when inundation by water produces soils dominated by anaerobic processes, which, in turn, forces the biota, particularly rooted plants, to adapt to flooding.“

In layman’s words, a wetland is a land area saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

Every continent has its own Wetlands that occur naturally except Antarctica. The Amazon swamp forests and the Siberian peatland are the largest wetlands in the world. Another large wetland is the Pantanal, which straddles Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay in South America.

The primary factor that distinguishes wetlands from other landforms or water bodies is the characteristic vegetation adapted to its unique soil conditions. Primarily wetlands consist of hydric soil, which supports aquatic plants.

A hydric soil is formed under conditions of saturationof soil with water, seasonally by flooding, or permanently by ponding (pooling of unwanted water) long enough to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part. This term is part of the legal definition of a wetland included in the United States Food Security Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-198).

There are four main kinds of wetlands: marsh, swamp, bog and fen. Sub-types include mangrove, carr, pocosin, and varzea. Some experts also include wet meadows and aquatic ecosystems as wetland types.

Marsh is a flat, wetland area, devoid of peat, saturated with moisture during one or more seasons. Typical vegetation includes grasses, sedges, reeds and rushes. Marshes are valuable wetlands that maintain water tables in adjacent ecosystems.

Swamp is a low-lying wetland area found near large bodies of open water in such places


as low-lying coastal plains, floodplains of rivers, and old lake basins or in areas where glacial deposits have disrupted normal drainage. An abundant growth of rushes and sedge characterize swamps in the northern regions. Trees, such as the swamp cypress and high shrubs dominate southern regions. Swamps can prevent flooding by absorbing floodwaters from rivers and coastal regions.

Bogs and fens (in eastern England) are types of mires – an area of wet, soggy, muddy ground.

Bogs receive their water from the atmosphere. Their water has a low mineral ionic composition because ground water has a higher concentration of dissolved nutrients and minerals in comparison to precipitation. Bogs have acidic soil.

Fens, also known as the Fenland(s), are natural marshy regions in eastern England.

A fen is the local name for anindividual area of marshland or former marshland and also designates the type of marsh typical of the area.

Most of the fens drained several centuries ago, became flat, damp, low-lying agricultural regions.

The water chemistry of fens ranges from low pH and low minerals to alkaline with high content of calcium and magnesium. ,

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Laguna de Rocha, the largest wetland in the urban area in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo: Martinsnm)

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Water in wetlands along the coastal shorelines is invariably salty or brackish. Water found in inland wetlands can also be fresh water.

Wetlands have many vital and fascinating characteristics that play a number of roles in the environment while also providing recreational opportunities.

Wetlands are the most diverse of all biological ecosystems. They comprise a range of plants that provide essential food and habitat


for various wildlife such as fish, birds, reptiles, insects, etc.

The wetlands are pivotal to 75% of world’s migratory birds. More than half of the fish caught for recreational or commercial purposes depend on wetlands at some point in their life cycles.

Wetlands can also be constructed artificially to serve as a water management tool in the design of water-sensitive urban areas.

Frankly, much of the report compiled by the world environmental agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) do not portend well.

For example, NOAA has authored a report, “Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Coastal Watersheds of the Conterminous United States 2004-2009,” with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that summarized the status and trends of coastal watersheds.

According to the report,the coastal watersheds of the continental United States lost wetlands at an average rate of 80,000 acres a year during the study period – an area about seven football fields every hour, and a 25% increase over the previous six-year study period.

The loss of these valuable wetlands threatens not only the sustainable fisheries and protected species, but also the supply of clean water and stability of shorelines in the face of climate change.

Almost half of the population in the United States now lives in coastal counties. Continued loss of coastal wetlands means less protection for those communities in the coastal counties from strong storms, such as Superstorm Sandy.

Key factors in the degradation and loss of wetlands in coastal watersheds are directly traced to population growth and its associated


water spread has shrunk to one-tenth its size due to indiscriminate dumping of city refuse; discharging of sewage; disgorging toxic waste products, etc.

Many nature lovers have photographed the current palpable and saddening state of the Pallikaranai wetland. On June 8, 2013, The Hindu published the article The mired marshby Shaju John. This article was augmented by photographs captured by him in the post Photo file: The mired marsh.

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A significant chunk of non-biodegradable waste is lost in the heaps.( (Photo: Shaju John/thehindu.com)

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Thousands of tonnes of trash of all sorts containing non-biodegradable waste find their way to the wetland amidst the dumped refuse.

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Fires, lit to dispose off the garbage, are a regular and major health hazard. (Photo: Shaju John/thehindu.com)

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While traveling along the roads around the Velachery wetland one encounters theunbearable stench emanating from the decaying garbage hillock. Despite the widespread clamour to stop burning rubbish in the dump yard that stifles the air and impairs visibility of commuters, the incessant burning goes on.

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The smoke from the garbage heaps chokes the air for miles around. (Photo: Shaju John/thehindu.com)

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Despite the toxic smoke rag-pickers, mostly children living in inhospitable slums frequent the garbage dump.

Continual inhaling of the ever-present malodorous germ and virus bound air, the stifling smoke, polluted and poisoned ground water subject the people living miles around the Pallikaranai wetland to major wheezing and carcinogenic health hazards.

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The incredible rate of development, such as the rampant construction of sanctioned IT parks, the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) campus, Hospitals, Colleges, high-rise office and residential buildings, the Velachery MRTS railway


station, the flyovers, the road connecting old Mahabhalipuram Road (OMR) and Pallavaram, etc., in the midst of the marshland also have immensely contributed to the shrinking of the water spread.

Nevertheless, it is the opinion of the scientists and researchers involved in the study of the wetland that an additional 150 hectares of undeveloped region located on both sides of the road connecting old Mahabhalipuram Road (OMR) and Pallavaram that bisects the marsh should also be declared a forest reserve.

However, even now, dumping of garbage by the Chennai metropolitan authorities goes on unabated.

On February 2, 1971, the ‘Ramsar Convention on Wetlands’ was adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, to provide the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservationsoil with water, seasonally by flooding, or permanently by ponding (pooling of unwanted water) long enough to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part. This term is part of the legal definition of a wetland included in the United States Food Security Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-198).

There are four main kinds of wetlands: marsh, swamp, bog and fen. Sub-types include mangrove, carr, pocosin, and varzea. Some experts also include wet meadows and aquatic ecosystems as additional wetland types.

Marsh is a flat, wetland area, devoid of peat, saturated with moisture during one or more seasons. Typical vegetation includes grasses, sedges, reeds and rushes. Marshes are valuable wetlands and maintain water tables in adjacent ecosystems.

Swamp is a low-lying wetland area, found near large bodies of open water, generally in such


places as low-lying coastal plains, floodplains of rivers, and old lake basins or in areas where normal drainage has been disrupted by glacial deposits. Swamps are characterized in the northern regions by an abundant growth of rushes and sedge and in the southern regions dominated by trees, such as the swamp cypress, and high shrubs. Swamps can prevent flooding by absorbing flood waters from rivers and coastal regions.

Bogs and fens (in eastern England) are types of mires – an area of wet, soggy, muddy ground.

Bogs receive their water from the atmosphere. Their water has a low mineral ionic composition because ground water has a higher concentration of dissolved nutrients and minerals in comparison to precipitation. Bogs have acidic soil.

Fens, also known as the Fenland(s), are a naturally marshyregion in eastern England. Most of the fens were drained several centuries ago, resulting in a flat, damp, low-lying agricultural region. A fen is the local name for an individual area of marshland or former marshland and also designates the type of marsh typical of the area. The water chemistry of fens ranges from low pH and low minerals to alkaline with high content of calcium and magnesium, but few other plant nutrients because they acquire their water from precipitation as well as ground water.

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Laguna de Rocha, the largest wetland in the urban area in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo: Martinsnm)

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Every continent has its own Wetlands that occur naturally except Antarctica. The Amazon swamp forests and the Siberian peatland are the largest wetlands in the world. Another large wetland


serve as a water management tool in the design of water-sensitive urban areas.

Frankly, much of the report compiled by the world environmental agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) do not portend well.

For example, NOAA has authored a report, “Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Coastal Watersheds of the Conterminous United States 2004-2009,” with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that summarized the status and trends of coastal watersheds.

According to the report, the coastal watersheds of the continental United States lost wetlands at an average rate of 80,000 acres a year during the study period. That’s approximately seven football fields, every hour! It’s a 25 percent increase over the previous 6-year study period.

The loss of these valuable wetlands threatensnot only the sustainable fisheries and protected species, but also the supply of clean water and stability of shorelines in the face of climate change. Almost half of the population in the United States now lives in coastal counties. Continued loss of coastal wetlands means less protection for those communities in the coastal counties from strong storms, such as Superstorm Sandy.

Key factors in the degradation and loss of wetlands in coastal watersheds can be directly traced to population growth and its associated development — both residential and infrastructure, changes in water flow, and increased pollution.

Imagery from Earth-observing satellites that map changes in wetlands, however, show that while Mediterranean wetlands had been principally used for agriculture, less wetland areas have been changed by agriculture in the past 10–15 years.


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French court rules that Noriega can be extradited to Panama

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REPORTING FROM PARIS -- After 21 years in American and French prisons, the former Panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega could be back home for Christmas -- only to face more time behind bars.

A French court agreed Wednesday to extradite the 77-year-old who ran the small Central American nation with an iron fist between 1983 and 1989.

Noriega was sentenced to seven years in jail by a French court last year for laundering Colombian drug money. He had previously spent two decades in prison in the U.S.

After the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989, Noriega was arrested by U.S. troops and later charged with drug trafficking. During the invasion, Noriega had soughtrefuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City. American soldiers played deafening pop and heavy-metal music day and night outside the building to flush him out.

After completing his sentence in the U.S., he was kept in prison while his lawyers contested his extradition to France.

He will return to Panama to face more time in jail. In 1995, he was sentenced to 20 years in absentia for killing political opponents in the 1980s.

Last week, Panamanian Foreign Minister Roberto Henriquez said he believed Noriega would be back home "very soon ... perhaps before Christmas." Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has said it will be up to a judge to decide if Noriega is sent to jail on his return or put under house arrest.

Photo: Former strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, shown


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Strahan, Frank (1886–1976)

Frank Strahan (1886-1976), public servant, was born on 2 July 1886 at Fryerstown, Victoria, son of Richard Strahan, a schoolteacher from Ireland, and his second wife Sarah Jane, née Hardwick, who was born in Victoria. In 1894 the family moved to Bendigo. Frank was educated at a number of country schools. Entering the Commonwealth Public Service, he was appointed a clerk in the Treasury on 1 March 1906 and began to attend night-classes at the University of Melbourne (B.A., 1911; LL.B., 1915). At St Paul's Anglican Church, Bendigo, on 30 March 1914 he married Ella Mary Moore, a schoolteacher; they were childless.

In March 1913 Strahan had transferred to the Prime Minister's Department, which he later described as 'a letter-writing' office. As a senior clerk, hewas involved in drafting correspondence and proclamations, and in decoding cables. In April 1921 he was promoted to assistant-secretary. Over the next fourteen years he was responsible for a wide range of activities, including parliamentary matters, correspondence with State governments, administrative arrangements and publicity. While a member of the Australian delegation to the Imperial Conference in London in 1923, he was treated by Prime Minister S. M. (Viscount) Bruce as a well-paid messenger. Strahan's narrow conception of the role of a senior public servant was formed during the years that he worked for Bruce. In 1928 he was appointed C.B.E. Next year he served as secretary of a committee which organized the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, led by Sir Douglas Mawson. The Strahan Glacier


in MacRobertson Land was named after him. In 1930 the government made him a director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. He was Australian secretary for the Duke of Gloucester's tour in 1934 and that year was appointed C.V.O.

A small external affairs branch had been added to Strahan's responsibilities in 1930. Because he showed little interest in the creation of an Australian diplomatic service and was comparatively unfamiliar with foreign affairs, his relations with the branch's officers were strained. When Strahan was appointed secretary of the Prime Minister's Department in November 1935, a separate Department of External Affairs was established. Although he retained responsibility for Territories and for the High Commission in London, he headed a weakened department. Its standing slumped further with the approach of World War IIand the ascendancy of the Department of Defence. Sir Paul Hasluck later described the secretary of that department, (Sir) Frederick Shedden, as 'efficient, active and far-seeing', a contrast to Strahan whom he regarded as 'an easy-going old-style public servant'. Shedden began attending meetings of the War Cabinet in 1939, but it was only in July 1941 that, on the initiative of (Sir) Robert Menzies, Strahan became secretary of the full cabinet. He was, none the less, the first Commonwealth public servant to attend its meetings and the result was an immediate improvement in the organization of cabinet business.

Strahan described himself as 'just a clerk' who simply carried out the prime minister's directions. He was on good terms with the four prime ministers whom he served as secretary, but


his influence on policy-making was limited. Although he attended the 1937 Imperial Conference with Joseph Lyons, he did not accompany Menzies, John Curtin or J. B. Chifley on their overseas trips between 1941 and 1949. With the abolition of the War Cabinet, the work of the cabinet secretariat increased rapidly. Strahan and his deputies were hard-pressed. They resisted proposals that the department should extend its control to the large number of cabinet committees, and rejected suggestions that it should adopt a co-ordinating and advisory role similar to that of the Cabinet Office in Britain.

In August 1949 Strahan retired. He had lived in Canberra for more than twenty years, but shown little interest in local affairs. In 1950 he and his wife returned to Melbourne and settled at BoxHill. He continued to be a director of A.W.A. until 1962. After his wife died in 1965, Strahan lived alone, tending his garden, and occasionally meeting and reminiscing with former public-service colleagues. He died on 4 May 1976 at Camberwell and was cremated.

John Farquharson, interview with Hazel Craig (transcript, 1997, National Library of Australia)

L. F. Crisp papers, box 39 (National Library of Australia)

A461, item U1/1/1 (National Archives of Australia)

personal knowledge.

Citation details

Graeme Powell, 'Strahan, Frank (1886–1976)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/strahan-frank-11787/text21085, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 22 February 2018.

This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, (MUP), 2002


on active duty and require us to interpret provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act and the Federal Drivers Act.  We affirm.

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Appellant Thomason, a member of the United States Army, was operating his motorcycle on the grounds of Fort Dix, New Jersey on November 30, 1972, when he was struck by an automobile owned and operated by defendant Sanchez, himself a serviceman.  Subsequently, Thomason commenced a number of lawsuits seeking compensation for injuries incurred in the collision.  The district court has detailed these various actions now consolidated and their procedural nuances.  398 F.Supp. 500, 501 (D.N.J.1975).  In the interest of simplicity, the following recitation suffices for our purposes.  A common law action, commenced in state court against Sanchez and his wife, washis employment."  398 F.Supp. at 504.  The court concluded:

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The facts reveal that at the time of the collision Sanchez was operating his own vehicle, returning from procuring change for the use of Annex # 1 of the Non-Commissioned Officers' Club at Fort Dix, N.J., of which he was in charge.  This finding is substantiated by affidavit of Sanchez of April 3, 1975 indicating that he was within the scope of his employment.

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A verified petition for removal has been executed by Maryanne T. Desmond, Assistant United States Attorney, which certifies that defendant John Sanchez was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of the incident out of which the within suit arose.  The concomitant result of this petition is to provide an


this judicial construction of the Federal Drivers' Act

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 As a result of the injuries Thomason received in the collision with Sanchez, the government represented in its brief, the Veterans Administration determined that Thomason had a 60% service-connected disability for which he will receive $277 a month, subject to changes in his condition.  Appellee's Brief of Government at 15

you look at the intersectional aspect of it, right?" She said at the time. "Where white women get paid more than black women, black women get paid more than Asian women, Asian women get paid more than Latina women, and it's like a very scary space to step into."

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(21 March 1912-December 1988). Also Isaburo. 9th dan Aikikai. B. Osaka. First taught by Morihei UESHIBA in Osaka in 1936. After the war, Tanaka spent one month in IWAMA in 1951 during which time his private dojo was built in Osaka. This dojo was officially opened in 1952. Morihei Ueshiba spent severalsayign that "we do things differently here," and it took repeated polite requests to be allowed to take his class. His technique was all angles, with no curves. For example, on yokomenuchi, he stepped straight into the arch of the "cut," jamming the uke's arm behind his (my) shoulder. I don't recall anything remarkable - if magic is what you are looking for - but he was staunch and strong. And grouchy.

Yumi Nakamura is the head instructor where I practice in Toronto (http://aikidotendokai.com). My understanding is that she started at the Osaka dojo. Yukio Kawahara Shihan, who trained with Tanaka Bansen, was a senior student there when she started, and there is still a close affiliation between them here in Canada. Other senior students and instructors here are


once trained with a deshi of Nariyama of Shodokan, Mike McCavish, who said that the irimi nage styles were very similar.

It may be a bit more direct then that. Nariyama Shihan was of course a student of Tomiki but was also uchideshi in the true sense of Hirokazu Kobayashi (actually lived at his home) over the course of six years.

Shodokan Honbu has always been an Aikikai dojo with Kobayashi H. regularily teaching there (his own classes and also to the Shodokan people) and since his death his student Kimura continues to teach classes at Shodokan Honbu.

The body type of Nariyama, Kimura and Kobayashi are all very similar and quite different from Tomiki and there is a pretty good consensus that much of what defines Nariyama Shihan reflects this.chance to ask my Sensei (Yumi Nakamura), and the timing was in fact such that Tanaka Bansen was teaching in Osaka when she started there, and Kawahara Yukio Shihan was, in her words, "the most senior student" at the dojo at the time. As I said, since then both of them have moved to Canada, where they maintain a close relationship. I'm not sure if the earlier poster who talked about a Kawahara Shihan giving seminars in Hiroshima was talking about the same person -- I'm pretty sure the Kawahara Shihan I'm talking about only travels back to Japan to give a seminar (in Osaka, I thought) once a year around the winter holiday. He's also pretty steadfast in his commitment to basic principles and linear efficiency in


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An exciting thriller at the bottom of the sea!

Norman Johnson is a psychologist specialized in how stress affects group dynamics. He is often called out by the FAA to help survivors of plane crashes and their families deal with the aftermath. So when he's escorted by the US Navy out to the South Pacific he assumes a plane has crashed into the ocean.

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A team of scientists, recommended by Norman, and a group of navy personal are tasked with uncovering what is and, if anything is alive, how to communicate with it. Staying in cramped quarters, surrounded by the crushing depths of the sea where a small mistake could get them all killed, the pressures are incredible. Can Norman keep the group functional when the discover the Sphere lurking in the heart of the craft?

Crichton's Sphere is an interesting take on the first contact with aliens story. It's told from the psychologist point of view and it delves into many aspects of emotional reactions and Jungian's theory of the shadow self. Personalities conflict and clash. The unknown


were included in the random samples, namely: general practitioners, elderly care physicians, and clinical specialists specialized in internal medicine (incl oncologists, excl gastrointestinal and hepatic physicians), pulmonology, surgery (excl orthopaedics and plastic surgeons), cardiology, neurology, and anaesthesia. Geriatricians were not included in the sample as this is a small specialism in the Netherlands. The samples were randomly taken from different sources: general practitioners from the Netherlands Institute of Health Services Research (NIVEL), elderly care physicians from the Association of Physicians specialized in care for older people (Verenso) and clinical specialists from the medical address guide (BSL). These registrations consist of virtually all general practitioners, elderly care physicians and clinical specialists in the Netherlands. Including criteria were: currently working in the Netherlands as a physician, not in training.

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The questionnaire was sent in January 2009. Two reminders were sent. The first reminder was a letter or an e-mail to remind them of the study, the second reminder included the questionnaire again and a short non-response questionnaire. Respondents could complete the questionnaire on paper or online. The written questionnaire was anonymous. A separate answer card with the personal data of the respondent could be mailed separately by the respondent to prevent further reminders. The online questionnaire was not anonymous, because it would otherwise not be possible to exclude the possibility that people who were not in the sample would complete the questionnaire. When the database was closed the questionnaires were made anonymous.

After the closing of the data collection, a document with the correct answers to the


BDOP was involved in conception and design of the study, interpretation of data, revising of the manuscript, drafting the revision. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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MLR works as a senior researcher in the subject of end of life studies at the VU University Medical Center, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Department of Public and Occupational Health.

CAR works as an elderly care physician, and at the time of the study, worked at the VU University Medical Center, Department of Medical Oncology, Palliative Care Consultation team.

MSAB works as a hospice physician, and at the time of the study, worked at the VU University Medical Center, Department of Medical Oncology, Palliative Care Consultation team.

AGMK works as a junior researcher at the VU University Medical Center, EMGOUN approves new probe of Dag Hammarskjold plane crash

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly voted unanimously Monday to ask Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine new information about the mysterious plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mission to newly independent Congo in 1961.

The 193-member world body approved a resolution by consensus encouraging member states to release any relevant records and information on his death in the plane crash over the African bush in Northern Rhodesia — today's Zambia.

The assembly's action follows an independent investigation by a Commission of Jurists released in September 2013 which concluded that "significant new evidence" exists which might shed light on the circumstances of Hammarskjold's death. It said the U.S. National


Security Agency may hold crucial evidence, which remains classified.

Hammarskjold was flying into a war zone infested with mercenaries and riven by Cold War tensions.

Congo won its freedom from Belgium in 1960, but foreign multinationals coveted its vast mineral wealth. The country was challenged by a Western-backed insurgency in Katanga, which hosted mining interests belonging to the U.S., Britain, and Belgium. The Western countries were also jockeying for influence with the Soviet Union, which was trying to spread communism to the newly independent nations of Africa.

All four powers had a stake in the outcome of Congo's struggle, and all four have been fingered as potential suspects in Hammarskjold's death.

Three investigations into the tragedy have failed to satisfactorily settle the matter. The publication of "Who Killed Hammarskjold?" by Susan Williamsin 2011 set off a renewed round of speculation because it relied on testimony ignored by earlier inquiries.

The resolution approved by the General Assembly requests that the panel appointed by Ban examine the new information and "assess its probative value." It asks the secretary-general to give a progress report to the assembly during its next session which begins in September 2015.

It has long been rumored that Hammarskjold's DC-6 plane was shot down, and the independent commission said recordings of the last minutes of the flight, possibly in the NSA archive, could be key to explaining why the aircraft crashed.

The commission said the NSA reported that two of three documents "responsive" to its request for any radio intercepts were classified "top secret" and could not be released, a decision


it is appealing. The status of the third document, which is not held by the NSA, is still unknown, the commission said.

Ban, in a note in March, asked the General Assembly to press several governments, which he didn't identify, to declassify relevant records.

"The unparalleled service and sacrifice of Dag Hammarskjold and his legacy within the United Nations and beyond compels us to seek the whole truth of the circumstances leading to his tragic death and that of the members of the party accompanying him," Ban said.they become silhouette-highlighted, you click them and they have a cutscene-dialogue.

The first and most dramatic is an appearance of a miniature Diablo in a SC2 single-player mission called "The Devil's Playground." Diablo is just a "critter," one of the forms of ambient life, but it's definitely Big Red, though he's small and gloriously burning, the model looks to be the same one used for the World of Warcraft mini-pet.

A screenshot can be seen to the right. See the original news post for more details and a movie of the little guy.

The SC2 collector's edition was released on July 27, 2010, the same day as the regular game. There has not yet been any word about Collector's Editions for SC2 parts 2 and 3. The Diablo III Collector's Edition


Bleach

*This is a digital eBook, not a physical book.

Synopsis

Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper and member of the mysterious Soul Society. While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some of her powers so that he can save his family; but much to her surprise, Ichigo absorbs every last drop of her energy. Now a full-fledged Soul Reaper himself, Ichigo quickly learns that the world he inhabits is one full of dangerous spirits and, along with Rukia--who is slowly regaining her powers--it's Ichigo's job to protect the innocent from Hollows and help theheck of a quality shonen at the beginning.
Along the way though, something went...wrong.
Actually scrap that, plenty of things went wrong with this series, starting with:

One of the biggest setbacks to Bleach is that it's story isn't exactly what you would call anything ground breaking. It's your typical Yu Yu Hakusho influenced series done better than most. Initially, Bleach had plenty of aspects going for it; putting the unoriginal story aside, the series had one of the best shonen arcs I've ever seen, the sheer adrenaline in that arc and the amazing, addictive storytelling in that arc was so good. The series was setting itself apart from your generic shonen in that in the first 150 or so chapters, it was generic shonen done right.
And then something happened. To


be more specific, nothing happened. I feel the author had plenty of fantastic ideas for the manga, but due to the anime airing at around the same time, blasted through all those ideas as fast as possible and rushed the story as much as possible, which I find to be a great shame because Bleach's style of storytelling in that first arc was just so good. Instead, the author decided to repeat the same style of storytelling in later arcs, which really killed the plot and changed it from above average to plain mediocre. The series could have been much better if it experimented with various styles of storytelling and eventually come up with it's own unique style, instead of the author taking the ink out of thepen and not adding anything to the rest of the series.

Bleach's art looks bloody fantastic, almost no problems there. What I found really disheartening however, is that in some volumes the series lowered it art quality for the sake of low quality fan-service, which I found really depressing because the series tried to put these scenes as much as possible in a certain arc when the series could have instead fleshed out it's characters.
Nevertheless,these are just minor nitpicks and the art looks bloody fantastic. Major props to Tite Kubo for providing us with relatively consistent and good looking art over the course of the series.

Bleach plays host to a huge, and by huge I mean HUGE cast of characters. Our protagonists, while a little bland at a good


portion of the series, were like-able, well-written and most importantly well-developed. The series however, struggled at developing it's cast of antagonists properly, and when the series did try to focus on developing them (or the protagonists at times for that matter) the series fell into this colossal problem of not knowing how to pace it's story events and character development properly, which led to huge problems in finding the characters as like-able as they should have been.
Nevertheless, Bleach has an above average cast of characters, but the story is just nowhere near worthy enough to have said cast.

Despite all it's major problems, Bleach is still a slightly above average series with one of the most fantastic and well-written shonen arcs I've ever seen in manga. Despite all it'sLocation & Accommodation

‘On the Way Up’ retreat has found its perfect location in a village Grižane, situated above the sea, in the area of Kvarner.

A charming village with a playful history, proven with its rich cultural-historical heritage, has been built on Roman fortress ruins. It is located 7 km away from the coast and beneath striking rocky cliffs. Nestled just behind a popular seaside resort Crikvenica and on the feet of mountains of Gorski kotar, it offers an irresistible sea and mountain ambiance.

Villa Ursula was built in 1906 in Art Nouveau style and renovated in 2013, preserving the centennial shine and historical character from the Austro-Hungarian times. It is a remarkable rustic house on 3 floors, surfacing 300 m2, which brings you back in time, yet providing modern


through health websites, said Angel Grant, senior manager of fraud risk and intelligence at RSA, the security division of EMC and one of the sponsors of the study.

RSA has also seen the growth of mobile fraud through its own channels, she added.

The company sells a risk-based authentication solutions for online banks, retailers, and medical record portals.

"When we monitor the transactions that are going through our system, we noticed a dramatic increase in 2014 of transactions moving from web to mobile," she said.

But as users did more shopping and banking on smartphones and tablets, the criminals moved over as well, she said.

"Last year, 32 percent of all transactions processed through adaptive authentication came through the mobile channel," she said. "And 40 percent of the transactions marked fraudulent, came throughIndian riddim could be heard emanating from the clubs and street corners in big cities like Birmingham and London. British kids soon had a different beat to shuffle to. Of course, these times weren’t without their problems: in 1958, just three years before Demon Fuzz members (and brothers) Winston Joseph and Blue Rivers arrived in England, London’s Notting Hill neighborhood had erupted in race riots.

But back to the music.

Paddy Corea arrived in London in 1963, and soon took up playing the tenor saxophone—his weapon of choice for irking neighbors. One day, he answered a want ad Winston had placed in NME, the British music magazine that many budding musicians bought in order to scour the classifieds. Corea auditioned, and Winston and Rivers recruited the saxophonist for their band.


Washington (CNN) It's a good thing Donald Trump has his own jet -- because he's been summoned for jury duty.

Rhona Graff, senior vice president to the president of The Trump Organization, confirmed Friday that Trump has been called for jury duty in Manhattan, and that the mogul will report on Monday.

Trump is currently on the campaign trail, including a scheduled appearance at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, where he'll offer helicopter rides on his personal chopper.

Earlier this summer, the New York Daily News reported that Trump had ignored five jury summons over nine years, but a $250 fine would be erased when he shows up on Aug. 17.Daniel Jackson

Biography

Daniel Jackson is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and leads the Software Design Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received an MA from Oxford University (1984) in Physics, and his SM (1988) and PhD (1992) from MIT in Computer Science. He was a software engineer for Logica UK Ltd. (1984-1986), Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (1992-1997), and has been at MIT since 1997.

He has broad interests in software engineering, especially in development methods, design and specification, formal methods, and safety critical systems.


This article contains spoilers from the Netflix series “Russian Doll.”

The new Netflix series “Russian Doll” is so splendidly Jewish.

The eight 30-minute episodes in Season 1 follow the life of the main character, Nadia, played by Natasha Lyonne (“Orange is the New Black”), who dies and wakes up at her 36th birthday party in a never-ending loop, “Groundhog Day”-style.

The series is Jewish in two distinct ways. It’s a rare combination of secular New York bagels and kosher pickles Jewish, and deep mystical and ethical principles Jewish.

On the surface, there are the trappings of the sort of Jewish history that’s threaded through the streets of the East Village: a birthday party in an old yeshiva building, now an ultra-fancy hipster loft encased in subway tile; a synagogue on 14th Streetsame situation and then make a different decision.

This is Nadia’s story. She follows Maimonides’ steps of teshuvah, one by one, multiverse by multiverse. Being human, she sometimes slips, but in general, she moves forward. She apologies to her friend for a hurtful past comment; she reconsiders her refusal to connect with her ex-boyfriend’s young daughter; on two separate occasions she makes sure a homeless man has shoes on a cold night; and eventually, she puts her heart and soul into saving her teshuvah partner, Alan (Charlie Barnett).

“Russian Doll” not only depicts the behavior of teshuvah, as laid out by Maimonides, but also moves us by showing the characters’ inner growth. Before they can complete their teshuvah and live their fullest lives, both Nadia and Alan must face the


The novel coronavirus outbreak, which has already reshaped the professional sports landscape in Europe, prompted new restrictions to restrict fan access in the U.S. on Tuesday, with major decisions looming about baseball's opening day and college basketball's NCAA Tournament.

College games will be played without fans in Ohio and California, and given restrictions on large gatherings there and elsewhere, more disruptions to the sports calendar appear inevitable. The NCAA said it would “make decisions in the coming days” about its men's and women's basketball tournaments after two conferences banned fans from their championships and another canceled its tournament altogether.

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The baseball season begins in just over two weeks and includes games in Seattle, which so far has been hit harder by the virusthan any U.S. city. The Mariners are set to host the Texas Rangers on March 26 in the first of seven consecutive home games to start the season.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee plans to ban gatherings and events of more than 250 people in virtually the entire Seattle area, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday night. The person was not authorized to disclose the decision and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Inslee scheduled a news conference for late Wednesday morning. The Mariners and Major League Baseball had no immediate comment, but the decision would seemingly force MLB to move the games or bar fans from the Mariners' stadium.

Of the 29 known deaths in the U.S., 24 have been in the Seattle area, with 19


of possible exposure to the virus, forcing the postponement of its Premier League game at Manchester City. It was the first Premier League game called off because of the virus and the first possible exposure involving players in a major sports league.

Scores of top-tier soccer games in Spain, France and Portugal, as well as some in Germany and a European Championship qualifying match in Slovakia, will be played in empty stadiums in coming days.

The Spanish league said matches in its first and second divisions will be played without fans for at least two weeks. The league said it was "prioritizing the health of fans, players, club employees, journalists, etc., due to the COVID-19 health crisis.”

The French league said soccer matches in its top two divisions will be playedwithout fans until April 15 and Portugal announced similar measures. Italy earlier this week said all sports events, including Serie A soccer games and preparatory events for the Tokyo Olympics, were suspended until April 3. The Italian ski team decided not to send competitors to Slovenia for the last World Cup races of the season.

For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.

CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS PROMPT YMCA TO CANCEL MAJOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. According to the World Health Organization, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks. Those with more severe illness may


take three to six weeks to recover.

Sports and government officials in nearly every corner of the globe have scrambled to address concerns fans could be at risk and to potentially stop the spread of the virus. The fear has spread from Asia — particularly about the Summer Olympics in Tokyo — to Europe and now to North America:

— Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recommended that fans be kept away from all indoor sporting events. The state is home to the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets, among others; the Blue Jackets said they did not plan to keep fans away from games this week. The state is also hosting a number of high school and collegiate tournaments this month and the first games of the NCAAmen's tournament — the First Four — are scheduled for next week in Dayton. First-round games are also set to be played in Cleveland on March 20 and 22.

The NCAA released a statement three hours after the DeWine's announcement saying it “continues to assess how COVID-19 impacts the conduct or our tournaments and events.”

“We are consulting with public health officials and our COVID-19 advisory panel, who are leading experts in epidemiology and public health, and will make decisions in the coming days," the NCAA said.

The Mid-American Conference announced its men's and women's tournaments to be played in Cleveland this week would be closed to the general public.

NEW YORK CITY CANCELS HALF MARATHON IN LIGHT OF CORONAVIRUS THREAT

— The Big West announced a similar move with its men's and


women's tournaments, which will be played this week at Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

Also in Southern California, USC and UCLA said all of its home athletic events will be held without fans at least until April 10, or until further notice. That would include first- and second-round NCAA women's tournament games likely to be hosted by UCLA.

— The NHL was also assessing the impact of a decision by Santa Clara County health officials in California to ban gatherings of more than 1,000 people in response to the spread of the virus. The San Jose Sharks have games scheduled for March 19, 21 and 29.

— The NBA told teams last week to prepare for the possibility of playing games in empty arenas, which Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron Jamesthe stadiums, then you go watch it closely together in rooms and I’m not sure which is better in this case, to be honest.”

— One of the year's biggest tennis tournaments, at Indian Wells in California, was canceled. The next Grand Slam tournament is the French Open, due to start in Paris on May 24. The French tennis federation said it did not anticipate canceling the Open.

— In MotoGP, the Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin, Texas, was postponed until November.

— The Noord-Brabant province in the Netherlands called off all professional soccer matches for the rest of this week. The province includes Eindhoven, where the U.S. is scheduled to play the Dutch national team in an exhibition on March 26. The U.S. Soccer Federation said it is


in Phnom Penh (54.28%). Almost a quarter of the remaining attacks were reported to have occurred in the province of Kampong Cham (22.86%). The remaining 22.86% of attacks occurred in the eight provinces of Kandal, Svay Rieng, Takeo, Banteay Meanchey, Sihanoukville, Koh Kong, Kampot and Siem Reap.

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The graph above sets out the gender divide of perpetrators and alleged perpetrators of acid attacks. More often than not, the perpetrators of acid violence attacks are unknown. Of the acid attacks reported on in the media from 2009 to 2012, the gender of the perpetrator/alleged perpetrator was unknown in 48.57% of cases. Of the 35 perpetrators/alleged perpetrators identified in the CCHR study, women were the reported perpetrator/alleged perpetrator in 28.57% of cases, whereas men were reported as the perpetrator/alleged perpetrator inbeing technically opposed by the majority of Canadians. The system also allows for the creation of a sectional political voice. Nationally a party might only have 4% of the vote, but they possess 10% of House of Commons seats after the election. Their regional support takes those 4% of national electors and translates them into a large share of the vote within a single region of ridings.

We've seen the results of this in the last quarter of a century, as Canadian politics has seen a revival of regionally based parties. “Third parties” like the New Democratic Party, the Reform Party, and the Bloc Quebecois have all formed the Official Opposition in the House of Commons in the previous twenty-five years, often from victories focused in one region. The


Reform movement was based in the Western provinces, the Bloc in Quebec, and the NDP became the Official Opposition in 2011 because of Quebec support (though they did not run a regional campaign like the other examples). None have yet been able to claim Sussex Drive from the Liberal and Conservatives, but it’s clear that Canadian politics is fluctuating.

Before the First World War however, third parties were almost unheard of in Canadian federal politics. One reason for this is that party politics were highly partisan to extreme levels. Today we would call most of what politicians did then corruption, though it was accepted in late 19th and early 20th century Canadian political life. When the Conservatives won office, they granted patronage appointments to their supporters and preferential fundingBorden to institute reforms that may have been rejected in peace time. At the same time, Borden forged a coalition government for the 1917 federal election called the Unionist Party. This partnership between Conservatives and Liberals in favour of conscription seemed to reinforce the idea of a two-party system. For a brief period from 1917-1921, Liberals and Conservatives were running the country together.

The seeds of its downfall were planted in 1918 among Canada’s rural voters. The imposition of conscription had been passed the year before, and weeks before the December election, Borden had promised farmers an exemption from conscription. Their sons, who were needed for planting, would not be sent off to war. It was a gambit to gain their votes, but one that seemed reasonable at the


time. Unfortunately, in the spring of 1918, a renewed German offensive seemingly pushed the Allies to the brink of defeat. Borden cancelled the farmer’s exemptions and thousands of farmer sons were sent to war just as planting season began.

The farmers, who had significant political influence in many rural ridings from Ontario to Alberta, had never been fans of Ottawa. Canadian farmers had readily defended their interests for several decades. They had established conventions and organized themselves politically to defend farmer interests against the “new feudalism” coming from Canadian urban centres. They refused to be subservient to the cities or industrial centres and their populist rhetoric influenced many rural voters. This is not the populism of Rob Ford, think the people-power of John Diefenbaker instead.

The war itself was anincredibly transformative experience for Canadians. It both intensified and initiated political change. Some issues before the war, like the French-English divide, became much worse during wartime. Others, like the farmer movement, had its roots in the pre-war, but it was only after increased centralization from Ottawa that their political discontent was channeled into political successes.

In 1918, the farmers were dissatisfied with their two options politically: the Unionists, which did not enact favourable policies for them, or the Laurier Liberals, which they saw as dominated by Quebec. The grassroots believed that the big political parties were controlled by financial and industrial interests. It was increasingly clear that more direct political action was necessary to combat the two parties that dominated Canadian legislatures. They saw little difference between them and


new farmer-based parties were formed or strengthened. One of the most well-known was the United Farmers, which had formed in 1907 out of the fusion of several other farmer organizations.

The United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) began winning by-elections in 1918 after the cancellation of exemptions as rural voters expressed their discontent with federal and provincial political establishment. In the spring of 1919, the UFO leader E.C. Drury declared that “the United Farmers of Ontario form the nucleus of a new party which is going to sweep the two old parties into a single organization, which they really are, a new party that will stand for wisdom, justice and honesty in public affairs; a party untainted by campaign funds contributed by selfish interest, that will cleanse the whole publiclife of Canada.” Their message rode a wave of postwar discontent among rural voters and combined with grassroots organization, the UFO won the provincial election in October 1919. The UFO took 43 seats, the Liberals won 28, and the Conservatives took 26, alongside 12 Labour MPPs and two independents. The two-party system cracked.

The United Farmers were also successful in the provinces of Alberta and Manitoba, and by New Year’s Day a new federal party was declared. The National Progressive Party, led by former Unionist Cabinet Minister T.A. Crerar, introduced Canadians across the country to a third option. A new era of Canadian politics had begun. In the 1921 election, Crerar ran a national campaign, though perhaps one which struggled to present the Progressive Party as something other than


a sectional or class movement. The results demonstrated the deep divisions within Canadian society. Farmers across the country (well, mostly west of Ottawa) voted for the Progressives or United Farmer candidates. Sixty-five seats were won by non-Liberals or Conservatives. The Progressives won 58 seats, 34 of which came from the Prairies, three in British Columbia, one in New Brunswick, and 20 from Ontario. The Liberals had won with 118 seats, but the Conservatives had only garnered 49 seats – so for the first time in Canadian history, a third party was the Official Opposition. From 1921 onward, Canadians would have a viable third option in federal politics.

The destruction of the two-party system is an oft understated consequence of the First World War. It reveals just how much Canadianin this case because the dentist had been found guilty in the first and second trials, in which case the probability of a positive Supreme Court outcome was approximately 8%. Although a number of dentists have made an endeavor in their belief and they made a result which deserves to be written in the Korean dental history. The Supreme Court approached the case with prudence by reason of dealing with the field of medical part including dental part. The Supreme Court proceeded with the en banc appeal, which was open to the public. The Supreme Court trial was also broadcast on television and on the Internet. It was considerably helpful not only the oral and maxillofacial surgeon in the trial as a \"person for reference\" but also many


as a probable Democratic presidential candidate and formidable threat to Clinton, confirmed on multiple occasions that she would not run for president in 2016 despite the chorus of prominent progressives urging her to jump into the race.

The Massachusetts senator has yet to formally endorse one of the four officially declared candidates for the Democratic nomination. When asked if she would be campaigning with Sanders in the future, Warren said it’s “too early to say.”

Since launching his campaign in May, Sanders has soared in the polls. A CNN/WMUR New Hampshire primary poll released last week has the Vermont senator trailing front-runner Hillary Clinton in the early-voting Granite State by a mere eight percentage points.

#related#A growing number of Democratic voters view Sanders as a strong alternative to the former SecretaryRecruit

Recruit

General information

Organization

Position

Recruit refers to the default Operator class featured in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege for all organizations. While the Recruit has more customization in terms of generic gadgets, they lack any unique ability of their own.

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Multiplayer

The Recruit makes up for versatility in what it lacks in specialization. With an arsenal no other Operator can match, the Recruit can still keep up with the rest with experience.

The Recruit is the default class if an Operator is not chosen before the start of round.

The Recruit is also not able to customize their weapons with any sort of attachments or weapon skins as they are generic operators and lack this ability.

However, the Recruit has more versatility in how they customize their secondary gadgets than normal Operators. While Operators are


GOYANG, South Korea -- The mechanical whirring of rotor-blades, electronic dance music blasting on speakers, and a light spectacle powered by countless LEDs. Like a scene out of a science-fiction movie, drones encased in a protective outer shell hover around furiously in an enclosed cage.

The final competition for the 'The 2018 Robo Universe Drone Soccer competition' took place Saturday in Goyang city, an hour away from Seoul. This year, more than 300 people from 22 teams competed for the winning trophy. The number of participants has doubled since last year's first-ever competition.

"A drone soccer game looks like a combat scene from the movie Star Wars," Lee Bum Su, the founder of drone soccer told ABC News. "We wanted to develop a game that could be enjoyed by amateurdrone users, not only professionals."

A drone soccer game unfolds in mid-air, three meters above ground. Five players on each team score by passing their ‘striker drone’ through a circular goal post. The remaining four drones try to guard their goal post for three rounds. Each round lasts three minutes. A carbon fiber net, developed for this game, protects drones from crashing.

The tech-savvy sport was introduced to drone enthusiasts in 2016, by a research team in CAMTIC Institute of Technology, based in Jeonju city. With the support from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the city hopes to expand drone soccer worldwide.

"Currently there are four drone soccer teams in the United Kingdom, China, Japan and Malaysia," Kim Seung-su, the mayor of Jeonju, told ABC News. "By the year 2025,


up of medium utility and heavy lift transport helicopters for up to 12 months to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali.

The task force will provide two CH-147F Chinook helicopters from 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, based in Petawawa, Ont. and four CH-146 Griffon helicopters from 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, based in Edmonton, Alta. Aircraft spares could also be made available to the Aviation Detachment.

The aircraft and personnel are expected in Africa by August.

In Mali, the CH-146 Griffon helicopters will serve as an armed escort for the Chinooks as they carry out UN missions. The Canadian Armed Forces will provide MINUSMA with a number of medically-trained personnel who will help in medical evacuations for partners and allied forces on the ground and provide logistical support for theBello, along with LJ Rose – and Texas’ Julien Lewis, the top returning scorer for the Longhorns, is also on his way out. Lewis is the most accomplished player of the three, averaging 11/3 APG in his sophomore season in Austin, but Bello probably has the most name-brand recognition from his prep days when he was considered the most athletic player in his class. Bello has only seen about 10 minutes per game of action in his two seasons in Waco, but perhaps a change of scenery will allow him to develop his game beyond occasional Highlight of the Night quality dunks. Already more than 400 players are on the transfer wire this offseason, averaging out to a little more than one player per D-I team. Wow. We


this is an example of cars

working the way they should: breaking apart and absorbing energy so that the drivers don't have to. More importantly, the crash happened in a way the kept the biggest

forces from ever occurring in the first place. The impact force goes way, way up if one suffers an immediate and massive deceleration, like hitting a wall

or a tree.

Sadly, one man gives a great example of the two different types of accidents I'm referring to. At the 2007 Canadian GP, Robert Kubica slammed

into the wall at close to 180 mph and came to a stop well down the road, the BMW Sauber in millions of million-dollar pieces, but he was okay. The impact was spread out over a series of smaller hits, giving the car.500 and in first place in the American League West. They have the third-best record in all of baseball and are hotter than a sunbathing habanero.

They haven’t lost in extra innings. They’re infallible in one-run games. Their pitching staff is stingier than a brand new slot machine and their offense is delivering the kind of punch that would make a pugilist cringe.

They just swept the team that was supposed to knock them back down to earth. They’ve won 20 of their last 25 games. They’ve had more walk-offs than a downtown parking lot.

Mitch Haniger is a folk hero. James Paxton is a dominating ace. Dee Gordon is a breath of fresh air, Jean Segura a machine, Nelson Cruz a thundering force. The bullpen murders hopes and dreams, the


the field and report as eligible receivers. The lightest player was Trubisky at 222 pounds. The Bears had 10 players on the field, including four defensive linemen, weighing 290 pounds or more. All told, the Bears had 3,288 pounds on the field for the play called "Santa's Sleigh." Trubisky faked a handoff to 332-pound defensive tackle Akiem Hicks, who had scored on a 1-yard TD run the week before, and hit 312-pound offensive lineman Bradley Sowell for the 2-yard touchdown pass.

"We needed a play, so they gave it to the playmaker," joked Sowell, who caught the first pass of his seven-year NFL career. "It was one of those things that I'm glad coach Nagy trusts me to do. He tried it with me earlier in the season andPrimary hyperoxaluria in an adult male: A rare cause of end-stage kidney disease yet potentially fatal if misdiagnosed.
Primary hyperoxaluria is an autosomal recessive disorder due to a deficiency in the activity of the peroxisomal hepatic enzyme alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase. It is a common cause of urolithiasis and end-stage kidney disease in children contrary to the adult phenotypic presentation which is considered a mild disorder with occasional urolithiasis. In this case report, we describe a 25-year-old man who presented with advanced and irreversible kidney failure within three months following strenuous physical training in the police academy. He had nephrocalcinosis and stones in one kidney. Diagnosis was confirmed by establishing the existence of extensive tubular and interstitial crystal deposition in his kidneys and molecular genetic testing. The case illustrates the need


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NASA's New Mars Camera Gives Dramatic View of Planet

Mars is ready for its close-up. The highest-resolution camera ever to orbit Mars is returning low-altitude images to Earth from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Rocks and surface features as small as armchairs are revealed in the first image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter since the spacecraft maneuvered into its final, low-altitude orbital path. The imaging of the red planet at this resolution heralds a new era in Mars exploration.

The image of a small fraction of Mars' biggest canyon reached Earth on Friday, the beginning of a week of tests for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment and other instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"We are elated at the sharpness of the image, revealing such fine detail in the landscape,"said Dr. Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, Tucson, who is the principal investigator for this camera. The target area includes the deepest part of Ius Chasma, one portion of the vast Valles Marineris canyon. Valles Marineris is the largest known canyon in the solar system, as long as the distance from California to New York.

The camera returned test images after Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter went into orbit around Mars on March 10, 2006, but those were from altitudes more than eight times as high as the orbiter is flying now. Since March, the spacecraft has shrunk its orbit by dipping more than 400 times into the top of the Martian atmosphere to shave velocity. It is now flying in its final, nearly circular orbit at altitudes of


for monitoring the entire planet daily, and an instrument for mapping and monitoring water vapor and other constituents in the atmosphere.

For most of October, Mars will be passing nearly behind the sun from Earth's perspective. Communication will be intermittent. Activities will be minimal for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and other spacecraft at Mars during this time, and they will resume in early November.

Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor and built the spacecraft. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is operated by the University of Arizona and the instrument was built byInstituting an office-based surgery program in the gynecologist's office.
Office-based surgery (OBS) provides many advantages for the patient, physician, operating room team, and health care system. Newer technologies provide an array of procedures appropriate to the office setting, and with careful preparation, many can be performed without compromising patient safety or comfort. Several states have specific regulatory requirements for OBS, although half of them provide neither guidelines nor regulation. The Federation of State Medical Boards provides current regulatory information across the United States; the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology has recently issued guidelines that provide recommendations for instituting an OBS practice, and the American Medical Association and the American Society of Anesthesiologists provide guidelines that promote patient safety and comfort in the office setting. Many issues must be


Cesar was born to a rural landowning family on a planet holding the
local subsector's capital. The Wemyss family, as with many of their
station on that world, are 'land rich' and 'cash poor'. While the family
could assist each child in selecting a career, it would be up to Cesar and
his siblings to succeed afterwards as financial support was out of the
question. While funds were only available to send the family heir to
university, the family's influence placed the other children in subsector
navy, planetary bureaucracy, and various corporations. With the advice and
assistance of a family patron, Cesar gained a position in the subsector
duke's diplomatic service.

Cesar quickly made his mark. After succeeding
in a variety of increasingly difficult assignments, he was appointed 2nd
Secretary of a ducal mission to a troublesome and mildly xenophobic
balkanizedworld. There he held the 'Tendencies and Assessments' desk and
kept up contacts with a bewildering variety of individuals and groups
active on the planet. Using the information he received, gleaned, or
inferred from these contacts, Cesar was able to keep the mission's chief
appraised of the world's public moods and private thoughts. Over the
course of several years, the diplomatic mission proved partially
successful and the inhabitants' distrust towards off-worlders lessened.

The chief of mission on another world wracked by communal violence
requested Cesar be posted to his delegation. The duchy's forces on-planet
were barely keeping the situation under control and most observers felt
that civil war would soon break out. Performing much the same role as he
had done before, Cesar doggedly built up relationships with the various
local factions. His own background as the son of a


rural squire helped him
gain the ear of many rural factions and his hard work and empathy did much
the same for most of their urban counterparts.

After a mild bout with a
local influenza strain, Cesar first developed Enoc-Pynchan Syndrome, a
form of continued muscular degeneration. While higher tech treatment
off-world would have been more effective, he felt that the mission's work
was at a critical stage and chose not to leave. Local treatments minimized
the effect of the syndrome and Cesar continued to slowly persevere through
a thicket of contentious issues. His decision to stay and help the locals
work out their difficulties, despite his own poor health, earned Cesar a
great deal of respect from the parties involved.

After years of patient
negotiation, breakthroughs on a number of issues began to occur. Cesar's
work schedule during this period wasso heavy as to cause another health
crisis. Again, he chose to stay and work rather than leave for treatment.
When the local factions began signing the series of accords meant to ease
their strife, Cesar was at the ceremonies. At the insistence of many of
the factions involved, Cesar was promoted and charged with the
implementation of the accords that he had done so much to create. As the
mission's 1st Secretary, Cesar oversaw the first few years of the accords'
implementation.

Sadly, his health had been ruined by his efforts. On the
urging of the mission medical staff, Cesar reluctantly filed for
retirement. His request was granted with an additional bonus - he was
recalled to the duchy's capital and knighted by the hand of the duke
himself.

Sir Cesar currently acts as a free-lance arbiter. Supported by
a sword


cane, his services are very much in demand. Parties as diverse as
local governments, mercantile interests, corporations, labor guilds, and
individuals. Sir Cesar is called in to find common ground in any number of
issues. He has negotiated the end of labor actions, local taxation
complaints, tariff levels, and even marriage contracts. His poor physical
condition places several limits how he can conduct his work. After setting
up an office; usually in a hotel or quarters provided him, Sir Cesar will
act like the spider at the center of a web only travelling to conduct
interviews or negotiations when absolutely necessary. He will hire as many
people as necessary to act as his eyes and ears, carefully instructing
them in their tasks, and just as carefully debriefing them afterwards.
People who perform exceptionally well in this role will findCash bond is set at $1 million for a 34-year-old man accused of killing a missing girl's mother in Milwaukee.

Dariaz Higgins appeared in court Sunday on charges including first-degree intentional homicide. Higgins is accused of fatally shooting 24-year-old Sierra Robinson and wounding another woman last week.

Higgins is the father of 2-year-old Noelani Robinson. Authorities say a child's body found wrapped in a blanket along a southern Minnesota highway on Friday night is believed to be Noelani's.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says the child died from blunt force trauma to the head. That death remains under investigation.

Authorities have not disclosed a motive in the death of Sierra Robinson. Police said Higgins was Robinson's pimp and they had been romantically involved but were no longer together.


Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: the rise and fall of Miss Watson.
In this paper, we discuss the rise to power of Miss Mary Watson, first superintendent of a small hospital and school of nursing at the beginning of the century in a town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. The data were retrieved from first-hand documents still preserved in the hospital. They consisted of student records written in her own hand, minutes of medical meetings which she attended, newspaper clippings and oral histories of nurses who worked in the Yarmouth Hospital in the 1920s and 1930s. We trace her professional career in that town and document how she lost control and eventually left the province of Nova Scotia.Click to expand Image Members of the First Responders Team in Raqqa city, Syria exhume a body from a mass grave at the al-Rashid playing field. © 2018 Human Rights Watch

(Beirut) – A local group working to uncover mass graves in the area of northeastern Syria once controlled by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) needs international support and technical assistance to preserve evidence of possible crimes and identify the remains, Human Rights Watch said today.

With an unknown number of mass graves in the city of Raqqa and surrounding areas and thousands of bodies left to be recovered, local authorities affiliated with the Raqqa Civil Council are struggling to cope with the logistical challenges of collecting and organizing information about the bodies recovered and providing it to


grave, at al-Rashid playing field in Raqqa city, is the first of nine mass grave locations the team has identified, a team leader told Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch researchers visited the site in May. The team operates under the authority of the Raqqa Civil Council, a local governance unit created by the Syrian Democratic Council in April 2017.

ISIS detained thousands of people during its control of the area, from June 2014 to October 2017, when armed groups on the ground supported from the air by a US-led coalition retook the city. Relatives of some detainees who remain missing launched a campaign in late 2017, “Where are the kidnapped by ISIS?” to seek the coalition’s help in finding the fate and whereabouts of ISIS detainees. They haveyet to receive a response. Local authorities estimate that thousands of others were killed during the battle to retake the city, many of whom were buried hastily, or whose bodies remain in the rubble.

Yasser al-Khamis, the head of the First Responders Team, told Human Rights Watch that the team believed, based on their observation of injuries and reports from family members who identified relatives’ remains, that the al-Rashid site contained a mix of airstrike victims and ISIS fighters, and that it may also have contained patients from a nearby hospital. Workers had identified women and children, as well as men, among the bodies, he said. Of the 106 bodies exhumed at the time of Human Rights Watch’s visit, the team had identified five that appeared to be ISIS


hostile to the local authorities.

Local authorities should designate a centralized civilian authority where families can collect or provide information on missing persons, and explore ways to communicate with families living in areas outside their control. Authorities should also create a digital database, including photographs in accordance with basic forensic standards, for those exhumed from mass grave sites.

Members of the international community now providing recovery and stabilization support, most prominently the United States, should support local authorities in developing and maintaining a more precise system for storing information on missing persons and identifying exhumed remains. While the US is providing funding to the Raqqa Civil Council and the team, the amounts are not public knowledge and the team noted that its work was temporarily affected by the March 2018Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging MARYSE LIBURDI with defrauding investors out of more than $6 million through a technology company founded and operated by LIBURDI. The defendant was arrested by Italian authorities in Rome, Italy, in April 2016, and arrived in the Southern District of New York yesterday following her extradition. LIBURDI was arraigned this afternoon and the case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Denise Cote.

Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said: “As alleged, Maryse Liburdi repeatedly lied to investors in her tech company, telling them


Cleveland is probably trying pretty hard at this point, but their effort is paying off. While wins against St. Louis and Detroit – the latter being a 24-6 blowout – are hardly as notable as wins against, say, Green Bay and Dallas, both the Lions and Rams looked bad against the Browns. Like, really, really bad.

And both teams were/are looking to turn things around this year.

Meanwhile, Cleveland's tentative success comes behind a clearly revamped offense – spearheaded by quarterback Brandon Weeden, with 18/25, 229 yards and three touchdowns over the last two games.

Weeden certainly has some talented — if not quite polished — offensive weapons at his disposal, especially at wide receiver. Josh Gordon and Greg Little have the speed to seriously challenge the Colts' secondary, which wasReading FC Match Report: 2014/2015 Season - Championship

20 September 2014SHEFF WED 1 READING 0

Reading: -- Sheff Wed: S May (83).

The Royals will leave Yorkshire disappointed to not be returning to Berkshire with at least a point. While they failed to create enough chances to have won the game, the defensive display was solid enough so full debutant Mikkel Anderson was rarely tested. A massive deflection from a harshly awarded free kick being enough to give Sheffield Wednesday the three points.

As the 500 Reading fans turned up at the historical Hillsborough ground they were greeted with the news that both Federici and Hector had joined the busy treatment room. The ongoing injury situation must surely raise further questions about the medical team and training methods currently deployed at the


club.

Anderson and Cooper were awarded their first league debuts for Reading while Jamie Mackie was replaced by Jake Taylor. Nick Blackman switched to the right and Taylor took up his usual position on the left. Other that the team lined up as per the previous victory against a resilient Millwall.

A tough scrappy contest ensued. Both teams pressing the ball, forcing rushed inaccurate passes. Although Reading looked their most threatening throughout the game from set ball situations. A Norwood corner in the 2nd meeting flashed across the box with Cooper unable to fully connect.

Despite some dangerous running with the ball from the Sheffield Wednesday midfield and the busy Stevie May, they were restricted to some wayward shots from distance. Cooper and Pearce showed strength and commitment to thwart theWednesday attacks. Cooper in particular showed great maturity on his league debut. A towering presence, calm on the ball with a positional sense over and above his experience.

In the 12th minute Pearce brought the Wednesday fans angrily to their feet as he appeared to block Stevie May’s run with his elbow. The block was unseen by the linesman and referee as the psychotic owl spectators in unison screamed for action against Pearce. A call that lit the fireworks for continual moaning from the Wednesday fans on every decision from the referee thereafter.

Reading should have been front in the 19th minute as Cox stole the ball in the Wednesday half. Following a driving run down the right he pushed the ball across to Murray, who should have done better


as he could only steer the ball wide of the goal.

In the 30th minute a hopeful lofted ball from Akpan found Cox. Cox flicked a through ball for the on rushing Murray. Murray, clear, was bundled over from behind by Coke. The referee had no option but to point to the spot. In the commotion that followed the decision, it was disappointing to see Blackman and Murray fight over who should take the resulting penalty. A decision that surely should be made prior to the start of the match.

Westwood made a decision early and dived to the left as Murray stepped up. Murray uneasily drove the ball down the middle of the goal allowing Westwood a comfortable save with his feet.

The heated half played out with niggly freekicks awarded to both teams and little danger for either keeper.
The second half followed the same trend as the first half. Some gritty Reading defending as the Wednesday midfielders tried to penetrate the Royals rear guard with driving runs. Reading, seriously lacking width as both Obita and Gunter found themselves pushed back, relying on set pieces for their attacking threat.
A well worked Reading free kick in the 57th minute brought an unorthodox but effective save from Westwood as Cooper rose in the six yard box to head home.

Murray hit the bar from a 63rd minute corner after Norwood and Pearce combined from another dead ball scenario.
Anderson spent most of his league debut demanding the ball from the ball boys and crowd as Wednesday continually drove their shots wide


of the target.

Pogrebenak replaced the frustrated Murray in the 66th minute as Reading pushed for a winner. Soon after Reading had some sustained pressure as they forced four corners in quick succession but failed to create a goalscoring opportunity.
Cox was replaced by Mackie in the 72nd minute.

Following a rare mistake by Cooper in the 75th minute May went over in the box looking for the penalty. To the disappointment of the Wednesday fans the referee wasn’t impressed and waved away their claims.
Reading’s best chance of the half came in the 77th minute as a call from Adkins on the touchline demanded that Blackman had a shot from a free kick he had won just outside the Sheffield box. His freekick flew over the Wednesday wall and brought aquality save from the ex-Coventry keeper Westwood.

The defining moment of the game came in the 82nd minute as Cooper was adjudged to have handled the ball on the edge of the box when it appeared Cooper had been fouled. May, as he had all game, drove a ball that looked to be going harmlessly wide. Anderson was helpless as the shot took a wicked deflection off the feet of the Reading defence to divert the ball into the bottom corner.

The game played out at a frantic pace as Reading searched for an equaliser and Wednesday tried to find a second.
Akpan was replaced by the injury returning Guthrie in the 87th minute.
Try as they might Reading were unable to really threaten Westwood in the final minutes and the game


a miniscule role in the Great Indian Retail Story which is yet to be fully told. Have worked with RPG Retail and The Future Group in Managerial roles. Set-up the first ever organized Retail business at Bangalore International Airport in 2006. Was responsible for setting up and operating 140 outlets for Cafe Coffee Day and 160 outlets for Royal Enfield. Visiting Faculty at B-Schools of repute since 2005. Been an Entrepreneur since Aug. 2014. Now running two start-ups.the end of 1943. President Roosevelt inspected his son's wing at El Aouina in November 1943 during his travel to the Teheran Conference.

The successor unit was the "Mediterranean Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing"

Order of battle
At the time of the Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) on 10 July 1943, the NAPRW consisted of:

3rd Photographic Group under Lieutenant Colonel Frank Dunn
5th Combat Mapping Squadron, P-38 Lightning
12th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, P-38 Lightning
12th Weather Detachment
15th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, B-17 Fortress
13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron (Detachment) Photo Intelligence
No. 60 Squadron SAAF Detachment, Mosquito PR.IV
No. 540 Squadron RAF Detachment, Mosquito PR.IV/PR.XI
No. 680 Squadron RAF, Spitfire PR.IX/PR.XI
2/33 Groupe (Free French Air Force), P-38 Lightning

Notable personnel
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the renowned French aviator and author of several aviation writings as well as The Little Prince,


of acting and words fail to describe the persona, the legend. What is admirable is the way he performed all the stunts at the age of 69. A Star who can wreck havoc, brought the nation to a stall. Once Vikram Bhatt said, AB is a national treasure. This time director Puri Jagganadh pays homage to a one man industry,a man who took the nation by storm and who continues to do through his sheer power of acting, dedication to his work and humility. He is Amitabh Bachchan, after all? Is there anything that should shock us about him? He's got the power and everything his touches turns into gold. Amitabh Bachchan, the man with the midas touch. An Amitabh Bachchan movie is an education and I thinkthe programme will be advertised on this page and notified to members by email.

We reviewed the wording of our meeting reminders in the light of the EU Directive on Electronic Communications (which came
into force in the UK on 11 December 2003) and now include a clear explanation of why individuals are receiving the message
and how to unsubscribe.

Programme details are posted to branch members in mid-August. If, after allowing for postal delays, you didn't receive yours,
please let us know using the contact form.

Tim joined Voca (then BACS) in 1999 to lead the development of the vision and architecture for a major programme to upgrade
the BACS payment service. The first phase BACSTEL-IP - went live in late 2002 and migration of customers from BACSTEL was
completed at the end of 2005


with the core mainframe systems shut down in July 2006. For the last three years, he has been
mostly involved in developing new products and services that leverage Voca's trusted but bank-neutral market position and
technology. This has included work on innovative payment methods, the financial supply chain and security. Prior to joining
Voca, Tim spent over 20 years in various IT strategy and management roles. He is a member of the BCS and sits on the Oxfordshire
Branch Committee.

Abstract: The ever increasing use of cards and electronic payments has done little to reduce the use of cash, particularly for low-value
payments. This talk will discuss how some recent and forthcoming advances in technology could change this. Topics covered
will include contactless and mobile payments enabled by near field communications (NFC) and the UK21st century, as huge amounts of digital information
are at risk of being lost.
Mark Claxton will discuss the problems and some of the solutions based on experience assisting a number of clients throughout
the world.
Further background on Digital Preservation is summarised at Preserving Access to Digital Information.

Stef has a breadth of experience in the value, and inherent challenges of exchanging business critical information with mobile
workers and on-line consumers.

Stef has, since the early 1990s, been helping corporate customers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the USA and Australia
plan and deploy mobile and wireless data architectures. Stef started in IT in the 1970s with Anglo American/de Beers as a
systems programmer working on operating systems, database, telecommunications and online database systems.

He relocated from his native Africa to Europe, where he planned, designed and


established the technology infrastructure for
Dun & Bradstreet's European Information Centre, reaching out to 35,000 online customers across Europe. He became Group Director
Information Services and subsequently reorganised the Systems Development organization, reengineering processes to align the
IT organization more closely with business operations and strategy.

In 1992 Stef 'crossed the floor' and in the role of Senior Vice President established the international operation for XcelleNet,
a US company whose RemoteWare and Afaria products focus on systems management for remote and mobile workers (now part of iAnywhere).

After XcelleNet was acquired, he founded Wheatstone Consulting, continuing to support the growth of the mobile data industry;
helping suppliers expand to the UK and Europe as well as offering enterprise IT mobile data support. During this time Stef
helped set up and was Director of the Mobile ManagementHe is currently working on neural models of the brain that
might explain what it is to be conscious. He has published over 200 papers and 13 books (including the most recent: "The World
In My Mind, My Mind In The World" - Imprint Academic). In the year 2000 he was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Medal for
Informatics by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, educated in Italy and South Africa, Igor Aleksander came to the UK in the late 50s. He first joined
STC as a graduate engineer and then entered the academic world as Lecturer (at Queen Mary College, London, 1961), Reader in
Electronics (University of Kent, 1968), Professor of Electronics (Brunel University, 1974), Professor of the Management of
Information Technology (Imperial College, 1984), Head of Electrical Engineering and Gabor


Professor of Neural Systems Engineering
(Imperial College, 1988), Pro-Rector (External Relations) (Imperial College, 1997). He is now Emeritus Professor.

He has researched Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and IT Management. His recent work lies in the area of Artificial
Visual Awareness which arises from a collaboration with the California Institute of Technology. He has published over 200
papers in these fields and 13 books including "Impossible minds: my neurons my consciousness" published by Imperial College
Press 1996 "How to Build a Mind: Machines with Imagination" Weidenfeld and Nicolson (May 2000) and "The World in My Mind ..."
Imprint Academic Press (2005).

In the 1980s he was responsible for the design of the world's first neural pattern recognition system (the WISARD, commercialised
by CRS, Wokingham), and in 1991 he and his students designed the MAGNUS neurocomputational system (nowcommercialised by NTS
as Neural Representation Modeller). He has consulted for many computer manufacturers and IT providers. In 1988 he was elected
to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In the year 2000 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal for
Informatics by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He is currently prominent in the emerging field of "Machine Models
of Consciousness".

Professor Igor Aleksander was the General Chair of the second International Symposium on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems
at Molyvos, Lesvos Island in Greece, 10-13th October 2006.

Igor and Helen Morton took part in a Royal Society exchange mission to Beijing, China, on "Advances in Human-Like Computation",
October 19th - Nov 2nd, 2006; under a grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering they were invited Keynote Speakers at the
International Workshop on Models of Brain and