testified that, "The fear in my son's


eyes, you should have seen it." She said that plaintiff cried hard all the way to the hospital. He could not talk about the abduction and rape. At the hospital, she spoke to a chaplin and to the police. However, her son was too distraught to talk *712 to the police. Mrs. Peterson notified The Galleria later that day about these events. She testified that plaintiff told her about the loss of his wallet, jewelry and his watch. After they went home, plaintiff stayed with Mrs. Peterson for two weeks. At that time, he was living in an apartment, but he has since moved back with his mother. During the first two weeks, plaintiff had trouble sleeping and would wake up screaming or crying. He was very depressed.Plaintiff stayed home from work one week. Mrs. Peterson stated that plaintiff did not want anyone to know about the rape and would not talk about it. He still does not want to talk about it with anyone. He wants to forget it and said to her that no one should have to go through what he did. Mrs. Peterson testified that, before the incident, plaintiff was happy-go-lucky, loved to bowl, go to concerts and go out drinking socially. Mrs. Peterson described their reactions when plaintiff found out he had AIDS. She said they both were "in a state of shock." Mrs. Peterson stated that plaintiff has never been the same since. She confirmed plaintiff's testimony that he gave blood in 1986 for a friend who was having


doctor testified that plaintiff's hospitalization costs for the last few years of his life will be approximately $50,000 per year. Dr. Marier estimated that plaintiff will incur three years of hospitalization before death, for a total of $150,000.
Dr. Sanders, a psychiatrist, testified that he saw plaintiff first on October 8, 1991 and five times thereafter. Plaintiff was depressed and expressed his anger and humiliation over the incident. He informed the doctor that he drinks more and was edgy for a period of time. He does not like to talk about the incident, is anxious when he thinks about it and sometimes is prejudiced towards black people because of his experience. After the incident, plaintiff sometimes went driving in the uptown area with a gun. The doctor tested plaintiffa psychiatrist, testified that he examined plaintiff twice, once in *713 February of 1992 and once in September of 1996. Based on his examination and review of plaintiff's records with Dr. Sanders and Dr. Janzen, he concluded that plaintiff was not suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome or psychiatric illness. He noted that plaintiff told an internist in August of 1988 that he was fine.
Dr. Janzen, a psychologist, saw plaintiff in August of 1988. Plaintiff told Dr. Janzen that the incident did not bother him too much, and that he was not dwelling on it. Dr. Janzen saw plaintiff again in September of 1988, April of 1990, May of 1990 and June of 1990. Dr. Janzen related that plaintiff reported that he did not have flashbacks, panic feelings, nightmares,


Neuroanatomical sites mediating the motivational effects of opioids as mapped by the conditioned place preference paradigm in rats.
An unbiased conditioned place preference paradigm was used to examine the neuroanatomical substrates mediating the reinforcing and aversive effects of mu and kappa opioid agonists. Unilateral microinjection of the selective mu agonist DAMGO into the ventral tegmental area (VTA), the origin of the mesolimbic and mesocortical dopamine (DA) systems, resulted in dose-dependent preferences for the drug-associated place. Intracranial injections of DAMGO into terminal projection sites of VTA DA neurons, the nucleus accumbens and the medial prefrontal cortex, however, as well as into the lateral hypothalamus, were without effect. In contrast, microinjections of the kappa agonist U50,488H and the dynorphin derivative E-2078 into the VTA produced place aversions. Place aversions were alsoPresident Bashar al-Assad and his family have no role in the future Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday ahead of peace talks aiming at a political transition scheduled to resume next month.

Tillerson said that the Trump administration backed the Geneva peace talks as the only way to end the more than six-year-old war and move to a political transition and elections.

He was speaking after holding talks with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, who announced that stalled peace talks between the Syrian government and still-to-be-united opposition would resume in Geneva on Nov. 28.

"The United States wants a whole and unified Syria with no role for Bashar al-Assad in the government," Tillerson told reporters in the Swiss city at the end of a


week-long trip that took him to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan and India.

"It is our view and I have said this many times as well that we do not believe that there is a future for the Assad regime and Assad family. The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end. The only issue is how that should be brought about."

Assad's father, Hafez, served as Syria's president for nearly three decades until his death in 2000.

When the Trump administration came into office it took the view that it was "not a prerequisite that Assad goes" before the transitional process started, he added.

Supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, Assad appears militarily unassailable and last month Assad ally Hezbollah declared victory in the Syrian war.

Russian President VladimirPutin, right, shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a meeting at the Kremlin in October 2015. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Russia's air support was the predominant reason ISIS was turned back in Syria. (Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Reuters)

Those forces have pushed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) back from large swathes of eastern Syria in recent months and over the past year have taken numerous pockets of rebel-held territory around Aleppo, Homs and Damascus.

Ceasefire deals brokered by Russia, Turkey, Iran and the United States in remaining rebel-held areas of western Syria have freed up manpower for Assad's allies.

Tillerson called his discussions with de Mistura "fruitful" and said the United States will "continue our efforts to de-escalate the violence in Syria."

He said the only reason


interest rates from the RBA's move.

Dr Lowe said the board was very cognisant of the negative effect its decision would have on savers and considered that in Tuesday's meeting, but judged that a rate cut was better for the economy overall.

"In aggregate, the household sector pays around $2 in interest for every dollar it receives in interest income," he said.

"So, in aggregate, lower interest rates reduce the net interest payments of the household sector and so boost overall disposable income."

While seeking to boost household incomes and prop-up sagging consumer spending, Dr Lowe said the decision to cut interest rates was not in response to a deterioration in the bank's economic outlook since its last Statement on Monetary Policy was published in May.

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Bernini's Four Rivers fountain in Rome symbolises European rule over the Americas. Photograph: Corbis

Looking at the problems Europe faces today, it is hard to believe this continent once dominated all others. Today, Bernini's Four Rivers fountain in Rome is a spectacular landmark visited by tourists from everywhere. Yet when it was built in the 17th century, the figure of the River Plate on this gorgeous sculptural creation was an image of European rule over the Americas . Four hundred years ago, the rise of Europe seemed as inevitable as its decline may appear today. What were the factors that once made this continent so powerful?

A map of the world created by Martin Waldseemuller in 1507 epitomises that power. On it, Waldseemuller outlines an entire new western continent andnames it, for the first time, America. Several things about this map illustrate the success of Europe in its youth. The voyages of discovery that enabled Europeans to name "America" grew out of a culture of genuine curiosity and open thinking, the Renaissance. In Leonardo da Vinci's unfinished painting The Adoration of the Magi there seem to be infinities of figures, infinities of landscape – it pictures a world that is literally limitless. This altarpiece begun a decade before the voyages of Columbus expresses a culture that was ready to see new worlds.

Waldseemuller's map is printed, which makes it the fruit of another revolution of 15th-century Europe. China printed books long before Europeans did but the timing of Europe's print revolution, at the same time that the Renaissance


was hungry for new books, and its discoverers were revealing new worlds, was perfect to fuel vibrant change and growth.

Today, crippled by austerity, spooked by debt, Europe is just one continent among others. America and China seem far ahead. Can Europeans ever reclaim the qualities that once made them the most creative people on earth? It is easy to dismiss the achievements of Europe in the past as mere aggressive "imperialism". Yet the empires of Europe were the result, not the cause, of internal leaps forward. European colonialism is thankfully history. Meanwhile, the inner strengths of European culture in the past are self-evident at any great art museum. The Renaissance was just the start. The scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, liberalism, industry, socialism – all theseis actually more like a summer in the life) of six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her friends as they go about, trying to find new ways to entertain themselves, even through unappealing methods. As director Sean Baker puts it, he wanted for the kids to be the Kings and Queens of their domain, something that is conveyed through every heart felt scene that focuses on the children. Moonee’s mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) is an unemployed woman in her early twenties, living week to week as she struggles to make ends meet and struggles to be a mother to Moonee. Despite Halley’s failings as a mother, Moonee still continues to find fun and adventure roaming around the motels with her friends.

Willem Dafoe plays Bobby the manager of the motel


Juventus: Cristiano and co. guide the club in a streak of records

Records

After 8 Serie A games and 2 Champions League encounters, Juventus have managed to achieve an absolute of 10 wins. Moreover, I Bianconeri have currently a 13 goal difference in the Serie A (18-5) while in the Champions League, they are yet to concede. These seem to be mere indications of what is to be the greatest Juventus after the Trappatoni era.

Ronaldo's show with 4 goals and as many assists in the Serie A played an integral role in breaking the club's record of the best beginning in the season. After 10 games across all competitions, Juventus remains unbeaten and haven't drawn even a single game, for the first time in the club's history.

Since the start ofthis season in Italy, Juventus have managed to emerge victorious against Chievo, Lazio, Parma, Sassuolo, Frosinone, Bologna, Napoli and lately, Udinese. These 8 wins out of 8 games consist of another two records for the Old Lady, besides breaking their own.

Firstly, according to Football Italia, following the win over Udinese, Juventus became the only 6th team in the history of the Serie A to win all of their first 8 league encounters. This is the fourth time Juventus has matched this record after doing so in 1930-31, 1985-86 and 2005-06. The other two teams that have managed to make the 8-win-streak are Roma in 2013-14 and Napoli last season.

The records for the current Juventus team do not stop there. Juventus is currently the only club among the 5


greatest European Leagues to win every official game so far in the season and the second, with Borussia Dortmund being the other, to remain unbeaten in all competitions.

Squad Statistics and Numbers

Udinese v Juventus - Serie A

It is said that statistics usually tell the truth and as far as this season's Juventus is concerned, this seems to be the case.

As the Gazzetta Dello Sport claims, Allegri's men have so far created 125 attacking chances in the first 8 league games (an average of 15.6 per game). This is the best performance among Serie A clubs this season as Napoli has created 114 offensive opportunities, Roma 107 and AC Milan 102.

Juventus' excellence in creating scoring chances is supported by a formidable, solid defence. After their first 8 league games, IBianconeri have managed to limit the shots towards their net to 72, Serie A's best so far. In comparison, Napoli follows with 78 and third is AC Milan with 80.

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The Old Lady is also the league's very first with regards to ball possession (61.9% average), successful passes made (4277) and pass accuracy (88.8%), according to the Italian RMC Sport Network.

Personal bests and records

Joao Cancelo has emerged as one of Juventus' key players

It is more than true that Cristiano Ronaldo's performances overshadow displays of other exceptional players. A prime example is Joao Cancelo. The newly-arrived Portuguese has developed as one of the best players in the field for the Old Lady who seems to have found in his face, a full-back with great defensive and offensive qualities.

In fact, Cancelo


is currently second in the league for the most successful dribbles (17), only behind Fiorentina's Federico Chiesa. As Fox Sports argues, no defender in the league has created more for his team than Cancelo. Against Udinese, he ended the game with a 90.8% pass accuracy and created at least 5 attacking situations.

Last but not least, after the first 8 Serie A turns, the Portuguese defender is the league's first with regards to chances created by a defender (14) and the third among Juventus players, only behind Ronaldo (16) and Pjanic (18).

Cristiano Ronaldo, apart from being the top assist-man in the Serie A (4), has the driver's seat with regards to shots (61) and shots on target (26). He is also the only player to never miss a minutethus far in the league for Juventus.

Of course, numbers are numbers. But in the case of Juventus, they tell the absolute truth. The Old Lady is by far the best team in Italy and her shows are the most consistent as well as entertaining among the greatest European leagues.


A solemn final Mass

VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI presided over Ash Wednesday services – his final public Mass – thanking the faithful at St. Peter's Basilica for their support during his nearly eight-year pontificate.

The basilica was packed as the pope, dressed in the traditional purple Lenten robes, celebrated a solemn Mass attended by a number of the cardinals who will be choosing his successor in just over a month.

Among them was Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, who at the end of the service addressed the pope's unexpected decision to step down on Feb. 28. “We wouldn't be sincere, Your Holiness, if we didn't tell you that this evening there is a veil of sadness in our hearts,” Bertone said, his voice breaking.

He praised the pope's “strongprecious sign for those who have distanced themselves from the faith or who are indifferent.”

Earlier, an enthusiastic crowd greeted Benedict at his weekly audience at the Vatican.

It was his first appearance since the announcement of his resignation two days before, and one of the dwindling opportunities for his followers to see and hear him before he withdraws into a sheltered life in a convent within the Vatican, where an apartment is being prepared for him.


diaphragmatic hernia with dislocation of the transverse colon into the left thorax was identified on x-rays. A thoracotomy as well as a laparotomy were performed to restore the anatomic conditions and to dose the hernia. After two weeks, the patient could leave the hospital without pulmonary complications. Under consideration of the literature we recommend exploratory laparotomy for stab wounds that penetrate the left side of the chest below the fourth intercostal space anteriorly, the sixth intercostal space laterally and the tip of the scapula posteriorly. The high mortality rate after a delayed recognition appears to justify an early operative approach.Anna's ear and anything louder would be overkill. Anna lifts her arms to wrap around Meg's waist, and she rests her head on her shoulder. It really is. Having the support of her best friend – only friend, really, aside from those she's dating – is actually... helpful. Like she's not alone. She has someone else she can talk to if she wants.

She can't hang around long because Elsa's waiting, but Meg doesn't seem to mind. "Save some time for me!" she says, throwing a cheeky smile and shooing her friend away. Anna turns around a little to wave at her.

"Of course!" she says. "You're my best friend!"

She's determined to get sex right, at least, with Kristoff. It shouldn't be suffering like it is, but each time they


try it seems to barely last five minutes and just ends up leaving them both upset and unsatisfied.

So she buys a huge packet of variety condoms and they mutually decide that the super thin ones work better.

And they they just go at it.

Anna's on the bottom, looking up at him the first time he comes, but she's nowhere near her release. It doesn't work for her like that, so she rolls on her hands and knees and stays there. He goes to pull out but she just says, "Don't," and makes sure he doesn't actually go anywhere. He leans over her, fingers finding her clit but doing next to nothing for her. Maybe it's because he's still soft and it feels weird.

She moves a little, and he doesgo hard, but even when they both manage to orgasm, it doesn't feel good. She shudders, but they're not big, full-body quakes. The muscles contract for a few seconds before they fade and she kinda wants to cry because it's not working.

"One more time, c'mon," Kristoff says. "Try it my way."

So she does. She trusts him, even when he turns her around so she's on her side and he enters her from behind. It's the first time all day that he makes any noise of pleasure, and maybe that's what she's been missing. His pleasure.

Mostly. It doesn't- it makes something in her flare, but only for a moment. One of his hands presses softly into her clit while the other one massages her breast, but he's moving too


slow inside her, so she starts moving.

When he comes for a third time, they still don't have the same equilibrium. They're dancing different dances to different tunes and she doesn't know how to make it better.

Sometimes... no matter how much you want something to work, it doesn't...

But no. She can't believe that. Won't. She and Kris, they'll find their groove again. She just has to hope.

The first time Elsa and Anna kiss, it's completely unexpected. When they start they don't seem stop and everything about Elsa, from her taste and her smell to how she feels pressed against Anna's body, it makes her want to give more. Give everything.

They're in front of the TV watching some stupid movie. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. It's probably not supposed tobe funny but every little thing cracks them up. It's a literal 'so bad it's good' film and Anna's enjoying the hell out of it.

They finally start calming down, letting out low sighs interspersed with little chuckles. Anna, still smiling, turns to look at Elsa just as the blonde does the same. She wants to tell her what an awesome idea it was, but she finds her breath catching in her throat.

And then Elsa's leaning over and kissing her, warm and sweet, and the only thing that runs through Anna's head is how she has to respond. Her hand comes up to rest at Elsa's cheek as they move closer and closer. It's so warm. Elsa's warm, and there's this heat, building in Anna's stomach and in her


chest.

When Elsa's tongue softly probes her lips, mouth opening just a little more to enter Anna's, she feels like she could burst. By the time they part, out of breath and gasping, Elsa's on Anna's lap and Anna's possibly crying she's so happy. If she is, Elsa doesn't mention it. She just kisses her more.

This is perfect.

Anna's on cloud nine. Even though they didn't go any further, it's perhaps for the best. This is already such a huge step. And it opens the gate to even more. More handholding, more hugs. Even... even more kisses, which surprises Anna far more than she's willing to admit.

Kissing Elsa is amazing. Kissing her back is heaven.

It makes her want to scream from the rooftops; tell everyone that she's dating this wonderfulthat, plus the flower crown and very-short-but-not-too-short dress makes her look. Well. Anna doesn't know the word but she knows she likes it.

They rock up and the only toga themed aspect is the clothes. Everyone's already in the beer and vodka, and there's some pretty contemporary dancing going on in the living room. Anna tries to pull meg into a dance first but she refuses until she's had at least three shots and a glass of something fun. She makes sure Anna matches it, too, so before long, they're both well on their way to getting buzzed.

They're on the dance floor in ten minutes.

Anna doesn't recognise the song, but she's also had very little time of late to watch TV or listen to the radio. Whatever it is,


it's bass heavy and thumping. Already she can feel the alcohol going to her head (perhaps she should take it easy?), but it sort of doesn't matter. Not when Meg comes up behind her, hands on her hips and starts grinding.

Oh damn, Anna absolutely doesn't need any more alcohol. She has no idea how long they stay in the same spot, just moving together as they share space and air and heat. Meg's hands roam, not enough to be improper but certainly enough to light Anna's skin on fire. She twists at some point so she can face her friend, and at the same time Meg's arms come to rest on her shoulders. The songs change, from thumping dance beats to bass-heavy club songs, but Anna barely hearslonger before they finally have to break away completely from dancing. Anna's exhausted and really, really hungry. Meg's disappeared, though Anna has a feeling she knows where she's gone. She grabs a drink first, because all the dancing has made her pretty parched (for something other than vodka). When she returns, Anna finds Meg leaning against a wall about ten minutes later, chatting to the host of the party. Anna's forgotten his name again. It doesn't matter. He's not what has her attention.

She just stands back for a moment, just watching her friend. It's rare, seeing Meg engage in other people. The woman is a bit of a loner – loud, but introverted where it counts. She's actually smiling at whatsisname, and when she notices Anna, it only