Fear grip Anedo Kingdom in Nnewi as Hausa men were caught offloading Arms from a trailer load of goods

It all happened on the evening of Wednesday in Nnewi wen a truck supposed to have contain food stuffs arrive from the northern path of the country.According to our eye witness Mr. Sunday Mba who have being working as an unskilled labour in the garage for 10years, who stated that they having being working in the garage without discrimination, all truck that arrive from any part of the country is being offloaded by a combine effort of both Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba men in the pack and profit is share equally. But on this faithful Evening when the truck Arrive from plateau state, the Hausas' insisted on doing the workalone, this was usual as they where shocked by such proposal but after much argument, they grant their wish because the said goods was own by one Hausa business tycoon.

They grant their wish but had their eye on them as the offloading continue till late hour when a box was brought out from the truck and hidden very close to a near by gully, having observe the incident from an harm lent they alerted the security To Help unveil the identity of the hidden box as result of distrust for the Northern men, the box was extracted and unlocked....low and behold was filled with Ammunition and war materials. They were interrogate and few immediately flee the scenario, the rest was arrested and investigation is still going on.


the city after the Rhode Island State House, until the Industrial Trust Tower was finished six years later.<ref>Woodward, Wm McKenzie.  Guide to Providence Architecture.  1st ed.  United States: 2003. . p. 99.</ref> Today, the Biltmore is the 9th-tallest building in the city.

The Biltmore was bought by Sheraton Hotels in 1947 and renamed the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel. Providence was flooded by Hurricane Carol in 1954, and much of the lobby of the Sheraton-Biltmore was underwater; a plaque commemorates the high water mark today, eight feet up on lobby columns. Sheraton sold the hotel in 1968 and it regained its original name.

Restoration
In 1975, the Biltmore closed and remained vacant for four years. At one point, with the hotel facing demolition; Mayor Buddy Cianci helped with efforts to designateon June 16 at 5:48 a.m. Pacific time, marking the end of a 15-month mission that began with its launch on an Atlas 5 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on March 5, 2011. The extended flight of OTV-2 also demonstrated upgrades and adaptations to the 15-ft.-wingspan spacecraft, which was designed to stay aloft for 270 days.

OTV prior to launch (USAF)

Prior to the launch, the Air Force said the mission would “build upon the OTV-1 on-orbit demonstration, validate and replicate initial testing and fine-tune the technical parameters of the vehicle tests.” However, all other pertinent details of the testing, and what would be performed in orbit, remain classified.

Vehicle specialists were concerned that, with this extended mission, features such as the pressurized tires could be compromised. One of


that city. The defendants are the City of Grand Island, officials and residents of that city, and the Attorney General. The trial court found the annexation was valid. The plaintiffs have appealed.
Parkview is a city of the second class entirely surrounded by Grand Island, a city of the first class. The annexation was by ordinance pursuant to section 16-122, R.S. Supp., 1969. The statute authorizes a city of the first class to annex a city of the second class if certain conditions exist.
The plaintiffs contend that section 16-122, R.S.Supp. 1969, is unconstitutional because it is so limited in its application that it will never apply to any city or village other than Parkview. A similar argument was made and rejected in Campbell v. City of Lincoln, 182 Neb.facilities of the City of Grand Island did not have sufficient capacity to serve the City of Parkview on December 29, 1969, the date the annexation ordinance was enacted.
The record shows that Grand Island has a modern sewage treatment plant which was completed in October 1965. The plant is described as a complete mixing activated sludge plant. It was designed to receive and treat all of the sewage, both domestic and industrial, originating in the City of Grand Island.
Much of the record consists of testimony concerning the "design capacity" of the plant as compared to its operating experience. There is evidence that the plant can treat satisfactorily a volume of sewage far in excess of its design capacity. However, it has been necessary frequently to discharge partially treated


thoroughTopside check revealed everything in perfect working condition. The engine ran fine,The out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was the correct size and pitch.So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came upChoking on water, he was laughing so hard.NOW REMEMBER…THIS IS TRUE. Under the boat, still strapped securely inPlace, was the trailer!....

I thought this warning was very REAL and very IMPORTANT, so I am passing it on to everyone I know. Please pass it on to the people you care about, relatives, friends classmates or former classmates. It is important they be aware of this danger.NeverNeverNeverNever Ever...

LITTLE OLD LADY~There was a little old lady, who every morning. Stepped onto her front porch, raised her arms to the sky, andfor ticks due to the warm weather and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around with your arms up, DO NOT DO IT!! THIS IS A SCAM!! They only want to see you naked.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

A cowboy sitting in a saloon one Saturday night, recognized an elderly man standing at the bar who, in his day, had the reputation of being the fastest gun in the West.The young cowboy took a place next to the old-timer, bought him a drink and told him the story of his great ambition.'Do you think you could give me some tips?' he asked.

The old man looked him up and down and said, 'Well, for one thing, you're wearing your gun too high. Tie the holster a little lower


pointed to a large can in a corner of the saloon. 'See that axle grease over there? Coat your gun with it.'The young man went over to the can and smeared some of the grease on the barrel of his gun. 'No,' said the old-timer, 'I mean smear it all over the gun, handle and all.' 'Will that make me a better gunfighter?' asked the young man. 'No,' said the old-timer, 'but when Wyatt Earp gets done playing the piano, he's gonna shove that gun up your butt, and it won't hurt as much.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

A man takes the day off work and decides to go out golfing. He is on the second hole when he notices a frog sitting next to the green. He thinks nothingof it and is about to shoot when he hears, Ribbit 9 Iron.

"The man looks around and doesn't see anyone. Again, he hears, "Ribbit 9 Iron." He looks at the frog and decides to prove the frog wrong, puts the club away, and grabs a 9 iron. Boom! He hits it 10 inches from the cup. He is shocked. He says to the frog, "Wow that's amazing. You must be a lucky frog, eh? The frog replies, "Ribbit Lucky frog."The man decides to take the frog with him to the next hole."What do you think frog?" the man asks. "Ribbit 3 wood."The guy takes out a 3 wood and, Boom! Hole in one !. The man is befuddled and doesn't know what to say. By the end of


the day, the man golfed the best game of golf in his life and asks the frog, "OK where to next?"The frog replies,

"Ribbit Las Vegas." They go to Las Vegas and the guy says, "OK frog, now what?" The frog says, "Ribbit Roulette." Upon approaching the roulette table, The man asks, "What do you think I should bet?" The frog replies, "Ribbit $3000, black 6." Now, this is a million-to-one shot to win, but after the golf game the man figures what the heck. Boom! Tons of cash comes sliding back across the table.The man takes his winnings and buys the best room in the hotel. He sits the frog down and says, "Frog, I don't know how to repay you.You've won me all this money and Iin the world

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Hunt the big cat

See Rome

What would your bucket list be???????

My Bucket List:

See Switzerland.

Go to Mount Rushmore and see the New Crazy Horse project.

Go to New England in the Fall.

See all the sights in Washington DC, Ground Zero, Visit Lady Liberty again.

Go to Abby Road follow the trail of the Beatles.Build a studio on my property.Do my Genealogy. Buy another Sports car.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Cinders the piglet has been given boots to wear because she does not like the mud.The piglet's owners, Debbie and Andrew Keeble from Thirsk in North Yorkshire, were baffled by her behaviour when she and her siblings were let out into the fields.While the rest ventured away from their mother, Cinders appeared to suffer from


mysophobia, or a fear of mud, and just stood at the edge of her sty shaking.After a little head scratching, the couple's 12-year-old daughter Ellie suggested kitting the six-week-old saddleback out in tiny footwear.They asked a designer friend to come up with a bespoke pair of green piggy boots.Cinders took to her trotterwear so well that she has been recruited to act as a mascot in the campaign to highlight the plight of British pig farmers.So it seems Cinders' precious nature has saved her from the slaughter house.

Shared this very clever and creative way to display her buttons.. I think it is fantastic...I have seen Christmas trees made from old buttons and bobbles...but this idea is WAY MORE CREATIVE :)... the hand sewing on these Southern Bells reallyal borges

(Brian upon having a scheduled meeting with Michigan OC Al Borges wanders down the halls of Schembechler Hall until he sees the name placard with the information he is looking for. Brian enters a room with only three lights overhead creating a well-lit center of the room and shadowed corners. There is only a white board on otherwise plain walls. Al Borges sits alone on one of two bean bag chairs in the room, sipping on a Zima, and facing the doorway. Two large guards stand in each corner behind the bean bag chair designated for Brain.)

Guard One: Borges, your guest has arrived.

(Borges speaks in an agitated, yet methodical and confident tone. Kind of like the villain in any given movie)Borges: Ah, yes the man who keeps


Latin America. In recent years, tens of millions of Brazilians of have emerged out of poverty into Brazil’s middle class, which now represents over half of Brazil’s population. Now, more than ever, Brazilian students have the interest and means to study overseas, and they want to come to the United States!

The United States is a top destination for Brazilian students studying abroad. Since 2006, the United States has seen an increase in the number of Brazilian students. Nearly 9,000 Brazilians studied in the United States last year, a 25 percent increase from 2006, placing Brazil in 14th place among country of origin of international students in the United States. Tuition and living expenses for international students brought in nearly $21 billion to the U.S. economy last year. Brazilianstudents accounted for $257 million. New partnerships between our two countries will boost the number of Brazilian students on campuses across the United States.

Brazil’s new Science Without Borders program illustrates the commitment of the Brazilian government to higher education. This innovative initiative aims send 101,000 Brazilian students and scholars in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to study and conduct research abroad over the next four years. The United States is and will continue to be an important destination for these anxious young learners.

Last week, Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sánchez led representatives from 66 U.S. colleges and universities to Brazil on the largest education mission in the history of the Department of Commerce. By talking with thousands of students in three cities (Brasilia, Sao


Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro), we learned that Brazilian students are well-prepared and anxious to study in the United States. We also learned from the school representatives that the Brazilian students already studying in the United States bring a unique energy to their campuses. These U.S. schools look forward to hosting even more young Brazilians going forward.

Increased educational exchanges between the United States and Brazil will enhance mutual understanding, strengthen our commercial and strategic ties, and benefit our economies. Education is a win-win opportunity and we are proud to promote the U.S. higher education system to Brazil and the world!

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is making advanced education for future workers a high priority. In 2011, she launched the Science Without Borders initiative whereby more than 100,000 Brazilians willspend a year studying abroad by the end of 2015. They will be studying subjects such as biotechnology, ocean science and petroleum engineering which the government regards as essential for the nation’s future.

The Institute for International Education or IIE is administering this initiative for the United States. The program will provide a substantive exchange experience at a U.S. college or university to a diverse group of emerging Brazilian student leaders to widen the academic and research exchange between the U.S. and Brazil. This initiative is the result of joint efforts from two sponsoring organizations, CAPES, the department within the Brazilian Ministry of Education devoted to the evaluation and expansion of higher education in Brazil and CNPq, the department within the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology devoted to


the advancement of scientific research and technology and to the development of scientific research-related human resources..

Until now, few Brazilians have studied abroad. Last year there were only about 9,000 Brazilians on campuses in the United States (excluding language students). And those Brazilians who have foreign degrees have had a disproportionate influence back home. In the 1960s and 1970s, the government paid for PhDs abroad in oil exploration, agricultural research and aircraft design. Brazil is now a world leader in all three fields.

This week, representatives from 66 U.S. colleges and universities are participating in an education-focused trade mission to Brazil led by Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sánchez. Education and training rank among the top 10 U.S. services exports. Tuition and living expenses from international students and theirfamilies brought in nearly $21 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2010-2011 academic year.

This trade mission will play an important role in helping participating colleges and universities boost the number of Brazilian students from 9,000, and in doing so, will support those institutions with full tuitions costs – as well as foster important cultural ties between the next generation of the world’s leaders.

The International Trade Administration’s Education Team helps U.S. institutions recruit international students and supports recruitment events.

This week, representatives from 66 U.S. colleges and universities are traversing Brazil, attending education fairs and talking to thousands of students interested in pursuing an education in the United States. The colleges and universities are in Brazil as part of an Education Missionled by Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco


Sánchez, the largest in the Department of Commerce’s history.

Under Secretary Francisco Sánchez with representatives of the University of Toledo during the Brazil Education Trade Mission (Photo Commerce)

Education and training rank among the top 10 U.S. services exports. Higher education remains one of America’s most sought-after services. Both elite private institutions and high-quality public colleges and universities benefit from the influx of foreign students attending, many of whom pay the full out-of-state tuition price. American institutions of higher education remain desirable in a challenging global economic climate, where illustrious names are seen to pave the way to success.

According to the Institute of International Education, during the 2010-11 academic year, the number of international students in the U.S. increased to a record high of 723,277 students, a 32% increase since2000-01. International students contribute not only to campus life and to dialogue within classrooms, but also to the U.S. economy at the local, state, and national levels. Tuition and living expenses from international students and their families brought in nearly $21 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2010-2011 academic year.

The OECD’s Education at a Glance 2011 reports that the number of international students worldwide increased from 2.1 million in 2000 to 3.7 million in 2009. Furthermore, the Global Student Mobility 2025 Report, estimates that world demand for international higher education will increase from 1.8 million in 2002 to some 7.2 million or more in 2025 as countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, South Korea, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia grow economically and struggle to meet


domestic demand for higher education.

The United States continues to be a sought-after destination for high-quality education. Yet foreign students in the United State remain a smaller percentage of the total U.S. student body than several other popular destinations for foreign students. With more than 4,000 institutions of higher learning in the U.S., there is tremendous potential for more intuitions to host a greater number of international students.

The first-ever U.S. Department of Commerce Education Mission to Brazil,taking place this week (August 30-Sept. 6), represents an important opportunity to further strengthen cultural and economic ties between our nations.

As the largest education mission our agency has organized to any country, I am both honored to lead this mission and enthusiastic about connecting U.S. higher learning institutions with Brazilian students seeking studyopportunities in the United States.

During the mission, representatives from 66 accredited U.S. academic institutions will showcase their undergraduate, graduate, community college and intensive English language programs at Education Fairs in Brasilia, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.

We appreciate the leadership of U.S. Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., and the U.S. Embassy in Brazil in providing strong support for this education mission as well as their longstanding efforts to promote educational exchanges between our countries.

As Brazil works to expand educational opportunities for its professional workforce, we applaud the leadership of President Dilma Rousseff, and her country’s ambitious goal of sending 101,000 Brazilian students in science and technology fields overseas in the next four years, through her visionary initiative, Science without Borders (SWB).

We look forward to working with the Government


of Brazil in achieving success in this nationwide scholarship program to promote higher education abroad. Within SWB, there are 75,000 scholarships funded by the Government of Brazil and 26,000 scholarships funded by the private sector. We want to see many of these future students in one of our exceptional educational institutions in the United States.

At the beginning of the SWB program in 2012, there were 500 Brazilian undergraduate students placed in U.S. schools, followed by an additional 1,400 students later this year. By the end of 2013, there will be 1,500 Brazilian Ph.D. students in U.S. universities.

The benefits to Brazil are numerous. There are inspiring examples of U.S.-educated Brazilian professionals who have returned to their country to strengthen development and innovation in Brazil. For example, Minister of Science,Technology, and Innovation Marco Antônio Raupp earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago.

The Institute of International Education (IIE) reports that there were more than 9,000 Brazilians studying in the U.S. in the 201/12 academic year, a 25 percent increase from five years earlier, placing Brazil 14th among all countries with international students in the United States. Beyond that, IIE reports there are more international students (more than 723,000) in the United States than anywhere else.

President Obama— as demonstrated through the United States’100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative—shares a commitment with President Rousseff on the need to build partnerships that address the needs of a 21st century workforce. Brazil is an important partner in this effort, and these initiatives are expected to lead to even greater


educational and cultural ties between our countries.

I look forward to spending time in Brazil with the members of the education mission, and advancing the goal of opening new doors to educational opportunity and collaboration. By expanding the avenues to higher learning, we will make a longstanding contribution to future generations who hold the key to continuing our shared prosperity.

Adam Wilczewski is Chief of Staff at the International Trade Administration.

This week 12 regionally accredited U.S. academic institutions will take part in the first-of-its-kind education trade mission to Poland and the Czech Republic. The trade mission, which I will have the opportunity to lead, is part of a larger effort to increase the number of foreign students studying in the United States.

According to Times Higher Education, the United States isprograms such as those in the United States. Poland also has a high concentration of young students with keen interest in higher education. The country’s population of 38 million includes more than 5.5 million young people from 15 to 24 years of age, including 1.9 million students. Moreover, Polish students have a strong affinity toward the United States, and English is the first choice for a second language by almost all high school and university students.

Similarly, the number of Czech students with outstanding English language skills continues to outpace many of their neighbors in the region, improving the ability of Czech students to study at U.S. universities and colleges. And current exchange rates and the visa waiver program are making U.S. educational opportunities an increasingly attractive alternative.

Recognizing these


trends points to the eagerness of the educational institutions from across the country to join me on this trade mission.

During the trade mission, our delegation will participate in student recruitment fairs in Prague and Warsaw to connect with students from European universities, secondary schools, and businesses. Trade professionals from the U.S. Department of Commerce based abroad will also be on hand to facilitate networking opportunities and meetings between our delegation and prominent Czech and Polish universities.

We look forward to visiting Warsaw and Prague, and with this, the goal of opening new doors of opportunity and cultural understanding for the next generation. By furthering the avenues to higher learning, we are also supporting economic growth both at home and abroad – and that is something to write home about.Statement on the Passing of Former South African President Nelson Mandela

“Twenty-five years ago, amidst the struggle against Apartheid, I volunteered as a teacher at an all-girls high school in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was still in prison, and black South Africans were still denied the right to vote. I taught English, math, history and science to my students, but I knew my true work was in educating the next generation of black South African women to be ready to lead in a new South Africa. Mandela’s unrelenting strength and courage made this dream a reality for my students and their families.

Today, with his passing, we lost one of the greatest moral leaders of our time. Mandela's legacy of struggle and leadership will be remembered along with those of


separated from him and filed for divorce in May 1995. In July 1995, Palmer was jailed because he violated a restraining order to stay away from Brenda. He was released on September 1, 1995, and after his release he made some threats to kill her to other people. He told them he was angry that she might get some of his property in the divorce. He spent part of the day on September 10, 1995, looking for his guns that had been hidden from him while he was in jail. One of his guns was a .22 caliber rifle, later determined to be the murder weapon. Frederico Palmer, Palmer's nephew, testified that Palmer picked him up that night in Palmer's blue Caprice Classic, ostensibly to go to Augusta.Instead, according to Frederico, Palmer enlisted him in his scheme to *729 kill Brenda and her 15-year-old daughter, Christine. Palmer and Frederico drove to Vidette, where Brenda was living, and briefly parked on the side of the road near a laundromat close to Brenda's house while they finalized their plan. Frederico dropped off Palmer, who was wearing gloves and carrying his rifle, near Brenda's house; Frederico then parked the car and joined Palmer on foot. Frederico disconnected the phone line to the house at Palmer's request, and Palmer kicked in the door and shot and killed Brenda and Christine. After leaving the crime scene, Palmer tossed his rifle, shoes, and gloves off a bridge. Two days later, Frederico confessed and led the police to the rifle, shoes, and


gloves. He pled guilty to two counts of felony murder and testified for the State at Palmer's trial.
At trial, Palmer's lawyers argued that Frederico had acted alone (at the possible request of a woman who stood to benefit if Brenda did not get any of Palmer's land), and that Frederico had told the police he had witnessed Palmer shoot the victims to deflect attention from him, but he had not understood he could be criminally liable for admitting to being a party to a crime. He had then been forced to take the best deal he could. Frederico also had access to Palmer's guns because he had helped Palmer's son hide the guns.
The State, however, presented a witness, Randy Waltower, who corroborated Frederico by testifying that he sawPalmer's car parked near the Vidette laundromat around the time of the murders. Waltower, who knew both Palmer and Frederico, testified that he stopped at the laundromat for five minutes to use the pay phone at 10:21 p.m. on September 10 and saw Palmer's car parked nearby on the side of the road. He said he recognized that it was Palmer's car because it was missing part of its front grille, even though he admitted that the car was facing away from him based on Frederico's testimony. He claimed that he turned and looked back at the front of the parked car while driving past it when leaving the laundromat that night. Waltower also spent part of the next day with Frederico and overheard some comments about the


even though it was clear from habeas hearings that Randy Waltower was the CI, but he was interested in learning from the CI file if Waltower had been paid for information. We note that the identity of the CI was not even a secret at Palmer's trial because the district attorney, in his opening statement, told the jury that a confidential informant had tipped off the police to Frederico's and Palmer's involvement in the murders and that the "confidential informant was Randy Waltower, because he started putting two and two together, insofar as any conversation he had heard when the guys got in the car and went down to where the scene was being *730 investigated; he remembered also Crook's (Palmer's nickname) car having been parked alongside theroad just before the murders would have happened." Palmer's habeas counsel maintained that they were interested in discovering in the file whether Waltower had a motive to testify against Palmer.
The GBI resisted any effort by Palmer to obtain access to the CI file during years of habeas corpus discovery. Palmer also lost a lawsuit seeking access to the file under the state Open Records Act. Eventually, the habeas court ordered an in camera review of the GBI confidential informant file during the habeas corpus evidentiary hearing. That review uncovered four documents which showed that, one week after the murders and about five days after Palmer's arrest, the GBI paid Waltower $500 for providing information implicating Palmer as the murderer. The State never told Palmer and his lawyers about


World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims

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Each year, more than 1.2 million people are killed as a result of traffic violence. In the U.S., more than 33,000 people die from vehicle-related injuries. In San Francisco, each day more than three people are hit by cars — and so far this year, 22 people have died as the result of preventable traffic crashes.

Since 2005, the United Nations has designated November 15 as World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims. This global event honors the millions who have needlessly suffered from traffic violence — losing their lives or limbs — and offers each of us a chance to stand in solidarity with the family members, loved ones, and friends of those victims whoMilwaukee Bucks agree to one-year lease with Bradley Center

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The Bradley Center and the Milwaukee Bucks have reached agreement on a new one-year lease that covers last season, but the deal also contains a provision in which the NBA team won’t get any money until professional basketball resumes.

The Bradley Center owes the Bucks $9.5 million. But in the new agreement, those payments have been extended further to as late as 2019.

The agreement, announced Thursday, is a reflection of reality given the inability of the players’ association and NBA owners to find a way to end their lockout, as well as the Bradley Center’s own challenged financial condition.

Talks between the players and the league continued Thursday night, with some signs that the lockout will end and a partial


season will be played.

The new Bradley Center-Bucks agreement establishes a prorated payment plan on all concession, catering and suite-shared revenue payments to the Bucks based on the actual number of games played.

At all events at the Bradley Center, the Bucks receive 27.5% of concession sales and 13.75% of food beverage sales in the suites. The team also receives 30% of all merchandise sales at Bucks’ games.Foot Cardigan: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton socks

The United Socks of America is the collection of socks by Foot Cardigan dedicated to the 2016 US elections with the faces of Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton

21 November 2016

What we lived during these days was definitely one of the most important events in recent years. Donald Trump has become President of the United States against all odds, after a long battle with Hillary Clinton fight made of intense opposition, great social issues and scandals.

Trump from January 20th will be the leader of the free world, and the oldest person ever to be elected to the White House – the only one that have never served in the army. The Republicans also won the House and Senate, which will ensure a


very strong governance with very little opposition to Trump.

United Socks of America by Foot Cardigan

Even fashion, in a small way, tried to celebrate this important moment. And the most original idea was by Foot Cardigan, American website specializing in creation of colorful and funny socks.

For the USA elections Foot Cardigan created the collection United Socks of America, a limited edition of socks with drawings of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faces, as well as a pattern of the logos of the two parties.Business

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Left Behind Act has meant that US schools which receive government money must allow the military in to talk to students. In the UK between a third and half of all new military recruits are under 18, with many joining after meeting serving personnel at their schools. This has led the British National Union of Teachers to pass a motion in 2008 condemning military recruitment in schools. One of the more common proposals is to ban military recruiting of those that are under 18 (the age at which individuals can join the military usually), which would severely limit the ability of recruiters to operate in high schools.

Students should know about options/benefits in military.Diego Cupolo. "Military Recruiters In High Schools." Gotham Gazette. January 2007: "And some young people thinkrepresenting careers other than the military confined behind tables and answering three short questions, while military personnel operated in groups wandering around, intercepting and talking to children at will."

Military recruiters wrongly have access to student info.Washington Truth in Recruiting: "According to Dave Meserve in Arcata, Calif., localities can avoid the consequences of the No Child Left Behind law (which turns students' names and contact information over to recruiters) not only by helping students and parents to opt out of recruitment lists or by challenging the ability of recruiters to be on school campuses, but also by prohibiting any recruiting activities that involve kids under 18."

Disadvantaged: Do recruiters target disadvantaged students?

Yes

Military provides important role in disadvantaged communities, providing positive role models and encouraging students to finish school (the US


of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. A set of rules that the USA signed up to in 2002 forbids the recruitment of children under the age of 18. Despite this, the American Civil Liberties Union has found that US military recruiters target children as young as 11, visiting their classrooms and making unfair promises to them. In order to live up to its pledge in 2002, the USA should stop trying to recruit in schools.

Pressed by the demands of the “global war on terrorism”, the United States is violating an international protocol that forbids the recruitment of children under the age of 18 for military service, according to a new report released Tuesday by a major civil rights group that charged that recruitment practicesWar Museum in London. However, those relics were not Borjas’ first inspiration.

“After sitting around a table with some friends trying to come up with some ideas,” said Borjas, “my first thought was to do ‘Keep Calm and Corps On,’ but then I continued to think of what really makes the corps what it is.”

There were many steps in the process of making this T-shirt, Borjas explained. First, he came up with the slogan and decided to use the school colors, maroon and gold. The final and the hardest step, he said, was to come up with the logo.

The original logo on the British World War II poster was the British Royal Crown and The Chive’s shirt had the royal crown with a “C” in the middle, said Borjas.


Fulham's summer transfer window certainly turned heads after spending over £100million - but the signing of Jean-Michael Seri from Nice was the jewel in the crown.

Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool were all after the Ivory Coast 'Xavi', who had came so close to signing for Barcelona the year previously, before the Spanish giants pulled out of the deal for the 27-year-old.

That opened the door for a move to England, with the Premier League's top clubs all queuing up to add him into their midfields.

Come August, Seri was signing for a west London club - but it wasn't the one everybody was expecting.

Fulham, fresh from promotion to the Premier League after winning the Championship play-off final against Aston Villa, shoved their way to the front of the queue andthe first X-Men film based solely on his knowledge of the Marvel Universe. He went on to produce X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, all of which were Fox made films.

So barring any unforeseen setbacks, the X-Men will be back at Marvel where they began and Feige will once again be able to leave his mark on some of the most iconic comic book characters of all time.

Are you excited to see the X-Men appear in the MCU? Let us know in the comments below! –Jackson Hayes

Source: Deadline


Duane Lucas-Roberts, left, is departing this month as Walla Walla Clinic's chief operating officer to head a clinic in Vancouver, Wash. He leaves the clinic in the hands of current Chief Financial Officer Kevin Michaelson, right.A man who throws animal semen at schoolgirls has apparently struck again, with two more teenagers finding a white sticky substance on their clothes in separate incidents.

Police have linked the two latest attacks, which took place in Greater Manchester, to four similar incidents which took place between November 2009 and January 2010.

Both of the latest attacks took place in Unsworth, Bury, on 11 January and 5 February. Both victims said the attacker was a white man, aged between 20 and 40 years old and described as being around 5ft 10.

In each of the four attacks three years ago, the victim provided a similar description of their attacker. All four victims were teenage girls, and all four were splashed with a white substance on their skirt or tights.

The four


from the Welsh Assembly Government (Cardiff, UK); the British Heart Foundation; and Diabetes UK. Collection of eye and vision data was supported by The Department for Health through an award made by the NIHR to the Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom (Grant no. BRC2_009). Additional support was provided by The Special Trustees of Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom (Grant no. ST 12 09). ALSPAC: we are extremely grateful to all the families who took part in this study, the midwives for their help in recruiting them, and the whole ALSPAC team, which includes interviewers, computer and laboratory technicians, clerical workers, research scientists, volunteers, managers, receptionists and nurses. Computing resources: data analysis was carried outConcern children not exercising enough

There is concern Broken Hill school children are not getting enough exercise.

Morgan Street Public School principal Chris Dougherty has taught in the far west for decades.

He says local schools have dropped the traditional weekly sports carnival, opting for less regular sports days instead.

Mr Dougherty says things have changed a lot while he has been in Broken Hill.

"When I was working at Railwaytown school in the early 1990s, when I'd leave the school on my bike, there were always heaps of kids in the street, or at the West Football Club having a kick or a throw, or whatever," Mr Dougherty said.

"By the end of the 1990s, by 2000, there was hardly a kid in the street. Now that may be a safety issue or


harrow and other equipment.

       {¶5} Mr. Hoffert testified that he was able to recognize the harrow as his

because of the galvanized steel extensions that he had installed himself, almost

twenty years earlier. Mr. Hoffert had also added train rails to the harrow, to give it

more weight, and he tied the railroad iron to the harrow with green clothesline.

Mr. Hoffert testified that he saw a train rail and a piece of green clothesline in the

bed of Tusing’s truck. Mr. Hoffert also noticed a “rope wick” in the truck which

he recognized because his father and brother had built it by hand, sometime

around 1975. He also identified a cultivator, which he knew was his because it

was the same sixty-year-old cultivator that Mr. Hoffert had used asin Tusing’s truck, or lying nearby, when they arrived. They obtained a

statement from Mr. Hoffert describing how he had noticed that equipment was

missing from his farm and how he had discovered Tusing at Donners and in the

process of unloading his harrow, cultivator, and other items. (Def. Ex. 1)

      {¶8} Both of the officers testified that Tusing had claimed that the

equipment was his property and that it had been located in his driveway before he

had decided to bring it to the scrap yard. When Lt. Riedlinger pointed out that

there were weeds hanging on the harrow, Tusing told Lt. Riedlinger that there

were weeds in his driveway and he could show him where the harrow had been

sitting. Deputy Wilkinson testified that when he went to Tusing’s


age at the beginning of 2006, were continuously enrolled in Medicare, participated in the interviews in both 2006 and 2007, and had no personal history of renal disease or CRC in 2006 or 2007. Our study population therefore also included persons 50-64 years of age who were in Medicare as a result of disability. Our upper age cutoff was based on current U.S. Preventive Services Task Force CRC screening guidelines \[[@B21],[@B22]\]. This study was reviewed by the institutional review board (IRB) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, MA) and was considered exempt from a full IRB review.

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Each survey year, the MCBS collects data on participants including age, gender and marital status; residence in metropolitan service areas (MSA); highest level of educational achievement (less than highexecuted by the Wisconsin office; the entire price structure was the product of activities at the Wisconsin office; cost determinations as well as engineering specifications were calculated in Wisconsin; payments were made in Wisconsin, and the books were kept at the home office in Wisconsin; competitive price negotiations took place in Wisconsin; and the renegotiation of billings were handled by the home office of Globe-Union in Wisconsin.[9] In the case of American Motors Corporation, basic contracts were executed in Michigan; the price structure was the product of activities in Michigan; cost determinations and price allowances were made in Michigan; payments were made in Michigan; books were kept in Michigan; the home office of American Motors Corporation was in Michigan, not Wisconsin. In fact, what was done at Globe-Union's


test of Globe-Union was abandoned in the Applied Power Case[10] in favor of an "actionable transaction" test with the sale occurring when and where a legal liability was created. In Applied Power, the facts were similar to those in Globe-Union. Applied Power was a Wisconsin corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of hydraulic jacks in West Allis and Sheboygan in this state. Its principal or home office was located in West Allis. It contracted with warehouse corporations in New York and Los Angeles to lease storage space and authorized such corporations to sell therefrom for its account to distributors specified by Applied Power. Prices and credit limits were set by the taxpayer in Wisconsin. The warehouses sent shipping invoices to the home office in Wisconsin which thensuch agents located outside of the state of Wisconsin, the tax consequences of waging and winning that battle would be slight.
American Stores Case. For the sake of completeness and since both parties discuss (and debate) the possible relatedness to the fact situation here before us of the American Stores Dairy Company Case,[17] we review the facts and holding of that case. The case involved the Dairy Company, a Delaware corporation wholly owned by the American Stores Company, also a Delaware corporation. The Dairy Company consisted of one milk condensary plant, located in Neillsville, Wisconsin. All of the products were sold to American Stores Company. The two companies had identical officers and, with one exception, the same directors. This court found that, to procure the services of the Dairy


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exception of lack of jurisdiction claiming the child had lived in Texas for six months and Texas was the home state.
The trial judge denied the exception, stating Louisiana, at a minimum, had concurrent jurisdiction with Texas since the child had so many significant connections with Louisiana. Ms. Washington then answered the demand and filed a reconventional demand requesting custody of the child pursuant to La. C.C. Art. 256. After the hearing on the custody matter, the trial court granted custody of the minor to Walker, finding him to be her biological father who had informally acknowledged his child before her mother's death, and formally acknowledged his child after her mother's death.
Factual Context
Sally Washington and Calvin Walker lived together for eight years. During this time Walker was a steadyemployee except for a short time between jobs when the Georgia Pacific mill in Logansport, Louisiana, was closed.
Sally conceived and bore the one child who is the subject of this litigation while she was living with Walker. She gave birth to the child on August 12, 1982 at LSU Medical Center in Shreveport. The birth certificate filled out by Sally at the time of birth described the mother as single and did not name a father. Until her death from a heart attack on July 4, 1986, Sally Washington received welfare and aid to dependant children on behalf of the child.
During the time the deceased mother and Walker lived together, Walker was married to another woman, Lula Hunt Walker. This woman began living with another man and bore


his child. No legal dissolution of the marriage was completed, although a petition for separation was filed by Walker in 1977.
While still legally married to his first wife, Walker was convicted of a crime and served a prison term. After being released from prison, he returned to Mansfield, Louisiana, where his wife and parents lived. He fathered a child who lived in Houston with his natural mother. Subsequently, Walker began living with Sally Washington.
Walker did not marry Sally before her death. He did offer to marry her and assisted in supporting both Sally and his daughter by providing housing and other necessities. The child and her mother lived with Walker continuously until her mother's death.
Walker testified Sally Washington did not have to accept welfare and aid to dependentchildren to support the child, but chose to do so. In fact, both Walker and his mother testified he had asked Sally to marry him and had bought her a wedding ring. The Washington family members who testified did not refute Walker's offer to marry Sally before her death. Walker testified Sally's family had advised her that it would not be prudent for her to give up her welfare benefits to marry Walker.
On July 4, 1986, Sally Washington died of a heart attack. Her sister, Sarah Washington, claimed she discussed taking the child to Houston to live with both the child's mother before her death and with Walker while she and Walker were at the home of another sister, Ruthie Jones. When asked why she discussed her taking


the child with Walker, she testified she asked him because her sister "was living with" Walker when she died.
Walker denied giving Sarah Washington permission to take his child to live with her in Houston. In fact, he testified Ms. Washington asked him to allow the child to spend a "couple of nights" with her, not go to Houston on a permanent basis. When Walker went to the home of Sally and Sarah Washington's father to pick up his daughter on the second night, their father told him Ms. Washington had taken the child to Houston early that morning. Walker immediately went to the home of the third sister, Ruthie Jones, and asked her why Ms. Washington had taken the *1004 child. Ruthie Jones could not adequately answer Walker'sneeded assistance. When Ms. Washington took the child, Mrs. Walker testified she had been keeping her and had many of her clothes at her house. She testified Ms. Washington never came to get the child's clothes from her home or from Walker's as she would have if it had been a permanent change of domicile.
Nevertheless, the child was taken to Texas and began to live with her aunt. Walker testified he called almost once a month for a number of months to find out when Ms. Washington would return the child to him in Mansfield. Although Ms. Washington allowed him to talk to the child, she never answered his question concerning her return to Mansfield, nor would she return the child or bring her to Mansfield to visit


her relatives.
Ms. Washington testified Walker called once a month or so until March of 1987, and then began calling once every other month. Both Walker and his mother admitted they did not send money, gifts or birthday cards to the child in Houston, but refrained from doing so in anticipation of her return to live with Walker.
Advised he would need a birth certificate naming him as the child's father to obtain a legal disposition of his problem, Walker filled out the required forms with two witnesses for his signature and one witness who was aware he was the father of the child and proceeded to wait 3½ months for the birth certificate. The new certificate was issued on March 2, 1987. Walker was listed as the natural fatherof the child.
Procedural History
After Walker received the birth certificate listing him as the child's natural father, he obtained new counsel, filed a habeas corpus action on April 13, 1987, and attempted to obtain the court order required to receive police assistance in retrieving his daughter.
Upon being served in Houston with the original petition in the instant proceeding, Ms. Washington contacted an attorney and filed proceedings in Texas on May 1, 1987, claiming Texas was the home state of the child. She requested an injunction prohibiting Walker from removing the child from Texas.
In response to the Louisiana suit, Ms. Washington filed an exception of lack of jurisdiction stating the child had lived in Texas in excess of six months. The trial court judge denied the exception stating that jurisdiction,


at a minimum, was concurrent since the child had substantial contacts with Louisiana. At the hearing on the jurisdictional question, Ms. Washington testified she had not contacted an attorney until she had been served with notice of the pending proceedings in Louisiana although her petition in Texas declared she was not involved in any litigation involving this child in another jurisdiction.
After the hearing on the merits of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, the child custody issue, the court in written reasons for judgment found Walker was the child's natural father, and he had informally and formally acknowledged her. The trial judge held Walker did not allow the child to leave the state with her aunt on a permanent basis nor had he abandoned the child. This conclusion wassupported by the father's numerous attempts to legally retrieve the child.
Moreover, the trial judge found Walker was a fit and moral person to raise the child. Local members of the mother's family *1005 conceded Walker was a good father and provided for the child. The trial judge noted Walker appeared deeply concerned for the welfare of his child as he testified. He found the father was an honest, hard worker who was ready to provide a stable home for her.
The trial court held the father had acknowledged the child informally before the mother's death and formally after the mother's death. He found the natural father's right to custody of the minor child to be paramount and explained:
"Article 256 does not require a formal acknowledgment. See La. Civil Code


256 gives her, a sibling of the child's deceased mother, a paramount right to the custody of the child since the father did not formally acknowledge the child while the mother was living. While Ms. Washington could not cite an instance showing why Walker would be an unfit parent, and she admitted he was a good father, she maintained it would be in the child's best interests for her to rear the youngster.
Appellant's only assignment of error is that the trial court committed manifest error in awarding the custody of the minor child to her natural father rather than to the sister of her mother.
Requirement of "Acknowledgement"
La. C.C. Art. 256, found under the Civil Code Title VIII, Chapter 1, "Of Minors, Of Their Tutorship and Emancipation", provides inpertinent part:
B. After the death of the mother, if the father had not acknowledged the child prior to the mother's death, the court shall give first consideration to appointment as tutor either of her parents or siblings who survive her and accept the appointment, and, secondly, the father, always taking into consideration the best interests of the child.
"Acknowledgment" is defined in La. C.C. Art. 203, found under the Civil Code Title VII, Chapter Three, "Of Illegitimate Children", and provides:
The acknowledgment of an illegitimate child shall be made by a declaration executed before a notary public, in the presence of two witnesses, by the father and mother or either of them, or it may be made in the registering of the birth or baptism of such child.
"Informal" acknowledgment is


rearing of his child he is afforded protection under the due process clause of the Constitution. (Lehr, supra; Caban, supra; Stanley, supra.)
When the mother of an illegitimate child is deceased, and a father claims the illegitimate child as his, (supported by a history authentic enough to prove filiation in a Louisiana succession proceeding), the father of the illegitimate child should be protected by the reasoning of Caban, supra. Without compelling state reasons for a formal rather than an informal acknowledgment of an illegitimate child to protect the father's paramount right to custody of his illegitimate child living with him and reared by him, La. C.C. Art. 256 would be unconstitutional since it does not provide equal protection for the caring father of an illegitimate child and the fatherhe began pursuing legal steps to retrieve the child: he contacted the sheriff's office, he hired legal counsel, he repeatedly telephoned the aunt to return the child, he traveled to Houston to seek assistance from Houston police, and he began legal proceedings to obtain the court order required by the Houston police to assist him in having the child returned to his custody. These efforts to regain custody of the child after she was taken without his permission and his history of having provided for both the child from birth and her mother for eight years prior to her mother's death do not indicate this father had forfeited his parental rights, abandoned the child or was unable to provide a home for the child.
In the testimony of both


the witnesses who appeared in support of Walker and the witnesses who appeared on behalf of Ms. Washington, no one could assert a legitimate instance of Walker's parental unfitness other than his conviction of a crime in 1977. Since that conviction and jail term, and during the entire time Walker and Sally lived together, there was no evidence of any type of criminal activity. The record does contain evidence of steady employment, *1008 consistent habitation, and parental caring and concern.
No one has seriously questioned Walker's contention he was the child's natural father; Sally's sister Ruthie Jones testified Sally told her Walker was the father. Walker took Sally to the hospital and was present when the child was born. He took them to their common home when they werereleased from the hospital, and the three of them lived together continuously until Sally's death. Walker actively participated in rearing the child from birth until her aunt took her out of Louisiana without permission; he did not give up his parental rights; he immediately pursued legal avenues to obtain the child's return.
Conclusion
It is in the best interest of a child to remain in the custody of a caring parent unless that parent's custody would be so detrimental to the child that custody must be awarded to a non-parent. La. C.C. Art. 256 does not require "formal" or La. C.C. Art. 203 acknowledgment. A caring father of an illegitimate child has protection equal to that of a caring father of a legitimate child under the Constitution. The parent of


an intact family, whether his child is legitimate or illegitimate, has an expectation of non-interference absent neglect.
The trial court's ruling the father did not abandon his child or grant the aunt permission to move the child to Texas permanently is supported by the record. The father reared the child from birth in a home he provided for the mother and their child. As soon as he discovered the child had been removed, he actively and legally sought the return of the child. This father cares for his child and is prepared to provide a home for her.
For these reasons, the judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED, at appellant's cost.
pad advancing mechanism including a plurality of rollers to guide, position, and hold the web-format pad 40 over the support surface 13. The pad advancing mechanism generally includes a supply roller 20, first and second idler rollers 21a and 21b, first and second guide rollers 22a and 22b, and a take-up roller 23. As explained below, a motor (not shown) drives the take-up roller 23 to advance the pad 40 across the support surface 13 along a travel axis T-T. The motor can also drive the supply roller 20. The first idler roller 21a and the first guide roller 22a press an operative portion of the pad against the support surface 13 to hold the pad 40 stationary during operation.
The planarizing machine 10 also has a carrier assembly


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Jobs Vision Residents in Smoketown and Shelby Park neighborhoods are linked to and prepared for job opportunities.Jobs Goals

Establish or connect Smoketown and Shelby park youth mentoring, tutoring and other after-school activites and programs offered in the neighborhoods.

Reduce neighborhood unemployment by 10 percent (190 jobs).

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UK moves to ‘active cyber-defence’ By Gordon Corera

Security correspondent, BBC News Published duration 13 September 2016

image copyright Thinkstock image caption The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) aims to protect the public and the nation

Britain is moving towards more active defence in cyberspace, the head of the UK's new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said.

Speaking in Washington, Ciaran Martin was giving his first public comments as the chief executive of the NCSC.

The centre, which launches next month, will absorb existing roles such as protecting government and critical infrastructure.

It will also look at new ways of engaging with business and the public.

Among its plans are developing automated defences to offer protection from high-volume but relatively unsophisticated cyber-attacks.

The NCSC will take a lead on protecting government networks and those ofnational level importance, but Mr Martin also outlined ways in which it would be more ambitious in improving the UK's overall cybersecurity.

Digital economy dependence

One-eighth of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) comes from the digital economy, the highest in the G20 group of industrialised economies, and Mr Martin said retaining public confidence in online transactions and ensuring economic growth was a priority in the same way as protecting national security.

Last year, twice as many "national-security-level cyber-incidents" were detected compared with a year before, amounting to about 200 per month.

The attacks are not always highly sophisticated.

The breach at the telecoms company TalkTalk used a basic technique dating from the end of the 20th Century rather than anything new.

"Far too many of these basic attacks are getting through," Mr Martin


East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the Olympic Games for the last time as an independent nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.  Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team would compete in the 1992 Summer Olympics. 259 competitors, 157 men and 102 women, took part in 157 events in 16 sports. The team was officially announced on 3 September 1988.

Medalists
East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold medals and 102 medals overall.

Gold
 Ulf Timmermann — Athletics, men's shot put
 Jürgen Schult — Athletics, men's discus throw
 Christian Schenk — Athletics, men's decathlon
 Sigrun Wodars — Athletics, women's 800 metres
 Martina Hellmann — Athletics, women's discus throw
Beijing company wants to recreate London Olympic opening ceremony

The Chinese produced the 2008 Beijing Olympic opening ceremony. Why shouldn't they recreate the 2012 London ceremony as a musical?

While the world is still debating the good, bad and cheesy of the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, a Beijing-based entertainment company is already one step ahead.

British theater producer David King, who successfully brought a Christmas show to China last year, has been asked by an unnamed Chinese business concern to whip up a new musical based on the London Olympic opening ceremony, according The Telegraph.

The production is supposedly meant to be ready by the end of 2012.

The Leeds native declined media requests to name the Chinese company, but revealed that he has previously worked with the same group.

At


Development of depressive symptoms and depression during organizational change--a two-year follow-up study of civil servants.
On 1 January 2007, Denmark went through a major reorganization, where most of its 275 municipalities and 14 counties merged into larger units. Our study aimed to examine the development of depressive symptoms and incident depression among employees affected by this organizational change. A total of 685 civil servants employed in the administration of 5 municipalities and 2 counties participated in the study. They answered a postal questionnaire, 8 months prior to and 16 months after the reorganization, regarding working conditions, psychosocial work environment factors, and depressive symptoms, based on the Major Depression Inventory (MDI). During the follow-up period of 2006-2008, 295 employees had experienced a merger with other workplaces (hereafter the merger group),An artist commissioned a nude protest in New York City on Sunday which sought to highlight Instagram and Facebook's ban on photos showing female nipples.

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Onlookers can be seen gathering around the Astor Place cube and filming the protest.

Tunick organized the photo shoot in collaboration with the National Coalition Against Censorship, who have pioneered the hashtag #WeTheNipple.

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Tunick has a history of orchestrating en mass nude art -- he has previously organized a photo with 6,000 nude people in Colombia.India-Afghanistan Relations

Introduction

India and Afghanistan historically have shared close cultural and political ties, and the complexity of their diplomatic history reflects this fact. India was among the first non-Communist states to recognize the government installed by the Soviet Union after its 1979* invasion of Afghanistan. New Delhi supported successive governments in Kabul until the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s. But like most countries, India never recognized the Taliban's assumption of power in 1996 (only Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates recognized the Taliban regime).Following the 9/11 attacks and the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan that resulted, ties between India and Afghanistan grew strong once again. India has restored full diplomatic relations, and has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for Afghanistan's reconstruction and development.


But Pakistan views India's growing influence in Afghanistan as a threat to its own interests in the region. Experts fear for Afghanistan's stability as India and Pakistan compete for influence in the war-torn country.

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Strengthening Relations

Afghanistan holds strategic importance for India as New Delhi seeks friendly allies in the neighborhood, and because it is a gateway to energy-rich Central Asian states such as Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. "India is looking to ensure that other countries in the region favor or at least are neutral on its conflict with Pakistan," says J Alexander Thier, an expert on Afghanistan at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Afghanistan, on the other hand, he says, looks to India as "a potential counterweight in its relationship with Pakistan." India's influence in Afghanistan waned inthe 1990s after Pakistan-backed Taliban rose to power. During this period, New Delhi provided assistance to the anti-Taliban resistance, the Northern Alliance, comprised mostly of Tajikand other non-Pashtun ethnic groups, according to a 2003 Council Task Force report. After the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, New Delhi reached out to renew ties with Kabul. India-Afghanistan relations further received a boost from the fact that many current Afghan leaders, including President Hamid Karzai, studied at Indian universities.

Since 2001, India has offered $1.2 billion for Afghanistan's reconstruction, making it the largest regional donor to the country. By helping rebuild a new Afghanistan, India strives for greater regional stability, but also hopes to counter Pakistan's influence in Kabul, say experts. For India, Afghanistan is also a potential route for access


to Central Asian energy. India, an observer in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, has been pursuing better relations with Central Asian states for energy cooperation. It gave a $17 million grant for the modernization of a hydropower plant in Tajikistan, and has signed a memorandum of understanding with Turkmenistan for a natural gas pipeline that will pass through Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Since 2001, India has offered $1.2 billion for Afghanistan's reconstruction, making it the largest regional donor to the country.

According to Indian officials, there are currently about four thousand Indian workers and security personnel working on different relief and reconstruction projects in Afghanistan. Since 2006, following increased incidents of kidnappings and attacks, India has sent the country's mountain-trained paramilitary force tasked with guarding its border with China, to guard itsworkers; there are about five hundred police deployed in Afghanistan currently. India is involved in a wide array of development projects in Afghanistan: In January 2009, India completed construction of the Zaranj-Delaram highway in southwest Afghanistan near the Iranian border; it is building Afghanistan's new parliament building set for completion by 2011; it is constructing the Salma Dam power project in Herat Province; it has trained Afghan police officers, diplomats and civil servants; and it has provided support in the areas of health, education, transportation, power, and telecommunications.

Bilateral trade between India and Afghanistan has been on the rise, reaching $358 million for the fiscal year April 2007 to March 2008. India hopes its investment in the Iranian port at Chabahar will allow it to gain trading access to


in Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad, and Kandahar, Pakistan charged that these consulates provide cover for Indian intelligence agencies to run covert operations against Pakistan, as well as foment separatism in Pakistan's Balochistan province. "Pakistan's fears of encirclement (PDF) by India have been compounded" by the new Indian air base in Farkhor, Tajikistan, write South Asia experts Raja Karthikeya Gundu and Teresita C. Schaffer in an April 2008 Center for Strategic and International Studies newsletter. This is the first Indian military airbase overseas, and is convenient for transportation of men and material to and from Afghanistan. It is also a move toward protecting India's potential energy interests in the region, say experts.

Pakistan also competes with India for access to consumer markets in Afghanistan. Pakistan sees Iran's Chabahar port, which Indiahave repeatedly warned that Pakistan's tribal areas along the Afghan border continue to serve as safe havens for the Taliban and al-Qaeda to stage attacks against Afghanistan. Experts say Pakistan's cooperation in counterterrorism is vital to winning the war in Afghanistan.

Controlling this porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is the central issue for the United States, write Schaffer and Gundu. As this Backgrounder explains, Pakistan and Afghanistan have a long-standing border dispute, in large part due to tribal allegiances that have never recognized the century-old frontier. But a "transformation of Pakistan-Afghanistan ties can only take place in an overall context of improved Pakistani-Indian relations" that enhances Pakistani confidence in its regional position, argues the Pakistan Policy Working Group report.

Indian officials also blame Pakistan's military intelligence agency, the ISI,


and its support of the Taliban, for attacks on Indian personnel and assets in Afghanistan. There have been several attacks on Indian personnel working for reconstruction projects inside Pakistan, particularly those working on road-building projects. The deadliest attack came in July 2008, when a suicide bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul killed more than forty, including the Indian defense attaché. Both the Afghan and Indian officials implied ISI's involvement in the attack. India's National Security Adviser M K Narayanan, in an interview with New Delhi Television, said: "We have no doubt that the ISI is behind this." Pakistan has denied these allegations. However, the country's army chief replaced the head of the ISI in September, which some experts say was aimed at easing accusations against the agency.

"Atransformation of Pakistan-Afghanistan ties can only take place in an overall context of improved Pakistani-Indian relations … that enhances Pakistani confidence in its regional position." - Pakistan Policy Working Group report

Toward Regional Cooperation

Most policy experts support India's engagement in Afghanistan but recommend a three-way relationship between India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. USIP's Thier says Afghanistan must reassert a neutral policy of pursuing strong relations with both India and Pakistan. In a 2006 Council Special Report on Afghanistan, Rubin writes: "The United States should strengthen its presence on the Afghan side of the border, and encourage India and Afghanistan not to engage in any provocative activity there." Rubin says Afghanistan should encourage confidence-building measures with Pakistan in the border area.

Some experts emphasize better regional cooperation on trade. A January 2008


report (PDF) by the Afghanistan Study Group, working under the U.S.-based independent nonprofit Center for the Study of the Presidency, recommendedthat Pakistan remove restrictions that inhibit the transportation of goods through Pakistan to and from Afghanistan, including from India. "With regard to trade, there should be a more concerted and energetic international effort to enable Afghanistan to take fuller advantage of its geographic position as a crossroads between central, southern and western Asia," the report says.

The Pakistan Policy Working Group report, penned by several former U.S. State department officials, says Washington will need to step up diplomacy in South Asia, and it needs to consider how to decrease Pakistan's fear of India and "how to improve U.S. ties with New Delhi without alarming Islamabad." It is in India'sto proliferate, major changes have happened in terms of who actually gets to make decisions about public education. Traditionally, such decisions have been made through collaborations between elected officials, teachers, parents, and administrators. Increasingly, they are now being made in closed-meetings by the unelected board members of private organizations, who may or may not have backgrounds in education, or children in the schools for which they are making decisions."

In Wisconsin, charter schools and voucherizing have consistently been pet issues for Gov. Walker. Let's check in on how that's been working out.

Despite having more freedom over curriculum, budgets and staffing than traditional public schools, the majority of Milwaukee's independent charter schools are not meeting performance expectations, according to statewide report card results for 2012-'13.

Of the 17 independent charters in


weeny little glitchette. Families who already have kids at those schools are still sending in voucher requests. Gee, ya think someone should take a second look at Gov. Scott Walker's cherished privatizing efforts?

Earlier this year, in a controversial move, the state Legislature expanded the voucher program to include 500 students outside the Milwaukee and Racine school districts and grow from 500 to 1,000 the number of students in those two districts eligible for taxpayer-funded private school educations for the 2013-14 school year.[...]

The program would pay for K-12 students to attend private schools if income eligibility requirements are met rather than the public schools where they live. Private schools would receive taxpayer funding in the form of state aid for each eligible student.

When pushing for private school voucher expansion,arrested who Border Patrol agents thought were connected with the caravan.

Ms. George had four of her children with her when she was caught by agents, according to charging documents in the case.

After she was caught she first asked to speak to the Honduran consulate then moments later revoked that request. She instead said she would invoke her right to remain silent until she had a lawyer.

She did, however, demand asylum.

Her file is marked with the notation: “********CARAVAN PARTICIPANT******”

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Raiders acquire quarterback Matt Schaub from Houston Texans

Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub is reportedly set to become the Raiders' new starting quarterback, according to an ESPN report. Oakland is set to send a late-round pick in the 2014 NFL draft to Houston for the 32-year-old Schaub. (Associated Press)

ALAMEDA -- The Raiders have found their quarterback, reaching an agreement Friday to acquire Houston's Matt Schaub for a late-round draft pick.

ESPN first reported the trade.

Schaub, 32, is a two-time Pro Bowl quarterback who struggled for the Texans last season, losing his job to Case Keenum. Houston, which signed free-agent quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick Thursday, had no intention of retaining Schaub, who carries a $10 million salary in 2014.

Last season for the Texans, Schaub had 10 touchdown passes and 14 interceptions. Hehas 130 touchdown passes and 84 interceptions for his career, which includes four seasons of passing for more than 4,000 yards.

General manager Reggie McKenzie and coach Dennis Allen were on record as saying following the season that the Raiders quarterback of the future wasn't necessarily on the 2013 roster.

Schaub was the veteran quarterback targeted by McKenzie and Allen in a dwindling market that included Philadelphia's Michael Vick and Mark Sanchez of the New York Jets.

Current quarterbacks on the roster include Terrelle Pryor, Matt McGloin and Trent Edwards. The Raiders are expected to consider dealing Pryor, possibly to acquire a late-round draft pick which they would lose in the Schaub deal.

The Raiders are also expected to add a quarterback in the draft, with Allen going to the pro day


workouts of Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater, Central Florida's Blake Bortles and Fresno State's Derek Carr.

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McKenzie was at the pro day of San Jose State's David Fales Wednesday, saying at the time he had a ``pretty good idea'' who the Raiders starting quarterback would be in the 2014 season opener.confirmed.

Cohen has denied having any involvement in Daniels’ claim that a man threatened her in Las Vegas in 2011, warning her to “leave Trump alone.” But the complaint said Cohen’s denial represented a defamatory statement against Daniels.

STORMY DANIELS FILES DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST MICHAEL COHEN

In the interview, which aired on CBS News Sunday evening, Daniels claimed she had a one-time, unprotected sexual encounter with Trump during a three-round gold competition at the Edgewood Tahoe golf resort in July 2006.

Daniels also said she was threatened by a man who approached her in a Las Vegas parking lot after she sold her story about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

“I was in a parking lot going to a fitness class with my infant daughter and a guy walked up on me


Earlier this spring, a group of boosters gathered in Eau Claire, Wis. — heralded by some as an emerging "mini-Portland" — and agreed on just what was missing from the western Wisconsin city's renaissance: passenger rail.

They not only have a plan to restore long-dormant rail service to St. Paul's Union Depot, they insist it can be privately financed, too.

The bold idea may seem far-fetched given the travails of publicly bankrolled transit projects in the Twin Cities, such as the $2 billion Southwest light-rail line. But the West Central Wisconsin Rail Coalition, an Eau Claire-based nonprofit group of representatives from business, education, government and others, has been working on the idea for nearly two decades.

Emboldened by privately funded transit projects in Florida and Texas, and the Trump administration's supportsome discounts may apply, and fares would be less for stops in between. Eight trips a day are planned, four in each direction, with Wi-Fi, snacks and beverages available for passengers.

Scott Rogers, government affairs and workforce director for the Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce, said the nearly 30,000 students from the University of Wisconsin's Eau Claire, Stout and River Falls campuses would likely use the line, plus businesses in Eau Claire, as well as commuters heading to the Twin Cities from Stillwater and the Interstate 94 corridor in Wisconsin.

A rail connection, he said, would further fuel western Wisconsin's "knowledge economy" — those who prefer to live in the state's more affordable small cities, towns and rural stretches, but still want a connection to the urbanity of the


Twin Cities.

One of the big backers of the rail project is Jamf, an Apple management software company founded by a UW-Eau Claire graduate, as well as the Royal Credit Union. However, another big employer in the city, the headquarters of home-improvement chain Menards, has a more tempered view of the idea.

"This certainly sounds like an interesting project," the company said in a statement. "However, we really don't have any particular needs that we could anticipate the project fulfilling at this time."

Eau Claire is a former factory town that languished after big manufacturing companies departed, including Uniroyal Goodrich Tire, which pulled up stakes in 1992.

Located at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers, the city has since revived its waterfront and embraced its arts, academic and technologycommunities. A $100 million public-private partnership called the Confluence project includes residential and retail space, plus performing arts theaters that are slated to open this year.

There's also the so-called "Bon Iver Effect" — referring to Grammy-award winner and Eau Claire native Justin Vernon, who founded the Eaux Claires indie music festival four years ago. His involvement has helped cement his hometown's reputation as a millennial-friendly arts enclave, drawing comparisons to Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas.

Pieces in place

Although passenger rail service between the Twin Cities and Eau Claire ceased in 1963, boosters say many of the pieces to revive it are already in place.

The majority of the 85-mile route is owned by Union Pacific Corp., and an agreement would be needed to share the corridor with its freight trains.

Union


Pacific spokeswoman Kristen South confirmed that the Omaha-based rail company has had "preliminary discussions" with the Eau Claire consortium. "We're certainly open to the possibility," she said.

David Christianson, a coalition member who is a retired rail planner for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, said, "You really have to have double track along the majority of the line so fast trains will not interfere with slow freight trains and impede your reliability."

Longer term, planners hope to extend the line to Target Field in Minneapolis and to Chicago as well.

Planners point to Florida's Brightline, the country's first higher-speed train that connects Miami to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, as an example of a privately owned and operated system that works. Plans call for the train ultimately to travel toFirst track, "Here I Am" with Sia, available at midnight.

Netflix has acquired Dumplin, a film about a plus-size teenage daughter of a former beauty queen who adores Dolly Parton and her music.

Adapted from the book by Julie Murphy, the film features collaborations and original music from Parton. The book references Parton throughout, including the opening lines that state that the best moments in the protagonist’s life have started with a Parton song. The main character is named Willowdean, a reference to Parton’s real-life sister, Willadeene.

Parton, who will be honored as MusiCares’ 2019 Person of the Year, contributed newly recorded collaborations of some of her most popular songs, in addition to six new original compositions co-written by Parton and Grammy nominee Linda Perry. The soundtrack will come out Nov.


Islamic capital markets: An ever-expanding frontier

Author: IFLR Correspondent | Published: 9 Sep 2019

By Rafiq Jaffer, head of debt capital markets, Al
Tamimi

Islamic finance structures are based on the precepts of the
shariah. Broadly speaking, the shariah is the body of Islamic
jurisprudence that regulates various aspects of life including
politics, economics, and succession. In the context of finance,
the shariah prescribes certain prohibitions, which
constitute the main principles of Islamic finance. These
prohibitions relate to the charging of interest
(riba), uncertainty (gharrar) in contracts,
contracts relating to gambling (qimar) and contracts
pertaining to unethical investments. In addition, Islamic
finance transactions are required to have a linkage to an
underlying tangible asset (commodities, vehicles, real estate
etc.)

In other words, an Islamic finance transaction will
typically involve the sale of an asset, the lease of an asset,
or participation in a joint venture or partnershipfacts and applying the law to the inferences so drawn.
Mary Agnes Dexter[1] was born January 20, 1917, the child of Mary Alma Smith Pearson and Walter Pearson.[2] Plaintiff married Charles Dexter on April 16, 1933, when she was sixteen *417 years of age. Her mother died April 7, 1937. Her father never remarried and died June 19, 1962.
When Plaintiff's mother died she entered into an oral agreement with her father that she and her family would move into the family home and that she would care for him, keep the house, and perform such other services as might be required to provide a home for him and care for his physical needs. In return for the services to be rendered him by his daughter the evidence shows that


Plaintiff's father agreed that at his death he would will her the "homeplace" and the "George Seal Place".
Pursuant to the agreement Plaintiff and her family resided at the homeplace of her father, and Plaintiff performed such services as were necessary to carry out her part of the bargain. The arrangement continued for a period of about 25 years until a few weeks before his death, when he moved to the home of his son, Thomas Edward Pearson.
Prior to 1956, Plaintiff's husband rented the farm land on the homeplace from Mr. Pearson. During 1956, Mr. Pearson visited relatives in Texas, and upon his return he had a failing out with his daughter and son-in-law, the details of which are not material to the case sub judice. As a resultof the disagreement Mr. Pearson wrote a letter to Plaintiff's husband requesting him to get off of the place and move out of his home. Plaintiff and her family did not move out of the home, although her husband discontinued renting the land from Mr. Pearson.
A short time before the letter was sent to Plaintiff's husband, Plaintiff conferred with her attorney about her relationship with her father. Plaintiff related to the attorney the terms of the oral agreement which she had with her father, informed him that she was performing the services which she had contracted to perform, but that her father had become displeased with her husband. Plaintiff sought his advice as to the course she should pursue as she was apprehensive that her father would not


carry out his agreement and will her the property, as promised. Plaintiff was advised that there was not anything she could do at the time, since she did not know whether her father had made the will in line with their agreement. She was advised to wait until her father's death, and, if he did not carry out his agreement by will, Plaintiff could probate a claim against his estate for the services which she had rendered to him during his lifetime.[3]
Later, after her husband had received the letter mentioned above, Plaintiff returned to her attorney who advised her *418 that she and her husband should stay in the home, but surrender the rest of the property, and that she should be in a position to prove thatshe had performed the services to her father, as provided in the agreement.
During 1956 and 1957 Plaintiff and her husband experienced an estranged relationship with her father, and in 1957 Plaintiff asked her father if he was going to honor his agreement with her, to which he replied "you will have to wait and see". Except for this interlude a good relationship existed between Plaintiff and her father from the death of Plaintiff's mother until a short time before his death when he moved from the homeplace to the home of his son.
Mr. Pearson, about two or three weeks before his death, left his home and moved into the home of his son, Thomas E. Pearson, where he resided until his death. Plaintiff and Thomas E. Pearson were


the only children of Mr. Pearson.
On June 5, 1962, shortly after moving into the home of his son, Mr. Pearson visited the office of his attorney in Houston, Mississippi, and engaged his services to write a will for him to execute. After counseling with his attorney, Mr. Pearson executed two deeds. By one deed he conveyed the homeplace, consisting of 240 acres, to his daughter, the Plaintiff herein. By the other he conveyed 140 acres of land to his said son. The deed conveying the homeplace to Plaintiff, recited the consideration for the deed to be "For and in consideration of the sum of Ten and No/100 Dollars, and for the love and affection that I have and bear toward my daughter, the grantee herein named, I, WalterPearson, do hereby convey and warrant unto Mary Agnes Dexter". The deed by which Mr. Pearson conveyed the 140 acres of land to his son, contained a recitation of the consideration for the conveyance similar to the one contained in the deed to his daughter, except for the substitution of the son as the grantee.
These deeds were dated and acknowledged on June 5, 1962. As mentioned above, Mr. Pearson died June 19, 1962. The deed to Plaintiff was filed for record and recorded in the land records of the county on June 22, 1962, and the deed to Mr. Pearson's son was filed for record and recorded in the land records of the county on July 27, 1962. The deed to Plaintiff was delivered to her by her


brother after the death of Mr. Pearson.
On his visit to his attorney's office on June 5, 1962, Mr. Pearson requested him to prepare a will for him to execute. This was done, and the will was executed on that date.
The provisions of the will essential to consider in the determination of the issues involved in the case sub judice are:
"Item II: I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mrs. Mary Agnes Dexter all of my household furnishings now in her home on the land which constituted my home place, I having this day made her a deed to said land, being a deed of gift. I also give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mrs. Mary Agnes Dexter an undivided one-fourth interest in all oil, gas and minerals in,deed by which he conveyed to her 110 acres of land in Chickasaw County, Mississippi. The *419 deed recited a consideration of One Dollar cash in hand paid, and the love and affection which Mr. Pearson held for Plaintiff. The recital in the deed in regard to the consideration therefor, is similar to the one contained in the deed by which Mr. Pearson conveyed the homeplace to Plaintiff, mentioned above.
A short time before his death Mr. Pearson sold the "George Seal Place", thereby making it impossible for him to will the place to Plaintiff, pursuant to the agreement aforementioned. The place was sold on a credit and at the time of Mr. Pearson's death he held purchase money notes on the farm in excess of $60,000.00.
The will executed


contestant and Torrey Smith during his illness, and by means of other documents executed by mark made by the attorney and witnessed by him and one or the other of the two sons. To establish testamentary capacity during the period in question, the attorney was offered as a witness, and although objections to his testimony were repeatedly sustained by the court and the rule correctly announced to the effect that he was not competent to relate any facts or circumstances about which he was advised in a professional capacity, it appears that one transaction after another, including the circumstances under which the instrument in question was prepared and submitted for approval in advance, were inquired into to the extent that the jury became acquainted with a number ofin the Court's opinion, comes within the principle enunciated by the Supreme Court in McCaslin. Plaintiff's objection to this evidence will be overruled.
The attorney testified as to the circumstances surrounding the execution of the will and deeds. It appears that on the date above mentioned, Mr. Pearson came to the attorney's office and requested the attorney to prepare a will for him whereby the homeplace would be left to his daughter and the balance of his estate left to his son.
In the discussion which followed, the attorney advised Mr. Pearson with regard to the tax benefits to be derived in making gifts to his children, and removing the property subject to the gift, from his estate. At the suggestion of the attorney the two deeds and will aforementioned


were prepared for execution by Mr. Pearson. The will was later executed in the presence of other witnesses, and the deeds duly acknowledged before a Notary Public.
The attorney testified that the language used in the deeds describing the consideration for their execution and the language contained in the will concerning the deed to the daughter, were not suggested by Mr. Pearson, but were selected by him, as the draftsman of the documents, to carry out the plan desired by Mr. Pearson for disposition of his estate. The attorney read the documents to Mr. Pearson and reviewed them with him before they were executed.
In the conference with the attorney, in discussing the disposition to be made of his property by will, Mr. Pearson commented on his reasons for leavingthe homeplace to his daughter. Mr. Pearson said that he would not leave the property to her if he hadn't promised it to her.[7]
At the hearing the Court reserved rulings on two other matters. Plaintiffs offered in evidence the deed executed by Mr. Pearson on June 5, 1962, by which he conveyed his son, the place at which the son then made his home. This deed was one of the two deeds executed by Mr. Pearson when he made his will. The other deed forms the basis for this litigation, and was received in evidence by the court at the hearing. The will was also received in evidence. The basis of objection by defendant is that the deed was not material to the issues before the court. The


his daughter to compensate her for her services by providing in his will that she receive the homeplace and the "George Seal Place". Mr. Pearson conveyed by deed to Plaintiff in April 1949 a tract of land consisting of 110 acres. Whether Mr. Pearson meant this conveyance to take the place of the "George Seal Place" cannot be ascertained from the evidence in the case.
When called upon in 1956 or 1957 to reaffirm his oral agreement Mr. Pearson informed Plaintiff that she would have to await his death to find out if he complied with the agreement.
Mr. Pearson abandoned his homeplace where he resided with Plaintiff shortly before his death. He immediately contacted his attorney and requested that a will be prepared for him. Mr. Pearson devised andbequeathed the great bulk of his estate to his son, with whom he had never lived, except for about two weeks before his death. In discussing the preparation of his will with his attorney Mr. Pearson informed the attorney that he would not leave the homeplace to his daughter if he had not promised it to her.
Taking into consideration all of the evidence in the case, the proof, in the opinion of the Court, is not sufficient to overcome the presumption that the determination of tax and the assessment thereof by the Commissioner were correct. In other words, the Court cannot find from the evidence that the transfer of the homeplace by Mr. Pearson to plaintiff, as evidenced by the deed above mentioned, constituted a gift or that