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These and other objects are achieved by using dielectrically isolated trenches with gate material therein to form a plurality of dielectrically isolated islands on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. The buried oxide insulator offers the bottom dielectric isolation while the trenches offer the side wall isolation and side wall gates. The source, channel and drain regions are vertically aligned at the side walls of the trenches. Complementary MOS devices in adjacent islands may include a common gate material in the dielectric trenches which divide them. A buried high concentration impurity region reduces the parasitic resistance of the lower source or drain region at the bottom of the structure adjacent the base insulating layer. The lightly doped well creates a built-in lightly doped drain (LDD) structure. Diffused body and topComments

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Ana and Dwayne never met each other. They live in two different places, were born in different countries, speak different languages, and even the color of their skin is different. However, in spite of all those differences, they have something in common: they both face life’s ad…

Just a few days ago, asteroid 2012DA14 came close to earth. At the same time, but unrelated –so they say– a meteorite exploded over a city in Russia and meteorites were also seen over California and Cuba. So, I am thinking that perhaps I should sleep in the basement of my house,…

In a few days, in the United States and in other countries millions of people will celebrate Valentine’s Day, one of those hyper-commercialized days when even car parts stores


David Luiz did not train with the Chelsea first-team on Wednesday after sensationally trying to force a transfer deadline move to Arsenal.

The two clubs will now attempt to negotiate a deal that suits all parties, with Chelsea willing to cash in on a player who could have left the club on a free transfer at the end of last season.

Despite only signing a new two-year contract with the Blues in May, which broke the club’s policy of handing players aged 30 or over one year deals, Luiz has made it clear he wants to go following a series of fallings-out over the past week.

And the situation came to a head just over 24 hours before the transfer window shuts and on the same day Wilfried Zaha handed ina transfer request to try to force a move away from Crystal Palace, and Romelu Lukaku closed in on a switch to Inter Milan after training away from Manchester United.

Head coach Frank Lampard decided Luiz should train away from the rest of his Chelsea players at Cobham, following a week in which the Brazilian is believed to have become a disruptive influence.

Arsenal, whose coach Unai Emery worked with Luiz at Paris Saint Germain, are interested in signing 32-year-old Luiz before the transfer window closes at 5pm on Thursday.

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The Gunners have been looking for a cut-price central defender all summer and are now focusing their efforts on Luiz, with Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney also set to move to the Emirates.

Luiz has a good relationship with Emery and his


a replacement, Tomori may be required to stay at Stamford Bridge.

Luiz returned for his second spell at Chelsea at the end of the 2016 summer transfer window in a £34m switch from Paris Saint-Germain.

He won the Premier League title in his first season back under Antonio Conte, but was then frozen out for the Italian’s second campaign following a row after the Champions League defeat at Roma.

Luiz was restored to the starting line-up by Maurizio Sarri and had been on course to take over vice-captain responsibilities this season under Lampard.

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But his reaction to possibly not starting the season, behind Zouma and Christensen, could have spelled the end of his Chelsea career, having won the Champions League, FA Cup and Europa League during his first three-year spell.

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Bening was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for 20th Century Women, directed by Mike Mills. It was her eighth Golden Globe nomination. She has won twice in this category before: in 2011 for The Kids Are All Right and in 2005 for Being Julia, but lost this year to Emma Stone for La La Land.crisis is afoot, and the new Triffid oil is the best around. The problem is that apparently Triffids seem to be either sentient, or at least move around to feed, as Bill knows the best of all. He was the first to officially be “attacked” by a Triffid as a child, as one was able to sting him pretty badly. He gained expertise in the subject, and later went to work on a Triffid farm of all places. His injury, that as of yet was a mystery, seems to come from another Triffid sting, that left him temporarily blind. As Bill lay in bed, the world bears witness to a beautiful meteor shower, one that will change mankind forever.

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Measurement and reduction of nitrous oxide in operating rooms.
In a program designed to lower exposure to anesthetic gases, nitrous oxide in the breathing zone of anesthesiologists was continuously monitored by means of a direct reading apparatus and a specially designed collar. Initially, the average concentration during anesthesia in intubated patients, determined in 30 operating rooms of seven hospitals, was 68 ppm. During mask anesthesia in children, it was 407 ppm (nine operating rooms, nine hospitals). The main hygienic measures were: a check of the anesthesia apparatus, improvement of the general ventilation in the operating room, and the application of a "double mask." With a combination of measures, the concentration during anesthesia in intubated patients was reduced from 61-90 ppm to 2-15 ppm. During mask anesthesia in children, theonly retrograde conduction through the AP was documented. In the majority of the pts (26/33) a diagnostic electrophysiologic study was performed immediately before the ablation procedure, during the same EP test. A 7 F steerable large tip catheter was used for energy delivery. In 8/33 pts, RFCA was performed by using only the TAo approach; other 7/33 pts underwent RFCA with a TSA technique after one completely unsuccessful retrograde TAo ablation and, in the remaining 18/33 pts, the TSA approach was used electively and continuously from January 1992. Overall, the TAo procedure has been carried out in 15 cases, while the TSA one in 25 cases. In the latter group, the ablation catheter was positioned against the left atrioventricular groove through a patent foramen ovale in 5/25 cases


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Snowden 2014: The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been nominated by two Norwegian MPs for the Nobel Peace Prize, meaning the US contractor currently claiming asylum in Russia could be awarded the same prize accepted by President Barak Obama in 2009 Most controversial Nobel Peace Prize nominees Vladimir Putin 2013: The Russian President Vladimir Putin was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize because the former KGB agent “actively promotes settlement of all conflicts arising on the planet,” according to the advocacy group that nominated him, at least Most controversial Nobel Peace Prize nominees Barack Obama 2009: US President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” shortly before launching military airstrikes in Libya. The irony wasnot lost on Mr Obama it seemed, who during a press conference joked: "[Energy Secretary Steven] Chu's the right guy to do this, he's got a Nobel Prize in physics - he actually deserved his Nobel Prize" Most controversial Nobel Peace Prize nominees Henry Kissinger 1973: Henry Kissinger was awarded the prize for his work on the Paris Peace Accords jointly with Le Duc Tho, who turned the Prize down. The American humourist Tom Lehrer later quipped that Kissinger’s award represented the “death of satire” Most controversial Nobel Peace Prize nominees Josef Stalin 1945: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was nominated for “his efforts to end World War II”. Fellow nominee Vladimir Putin recently said there was no difference between him and Oliver Cromwell, when asked whether he would


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‘A Healthy and Cordial Alliance’: Our Meeting with the British Consul General

A few weeks ago, February 27th we met with the British Consul General and Director-General for UK Trade and Investment in Toronto, Kevin McGurgan. We were particularly excited for this meeting given the Consul General’s prolific resume in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Before coming to Toronto Mr. McGurgan was the Consul-General in Florida. His diplomatic career has also taken him to numerous countries including Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sweden, New York, and Afghanistan.

Upon meeting Mr. McGurgan we immediately began asking him questions about his role as Consul General and various aspects of British-Canada relations. We also took this opportunity to ask him about some of the most pressing issues in British politics including an overviewGreg Romeus status

I couldn't find any current updates. Did he resign? Also, could he possibly provide 3-4 OLB depth if healthy and still with the Saints? I saw were he was projected as a OLB out of college and is about the same size as Wilson...

Thanks fan guy, I read that when it came out a couple of weeks ago. His tweets sound like he is still in NO and mentions the saints so I will guess he is still affiliated. It would be nice to see what he could do if he ever got healthy. He was a stud as a junior, projected as a top 10 pick before he was injured his senior year.


Unintentional injury outcomes secondary to pedestrian traffic crashes: a descriptive analysis from a major medical center.
An environment in which traffic regulations are not strictly enforced often is characterized by carnage from motor vehicular crashes resulting in severe injuries with unacceptably high mortality. The descriptive demographics and injury characteristics of pedestrian road crash victims presenting to a tertiary medical center in southwestern Nigeria are presented in order to provide baseline epidemiology as a first step in determining areas of potential mitigation for care of unintentional injuries. Consecutive pedestrian road traffic crash patients treated in the Accident and Emergency Department of a tertiary hospital were prospectively reviewed from March 2007 to February 2008 to determine baseline demographics and clinical outcomes. A total of 184 patients with a mean value ofThursday, November 04, 2004

Stick a Fork in This Election

Okay, it's two days after the election and John Kerry hasn't pulled Al Gore's stunt from 2004. Maybe, just maybe, we can trust him to keep his word on this one. John Kerry did the honorable thing here and conceded. There is a caveat to this: doing the honorable thing still doesn't make up for his long record of selling out our armed forces. He poisoned the hearts and minds of the people he once swore to defend against his fellow servicemen. Because of this, I will never consider him worthy to hold office. I suppose he should consider himself lucky that he represents Massachusetts, then.

John Kerry has withdrawn his claim on the Presidency, and George W. Bush has another


I can’t imagine either car lived there…

Anyway at the head of the reservoir, near to where we were sitting, there’s a cattle grid in the road. The Corsa reached it first and for a moment the racket from its exhaust was counterpointed by a lovely wrenching sound as its over-lowered wheels caught on its over-sized fiberglass front wing and the whole ridiculous assemblage was torn off and pulled under the nose of the car.

We might have pointed and laughed a bit.

The best part was when – having backed off the grid and retrieved the mangled wreckage of his bodykit – the Corsa driver and his buddy in the Saxo spent a good ten minutes trying to make the wretched thing fit into the back of the Saxo (theBiography

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Seth Morgan is the CEO of MLA Companies, a financial service and advisory group that includes both Morgan Troutwine, a certified public accounting firm, and MLA Management Systems, which is a business advisory firm focusing on CFO outsourcing. Under his guidance, MLA has grown to one of the largest business advisory firms in southwest Ohio.
Mr. Morgan entered politics as a young man, seeking to make a difference by putting to use his passion for public policy, philosophy of a responsible government, and love for America. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in November 2008, and while serving in the minority he was chairman of the House Republicans’ Policy Committee.
In addition to his efforts in business and policy, Mr. Morgan served as a host of


Think Talk Radio heard on 55KRC (Cincinnati) weekly, covering policy issues in Ohio and the United States. Additionally, he is the author of It’s About Liberty, Stupid!
Mr. Morgan serves in several advisory and board roles, including having advised on state policy for Americans for Prosperity’s Ohio Chapter and serving on the board of Citizens for Community Values, the Ohio family policy council for the national organization Focus on the Family. He was appointed by Governor John Kasich to serve on the Ohio Retirement Study Council.
Mr. Morgan is a regular speaker throughout Ohio, and has been recognized for his accomplishments in policy and business. Some of those awards include “CFO of the Year” nominee by the Dayton Business Journal; recognized as one of Dayton’s “40 Under 40;” Citizens forprevented the purple from scoring on a number of occasions, before being moved back into attack as a member of the purple team in the last quarter.

Michael Walters and Hayden Ballantyne were ever dangerous in attack for the purple team, feasting on any balls the talls didn’t mark.

The match was reduced to 16-on-16 in the second half as some players were shut down, including Walters and Michael Johnson.

Tom Sheridan and Hayden Crozier lined up on either wing for the purple team and won plenty of the ball. Crozier kicked four goals and Sheridan added one.

Nick Suban looked very fit and was highly influential in the clearances for the purple team. He also kicked a couple of goals in a strong display.

In defence for purple, Luke McPharlin, Alex Silvagni


Glavin said he arrested Ms Scully and brought her to Tullamore Garda station on April 7th, 2014. She was interviewed four times that day.

Severe epilepsy

The trial has heard Emily had severe epilepsy, as well as microcephaly and cerebral palsy. She had the mental age of a six-month-old, and could not move or speak.

Ms Scully told gardaí her daughter had been in a lot of pain for the last two weeks of her life, after having a procedure to replace a tube leading to her stomach through which she received fluids and medication.

She said she had given her daughter chloral hydrate when she became upset at 2am and 6am, and had given it again when she had an “unprecedented” seizure at about 11am.

“My whole aim had been to keeptemples, libraries, porticoes, gymnasia, concert and lecture halls, theaters and other amenities of public life. In any case as Christianity took over many of these building which were associated with pagan cults were neglected in favor of building churches and donating to the poor. The Christian basilica was copied from the civic structure with variations. The bishop took the chair in the apse reserved in secular structures for the magistrate—or the Emperor himself—as the representative here and now of Christ Pantocrator, the Ruler of All, his characteristic Late Antique icon.  These ecclesiastical basilicas (e.g., St. John Lateran and St. Peter's in Rome) were themselves outdone by Justinian's Hagia Sophia, a staggering display of later Roman/Byzantine power and architectural taste, though the building is not architecturally a basilica.


Today I found out Robert Downey Jr. modeled his portrayal of Tony Stark after Elon Musk, one of the founds of Zip2, Paypal, Tesla Motors, Solar City, and SpaceX.

During the planning stages of Iron Man, after Downey Jr. had been cast, director Jon Favreau and Downey Jr. sat down to discuss how to make a really believable Tony Stark character that the audience could connect with. Downey Jr. suggested that the best way to do that was to go and sit down with Elon Musk, a sort of real life Tony Stark, and observe his various mannerisms, as well as pick his brain on the subject.

After meeting Musk, Favreau was very impressed and Downey Jr. and he decided to go ahead and base parts of the Tony Starkof 10, he saved up and bought his own computer. He then taught himself how to program and, at the age of 12, created a computer game called “Blaster” that he managed to sell for $500 to a computer magazine. His next venture was to use those funds to start an arcade. However, he was unable to get a permit, due to his age, and so started a home-made chocolate selling business instead, which he ran for a time, selling to classmates. By the time he graduated, with these ventures and proper investment in the stock market, this resulted in his net worth already being in the several thousand dollar range.

His next venture earned slightly more by the time he sold it. After earning a bachelor’s degree in


recently were granted a $1.6-$3.1 billion contract from NASA for 12 flights to the International Space Station.

If being the CEO and CTO of SpaceX wasn’t enough, Musk decided to lend his Midas touch to the world of electric cars and got involved with co-founding Tesla motors as the chairman of the board and head of product design. Today he’s also the CEO.

During this time period, he also helped found Solar City, which is now the largest solar system provider in the United States. They help design systems for businesses and home use, as well as provide financing and installation services. They also are involved in creating charging stations in the U.S. for electric vehicles.

So after 38 years on this planet, Musk managed to design and sell a video14 years. Not a bad base-model for the character of Tony Stark.

Musk actually appears in the movie Iron Man 2 with a brief cameo where he tries to pitch Tony Stark on making an electric jet plane. This cameo happens during the restaurant scene shortly before Stark goes out and becomes the driver of the Formula 1 car. In addition to that, the SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles were used in the factory scenes with Ivan Vanko.

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Zip2 got its start when Musk managed to convince Navteq that they should let him put their maps online. After that, he wrote some software using a directory system he had purchased that linked the locations on the maps to the directory. Essentially, it was now a basic version of the


then brokered the deal with Compaq shortly thereafter, rather than take the company in a different direction than Sorkin had.

Elon Musk was named one of “The World’s Most Influential People” in 2010 by Time.

Both electric cars and commercial rockets were industries that were largely thought of as crazy places to invest a large amount of money at the time Musk did so. In fact, Musk invested so much of his fortune, that at one point he only had a couple million dollars left as a safety net for himself in the bank, with nearly all his money in SpaceX and Tesla, two high risk endeavors. Tesla particularly had basically failed and could not get external funding in 2007, so Musk had to either commit the rest of hisfortune or let the company end. Reducing his funds down to a couple million backfired on Musk when he and his wife got divorced and he, by California state law, was obligated to pay her legal bills, which ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars per month and lasted over 24 months. As a result of this, he ended up having to borrow money from various wealthy friends to get him through until he could free up some money elsewhere, such as by selling his McLaren F1 sports car, which is currently the fastest production car in the world, for $1.5 million.

During this time, Musk’s monthly bills came to just under $200,000 on average, something he was ripped through the media for, with the media portraying him


to do, particularly brutally oppressing the black majority in South Africa. When he and his brother moved to Canada to avoid the issue, it was against their father’s wishes and the two almost never speak today because of it.

When Musk dropped out of graduate school at Stanford, he requested a one quarter deferral as he was sure Zip2 would probably fail fairly quickly and would just then be a good learning experience for him.

Before making his millions with Zip2, Musk worked such jobs as cleaning out boilers at a lumber mill; log cutting with a chainsaw; and working on a wheat farm cleaning out grain bins, shooting gophers, etc.

Right before starting grad school and Zip2, Musk also applied to Netscape, but was never given a call-back.

In order toSevastopol and creating a bit of a stir."

"How's that?" Pitt asked.

"The Russians recently established a restricted sea zone west of Crimea. Presumably, it's an area where the Russian Navy performs weapons testing and engages in tactical simulations. It seems the _Macedonia_ has sailed into the center of the restricted zone. We've picked up some scattered radio communications and it doesn't sound as if the Russians are too happy."

"The _Macedonia_ is towing a barge filled with munitions to Sevastopol," Pitt said, "and the Russians don't know about it?"

"Not from what we can tell. They've identified it as an American vessel but don't seem to be in direct contact. We've informed the Russians that we believe the ship has been hijacked and requested intervention, but they haven't advised us as


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SPOKANE, Wash. - More plowing in more areas sooner is the centerpiece of the City of Spokane's revamped snow response plan. Mayor David Condon and other officials rolled out the new plan, which is designed to try out new strategies, incorporate best practicesimmigrants, 10 of whom died, has pleaded guilty to making the deadly smuggling run. James Matthew Bradley Jr. pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in San Antonio to one conspiracy count and a count of transporting the immigrants resulting in death.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The driver of a semitrailer packed with at least 39 immigrants, 10 of whom died, has pleaded guilty to making the deadly smuggling run. James Matthew Bradley Jr. pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in San Antonio to one conspiracy count and a count of transporting the immigrants resulting in death.

An activist who helped organize the Women's March on Washington is accusing an American Airlines pilot of racial discrimination for kicking her off a flight. In a series of tweets, Tamika Mallory said a


pilot had her removed from a Sunday flight from Miami to New York after she had a dispute with another airline employee over her seat assignment.

An activist who helped organize the Women's March on Washington is accusing an American Airlines pilot of racial discrimination for kicking her off a flight. In a series of tweets, Tamika Mallory said a pilot had her removed from a Sunday flight from Miami to New York after she had a dispute with another airline employee over her seat assignment.

WATERVILLE, Maine - A photo of three roofers from Maine who stopped working while the national anthem played at a high school nearby has gone viral Monday. The photo shared by Michelle Lyons Cossar Saturday shows the three men with their hands over theirhearts as the anthem played at a Waterville High School football game.

WATERVILLE, Maine - A photo of three roofers from Maine who stopped working while the national anthem played at a high school nearby has gone viral Monday. The photo shared by Michelle Lyons Cossar Saturday shows the three men with their hands over their hearts as the anthem played at a Waterville High School football game.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is claiming his predecessors did not sufficiently honor the nation's fallen. His accusation that most presidents did not call families of military personnel killed in action is provoking a heated response. President Barack Obama, for one, visited the air base that often receives the remains of the dead. He wrote letters to military families, too.

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HUGO, Oklahoma - An Oklahoma sheriff says two inmates briefly escaped to visit their girlfriends and smoke marijuana and then walked back to the jail. Choctaw County Sheriff Terry Park tells The Oklahoman that inmates Harley Davidson and Rakeem Lennox waited for jail staff to leave the area near their room about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. He says the men then entered the booking room to steal a laundry room door key and fled.With Baltimore in 1899, Sheckard led the league with 77 stolen bases. He played in four World Series with the Cubs, winning championships in 1907 and 1908; and he led the league in 1911 with 121 runs and 147 walks – a major league record until broken by Babe Ruth in 1920, and still a team record.

Sheckard was also the first man to lead the league in homers and steals in the same season (1903). Ty Cobb (1909) and Chuck Klein (1932) are the only other players to do so in the majors.

Sheckard was also an excellent outfielder. He holds the all time single season major league record for double plays at two separate positions. His 12 double plays as a left fielder in 1911 for the Cubs


Adele was expected to clean up at the 2012 Grammy Awards, and clean up she did, taking the top prizes in the three of the four main categories: album of the year, song of the year and record of the year. (The other — best new artist — she’d already won.) She sang "Rolling in the Deep" and brought down the house. The night was hers.

The 2013 Grammy Awards, which will be broadcast live on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 8 tonight, won’t be dominated by a single artist or a single song. Taylor Swift’s "Red" was released too late to be considered for this year’s edition and none of the other musicians up for high honors are likely to sweep. But as always,is wide open. But if I had to wager, my money would be on Ocean.

Mumford & Sons

Up for: Album of the year ("Babel"), rock performance, rock song, Americana album, song written for visual media, long-form music video.

Who they are: Born in the West London folk revival of the late ’00s, Mumford & Sons took awhile to gather commercial traction. But once the project took off, it was unstoppable. Without the benefit of a big hit single, "Sigh No More," the band’s debut, has sold more than 2 million copies in the United States. "Babel," the follow-up, topped the Billboard 200 upon its release.

What wins would mean: Superficially, Mumford & Sons are the album of the year candidates most similar to the meat-and-potatoes, anthemic guitar rock that used to


relative obscurity — and in the shadow of fellow nominee Jack White — before breaking through in 2010 with "Brothers." That set won the band three Grammys and a mass audience. That mass audience loved the similar "El Camino" almost as much.

What wins would mean: Should "El Camino" take the prize for album of the year, it would be validation for every independent musician who sweated it out in small clubs, banging across America in a van, hoping that crowds would finally catch on. It would also be another victory for traditionalists, and a further sign that the Academy is more comfortable with rock than it is with pop, hip-hop and electronic music. The Keys’ rudimentary arrangements make White look extravagant by comparison.

Prognosis for a big night: Notturn to his collection of 45s for inspiration than he is to anything currently streaming on the internet. His music is scruffy, raw and totally devoid of electronic frippery. A win in the album of the year category for "Blunderbuss" would have traditionalists doing cartwheels. It would also be a victory for instrumentalists everywhere. White is one of the finest electric guitar soloists in contemporary music; he doesn’t use the six-string quite as much on "Blunderbuss" as he did with the Stripes, but he makes every note count. The rest of the music is filled in by his all-female backing band, including the dazzling pianist Brooke Waggoner, who deserves an award all to herself.

Prognosis for a big night: The other four nominees for album of the year have


A jihadist group has expelled rebel Free Syrian Army fighters from their positions in the northern city of Raqa, a watchdog reported on Wednesday.

"Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have taken control of the positions of the Ahfad al-Rasul brigade in Raqa," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

For more than a week, clashes have pitted jihadists against the Ahfad al-Rasul brigade, a part of the mainstream Free Syrian Army, which has the backing of many Western and Arab countries.

The fighting between the two rebel groups erupted when ISIS attacked Ahfad al-Rasul positions in the city, according to the Observatory and brigade officials.

"They wanted to take our munitions and weapons," an official from Ahfad al-Rasul told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Late on Tuesday,the jihadists blew up a car in front of an Ahfad al-Rasul post in the city, killing at least five fighters, before going on to seize control of all its positions.

"ISIS wants to control the whole city," said the Observatory's head, Rami Abdel Rahman.

Islamist fighters captured Raqa in March, making it the only provincial capital to have fallen out of regime hands since the March 2011 start of Syria's uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

Residents have since staged several demonstrations against exactions by ISIS, which has links to Al-Qaeda.

ISIS has been accused of taking hundreds of anti-regime fighters hostage and imposing their ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam in areas under their control.

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Ever since Karl Ferdinand Braun graced the world with his cathode ray tube, the masses have looked to their screens for generational guidance. In 1981, MTV appeared like an oracle and descended on the population, sinking its vampiric teeth into the neck of every suburbanite family with a cable subscription. Of course, now, MTV rarely, if ever, shows music videos and instead hosts brain filth like 16 and Pregnant.

But there is still some hope for the lingering disciples of cable, especially where music is concerned. That beacon of light is Adult Swim. Yes, amongst the same foul caverns where Space Ghost Coast To Coast and Aqua Teen Hunger Force were born dwells a league of A&R scouts who, evidently, have some excellent taste.

Better known as Williams Street Records,Tornio Boosts Baltic LNG Momentum

The delivery of the 18,000 m3 coastal LNG carrier Coral EnergICE by Neptun Werft’s Rostock yard to Anthony Veder on 25 January opens up a new phase in Baltic LNG shipping.

The first such vessel to be built to the ice-class 1A Super standard, the newbuilding is the largest of the growing fleet of coastal LNGCs active in the region and is able to serve all the Baltic Sea LNG terminals, including those in ports that are ice-bound throughout the winter months.

Adding Finland to the mix

Coral EnergICE has been taken on long-term charter by Skangas, the LNG terminal-operating affiliate of Finland’s Gasum. Skangas will use the vessel to deliver LNG to its two Finnish receiving terminals – Pori on the south coast and the Manga


facility in Tornio, the northernmost port in the Bay of Bothnia.

Pori, which features a 30,000 m3 storage tank, commenced commercial operations in September 2016 while the Manga facility, with its 50,000 m3 tank, is currently going through the commissioning process. The largest LNG receiving facility in the Nordic region and due to be fully operational by mid-2018, Manga LNG is a joint venture with Gasum, Outokumpu, SSAB and EPV Energy.

Operations in Tornio determined many of the distinctive design features on Coral EnergICE as well as the upper limits of the vessel’s performance capabilities. The ship’s forecastle has a distinctive protective cover while the reinforced hull enables steady progress through ice up to 1 m thick. The Caterpillar propulsion package comprises an eight-cylinder, dual-fuel MaK M46DF main engine, onein the Nordic region, namely the Risavika and Øra facilities in Norway and Lysekil in Sweden. Whereas Øra and Lysekil, like Pori and Manga, are receiving terminals, the Risavika plant near Stavanger is a production facility, able to liquefy up to 300,000 tonnes per annum of LNG.

Baseload receivers

There are also two Baltic Sea baseload LNG import terminals in operation, namely Polskie LNG’s shore terminal in the Polish port of Świnoujście and the 170,000 m3 floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Independence operated by Höegh LNG in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda. By means of these facilities, Lithuania and Poland became LNG import nations in December 2014 and June 2016, respectively.

Świnoujście has received 25 cargoes since the terminal commenced commercial operations but the pace of LNGC arrivals has been


springboard for the development of small-scale LNG infrastructure in the region.

In September 2017 KN began commissioning its new shoreside terminal, which features five 1,000 m3cylindrical pressure vessel storage tanks, in another part of Klaipeda harbour. Like most Baltic Sea LNG receiving facilities, the KN installation is capable of reloading cargoes.

Start-up operations at the site kicked off with the ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of 1,000 m3 of LNG from Independence to Shell’s new 6,500 m3 LNG bunker vessel Cardissa. Cardissa then moved to KN’s reloading station to discharge her cargo to the first two tanks at the installation ready to receive LNG. The liquefied gas was then pumped into road tankers at the facility’s loading bays for onward distribution.

Hive of bunkering activity

The designation of the Baltic and North Seas asIMO sulphur emission control areas in 2006 and 2007, respectively, supported the emergence of northern Europe and Scandinavia as the birthplace of LNG bunkering.

Although the concept is now spreading globally, the Baltic and North Seas still play host to more than 80% of the world’s LNG bunkering activity and remain the focus for most new investments in fuelling infrastructure for LNG-powered ships.

Nynäshamn, the second of Sweden’s two LNG receiving terminals, has been one of the world’s leading providers of LNG bunkers since the dual-fuel passenger/car ferry Viking Grace entered service in 2013. On most days of the week, three road tankers depart the AGA-operated Nynäshamn facility in the early hours with around 70 tonnes of LNG for the 60 km trip north to Stockholm harbour to fill Seagas,


a former ferry converted into a 180 m3 LNG bunker vessel.

Seagas then crosses the harbour to the Viking Grace berth and loads the fuel onto the 57,000 gt ferry in a ship-to-ship transfer operation. Viking Grace provides a daily service between Stockholm and the Finnish port of Turku and burns around 23,000 tonnes of LNG per annum. In October 2017, Viking Line contracted a second LNG-fuelled ferry for the Stockholm-Turku link, this time a vessel of 63,000 gt that will commence operations in early 2021.

The AGA terminal is also set to provide the LNG fuel for a pair of dual-fuel ferry newbuildings that Rederi AB Gotland will put into domestic service on the route between Nynäshamn and the island of Gotland. Nauticor, like AGA part of the LindeGroup, has won the contract to supply the bunkers and both 32,000 gt ferries, Visborg and Thjelvar, set to enter service in 2018.

To support its nascent Baltic LNG bunkering service Nauticor, in co-operation with KN in a venture called Blue LNG, will charter a 7,500 m3 LNG bunker vessel that Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) and Babcock International are having built at the Hyundai Mipo yard in Korea. The vessel, which is due for completion in September 2018, will utilise the KN reloading terminal in Klaipeda as its home base.

Among Nauticor’s other Baltic Sea customers for LNG fuel is the Swedish tanker operator Furetank. Furetank is one of three partners in the Gothia Tanker Alliance, which have made a commitment to dual-fuel propulsion with their recent newbuilding orders. Nauticor


will bunker the new GTA ships by means of STS transfers from the BSM/Babcock bunker vessel.

The other notable Baltic LNG-powered passenger/car ferry now in service is the Tallink Group’s 49,000 gt Megastar which runs between Helsinki and Tallinn in Estonia. The Estonian gas supplier Eesti Gas bunkers the new dual-fuel vessel in Tallinn with LNG trucked to the port from a small liquefaction plant just across the Russian border in Pskov.

Eesti Gas is considering building a shoreside fuelling station or chartering an LNG bunker vessel to serve additional LNG-powered vessels in the future. Such a scenario is likely as Tallink is currently reviewing the possibility of introducing a second fast dual-fuel ferry.

Only the start

The Baltic Sea projects outlined above mark the start of the blossoming relationship that theregion’s gas and electric utilities, shipping companies and industrial enterprises are developing with LNG. Plans for the construction of further LNG bunkering and distribution terminals in Lubeck, Rostock, Riga, Paldiski, Hamina, Helsinki, Turku, Gävle, Liepaja and Muuga are being progressed.

Two additional baseload receiving terminal schemes are also under review – an FSRU for the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and a new shore terminal in Brunsbüttel to serve northern Germany.

Gazprom is due to take delivery of its 170,000 m3 FSRU Marshal Vasilevskiy from Hyundai Heavy Industries in June 2018 and one option for its inaugural employment is Kaliningrad. If the enclave cannot be guaranteed of the supply of sufficient Russian pipeline gas across Lithuania, the regas vessel would be able to provide the required level of energy security.

Market demand


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There has been considerable confusion in the literature about the relationships and limits of the scolytine genera Hapalogenius Hagedorn, Hylesinopsis Eggers, Rhopalopselion Hagedorn, and some other scolytine nominal genera from the Afrotropical region. In this paper, I attempt to resolve some of this confusion, and give some resultant taxonomic changes. The conclusions are based on the study of type material and other specimens from the following institutions: Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg (DEI), Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (NHMB), Musée Royale de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC), Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (MIZW), Museum fur Naturkünde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin (MNB), National Collection of Insects, Pretoria (NCIP), Natural History Museum, London (NHML), Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW), Transvaal Museum, Pretoria (TMP), Zoological Museum of Lund Universityof the elytra among the pale setae of the remainder of the elytra. I have compared the holotype of Hapalogenius bimaculatus (NHML) with a series of specimens of Hapalogenius fuscipennis from South Africa (NCIP, TMP). The series includes specimens in which the elytral setae are wholly pale, intermediates resembling Hapalogenius bimaculatus, and specimens in which the setae are almost entirely dark. In the absence of any other distinguishing characters, I conclude that Hapalogenius bimaculatus is a synonym of Hapalogenius fuscipennis. The shape of the median row of setae on the elytral interstriae varies from almost circular to somewhat elongate and truncate in different individuals. The species is known only from South Africa and Mozambique. [@B33] give Zimbabwe, but this appears to be in error for Mozambique. The only


is now fitted with red seats and posters of past and present San Francisco greats.

"They have to make that determination, whether they're in a new stadium in Oakland or whether they feel that it's best to join this stadium," Goodell said, according to the Bay Area Sports Guy, who tweeted the commissioner's remarks. "We're working on that, and that's one of the decisions they'll have to make."

The Raiders are in the final year of their lease at the Coliseum and are interested in building a new stadium at the site.

The Coliseum has hosted MLB's Athletics since 1968 but has had sewage and lighting problems. The Oakland City Council approved a 10-year lease to keep the team in town Wednesday but with several modifications that left it "disappointed," accordingto A's team president Mike Crowley.

The O.co Coliseum is the lone facility shared by a Major League Baseball club and a team in the National Football League. The Raiders reportedly have been in talks to have the aging structure demolished in 2015 to make room for a new home.

If the Raiders and 49ers were to share Levi's Stadium, they would become the second pair of NFL teams to share a home, joining the Jets and Giants, who both play at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

The Levi's Stadium ceremony marked the official opening of the 49ers' $1.2 billion home in Santa Clara. Goodell, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, linebacker Patrick Willis and left tackle Joe Staley joined York and others on stage to cut the ribbons.

They used oversized


red scissors with gold-colored blades in keeping with team colors. Hard hat-wearing construction workers lined the steps in fluorescent yellow jackets as team employees cheered and a fog horn blared.

"This is a long time in the making," York said.

Goodell called it a milestone for the league.

The 49ers' new home will hold about 68,500 fans and has the ability to expand to 75,000 for Super Bowl 50 in February 2016. The facility features 165 luxury suites, 9,000 club seats and even a green rooftop deck that includes solar panels and harvested herbs for on-site food preparation.

Free Wi-Fi will be available at the stadium, and a smartphone application will allow fans to have food delivered to any seat and check waiting lines at concession stands and bathrooms.

"The stadium reflects the49ers' practice facility, is about 45 miles south of downtown San Francisco -- the longest distance any team in the league has to the city that bears its name. The 49ers had played in San Francisco since their establishment in 1946, including the past 43 years at Candlestick Park, where the team won all five of its Super Bowl titles.

The whipping wind and cold air from the city's famous fog made conditions constantly change at Candlestick, which is set to be demolished. That's far from the near year-round sunshine -- and temperatures that can be 20-25 degrees warmer -- in Santa Clara, where most players and coaches already live.

The 49ers will host Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos in the first preseason game at Levi's Stadium on Aug.


17. The first regular-season game will be against Chicago on Sept. 14, a Sunday night.

The first event at Levi's Stadium will be a Major League Soccer game between the San Jose Earthquakes and the Seattle Sounders on Aug. 2. Other major events include the Pac-12 championship game, the upgraded San Francisco bowl game -- formerly known as the Fight Hunger Bowl -- and a regular-season college football game between California and Oregon.

York said the only promise he has not delivered on with the stadium is a Super Bowl title, and he joked with players and coaches in attendance that there's "no pressure, guys." He also said the 49ers will hold a parade on Market Street in San Francisco when -- not if -- they win another Super BowlHomewood, Cushwa and Calvert some of the big names in brick city

Jacques Kelly

March 26, 1991|By Jacques Kelly

Anyone here who's ever dug a hole for a rose bush knows that Baltimore is a city built on clay.

This silicate is what makes Baltimore a brick city. Our rowhouses, schools, hospitals and industrial buildings all began as that reddish pulverized shale that sits just under the surface of the ground.

Maryland does well by its masonry tradition, dubbing many brick varieties and colors with historic, ancestral names. In fact, most local bricks come in two trademark categories -- Calverts or Homewoods.

For example, the bricks in the new ballpark are Camden Blends, made near the Potomac River town of Williamsport in Washington County. The bricks in Memorial Stadium are Homewood Plantations, made years


ago at Monument Street and Edison Highway.

There also are bricks named Essex, Antietam, Hunt Valley, Shenandoah, Potomac and Cambridge.

The Baltimore Brick Co. was long a familiar sight with its beehive-shaped kilns along East Monument Street. From the late 1890s until 1968, the ovens registered a torrid 1,980 degrees seven days a week. At one time, the firm had dozens of mules to haul the finished product to construction sites.

Today, the same firm, though owned by the Australian giant Boral Bricks, still fires its wares impressed with the Homewood name in Rocky Ridge, outside Thurmont in Frederick County.

The Homewood name has been going on the brick for the last 75 years. It takes its name from Homewood House, the residence of the son of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Thehouse is preserved on the Johns Hopkins campus, in the 3400 block of N. Charles St.

Many homes in the surrounding neighborhoods -- Guilford, Tuscany-Canterbury and Oakenshawe -- are made with Homewood bricks.

Homewood's local competitor is the Cushwa Brick Co., founded in 1872 on the banks of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Williamsport. A descendant of the founders is former state Sen. Victor Cushwa.

The Cushwa bricks are typically sold under the name Calvert. The company won the contract for a special brick for the Camden Yards baseball stadium known as the Camden Blend. It has not yet been introduced into regular production.

There are nearly as many varieties of Homewood and Calvert bricks as there are paint colors, wallpaper patterns or ice cream flavors. Each


brick firm keeps many varieties in production.

Some were named for Baltimore Brick Co. employees, like secretary Virginia Miles, who came to work there right out of Eastern High School. Her brick is the Homewood Milva -- MILes, VirginiA. James Lorber, who ran the Monument Street brick kiln for many years, provided the name for the Homewood Jaslor.

A street in the north Baltimore neighborhood of Guilford identifies the Homewood Charlcote.

Charlcote Place is one of the best addresses in tony Guilford. The homes along the street were constructed some 70 years ago in a fine Colonial-style brick. At the end of the street is imposing and aristocratic Charlcote House -- a mansion among mansions -- surrounded, naturally, by a brick wall.

The eastern Baltimore County community of Essex is the namesakefor a dark chocolate variety of brick used in the construction of Essex Community College. The same model was also used to provide contrasting color in some of the Franklin Square Hospital buildings. Buildings on Anne Arundel Community College's Arnold campus are built with an off-white Homewood brick known as "rustique."

Construction of Walbrook Senior High School in West Baltimore also inspired a variety of brick. The story goes that architects Tom Smith and Graham Veale wanted a certain "light pink-tan" shade of masonry. The Baltimore Brick Co. fired up a batch of them that pleased the designers.

The brick became popular and assumed a life of its own. The Baltimore Brick Co. christened this tone the Gramot -- using the first three letters of Graham's name and transposing Tom.


conjunction with a regulation cup so an experienced golfer can play with someone new to the game. There are numerous products that go with this putting cup.

Just recently I received a $1,500 cheque from Golf Saskatchewan. This is a donation to the STA for turfgrass research. This is on behalf of the Golf Saskatchewan Board of Directors and their members. They ask us to find new and innovative ways to keep turf conditions in top shape in Saskatchewan. The letter is from Brian Lee, Executive Director of Golf Saskatchewan.

Reid Solodan, the Superintendent at the Canmore Golf and Curling Club had the adventure of a lifetime, spending 3 months in China to help set up a maintenance department. He tells his story in the July/August Greenmaster. Another interesting articleshe replied “not yet son, not yet”.

Whatever became of some of the most successful men in 1923? They all died, insane, penniless or committed suicide. In the same year, 1923, the PGA champion and winner of the US Open was Gene Sarazen. He played golf well into his 90’s and was financially secure at the time of his death in 1999 at the age of 95. The moral of all this is To Hell with Work—Play Golf.

Here are some tips on winter preparation for your golf course equipment.

1. Grease all grease zerks to purge any moisture away from any bearing surfaces.

2. Change oil in all engines to prevent engine bearings from getting pitted from the acid that is in the dirty oil. Run engine after oil change to


green fees by one dollar so they can give me a big raise in pay”.

The 20th Annual Golf Course Property Managers Conference will be held November 30th to December 2nd, 2014. It’s at the Coast Hotel and Conference Centre in Canmore, AB. It’s sponsored by “Syngenta” and the Alberta Golf Superintendents Association.

Another speaker on our Fall Wind Up is Dave Moroz from Olds College. The title of his presentation will be Turfgrass Education, Industry, Membership, and the Sustainability of the Profession. Mr. Moroz received his undergraduate degree (Horticulture) in 1991. He mentored under Dr. Drew Smith and received his MSc (Turfgrass Agronomy) in 1998. Since then he has worked in Research, Municipal Grounds Management Golf Course Management. For the last 15 years he is a faculty member atat Riverside Country Club in Saskatoon as a caddy, eventually becoming the course Superintendent. He finished his career as the General Manager at the very same course.

In 2004, Don was awarded the CGSA John B. Steel Distinguished Service Award, recognizing his lifetime commitment to turf care.

Don is survived by his wife Marie have three children: Sherril, Glen and Doug.

About the STA

Saskatchewan's Turfgrass Association, founded in 1979, is a non-profit organization. The S.T.A. was organized by a group of Turfgrass Professionals which has grown to include people from Parks, Golf Courses, Sod Growers, Cities and Commercial Companies.


as well as of the state where their main
office is located as designated in their articles of association.
Because Wells Fargo’s main office is in South Dakota and its
principal place of business is in California, and the Rouses
are citizens of California the district court remanded the case
to California Superior Court for lack of jurisdiction.

                         ANALYSIS

    The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether, under
28 U.S.C. § 1348, a national bank is a citizen of both the state
in which its principal place of business is located and the state
where its main office is located as designated in the bank’s
    ROUSE V. WACHOVIA MORTGAGE                       7

national bank is a citizen of every state where it operates a
branch in addition to the state where its main office is
designated. 546 U.S. at 306. The court held “that a national
bank, for § 1348 purposes, is a citizen of the state in which its
main office, as set forth in its articles of association, is
located.” Id. at 307. Although this holding appears to be a
categorical statement with respect to § 1348, we acknowledge
that it was rendered in response to a slightly different
question than we face here.

    The Court granted certiorari in Wachovia Bank to resolve
a circuit split over whether


was
largely reasoned from the conclusion that Congress intended
to protect the right of national banks to remove cases to
federal courts. See 546 U.S. at 307 (“Were we to hold . . .
that a national bank is additionally a citizen of every State in
which it has established a branch, the access of a [national]
bank to a federal forum would be drastically curtailed. . . .”).
Wachovia Bank did not address whether a national bank is
also a citizen of the state where it has its principal place of
business. The Court noted, however, that “one would
sensibly ‘locate’ a national bank for . . . qualification for
diversity jurisdiction, in the State designated in its articles of
association as its main office.” Id. at 318. The Court also
stated that the omission of any reference to afor
winding up the bank’s affairs. Only the 1882 act contained
express language providing that national banks should be
treated the same as identically situated state-chartered banks.
The statutorily embodied principle of jurisdictional parity was
not linked with state-chartered banks or other corporations.
From a historical perspective, the decision to tie the
citizenship of national banks to the citizenship of state-
chartered banks—as the 1882 act did—bears no greater
weight than tying the citizenship of national banks to the
citizenship of natural persons—as the 1887 act and 1888
revision did.

    Congress shifted gears again in 1911. The 1911 act
provided, in relevant part, that “all national banking
associations established under the laws of the United States
shall, for the purposes of all other actions against them . . . be
deemed citizens of the States in which they are respectively
located.”


that he was to remain at the hospital with appellant. Apparently, appellant had attempted suicide at the prison, and was being treated for resulting injuries in the emergency room of the hospital. The attending physician directed Officer Day to transport appellant from the emergency room on the first floor to the fourth floor. After Day and appellant had entered an elevator, appellant pointed what appeared to be a small caliber pistol at Day. In actuality, it was a pistol fashioned from soap. Appellant then removed Officer Day's fully-loaded 357 magnum service revolver. At appellant's direction Day and appellant left the hospital and proceeded toward the hospital parking lot, where appellant forced Day to remove his leg irons.
Day was directed to flag down an approaching vehicle driven by JamesMoye. Appellant ordered the driver to "move over," and told Day to drive them away from the hospital. During the trip, appellant took money and clothing from Day and Moye. Appellant forced Day to drive the car to several places and ultimately released Day and Moye in the area of Crown King on the morning of February 26, 1977. Day obtained a ride from a passing motorist to Bumble Bee, where he contacted local authorities.
In the meantime, Patrolman Neil Flores of the Department of Public Safety received an all points bulletin to be on the lookout for appellant. The following day Flores identified appellant at a gas station in Cordes Junction. Since he was off duty, Flores went home and informed local authorities that he had seen appellant.


He then returned to the Cordes Junction area and, after spotting the suspect vehicle again, blocked the road with his car, causing the two cars to collide. Appellant was arrested, read his Miranda rights from a standard "rights card," transported to Prescott, and then from Prescott to Phoenix by Detectives Bud Cheatham and Ed Scott. While enroute to Phoenix, Detective Scott advised appellant of his Miranda rights from memory. Thereafter, appellant made several incriminating statements which were subsequently admitted into evidence at appellant's trial.
*307 VOLUNTARINESS OF ADMISSIONS
Appellant argues on appeal that he was not given adequate Miranda warnings prior to questioning following his arrest and that the trial court committed reversible error by allowing into evidence certain admissions made by appellant during that questioning. Specifically, appellant contends thatBeth Winkelstein

Beth Ann Winkelstein is the Vice Provost for Education and the Eduardo D. Glandt President’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, she was elected as a councilor to the World Council of Biomechanics.

Early life and education
Winkelstein received her BSE in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 before going on to earn her doctorate in biomedical engineering from Duke University in 1999. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College, she joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002.

Career
Winkelstein joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 2002 and received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2007. She earned a promotion to Full Professor in 2011 and became a Bioengineering Graduate Group Chair. She was also chosen to edit "Orthopaedic Biomechanics."


Old Tanasbourne Town Center Mall

Saturday, December 24, 2011

The Tanasbourne Mall was the brainchild of the Standard Insurance Company. It was located on 2700 NW 185th Ave (the intersection of 185th and the Sunset Highway). Built in 1974-75, it opened to the public on April 3, 1975. The mall was a semi-underground structure and featured approximately 50 retail stores. It covered 18 acres. The main storefronts were Safeway, Pay Less Drug and Miller's Department Store. It also featured a public library, auditorium and a day care facility. The mall ran out of steam and was closed in 1993. It was demolished shortly afterwards. Today, Target and it's massive front parking lot occupy to former site of the Tanasbourne Town Center.

Standard Visionaries

In the late 1960's, Standard Insurance Company began buyingland near NW 185th and U.S. Highway 26. This was a change in direction for Standard, who was in the insurance business, and marked an important shift in investment strategy. Standard wanted to do something different. They were worried about inflation reducing profits for their investors. So they committed to a development of income-producing properties in the real estate market. Tanasbourne was a planned community development complete with stores, office complexes, residences and light industry. It was to take place on a 450-acre parcel of land which would accommodate 15,000 people who "worked in high tech " and "would be living in style". The centerpiece of Tanasbourne was to be a 160,000 square foot enclosed shopping mall. It featured a two-story layout with retail on the lower level


and business and professional offices on the upper levels. On first appearance, the mall seemed like it was subterranean. This was due to landscaping that buried the perimeter walls with back fill. From the beginning, the mall design was unconventional and faced roadblocks for approval. Several large chain drug and variety storefronts backed out of their plans to be in the mall because Standard wouldn't change plans to suit them. Cost was estimated at $6 million. Facing a possible land-use change that would have eliminated commercial zoning, Standard decided to hastily build Tanasbourne Mall in the early 1970s to protect the regional zoning of the mall site. Building prematurely and ahead of the market contributed to the mall having a rough start with vacancy problems. The mall cateredto Washington County residents from Aloha to Burlington and Cedar Mill to Banks. A long-range goal of Standard was to expand Tanasbourne Mall to one-million square feet by 1990. This expansion was to take place on 100 acres to the east of the old mall. Lack of planning and design flaws eventually sealed the coffin on the mall.

Tanasbourne Town Center (TTC) was never the success that Standard Insurance envisioned. Much of the mall had empty stores throughout it's life. In 1990, a new "open air" shopping center called Tanasbourne Village opened across the street. By prior agreement, mall tenants has first rights on space in the new shopping center. With this, a number of stores relocated into the new "power mall", leaving the older Tanasbourne Town Center location


and further weakening the mall. Safeway and Pay Less (Rite Aid) were two of the stores that bolted at the chance. Many of the smaller shops followed. Loss of these 2 "anchor" stores spelled closure for the ailing mall. In the end, there was a dry cleaning business, a nightclub and a decent restaurant. At night, there was bingo and a choir rehearsing in the auditorium. She went slowly and peacefully into the night and then at the business end of a bulldozer on the morning of July 20, 1993.

Reasons the TTC failed:

1. Poor visibility. Store signs couldn't be seen from the street.
2. Even though the mall was occupied, much of it was doctors, architects, insurance and real estate tenants. There wasn't enough traffic to feed the lowerlevel shop keepers and anchors.
3. Antiquated, bunker-like atmosphere with odd shaped windows.
4. The surrounding land areas were vulnerable to competing big box developments. As these new power malls were built, mall tenants bailed and upgraded their locations.
5. Changing attitudes towards malls, too time consuming. Trending to open air malls.
6. Expensive maintenance.

The following businesses were located in the mall at one time or another:

Town Center Tri Cinemas was a main attraction and featured three movie theaters. The top selling movie of all time was "Jaws". Seating capacities were 535, 304 and 304. 70mm in the big auditorium. It was run by Moyer Theaters and later called Tanasbourne Cinemas.

The Town Center Cinema "Grand Opening" was June 18, 1975. Screen one featured "Gone in 60 Seconds". Screen two had "Jaws" and


screen 3 featured "Tidal Wave".

There was a Tri-Met transit center and Park and Ride next to the mall.

The residential development adjacent to the mall was called Tanasbrook and featured 340 homes.

When Pay Less Drug came into the mall in 1986, it took the space formerly occupied by Miller's Dept. Store and Owl pharmacy.

Miller's Dept. Store was a retailer based out of McMinnville.

Some old mall merchants still exist in Tanasbourne Village across the street. These include: Safeway, Rite Aid (Pay Less), Gold Works Jewelry and Mark's Hallmark.

Friday, December 23, 2011

These buildings still remain from the Tanasbourne Town Center era. The roof lines obviously reflect the vintage and style lines of the former mall. These office buildings have undergone numerous facelifts and makeovers, yet, they still say "Tanasbourne 1975".

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The Pier 1 Imports store was built in 1990. It is characteristic of the Tanasbourne era. Note the snowflake like logo on the sign in front on the street corner. It bears a close resemblance to the TTC emblem in the original logo.


Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Paul VI

Daily Eucharist Quote – Pope Paul VI

Pope St. John Paul II

“To accomplish so great a work, Christ is always present in His Church, especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the person of His minister, ‘the same now offering, through the ministry of priests, who formerly offered himself on the cross’, but especially under the Eucharistic species.”Brewers Blog The Journal Sentinel sports staff brings fans the latest news and inside information on the Brewers SHARE

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Phoenix - Brewers manager Ron Roenicke conceded Wednesday that left-handed reliever Tom Gorzelanny likely will open the season on the disabled list.

Gorzelanny had off-season shoulder surgery and has been brought along slowly in spring camp. He currently is throwing long toss off flat ground at 150 feet as he works on rebuilding strength in the shoulder.

But, with less than three weeks remaining before opening day, Gorzelanny will not have time to pitch enough bullpen sessions, then get enough innings during exhibition play to open on the active roster.

"He's still a ways away," said Roenicke. "It doesn't look real good unless something happens where he comes along really fast.


The final ‘’official’’ act for our project, at partners level, took place successfully in Lublin-Poland on the 5th and 6th of June 2017.

More specifically, on the 5th of June, the last partners meeting took place at the premises of the project coordinator, OIC Poland Foundation, where key issues were discussed and agreed such as the fine-tuning procedures of all outputs, after the feedback derived by the end users and experts from the national piloting sessions, dissemination, quality and administrative pending activities as well as issues regarding the preparation steps of the final report to be submitted to the Polish National Agency.

On the 6th of June, the Project Conference took place where more than 60 people participated, both from end users (current and would-be social entrepreneurs) and stakeholders/decision makersValerie Harper was hospitalized Wednesday in Maine shortly before a stage performance.

Valerie Harper was hospitalized Wednesday in Maine shortly before a stage performance.

By Dan Meade

(WORLDNOW) -- Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's nominee for the 2012 election, isn't trying to get elected president this year. Instead he is trying to break the Libertarians into the 2016 presidential race by winning at least 5 percent of the vote this year.

In his "Be The 5 Percent" campaign video Johnson lays out America's current woes -- perpetual warfare, lost jobs, increased levels of bankruptcy and debt -- and places the blame not on Obama's Democrats or Romney's Republicans, but at the very idea of the two-party system. He ends the video by calling viewers to "do something revolutionary - cast a protest


elected two presidents, William Henry Harrison (1840) and Zachary Taylor (1848). The party came together in opposition to the policies of Democrat Andrew Jackson and backed the "American System" -- a philosophy of building a strong country through public works, a national bank and protectionist tariffs. They had a core set of beliefs, powerful leaders like Henry Clay, were able to function on a national level and elected politicians to numerous offices in government until breaking apart during the build up to the Civil War.

The Libertarians already have the philosophy and a national network in place. Federal funding could help Johnson -- who has already said he will run again in 2016 -- rally the party into a more cohesive group and raise his stature on a nationallevel. Enough votes and exposure could also land him a place in the 2016 presidential debates, which would enhance his status as a legitimate contender.

Growth from division -- In 1912 the Republican nomination came down to a battle between sitting president William Howard Taft and former president Teddy Roosevelt. Taft won the nomination and Roosevelt's supporters left the Republican Party to form the Progressive Party with Roosevelt as their nominee. Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" campaign ended up splitting the Republican vote, allowing the Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win.

Riffs and fractures occur from time to time in political parties. Most recently, the Tea Party has formed and operated from under the umbrella of the Republican Party -- had they broken from the Republicans and joined the Libertarian Party it would


have made the Libertarians stronger at the expense of a rival party, putting them in a better position for national elections.

Grassroots opposition -- Originating in Kansas around 1890, the People's Party (or Populist Party) arose when drought and depression led to economic hardships for many people in the South and West. The party was involved in the elections of 1892 and 1896, but only marginally. The 1892 candidate, James B. Weaver, only received one million votes while their 1896 candidate, William Jennings Bryan, largely ignored the Populists as he was also the Democratic nominee. This dual-nomination, and the infighting that led up to it, hastened the demise of the party.

The Populists tried to harness the anger many citizens felt at the state of the country and ride thatthe state to make sure nutritious meals are provided to children from low-income homes taking part in child care centers, Head Start programs, before- and after-school programs, emergency shelters and participating day-care homes.

A new location for a Carthage clinic will wrap up a series of moves tied to Memorial Hospital's new medical building. Women and Family Medical Group, part of the Memorial Medical Clinic, will open at 8 a.m. Monday at 630 Locust, the former Midwest Family Medical Care. Family Care After-Hours will begin seeing patients in the same location at 5 p.m. Monday.

A new location for a Carthage clinic will wrap up a series of moves tied to Memorial Hospital's new medical building. Women and Family Medical Group, part of the Memorial Medical Clinic, will open at


is chomping at the bit to get out of his small office near the front of Hannibal Middle School. As the school's new principal, Nimmo is eager to get to know the staff members and students who walk the halls.

Matt Nimmo is chomping at the bit to get out of his small office near the front of Hannibal Middle School. As the school's new principal, Nimmo is eager to get to know the staff members and students who walk the halls.

Abraham Lincoln's close relationship with a Quincy attorney is a significant part of a new exhibit opening Aug. 3 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. The exhibit -- "With Firmness in the Right: Lincoln and the Jews" -- will be on display through Nov.News

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A study into a new and more effective treatment for acute stroke
in England, carried out by researchers from PenCLAHRC with
colleagues from Newcastle University, Northumbria University and
the Oxford Academic Health Science Network, has been awarded
funding of £22,000 from the Stroke Association.

Stroke is a serious, life-threatening and often debilitating
condition, which can have a devastating impact on patients and
their families. In the UK, nearly 90,000 people a year are admitted
to hospital following a stroke, with many of those who survive left
severely disabled.

A PenCLAHRC trial team are looking for volunteers to help study
the benefits of singing groups for people with a communication
disorder associated with strokes.

Aphasia is a speech and language disorder caused by damage to
the brain and it is thought that around one in three people who
have


power and potential of simulation
modelling in a meaningful way. It means that NHS
organisations across the region can build their in-house capacity
to build models that inform decisions whilst seeing real impact for
the organisation.

Dan Chalk, Research Fellow in the PenCHORD team and lead
for the HSMA programme

To mark the end of the first year of our Health Service
Modelling Associates (HSMA) programme, we’ve launched a new website
to showcase the impacts that this innovative scheme has had on NHS
Trusts across the...

A national collaboration supported by PenCLAHRC,
investigating ways to support prisoners with mental health problems
both before and after release, has received additional funding of
almost £290,000 to continue its work for another 10 months.

Engager is a collaboration between Plymouth University
Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD), the
University of Manchester, University College London and the
University ofAndy Lyons

Tag Michigan with the Cinderella label at your peril.

Seeded seventh in the Midwest Region, the Michigan Wolverines have become the no-doubt darlings of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament entering Thursday’s Sweet 16 matchup in Kansas City against Oregon.

John Beilein’s team started 14-9 before going on a scorched-earth tear, winning 12 of its last 14 since Feb. 7, with the losses against tournament teams, one in overtime to Minnesota and the other on a stunning full-court pass by Northwestern with seconds left.

Four of those wins came during their improbable run to the championship of the Big Ten tournament — a title that followed the team’s plane crash through a fence before liftoff at the Ypsilanti airport en route to the tournament site. Michigan played its first game after


from two and missed both three-point attempts. How he’ll match up against the older Walton and Abdur-Rahkman will be a key against Michigan.

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8. Michigan might just be the tournament's hottest team right now

The numbers explain only so much about Michigan. There's something that's hard to capture about how a team that appeared soft midway through the season has now sliced through the Big Ten tournament to win as an eighth seed and taken down Oklahoma State in a shootout and Louisville in a grinder.

Like Connecticut in 2011 and 2014, the Wolverines have been described as a team on a mission, the squad that needed a huge run late in the season just to make the field and is now using that momentum to mow down opponents. There'swife, Louise Linton, to their European honeymoon. The request was later withdrawn.

Another cabinet member, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, promised Thursday to repay about $52,000 for his travel on private charter planes, which costs thousands of dollars more than commercial flights.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took a charter plane to Montana and the Caribbean at a price of $12,000, Politico reported. Multiple news outlets reported Scott Pruitt, who leads the Environmental Protection Agency, has taken at least four noncommercial flights since February, costing taxpayers more than $58,000.

As of Friday afternoon, the VA posted Shulkin had taken five trips on Air Force 1 and Air Force 2, two of them to Texas to see damage caused by Hurricane Harvey. He also used a military aircraft last week for


a trip to the Invictus Games in Toronto with First Lady Melania Trump. Shulkin has not used any private aircraft for official travel, according to information on the VA website.

According to one itinerary posted on the VA website Friday, Shulkin, his wife, Merle Bari, and other VA officials traveled July 11 to Denmark, where Shulkin was briefed on the Danish health care system for veterans, toured a veterans home and met the Danish ministers of defense and health. The group then traveled to London, where Shulkin and Bari spent July 15 at the Wimbledon tennis tournament with friends. On July 16, they visited Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Westminster Abbey and took a cruise of the Thames River, followed by an evening in Piccadilly Circus. Later during the week,[Students' opinions of the Academy of Physical Education and Sports from Gdańsk about their preparation for pro-health education program at school].
The object of the study was to collect opinions on preparations for prohealth education program at school presented by students from Gdańsk. A diagnostic survey based on an anonymous questionnaire was applied. The study was carried out in students majoring in motor recreation, coaching and biological regeneration in 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 academic years. 234 respondents were qualified for the study. Almost half of the students declare their dissatisfaction with preparations for being promoters and coordinators of prohealth programs at school.


The ‘outstanding’ Suffolk schools that have not had full inspections from Ofsted for more than 10 years have been revealed.

The Risby Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, in Aylmer Close, Risby, has not had a full inspection since January 15, 2009.

Sebert Wood Community Primary School, in Bury St Edmunds, has also not had a full inspection report published by Ofsted since July 14, 2009.

A number of other schools have converted to academies in the last 10 years, but have also not had full inspections:

- The Brooklands Primary School in Brantham, which converted to an academy in June 2018, has not had a full inspection since November 25, 2008.

- Debenham High School, which converted to an academy in February 2012, has not had a full inspection since January22, 2008.

- Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy, which converted into an academy in January 2016, has not been inspected since January 26, 2009.

- The Hintlesham and Chattisham Primary School, which also became an academy in 2018, was last inspected on January 27, 2009.

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- Thomas Mills High School, in Framlingham, was last fully inspected on October 5, 2006, with an interim assessment carried out in 2010. It converted to an academy in February 2012.

Under the Education Act 2011, outstanding schools are exempt from regular Ofsted inspections.

Yet this summer, Her Majesty's Inspector Dan Lambert said Ofsted felt this rule had "had its day".

Writing for the Ofsted blog, he said parents, teachers, leaders and governors liked the outstanding grade and its "aspirational" quality, but


Image copyright Reuters Image caption Imran Khan giving his televised speech from his home on the outskirts of Islamabad

Former cricketer Imran Khan has claimed victory in Pakistan's election, amid accusations of vote rigging by rivals.

In a television address, he said: "We were successful and we were given a mandate."

His PTI party is still expected to fall short of an overall majority, so it would have to seek coalition partners in order to form a government.

Campaigning has been marred by violence. On voting day a bomb killed 31 people at a polling station.

Mr Khan, the charismatic patrician who captained Pakistan to a World Cup victory in 1992, has long shed his celebrity playboy image and has recently faced accusations that his election challenge was benefiting from military interference inthe nuclear-armed republic.

An official confirmation of the vote is still to come.

The party of disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has rejected the results, as have a host of smaller parties, all alleging vote-rigging and manipulation.

The election has been seen as a contest between Mr Khan's PTI party and Mr Sharif's PML-N, with the party of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the historically liberal PPP, widely expected to come third.

In his address, Mr Khan said: "I think this has been the clearest, fairest election Pakistan has ever had." He added that he would investigate any claims to the contrary.

He also appealed to his rivals to join hands with him to develop Pakistan. And he vowed to hold talks with India to seek a resolution to the dispute


over the Kashmir region, a key flashpoint between the nuclear-armed countries.

He also called for "mutually beneficial" ties with the United States, despite being an outspoken critic of that country's anti-terrorism measures in the region, such as drone strikes.

What are the latest figures?

Figures from the Electoral Commission show Mr Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party has 116 of the 272 National Assembly constituencies being contested.

Earlier, unofficial projections from Pakistan's Dawn Newspaper reported the PTI on 120.

A total of 137 seats is required for a majority.

This election will mark only the second time that a civilian government has handed power to another after serving a full term in Pakistan.

The turnout has been estimated at between 50% and 55% out of 106 million registered voters, AFP reports.

On Thursday, Dawn said the HumanRights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) had raised questions over the voting process. "The commission received complaints that in many areas women were not allowed to vote," the newspaper reported.

Who are the other main players?

Mr Sharif, who won the last election, is in jail after a scandal stemming from the Panama Papers leak, but remained a looming figure in this election.

He appointed his brother, Shahbaz Sharif, as head of the PML-N, to run in his absence.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, a 29-year-old son of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, ran for the PPP, after becoming party chairman when he was still a student at Oxford University in the UK.

Who is Imran Khan?

Mr Khan, who first entered politics in 1996 but struggled for years on the political sidelines, now styles himself as


as the "father of the Taliban".

Image caption Five things to know about Imran Khan

What will be the next prime minister's main challenges?

Before the election Mr Khan told the BBC that if he were to be elected, his initial focus would be on the economy. Pakistan's currency, the rupee, has declined by 20%. Inflation is on the rise and the trade deficit widening.

Exports such as textiles have taken a hit from cheaper products by regional competitors, including China. Analysts say the new government may need to turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the country's second bailout since 2013.

The BBC's Secunder Kermani in Islamabad says tough decisions that could entail curbs on spending will be easier in a government Mr Khan is able to dominate.

However, if his rivalscontinue to reject the results, and even potentially launch the kind of street protests Mr Khan did while in opposition, the country could face political instability.

Why does this election matter?

Pakistan has a population of nearly 200 million, and is a nuclear-armed rival to India, a key developing economy and one of the world's largest Muslim-majority nations.

The country has been ruled on and off by the military during its 71-year history, so this election is significant because it is considered the country's second consecutive democratic transition.

Are the elections clean?

Both the run-up to the vote, and the vote count itself, have been highly controversial.

Ahead of the elections, the PML-N complained of a targeted crackdown by the security establishment, with the alleged help of the courts, in favour of the PTI


party. The Pakistani military denied interfering in politics.

Independent media, meanwhile, say there have been blatant attempts to muzzle them, while the human rights commission has said there are "ample grounds" to question the legitimacy of the polls .

After the polls closed on Wednesday, several political groups alleged that vote rigging was taking place in polling stations - something denied by election officials.

Image copyright EPA Image caption Wednesday's attack in Quetta has been claimed by the Islamic State group

Representatives from several parties said that their polling agents were expelled from polling stations during vote count and were denied certified copies of results - breaching election procedures.

Analysts have also highlighted unusual delays in the announcement of unofficial results in dozens of constituencies, especially in the crucial province of Punjab whichhim before the Rangers reached a one-year, $5 million deal with him after the season began. Oswalt went 4-3 with a 5.80 ERA in 17 games, including nine starts. It was Oswalt's first extended bullpen duty.

The Rockies are looking at Oswalt as a starter. He'll likely join Double-A Tulsa once he is deemed ready. But Oswalt has been throwing extended sessions and facing hitters at home in Mississippi and could be at game speed quickly.

"We've had interest in Roy for some time," said Bill Geivett, the Rockies' senior vice president of Major League operations. "He's been a very good starter, and that's how we're looking at him. He's been successful at Coors Field, but he's also been successful everywhere."

The bulk of Oswalt's career was spent with the Astros,


for whom he went 143-82 from 2001 until he was traded to the Phillies in 2010. Oswalt finished that season in Philadelphia 7-1 with a 1.74 ERA in 13 games, 12 starts. The following year he was 9-10 with a 3.69 ERA for the Phillies.Prosser hospital buys building in downtown Grandview

Prosser Memorial Hospital has purchased this building, located at 300 Division Street and formerly used as an outpatient drug and alcohol center, but it will likely be another two months before details of what the building will be used for will be released.

The building, located at 300 Division Street, was known as Casa de Esperanza, an outpatient clinic for drug and alcohol treatment, according to hospital CEO Jim Tavery.

While the exact nature of the use of the building is not available right now, Tavery said that a proposal for the building's use will be given to the hospital board in two months.

Tavery said the deal closed in mid-May.

According to the Yakima County Assessor's office, the building was purchased for $300,000.

Ironically, the hospital


recently asked Grandview City Council for $133,000 in stop-gap emergency funding for ambulance services. They approached the Prosser council and Benton County commissioners as well, and plan to ask Yakima County commissioners, Sunnyside Community Hospital and Kadlec Medical Center for funds to help continue ambulance services.

During a hospital board retreat last fall, board members outlined priorities and projects for the coming year. It wasn't until late fall that the hospital had learned it had been reimbursed too much money by Medicare in 2004 and 2005, to the tune of about $314,000. That money has to be paid back to the federal government. Hospital officials also learned that Medicare will only pay 70 percent of costs for ambulance services. In other words, Tavery said, receiving the bills and learningWelch voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. He was 1 of 172 Democrats that voted in favor of the bill. The bill was passed in the House by a 257 - 167 vote on January 1, 2013.<ref>[http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll659.xml ''U.S. House'' "Roll Call Vote on the Fiscal Cliff" Accessed January 4, 2013.]</ref>

Welch voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. He was 1 of 172 Democrats that voted in favor of the bill. The bill was passed in the House


by a 257 - 167 vote on January 1, 2013.<ref>[http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll659.xml ''U.S. House'' "Roll Call Vote on the Fiscal Cliff" Accessed January 4, 2013.]</ref>

Peter Welch (b. May 2, 1947, in Springfield, Massachusetts) is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Vermont. Welch is the only representative from Vermont and was first elected to the House in 2006. He won re-election in 2012.[1]

Based on analysis of multiple outside rankings, Welch is an average Democratic member of Congress, meaning he will vote with the Democratic Party on the majority of bills.

Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations

Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs

Issues

Legislative actions

113th Congress

The second session of the 113th Congress enacted into law 114 out of theto work with the U.N. Security Council “to build international consensus” condemning the alleged use of chemical weapons. Welch was one of the 50 Democrats in the House to sign the letter.[10][11]

National Defense Authorization Act

Welch voted in opposition of HR 1960 - the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014. The bill passed the House on June 14, 2013, with a vote of 315 - 108. Both parties were somewhat divided on the vote.[12]

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations

Welch voted in opposition of HR 2217 - the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2014. The bill passed the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 245 - 182 and was largely along party lines.[12]

Keystone Pipeline Amendment

Welch voted in favor of House Amendment 69, which would


have amended HR 3 to "require that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, conduct a study of the vulnerabilities of the Keystone XL pipeline to a terrorist attack and certify that necessary protections have been put in place." The amendment failed on May 22, 2013, with a vote of 176 - 239 and was largely along party lines.[12]

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act

Welch voted in opposition of HR 624 - the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The bill passed the House on April 18, 2013, with a vote of 288 - 127. The bill would allow federal intelligence agencies to share cybersecurity intelligence and information with private entities and utilities.[13] The bill was largely supported by Republicans butdivided the Democratic Party.[12]

Economy

Farm Bill

Welch voted against the July 11, 2013 Farm Bill. The bill passed in a 216-208 vote.[14] The bill passed included farm policy, but did not include food stamps.[15]

King Amendment

Neal signed a letter sent to Collin Peterson in August 2013, asking him to keep Steve King's amendment out of the final Farm Bill.[16] The "Protect Interstate Commerce Act" amendment prevents states from applying their own laws on agricultural products to agricultural products from another state.[17]. King introduced the amendment in response to a law in California, requiring a larger size cage for egg-producing chickens. King represents Iowa, which is a large egg producer.

Immigration

Morton Memos Enforcement Prohibition

Welch voted against House Amendment 136 - Prohibits the Enforcement of the Immigration Executive Order. The amendment was adopted by


Pirate Bay was set up in 2003 and quickly became one of the most popular destinations for accessing free films and music.

At its height the site claimed to have more than 30 million users worldwide.

No copyright content is hosted on the site's web servers. Instead, it hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.

The Pirate Bay recently changed its domain to one in Greenland, fearing that its Swedish domain name was about to be seized. But the Greenland domain was quickly blocked.Hundreds of mayors attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Orlando, Florida last weekend voted to endorse "parent trigger" laws in their cities. Parent trigger laws allow parents to take over a failing school, fire the teachers and maintain control themselves or allow private management to move in.

"Mayors understand at a local level that most parents lack the tools they need to turn their schools around," Democratic Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles told Reuters. Democrats and Republicans alike voted unanimously in favor of parent trigger laws.

Advocacy group Parent Revolution, which has been a staunch advocate of parent trigger laws in California (one of the few states where these laws have been passed) released a statement yesterday saying this is a big step forward for the movement. Executive


Director Ben Austin wrote:

This vote represents an historic step forward for the parent power movement and the education reform movement both within the Democratic Party as well as in dozens of big and small cities across the nation. Parents and mayors both intuitively understand the tragic impact of our failed educational status quo, as well as the moral, political and economic urgency of giving parents power over the educational destiny of their own children.

According to the Reuters article, a parent trigger law has not yet been successful anywhere. Right now, there are two court cases in California where parents are trying to push through takeovers in their underprivileged school districts. The fact that mayors are now on board may make it easier for a parent trigger law tostarring Maggie Gyllenhaal. Loosely based on Parent Revolution's work in California, the film follows a mother's struggle to revolutionize her daughter's failing school.

Kristin Kloberdanz is a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay area. She has written for Time, the Chicago Tribune and Forbes.com about everything from economic crises and political snafus to best summer beach reads.

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British and German businesses are calling on EU negotiators to focus on the countries’ shared economic interests as the third round of Brexit negotiations starts in Brussels.

In a joint statement, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and the Association of German Chambers of Commerce (DIHK) said German and British companies want clarity from the outset on the overall shape of the final settlement.

A number of major issues relevant to businesses are yet to be resolved, including the rights of EU workers in Britain and British workers in the other 27 EU member states.

There is a growing view that talks on Britain’s future trade relationship with the bloc could be delayed beyond the autumn. The EU will decide in October whether Britain has made sufficient progress on Brexit divorcearound pounding techno and shedloads of pills;[11] after a particularly horrible bout of amphetamine psychosis, he took a hard rightward turn and wrote the essay "The Dark Enlightenment", analysing Moldbug. He is also an apostle of Accelerationism, a movement that in his view seeks the "indefinite acceleration of capitalism"[12] He is currently an affiliate of The New Centre for Research and Practice.[13]

Other significant participants include Michael Anissimov of More Right.[14] Vox Day was happy to be considered part of this movement in 2013,[15] though he ridiculed the term "dark enlightenment" as media hype in 2014.[16]

The term "neo-reactionary" (with a hyphen) was used in passing by Moldbug in 2008,[17] but was first used as a name for the movement as a whole by libertarian blogger Arnold Kling in July


the South to justify slavery the reactionary Enlightenment. [...] Hartz was trying to convey the nature of the concerted effort on the part of Southern intellectuals to reexamine the entire nature of America as a liberal society based on the triumph of the Enlightenment. Hartz asks, "Had America suddenly produced, out of nowhere, a movement of reactionary feudalism?" Southern writers began by seeking to find historical precedents that would justify slavery. Men like George Fitzhugh, Thomas R. Dew, and J. D. B. DeBow pointed to the existence of slavery in the Old Testament, in Greek and Roman democracy, and under feudalism. In their search for models the Southern writers began to turn against modernity itself. They attacked the doctrine of individualism; they attacked Locke and Jefferson; they attackedfan[26] of Italian 20th century reactionary philosopher Julius Evola.

According to Jeffrey Herf, "reactionary modernism" in the Weimar era was a similar movement, which he called a "technological romanticism"; its key feature was "great enthusiasm for modern technology with a rejection of the Enlightenment and the values and institutions of liberal democracy".[27] This reactionary modernism enthusiastically endorsed technological ideas from telecommunications to eugenics while expressing disdain for democratic ideas and looking for a return to a rigid social order.

In France, after the Dreyfus case, Charles Maurras , taking inspiration from thinkers and scholars such as the positivist Auguste Compe and Frédéric Le Play and basing on his strong nationalism, came to support a society based on corporations (not the businesses but groups such as provinces and guilds), where the