over his dead body and set it on fire.

Romel Chakma was the General Secretory
of the Naniyarchar unit of the Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP), which is the
student wing of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS). The latter
organisation is largely known for its long struggle against the Bangladesh
government for the recognition of the ethnic identity and rights of the
indigenous tribes of the Hill Tracts.

On 5th of April, 2017 Romel Chakma was taken by the Bangladesh Army
while he was out shopping. One, Major Tanvir was in charge of the operation.
Tanvir and his men believed that it is possible for a person to set a truck
ablaze with such physical disabilities. They literally dragged the slender
built him to the camp and tortured him for the whole day. His spirits told him
to keepregion. On 19th of April Romel breathed his last while he was
under treatment at CMCH.

His death put an end to his life but
not misery. At first, the army refused to give his family the dead body. Later
cremation took place on 23rd of April in the presence of the parents of the
deceased. The Army just wanted to give a small tribute to the so-called arson,
they had added kerosene to fasten up the cremation process. To help the
grieving family the army did not even let the parents get close to the body.
The police and the Army are blaming each other for the incident.

Kidnapping & Murder of Kalpana Chakma

The Romel Chakma incident is not the
first of its kind in Bangladesh. In 1996, another young political activist
Kalpana Chakma alongside with two of


her elder brothers was abducted by the
then lieutenant Ferdous Kaiser Khan and his men. The brothers were able to flee
away from their captors but nobody knows what really happened to her. It’s been
more than 20 years and she is still missing and her kidnappers are still at
large.

More recently, in late 2016 one of the
central leaders of PCP Bipul Chakma was arrested by the police while he was
taking his mother to the hospital, who was a cancer patient. Bipul’s mother
died a few days later and he was granted a parole for 7 hours to perform the
cremation rituals. However, the police did not remove the handcuffs even when
the religious formalities were performed. In the same year, around 2500 Santal
houses were burnt down by Bangladesh Police.

The mainstream media of the countryOne of the most recent incidents of such merit is the notorious rape
and murder case of one Shohagi Jahan Tonu.

Rape & Murder of Shohagi Jahan Tonu

On March 2016, Tonu’s body was found in
the Comilla Cantonment Area. Even though, when her body was recovered, it was
clearly visible that she was violated, yet the first autopsy claimed she
wasn’t. When the doctor who conducted the 2nd autopsy declared his findings of
sexual assault, he was threatened to be killed with his entire family. It’s
been over a year now, the murderers of Tonu are still to be identified.

Years after years, the crimes conducted
by the Bangladesh Army are going undocumented. One of the classic examples can
be during the period of the state of emergency from 2006 to end of 2008 the
price of lands took


country is injecting people from the
mainland just to have control over the locals. Over time, the governments build
232 military camps in the hilly area. However, since the peace accord around
119 camps has been called off.

From time to time, governments went no
holds barred just to rule over of the natives of the hilly areas. While the
mainland people got new schools, they got new camps. While a child in a Dhaka
or Rajshahi was excited to meet his/her new Math or English teacher, a Chakma
or Marma child had to witness inclusion of a new troop to the existing one to
inflict further horror onto them.

(Arnab Goswami is a blogger, online activist and former journalist from
Bangladesh. He has been writing on
various social issues, including but not limited to, minority rights, women
empowerment, rise offundamentalism, LGBTQ rights since 2008. Due to his
undaunted voice, he had been a target of the Islamists. Murders of several
like-minded bloggers-activists and the abstinence of any feasible action on the
part of the government had forced him to leave his beloved motherland.
Currently he is taking refuge in Germany.)


The invention is based on a wrapper shaping apparatus for packages. An apparatus of this kind known from German Pat. No. 694 305 and U.S. Pat. No. 3,140,643 has lateral folders, of which the folding edge in the upper position of the lateral folders is located in approximately the same plane as the top of the shaping mandrel, with air blower nozzles assigned to them. The air blower nozzles blow streams of air at the initially horizontally oriented side portions of the blank, thereby wraping them against the side walls of the shaping mandrel as the lateral folders move upward. The outer portions of the blank, which wrap around the top of the shaping mandrel, are also supposed to be set upright, out of their horizontal position, byNorwich High School Library Design

Norwich High School for Girls

Norwich High School for Girls newly refurbished library design and build project was declared officially open by Mr Chris Riddell, Children’s Laureate after an intense 6 week programme of works by Envoplan.

Library Design Case Study Video

Brief

Norwich High School always aims to put girls first. Involving the girls in the design process for their library design project was a natural step for this forward-thinking independent girls day school. This exciting project was a library that was split over 2 rooms. The fiction library is located in the original music room of the main school building. Adjacent to the fiction library is the non-fiction zone, which is also known as the Bettelheim library. Norwich High School for girls wanted to create a


library design that encouraged exploration and student interaction.

The space also needed to include a range of working zones and spaces so the girls could undertake different activities.

Challenge

The library space was divided across 2 rooms, each with their own distinct style. The original Jameson library within the main listed building has a traditional feel, with dark wood bookshelves and original ceiling details. The newer Bettelheim Library has a more modern light and airy feel. Bringing the 2 spaces together was achieved with an intelligent approach to the library design strategy.

Solution

Envoplan installed a range of interesting features in this library project, including the ever-popular snugglestor seating space. Flip-top tables, stylish seating and collaboration tables with digital screens are all part of the scene in this creative library design project. Weconnected the original library with the newer space by using a traditional wallpaper. This was included in wall panels in the original listed building, and carried through onto the inside of the archway in the modern library area.

Throughout the project, the girls were fully involved in the design process. The library team, including both staff and students met regularly with our designers. The final scheme proposed was the result of extensive collaboration. The end result is a mix of sophisticated yet modern fabrics and finishes that connect and define the two spaces, each with their own distinct style.

We also manufactured bespoke shelving in curving shapes, encouraging exploration and discovery.

The finished library design project has made a profound difference to the school, and the students feel happier about being


four sides are a classroom, a cafeteria, field trips, and a playground. The player earns 100 points to earn a milk cap. There are 30 math caps in green, 30 reading caps in red, 20 nature caps in blue, and 20 time caps in yellow. 60 milk caps are colored in Christmas and 40 milk caps are colored in UCLA.

Reception

A reviewer from Superkids recommended the game from younger players, who would not become bored from the repetitive tasks and activities.

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Category:Video games developed in the United Statesodd melodies and chords with ease as he sang his well crafted folk style love tunes. It was easy to see how Danny has come to effect/influence so many different bands.

It's not easy to get up on stage in front of a raging crowd and open with just a guitar. Furthermore, even greater challenges arise when it comes to entertaining the crowd. Danny Barnes succeeded with a soft-spoken voice and a smile on his face. Before long, his set concluded. I knew this would not be the last we would see of Danny for the evening.

The anticipation grew in the room as the stage sat vacant. Party favors were being handed out, the balloons were restrained in the netting waiting for the new year and the venue started


to approach capacity. With a roar from the crowd, Greensky Bluegrass took the stage. I wondered where this evening would go, and what surprises Greensky would have up their sleeves.

The first set began with drawn out, and well thought out jams. They seemed to explore the bounds of the bluegrass/rock genre. One Beatles tune led to two... Then three, four, five, etc. Concluding with Greensky playing the whole B-side of "Abbey Road". The crowd was into it, and though I wasn't initially excited about their choice of antics, I did find myself enjoying the music. Paul Hoffman (Mandolin) did a great job covering the vocal aspect of the material, as the rest of the band backed Paul. You could feel the energy between the band and the crowd,at times the crowd singing louder than the band.

Set break brought a lot of spaced out conversation and increased anticipation of the second set. After some time, I glanced down at my cell phone to see that midnight was approaching. I looked back up to the stage to see Greensky taking the stage with "Stop That Train"...

The second set featured some great instrumentation and original Greensky tunes. With Danny Barnes as a guest on several songs, Dave Bruzza (Guitar), Michael Bont (Banjo) and Anders Beck (Dobro), Michael Devol (Bass) & Paul tore apart the stage.

As the night progressed, the crowd (myself included) got sloppier and sloppier, until there was just music. I closed my eyes and could feel it to my core. Though my plans for the evening


Located in the southern suburb of athens near the sea, this project is split into 3 plots. In two plots 9 buildings that share the same language. Three tower houses, three double unit buildings, and three single unit buildings. The complexity of the program is also transmitted to the aesthetic composition of each of them getting as a result a vibrant and attractive unified whole.

In a separate plot one building is located. Has 7 units with different characteristics and sizes, that while it preserves several elements from the other buildings, it stands out as a transparent, permeable, lit unit.

Views, comfort, simplicity and elegance can describe each of the units that, while they make part of a whole project, each has its own disctinctive and unique characteristic that separatesit from the other.

Tower house complex

Ελληνικό, 20,000 m2

Located in the southern suburb of athens near the sea, this project is split into 3 plots. In two plots 9 buildings that share the same language. Three tower houses, three double unit buildings, and three single unit buildings. The complexity of the program is also transmitted to the aesthetic composition of each of them getting as a result a vibrant and attractive unified whole.

In a separate plot one building is located. Has 7 units with different characteristics and sizes, that while it preserves several elements from the other buildings, it stands out as a transparent, permeable, lit unit.

Views, comfort, simplicity and elegance can describe each of the units that, while they make part of a whole project, each has its


citrus and white flowers aromas introduce a silky texture.

This champagne is complex, powerful and well balanced.

GAULT & MILLAU 2019 – 17/20

GILBERT & GAILLARD 2015 & 2016 – Gold

WINE SPECTATOR – August 2015 – 93 points

INTEGRAL – ZERO DOSAGE

40% CHARDONNAY – 60% PINOT NOIR

Dosage 0g/l – No malo-lactic fermentation

This cuvee is free from any dosage at all. It is fruity, nervy, light, perfectly balanced. It offers floral notes on the nose and a very nice tenacity in the mouth. Specially dedicated to be served with oyster or sea food.

INTERNATIONAL WINE CHALLENGE – 2017 – Sylver

WINE SPECTATOR – October 2016 – 90 points

WINE ENTHUSIAST – September 2015 – 90 points

PREMIER CRU BRUT

75% CHARDONNAY – 25% PINOT NOIR

Dosage 4g/l – No malo-lactic fermentation

A pale gold robe, the nose is fresh. Onthe lively palate, the majority of aged chardonnay reveals a great variety of aromas. Its fine acidity is in harmony with its magnitude and elegance.

A champagne to be served as an aperitif or a perfect pairing with fish.

GILBERT & GAILLARD 2019 – Gold

GUIDE HACHETTE 2017 – 1 Star

WINE SPECTATOR – October 2016 – 91 points

DECANTER 2016 – Bronze

ROSE BRUT

50% CHARDONNAY – 50% PINOT NOIR

The robe is soft pink : an invitation to the eyes, strong on the nose with hints of strawberry, this champagne offers intensive fruity aromas.

The chardonnay that represents half of the blend is giving is freshness, but also longevity.

GILBERT & GAILLARD 2019 – 91 points

GUIDE HACHETTE 2016 – 2 stars

WINE SPECTATOR – November 2017 – 91 points

BLANC DE BLANCS BRUT

100% CHARDONNAY

Dosage 6g/l – No malo-lactic


and unity of those who oppose the interests of working people are such that the maintenance of maximum strength and unity among organized labor is imperative,” the CBC chairmen wrote in the July 7 letter.

The letter followed a June 30 meeting among 18 CBC members and labor leaders from both sides of the debate. Although union representatives had requested the meeting to discuss legislative priorities in the 109th Congress, the discussion soon turned to divisions within the labor movement.

Several CBC members expressed concern that the split would be hurtful to unions, their friends in Congress and their shared policy goals. Sweeney attended the meeting. Stern sent a representative.

Stern and his allied unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Laborers’ International Union, UNITE HERE, the United Food and CommercialBengal, Huddleson, and the Wright serum agglutination tests. Initial laboratory tests are performed at RAPS, with confirmation (through repeat tests) at the Republican APS.

The reporting district was assumed to be the origin of the infection for the individual and the locations of human brucellosis seropositives were aggregated to the 66 districts in Azerbaijan \[[@B6]\]. In order to analyze and describe the spatial and temporal distribution of the disease the 15-year study period was grouped into three, 5-year periods with the total number of new cases per period aggregated to the district level as follows: period 1 (1995 to 1999), period 2 (2000 to 2004), and period 3 (2005 to 2009). Cumulative incidences were calculated per district for each of the three, 5-year periods with the total number of


persists annually throughout much of the country, particularly the central region. These current analyses affirm the notion that brucellosis has become endemically established since the first documented reporting in the 1920s.

The results of this study indicated variation in the spatial and temporal distribution of brucellosis reporting in Azerbaijan. Spatial clusters of cumulative incidence were identified in each time period indicating localized areas of high case reporting with clusters predominant in the west early in the study during period 1 and then in the east during periods 2 and 3. Temporal clustering was higher during period 1, but persisted across periods 2 and 3. The median reporting of cases during the study period exceeded 500 cases annually with approximately 65% of districts reporting at least one case every yearlivestock population. High-High districts identified by the LISA analysis during the three time periods indicated a potential shift in the pattern of high case reporting as clusters of the disease present in the west during period 1were absent in periods 2 and 3. Spatial differences in the reporting of brucellosis over time may be a result of changes in agricultural production, with steep declines in production noted during the period 1991 through 1996 followed by efforts to gradually restore sustained agricultural output \[[@B29]\]. These changes have resulted in the subsequent spatial restructuring of agricultural production brought on by the abandonment of government controlled collective farms and animal processing facilities post-collapse of the Soviet Union \[[@B30]\]. Decollectivization marked a shift towards privatization of animals and farms beginning in 1996


Laura Huhtasaari is running for president of Finland as a candidate for the Finns Party. The party opposes mass immigration and Islamization, and for that reason its members are demonized and harassed, as happens to similar parties throughout the Western world.

Below is the latest campaign video from Ms. Huhtasaari. Many thanks to KGS for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

In a related story from Tundra Tabloids, campaign signs for Laura Huhtasaari are being defaced and destroyed. The situation seems very reminiscent of what happened to Donald Trump throughout his campaign in 2016.

Video transcript:Transforming RN Roles in Community-Based Integrated Primary Care (TRIP): Background and Content.
Given the large body of evidence linking physical and mental health and the impetus provided by health care reform and the Affordable Care Act, the time is ripe to engage nurses in community based, integrated primary care teams to holistically address psychiatric, mental health and substance abuse needs. There is a compelling need for curricular redesign and clinical innovation to prepare an RN workforce for practice in community based integrated primary care teams. To that end, a faculty team of primary care, interprofessional education and content experts developed the Transforming RN Roles in Community Based Integrated Primary Care (TRIP) program for BSN students in a large university in the southeastern United States. The primary goals of the


is hosted in secure data center and is accessible on the Internet. Users can access the WIPS console from anywhere on the Internet. A hosted WIPS implementation is as secure as a network implementation because the data flow is encrypted between sensors and server, as well as between server and console. A hosted WIPS implementation requires very little configuration because the sensors are programmed to automatically look for the server on the Internet over a secure TLS connection.

For a large organization with locations that are not a part of a private network, a hosted WIPS implementation simplifies deployment significantly because sensors connect to the Server over the Internet without requiring any special configuration. Additionally, the Console can be accessed securely from anywhere on the Internet.

Hosted WIPS implementations areto relax the moment they cross into this part of the United States. “We call it the Point Roberts sigh,” said Pat Grubb, who with his wife publishes the local newspaper, the All Point Bulletin.

Indeed, with all the focus on the security of the US’ southern border with Mexico, life appears laidback on this boundary with Canada. Driving Point Roberts’ northernmost street, Roosevelt Way, the international border is little more than a drainage ditch backing up to neatly trimmed hedges, planted to preserve Canadian homeowners’ backyard privacy, not their national sovereignty. Elsewhere, swing sets and football goalposts snuggle the boundary. The closest thing to a border wall is a shin-high concrete barrier marking the dead end of a neighbourhood road in the adjoining Canadian town of Tsawwassen.

But things


may not be as placid as they seem.

A persistent rumour describes Point Roberts as a popular resettlement site for the US Federal Witness Protection Program

A persistent rumour describes Point Roberts as a popular resettlement site for the US Federal Witness Protection Program, an initiative to assist informants who testify against criminals. Folklore says dozens of people have been given new identities and relocated here. In 2012, Atlantic.com’s City Lab suggested that 50 residents could be in the program.

After all, anyone who arrives by car from the rest of the US must pass through two international border stations: one to enter Canada, and a second to re-enter the United States at Point Roberts. And Canada has especially strict regulations prohibiting entry to people with criminal histories, providing additional safeguards.

TracyThe candidate's long-term goal is to identify cellular and molecular mechanisms that mediate the early events in nephrolithiasis. The candidate and his sponsor, Dr. F. Gary Toback, have developed an educational plan which foster acquisition of the investigative skills and techniques necessary to conduct state-of-the-art research in renal cell physiology, and provides the opportunity to apply these studies directly to patients with nephrolithiasis. Development of the candidate into an independent investigator will be facilitated b receipt of a Clinical Investigator Award. During the course of the proposed award, he will expand previous collaborative efforts with established investigators in the basic sciences at the University of Chicago, as well as initiate new collaborations which extend his studies into new fields. The candidate will have the unique advantage of close


Baltic Sea Cycle Route which leads through Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a beautiful trail in Northern Germany, which winds through idyllic scenery, Hanseatic towns, three islands and classic villages.

[EV10] Schleswig-Holstein

The Baltic Sea Cycle Route begins in the north at Teichweg border crossing in Flensburg and leads through Glücksburg, Eckernförde and Hohwacht, around the sunny island of Fehmarn as far as Lübeck-Travemünde. The route ends in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck whose medieval centre was the first complete old town in northern Europe to be declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO back in 1987.

[EV12] Lower Saxony

The Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park lies just off the coast and forms part of the Wadden Sea that was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2009. This intertidal zone extends alongthe Dutch and German North Sea coastlines all the way to Denmark, and provides a unique habitat for countless species of flora and fauna. The UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the Warehouse District and Kontorhaus District with the Chilehaus office building await cyclists in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg.

[EV12] Schleswig-Holstein

From the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, the route runs beside the River Elbe through Wedel, Uetersen and Glückstadt, then on to Brunsbüttel. After crossing Kiel Canal, the route continues along the North Sea Cycle Route via Dithmarschen as far as Husum. It then passes around the edge of Nordstrand peninsula, through Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, and ends in Klanxbüll on the Danish border.

[EV13] Greenbelt Germany

From the Barents to the Black Sea, there ran a barrier which displayed its


inhumane side most strongly in Germany. It cut up a country into East and West, separated families and friends for decades. And yet nature conquered the frontier strip. The "Green Belt" was created, with valuable habitats full of rare animals and plants. Since 1989, the BUND has been active in preserving the Green Belt, along with other organisations and government departments.

[EV13] Part 1 - North Sea Cycle Route - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The route starts to the west of Swinemünde, in Usedom Island Nature Park. From here, it runs close to the water along slightly hilly sections via the Hanseatic towns of Greifswald, Stralsund, Rostock and Wismar to the mouth of the River Trave on Privall peninsula before ending in the coastal town of Travemünde. UNESCO has added the old townsof Stralsund and Wismar to its list of World Heritage Sites as representative examples of the Hanseatic cultural heritage.

[EV13] Part 2 - Elbe Cycle Route North

This section of the EuroVelo 13 leads along the Elbe Cycle Route. It begins in Boizenburg beside the River Elbe, which is Germany’s second longest river, and continues south-east through the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of the Elbe River Landscape via the towns of Hitzacker and Dömitz to Schnackenburg.

[EV13] Part 3 - Iron Curtain Trail - Bavaria

The EuroVelo 13 signposted in the Upper Palatine Forest mostly remains on the German side of the border, crossing over near Rozvadov at the monument to opening of the Iron Curtain and the border museum. The route then crosses back over at Waidhaus and leads along the Bockl


Friedensroute

EuroVelo 3 continues along the Friedensroute linking the cities of Osnabrück and Münster. This modern cycle route traces the course of a historical riding trail through the Tecklenburger Land region. The city of Münster stands for the past and the future, a cultural stronghold and a cycling paradise, a diocesan city and a student city. The 1200-year-old metropolis shows how the old can also be young – with vibrant city flair, a compelling cultural programme and versatile leisure options.
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[EV3] Part 6 - 100 Castles Routes

The Pilgrims Route follows the 100 Castles Route for a total of 75 kilometres. Castles, palaces and manor houses are the treasures of the Münsterland region. They are testimonies to outstanding architecture. Past eras come to life again here. It is possible totime again. The route leads from the Siebengebirge upland range, past the metropolises of Cologne and Düsseldorf to the Lower Rhine in Bonn, one of the oldest cities in Germany. The former German capital looks back on a history spanning more than 2,000 years.
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[EV3] Part 9 - Water Castles Route

The final section of the Pilgrims Route follows the Water Castles Route. Countless moated castles and other historical and cultural highlights along the route remind of the times of lords and knights. The route leads from Bonn along streams and rivers and through fertile lowlands to Aachen. Aachen Cathedral, the city’s landmark, along with the cathedral treasury were the first two German cultural monuments to be added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites back in 1978.
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a GPS track, maps etc.

[EV5] Saarland-Radweg

The "Saarland-Radweg" (Saarland cycle path) leads you partly on old towpaths around the beautiful Saarland. In addition to historic towns such as Saarbrücken and Sankt Wendel, you will also see impressive landscapes in the Black Forest and Saargau. Sights such as the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte are spread along the way and invite you to discover them.

[EV5] Saar-Radweg

The family-friendly, completely flat route leads along the banks of the Saar from Sarreguemines in France to Konz, where Saar and Mosel meet. Particularly worth seeing are Saarbrücken with its baroque buildings, the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, the fortified city of Saarlouis, the city of Merzig with its Wolfspark, the Saar loop, the lifestyle provider Villeroy & Boch and thecan be felt the further one travels. The tour then continues along the Stockacher Aach tributary of the Rhine to Ludwigshafen beside Lake Constance where the Hohenzollern Cycle Route ends.

[EV6] Part 3 - Danube Cycle Route

From Tuttlingen, the Danube Cycle Route continues on to Ulm where the tallest church spire in the world (forming part of Ulm’s minster) can be visited. Countless historical monuments lie along the route that then passes through Ingolstadt, Regensburg and Passau before arriving at the border with Austria. In 2006, UNESCO added the Regensburg ensemble of the old town with the Stadtamhof district to its list of World Heritage Sites.

[EV7] Berlin-Copenhagen

From Berlin, the route continues northwards into the sprawling Brandenburg scenery, along the River Havel. On the way to the Baltic coast, the


Deontay Wilder is reportedly back in hospital after collapsing under the weight of a 30-roll pack of Kirkland toilet paper from Costco in Birmingham, Alabama.

The former heavyweight champion of the world lost his WBC title to Britain's Tyson Fury via a seventh round stoppage back in February, and has been suffering setbacks in his recovery ever since. A few weeks ago it was reported that he suffered multiple injuries trying on a Canada Goose coat in his local mall.

And now, reports suggest that the boxer collapsed whilst carrying a 30-roll pack of Kirkland toilet paper on his way to the cash register at the Costco store in Birmingham, Alabama, reinjuring his legs in the process.

Upon hearing reports that millions of people are stockpiling toilet paper due to theSearch

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By Frank Byronn Glenn –– In the name of frugality and responsibility, the Republicans, who have long wanted to eliminate or privatize the postal service, gave the U.S. Postal Service the Death Penalty in 2006.

What they did was insert into Postal Service operations a poison pill that they knew, if left un-amended, would amount the the contrived financial collapse of the postal service. In that 2006 law, Congress required the U.S. Postal Service fund in ten years the entire pension fund requirements for the next 75 years. The effect of this requirement was to force the postal service to set aside retirement pension funds for future employees for the next 75 years.

There is no other government, public, or private entity before, or


 On November 18, 2000, Choate went to an emergency room with chest pain,
was diagnosed with non-Q-wave myocardial infarction, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease/asthma, hypertension, and substance abuse, and underwent an
angioplasty. He filed an application for disability insurance benefits and
supplemental social security income on August 1, 2001, claiming that he has been
disabled since November 18, 2000, due to heart disease, asthma, and emphysema. On
August 14 and November 16, 2001, Choate filed claimant questionnaires, describing
worsening breathing problems and chest pain. Choate has undergone multiple
angioplasties with stent placements and several coronary angiographies. He claims
his conditions prevent him from performing his prior work as a laborer. He has
worked inconsistently as a landscaper, plumber’s assistant, construction laborer,
dishwasher, and maintenance worker.

       On January 8, 2002, Dr. Vincent Previt completedin a hot air balloon during the balloon launching. His balloon will be tethered, so that he can enjoy the view from the sky but return to earth in time to have a full day at the festival.

Hamza has been a patient at Children’s Hospital for most of his 7 years of life. The third grader was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was a baby, and has been undergoing chemotherapy ever since. He was visiting Children’s Hospital in Madera on a regular basis for treatment, but his mother, Areeje Hamza, said that he is doing well and is currently taking a break from chemotherapy.

“Being off (of chemo) for this long hasn’t happened for Adham ever,” Areeje said.

Adham is very outgoing, and Areeje said that he loves


people is okay, but rewarding Rosa Park with a gold medal for her role in the civil rights movement is not? WTF? I guess that in Ron Paul's world, Rosa Parks deserves to be treated worse than a slave owner. Great. And people wonder why Ron Paul is called a racist.

Update: Here's a copy of the bill. The part about using taxpayer money? Wrong. The medal was paid for by the sale of replicas.

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It gets worse when you consider the compensation thing (for human beings ) was actually rejected Paul's friends , Lew Rockwell and the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, promote Lincoln was wrong , supporters of Lincoln are part of a cult , that it was not a civil war but a fight by the south forThe Effects of Music Listening During Extraction of the Impacted Mandibular Third Molar on the Autonomic Nervous System and Psychological State.
Pain, anxiety, and nervousness related to dental procedures can cause acute changes in the autonomic nervous system. Music is widely accepted as a relaxation method during dental treatment; however, its effects during dental treatment are unclear. The authors explored the effects of listening to music during extraction of the impacted mandibular third molar on the autonomic nervous system and the psychological state and hypothesized that listening to music would suppress sympathetic nervous activity and decrease anxiety. In this prospective study, 40 patients scheduled for extraction of an impacted mandibular third molar were randomized into 2 groups: extraction without music (control group) and extraction while listening to music (music


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More insanity out of California with Mexicans crawling across the border, having babies and living off of the government.

An illegal immigrant couple with six children were already living in poverty. Then the quadruplets arrived. They're still in a daze.

With two teenage daughters at home and triplets still in diapers, Angela Magdaleno's family overflowed from a one-bedroom apartment in South Los Angeles that they strained to afford.Diapers had to be changed 15 times a day, feedings held every three hours. One triplet, 3-year-old Alfredo Jr., needed special attention because he was born with liquid on his brain and partially paralyzed.

Neither Magdaleno nor her husband speaks English, though she has been in the United States 22 years and he 28. Even her teenage daughters speak mostly Spanish; theirEnglish vocabulary is limited.Yet all of Magdaleno's 10 children are U.S. citizens. The triplets receive subsidized school lunches. All the youngsters have had their healthcare bills covered by Medi-Cal, the state and federal healthcare program for the poor.

Alfredo Jr. had been hospitalized all his life until recently. He's had three state-funded brain operations and will require several more, the family said. The couple receive $700 in monthly Social Security payments to help with his medical needs.

Meanwhile, Richard "Little DIck" Durbin says that (regarding illegal immigrants) It is ironic that we tell these talented young people to leave and then search the world over for nurses, doctors, scientists and engineers to boost our economy.

I can't wait for Durbin to get kicked out of office for all of his idiotic


innocent person who happened to be sitting quietly on his back porch, reading a compilation of Lord Byron's poetry and sipping Chamomile tea when jack-booted, government thugs jumped his back fence and dragged him to their cruisers and arrested him.

Poor little Neffy -- the police hurt his feelings, while they arrested him "for no good reason."

Cruz, 21, told the NBC 10 Investigators that police arrested him last Wednesday for taking a picture of police activity with his cell phone.

Police at the 35th district said they were in Cruz's neighborhood that night arresting a drug dealer. Cruz said that when he heard a commotion, he walked out of his back door with his cell phone to see what was happening. He said that when he saw the street linedwith police cars, he decided to take a picture of the scene."I opened (the phone) and took a shot," Cruz said. Moments late, Cruz said he got the shock of his life when an officer came to his back yard gate."He opened the gate and took me by my right hand," Cruz said. Cruz said the officer threw him onto a police ca, cuffed him and took him to jail. A neighbor said she witnessed the incident and could not believe what she saw."He opened up the gate and Neffy was coming down and he went up to Neffy, pulled him down, had Neffy on the car and was telling him, 'You should have just went in the house and minded your own business instead of trying to


as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."

She takes a page straight from Cindy Sheehan's playbook when she visits a local Children's hospital in Iraq and claims that because of US occupation, babies are being born with cancer and they can't get the medicines that would save their lives because of the US embargo.

What pabulum!

The MSM gives her a pass because, again like Sheehan, she is praised for her courage and commitment. What courage does it take to stand up and act as benefactor for kids in a war?!?!!? Princess Diana pulled the same tactic by "taking a stand" on LandMines. Wow! Now there's a burning issue to tackle. Don't go out and demonstrate against Muslim extremists. Don't go out and fightEnlightened Women - just launched a new website.

I caught an interview on Laura Ingraham's show today with the spokesperson for NeW. She says that she initially went to her university's "Womans' Issues" department to see if she could get them to participate in the Conservative Bookclub for women idea and the tolerant, diverse and oh-so-liberal female department director told her, "Not here."That is Liberal-speak for "Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out!"

In September of 2004, a group of students founded the Network of enlightened Women (NeW) at the University of Virginia. The mission of NeW is to foster the education and leadership skills of conservative university women. NeW is devoted to expanding the intellectual diversity on college campuses.NeW was started as a


bats when he was asked by the site's foreman to provide proof of citizenship.

Shots were fired at a Hamilton Twp. construction site in Warren County Friday and the owner of a construction company beaten in retaliation for the firing of an undocumented worker, according to Hamilton Twp. police.Police responded to a shots fired call around 1 p.m., in which the male caller told them Mexicans were shooting at him.Two men were injured, according to police, after the man who earlier had been fired from a construction company allegedly returned with about eight other men  armed with three handguns and several baseball bats.

Steve Malanga at City Journal reports on how the importation of unskilled illegal immigration hurts our economy. From his article :

Since the mid-1960s, America has welcomedlistening to the ManCow show. The superficiality of the cast and the skits, the barely-funny phone pranks and ManCow Muller's own incessant, adolescent mewlings was barely tolerable. None of the material was original or funny. Sure, he had spontaneous moments during some phone interviews but even those interviews seemed overly contrived and wooden. ManCow seems to have taken a page directly from the world of professional wrestling when developing his show. There were characters that fit into unique categories. He had Al Roker (angry black man), Love Cheese (asian), Prison Bitch (slackjawed GenX white kid), Turd (Fat, stupid Italian mope), Brian the Whipping Boy (gay intellectual), Ryan the gay Mexican (latino), Sludge (Heavy metal dude), Yelling Guy (yells), and Ballz (hooligan). The characters would play off each other


The music and lyrics were terrible. One song of his they played had the following lyrics as the main verse: White skin / Black heart / Some nigger overturned my applecart That this guy is a music critic, with no musical talent, is pure irony. Derogatis is still working in the music critique business. He hosts "Sound Opinions" on Sunday nights over at WXRT.

One redeeming quality to ManCow is that I think he's a Republican - but that is unconfirmed. Too bad he didn't bring more political stuff into his show - maybe that would have made a difference.

But at the end of the day all you can say about ManCow and his Morning Madhouse was that it was flat, onedimensional and boring. You can only go sosupporting the war, supporting our troops nor in adding anything to our Right To Free Speech in this country. It has consistently shown itself to be a Leftist, traitorous organization.

09 July 2006

Jihad Watch reports that the Church of England is close to officially rejecting England's patron saint, St George, on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims.

Clergy have started a campaign to replace George with St Alban, a Christian martyr in Roman Britain.The scheme, to be considered by the Church's parliament, the General Synod, has met a cautious but sympathetic response from senior bishops.But it clashes with the increasing popularity of the saint and his flag in England. The World Cup brought out millions of St George crosses as the symbol became increasingly


mainstream and less frequently dismissed as a badge favoured only by far-Right political activists....

Here is where the utter ignorance of the quisling, dhimmis in England is most apparent.

St. George is a mythic entity. Removing him as a religious icon makes as much sense as taking away the image of the cross because it represents the idea of suffering.

This is utter insanity. The Church is actually considering removing this Saint in order to mollify the feelings of Muslims who immigrated to England and are now living there. The Koran recognizes St. George as a valid religious icon, not that that should matter. Muslims aren't protesting the Flag of St. George, nor are they upset about the image of him slaying a dragon. (hint to Church leaders: there aren't actuallyhas been on a U.S. death row in Pennnslylvania for 20 year. The African Amercian journalist was convicted of killing a police officer in a trial that has caused international controversy.

France is losing its heritage, language and culture because of uncontrolled immigration. They are the worlds' High Priest in the church of cultural diversity. You should be able to look at the dismal events that have been happening in France, just over the last few years, and see some alarming warning signals that we have to start dealing with.

06 July 2006

Sony is using the photo of a white model grasping the face of a black woman in a "disruptive" ad for its new PlayStation Portable. Some have questioned whether the ad campaign is racist. It is interesting to


note that there is an immediate public charge of racism when the photo shows a white person holding a black person in a position of domination, but there has been no public reaction to the Red Stripe beer ads in which a black man dressed in a tuxedo tells a white man that he is ugly. In the ad, the black man turns to the camera and says his tagline in a Jamaican accent, "Red Stripe beer. Making ugly people beautiful for over 40 years." In another Red Stripe ad, the same pitchman is standing with a frumpy, overweight white man and accuses the white man of having no "rhythm". Again the tagline is, "Red Stripe beer. Giving white people rhythm for over 40 years."

A new billboard advertdictator just kept making more and more demands. And thanks to a lack of action by, notably and not surprisingly, Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton - we now find ourselves playing Nuclear War brinkmanship with an unstable and dangerous asian regime.

Both North Korea and Irans nuclear diplomacy are testaments to how Western diplomats reward intransigence. Take North Korea: During a June 30, 2006, American Enterprise Institute panel, Danielle Pletka pointed out the pattern: On August 31, 1998, Pyongyang fired the Taepodong-1 missile over Japan. Three months later, U.S. officials held the first round of high-level talks in Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il demanded to be rewarded for ceasing his provocations. He was. The following year, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry visited North Korea to offer normalized relations


did. On July 2001, it conducted a Taepodong-1 engine test. All the while, Kim Jong Il cheated. The Bush administration did not initially agree to accept North Korean smoke-and-mirrors. In October 2002, the Bush administration announced that Pyongyang had operated a covert nuclear-weapons program in violation of its 1994 agreement. Diplomats may celebrate treaties. Many who helped negotiate the 1994 Agreed Framework have meritorious service certificates framed on their wall. But agreements are meaningless if not adhered to, and seldom do autocracies stick to agreements if they gain more through noncompliance.

Bush needs to get tough and committ some actions to rein this nitwit in before it is too late.

04 July 2006

230 Years ago today, the greatest nation on God's green earth was born. The United States of Americaand unique about America come from you - the fearless fighting men and women.

CONCORD HYMNSung at the Completion of theBattle Monument, July 4, 1837

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

The foe long since in silence slept,Alike the Conqueror silent sleeps,And Time the ruined bridge has sweptDown the dark stream which seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,We set to-day a votive stone,That memory may their deed redeem,When like our sires our sons are gone.

Spirit, that made those heroes dareTo die, or leave their children free,Bid Time and Nature gently spareThe shaft we raise to them and Thee.

03 July 2006

British opinion of US policy is the lowest in almost


theories and downright hysterical fabrications about historical events.

History is colored by the views and discretions of the historians who write it and, history is said to be written by the winners. But there are many relevant correlations between the current war in Iraq and WWII. And it is interesting to note that there were many people in the US and Britain who didn't want to get involved in what was slowly being recognized as a Fascist movement in Germany. Winston Churchill, now beloved in conservative circles, was irritating to many of the Brits. They remembered that Churchill had supported and sponsored the failed Dardanelles Campaign. To this crowd Churchill was percieved as a busybody. There were signs posted around London which read, "What price Churchill?" But "Winnie" knewof other nations." Hitler was saying exactly what the appeasement doves in England wanted to hear.

When Mussolini decided to send Italian forces into the Suez Canal in order to prove "that the Ethiopians are a barbaric people, sunk in the practice of slavery"- 30,000 Ethiopians were slaughtered. The Council of the League of Nations talked of stopping Il Duce by engaging in an oil embargo. The problem? There was no one around who could enforce such an embargo against the Italians.

Sound familiar?

It should. Our own United Nations, as with the League of Nations, has been shown to be an ineffective force in enforcing international sanctions. While the UN was slapping Saddam on the hand for not allowing inspectors to do their jobs in Iraq, he was turning around


NEW YORK - Civil libertarians are worried that a little-known anti-terrorism bill now making its way through the U.S. Congress with virtually no debate could be planting the seeds of another USA Patriot Act, which was hurriedly enacted into law after the al Qaeda attacks of Sep. 11, 2001.

The Violent Radicalisation and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, co-authored by the former chair of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, Jane Harmon, a California Democrat, passed the House by an overwhelming 400-6 vote last month, and will soon be considered by the Senate.

The bill's co-author is Republican Congressman David Reichert of Washington State. The Senate version is being drafted by Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is chaired by thehawkish Connecticut independent, Sen. Joe Lieberman. Harmon is chair of the House Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee.

Civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), say the measure could herald a new government crackdown on dissident activity and infiltration of universities under the guise of fighting terrorism.

The CCR's Kamau Franklin, a Racial Justice Fellow, told IPS, 'This measure looks benign enough, but we should be concerned about where it will lead. It may well result in recommendations for new laws that criminalise radical thought and peaceful dissent, posing as academic study.'

Franklin added, 'Crimes such as conspiracy or incitement to violence are already covered by both state and federal statute. There is no need for additional criminal laws.'

He speculated that Congress 'may


States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives').

The bill also directs the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to designate a university-based research 'centre of excellence' where academics, policy-makers, members of the private sector and other stakeholders can collaborate to better understand and prevent radicalisation and homegrown terrorism. Some experts are concerned that politics will unduly influence which institution DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff will designate.

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Chertoff was head of the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and played a key role in implementing the department's roundup of hundreds of Muslims who were detained without charge, frequently abused, and denied access to legal counsel.

Critics of Harmon's bill point out that commission members would all beappointed by a high-ranking elected official. Those making these appointments would include the president, the secretary of Homeland Security, the speaker and ranking member of the House, the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, and senior members of the House and Senate committees overseeing homeland security.

Critics also fear that the bill's definitions of 'extremism' and 'terrorism' are too vague and its mandate too broad, and that government-appointed commissions could be used as ideological cover to push through harsher laws.

Congressional sponsors of the bill claim it is limited in scope. 'Though not a silver bullet, the legislation will help the nation develop a better understanding of the forces that lead to homegrown terrorism, and the steps we can take to stop it,' Harman told Congress.

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Koch Foods

Koch Foods is a food processor and distributor in Park Ridge, Illinois that is listed by Forbes Magazine as number 163 on the list of the largest private companies in the US. As of October 2014, the company had a revenue of $3 billion, and approximately 14,000 employees. The company is owned by Joseph Grendys.

History
The company was founded in 1973. Until 1985, it was a "one-room" chicken processing outfit with 13 employees, primarily conducting de-boning and cutting. The company began growing with the addition of feed mills and slaughterhouses. Now Koch Foods is an international poultry processor that deals in fresh and frozen offerings. The company does business under the Koch Foods, Antioch Farms, Preferred Foods, and Rogers Royal brands. It also has private label products.Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he was still optimistic for the repeal of Obamacare after being one of the foremost critics that helped defeat the GOP replacement bill Friday. He also talked about how he encouraged the Freedom Caucus to defeat the bill by using tips from President Trump's book, "The Art of the Deal."

He made the comments to Eric Bolling on Fox News.

"I want to show our audience a little piece of tape from earlier in the week," Bolling said, "where you actually went to the House Freedom Caucus side, and I guess you were teaching them the 'Art of the Deal.'"

"I brought you all a gift tonight," Paul said to the Freedom Caucus. "'The Art of the Deal.' I do think it's important as we go


set up its own EV charging infrastructure (dubbed AtherGrid) in all cities before it commences sales of its electric scooter. It has also earmarked an Rs 130 crore investment to set up 6,500 charging points by 2022. Read about the Ather Grid here.

The product

The Ather electric scooter will be offered in two variants – 340 and 450 (it had only showcased the Ather S340 prototype, a few years back). Both the scooters are identical in terms of styling, dimensions and features. However, the Ather 450 sports a higher capacity and output from its electric motor and battery pack. The Ather 340 is powered by a 4.4kW motor with a torque rating of 20Nm. It has a claimed top speed of 70kph and a 0-40kph acceleration time of 5.1sec.for the Ather 340 and 450. The battery pack has a three-year/ unlimited kilometre warranty with 70 percent charge holding capacity and the warranty also covers manufacturing defects for three years (excluding cable, connector and physical wear and tear).

Company background

Ather Energy was founded by IIT graduates Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain in 2013 and the first prototype of the electric scooter was showcased in 2016. The company received $1 million (Rs 6.72 crore, approximately) funding from Flipkart founders, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, in 2014. Two years down the line, it received a major boost when Hero MotoCorp invested Rs 205 crore into the company for a 26-30 percent stake. Ather has setup an assembly plant in Whitefield, Bengaluru, with a current capacity to build 20,000 scooters per


finally have the chance to experience what makes life worth living?

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Homecoming is a visual novel about nostalgia, romance, living life to the fullest, reconnecting with old friends, and learning to face your demons, all wrapped up in the cute Japanese kemono aesthetic. The game Homecoming is based on, Morenatsu, is considered to be one of the classic entries in furry culture. Although it was cancelled in 2015, dedicated fans have continued to keep its legacy alive through fanworks such as this. While rough around the edges, the original game captured many hearts, including the members of the Stormsinger Studios development team. We aim to create the best visual novel we can make, doing justice to the source material that has inspired so many like us.

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The game isbeing a Club with membership drawn from clubs and universities from all over the UK and from all around the world. Women first became Full Members of the Club in 1997 and are now fully integrated within the Club

The basic requirements for Full Membership have traditionally been “Good fellowship and excellence in the rowing, sculling, coxing or coaching of high performance in fine racing boats.” However, the Committee can also admit Full Members based on their services to rowing.

One important message is that individuals do not have to be invited to join the Club - anyone with the right qualifications is welcome to apply - you just need a proposer and a seconder.

Message from the President

After one of the
worst ever winters for rowing – the majority of the


business,
every institution – there are no exceptions. On Tuesday the Committee took the
inevitable decision to close the Club for all activities. Our athletes have
been allowed to take equipment home to continue their training – on Monday
evening I followed one of our women rowers across Henley Bridge,
towing an ergometer over her shoulder!

Henley Royal Regatta
has been cancelled, the announcement being made on the same day as the Olympic
Games in Tokyo were
postponed to 2021. This has had a huge impact on our Leander rowers – both
those at Caversham with Team GB and those training at the Club. Some will face
the challenging decision to continue for one more year than they had planned –
some may decide to call it a day. Happily, for most of our rowers training from
the Club their targetmoney, and Apple makes more money than anyone else in the world, from hardware.

However, not all among the Apple faithful are convinced. In light of the news between Swift and Apple, one reader of iMore asked pundit Rene Ritchie the following question: "Have u ever had an inkling of a thought that Apple might be at fault, for anything?" Ritchie's reply: "I blame them for generations of really sub-standard mice. That count?" Ritchie was, of course, joking. He's been responsible for significant critique in the past. However his response well-encapsulates much of Apple news coverage today.

The "New Apple" and Developers

The cordial manner with which Swift handled Apple was matched by the quick response by Apple's Vice President of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. In an unprecedented and


reason." Wiskus remarked that perhaps Swift's easygoing letter "ensures that we get a better deal when app streaming shows up in a few years." As of yet, there is hardly any indication that this will happen. Unfortunately, the opportunity to find out whether we might be seeing improved prospects for app development just slipped through our fingers.

Feet to the Fire

Last week, in discussing the question of the arrival of a "New Apple", I recounted the famous Gruber-Schiller interview on John Gruber's podcast The Talk Show. In the latest episode, Gruber's guest, Guy English, admitted of Schiller's performance, "As forthcoming as he (Schiller) was, he didn't say anything counter to the messaging of Apple. He's very good at his job." In essence, Schiller gave what was to be expected:of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, the 2012 and 2018 U.S. Senate races when Sherrod Brown was on the ballot each time, and the combined U.S. House votes in the last two elections. Only 6% of the city's voters are in Rep. Joyce Beatty's district, the rest in Rep. Troy Balderson's district.Rich Exner, cleveland.com

For example, there was nearly a 13-point swing in the presidential vote. In 2012, Republican Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama, 53.4% to 45.1% in Westerville. But in 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton won there over Trump, 49.6% to 45.2%.

Upper Arlington also flipped from red to blue in the last presidential election, as did Hilliard. And although Dublin remained in the GOP corner, Trump squeaked out a 48.3% to 47.5% win there where Romney had easily


look back for another comparison to 2012, when Brown was part of the Ohio ticket and Obama was a winner in Ohio.

The trend holds. The Democrats did better in the combined federal vote in each suburban city in 2018 than they did in 2012.

In Westerville, the GOP outpolled Democrats, 56% to 42%, in the races for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and president in 2012. With the Senate and House up for grabs in 2018, Democrats won the Westerville vote, 56% to 43%.

Dublin went from a 26-point Republican win in 2012 to a 4-point Democratic win in 2018. Upper Arlington went from 12 points in favor of the Republicans in 2012 to 11 points in favor of the Democrats in 2018. And in Worthington, the winning margin foreducated, perhaps in part because it is home to Otterbein University, a private school of 2,900 students . Among city residents, 51% of those age 25 and older have at least a bachelor’s degree, in comparison to 27% for Ohio.

Though Westerville is less diverse (15% minorities) than the state as a whole (21%), it is much more diverse than the many rural counties in Ohio.

And while Ohio’s population has been relatively flat for years, the suburb covering parts of Franklin and Delaware counties is growing - from 36,120 in 2010 to an estimated 40,387 in 2018.

As for Kasich - the most famous Republican in the area as a former governor and presidential candidate - though he calls Westerville home, he technically lives in a township a couple thousand


Jewish mystical teachings were always an integral part of the Oral Law and were transmitted together with the rest of the Oral Law by Moses to Joshua, through the era of the Prophets and the Men of the Great Assembly, until the time of the redactors of the Talmud. The Five Books of Moses and the Prophets describe numerous mystical visions and experiences but do not explain them or the methods used to achieve them.

The methods of achieving prophecy were expounded in an oral tradition...

There is no doubt that explanation and the methods of achieving prophecy were expounded in an oral tradition, just like the rest of Torah. However, because of their esoteric nature, these mystical teachings were not published together with the remainder of the Oral Law.many centuries, although its present form, following the order of the weekly Torah portions, is of a much later date, most likely from the period of the Geonim, and there are some interpolations from these late editors. (This explains why names of sages who lived several generations after Rashbi also appear in the Zohar). They became revealed only in the thirteenth century and were published by one of the leading kabbalists living in Spain, Rabbi Moshe de Leon. Some believed that the Ramban (Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman c. 4955-5030 [1194-1270 CE]), himself a renowned Kabbalist, had sent them from Israel by ship to his son in Catalonia, but the ship had been diverted and the texts ended up in the hands of Rabbi Moshe de Leon. (Shem HaGedolim,


Chida Sefarim, Zayin, 8) Others explained that these manuscripts had been hidden in a vault for a thousand years and had been discovered by an Arabian king who sent them to Toledo to be deciphered. Some maintained that Spanish conquistadors had discovered the manuscripts of the Zohar among many others in an academy in Heidelberg. (Shem HaGedolim, ibid.) Other explanations have also been offered. How exactly the Zohar came to be in the possession of Rabbi Moshe de Leon is thus not clear.

Rabbi Moshe de Leon began disseminating the text of the Zohar around the early 1300's. The prevailing academic opinion (although there are some notable dissenters) is that Moshe de Leon himself wrote the Zohar. These claims are based on the testimony of Rabbi Yitzchak of Acco,was in possession of the manuscript…

The entire account was recorded in Rabbi Yitzchak's Divrei HaYamim, but unfortunately no known manuscripts of this text are extant. Nevertheless, the majority of his account was published in Sefer HaYuchasin (Phillipovski edition, London and Edinburgh 1857) by Rabbi Avraham Zacuto (5185- c. 5275 / 1425- c. 1515 CE), although the conclusions Rabbi Yitzchak reached were not recorded. A paraphrase of the account follows:

Rabbi Yitzchak traveled to Spain, and he met Rabbi Moshe de Leon in Vallidolid. The latter swore under oath that he was in possession of the manuscript written by Rabbi Shimon. He averred that the manuscript was in his hometown of Avila and that he would gladly show it to Rabbi Yitzchak there. They parted company, and on the way


back home Rabbi Moshe took ill in Arevalo and died there. Rabbi Yitzchak was extremely upset by this turn of events but decided nevertheless to proceed to Avila. There he found a certain David di PanCorbo who divulged to him that he had clarified without any doubts that the a work called Zohar had never come to be in Rabbi Moshe's possession nor was there any such work in existence.

Rabbi Moshe had knowledge of the Holy Name by which writing is produced…

Rather, Rabbi Moshe had knowledge of the Holy Name by which writing is produced, and this is how he had written the book. He told Rabbi Yitzchak that Rabbi Moshe had written the Zohar and imputed it to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in order to extract largesums of money from the wealthy for copies of the manuscript. When he had heard of Rabbi Moshe's passing, he asked a certain very wealthy man, Yosef di Avila to ask his wife to attempt to acquire the manuscript from Rabbi Moshe's widow in exchange for his son marrying her daughter and a promise to support her for the rest of her life. According to David, both the mother and daughter swore that Rabbi Moshe had never possessed such a work. Rather, he had written it "from his head, his heart, his knowledge and intellect." When Mrs. de Leon herself had questioned Rabbi Moshe as to why he claimed to be copying a manuscript (as he would be better off if he told them that he himself had


written it), he replied that if he revealed that fact no one would be interested in buying it from him! But if he claimed they were the writings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, they would buy it at a high price.

Rabbi Yitzchak was stunned at these words and found them hard to believe. He traveled on to Talavera where he found a great sage named Rabbi Yosef HaLevi, the son of Rabbi Todros (Abulafia) the kabbalist. Upon making inquires from the latter he was told that without a doubt Rabbi Moshe had in his possession the work called the Zohar written by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, and he would make copies of it and distribute them to whomever he pleased [note that nothing about money was mentioned here- Ed.]. Rabbi Yosef then stated that he himself had put Rabbi Moshe to the test. A long time after Rabbi Moshe had given him a copy of many pages of the Zohar, Rabbi Yosef hid a few pages and claimed that he had lost them, and asked Rabbi Moshe for another copy of those pages. Rabbi Moshe requested to see the pages preceding and following the lost sections, and a few days later he provided Rabbi Yosef with an exact copy of the missing pages.

Rabbi Moshe's chief disciple…called heaven and earth to witness that the Zohar that was written by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai…

Rabbi Yitzchak decided to continue his investigations and traveled on to Tolitula, where they told him that Rabbi Moshe's chief disciple, a certain Rabbi


Last updated on .From the section Football

Scotland manager Craig Levein says "it's a no-brainer" to include Sunderland striker Steven Fletcher in his squad for this month's World Cup qualifiers against Wales and Belgium.

Fletcher has not been in the national set-up since making himself unavailable for selection for a friendly against Northern Ireland in February 2011.

quote It's a big plus for me and the rest of the team for him to be involved Levein on Steven Fletcher's return to Scotland squad

His inclusion is a surprise, given his and Levein's strained relationship.

The squad also sees the return from illness of midfielder Darren Fletcher.

He is back playing again for Manchester United after 10 months on the sidelines with a chronic bowel condition.

The midfielder won the last of his 58 Scotland capsin a friendly against Cyprus in November 2011.

On the recall of striker Steven Fletcher, 25, Levein said: "It's a big plus for me and the rest of the team for him to be involved. I got a phone call through a third party during the week and there was an indication from that person that Steven was desperate to come back and play.

"Things progressed between myself, this third party, his agent and the boy himself. I got a text saying he was willing to have a chat about it so I called him last night and he was desperate to come back and play.

Scotland squad facts Only four of the 25-man squad play in Scotland: Andy Webster of Hearts and Celtic trio Scott Brown, James Forrest and Charlie


Mulgrew

It seems if your name is Matt and you play for Blackpool, you only have one cap - that's the case for Messrs Gilks and Phillips

Kenny Miller is the senior player in the squad, both in terms of caps (62) and age (32)

"For me, then, it's a no-brainer."

Steven Fletcher has been in excellent form since joining the Black Cats in the summer in a move from Wolves that could land that club £14m.

He has scored five goals and has given Martin O'Neill's team the sort of cutting edge that Scotland fans crave for the national team after stuttering World Cup qualifying performances against Serbia and Macedonia.

The former Hibernian attacker's strike rate at international level is more modest, though, with one goal in his eight appearances.

Fletcher's absence from Scotlandbegan when he let a Scottish Football Association member of staff know by text that he did not wish to be called up by Levein.

The player felt that he had not been given sufficient chances to impress by the Scotland manager, despite the national side's struggle for goals.

Levein, for his part, had made it clear that, for Fletcher to be subsequently included, it was up to the player to show that he was completely committed to the cause.

The manager has often spoken about his efforts to forge a "club spirit" within the Scotland squad.

Last month, Fletcher's agent, Scott Fisher, claimed the SFA had been in contact a year ago to suggest a meeting to discuss the striker's international future.

Fisher says his client was in favour but maintains the


SFA did not follow up on the offer.

Celtic midfielder Scott Brown is another player returning to the Scotland squad. He missed the first two Group A matches with a hip injury.

Everton forward Steven Naismith has been included but he could be banned from the ties if Fifa decide his apparent elbow on Serbia's Srdan Mijailovic at Hampden deserves to be punished.

The incident was not included in the referee's or match commissioner's reports but football's governing body was made aware of the matter.

Scotland lie fourth in Group A, on two points from as many games, behind Belgium, Croatia and Serbia on four points.

Macedonia have one point from two matches, while Wales prop up the table after losing their opening games.

Squad to face Wales (12 October) and Belgium (16 October):

Goalkeepers

MattGilks (Blackpool), Allan McGregor (Besiktas), David Marshall (Cardiff City)

Defenders

Christophe Berra (Wolves), Gary Caldwell (Wigan Athletic), Daniel Fox (Southampton), Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers), Alan Hutton (Aston Villa), Russell Martin (Norwich City), Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic), Andy Webster (Heart of Midlothian)

Midfielders

Charlie Adam (Stoke), Scott Brown (Celtic), Darren Fletcher (Manchester United), James Forrest (Celtic), James McArthur (Wigan Athletic), Shaun Maloney (Wigan Athletic), James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion), Robert Snodgrass (Norwich City)

Forwards

Steven Fletcher (Sunderland), Jamie Mackie (Queens Park Rangers), Kenny Miller (Vancouver Whitecaps), Steven Naismith (Everton), Matt Phillips (Blackpool), Jordan Rhodes (Blackburn Rovers)


court's opinion in State v. Carpenter, 215 Kan. 573, 527 P.2d 1333. Petitioner was charged with the murder of Willis Upshaw. The state's evidence showed that petitioner and his brother owned and operated a security agency. Upshaw, an employee of the agency, was insured by the brothers and they had him killed in order to collect the insurance proceeds. The murder was carried out by another employee, Donald Brenner. After pleading guilty to second-degree murder Brenner testified for the state and told how he, petitioner, and petitioner's brother had planned the murder. Petitioner defended on the theory that he was not involved in the murder.
Petitioner was convicted in December, 1972, with sentencing being pronounced in February, 1973. Petitioner's direct appeal was decided in November, 1974. On February 19,as to only one of petitioner's three trial counsel and because petitioner failed to show the conflict had any qualitative effect on the representation by his counsel. The judge further concluded the defense afforded defendant was one of the "most thorough, industrious and effective defenses afforded any defendant in any criminal trial" he had observed in his fifteen years on the bench.
A motion for new trial, or, in the alternative, a motion to alter or amend judgment was filed by petitioner. A portion of the motion was heard on July 18, 1975, with the remainder being set for July 25, 1975. In the intervening period Judge Riggs was contacted by the then disciplinary administrator, Earl Hatcher. Although the substance of the conversation is not contained in the record,


then assigned the 60-1507 motion and, after reading a transcript of the evidence taken on the motion, found a conflict of interest and set aside petitioner's conviction. The state filed this appeal.
The first issue raised by the state concerns the timeliness of the filing of the affidavit of prejudice. The state argues the affidavit could not be considered as it had been filed too late in the proceedings. In order to determine the issue it is necessary to set *525 forth the contents of the affidavit. The document alleged Judge Riggs was prejudiced against petitioner for two reasons. First, it was alleged that Judge Riggs "owed" Rice a favor because of a grant made by the Governor's Committee on Criminal Administration to the Tenth Judicial District at aalready ruled against defendant on two occasions and the pending motion was only a formality.
We see the issue from a different perspective. The communication between the judge and the disciplinary administrator arose after the judge wrote Hatcher to inform him of Rice's apparent conflict of interest. The conflict arose from the fact Rice also represented the insurance company which might be required to pay death benefits to the brothers if they were not found guilty of murdering Upshaw. At the time of the communication the question was unresolved because civil litigation was pending to determine whether policies had been issued before Upshaw was murdered. Hatcher responded to Judge Riggs' letter by telephone. He told Judge Riggs that because no policies had been issued and there were only pending


   Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice (Chad A. Readler, Acting

1
 Judge Robert W. Sweet, the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation, was a
member of the panel who heard oral argument in this case. Judge Sweet passed away during the
consideration of this matter. Therefore, this case is decided by the two remaining members of the
panel pursuant to Internal Operating Procedure E(b) of the Rules of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit.
                               Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Cindy S. Ferrier,
             On Monday, the Olympic torch passed through the Amazonian town of Manaus in northern Brazil. As part of the planned route through the town, the torch visited a military training camp where commandos brought out a jaguar named Juma from their zoo for a photo shoot. Things quickly went south after the photo was taken, though—the jaguar escaped its handlers and, well…

From Portal Amazônia:

A team of handlers, made up of specialist veterinarians, went to capture the jaguar. They shot the animal with tranquilizers, though this did not stop it from approaching a commando. The jaguar was shot down with a pistol to ensure the safety of the crowd.

(Reuters has video of the torch ceremony here.)

Portal Amazônia spoke with the governmental Institute of Amazonian Environmental Protection (IPAAM) who said


Original Air date: June 26th, 2019

Caption: RJ Owens in studio to plug new season of Fool Us Behind the Scenes. Scoop Mail and Jock Vs. Nerd.

Running time: 1:51 (111 minutes)

Recording location: The Churn version 7

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Jacob's mom is in the studio.

RJ Starts off by talking about the first episode of Fool Us. Matt argues with RJ about the method used for Penn & Teller's trick for David Copperfield. RJ accepts it when Jacob states that there was no deck switch.

Paul has started a new gig at the Absinthe tent and he states he is suited and booted.

The hosts have a conversation about support dogs for people with wheelchairs. This includes someone that took a dog in with them to triage in an Emergency Room. The dog's nameComics From Mars #1 (by Paul Pope), and King City volume 1 from Tokyopop (by Brandon Graham), I found the Cherry Darling amputee model, and got her picture (along with a mob of other photogs)!

My wife, Tami, made it to the show, for the first time this trip, around quarter to 5, just in time to hit the Lost season 4 panel... I'll try and upload some pics on that later...Sounds like they basically highlighted how "everything ties together, and they know where it's all going", ha ha. Look forward to more flash forwards, the Dharma initiative fully revealed early on, the return of Michael (who appeared as a surprise guest on the panel), and the significance of Rousseau and her story over the next two seasons.

Tomorrow I've


Millions travel for China's Lunar New Year festival

Thousands of people wearing thick coats and clutching suitcases line up in freezing conditions at Beijing Railway Station in the hope of snagging a ticket home for China's Lunar New Year.

They are among hundreds of millions of migrant workers travelling to far-flung towns and cities to see their families and celebrate the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar, which falls on January 28 this year.

The demand for tickets is so high that some people spend days trying to snare seats on public transport for the annual mega migration. Qi Xi is one of the lucky ones.

Unable to nab a high-speed rail ticket to whisk him from Beijing to his hometown in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang in just four hours,Qi will have to spend almost a full day on a hard, uncomfortable seat to reach his destination.

But he's not complaining

"My coworker who's from Harbin still hasn't been able to buy a train ticket and doesn't know how else to get home, so he might just not go back at all this year," Qi said, chain-smoking outside the station as endless hordes of passengers carrying rucksacks and suitcases streamed past.

The holiday, also known as Spring Festival, is a time for families to gather their members for plentiful food and fireworks.

Travellers taking part in the world's largest annual human migration must be home by Friday to usher in the new year on Saturday.

Transport officials predict that Chinese passengers will make almost three billion trips during the 40-day Lunar New


Year period, including more than 2.5 billion journeys by road, the official Xinhua news agency said.

High travel volumes mean that navigating stations can be as much of a nightmare as nabbing a ticket in the first place.

Without internet access or a smartphone, 65-year-old Wang Wentai asked a more plugged-in friend to help him buy his train ticket back to Handan city in neighbouring Hebei Province.

Excited to go home after a year of washing dishes at a Korean restaurant to supplement his son's income from a factory job, he arrived at the station two hours early -- but still ended up missing his train due to the crowds.

"There were so many people in line, and I just didn't know which line to wait in, so I wasted a lotof time," he said.

The next available ticket was for a train that left 14 hours later.

"I can't wait inside the station because it's still too early, but I don't know where else to go," he said, standing in front of the entrance with his hands in his pockets to protect them from the sub-zero chill.

"During the trip, you sometimes look at your phone, get bored, sleep a bit, though you can't really sleep well on the train, and just hold out until it's over," said a woman surnamed Qian who was about to embark on a 20-odd hour train ride to the distant southwestern province of Yunnan.

"But then, there are so many people crammed around you on the train that you can always chat to make it less


In the days following the alleged attack on a previously obscure TV actor named Jussie Smollett in the early morning hours of January 29, politicians, journalists, and fellow entertainers lined up behind him. Members of Congress tweeted messages of support; CNN’s Don Lemon texted him every evening to see how he was doing. People on the left, it was clear, wanted to believe that Jussie, who is both gay and black, had, as he claimed, been set upon at around two A.M., in subzero weather, on a Chicago street by a pair of white thugs wearing MAGA hats and spouting anti-gay and anti-black insults.

Never mind that the whole tale seemed fishy from the start. The assailants had supposedly been wearing MAGA hats and hoodies. How does that work?SDSU's Long: New substitution rule unnecessary

Aztecs head coach Rocky Long doesn't think it's a good idea to amend the rules to force offenses to wait 10 seconds to snap the ball

SDSU safeties coach Danny Gonzales (left) and head coach Rocky Long (right) team up to question a call in the first half during SDSU's football game against Oregon State Saturday night at Qualcomm Stadium.
— Earnie Grafton

SDSU safeties coach Danny Gonzales (left) and head coach Rocky Long (right) team up to question a call in the first half during SDSU's football game against Oregon State Saturday night at Qualcomm Stadium.
— Earnie Grafton

The NCAA Football Rules Committee is proposing a rule change that would allow time for defensive substitutions within the first 10 seconds of the 40-second play clock.

This means


little faster to make up for
the delay!" and he prodded him with his revolver for emphasis.

Dick had scattered his corn steadily and now, as they went back to the
road, he kicked the kernels that marked their digression aside, since he
knew that Stepan and the others, if they were following, would only
waste time by following the detour into the woods. He had brought a
plentiful supply, and he was glad of it, since he was traveling further
with Hallo than he had thought it at all likely that he could. For some
time he had been listening eagerly for some indication that Stepan and
his friends were approaching, but there had been none. He was not ready
to be worried about them yet, however dangerous as he knew their work
had been, since it wasconsul
explained. "They can't interfere with the messages of an American
consul. I saw Mr. Denniston a little while before the bridge was
destroyed, and he was quite worried about you. He'll be glad to know
that you are safe so far. I suppose, by the way, that you are strictly
neutral, as an American should be?"

Dick hesitated, and the consul roared with laughter.

"You don't have to answer that question!" he said. "I've got to be
neutral, worse luck! But, even so, sometimes I think I'll resign, just
so that I can take a chance with the side I'm on."

"Which side is that, sir?" asked Dick, innocently.

Once more the consul laughed.

"I refuse to answer!" he said. "You might send a report back to
Washington and get me into trouble. But perhaps you can guess."

The times that


here is a
little colony of Serbs. We, you see, have to do something to get
warning of the border raids. They have guns with silencers--I knew I
could get help. Now we must ride for the Greek line, but we can make it
now!"

On through the night they rode, leaving the dead and wounded behind,
while those who had been captured unhurt were tied and gagged. And
before daylight they came to a Greek frontier post. Greek soldiers
greeted them; there was a captain who had served with Stepan's father
against Bulgaria.

"The road to Salonica is safe and open now!" he told them.

And so it proved. Dick had recovered his papers and a week later, his
adventures over, he sailed from Athens, and waved to Stepan, standing on
the deck, until he could no longer see him.second films and the exterior surfaces of the first film and the second film are substantially coplanar with an exterior surface of the bonding material. Further, the first film is bonded to the first matrix material and the second film is bonded to the second matrix material. Therefore, the first matrix material can be stripped by peeling the first film and the second matrix material can be stripped by peeling the second film.
According to a further aspect of the invention, the first film includes a plurality of first individual strips corresponding in number to the first optical fibers and the second film include a second plurality of individual strips corresponding in number to the second optical fibers. The first individual strips are respectively aligned with the first optical


The average age of a student earning their MBA is 28, but business school isn't just for 20-somethings in the early stages of their careers. In fact, executive MBA (EMBA) programs, designed specifically for workers with several years of experience, are becoming increasingly common.

Although applications to MBA programs are down year-over-year, the number of applications to EMBA programs was 31.6% higher in 2019 than in 2015, according to the Executive MBA Council (EMBAC), the academic association that represents the EMBA industry.

One potential reason for the increase in demand is that graduates of EMBA programs report higher earnings after graduation.

Since 2006, the EMBAC has surveyed graduates about their earnings and careers after they received their degrees. This year, the exit survey of 2,390 EMBA students determined graduates received anThe prayers sung in church today explain to us, brothers, that the Lord revealed His divine Transfiguration with the specific goal of persuading His followers that they, too, are to adorn their inner image with virtues, and to shine also with external spiritual beauty. Within our souls lies the insatiable thirst of seeing the internal and external correspond. That is why before the arrival on Earth by the Son of God, the righteous were bewildered why they were fated to eternally exist in a humble state, with their poor, sorrowful appearance, while God allows sinners to adorn themselves in grandeur. The contemporaries of our Savior eagerly expected the day when He would cast off His humble exterior, free Himself of poverty and homelessness, and as a magnificent king,


donning shining garments in regal surroundings, would ascend David’s throne, the place of His forefather, and trample underfoot His wicked enemies and the enemies of Israel.

But the Lord reveals to His impatient followers a different, spiritual beauty He possesses, ever-presently, but which is hidden from human eyes in daily life. He ascends with three of His disciples to a mountain, and when His spirit turns in prayer to the Father, His face commences to shine like the Sun, and His clothing become white as snow. Moses and Elias appear with Him from beyond the grave, and a heavenly cloud surrounds them and the disciples, who behold the scene in pious horror. This arrival of an unearthly, heavenly splendor brought the Apostles to inexpressible bliss, and Peter exclaimed, forgettingor concern. The increase in information sharing between Canada and the US has resulted in a greater number of individuals being denied entry to Canada from the US due to past convictions and criminal records.

The North American Free Trade Agreement did bring our countries together in the sense that US Citizens do not require prior authorization to enter Canada but this does not mean they cannot be denied entry.

Individuals may be denied or refused entry to Canada from the US for many issues including security concerns, human and international rights violations, criminality, organized crime, health and financial reasons. Foreign nationals considered inadmissible to Canada are precluded from entering.

What You will Need

Many people attempt to cross the border to Canada on a daily basis. Some people, when crossing, are


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Minister Oda updates on East Africa humanitarian crisis

October 21, 2011

Yesterday, the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, provided an update on the serious humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa and announced the final tally of donations provided by individual Canadians to Canadian registered charities eligible to be matched by the Government of Canada through its East Africa Drought Relief Fund.

The crisis in eastern Africa is requiring the continued efforts of the international community in meeting the needs of the more than 13 million people affected by the crisis across the region.

Canadians have generously donated $70,421,608.55 to Canadian registered charities working in the drought affected areas. The Government of Canada will match the amount raised, providing further humanitarian assistance in the region.

The heart of the crisisis located in southern Somalia, a region under the control of the terrorist group Al-Shabaab and beset by famine and conflict.

Canada is providing much needed assistance by working with our trusted partners, including the World Food Programme, UNICEF, CARE Canada, UNHCR and Oxfam Canada, ensuring our help reaches those in need. We are continually monitoring the situation as part of the international response.

"The humanitarian crisis in Eastern Africa continues to face many challenges that are seriously hampering the international effort to assist those affected by the drought, severe malnutrition and conflict," said Minister Oda. "I am very concerned that the security of humanitarian workers in the border area and south-east Somalia continues to be threatened and that the support for the tens of thousands who are facing hunger,


malnutrition and disease is being impacted. Canada will continue to provide needed assistance to those who have already suffered so much, while respecting our responsibilities to the humanitarian organizations and their aid workers in the area."

In response to the worst drought in over 60 years, the Government of Canada, through CIDA, has already provided $72.35 million to support relief efforts in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti through experienced partners providing food, water, sanitation, medical support and shelter to communities affected by the drought, including refugees and internally displaced persons.

"During my visit to the region, I witnessed the courage and determination of those struggling to survive the effects of the drought," Minister Oda said. "The Government of Canada is proud of the compassion demonstrated by Canadians in responding soalready provided in 2011 plus the $70.4 million allocated to the East Africa Drought Relief Fund.

Backgrounder

Canada's Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in East Africa

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in eastern Africa is having a devastating impact on approximately 13.3 million people throughout Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. People are facing food insecurity and extreme malnutrition due to crop failures, loss of livestock, and the devastation of livelihoods by the drought. Kenya has seen approximately 460,000 people inhabit their refugee camps, while approximately 246,000 people are living in refugee camps in Ethiopia and close to 20,000 people are living in Djibouti refugee camps.

The heart of the crisis, in south Somalia, remains a volatile region, with all efforts being made to address security challenges faced by on-the-ground humanitarian organizations. Recently, the


targeting of humanitarian workers has resulted in the restriction of their travel throughout the region, as well as limiting humanitarian assistance to only essential relief items of food, water and critical healthcare.

To date, the Government of Canada, through CIDA, has allocated $142.75 million to respond to the drought. This amount is a combination of $72.35 million in funding already provided in 2011 plus approximately $70.4 million allocated to the East Africa Drought Relief Fund, as announced by Minister Oda on October 20, 2011, for the over 13 million people who are affected by the ongoing drought in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti.

These CIDA contributions help the United Nations and non-governmental organizations working in the region to meet emergency needs of those requiring humanitarian assistance, including food, water, sanitation,health care and other non-food assistance.

Canada's contribution to the international effort has helped provide11.5 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia with emergency food aid, addressed the immediate water needs of over a million people and supported 140,000 malnourished children and pregnant women.

The following organizations have received funding as a result of Canada's $50-million announcement on July 22, which supplemented the $22.35 million provided by CIDA earlier in 2011:

East Africa Drought Relief Fund

The total donated by individual Canadians to Canadian registered charities responding to the drought in eastern Africa, from July 6 to September 16, 2011, that is eligible to be matched is $70,421,608.55 million. The Government of Canada has contributed an equivalent amount to the East Africa Drought Relief Fund. The money will be allocated by CIDA


Q:

What's the name for people with black hair?

There are blonde, brunette and redhead. What's the name for people with black hair?

A:

Although there is some debate over this, the Oxford Dictionary definition of brunette is:

noun: a woman or girl with dark brown hair.

This source also mentions that in the US, an alternate form of the word brunette is brunet. The Merriam-Webster definition of brunet is:

a person having brown or black hair and often a relatively dark complexion —spelled brunet when used of a boy or man and usually brunette when used of a girl or woman

Thus, brunette includes the range of hair colors from brown to black. There is no specific and separate term for someone with black hair. However, people have suggested the term noirette. Note, also,Mother-of-nine, 52, 'punished her two adopted special needs children using a dog SHOCK COLLAR'

One of the children, 17, told teachers about the 'punishment'

All of woman's nine children are adopted and she is trying to adopt another 'but told the teenager she was ruining her chances'

A mother-of-nine has been accused of punishing two of her adopted children who have special needs by shocking them with an electric dog collar.

The 52-year-old woman, who has not been identified to protect her children's identities, was charged on Wednesday in court in Cache County, Utah with abuse of a disabled child and abuse of a vulnerable adult after the allegedly cruel treatment of her daughter, 17, and son, 20.

All of the woman's nine children are adopted, authorities said.

They became aware of the alleged


abuse after the teenage girl, who has special needs, told student aids at her school that her mother used a 'behavior band' on her.

Cruel: A mother allegedly used a dog collar that sends out electrical shocks on her two special needs children. The 52-year-old woman called the collar a 'behavior band' (file picture)

They asked her to explain the band and she drew them an image of a collar resembling one used to give dogs an electric shock for disobeying, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

'She explained her mom put it on her [arm] when she's acting up or when she hits one of her siblings,' Deputy Cache County Attorney Andrew McAdams.

'She also disclosed that her 20-year-old brother, also a disabled adult, also adopted, that [their mother] puts it onhim as well.'

The following day, the teenager returned to the school to tell teachers she had made up the story - before eventually breaking down and revealing her mother had allegedly made her lie.

In court: The woman, who has seven other adopted children, was charged in a Cache County, Utah court with abuse of a disabled child and abuse of a vulnerable adult on Wednesday

She added that her mother is trying to adopt yet another child and had told the daughter that she was ruining her chances, McAdams said.

McAdams said there no indication the collar has been used on the seven other children.

The Division of Child and Family Services has a pending case into the family.


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Alicia Ann Lynch, a 22-year-old from Michigan, has apologized for dressing as a victim of the Boston Marathon bombings for Halloween.

Lynch, who posted photos of her insensitive costume on Twitter, received backlash after her poor costume choice went viral. She has since received death threats to her home after a photo of her driver's license leaked.

As a result of her costume, she got fired from her job and has deleted all her social media accounts.

Sydney Corcoran, a victim of the Boston Marathon bombings who almost died, with her mother losing both her legs from the attack, tweeted to Lynch: "@SomeSKANKinMI You should be ashamed, my mother lost both her legs andago today on 17 January 1966, in Sturge Town, St. Ann. The genre of reggaeton, now a billion-dollar business, was spawned by his 1990 song 'Dem Bow', produced by Bobby 'Digital' Dixon. The Dem Bow riddim became so popular in Puerto Rican freestyle sessions that early reggaeton was simply known as 'Dembow'.


NEW DELHI: The telecom wing of the Indian Railway, RailTel, has signed an agreement with the subsidiary of Google India to provide Wi-Fi facilities at 400 stations across the country, the government said today.In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, minister of state for Railways Manoj Sinha said that RailTel Corporation of India Ltd ( RCIL ), a PSU under Railway Ministry, signed an agreement with Mahataa Information India Pvt Ltd ( MIIPL ), an arm of Google Inc , to equip 400 stations with Wi-Fi in two phases,In first phase, as many as 100 stations out of the total A1 and A categories would be covered with the offering, while the facility would be extended to 300 stations in the second phase.Non-suburban stations with an annual passenger4 Florida State. Georgia was knocked out of the Top 25.

Notre Dame, which lost at home to South Florida, was the week's other dropout. No. 23 Arizona State and No. 24 West Virginia climbed into the rankings after topping the list of others receiving votes in preseason balloting.

TCU, which lost a 50-48 thriller at Baylor, held on to the No. 25 ranking. Despite the win against the Horned Frogs, the Bears didn't crack the top 25 but lead the group of teams knocking on the door this week.