to give an award, each would
have given one differing in extent and character. The consequence of this
was that we had to adjust our different views, and finally draw a line between
what each thought right."

Justice Brewer
also expressed the view that the British arbitrators were profoundly impartial
and that they displayed a strict sense of justice throughout the entire
proceedings of the Tribunal.

Immediately
after the Award was made, both Benjamin Harrison and Severo Mallet-Prevost,
two of the lawyers who represented Venezuela before the Tribunal, were quoted
by the London Times of the 5 October 1899 as declaring that the Award was
"Venezuela's victory". Mallet-Prevost was emphatic about the "victory",
and stated that the Award was of great value to Venezuela since it granted
that country the Orinoco estuary.

The official
Venezuelan comment was that of general satisfaction, even though therewere
some expressions of disappointment with the Award generated by newspapers
in that country. The British press also expressed disappointment over what
it termed as Britain's "losses".

In a comment
on the 7 October 1899, Venezuela's Ambassador to Great Britain, Jose Andrade
who was also the brother of the then Venezuelan President declared: "...We
were given the exclusive dominion over the Orinoco, which was the principal
aim we sought to achieve through arbitration..."

The United
States of America was also satisfied. Just two months after the Award, President
Mc Kinley, addressing the United States Congress on the 5 December 1899,
expressed the view that "the decision appears to be equally satisfactory
on both sides".

In keeping
with the decision of the Arbitration Tribunal, a Mixed Boundary Commission
appointed jointly by Venezuela and Great Britain, carried out a survey and
demarcation, between 1901 and 1905, of


the boundary as stipulated by the
Award. The British Commissioners were Harry Innes Perkins and Charles Wilgress
Anderson while those of Venezuela were Dr. Abraham Tirado and Dr. Elias
Toro. The resulting boundary line was set out on a map signed by the Boundary
Commissioners in Georgetown, British Guiana, on the 7 January 1905. Three
days later, the following Agreement was published as a Sessional Paper of
the Combined Court of Policy of the Colony of British Guiana:

A concrete
and positive acceptance of the boundary line was shown by the Venezuelan
Government when in 1911 it published a map signed by F. Aliantaro, the Minister
of Internal Relations. This map, published to commemorate the centenary
of Venezuelan independence, showed the boundary line as demarcated by the
Mixed Boundary Commissioners six years previously. A similar map was published
in 1917 bythe Venezuelan Government.

In 1931 a boundary
commission made up of representatives from Great Britain, Venezuela and
Brazil made special astronomical, geodesical and topographical observations
on Mount Roraima so as to fix the specific point where the boundaries of
Brazil, Venezuela and British Guiana should meet. After diplomatic notes
were exchanged among the three nations represented on the commission on
the 7 October and 3 November 1932, an agreement was finally reached on the
specific location of the meeting point of the boundaries. The matter of
the border was then considered permanently settled.


most people remember her better as the page in the House of Commons who caused a commotion when she suddenly hoisted a sign reading: “Stop Harper.”

The youngest of the progressives is Brigette DePape. The National Observer reached DePape on the phone in Vancouver as she was on her way to collect vote pledges from area youth.

Meet some of the leading progressives who are determined to unseat the prime minister.

The National Observer spoke to a number of the leaders in the current progressive movement. All expressed dismay over a government that has consistently imposed its political will and vision on to Canadian citizens without any regard to the citizenry itself. Everyone is fed up.

DePape isn’t the only person who views young people as disenfranchised. Paul Kershaw, is an associateStory highlights "The problem still is there. The problem is in Washington, D.C.," says Murrieta mayor

Immigrant rights advocate denounces "anti-immigrant hate language"

140 undocumented Central American immigrants arrive in California from Texas

Protesters block them from being processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol station

The national controversy over a surge of Central American immigrants illegally crossing the U.S. border established a new battleground this week in a small Southern California town, where angry crowds stopped detained migrants from entering their community

The sentiment carried over to a raucous Wednesday night meeting at a Murrieta high school auditorium. Border Patrol and immigration officials got an earful.

"This is an invasion," attendee Heidi Klute said before a full house. "Why isn't the National Guard stopping them from coming in?"

The overflow crowd of hundreds spilled out


into the school's parking lot.

In a faceoff Tuesday with three buses carrying the migrants behind screened-off windows, demonstrators chanted "Go back home!" and "USA," and successfully forced the coaches to leave Murrieta.

The buses instead took the 140 or so undocumented immigrants to U.S. processing centers at least 80 miles away, in the San Diego and El Centro areas, federal officials say.

Counterprotesters squared off with the demonstrators, and a shouting match erupted over the nation's immigration system, which recently has been overwhelmed with a tide of Central American minors illegally entering the United States alone or with other children.

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JUST WATCHED Protesters block undocumented immigrants Replay More Videos ... MUSTshow up and join the nation's 11 million undocumented residents, says the National Border Patrol Council , the union representing Border Patrol agents.

The Latin American immigrants rejected by Murrieta protesters were initially held in Texas, where U.S. facilities are so overflowing that detainees are sent to other states for processing.

The government doesn't have the room to shelter the children with adults: There's only one family immigration detention center, in Pennsylvania. To assist the unaccompanied children, President Barack Obama's administration opened shelters last month on three military bases, because federal facilities more designed for adults were overrun with minors.

Tuesday's busloads of detained Central American immigrants didn't include any unaccompanied minors, said Murrieta Police Chief Sean Hadden, who put the number of protesters at 125. The children on the buses


in Washington, D.C."

The U.S. government is scheduled to send another group of undocumented immigrants to Murrieta for processing on Friday, a union official for Border Patrol agents said. Hadden also said he was told to expect 140 immigrants every 72 hours, with the next group scheduled to arrive on Friday, the Fourth of July.

Earlier Wednesday, immigration rights advocates denounced the protesters.

"It is deplorable that people espousing anti-immigrant hate language created unnecessary tension and fear for immigrant mothers and their children," Pedro Rios, a community representative of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium , said in a statement. "Even more concerning is that elected officials in the City of Murrieta instigated this tension. Mothers and their children on these buses have suffered through enough trauma."

Intense debate

The furor in Murrieta$100 million in aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to help reintegrate the undocumented migrants whom the United States will deport, and to help keep them in their home countries.

The administration also will set aside $161.5 million this year for the Central American Regional Security Initiative programs in an effort to "help stem migration flows as well as address the root cause of the migration," the White House said.

The Obama administration has accused syndicates in Latin America of waging a deliberate campaign of misinformation about relocating to the United States that has caused people in poor Central American countries and Mexico to risk their lives to cross the U.S. border illegally.


make an announcement early in the first quarter of next year. I think the city and the community will be very excited when we make the announcement of who we selected,” said Wein.

Photo by Leah Hennel / Calgary Herald

In April, Great Gulf announced it was making its first foray into the Calgary residential real estate market with a proposed development in East Village, east of the federal Harry Hays building and across the street from the YWCA. The project, at 304 Macleod Trail S.E., would include 443 units in two towers.

The amount of the YWCA deal was not disclosed.

“The sale of this property is a significant milestone as we work toward ensuring the YWCA remains vibrant and ready to adapt to the needs of women in our community,Laurent Koscielny says he has been “very impressed” by Mohamed Elneny’s adaption to Premier League football.

The Egypt international has had a positive impact since signing from Basel in January, and was voted the Vitality Player of the Month for March.

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“When he signed I could see he was a good player with the ball and how he could make good passes,” the centre back said.

“He is not a player who takes the ball and goes from box to box with it, but he can help the team go higher up the pitch and keep the


FEMA contractor says she is a "scapegoat" in controversy over canceled contract

danielfela/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The woman at the heart of a controversy surrounding a cancelled $156 million contract to provide 30 million meals for victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico says she is being turned into a scapegoat for problems with how FEMA handles contracts with small businesses.

House Democrats have asked for the Oversight Committee to subpoena FEMA officials to explain why the contract was issued to a small company called Tribute Contracting, LLC run by Atlanta-based business owner Tiffany Brown — the sole employee listed for that business.

Brown and FEMA disagree on why the contract was canceled—the agency says the deliveries were late, she says there were logistical breakdown that caused delays and communication issues with theexchange on Oct. 19 that, because of issues with suppliers, all 30 million meals would instead be delivered by November 7 – two weeks after the deadline.

She told ABC News on Friday that the original schedule in the contract was flexible and that she had been communicating with FEMA officials about the changes.

After Brown notified FEMA in the Oct. 19 email that 36,000 meals were en route – with the meals packaged separately from the heating component – a FEMA official told her that was not acceptable and told her not to deliver the meals.

“This is a logistical nightmare,” the official wrote in an email to Brown informing her the contract would be terminated. Brown said Friday that FEMA knew she never intended to package the meals and


431 F.2d 548
The UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Terrence STONE, Appellant,v.William B. ROBINSON, Warden of the Allegheny County Jail,Charles S. Greenhill, Sergeant in Charge of the PittsburghOffice of the United States Air Force Military Police,Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force of theUnited States, and Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense of theUnited States.
No. 18489.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Argued March 20, 1970.Decided May 26, 1970, Rehearing Denied June 16, 1970.

H. David Rothman, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.
Blair A. Griffith, Asst. U.S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellees.
Before McLAUGHLIN, FREEDMAN and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.
OPINION OF THE COURT
GERALD McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

1
Appellant, an alleged deserter from the United States Air Force, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania denying hispetition for a writ of habeas corpus.

2
Terrence Stone was arrested on September 27, 1969, on desertion charges and was incarcerated.  On appeal he attacks the legality of his detention by Air Force authorities basically on the ground that his original four-year term of enlistment has long expired, and that the purported extensions of his enlistment were invalid.  Appellant claims that if this writ does not issue to secure his release from military custody, the Air Force authorities will transport him to Japan, and turn him over to civilian Japanese authorities to serve a six-year sentence imposed by the Japanese judicial system.

3
It is undisputed that appellant enlisted in the United States Air Force on September 17, 1964, and that under ordinary circumstances, this term of enlistment would


have expired on September 17, 1968.  After certain assignments in the United States following his enlistment, on July 5, 1967 appellant was assigned to duty in Vietnam.  After serving there approximately nine months, he was allowed a six day Rest and Recouperation Leave (R & R), commencing on March, 5, 1968.  Stone, voluntarily, used his R & R in Japan, and was scheduled to report back to the military upon the completion of his leave at 2400 hours, March 11, 1968.  He was to board a flight departing from Japan at 0200 hours, March 12, 1968.  Stone failed to report back, and his duty status then changed to Absent Without Leave (AWOL) for 19 days until March 29, 1968, when he was returnedto military control at Tachikawa Air Force Base, Japan.  He was charged with various offenses related to his AWOL time, and was convicted by a General Court-Martial and sentenced to confinement at hard labor for 60 days.  He was actually confined for a period of 50 days from October 19, 1968 to December 7, 1968.

4
On March 30, 1968, the Government of Japan notified the United States Air Force that Stone was alleged to have robbed and attempted to rape a Japanese woman on March 27, 1968 in Tokyo; this was during the time period when appellant was AWOL.  On April 26, 1968, the Japanese Ministry of Justice notified the Government of the United States that Japan would exercise its criminal jurisdiction over Stone's case.1


Airman Stone, though remaining in military control, was made available to the Japanese Government pursuant to Article XVII 5(c) and the Agreed Minute thereto of the Status of Forces Agreement between the United States and the Government of Japan.2

5
Appellant was subsequently tried on a robbery-attempted rape indictment in accordance with Japanese procedure by a three-judge judicial panel at seven sessions of the Tokyo District Court on June 26, July 10, July 12, July 17, July 23, September 11 and September 18, 1968.3  At that trial, petitioner was represented by counsel, members of the Tokyo Bar, paid by the United States Government.  Interpreters also were present.

6
Appellant Stone was advised of his right to remain silent as to the charges against him, but waived this right and testifiedin his own behalf.  Stone admitted the robbery, but denied the attempted rape charge.  The victim testified in detail about the incidents of the charges against Stone.  Another Airman, Stone's companion on the day of the offense, who was likewise AWOL, also testified.  On September 18, 1968 the Court found Stone guilty of both robbery and attempted rape.  Stone was sentenced to six years imprisonment, and forfeiture of the knife which Stone had used to intimidate the victim.4  Although there is no verbatim transcript of the trial, the United States Ambassador had trial observers present, and their report is part of this record.

7
On April 14, 1969, the Tokyo High Court affirmed the conviction and sentence, and on August 29, 1969 the Supreme


Court of Japan, that nation's highest and final judicial tribunal, also affirmed.  Throughout that period appellant remained in military control, though his only confinement was for 50 days on the AWOL charge.  On September 12, 1969, subsequent to the Supreme Court of Japan's affirmance of his conviction, Stone again went AWOL, and via commercial airline transportation left Japan and went to his home in Pennsylvania at his own expense.  On September 19, 1969, desertion charges-- on which his last arrest and present confinement is based-- were brought against him pursuant to Article 85, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C.A. 802 and 885.

8
The sole question for decision is whether or not appellant's enlistment extensions were valid.  If they were not, Stone was not amember of the Armed Forces when he left Japan, the desertion charges against him must fall, his detention is illegal and the writ of habeas corpus should have been issued.  Appellant's attack upon his enlistment extensions in this Court is two-pronged.  First, he alleges that he was coerced into extending his enlistment.  Second, he asserts that his enlistment extension papers were not properly verified.

9
His contention that he was coerced into extending his enlistment is a factual problem, involving credibility, and was examined by the district court.  The court below heard appellant's testimony on October 3, 1969, and on October 29, 1969.  Stone testified, in effect, that he was forced to sign the enlistment extension papers by threats that if he did not, he


extend his enlistment so that he could reap the advantages whichpursuant to agreement with our Government and the Government of Japan-- a member of the United States Armed Forces charged with crime in the Japanese civilian courts has over an ordianry foreigner charged with crime in Japan.

13
On August 27, 1968, appellant executed his first application to extend his four-year enlistment (which the court below held would have otherwise expired on September 17, 1968) for a period of two months.  The reason given on the standard form, signed by Stone in two places, for that requested extension was for the purpose of 'obtaining retainability for completion of trial by civil authorities.'  On November 7, 1968, May 16, 1969, and September 9, 1969, re-extensions totalling an additional 12to say the least, frivolous.7

25
The petition for rehearing is denied.

1
 The crime of attempted rape is deemed most serious in the Asian Japanese culture.  See, Ward, 'Criminal Law and Jurisdiction over American Servicemen in Japan', 52 A.B.A.J. 61, 63 (1966)

2
 Following World War II, the United States found itself in the position where for substantial periods its peacetime armies were to be stationed on foreign lands.  Difficult and on occasion delicate problems flowed from the presence of so many Americans abroad, some of whom committed crimes.  The Status of Forces Agreement approach was a unique solution to those situations and a 'novel legal experiment'.  See, Snee and Pye, Status of Forces Agreements and Criminal Jurisdiction 10 (1957)
The present Status of Forces Agreement with Japan,


is one of the common law institutions not now utilized in Japan.  Abe, 'Criminal Justice in Japan', 47 A.B.A.J. 555 (1961)

4
 One commentator has made the following pertinent remarks (describing another serviceman's attempt rape case) on the nature of the Japanese judicial system
'The American serviceman who faces Japanese justice need have no qualms about the procedure.  The safeguards are present and the people who handle the system are well-trained.  In fact, the American accused often receives greater understanding and leniency from the experienced Japanese judge than he would from a court martial conducted by his fellow countrymen.'  Ward, supra, 63.
'The two judge advocates who were appointed by the American Ambassador to observe the trial read extensively in preparation.  They learned that the necessaryChristopher Dring Head of Games B2B Thursday 23rd March 2017 Share this article Share

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UK developer Playtonic has removed the controversial YouTuber JonTron from its upcoming title Yooka-Laylee.

JonTron - real name Jon Jafari - has found himself in the news in recent weeks following a series of far-right views about immigration, ethnicity and nationalism.

Jafari is the founder of channel network Normal Boots, plus the host of a series of other YouTube shows. He personally has over 3m subscribers to his channel. His views were made apparent on Twitter and spilled over onto a video stream, and included the idea that Mexican immigrants are attempting to claim parts of America.

He reportedly lost a number of subscribers on the back of the controversy, although he has


since attempted to clarify and downplay some of those views.

In February 2015, when it became apparent that Jafari was a big fan of Banjo-Kazooie, Playtonic invited the YouTuber to voice a minor character in Yooka-Laylee - the spiritual successor that generated over £2m via Kickstarter. An offer that was accepted.

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Kelly Marie Tran, who plays Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has deleted all of the images from her Instagram account. This presumably came after an extended period of harassment and abuse the actress received from so-called Star Wars fans, particularly those who hated The Last Jedi and her character. Two years prior, Daisy Ridley also deleted her Instagram page following harassment she received after expressing sentiments in favor of gun control. One angry commenter replied with“Just shut up, Ridley, and make another Star Wars movie.” For the past six months or so, the director of The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson, has faced near endless abuse on Twitter by those who can’t get over their dislike ofthe film. Even the most benign tweet from the intensely patient and graceful Johnson will result in mentions full of harassment and abuse. As of the writing of this post, author Chuck Wendig, who has written several Star Wars novels, is facing a barrage of hate from supposed fans who claim he is part of the "ruining" of the franchise. A "satirical" fan, @FakingStarWars, went so far as to make a T-shirt with the slogan "Blocked by Chuck Wendig," which uses his likeness. Wendig has said he will "lawyer up."

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and has devloped to be today the right hand man of Michil Costa. He is our marketing man and the strategist for the product we call ‘La Perla’. Strong in analysing data he also is, strange though it might seem, full of creativity and winning ideas!

1998 was the year when Marco Pellegrini first set foot here! He left in 2015. Promoted to Head of Bar in 2009 he was really on top of his job and his cocktails are to die for. Recently married to Francesca, they live in Caorle. Very efficient in leading and guiding his team, Marco is good at organising and when discussiong one thing or the other he always likes to come out on top!

Thomas Hanifle studied communication science in Vienna. Since 2005, hehas been active in journalism as a freelancer, researcher at the Documentation Centre for South Tyrolean School History, author of several books and employee at Raetia publishing house. He is a founding member of the Ex Libris Cooperative.

Ulrich Wallnöfer is co-founder and initiator of Pur Südtirol, a platform for the commercialization and development of regional, sustainable food and products. Furthermore, he is an associate and manager of Meraner Weinhaus GmbH, a company that is specialized in the sale of wine.

Nicola Dal Falco, writer and poet from Rome, with Ulrike Kindl, Germanist from the Ca’Foscari University in Venice, is re-reading and re-writing the Ladin myths of the Dolomites. His broadsheets and other art publications can be found in the British Library in London, the Ragghianti Foundation in Lucca, as


well as the libraries at the Mart in Rovereto, Palazzo Sormani in Milan and the Panizzi in Reggio Emilia.

Riccardo Bertoncelli, writer and outstanding music critic. Born in Novara in 1952. A fan of rock from the age of 15. In 1969 he produced the cyclostyled fanzine Freak, dedicated to underground music. In 1973 he published Pop Story, the first in Italy of its type and today a cult book. It communicated to Italian youth the historical and cultural horizions of pop and rock.

Marco Sacchelli has been with us since 2005. Together with his wife Linda he accompanies guests on summer excursions. Marco spends his time between Corvara and Tenerife, the birthplace of Linda. His knowledge and insight into our Ladin valley is impressive and he is always readyPippo, the mountain guide of hotel La Perla, in our house since winter 2016.

Franco D'Orio is from Ischia – you remember, that is that region where they sing and whistle? Franco has been part of La Perla family from 1990 to 2015 and was the principal waiter for guests. Over the years he has never learned a word of German or English but all guests knew and loved him and sought him out. He loves to joke and is a big soccer fan, Napoli being his team.

Daniel Verdorfer, cellarmaster extraordinaire at Hotel La Perla between 2012 and 2014. He was in charge of wine, the Mahatma Wine Cellar. He is from Tramin an der Weinstrasse in the South Tyrolean lowlands. He is into live concerts, exotic travel, good


food and of course all types of wine.

Manuel Dellago comes from Val Gardena: - we forgive every man his sins!! He is the food&beverage of the hotel. He is a real jester and almost always in a good mood. A fan of magic tricks he likes the chance to practise one or two! He is also head of the project of the Economy of the Common Good.

Technology, London, web, San Cassiano, children, music listened to and played, degree in industrial design, basketball as a boy, skiing and walking when possible: Axl is a mix of all these qualities which are ideal for anyone whose job is to look after Casa’s web marketing-oriented communication, something he has been doing since September 2015
Without neglecting one important fact: he is alsothe husband of Elide!

Francesco Ricci, born in the Modena region, has for many years been involved in company and social communication work. In 2008 his fictitious diary entitled 'Il 68 a pedali' telling of a cyclist taking part in the Giro d’Italia bike race alongside Eddy Merckx was published. In 2012 it was the turn of ‘Bella Ciao’, a fiction of a brief and tragic love in the summer of 1944, and most recently in 2013 ‘Velopensieri’, wide-ranging reflections on the meaning of life.

Anni Costa is the Matriarch of the great Costa family. She comes from Vilpiano and together with Ernesto Costa gave birth to the fantastic La Perla story. Time and time again she says to have handed over the reins to her sons but she still


manager and his greeting rings pure, cordial and sincere.

Elide Pizzinini has been with us since 2006 and is the daughter of Ladin artists, grand-daughter of a famous couple and niece of very inspirational aunties and uncles! She lives together with husband Axl and her young sons Ezra and Edward in S. Cassiano - they both love plumcake! Friends and colleauges call her “ciüf” - a very special flower! Elide has a wonderful voice and when she tells a tale it seems that she is singing. As well as being Michil's P.A. she also deals with administrative and other aspects of the Costa Family Foundation.

Diego Delmonego works in the social housing construction sector, reguarly photographs Alpine landscape, and for many years has monitored the territorial development in Trentino AltoAdige. In his conferences he emphasises the use of the environment by man. The prevalent themes are: urban dispersion; the trends in 'concreting' of the earth's surface; 'green roof' developments; environmental light pollution and solutions; 'plurigenerational' construction. He has cooperated on the drawing up of criteria for the reduction of light pollution in the province of Bolzano.

Paolo is responsible for the gourmet restaurant "La Stüa de Michil". His mission is to close the circle, meaning to integrate the chef's dishes with the right liquid emotions. Paolo is a sommelier, and wine is his world. For him, recommending a wine is like a sartorial act: there is no meal that cannot be basted together with an apt choice, to be uncorked and poured with joy. He prefers small producers,


appreciates those who show respect for the land they work and loves to discover the new without forgetting the old. He silently studies the diner's psychology, trying to interpret the dreams of those at the table. Because in the end, the important thing is drinking well.

Egle is more than just a beautician, she's an aesthete, she understands beauty and art. She loves silence and everything that within the silence. It must be down to her Provençal temperament, much like ours. She loves meditating as she walks along the paths and travelling to discover new worlds. She's worked in Capri, Montecarlo, Paris, Saint Moritz, Alta Badia. She's actively participated in the transformation of the spa of our Hotel, in surroundings which are ethereal, soft, graceful and tranquil. Ah, andshe always greets you with a smile.

Born in Asolo, Treviso, Irene now lives in Milan. She has a degree in Public Relations and Advertising, and she also attended for a year an Urban-wear (fashion design) course at the IED in Milan. Then she studied at the Goethe Institute in Berlin. Since the age of 4 she has written in a compulsive manner. "I love walking, looking around with music in my ears. I like big cities and small places. To me big cities are required to find inspiration and calm, and small places help me to re-elaborate material well."

1994 was the year when Arturo Spicocchi first came. He remained until 2014. Since 2002 he was the chef of ‘Stüa de Michil’. He just loved to prepare those wonderful


olives Ascoli style and is so passionate about food that at times it was difficult to get him out of the kitchen! Michil had to force him out at times and is now so happy that Arturo has recently discovered the joy of cycling!

Nicolò has an eclectic spirit. Chef, host, manager: he can do it all and more. Like many a good Piemontese, he left for France as a young man, he worked in three star restaurants and was part of the Nadia Santini team. Then he discovered Alta Badia and he has recently come into the orbit of La Perla. Now he is gently guiding the Ladinia. Maybe not so as to make the floorboards creak, or maybe because his soul is still as light as afeather. The only thing he really cares about is that his guests fully embrace the spirit of this house, something of an inn, something of a refuge, always and however a welcoming, cosy, and tranquil place.

Franco Brevini (born in Milan on 10 July 1951) is an Italian literary historian, literary critic, author and journalist.
He is associate professor for modern and contemporary Italian literature and has been working for “Corriere della Sera” for more than twenty years.

Alexandra is from Ortisei, in Val Gardena. Her imagination has wings and her humour alights the souls. Once grown up, she wants to be an educator. When she is not studying for university exams, she follows her nephew Ezra with heart and soul. Ezra adores her. She was with us in 2013 as


Michil’s assistant.

Stefan’s arrival dates back to 1988 and he knows la Perla inside out! He is involved in a multitude of things for the good of the hotel, but his real strength is in table decoration and flower arrangement. His are the guiding hands for the presentation of our hotel home! He is like an adopted son to the Costa family and is always plotting and doing with signora Costa.

Mathias Costa is the second born of the family. He is never without a smile and we can really say that he is never ever in anything but a good mood. He manages the Murin tavern and his great passions are skiing and cycling. He is married to Petra, she from Vilpiano, and they have two beautiful little girls,Anna e Lena.

Valentina Motta has worked here from 2005 to 2012. From Vigevano, she is married to Marco, ‘first course’ chef at La Perla restaurant for many years. Guests loved her and from the first ‘bun dé’ greeting in the morning when she accompanied guests to the breakfast table her day was full of joy!

Luca Monica is Italy’s most famous food hunter and associate of “Peck”, the famous brand that has always been a synonym for gastronomic quality and reliability for the Milanese and gourmets. Luca has been a friend of the Ladins for a long time because he loves Alta Badia as much as he loves rare and precious food.

A lover of all things good in South Tyrol. He claims to be the British person to have


skied the most in the Dolomites - first downhill in 1982 and still going strong. Travels extensively as international marketing director of Brain international but feels most at home at La Perla!

Lisa Campagnolo has been with us since 2009, in charge of the hotel reception. Now she's responsible for the sales department. Originally from Bassano del Grappa she is a great lover of Latin-american music. We are in good hands with Lisa for she really is ‘top of the class’!

Maria Canins was born in Badia on the 4th June (the actual year is top secret!). She started her sporting career in athletics and in mountin running, then she moved on to cross-country skiing, cycling, and mountain biking. A world time title, two Tour de France and a Girod'Italia are to her name and in cross-country she won the Marcialonga ten times and was also victorious once in the Vasaloppet. Her record speaks for itself and she is a sports heroine whose fame extends far betond national borders.

Concetta is Ladin and was born in Brunico on 26 February 1978 under the sign of Pisces. She can be proud of two well-deserved university degrees: foreign philology (specialization branch: history and culture) and law (specialization branch: criminal law). She is jurist and journalist. Humor, creativity and curiosity are characteristic for her style. Her great dream: publishing a novel.

Alexander Egger has been part of the team from 1994 to 2013 and since 2002 he has been the chef of restaurant “La Perla”. Originally from Tesido in Val Pusteria he


spent out of season times in Sardegna where his partner and little girl Eleonora live. A person to be catched in a quiet moment; he is a man full of wisdom and sense!

Michil is the first born of the Costa family. A great lover of music he had always wanted to become a musician but has had to settle for selling steaks - or, better said, to being a hotelier. Michl is a bit the rebel in the family, has a great environmental commitment, and just loves Nature. He is the exponent of La Perla's philosophy.

She’s from Padua, so she loves rugby. She’s a marathon runner and a cellist: energy and delicacy. The same qualities that can be found in the Spa at the Hotel La Perla ina natural way that will admit no artificial wellbeing. The passion she puts into everything is as vigorous as the mountain stream and as solid as a Dolomite stone.

Sonia Sbolzani - an economist from the Bocconi University, a corporate communication strategy expert. From Casalmaggiore she has organised many cultural events ; also, the city features prominently in her history and art research. Key person in a prestigious jewellery institution and works with fashion and tourism companies. A friend of the Dolomites and, more specifically, of the Ladin valleys.

Born in Milan in 1975, Claudia’s life is concentrated on writing. After a university degree in philosophy and two master degrees – one in writing techniques for fiction and one in enogastronomic communication studies – she has turned her passion into


a profession. She also works for Identità Golose by organizing events and writing menu cards and articles. Aspirations? Simply creating.

Ernesto Costa is the boss. He now prefers to pass his time flying in his plane, polishing up his motorbikes, or tampering with antique cuckoo clocks from his collection. Always be quick to take his advice though for his insight into things is remarkable and he has an uncanny way of seeing things in their entirety.the issue of whether Walkup had the requisite state of mind  deliberation  which is an element of the offense of first degree murder. This "diminished capacity" evidence is not subject to the same procedural requirements as is evidence of mental disease or defect excluding responsibility. There was no discovery violation.
The exclusion of the testimony was reversible error.
Facts and Procedural History
Summarized and viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the state's evidence was that, on the evening of January 21, 2003, Walkup killed his girlfriend, Deborah, by stabbing and strangling her. Walkup then wrecked Deborah's car when he ran off of the highway. Walkup admitted to several persons that he had killed Deborah. Two knives with Deborah's blood on them were found on the property


calling Dr. Sisk to testify outside the jury's presence. Dr. Sisk interviewed and tested Walkup, interviewed Walkup's family and ex-wife, and reviewed Walkup's records. Dr. Sisk testified that Walkup had been consistently diagnosed with and treated for bipolar disorder since he was a teenager. Walkup had been hospitalized for problems related to bipolar disorder and had been treated with medication several times. Dr. Sisk concurred in the prior diagnoses and opined that Walkup suffered from "mixed type" bipolar disorder, which is characterized by a combination of the symptoms of bipolar manic and bipolar depressed. Symptoms of bipolar manic include increased energy and excessive involvement in activities such as substance abuse. Symptoms of bipolar depressed include feelings of sadness and worthlessness and suicidal thoughts. People suffering from mixed typeto conduct its own examination, based on its assertion that the defense was having Walkup evaluated.[5]
The purpose of the criminal discovery rules, including Rule 25.05, is to eliminate surprise by "allow[ing] both sides to know the witnesses and evidence to be introduced at trial." State v. Whitfield, 837 S.W.2d 503, 508 (Mo. banc 1992). That purpose was satisfied here by defense counsel's oral conversations with the state and by its disclosure of Dr. Sisk's report and his endorsement as a witness prior to trial. The defense also met its requirements under the continuing disclosure obligations of Rule 25.08 by providing Dr. Sisk's report to the state in a timely manner after it was received by the defense.
While the timing and method of the defense disclosures are not ideal,


bipolar disorder at the time of the murder. There was evidence that, on the night of the murder, he was very emotional, unstable, and changed from calm to anxious and back again many times. The excluded evidence went directly to the issue of Walkup's mental condition and its affect on his ability to deliberate. If the jury had heard Dr. Sisk's testimony, it presumably could have drawn a connection between Dr. Sisk's testimony as to the effects of Walkup's bipolar condition on his state of mind and the behavior he exhibited at the time of the killing. If the jury had accepted the evidence as negating the culpable mental state of deliberation, the jury would have found him guilty of second-degree murder rather than first-degree murder. As itin court the following morning. On his arrival at the courthouse that morning for the start of trial, plaintiff was met by a sheriff's deputy, who arrested him and took him into custody. The arrest was observed by Shamalian and McWherter, but they told no one about it, and plaintiff's whereabouts remained unknown until later in the day, when plaintiff was finally able to contact his attorney by telephone. Plaintiff was released from jail and was able to attend the proceedings the following day. At that time the trial judge advised the jury of defendants' aborted ploy, after which the parties presented their evidence.
That evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff, the prevailing party (see Renfro v. Allied Industrial Equipment Corp. (1987), 155 Ill. App.3d 140,


156, 507 N.E.2d 1213, 1227), showed that on Saturday morning, January 10, 1981, plaintiff was at the home of his mother, Neola Roddy, in Centreville, Illinois. Plaintiff had been out all night and had gone to his mother's to take a shower and change clothes. Shortly after 10 a.m., plaintiff decided that he might like a drink, but he did not want his mother to see him, so he stepped outside. While standing there, he observed an older-model Buick pull up to his mother's house. Five men got out. They had braided hair and wore cowboy hats. At least some of them were armed and had pistols drawn as they approached the house.
These were the "Donaby Brothers," a local gang. Fearful, plaintiff tried to flee on foot. Heran toward "Ridge Avenue," an unused railroad bed which divides Centreville from the City of East St. Louis, made a left turn onto 61st Street, then began "dodging" between *170 houses. At first he thought he would try to make it back to his mother's house, which is on 60th Street, but he decided instead to run down an alley toward State Street.
As plaintiff fled down the alley, his shoes became tangled in a discarded mattress which blocked the path. This was about three houses, or half of a block, from his mother's. As plaintiff attempted to extricate himself, he heard several bullets fly past his head and ankle. He then felt a round strike him in the back. The shot knocked him to the ground.
The person who


wounded plaintiff was not one of the "Donaby Brothers," but defendant McWherter, assistant chief of the Centreville police. Unknown to plaintiff was that McWherter and defendant Shamalian, Centreville's chief of police, had driven up to his mother's house in an unmarked police car at the same time the Donabys had arrived. With McWherter and Shamalian in the car was David Brown, a suspect who had been arrested the previous day in connection with a burglary. While in jail, Brown allegedly implicated plaintiff in a series of burglaries, and Shamalian claimed that he and McWherter had gone to plaintiff's mother's house to arrest him for those burglaries.
Neither McWherter nor Shamalian was wearing a uniform, and McWherter did not identify himself as a police officer before opening fire on plaintiff.McWherter dragged plaintiff back to Ridge Avenue and the Centreville city limits. McWherter placed plaintiff face down on the ground, and David Brown, the burglary suspect, was brought over from the unmarked police car. According to plaintiff, McWherter asked Brown about a black and white television set, and Brown responded, "No, I didn't tell you that he had no T.V." Brown was then taken back, but instead of being placed in the unmarked police car, he was handed over to the Donaby Brothers. Plaintiff claimed that the Donaby Brothers then *171 took Brown to a house across the street and beat him up, but admitted that he did not personally witness the beating.
After 10 or 15 minutes, plaintiff was taken by ambulance to the Centreville Township Hospital. Dr.


Charles Frazier, who treated him, testified that McWherter's bullet had "entered through the back of plaintiff's right shoulder, fracturing his scapula, and lodged in his chest, a couple of inches to the right of the breast bone, in the region of the second rib." Plaintiff remained hospitalized for about a week. The bullet has yet to be removed, although Dr. Frazier stated that it could be extracted at any time with little difficulty and without the need for further hospitalization.
Although Shamalian and McWherter claimed that they went looking for plaintiff on the morning of January 10 as part of a burglary investigation, there is no dispute that they never sought or obtained a warrant for plaintiff's arrest before tracking him down. Plaintiff was not convicted, tried, or evenshooting apparently indicated that plaintiff was not shot by McWherter at all, but by defendant Shamalian. At trial, Shamalian stated that it was McWherter who fired at plaintiff. While McWherter allegedly feared that plaintiff might start shooting, Shamalian, who was standing close to McWherter at the time, did not even remove his own sidearm from its holster. He admitted that he did not find it necessary to protect himself.
When he was before the jury, McWherter testified that he yelled "Halt, police" twice, at which time plaintiff turned toward him and put his right hand into his waistband. McWherter then fired two warning shots in the air and leveled his pistol at plaintiff. As plaintiff turned away from him, he fired a third time, hitting plaintiff in the shoulder.


At his deposition, McWherter told a different story. In that deposition, McWherter suggested that some other police officer had told plaintiff to halt and that he did not fire the warning shots until plaintiff turned to run again. According to McWherter's deposition testimony, plaintiff then placed his hand in his jacket, not his waistband. He turned back toward McWherter a second time, and only then did McWherter fire the wounding shot.
There were other inconsistencies in defendants' evidence as well. Defendant Shamalian testified at his deposition that upon arriving on the scene the morning of the shooting, he parked the unmarked police car in which he, McWherter, and Brown were riding on 61st Street. At trial, he initially stated that he was actually parked on 60th Street. Later heindicated that he parked on Ridge Avenue at 60th Street.
Larry Wynn, an East St. Louis police officer who was called to the scene just before plaintiff was shot, also testified on behalf of defendants. According to Wynn, he did not witness the shooting itself, but after the shots were fired he saw plaintiff raise his hands as if to give up and then walk with McWherter back to Ridge Avenue. How plaintiff could have raised both hands in the air, given that one of his *173 shoulder blades was fractured by McWherter's bullet, is a problem which Wynn apparently did not stop to consider. In any case, not even McWherter claimed that this had happened. According to McWherter, plaintiff ran about five feet and then lay down after


being shot. McWherter went up to him, told him "to keep his hand in plain sight," conducted a field search, then held him up and walked him back to Ridge Avenue, where he was allowed to lie down until the ambulance arrived.
Shamalian, who has been chief of Centreville's police department for 25 years, stated at trial that he is responsible for implementing department policy. He testified that the department has no written policy requiring a firearms review, a firearms discharge report, or an internal affairs investigation when a citizen is shot and that no such reviews, reports, or investigations were made in this case. Shamalian further testified that McWherter was not disciplined for shooting plaintiff. Since the shooting, McWherter has actually been promoted by the department.
According to Shamalian,most training for Centreville's police officers is conducted by the department itself. McWherter claimed that he had received firearms training sometime in 1980, prior to the shooting, but such training was not reflected in his personnel records. While Shamalian indicated that the department maintained a separate firearms training log, defendants were unable to adduce any documentary evidence, including copies of the log, showing that McWherter had ever been trained in the use of firearms at the time he shot plaintiff.
Noah Goddard, a criminologist and former police officer, was called as an expert witness by plaintiff. In Goddard's opinion, McWherter violated accepted police standards when he shot plaintiff in the back because plaintiff "was no threat to the officer whatsoever." Goddard also stated that McWherter should not have fired


law, McWherter deprived him of his constitutional right "to be free from the use of excessive force against his person during the course of an arrest." Under this count, plaintiff *175 sought not only compensatory damages, but also punitive damages and damages for
"[t]he reasonable value of the right and privilege secured and protected to him by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, namely the Constitutional right not to be unreasonably subjected to deadly force against his person during the course of being questioned, detained, or otherwise taken into custody."
In count III, plaintiff sought recovery under 42 U.S.C.A. section 1983 (West 1981) against the City of Centreville. As grounds for this claim, plaintiff alleged that the City was liable for deprivation of his constitutional rights and theaward. Although we must vacate that portion of the circuit court's judgment dealing with the award of damages, plaintiff remains the "prevailing party" within the meaning of 42 U.S.C.A. section 1988 (West 1981), and his fee award shall not be disturbed.
For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the circuit court of St. Clair County is affirmed in part and reversed in part, and plaintiff's cause is remanded for a new trial limited solely to the issue of damages.
Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded for a new trial on the issue of damages only.
LEWIS and CALVO, JJ., concur.


he was halfway in the restroom and halfway out?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. How many of the boys were in the restroom?
A. Just two.
Q. Two was in there and Money Mike was halfway in and halfway out?
A. Yes.
Q. So three boys were near the restroom?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Where was the one that you knew as Baby Face, where was he?
A. Standing in front of the bathtub.
Q. Was he near the door too?
A. No, he was standing right in front of the bathtub.
Appellant told the police that he started to leave the apartment after the robbery when he heard shots being fired. Latonya testified that all five victims were forced into the bathroom, while some of the robbers guarded them and others went through the apartment. In context, the jury's questionLatonya had testified that appellant was one of the robbers remaining in the bathroom when the shooting occurred. No more than the last five questions and answers in the quoted portion of Latonya's testimony would have sufficed to answer this question.
*853 The majority points to the fact that the excerpted testimony begins with the statement that the three male robbery victims were in the bathroom. It concludes with the statement that appellant was standing in front of the bathtub. The majority then disingenuously states, "The remaining testimony relates to the conversations and actions of the people while they were in the bathroom." The jury merely wanted to know whether Latonya had affirmatively placed appellant in the bathroom when the shooting occurred. The trial court permitted the court reporter


1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal apparatus used in a cellular radio communication system.
2. Description of the Related Art
Recently, cellular radio communication systems have become popularized. In a cellular radio communication system, a plurality of base stations are distributed in a service area, and radio zones called cells are formed by these base stations. In each of these cells, radio connection is established between the base station and each mobile communication terminal apparatus. In this type of system, when a mobile communication terminal apparatus is powered on, synchronization is established between the mobile communication terminal apparatus and the nearest base station. After the establishment of synchronization, the apparatus transitions to a standby state.
In a standby state, the mobile communication terminal apparatusperforms intermittent reception operation. In the intermittent reception operation, a wakeup period and sleep period are alternately set in a predetermined standby cycle so as to reduce the power consumption of the mobile communication terminal apparatus. The standby cycle is defined by the system.
In a wakeup period, the mobile communication terminal apparatus sequentially performs operation for wakeup, reception timing identification operation, and paging reception operation. According to W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) (IMT-2000: 3GPP standards), for example, operation for wakeup, reception timing identification operation, and reception operation for a paging indicator channel (PICH) are sequentially performed.
Of these operations, in reception timing identification operation, first of all, the time average of the reception levels of radio signals arrived from a base station during synchronization establishment (to be referred


and accused him of supporting genocide against the Palestinians.

"The General Delegation of the PLO to the United States strongly condemns the recent inflammatory statements against Palestinians made by radio host, Howard Stern, as well as his shameful attack of human rights activist, Roger Waters," according to the statement, a copy of which was sent to the Washington Free Beacon.

"Mr. Stern's contention that Palestinians ‘did not live there [Palestine]’ is a claim grounded in racist assumptions that the indigenous Palestinian population does not exist," claims the organization, which has been held accountable for terror attacks against Jews. "Such baseless allegations only serve to foment violence and hatred, and do little to promote the interests of peace and reconciliation."

The PLO claims that Stern "has a track-record of misusing his nationalChristchurch, March 15 (Reuters): Over 40 worshippers were killed at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday when at least one gunman opened fire on worshippers, police said. The Bangladesh cricket team was arriving for prayers at the mosque when the shooting occurred but all members were safe, a team coach told Reuters.

Witnesses told media that a man dressed in a military-style, camouflage outfit, and carrying an automatic rifle had started randomly shooting people in the Al Noor mosque.

The Bangladesh cricket team was arriving for prayers at the mosque when the shooting occurred but all members were safe, a team coach told Reuters.

Police said they had one person in custody but they were not sure if others were involved. Police advised people to stay


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She likes cherryJuly 22, 2015 – Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and national domestic violence prevention advocates today applauded the introduction of new bipartisan legislation in the House of Representatives that protects victims of domestic violence and stalking by helping keep guns out of the hands of abusers and convicted stalkers.

Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingell of Michigan and Republican Congressman Robert Dold of Illinois announced the new proposal, the Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act, at an event today hosted by Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun violence prevention organization founded by Congresswoman Giffords and her husband, Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly.

“I applaud Congresswoman Dingell and Congressman Dold for doing the responsible thing and offering a commonsense, bipartisan solution that would help protect vulnerable women and their families.


passed this session,”said Dara Richardson-Heron, M.D. CEO of the YWCA USA.

Since 2008, states have enacted over 30 new laws addressing the nexus of access to guns and domestic violence. In 2014 alone, six states – two of them with Republican controlled-legislatures – enacted laws to protect domestic violence victims: Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin.

In 2015, leaders in Alabama, Delaware, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont and Washington have also passed similar legislation to protect women and families from abusers with guns.

BACKGROUND ON THE NEXUS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING PARTNER ABUSE, STALKING, AND ACCESS TO FIREARMS

Women in the United States are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in other developed countries, and more than half of all murders ofpresident of Environmental Defense, which has an office in Texas, wrote to John Wilder, TXU’s chairman, and asked for a meeting, but was brushed off. TXU made it clear that it was on a fast track to build its plants and had the governor of Texas on its side.

Talk about not knowing what world you’re living in.

So Environmental Defense and its allies turned to the Web and created the Stoptxu.com Web site, which put out regular electronic newsletters on the TXU plans and built a national constituency opposed to the deal. They also took TXU to court.

None of that might have been enough, though, had the big buyout firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group not teamed up to offer to buy TXU in February — a


for anyone who favors an expansion of guest worker programs in the U.S. is a stunning new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center that details the widespread abuse of highly vulnerable, poverty-stricken workers in programs that already exist.

The report is titled “Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States.” It will be formally released today at a press conference in Washington.

Workers recruited from Mexico, South America, Asia and elsewhere to work in American hotels and in such labor-intensive industries as forestry, seafood processing and construction are often ruthlessly exploited.

They are routinely cheated out of their wages, which are low to begin with. They are bound like indentured servants to the middlemen and employers who arrange their work tours in the U.S. And they are virtual hostagesDay.

In the last two weeks, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, dispatched the director of his political action committee to run his primary campaign in California, where a bill to move the primary to Feb. 5 is on the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, announced that he had won the endorsement of Richard J. Codey, a former acting governor of New Jersey, testimony to the state’s new status as it readies to shift its primary to Feb. 5 from June.

Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, held a rally the other day in Texas, and aides to Rudolph W. Giuliani, the New York Republican, said staff members would be sent to California, Florida and Missouri, as both candidates prepare for expected Feb. 5


Clinton of New York. There are hardly any black voters in Iowa and New Hampshire; by contrast, they could play an important role in California, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey and New York.

The early primary drive is the latest evidence of the national parties’ continuing decline in influence over the nominating process. A Democratic Party effort to force states and candidates to abide by the calendar, with threats of refusing to seat delegates chosen by states that defy its rules, seems doomed to fail, with candidates and states saying they will ignore it.

The developments have stirred despair among some Democratic National Committee officials, who pushed through a new calendar this year that sought to dilute the influence of Iowa and New Hampshire by letting Nevada and South Carolina holdour lifetime,” said Benjamin L. Ginsberg, the counsel to Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who is seeking the Republican nomination, and one of his party’s leading experts on election law, pointing to the calendar, the fund-raising demands and the absence of a front-runner in either party.

For Democrats, the prospect of a mega-primary has created a new calculation about the importance of black voters, already a constituency being fiercely courted by Mr. Obama, who is seeking to become the nation’s first black president, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. There are hardly any black voters in Iowa and New Hampshire; by contrast, they could play an important role in California, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey and New York.

The early primary drive is the latest evidence of


about this most fundamental part of a campaign: when people are going to vote. The National Association of Secretaries of State reported that 23 states were either considering moving to Feb. 5 or certain to do so. But that number changes daily as bills move between legislative committees and to governors’ desks.

The importance of Iowa and New Hampshire has emerged as one of the critical questions for the campaigns.

Some analysts said the winners in the early states would emerge with so much momentum and favorable news media attention that they would dominate the national primary to follow and lay claim to their party’s nomination, much the way Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts captured the Democratic nomination in 2004 after his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire.

But others saidin violation of a 140-year-old federal treaty and several court decisions. The federal government must now step in to protect the rights of the freedmen, who could lose their tribal identities as well as access to medical, housing and other tribal benefits.

This bitter dispute dates to the treaties of 1866, when the Cherokee, Seminole and Creek agreed to admit their former slaves as tribal members in return for recognition as sovereign nations. The tribes fought black membership from the start — even though many of the former slaves were products of mixed black and Indian marriages.

The federal courts repeatedly upheld the treaties. But the federal government fanned the flames when a government commission set out in the 1890s to create an authoritative roll of tribal membership. Instead of


about discrimination — and that it is illegal. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has been curiously silent, should bring the Cherokee government into compliance with the law and require it to restore the tribal rights of the expelled members.

Denying Rights in Nigeria

A poisonous piece of legislation is quickly making its way through the Nigerian National Assembly. Billed as an anti-gay-marriage act, it is a far-reaching assault on basic rights of association, assembly and expression. Chillingly, the legislation — proposed last year by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo — has the full and enthusiastic support of the leader of Nigeria’s powerful Anglican church. Unless the international community speaks out quickly and forcefully against the bill, it is almost certain to become law.

Homosexual acts between consenting adults arethey had been dismissed after resisting what they suspected were importunings to use their offices to help Republicans win elections. A third described what may have been a threat of retaliation if he talked publicly about his firing.

David Iglesias, who was removed as the United States attorney in Albuquerque, said that he was first contacted before last fall’s election by Representative Heather Wilson, Republican of New Mexico. Ms. Wilson, who was in a tough re-election fight, asked about sealed indictments — criminal charges that are not public.

Two weeks later, he said, he got a call from Senator Pete Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, asking whether he intended to indict Democrats before the election in a high-profile corruption case. When Mr. Iglesias said no, he said, Mr. Domenici replied


that he was very sorry to hear it, and the line went dead. Mr. Iglesias said he’d felt “sick.” Within six weeks, he was fired. Ms. Wilson and Mr. Domenici both deny that they had tried to exert pressure.

John McKay of Seattle testified that the chief of staff for Representative Doc Hastings, Republican of Washington, called to ask whether he intended to investigate the 2004 governor’s race, which a Democrat won after two recounts. Mr. McKay says that when he went to the White House later to discuss a possible judicial nomination (which he did not get), he was told of concerns about how he’d handled the election. H. E. Cummins, a fired prosecutor from Arkansas, said that a Justice Department official, in what appeared to be aon the lower part of the interior surface.
As a roll begins to rotate, this tends to move the condensate in the direction of rotation of the roll; inertial forces tend to retard any change in motion of the condensate; centrifugal forces tend to hold the condensate against the inner periphery of the cylinder; and gravity tends to pull the condensate to the bottom of the cylinder. At very low speeds, the gravitational forces cause the condensate to run down the cylindrical side wall in a thin film that forms a puddle at the bottom of the roll. At slightly higher speeds, the viscous forces drag some of the condensate from the puddle part way up the ascending side wall of roll, but it continues to run down to


the puddle. As the speed increases still further, the condensate is dragged higher up the interior surface of the side wall, and centrifugal forces hold the condensate to the side wall in the upper quadrant of the ascending side wall. However, gravity still prevails, and the condensate breaks away from the cylinder wall and "cascades" back to the bottom of the dryer.
The rimming condition is achieved when the centrifugal force becomes sufficiently greater than gravity, allowing the condensate to "go over the top". The speed at which this occurs is greatly dependant upon the amount of condensate present in the dryer, a thin layer being rimmed at a slower speed than a thicker layer. However, on the ascending and descending walls of the cylinder, gravity respectively decelerates andof, heat transfer.
To illustrate one of the significant problems in operating such steam heated rolls, let us take the example of a paper corrugating operation where a quantity of paper is being fed between a set of two rolls. The steam in the rolls is at a predetermined pressure and temperature, and as indicated above, with the rolls being rotated at a sufficiently high speed, the condensate that has formed will reach a "rimming" condition where the liquid is distributed substantially uniformly (by centrifugal force) against the interior surface of the cylindrical side wall of the roll. In this condition, with the temperature within the roll being substantially uniform throughout and with heat transfer being substantially uniform through all areas of the cylindrical side wall, the temperature of


Onyii Brown started her fashion line in her Houston garage in 2013, with $125 and a dream. A dream about a skirt. By September 2015, she was showing her Onyii & Co. collection at New York Fashion Week Africa. Her effortless designs—colorful, cascading halter dresses, breezy linen jumpsuits, crop tops covered in bold bird prints—belie the journey Brown traveled to get there.

Brown and her family moved to the United States from Nigeria when she was three years old, landing at JFK airport wearing sandals in the middle of winter. Her father worked as a janitor and pizza-delivery guy while finishing his doctorate; her mother worked and went to school full time. Living in poverty in Amherst, Massachusetts, the family drove from dumpster to dumpster, foraging for food thrownthe closest thing the school offered to a fashion degree. After an internship in New York, however, she recoiled at the competitiveness of the industry and went on to get her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration and marketing instead. After graduating, she donned a business suit, moving to Houston and landing a job in commercial real estate in 2003.

In 2008, the recession hit. She left her industry, which had bottomed out, and spent some time managing HOPE Africa, the charitable organization started by her brother, Super Bowl–winning NFL safety James Ihedigbo. But mostly she went on interviews. Brown’s friends called her the “interview queen.”

“I was the most interview-having chick ever with no job. I had three or four interviews every week, and I’d always be the


runner-up,” she says. One company told her they drew straws to choose between her and another candidate—she lost. At another interview, the hiring manager told Brown she wanted to hire her, but something was telling her not to. “I got back in my car and just started sobbing,” says Brown.

After her husband Humphrey was laid off from his job in 2013, Brown would lie awake wondering how they were going to pay their mortgage. Then one night, she woke up with a vision of a wrap skirt in her head. The next morning, she dug through her garage and found a sewing machine, plus a suitcase full of fabric she’d bought in Nigeria. Though she’d occasionally made pieces of clothing, Brown was essentially untrained in sewing.

Nevertheless, she satdown and made her first skirt on the kitchen table at her Eastwood bungalow. (Her family has since moved to Glenbrook Valley, where her home also has a studio space.) “I texted a picture of it to my friends and said, ‘Would you buy this from me?’ They felt sorry for me and said yes,” laughs Brown.

That was the beginning of Onyii & Co. Brown started an online shop at Etsy, where she quickly found an audience for her colorful printed garments, made with vintage clothing patterns she found on the same site. “It was a hustle,” says Brown, who was also taking fashion design classes at HCC, completing her homework assignments in between fulfilling customer orders.

Her success is indicative of the way the Internet age has created


plan.
?	Infrastructure Adequacy
There will be a series of open commission meetings held throughout the U.S. beginning in November in the West; in December or early spring a meeting will be held in the northeast and later in 2002 for the Midwest and south. The intent is to reach out to the states for greater cohesion.
?	California Infrastructure Update
Staff concluded that the California natural gas market for take-away capacity was insufficient to accept delivery of all interstate capacity. The California Energy Commission released a report on September 24 that agrees that more expansion in California is needed.

Constraint Study
FERC will complete a constraint study with associated costs that should be completed by November 7, 2001. Staff cited constraints in central New York state and California. Massey asked if the study wasQuartet Money Man Pressures Arabs for Quiet Expulsion

James Wolfensohn, Quartet envoy and former World Bank president, met with Abu Mazen Saturday to discuss $3 billion in promised aid. The PA said that terrorists agreed on a quiet expulsion.

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Wolfensohn told Congressional leaders last week that he is coordinating projects with the Palestinian Authority (PA) in an effort to build up the economy. Wolfensohn is the envoy representing the Quartet comprised of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. With $3 billion in international infrastructure investment to create new jobs, he has been able to win cooperation from Arabs.

PA chairman Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) promised Wolfensohn on Saturday that the PA would ensure quiet during the expulsion of


is a genus that includes "socialist" as a species.

Having said that, it is also the case that language changes. "Liberal" once meant an advocate of free markets and individual responsibility. That was when "conservatives" defended classical feudalism - the divine right of kings and the feudal system of land holdings - even as the noble class transitioned from huge land holdings to huge government monopolies.

Note that the idea of a "private corporation" was originally a contradiction in terms. A "corporation" was a King's grant of monopoly over some aspect of trade or manufacturing. At that time, the view of so-called "liberals" advocated the equal moral status of all individuals and private markets - a view now called "classical liberal" to distinguish it from "contemporary liberal" position.

We may bethe [East] finals."

Orchestrating it all is Van Gundy's former assistant Tom Thibodeau, who, in his first season with the Bulls, is a candidate for coach of the year. After spending 18 seasons as an NBA assistant coach, Thibodeau was a wanted man over the summer with New Orleans and New Jersey expressing interest before he chose the Bulls.

"He had every level of commitment, intensity, intangible that you wanted," Van Gundy said. "His grasp of the entire game, his communication ability was beyond reproach. I had no doubt he was the best candidate out there for many years. He wasn't ready three years ago; he was ready 10-15 years ago but for whatever reason no one wanted to give him an opportunity and give the Bulls credit.

"And give New


Founded by sixteen Welsh Baptists on April 22, 1711, we are proud of our almost 300 years of continuous Christian service in this community. We worship and study on ground rich in American history. While we strive to revere and learn from the past, we endeavor to have a creative program that meets the needs of the present.

We worship each Sunday morning at 10:30 AM in our Meeting House. Nursery care is available during the worship service.

The Baptist Church in the Great Valley is a place to meet new friends, to discuss ideas and concerns and to find spiritual renewal and strength to face the demands of our modern world. We seek to be a warm, outgoing congregation, concerned about people and their lives. Believing deeply in theBaptist tradition of individual freedom, we have open membership and invite anyone to join our fellowship through a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, a letter of transfer from another Christian church, or believer's baptism.

We are part of over 1.3 million American Baptists in the United States. There are over 6,000 churches, 112 of which are in the Philadelphia area. American Baptist Churches value independence, with each church choosing its own style and emphases of ministry. American Baptists believe strongly in the separation of church and state. They are ecumenical in spirit and cooperate with other churches for fellowship and mission.


Mr Franco CARRARO

Education

Career

Vice-President of ALITALIA (1981-1987); Minister of Tourism and the Performing Arts (1987-1990); Mayor of Rome (1989-1993); Chairman of Impregilio (construction firm, 1994-1999); Chairman of Bank UniCredit MedioCredito Centrale S.p.A. (2000-2011); Member of the Board of Mediocredito Centrale S.p.A. (2011-2013); Member of the Senate (2013-)

Sports practised

Fencing (foil), skiing, waterski, tennis, golf, sailing

Sports career

Waterski: Italian junior champion (1953-1954); Italian Open champion (1955-1960); European champion, slalom and combined (1956 and 1961); European team champion (1958, 1959, 1960); bronze medallist at the World Championships (1957)

Sports administration

President of the Italian Waterski Federation (1962-1976); Chairman of the Technical Commission (1963-1967) then of the World Waterski Union (1967-1973); Vice-Chairman (1966-1967) then Chairman (1967-1971) of the Milan Football Club Board; Federal advisor (1968-1972), Vice-President (1973-1976) then President (1976-1978 then 2001-2006) to the Italian FootballFederation; Vice-President (1977) then President (1978-1987) of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI); Member of the International Association Football Federation (FIFA) Amateur Committee and of the FIFA Board (1978-1986); President of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) (1980-1987); President of the Organising Committees of the 1980 European Football Championships and of the 1990 World Football Cup; Vice-President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) (1981-1987); Member of the FIFA World Cup Organising Committee (1986-); President of the Italian Professional Football League (1997-2001); Chairman of the FIFA Internal Audit (2002-2011); Member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) European Union Matters Working Group (2003-2007); Member of the UEFA Executive Board (2004-2009); Vice-Chairman of the UEFA Committee for National Team Competitions (2007-2009); Chairman of the UEFA Marketing Advisory Committee


(2007-2009); Member of the UEFA Finance Committee (2007-2009); Chairman of Fondation Giulio Onesti (2009-); Member of the Extraordinary Commission of the Italian Winter Sports Federation (2011-2012)

IOC History

Member of the Executive Board (2000-2004); Chair of the Olympic Programme Working Group (1998-2001); Vice-Chair (1983-1994) then Chair (2002-) of the Olympic Programme Commission; Vice-Chair of the Finance Commission (2001-2003); member of the following Commissions: Eligibility (1983-1989), Olympic Solidarity (1986-1987), IOC 2000 Reform Follow-up (2002); coordinator of the Working Group “Composition, structure and organisation of the IOC” of the “IOC 2000” Commission (1999)honoured.

Q&A What is the Iran nuclear deal? Show In July 2015, Iran and a six-nation negotiating group reached a landmark agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that ended a 12-year deadlock over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The deal, struck in Vienna after nearly two years of intensive talks, limited the Iranian programme, to reassure the rest of the world that it cannot develop nuclear weapons, in return for sanctions relief.

At its core, the JCPOA is a straightforward bargain: Iran’s acceptance of strict limits on its nuclear programme in return for an escape from the sanctions that grew up around its economy over a decade prior to the accord. Under the deal, Iran unplugged two-thirds of its centrifuges, shipped out 98% of its enriched uranium and filled


its plutonium production reactor with concrete. Tehran also accepted extensive monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has verified 10 times since the agreement, and as recently as February, that Tehran has complied with its terms. In return, all nuclear-related sanctions were lifted in January 2016, reconnecting Iran to global markets. The six major powers involved in the nuclear talks with Iran were in a group known as the P5+1: the UN security council’s five permanent members – China, France, Russia, the UK and the US – and Germany. The nuclear deal is also enshrined in a UN security council resolution that incorporated it into international law. The 15 members of the council at the time unanimously endorsed the agreement. On 8 May 2018, US presidentto do that is to keep its word and comply with the rules-based international system.”

The UK insisted the tanker was seized only in pursuit of EU sanctions policy, and not in support of the US effort to cut off Iranian oil exports, a strategy with which the UK does not agree.

Britain is pursuing a policy of maximum economic pressure on Iran in an attempt to force Tehran to renegotiate the joint comprehensive plan of action, a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme signed in 2015.

Iran has argued it was not a party to the EU sanctions against Damascus, but also said the oil was not destined for Syria. Subsequently, following negotiations both in the Foreign Office in London and in Gibraltar, the British claimed assurances had been given that


Why were athens and sparta unwilling or unable to unite and lead greece against philip of macedon

To philip, there was an additional bonus: no greek would think of revolt as long as a great many compatriots were serving in the macedonian army abroad the real cause of this war, of course, was not revenge, or philip's greed, or his attempt to create peace in greece by uniting it against a common enemy. As the eminent historian, jb bury writes, athens wasreduced to a secondary place by macedon, and thebes fared stillworse as the hegemony or first place among greek states had passedsuccessively from athens to sparta, and to thebes, so now it passedto macedon. Typically, the citizens of athens would gather in the agora when there was anassembly meeting the agora, a fixture of every major greek city-state, was a large open space in the middle of the city-state that contained a marketplace as well as government buildings. Athens and sparta, both powerful greek city-states, had fought as allies in the greco-persian wars between 499 and 449 bc in the wake of the persian retreat, however, athens grew more powerful. In later classical times, sparta along with athens, thebes, and persia had been the main powers fighting for supremacy against each other as a result of the peloponnesian war, sparta, a traditionally continental culture, became a naval power.

Athens had the strongest navy and sparta had the strongest army why were the greeks able to unite during the persian wars to avoid being governed by the


persians. Although for centuries the cities of athens and sparta dominated greece, politically, militarily and economically, the battle of chaeronea, one of the most renowned of all greek battles, only involved one of these cities: athens combined forces with thebes to meet the rising power of macedon in a fight that would change history. Athens and their allies against sparta and their allies greeks lost after a traitor told xerxes about a path that went around the greek positionage 60 (essentially their entire lives) a united greece against the persians won by: greeks how: by using strategy such as phalanx 17 lasting effects after the war athens entered its golden. Sparta ancient greece was a prominent city-state in ancient greece in antiquity, the city-state was known as lacedaemon(λακεδαίμων, lakedaímōn), while the name sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the eurotas river in laconia, in south-eastern peloponnese.

Why were athens and sparta unwilling or unable to unite and lead greece against philip of macedon before philip of macedon stepped in to unify greece, greece was broken up into territories and provinces also, before king philip ii came into power, macedonia was unstable and was full of rural clans, which were all loosely tied under a hereditary empire. Athens especially emerged as a major superpower that led a host of other greek city-states (some willing, some unwilling, and some reluctant) in a defensive alliance, the delian league, against the persians. It served the triple purpose of strengthening philip's hellenic identity, contested as this was


by his opponents, legitimizing philip's continuing operations in greece after the conclusion of the sacred war, and justifying his political plan of moving closer to athens and turning against thebes.

In later classical times, sparta along with athens, thebes, and persia had been the main powers fighting for supremacy against each other as a result of the peloponnesian war , sparta, a traditionally continental culture, became a naval power. When philip created the league of the greeks on the pretext of unifying greece against persia, the spartans were excluded of their own will the spartans had no interest in joining a pan-greek expedition if it was not under spartan leadership. Even then, the conquered cities were merely joined to philip ii of macedon's corinthian league they were not occupied,and ruled themselves city states ancient greece citizens in ancient greece were usually men who were free-born in that city athens against sparta after the persians were defeated at platea, the spartans did very. Athens requested help from sparta but was not entertained because the spartans were not allowed to leave the city because of some religious reasons so the only coalition was with the plataeans, who as an ally of athens since a long time.

The peloponnesian war (431–404 bc) was an ancient greek war fought by the delian league led by athens against the peloponnesian league led by sparta historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. How philip of macedon gained power to the north of greece lies a region which in ancient times was


called macedon, or macedonia the people of this country were much like the greeks, though more rough and barbarous. Sparta was a closed society, and losses of citizens in wars could not be replaced these losses had been accumulating during the peloponnese war in the 4th century, and were compounded in the wars. The book presently under review, 'a war like no other', deals with the great civil war within ancient greece between authoritarian sparta and democratic athens from 431-404 bc, made famous primarily through the contemporary account by thucydides. Ancient greece is the term used to describe the greek-speaking world in ancient times in 346 bc the thebans appealed to philip ii of macedon to help them against the phocians, thus drawing macedon into greek affairs forthe athens, sparta and other greek states formed an alliance to resist philip and expel him from the greek cities he.

Even before the peace with athens was ratified (346), the athenian publicist isocrates was inviting philip to reconcile the four leading cities of greece and to lead a united greek alliance in a war of expansion against persia. City-states and alliances in ancient greece underlying reasons of their existence and their consequences sparta, athens athens made an effort to unite the various city-states in the era of its empire these efforts, however, did. Sparta was later humbled by thebes at the battle of leuctra in 371 bc, but the rivalry of athens and sparta was brought to an end a few decades later when philip ii of macedon


conquered all of greece.

In 339 bc thebes, athens, sparta and other greek states formed an alliance to resist philip and expel him from the greek cities he had occupied in the north but philip struck first, advancing into greece and defeating the greek cities at chaeronea in 338 bc. Athens was a great commercial center for a long time, its navy was the most powerful in greece as her democratic institutions, commercial strength, and naval power grew, athens gradually turned into one of the greatest cultural center the world has ever seen.

The city-state of athens was the birthplace of many significant ideas ancient athenians were a thoughtful people who enjoyed the systematic study of subjects such as science, philosophy, and history, to name a few. In central greece,on Mars," said Tracy Gregg, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology at UB and chair of the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. David Crown, Ph.D., of the Planetary Science Institute, is Gregg's co-investigator on the grant.

Gregg's research concerns an area on Mars called Hesperia Planum, which has been used since the 1980s to define the Hesperian epoch, the second of the planet's three geologic time periods.

But in the past several years, recent analyses of images obtained from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, (MOLA), the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) and other instruments have led to new estimates for the duration of the Hesperian epoch, ranging from just 300,000 years to 1-2 billion years, Gregg explained.

While other planetary geologists now are attempting to reconcile these two models,


she said, her focus is on trying to figure out which surfaces on Mars originated in the Hesperian epoch, research that, in turn, probably will help to further define the duration of the Hesperian epoch.

"For almost 20 years, Hesperia Planum has served as the basic time marker on Mars," said Gregg.

"When we want to identify how old rocks are without the benefit of samples, we count impact craters, the big holes in planetary surfaces that are made by meteorites that crash into them," explained Gregg. "The more impact craters there are on a surface, the older it is."

But during the course of Gregg's research reviewing images of Tyrrhena Patera, a volcano located in the middle of Hesperia Planum, she began finding deposits from not one Martian geologic epochare similar to ones made about 20 years ago on Earth, when geologists discovered that Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming was the center crater of an enormous volcano and that its deposits stretched as far as the state of Illinois.

Those findings, she said, changed fundamentally the understanding of volcanic activity on Earth.

In a similar vein, she said, the new observations about the great distances traveled by deposits of Martian volcanoes and their influence on the age of surfaces may cause a similar reconsideration of understanding of the history of Mars.

"I think that we are about to discover that Hesperia Planum, this surface that has acted as a basic time marker for Mars, has a very different age than we thought," she said. "If it turns out it's much


11th February 2018 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah team | Occupied Palestine

On Tuesday morning, Ahed Tamimi once again was brought before an Israeli military court at the Ofer Military Prison. Despite objections from the Tamimi family and Ahed’s lawyer, all media and foreign diplomats were barred from entering the court room during the trial. The prosecution read the 12 charges against Ahed, to which she declined to respond. The 17 year old, who recently celebrated her birthday behind bars, will remain under administrative detention in Israeli prison. Her next court date is on March 11.

ISM sat down to speak with Ahed’s father, Bassem Tamimi, at the family home in Nabi Saleh to discuss the events of the trial. About the court’s decision to remove the media and diplomatsLocal and state leaders pledge to put students on track
for reading at grade level by the end of third grade

Aiming to increase the number of children reading at grade level by the end of third grade — a critical milestone on the path to high school graduation — five cities and two states have joined the nationwide Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.

The newest members of the Grade-Level Reading Communities Network include statewide campaigns in Hawaii and Idaho, as well as initiatives in Sarasota, Fla.; Waukegan, Ill.; Portland, Maine; Memphis, Tenn.; and Tacoma, Wash. As GLR Network communities, they have developed plans to address three underlying challenges that can keep young children, especially those from low-income families, from learning to read well:

School readiness — too many children are entering kindergarten


already behind

School attendance — too many young children are missing too many days of school

Summer learning — too many children are losing ground academically over the summer

The newest Grade-Level Reading communities join a thriving network of more than 140 communities from 39 states that are committed to tackling a national crisis: a full two-thirds of U.S. students, and four-fifths of children from low-income families, fail to become proficient readers by the end of third grade. Reading proficiency by the end of third grade is a milestone on a child’s path to success because it marks the transition from learning to read to reading to learn. Students who have not mastered reading by that time are more likely to drop out of school and struggle throughout their lives.
The GLRand communities to our Network of those who are taking action to help more children become proficient readers, prepared to succeed academically and in life.”
As members of the Grade-Level Reading Communities Network, these state and local efforts will receive access to experts and policymakers focused on this issue, assistance in addressing the challenges that keep many children from learning to read and opportunities to share and learn with similar places.

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Launched in May 2010, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is a collaborative effort of funders, nonprofit partners, states and communities across the nation to ensure that many more children from low-income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career and active citizenship. It focuses on reading proficiency by the end of third grade, a key predictor


She was born Sept. 12, 1931, in Rabun County to the late Easburn and Alice Robinson Whitworth. She was the widow of William Alfred Taylor. Lelia was a homemaker and served as a caregiver to a lot of people. She was a member of People’s Baptist Church.

Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Barbara Callenback.

Survivors include: two sons, Greg Taylor (Robin) of Tiger and Dean Taylor of Tiger; two daughters, Charlotte Stuart of Tiger and Gail Youngblood (Richard) of Clayton;

a brother, Earl Whitworth of Clarkesville;

three sisters, Lula Carnes of Tiger and Thelma

West and Ellie Henslee, both of Clarkesville;

seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Sunday at the chapel of Hunter Funeral Home with the Rev. Kyle Watts officiating. Burial followed atRabun Memory Park.

Hunter Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. An online guestbook is available at www.hunterfuneralhomega.com.

She was born Sept. 12, 1931, in Rabun County to the late Easburn and Alice Robinson Whitworth. She was the widow of William Alfred Taylor. Lelia was a homemaker and served as a caregiver to a lot of people. She was a member of People’s Baptist Church.

Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Barbara Callenback.

Survivors include: two sons, Greg Taylor (Robin) of Tiger and Dean Taylor of Tiger; two daughters, Charlotte Stuart of Tiger and Gail Youngblood (Richard) of Clayton;

a brother, Earl Whitworth of Clarkesville;

three sisters, Lula Carnes of Tiger and Thelma

West and Ellie Henslee, both of Clarkesville;

seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Sunday


among these programs as well as within the Center. Interactions will include many of the strong, productive academic departments at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. These traditional training units also have excellent opportunities and program and the Center will integrate its activities with these ongoing efforts in career development. A seminar series in the Center as well as informal research training associated with Center projects and cores are also planned.Reredos of Santa Maria de Rubió

The Rubió reredos, in the Italianate Gothic style of the 14th century, is one of the most important pieces of pictorial art from the Catalan Gothic period. The inscription LXVII in the lower part of the reredos might correspond to the year in which it was painted (1367). However, the painting has also been attributed to the so-called Master of Rubió (disciple of Ramon Destorrents), which would date its creation to later than 1380, when Rubió was under the control of the Boixadors family. The work, painted in tempera on wood, consists of three vertical panels subdivided into three levels on the sides and into two levels in the central panel. Between the central panel and the side panels, and between the side


panels and the canopy, there are four shafts crowned by pinnacles. The original predella, in the lower part of the reredos, is housed in the Episcopal Museum of Vic.

In terms of iconography, the reredos is devoted to the joys of the Virgin Mary and contains seven scenes of joy and seven scenes of sorrow.

The scenes of joy, described from top to bottom, are: in the left-hand side panel, the Assumption crowned by the prophet Isaiah, the Nativity and the Epiphany; in the right-hand side panel, the Resurrection crowned by the prophet David, the Annunciation and Pentecost; and in the lower part of the central panel, the Coronation of the Virgin Mary.

The scenes of sorrow are: in the predella and from left to right, Jesus praying in the Gardenof Gethsemane, the Betrayal by Judas, the Accusation of Jesus by the Jews, the Flagellation, the Way of the Cross, the Descent from the Cross and, in the upper part of the central panel, the Crucifixion.

The shafts contain images of the apostles and prophets, some of whom hold phylacteries with texts alluding to their identity. The heraldic decoration on the canopy consists of roses in gold leaf representing the coat of arms of the Boixadors family.

The church was refurbished and extended in the early 17th century and a new presbytery was built. The Gothic reredos continued to preside over the new church. However, the central section depicting the Coronation of the Virgin Mary was painted navy blue with stars and served as the background to the baroque carving,