sending him on a mission to confront the greatest taghut of the times, Fir'awn. Musa admitted to his Lord that he was afraid (20:45), but Allah reassured him that he had nothing to fear. He went to Fir'awn, spoke to his face, delivered the message clearly (7:103-105, 20:47-56, and 26:10-28), then secretly led the Muslims out of slavery and out of Egypt. When they reached the dead-end at the seacoast and saw Fir'awn's army closing in on them, Musa's companions fearfully exclaimed: "We are going to be overtaken!" (26:61) Notice how Musa had developed, as it was now him doing the reassuring: "No! Rather, my Lord is definitely with me and will guide me." Sure enough, the sea miraculously split before their eyes, and Musa led them through.Fir'awn and his military tried to follow them through the sea, but were instead drowned into an eternity in Hellfire. Musa finally made it safely across the sea, back to the Sinai (where, ironically, 700 American soldiers are currently based).

* Generations later, one of Hajar's Arab descendents (peace be upon him) turned to his Companions and said: "You will conquer Egypt." This is an authentic hadith of the Prophet, in which he then said: "When you conquer it, treat its people well, as they have a right of protection and kinship." The kinship here is the ancestral tie to Egypt through Hajar. Egypt was at the time a province of the eastern wing of the Roman Empire. A decade later, 'Amr bin al-'As showed up and brought it


under the khilafah of 'Umar. The jizyah was paid, and the very first mosque on the African mainland was built near Cairo, at the apex of the triangle formed by the Nile Delta. Egypt soon became one of the strongest centers of Islamic knowledge - a hub for scholars and worshippers. 'Uqbah bin 'Amir was the Companion who had the most influence on Egypt in terms of knowledge, and Egyptians loved him and learned much of the Sunnah from him. It also became one of the most favored bases for the Mujahidin of the Salaf. The great Imam al-A'raj (the close companion of Abu Hurayrah) said: "The best coastline at which to perform Ribat is that of Alexandria," and Sufyan bin 'Uyaynah once said regarding Alexandria: "It isthe quiver of Allah in which He places His best arrows."

* Generations later, Egypt found itself in the grip of the pagan Fatimid dynasty. It was none other than Salah ad-Din al-Ayyubi who came in from Syria to put an end to their rule, returning Egypt to the fold of the khilafah. It returned to being a center of knowledge for the Muslim world - for example, Ibn Kathir mentions that Salah ad-Din himself once travelled from his home in Cairo all the way to Alexandria to visit the scholars there and study with them the 'Muwatta'' of Imam Malik. It also returned to being a base for the Mujahidin - it was from Egypt that Salah ad-Din set out with his army for a series of expeditions


against the Crusaders, which he began by shattering their forces at Hittin (ironically, on the 4th of July, 1187), continued by retaking the cities of Acre, Tyre, Beirut, Sidon, Nazareth, Nablus, and Ashqelon (all within a three month period), and ended by dealing them the ultimate blow: taking back Jerusalem after they'd occupied it for 88 years. Egypt was now considered the champion of the Muslim world against the Crusaders.

* When Richard the Lionheart set out for the third Crusade three years later (1190), he considered capturing Egypt in order to break Muslim power before trying to retake Jerusalem. By the time of the fifth Crusade (1217), this became official strategy. King Andrew departed from Hungary and set out for Egypt at the head of a coalition whichincluded French, German, and Italian Crusaders. They landed at the city of Dimyat, and faced a Muslim force that was so weak that, according to Ibn Kathir, "they at times even offered to return Jerusalem to the Crusaders, as well as all of the coastal cities that Salah ad-Din had taken back, in exchange for their withdrawal from Dimyat. The Crusaders refused to do this. Allah then Willed for their supplies to run out. Supply ships were sent to replenish them, but these ships were overtaken by the forces of the water (i.e. the Nile's floods), which then flooded Dimyat from every side. The Crusaders lost control of their own forces, and the Muslims laid siege to them until they squeezed them to the tightest parts of the


city. At that point, they were inclined to unconditionally surrender." Had they agreed to the initial offer, the Crusaders might have gotten Jerusalem. But in the end, they were kicked out of Egypt and returned to Europe with nothing.

* Thirty years later (1249), the French again headed towards Egypt for the sixth Crusade. Again, they arrived at and quickly took Dimyat, followed by the nearby city of al-Mansurah. And again, the tables would soon turn against them. Ibn Kathir wrote that "on Wednesday, the third of Muharram, the great commander Turanshah shattered the Crusaders at the frontlines of Dimyat, and killed 30,000 of them. Some say he killed 100,000. They also acquired plenty of war spoils, thanks to Allah." He then mentioned a striking detail: "Those who weretaken prisoner included the French king and his brother" - Louis IX! King Louis was detained at the Dar Ibn Luqman prison in al-Mansurah. Chains were put on his legs, and he was held until he was able to pay a hefty ransom. Only then was he allowed to leave Egypt and return to France in humiliation. Louis was traumatized by this defeat even twenty years later, when he set out from France for yet another Crusade (1270). But this, too, would end in failure. Soon after he landed at the northern coast of Africa, a plague spread through his army which killed him.

* While Egypt was being invaded by Crusaders from the West, it was simultaneously facing an even more brutal threat from the East. The Mongols


were at this time in the middle of expanding what was to become the biggest land empire in history, and they were the most savage conquerors in history. The specialty of the Mongols was siege warfare. Ibn Kathir said that "they killed so many Muslims and non-Muslims, in so many lands - old and young - that they cannot be ennumerated. In general, they wouldn't enter a land except that they killed every fighter and man in it, and many of its women and children. They plundered what they needed, and burned what they didn't need. They would even pile up the silk that they couldn't carry with them and set fire to it, watching as it went up in flames. They would ruin homes, and would burna city and faced a hundred men, not a single one would step forward to face him. He would then proceed to kill these men, one by one, until he had killed them all, and none of them would raise a finger to defend himself. He would then plunder the entire area by himself. One of their women even dressed up as a man, entered a home, and killed everyone in the home by herself."

They had so completely destroyed everything in their path that it was said that a horseman could ride long distances behind them and not stumble over anything. As we know, this path of destruction soon reached Baghdad. Baghdad was significant because it was at the time the capital of the Islamic state, and the


seat of the khilafah. Ibn Kathir said: "People differed over how many Muslims they killed in Baghdad. Some said 800,000. Others said 1,800,000. Others said the number of killed reached two million." In any case, once they entered, the Mongols went on killing in Baghdad for forty straight days. Ibn Kathir again: "At the end of those forty days, Baghdad was nothing more than ruins. Nobody, except for the rare exception, was seen walking anywhere. Dead bodies were piled up in the streets like small hills. Rain began to fall on them, and the bodies began to rot. The stench of rotting corpses began to permeate the city, to the point that the air itself was affected. A severe plague then emerged and spread, and the foul airmade its way to Syria. Many people died due to this air." The dead included Shaykh Muhi ad-Din Yusuf, son of the great scholar Ibn al-Jawzi. But more significantly, the khalifah al-Musta'sim had been executed by the Mongol leader Hulako. For the first time in the history of the Ummah, it had no khalifah.

The Mongols wanted to continue westward. So, they built bridges to cross the Euphrates River and made their way to the gates of Aleppo, Syria. Ibn Kathir described that "they laid siege to it for seven days, then gave its people a promise of security. They betrayed that promise, conquered the city, and killed so many of its people that none knows the numbers except Allah. They plundered their wealth, enslaved their women and children,


and did to them almost exactly what they had done to the people of Baghdad."

Here, Ibn Kathir mentioned that an individual by the name of Sayf ad-Din Qutuz once had a dream. Qutuz said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) in a dream, and he said to me: "You will rule the lands of Egypt, and you will break the Mongols." Qutuz had this dream when he was only a child. Indeed, when he grew into a man, he found himself ruling Egypt at the time the Mongols were right next door laying waste to Syria. Upon learning that their next intended stop was Egypt, he decided to go to them before they came to him. So, he gathered his troops in Egypt andset out for Syria to face the Mongols and teach them a lesson. On Friday, the 25th of Ramadan, Sayf ad-Din Qutuz confronted them at a place in Syria called 'Ayn Jalut. The fighting was extreme and intense. Qutuz was so brave that, as Ibn Kathir described, even when his horse was killed, he remained standing on foot in the middle of the battlefield. The other commanders later asked him: "Why didn't you just take someone else's horse? If the enemy saw you, you would've been killed, and Islam would have perished because of you!" He replied: "As for me, I would've gone straight to Paradise. As for Islam, it has a Lord Who will never abandon it." Qutuz and his army then began to "chase the Mongols,


killing them everywhere. They followed them into Aleppo, and some of them fled Damascus. This occurred on Sunday, the 27th of Ramadan, on the morning of the victory at 'Ayn Jalut that they had glad tidings of. The Muslims of Damascus began chasing the Mongols, killing and capturing them, reclaiming their wealth, and freeing those they had taken captive." The battle was over, and the Mongols were expelled from Syria.

After Sayf ad-Din Qutuz had put a stop to the Mongol expansion into the Muslim world, he turned around and headed back to Egypt.

* Over five hundred years later, the French were back, this time headed by Napoleon Bonaparte. From those who headed the fight to liberate Egypt from Napoleon's grasp was the governor of Alexandria, Muhammad Kurayyim. Buthe was eventually captured by the French and taken to a prison in Cairo. A ransom was demanded for him that was so high that it was impossible to pay. Napoleon then had him executed.

* While occupying Egypt, Napoleon had built a prison: the notorious Liman Turah. A little over a century and a half later, a frail, middle-aged man found himself in the depths of this prison. His body still scarred from the abuse by his torturers, the man sat up in his cell and began to write. The words which flowed from his pen over the following decade sitting in that prison changed the world outside its concrete walls, continued to do so through the following decades, and still do so today. That man was Sayyid


were all joined by the same pain: the pain of losing a loved one, whether a son, daughter, brother, or husband." The article then mentions four stories of Muslims who were killed by the secularists:

"...From the stories of this group which most affect those who hear it is the story of Umm 'Abd ar-Rahman, who let out a cry of joy upon seeing the body of her son, and kept repeating: "He was supposed to get married tomorrow! But we express joy for him today."" The article then details that her son's full name was 'Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad as-Sayyid, was 22 years old, and was to have his wedding the next day. His mother continued: "My son got his hair cut for his wedding, and when I askedhim why he was doing it so early, he replied: "O mother! I want to be ready for the wedding." When I pulled back his shroud to look at his face, I saw the beautiful face of a groom who was prepared to meet the Hur al-'Ayn."" His mother continued describing 'Abd ar-Rahman, saying that "he had memorized the entire Qur'an. He would break his fast at home each night in Ramadan - and had fasted the six days of Shawwal - then he we would go to the Nahdah Square or Rabi'ah. In his last phone call to me, he said: "Tell Dad that I'm on the way home. Don't lie to him and tell him that I'm already home just to reassure him."" Finally, she described


how she learned that he had been killed: "My friend's son - who was also the friend of 'Abd ar-Rahman - was killed there. So, I posted the news on Facebook. Suddenly, people began posting responses informing me that my son had also been killed.""

The article then shifts to another: "With her simple black village clothes, she frantically searched the bodies laid out on the floor of the mosque, while repeating in her village accent: "Where are you, 'Imad? Where did you go, my son? Where did you go and leave me all alone?" She is the mother of the 15-year-old child 'Imad Hamdi, from the province of Fayyum (southwest of Cairo). She was unable to identify which body was her son's due to the dozens of bodiesthat had been burned beyond recognition." The article continued: "Between her screams, she said: "He was camped out at Rabi'ah Square for the past month. He was the one supporting the family after I had separated from his father. In our last phone conversation, he said: "Take 100 pounds ($16) from the money I have saved up and spend it on the family."" 'Imad's mother was finally able to identify her son's body with much difficulty, as most of it had been charred. As she pointed him out, she described him as possessing beautiful manners and a sense of responsibility, and as being the one responsible for spending on the family.

As for Mahmud Muhammad 'Abbas, his sister Su'ad spoke of him between contained sobs, while congratulating his young


wife: "Mahmud graduated from law school in 2011, and worked for a real estate firm. His wedding was on ''Id, but I express my joy for him today because he will meet the Hur al-'Ayn."" She then described how she learned that he had been killed: "I called him on the phone, as I always did. I found a voice answering the phone, saying "The owner of this phone has been martyred." He had just sent us a text message two hours earlier saying that he was safe, except that a bullet had hit him in the head."" She continued: "My father died two months ago, but I feel like an orphan only now," adding that her brother wanted to become a martyr after the events of theRepublican Guard (soon after the coup), and that this feeling only intensified after several of his friends had become martyred at al-Minassah the previous month, in which many of the demonstrators at Rabi'ah al-'Adawiyyah were killed."

Finally, the article describes Ahmad Jum'ah, "a 34-year-old husband, and father of two daughters - one-month-old Hafsah and two-year-old 'A'ishah. He had gone to Rabi'ah the previous morning. His father said that he had found a picture of him on the Internet in which he was carrying a baby girl to safety to protect her from the gunfire, and another picture of him after he was martyred in which he had been shot. In none of these pictures had he been disfigured or burned. But when he went to claim his body at


the al-Iman Mosque, he found the body partially burned." The article ends with his father describing his son: "Ahmad never caused anyone to be angry with him. He was the one who would wash the bodies of the dead in our town."

For thousands of years, the land of Egypt has hosted such people, and it will continue to do so until the end of time. This is not mere speculation. Rather, in a lengthy hadith detailing the signs of the Hour reported in 'Sahih Muslim,' the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) described that when 'Isa bin Maryam returns at the end of time, Allah will send forth Ya'juj and Ma'juj. And He will tell 'Isa exactly where he should situate himself: "I have brought forth slavesdeveloping a vested relationship.”

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About the Author

Peter Moore

Peter Moore is Adjunct Professor of Supply Chain at Georgia College EMBA Program, Program Faculty at the Center for Executive Education at the University of Tennessee, and Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Peter writes from his home in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and can be reached at [email protected]

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No one need fearA wild third period saw a combined 5 goals between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Winnipeg Jets last night. It seemed as though every time the Jets would score, the Canes had an answer until Blake Wheeler scored his second of the night for Winnipeg with a little under five minutes remaining in the game. The Jets would hold on to win by a 4-3 final, dealing the Hurricanes their second consecutive loss in regulation.

The injury bug hit the Canes’ locker room hard. A defense that’s already missing the likes of Tim Gleason and Joni Pitkanen were dealt another blow when Jamie McBain went down against Montreal. With the shortage on the blue line, the Canes were forced to call up 19 year old Ryan Murphy from the


Bay’s loss against Boston last night, the Canes still hold a slim lead for the Southeast Division title. Winnipeg only sits 2 points outside of the coveted spot as well. As of right now, without the division lead, the Hurricanes, with 17 points, would be on the outside of the playoff picture looking in. The Canes play tomorrow night against the Bolts in Raleigh for a matchup of the two teams who currently lead the division. The Canes must find a way to overcome injuries and play a solid game in front of the home crowd to put some distance between themselves and Tampa.Laboratory restructuring in metropolitan Edmonton: a model for laboratory reorganization in Canada.
In 1994 the Alberta government acted to reduce to a decade-long deficit in the provincial budget with draconian reductions in the health, education and welfare expenditures. As a result, funding to Alberta clinical laboratories was to be reduced by approximately 40%. In response, the private and public laboratories in metropolitan Edmonton formed a unique alliance to provide laboratory testing in a more coordinated and efficient manner. Of the five metropolitan hospitals, only University of Alberta Hospital preserved its full service laboratory and its specialty reference testing. The other hospital laboratories were converted to rapid response laboratories with a merged private reference laboratory providing routine testing and support to the four hospitals, and far fewer outpatient collection facilities.


of War in the William Howard Taft Administration and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration.
 Candace C. Stimson (1869–1944), who helped administer the anti-tetanus serum around Europe during World War I with her father.

In a memorial written for Stimson after his death, Edward Lawrence Keyes (1843–1924) wrote about Stimson and his wife:

"Dr. Stimson impressed me as a man of very deep feeling which he kept under perfect restraint. He once drove me to Woodlawn Cemetery where he looked over his wife's grave. He spoke briefly but feelingly. I asked him how he ever survived such a loss. He replied, 'By years of constant, grinding work.'."

Stimson died on September 17, 1917 at Shinnecock Hills, New York.

References

External links
 Guide to the Lewis Atterbury Stimson, MD Papers at Weill CornellCrouch End Hill

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In this section

7. THE ABBEY OF CIRENCESTER

In the reign of Edward the Confessor there
was a collegiate church of secular canons at
Cirencester, (fn. 1) but it is impossible to write of its
origin with any certainty. When Christianity
was introduced into the province of the Hwiccas
in the middle of the seventh century, the Roman
city of Corinium still lay waste. (fn. 2) On the
authority of a manuscript, which cannot now be
traced, Collinson declared that the minster was
founded by Alwyn, a Saxon thane, in the reign
of King Egbert. (fn. 3) In the middle of the thirteenth
century the tradition of the monastery was that
it had been founded for three hundred years. (fn. 4)
The college was but slenderly endowed, possessing
in the reign of Edmund the Confessor, and again
in 1086, only two hides of land inthe hundred of
Cirencester, six acres of meadow, and a vill in
Wick, besides a portion of wood given by King
William. (fn. 5) The dean of Cirencester (fn. 6) was Regenbald, the chancellor of Edward the Confessor,
who has been called the first great pluralist; (fn. 7) in
1086 he held sixteen churches, and lands in five
different counties.

Henry I was a great benefactor of the Order
of Augustinian canons, which was first established
in England in 1108. (fn. 8) At Cirencester, as in a
number of other minsters, they were introduced
in place of the secular canons. In 1117 Henry I
began to build a new church and monastery at
Cirencester. (fn. 9) Though the church was not dedicated until 1176, (fn. 10) the buildings were so far
advanced in 1131 that Serlo was consecrated as
the first abbot, and


the Augustinian canons
entered into possession of them. (fn. 11) In 1133
Henry I gave a charter to the abbot and convent,
granting them all the possessions of Regenbald. (fn. 12)
The endowment included two hides in Cirencester, a third part of the toll from the Sunday
market, two-thirds of the tithe of the royal
demesne of Cirencester, and the whole tithe of
the parish; the churches of Preston, Driffield,
Ampney St. Mary, and Cheltenham, besides lands
in those places, and at Norcote, Driffield, Wadle,
Aldsworth, Elmstone, and Wick in Gloucestershire; the churches of Latton, Eisy, Penesey, and
Avebury, with lands in those places, and two
houses in Cricklade in Wiltshire; the churches
of Milborne, Frome, and Wellow, and lands in
Somerset; the church of Pulham with ten hides,
wood and meadow in Dorsetshire; the churches
of Cookham, Bray, Hagbourne, Shrivenham,
besides ten hides atEston in Berkshire; Boicote,
with one hide and a mill in Oxfordshire; the
churches of Rowell and Brigstock in Northamptonshire; and three messuages in Winchester.
The king added from his own demesne 'the sheriff's
hide,' in Cirencester, for gardens and a mill; a
stream and the wood of Oakley, reserving to
himself the right of hunting and of making
assarts. He also reserved among Regenbald's
possessions the life interests of Roger, bishop of
Salisbury, William FitzWarin, and Nicholas,
nephew of the bishop of Winchester; and he
safeguarded the life interest of the secular canons
in their prebends.

During the greater part of the reign of
Henry II the abbot and convent held the manor
of Cirencester of the crown at a fee farm rent. (fn. 13)
In 1190 they purchased from Richard I the
town and manor of Cirencester with Minety,
the seven hundreds, for £100,


and a fee farm
rent of £30 a year. (fn. 14) In 1203 the abbot bought
the right of excluding the sheriff from his
liberties except for pleas of the crown. (fn. 15) In 1222
Henry III allowed the abbot to build a gaol. (fn. 16)
The trade of the town, which increased rapidly in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, (fn. 17) was entirely
under the abbot's control. He took the profits
of the weekly market in virtue of Richard I's
grants of the manor. In 1215 Abbot Alexander
Neckham obtained the right of holding a fair for
eight days at the feast of All Saints, (fn. 18) in 1253
Abbot Roger secured the privilege of holding
another fair on the vigil, feast, and morrow of
St. Thomas the Martyr, and the five following
days. (fn. 19) These successive grants of privileges put
thetown entirely into the abbot's power. (fn. 20)

Alexander Neckham, one of the most learned
men of his age in England, was abbot from 1213
to 1217. He was a Master of Arts of the
University of Paris, and had taught in the
grammar school at Dunstable and St. Albans
before he entered the monastery at Cirencester. (fn. 21)
He was interested in science rather than in history,
and in his chief work, 'De Naturis Rerum,' (fn. 22) he
aimed at compiling a manual of scientific knowledge. There is no evidence to gauge his influence at Cirencester, no writings of the canons
are known to have survived, and it nowhere
appears that they kept a chronicle.

Cirencester was subject to the visitation of the
bishops of Worcester. The letter written by
Bishop Giffard, after his visitation of the monastery in 1276, reveals


maladministration and weak
government. (fn. 23) Under the rule of Abbot Henry
de Munden, the prior, William de Haswell,
had exercised, or perhaps usurped, great power,
and it is likely that he held the office of treasurer.
At the visitation he was accused of being a
drunkard, to the damage of the house and the
scandal of many. He was negligent and remiss
in spiritual and temporal matters, being himself
a man of evil life. Discipline was relaxed, and
he was charged with having spent a great part of
the substance of the house on his kinsfolk; with
alienating the silver vessels and ornaments of the
church; with pledging the credit of the house
for debts of other persons. The bishop was told
that owing to his conduct the monastery was so
seriously embarrassed that the most discreet abbot
would find difficulty in redeeming itsfortunes.
In 1298 Giffard restored the church of Ampney
St. Mary to the monastery on the ground that it
had been appropriated since the foundation of the
house, and had been lost through the nepotism of a
former abbot. (fn. 24) When the prior of Worcester
attempted to visit the abbey in 1302, during
the voidance of the see after the death of Giffard,
he was refused admittance because the house had
already been visited twice within two years. (fn. 25)
During the rule of Abbot Henry de Hamptonet
there was a crisis in the relations of the convent
with the town. (fn. 26) In 1301 Edward I issued a
commission of oyer and terminer to William de
Bereford and Henry Spigurnel on the complaint
of the poor men of Cirencester that the abbot,
two canons, and others, had extorted from them,
for the first


time, great sums of money by undue
distraints; had entered their houses, assaulted
and imprisoned some of them; consumed the
goods of some, and carried away the goods of
others; taken some of their beasts and impounded
others, detaining them until a great part died of
hunger, and driving some to places unknown. (fn. 27)
A number of tenants attempted to avoid the
obligation of taking their corn to be ground at
the abbot's mills by using handmills in their
houses. At different times between 1300 and
1305, the abbot's bailiff and others broke into
the houses of several men of Cirencester and
seized their mill-stones; some they broke, others
they carried off to the monastery. (fn. 28) When the
jurors presented their complaint before the
justices of Traylbaston at Gloucester in 1305,
they replied that it was a question of tenure.
The town was atthe abbot's mercy, and it was
agreed that twenty men of Cirencester should
execute a deed on behalf of themselves and the
whole community, stating that they had made
a false complaint, and binding themselves to pay
100 marks to the abbot. (fn. 29)

In 1306 the convent secured the important
privilege of retaining the custody of the property
of the house during the voidance on the death
of an abbot. For the right of excluding the
escheators they covenanted to pay the king £100
for a voidance of three months or less. (fn. 30) In the
following year the abbot died. Forty canons were
present at the election of Hamptonet's successor,
Adam de Brokenborough. (fn. 31) It took place during
a voidance of the see of Worcester, and probably
owing to some informality in the proceedings the
prior of Worcester declared the election invalid,
but


understanding that Adam de Brokenborough
was 'a discreet man, esteemed for his learning
and virtuous habits and actions . . . and circumspect in spiritual and temporal matters,' he
collated him to the office of abbot. (fn. 32) The penalty
for disregard of the statute of mortmain was
heavy, and in 1313 the abbot and convent were
compelled to pay a fine of £200 for the royal
pardon because they had received a number of
parcels of lands, tenements, and shops in Cirencester without the late king's leave to acquire
them in mortmain. (fn. 33) In 1314 they paid another
fine of £20 for obtaining the appropriation of
Ampney St. Mary from Bishop Giffard without
licence, (fn. 34) and £5 for acquiring lands in Minety in
mortmain in the reign of Edward I. (fn. 35) Heavy
law costs were incurred in defendingthe abbot's
rights to take tallage from his tenants. In 1312
Master Nicholas de Stratton impleaded the abbot
for an illegal tallage, and although according to
the townsmen of Cirencester he was afterwards
beaten and slain by the abbot's servants, the suit
dragged on until 1321, when Edward II granted
a charter confirming the abbot's right. (fn. 36)

In 1325 during the rule of Richard of Charlton
(1320-35), disquieting rumours of evil-living
among the canons reached Cobham, bishop of
Worcester. (fn. 37) Although he had visited the monastery nothing sinister had come to his knowledge.
Nevertheless, on account of popular reports,
which may, indeed, have been spread by the
resentful townsmen, the bishop bade the abbot
discover the truth of the matter; if any of the
canons were found guilty and remained contumacious their names were to be sent to him.
The bishop's aid was


not invoked.

About 1342 the strife with the town broke
out again. (fn. 38) Owing to the development of the
wool-trade many of the men of Cirencester were
very prosperous, and keenly resented their position as the abbot's tenants. They preferred a
bill of complaint into chancery charging the
abbot, William Hereward, and his predecessors
with encroachments on the king's rights and
their own. In 1342 the abbot and his followers
imprisoned several of the townsmen by pretext
of their suit 'until they made very grievous fines
for their ransoms.' In 1343 twenty men of
Cirencester were summoned to Westminster and
swore to the truth of the bill of complaint. They
declared that the king was the patron of the
parish church, but that since the reign of John
the abbot and convent had taken possession of it.
They also administered the hospitals of St.John
and St. Laurence to their own advantage. Other
encroachments on the rights of the crown were
enumerated; but the townsmen put forward a
monstrous claim on their own behalf. They
swore that Henry I gave a charter to the burgesses of Cirencester granting them the same
liberties as the burgesses of Winchester. They
had only a copy of that charter to produce,
because they alleged that in 1292 the abbot
bribed the burgess who had the custody of it,
got possession of it and burnt it. The charter
was a forgery, though it is possible that it was
first produced when the abbot purchased the
manor from Richard I and the burgesses of
Cirencester were fined for false presentment.
The case was several times adjourned. Finally
the abbot compounded with the king for £300
and obtained a charter in 1343 confirming and
defining his franchises.


(fn. 39) Abbot Hereward had
other claims on the gratitude of the canons
besides the victory over the townsmen. (fn. 40) He
freed the convent from the heavy load of debt
with which it was burdened at the time of his
election in 1336. In the first ten years of his rule
a new nave was built, and houses within the
precincts and on the manors were erected at
great cost. In 1346 he made provision for the
maintenance of a chaplain to sing mass daily in
the Lady Chapel, and for the keeping of his
anniversary. Thus shortly before the Black
Death the monastery was very prosperous.
There is no record of the mortality among the
canons or in the town of Cirencester. Bishop
Wulstan de Bransford died on 8 August, (fn. 41) and
only a week afterwards the prior of Worcester
began toexercise his right of visiting the diocese
during the voidance of the see. (fn. 42) In October he
proposed to visit Cirencester, but the abbot and
convent declined to receive him on the plea that
they were only subject to visitation by a papal
legate, the metropolitan, and the bishop of the
diocese. (fn. 43) They were supported by the official
of the court of Canterbury. However, an agreement was made shortly afterwards strictly defining and limiting the prior's rights. He might
only inquire whether the mass of the Virgin was
celebrated daily with devotion, and whether a
chapter was held each day. He might only
enter the house with one monk and one secular
clerk. His procuration was fixed at 4 marks,
he had no right to any hospitality, and he could
not lodge in the monastery with his household
and carriages.


It is probable that the discipline
of the house was lax, Abbot Hereward was an
old man, and in 1350 Edward III exempted
him from attendance at Parliament on account
of his age and infirmity. (fn. 44) In 1351 Thoresby,
bishop of Worcester, wrote to him grieving that
there were evil reports of the canons, and that
he did not do his duty as abbot. (fn. 45) Thoresby
told him to reform the convent by his own
power without appealing to the bishop for help.
He ought to forbid the canons to leave the
kingdom on any business without permission,
and to see that, unless they were fulfilling the
duties of their office, they remained within the
cloister. He should compel the officers to render
a yearly account of their receipts and expenditure. Abbot Hereward died soon afterwards,
and his successor, Ralph of Estcote,was elected in
May, 1352. (fn. 46) Owing to the scarcity of labour
the abbot and convent had, perhaps, unusual
difficulty in exacting the services of the townsmen of Cirencester. In 1370 they obtained an
exemplification under the great seal of the record
of 1225, in which the services of tenants of the
manor were defined. (fn. 47)

Lack of governance and discipline characterized
the rule of Nicholas of Ampney when Bishop
Wakefield visited the monastery in 1378. (fn. 48)
William Tresham held the office of sub-prior,
treasurer, and keeper of the parish church. The
bishop ordered that another keeper should be
appointed because in the discharge of that office
he was often outside the monastery. Within
six days the abbot was bidden to choose another
canon to act as treasurer with William Tresham.
The whole of the revenues from manors,
churches, and other sources were


to be paid to
the treasurers instead of to any other officers.
The almoner was to be removed from office on
account of the scandal caused by his maladministration. The precentor was also to be removed.
Within six days the abbot was to make new
appointments to the offices of almoner, precentor,
and keeper of the parish church, with the advice
and consent of the older and wiser canons. The
bishop found that the bread was badly baked,
and that the beer was weak. He enjoined the
abbot to see that the cellarer provided good
bread, fish, and beer. The conduct of some of
the canons had given rise to grave scandal,
among them the keeper of the parish church of
Cheltenham, who was to be deprived of his
office. The abbot was ordered to see that these
disobedient brethren did not go beyond1400, when they rendered
Henry IV a signal service by crushing the rebellion of the earls of Salisbury and Kent, whom
they beheaded in the market-place, (fn. 52) they seized
the opportunity to put forward their complaints
against the abbot and his predecessors. (fn. 53) At the
king's command an inquisition was held by the
sheriff. Five juries from the town and the
neighbourhood testified against the abbot, and it
was claimed that the town of Cirencester had
not been parcel of the manor until 1208, when
the abbot compelled the townsmen to perform
villein service. The king's decision was postponed, and there is no record of it. In 1403
the townsmen petitioned Henry IV to allow
them to have a gild merchant. (fn. 54) The sheriff
held an inquisition at Gloucester in 1403, and
twelve knights of the county set forth the


abbot's
franchises. Nevertheless, the king gave a
charter to the men of Cirencester granting their
petition, so that the abbot and convent were
obliged to submit. The townsmen established
their gild merchant, and entirely controlled the
trade of the town; but they had no justification
for withholding their services and absenting
themselves from the manorial courts. In 1409
Abbot John Leckhampton obtained a further
confirmation of Richard II's confirmation of the
charters concerning the lands, manors, and liberties of the abbey. (fn. 55) In 1410 Henry IV ratified
the charters of John and Henry III, granting
the right of holding the two yearly fairs to the
abbot. In 1413 the abbot attempted to distrain
for services due to him; a riot followed, and his
officers were beaten and wounded. Henry IV
died on 20 March, and on 5 June the abbot
secured another exemplification of therecord of
1225, defining the services of the tenants of the
manor. (fn. 56) The townsmen saw that further
resistance was useless. The abbot impleaded a
number of them for withdrawing their services
for thirteen years, and heavy damages were
awarded. In 1414, with the abbot's consent,
Henry V granted them a general pardon. In
1418 the abbot petitioned that the charter granting the gild merchant might be made void.
The Court of Chancery found that Henry IV's
charter was contrary to the previous rights of
the abbot, and annulled it. The strife thus
ended in the complete triumph of the monastery
over the town.

The history of the monastery during the last
hundred years of its existence is quite obscure.
At a visitation during the voidance of the see of
Worcester in 1428, there were twenty-four
canons, of whom one was a scholar at Oxford.


(fn. 57)

In 1534 the abbot and twenty canons subscribed to the royal supremacy. (fn. 58) Five years
later, 19 December, 1539, they surrendered
their house to the royal commissioners. (fn. 59) The
abbot received a pension of £200 a year, the
prior £13 6s. 8d., the cellarer £8, twelve canons
£6 13s. 4d. each, and another £5 6s. 8d., while
William Phelps became vicar of the parish
church. (fn. 60) Wages were paid to 110 officers and
servants of the household. (fn. 61)

In 1535 the clear yearly value of the property
of the monastery was £1,051 7s. 1¼d. (fn. 62) The
abbot also held the office of cellarer, and had
control over £859 17s. 6d. of the revenues.
These were drawn from the bailiwicks of the
town and seven hundreds of Cirencester, the
manors of Cirencester, Minety, Driffield, Preston,
Ampney St. Mary, Nutbeme,Walle, Salperton,
Througham, and lands at Cheltenham, Daglingworth, Shipton Moyne, and Weston Birt, in
Gloucestershire; the manors of Frome and
Milborne Port, in Somerset; Pulham, in Dorsetshire; Latton, in Wiltshire; Shrivenham,
Hagbourne, and Eston, in Berkshire; Bradwell
and Abberbury in Oxfordshire; Brigstock and
Rowell in Northamptonshire; rents in London,
Bristol, Cirencester; and the rectories of Cirencester, Cheltenham, Frome, Milborne Port,
Latton, Wellow, Milton, Avebury, Eton in Wiltshire, Cookham, Bray, Hagbourne, Stanyarn,
Brigstock, Rowell, besides tithes in other places.

13.
Brist. and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Trans. ix, 298. For
the history of the relations between the monastery and
town of Cirencester cf. Fuller, The Manor and
Town (Brist. and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Trans. 298-344),
drawn from the chartularies of the monastery, now
at Thirlstane House, Cheltenham, as well as from
public records.


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One of the difficulties Indian outsourcers have had is convincing big business that they are anything more than call centres. Attempts to build better companies in the region have been stymied by poor infrastructure. However all this means that the once lucrative outsourcing industry in India is on hold, along with the rest of the IT industry.the day's work. I was entranced with the utilitarian confusion of the scene. Bikes were repaired only just in time to be strapped down with live chickens, fresh vegetables, and squirming children. These wobbling balancing acts artistically wove like a fine tapestry through the lumbering diesel powered industrial beasts of burden slowly chugging through town. Just another day in the life of rural China.

Our bellies and imaginations full we set out to find some tea. Simply stating that Jingmai has a rich history with tea doesn't really do the area or the people any justice. When the Romans were still ruling the rest of the world the Bulang people migrated to the Jingmai area and began cultivating tea trees in an environmentally responsible way integrated with the local


forests. 1800 years later this amazing resource not only still exists, but thrives.

Jingmai is situated deep in the Southwest corner of Yunnan Province. These ancient forests border Burma and hide smuggler trade routes still in use today. This biodiversity of the region and the nearly untainted old world methods and rituals of tea cultivation and harvesting make this area unique among world tea production. The Chinese government in 2013 applied for the "Ancient Tea Plantations of Jingmai Mountain" to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There are 4 grape wine and 2 coffee related World Heritage properties already, but none yet for tea. If any place in the world deserves it, Jingmai would be it. However, after my experience in Lijiang, I wonder about the actual benefit ofbeing granted World Heritage status. Will the true culture remain, or will locals be pushed out and replaced with cultural clones backed by far away investor dollars? I hope this unique mountain and tea culture will be preserved for generations to come and not become the tourist trap wearing a mask of culture that was the fate of Lijiang.

The road to Jingmai mountain was well maintained until we got to the village of Jingmai itself. Construction projects rushed to prepare for the Spring harvest made some village roads nearly impassable. Ominous sounds beneath us indicating metal scraping on rock reminded us how little clearance our car actually has. Despite the challenges we passed through Jingmai village unscathed and continued toward the tiny village of Mangjing. We passed countless


a noticeably larger operation than the farm family we met in Longtan Village. Their family owns 4 gardens in the area where they produce tea without use of fertilizers or pesticides. All except one take motorcycles a couple hours one way to reach. Her extended family harvests around 500kg of leaf per year. They were all out working the fields when we arrived. It was her day to stay home and grade the leaves processed and dried the day before. She was more than willing to drop what she was doing to take us up the hill to see their ancient tea garden.

The energetic Tang led the way straight up the side of the mountain that Lower Mangjing is built on. We wound our way through the localhouses on tiny dirt trails more often than not patrolled by squads of wary chickens. Captive pigs grunted their acknowledgement of us as we passed their simple pens. The path became steeper and we soon were presented with a beautiful view of Mangjing and the Jingmai mountains. Tang pointed into the distance where her family was harvesting that days yield of tea leaf.

The forest became thicker the higher we climbed that steep path. Entering the forest the high trees created a protective canopy. The forest floor was well maintained and easy to walk through. Before we knew it we were surrounded by ancient tea trees. I've seen pictures, but nothing is like being amidst a forest like this. The scene offered both serenity and tranquility. The rustling of


Dubai: Emirati scientist Hanifa Al Beloushi is this year’s UAE recipient of the L’Oréal-Unesco for Women in Science Middle East Fellowship award, for her research in designing a novel system for enzymatic biodiesel production.

Al Beloushi, who is assistant professor at the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at Masdar Institute, was among three other women from the Middle East to receive the fellowship at an awards ceremony at Zayed University in Dubai on Tuesday night.

All the four winners received an endowment of 20,000 euros each (around Dh80,829) in support of their work.

At the event, Minister of State for Tolerance Shaikha Lubna Al Qasimi, who is also president of Zayed University and the patron of the event, congratulated the winners.

Shaikha Lubna said: “I commend the work being done by theL’Oréal Foundation and Unesco through the For Women In Science Programme, which raises the level of scientific research in the region and encourages Arab women scientists to pursue their dreams, work for the progress of humanity and make a difference in the world. It is my honour to offer my patronage to a programme that wholeheartedly motivates female scientists from the GCC and recognises their excellent contribution to fields where women are underrepresented.”

Al Beloushi said she was honoured to win the recognition, adding she would be involving Masdar students in her work.

Speaking about her research, she told Gulf News the project involves developing environment-friendly bio catalysts, rather than chemicals ones, in biodiesel production. She is also developing new compounds to keep the bio enzymes active in the process,


commitment to women everywhere. As a group, we believe in gender diversity in order to make science of greater relevance to all. We work actively to make women be heard. As women make up one half of humanity, their voices must find expression if scientific research is to continue to solve our most pressing problems”.

The 2016 L’Oréal-Unesco for Women in Science Middle East Fellows:

Hanifa Taher Al Beloushi, (UAE), assistant professor at the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at Masdar Institute: For her research in designing a new novel system for enzymatic biodiesel production.

Dr Maha Al Asmakh, (Qatar), assistant professor, Biomedical Science at the Health Sciences College in Qatar University: For her research on microbiota and its effects on brain development and reproductive health.

Shimaa Hassan Eisa, (Saudi Arabia), assistantarranged in a generally quadrangular array having one pair of opposed sides defined by the first leads and one pair of opposed sides defined by the second leads. The first and second leads each include opposed, generally planar first and second surfaces, and a third surface which is also disposed in opposed relation to the second surface and positioned between the first and second surfaces. A first semiconductor die is electrically connected to the third surfaces of the first leads, with a second semiconductor die being electrically connected to the third surfaces of the second leads. A package body at least partially encapsulates the first and second leads and the first and second semiconductor dies such that the first and second surfaces of each of the first and


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Peter Erkelenz (12 September 1897 – April 1966) was a German film actor.

Selected filmography
 Men Behind Bars (1931)
 The Sea Ghost (1931)
 Sacred Waters (1932)
 Dream of the Rhine (1933)
 The Star of Valencia (1933)
 The Four Musketeers (1934)
 Hundred Days (1935)
 The Empress's Favourite (1936)
 The Deruga Case (1938)

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Jamila Michener, Cornell University, New YorkJamila Michener is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, New York. She is a leading expert in the study of poverty, racial inequality, politics and public policy in the United States. Her work has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. She is a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Inequality, a graduate field faculty member in the Africana Studies Department, a faculty affiliate in the American Studies Program, and an affiliate at the Cornell Population Center. As a publicly engaged scholar, Michener is also co-leader of the Finger Lakes Branch ofColorado Telugu Association Summer Picnic

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FAO and WFP appeal for immediate support for Northern Mali

An Emergency Food Security Assessment conducted jointly by the Government of Mali, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and 15 other partners shows that 3 out of 4 households living in northern regions of the country are food insecure and heavily reliant on food assistance.

The most vulnerable people in northern Mali, estimated to number around 1.3 million, have had little chance to recover following the recent conflict and last year’s food and nutrition crisis as a result of erratic rains. As internally displaced people and refugees begin to return to their home communities, the limited resources will be further strained and the number of people requiring assistance isto protect and restore the livelihood of vulnerable households in the northern part of the country. Assistance provided until the end of the year will primarily include the provision of agricultural quality inputs, veterinary inputs for livestock and fishing gear for 420 000 vulnerable people, enabling them to produce food as early as December 2013.

These combined actions will help the Government of Mali, FAO and WFP to save lives and livelihoods by providing food assistance and agricultural productive means to the most vulnerable people in the northern regions of Timbuktu, Gao, Kidal and Mopti.

An Emergency Food Security Assessment for the south of the country is currently being undertaken.


Captain Michael Bradley had a slice of pizza and a slug of Gatorade. Coach Greg Vanney treated himself to a tall boy.

As far as locker-room celebrations go, it was decidedly muted. Especially when it came after removing a giant monkey off the back of Toronto FC with the franchise's first ever playoff win in 10 seasons.

Vanney's team rose to the occasion Wednesday in ending the post-season drought in convincing fashion. Sebastian Giovinco scored one goal and helped set up the other two to lead Toronto to a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Union in an MLS first-round knockout game.

Toronto, which finished third in the Eastern Conference, will now host second-place New York City FC on Sunday in the opening game of the two-legged Eastern semifinal.

Jonathan Osorio and JozyAltidore also scored as TFC emerged from a playoff wasteland that stretched back to its inception in 2007. It took 324 regular-season matches and nine managers to get there. Toronto lost its only other playoff appearance 3-0 in Montreal last season.

While there weren't any champagne corks popping in the dressing room, the team celebrated the win on the field with its fans. After confetti and fireworks at the final whistle, the players headed over to the south stand to lead the fans in Iceland-style slow clapping.

'Proud in every way'

"We're very very very excited, very very proud in every way," said Bradley, promising more celebrations to come.

It was a special moment for a franchise that has not had too many of them.

"Most of the guys are icing wounds and


them one yellow away from a suspension in the post-season. Bradley, for one, thought the referee mishandled the start of the game.

Big names perform

Toronto got good performances from all quarters but its biggest names — Bradley, Giovinco and Altidore — had especially big performances.

Giovinco was lively and dangerous all night. Bradley covered a lot of ground, a destroyer in front of the backline. And Altidore, muscling opponents out of his way, was a one-man wrecking crew.

"Jozy was just huge. He played big, he played physical," said Vanney. "At times he just looked possessed, tracking down the ball and taking it away from people."

Alejandro Bedoya scored for the Union in the 73rd minute to cut the lead to 2-1. But Giovinco, after drawing three defenders, found Altidore in thein style, heading to the northwest corner with his teammates in his wake.

It was also the Italian's fifth goal in five games against Philadelphia. But then again he scores against everyone. Including the regular season and playoffs, Giovinco has scored or assisted on 72 of Toronto's 112 goals (64 per cent) in his two seasons in MLS.

Giovinco was lively all night. Unable to stop the little Italian, the Union hacked Giovinco down on several occasions including one in the second half when he beat two defenders with a slick drag-back dribble.

'This is our house'

While Toronto became more defensive with its second-half substitutions, Philadelphia looked for more offence with Brazilian Ilsinho and Roland Alberg.

Bedoya made things interesting with his second-half goal. Three different Philadelphia players headed the ball before


it landed at the feet of the U.S. international, who lashed it home.

Normal service soon resumed with Giovinco and Altidore before a crowd of 21,759 on a chilly five-degree Celsius night at BMO Field.

That set the crowd chanting "This is our house."

Toronto's first ever home playoff game was up against the Toronto Raptors' season opener and Game 2 of the World Series. The club also only had limited time to sell tickets given the matchup and date were only confirmed Sunday.

Osorio made it 2-0 three minutes into the second half off a Giovinco corner. Altidore and Toronto defender Nick Hagglund collided and the ball bounced off Hagglund's chest to Osorio, who belted it home.Paul Ramscar, a high profile entrepreneur and

markets commentator based in Hong Kong,

conceived of the app after having found that

LGBTs often face discrimination by service

providers in Hong Kong and learning that the

majority of the respondents said they would

rather shop at a gay-friendly company.

According to a survey conducted in 2010 about the spending power of Hong Kong’s gay community, 95% of respondents said that when the subject brand, product or service is discriminating, they will distrust the brand and boycott all products and services with 84% of respondents stating they were more likely to try the product or service if the advertising reflects the attitude of the gay community. Some of our community has encountered unpleasant experiences or even discrimination during their shopping expeditions in the SAR. The results of


the aforementioned survey can be viewed here Hong Kong seems to be one of the more gay-friendly cities among all those in Asia, but this result indicated that reality was otherwise and was disappointing. It triggered Paul Ramscar to start up Pink Dollar, a one of its kind application providing a gay-friendly environment for the community.Paul Ramscar is a high profile entrepreneur and markets commentator based in Hong Kong. He previously worked for investment banks in Europe before relocating to Asia in 2007 to pursue further interests. Ramscar began his early life in Hertfordshire in Great Britain and spent most of his personal and working life in London. Known for being outspoken and sometimes flamboyant he supports good causes and charities and uses his voice in the mediafrom the international media. Through his links with CNBC and Bloomberg he is aiming to set up interviews to talk about the idea and the potential gay market, particularly its spending power, which goes someway to prove that the world is getting more and more accepting of discussing LGBT issues.Now the application is in the last stages before the actual release in June or July. Ramscar told me that the application will launch in Hong Kong first and maybe later in the UK. He thinks it is needed more here as Hong Kong is not as gay friendly as the UK. And most of all Hong Kong is a business city, so it’s a good place to start. Watch out for more information on the Pink Dollar Facebook


INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts have announced the following changes to its football operations staff.

Ed Dodds has been named the team's assistant general manager. Dodds enters his second season with the Colts and his 16th year in the NFL. Prior to Indianapolis, he spent 10 seasons (2007-2016) with the Seattle Seahawks and was most recently Seattle's senior personnel executive responsible for evaluating both college and pro talent. With the Seahawks, Dodds was part of six winning seasons, five NFC West titles and 10 playoff wins in addition to two Super Bowl appearances (one win). He also spent time with Oakland and his alma mater, Texas A&M-Kingsville.

Brian Decker was named the Colts' director of player development. Decker enters his second season with the team after getting his start inthe NFL with the Cleveland Browns. He has consulted in all major professional sports on the selection and development of athletes. A military veteran who retired after 22 years of service and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Special Forces, Decker's last assignment was commander of special forces assessment and selection. He oversaw the development and execution of the talent acquisition strategy to select future Green Berets. Decker graduated from Eastern Kentucky and then earned his master's degree in Defense Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Jon Shaw has been elevated to assistant director of pro scouting. Shaw is entering his 13th season with the Colts and spent the previous six seasons (2011-17) as pro scout/special projects. In 2006, Shaw earned his start with the team as


the football operations intern. From 2007 to 2011, he served as a scouting assistant. In 2011, Shaw also worked as a defensive assistant along with his scouting responsibilities.

Anthony Coughlan enters his second season with the Colts and first as the team's college scouting coordinator. Coughlan joined Indianapolis in 2017 as a player personnel assistant following his role as a recruiting assistant at Ohio State in 2016. In 2015, he served as a public relations intern for the Kansas City Chiefs after graduating from Ohio State with a degree in strategic communication. As an undergrad student, Coughlan worked as a student manager for Ohio State's football program for one season and as a cornerbacks and special teams intern for two seasons.

Mike Lacy will serve as a player personnel scout.Lacy is in his third season with the Colts and spent the last two years as a scouting assistant. He was also a summer operations intern for the team in 2015. Prior to Indianapolis, Lacy spent one season serving as the quarterbacks and wide receivers coach at Greece Arcadia High School in Rochester, N.Y. He worked as a player personnel assistant for the Arena Football League's Philadelphia Soul while finishing his sport management degree from SUNY Cortland in the spring of 2015.

Zerick Rollins joins the Colts in his first year as a scouting assistant. Rollins was previously with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette working with the wide receivers as an offensive graduate assistant. He played three years of college football at Alcorn State.

George Li joins the Colts


in the senior football strategy analyst/game management position. Before Indianapolis, Li worked in analytics for the Oakland Raiders for seven years and spent time as the lead researcher at NFL Network and as a researcher at ESPN.

Parks Frazier enters his first year with the Colts as an assistant to the head coach. Frazier was an offensive graduate assistant at Arkansas State, a defensive quality control coach at Samford and an intern at Middle Tennessee. He was a two-year quarterback at Murray State following one season at Northeast Mississippi Community College.housed in shelters across the country have been moved under cover of night to a tent city in West Texas. The camp, which is run by federal immigration authorities, is the latest in a serious of developments that have alarmed migrants and their advocates. There are now 13,000 detained migrant kids, the largest population ever. The tent camp opened in June for 30 days able to hold 400 children, it was expanded last month to hold 3,800, and is now expected to remain open at least through the end of the year.

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Since we’re talking about skin whitening, I’ll re-up this video op-ed from Akala, an English rapper, poet, author, historian and activist, who tackles every day racism by linking it with centuries


lot, as the south-

side parking lot they had used on previous visits was full. Sharon, carrying a bag purse,

approached the restaurant entrance from the concrete walkway leading to the west

parking lot. She later testified she had not approached on the west walkway before that

time. As she walked toward the west entrance, she observed other patrons entering or

exiting via both the west and south entrances. Other patrons were standing on the

walkway.

       {¶3}   As Sharon approached within a few steps of the west entrance, her left

foot struck a raised portion of the concrete created by a slight height difference between

two sidewalk sections. As a result, Sharon fell and struck her head on the walkway,

resulting in an orbital fracture, a nasal fracture, andinstrument in the form of a joint-behavior matrix of students and faculty behaviors. We present our methods for the study and the development of the alternative presentation of the results and discuss how well our initial assessment of where faculty would fall on the active learning spectrum aligned with the joint matrix results. We conclude with recommendations for faculty professional development activities that might move faculty along the active learning spectrum.

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James Madison University (JMU) is a Master's level institution with a Carnegie Classification as a Community Engaged University. As of fall 2016, the faculty--student ratio was 1:16, with 19,400 undergraduates. In fall 2015, there were approximately 3,500 students with a STEM discipline as their first major, and courses in STEM disciplines represented 35,850 credit hours of which


Silver Linings

Thu, 2009-01-01 12:00

Three analysts talk about the opportunities available in today's stormy economic climate.

For BEEF magazine's state-of-the-industry issue in June 2008, we asked a panel of industry analysts to comment on their prognosis for the U.S. beef industry. Since that article appeared, some significant watershed happenings have transpired in the beef, national and global economies. For instance, stock market losses in 2008 alone have tallied more than $6 trillion; one in every 10 house mortgages

For BEEF magazine's state-of-the-industry issue in June 2008, we asked a panel of industry analysts to comment on their prognosis for the U.S. beef industry. Since that article appeared, some significant watershed happenings have transpired in the beef, national and global economies.

For instance, stock market losses in 2008 alone have tallied more than$6 trillion; one in every 10 house mortgages was said to be in arrears or in foreclosure at the end of September; and anxious consumers are cutting back on spending. While the U.S. agriculture industry is in a better financial and capital shape than the general economy, prices are trending down and all sectors are concerned about the fallout of a tighter and downtrending economy.

There's an old adage that states that in adversity comes opportunity. So what are those “silver linings” to the dark economic clouds now shading the world economic picture? We asked three of the four June issue panelists — Bill Helming, Tom Field and Bill Mies — to provide their views on the opportunities offered in today's economic and market situation.


Leaked documents have raised questions about how the Jehovah's Witnesses dealt with child sex abuse allegations against a local church leader.

The trove of documents, released on Tuesday by the new whistleblower group FaithLeaks, show the Warwick, New York-based church hierarchy's internal handling of explosive allegations.

Unredacted versions of the 69 pages of documents were viewed in advance and corroborated by Gizmodo.

In 1999, two adult women came forward to leaders in a Brimfield, Massachusetts congregation, the documents show.

The women warned the elders about physical and sexual abuse they said they suffered as children at the hands of their father, a ministerial servant. The position assists the elders and is appointed by the church hierarchy.

The younger daughter alleged her father had begun molesting her at age three, and that she suffered'four years of continuous rape' starting at age eight.

'She described that her father would sit on the bed afterward and cry as he prayed with her,' the congregation's elders wrote in a letter to religion's global headquarters in New York, The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's former Brooklyn headquarters is seen. A new document trove sheds light on how the group handled explosive child sex allegations

Known simply as The Watchtower, the group then based in Brooklyn exercises strict control over Jehovah's Witness congregations worldwide.

The elder daughter said that the abuse began in 1974, when she was five years old, claiming that her father would tie her naked and spread-eagle to her bed.

'[She] expressed that though never actually penetrating her, he did repeatedly touch


committee agenda shows the religious approach to adjudicating the daughters' accusations. 'Porneia' is the Biblical Greek word for fornication

The alleged abuser was punished with disfellowship, which is similar to excommunication. However the measure was reversed a year later, the documents show.

It is not the first time the Jehovah's Witnesses have been accused of excessive secrecy around and protection of child sex abusers.

The church has spent millions fighting and violating court orders to produce documents tracking suspected child abusers in its congregations, according to Reveal.

The Watchtower did not respond to Gizmodo's request for comment on the new document dump.

'Every organization, whether it's religious or not, is going to have people who do bad things,' FaithLeaks co-founder Ryan McKnight told the outlet.

'So the mere fact that there may exist someRussian Pilots Vow Strike on Safety Fears

MOSCOW — Russian airline pilots are threatening to strike because of a growing number of crashes and are demanding the government enforce air safety in the country's chaotic skies.

The pilots, who earn as little as $21 a month, also want better pay.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in December, 1991, led to the breakup of Aeroflot, once the world's largest airline, into hundreds of tiny carriers that have often failed to maintain their aging fleets of jets.

Airline passengers are far more likely to be killed in crashes in Russia than elsewhere in the world. Last month, an international organization strongly recommended that travelers avoid flying over any part of the former Soviet Union.

The number of fatalities per 1 million passengers, used internationally


as a safety indicator, has been rising steadily in Russia since the Soviet breakup, from one in 1990 to 5.5 in 1993.

With two major crashes this year that killed almost 200 people, the rate jumped to 32 in the first quarter of 1994, a level described as "unprecedented and intolerable" in the newspaper Segodnya.

The international average has been less than one fatality per 1 million passengers.a result of this method is transferred by means of electrostatic image transfer to the transfer sheet such as a recording paper. Fixing converts the toner image to a reproduction.
A transfer apparatus is used in the step involving the transfer of the toner image on the photosensitive drum to the transfer sheet. The transfer apparatus transfers the toner image to the transfer sheet by conveying the transfer sheet in such a way that the transfer sheet adheres against the toner image on the photosensitive drum, and impressing a bias.
Transfer apparatuses having a conveying belt for carrying the transfer sheet, and a pair of rollers supporting the conveying belt that impress a transfer bias on the belt that is of the opposite polarity to the toner are well known.
Once


the toner image is transferred, the transfer sheet separates from the photosensitive drum and is conveyed towards a fixing apparatus. The separation of the transfer sheet from the photosensitive drum depends on the transfer sheet's flexural rigidity and the so-called nerve of the transfer sheet. In other words, the transfer sheet adhering to the photosensitive drum separates from the photosensitive drum due to a curvature separation resulting from the direction of movement of the transfer sheet at the transfer position, the direction of movement of the transfer sheet when adhering to the photosensitive drum, the fact that the direction of the transfer sheet when adhering to the photosensitive drum corresponds to the curvature of the photosensitive drum, and the transfer sheet's own form restorative force. However, when thesome of the toner adhering to the photosensitive drum and the toner being transferred back to the leading edge of the transfer sheet from the separating pawl.
Scum is not limited alone to the leading edge of the transfer sheet. When the entire surface of the transfer sheet adheres to the photosensitive drum and is conveyed while in contact with the separating pawl, not only does an unwanted stripe appears on the portion of the transfer sheet that is caught on the separating pawl, the unfixed image transferred to the transfer sheet is also faint.
The effect of residual charge on the surface of the photosensitive drum is explained next. Until the time neutralization is completed in the cleaning stage, the photosensitive drum retains a certain amount of charge in


spite of reduction in the quantity of charge due to the effect of transfer bias. The retention of charge on the photosensitive drum causes the toner to adhere to the photosensitive drum, leading to scum (surface staining) of the photosensitive drum.
The scum of the photosensitive drum is scraped off and the photosensitive drum is neutralized in the cleaning stage so that a clean photosensitive drum is available for the next round of image formation. However, if the scum exceeds a certain amount, that is, if the charge amount between the toner and the residual charge is balanced according to the adhesion of toner, which determines the concentration of scum, the residual charge is unlikely to act on the transfer sheet and cause deterioration in its separability.
However, in theform reaction flow fields 104a such as an anode flow field through which hydrogen flows and a cathode flow field through which air flows.
The reaction flow field 104a (anode flow field or cathode flow field) is suitably formed between the bottom side of the first separator 100a and the top side of the MEA 400, the reaction flow field 104a (anode flow field or cathode flow field) is also formed between the top side of the second separator 100b and the bottom side of the MEA 400, and a coolant flow field 104b is suitably formed in a space between the pair of first separators 100a and in a space between the pair of second separators 100b.
Preferably, a gasket 300, which serves to suitably prevent reactant gases


The cause of the fire has not been made official yet, but it is believed that a spark from the cars and motorcycles that raced to the scene may have set it off.

The death toll in Pakistan’s oil tanker inferno rose to 206 on Monday as three more persons injured in one of the worst fire accidents in the country succumbed to their injuries, officials said.

Six officials, including a DSP-level officer, were suspended on Friday for negligence that led to the incident.

The Dawn reported that the death toll in Ahmadpur Sharqia oil tanker fire has risen to 206 and 65 injured are still recovering in hospitals.

In Victoria Hospital in Bahawalpur, 25 patients are said to be in a stable condition. However, nine patients in Lahore and 17 inMultan are in a critical condition.

A team of surgeons have been called in to conduct skin transplants at a hospital in Lahore.

At least 120 people including women and children were killed on the spot and 140 injured last week, a day before Eid, when they rushed to collect fuel leaking from the crashed oil tanker in Bahawalpur, some 400 kilometres from Lahore.

Pakistan army soldiers stands guard while rescue workers examine the site of an oil tanker explosion at a highway near Bahawalpur, Pakistan, Sunday, June 25, 2017. An overturned oil tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday, killing more than one hundred people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, an official said. | Photo Credit: AP

The tanker caught fire


after the explosion and some 50,000 litres of petrol spilled from the vehicle.

The tanker, coming from Karachi to Lahore, veered off the road when the driver lost control after one of its tyres burst. It exploded after someone lit a cigarette.

The cause of the fire has not been made official yet, but it is believed that a spark from the many cars and motorcycles that raced to the scene may have ignited the fuel.

Meanwhile, according to motorway police spokesman Imran Shah, the officials have been suspended on the recommendation of the departmental inquiry committee probing into the incident on the basis of technical data.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had met the victims of the tragedy and said that the government would provide jobs to those who were injured inActivists who had hoped to block the southern leg of the Keystone XL in Texas by occupying trees in the pipeline's path are ending their three-month protest after construction was rerouted around them.

TransCanada, the pipeline's builder, acquired an easement in October to build the pipeline slightly west of the tree blockade and the original route. Construction is now nearly finished on the property, and the protesters will soon call it quits.

"It's a sad time at the tree blockade," said Ron Seifert, a spokesperson for the Tar Sands Blockade, the activist group behind the campaign. Seifert said it's probably days before the tree village decamps, though no official decision has been made. "We'll take it day by day."

Since late September, dozens of people have been living in 80-foot tree


Seifert said it has been "a uniting force" for anti-pipeline activists across the country and "showed us that [TransCanada] can very easily change the route."

The group is currently planning its largest demonstration yet for Jan. 7 somewhere in Texas. It also plans to increase its presence in Oklahoma, where construction is also underway.

TransCanada, meanwhile, is trying to obtain permanent injunctions against protesters in Wood County, where Winnsboro is located. Court orders would prohibit activists from interfering with pipeline construction. A temporary restraining order is in effect until a hearing takes place on Jan. 4, Dodson said. The company is pursuing a similar process in neighboring Franklin County.

3 Protesters Still in Jail

The biggest of the group's 12 protests happened on Nov. 20 at two Keystone XL sites in Nacogdoches,115 miles south of Winnsboro.

One hundred and twenty people rallied there, briefly halting construction and joining 40 related protests worldwide that week. Of the 11 activists arrested, four people locked themselves to machinery and three climbed trees in the pipeline's path. Seifert said his group helped raise nearly $14,000 to help release everyone from jail before Thanksgiving.

Three other protestors remain in prison following a separate action in Winona, about an hour's drive from the tree encampment.

In the early morning on Dec. 3, Matt Almonte and Glen Collins pushed a 600-pound concrete barrel in an unfinished section of pipeline three feet in diameter. Almonte crawled in and chained his arm to the barrel as Collins followed behind him. Other activists helped push a second concrete barrel into the pipe


The company "always treats landowners with respect," Dodson previously told InsideClimate News.

On Dec. 11, a county judge issued a temporary restraining order against TransCanada to stop building on Bishop's land. The next morning the judge vacated his decision, allowing the company to press ahead.

On Wednesday, the judge will decide whether to issue a temporary injunction against TransCanada, which would keep the pipeline company off Bishop's land until the lawsuit is resolved over months.

Dodson said Bishop and his attorney knew what type of oil the pipeline would carry when he signed the agreement and accepted payment for his land. He explained that the southern portion would deliver mostly conventional, domestic oil when it opens in late 2013—and that "there's a high probability" that the northern segment, which would startin Alberta, would transport heavy Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast.

The northern leg still needs approval from the State Department because it crosses an international border. The two segments would connect via an existing pipeline that runs from Nebraska to Oklahoma.

Bishop said the ordeal is "a little overwhelming" because he's representing himself and he isn't a lawyer.

"It's David and Goliath, and I'm not afraid of them."

Bishop filed a separate, related suit against the Texas Railroad Commission, the state agency that oversees pipelines. He claims the commission approved the pipeline on false grounds that it would only carry conventional crude. At a hearing this week, Bishop was told to refile his suit if he wants to proceed because he hadn't followed proper legal procedure.

Ramsey Sprague, a Texas native and


George Mattingly, John Sjoberg, Steve Toth, Dave Morice.

In 1979, Morice created a school of poetry called Cutism. "His Cutist Anthology includes poems by Sally Lunchkins, Tommy Triped, and others, 'Have a nice day' artwork by Roberta Periwinkleshoe, and the requisite defensive polemic by Samuel F. Romular. Morice's send-ups attest to his connection to a school of poetry that began in Iowa City… called Actualism."

The Joyce Holland Literary Hoax
From 1972 to 1975, Morice perpetrated a literary hoax: "He invented 'Joyce Holland', a minimalist poet and performance artist who had no small effect on the poetry world." She wrote concrete and minimalist poems and sent submissions to literary magazines, 29 of which published her work. James Mechem, editor of Out of Sight, invited her to be a guest editor. Shemetaphor of a city to present in 26 chapters the wordplay of letters, sounds, and meanings. The Dictionary of Wordplay gathers over 2,000 types of word games and wordplay forms into a single volume. In the Times Literary Supplement of London, a reviewer wrote: "The most ingenious publication of the century so far is The Dictionary of Wordplay."

Artwork

Morice's artwork includes pen and ink drawings, pencil drawings, acrylic paintings, acrylic murals, and collages. He has also made artworks using less common methods and materials, such as Painted World Globe, Carved Yoyo, Cut Poker Cards, Pecan Portraits, and others. Scrabble Jacket was made by gluing hundreds of Scrabble tiles to a corduroy sport coat. The World's Tallest Tophat, about 12' high, had pages from The Word Circus, a book he


study participants was much larger than that attributed to gender or age in previous studies. Markstrom and Marshall administered the PIES to university and high school students in the United States \[[@B24]\]. They found differences between male and female respondents in mean total PIES score with females generally scoring higher. The average difference in total PIES score attributed to gender in their study cohort was 10.8. In addition, Markstrom and Marshall identified differences in total PIES scores between high school and university students, with high school students generally scoring lower. The average difference in total PIES score between these high school and university students was 5.6. Among our study sample, after adjusting for age, gender, psychological distress, and intelligence, the average group difference between opioid dependent and non-drugPassionate about IP! Since June 2003 the IPKat has covered copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech, privacy and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective. The team is Eleonora Rosati, Annsley Merelle Ward, Neil J. Wilkof, and Merpel. Nicola Searle is currently on sabbatical. Read, post comments and participate! E-mail the Kats here

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Friday, 10 March 2017

The UK Intellectual Property Office has kindly informed us that they are opening a research bid into the effectiveness of the UK's IP enforcement framework. In their own words:

"UK IPO will be inviting bids for research into the effectiveness of the UK's IP enforcement framework.

Next week the UK IPO will be inviting bids for


the door was held in place by the hinge, the hinge pin, and the hinge's supporting screws.
With a deadbolt system, an engaged deadbolt is disposed inside and in between the door and the door frame, thereby resisting intrusive forces directed against the outside of the door. However, if the deadbolt is disengaged, malfunctioning, or otherwise compromised, the hinge will rotate freely allowing the door to open. Even if the deadbolt is properly engaged, an intruder who has entered through a window may typically open a door from the inside without disturbing the deadbolt by removing the hinge pins and urging the door out of its frame.
A hinge lock adds to the integrity of a conventional door-security system by preventing rotation of the door about its hinges in theGrub Street and Eater, along with a range of tech publications like Wired and PC Mag. In June 2018, the company opened its first kiosk on the streets of downtown San Francisco.

Seventy-three percent of the tasks that workers perform in food service and accommodations have automation potential. However, many restaurants that tried to automate their operations have failed, due to high fixed costs and technical complexities.

For example, CaliBurger, which purchased the burger-flipping robot Flippy to aid cook staff, got off to a rocky start, ultimately sending Flippy on an extended vacation for some “upgrades” after just one day of work.

Yet Cafe X has been able to stay in the game, control its costs, and hook customers, by focusing narrowly on coffee drinks. In addition to taking a customer’s


James Beard Award-winning chef Cortney Burns (formerly of Bar Tartine in San Francisco), represents a new generation of chefs creating change in their communities. Set to open in early 2019 in the former mill town of North Adams, Massachusetts, Loom’s menu will be based on local ingredients and historical recipes. Its underlying mission is to help spur the burgeoning arts economy and further investment in the post-industrial town.

In a time of rising regional inequality, where many small to mid-sized communities in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast continue to lag due to the lasting impacts of industrial decline, policy changes and partnerships in both the public and private sectors are funneling more money to these areas.

In 2017, the Chicago Fed published a report outlining strategies to support foundations andloss in the gain equalizer 10. In the example shown, the wavelength dependence of gain is canceled by the wavelength dependence of loss in the band 16 of the WDM signal light, thereby achieving gain equalization in the whole of the optical transmission line 6.
In the case that an EDFA is used as each optical amplifier 8, the wavelength dependence of gain of the EDFA is asymmetrical with respect to a wavelength axis in general. In contrast, the wavelength dependence of loss of one optical filter usable as an element of each gain equalizer 10 is symmetrical with respect to a wavelength axis in general. Accordingly, in the case that each gain equalizer 10 includes only one optical filter, the asymmetrical accumulated wavelength dependence of gain of the


gone home, reducing the 2016 overstay rate to just 0.68 percent, said the report, titled “Fiscal Year 2017 Entry/Exit Overstay report.”

By May 1, 2018, one-third of the 2017 overstays were gone, dropping the 2017 rate to 0.8 percent.

It is unclear if the 2017 overstays are departing faster than the 2016 overstays.

But that progress leaves at least 700,000 foreigners who arrived in 2016 or 2017 still living in the United States in May 2018.

Some of those overstays are children being flown into the United States by illegal immigrants who had arrived earlier, often by illegally crossing the Texas border.

Most illegal immigrants smuggle themselves across the Texas or California borders, but roughly 40 percent of the nation’s population of illegal immigrants are people who overstayed their legal visas. Over time,1,13,403 incidents of domestic cruelty complaints registered in India—in one year alone? A single incident can be blamed on the offender. But, when the statistics are this staggering, the problem cannot be regarded in isolation anymore.

Well-known social activist and academician, Dr. Ranjana Kumari highlights how centuries of social conditioning and rigid gender constructs have led to an unequal balance of power between men and women, which results in discrimination and, often, violence against the latter.

To better understand the problems surrounding women's safety in India, Tata Global Beverages commissioned a survey to understand public standpoint on the issue. Over 80% of the respondents believed that society plays a key role in creating a safer environment for women, while 93% affirmed that raising gender-sensitive children will lead to creating a


compulsory gender-sensitisation programmes across all schools is an organised way to take pre-activism to the masses. It allows citizens to proactively ask for change from the grassroots, in an impactful way.

Amitabh Kumar, Head of Media and Communication at Centre for Social Research, New Delhi, stresses on the importance of starting early. "Gender is a living subject and has to be taught hands on," he told HT Brand Studio over email. To explain the impact of such workshops, he narrated an anecdote from one that CSR conducted at a NDMC boys' school. "On our first visit, the toilet walls at the school were filled with profanities and sexual slurs. When we went back for our second training a month ago, the children had painted over those walls."

Kumar however assertsArgentine police arrest 'meteorite thieves' Published duration 31 May 2015

image copyright Getty Images image caption "El Chaco" found in Northern Argentina is the second largest meteorite ever found

Police in Argentina have arrested four men who appear to have been trying to steal more than a tonne of meteorites in the northern province of Chaco.

Highway police say they found more than 200 large pieces of meteorites hidden under the seats of a truck which they had stopped in a random check.

Three Argentines and a Paraguayan were arrested.

The province of Chaco is world famous for meteorites, which are protected under Argentine law.

Chaco contains an area known as "Campo del Cielo", or the "Field of Heaven".

It spreads out over an area of 1,300 sq km (500 sq miles) and is littered


reverberation is caused by an inertia oscillation of the ultrasonic transceiver, and the inertia oscillation is composed of an oscillation of an ultrasonic transmitting surface of the ultrasonic transceiver and that of a cylindrical tubular side wall, which are synthesized with each other.
The oscillation of the tubular side wall of the synthesized oscillations causes the inaccurate judgment of the ultrasonic clearance sonar. This reason is described hereinafter.
That is, the conventional ultrasonic transceiver comprises a housing having a plate-like bottom portion and a tubular side wall extending therefrom so that the bottom portion and the tubular side wall provide a cavity therebetween. The conventional ultrasonic transceiver also has a piezoelectric element mounted on an inner side of the bottom portion, and a rubber member as an oscillation absorption memberA Hamilton resident has described his shock at seeing a car "ripped in half" after a crash which killed four people on Friday night.

The victims -- aged 19, 20, 24 and 28 -- were travelling in a white Nissan Skyline which took a corner on the wrong side of the road and lost control, crashing into a van near Hamilton International Airport just before 10pm.

The van driver was taken to Waikato Hospital with serious injuries, including fractured legs.

Steve Hartland, who lives nearby, said he was watching television when he "heard a couple of cars screaming down the road".

"When I got out there, there was a Skyline ripped in half. The front half was on the road, the second half was up against the airport security fence."

Mr Hartland says


Attack on Titan (Japanese: 進撃の巨人, Shingeki no Kyojin ; lit. “Advancing Giants”) is a manga series first created by Japanese author Hajime Isayama and an anime series produced by anime studio Production I.G. Set in a post-apocalyptic, medieval fortified society from an alternate history, the story follows Eren Yeager, his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman and their friend Armin Arlert, who all enlist in the military to join the humanity’s epic battle for survival against a race of gigantic, destructive humanoids known as the Titans.yield.
Human kidney diamine oxidase was purified 1800-fold by heating the homogenate, treating it with a mixture of ethanol and chloroform, chromatography on CM-Sephadex, and followed by fractionation with ammonium sulphate and gel filtration through Sephadex G-200 (Shindler, 1976).
Preparation of diamine oxidase from human placenta was achieved by fractionation with ammonium sulphate; chromatography on DEAE-Cellulose and phosphocellulose, and gel filtration through Sephadex G-200 (Smith, 1967). This preparation of diamine oxidase was purified 515-fold, although it still contained haptoglobin and methemoglobin. Paolucci (1971) obtained a 9600-fold purification of placental diamine oxidase with an 8% yield. The proteins of the human placenta were extracted using an acetone powder technique and precipitated with ethanol absorbed on DEAE-Cellulose; fractionated with ammonium sulphate, chromatographed on DEAE-Collulose and subjected to gel filtration through Biogel A-5m.


Column chromatography incorporated DEAE-Sephadex with ionic strength and pH-gradient elution, together with affinity chromatography on Concavalin A-Sepharose. This gave a 30,800-fold purification with a 33% yield. Lin (1981) purified placental diamine oxidase in what was referred to as a one-step purification. In this procedure, placentae were homogenized and centrifuged, with the resultant supernatant applied to the affinity gel, cadaverine AH-Sepharose as was previously employed by Baylin (1975b). Elution of the enzyme was accomplished using chromotropic acid, and provided a 1800-fold purification of the enzyme which was homogeneous by SDS-gel electrophoresis.
Plasma diamine oxidase from women in the third trimester of pregnancy was purified 3000-fold with a 25% yield by means of an affinity sorbent sepharose, covalently linked with cadaverine (Baylin, 1975b). The enzyme was eluted from the adsorbent withShows

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The MidPack Podcast is the running podcast for runners that always celebrate the finish line, but are never quite satisfied with their finish times. Runners of all abilities that are working hard to become better runners and only competing with their former selves.
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