bond did become problematic for Prenter because he worked for Queen not Freddie Mercury.

'He worked with Freddie too much and the rest of the band thought they were being neglected, that Paul was not taking care of their needs,' recalls Stephen.

Unlike the graphic picture painted in the film in which Prenter bewitches the Queen front-man, his family and friends are confident that while Freddie Mercury and Paul were extremely close, they were never lovers.

After seeing their relationship in action first hand, Prenter's brother Stephen couldn't be more adamant on this point.

'Freddie was gay, simple. My brother did not make Freddie gay and Freddie was taking drugs long before he met my brother,' he says.

'So the idea Paul corrupted Freddie is nonsense, Freddie was not a man to beled.'

A close friend of Prenter agrees and described the film as homophobic.

Belfast City Councillor Jeffrey Dudgeon told MailOnline: 'I knew Paul when he was about 18. He was rich and that was unusual.

'The band basically thought Paul turned Freddie gay and that was a bad thing because that turned Freddie into somebody separate from them.

'But the truth of the matter was Freddie was gay himself and that was it really.

'I've seen the film and I thought it was a bit sleekit [deceitful, slimy] the way Prenter was used as an evil character. The film is anti-gay.'

His brother Stephen says the filmmakers tries to bring the 'Irish Catholic parents thing' into the movie by portraying their parents as not accepting their gay son. Paul is pictured as a young


boy during his Communion, left, and Confirmation, right, and though he grew up Catholic, his brother calls the angle 'nonsense'

The family say the most hurtful part of the film is the depiction that Paul's father Bill (right, with mother Eileen) would 'rather see him dead' than let him be gay

Paul's goddaughter and niece Blathanaid Prenter (left) and oldest brother Ray (right) say Freddie would be 'disgusted' at the movie and that Paul didn't have a 'nasty bone in his body'

Paul lived with his parents in this home in Glenageary, near Dublin, Ireland, until his 1991 death. He had little money from the band, bit his parents took care of him as he fought AIDS

Prenter's brother Gerard added: 'They even hint that Freddie was into women before he metPaul. But Freddie was gay through and through.'

While brother Ray added: 'Paul was Freddie's go-for, his right-hand man.

'He escorted him to all these raves, these parties, but Paul and Freddie were not a couple.'

Gerard's wife Mary said: 'Freddie and Paul were never lovers.

'They were incredibly close and supportive to one another unlike the rest of the band.

'May had a degree, was rather arrogant and thought himself superior.

'He and the rest of the band resented how close Paul and Freddie were.'

Gerard added it was wrong to suggest that Paul tried to manipulate Freddie.

He said: 'Look, there were tensions in the band. The truth is that Freddie was the boss. He wanted to go and do solo stuff. To pretend that Paul was the instigator is simply wrong.

'Now neither of


them are here they are trying to re-write history.'

Bohemian Rhapsody reaches its climax with Queen's and Freddie Mercury's spectacular closing-performance at the 1985 Live Aid at Wembley Stadium.

The film claims Prenter tried to prevent Freddie Mercury from taking part in the charity fundraising concert which resulted in the breakdown of his relationship with Queen.

It then shows Prenter revealing all of Freddie's sexual secrets in a kiss-and-tell interview.

But Paul's family claim he was instrumental in getting Queen back together for what was possibly their most famous performance of all time – the Live Aid show.

And the film failed to mention Queen's boycott-busting music tour to Apartheid-era South Africa in 1984, with a string of paid performances at Sun City.

His goddaughter Blathanaid told MailOnline; 'Paul was instrumental in Queen appearingat Live Aid. The band had split up and Freddie had gone off to work on a solo career.

This clip from the film shows Paul's character (played by Allen Leech) seducing Freddie (Rami Malek) and 'turning him gay'. Paul's family say Freddie was always gays and the pair were nothing more than best friends

A veteran radio DJ from Paul's hometown of Belfast said Paul was 'very flamboyant' and 'had the walk and used to swear', doing little to hide his sexuality

'Paul convinced the four of them to get back together for Live Aid. But what was represented in the film was the polar opposite.

'In the movie Paul was not present at the Live Aid concert, he has gone before then. Why?

Gerard said: 'It's just ludicrous. They even imply


that Paul was against them [Queen] doing it [Live Aid]. Nothing could be further from the truth.

'The truth is Paul didn't split from Queen until the year after Live Aid.

'The film is all about burnishing the image of the mediocrities that are left behind.

'Do they mention the band breaking the boycott of Apartheid South Africa when they played in Sun City?

'They did that purely for money when most groups with any integrity were boycotting the place.

'People despised them for that but it doesn't get a mention.'

Prenter's family acknowledge the hurt that Paul caused by the explosive interview about Freddie Mercury's sex-life to The Sun newspaper in 1987, for which he was paid £32,000 or $41,600 - the modern equivalent of £90,000 or $117,000.

But they claim he was disgruntledover how he was fired by the band and needed the money to pay for his treatment for AIDS.

Bohemian Rhapsody, which won five Academy Awards, portrayed Paul as a 'snake' who broke up the rock band and tried to distance Freddie from the rest of the band members

'Paul was very bitter,' Ray Prenter told MailOnline. 'They let him down and he was hurt. They were very mean.

'He worked for them for years and years and he got very little from them.

'That was when he decided he had to get a few bob for his own treatment.

'So that is why he went with the papers.'

Mary Prenter said: 'He shouldn't have done it. But the way the film portray that is all wrong too.'

Stephen vividly remembers Paul's dilemma over selling


on the side of the law instead of committing crimes. Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins was released April 21.

Star Trek The Video Game (360, PS3, PC)This is simply the video game adaptation of the Star Trek film from 2009. You’ll play as Kirk—the more straight forward gunner—and Spock—who will be the stealth character. The game is a third person shooter and you are to prevent the Gorn from attacking a Vulcan colony. The game looks great visually, but it’s an adaptation of the movie, so nothing to jump up and write home about for the most part. Star Trek The Video Game will be released April 23 for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. If you enjoyed the film, you might be interested in this one up.

Fire Emblem:between just in case and just in time, he says.

Wegmann honed his supply chain skills during 20 years in the army, where he served as a quartermaster officer. Returning to civilian life, he worked as distribution manager at the Red Cross national warehouse in Lorton, Va.

"That entailed maintaining approximately 2,500 product lines and doing the customer service, order entry, pick, pack, and ship for approximately 1,400 chapters and 42 blood service regions, he says. Most of the products shipped from that warehouse were printed materials—such as texts for Red Cross safety classes, disaster preparedness brochures, and forms used to maintain blood donation records.

Wegmann then moved to Biomedical Services, where he spent four and a half years as senior logistics engineer before assuming his present position. A major theme


Arthur D. Chodoroff served as Director of Bands from 1977-2011. Chodoroff was the conductor of the Wind Symphony and the Wind Ensemble, instructed advanced undergraduate and graduate conducting students, and taught courses in music education. He was the founding conductor of the Collegiate Band and Wind Ensemble. He conducted concerts with the Chamber Winds and Sinfonia Orchestra, was Chair of the Department of Instrumental Studies from 1996-2005 and Area Coordinator for Woodwinds and Brass.

Chodoroff served as Director of the Diamond Marching Band from 1977-1996 and as Director of the Temple Jazz Ensemble from 1976-1991. Under his direction, performances by the Diamond Marching Band included the Mirage Bowls I and II in Tokyo, Japan; the Garden State Bowl; the Bicentennial Constitution Parade; Philadelphia Eagles games; the 1983 Phillies WorldSeries; and Temple football games on campuses in several states. Performances by the Jazz Ensemble included tours in the U.S.; invitational concerts for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and Eastern Music Educators National Conference; the Villanova Jazz Festival; and the Rowan University Collegiate Jazz Festival. The Jazz Ensemble also performed at Temple's summer Ambler Music Festival with guest soloists Dizzy Gillespie and Phil Woods.

Under his direction, three recordings of the Temple University Wind Symphony were released: American Sounds, in 1992 by Toshiba-EMI; Temple University Wind Symphony; Arthur Chodoroff, conductor and Karel Husa, guest conductor with soloists Anthony Gigliotti, clarinet, Jonathan Blumenfeld, oboe, and Eric Carlson, trombone, in 1997 by Albany Records; and Celebrations, in 2011 by BCM&D Records. Chodoroff also served as the faculty producer for the Boyer


College's promotional CD Temple People Perform. His performances with the Wind Symphony included tours in the U.S., well as invitations to perform for the Eastern Division of the College Band Directors National Association, the Eastern Division of the Music Educators National Conference, and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. Performances on campus featured internationally known soloists including members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the American Brass Quintet and the Canadian Brass. His additional performances with Temple concert bands included such special events as Temple Convocations and Commencements, the dedication of the refurbished William Penn statue atop Philadelphia's City Hall, and performing "Hail to the Chief" for Presidents Carter and Reagan.

Chodoroff has served as President of the Eastern Division of the College Band Directors National Association, received the Citation of Excellencein higher education teaching by District 12 of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and was recognized as an outstanding music educator in the nation by the School Musician Director/Teacher magazine. Articles that he has authored have recently been accepted for publication by the School Band and Orchestra (SBO) and Teaching Music magazines. Chodoroff has guest conducted numerous high school honors, community, and professional bands and has adjudicated festivals throughout the country. Since retiring, he has served for a semester as an adjunct professor/conductor with the College of New Jersey Wind Ensemble, provided in-service professional development workshops for music educators and he remains active as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator.


3rd and 5th Confederate: Chickamauga 19th- 20th September 1863

Hdqrs.Third and Fifth Confederate Regts., Near Chattanooga, October 5, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by my regiment in the battle of September 19 and 20, on Chickamauga Creek:

The regiment entered the action first on the 19th with the brigade about sundown, passing over the Sixth and Seventh Arkansas Regiments, of Liddell’s brigade, which were lying down. We had proceeded but a short distance to the front when the enemy opened fire on our sharpshooters. They were immediately withdrawn. The enemy’s artillery opened destructive fire on our advancing lines, which together with fire from infantry behind temporary works, stopped us for a short time. The right of the brigade, however, meeting withless resistance, pushed on, and getting on his flank he soon retired in confusion, leaving a 12-pounder James gun and a caisson, having set another on fire. I was here directed by Lieutenant-General Hill to halt my regiment, as it had, by directing itself on Wood’s brigade, become somewhat detached from the remainder of the brigade. This ended the contest for to night, most of the fighting having been done since dark. My loss in this affair was about 25 men, most of them (receiving) slight wounds.

We remained in line during the night of the 19th, replenished our supply of ammunition, and were ready to move again at daylight. We were not, however, engaged until about 10 o’clock on the 20th, having received our rations from the rear


in the meantime. When the attack was renewed we met the enemy at his works, which were located on the crest of a rise that commanded the space in front of it. The strife at this point was fearful. Such showers of grape, canister, and small-arms I have never before witnessed. We remained here until our supply of ammunition was exhausted without losing or gaining ground. Through the misapprehension of an order, or from some other cause unknown to me, the right of my regiment gave way, and it was with some difficulty that order was restored and the line re-established. Failing as we did to drive the enemy from his position, and our ammunition being exhausted, we were ordered by Brigadier-General Polk to fall back. Our lossin this engagement was very heavy. Among the fallen was Captain W.J. Morris, a brave and worthy officer. He died of his wounds a few days after.

We next attacked our stubborn foe about 4 o’clock in the evening, and some 400 or 500 yards to the right of our position in the morning. His resistance here was, for long, as obstinate as in the morning; but we finally proved too much for him, and he took refuge behind his second line of works, about 200 yards to the rear of his first. He made but a short stand here and then fled in confusion across the open field in rear, leaving many prisoners in our hands. In this last engagement the loss of the regiment was heavier than


city, Japan). In July 2015, our hospital was moved to a new location. Both the current and the previous hospitals are located within 2000 m from the closed asbestos cement pipe plant in Amagasaki city. This retrospective study was in accordance with the Standards for the Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) statement 2015, and was approved by the institutional review board of Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center (approval number 28--63). All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The institutional review board of our hospital waived the need for informed consent from patients involved in this studyMinister Narendra Modi relies on Ayurveda.

In a candid interaction with Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, the Prime Minister said, instead of rushing to doctors, he swears by simple home remedies.

How Modi fights common cold

In the interview, Prime Minister Modi shared his personal nuskas which he uses to combat common cold, take care of his skin and soothe body pain.

PM Modi revealed that he treats his cold by drinking hot water and observing a fast to get rid of the illness.

"If I get cold, I drink warm water, without adding anything to it. I also go on fasting for about two days," he said.

PM Modi also spoke about the benefits of mustard oil when battling cold.

"I use mustard oil to treat my cold. I warm it a bit at night


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With their number one ranking on Japan’s Tower Record Charts, Dal Shabet is back as a four member act to commemorate their five-year-anniversary since debut. Their latest album, Naturalness, exudes a cute and playful vibe after the sexy and seductive album, Joker Is Alive. True to its title, the album showcases Dal Shabet’s natural and beautiful vocals with four solo tracks for each member in addition to two group tracks. Naturalness symbolizes a new beginning and fresh start for the group.

Track 1 – 지긋이 (Stay With You)

Album opener Stay With You is a ballad song with an amazing grand piano accompaniment, a bit of light electric guitar, and fairytale like chimes. Besides the dramatic chorus, I really like the gentle harmonies of the girls’ pure voices. TheirOther highlights of this year's BBC Proms season include the Berlin Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the return of both Daniel Barenboim and Marin Alsop, announces outgoing director Roger Wright

A new work by the Pet Shop Boys exploring the life and work of wartime codebreaker Alan Turing is to get its world premiere at this year's Proms, the 120th edition of the world's biggest music festival.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will perform A Man from the Future at the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of Prom 8 with the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers.

The Pet Shop Boys follow in a long line of non-classical musicians appearing at the Proms – Soft Machine may have been first in 1970. Singer-songwriters Paloma Faith and Rufus Wainwright are


also to make their Proms debuts as part of this year's two-month season of 92 concerts.

The BBC Proms director, Roger Wright, said the vision for 2014 remained the same, "bringing the best possible classical music to the largest possible audience".

He added: "The size and scale of the Proms remains extraordinary. That is the reason that people refer to it as the world's largest and most significant music festival."

The Pet Shop Boys homage to Turing – whole played a crucial role in breaking the German Enigma code during the second world war– comes 60 years after he killed himself. Turing took his own life after he was prosecuted for his homosexuality. He was finally received a posthumous pardon for on Christmas Eve last year.

While Tennant and Lowe have performedsnippets from the new work before, it will be heard in full for the first time on 23 July. The Prom will also feature new orchestral arrangements of five Pet Shop Boys' songs by the film composer Angelo Badalamenti.

Wright said: "It is something about the power of the Proms that significant musical figures such as Pet Shop Boys, Rufus Wainwright and Paloma Faith are all so excited about being able to appear. As are Berlin Philharmoniker, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra."

There are numerous firsts in this year's festival, but one of the noisiest could well be the first CBeebies Prom. The Saturday morning concert – "the crucial thing is not making anything too long," said Wright – will feature presenters from the children's TV channel


and will explore the sounds of the orchestra as well as short pieces including a commissioned three-minute work by the composer Barrie Bignold.

There will also be the first BBC Sport Prom, expect the theme to the Horse of the Year Show and, possibly, Match of the Day; and the first collaboration with the National Theatre in the shape of a War Horse Prom, featuring puppets from the play and music performed by the Military Wives Choir under the direction of choirmaster and broadcaster Gareth Malone.

Birthdays and anniversaries that will be marked include the 80th birthdays of two of Britain's most important living composers, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Wright said global classical music would be at the heart of the 2014 Proms with more international orchestrasperforming than ever before – including for the first time from China, Greece, Iceland, Lapland, Qatar, Singapore, South Korea and Turkey.

Notable conductors include Marin Alsop, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink and, at 90, Sir Neville Marriner. The chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, will take charge of the Last Night for the first time.

This year's Proms will be especially poignant for Wright as they are his last. He steps down from his dual role in charge of Radio 3 and the Proms on 18 July before taking over as chief executive of the Aldeburgh music festival in September.

"I shall be shedding a tear during Elgar's The Kingdom for a whole number of reasons," he said, although he admitted looking forward


nursing at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, did a study in Jamaica. It was actually published in the American Journal of Pediatrics in 1994, but now it's re-circulating because of all the interest in the neuroprotective properties.

Basically, she studied women during their entire pregnancy, and then studied the babies about a year after birth. And what she studied was a group of women who did smoke cannabis during pregnancy and those who didn't. She expected to see a difference in the babies as far as birth weight and neuro tests, but there was no difference whatsoever. The differences that the researchers did notice, that are unexplained and kind of curious are that the babies of the women who had smoked cannabis -- and we're talking about daily useat it's yearly conference like Bernard Avishai who wrote the anti-Zionist book "The Tragedy of Zionism"

It defended the disgusting antisemitic and virulently anti-Israel play Seven Jewish Children.

It takes money from people who represent the enemies of Israel such as:

Genevieve Lynch, Board member of NIAC, the de fact lobby of the Iranian government. Judith Barnett a registered with the U.S. Justice Department as a foreign agent for Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Richard Abdoo who contributes to Israel hater Kieth Ellison's election campaigns. Mary El-Khatib who writes for the virulently anti-Israel Muslim Link . Nancy Dutton: Widow and law partner of Fred Dutton, registered foreign agent for Saudi Arabia for almost 30 years. "Filings with the Justice Department show that he earned millions of dollars from the Saudis. Kathleen Peratis


in his ultimate boss: Attorney General Holder.

March 26: Speaking in Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claims, "The guns that are used by the drug cartels against the police and the military, 90 percent of them come from America."

April 16: At a press conference with Mexico's President Felipe Calderón, President Obama asserts, "More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border."

Throughout the spring and summer, the Obama administration repeatedly tries and fails to provide solid evidence for the "90 percent" factoid. Behind the scenes is Dan Restrepo, National Security Council officer in charge of Latin America. He previously worked for the Center for American Progress, a think tank funded by globalist billionaire GeorgeSoros. Restrepo has been a key adviser urging Obama to blame Mexico's drug-cartel violence on the United States' Second Amendment freedoms. He will later receive memos from BATFE regarding F&F.

September: BATFE's Phoenix office opens an investigation of several high-volume gunrunners. Soon dubbed "Operation Fast and Furious," it is a vastly expanded and even more reckless version of "Operation Wide Receiver," a "gun walking" program that Newell oversaw in 2006-07.

Oct. 31: The Phoenix Field Division opens an investigation of Uriel Patino, a gun trafficker who lives on food stamps. Under F&F, licensed firearm dealers are persuaded by BATFE to become confidential informants by selling guns to obvious straw purchasers (people who are buying guns on behalf of criminals). The dealers promptly notify BATFE of the sales, and the serial


become involved in F&F. All are aware of the "gun walking" tactics being used, according to Newell.

Jan. 14: Near Columbus, N.M., a small town about five miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, the Border Patrol stops a car carrying eight guns in the trunk--six of them from F&F--all of which had been bought by Avila. BATFE, however, has yet to enter the serial numbers of those Avila guns into its Suspect Gun Database, so when the Border Patrol checks the guns against the database, they find nothing. The Border Patrol releases the men and the guns.

On Feb. 8, 2011, one of those F&F guns found in the trunk is believed to have been used in a murder in Palomas, Mexico, seven miles south of Columbus, N.M. In March 2011,Arizona from Mexico at the San Luis Port of Entry. A search of his vehicle reveals over 100 grenade components hidden in a spare tire. Under questioning, he confesses to manufacturing improvised explosive devices with grenade components for the La Familia Michoacana cartel, teaching cartel members how to convert semi-automatic firearms to fully automatic and delivering instructions (such as assassination orders) to cartel employees. Emory Hurley, the assistant U.S. attorney who is running F&F, orders that Kingery be released rather than arrested. BATFE agent Pete Forcelli strongly objects to Kingery's release, but Hurley is adamant. Forcelli will later become an F&F whistleblower.

October: Six gunmen from a cartel (probably Sinaloa) abduct Mario Gonzalez Rodriguez, brother of the Chihuahua attorney general. The cartel releases three videos showing him being tortured.


DEA.

June 18: The Wall Street Journal reports that Melson is about to be fired. Other media reports indicate that he may be replaced as acting director by Andrew Traver, an anti-gun activist whom Obama has nominated to be permanent director.

June 21: BATFE has been keeping up the distraction campaign with a new report about American guns in Mexico. In response, Sen. Grassley releases data showing that fewer than a quarter of guns in Mexico were traced to an American gun store.

June 29: BATFE fires whistle-blowing special agent Vince Cefalu.

June 30: Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking minority member on the House Oversight Committee, holds a forum in which anti-gun lobbies argue that F&F proves the need for more gun-control laws.

July 3-4: Melson is secretly interviewed by House committeestaff. He says that from the very beginning, DOJ has run a cover-up in order to protect political appointees. He further reports that the DOJ has not told the truth about how much DOJ officials learned about F&F starting in March 2010, when staff for Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, including Breuer's deputy Jason Weinstein, approved F&F wiretap applications. Since wiretap applications must provide an explanation of all other investigative techniques used or considered, these applications would very likely have detailed the gun walking in F&F.

July 6: Mexican federal police release a video of their interrogation of Jesus Rejon Aguilar, who is believed to be wanted in connection with Zapata's murder. He says that "all the weapons are bought in the United States" and that "even the American


up at crime scenes all over Mexico.

BATFE intelligence specialist Leadmon testifies that there are still more than 1,400 F&F guns in the hands of violent criminals in the U.S. and Mexico.

Aug. 1: BATFE staff involved in F&F are shuffled, but none are demoted or censured. William McMahon, who was in charge of BATFE's western operations and was Newell's supervisor, moves to Washington as deputy assistant director of the BATFE Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations. In other words, McMahon is now responsible for ethics enforcement at BATFE. In his new job, McMahon is also a BATFE point of contact with the Office of Inspector General, which is supposed to be conducting an investigation of F&F at Holder's order.

Several days later, BATFE acting director Melson sends out anleadership were entirely ‘unaware' of an operation that deliberately allowed thousands of assault rifles, fragmentation grenades and other military grade weaponry to cross an international border? … This is clearly either an incredibly brazen cover up of Watergate significance, or Eric Holder is among the most incompetent attorney generals ever to disgrace the office."

Sept. 20: In a conference call with journalists, Issa reports, "The attorney general in Mexico is so concerned, she's made the point that at least 200 Mexicans have been killed with these weapons and probably countless more."

Oct. 4: In early 2011, CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson began investigating F&F before anyone else in the national media. In an interview on the Laura Ingraham radio show, Attkisson recounts that White House press flack Eric Schultz "literally"


in ‘Fast and Furious' directly led to the death of Agent Terry."

Nov. 15: There are now 43 members of Congress calling for Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation.

As you can see, for nearly three years now, the Obama administration--since its first days in office--has made a concerted effort to attack the rights of American gun owners through "Operation Fast and Furious."

That it has chosen an operation of such magnitude, and the resulting cover-up equal in scope, to wage war against the Second Amendment speaks of the loathing this administration harbors for your freedoms; that it would take lying to Congress and the American people, and placing countless lives on both sides of the border in danger, is of little consequence to them.

Now imagine what a second Obama term willAhead of the Curve

The lending environment is undergoing a worrying change. Funds that European direct lenders have raised but not yet deployed are at an all-time high and banks in most Western-European jurisdictions have renewed lending following years of reticence after the global financial crisis, leading to increased competition amongst lenders in the small and medium enterprise (SME) market.

ATP's Graven Larsen leaves fund for role at FIH Erhvervsbank

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DENMARK - Bjarne Graven Larsen is to leave his position as chief investment officer of Denmark's largest pension fund ATP in the New Year.

Graven Larsen departs the DKK516 (€69.2bn) pension fund for a position as co-chief executive at FIH Erhvervsbank, the bank acquired jointly by ATP and PFA Pension, as well as Swedish pension insurance provider Folksam in late September.

Henrik


Gade Jepsen, currently deputy chief investment officer of ATP, will become interim CIO until a replacement for Graven Larsen can be appointed by the fund's board.

Speaking of the appointment, ATP's chief executive Lars Rohde said: "Bjarne Graven Larsen has for several years made an excellent contribution and created outstanding results in ATP."

FIH last week confirmed that both the Danish Competition Authorities and the country's financial services authority Finanstilsynet had approved the bank's acquisition and that the deal was expected to be finalised by 6 January.

Current chief executive of FIH Henrik Sjøgreen retain his position at the bank, becoming co-CEO with Graven Larsen, with Sjøgreen responsible for the areas of banking, corporate finance, credit and IT, while the former chief investment officer will be in charge of capital markets,finance, development, HR and communication.

Other FIH appointments made today, to be confirmed at an extraordinary general meeting next month, include the appointment of Lars Rohde and Henrik Gade Jepsen to the board of directors, along with PFA's chief executive Henrik Heideby and Daniel Eriksson, Folksam's chief operating officer.

CPDyvig was the fourth member of the consortium to buy FIH from now-defunct Icelandic lender Kaupthing Bank.

PFA's chief executive Heideby commented: "The election of a new board of directors is a signal that the owners are determined to move close to the company and participate actively in the further development of the bank.

He added: "We strongly believe that it will be possible for FIH to become the best corporate and investment bank in Denmark."


A new coalition of state attorneys general gave vocal notice to fossil fuel companies on Tuesday that obfuscating the realities of climate change has put ExxonMobil and its peers under the searchlight of a broadening multistate investigation.

Announcing an alliance of top state law enforcement officers to press for urgent climate action on multiple legal fronts, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was joined by six of his counterparts, their ranks bolstered by aides from nine additional states and the District of Columbia. The group met in New York to plan strategies and share information.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey/Credit: ICN

One after another, the top legal officials from Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut and the Virgin Islands vowed to hold fossil fuel companies accountable if their words and deeds onopened an investigation into ExxonMobil's actions and statements involving climate change. Attorney General Claude Walker of the Virgin Islands said he had launched a fossil fuel investigation as well. Schneiderman later suggested that it involved Exxon, and also said that California has undertaken a probe of Exxon, although that state's attorney general, Kamala Harris, was represented by staff.

All of those attorneys general are Democrats, and as the group stood at a podium bearing the words "AGs United for Clean Power" they made clear that their agenda also extended to supporting the centerpiece of President Obama's climate policies, the Clean Power Plan. The group wrote a brief defending those regulations, which have been put on hold by the Supreme Court pending litigation at a federal appeals court in Washington,


justify legal action under RICO, the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, which is aimed at illegal conspiracies.

In his remarks, Gore praised InsideClimate News and cited the L.A. Times and the Columbia School of Journalism for their investigative reporting that, after independent investigations, reached similar conclusions about Exxon's role in climate research and its attempts to undermine the consensus on climate science.

"The facts that were publicly presented in those series of articles that I have mentioned are extremely troubling," Gore said.

Schneiderman said he was not surprised that Exxon and the fossil fuel industry would fight back.

"It's too early to know what we're going to find with Exxon, but we intend to work as aggressively as possible, but also as carefully as possible," he said.

"We're very aware ofwar?

NADA BAKOS:

You know, he moved into northern Iraq right prior to the invasion. He had set up a camp that included a rudimentary poisons lab in northern Iraq, and he was co-located with another indigenous terrorist organization.

MICHAEL MORELL:

And then when the vacuum occurs, he starts filling it?

NADA BAKOS:

Right. So, he was basically lying in wait, waiting for that vacuum to occur so that he could take advantage of it.

MICHAEL MORELL:

And extremists start joining him because--

NADA BAKOS:

Yeah.

MICHAEL MORELL:

--he's got this great personality?

NADA BAKOS:

He already had built a network. He was co-located with Al Qaeda in Herat, Afghanistan, in the late '90s. So, he'd already been building this extremist network for a while.

MICHAEL MORELL:

And what made him so special? I guess what made him so good, from one perspective, right,


and so bad from another perspective?

NADA BAKOS:

Right. He took violence to a whole different level. This was one of the first times that we had seen a tactic that had continuous rolling vehicle bombs. So, he would take two or three vehicles and load them up with IEDs and push them through to a target, one at a time, one right after another.

And it caused huge destruction. It was one of the first times that we had actually seen that. We'd seen mention of that as a plan before, but had not ever seen it executed. He was also targeting civilians, other Muslims, lots of Shia. He was basically doing anything he wanted to just sow chaos.

MICHAEL MORELL:

And you talked about the relationship between him and Al Qaeda,and others were measured through three questions: "the first three people you talk to when you need to tell something about yourself," "the first three people you ask for help when you have problems/difficulties," and "the first three people to whom you talk most frequently in daily life." The score of contacts with close family members, relatives, friends, and others was rated according to the answers to the three questions. If the first person was the spouse, the item "spouse" scored 3; if the second person was the spouse, the item "spouse" scored 2; otherwise, the score was 1. Items like "children," "daughter/son-in-law," "friends," "other relatives," and so on were scored under the same rule as "spouse." Composite scores were calculated separately for each item (ranging from 3


measured in the same way. Sick care was assessed by the question "who took care of you when you were sick?" and answers were classified into four categories: none, spouse, children, others (friends, neighbors, or nurses). Then sick care was also recoded into a trichotomous variable (yes/no/unknown).

The availability of social support outside the family included the perceived availability of social services from community and social insurance. The availability of social service was assessed by asking whether a series of services (personal care, house call physicians, psychological consulting, daily shopping, social and recreation activities, legal aid, healthcare education, and mediation of neighborhood disputes) were available in the community. The availability of social insurance was assessed by asking participants whether he or she had a series of social insurance, includingThis invention relates to a roll-on ball applicator and specifically the use for the application of lotion or oil for the protection of exposed body surfaces from harmful sun rays. A specific embodiment includes an extended container body shape to allow reaching the ball applicator to the most inaccessible portions of the skin, such as the small of the back between the shoulders.
Anyone who has spent time on a sandy beach in the summer time is aware of the difficulties in protecting the skin from harmful sun's rays. Oils, lotions, solutions, home made liquid preparations and commercial preparations are widely used to protect the exposed portions of the body from the harmful sun rays. Sun blocks which absorb the ultraviolet rays are commonly used for added protection of


When humans and animals fight for territory, it's often the animals that lose. This conflict is highlighted in a shocking new video that shows a tiger being possibly crushed by a large excavator.

The tiger was caught in the Ramnagar Forest, where it may have strayed from the Corbett Tiger Reserve, which lies at the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India.

The Times of India reported that the tiger had killed two people the day before in the town of Bailpadav. The tiger had allegedly been tranquilized before faltering under the weight of the excavator's arm. This could account for why the big cat seemed to have difficulty escaping the slow moving machinery.

The animal was later taken to nearby Nainital zoo where a post-mortem report lists the causes ofdeath as asphyxiation, injuries inflicted from territorial disputes with other tigers, and septicaemia (blood poisoning).

A report from the Hindustan Times claimed that the tiger broke its tooth on the machine, causing it to choke on blood.

In response, the state has formed a four-person team, comprised of a forest official, a veterinarian, and two wildlife experts, to investigate the tiger's death and the use of large machinery in corralling such animals.

A 2011 study performed in part with the World Wildlife Fund in India found that the Corbett Tiger Reserve has the highest density of wild tigers in India, and by default, likely the world. This population density makes it more plausible that the tiger sustained injuries during a territorial battle; however, the timing of its death, hours after being


crushed by a steel scoop, had led to outrage online.

Bengal tigers are listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as an endangered species. Nearly 70 percent of tigers in the wild can be find in India alone. Habitat loss and hunting have severely impacted how easily tigers can survive in the wild, making humans one of their most dangerous adversaries and biggest allies.

Population counts from 2015 estimated the wild tiger population to be 2,226, but an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 once roamed India. In the Terai region of India, which contains the Corbett Tiger Reserve, populations have increased. At least 79 adults were counted in the park last year.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an international agreement among175 nations, offers international protections to tigers. Tigers, India's national animal, have been protected since the government-sponsored Project Tiger launched in 1973. Forty-seven tiger preserves currently exist in India and are managed by the state's National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).

Though tigers are protected under its international stipulations, a booming population in India has furthered dangerous interactions between humans and tigers.

Over a billion people live in India. Only three percent of land is undeveloped there, but it's this land upon which tigers and other threatened species most depend, meaning conflicts are common.

A number of steps can be taken to mitigate possible conflict between wild animals and humans.

One way for scientists to track tiger populations is through camera traps, which capture a tiger's unique set of stripes, and allows IDs


Soyuz FG

The uncontrolled, destructive re-entry of a Soyuz rocket stage that helped boost a three-man crew into orbit earlier this week was seen from the Mediterranean in the early hours of Sunday per reports and videos coming from the French Riviera and Central Italy

Russia’s Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft pulled into a docking port on the International Space Station on Friday after two-day journey from a remote launch pad in Kazakhstan to the orbital home and workplace for the three experienced space fliers spending the spring and summer months off the planet.

A veteran Russian Cosmonaut and two NASA Astronauts with prior Space Shuttle experience blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome Wednesday night on a planned 160-day space flight to the International Space Station.

Russia’s Soyuz FG rocket rolled out to itshistoric launch pad at Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome under waves of early morning fog on Monday in preparation for liftoff with an all-veteran crew on Wednesday to send them off on a half-year Expedition to the International Space Station.

The next crew headed to the International Space Station – comprising a veteran ISS Cosmonaut and a pair of Shuttle fliers – arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome last weekend to enter their final preparations for launch on a five-month flight as part of ISS Expeditions 55 and 56.

The year 2017 saw a total of 90 known orbital launch attempts from seven nations and space ports in eight different countries. 2017 had the second most orbital launch attempts of any year in the current century, short of 92 launches in 2014 and


showing a slight increase from 2016 that had 85 known launch attempts.

Three crewmen from Russia, the U.S. and Japan blasted off in freezing temperatures on Sunday to set sail on a two-day rendezvous with the International Space Station to kick off a half-year mission living and working in space to conduct world-class science and outfit the orbital outpost for operations heading into the next decade.

A third-time Soyuz commander, a physician-turned-astronaut, and a former naval test pilot are on the eve of liftoff atop a Russian Soyuz rocket taking them into orbit on Sunday for a five-and-a-half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Carrying a crew of three, a Russian Soyuz FG rocket lit up the skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday night as it embarked on a nine-minute climbhow best to meet these
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which now is, and is in bondage with her children. He is pointing to the fact that the Jews are strictly bound under the Law of Moses given on Sinai, and as such are in bondage to the Law. Jewish life under the Law had become a heavy burden to be borne under a severe Master, rather than a loving Father. All that Judaism had to offer to its people was more and more of the same; remember that it had been four hundred years since the last of the prophets spoke.

Isaac was the son of Sarah, a free woman, the chosen wife of Abraham, and was thus himself free. Sarah, the free mother whose children are all free, comes to represent for us the Christian Church, theof the few events recorded by all four evangelists, which puts it in a special category all by itself. It serves as the Gospel lesson today when we are bidden to turn to Jesus for refreshment, and once again late in the Church year, on the Sunday next before Advent, when we are bidden to gather up all the fragments that nothing may be lost.

John 6:2-3 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. Jesus has been followed into the wilderness by a large crowd. This is a remote area, far from sources of food for the crowd. It is Jesus who raises


that do wait, they shall never go away dissatisfied from worship, prayer, or sacrament.

Just as in this great feeding miracle, the only source of satisfying food is our Saviour Himself. He gives thanks to the Father, and then breaks the bread, over and over, multiplying without end in His hands. In the same manner He gives Himself to us in the Eucharist as solid, life sustaining food, multiplying endlessly until the end of time. As long as He blesses the Meal, it is His Body and His Blood, given for the remission of sins unto life eternal. There is always enough, until the last of His children is fed.

Through baptism we are brought into the grace of adoption as sons. Through the Holy Eucharist we are fed bySteve Clayton Blog

Austin Schmidt, plays lead guitar and sings back-up vocals for the band Shot In The Dark. He began playing guitar when he was 11 years old and went on to play in a band when he enrolled at West Coast Rock School at the age of 13. For years Austin played with several different bands, learned additional instruments, sang lead vocals, and appeared at many different venues. When Shot In The Dark was formed in the spring of 2013, Austin was able to take his musical talent to a different level. The band began writing and recording original songs and released their own ep in June of 2014. While playing with Shot In The Dark, Austin has had the opportunity to play two different dates during


776, 998 P.2d 897, review granted, case remanded, 142 Wash.2d 1007, 13 P.3d 1065 (2000), adhered to on remand, 106 Wash.App. 138, 22 P.3d 300 (2001). We affirm.

FACTS
Read shot and killed Bruce Larson, Jr., at the Orchard Inn in Wenatchee, Washington on May 3, 1998. Read had traveled to Wenatchee to attend the Apple Blossom Festival. Upon arriving, Read met his underage girl friend at a gas station, where she gave him her gun while she attempted to purchase beer. Read put the gun in the waistband of his shorts and concealed it with the athletic pants he was wearing over his shorts.
While his girl friend was gone, Read left with friends to go to a party. He walked past a motel room rented by another Apple Blossomreveler, where approximately 12 people were having a party. Read recognized a young woman with whom he had attended high school. She invited Read into the motel room and the two sat at the foot of the bed talking.
While the two talked, Chad Larson, Bruce's brother, repeatedly told Read to leave. When Read did not respond, Bruce, who was unarmed and also sitting on the bed, stood up and said something approximating, "don't get smart with my brother, man." Report of Proceedings at 286. Read pulled the gun from his waistband and shot and killed Bruce.
At trial, Read and one other witness testified Bruce "jumped" or "hopped" off the bed and stepped toward Read. Several other witnesses testified Bruce did not "jump" up and did not "rush" Read,


on june 30 , 1960 , a self-taught , idealistic , yet pragmatic , young man became , at age 36 , the first head of government of a newly independent african state , formerly the belgian congo .
two months later , he was ousted from his powerful position and hunted by government troops until he was captured and brutally murdered along with two aides .
this little-known story of this meteoric rise and fall is told my international filmmaker raoul peck in " lumumba . "
patrice lumumba's ( eriq ebouaney ) story has been told previously by helmer peck in his 1991 award winning documentary , " lumumba - death of a prophet , " virtually guaranteeing that his new , fictional account of apatriot remains true to its subject .
peck , with co-writer pascal bonitzer , begins at the end of the story of the young political leader .
we watch as two white men perform the gruesome task of dismembering the bodies of three black men .
images of hatchets , saws and fast-emptying whiskey bottles accompany the grisly image .
jump back a few years to a meeting among the black leaders in the belgian-owned congo .
a third class postal worker , lumumba , speaks his mind to heads of the most powerful tribes , proclaiming himself not tribal , not regional , but a national leader .
his small , mobile party , the congolese national movement ( mnc ) is gaining prominence and patrice leaves


his clerical job to sell beer , and get his face known , in the bustling capital , stanleyville .
at a time when the colonial empires are falling down around the world , lumumba is in the right place at the right time and , through political savvy and chess-like manipulation , achieves a position of leadership of the mnc .
as the date for independence approaches , he tactically positions himself to be the new nation's first prime minister and defense minister , supporting the presidency of joseph kasa vubu ( maka kotto ) .
the coalition he created soon starts to fall apart as the former belgian masters continue to exert influence on the struggling nation as they strive to maintain economic hold on thecountry's vast natural resources of copper , diamonds , gold and more .
lumumba won't seek the help of the us , knowing that they would try to create de facto american control of the fledgling government .
his initial investigation into soviet assistance immediately tags patrice as a communist and his integrity is overshadowed by the cold war threat of russian domination .
the situation goes from bad to worse as the army mutinies , the remaining whites begin to evacuate or arm themselves , belgian troops violently intervene , the lucrative katanga province succeeds under the leadership of rival moise tschombe ( pascal nzonzi ) and lumumba is refused access to his own country when he returns from a conference abroad .
this tumultuous and little


known period of modern african history saw a score of nations struggling for independence from the sometimes-odious colonialists who have ruled much of the world from their european seats of power for centuries .
peck focuses his story on familiar material that strives to give an honest portrayal of patrice lumumba , his friend and foes and the independence movements that gripped africa in the 50's and 60's .
 ( during the time the story takes place , many new nations , including nigeria and somalia , were born , with varying degrees of success and failure , usually dependent upon which country colonized them .
some colonial masters were better than others . )
the effort involved in " lumumba " is quite ambitious as peck, if a bit as a stalwart saint , but doesn't embellish on a larger than life persona .
the family side of patrice's life is handled in several , perfunctory and brief interludes that show him talking to one of his children , embracing his wife or lamenting the death of his child .
i know the intent is to flesh the man out , but too short a shrift is given to the family man side of lumumba .
the story , as such , has a lopsided feel about it .
high marks go to eriq ebouaney as the title character .
the actor gives a convincing , charismatic performance as the multifaceted , politically deft patrice lumumba who has the good of his people


Doomsday Preppers: Kevin O’Brien Strikes Back

Kevin O’Brien is back from season one with a vengeance – and a tent. Having moved from the tsunami zone of Florida, he has successfully transplanted his family to the highlands of Tennessee.

Instead of being an outcast for his prepping, Kevin is now welcomed by a group of preppers including Lucas Cameron and his Seven Trumpet preppers. He is able to facilitate this through a website he set up for networking.

Networking has been described as one of the most important skills to have for a reason. Instead of having to develop an entire skillset with himself and his family, Kevin has effectively gained the skillsets of everyone in the seven trumpets group. Beyond this, he is now part of a more imposing groupmounted at the front end of the plug and are forced from the closed position into the open position during insertion of a plug ferrule into the sleeve. The protective flaps pivot between an inner sleeve housing and an outer sleeve housing.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2000-347075 (hereinafter referred to as Reference 2) describes a conventional adapter for an optical connector. The adapter according to Reference 2 includes a light emitting element emitting a laser beam, a base having a first spring, and a blocking component having a shutter. On insertion of a plug, the base is elastically deformed at the first spring according to the movement of the inserted plug to allow the shutter to move out of the optical path of the laser beam. On


in the optical connector. Specifically, a coupling portion for coupling the optical connector includes the blocking or shading component, which comprises an elastic thin plate. On coupling the optical connector, the blocking component is pressed downward in the direction of insertion in accordance with the movement of the optical connector and is placed between the inner wall of the adapter and the outer face of the optical connector to unblock the optical axis. On extraction of the optical connector, the depressed blocking component rises up by elasticity and is restored to the position blocking the optical axis again. The blocking component is capable of being removably mounted in the adapter.
In the foregoing conventional optical plug connector and adapters, opening and closing of the blocking component use the resilience$1.9 billion.

Geithner urges Asia-Pacific economies to spur growth November 10, 2011BBC US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has urged Asia-Pacific countries to increase efforts to restore growth to the global economy. He was addressing finance ministers from the 21 countries that are members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) group.

Italian Banks Trapped by Sovereign Crisis November 11, 2011 By John Glover and Elisa MartinuzziBloomberg Italys highest bond yields since the birth of the euro are reverberating through the financial system of Europes biggest debt issuer, driving lenders to seek record amounts of central bank financing.

Insurer Allianz Net Drops to $350 Million November 11, 2011Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) German insurer Allianz SE saw third quarter profits sag to euro258 million ($350 million) from euro1.27 billion ($1.73 billion) the year


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Here is a summary of today’s key events so far.

Syria

• Syrian activists reported heavy government shelling and air raids in Damascus and its suburbs, as well as shelling in rebel-held areas of Homs and Aleppo. Opposition group the Local Co-ordination Committees claimed the Free Syrian Army had downed a warplane in Idlib province, and said 65 people had been killed in fighting across the country today. These reports cannot be verified because most media are banned from Syria.

• A self-described member of Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the Islamist groups increasingly leading the rebellion against Bashar al-Assad, told the Guardian the Syrian army presence in Deir Ezzor, in the east of the country, was "diminishing".

• In an attempt to combat rising crime and kidnapping for ransom as aorganisation has said.

• Over 6,000 people were killed in Syria in March, according to activists, making last month the bloodiest of the two-year-old conflict. Rami Abdul-Rahman of the British-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said even this figure was likely to under-report the number of dead, since Bashar al-Assad’s government rarely announced true figures of regime forces killed. The Observatory gave figures of 1,486 rebels and army defectors and 1,464 Syrian army soldiers killed, along with 2,080 civilians, 298 of them children and 291 women. In addition, the group listed 387 unidentified civilians and 588 unidentified fighters. The upsurge in casualties is thought to be due to heavier shelling and the spread of hostilities to new parts of the country, such as the towns and


army bases of the southern province of Daraa, even while clashes continue in Syria’s three largest cities, Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. The Observatory’s figures cannot be verified because most media are banned from Syria. In February, the UN said a total of 70,000 people had been killed so far in the conflict. This number is also thought likely to be an underestimate.

Israel

• A Palestinian prisoner has died of cancer after claims of medical negligence by the Israeli authorities, triggering unrest in the West Bank and among Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails. A three-day hunger strike by Palestinian security prisoners has been announced. Harriet Sherwood has the full story here.

Yemen

• Officials at Sanaa airport have told the Associated Press that former president Ali Abdullah Saleh has left the countryfor medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Saleh has been under international pressure to leave the country, and has been accused of trying to block the work of a national dialogue conference, a key part of the country’s transfer of power, that opened two weeks ago. The constitution is expected to be rewritten and elections are expected next year. Ali al-Sarari, an aide to prime minister Mohammed Basindwa, said Saleh's presence had irritated southern separatists, Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels and young activists behind the uprising that helped end the veteran president's 33-year rule.

"Saleh's departure is a cause of relief and his presence [in Yemen] is a source of much worry because he was behind much of the actions that created tension," Sarari told Reuters. "His departure for medical treatment


Louis XIII "Le Jeroboam" Auction

The only bottle of Remy Martin's most advanced cognac in the U.S. up for the bidding

The landscape has changed when it comes to the exclusivity of luxury brands, and with a label like Rémy Martin, it's easy to become distracted by the hype that rap moguls and film directors shower on the venerable cognac. While the brand caters to an impressive range of clientele, from Charles de Gaulle to Jay-Z, in the end it's the spirit itself that matters. In anticipation of the auction of the three-liter "Le Jeroboam" bottle valued at $26,000, we sat down with the cellar master herself to discuss what makes Louis XIII so special.

Pierrette Trichet is the fourth cellar master in the history of the company, and the firstwoman to hold the position. With a background in biology and biochemistry, the young Trichet began in the Rémy Martin laboratory, over time learning the difficult task of putting words to aromas. Trichet defines the art of cognac-making as a human science, and recognizes that her well-trained nose is capable of much more than even the most advanced scientific equipment. Creating the blends based on her distinct tastes, she does so with the full confidence of the company, which will occasionally give her blind taste-tests to make sure her palate remains on-point. Louis XIII is the masterful upshot of her unique ability. The special blend is comprised of 1,200 individual eaux-de-vie that are first aged anywhere from 40-100 years and then added to a tiercon that will house


the mix for another hundred years—which means Trichet will never taste the matured blend she is currently making.

Up for auction is a crystal decanter numbered 13—a nod to Louis XIII—out of the 100 that were made. The only bottle currently available in the U.S., it's an enlarged version of the brand's classic shape, which was made to replicate a metal gourd found by Rémy Martin's grandson at the site of a 16th-century battlefield. Inside the bottle's limousin oak coffret is a wine master's pipette to simulate the tasting experience, four custom crystal glasses by furniture designer Cristophe Pillet, a book illustrating the Louis XIII legacy and an invitation for the buyer and four guests to attend a tasting at the house of Rémy Martin.of 'All General Office staff employees listed as organizers' in the latest ILGWU financial report, a group totalling 262.  The Board ordered a hearing on the petition, and on April 21, 1961 found that ILGWU was engaged in commerce, that FOUR was a labor organization which claimed to represent certain employees of ILGWU, that a question affecting commerce existed concerning the representation of certain ILGWU employees, and that an appropriate unit for the purpose of collective bargaining within section 9(b) of the Act was 'all individuals on the payroll of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (as distinguished from its locals) who serve as business agents, organizers, educational directors, and who do union label, and political work excluding office clericals, supervisors, professionals, watchmen and guards as defined


adversely to ILGWU during the representation proceeding and that none of its proffered evidence was newly discovered or previously unavailable, the Trial Examiner granted the General Counsel's motion to strike them.  He recommended that an order issue requiring ILGWU to bargain collectively with FOUR, and to take certain other action.  This recommendation was followed by the Board, and the petition to review the order followed.

Structure of the Union

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ILGWU is a far-flung labor organization with about 450,000 members in the garment and needle trades, throughout the United States and Canada.  Its basic unit of organization is the local, of which there are over 500.  Locals may be formed and chartered at the request of seven or more workers in the industry, and they are inpart geographical and, in larger cities, in part organized according to the division of the industry involved.  In metropolitan areas, locals are grouped into joint boards, each of which is composed of locals in a single branch of the industry, and in certain areas they are also grouped into district Councils, which correspond functionally to joint boards except that a larger area than one city or metropolitan area is involved.  Local, joint boards, and district councils elect delegates to the International's triennial convention.  In the intervals between conventions, administration of the International's affairs is in the hands of its General Executive Board, which consists of the President, the General Secretary Treasurer and 21 Vice-Presidents.  All these officers are salaried.

7
On the lower levels of the


International's paid professional staff are business agents, organizers and educational directors, who are appointed by the President with the consent of the General Executive Board.  In areas where joint boards and district councils exist, personnel of this category are on the payrolls of these units, and they are paid through assessments on member locals.  Outside these areas, such personnel are on the International's payroll, and it is only these who are the subject of this proceeding.  The country is divided into ten regions for purposes of administration of the International's affairs, each of which is headed by a manager who is usually also a Vice-President and member of the General Executive Board.  There are also intervening layers of supervisors between the regional manager andthe business agents.  In one typical region, the Eastern, there is an Assistant General Manager, and below him 15 local managers in charge of 34 local unions.  The local managers supervise business agents directly.  In the Northeast department, there is a director (an International Vice-President), two area supervisors, a field supervisor for organization, and 15 district managers who supervise 65 to 70 business agents.

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The duties of business agents are diverse, but they principally involve communication between rank and file union members in the shops, and the employers.  One of their most important functions concerns the setting of rates for the different types of operations performed in garment manufacturing and finishing establishments.  Because of the peculiar structure of this industry, with its many independent,


small shops and the great variety and diversity of its products, formal collective bargaining agreements are usually somewhat skeletal matters, defining in broad terms the rights and responsibilities of the parties.  Furthermore, most workers in the industry are paid on a piece-rate rather than an hourly wage basis.  Consequently, as each new job comes into a shop, it may be necessary to set new piece-rates which will return workers a satisfactory weekly paycheck.  The business agent normally conducts negotiations regarding piece-rates with employers.  Depending on his evaluation of the employer's willingness to cooperate with the union, he may follow a 'hard' or 'soft' policy in these negotiations.  Similarly, the business agent deals with the employer over such common matters as distribution of workcollective bargaining contract.  He attends and participates in the regular meetings of the locals under his jurisdiction, meetings of shop chairladies, and other types of union functions.  When the time for negotiation new contracts arrives, he confers with and gives recommendations to the regional manager who will be the union's chief spokesman at the bargaining table.

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The International concedes that the organizers on its payroll have much less responsible positions than the business agents.  Their task is principally to contact non-union workers and solicit their membership in ILGWU, with the object of having the union recognized for collective bargaining purposes in unorganized shops.  They meet with workers, distribute literature, issue press releases, and in general seek to convince workers of the advantages of union membership.


These responsibilities end when the union is recognized voluntarily, or the NLRB certifies it as representative of the plant after an election.  Organizers work under the supervision of either a chief or General Organizer, or directly under the Regional Manager.  Fifty or sixty organizers are included in the unit.  Some two dozen educational directors are also in the unit.  They direct educational activities of local union members, including the teaching and establishment of classes in arts, crafts, sports, drama and the like and also work for political education of the members.  They work under supervision of local managers and also under the central direction of ILGWU's Political and Educational Departments.  Some educational directors also do union label publicity work, and athe business agents' relationship to the rank and file union members do not make them 'supervisors.'  The exclusion of supervisors was the product of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.  By this part of the statute, Congress intended to overrule a policy of the National Labor Relations Board, sanctioned by the Supreme Court in Packard Motor Car Co. v. NLRB, 330 U.S. 485, 67 S.Ct. 789, 91 L.Ed. 1040 (1947), which held that foremen were entitled to collective bargaining rights under the Wagner Act.  The sponsors feared that unionization of foremen and similar personnel would tend to break down industrial discipline by blurring the traditional distinction between management and labor.  It was felt necessary to deny foremen and other supervisory personnel the right of collective


their employer to the public, they might pledge their employer's credit in limited amounts, and they might engage in collective bargaining and sign agreements on behalf of the employer; but the Board rejected this argument.  ILGWU has made a similar argument in regard to its business agents and we find nothing unlawful in the Board's refusal to deviate from the standards established in American Federation of Labor.  ILGWU insists that, unlike the organizers involved in the American Federation of Labor case, the business agents here are members of the union which they serve and are eligible to be elected convention delegates.  The recognition of a unit composed of union members who are eligible to be elected convention delegates, leads, so ILGWU would have us believe,of power and responsibility in the International, that particular business agent may be vulnerable to an ILGWU challenge.  We are concerned here with business agents as a whole class, and the mere possibility of a few business agents succeeding does not make all of them 'managerial employees.'

The Election Issues

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ILGWU also objects that the representation election was improperly conducted because of the Board's disposition of the ten challenges made by FOUR.

21
Four ballots (those of Cohn, Reuter, Wells and Dubrow) were challenged on the ground that the employees who cast them were 'supervisors' and 'supervisors' were explicitly excluded in the Board's statement of the limits of the unit.  Cohn was found by the Regional Director to be a supervisor and we think the challenge to her ballot could


accept the Board's ruling on these ballots is that we see no warrant in its Direction of Election for narrowing the unit at this late stage to exclude staff personnel.  In the Direction of Election the appropriate unit was defined to include:

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All individuals on the payroll of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (as distinguished from its locals) who serves as business agents, organizers, educational directors, and who do union label, and political work excluding office clericals, supervisors, professionals, watchmen and guards as defined in the Act.

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While such an exclusion of staff personnel might well have been made at the time the election was initially ordered, we cannot agree that the Board has the power to change the boundaries of a unit after the election.  Todismissal to the Charleston Daily Mail, saying he had been dismissed for a “violation of team rules and policies.”

Grooms time with the Marshall program hasn’t been great off the field.

According to the paper, Saturday’s incident was Grooms’ third arrest since April 2013.

On April 21, 2013, Grooms was arrested on misdemeanor charges of underage drinking and obstruction. He also was one of five people named in a civil suit filed in May seeking damages after a pedestrian claimed Grooms was in a car that struck him “while under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, operating said motor vehicle at excessive speed.”

Grooms also was arrested on Nov. 30, 2013 on misdemeanor charges of domestic battery and obstruction.

Grooms rushed for 737 yards in 2012, but struggled with an ankle injury in


and studied at Converse College, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and literature in 1923. After graduating from the college, Spearman taught school in South Carolina before moving to New York City in 1926, where she earned a master's degree in religious education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Jennifer Chiaverini's many readers have been enchanted by Elm Creek Quilt Camp, where women gather each year for quilting, friendship, and fun. The third in the Elm Creek Quilts series introduces the Cross-Country Quilters, a group of far-flung friends who pledge to complete a "challenge quilt" -- symbolic of each woman's personal goals -- in one year's time.

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Readers of The Quilter's Apprentice and Round Robin have been enchanted by Elm Creek Quilt Camp, where women gather each year for quilting, friendship, and fun. The third in the Elm Creek Quilts series introduces the Cross-Country Quilters, a group of far-flung friends who pledge to complete a "challenge quilt" -- symbolic of each woman's personal goals -- in one year's time.

These five women arrive at Elm Creek Manor


hoping to find in their quilt lessons an escape from the problems they left at home. Julia, an aging starlet, has pinned her hopes to a plum role in a historical epic whose director is under the mistaken impression that Julia already knows how to quilt. Megan is a successful engineer who has won prizes for her one-patch quilt designs. The one challenge she has yet to master is single motherhood. Donna, a mother of two, must hasten to teach her daughter independence and self-esteem -- lessons she, too, must take to heart. Grace is a renowned curator of antique quilts, whose creative flair is waning for reasons she is unwilling to reveal -- even to her closest friends. Vinnie, the senior member of the group, is a(CNN) Police in Vietnam have arrested eight people in connection with the deaths of 39 people found dead in a truck in England last month, Vietnamese state media reported Monday.

Speaking to reporters, Major General Nguyen Huu Cau also said police in Nge An province, in the north of the country, had coordinated with relevant agencies to collect and test the fingerprints of 21 people "suspected of having relations to the case," the government's online newspaper reported Monday.

In a statement on Friday, Essex Police said those in the back of a refrigerated lorry in a UK industrial park in Grays, Essex, 20 miles east of London, were believed to be Vietnamese nationals. Initially Essex Police said they believed all of the victims were Chinese.

Vietnamese police had arrested two suspects


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ahead of him, or was forced to the right in some way.

Unless a witness turns up, we may never know.

This is the 40th bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the ninth in Orange County. That compares with 57 in SoCal this time last year, and 12 in the county.

Wilson also the 11th cyclist killed in Newport Beach in the past five years, and second to die in a solo crash in the city in just the last two weeks.

Update: According to the Newport Beach Police Department, Wilson was riding an electric bike, would could explain the force of impact evident from the damage to the minivan.

He was initially found conscious and responsive, while suffering from numerous lacerations.

And no, he was not wearing a helmet.

Update 2: CoronaQueen Swaps Custom Bentley For Nissan Leaf

As the electric vehicle market grows and strengthens seemingly day by day, it was almost inevitable that EVs would at some point break into the upper echelons and become popular with trend setters and celebrities alike.

The Queen herself has jumped on the electric vehicle bandwagon, picking up the keys to her new Nissan Leaf this morning after agonising over which vehicle to buy.

Sources close to the royals believe that Prince Charles was arguing for the more executiveTesla Model S, but the Queen, rarely cowed, didn’t back down, preferring the more popular, modest and practical Leaf, stating that there was more space in the back for when she needs to travel with her beloved corgis.

One of the most interesting spin-off’s from this story


the parents themselves come to pick the child up.

After sickness the student will be allowed to attend the classes only on producing fitness certificate of the doctor.

Absence before the vacation and after the vacation is not permitted and may lead to strict action of even striking the student's name off the school roll.

Absence without permission of the principal is sufficient reason for expulsion from the school.

Photograph required for participation in any competition or for any school document must be in school uniform.COMPANY

States Look to Reduce Part-Time Lawmakers’ Bias

Most state lawmakers supplement their legislative job with one in the private sector. To reduce the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise from this, states are considering revising their ethics laws.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed an ethics bill into law this week that bans ex-legislators from lobbying any state agency for two years after they leave office and prohibits lawmakers from voting on bills directly affecting their personal financial interests. (Photo: AP/Steve Cannon)

James Strickler runs a small oil and gas production company in Farmington, N.M. But for a handful of weeks each year, Strickler heads down to Santa Fe, where he takes on a different role, as an elected representative in the state House. A member of the House Energy and Natural


(CNN) -- Two children and one adult were killed Friday after a man with a painted face launched a knife attack at a children's daycare center in Belgium.

Police look at a hearse parked in front of the childcare centre in Dendermonde where the attack took place.

Officials said two adults and 10 children, some of whom were in a critical condition, were being treated in hospital following the attack in Dendermonde, 25 kilometers (16 miles) northwest of Brussels.

"The guy just went crazy," local official Theo Janssens said, according to Agence France-Presse news agency.

He was arrested an hour and a half afterwards, according to the Interior Ministry. Reports said he was trying to make his escape on a bicycle.

The attacker entered the day care center in Dendermonde, about 16 milesSupernatural Gore Fest ‘Let Us Prey’ Home Video Release Date Has Been Announced

The movie tells the tale of one deadly loner and how he terrifies everyone he meets when he spends a night in jail.

Beginning when new cop Rachel, played by The Woman actress Pollyanna McIntosh, turns up for her shift at a small (and of course eerily isolated) police station.

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came to office in 2011.

The last-minute bills are a fitting end to eight years of total Republican control in Wisconsin that illustrated deep divides within a state known for civility in politics.

Walker’s first term was dominated by conservative legislation that rolled back the power of labor unions to bargain collectively on behalf of public employees. Walker became the first governor in American history to survive a recall election, and he won reelection in 2014 by a slim margin.

After eight years in office, few Wisconsinites did not harbor strong feelings either in support of or opposition to Walker’s governorship. His aborted run for president gave some the impression that he had taken his eye off his day job.

In November, Evers ousted Walker by 1.2 percentage points, or 30,000 votesbut stagnated after that until 2000, with nearly zero real per capita income growth and a worsening income distribution. Neo-liberal policies, including relaxation of food price controls in the 1990s, did not produce much, although growth did increase after 2000, running at a 5-6% rate. But it has not been enough to provide jobs for the many urban youth, particularly the better educated ones.

Also, since 1980 the regime has been seen as supported by outsiders, particularly the US, Israel, Britain, and France, in contrast to the Nasser period. As economic problems surged with the food price spikes in 2008 and the subsequent Great Recession in the world economy, this made for a weak foundation of support for the regime. We should expect any successor to take a more


items he was astoundingly vague, if sometimes uplifting and all that. He gave some vague support to his deficit commission, "as a starting point" for negotiation and discussion. The real biggie is that he seems to have backed off from specifics on what to do about social security. There were many rumors around Washington and various blogs that he was going to come out for something along the lines of the deficit commission recommendations, particularly an increase in future retirement ages. However, it looks like the polls may have gotten to him. Despite his platform (and the best efforts of Bruce Webb and I and others) he has seemed awfully open to some sort of benefits-cutting deal, and his agreement to cut payroll taxes in December has alsoreported as a fluff piece about this phenomenon.

What is it that the US will be able to offer the rest of the world other than its culture of looting, shooting, and polluting.

"What's going on, TV analysts in the region suspect, is that Asia is starting to outgrow its addiction to Hollywood hand-me-downs. For years, Asian broadcasters have been relying on such U.S. imports as the "CSI" dramas and that old standby "Baywatch" to fill out their programming schedules. Now, egged on by the popularity of South Korean singers and actors in recent years, Asian broadcasters are more comfortable using their neighbors' TV dramas or music instead of American fare. Some analysts figure the success of the Asian programs is the latest sign of Asia's rising confidence."

Saturday, January 22,


data), Singapore is much praised by many as a "well-manicured" place with low corruption and transparent laws, although with considerable political autocracy based on the long-running rule in the country by Lee Kuan Yew and his son, the current prime minister (the father is Minister Mentor).

Despite this general perception of super laissez-faire-dom, Wikipedia labels it as I did in the title of this post. It is a curious mixture of socialism and state planning with innovative free market approaches. 60% of the GDP is produced by companies with at least partial state ownership. Nevertheless, one can start a new business in only three days, compared to a global average of 34 days. It is the first country to have congestion pricing (1992), and is now very green withas Mexico's. Of 164 countries listed by CIA, only 27 have worse ones, 12 of those in Latin America, 11 in Africa, Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe, and Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, and PNG worse in Asia.

In labor markets there is the largely unreported matter of indentured laborers from other countries (the unemployment rate is very low). I saw some in the backs of trucks, and I was told to avoid certain parts of Little India on Sunday because they congregate there and are reputedly engage in theft on their one day off (although some indentured domestic servants get no time off). A good source on them and their situation from 2006 can be found at http://newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=8a93766ff16fec2a9dfdfc2516f87482. If that does not work, just google, "indentured labor Singapore" and


a "lost decade," the Evening Standard said. He also told the BBC's Today program Thursday "no sector" could escape the "negative impact" of a hard Brexit in which Britain would leave the bloc's customs union and the single market.

The report also said London would have about 11,000 fewer jobs in science and technology as well as 5,000 in construction and 6,000 across London’s creative sector, compared to numbers if the country did not depart from the bloc.

London's mayor made clear he was not "in a state of denial" and would accept "the verdict of the British public," but U.K. businesses needed to be aware of the possible "consequences of the actions the government decides to take."

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the Clarion.
Vol. 61 No. 6
Bethel College 3900 Bethel Dr., St. Paul, MN
1 November 1985
Bethel professor's artwork desecrated
by Dana L. Fisher
Early last Tuesday morning,
under cover of darkness, somebody, with or without accomplices, dragged the sculpture of
Bethel professor Stewart Luckman inlo the Kresge courtyard,
disassembled the work, and
then fashioned it with garbage
cans. As of Monday this week,
those responsible had not been
identified.
The piece, a large metal
work, was taken from the Art
Garden south of the FA building. Other sculptures of Luck-
man's there were found damaged, apparently knocked-over
while the work in question


was
moved.
Community reaction varied
from ambivalence to outrage.
Most immediate, however, was
the response offered by Creativity and the Fine Arts students on Wednesday. Led by
professor Dale Johnson, the
class laid sheets of butcher
paper around the sculpture and
painted both appeals to the
perpetrators} and personal af-
Stewart Luckman's piece as it stood Wednesday morning.
firmations of Luckman as
artist and believer.
Luckman himself had no comment.
Faculty support, besides that
of Johnson, was registered by
Professor- Don Larson, who
drew up and distributed an
open letter to Luckman. In that
letter, Larson stated the community's admiration for Luck-
man's longstanding efforts at
"reaching" despite the actions
of a few "noiwfeachers."
The Bethel Student Association also addressed a letter to
Luckman on behalf of the student body. The idea of offering
a reward for information about
the vandalism was raised and
subsequently dismissed by the
BSA, primarily in anticipation
of the sort of precedent itfor calling!"
He grabbed his coat and shouted from the hall, "We'll have to
do the interview another day.
I've gotta meet with my dissertation review committee, and I
have a campaign fundraiser
tonight."
G.W. Carlson, assistant professor of history and political
science at Bethel, is, among
many other things, a candidate
for a two-year seat on the St.
Paul School Board. St. Paul
voters go to the polls on November fifth.
Carlson said he decided to
become a candidate because he
has expertise in education and
can provide direction and
leadership. "As Christians, we
must be good stewards of our
own abilities," he said.
He said that running for office is part of his belief that
"Christians have a responsibility to be in strategic positions
so that they can have input into
G. William Carlson
decisionmaking."
Carlson said that his years
at Bethel as a history/secondary education student helped
him to learn the