the James Andrews farm March 23, 1964.
When the December, 1963 payments came due, the Blinzlers had not been furnished with title insurance on either farm and the 1963 payment was not made to either James or Milton Andrews. On approximately December 28, 1963, James Andrews and Milton Andrews gave notice of default to the Blinzlers and of their intent to cancel the contract within 60 days and retain all sums paid by the Blinzlers pursuant to the forfeiture clause of the contract.
On or about February 17, 1964, the Blinzlers gave notice to the Andrews that the respective notices of default were breaches of the contract, since the Andrews had not performed their covenants in the contract by providing title insurance within a reasonable time, entitling them to rescissionnot transfer that money to the sellers until the title insurance policies were delivered. The purpose of the purchasers was defeated since the escrow agent nevertheless released the annual payment to the sellers. The following year the purchasers adopted another technique by refusing to make the December, 1963 annual payment until they had been furnished with the title insurance. Promptly thereafter, the sellers gave notice of default to the purchasers and of the sellers' intent to cancel the contract and retain all sums paid by the purchasers pursuant to the forfeiture clause of the contract.
In my judgment, the purchasers had acted more than reasonably in tolerating the continuing breach of the contract by the sellers' failure to furnish title insurance. It appears to me that they had attempted


next to Buffalo Wild Wings with StubHub Center pick up and drop off located at the fountain on the southwest corner of the stadium.

Additionally, there will be free parking available at Towne Elementary School from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Towne Elementary is located adjacent to Avalon Blvd at 18924 Towne Ave. in Carson.

Due to limited parking, fans are recommended to carpool to the match if possible.

In order to route traffic around the StubHub Center facility on Sunday, there will be intermittent gate closures. Fans with specific gate entries can drive clockwise around the facilities until they reach their designated gate to accommodate traffic flow.Emerging occupational and environmental issues in the semiconductor industry
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We humans have experienced historical lessons on the dangers of introducing new techniques and chemicals expecting benefits, while ignoring unexpected harmful side effects. Examples include untreatable diseases (mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis) caused by asbestos use, human nervous system defects due to pesticides used to increase crop yields, severe health issues due to DDT used to kill malaria-causing mosquitos, and the depletion of the ozone due to Freon use for refrigeration.

The semiconductor industry, a microelectronics industry, emerged in the late twentieth century as a brilliant contributor to industrial development, the development of new techniques, increased scientific knowledge, and an advance in human life styles throughout the world. The dark side of this prosperous industry has become apparent in both environmental


and occupational health issues since the 1980s in the US and the 1990s in the UK, and in Asian countries including Taiwan, Singapore, and Korea in the 2000s.

Environmental health issues occurred in the 1980s in Silicon Valley, where Fairchild and IBM were blamed for contaminating ground water with the organic solvents, 1,1,1-trichloroethane and 1.1-dichloroethane. A similar series of events occurred in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s and in Taiwan in the 2000s that provoked resident outrage. In all cases, the companies initially denied that they had caused environmental pollution, and governments refused to release the results to the public.

Occupational health issues have emerged since the 1980s in the Silicon Valley in the US and at National Semiconductor in Greenock in the UK, where retired workers filed lawsuits'Song of the South,' 'Dumbo's' Jim Crow Scene Will Not Be on Disney+

Disney has not released the 1946 film 'Song of the South' on home video in the U.S.

Disney plans to open up its vault for Disney+ and release several classic films on the direct-to-consumer streaming service, but one title is staying locked away.

There are no plans to make Song of the South available on the $7-per-month offering.

That is consistent with Disney's previous policy regarding the 1946 film, which has been criticized for its portrayal of African-Americans following the end of the Civil War. The film, which won a best original song Oscar for "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" and inspired the Disneyland ride Splash Mountain, has not been released on home video in the U.S.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spoke about the


decision during the company's 2011 annual meeting, saying that, after a rewatch of the film, he felt parts of it "wouldn't necessarily sit right or feel right to a number of people today" and that "it wouldn't be in the best interest of our shareholders to bring it back, even though there would be some financial gain." Boardwalk Times first reported the movie's absence.

The company also doesn't plan to include a scene from the 1941 animated film Dumbo featuring a crow named Jim Crow, a reference to a 19th century blackface character that later became the name of the segregation laws enacted following the Reconstruction era. The scene also does not appear in Tim Burton's live-action remake of the original animated pic. Boardwalk Times also first reported thescene's absence.

Disney+, which is designed to be a family-friendly service, is set to launch Nov. 12 with an expansive library of programming, including the Disney classics 101 Dalmatians, Bambi, Fantasia, Mary Poppins, The Sword in the Stone, Steamboat Willie and Sleeping Beauty. In addition to the some 7,500 TV episodes and 500 movies available, the platform will also be home to original programming including The Mandalorian, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and the live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp.


included players jousting on toy racecars along an orange Hot Wheels track, or stealing food from the dish of the family Corgi.

All of these games can only be accessed by starting a “Giant Party” which has players competing in each game in a sequential order. After each competition, points are accrued and distributed amongst the players, with the victor being the highest scorer after all games have been played. Though playing through a “Giant Party” sequence is fun, I do wish there was the option to pick and choose which games to play separately, or at the very least the order in which they are played.

Accessibility is a vital component to any party game, allowing players of all skill-levels to participate and meaningfully engage. Skelittle achieves that byLittle Big Adventure 2 Speedrun Walkthrough

The following is a walkthrough for LBA2 that provides that fastest path through the game. It will guide you past all interesting sightings or even all story elements. Use it as your guide in speedrun competitions.

The Rain

At the beginning, go to get the Magic Ball. Head for the museum, enter it through the window at the top, hit the switches, run down to get your tunic.

Go to the cliffs near the flowers circle and jump down onto the road near the Tralü's cave's entrance. Enter the cave. Ignore Raph, stand behind the barrels and throw your magic ball at the switch on the other side.

Pass on to the next room, do a running jump onto the ladder and climb it. Follow the path


path past Dino-Fly to the lighthouse and talk to the Weather Wizard standing in front of the lighthouse's door.

To Zeelich

Get 10 Kashes. Go into the Ticket shop at the harbour. Read the poster about the Temple of Bù to know about Desert Island, then talk to the clerk and buy a ticket to Desert Island. Head for the ferry, reveal your ticket and board it.

On Desert Island, go into town and get the Gallic Acid from either the Healing Wizard's house or the shop. Go to Baldino and get the car part. Go back to the ticket office (12 Kashes needed), get a ticket and take the ferry back to Citadel Island.

Go to Zoé and give her the car part. Also go to your neighbor and give himIsland.

Go to the School of Magic again and receive your diploma. Get 50 Kashes and find the travelling salesman to get the Wizard's tunic. Go to the Hacienda and talk to the Esmer in front of the men's bath. Agree to go with him.

On the shuttle, view the tourist video and collect the translator. Wait until the shuttle lands.

The Esmer Invasion

Follow the esmers and enter the passage where you meet Joé. In the prison, talk to Joé. When the door opens, run past the guard, hit the switch to the left to open the back door and get out of the prison. Kill the robot to blast a hole in the fence.

Go through the dogs' traning course into the reception of the Spaceport. Jump onto the barrels and


the Franco at the gas station. Then go back to the harbour and to Rick's bar. Play at the slot machines until you've got 100 Zlitos, then go to the captain at the harbour, pay the money and get to Celebration Island.

Kill the guards and go up to the bandaged Franco who returned from Island CX. Talk to him, then go back to the docks. Wait for the taxi to arrive and take it to the island of the Francos.

On the island of the Francos, enter the shop and buy the pick-ax. Then head around the houses and dig for the Francos' fragment behind the shop. Now go to the pipes near the fence and jump from the pipes over the fence into the area of the Gazogemreffinery. Go to the back of the building and enter.

Run forward and jump over the water pool to the edge of the pools. Let yourself fall down into the lower area and take the elevator up to the Franco guard. Kill it and rotate the wheel. Take the elevator down again and get the key. Wait for the steam in front of the door to pause and run straight through the door.

In the next room, run past the steam when it pauses and take the elevator up to the guard. Jump across the room to the bottom left to the pools, then go to the pipes at the very bottom part of the room. Follow the path to the right and jump up the platforms, avoiding the steams


the undergas

From Baldino's, get back to the harbour and go up the slopes into the direction of the Middle City. At the waterfall on your way, use your Jet-Pack to cross the small river and fly to the door in the rock, then turn to the narrow path on the left. Run along and avoid the Franco soldiers who shoot at you.

In the Upper City, run around the Imperial Hotel and enter through the back window of the bathroom. Leave the bathroom and talk to Johnny Rocket at the pool. Follow him into his room and get the Dissidents' Ring. Then go back to the bathroom and through the window. Get into the elevators building and jump down the broken elevators. Head out and go to the MiddleCity, where you enter the Twinsunian Souvenir shop.

Kill the two hussars in the Upper city to get the palace key, then enter the Emperor's palace. Fight your way through the many rooms to get to the room at the very top. Fight the three pigs there to get the key, then kill all three hussars in the next room and the two-headed monster that appears. Get the Sups' fragment, Dark Monk's key and the fireball. Go into discreet mode and shoot your ball to the sign on the wall just above the chest to open the palace's secret exit. Climb out and get back to the upper city.

Show the Dissidents' Ring to the shop owner, then enter the secret passage and talk to the Wannie dissident to get


to open both doors is, from left to right, Up, Down, Up, Down. When the doors open, run past the other guards to the harbour of the Francos. There, board the tanker and set off to the elevator to the Undergas.

On the elevator platform, meet Money-Monkey and kill him by any means. Get his key and board the elevator.

Island CX

Use your magic ball in discreet mode to kill the Franco technician who operates the switches to the right, then hit one of the switches. Avoid the Franco guard and exit the building. Run past more Franco guards and the tank.

Near the Building Company, enter the Wannies mines. Inside the mines, collect at least six gems on their various locations. Also kill the big Wannie guard to get thekey for the secret chapel. Grab the Wannies' fragment, then fight off the angry Wannies and exit the mines.

Avoid more Franco guards on your way and get to the Wannies' village. Go to the room at the bottom, pick up the Wannies' glove if you didn't get it in the mines and eat Firefly tart. Give the piece of tart to the old Wannie in the cave to get the key to Dark Monk's chapel. In the next room, try to avoid the many fireballs and climb up the ladder at the top. Talk to Mr. Monk, then go back out of the chapel. Talk to the Monk's maid in another room to learn the Ferryman's song.

Leave the village and sing the Ferryman's song at the Ferryman's lane.


Set off to the island of the Mosquibees. Once there, use your Super Jet-Pack to get to the main land and collect the two gems in the area, then talk to the Mosquibee and ask to talk to the Queen.

Show the Queen the Dissidents' ring. In the test room, destroy the black balls to get a key out of one of them, and use it to open one of the doors to get the Blowtron. Once the Emperor's attack has started, fight yourself through the village and get out to the way to the island of the fragment. Collect the gem near the paratroopers and near the bridge, then cross the bridge and enter the cave.

Climb the stairs, get past the spider and use the elevator. Run roundpackaging room, jump into a crate AFTER the lid has been placed above it, and get out of the box by hitting Action in the storage room. Jump up the crates and climb the ladder to the building's roof. Jump across and fall down the hole in the cell's ceiling. Talk to the Queen and get the key from her, then use the Magic Ball or the Blowtron to hit the lever to open the cell from within.

With the key, take the Ferryman back to the Mosquibees island, get into the village and to the throne room. Kill the Orc and open the secret passage. Use the elevator to get to Island CX.

Saving Twinsun

Kill the guards to the right to get the key. Inside, use your Jet-Pack to


and his technician, then get the Emperor's key and his sword. Kill the hussar coming down the elevator and take it back up. Re-enter the hussars' room you crossed before and kill the hussars there to get a key. Open the locked door in the room. Climb the stairs in the tower and get the itinary token at the top. Head back down and out of the tower, then board the Emperor's shuttle and take it to Otringal.

In the Upper city, kill the two hussars to get the palace key, then enter the Emperor's palace. Fight youself through the many rooms to get to the room at the very top, where the three pigs are. Kill them and enter the fragment's room. Kill all three hussars there andthe two-headed monster. Get the Sups' fragment, Dark Monk's key and the Fireball. Go into discreet mode and aim your magic ball at the sign at the wall directly behind the chest. This opens the palace's secret exit, which you can climb out. Go back to the upper city.

Head through the elevator building and the streets back to the harbour and take the taxi to Celebration island. Place the key inside the temple to raise the statue. Talk to FunFrock, then jump over the pillars on the temple's roof and into the statue. Kill the Grobo clones in the area and free the wizards. To do this, deactive the monitors in the order Second from left, First from left, Fourth from left and Third from left. Pull the


A South Korean pan-governmental meeting has reportedly been held to establish closer monitoring of the country’s cryptocurrency market amid the recent sharp uptick in crypto valuations. The news was reported by local broadcasting station KBS World Radio on May 28.

Today’s meeting, led by the Minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, Noh Hyeong-ouk, was largely prompted by bitcoin (BTC)’s recent break above 10 million won (~$8,400), the report states. The coin last hit a similar valuation around a year ago, with local officials ostensibly interpreting the fresh surge as a sign of a possibly overheating market.

Meeting participants reportedly included officials from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Justice Ministry and the country’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC).

Areas of focus included a plan to closelyMilwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn told CNN Radio.

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West Allis Police Chief Michael Jungbluth said the attack on the woman stemmed from a domestic situation, when an intoxicated Peters wanted to see his 1-year-old daughter, and had threatened to shoot himself and others.

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with Tom Brady suspended, and either Jimmy Garoppolo or Jacoby Brissett at quarterback. Neither Garoppolo nor Brissett are likely to see much time in the Super Bowl (at least, the Patriots had better hope they don't see much time in the Super Bowl), so throwing those three games out and picking three new ones would be a sound idea. The problem, though, is that while the offense was certainly worse without Brady than with him, it still wasn't bad, just average. The defense, meanwhile, was one of the worst in the league during Brady's suspension, then improved to a top-10 unit once Brady returned to the field. It's correlation, not causation, but it does make it hard to blame those early performances solely on the absence of Brady.

Werewe to wipe those first four games from the slate, we'd be dust-binning some valuable data about New England's defense, and what flaws they may have shown early in the season. At the same time, we already know that Brady is playing and that he makes the offense better and there's no point in evaluating the peaks and valleys of New England's backup quarterbacks. So rather than look at New England's worst four games overall, we're going to split this into two parts: the worst four games for New England's offense with Brady in the lineup, and the worst four games for New England's defense, whenever they may have occurred. This may yield some weird results, and they may not jibe with similar pieces we have run on


Super Bowl teams of the past. But like we said: it was a weird season.

OFFENSE

By DVOA, here are New England's worst four games with Brady taking snaps:

Week 5: The Patriots beat the Browns 33-13 in Cleveland. While the Browns were alternating Charlie Whitehurst, Cody Kessler, and Terrelle Pryor at quarterback, Brady went 28-of-40 for 406 yards with three touchdowns, no interceptions, and just one sack. Chris Hogan and Rob Gronkowski both went over 100 yards receiving. Yes, this was one of New England's worst offensive games with Brady. That's partly because of an ineffective rushing attack (just 101 yards on 33 non-kneeldown carries, including three failures to convert with 1 or 2 yards to go), and partly due to opponent adjustments for playing Cleveland's defense, which finished next188 yards, with no touchdowns or interceptions and two sacks. Blount carried the ball 17 times and gained only 31 yards, with no carry gaining more than 5 yards. Dion Lewis, though, picked up the slack, with 18 carries for 95 yards. Edelman was the leading receiver, with six catches (in 12 targets) for 75 yards.

Week 16: The Patriots destroyed the Jets 41-3 in a game that wasn't as close as the final score would indicate. Brady went 17-of-27 for 214 yards with three touchdowns, no interceptions, and one sack. Blount (50 yards on 20 carries) and Lewis (52 on 16) spent most of the day racking up short gains and killing clock. Edelman was again the leading receiver, with five catches for 89 yards.

First takeaway: the Brady


false sense of security by falling behind early" wins lots of points for originality, but little for actually leading a team to victory.

The only individual offensive player who really had bad numbers in these games was Julian Edelman. He dominated the Patriots with 42 targets -- nobody else had more than 23 -- but only caught 24 balls for 300 yards, with a -7.1% DVOA. Behind Edelman, the numbers are a big mish-mash. Two wide receivers (Hogan and Malcolm Mitchell), a tight end (Martellus Bennett) and a running back (James White) each had at least 17 targets, and gained 125 to 179 yards. Hogan had his one big day against Cleveland, but gained only 63 total yards in the other three games. Nobody else had more than nineNew England will get over-conservative with short routes, dumpoffs, and runs. And even if all that happens, it will put pressure on an Atlanta defense that missed 122 tackles, one of nine defenses to miss at least 120 tackles this year according to Sports Info Solutions charting. (New England was another, suggesting again that this game will turn into a shootout.)

One more note of weirdness: In these four weeks when the Patriots offense was at its worst, the Patriots defense had a DVOA of -27.9%, best in the league by a wide margin. It sounds like a cliché, but even when Brady and the offense have struggled, the defense has shown a tendency to step up its game.

DEFENSE

By DVOA, here are the worst four games for New England's


Jarvis Landry and DeVante Parker both went over 100 yards.

Week 10: Seattle went into Foxborough and upended the Patriots 31-24. Russell Wilson completed 25-of-37 passes for 348 yards and three scores, with three sacks but no interceptions. The real star for Seattle, though, was rookie running back C.J. Prosise, who gained 66 yards on 17 carries, and also caught each of the seven passes thrown his way for 87 more yards.

Week 12: The Patriots needed a Malcolm Mitchell touchdown inside of the two-minute warning to beat the Jets 22-17. Ryan Fitzpatrick went 22-of-32 for 269 yards and two scores, with no interceptions and just one sack. Quincy Enunwa caught each of the five passes thrown his way for 109 yards and a touchdown, while Brandon Marshall added six(the Miami game, where they played awful on defense in the second half after building a massive lead in the first half and then having Jimmy G get hurt).

The other side of it though is that the Jets, Seattle, and Arizona basically did what Pittsburg did in the conference championship, the only difference being in the Pittsburg game the Pats managed to capitalize on their chances for Picks where they failed to execute earlier in the season. I guess that speaks to how in against a pass-heavy strategy a your success on the couple chances you get to grab the football are sometimes the difference between the a great game and an awful one. Sometimes I'm glad I don't play corner in the NFL, if it weren't for


even less of a strategy than "Suck less than usual".

It comes down to this distinction:

1) Common threads to New England under-performing expectations (use DVOA), hoping that New England under-performs in the same way in the Super Bowl
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2) Common threads to your team beating New England (use VOA), trying to emulate the teams that did well against New England during the season

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world has changed much since 1991 when Nevermind was released, but the influence of that album has only grown as the years pass. Technology has since turned the music industry upside down, fractionalized genres into smaller slices, and diminished the possibility of any rock act dominating the way Nirvana did. I would argue that no rock star since Kurt has had that same combination of talent, voice, lyric-writing skill, and charisma—another reason he is so significant, two decades after his death. The rarity of that magic combo is also part of the reason Kurt’s impact still looms so large over music. There are many reasons for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to include Nirvana, but the catalog of songs Kurt wrote is central to that recognition.“and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation”.

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The US policy of extraordinary rendition, or kidnapping terrorism suspects from foreign countries and transporting them to locations where torture is permitted, was a hotly contested issue during the administration of President George W. Bush — and it wasn’t just Americans who were outraged by the practice.

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A Swedish investigation in 2009 ended up referring former justice minister Thomas Bodström, who now resides in the US, and former prime minister Göran Persson, to a constitutional committee looking into the expulsion of two terrorism suspects atthe outset of America’s terror war in 2001.

Bodström insisted then and maintains today that he was unaware of CIA involvement in the deportation of Ahmed Agiza and Mohammed Alzery to Egypt. Sweden’s former foreign minister, Anna Lindh, was pegged as the official who ultimately made the decision.

Lindh, who ardently opposed the invasion of Iraq and sought to rally the United Nations against America’s determined course of action, was assassinated in 2003 by a 25-year-old Serbian man with a history of violent behavior who’d claimed he heard voices in his head.

Lindh’s former press secretary, Eva Franchell, released a book at the start of 2009 titled “Väninnan: Rapport från Rosenbad” (“Girlfriend: An Account from Rosenbad”) that addressed the rhetorical minefield that is politics and media relations.

A small portion of the


book, however, suggested that her former boss did not act alone in approving Sweden’s cooperation with America’s rendition program — and that her politics were actually profoundly changed by the experience.

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Franchell said that Swedish security services helped facilitate the renditions: a detail later confirmed by Bodström, who said he learned of CIA involvement from the country’s security chief on Jan. 7, 2002. He admitted to being aware of terrorism suspicions surrounding the two men before the government began preparing their deportations, which took place on Dec. 18, 2001.

It was later revealed that Göran Persson, the former prime minister who served with Bodström, knew full well that the CIA was involved with the flights. The Swedish defense forces even conducted surveillance operations on the flights, according to the Swedishalso worked for the CIA from 1965 to June 1976. Carriles was wanted in Venezuela, Cuba and Panama for terrorist activities, including the bombing of a commercial airliner that resulted in the deaths of 73 people.

Carriles, who’s lived with his family in Miami since 2007, was facing charges in Texas of lying to US immigration officers and entering the country illegally. The trial, which was just getting underway at time of this story’s publication, was mocked as a “farce” by some south American leaders.

Agiza and Alzery, the men who were allegedly tortured in Egypt, eventually had their deportations from Sweden overruled and were awarded damages totaling over $700,000 US dollars.

Lawyers for Julian Assange have suggested that the Swedish allegations were a facade for US efforts to have him


extradited to the west, where he potentially faces torture or imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay. The US Department of Justice was considering filing charges of conspiracy or espionage against Assange, but no final decision had been made.

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President Barack Obama has insisted that the US no longer tortures terrorism suspects.

A secret jury investigating WikiLeaks filed a subpoena last week, seeking personal information on all of the site’s followers on Twitter, with a member of Iceland’s parliament singled out as a person of interest in their probe.

Former Bush political strategist Karl Rove, an ardent critic of WikiLeaks and a proponent of prosecuting Assange for espionage, was reportedly contracted to aid the 2010 reelection campaign of Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. It was unclear whether he played a role in influencing thePresident George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
one individual, appoint two individuals and designate two individuals
to serve in his administration:

The President intends to nominate Jonathan Brian Perlin, of
Maryland, to be Under Secretary for Health at the Department of
Veterans Affairs. Dr. Perlin currently serves as Acting Under
Secretary for Health at the Department. Previously, he was Deputy
Under Secretary for Health and prior to that served as Chief Quality
and Performance Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Before
joining the Department, Dr. Perlin served as Medical Director for
Quality Improvement at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health
System. Dr. Perlin received his bachelor's degree from the University
of Virginia and his master's degree, M.D., and Ph.D. from Virginia
Commonwealth University.

The President intends to appoint the following individuals to be
Members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel


for the remainder of a
five-year term expiring January 10, 2010:

Richard Barber Ainsworth, Jr. of Ohio

Becky Norton Dunlop of Virginia, and re-designate Chairman

The President intends to designate Raymond F. DuBois, of the
District of Columbia, to be Acting Under Secretary of the Army at the
Department of Defense.his prior crimes during the sentencing hearing.  He also claims that Davis had no knowledge of the events discussed at the hearing.

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Allen's contentions are without merit.  First, there is no indication on the face of the agreement that it was provided by the state authorities referred to therein.  Moreover, the agreement makes no reference to the federal government, and its scope appears to be limited to the state of Oregon.  Second, David had personal knowledge of the crimes defendant disclosed.  His affidavit clearly states that Allen disclosed the crimes to him during tape recorded interviews.  Admission of this testimony was not an abuse of discretion.

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Defendant argues that the district court erred when it failed to state specific reasons for imposing his sentence


The Taliban militants have largely seized the key Afghan city of Kunduz, storming government compounds and sending panicked residents fleeing.

Fierce fighting raged in Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, as the Taliban militants freed hundreds of prisoners from the city's main prison, set fire to government buildings and hoisted their flag over the homes of officials.

"The Taliban have taken the city but our forces are still putting up resistance in some areas," AFP quoted Kunduz police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini as saying.

"They have taken over Spinzar chaman, the main city square. Heavy clashes are ongoing between Taliban and government forces," Hamdullah Danishi, Kunduz deputy governor, said.

Afghan health officials said that at least 15 members of Afghan security forces and 20 Taliban militants have been killed in the fierce fighting.

"Yes, theconnects key regions of the country. The province has been witnessing fighting between security forces and militants since April.

Analysts say the fall of the provincial capital city to Taliban militants would amount to a major setback for Afghan forces.

This photograph taken on August 1, 2015, shows Afghanistan's militia forces taking position as they remain alert in their conflict against Taliban militants in Qala-e Zal district of Kunduz province. (AFP)

Afghanistan continues to face insecurity 14 years after the US and its allies invaded the country as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. Although the Taliban were removed from power as a result of the invasion, many areas in the country are still threatened by insecurity.


The morning of February 12, 2015, Austinite Sergio Lejarazu was driving past his small business, a piñata and bouncy house store called Jumpolin at 1401 E. Cesar Chavez Street, on his way to drop his daughter off at school. That’s when he noticed something strange. Jumpolin wasn’t there anymore. He pulled over and quickly learned that his new landlords, Jordan French and Darius Fisher, two 2007 Vanderbilt University grads operating as F&F Real Estate Ventures, had demolished the building that Jumpolin occupied for eight years. The building still had all the inventory, cash registers and some personal property inside. Sergio and his wife Monica say they were given no prior warning and were up-to-date on their rent with a lease good until 2017.

Turns out, F&F were in suchThe present invention relates to a film inspecting apparatus, in particular, a film inspecting apparatus using a scanning type probe microscope.
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the Jan|Feb issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette and was looking forward to reading a feature article about Donald J. Trump, the first US president to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. One would think that a magazine devoted to Penn alumni would publish an article describing this historic figure and his relationship to our University. I looked through the magazine three times … no article on Trump.

However, I did find your article on cookies.

Mark Thomas Holtzapple Gr’81 College Station, TX

Poor Journalism

The Jan|Feb Gazetteincluded several stories about remarkable alumni: One man helping a village in Rwanda. Another about a woman influencing children’s television. A third story was a long article on Penn’s contribution to sports.

One of our alumni was recently elected the president of the United States. Donald Trumpof its status as a sanctuary campus where immigrant students can live and learn in safety. For the past 24 years, I have coordinated a Salvation Army feeding program for those in need in one of the towns in the metropolitan New York City area. For the last 15 or so years, the vast majority of those we serve have been Spanish-speaking immigrants. I suspect that most of these folks are undocumented and face the increased deportation threat that the new administration brings with it.

The student-led sanctuary movement is accompanied by another national effort centered around faith communities. Both colleges/universities and houses of worship were identified by Homeland Security in a 2014 memorandum as sites from which Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not seek to remove undocumented residents


the Penn faculty as an associate professor in 1965. That seems incorrect. I took his wonderful course on Russian history in the 1963-1964 academic year. That course was oversubscribed and there was a waiting list to enroll. I would assume that he was an established faculty member at that time.

Several years later, when I was a junior faculty member at the School of Veterinary Medicine, I had the pleasure of meeting him once again, this time to treat his Russian borzoi dog (very fitting indeed) for an eye problem, and I could tell him in person what an important influence he had been in my education. He truly was a great teacher.

Gustavo Aguirre C’66 V’68 Gr’75 Media, PA

It appears that Dr. Riasanovsky was on the faculty starting in1959; he was promoted from assistant to associate professor in 1965. Our apologies for the error.—Ed.

Alex Riasanovsky: A Personal Recollection

As a college student, how fortunate it is to have a special person mold your personal universe. Someone so dynamic and brilliant that you feel at once transformed into a thinking adult, while you could sense that you were in the presence of genius. That was me, 50 years ago, at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Daily Pennsylvanian “Course Guide” cited Russian History 149 as one of the finest introductory courses in the University. Yet it was the guide’s reference to the course professor that truly resonated: “The Great One, as many students refer to him, received unanimous ratings of excellent from his students. His lectures are regarded as consistently


interesting, often humorous, and always very well organized. He was also praised for his interest in the individual student, a trait not often found in one who lectures to 500 pupils.”

And so, Alexander V. Riasanovsky—“The Great One”—entered my life.

Watching Professor Riasanovsky on the grand stage in College Hall was mesmerizing. His cadence was fast-paced, his baritone voice carried in a thunderous roar when he emphasized a certain point, and his command of Russian history was awe-inspiring. Alex Riasanovsky was Penn personified. His Russian history course was popular with students from all programs: Wharton, pre-med, engineering, and liberal arts. Everyone wanted to hear him lecture. He was the consummate Penn ambassador, speaking to all the Penn Clubs throughout the United States, with alumni eager to hear his talk.

I gotto know Alex more intimately when he allowed me the privilege of taking his graduate course in Russian history, and to this very day I fondly remember our conversations about the Russian intelligentsia. In his graduate seminar, Professor Riasanovsky challenged you to think analytically. He had edited a masterful book, Generalizations in Historical Writing, and believed that since history was approached from numerous philosophical, religious, social, political, and economic positions, the historian must be able to frame meaningful generalizations.

Born in Harbin, Manchuria, China in 1928, Alex’s childhood innocence ended abruptly at age 10 when he witnessed a Japanese soldier behead a prisoner. His family fled the Japanese occupation and found safe haven across the Pacific Ocean in Eugene, Oregon.

The Riasanovsky family was living history. Alex’s father Valentin was


the preeminent scholar of Mongol law, and his mother Antonina won theAtlantic Monthly prize for fiction in 1940 for her novel The Family. Both Riasanovsky sons were Rhodes Scholars and both became famous Russian history professors, with Alex at Penn and his brother Nicholas at the University of California at Berkeley.

But Alex was more than just a wonderful history professor. He was also a true Renaissance man: an historian, a freethinker, a fine artist, and a prolific poet.

I wish I had learned the Russian language because my bookshelf is filled with his poetry written in Russian. A Wallace Stevens devotee, Alex wrote poem after poem, and, gratefully, some were translated into English.

Philosophically, Professor Riasanovsky was a man of peace, and he loved to poke wicked fun at thewhen the Cats debated whether to deal him or risk losing him outright at the end of his contract.

"Eighteen months ago, they gave us a list of teams they were interested in and Calgary was right at the very top," said Sexton. "He's an Alberta boy."

The Panthers kept him almost to the bitter end.

Bouwmeester figured the late trade might happen. He was showering when it was announced right before the start of the second round. After he dried off, he noticed he'd missed a couple of calls.

"Four-oh-three area code -- I know where that's from," Bouwmeester said from Edmonton, where he resides in the off-season.

"It was Darryl."

Their talk was brief, but the unfolding events left Bouwmeester with a lot to think about before they meet face to face


that had Robyn Regher and Dion Phaneuf."

Already familiar with Regehr from past Team Canada squads, and Phaneuf as a fellow Edmontonian who he's worked out and skated with in past off-seasons, Bouwmeester could find a certain comfort level here.

The only thing he knows for sure, though, is that it was time for a change after breaking into the league with the Panthers as an 18-year-old.

"I think so. I'd been there six years -- seven with the lockout," Bouwmeester said. "There's been a lot of change, a lot of turnover, from players to coaches and management.

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with group members, which included a person in Connecticut, according to the news account. It allegedly included videos of a minor engaged in sexual acts with another minor and a minor engaged in a sexual act with an adult.

Another allegation against Dudukovich is sharing a link to his Dropbox account, which contained additional images and videos of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to the Greenwich Time.

A federal grand jury in Hartford, Conn. indicted Dudukovich on Aug. 30, said a deputy clerk with the U.S. District Court of Connecticut.

Dudukovich was arrested Wednesday in Berlin Heights, according to the GreenwichTime (Conn.). The arresting agency is unknown.

“I had never heard of this individual until someone called (the station),” said Berlin Heights Police Chief Charity Schafer, who noted the callerThe Yankees have been relatively quiet in November while their American League rivals have been all over the news. The Red Sox signed two of the biggest names on the free agent market, the Blue Jays landed one of their own and also traded for Josh Donaldson, and the Tigers brought Victor Martinez back for four more years. However, one Tiger whose future with the team could potentially be headed to the Bronx. Starter Max Scherzer brought home the 2013 AL Cy Young Award and has gradually usurped more well-known teammate Justin Verlander as ace of one of the AL's best teams. Now, it seems the Yankees would like to add Scherzer to their rotation:

Source tells me #Yankees made long-term offer in neighborhood of 6 yrs to Max


astronomical growth in the wealth and cultural influence of multinational corporations over the last fifteen years can arguably be traced back to a single, seemingly innocuous idea developed by management theorists in the mid 1980s that successful corporations must primarily produce brands, as opposed to products.Until that time, although it was understood in the corporate world that bolstering one s brand name was important, the primary concern of every solid manufacturer was the production of goods This idea was the very gospel of the machine age An editorial that appeared in Fortune magazine in 1938, for instance, argued that the reason the American economy had yet to recover from the Depression was that America had lost sight of the importance of making things This is the proposition thatand overt, this corporate obsession with brand identity is waging a war on public and individual space on public institutions such as schools, on youthful identities, on the concept of nationality and on the possibilities for unmarketed space The Beginning of the Brand It s helpful to go back briefly and look at where the idea of branding first began Though the words are often used interchangeably, branding and advertising are not the same process Advertising any given product is only one part of branding s grand plan, as are sponsorship and logo licensing Think of the brand as the core meaning of the modern corporation, and of the advertisement as one vehicle used to convey that meaning to the world The first mass marketing campaigns, starting in


and acting as an advocate for products a nationwide vocabulary of brand names replaced the small local shopkeeper as the interface between consumer and product After the product names and characters had been established, advertising gave them a venue to speak directly to would be consumers The corporate personality, uniquely named, packaged and advertised, had arrived For the most part, the ad campaigns at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth used a set of rigid, pseudoscientific formulas rivals were never mentioned, ad copy used declarative statements only and headlines had to be large, with lots of white space according to one turn of the century adman, an advertisement should be big enough to make an impression but not any bigger than thething advertised But there were those in the industry who understood that advertising wasn t just scientific it was also spiritual Brands could conjure a feeling think of Aunt Jemima s comforting presence but not only that, entire corporations could themselves embody a meaning of their own In the early twenties, legendary adman Bruce Barton turned General Motors into a metaphor for the American family, something personal, warm and human, while GE was not so much the name of the faceless General Electric Company as, in Barton s words, the initials of a friend In 1923 Barton said that the role of advertising was to help corporations find their soul The son of a preacher, he drew on his religious upbringing for uplifting messages I like to think


of advertising as something big, something splendid, something which goes deep down into an institution and gets hold of the soul of it Institutions have souls, just as men and nations have souls, he told GM president Pierre du Pont General Motors ads began to tell stories about the people who drove its cars the preacher, the pharmacist or the country doctor who, thanks to his trusty GM, arrived at the bedside of a dying child just in time to bring it back to life By the end of the 1940s, there was a burgeoning awareness that a brand wasn t just a mascot or a catchphrase or a picture printed on the label of a company s product the company as a whole could have a brandidentity or a corporate consciousness, as this ephemeral quality was termed at the time As this idea evolved, the adman ceased to see himself as a pitchman and instead saw himself as the philosopher king of commercial culture, in the words of ad critic Randall Rothberg The search for the true meaning of brands or the brand essence, as it is often called gradually took the agencies away from individual products and their attributes and toward a psychological anthropological examination of what brands mean to the culture and to people s lives This was seen to be of crucial importance, since corporations may manufacture products, but what consumers buy are brands It took several decades for the manufacturing world to adjust to this shift It clung to the


sitcoms, Levi s ads in public washrooms, corporate logos on boxes of Girl Guide cookies, ads for pop albums on takeout food containers, and ads for Batman movies projected on sidewalks or into the night sky There are already ads on benches in national parks as well as on library cards in public libraries, and in December 1998 NASA announced plans to solicit ads on its space stations Pepsi s on going threat to project its logo onto the moon s surface hasn t yet materialized, but Mattel did paint an entire street in Salford, England, a shriekingly bright bubblegum hue of pink houses, porches, trees, road, sidewalk, dogs and cars were all accessories in the televised celebrations of Barbie Pink Month Barbie is but one small partknown in marketing circles as Marlboro Friday, and it refers to a sudden announcement from Philip Morris that it would slash the price of Marlboro cigarettes by 20 percent in an attempt to compete with bargain brands that were eating into its market The pundits went nuts, announcing in frenzied unison that not only was Marlboro dead, all brand names were dead The reasoning was that if a prestige brand like Marlboro, whose image had been carefully groomed, preened and enhanced with than a billion advertising dollars, was desperate enough to compete with no names, then clearly the whole concept of branding had lost its currency The public had seen the advertising, and the public didn t care The Marlboro Man, after all, was not any old campaign


value generation Yes, it was one of those moments of overstated instant consensus, but it was not entirely without cause Marlboro had always sold itself on the strength of its iconic image marketing, not on anything so prosaic as its price As we now know, the Marlboro Man survived the price wars without sustaining too much damage At the time, however, Wall Street saw Philip Morris s decision as symbolic of a sea change The price cut was an admission that Marlboro s name was no longer sufficient to sustain the flagship position, which in a context where image is equity meant that Marlboro had blinked And when Marlboro one of the quintessential global brands blinks, it raises questions about branding that reach beyond Wall Street, and waytheir lifelong brand loyalties and choosing to feed their families with private label brands from the supermarket claiming, heretically, that they couldn t tell the difference From the beginning of the recession to 1993, Loblaw s President s Choice line, Wal Mart s Great Value and Marks and Spencer s St Michael prepared foods had nearly doubled their market share in North America and Europe The computer market, meanwhile, was flooded by inexpensive clones, causing IBM to slash its prices and otherwise impale itself It appeared to be a return to the proverbial shopkeeper dishing out generic goods from the barrel in a prebranded era The bargain craze of the early nineties shook the name brands to their core Suddenly it seemed smarter to put resources into price


total marketing budgets on advertising, and 30 percent on these other forms of promotion By 1993, the ratio had flipped only 25 percent went to ads, with the remaining 75 percent going to promotions Predictably, the ad agencies panicked when they saw their prestige clients abandoning them for the bargain bins and they did what they could to convince big spenders like Procter and Gamble and Philip Morris that the proper route out of the brand crisis wasn t less brand marketing but At the annual meeting of the U.S Association of National Advertisers in 1988, Graham H Phillips, the U.S chairman of Ogilvy Mather, berated the assembled executives for stooping to participate in a commodity marketplace rather than an image based one I doubt that many ofyou would welcome a commodity marketplace in which one competed solely on price, promotion and trade deals, all of which can easily be duplicated by competition, leading to ever decreasing profits, decay and eventual bankruptcy Others spoke of the importance of maintaining conceptual value added, which in effect means adding nothing but marketing Stooping to compete on the basis of real value, the agencies ominously warned, would spell not just the death of the brand, but corporate death as well Around the same time as Marlboro Friday, the ad industry felt so under siege that market researcher Jack Myers published Adbashing Surviving the Attacks on Advertising, a book length call to arms against everyone from supermarket cashiers handing out coupons for canned peas to legislators contemplating a new


only were these brands doing just fine, thank you very much, but the act of branding was becoming a larger and larger focus of their businesses For these companies, the ostensible product was mere filler for the real production the brand They integrated the idea of branding into the very fabric of their companies Their corporate cultures were so tight and cloistered that to outsiders they appeared to be a cross between fraternity house, religious cult and sanitarium Everything was an ad for the brand bizarre lexicons for describing employees partners, baristas, team players, crew members , company chants, superstar CEOs, fanatical attention to design consistency, a propensity for monument building, and New Age mission statements Unlike classic household brand names, such as Tide and Marlboro, these logossigning star athletes to colossal sponsorship deals The fetish strategy seemed to be working fine in the six years prior to 1993, Nike had gone from a 750 million company to a 4 billion one and Phil Knight s Beaverton, Oregon, company emerged from the recession with profits 900 percent higher than when it began Benetton and Calvin Klein, meanwhile, were also upping their spending on lifestyle marketing, using ads to associate their lines with risqu art and progressive politics Clothes barely appeared in these high concept advertisements, let alone prices Even abstract was Absolut Vodka, which for some years now had been developing a marketing strategy in which its product disappeared and its brand was nothing but a blank bottle shaped space that could be filled with


whatever content a particular audience most wanted from its brands intellectual in Harper s, futuristic in Wired, alternative in Spin, loud and proud in Out and Absolut Centerfold in Playboy The brand reinvented itself as a cultural sponge, soaking up and morphing to its surroundings See Table 1.3, Appendix, page 471 and Absolut image, page 32 Saturn, too, came out of nowhere in October 1990 when GM launched a car built not out of steel and rubber but out of New Age spirituality and seventies feminism After the car had been on the market a few years, the company held a homecoming weekend for Saturn owners, during which they could visit the auto plant and have a cookout with the people who made their cars As the Saturnads boasted at the time, 44,000 people spent their vacations with us, at a car plant It was as if Aunt Jemima had come to life and invited you over to her house for dinner In 1993, the year the Marlboro Man was temporarily hobbled by brandblind consumers, Microsoft made its striking debut on Advertising Age s list of the top 200 ad spenders the very same year that Apple computer increased its marketing budget by 30 percent after already making branding history with its Orwellian takeoff ad launch during the 1984 Super Bowl see image on page 86 Like Saturn, both companies were selling a hip new relationship to the machine that left Big Blue IBM looking as clunky and menacing as the now dead Cold War


but it wasn t until 1988 that it began sprouting like a green weed on every street corner in the U.S Even during the darkest years of the recession, the company opened between forty and fifty American stores a year Most baffling of all to Wall Street, it pulled off the expansion without spending a dime on advertising Who needed billboards and magazine ads when retail outlets were three dimensional advertisements for an ethical and ecological approach to cosmetics The Body Shop was all brand The Starbucks coffee chain, meanwhile, was also expanding during this period without laying out much in advertising instead, it was spinning off its name into a wide range of branded projects Starbucks airline coffee, office coffee, coffee ice cream, coffee beer Starbucks seemedbranding and never, ever blinked Overnight, Brands, not products became the rallying cry for a marketing renaissance led by a new breed of companies that saw themselves as meaning brokers instead of product producers What was changing was the idea of what in both advertising and branding was being sold The old paradigm had it that all marketing was selling a product In the new model, however, the product always takes a back seat to the real product, the brand, and the selling of the brand acquired an extra component that can only be described as spiritual Advertising is about hawking product Branding, in its truest and most advanced incarnations, is about corporate transcendence It may sound flaky, but that s precisely the point On Marlboro Friday, a


into two distinct categories of companies The top half Coca Cola, Microsoft, Disney, and so on are pure players in brainware The bottom half Ford and GM are still lumpy object purveyors, though automobiles are much smarter than they used to be, Peters writes in The Circle of Innovation 1997 , an ode to the power of marketing over production When Levi s began to lose market share in the late nineties, the trend was widely attributed to the company s failure despite lavish ad spending to transcend its products and become a free standing meaning Maybe one of Levi s problems is that it has no Cola, speculated Jennifer Steinhauer in The New York Times It has no denim toned house paint Levi makes what is essentiallyNavy clothing began playing with the idea of old style commodities as a source of retro marketing imagery The Lush chain serves up its face masks and moisturizers out of refrigerated stainless steel bowls, spooned into plastic containers with grocery store labels Old Navy showcases its shrink wrapped T shirts and sweatshirts in deli style chrome refrigerators, as if they were meat or cheese When you are a pure, concept driven brand, the aesthetics of raw product can prove as authentic as loft living And lest the branding business be dismissed as the playground of trendy consumer items such as sneakers, jeans and New Age beverages, think again Caterpillar, best known for building tractors and busting unions, has barreled into the branding business, launching the Cat accessories line


can only be described as a religious fervor Never again would the corporate world stoop to praying at the altar of the commodity market From now on they would worship only graven media images Or to quote Tom Peters, the brand man himself Brand Brand Brand That s the message for the late 90s and beyond Ce texte fait r f rence l dition Broch.Winner of the National Business Book AwardFinalist for the Guardian First Book Award20 weeks on The Globe and Mail bestseller list18 weeks on the Toronto Star bestseller list12 weeks on the National Post bestseller listA Globe and Mail Best BookKlein undertakes an arduous journey to the centre of a post national planetpart sociological thesis, part design history, No Logo s message is entirely engrossingAssessment of pathogenicity and antigenicity of American lineage influenza H5N2 viruses in Taiwan.
During December 2003 and March 2004, large scale epidemics of low-pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) H5N2 occurred in poultry farms in central and southern Taiwan. Based on genomic analysis, these H5N2 viruses contain HA and NA genes of American-lineage H5N2 viruses and six internal genes from avian influenza A/H6N1 viruses endemic in poultry in Taiwan. After disappearing for several years, these novel influenza H5N2 viruses caused outbreaks in poultry farms again in 2008, 2010 and 2012, and have evolved into high pathogenic AI (HPAI) since 2010. Moreover, asymptomatic infections of influenza H5N2 were detected serologically in poultry workers in 2012. Therefore, we evaluated antigenicity and pathogenicity of the novel H5N2 viruses in ferrets. We found that no


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upon and near her female sex organ;               to a minimum sentence of fifteen years in
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following facts are either uncontroverted, stipulated to, or viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff. John Ramey Posey was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Marilyn Short on January 4, 2007. On that date, the vehicle driven by Short was involved in a motor vehicle collision with a tractor-trailer operated by Smith and owned by Old Dominion. Immediately before the collision, both vehicles were traveling eastbound on U.S. 400 Highway in Crawford County, Kansas, a two-lane roadway. The collision occurred in the westbound lane of U.S. 400 Highway near its intersection with a field entrance. The collision occurred as Smith was attempting to pass the Short vehicle and Short turned left. Smith's tractor impacted the driver's side of the Short vehicle.
Smith was employed by Old Dominionat the time of the collision and was acting *1181 within the course and scope of his employment. Prior to January 4, 2007, Protective issued to Old Dominion a policy of motor vehicle liability insurance. Smith and Old Dominion were each an insured under the policy at the time of the collision.
Posey died on June 7, 2008, while a resident of Tulsa County, Oklahoma. Plaintiff was appointed personal representative of the Estate of Johnny Ramey Posey and commenced probate proceedings in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. On March 13, 2009, plaintiff filed a Notice to Creditors with the probate court, providing a deadline of May 29, 2009 for any creditor to present claims to plaintiff, or be forever barred. Appendix A to this Notice provides a list of seventeen possible


creditors, all of which appear to be health care providers. The Notice to Creditors was delivered by U.S. Mail to the individuals and entities identified in Exhibit A to the Notice, and it was published in The Tulsa Daily Commerce & Legal News on March 20, 2009 and on March 27, 2009. On March 29, 2009, Hillcrest Medical Center filed with the Tulsa County district court a creditor's claim against the Estate in the amount of $121.02, for medical goods and services provided. The claim was signed by plaintiff and by the presiding judge. On June 23, 2009, the docket reflects that the claim by Hillcrest Medical Center was approved and on June 26, 2009, Hillcrest Medical Center voluntarily dismissed its claim without prejudice.
According to the docket in4, 2008, the inventory of Posey's Estate was appraised at approximately $130, in addition to "[p]ossible proceeds from recovery/settlement of action stemming from an auto accident which occurred January 9 2007."[16]
Marilyn Short maintained a policy of motor vehicle insurance with Progressive Direct Insurance Company ("Progressive") on January 4, 2007. The Progressive policy provided personal injury protection ("PIP"). Progressive paid PIP coverage in the amount of $5000 to three of Posey's health care providers.
On December 30, 2008, plaintiff filed an action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma ("Oklahoma action") containing allegations against Smith, as the alleged operator of the tractor trailer, Old Dominion, as Smith's alleged employer, and "Progressive Insurance Company." On January 7, 2009, plaintiff filed an Amended Complaint in the Oklahoma


District of Kansas ("Kansas action") arising from the same collision and with many of the same allegations plead in the Oklahoma action.
Neither the original Complaint nor the Amended Complaint filed in the Oklahoma action included any allegation that could be construed to state that Old Dominion filed a liability insurance policy with the Kansas Corporation Commission ("KCC"), to state that the KCC approved a liability insurance policy filed by Old Dominion or to state a claim of negligent operation of a motor carrier.
Old Dominion has its principal place of business in North Carolina. In 2007, Old Dominion maintained a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Unified Carrier Registration with a base state of South Carolina. In 2008 and 2009, the registration reflects Old Dominion's base state as North Carolina.[18]Willie Cauley-Stein is the king of the jungle for the ferocious Kentucky Wildcats because he has the speed to chase down fleeing prey and the size and length to devour them once they're within his grasp.

It looked like National Geographic when Cauley-Stein corralled Jerian Grant into a corner and forced the doomed gazelle into a desperate game-winning attempt. The shot missed and the Wildcats remained undefeated.

It was an extraordinary play, but those who have watched Kentucky at all this season shouldn't have been shocked.

At 7'0 with a 7'2 wingspan, Cauley-Stein's basic measurements are impressive. But the numbers he logged this past year at the Kentucky Combine put him in unique territory.

No big man has ever recorded a quicker time in the lane agility drill, which assesses body control


and change of direction ability. And with a 147-inch maximum vertical reach, few bigs even come close to Cauley-Stein's length.

But Cauley-Stein athleticism doesn't only shine in his practice shorts. John Calipari has used his bouncy big man as a defensive stopper by having him harass the opponent's best player, regardless of their position. The 21-year-old has the lateral quickness to defend at least three positions in the NBA, though he can defend all five in college while wearing a blindfold. Big men should not be able to stay with NBA-quality guards like Grant.

"I don't think many (players could've blocked that shot). I barely got it. Anthony Davis could've gotten it," Cauley-Stein said when asked about that block. "The step-back is probably one of the fastest step-backs I've guarded.(Grant's) good at it. He knows how to set you up just to get you just enough space. I'm fortunate I even got my fingertips on it."

Cauley-Stein almost got beat, but he morphed into a pogo stick and leaped into the shot's trajectory using his wingspan. It's unfathomable that Cauley-Stein got there and it could go down as the biggest play of his collegiate career ... at least until he does something equally as spectacular in the Final Four.

It's not out of the question for Cauley-Stein to actually defend all five positions in the NBA. Consider his measurements:

Very few players are as fast and laterally-quick as Cauley-Stein, much less big men. Only seven players have lane agility and sprint scores that combine for fewer seconds than him, and


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This year's show will be held on October 12th and 13th, 2007, at the Marriott Besthesda North Hotel and Conference Center.
Their first major guest is Jeff Smith, author/writer of the groundbreaking and multiple award winning series Bone as well as the upcoming Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil.cup of coffee, and remained some twenty-five minutes. When she started to leave, her right foot hit something slick on the floor and zoomed out from under her and her left foot caught in the partition at the end of the counter. This prevented her from catching her balance and she came down on her right side, causing the injuries. She said she had seen no substance on the floor when she came in, that she had noticed no one walk behind her, and she had seen no one spill anything. She said she did not see the partition but recalled seeing the footrest adjacent to it as she got up on the stool. Plaintiff remembered that she looked down where she put her foot when she started


to get up, but testified she saw no liquid until after she had fallen. As they moved *147 her to the ambulance, she noticed there was some liquid on the floor.
The only other witness to the accident who testified, a man, said he had come in, hung up his coat and cap, made a dive for the middle stool to grab a quick bite and that he had not sat down when he heard a loud noise, looked up and saw the plaintiff sitting on the floor, that when he had come in he had noticed a rust-colored substance, starting about four feet from the base of the stool where plaintiff was sitting, L-shaped, some three and a half to four feet long, stopping behind her stool.
A medicalice cream socials for the family, card groups or book clubs, Family Fun Days on the holidays or themed party nights at the Plaza del Lago Clubhouse – living in Heron Bay is what community is all about.

There is a wide range of fitness group classes, including Yoga, Pilates, Zumba, Kickboxing and more as well as a fully equipped state of the art fitness facility open from 5am -10pm on weekdays and from 7am -10pm on weekends to accommodate everyone. Jogging trails wind throughout the community with sloping hills and lush landscaping. Tennis, Golf, Basketball and Racquet Ball are all offered right within the community.

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Watch this inspiring video of Trent Leon, a young First Nations hockey fan who got the chance to brush up on his slap shot with his idol, Carey Price! It all started with a surprise trip to Montreal from his hometown of Anahim Lake, made possible by the Air Canada Foundation and Breakfast Club of Canada.Infosys chooses Raleigh, North Carolina for its Technology and Innovation Hub

Infosys, the consulting, technology and next-generation services, announced that it will open its North Carolina Technology and Innovation Hub in Raleigh. This innovation Hub is expected to hire 2,000 American workers by 2021.

Towards its plan of hiring 10,000 jobs over 2 years, the company has already hired close to 1,200 American workers.

The new hub, which will open in early 2018, will occupy 60,000 square feet in a new facility in Raleigh and has the capacity to house 500 workers representing another step forward in the company’s previous announcement to hire American workers in the country. The company plans to hire the first 500 workers in Raleigh innovation hub within two years, with the remainder to be hired in


for our valued clients in North Carolina and the surrounding region. Attracting and retaining a skilled and motivated workforce is crucial to Infosys, and the new Tech Hub—along with the robust training program we are developing with the North Carolina Community College System and proximity to tier-one research universities—will expand Infosys’ existing North Carolina network to better serve clients in the IT, life sciences, clean technology and advanced manufacturing sectors.”

“The City of Raleigh welcomes Infosys as a key member of our community, further bolstering Raleigh’s already strong technology economy, which has seen technology jobs grow at a rate more than double the national average over the last five years. The partnership between our city and Infosys will boost innovation and benefit businesses, schools, and workforce development in theimplementation in analytics and security

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Vincent Perera

Mathew Vincent Perera (21 September 1918 - 7 April 1993) was a Sri Lankan statesman. He served in multiple cabinet positions and government posts. Perera was also Mayor of Colombo twice.

Perera was one the wounded in the 1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament.

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Category:Chief Government Whips (Sri Lanka)privately issued reports released this week included the ADP Employment Report for March, the light vehicle sales report for March from Wards Automotive, which estimated that vehicles sold at a 17.40 annual rate in March, up from the 16.96 annual sales rate in February, and up from the 16.53 million rate a year earlier, and the Mortgage Monitor for February from Black Knight Financial Services….that report indicated that 4.30% of US mortgages were delinquent in February, down from 4.31% in January but up from 3.62% in February a year ago, and that 0.65% of all mortgages were in the foreclosure process at the end of the month, down from 0.66% of mortgages in January and down from the 0.93% of mortgages that were in foreclosure in February a


year ago...in addition, the week saw both of the widely followed purchasing manager's surveys from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM): the March Manufacturing Report On Business indicated that the manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) fell to 59.3% in March, from 60.8% in February, which still suggests an ongoing expansion in manufacturing firms nationally, and the March Non-Manufacturing Report On Business; which saw the NMI (non-manufacturing index) fall to 58.8% in March, down from 59.5% in February, indicating a slightly smaller plurality of service industry purchasing managers reported expansion in various facets of their business in March...both of those ISM reports are easy to read and include anecdotal comments from purchasing managers from the 34 business types who participate in those surveys nationally...

the Employment Situation Summary for Marchshowed the weakest payroll job growth in 7 months, while the labor force participation rate fell because a number of the unemployed stopped looking for work…seasonally adjusted estimates extrapolated from the establishment survey data projected that employers added 103,000 jobs in March, after the previously estimated payroll job increase for January was revised down from 239,000 to 176,000 and the payroll jobs increase for February was revised up from 313,000 up to 326,000…including those revisions, this report thus represents a total of just 53,000 more seasonally adjusted payroll jobs than were reported last month, well below the past year's average of 188,000 jobs per month...the unadjusted data shows that there were actually 665,000 more payroll jobs extant in March than in February, as normal seasonal job increases in


sectors such as construction, administrative and waste services, and leisure and hospitality were smoothed over by the seasonal adjustments…

seasonally adjusted job increases in March were weak but still spread through through both the goods producing and the service sectors, with only construction and the retail sector showing job losses a seasonally adjusted basis, while both of those sectors actually added jobs on an unadjusted basis...adjusted construction employment was down 15,000 after increasing 65,000 in February, as it appears that those workers who would have been added in March were brought on early due to the mild February weather, meaning the March job additions were short of normal...meanwhile, the retail sector showed a seasonally adjusted 4,400 job decrease, as general merchandise stores cut 12,600 employees, probably due to storeclosings...meanwhile, the broad professional and business services sector added 33,000 jobs, as 9,600 more were employed by accounting and bookkeeping services....employment in health care rose by 22,400, with the addition of 9,900 jobs in hospitals...in addition, the manufacturing sectors saw the addition of 22,000 jobs, with metal fabrication factories adding 8,800....and there was also a 11,400 payroll job increase in social assistance sector, with the addition of 11,800 jobs in individual and family services....however, all the other major sectors, including resource extraction, wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, utilities, information, financial services, education, leisure and hospitality, and government, all saw smaller increases in payroll employment over the month…

the establishment survey also showed that average hourly pay for all employees rose by 8 cents an hour to $26.82 an hour


which thus meant a decrease of 158,000 in the total labor force...since the working age population had grown by 163,000 over the same period, that meant the number of employment aged individuals who were not in the labor force rose by 323,000 to 95,335,000....with the number of those in the labor force decreasing while the civilian noninstitutional population was increasing, the labor force participation rate fell by 0.1% to 62.9%....at the same time, the small decrease in number employed as a percentage of the increase in the population was not enough to change the employment to population ratio, as it remained at 60.4%...likewise, the decrease in the number unemployed was also not large enough to impact the unemployment rate, which remained at 4.1%....meanwhile, the number who reported theyEveryone's answering: using technology to increase classroom participation.
A study was designed to assess the impact of a wireless technology known as an audience response system (ARS), commonly known clickers, on learning and student engagement in a nursing classroom. Students in the control group responded verbally to questions posed during lectures, while students in the intervention groups responded anonymously using the ARS. Although no significant improvement in postlecture quizzes was noted, students in ARS-enhanced lectures reported significantly higher satisfaction scores. The use of ARS promoted a sense of comfort, encouraged participation, and motivated students to answer questions and interact with the subject matter.


What is DECA?

Collegiate DECA is a student driven organization that values competence, innovation, integrity, and teamwork. We prepare students for careers by integrating skills learned in the classroom into real world experiences. Collegiate DECA programs assist in developing academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders. Our students major in a variety of academic programs with a strong focus on business-related fields. Collegiate DECA conferences and other activities give students unique access to internships, scholarships,competition, and professional networking.

DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges across the globe. DECA members can begin their participation in the high school division as early as the ninth grade and continue through college graduation by participating in the collegiate division.

More than 15,000 collegeBy Suzanne Roig

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Scientists plumbing the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaii coast have discovered a World War Two era Japanese submarine, a technological marvel that had been preparing to attack the Panama Canal before being scuttled by U.S. forces.

The 400-foot (122-meter) "Sen-Toku" class vessel — among the largest pre-nuclear submarines ever built - was found in August off the southwest coast of Oahu and had been missing since 1946, scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa said.

The I-400 and its sister ship, the I-401, which was found off Oahu in 2005, were able to travel one and a half times around the world without refueling and could hold up to three folding-wing bombers that could be launched minutes after resurfacing, the scientists said.

The accidental discovery


of the 1-400, an aircraft-toting I-400 mega sub, on the rock- and debris-littered ocean floor, some 2,300 feet beneath the surface, has solved the mystery surrounding a ship long thought to be further afield.

"We came upon this as we were looking for other targets ... It is like watching a shark at rest," said Jim Delgado, a researcher aboard the Pisces V deep-diving submersible which traveled to the wreckage.

The U.S. Navy captured five Japanese subs, including the I-400, at the end of World War Two and brought them to Pearl Harbor for inspection, the scientists said on Monday.

"It was torpedoed, partially collapsed and had sunk at a steep angle," said Delgado, an archaeologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which helped to fund the dive.

U.S. forcessank the submarines and claimed to have no information on their precise location, in an apparent bid to prevent their technology falling into the hands of the Soviet Union, which had demanded the ships be returned to Japan.

Other mega subs have been found in waters off Oahu and in the Sea of Japan. One in the submarine class remains missing.

The discovery of the I-400 was announced on Monday after NOAA had reviewed its findings with the U.S. State Department and Japanese government officials, researchers said.

(Editing by Eric M. Johnson and Gareth Jones)


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variables have a common distributino with a finite third absolute moment.

Renewal theory has been treated by many pure and applied mathematicians. Among the former we may mention Feller, Täcklind and Doob. The principal limit theorem (for one-dimensional, positive, lattice random variables) was however proved earlier by Kolmogorov in 1936 as the ergodic theorem for denumerable Markov chains. A partial result for the non-lattice case was first proved by Doob using the theory of Markov processes, and the complete result by Blackwell. The extension of the renewal theorem to random variables taking both positive and negative values was first given by Wolfowitz and the author [Chung and Wolfowitz 1952], for the lattice case. A partial result for the non-lattice case,Contingency Plans for the Phillies If Roy Halladay Never Returns to Dominance

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Regardless of the additions general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. made to the Philadelphia Phillies roster during the offseason, starting pitching was going to be the strength of the team in 2013.

With Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels topping the rotation, Philadelphia has a chance of competing for an NL East title and wild-card playoff spot. But Amaro had to make the necessary improvements on offense to make sure his team's strong pitching wouldn't be wasted.

However, that's presuming that Halladay, Lee and Hamels are all healthy. In 2012, rumors and concerns over injuries followed Halladay throughout spring training as he showed diminished velocity. In June,


Halladay went on the disabled list with a strained shoulder and eventually missed nearly eight weeks of the season.

Though Halladay made 14 starts after returning from the DL, there is understandably some concern as to whether or not he can make it through a full season healthy again. He's 35 years old with nearly 2,700 innings on his odometer.

In his latest mailbag column for MLB.com, Phillies beat writer Todd Zolecki was asked about Halladay's health and what sort of offseason conditioning he was working through to prevent a repeat of 2012.

According to Amaro, Halladay's offseason is going according to plan and he'll begin throwing off a mound in the very near future. However, there was one part of Amaro's remarks that might seem a bit cryptic to Philliesmillion salary for 2013 and pitch well enough for the team to pick up his option for 2014 (also worth $20 million). If age and workload have finally caught up with him, however, devising a contingency plan might be in order for Amaro and manager Charlie Manuel.

Fortunately, the Phillies have two other ace-level starters ready to take over the No. 1 spot in the rotation if Halladay suffers any setbacks.

Though Lee compiled a 6-9 record last season, he finished among the National League's top 10 starters with a 3.16 ERA. His 207 strikeouts and 1.11 WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) both ranked in the league's top five.

Hamels' 17 wins were the fifth-highest total in the NL. His 216 strikeouts ranked third among the league's starting pitchers,


for that role.

Jesse Biddle is the Phillies' top prospect, according to Baseball America. But he pitched in Single-A last season and is realistically at least another year from appearing in the major leagues.

Jonathan Pettibone could be a possibility to join the Phillies rotation in 2013. He finished last year with Triple-A Lehigh Valley and looked impressive in his seven starts. Overall, Pettibone went 13-8 with a 3.10 ERA, striking out 113 batters in 159.2 innings.

The Phillies and Amaro would probably have to go with what's already on hand in Halladay's absence. What's available to trade might have to be used to fill the team's opening in right field, unless Amaro and Manuel believe Domonic Brown is the answer at that position. The front office likely wants a betterin 1999, the

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