was only about eight or nine feet away. Gwen Thomas saw Jackson lying on the floor, shot, and Adamson was lying beside him.
One of the men told Gwen Thomas that if she didn't tell them where "it" was, the two men would kill them all. Gwen Thomas asked Jackson what the men wanted and where "it" was. Jackson said that he didn't have anything and that he did not want to die. The two men ransacked the room, went into the closets and under the mattress, and pulled out drawers. One of the men put something in his pocket. One of the men tied up Gwen Thomas and made her lie facedown on the floor and took a chain from around her neck. The two men left.
Thomas andAdamson untied each other. Thomas went downstairs, locked the doors and called the police, her grandmother and her cousin while Adamson held Jackson, dying in his arms. Jackson *416 died almost instantly from one of the six bullets which entered his right chest at a range of less than two feet, lacerated his liver, kidneys and aorta, causing massive internal bleeding.
Arlander Adamson and Gwen Thomas gave the police descriptions of the two offenders. Later that evening they looked through photograph books at the police station. Neither made any identification from the photographs. On August 18, 1981, Gwen Thomas looked through a book of photographs which had been brought to her home by Chicago police detectives Redmond and O'Leary. She identified a picture of defendant Maurice Coleman as a


picture of one of the robbery-murder offenders. On the following day, Gwen Thomas and Arlander Adamson identified Maurice Coleman in a lineup at a Chicago police station as one of the offenders.
On August 28, 1981, Arlander Adamson was shown a group of photographs by Chicago police detectives Redmond and O'Leary and he identified the picture of the defendant Joseph Barnes as resembling the other offender. On September 6, 1981, a complaint for preliminary examination which charged Joseph Barnes with the August 2, 1981, robbery-murder of Terrell Jackson was prepared and filed by Detective O'Leary in a branch of the first municipal district of the circuit court of Cook County. The court ordered and a warrant was issued for Barnes' arrest. The detectives were unable to locate Barnes inassertion in his lineup identification suppression motion was that his lineup identification was also suggestive.[2] Barnes' motion alleged that he was arrested, that the witnesses were suggestively shown photographs, that "on February 17, 1982, Joseph Barnes stood in a five man lineup," and "that prior to said confrontation the accused was not advised by the police that he had a right to have an attorney present during such confrontation." (Emphasis added.)
The defendants' motions to suppress their lineup identifications were consolidated for an evidentiary hearing, at which neither defendant testified. Defendant Coleman's attorney called Gwen Thomas as a witness on the hearing and elicited from her the following testimony.
On August 2, 1981, she lived at 6856 S. Calumet with her father, Terrell Jackson, the deceased, and on that date


she went to a police station where police officers showed her photographs in a pile of books for about 1 1/2 hours. On August 18, 1981, police officers came to the home of a friend of Gwen Thomas, where she was visiting, and showed her eight photographs, which she identified in court. She identified photograph "two D" in court as the photograph she identified when she was shown them on August 18, 1981, and told the officers that she recognized the picture. On the following day, August 19, 1981, Chicago police officers returned and showed her another book of photographs and she identified a picture in the book as a picture of one of the persons she saw in her house on August 2, 1981. Later, on August19, at about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, at a police station she viewed a lineup, from which she identified number three.
Upon concluding her direct examination by Coleman's attorney, as above set forth, Gwen Thomas was then questioned by the attorney for the defendant Joseph Barnes, who elicited from her the following testimony.
*418 On August 28, 1981, she saw some photographs while she was at a friend's home. Barnes' attorney showed her a group of photographs, defendants' group exhibit No. 2, and Gwen Thomas identified them as the photographs she saw August 28, 1981, and from which she singled out the photograph marked "D" as resembling one of the men that had been in her apartment. On February 2, 1982, she viewed a lineup. Before she


looked at the photographs she had given a description of the two men who had been in her home to the police officer. Thomas was asked by Barnes' attorney how many people she had described, to which the prosecutor objected. Gwen Thomas was excused from the courtroom while Barnes' attorney argued to the trial court the validity of the question. The argument he presented was that the lineup was suggestive. The trial court overruled the prosecutor's objection, and when Gwen Thomas resumed the witness stand, Barnes' attorney further elicited from her the following testimony.
Before she saw the photograph, she gave a description to the police officers of the two men who had come into her home. The descriptions that she gave were, "One was light, tall and slimwith a cap on and blue jeans and a blue track jacket. The other one was dark, bigger, a beard, blue jeans, about a hundred and thirty five, forty pounds." On February 17, 1982, Thomas viewed a lineup, and Barnes' exhibit No. 4 was a picture of that five-man lineup. From left to right, number one picture of the persons in the lineup was a person whose photograph the officers previously showed her.
Gwen Thomas then testified on cross-examination by the prosecutor that when she was shown the book of photographs she identified the photograph of the defendant, Maurice Coleman, and on the next day, August 19, 1981, she identified Coleman in a lineup at a police station. Some days later, she saw a group of photographs which contained


a photograph of the defendant Joseph Barnes, whom she thereafter, on February 17, 1982, identified in a lineup.
Arlander Adamson was then called on the hearing of the defendant's motions to suppress identification by defendant Coleman's attorney and he testified as follows.
On August 2, 1981, he was visiting his brother, Terrell Jackson, the deceased, in his home at 6856 South Calumet Avenue and after the incident took place in Jackson's home, he went to a police station where he was shown four or five books of photographs. He did not identify anyone in the photograph books. Adamson went to a police station again on August 19, 1981, and looked at photographs and viewed a lineup. He had previously given the police officers a description of the two individuals thathe thought were responsible for the *419 August 2, 1981, robbery-murder of his brother in his house. Adamson told the officers that one of the individuals was approximately 5 feet 4 to 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed about 140 to 145 pounds and had a full beard and a full mustache. Defendants' exhibit No. 3 was a photograph of the lineup he saw on August 19, 1981, about 4 p.m., and in the photograph he identified number three.
Arlander Adamson was then questioned by the attorney for Joseph Barnes and testified: He was shown about six photographs on August 28, 1981, by police officers. He had previously given the officers a description of the other person as being between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet tall, weighing


about 140 to 150 pounds, having a thin build, light complexion, a small mustache, wearing black-rimmed sunglasses, a black tam, blue track suit jacket with white stripes and blue jeans. Defendants' group exhibit No. 2 was the photographs he was shown on August 28, 1981, and he picked out photograph "D" as resembling one of the offenders.
Adamson further related that on February 17, 1982, he viewed a lineup and defendants' exhibit No. 4 was a photograph of the five-man lineup.
On cross-examination by the prosecutor, Arlander Adamson testified that when he told the officers that photograph "D" of defendants' group exhibit No. 2 resembled one of the offenders, he also told the officers that he would like to see a lineup in order to be certain. The defendant JosephBarnes' picture was in the February 19, 1982, lineup photograph.
The attorney for defendant Maurice Coleman then called a Chicago police department detective, James O'Leary, who testified that he was at the August 19, 1981, lineup involving the shooting death of Terrell Jackson, which lineup was viewed by Arlander Adamson and Gwen Thomas. Defendants' exhibit No. 3 was a photograph of that lineup. Coleman, who appears in the lineup photograph, was arrested on August 19, 1981, at 2:45 p.m., pursuant to a warrant which charged him with the murder of Terrell Jackson. The lineup was at 5:30 p.m.
The attorney for defendant Maurice Coleman next called Detective James Redmond as a witness, and he testified that he was present on August 18, 1981, when Gwen Thomas viewed a Chicago police


mug book.
Detective Redmond testified on direct examination by the attorney for defendant Joseph Barnes that he conducted a lineup on February 17, 1982, and that defendant Joseph Barnes was one of the five people in that lineup. Gwen Thomas and Arlander Adamson had given *420 Detective Redmond descriptions of the offenders involved in the incident before they viewed the lineup.
Coleman and Barnes rested on the evidentiary hearing of their motions to suppress their lineup identifications. They now urge that they were denied their constitutional right to counsel at their lineups. Other pertinent evidence presented on the hearing is hereafter set forth and discussed.
 1, 2 The right to counsel is provided in the sixth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and is binding upon the Statesthe rape offense. When the defendant was later that day called before the court without counsel to answer the charge, the rape victim identified him as her assailant. The defendant was later indicted. His pretrial motion to suppress the victim's aforesaid identification of him as her assailant, on the ground that his sixth amendment right to counsel was violated by the identification because of the absence of his counsel, was overruled. The defendant was convicted and the supreme court of Illinois affirmed. In reversing, the Supreme Court of the United States held:
"In Kirby v. Illinois, 406 U.S. 682 (1972), the plurality opinion *421 made clear that the right to counsel announced in Wade and Gilbert attaches only to corporeal identifications conducted `at or after the initiation of adversary


his lineup was violated. The sole thrust of the evidence presented by Barnes on the suppression hearing, exclusively through his counsel's direct examination of the robbery-murder witnesses, Gwen Thomas and Arlander Adamson, and the investigating detectives, O'Leary and Redmond, who also conducted Barnes' lineup, was that his lineup identification was suggestive.
Even though defendant Barnes presented no evidence of the circumstances of his arrest on the hearing of his motion to suppress his lineup identification, the record nevertheless discloses that on September 6, 1981, Detective O'Leary subscribed and swore to a complaint for preliminary examination which alleged that on August 2, 1981, Joseph Barnes at 6856 South Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, committed the offense of murder, in that he, without lawful justification, shot and killed Terrell Jackson. The recordand have your lineup. Nobody's going to identify me." Detective Redmond also testified on cross-examination by Coleman's attorney that he was present at the August 19, 1981, lineup, prior to which he advised the defendant Maurice Coleman of his rights, during which he told Coleman that he had a right to an attorney at lineup. On cross-examination by the prosecutor, Detective Redmond additionally testified that when he advised the defendant Maurice Coleman that he had a right to have an attorney present at the lineup, Coleman stated to him, "Go ahead and put me in a lineup. No one's going to pick me out anyway."
Detectives O'Leary and Redmond's testimony that Coleman was advised of his right to counsel at the lineup and that if he could not afford


March 19, 1982, in which the State requested defendant Barnes "to give written notice to the People any defenses, affirmative or non-affirmative, which the defendant [Barnes] intends to assert at trial," and "to furnish in writing to the People, the names and last known addresses of persons the defendant intends to call as witnesses."
Defendant Barnes filed his answer to the State's motion for discovery on May 18, 1982, in which he stated, "Defendant will assert all defenses consistent with his innocence including the possible following alibi: On August 2, 1981, between the hours of 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. defendant was at 3939 South Lake Park with Margaret Jones, Maria Jones, whose last known address is 8704 South Burley Street, Chicago, *440 Illinois, Alfreddie Thomas, 10 South Wabash,Theresa Wilkins." On July 21, 1982, defendant Barnes filed his "Notice of Alibi Defense," in which he stated, "Now comes the defendant [Joseph Barnes] and now notifies the State that he may assert the defense of alibi: 3939 South Lake Park at the time of the offense with Margaret Jones, Maria Jones and Michelle Jones."
As previously pointed out herein, defendant Barnes was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland. The record reflects that Barnes contested his extradition from Baltimore to Chicago and extradition proceedings were held which ordered his extradition to Chicago. We need not here decide if Barnes is charged with knowledge of his testimony and his statements during his Baltimore, Maryland, extradition proceedings. We note that on July 8, 1982, Barnes filed a "Motion for Discovery Particulars," in which


of Barnes' Baltimore, Maryland, judicial extradition proceedings, which, it would appear, would have been equally available to him, and of which he was aware, as they were to the Cook County, *441 Illinois, prosecuting attorney. The record before us reveals that on August 31, 1982, Barnes' attorney was aware of the Baltimore, Maryland, extradition proceedings, that the transcript of the proceedings was not in the prosecutor's possession and that the prosecutor had endeavored and was then endeavoring to obtain it. The following colloquy occurred between the court and counsel on August 31, 1982:
"[BARNES' ATTORNEY]: As your Honor's aware from my previously filed motion for discovery, particulars that I've been trying to obtain, certain information from Baltimore, Maryland with respect to this case. [The prosecuting attorney] from the State'sme so I should be getting it by the end of the week.
THE COURT: Let's put this over one week for status."
 14 It is clear from the foregoing that as of August 31, 1982, the prosecutor had not received a transcript of Barnes' Maryland extradition proceedings. The record does not reveal whether the prosecutor knew that during Barnes' Maryland extradition proceedings he had testified that he was in Baltimore, Maryland, when Terrell Jackson was robbed and murdered in Chicago on August 2, 1981.
The record before us reflects that Barnes' attorney did not, after the August 31, 1982, courtroom proceedings or during subsequent pretrial proceedings, further pursue his production and disclosure demand and that he did not make any subsequent requests for the transcript of the Barnes' Maryland


that at 5 p.m. on that date Joseph Barnes was home with her and her children, at which time her girl friend, Theresa Wilkins, called her on the telephone, that Barnes answered the call, and that Barnes never left the home that afternoon or evening. Margaret Jones further related that Barnes' mother, stepfather and sister lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and that Barnes went to Baltimore the last of August 1981 to do construction work with his stepfather.
Barnes next called Theresa Wilkins as another alibi witness. Wilkins testified that she called Margaret Jones' home in Chicago about 4:30 p.m. on August 2, 1981, and the defendant, Joseph Barnes, whose voice she recognized, answered the telephone. Wilkins talked to Jones about why she missed church earlier that day.
Upon the conclusionto Monday, May 2, 1983, on which date Barnes' attorney did not expand his objection to Detective Verba's testimony to *444 include that he had not been furnished the transcript of Barnes' Maryland extradition proceedings.
On Monday, May 2, 1982, Baltimore, Maryland, police detective Joseph Verba testified that he was present on January 5, 1982, about 10 a.m., during the Baltimore court proceeding in which the defendant Joseph Barnes testified; that the proceedings were before and in Judge Maria Ravbran's court; Mr. Paul, Barnes' attorney, Detective Elliott, Verba's partner, and Jacqueline Stovich, the official court reporter who recorded the proceedings, were present. Verba related that the court reporter transcribed the proceedings, which Verba identified as People's exhibit No. 22, and testified that the transcription was a true and accurate


that on January 5, 1982, in the Baltimore city court, the defendant, Joseph Barnes, was asked whether he was in Chicago, Illinois, on August 2, 1981, and Barnes, under oath, stated that he was not in Chicago, Illinois, on that date, but that he was in Baltimore from the end of July 1981 until he was arrested in Baltimore by the Baltimore police department, which was on September 14, 1981.
We note with significance that the record before us does not anywhere reflect that Barnes or his attorney claimed surprise by Barnes' aforementioned Baltimore extradition proceeding statements. We further note, again with even greater significance, that Barnes never contested, refuted or denied the extradition proceeding statements attributed to him by Baltimore detective Joseph Verba. The record before us affirmativelyestablishes that: (1) Barnes' attorney never objected to Detective Verba's testimony of Barnes' statements during his Baltimore extradition proceedings on the ground that he had not been furnished with a transcript of the extradition proceedings; and *445 (2) Barnes' attorney had acquired a transcript of the extradition proceedings. Barnes' objections to the admission of Detective Verba's testimony of Barnes' January 5, 1982, sworn testimonial court statement that he was in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 2, 1981, to rebut the contrary testimony of his alibi witnesses, Margaret Jones and Theresa Wilkins, on the ground that the State had not furnished him a transcript of the extradition proceedings pursuant to the hereinbefore mentioned discovery rules and court orders and the State's obligation thereunder, are totally without merit.
 15 As previously


noted, Barnes' attorney objected to the State's introduction of Barnes' January 5, 1982, Baltimore extradition proceeding statement that he was in Baltimore on August 2, 1981, on the ground that his statement, although it would have been proper and admissible to impeach the defendant's contrary trial testimony, it was inadmissible inasmuch as Barnes did not testify at his trial. Barnes' attorney further argued that Barnes' prior Baltimore statement was inadmissible and improper to rebut the contrary trial testimony of his two alibi witnesses, Margaret Jones and Theresa Wilkins.
Recently, the supreme court in People v. James (1988), 123 Ill.2d 523, upheld the admission of a defendant's pretrial statement to rebut the contrary direct trial testimony of the defendant's defense witnesses. In James, five trial witnesses identified the defendant Jamesas the person they saw shoot and kill one victim and injure another. Each State witness testified that at the time of the shooting the defendant had shoulder length, slicked-back, butter-style reddish hair. At trial, the defendant's hair was black and in a natural style.
The defendant James did not testify at trial. The defendant's principal trial witness, a family friend, testified that on the day of the shooting she had taken the defendant to register for high school, and at that time the defendant's hair was black. To rebut this defense witness' testimony, the State sought to introduce the defendant's contradictory but previously suppressed statement.
James had been arrested the day after the shooting while sitting under a hair dryer in his mother's beauty shop. While in police custody


he told the officers that on the previous day, the day of the shooting, his hair was long and combed straight and was reddish in color and that on the following day, the day of his arrest, he had gone to his mother's beauty parlor to have his hair dyed and curled to change his appearance. The defendant's statement was suppressed at a pretrial hearing upon the trial court's finding that the officers lacked probable cause to arrest James. After another hearing on the voluntariness of James' statement, the trial court found that James *446 had freely given the previously suppressed statement, and over the defendant's objection, allowed the State to introduce the defendant's statement, to rebut James' defense witness' testimony that James' hair was black on thecontention, a review of the trial chronology is helpful.
The record reveals that the selection of the jury began on April 18, 1983, and proceeded through April 19, 20, 21, 22, and 25 and on April 26, the jury was sworn. The entire period, however, was not devoted exclusively to jury selection, for the trial court performed other judicial business relative to the case during the period. Opening statements to the jury were made by all the parties on April 26. Upon the conclusion of the opening statements, the State called as its first witness Arlander Adamson. Adamson related, as previously pointed, that he witnessed the two defendants on August 2, 1981, about 5 p.m., enter the home at 6856 South Calumet, rob, shoot and kill Terrell Jackson. Adamson


was immediately cross-examined by Coleman's attorney, followed by Barnes' attorney and redirect examination by the prosecutor, and Coleman's attorney finally re-cross-examined Adamson. The next witness called by the State was Gwen Thomas, also an eyewitness to the robbery-murder who identified the defendants as the offenders. Upon conclusion of Thomas' direct and cross-examinations, the trial was postponed to the following day, Wednesday, April 27, 1983. The jury heard five additional, rather brief witnesses presented by and on behalf of the State on April 27 and on the morning of April 28, and at 12:10 p.m., the State rested.
The trial resumed at 1:30 p.m., at which time the defendant Coleman called a witness in his behalf. The defendants thereafter called two Chicago police officers as brief witnesses to finalize impeachmentThe Most Moving Doc of the Summer

Uganda has come under intense international scrutiny for a yet-to-be-passed bill that, at one point in its drafting, would have made homosexuality punishable by death. It remains one of the most antigay countries in the world. Which makes Call Me Kuchu, a documentary by Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall that follows a close-knit community of LGBT Ugandans, so remarkable, engrossing, and important.

The first-time directors, who started shooting in early 2010 in Kampala, were first granted access to the (largely underground) local gay scene through David Kato, a native activist often referred to as Uganda’s first openly gay man. But in 2011, as they were planning a follow-up trip, Kato was brutally murdered in his home. “We had to drop everything and


body region located between the first conductivity type carrier-injected region and the first conductivity type drift region and separating them are provided. In this semiconductor device, the carrier-injected region and the drift region are electrically connected by applying a potential to the trench gate electrode, the potential which inverts a part of the body region to a first conductivity type.LIVERPOOL remain confident of sealing a deal for Daniel Sturridge despite a late hitch leading to the striker's proposed medical today being cancelled.

Sturridge was due on Merseyside to undergo tests and put the finishing touches on a £12m move from Chelsea which would allow him to officially sign when the transfer window reopens on January 1.

However, a late snag thought to be between the player's representatives and Liverpool means the medical has now been called off.

Liverpool have already agreed a fee with Chelsea for the England forward and Sturridge is eager to move to Anfield and kick start his career after finding himself marooned on the periphery at Stamford Bridge.

That will leave manager Brendan Rodgers confident over overcoming the problem, but the present impasse shows Liverpool are willing


SARASOTA, United States (AFP) - A state of emergency has been declared in Florida as the worst red tide in a decade blackens the ocean water, killing dolphins, sea turtles and fish at a relentless pace.

More than 100 tonnes of dead sea creatures have been shovelled up from smelly, deserted beaches in tourist areas along Florida's south-west coast as a result of the harmful algal bloom this month alone.

In just the past week, 12 dolphins washed ashore dead in Sarasota County, typically the toll seen in an entire year.

"It is physically and mentally exhausting," said Ms Gretchen Lovewell, who is in charge of a skeleton crew at Mote Marine Laboratory that collects dead or distressed sea turtles and marine mammals.

She and two colleagues "have been literally working aroundthe clock", she added.

On Sunday, near the fluffy sands of Siesta Key, one of America's top-ranked beaches, Ms Lovewell recovered the remains of a decomposing dolphin. A faint number, 252, was visible, freeze-branded onto its dorsal fin.

It was a 12-year-old male named Speck, who had been spotted more than 300 times by researchers monitoring generations of bottlenose dolphins in the Sarasota Bay.

"It was devastating," said Mr Randall Wells, director of the Chicago Zoological Society's Sarasota Dolphin Research Programme, the world's longest-running study of a wild dolphin population, underway since 1970.

Mr Wells pulled out a map showing where researchers have seen Speck over the years. He often swam in waters right near Mr Wells' own home.

Researchers had also tracked Speck's mother and grandmother before they died from swallowing fishing


gear.

"Speck is somebody we have known from the time he was born," said Mr Wells, who began studying dolphins when he was 16. "He was named after my dad."

HOW RED TIDE KILLS

Red tide is suspected as the cause of Speck's death, but researchers won't know for certain until lab results come back in the next few weeks.

A natural phenomenon, red tide is caused by a microscopic single-celled organism called Karenia brevis, unique to the Gulf of Mexico. It releases a powerful neurotoxin that can become airborne, causing headaches, watery eyes, coughing and asthma attacks in people.

Ecologists say the organism acts like a forest fire, clearing out weeds and allowing the landscape to start anew.

Karenia brevis is found year-round at low levels.

But once it multiplies, sea turtles and manateestrue for red tide, experts say.

BLOW TO TOURISM

The smell of rotting fish has been a gut punch to Florida's economy, sapping millions in revenue from fishing and tourism in the peak season.

"Our life is tourism here in south-west Florida," said Mr Omar Botana, owner of Bay Water boat rentals in Bonita Springs. "It's hurt our business I'd say around 40 per cent."

Residents hope that lawmakers and government officials will take action on restoring water flow southward through the Everglades, building inland reservoirs where pollutants can seep out before reaching the coast, and cutting back on fertilisers.

In the meantime, there is no end in sight to the current red tide outbreak.

Mr Wells recalled that dolphins continued to suffer once the last major outbreak of red tide in 2005-2006 had


2015, the company celebrated 50 successful years of gold production at the site, which was the first in North America to generate more than one million ounces in a single year.

At more than 15,000 feet above sea level in Northern Peru, the Yanacocha project sits atop the Andean continental divide. It’s the largest gold mine in Latin America, covering some 535 square miles. Consisting of five open pit mines, it’s been producing gold since August 1993. Ownership of the mine is split among Newmont; Minas Buenaventura, a Peruvian company; and the International Finance Corporation, controlled by the World Bank.

Mine

Country

Owner

Tonnes Produced

5. Pueblo Viejo

Dominican Republic

Barrick (60%, Goldcorp (40%)

2014

2015

34.5

29.7

A joint venture between Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold producer, and Goldcorp, the Pueblo Viejo mine is situated in the rolling greencompany through 2020. This will help expand its underground mining capacity, allowing it to produce an additional 300,000 ounces per year.

Mine

Country

Owner

Tonnes Produced

3. Goldstrike

United States

Barrick

2014

2015

28.1

32.8

Since 1987, Barrick has operated the Goldstrike mine, also located in north-central Nevada. As the largest gold mine in North America, Goldstrike employs about 1,700 people. Over the last couple of decades, workers have developed a new way to process ore at the site, known as “total carbonaceous matter leach,” which will allow the company to repurpose lower-grade ores. The process is set to move out of its testing phase sometime this year.

Mine

Country

Owner

Tonnes Produced

2. Grasberg

Indonesia

Freeport-McMoRan (90%), Government of Indonesia (9%)

2014

2015

38.8

42.3

High up in the rain-soaked mountains of Papua province, where earthquakes are not uncommon, sits the world’s largest known gold reserve and second largest copper reserve.


Wastebasket Found Starting Point For Fire

East Hartford Fire News

November 29, 1994

A Nov. 5 fire at a high-rise housing complex for the elderly started in a wastepaper basket, a fire official said Monday.

Gerald S. Campbell, deputy fire marshal, said he does not know what caused the fire at 101 Connecticut Blvd., but it was not suspicious. The fire started in the living room of Russell Hagedorn's 10th-floor apartment shortly after 11 p.m.

David Hagedorn, the tenant's son, was the only person home at the time. He was sleeping in a bedroom when the fire started, he told fire officials. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford and released Nov. 7.

There were no other injuries. Twenty apartments were damaged by water during the fire, and 25was tough, the California Tobacco Control Program was pleased to announce the winner of theBest Media Relations Project: UC Quits, Press Release.

The goal was to educate the general public about how the 5 UC medical centers were connecting to the California Smokers’ Helpline through electronic health records system. The press release resulted in approximately 500 online hits per GoogleAlert, and was picked up by several publications including the Sacramento Bee.

The article lists many of the UC Quits health professional champions across UC Davis, UC San Francisco, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, and UC San Diego. This multidisciplinary team reflects inpatient and outpatient physicians, nursing, pharmacy, and health education. Key partners include the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at UC San Francisco and the California Smokers' Helpline at UC San


Diego.

The UCDMC Smoking Cessation Team was selected as a recipient of the 2015 Dean’s Team Award for Inclusion Excellence. Dean Julie Freischlag is on the left. Many thanks to the team members recognized below:

In 2013, Dr. Elisa Tong, an assistant professor at the UC Davis Medical Center, created UC Quits, a program to combat the ongoing battle against tobacco within the UC Health System. What started as a pilot program in 2013 through the UC Davis Medical Center, UC Quits has grown to include five UC medical centers and has reached almost 2,500 patients struggling with tobacco and nicotine addiction.

The UC healthcare system will play a larger role in helping students kick their smoking habits through the new initiative, UC Quits. The program aims to bring care providersinto the smoking-cessation process by creating a shared network between UC healthcare centers and a UCSD-based anti-smoking helpline, according to a Dec. 29 press release.

November 19, 2015, was the 40th Anniversary of the Great American Smokeout. Linda Sarna, interim dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, and Russell Johnson,
curator at the biomedical library, hold an old advertisement showing a nurse
smoking Camels and touting the cigarette's freshness. Sarna donated the ad and
other materials to the library's collection.


Sheffield bomber crash: Fly-past to mark anniversary after campaign Published duration 22 January 2019

image copyright Dan Walker image caption A memorial to the victims of the crash was built in the 1970s

A fly-past to mark the anniversary of a fatal plane crash in a Sheffield park will take place after a campaign led by BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker.

The US bomber - a B-17 Flying Fortress known as Mi Amigo - came down in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, in 1944 killing all 10 airmen on board.

The campaign began after Mr Walker met Tony Foulds, who witnessed the crash and regularly tends to the memorial.

The US Air Force will carry out a fly-past on the anniversary on 22 February.

Crews will set off in an F-15 fighter jet from RAF Lakenheathin Suffolk, home to the largest US Air Force camp in the UK.

US and UK aircraft including Ospreys, Typhoons and a Dakota will also take part.

image caption All 10 airmen who were on board the plane when it crashed in 1944 died

Mr Foulds was playing in Endcliffe Park aged eight when he saw the plane come down.

He said he felt responsible, because the plane was trying to avoid crashing into him.

Referring to his visits to the memorial, he said: "They are my family. I love them to pieces.

"If I go on holiday I always make sure my son goes to visit. I always tell them how I am, what I'm doing, what the weather's like."

image caption Tony Foulds said he thinks of the men who died as his


family

Dan Walker met Mr Foulds when he was walking his dog in the park in Sheffield, and became interested in his story.

He shared Mr Foulds' plight in a tweet which has now been liked more than 27,000 times.

The US ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, said: "It takes amazing people to have an amazing moment.Low-cost cobot resurfaces after two years of development

In 2015, a London-based start-up called Automata announced that it had developed a six-axis collaborative robot called Eva that it was planning to sell for about £3,000 – thus undercutting most of the competition substantially. Then things went quiet.

Now, Automata is back with a new-look version of Eva at a slightly higher price – £4,990 ($6,570) – and a larger payload capacity – 1.25kg, compared to the original 750g. The company – founded by former architects, Mostafa Elsayed and Suryansh Chandra – has spent the past two years refining and enhancing the robot, which has been through more than 18 versions and been subject to rigorous lifetime testing. Even at its new price, the robot arm is claimed to be much


On March 13, members of an F.T. Island gallery via online community portal DC Inside posted a written petition requesting the removal of leader Jonghun from the idol band.

Earlier this week, Jonghun received suspicion as a member of the Kakao Talk group chat room where Jung Joon Young distributed hidden camera footage to his acquaintances. The idol was then accused by news outlet YTN of requesting police insiders to cover his DUI charge.

In the petition, F.T. Island fans stated, "We request the immediate removal of member Choi Jong Hun from the band for his controversies including the solicitation of inside help from the police to cover his DUI, involvement in the aid and distribution of hidden camera footage, etc."

Fans also pointed out, "The label's earlier official statement onlyreport had a big impact because it was the largest to date in scope, encompassing most of the state.

"People saw what happened in these parishes in Pennsylvania and said, 'That happened in my parish too'," said Tim Lennon, national president of the board of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP.

"They could see the immediate connection, and they are demanding the same accounting."

Sorry, this video has expired Pennsylvania victims were silenced by 'weaponisation of faith'

The recently disclosed accusations date back six or seven decades in some cases, with the oldest from the 1910s in Louisiana.

Most of the priests were long ago removed from ministry.

An Associated Press examination found that more than 60 per cent are dead and in most cases, the statute of limitations for


coming to terms that would have to be at a national level."

Pope Francis calls for unity in US church

Cardinal Donald Wuerl (left, with Pope Francis in 2015), was named 200 times in the Pennsylvania grand jury report. ( AP: David Goldman )

In his Christmas address last month, Pope Francis made an unprecedented call for priests who had abused children to turn themselves in and vowed the church would "never again" hide their crimes. The world's bishops will hold a summit at the Vatican next month to forge a comprehensive response to the crisis.

Pope Francis has since called on the US church to show unity as it tries to tackle a sexual abuse crisis, saying internal bickering had to end over the scandal which has decimated the credibility ofthe American Church.

In a long and highly unusual letter sent as US bishops started a week-long retreat to reflect on the spreading crisis, the Pope said the handling of the scandal showed the urgent need for a new approach to management and mindset within the church.

"God's faithful people and the church's mission continue to suffer greatly as a result of abuses of power and conscience and sexual abuse, and the poor way that they were handled," the Pope wrote, adding bishops had "concentrated more on pointing fingers than on seeking paths of reconciliation".

"The church's credibility has been seriously undercut and diminished by these sins and crimes, but even more by the efforts made to deny or conceal them."

Details released vary across dioceses

The biggest list of names has come


from the Jesuits West Province, a religious order that encompasses nine Western states. It identified 111 priests.

The New Orleans archdiocese and the diocese of Syracuse, New York, named 61 and 57 respectively.

The Great Falls-Billings, Montana, diocese disclosed 47 names, including those of a few nuns, while the Los Angeles archdiocese reported more than 50 from the past decade or so.

Some dioceses, like Peoria, Illinois, released only names with no information on the allegations or the church's response.

Others detailed such things as parish assignments, numbers and dates of allegations — including an Omaha priest with 20 to 35 accusations against him — and attempts at treatment, restriction and punishment.

In the 16 years between the Boston scandal and the Pennsylvania investigation, only about 30 dioceses around the country had releasedthe next March 1st after she meets all of the following requirements as of the end of any Plan Year after 1974:

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(1) she has attained age 62;

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(2) she has been credited with at least 10 Years of Vesting Service;

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(3) she has been credited with at least 3 Years of Vesting Service after December 31, 1970;  and

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(4) She is a Participant on or after January 1, 1976 and has not incurred a Break in Service as of January 1, 1976 unless the Break was repaired by a year of Vesting Service after 1975.  For the purposes of this paragraph, the following shall be deemed to be a Participant who has not incurred a Break in Service on or before January 1, 1976:

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(c) a Participant who was credited


with at least 435 hours in Covered Employment in 1974 and at least 435 hours of Covered Employment in 1975.

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Siles contests the validity of section 3.2(4) of the ERISA plan.

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Siles worked continuously in covered employment under the Fund's pension plan from late 1957 until May 1974, when she was laid off.  From 1975 through July 1978, Siles continued to pay union dues and regularly sought job referrals from the Union's hiring hall.  In 1975 she received three job referrals and was hired for one job for which she was credited with 43 hours of covered employment.  In 1976 she obtained one referral from which she obtained a job for which she was credited with 259 hours of covered employment for that year.  She hasnot received any other referrals and has not worked in covered employment since 1976.  To obtain credit for a year of covered employment under the plan, an employee must work 870 hours during the year.

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In July 1978, Siles turned 62 and applied for early retirement under the plan.  In February 1979, her pension application was denied by the Fund.  She appealed to the Fund's appeals committee, which denied her appeal in April 1979.  The committee informed Siles that her application was denied because (1) she did not have the twenty years covered employment necessary to qualify for the twenty-year pension;2 and (2) she had not worked sufficient hours in 1975 or 1976 to qualify for the ERISA plan.  The committee informed Siles that


she needed to work one more year in covered employment to qualify for a pension under the ERISA plan.  Siles claims that this is the first time that she received notice concerning the requirements to qualify for a pension under the ERISA plan.

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A few days after the appeals committee's decision, Siles received a job referral for temporary work in covered employment.  She did not attempt to obtain that job because she was working at a permanant full-time job in a bakery.

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Siles brought suit in the district court against the Fund and two individuals, challenging the validity of the Fund's denial of her application for benefits.  Siles moved the district court to certify a plaintiff class consisting of all beneficiaries of the Fund who had beenThe FBI's newer version had no such problems. The Oakland PD spent ten futile hours searching for Ellis. The FBI located him roughly an hour after deploying its Stingray. It also deployed something else along with it. From the FBI's declaration:

At one point, in an effort to reduce the error radius and increase the accuracy of the location of the cellular telephone, a cell site simulator augmentation device was deployed into the interior of the apartment building. This device is used in conjunction with the cell site simulator and has no data storage capability whatsoever.

Farivar spoke to Daniel Rigmaiden -- the person who first uncovered government use of Stingray devices in criminal investigations (prior to that, it had only been deployed in war zones by the military) while


Conker’s Bad Fur Day, an action-platform video game intended for mature audiences, was developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 console. Its plot follows Conker the Squirrel, an ill-tempered, drunk red squirrel. In assisting Conker in his journey home to his girlfriend, Berri, players face several challenges spread across multiple themed chapters – platforming, puzzle solving, battles, and accumulating objects. It’s known for its dark humor and pop culture references, including film parodies. Primarily a single-player game, Conker’s Bad Fur Day also features a competitive multiplayer mode.By James Sweet | USA

BRICS, an association between Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is considering starting a gold trade between members of the association, which can threaten American dominance in the world economy. If BRICS began an internal gold trade, it is entirely possible, and plausible, that the nations involved with the trade could back their currencies with a gold standard, effectively taking the US Dollar out of dominance. Is this the beginning of the end of American dominance?

Russia and China, arguably the most powerful nations in BRICS, have been importing and producing gold in great amounts. In 2016, China was ranked as the second largest importer of gold, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity. In 2017, China was ranked as the largest producer of


gold, Russia falling closely behind as the third largest producer, according to World Atlas. The United States does not fall within the top five importers of gold and is ranked as the fourth largest producer of gold. Falling behind Russia and China in terms of producing gold as well as falling behind China in terms of importing, it is evident that the United States is heading down a dark, scary road, with only an ineffective flashlight to guide the way.

What is this ineffective flashlight? It is COMEX, the division of the New York Mercantile Exchange that is responsible for trading gold. Claudio Grass, “a Mises Ambassador and an independent precious metals advisor based out of Switzerland” as stated on the Mises Institute’s website, has talked about how COMEXbegin, those in the United States, as well as other western nations with fiat currencies and paper-based gold trades, should prepare for a possible collapse of the western gold trade, as well as fiat currencies. With the large stockpile of gold in BRICS nations, we could see the end of western dominance in the world economy and the rise of the east.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt ended the gold standard in an attempt to pull the United States out of the Great Depression, not knowing he would be setting the nation up for another economic crisis. If the US Dollar does not become backed by a gold standard, the currency will face a real threat of becoming inferior to the currencies of the BRICS nations. The COMEX and London


Equine road user safety: public attitudes, understandings and beliefs from a qualitative study in the United Kingdom.
Horse riders represent a significant group of vulnerable road user and are involved in a number of accidents and near misses on the road. Despite this horse riders have received little attention both in terms of academic research and transport policy. Based on literature on vulnerable road user safety, including attitudes to road user safety and behaviour of drivers and their relationship with cyclists and motorcyclists, this paper examines the attitudes and reported behaviour of drivers and horse riders. A total of 46 participants took part in six focus groups divided into four groups of drivers with little or no horse riding experience and two groups of frequent horse riders. Each groupwithin the track circuit are often an inherent element of the design of the circuit because they provide the current path necessary to discriminate the condition of the track circuit which is the basis of train detection.
A conventional track circuit is often based upon a series battery circuit. A battery, commonly referred to as a track battery, is often connected to one end of the track circuit and a relay, commonly referred to as a track relay, is connected to the other end of the track circuit. Current from the track battery flows through one rail of the track circuit, through the coil of the track relay and back to the track battery through the other rail of the track circuit. As long as all elements of this


system are connected, the track relay will be energized. Typically, an energized track relay corresponds to the unoccupied state of the system in which a train is not present within the track circuit. In the event that a train does occupy the track circuit, the series track battery-track rails-track relay circuit becomes a parallel circuit in which the wheels and axles of the train provide a parallel path for current flow between the two track rails of the circuit. Most current flows in this new circuit path because its resistance is very low compared to the track relay resistance. As a result, the track relay cannot be energized if a train occupies the rails between the track battery and the track relay. A significant advantage of this systemas well as charging over night, the faster the battery will age in relation to the smartphone.

Two key things happen when a battery ages. The first is that its maximum capacity is decreased due to the degradation of certain chemical components inside the cell caused by each charge-discharge cycle. But that oxidation also causes the maximum current the battery can supply to diminish as the battery becomes less efficient.

The first means that you have to charge your phone more, but the second means it may not be able to maintain top performance, as the harder the processor and other components have to work the more current they draw from the battery.

In November, Apple began replacing batteries in some iPhone 6S models due to problems where the phones would


is slow so I should replace its battery’.

About Nelson Régo

Nelson Régo is the owner and founder of the Cool Blind Tech website since November of 2012. Nelson launched the first show on March 14, 2013. He also directs the website as a whole, hiring staff, originating new shows, and approving all content.

In this episode which is unedited coverage from CSUN13. As we were leaving the convention floor, we came across an amazing pen for the blind before it was packed away and returned to Japan.Nippon Telesoft,
makers of the Seika braille displays were showcasing tactile artwork drawn by blind Japanese students, using a pen-shaped device called the Pico which transfers balls of wax into raised lines.While Sony may be treating it like a first party PlayStation 4 exclusive nowadays, it's important to remember that No Man's Sky is coming to PC. There's still a lot to learn about the procedurally generated space exploration adventure, but the two trailers below, taken from the Game Awards and PlayStation Experience events at the weekend, provide a glimpse at two areas in the quintillion-planets-spanning title.

The trailers are fairly similar to what we've seen before, though there are some new dinosaur-like creatures roaming about on a desert-themed planet. Meanwhile, portals allowing the player to warp to other parts of the galaxy are demonstrated. It's gonna be a very large game, and I for one am looking forward to getting lost in it.

Here are some impressions from the E3


The arrival of her daughter brought divorce for netball champion Shumaila Javed.

Highlights Uttar Pradesh's resident Shyumla Javed divorced over phone

Shyumla now wants Chief Minister Adityanath to look into the matter

Mediums used for triple talaq by Muslim men has sparked a debate

Amroha: Shyumla Javed,national netball champion says her husband gave #TripleTalaq after she gave birth to a girl pic.twitter.com/odiIHmZvQs ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 23, 2017

Her husband said the word 'talaq' thrice on phone to divorce national-level netball player Shumaila Javed in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh, reports news agency ANI. Her fault? She gave birth to a girl. Ms Javed from Amroha, about 380 km from Lucknow, is currently staying at her parental home and wants Chief Minister Adityanath to look into the matter. In another case from Agra, awoman was given talaq because she gave birth to twin girls.For 22-year-old Afrin from UP's Shahjahanpur, the news of her marriage fallen apart came in the form of a Facebook post, which was followed by a message on her cellphone. Her husband's way to annul the marriage, which in Islam is a civil contract based on consent, broke her.The mediums used for the termination of marriage by Muslim men sparked a debate on the practice of Triple Talaq. The issue came to the fore in February last year when Shayara Bano from Uttarakhand approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of this exercise and urged for a ban on Triple Talaq, polygamy and nikah halala, a practice under which a divorced Muslim woman has to marry again,


consummate the marriage and then break it if she wants to go back to her first husband.A couple of petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court opposing Triple Talaq after women complained of being divorced on Facebook, WhatsApp, via postcard and more recently through a newspaper advertisement.Among those seeking change in the law is Rizwana, a 33-year-old Railways employee from Delhi. She married an Indian Air Force employee in 2012. But her husband didn't think it was important to inform her about his two previous marriages. When she discovered the truth, she sought a divorce. But her husband held that Islam allowed him to marry without divorcing his wives.Being a government servant helped her to be financially independent, but it took away from her the right toalimony from her estranged husband. "In our country, women with government jobs are not entitled to alimony," she said.The controversy, in many ways, is reminiscent of the Shah Bano case of the 80s, which was a landmark step in Muslim women's fight for social justice and equality. In 1985, the top court had ruled in favour of Ms Bano, who had sought maintenance from her husband who had divorced her. But following a backlash from orthodox Muslim groups, the Rajiv Gandhi government diluted the order through the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, which gave a Muslim woman the right to maintenance only for the period of iddat (about three months) after her divorce. Her relatives or the Waqf Board are to take care of


This was a big
moment in the life of the Milburns - Camp Atterbury's Number 1
Family. Mrs. Frank W. Milburn pins an extra star on the
shoulders of her husband, now Major General Frank Milburn as
their two children, Frank and Betty Jane, admire their father's
new rank.

the Franklin
Evening Star - 09/25/1942
General Milburn Gets Second Star
Two Down, Two To Go For Goal

In the presence of both
general and special staff, Mrs. Milburn pinned another star on
the broad shoulders of her husband in a brief but impressive
ceremony Thursday afternoon and and the commanding general of
the 83rd Infantry Division became a Major General.

Just as proud of the General's
promotion, were his daughter, Betty Jane and his son Frank, who
also attended the ceremony held in their father's modest office
room in the division headquarters building.

The oath was administeredby
the adjutant general of the 83rd division, Col. E. G.
Isaacs. Only other woman present was Mrs. Rinaldo Van
Brunt, whose husband, Col. Van Brunt is chief of staff.

The promotion followed
confirmation by the United States Senate. The general had
been recommended for the higher rank by President Roosevelt.

Gen. Milburn, a native of
Jasper, assumed command of the 83rd Division in August following
the transfer of Maj. Gen. John J. Millikan, first head of the
83rd to Camp Forrest, Tennessee.

These veterans traveled hundreds of miles to share smiles, old war stories and pats on the back at the place that molded them into soldiers to fight a world war.

Members of the 83rd Infantry returned to Camp Atterbury Thursday to tour the grounds and see old friends.
The unit was the first stationed at Camp Atterbury for


World War II, when it was a new training ground for soldiers in the 1940s.
But times have changed since these veterans slept in the barracks more than 50 years ago.
"I don't even know where I am," said John Hudnall, 75, of Shelby County, Ky. "All the buildings are gone."
The camp is also missing a lot of mud. Nick Francullo of Lynn, Mass., said the camp used to be known as Camp Mudbury because when he was there it was just being
sodded. There's also no more potbellied stoves sitting in the hallways.
"Everything is more up to date," Francullo said. "We used to have to start a fire outside, and detail was the coal bin."

While the camp might look different, the veterans were still able to keep their comradeship andtell stories about one another.
R.T. Brooks of Frankfort, Ky., came to the reunion to meet up with Hudnall and Bernard Riddle of Saluda, S.C.
His favorite story is one about after he and Hudnall finished their training and went to Europe.
Hudnall loaded a piano in an Army truck and asked two girls from a nearby church in Wales to sing to the troops.
"He almost got court-martialed," Brooks said with a grin. "But when the commander asked him what he was doing he said, 'I was just providing entertainment to the troops."'
The commander didn't issue the court-martial but sternly warned them to make sure it didn't
happen again.

While most of the time was spent reminiscing about happy times, the veterans also came to share their feelings about a war that left


stories about how they marched across northern Germany in 10 days to how they kept warm during the Battle of the Bulge by heating up their cognac or whiskey for warmth.
The veterans said attendance at the reunions has grown, since most of the vets are retired.
"I'm having a ball," Francullo said. "I always look forward to this."

It's been 51 years since men of the 83rd Division last gathered as a group at Camp Atterbury in 1946...55 years since they first gathered in August 1942.
Many of them will be returning Thursday for a short visit. They, and the former military installation which straddles Bartholomew and Johnson counties have changed in the past
50 something years.

The men of the 83rd who will be meeting in their 51st reunion this week atthe Adams Mark Hotel in Indianapolis are older.
Some were old when the group held its first reunion in 1946 in Indianapolis, aged not by the passage of time but by the war in which they fought and lost so many friends.
And the base where so many of them were introduced to the military has changed.
There is still a military presence, but the wooden barracks in which they slept or stood fire watch were torn down -- the wood sold for scrap.
Much of the base which once bustled with tens of thousands of men in olive drab uniforms has been given over to other uses -- a horse park, a correctional facility, a Job Corps training center and a county park, just to mention a few -- but there


are still things in place to keep alive the past.

Two of them will be on the five buses that will bring the veterans to Camp Atterbury for a daylong visit beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday morning -- Ames and Helen Miller of Columbus.
Ames is very much a part of the history of the 83rd Division and Camp Atterbury. He was among the first to come to the newly opened base in 1942 Its newness contributed to the first nickname
given the installation which only months before had been farmland.
"We called it 'Mudbury' for obvious reasons," the Columbus retiree likes to tell listeners.
When the 83rd arrived, roads were just being installed -and barracks were still being
erected. Ames and Helen are not only part of the 83rd alumni, they are awelcoming committee for the present-day camp and Columbus.
Helen will be along to help point out the changes at the camp -- the memorial park near the military entrance on which are inscribed the insignias of the units which trained here, the restored chapel on the main grounds and the small. Chapel in the Meadows originally built by Italian prisoners of war.

And while she's making her spiel about the camp and its changes, she also will be tapping them to leave something behind, artifacts that were a part of their stay here.
The artifacts are being sought for the museum which is now under construction, a facility which will trace the multifaceted history of the complex.
Betty Randall of Hope also is helping on that search for Atterbury related artifacts.
"We're asking


anyone who might have Atterbury-related pieces set aside in storage to consider giving them to the museum," Betty said.
.We've already collected quite a bit of material, but we're especially
interested in things like original copies of The Crier (the base newspaper) and everyday items like ID
badges. There should be a wealth of material from the men of the 83rd.

It was while the 83rd was in training at the camp that the War Department created one of the more unusual training battalions and put it in the middle of
Indiana. It was carried on the public rosters as the 101 infantry battalion, but it was more accurately referred to as the "Austrian Battalion."
That name was derived from the fact that it initially consisted of Austrians who had escaped the European countryafter the war had been launched, ironically by a fellow Austrian,
Adolph Hitler.
Some members literally had escaped from concentration camps while others were part of the country's nobility.
Three brothers were actually archdukes, but at Camp Atterbury they were buck privates.

Atterbury
Tribute Cites the 83rd

A small white chapel nestled m the confines of Camp Atterbury was the setting Saturday for a
homecoming of World War II infantrymen who met to honor the heroes of their division.
Members of the Kentucky Chapter of the 83rd Infantry Division Association
paid a proud tribute to the 4,000 fellow fighters who lost their lives fighting for freedom.
The division was the first trained at Atterbury, making the chapel a fitting place for a memorial ceremony.

A plaque headed by the word Thunderbolt - a second name adopted by the division


for its characteristic swiftness in battle - and inscribed with a message saluting the "real heroes" of the war was hung at the chapel's entrance.
Over a balcony, members hung a black and gold banner hand quilted by Mary Belle Wright in memory of her husband John, a member of the 83rd Division, who died several years ago.
The banner displays five gold stars, one for each of the five battles fought by the 83rd, and an inverted triangle enclosing interior circles and lines forming the word Ohio.

About 80 percent of the division's first members originated from that state
Columbus resident Ames Miller, chairman of the division association, said the gathering carried special meaning for the group, which meets annually in different U.S. cities.
"We're honoring the people who didn't come home- the real heroes," he said.

Association President Charles Schmidt traced the history of the 83rd Division's wartime maneuvers, mentioning each of battles at Normandy,
Brittany, Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central Europe. The division was the first to join the Russians and finish the war.

"All in all, it's one of the finest
divisions that ever fought on the continent of the United States.
It is one of the most famous divisions ever put in the United States
Army," he said.


on their morning draws.

The Voice of the Customer: The physicians’ expectation was that test results from the morning, be RN reviewed, and charted by 7:00 AM each morning.

The Current Situation: Specimen collection began at around 4:00 AM each morning and ended at ~7:00 AM at which time all the specimens that had been collected were receipt verified and deposited in the specimen processing areas of each lab section for processing and testing.

Kaizen Plan: Since the hospital had limited pneumatic tube capabilities, a milk run was planned to get the specimens to the lab for testing as soon as possible after the patient draw. (Eliminating the transportation, inventory, and overproduction waste the specimens were undergoing.) Staff schedules were changed accordingly and new assignments made to the process.

A centralized specimenCroatian most powerful opposition party, Social Democratic Party (SDP), has a similar approach. Since the left-wing opposition will most probably win the next elections, now it is time to start discussing their program. They do not have much to say about health, same as the party that invited me to become their member: they have a short history (one mandate since 2000), a few sentences form the party's economy program, power-point presentation on the situation in health care ([@R1]), and a ministerial candidate, former assistant minister, Dr Rajko Ostojić.

SDP and its coalition partners in 2000 began making changes in the health care system also on the wings of 'antihebrangism', with the minister Ana Stavljenić Rukavina. Their most important idea was to regulate, even ban, physicians' dual practice in


any serious analysis of this practice nor eventually changed the law -- for a while, physicians were allowed to work in the afternoon only in public hospitals, which made them go to their first massive strike, so everything was back at the beginning. To be more precise -- everyone was allowed to have dual practice, not only university teachers of medicine.

SDP government did make the financial management of the system more transparent, brought out some important issues such as physicians' relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, presented the first relevant results of the hospital management analysis, organized the first work inspections, and even pressed charges against some physicians, but that was all.

In their current programs, health is mentioned only in the scope of economy projects -- economy experts proposedand her self-imposed separation within the family was so total that, a long time later on, each time a Pratt relative contacted her, she replied by threatening suicide if he persisted.[10]

For many of her adult daily life, Anna Edwards experienced no contact with her relatives and took pains to disguise her origins by boasting that she were born Together with the surname "Crawford" in Caernarfon and offering her father's rank as Captain.

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The Dutch system of external quality assessment: description and experiences.
Generally speaking, quality assurance in Dutch higher education consists of four parts: a self-evaluation, written by the faculty, a review committee, consisting of experts, the site visit, and a public report of the assessment outcomes. TASK OF THE REVIEW COMMITTEE: The organization, in which all universities are united, appoints a review committee for each educational program. Most educational programs are taught at different universities. Consequently, the review committee visits several universities. The task of the review committee is: to assess the overall quality of these educational programs in The Netherlands; and to assess the quality of each school separately. The members of the review committee start their activities by formulating the evaluation criteria (standards) for the content of aneducational program and for the educational process. This ends with a paper that will be used as a reference for the assessment. Then the review committee studies the self-evaluation reports. The faculties write these reports along established guidelines. In cases where the self-evaluation is not completely clear, or not sufficient, the committee formulates questions and asks for additional information. Then the committee visits the faculties. These visits take usually two days each. During these visits, the committee gets information from the dean of the faculty, the program committee, teachers, students, and from other employees of the faculty. In addition, the members of the committee inspect the facilities of the faculty, e.g. the library. Directly after the visit, the chair of the committee gives, orally, a first impression of


the findings. After visiting all faculties, the committee starts their deliberations, which result in a report of the assessment of the overall quality of the educational programs. The committee also assesses the quality of each faculty separately, often ending with recommendations. The Dutch system of quality assurance in higher education is much copied by other countries. The essence is the self-evaluation on one hand, and the site visit on the other. Committees try to act as consultants, and not as executioners. Therefore, the way the members of the committee play their role is very important.Gov. Dayton's crucial days may lie just ahead

In the eyes of his political allies and opponents, Gov. Mark Dayton is entering a crucial phase of his term, one that could determine his legacy.

Before him are wrenching decisions on whether to veto legislation that would expand the use of citizen deadly force in Minnesota and to overhaul the state's longstanding system of teacher tenure. Meanwhile, he is facing the arduous task of persuading lawmakers to approve state financing for a new Vikings stadium, and he is fighting for passage of his multi-million-dollar plan for an array of state building projects.

Despite that daunting political landscape, Dayton is already envisioning a second term.

"Caretaking doesn't do it," he said in an interview last week. "You set your sights high, aim for what


he is often unsure what Dayton really wants or how far he is willing to go to strike a deal.

"I wish there were an opportunity to visit even more privately about some of these issues," he said.

Stiffer spine, more confidence

Several DFL legislators and colleagues say the former U.S. senator, who admitted he was not successful during his one term as a senator in Congress, is gaining confidence as the state's chief executive. They say his political spine has stiffened and that he is showing growing acumen for legislative strategy.

"I think he is way better than anyone thought he would be," said Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul. "I hear that everywhere. I think what he is discovering about himself, as we are discovering, is that he is pretty goodat this."

Dayton said last summer's government shutdown taught him that Republicans are not interested in negotiating, even after he approved GOP-led initiatives on education reform and speeded-up business permitting.

This year, when Republicans sent the lawsuit liability measures and the deadly force bill straight to his desk, without engaging his administration first, Dayton said it showed they were more interested in scoring political points than in seeing bills signed.

"It has caused me to be very realistic about what I think is possible to get out of this legislative session," Dayton said.

Colleagues and legislators say Dayton also is realizing that some of his prized initiatives might take longer than he expected.

"When he ran, most people, maybe including him, thought he might be a one-term governor," Hausman said. "I think he's


a stadium," Dayton said.

The stadium remains Dayton's biggest political challenge of the moment, one that will require the kind of bipartisan arm-twisting the Capitol has not seen in years.

eaching out

That means Dayton must cultivate relationships with legislators and, if needed, apply the kind of pressure only a sitting governor can bring.

There are faint signs he is starting to lay that groundwork.

While Dayton always says his office is open to legislators of either party, last week he took the unusual step of meeting with Rep. Tony Cornish in the Vernon Center Republican's tiny office, across the street from the Capitol.

Cornish, a former police chief, is carrying a bill that would allow gun owners to use deadly force wherever they feel threatened -- a potentially dramatic expansion of state law.Foreshore Beach at Port Botany is Sydney's most polluted, according to a report ranking the cleanliness of NSW beaches and swimming sites, but swimming spots around the state are generally becoming cleaner.

The report by the Department of Environment's Beachwatch water quality monitoring service examined 94 of Sydney's beaches and estuarine swimming sites. About 90 per cent were ranked "good" or "very good".

The orange plume that invaded Foreshore Beach at Port Botany in February. Credit:NSW EPA

Eight were found to be "poor". And only Foreshore Beach, which is next to Sydney Airport's third runway, received a "very poor" rating - for the second year running.

Foreshore was closed earlier this year after concerns were raised after the ocean took on a mysterious orange tint.


That's The Way It Is

Norway's love and attachment to the sea and maritime matters are well known. Perhaps unlike any other maritime nation, Norwegian's thrive on working in unison to consistently deliver technical solutions to shipbuilding and ship owning/operating problems. This is the only way to explain how a country of little more than five million inhabitants has become such a driving force in an international maritime market.

Norway boasts the world's third largest merchant fleet and the second largest national flag. Norwegians control 10.5 percent of the world's crude oil tankers, 19.1 percent of the world's gas carriers, and 18.9 percent of the world's chemical tankers.

One-third of the Norway fleet flies a foreign flag, and while the powers in charge would prefer 100 percent Norwegian flag, they realizethat as long as a ship is Norwegian-controlled, it will equate to quality at sea. The Norwegian Shipowners Association motto: "As many as the Norwegian flag as possible, as many as foreign flag as necessary." Norwegian shipowners are widely regarded as owning and operating high-specialization, high-value fleets, and for spotting and filling unique transportation niches. The country has led the way in harsh-environment FPSO design and production, as well as a leader in the design and promotion of unique vessel configurations such as the Pick-Up Cat, and the transport of water via large "bladder" bags. Issues driving the shipping Norwegian market now include a new taxation scheme which was adopted in 1996 to cater to the Norwegian maritime cluster. Specifically, it encouraged Norwegian owners to invest in new


steady at nine percent.

The shipowners are similarly unhappy with the lack of an OECD agreement, reasoning that cheap ships simply throw freight prices further out of whack. They maintain that tonnage could and should be regulated through natural market forces, and that subsidies continue to create an unlevel playing field.

Norway's shipbuilding business has a vested interest in the successful implementation of the OECD agreement, but not in order to compete with the Korea's and Japan's.

Norwegian shipbuilding, which was last active in the building of large tankers in the early to mid-70s, is today defined by a tight group of smaller, lean yards which exist building highly specialized vessels, usually in concert with Norwegian buyers. The oil and gas business has been a particular boom to Norwegian shipyards, andperhaps no other development best embodies Norwegian advanced technology in this area than the successful design, development and use of the Ramform vessel (please see related information, page 80). Designed by naval architect Roar Ramde and built by Langsten Shipyard, the Ramform's hull strikes a unique profile on the waterway, in both looks and performance. It's pointed bow and wide stern create a hull form with is patented around the world, and which PGS holds the rights to for many applications. The vessel, according to PGS Exploration — which has invested heavily in the design — has advanced the job of seismic operations immeasurably in j u s t a few years, by allowing more streamers to be pulled at once, and providing for a faster, bigger and


was doing was illegal."

In a statement, the Paris financial firm said it regrets its misconduct and has "designed new robust compliance and control procedures."

"The failures that have come to light in the course of this investigation run contrary to the principles on which BNP Paribas has always sought to operate," Chief Executive Jean-Laurent Bonnafe said in a statement.

As part of its settlement, the bank was required by New York state banking regulators to clean house of those involved, including Georges Chodron de Courcel, its chief operating officer, who has announced his departure.

What Holder called the bank's "complex and pervasive scheme" involved structuring payments in needlessly complicated ways and concealing the identities of blacklisted individuals and corporations — a "tour de fraud" in the words of Preet Bharara, theU.S. attorney for Manhattan.

Critics said that even with the criminal plea, the government had gone too easy on BNP Paribas.

"Business continues apace and at profit at one of the world's largest banks," said Bartlett Naylor, a financial policy advocate at the consumer group Public Citizen.

Jaret Seiberg, a senior Washington policy analyst for Guggenheim Partners, said he remains worried that a guilty plea might cause severe damage to a large U.S. bank, with clients withdrawing funds and turning elsewhere for services.

Seiberg added that top government officials also harbor such concerns and will be watching carefully to see how the stock market and customers respond to BNP Paribas' guilty plea. A recent guilty plea by Credit Suisse, on charges of helping Americans evade taxes, produced little effect on clients and


Anthony Davis, Kentucky:

Anthony Davis, Kentucky:

Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune

Anthony Davis, Kentucky: Davis not only made the unibrow cool, he helped lead a pack of freshmen to the NCAA tournament championship for the Wildcats. His shot-blocking prowess and ability to run the court made the lanky center the king of the college basketball. Not to mention he is from Chicago.

Anthony Davis, Kentucky: Davis not only made the unibrow cool, he helped lead a pack of freshmen to the NCAA tournament championship for the Wildcats. His shot-blocking prowess and ability to run the court made the lanky center the king of the college basketball. Not to mention he is from Chicago. (Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune)

Anthony Davis, Kentucky: Davis not only made the unibrow cool, he helped lead a pack of freshmenThe White House's announcement came not long after aides said Obama had called Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus "to express his condolences to the families and colleagues of the victims of today’s mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard." Obama "also commended the brave Navy personnel and local law enforcement who worked in concert with federal authorities to respond to this tragedy," the White House said.

He continues to be briefed by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco and Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco.


toward democracy. Such differences, one might argue, are a sad commentary on the softening sinews of our
society.

That said, it is more illuminating and relevant to look at some of the genuine similarities.

First, during the wars in both Vietnam and Iraq, the American people have retained their common sense and
consequent sense of commitment far longer than the elites who claimed to lead or represent them. During Vietnam, the elites,
from the college campuses to the media to the halls of Congress, tired of fighting well before the larger American public
which, even by the early '70s, continued to show significant support for the war effort and rejected the cut-and-run calls
of the McGovernites. But eventually, the persistent pessimism of the elites took its toll on the public.

Today, as antiwar activists wave theirplacards, as media coverage from Iraq focuses almost entirely on the
several American soldiers killed each day, and as politicians begin distancing themselves from a war for which they voted,
there are clear signs of a similar but compressed syndrome.

Second, in the case of Vietnam, the war was lost less on the battlefield than on the home front. North Vietnamese
leaders themselves have frequently credited "the peace movement of the heroic American people" as important to the communist
victory. Few military authorities would any longer dispute that the vaunted Tet Offensive of 1968 was a significant military
defeat for the North Vietnamese, or that well into the early '70s the military balance on the ground had shifted in favor
of the Americans and South Vietnamese.

Covering the Tet Offensive, I, too, was stunned into initially


seeing it as a communist triumph. Traveling
the Vietnamese countryside in the years that followed, I came to see the military progress we were making. But even as the
balance of power on the ground shifted in one direction, the balance of politics at home was shifting in the other.

And so, by the early '70s, with antiwar protests mounting in the streets and antiwar sentiment seething in
Washington, we accelerated our military withdrawals, Congress cut off military aid to a South Vietnamese government we had
committed to support, and the U.S. was left to negotiate a fig-leaf surrender. We then stood by to watch the 1975 collapse
of South Vietnam under a massive North Vietnamese assault. One need not argue that Vietnam was ever a fully winnable war to
suggest that political rather thanwe withdraw is anyone's guess. But that
fate surely will not be the "peace and reconciliation" once promised by the victors in Indochina.

Then, too, there is a larger and
still more controversial set of consequences--and a fourth potential similarity. The war in Vietnam was not simply about Vietnam
but also about the future of Asia, just as the war in Iraq is not simply about that country's future. It is also about the
future of the larger Middle East.

With 30 years of hindsight, it seems unarguable that Asia in the wake of the Vietnam War turned out very well,
above all for Asians, but also for the U.S. The dominos we once worried would collapse not only held, but have since held
out the promise of free people and free markets to the rest


concerned how the State of New Jersey has denied a decorated, combat veteran of the United States, his due
rights as the plaintiff against a corrupt state government lawyer, Robert Correale, his former law
firm, Maynard & Truland and all state government politicians and state officials who have protected them.
We ask that you give John "Jack" Cunningham his Due Process that the State of New Jersey has denied
him for over a decade.

TYRANNY starts when court officials judge the citizens based on the laws,
yet ignore these same laws for themselves and friends.

Here's a great example of
TYRANNY starting in a State's Supreme Court.

Why did the New Jersey Supreme Court
attorney ethics authority insist Supreme Court Ethics Attorney Robert Correale be judged for violations
by the same ethics committee that he was Vice-Chairman of...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it would release the name of an individual sought by people who are suing the government of Saudi Arabia for alleged involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking attacks.

U.S. prosecutors in New York said in a court filing that Attorney General William Barr had decided not to invoke state secrets and will share the person’s name with attorneys involved in the case.

The decision could help victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and their family members, who charge in a long-running lawsuit that the Saudi government supported the hijackers who crashed jet liners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people.

The Saudi government has repeatedly denied involvement in


VDARE — Companies added 160,000 jobs in April, the smallest gain since September. Job creation had already slowed to an average of 200,000 over the last three months, down from a five-year high of 282,000 a month in the fourth quarter.

Household survey employment fell by 316,000 in April – the largest monthly job bleed since a whopping 445,000 loss in June 2011. April was also one of those rare months when immigrants bore the entire brunt of a job decline:Last month, I was reading Nathuram Godse's statement to the court in his defence of murdering Mahatma Gandhi. The statement published in the form of a book titled 'Why I Assassinated Gandhi' had me in a state of shock with Godse's justification of his intolerance. I was convinced that men like him were a minority, that Godse was a lunatic and the thought that killed Gandhi would not be tolerated by a civilized India.In one of the paragraphs, Godse goes on to say, "I firmly believed that the teachings of absolute 'ahimsa' as advocated by Gandhiji would ultimately result in the emasculation of the Hindu community, and thus make the community incapable of resisting the aggression or inroads of other communities, especially the Muslims. To counteract this evil,


I resolved to enter public life and form a group of persons who held similar views". This was the thought that killed Gandhi and deepened the roots of religious polarization and communalism in Indiasix decades ago.On 28th September, the brutal murder of 50-year-old Mohammad Ikhlaq in Dadri, in Greater Noida, by a lynch mob of 200 people on the suspicion that he consumed beef has proved once again that the thought that killed Gandhi is gaining momentum.Ikhlaq, who worked as a carpenter barely 50 kms from Delhi, lived with his ageing mother, wife, younger son and daughter. His elder son, Sartaj, an Indian Air Force personnel is posted in Chennai. The idea of India that Ikhlaq's son Sartaj was trying to protect as an engineer in the AirForce betrayed him and his family earlier this week.By killing his father, and leaving his brother in a critical condition, Sartaj's nationalism was rewarded in the most ghastly, unthinkable manner. The modus operandi used in the murder was no different than those used by radicals in the past. An announcement was made on a loudspeaker that a cow had been slaughtered and its carcass had been found near a transformer. The rumor later spread in the village with WhatsApp and other messaging tools, something that reminds us of the method used by extremists and bigots triggering the Muzaffarnagar riots in 2013. Within minutes of the announcement, the mob had killed Ikhlaque and severely injured his family. As if this act was not savage enough, government officials sent the


the Sangh Parivar), it was shocking that he had no word of condolence for the family of Sartaj, a patriot serving the country. He had no word of condemnation for those savages and murderers who had brought cultural cleansing into action.This incident comes days after revelations that the Sanatan Sanstha, another outfit with members responsible for the murders of rationalists, had intended to kill senior journalist Nikhil Wagle. In the last two years, three rationalists have been killed, the last being less than a month ago.There is something very numbing about this. As I write this, I have messages from my friends who tell me they are feeling helpless, friends who believed that this country is headed towards extreme intolerance and they see no future for liberal, peace-lovingher ex-husband and the distant father of her children), an older man whom she met when he substitute taught at her high school. She hasn’t seen her parents in more than a decade and Becca and Tyler have never met them. But they contacted their daughter and asked to meet the kids. Becca and Tyler urged their mom to let them go in hopes that she (their mom) could have a relaxing vacation with her new boyfriend. Becca, a budding documentarian, decides to film the whole trip and make a movie about her grandparents and her mother. Tyler doesn’t care about documentaries but he does enjoy making up and recording his hilariously middle school-ish freestyle raps, which Becca begrudgingly lets him do in exchange for being in and


Twenty dead in attempted breakout from Brazil prison Published duration 10 April 2018

image copyright AFP image caption The entrance of the Santa Izabel prison complex

A number of inmates at a jail in the northern Brazilian city of Belem have died during an attempted mass breakout.

They were aided by an armed group outside the jail which used explosives against one of the prison walls.

One guard died, as well as 19 prisoners and those helping them from outside.

The fighting at the Santa Izabel Prison Complex outside Para's state capital had been as intense as in warfare, the state security service said in a statement.

Four other guards were injured, including one seriously.

The security service said the prison guards took on attackers from both inside and outside the prison.

The authorities are nowtrying to determine if any of the prisoners managed to escape.

Last year 56 people were killed in an uprising in a prison in the city of Manaus in Brazil's Amazon region.

image copyright EPA image caption Prison guards took on attackers from both inside and outside the prison.


U.S. high school curriculum: three phases of contemporary research and reform.
Valerie Lee and Douglas Ready explore the influences of the high school curriculum on student learning and the equitable distribution of that learning by race and socioeconomic status. They begin by tracing the historical development of the U.S. comprehensive high school and then examine the curricular reforms of the past three decades. During the first half of the twentieth century, the authors say, public high schools typically organized students into rigid curricular "tracks" based largely on students' past academic performance and future occupational and educational plans. During the middle of the century, however, high schools began to provide students with a choice among courses that varied in both content and academic rigor. Although the standards movement of the1980s limited these curricular options somewhat, comprehensive curricula remained, with minority and low-income students less often completing college-prep courses. During the 1990s, say the authors, researchers who examined the associations between course-taking and student learning reported that students completing more advanced coursework learned more, regardless of their social or academic backgrounds. Based largely on this emerging research consensus favoring college-prep curriculum, in 1997 public high schools in Chicago began offering exclusively college-prep courses. To address the needs of the city's many low-performing ninth graders, schools added extra coursework in subjects in which their performance was deficient. A recent study of this reform, however, found that these approaches made little difference in student achievement. Lee and Ready hypothesize that "selection bias" may explain the divergent conclusions reached by the


battles to defend myself from legal attacks by fossil fuel industry front groups, but through their webinars, AGU legal workshops, and greater outreach and communication efforts, they have literally assisted the entire scientific community in its efforts to defend itself from dishonest attacks by vested interests. It is essential that the CSLDF continue to receive the support necessary to continue its work. – Dr. Michael E. Mann, Professor of Meteorology, Director, of Earth System Science Center at The Pennsylvania State University

When I had my emails FOIAed, Scott Mandia was the first person I contacted for advice. Through the CSLDF, he provided advice, support, as well as a network of people to talk to. It would be impossible for me to overstate how grateful I am that Scott andFriday, January 25, 2013

Charles C. Ebbett's iconic picture titled " A Luncheon atop a Skyscraper ( New York construction workers lunching on a crossbeam)" was taken on the 69th floor during construction of the GE Building at the Rockefeller Center in 1932. It has been a source of inspiration for several ad campaigns globally.

The outdoor advertisement of Lego, titled " Builders of Tomorrow" was released in June 2007, by Jung von Matt Advertising Agency. It won Cannes Gold in 2007.

Sony also draws inspiration from Charles C Ebbetts vintage photograph, using the tag line: In photography: Timing is everything. The other ads of Sony camera coming soon on this blog.

With Volkswagen Girder priced so low, the team at DDB Milan has shown that the target audience for the product


transcends all social classes. It entices the blue collar class also to go for Volkswagen Girder. The image of an empty construction bar and a tag line that "unfortunately the word has already spread" speaks for itself..

Friday, September 7, 2007

During my visit to Mall of America (MOA) America's Largest Mall at Minneapolis, I dropped by the Lego Imagination Centre. The Lego constructions were mind blowing. And very similar to the Miniland of Lego.

The picture above is something that I chanced upon while surfing and felt it derserved amention for the effort that has gone into creating the Lego rendition of MC Escher's Relativity Painting.

http://www.legoland.com/ would provide more information on LEGOLAND

Trivia:Courtesy Wikipedia

The word "Lego" comes from Danishleg godt which translates to "play well". The name could also be interpretedhasn't stopped fighting his imprisonment and the seizure and loss of
his equipment, business, and customers' data, even though he's already won far
more than maybe anyone else in his position could have hoped to win in this
age. He easily could have gone back home, moved to another country, and faded
into obscurity; instead, he relaunched the service that got him into so much
trouble in the first place, and has seemingly made it his mission to embarrass
the governments involved as much as possible.

Whether his motives are entirely selfish, for his own aggrandizement -- as I
suspect they probably are -- or more altruistic, I'm still glad he's pouring
so much of his resources into this.

~~~
jacquesm
KDC is a convicted felon in Germany, has 10 or more counts against him and has
had a 2 year


ceased to befuddle me.) I attended Booker’s company shindig at the Irish pub The Globe—where, excuse the immodesty, my son won an award—and was hoarse the next morning after chewing the baseball and political fat with his boss, a rabid Yankees fan, which is usually trouble, but he laid out a velvet opening by admitting the 2018 Red Sox were a marvel. He’ll be attending one of the two nutty Sox/Yanks games in London next June. That long road trip cheeses me off—especially since both contests are counted as Sox home games—but more on baseball, and Boston’s difficult chances to repeat their World Series victory, in a few months.is convenient and easy to use, increases the user's safety, and provides protection to the motorcycle and other items stored in its vicinity. Such a motorcycle dolly allows a user to quickly turn the motorcycle 180° in confined spaces. This in turn saves the time and effort of the motorcycle owner, while also preventing possible muscle strains and fatigue. The ability to lock the wheels of the dolly in place greatly reduces the risk of same toppling over while holding a motorcycle thereon. Such a motorcycle dolly is reliable, easily adaptable to a variety of motorcycles, and attractively styled for appeal to a wide consumer base.


that her partner had "tried to smother or burn her intentionally" or had "threatened her with a gun, knife or other weapon". A woman was considered to have been exposed to moderate physical violence when she reported aggressions such as being punched, hit, kick, dragged, etc. Sexual violence includes aggressions such as the obligation or intent to have sex against her will, the acceptance of sex due to fear, as well as receiving humiliating treatment against her will. Psychological violence includes: psychological control and attitudes related to jealousy, monitoring of women's agendas and activities and the imposition of limitations on who women can relate to among friends and family members. Emotional violence includes attitudes related to humiliation, insult, devaluing, and verbal threats and intimidation, and economic violence refersNews

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