include a weight is affixed to the drive shaft of the motor. The weight has a vertical arm attached eccentrically thereto, such that rotation of the drive shaft causes the vertical arm to move axially. The vertical arm is coupled to a first massage formation, which is in turn connected to a second massage formation by a rigid surface. Movement of the vertical arm causes the first massage formation to be moved upwardly and downwardly, and in turn causes the second massage formation to be moved in the opposite direction about a central pivot. Unfortunately, this design has the disadvantage that movement of the first and second massage formations are both controlled by the same vertical arm and are not moved independently. Consequently, if the vertical arm breaks,Mexicans seeking asylum in the United States could be sent to Guatemala under a bilateral agreement signed by the Central American nation last year, according to documents sent to US asylum officers in recent days and seen by Reuters.

In a January 4 email, field office staff at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) were told Mexican nationals will be included in the populations "amenable" to the agreement with Guatemala.

The controversial agreement, brokered last July between the administration of Republican President Donald Trump and the outgoing Guatemalan government, allows US immigration officials to force migrants requesting asylum at the US-Mexican border to apply for protection there.

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Trump has made clamping down on undocumented migration a top priority of his presidency and a major theme of his 2020 re-election campaign.


Security official told Reuters last week, citing preliminary data.

The US government says another reason for the reduction in border crossings is a separate programme, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, that has forced more than 56,000 non-Mexican migrants to wait in Mexico for their US immigration court hearings.

With fewer Central Americans at the border, US attention has turned to Mexicans crossing irregularly or requesting asylum. Around 150,000 Mexican single adults were apprehended at the border in fiscal 2019, down sharply from previous decades but still enough to bother US immigration hawks.a respect for established decisions, established law."

And supporting a nominee who would want to overturn Roe would be a mistake for her, according to Maine voters. When told that Kavanaugh would likely tip the balance of the court on Roe, 54 percent said they'd be less likely to support him.

But on Tuesday, Collins hinted that she is willing to give Kavanaugh's hostility to safe, legal abortion a pass.

"He said that he agreed with what Justice Roberts said at his nomination hearing, in which he said it was settled law," she told reporters following her meeting with Kavanaugh.

"Settled law" is a popular way for judicial nominees to avoid actually answering questions, but in Kavanaugh's case, it means even less than usual.

In 2016, he gave a speech in which he


said he would overturn and "put the final nail in" a Supreme Court decision that upheld a now-expired independent counsel law.

On abortion in particular, Kavanaugh has made his opposition clear. He praised the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist for dissenting in Roe v. Wade. He also tried to block a 17-year-old immigrant in detention from accessing an abortion. That decision was overturned by a higher court.

Collins is not up for re-election until 2020, but if she votes to confirm a Supreme Court justice whose extremist ideology is out of sync with Maine voters — especially after she vowed not to — that vote could come back to bite her.

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Trump doesn’t even bother to pay more for American-made goods for those in his customer base who could pay more for items: guests at his luxury hotels. While staying in an $850-per-night room at Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel last year, The Post’s Dana Milbank revealed that the posh “Trump Hotels” bathrobe and slippers were made in China, and the guest rooms are replete with foreign-made goods. Among the items made overseas, Milbank found towels made in India, china made in Japan, Malaysian-made telephones, and a coffee machine and several lamps, among other things, all made in China.

While Trump has promised steel workers in Rust Belt states that he will restore lost jobs to their economically battered communities, heat AFL level.

He booted a whopping 24 goals in the Under 18 championships, as well as 34 goals in just seven TAC Cup matches. The left-footer’s shot on goal is virtually pin-point, he marks well above his head and has elite endurance for his size (14.1 Beep Test).

Schache is exactly what Lions fans have been begging for since the retirement of Jonathan Brown. Local Queensland product and ball-magnet Ben Keays is also one to look out for in 2016.

Carlton – Jacob Weitering

The first selection in the 2015 draft has been touted as potentially being one of the greatest defenders the game has seen in recent years, prior to even making his debut. He has already drawn comparisons to two time All-Australian and Geelong premiership star Harry Taylor in


The former No.9 draft pick played nine games in 2015, his best performance coming against the Western Bulldogs in Round 17 where he managed to slot five goals straight in a loss.

Moore truly has it all when it comes to the ideal modern day forward. He’s quick off the mark, agile, tall, possesses a great pair of hands and rarely misses in front of goal.

With one pre-season already under his belt and AFL experience to his name, Moore must be considered one of the favourites to take out the award this year.

Essendon – Jayden Laverde

The Bombers have a number of young options this year after nabbing highly talented youngsters Darcy Parish and Aaron Francis with successive picks in the draft. Despite Parish and Francis both potentially making theirgood looking’ by the media in 2015, Weller will be keen to let his footy do the talking this year.

The 182cm brother of St Kilda’s Maverick Weller has elite foot skills with a flashy side step, as well as possessing genuine ball-winning qualities. Currently on the verge of the Dockers’ best 22.

Geelong – Jake Kolodjashnij

Young defender Jake Kolodjashnij is the Cats’ only genuine Rising Star contender in 2016 after playing nine names in his second season at Geelong.

The taller twin brother of the Gold Coast’s Kade Kolodjashnij is extremely athletic and reads the ball well in defence. At times in 2015 he struggled to keep up with the pace of AFL, yet at the same time remained fairly composed down back.

The 20-year-old has tidy foot skills and the


ability to take a strong overhead mark. He should remain a key member of the side’s best 22 alongside the more experienced Harry Taylor and Tom Lonergan.

Gold Coast – Peter Wright

Probably a surprise selection considering the Suns have recently drafted gun West-Australian Callum Ah Chee. Wright is a big 203cm ruckman/key-forward who was taken with the Suns’ first selection (No.8) in the 2014 Draft, playing just three games in his debut season.

Wright dominated at TAC Cup level, possessing a deadly leg in front of goal and drawing comparisons to three-time premiership star Brad Ottens.

There are some slight concerns over Wright’s ability to compete with the game’s best ruckman, often being pushed off the ball with ease. His injuries have also prevented his progress over the past two seasons.

Moreopportunities should open up for Wright in 2016 due to the departure of Charlie Dixon.

Great Western Sydney – Jack Steele

The Giants have added three top 20 talents in Matthew Kennedy, Jacob Hopper and Harrison Himmelberg to their list in 2016, yet youngster Jack Steele has already proven his capabilities at AFL level and because of that is slightly ahead in the pecking order.

The 187cm Steele was a draft bolter in 2014, yet fell into the hands of the Giants after being locked away as an Academy selection. Steele played seven games in 2015, winning plenty of the ball and tackling well (38 tackles).

Steele possess elite foot skills and is an endurance machine who may just find himself right at home on the wing, now that the dreaded substitute


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Lackland AFB hosts a collection of vintage military aircraft on static display on its parade grounds, including a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, B-29 Superfortress, C-121 Constellation, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a B-25 Mitchell.

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Local group advocates smoke-free West Point

August 22, 2013

Stephanie Collier shares her own experiences as an ex-smoker. Collier is spearheading an initiative to implement a no smoking ordinance in West Point. (Photo by Donna Summerall, DTL)

Everyone wants the healthiest environment for their children. For this reason, Stephanie Collier project director of Mississippi Tobacco Free Coalition, wants to help make West Point a smoke-free community. The Tobacco Free Coalition met Wednesday morning at the Bryan Public Library to talk to community leaders, business owners and people who would like to work with the Tobacco Free Coalition. Collier wants to bring a non-smoking ordinance to West Point, much like the one in place in Tupelo and Starkville.

“We want to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco usage and second-hand smoke,” said23 when both leaders will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders' meeting in Tashkent.

China has maintained that more talks were needed to build a consensus on which countries can join the 48-nation NSG following the United States' push to include India in the elite group.

The countries, who oppose India's membership, argue that its inclusion in the group would further undermine efforts to prevent proliferation and also infuriate New Delhi's rival Pakistan.

Islamabad, which enjoys the backing of its close ally China, has also responded to India's membership bid and asked for its admission as well.

The decision on Indian membership will only be decided at the NSG plenary meeting in Seoul scheduled on 23 and 24 June.

While reports surfaced that Beijing would try its best to stop India's entry into


found Jesus in his heart. We knew about Sam Cooke getting shot in a motel by the woman worked behind the counter who he thought was hiding some girl he wanted to get with who had run off from his room when he’d tried to pull her dress off, taking his pants with her . . . We knew that Marvin Gaye had been shot by his very own daddy, and that he, like our own daddy, was prone to going off. (That one got away with me the worst, a gone-off genius getting shot by someone who like as not took care of him and protected him and loved him when nobody else would . . .)

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old woman from Tarasco who plays dominoes at seven o’clock in the morning”:

On the edge of the table her stick, made of steel with some animal’s claw for a handle, hung like something alive. She had a little chicken on a cord which she kept under her dress over her heart. The chicken peeped out with pert, jerky, sidelong glances. She set the little chicken on a table near her where it pecked among the dominoes, uttering tiny cries. Then she replaced it, drawing her dress tenderly over it.

Out of a book—the kind of Anglophile thing I normally avoid, associating it (or its kin) with Lady Di and other “royals” necrophiliack memorabilia—acquired largely against the recognition of the “chimney’d house” logo of Moyer Bell adorning its spine, aa cigarette.” First (dream-actual) incidence of heading off to purchase a box of Marlboros in ten-plus years of “quitting smoking” (an endless processual thing, apparently). The alarum sound’d before the deed completed.

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Painter Samuel Palmer (1805-1881):

I believe in my very heart . . . that all the very finest original pictures and topping things in nature have a certain quaintness by which they partially affect us—not the quaintness of bungling—the queer doing of a common thought—but a curiousness in their beauty—a salt on their tails by which the imagination catches hold on them while the sublime eagles and big birds of the French academy fly up far beyond the sphere of our affections—one of the very


deepest sayings I have met with in Lord Bacon seems to me to be ‘There is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.’

Palmer on Blake:

In him you saw at once the Maker, the Inventor; one of the few in any age: a fitting companion for Dante. He was energy itself, and shed around him a kindling influence; an atmosphere of life, full of the ideal. To walk with him in the country was to perceive the soul of beauty through the forms of matter . . . He was a man without a mask; his aim single, his path straightforwards, and his wants few; so he was free, noble, and happy . . . one of the few . . . who are not in some Rubio testified that she filed the original application in 2002, but that the attorney who
assisted her stole the money and never filed the application. The application submitted with the
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to intelligence information. Rubio was not interested, but the friend warned her

that she must join or die. In mid-October, members of FARC chased Rubio by car

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people. Frightened, Rubio fled to the United States. Although she informed her

father of the threats, she did not file a policesuccess of the scheme has now led to an expanded programme which will give startups nine months to work alongside technological experts from across GCHQ, including the National Cyber Security Centre, with more time to expand their ideas and build security products to aid the UK's fight against cybercrime and foreign cyber threats.

"After the successful first phase of the programme, we believe we can develop the start-ups even further via a longer programme, ensuring the companies gain maximum advantage of this opportunity," a spokesperson from Wayra UK, the startup accelerator programme which is once again working alongside GCHQ on the scheme, said.

Startups have until 9 August to apply to be part of the scheme which will begin in October 2017. The startups will be chosen by an expert


panel of GCHQ, NCSC, Wayra, and Telefónica staff, alongside a panel of investors.

"Cyber Accelerator represents a massive opportunity to collaborate with cutting-edge companies to drive forward the government's ambitious programme of innovation that is helping to protect the UK from evolving cyber threats," said Chris Ensor, NCSC deputy director of cyber skills and growth.

Successful applicants will be provided with a £25,000 grant and a physical space to work in. In addition to mentoring from GCHQ personnel, the startups involved will gain access to advice on business development, as well as expertise from government, academia, and industry.

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Karen Fonseca said Monday that Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls "messed with the wrong person" when deputies arrested her Thursday on an old, unrelated warrant for fraud. Nehls posted a photo of the truck on Facebook on.

There are reports of damage in some areas, including Galveston, the Matagorda County town of Sargent and parts of Fort Bend County. There have been no reports of injuries. In Houston, we could see rainfall of 15 to 20 inches with.

Two more candidates have announced their candidacy for judgeships during the primary election on March 6. Lewis White is running for the new Fort Bend County Court at.

Negri was a three-time all-county and all. on Sunday with South Bend Riley voted No. 1 this week. First-place votes are— a misdemeanor — against the driver. But at a news conference later Wednesday, Nehls.

Self-Evacuation destination in Bell County will be the EXPO CENTER, 301 West Loop, Belton, Texas. Pets are welcome. Gulf side of Intracoastal Canal Residents in low-lying areas surrounding the San Bernard River (map) Fort Bend.

Chiron Francis, 44, was sentenced Tuesday to two 75-year prison sentences for the 1994 double-homicides of 19-year-old Eric Heidbreder and 20-year-old Douglas.

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it wasn’t until a viral tweet, posted by the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office. Warner, who spent a decade researching crocodiles in Africa and says he has "the best job in the world," expects his phone will ring a lot post.

The company, a joint venture between Comer Holdings LLC and Lear Corp.(NYSE: LEA), both based in Michigan, will invest $7 million to increase production capacity at the plant and add 100 jobs. The Whitley County Economic.

In a Facebook post, Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said he discussed with a local prosecutor the possibility of a disorderly conduct charge — a misdemeanor — against the driver. But at a news conference later Wednesday, Nehls.

Fort Bend County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the2010 census, its population was 585,375, making it the tenth-most populous county in Texas.

RICHMOND, Texas — The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help locating a Richmond man who went missing while trying to sell his car. The family of 42-year-old Altaf Hussain Malik says he was last seen around 8:30.

Us Department Of Labor Jobs The American workforce showed impressive strength in 2017 with unemployment at a 17-year low and over 2 million jobs created. The labor market is near full employment, with the jobless rate at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent. The tighter labor market is starting to exert upward pressure on. And he was involved with aAsp Net Interview Questions IsPostBack is a property of the Asp.Net page that tells whether or not


dance-a-thon take on the vehicle. Mike even throws out a few fight bell hits in approval afterwards. He knows.

They follow that up with the tour debut of Meatstick, the first since their visit to Japan but here still without the Japanese lyrics we would come to know and love (for some). The outro jam drips directly into Maze which somehow accomplishes being both heavy shred and mellow at the same time (well, at least as far as Maze goes). I suppose that is another facet of 1999 playing as even with the soupiness of the layered sounds there was the ability to blow heads open as they always had. Maze starts with some loops and then gets to business as Trey uses distortion to great effect. Next –Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was arrested earlier this month after a loaded handgun was found in his briefcase at an airport security checkpoint.

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Barbour will pay a fine for the infraction, which reportedly occurred on Jan. 2 when he was attempting to board a flight from Jackson, Miss., to Washington.

Barbour told the AP that he had forgotten that he had put the gun in his briefcase after an assistant had taken it out of his car days earlier.

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"This was absentmindedness and nobody’s fault but mine," he told the AP.

The .38 caliber revolver appeared on a security X-ray of the briefcase when Barbour was going through a security checkpoint. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) then contacted airport police, who arrested Barbour. The gun


"I first posted about #JayAndSilentBobReboot on @instagram 2/9/17. It’s been 2 years and 1 week since that post, during which time I almost died. But a week from Monday, we finally start rolling on reboot. Never give up, kids. Even when your heart wants to," the filmmaker wrote, referring to the near-fatal heart attack he suffered almost a year ago.

When Smith announced he was working on the Miramax film in 2017, he explained that 2001's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back would get a reboot because another Clerks film did not pan out (an unidentified castmember passed on it) and a sequel to Mallrats would make a better TV series than a movie. On Saturday, the filmmaker pointed out he owns Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, butnot his other previous works, which also made continuing them more challenging.

At the time, Smith described the reboot as "a fun flick in which the Jersey boys have to go back to Hollywood to stop a brand new reboot of the old Bluntman & Chronic Movie they hated so much. It's a tongue-in-cheek, silly-ass satire that pokes fun at the movie business's recent re-do obsession, featuring an all-star cast of cameos and familiar faces!"


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The Navy’s newest warship looks like none that have gone before, a massive 15,900ton guidedmissile destroyer (DDG) that is larger
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departures from the ways of the past.

The Navy showed off its newest class of ship, the
Zumwaltclass guidedmissile destroyer (DDG 1000)
to reporters Oct. 13, two days before its commissioning
ceremony in Baltimore. Zumwalt, named for the late
former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo “Bud”
Zumwalt, visited for the city’s Fleet Week celebration
and berthed alongside an Arleigh Burkeclass DDG and
a Ticonderogaclass guidedmissile cruiser, which pro
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tumblehome hull and lowradar cross section.

Zumwalt now is the largest and most heavily armed
surfacewarship in the Navy. It is armed with the largest
and longestrange gun in the fleet, has the largest num
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power supply system, a sophisticated air defense radar,
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bring increased lethality, including offensive power, and
survivability to the fleet.

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The guns are designed to fire the
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The new destroyer also is equipped with 80 launch
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Natalie Rooney - Shooting

Natalie Rooney is the first Kiwi shooter to be ranked number one in the world.

Shooter Natalie Rooney. Credit: Photosport.

Rooney was born in Timaru and has been competing in shooting internationally for 10 years.

Her first major competition was the 2007 Sydney Youth Festival where she placed fourth.

Although Rooney missed out on selection for the London 2012 Olympics, she competed at both the Delhi 2010 and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

In Delhi, she came fifth in the trap singles event and seventh in the trap pairs, while she stepped even closer to the podium in Glasgow, placing fourth.

From 2012, she began training three months of the year in Europe with top Italian shooting coach Andrea Miotto.

Rooney attended her first Olympics at Rio in 2016. She ended upwinning New Zealand’s first medal of the Games when she took out silver in the trap singles.

In 2017, after strong performances in World Cup meets in Mexico and Cyprus, Rooney became the world number one trap shooter for the first time, replacing the gold medal winner from Rio 2016, Australian Catherine Skinner.

This achievement made her the first Kiwi, man or woman, to hold a number one ranking in any of the shooting disciplines. Skinner has since reclaimed the number one spot.

Rooney is part of an experienced team of 11 shooters named to compete on the Gold Coast, with this being her third appearance at the Commonwealth Games.

When she is not training and competing, Rooney is a qualified accountant and works for her father’s South Canterbury-based business, Rooney Earthmoving.


Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse on May 23, 2018 in Washington, DC.

Prosecutors have been eager to show jurors that President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort lived an opulent lifestyle as part of his ongoing criminal trial on financial fraud charges.

But their biggest obstacle so far has not been Manafort's defense counsel — it's been the judge.

Manafort heads to Virginia federal district court Thursday for the third day of his trial. It's the first trial to be based on charges brought as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.

The federal district court judge presiding over thecase, 78-year-old Reagan appointee T.S. Ellis, has been quick to snap at the U.S. attorneys in the early days of the trial. Namely, he has lashed them for presenting evidence of Manafort's lavish spending habits that, he said, could prejudice the jury against him.

Manafort is "not on trial for having a lavish lifestyle," Ellis said at one point.

"To parade all of this," he said later, "seems to me unnecessary, irrelevant and maybe unfairly prejudicial."

In his opening statement on Tuesday, prosecutor Uzo Asonye's attempt to detail Manafort's purchase of pricey suits, rugs, cars and home renovations was quickly was quickly censured by Ellis, who told Asonye to "focus on the elements" of the criminal charges.

"It isn't a crime to have a lot of money and be profligate in your


spending," Ellis said.

Prosecutors have argued that the dozens of invoices from high-end clothiers, contractors and other vendors provide salient evidence for their position that Manafort sought to maintain a cushy lifestyle when he allegedly resorted to bank fraud in 2014.

They've used that position to offer new details about those spending habits, including that Manafort spent $15,000 on a jacket "made from an ostrich." Prosecutors also brought in numerous witnesses to discuss invoices found during a search of Manafort's Alexandria, Va., condominium, including a $160,000 invoice for two silk rugs.

They put Maximilian Katzman, manager of his father's Manhattan luxury menswear shop Alan Couture, on the stand to discuss items such as a 2010 invoice for two suits and four pairs of trousers totaling $15,195. Manafort's yearly invoices from 2010the area.”

The $350,000 project to install two streetlights on the north-south corridor, similar to other lights installed on Sunset Boulevard in 2013, was expedited after a fatal collision at the intersection on Feb. 4.

Just before 11 a.m. that day, 78-year-old Isaak Berenzon, of San Francisco, was fatally struck as he walked west across Sunset Boulevard.

He went through the windshield of a red Toyota Corolla in the gruesome collision and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A woman was driving the car with two passengers inside. Those three were taken to a hospital for minor injuries. The driver, 71-year-old Jenny Ching, was later arrested and cited on suspicion of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter and failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

Berenzon had been walking where there are currently yellow


blinking lights to alert drivers to pedestrians crossing.

A few weeks later on Feb. 19, a 15-year-old boy was hit by a car at the same location.

He suffered head trauma and lower body injuries but survived. Just last week, a 21-year-old woman was struck and injured while crossing the same intersection.

The woman was taken to San Francisco General Hospital after the collision, which occurred around 2:35 p.m. Thursday. She suffered injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

The driver, a 25-year-old woman, was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

After the latest accident, Walk San Francisco, a pedestrian advocacy group, called on the city to redouble its efforts to achieve “Vision Zero,” a citywide goal to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024. “This is another reminder that weWelcome!

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Dreamworks Animation - Worst to Best (Part 2)

It's been nearly two weeks since Part 1 of my Worst to Best of Dreamworks Animation films was posted, so now I feel its time to conclude my list in this next post. We've been through most of the stinkers, so now we're focusing purely on the gooduns - thank god!

#9 - Shrek the Third (2007)

Despite excellent box office takings of nearly $800 million, Shrek the Third had a very mixed response from critics and audiences, with many feeling the film relied too much on rehashing old jokes and plot points. While Shrek the Third definitely isn't as good as the previous installments, it's still a funny and entertaining adventure and, as I've said before, provides a nice


conclusion to the story arc of Shrek and Fiona's romance, as well as the fate of Far Far Away.

#8 - Madagascar (2005)

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A lot has changed since he last played for the Celtics, before partially tearing his ACL near the end of January. Doc Rivers, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce have all departed, leaving Rondo the final remaining member of the 2008 championship team.

"What about him?" Rondo replied when first asked about Rivers, but he quickly softened his stance. "Doc was a great coach to play for, he was very hard on me, he helped me become the player I am today, I give him a lot of credit. And now he’s going to LA, so that’s that.”

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      Trickey, A.C.J. — Christina Alexandress appeals her judgment and

sentence for her conviction of trafficking in stolen property in the first degree.

She contends that the State presented insufficient evidence to establish that she

was the individual who pawned the stolen property. We disagree and affirm.

                                     FACTS

      On September 21, 2011, Stephanie Romack's home was burglarized and

two jewelry boxes were stolen. A neighbor's security camera captured footage

from the day of the incident. The surveillance video showed two women driving

up to Romack's house in a1993 green Subaru station wagon. The two women

got out of the car. One woman walked toward Romack's house, and the other

woman opened the back door of the Subaru. A short time later, the woman who

had walked toward Romack's house returned with an object in her hands. The

women got into the Subaru and drove away.
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      A week later, a police officer from the City of Lake Stevens Police

Department saw a Subaru with the same distinguishing features as the Subaru in

the security footage.      He pulled over the car and notified the sergeant

investigating the burglary.      The officer and the sergeant noted that the two

occupants of the Subaru physically resembled the two women seen in the

surveillance


video. They identified the two occupants as Christina Alexandress,

also known as "Christina Dress," and Sherryl Brongil.1

       Following this traffic stop, police searched an online database for pawn

shop transactions associated with the name "Christina Dress."2 They located
pawn transactions at the Lake City Way Cash America pawn shop on October

27, 2011. The pawn tickets showed purchases for three items of jewelry. Police

photographed these three items, and Romack confirmed that all three had been

stolen from her house.

       Thereafter, the State charged Alexandress with one count of trafficking in

stolen property in the first degree. A jury convicted Alexandress as charged.

       Alexandress appeals.

            she was the person who

pawned the jewelry.

       We conclude that the State presented sufficient evidence to establish that

Alexandress was the person who sold Romack's jewelry on October 27, 2011.

Two police officers testified that Alexandress and Brongil resembled the two

women who burglarized Romack's home.            Alexandress's participation in the

burglary made it more likely that she was the person who pawned Romack's

jewelry a month later.

       The testimony of Chelsea Matthai also supported the jury's verdict.

Matthai, a former pawn shop employee, testified about the transaction that

occurred on October 27, 2011. Because the person selling the jewelry was a first

time customer, Matthai was "more cautious" during the transaction.4 Matthai

requested identification


this evidence in the light most favorable to the State, any rational

trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that Alexandress was

the individual who participated in the pawn transaction on October 27, 2011.

      Alexandress contends that the evidence established only that someone

who looked like her, and used her identification, conducted the pawn transaction.

But all reasonable inferences from the evidence must be drawn in favor of the

State and interpreted most strongly against the defendant.         It is a reasonable

inference based on the evidence presented in this case that Alexandress was the

person who used her own driver's license and pawned the jewelry.              Enables culture picker services, and also the admin culture picker.
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The story has produced a wave of concern among anxious GOP officials in Washington but little more than a collective shrug from many Republicans in Alabama, which holds a special election on Dec. 12 to fill the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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Those familiar with recent polling of the Alabama race suggest it was always going to be close despite the state's strong Republican leanings -- largely because of Moore's controversial past.

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It got worse Friday.

The Senate GOP's campaign arm formally ended its fundraising agreement with Moore.

The GOP's 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney condemned his colleagues' caveat -- only if the allegations are true.

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Facing a tough re-election, Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., likened Moore to Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, former Rep. Anthony Weiner and former Foxfact that this has happened may make him even more committed."

Moore was twice removed from his state Supreme Court position, once for disobeying a federal court order to remove a 5,200-pound granite Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the state judicial building, and later for urging state probate judges to defy the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.

He also previously said homosexuality should be illegal, and last week he refused to back off comments that Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., should not be allowed to serve in Congress because he's a Muslim.

Virtually the entire Republican establishment -- including President Donald Trump -- opposed Moore's primary bid in September.

In Friday's radio interview, Moore cast the Post story as an effort by Democrats -- "and maybe even establishment


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The sooner that Americans and Iranians realize that the other one is populated by people not that much different from them, the better off we will all be.

I know some people who emigrated from Iran and eventually moved back. Why? They thought that life in "the west" was just like it was in Hollywood movies. When they ended up working part time in a gas station and found themselves getting deeper and deeper in debt (Iran doesn't accept credit... it's a cash-based society), they faced their disillusionment, cut their losses, and moved back to Iran where they felt they had half a chance at getting ahead in life.

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Beyond the péripherique, a short drive through the Bois de Vincennes – by Paris's close-cropped standards almost unimaginably untamed – is the Théâtre du Soleil, the company Ariane Mnouchkine co-founded and has run for the last half-century. The theatre is located somewhere in the grounds of the Cartoucherie, a former munitions factory buried in the dark of the wood.

For many, the journey is a pilgrimage. Mnouchkine is regularly ranked as one of the world's most influential directors, the only female winner of the international Ibsen award, whose productions – 20-odd in the last 48 years – are often spoken of in awe. Soon after the événements of 1968, Théâtre du Soleil exploded to attention with its rough-and-tumble devised works 1789 and 1793, which brought the history of theFrench revolution to scandalous, shocking life. Their cycles of Richard II, Twelfth Night and Henry IV (1981–84) reached an estimated 250,000 people, fusing Shakespearean history with stylised imagery drawn from Japan, Bali, India, then a four-part odyssey into Greek tragedy, Les Atrides (1990–92), that blended Kathakali with kabuki.

Always restless, Mnouchkine has sometimes made migration itself her subject: 2003's Le Dérnier Caravansérail (The Last Caravan Stop) dramatised the experience of refugees from Kurdistan, Chechnya, Iran, Russia and a flurry of other countries into an extraordinary six-hour experience that featured no fewer than 169 characters. In French, the word spectacle is simply the offhand word for "show", yet Théâtre du Soleil interpret it literally – they seem unable to make theatre that is anything less than epic.

But for all its


The Ibsen citation declared: "to enter a Mnouchkine production is to enter another world." In the ringing phrase of the critic Judith G Miller, she is nothing less than a "nomad of the imagination".

If one were looking to cast a nomad of the imagination, the mild-looking woman in front of me, swathed in a baggy grey hoodie, a tussle of white hair coiling around her spectacles, isn't an obvious candidate for the role. It has been arranged that we will talk after the company has lunched together. Though the Cartoucherie is not the commune it once was, this isn't so much a meal, I sense, as a metaphor for how the Théâtre du Soleil operates. "Well, it's important," Mnouchkine replies in softly accented English. "We work a lot,so life has to be as nice as possible, and relationships too – we are a company of 75 people now, and of course there are crises, problems." So it's not entirely the workers' paradise it seems? She laughs. "Sometimes it's hell! Sometimes it's terrible. It is made by human beings. They're not angels, and they're not devils either. They can be both. We can all be both."

It's tempting to speculate that this urge to forge a family – and her lifelong fascination with migration – has its roots in Mnouchkine's own past. She was born on 3 March 1939, to a British mother, the actor Jane Hannen, and the film producer Alexandre Mnouchkine, a Jewish–Russian émigré who fled to Paris with his parents after the revolution. Mnouchkine


rarely talks about her mother (her parents separated when she was 13) and perhaps the most important relationship in her life was with her father, who became one of France's most successful postwar film producers, and remained until his death in 1993 an intimate artistic collaborator, helping finance her first theatre, scraping together cash for what remains her only full-length feature, 1976's Molière. "At every moment of my life," she said in 2005, "the only thing of which I was entirely certain was that my father loved me."

After France crumbled to the Germans in June 1940, the young family was forced into hiding; Alexandre's parents, unable to escape, were dragged from their home, then deported and gassed. Mnouchkine's only authored script is an adaptation of Mephisto, Klaus Mann'sbitterly satirical novel about the rise of Nazism, and her deep sympathy for displaced peoples and the victims of conflict is not confined to the stage. She has been a passionate campaigner for human rights, especially in the Palestinian Territories, Tibet and Afghanistan, and in 1996 the company opened its doors to 382 illegal immigrants, many from the former French colony of Mali.

Though the young Ariane grew up watching Parisian theatre – it was there that she first saw Kathakali – it's surprising to hear that she got a taste for performance in Britain (though there is admittedly the family connection: the actor Harriet Walter is a cousin). While on a year abroad from the Sorbonne in the late 1950s, studying English in Oxford, she drifted into the


It was this group that evolved into the Théâtre du Soleil, founded as a cooperative in the summer of 1964, with each member contributing 900 Francs (salaries are still more or less equal across the company, and far from generous: €1,400 a month for new arrivals, €1,800 for long-term members, including Mnouchkine herself). Naming the theatre after the sun, Mnouchkine told the New York Times in 1992, felt inevitable: "We were looking for life, light, heat, beauty, strength, fertility."

A scene from Le Dérnier Caravansérail at the Theatre du Soleil.

It was a British play that gave them their first hit – a production of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen, performed in 1967 in the radical setting of the Cirque Médrano, whose unsparingly, precise choreography, learned from a stint with thecircus guru Jacques Lecoq, introduced smart Parisian audiences to the unvarnished realism of this angry young Englishman (albeit one who had sweated in the real-life kitchens of Paris's Restaurant le Rallye). "I'm still so grateful to Arnold for giving us this play," Mnouchkine smiles. "It was a big success in England, we were really nobody, and he gave us the rights. Suddenly we existed."

Nonetheless, it was a canny bit of planning. Wesker's script makes pointed links between the broiling tensions in the workplace and those of wider society; by May the following year French students were on the streets, and TdS threw itself into la lutte, performing the play for striking car workers. But though the company had found a purpose, it still didn't have a home: a


every production (for Edinburgh audiences a life-size replica is currently being raised in an exhibition hall near the airport).

Later, I am escorted by an actor through the Cartoucherie's treasury of converted warehouses: a workshop for musician Jean-Jacques Lemêtre, stuffed with improbable-looking instruments; cavernous costume stores, with shoes and camisoles neatly filed in boxes on one wall, fur and velvet capes beneath blankets on racks; a mask workshop.

People who buy a ticket to the Théâtre du Soleil don't simply get a show: they are absorbed into a dramatic experience whose every detail, from the navette that picks them up from the Métro to the meal they eat beforehand, has been carefully, almost ritualistically planned. Members of the company cook and serve; visitors are invited to peer through windows intoleast you can do is welcome people."

Although Mnouchkine's career is sometimes separated into phases – from the early, improvisatory works, through the epic sequences of Asian-influenced histories, to her border-crossing collaborations with writer and philosopher Cixous, who first became involved with the company in the mid-80s – the company's lifeblood has been improvisation. Nearly everything you see on stage is created collaboratively – in the early years laboriously observed and notated from rehearsals, these days captured by a small video camera. She looks scornful when I ask why improvisation is so important. "It is a strange question, because would you ask an author why ink is important? It's a way of writing. In our company, actors are really the authors." Even when they're dealing with a pre-existing text?


"Theatre is not only what you say, it's what you do. It's the reaction that has to be caught, it's the mood, the emotion, the state of mind. Even when we worked on Shakespeare, we improvised. Otherwise you just repeat famous phrases. What you have to do is try and understand not only how Shakespeare wrote it, but how he heard it." She mimes a splat on the table. "What did he feel when he suddenly discovered, say, Falstaff landing on his paper?"

Mnouchkine experienced her own thrill of discovery when she first travelled east, taking a year off in the early 1960s to explore Japan, India, south-east Asia and, bravely for a 23-year-old travelling alone, remoter parts of the Middle East (she remembers seeing women accessorising their hijabswith miniskirts in a pre-Russian Afghanistan). It opened the young director's eyes to art forms as richly diverse as bunraku puppetry and Javanese gamelan. "It was a shock," she reflects. "It was like suddenly finding what you knew existed but hadn't seen. Asian theatre is a master for metaphor."

It was years before those metaphors crept into her own work, initially in the Shakespeare productions, but the lessons were profound. "It took some time to digest everything, to make it ours, not what we call Japonaiserie." There was, however, criticism that this was exactly what the productions were – well-meaning but naive attempts to borrow ideas from the east and attach them to western forms. "In Richard II there was still a little bit of Japonaiserie," she admits. "We


with Cixous and, after they went their separate ways, another female member of the company, her private life remains private. While almost childlike in her warmth, there is a trace of remoteness about her. When she won the Ibsen award, she shared the €300,000 prize money with her colleagues, so they could have an extra month of rehearsal. I wonder where the company ends and she begins. Perhaps it isn't a distinction that means much.

One answer might lie in Les Ephémères (2006), roughly translatable as "Ephemera", described by one critic as a show in which "the grey fabric of everyday life … is made to shimmer with significance and quiet intensity". In some ways her most intimate piece to date, it was a mosaic of narrative fragments playedout – rhythmically, heartstoppingly – on wheeled stages spun by hand through the darkened space: an image of how individual memories become history, and also of their elusiveness. Several scenes emerged from memories Mnouchkine offered herself: one, perhaps rawest, of her mother saying goodbye to their family. She admits she was taken aback to see it creeping into the show. "It was by accident: all the actors were telling their own memories, so I found myself obliged, in a way. And then one actor suddenly grabbed it and put it on the stage." Was it strange, seeing her own life represented after a lifetime representing others? "Yes, but also rather beautiful. The person who was really surprised and moved was my sister. She had no idea: I was


Officer White was probably two to three feet away from Appellant, another officer was standing behind Officer White, and a third officer was on the other side of the street, in front and to the left of Officer White, about ten to fifteen feet away from Appellant.  Officer White found two pieces of an off-white rocklike substance in two small blue plastic baggies in Appellant’s front right pocket.  Officer White confiscated the evidence and arrested Appellant.

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In the American and European versions, a short drum beat plays while the game is paused. This was removed from the Japanese version for unknown reasons.

Level Design

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Keep an eye out for any changes that were missed.

When the game was localized in Japanese, the difficulty was toned down considerably, which particularly shines in levels that are notoriously hard in the American/European versions. The Genesis port is based on this localization, so a few level changes as well as other changes above carry into said version.

Stage 3: Turbo Tunnel

The second-to-last Rat


located on a platform was removed.

The overall speed seems to have been altered to be slower.

Segment 1: A string of three short walls became two; the remaining two were spaced out more. The last wall before the checkpoint was removed and the previous two spaced out.

Segment 2: The last short wall before the first jump was removed. After the first jump, the first of three walls was removed and the others spaced out more. After the second jump, the string of six alternating walls was reduced to just four—all spaced out more. Finally, the last short wall before the checkpoint was removed.

Segment 3: The second string of four alternating walls became just three, which were spaced out more (noticing a pattern yet?). Immediately thereafter, three short walls werereduced to two at (you guessed it) more generous spacing. Both elevated ramps were moved to the ground. In the section with the wall-dropping camels/chickens/rats, the short wall was removed.

Segment 4: The shifted ramp and the elevated ramp were both moved to normal positions. The particularly fast-moving robot enemy was removed. All five blind jumps (accompanied by the exclamation point (!)) were given normal ramps and the flashing exclamation point removed.

Segment 5: This section's speed was reduced.

All in all, the Japanese version relocated four ramps to easier positions, added five ramps to replace blind jumps, removed five tall walls, and removed five short walls. Needless to say, the Japanese Turbo Tunnel is considerably easier than its international counterpart.

Stage 4: Arctic Caverns

The second icicle was removed at the beginning


of the stage.

The ceiling was reshaped at the first ice block to make the ice easier to jump over.

The Snowmen wait longer between snowball throws. This has the additional effect of making the section with cascading snowballs much easier.

All yellow spiky shells are slower, except the one immediately following the fifth checkpoint which was slow to begin with.

The surprise snowball encountered while riding the moving platform after the fourth checkpoint is gone.

In the moving platform section where the 1UP is found, both stalactites are removed.

In the section where the player has to throw the ice block over a pillar to break a wall, the ice block is no longer in motion when first encountered. Furthermore, the spiky yellow shell that pursues you is missing.

The tricky jump from theof this section was removed.

Some spikes at the very end of the level were relocated to facilitate the jump from the dropping platform.

Stage 5: Surf City

The logs are spaced much further apart.

The last two forward-moving logs before the jump were removed.

Big Blag's HP was reduced from 15 pole hits to only 9.

The Minefield section no longer gradually speeds up.

The Mines spawn at a consistently timed rate as they no longer use RNG to time when they are spawned (the mines still use RNG for placement), and the mines only move at one speed in the Japanese version, instead of two seperate speeds. (the default single speed in the Japanese version is of course, the slower of the two speeds).

Stage 6: Karnath's Lair

Several of the snakes now take different


routes that are much tamer than their American/European counterparts; for instance, the first snake in the second room goes above a spike ball it originally went under.

Midway through the second room, the toad(s) was required to jump three spike balls in a row in quick succession. The one in the middle was cut from the Japanese version.

The fast snakes now travel at the same speed as all the others.

The spike ball hugging the wall in the fourth room was removed.

Two spikes sitting next to each other towards the top of the fourth room were removed.

Stage 7: Volkmire's Inferno

Two Rats were removed from the beginning of the level.

The three logs that you were required to ride across have been replaced by solid platforms.

Segment 1: The electric barrier's openings aremuch larger. The speed has been reduced, and the closing barriers are also much slower.

Segment 2: The fireballs are spaced out further and their speed has been reduced.

Segment 3: There is a two-second delay between the falling and rising missiles and vice versa.

Segment 4: The electric barriers are spaced out more.

Segment 5: The speed is greatly reduced and the flashing barriers give you more warning before appearing.

This level's difficulty has been greatly reduced, although the changes aren't as apparent as Turbo Tunnel.

Stage 8: Intruder Excluder

The timing between the Balls was greatly increased.

Removed a Sentry-drone on a precarious platform.

Removed a Snotball on the left side of the platform.

Removed a Fan, making the jump to the spring next to it a lot easier.

Removed another Sentry-drone above the gasser.

Removed the bottom


Fan on a two-Fan jump on the left side of the elevator shaft.

Removed another Fan on the right side of the elevator shaft.

Replaced the long-range gasser with a shorter gasser.

Replaced an electric barrier above the spring with a normal one.

The last electric barrier of the level was also replaced with a normal one.

Robo-manus' HP was reduced from 21 to 16.

Stage 9: Terra Tubes

Checkpoint 1: Two spike balls were removed in the first descent. Another spike ball was removed in the ascension before the second checkpoint, making the gap required to take the landing at the next checkpoint much less strict.

Checkpoint 2: Three floor spikes were removed in the second gear chase section. This means that you no longer need memorisation for a part of this section. Another fourspike pits were removed in the fourth section before the third checkpoint.

Checkpoint 3: One spike was removed in the first swimming area, making the jump far easier. Removed a HammerHead spawner in the beginning of the second swimming area. Removed an Elec-eel spawner in the beginning of the Third swimming area and replaced it with a single Elec-eel. Also Removed a submerged spike ball.

Checkpoint 4: Removed a line of spikes in the first gear chase. Also removed a pit of spikes in the safe area making it much easier to avoid the gear. Removed two spikes in the second gear chase. Removed another pit of spikes used to block the player from making a narrow entrance. Removed another line of spikes in the bottom tunnel. Removed another pit


of spikes in the safe area before the fifth checkpoint making it much easier to avoid the gear.

Checkpoint 5: Relocated the descending propellers underneath the above platform. You no longer need to jump in order to grab both descending propellers in 2-player mode. The Steelbeaks (also known as rubber ducks) take one punch instead of six to defeat. Five spike balls became four in the final swimming section. Two more floor spikes were also removed. Eight spike balls in the upper area became six. Another spike ball was removed to make the tube wider. Removed one of the two the bottom spikes in the second descent. This fixed an odd (but purely visual) oversight where touching the exit made the toad(s) walk on top of the spikes withoutof the two disappearing platforms after the hanging poles have been (you guessed it) replaced by a solid platform.

Two of the four disappearing platforms on the floor above have been replaced by solid platforms.

The red Horn-head after the nerfed platforms takes two hits instead of three.

The regular Horn-head above the hanging poles takes two hits instead of four.

The surprise Swellcheek takes three hits instead of five.

Stage 13: Armageddon

The Dark Queen's HP was reduced from 25 to 21.

Changes between American and European versions

Graphical

Rare adjusted the position of the status bar and removed the border from the bottom of the screen in the European version. The status bar is moved closer to the very top of the screen so that it makes better use of the lack of vertical overscan


present on PAL televisions. Oddly, the Japanese version's status bar is 1 pixel taller than the American version.

Japanese (37 pixels tall) American (36 pixels tall) European (21 pixels tall)

Level Changes

The European version retains all the level designs of the American version, barring one (also present in the Japanese release): in Level 7: Volkmire's Inferno, two rats were removed from the beginning of the level and the moving logs of the American version are replaced by solid platforms.Founded by Jerry Pape in 1984, Excalibur has provided services throughout the Western US. The company has offices in Sunnyvale, California and Bozeman, Montana. Mr. Pape has created relationships with major vendors worldwide that are characterized by loyalty, longevity, and reciprocity. Vendors appreciate Pape’s candor and availability. As a qualified source of third-party validation, Pape provides vendor partners with reciprocal advocacy via his print media and television appearances on local, statewide and national levels.

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to sustain their livelihoods, and institutional resilience is based on the capacity of the national system to meet and maintain the delivery of public goods and services.

Both dimensions of resilience were evaluated within the study in order to create a livelihood baseline and identify key resilience-building requirements for both in-camp Syrian refugees and the neighbouring communities.

In terms of human resilience, in spite of the economic slowdown, rates of participation in the labour force are very similar between refugees and host community. 32% of the population between the age of 16 and 59 are employed (see Figure 1). A policy of free movement in and out of the camp and the facilitation of work permits allows refugee to freely pursue employment opportunities. However, the employment situation, in terms ofThe news came hours after officials in Yemen said dozens of people were killed and wounded in an air raid on a wedding party in the country on Sunday, in another attack the Huthis blamed on the coalition.

Medical sources and local officials put the number of dead between 22 and 33, with at least 40 to 50 wounded, while the exact circumstances of the raid remained unclear.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Twitter that a hospital it supports in Hajjah received at least 65 patients, including at least 13 children, wounded in the air strikes, which it said were “among the most devastating in the area in recent months”.

Rescue teams said the wedding was being held in the Huthi-controlled Bani Qais area of Hajjah province, north of Sanaa,


when jets carried out the raid.

A local official told AFP that at least 23 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the attack.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a double air strike on the crowded party venue had left a number of dead bodies buried beneath the rubble.

Huthi-run Al-Masirah television said at least 33 people, including women and children, were killed and as many as 55 people wounded in the air strike on the wedding.

The coalition’s spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incident.

Iran, which is accused of supplying arms to the Huthis, swiftly condemned the raid.

“The escalated bombardment of residential areas proves the desperation and inability of the invaders in achieving their goals,” foreign ministry spokesmanBahram Qassemi said in a statement.

– New rebel missiles fired –

Also on Monday, the coalition said it shot down two new ballistic missiles fired by the Huthis, who claimed to target facilities belonging to the kingdom’s oil giant Aramco in southern Jizan city.

The coalition reported no damage or loss of life from the strikes, the latest in a string of bombardments on Saudi Arabia by the Huthis.

Saudi forces said they intercepted a rebel ballistic missile targeting its southern border city of Najran on Sunday, which set a farm ablaze, after another aimed at Jizan was shot down on Friday.

At the beginning of April, Huthi political head Sammad dubbed 2018 “the year of ballistic excellence”, referring to cross-border missile attacks.

Sunday’s deadly strike in Hajjah was one of a series


to have struck weddings in Yemen’s conflict, which has killed nearly 10,000 people and wounded 54,000 others since March 2015.

In late 2015, coalition air strikes on two wedding parties in northern Yemen killed at least 159 civilians.

Violence has also hit funerals. In October 2016, 140 mourners were killed in an air strike on a house in Sanaa.

Elsewhere in Yemen on Monday, five pro-government soldiers were killed and 19 wounded in clashes with jihadists in the southern city of Taez, medics said.

Fighting in the city’s Jahmaliah district came after the governor of Taez launched an operation against jihadists he suspected were behind the murder of a Red Cross aid worker over the weekend.

The Lebanese aid worker, Hanna Lahoud, was shot dead in Taez on Saturday by unidentified assailants whofluid catalytic cracking apparatus used for the production of a gasoline from a feed stock, such as a heavy oil. This reactor is capable of reducing contact time with an improvement of catalytic ability, leading to an enhancement of selectivity of a final product and suppression of unfavorable excessive cracking reactions.
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Zenobia

This graphic novel is about a young girl who is a refugee from Syria and
her dangerous journey away from the war in her country. Through evocative
pictures and minimal, well-chosen words, it is a gentle but tragic story that
doesn’t shy away from reality. Created in Denmark, where it won a national
illustration award, Zenobia deals
with an important international issue. It will no doubt will be read by older
children and adults around the world.

Beginning at the end, the reader is not lulled into a sense that this book
has a happy conclusion. Rather, the story is about how Amina got there and who
she was. There are three stories in one and they are depicted by different
colours. Amina’s present at the start is full colour. When she remembers her
mother backin Syria in the past, the illustrations are in shades of brown. And
the story of Zenobia, a great warrior queen of Syria, is in purple and orange.
The colour changes are very effective in indicating time, but also in changing
the mood of the story.

The first words are after ten pages of pictures, which strengthens their
impact. Then at the end of the story there is no need for words again – this is
quite powerful. The story of Zenobia, told
by Amina's mother, helps to make the book a bit less bleak. Zenobia acts as a
source of strength and comfort for Amina after the ship wreck, even when
everything is going wrong. Also Amina's memories of playing hide and seek and
cooking with her mother, are very touching.

For children learning about refugees Zenobia
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Category:Association football goalkeepersLondon, Oct 25 : Popstar Cat Stevens alias Yusuf Islam has rebuffed claims that Israeli security services objected to his entry into the country, claiming that it was he who backed out due to other date conflicts.

The grapevine has it that Stevens, who converted to Islam in 1977, was invited to headline an October 27 peace concert to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Peres Centre for Peace, an organisation backed by Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Uri Savir, a former Israeli diplomat and negotiator who heads the Peres Centre, earlier said that when Stevens' passport details were submitted for a "conventional security check", it sparked a "huge row".

"After re-evaluating the situation Cat Stevens will not be arriving in Israel," the Telegraph quoted Uri Savir as saying.

However,


the 'Wild world' hitmaker has rebuffed the claims.

"This is a storm in a jam jar, because in fact I had already put a cap on this matter. I'd given apologies to the Peres Centre some time ago, due to the date of the event coinciding with a scheduled trip to the United States," he said.

"That's not to say that I didn't appreciate the invitation from the Centre, and I am of course supportive of initiatives for peace," he said in the emailed statement," he added.The 2005 conference on the biology of manual therapies.
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Former Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Convicted on Civil Rights Charges

WASHINGTON Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas E. Perez and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Tim Johnson today announced the conviction of a former trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety who was charged with depriving multiple motorists of their civil rights. The jury returned guilty verdicts on all four counts of the indictment that charged Michael Anthony Higgins with violating federal law by willfully stealing money from motorists that he had stopped on the highway while working as a trooper. The jury’s verdicts were returned today after one and one-half hours of deliberation in federal court in CorpusChristi, Texas.

Higgins was prosecuted for stopping motorists who appeared to be of Hispanic descent and stealing their money, usually in amounts of several hundred dollars. As a result of the civilian complaints, the Department of Public Safety (DPS), in conjunction with the Texas Rangers, initiated an undercover operation to investigate Higgins. An undercover officer posed as a civilian of Hispanic descent with limited English language ability. The undercover officer was issued several pre-recorded $100 bills. While being monitored by DPS aerial surveillance, the undercover officer drove past Higgins’ duty area in Kleberg County and was eventually stopped by Higgins. Upon making the traffic stop, Higgins asked the undercover officer for money in his possession and then took the money behind the passenger side door of his patrol vehicle.

After


Higgins returned bills to the officer, the officer realized that some of the money was missing. Texas Rangers and DPS officers confronted Higgins and, upon inspection of the patrol vehicle, found two of the pre-recorded $100 bills secreted in the passenger side door pocket which was next to the area where Higgins had gone to count the money.

"The defendant abused the power granted to him as a law enforcement officer to prey upon unsuspecting motorists for personal gain. He violated not only the law, but also the public trust," said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "I commend the Department of Public Safety and the FBI for their thorough investigation."

"This defendant’s duty was to protect and defend motorists, not to profile drivers andsteal their money," said Tim Johnson, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. "We commend the action of the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers to investigate the civilian complaints quickly and that of the FBI to further the investigation leading to today’s convictions."

Higgins faces a maximum sentence of up to four years in prison, restitution and a $400,000 fine. Sentencing has been set for April 20, 2010.

The case was investigated by the FBI, Texas Rangers and Officers of the Texas Department of Public Safety. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ruben Perez of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas and Trial Attorney Jim Felte from the Civil Rights Division.


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Jean Piaget

(1896 – 1980) was employed at the Binet Institute in the 1920s, where his job was to develop French versions of questions on English intelligence tests.

He became intrigued with the reasons children gave for their wrong answers on the questions that required logical thinking. He believed that these incorrect answers revealed important differences between the thinking of adults and children.

Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. His contributions include a theory of cognitive child development, detailed observational studies of cognition in children, and a series of simple but ingenious tests to reveal different cognitive abilities.

Before Piaget’s work, the common assumption in psychology was that children are merely less competent thinkers than adults. Piaget showed that young children think