Kisumu, Kenya - A tense calm prevailed on Saturday in this stronghold of defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga, a day after his defeat to incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta was officially announced.

Running street battles between security forces and protesters unhappy with the results continued in several parts of the city of Kisumu for most of the night.

However, by sunrise clashes had whittled down to small groups of youths setting fire to tyres only to be chased away by the police.

Most shops in the city remained closed and some roads were still blocked by the leftovers of Friday night's violence - rocks and burned tyres.

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The slum of Kondele was one of the worst hit. There, opposition protesters accused police of using excessive forceagainst them, including baton beatings and the firing of live ammunition.

They were using real bullets at us ... We did not have any guns. Zaphania Onyango, Kisumu resident

Young men gathered on street corners still angry at the election results and their treatment at the hands of the security forces.

"They were even entering homes and beating people up," Zaphania Onyango Juma, 29, told Al Jazeera holding an empty bullet case.

"They were using real bullets at us ... We did not have any guns," he added.

"They steal our votes and then they send soldiers to shoot us."

Casualties

One person was killed in Kisumu and another in Siaya.

Al Jazeera has learned that a third person, a 10-year-old child was also killed after being hit by a stray bullet in Mathare, a district


in capital Nairobi.

Overall, there have been at least 24 people killed since the election on Tuesday, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.

The local hospital in Kisumu received five casualties, three of which had gunshot wounds, and the other two from beatings with batons.

Michael Oluoch, a 21-year-old, was shot in the thigh. "It was after 9pm. We were out and they [security forces] started shooting. One bullet hit me."

Oluoch spoke to Al Jazeera while lying on a bed in the hallway of the hospital, a bloodied bandage covering the upper part of his leg.

In the next room, groaning in pain and unable to speak, was father-of-three David Okoth Maina, 34.

Maina, a water vendor, was shot in the ear and was waiting to be taken into theOctober 1998

Jimmie VaughanOut ThereEpic

Stevie Ray Vaughan was fond of saying in interviews that big brother Jimmie Vaughan was the real guitar hero in the family. That always struck me as somewhat suspect, like Michael Jordan boasting about the basketball prowess of his older brother George (if His Airness had an older brother George). But on Out There (Epic EK 67653; 40:37), older brother really distinguishes himself as a force unto himself, creating an alluring vibe with his thoughtful approach to tone, attack and attitude. While tunes like the Nile Rodgers-penned funky blues "Like a King" lacks the searing fire of lil' brother, it is a fitting ode to those Kings (Albert, Freddie, B.B.) that have made such a huge impact on the brothers Vaughan. "Can't Say No" is


a highlight here, full of vintage B.B. King licks and sporting a soulful, original vocal delivery by Jimmie. "Lost in You," co-penned by Dr. John, is a nod to Al Green with some stinging Albert King licks thrown in for good measure, and "The Ironic Twist," with some wicked exchanges between Jimmie's guitar and Greg Piccolo's tenor sax, is a suitably ragged dance floor number that would play well in some decadent Quentin Tarantino flick. Jimmie's tone and attack on a cover of Johnny Guitar Watson's "Motor Head Baby" is positively brutal, while he plays it smooth and cool on the appealing New Orleans stroll "Astral Projection Blues," featuring Dr. John on vibes. "Positively Meant to Be" is a slow blues done up in gospel fashion and forThe Economic Idiocy of Economists

The American Economic Association's annual meetings are a scary sight, with thousands of economists all gathered in the same place – a veritable weapon of mass destruction. Chicago was the lucky city for 2012 this past weekend, and I had just finished participating in an interesting panel on "the economics of regime change", when I stumbled over to see what the big budget experts had to say about "the political economy of the US debt and deficits".

The session was introduced by UC Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach, who put up a graph of the United States' rising debt-to-GDP ratio, and warned of dire consequences if Congress didn't do something about it. Yawn.

But the panelists got off to a good start, with Alan Blinder of Princeton,


thought – an economist telling the unvarnished truth to hundreds of his people at the annual meetings.

But a rapid descent into hell was imminent. Former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin was next, talking about the need to "repair" social security and Medicare. The United States has all the characteristics of countries that run into trouble, he said. Then he warned that the US is going to end up like Greece. This is one of the dumbest things
that anyone with an economics degree can say.

Hello, Mr Holtz-Eakin! Have you ever heard of the US dollar, the world's key reserve currency?

The United States is not going to end up like Greece, any sooner than it will end up like Haiti or Burkina Faso. A country that can pay its foreign publicdebt in its own currency and runs its own central bank does not end up like Greece.

In fact, even Japan is not going to end up like Greece, and Japan has a gross public debt of about 220% of its GDP, more than twice the size of ours and vastly larger – again, relative to its economy – than that of Greece. And the yen is nowhere near the dollar in its importance as an international reserve currency. But the Japanese government is still borrowing at just 1% interest rates for its ten-year bonds.

At this point, it was clear that this panel, other than Blinder, was living in a dystopian fantasy world. Next up was Rudy Penner of the Urban Institute, another former CBO director. His perspective was


too extremist to make this kind of a "grand bargain" with Obama.

The last panelist was Alice Rivlin of the Brookings Institution, another former CBO budget director and Fed vice-chair, as well as a member of the president's (2010) National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. She agreed with Blinder that we need more stimulus. But we can only get this if we agree to long-run spending cuts – including social security, of course. Yuck. This is a political strategy that is sure to end in disaster, given the prevailing state of misinformation and disinformation.

During the discussion, Blinder – who identified himself as a Democrat – expressed his frustration in not being able to convince fellow Democrats to cut social security. Double yuck. The average social security check isthe most important issues of the day. Of course, there are other economists, including Nobel Prize winners such as Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and Robert Solow (full disclosure: the latter two are members of CEPR's advisory board), who would offer more sensible views. But this panel was, sadly, representative of economists with the most influence on public policy.

With a brain trust like this, a lost decade for America looks likely – unless the citizenry can steer a different course.

The Economic Idiocy of Economists

The American Economic Association's annual meetings are a scary sight, with thousands of economists all gathered in the same place – a veritable weapon of mass destruction. Chicago was the lucky city for 2012 this past weekend, and I had just finished participating in an interesting


panel on "the economics of regime change", when I stumbled over to see what the big budget experts had to say about "the political economy of the US debt and deficits".

The session was introduced by UC Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach, who put up a graph of the United States' rising debt-to-GDP ratio, and warned of dire consequences if Congress didn't do something about it. Yawn.

But the panelists got off to a good start, with Alan Blinder of Princeton, former vice-chairman of the US Federal Reserve, describing the public discussion of the US national debt as generally ranging from "ludicrous to horrific". True, that. He asked and answered four questions.

First, is there any urgency (to reduce the deficit or debt)? No. The government can borrow short term at negativelarger – again, relative to its economy – than that of Greece. And the yen is nowhere near the dollar in its importance as an international reserve currency. But the Japanese government is still borrowing at just 1% interest rates for its ten-year bonds.

At this point, it was clear that this panel, other than Blinder, was living in a dystopian fantasy world. Next up was Rudy Penner of the Urban Institute, another former CBO director. His perspective was not much different from that of Auerbach or Holtz-Eakin. He complained about the polarisation of the political process, which prevents the two major parties from reaching an agreement. It's not partisanship, he said: House speaker Tip O'Neill and President Ronald Reagan knew how to be partisan, but they were able


to reach agreement on the 1983 social security package and the 1986 tax reforms. And yada yada.

These arguments about polarisation really pose the key issue: from the viewpoint of the 99%, it's not polarisation, but weakness in defending our interests that is the problem. President Obama compromised much more than he should have last year, offering cuts to social security and Medicare, in exchange for a long-term budget deal. The 99% are just lucky that the Republicans were too extremist to make this kind of a "grand bargain" with Obama.

The last panelist was Alice Rivlin of the Brookings Institution, another former CBO budget director and Fed vice-chair, as well as a member of the president's (2010) National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. She agreed with Blinder thatCompany, Inc., libellant-appellee, is engaged in the business of marketing sand and gravel dredged from the Mississippi River. In the operation of its business, Girod employs barges, tow boats, a crew boat, draglines, trucks, and other equipment. Its chief customer in September 1956 was the Fordyce Construction Company, a company engaged in manufacturing concrete mats for revetment work on the Mississippi River. On September 9, 1956, the date of the accident, Girod's plant was operating twenty-four hours a day, dredging, cleaning, classifying, marketing, and stockpiling sand and gravel.

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Girod filed a libel against the tug Felicity Anne, owned by Hanson Dreijer Marine Enterprises, and asked for the recovery of damages for: (a) the total loss by sinking of a wood-hull composite barge, allegedly struck and damaged by the Felicity


to form a single unit of tug and barges, when made up stern-log to stern-log, a difficult maneuver to make at that particular place. The Felicity Anne's bow was to be secured to one of the cement barges so that the barges could be towed out into the chute where the water was deep enough and where there was sufficient room to arrange and secure the tow. As the crew of the Felicity Anne tell the story, they attached a line to the libelant's composite barge (then 400 to 600 feet upstream from the cement barges) in order to hold position while securing the wires of their tow; at this point, the cables of the composite barge, which were insecurely attached, slipped loose allowing the barge to drifttoward the center of the stream. By Girod's version, which the trial judge accepted, the composite barge was securely cabled to the shore; the Felicity Anne maneuvered negligently, and it is a fair inference that the tug shoved the cement barges upstream so that they struck the composite barge tearing it loose from its moorings and away from the bank. Under either explanation, the composite barge, the Felicity Anne, and the other two barges formed a flotilla and drifted to the opposite bank. Two thirty-foot, steel I-beams, hinged to the deck of the composite barge and used to support a ramp to the bank, were dragged through the water. These dug into the river bottom, spudding down the barge and pinning the flotilla against the opposite bank. Shortly


thereafter, Girod's tug, Betty, came to the rescue, pulled the I-beams free, and returned the composite barge to its moorings. The crew boat was completely crushed; she sank at her mooring. The steel deck barge (Barge No. 20) was never found.

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On September 12, 1956, representatives of the interested parties conducted a joint survey "to ascertain [the] nature and extent of damage [and] recommended repairs". The barge was repaired and placed back in operation two days after the survey. From time to time a check was made, and although an inspection showed that she was taking some water this did not appear to be serious.

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About the first of October, Girod moved the composite barge about twenty miles up the river for use in operations at Brunswick Landing. It stayedAnne or its tow ever struck or came in contact with the steel barge Number 20, 400-600 feet upstream, or that the negligent maneuvers of the Felicity Anne caused Barge Number 20 to break loose from its moorings; (2) the libellant owned the composite barge and was entitled to recover for its total loss; (3) the accident on September 9 was caused by the negligence of the Felicity Anne and her crew; (4) the composite barge was securely moored on September 9 and the accident that night did not result from Girod's negligence; (5) the evidence establishes that a dragline, pipe and other equipment, including two trucks, were on the deck of the barge and were lost overboard as a result of the accident September 9; (6) the


the buyer received the barge and paid part of the purchase price. This case falls within the exception to the statute.

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B. There is a direct conflict in the evidence on the question of the Felicity Anne's negligence September 9. Witnesses for Girod testified that the barge was securely held to two trees on the bank by ¾ inch cables, that the cables were inspected many times, that the clamps held tight and did not cut into the wire, and that there were lights on the barges. The only eye-witnesses were the members of the Felicity Anne's crew. There was, however, one witness near the scene. He testified that he had watched the Felicity Anne maneuvering in the river and that shortly after it approached the barge there wasa loud noise as if a truck were backing into a wall, and then crashing, snapping, and popping sounds. A photograph showing where the I-beams had been sunk into the river bank indicates that they were wrenched out by a powerful force pushing in an upstream direction. On the other hand, the crew of the Felicity Anne testified that the cables of the composite barge were spliced, "frazzled", "in bad shape", and were inadequately secured to small willow trees; that there were no lights on the barge; that there was no contact at all between the barge and any of libellant's vessels until after the barge had broken away from the bank; that the depth of the water prevented the Felicity Anne from coming closer than eight or


which might be the intervening negligence of the owner in failing to take proper care of his vessel.

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In asserting that the libellant was negligent, the respondent is at a disadvantage: the pertinent facts are in the possession of the libellant and are not readily discoverable by an opposing party. The evidence however does admit the inference that the shipowner's intervening negligence is a reasonable explanation of the sinking.

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To begin with, there is evidence that the timbers suffered no harm from the collision. The stipulated damages for repairs was only $600 and neither Girod nor the surveyors regarded the barge as seriously damaged. Mr. Girod himself told the surveyors that it was not necessary to examine the interior of the hull. Nevertheless, his superintendent inspected the hull and reportedthat it was sound. The loss of the loading ramp constituted the major damage; this would not affect the structural integrity of the vessel. The only hull damage was a torn wrapper plate on the downstream inshore corner of the vessel well above the water-level, the position of which might indicate that the plate was damaged before the collision. With the benefit of a survey, all apparent injury was repaired. During the thirty-nine day period before the barge sank, Girod used the barge for the last thirty-two days. Although it was necessary to pump water from the barge on occasions, the libellant's witnesses stated that there were no serious leaks. On this evidence, the barge was in satisfactory condition and had sustained no such damage as would account


for her sinking — without some intervening cause.

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There was no water in the barge at the time of the September 12 survey. Later there was water, but it was pumped out for three or four days and, according to Mr. Girod, "all of a sudden it quit leaking and didn't leak anymore." But the vessel was never hauled out or otherwise examined to ascertain the cause of the leaking, and no precautions were taken except that Kilgore, Girod's superintendent, was instructed to watch it closely; Girod said that at Delta he and Kilgore inspected the bilges every day. Girod continued to use the barge at Delta for sixteen days after discovery of the leak, then towed it to Brunswick where it was used for sixteen more days. Fellows,morning it was found submerged on the revetment.

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The barge was forty years old and was a vessel with wood-hull. One should expect the seams to open small leaks when she was towed upstream. If the barge ran aground while being moved or was struck by heavy debris floating down-stream, the seams would have opened. In October 1956 the river was falling about a foot a day; if the barge was not moved in time to prevent its being raised on one side by the effect of the river falling, its timbers were subjected to undue strain.

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This case strongly tempts a court to follow the primrose path to post hoc ergo procter hoc reasoning. The district court resisted the temptation when exposed to it by the libellant's claim for


steel barge No. 20. Yet, the circumstantial evidence and inferences pointing to the cause of the composite barge's sinking are as few and airy as those pointing to the cause of barge No. 20's disappearance shortly after the September 9 accident. The difficulty is the sufficiency of proof of the cause. When the facts are unascertainable or so meager as they are here and an effect may follow from one of several causes it is a false generalization to suppose that because a sinking follows a collision thirty-nine days later, the sinking necessarily was an effect of the collision. In reaching our decision on the question of causation we have given weight to the slight damage the barge suffered in the September 9 accident, the apparent lack ofharm to its timbers, the effect of the survey, the fact that all repairs were made in accordance with the survey, and the later use of the barge for thirty-two days, indicating that foreseeable damage had been repaired. We have considered the age of the barge, her wood-hull, the likelihood that her seams would leak under any conditions and the likelihood of serious leakage on exposure to stress and unusual conditions. We have also considered as significant factors the owner's possession and control of the vessel, his knowledge of the leaks, his awareness of the exposure of the barge to leakage during and after the time she was towed to Brunswick, and the relative lack of care given the vessel at Brunswick. We conclude that it is as


James O'Brien Says Everyone Needs To Know What Vote Leave Did On Friday

James O'Brien laid into the press after Vote Leave withdrew their appeal against their fine for breaking electoral laws - and it barely got a mention by the media.

The Electoral Commission fined Vote Leave £61,000 after ruling it exceeded the £7m spending limit during the referendum.

The Vote Leave campaign was found to have funnelled £675,315 through pro-Brexit youth group BeLeave, days before the referendum in 2016 in a bid to avoid spending limits.

They immediately claimed they had been stitched up and vowed to appeal. But on Friday afternoon - the day that was supposed to be the day the UK leave the EU - they quietly withdrew that appeal.

James said that the timing suggests their planIn this section

The Housing Affordability Measure compares the income after housing costs of potential first home buyers in different parts of New Zealand to the national median income after housing costs for all households.

This page gives the latest results for the Housing Affordability Measure (HAM) which measures household income after paying for housing costs for potential first home buyers and renters, by region and territorial authority.

This page explains the difference in the versions of the Housing Affordability Measure data series and the disclaimers for its use.

About the HAM data

Introduced in May 2017, the Housing Affordability Measure (HAM) is an experimental statistical series that measures household income after paying for housing costs for 2 subsets of the population: potential first home buyers population and renters.

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at least, may receive the tribute of lament from me also.

ORESTES. Lift the veil yourself. It is not my part but yours to look upon these relics and to greet them kindly.

AEGISTHUS. It is good counsel and I will follow it. ( _To_ ELECTRA.) But you, call me Clytemnestra, if she is within.

ORESTES. She is near you; do not turn your eyes elsewhere.

AEGISTHUS ( _removes the face-cloth from the corpse_ ). O, what sight is this?

ORESTES. Why so scared? Is the face so strange?

AEGISTHUS. Who are the men into whose toils I have fallen, hapless that I am?

ORESTES. Have you not discovered before now that the dead, as you miscall them, are living?

AEGISTHUS. Alas, I read the riddle. This can be none but Orestes who speaks to me!

ORESTES.O most joyful day! O kindest friend, and you, good sailors, would that I could prove to you in deeds what love you have won from me! Let us be going, my son, when you and I have made a solemn farewell to the homeless home within, so that you may learn by what means I sustained life and how stout a heart has been mine. I believe that the bare sight would have deterred any other man from enduring such a lot; but I have been schooled by necessity to patience.

(NEOPTOLEMUS _is about to follow_ PHILOCTETES _into the cave._ )

CHORUS. Stay, let us give heed. Two men are coming, one a seaman of your ship, the other a stranger. You should hear their tidings before you go


from gods or men?

CHORUS ( _threateningly, to_ CREON). What do you want, stranger?

CREON. I will not touch yonder man but her who is mine.

OEDIPUS. O elders of the land!

CHORUS. Stranger, your deed is not just.

CREON. It is just.

CHORUS. How just?

CREON. I take my own.

OEDIPUS. _Hear, O Athens!_

CHORUS. _What are you about, stranger? Release her! Your strength and ours will soon be proved._

CREON. _Stand back!_

CHORUS. _Not from you while this is your purpose._

CREON. _It will be war with Thebes for you if you harm me._

OEDIPUS. _Did I not say so?_

CHORUS. _Unhand the maid at once!_

CREON. _Do not command where you are not master._

CHORUS. _Leave hold, I tell you!_

CREON ( _to a guard who seizes_ ANTIGONE). _And I tell you, begone!_

CHORUS. _To the rescue, men of Colonus, to the rescue!it was said he could extract pure honey from words. The circumstances of his life, as well as his plays, suggest that Sophocles was conservative, and opposed to innovation in religion and politics. At eighty-three he was still active in the Athenian government. One of his greatest plays, _Oedipus at Colonus,_ was written the year before his death. He died in 406 B.C. in Athens at the age of ninety.
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Bob Seger, I Knew You WhenThe heartland hero's 18th album pays tribute to the memories of Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen with covers of "Busload of Faith" and "Democracy." It also honors the late Glenn Frey with "Glenn's Song," a recollection of their first meeting. "I always kind of thought of [Frey] as my baby brother, a little bit," Seger said in 2016. "He was fucking brilliant. He was a joy to be around. I always looked forward to seeing him. It was always memorable. He had an amazing sense of humor and was just smart, whip-smart."More Bob Seger: 15 Songs You Can Stream NowHear:Amazon Music Unlimited | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal

Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, The Rest of Our LifeThe married country titans pair upfor their first album as a duo (and Hill's first studio release since 2005's Fireflies), which showcases their sweet harmonies on the hooky anthem "The Bed We Made" and the flirtatious "Break First." Hear: Amazon Music Unlimited | Apple Music | Bandcamp | SoundCloud Go | Spotify | Tidal

Tove Lo, Blue Lips [Lady Wood Phase II]The second part of the Swedish pop thrush's Lady Wood series is "admirably uncensored, but may leave you craving a shower, however close to home it lands," writes Will Hermes.Hear: Amazon Music Unlimited | Apple Music | SoundCloud Go | Spotify | Tidal

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, PolygondwanalandPolygondwanaland is the Australian psych-rock collective's fourth album to come out this year. Polygonwanaland channels the band's 2017 catalog – the twitchy energy from February's


deliberately dissonant Flying Microtonal Banana, the proggy grandeur of June's dystopian hellscape Murder of the Universe, and the chilled-out strumming of August's breezy Sketches of Brunswick East – into a hyperactive whole, while details like beamed-in synths and sludgy riffs hint at where they might be headed before their wildly fruitful year ends. Maura JohnstonHear: Bandcamp

The She's, "All Female Rock and Roll Quartet"Hooky and harmony-heavy, the She's craft indiepop that recalls the fanzine era's peaks while also being mindful of 21st-century concerns. "Ashes" pairs a circular, steam-gathering riff with bassist-vocalist Sami Perez's withering observations; the sweetly sour "Sorry" and "Anywhere But Here" recall bubblegrunge's highest moments. The title's an eye-roll at the San Francisco foursome being slotted into "women" as a genre, but the song named after itFrank Bry has worked as an independent sound effect recordist in his company – aptly named The Recordist – since 1993. He has also been recording thunderstorms for the past 15 years – and now, he’s busy putting the final touches to his Thunderstorm 3 sound effect library. I decided to ask him just how he went about capturing those intense sounds, what the perfect thunderclap sounds like to him – and what’s been the wildest experience in his many years of recording this dramatic natural phenomenon.

Hi Frank, when it comes to capturing the sound of thunderstorms, what are the best conditions to record in?

Sitting in my living room having a Single Malt Scotch with the microphones outdoors recording. Seriously though, the best storms to record are when


the room." "I went out to the terrace and saw the sea coming inland." "It took me five seconds to reach the stairs, but the water was already there." "It was not more than five seconds." "On the bed, I found a note from my wife, saying that they were at the beach." "You were at the Orchid, right?" "Yeah." "Yeah, my whole family were in the swimming pool when the water hit." "I found my middle son first, Thomas." "He was..." "He was at the top of this really tall tree." "Took me ages to convince him to come down because he was so scared, you know?" "And then I found my little one, Simon." "He was holding onto a palm tree." "He's only five." "I sent2004 to tenth place in the league, which due to Incheon United's entry, now numbered 13 clubs. In the FA Cup, Daegu were knocked out in the round of 32 by National League side Ansan Hallelujah. In the Samsung Hauzen Cup, a new cup competition run as a league competition specifically for K League clubs (thus excluding National League and lower tier clubs) during the K League's mid-season break, finished eighth out of 13 teams. The following season saw Daegu placed eighth place in the league and seventh in the Samsung Hauzen Cup. In the FA Cup, after defeating University and National League sides, Daegu were knocked out in the quarterfinals in a 2–1 loss to another K League side, the Chunnam Dragons.

Prior to the start of the


Suwon City. Better results were achieved in the League Cup, with Daegu progressing out of their group to the knockout stage, thanks to wins over Daejeon Citizen and Busan, before losing to FC Seoul after a penalty shootout.

By virtue of winning the 2018 Korean FA Cup, Daegu qualified for its first appearance in the 2019 AFC Champions League. Despite having the lowest wage bill of all the K-League clubs, it won its first game, against Melbourne FC.

After controversial fall out between the manager, André, and executive director, Cho Kwang-Rae, André left the club on January 27, 2020 . On February 5, 2020, the club announced Lee Byung-keun, who had joined the club as the chief assistant coach at the beginning of 2019 season, to be the caretaker managerThe joyful voices of Zaza Kanto In the capital of Madagascar, an island nation where nearly 80 percent of people eke out a living on less than $2 a day, an unexpected sound emerges from the slums of the capital, Antananarivo: Zaza Kanto, an a capella group of boys, ages 11 to 16, whose joyful sounds and viral videos have elevated them to national fame. They've also earned praise from Fredo Austin, of the band Freedom's Boombox, who mentored the young men as part of an exchange program called American Music Abroad. Seth Doane reports.


which had led to scores of workers losing limbs and lives -- the mine finally collapsed, trapping Mario and thirty-two other miners two thousand feet underground.

In the minutes that followed the collapse, some men ran to a small reinforced shelter near the bottom of the mine. Without thinking ahead, they broke into an emergency food supply cabinet and began eating the meager supply of food meant to keep two dozen miners fed for just two days. Other miners went searching for their comrades. Once the mine settled, a small group, including Mario, explored narrow passageways looking fruitlessly for a way out. The shift supervisor took off his white hard hat and told the others that he was no longer their boss. Now they were all in charge.

Amid thefear and confusion, Mario began organizing the other miners. He'd seen the massive slab of rock blocking their escape. Later, he told Héctor Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it." Mario told the men (women weren't allowed to work in the mine) that they might be underground for weeks. They needed to ration their cookies and condensed milk. Once they accounted for all thirty-three miners, he reminded them that that number was the age at which Jesus was crucified, a sign that they were meant to live. He encouraged them to organize daily prayer meetings,


which brought the men closer and helped them overcome the frictions of being buried alive with little hope of rescue.

Mario was not alone in taking leadership. One of the most important actions that he and the shift supervisor took was to give every man a role -- from setting up lighting to mimic day and night, to carting water and caring for the sick. The men organized daily meetings where they debated and voted on life-and-death decisions about rationing their food and organizing their living space. Above ground, their mothers, sisters, and wives organized to put pressure on the Chilean government, which dragged its feet before mounting a full-scale rescue. The miners' survival was a team effort.

Yet Mario's decision to stand up on the first day likely savedhundreds of organizers, clergy and grassroots leaders. He's helped people build some of the most effective new multi-racial community organizing groups over the past decade. Gordon has also led national organizing campaigns on children's health coverage, health reform and stopping of foreclosures. Before becoming an organizer, he worked as a legal services and civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia, and also served as the associate director of the Temple University Center for Public Policy.

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cabinet and began eating the meager supply of food meant to keep two dozen miners fed for just two days. Other miners went searching for their comrades. Once the mine settled, a small group, including Mario, explored narrow passageways looking fruitlessly for a way out. The shift supervisor took off his white hard hat and told the others that he was no longer their boss. Now they were all in charge.

Amid the fear and confusion, Mario began organizing the other miners. He'd seen the massive slab of rock blocking their escape. Later, he told Héctor Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, "At that moment I put death in my headto carting water and caring for the sick. The men organized daily meetings where they debated and voted on life-and-death decisions about rationing their food and organizing their living space. Above ground, their mothers, sisters, and wives organized to put pressure on the Chilean government, which dragged its feet before mounting a full-scale rescue. The miners' survival was a team effort.

Yet Mario's decision to stand up on the first day likely saved his own and the other men's lives. By carefully rationing their meager supply of food, they were able to survive for weeks on daily crumbs. As important, by organizing themselves, they preserved their humanity. They sustained the belief that they would ultimately escape their underground tomb. When some men gave up hope, others pushed them to


who we are and what other people expect from us.

Gordon Whitman has worked as a community organizer and social change strategist and coach for the past 25 years. He first learned organizing in Santiago, Chile, and helped found successful grassroots organizing groups in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Flint, Michigan. As the deputy director of Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network), the largest faith-based community organizing network in the US, he has coached hundreds of organizers, clergy and grassroots leaders. He's helped people build some of the most effective new multi-racial community organizing groups over the past decade. Gordon has also led national organizing campaigns on children's health coverage, health reform and stopping of foreclosures. Before becoming an organizer, he worked as a legal services and civil rights lawyerguys he was willing to go down with.

He promoted from within for OC position, brought in some high school coach/buddy from Penn State to coach the linebackers and fired the most senior guy on his staff in Allen Lowery.

Our offensive game plans have been terrible and predictable with no identity established and the special teams have been worse than last year. Penalties are a continual problem.

Unsurprisingly special teams has cost us at least 16 points this season and seven of those were in a game that we lost by single digits.

He's made stupid decisions on when to go for the fourth down conversion and even worse challenges.

There's no doubt in my mind Munch has cost this team at least one W, probably more with his reluctance to bench


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Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods is a Canadian food company that packages and sells snack foods. The company is named after the popular nursery rhyme character and even features the character as the company logo.

Humpty Dumpty originally sold a variety of potato chips. For the original brand of chips, flavours included Regular, BBQ, Ketchup, Dill Pickle, Salt and Vinegar, Roast Chicken, Sour Cream and Onion, Smokin' Bacon, and a St-Hubert rotisserie flavoured chicken flavour.

And finally, for their line of kettle-cooked chips, flavours featured were Regular, Jalapeño, Salt and Vinegar, BBQ, and Cheddar.

In 2006, the company was acquired in a takeover bid by Old Dutch Foods. After theThe United Nations World Food Program says it is closely monitoring the crippling drought situation in Zimbabwe and lobbying stakeholders for the provision of food and other resources to the affected families.

Officials said Zimbabwe has pledged 35,000 tonnes of maize and the WFP is working with other organizations to secure additional aid.

Close to 1.6 million people will need food aid by March next year.

The food aid ogranization reported the dire situation in late July saying the drought was and will continue to cripple the most vulnerable.

The assessment indicated that the number of people in need of food aid is 60 percent higher than the one million that needed assistance during the last lean season.


outlet end of the impregnation vessel for use as transfer liquid for the impregnated fibre material. Cooking liquid, is added to the fibre material after separation of the free liquid, preferably in connection with the top of the digester, downstream said separation of liquid.
According to conventional technique for withdrawal of liquid from the cooking system, this is normally done directly from the withdrawal strainer of the digester itself. Alternatively in connection with a two vessel system the impregnation vessel, may be supplied with fresh cooking liquor and equipped with a screening device, from which some of the withdrawn liquid is transferred to a recovery plant, possibly after first having passed a flash cyclone. The use of such a screening device involves a considerable cost, due to a specialsending judicial requests to the country where such deposits have been made.

"53 per cent of the countries said to be least corrupt by the Transparency International Index are offshore tax havens, where most of the corrupt money goes. The tax havens include New Zealand which is ranked as the least corrupt country, Singapore ranked number five and Switzerland number seven," Singh said.

He said there is a lack of political will in the leading tax haven states to part with the information because they are aware of the extent to which their economies have become "geared to this flow of illegal capitals from the poorer countries."

The CBI Director said tracing, freezing, confiscation and repatriation of stolen assets is a legal challenge, a complex process which requires expertise and political


Sacramento Councilman Steve Hansen to lead opposition to strong-mayor plan

Sacramento City Councilman Steve Hansen, not even two years into his first term at City Hall, is about to take on a popular mayor and many of the city’s most powerful interest groups in a closely watched political battle over how the city will be governed.

Sacramento City Councilman Steve Hansen, not even two years into his first term at City Hall, is about to take on a popular mayor and many of the city’s most powerful interest groups in a closely watched political battle over how the city will be governed.

Hansen said Monday he is launching a political committee that will seek to defeat a November ballot measure pushed by Mayor Kevin Johnson that would vastly increase the authorityChecks and Balances Act of 2014 and will appear on the November ballot as Measure L.

If it’s approved, the mayor would obtain the power to appoint and remove the city manager, who in turn would oversee the hiring and firing of key city officials. The mayor’s choice of a city manager would still require City Council approval. However, the mayor could unilaterally remove the city manager.

The mayor also would have the ability to propose the city budget, a power currently held by the city manager.

Some limited City Council actions would be susceptible to mayoral vetoes under the plan, including budget decisions. The City Council could override those vetoes, but only with a supermajority vote of six of eight council members.

An ethics committee and neighborhood advisory committee would also


be formed.

The form of government is similar to those in many large cities. Supporters argue it makes the mayor more accountable to voters.

Hansen said he has begun recruiting neighborhood and civic leaders to join his campaign. He said he has raised roughly $39,000 so far to launch the effort from the International City Managers Association.

The League of Women Voters and the Democratic Party of Sacramento County have also expressed opposition to the plan. Kerri Asbury, chair of the Democratic Party, said her organization would work with Hansen. “We’re all on the same page,” she said.

Hansen said a poll he commissioned this summer showed nearly two-thirds of voters oppose Johnson’s proposal. While the exact text of the poll and the questions asked were not released, a memo that accompaniedThis Blog

Ryan Lillis has covered the city of Sacramento, its 108 neighborhoods and its politicians since 2008. Prior to that, he covered crime at The Sacramento Bee. A native of upstate New York, Lillis has a journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley.


A Central India Security Force (CISF) police personnel allegedly opened fire on his colleagues, killing three of them and critically injuring another at their unit at a thermal power station in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district of Bihar today.

The accused has been identified as constable Balveer Singh who hails from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. His colleagues, three of whom were head constables and one an assistant sub-inspector were killed.

The CISF policeman lost his cool following a dispute over leave and fired from his rifle, Superintendent of Police Dr Satyaprakash said. He also added that senior officials have rushed to the spot.

Balveer has been arrested, they said.

"Preliminary information states that Balveer opened fire on his other colleagues, using a service rifle, in an alleged fratricide incident. While three have been killedin the firing, one another is critical and has been rushed to a nearby hospital," they said.

Officials said the incident was reported at about 12:30 am at the Nabinagar Power Generation Company Ltd (NPGCL) unit in the said district where the force is deployed for security duties to guard the facility.

A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) unit is deployed in the NPGCL unit as part of its mandate to secure the facility.

They said the incident took place when Balveer allegedly used his INSAS rifle to shoot his colleagues who had assembled to leave for the shift change and after the first hit, he was overpowered by others present around him.

It is understood that Balveer had come back after a two-month yoga course and had some issues related with


Thousands of families in the UK could be deprived of compensation for the death or harm of a relative caused by the diabetes drug Avandia, even though the British maker has agreed to pay billions of dollars to settle similar claims in the US.

The licence for Avandia was revoked in Europe, in September 2010, because of evidence that it could cause heart failure and heart attacks. The drug can still be prescribed in the US, but not to patients at risk of heart problems.

A scientist with the Food and Drug Administration estimated that Avandia could have been responsible for 100,000 heart attacks in the US.

The manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, has admitted concealing data about the damaging side-effects of the drug, and there is evidence of the drug's harmful effects. But,Avandia could be prescribed with those drugs or on its own.

The drug, which generically is known as rosiglitazone, was designed to lessen the body's resistance to insulin. It was available as a standalone drug – Avandia – or in a combination with metformin, and known as Avandamet.

When both drugs were withdrawn by the European Medicines Agency, there were about 90,000 people taking them in the UK.

The first warnings of trouble with Avandia came in 2007, when a prominent US scientist, Steve Nissen, published data from a review of 42 clinical trials which had been carried out on the drug. The trials involved 28,000 patients, and showed that Avandia could cause heart attacks. Further trials, the results of which were published in 2010, found people on Avandia were 27%


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quite fierce about protecting the people she cares about. She is a bit suspicious that the island is not quite as safe from prying eyes as everyone believes but when things appear to be on the up and up, she begins to relax her guard. She is quickly charmed by Val’s sister Gabriella (Gabi) and his mother and she is thrilled to meet blues legend, Jim Lewis. Meg is a little dazzled by Val but she has absolutely no intention of beginning a romance with him.

Val is a shrewd businessman and the success of his island retreat hinges on providing complete and total privacy for his guests. They, along with his employees, are thoroughly vetted and he has yet to have a breach in security. But soon afterMeg and Michael arrive, he begins receiving seemingly innocuous photos of him, Meg and Michael. When all remains quiet in the media, Val cannot fathom the motive for the pictures, but he quietly begins an investigation. However when Meg learns about the pictures, she jumps into action to keep Michael out of the limelight.

After Michael and Meg return to their regular lives, puzzling information about Gabi’s fiancé, Alonzo, takes Meg, Michael and eventually, Val to Italy. Things do not quite add up about Alonzo’s winery and Michael is determined to uncover the truth about his business. As the three of them are looking into the winery, Gabi finds herself in a precarious situation and soon everyone is in a race against time to rescue her before it is


BP oil spill settlement could restore relations with U.S. government

The Associated PressShrimp boats are seen parked in Venice, La., near the mouth of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, in this April 30, 2010 file photo. BP agreed late Friday March 2, 2012 to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant's 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history.

NEW YORK (AP) – BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement with people and businesses harmed by its 2010 oil spill removes some uncertainty about the potential financial damages it faces. It also may help the company restore its all-important relationship with the federal government.

Although the oil companyand Aldrin, some of the most highly dangerous and toxic synthetic chemicals that will persist in our environment forever and only increase in potency over time. The birds are dead and the farmers killed them. Not only do those chemicals persist in the environment forever, but we still experience fall-out from them, because chemicals like DDT are not banned in other countries.

Throughout much of human history they have relied on their own instincts and abilities to produce their food. Great accomplishments in manufacturing made it easier to mass produce food. Later, and now with both parents in a family working, purchasing food became quicker and easier than growing and processing food in their own communities. In the 1990s scientists modified the genetics of plants to be resistant to


New Device Ideal for Commercial and Military, Ground and Airborne, Secondary Surveillance Radar, and Collision Avoidance Air Traffic Control Equipment

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Sept. 12, 2013 — (PRNewswire) — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:
MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today expanded its family of radio frequency (RF) power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) on silicon carbide (SiC) technology with a new 750 watt (W) RF transistor. The MDSGN-750ELMV delivers outstanding, highest power performance in a full range of air traffic control and collision avoidance equipment. Targeted applications include commercial secondary surveillance radar (SSR), which is used globally to interrogate and identify aircrafts in airport locales and regional centers within about a 200 mile range.

"Microsemi's reputation as abut the Bucs were ahead 25-11 at that point.

Marrone said he told the quarterbacks on Monday that Minshew would be the starter the rest of the season, and that Foles handled the news well.

"It's brutal. It's tough," Marrone said. "He's a competitor. He's worked his ass off to come back and he's a great pro, so he's going to do everything he can to help us win. At the same time he's got to be ready in case there's an injury or whatever it may be. He'll be a pro about this.

"I think the world of him. I think he's a really good quarterback. He obviously can win in this league, but we've got to be able to have some help around him."

Foles has produced 661 yards and


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On September 10, 1956, the plaintiff applied for a contempt citation against Fred W. Stover "for willful violation of the injunction issued as a part of the final decree in this cause * * *."
It was then charged that, subsequent to the entry of the decree the said Fred W. Stover, in his capacity as president of the Iowa Union Farmer Association, solicited contributions for the Iowa Union Farmer Association and that, at the same time, he published various articles which demonstrated a willful and deliberate defiance of the court's decree. Other averments of the application were designed to show an intention on the part of the respondent to disregard and disobey the injunctive relief granted by Judge Harper.
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We at the Queens were delighted at the success of the Bournemouth Hearing Show yesterday, with the event being in its third year, it was a fantastic turnout and the latest innovations truly are a miracle for those who suffer from hearing lost.

The appearance of guest star Rula Lenska (patron of the hearing show) was a joy for those attending, her warm welcome and kind spirit offered a calming influential atmosphere around the room. Rula had nothing but praise on her visit to Bournemouth, boosting its welcoming nature and fantastic scenery.

Rula’s speech truly was exceptional, her story was both touching and honest. Her words offered advice and reassurance to those with hearing loss, and that there is help out there and you


Channel 4 will broadcast the Muslim call to prayer every morning during Ramadan.

The film is part of an examination of the religious event which sees millions of Muslims around the world fast for a month.

The channel's head of factual programming Ralph Lee said it had previously been nearly invisible on mainstream TV.

He said: "It's easy for non-Muslims to see Islam through a superficial prism of what is forbidden, and Ramadan through the physical hardship of fasting and control.

"For Muslims, however, Ramadan provides great physical and spiritual gains.

"It's a time of reformation and reflection, whether that's developing a greater awareness of the suffering of others, feeling a stronger affinity with their Muslim brothers and sisters around the world, or resolving to change the way they live their lives forthe greater good."

The channel will also broadcast the traditional call to prayer, delivered by muezzin Hassen Rasool, online. It will be automatically played at the same time it is played in mosques around London.

Mr Lee said it would "act as a nationwide Tannoy system" and a provocation to viewers "in the very real sense of the word".

The channel's series about Ramadan, which begins later this month, will also include a documentary with Rashid Khan, a former rugby player who starred in the award-winning Make Bradford British, which examines how Muslims in Britain prepare for the holy month.

Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, assistant general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), welcomed the move by Channel 4.

"I think it is a brilliant idea, I am very excited about it. I


Socio-economic disadvantage and body mass over the life course in women and men: results from the Northern Swedish Cohort.
Obesity and body mass in adulthood relate both to current and to childhood socio-economic status, particularly in women, but the underlying life course processes are not known. This study aims at examining whether the life course socio-economic status-body mass association in women and men is explained by the cumulative risk or adolescent sensitive period models whether associations are similar at different life course stages; and whether health behaviours explain the associations. A total of 476 women and 517 men participated in this 27-year prospective cohort study (participation rate 93%). Body mass index was assessed at the age of 16 and 43 years and self-reported at the age of 21 andhim," Sgt. Stephen Girard told the Gainesville Sun.

>> Florida man calls 911 nearly 100 times in one day

The man was hospitalized for an involuntary mental health check under Florida’s Baker Act law, according to the Gainesville Sun.

The man’s dog was sitting in the car following the incident and was taken care of by officers.

Read more at Gainesville Sun.


Born in South Africa in 1975, Martin Pistorius suddenly began to succumb to a mysterious illness when he was 12. After going home from school with a sore throat one day, he stopped eating, started sleeping almost constantly, and stopped communicating.

He gradually began to lose control of his body. He was treated for both cryptococcal meniningitis and tuberculosis of the brain — but no one really knew what was wrong. Doctors told his parents he was left with the mind of a baby and that they should take him home to die.

But he lived on. Pistorius left the hospital but spent more than a decade at home and in day care centers unable to move or speak. His family was told he was unaware of the world aroundstruggled with the “very real reality” that he would probably die all alone in a care home and he often missed his family.

“I was a child, at the end of the day. And what child doesn't want their mommy and daddy? And it was really hard to go through so many awful things without them, without anyone to comfort and protect you,” he said.

But by 2001, there was hope.

A new worker at his care center began to sit and talk with him. Over time, she began to pick up on tiny signals that made her realize he was more aware than people thought. She urged his parents to have Pistorius evaluated at the Center for Augmentative and Alternative Communication where, for the first time, he could show people


for himself. With new stimulation and experiences, his body grew stronger and he began to regain movement. He was able to push himself in his wheelchair and learned to drive a specially-equipped car that he operates with his hands.

But he still worried he would be alone. He remembers thinking: “I have so much love inside of me and nobody to give it to.”

Martin and his wife, Joanna, seen here after getting engaged on a hot air balloon ride in 2008. Today

Enter Joanna, who knew his sister through a friend. They first saw each other on Skype on New Year's Day in 2008.

“(He) had such a nice smile and I just thought he's really attractive,” she recalled. “He seemed like such a kind person.”

“I just enjoyed being with her.Imperative of inclusive sectoral reform

Imagine a hypothetical situation where war is fought at the four corners of a space, where the enemies, as the aggressors, the attackers are laying siege against their prey in the middle of the space. If the prey must be saved, it must be able to launch an aerial bombardment from the top in order to get at the target of the surrounding aggressor. If this succeeds the prey who is on self-defence would have been in the superior position of a second order agency, or a gadfly at the commanding height of natural order of things.

The enemy at the four corners of the national space is corruption which is not only systemic, but also at the threshold of consuming its prey who is


the Nigerian nation. The systemic nature of corruption in Nigeria is that it has encircled and permeated the country and its citizens and as it advances into the centre the more the nation is consumed. The war against corruption cannot be fought separately on the four corners, but from one to many aerial bombardments from the top and probably from the underground, if possible. Similarly, the war against corruption cannot be fought separately on many sectors, but from one and many aerial bombardments of all sectors from the top or otherwise. It is ,therefore, ethically and intuitively imperative that the anti-graft war demands inclusive sectoral reform rather than sector to sector reforms because the problem, corruption, is systemic.

The above allegory or metaphor illustrating a hypothetical situation best servesgenre of graft is an over-financialisation of the society or financial hemorrhage which is the function or the making of excess liquidity where money is chased about as a god and the excess competition associated with it leads to market volatility that is one of the current defining hazards of recession. In fact, all sectors in any given modern society are subjected to the phenomenal economic uncertainties.

Suffice it to say that sectoral growth and reform are meaningful within the straight jacket of the causal history, social relations and human anthropology. At any historical period corruption is the central issue of sectoral reform and those who created corruption in all institutions and fabrics of the society through the free market economic theories are Adam Smith, David Richardo, Keynes and


Alexander Hamilton. These were the architects and handlers of sectoral reforms with capitalist alter-ego. Modern nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s have followed suit in dancing to the melodies of free market economy, thereby subjecting all sectoral reforms to it, with attendant incubus of corruption, over-financialisation and market volatility.

The imperative question is: is it possible to reform corruption strewn sectors piece-meal without inclusive rehabilitation of the ailing market and consumption-led economy? Nigeria’s capacity to move from state control to consumption-led economy is problematic, even as Japan, South Korea and Singapore have made giant strikes in that direction with the communist China’s deft in state control creating a bounty of surprises to the developed West. As Nigeria is found nowhere in the twodivides, a path of sustainable development must be channeled through inclusive sectoral reforms and inclusive growth.

The bedrock of every national inclusive economic growth and development is the values which the society subscribes and the people collectively adhere to as the determinant of virtues against the vices. The virtues in turn, modulate accountability and discipline against graft and corruption. The boom of the oil and gas in the 70s and 80s never cried out for a sectoral reform until corruption ate deep into the system leaving nothing in the oil revenue. This development betrayed the insincerity of the governments until the equal and opposite reaction of the Niger Delta agitation for resource control, vandalisation of oil installations, drastic fall in both oil production and the international price of petroleum


products. A lot of mismanagement issues ,corruption and sharp practices were exposed to the dismay of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the host communities and the international community. The need to reform the industry is couched in the idea of Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which has been in the making for a conversion into an extant law since President Goodluck Jonathan administration. As the mainstay of the Nigerian economy (mono-economy) before now the reform in the sector had been the loudest subduing the voices of reforms even in the education sector where teachers are poorly paid, where there is dearth of professionalism, where mercantilism and quick money had overshadowed knowledge, where university education is like a business centre, where degrees are printed and sold. Allthe sectors are interconnected; the corruption in one is present in the other. It is systemic. Only a horizontal value reform of the society will yield an inclusive and sustainable dividend.

Now the financial sector which is guilty of profit maximisation, international financial conspiracy, money laundering, and foreign exchange racketeering, excess liquidity hemorrhage, excess money lender and even as the main gate-way to corruption has not elicited vociferous calls for reform. The banking subsector of this omnibus sector though seemingly conservative and liberal market capitalist bastion is the engine and hub of corruptions that simmer in all the sectors. For records, the highest stage in the over-financialisation of the Nigerian market is epitomised in the win-win era of Bureau De Change when money flows in and outside the country


Pollen from ancient plants helped scientists to track down where Cannabis first appeared in Asia.

Cannabis may have originated high on the Tibetan Plateau, according to an analysis of fossil pollen.

While this medicinal and psychotropic plant was long thought to have first evolved in central Asia, scientists were hazy on the precise location. That's because there isn't much evidence of ancient cannabis in fossil impressions — imprints that plants leave behind in rock.

But there was abundant fossil pollen representing the Cannabis genus, scientists recently reported. However, past evaluations of fossil pollen in Asia lumped together Cannabis pollen with related plants in the Humulus genus (some of which produce hops used in beer).

For the new study, researchers separated Cannabis and Humulus pollen from 155 studies and mapped them to regionsA lack of capital for drilling coupled with rising exploration costs make it unsurprising that fewer players are operating in Western Canada's oil and gas fields, analysts say.

A study from consulting firm XI Technologies of Calgary finds that almost 300 names have disappeared from a roster of all companies producing oil and gas in Western Canada since global oil prices began crashing at the end of 2014.

A total of 1,334 active companies — privately held and foreign-owned entities as well as publicly traded firms — reported oil or gas production in Western Canada in December 2018, XI found.

That's down 282 names or 17.5 per cent from 1,616 in the same month four years earlier, a shift that XI data solutions specialist Shovik Sengupta says points to a period


of significant consolidation in the industry.

"There's no capital," said Tom Pavic, senior vice-president with Calgary-based Sayer Energy Advisors, when asked what he thinks is causing the shrinkage.

"There's an uptick in oil prices but we're not seeing it with the producers' stock price on the exchange.... No one wants to touch Canada because of all the uncertainty as it relates to pipelines."

Most of the missing names are likely to be small players who haven't been able to win investor backing to pay for drilling expensive oil and gas wells in trendy unconventional resource oilfields like the Montney and Duvernay, added Sayer president Alan Tambosso.

The loss of producer names is more stark among publicly traded issuers.

As of Dec. 31, 2014, a total of 108 oil and gas companies with aCanada has resulted in a greater number of subsidiaries for many larger producers.

For example, it reports Calgary-based Canadian National Resources Ltd. — the largest listed producer in both 2014 and 2018 — doubled the number of subsidiary companies it operates in Western Canada from 77 to 135 over the four years, a period when it made numerous large and small acquisitions.

In spite of the acquisitions, XI reported CNRL production fell from about 741,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in December 2014 to 618,000 boe/d in the same month of 2018.


A Delhi court on Friday extended the police custody of former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar for two days in the fake degree case

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday extended the police custody of former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar for two days in the fake degree case, though the Aam Aadmi Party leader later moved a bail plea.

Delhi Police sought Tomar's custody to confront him with Madan Pratap Chauhan, a man being interrogated in the case and some officials of the law college from where he claimed to have obtained his law degree.

Police told court that Tomar was yet to reply to various questions put to him regarding the case.

Metropolitan Magistrate Navjeet Budhiraja extended Tomar's police custody and allowed Delhi police to quiz himHi there, My name is Rehaf Aljammaz.
Below are some of the highlights of this past year :D

in Patron You used to be an adventurer like them until you decided to settle down and open your own bar! Enter the town of Briar as its citizens ramp up for the Bala Lilly Festival. This narrative adventure will have you talking to a colorful cast of characters all embarking on their own quests for adventure, glory, and love!
The status of your bar will determine who comes in and out, and how friendly you are determines how you can help the characters on their quests

Patron was developed by Studio Monage

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Todo Village Todo is long known considered as the oldest village for Manggaraian people. It was the center of Manggarai administration in the past where The King named Mashur that ruled Manggarai used to live. There in the cone-like-houses used to be the house of...still have the capability for coordinated attacks, and the fight is not over.”

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said SDF fighters are removing explosives in Hajin and fortifying their positions amid fighting on the eastern outskirts of the town.

SDF has been trying to take the enclave since it launched an offensive on Sept. 10. Since then, 932 ISIS gunmen, 545 SDF fighters and scores of civilians have been killed in the area, according to the Observatory.

The SDF offensive intensified over the past days under the cover of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.

Turkish threats

Syrian Kurdish parties said on Friday that Turkish threats to attack northern Syria amounted to a "declaration of war" and urged world powers to prevent an assault on the region.

"All the forces


in north and east Syria...are asked to agree on strategies to confront this aggression," read a statement signed by Syria's main Kurdish parties and other allied groups.

Erdogan said last week that Turkey would launch a new operation within days against the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish YPG militia which controls swathes of Syria's northern border region, in what will be Turkey's third military campaign in Syria in two years.

Ankara and Washington have long been at odds in Syria, where the United States has backed the YPG in the fight against Islamic State. Turkey says the YPG is a terrorist organisation and an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

The U.S. committed in September to keep troops in Syria indefinitely to bulster Kurdish forces in the northwest of the countryin an effort to keep Iranian influence out of the area. According to the Washington Post, the deployment amounts to U.S. troops being in "overall control, perhaps indefinitely, of an area comprising nearly a third of Syria, a vast expanse of mostly desert terrain roughly the size of Louisiana."

Turkey has complained over the slow implementation of a deal with Washington to pull YPG Kurdish fighters out of Manbij, which lies in mainly Arab territory west of the Euphrates, back to the eastern bank of the river.

"Manbij is a place where Arabs live, but they have surrendered the area to the terror organisation," Erdogan told members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in a speech in Istanbul. "Now we are saying that you should cleanse, remove them, or else


ALMOST every Australian voter backs Julia Gillard's decision to establish a royal commission into the sexual abuse of children but this overwhelming support has not translated into an immediate boost for the government.

The latest Herald/Nielsen poll shows a record 95 per cent of voters support the royal commission, while only 3 per cent are opposed. The Nielsen poll director, John Stirton, said he could not recall a poll issue receiving such universal support.

Labor remains within striking distance of the Coalition but its momentum of recent months appears to have stalled. The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, also appears stuck, with personal ratings significantly inferior to those of Ms Gillard.

The poll of 1400 voters was taken from Thursday night to Saturday night. Ms Gillard announced the royal commission last MondayA novel series of piperazinyl-pyridine ureas as antagonists of the purinergic P2Y12 receptor.
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President Trump is reportedly scheduled to attend the college football CFP National Championship Game on 8 January, presenting the very interesting possibility of him watching Kendrick Lamar's half-time show.

The political views Lamar has shared throughout his oeuvre could not be further from Trump's ideology, and on last year's standalone track 'The Heart Part 4' he called the president a "chump" (listen below).

The news was confirmed to USA TODAY 'by two people within the administration who were not authorised to speak publicly because Trump's schedule isn't yet official.'

Trump's decision to attend may be due to the fact that there tends to be less protest kneeling in college football than in the NFL, an act which Trump has fiercely criticised.

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If player kneeling does take place, it is possible he willleave the match as Vice President Mike Pence did recently at an NFL game (reportedly at Trump's behest).

Lamar rarely speaks about Trump directly in his songs, telling Rolling Stone: "I mean, it's like beating a dead horse. We already know what it is."


a government statement quoted Rajpal as saying.

It stated that later, the Bollywood actor also visited the Peeragarhi camp mohalla clinic and the polyclinic in Paschim Vihar in Delhi. He saw the facilities at the mohalla clinic and polyclinic and understood the concept of the three-tier healthcare system of the Delhi government, the statement stated.book of Deuteronomy) at the end of Deuteronomy, it gets taken captive, redeemed, is venerated and placed in the new temple in Judges, Samuel and Kings, and then is presumably removed from the temple by the invading Babylonians... who never mention it in any of their archival records.
This literature is the only literature that mentions the ark. But note that there is not a single part of this literature that was authored with the intention that it be a part of a "bible", which means that the books of the bible can all be viewed as independent of one another. Not only that, but they are themselves a pastiche of multiple sources, which means that there are dozens of different texts right here that all testify to the


sister told him that two detectives had come to their house looking for him and she gave him the business card they had left.  While at Hey Bud's restaurant at 56
th
 and Pulaski, defendant called the number on the business card.  Defendant testified that the officer told him to wait at the restaurant until he could come and pick him up.  Defendant stated that he did not call his lawyer after receiving the business card from the police or after calling the police.  Approximately 15 minutes later, two officers arrived.  Defendant testified that the officers told him to come outside with them, read him his rights, handcuffed him, placed him in the back of their car, and took him to Area One police headquarters.

At Area One, defendant statedthat his handcuffs were removed and, over the course of several hours, he was moved to several different rooms within the building.  Defendant stated that, throughout the evening, he was questioned by police officers about the Clark beating, which had occurred in Armor Park on the previous evening.  Defendant testified that he denied any knowledge of the incident and stated that he requested his attorney on several occasions.  Defendant admitted that he spoke to an assistant State's Attorney at the time that he signed the written statement, but claimed that he did not speak to her between the time they were introduced and the time that he signed the written statement.  He stated that most of the statement was incorrect but acknowledged that the personal information and the


statements regarding his friendship with Caruso, Jasas, and Kwidzinski were true.

Defendant stated that he was placed in a lineup and afterward was again interviewed by the police.  After he had been in the lineup room approximately nine hours, he recognized the voice of John O'Malley, his attorney.  Defendant heard O'Malley mention his name and ask for him, but the police would not permit O'Malley to speak with him.  Defendant claimed that he signed the statement shortly thereafter because the police told him they would let him go if he signed the statement and that he would be charged with a crime if he did not sign the statement.

John O'Malley testified that he was an attorney and longtime friend of the DeSantis family.  He stated that on March 23,1997, defendant's mother came to his home and told him she thought defendant was at the police station.  O'Malley testified that he arrived at the station at about 9:20 a.m.  He stated that he was directed to the detective unit, where he identified himself as an attorney and asked to see defendant.  O'Malley repeated his request approximately 10 minutes later and was told that a detective would be out to speak with him.  O'Malley testified that Detective Stanley Turner saw him a few minutes later and told him that he was not sure whether defendant was going to be a witness or suspect, but he would not allow O'Malley to see him.  O'Malley continued waiting and asking to see his client.  After waiting for some time, O'Malley testified


that he again saw Detective Turner and asked him why he could not see defendant.  He stated that Detective Turner merely told him he was tired and left.  O'Malley testified that he waited at the station for approximately two hours before he was allowed to see defendant in the lineup room.

Sergeant David Jarmusz of the Chicago police testified that Detective Glen Mathews asked Jarmusz to drive him to the restaurant to pick up defendant, a witness to a crime.  Only Mathews spoke to defendant in the restaurant, and Jarmusz did not recall what Mathews said.  Jarmusz stated that he did not handcuff defendant, no one told defendant he was under arrest, and defendant traveled with them in the police car to the station.  During the ride, Jarmusz andMathews did not speak to defendant.  Jarmusz testified that when they arrived at Area One defendant was placed in the lineup room and was never placed in a smaller room.  He testified that the lock on the lineup room door is never utilized and that he did not have a key.

Detective Glen Mathews testified that he first learned of defendant early in the afternoon of March 22, from an anonymous caller who said that Jasas, Michael Cutler, and defendant were involved in the Clark beating.  However, several other witnesses Mathews had spoken to about the beating had not named defendant.  He testified that he and Jarmusz went to pick up defendant at Hey Bud's, where defendant had suggested they meet.  At the restaurant, Mathews asked defendant if he


would return to the station with them to help them.  Mathews stated that defendant agreed to go with them and was not handcuffed.

Mathews testified that defendant was taken to the lineup room, but he was not handcuffed and he was not told he was under arrest.  Mathews asked defendant where he had been the previous evening and defendant responded that he had been with his girlfriend.  Mathews stated that defendant was then placed in a lineup as a filler and that the subject of the lineup was Caruso.  Mathews said that defendant remained in the lineup room after the lineup, but the door was unlocked.  Mathews left defendant in the room alone and had a telephone conversation with defendant's girlfriend and her mother.

Mathews testified that he returned tothe lineup room at 2 a.m., with Jarmusz.  At that time, Mathews advised defendant of his rights under
Miranda
 and told defendant that he knew defendant was lying to him because his girlfriend did not corroborate his story.  Mathews stated that defendant then admitted that he saw Caruso strike the smaller of the two black children, then saw Caruso chase them.  According to Mathews' testimony, defendant also said that Jasas and Kwidzinski chased Clark, but defendant did not say that he had personally laid a hand on the victim.  Mathews reentered the lineup room after 5:40 a.m. to bring defendant breakfast.

Mathews stated that defendant was never handcuffed, placed in a holding cell, or fingerprinted.  He stated that he did not fill out an arrest report or obtain a


central booking number for defendant.  He stated that defendant was never placed under arrest and went home sometime after he gave a handwritten statement.  Mathews testified that he never threatened or promised anything to defendant, and defendant never requested to call his lawyer.

Detective Stanley Turner testified that defendant was not a suspect when he was picked up at the restaurant.  He stated that one of the victims of the beating, Clevon Nicholson, viewed the lineup in which defendant was a filler, identified Caruso as one of the individuals who beat him, and identified defendant as the person who stopped Caruso, Kwidzinski, and Jasas from beating him.  Turner stated that another witness to the lineup identified defendant as one of the crowd present at the beating, but he didafter midnight.  Mason's description of the process of taking defendant's statement largely reflected that of Detective Turner and will not be repeated here.  Mason testified that the entire process of taking the written statement could have taken as much as three hours to complete.  Mason said that she never saw defendant handcuffed, he was always in the lineup room, and he was not charged with any offense on March 22 or March 23.  She also stated that she never met O'Malley.

Charles Burns testified that he was the supervisor of the felony review unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's office on March 23, 1997.  Burns testified that he arrived at Area One  between 12:30 and 1 p.m. that day.  While there, Burns spoke to O'Malley in the lineup


that defendant chose the place and time to meet the police, he was not handcuffed, and he agreed to go to the station with the detectives and cooperate with them.  The court also pointed out that no arrest procedures took place and that there was no processing or fingerprinting of defendant upon his arrival at Area One or later.  The court found that, later in the evening, the police believed defendant's statement that he had no knowledge of the incident was not truthful, and defendant was advised of his rights under
Miranda
 at 2 a.m.  The trial court found that defendant waived those rights and chose to continue speaking with the police at that time.

The trial court found that defendant's testimony that he continually asked for an attorneywas not credible.  The court found it was credible, however, that after defendant became aware that the statements of other witnesses showed that he was present at the incident, he admitted his presence to the police.  The court found that defendant voluntarily gave the oral and handwritten statements to the police and ASA Mason, and defendant was not coerced or threatened.

The court found that defendant's attorney was present at Area One and seeking to speak to defendant at the time the statement was being written and that defendant and ASA Mason were unaware the attorney was present.  Consequently, the court found that defendant's waiver of his rights for the written statement was voluntary, but not knowing, because defendant was not informed that his attorney was at the station


new law in the UK extending, rather than reducing, surveillance powers.

It is now clear that the government intends to pursue wholesale reform of surveillance law in the UK in the guise of the investigatory powers bill, which the government would like to see passed within a year. In some ways, this is a positive development: after two years of intense scrutiny by courts and committees, Britain’s legal framework for surveillance has been found desperately wanting, and a decision to overhaul surveillance law, rather than simply extend powers by attempting a revival of the snooper’s charter, raises the prospect that the government may be taking heed of some of the criticisms it has received.

On the other hand, the investigatory powers bill could well turn out to be the government’sHappy Vishwakarma Day Puja Vidhi Shubh Muhurat Time Wishes SMS Status Images Photos 2016 : Just next day after diwali, Vishwakarma Day is celebrated in India. This year it is celebrated on 12th November 2016. On this day Vishwakarma Puja is took place, a Hindu god, the divine architect, and one of the fourteen precious things born of the Samudra manthan. He constructed the holy city of Dwarka where Krishna ruled, the Maya Sabha of the Pandavas, and was the creator of many fabulous weapons for the gods. He is also called the divine carpenter, is mentioned in the Rig Veda, and is credited with Sthapatya Veda, the science of mechanics and architecture. Now below get complete details of Vishwakarma Day 2016.

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Just days after the Mayor of Mooseville passed the No Texting While Driving Law, she was pulled over and arrested for texting while driving down Moose Street.

The Mayor has been charged with two counts of TWD. According to police records, one text read "K. See you later." and the other, "On my way."The Mayor was released after agreeing to wear an ankle bracelet and posting the $250 bail."It was a stupid thing to do," the Mayor said. "I should have pulled over or had a designated texter."She hopes her actions will reinforce the reasons she passed the law in the first place.

"I put lives in danger every time I text behind the wheel," she said. "Plus, I'm driving slower, swerving, tapping brakes and basically looking like an idiotSaban: BCS National Championship parade set for Jan. 19

Alabama coach Nick Saban said the 2012 national championship team will be honored with a parade and a ceremony on the steps of Bryant-Denny Stadium next Saturday.

By Tommy DeasExecutive Sports Editor

TUSCALOOSA | This time there will be a parade.The University of Alabama's 2012 national championship football team will be honored next Saturday with celebration that will include a parade and a ceremony at the Walk of Champions at Bryant-Denny Stadium.UA's last national championship parade came after the 1992 season. Alabama held a celebration inside Bryant-Denny Stadium after its 2009 and 2011 Bowl Championship Series national titles."This is a pretty quick turnaround to do something like this, but our fans have always been great about coming out and showing their appreciation


national title team, athletics director Mal Moore and other dignitaries and guests. The parade will conclude with a ceremony on the top steps of the north end zone at the Walk of Champions plaza. The ceremony will be emceed by Eli Gold, the radio voice of UA football.Further details about the national title celebration and parade will be released next week.Some congratulations, however, couldn't wait. President Obama called University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban on Thursday to congratulate Saban and the Crimson Tide for once again winning the BCS National Championship Game.The president noted that this was the third time that he has made such a call to Saban and joked that the Alabama team is beginning to make this a habit.President Obama commended Saban onthe incredible organization he has built at UA and told the coach that he looks forward to congratulating the team in person at the White House.No date has yet been set for the 2012 Alabama football team to visit the White House. The Crimson Tide visited the White House after winning the 2009 and 2011 national championships.


Determinants of ectoparasite assemblage structure on rodent hosts from South American marshlands: the effect of host species, locality and season.
The relative effects of host species identity, locality and season on ectoparasite assemblages (relative abundances and species richness) harboured by four cricetid rodent hosts (Akodon azarae, Oligoryzomys flavescens, Oxymycterus rufus and Scapteromys aquaticus) were assessed across six closely located sites in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Relative abundances of ectoparasites (14 species including gamasid mites, an ixodid tick, a trombiculid mite, lice and fleas), as well as total ectoparasite abundance and species richness, were determined mainly by host species and to a lesser extent by locality (despite the small spatial scale of the study), whereas seasonal effect was weak, albeit significant. The abundances of some ectoparasites were determined solely byMost of the vessels were operated by Carlos Rafael, the magnate who was recently convicted of one of the nation’s largest violations of fishing regulations.

The move immediately prohibits 60 permit holders, including 22 active vessels, from going back to sea until at least the start of the new fishing season in May.

In an unprecedented punishment, federal regulators Monday ordered scores of commercial fishermen in Massachusetts to return their vessels to shore after the owner of many of the boats, a New Bedford fishing mogul known as “The Codfather,” failed to account for the fish they caught and orchestrated a massive fraud.

The penalties could also cost dozens of fishermen their jobs and cause significant economic losses for the icehouses, fuel companies, and other businesses that supply the boats.

The decision


— cycle.

Both characters are dealing with personal struggles. Alan has OCD and anxiety, in addition to other possible mental health issues (two of his deaths, including the first loop, are suicides) and refuses to seek treatment. Nadia is a generally messy, chaotic person, though confidently and comfortably so, and is plagued by trauma inflicted upon her growing up with a seriously mentally ill mother (Chloe Sevigny) and the guilt of going to live with her aunt (her mother died within a year of their separation, and on this birthday, her 36th, she is older than her mother ever was).

Even without being a heaping pile of metaphors, the show is excellent and well worth every second of its brief runtime. But for those of us with mental illness, Russianthe oppressed talk about using violence against the oppressor. Then the question of violence is raised as the incorrect means to attain one’s ends. Witness, for example, that Britain, France, and the United States have time and time again armed black people to fight their enemies for them. France armed Senegalese in World War II, Britain of course armed Africa and the West Indies, and the United States always armed the Africans living in the United States. But that is only to fight against their enemy, and the question of violence is never raised. The only time the United States or England or France will become concerned about the question of violence is when the people whom they armed to kill their enemies will pick up those arms


then leave the change to someone else to bring about. If the liberals are serious they must fight for power and not for influence.

These pitfalls are present in his politics because the liberal is part of the oppressor. He enjoys the status quo; while he himself may not be actively oppressing other people, he enjoys the fruits of that oppression. And he rhetorically tries to claim the he is disgusted with the system as it is.

While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed. He says to the oppressed,to think that the liberal has been sent to the oppressed to misdirect their struggle, to rule them. So whether the liberal likes it or not, he finds himself being lumped, by the oppressed, with the oppressor—of course he is part of that group. The final confrontation, when it does come about, will of course include the liberal on the side of the oppressor. Therefore if the oppressed really wants a revolutionary change, he has no choice but to rid himself of those liberals in his rank.

Kwame Ture

(aka Stokely Carmichael)

Kwame Ture was born Stokely Carmichael on June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the son of Adolphus and Mabel Carmichael. He immigrated to the United States in 1952 with his family and settled in New York, New


York. He graduated from the academically elite Bronx High School of Science in 1960 and made the decision to attend Howard University. Howard University conferred on him a Bachelor of Science Degree in Philosophy in 1964.

It was while in Washington that Stokely became deeply involved in the “Freedom Rides,” “Sit-Ins,” and other demonstrations to challenge segregation in American society. He participated with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG). He later joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was elected its National Chairman in June 1966. While in Greenville, Mississippi, he along with his friend and colleague Willie Ricks, rallied the cry “Black Power” which became the most popular slogan of the Civil Rights era. Consequently, he became the primary spokesman forthe Black Power ideology. In 1967, he coauthored with Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power, the Politics of Liberation in America. That same year, Stokely was disassociated from SNCC and he became the Prime Minister of the Black Panthers, headquartered in Oakland, California. He soon became disenchanted with the Panthers and moved to Guinea, West Africa.

While residing in Africa, Stokely Carmichael changed his name to “Kwame Ture” to honor Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence from Britain, and, Sekou Toure, who was President of Guinea and his mentor. For more than 30 years, Ture led the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and devoted the rest of his life to Pan Africanism, a movement to uproot the inequities of racism for people of African descent and to develop an economic


and cultural coalition among the African Diaspora.

In 1998, at the age of 57, Kwame Ture died from complications of prostate cancer. To the end he answered the telephone, “ready for the revolution.” His marriage to Miriam Makeba and Guinean physician Marlyatou Barry ended in divorce. He has one son, Bokar, who resides in the United States.average climate assumption was used by Manabe and Wetherald (M&W) in their 1967 climate modeling paper. They abandoned physical reality and created global warming as a mathematical artifact of their input modeling assumptions. The rest of the climate modelers followed like lemmings jumping off a cliff. In the 1979 Charney report, no-one looked at the underlying assumptions. The radiative transfer results were reasonable –for the total long wave IR (LWIR) flux at the top and bottom atmosphere – and the mathematical derivation of the flux balance equations was correct. The increase in surface temperature was the a-priori expected result. Radiative forcing and the invalid equilibrium flux balance equations were discussed by Ramanathan and Coakley in 1978. The prescribed mathematical ritual of radiative forcing in climate models was described


titanate.
When not in use, the slider rests upon the surface of the magnetic disk. During information retrieval and recording, however, the magnetic disk is rotated. When the disk first begins rotating, the slider slides along the surface of the magnetic disk. As the rotational speed of the disk increases, however, a boundary layer of air is formed which causes the slider to lift off of the disk and "fly" above the surface of the disk. The distance of the slider from the disk during flight is approximately 100 nm. When the power to the disk drive is once again shut off, the disk rotational speed gradually decreases, and the slider lands upon the disk, sliding along the surface of the disk until the disk comes to rest.
Several problemsarise from the contact of the slider with the disk. First, during start up and slow down of the disk, the slider is sliding directly in contact with the disk surface. This frictional contact causes wear of the disk and slider. The wear of the disk occurs, even though a protective carbon coating is applied to the disk, because of the extreme hardness of the slider material. The excessive wear on the disk reduces the effective useful life of the disk.
Contact between the slider and disk also occurs occasionally when the disk is at full rotational speed. Although the boundary layer of air normally acts to support the slider above the disk, high points (asperities) on the otherwise smooth surface of the disk often cause the slider to


make contact with these projections on the disk. When the slider impacts these asperities on the disk, the slider often gouges the disk surface, further degrading the disk surface, as well as causing damage to the head and slider.
Several additional problems, other than wear of the disk and slider, have been identified with the use of prior art sliders. First, during initial rotational start up of the disk, friction between the slider and disk increases the force necessary to rotate the disk. This necessitates the use of large motors to turn the disks. Second, the magnetic poles of the head, made of an alloy of nickel and iron, which are exposed to the atmosphere are sometimes prone to corrosion. This is especially true in the case of magnetoresistiveScottish independence: Tory businessman backs Yes

A PROMINENT Conservative Party donor and businessman has told David Cameron he will be voting Yes in next year’s referendum on Scottish Independence.

By RHIANNON EDWARD Wednesday, 14th August 2013, 7:06 pm

David Cameron, left, with Laurie Clark. Picture: Complimentary

Laurie Clark, the owner and managing director of Paisley-based firm Anglo-Scottish Concrete told Prime Minister David Cameron at a meeting at Loch Lomond today that he would be backing a Yes vote next September to kickstart the ‘beginning of a fairer and mutually beneficial partnership between Scotland and the rest of the UK’.

Mr Clark, who has recently been appointed to the Advisory Board of the pro-independence business network Business for Scotland, added: “Independence represents the best of both worlds whereby we maintain many of the unions