Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. 10 September 2017 Reuters Hurricane Irma – devastation caused in pictures Storm clouds are seen over Fisher Island as Hurricane Irma approaches on 9 September 2017 in Miami Beach, Florida. Florida is in the path of the Hurricane which may come ashore at category 4 Getty Images Hurricane Irma – devastation caused in pictures Waves crash over a seawall at the mouth of the Miami River from Biscayne Bay, Fla., as Hurricane Irma passes by. 10 September 2017 AP Hurricane Irma – devastation caused in pictures Some of the damage on Saint Martin EPA/Gerben Van Es/Dutch Department of Defence Hurricane Irma – devastation caused in pictures The skyline is seen as the outerbands of Hurricane Irma start to reach Florida on 9 September 2017in Miami, Florida. Florida is in the path of the Hurricane which may come ashore at category 4. Getty Images Hurricane Irma – devastation caused in pictures A tree toped by hurricane Irma is seen on a empty street in Remedios, Cuba, 9 September 2017. Hurricane Irma reached Cuba bringing winds between 160 and 190 kilometers per hour. The hurricane has hit the north coast of the island. EPA Hurricane Irma – devastation caused in pictures James Constantineau loads sands bags in his truck as he prepares for the approach of Hurricane Irma Saturday, 9 September 2017, in East Palatka, Fla. Gov. Rick Scott is urging anyone living in an evacuation zone in southwest Florida to leave by noon as the threat of Hurricane Irma has shifted west.


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The Dominican Republic is under a hurricane watch, meaning hurricane conditions are possible in the eastern portion of Hispaniola—another prior victim of Irma.presence of a four-year university like Nicholls, which enrolled 6,814 students in the fall of 2006 and attracts cultural and athletic events, can also drive up local property values.

"If Nicholls wasn’t here, would the real estate in the rest of the area be worth as much as it is?" Coats said, noting housing costs in Thibodaux near the university are significantly higher than surrounding communities. "That’s rather doubtful."

The rising values, in turn, more than make up for the revenue the parish loses from the tax-exempt school, Coats added. "All of the property values are higher as a result, you might give up a little bit of revenue in one place, but you make it up somewhere else," he said.

Fletcher, founded in 1951 as the South Louisiana Trade School,


In 2012, an unnecessary and idiotic remark destroyed Todd Akin and allowed an unpopular incumbent Senator to loose, and likely also contributed to the loss of the Indiana Senate seat. The Democrats hounded the Republicans as being anti-woman and pro-rape.

It turns out that the 2014 version of Todd Akin may end up being Democrat candidate for the open Iowa Senate seat, current Congressman Bruce Braley.

Braley was caught on hidden camera belittling Iowa farmers while extolling trial lawyers:

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Thousands of American Jews marched

Jewish-Americans marched through New York’s Fifth Avenue on June 2, waving Israeli flags. The marchers also held pro-Israel signs as a component of the Celebrate Israel Parade. Prominent among those absent were members of Jewish organizations having a left-leaning ideology. Protesters greeted marchers, and the two opposing groups exchanged heated remarks like “Free Palestine!” and “Self Hating Jews!” The parade is in its 55th edition in 2019.

The event was held in the backdrop of the State of Israel celebrating its 52nd anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, the modern yet ancient city which devout Jews regard as a holy city. Pious Jews also consider Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jews.

The theme of the Celebrate Israel Parade in 2019 was “Only in Israel.”Members of about 250 organizations took part. The list of attendees included students of Jewish day schools. Members of synagogues, yeshivot, and professional marching bands. A few commercial companies also joined in, together with 30 floats. Trucks rolled past those who came to watch, entertaining the thousands who lined up the avenue and cheered the 40,000 marchers.

Many American political figures joined the marchers. The list included Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York and Bill de Blasio, the Mayor of New York City. Danny Dayan, the Israel Consul General to New York, were among the many prominent figures among the marchers. Almost every elected official took care to show up and be seen. They made sure that other parade goers see them and they were present to express


their heartfelt support towards the Israeli cause.

There were some Jews who did not take part in the march. The New Israel Fund, a known far-left organization, did not send its members to the event. This absence did not trouble the Israeli ambassador. Dayan told an Israeli newspaper reporter that it was exciting for him to march with many others in New York to celebrate Israel’s independence. He appreciated the support given by many New Yorkers to the event. Dayan said it is vital to show the thriving relationship between Israel and the United States during trying times like today. He reminded the interviewer that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are on the rise today and such events concretize the excellent relationship between U.S. Jews and their Israeli counterparts.

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The crown prince of Bahrain attempted to arrange a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009 by using his connections to the Clinton Foundation. That's according to newly released emails between Clinton's State Department aide Huma Abedin and former Bill Clinton aide Doug Band, who was helping run the Foundation at the time.

The emails, obtained by the activist group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request, show Band alerting Abedin of Crown Prince Salman's visit to Washington in June 2009. "Asking to see her," Band said. "Good friend of ours."

"He asked to see hrc [Hillary Rodham Clinton] thurs and fri thru normal channels," Abedin wrote back. "I asked and she said she doesn't want to commit to anything for thurs or fri until sheknows how she will feel. Also she says that she may want to go to ny and doesn't want to be committed to stuff in ny…"

Salman and the Kingdom of Bahrain had been generous donors to the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. Judicial Watch notes that Salman had established a scholarship program for the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005.

Abedin eventually wrote back that the meeting between the crown prince and the secretary of state had been set up through "official channels."


casinos in Macau, was the first of the major gaming firms to report results for the first quarter, saying late Wednesday that its global revenue plunged more than 50% from a year ago.

The numbers weren't as bad as feared though. sparking a rally in Las Vegas Sands and other casino stocks Thursday. Las Vegas Sands surged nearly 10%.

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The other major US casino companies will also likely discuss what's happening in Las Vegas when they report their latest earnings in the next few weeks.

During a conference call with analysts, Las Vegas Sands president and COO Robert Glen Goldstein said he wasPeterson and Hutchinson were among five Vikings players who didn't practice Wednesday as the team began preparations for this weekend's game against the Buffalo Bills.

Peterson had an MRI on his ankle Sunday, and interim Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said it revealed no more damage than a sprain. But it's still not clear if the NFL's third-leading rusher will be ready to go against the Bills.

"It'll probably be day to day, maybe going all the way up to Sunday as to whether he'll be playing," Frazier said of Peterson, who has 1,016 rushing yards this season. "We've got our fingers crossed."

Peterson and Hutchinson both were injured last Sunday during the second quarter of a 17-13 victory over the Washington Redskins. Peterson was unable to play the rest of the


a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence—namely, his possession of the unregistered disassembled assault rifle.

On appeal, defendant argued that possession and transfer of an unregistered weapon did not qualify as a "crime of violence" within the statutory definition. He contended that the possession of the disassembled rifle without a commensurate intent to use the weapon in the course of committing another crime did not raise the requisite statutory risk of force during the course of the possession. The Tenth Circuit agreed. A "crime of violence" is defined as one that by its nature involves a substantial risk of the use of physical force against the person or property of another in the course of committing the offense. The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted language containing similarwas again amended, removing the two criminal history points for commission of an offense while on probation, the district court denied safety-valve relief, finding that defendant’s actions in shortening his California probationary period for reasons unrelated to his innocence or to a legal error was not a valid basis for not counting the prior sentence for criminal history purposes. Accordingly, it sentenced him to the mandatory minimum sentence under the statute.

On appeal, defendant contended that the nunc pro tunc order terminating his probation should have resulted in his being placed in criminal history category I, making him eligible for safety-valve relief. The Tenth Circuit disagreed. The California sentence had not been expunged, nor had it been set aside because of a finding of innocence or legal error. Instead,


it had been set aside solely to allow him to qualify for safety-valve relief. Under federal law, this meant that the conviction continued to "count" for sentencing purposes. The Circuit therefore affirmed defendant’s sentence.

Petitioner Jones (taxpayer) served as lead defense counsel in the Oklahoma City bombing trial. He took an income tax deduction for a charitable donation of discovery material he had acquired while representing defendant Timothy McVeigh. Taxpayer donated the voluminous material to the Center for American History at the University of Texas, after an expert appraised its value at $294,877. The Internal Revenue Service issued the taxpayer a notice of deficiency after determining that the deduction was improper. Taxpayer filed a petition in the tax court seeking a redetermination. The tax court ruled that taxpayer didnot only believe that Mohammed had better manners
than any other human before or after him, but they also believe
that Mohammed is one of the most expressive and eloquent of his
time. Even some Muslims tend to associate miracles to his sayings
in the same way they associated miracles to the Quran, although
the majority of Muslims relate the miracles to the meaning of his
sayings (ahadith) rather than its language style.

A careful reading of Islamic history, written by Muslim
historians with inevitable bias towards Islam and its founder,
Mohammed, reveals some amazing findings. Mohammed and his
companions were not people with high integrity as Muslim scholars
want us to believe. This article will not address the issues of
tortures, assassinations, mass murders, or personal corruption
practiced widely by Mohammed and his companions. They are
important issues, but they had


Mohammed’s closest friend; later he became the first
Caliph of Islam. The following incident took place when Mohammed was
massing an army outside Mecca in preparation to conquer the city.
Urwa Ibn Masoud, who was one of the chiefs of Quraysh (Mohammed’s
tribe), went to meet Mohammed outside Mecca to dissuade him from
attacking the city and his own tribe. Urwa gave a talk to remind
Mohammed that he (Mohammed) is, after all, belongs to Quraysh while
the people around him may sometime desert him. Abu Bakr heard that
but did not like it. He said to Urwa, "We desert him? Go and suck
the clitoris of the Al-Lat" (the goddess of Quraysh).
[Sources: The Sira Alnabawya by Ibn Hisham, Almaghazi by AlWakidi]

Uthman Ibn Affan, the third Caliph, once said to Ammar Ibn Yasser,
"You the one who bitesKOKO TAYLOR: 1928-2009

Koko Taylor more than once said she hoped that when she died it would be onstage, doing the thing she loved most: singing the blues.

She nearly got her wish. The Chicago musical icon died Wednesday at age 80 of complications from gastrointestinal surgery less than four weeks after her last performance, at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis. There she collected her record 29th Blues Music Award, capping an era in which she became the most revered female blues vocalist of her time with signature hits such as "Wang Dang Doodle," "I'm a Woman" and "Hey Bartender."

Taylor died in Northwestern Memorial Hospital 15 days after her May 19 surgery. She appeared to be recovering until taking a turn for the worst Wednesday morning, and was with


friends and family when she died.

"Koko Taylor's life and music brought joy to millions of people all around the world, and Chicago is especially honored that she called our city her home for more than 50 years," Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said. "The strength of her style was formed in the nightclubs of Chicago's South Side, and she carried that spirit with her wherever she went. She was an ambassador for our city and truly was the queen of a kind of music that makes people think of Chicago whenever they hear it."

Among those with her Wednesday was Bruce Iglauer, owner of Chicago-based Alligator Records, who was her producer, manager and friend since 1974.

He recalled that Taylor had a similar surgery in 2004 and was on a ventilatorfor nearly a month.

"The doctors were very discouraged then about her coming back, and she willed herself back to life," Iglauer said. "We were hoping she would do the same this time."

Born Cora Walton in 1928 in Memphis, Taylor literally got up off her knees to become a blues icon.

Growing up on a sharecropper's farm outside Memphis, young Cora and her three brothers and two sisters slept on pallets in a shotgun shack with no running water or electricity. By the time she was 11, both her parents had died. She picked cotton to survive and moved to Chicago in the early 1950s to be with her future husband, Robert "Pops" Taylor. She found a job working as a domestic, scrubbing floors for rich families. Pops Taylor died


in 1989.

She had sung gospel music in church while living in the South and on weekends would attend the blues clubs on Chicago's burgeoning South Side scene, in the heyday of Chess Records and such stalwarts as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon. She would sit in occasionally and caught the ear of Dixon, who approached her in the early '60s about recording one of his songs, "Wang Dang Doodle."

"I didn't know Willie Dixon from Adam's house cat," Taylor recalled in an interview with the Tribune. "But he says to me, 'I love the way you sound' and, 'We got plenty of men out here singing the blues, but the world needs a woman like you with your voice to sing the blues.'"

Taylor's 1965 hit recording of"Wang Dang Doodle" launched her career, and established her sound: a gruff, no-nonsense roar that was the female equivalent of Howlin' Wolf's baritone growl. By becoming a bandleader and a powerful voice in a male-dominated scene, she broke down barriers for many female entertainers who followed.

"Some of the lady singers who were working little local clubs, or maybe just attempting to sing in choirs and churches, they got into the blues scene because of Koko," said Bob Koester, founder of Delmark Records. "Zora Young, Big Time Sarah, Shirley Johnson -- they were inspired to try to come out and sing blues because of Koko's success. Without Koko, that might not have happened."

But when Chess folded in the early '70s, Taylor was back where she started, scrapping for a


living.

"It was a devastating time for my mom," Taylor's daughter, Joyce "Cookie" Threatt, once told the Tribune. "Then she met Bruce [Iglauer]. It was like God put him there."

Iglauer had never worked with a female vocalist before on his fledgling label, which was dominated by guitar-playing men. But he was impressed by Taylor's moxie and her sound.

"She was of the same generation as Muddy and Wolf, she had those [Mississippi] Delta roots," he said Wednesday. "Even though she had been living in Chicago since the '50s, her music was still deeply rooted in the South. She had that rhythmic sense, that sense of where you lay the words and how the band locks in around the singer, that intensity of people who have lived that life."

Taylor already wasa distinctive artist when she came to Alligator, and with Iglauer's help she began exploring a more vulnerable side to her persona on select ballads such as her epochal version of the Etta James hit "I'd Rather Go Blind." Even when recording other people's material, the singer put her idiosyncratic touch on it, usually singing it a cappella in the studio with the musicians following her.

Taylor never adopted the blues lifestyle of hard drinking and philandering that consumed some of her peers. She was a devout woman, but at the same time deeply appreciative of how the blues communicated honestly and directly about everyday life.

As her daughter once told the Tribune: "She grew up singing in [the Baptist] church in Memphis, and people come into church to get


washed. They don't come in there already clean."

At the same time, she was not one to mince words. She could be devastatingly direct with anyone who crossed her.

"She was meticulous about her music, so if her band screwed up, they would hear about it," Iglauer said. "She would not bite her tongue."

For her, the blues was life. She bounced off her death bed in 2004 to write and record another album, the aptly titled "Old School," released in 2007 on Alligator. It would be her final recording, though Iglauer said that in recent months Taylor was calling him and singing new songs over the phone.

"She was scheduled to go to Spain next week," he said. "She was still performing. At the Blues Awards in Memphis a few weeksago, she was absolutely glowing. She would be exhausted standing by the edge of the stage, but when the lights went up, she would hop up and dance as soon as the music started. She would always say, 'If I can brighten one person's day with my music, that's what I live for.'"

"Koko Taylor" (1969): Her debut for Chess Records depicts her as a modern-day Bessie Smith on the cover, and the brassy, hard-hitting music -- including her signature version of Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle" -- provides proof.

"I Got What It Takes" (1975): Her Alligator debut, stoked by the twin guitars of Sammy Lawhorn and Mighty Joe Young.

"The Earthshaker" (1978): The Koko Taylor disc to own if you can have only one, this is the epitome of


her sound, with party-starter "Hey Bartender," the sassy "You Can Have My Husband" and her loud-and-proud response to "Mannish Boy," "I'm a Woman."

"Old School" (2007): There are more technically accomplished late Taylor albums, but this is her most defiant and inspired effort, written and recorded after she bounced back from a 2004 coma.Editor's Note: These are extended excerpts of transcriptions of telephone interviews I did as part of my research for my 1980 articles on The Raleigh Call. The man who identified himself as "John David Hurt" consistently denied knowledge as to why Lee Oswald would have called him from the Dallas jail cell, and he also denied having attempted to place a call to Oswald. The interview with Victor Marchetti was a follow-up to quotes attributed to him in Anthony Summers' book Conspiracy, in which Marchetti said that Hurt was operating as Oswald's "cut-out." -- G.Proctor

I do not. I never heard of the man before President Kennedy's death. I was a great Kennedyphile, and I would have been more inclined to kill him than anything else.

PROCTOR:

Oswald, you mean.

HURT:

Yes

PROCTOR:

Did you


him." You're screwed up.

PROCTOR:

But you would use, for that middle man, people who were not necessarily active agents or agency people, right?

MARCHETTI:

That's right. Most likely they would be cut-outs. You would have to call indirectly.

PROCTOR:

Could Oswald have had a name ....

MARCHETTI:

He was probably calling his cut-out. He was calling somebody who could put him in touch with his case officer. He couldn't go beyond that person. There's no way he could. He just had to depend on this person to say, "Okay, I'll deliver the message." Now, if the cut-out has already been alerted to cut him off and ignore him, then [unintelligible].

Dr. Grover B. Proctor, Jr. is a historian and former university Dean who is widely acknowledged as an expert on the assassination of President John F.On this day, March 18 …

2019: Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., files a lawsuit against Twitter and a handful of users seeking $250 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages, accusing the site of "shadow-banning conservatives," systematically censoring opposing viewpoints and "ignoring" complaints of repeated abusive behavior.

Also on this day:

1766: Britain repeals the Stamp Act of 1765.

Britain repeals the Stamp Act of 1765. 1925: "The Tri-State Tornado" strikes southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois and southwestern Indiana, resulting in some 700 deaths.

"The Tri-State Tornado" strikes southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois and southwestern Indiana, resulting in some 700 deaths. 1937: Nearly 300 people, most of them children, are killed in a natural gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas.

Nearly 300 people, most of them children, are


attorney on their own. 1965: The first spacewalk takes place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov goes outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.

The first spacewalk takes place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov goes outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether. 1980: Frank Gotti, the 12-year-old youngest son of mobster John Gotti, is struck and killed by a car driven by John Favara, a neighbor in Queens, N.Y. (The following July, Favara would vanish.)

Frank Gotti, the 12-year-old youngest son of mobster John Gotti, is struck and killed by a car driven by John Favara, a neighbor in Queens, N.Y. (The following July, Favara would vanish.) 2005: Doctors in Florida, acting on orders of a state judge, remove Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube. (Despite the efforts ofSearch form

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Strana Katorioy Net literally means “a country that does not exist” and it is one of the restaurants owned by restauranteur Arkady Novikov, who owns many restaurants in Moscow (and now also in London). The restaurant is located on one side of hotel Moscow that will soon become Four Seasons hotel, in the centre of Moscow, and next to the Red Square, the Bolshoi Theatre and the State Duma

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Mari Vanna is a Russian restaurant in Knightsbridge, in front of the new Bulgari hotel and next to 1 Hyde Park, strategically placed, as this is an area beloved by the Russian community. Mari Vanna also has branches in New York, St Petersburg and Moscow. If you are Russian (or Russian speaking like myself) you will most likelyin the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right. In essence, it was a judicially sanctioned duel. It remained in use throughout the European Middle Ages, gradually disappearing in the course of the 16th century.

Wikipedia says this was a Germanic legal tradition, which is true. However, the custom was known to many other ancient cultures. Also, it continued into the somewhat modern age.

The defense continued in regular practice into the Seventeenth and even Eighteenth Centuries. The accused or defendant would assert or demand his right. The prosecutor or plaintiff or a chosen champion would then join the accused in singular combat. This was to the death or to a


submission – usually death. I cannot imagine too many district attorneys, police officers, or offended ex-wives going along, willingly, with such strategy. Then again, I cannot see most fat, lazy Americans demanding such a right let alone conducting such as trial.

In 1774 an attempt was made in Parliament, partly in response to the Boston Tea Party, to abolish the practice. This and all other reform efforts failed. No bill or law has ever rescinded the ancient right. The right was in place, part of the English Common Law, when the American colonies declared independence from the King. Thus, the right remained available to Americans. Mostly, such spectacles took form in gentlemanly duels – outside of the courts. Alexander Hamilton participated in one of these with fatal consequences.

Still, noto stamp them out. The displaced workers will receive healthcare and cell phones for the bargain – at a cost.

A few Democrats and Rand Paul (son of the mighty Ron Paul), realizing the potential liabilities of robbing the people of their last shot at the American Dream, have stood in the way. Paul filibustered against the deal in the Senate. His speech fell of deaf and stupid ears. The President will get his way, supported by the “conservative” opposition. Trade will be geared ever towards non-American interests. Americans will lose jobs. Reality TV will continue to be popular among the uneducated rabble.

Just remember this when the election rolls around and the Bush/Romney/Christie machine makes the usual patriotic rumblings. Remember it when Hitlary bashes the GOP for being unsupportive


Donny received an appointment to West Point though, after one year, he stopped his education and entered the Army as an enlisted man. He served with the 375th Ranger company in Afghanistan where he was forced to kill men, women, and children. The experience haunts him daily.

While in the field and during additional training he sustained major injuries, which necessitated his retirement on disability: I think his physical was 50%; his mental injuries (PTSD, psychosis, etc.) were 100%. During his tenure he rose to the rank of Sargent and was awarded so many medals and commendations that multiple forms DD-214 were necessary to list them all.

He received continuing physical and psychiatric treatment at the Augusta, GA VA hospital; they placed he on enough narcotics and psycho-tropic drugs toturn anyone into a zombie. His mental condition was initially rated as temporary. Throughout 2011 he pursued the status of “permanent and unemployable.” During this time he suffered marital and mental health-related troubles daily. Towards the end of his bureaucratic ordeal he made a phone call to the VA national “service” center.

During the (recorded) call he made statements which the VA took as terroristic threats – they alleged he said he was going to the regional VA office in Atlanta to kill the first 3,000 people he encountered using unspecified weaponry. My review of the call lead me to believe he was not sane during the call, that the government’s allegations were a wild, composite stretch of the words used, and that VA’s service isn’t. He was originally


arrested on State charges. He was legally carrying a pistol at the time though the arrest was without incident. Damningly, his permanent status was approved the next day. He was released on bail only to be rearrested by the feds, charged with violating 18 USC 875, interstate terror threats (a 5-year maximum felony). Had he specified a “weapon of mass destruction” he would have faced 40 years in prison.

I was appointed as defense counsel and immediately moved for a psychiatric evaluation, thinking this would easily end the case. After several months I received a lengthy report from the MCC New York which exhaustively listed Donny’s chronic mental problems and concluded he was permanently psychotic. However, the good (government) doctor also stated he was obviously sane at the timewhatsoever. The exact opposite of Phil’s sick mind.

The book contains two novellas: “Where It Hurts Most” and “A Great Deal of Impropriety”.
In the first story, heartless yuppie Alison confesses to her boyfriend Alex she had been unfaithful to him. Alex’ dirty mind quickly comes up with a way to take revenge. Their loveless relationship mutates into a series of punishment sessions.
In the second story, a naïve young man moves to a big city in the hope to make up for lost time, lose his virginity and experience all kinds of adventures. However, meeting a woman proves to be a challenging and often humiliating process…

The 20-year-old Emma is paid handsomely to stay with the millionaire Nicholas Verlinsky and his wife Xenia and participate in their bizarre BDSM games. Xenia


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An angry, overflow crowd of about 500 in The Dalles gave Rep. Greg Walden an earful Wednesday about his positions on health care, immigration and climate change. Two hours later, an even larger, more vocal group did the same in Hood River.

The twin bill marked the nine-term Republican's first town halls since he helped craft a controversial GOP health care bill that would have ended coverage for some 24 million Americans by 2026. He closely aligned himself with House Speaker Paul Ryan, the primary sponsor of the legislation, even though more than a third of his constituents in the sprawling 2nd Congressional District are covered by Medicaid, the federal health care program for the poor.

Walden was repeatedly shouted down during both events. More than once,


moderates and the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, Ryan never bothered to take it to a vote.

In the afternoon, a young student drew a standing ovation from the 800 or so gathered at Hood River Middle School when she urged Walden to distance himself from President Donald Trump and call him out when he makes offensive remarks about women and immigrants.

Walden said he's done exactly that at times, noting that he issued a statement condemning Trump's executive order banning immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries.

The crowd in The Dalles got vocal when Ian Chandler, who works in the fruit industry, told Walden that the Republican position on immigration was not only unfair to immigrants but also creating a damaging labor shortage for local growers.

"Republicans are issuing a lot of negativeat the Hood River meeting drew applause when he praised Walden for his efforts to protect the north side of Mt. Hood.

Afterward, constituents said they generally appreciated Walden's willingness to face a hostile crowd. Chandler, the orchardist, and fellow fruit grower Dane Klindt agreed that Walden has in recent years tipped to the political right, which has caused "confusion," among his longtime supporters.

"As he rises up in the national Republican party, he's trying to play along with the party line versus his constituents," Chandler said.

The orchardists agreed, despite the general dissatisfaction at the town hall and the congressman's close involvement in the health care debacle, that Walden remains in good shape politically, at least for now.

"He's not vulnerable," Klindt said. "He could lose Hood River and Bend and


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However The
Bible and for that matter the collected dogmas of the factions of the further
Left, as in the SNP, are little guide when it comes to advancing science and
technology and the mechanisms of global financial operations. The Bible deals with eternity and The Left
deals with long term planning and ordering the future.

In the last
few days some Labour MP's of the Left from northern England have avowed they
would join the SNP in frustrating austerity and cuts. This has led to shock horror surprise when it
ought to be very obvious that tracts of northern England have a great deal more
in common with Scotland than they have with the south.

The border settlement
of 1328 was a long time ago, even by my standards and the Scots have an ancient
claim to old Northumbria.immunohistochemistry, and anterograde HRP and autoradiographic techniques. Based upon retrograde HRP labeling, the principal afferents to the VTN region of the cmPRF originated from the medial and lateral mammillary nuclei, and lateral habenular nucleus, and to a lesser extent from the interpeduncular nucleus, lateral hypothalamus, dorsal tegmental nucleus, superior central nucleus, and contralateral nucleus reticularis pontis caudalis. Other afferents, which were thought to have been labeled through spread of HRP into the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF), adjacent paramedian pontine reticular formation, or uptake by transected fibers descending to the inferior olive, included the nucleus of Darkschewitsch, interstitial nucleus of Cajal, zona incerta, prerubral fields of Forel, deep superior colliculus, nucleus of the posterior commissure, nucleus cuneiformis, ventral periaqueductal gray, vestibular complex, perihypoglossal complex, and deep cerebellar nuclei. In


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Electrical devices used in hazardous areas need to be certified for use according to the requirements specified for the area. The types of protection required depend on the risk involved in the area. In general hazardous locations in North America are separated by class, division and temperature class to define the level of safety required for equipment installed in these locations.

Class defines the general nature of hazardous material in the surrounding atmosphere and Class 1 states an area is hazardous because flammable gases or vapors are present in the air in quantities sufficient to produce explosive or ignitable mixtures.

Division defines the probability of hazardous material being present in an ignitable concentration in the surrounding atmosphere. Division 2 states the substance referred to by class is present only innew report suggests that Ben Affleck's Batman, will make a cameo at the end of the movie, introducing him to the new Joker (Jared Leto) and setting up his future standalone movies.

Every year, when the Oscar nominations are announced, a considerable amount of time is spent debating who was snubbed. But for every film that was expecting to get nominated and didn't, there's a film that no one was expecting to get nominated and did. This is the story of those films. The movies you'll look back on and wonder exactly how the heck it ever got nominated for an Oscar.

A lot of your favorite 80s classics have been rebooted or remade into not-so-classics. It's the unfortunate state of the movie business. But, today, we get one back.


Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s former president, has been ordered to turn himself in to the authorities to serve the 12-year jail sentence he was given after being convicted of corruption.

Lula had pleaded with the country’s supreme court to remain free until he had exhausted all his appeals, but the judges ruled by six to five against his request after 10 hours of debate. The decision will deal a serious blow to the political survival of Brazil’s first working-class president and potentially deepen divisions in the country, which has been racked by episodes of political violence.

Lula says the corruption charges against him are politically motivated and designed to stop him running for president again in October’s election. Despite his conviction and six separate pending corruption trials, heof sustained economic growth and his social policies helped lift millions of people out of poverty, but his legacy took a hit as the economy struggled under Rousseff and corruption allegations emerged against him and his leftist PT, which held power from 2003 to 2016.

Lula’s supporters, made up of groups of leftwing social movements and trade union members, gathered in the capital, Brasilia, on Wednesday, a night after thousands of anti-Lula protesters took to the streets of 100 Brazilian cities.

Douglas Grandini, who works at an estate agency and was on an anti-Lula protest, said: “The crisis that Brazil is in today comes from the bad planning and corruption of [politicians’] mandate. We’ll take 10 years to recover.”

Lula was found guilty last year and sentenced to 10 years in


the University of California, Berkeley, explored how poor sleep affects people's feelings of gratitude.

In the first study, people who experienced a poor night's sleep were less grateful after listing five things in life for which they were appreciative than were people who had slept well the night before. The researchers adapted the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, which measures sleep quality and number of hours slept, among other variables, to evaluate the previous night's sleep.

In the second study, participants recorded their sleep from the previous night for two weeks and their feelings of gratitude. The researchers found a decline in gratitude associated with poor sleep, and those participants reported feeling more selfish those days.

The final study looked at heterosexual couples and found that people tend to feel less gratefulThis excellent posthumous western from bestseller Parker (1932–2010) continues the saga of gun-slinging saddle pals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch (after Brimstone ) as they trade wisecracks and hot lead with back-shooting owlhoots and murderous Apaches in the town of Appaloosa. Cole and Hitch used to be the law in town, but now Appaloosa has a corrupt, ambitious, and deadly police chief named Amos Callico backed up by 12 rifle-toting cops of dubious background, and though Callico sees Cole and Hitch as impediments to his plans for extortion and high political office, his threats don't worry the boys much. Meanwhile, Cole kills the son of a prominent rancher in a fair fight, renegade Apaches plan an attack on the town, and a mysterious dandy arrives in town with


Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Occupy Wall Street

Several months ago I was discussing the decline of progressive politics with a friend who, like me, had been in university during the sixties. We marveled at the popularity of politicians whose actions harm their constituents and yet are elected repeatedly; radio hosts who gather enormous audiences while professing bizarre right-wing fringe views; and the size of a Tea Party that represents primarily the interests of a few masters of large corporations. Even more unlikely, the title of Christian seems to have been appropriated by people who share nothing whatever of Jesus’ pacifism or his solidarity with the poor, outcast, suffering, and oppressed.

My friend said that large numbers of citizens will not oppose the fat cats unless middle class people can be shownhow big business is picking their own pocket. He argued that ordinary people do not sympathize with the underclass; indeed, the respectability of some lower middle class people is built on contempt for a group beneath them. The anger arising from economic anxiety or distress even of educated people is often directed at the weaker and poorer rather than at the powers that be. According to this analysis, campaigns for such righteous causes as gay marriage or for the environment are counterproductive because they fail to appeal to the masses and, indeed, alienate some potential allies in the larger economic struggle.

I recalled this conversation last month when the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations began. Though the participants were criticized for lacking a specific set of demands, it is precisely


same slowly sinking boat. Only when these “mainstream” elements act in concert with advocates for smaller groups such as the disabled, welfare recipients, immigrants, gay people, ethnic minorities, and radicals can they move America.

Many unions, which had had no part in Occupy Wall Street at the beginning, saw the potential for a strong alliance and declared solidarity. On October 5 I joined a bus from the Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation to support the demonstrators. Traveling with me were a crew of young Teamsters (with shirts reading “kicking ass for the working class”), representatives of other unions (teachers and nurses were well-represented, though it was a work-day), and a few older activists lit by new hope.

In the city we joined an even more diverse group: black and white;interest of those not directly involved.

About Me

Seaton is a poet, critic, and translator. In 2008 his Spoor of Desire: Selected Poems was published by FootHills Publishing. He is also the author of Tourist Snapshots and Cold Water, as well as scholarly work (including a volume on medieval love poetry). A book of essays and translations, Dada Poetry: an Introduction, was published by Nirala in 2013. On this site he posts prose for the most part, largely literary criticism (some popular and some academic), but also some familiar essays, travel stories and other work with only occasional poetry. He may be reached at seaton@frontiernet.net.


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Morphometric changes associated with sex and development in the Malpighian tubules of Aedes aegypti.
The Malpighian tubules of Aedes aegypti showed significant differences in their diameters between male and female larvae, male and female pupae, male larvae and male adults and male pupae and male adults. In every case, female values were greater than in males. Measurements of mean nuclear areas of the principal and stellate cells from Malpighian tubules, taken in males and females during development, showed that this parameter in both types of cell was significantly greater in females than in male larvae, pupae and adult stages. In males, significant differences between developmental stages were observed only in comparison with the nuclear area of larvae and adults in the principal cells, but in females, every comparison betweenstages showed significant differences except between pupae and adults in stellate cells. The frequency distribution of nuclear area values, in development, for male stellate and principal cells, were mostly concentrated in the first seven classes among the 30 classes considered in every stage, while for females, the frequency dropped drastically in the same classes from larvae to pupae and adults, moving to classes of higher values. Considering the importance of Malpighian tubules in insect physiology, the meaning of the differences detected are discussed on the basis of different metabolic levels, between sexes and developmental stages.


that regard must be in favor of the complainant.
Suppose that is so, still the charge of infringement is denied by the respondents, which issue cannot be satisfactorily determined without first ascertaining the true nature and character of the improvement secured to the complainant in his reissued letters-patent.
Three patents  one in England, two in the United States  were granted to the complainant or his assignor for the improvement which is the subject of the present controversy. Naylor, it is claimed, was the inventor of the patented improvement, and he took out his first patent in England, where he resided. As the patentee states, the invention relates to certain improvements in safety-valves, and consists, when using a spring for resisting the valve from opening, in the employment ofa lever of the first order, one end resting by a suitable pin upon the safety-valve, and the other end of the lever resting upon the spring, the end resting upon the spring being bent downwards to an angle of about forty-five degrees from the fulcrum, so that when the valve is raised by the steam the other end of the lever is depressed upon the spring downwards, and at the same time is moved inwards towards the fulcrum, thus *198 virtually shortening that end of the lever, and thereby counteracting the additional load upon the valve as it is raised from its seat by the greater amount of compression put upon the spring.
Exceptional modifications in certain features of the improvement are subsequently suggested, and then the patentee


proceeds to explain the functions of the different devices by reference to the drawings, in the course of which he states that he prefers to make the valve project over the edges of the exit-passage and to curve the projecting edges of the valve slightly downwards, so that the steam on issuing between the valve and its seat will impinge against the curved projecting part of the valve, which will direct a portion of it downwards into the annular chamber surrounding the central passage, while the other portion of the steam ascends past the edges of the valves. By that means the patentee states that he is enabled to avail himself of the recoil action of the steam against the valve, for the purpose of facilitating the furtherthe concave side is towards the seating of the valve, which has also a flange upon it, commencing at the outer edge of the valve-seating, but that the upper surface of the flange is convex, and corresponds nearly to the concave surface of the flange upon the valve. There is a slight space between the concave and convex surfaces of the two flanges, which diminishes towards the outer edge of the same. When the steam begins to escape from between the surfaces of the valve, it gets *199 between the concave and convex surfaces of the two flanges, and thus acts upon a larger area, and reacts upon the concave surface of the valve, and causes it to open to a greater extent than the ordinary safety-valve. Such


and to the officials who issued the letters-patent that another was the original and first inventor of the patented valve. Nothing of the kind is embraced in the claims of the English patent granted to the patentee, nor is there any thing in the specification which has any tendency to show that the patentee ever supposed that he invented that feature of the improved valve which he disclaimed.
Two patents for the improvement have been granted in this country,  one, the original, to the alleged inventor, and the reissued patent to the complainant, on which the suit is founded. Neither of them contains any disclaimer of the kind mentioned in the English patent, though it is conceded that both the original and the reissued patent were granted forthe valve and its seat. Limited in that way as the patent must be, in order that it may be upheld as valid, the question remains whether it has been infringed by the respondents.
Throughout, the steam-valve used by the respondents is the valve patented to George W. Richardson, whose patent makes a part of the record. He obtained his patent Sept. 25, 1866, nearly a month earlier than the date of the original American patent granted to Naylor. His invention, as he describes it, consists in increasing the area of the head of the common *201 safety-valve outside of its ground joint, and terminating it in such a way as to form an increased resisting surface, against which the steam escaping from the generator shall act with additional


lifting it without other aid, except so far as it was helped by the diminution of atmospheric pressure on the top of the valve, consequent upon the issuing of a portion of the steam in an upward direction around the periphery of the valve, the annular chamber into which the steam is discharged on leaving the valve serving no other purpose than that of a conduit or the steam, if the valve is constructed in accordance with the drawings of the original patent.
Examined in the light of these suggestions, it is plain that the steam-valve used by the respondents cannot be held to be an infringement of that described in the specification of either of the three patents representing the invention claimed by the complainant.
Coming to the specificationthat describes the steam-valve used by the respondents, it will at once be seen that its construction and mode of operation is substantially different in important particulars, as follows: When the valve opens, the steam expands and flows into the annular space around the ground joint. Its free escape, which might otherwise be too free, is prevented by a stricture or narrow space formed by the outer edge of the lip and the valve-seat. By these means the steam escaping from the valve is made to act, by its expansive force, upon an additional area outside of the device, as ordinarily constructed, to assist in raising the valve, the stricture being enlarged as the valve is lifted from its seat, and varying *203 in size as the quantity


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On 9 September, Milad Aghajohari and much of his extended family piled into cars and drove six hours from Isfahan to Tehran’s international airport. The 22-year-old was on his way to California, set to start a PhD program at Stanford University.

After wishing everyone goodbye, Aghajohari rolled his suitcases into the terminal. He handed his passport to a Turkish Airlines officer and placed his luggage on a scale. A moment later, a senior airline official pulled Aghajohari aside and showed him an email, which said it was “strictly advised” Aghajohari not board the flight. The initials of US Customs and Border Protection were written beneath the message. “In a few seconds,”


Aghajohari said, “I went from being a Stanford student to being seen as a potentially dangerous person.”

Aghajohari was one of about 20 students from Iran who were barred from boarding flights to start graduate programs in the United States last month, the majority at campuses in the University of California system. The students were all traveling with valid F-1 student visas issued by the US state department. Most of them were turned away at airports in Iran, while a few were prevented from boarding connecting flights out of Doha and Istanbul. Their cases made headlines around the world.

Since then, the students have been trying to figure out what sparked the last-minute denials, and are reckoning with the financial and psychological toll of being suddenly barred from traveling.

A suddenthe embassy, consular officers told the students their visas were revoked. Several students said the officers seemed puzzled by their cases. Most of the students applied for new visas on the spot, filling out the same forms and answering the same questions they had been asked several months earlier.

Eighteen students found each other online. The first thing they discovered was that, even though most of them were issued visas in June or July, their cases were all updated in the state department’s online tracking system between 27 and 31 August, a few days before the first student’s flight was scheduled. At the time, the students received no email or alert, and the visa statuses on the site remained “issued”. In hindsight, it seemed like more than a coincidence


the US for the duration of their academic program while their family members in Iran are banned from visiting them.

When their visas were issued, the students thought they had finally made it. “I thought that was the end,” said S, a 23-year-old admitted to UC Irvine. She turned down offers she had received from programs in Canada and Europe and began making preparations to move to America.

S: ‘My suitcases and the packing struggle that went on for a month.’ Photograph: S

S spent $2,500 on plane tickets, university applications and visa fees. Then she paid rent in Irvine for two months, bought furniture online, registered for several scientific symposiums this fall, and paid Qatar Airways for non-refundable excess baggage. S’s sibling, who lives on the east coast of theUS, bought a plane ticket to go surprise her in Irvine.

The financial losses are compounded by the dramatic fall of the Iranian rial over the last six years, largely as a result of US sanctions. Since 2013, the cost of the US dollar against the rial has more than tripled. Students estimated the price of flying from Tehran to Yerevan – about $100 – is equal to a month’s wages.

After graduating from the University of Tehran, Mehran, 24, co-founded an award-winning software company that employs more than 20 people. He had a good life in Tehran, but wanted to pursue a PhD at a top research university in order to improve his company and to give himself the option of starting a teaching career in Iran.

When his visa


was approved to start a PhD program at a UC campus, he sold his house in Tehran. He also relinquished 40% of his stock options in his company, transferring them to a new manager the company hired to replace him. “This is something I cannot undo,” he said. As he no longer has a place to stay in Tehran, Mehran has been living with his parents in Mashhad for the past month. “I’m really upset and I’m really weak even in physical health,” he said.

Mehran was not the only student to describe physical and psychological symptoms after being blocked from traveling to start his studies. After she was turned away at the Tehran airport, S stayed in bed for days, crying from stress for hours at a time.In 709 A.D., in the Iron Age, a spacecraft crashes in the Viking kingdom of Herot, Norway, and the pilot Kainan (Jim Caviezel) survives. He turns the beacon on; learns the language and culture of the planet using a machine; and finds that the predator, Moorwen, that he was transporting, had escaped. While chasing the alien monster, he finds a village completely destroyed and is arrested by the warrior Wulfric (Jack Huston), believing that he killed the locals. Kainan is brought to Herot as a prisoner. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


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DOJ junks case vs poet-activist

By Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News

Posted at 01/31/2013 3:01 PM | Updated as of 01/31/2013 4:30 PM

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) - The Department of Justice (DoJ) has granted the request of detained poet-activist Ericson Acosta for the junking of the criminal case against him for illegal possession of explosives.

Prosecutor General Claro Arellano bared that Acosta's 2-year old petition for review was granted by the department.

Acosta was arrested in Samar in 2011 upon suspicion of being a member of the New People's Army. He cried foul over his "warrantless arrest" and alleged torture in the hands of state forces.

He also claimed he was merely doing volunteer research work at that time.

"[W]e find that numerous irregularities have transpired in the arrest, detention and turn-over of respondent Acosta to


he was not informed of the reason for his arrest at the time of his arrest; 3) he was denied the right to counsel; 4) he was denied a phone call and prevented from contacting his family or lawyer; 5) he was subjected to prolonged interrogation for 44 hours; 6) he was physically and psychologically tortured during tactical interrogation; 7) he was deprived of sleep, threatened, intimidated, coerced and forced to admit membership in the NPA; 8) the grenade subject of the case was planted; 9) the complaint against him was filed in court only after 72 hours and 30 minutes; and, 10) he was detained in a military camp, which is not of civilian jurisdiction.identified the date, [*2]source, and description of each item deposited, as well as the date, payee, and purpose of each withdrawal or disbursement from the account, for the period from May 15, 2010, through November 15, 2010. Additionally, the respondent was asked to provide the Grievance Committee with records showing the source of all funds deposited in IOLA account XXXXX827, the names of all persons for whom the funds were held, the amount of such funds, as well as the description and amount, and the names of all persons to whom such funds were disbursed, for the period from May 15, 2010, through November 15, 2010. By letter dated January 23, 2011, the respondent claimed that the subject check was dishonored due to a "mathematical mistake." The respondent


provided the Grievance Committee with copies of bank statements and check stubs for IOLA account XXXXX827 for the period from April 30, 2010, through November 30, 2010. However, the respondent was unable to locate his account ledger. Accordingly, the respondent failed to produce, as requested in the Grievance Committee's letter dated December 17, 2010, certain records related to IOLA account XXXXX827 for the period from May 15, 2010, through November 15, 2010.
In sworn testimony before the Grievance Committee on September 14, 2011, the respondent referred to certain matters in which funds were being held in escrow in IOLA account XXXXX827. However, the respondent failed to provide complete information concerning those matters. The respondent also testified that he represented a party in connection with a real estate transaction concerningGrievance Committee with certain information and documentation, on or before October 14, 2011, including complete information concerning each matter referred to in his testimony, wherein funds were being held by him in escrow in IOLA account XXXXX827, and a financial reconciliation of all client matters for which he was holding funds in that IOLA account for the period from May 15, 2010, through November 15, 2010. The respondent failed to provide the Grievance Committee with the foregoing information and documentation on or before October 14, 2011. By letter dated November 7, 2011, the Grievance Committee advised the respondent's counsel that it had not received the information and documentation requested on September 14, 2011. Further, the Grievance Committee requested that the information and documentation be submitted within ten days.


set of facts, as follows:
By letter dated May 13, 2011, the Grievance Committee requested the respondent to submit, within 20 days, certain records related to IOLA account XXXXX509, for the period from December 1, 2010, through April 30, 2011, including records of all deposits in, and withdrawals from, the account, that specifically identified the date, source, and description of each item deposited, as well as the date, payee, and purpose of each withdrawal or disbursement. The respondent failed to submit the requested records to the Grievance Committee.
By letter dated June 16, 2011, the Grievance Committee asked the respondent to submit, upon his receipt of the letter, certain records related to IOLA account XXXXX509, including those records requested in the Grievance Committee's letter dated May 13, 2011. The respondentfailed to submit the requested records to the Grievance Committee.
By letter dated August 12, 2011, the Grievance Committee asked the respondent to produce, at its offices, on September 20, 2011, certain records relating to IOLA account XXXXX509, for the period from December 1, 2010, through August 31, 2011, including those records requested in the Grievance Committee's letters dated May 13, 2011, and June 16, 2011. On September 20, 2011, the respondent failed to produce the requested records.
In sworn testimony before the Grievance Committee on September 20, 2011, the respondent failed to explain the purpose of each disbursement from IOLA account XXXXX509 for the period from December 16, 2010, through August 31, 2011. At the conclusion of his testimony, the respondent was requested to submit certain records to the


Grievance Committee related to IOLA account XXXXX509, on or before October 11, 2011. The respondent failed to submit the requested information and documentation, on or before October 11, 2011.
By letter dated November 1, 2011, the respondent was asked to submit to the Grievance Committee, within five days of receipt of the letter, certain information and documentation, including the purpose of each withdrawal and disbursement from IOLA account XXXXX509, for the period from December 16, 2010, through August 31, 2011. The respondent failed to submit the requested information and documentation. By letter dated November 15, 2011, the respondent was asked to submit to the Grievance Committee, within five days, the information and documentation requested in the Grievance Committee's letter dated November 1, 2011. The respondent failed to submit theWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is interviewing five potential nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death last month of Justice Antonin Scalia, a source familiar with the process told Reuters on Wednesday.

The source said those under consideration were federal judges Sri Srinivasan, Jane Kelly, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Paul Watford and Merrick Garland.

The five have been reported to be on the short list of potential nominees, but the source said they were the only ones currently under consideration.

Outside groups have said that President Barack Obama is likely to consider someone who is a woman or a member of a racial minority and was previously confirmed to a judgeship by a strong majority in the U.S. Senate.

The process of filling the spot that was held


by Scalia, one of the court's most conservative justices, has ignited a partisan battle in Washington.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would not hold hearings on anyone nominated to the Supreme Court by Obama, a Democrat. Republicans who control the Senate do not want to see the court shift ideologically to the left and say the next justice should be picked by the winner of the Nov. 8 election.

Senate Democrats are demanding a vote on Obama's nomination.

Kelly, who worked as a lawyer in Iowa, is considered a strong candidate because she has been supported by Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which holds hearings on potential nominees.

(Reporting by Julia Edwards; Editing by Sandra Maler and Peter Cooney)another kindergarten student were squabbling over a chair, pulling it back and forth, but not fighting. He said Anderson got within inches of the child's face, then the girl pushed at the teacher.The officer testified the teacher "shoved" the girl "aggressively into the chair", then "ripped the chair out from under her," causing the girl to land on her back on the floor. He said Anderson turned the chair upside down and pressed it into the girl for two to three seconds, before throwing the chair down, so it bounced on the floor and a table within less than two feet of the two girls.The child child testified that the teacher pressed the chair into her rib cage and stomach, causing her pain and difficulty in breathing, and


on a teacher," Ellis said. He argued that Anderson had a "duty of care" that required her to intervene in the conflict between the two girls.Allegheny County Assistant District Attorney Lee Goldfarb argued in court that it was "completely inappropriate for a teacher to respond in that way," and characterized as "ridiculous" Ellis' claim that the teacher was acting in self-defense, thereby negating all of the charges against her.Get the WTAE Pittsburgh's Action News 4 AppLess than two weeks after citing holocaust denier and racist Peter Gemma in his Breitbart column, Kobach held a fundraiser in Washington, D.C, for his Kansas gubernatorial campaign. At the November 3 event, Kobach posted a photo of himself on his Twitter account with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Behind both men, clearly visible, is longtime white nationalist Marcus Epstein.

Marcus Epstein, rear left, attended Kris Kobach's fundraiser on Nov. 3.

Epstein has been active in the white nationalist scene for over a decade and even has a past history of racial criminality. In 2009, he pleaded guilty to assaulting an African-American woman in Washington, D.C., two years prior. His appearance at Kobach’s fundraiser is another indication that the Trump era is serving to rehabilitate not only the ideas


once relegated to the racist fringe, but also the careers of movement members. It also underscores the social and political circles that Kobach has long moved in.

Epstein had a hand in founding two now defunct racist groups. In 2006, he, along with white nationalists including Kevin DeAnna and “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer founded the Robert A. Taft Club. The Club, described as, “a monthly meeting group of traditionalist conservatives and libertarians in the Washington, D.C. area,” hosted guests such as Ron Paul, Charles Murray and Jared Taylor, one of the most prominent racist figures of the past three decades. The Taft Club eventually dissolved in the late aughts.

Epstein again teamed up with DeAnna in late 2006/early 2007 to help run the Youth for Western Civilization (YWC). YWC waswhite nationalist student group whose chapter leaders have gone on to become key figures on the radical right. The group’s chapters held a number of events on campuses across the country designed to stoke racial tensions, including erecting a mock border fence at Washington State University, and a organizing a “Straight Pride Day” at Towson University in Maryland. The Towson chapter was founded by Matthew Heimbach, a white nationalist who now runs the Traditionalist Worker Party, a group intimately tied to neo-Nazis and extremists.

Marcus Epstein (right) with alt-right leader Richard Spencer (left) circa 2011.

For a number of years, Epstein worked with white nationalist Pat Buchanan, a former presidential candidate who many younger white nationalist activists, including YWC leadership, have cited as a major influence. In the mid-2000s, Epstein


served as executive director of Buchanan’s American Cause, which at the time organized gatherings of right-wing activists to discuss topics including immigration. Epstein also served as executive director of Team America PAC, a PAC dedicated to electing right-wing politicians founded by Buchanan’s sister, Bay, and nativist icon Tom Tancredo.

Epstein resurfaced in 2011 when Buchanan thanked him for his “invaluable assistance and untold hours he devoted to researching ideas, issues, and anecdotes” in helping Buchanan write his book, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?. Nativism plays a large role in Buchanan’s book, and it has been the core element of Kris Kobach’s agenda for years.

For over a decade, Kobach has worked as counsel to the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), the legal arm of the Federationfor American Immigration Reform (FAIR), one of the oldest anti-immigrant hate groups in America. FAIR has historical ties to white supremacists and eugenicists and who have made numerous racist statements. FAIR and IRLI’s founder is white nationalist John Tanton, a man who in 1993 wrote, "I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that." During his tenure at IRLI, Kobach has been responsible for helping to draft some of the harshest anti-immigrant legislation in the country, including Alabama’s HB56 and Arizona’s SB1070.

In October 2015, Kobach was a featured speaker at the annual Writers Workshop put on by The Social Contract Press (TSCP) , which regularly publishes the writings of white nationalists. Its


Family Day at KSBL

The KSBL team celebrated family day for the faculty, staff and their families .The objective of the event was the families to see our campus and familiarize themselves with the organization where their bread winners work. It also gave an opportunity to employees and their families to interact with each other and develop an understanding in an informal setting.

The evening was full of fun as the employee’s children were delighted to find a number of activities and games which were set up especially for them and were thrilled to receive goody bags at the end of the event. The evening was a great hit amongst the employees and their families as they enjoyed every minute of it and was appreciated by the entire KSBL family.In Los Angeles and Oakland, demonstrators took to the streets for a third night to show solidarity with the family of Michael Brown

A relative calm fell on Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday following two nights of violent protests after a grand jury declined to bring charges against a white police officer in the shooting death of unarmed, black teen Michael Brown, but in California tensions remained high as nearly 200 protesters were arrested.

In Los Angeles and Oakland, demonstrators took to the streets for a third night since the grand jury decision in a show of solidarity with the family of the dead Missouri teen. Protesters blocked roads and even clashed with police, the LA Times reported.

During the demonstrations in Los Angeles on Wednesday, nearly 150 people were arrested in


they crossed intersections and occasionally pounding on cars. They were stopped by a phalanx of police in riot gear near the Central Library in downtown LA. Officers corralled a group of demonstrators who refused to disperse and made a mass arrest.

In northern California, demonstrations in Oakland devolved into unrest and vandalism for a third night.

Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said 33 demonstrators were arrested after a march by about 100 people through the city streets, blocking traffic. She said that later, small groups began moving through the streets, with some smashed windows and vandalized property.

By midnight, most of the protesters had dispersed save for a very small group that police were monitoring, Watson said.

Since the grand jury decision on Monday, the LAPD and California Highway Patrol have mademore than 330 arrests over the past three nights of protests. Demonstrations held in other California cities on Wednesday remained peaceful.

In Chicago, three demonstrators were arrested during a protest organized by a group called the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Chicago Tribune reported. During the protest, demonstrators chanted and carried signs that read, Justice for Mike Brown. They also called for the a boycott of Black Friday, and asked the public to instead, recognize the day as “Black lives Matter” Friday.

In Ferguson, just two arrests were made on Wednesday evening, down from 44 the night before and 80 arrests in the immediate aftermath of the grand jury decision was announced, a spokesman for St Louis County police said. A small group of protesters gathered outside the Ferguson Police Department,


one day I
just said the hell with this I'm gone.
Mm-hmm. I burned my little Rancho and and
I took off at two o'clock in the morning.
The exodus out of Central America came
to a head in 2014, when the U.S. saw a huge spike in the
number of Central American kids and
teens arriving to the border without a parent.
"It is a huge humanitarian crisis
on the border right now".
"52,000 unaccompanied children have been caught
at the US border with Mexico: double the
number recorded last year". "Children from
Honduras traveling into Guatemala, then
Mexico, crossing the Rio Grande, and just
now arriving in Texas."
As soon as it became clear that this year's migration
to the border was different than in past
years, I directed FEMA to coordinate our
response at the border. Obama declared an
urgent humanitarian situation at the
border.
He discussedand
immediately implemented a policy called
"El Programa Frontera Sur", the southern
border program. "And earlier this week
Mexico announced a series of steps that
they're gonna take on their southern
border to help stem the tide".
For Peña Nieto, the plan had two main objectives:
In short, the plan was supposed to make
life better and safer for both migrants
and those living in the border region,
which includes Mexico's most
impoverished state, Chiapas.
This migrant protection plan for the southern border
had been in the works for years, but it
was rushed into implementation
apparently in response to American pressure.
Many of the long-term plans
that were meant to give migrants legal
support and protection fell away. Instead,
the implementation focused almost
entirely on enforcement and security.

Slovak:
a Peña Nieto z toho stretnutia odišiel
a okamžite spustil program s názvom
"El Programa Frontera Sur" - Program južná hranica.
"A začiatkom


on the Mexican side went up and people
arriving to Texas or other parts of the
U.S. border went down, but this was all
temporary. The number jumped back up in
2016, so the crackdown isn't actually
stopping people from getting to the
United States, but it is making their
journey much more dangerous.
Behind me is the train that Central
Americans take to get from here in
southern Mexico, up to the border of the
United States. If it were 2014 this area

Korean:
집행 활동을 지원하는 통신 네트워크 및
구금된 이민자의 지문이나 사진과 같은
생체 인식 데이터를 수집하는 장비 등에 사용됐습니다
즉, 미국은 멕시코 국경 남부 지역을
군사화하는 것을 도왔습니다
미국은 자신이 원하는 것을 얻었습니다
멕시코 남부 국경지대를 포함한
강력한 노력 덕분에
이러한 수치가 어느 정도 관리 가능한 수준으로 감소했습니다
멕시코 쪽에서 체포가 많아지면서
텍사스나 미국 국경에 도착하는 사람들은 줄어들었지만
모두 일시적이었습니다
수치는 2016년에 다시 증가했죠
단속은 실제로 이민자들을 미국으로
못 가게Improved Bruins still need to work on rebounding

Washington State forward Brock Motum, left, knocks the ball from the hands of UCLA forward Travis Wear as both go for a rebound during Saturday's game. MARK J. TERRILL, AP

LOS ANGELES – UCLA coach Ben Howland thumbed intently through a stat book Tuesday, listing off statistics he felt showed the improvements his team has made since the beginning of the season, when the Bruins showed their inexperience on a nightly basis.

UCLA is best in the conference at taking care of the ball, the coach said. And UCLA has had the second-best field goal percentage defense in the Pac-12 since the new year began.

But on the final page, Howland was reminded of the one stat that has plagued the Bruins' conference run.

"If


players, there's an undeniable, sneaking feeling that those problems on the glass will soon come back to bite them. But with so much work already put into improving their rebounding, how can the Bruins bounce back?

Forward Travis Wear isn't sure. As one of the best offensive rebounders in the conference last season – ranking second in offensive rebounding percentage – Wear is now one of the worst. UCLA also hasn't gotten much help out of its guards on the defensive end, as the Bruins' starting guards have accounted for just 28 percent of the team's defensive boards.

A refocused effort on the glass could include a change in the team's transition-heavy game, which Howland and players have agreed has hampered their rebounding efforts. It's an issue that has clearlyCulture Professor" (TM), is an international best-selling author and editor in nine languages and 100 countries. Rebecca, listed in the Directory of American Poets & Writers for her work in nonfiction, was nominated by Prevention magazine essayist and best-selling author of The ImmortalLife of HenriettaLacks, Rebecca Skloot, to the National Association of Science Writers for her work on cancer. Rebecca has published with best-selling author of The Accidental Buddhist, Dinty Moore's literary nonfiction journal, Brevity, and with commercial publications like Redbook magazine and online journals like In Media Res. Her recent interviews appear in publications such as the LA Times, Esquire, USA TODAY, The Huffington Post, Inside HigherEd, Woman's World magazine, and Marie Claire as well as on FOX news, and NBC. Former President of the New York


College English Association, Housel was a professor in both Atlanta and New York, teaching popular culture, film, creative writing, literature, and medical humanities. Dr. Housel currently works on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of PopularCulture and the Journal ofAmerican Culture; she has also worked as a reviewer for Syracuse University Press and Thomson Wadsworth. A writer of all genres, Housel has written and published both fiction and nonfiction in over ten books and 398 articles, essays, book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries.Green is the new buzzword these days, not only from an altruistic standpoint of wanting to protect the environment, but for creation of new jobs and careers. President Barack Obama has made green jobs a major focus of his administration, seeing within the industry many opportunities to help kick-start the economy and get people back to work.

So it seemed a natural progression for Library Media Specialist Clyde Mann and Government and Economics teacher Jerry Lapiroff to focus John F. Kennedy High School's traditional Career Day on this emerging field. On April 23, 50 guest speakers - representing solar and energy efficiency, construction, conservation, recycling and alternative fuels - gathered for the school's first Solar/Career Day.

The keynote speaker was Kevin Surace, chief executive officer of Serious Materials, the largest


York added, "It's great that Kennedy High School put time into thinking about the students' future career pathways."

"The green focus really put the event in high gear," co-coordinator Mann summed up. "With other employment disappearing, it was the right moment to show students opportunities in the areas of future growth."Waiting tables is in Domenic Capossela's DNA. He put on the uniform for the first time when he was 12 years old, and he was hooked from the start.

"My family had a restaurant for 35 years, so I grew up in that and ran it," he said Monday in between writing down the daily specials on a large blackboard.

He joined Summer Shack staff nine months ago after decades of service at his family's Italian restaurant in the North End of Boston.

Capossela can be found running around the restaurant Monday through Friday during lunch and dinner hours.

How was your first time waiting on a table?

Because I grew up in the restaurant, it felt pretty natural. It's something I've always liked. I like dealing with food and dealing with people.


" most overrated modern Tom Waits song " pole at a Tom Waits forum or any other artist's forum for that matter and everybody will start swearing at you . So lay off troubadour

Under-rated? Cold Irons Bound won a Grammy as I recall... and Mississippi in all its incarnations is wonderful and deeply appreciated... which I guess leaves Workingman Blues (of the three in the poll) as the most under-rated but it "wins" by default.

Says the man who made a " most overrated ModBod song " thread as if to prove all that he knows what other people don't . Go make a " most overrated modern Tom Waits song " pole at a Tom Waits forum or any other artist's forum for that matter and everybody willIt was an emotional evening in London as one of the pioneers of British mixed martial arts took his final bow.

Brad Pickett walked to the Octagon to a great response with everyone inside The O2 rising to greet him as he entered the arena.

Pickett has been saying all week that he was focused on the task ahead of him rather than planning out his retirement and he knew he was going to have to be on his game from the opening exchanges with his opponent, Marlon Vera.

The Brit landed a big slam in the opening minute and half, but Vera was quickly on his feet and the two went toe-to-toe landing stiff, hard blows in the pocket. Pickett was the man taking the center of the Octagon, but


the Ecuadorian was countering well and landing some nice pot shots on the back foot. The atmosphere was tense, but Pickett landed a nice solid right on the buzzer at the end of the opening round.

Round two saw Vera open a little a more aggressively working his kicks. Pickett went for takedown early and hit him with another big slam. From the veteran controlled his man on the ground. Pickett didn’t do much damage, but he definitely did enough to take the round on the cards and have the advantage heading in to the last.

Most in the arena thought they were about to witness the last five minutes of Pickett’s career, but in actual fact they only say another three minutes four seconds in a cruel turn ofevents.

Vera was beginning to look the fresher of the two men, but no one in the arena was expecting the booming right headkick that sent Pickett straight to the mat. The Brit looked out on impact, but he managed to gather his bearings to fend off the swarming Vera just as the referee called the fight to an end.

Pickett was obviously disappointed with the result, but the crowd weren’t going to let him leave with his head bowed. After the initial disappointment, Pickett raised his head to see the crowd on their feet chanting his name.

Speaking on the microphone with Dan Hardy after, Pickett spoke emotionally, thanking the fans for their support throughout his thirteen-year career.

Manuwa puts away Anderson early and then makes two big demands

The main event


of the evening saw London’s own Jimi Manuwa take on American Corey Anderson.

Anderson might not have been the big-name opponent fans would’ve wanted to see Manuwa face, but he was a game opponent and moved well from the outset avoiding Manuwa’s loaded up strikes in the first few minutes.

Manuwa seemed to be struggling to walk his opponent down as Anderson moved out of his range and Manuwa failed to close the distance to get his strikes away.

Then it happened—Manuwa landed a left hand after a slip and that was all she wrote. Anderson fell flat on his face unconscious. It was devastating and clinical by the Londoner who speaking after the fight demanded two things—firstly a title shot at the winner of the UFC light heavyweight clash betweenDaniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, and secondly a boxing match with fellow British fighter David Haye.

Arnold Allen edges out Makwan Amirkhani

A featherweight contest between two of the sport’s brightest young talents opened the main card with Finland’s Makwan Amirkhani taking on British prospect, Arnold Allen.

Amirkhani started the contest aggressively and narrowly missed with a flying knee right off the bat. The two fighters then traded takedowns, Amirkhani first looking for a submission and then Allen scoring with some nice ground and pound.

The first round was very even and the pattern continued into the second. Amirkhani again went for the takedown and guillotine choke, but he was reversed and Allen took top position from where he rained down strikes from side control. The fight eventually went back to the


feet, but soon it was on the mat again as Allen went for an ill-advised guillotine choke. Amirkhani easily reversed the position and controlled his man for the rest of the round pinning his shoulders to the mat.

Round three began and again the two couldn’t be separated. Allen landed a pair of nice left crosses on the feet, but both men looked to take it to the floor where they traded reversal for reversal. Allen ended the fifteen minutes attempting to sink in a rear-naked choke, but it was all left up to the judges.

After a tense pause, Allen was ruled the winner by split decision. One man won on the night, but no doubt both men will go on to big things.

Gunnar Nelson puts in a clinicalperformance and is on the rise

Icelandic fighter Gunnar Nelson was one of the best supported fighters at the London O2 Arena last evening and he put on a performance to remember.

His finishing combination to put Alan Jouban away was a thing of beauty. After a dominant grappling performance in round one, in round two, Nelson landed a big left on the chin of Jouban to send him staggering back against the cage. From there he finished his man with a left head kick to drop him to the mat and choke him out with a beautiful guillotine choke.

It was a beautiful finish from Nelson who will no doubt have put himself in contention with the top players at 170-pounds.

UFC Fight Night 107 London Full Results


Tax reform to generate P181 billion in 2019 Mary Grace Padin (The Philippine Star) – August 1, 2018 – 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — The government is expected to generate P181.4 billion in revenue next year from the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law and other tax reform measures, according to the Department of Finance (DOF).

During a House appropriations committee hearing yesterday, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez said the TRAIN, as well as the proposed tax amnesty program and adjustments in the Motor Vehicle Users Charge – which are now pending in Congress – are projected to raise P181.4 billion in revenue in 2019.

This, he said, would help the government meet its target revenue for next year which was set at P3.21 trillion by the DevelopmentLaw, which sought to lower personal income taxes, while adjusting excise taxes on oil, automobiles, tobacco, coal and sugar sweetened beverages. It also expanded the value-added tax base by removing some exemptions.

Complementing this is the Package 1B of the CTRP, which covers the proposed tax amnesty program and adjustments in the MVUC.

In the first six months, Dominguez said TRAIN generated P33.7 billion in revenue since its implementation, P3.6 billion higher than the target.

The finance chief said this contributed to the total revenue collection during the period, which reached P1.41 trillion, 20 percent up from the P1.8 trillion recorded in the same period in 2017.

The BIR, for its part, achieved a 14 percent increase in collection, while the BOC grew its collections by 33 percent.

Meanwhile, Dominguez told lawmakers the


grounds and challenges his sentence as excessive. We affirm Hintz's conviction, but order that his sentence be reduced in accordance with this opinion.
On December 28, 1976, at approximately 9:30 p.m., R.S. left the Fairbanks department store where she was employed and prepared to drive home. As she was warming up her car in the parking lot, appellant entered the car, produced a gun and ordered her to move over. Hintz then drove approximately 20 miles outside of town, parked in a secluded area and raped R.S. During this time Hintz repeatedly cocked and uncocked the gun when R.S. hesitated to comply with his demands. Afterwards Hintz ordered her to dress in only her boots and jacket and to get out of the car. As she exited the vehicle,Trooper O'Bryant. Officer Kendrick asked appellant who he was, where he got the car, and where R.S. was. Appellant told of a girl named Elaine who had picked him up at *209 or near a local Pay N' Save. He said he had dropped her off at an intersection of the highway. Shortly after eliciting these responses, Officer Kendrick received a radio transmission that R.S. had been found and that she had allegedly been raped. At that point Officer Kendrick placed appellant under arrest and advised him of his Miranda rights. Appellant preferred not to talk and Officer Kendrick asked no further questions.
Prior to the omnibus hearing, appellant moved to suppress the statements made by Hintz in response to Officer Kendrick's questions. The story about Elaine was admitted


its founding two decades ago, the mission of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies has been to create collaborative, interdisciplinary, basic research programs for scholars at all stages of their career. It is one of only 30 similar institutions worldwide devoted to the free pursuit of learning and research at the highest levels.

I have been helping out as a coordinator for one of the roundtables. While these roundtable discussions themselves are not public, a requirement for these events is that each must present a public lecture. Here are the three upcoming public lectures via the Institute:

The Universe: Its Structure and Its Support of Life

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 (TODAY!)

7:30pm-9:00pm in Room 1013 at the UBC Earth Science Building (2207 Main Mall)

No RSVP required, but make sure you arrivea little bit earlier to get a seat. There is a plan to film the session to make it publicly available in the future.

This is a public lecture that I am involved in organizing. The two speakers, Graca Rocha (Staff Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California and Member of the Planck Satellite Collaboration) and Pascal Lee (Staff Research Scientist Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California and Member of the Planck Satellite Collaboration) will be talking about our understanding of the Universe and what the future holds for us in searching for another civilization in our Universe.

Ocean Acidification

Thursday, October 24th, 2013

7:00pm-9:00pm in the Auditorium at the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum ( 2212 Main Mall)

RSVP required – register online at pwiasoceanacidification.eventbrite.ca

Several experts will be speaking about the science of ocean


Newark, NJ - The New Jersey Devils provided the following medical updates on forwards Taylor Hall and Patrick Maroon and goaltender Cory Schneider.

On Friday, April 30, Taylor Hall underwent successful surgery to repair torn ligaments in his left hand. The procedure was performed by Dr. Robert Hotchkiss. Hall suffered the initial injury in late December, but was able to play with it under the care and management of New Jersey's medical staff. It was not the injury that kept him out of the All-Star Game in January. He will be ready for training camp in September.

Last Tuesday, Cory Schneider underwent successful surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left hip. The procedure was performed by Dr. Bryan Kelly. Schneider's recovery time is approximately five months and Dr. Kellyexpects him to make a full recovery. Further updates regarding his progress will be provided later in the summer as available.

On Wednesday, Patrick Maroon underwent successful surgery to repair a herniated disc in his back. The procedure was performed by Dr. Andrew Sama. He will be able to resume off-season training and preparation programs before the start of training camp.

All three players will continue to be under the care and observation of the team's medical and training staffs throughout the off-season recovery process.