out of the track, the slider moves down, forcing the wedge projection between legs of a cam brake that cams outward into the sides of the track preventing further vertical downward movement of the slider and preventing vertical reciprocation of the window. The window sash then rotates about the pivot at the first end of the arm as it angles further away from the tracks and the bottom end of the sash slides up in the track until it comes up against an abutment formed in the sheet metal of the track, which stops further rotation of the sash.In the end, Dinesh Singh rammed through FYUP either because he wanted to please his political masters or because he was vain enough to believe totally in his own ability and invincibility against the odds. But politics changes and vanity evaporates in the real world.

Reports that Dinesh Singh has allegedly resigned brings to an ignominious early end the tenure of Delhi University’s Vice-Chancellor. Under most circumstances, the ouster of the head of autonomous institution under enormous pressure from the government of the day would be an ominous sign. But in Singh’s case, there is little room even for sympathy.

For his supporters that at one point included Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Union Minister of State for HRD Shahsi Tharoor and other UPA Government luminaries including Sam Pitroda,


Dinesh Singh was the radical Vice-Chancellor who was willing to shake up the almost 100-year-old university with an ambitious attempt to introduce a four-year undergraduate programme (the infamous FYUP). It seems, however, that Singh’s vanity and the political support he enjoyed got the better of his judgment.

It is important to note that there is a difference between a four-year undergraduate programme and a four-year undergraduate programme a la Dinesh Singh. Singh and his supporters wanted to create an illusion that Delhi University would bring American standards to Indian higher education merely by adding a year to the degree. But the reality is that a quality American undergraduate education is quite different from what Dinesh Singh forced through in Delhi University. Which American university spends its first year teachingnonsensical "foundation" (allegedly lessons in real life) courses to its students? Which American University offers as an "opt out" after three years? Which American University rolls out a new academic programme without adequate thought to curriculum and even minimum consent of teachers?

Dinesh Singh was never able to persuade the two most important stakeholders in the university. It is rare for the constituent politically-affiliated groups of the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) to speak in the same language, but the FYUP was opposed by the Left, BJP and Congress affiliated groups. The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) witnesses a similar unity against the FYUP cutting across political divides. Without the support of teachers and students, any radical reform of a university is bound to fail.

Let us for a moment


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following Town Committees: Personnel Committee of Council; Arts and Cultural Advisory; Tecumseh Heritage Advisory; Accessibility Advisory; War of 1812 Commemoration Committee; 38TH Annual Tecumseh Corn Festival Committee. Cheryl was also a representative of Town Council in Tecumseh BIA.

Cheryl served as Essex's County representative on regional authorities:

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 Essex Windsor Solid Waste Authority board member since elected and currently Chairperson of the Technical Review Committee dealing with claims for residential properties affected by the closed Maidstone Landfill, in accordance with Ministry of Environment orders.
 Essex Region Conservation Authority board member for two years. In January 2013, Cheryl stepped aside to allow another elected representative to"The men ought to be more fatherly at home, possessing finer feelings in reference to their wives and children, neighbors and friends, more kindly and godlike. When I go into a family I do admire to see the head of that family administering to it as a man of God, kind and gentle, filled with the Holy Ghost and with the wisdom and understanding of heaven. Men and women can increase their spiritual knowledge."

Houses of Lorenzo Snow

These pictures show some of the houses that Lorenzo Snow had lived in during his calling as an Apostle and LDS Church President. Lorenzo Snow received a college degree and earned a living as a school teacher. He was ordained an Apostle in Salt Lake in 1849, making him the first Church


President that hadn't been originally ordained an apostle by Joseph Smith. He was sustained as Church President on September 13, 1898.

Brigham City, Utah Circa 1850's

Lorenzo Snow founded Brigham City in 1853. He and his wives lived in and operated this hotel.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Lorenzo Snow didn't spend a lot of time living at any of his homes. He was continually being sent on missions, serving in England, Italy, Malta, Switzerland, Hawaii (then called The Sandwich Islands), among others.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Lorenzo Snow likely lived here while he worked as president of the Salt Lake City Temple.

1898-190167 East South Temple - The Beehive House Salt Lake City, Utah

Lorenzo Snow and his family lived in Brigham Young's Beehive House after being sustained President of the Church in 1898, following thedeath of Wilford Woodruff.

Lorenzo Snow's presidency is notable for dealing with the post polygamy fallout, his vision of Jesus Christ in the Salt Lake Temple, setting the foundation for the church's young men and women's program, and for pulling the church out of a financial crisis.


Guardians of the Galaxy had a number of great points, but one of the things that we all noticed from the very first trailer was the fully lived-in universe it created. Concept artist Kev Jenkins provided designs for Morag, Xandar and Knowhere. They're beautiful.

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There's a lot more on his website, where Jenkins describes the process of creating these places:

I designed the Knowhere Robot Head and have included the image chosen by Marvel that inspired the direction. I also Designed and worked on the Zbrush sculpt that VFX used in their DMP's using an initial sculpt I did for the concept paintings. After seven months in pre-production I then hired a team and spent three months creating all the concept assets under my direction while I provided lighting studiesis able to go out safely with a new buggy costing £309, provided to him by Newlife.

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HIC

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HIV

:   Human Immunodeficiency Virus

ICD

:   International Classification of Diseases

ICU

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IHME

:   Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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:   Intravenous

LMIC

:   Low and middle-income country

RCT

:   Randomized clinical trial

SIRS

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WHO

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National Assembly deputies representing the city wanted to know at the meeting why the Government's policies have not reversed this trend.

Business representatives told them the main reasons were the high inflation and their inability to get bank loans at moderate interest rates.

The deputy head of the State Bank of Viet Nam's HCM City office admitted that the measures to help businesses access credit only focused on enlarging the number of categories of eligible borrowers and not on loosening credit.

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They wanted the Government to instead introduce stimulus policies suchKusadasi

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Killing of SUNY student from Long Island under investigation

Kemberly Richardson has more on the investigation into the death of a SUNY student from Long Island.

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Sunday, March 11, 2018

WESTBURY, Long Island (WABC) --

Police are investigating the killing of a 22-year-old college student from Long Island.

Police said 22-year-old Haley Anderson from Westbury was found dead Friday afternoon at a home near Binghamton University, where she was a nursing student.

A cut above the rest, that’s how one man described Haley Anderson. The Binghamton University nursing student was found dead in her off campus home Friday. She was just 22 and well liked in her home town of Westbury, Long Island, where her family is in morning . More at 6 @ABC7NYpic.twitter.com/1ecckbM87mA Case of Lacrimal Sac Septum Presenting With Dacryocystocele.
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Former banker Arati Devi is a sarpanch in Ganjam district of Odisha

Thirty-two-year-old Arati Devi who in 2012 left a lucrative career in banking to contest panchayat polls and become a sarpanch in Ganjam district of Odisha, has been nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Leadership Award 2014.

The Asian Peace Foundation informed Ms. Arati about her selection through a letter. According to Ms. Arati, her recognition would surely encourage educated youth to take active role in grassroots-level governance for development of the country.

She is the sarpanch of Dhunkapada panchayat in Ganjam district, standing apart from most other sarpanches as she is an MBA degree holder and till 2012, working with IDBI Bank in Berhampur. In 2012, she decided to leave behind her career as a banker to enter politics bycontesting panchayat polls.

It was a hard decision, she says, as she had spent her school and college days in urban areas like Berhampur and Hyderabad. But her mental and physical ties with her parental village Dhunkapada had not dwindled. She used her managerial skills to improve village-level governance and was able to streamline the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the village. According to her, for several decades, families were not getting wheat through PDS although it was reaching the panchayat.

She started a major literacy campaign for women in the panchayat under the name T ipa nuhe dastakhat (no thumb impression, only signature).

Under this project, all women in the panchayat would be educated to be able to write applications and to stop giving their thumb impressions for any official


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John Peel's Records To Be Put Online
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The late, legendary DJ's record collection to be put online in 'virtual form'

John Peel's record collection, consisting of around 25,000 vinyl LPs, is to be put online in virtual form for an Arts Council project entitled The Space, reports BBC News. Visitors to the site will be able to browse through some of his record collection. The Space's website is currently blank, but the project, which is Arts Council funded, is set to commence in May.

Though his collection also contains around 40,000 vinyl singles and CDs, the project's focus is to get the vinyl albums online in the first instance, which will be accompanied by personal notes, video interviews with his family and musicians, and more extramaterial. The aim is to put 100 albums online per week, giving access to a total of 2500 once this part of the project has reached completion in October. Listening may be limited depending on copyright issues but there will also be access to audio of the Peel session archive.

"What we're hoping to do is create an online interactive museum which which answers the question 'what is in John Peel's record collection?' but also provides the audience with a visualisation of it," said Tom Barker, director of the John Peel Centre. "We hope that giving them access to a particular band or their first album or listening to his show will inspire people to tell us their stories."

Peel's widow Sheila Ravenscroft has also backed the project, saying that


height of six feet with an athletic build, Bradwyn is a bit of a giant among men.

Unlike the knights challenging their friends left and right, Rowan had mostly been watching. After his prompt loss in his joust, against an opponent he thought he could easily beat, his pride had to take some time to heal before he went out and dared fate once again. He puts his name in the lots, and inevitably his name gets called. He steps forward, wooden blade in hand, and gives Bradwyn a once over. The corner of his mouth turns downward at the mention of Bradwyn's name, but he keeps his thoughts to himself. For now. "Best two out of three, or… do you have another preference, Sir?"

Bradwyn nods to Rowan andsays, "First to three strikes is fine with me." As he doesn't seem to know Rowan, or at least doesn't know him the way Rowan knows his name… Or his family's name one. Readying his sword and shield, he salutes with his sword then waits for the challenge to be signaled to start. His greater height casting a shadow over the ground between them, and perhaps a bit over Rowan's body as well.

The Wylye lord was used to most of his peers being larger than him, sometimes by quite a few inches and pounds. He looks up at Bradwyn with his dispassionate brown eyes and dips his head in a subtle nod. "First to three gets the match," he reaffirms and puts some distance between him and his


opponent.

The signal comes, and Rowan leaps at Bradwyn, his blunted sword held high. It comes down quickly in a diagonal slash at the man's right shoulder. He may be a little too eager to prove himself, now!

Bradwyn takes his swing, testing his opponent and seems to be taken by surprise, or perhaps some remaining pain from his last challenge. Whatever the case Rowan delivers a hard blow, and while caught on Bradwyn's shield, knocks the taller knight off-balance and he actually lands on his back with a grunt. Rolling to the side and bouncing back to his feet he offers a respectful nod and says, "Well struck." then moves to strike once more.

"Thank you," the other knight retorts when the other picks himself up. He didn't intend toevents in other parts of the world, such as reactions to the war by the Pope and various other countries, as well as actions in the war that the player takes no part in.

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Grubs gnaw roots, maggots munch fruits and caterpillars chew leaves. In textbook food chains, animals eat plants, not the other way round.

But there are plant species that break this rule – at least 600 species of them on the last count. These are the carnivorous plants, and they routinely feast on insects, spiders, worms – even potentially small mammals.

Life for a carnivorous plant is challenging. They cannot very well march across the landscape in search of a meal. Dinner has to come to them. The plants have evolved sticky leaves, water pots and the like to catch animals, but how – if at all – do they lure their prey into these traps?

A study published in February 2016 shows for the first time that some carnivorous plants useWASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas man is the first person to be charged under a federal ban on bump stocks, devices that allow a semi-automatic firearm to fire rapidly like a machine gun, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Ajay Dhingra, 43, of Houston, came on the radar of the U.S. Secret Service in August after he sent an email to the George W. Bush Foundation asking the former president to “send one of your boys to come and murder me,” according to court records.

Prosecutors allege that Dhingra had previously been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility and was prohibited from owning firearms. When Secret Service agents showed up at his house, Dhingra told them he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, court documents said.

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At his home, investigators found a handgun


and an AR-15 rifle that had a bump stock attached to it, the documents said. Investigators also found four 100-round magazines.

Dhingra’s case is the first brought by the U.S. Justice Department for violating the nationwide bump stock ban since it took effect in March, under the same federal law that prohibits possessing machine guns. The devices became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used by the gunman who killed 58 people and left hundreds of others injured in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

Dhingra was indicted on charges that include possessing a machine gun and making false statements to acquire a firearm.

His attorney, David Adler, declined to comment Thursday.understand the crucial breakdown: the state education executive bodies (departments of education and state boards of education) pine for the conditional federal dollar and, in addition, many, perhaps most, of their jobs exist to administer that dollar. As a result, the state education apparatus turns toward the federal executive and away from the state’s legislature and citizens. That near exclusion of the citizen paves the way for the series of education fads and poor products like the Common Core. In state after state, on matter after matter, the controlling policy is simply, “What do the Feds want?”

Courageous public officials have made this observation. The experiences of Andrea Neal provide a case in point. Neal is an English language arts teacher and journalist who served on the Indiana State


unfortunately it appears that they are only cementing into place federal authority at the expense of parents and children.

And Indiana state Sen. Scott Schneider:

According to our United States Constitution education is the sole responsibility of the states, to be carried out according to each state’s constitution. The Federal government, through the Federal Department of Education, has its tentacles entangled in just about every aspect of education at the state level. Through the threat of reduced or lost funding, the feds dictate policy directly and indirectly to states’ boards of education and departments of education, rendering the voice of the people – through their legislatures – mute. To truly improve education in this country, the Federal government must get out of the business of education completely, and return thisfunction to the states. It is time to abolish the Federal department of education.

The activist –be she a parent, teacher, or some other citizen– knows this all too well. She has gleaned it from the volumes of papers she has read, from her entreaties to legislators, governors, and state board members, and from her networking with other activists from across the country.

With regard to the GOP presidential contest, almost all candidates have now voiced some sort of objection to the Common Core. However, as is the tendency in the party on issue after issue, rather than fighting on grand, timeless ideas or principles, many GOP politicians have responded to this issue by latching onto an insipid, flavorless part. They have made a big idea into a small idea.


as, or worse than, the Common Core will once again be pushed onto the American people. Thus, citizens want to know what reforms a candidate would champion as president to guard against such catastrophes.

The media, including much of conservative media, and the vast majority of politicians do not appreciate the depth of this issue. The federal executive has de facto unchecked power over state policy-making, and for their part, private entities heavily influence federal policy. Politicians who do not recognize this systemic breakdown leave citizens with the impression that they do not understand, and therefore will not fix, the problems that facilitated the Common Core. They may also leave the impression that they lack courage. Such politicians leave the door open for an illusory fix, such as theand school districts would be evaluated in significant part according to how students perform on those assessments. The states would continue to build out massive student databases that the federal government had incentivized beginning in 2002.45 The data from the assessments (and from other sources) would be, and is, fed into these databases. The goal is to track teacher-student connections for purposes of performance evaluation, and to track all students from early education into the workforce.46

Standardized testing deserves special mention. From kindergarten through 12th grade, depending on the state, district, and school, children may be subjected to as many as 113 standardized tests.47 In a single year, class time devoted to preparing for and taking such tests can amount to over one month. This is in large part


majority of states committed to the Common Core and its attendant system of policy changes. This happened as a result of the heavy hand of the U.S. Department of Education (USED) and its responsiveness to the private entities that drove the process. The Standards were pushed into the states with little, if any, notice to parents and other citizens and in a way that circumvented the usual checks and balances in the constitutional structure. Understanding how that happened is crucial to understanding what’s wrong with American education and why government does not work as intended.

Two private organizations – the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) – developed, and own, the standards. They also have a copyright on them.7 It is becauseit has spent far more than that.

The Gates foundation’s footprint on education policy-making is enormous. It has funded a wide range of other entities that includes, but is not limited to, National Association of State Boards of Education, Education Commission of the States, PTA associations, Military Child Education Coalition, Council of State Governments, National Writing Project, National Council of Teachers of English, American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation, National Education Association Foundation for the Improvement of Education, American Legislative Exchange Council, and WestEd.11 In furtherance of the NGA Common Core product, the Gates Foundation has even funded state entities including the Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania departments of education, as well as local education offices in Indiana, Ohio, and New Mexico.


The Gates funding footprint extends to the College Board – owner of the SAT and Advanced Placement tests — to which Gates has provided over $32 million in funding since 2001. In fact, the College Board’s president, David Coleman, was one of the architects and chief writers of the Common Core and, upon his appointment by the College Board, stated his intention to align the SAT to the Common Core.12

The plan was to create a national education system of common standards, national assessments aligned to the standards, and teacher and school evaluations tied to the assessments. In late 2008, with President-elect Obama preparing to take office, those entities, along with their partner Achieve, Inc., published their education transition plan, Benchmarking for Success.13 It encouraged the federal government toTom Nardone is the founder and president of the thriving e-commerce site, PriveCo, which specializes in products that customers don't want their friends and neighbors to know they're buying—vibrators, enema bags, hair loss treatments, etc. Three years ago, Nardone started applying his entrepreneurial expertise to a different problem: the dreadfully maintained parks in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Weeds and trash have transformed Detroit's playground jungle gyms into actual jungles.

Nardone knew it was no use approaching the city's hapless Department of Recreation, so he brought his ride-on lawnmower down to a public park and got to work. Then he invited some friends to join him. "When the first person showed up, I was like, 'OK, I guess someone's as crazy as I am.'" So the Mower Gang was


formed, a group of volunteers sporting skull-and-crossbones insignia. They gather every week at a different stretch of neglected parkland to drink beer and mow.

Detroit's future, to put it mildly, looks bleak. About one-third of its 138 square miles are deserted, it has no tax base, and its schools are horrendous. Last year, one in every 1,800 residents was murdered. In July, the city filed for bankruptcy, and politicians, unions, and investors are currently slugging it out in court, grasping for whatever little cash remains in the Motor City's coffers. But the Mower Gang is just one example of how individuals all over the city are taking it upon themselves to make life better.

Another example is the Detroit Threat Management Center (TMC), a private security firm that provides aArdian to acquire Portuguese motorways business Ascendi Group

Ardian, the independent private investment company, has announced the signing of an agreement to acquire the shares of Ascendi Group in Ascendi PT II, the joint venture in Portuguese motorways.

Ascendi PT II was formed in June 2015 as a partnership between Ardian Infrastructure and Ascendi, and owns and operates five motorways in North Portugal and the Lisbon area.

As part of this new transaction, Ardian Infrastructure will take control of the five jointly held assets, as well as two additional toll roads from Ascendi. Ardian will pay Ascendi a total consideration of €600 million, to which €53 million can be added via a variable price mechanism. Ardian will also acquire the operational and maintenance companies associated with the motorways.

The Ascendi network is


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New Dorp resident Frank Sansonetti, a New York City Firefighter of 15 years, is no stranger to reality TV.

In fact, the 40-year-old won $100,000 competing on SyFy's "Opposite Worlds" in 2014.

Now, Sansonetti is once again in the mix for a $100k prize, but this time he is taking orders from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson on NBC's "The Titan Games," which premieres Thursday, Jan. 3 at 8 p.m.

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What's It All About?

The 10-episode series, which was pre-recorded, is described on NBC.com as "offering everyday people the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete in epic head-to-head challenges designed to test the mind, body and heart."

The description goes on to say: "Inspired by [The Rock]'s desire to motivate global audiences toreach their potential for greatness, this unparalleled new athletic competition gives men and women across the country the opportunity to step inside the Titan arena and achieve the impossible."

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A "titan" of a man at 6-foot-3, 255-pounds, even Sansonetti is willing to admit that the rigorous competition, which featured 64 athletes, ran him through the wringer.

"It was tough competition, they were all great athletes," said Sansonetti. "It was like an NFL combine, they put the body through every test...my hands were really torn up."

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Sansonetti applied to be on the show in February after learning of it via The Rock's Instagram page (@TheRock).

He was selected to participate and ultimately reached the final week of tryouts, which


was held at ESPN's Sports Science Center in Los Angeles, California.

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Golden Ticket

While responding to a fire back home in the city, Sansonetti missed a call from the show's producer.

Luckily, it was good news -- he was one of the 64 men and women chosen to compete on the show, narrowing the pool down from 150 competitors.

He received a personalized golden ticket from The Rock, as well as a number of other items upon being selected.

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Though he was the oldest male competitor chosen, Sansonetti boasts an impressive athletic background, to go along with his chiseled physique.

He was elected to the College of Staten Island Hall of Fame in November after a phenomenal baseball career ledto him being drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 25th round of the 2000 MLB Draft.

Sansonetti, a New Dorp HS alum, remains the only athlete ever drafted out of CSI, and still holds the school's all-time records for hits, batting average, RBI, and triples.

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"Being a baseball player, the athletic ability is there," explained Sansonetti. "I keep up my strength in the gym everyday.

"As a bodybuilder and a fireman, it definitely helps you," he added. "Running into a building requires a lot of strength and endurance."

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On the Job

Though it likely doesn't equal the adrenaline rush of running into a burning building, Sansonetti was nevertheless enthralled by the energy of the competition.

"It was electrifying in front of the audiences," he said. "It was


unreal, the competition is from all over the world...military, cops, firefighters, crossfitters, body builders, football players."

"Most of them in their 20s and 30s," pointed out Sansonetti.

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Thought He'd Be Bigger?

As for what most want to know, yes, it was fun meeting The Rock.

"It was cool meeting him...I expected him to be bigger," said Sansonetti. "He's a lot of fun and just a really charismatic guy."

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But, perhaps, even more so than being on TV himself, the father of seven-year-old twins is excited that his kids, Anthony and Madison, will be watching.

"I can't wait [for them to see]," said Sansonetti. "It's gonna be fun for the kids."

You can keep up with Sansonetti every Thursday at 8 p.m. onA Plan for a Preemptive Strike on the United States by the British Dominion of Canada, circa 1921

Introduction

In December 2005, the Washington Post published a quixotic article entitled Raiding the Icebox. The piece introduces readers to U.S. War Plan Red, the little-known 1930 plan to conquer Canada. More sardonic than serious, the article acted mostly as a holiday diversion from the quagmire in Iraq: "Invading Canada won't be like invading Iraq: When we invade Canada, nobody will be able to grumble that we didn't have a plan." When interviewed, both Canadians and Americans took it as a joke, competing for the cleverest quip. Winnipeg mayor Sam Katz defiantly vows to the American enemy: "It will be like Napoleon's invasion of Russia."

Americans routinely joke about conquering Canada. But these


plans are no joke. As a loyal, self-governing Dominion in the British Empire, Canada served as a proxy for American tensions with Britain throughout the 19th century. American troops invaded Canada during both the American Revolution (!) and the War of 1812. Significant border disputes existed until the 1850s, covering tens of thousands of square miles. Tensions rose during the American Civil War, when Confederates and Irish nationalists looked to Canada as a shelter, launching pad, and target. Even seemingly unrelated matters such as the Venezuelan boundary dispute of 1895 threatened to flare up into conflict between Britain and the United States.

As the twentieth century dawned, tensions lessened as Anglo-American interests coincided more and more. Yet, until the 1920s, there was a real risk that the Anglo-Japanese alliancewould draw Canada into war with the United States. The British were quite serious about their alliance with Japan, inviting Japan into the inner circle of the Allied Powers in the Paris peace talks ending World War I1. The alliance bound Britain to neutrality in the event of war between Japan and one other power, and to military support of Japan in the event of war between Japan and two other powers. As World War I demonstrated, overlapping treaties can have a cascading effect.

Strategic thinking tends to lag behind strategic reality. Despite the end of the Anglo-Japanese treaty in 1921, the US developed War Plan Red in the 1920s to address a possible war with the British Empire. Conversely on the Canadian side, James Sutherland "Buster" Brown prepared


for a war with the United States. Thus was hatched Canadian Defence Scheme No. 1.

Analysis

Knowing that Canada suffered from a ten-to-one manpower disadvantage against the United States, "Buster" Brown's plan relied on strategic surprise and lightning movements. Canada could not hope to win a one-on-one war with the United States, so any Canadian defense plan had to rely on troops from the British Empire for military parity. Yet, in the age before air transport, any aid from Britain or her colonies would take weeks or months to arrive by sea. Canada had precious little strategic depth with which to undertake a defensive war, as the bulk of its population, industry, and rail lines were located near the American border. Indeed, the American War Plan Red relies on theproximity of Canadian resources to project a rapid and successful conquest of Canada.

To counter the seemingly overwhelming American military advantage, "Buster" Brown envisioned a preemptive strike against the United States. Canadian troops would mobilize quickly and attack with little warning, relying on surprise to penetrate American soil as far south as Oregon. Of course, the massively outnumbered Canadian forces could not hope to hold on to the captured territory. So they would begin a strategic withdrawal, destroying bridges, roads, and factories as they went. Thus, it would be American territory, rather than Canadian, that would be used for strategic depth. It would be American industry, farmland, and infrastructure that was destroyed, all of which would hamper American efforts to bring troops to the Canadian border. The gamble, then,


was that Imperial forces would arrive to hold the line by the time Canadian forces had retreated back into Canada.

Clearly, Canadian Defence Scheme No. 1 was both daring and risky. It relies to a certain extent on US forces being caught off guard, a naive assumption given the proximity. Ultimately, Defence Scheme No. 1 and its American counterpart faded away as Anglo-American relations continued to improve. War Plan Red was one of two dozen color-coded plans developed by the US military, ranging from major world wars to the invasion of Caribbean nations (Gray). In contrast, Canada's potential enemies were much fewer. Defence Scheme No. 2 addressed a possible war with Japan, in case the Pacific realignment drew Britain into war with its former ally, and No. 3 andNo. 4 simply planned the dispatch of Canadian troops to aid British forces in European and colonial wars2.

American War Plan Red was declassified in the 1970s, but quickly became a footnote in comparison to Black (Germany) and Orange (Japan). Military historians seized on Orange, in particular, as a sign of the times, envisioning super-dreadnought battleships steaming to the Philippines (then an American colony) to engage in a fleet action with the Imperial Japanese Navy, sixteen-inch guns blazing. Canadian Defence Scheme No. 1 fell into even greater obscurity, not least because it was largely an internal army discussion, "not fully disclosed to the Government."3 War Plan Red resides in the National Archives of the United States, while Defence Scheme No. 1 lives at Queens University, in a collection of


years, so the Defence Scheme is now in the public domain.

Sources

Macmillan, Margaret. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World . New York: Random House, 2002. ISBN 978-0375508264. On fears of war with the US, “The main Canadian concern, however, was to keep on good terms with the United States ... Part of this was self-interest: a recurrent nightmare in Ottawa was that Canada might find itself fighting on the side of Britain and its ally Japan against the United States.” (p. 47) On Japanese inclusion in the inner circle of the Allies at Paris, “ The following day, in deference to British wishes, two Japanese representatives joined the group. This became the Council of Ten ... The smaller allies and neutrals were not invited, an indication ofwhat was to come. ” (p. 53) Harris, Stephen. "Or There Would be Chaos: The Legacy of Sam Hughes and Military Planning in Canada, 1919-1939. Military Affairs, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Oct., 1982), pp. 120-126. [Available on JSTOR]

Brown, Atholl Sutherland. Buster: A Canadian Patriot and Imperialist - The Life and Times of Brigadier James Sutherland Brown . 1980. Reprinted by Trafford Publishing, 2006. Written by "Buster" Brown's son, who defends his father from those who "rightly or wrong, made him an icon of anti-Americanism."

Eayres, James. In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression University of Toronto Press, 1967. Part of a five-book series.

Extracts from “Defence Scheme No. 1,” 12 April 1921.

(Army Records)

DEFENCE OF CANADA — GENERALLY

Section 1. Problems to be met by the Empire

The


by which we send an Expeditionary Force to bring the hostile country or countries to action in their own country or countries, or in any case, in territory beyond the confines of the Dominion of Canada.

Section 2. Three Defence Schemes Necessary

For a struggle for the existence of the Empire, it would appear that four cases may occur:—

A European Combination The United States Japan A combination of the above.

Only (2) and (4) of the above and possibly in a lesser extent (3) would put Canada in immediate danger of invasion and call for the Levee en Masse. It is necessary, therefore, to draw up three different Defence Schemes: —

For the Defence of Canada against the United States. For the Defence of Canada against Japan. For the Organization and theDespatch of an Expeditionary Force to help the Empire in case of a European Combination or a Minor Crisis . . .

Section 3. General Strategical Situation of Canada

. . . The first thing apparent then in the defence of Canada is that we lack depth.

Depth can only be gained by Offensive Action. To carry out an Offensive Action against the United States, with our population in a ratio of 1 to 12 and the United States’ Regular Army of 175,000 Enlisted Men, and with between two and four millions of men who were lately embodied for service, is a difficult and on the surface an almost hopeless task, but on further study, it would be found out that it is not as hopeless as it appears on the


surface and that Canada has a good many advantages in her favour.

To carry out an Offensive Action against the United States means, first of all, Quicker Mobilization; secondly, the immediate despatch of Flying Columns on the declaration of War; thirdly, the despatch of our Formations at Peace Strength to be followed rapidly by drafts filling them to War Establishment; fourth, a speedy mobilization of our Reserve Units by General Recruitment and by putting in force the Levee en Masse, as soon as Proclamation is made; fifth, the completion of the organization of our Formations by the inclusion of Reserve Units; sixth, the despatch of Reserve Units to certain garrisons or certain strategical points; seventh, the early formation of Depots.

Time is of the essence of everything of our mobilizationenemy; fourthly, to cover the organization and mobilization of our man power and to prevent the destruction of our resources and lateral communications; fifthly, to gain time until the arrival of help from the various parts of the Empire, as soon as the man power and the resources of the Empire are mobilized and transported to their various spheres of action.

SEA POWER

Sea Power is another of the most important factors in the Defence of Canada. To keep open for periods, at least, the seas for the transport of Britannic and Imperial troops to the various Theatres and for the protection of our Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, to prevent our flanks from being turned, to prevent our Ports of Disembarkation for help from the Empire being occupied or destroyed.

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Service and very many of them with no militia connection and no knowledge of the vast machinery required for War and of the terrible disadvantage of loss of the initiative at the commencement of a campaign. It is your duty then to do what you can within your sphere of action to see that such political personages are enlightened on questions of Defence. French Canadians (all Roman Catholics) form nearly one third of the population of Canada. They took little interest in the Great World War. There may have been “Vatican” influence, but it would appear that the main reason for lack of interest was lack of proper political control and leadership from Ottawa. The Roman Catholic Church in Canada is suspicious of the Militia. It has noreason to be so. It has everything to gain and nothing to lose by supporting the Militia. If the United States ever conquered Canada, the dual language would be done away with at once and the Roman Catholic Church would have much less power and influence by one hundred fold. Americans in Canada. Many in British Columbia. Well over 50% in Alberta. Over 50% in Saskatchewan. Many others holding important positions, especially in manufactures and transportation, in other parts of the country. Census, 1921. Commanders should obtain information from the Census, 1921, as soon as the Census Report is compiled, as it will give the latest information of foreign population and of man power of the various Commands and Districts. Provincial Jealousies. Friendly rivalries between the East and


the West and between the various Provinces may help to stimulate matters, but every care should be taken to prevent Provincial or Parochial matters interfering with broad questions. There is a tendency for Provincial politicians to interfere with proper organization and there will probably be the same tendency to prevent the proper distribution of troops in time of war. This tendency may only be eliminated by education.

. . .

Section 9: Allies or Possible Allies of Great Britain

Japan. Japan is still an Ally of Great Britain. The question of the renewal of the Japanese Treaty comes up this year. Whatever Japan’s attitude may be at any other time, there is not much doubt, in case of war between the British Empire and the United States, that Japan would takeimmediate military action against the American Republics, in which case it would make matters much more favourable to us, especially at the beginning of the campaign, if we would find that Japan would carry out her traditional policy of delivering their Declaration of War and a Military Operation at the same time . . .

France. France has always taken a friendly interest in the United States. She came to her help during the Revolutionary War and for years the American Army organization and tactics were based on the French system. France has seen more in the last two years of the modern “Yank”. She is dissatisfied with American action, with the low rate of exchange of the franc in the United States, with the attitude of the United


States towards the League of Nations. It would appear then that the United States would get no support either actively or sympathetically from France.

Mexico. It has a turbulent and unruly population estimated from 12 to 15 millions. For over 100 years it has been a pin-prick on the American Southern Flank. The Mexicans have not shown themselves, generally speaking, opposed to British interests. In case of war with the United States it is not unlikely that Mexico would cause trouble on the Southern Frontier, causing a goodly force of United States’ troops to be concentrated towards Mexico. If Mexico became an active participant in a War against the United States, it would be an area of operation for Britannic or British Empire troops against the Southern States, havingfor its object the capture of Galveston and New Orleans, and blocking the Mississippi River.

The South American Republics. Many of whom are not hostile to British interests and might decide to support the British Empire. Many of these Republics possess Navies of a useful size which would be a tremendous factor in operations against the Panama Canal.

Section 10: The Strategic Importance of Newfoundland, Alaska and West Indies.

Alaska. The Alaskan Coast presents harbours to be used as submarine bases of operation against the British Columbian Coast. A sufficient force of regular troops might be kept on the Southern Alaskan Coast to capture Prince Rupert by a coup de main, immediately after the declaration of war.

Newfoundland. . . . enters largely into the Defence of Canada. American occupation of the


Island would have far reaching results. It would be on the flank of the sea routes between Great Britain and Canada and it would be a menace to all our shipping and a base for naval operations against Nova Scotia, the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, and the St. Lawrence River generally. Newfoundland would appear to be a rendezvous and a probable base of operations for the British Grand Fleet.

West Indies. The West Indies are admirably situated as bases for naval operations against the Southern States and particularly against the Panama Canal. They are situated on the flank of the Panama Canal route and if, by any chance, the United States’ fleet or any great portion of it was in the Pacific at the outbreak of war theuse of the Panama Canal for concentration on the Atlantic Coast might be denied absolutely to them. . . .

CHAPTER TWO: PROBABLE ACTION OF THE UNITED STATES

Main Objectives.

The main objective of the United States force would undoubtedly be Montreal and on to Ottawa. The next important objective of the United States would be the occupation of the Ontario Peninsula, including the cities of Hamilton and Toronto. The other objectives at which the American Land Forces would be moved against would be Quebec, Winnipeg, the Island of Vancouver and South Western British Columbia, i.e., the area including Vancouver and New Westminster.

The grain growing Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta which now have a large percentage of Americans, are especially attractive to the United States, and there is just a


up to a general Limited Offensive against the United States.

Pacific Command. The field troops of the Pacific Command to advance into and occupy the strategic points including Spokane, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, bounded by the Columbia River . . . .

Prairie Command . . . should converge towards Fargo in North Dakota . . . and then continue a general advance in the direction of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The occupation of Minneapolis and St. Paul would cut most of the lines leading to Duluth . . . and would have a tendency to protect our railway communications through the Kenora and Rainy River Districts . . . .

Great Lakes Command . . . will, generally speaking, remain on the defensive, but rapid and well organized raids shouldIT: Kids Pick Actors to Play Them

August 8th, 2017

Horror fans are eagerly waiting for the latest adaptation of Stephen King's It to finally hit theaters in September after years stuck in development. The 1986 novel and subsequent TV miniseries in 1990 brought on a worldwide terror of clowns (and sewer drains) due to Pennywise, the sadistic clown who preys on children and serves as the story's monster.

Following the pattern of the novel and miniseries, the first film adaptation of It will be split into two parts with the first focusing on a group of kids, aka The Loser's Club, who take it upon themselves to fight against the evil shapeshifting clown after a series of child disappearances in the late 1980s.

It director Andy Muschietti will also be in


charge of the second part of the duology which takes place nearly 30 years later, the next time Pennywise would awaken on earth and feed on the living. Besides rumored production dates for early next year, not many details have been shared regarding casting of the adult characters. The kids made an appearance at San Diego Comic-Con and a few spoke to MTV about who they would like to see play their adult counterparts:

Here is a breakdown and the young cast's answers:

• Finn Wolfhard (who plays Richie Tozier in the film) - Bill Hader

• Sophia Lillis (Beverly Marsh) - Jessica Chastain

• Chosen Jacobs (Mike Hanlon) - Chadwick Boseman

• Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie Kaspbrak) - Jake Gyllenhaal

• Wyatt Oleff (Stanley Uris)- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• Jeremy Ray Taylor (Ben Hanscom) -Chris Pratt

The kids have certainly put in a lot of thought into their answers as they were all so quick to share their thoughts. Any of the adult choices would be great additions to the second installment of the Horror film. The second part of the TV miniseries was always considered the weaker of the two so hopefully the film captures a new take on the terrifying clown mythology through the eyes of the adults, and revives our fears of red balloons and sewer drains.


Monday, May 25, 2015

Recently I read Unbroken for my women's book group. It made me think about my father, who is pictured below, and it seemed appropriate to write about it on Memorial Day.

WWII Naval Aviator Francis G. Lilly with his mother

Like Louis Zamperini, whose life Unbroken chronicles, my dad was a WWII naval aviator. Dad tried to join the Army and was turned down because he had flat feet. He was then not only accepted by the Navy, but trained to be a pilot. He enlisted just before the Pearl Harbor attack and remained in the service six months after the war ended so he could keep flying. (He commented as an aside once that the Navy nurses really liked getting rides in the planes when hein front of me, or swerved toward me. Always know your escape route.

Unbroken author Laura Hillenbrand quotes an ordnance officer who describes various safety issues with WWII aircraft that resulted in accidental deaths and says, “Life is cheap in war.” According to the statistics in the book, 35,946 personnel in the air corps died in WWII in non-combat situations, mostly in accidental crashes.

My dad, who survived WWII and lived for many years after, was killed at age 88 by a drunk driver, along with my mother, who was 84. According to the NHTSA, in 2007, the year my parents died, intoxicated drivers caused 12,998 deaths. On our streets and highways, too, life is cheap.

So on this Memorial Day, my hope is that as the human race continues to


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It seems like every week we see coaches dismissed because of allegations of improper management of the programs that have been placed in their trust. Donnie Tyndall is the latest casualty in war against infractions by the NCAA and apparently, rightfully so.

While no official verdict and suspension has been handed down by the NCAA, the Vols decided to part ways with the former Morehead State and Southern Miss coach.

This puts the Tennessee athletic department further into flux as they look for their third coach in as many years and the fourth coach to take the helm in six


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At their annual meeting in Sacramento, CA on Aug. 19, the National Black Police Association endorsed Proposition 19 and the legalization of marijuana.

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LEAP's new Executive Director Neill Franklin, a former patrol officer in Baltimore, Maryland, played a key role in speaking to the NBPA membership.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Daily Caller reported August 18,2010 that the White House is sticking with the nomination of Michelle Leonhart, who has been the Acting Administrator


of the Drug Enforcement Administration since 2007, and Deputy Administrator (the No. 2) since 2003. A few weeks ago, numerous groups called for the President to withdraw her nomination.

The bigger issue is that Leonhart has demonstrated that she is unable and unwilling to take on the major job of the next DEA Administrator, which is to work with the states in developing medical marijuana laws that make sense. During her entire career in DEA management -- since 1997 -- she has acted as though the calendar were stuck on October 1996 -- before the medical marijuana law that passed in November 1996 and received one million votes more than Bill Clinton did. Her leadership of DEA has ignored the medical marijuana laws passed in state after state afterof marijuana is a misdemeanor, with a minimum sentence of a fine of $1000, and potential imprisonment of up to a year. Yet of the 20 to 30 million Americans who each year use marijuana (and possessed it, even if it was for the moment they held a joint, a pipe, a vaporizer, or "an edible"), no more than a couple hundred persons were convicted of that federal crime -- and that is because they tried to bring it into the country, they tried to bring it onto an airplane or they did it in a National Park, on the Mall in Washington, or at the federal Wolf Trap concert venue. The odds of the average pot smoker being convicted in federal court are smaller than 1 in


"Crack Cocaine Equitable Sentencing Act." With that title, I thought it would never pass, and it never did.

Beginning in 2005, the Open Society Policy Center assembled a coalition that I joined along with Drug Policy Alliance, the ACLU, the Sentencing Project, Families Against Mandatory Minimum Sentences, the Methodist General Board of Church and Society, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and many other groups including SSDP and LEAP, to push Congress to end the crack - powder disparity. For the coalition I drafted a bill I called the "Cocaine Kingpin Punishment Act" which eliminated the crack provisions and raised the fines that could be imposed against convicted traffickers.

In 2007, Sen. Joe Biden introduced a bill, S. 1711, with "cocainekingpin" in the title and included some of the provisions of my draft. Senators Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton cosponsored his bill. There was a day of hearings on the bill, but no action. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced a companion bill in the House.

In 2009, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) introduced a revision of the Biden bill, now called the Fairness in Sentencing Act. He worked with Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who had expressed concern about the racial disparity in cocaine prosecutions, and what Sen. Hatch referred to as the "girl friend problem" of sentencing co-conspirators like principals. With Sessions and Hatch, Durbin was able to reach the compromise on 28 and 280 grams (18 to 1) and get it out of the Senate


to his interest that the doctor should take
the lead, for he felt that what hopes remained rested solely in him.

Dr. Ashleigh was certainly favourably impressed with his conduct
throughout this trying interview; he knew that to this man the loss of
the will was a terrible blow, the defeat of all his plots and schemes,
and he was surprised and pleased that he had behaved with so much
self-control, and had avoided creating a stormy and violent scene.

"Mr. Gregory," he said at last, breaking the silence for the first time
as they were entering Canterbury, "I know that this is a grievous blow
to you, as it is to us all. I think you had better follow out your
original plan of returning this evening to your wife in London. You can
safely leave the matterfive minutes about anything, entered into a most amusing
description of his life on the railway; and we were all laughing
merrily, in spite of our troubles, before tea was over. I am sure no one
who had looked in upon us would have guessed that we had that day as
good as lost L50,000 between us. When we had done, papa said,--

"There, my dear, we are all a hundred per cent better. Now, as we have
taken one great consoler--tea, let us take another--tobacco. I am sure
Harry is dying for a pipe; and although I do not often smoke indoors, on
this special occasion I will make an exception. What say you, Mr.
Petersfield?"

"I am very fond of a good cigar," the lawyer said, producing a
cigar-case; "but will not Miss Ashleigh object?"

"Not at all,"


waiter, who
had followed her up, to hear, if possible, what was the matter,--

"James, the lady is ill. Send Hannah here with some cold water, and my
scent bottle, and run across to Dr. Cope's opposite, and tell him to
come over at once. If he is out, run for the nearest doctor."

Then, closing the door, she advanced towards Sophy.

"Don'tye, don'tye, take on so, dear!" she said, in a kind, motherly way,
as if she was speaking to a little child; "don't, now, for your
husband's sake; try and rouse yourself, dear." But it was no use. There
was a slight, a very slight quiver of the eyelids, but no other sign of
life or movement.

The landlady paused. She was almost as much frightened at Sophy's face
as Robert Gregory had been, and she dared notproportion of it lay
among the lower classes; in any serious cases among them he was always
ready to give his time and skill. Indeed for the last three years, since
there was an apparent certainty that we should be all so handsomely
provided for, papa had purposely given up much of his paying practice.
Many among the upper classes have the habit of calling in a medical man
on the slightest pretext, and like him, indeed, to call regularly, and
have an hour's chat on all sorts of subjects; this time papa could not
spare, and indeed I know that he said to two or three of his very best
patients,--

"You have nothing serious the matter with you. All you want is a little
occasional medicine, and a good chat of a day to do you good


when she was a child. Her eyes were a pure blue, her
complexion was bright and clear, she had a particularly lithe lissom
figure, and her small head was very gracefully set on her neck and
shoulders. She was very lively and full of fun; indeed I sometimes had
to call her to order. She was a little positive and wilful sometimes,
but she was a very loving and loveable girl. She was at present hardly
as tall as I was, but as she had another year to grow, it was very
probable she would be the taller in time. She had very long eyelashes,
nearly the longest I ever saw, and these added greatly to the effect of
her great blue eyes. The mouth and nose might both have been better, but
for all that she hadhim, while I on my part could not fancy what was coming next.

"Well you see, Harry, we have agreed that we neither of us are in a
position rightly to estimate the value of this L10,000 at present. Now
Agnes, on the contrary, is in a position to appreciate it keenly."

Here Harry again opened his eyes, and looked at me with such
astonishment, that I really thought he must fancy that I wanted the
money to pay off a gambling debt or something of that sort.

"Agnes appreciate it!" he exclaimed.

"Of course," Polly said; "and please do not interrupt me so, Harry. Now
this L10,000 will, in all probability, be the turning-point in Agnes's
life, and her future happiness or unhappiness may depend upon it. Let us
see how she is situated. She is engaged to


and on
arriving was shown at once into the drawing-room, orders evidently
having been given to that effect; in a few minutes Miss Harmer joined
him. Her forehead was bandaged up, and her general aspect was more stiff
and forbidding than ever. After the first few remarks were over, she
proceeded at once to the point.

"It would be a strange step to have taken, Dr. Ashleigh, in the position
in which we stand to each other, for me to have asked you to have come
over here, had I not had very powerful reasons for so doing. But it
appears to me that I have, for I have very strong suspicions concerning
the events which have taken place here in the last two days. Have you
heard the particulars?"

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MSNBC's Tamron Hall grills Donald Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson about why Trump bashed David Duke as a racist in 2000, yet was reluctant to disavow him in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday. Duke recently announced his conditional support for the Republican frontrunner.

The MSNBC host suggests that Donald Trump is conspiring to hide the fact that he believes David Duke is a racist, in order to get votes from his white supremacist followers. "Many of these very people who may identify with rhetoric from David Duke have gone on social media to support Donald Trump," she notes.

Hall suggests that Trump was not willing to pander to "racist voters" in the 2000 election, but he is willing to do so now. "He called the David Duke, Katrina,side effects from treatment. It is too early to tell how CTL019 will compare – the hope is for fewer side effects and shorts stays at the hospital compared to traditional treatment options.

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maneuver was a chokehold, which is prohibited under NYPD policy.

The medical examiner had ruled that Garner's death was a homicide and later testified that the officer caused Gardner to have an asthma attack and that the apparent headlock was "part of the lethal cascade of events."

The New York Times reported Tuesday that the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, Richard Donoghue, said the evidence doesn't support charging Pantaleo with a federal civil rights violation.

CNN later reported that Attorney General William Barr Bill BarrHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns Bipartisan representatives demand answers on expired surveillance programs YouTube to battle mail-in voting misinformation with info panel on videos MORE sided with prosecutors in New“Where The Fun Never Stops”

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the Union and was an employee at Blaze's Broiler, a restaurant owned and operated by Jensen's Restaurant Enterprises, Inc. Respondent Glen Jensen is the sole shareholder and general manager of Jensen's Restaurant Enterprises.
Prior to 1986 the Union had a collective bargaining agreement with Jensen's Restaurant Enterprises. The most recent contract expired in July 1986. Between June and August of 1986, Blaze's Broiler and the Union negotiated in *678 an unsuccessful attempt to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. The Union struck the restaurant on August 18. On August 25, Jensen informed the Union that he was closing the restaurant and did so on August 28. Jensen has been out of business at the Broiler since that date.
In August and September 1986, the Union filed charges with the NationalLabor Relations Board (NLRB), claiming that Jensen's Restaurant Enterprises violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in not reaching a new collective bargaining agreement with the Union and by later going out of business.
On October 31, 1986, after investigating the charges the NLRB advised the Union that it was refusing to issue a complaint due to insufficient evidence of a violation of the NLRA.
Respondent Felsamli, Inc., employs respondents Lubag, Ordonia, and Lock. Felsamli purchased the assets of Blaze's Broiler from Jensen's Restaurant Enterprises and reopened the establishment as the Shilshole Broiler. Felsamli declined to engage in negotiations with the Union concerning a collective bargaining agreement.
On October 8, 1986, Leutsch and the Union filed a complaint in court for damages for tortious interference with contract and business expectancy against


an unfair labor practice that is arguably covered by the NLRA, then the state action is preempted." West Coast, at 1048. The court then noted that in its case the Union was reasserting the same set of facts that it relied on in its unsuccessful unfair labor practice claim, but this time directed at the consultants. West Coast, at 1048. The Union argued there was no preemption *683 because "the labor consultants were acting as independent third parties when they induced Nord to terminate its collective bargaining relationship with the union and the tort was completed prior to any negotiations in which the labor consultants might have been acting as Nord's agents." West Coast, at 1049.
The court rejected the Union's argument. Citing Washington case law the court observed:NLRA, the court ruled that the state claim was preempted. West Coast, at 1049.
The West Coast court also rejected the Union's contention that, even if the consultants' conduct was arguably prohibited under the NLRA, the state's interest in preventing tortious interference with a contract expectancy warranted retention of state jurisdiction under the significant state interest exception to the general rule of exclusive jurisdiction, see supra. The court noted that in Jones the Supreme Court
held that state claims based on intentional interference with contractual relations are not "so deeply rooted in local law that [the state's] interest in enforcing that law overrides the interference with the federal labor law that prosecution of the state action would entail." 460 U.S. at 683.
*684 West Coast, at 1049.
For other cases holding that


to support its conclusion. In neither of these cases, however, did the Court hold that the status of the parties was immaterial to the determination of preemption. Rather, the Jones Court found there were injuries to arguably protected parties, and in Sears, the action was brought by an employee against a labor organization. Nevertheless, West Coast is consistent with the national policy of promoting the NLRB as the primary arbiter of labor disputes.
In the case before us, the complaint was brought against two groups of parties. Respondent Jensen is subject to the act. As the sole shareholder and general manager of Jensen's Restaurant Enterprises, d/b/a Blaze's Broiler, he was an employer subject to the NLRA. Furthermore, prior to filing this action in court, the Union filed two chargesThe Conservative Party has said it will withdraw the whip from Conrad Black after he was convicted of fraud and obstructing the course of justice.

It means that former Telegraph proprietor Lord Black of Crossharbour will no longer be a member of the Tory group in the House of Lords.

A spokesman for the Tories was unable to confirm whether he would also be expelled from the party.

The Lib Dems are calling for Lord Black to be stripped of his peerage.

The media mogul was introduced to the House of Lords by ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher in 2001 but he was nominated by then Tory leader William Hague.

Members of the House of Commons are automatically disqualified on conviction and there is no reason why the same rules should not apply to


members of the Upper House

David Heath, Liberal Democrats

He gave up his Canadian citizenship to receive the peerage after a court decision in his home country to block his acceptance of the award.

Following his convictions, the Conservatives issued a statement saying: "In the light of this verdict the Conservative whip will be withdrawn from Lord Black."

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And the Liberal Democrats' justice spokesman David Heath insisted any members of the House of Lords convicted of serious offences should be kicked out.

He said: "Members of the House of Commons are automatically disqualified on conviction and there is no reason why the same rules should not apply to members of the Upper House.

"It is essential that a change in the law to that effect is included in the government's constitutional reform bill."

ButRene Boucher, center, appears in court for an arraignment hearing with his attorney Matt Baker, left, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, at the Warren County Justice Center in Bowling Green, Ky. Boucher pleaded not guilty to charges that he assaulted his neighbor, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul. Boucher and Paul have been neighbors for 17 years in a gated community. (Austin Anthony/Daily News via AP)

Rene Boucher, center, appears in court for an arraignment hearing with his attorney Matt Baker, left, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, at the Warren County Justice Center in Bowling Green, Ky. Boucher pleaded not guilty to charges that he assaulted his neighbor, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul. Boucher and Paul have been neighbors for 17 years in a gated community. (Austin Anthony/Daily News via AP)

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of the Year in the Islamic World, spent most of his life dreaming of a Muslim-led independent B&H. His US supporters and admirers, such as former US President William Clinton, Clinton’s Balkans envoy Richard Holbrooke, former US Ambassador to Belgrade Warren Zimmermann and various handmaidens in the media characterized him as a devout Muslim but committed to a multi-ethnic and democratic Bosnia. They claimed that Serbs and Croats only painted him as an Islamic supremacist, and that this was not the case. But the two prison terms and his writings, as the “Islamic Declaration” discussed below, defeat that argument.As US-based Bosnian writer Nebojsa Malic has concluded: “Izetbegovic’s vision of Bosnia was not a multi-ethnic democracy, but a multi-caste hierarchy of the kind that existed under the Ottoman Empire,the memories of which were still fresh at his birth in 1925” [Malic, 10/22/03]. Jonathan Eyal, director of London-based Royal United Services Institute, stated that Izetbegovic was not only responsible for atrocities committed by Bosnian Muslims, Iranian and Arab mujahedin, the declaration of independence, which was unnecessary and when it was abundantly clear that it was leading to the war, for gambling with the destiny of his people, but also for the corrupt, single party state he was attempting to establish and for the rule through nepotism [Eyal, 2003].It is incongruous to claim that the author of the “Islamic Declaration” and he winner of the Islamic Figure of the Year award from King Fahd in Saudi Arabia is somehow not an Islamic supremacist! His writings are as Islamic


fundamentalist as it gets. In order to succeed in their public relations construct for deceiving the American people, Clinton, et. al. concealed from the American public Izetbegovic’s writings. It boiled down to nothing short of a Big Lie, propaganda intended to mislead the US and the world public about the root causes for the war in Bosnia.“ ‘If you read President Izetbegovic’s writings, as I have, there is no doubt that he is an Islamic fundamentalist,’ said a senior Western diplomat with long experience in the region. ‘He is a very nice fundamentalist, but he is still a fundamentalist. This has not changed. His goal is to establish a Muslim state in Bosnia, and the Serbs and Croats understand this better than the rest of us.’’ [The Newthousands of Sarajevo residents to work and live under constant threat, allowing only those with special government permits to leave the city, while his family was sent to safety and he himself retreated into a bunker. If the city was the Serb’s hostage, its residents were Izetbegovic’s” [Malic, 10/22/03].Political and Religious BackgroundIzetbegovic was born in 1925 in Bosanski Samac, Northern Bosnia, into a family of impoverished Ottoman aristocrats (beys). Allegedly, his family lived in Belgrade until 1868, the year most Muslims fled the Serbian dominated city [LAT, 10/20/03]. His grandfather, who served as mayor of Bosanski Samac, saved the lives of 40 Serbs after Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, leading to World War I. Thirty years later, young Izetbegovic was captured by Gen.


It is not a religion that is confined only to individuals and religious rituals” [Islam Online, 2003].From 1943, Izetbegovic was the head organizer of a recruiting drive for the infamous, all Muslim, Waffen SS 20,000-strong Handzar or Hanjar Division. Handzar is derived from the Arabic word which means “dagger.” Religion was an essential motivational tool. Each battalion had an imam. The spiritual leader was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini. Upon expulsion from Palestine by the British, the Grand Mufti organized a brutal anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad in 1941. Having failed to install a pro-nazi Iraqi Government, he escaped and spent the rest of the war in Germany and Italy. He recruited Bosnian Muslims and Muslims from the Caucasus for dedicated Nazi SS units. Inpicture of Heinrich Himmler, inspecting the Handzar division, is reproduced in my Kosovo book [Joksimovich, 1999, p.41]. The original photo is on display at the Imperial War Museum in London. Following the end of World War II, many from the Handzar division joined the Arab armies which fought against the Jews in then Palestine.Malic notes: “Just as Islam dictated Izetbegovic’s philosophy, so did World War II experience shape his political relations with Bosnia’s Christian majority, the Serbs and Croats. Between 1941 and 1945, Bosnia was part of the Independent State of Croatia, in which Serbs were being persecuted as fiercely as Jews in the nazi Reich, among others by the Muslim Waffen SS and irregulars, whom Izetbegovic supported” [Malic, 10/22/03]. For his World War II and post-World War


II activities, such as publishing the journal called Mujahid (“The Warrior”), Izetbegovic was convicted in 1946 and sentenced to five years of imprisonment by the Supreme Yugoslav Military Court (566/46, dated June 15, 1946) for the crimes against the people and the state.The prosecutor characterized the “Young Muslims” as a terrorist organization. After serving the sentence for three years, Izetbegovic began studying law and graduated from Sarajevo University in 1956. He continued to work for the moral and religious regeneration of the Muslim community. Islam Online (UK) claims that ”Egyptian President Nasser asked his friend Tito about Izetbegovic and Tito replied that Izetbegovic was more dangerous than the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt” [Islam Online, 2003].The Islamic DeclarationIzetbegovic’s most famous writing was, a political manifesto, “The Islamic Declaration: AProgram for the Islamization of Muslims and the Muslim Peoples” [Izetbegovic, 1990]. The text was written in 1970 but was not made available to the public at large. It was illegally duplicated and circulated among Muslims, to serve as a manual and a practical instruction for the Islamic propagandist-political and organizational work of adversaries of the secular, non-islamic order. The Declaration was officially published in Sarajevo in 1990 upon collapse of the communist system. During the war in Bosnia, 1992-1995, the Islamic Declaration was printed in tens of thousands of copies and distributed to military and police units loyal to Izetbegovic [Doc Center, 2002].Professor of Islamic History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Raphael Israeli, wrote: “The declaration, which in many respects sounds and looks like the platforms


Izetbegovic made sure no one else could. Should this not suggest that this attitude for Muslim hegemony was a root cause of the conflict? The Serbs and Croats would follow suit, forming their own ethnic based parties. Hence, the SDA existence was incendiary. The politics of ethnic exclusiveness made the war predictable.In November 1990, the first non-communist elections resulted in the SDA’s victory on the basis of the numerical plurality of Muslims (43% of the population). The three ethnic parties reached a power-sharing agreement. A government coalition, Bosnia and Herzegovina or B&H Presidency was formed. Izetbegovic was elected president of a seven-member, multi-ethnic rotating presidency; a Croat was the prime minister while a Serb was president of the Assembly. Of all the heads of state in the sixrepublics of the former Yugoslavia, Izetbegovic uniquely had been a lifelong anti-communist. All the others were communist party aparatchiks, although Croatian president Franjo Tudjman swapped his communism for nationalism in late 1960s.In the election campaign, the SDA was led by Fikret Abdic, a secular Muslim, in order to shield the party from criticisms of being led by a Muslim fundamentalist. Izetbegovic came second, after Fikret Abdic, in the race for the two presidency seats reserved for the Muslims. However, Izetbegovic most likely muscled Abdic out of the job or Abdic withdrew to attend to rebuild his Agrokomerc company after its collapse in late 1980s as the Independent claims [Independent, 10/20/03]. Abdic, together with his 20,000 secular Muslims, opposed the war. When it erupted, he made deals with all


and Herzegovina on February 14 in Sarajevo. As a follow-up, he sponsored a meeting in Lisbon on February 23, 1992. Izetbegovic represented the Muslims, while Dr. Radovan Karadzic and Mate Boban represented the Serbs and Croats respectively. Cutileiro, was successful in brokering a preliminary agreement. B&H was to be a confederation divided into three ethnic regions based on a constitution drafted by Lord Carrington and Cutileiro using Swiss-style cantons as the model. All three parties signed the agreement. This agreement was probably the last chance to avert the civil/religious war.Cutileiro, in a letter to The Economist, confirmed that “principles for future constitutional arrangements of Bosnia and Herzegovina” were AGREED BY ALL THREE PARTIES (Muslim, Serb and Croat) in Sarajevo on March 18, 1992, as the basis for futurelike it, why sign it?”Ambassador Zimmermann in his book claims that the Bush 41 administration “strongly supported” the EC sponsored talks. “Eagleburger had told Izetbegovic that the US would back a negotiated outcome under EC auspices. The war, once under way, changed American attitudes. In August 1992 Eagleburger began to criticize the EC’s efforts as dividing Bosnia.” Furthermore, he says that Izetbegovic “was astonished by the EC proposal for the creation of ethnically based regions. This could create three states within Bosnia and amounts to partition from within.” Allegedly, Izetbegovic said that “he had been put under pressure by the other parties, including Cutileiro, and felt he had to give in. When he got back to Sarajevo, his Muslim colleagues upbraided him for weakness. Now he did not


17,000 civilians, in Luxembourg, the Ministerial Council of the EC adopted a Declaration on Yugoslavia in which the EC and its members decided to recognize the Republic of B&H within its present borders. Armed clashes broke out in Sarajevo and other parts of Bosnia. Fourteen people were killed and more than 100 wounded. The Yugoslav Federal army intervened on the side of the population loyal to the Federation, ie: the Bosnian Serbs. Would Lincoln have done it differently?On April 7, 1992, US Pres. George H. W. Bush signed a decree on recognition of independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia within the present (“administrative”) boundaries of these former Yugoslav republics. The EC/US recognition was characterized as “foolhardy in extreme” by Lord David Owen, co-author of the Vance-Owenas opposed to “mollifying the Muslim world”, which resulted in advising Izetbegovic to pull out from the Cutileiro mediation, the war in Bosnia would have been most likely terminated and on the order of 100,000 lives saved (not fictitious 250,000 commonly quoted in the Western and the US media in particular).This is not to suggest that Izetbegovic, Tudjman and Milosevic should not share the blame. Izetbegovic was blinded by his Bosnian Muslim nationalism to create the Islamic Bosnian Republic and opted for the war. Tudjman was blinded by his nationalism, while Milosevic was blinded by his lust for power, political survival and his ideology. His philosophy was best illustrated with his slogan “Peace has no price.” Lord Owen, who had met with Milosevic on numerous occasions, in his


70 percent of the territory with the Croats and Muslims splitting 30 percent. Izetbegovic was pleading for a Western intervention. Neither the US nor the EC were interested in going to war for the state they haphazardly recognized. Many writers, including knowledgable David Binder of The New York Times, wrote that than Izetbegovic turned to the Islamic states, ie: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya for assistance [NYT, 10/19/03]. However, Izetbegovic and his followers cultivated close relations with Iran since early 80s. Hasan Cengic; an Islamist theologian, veteran of the 13th Waffen SS division, later general in Izetbegovic’s Army and deputy Defense Minister, has been linked with Iranian-sponsored terrorism since 1983 [Copley, 2003]. Pre-war ties with Turkey existed as well.The Iranians were the first ones to arrive, followedwhether it is more useful to release, exchange or kill the enemy prisoners of war”. Numerous violations of the 1949 Geneva Convention were documented. Serbs living in areas where mujahedin operated abandoned en masse their homes and property leaving less than 50,000 Serbs in areas where about 500,000 lived before the war.The mujahedin committed unspeakable atrocities including decapitations preceded by torture, severing of body parts and gouging of eyes [Doc Center, 2002]. The ICTY in the Hague has indicted nobody for these atrocities despite the fact that the UN authorities had detailed knowledge about these atrocities. The UN Commission of Experts, chaired by the American Muslim professor Cherif Bassiouni, in their report to the UN Security Council, stated: “The mujahedin forces came from several Muslim states and many


of them were veterans of the Afghan war. The mujahedin forces were reported to be under the command of the B&H Army... Reports also indicate that the mujahedin had the support of President Izetbegovic and his government...Reports submitted to the Commission of Experts alleged that the mujahedin have been responsible for the mutilation and killing of civilians, rape, looting, the destruction of property, and the expulsion of non-Muslims ... Troops from Saudi Arabia allegedly killed three Serbian Territorial Defense members and placed the victims’ severed heads on poles near the Tesanj turret. ..Beheadings of Serbs bu mujahedin forces have also been reported in other areas [UN, 1994]. In a recent brief conversion with Richard Goldstone, the first ICTY chief prosecutor between 1993 and 1996, Goldstone told me thathe was unaware of these crimes.On November 14, 1993, Izetbegovic visited the mujahedin training camp in Zenica. He blessed the mujahedin fight and assistance to the brotherly nation in Bosnia. He also addressed members of his SDA party. Told them that a joint state with the Serbs and Croats was an impossibility. He described also his vision of future B&H. It would be a state comprising 80 percent Muslim population. He compared it to France with (then, as stated) three-million Arabs. In France, the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, and all other ministers are the French. Hence, the remaining 20 percent Serbs and Croats would not be an impediment. He also advocated the German model in which Western Germany absorbed the Eastern Germany without military action