more honorable than Khalifa, so he could go complain to him about the lack of water, electricity, sanitation, and jobs in Basra. He said that Khalifa gave him more comfort than any politician,” Al-Rubaie, who works for the London-based The Arab Weekly and the independent Iraqi broadcaster Sky Michigan TV, told CPJ.

Al-Rubaie tried, to no avail, to find out who was behind the threatening call. He said he believes the caller is linked to one of the Iran-backed militias operating in Basra.

Iraqi authorities chiefly relied on militias, some of which are funded by Iran and prominent Iraqi religious figures, to oust the militant group Islamic State. After defeating the extremists in 2017, those militias were recognized by the then Iraqi prime minister as an official security force. Militialeaders, including Hadi al-Amari, the head of the Iran-backed militia Badr Organization, have taken advantage of the militias’ popularity to enter politics.

Up until the threatening call, Al-Rubaie said he had felt safe covering the protests and the heavy-handed response to them by security forces and militias that have targeted activists and protesters, but he was also acquainted with the dangers for journalists in Basra.

Between the beginning of the protests in July and the release of its findings on September 18, the Iraqi press freedom group Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) documented at least 15 instances of journalists who were assaulted, detained, or prevented from covering the protests by security forces and armed groups. Some, including a Reuters photographer, Essam al-Sudani, were cited by JFO as saying that the security


and militias,” one journalist, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, told CPJ. “While covering a demonstration in December 2018, I was detained for more than three hours. When I told them I was a journalist and produced my press card, they insulted me, put a bag over my head and beat me with a rope. They threatened to arrest me again if I kept covering protests. A few days later, a threatening letter was left at my doorstep. It was the third,” the journalist, who showed CPJ pictures and videos of his injuries, said.

Their accounts are in line with a 2018 report by the National Union of Iraqi Journalists, which identified authorities, armed groups, and political parties as the main threats to Iraqi journalists andhighlighted the government’s failure to hold perpetrators of violations against journalists accountable for their crimes.

An assault by Walid Kitan, the head of the Basra Provincial Council, on Safaa al-Furaiji, a correspondent for Al-Amal radio, while he was covering a news conference in Basra in November illustrates the impunity with which press freedom violations are committed in Basra.

According to the local press freedom group Iraqi Center for Supporting Freedom of Speech and Mohammad al-Jabri, a reporter for Radio al-Rasheed who was with al-Furaiji at the time, Kitan punched al-Furaiji for no reason in a corridor at the Basra governorate building and asked his bodyguards to take out him and al-Jabri.

When contacted for comment, the Basra Governorate Council’s Media Center referred CPJ to the Journalist Syndicate in Basra. The syndicate


Syrian singer Asala graced the Tyre Hippodrome on Saturday, July 14, to officially close the city’s two-week festival with its most successful performance. More than 5,000 people from Lebanon and the region filled the ancient stadium and received the talented singer with a thunderous cheer, according to Thisiscyberia.com.

Accompanied by an excellent band, she opened with a jazzy remix of her hit single Albi Byertahlak, after which she greeted the crowd, expressing her “gratitude for being invited to sing in such a prestigious festival,” as it was Asala’s first solo concert in Lebanon.

Popular hits like Samehtak, Malu, Ya Khali, and Wala Tsadaa followed. The surprise of the night was a new, patriotic a capella song, which Asala dedicated to the martyrs.

“I want my voice alone to echo the painof our people,” she said.

The moment she started singing, the entire stadium fell into a deep silence. Nothing could be heard but her startling voice flowing out of the ancient stadium. It was a moment of unsurpassed reverence.

With tears pouring out of many eyes, the crowd screamed frantically as the star covered her face with her hands and cried with them.

The second half of the concert boasted some of Asala’s heavier repertoire: the Tarab songs that distinguish her from every one else. She began with Katabtak, Leh Koulel Nass and then got to the most anticipated song of the evening, the brilliant Alli Gara. Originally written for the late Tunisian singer Oulaia, the song was never that popular until Asala started singing it. And in Tyre, she outdid


herself with the Tarab song, making endless variations on the notes and soaring to new heights with her voice.

The Syrian beauty continued with more popular hits, Ya Sabra Yana, Ma Bahibish Had, and the much loved Ya Meen Allah. The concert was slowly coming to an end, but Asala was certainly not leaving without a bang. And what better way to end the evening than with her smashing hit and most popular song to date: Ya Magnoun.

Asala will soon return to Lebanon to collaborate with composers Ziyad Botros and Samir Sfeir on a new album due out in September – Albawaba.comRolf Harris and Andy Coulson in jail, HMS Queen Elizabeth and Wimbledon rivalry By Andy McFarlane

BBC News Published duration 5 July 2014

The imprisonment of two very different offenders features heavily in Saturday's papers.

While the downfall of former News of the World editor Andy Coulson for his part in phone-hacking at the paper makes some front pages, most focus on the jailing of entertainer Rolf Harris for child sex offences.

Once a widely-loved TV personality, he's branded a "predator" by both the Daily Telegraph and the Sun.

The latter records Harris's journey to jail , showing pictures of "an idyllic river trip in the morning sun" at 7am, from his Berkshire home to a waiting car, in an attempt to avoid the press pack massed outside his home.

The Daily Mail's Paul


Harris describes "one last insult" to his victims as "from TV helicopters overhead, Harris was filmed laughing with four other people on board the open wooden motor boat". Hours later, when the court had been "stunned into silence" by the statements of his victims, he appeared to remain relaxed, the writer adds.

The Guardian says Harris faces the prospect of his £11m fortune being eaten away by court costs, legal fees and future civil compensation suits. But it notes that the attorney general will examine calls to reconsider the "unduly lenient" sentence of five years, nine months.

The Telegraph explains there was little flexibility open to the trial judge. "Because the crimes were historic, having been carried out between 1969 and 1986, Harris had to be sentenced according to themore lenient law that was in place at that time." As the Sun notes, the artist could have faced a further trial over downloading indecent images of children from "Little Girlies" websites had prosecutors not decided it was no longer in the public interest after his jail sentence.

One person struggling to take in the news is Amanda Platell, who writes in the Daily Mail how she initially reacted with disbelief to the arrest of her "old friend" before eventually admitting to herself: "I was conned by a cunning and manipulative paedophile."

'Morally wrong'

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Three other men spent Friday night behind bars after a high-profile trial. But much of the focus from the News of the World hacking trial is on one man.

As the Independent's James Cusick puts it:


"He once had an office right next to David Cameron in 10 Downing Street, and was trusted by Rupert Murdoch to run his News of the World paper, but last night Andy Coulson was behind bars in Belmarsh Prison."

The Guardian profiles each of the four who were in the dock with Mr Cameron's former media chief, including two whose prison sentences were suspended. It quotes the trial judge telling Coulson and his co-defendants that all their achievements would "now count for nothing" and that, while the former editor claimed not to know phone hacking was illegal, he knew it was "morally wrong".

The Times reports that Coulson turned down a "six-figure sum to reveal Cameron's secrets" in a book about his time alongside the prime minister. A "friend" isquoted saying Coulson felt he owed Mr Cameron a "duty of honour as his former employer". According to the Mail, that is despite a prosecution bid to recoup almost £750,000 in legal costs that could cost Coulson the family home he shares with his wife and three children in Kent.

Eric Allison spells out in the Guardian what would have awaited Coulson on his first night in the category A prison. "Around teatime, prisoners will be handcuﬀed and placed in cellular vehicles (sweatboxes, in the jargon)... His fellow travellers will know they have a celeb on board and will take the piss," he writes, before adding that he will later be transferred to a "very civilised" open jail.

Another criminal who once stalked the corridors of power, former Conservative cabinet


of the ship's vital parts were made and what can be found on board, including a cinema, gyms, pharmacy and bakery.

The ship will be "the pride of Britain on the seas," says the Daily Telegraph, which hears from naval history researcher Duncan Redford that carriers are vital to both the Navy's strength and the nation's safety. "They will allow Britain to project power to defend its interests around the world, without relying on fickle or politically damaging arrangements for basing land-based aircrafts overseas," he writes.

Like the Telegraph, the Times produces detailed graphics to display the ship's specifications. There's just one problem for the Daily Star, which says: "Nice carrier... shame about the aircraft." It explains: "HMS Queen Elizabeth will sail with only helicopters on board for two years- because the government has yet to order the first batch of planes."

"Tory incompetence may yet leave it a carrier with nothing to carry," complains the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror. Times cartoonist Peter Brookes is also sceptical of its worth. "Longer than the Houses of Parliament, three football pitches, 25 London buses, and forty-six white elephants," reads his caption to a silhouette of the ship above a caravan of the beasts.

His Times colleague, reporter Tom Knowles, views the vessel as a "symbol of nationhood", saying of the ceremony in Rosyth: "There were bagpipes, whisky, grey skies and rain. It was a stereotypically Scottish affair, but the case for staying part of Britain was never far away."

The Financial Times's George Parker writes: "David Cameron left the dockyard proclaiming he was


'proud to be British', while Industry Minister Michael Fallon - who sat next to Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, at the ceremony - joked: 'Not a Saltire in sight.'" Telegraph cartoonist Bob can't see Mr Salmond being too worried, picturing him hiving off part of the ship with a circular saw as the Queen smashes the ceremonial whisky on its hull.

Meanwhile, across the country on the Clyde, the Guardian's Libby Brooks hears from workers at Scotstoun for whom "the promise of independence sounds more like a threat" of job cuts.

However, it's not so black and white for the Scotsman, which says in an editorial column: "It seems unlikely that if Scotland votes for independence, the rest of the UK's defence procurers will regard Scotland as if it hadbeen wiped from the map. After all, Britain buys lots of defence equipment from America, not least the aircraft due to be based on the ship."

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It's ladies finals day at Wimbledon but, true to form, there's as much interest in what's going on off-court as on it.

Eugenie Bouchard may have won the hearts of many a fan, earning the nickname "Princess" after the British royal whose name she was given, but her relationship with Britain's own Laura Robson is under scrutiny in several papers.

"They were once the best of friends but now they are no longer on speaking terms," reports the Times , alongside pictures of the pair together posing in fancy dress less than two years ago. "The mystery of the fallout between two


of the world's upcoming tennis stars... has led to speculation that the fight is over a man - their once shared coach."

For the Telegraph, they're the "double-act torn apart by rivalry". It explains that coach Nick Saviano is said to be concentrating more on the Canadian. "He has continued to work with both players, but focuses on Bouchard, adopting a consultancy role with Robson," writes Claire Duffin.

Bouchard alluded to the breakdown in relations at a press conference ahead of the final, says the Telegraph, when asked if they were still "good mates" and she replied: "No, I don't think so."

The 20-year-old is "as ruthless as she is glamorous", according to the Daily Mail's Alison Boshoff who describes her as "canny, money-making and with an ambition and drive whichmake the rest of the tennis crowd - no offence Maria Sharapova - look like a bunch of shuffling amateurs".

Making people click

Daily Mail : Here comes the boho bride! Fearne Cotton dazzles in a sparkling wedding dress as she leaves nuptials hand-in-hand with new husband Jesse Wood

Guardian : Edward Snowden should have right to legal defence in the US, says Hillary Clinton

Times : Sex, wine, work: diary of a single woman

Daily Mirror : Neymar OUT of the World Cup with a 'fractured vertebrae' [sic] suffered in quarter-final win over Colombia


She is a photojournalist/videographer. Sanchez recently graduated from the University of Arizona.

She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, one of the industry's most prestigious programs for new journalists.

On our staff, interns have all the responsibility of a full-time staffer.

Sanchez started to develop her interest in journalism by covering a wrestling meet her sophomore year at Franklin High School in El Paso, Texas. She enjoyed it so much and did such a good job with the photos, that she eventually became the photo editor for the school paper and the yearbook.

Sanchez enjoys covering sports events because of the action and opportunity for photos to tell the story and capture emotions. Her least favorite sports to shoot photos of: tennis and cross country. Her favorites: basketball and football.

Sanchez has done agood job of preparing herself for her time on our staff by gaining plenty of real world experience.

She worked as a photojournalist for Tuscon Weekly, University of Arizona Athletics and the Arizona Daily Star. She was also the photo editor and video editor during her time at the Daily Wildcat, the university newspaper.

She studied Arabic at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, in a summer program sponsored by the Middle Eastern and North African studies program of the University of Arizona.

This summer, she hopes to cover a wide variety of news, feature and sports photo and video assignments. She said one of her goals this summer is to improve her video skills.

Sanchez also brings another element to her visual storytelling — her training and background in art.

"I


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When Coquette Patisserie opened its brick-and-mortar store in 2014, it immediately became the darling of the Cleveland pastry scene. Already people had come to know and appreciate chef Britt-Marie Culey and her authentic French pastries from her six or so years at the North Union Farmers Market at Shaker Square, where her weekly appearances were the highlight for many sweets shoppers.The shop (11607 Euclid Ave., 216-331-2841), however, became so much more, thanks in equal parts to husband and partner Shane, who paired those pitch-perfect sweet and savory items with a killer beer, wine and cocktail program. Hours spent at the intimate University Circle boîte seemed to slip right by thanks to bottomless glasses of Champagne, just-shucked oysters, dreamy French pastries and the kind of conversation that has


Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against North Korea is "useless", saying "they'd rather eat grass than give up their nuclear programme".

The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a nuclear bomb by the North on Sunday.

Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of "military hysteria" could lead to global catastrophe.

He said diplomacy was the only answer.

China, the North's main ally, has also called for a return to negotiations.

Meanwhile, North Korea's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Han Tae-song, said his country's recent "self-defence measures" were a "gift package addressed to the US".

"The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long as it relies on recklessprovocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)," Reuters news agency quoted him as saying.
What did Vladimir Putin say about sanctions?

The Russian leader was speaking at the meeting of the Brics group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in Xiamen, China.

Although he condemned the North's test as "provocative", Mr Putin said: "Sanctions of any kind would now be useless and ineffective.

"They'd rather eat grass than abandon their [nuclear weapons] programme unless they feel secure. And what can establish security? The restoration of international law. We should promote dialogue among all interested parties."

Citing a "humanitarian aspect", Mr Putin said millions of people would suffer under tougher measures, adding: "Sanctions have been exhausted."

On Monday, at the United Nations in New York, US


envoy Nikki Haley argued that only the strongest sanctions would enable the problem to be resolved through diplomacy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed that stance on Tuesday, saying more sanctions were urgently needed to counter the North's "flagrant breach of international conventions".

North Korea's Han Tae-song said sanctions would never work and that his country would "never under any circumstances put its nuclear test runs on the negotiating table".
Where are we with sanctions?

Last month, the Security Council voted unanimously to ban North Korean exports and limit investments in the country.

Ms Haley did not spell out what additional measures might be taken, but diplomats have suggested an oil embargo would have a crippling effect.

There could also be a ban on the North's national airline, curbs on North Koreans working abroad, andasset freezes and travel bans on officials.

On Tuesday, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said after a conversation with her Chinese counterpart that she believed Beijing "could be open to more sanctions".

Mr Putin said Russia's trade with North Korea was negligible and did not violate current international sanctions.


in the same region actually shows Ardipithecus lived in an area that was only 5 to 25 percent wooded, which is far, far below the minimum 60% forestation for something to be considered woodland. The researchers admit there's a slight possibility that this particular specimen lived in a tiny wooded strip along a river, but that river was still very much situated in a savanna, not a forest.

The two main writers of the paper are Thure Cerling and Frank Brown, both of the University of Utah. They summarize what their findings mean for the forest argument put forth by Ardipithecus discoverer Tim White and his team:

Brown: "The idea that savannas were important in human ancestors starting to walk on two legs means they spent less energy getting fromIn A Stone in Heaven, Dominic Flandry finds friendship, maybe even love, after many years of being totally alone. After A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Flandry’s life stood in ruins. His Emperor, unbeknownst to him at the time, was dead; his sons were incompetent. His love was dead; his son was dead; he didn’t believe in his job any longer, and he’d taken out his biggest adversary. So, what was left? This book shows the answer: plenty. The younger son of Hans Molitor now holds the throne in his incompetent grasp, and worse, does not like Flandry. So, although Flandry is now a Vice-Admiral and commands much respect, he isn’t thrown too many assignments. On the other hand, he is able to make his own schedule, so


a previously unencountered alien race that has invaded the distant colonial world of Vixen.

After the first flowering of the Terran Empire, which has grown increasingly decadent and corrupt, other civilizations in the galaxy threaten to take over the Terran's worlds. In this scenario steps the debonair, tough and pessimistic Dominic Flandry, half-Hans Solo, half-James Bond and a hero for the ages!him. It was the defeat of Bork that led to the nomination of Anthony Kennedy.

You can read my analysis, along with the other contributions to the symposium, here.

For more than 2,500 years, the Western tradition has embraced monogamous marriage as an essential institution for the flourishing of men and women, parents and children, society and the state. At the same time, polygamy has been considered a serious crime that harms wives and children, correlates with sundry other crimes and abuses, and threatens good citizenship and political stability. The West has thus long punished all manner of plural marriages and denounced the polygamous teachings of selected Jews, Muslims, Anabaptists, Mormons, and others. John Witte, Jr. carefully documents the Western case for monogamy over polygamy from antiquity until today. He


would instead speak to the most urgent concerns of the global East and South. The first Pope to come from beyond Europe and the Mediterranean basin promised to be the champion of those who lived in the parts of the earth where hunger, injustice and persecution abounded. Places like the Philippines, Mexico, and Nigeria had already become the true center of gravity of a global Church, displacing Quebec, Chicago, Milan and Vienna. The new Pope would speak for the populations of the emerging world – for their suffering, their desperation, their resilience, their energy, their sense of hope. The “North/South” polarity would supplant the “Left/Right” one. The Church would make the pivot to poverty. In making that turn, it would address the West too – but by awakeningit from the deadly self-absorption of the affluent.

So when one learns that the Synod of Catholic cardinals and bishops summoned by the same Pope has returned the conversation to the culture wars of the West – though with unmistakable overtones of capitulation on many of the bishops’ part — it is, to say no more, a disappointment. Try as it may, the Church under Francis seems to be unable to resist scratching the sores of Western sexuality. The consuming obsessions of the West, now in the terminal phases of the sexual and cultural revolutions that have swept over it for more than half a century, are dominating the Church’s agenda once again. At the Pope’s insistence, the bishops did a reset, plunging the Church into renewed debate over


media coverage of the debate in this intervening period will focus overwhelmingly on the articles that the Pope reinstated. Cui bono? In their effort to get the conversation back on the familiar tracks of the Western culture wars, the Pope and his bishops are doing serious harm to millions of faithful Catholics trying to live out the Gospel in hostile and often dangerous conditions in the emerging world.

My former student, Andrew Ratelle, makes the point forcefully:

By upholding the nuclear family, the Church made what was perhaps the most important social investment in history. People in the poorer, more pagan regions of the world where polygamy, polyandry, arranged and child marriages were common, now had a place to look for support when it came to building a life thatcoercing, people who do not wish to engage in a religious exercise.”

This volume, like its companion, Voices of Our Times, collects essays drawn from a series of public conferences held in autumn 2011 entitled “More than a Monologue.” The series was the fruit of collaboration among four institutions of higher learning: two Catholic universities and two nondenominational divinity schools. The conferences aimed to raise awareness of and advance informed, compassionate, and dialogical conversation about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit. They generated fresh, rich sets of scholarly and reflective contributions that promise to take forward the delicate work of theological-ethical and ecclesial development. Along with Voices of Our Times, this


not frequently heard within the church. Marriage equality and the treatment of LGBTQ individuals by and within the Roman Catholic Church are considered from the vantage points of law, ethics, and theology. Themes of language and discourse are explored in analyses of the place of sexual diversity in church history, thought, and authority.

The two volumes of More than a Monologue, like the conferences from which they developed, actively move beyond the monologic voice of the institutional church on the subject of LGBTQ issues, inviting and promoting open conversations about sexual diversity and the church. Those who read Inquiry, Thought, and Expression will encounter not just an excellent resource for research and teaching in the area of moral theology but also an opportunity to actively listen to and engagein groundbreaking discussions about faith and sexuality within and outside the Catholic Church.

The case involved a couple who wished to marry in a Scientologist church in London. Under English law, marriages performed in a “place of religious worship” are considered valid. Nonetheless, the couple faced a problem. In 1970, an English court concluded that Scientology is not a religion, because Scientology does not hold a belief in God. So, when the couple sought to have their church certified as a place where marriages might take place, the relevant government official refused: if Scientology is not a religion, a Scientologist church cannot be a “place of religious worship.” The couple then sued.

Last week, the Supreme Court sided with the couple. The 1970 opinion was wrong, the court held. Scientology


A 17-year-old Korean gamer who goes by the handle Geguri is so damn good at playing Zarya in Overwatch (with a 6.31 K/D and 80% win rate) that, following a dominant performance at the Nexus Cup, she was accused by her opponents of cheating. In fact, two of them, according to this post on Reddit, were so convinced she was hacking that they vowed to quit esports if she could prove that she wasn't. So she proved it.

Blizzard officially cleared her of any wrongdoing a few days after the tournament ended, but that apparently wasn't sufficient to really make the point. To ensure there were no lingering doubts, she took to the stage and put on an hour-long showcase of her talent for all the world to see.2003, the Secretary issued his order adopting the same. According to the hearing officer, plaintiff had provided sufficient evidence to carry his burden of proving that his alcohol problem had been resolved. However, in light of plaintiff's testimony that he had the BAIID removed from his vehicle, the hearing officer recommended plaintiff be denied full reinstatement. The hearing officer noted that a report had been sent to the BAIID Unit (presumably by the BAIID technician who removed the device), which indicated the device was "deinstalled" on July 22, 2003. The report indicated plaintiff asked that the BAIID be removed from his vehicle because he had a hearing scheduled on July 31, 2002, and he no longer wanted to pay for the device. The hearing officer found plaintiff's failure


to voluntarily surrender his RDP after the device was removed from his vehicle was a violation of the Secretary's regulations pertaining to the use of the BAIID and justified denying him relief.
On September 30, 2003, plaintiff filed a petition for administrative review with the circuit court. On March 25, 2004, the circuit court reversed the Secretary's decision and granted plaintiff full reinstatement. The court found the Secretary's decision was against the manifest weight of the evidence and an abuse of discretion. On April 21, 2004, the Secretary filed a motion for stay of judgment pending appeal. This appeal followed.

II. ANALYSIS

A. Secretary's Administrative Decision
The Secretary appeals the circuit court's order reversing his denial of plaintiff's petition for reinstatement. The Secretary contends his decision denying plaintiff's request was not againstLawrence Michael De Falco

Lawrence Michael DeFalco (August 25, 1915 – September 22, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Amarillo from 1963 to 1979.

Biography
The eldest of nine children, Lawrence DeFalco was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, to Rosario and Margret (née Desmone) DeFalco. His father was originally from Atena Lucana, Italy and worked as a streetcar company foreman. He entered St. Vincent's College at Latrobe in 1933. However, he was forced to enter St. John's Home Mission Seminary at Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1935, because the Diocese of Pittsburgh to the Great Depression. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 11, 1942.

DeFalco then served as a curate at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Fort Worth, Texas, until 1952, when he became


I can imagine the Moulin Rouge had some pretty exotic acts in its heyday, but entertaining an audience with rhythmic flatulence? Surely our ancestors had a little more class! Meet Joseph Pujol, professional fartist and one of the most popular and highly paid stage performers in Europe prior to World War I.

Posters all over Paris billed him, Le Petomane (“the gas maniac”) and he was even known internationally as “the fartiste”. From working as a baker boy in Marseilles to the headline act at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, Joseph hit the big time with such flatulent routines as blowing out candles, playing the French national anthem with a flute and a farting rendition of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake which lasted more than five minutes– usually reservedfor the grand finale.

During the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, the Edison company produced a silent film of Pujol’s act. While there are no known sound recordings of Le Petomane’s performances, he had several copycats in his day, one of which did make this very rare recording of a similar performance. The video below is a result of Edison’s silent film and a copycat performance. Enjoy!

Appearing on stage in a full tuxedo and cape and white gloves, Joseph would also smoke cigarettes out his rear end and make thunder clap noises to the sound of cannon fire. The audience loved it, often singing along to the songs played in his farting flute routines. He was the star attraction of the Moulin Rouge and even performed for royalty


making 20,000 francs a week, out-earning every other stage performer in Europe at the time except Houdini.

Of course, this was all during the height of the Belle Epoque, a period supposedly characterised by technological, scientific and cultural innovations. Throughout his career, Pujol proudly maintained that his farts were odourless thanks to a carefully controlled food regimen and daily colonic irrigations.

When the Moulin Rouge tried to re-negotiate his contract for a better price, he left the iconic music hall and opened his very own theatre where he continued to perform to a full house until the start of WWI when everyone’s appetite for toilet humour presumably began to wane. The famous fartist hung up his cape and supposedly never broke wing again in public.

Professional flatulence has never quite come"Be patient," Marino told the crowd. "You look around the NFL and things don't just turn around overnight. Be patient with this group and hopefully the young quarterback works out great for us."

He also basically told Ryan Tannehill to nut-up and throw the damn ball.

Normally when The Right Arm Of God speaks, his words are gospel.

He says be patient, then everyone shut the hell up and be patient.

Except that we've been waiting for this so-called turnaround since the Carter administration. And all signs point to SUCK as far this franchise's future is concerned.

Patience? Pffft.

This coming from a guy who would stare down any receiver who would drop a pass, then would bark at them in the middle of the field until they shat a litter of baby seahorses.

Marino


To the Right Honorable Richard Viscount Howe, of the Kingdom of Ireland, and His Excellency The Honorable William Howe, Esquire, General of His Majesty's Forces in America, the Kings' Commissioners for restoring Peace in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America &c. &c. &c.

May it please your excellencies.

Impressed with the most grateful sense of the Royal Clemency, manifested I you Proclamation of the 14th. Of July last, whereby His Majesty hath been graciously pleased to declare, "That he is desirous to deliver His American subjects from the calamities of War, and other oppressions, which they now undergo:" and equally affected with sentiments of gratitude for the generous and humane attention to the disposition "to confer with His Majesty's well affected subjects, upon the means of restoring thepublic Tranquility, and establishing a permanent union with every Colony as a part of the British Empire."

We whose names are hereunto subscribed, Inhabitants of the City and County of New-York, beg leave to inform your Excellencies: that altho most of us have subscribed a general Representation with many other of the Inhabitants; yet we wish that our conduct, in maintaining inviolate our loyalty to our Sovereign, against the strong tide of oppression and tyranny, which has almost overwhelmed this Land, may be marked by some line of distinction, which cannot well be drawn from the mode of Representation that has been adopted for the Inhabitants in general.

Influenced by this Principle, and from a regard to our peculiar Situation, we have humbly presumed to trouble your Excellencies with the


There are few better days in the life of a high school student than that final day of school in mid to late December.

The sense of euphoria that results when coupling the relief of completing final exams with the excitement of the holiday season, and of course, a lengthy reprieve from school.

It is a day Wolfgang Kemp vividly recalls during his sophomore year at Woodstock North High School. Hours after finishing his final exams, he would spend the night in a church shelter for the first time in his life.

Wolfgang’s spirit has been put to the test since junior high, and the tribulations of his adolescence could have crippled him mentally and emotionally, yet he has managed to persevere and overcome thanks in part to his high schoolathletic experience.

Born and raised in McHenry County, Wolfgang enjoyed a “normal” childhood with his parents. His father owned a business and spent time employed as a mechanic and driving forklifts. Wolfgang’s first passion was wrestling, and although he says he was “overweight” and “not all that athletic” in grade school, he loved to wrestle and embraced his role as the team’s heavyweight.

However, problems began to surface at home around the time Wolfgang was in seventh grade and eventually his parents divorced. His mother’s absence took a toll on his father, who struggled with steady employment and mental health issues, which led to the loss of the family business and, ultimately, the family home. Wolfgang and his father stuck together, “couch surfing” at the homes of friends and relatives


throughout most of his eighth grade and freshman years.

Wolfgang joined the Woodstock North football team as a freshman in 2012, but admits now that he simply “wasn’t ready for high school” as he dealt with the uncertainty in his home life. His interactions with Woodstock North head football coach Jeff Schroeder were not coming on the gridiron, but rather in Schroeder’s other role, as the high school’s Dean of Students.

Despite his issues, Wolfgang managed to remain in good enough standing to wrestle for the Thunder that winter, but his grades would begin a downward trajectory in the spring. He lost his sophomore football season to academic ineligibility, and as couch surfing options dwindled, he was on a crash course with that fateful December night.

“Everyone else was getting readyto the ball. He was also hitting a ball well above his feet and at an angle and was forced to try to play a massive hook from there. He tried the hero shot and he chunked it. The ball came up 30 yards short of the green in the fairway. Not too bad in the end. After he hit it, Tiger had to jump down in the bunker because of the force of the strike and his turn in trying to draw it.

AROUND THE GREEN (2:19 p.m. ET): This was about a 50-yard shot for Tiger it looked like, solid stuff. He lands and stops this about 8 feet below the hole. That left for par. This is important. The lead overall is 11 under, which means


ability and feasibility to explore the pharmacodynamics of herbal medicine, and to uncover the intricate mechanisms of the interactions between medicines and organisms.

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This study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the Instituted Animal Care and Use Committee of China Pharmaceutical University. The protocol was approved by the the Instituted Animal Care and Use Committee of China Pharmaceutical University.

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Conceived and designed the experiments: ML, HD, SY, LS, and JW. Performed the experiments: ML, HD, GK, LL, XL, SL, and AJ. Analyzed and interpreted the data: ML, HD, GK, LL, XL, SL, AJ, and JW. Drafted and revised the work: ML, HD, GK, LL, XL, SL, AJ, SY, LS, and JW. Final approval of the version to be published: ML, HD, GK, LL,of dividing the world into geographically detailed blocks, keeping map data in which the time zone and the implementation region of the daylight-saving time are stored with being associated with the respective divided blocks, and enabling the correct local time corresponding to the time zone and the daylight-saving time over the world as well as the big city for which the time zone could be conventionally set.
However, the time zone setting of the world and the implementation setting of the daylight-saving time are frequently varied depending on political and religious situations, economic needs and the like. Most of the electronic timepieces, particularly, the portable timepieces have a limitation on a function of transmitting and receiving data to and from the outside, so that it is difficult to update


A Place For Updates, Discussion, Feedback & More, Relating to the Curation & Cultivation of the Card Cyber Museums.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

2008 Upper Deck Goudey Baseball Set Added

Thanks to the donation of the set from an anonymous benefactor, the Upper Deck Goudey 2008 Baseball set of 200 cards (Base: No Short Prints) is now part of the Baseball Card Gallery at the Card Cyber Museum.

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Love all sports, particularly for playing (baseball, basketball, volleyball), watching (hockey, baseball, Olympics, World Cup), wagering at the Vegas Sports Book (pro football, baseball) and reading (baseball). Have collected cards since the late '60s or so.He was not indicted for that failure.  Nor was any further formal order to report for induction sent to Carrillo.  Instead, on October 6, 1971, Carrillo's local board sent him a letter stating that he had a continuing duty to report and directing him to report for induction on October 26, 1971.  He was indicted for failure to perform his duty (based on the March 12, 1971, order) to report on October 26, 1971.

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Between the time the induction order was sent and the time the continuing duty letter was mailed, two relevant changes in the selective service laws occurred.  The March 12 order was issued under the Military Selective Service Act of 1967; section 17(c) of the Act terminated the local board's induction authority


for induction would have no vitality absent present authority to induct.

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In 1948, Congress established the Selective Service System to gather and process information about males in the United States and to effect their induction into the nation's armed forces.  (Selective Service Act of 1948, ch. 625, 62 Stat. 604.)  The 1948 Act was to terminate on the second anniversary of its enactment.  The termination provisions provided that most of the provisions of the Act were to become inoperative on that date.  The few provisions excepted from this termination merely dealt with matters collateral to the operation of the Selective Service System.  (Id. 17(b).)  When in 1950 Congress extended the operation of the Act, there were expressions of concern about the scope ofCarrillo's induction order by operation of law.

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The Government argues that even if the termination of induction authority under the 1967 Act vitiated the order to report, the 1971 Act revived the defunct order by retroactively nullifying the termination of induction authority under the 1967 Act.  Nothing in the text of the 1971 Act nor in its legislative history supports the Government's interpretation.  The 1971 Act simply reinstated the local board's authority to induct; it did not purport to revive orders based on previously expired grants of authority.1  The House and Senate Conference Committee Report on the 1971 Act unequivocally states the legislative intent in creating the limited retroactivity of that Act:

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'In addition, the conferees wish to point out that the amendment extending the authority to


The dispute revolves around the use of Australian Consumer Law over an issue that would normally be fought between consumers – apartment owners – and the builder, as was the case in the long-running legal action over combustible cladding on Melbourne's Lacrosse tower.

The lead applicants are owners of 17 apartments in the Shore Dolls Point, at 172-174 Russell Avenue, in Sydney's southern suburb of Dolls Point. HVG during 2011 and 2012 supplied 128 panels for use on the four-level building.

ACL guarantee cited

In their statement of claim, owners in the case backed by litigation funder IMF Bentham and represented by William Roberts Lawyers argue the panels failed to meet standards set by consumer protection laws and carried a "material risk" of causing or spreading fire

The owners argue that AlucobondUnitedHealthcare and Konami Bringing Dance Dance Revolution to the Classroom

Brian Landwehr of UnitedHealthcare talked about their new partnership with Konami, the gaming company to bring the Dance, Dance Revolution Classroom Edition into schools. This is part of the UnitedHealthcare’s Activate Program which also includes dietary and mental health curriculum. The idea is to increase kids physical activity by using something they are already doing, playing video games. The program is tied into each school current curriculum. The student and their parents along with the school can track the student’s progress throughout the year.

At the present time this program is being introduced by UnitedHealthcare into schools that they already have a partnership with. These schools are being used to pilot the program. However the Dance, Dance Revolution Classroom Edition


The feds are backing up last week's medical marijuana threats with actions -- sometimes by themselves, sometimes with the DEA working in tandem with local officials.

Putting some law enforcement muscle behind this month's words of warning from federal prosecutors that a new crackdown on medical marijuana distribution was getting underway, DEA agents late last week raided a model regulated medical marijuana grow in Northern California, a medical marijuana dispensary in Southern California, and a medical marijuana grow in Colorado.

"The California marijuana industry is not about providing medicine to the sick," claimed Laura Duffy, the San Diego-based US Attorney at the October 8 Sacramento press conference. "It's a pervasive, for-profit industry that violates federal law."

But the operation raided Thursday, Northstone Organics[16] in Mendocino County, has been touted as aa local law enforcement raid against a medical marijuana grower who contracted to grow as part of a larger grow at Cherry Top Farms in Denver morphed during the day into a joint local-state-federal raid replete with carloads of DEA agents and US Attorney representatives.

"We are 100% compliant" with state medical marijuana laws, a Cherry Top Farms manager told Westword[20] after the raid. "But when the feds walk in, they can do whatever the hell they want." Local police had issues with the contract grower who was the original target of the raid, the manager said. "They came to take care of him, but when they got here, they were unable to turn a blind eye, and they did a lot of damage," he complained.

When the first officers


Police want to speak to this man about Peacehaven attempted burglary

Police have released this CCTV image of a man they wish to trace in relation to an attempted burglary in Peacehaven.

On Sunday 15 February 15 at about 9pm a man was seen to walk onto a driveway of a house in Horsham Avenue North.

He tried the handle on the garage door and then picked up a brick which was stacked by the garage before putting it back down.

He then tried to open the key safe on the side of the house.

Nothing was stolen.

The man is described as white, aged between 20 and 30, of medium build, short dark hair and was wearing a white long sleeved round necked t-shirt with buttons up to the neck, jeans, a darkand gybing in Osborne Bay - before ending up in Gosport in the pouring rain. The weather was so bad that they didn’t go anywhere next day but did exercises like parking practice and ropework before having time ashore in Portsmouth. On Wednesday they sailed to Yarmouth and played games in the park, and yesterday they finally had some lovely weather and sailed all the way across the bay to Swanage and a visit to the beach, before a night sail into Poole. The whole group, including the three leaders, earned their RYA Start Yachting certificates. Many thanks to sea staff James, Graeme, Jon, Miranda, Frederik and Patrick.

* Core refit team - winter volunteer positions availableIf you are taking a gap year, not working over the winter, looking


A tale of white nights and dark souls

BOOK REVIEW

May 27, 1993|By Joseph Coates | Joseph Coates,Chicago Tribune

Elizabeth Benedict's third novel is as diabolically constructed as a sting operation in which it is the narrator who gets stung into tragic self-knowledge. Half movie and half novel, with its two halves watching each other as balefully as the KGB once watched the CIA, and vice versa, this rueful relic of Cold War mentality is a tour de force in point of view showing that love at its most political is when it gets most intensely personal.

Kate Lurie is a documentary filmmaker in her early 30s who loves and marries a man of the 1950s in his 50s, Eli "Mac" MacKenzie, a veteran Cold War Foreign Service officer.

Mac has been mildlydisgraced by an open affair with a vibrant young Russian woman that occurred while he was still married to (and estranged from) his first wife and stationed alone in Leningrad in 1974.

He meets Kate while she's shooting a documentary at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and he's languishing through the last of the Reagan years. They marry after he has told her the complete story of the turbulent three-week affair that got him recalled from the Soviet Union.

Ms. Benedict is positively Tolstoyan in evoking the "premeditatedcity," as it was called by Dostoyevski, of the Czar Peter the Great, with its "white nights" of late spring when the sun sets at midnight and rises again at 1 a.m. to gild the passionate love of Mac and Lida Podryadchikova,


see thatshe has taken over the KGB role that Lida once ignored and now resents, and seeks advice from her friend Nan in New York. "Tell him you're as understanding as the next liberated woman, but Anna Karenina was more than you bargained for," Nan tells her.

But she doesn't confront Mac until she is in the weak role of would-be (but not quite) betrayer herself, having assumed Mac was unfaithful.

The book opens and closes with Kate in an editing room in the last hours of 1991, trying to cut together (as film editors say) her marriage from scraps of a film that she has unexpectedly fallen into and from the details of Mac's long-ago affair.

The sequence of delayed and gradually disclosed revelations from film, Mac's testimony and heror small, professional or personal. The First 30 Days will encourage people going through change to go from being fearful and alone to feeling optimistic and transformed."— David Bach, New York Times best-seller

"Since change is the only constant in life, it helps to have an expert navigate through the ups and downs of life. The First 30 Days is an excellent guide."— Deepak Chopra, New York Times best-seller

"Essential reading for anyone going through a change. I loved it!"— Wayne Dyer, New York Times best-seller


moratorium on foreclosures resulting... Read more

The Columbia Point Master Planning Task Force saw the reasons they were pulled together last Thursday as a trio of would-be developers brought forth their big plans, or lack of them, for Dorchester's big toe sticking out into the bay, Columbia Point.... Read more

Dorchester's Ernest "E-Knock" Phillips and five other members of Status Quo are back in town after narrowly losing a contest for $100,000 and the "America's Best Dance Crew" title - promoted by MTV's show of the same name.
A crowd of friends, family, fans... Read more

Neponset Avenue and McKone Street is not just another corner to Jimmy King. It's the corner his son Army Private Kevin J. King left behind his childhood to serve his country.
At 19, Kevin was killed during$7 million for the removal of pollutants, known as PCBs, from the Neponset River's... Read more

Mayor Thomas Menino this week defended a controversial program that has drawn criticism from community members and local politicians as an unconstitutional invasion of home privacy by police. Boston police officers are launching a pilot program, dubbed "... Read more

A new pilot program at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot School on Columbia Road is offering culturally-sensitive, full-time mental health care to Somali children, many of them refugees.
"People here are alone and stressed, plus they've been through war," said... Read more

Grow Boston Greener, a collaborative effort between the City of Boston and Boston's Urban Forest Coalition (BUFC), is continuing its quest to expand the city's tree canopy by planting 100,000 new trees by the


Hillary Clinton's campaign has begun showing frustrations with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), urging him to find a way to peacefully wind down his presidential campaign amid the near certainty that she will have the delegates needed for the nomination.

The frustrations are not so much that Sanders has remained in the race to this point -- which Clinton staffers universally say is his right to do -- but that he's continued to chip at his Democratic opponent rather than allow her an easier turn to the general election. In the past week, Sanders went after Clinton for her vote on the Iraq War, just moments after she delivered what was widely seen as a blistering foreign policy critique of Donald Trump. Then, the senator questioned the donations the governmentbase at this juncture, let alone through the convention in July.

Still, Benenson's comments are rare for their directness. A close campaign consultant said that the plan is to "continue to be patient" with Sanders, maintaining a positive message while outsourcing the sharper material to surrogates, as exemplified by Clinton herself on Monday.

"We've got to be unified going into the convention and coming out of the convention to take on Donald Trump," Clinton tells reporters in CA. — Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 6, 2016

Aides also don't anticipate that this primary drama will play out to the convention, believing talk within Sanders' universe of a Philadelphia showdown is largely bluster.

"I hear what Jeff Weaver is saying," Benenson said of Sanders' hard-charging campaign manager. "I'm going to take Senator Sanders at


go unappreciated.

Neither did Clinton's recent speech eviscerating Trump. While Sanders may have responded with a dig at Clinton's vote to authorize the Iraq War, internally, campaign aides were impressed by her ability to diminish the Republican nominee and reassure superdelegates.

"I think it helped her," said the top Sanders aide. "I don't think one speech is big enough to switch a state like California, [but] it was a reassurance speech for the most important audience for her, which is the people who are ultimately going to decide the nomination. She gave it, and it went over well."J Michael Straczynski (previously) is known for many things: creating Babylon 5, spectacular runs on flagship comics from Spiderman to Superman, incredibly innovative and weird kids' TV shows like The Real Ghostbusters, and megahits like Sense8; in the industry he's known as a writing machine, the kind of guy who can write and produce 22 hours of TV in a single season, and he's also known as a mensch, whose online outreach to fans during the Babylon 5 years set the bar for how creators and audiences can work together to convince studios to take real chances. But in JMS's new memoir, Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood, we get a look at a real-life history that is by turns horrific and terrifying, and a first-person


account of superhuman perseverance and commitment to the right thing that, incredibly, leads to triumph

Straczynski's life story begins with a family story that's pure grifter American gothic. His grandfather, a Russian emigre and con artist, goes back to Europe to try to bilk his relatives out of whatever money they've snuck out of revolutionary Russia and into Germany. While there, he begins a sexual affair with his underage niece, luring her into bed by promising to send for her when he gets to America, which, of course, he never does, so she books her own passage and tracks him down.

Their predictably tumultuous relationship is marked by infidelity and dishonesty, but then things get weird when she takes their son and daughter to Poland, only to take up witha Nazi-sympathizing police officer who takes them in when the Nazis invade, and there they are stuck. Straczynski's grandmother takes up with various Nazis, while the boy who will someday become Straczynski's father becomes a kind of mascot for the local Nazi soldiers, in a miniature Nazi uniform they made just for him, going out with them on patrol to participate in vicious, antisemitic beatings, and, possibly, worse.

Straczynski's father grows up, takes up with a child trafficked into prostitution and incapable of consent, effectively kidnaps her, and marries her. She gives birth to several children with Straczynski's father, including Straczynski himself, and quite likely murders at least one of them, and attempts to murder Straczynski when he is young. She is wracked with terrible depression exacerbated by post-partum


being Straczynski — being the survivor of a campaign of terror visited upon him by a literal Nazi — refuses to back down, because despite the mountain of shit he's climbed to get where he is, the prospect of falling down to the bottom is incapable of scaring him beyond his threshold of tolerability.

And, remarkably, despite industry concentration and a thousand variations of "you'll never work in this town again," Straczynski continues to work. His story is a beautiful parable about how luck is made: the way it's told, it seems like Straczynski has a horseshoe up his ass, with opportunities dropping appearing over the horizon just a little faster than the burn-rate of the bridges he's torched behind him, but when you look a little closer, yourealize that the most improbable thing here isn't the opportunities, but rather Straczynski's relentless, singleminded determination to seize them, writing (for example) entire seasons of his TV shows when the studios' dumb mistakes leave them shorthanded.

Equally vivid is Straczynski's imposter syndrome, depicted with a brutal and commendable honesty, woven into the trauma of his family life (which never ends, as Straczynski frets about the sisters who have remained in range of his father's abuse, and endures the letters his father forces his mother to write).

Taken together, this makes for a memoir like no other, a terrifying and exhilarating ride between trauma and triumph, with stops for dark family secrets and touching acts of friendship and loyalty, commitment to principle and a love of the writerly arts.

It's an incredible


Donis Avdijaj in action for Schalke against Red Bull Salzburg in a Europa League clash

Hearts have been linked with a move for Trabzonspor forward Donis Avdijaj. Here's a quick lowdown on the 23-year-old...

Previous clubs

Avdijaj began his career with Schalke in Germany, scoring 59 goals in 53 games for the club's Under-17s and registering 15 assists, before continuing his form with 17 in 24 for the Under-19s. His numbers earned him a call-up to the senior squad and was an unused substitute in a UEFA Champions League group stage clash against Chelsea in September 2014.

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Amid reported interest from Liverpool,Schalke added a £41 million release clause to his contract. In January 2015 he joined Sturm Graz, signing an 18-month loan deal.

He played 45 times for the Austrians, netting 13 goals and laying on 11 for his team-mates. He was played mostly as a left-midfielder but occasionally deployed as an attacking midfielder or second striker.

Roda JC took Avdijaj on loan in January 2018, and he struck four goals in 14 appearances. Seven months later he joined fellow Dutch side Willem II, signing a one-year deal with the option of a second year. His initial form for the Tilburg side was impressive, and on top of eight goals he added eight assists in 18 games.

Christmas incident, Willem II exit and joining Trabzonspor

He left the club by mutual agreement in


March 2019. Reports in German publication Kicker suggested that, after failing to reach peak fitness and following an incident shortly before Christmas 2018 with three team-mates, he was suspended and eventually agreed to an exit.

Advijaj claimed in a December 2018 interview that he had had offers from a host of top clubs including Juventus and Manchester United prior to signing his first professional contract with Schalke.

Advijaj told Goal magazine: “At that time, everybody wanted to be my friend. Everyone wanted to tell me what was best for me.

"When I was fifteen or sixteen years old, the big clubs were already trying to sign me and offered me millions. Before I signed for Schalke, I had offers from Juventus, Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool. Regardless of which match ortournament, scouts were always there to watch me.”

In July 2019 he signed a one-year deal with Super Lig side Trabzonspor, with the option of an additional three years. He has so far scored just once for the Turkish club, and has registered two assists.

Position

Ostensibly a left-winger, Avdijaj is capable of operating on either flank, in attacking midfield and as a second striker. However, the bulk of his goals for Schalke Under-17s in the U17-Bundesliga West league came from an attacking midfield position.

He was deployed as a centre-forward in 12 matches for the German club's Under-19s, scoring four and assisting three. At Trabzonspor he has been playing as a winger with nine appearances on the right flank and seven on the left, along with two as a second striker.

How


to pronounce his name

Adonis' surname is pronounced "Av-dij-eye".

International career

Born in Osnabruck in Germany's Lower Saxony region to Kosovo Albanian parents originating from Istok, Avdijaj represented Germany at Under-16, Under-17 and Under-19 level - scoring ten goals in 13 appearances for the Under-17s - before appearing to declare for Albania in March 2015.

In November 2016, he expressed an interest in playing for Kosovo. FIFA red tape prevented him from making an appearance in a 2018 World Cup qualifier, but he got the green light from the governing body in March 2017, debuting for the nation that same day in another World Cup qualifier against Iceland.much more than typical CGI-ridden Ritalin for the kids, but he was surprised how much the film left him enthralled. Ever since then, he has made a number of comments about the film, complimenting it extensively, which started making the news cycles. It was immediately assumed that Pacino might be circling a role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe; likely for thesequel. As the actor told Deadline last September Pacino would qualify his contented critique by expressing his desire to know where he could potentially fit in the MCU picture, especially given his age and vastly dramatic repertoire.However, as strong as his enthusiasm as a fan has been for, the idea of his potential involvement in a Marvel project had mostly seemed rather wishy-washy. At least, it did, until


Four years on: the impact of the National Service Framework for Older People on the experiences, expectations and views of older people.
Evaluation of the impact of the National Service Framework for Older People (NSFOP) on the experiences and expectations of older people, 4 years into its 10 year programme. the NSFOP is a comprehensive strategy designed to promote fair, high quality, integrated health and social care services for older people in England. It emphasises (i) the need for services to support independence and promote health, (ii) the specialisation of services for key conditions (stroke, falls and mental illness) and (iii) advocates a cultural change in services so that the older people and their carers are treated with respect, dignity and fairness. It has a 10-year timetable for implementation,starting in 2001. A mixed methods approach to evaluation was taken in ten purposively selected localities in England. A portfolio of methods (listening events, nominal groups and interviews) was used with older people and carers to focus on processes as well as on outcomes and to allow for the possibility of conflicting or differing judgements about service quality. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine people participated in public listening events, 1,639 took part in nominal groups and 120 were interviewed individually. The existence of the NSFOP was not widely known beyond the NSFOP local implementation teams and voluntary sector activists. Many, but not all older people, identified themselves as members of a group that was subject to age prejudice that altered the quality and standard of their care.


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Two New Catalyst Game Labs Casual Games…Just In Time For The Holidays

Catalyst Game Labs is starting to roll out its new casual game line. Unlike the intense, large-scale games of BattleTech, Shadowrun, Eclipse Phase or CthulhuTech, Catalyst casual games are easy to learn, easy to play games with lots of great re-playability.

Ergo taps into the philosophy geek in all of us, with players attempting to prove their existence while disproving the other player’s existence through classic philosophical rules of logic. Minutes to learn the rules, yet mastery only comes to the smartest players. Ergo comes with 55 cards and a fold-out rules sheet in a beautiful metal tin.

Poo: The Card Game taps into the little kid in all ofAfter the release of the last album “stories of life, love and loss” we have been focusing on spreading the word and playing a couple of gigs in England and Germany, so there was little news about new songs.

Not anymore!

Being friends for quite a long time, the guys teamed up with fellow musician and Bagpipe player Tam Stewart already at the album release, which was a blast and lifted the roof of the ”Dolphin” (check out the pics on the website- what a night..). After joining in on another gig, the guys thought about doing a song together, and the first one is done.
After a couple of sessions, “The Gael” has aired out for the very first time at our friends of “Schottenradio”, in a nice special show


Metropolis Office LeadsCentral London Office Lettings – Feb 2018

Central London office lettings in February 2018 reached just over 1m sq ft of deals from 50 mid-large size transactions (5,000 sq ft+) during the month. The February 2018 figure is in line with the current monthly average of 1m sq ft.

Financial Services topped the table of lettings by sector, underpinned by Sumitomo and Prudential deals. This was followed by professional services mainly underpinned by the signing of the Sidley Austin pre-let. Office deals ‘under offer’ in central London stayed at 3.5m sq ft, but pending deal volumes are healthy in nearly all sub-markets, with over 30 deals pending.

By area, the City accounted for 50pc of the office floorspace let in February 2018 at 501,000 sq ft. The West Endwear occurs. For this purpose, the laying or launching vehicles have pairs of support rolls which cooperate with corresponding running surfaces on the bridge and enable the movement of the bridge. Moreover, motors and gear boxes are provided in order to set the bridge in motion. Finally, devices are provided on the transport and launching vehicles which enable coupling of the bridge disassembled during transport.
DE 40 09 354 A discloses a launching system, substantially comprised of a launching vehicle, an advancing frame, a laying arm, and an auxiliary arm, for a demountable track support bridge with a cantilever support arranged between the side girders. The individual bridge sections are coupled during assembly. The two sections of the track support, provided in each bridge section, and the section of


surfaces for the support rolls of the laying device.
According to a preferred embodiment, the pin wheel is arranged to be protected in a recess within the hat-shaped profile.
Preferably, the transverse pipes in the ramps and the transverse beams on the advancing support are in the form of square pipes.
On the longitudinal ramp edge facing the central gap a guard rail can be provided. It provides a guiding function particularly for smaller vehicles. When eliminating a guard rail also on the outer edges of the ramps, cleaning of the bridge surface can be substantially simplified.
Advantageously, the ramps are comprised of a U-shaped profile open downwardly wherein the tapered ends of the ramps are closed at the bottom. As a result of the downwardly open configuration, the required torsional yieldinga transport pallet. The transport pallet can then be transported with the laying device and the disassembled bridge without special adaptation by means of any aircraft, rail vehicle, water craft and/or land craft.
According to one embodiment, the transport pallet has a pallet frame comprised of two longitudinal supports and two transverse supports, a forwardly attached support with a hook receptacle for connecting to the transport vehicle, holders for the cable drum, and guides for the track support positioned on top.
Advantageously, the transverse support carry the transverse transporter which, in turn, supports and moves the ramps.
Advantageously, the transport pallet is a steel construction.
Moreover, the transport pallet comprises a diesel-electric-hydraulic apparatus, the hydraulic device, the electric control, the expanding cylinders, and/or the support legs with the correlated support cylinders.
Advantageously, the


smoke that can remain on walls and other surfaces for long periods of time. "There have been studies that show thirdhand smoke can be every bit as dangerous as smoking or secondhand smoke. It can re-emit to the air from the floor, from carpeting and from walls."

With that in mind, he says, "we realized that since we're kind of considered the capital of marijuana, what better place to develop a paint to address this problem than here?"

OdorDefender isn't meant to mask only the smell of marijuana. Heronema groups cannabis with tobacco smoke and fire, and points out that the product is also intended to protect against "pet odors, which I'm defining as cat urine, and other indoor pet pollutants."

Still, marijuana smells are front and center, as seen inof the Portuguese occupation regime. Before long, more than 90 percent of the natives had been wiped out.

As the years passed, a colorful array of additional Portuguese settlers duly arrived — traders, slave-dealers, Jesuit missionaries and more. The discovery of gold in the Minas Gerais region in 1693 was a cause for considerable excitement — except, that is, among the locals, who soon found their native lands overrun by hordes of speculator-settlers and all the unpleasantries that accompany a rapacious gold rush. The occupiers were not inclined to give the tribesmen a vote on any of that, of course.

Brazil’s surviving indigenous tribes today number only about 800,000, in a nation of more than 200 million settler-descendants. Sadly, the legacy of settler violence persists. Just last month, Amnesty International


Nissan has eye on hulking Titan pick-up for Australia

The big brother of the Navara ute has only been built in left-hand drive and focussed on the USA, but Nissan has hatched a global expansion plan that is intended to put it into many more of the 133 countries where the Navara is already sold.

Australia is a clear target for Nissan and the right-hand drive ambition is confirmed by the head of light-commercial vehicle operations for the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Ashwani Gupta, speaking after the Tokyo Motor Show late last year and this week at the launch of the Series 3 Navara at Victoria's Yarra Valley.

"Truck lovers love trucks. We are studying the expansion of the Titan full-sized pick-up in other markets outside the US," said Gupta.

He confirms that Australiaare the fastest growing pick-up brand in the world."

Nissan's benchmark is the Navara, which has just been spun off into the Mercedes-Benz X-Class and will soon become the Renault Alaskan, while Mitsubishi relies on the Triton.

The Titan sits well above the one-tonne utes that sell so well in Australia, in a space where limited numbers of the Dodge Ram - converted by Walkinshaw automotive in a partnership with Ateco called American Special Vehicles - are currently the only mainstream choice.

Nissan believes there is a definite opportunity in Australia, despite the Titan program being in its early stages.

"When you have a passion for a one-tonne ute you also have a passion for a full-sized pick-up," Gupta said.

But he is light on detail and said nothing is confirmed, either on


MOTORCYCLING: Easy does it, Tommy

Tommy Bridewell will compete in the first round of the new British Superbikes season this weekend

TOMMY Bridewell says that he won’t be throwing caution to the wind as he challenges for the British Superbikes Championship (BSB) title this season.

The Etchilhampton star hits the asphalt this weekend as the new campaign gets under way at Brands Hatch, with the 25-year-old aiming to stick with Milwaukee Yamaha after featuring for three different teams last season.

Bridewell, who secured an impressive three podium finishes from his first four races with Milwaukee last year, believes that he has what it takes to claim the BSB crown but insists that he’ll resist the temptation to come out all guns blazing during the opening round.

“I’m looking forward to the season gettingThe Sinking Ship The Grand Applause

"The Sinking Ship The Grand Applause" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season and 81st episode overall from the Fox series Gotham. The show is itself based on the characters created by DC Comics set in the Batman mythology. The episode was written by Seth Boston and directed by Nick Copus. It was first broadcast on March 22, 2018.

In the episode, Gordon and Bullock are intent on finding Cobblepot's accountant, who may have information regarding Sofia. With the conflict between Cobblepot and Sofia arising, Cobblepot is trying to form alliances to win the war but Nygma gets stuck in the conflict. Meanwhile, Bruce helps Selina with a debt of her while Barbara begins suffering the effect of the Lazarus Pit.

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Pros and cons of a credit society;

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THE PROS AND CONS OF A CREDIT SOCIETY
by CYNTHIA CARLSON/Assistant Editor
Without credit, hardly anybody would be able to buy a
house, Detroit would become a ghost town, and millions of
Americans would have to do without televisions, ranges,
and refrigerators. Most of the people now employed in
making the products sold on credit would be unemployed,
and most of the people now working for those
companies' suppliers would be out of jobs, too. —The
Credit Jungle, by Al Griffin, a specialist in consumer credit.
Part of the American way of life since colonial times, when
farmers borrowed against crops at the general store,
consumer credit is more widely used in the United States
than in any other major country in the world. Of 70 million
families in the US, about half owe sometook a foothold at the start of the twentieth century
when a few hotels began to issue them to regular patrons.
By 1914, large department stores and chains of gas stations
were using them. During the 1950s and '60s, airlines, phone
companies, and car rental firms followed suit. Along with
this came the concept of the third-party credit card.
Today there are enough credit cards in circulation to
provide one for every person in the United States. William
Dunkelberg estimates that more than half a billion cards for
credit, charges, or cash transfers are in use in the US,
accounting for at least $120 billion in transactions each year.
One or both of the two major bank cards—Master
Charge and BankAmericard—can be found in about one-third
of all households. It has been estimated that at the
beginning of the 1970s, there were


Florida. We reverse because we find that the facts support jurisdiction in Florida over the claim.
Claimant has been continuously employed by United Airlines as a flight attendant since 1969. Although claimant's employment contract was entered into in Chicago, Illinois, she has always been based in Miami, Florida, and is assigned to *135 domestic flights which originate in Florida, fly out of this state, and then return to Florida. Such flights often include an overnight layover in another state. Her usual schedule has required her to work three days during the week, with four days off which she spends at her home in Florida. Her work is supervised from Miami, she checks in to work in Miami, and she receives her paychecks in Miami.
Claimant was injured in 1981 whileNew York's Juan Arango, Minnesota's Christian Ramirez, and Rayo OKC's Michel shined in Week 16

In Week 16, the Fall Season title was clinched by the New York Cosmos, while Minnesota United and Rayo OKC improved their stock in the postseason race. All three received performances from players that scored two goals in a game. New York's Juan Arango, Minnesota's Christian Ramirez, and Rayo OKC's Michel, who also scored an additional goal in a midweek win, found the target twice during the weekend in key wins.

Here is the full list of top performers from last week:

GK: Jon Busch (Indy Eleven) – The veteran shot-stopper kept a pair of clean sheets as Indy Eleven picked up four points in Week 16. Busch made five saves in the scoreless draw with


Jacksonville Armada FC in a midweek game before stopping four shots in the 3-0 win over the Carolina RailHawks.

DEF: Marco Franco (Indy Eleven) – He helped Indy keep two clean sheets and provided two strong displays on the back line. Franco won 15 duels, won six tackles, and made four interceptions over the two games. He was also involved in the build-up of the first goal.

DEF: Damion Lowe (Minnesota United) – The young center back helped marshal the back line as the Loons earned a 3-1 win over FC Edmonton. He won all four of his tackle attempts and won nine of his 12 duels. He also made four clearances and two interceptions.

DEF: Julius James (Fort Lauderdale Strikers) – He featured in a pair of clean sheets forthe Strikers that kept the side in the postseason race. James made nine interceptions as well as winning 10 duels and six tackles over the course of the the Strikers' 1-0 win over FC Edmonton in a midweek game and 2-0 win against Puerto Rico FC.

MID: Juan Arango (New York Cosmos) – The Venezuelan star scored on a pair of free kicks late in the game against Jacksonville Armada FC. The goals helped the Cosmos earn a 4-2 win, but more importantly the Fall Season title and No. 1 seed in The Championship, the league's four-team postseason tournament.

MID: Michel (Rayo OKC) – The veteran stepped up when it mattered most to lead Rayo OKC to a pair of important wins in Week 16. He found the back of


the net as time was winding down in the 1-0 win over the Carolina RailHawks during a midweek matchup. He then scored two more goals as Rayo OKC earned a 3-1 win over Ottawa Fury FC. Michel’s efforts also netted him Player of the Week honors.

MID: Geison Moura (Fort Lauderdale Strikers) – He found the back of the net in the first half for the only goal in a win over FC Edmonton. Moura then followed that up with the first goal – and eventual game-winner – in the win over Puerto Rico.

MID: Yohandry Orozco (New York Cosmos) – The Venezuelan international scored the Cosmos’ opening goal in the win and was also active in the attack. He created two other scoring chances for his teammates.

FWD: Billy Forbes(Rayo OKC) – The Turks and Caicos international was devastating in the attack in Rayo OKC’s win over Ottawa Fury FC. Forbes scored the club’s second goal in the victory and then later used nifty footwork to set up Michel’s second goal of the game.

FWD: Jaime Chavez (Miami FC) – He scored a highlight-reel goal and then also provided an assist as Miami FC played to the 2-2 draw with the Tampa Bay Rowdies.

FWD: Christian Ramirez (Minnesota United) – The league’s top scorer returned from a one-game absence due to injury and boosted his goalscoring tally with a pair of goals. Ramirez now has 18 goals with the double in the win over FC Edmonton. He was also involved in Minnesota’s third goal.


blatant violations of civil liberties, human rights, and US Constitutional rights, whenever a poor hapless litigant in any State Court finds himself surrounded by thoroughly corrupted state court judges, their law clerks, court appointed expert witnesses, state employees and prosecutors, or any other state-oriented governmental employees, who often work hand in hand with organized crime elements operating within the city or state where the grievance takes place.

The sad reality of most state courts and their judges in the United States is that most of them are ill-equipped or poorly versed, either purposefully or not, about the US Constitution or the law in general, that they often make decisions from the hip, without sound legal reasoning or a full appreciation of the legislative or historical intent of the statutesemployees who are predictably outraged and angered by the fact that the case was removed or appealed by the abused litigant to the federal court in the first place.

Since American law and jurisprudence has gradually devolved into a Talmudic-style body of law over the last hundred years, and further away from the US Constitution, ever since the placement of Louis Brandeis onto the US Supreme Court aided by his minions and followers in the federal and state courts throughout the United States, mostly in the urban and progressive states and locales in America, such as New York, California, Florida, Washington DC and to some extent, Chicago and Texas, the result is even more troublesome considering that any judge, can often find any reason to either incarcerate or destroy


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Our membersTrading sexual favors for discounts on rent, all under the threat of eviction, are just some of the sexual harassment allegations against a Spring Valley landlord.

NBC 7 talked to two women who told very similar stories alleging Larry Nelson, a Spring Valley resident, found them through Section 8 housing or would appear when they had nowhere else to go. He was a landlord answering their prayers with a vacancy in a Spring Valley apartment complex.

Nelson owns two Spring Valley properties listed in the lawsuit complaint – one at 832 Grand Avenue and the other at 9200 Harness Street.

The Department of Justice said Nelson was no hero, but rather a predator sexually exploiting his female tenants for almost 15 years.

In exchange for sex or sexual favors, prosecutors allege Nelson


women, probably outweigh the benefit.

In 2002, the USPSTF decided the risks of estrogen plus progestin outweighed likely benefits for preventing chronic conditions. The task force recommended against routine, long-term HRT use. It followed with a similar recommendation in 2005 for unopposed estrogen.

Although the recommendations did not address short-term use to relieve menopause symptoms, many physicians and their patients took them to mean that HRT was too dangerous for any purpose.

Since the previous USPSTF recommendations were published, many more studies of hormone therapy have appeared. The group decided it was time for an update and commissioned Nelson and colleagues to review the recent research from 2002 to 2011.

In particular, the researchers focused on randomized, placebo-controlled studies of menopausal HRT that evaluated primary prevention of conditions such as cardiovascular disease,two main WHI trials, for example -- the subgroup analyses were "limited and inconclusive," Nelson and colleagues wrote.

The analysis as a whole had several limitations, the researchers noted. Most outcomes of interest were reported in no more than two trials. Low retention and adherence to protocols were problems in most of the trials.

In addition, the vast majority of trial participants were in their 60s, limiting applicability to women in menopause or immediately postmenopausal. Also, most of the trials used oral conjugated equine estrogens, raising questions about the effects of estrogens from other sources and delivered in other ways, such as transdermally.

No timetable was given for release of the updated USPSTF recommendations.

The review was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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A probation search by Kern County Sheriff''s deputies led to the discovery of numerous items believed stolen from Occidental of Elk Hills.

The items were found in Derby Acres, and a Derby Acres man has been charged with possession of stolen property.

Sgt. Martin Downs said deputies went to the home at 23354 Arnold Avenue on Jan. 29 to conduct a search on William Jones, 34, who was on probation for a June 2012 for two counts of possession of stolen property.

Jones was sentenced to 120 days in jail and placed on probation for 3 years.

He was not at home when deputies arrived, but they did notice 55-gallon drums and items that could be used to syphon fuel, Downs said.

Deputies returned the next day to search and found galvanized roofingmateriel that matched the description of items stolen from an Oxy lease, Downs said. An Oxy representative was called to the scene and identified the materiel as that taken in ta recent theft.

More items were found, Downs said, including wire, electric lights, a large spool of wire, and other items, some of which were linked to the Oxy theft.

Jones was arrested on another charge of possession of stolen property.


was attacked near Artashat, 30 kilometres south of Yerevan, on Saturday, according to Azatutyun. Police at the scene did nothing to prevent the attack, despite Hakobian calling for help, Azatutyun reported.

In a separate incident, a producer for Azatutyun was reportedly beaten up by police officers in Yerevan on Saturday night. According to Azatutyun, Anatoly Yeghiazarian was pushed to the ground, punched, and kicked by police as he attempted to film them on his phone, despite showing them his press credentials.

EVN Report's managing editor, Roubina Margossian was injured on Sunday after a stun grenade landed near her, according to them.

Constitutional reforms

Serzh Sargsyan stepped down as President on 9 April as part of ongoing constitutional reforms to change the government from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system.

Having previously played downsuggestions he would run again for political office, Sargsyan announced on 11 April that he would seek the position of Prime Minister, now the most powerful post in the country. On 17 April, he was sworn in as PM by Armenia’s parliament, the National Assembly.

Protests loosely organised around the slogan ‘No to Serzh’, have been held since March, with thousands coming out into the streets daily since 13 April, in what Pashinyan has called a ‘velvet revolution’.


Michel Jobert

Michel Jobert (11 September 1921 – 25 May 2002) was a French politician of the left-wing Gaullist orientation. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou, and as Minister of External Commerce under François Mitterrand.

His tenure was marked, in part, by tense relations with the United States as he pursued French independence in the sphere of foreign relations. This policy at one point led a frustrated Henry Kissinger to call him "an idiot" and a "bad" foreign minister. Jobert died on 25 May 2002 in Paris, aged 80.

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Category:People from MeknesSchwarzman is furious over looming plans on Capitol Hill to jack up taxes that private-equity firms generate from buying and selling companies. Known as “carried interest,” those profits are currently taxed at 15 percent, but could be dialed up to a 35 percent tax rate — a move that could strip private equity of billions in cash.

Sources said that Schwarzman feels as though Obama has taken a tough stance against Wall Street firms, contributing to an us-vs.-them mentality. At the same time, Obama is taking campaign contributions from some of the same firms that he has been vilifying.

Known for being outspoken, Schwarzman is no complete stranger to verbal gaffes.

He also ignited a controversy last year, when he made another World War II reference. At that time, he compared


and Michael Jackson,” he says.

A turning point in his musical evolution was when he started to listen to hip-hop and other types of black music in 1988. “I’ve liked black music ever since then,” says Hasebe, “Dance, disco, funk, jazz — all kinds.” Then, deciding that hip-hop offered a wealth of creative possibilities, he went out and bought a turntable and mixer and started to make his own music.

Besides, it beat working at a golf-course management office, which he’d tried for about six months after graduating from high school.

Leaving the links behind, he moved to Tokyo at 19 and was soon caught up in the city’s incredibly active club-music scene. He started working as a DJ at a number of clubs and quickly developed a reputation as oneof Tokyo’s best turntable men.

In 1993, Hasebe organized and presented a hip-hop party called Fat Rat at the then-trendy Tokyo club, Gold, which cemented his status as a scenemeister supreme and helped boost the popularity of hardcore hip-hop in Japan.

After that event, Hasebe made his recording debut with a cassette tape of his mixes, simply titled, “DJ Hasebe #1,” which sold well through specialty stores such as Cisco in Shibuya.

However, his big break came in 1996, when he released “Ice Pick,” his first vinyl single (and his first original composition), which featured Japanese rappers Zeebra and Mummy-D. It also proved a hit with Tokyo club-music fans and was soon released on CD.

Another crucial point in his career was his meeting that year with vocalist Aiko, better known under


And now, nearly a year later, the jazzy singer is finally ready to show fans who she really is with "Free," the first single off her debut album, Listen Up!

"It's amazing," Reinhart told MTV News Wednesday (March 28) of the release of her single. "I know I took some time after the tour just to make things work and really worth it for me and the fans. It feels amazing to actually put it out there, my own material. I just wanted to make sure it had substance to it, and really could define me and show the artistry."

Reinhart, who returned to the "Idol" stage last week to perform "Free," says it's the perfect song to define the artist she's striving to be.

"I picked it out while Ifriendly fire if it was intended to hit an enemy.

Chosen answer:Probably in Washington. He rejoined active duty in 1940, was assigned to consult with industry re aircraft manufacture; also a trip to England on special mission to evaluate other countries' air power. He requested a return to flying status but was refused. He then was asked to assess feasablity of a air attack on Japan from carrier based planes, and when he asked to lead the mission his request was accepted.

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part by the success of the Soviet Union in transforming itself from one of the poorest and least developed countries in Europe into a global superpower in the space of a generation. A viable alternative seemed within grasp.

The counterrevolutions in Russia and Eastern Europe were driven by the widespread sense that the existing economic structures were not delivering the consumer goods and relative freedoms available to citizens of the capitalist West, which was the basis for the legitimation crises that engulfed the region. But key to the success of the project of capitalist restoration was the existence of legions of western “advisors” well schooled in the resurgent neoliberal ideology, which came to prevail in the West during the 1980s, and which contained clear prescriptions—privatization, marketization, and deregulation—for institutionalHow is it structured? How, if at all, made democratic?

The planning of investment is a vital feature of Economic Democracy. Unlike the problematic “central planning” of the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European counterparts, which attempted to set prices for all commodities as well as quotas for their production and the appropriate allocation of resources so as to fulfill the planning goals, Economic Democracy focuses on the strategic part of the economy—the allocation of the economic surplus, the new investments that will shape the future of the society. Long-term goals are set by elected legislatures at various levels. Investment funds are allocated so as to promote these strategic goals.

Projects that are national in scope are determined by the national legislature and the necessary funds are set aside


Public and cooperative banks have played an important role in the German economy. A decisive component of Mondragon’s extraordinary success has been investment allocation by its cooperative bank, the Caja Laboral. In the United States, the Bank of North Dakota, (the nation’s only public bank) has been thriving for a century, and was notably resilient during the financial meltdown of 2008.

(b) Are there other models that you see yourself aligned with or close to yours?

A fundamental inspiration for the model, some variant of which I’ve been advocating for most of my academic career, was Cornell economist Jaroslav Vanek’s The Labor-Managed Economy, which sets out and mathematically models an economy structured much like Economic Democracy. The model advocated by Tom Malleson in his After Occupy: Economic Democracy for theis there. Stand up, Coach. Guys, he should have took me home the day I walked in. I was hell on wheels.

I'd like to also thank the Wendorfs. The Wendorf brothers, you're greatest friends. And guys, I had the greatest coach ever, Bill Walsh. He's a Hall of Famer, but, guys, he was more to me. He followed me my whole career. I used to go to Stanford while he was the head coach. He would stop and come over to listen to me whine, and, guys, at that moment where I didn't know whether to stay or go, he would not help me make that decision. I'm still mad at him about that, but I'm going to get over that.

But two days before he died he called


Four in 10 over-50s expect to work until 70 or older due to insufficient pension savings and lingering debt, says Aviva

Millions of workers in their 50s have been forced to postpone their retirement by eight years due to a lack of pension savings and high levels of debt, according to a report from Aviva.

Forty per cent of people in their 50s expect to work until 70 or older, the insurer found. In a sign that the days of early retirement – in the private sector at least – are over, only 5% said they were financially capable of retiring in their 50s.

Aviva, one of Britain’s biggest pension providers, interviewed 500 companies and 2,000 employees. It said: “More than one in three (36%) private sector employees aged 50 andprepared for an ageing workforce who cannot retire because of financial pressures, according to the report. Less than one in five small or mid-sized firms said they had plans in place to cope with older workers.

Compared with 2013, when Aviva previously polled businesses on these questions, companies and employees are more confident about the UK’s economic outlook.

Three years ago, 45% of companies said they were underconfident about the economic outlook, and only 25% were favourable. But the figures have now switched to 40% confident and only 19% underconfident.


were carried into space on a Thursday morning not aware they wouldn't be coming home.

"The Lord has blessed us with a beautiful day here," mission commander Rick Husband radioed to launch director Mike Leinbach just before liftoff. "We appreciate all of the hard work everyone has put into this, and we are ready to go."

The day of the launch was a celebration and a day of firsts. Astronaut Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli ever to travel into space, and the mission itself was to be the first of six planned for 2003 after two years of working through delays to get the program off the ground.

The date was Jan. 16, 2003. Sixteen days later the shuttle program's 113th mission overall would end in tragedy as the orbiterdisintegrated upon re-entry on early Saturday morning Feb. 1 killing all aboard.

As debris fell to the earth across the state of Texas, NASA scrambled to contain the situation and figure out the cause of the shuttle malfunction. Much of the nation remained focused on the lives of the five men and two women that had been lost as a result.

Months later, investigators would determine that the cause of destruction was a chunk of insulating foam that had broken off from the shuttle’s external tank and hit the left wing during the launch, allowing superheated gases from the Earth’s atmosphere to permeate the wing and depressurizing the cabin upon re-entry.

The Columbia was the shuttle program's first orbiter, launching for the first time April 12, 1981. STS-107 was its 28th


mission over nearly 22 years orbiting the Earth 4,808 times traveling more than 125 million miles and spending more than 300 days in space. Columbia carried 160 astronauts over its career including John Young, Charles Boldin, Shannon Lucid, Story Musgrave, Eileen Collins and Sen. Bill Nelson.

Columbia joined Challenger as the second disaster in the program's history, both of which took the lives of seven astronauts.

On the 10-year anniversary of the tragedy, what memories do you have of Columbia? Share them in the comments below.This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.

DRAPER — In a fit of road rage, a drunken man chased a car while brandishing a sword and snow shovel before spitting at police when they took him into custody Saturday, according to jail records.

Early Saturday morning, the man became embroiled in "a road rage incident" on Pioneer Road in Draper, according to jail records. He then followed the other car involved in the incident to the driver’s workplace on Fort Street and confronted the person inside the car, attempting to punch them through the window.

He missed