at March 5th, 2009. Here’s a list of some of the activities we had:

Playstation 3 football competition for guys

Missing words competition

Wii game for the gals

Barbeque lunch

Pottery Trappings

Table Tennis

Movie night with popcorn

Live football match

Hundreds of students participated in some way to the event. The most excited activity was the pottery trappings were many gals participated. The picture on the left shows potteries that were completed.

The last activity was the movie show Bolt in building 20kh. Popcorns and soft drinks were handed out to the audience. Some students brought their families which was awesomely the first time families interacted with us.

After the movie, we handed out prizes for the winners of our activities and competitions.

Microsoft has a program called MACH (Microsoft Academy for College Hire) to hire fresh graduates. Asand easily since a volunteer named Bader Alnaser has a relative who works there and which made it easy for us to contact them.

A very informative trip to Kuwait National Petroleum Company located in Alahmadi area. At 12:30 we gather at the parking lot where the buses were waiting for us. Later on, at first sight, the building looks really astonishing and huge. We’ve started off with an introductory seminar about KNPC and the a quick glimpse of the I.T. infrastructure of the company that took about half an hour.

The seminar ended and there was a buffet where we had our lunch and in the same time they‘ve interviewed me for the local KNPC magazine. After we filled our stomach with tasty lunch they guided us to the


might find useful information

The History of Computer Engineering Societies

The ACM Student Chapter of Kuwait University is officially known as CpES, the Computer Engineering Societies, and we are the only student club for the Computer Engineering department of Faculty of Engineering and Petroleum. The society was founded in 1993 under the supervision of Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed with 6 board members but unfortunately, the chapter was engaged for only one semester because all members were at their senior year. I do not have any picture or publication that were published during that time nor that I have any more information about the members.

ACM is the world largest and oldest educational and scientific computing society founded in 1947 and serves all professionals and students in the field of Information Technology.

The chapterCourtesy of Lionsgate

Fox News drama Bombshell and Elton John biopic Rocketman lead the Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild's seventh annual awards feature film nominations, with three apiece.

Landing two nominations each in the feature categories are Downton Abbey, Dolemite Is My Name, Hustlers, John Wick: Parabellum, Joker and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

As previously announced, Emmy-winning makeup artist Thomas Burman and Oscar-nominated hair stylist Martin Samuel will receive lifetime achievement awards during the awards ceremony, which will be held Jan. 11 at The Novo by Microsoft at L.A. Live.

The complete list of nominees follows.


The most predictable words uttered by any AFL spokesperson in 2019 are likely to occur this evening.

After stepping up to the podium at Melbourne's Docklands stadium, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan is expected to announce: "With pick one, in the 2019 AFL draft, the Gold Coast Football Club have selected Matt Rowell from the Oakleigh Chargers."

If you haven't watched or followed the draft before, it will probably look a bit like this:

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Rowell's name will almost certainly be followed by his long-time club teammate Noah Anderson, with the Demons set to grab Western Australian ruckman Luke Jackson.

After that, there's disagreement. But amid the fog of the draft, there is the power of the consensus to help cut through it.

Who is likely to go where

In the past few days, awho will go where.

There's a bit more about the art of phantom drafts and the CPD below, but this is how it looks on the day of the draft with players sorted by their average ranking in the expert phantom drafts:

Early on, it appears that the actions of GWS will shape much of the draft. At pick four, several opinions existed for the Giants but they are expected to be leaning towards Lachlan Ash. Several other players are in the mix, however, including Jackson if the Demons change their mind at the last minute.

Most expect Ash and Sam Flanders to go to GWS and Sydney respectively, with Adelaide then reaching for the tall Fischer McAsey. With two consecutive picks, the Dockers are where the consensus among the experts


points discount they already receive.

An early or late bid could influence whether GWS have a points deficit next year, or whether they can perhaps also afford their fringe draft prospect in Liam Delahunty in the later rounds.

Bids for Liam Henry and Finn Maginness for Fremantle and Hawthorn will also shape their later pick availability.

The consensus after Melbourne's second pick (tipped by the most trustworthy of experts as being Kysaiah Pickett) diverges, but there's still strong agreement on Cooper Stephens going to Richmond.

With a draft class built around solid utility, midfield and rebounding defender types, this draft could see several clubs reach for need beyond the widely held view of the talent available.

Many recruiters are believed to be tossing up the lower perceived talent levels of this draft class— compared to the 2018 and 2020 crops — against the 2020 draft being very compromised, with many top prospects tied to clubs through academy and father-son links.

Rising or sliding

The analysis of the junior crop starts much earlier than November. Dedicated reporters begin ranking and evaluating talent from almost the second the previous draft is wrapped up.

From tracking the consensus of such rankings over time — and comparing to the consensus draft — it can be seen how club decisions shape the final draft order away from where outsiders might rate players.

Against earlier observer rankings, the biggest risers in the draft are both linked to Melbourne, with Jackson not considered a top-10 prospect until footy stopped for the 2019 season and Kysaiah Pickett moving into first-round considerations for


many phantom drafts.

On the other hand, several names mentioned early on as top-10 chances — such as Dylan Williams, Mitchell O'Neill and Cam Taheney — have completely fallen out of favour and slid outside of the predicted first round, as has Brodie Kemp, who impressed at the under-18 national championships but then tore his ACL.

Also of note is Emerson Jeka, who was thought of at this time last year as a potential top-10 selection and is now rated towards the tail end of the draft.

What about the rest of the crop?

The AFL draft is open for almost any male footballer who was 18 or older in 2019 to nominate themselves, with the nomination forms available online.

For the 2019 draft, 843 players from across the nation threw up theirhand, from star 30-year-old Gerrard Cunningham of the Mininera and District Football League (and the Tiwi Islands) to Connor Tilyard from Victorian junior club Eastern Ranges, who scraped into the draft by just one day.

The candidates for this year's draft represent the ever-increasing national spread of the game.

More players in the draft are like Tilyard than they are Cunningham, with young players dominating the nominations. Regardless of age, most won't hear their names called this week, with only 87 primary list spots available across the rest of the league.

Over the past four years, clubs have opted to leave an average of 15 list spots vacant, in order to list extra rookie-listed players. As a result, expect around 70 draft selections to be taken in the national draft.

A reason


player recruitment football departments would be lucky to have more than one staff member tabbed with the responsibility of working out who their club should pick up and how.

Likewise, few in the media used to specialise in the dark arts of player recruitment and retention, whereas now it is a firm part of the media landscape.

To most, these are known as mock or phantom drafts, exercises in working out where the new crop of talent will end up. It's part talent evaluation and part old-school journalism, relying on sources for good information and discarding the bad.

The best at it turn a media gig into a full-time football department job (such as former reporter Emma Quayle, who moved from The Age to GWS), while others turn a passion intoa media gig, such as Chris Doerre or Matt Balmer — both former amateurs — who are now with ESPN and Fox Footy respectively.

For the 2019 CPD, the following sources have been used:

Chris Doerre (ESPN), Josh Elliot (The Roar), Matt Balmer (Fox Footy), Jordan McArdle (The West Australian), Chris Cavanagh (Herald Sun), Tom Basso (Mongrel Punt), AFL Draft Central, Michael Alvaro (Geelong Advertiser), Jordan Pinto and Andrew Capel (The Advertiser), Cal Twomey (AFL), Daniel Cherney (The Age).

Generally, Twomey, Doerre and Balmer have been the most accurate of this crop in previous years, but there always tends to be a surprise lurking around the corner.


to house an International Cultural and Trade Center ("ICTC") and to consolidate a number of agencies currently scattered in various locations throughout the Washington Metropolitan area. In addition, the Federal Triangle Project is expected to house exhibits, performing arts theatres, retail space, and conference areas.
*31 The PADC began soliciting proposals to develop the Project in November, 1988. Administrative Record ("AR"), tab 2. The PADC issued an elaborate Prospectus for the Federal Triangle Project that set forth eight bid criteria and building requirements. These criteria were: (1) responsiveness of the design to the goals and objectives of the development program; (2) responsiveness of the design to the urban design objectives, architectural criteria, and historic preservation considerations; (3) a schedule that allowed for completion of the facade by January 1993,information for the purpose of clarifying and explaining the given proposal. See, e.g., AR, tabs 22(b), (d), (e).
On October 18, 1989, the PADC Board convened to select the development team for the Federal Triangle Project. It initially met in executive session with its staff, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Administrator of the GSA, and the Chairman of the ICTCC. After the executive session was concluded, the Board opened its meeting to the public. Before it proceeded to vote on which proposal to select, however, the Board adopted two resolutions concerning the Federal Triangle Project. First, a resolution eliminating the financial experience, resources, and commitment criteria from the Prospectus was proposed.[1] AR, tab 16. Without discussion, the resolution was adopted. AR, tab 40 at 126.
The second


least some of the solids is affected such that they naturally adhere to the hair and/or scalp of the user. The charge is affected by the movement of the solids across and past the material making up the sieve, and collision with each other. The charge may be affected by the number, size, shape, concavity, angle, spacing, and pattern of the holes in the sieve, and the dimensions of the sieve itself. The material comprising or at least partially coating the sieve and/or the solids may also affect the charging of the solids. The sieve is a single piece of material that varies in the above characteristics, however it is known only as a single unit, and only used as a single sieve, not multiple sieves.with police, he stated that usually this nervousness

diminishes during the stop; Pulley, however, only seemed to grow more nervous

as the stop continued.

       {¶7} Trooper White testified that he observed a bottle of Febreze hanging

on the back of the front seat in a pouch. He also noticed some perfume in the front

passenger compartment. Based on his observations and his training, Trooper

White stated that he called a canine unit to perform a drug sniff on Pulley’s

vehicle.

       {¶8} Trooper White explained that Deputy Bob Roberts and his dog arrived

on the scene, walked around the car, and Deputy Roberts indicated that the dog

alerted on the car. Trooper White stated that Pulley was then removed from the


and they accordingly filed an answer to the petition.
In view of the large amount of literature that has been written concerning the origin and history of the Grand Jury as one of the administrative agencies of the criminal law employed for centuries throughout the Anglo-Saxon world it is wholly unnecessary to attempt to elaborate upon those themes. Likewise there is no need to stress the vital importance of the maintenance of secrecy in regard to the deliberations and proceedings of Grand Juries, for the policy of the law in that respect has been so long established that it is familiar to every student of the law. The form of the oath of secrecy to be exacted of grand jurors was prescribed in our own Commonwealth as early asThe Birmingham City Council is expected to pass a $428 million operating budget on Tuesday, six months after the start of the current fiscal year.

The 2017-18 fiscal year budget -- with changes recommended by new Mayor Randall Woodfin -- includes cutting funding to the Birmingham Construction Industry Authority, a non-profit that works to build minority participation in construction projects.

"Honestly, I would like to see this budget passed tomorrow," Woodfin said to members of the Birmingham City Council during a Monday afternoon committee meeting. "From an operational and department standpoint, it is time."

He asked the councilors to make the budget the first item on the agenda for Tuesday's council meeting so city employees could receive their cost of living raises and longevity pay by Christmas.

The 2017-18 fiscal year started


July 1. The city council failed to reach a compromise on the budget with former Mayor William Bell before Bell left office in November.

The city has been operating based on the prior year's spending levels.

Woodfin's budget includes $606,731 in cuts to the mayor's office. Birmingham City Schools would receive an additional $1.27 million bringing the total of city funding to $3 million. The proposed budget also cuts funding to the city's new Healthy Food Initiative.

Woodfin said work starts on the fiscal year 2018-19 budget in January. He said he wants the council to be a part of the process at that time.

"If we can get through tomorrow, I am ready to start that conversation with you Wednesday on those wants (for the budget), needs and priorities on thoseneeds," Woodfin said.

Woodfin said he wants the city to stop funding the Birmingham Construction Industry Authority because it has failed at its mission of building capacity for minority-owned contracting companies.

The mayor said the city isn't required to fund the organization.

In the initial proposed budget, $350,000 was allocated to BCIA. Woodfin cut that amount to $225,000 to only pay for the first six months of the year.

Michael Bell, executive director of the Birmingham Construction Industry Authority, requested a meeting with Woodfin before deciding to stop funding the program. He said the city's funding is about half of the non-profit's budget. Bell said BCIA is limited by state law.

The BCIA, non-profit organization, was created by consent decree in 1990 and charged with expanding minority participation in public and private construction


in the human diet. Phytochemicals, naturally occurring biochemicals that give plants their color, flavor, smell, and texture, may help prevent diseases that are responsible for over 60 percent of all deaths annually in the United States.

In 1900, the top three causes of death in the United States (31 percent of all deaths) were pneumonia/influenza, tuberculosis, and diarrhea/enteritis. Between 1900 and 1940, that statistic changed dramatically. Public health measures (sanitation), improved nutrition, and the development of antibiotics tremendously reduced the number of deaths from those diseases. The incidence of pneumonia and influenza, which caused nearly 12 percent of all deaths in 1900, declined significantly. Although they are still the sixth leading cause of death, by the mid-1990s, these two diseases accounted for only 3.6 percent of all deaths perby the strictest definition, are chemicals that are produced by plants. Currently, the term is being used only for those plant chemicals that may have health-related effects but are not considered essential nutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins).

When plants first evolved, there was little free oxygen in the atmosphere. As oxygen levels increased, a direct result of plant metabolism (plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen), their environment became polluted. Over time, plants acquired new antioxidant compounds, which afforded them protection from molecules of highly reactive oxygen. These plants survived the oxygen pollution and slowly evolved into today's oxygen tolerant plants. Biochemical defenses against bacteria, fungi, viruses, and damage to cell structures, especially DNA, also became part of the plant world's arsenal.

As animals species evolved,


many were able to "borrow" some of the protective phytochemicals from the plants composing their diets, saving these species the trouble of having to manufacture all their own chemical defense mechanisms. This, of course, happened to the human animal as well.

The Phytochemical Revolution

Since the 1970s, increasing numbers of studies are finding associations between the food people eat, their health, and their life expectancy. In the '70s, concerns focused on the role of dietary cholesterol in causing heart disease and cancer. Although the importance of cholesterol in the human diet turned out to be relatively unimportant (high blood levels of cholesterol can be dangerous, but they are not caused by eating cholesterol.) it did help to shift the focus on health from treatment to prevention.

Another discovery has focused attentioncomes the selection of a new chairman for the state Democratic Party. Dwight Pelz, the current boss, is retiring and will exit once a successor is chosen by those at the helm of the party operations in all 39 counties.

Party veteran Nancy Biery is launching her campaign for the job Thursday. Former state representative Brendan Williams is said to be considering a bid as well.

Until other candidates surface, Biery, 59, of Quilcene, looks pretty tough to beat. She’s been a precinct committee officer, chairwoman of the Jefferson County Democratic Party and field director for the state party. She’s worked for former Gov. Gary Locke and U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, and raised money and organized get-out-the-vote efforts in dozens of campaigns through the years.

Whoever is chosen to lead the


food contaminated by the urine of the reservoirs^[@B3]^.

Currently, much is discussed in the public health field about the use of geoprocessing and spatial statistical techniques in the study of infectious diseases. These techniques today have become of mandatory use for health surveillance services, collaborating in daily work of health managers and professionals. The application of such techniques in epidemiological research began in the 19^th^ century with Dr. John Snow. Thanks to the use of georeferencing techniques, he demonstrated that there was a spatial association between cholera deaths and the supply of water by different public supply pumps. From this finding, it was possible to control the cholera epidemic in the city of London^[@B4]^. Dr. Snow's classic study continues as a permanent source of inspiration to health professionals whoseek interdisciplinarity in understanding the health-disease process.

The establishment, evolution, propagation and perpetuation of infectious diseases of humans and animals are closely related to hygienic-sanitary, socioeconomical and demographic factors, and the occurrence of these vector-borne diseases is characterized by spatial and temporal patterns due to the context of residences of individuals and animals, and the aspects of the environment are associated with the proliferation of populations of reservoirs, vectors and infectious agents^[@B5]-[@B7]^.

Therefore, the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial statistical analysis in the health field generate an important recovery of the role of the socio-environmental atmosphere in the production and reproduction of leptospirosis, since it is closely related to the ecological characteristics of the environment, enabling a more complete analysis of the disease and the identification of


analyzed articles.

DISCUSSION
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In this study, through the analysis of the publications, we could observe that the origin of most articles coincides with the areas considered endemic for leptospirosis in the world, being located mainly in the Caribbean, Central and South Americas, South-Western Asia and Oceania, and that all countries cited in the ranking, except for Canada and the USA, are part of endemic regions, which leads us to conclude that, despite the small number of publications from some countries, albeit to a lesser extent, they are interested in the interdisciplinary integration arising from the application of GIS in the spatial analysis of leptospirosis^[@B26],[@B27]^.

According to previous studies, the highest morbidity and mortality rates related to leptospirosis occurs in the South and Southeast regions of Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean, Andean, CentralChina quake destroys 700 homes, injures at least 30

AP

BEIJING (AP) — A moderate earthquake in southwest China has caused hundreds of homes to collapse and injured more than 30 people.

The earthquake bureau in Yunnan province, where Sunday afternoon's quake occurred, says three of the injuries were serious.

The official Xinhua News Agency says the quake damaged 2,500 houses and that 700 others collapsed.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.5 quake struck 32 miles from Dali city at a depth of 20 miles.


That late July day, this town along the banks of the Kalamazoo River became the latest community affected by a ubiquitous class of compounds known as polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. For years, calls for the federal government to regulate the chemicals have been unsuccessful, and last year the Trump administration tried to block publication of a study urging a much lower threshold of exposure.

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The man-made chemicals have long been used in a wide range of consumer products, including nonstick cookware, water-repellent fabrics and grease-resistant paper products, as well as in firefighting foams. But exposures have been associated with an array of health problems, among them thyroid disease, weakened immunity, infertility risks and certain cancers. The compounds do not break down in the environment.

In Parchment, where theyrelease.

But it wasn’t until the disastrous Star Wars prequels that the phrase started to become anything more than a nerdy joke. During the latter half of the aughts, the Star Wars franchise seemed left for dead by the film industry, surviving only in cartoon form. But while the films were languishing, the internet was connecting Star Wars fanatics in new and exciting ways. Celebrating on May the Fourth became a way to keep the cultural flame alive, even as the dream of more live action films faded. The holiday emerged as fully-fledged Official Nerd Day in 2011, with the first large, fan-held festivities. By 2012, fan celebrations had spread like wildfire.

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Fans gather for a Star Wars lightsaber battle in


took the faithful “Star Wars Celebration,” which had been held in Orlando for the last six years, and moved it from August to the spring in order to help push new films.

The decision to release “Solo” in May when the late December slot has done so well recently is part of a grander plan to move all the films back to this date. The first six Star Wars films all came out on Memorial Day weekend, and Lucasfilm wants to return to that tradition. But more powerful than the lure of nostalgia is the lure of cash. December releases mean the studio has to market its yet-unseen movie and its new merchandise simultaneously, without spoiling any character or plot developments. “Solo: A Star Wars Story” will have theThe chamber was considerably more full before the mental health debate when TDs voted on adjourning until tomorrow.

HEALTH MINISTER LEO Varadkar today defended the recent diversion of €12 million from mental health services.

Last week, it was announced €12 million of the €35 million ring-fenced in the mental health care budget 2016 was being diverted to other areas of the health service.

That €35 million had been specifically allocated towards hiring new staff within mental health services.

Varadkar defended the spend stating the mental health budget has increased from €711 million in 2011 to €827 million this year.

In the Dail, he began by stating Minister Kathleen Lynch, who was responsible for the mental health portfolio, is not permitted to speak in the Chamber as she is no longer a member of


The Nomadic Hyena Handlers of Nigeria

It all started with the picture above. A friend had emailed photographer Pieter Hugo this bizarre image taken on a cellphone in Lagos, Nigeria. The caption read, ‘The Streets of Lagos’, and a newspaper publishing the photo reported that the men were bank robbers, body guards, drug dealers and debt collectors.

The image went viral online and the myth of these street toughs in Nigeria with Hyenas grew. Pieter was captivated and knew he had to learn more.

Through a journalist friend, Hugo tracked down a Nigerian reporter, Adetokunbo Abiola, who said that he knew the Gadawan Kura as they are known in Hausa (a rough translation: ‘hyena handlers/guides’). A few weeks later, Pieter was on a plane to Lagos.

Abiola met me at the airportkept appearing. These pictures depict much more than an exotic group of travelling performers in West Africa. The motifs that linger are the fraught relationships we have with ourselves, with animals and with nature.

The second trip was very different. By this stage there was a stronger personal relationship between myself and the group. We had remained in contact and they were keen to be photographed again. The images from this journey are less formal and more intimate.

The first series of pictures had caused varying reactions from people – inquisitiveness, disbelief and repulsion. People were fascinated by them, just as I had been by that first cellphone photograph. A director of a large security company in the USA contacted me, asking how to get in touch with the ‘hyena


The Big House to become more accessible

DETROIT -- The University of Michigan will enhance wheelchair accessibility at its football stadium as part of an agreement with a paralyzed veterans' group that had sued the school.

U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox on Monday signed a consent decree in the case that outlines the agreed changes to Michigan Stadium.

Starting with this season, 96 new accessible seats -- plus seats for companions -- will be available along the stadium's east side. And by the start of the 2010 season, more accessible seats will be available.

The Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America sued the university last year, claiming the current stadium design is inaccessible to those in wheelchairs. The U.S. Department of Justice joined the group in its lawsuit in November.to start the year.

Brown (6-9)

The Bears were on the precipice of a successful 2018, but one- and two-goal losses to the likes of Quinnipiac, Rutgers, Harvard, UMass and Providence show the thin margin of error in college lacrosse. There was also a litany of illnesses and injuries that led to the first losing season since 2012. Look for Luke McCaleb, who attended Marine Corps officer candidate school in the summer, to be a leader who gets it back on track.

Colgate (7-8)

There are too many good offensive pieces for the Raiders to go sub-.500 again. Sam Cleveland is a beast, plus junior midfielder Griffin Brown, sophomore Mike Hawkins and others make the team dangerous. And, you have the potential bump of a new head coach in Matt Karweck. The


Raiders were respectable in their losing stretches in 2018 — close games with Navy, Loyola, Bucknell and others — and beat Cornell in February.

Delaware (6-8)

The Blue Hen players are now familiar with the expectations of coach Ben DeLuca, who enters his second year. Delaware took Towson to the brink in the CAA Tournament a season ago and hung in with UMass in early April. Charlie Kitchen is one of the best attackmen in the CAA, plus there’s a standout goalie in Matt DeLuca. Throw in depth at midfield, and their success will come down to the intangibles — health and chemistry.

Today was inspiring.

We broke ground on the Whitney Athletic Center and a renovated Delaware Stadium.

GAME CHANGING. #BlueHens pic.twitter.com/rjj9R9UOes — #BlueHens (@UDBlueHens) December 18, 2018

High Point (6-8)

The Panthers’ openingthe hotel's insurance company. Appellant's statement said that three days before the assault, he had told Argote about the situation. Upon seeing appellant's statement, Argote denied the conversation with appellant, demanded that appellant's statement match the hotel's, and threatened to fire appellant if he did not comply. Appellant refused. On July 24, 1992, he was fired.
The Ritz presented conflicting evidence. Argote denied any knowledge of similar sexual assaults and claimed that appellant never told him about the prior incidents of sexual harassment. The Ritz claimed it fired appellant because of his poor employment record, not because of his alleged refusal to lie.
Appellant alleged he was fired for refusing to commit a crimeto lie about the hotel's alleged knowledge of prior sexual assaults. The judge granted summary judgment on


A Parksley man pleaded guilty to strangulation in connection with a domestic incident at his house in July this year.

Ronald Hess, 19, was originally charged with abduction, strangulation and assault and battery, but the other two charges were dismissed as part of a plea agreement with the commonwealth.

Hess was in Accomack County court Dec. 20 to face trial in connection with the July 26 incident.

According to testimony in court, Hess and his girlfriend were arguing during her visit to his house then. No one else was at home.

“The couple continued an argument that began the previous day,” said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Randy Fultz. “There was arguing, shouting and finally physical violence.

“She went into his bedroom looking for photos to tear up,” Fultz said. “He slapped her in theneck, pushed her onto the bed, squeezing her neck and continuing to hit her. She felt she was going to die.”

Hess eventually stopped and gave the girl an ice pack, said Fultz. When his father returned home, Hess told him she had bruised herself in a fall. She told Hess’ father his son had beaten her.

She left and called the sheriff’s office. She was taken to the hospital and treated for her injuries. Fultz presented photographs of the bruising on the girl’s neck as evidence.

Under the the terms of the plea agreement, Hess will be released with time served.

When asked why he entered into the plea agreement, Fultz told Judge W. Revell Lewis III that Hess will be a convicted felon and that he has served five months


edge of Antarctica and the Ross Sea) and had been destined for a remote Russian station called Vostok. However, the Russians gifted the sturgeon to American scientists who later discarded it after it had languished uneaten in a freezer for several months. It was from the trash dump that a garbage processing crew reclaimed the sturgeon, and it then made its way from location to location across Antarctica. It finally became enshrined in the tunnels beneath the South Pole where it greets visitors from a ledge chiseled in the ice.'

His last day at Twitter was mostly uneventful, he says. There were many goodbyes, and he worked up until the last hour before his computer access was to be shut off. Near the end of his shift, the fatefulme about it.

Solera is a process for aging liquids such as wine, beer, vinegar, and brandy, by fractional blending in such a way that the finished product is a mixture of ages, with the average age gradually increasing as the process continues over many years. The purpose of this labor-intensive process is the maintenance of a reliable style and quality of the beverage over time. Solera means literally "on the ground" in Spanish, and it refers to the lower level of the set of barrels or other containers used in the process; the liquid (traditionally transferred from barrel to barrel, top to bottom, the oldest mixtures being in the barrel right "on the ground"), although the containers in today's process are not necessarily stacked physically in the way


dark brown annuli. Lower surface yellowish-white, each scale punctulated with dark brown. Length of head and body 76 mm.; tail 72 mm.

Distribution
It is found in Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Indonesian (Java, Sulawesi, Halmahera), and Papua New Guinea.
Type locality: Java.

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Ally Sheedy was born on June 13, 1962, in nyc. In the early 1980s, Sheedy came to recognition as an associate of the Brat Pack, playing in films for example Breakfast Club (1985) and St. Elmo’s Fire (1985).

Created Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy on June 13, 1962, in nyc, ny, as the sole daughter of John Sheedy, an advertising executive, and his wife, Charlotte, a literary agent. Her parents divorced when she was 9 as well as the youthful Sheedy, along with brother Patrick, break up the week between her parents. Ally got her taste of popularity in a young age. Not as an actress, however, but as a writer.

The novel, a bestseller, appeared to place Sheedy on a path toward greater literary celebrity. But Sheedy, who had


started dancing in a youthful age, had a greater fondness for the stage. “Ally was about six when I started dancing and that and playing and performing was all part of a single thing for me personally,” a grownup Sheedy told New York magazine. In age 11, Sheedy performed using the American Ballet Theater. By Ally’s teenagers, nevertheless, Sheedy had started giving more of creative time toward playing, which she had started as an offshoot from her earlier novel promotion.

Following school, Sheedy started to pick up little, but significant functions. Among them contained a reoccurring appearance on the NBC program, Hill Street Blues. In 1983, she broke into movie, playing opposite Sean Penn as his girlfriend in Bad Boys. The exact same year, Sheedy captured the attention ofMurphy also discussed the bank's history as a civic-minded business and major taxpayer, as well as the nature of the sidewalk that would run next to the proposed parking lot. The commission also had before it memoranda from the director of the planning board and from Strawbery Banke, Inc., outlining in detail the historic nature of the Italianate nineteenth century structure and opposing its destruction. In sum, the commission appears to have had before it little more than the unsubstantiated opinions of the permit applicant in favor of demolition. The commission, therefore, did not have before it sufficient information to justify demolition in light of such questions as whether the proposed demolition would preserve the "architectural and historic setting" of the area, foster "civic beauty," or be compatible


FIG. 1 is a photograph showing a stadium where an amateur baseball game is played.
Unlike professional games, such as a professional baseball game, where many spectators enter, watch and cheer, amateur games, such as an amateur baseball game, are not crowded as shown in FIG. 1. Players and referees who participate in the game in such a quiet atmosphere lose much attention and lose interest during the game. This may be also an obstacle to the proliferation of amateur games.
Although an amateur game, such as an amateur baseball game, may not be too crowded, if a player's introductory announcement, an intense voice of judgment, a crowd shout, a cheering music, etc. is presented at an appropriate time during the game (as in a professional game), the players participatingA COMPANY is facing a £100,000 repair bill after mystery firebugs sparked a blaze which ripped through a Widnes industrial site and threatened to spread to surrounding businesses.

Firefighters from Widnes were already battling a huge fire in Warrington when reports started flooding in from worried members of the public and security guards who spotted a huge stack of burning pallets on the site of PEC Pallets on Everite Road, Ditton.

John Salt, commander of Widnes fire station, slammed the culprits behind the blaze for creating a major public hazard and said the fire brigade was treating the incident as 'serious arson' and would be working closely with the police to track down the offenders responsible.

He told the Weekly News that local fire service resources were 'extremely burdened' by the


ETHEL VAN TASSELL REILLY SUTTON

Ethel VanTassell Reilly Sutton, 93, of Kingston, NY, formerly of Esopus,NY, born in Newburgh, passed away on March 2nd.

A graduate of Newburgh Free Academy, Mrs. Sutton worked for the Newburgh News, IBM, and served as Esopus Postmaster for over 20 years.

She is survived by her son, Michael Reilly of Ft. Myers, FL; daughters: Elizabeth "Dolly" Decker of Rifton, NY, Kathleen Steeger of Kingston, Sharon Boyd of Northridge, CA; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She was predeceased by her husbands: David E. Reilly Sr., and Lawrence Sutton. She is also predeceased by her sons: David E. Reilly Jr. USMC, James R. Reilly, USMC and Dennis M. Reilly USAF. She was a proud Gold Star Mother.

Calling hours are from 4 to 7p.m. Tuesday, withcosts and increasing the speed of production. Traditionally, several manufacturing techniques have been utilized for economically and quickly forming tortillas on commercial production lines. A first popular method is known as die-cutting and a second popular method is known as pressing, both of which are described below.
In the die-cutting technique, tortilla dough is first formed in a commercial mixer. The dough is then transferred to an extruder that extrudes a sheet of dough onto a conveyor belt of a rolling and cutting machine to form a dough ribbon. In this step, the dough ribbon is gradually reduced to a predetermined thickness by sheeting and cross-rolling.
Once the dough has reached a desired thickness, a die is actuated to cut the dough into the desired form. The formed dough products


direction of sheeting. That is, the tortilla will crack when folded in the direction that is transverse or perpendicular to the direction of the sheeting. Moreover, the sheeting process described above does nothing to seal the surface of the dough. Sealing the surface of the dough traps leavening gasses during baking which has been found to improve final bake quality of the product.
As mentioned above, a second common process for forming tortillas is by pressing, which is also referred to as the hot press method. In practice, dough balls are formed, proofed, and fed onto a conveyor that carries several dough balls at a time into position between the heated platens (up to 450° F.) of a tortilla press. Such relatively high temperatures must be imparted to theBad sign: Twenty seventeen tied for the hottest year in Miami history, according to National Weather Service data. The mean average temperature for the year ticked up to 79.1 degrees Fahrenheit.

Worse sign: Seven of the ten hottest years in city history occurred between 2007 and 2017. The remaining three happened in the 1990s.

The data, compiled by local meteorologist and University of Miami researcher Brian McNoldy (and reported earlier today by the Miami Herald), shows a trend that is obvious to anyone with a child's understanding of temperature data. It's gradually gotten hotter here over the past century, much as it has in other places around the globe:

2017 wrap-up for #Miami: it tied 2015 for the hottest year on record, had the most days with highs ?92°, and the


Gang activity forewarned by a Facebook post apparently led to one of the worst mass shootings in New Jersey history on Sunday, leaving 17 people with gunshot wounds before one gunman was shot and killed, and police arrested the another. The suspect who was killed was released from prison only four months ago.

A third suspected gunman in the shooting, who was not identified, was listed in critical condition at a local hospital. The Mercer County Prosecutor's Office did not elaborate on that person's role.

Tahaij Wells, 32, who was released from prison on "homicide-related charges," and Amir "Mir" Armstrong, 23, were the suspected gunmen at the Art All Night festival in Trenton on Father's Day. The shooting took place at just before 3 a.m. at an event that had1,000 people in attendance, with gang members and officers firing at one another.

Murphy said more guns need to be removed from the streets and away from people who shouldn't have them, noting that Wells was a "well-known gang member with a violent past."

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy addressed the mass shooting during an 11 a.m. press conference in Trenton on Monday, saying of the victims: "We should all keep praying for their full recoveries and we will ensure all those responsible for this lawlessness will be brought to justice." (watch the press conference below).

Three of the 17 people who suffered gunshot wounds – including a 13-year-old boy – were listed in stable condition late Sunday, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office. Overall, 22 people were hurt in


of a 22-year-old man, according to the state Department of Corrections. Wells was 17 but was tried as an adult.

The Facebook message was posted Saturday night, but Trenton officials said it came to their attention following the tragedy on Sunday.

In 2002, Wells was arrested at the Macintosh Inn in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pa. by members of the New York-New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force of the United States Marshals Service after a manhunt, authorities told The New York Times at the time. Wells was accused of shooting Robert McNair three times in the chest in an argument over a girl.

After Wells had been announced as a suspect in 2002, his mother told the Times of Trenton "he (was never involved) in things like this," according to nj.com.Then records show that in 2010, Wells, while in prison, was sentenced to six more years after pleading guilty to a second-degree racketeering charge.

Wells had helped David "Duke" Allen, the imprisoned leader of the Bloods' Nine Trey Gangsters faction, run his gang from behind bars, according to nj.com. The Attorney General's Office has described Wells as an alleged Bloods gang member.

Wells was released from prison in February.

The Father's Day shooting occurred when multiple people attending Trenton's 2018 Art All Night Event, located at the Historic Roebling Wire Works at 675 South Clinton Ave., opened fire within the venue, according to Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri.

Trenton police responded at approximately 2:50 a.m. when "multiple males at the event shot multiple people attending," according to the MCPO. Video shown


below shows the scene.

Prior to the shooting, there were numerous physical altercations inside and outside the art event venue. The MCPO said the mood inside had been changing and police told organizers that the event needed to be shut down.

Some of the people involved in the altercations apparently had some connections to a "gang dispute" in the area. They continued to fight even as the event was shutting down. The altercations then apparently escalated in gunfire, according to the MCPO. The suspects were shooting at each other.

The suspects were wounded when police arrived on scene, according to the MCPO. The 17 people who suffered gunshot injuries and were being treated at local hospitals. Multiple weapons were recovered.

The Art All Night organizers, who ultimately canceled the event, offered theirin the area when the shooting started.

"My sympathy goes out to the victims and their families," Trenton Mayor Eric Jackson said at a Sunday morning press conference. "All shootings are a crisis. This is not just a random act of violence – this is a public health issue."

"Woke up to news of another terrible shooting, and this time in our own backyard. Praying for those affected in Trenton today," said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ.

Murphy, who just signed six gun-control bills into law this past week, said "there's still more work to do" in trying to prevent gun violence in local communities. He decried other states for being permissive in their gun laws and enabling people to easily transport firearms into New Jersey from elsewhere.

"We're getting stronger and better


but we're a long way from getting rid of this senselessness," he said.

Numerous reports spoke about how the tragedy may have stemmed from a fight near the celebration.

"When we got here around 2:30, it didn't look like we were coming to Art All Night," city resident Franco Roberts told The Trentonian. "It looked like we were outside of a Philadelphia club after the bar closes and people who don't want to leave are standing around their cars smoking and drinking."

Roberts told The Trentonian he had a feeling something bad was going to happen in the vicinity of the celebration because there were "more people outside than in the warehouse" and no music was playing inside. "Someone told us they were shutting down the whole building. Then we turnedaround and saw people squaring up to fight."

Then came the gunfire, and everybody ran toward the door, he told the publication. People were fighting as the gunmen fled the building, shooting.

Eva Zoll, who said she attended the event, told RLS Media: "I am 71-yrs-old and stopped in to check on my artwork on display. I heard shots behind me and turned and the crowd began to stampede towards me. Thank the Lord I can run. The people were running for their lives. My heart is still shaking but I am safe. My prayers for those who were shot. OMG."

Video from the scene: Viewer discretion advised.

A police officer inspects the crime scene at the Roebling Market on June 17, 2018, the morning after a shooting at an all-night art


Thousands of dead fish in River Witham in Lincolnshire Published duration 5 March 2018

image caption The fish were spotted in the river on Sunday

Thousands of dead fish have been found following the suspected pollution of a river in Lincolnshire.

The fish - dead or gasping for air - were spotted on Sunday in the River Witham between Kirkstead Bridge and Bardney Bridge, near Woodhall Spa.

The Environment Agency (EA) said it was a "very serious" case.

It said officers would be working to trace the source of pollution and would take any appropriate enforcement action once the source was identified.

The EA said the water contained high levels of ammonia.

Yvonne Daly, from the EA, said: "The scale is very significant, it is very serious pollution of the river and we do notsee this on a regular basis.

"There are thousands of fish which have been killed. This is really serious pollution.

"We will be looking to find who has caused this and will take the relevant enforcement action against them."

Reports of dead fish have also been received from the Boston area, some 20 miles (32 km) away, it added.

image caption People living in the area described seeing some fish "gasping" for breath

CJ Foran, from Coningsby, said he had never seen anything like it.

"There was a mix of different fish that were gasping and swimming upside down that weren't dead yet.

"It just leaves you speechless to see that amount of dead fish just floating down the river."

Andrew Walker, from Woodhall Spa, said there were thousands of dead fish in the river and


Consolidated Waters donates to Rotary for San Mateo residents

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

One community on Ambergris Caye that does not have proper access to safe drinking water is San Mateo, situated just north of the heart of Belize’s largest tourism town of San Pedro. Water samples extracted along various sections of the waterlines conducted by Engineers without Borders, as recently as January, 2013, showed that the waters were contaminated with coliform (fecal bacteria), making it unsafe to drink. In an effort to continue addressing the lack of proper drinking water, Consolidated Water Belize Limited has made a donation to the Rotary Club of Belize. The donation was held on Friday May 10th, where members of the Belize Rotary Club were presented with a check.

The donation brings to light theneed to ensure safe drinking water to all. The alarming statistics worldwide also bring the need of the San Mateo community into glaring reality. At least 75% of the earth is comprised of water but only about .007 of all water on earth is available for human use. More than five million people die from water- related diseases every year of which about 98% of these deaths occur in the developing world. In addition, 84% of these water-related deaths are in children under the age of 14.Thirty percent of these deaths are from diarrhea, making water-related diseases a leading cause of death for children under the age of five in the world. Worldwide it is estimated that one billion people do not have access to safe drinking water.
One


of the organizations in Belize that has been helping in addressing the water issue in San Mateo is the Rotary Club of Belize. The club has been providing water-filter buckets to the people of San Mateo in order for them to treat their own water – making it safe for drinking. After carefully following the work that The Belize Rotary Club has been doing with San Mateo residents, Consolidated Waters – Belize Limited decided to help by ways of a donation of $2,500BZ. President of the Belize Rotary Club Maria Coye said that the donation will go a long way in their efforts in San Mateo. “This donation will be used to purchase more water-filter buckets. What will happen is that we will have Rotary International match theIsrael's Security Cabinet has approved the construction of a new stretch of high-tech fencing along its border with Jordan, aimed at further preventing Islamist terrorists such as members of Isis or Al-Qaeda from entering the country.

The barrier is set to span 30 kilometres (19 miles) in the south of the country, near the Red Sea. As well as keeping out potential attackers, the fence is also intended to prevent African migrants from entering the country through Jordan, after travelling across the Red Sea.

Israel's government worries that a route via Jordan, which is not as tightly secured as the rest of its border, may be a possible entryway for its enemies, especially after the border with Egypt was fenced off in 2013.

During a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and


Defence Committe, Prime Minister Netanyahu called the extension of the Jordanian border fence "important", and said it is a "very important step" in Israel's national security.

He added that it will join the fence built along the Sinai and Golan Heights borders, which he said have been important in keeping out illegal migrants and "the various terrorist movements".

In pictures: Palestinian flotilla Show all 7 1 /7 In pictures: Palestinian flotilla In pictures: Palestinian flotilla Palestinian protesters Palestinian protesters wave their national flag and banners during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, a senior member of Islamic Jihad, under administrative detention in an Israeli jail, at the Damascus Gate outside the old city of Jerusalem. Adnan has been on hunger strike for nearly 52 days in protestagainst his detention without trial AFP/Getty In pictures: Palestinian flotilla Palestinian protester A Palestinian protester waves his national flag and shouts slogans during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, a senior member of Islamic Jihad, under administrative detention in an Israeli jail AFP/Getty In pictures: Palestinian flotilla Palestinian flotilla Palestinians wave their national flag as they ride boats during a rally in support of activists aboard a Pro-Gaza flotilla made up of four boats aimed at defying Israel's blockade of Gaza, at the seaport of Gaza City In pictures: Palestinian flotilla Palestinian flotilla Palestinians wave their national flag as they ride boats during a rally in support of activists aboard a Pro-Gaza flotilla made up of four boats aimed at defying Israel's blockade of Gaza,


at the seaport of Gaza City AFP/Getty In pictures: Palestinian flotilla Palestinian flotilla Palestinian protesters sail into the Mediterranean sea while waving their national flags during a protest calling to free the Marianne vessel one of four boats sailing to break the blockade on Gaza strip, at the fishermen port in Gaza City AP In pictures: Palestinian flotilla Palestinian police officer A Palestinian police officer checks stands guard during a protest calling to free the Marianne vessel one of four boats sailing to break the blockade on Gaza strip, at the fishermen port in Gaza City AP In pictures: Palestinian flotilla Israeli naval vessel An Israeli naval vessel, center, is seen in the Mediterranean sea outside the port of Ashdod, Israel. Israel has blocked a boat leading afour-vessel protest flotilla of foreign activists from reaching the Gaza Strip and forced the vessel to sail to the Israeli port Reuters

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the fence was not an act of aggression or intimidation towards Jordan, saying the fence will be constructed "without in any way harming the sovereignty or national interests of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan".

Netanyahu added that the fence would also protect the Timna airport that is due to open next year, one that has been billed as an alternative 'second airport' that could be used in times of war, in case the Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv comes under attack.

Israel has plenty of practice in fencing off its borders, with complex defence systems in place along the border with Syria and


Egypt.

The West Bank, too, is almost entirely fenced off by chain-link fencing, aimed at protecting Israel from Palestinian attack.

This beefing up of border security is a response to unrest in the Middle East, especially in Egypt and Syria, with which Israel shares its eastern and western borders.23d and 24th, respectively. In Count IV defendant Bonin alone was accused of a similar offense on August 31st. The indictment further charged that defendant Richards had suffered a prior conviction of robbery, which she admitted to be true.
 A jury found defendants guilty as charged on all counts. Motions for a new trial on behalf of each defendant were denied. Richards has appealed from the judgment. Bonin has appealed from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.
 Officer Rutherford, of the Los Angeles Police Department, Narcotics Division, was working as an undercover officer on August 19, 1960, when he met defendant Richards, at approximately 11 a. m., in the 600 block of Fenn Street, in Los Angeles. He had a conversation


her back to the locality where he had previously taken her. When she left the car that time the officer handed her two $5.00 bills. Richards again departed on foot, met a man, and was gone for approximately 20 minutes. Upon her return, the officer asked her what took her so long, to which she replied, "My connection only brought one paper [meaning a bindle containing narcotics], so we had to go back to his room and make up another one for you." When they returned to their initial meeting place, Richards delivered a white paper bindle to the officer as she left the car. The contents proved to be heroin. (Count I.)
 On August 23, 1960, Rutherford met Richards at 3149 Johnston Street, in Los Angeles. Hea market. The officer inquired as to how much "stuff" Bonin's contact was bringing. He replied, "A gram." They waited for approximately ten minutes, when a man walked through the parking lot. Bonin said, "There he is." The officer gave Bonin $10 whereupon Bonin left the car but soon returned and informed the officer that he had made the purchase. *468 They then returned to the house at 3149 Johnston Street. There Bonin handed the officer a small paper bindle. Richards was in the house at that time, as was another person whom the officer knew only as "Phil." The contents of the paper proved to be heroin. (Count II.)
 The next day the officer again returned to the same address and inquired of Richards whether she would


be able to go down to 9th and Hoover with him. She replied, "No, but Lew ... can go down with you."  [fn. 3] A short time later the officer, Bonin and Phil went to 9th and Hoover Streets where Bonin made a purchase; whereupon they returned to the Johnston Street address, where Bonin handed the officer a bindle of whitish powder, which proved to be heroin. (Count III.)
 On August 31 Rutherford returned to the Johnston Street address where he again met Richards, who inquired if he wanted to "score," to which he replied, "Yes." Richards then said: "Lew is getting ready to go down in a minute." The officer and Bonin soon left the apartment. After Bonin had made several telephone calls he located ais insufficient to sustain the judgment against her on Counts II and III of the indictment. The People counter with the argument that Richards was a principal in the commission of the crimes alleged in these counts by virtue of having advised and encouraged their commission. In our opinion, the position of the People is sound.
 Penal Code section 31 states in part: "All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether it be felony or misdemeanor, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, or, not being present, have advised and encouraged its commission ... are principals in any crime so committed."
 It is not necessary that Richards be physically present during the course of the transaction


leading to the furnishing of narcotics to the officer in order to be found a principal in the commission of the offense. In People v. McNulty, 171 Cal.App.2d 86 [340 P.2d 340], the narcotic officer had previously known the appellant and on several occasions had spoken to him about buying marijuana, on which occasions appellant denied having any of his own. The officer also had known the codefendant, Bob, and had seen appellant in his company several times. On the day in question, the officer met Bob at a bar; appellant appeared later. The officer asked appellant about procuring some marijuana, to which the latter replied that he could "score" for him. Appellant asked to use the officer's car, but instead the officer offered to drive appellant *472Rutherford, on August 23d, went to the Richards' apartment on Johnston Street he knew that just four days previously Richards had furnished him narcotics. She indicated that she did not want to go on the streets because of the narcotic needle punctures on her arms, but she immediately added that Bonin would be able to go with him. Thus Richards arranged for her codefendant to accompany the officer and handle the details of procuring the contraband and selling it to the officer. In addition, the jury knew that Richards had previously procured narcotics which she had disposed of to the officer. The jury also knew from defendant Bonin's testimony that he and Richards had lived together off and on for seven years and continuously from March of that


year; and that she had introduced him to the officer. Considering the close relationship between the codefendants, the fact that Richards had previously supplied the officer with narcotics, the fact that the only reason she gave for not wanting to again accompany the officer to obtain narcotics was because of the marks on her arms, and that she still *473 cooperated by introducing the officer to the codefendant, and suggesting to the officer that he "will be able to go down with you," clearly constitute substantial evidence of Richards' guilt on the theory of aiding and abetting, or advising and encouraging, the commission of the offense. (Pen. Code,  31.)
 Similarly, on the very next day, August 24th, when the officer again went to the Richards' apartment andOne of Europe's 'most wanted' arrested in Watford Published duration 15 August 2018

image copyright National Crime Agency image caption Florin Ghinea, 43, faces extradition to Romania to face criminal charges

The suspected head of a Romanian organised crime network is facing extradition after he was arrested in Hertfordshire.

Florin Ghinea, 43, listed as one of Europol's most wanted men, was detained as he left a gym in Watford on Tuesday.

Ghinea, nicknamed "Ghenosu", is wanted by the Romanian authorities on human trafficking, conspiracy to murder, blackmail and money laundering charges.

He will appear in court for an extradition hearing on 25 September.

Ghinea was arrested on Tuesday by officers from the National Crime Agency's Armed Operations Unit (NCA) in an operation supported by Hertfordshire Police.

He is accused of orchestrating a trafficking ring which


Judging by GTsuper's replies he is gene from AH ? Something i noticed looking at his other threads. No matter what he replies to, his response is basically negative towards the OP. Its like ,nothing is worthwhile unless he endorse's it. Hopefully others see through his BS.

Judging by GTsuper's replies he is gene from AH ? Something i noticed looking at his other threads. No matter what he replies to, his response is basically negative towards the OP. Its like ,nothing is worthwhile unless he endorse's it. Hopefully others see through his BS.

He is not Gene. Gene actually slapped the guy down hard for trashing Axiom so much in non related threads.

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Fred

-------Blujays1: Spending Fred's money one bottle at a time, no two... Oh crap!

Well, sticking up for theto vent.

Jamie, still angry, pouts his way to Maison Elise to drink and sulk, and spies a boy picking pockets among the customers while clearing tables. He chases the kid and grabs him, shaking him down (literally) and finding Sawny's snake which had gone missing. When he realises that The Kid is a really good pickpocket, he hires him and names him Fergus, brings him home and introduces him to Claire. Fergus compliments her breasts and asks for coin.

Fergus will steal letters from Charles and bring them to Jamie to decode. He brings home a sheet of music, which looks odd because it's sent from Britain but has German words. Jamie takes it to Mother Hildegarde who realises quickly that there's something off about the key changes: the


key is the key!

Back home they manage to decode it: the writer has gathered 40,000 pounds for Charles' campaign. Not as much as Jamie had expected and not enough for war. The letter was written by 'S' and Jamie and Claire work it out simultaneously: Sandringham.

Other nuggets: Claire works out who Mary Hawkins is... BJR's future wife and Frank's great-great-x5 grandmother. She suddenly realises (duh) that Jack's death or Mary's failure to conceive might mean Frank ceases to exist. Claire also pops in to visit Master Raymond and they discuss poisons and fake poisons, which he sells often to locals trying to kill their enemies. The Comte St. Germain happens to be leaving as she arrives. Suzette the lady's maid is a slacker, and Claire doesn't want herseason one and was really struck by the difference, from Jamie and Claire's authenticity as people, their dusty-soft palettes and gentler edges to this season's harsher colors and brittle shiny hardness. It's partly production but also greatly down to the actors. I'm impressed by them while also going, "Can we go back to Scotland now?"posted by angeline at 6:51 PM on April 26, 2016

Bouton looks a little bit like phunnimee's Truman.posted by brujita at 7:38 PM on April 30, 2016


Today we have Aimee Mullins, the athlete/model/actor/activist extraordinaire, here to talk to you, the readers, in the comments. This is excellent.

After a successful career as a track and field athlete that culminated in three world records at the 1996 Paralympic Games, Mullins, a double-amputee, went on to walk the runway for Alexander McQueen and appear in numerous magazine spreads — including a brand new one in Garage, where Mullins was turned into a paper doll and dressed by various designers (below).

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Two teams in semi-final action this weekend. Good luck on Saturday to our U16 footballers playing the D Shield Semifinal at Bridgefield (change of venue) and on Sunday, our 2nd Minor team playing Crumlin at Broomfield in their Championship SemiFinal. Best of luck too to our U15 boys in their Division 1 League game away at Ballycullen. Details >>

The Executive Committee of St Sylvester's GAA Club wishes to thank all those who have been involved in managing, coaching and supporting
In particular we would thank Jack Sheedy, Cathal O’Donnell, Conor Dunne, Leo Ryan & Paul Clarke for their huge commitment and dedication in what was a challenging year for the team. The Club now wishes to invite expressions of interest for the position of Senior Football Manager for the


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The Executive Committee of St Sylvesters GAA club wishes to thank all those who have been involved in managing, coaching and supporting the Intermediate Football Team in 2018. In particular we would thank Ross Hazley, Darren Darcy, Joey Kelly & Anthony Keogh for their huge commitment and dedication in what was a challenging year for the team. The club now wishes to invite expressions of interest for the position of Intermediate Football Manager for the coming 2019 season. >>>>

Tick off all the important gifts on their Christmas lists at this year’s Syls Christmas Shop! A great range of new gear and old favourites for every age.
Open at the Clubhouse , 2 Church Rd on Sat 24th November 12-6pm.

Dublin and Meath will play a challenge matchIn a wide-ranging with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade, former CIA Director David Petraeus praised President Trump's hard line on NATO, claimed the west needs to rethink its North Korea strategy and warned the United States should be "firm, not provocative" with China.

The retired four-star general said Trump is hardly the first U.S. president to take NATO to task for spending too little on their own defense and depending on the U.S. to make up the difference.

"(Trump) is right to do that," Petraeus said. "He is by no means the first president. I heard President Obama do this publicly and privately. I heard Secretary Gates, President Bush, others... have all been very frustrated that our NATO allies have not spent what they have agreed to spend."

NATO CHIEF, IN SPEECH


Image caption Crowds lined the route of the parade in Bangor town centre

Thousands of people have attended Northern Ireland's Armed Forces Day in Bangor, which culminated in a military parade through the County Down town.

Armed Forces Day is a UK-wide event to support and celebrate serving and veteran military personnel.

Northern Ireland's event coincides with its host town's maritime celebrations - the Sea Bangor Festival.

Ards and North Down Mayor, Robert Adair, told the BBC more than 35,000 people had come to Bangor on Saturday.

Mr Adair said there was a "family friendly" atmosphere for the joint festivities and it was a great opportunity to thank those who serve.

"I'm so encouraged to see the turnout of people," the mayor said.

He said he was looking forward to "getting out there to meetas many of these brave men and women of our armed forces as possible".

Image copyright PSNI Bangor/Facebook Image caption Writing on their Facebook page, PSNI Bangor joked: "Even we aren’t messing with these dudes.....they brought their own tank!"

Ards and North Down Council is co-ordinating the festivities, which include "breathtaking" Spitfire displays, tall ships, music, street theatre and food stalls.

Antique guns

For military historians and collectors, a wide display of memorabilia was put on display at a military fair at First Bangor Presbyterian Church Hall.

According to the council it included antique guns, swords, uniforms, medals, badges, stamps and coins.

Image caption Bangor is one of about 300 UK venues hosting Armed Forces Day

As well as the parade on Saturday morning, military personnel performed a drumhead service and beating retreat.

About 300 events


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Hollywood FilmsNo Retreat, No Surrender (1986)No Retreat, NoSEOUL, May 2 South Korea's lawmakers approved a
national emissions trading scheme on Wednesday to tackle its
growing greenhouse gas emissions, overcoming strong industry
opposition and joining a growing number of nations to put a
price on carbon.

Of the 151 lawmakers who voted, 148 approved the scheme,
underscoring bipartisan support for a cap on carbon emissions,
in stark contrast with the United States and Australia where
emissions trading has been deeply divisive.

Analysts and officials said the programme won approval,
despite fears it would hurt the economy, because of the
long-term benefits to the country's huge conglomerates from
being more energy-efficient and exporting greener goods.

The scheme has not generated the same bitter public debate
as in Australia and the United States, with the public more
concerned with neighbouring North Korea.

"This is to develop green industry technologies and
technology to reduce energy consumption,


than 25,000 tonnes of
carbon dioxide (CO2) a year.

The nation's top industry body fought the scheme, saying it
would add unnecessary costs and that competitor Japan has yet to
put a price on carbon.

The Federation of Korean Industries has said the scheme
would add initial costs of 4.7 trillion Korean won ($4.2
billion) even when 95 percent of pollution permits are given for
free.

Each permit represents a tonne of carbon emissions, with
free permits awarded during the scheme's two first phases,
spanning 2015-2017 and 2018-2020. The rest would be auctioned.

The government says the scheme is crucial to reining in
emissions from Asia's fourth-largest economy, which have doubled
since 1990, and to meeting a pledged goal of reducing emissions
by 30 percent from projected levels by 2020.

"The opposition had no reason to oppose as they have been
supporting the bill. Industrythe news and media division of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Learn more about Thomson Reuters products:


system, tried to get Altschuler to stop his car. Altschuler did not stop and continued driving at a moderate rate of speed (30 m.p.h.) until he reached his home approximately 12 blocks from the intersection.
Altschuler testified that the light at the intersection was green and that he had been unaware that there were police *319 officers trying to stop him. He did not hear any loudspeakers, but did see an unrecognizable light several blocks back.
When Altschuler reached his driveway, he used his remote control to open the garage door, drove into the garage, parked, and used the remote control to close the garage door. Officers Olney and Haynes pulled into the driveway immediately behind Altschuler, blocking exit by his car. As the garage door began to close, OfficerStory highlights Egypt's government protested against a U.N. document on violence against women

Shereen El Feki says Cairo's "hysterical" reaction was nothing new

Politics, religion and sex are the Arab world's "three red lines," she says

El Feki says sexuality is a powerful lens through which to study a society

Earlier this month, a video of young men doing the "Harlem Shake " -- bare chests and thrusting pelvises -- in front of the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo attracted worldwide attention, for putting one finger up to the moral authority of Islamic conservatives now struggling to govern Egypt.

But over in Alexandria, a soft-spoken teenage girl offered a far more unsettling challenge to the powers that be. Hebat Allah Mahmoud, a young karate enthusiast, was refused a place in her school's tournament


photo because, she claimed, she does not cover her hair with a hijab.

Her teacher denied such charges of discrimination. Hebat Allah, however was unwilling to take this lying down. Instead, she took to YouTube, in a video in which she tearfully lambasted authorities for willful blindness and narrow-mindedness. Did they not know, she asked, that most of the girls put on the hijab at school but took it off once they left the premises? And she criticized teachers' interpretation of Islam, for insisting that the hijab was religiously mandated and that those who did not wear it were less worthy than those who covered. "We should have equal rights as stressed by the Prophet," she told the camera.

Shereen El Feki

Hebat Allah's challenge to the one size-fits-all vision ofIslam presented by Egypt's now ruling religious conservatives shifted to the international stage this week. At the United Nations, governments and NGOs from around the world have been negotiating a document on the elimination of violence against women, under the umbrella of the Commission on the Status of Women. The final text, hammered out after weeks of hard negotiation, reiterates the rights of women to lead their lives free of violence, coercion and discrimination

The mere discussion of such issues was, however, enough to send Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood into a frenzy. "It eliminates Islamic morals, and seeks the destruction of family institution," the Brotherhood warned in an apocalyptic official statement. "Then society dissolution will occur, and last steps of cultural invasion will be complete." In urging other Muslim-majority country


of efforts elsewhere in the world; the reason they are taking root is because they are adapted to the region, and work along the grain of religion and culture.

Now Islamic conservatives argue otherwise. Too often, they say to tackle such matters is "un-Islamic" and a sell-out to the West. But this is simply not the case. Arab and Islamic culture has a long history of talking about sex, in its all its problems and pleasures, for men and women -- and that includes Prophet Mohammed himself. There is precious little in "Playboy," "Cosmopolitan," "The Joy of Sex," or any other taboo-busting work of the sexual revo¬lution and beyond that Arabic literature -- much of it written by Islamic scholars -- didn't touch on over a mil¬lennium ago.

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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and a former deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee, claims that he “knows of possible federal campaign finance violations” by the RNC, including its alleged receipt of donations from foreign citizens.

This is a major allegation, but it may be overlooked because it is just one of a number of new or amplified claims Cohen made Thursday in a bid to get congressional Democrats to help him avoid prison. Cohen served as a deputy finance chair for the RNC, a top fundraising post, from April 2017 through June 2018.

In a letter sent Thursday to four Democratic chairmen of House committees, Cohen attorneys


by foreign nationals, including from China.”

This claim comes amid mounting investigative attention to possible illegal contributions from citizens of China and other countries. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, reportedly acting at least in part on information from Cohen, are believed to be investigating whether foreign citizens funneled cash to Republican fundraising committees. Mother Jones has reported that an Asian American GOP activist involved with a December 2017 fundraiser for Trump and the RNC at a restaurant in Manhattan expressed concern that Chinese citizens may have funneled donations through American straw donors in connection with the event.

An RNC spokeswoman said that the committee “only accepts contributions from American citizens in accordance with the law. We vehemently deny any wrongdoing on the part of the RNCby citing Cohen’s allegations, also made during his testimony in February, that Trump knew of and approved a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower where his son Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign aides hoped to receive dirt from the Kremlin on Hillary Clinton. Cohen also claimed to have heard Trump speaking to his longtime adviser Roger Stone in July 2016 about WikiLeaks’ plans to release stolen emails that were damaging to Democrats.

Republicans have attacked Cohen since he first claimed that Trump instructed him to lie, arguing that he lacks credibility due to his guilty plea to making false statements to Congress in 2017. Republicans also say Cohen lied to lawmakers during his February testimony by denying that he had sought a White House job after Trump’s election.

Trump


all three of them the sob story of his dead friend with real tears glistening in his eyes as he'd hired them. He'd told them all about how he was determined Cormac be brought to justice in honor of his alleged dead friend. All he wanted was for them to locate the mark and bring him in, where he'd gladly help her bring Cormac to the nearest police station.

That was when Viktor and Vadim had stopped him cold. They never asked for the emotional details surrounding a bounty—it was too personal. All they needed was the cash and the assurance that, once the bounty was found, the client agreed to let them aide in escorting the bounty to the police department. It was unconventional, yes. But their reasonsitself, is a success."

Now her throat was so tight, she almost couldn't speak. "You'd come back to Colorado?"

"Once this was over, I never planned on going anywhere else. I love Colorado—despite the fact that it was my prison. There's nothing left for me here. Toni's in this other realm and getting ready to marry a prince from another time and place, and my house...well, I imagine it's long gone by now. The bank only goes so long without a payment."

"I'm sorry, Cormac. God, they've ruined your life." When she reflected on all he'd lost, she had no right to complain.

"Not all of it. If not for them, I wouldn't have met you. So let's make a pact, okay. Right here, right now."

"Okay. Pact me."

"When this is over, let's


if I don't do what he asks. He'll do what he threatened to do anyway and no one can question it because he's your personal clan leader. We have to get this and all his other crazy plans out in the open in front of reasonable people."

Galen's hard jaw tightened, the tic in it pulsing. "That son of a bitch and his lunatic ideas about clan purity. They're archaic. He's a freak of a zealot and he has everyone in a panic about their immortality every second of every day," he spat. "He runs _our_ damn clan like a death camp, for Christ's sake. No one will go toe to toe with him for fear he'll burn them at dawn."

That was what worried her. No one would bewith us since I had her. She's...hidden. Hidden well, with the person I trust most in this world. When Artem caught us together and banned us from seeing one another, we made it a point to stay away from each other. Well, in public, anyway. We don't even dare look at each other at the office for the most part."

Nina slapped Galen on the back and grinned. "So the secret lover thing. A little Romeo and Juliet, huh? Can be pretty sexy, I'd bet."

But Galen frowned, not amused. "There's nothing sexy about always hiding," he gritted out.

Wanda's eyes glittered with concern. "So this Artem blackmailed you into taking Nina as a client or...what? I have a bad feeling I know what, but I need to hear you say


don't care what the hell you call me." His head lowered, until his mouth was just a breath above hers. "I'll just look forward to hearing you call it when I'm riding you in bed."

Shock ripped through her, widening her eyes and snatching her breath away. Heat rushed through her body. Curling thick down through her blood before gathering heavy between her legs.

His nostrils flared, and she knew his were side meant that he could smell the dampness between her legs that his image had created. Heat flooded her cheeks.

"Like hell that will happen, Hunter."

"You want me." It wasn't a question. And there was no asking when his lips crushed down on hers a second later.

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the mind. One of the words in sanskrit for mirror is
"mandalakam".

Thus, the Mandala looking at
us evokes "Brahman" the Absolute. To quote the Kena Upanishad "That which
is not seen by the eye but by which the eye sees -know that to be Brahman.
Brahman is not the being who is worshipped by men". In his own way a spiritual
guide is also a mandala -his own secret harmony inviting us to discovery
and contemplation.

If we consider the Mandala as
a dome or a well, a third dimension opens up to us: verticality. According
to the rules of construction of a Hindu temple, a narrow well of the same
length as the tower has to he dug under the tower. A variety of grains
and water from the Ganges are placed at the bottom of the well.LADURÉE
whose express wish is to have the text of her book presented in three languages:
French, English and German. It's not by accident that her works were exhibited
in Berlin at the University of Pence, which was presided over by the DALAÏ-LAMA.

The Mandala is the mark of the
Divine -the stamp of the Invisible on the Visible; its outer square represents
the Earth and the inner circle is like a flower.

May MARLIS LADURÉE, in
the springtime of her art, bring many more flowers to bloom on our Earth.


kids and drew young Jeanne a banana. (“I didn’t realize it had anything to do with the Velvet Underground album cover until I got to college,” says Greenberg Rohatyn.) As a teen, she accompanied her father on his annual trips to Art Basel and the New York auctions. (“We’d play this game: Which painting would you take home? Which one would you sell?”) Her parents gave her a plant drawing by Ellsworth Kelly for her sweet 16 and another as a present when she married financier Nicolas Rohatyn in their backyard in 1997. That same year, she stocked the United States Embassy in Paris with works by American masters. (Her father-in-law, banker Felix Rohatyn, was then ambassador to France.)

Two years later, at New York’s Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Vanthree that Greenberg Rohatyn has created her own quirky niche. The double-width Rafael Viñoly–designed townhouse on the Upper East Side, where she has lived since 2002 with her family also serves as her salon and gallery—an arrangement that allows her to work at home, even if it means opening her doors to the public by appointment. Her time-management skills are impressive: All of her artists, she points out, live in or near the city or are a relatively easy flight away (which is why there are no Chinese artists on her roster). Her two additional galleries—Salon 94 Freemans on the Lower East Side and Salon 94 Bowery, next to the New Museum—are just a taxi ride away.

The distinctive spaces allow her to produce unconventional one-off shows, as well


celebration of the rising photographer’s New York debut. But for now she was in her Manhattan home curled up on a distressed-suede-and-plywood sofa by Owens, dressed in a black Owens jumpsuit with sleeves of different lengths. Her hair was cut supershort in the front, with bangs circling her hairline à la Rooney Mara—but left long and curly in the back, with the tips dyed blonde. She wore a necklace made of black rope and no makeup.

As we walked around, she pointed out the works she’d installed from her own collection in her parlor-floor living and dining rooms. Hung in the landing was David Hammons’s Untitled (basketball chandelier), a backboard and hoop woven with crystals and glass; nearby, Hella Jongerius’s madcap Frog table mingled with Stars at a Glance,young curator, following her stint at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in the early nineties, Greenberg Rohatyn assisted then Royal Academy of Arts director Norman Rosenthal with a survey of American art from a European perspective. “I looked at his list and said, ‘Where are the women and the black artists?’ It was not something that was discussed at the time.” To which Rosenthal replied: “Start by finding David Hammons.” A famously elusive African-American artist, Hammons has long worked independently of the art world. Greenberg tracked him down in Harlem, first leaving phone messages and then, when she got no response, flowers and notes outside what she thought was his studio. “You’ve been leaving them on the wrong floor,” he told her when they finally met.


was hung with part of the collection Greenberg Rohatyn had helped him build, including pieces by Minter, Warhol, and George Condo. The chief draw, however, was Rodriguez’s giant indoor batting cage, where Lowman had installed an exhibition of new works.

Canny about responding to the cultural moment, Greenberg Rohatyn recently took on Jayson Musson—who as his alter ego Hennessy Youngman stars in the YouTube series “Art Thoughtz.” The videos feature Youngman mocking art-world obsessions, from Damien Hirst to relational aesthetics, through the wickedly astute perspective of a hip-hop fan. In April, at the invitation of Minter, Musson curated a show at Family Business, Maurizio Cattelan’s new Chelsea gallery, and asked his Internet and Twitter followers to drop off an artwork. The opening turned into a raucous block party. Minterguest room for the month because his Brooklyn studio was too cramped. One night, he told me, he was watching The Office in his room when Greenberg Rohatyn knocked on the door and ushered inside her good friend, the hip-hop mogul Lyor Cohen. “That was probably the most insane thing about living here—the night she brought Lyor Cohen into my room, and I showed him my videos. We watched the one on Damien Hirst, and he laughed his ass off. I was like, Whoa! I am not prepared for this at all!”

Greenberg Rohatyn, who was leaving the day after my visit for a family holiday in Aspen and expecting guests for dinner, was already dressed in black Céline pants, a navy T-shirt, and strappy Yves Saint Laurent heels.


be completed - this hadn't been happening consistently with certain leagues and drafts

-fixed potential crash caused by missing player contract data

-while watching a game, if you open the boxscore while game is underway and click on the name of one of the goalscorers, it now opens the correct profile

-sorting by fitness on the lineup screen's dressed list will now sort in the correct order

-when the Winnipeg 1974 challenge is successful, the user should now actually get the achievement, in addition to the in-game notification that he succeeded

-fixed occasional failure of players to recognize during contract negotiations that they've been offered their desired role

-on the autoplay standings screen, players on the user's team now have their name highlighted in red on the top 10 leaders at the side of6.6.70, has just been released.This hotfix is primarily to correct a problem with 6.6.68 that made games in leagues with 19-skater rosters impossible to continue, another bug that could break all the team budgets in custom games with historical finances activated, and a couple of other things we didn't want to leave unfixed for several weeks. However, unlike a typical hotfix, the problems took a while to become evident, and we'd already made a bunch of other fixes, changes, and additions by that point. So, this is really somewhere between a hotfix and a full update. One new feature we'd been planning to include in the final update in March, the ability to start a new standard game in control of a national team, is included. But it


click on the name of one of the goalscorers, it now opens the correct profile-sorting by fitness on the lineup screen's dressed list will now sort in the correct order-when the Winnipeg 1974 challenge is successful, the user should now actually get the achievement, in addition to the in-game notification that he succeeded-fixed occasional failure of players to recognize during contract negotiations that they've been offered their desired role-on the autoplay standings screen, players on the user's team now have their name highlighted in red on the top 10 leaders at the side of the page-if the user, playing as GM/HC, uses the staff screen Action button to move an assistant coach into the head coach's role, it no longer locks the "setting training" and "setting lineup &CCC Foundation Names New Executive Director

Posted: Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 10:35 AM

Greg A.
Fitzgerald, a veteran of philanthropy, development and nonprofit management,
has been named the executive director of the Clackamas Community College
Foundation. The CCC Board of Education approved the hire at its June meeting.
Fitzgerald will start on July 2.

Fitzgerald has
been a consultant at his own company, Visionwork, of Paso Robles, Calif., for
the past 20 years. During that time he has assisted dozens of nonprofits with
vision planning, board development, fiscal management, policy development,
government relations, team building and fund development. He is also the
cofounder of NOZA, the world’s largest searchable database of charitable gifts
for use by nonprofit prospect researchers and development departments. NOZA was
acquired by Blackbaud Inc. in 2010.

Fitzgerald’s
career includes several years with the Catholic Family Services of Los Angeles
as


the executive director of the Hope In Youth program and director of the
Family and Community Services Division. He earned his bachelor’s degree in
social work at Fresno State University and his master’s in counseling at Oregon
State.

The new
executive director replaces Karen Martini, who is retiring from the CCC
Foundation at the end of the month. She started work at CCC in 1999 as director
of development and was named executive director of the Foundation in 2006.
Under her leadership, the Foundation’s endowment grew from $8 million to $12
million and annual student scholarships increased from $450,000 to $600,000.

The CCC
Foundation is a 501(3)(C) nonprofit that generates funding to provide access
through scholarships and grants for students to pursue their educational and
career paths. The Foundation also supports efforts to grow programs, renovate
and build facilities, and enhance technology,snapshot moment can be an important moment, a significant episode.

One of my favourite snapshot moments is holding my first daughter just after she was born. I can instantly recall the feeling in my heart which I had as I was looking into her eyes. It was the end of a five year long fertility struggle. She was a surprise baby who, according to the doctors, was not supposed to have existed. She was the greatest gift I had ever received up to that point.

A heart-opening snapshot moment is usually full of love, laughter, inner peace, deep gratitude, aliveness, flowing in the moment, feeling complete or having a sense of unity and bliss.

Love is the impulse towards unity. In a snapshot moment there is no separation between you and


news conference in 2006, President Bush said, “I’d like to close Guantánamo.”

Still, Guantánamo is bustling. Although the number of detainees has fallen from a high of around six hundred and eighty to around two hundred and seventy-five, the base is gearing up for what could become a series of military commissions—criminal trials of detainees. The first is scheduled to begin in May. On a dusty plaza surrounded by barbed wire on an abandoned airfield, contractors are finishing a metal warehouse-type building, which will house a new, highly secure courtroom. On the former runways, more than a hundred semi-permanent tents have been erected, in which lawyers, journalists, and support staffs will work and sleep (six to a tent) during the trials. The tent city has been named Camp Justice.The Bush Administration, instead of closing Guantánamo, is trying to rebrand it—as a successor to Nuremberg rather than as a twin of Abu Ghraib.

The commission trials will be the latest act in a complex legal drama that began shortly after September 11, 2001. A few weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States invaded Afghanistan, and on November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an order establishing military commissions to prosecute war crimes by members and affiliates of Al Qaeda. On January 11, 2002, the first prisoners from Afghanistan reached Guantánamo, which was at the time a sleepy Navy facility used for refuelling Coast Guard vessels. The Bush Administration made it clear that it did not believe that the detainees were entitled


at the Brookings Institution, has made a comprehensive review of the prisoners for his forthcoming book, “Law and the Long War.” For a period in 2006 when Camp Delta held about five hundred prisoners, Wittes examined all the available data—including the military’s assertions about the prisoners and any statements that they themselves made—and estimated that about a third of the detainees could reasonably be said to be terrorists or enemy fighters.

The legal battle over Guantánamo has followed a trajectory similar to the political fortunes of the Bush Administration as a whole. The first court challenges by lawyers representing detainees were filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the left-leaning legal-advocacy group in New York, and Joseph Margulies, a civil-liberties attorney. Now, however, the anti-Guantánamo cause has gone mainstream,and Air Sunshine flights often ferry attorneys from white-shoe law firms to visit their detained clients. Almost all the remaining detainees who want attorneys are represented by American counsel.

Initially, government lawyers asserted that because the detainees were held outside the United States they had no right to challenge their status in American courtrooms, or even to file writs of habeas corpus. The Presidential order of November 13, 2001, said that the detainees “shall not be privileged to seek any remedy or maintain any proceeding, directly or indirectly . . . in any court of the United States.” But, in 2004, the Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that, because the Guantánamo base was under the exclusive control of the U.S. military, the detainees were effectively on American


other terrorists in C.I.A. custody have been transferred to the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay.” All had previously been held in secret C.I.A. prisons. Despite the skepticism that Bush and his team had expressed about Guantánamo, the President had, by placing the nation’s most notorious terrorist suspects there, given the detention facility a new vote of confidence.

Bush also announced that he was sending a bill to Congress to re-create the military commissions that the Supreme Court had just struck down. “As soon as Congress acts to authorize the military commissions I have proposed, the men our intelligence officials believe orchestrated the deaths of nearly three thousand Americans on September 11, 2001, can face justice,” he said. In other words, at the height of the midterm campaignan old air-traffic-control terminal, for the trials of detainees regarded as minor figures. But the big trials, like that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will take place in the new metal building, in what for the most part resembles a modern federal courtroom in the United States. The defendants will sit at the end of long defense-counsel tables, next to their interpreters, and all counsel will have computers where the evidence and legal filings in the case can be displayed. The jurors, who will all be military personnel, will also have their own terminals. The law requires at least twelve jurors in capital cases, and at least five in commissions where the penalty is less than death. (In February, the Administration announced that it would seek the death penalty