90,000 displaced Syrians live, in the vicinity of the town near the desolate lands.

The second is that the town’s residents are Sunni Muslims, and thus there are those who might sympathize with the gunmen, or at least antagonize Hezbollah. This divide has led to a series of clashes between the Lebanese army and gunmen hailing from Arsal and its barren lands throughout the years of the Syrian war. The most recent among these is the fierce confrontation between the army and terrorists in that area Aug. 2 after terrorists captured more than 30 Lebanese soldiers, 16 of whom are still detained by Jabhat al-Nusra and six by IS.

The third consideration lies in the political, and even governmental, positions that are announced by Sunni politicians in Lebanon, which rejectthe next battle: the battle of the desolate lands of Arsal. The exact timing and means still need more time to become clear. The battle, and when it will happen, seem to be related to the losses the terrorists in Qalamoun incur and the rate at which the problems they are facing in the desolate lands of Arsal intensify. The terrorists will be caught in a three-way crossfire: Hezbollah fighters from the east, the Lebanese army from the west and their own internal disputes — between IS, Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups. Add to this their disputes with Arsal residents.


Washington (CNN) Civil rights activist and philosopher Cornel West on Monday endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president.

"I endorse Brother @BernieSanders because he is a long-distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice for over 50 years," West tweeted late Monday night.

West went on to say that it's time for Sanders' "prophetic voice to be heard across our crisis-ridden country."

While West has been a long time supporter of Sanders (and "not a Hillary Clinton fan at all" ), the endorsement comes weeks after Black Lives Matter activists disrupted a Sanders event in Seattle, taking the podium from the self proclaimed socialist who is seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. West has frequently linked arms with Black Lives Matter activists and has been arrested with them during variousSeoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A couple whose baby starved to death while they raised a virtual child in an online fantasy game was sentenced Friday, their defense attorney said.

Prosecutors at Suwon District Court had sought a five-year sentence for negligent homicide, but the court handed out a two-year sentence.

Sentence was suspended for the female defendant, Kim Yun-jeong, 25, who is expecting the couple's daughter in August. Her partner, Kim Jae-beom, 41, will serve two years.

The unmarried couple's defense attorney said he was satisfied with the sentence.

"This is the first legal case regarding Internet addiction in Korea," said Kim Dong-young, a lawyer with the Korean Legal Aid Corp. "I am pleased that the female defendant's Internet addiction was taken into consideration, and she was bailed."

Three-month-old Kim Sa-rang died


of malnutrition in September while her parents were engaged in 12-hour sessions of Prius Online. In the 3-D fantasy game, players nurture an online girl who gains magical powers as she grows.

Kim's mother is a former factory worker while her father is a taxi and truck driver.

During their trial, the court heard that the toddler weighed 6.4 pounds (2.9 kgs) when she was born, but was only 5.5 pounds (2.5 kgs) at the time of her death.

The trial was in March, but sentencing was delayed after the court requested a psychological examination of the mother. Both defendants appeared contrite during the trial, with the mother frequently breaking down in tears.

Internet gaming is hugely popular in South Korea, with some 21,500 'PC Bangs' -- or Internet cafes -- offeringultra-high speed Internet connections nationwide.

The case has highlighted the dark side of the nation's Internet, an industry touted by South Korean officials as cutting edge. A public debate is under way in the nation over online privacy and regulating Internet rumors.

There is particular concern about gaming addiction and its effects on teenagers and those estranged from mainstream society. "Consequently, it comes as no surprise to me that two people who were disconnected from society in general found a common psychological space that kept them physically and socially divorced from reality," said Tom Coyner, Seoul-based author of "Mastering Business in Korea."

Suwon, the satellite town south of Seoul where the tragedy occurred, was named "Intelligent City of the Year" this month by a New York-based think-tank Intelligent Community Forum.

The honor


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Kenny Marchant, Carrollton, TX, pro se.
John Montford, Carrollton, TX, pro se.
David Sibley, Carrollton, TX, pro se.
Appeals from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Before REAVLEY, SMITH and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

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This consolidated case consists of an appeal by the various above-listed defendants from the district court's denial of a motion to dismiss, a separate appeal by Northwestern University challenging the denial of summary judgment, a petition by the defendants for a writ of mandamus, an additional appeal by Texas Attorney General Dan Morales from the denial of his motion to intervene as


have to pay the annuity.

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As with bonds, the annual payout is expressed as a percentage, which is referred to as the charitable gift annuity rate.  Unlike with bonds, however, the principal on which this "interest" is being paid becomes the property of the charity when the check is handed over.  In other words, the annuitant trades a "donation" to a charity for a guaranteed stream of income that continues as long as he lives.1

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In many respects, then, charitable gift annuities are quite similar to the commercial annuities sold by life insurance companies.  As with commercial annuities, an annuitant who outlives his actuarial life expectancy stands to reap a substantial profit, the gift portion of the "donation" notwithstanding.  The difference is that charitable gift annuities A Texas state court later appointed Richie guardian of Peter's estate, so Ozee's name was dropped from the suit, and Richie was substituted as the named plaintiff.

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Perhaps recognizing that the denial of their first motion to dismiss did not bode well for their chances of success on the merits, the defendants decided to attack their problem from another angle:  They persuaded both Congress and the Texas Legislature to pass bills specifically designed to squelch this suit.  The federal bill, which the President signed into law on December 8, 1995, was entitled the Charitable Gift Annuity Antitrust Relief Act (the "Relief Act"), and provided that

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is "trade or commerce" within the meaning of the Sherman Act.  As Richie points out, the "exchange of money for services, even by a nonprofit organization, is a quintessential commercial transaction."  United States v. Brown Univ., 5 F.3d 658, 666 (3d Cir.1993).

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The purchasers of charitable gift annuities pay money and receive benefits in return:  the annuity, substantial tax advantages, and the satisfaction of having given to charity.  As the IRS recognizes, at least part of the transaction is undoubtedly commercial, and the transaction as a whole is a far cry from the sort of "antithesis of commercial activity" that it need be in order to fall outside the scope of the Sherman Act.  Brown, 5 F.3d at 666.

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Nor can the defendants succeed inintervenor delayed action after it became aware that the original parties would not protect its interests.  Sierra Club, 18 F.3d at 1206.

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Under this standard, Morales's delay was lengthy, but not nearly so lengthy as it appears at first blush.  It was not until April 1995 that Richie's summary judgment motion alerted Morales to the immediate danger to his interests.  He moved to intervene permissively shortly thereafter, and moved to intervene as of right a few months later, after it became apparent that the court would not permit him to do so permissively.  Although his actions in moving to intervene as of right were not as prompt as they could have been, neither were they excessively tardy.  The first factor is neutral.

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Thursday, 2 August 2018

General d'Armee test game.

John the Red came over last night to finally have a go with General d'Armee using my French Revolutionary Wars armies. It seemed like a good excuse to 'blood' my early Prussians and pit them against the Revolutionary hoards.

The French had a brigade of cavalry, a brigade of six battalions of average line infantry and a brigade with an elite legere demi-brigade, a battalion of the Volunteers du Midi and a battalion of National Guard. The cavalry had a 4pdr horse battery attached, and the whole army was supported by a battery of 12pdrs. I made the French commander excellent, giving the army an extra ADC.

The Prussians also had a brigade of cavalry (two large regiments), two brigades of line infantry anda brigade of fusiliers, supported by a battery of 6pdrs. The Prussian commander was classed as rubbish, so I lost an ADC.

The French were tasked with destroying this Prussian force which was covering the flank of the main army that was in the process of invading France. The Prussians had to hold the French and keep them from exiting the table on their base line.

Here are some photos of the action. I was so engrossed in the game I didn't take that many.

The Prussian right wing. In turn 1 none of my ADCs were available and two of my brigades were hesitant. A good start!

The Prussian left flank. A little 'up in the air'.

Seen from the French left wing, the French advance on the right in the distance


contrasts starkly with their immobility on the left.

My cavalry - a regiment each of dragoons and cuirassiers (both large) and a unit of Towarczy Uhlans.

The Prussian infantry managed to fail all its orders for a number of turns and become/stay hesitant and my few ADCs were busy elsewhere. The French had the same problem with hesitant brigades but had four ADCs to play with to my three.

I decided to attack with my cavalry as my infantry appeared to be unwilling to do much except enter into a loosing fight with John's skirmish screen. The French artillery was able to knock a few Prussian cavalrymen from their saddles but failed to stop them.

The French horse artillery galloped forward and unlimbered on the Prussian flank. They began pounding my lefthand battalions mercilessly.

The Prussian left hand battalions being pounded mercilessly!

The French cavalry approached. The 8th regiment just behind the windmill were lining themselves up for a charge while the 23rd regiment (aka the damned pinko Parisien ladyboys) worked around my flank.

The French were in the process of overwhelming my feeble skirmish screen, which was eventually driven off. John's cavalry then charged my wavering line and routed one battalion, forcing the others in the brigade to withdraw.

My cavalry charged John's left wing. In the first attempt they were driven back. A second charge by the cuirassier alone, supported by the dragoons and Towarczy Uhlans had better luck, riding over and dispersing a battalion of French before being forced to retreat in the face of fresh French infantry.

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The next Filmmakers Connection Meeting will be held on Monday (Yes, that’s a Monday), November 15, 2010 at 7:00 pm in Room 303 of Five Towns College in Dix Hills, NY 11746. The speaker is Elias Plagianos. Born in Brooklyn, Elias grew up in Rockland County, New York where he got his start in showbiz starring in and producing "Fried Cheese", a quirky public access TV series, when he was only 15 years old. Elias has since produced, written and directed several multimedia projects ranging from "The Iceland Experience", a DVD documentary on the icelandic indie music scene, to "Redskins Revenge", an award-winning horror short filmand comic book.Determined to bring his unique style of filmmaking to the big screen, Elias spent 6 years developing his feature film debut "The Crimson Mask", which had it's International premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and has won over 35 awards around the world including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. Bring your headshots!!

Donna McKenna will be collecting canned foods for the local foods banks – so please bring in some canned food for the needy. Please check the expiration dates – no expired food can be accepted. Thank you for understanding.

AND from Doug LeClaire of the Asbury Shorts Film ConcertANNOUNCINGDiscount for Filmmakers Connection Members when they show their cards!!!!Asbury Shorts NY 30th Anniversary"SHORT FILM CONCERT" Guest Host: Debra Markowitz of the Nassau County Film


Office and the Long Island International Film ExpoSaturday November 13, 2010Glenwood School--Glenwood Landing, Nassau County, LI7:30pm$12 general admission $10 for seniors and Filmmakers Connection Member when they present their cards!!!An Evening of the best short films in the world!!www.glenwood-arts.org718-510-6929Hope to see you there! Doug LeClaire

Thehe Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE) is now accepting films for consideration for the 2011 festival. Get in on the deeply discounted early bird submissions until February 18 at http://liifilmexpo.org/ or www.longislandfilm.com The 14th annual LIIFE will be held from July 8 – 14, 2011, with the closing party on Thursday, July 14. Details tba.

If you’re interested in finding out up-to-the-minute information on film jobs that I hear about (both cast and crew) or locations needed for film/tv/commercials, plus other film related informationserves as Vice President of the Long Island Film/TV Foundation, Long Island’s most established and largest not-for-profit agency dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking. She also helped found the Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE).
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Hulu's live TV service has been in the works for some time. In May, the company confirmed rumors that it would be launching the service and that it would be a standalone offering not requiring consumers to pay for a cable subscription.

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Following Alexander's death in 323 BC, He brought his body with him to be buried in Alexandria, reuniting the famed conqueror with the city that bore his name. For the next two-and-a-half centuries, the Ptolemaic dynasty of the Greeks would successfully rule Egypt, mingling Hellenic traditions with the mighty legacy of the Pharaohs.The Ptolemaic DynastyNo money. No players. No points. No electricity. Any day now could be the last in Kettering Town's 140-year history.

The Poppies, one of non-league's most successful clubs, have dwindled from Blue Square Bet Premier mainstays to Evostik Southern Premier basement boys.

quote I can't afford to do it really. That's the big problem. That's another thing my missus isn't too happy about Alan Doyle Kettering caretaker manager

The crippling financial failures that put the club where they are now continue to gather speed, the power at Nene Park has been shut off, they are rock bottom of the league on -5 points after a 10-point deduction and, on Tuesday, their game at Leamington

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the Poppies fans after that weekend thrashing persuaded Doyle, a former Cambridge City striker, to keep on fighting a losing battle.

"After the game people were shaking my hand saying 'thank you for trying to keep it going'," he said.

"You don't want to sit on the bench every week knowing you're going to get beaten. But I also thought the longer it can be kept going the more chance it's got of being saved. If I pack up it's finished.

Quick Kettering history Formed in 1872, turned professional in 1891

Found non-league success in the 1970s under Ron Atkinson, but failed to win election to the Football League

In 1976 they became the first English club to display a sponsor on their shirt. The FA ordered it to be removed

Imraan Ladak becamethey are under a transfer embargo from the Southern Football League, who argue the club had plenty of registered players when the embargo was placed.

"I can understand why the officials have done this because they want to get the club into order," added Doyle, the former scout turned caretaker-manager.

"But it doesn't make sense that we can't get more players on the books. I think common sense has to come in now."

There is nothing in it for Doyle, who is one among an army of volunteers at Nene Park.

There is, of course, the possibility of attaining cult status in a pocket of Northamptonshire and a permanent job should the club survive.

"That's the dream. But unfortunately life's not like that. It would be nice if it was," he said.

"I can't


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it was determined to be the bottle of Excedrin pills in the bathroom. Thinking perhaps a Chicago copycat-killer was at work, another bottle from the same manufacturing lot at a local grocery store was tested and found to also contain pills laced with cyanide. A heavily-publicized recall of all Excedrin products in the Seattle area ensued (3).

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The Dodgers have a spot on their 40-man roster now that Charlie Culberson was outrighted to AAA. The Dodgers, though, still have two major in-house free agents out there in closer Kenley Jansen and third baseman Justin Turner.

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a crowded free agent market, nobody really wanted Dexter Fowler. He turned down a lowball offer from the Orioles, returned to the Cubs, had the best season of his career and became a Cubs legend. Now he's headed to the Cardinals pending a physical, basically the same player as a year ago except a year older ... and reportedly about $80-$90 million richer.

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On what attracted him to the Red Sox, Mitch Moreland said, "I felt like I could fit in and try to help make that goal happen of winning a championship. That's the main goal for me. I feel like we've got a great opportunity here -- and that was before the (Chris) Sale news broke, too. That just shows you that we'reTEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities ordered the evacuation of six more towns in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, which is widely inundated with floods, state TV reported on Saturday.

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and his wife Kate moved from Rockford with their 3 children to St. Louis aka “The Lou” then lived in Austin, Oakland, LA, and Newport Beach CA. Needless to say our love has grown and our bond strengthened as we move ahead day by day. The Kaufman Klan; a small yet growing group. Together as one, on the path called life. I eventually married Nancy and had our only child Julia on May 6 2000. Currently the 3 of us live in Chicago. We will begin with my brother Michael his wife Kate, and their 3


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After watching the peculiar behaviour of a 20 something year old on the beach the other day, I thought I might just touch base on the use and availability of the hallucinogenic ~ magic mushrooms. She spent hours in the heat and sun building a small pile of sand and would repeatedly fill her water bottle in the ocean, return to the pile and gently sprinkle the water over the top. She repeated this over and over for a good part of the day. Each to their own I say, however for the naive tourist getting caught up in the promise of a high a slight word of caution. It is a hallucinogenic and will obscure your senses and view of the worldIt made a loop around Gray's police car before hitting an ice machine and product display in front of the store. The car then struck Gray and Rupert, who were in front of the store, before striking a parked truck.

Witnesses said Gray, who was thrown into the air by the impact, managed to get to his feet and draw his gun. He ordered the driver to stop after the Impala made an abrupt U-turn in the parking lot and came back past the front of the store.

“I saw Officer Gray and another man thrown high into the sky and then landed on the asphalt. I'm surprised they were not killed,” said Stacy Johnson, 31, of Parks Township. She said the men landed on their backs or sides on


the pavement.

“I heard Officer Gray tell the driver to ‘Stop! Stop! Stop! Turn off the engine!' That's when he shot at the driver,” Johnson said.

Both of Gray's shots struck the Impala's windshield, but Pencak was not hit.

His car continued past Gray, struck one of the station's gas pumps and stopped in the lot just short of Sherman Avenue.

“Preliminarily, it appeared to the officer that the driver was trying to get away when the officer fired,” Trooper Limani said.

Pencak was taken to the Kiski Valley state police station for questioning.

Limani said Pencak told police that his car's accelerator pedal stuck, causing the vehicle to go out of control.

When he got out of the car, Pencak “kept saying he was sorry and that the gas pedal had stuck,” Johnson said.

ItKatrina at Five: The Lower Ninth Ward

Michael Knight lived those harrowing images so many others remember from Hurricane Katrina: the waters rising and rising, people trapped in their homes racing to their rooftops, crawling through windows to escape Katrina's wrath.

"We've been running," Knight said back in 2005. "I feel like crying. A lot of people just died, bro."

After the pounding winds and hammering rains of Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, the worst was still yet to come. Flood waters rushed into the Ninth Ward, one of New Orleans' poorest neighborhoods.

The floodwall protecting the Lower Ninth Ward was knocked down by a runaway barge cut loose by the storm. Thousands of residents had to race to their attics and rooftops to escape the rising waters.

"We got up in


the roof, all the way to the roof, and, and water came, it had just, just open up," one man told ABC News in 2005.

Some were lucky, rescued by helicopters. Others had to rely on the kindness of neighbors -- neighbors like Knight.

Lower Ninth Ward Hit Hardest By Katrina

Five Years Later: Katrina Hero 'Glad' To be Home

Of all the places in New Orleans hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, none suffered more than the lower ninth ward. In 2005, Knight and another Lower Ninth resident, Harry Pryor, paddled through the flooded streets looking for signs of life. They made it their mission to rescue their marooned neighbors.

"See where them holes are at in the rooftops?" Pryor said. "We cut them out here."

Pryor and Knight had to hack their wayfor hours worked through presentation of a

Work Schedule and an invoice to the FSI Budget Office.”).

                     B. Excepted Service Appointment at FSI (June 2011)

       On June 19, 2011, Dr. Coulibaly began a two-year Excepted Service appointment within

the Department of State as a French instructor. See Compl. ¶¶ 75, 83; Defs.’ Stmt. ¶¶ 5–7; see

also Letter from Swati Limaye to Tiemoko Coulibaly (May 27, 2011), Compl. Ex., ECF No. 1-1,

at 113–14. Under this appointment, Dr. Coulibaly performed substantially the same duties as he

had while he was a contractor. See Compl. ¶¶ 75, 83; Defs.’ Stmt. ¶¶ 5–7. His appointment was

subject to an initial


next day, LTS Casteuble again wrote to Dr. Coulibaly to inform him that Director

Blake had been mistaken about Dr. Coulibaly’s remaining sick and annual leave allowances;

Dr. Coulibaly had in fact “ran completely out of sick leave” on February 23, 2012, and he had

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only “68 hours of annual leave remaining” on February 24, 2012, which would cover

Dr. Coulibaly only through March 7, 2012. See Email from Philippe Casteuble (Mar. 6, 2012,

4:56 PM), ROI at 885, ECF No. 26-8. Accordingly, LTSgenerally Pl.’s Resp. to

Ct.’s Inquiries & Suppl. Br. on FMLA Issues (“Pl.’s Suppl. Br.”), ECF No. 44. The Court will

first address whether Dr. Coulibaly was “covered” by Title II at the time he was terminated and

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thus ineligible under Title I before turning to whether the time he spent as a contractor counts for

the purpose of Title II FMLA eligibility.

       In analyzing the FMLA, the Court bears in mind that “[t]he preeminent canon


When the plants emerged, it was apparent
that germination had been poor. The parties estimated that 40 to 50 percent of the seeds
germinated, as opposed to 70 or 75 percent germination for a normal crop. (Sandstone
contended at trial the delay in planting had resulted in overly dry soil conditions; the
growers argued the seeds had been damaged by heat while under Sandstone‟s control.)
Thereafter, conditions in the fields deteriorated. (Sandstone contended this was because
the growers failed to apply herbicides and pesticides in a timely manner and failed to take
adequate measures to protect portions of the fields from rabbits; the growers contended
weeds and rabbits were minor problems and that insect infestations occurred
unexpectedly and were beyond their control.) Sandstone began harvesting the melons on
September 10, 2008, but stopped harvesting after packing 5,882 boxesworkers -- may have been a key factor in losing swing states like Missourr which cost her the election.

PAST VOTERS FOR SEN. McCASKILL WANT IMMIGRATION CUT BY AT LEAST HALF

In next year's election, Sen. McCaskill will be answering to Missouri voters who polled 63% to 24% in favor of cutting legal immigration from the current one million a year to a half-million or less. That reduction is what would happen under the RAISE Act, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) with Pres. Trump at the White House this summer.

The NumbersUSA-commissioned poll indicated that going against the RAISE Act and significant cuts in legal immigration not only would go against the desires of the overall Missouri electorate but also among Sen. McCaskill's base of


various countries in Africa, 6% to Puerto-Rico and one individual predicted to be East Greenlander. This individual, with reported ¾ African American grandparental ancestry, had non-African admixture vector, with predominant Native American component of 45%, followed by Northern European component of 24%. Ninety-seven percent of Utah resident samples ended up as mapped to various countries in Europe, with 74% mapped to Western and Northern Europe. Among the samples with self-reported Chinese origins, 55% got assigned as Chinese, and 45% as Japanese, while among the Japanese, 73% were identified as Japanese, and 27% as Chinese. This difference may be due to higher diversity of Chinese populations as compared to Japanese ones. Among the Gujarati Indian samples collected in Houston, Texas, 96% mapped to various locations in India and 4%Buster’s Liquors & Wines, put the gears in motion to acquire the restaurant adjacent to his Highland Street spirits store.

Owner: FedEx Corp.Tenant: FedEx Corp.Contractor: Grinder & Haizlip ConstructionDetails: Contractor Grinder & Haizlip Construction has filed a $12.7 million building permit for renovations at the FedEx World Technology Center in Collierville.In January, the Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen ratified a 20-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes incentive package for the FedEx center at 3860 S. Forest Hill-Irene Road.A term of the PILOT agreement is that FedEx has to invest $40 million in real property and personal property upgrades.The FedEx World Technology Center has been an economic driver for the city since its 16-acre campus opened in 1998. Currently, the tech hub is the largest employer in Collierville, with 2,500 total workers and


a capacity for 3,200.

South Front Street, which stretches Downtown from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Central Station, is emerging as its own standalone residential and commercial corridor. What was once a heavy industrial area and warehousing district for South Main’s department stores is undergoing a transformation into Downtown’s most residentially dense neighborhood.

East Memphis’ most prominent office towers, Clark Tower and the iBank Tower, are anchors in a strategy to make the Poplar Avenue-facing corner more walkable and memorable.

Late last year, In-Rel Properties purchased the iBank Tower, bringing both towers under the same ownership for the first time. The Florida-based real estate group plans to unite the 16-acre office campus with increased connections to the surrounding East Memphis restaurants and retail.

A popular Travel Channel series will be showcasingchurch in which she lives, her arms full of just-picked corn, tomatoes, herbs and okra, and drops them on her kitchen counter.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company will present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Thursday, June 4, through June 21 in the University of Memphis Mainstage Theater, 3745 Central Ave. Buy tickets at tnshakespeare.org.

Memphis civic and business leaders are in the early stages of talking with an anonymous donor about lighting the Harahan Bridge while a Memphis-based movie theater titan is exploring building a new theater Downtown.

Sweetie Pie’s, the St. Louis soul food institution in a standoff with its Beale Street landlord, has been approached by the administration of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. as a tenant for one of two malls the administration wants to convert to “town centers.”

Sweetie Pie’s,


Fourth Street in a space that has been closed for 12 years.

Downtown Memphis Commission president Paul Morris tweeted Thursday, April 10, that Sweetie Pie’s, a soul food restaurant with three locations in St. Louis and plans for expansion in other cities, will open at 349 Beale St. on the southeast corner of Fourth and Beale streets.

Before a packed house, the Germantown Planning Commission voted to approve a revamped plan for a new Whole Foods store at the southeast corner of the intersection of Poplar Avenue and Pete Mitchell Road, on the eastern edge of Germantown’s Central Business District.

The Memphis office real estate market began showing signs of life in 2013, with the market for Class A office space in the East Memphis submarket fueling the resurgence.

While the city’soverall office market numbers may not appear very strong, the city’s most desired office submarket – East Memphis around Poplar Avenue and Interstate 240 – began showing strong signs of improvement in the second half of the year.

The development team behind a proposed Whole Foods store in Germantown is going back to the drawing board after some neighbors expressed concerns about the project, particularly over traffic.

The development team withdrew its application from the Germantown Planning Commission’s Tuesday, Dec. 3, agenda and will return next month. After that, the development team would need approval from Germantown’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen.

The Booksellers at Laurelwood will host the Eating Greek Wine & Food Tasting Tuesday, July 9, at 6:30 p.m. at The Booksellers Bistro, 387 Perkins Road Extended. The meal


of the past at Memphis City Schools Nutrition Services, where, each school day, 20,000 salads are prepared from scratch using fresh, locally grown, mixed field greens.

CINCINNATI (AP) – Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is recalling about 131,300 pounds of ground beef – including some sold in the Memphis area and other parts of The Kroger Co.’s Delta Division – because a family in Ohio fell ill after eating meat produced by the company that was contaminated with E. coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising wholesale prices for food and energy are putting pressure on manufacturers and retailers to pass higher costs to customers. It's a trend that could raise inflation in the United States and slow economies in Asia and Latin America.

Part of thepath to inner-city recovery appears to run through a garden, or at least through the produce section of a supermarket. Nine farmers markets operate in various parts of Shelby County this summer, from Downtown to Collierville and places such as Germantown, Agricenter International and Cooper-Young in between.

A popular but aged East Memphis shopping destination is finally getting a much-needed makeover.

Minneapolis-based Target Corp. has filed a $2.5 million building permit with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement to renovate and slightly expand its 30-year-old, 122,857-square-foot store at 601 Colonial Road in the East Central/Poplar Perkins area of East Memphis.

Riviana Foods Inc. has filed another permit as part of its ongoing project to build a 400,000-square-foot, $67 million rice processing and distribution center here. The latest permit, filed this


week with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement, will bring a $3.5 million building to 2371 Prospect St. on Riviana’s campus in the West Person/Elvis Presley area.

Riviana Foods Inc. has filed a $3 million permit application with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement to build a plant and water treatment facility at 2372 Prospect St. in South Memphis. The Houston-based company is in the midst of building a 400,000-square-foot rice processing and distribution center there.

WASHINGTON (AP) – New applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week from a seven-year high, the Labor Department reported Thursday, though they remain at elevated levels that indicate recession.

When Oscar Edmonds III bought St. Clair Foods in 1976, the company employed two people and manufactured four salad dressings in an 1,800-square-foot spacelobbyists to determine whether they are consistent with financial reports filed with the commission by the lobbyists and their employers.

Rhodes College holds its annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today at 7 p.m. in the McCallum Ballroom of the Bryan Campus Life Center. Dr. Charles Payne, the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of History, African-American Studies and Sociology at Duke University, is the keynote speaker. For more information, call 843-3997.

The Small Business Chamber holds a free Cellular South Workshop called "Identifying and Retaining Top Performers" from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the boardroom of Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Road. Call 259-1093 or visit www.smallbusinesschamber.com for more information.

The Memphis Area Technology Council is planning committee alignment meetings for people interested in getting involved with MATC. Meetings


four new positions within the organization: Memphis Memos Assistant District Attorney James A. Robinson Jr., has been appointed by Gov. Don Sundquist to the 30th Judicial District General Sessions ...

98. Archived Article: Real Focus - Tuesday, September 07, 1999 By LAURIE JOHNSON Central Gardens Home Tour 99 This years tour features eclectic collection of architectural styles By LAURIE JOHNSON Take a peek into seven very different houses and some beautiful gardens on Sunday, Sept. 12, when the Central Garde...

99. Archived Article: Bott - Friday, August 27, 1999 Trammell Crow completes sale, lease of 371,500 sf of property Memphis City Schools, Global ink property deals By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News Trammell Crow Co. has completed the sale of one property and closed a deal for the lease ofPhulay Bay is nestled in a secluded and serene location in Krabi, surrounded by the lush tropical nature environment featuring the majestic limestone karsts nearby Phulay Bay. This exotic location is best reached by air on a helicopter ride to access the best vantage point to view this unforgettable tropical sanctuary.

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We affirm.

2
* Both parties to this appeal operate the same general type of restaurant, using virtually identical marks.  Appellant employs "STOCK POT" in its Joliet, Illinois restaurant, while appellee has its restaurant (and gourmet shop) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, using "STOCKPOT."    Both enterprises cater to people from various parts of the country.  It is agreed that the marks are confusingly similar, and, each having been used together with the representation of a kettle or pot, they evoke the same commercial impression.  It is also common ground that neither party knew of the other's use of the mark until almost the time this cancellation proceeding was begun in November 1981.

3
Appellant applied in 1978 for registration of the two marks for "restaurant service," one for"STOCK POT" and the other for "STOCK POT and DESIGN" (the design being the words "STOCK POT" superimposed on a kettle over a brazier), with first use claimed since November 15, 1975.  Registration was allowed in 1979.  Appellee does not have a registration for its mark but claims prior use continuously since March 1973.  The petition to cancel appellant's registration rests on that claim of prior use.  After evaluating the record, including deposition testimony from the principals of each side, the Board held appellee had made prior use of the marks, rejected appellant's dispositive factual and legal contentions, and cancelled appellant's registrations.  Reconsideration was denied in an opinion.

II

4
Some of the major issues appellant presents to us center primarily on the Board's findings of


overturning them.

5
A. There was specific and detailed testimony (credited by the Board) from Mrs. Mitchell, appellee's principal, that appellee opened a restaurant in Stockbridge and used the mark "STOCKPOT" in connection with that restaurant in April 1973--some two and one-half years prior to appellant's use of its mark--and that such use was continued thereafter.  This testimony was corroborated by a contemporaneous restaurant guest book signed by guests, as well as by several separate advertisements for the restaurant, and by published items about the restaurant (all using the "STOCKPOT" mark).  The absence of menus, signs, or photographs--from the pre-November 1975 period--showing the then use of "STOCKPOT" did not preclude the TTAB from finding such prior use, on the basis of the specific Mitchell testimony and the confirmingat that time a key employee in appellee's restaurant.  The written lease undoubtedly granted Mrs. Phillips the restaurant premises and equipment and "the exclusive use of the name 'The Stockpot Restaurant' during the term of this Lease."    The Board found explicitly that Phillips actually operated the restaurant during the leased year and used the "STOCKPOT" mark.

7
Appellant attacks this finding as unsupported by evidence.  Again, we must uphold the TTAB.  Mrs. Mitchell, who was daily present in the same building and had full opportunity to observe,3 testified fully as to the Phillips operation and that it carried on with the same menus and in the same manner as previously;  in addition, Mrs. Mitchell had a joint venture, during the lease term, for


quality of the restaurant services rendered during the period of the lease but that the value of the goodwill continued to increase during this period."    220 USPQ at 60.  Thus, appellee continued to benefit from the use of the mark.

III

10
Appellee was dissolved in January 1979 as a Massachusetts corporation after its former accountant failed to file certain required reports with the Commonwealth;  this dissolution was not discovered by appellee until appellant raised that issue early in the cancellation proceeding.  Appellee then cured the problem by filing the necessary reports and the corporation was reinstated by Massachusetts on September 3, 1982, by the grant of a certificate reviving the corporation.  Nonetheless, appellant insists that this temporary dissolution means that, first, appellee hasBy Paul Rogers, professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. He is openDemocracy’s international security adviser, and has been writing a weekly column on global security since 28 September 2001; he also writes a monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group. His latest book is Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins (IB Tauris, 2016), which follows Why We’re Losing the War on Terror (Polity, 2007), and Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century (Pluto Press, 3rd edition, 2010). He is on Twitter at: @ProfPRogers. Originally published at openDemocracy

A decade after the financial crash, an epic repeat is on course.

Two reports by Swiss banks, published within a week of each other, offer further revealing evidence on the growth of


billionaires. They now number 2,158 and collectively increased their wealth by $1.4 trillion in the past year. Much of the growth in wealth is taking place in the United States and western Europe, but a huge change in recent years is the increasingly transnational spread of the extremely wealthy, China again being a prime example. Twelve years ago, there were just 16 billionaires in the PRC; today there are 373.

Perhaps most significant is the rate of increase in wealth. In the UK in 2017, the richest 1,000 people increased their wealth collectively by £66 billion ($85bn), meaning the average individual rise in wealth was £66 million. Moreover, that figure was not exceptionally high – the previous annual jump had been even higher.

The British government has long insisted thatpower. Where Labour really had been in error, especially in the early years of its governance from 1997, was the vacuum where effective financial regulation of the City of London should have been – although any such attempt would have met huge resistance from the Cityand the Conservative opposition.

The age of casino capitalism

The origins of the 2008 crisis actually lie nearly four decades earlier, when the election of Ronald Reagan as United States president in 1980 ushered in the era of neo-liberal economics. An important measure of the Reagan administration was the Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act (1982), which opened to a far laxer era of financial regulation. Among its effects was the partial dismantling of the Franklin Roosevelt-era Glass-Steagall Act (1933), whose separation of commercial from investment


banking had in turn been prompted by the Great Crash of 1929.

As the US pushed through more deregulation in the 1980s, the Margaret Thatcher Government in Britain followed a similar path, especially with the “big bang” bonfire of regulations in 1986. It was this pattern that Labour failed to alter, thus permitting a culture of light-touch treatment of the City to become embedded.

The neo-liberal system came to dominate economic analysis, and was given an immense boost by the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the cold war in 1989-91. At the end of the 1990s, the international-relations scholar Susan Strangepinpointed the dangers lurking beneath the surface. In her last book Mad Money: When Markets Outgrow Governments(1998) – published only two weeks before her death, coincidentallylatest, but most analysts contrived to miss them.

The origins of the 2008 crisis layspecifically in the hugely risky toxic loans made to low-income house-owners, especially in the United States, and the manner in which they were bundled into credit-default swaps (CDSs) and traded as investments, as well as being further bundled into collateralised debt obligations (CDOs). By the time that Lehman Brothers failedin September 2008, the domino effect of unsustainable mortgages was unstoppable.

Despite the many warning signs of crisis, as far back as the collapseof Baring Brothers in 1995, the whole system was unprepared. The explanation lies partly with the five factors listed by Strange, but to these must be added two more. First, the detailed quantitative analyses of risk that were key parts of the system, but


alt rock vocalist, would warm up the room before the guys hit the stage. Within the first few beats of their retro inspired opening sample, The Millenium instantly switched the vibe from the darker end of musical spectrum to their signature golden feel.

Following yet another enthusiastic performance from the gang, we were welcomed into the home of a fan who direct messaged the guys on twitter to crash for the night. See as it was a Saturday night in a college town, we were determined to find some action for the night. Half of us would venture out and find a wall-to-wall packed house party, complete with an amazing jam band rocking the basement. The cops showed up twice, but with no concern to our legally drinking selves.The night was completed with an extremely sloppy journey to a Taco Bell that serves until 5 a.m. which was just as big of a hot mess as one might imagine.

Taco Bell, pictured above, the shelter for too lit girls.

Next up was the journey back to Eau Claire, where I noticed that with each mile traveled seemed to fill the hungover group with an upbeat and comfortable energy to be en route to their hometown. With support again from Whosah plus John Chuck & The Class, the evening was all lined up for a high energy showing. The guys were completely in their element, chatting with familiar faces and seemingly relaxing in a space they had gotten to know very well.

The stage was set, with the addition of


Sridevi died late Sunday after falling unconscious and drowning in a bathtub at a Dubai hotel.

Sridevi died due to accidental drowning, the Bollywood icon's death certificate, a copy of which is with IndiaToday.in, says.

Sridevi, unarguably India's first female superstar, died late Saturday night in Dubai where she was attending a wedding.

The cause of Sridevi's death - accidental drowning - was confirmed by the Dubai government via its press arm's official Twitter account.

Quoting the Dubai Polices forensic report on Sridevi's death, the Dubai Media Office tweeted that the actor died "due to drowning in her hotel apartment's bathtub following loss of consciousness."

"Dubai Police has transferred the case to Dubai Public Prosecution, which will carry out regular legal procedures followed in such cases," Dubam Media office added.

Following the completion ofpost-mortem analysis, @DubaiPoliceHQ today stated that the death of Indian actress Sridevi occurred due to drowning in her hotel apartment's bathtub following loss of consciousness. Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) February 26, 2018

Local media, which have been able to access Sridevi's forensic report as well, further reported that the actor fell into a bathtub after suffering a cardiac arrest and that authorities do not suspect a criminal motive behind her death.

Khaleej Times, citing Sridevi's forensic report, said that traces of alcohol were found in the actor's blood, while Gulf News reported that Sridevi was under the influence of alcohol, lost her balance and fell into the bathtub, following which she drowned.

Sridevi's death certificate

Earlier, Navdeep Suri, India's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), confirmed that Sridevi's post-mortem report has


been handed over to the Consulate General of India in Dubai.

Suri also said that Indian officials have now begun the process of repatriating Sridevi's body to India.

It remains unclear whether Sridevi's mortal remains have yet been handed over to her family.

A special private jet, which flew out of Mumbai Sunday afternoon, is already waiting in Dubai to bring Sridevi's body back to India.

DEATH

Sridevi, 54, was declared brought dead by Dubai's Rashid Hospital Saturday night.

Sridevi's husband Boney Kapoor and younger daughter Khushi had returned to India on February 21, after actor Mohit Marwah's wedding, while the actress stayed back in Dubai. Her elder daughter Janhvi was in India for the preparations of Dhadak, her Bollywood debut. She was in Mumbai at the time of Sridevi's death.

Sridevi with her familyat nephew Mohit Marwah's wedding (Instagram/Sridevi Kapoor)

According to a report in Khaleej Times, Boney went back to Dubai. In fact, Sridevi was getting ready for a dinner date with him when the tragedy occurred. A source close to the Kapoor family is quoted as telling the publication that Boney flew down to Dubai from Mumbai and went to Sridevi's room at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel at around 5.30pm on Saturday to surprise her.

They had a brief conversation before he asked her to have dinner with him. Sridevi went to the washroom to freshen up. After 15 minutes, Boney knocked on the door but received no response. He then forced open the door of the bathroom and was shocked to find Sridevi lying unconscious in the bathtub filled


with water.

He then tried to revive her, and when he could not, he called a friend. They then informed the police at 9pm, the publication reported.

CONTRADICTORY REPORTS

However, a report in Indian daily Mid-Day quoted an employee of the hotel as saying that it was not Boney Kapoor who forced open the door of the bathroom.

The hotel staff reached Sridevi's room following a request for drinking water, and on receiving no response 15 minutes after ringing the bell, they forced open the door and found her lying unconscious on the bathroom floor.

According to latest reports, the Dubai Police have ruled out a second autopsy.

At 4.30pm IST, Navdeep Suri said that the formalities for repatriation of Sridevi's mortal remains would probably take another four-five hours.

Explaining the delay, Suri said thatit normally took two-three days for such a process to be completed in Dubai.

FAREWELL, SRIDEVI

Sridevi's demise left people and film industries across the country in shock. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among those who tweeted messages of condolence.

Sridevi's death has "left millions of fans heartbroken," President Kovind tweeted, while PM Modi paid tribute to Sridevi's "diverse roles and memorable performances" and said that he was saddened by the actor's untimely demise.

Saddened by the untimely demise of noted actor Sridevi. She was a veteran of the film industry, whose long career included diverse roles and memorable performances. My thoughts are with her family and admirers in this hour of grief. May her soul rest in peace: PM @narendramodi February 25, 2018

A visibly distraught and


ho rahi hai (I don't know why, I'm feeling strangely uneasy)."

SRIDEVI'S FILM CAREER

Sridevi was known for her iconic roles in Hindi films such as Chandni, Nagina, Mr India and Chaalbaaz. She also acted in several Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films.

At the age of four, Sridevi started her film career as a child artist in MA Thirumugham's devotional film Thunaivan. With Julie (1974), she made her Bollywood debut as a child actor.

For her contribution to Indian cinema over the years, Sridevi was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in 2013.

She had a 15-year hiatus from the silver screen, but made a stellar comeback with Gauri Shinde's English Vinglish in 2012. She was last seen on the silver screen in the 2017 revenge thriller Mom.

But all isnot over. Sridevi will be seen one last time in Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming film Zero, directed by Aanand L Rai. The legendary actress has a special appearance in the film.

ALSO SEE | Farewell, Meri Chandni: Sridevi in small-town India

ALSO SEE: What exactly happened on the night Sridevi died?

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ALSO SEE | I saw Sridevi serving tea like an ordinary housewife: Ram Gopal Varma on why he hated Boney Kapoor


Action 2 of Construction 2020 commits to the establishment of a Housing Supply Coordination Taskforce for Dublin. Accordingly, the Task Force was established in June 2014 and comprises of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, the four Dublin local authorities (Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown), NAMA and other agencies, with the Chief Executive of South Dublin County Council as chair.

The focus of the Task Force is to address supply-related issues to the delivery of housing units in the Dublin region. The group are working together to identify housing developments that have planning permission and that are capable of delivering housing to the market. This remit includes monitoring relevant housing data on the supply of viable and market-ready approved developments.

The published reports, includingFacts about Irena which are not generally known. All of these are from primary sources.

Irena Sendler was born as Irena Krzyżanowska on 15 February 1910 in Warsaw to Dr. Stanisław Krzyżanowski, a physician, and his wife, Janina. Her father died in February 1917 from typhus contracted while treating patients whom his colleagues refused to treat in fear of contracting the disease, among them many Jews. After his death, Jewish community leaders offered her mother help in paying for Sendler’s education. Sendler studied Polish literature at Warsaw University. She opposed the ghetto-bench system that existed at some prewar Polish universities and defaced her grade card. As a result of her public protest she was suspended from the University of Warsaw for three years.

Irena was born in Warsaw in 1910,


could no longer help isolated Jews. The Ghetto was an area the size of New York’s Central Park and 450,000 Jewish people were forced into this area.

Once the Warsaw Ghetto was formed, she started by saving the orphan children.

Irena used her papers as a Polish social worker and papers from one of the workers of the Contagious Disease Department (who was a member of the underground Zegota) to enter the Warsaw Ghetto.

Irena and her helpers made over 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families before she joined Zegota and the children’s division.

Irena was in charge of the Children’s Division of Zegota (a Polish underground group to assist Jewish people).

From Anna Krzyzewska, who is the daughter of Mrs. Maria Kukulska (Anna’s mother helped care for Irena’s children after theyleft the Ghetto, before they were placed) : Irena Sendlerowa was not only very active in saving Jewish children but also in resistance against the Germans. “She was frequently at our apartment.”

Irena used the old courthouse on the edge of the Warsaw Ghetto (still standing) as one of the main routes of smuggling children out.

Irena Sendlerowa was a Polish woman who, along with her underground network, rescued 2,500 Jewish children in Poland during World War II. Many of this number were already outside of the Ghetto and in hiding.

Irena and the ten who went with her into the ghetto, used many, many methods to smuggle children out. There were five main means of escape: 1 – using an ambulance a child could be taken out hidden under the


some Christian prayers it could be smuggled in through the “sealed” entrance and later taken to the Aryan side. This was very dangerous since Germans often used a rouse to trick the Poles and then arrest.

Irena and her network made sure that each family hiding a child realized the child must be returned to Jewish relatives after the war.

Irena (code name Jolanta) was arrested on October 20, 1943. When arrested she felt almost liberated. She was placed in the notorious Piawiak prison, where she was constantly questioned and tortured. During the questioning she had her legs and feet fractured.

The German who interrogated her was young, very stylish and spoke perfect Polish. He wanted the names of the Zegota leaders, their addresses and the names of others involved. Irenafed him the version that she and her collaborators had prepared in the event they were captured. The German held up a folder with information of places, times and persons who had informed on her. She received a death sentence. She was to be shot. Unbeknown to her, Zegota had bribed the German executioner who helped her escape. On the following day the Germans loudly proclaimed her execution. Posters were put up all over the city with the news that she was shot. Irena read the posters herself.

During the remaining years of the war, she lived hidden, just like the children she rescued. Irena was the only one who knew where the children were to be found. When the war was finally over, she dug up the bottles


and began the job of finding the children and trying to find a living parent.

Almost all the parents of the children Irena saved, died at the Treblinka death camp.

“The names of the saved children I wrote down on thin tissue paper.”

‘Life in a Jar’ started as a National History Day project in September of 1999. Four students (Megan Stewart, Liz Cambers, Sabrina Coons and Jessica Shelton) began looking for information about Irena Sendler. Mr. Conard had given them a clipping he had found in a 1994 issue of U.S. News and World Report. The mention of Irena was in a story called “Other Schindlers.” Only 1 web site on the Internet mentioned Irena, it was not until the students visited Poland in 2001 that Irena’s story became knownstudents of the ‘Life in a Jar’ project have gathered over 4,000 pages of primary material and research on the life of Irena Sendler and work of Zegota.

Irena’s story became known to the world through the Life in a Jar project. The author of the Polish book which features Irena’s life story says, “Everybody I talked to in working on this book, said that international and Polish interest in Irena Sendler’s activities was begun and provoked by the activities of the Kansas girls and popularization in the American media.”

Irena Sendler was announced as the 2003 winner of the Jan Karski award for Valor and Courage. The announcement was made on July 24, 2003 and the awards ceremony was on October 23, 2003 in Washington, D.C.

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Listen Up, Bitches: It’s Lysistrata Time!

O sisters, gather round! The Peloponnesian War on Women continues, and we are fucking done with this shit.

In the battle of Hobby Lobby, they erected barricades on the route to birth control. In the campaign to conquer Planned Parenthood, we have lost ever more territory to their trash fire armies of trashy men who are trash.

Their soldiers have gone to the agora and followed young maidens, who just wish to shop in peace for velvet onesies, and asked the maidens for their phone numbers until the agora finally banned them. In the amphitheaters they have pretended to mentor our actresses, then led them to the casting couch. The magistrate they elected is a pussy grabber.

Even the men we thought were allies in thisalso been forced to defend Barnaby Joyce’s performance as drought envoy, insisting the Nationals MP made regular reports and presentations to cabinet. Mr Joyce has come under fire for not submitting a final report from his eight-month stint in the role, which was axed after the Coalition was re-elected in May.

“I didn’t ask him to write a book, I asked him to give some advice on what he was hearing from farmers and that’s what he did,” the Prime Minister told reporters in regional Queensland on Friday.

The Opposition has attacked Mr Joyce after Mr Littleproud told the Senate that he didn’t produce a final report from his time in the role.

Mr Joyce was given the job after Mr Morrison became prime minister in August, but the drought envoy


The parents of a missing four year British girl announced that they plan to sue the Portuguese newspaper Tal & Qual for suggesting that they were responsible for the disappearance of their daughter. Kate and Gerry McCann said that the newspaper's allegation that police believe they caused the death of of Madeleine McCann is "...without truth or evidence." Madeleine has been missing for nearly four months from a resort where her family was vacationing. Read more here.

François Hollande and Valérie Trierweiler, who sued the French edition of the magazine Closer for publicizing their liaison and thereby breaking up Mr. Hollande's relationship with former French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, have won their invasion of privacy action against the publication. A French court awarded damages of 15,000 Euros. However, theydid not obtain another requested remedy: the destruction of all copies of the issue. Read more here in an article in the Media Guardian.

The author of the book "Running With Scissors" and his publisher have settled a defamation lawsuit brought against them by the family with whom the author lived for several years. The Turcotte family of Northampton, Massachusetts, had sued Augusten Burroughs for defamation, invasion of privacy and emotional distress over the contents of his book. Mr. Burroughs and his publisher St. Martin's Press have now agreed to call the book a "memoir". Other details of the settlement are sealed. The family had contemplated litigation against Sony Pictures over a movie based on the book; that suit was averted in 2006.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has remanded a


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Walter Clark died in 1950, willing all his assets to persons who predeceased him. Under the testamentary laws of the State of Illinois, no kindred having been found, the estate of Walter Clark escheated to La Salle County, Illinois, in 1956. Ill.Rev.Stat. c. 3, § 11, para. 7. After the property escheated, various relatives of Walter Clark appeared. In 1960, Nellie Gregory and Harold Clark, Administrator for the Estate of Betsy Alice Clark, who were first cousins of Walter Clark, illegitimate children of an aunt of the deceased, filed suit in the Circuit Court of La Salle County under the Illinois Escheat Act. Ill.Rev.Stat. c. 49, § 7. Joan Baxter andestate escheated to it under the Illinois law of distribution. The statute provides that "the nearest kindred of the decedent in equal degree," Ill.Rev. Stat. c. 3, § 11, inherits. Here, both William Henry Clark, who died six months after the decedent, and the illegitimates are cousins. Since William Henry Clark died prior to being discovered and his heirs are barred by the Statute of Limitations, the County claims that his share escheats to it. As to the illegitimates, the County relies on Spencer, which we have found is no longer the law in Illinois. While the claim of the County of La Salle as to William Henry Clark's half as against the claim of the illegitimates, who are the only first cousins capable of inheriting, was not


Four of the registered Republicans no longer lived there; four others didn't answer their doors. City Board of Elections registration data say a registered Republican used to live at 25th and York Streets, but none of the neighbors across the street Friday knew him. Cathy Santos, 56, founder of the National Alliance of Women Veterans, had one theory: "We ran him out of town!" she said and laughed.(Image source: AllThingsD)
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The Yankees made them do it. That’s the time-honored explanation for the American League’s decision to move the Philadelphia Athletics to Kansas City in 1954. After strong-arming the rest of the league to install a friendly, compliant owner in Kansas City, the Yankees looted the Athletics franchise, acquiring such key players as Roger Maris, Ralph Terry and Clete Boyer in return for nobody in particular.

That conventional wisdom has been disputed recently by historian Bill Deane, who argues in his book, Baseball Myths, that the A’s actually got the better of their many deals with the Yankees. Now newly discovered evidence blows away the conspiracy theory surrounding the franchise move.

The American League had cured its biggest and longest-running financial headache with the transfer of the St. Louis Browns toBaltimore in 1954. Just a few months later it faced an equally vexing, and even more agonizing, problem: the imminent failure of its Philadelphia club, owned by Connie Mack, one of the league’s founders, who was revered as the Grand Old Man of Baseball.

Connie Mack was born during the Civil War. He was 20 years older than Franklin D. Roosevelt, 10 years older than Calvin Coolidge, and five years older than Wilbur Wright. Mack began playing professional baseball in 1884, before catchers wore mitts, began managing 10 years later, and did not stop until 1950. He was 91 in 1954, and his time was up. The league was debating the future of Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics. Winner of nine pennants and five World Series, all with Mack as manager,


the franchise was bankrupt in everything but name.

The end of the Connie Mack era is a tale of three families: the Macks, the Macks and the Shibes. Benjamin Shibe, a sporting goods manufacturer, put up most of the money to establish the team in 1901. Connie Mack eventually bought out some of the Shibe heirs and gained majority ownership. By the late 1940s, when Mack was in his 80s, his physical and mental decline touched off a struggle for control that proved fatal to the Athletics franchise in Philadelphia.

Connie Mack had two families two decades apart. His first wife, Margaret, died in 1892, leaving him with sons Roy and Earle and a daughter, Marguerite. He remarried in 1910; he and his second wife, Katherine, had a son, ConnieJr., and four daughters.

The two eldest Mack sons joined the family business early. Roy, after trying several lines of work and demonstrating his incompetence, took charge of the Athletics’ ticket sales and ballpark concessions. Earle played and managed in the minors, making a few token appearances for the A’s, before becoming his father’s assistant manager. He was often mentioned as the heir apparent to the manager’s chair, but a succession of coaches—including Eddie Collins, Al Simmons and Earle Brucker—had more to do with running the club on the field.

Mack had given all three sons and his wife substantial amounts of stock in the team, but not his five daughters; that would be crucial in the strife to come. The sons served on the board of directors along with


two representatives of the Shibes.

After years of losing, the 1948 Athletics contended for the pennant and finished fourth, winning 84 games, the most since 1932, as attendance reached a record 945,000. The next year they won 81 and came home fifth. But the 86-year-old patriarch was losing his grip. Connie Mack Jr. threw in with the Shibes and forced changes. The board fired coaches Simmons and Brucker after the 1949 season. Another old Philadelphia favorite, Mickey Cochrane, joined Jimmy Dykes on the coaching staff. Both were former managers.

“It was crazy and really sad,” Cochrane recalled. “We wouldn’t know who we were working for from day to day. Lots of times Mr. Mack wasn’t speaking to his oldest sons and vice versa.”

The 1950 season was Connie Mack’s 50th asfinance a takeover. The older brothers and their father bought out Connie Jr., his mother, and the Shibes. Now they owned the franchise outright. Connie held 48 percent of the stock, Roy and Earle each 26 percent.

But the victory came at a price: To pay off the McShain loan, the Connecticut General insurance company took a $1,750,000 mortgage on the club and its home, Shibe Park. The Macks had to make a $50,000 mortgage payment each quarter, a crushing burden for a business with annual revenue of just $1,200,000.

Connie Mack retired after the 1950 season. Dykes took over as manager, but not even a winning team in 1952 could lure the fans back. The Athletics’ attendance remained seventh in the league, ahead of only the rapidly failing St.


Earle even buried the hatchet—not in each other’s backs—and said they would work together to find new investors. The rapprochement lasted just a few days.

By September the confusing signals coming out of Philadelphia were making other American League owners restless. League president William Harridge called a meeting to find out where things stood. This account of that meeting and others that followed is based primarily on the notes of a witness: Earl Hilligan, manager of the American League Service Bureau, the league’s publicity office. Hilligan’s handwritten notes and detailed, typed summaries, in the AL papers at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, provide a play-by-play description of the debate over the future of the Athletics.

The other owners were divided and their discussions were often heated. They werealso exasperated by the Mack brothers’ constantly shifting positions. The brothers couldn’t make up their minds, giving rise to a gibe that “Connie’s sons were senile before he was.” Roy was 68 years old, Earle 64. They were fighting over the family’s largest asset and their place in the family legacy.

The meeting notes provide no evidence to support the notion that the Yankees engineered the A’s move to Kansas City, which had long been home to one of the Yankees’ Triple-A farm clubs. Yankees co-owner Del Webb, whose construction company built the Sun City retirement communities, was the power behind the scenes in the AL, but he was not present at any of the three meetings for which we have attendance lists. Co-owner Dan Topping, general manager George


Weiss, and a lawyer represented the club, but they were not active participants in the discussions. At the time Webb, a native Californian, was pushing the AL to beat the NL to Los Angeles.

Harridge convened the first league meeting at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 28, at the Commodore Hotel in New York. The owners were arriving in town for the start of the World Series between the Giants and Indians the next day. The Mack brothers and the team’s lawyer represented Philadelphia; their father did not attend.

Harridge called on Roy Mack to clarify the Athletics’ situation, but Roy had a different agenda. He outlined the club’s desperate financial position: $500,000 in debt due at once, including $179,000 owed in taxes. “If I had $250,000, I could carry onto December first,” he said. He asked the league to lend him the money.

Washington’s Clark Griffith, the only other survivor from the AL’s founding in 1901, supported him. “I am opposed definitely to going to Kansas City,” the 84-year-old Griffith said. “Philadelphia is too fine a city to lose.”

He had a more pressing reason to keep the Athletics in Philadelphia. When Baltimore replaced the St. Louis Browns in the circuit, it was classified as a western team for scheduling purposes, so the Senators and Orioles never played at home on the same day. If Kansas City replaced Philadelphia, the A’s would go into the West and Baltimore to the East. Griffith feared competition from the Orioles.

Harridge shot down the idea of a loan; the league couldn’t afford it.


given Earle his proxy to sell. Now attorney Ellery said Connie had told him that he would do what Roy wanted. The explanation was sad, Ellery believed: Connie, no longer able to command, was trying to satisfy both sons.

After a lunch break, Arnold Johnson made his pitch. He named his partners, fellow Chicago businessmen. He said Kansas City was enthusiastic, with 3.5 million people living in a 50-mile radius (but fewer than 1 million in the immediate metropolitan area). He needed immediate approval so work could begin to expand the stadium in time for the 1955 season. A Kansas City delegation followed him, talking up their city.

Then a new bidder appeared, one well known to the league owners. Tommy Richardson, president of the Class A Eastern League andgeneral manager Hank Greenberg believed the league should be looking to Los Angeles rather than a smaller Midwestern city.

Those three could veto the move. Boston general manager Joe Cronin, whose wife was Clark Griffith’s niece, was another likely “no” vote; he usually went along with his in-laws.

Two weeks later, on Oct. 12, the league met again in Chicago. Potential buyers were now falling all over themselves to get into the room. A Philadelphia syndicate presented a bid. Tommy Richardson had lined up another Philadelphia group, with a Chicago insurance man, Charles O. Finley, as a partner. Two Washington, DC, investors proposed to keep the club in Philly. A representative of Texas oilman Clint Murchison Sr. wanted to move it to Los Angeles.

Bill Veeck, the deposed owner of the


Browns, was said to have an option to buy LA’s minor league ballpark, Wrigley Field, and he was hanging around outside the meeting room. That alone may have been enough to scotch LA, because the owners had run Veeck out of the league just a year before, but LA presented other complications. Travel, for one thing; Los Angeles was two thousand miles from Chicago, the nearest AL city, and jet airliners did not yet exist. The Pacific Coast League would demand a big payoff for the loss of its LA and Hollywood franchises.

Besides, Murchison—who could have bought and sold every man in the room—was offering only $1 million in cash, with the rest to be paid in installments. The other bidders had the same deficiency.

Harridge said, “They talkedcelebration was joyous, but premature. Roy Mack had been flailing, flipping and flopping for months. Now he backtracked again. Two days after the meeting he announced, “I have not sold my stock.” Yet another group of Philadelphia financiers said they were ready to match Johnson’s offer and keep Roy in charge of the team. Will Harridge remarked, “Well, where have these people been all this time before?”

On Sunday, Oct. 17, Connie Mack posed with the Philadelphia buyers as he and Earle signed the sale documents. But Roy balked. Several of the prospective buyers stormed out, grumbling that they were fed up with the Macks.

Arnold Johnson arrived in Philadelphia expecting to close on his own purchase of the Athletics. When a reporter told him about the sudden new bid,


wife, was fed up, too. The next day she issued a statement in her husband’s name, charging that the American League was giving them “the runaround” because the league wanted to move the team to Kansas City. She said Roy “was telling everybody one thing and doing something else.” Earle, on the other hand, had been “wonderful.”

Several of the spurned Philadelphia moneymen scrambled to put together a new offer. Arnold Johnson, who was still interested but fed up with the Macks’ runaround, said he would withdraw unless the Macks made a decision, pronto. Katherine Mack summoned Johnson and the Philadelphia bidders to the family apartment at 10:00 a.m. on Nov. 4.

Johnson arrived at 9:00. He had had dinner with Roy and Earle the night before. After midnight Earleagreed to sell to Johnson, if his father approved, but said he thought the patriarch preferred the buyers who would keep the club in Philadelphia. In the morning Johnson found Connie in bed, where he had stayed in the days since the last league meeting.

Connie signed over his stock and Earle left the building in tears. Katherine Mack said, “Johnson offered too strong a proposition. There was nothing else we could do. Mr. Johnson is a nice man, and he won out.” Johnson’s was the only cash offer, and the Macks wanted cash. After the debts were paid, Johnson estimated that Connie would clear about $600,000, with more than $300,000 apiece for Roy and Earle.

In view of the twists and turns, the AL’s lawyers advised taking another vote


to approve the sale and transfer of the franchise. When the owners assembled in New York on Nov. 8, Connie Mack was absent. He, Roy and Earle had notified the league in writing that they had sold their stock to Johnson. This time none of them backed out.

But a new complication arose. Arnold Johnson was the Yankees’ landlord; he had bought Yankee Stadium the year before, and the club had signed a long-term lease. Opponents of the Kansas City move seized on that relationship as a conflict of interest. The league attorney, Benjamin Fiery, said there was no conflict, but the owners deadlocked, 4-4, on whether to approve the arrangement. The meeting was adjourned for two hours.

Johnson and his partners had been waiting outside the room drinking coffee.to Kansas City was a disaster. The Athletics drew nearly 1,400,000 in their first year, but never approached that total again as the team settled near the bottom of the standings. The Yankees’ acquisition of Maris and other young, talented A’s led to charges that Kansas City was still a Yankee farm club.

After Arnold Johnson died unexpectedly in 1960, his estate sold the Athletics to Charles Finley, who almost immediately began threatening to leave town. Finley got his wish with the move to Oakland in 1968. That led to another debacle. Political pressure from Kansas City forced the American League to expand again in 1969, creating the Royals and also taking in the undercapitalized Seattle Pilots, who lasted just one year.

As the meeting notes show, the Yankees exercised


the American League papers, BA MSS 125 Series III, Box 24, Folder 1, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York.

Norman L. Macht, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Macht, Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931. University of Nebraska Press, 2012.

The Sporting News and other contemporary newspapers.Anatoly Pavlovich Shikman

Anatoly Pavlovich Shikman  (Анато́лий Па́влович Ши́кман) (born March 12, 1948) is a  Russian historian and writer, and a former teacher of Moscow School N°45.

Biography
Anatoly Shikman was born on March 12, 1948, in Moscow to Pavel Morrisovitch and Yelena Borisovna Shikman. He went to school until eighth grade, after which he went to work as a driver, a loader, a librarian and as a theater stage hand, while stimultaneously studying at night school.

After his service in the Navy, Shikman enrolled in the History Department of the Moscow State Teacher's Training Institute, from which he graduated in 1975. During his time at the institute, he started working as a school teacher. Serious conflicts arose, when the school authorities insisted he taught history in accordance with party


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By Sun Yuanqing (China Daily)

David O'Dell was one of the first foreigners to be involved in the early punk scene in Beijing. Provided to China Daily

David O'Dell may not have given birth to the Beijing punk-rock scene, but he was there for much of its rambunctious youth

As David O'Dell admits, Chinese punk rock would have developed with or without him. However, its story would not be complete without his contribution.

O'Dell, one of the few foreigners who got involved in the early punk rock scene in Beijing in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, tells his story in his book Inseparable: The Memoirs of an American and The Story of Chinese Punk Rock.

The book revisits the world of punk rock at a time when the country wasjust opening up and seeing more clashes between East and West.

"This is a story book," O'Dell says while promoting his book in Beijing. "It is a true story, but it's a very personal story. If you get a chance to glance through it, it's kind of like every foreigner's story. It has a lot of those first experiences of landing in Beijing, taking that first breath. It's something that you tell your friend back home, something still in my lungs today."

Now a high-school science teacher in his home state of Texas, O'Dell was back in Beijing in August on a tour to promote his book, as well as to host a charity punk-rock show and auction in association with Half the Sky, a Chinese charitable organization dedicated to


poor rural children.

The auction raised about 10,000 yuan ($1,600) with the punk-rock demos and CDs O'Dell collected during his time in China.

When he came to Beijing in 1995 as an exchange student at Peking University, O'Dell had no idea what he was getting into. What started out as a chance meeting between him and Gao Wei, the lead singer of Underbaby, one of the earliest punk bands in China, led to O'Dell's involvement in the local scene.

He later formed a punk band called Foundation with Gao and played as the bassist for Brain Failure, now one of the most toured rock bands in Chinese history.

In his book, O'Dell takes his readers on a journey "from the very beginning of Chinese punk rock to the contemporary versions of punkrock", from the influence of the Ramones to some of the hardcore political themes, revisiting venues that were crucial to the development of early Chinese punk rock.

While Beijing now has several exclusive venues for punk rock, it was extremely difficult to find a place to play in the 1990s as the movement was not as well accepted.

It was a time when stadium stars such as Xie Tianxiao would play for a mere 100 yuan, O'Dell recalled.

"It was so hard to find a place to play that everybody played together. You could go to Angel's Bar (an important venue for punk rock from 1996 to 1998) and see literally anything happen. You could see the most famous singers like Zhang Chu, Cui Jian and Dou Wei. And then a