received a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), who found Coulston undeserving of a waiver. Coulston then brought his case to federal district court, which upheld the ALJ's determination. So, to decide this case, we must review the ALJ opinion and the record evidence.

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After receiving the check, Coulston got, in the ALJ's words, "advice from and was assisted by" his ex-wife and a friend. Basically, this assistance was in cashing and spending the check. In determining whether Coulston was without fault, the ALJ relied substantially on the role Coulston's ex-wife and friend played. The ALJ noted that, while Coulston had an intellectual impairment, there was no evidence that either his ex-wife or friend suffered from a similar disability. This led the ALJ to conclude that, before cashingand spending the check, "at least one of the three individuals involved" should have made further inquiries with the Administration. The ALJ also noted that, in deciding the case, he considered that neither Coulston's ex-wife nor friend testified at the hearing to explain why they did not question Coulston's receipt of the check. Also important to the ALJ's conclusion was the ability of Coulston's ex-wife and friend to manage their own finances and dispense advice.

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The thrust of much of the ALJ's opinion is that Coulston's ex-wife and friend knew or should have suspected what was going on. This may well be true, but it is irrelevant. The Administration's regulations state that a claimant is at fault if he knew or should have known the overpayment was incorrect. See


statute to "specifically take into account" the individual's mental or educational limitations. See 42 U.S.C. § 404(b). To be fair, the ALJ noted most of Coulston's intellectual and educational limitations, including: his difficulty with reading and writing; his attendance of special education classes at school; and his eight months of training with Goodwill Industries to learn the skill of dishwashing. But, the ALJ then basically ignored how these limitations would have affected Coulston's ability to know the check was erroneous. Instead, as related above, the ALJ relied substantially on the lack of intellectual limitations of Coulston's "advisors"--his ex-wife and friend.

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The ALJ also placed significant emphasis on the events surrounding Coulston's attempts to cash the check. The ALJ found Coulston was unable to cash the check at the firstbank he tried--the obvious inference being that the bank refused to cash the check because of its substantial amount. This, according to the ALJ, should have been a tip-off to Coulston and to his friend that a problem existed with the check. But, the record reveals the bank refused to cash the check because of a problem with Coulston's identification, not because of the large amount of the check. And, again, while his friend may have known the real situation, Coulston's intellectual limitations may well have prevented him from ascertaining the real situation.

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The parties in this case make much of Coulston's supposed interaction or supposed non-interaction with the Administration in the month following his receipt of the erroneous check. After Coulston received the check, he received a notice


A Halifax woman is pleading for the return of a very special gift stolen from her driveway sometime overnight Friday.

Kate MacAdam discovered her dark blue BMW 328i missing from the driveway of her home Saturday morning as she went to drive her daughter to dance lessons.

"Then you have the sickening feeling in your stomach," she said.

The car had been parked next to her husband's vehicle at the corner of Quinpool Road and Quinn Street. She said thieves rifled through his car, found the spare set of keys to hers and drove it away.

Carolyn Savoy died in March 2015 after a battle with cancer. (Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame)

The car once belonged to Dr. Carolyn Savoy, Dalhousie University Tigers women's basketball coach for three decades and noted sportspsychologist. MacAdam had been gifted the car after Savoy died of cancer in March 2015 at the age of 67.

"She has done amazing work for women and sport, she's in the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame, she's done really amazing work with leadership and women," MacAdam said

"Out of all the women she's helped along the years, that I received this special gift, I feel just beyond nauseated that it was taken away."

MacAdam said Savoy was her mentor and supervised her during studies for her master's degree.

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"I feel very guilty that it is gone and I had a really hard time breaking the news to her husband to tell him it was stolen," she said.

MacAdam took to Facebook to tell the story of the car in


38 Premier League games.

2015–16 season
On 9 August 2015, Kouyaté scored the opening goal in the 43rd minute in a 2–0 win over Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. He then scored in a 4–3 home defeat to AFC Bournemouth on 22 August. He scored his third goal of the season in a 2–2 draw with Norwich City on 26 September, netting the equalizer in the 90th minute to rescue a point for West Ham. In March 2016, Kouyate signed a new, five-year contract with West Ham that could keep him at the club until 2021. Kouyaté was sent-off twice during the 2015–16 season and on both occasions had the card rescinded by The Football Association (FA). On 21 February, he was dismissed by referee Jonathan Moss in a 5–1Last time we encountered Colin Cowherd, he was using his supreme knowledge to dump on “young, cheap” hockey writers around the country. Yesterday on his ESPN Radio show, Colin Cowherd went back to his wheelhouse – brilliant social commentary! The man that brought you John Wall’s lack of a father makes him a bad NBA PG, Sean Taylor’s past “stains” playing a role in his murder, and unemployed people in Ohio and Indiana are bringing it upon themselves has now turned his all-knowing gaze to the city of New Orleans.

You see, Colin Cowherd can’t understand why the NFL would play the Pro Bowl in New Orleans. Forgetting the NFL doubled up hosting the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl in the same city in 2009 in Miami, Cowherd was


Cowherd is paid a handsome sum of money by ESPN to talk about sports and he “doesn’t have an answer” as to why New Orleans has hosted these major sports events this year. To solve this mystery, here’s a brief list of the major sporting events New Orleans has hosted and is scheduled to host…

10 Super Bowls: Super Bowl IV, Super Bowl VI, Super Bowl IX, Super Bowl XII, Super Bowl XV, Super Bowl XX, Super Bowl XXIV, Super Bowl XXXI, Super Bowl XXXVI, Super Bowl XLVII (2013)

5 Final Fours: 1982, 1987, 1993, 2003, 2012

2 NBA All Star Games: 2008, 2014

4 BCS National Championship Games: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012

With Miami, New Orleans has hosted more Super Bowls than any other city. In fact, New Orleans has hosted 21.3%of all Super Bowls. New Orleans hosts the BCS National Championship Game on a four year rotation and hosts the Sugar Bowl every year. New Orleans has hosted more Final Fours than any city except Indianapolis since 1980. All of this is news to Colin Cowherd.

Cowherd also says New Orleans is hard to get to and a long way away from areas west of the Rocky Mountains. This apparently makes it an extremely inconvenient destination for all these major sporting events. Let’s take a look at the last five Super Bowl sites:

SB 43: Tampa

SB 44: Miami

SB 45: Arlington

SB 46: Indianapolis

SB 47: New Orleans

Distance from Los Angeles to Tampa: 2,528 miles

Distance from Los Angeles to Miami: 2,733 miles

Distance from Los Angeles to New Orleans: 1,895 miles

It is a longer


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New Orleans has had to battle against this negative perception, especially in the years since Hurricane Katrina. To hear the city thrashed in such a way is sad, quite frankly, knowing what New Orleans has endured and persevered through.

I can only share with you my personal experience in the city. I spent a week in New Orleans in 2006 and again in 2007 doing Hurricane Katrina relief work. I saw images that will never be erased from my mind including one house in the Lower Ninth Ward where a clock was still frozen in time when the hurricane hit a year and a half earlier. I saw incomprehensible destruction and human grief that is indescribable in words.

But I also saw something incredibleFind Rental Car Counters on Terminal Maps

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McKay Energizes Iowa State in Home Opener Victory

Iowa State used a barrage of dunks from Jameel McKay and a strong offensive second half Monday to win its home opener against Chicago State, 106-64.

AMES, IOWA — There may be no official stat, but if there was, Jameel McKay may have obliterated the Iowa State single-game dunk record Monday.

McKay’s career night in the paint helped No. 7 Iowa State to a 106-64 win against Chicago State in its home opener at Hilton Coliseum after the Cyclones shook off a sluggish first half and used McKay’s dunking to energize a nearly unblemished second in a lopsided victory.

“He was a presence all night,” coach Steve Prohm said. “He played with great energy for the 27 minutes he was out there, he didn’tjust 3-of-15 shooting from beyond the arc held it back from pulling away.

That took place in the second half.

The Cyclones began the second half on a 13-0 run helped by eight straight points out of the break from Abdel Nader, who scored 17 in the win and has scored 24 of his 31 points in two games this season in the second half.

Iowa State shot 69.7 percent from the field in the second half (23-of-33) with five 3-pointers (5-of-10) to secure the 42-point victory.

“After the course of the game I thought the last 24 minutes we really dominated the game and established our will,” Prohm said.

That was due in large part to McKay, whose presence inside Monday energized Iowa State and pushed it to its 18th consecutive home-opening


of the aquifer indicate stratification. The weathering of carbonate and silicate minerals has an important role in groundwater chemistry, especially in the area where old meanders of the Sava River existed. Groundwater quality was observed to be better in the deeper parts of the aquifer than in the shallower parts. Furthermore, deterioration of the groundwater quality was observed in the area under the influence of the landfill. The stable isotopic composition of all sampled waters indicates meteoric origin. NETPATH-WIN was used to calculate the mixing proportions between initial waters (water from the Sava River and groundwater from "regional" flow) in the final water (groundwater sampled from observation wells). According to the results, the mixing proportions of "regional" flow and the river water depend on hydrological conditions, the durationVigil on Monday evening for gas station worker killed in shooting

Gas Station killing

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Riaz Ahmad, vice president of the Anne Arundel County Muslim Council, seeks the public's help in solving the killing of a gas station clerk. Last week the Muslim council donated $5,000 to a reward fund and has been involved in raising money to send the body of Rajinder Kumar, 49, back to India where his family lives.

Riaz Ahmad, vice president of the Anne Arundel County Muslim Council, seeks the public's help in solving the killing of a gas station clerk. Last week the Muslim council donated $5,000 to a reward fund and has been involved in raising money to send the body of Rajinder Kumar, 49, back to India where his family lives.


           Filed: June 11, 2019
                               ____________

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, BENTON and STRAS, Circuit Judges.
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BENTON, Circuit Judge.
       Tina Smith, mother of Raymond A. Smith Jr., sued the Kansas City Chief of
Police, the members of the Board of Police Commissioners, and officers Selvir
Abidovic, Christopher Krueger, Christopher James Taylor, and Andrew E. Keller,
alleging they violatedto me!” Smith began running away from officer Abidovic,
out of the park. Officer Abidovic chased him on foot. Officer Keller radioed dispatch
about the pursuit. Officers Krueger and Taylor were dispatched to assist.

       Chasing Smith into a parking lot, officer Abidovic saw a gun in his hand. He
announced over dispatch radio, “He’s armed!” He pointed his gun at Smith, shouting,
“Drop the gun!” Smith did not drop it. As Smith was climbing over a chain-link
fence, he fired a shot at officer Abidovic. Officer Abidovic then fired three shots at
Smith. Officer Keller radioed dispatch, “Shots fired.” From their patrol car, officers
Krueger and Taylor found Smith on the other side of the fence. They saw him begin
to raise his gun in their direction. Officer Krueger fired


technicians to man an advanced warning radar post in Sinai the American presence in Vietnam a decade ago. He told the Knesset that in the event of war, Israel expected no American presence in Sinai.

DAYAN RAPS SINAI PACT

The most vigorous opposition to the pact was voiced by former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan of the Labor Party and Likud opposition leader Menachem Beigin, Dayan “apologized” to his Labor colleagues for not joining them in favor of the interim agreement. “Unlike my friends. I cannot be flexible and vote now in favor of a settlement which I opposed in March,” Dayan said in an obvious slap at the Rabin government.

Dayan quoted from the Premier’s speech to the Knesset last March in which he expressed surprise that Egypt had the temerityThe Internet, like so many other high tech developments, grew from research originally performed by the United States Department of Defense. In the 1960s, the military had accumulated a large collection of incompatible computer networks. Computers on these different networks could not communicate with other computers across their network boundaries.
In the 1960s, the Defense Department wanted to develop a communication system that would permit communication between these different computer networks. Recognizing that a single, centralized communication system would be vulnerable to attacks or sabotage, the Defense Department required that the communication system be decentralized with no critical services concentrated in vulnerable failure points. In order to achieve this goal, the Defense Department established a decentralized standard communication protocol for communication between their computer networks.
A few years later, the


Comedian Rob Riggle is leaving Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show after a 2 year stint.

Riggle is best know for a short stint on Saturday Night Live, but has entertained viewers on The Daily Show since late 2006.

Riggle is best known as the ex Army Guy. Before his career on TV, Riggle was a major in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, and served in Liberia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. He is currently a public affairs officer with the New York City Public Affairs unit and is a recipient of the Combat Action Ribbon.

Here’s the full clip of the announcement:In the prior art, video such as a movie, a TV play, a video clip or a live game is presented independently of video comment contents when the video is played, for example, comment contents regarding the video are displayed on a message board below a video page displayed on a user terminal, or press releases of film review are individually played on the user terminal.
Such a manner of presenting video independently of video comment contents is defective. On one aspect, the film reviews played individually lack interaction with audiences; and on another aspect, a user would intend to comment on the watched video content from time to time in watching the video, but there is no convenient way for posting such comments in real time, and most


GUELPH — Some time between last call on Saturday night and two-for-one lap dances Sunday evening, Jack and Sharon Ninaber and their team of volunteers enter the Manor, cover the nudie posters and $4-a-beer signs and turn the bar into a church.

For a few hours on Sunday afternoons, the gentleman's club becomes a holy place, a social place, and a place where people can find safety and trust and food.

They may also find God, Jack Ninaber says, but that's not the main goal.

"I think God can bring hope to their lives but is this really about building trust and friendship," said Ninaber, former pastor of Grace Community Church in Marden, and now a member of Elora Road Christian Fellowship.

It's just another twist in the unconventional history of theManor, once home to Guelph's beer baron George Sleeman, now a tough stripper bar with a heart of gold.

Because attached to the bar is Sue's Inn, which provides transitional housing for homeless folks struggling with addiction or just out of jail. This is a side-project of Roger Cohen, owner of the Manor, and a passion for Ninaber, who wants to help this population find joy and purpose in their lives again.

"Roger has a saying: you can get busy dying or get busy living. I think God can bring hope to people and enrich their living. But it starts with relationship," he said.

It has taken some coordinating, but Easter Sunday marked the first service in the bar and Ninaber is calling it a great success.

"We had 70 people turn


on getting students into top universities when there aren't enough jobs for highly educated graduates.

Now the South Korean government is promoting alternatives to college, such as the electrical and electronics-engineering curricula at Sudo, much of which, says Donghoe, is on par with graduate-degree coursework.

"Once they graduate they can get into the real field right away and apply the techniques they learned in the high school immediately," he says.

Meister schools

Sudo is one of 21 so-called Meister schools nationwide. Modeled on German academies, some of the trade schools receive funding from the South Korean government.

South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, who was on hand at Sudo’s opening ceremony in 2010, says Meister graduates receive an internationally competitive high-tech education.

With government figures indicating that less than half of 2010 college graduatesas she prays for daughter's success in college entrance examinations, Seoul, Nov. 8, 2011.

Korean families regard a university degree as the means to improve one’s financial and social status, he says, which lifted South Korea out of poverty during the 20th century but no longer satisfies the needs of today's job market.

"There’s a lot of supply of highly educated, arguably over-educated people, but on the flip side, the demand side, they all want to work for a narrow bandwidth of companies, namely the LGs and Samsungs of the world," he says. "They only need a few people and they only pluck those people from a certain narrow bandwidth of schools."

The only path to those schools is a high score on university entrance exams, which, he says, build tremendous


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In total, Kinepolis Group currently operates 97 cinemas (45 of whichThe cities and islands in Hokkaido's Rumoi Subprefecture has announced their new collective mascot, the combination robot: Ororon 8. Ororon 8 will controlled by an all female pilot team and will be constructed by combining ten different smaller robots representing each of the towns within Rumoi.

The ten parts themselves are all based either off of their respective town's mascots, such as Rumoi city's Kazumo-chan and Teshio's Teshio Kamen, or a notable landmark in the area, like the Shosanbetsu Observatory and Obira's Hanada Fishing House.

While Ororon 8 may look like your typical fighting robot, due to the fact that Rumoi is a peaceful area, his current job consists of standing in the harbor and looking out at the ocean.

To learn more about Ororon 8, the Rumoi Subprefecture, the smaller


declines.

Property/casualty insurer groups voiced their support Thursday for the Republican party's proposed framework for tax reform . Their families can keep building that business, creating more jobs and growing paychecks for families across the country.

The officer argued Black Lives Matter was a "national unincorporated association" and called Mckesson its leader and co-founder. The prominent activist was detained near Baton Rouge police headquarters on a charge of obstructing a highway.

Other announcements included that Alexa is getting integrated into BMWs and other select mini vehicles starting in 2018. It's more similar to the Google Chromecast Ultra or Fire TV Stick and plugs into a HDMI port on the back of your TV.

The data transfer in 5G technology has latency or gap of 1 millisecond (ms) compared to 30 ms incase of 4G technology. We have to provide ubiquitous access to high-speed data at affordable prices", he emphasised.

The consortium, Toshiba, and Hoya Corp. will each hold stakes of 49.9 percent, 40.2 percent, and 9.9 percent, respectively. The US investors will not acquire any common stock or voting rights over TMC.

SpaceX is considering up to 30 launches in 2018, which is about half of all launches that now occur across Earth annually. The billionaire's electric vehicle company Tesla has committed to building 50 charging stations across the state.

Dave Henson is a former Royal Engineer and captained the United Kingdom team at the first Invictus Games in 2014. The prince sat next to Henson's wife, Hayley, and the couple's adorable daughter, Emily.

Fugitive former leader Yingluck in Dubai
In the first round


A 12-year-old girl was sprayed with pepper spray during a robbery Monday on Beacon Hill.

The girl was walking about 2:45 p.m. near 25th Avenue South and South Dawson Street when the suspects drove past her in a blue Honda and pulled up.

“As the girl walked toward the suspects’ car, a man and a woman got out and asked her for directions to nearby South Brandon Street,” department spokesman Jonah Spangenthal -Lee said in a statement. “The girl gave the suspects directions and, as she started to walk off, one of the suspects sprayed her in the back of the head and face with Mace.”

“One suspect then grabbed the girl’s backpack, flung her to the ground, and told the girl to hand over her cellphone.”

The suspects got back inthe car and sped away. The 12-year-old was not seriously injured.

Several witnesses called 911 and patrols officers arrested the suspects at 46th Avenue South and South Othello Street.

The suspects, two men ages, 20 and 22, and a woman, 19, were booked into King County Jail.

“At the King County Jail, the 19-year-old woman set off a metal detector,” Spangenthal-Lee said, “and female officers found she had hidden a can of Mace inside her bra.”

The woman is being held on $50,000 bail, the 22-year-old is being held on $10,000 bail and the 20-year-old man is being held on $5,000 bail. Charges have not been filed.


who came to the UK as children.

MP David Lammy told the programme: “I think it is extraordinary that it is even happening. There is a young man who was about to be deported who did two months for GBH, and the young man I spoke to was groomed … he was groomed into selling drugs, he got 15 months for selling, he was let out in 2015 and is about to be deported in 2020. We stopped deporting criminals to Australia in 1868, why have we started doing it through the back door this way?”

Earlier British officials and their counterparts in Jamaica continued to insist that all those set for removal are criminals, and that no Windrush victims are involved. However, the Guardian understands, that other recommendations inthe review may include a broadening of who counts as a Windrush victim.

Q&A What is the Windrush deportation crisis? Show Hide Who are the Windrush generation? They are people who arrived in the UK after the second world war from Caribbean countries at the invitation of the British government. The first group arrived on the ship MV Empire Windrush in June 1948. What happened to them? An estimated 50,000 people faced the risk of deportation if they had never formalised their residency status and did not have the required documentation to prove it. Why now? It stems from a policy, set out by Theresa May when she was home secretary, to make the UK 'a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants'. It requires employers, NHS staff, private landlords


Mercury adsorption characteristics of HBr-modified fly ash in an entrained-flow reactor.
In this study, the mercury adsorption characteristics of HBr-modified fly ash in an entrained-flow reactor were investigated through thermal decomposition methods. The results show that the mercury adsorption performance of the HBr-modified fly ash was enhanced significantly. The mercury species adsorbed by unmodified fly ash were HgCl2, HgS and HgO. The mercury adsorbed by HBr-modified fly ash, in the entrained-flow reactor, existed in two forms, HgBr2 and HgO, and the HBr was the dominant factor promoting oxidation of elemental mercury in the entrained-flow reactor. In the current study, the concentration of HgBr2 and HgO in ash from the fine ash vessel was 4.6 times greater than for ash from the coarse ash vessel. The fine ash had betterbeggars common sense. It's a dead certainty that people who heard the NSA's reassurances about "targeting" its surveillance on people who were doing something suspicious didn't understand that the NSA meant people who'd looked up technical details about systems that are routinely discussed on the front page of every newspaper in the world.

But it's not the first time the NSA has deployed specialized, highly counterintuitive wordsmithing to play games with the public, the law and its oversight. From James Clapper's insistence that he didn't lie to Congress about spying on Americans because he was only intercepting all their data, but not looking at it all; to the internal wordgames on evidence in the original Prism leak in which the NSA claimed to have "direct access" to servers from


FACING DOCK: Pat Hickey must have seemed like a genius to his OCI colleagues when the first deal was signed

In his first big pitch for business to OCI president Pat Hickey, the millionaire businessman boasted that as the owner of Ipswich Town Football Club his company was "acutely aware" of the need for a full-time press office to be in place for when things go badly.

It was July 2009 when Marcus Evans emailed Mr Hickey referring to a meeting they'd had over dinner. His correspondence was much more than a follow-up though.

It was an application to become the official ticket and hospitality partner of the Olympic Council of Ireland for the Games in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020.

"The group is probably the world's largest corporate hospitality organiserReuters

By the time the OCI's executive committee was formally notified eight days later, the $1m was already in its bank account. To his colleagues, Mr Hickey must have seemed like a corporate genius. Nobody could have imagined it was to be the moment that the well-known Dubliner became embroiled in what would develop into one of the most controversial issues in Irish sport.

Even before the London Games where Katie Taylor boxed her way to gold, Mr Evans's company, THG, had applied to be the OCI's ticketing agent for Rio 2016.

This time, THG offered only $600,000 to seal the deal but the minutes of an OCI meeting in December 2011 show that "in the present difficult economic circumstances the current offer was considered very satisfactory". Added to this was


the credible expectation that there would be less demand from Irish supporters for tickets to an event 8,500km away.

However, the final contract said the money was subject to THG having access to the same allocation of tickets in Rio as it did in London.

By late 2014, THG was getting a little pushy with the OCI. Having reviewed the London Games, it concluded that more tickets could be sold. Bizarrely, the company believed that "demand for Rio will be even stronger than London as many nationals see the games as an alternative to their usual holidays".

THG wanted 400 tickets for the opening ceremony and 300 for the closing ceremony, with 70pc of these to be in the two top-price categories on the basis that those travelling "have looked tobuy the best tickets available".

Despite the horse-trading, everything was still on course until January 30, 2015, when Mr Hickey received an email from the Rio Organising Committee which indicated that it was not happy with THG but would work "with you to make sure that fans in your territory have a fair chance to be part of Rio 2016".

If that didn't sound alarm bells, another email to David Gilmore of THG three days later certainly did. It said the Rio organisers needed to clarify "some doubts and questions".

Mr Gilmore took exception to the "innuendo" as did Mr Hickey who took it upon himself to write to the Rio team about the "very serious overtones".

The Rio committee had issued guidelines to every country, noting that the Brazilian government had


"enacted specific legislation" which would make selling tickets at a price higher than face value a criminal offence. The consequences, it warned, would be "serious".

Furthermore the use of tickets for hospitality packages was tightly controlled.

Judge Carroll Moran's report says it is clear from subsequent correspondence that Rio's concerns related to allegations THG had sold tickets outside its territory during the London Games.

It went deeper though. There was also a suspicion that THG was involved in selling tickets above market value during the 2014 World Cup - which also happened to be in Brazil.

Mr Hickey went into battle on behalf of THG to "defend very strongly" its reputation, telling Mr Evans in one email that he was "lobbying hard" and "quietly confident".

But Rio produced documents backing up some ofits claims and Mr Hickey concluded in another email to Mr Evans that THG's agents "were sloppy". He spoke of "playing his aces in the background" and that "we will have to be careful".

It didn't work because in March 2015 Rio rejected THG's bid to be Ireland's Authorised Ticket Reseller (ATR).

A 'Plan B' was hatched whereby the OCI would itself become an ATR, using THG as a sub-agent - but Rio was still creating problems.

The organising committee wrote in late April 2015 to the International Olympic Committee (of which Mr Hickey was a member) informing it that THG was selling "hospitality packages for sporting events and ceremonies" at the Olympics.

Mr Hickey was angry with everybody. He told Rio he was "appalled" at part of the email but also


for high-demand events and 350 (16pc) were for ceremony tickets. Just 60 (3pc) were for low-demand events.

Astonishingly the application excluded sports like boxing, golf, rowing and sailing where Ireland actually had medal chances.

Confusion seemed to reign over the final allocation, with the judge saying "it was difficult to ascertain with any certainty the exact position regarding tickets and the exact numbers and costs involved".

On top of an estimated 1,428 general tickets, the OCI received 938 National Olympic Council (NOC) family tickets, which are reserved for people with links to the OCI such as sponsors, volunteers and coaches.

In February 2016, Rio wrote to the OCI in relation to the arrangements for "pick up" of the tickets. The OCI's sports director did not contact Pro10, instead writing to David Gilmoreat THG requesting that he "ask the lads to return the required form".

Meanwhile, in the background, it seems Mr Hickey and Mr Evans were maintaining their relationship, with the Dubliner flying to Geneva on the millionaire's private jet in April.

The tickets were collected by Michael Glynn of Pro10 in late May 2016 from Arkansas.

The inquiry heard that 178 of the NOC family tickets were given to Pro10 on the instruction of Mr Hickey because the OCI didn't require them.

However, Mr Justice Moran said the transfer of the tickets "was something which was considered a long time in advance" of their receipt.

During the Games, OCI staff kept a number of tickets in a safe in the Olympic Village. While all this was happening, families of the Irish athletes were


complaining about an inability to secure tickets and a "dearth of information" from Pro10.

The management of tickets was messy to say the least but nobody expected what happened next.

On the night of the opening ceremony, August 5, Pro10's representative in Rio, Kevin Mallon (who was also a director of THG), was arrested and a number of tickets seized.

The inquiry was not able to ascertain the exact number of tickets, although it did obtain photocopies of 20 general public tickets, two NOC tickets and one ticket linked to the Guatemalan delegation.

Earlier in the day, Mr Evans had flagged some concerns in an email to Mr Hickey, noting that Rio officials had turned up at a THG event to raise questions about the validity of Pro10 tickets.

"Clearly old hands tryingto cause a problem when everything is valid," he said.

On August 7, Mr Hickey received an email from Greg Harney of Cartan Global, another ticket agent, which said: "…as you may have heard from Marcus already, one of his guys got busted and thrown in jail on Friday at one of our hospitality venues. An ugly scene on opening night to say the least."

He concludes: "Also, I have told Marcus that we can be part of the solution for him but not his defence as requested."

The following day, Mr Hickey and Mr Evans discussed the wording of a press statement to be sent out by THG. Mr Hickey was also directly involved in a media release on behalf of Pro10.

As the story grew legs in Ireland and around


China when he was arrested in the airport with stolen trade secrets from an autonomous car project.

3. Microbes Microbes are an important part in the manufacture of some drugs and recently, chemicals. Yeah, China and other countries like those. (Agricultural Research Service) Really any important biological discovery, especially medicinal, could go here, but a particular microbe case is instructive. Ching Wang, a man of Chinese descent who discovered an anti-parasitic drug in the 1970s, told the New Yorker that he received a phone call a little after he and his colleagues published their paper. The caller worked for a state-run pharmaceutical company in China and was wondering if Wang could fly himself out to China with a sample of the microbe, just for funsies. Wang didn't go, obviously,May 16, 2014
David Friend, The Canadian Press

TORONTO – As the candles burn out on Tim Horton’s 50th Anniversary celebration this weekend, the iconic Canadian brand is looking to avoid a mid-life crisis.

Saturday marks the official half-century birthday of the original “Tim Horton Donuts” restaurant in Hamilton, Ont., which opened on May 17, 1964, after it was renovated from an auto repair garage.

Starting from its modest roots, the company, which took its name from Toronto Maple Leafs player and founder Tim Horton, has found a home in seemingly every Canadian neighbourhood and, in some places, nearly every street corner.

With more than 3,600 locations across the country, Tim Hortons is at a crossroads between maintaining its steadfast reputation and staying relevant in an increasingly competitive quick-service business where coffee is


brew and free giveaways.

Somewhere in the hustle, Tim Hortons lost some focus as it dabbled in alternative food and drink items to mixed success.

The company launched smoothies and frozen lemonade drinks as an answer to the broader selections of some of its biggest competitors, and while they still remain on the menu, a foray into larger submarine-sized sandwiches didn’t last long before it was yanked from the offerings.

In 2009, Tim Hortons dove into the frozen treats business with the installation of U.S. chain Cold Stone Creamery at some of its Canadian restaurants. The concept failed to ignite much interest, and five years later the ice cream bars were torn out, at a cost of $19 million.

Despite some failed launches, chief executive Marc Caira, who started at the companyThe previous post posed a vital question: how can a nature sound recordist avoid noisy field recordings? As we saw in that article, struggling with noise is as difficult as it is common.

George Vlad has travelled across Africa and Europe recording the sound of forests, deserts, wetlands, and more. He shares his field recordings on his blog and also in respected packaged sound libraries from his Mindful Audio website.

I have long admired George Vlad’s field recordings. I asked him if he would like to share his thoughts with us about struggling with noise while recording wildlife sounds. He kindly agreed. Today, George Vlad gives detailed insight on where noise comes from and how it emerges in nature recordings. He shares tips on how to reduce it. His thoughts


Armed Forces Chaplain Board

The Armed Forces Chaplains Board makes recommendations to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness on religious, ethical, and moral matters for the Military Services, and on the following policy matters:

Protection of free exercise of religion according to Amendment I to the Constitution of the United States.

Procurement, professional standards, requirements, training, and assignment of military chaplains.

All religious support providers.

Procurement and utilization of supplies, equipment, and facilities for religious use.Month: July 2017

Jason Halpern is a specialist in the real estate sector, and he owns a company that is known as JH Development. He is currently 45-years old and has accomplished a lot in the industry. Halpern has several ongoing construction projects in Miami and New York. According to him, his company is a boutique development firm. It has done projects that are worth more than $500 million since 2007. One of them is the Aloft South Beach that has more than 200 rooms and is based in Miami. His company joined efforts with the Madden Real Estate Ventures, which is owned by Mitchell Hochberg, to complete the project.

Jason Halpern with His Wife

Halpern recently created a contract with Rockpoint Group and Kushner Companies to assist in changing the


former Williamsburg-based Wild Turkey bourbon warehouse into condos. His company transformed the property into a rental building that consists of 338 units in 2010. In 2014 his business also joined efforts with the Madison Estate to acquire the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, and they changed it into luxury condos. His major projects are based in Miami, New York, Westchester County, and Long Island City. Jason’s kicked off his career by working for his father’s company, Halpern Enterprises. In the 1990s, he quit to start JHM Development, and it is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His long service in the industry has allowed him to acquire adequate experience, and therefore, he can fulfill the needs of various markets. His company currently owns and manages a lot of spaces thatis rented by people for business.

The real estate guru has been successful due to the passion that he has for his work. Jason ensures that he offers services that are highly appreciated by the community that hires him. Apart from his business undertaking, Halpern is a generous person, and he has supporting various charity projects in the United States and other parts of the globe. The Joel A. Halpern Trauma Center is one of his beneficiaries. He has been offering significant donations to ensure that the medical institution operates without glitches. The facility contains a Level 1 Trauma Center, and it is presently based at the Westchester Medical Center. Its services are wide ranging, and they include neurosurgery, healing internal injuries, treating broken limbs, open heart surgery, and


orthopedic surgery.

Jason Halpern: Real Estate Entrepreneur

JMH Development is also a socially responsible company. It offers donations to support communities across the globe. Its latest project is providing clean water to people in Nepal and Egypt. The firm has partnered with a non-profit organization to ensure that the charity becomes successful. JMH offers $20,000 for every construction deal that it closes at Three Hundred Collins. Its program has been beneficial to approximately 650 homes.

David McDonald, the President, and COO of OSI Group LLC began his dream with the company years ago. It was 30 years ago now since the first day that he came onboard. Back then it was all about growth. The aspirations were pure and firm on the horizon. That;s exactly what they proceeded to accomplish too.

Sustainability:

Withthe goal to be the leading provider of food for the world, OSI is an accomplishment set forth and carried out by people like the President of the company David McDonald who has blazed the trail going forward for the future of the company. He says that still to this very day. He means it too.

History:

The history of David McDonald is simple. He graduated with his BS in 1987 from the University of Iowa. After that, it has been full throttle all the way. It’s no mistake that he ended up being the President of the company. He works hard to accomplish that and get the word out for the companies abilities. They have such a positive attitude and the progress from day one has shown exactly that.


With their growing popularity and rise in stores, Honey Birdette is getting ready to take over the lingerie world one bra at a time.

Jason Hope was born in Arizona and is an entrepreneur that likes helping his community and has a keen interest in technology. Jason Hope graduated from Arizona State University where he got an MBA and a degree in Finance. He is also regarded as a great philanthropist.

The SENS Research Foundation is a big deal for Jason although he supports other organizations. According to Hope, their purpose for engagement with Anti-aging is about creating a longer and quality life, and not just about living forever. He admires the idea of SENS Foundation’s focus on preventing diseases such as Alzheimer’s. SENS research mainly focuses on treating thethe technology is utilized correctly, home kitchens and the hospitality industry will acquire a 15 percent savings.

Jason Hope also predicts a struggle for developers as it will become difficult to get customers to focus and appreciate one particular development. The reason for this struggle will be the availability more apps. For businesses to reduce risks and succeed, Jason believes they need to invest in technology.

Dr. Jennifer Walden is an academic, media commentator, and cosmetic surgeon from America. She is the founder of Walden Cosmetic Surgery Center. The Center is based in Texas and also has a branch office in Marble Falls. Having been born in Austin, Dr. Jennifer Walden attended Texas University from where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology. She also received her medical degree


from the same institution. Dr. Jennifer has also received several awards in her professional life. These awards include ASAPSA (American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Award) and Glasgow Memorial Award.

Dr. Jennifer Walden started her career at Manhattan Hospital, from where she met her mentor, Dr. Sherrell Aston. During her job tenure at Manhattan Hospital, Dr. Jennifer had the opportunity to participate in several clinical trials. Some of these trials led to the reintroduction of breast implants made of silicone. Dr. Walden is a Certified Plastic Surgeon and an associate of ASAPS (American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery). She is also the Vice Commissioner of the same organization. In addition to ASAPS, Dr. Jennifer Walden was certified by TSML (Texas State Medical License), FSML (Florida State Medical License), andNYSML (New York State Medical License).

Dr. Walden has featured in many media interviews including Fox News, ABC News, and Dr 90210. She is one of the 24 Best Beauty Surgeons that was listed by Harper’s Bazaar in 2014. She was also recognized as the best Plastic Surgeon in the United States of America by the America way. She is known for using advanced technologies in her medical practices. Dr. Walden was the first Medical Practitioner to introduce Vectra and ThermiVa technology in plastic surgery. The imaging technology of Vectra allows the Surgeon to visualize the patient before surgery. ThermiVa is a system that uses temperature and radio-frequency. It is primarily used for vaginal rejuvenation and tightening and learn more about Jennifer.

Anthony Petrello is the President and the Chief


Executive Officer of the Nabors Company. Anthony was elected to Executive Committee and the Nabors Board of Directors in 1991 He served in this position until 2003. Tony was appointed the Deputy Chairman of the Company in 2003 and later the president in 2011. Since 2012, Tony was appointed the Chairman of the Board.

Tony has created stellar career over the years. Before joining Nabors, he worked for other major companies. Between 1979 and 1991, Petrello was working for the Baker and McKenzie law firm. His responsibilities included corporate law, arbitration, and taxation. Due to his success in the firm, Anthony Petrello promoted to the Managing Partner of the New York office of the Law firm. Tony resigned from the firm in 1991.

As the President of Nabors, Tony ischarged with different responsibilities. Tony also provides strategic planning and direction to the team.

Tony serves as the director of the Hilcop Energy Company and the Steward and Stevenson. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors at the Trustees of Texas Hospital. Over the years, Tony has been an advocate for clinical research done to address neurological conditions affecting children. His personal experience has motivated his advocacy for the clinical research.

Tony Petrello attended Yale University for his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and his Master in Mathematics from the same University. Tony earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Harvard University.

Tony is among the highest paid C.E.Os in the oil industry.

About Nabors

Nabors, founded in 1968 is an oil, geothermal drill, and natural gas company. The Company


has different offices across various states including Africa, Middle East, America, and the Far East.

Nabors founded as an Anglo Energy Company. The name was later changed to Nabors Industries. The company was traded on the Amex but later moved to the New York Stock Exchange.

In 2007, Nabors Industries sold the Sea Mar Fleet to Hornbeck Offshore Services. The deal was $ 189 million which included 20 supply vessels.

While Success Academy is known as one of the nation’s best charter school networks for the way it teaches its students, most people probably do not know that it also educates its teachers as well.

That is because Success Academy runs programs like the Teacher Residency program that recruits new teachers to work as an associate teacher at one or more SuccessAcademy schools.

While there, teachers in the program are taught not only how to teach their students the Success Academy way, but also valuable skills like effective teaching skills and classroom management. Skills they can then use in the Success Academy classroom to benefit their students.

One of the teachers who was hired by Success Academy, and took advantage of the Teacher Residency program, is a music teacher called Joel Klein.

Klein was hired by Success Academy as an associate teacher, and spent three years learning every aspect of teaching at the network. While there, he observed other teachers and how they taught, and then he applied what he learned to his own classes.

Klein said when he was hired, he had always wanted to be a music teacher but, with most


schools only hiring music teachers with a lot of experience, he chose to work at Success Academy first.

After three years, however, a music teacher position opened up at Success Academy Union Square and Klein was told to apply for it. He did, and he was subsequently awarded the job.

Now he teaches music to a wide variety of ages and levels of students, and has been given the freedom to run his classes in a way that he feels is benefiting his children the most.

Since he started to teach music at Success Academy, Klein says he has noticed how much him using music to teach self-confidence and leadership skills has increased the self-confidence of many of his students.

So much so, he has several stories of children not wanting tostand in front of the class and play an instrument or sing but, once they did, leaving with such a sense of accomplishment he knows it has changed them for life.

Dr. Imran Haque is a well-known and respected internist who has been practicing medicine for the past 19 years. He has been providing medical services since 1998 at North Carolina and its environs.

Dr. Imran Haque studied medicine at North Carolina University and graduated in 1998.he was also enrolled for Certification Program for internal medicine where he obtained the professionalism in the internal medicine. He has been licensed by the state to practice medicine in the region of operation. Dr. Imran Haque offer medical services at affordable prices, and he accepts various medical insurance plans.

Dr. Imran Haque has a


specialized doctors when he finds that the patient deserves specialized treatment. He has a laboratory where he conducts laboratory services for the patients.

The medical service of Dr. Imran Haque as a specialized internist has attracted various awards .he has received the awards as appreciation for the excellent services he is providing as a medical doctor. The distinguished award which he has received came from NC, United States of America local authority. Dr. Imran Haque medical proficiency has improved the quality of life of many people.

IDLife has been started and run with thoughts on how to help plenty of other people. Therefore, people will not only benefit from all of the health benefits from the products, but they may also benefit financially if they get involved with the business.

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The Giants have finally had enough of their Bad Apple.

Eli Apple, the second-year cornerback mired myriad on-the-field and off-the-field issues, was suspended Wednesday for the final week of the season, including the season finale Sunday against the Redskins at MetLife Stadium.

Apple was informed of the suspension during an afternoon meeting with interim general manager Kevin Abrams and interim head coach Steve Spagnuolo.

“We have suspended Eli for a pattern of behavior that is conduct detrimental to the team,” Abrams said.

That pattern of behavior continued to spiral out of control, as a source confirmed to The Post that Apple refused to take the field with the scout team during practice Wednesday, insubordination that led to an argument with assistant coaches and pulled the trigger on the suspension.

A day after safetyhad never reached out to him.

Apple has devolved into a symbol of everything that has gone wrong for the Giants, who are 2-13 heading into the season finale Sunday against the Redskins. Apple was benched for the first three defensive series against the Chargers because of poor practice habits.

Sources told The Post that Apple twice threatened to walk out of the team facility after hearing coaches and teammates rip him for not hustling in a game against the 49ers. Apple was not active in the 30-10 loss to the Cowboys, but attracted the ire of teammates by tweeting during the game, a violation of NFL rules. Apple re-tweeted a post from an Ohio State fan site lauding Rod Smith’s 81-yard touchdown reception against the Giants. Apple and Smith


were college teammates.

Apple’s mother had successful brain surgery during the season, causing him to miss practice time. He was inactive for four consecutive games – a healthy scratch – but played 60 of the 68 defensive snaps in a Dec. 17 loss to the Eagles. Apple has been banished and the question is if it is for now, or for good.refinery was shipped – section by section – to Seattle, Washington aboard 200 rail cars. The cargo aboard was so large, the train needed to stop while en-route in order to rearrange the freight so that it could fit through a tunnel. Once in Seattle, the rail cars carrying the refinery were loaded onto two train car barges – barges with tracks built into their decks so that they can transport rail cars. After loading all of the rail cars on board, the train car barges set sail for a 1,400 mile journey over water before docking and transferring the freight back onto land to complete its journey.

3. Elephants, Lions and Tigers – Specially designed rail cars are used by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to


and protect the United States.

5. Airplanes – Long before travelers rocket into the sky onboard a Boeing 737-100, the airplane traveled from Wichita, Kansas to Renton, Washington – on a train. Loaded onto customized flatcars, newly-constructed airplane fuselages are transported more than 2,000 miles to Boeing’s Washington facility where final construction is completed and the plane is tested before it begins carrying passengers around the world.

6. Wind turbine blades – Today, more than 400 manufacturing plants across the US help to manufacture the 8,000 components found in a typical wind turbine. A wind turbine can weigh up to 335 tons, and transporting them presents an enormous challenge for shippers. In fact, a single wind turbine blade can be as long as an airplane and weigh 77,000 pounds! ByBakery and Confectionary Workers' Local No. 72 (the Union), as parties who had committed a discriminatory act. The complaint alleged that she had been denied disability pay on a discriminatory basis for the time she was unable to work as a result of her pregnancy.
The hearing officer dismissed the complaint, but the Commission reinstated it and entered an order requiring Red Seal and the Union:
(1) To cease and desist their acts of discrimination against females in providing disability benefits by sharing the cost of providing disability payments to any woman employed by Red Seal who would otherwise receive disability payments except for the exclusion of pregnancy related disabilities, such sharing to continue until such time as a disability benefit plan is adopted by Red Seal and the Union


Red Seal and the Union served, by mail, the Assistant Attorney General who prosecuted the matter under the complaint filed by Mrs. Lowenstein, no service was attempted upon her, and she was not named as a party to the action.
The Commission moved to dismiss the petition. It argued that since Mrs. Lowenstein had not been named as a party within thirty days after entry of the final order by the Commission, and because she had not been served with notice of the petition for judicial review, the court had no jurisdiction over her, and thus, she being an indispensable party, the matter had to be dismissed. The district court granted the motion, and Red Seal appeals.
Red Seal asserts that, in determining whether the action for review was proper,Evaluation of the effects of iodized salt on the mental development of preschool-aged children: a cluster randomized trial in northern Ethiopia.
A cluster randomized effectiveness trial was used to examine the effects on mental development of introducing iodized salt to children 4 to 6 years of age in Ethiopia, where there were reportedly high levels of iodine deficiency. Sixty district clusters were randomized to receive iodized salt early at their markets with assistance from regular salt distributors or later as introduced by market forces. At pre- and post-iodization, 1602 children were given cognitive/language tests (namely School Readiness, WPPSI verbal reasoning, WPPSI Matrix reasoning), and mothers were interviewed concerning demographics, nutrition and health. Children's weight, height, urine and a blood sample were taken. Analyses of covariance, adjusting for clustering and


be the most unpredictable team at nationals without a doubt. Which team will turn up? The bronze medalists or the shoddy haircut bunch from last year? Although this has become a running joke among UK ultimate, it has been on the mind of Captain Mihael Dimitrov in preparations for UMON. The league was tough for Dundee, their toughest two games were at the start, in a semester which failed to provide much joy. However, fresh from the Christmas break, this squad has started to kick on and put in some good performances; third at indoors and a high quality SSS final vs. St. Andrews.* Mihael has backed both Henry Loan and GB dropout Angus Milliken to make a big impact along with the usual names and faces. Thisis a team who can win nationals or crash out in pool-play. However, I will go along with general consensus and place Dundee within the top eight.

What a season the Glasgow boys have had. They defied my initial predictions and have stormed to a second placed finish in the league, second at Mixed Nationals and narrowly missed out on a medal at UMIN. Captain Axel Ahmala may have looked back on the progress so far as a success story, but instead he wants to use it as a platform to push on at UMON. Their preparation since the league has been a gamble but it may well pay off. They sent a team to Siege of Limerick to get high quality reps, and so chose to enter a


over to this piece on Reddit , after you’ve finished with ours, of course.

Northern Region, by Tom Daly

That’s it for another year in Northern 1A and it’s University of Manchester who grab the 30 BUCS points and the league title, but not in straightforward fashion. Durham 1st took second place and Sheffield Hallam had a phenomenal debut season in the top tier finishing third.

Leeds just missed out on the top three, which they will be disappointed in and will not be the best fourth placed finish either, which means another year without Division 1 Nationals. Durham 2 may have finished fifth but they were no pushover in any of their matches. York prop up the league, having been winless all year.

Manchester & Durham 1st

Manchester set the tone ofDurham went on to their last game of the campaign the week afterwards and also cleanly defeated York (15-2). Durham secured second place with a much higher goal difference than anyone else, while the undefeated Manchester finished first. Division 1 Nationals for these two teams up next and both will be looking towards a top-end finish.

Leeds & Sheffield Hallam

The top two finished as expected and the consensus was Leeds would finish third with the last three being any combination of the rest. However, newly promoted Sheffield Hallam did not read the script.

Leeds had their first match away to York, who had admittedly lost players over the summer and set the bar for the league with a 15-1 away win. The followed that up with a commendable performance against


bracket once when the final whistle blows. Falmouth 24th/8th and Swansea 25th/9th.

Finishing Position Team Show Game Prediction Division Qualified For Relegated Predicted Nationals Finish 1st Bath 1st Division 1 No 9th 2nd Bristol 3rd Division 1 No 11th 3rd Exeter 2nd Division 1 No 15th 4th Swansea 5th Division 2 No 9th (25th) 5th Falmouth 4th Division 2 Yes 8th (24th) 6th Winchester 6th Division 2 Yes Dropped Out

South Eastern Region, by Jonny Arthur

As predicted at the start of the season, the top of the South East division all came down to a heavyweight matchup between the region’s two main powerhouses. Both Sussex and Portsmouth showed throughout the season that they were a cut above the rest of the division with performances at a consistently high level. Theywill both go into nationals with eyes on the very top prize. The final spot in Division 1 proved to be completely up for grabs, with all four of the remaining teams looking like they would grab it at various points in the season.

Sussex have been mightily impressive in their run to the South East title, running through pretty much all opposition with multiple defensive looks and patient offense that looks to make the most of every possession. Sussex effectively won the title back in December by overcoming Portsmouth 14-9, before cruising to the finish (conceding a total of six goals across their three post-Christmas games). Coupling this outdoor form with their second place finish at indoor nationals, Sussex will be looking to beat anyone and everyone in


Nottingham.

In second place, Portsmouth also had an impressive season, having beaten every non-Sussex team by at least five points. Portsmouth bring excellent zone play which will be a huge plus for them in the wind of Nottingham, whilst also being able to match most teams man for man and will be looking to improve on their ninth place finish at indoors, where they only lost to eventual winners St. Andrews on universe point. Expect to see both these teams in the top eight at Nationals and I wouldn’t even be overly surprised to see both teams making it to the semis and fighting for the national title.

Hertfordshire claimed third in the division by virtue of grinding out tight wins against the rest of the field, in what hasyear’s league champions UCL took fourth place following the walkover win and an impressive showing against St. Mary’s. Having only missed out on third place in their universe point loss to Herts, UCL will be looking to show the strength of the South East Division with some quick handler movement and accurate deep shots being able to punish any team who underestimates them.

Completing the round up is St. Mary’s in fifth place. In their first season in Division 1 St. Mary’s put in some impressive performances, particularly in their 15-4 win against Surrey to get some points on the board. Despite some big losses during the season St. Mary’s will go to Nottingham full of confidence that their unique brand of offense and defence can turn up some


Evaluation of climate-induced waterlogging hazards in the south-west coast of Bangladesh using Geoinformatics.
Climate-induced waterlogging has been significantly affecting the lives and livelihood of people in the south-west coastal region of Bangladesh for a couple of decades. The objective of this study is to investigate the waterlogging hazards of Tala, a south-western coastal Upazila of Bangladesh by analyzing satellite image. An empirical model based on velocity of flow, depth of flow, and inundation depth has been proposed to assess waterlogging hazard in pre monsoon, monsoon, and post monsoon period. Landsat TM images for the years 1989, 2000, and 2011 were analyzed by using Geoinformatics including GIS and remote sensing techniques to quantify the water hazard. Three dominant land use classes such as "water," "vegetation," and "bare lands and others"were selected to identify the land use land cover change. Both FGD (focus group discussions) and KII (key informant interviews) were also accomplished to assess the waterlogging hazard. It was revealed that 0.7% of the study area (246 ha) was under water in 1989, which increased alarmingly to 34% (11,525 ha) in 2011. There was an increase in 62.9% of water bodies during 1989 to 2000, which was further expanded to 77% during 2000 to 2011. Satellite image analysis between 2011 and 2015 also showed that nearly 89% of the waterlogged area including floodplain is inundated by tidal saline water that supports shrimp cultivation. On the contrary, 11% of the waterlogged area was occupied by trapped rain water. Confirmation of saline water and fresh water was done by


measuring electrical conductivity and conducting "mouth taste" during field visit. The decreasing rate of "bare lands and others" category indicates that there is around 69.4% of reduction in this category to accommodate the increasing water covering areas. The hazard model shows that the middle part of the Tala along with the flood plain of the Kabodak River usually have to suffer waterlogged in both pre monsoon and post monsoon period. It was found that low flow in the upstream side, siltation in the Kabodak River, elevated riverbed, and recent increase in total annual rainfall have resulted in waterlogging problem. Combining inputs obtained from FGD, KII, and economic study of drainage, the TRM (tidal river management) followed by re-excavation of silted riverbed may provide a sustainable solution to solveAbout Us

A tree landed on a construction worker near Ronda Town Hall this afternoon.

Work was being done on the sewers that required the tree to be cut down. The man was airlifted to Winston Salem. Unconfirmed reports say the man may have been working for Turner Construction Company out of Hickory. Both his identity and condition remain unknown.


Sheriff's lieutenant arrested for alleged assault on his wife

Lt. Ron Weber’s spouse is a KPD detective

KINGMAN - A lieutenant with the Mohave County Sheriff's Office is on administrative leave after he was arrested for domestic violence earlier this week.

Lt. Ron Weber was arrested Monday following an incident Sunday evening in which it is alleged he committed an act of domestic violence by assault against his wife, a detective with the Kingman Police Department.

The criminal complaint is being handled by the Lake Havasu Police Department because of Weber and the victim's connection to local law enforcement.

Sgt. Joe Harrold with the Lake Havasu Police Department said he was unable to provide details of the incident because witness interviews are still being conducted. Harrold said Weber was taken into custody around4 p.m. Monday at the Kingman Police Department, but he declined to give specifics of the arrest.

Weber was subsequently booked into the Mohave County Jail. Charges were filed Tuesday in the Kingman Municipal Court.

Trish Carter, spokesperson for the Sheriff's Office, said that the incident is under review by both the Sheriff's Office and the Mohave County Human Resources division. The Sheriff's Office is also conducting its own internal investigation.

Weber will remain on administrative leave pending the completion of the investigation, at which time a decision on his status with the agency will be made, Carter said. Weber is a 22-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office. He has served as lieutenant for a little more than a year.


Celebration held on Sunday, May 20, 2007 outside Town Hall. (Photo by Tim Smith).

Mattapoisett Birthday Bash8074 viewsTeddy Kassabian of ORR Junior High School reads a portion of the "Act of Incorporation" during Mattapoisett's 150th Birthday Celebration held on Sunday, May 20, 2007 outside Town Hall. (Photo by Tim Smith).

Cara Zavaleta and Pilar Lastra7865 viewsCara Zavaleta, Playboy magazine's Miss November (2004), and Pilar Lastra, who was Miss August (2004).

Haley Clark7732 viewsHaley (Cope) Clark, the United States 100-Meter Backstroke World Champion and former world-record holder.

Come Sail Away: Marion to Bermuda7661 viewsBillowing sails peppered the skyline as the first series of yachts in the 2005 Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race began their trek from Sippican Harbor in Marion to Bermuda on Friday, June 17. As of press time, the firstof Women Voters held at Sippican School on Wednesday, May 16. (Photo by Robert Chiarito).

Mudgie's Namesake 16294 viewsFriends and family members paid tribute to Mattapoisett’s own Maurice “Mudgie” Tavares last week in a formal ceremony to dedicate and name the new Center School Playground in his honor. Mudgie has been a longtime supporter and friend of the children of Mattapoisett — as both a staff member at Center School and the founder of the long-running and ever-popular Mattapoisett Track Club — so the playground dedication was an ideal honor. Former Mattapoisett students were on hand to cite Mudgie’s positive influence and affect on their lives. (Photo by Kenneth J. Souza).

Mudgie's Namesake 26281 viewsMaurice “Mudgie” Tavares, a longtime staff custodian at Center School in Mattapoisett and a dedicated benefactor


of the town's youth, looks on while students file out for the dedication of the school's playground in his honor. (Photo by Kenneth J. Souza).

Mattapoisett Mystery Man6266 viewsAcclaimed mystery author Robert B. Parker, who is best known for creating the long-running Spenser detective novels, will return to his hometown of Mattapoisett on Friday, July 8 for events to benefit the Mattapoisett Free Public Library. Mr. Parker will be doing a book reading and book signing at Center School, which he attended while living here. (Photo courtesy of Michael Barson).Ex-MOTÖRHEAD drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor died on Wednesday, November 11 at the age of 61.

Taylor's former MOTÖRHEAD bandmate "Fast" Eddie Clarke posted the following tribute to his colleague: "My dear friend and brother passed away last night. He had been ill for sometime but that does not make it any easier when the time finally comes.

"I have known Phil since he was 21 and he was one hell of a character. Fortunately, we made some fantastic music together and I have many many fond memories of our time together.

"Rest in peace, Phil!"

Taylor played in MOTÖRHEAD from 1975 to 1984 and again from 1987 to 1992. He appeared on the band's debut album, "On Parole", and played on a further ten albums, including 1979's "Bomber", 1980's "Ace Of


Spades", and 1982's "Iron Fist".

Taylor contributed to MOTÖRHEAD's 1992 album "March Or Die" but departed the band during the recording process. The album was completed by drummers Tommy Aldridge and current sticksman Mikkey Dee.

Said Ozzy Osbourne in a statement: "Just heard about Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor's passing. It's a terrible terrible loss. He was a great friend — great drummer — a great guy and he will be dearly missed. Today is a very sad day for me. Rest in peace — and he still owes me 500 bucks from that time in Vegas."

In a 1983 interview with Artist magazine, Taylor stated about his drumming approach in MOTÖRHEAD: "Well, once [MOTÖRHEAD bassist/vocalist] Lemmy starts playing, he's sort of out there on his own, in a way. It's somethingActions

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 Counter Attack - An attempt to hit when the opponent is already attacking.

Other Offensive Actions

 Redoublement / Remise / Reprise - A second attempt to hit after a previous attempt missed or was parried
 A redouble is an attempt to hit which follows the original attack
 A remise is an attempt to hit which follows the original attack, without withdrawing the arm,
 A reprise is a new attack executed immediately after a return to the on-guard position.

Defensive Actions

The parry is the defensive action made with


retreat that makes an attack fall short as a "distance parry", but this is informal use: an actual parry requires blade contact.

References

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The Juno-award nominated and multi award winning Little Hawk is a sentinel for the national conscience. He holds no ambition other than speaking the truth regardless of consequences. His music is his path and where it leads is shrouded in mystery.

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Biography

To know Troy Westwood one need only listen between the lines of every song he has ever sung. From his time as the frontman for Eagle and Hawk to his latest foray into Indigenous Protest Folk Rock as Little Hawk, the repertoire he brings is a reflection of his spirit. Music is neither a habit nor a past-time for Little Hawk: it is his air.

And the depth


of the songs he breathes in is matched by the sincerity of the songs he exhales. With influences as wide-ranging as reggae, rock, hip hop and folk, Little Hawk makes a masterpiece of filtering his musical inspiration and blending it with personally meaningful themes. His award-winning debut album, 1492-1975, was defined by the anger resulting from reading In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse, a book that was temporarily banned in the US for its critique of the FBI investigation of a shoot-out between its agents and members of the American Indian Movement at the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota.

While in the process of offering the lyrics of his first CD as a teaching tool, Little Hawk was introduced to the idea of redefining the CanadianNew Delhi: Maldives’ new president, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, has asked India for help building housing, water and sewage infrastructure in outlying islands.

His request was put across during Solih’s meetingon Saturday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who promised to help fulfil the coalition government’s “pledges”.

At around 5pm on November 17, Solih was sworn in as the seventh president of Maldives by the chief justice at the National Stadium in Malé. Since the ceremony took place during a parliamentary session, it was presided over by the speaker and ruling coalition leader Gasim Ibrahim. Modi was the only head of state present.

The notable absentee among Maldivian leaders was Solih’s predecessor, Abdulla Yameen, who announced a boycott of the ceremony on Friday night.

PM’s bucket list

With his plane landed in Malé in


the afternoon, Modi had finally visited all of India’s regional neighbours. He had been unable to tick Maldives off the list because of Yameen’s pro-China tilt and his incarceration of opposition leaders, which created a serious trust deficit over the last five years.

After entering the national stadium, Modi greeted former Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed with hugs. He was seated between the two Maldivian leaders, who had both been sent to prison by Yameen.

Exactly five years ago, Gayoom and Nasheed had attended a similar presidential inauguration in the Majlis (parliament), but in very different circumstances. Nasheed had been defeated in the 2013 elections by Yameen, who had the firm backing of his half-brother Gayoom. Now, Gayoom and Nasheed are allies.

The front row seats for VIPguests was also populated by former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga, former Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed and special envoys from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Also read: Backed by India, Maldives Becomes IORA Member; Myanmar’s Entry Blocked at Last Hurdle

Sri Lanka, which has now two claimants to the prime minister’s post, was represented by Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son Namal and two ministers in his cabinet. They, however, sat in a separate enclosure.

After the swearing-in ceremony, Solih said in his first speech that “reforming the judicial system will be one of the highest priority areas” of his administration.

With most opposition leaders and even members of Yameen’s cabinet having been sentenced by the courts, Solih noted that there was a pressing urgency for judicial reform, which would enhance the accountability


of the Supreme Court.

The new president also used the pulpit of the inauguration ceremony to announce that the Maldives was in a financial crisis due to “reckless mega development projects undertaken purely for political gains”. He was pointing a finger at Yameen, who had backed major projects sponsored by loans from China and Gulf states.

“Large-scale embezzlement and corruption have dwindled the coffers of the state by billions of rufiyaa. This money belongs to the Maldivian people, money that should have been spent for the common good of the people,” he said.

Solih noted that since the “precise scale and amount of financial loss” was unclear, international support and assistance would be needed to make a proper assessment of flight of assets from the Maldives.

Several opposition leaders, including Nasheed, hadalso a mention of “renewal of the close bonds of cooperation and friendship with the election of Mr Solih as the President of the Maldives,” which was a direct jibe at Yameen.

In his speech, the Maldivian president claimed that Maldives had been alienated from the international community.

Stating that Maldives foreign policy will be shaped by human rights, democracy and climate change diplomacy, Solih said that relations with be strengthened with India and neighbouring countries to ensure security in the Indian Ocean region.

The joint press statement dwelled on this strategic nature of India-Maldivian relations. “During their meeting, both leaders agreed on the importance of maintaining peace and security in the Indian Ocean and being mindful of each other’s concerns and aspirations for the stability of the region,” said the


statement.

The two leaders also “expressed their unwavering commitment and support for increased cooperation in combating terrorism both within the region and elsewhere”. Maldives has one of the highest per capita figure of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.

The meeting between the two heads of states lasted less than half an hour, before Modi left directly for the airport. The Indian prime minister was seen off by speaker Gasim Ibrahim, who had also welcomed him on arrival.

In toto, Modi spent around four hours in the Indian Ocean nation. Solih asked him to make a proper official visit, to which Modi agreed.

The Maldivian leader will visit India in December, his first foreign destination as president. Ahead of this, Maldives foreign minister Abdulla Shahid will be in Delhi on November 26Formula Ford car, the Mark 11. In its first year, Schenken took the BRSCC Formula Ford 1600 championship title. The following season was also highly successful with Luiz Pereira Bueno finishing second in the championship. Emerson Fittipaldi drove a Merlyn for a short time in the Formula Ford championship before graduating into Formula 3. This Mark 11A, chassis 238, had become known as the 'Magic Merlyn'. Fittipaldi sold the car to Colin Vandervell for the 1970 season. The Mark 12, designed for Formula 2 and powered by a Cosworth FVA, was chosen by Bob Gerard's F2 team.  The Mark 12 scored one point in the European championship with Brian Hart in 1968. The following season brought even less success, with the class dominated by Formula 1 constructors.

The


Harlan,
Edgar Rubey. A Narrative History of the People of Iowa.
Vol III. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1931 pps. 361-362

For sixty-four years the
Sisters of Mercy in Iowa have given practical humanitarian and altruistic
service to their fellow men in the school, in the hospital, in the sanitarium,
in the home for the aged, in the home for the working girl,- the expansion of
their work during these years being proof beyond question of its value.
Origin of the Sisters of Mercy: In the early part of
the nineteenth century there lived in Dublin, Ireland, Catherine McAuley, a
cultured young woman of an old and distinguished family who, possessed of a
large fortune and impelled by the distress and need of the poor of her native
country, decided to devote this entire fortune to the relief and care of
orphans,destitute women and poor schools. The first building erected for this
cause was dedicated September 24, 1827. Soon many young women joined Miss
McAuley to assist in her noble work, that in a few short years her house was
changed from a secular to a religious institution. On December 12, 1831, the new
institute was confirmed as the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. Following
this mark of stability, members rapidly increased, similar institutions
multiplied, not only in Ireland, but expanded in less than fifteen years to
England and the United States.
Sisters of Mercy in the United States: The first
foundation of the Sisters of Mercy in the United States was made at Pittsburgh,
in 1843, through the appeal made by the Rt. Rev. M. O'Connor to the Sisters
while visiting at their convent in Carlow, Ireland. He


explained the great need
for carrying out the works of mercy in his diocese of Pittsburgh, and in
response to this appeal seven Sisters volunteered to return with him.
It is recorded in the annals of the Order that when
they arrived in New York, the first person to meet them was the Rt. Rev. William
Quarter, bishop-elect of Chicago. He, too, needed Sisters to work in the far
West, but the most he could obtain at that time was a promise that the Sisters
would come as soon as possible, which promise was fulfilled when five Sisters
arrived in Chicago, in 1846. This was the beginning of St. Xavier's, Chicago.
Civil War Volunteers: Although the Chicago community
was only in its early development at the outbreak of the Civil war, yet the
patriotic zeal of its constituents enabledit to spare eight members to serve
their country's cause by ministering to the sick and wounded. It is of interest
to note that two of this band of nurses were Mother Mary Borromeo Johnson and
Mother Mary Francis Monholland, who later came as charity workers to Iowa.
The annals record that in September, 1861, these eight
Sisters left Chicago in company with the military officer who had been sent to
conduct them. They set out by way of St. Louis for Lexington, Missouri, a place
they failed to reach. After many delays and thrilling incidents they arrived at
Jefferson City. Immediately on their arrival they were requested to take charge
of the City Hospital, which was crowded with sick and wounded soldiers. They
remained there until April, 1862, when, the division being ordered elsewhere,
their services were no


longer needed. At Saint Louis, on their way home, they
were met by a sanitary commissioner who asked them to take charge of the
hospital department on the steamboat Empress, which was carrying wounded
soldiers from the battlefield of Shiloh. One one of its trips up the Mississippi
the Empress reached Keokuk, Iowa, April 16, 1862. It required two days to remove
the sick and wounded soldiers to the hospital. The Sisters did everything
possible to relieve the suffering of their patients during the five weeks they
spent on their floating hospital.

Sisters of Mercy come
to Iowa: Following the close of the Civil war, in 1867 Mother Mary Borromeo
Johnson and four Sister companions from Saint Xavier Academy, Chicago, opened a
school in the little town of DeWitt. Shortly afterwards doctors from Davenport
asked for Sisters to open ahospital. In response to this invitation Mercy
Hospital was opened in 1868. In 1869 a school and academy were opened in
Independence by Mother Mary Francis Monholland and her cultured and experienced
Sisters. Davenport having the most desirable location, Mercy Hospital was made
the first Motherhouse of the Sisters of Mercy in Iwoa, and Mother Mary Borromeo
Johnson was chosen Mother Superior. From this house as a center, all the other
houses in Iowa, with one exception, (Council Bluffs), have been either directly
or indirectly founded.
Development in Iowa: Mercy Hospital, Davenport, filled
an urgent need in the pioneer community and its growth was rapid. From the first
day to the present the work has gone ahead; addition after addition has been
erected; the latest is the new $500,000 building now under construction. Today
Mercy Hospital, together with its departments


for nervous and mentally afflicted
men and women, ranks s one of the best equipped institutions in the country.
From this institution foundations have been sent to
Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Des Moines, and Marshalltown. In later years
the labors of the Davenport Sisters of Mercy have been extended to a Young
Women's Home in Davenport and schools in Davenport, Burlington, West Burlington,
Mount Pleasant, Manilla and Rockwell City.
In 1875 seven Sisters from the Motherhouse in Davenport
opened the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy and Saint Joseph's School in Cedar
Rapids. After some years this Motherhouse was transferred to Sacred Heart
Academy, located in the outskirts of the city. This community has been devoted
almost entirely to the work of education. At present these Sisters conduct three
hospitals, a junior college, an academy, numerous schools throughout thestate
and at Marion a seminary for boys, a model of its kind.
In 1879, at the urgent solicitation of the Rt. Rev.
John Hennessy, five Sisters from Davenport arrived in Dubuque on January 13 to
found a hospital. This was the beginning of Saint Joseph's Mercy Hospital.
Notwithstanding hardships and limited funds, the Sisters, with the cooperation
of citizens interested in a great work of mercy, made the establishment a
notable success. It became a Motherhouse in 1882.
The needs of the time made expansion along other lines
necessary. As a result Saint Anthony's Home for the Aged was opened in 1887, and
also Saint Joseph's Sanitarium. This latter institution is today one of the best
equipped and most popular of its kind in the state.
Besides institutions conducted in Dubuque by the
Sisters of Mercy, they have hospitals in


Sioux City, Clinton, Mason City, Fort
Dodge, Waverly and Cresco; schools at Eagle Center, Bankston, Ackley and
Independence.
In 1887 the Sisters of Mercy from Minnesota opened
Saint Bernard's as a Motherhouse and hospital in Council Bluffs. In 1902 Mercy
Hospital was erected. Other institutions conducted by these Sisters include an
academy, a seminary for boys, several schools, a home for working girls, a home
for the aged and three hospitals in Iowa.

Summary of Institutions
Developed and Conducted by the Sisters of Mercy in Iowa from 1867-1931: The
period from 1867 to 1931 has been an era of rapid and unprecedented growth in
schools, hospitals, sanitariums, homes for the aged, homes for working girls,
and training schools for nurses. The first school record of the Sisters of Mercy
in Iowa in 1867 shows an attendance of forty pupils. In 1930the grand total of
all pupils in thirty parochial schools, two academies, two seminaries for boys
and a junior college exceeded 5,000. The first hospital record shows that during
the first year of hospital service in 1868, seventy-six patients received care
and treatment. The 1930 records show that 30,580 patients were cared for. The
total number of patients treated in their sanitariums for 1930 reached 3290;
total number of homes for aged, 225; total number of Young Women's Boarding
Homes, 200; and total number in training schools for nurses, 750. The original
band of Sisters who came to Iowa in 1867 numbered only five; today there are 550
Sisters of Mercy in Iowa. Their great mission of mercy has extended beyond the
borders of the state to Michigan and Montana.
A New Era: On August 25, 1928, the Sisters


of Mercy
from all parts of the United States, having realized the advantages of united
effort, held a general chapter, or convention, at Cincinnati, Ohio, for the
purpose of forming a strong, well-organized, unified body. As a result, a union
of the majority of the communities, with a total membership exceeding 5,000
which had heretofore been working independently, was effected. The vast
territory which is covered by this great united body was divided into provinces,
each under a Mother Provincial and all subject to a Mother General, who, with
her council, is located at the General Motherhouse, Washington, D.C.
Mount St. Agnes: One outcome of this reorganization of
communities of interest to Iowa is that of Mount Saint Agnes, Dubuque, became
the Novitiate for the Province of Cincinnati, Ohio. In this imposing structure,
with its beautiful Romanesque chapel, its extensivegrounds, and location of
great natural beauty, more than eighty-three Novices at the present time are
receiving preparation that will fit them to continue efficiently and
successfully the work inaugurated by their foundress and carried on so
magnificently by their predecessors for the space of a hundred years.

MERCY HOSPITAL WHERE SCIENCE
PROTECTS LIFE
OPENED BY CHICAGO SISTERS IN 1869, IT HAS GROWN IN POWER THRUOUT THE YEARS

Mercy Hospital,
founded in 1869, is the pioneer institution of its kind in this section of the
country. At the time of its opening, 55 years ago, it was the only institution
outside of a hospital at St. Louis, west of the Mississippi river.
Prior to 1869 the only public relief for the sick and injured
was transferred to the Poor Farm, four miles out in the country in an open
wagon.
The pauper charges


of Scott county and the insane of the
community were crowded together, and conditions were deplorable. The officials,
and especially the Scott County Board of Supervisors, were intensely interested
in the adoption of plans for the betterment of existing conditions. Several
plans had been offered and had later been rejected.

Appeal to Sisters.
One evening in September, 1869, while G.H. Watkins, county
overseer of the poor, was attempting to formulate a better system for the care
of indigent insane and other charges of the county, he decided to appeal to the
Catholics.
Calling upon J. McMonomy, Mr. Watkins explained the plans and
asked if there was not a possibility of persuading the Sisters of Mercy of
Chicago to establish a hospital in Davenport.
A meeting was held at St. Anthony's church and the matter was
given further consideration, in the minutes ofthe board of supervisors of
October 13, 1869, the following words are recorded:
"Mr. Watkins on the Committee of the Poor reports that
the Sisters of Mercy are willing to open an institution and include in their
plans the care of the poor and insane of Scott County; the general purpose of
the institution to include the care of every class of suffering and sick except
contagion."

Building Provided.
Negotiations between the county officials and the Sisters of
Mercy of Chicago provided that suitable facilities for the establishment of a
hospital should be provided. At that time a Sisters' Academy was located at the
west edge of the city, on the site now occupied by Mercy Hospital. This building
had been erected 14 years previous to 1869. It was now vacant and in sad need of
repairs.
The Board secured permission to


convert the building into a
hospital, providing that it should be used for no other purpose than the care of
the sick. Before establishing the hospital the Sisters insisted that at least 10
patients be secured and a loan of $2,000 be secured from Scott county.

Hospital Opened.
The necessary pledges were forthcoming and in November, six
Sisters of Mercy from Chicago arrived in Davenport and assumed charge of the
work of renovating and overhauling the building preparatory to he opening of the
hospital proper. This was soon accomplished and on December 8, the doors were
opened to admit the first patients.
Active in the establishment of the hospital were Dr. Peck,
who had served as an army surgeon during the Civil war; Miss Fejervary; Mrs.
Mitchell; Rev. Father Palamoges, and numerous others who gave liberally not only
of their moneybut of their time as well. Rev. Mother Borromeo was the first
Mother Superior in charge of the hospital. She passed away several years ago,
and here remains repose beneath a memorial in the rear of the present Mercy
hospital.
The first candidate to join the band of Sisters was
Sister Mary Catherine, who is still living at the hospital and is active despite
her years of unrequited toil among the sick and the needy of the community.

First Year's Work.
During the first year of its existence, Mercy hospital cared
for 76 patients, both general and insane. When the hospital was first opened, a
medical board was formed by the foundress, Reverend Mother Borromeo, assisted by
Dr. Peck. Dr. O.C. Rundy was elected president and Dr. C.S. Maxwell, secretary.
Drs. Maxwell and Greggs comprised the consulting board. The following


were
members of the attending board: Drs. W.F. Peck, G. Hoekfner, J. McCourtney, W.A.
Hasford ,W.D. Middleton, and D.C. Roundy, and Henry Braunlich who was for five
years a member of the board and is still active in the work of the hospital.
Immediately after the organization of the hospital the
private hospital operated by Drs. Henry and Carl Matthey and others, closed its
doors and turned their effects to the Sisters.

Cholera Epidemic.
In September, 1877, cholera swept down on the little city of
Davenport like a fog in the night, snuffing out the lives of hundreds of human
beings.
The board of health was hastily reorganized and public
measures adopted to combat the plague, Judge James Grant came to the rescue of
the stricken city and secured rooms for an emergency hospital. In less than five
hours after the opening,the hastily improvised hospital was filled with
patients. But who was there for care for them, to minister to their needs?
Unannounced by the blare of trumpets, at this crisis in the
history of the struggling city two Sisters appeared at the improvised hospital
and offered their services.
The Sisters remained in charge during the epidemic
ministering to the wants of sufferers, cheering them, soothing fevered brows,
and receiving the last messages to those who were about to pass into the Great
Beyond.

Growth of the Hospital.
Mercy hospital filled an urgent need in this pioneer
community, and its growth was rapid. Before the first year was at an end
additional quarters were necessary, and additions were built. From that day to
this the work has gone ahead; addition after addition has been erected, new
buildings planned and constructed until today the


hospital ranks as one of the
best equipped in the country.
Accommodations are provided for approximately 200 patients in
the main hospital and for 200 in the buildings for the mentally afflicted.
The 76 general and mental patients of 1869 have increased to
4500 in 1923.
The Nurses' Home which was erected in 1919, is a model
building, accommodating 90 nurses.

Other Foundations.
From the local institution foundations have been sent out to
Iowa City, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and Marshalltown. In addition to
this work, the task of teaching others to carry on the work has been maintained
both here and elsewhere. In every emergency, whether of county or community-
during the Civil war, during the World war, in the cholera and the influenza
epidemics- Mercy hospital has hurried to the call of duty and humanity.
Mercy hospital is situated inthe northwest part of the city,
just within the corporate limits. The building fronts on Lombard street, while
the spacious ground look out upon the rich farm lands and the scenic beauty of
the Mississippi bluffs. The site is not surpassed in point of beauty and
healthfulness. Apart from the noise of the city and yet partaking of all its
advantages, the location is ideal for hospital purposes.
The hospital embraces the most improved features of hospital
construction and equipment, and furnishes the best facilities for the care of
the sick.
On the first floor are located the hospital offices,
laboratories, pharmacy, rooms for resident physicians, medical library, record
room, operating and Doctors' consulting rooms.
The second, third and fourth floors are devoted mainly to
private rooms. Each floor, however, has four private wards, an auxiliary
pharmacy, diet kitchen, and a linen


room aiding toward greater efficiency and
comfortable service.
There are four operating rooms each with its own equipment
for general surgery. Special operating rooms with special equipment are devoted
to eye, ear, nose, throat and genito-urinary surgery. Convenient to each
operating room are two surgical dressing rooms, instrument supply rooms and
complete modern sterilizing apparatus.
The Laboratories occupy eight rooms in the south of the first
floor. The equipment is the latest and best that can be obtained.
The Pharmacy is located on the first floor. It is well
stocked with all chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations that may be of
service in a large hospital. A Sister who is a Registered Pharmacist devotes her
time to the work of this department.
On each floor there are auxiliary medicine rooms supplied
with all the necessities for routine and emergency needs.
The Obstetrical Department towhich the entire new wing of
the fourth floor is given is well equipped for efficient service in this special
branch of work.
In the Dietetic Department are prepared diets for the various
conditions of health and disease.

Training School for Nurses.
Mercy Hospital School for Nurses was established in 1895.
Since that time 240 nurses have received diplomas. Graduates
are in great demand and many of them are holding responsible positions as
Hospital and Training School Superintendents, Surgical Nurses, Visiting, Public
Health and Social Service Nurses thruout the United States.
The course of lectures is thorough, comprising all subjects,
medical, surgical, obstetrical, nervous and infectious, needed to complete a
nurses training.
The Training School is accredited by the State.

Religion.
The Training School is non-sectarian. There is no
interference with the religious convictions of the student. The school is
conducted by the Sisters of Mercy,