Cowboys and Klingons: Photos From a Small-Town Star Trek Convention

You don’t visit Vulcan, Alberta for its grain elevators.

On a recent Saturday night, while dressed in everyday clothes, Elyse and I are hanging out with Spock, McCoy, and Captain Kirk at the Vulcan Hotel. There are eight people in the town bar including the proprietor and a new immigrant who mistakes our order of rum and cokes for Bud Lights. A shitfaced hairdresser slugging quarters into one of the VLTs takes a break to tell one of our Starfleet officers that she has nice hair.

The screech of tires can be heard outside. A drunk local walks in, offering to buy drinks for his friends at the VLTs. He's a business owner himself. He initiates conversation, says he's happy tosee "our kind" in town and that he supports Vul-Con—one of the town's two annual Star Trek conventions. He declares before entering into a drunk tirade about how the other local festival, Spock Days, with its packed bar and slow-pitch tournament is the real event to come to town for. What started off as a well-mannered—albeit slurred—conversation on his behalf became a set of accidental insults about which Star Trek convention was the best party. This is an exchange you will only have in Vulcan, Alberta, population 2,000.

Photo by Elyse Bouvier

Named after the Roman God of Fire, Vulcan is home to farmers, ranchers, and the occasional Klingon tourist. Vulcan's pre-Star Trek claim to fame was its 9-in-a-line grain elevators, and while it was once the largest grain-exporting site


aperture was adjusted accordingly to standardize image brightness as much as possible, and the positioning of the camera above each subject was standardized as in the laboratory. To avoid inter-observer error, only one of us (A.-C.A.) measured the body coloration and length of males and the body length of females.

We quantified the total area of each male's body (excluding the fins) and the areas of black and orange spots on his left side. A male's coloration pattern was then expressed as the proportion of his body's lateral area (excluding fins) covered by black and orange colour spots, which is hereafter referred to as a male's 'colour score'. The body length and colour scores of each male were measured twice (on separate days). As concordance of repeated measures wasAccording to the Standard Model, the guiding framework of particle physics, a symmetry between particles and forces in our universe and a mirror version should be broken.

Several years later, the theoretical axion was found not only to solve the symmetry problem, but also to be a possible candidate for dark matter, the missing matter that scientists think makes up 85% of the universe but the true nature of which is unknown.

Despite its theoretical promise, though, the axion stayed in relative obscurity, due to a combination of its strange nature and being outshone by another new dark matter candidate, called a WIMP, that seemed even more like a sure thing.

But today, four decades after they were first theorized, axions are once again enjoying a moment in the sun, and


when the final report on a site in Monte Verde, Chile, was established as the oldest evidence of human habitation in the Americas. Monte Verde is located in the southwestern part of South America, not far from Antarctica. At the site, hearths and wood with knotted strings attached were found. The artifacts were dated about 12,500 years old, some 1,300 years before the Clovis showed up in the archaeological record of North America [source: New York Times].

Where did the Monte Verde people come from? Antarctica and South America haven't been connected for about 80 million years [source: Dutch]. How would anyone have traveled to the Americas? It's not entirely out of the question that boats conveyed early prehistoric American settlers.

Aboriginal Australians are believed to have lived on theirisland continent for as long as 60,000 years. And Australia broke free from Antarctica around 50 million years ago [source: Dutch]. The earliest Australians are believed to have migrated to the continent by boat, island-hopping in Polynesia along the way. It's possible a similar scenario explains the settlement of South America. This, however, is a speculative theory and isn't supported by any evidence found by archaeologists.

The Monte Verde site represented a polar shift in the way archaeologists look at human settlement in the Americas. Were these people the ancestors of the Clovis people? Did humans migrate northward, from South America up to the North American plains? Unfortunately, the Clovis didn't appear to leave a trail of evidence behind them. It's almost like they suddenly appeared out of nowhere


in North America. There's no trail of artifacts showing the evolution of the Clovis projectile weapons in either a northerly or southerly direction. In the end, neither theory of where the Clovis came from is supported by their projectiles, the most telling artifact.

The Clovis remain a mystery, and the question of the earliest Americans' origins remains. Other fields of study are turning up even earlier dates for human settlement in the Americas. DNA evidence suggests that migration took place as early as 20,000 years ago [source: San Francisco Chronicle]. Linguistic examination of the roots of Native American languages support the idea that humans have been in North America for 12,000 to 50,000 years [source: Bernard, et al].

Perhaps the settlement of the Americas didn't take place by one groupWhen Joe DiMaggio died at the age of 84 March
8, 1999, The New York Times ran his obituary with a three-column
headline with a very large picture above the fold on its front
page.

The day before The Times had run a front-page
obituary of Stanley Kubrick with a two-column headline beneath
the fold and no picture.

The "play" of these stories was probably
right. Joe DiMaggio was one of the better baseball players in
history and Stanley Kubrick was one of the greatest film directors
in history. While he was the "lesser" talent, DiMaggio
was a far greater public icon even though both he and Kubrick
were relatively publicity-shy.

DiMaggio was the superstar of the New York
Yankees in the era that came after the glory days of the late
1920's and 1930's when the team was led by Babe Ruth


and Lou Gehrig.
Towards the end of DiMaggio's era, the Yankees became the most
dominant team in professional sports history. DiMaggio retired
in 1951 but the Yankees' dominance continued throughout the decade
of the 50's, in part because his replacement, Mickey Mantle was
as great a superstar, if not greater.

The Yankees' dominance was hard to explain
then as the Brooklyn Dodgers were a much better team and the Boston
Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians were often better as well.

The best explanation was that the team had
solidity even if it had no excitement. It was colorful only because
its manager, Casey Stengel, was quite loony and famed for his
gibberish.

DiMaggio was lanky, but graceful and his gawky,
almost goofy, looks just got more handsome as he aged. He was
a fine all-around player, excellent in the field and superbat
bat. In just 13 seasons he hit 369 home runs, a very respectable
and steady production, and had a lifetime batting average of .325,
placing him in the top tier of hitters in the game's history.
As a hitter, however, he was completely overshadowed by the truly
great Ted Williams and both lost peak years of their career to
military service in World War 11 that would otherwise have placed
them both higher in the statistical heavens.

Known as "The Yankee Clipper," DiMaggio
won the Most Valuable Player Award in the American League three
times, led the lead in triples with 15 in 1936, led the league
in home runs twice with 46 in 1937 and 39 in 1938, led the league
twice in runs batted in with 125 in 1941 and 155 in 1948, led
the league in runs


scored with 151 in 1937, led the league in
hitting twice with a .381 average in 1939 and a .352 average in
1940. He also led the league twice in total bases with 348 in
1941 and 355 in 1948. Those achievements are far more impressive
than his most famous statistic, his 56-game hitting streak in
1941 during which Les Brown wrong a song about "Joltin' Joe."

In his 13 seasons with The Yankees, the team
went to the World Series 10 times, winning 9 times.

As fine a player as he was, DiMaggio's fame
was significantly bolstered by his demeanor, his name and his
life off the playing field.

He was an authentic American hero, but what
did and does that mean?

DiMaggio is an Italian name and an easy and
pleasant sounding one. His fame as a player was importantto many
Italian-Americans eager to spurn the comic images of the Mafia.
What made DiMaggio special as a cultural icon was his graciousness,
reserve and tranquillity, all of which imbued him with a nobleness.
He was an idol parents would not mind their children looking up
to with admiration.

Players could also look up to him for retiring
when he sensed he was slipping off his peak even though he could
have played for several more seasons. There was honor in resignation
in those pre-Clinton days. There was an historical sense of continuity
in passing the torch to a younger generation, which happened to
have Mickey Mantle at the ready. There was still a sense of team
loyalty, something that, sadly, no longer exists.

The non-ball-playing DiMaggio became even a
larger hero to many Americans when he married the country's ranking
sex goddess,


Marilyn Monroe.

The DiMaggio-Monroe mix is very heady, a real
mythic trip of boundless fascination. The real, quiet, proud man
with the exuberant but pathetic and synthetic woman.

While not quite a "dynamic duo,"
the DiMaggio-Monroe marriage was a quintessential "celebrity"
coupling that because it was a match between people in different
professions exceeded such illustrious matings of relative equals
in the same profession as the Carole Lombard-Clark Gable and Demi
Moore-Bruce Willis liaisons. It was made even more exotic by the
fact that it lasted only 274 days and that Monroe had another
one with playwright Arthur Miller. The fact that DiMaggio remained
devoted and respectful of Monroe was nicely noted in an Op-Ed
article in The New York Times March 9, 1999 by songwriter
Paul Simon: "In these days of Presidential transgressions
and apologies and prime-time interviews about private sexual matters,
wegrieve for Joe DiMaggio and mourn the loss of his grace and
dignity, his fierce sense of privacy, his fidelity to the memory
of his wife, and the power of his silence."

DiMaggio, who had been married once before
his match with Marilyn Monroe, was not the male counterpart to
Greta "I Want To Be Alone..." Garbo, aloof and cool.
He wanted to be left alone, but was gracious and perhaps taciturn
about it, not self-righteous and supercilious. And as the long-time
television commercial pitchman for the Bowery Savings Bank and
Mr. Coffee brewing products and a participant in many "opening
day ceremonies," he clearly was not trying to avoid the public's
eye entirely.

Born in Martinez, Calif., he was one of six
sons of an immigrant fisherman. He and two of his brothers, Vince
and Dominic, played in the Major Leagues.


The former played for
five teams in the National League for 10 years, leading the league
in strikeouts six times, and the later played centerfield for
the Boston Red Sox for 11 years with a very respectable lifetime
batting average of .298.

Ted Williams, the last baseball player in the
Major Leagues to hit over .400, believed he was a better hitter
but maintained that DiMaggio "was the greatest baseball player
of our time."

Fantasies are not an American invention, but
because America in the mid-20th Century was the pre-eminent mass
culture in the world, its self-conscious preoccupations with celebrity
were important. In a society that produced such 20th Century talents
as Charles Chaplin, Henry Ford, Georgia O'Keefe, Ernest Hemingway,
George Gershwin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fred Astaire, Miles Davis,
Jackie Robinson, Frank Sinatra, Ernie Kovacs, Martin Luther King,
Tennessee Williams, Muhammed Ali, Michael Jordanand William Gates,
it might not seem necessary to worry about heroes and their existence,
but it is.

The above-mentioned pantheon reassures the
culture that it is capable of producing worthy individuals and
works and such comfort diverts attention from other pressing issues.
In the mid-20th Century, the country had a pretty clear perception
of itself and the world. The Depression and World War II were
sobering experiences that stressed basic, indeed simplistic, values,
but the optimism of the postwar era was short-lived.

DiMaggio quit baseball as the Cold War hysteria
was whipping up and the excesses of the McCarthy era challenged
the country's ethics, much as Watergate in the 1970's and the
Lewinsky Affair in the 1990's would trouble the nation.

We look wistfully to DiMaggio's prime time
and the period soon thereafter highlighted by the great Mays-Snider-Mantle
debates over who was the


greatest centerfielder on the three major
New York City ballclubs. It's now clear that Willie ("Say,
hey") Mays of the New York Giants was the best of these centerfielders,
followed by DiMaggio and Mantle, and then Edwin ("Duke")
Snider of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but for much of the early and
mid 1950's it was not at all clear.

There was a purity to the "game"
and DiMaggio was its most famous representative in the decade
after World War II. The public introduction of television at the
start of the 1950's began to alter, at first rather slowly, the
nation's hero machinery/celebrity industry. Without television,
for example, the civil rights movement might have had even more
problems gathering long overdue momentum. If Jessie Owens or Paul
Robeson had been white or at least in their prime during the television
era, would they havebeen as revered as DiMaggio, and shouldn't
they have been? As a Brooklyn Dodger fan, it is hard to forget
that the villainous Yankees were slow to integrate. One certainly
cannot attribute too much blame to DiMaggio for that, of course.
Greatness in most endeavors requires concentrated focus and as
Jimmy Cannon, the great sportswriter for The New York Post,
wrote in 1951, the year he would be plagued with injuries and
see his batting average fall to .263, DiMaggio was a man "who
was meant to play ball on hot afternoons on the grass of big cities."
Such an observation applies to most players, of course, but it
helps explain DiMaggio's psyche.

While baseball then was "the national
pastime," its heroes had to compete with those of the movies
and the biggest was John Wayne, and certainly his impact on


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BY KERRY EGGERS/PORTLAND TRIBUNE/Blazers guard gets 28 of his career-high 50 points in first quarter as Portland rips shorthanded Bulls

The Trail Blazers have been on a pretty good roll, but nothing like the one CJ McCollum was on Wednesday night at Moda Center.

Portland has won four in a row and seven of eight after breezing to a wire-to-wire 124-108 thumping of Chicago Wednesday night at Moda Center.

As the once-famous Paris Hilton used to say, that's hot.

But against the decidedly shorthanded Bulls, McCollum was scorched earth.

Damian Lillard's running mate was All-Star-worthy and then some, bombing in a career-high 50 points, including 28 in the first quarter — a franchise record for any quarter.

McCollum was 18 for 25 from the field, 6 for 9 from3-point range and 8 for 8 from the free-throw line in a sterling 29-minute show for the streaking Blazers (29-22), who shot a season-high .561 from the field.

With Portland safely ahead 102-75 after three quarters, coach Terry Stotts wisely chose to sit McCollum for the fourth quarter, despite a few "We want CJ!" chants from sellout throng of 19,422.

"I was thinking, 'I hope I don't have to go in,'" said McCollum, who received a standing ovation after the first and third quarters. "That would mean we weren't playing the way we were supposed to be playing.

When Lillard was asked what he thought about his backcourt mate's performance, he whistled.

"That was crazy," said Lillard, who set Portland's single-game scoring record with 59 points against Utah last season. "It was


an off night for everybody else."

Lillard took only nine shots, making five and scoring 13 points with seven assists in 30 minutes. Nobody else had as many attempts except McCollum, whose points came rather economically — 25 tries, 50 counters.

"I knew it in the first quarter," Lillard said. "I saw him get some looks. Once he hit a couple of those tough ones, I was like, 'I recognize that feeling.' I saw the rhythm he was playing with. At that point, it was my job to make sure he got the ball in his hands as many times as possible. He just kept rolling.

"Some people can keep going and going and going. CJ is one of those people. We got away from running sets. He just scored. Itstuff like that."

NOTES: Portland's next action is Friday at Toronto to begin a three-game road trip that includes stops at Boston and Detroit. "If we continue to play how we've been playing on both ends of the floor, we'll have a chance in every game," Lillard said. ... McCollum's previous career scoring high was 43 points. ... The previous Blazer record for scoring in a quarter was 26 by Lillard twice, in 2014 and '17. ... Lillard has 9,988 career points. He needs 16 points against the Raptors to move ahead of Jim Paxson (10,003) and climb to sixth on the Blazers' list. ... The Blazers won their eighth straight game at Moda Center. ... Chicago was without its top three scorers — forwards Nikola Mirotic (sitting with


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By Felix Corley, Forum 18

Turkmenistan's harsh new religion law, which came into force yesterday, outlaws all unregistered religious activity and a criminal code amendment prescribes penalties for breaking the law of up to a year of "corrective labour", Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Turkmenistan thus joins Uzbekistan and Belarus in defying the international human rights agreements they have signed, by forbidding unregistered religious activity. As only Sunni Muslim and Russian Orthodox communities are de facto able to achieve registration, this is a considerable further move in repressing minority faiths. Forum 18 knows of religious believers having been fined, detained, beaten, threatened, sacked from their jobs, had their homes confiscated, banished to remote parts of the country ordeported for unregistered religious activity.

Turkmenistan's harsh new religion law specifically declares illegal all unregistered religious activity, while a new amendment to the criminal code prescribes penalties for breaking the law of up to one year of "corrective labour". Forum 18 News Service notes that although the authorities have in recent years treated unregistered activity as illegal, this is the first time that such a provision has formally been incorporated into law. With only Sunni Muslim and Russian Orthodox communities de facto able to achieve registration, the move marks a considerable further move to repress minority faiths.

The new law, which was signed by President Saparmurat Niyazov on 21 October, came into force at the time of its publication in the official press on 10 November. It entirely replaces the


registration with the Justice Ministry requires 500 adult citizens living inside the country (Article 8), a condition that is almost impossible for many religious communities to fulfil. Such registration can be cancelled by the Ministry or, if there have been "repeated or crude violations of the norms of the Constitution of Turkmenistan, the present law or other laws", by a court (Article 14). Among the wide range of bases for liquidating a religious organisation through the courts are "interference in family relations leading to the breakdown of the family" and "violation of social security and social order".

Religious education is tightly restricted. "The teaching of spiritual beliefs on a private basis is banned and bears responsibility in the manner established by the law of Turkmenistan," Article 6 declares. Onlyfound such institutions.

Among other restrictions, Article 19 bans anyone other than "servants of religious organisations" from wearing "cult vestments" in public places. Article 20 requires all religious literature imported by registered religious organisations to be approved by the Gengeshi. Article 15 requires all registered religious organisations receiving money or other support from foreign donors to notify the Justice Ministry.

The new article 223 part 2 of the Criminal Code, also signed by President Niyazov on 21 October, punishes "violation of the law on religious organisations". Those breaking the law who have already been punished within the space of a year under the Code of Administrative Offences "are to be punished by a fine of between ten and thirty average monthly wages, or corrective labour for a term of up


Libya's Illegal Migration: The Urgent Need For A New Strategy

Over 50 migrants went missing at sea and 2,500 were rescued over the June 10 2017 weekend after leaving Libya. According to the UN refugee agency, the migrants – mainly from sub-Sahara Africa – were found on flimsy dinghies off the coast of Libya. And eight were found dead on inflatable boats.

According to the International Organisation for Migration, arrivals of migrants crossing the Mediterranean this year are on the rise. The number had already reached an estimated 60,521 by May 24 2017, with around 80 percent arriving in Italy. By the same date, 1,530 had died at sea.

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Libya is at the centre of bilateral and multilateral strategies to reduce migration flows to the EU. Theto train and equip the coast guard, strengthen border control in the south of Libya, foster the country’s hosting capacity for blocked and readmitted migrants, and fight smuggling.

But, in Libya and in Europe, many argue against pursuing these types of agreements. The MOU between Libya and Italy was blocked on March 22 by the Tripoli Appeals Court for lack of approval by Libya’s House of Representatives .

Outside Libya, observers think that outsourcing the control and management of migration flows to a country ridden with conflicts and without an effective government has serious implications for the living conditions and human rights of tens of thousands of people.

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There are also other reasons to wonder whether such strategies would work in Libya. One of them – as pointed out


by the Malta program propositions – is the business model of migrant smugglers.

Today, they still run through both the west and east of Libya, connecting the Sahel to the Mediterranean via the vast and difficult to control expanses of the desert in the country’s southern regions.

In post-revolution Libya, old and new forms of trafficking, including human trafficking, still take place. The Gaddafi regime used to rely on some local tribes to control these routes and took advantage of trafficking and smuggling both politically and financially.

According to a Global Initiative report launched in March 2017, these smuggling routes have developed into much better organised networks and transnational consortia thanks to an active diaspora “able to handle routes and volumes of people requiring substantial logistical and financial capacity.”

Their consolidation hasairports) and handle cash instead of working with the malfunctioning banking system.

Migration facilitation activities – from driving, scouting and recruiting, to the provision of various services in hotspots – involve many low-income people living along the routes. A Libyan driver from North Niger to Hamada, south of Tripoli, for instance, makes around 200 dinars (€130) for a trip of more than 1000 km of desert tracks and dangerous roads.

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The smuggling business has become a primary source of earning – directly or indirectly – and a factor of corruption in local communities and municipalities. The business is also resilient and reinvents itself when needed, redesigning routes and strategies.

One of


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Nothing to You (re-mix) + 3 is an EP released by the San Francisco Indie rock duo Two Gallants in 2006 by Alive Records.

The EP features two songs from the band's debut album The Throes, newly re-mixed and the songs "Sweet Baby Jesus" and "Fail Hard to Regain (live)" from the band's first 7" release. These two are released on CD on this EP for the first time. The 4 tracks have been entirely remastered.

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"Nothing to You (Remix)"
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Janusz Blaut had worked in
Russia for ten years.

Bishop Pickel told Forum 18: "I can't find a priest for the parish of
Vladikavkaz - it's too far to send someone every Sunday, and it's only 20 km
from Beslan. I can't send an inexperienced young Russian, or a new foreign
priest, either."

Others who have been barred have found it difficult to re-enter, and say
their visa-renewal applications are constantly rejected. The Revd Aleksei
Ledyayev, leader of the New Generation Church, a charismatic congregation in
Latvia, and an American Baptist minister, the Revd Dan Pollard, have both been
unable to enter Russia since their re-applications for visas were rejected.
Mr Pollard ran an independent Baptist church, which he registered in
1996 in the Pacific port of Vanino. In March 1998, however, he was expelled
after his re-application for a visawas refused. Since then, he has been
leading the church from the United States.

A few religious workers have been successful in chasing up refused
applications. This month, a secretary at the Moscow administration of the
Evangelical-Lutheran Church told Forum 18 that its German bishop, the Rt Revd
Siegfried Springer, who was deported in April, had been granted a new one-year
visa. The same day, a secretary at the St Petersburg-based Association of
Christian Churches in Russia said that one of its South African leaders, who
oversees 80 Evangelical communities in Russia, was granted a visa by applying
through a different organisation.

The worst year for exclusions was 2002, when five Roman Catholic clergy were
among those refused visas. Members of the US Congress and of the Helsinki
Commission wrote to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, expressing "growing
concern over the


pattern of denial or cancellation of visas for foreign
religious workers of minority faiths".

They also called on President Putin to establish a policy to allow religious
communities to appoint personnel, saying that the rejection of visa
applications "undermined the rights of individuals from these faiths to
practise their religion".

Since then, Forum 18 says it has come across a further 12 cases, as well as
another seven previously undocumented expulsions occurring before November
2002.

The Moscow-based Evangelical Association for Spiritual Renewal said 2003 had
been a difficult year, because the official body handling visa applications had
changed from the Foreign Ministry to the Interior Ministry. By 2004, however,
the situation had calmed down.

A different story is told by the Anglican chaplaincy in Moscow. A spokesman
said that they enjoyed a close working relationship with the Moscow
Patriarchate of the Russian OrthodoxChurch, and that this smoothed relations
with the Department for External Church Relations.

He suggested that members of other denominations might have found the way
barred to them because of a failure on their part to acknowledge the supremacy
of the Russian Orthodox Church "and to exercise good common sense".

"Those of us of the expatriate community who minister in the Lord's name in
this wonderful country, should do so with great sensitivity and great tact.

"Non-Orthodox denominations have to contend regularly with many miles of
red-tape, bureaucracy. Some denominations perceive this red-tape as persecution
or harrassment of their particular group, whereas, I suspect, they need to
spend more time studying the Russian psyche!"

Since President Putin came to power in 2000, religious extremism has been
seen as a threat to Russia's security, particularly in border zones. One of the
first


documents Mr Putin signed as president was a national security policy, in
which he called for "the counteraction of the negative influence of foreign
religious organisations and missionaries".

Missionary work by the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant groups was
cited as a threat to national security under the policy. It said that foreign
organisations sent workers "under the guise of providing humanitarian aid", who
"developed self-alienation from the Russian state among various sectors of the
population . . . particularly in border areas".

A report by the BBC in January said the Russian government was backing a
Bill that could lead to a ban on foreign visitors who show "disrespect" for the
country. Despite being criticised by human-rights groups, the Bill is being
promoted as enhancing Russia's national security. As both officials and the
Russian media stoke fears ofIntroduction {#Sec1}
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In October 2017 Toronto Restaurant joined the expanding list of diaspora returnee businesses in Jigjiga, the capital of Ethiopian Somali Regional State (ESRS). The prominence of diaspora enterprises with names like London Café, Minnesota Cosmetics, and Oslo Supermarket suggests the potential economic impacts of diaspora return to eastern Ethiopia. Diaspora return and investment in Jigjiga is part of a striking realignment between a large population of Somalis and their 'homeland' (by birth or ancestry) in eastern Ethiopia. A decade ago, this diaspora was perceived in terms of Somalis abroad supporting an anti-Ethiopian insurgency, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF). Today the identification 'Ethiopian Somali' (or Somali Ethiopian)---previously regarded as a contradiction in terms---is increasingly expressed among the region's residents (Hagmann & Khalif, [@CR14]), and there are indications


the picture for Somalis living outside Somalia's boundaries, especially in neighbouring countries, since it discursively implicates Somali ethnicity with Somalian national identity and politics. Indeed, Somalis in Ethiopia fought intermittently for decades against the central government, and were frequently backed by the Somalian government in their endeavours until its 1991 collapse.

Ethnically-mobilized insurgencies fought for regional autonomy in Ethiopia leading up to the overthrow of the socialist regime in 1991, which led to Ethiopia's major ethnic groups being explicitly recognized as separate nations in the 1995 constitution. This instituted a multi-national federal system (often referred to as ethnic federalism) which, in one sense, created the discursive possibility for a set of hyphenated ethno-nationalities, including an Ethiopian-Somali nation distinct from Somalian Somalis, considered in historical context in the following section.(information at the time of writing is based on the first eight months of a 14-month fieldwork period).

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Somalia's protracted 'statelessness' since 1991 generated a massive diaspora. UN estimates place the number of Somalians living outside of Somalia as of 2010 at nearly 1.6 million, equivalent to almost 17% of Somalia's estimated resident population (UNDESA 2015). Eritrean, Ethiopian, and Kenyan populations abroad are also substantial, though much smaller proportional to populations remaining in each country. The bulk of Somalians, as with other expatriates from countries in the Horn of Africa, live within the region: 5-year UN migration estimates place the number of Somalians living in Kenya and Ethiopia as of 2015 at over 900,000 (UNDESA 2015). Along with the large


the Republic of Somaliland, and since the 1990s has had a functioning democratic government despite its lack of international recognition. By the early 2000s, return migration to the self-declared Republic of Somaliland facilitated economic growth and brought people with experience in Western democracies 'home' to participate in state-building (Hammond, [@CR15]; Hansen, [@CR16]). February 2017 Elections in Somalia saw Moḥamed ʿAbdullahi 'Farmajo' Moḥamed, a dual citizen of the US and Somalia, chosen as president. While the Horn became famous during the 1990s for its emigrants, new patterns of immigration and orientations of diaspora populations toward their 'homelands' are crucial to understand for their potential contributions to political and economic change. Diaspora populations' ideas about who they are and where they belong---including self-identification with ethnic and national categories---reflect important elementsthe scope of the current study. What is notable in the data is that the proportion of some other Ethiopian groups (Amhara and Harari) reporting multiple ethnicity increased during the same period (Tigrayan multiple ethnicity, however, declined). Ethiopian federalism, redistributing access to power and resources in the country along ethno-national lines, has had different impacts on different ethno-national groups within the country and in diaspora. Oromo political unity fostered by the federal system, combined with widespread support in Ethiopia for Oromia Regional State's leadership in their calls for reform, has given Oromo in diaspora a strong platform on which to engage foreign governments. Oromo organizations in the US pushed for resolutions currently under consideration in the US Congress regarding democracy and human rights in Ethiopia, suggesting how power


reconfigurations in Ethiopia might connect to new forms of transnational political engagement.Fig. 10Proportion of selected groups who reported multiple ethnic identities, 1996--2016

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Even if Canada's census reports do not confirm a broad identity shift among Somalis tracing their origins or ancestry to Ethiopia, there are some location-specific indications of both the presence of Ethiopian Somalis in Canada and their engagement as diaspora with ESRS. Among Canada's metropolitan areas, Toronto hosts the largest population from the Horn of Africa. From 2011 to 2016, the estimated population of first-generation Somalis in Toronto grew by 2000, or 17.4%. The corresponding increase in the single-ethnicity Somali population was 1875 (17.6%), while the increase in the (first-generation) multiple-ethnicity Somali population was 140 (14.3%). Meanwhile, the estimated populationtwo other residents. Three companies were registered at this address, including Shelby Grading and Power Seeding Inc, Cg Construction Company. Two entities are associated with this address: Charles H Gathof, Michael M Jeffries

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Because of the way it was placed in the window for many years the left arm is lighter in color, but this gentle flaw only seems to add character to something that already seems alive in a number of ways. My sister Laurel found this mahogany masterpiece in a yard sale in Lakewood Ohio nearly fifty years ago and left it behind when she and Ken moved to the west coast about the time I opened my office in 1979. When I sit in thisJeremy Lin has been through a lot -- a knee injury and other setbacks -- since Linsanity was a global phenomenon. Although he recently was on a team that won the NBA championship, he broke down about recent failures and offered hope in Jesus Christ.

The 30-year-old former Toronto Raptors reserve turned free agent, born in California and of Taiwanese descent, gave a tear-filled testimony to a room full of Christians in Taiwan for GOOD TV, a Christian station.

SINGAPORE'S RICHEST MAN SAYS 'MISSING PIECE WAS GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST'

"Man, it's hard and life's hard," Lin said, in between tears, "and I've given more of myself to God every single year, and every year it gets harder."

He broke down while saying he felt like he didn't earn the NBA championship


but members of the audience applauded him, with some shouting: "we love you" and "you're the best."

"In English, there's a saying and it says once you've hit rock bottom the only way is up, but rock bottom seems to be getting more and more rock bottom for me," the Harvard University graduate said in a clip that went viral on social media. “Free agency has been tough because I feel like, in some ways, the NBA has given up on me.”

Lin, who titled his talk "The Waiting Game," shared he dreaded giving the talk, something he's done every year, sharing his testimony and offering coaching to young athletes.

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The 2017-18 test results appeared online two weeks ago. The percentage of Grade 8 students meeting the Grade 8 provincial standard fell to 56 per cent, a six per cent decline since 2015-16. Any and all gains in achievement since 2012-13 were completely erased in the latest set of assessments. The alarming decline not only attracted nary a mention, but got completely lost in the excited school system chatter over province-wide professional development days.

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According to Defendant Baldi, at some point during the foot pursuit Remillard stopped and placed his hands above his head against the external wall of a residence. (Id. at 24:11-14; 49:10-16.)
Once Remillard placed his hands against the wall, Baldi drew his service weapon in a "cover position" and ordered Remillard to get on the ground. (Id. at 32:2-10; Pl.Ex. A at 11.) According to Baldi, Remillard, without responding verbally, proceeded to lower his hands and turn towards Baldi.[2] As Remillard did so, Baldi maintains, Remillard raised his hands to his waist. (Pl.Ex. A at 12.) At that point, Baldi alleges that he lost sight of Plaintiffs hands. (Id.) Apparently fearing that Remillard was reaching for a weapon, Baldi fired a single fatal shot into Remillard's torso. (Baldi Dep.Tr. 50:17-51:11.) According to the Atlantic County Medical Examiner's Report, the bullet entered below Remillard's right rib cage, and exited directly across the body underneath the left side of his rib cage. (Pl.Ex.A.) In fact, Remillard was unarmed.
At the time of Remillard's death, Plaintiff Elizabeth Killian, though not married to Remillard, was pregnant with his child. On August 2, 2002, Elizabeth Killian gave birth to a son, Jason Peter-Paul Remillard, Jr. This suit was filed the following year by Plaintiffs, Susan Remillard, individually and as administratrix of the estate of Jason Remillard, the deceased; Elizabeth Killian, individually and as mother of the son of Jason Remillard; and Jason Remillard, Jr., an infant, by his mother, against Defendants City of Egg Harbor City, Mayor James E. McGeary, Public Safety


unlike the Court, will have the benefit of live testimony to assist it in evaluating Baldi's truthfulness. A jury may consider Baldi's self-interest and credibility as well in deciding whether to believe Baldi's testimony.
Next, certain material issues of fact prevent the grant of summary judgment. First, there are inconsistencies in Baldi's accounts of the fatal incident. Specifically, during his deposition Baldi testified that Remillard "quickly turned towards" him as he raised his hands to his waist. (Baldi Dep. Tr. at 52:14-18.) During his interview with Sergeant DeShields, however, Baldi stated that Remillard "turn[ed] slowly towards" him as he raised his hands to his waist. (Def. Ex. 11 at 4.) This discrepancy is material as it bears upon whether Baldi had probable cause to believe Remillard posed a threatof serious physical harm.
Finally, a jury could reasonably conclude, based on the medical examiner's report identifying the relative placement of the entry and exit wounds, that Remillard had not turned towards Baldi when he was shot. Instead, considering that the bullet entered on Plaintiff's side, a jury may determine that Remillard was still facing the wall at the time of the shooting. Likewise, the medical report may reasonably support a finding that Remillard's hands were not near his waist at the time Baldi fired his weapon; if they were, a jury could conclude that the bullet would have first struck Remillard's right arm or hand, which it did not.
Because a reasonable jury could find, based on the above, that excessive force was used by Defendant Baldi in fatally


M.I.A. Half a century ago, an American commando vanished in the jungles of Laos. In 2008, he reappeared in Vietnam, reportedly alive and well. But nothing was what it seemed.

The distress call was picked up by the radio crew at Forward Operating Base One, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, on the morning of May 20, 1968. Some 250 miles to the northwest, on the other side of the border with Laos, a team of American and South Vietnamese soldiers had come under heavy enemy fire—the group’s commander was reporting several South Vietnamese and at least one American killed in action. Immediate resupply and medevac were requested. Shouldering his rifle, John Hartley Robertson, the operations sergeant at FOB One, exited the main compound and dashed across the dirtcourtyard in the direction of a waiting CH-34D Sikorsky Seahorse helicopter. At 36, rangy and lean, Robertson was a military lifer in a recruit’s war: He’d enlisted in the Army in his native Alabama out of high school, tested into the Green Berets, and spent several years training paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia. In the mid-sixties, as the U.S. was ramping up its bombing of North Vietnam, he’d been dispatched to Asia to join the Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group, or MACV-SOG, a top-secret unit that worked closely with the CIA. Robertson was a natural fit for the group, which routinely carried out sensitive search-and-destroy and reconnaissance work inside Cambodia and Laos. As a precaution in case of capture, the men of MACV-SOG wore no


patches or insignia on their fatigues. In April of 1968, two years into his stint in Southeast Asia, Robertson had been awarded the Bronze Star for bravery, for leading his men safely out of a firefight with the Vietcong. “His actions during this time were an inspiration to those members who were evacuated,” the Department of the Army later wrote in its commendation letter, noting Robertson’s “exemplary courage.” Now, strapping himself into the Seahorse’s jump seat, Robertson gave the thumbs-up sign to the South Vietnamese Air Force pilot and sat back as the chopper shimmied off the landing pad. Robertson would have fully understood the stakes of the mission he’d been asked to undertake: He was the lone American soldier on board an SVAF helicopter headed for theheart of a country, Laos, where the United States military was not officially active, and a region, the A Shau Valley, that was protected by two battalions of crack Vietcong troops and several rings of anti-air emplacements. Robertson was the cavalry. If the very worst happened, his own prospects of rescue would be slim. Close to midday, Robertson’s chopper established radio contact with the American and South Vietnamese commandos, who had created a defensive perimeter around a clearing atop a hill referred to as 1045. According to American troops on the ground that day, the helicopter was on final approach when the first enemy soldier opened fire. The Seahorse was sturdy—some 8,000 pounds unloaded—but not bulletproof, and the South Vietnamese pilot attempted to yank the machine around for


another pass. He did not get far: As the commandos watched, an enemy rocket spiraled out of the undergrowth, smacking the Seahorse on the flank. Losing power and coughing orange flame, the helicopter drifted into a nearby valley and exploded. The body of Sergeant John Hartley Robertson was never found.

In the spring of 2008, a Christian missionary named Tom Faunce was digging wells in rural Cambodia when he heard a rumor, from a local pastor, about an American soldier who had managed to survive a helicopter crash over Laos in the spring of 1968. According to the pastor, the soldier, a decorated Green Beret, had later married a nurse from a North Vietnamese Army prison, taken the identity of the woman’s dead husband, and migrated with his newdetention centers. At the age of 12, returned temporarily to the custody of his parents, he watched his father perish in a house fire. At 17, he was arrested for felonious assault, for breaking a bottle over a man’s head. Faunce denied the charges, but a judge found him guilty and gave him a choice: jail or enlistment. Faunce chose the latter. He was assigned to an Army infantry unit and sent to Vietnam. He got there in 1968, just in time for the Tet Offensive. “If you want to stay alive, forget everything you ever learned,” a soldier told him by way of welcome. Faunce survived two tours of duty, but plenty of his friends did not. “Seeing others as young as I was—dead—and knowing that it


could have been me crushed my heart and I felt I had died, too, along with them,” Faunce wrote in his self-published 2007 memoir, A Soldier’s Story. In the 1980s, he channeled his guilt into a series of increasingly risky personal missions abroad. He traveled to the Balkans and South Sudan, where he distributed food and clothing, and he smuggled bibles to rebels on the Mosquito Coast. He contracted malaria, typhoid, and hepatitis. The months away from home took a toll on his wife, Julie, and their four children. But Faunce believed he had been handpicked by the Lord. He was fond of saying that he’d taken two oaths, one to his fellow soldiers—no one left behind—and the other to God: “No one left unloved.” In the personfamily.’” Over the course of the next few hours, Robertson regaled Ames and the Faunces with tales of his military career, listing the American bases and outposts from the 1960s and correctly identifying aircraft used by the American military of that era. He had questions, too: Was his family OK? Were his parents still alive? Faunce didn’t have the answers and recommended that Robertson accompany him to a United States embassy for a fingerprint test that would establish his identity and give him access to his old life. Fearing interference from the Vietnamese government, Faunce suggested they travel to the embassy in Phnom Penh rather than the closer American consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. To Faunce’s surprise, Robertson assented. The Faunces and their passenger made the journey


to Phnom Penh in less than a day. Robertson sat at the window, a peaceful expression on his face.

Between 1965 and 1975, approximately 58,000 American service members perished in the war in Southeast Asia. An estimated 153,000 were injured. And more than 2,000 were listed as missing in action, lost to a complex conflict that spilled across borders and oceans and hundreds of miles of jungled and mountainous terrain. For many years, long after the fall of Saigon, it seemed eminently credible to many Americans that those soldiers might still be chained up in remote prisons, waiting to return home. (The 1984 Chuck Norris vehicle Missing in Action and Rambo: First Blood Part II, where the titular hero travels to Vietnam to retrieve a group of POWs, helpedthought it possible that Robertson survived the crash. After all, on the afternoon of May 20, 1968, the South Vietnamese had conducted a few flyovers of the A Shau Valley, but no ground troops had been dispatched, due to the thick enemy presence; by evening the search was called off entirely. (The troops Robertson had been sent to rescue, ironically, all came back alive.) Wasn’t there a scenario where Robertson leapt from the helicopter as it was going down and, badly injured, allowed himself to be taken captive by the NVA? Now, at the front desk of the U.S. consulate in Phnom Penh, Faunce identified himself as a veteran and told the wary Cambodian guards that he’d located a man he believed to be a missing American soldier.


promised to do what they could with the fluid samples. In response, Robertson embraced them one by one, wrapping them in his long arms. His face was again shiny with tears.

Reviewing the footage from Vietnam, Portelance realized he had stumbled onto the story of a lifetime. But he’d collected only about 20 hours of tape. In order to do his subject justice, he’d have to go back to Dong Nai—an impossibility, given his weakened physical state. His head injury left him constantly fatigued and dizzy, and he was having trouble sleeping. In 2010, he told me, he reached out to a respected Canadian director named Michael Jorgensen, whose body of work included an Emmy Award–winning episode of PBS’s Nova, with the aim of convincing Jorgensen to partner witha family member agrees—that Jean didn’t want the tests: She preferred to talk to the man in person. In the winter of 2012, Jorgensen sent Hugh Tranh to Vietnam to retrieve Robertson and bring him to Edmonton, Alberta, where Jean would be waiting. People who spoke to Jean Holley in the run-up to the meeting recall a changed woman, buoyant with optimism. Johnny had been Jean’s favorite sibling growing up; his disappearance had left “a part of her forever missing,” as one family member recalled. Now near the end of her own life, she was being presented with a chance to hold Johnny again. She couldn’t stop smiling. Jean flew from her home in Tuscaloosa to Canada with her husband of 63 years, Henry Holley, and one of


her daughters, Gail Holley Metcalf, who had last seen John Hartley Robertson at her tenth birthday party. The reunion took place on December 17. In the final version of Jorgensen’s film, it is depicted from a variety of angles: Robertson and Tranh in a taxi cab, speeding through downtown traffic; Tom and Joe Faunce and Ed Mahoney striding confidently toward Jean Holley and Metcalf; Jean Holley in a wheelchair, her eyes watery and wide. When Robertson enters the room, the synthetic string soundtrack surges. Jean gets out of her wheelchair, emitting a happy groan, and she and Robertson embrace. Both are sobbing. “We absolutely never, never forgot about you,” Jean says, clutching Robertson’s head. She later told family that she had “no doubt” that the man was herTom Faunce had found John Hartley Robertson. A few days later, the Huffington Post picked up on the story and published its own article under the headline, “Vietnam vet, presumed dead in combat, reportedly found 44 years later.” Among the readers of the HuffPo piece was a Virginia man named Rodney Millner, who happened to know a whole lot about John Hartley Robertson. Millner is 67; he spent the majority of his professional life in the Air Force, as an intelligence analyst. In the early 1990s, facing retirement, he’d transitioned to a desk at the Department of Defense’s POW/Missing Personnel Office, or DPMO, where he was tasked with sorting through the seemingly endless number of live sighting and dog-tag reports coming out of Southeast Asia. If the evidence


Faunce’s John Robertson, and Smith confirmed that it was the same man he met at the Vietnamese border. Smith says he reported the incident to the Defense Department. But the DIA—and later the DPMO—had its hands tied: Aside from alerting the Vietnamese government, there was nothing the agency could do to punish a sovereign resident of a foreign country. As Rodney Millner noted in his 2009 report, Robertson’s name next cropped up in the early aughts, with the arrival, at the Virginia offices of the DPMO, of a set of fingerprints purportedly belonging to John Hartley Robertson. The sender was a Vietnamese-American woman in Maryland, and like Khambang Sibounheuang, the Laotian, she was well-known to DPMO investigators: The suspicion in the agency was that she was serving asan American front for con artists in Vietnam. A number of photos had followed, all showing a slender, silver-haired man identified as currently living in Dong Nai province. The images appeared Photoshopped and were captioned with erroneous information: In one, the name “Robby” is scrawled over the subject’s chest. In another, Robertson’s last known address is listed as 518 South Louis St., in Boston, an address that does not exist, and has never existed, on any map. Still, in 2006, an investigator had again been dispatched to Dong Nai to speak with the alleged MIA. According to this investigator, the man, who looked to be of mixed Caucasian and Asian extraction, immediately admitted he was a lifelong citizen of Vietnam named Dang Tan Ngoc. “Despite DPMO requests, no


of the Republic of South Vietnam, you drive due east on the sleek new blacktop of Route CT101 before turning north over a series of steep hills humped like the curves of a dragon’s spine. The hills give way to shaded groves of rubber trees, the rubber trees again to city. As recently as the 1970s, Dong Nai province was mostly wilderness, but at the end of the war, the victorious Communist government made it part of the New Economic Zones program, opening the area to hundreds of thousands of northerners. Today, Dong Nai is a rapidly industrializing exurb of Ho Chi Minh City, full of rubber processing and machine-parts plants, indistinguishable in its unlovely sprawl from any other Vietnamese manufacturing hub. Smog clings to the horizon; petrolHe was dressed neatly, in creased slacks and a beige dress shirt. On his wrist he wore a fake gold Rolex. Not for the last time, I was struck by his placid demeanor: the unworried smile, the long cigarette collecting ash. We’d called him, and he had come—it had been as easy as that. The dentist’s wife waved him inside. He declined a cup of coffee, accepted a glass of water, and folded himself into the chair to my right. “I’m pleased to see you,” he said, in what my interpreter later identified as a distinctly southern Vietnamese accent. While we exchanged pleasantries, I examined his face. It might have been true, as Tom Faunce had told me, that Robertson’s height was the same as John Hartley Robertson’s,


province was still poor. He was still poor. I asked if he worked. “I was a motorbike-taxi driver for a while,” he said—he used a nice motorbike that Tom Faunce had purchased for him. But he was getting too old for that. “I grow pomelos,” he said, a grapefruit-like crop native to Southeast Asia. A waitress placed a hot pot of cháo, a kind of herbed rice porridge, on the table. Could Robertson tell us about the crash? Anything he wanted to share. He recited the outlines of the story that appear in the documentary: He was an American, he’d been in a helicopter crash, his wife had saved him. But slippage was occurring, the gears were rusty—now the crash had taken place at night, not in thewere now divorced, but Som had worked with Ngoc on the force, and he’d seen Ngoc’s personnel files. It took a while for Som to get to the food stand; he’d been hanging out at a buddy’s house, drinking rice wine. Arriving, he shook my hand, lit a cigarette, and proceeded to talk, without interruption, for 15 minutes. Ngoc, Som said, had been born in 1947 and raised at an orphanage in Saigon. At 18, Ngoc had left the orphanage and joined the Navy, serving with the South Vietnamese military during the war—a tour of duty that would partially explain Ngoc’s familiarity with U.S. bases and commands. Later he’d come north, to Dong Nai, and taken a position as a cop. For a few years, Ngoc had been


gaze. Only shock. “That is impossible,” he said. For the entirety of our conversation, the man with the chest tattoo had remained in his hammock, drinking his beer and listening quietly. Now he spoke up. He asked if we might be confusing fiction with fact: He remembered that in the late 1970s, he’d had a temporary gig guarding the set of a Vietnamese movie shot here in Dong Nai. He recounted the plot of the movie: An American helicopter pilot is shot down over enemy territory and nursed back to health by a kind-hearted Vietcong nurse. The nurse and the pilot fall in love and live happily ever after. “Ngoc,” he went on, “played the pilot.” According to Vietnamese film archivist Do Thuy Linh, downed American pilots andMuseum of Science and Industry

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20% of population uses majority of public services, research shows, indicating long-term importance of early years investment for disadvantaged children

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A small fraction of the population is likely to account for the majority of societal costs, according to new research into the impact of childhood disadvantage on later life.

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KPD said Barber was accused of using the unique nursing license number of Emily Victoria Brown without her consent.

WVLT News spoke with Brown over the phone Monday.Such an injury is not shocking given how the fight went for Ferguson, and how his face looked when it was over (slightly NSFW there). Over the course of four and a half rounds, Gaethje delivered blow after blow to Ferguson’s face.

According to UFC, Gaethje connected on 143 significant strikes against Ferguson, with 100 landing on the head. One of the worst can be seen here:

Referee Herb Dean mercifully ended the fight during a lopsided fifth round, giving Gaethje the TKO victory and a date with lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov once the UFC can set it up amid the coronavirus pandemic.

As for Ferguson, the loss will be a bitter pill to swallow given that he was lined up to face Nurmagomedov for the full belt until the champ


ended up stranded in Russia. It was the fifth fight between Nurmagomedov and Ferguson to be called off, and it could be awhile before Ferguson gets a sixth chance.

Ferguson was taken to a medical facility in Jacksonville after the fight, per MMA Fighting, and it might be awhile before he can return to the Octagon.World War 1 Trenches Experience

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Training at Kinmel Camp - learn about trench warfare training and what life was like at the camp that inspired the replica trenches development

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Local Heroes - relive some of the inspirational and often heartbreaking stories from soldiers that trained at Kinmel Camp, which took in conscripts from across North Wales and North West England

Built close to the site of original practice trenches, part of an old armyof bursting. Synchronization can also appear in circuits containing no intrinsically bursting neurons, however its appearance and stability can often be improved by including intrinsically bursting cells in the network. Since synchronization is related to plasticity and memory via Hebbian plasticity and long-term potentiation the interplay with plasticity and intrinsic bursting is very important.

Information content and channel robustness
Due to the all-or-nothing nature of action potentials, single spikes can only encode information in their interspike intervals (ISI). This is an inherently low fidelity method of transferring information as it depends on very accurate timing and is sensitive to noisy loss of signal: if just a single spike is mistimed or not properly received at the synapse it leads to a possibly unrecoverable loss in coding. Since intrinsic bursts are


thought to be derived by a computational mechanism in the slow subsystem, each can represent a much larger amount of information in the specific shape of a single burst leading to far more robust transmission. Physiological models show that for a given input the interspike and interburst timings are much more variable than the timing of the burst shape itself which also implies that timing between events is a less robust way to encode information.

The expanded alphabet for communication enabled by considering burst patterns as discrete signals allows for a greater channel capacity in neuronal communications and provides a popular connection between neural coding and information theory.

Example bursting neuron circuits

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The subiculum, a component of the hippocampal formation, is thought to perform relaying of signals originating in the hippocampusit on to others.’

But the ‘inalienable free-born right of people born in England to go to the pub’ Johnson spoke of clearly resonated with quite a few people who rushed straight to the bar after hearing the news.

Punters enjoy their last big night out for a while in Newcastle city centre (Picture: North News)

Pub goers enjoy a final evening at Spoons tonight (Picture: Getty Images)

Two women drink at a pub in London on the evening Boris Johnson made his announcement (Picture: Getty Images)

The PM asked people to stay at home but many in Newcastle headed straight out (Pictur: North News)

Many pubs have already taken a big hit but this one had plenty of punters on the ‘last night of freedom’ (Picture: Getty Images)

One Twitter user wrote: ‘The last


Soldier's son presented 70-year-old dog tags found on beach

SALISBURY, Mass. (AP) — Dog tags a U.S. soldier lost on a Massachusetts beach 70 years ago have been returned to his son at the same place.

Zachariah Fike (FYKE), head of Vermont-based Purple Hearts Reunited, says the military ID belonged to World War II veteran Cpl. William Benn, who lost them in 1939 at a coastal artillery placement on Salisbury Beach.

Metal detector enthusiast Bill Ladd found them after a storm last year.

Fike and Ladd gave the tags to William Benn of Providence, Rhode Island, on Sunday afternoon.

Cpl. Benn manned a gun during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. He was awarded the Silver Star for shooting down several Japanese aircraft the next year as a tail gunner on a B-17women in the communit for the first time;
In the city of Be'ersheba more women were appointed to municipal committees;
The municipality of Tel Aviv set up a committee to find ways of raising the status of women employed by the city.

As part of its gender work, the Adva Center drew up a policy document on the need for gender mainstreaming within the departments of the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry. The minister has since instructed the director of his Research Department to submit a plan for collecting data by gender for the purpose of promoting women's employment. In addition, the Adva Center worked with other women's organizations to:
Convince the Knesset not to raise the retirement age for women by 2–5 years. An Adva staff person wrote an influential position


century and not be Sachin Tendulkar. For this achievement he was awarded the Dilip Sardesai Trophy, named after the renowned Indian batsman Vijay Merchant, by the BCCI.

But despite his fame and talent Ashwin remains a relatively unknown public figure. Articles about his personal life and family are rare. And little is known about the events that have gone into making him the player he is today. Therefore readers will be interested to read about some amusing, hitherto unknown, things about Ravichandran Ashwin. Hopefully this will enhance the public's understanding of this quiet, modest cricketer.

1. Ashwin once abandoned a friend at an amusement park

This happened in 2001, when Ashwin was 15 years old. His school, Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, decided to take all its students to Black Thunder amusementpark in Mettupalayam in Tamil Nadu.

Since many students were involved, the school asked all of them to always stay in pairs. Ashwin was paired with Gaurav Singhal from 9B. However, when the time came to go back home, Ashwin ran to the bus, leaving Gaurav in a restroom. Ashwin forgot all about Gaurav, and nobody noticed his absence till they reached Coimbatore. Ashwin still remembers this with regret: "I should have immediately gone back for Singhal..."

2. Cricket was not Ashwin's first choice

Not many people know this, but Ashwin always wanted to grow up and become a football player. Indeed, for many of his growing years he was well known in his school and neighbourhood for being good at using his height and for kicking the ball powerfully.

However, his


football career came to an abrupt end in the summer of 1997, during a class football match. The match had been planned for weeks but Ashwin, unfortunately, forgot all about it. And instead of taking his sturdy football boots, he wore his brand-new black leather shoes to class.

For the first 88 minutes of the match Ashwin somehow managed to not scuff his shoes at all, by heading, chesting and kneeing the ball. But in the 89th minute his team won a penalty. The scores were level: 1-1. This penalty kick would be crucial. Ashwin was asked to thump in one of his trademark cannonballs.

Poor Ashwin was in a quandary. He really loved the new shoes. So he thought about it and did the unthinkable. He ran up, divedto the ground and hit the ball with his head. It tamely dribbled into the hands of the goalkeeper. The game ended in a draw.

For years his classmates never let him forget his embarrassment. Ashwin, who never touched a football again, is unrepentant: "Look everyone was obsessed with winning the match, but I wanted to ensure that I avoided the feet."

3. Ashwin hates Dumb Charades

For those who are unfamiliar, Dumb Charades is a game where contestants must mime the names of movies (such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and books (such as Saving Private Ryan - The Book) to their team-mates (such as Anita and Gopinath), who must then guess it within a stipulated time (such as two minutes). Dumb Charades is especially popular in


Indian schools and colleges.

In 2006, Ashwin and his friend Gaurav Singhal reached the finals of the All Chennai Inter-College Anna Dravida Dumb Charades Competition. To lift the trophy, all Ashwin had to do was guess one final movie. Gaurav, an expert mime artist, easily mimed the first two words of the three-word title: "Run Lola..." Everyone assumed Ashwin would guess the third easily.

Instead what followed were 30 seconds of horror as Ashwin guessed one wrong title after the other: Run Lola Again, Run Lola Kutty, Run Lola Refrigerator, Run Lola Middle Finger, Run Lola Van der Waal's Force and so on. Eventually they lost and ended in second place. He has never played wretched Dumb Charades since.

Ashwin is defiant about the loss to this day: "Machaan, I genuinelyMedia playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Rex Tillerson: "We will do everything we can to prevent conflict"

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged the US to remain "cool-headed" over North Korean tensions.

The situation was at a "crossroads", but must not be allowed to develop into a conflict, he said after hosting US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Mr Tillerson spoke of "dangerous levels" of tension, a day after suggesting the US might launch a pre-emptive strike against North Korea.

North Korea is working to develop nuclear missiles that can reach the US.

Last week, it launched four ballistic missiles - defying United Nations resolutions.

Mr Tillerson is in Beijing in the final leg of his East Asia tour, which has been dominated by anxieties over North Korea.

In South Korea


the US and China shared "a common view that tensions on the peninsula are quite high right now - and that things have reached a rather dangerous level".

He added, however, that they had both committed "to do whatever we can to prevent any kind of conflict breaking out".

The US has deployed its Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system (Thaad) in South Korea in a move it says is designed to protect against threats from North Korea.

But China has claimed the system goes "far beyond" the defence needs of the Korean peninsula.

Mr Tillerson, a former oil executive with no prior diplomatic experience, will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday.

Mr Xi is scheduled to visit the United States next month for his first meeting with President Trump.

Some commentators expect MrTillerson to downplay any tensions between the two countries ahead of that encounter.

Image copyright AFP Image caption Tillerson and Wang kept things diplomatic

Muted language: Analysis by Carrie Gracie, China editor, Beijing

For America's top diplomat, this was a first attempt at tackling one of the thorniest problems in one of diplomacy's most delicate relationships.

So in Beijing today, Mr Tillerson kept it diplomatic. There was no public repetition of President Trump's complaint that China is not doing enough to prevent North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes. Instead Mr Tillerson focussed on a point of agreement with his Chinese hosts.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi showed the same restraint. Earlier this month, he said the US and North Korea were like trains accelerating towards a head-on collision. But today he framed the


invitations were sent to future participants advising them of the general scope of the studies.

Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval was received for both the initial study and the replicated study. Inclusion criteria for the two studies included: CNOs within an acute setting, a hospital which has facilities and all personnel including medical staff appropriate to diagnose, treat and care for acute conditions, including injuries, located within the Southeastern and Northeastern United States. CNOs were identified as the highest ranking administrative registered nurse in the acute care organization, responsible for the practice of nursing throughout their healthcare system. Exclusion criteria included anyone not meeting the inclusion criteria. Department directors, division directors, unit or service managers, supervisors, charge nurses and other senior nurses who have non-nursing, executive positions in hospitalsthrough the direct experience of the CNOs. This model-included context, perspectives, experiences, underlying motivations and factors that influence decision making and opinions of CNOs.

The studies included six male and nineteen female CNOs actively practicing in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Jersey. The participants' ages ranged from early forties to late sixties. They were educated to at least a master's level up to a PhD degree and were primarily Caucasian. The CNOs in these studies generally held several CNO positions in the last decade. The types of hospitals represented included; corporate system, community, government, academic health center and rural facilities. The number of beds per hospital ranged from less than 50 to over 1000.

In accordance with Moustakas' Transcendental Phenomenology, there were multiple reviews of


On partisan lines, a House subcommittee on Communications and Technology has voted to disapprove the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, which were enacted in December. The vote was 15 ayes and eight nays.

"The Internet works pretty well. It's the government that doesn't," insisted Greg Walden (R-OR), who made the opening comments at today's House hearing. "There is no crisis warranting intervention. The Internet is not broken," agreed the subcommittee's chair Fred Upton (R-MI). "The market has not failed."

Minority Democrats on the committee mocked the move and offered numerous amendments that were rejected. Edward Markey (D-MA) called it "not just a solution in search of a problem—it's a RESolution in search of a problem."

The passage of HR 37 was a foregone conclusion. Both Republican representatives called the FCC'sOrder a "power grab," in a statement released yesterday. House speaker John Boehner (R-OH) recently declared that there can be "no compromise" on the matter. His colleague Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) accused the FCC of leaping "vampire-like" upon the telecommunications sector in passing the rules.

HR 37 reads as follows:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to the matter of preserving the open Internet and broadband industry practices (Report and Order FCC 10-201, adopted by the Commission on December 21, 2010), and such rule shall have no force or effect.

Obviously, this language's fate is uncertain at best in the Democratically controlled Senate, which might not consider this resolution


Orndorff on March 31, 1985, at the first WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden.

Piper was a villain for the early portion of his career, once cracking a coconut over the skull of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. He later starred in the movie They Live.

The Saskatchewan-born wrestler, who was known just as well for his mouth as his might, also hosted the Winnipeg Comedy Festival in 2006.

"I thought they were nuts," said Piper at the time of the festival organizers. "Do you know my reputation?"

'Rowdy' Roddy Piper was in Winnipeg in 2006 for CBC Manitoba's comedy festival. The 61-year-old man died on Friday, July 31, 2015. 1:08

WWE chairman Vince McMahon called Piper "one of the most entertaining, controversial and bombastic performers ever in WWE, beloved by millions of fans around theworld."

Piper also went by the nickname "Hot Rod" during his career. Although he was Canadian, he often appeared in a kilt and came to the ring blowing bagpipes in a nod to his Scottish heritage.

Main evented first WrestleMania

Piper was best known for his lengthy career with the World Wrestling Federation, now the WWE. He had more than 30 titles to his name and was inducted into the company's Hall of Fame in 1985.

Piper became a household name because of his rivalry with Hogan, and the involvement of pop star Cyndi Lauper and her friend Captain Lou Albano, also a wrestler. The feud led to an MTV special The War to Settle the Score in 1985. Piper was cast as the villain, and his disqualification led to Hogan claiming


the WWF championship.

A brawl at the end of that fight led to the first WrestleMania.

Piper also had well-known rivalries with Rick Rude and Adrian Adonis, among others.

Born Roderick George Toombs, Piper joined the WWE in 1984. Here, he attends the WrestleMania 25th anniversary press conference at the Hard Rock Cafe on March 31, 2009, in New York City. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

Starred in 'They Live'

In addition to his celebrity in the ring, Piper appeared in John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic They Live. In that film, he delivered the memorable line: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass — and I'm all out of bubblegum."

"He was a great wrestler. He was an underrated actor and just a marvelous entertainer and I feel like I've just losthailing from Glasgow, Scotland, 'the guy who never beat Hulk Hogan."'

Fairplay named his daughter Piper in honor of the wrestler.

"Rowdy Piper should be remembered as the greatest bad guy of all time," he said.

More recently, Piper appeared in the show Celebrity Wife Swap, trading wives with fellow former wrestler Ric Flair.

Piper battled Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006, but later said he had beaten the cancer.

A native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Piper is survived by his wife Kitty and their four children.


(Reuters) - A Florida Democrat running for the U.S. House of Representatives in a heavily Republican district has died a little more than six weeks before the November elections, the state’s Democratic Party said on Monday.

April Freeman, 54, who worked as a writer and producer in the film industry, died of an apparent heart attack, local media quoted her husband as saying.

She had been due to face Republican state Senator Greg Steube in the Nov. 6 elections to succeed Tom Rooney, a Republican who decided not to seek a sixth term in Congress. State law allows party officials five days to convene a meeting to name a replacement candidate.

Political analysts view the central Florida district as solidly Republican, meaning it is unlikely to be a factor in Democrats’ moment  and the  restoring moment are equal. This prompted the investigations of ship's stability that led to the introduction of the metacenter.
Bouguer  subsequently participated  in an  expedition  to  the Andes  in  Peru,  today  Ecuador,  for  geodesic  measurements  near  the  equator  from  1735  to 1744, where he  worked  on  his  treatise  Traité  du Navire on ship  hydrostatics, published  in  1746 after  his  return  to France. However, according to Nowacki, he likely started working on ship's stability already in 1732, when he tested the 18-gun frigate Gazelle in Le Havre. Euler worked on the same subject in


St. Petersburg from 1737 to 1741, and summarized it in  Scientia Navalis published after a delay in 1749.
For infinitesimal angles  of  heel,  Bouguer  introduced  the  metacenter    as  the point of intersection of two infinitesimally neighboring buoyancy directions, that is directions passing through the centers of buoyancy, the centers  of  gravity  of  the  displaced  water (see his diagram below, g is the metacenter).   Generally, the  metacenter  is the center of curvature of the curve traced by the centers of buoyancy as the  ship  heels  continuously. The significance of it is that the ship is stable when the center of its gravity is below the metacenter.Islamabad, Pakistan - A prominent leader of the Pakistani Taliban's Jamaat-ur-Ahrar (JuA) faction, Ehsanullah Ehsan, has surrendered to security forces, the military said.

The announcement was made on Monday by Asif Ghafoor, Pakistan's military spokesman, at a press briefing in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.

Ghafoor gave no further details about the arrest, including when and where it took place.

"The people, the state and the institutions of Pakistan have made considerable progress in the betterment of the country's security situation," said Ghafoor.

"We have progressed to the point that the people who've been planning attacks on Pakistan's soil from across the border have started to see that the situation has changed.

"In this regard, I would like to share with you that the banned Jamaat-ur-Ahrar and Tehreek e-Taliban [TTP] spokesperon Ehsanullah Ehsan


has surrendered himself to security forces."

Al Jazeera could not independently verify the capture, but Ehsan had been conspicuously absent from his prominent role in liaising with journalists since late 2016.

"If a person who is doing the wrong thing feels that they are on the wrong side and that they should come back towards good, then I don't think there can be a bigger success of the state than this," Ghafoor added.

JuA did not immediately offer a comment on the security forces' claim. If true, it would mark the highest-profile surrender by a Pakistani Taliban commander in years.

In recent history, the group has carried out some of the most violent attacks in Pakistan.

PROFILE: The Pakistani Taliban

In February, more than 130 people were killed in a series of suicide attacksacross Pakistan, several of which were claimed by the JuA.

It also claimed responsibility for the 2016 Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore that killed more than 70 people.

In August, the United States added JuA to its list of "specially designated global terrorists".

The JuA was formed in August 2014 as a breakaway faction of the central TTP by chief Omar Khalid Khorasani, the commander of its Mohmand district, and Ehsan, who left his post as a central TTP spokesman.

JuA rejoined the central TTP the following March but is known to operate independently of the central TTP leadership, which is led by Mullah Fazlullah.

Pakistan army launched a countrywide counterterrorism operation in February and claims to have killed at least 108 suspected fighters and arrested at least 4,510.

In addition, 558 suspected terrorists


Patient perceptions of a Virtual Health Room installation in rural Sweden.
The Virtual Health Room (VHR) is an ehealth initiative in the village of Slussfors in northern Sweden. Construction of VHRs in other locations is taking place, and the Centre for Rural Medicine in the Västerbotten County Council primary care department has implemented a VHR evaluation framework. This research focuses on evaluation of patient perceptions of the usability of the VHR and its contribution to their health care. Nineteen of the 25 unique users of the VHR during 2014/15 completed a survey asking about their attitudes to their own health (using the 13-question version of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM)), their demographic attributes, and their satisfaction with their visit to the VHR. Respondents with lower PAM scores were lessExclusive

Published: 6:22 AM July 30, 2019 Updated: 8:42 AM September 18, 2020

In a frank, honest letter to the Labour leader ALASTAIR CAMPBELL says he no longer wants to be readmitted to the party he's spent his life fighting for, and asks Jeremy Corbyn to seriously consider whether he's really up to the challenges ahead.

Dear Jeremy,

Britain is in a moment of peril, the UK facing an existential crisis, a combination of Brexit and Boris Johnson reducing our country to a global laughing stock; and yet between them Brexit and now Johnson as prime minister have delivered what amounts to a right-wing coup - a fundamental change in the direction of the country without real democratic mandate.

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Alastair Campbell in his office in Downing Street after announcing his resignation as Director of Communications to Prime Minister Tony Blair, in London. Blair's top aide announced his resignation on Friday in a shock decision that comes amid the worst crisis of the British premier's six-year rule. - Credit: PA Archive/PA Images

With the distance provided by being away from the UK, with Johnson unspeakably now prime minister and changing the dynamic of the political debate, I have reflected deeply on all of the above. And, with some sadness but absolute certainty, I have reached the conclusion that I no longer wish to stay in thedown in the 'careful what you wish for' category.

I do not know at this stage how I will vote at the next election, and I have made this decision after discussing it with nobody apart from family and a small number of close personal friends. It is not part of some bigger plan, but a deeply personal decision. What I do know is that this is indeed a moment of real peril, with a dangerous, ill-qualified, ill-intentioned new prime minister using the votes of the people in a referendum three years ago to drive through a 'more Thatcherite than Thatcher' agenda for which he has no mandate. I know too, that less affluent people in deprived areas whose support he secured with one set of lies to win


with their lives and look to political leaders to get on with their jobs, and do them in the national interest. Millions of those people are looking on in despair at the state of our politics, the choice we face, and the quality of leadership we now have. With a government this bad, with a prime minister symbolic of the post-truth, post-shame Trumpian era, appointing ministers whose misdemeanours mean that in any other walk of life they would never gain serious employment again, such as Priti Patel, Esther McVey and Gavin Williamson, pursuing a ruinous form of Brexit that will so damage our economy, society and standing in the world, Labour should be poised to win power. If the public could see that clear, credible and coherent alternativeManufacturer:

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The Curtiss AT-9 was designed to transition new pilots from single engine trainers to twin engine combat aircraft such as the B-26 and P-38. A relatively difficult plane to fly and especially to land the Fledgling served well in the early years of World War II. Nearly eight hundred AT-9s were built for the Army Air Force between 1941 and 1943. After 1943, there were enough B-25 and B-26 bombers available for some of them to be used as trainers and the AT-9 was phased out of service. Very few AT-9s entered the civil market after the war and none were used for long. Only one complete AT-9 exists, located at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.