we thought, and the timing there was more critical,” Han said.

Line isn’t alone in focusing on Latin America though. Rival WeChat, the chat app from China, recruited cult Argentine football star Lionel Messi to front its global campaign and boost its appeal in Latin America, while WhatsApp is also popular in that part of the world.

The deal with Telefónica is likely to boost Line’s visibility but the competition remains fierce and Firefox OS is a small part of the market — for now, at least. Now that it has its first international carrier deal in the bag, Line may well announce others, as it looks to replicate its success in Asia in other regions.

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HANAU, Germany (AP) _ A court-martial jury convicted a U.S. Army sergeant today of premeditated murder for beheading his wife's lover.

Sgt. Stephen Schap, 26, of Baltimore, stood calmly with his defense lawyers as Col. Gerald E. Luttrell, ranking officer of the jury, announced the verdict.

Schap repeatedly stabbed his friend, Gregory Glover, 21, of Phoenix, decapitated him and took the head to his wife in a hospital where she was being treated for a pregnancy problem.

The defense had argued that Schap was in an irrational rage after learning that his wife was pregnant by his friend, and should be found guilty of a lesser charge than premeditated murder, which carries a life sentence.

The judge, Lt. Col. Charles


E. Trant, recessed the court and was to hear testimony later today about mitigating factors. Sentencing would follow that hearing.

Schap's parents, Marianne and John Schap, appeared saddened by the guilty verdict.

The sergeant's wife, Diane Schap, 26, also of Baltimore, was not in court.

Mrs. Schap, visibly pregnant, testified on Wednesday that her husband brought the head into her room and said, ''Look, Diane, Glover's here. He'll sleep with you every night, only you won't sleep at night.''

Defense lawyer David Court said in his closing argument that Schap had been so devoted to his wife that he had a vasectomy after she had three miscarriages, and he hadn't wanted to cause her more pain.

Schap killed Glover at a telephone booth where Glover had been talking to Mrs. Schap at theheavily fortified by U.S. troops during the Cold War. The U.S. bases there have been closed now, and the killing took place as the number of troops was dwindling. Glover had been Schap's last remaining good friend, the defense told the court.

The court-martial took place at the U.S. Army Pioneer base in Hanau, near Frankfurt. The jury of four officers and three non-commissioned officers was made up of six men and one woman, a lieutenant colonel.


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Decades later, with the two Koreas on the brink of ending a war that ripped their country apart and triggered the massive US military intervention of 1950, the liberals and Democrats who earned Ochs’s derision may be undermining the best chance for peace on the peninsula in a generation.

As US diplomats prepare for the second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un next week in Hanoi, senior Democrats in the House and Senate, joined by a few Republicans, have been sounding alarm bells, warning that South Korean President Moon Jae-indiplomacy. Current Issue View our current issue

But Trump is sticking to his guns. “I’m in no particular rush” as long as the North’s test suspension remains in place, Trump told reporters at the White House on February 19. That same day, President Moon told Trump in a 35-minute phone call that South Korea was ready to use economic incentives, including connecting inter-Korean roads and railroads and other projects, to “reduce the burden” on the United States in forging an agreement with North Korea. “Seoul is ready to reboot inter-Korean exchanges with an early resumption of joint economic projects,” a presidential official at the Blue House told reporters.

Top Democrats, however, oppose such moves. Last week, Senator Bob Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, joined Republican


Ted Cruz in sending a strongly worded letter to Trump that directly attacked President Moon’s push for closer economic ties with North Korea. They urged the White House to rein in the US ally by committing “the full weight of the U.S. government to ensuring the integrity of the sanctions regime.”

Senator Menendez is also the author of a resolution, now under consideration in the Senate and House, promoting the trilateral military alliance between the United States, Japan, and South Korea, which is highly unpopular among Koreans. It comes as Tokyo and Seoul are locked in a bitter dispute over Japan’s use of “comfort women” as sex slaves during World War II and its refusal to provide restitution to thousands of Koreans forced to labor in Japanese mines andfactories during that time. The resolution, which was introduced in the House by Democratic Representative Eliot Engel, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, is widely seen in Seoul as a way to pressure President Moon to back off and settle the dispute.

The most dramatic moment of congressional impatience with South Korea came last week, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with a high-level delegation of South Korean lawmakers from both the ruling and opposition parties.

The group, which was led by Representative Moon Hee-sang, the speaker of South Korea’s National Assembly, came to Washington to seek support for the inter-Korean peace process started by President Moon during the “Olympic Truce” of January 2018. According to Korean reporters who were briefed on the meeting, the session was uncomfortable from the


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But the Menendez letter showed little appreciation for South Korea’s efforts to help the North improve its economy. Menendez and Cruz listed a series of South Korean actions they consider troublesome, including moves by Korean banks to “pursue investments and operations” in the North and the participation of “multiple business executives” in President Moon’s summit in Pyongyang last September to discuss reopening the Kaesong Industrial Zone just north of the DMZ and tours of Mountintroducing a bill that would restrict the US government and the Pentagon from reducing US troops in South Korea from their current level of about 28,000 to 22,000 or less unless the secretary of defense could assure Congress it would not have an “adverse” impact on US security.

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FARC Cashes in on Mexican Drug War

The Marxist terrorist group backed by Chavez jumps in.

Mexico’s drug war is still raging, with over 22,000 people having been killed since 2006. Now, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, often referred to as the FARC, are teaming up with the drug lords. The Marxist terrorist group’s ties to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and other organizations make the conflict to the south a major threat to the United States.

The violence in Mexico is severe. In the first two days of May, 25 people were killed in Chihuahua, with several of the murders happening in Ciudad Juarez. As the month of May began, 62 people had been killed in the city over the previous week, bringing the total to 850 livessoldiers, and those serving the government.

Dr. Maria Velez de Berliner, the President of the Latin Intelligence Corporation, told FrontPage that the brutality of the Mexican drug lords now surpasses that of the Colombian drug traffickers, which is quite a feat.

“If this situation continues, the time will probably come when Mexico will replace Colombia as the largest producer and exporter of cocaine,” she said.

Now, it is known that the FARC is teaming up with the drug lords, offering a major source of income for their own operations and potentially providing the criminals with the military expertise they need to further destabilize Mexico. The FARC connection also gives Hugo Chavez the ability to covertly attack Mexico and the United States and gain intelligence. It also means that other terrorist groups


alliance with the FARC as well, an unsurprising development considering the hostile relationship between Spain and Venezuela. A Spanish court has charged a Venezuelan official and a dozen FARC and ETA members with terrorism-related offenses, and Venezuela is refusing to extradite the suspects.

The evidence against them stems from seizures made by the Colombians that provided evidence that ETA members attended FARC camps from 2003 to 2008, located near Machiques in Venezuela. The ETA members provided explosives training for at least five FARC units, and two former FARC operatives have confirmed seeing ETA members training at their camps in 2008. The ETA members traveled with Venezuelan military officers, proving that Chavez’s government is involved in the relationship. This is a reminder that Chavez and other leaders often use theAs soon as President Trump tweeted Saturday morning that he would be releasing thousands of classified documents related to former President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Twitter jokingly erupted in speculation of how Sen. Ted Cruz might respond.

"@POTUS, does this mean Ted Cruz's father will be exposed?", tweeted Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

.@POTUS, does this mean Ted Cruz’s father will be exposed? https://t.co/RGbozDUgOR — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 21, 2017

The Cruz-Kennedy assassination connection was fueled during the 2016 campaign by a National Enquirer report that claimed that Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy's killing. Then-candidate Trump further fanned the flames of the conspiracy theory when he suggested that Rafael Cruz had ties to Oswald.

At the time, Cruz's campaign dismissed the report as


wait see to Ted Cruz's dad finally exposed. https://t.co/TtDdCc5tty — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 21, 2017

As of press time, Cruz has yet to comment on the imminent release of the JFK files. However, the Republican senator from Texas is not one to shy away from having some fun with conspiracy theories about himself. On Wednesday, he cracked a joke about the conspiracy theory that he is the Zodiac Killer.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee got into the joking spirit, tweeting that he is relieved that the JFK documents will come to light to prove he wasn't involved in the JFK assassination.Mandela or a Yasser Arafat? African National Congress leader Mandela put deep-seeded political animosities aside in order to build a new South Africa.

Unlike Barzani who refused to step down at the end of his presidential term, Mandela transferred power, setting a precedent for transition necessary for any aspiring democracy. He became recognized as a statesmen on the world stage.

Arafat, in contrast, used his power to continue petty political vendettas. Like Barzani, he embezzled billions of dollars and left Palestinians deeply divided, their institutions and finances in tatters.

The Kurds may go ahead with their referendum and they will win. But, unless and until Kurdistan has leadership willing to put Kurdistan above family and personal finance, then it will squander a historic chance for freedom.

Michael Rubin is a former Pentagon


official whose major research areas are the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and diplomacy. He instructs senior military officers deploying to the Middle East and Afghanistan on regional politics, and teaches classes regarding Iran, terrorism, and Arab politics on board deploying U.S. aircraft carriers. He has lived in post-revolution Iran, Yemen, both pre- and post-war Iraq, and spent time with the Taliban before 9/11. His newest book, Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes examines a half century of U.S. diplomacy with rogue regimes and terrorist groups.Major League Rugby has confirmed the locations of its two playoff rounds and plans for expansion for 2019 and beyond. League commissioner Dean Howes revealed the news while speaking to media at a San Diego Legion launch event last week.

The two Semi Finals are set to be a double header hosted at Glendale’s Infinity Park on June 30. The inaugural MLR champion will be decided a week later in the Final at Torero Stadium in San Diego on July 7. The dates were briefly published in a Utah Warriors online release last month before being removed.

Expansion plans were also discussed in detail. Joining Rugby United New York will be two further US-based teams. Neither are explicitly revealed in the video but speculation is that Dallas and Chicago will


be the locations.

Both teams were original partners in the league but opted to withdraw for the 2018 season. Dallas have retained Mike Ford as Director of Rugby while Chicago are constructing a new multi-field facility in East Garfield Park.

A group in Boston affiliated with Mystic River Rugby Club is also pursuing a franchise and will play exhibition matches against the Ontario Arrows and RUNY in the spring.

Set to join in 2019 pending ongoing negotiations are two Canadian teams – Vancouver and Toronto (Ontario). The Arrows opened their 2018 exhibition campaign with an impressive draw against the SaberCats this past weekend and will soon reveal their home field for this season, a modern facility located in the Greater Toronto Area.

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I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
In early 1996, Alta+Cast, LLC ("the Debtor") was formed to provide information technology to physicians and other healthcare providers. The Debtor contacted Hays to acquire software and technology programs possessed by Hays and his company, ACS Development Group ("ACS"), including a product called HInet. At the time, HInet had a significant client base and a pipeline of existing and potential customers in the healthcare industry.[2]*152 The Debtor's acquisition of HInet was designed to enable the Debtor to bring a product to market without the delay and expense associated with developing new software and obtaining a new base of clients.
On November 8, 1996, ACS and the Debtor


pay Cross and Hays royalties on HInet or derivative products sold to end users for home use; (4) guarantee Hays and Cross employment for a minimum of two years and (5) give them responsibility for managing the continuing development of HInet and its derivatives.
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(CNN) The woman alleging that Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax sexually assaulted her uring the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston will discuss her account with the local district attorney, her lawyer confirmed.

"Dr. Tyson will meet with members of the Suffolk County District Attorney's staff and law enforcement to detail her allegations of sexual assault," her lawyer Debra Katz said in a statement Wednesday, adding that they are scheduling the meeting with the Boston-area prosecutor.

District Attorney Rachael Rollins sent a letter to Vanessa Tyson's attorneys last week saying her office will investigate if Tyson chooses to file a criminal complaint against Fairfax, Jake Wark, a spokesman for Rollins' office confirmed to CNN. The Boston Globe first reported the letter by Rollins.

Rollins told CNN in a statement her officelaunch a probe into the matter and floated filing his own criminal complaint in response.

"The Lt. Governor has stated repeatedly that he has never sexually assaulted anyone ever. He has called publicly for a fair, impartial investigation. He has nothing to hide," a spokesperson for Fairfax told CNN in a statement. "He would cooperate fully with an investigation by the Suffolk County District if a criminal complaint is filed. In that event, the Lt. Governor will explore all options with regard to filing his own criminal complaint in response to the filing of a false criminal complaint against him."

Katz responded to the threat of a counter-complaint in her statement, calling it "a clear effort to obstruct justice."

"Dr. Tyson will not be bullied and she will not be silenced


charges against Fairfax.

Lawmakers in Virginia are struggling with how to handle the explosive allegations against Fairfax. Impeachment appears to be off the table for now -- Del. Patrick Hope's attempt to file articles of impeachment, which would then lead to a natural investigatory process, has been stymied. His Democratic colleagues, led by the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, forcefully pushed back on the idea and Hope retreated. Republicans, hoping to stay out of the fray, have been reluctant to apply pressure to force the issue.

Del. Lamont Bagby, the chair of the LBC, has insisted that an investigation into the allegations is necessary, but he has indicated that it shouldn't take place in Virginia but rather the places where the alleged incidents occurred. In addition to Tyson, Meredith Watson hasaccused Fairfax of raping her in 2000 while they were in college at Duke University in North Carolina. If neither woman is willing to file a criminal complaint, investigations in those states will not occur. Still Bagby believes, it shouldn't take place in Virginia's legislature either.

"I don't think that is our role," Bagby said. "The General Assembly is not prepared to take on that role."

Before this offer from Rollins was made public, Tyson, through her attorneys, insisted that it was the job of the General Assembly to investigate the claims.

Virginia's code and the rules for the House of Delegates do appear to offer the House the opportunity to launch an investigation into any public official -- complete with subpoena power, public hearings and proper punishments -- and that


investigation may take place without going through the impeachment process.

Should an investigation be launched, Virginia's law gives the entire General Assembly and its committees broad power to compel witnesses to testify. Two different statutes specifically say the legislature may demand evidence and subpoena witnesses and those asked to participate must do so -- or face jail time and fines.

But for the investigation to take place in Virginia, the will of the lawmakers must prevail and at this point both sides seem reluctant.

The office of Speaker Kirk Cox, a Republican, would not comment on the possibility of launching an investigation outside the impeachment process. In the past the Cox has said the situation deserves "due process," but that Fairfax's ability to serve has been impaired and he should resign.

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The CiU won the most seats in the regional elections in 2003, but it failed to form a coalition government. The party moved into opposition until 2010, when theCiU captured 62 of 135 seats in the Catalonian parliament. CiU leader Artur Mas was elected regional president, and he called for an early election in 2012 in an attempt to solidify his party’s majority and to bolster its case for a referendum on Catalonian independence. The strategy backfired, and the CiU returned only 50 deputies to parliament. Mas formed a minority government with the pro-independence Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and pledged to call a referendum on Catalonian independence in 2014. Energized by the Scottish independence referendum held in September 2014, Mas called for a nonbinding referendum on Catalonian independence to be held in November 2014, but the Spanish Constitutional Court blocked the vote over questions of its legality. Mas proceeded with the referendum, framing it as


Just recently, a Nova Scotia NDP video made the rounds on social media, in anticipation of a provincial election which will likely come sometime this year. Those within the NDP ranks shared it widely, and were adamant that Premier Darrell Dexter deserves our support for re-election.

The video, when considering Dexter's record, is unfortunately completely misleading. It contains half-truths and distortions about cutting the provincial debt while protecting public services and creating well paying jobs, while referring to Dexter as a "genuine leader". It is very short on substance, and heavy on spin and misleading PR, which in a sense is the best way to summarize the Dexter government's progressive credentials and commitment to social democracy and justice.

Dexter government has been an austerity government

Throughout his first mandate, Premier Dexterhas embraced the Tony Blair inspired 'Third Way', by serving the interests of the corporate elite and the 1%, with an agenda which greatly resembles the neo-liberalism of the Liberals and Conservatives, while governing as the NDP in name only.

Dexter has mandated austerity, corporate welfare and tax breaks, outsourcing and privatization of public services and union jobs, turned his back on organized labour and made life much more difficult for students, workers and the impoverished. In the process, Dexter has ruined the Nova Scotia's NDP reputation while damaging the party brand across the country. A Darrell Dexter defeat in the next Nova Scotia provincial election will ultimately be a progressive victory, as Dexter will therefore not be hailed as a party stalwart, such as Roy Romanow, who ushered


in brutal austerity measures in Saskatchewan and remains a renowned figure with both the party brass and media.

Upon election to a majority government in 2009, Darrell Dexter faced a looming deficit and had a clear choice: balance the budget via more revenue and taxation, or neglect traditional social justice principles by embracing austerity. By the second year of his mandate, Dexter chose to cut substantial funding to education, health care and post-secondary education over a four-year period estimated at $772 million. According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Nova Scotia), the overall impact of these cuts is a loss of 10,000 jobs, while public service cuts by the federal government are making things worse. The alternative budget presented by the CCPA-NS allows for the budget to begovernment's refusal to champion the interests of Nova Scotia workers, but rather its embrace of privatization of public service union jobs. The Dexter government just recently concluded a deal with IBM Canada in which the province's SAP computer system, a public service maintained by union workers, will be outsourced to the multi-national in an un-tendered agreement.

Currently, Nova Scotia's SAP system administers human resources, budgetary, payroll, procurement and other related data from various municipal organizations, school boards, housing and district health administrators, and government branches. In addition, 120 workers, 73 of which are unionized, currently administer the SAP system, yet IBM will only hire 75 of them on two year contracts, without the same benefits or job security. So far, many of the unionized workers have declined the move


to IBM. Joan Jessome, the president of the Nova Scotia Government & General Employees Union, voiced the concerns shared by those committed to public services and quality jobs. "They have opened the door to the privatization of the public service. It really makes us nervous, and we will be fighting it."

It is unfathomable that an NDP provincial government would be privatizing a public service and union jobs to boot; that an NDP government would completely turn its back on organized labour, a traditional pillar of bedrock party support. To add insult to injury, this move by the Dexter government has the complete backing of Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie. "Whenever the government is outsourcing jobs in order to create other private sector jobs in the province, I’m preparedwelfare blitz of hundreds of millions of dollars, it can't find $25,000 to fund the Yarmouth homeless youth centre.

In addition to Dexter's love of the private sector and corporate interests, including the aforementioned tax break for fossil fuel industry giant Imperial Oil, the Dexter government also seems to have its sights set on hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.

While Dexter recently delayed a decision to review this controversial method of natural gas extraction in Nova Scotia for two years (conveniently put off until after a provincial election), PetroWorth Resources Inc. had already been granted permission by the province to drill an exploratory well at West Lake Ainslie. Also, seven million litres of potentially radioactive fracking waste water was recently processed through Windsor's water processing plant, and then released


federal and provincial parties don't necessarily share the same platform, the Nova Scotia NDP's lack of movement on this crucial issue, reforming Canada's antiquated democratic institutions, is hurting the federal party's credibility. Instead of making Nova Scotia's electoral system much more proportional, the Dexter government has been accused of engaging in gerrymandering: Dexter, along with four cabinet ministers, appeared before a Nova Scotia Electoral Boundaries Commission meeting, with the four ministers urging the commission to relocate strong NDP polls into currently held NDP ridings.

Simply put, the Darrell Dexter NDP government needs to lose in the upcoming provincial election. It has abandoned the progressive and social justice values of the NDP. The Dexter government has placed the interests of the corporate elite and the 1% ahead of the peopleNova Scotia NDP to take back their party: to reject the disastrous Third Way, and make social justice and democratic socialism priorities once again.

Chris Brisbane is a freelance interviewer and writer. A former Associate Producer at the CBC, he is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Centennial College.

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Look 1: Sweet Pink

Mood of the day: Fresh. Flirty. Playful.

The woman:She is girly, feminine, and believes in love and romance. Sometimes quirky, always curious about new things, and has a positive energy towards life.

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Mood of the day: Bold. Sexy. In control

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Revlon Ultra HD™ Lipstick: Gladiolus (A red with slightly warm undertones, no shimmer. Gladiolus looks great on every skin tone and is the other one Emma Stone wears in the Revlon ads. ItLa Liga: 'BBC' trio lead Real Madrid to 5-0 romp at Betis

January 19, 2014 01:14 IST

Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema took Real Betis apart to give Real Madrid a resounding 5-0 win on Saturday that put them level on 50 points with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid at the top of La Liga.

Madrid's dynamic performance against the bottom club laid down a marker ahead of Barca and Atletico's games on Sunday at Levante and at home to Sevilla respectively and proved Carlo Ancelotti's side are in fine fettle going into the second half of the season.

"This was a good chance to be top for one night at least," Ancelotti told a news conference.

"At least tonight we will sleep well," added the Italian, in his first campaign in


charge after taking over from Jose Mourinho in the close season.

Known collectively in Spain as 'BBC', Bale, Benzema and Cristiano cost the world's richest club by income in excess of 200 million euros ($271 million), more than three times the value of the whole Betis squad.

As well as the prolific trio, Croatia international Luka Modric played a starring role alongside the imperious Xabi Alonso in midfield as Madrid ruthlessly dominated from start to finish at the Benito Villamarin in Seville.

Ronaldo, who also netted in the 2-0 King's Cup win at Osasuna on Wednesday, celebrated Monday's FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the world's best player with a stunner to open the scoring in the 10th minute.

The Portugal forward picked up a pass from Angel Di Maria on the left,cut inside and unleashed a blast from distance that rocketed past Betis goalkeeper Stephan Andersen into the top corner for his 21st league goal of the campaign.

The hapless Andersen was again left rooted to the spot when Bale's delicate free kick nestled in the back of the net in the 25th minute.

The Betis supporters were furious with the Danish keeper, whistling him the next few times he touched the ball, and also began singing the name of former coach Pepe Mel who was sacked last month and replaced by Juan Carlos Garrido.

CARNAGE COMPLETE

Chants of 'Garrido go already' also rang round the stadium and Betis woes deepened when Modric fed Benzema in the area and he fired inside the post moments before halftime.

It was the France forward's 100th goal


for Madrid in all competitions since he joined from Olympique Lyon in 2009.

Andersen went some way to redeeming himself when he produced a fine save to deny Ronaldo seven minutes after halftime but Di Maria made it 4-0 when he cracked a low, long-range drive into the bottom corner on 62 minutes.

Substitute Alvaro Morata clipped the ball in from close quarters in the 90th minute to complete the carnage.

"The whole team played well for the whole game and there was a lot of focus," Ancelotti said.

"When we scored the first goal the match changed and we had more space to counter attack. The help the midfielders gave, especially Modric, was very important."

Betis barely troubled Diego Lopez in the Madrid goal. They are rock bottom on 11 points, fivehim in this problem position. Arsenal FC via Getty Images 2/5 Granit Xhaka is ready The £35million summer signing agreed his move to Arsenal so long ago that he seems to have been forgotten in the demands for new blood but he is already proving to be a shrewd acquisition by Arsene Wenger.

His commitment to the tackle and understanding of the opposition’s style of play means he is perfectly suited to winning the ball back high up the pitch, as he did to feed Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain on 18 minutes. Only a slightly askew chip denied Xhaka an assist.

His tendency to press and chase the ball may see Arsenal’s age-old bugbear of acres of space in front of the defence rear its ugly head but, when twinned with Coquelin


training with Arsenal earlier this month after an extended break following his participation at Euro 2016, where he impressed for Germany on their route to a disappointing semi-final exit at the hands of hosts France.

Since the tournament national team captain Bastian Schweinsteiger has resigned, leading to suggestions that the 27-year-old Ozil should be the next to wear the armband. For the Arsenal midfielder, though, it is just an honour to be considered for the role.

“Of course it is a huge honour to lead the national team with the armband on the pitch. But I’m not seeking to be the new captain.

“We have many experienced players in the team who have something to say on the pitch and who can help the young players. I include myself in thisleading the research at its initial stage. We also thank other colleagues at the National Environment Agency, Singapore; Communicable Disease Division of the Ministry of Health, Singapore; and the Department of Statistics, Singapore, for valuable comments, information, and support.

This work is supported by the Environmental Initiative Fund from the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Singapore. A.R.C. also received funding support from the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, Singapore; the Ministry of Defence, Singapore; the Ministry of Education, Singapore; the Ministry of Health, Singapore, from the Health Services Research Grant (HSRG12MAY023) and the Communicable Disease Public Health Research Grant (CDPHRG12NOV021); and from the National University Health System, Singapore.

The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.


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6/28/10: Brian Schlitter strikes out two batters in 2/3 of an inning of relief in his Major League debut

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PHOENIX -- The Cubs finalized their 25-man roster and final slot in the bullpen on Saturday by adding right-hander Brian Schlitter and designating right-hander Alberto Cabrera for assignment, manager Rick Renteria said before their final exhibition game of the spring against the D-backs at Chase Field.

The moves will be made procedurally on Sunday and are effective for Monday's season opener at Pittsburgh.

"Schlit really did a great job this spring," Renteria said. "After we assigned him, he kept doing his job, still kept doing his thing. We'd bring him backCromer to Wells; good from Wells to
     Lynn and from Lynn to Cambridge.

     HILLS None of moment, but no monotony of level except
     between Lynn and Cambridge.

     DISTANCES Cromer (R.) to Wells-next-Sea (R.), 20-1/2.
     Wells to Fakenham (R.), 9-3/4. Fakenham to Lynn (R.),
     21-3/4. Lynn to Ely (R.), 29. Ely to Cambridge (R. A.),
     16. Cambridge to Royston (R.), 13-1/2.

_N.B._--Royston is 42-1/4 from London, and a good point of exit for the
Midlands.

CHAPTER XIII

EXPEDITIONS FROM KING'S LYNN

     ROADS Mostly high-roads and good.

     HILLS The early part of the projected drive is through


the vicinity and thus the so-called river and its
marge:--

    Here samphire banks and saltworth bind the flood,
    And stakes and seaweed withering in the mud;
    And higher up a ridge of all things base,
    Which some strong tide has rolled upon the place.

No, assuredly Crabbe had no liking for Aldeburgh, and to be perfectly
candid, I agree with him that, save for golfers, it is a dreary and
eye-afflicting place. In this view I confess to have believed myself to be
singular and, for expressing it, have incurred scorn more than once. So
Crabbe is quoted in confirmation, yet with the hope that those who visit
Aldeburgh may agree with the general view and not with that of a minority
of two,Anglia at a singularly troublous
period, and there will be occasion to quote them more than once. The
edition by the worthy Sir John Fenn, stately as it is, and a joy to handle,
is far from being the best. Posterity owes to him a deep debt for rescuing
the letters from oblivion, but he omitted as uninteresting precisely the
little fragments upon private and domestic affairs which we value most now
in later editions. His notes, too, prove him to have been a rather dull dog
and lacking in a sense of humour. Sometimes he scents impropriety where
there is clearly none, at others he misconstrues the most obvious badinage.
Thus, where John Paston is addressed in the phrase, "Wishing you joy of all
your ladies," Fenn suggests a reference to the Virgin Mary, Heaven knows
why. Still,


was not even "the fat
soapy kind)," it may be taken that the case is a fairly hopeless one. The
rabbits probably pay as well as anything else would, and we have to thank
them, and the sterility of the soil, for the preservation of a fine tract
of wild and open land, and for the sense of freedom in passing through it.

As for Thetford, its motto certainly ought to be "Ichabod." There are few
places in England, possessed in their time of a substantial reputation,
whose glory has departed more completely. It was the scene of a fierce
battle between Dane and Saxon; it was the second city in Norfolk in point
of importance; it had a mint so late as the days of Henry II; its priory
was founded by Roger Bigod, but is nowlease of the Felmingham estate. It was further agreed that Rush
should do all he could to assist the Recorder in retaining possession.
There was also a forged lease of Felmingham to Rush. To all these Emily
Sandford had signed her name as witness without knowing the contents. To
the efficacy of them all the death of the Recorder was indispensable, for
of course he would have denounced the forgery at once, and the death of Mr.
Jermy the younger, who knew his father's affairs intimately, would be a
decided help. But Rush, although he had no scruples at all about taking
life, as he proved very conclusively, had a very considerable regard for
the skin of his own neck. The new Jermys were to be ruthlessly
exterminated; the old Jermys, or some of them (he did not


since
motors invaded England, it had not been my fortune ever before to take a
long drive in a White steam car. A very large number of motorists must
be--as in fact I know that they are--without personal experience of a White
steam car, although it may well be that they are familiar with reports to
its prejudice, or silent shrugging of the shoulders and raising of the
eyebrows when it is mentioned, which are perfectly natural and excusable. I
can readily imagine that if I had a pecuniary interest in any of the
leading types of petrol-driven cars, between which there is next to no room
for choice, I might show no headlong desire to testify in favour of a car
moving more smoothly than any petrol-car, free from the nuisance of a
starting-handle (it is a dangersince I am
devotedly attached to Automobilism, and at the same time convinced that,
for many years to come, it will be the pastime of the minority and will
only exist on sufferance, fancy and imagination are ridden strictly on the
curb, throttled down, if the phrase pleases better, and truth is encouraged
to prevail.

In this chapter, and those which follow next, I am going to describe a
number of journeys taken by motor-car from Colchester as a centre, and one
which might have been made from Colchester by car, but was in fact made
from London by train for the sake of its destination. That destination was
very well worth reaching, even by train; how to reach it by car from
Colchester, and what there is to be seen when it is reached shall be told
in due


his
pictures to be "in the style of Rubens, and by far the best landscape ever
painted in England, and equal to the great masters." For us the truly
interesting point is that this was said of Sudbury's greatest man, and that
the valley of the Stour gave to this man, Thomas Gainsborough, all his
early inspiration, all his early subjects in landscape. By the way, in
stating that Thomas Gainsborough was Sudbury's greatest man I had forgotten
Simon of Sudbury, who probably never uttered a coarse oath, nor drank too
much wine, nor was, to quote Gainsborough of himself, "deeply read in
petticoats." But let any reader who has persevered thus far lay his hand on
his heart and reflect honestly whether he can say offhand who Simon of
Sudbury was. Well, he was an archbishop of CanterburyRolls, in the time of Philip and Mary, and Queen Elizabeth," who
married Mary, the daughter of Richard Clopton, Esq., of Fore Hall. His
epitaph contained the lines--

    _Pauperibus largus, victum, vestemque ministrans
    Insuper Hospitii condidit ille domum._

Here, to avoid insult to those who have Latin, and to afford them an
opportunity of laughing at me, while at the same time the unlearned may
follow the meaning, let me attempt the rare venture of a translation into
English Elegiacs:

    Good to the poor was Sir William, a giver of food and of raiment,
    And of his own good will founded an Hospital home.

Of the foundation referred to a full account may be found in Sir William
Cordell's will (A.D. 1580) recorded in


I remember that at one of
them--I think it was Weybourne--to which the road winds inwards from the
sea a little, and where there is some shelter of a hill from the salt
winds, there were fine trees about the church, and another little church,
on the left-hand side of the road at Blakeney, had one full-sized tower at
the west end and another funny little tower at the east end. The prevailing
impression left by the whole drive is of impressive desolation. The road,
dead flat for the most part, but not half bad in point of surface, runs as
close to the sea as its makers dared to lay it. On the right, as one
journeys westward, are wide stretches, half sea and half marsh; on the left
is a range of low hills. Sometimes itlook
at the narrow streets, the estuary of the Ouse, and the Custom-house. The
compulsion had better have been omitted, for Lynn with its streets empty of
people, with the rain falling, and with the tide out, assuredly does not
allure, and that was the state of things on this Sunday morning in April.
In other circumstances, as it is hoped to prove ere long, Lynn and its
people are much more attractive.

So the halt was not prolonged and, the rain abating, we started on the
drive of forty-five miles roughly for Ely and Cambridge. It took us through
the heart of the East Anglian Fens, and the day was one in which the spirit
of them entered into me, or perhaps I, having set my mind thereto, entered
into their spirit. Of a truth the task was


Dude could almost abide DVD

September 14, 2008|JEN CHANEY The Washington Post

There are people who live and die by "The Big Lebowski," the one-time box office dud that has blossomed into a pop culture phenomenon over the past decade. They quote the film's pithy Coen brothers dialogue. They attend the Lebowski Fest, an annual extravaganza that celebrates all things associated with this Raymond-Chandler-meets-L.A.-slacker cult favorite. And they worship at the altar of Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, the film's bathrobe-wearing protagonist (a sublime Jeff Bridges), who hangs out at a retro bowling alley, punctuates every sentence with "man," slurps ceaselessly on White Russians and finds himself caught up in a bizarre kidnapping case. These are the individuals who will undoubtedly purchase "The Big Lebowski: 10th Anniversary Edition" ($20), released Tuesday.A beautifully maintained convertible came up against a bear in Girdwood Wednesday morning with the car coming up a distinct second best.

North Carolina resident Tom Cotter has been in Alaska touring the state with three friends in their Shelby Cobras. The group decided to stay at Alyeska Ski Resort overnight before Cotter was called from a member of his group in the morning, he needed to see something.

He found a gaping hole in the roof and mud and scratches all over the body of the car.

"The top was 53-years-old, it managed to survive all these years but it couldn't manage to survive 11 days in Alaska," laughed Cotter.

So why did the bear attack his car? A friend sheepishly admitted to forgetting his Fig Newtons behind the seat.

He says


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Honorable Mention - Columbus International Film + Video Festival, Ohio 2011
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Category:Living peopleat the next round of Iran-six power talks on January 15 in Geneva.

The report estimated that negotiators hoped to reach a deal by March that could be drafted into a final agreement within the stipulated timeline of June 30.

On Ukraine, a four-way telephone conference on Friday involving the foreign ministers of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine has decided that a meeting of the contact group will be held to discuss the ending of the conflict.

A Russian Foreign Ministry statement said:

“The parties resumed their discussion on ways to facilitate a peaceful settlement process in the south-east of Ukraine, including through the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

In this context, they reiterated the need to convene the next meeting of the Contact Group as soon as possible.”

Meanwhile, on Friday, the main


to make nuclear bombs by committing it to ship to Russia much of its stockpiles of enriched uranium.)

That would partly explain the diplomatic initiative taken by the US Secretary of State John Kerry on January 1 to phone up his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to convey his New Year greetings.

The Russian media reported that Kerry and Lavrov exchanged views on Ukraine, the situation in Syria and bilateral Russian-American relations.

Clearly, President Barack Obama has set his mind on a grand strategy to involve Russia to commence a keen search for conflict resolution in Ukraine and Syria and to put the necessary underpinnings in place for an agreement with Iran.

Obama would visualize that an overarching normalization process with Russia becomes an absolute pre-requisite if he is to make progress. ItAberrant responses in social interaction of dopamine transporter knockout mice.
The dopamine (DA) transporter (DAT) controls the temporal and spatial resolution of dopaminergic neurotransmission. Disruption of the Dat1 gene in mice leads to increased extracellular DA concentrations and reduced expression of D1- and D2-like receptors in striatum. The mutants are hyperactive in the open field and they display deficits in learning and memory. In humans, dopaminergic dysfunction has been associated with a number of different psychiatric disorders and some of these conditions are accompanied by abnormal social responses. To determine whether social responses were also impaired in DAT knockout (KO) mice, behaviors of group- and isolation-housed animals were compared. All group-housed animals readily established hierarchies. However, the social organizations of the mutants were changed over time. Under both group-


the American Jewish community. A number of attempts were made to join with groups such as Agudat Israel, but all such attempts were rebuffed.

A merger took place in 1935 between the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and another Orthodox rabbinical group, the Rabbinical Association of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a part of Yeshiva University. With this merger the combined group took the name Rabbinical Council of America, known in the Jewish community as the RCA. In 1942 the Hebrew Theological College Alumni merged with the RCA. In later years the RCA attempted to merge with another Orthodox rabbinical group, the Rabbinical Alliance of America, but this attempt failed. There was also a temporary adoption of the Orthodox Roundtable that was abandoned inMark Dratch (2012-)

See also
 Modern Orthodox Judaism
 Orthodox Judaism
 Rabbi

References

External links
 Rabbinical Council of America (official website)
 Rabbinical Council of Greater Washington (official website)
 Faithtrustinstitute.org
 Tradition Journal (official website)

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stew in silence over a minor social crisis, Marks concludes triumphantly, "These are the reasons why most women do not become CEOs." Huh? The reasons most women don't become CEOs are that your son's friends stink up your funky little family wagon and your daughter's friends endure the ride with their friend's embarrassing father in uneasy silence?

Sadly, that's as close as Marks ever comes to clearly articulating one of the actual barriers between women and corporate leadership positions. Each of the "Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally," the Harvard Business Review outlines — modesty, not asking, blending in, and remaining silent — are some variation of Marks's observation that his daughter's friends are quieter than his son's friends. (They are also ‘virtues' that a patriarchy most traditionallyadmitted prisoner of the social constructs that dictate that women are the default keepers of the home and that men are the default procurers. When he writes of his unwillingness to wake up and soothe his crying infant, "Yes, I was an ass," he's performing the critical thinking equivalent of a shrug. When he cites an "instinctual tug on their gut" as the main motivator for women to take up huswifery, he's locking himself into a prison constructed of patriarchal values and tossing away the key. It's precisely such complacent thinking about the traditional gender roles that keeps women from advancing to positions of cultural, economic, and civic leadership. Or, as Gayle Rubin frames it in her 1975 essay "The Traffic of Women," "It is precisely this ‘historical


Man Murders Two Cops in NY As Revenge For Mike Brown & Eric Garner

Two uniformed NYPD police officers were shot dead execution style on December 20th while they sat in their police car on a Brooklyn street corner. Investigators believe they were killed to avenge Eric Garner and Michael Brown because of what the killer wrote on instagram hours before committing the murders.

“I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today,” a person believed to be the gunman wrote on Instagram in a message posted just three hours before the officers were shot through their front passenger window.

The post included an image of silver automatic handgun with a wooden handle. Another post showed camouflage pants and blue sneakers which matched the clothing the dead gunman was wearing as his body wascarried from the scene on a stretcher.

Minutes after shooting the two officers, he, too, was dead. He fled to a nearby subway station, the G-train station at Myrtle and Willoughby avenues, where, as pursuing cops closed in, he shot himself on a crowded platform, sources told The Post.

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Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the perpetrator, an African American would post plans on instagram 3 hours before the shooting. Did he intend to warn others, boast or just let them know before hand why he might not make it back alive later…???


Anti-Brexit campaigners have brought traffic to a crawl on the main road between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

A convoy of protesters staged a noisy motorway go-slow near Dundalk, Co Louth, on Saturday, using lorries and tractors to highlight the impact of predicted customs checks on the local economy.

As fears grow of a hard Brexit, the Irish government has begun contingency work to identify possible locations for checkpoints along the border with Northern Ireland.

The border in the island of Ireland has long been recognised as one of most problematic Brexit issues, with the potential to revive the tensions of the past.

During the Troubles there were only 20 crossings, but there are now thought to be as many as 250 after the peace settlement brought the reopening ofIn bottle feeding an infant, care must be taken to ensure that the bottle's nipple constantly remains full of liquid in order to prevent colic or distress to the infant due to the ingestion of air during the nursing process. Accordingly, during bottle feeding, the bottle is customarily held in a semi-inverted, nipple-down position so that the fluid will fill the nipple and any air in the bottle will retreat to the opposite end of the bottle. The angle at which the bottle is held, and to some extent the angle of the infant's head as well, tends to vary during the feeding process in order to ensure the continuous presentation of a full nipple to the infant.
More specifically, at the start of feeding, when the bottle is


LONDON (Reuters) - A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message.

David Brown, 24, says he woke up one morning after a night out with friends with a telephone number constantly running through his head. He decided to contact it, sending a message saying "Did I meet you last night?."

Random recipient Michelle Kitson was confused and wary at first but decided to reply and the two began exchanging messages. Eventually they met and fell in love.

"It was really weird but I was absolutely hooked," Kitson told the Daily Mail newspaper. "My mum and dad kept saying 'But he could be an axe murderer', but I knew there was something specialAustralia hailed the most complete Ashes triumph in nearly 137 years of cricketing rivalry with England on Monday, the media paying tribute to the "unlikely heroes" who claimed a 5-0 series sweep.

Chris Rogers made Australia's 10th century of this winter's Ashes, at the SCG

"Legends", read the banner headline on the front page of the popular Daily Telegraph, "How sweet it is" splashed the Sydney Morning Herald, while The Australian went with "'Unchangeables' begin new era with whitewash".

Despite being only the third such Ashes sweep, there is a recognition inside and outside the team camp that the current Australia line-up cannot yet be compared with the last team to do it, Ricky Ponting's star-studded 2006-7 outfit.

While that team featured the likes of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Adam Gilchrist,


Michael Clarke's party is largely made up of rejuvenated veterans like Mitchell Johnson and Brad Haddin and honest triers like Peter Siddle and Chris Rogers.

"This five-test whitewash was special because nothing remotely similar was expected of this lot," Peter Lalor wrote on the front page of the Australian.

"In 2006-07 a team of champions did as champions do, while in 2013-14 a group of good cricketers touched greatness."

It was a triumph born in pace bowling with Johnson, Ryan Harris and Siddle helping Australia, unchanged for all five tests, achieve what the 1920-21 and the 2006-7 teams could not manage - take all 100 England wickets for the first time.

"The spine will tingle even as the memory fades," Malcolm Knox wrote in the Herald of a series which he saidwould be long remembered.

"There has been one common refrain: that shiver of excitement when Australia's fast bowlers get going.

"Misty-eyed veterans talk of Lillee and Thomson, or Lindwall and Miller.

"Since the original whitewash, in 1920-21, the summer of Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald, the dangerous thrill of very fast bowling has been the animating spirit of Australian cricket."

HARD ROAD

The triumph moved Australia up to third from fifth in the test rankings and captain Clarke said he thought they had the talent to fulfil his long-stated ambition of returning to the summit, even it would be a hard road.

That road starts at the end of the month when they head to South Africa to take on the current world number one team in a three test series.

"There is no easy


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From January 2007, the Swedish state decreased its financial support to the unemployment funds (most of them union-run, a few funds aimed for small entrepreneurs and one independent fund), with the result being that membership fees to unemployment funds had to be raised considerably, and union density declined from 77% in 2006 to 71% in 2008. In January 2014 the fund fees were restored to about the same level as before 2007. In 2015 Swedish union density was 69% and the density of union unemployment funds 73% (75% if the independent Alfa fund is added).

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had spent their vacation escorted by private staff from one security-gated refuge to the next, and who were staying in a palatial five-star hotel on the outskirts of the city. In their cocoon of opulence, they quizzed me about my comical but vivid excursions, which had left me both exhausted and exhilarated. I began to realize that they suffered their own form of travel envy. The sense of control money provided them had also served to deaden their experience.

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The Concord City Council on Tuesday will consider spending about $335,000 for a consultant to help address issues of sensitive species and habitats ahead of planned development of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station property.

The contract would be with Los Gatos-based H. T. Harvey and Associates, which has been involved with the reuse project since 2009. The firm has already helped Concord officials develop ways to monitor sensitive habitats and species found on almost 5,000 acres of former weapons station land forecast to become housing, businesses, schools and dedicated open space as part of the City of Concord.

The money would be paid by the reuse project's master developer, Lennar, through the city's reuse agency.

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – About 8,000 people have registered to leave the Lebanese border region near Arsal for a rebel-held area of Syria as part of a local ceasefire between Hezbollah and the Nusra Front, a security source in Lebanon said on Sunday.

The ceasefire came into effect on Thursday and will involve the departure of all Nusra militants from the area around Arsal along with any of the civilians living in the area’s refugee camps who wish to leave with them.On November 25, Russian military forces opened fire on three Ukrainian ships off the coast of Crimea, rammed one of them, and seized all three. The ships were manned by 23 crew members. Ukrainian authorities say between three and six were injured.

Russia claims the boats had illegally entered its sovereign waters, but this is untrue. The Ukrainian vessels—two gunboats and a tugboat—were sailing from Odessa around the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea toward the Kerch Strait and Mariupol on the north bank of the Sea of Azov. A 2003 treaty between Ukraine and Russia guarantees both nations the right to use the Kerch Strait and Azov Sea for commercial purposes. The same treaty allows both nations to use the waters to transport military vessels so long as


the transporting nation notifies the other. A Russian oil tanker nonetheless blocked the ships from passing through the strait, fighter jets passed overhead as if the three were an invading force, and Russian troops boarded and took control of the ships.

Ukraine insists that it notified Russia of the tiny flotilla, and there is no reason to doubt its statement. Russia claims, in typically melodramatic fashion, that the ships “crossed the Russian state border and illegally entered the temporarily closed waters of the Russian territorial sea.”

This stunt isn’t about protecting Russia’s borders from aggression. It is a test. Vladimir Putin wants to know how far the United States is willing to go to check Russian expansionism.

The testing began in earnest in March 2014, during the previous administration, when Moscowannexed the Crimean peninsula under the pretense of protecting a pro-Russian minority. (Russia now considers Crimea part of Russia, although Ukraine and most of the rest of the world hold it to be an illegal annexation.) At the same time, Russian-backed mercenaries streamed into eastern Ukraine to back pro-Russian separatists for the purpose of taking eastern Ukraine for Russia. More than 10,000 have died in the conflict. The fighting goes on despite the Minsk II cease-fire signed in February 2015.

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The latest development in the aftermath of the attacks on Brussels Airport and Maalbeek metro station: an employee of on of Belgium’s nuclear plants was found dead with his work pass stolen. The discovery was made Friday but only appeared in Belgian papers this morning.

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American Rivers listed the Kinnickinnic River as one of our 2007 Most Endangered Rivers. The Kinnickinnic was threatened by toxic sediments with the presence of more than 170,000 cubic yards of toxic sediments laced with PCBs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

Fortunately, thanks to the Great Lakes Legacy Act and matching funds from the state of Wisconsin, dredging of toxic sediments started in June 2009 and is now complete.

I encourage everyone in the Milwaukee area to plan a visit to the river; to help celebrate all the greatCharlie Hebdo Paris Shooting: Canadian politicians react

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At least 22 people have been killed in ethnic clashes between Arab and Amazigh communities around the Algerian desert town of Ghardaia, with several businesses and homes burned down, medical sources and state media said on Wednesday.

The violence that erupted over the weekend was some of the worst in years in the flashpoint region where tensions often run high between Arabs and Mozabite Berbers – one of the Amazigh people of North Africa – competing for jobs, houses and land.

Security forces were sending reinforcements in a bid to calm renewed clashes that intensified on Monday and Tuesday night.

“Most of the victims died after being struck in the head by projectiles,” said one local official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak toof Islam.

Interior Minister Noureddine Bedoui arrived in Ghardaia early on Wednesday, as tribal leaders called for “vigilance and wisdom”, the official APS news agency reported.

About 30 people were also wounded, including seven seriously, in the past two days, while several businesses, houses and cars were burned, medical and local sources said.

Ghardaia, a UNESCO world heritage site, has been at the epicenter of unrest between Arabs and Mozabite Berbers. The two groups compete over limited jobs, land and housing in the impoverished south.

Tensions escalated after a Mozabite cemetery was desecrated in December 2013. By October of last year, a dozen people had been killed and hundreds injured in clashes.

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Now Ghimpu has called on Timofti to resign in the wake of revelations that, as a Soviet judge in 1987, Timofti ordered the confinement of a prominent Moldovan-nationalist dissident in a psychiatric hospital in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk.

The symptoms of Gheorghe David’s psychosis, according to documents signed by Timofti and reported in the Moldovan newspaper “Panorama” on April 5, were several anti-Soviet assertions: his statement that Bessarabia -- the eastern Romanian province that now forms the greater part of present-day Moldova -- had been occupied by the Soviet Union, and his opposition to


the Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

David’s sister, Maria Vulpe, told RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service that David’s time in the hospital had a devastating impact on her brother.

“They destroyed him with their drugs, with beatings, with God knows what he had to endure [in the hospital],” she said.

Ghimpu -- whose Liberal Party was in the pro-Western coalition government that collapsed last month -- indicated that he was outraged by the revelations about Timofti.

"The president sent a young man to a madhouse because that man spoke the truth!" Ghimpu said. "That man was not sick when he spoke the truth. The president should resign.”

Appeal For Forgiveness

Timofti was elected president in March 2012, ending a period of political deadlock in parliament that hadfor forgiveness from David’s family and said, “I am part of a generation whose life was divided in two.” He said he -- like the rest of Moldova -- had broken with the Soviet past and emphasized his current pro-Western policies.

Timofti, who began his career as a Soviet judge in 1976, did not say whether he was involved in other similar cases.

David was arrested on August 1, 1986. He was placed in the psychiatric ward of a prison in Kishinev (now Chisinau). In December 1986, a commission of psychiatrists pronounced him mentally ill.

On January 12, 1987, Timofti signed off on the order that he be institutionalized. Timofti’s ruling said that David had been guilty of propagating “the ideas of nationalism, aiming to provoke national hatred toward people of


Russian nationality, and to discredit the nationalities policy of the Leninist Communist Party of the Soviet Union.”

David’s case was taken up by many in the West, including Amnesty International. It was covered extensively by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. In mid-1988, after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika and glasnost had become entrenched, David was released from hospital, but he spent another two years of internal exile in Dnipropetrovsk.

Reluctance To Criticize

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he sued for damages and was sent for 25 days of forced psychiatric evaluation in 2005. When he was released he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. His case was still pending when he died in 2007. The following year, the Strasbourg court ruled in his favorWednesday, January 6, 2010

Neither Sword Nor Shield: Full-Spectrum Civilian Disarmament

"We need to make it clear," fulminated Patrick Lynch of the New York City Policeman's Benevolent Association, "that if someone lifts even a finger against a police officer, their life could be on the line."

Taken literally, this would make a capital offense out of a familiar disrespectful gesture, a salute that is entirely appropriate when directed at officious tax-grazers of Lynch's ilk. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Lynch perceives criticism of the police as a species of crime.

That ballad described the death of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo, who was perforated by 19 bullets fired by NYPD officers in a perfectly avoidable eruption of gunfire. The officers were pursuing a rapist, and Diallo – who, like


countless other slightly built young black men, vaguely resembled the suspect – supposedly provoked an outburst of "contagious gunfire" by reaching into his pants to retrieve his ID.

Springsteen's song was uniformly denounced as the successor to N.W.A.'s "F**k Da Police" by a legion of opportunistic pundits who apparently hadn't actually heard it. However, Springsteen's lyrics displayed a degree of sympathy for the four Street Crimes Unit who killed Diallo after one of them mistook the victim's wallet for a gun.

"You're kneeling over his body in the vestibule, praying for his life," sang Springsteen, apparently in reference to the actions of Officer Sean Carroll, who wept openly as he administered CPR in a desperate attempt to save Diallo's life.

The song certainly reflected the opinion that the needless slaughter ofand threatened his family.

According to the State, Maye's actions, though purely defensive, amounted to first-degree murder. After all, he – a Mundane – had dared to lift his hand against one of the State's Anointed, who are invested with an unqualified license to kill.

Recent actions by federal courts suggest that while it's perfectly all right for mere Mundanes to keep firearms, actually bearing them is a privilege reserved exclusively for those mockingly referred to by Second Amendment sentinel David Codrea as the "Only Ones" – that is, members of the State's enforcement caste.

On December 23, the First Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a civil rights complaint filed by attorney Greg Schubert of Springfield, Massachusetts, who was disarmed and detained at gunpoint by police officer J.B. Stern while on


his way to court.

After noticing that Schubert was carrying a concealed pistol, Stern erupted from his vehicle in what was described as a "dynamic and explosive manner," racing over and shoving his gun in the attorney's face. After his gun was confiscated, the attorney provided both his "Class A" gun license and driver's license. Stern kept the gun and told Schubert that he would have to retrieve it from the Springfield Police Department.

By way of a contemptuous parting gesture, Stern insisted that he was "the only person allowed to carry a weapon on his beat." This would help explain the fact – cited by both Stern and the Circuit Court – that the neighborhood in which this assault took place is a "high-crime area." Disarming the law-abiding tendsState-conferred, and state-revocable, privilege. Raissi's case demonstrates that the only advantage conferred by a firearms license is an "affirmative defense" against a spurious criminal charge.

Advocates of a State monopoly on the use of force would not be appeased if the civilian population were entirely deprived of access to firearms. Efforts are underway to criminalize civilian use of purely defensive weapons.

In early December, California's Second District Court of Appeal overturned an 11-year-old state law forbidding felons to possess body armor. The law was challenged by Ethan Saleem, a parolee convicted of voluntary manslaughter who was arrested in 2007 when police noticed that he was wearing a 10-pound bulletproof vest.

In fact, since neither Saleem nor any of the other passengers at the time of the traffic stop was armed, and


over a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that imposed modest (and inadequate) limits on the use of Tasers. Specifically, the court ruled that the use of a Taser by a police officer to subdue a mentally troubled but non-violent 21-year-old man constituted excessive force.

In this case, the victim – 21-year-old Carl Bryan – lost several teeth when he fell face-first to the pavement after being tasered by Officer Bryan McPherson. At the time of the Taser strike, Bryan and McPherson were separated by a distance of fifteen to twenty feet. Bryan, who had been stopped for a seat belt violation, was throwing what McPherson called a "bizarre fit" but did nothing to threaten the officer or anybody else.

"As every street cop knows, any suspect within 15 feetwas based on actual people and places along Route 66. It also featured history of the road, and illustrated the effect of interstates, such as I-40, on life along Route 66.

Since the movie "Cars", I've made a mental note that "one day" I'd travel the basic path of Route 66, of which I personally have not driven much. I was along it somewhat during my October 2004 road trip...

One is the LINCOLN HIGHWAY, with which I'm somewhat familiar, given the historic marker signs along IL RT 38 through Geneva IL towards Elburn IL and points farther west. I've also driven much of the LH, including the path in IL as well as along I-80 in Wyoming during my aforementioned October 2004 road trip and during my trips back


and forth to PA via RT 30. Unlike Route 66, the LH covers the United States, coast to coast. Maybe someday I'll find/have time to travel that ENTIRE route and, if I do, it'll be a planned event, similar to this one.

A program about Route 66 was broadcast on PBS a few times last year. It featured a mother and daughter traveling Route 66 in a rented Mustang convertible and highlighted several sites along Route 66, including the Wigwam motel (featured in the movie "Cars").

While preparing this cruise along Route 66, I watched the PBS special about the LINCOLN HIGHWAY...and my interest and enthusiasm for the LH increased. "A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway", an exploration of the nation's first coast-to-coast highway (NYC to San Francisco, spanning 14which is gradually taking over

This summer the eco-village is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The inhabitants have decided to celebrate this event during a day’s meetings. More than 200 people who wanted to see came to visit the village, took part in conferences… That is when we met Jean-Baptiste Thévard, back here, in this place which proved a milestone in his personal path and for the GREB. “In 2001, I came to pay a visit to my uncle and my aunt and help them with the building of their house with straw. The easy and efficient GREB technique was an eye opener! Back in France I decided to work on the promotion of this technique.” A few years later, he is the co-author, with Vincent Brossamain, of the book


Building One’s House With Straw, which has been translated into several languages. Jean-Baptiste is also the co-founder of the Approche Paille association, which has trained some 1,000 people in the GREB technique… thanks to this work, today there are almost 400 such houses in France and others in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Rumania, Ukraine, but also in Chile, Argentina and even in Morocco!

But why is this technique not more developed when it appears to be so efficient? Patrick gives his opinion on that: “The current house is a mirror of our society: it has to confer a certain social status to the owner, just like the car. In this consumption world, a straw house does not quite fit in with the trend of the day…” In the collective subconsciousas a unique case of an outlier surviving outside the regime’s overarching system, as a nuclear-capable state with prolonged record of resistance (and selective adherence), but ending up seeking opportunities to engage with its normative structures. The ideological and policy shifts that had shaped India’s transformative journey from a perennial outlier to one seeking greater integration with the regime, though, also exemplifies the underlying strategic paradoxes and dogmatic incongruities. The book assesses how these dynamics will determine India’s role in global anti-proliferation and its status in the emerging global nuclear order.

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A. Vinod Kumar is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi and a visiting faculty at the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies (IFPS), University of Calcutta. He specializes in nuclear