ACVIM, a professor in the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, both presented lectures on the topic at the 9th International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases, held Oct. 21-26 in Lexington, Ky.

Veterinarians have long suspected the relationship between coronavirus and enteric disease (intestinal issues, characterized by diarrhea and fever, among other clinical signs) in foals. However Vin relayed that a recent major outbreak in adult horses was reported in Japan in 2011. There, 132 horses, aged 2 to 4 years, residing at a draft horse racetrack that housed about 600 animals, developed fever and diarrhea that persisted for two to four days. The clinical signs were self-limiting (most cleared up in a few days), and the outbreak lasted only a fewmonths, Vin said.

Japanese researchers were able to isolate and identify a strain of coronavirus from affected horses that was closely related to the first coronavirus strain isolated from a sick horse from North Carolina.

Five separate coronavirus outbreaks occurred at boarding stables in the United States from November 2011 to August 2012. Pusterla reported that the outbreaks--which occurred in California, Texas, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts--involved mainly adult horses ranging in age from 1 year to 39 years. A total of 75 horses (12 to 16 at each premises) developed clinical signs during the outbreaks. Sporadically, additional cases were reported from 11 states, Vin said.

Pusterla relayed that the most commonly reported clinical signs associated with the outbreak included anorexia in 65 horses, lethargy in 58 horses, and fever in 43 horses.


On the petition of the receivers, the cause was removed into the Circuit Court of the United States for the *61 Eastern District of Texas. Subsequently the railway properties were returned to the Kansas company, and in the fall of 1891 that company transferred its lines of railroad to a new corporation, styled the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company of Texas. The receivers were finally discharged in the month of July, 1892. In August, 1893, service was had on the Texas company under a second amended petition, in which the Texas company was made a co-defendant with the receivers, its liability to the plaintiff being asserted to arise from the terms of the order of the Circuit Court directing the receiver to surrender the property to theKansas company, and upon the provisions of a special act of the legislature of Texas authorizing the sale by the Kansas company of its properties and subjecting the purchaser to the payment of all the liabilities of the Kansas company. Demurrers to the jurisdiction as also to the merits of the amended petition were filed and overruled, and an answer was interposed by the Texas company, which was adopted by the receivers, by way of amendment, the latter then setting up for the first time their discharge in bar of further proceedings.
The cause was tried upon the issues made by the second amended petition and the answers thereto, and a verdict was returned against the Texas company for the sum of $7500. By direction of the court, the


amended petition, filed more than a year after the injury was sustained, it was alleged that the roadbed and track at the place and time where and when the derailment happened were in a defective and unsafe condition.
It was also specifically stated that the pleadings of the plaintiff contained no allegation that any betterments had been put upon the road by the receivers while they were in charge, and that at the trial no evidence was offered on the subject.
The assignments of error reiterated in various forms the objections taken prior to the trial to the sufficiency of the second amended complaint, also the objections taken to the refusal of the trial court to sustain exceptions to its jurisdiction based upon the fact that the plaintiff and theTexas company were citizens of the same State, and that the action had abated by the discharge of the receiver, and objections raised by the plea of the statute of limitations. The fifth assignment of error was to the refusal of the court to return a verdict for the defendants, among other reasons, because the plaintiff did not allege or prove that earnings had been applied by the receivers to betterments upon the road, or that the road had been returned to the Kansas company enhanced in value by said betterments. The questions propounded read as follows:
"I. Under the facts of the case, as shown by the pleadings and hereinbefore recited, was the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company of Texas properly made a co-defendant with the receivers


Can The U.S. Aid Protesters in Iran?

The "green movement" protesters at the center of unrest in Iran are seen as liberal, pro-democracy and friendly to
America and the West. As protests and the Iranian government's backlash
continue to escalate,
many in the U.S. are searching for how America can best help the
protesters in their cause. Iran's leadership, Grand Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, have been the target of
much pressure from the West, which seeks to halt Iran's growing nuclear
program. Sanctions have been under discussion since the discovery
of an Iranian nuclear weapons program in September. But leaders of
Iran's green movement still join with Khamenei in protesting sanctions.
Is there anything the U.S. can do?

U.S. Intervention Harms Protesters The Washington Note's Steve Clemons cautions, "The United States needs to be very cautious --Sonja got completely hammered during the ladies trip to Saratoga and was quick to get in poor Kristen's face when she came to make nice. Minus 25.

But were the ladies to blame for Sonja's foul mood? They did, in fact, leave Sonja behind at the racetrack, even though they knew she'd had too much to drink?

LuAnn had sent Sonja a text message but I hope they'd send more than one or else that's definitely breaking the girl code. You never leave a drunk girl behind. Minus 42.

On the up side, the hats for race day were lovely. Plus 10.

Even with Sonja sloppy drunk, Saratoga was still far more civilized than what was happening back in Manhattan.

Aviva threw her father an engagement party at The Museum of Sex. Plus


Multiple Mavericks sources said the franchise fired longtime team photographer Danny Bollinger on Friday, less than 24 hours after The News published a story online detailing sexual harassment allegations made against him by five women.

Sources said the Mavericks opened an investigation into Bollinger about two weeks ago, days after the Sept. 19 release of 43-page report on a seven-month investigation into sexual harassment within the Mavericks' business offices.

Neither Bollinger, nor descriptions of his alleged behavior, were mentioned in the report. Sources said the Mavericks began investigating Bollinger when several employees stepped forward with allegations against him.

Dallas Mavericks photographer Danny Bollinger is pictured during Dallas Mavericks Media Day at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Friday, September 21, 2018. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

Fourformer female Mavericks employees, who spoke to The News on the condition of anonymity, said Bollinger had a history of propositioning female co-workers and making lewd comments in the workplace.

While the Mavericks investigation was in its early stages, Bollinger accompanied the Mavericks to China for their eight-day, two-exhibition-game trip. But sources said when the investigation yielded evidence of inappropriate behavior, Bollinger was told to return late Thursday.

The was the same evening in which The News' story appeared online. Sources said Bollinger was fired upon his return and meeting with some of the Mavericks' executive leadership on Friday. News of his firing was announced to employees.

Bollinger, 50, had worked in the Mavericks' marketing department for more than 18 years, spanning Mark Cuban's ownership. A friend of Cuban's since the


Sam Sturt has passed the first hurdle to earning his debut after senior coach Justin Longmuir confirmed he would play against Essendon on Saturday at Marvel Stadium.

The 19-year-old was told the news to the cheers of his teammates after training at Optus Stadium on Wednesday.

At the time, the players were nervously awaiting news on whether round one would still go ahead, with the AFL later that evening confirming the league would endeavour to play the opening round.

Longmuir also confirmed new recruit James Aish was set to play his first game for the club.

“The best thing I get to do as a coach is to welcome new people to the footy club and offer opportunity,” Longmuir told the group.

“And ‘Aishey’ will play his first game for the club thisto around 1 million barrels per day by 2023, from 1.4 million now.

Global refining capacity is also set to increase up to 2023, according to an IEA report published in March. The biggest rise is coming from the Middle East, where national oil companies are venturing into international markets, it said.

Petrochemicals, in particular, are projected to be the fastest-growing source of the increase in oil demand in the coming years, the IEA said. It is driven by economic growth, as rising incomes in developing countries push up demand for consumer goods such as food preservatives, fertilisers and lubricants for automotive and industrial operations.

BP, similarly, expects global demand for liquid fuels to go up by around 13 million barrels per day up to 2040, if climate policies and clean


technologies continue their recent progress. The growth will wane and plateau towards the end of the period, the oil major said in its 2018 energy outlook report.

The downstream industry’s rise began with the collapse in crude oil prices from 2014. Refineries use crude oil to produce petrochemicals, diesel and jet fuel, heating oil and other products, so the cheaper the feedstock, the wider the profit margins.

As a result of low oil prices up to late 2017, integrated oil majors such as Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Exxon Mobil saw their refining business jump while exploration and production suffered. Investments in new oil and gas supply projects around the world slumped by about 25 percent in 2015 and 2016, and remained flat in 2017, according to the IEA.

But whilegrowth in mind, there is a marked realisation in the industry that it needs to keep up to date with technological advances.

National oil companies in the United Arab Emirates, in particular, are looking to form joint ventures with international oil companies to share and expand on skills, knowledge and technology.

For Middle Eastern exporters, a free trade agreement between the European Union and Gulf countries would make petrochemicals exports even more profitable. For now, however, the liberalisation of trade between the two remains a far-off hope. The EU and Gulf Cooperation Council started negotiating the deal in 1990, but effectively halted talks in 2008.

In the meantime, Abu Dhabi is shifting its attention downstream, including at the Abu Dhabi International Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) this November.

The event will host a


is regarded as a “Pure Woman”, despite being the mother of an illegitimate child as well as a murderer and adulterer, is what would have been seen as a very adverse viewpoint. Hardy verbally defended Tess’ purity in an 1892 interview, attributing her outwardly-appearing downfalls as whims of fate and buffeted by external circumstances:

I still maintain that her innate purity remained intact to the very last; though I frankly own that a certain outward purity left her on her last fall. I regarded her then as being in the hands of circumstances, not morally responsible, a mere corpse drifting with the current to her end.
As cited and further elaborated on by Merryn Williams in Thomas Hardy and Rural England, p. 91.

However, Hardy unashamedly defends this by furtherTwenty years after the Chernobyl accident: solid cancer incidence in various groups of the Ukrainian population.
Several major international studies such as those performed on the A-bomb survivors, have shown a clear linkage between the exposure to ionizing radiation and the occurrence of various cancer types including leukemia. While these studies are mostly characterized by high dose rates, studies on populations exposed after the Chernobyl accident are in most cases characterized by low dose rates which are typical for occupational radiation protection. Here, data on more than 60,000 Ukrainian workers who participated in recovery operation works in Chernobyl in 1986-1987, more than 50,000 evacuees from the city of Prypyat and the 30 km zone, and about 360,000 residents of most contaminated territories are presented, which cover a period of


met an "exciting prospect" on the net. The chats started soon and, about three months later, the "boy and girl" decided to meet.

A day was fixed, a time set and a restaurant agreed upon. It was an old favourite at the Aub Khan crossing in Bareilly. But when the hour arrived, and as luck would have it, the two were aghast to find out that they had in fact been chatting with each other.

Needless to say, an argument broke out immediately, much to the amusement of guests and staffers at the eatery. It soon escalated into something the onlookers could not handle. Cops were called in to intervene. However, cops who had rushed in to mollify the two realised there was actually no sections the fighting duo couldsam. I don't think metatron's laundry list of dean's sins were just to remind all of us or dean his part he played. I think there was a reason for that. I think the moc is feeding off of dean's self loathing. and I think part of the reason he's so angry at himself is because of what he did to sam. I get that he did it out of love. it wasn't the saving that was the big issue for sam. it was the lying. had dean spilled the beans when sam admitted he believed something was wrong with him, dean would've found out sooner that gad wasn't who he said he was. though kevin most likely would've met his end, it very well might not have


In many of the screen shots of the eps I swear he looks a foot taller than Dean!

So I was just thinking about your awesome review and how the relationship between Sam and Dean has shifted this year. I remembered how in Sacrifice he asked his brother who Dean was going to turn to the next time he was in trouble, and it was obvious that Sam didn't think Dean believed in him, would ever turn to him.

This feeling of unworthiness I think attributed to Sam's decision that the world was better off without him, and certainly no better off with him, in season 9.

Now Dean is in more trouble than he's ever been in. And the person that he is leaning on, the person he is counting1. Field
Embodiments of the present invention are apparatus and methods for preventing ice blockage of a sump pump discharge line. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for securing to an external discharge line of a sump pump to prevent ice blockage at the discharge line.
2. Related Art
Buildings that employ a sump pump assembly commonly have a discharge line comprising a pipe or other conduit. The discharge line is connected at one end to the sump pump assembly, such as one internally housed in a building. An other end of the line, referred to herein as the “discharge end,” discharges to a location external to the building. In many buildings, the line is fed to an opening formed in an external or outside wall of


the building, and the discharge end of the line terminates at the opening in the building. Thus, water from the sump pump is discharged via the line to a location external to the building.
In cold weather climates, the water being discharged from the line has a tendency to freeze in and around the line. As the water freezes, it builds up ice in and around the discharge end of the discharge line at the opening in the building. The ice buildup becomes larger and larger until the opening at the discharge end is at least partially covered with ice. This ice buildup then adversely affects the operating efficiency of the discharge line. In some cases, the buildup will be so great that the discharge line is not operableto expel the water to the external location. For example, the ice may actually cover the discharge end of the line. As such, the water from the sump pump has nowhere to drain, which results in water damage to the building's basement where the sump pump is located and to the sump pump itself when pumping against an ice blockage.


The Banyamulenge form a minority of the South Kivu population. Rival ethnic groups in the late 1990s claimed the Banyamulenge numbered no more than 35,000, while the Banyamulenge sympathizers claim up to ten times that number. The population of Banyamulenge in the early 21st century is estimated at between 50,000 and 70,000 by René Lemarchand[1] or by Gérard Prunier at around 60,000–80,000, a figure about 3–4 percent of the total provincial population.[2][3]

Lemarchand notes that the group represents "a rather unique case of ethnogenesis." The Banyamulenge of South Kivu are culturally and socially distinct from the Tutsis of North Kivu and the Tutsis who fled to South Kivu in the 1959–1962 Rwandan revolution. Most Banyamulenge speak Kinyarwanda, and those that do speak it with a dialect different from otherTutsi groups.[1] The ambiguous political and social position of the Banyamulenge has been a point of contention in the province, leading to the Banyamulenge playing a key role in the run-up to the First Congo War in 1996–7 and Second Congo War of 1998–2003.

Compared to the history of the Banyamasisi, composed of Hutu and Tutsis Rwandophone in North Kivu, the history of Banyamulenge is relatively straightforward. The first arrival of Banyarwanda from Rwanda may have occurred in the seventeenth century.[4] However, the first significant recorded influx of Banyarwanda into South Kivu is dated to the 1880s.[5][6] Two reasons are given. The first is that the migrants were composed of Tutsi trying to avoid the increasingly high taxes imposed by MwamiRwabugiri of the Kingdom of Rwanda. The second is


that the group was fleeing the violent war of succession that erupted after the death of Rwabugiri in 1895.[7] This group was mostly Tutsi and their Hutu abagaragu (clients) had been icyihuture (turned Tutsi), which negated interethnic tension. They settled above the Ruzizi Plain on the Itombwe Plateau. The plateau, which reached an altitude of 3000 meters, could not support large-scale agriculture, but allowed cattle grazing.[5]

Banyarwanda migrants continued to arrive, particularly as labour migrants during the colonial period. The first of these was a recruitment by the Union Minière du Haut Katanga from 1925 to 1929 of more than 7000 workers. From the 1930s, Congolese Banyarwanda immigrants continued coming in search of work, with a major influx of Tutsi refugees in 1959–1960 following the "Social Revolution" led byHutu Grégoire Kayibanda. While the early migrants were primarily pastoralists in the high plains, colonial labour migrants moved to urban areas, while refugees found themselves in refugee camps.[8] In 1924, the pastoralists received permission from colonial authorities to occupy a high plateau further south.[7] The groups received further influxes during the anti-Tutsi persecutions in 1959, 1964 and 1973.[9] Many Banyamulenge initially joined the Simba Rebellion of 1964–5, but switched sides when rebels, fleeing Jean Schramme's mercenaries and government troops, came onto the plateau and began killing the Banyarwanda's cattle for food. The Tutsi then rose up, accepting weapons from the pro-Mobutu Sese Seko forces and assisting in the defeat of the remaining rebels. Because many of the rebels so killed were from the neighbouring Bembe people, this incident


created a lasting source of intragroup tension.[9] The government rewarded the Banyamulenge's efforts on its behalf by rewarding individuals with high positions in the capital Bukavu, while their children were increasingly sent to missionary schools. Starting at this time, Lemarchand asserts, "From a rural, isolated, backward community, the Banyamulenge would soon become increasingly aware of themselves as a political force."[1]

After the war, the group took advantage of a favourable political environment to expand. Some went south towards Moba port and Kalemi, while others moved onto the Ruzizi plain, where a few became chiefs among the Barundi through gifts of cattle. Still others went to work in the Bukavu, the provincial capital, or Uvira, a town experiencing a gold rush economic boom. These urban dwellers were able to makea fair living selling meat and milk from their herds to the gold diggers, though the group lacked the political connections to Kinshasa and the large educated class that the North Kivu Banyarwanda possessed.[10]

Unlike the Barundi, the Banyarwanda of South Kivu did not have their own Native Authority and they were thus reliant upon the local chiefs of the area that they had settled. The pastoralists were located within three territoires: Mwenga, inhabited by the Lega people; Fizi of the Bembe people; and Uvira, inhabited by the Vira people, Bafuliro and Barundi.[11] The term "Banyamulenge" translates literally as "people of Mulenge", a groupement on the Itombwe plateau.[12] The name "Banyamulenge" was chosen in the early 1970s to avoid being called "Banyarwanda" and seen as foreigners.[10] Ethnic tensions against


Tutsi rose following the end of the colonial period, as well as the 1972 mass killing of Hutu in Burundi. In response the Tutsi appear to have attempted to distance themselves from their ethnicity as Rwandans and lay claim to a territorial identity as residents of Mulenge. As they moved, they continued this practice, so that some Tutsi Banyarwanda in South Kivu call themselves the Banya-tulambo and Banya-minembwe, after the places they were located.[12]

These practices were increasingly more controversial after 1971. The 1971 Citizenship Decree by President Mobutu Sese Seko granted citizenship to Banyarwanda who had arrived as refugees from 1959 to 1963. However, many saw this as an alarming sign of the growing influence of Banyarwanda in the administration, specifically Chief of Staff Barthélémy Bisengimana.[13] In 1976,the word "Banyamulenge" first came into wide usage after Gisaro Muhazo, a South Kivutian minister of parliament, began an initiative to regroup the Banyamulenge of Mwenga, Fizi and Uvira into a single administrative entity. Muhazo's attempt failed, but the term he introduced remained and, over decades, became a catchall label for Kivutian Tutsis.[1]

In reaction to the apparently growing influence of the Banyamulenge, the majority ethnicities, particularly the Nande and Hunde of North Kivu, focused on dominating the 1977 legislative elections. Once accomplished, they passed the 1981 Citizenship Bill, stating that only people who could prove descent from someone resident in Congo in 1885 would qualify for citizenship. From the perspective of the "indigenous" ethnicities, such as the Bafuliro, the name "Banyamulenge" was thus a claim to indigeneity in


Mulenge, of which the Bafuliro themselves claimed "ownership". However, the bill proved difficult to implement by the time of the 1985 provincial assembly elections, so the "indigenous" Kivutian majority came up with an ad hoc measure: Banyarwanda were allowed vote in elections but not run for political office. This appeared to aggravate the situation as those Banyarwanda who actually qualified as citizens under the 1981 law found their political rights curtailed. The response of some Banyarwanda, particularly Tutsi, was to smash ballot boxes in protest.[14] Others formed Umoja, an organisation of all Congolese Banyarwanda. However, the increasingly tensions within the Banyarwanda led to the division of the organisation into two Tutsi and Hutu groups in 1988.[13]

The 1991 Sovereign National Conference (CNS) was a sign of the increasing coherenceof the anti-Mobutu forces and came as the Congolese Banyarwanda were in a state of heightened tension. Following the beginning of the Rwandan Civil War in 1990, many young Tutsi men in Kivu decided to cross the border to join the Tutsi-dominated rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in its fight against the Hutu-dominated Rwandan government. In response, the Mobutu government implemented Mission d'Identification de Zaïrois au Kivu to identify non-Zairean Banyarwanda, using the end of the Berlin Conference as the division point. Many Banyarwanda whose families had come as colonial labourers were classified as aliens, resulting in yet more youth joining the RPF. The overall effect of the CNS was to strengthen the tendency of "indigenous" Congolese to differentiate between Tutsi from Hutu, and lump together all Tutsi


Banyarwanda as "Banyamulenge". It also underlined the fragility of their political position to the Banyamulenge. Within the Banyarwanda in the Kivus, the Hutu began defining themselves as "indigenous" in comparison to the Tutsis, who were increasingly seen as owing their allegiance to the foreign groups.[15]

In 1993, the issue of land and indigenous claims in the Kivus erupted into bloody conflict. Hutu, and some Tutsi, landlords began buying the lands of poor Hutu and Bahunde of the Wanyangachiefdom in Masisi, North Kivu. After being displaced, one thousand people went to Walikale, demanding the right to elect their own ethnic leaders. The Banyanga, insisting that only "indigenous people" could claim this customary right, began fighting with the Hutu.

The one thousand returned to Masisi, where the Hutu landlords, and Banyarwanda ingeneral, supported the claim of Banyarwanda to "indigenous" rights. The government sent in the Division Spéciale Présidentielle (DSP) and Guard Civile to restore order. Ill-supplied, the security forces were forced to live off the local population: the DSP off the rich Hutu and the Guard Civile off the Bahunde and ordinary Hutu. The DSP appeared to be protecting the rights of the "non-indigenous" (primarily Hutu) against the "indigenous" (primarily Bahunde), sparking outrage and increasing the scope of the conflict. One estimate is that between 10,000 and 20,000 people were killed; another 200,000 people were forced to flee their homes.[16]

In late 1993, about 50,000 Burundian refugees from the Burundi Civil War began streaming into primarily South Kivu. They were followed the next year by almost one million mostly Hutu


refugees from the Rwandan Genocide, creating the Great Lakes refugee crisis. The Hutu government responsible for the genocide came with the refugees; they turned the camps into armed bases from which they could launch attacks against the newly victorious RPF government in Rwanda. The influx of refugees dramatically changed the situation of the Banyamulenge.

The Congolese Tutsi in North Kivu were threatened by the new armed Hutu camps, while the newly established Tutsi government in Rwanda gave them a safe place to go. Their peril was underlined by a commission led by Mambweni Vangu, who declared that all Banyarwanda were refugees and must return to Rwanda. In April 1995, Anzuluni Mbembe, the co-speaker of the Parliament of Congo, signed a resolution stating that all Banyamulenge were recent refugees (regardlessof how long they had lived in the Congo) and providing a list of Banyamulenge who would be expelled from the country. Between March and May 1996, the remaining Tutsi in Masisi and Rutshuru were identified and expelled into refugee camps in Gisenyi. The Bahunde, forced out by the Hutu, also took refuge there.[17]

The situation in South Kivu took longer to develop. Once the 1994 refugees arrived, local authorities began appropriating Banyamulenge-owned property in the valley with the support of Mbembe. Threatened by both the armed Hutus to the north and a Congolese army appropriating property and land, the Banyamulenge of South Kivu sought cross-border training and supply of arms from the RPF. As threats proliferated, each Native Authority formed its own militia. Finally, in November 1996, the


RPF-backed Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL), which the Banyamulenge militias joined, crossed the border and dismantled the camps, before continuing on to Kinshasa and overthrowing Mobutu.[18] The ranks of the AFDL were composed in large part by Banyamulenge, who filled most of the administrative positions in South Kivu after the fall of Bukavu.[19]

As documented in the DRC Mapping Exercise Report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the success of the invasion led to revenge killings by the Tutsi Banyarwanda against their opponents. Perhaps six thousand Hutu were purged in the week following the AFDL capture of the town.[18] It was worse in South Kivu, as Banyamulenge settled local scores and RPF soldiers appeared to conflate the génocidairesthe Second Congo War in 1998. Those who had carried out the massacres of Hutu became part of the ruling military forces in the Kivus. Meanwhile, the Congolese government of Laurent Kabila urged the "indigenous" population to fight not only the invading RPF, but the rebelling Banyamulenge and Tutsi civilians. Matching actions to words, Kabila armed "indigenous" Mai-Mai and Congolese Hutu in response to the RPF's supplying arms to the Banyamulenge.[21] The two Mai-Mai groups most active against the Banyamulenge are the Babembe and Barega militias.[citation needed]

The various Banyamulenge militias and the Rwandan government forces are separate. In early 2002, extensive fighting took place on the high plateau of South Kivu after Commandant Patrick Masunzu, an ethnic Munyamulenge in the Rwandan-backed Rally for Congolese Democracy-Goma (RCD-Goma) rebel movement,


The Scariest Thing About Cybersecurity Is How Unprepared We Are

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Once relegated to the opaque realm of IT geeks and reclusive white-hat hackers, the idea of cybersecurity became ubiquitous in 2013, permeating the way we think about national security, foreign policy, and our own safety and privacy. In many respects, the trend was inevitable—the logical expansion of a dark cyber underworld that has thrived on hidden sites and in secret government offices since the early days of the internet.

But for most of the unassuming public, the emergence of cyber threats has been sudden and pervasive, with each wave of credit card data thefts, national security leaks, and Silk Road arrests making it clear that the full spectrum of illicit activities—from intellectual property theft to drug dealing, bank robbery, andindia

Updated: Oct 17, 2019 01:00 IST

The Yogi Adityanath government is leaving nothing to chance for a ‘grander’ Deepotsav (festival of earthen lamps) celebration in Ayodhya on the Diwali eve on October 26. Among the attractions this time is an attempt to create a new world record by lighting over five lakh earthen lamps in the city. Emerging details of the mega event coincide with the Supreme Court completing the hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land title dispute on Thursday

The district administration is aiming to break the last year’s record of 300,100 earthen lamps lit on the banks of the Saryu river by lighting 550,000 earthen lamps across the pilgrim town. A team from the Guinness Book of World Records will be present to document the feat.

Ayodhya district


magistrate Anuj Kumar Jha said, “This year, diyas (earthen lamps) will be lit not only at Ram Ki Paidi (on the banks of the Saryu river), but across the city. We have made elaborate arrangements to make Deepotsav grander than last year.”

The three-day celebrations will start on October 24 and will include Ramlila performances by groups from Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, Surinam and Mauritius.

While 400,000 earthen lamps will be lit at the banks of the river Saryu, another 150,000 will be illuminated at major religious places across the city. All government-run primary and higher secondary schools in Ayodhya will also be lit up with diyas, along with the police stations and outposts.

Local seers have been roped in to help light the lamps at hundreds of temples located in theLucky 7 Review: Gas Station Employees Hit The Jackpot In ABC's New Drama

Who hasn't daydreamed about winning the lotto? But there's something particularly special about a workplace lotto pool, as it merges the dreams of a group of coworkers into a common goal: to win millions of dollars and probably quit as soon as possible. ABC's new drama Lucky 7 plays with that concept as a group of gas station employees hit the jackpot when their numbers finally come up. Of course, there's more to the story than money, as each of these characters has their own personal issues, some more complicated than others.

Based on a British series called The Syndicate and written by David Zabel and Jason Richman, Lucky 7's pilot episode focuses mostly on the plights


makes seven. "Lucky 7" could refer to the winning number, but it's just as likely that the title refers to the characters, which could indicate better fortune for the frugal Antonio down the line.

The pilot divides itself a bit unevenly between the various gas station employees, giving us a quick introduction to each of them and demonstrating their varying need for money as well as offering some indication of what else they have going on in their lives. On one hand, the pilot feels crammed with character information, as it attempts to divide itself between these seven characters, which makes the pilot feel cluttered. But on the other hand, I like that this story starts before the lottery win, as it gives us some sense of who theseResurgent Wolves provided the perfect response to a turbulent week after crushing Bristol City to end their nine-match winless run.

Resurgent Wolves provided the perfect response to a turbulent week after crushing Bristol City to end their nine-match winless run.

Man of the match Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (21), Kevin Doyle (25 and 41) and Bjorn Sigurdarson (45) banished all talk of players and manager Stale Solbakken's debate by half-time in their best 45 minutes of the season.

Derek McInnes' poor side were booed off at the break to chants of 'what a load of rubbish', just like Wolves were after Tuesday's 1-0 defeat to Millwall.

In a chance-laden second half – with virtually all of them going to Wolves – City bagged a consolation through Neil Danns in the 85th minute.

The only downside


to Wolves' biggest victory since beating Blackpool 4-0 in February 25 2011 and their heaviest away since a 4-1 win at Leicester on May 6, 2007 was the worrying sight of midfielder Dave Edwards being stretchered off in the 60th minute with a mystery injury away from the ball.

The Wales international became Wolves' 10th casualty currently out.

Solbakken made three changes.

Kevin Foley, captain Karl Henry and Ebanks-Blake replaced Richard Stearman, David Davis and Jermaine Pennant, who all dropped to the bench.

Ebanks-Blake fully justified his recall with his best game for many months, having a hand in all four goals, but Doyle and Sigurdarson were worthy man of the match contenders.

Tongo Doumbia missed out on a place in the 18 after he was sent to France on a special trainingprogramme to rid him of mental and physical fatigue.

Wolves looked the better side from early on and should have been ahead as early as the fourth minute, but Ebanks-Blake stabbed wide from six yards out after Bakary Sako's cross.

But Ebanks-Blake and Wolves didn't have too long to wait as they took the lead with the next attack of the game and were 2-0 up four minutes later.

The striker flicked home Stephen Ward's stunning 18-yard volley in a crowded box after City partly cleared Sako's corner.

Doyle doubled Wolves' lead when he slid in to convert Bjorn Sigurdarson's cross after Ebanks-Blake started the move with a pass to the Icelandic forward overlapping on the right and he drew keeper Tom Heaton before crossing.

Doyle's second was arguably the best goal he


for his shot to be cleared away from in front of the line by Matthew Bates.

Moments later his shot hit Heaton's legs with Ebanks-Blake and Sigurdarson waiting for a pass in the box.

To City's credit though, they carried the fight to Wolves and created half chances, one-time Wolves target Marvin Elliott firing just over from 20 yards before Danns forced a falling save from Ikeme with a sidefooted effort.

With the game becoming increasingly open, Wolves hit back and should have added several goals to their tally.

Sako stung the palms of Heaton with an angled drive before Roger Johnson sent a looping header against the bar with Heaton beaten.

Substitute Sam Baldock flashed a rising effort over before three chances for Ebanks-Blake in 10 minutes.

First the striker's drive was palmedframed his pumped-up shoulders and biceps, she caught her breath. Everyone in the group said “hey” and Rachel offered him a cold drink, but his focus had remained on her. He slid his sunglasses on top of his head and nodded in her direction.

Legs remembered his gaze meeting hers before his attention strayed to her gold and black bikini then savored every inch of her skin. An appreciative smirk curled his lips and desire flashed in his beautiful blue eyes. He took a long pull of the soft drink someone handed him and then set the can down on the patio table. He looked her way and said, “Want to go for a ride?” The invitation came out like a dare.

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Adele Downs writes contemporary romance novels, some


with a touch of magic, inside the office of her rural Pennsylvania home. She is a former journalist, published in newspapers and magazines inside the USA, UK, and Caribbean.

Adele is an active member of Romance Writers of America and her local RWA chapter where she serves as a past-president. She has written several articles for RWR magazine (Romance Writers Report) and has presented workshops for writers.

When Adele isn’t working on her current project, she can be found riding in her convertible or reading a book on the nearest beach.Steven Gerrard believes input from Dr Steve Peters will give England's players an edge at the World Cup finals after Roy Hodgson confirmed the renowned sports psychiatrist is to join his backroom staff for the summer's tournament in Brazil.

Peters, who is credited as a major influence in the success enjoyed by Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton with British Cycling, has an impressive portfolio of clients, including Team Sky, UK Athletics and the five-times world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. Peters has been employed by Liverpool on a one-day-per-week basis since November 2012 and will take up his duties with the national side before the friendly against Peru in May.

Hodgson has effectively confirmed Leighton Baines will be his first-choice left-back in Brazil, with Ashley Cole and Luke Shaw, the


latter on his debut, both to be granted game-time in Wednesday's friendly against Denmark in the Evertonian's absence. Gerrard will captain the side against the Danes and has used Peters since undergoing surgery on a groin injury in the spring of 2011.

While the focus will inevitably be drawn towards the impact the psychiatrist may have on England's prospects in penalty shootouts, the Liverpool midfielder believes the new addition to the staff can be influential in all areas if team-mates "buy into" his approach."He's really helped me, not so much with the technical side of the game but with what's going on in my head and the mental preparation," said Gerrard.

"I had a groin avulsion, which is where your groin muscle comes off the bone, and it's a career-threateningteam's final game before they leave first for Miami and then Rio, with the sports scientist and former rugby union coach Dave Reddin, now the Football Association's head of performance services, also to be part of his backroom staff in Brazil. They will be joined by a nutritionist and another fitness coach.

Hodgson and Adrian Bevington, the managing director of Club England, met Peters on Sunday evening to discuss his involvement, having been given the green light by Liverpool to utilise his services.

"It is important I don't heap too much pressure on him and suggest we will now be better at a World Cup, and suddenly we will never miss a penalty or no player will ever get sent off or lose his temper," said the manager. "But, from


works. So he will be around us to get some sort of relationship with the players and persuade them: 'Listen, if we work together and I give you the benefit of my expertise, it can help you.'"

Brailsford has described Peters in the past as a "genius" and both Pendleton and Hoy claimed he had contributed heavily to their Olympic successes. While at Liverpool Peters has helped such as Jordan Henderson, who is set to start for England against Denmark, come through difficult periods in his fledgling career to demonstrate his quality. The midfielder will be joined in the starting line-up against the Danes by his club-mates Daniel Sturridge and Glen Johnson, who gains his 50th cap, and Raheem Sterling is likely to begin on the flank.

Cole is expectedto start, gaining his 107th cap, although Hodgson will scrutinise both his and Shaw's displays, having indicated Baines is currently first choice in his thinking. The West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper Ben Foster will most likely replace Joe Hart at half-time, with Kyle Walker the only member of Hodgson's 30-man squad out of contention. The Tottenham Hotspur right-back is still suffering from a hip injury that will keep him out for another week.


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"Two years, seven months — that's how long it's been," Bunch said. "That's a long time."

Judge Henry Kantor said he would rule in about two weeks. Terri Horman, who lives in Roseburg, did not attend the hearing.

Kyron Horman was last seen at Skyline School on June 4, 2010. His stepmother had driven him there for a science fair.

Kaine Horman filed for divorce 24 days later, shortly after investigators told him that six months earlier he had been the target of a murder-for-hire plot discussed by Terri Horman and a landscaper. He has had sole custody of their daughter since then.


Independent Journalist, Mike Cernovich had a phone conference live on air with GotNews founder, Chuck Johnson when he broke the news that Sean Hannity and Blackwater founder, Erik Prince were being spied on by the Obama administration.

Per Chuck Johnson—– Sean Hannity and Erik Prince, Blackwater founder, were spied on by the Obama administration.

This on the heels of the news that Blackwater founder, Erik Prince had a secret meeting in the Seychelles to establish a so-called ‘Trump-Putin back channel’, according to leftist media.

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Update: Sean Hannity responded to the news…RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani man for heroin smuggling, the twelfth person from Pakistan to be executed in the kingdom for drug trafficking since mid-October.

They are among 85 foreigners and Saudis put to death this year in the oil-rich kingdom, according to an estimated tally.

Saudi Arabia has one of the world's highest execution tolls.

The sentence against Ismail Khan Sayed was carried out in Eastern Province after his conviction for smuggling “a large amount” of heroin, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

Read: Saudi Arabia beheads sixth Pakistani in three weeks

In addition to amphetamines and other drugs, Saudi authorities seized almost 18 kilogrammes of raw heroin during the Islamic calendar year that ended in October, according to the Interior


as the mortgagor's primary residence and the mortgage secures a loan for personal, family or household use, the mortgagee may not accelerate maturity of the unpaid balance of the obligation or otherwise enforce the mortgage because of a default consisting of the mortgagor's failure to make any required payment, tax payment or insurance premium payment, by any method authorized by this chapter until at least 30 days after the date that written notice is given by the mortgagee to the mortgagor and any cosigner against whom the mortgagee is enforcing the obligation secured by the mortgage at the last known addresses of the mortgagor and any cosigner that the mortgagor has the right to cure the default by full payment of all amounts that are due without acceleration,“home party” from the June 25, 1842, treaty with the Orchard Party, who chose not to leave the State of New York under the Treaty of Buffalo Creek in 1838. He still owns the land known only as “lot two and three” and the burial grounds, he is the last remaining of the full-blooded Oneida’s.

In all essence it’s less than 100 acres of farmland that Mr. Phillips is protecting, the story lies in what exactly the state and the Oneida Indian Nation plan on doing with Mr. Phillips property. New York Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney is also Melvin Phillips attorney and has been working pro-bono (for free) for Phillips for ten years now (she is also currently running for Congress). Tenney appeared on our friend IronSkin’s podcast (SportsArena) on


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1997 and terminated his employment in June 1998. During that period, Evans became
romantically involved with Andrea Buchanan, Plastene’s payroll clerk. In early 1998,
Buchanan and Evans devised a scheme to cash false payroll checks and keep the
proceeds. This scheme continued until February 2002, when Plastene discovered that
Evans and Buchanan had embezzled approximately $1.8 million.

        After Plastene discovered the scheme, Buchanan pleaded guilty to one count of
income tax fraud and one count of uttering a forged instrument, and she agreed to
testify against Evans. During jury selection, the district court asked the prospective
jurors whether they would have trouble believing witnesses who were cooperating
withMass. Sen. Tarr throws his support to Kasich

Ohio Gov. John Kasich as he announces his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in July. (AP file photo/John Minchillo)

BOSTON — Bruce Tarr, the top Republican in the Massachusetts Senate, on Friday endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich for the GOP presidential nomination.

Tarr, the Senate minority leader from Gloucester who has served in the upper chamber since 1995, said Kasich’s 18 years of experience on the Armed Services Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives would help “guide us to a new and stable place in a turbulent and dangerous world.”

“Now more than ever, voters in New England and across the country need a leader with the temperament and executive experience to make America strong again,” Tarr said in a statement


More than one-quarter of all the energy consumed in Sweden in 2004 came from renewable sources—more than four times as much as the European Union average of 6 percent. In the capital, Stockholm, one-quarter of city buses run on ethanol or biogas.

In 2006 the Swedish government pledged to become the world's first oil-free country by 2020.

Win-Win Business

Sweden has among the highest prices of alcohol in Europe, and many Swedes travel to neighboring Germany and Denmark to stock up on cheap beer, wine, and spirits.

But traders bringing alcohol into Sweden who exceed the maximum amount allowed can have their goods confiscated.Category: Politics

Labour Leader’s come and go. All are criticised by senior members of their party at one time or another – one a pacifist, another a war-monger. This one too right wing, that one too left wing. One former leader was even expelled for refusing to leave the the 1918 coalition.

But never did I expect to hear that a senior Labour MP would tell a Leader of the Labour Party to his face, in public, “you are an anti-Semitic racist.” When the news broke whilst I was at a dinner party (sorry Owen Jones) with friends and comrades last evening it was a jaw-dropping moment. The predictable, vile, backlash against Margaret Hodge took just a few minutes to gather momentum, but no-one seemed to be asking the main


to discover a universal definition of anti-Semitism. Unsurprisingly there were many suggestions – depending on the community in question – but what was universal was that anti-Semitism must be defined by those who suffer it. This should be non-controversial, as it is with other people who have faced discrimination, persecution or worse because of their gender, or race or other protected characteristic. The production of the IHRA definition and examples in May 2016 brought some consensus to the debate and the IHRA definition has been adopted by many countries and international organisations, including the United States Senate and State Department, and the European Parliament (remember them) as well as the UK Government and many local authorities across the UK. And, until yesterday, the Labour Party.

So why is thishired before action could be taken.

Instead, and to borrow an unfortunate phrase used highly inappropriately elsewhere, a hostile environment was created, making it clear if you were a member of Militant you were not welcome as a member of the Labour Party. Speech after speech by the Leadership of the Party, a handful of high profile expulsions, including those of two MPs, and action by local constituency parties supported by the NEC gave no hiding place. Members of Militant Tendency left the Labour Party to gather under the banner of Militant Labour to begin the long march to obscurity.

Of course, antisemites are not a political party. They are not an entryist organisation which can be dealt with en-bloc. But they should face the same hostile environment.

Instead Labour has


countries.

When Chair of the NEC Andy Kerr (union puppet rather than puppet master) rose to shout at Labour’s National Policy Forum that they had no right to elect a new Chair of the NPF at their meeting in Leeds it was another shameful act in the lengthening list of abuse of power by those who now wield it.

This should have been a simple thing to resolve. The National Policy Forum had a vacancy for Chair since Ann Cryer had announced her intention to stand down. The NPF Officers had agreed the timetable for the election which was due to take place today, Saturday.

However, NEC Officers were gathered to an unscheduled meeting two hours before the vote was due to take place and the vote was stopped on thethat is determined to keep Jeremy Corbyn’s people in control no matter how bad it looks to the outside world.”

Labour MP Luciana Berger said she was “ashamed” to witness the “disgraceful treatment” of acting NPF chairwoman Katrina Murray at the event.

If Corbyn wants to hold to his slogan of ‘straight talking, honest politics’ then he needs to do some straight talking to some of his own team. Otherwise his quest for Number 10 will be derailed by internal factionalism. If not of his own making, of his own consent.

In 1995 the Labour Party changed its rules to end the direct sponsorship of a Member of Parliament by a trade union in the wake of the financial scandals surrounding the Conservative Party and the work of the Nolan Committee


on Standards in Public Life.

Unions are able to direct financial support to individual constituency parties, but the perception (albeit wrong) of control of a single MP by a union paymaster was removed. The negotiations to effect this change were led not by the centre of the Party, but by John Prescott, the Party’s Deputy Leader, and Bill Morris General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union (now Unite the Union).

And since then there has been no doubt that Labour Party candidates are candidates of the Labour Party – or in 38 cases currently, of the Labour and Cooperative Party with which the Labour Party has a national agreement. Until now.

But Momentum have now introduced an accord, a contract, which anyone who seeks the backing of Momentum mustevery dot and coma of any report, but she would have done some of her own background research and was only too likely to come up with some ideas of her own. But whether she was coming up with new ideas, or tweaking the ideas of others, she always did it with the best interest of the Party and of the people we seek to represent at the forefront of the debate. Absolutely no-one could question her loyalty to the Party and to the various Leaders she has served as a member of the NEC over the years. As a former member of staff I was also always grateful to her (and to others on the NEC) who recognised the work of all the staff on behalf of


Party – although they will continue to do that. Militant, Socialist Appeal, Alliance for Workers Liberty have no more place in the Labour Party than the BNP or the EDL.

No, the team I leave behind will spend the overwhelming majority of the time, as they always have, making sure that ordinary party members, the hard-working activists who organise the Party, run elections, raise the money have the tools and expertise to do that job within the law and and to the best of their ability.

And so I came to last night. My leaving do. Would anyone turn up? Well yes they would.

I knew it would be tearful. My tears started, to the bemusement of fellow commuters, on the train on the way to London, and continued on andprotest – but no. They wanted to see him because they were both mums, victims of abusive partners and now single parents. They had been trapped in a squalid accommodation trying to bring up children, literally on the bread line. Living on handouts from friends.

Until Sure Start changed their lives. Now in work, in decent homes, they were rebuilding their lives. They wanted to say thank you to Tony Blair and to the Labour Party. And that reinforced the lesson that I’d first learnt in 79 when I joined the Labour Party.

That I relearnt in 83 and in 87 as a volunteer.

And as a staff member in 92 and 97.

And each and every time the Labour Party contests an election.

We can be a Party of Protest. On the


plays plantation owner Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave, and said that work commitments, including producing and starring in the Assassin's Creed movie, as well as acting in a film version of Macbeth opposite Marion Cotillard, will effectively keep him out of the awards-season zone.

In his stated desire to avoid the pre-Oscar hoopla, Fassbender is echoing the views of Joaquin Phoenix, who called the Academy awards "the worst-tasting carrot I've ever tasted in my whole life".

Phoenix's outburst didn't stop him gaining a best actor nomination for The Master, and there's no reason to suppose Fassbender has scuppered his chances of doing the same. Winning, though, will be another matter.

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Kent Street, Birmingham

High Street Residential have recently launched the sales on our new development, Kent Street Residence, with renowned international property investment company IP Global.

Kent Street Residence consists of 98 units over 8 storeys, comprising 1 and 2 bedroom apartments in the heart of Birmingham City Centre. Our building is located within the Southern Gateway £1 billion regeneration zone, which has been brought forward as part of the high speed rail network ‘HS2’ masterplan.

HS2 provides a unique opportunity for Birmingham, as quicker journey times between the city, the capital, and the north encourages young professionals to seek accommodation and work outside London. The city already has one of the youngest work forces in Europe, and by 2025 as the job market continues to grow, it is


On Tuesday night, Cinquino had shared her own public Facebook post that was also beginning to go viral, with more than 20,000 shares, before it was deleted or made private Wednesday afternoon. In the post, Cinquino said when she got Hurley on the phone, she could hear Hurley crying and begging the driver to let her out. Cinquino and Hurley later connected and became friends, with Hurley calling Cinquino her "angel."PSNI officers called up for Euro 2016 duty in France

A group of PSNI officers, led by an experienced superintendent, have been selected to work as part of an international policing team at this year’s UEFA Euro 2016 Tournament in France.

Superintendent Nigel Goddard and his colleagues will be deployed to France, at the request of the French Authorities, for the duration of Northern Ireland’s involvement in the competition to support the French Policing Operation and help ensure a safe and trouble-free tournament.

Superintendent Goddard, who has been liaising with the National Police Chiefs Council, the IFA, French authorities and other international law enforcement agencies about the major football tournament said;

“For the first time in 30 years, Northern Ireland have qualified for the finals of a major football tournament and will


cartoon commentary during the 2003 Yankees-Marlins World Series.   Since 2005, he has worked as a pitching and hitting mechanics consultant to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Awards
He is a recipient of the Page One Award from The Newspaper Guild and consecutive National Headliner awards as America’s best illustrator (1993 & 1994).  He has received numerous Art Direction Awards from The Society of Illustrators.

Personal
Michael Witte was born in rural St. Louis and spent his childhood working in his parents' country store.  While a scholarship student at Princeton University, he served as art editor to the campus humor periodical, Tiger Magazine. He now resides in South Nyack, New York with his wife, Sally.  Together they have three sons, Griff, Spencer and Drew.

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bird's-eye view of Sri Lankan cricket's many tumbling transformations in Mellawa's five decades of following cricket.

Among the strengths of Winds is the author's uncanny knack for finding himself in interesting places at fascinating times. He reports, for example, from the boozy, baila-blasted charter flight that ferried the 1996 world champions home from Lahore, barely eight hours after the trophy was lifted. He chats mid-air with Arjuna Ranatunga and cops abuse from Kumar Dharmasena. Later, he hobnobs with big shots of Sri Lankan cricket in the UAE during Sharjah's ODI glory days, and, as a resident of the UK by 2006, he soaks in Sri Lanka's epic rearguard at Lord's from the stands.

Perhaps the most enlightening chapter comes early in the book, when Mellawa describes his run as secretaryof the burgeoning Ragama Cricket Club, just as the World Cup win was reshaping Sri Lanka's cricket administration. Here, he is an outsider's insider - close enough to the action to gain an unhindered view of a chaotic transition, but distant enough from the central melee to avoid getting caught up in it.

His anecdotes plot SLC's trajectory from the painfully conscientious body that refused to reimburse a $12 cab ride without receipts to the festering cesspit of waste and extravagance that fans know and despise today. What is particularly distressing about this section is the realisation that Sri Lankan board elections of the late nineties and early aughts were contested by virtually the same bands of wheeler-dealing egotists whose tentacles continue to asphyxiate Sri Lanka's cricket two decades


later. There is one story about a young administrator kicking and shoving "a man twice his age" at an AGM. That the assailant is a high-ranking official in the present board is at once shocking and utterly unsurprising.

Damian Ranjan Mellawa

There is flab here, a great deal of it. At times, Mellawa dwells for too long on insignificant informational titbits, interrupting otherwise enjoyable passages to convey widely known facts and overtold histories. Leaping occasionally from thought to exposition to story to joke, the book gains little from the diversions when the main narrative is suddenly resumed. It could have done with losing as much as a fifth of its 379 pages - the weaker anecdotes culled, and the less significant match reports seriously trimmed. The prose is largely simpleand readable, but can sometimes also veer toward clich . The clunkiness of the dialogue perhaps reflects the difficulties of translating from idiosyncratic Sinhala to plain English.

But then so many of these flaws are redeemed by the ardour that saturates the work. Mellawa's is a devotion that has taken him to Lahore, Bridgetown and Mumbai for each of Sri Lanka's World Cup finals, as well as to London, Colombo and Dhaka for their cracks at the World T20 title. He hunts for black-market match tickets on at least three continents. More than once, favours are called in, and seats are circuitously procured from powerful men. Though Sri Lanka is the team he unconditionally supports, it is clear from early in the book that it is cricket itself that


Mellawa is most besotted with.

Eventually, a collage of the roving cricket fan's touring experience comes together: the dope-scented afternoons and rum-soaked evenings of the Caribbean, the eager hospitality of Bangladesh, New Zealand's bounty of enchanting grounds. The cricket world's blemishes get an airing too. Mellawa dwells on the snootiness of Lord's and remarks upon the intimidating edge of some Australian crowds, while the intransigence of India's stadium-posted policemen once prompts him to leave a World Cup semi-final in something of a huff. Though occasionally a grump, such as when he bemoans the state of cheerleading in the 2012 World T20, Mellawa's complaints are generally brief. Enthusiasm is the overriding vibe. Tests are his favoured format, but he also admires the cut and thrust of T20 and its innovations,not least because Sri Lanka were once unlikely kings of the format.

In some ways, Mellawa's is a vital work. While administrators increasingly regard the sport as their product and fans as walking dollar signs, Winds gives voice to the spectating hordes who are cricket's lifeblood. There are considered critiques on cricket's exclusionary elitism, and perhaps more poignantly, illustrations on how the spectre of match-fixing spreads disillusionment among fans. The 2011 World Cup, in particular, Mellawa reports, was bristling with rumour.

Elsewhere, there are odes to cricket's superfans, such as Uncle Percy, Chacha Cricket and Antigua's Gravy, and Mellawa weaves in stories from his own life, all enriched by a cast comprising family members and friends. It is this conveyor belt of vignettes that keeps the tone lively and makes


to witness a Hindu man being allegedly stabbed and beheaded in public because he had fallen in love with a Muslim girl in India.The incident took place on Thursday evening, according to the local media. The girl’s family members are the main suspects behind the murder of her boyfriend.Police have arrested the girl's father, mother and uncle in connection with the murder.The victim known as Ankit Saxena, had a relationship going on with the unidentified 20-year-old women since the last three years and the couple planned to get married soon as well. However, the girl’s family stood against the relationship as the man was Hindu.The day Saxena was killed was the day when the 20-year-old girl planned to discuss their wedding plans but later was informed that herbeloved was stabbed to death."I was going to meet him and then someone told me he had been stabbed with a knife. We were going to marry. He called me and told me he wanted to marry me, so we were meeting," she told the media.The young women, whose identity has not been released, feels that she may possibly be killed as well or harmed by her own family members if she was at home which is why she was sent to a shelter home for protection.The girl’s father and uncle reportedly beat the victim, who was known as a photographer by profession, before stabbing and slitting his throat while the brothers of the girls held his arms and body.Ankit’s mother rushed to save her son, she was


attacked and stopped by the girl’s mother. "I tried to stop them, but the girl's mother pushed me to the footpath and kicked me on my chest."The family accused my son of abducting their daughter. I told them my son was innocent and that they could call the police to find out. I even asked them to search my house. They refused to listen and kept beating my son," said the victim's mother, Kamlesh, who suffered a broken rib in the incident.All three members of the family are sent to jail after the statement produced in the court, while the girl’s brother were sent to a correction home as they were underage."During the investigation, we found that they caught and stabbed Ankit in the neck. The woman's familynot have removed the merchandise without being instructed by Kim's regime.

Trump's summit with Kim culminated in the pair signing a four-point joint statement in which they promised "to work toward complete denuclearization" and "the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean peninsula."

[Also read: White House puts photos of Trump-Kim summit on display]

Trump also agreed to suspend military exercises on the region, while Kim said he would destroy a missile engine test site.

The Pentagon on Monday announced the cancellation of August's Ulchi Freedom Guardian "war game" with South Korea.


game while big guard Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk is averaging 16.6 points per game and connecting on 48.1 percent of his shots from beyond the arc.

Look for the Jayhawks’ class and experience to come through as Kansas keeps Oklahoma at arm’s length for more than a half before pulling away in the late stages.

Mid-Major Game of The Week

The Buffalo Bulls are the best team in the Mid-American Conference to this point in the year, and head coach Nate Oats has his team playing quite consistently. The Bulls have a two-game lead in the Eastern Division of the Mid-American Conference.

The Eastern Michigan Eagles are tied for fourth in the West Division of the conference, but this will be a tough game for head coach Rob Murphy’s team. Eastern Michigan is justJustin Bieber is being criticized by his former choreographer for his treatment of women.

A day after the singer stood up for longtime manager, Scooter Braun, on Instagram after Taylor Swift slammed him for "manipulative bullying," Bieber was called out for the way he treats women by choreographer Emma Portner.

The dancer, who choreographed his "Purpose World Tour" in 2016, spoke out from her verified Instagram account Monday accusing the "I Don't Care" singer of degrading women, calling his actions an "abomination."

“I regret working under your name. I gave your universe my naive body, creativity, time and effort. Twice. For content you made millions off of. While I made zilch. Natta. Barely anything. Less than minimum wage for the hours I invested,” Portner wrote in a now-expired Instagram Story, as


Sunday evening marked the end of what is always this Cincinnatian’s favorite week of the year. The Western and Southern Open once again served as the final major preparation for the world’s best tennis players before they head to New York for the U.S. Open. Here is a look back at the week that was in Cincy.

Withdraws pile up:

This has been such a huge story line at so many prestigious events over the last handful of years. The withdrawal list for Cincinnati reads like a Hall of Fame ballot. Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka and Kei Nishikori are all focusing on the 2018 season for various reasons.

Given that, the last minute withdrawals of Maria Sharapova, Roger Federer, Victoria Azarenka and Andy Murray among others were a toughblow for the tournament. Hopefully, some of these big names will be ready to go for the big show in New York in less than a week. As for Cincy, the show must go on, and it did.

Fresh faces emerge:

Withdraws create opportunity. Rafael Nadal was the only one of the “Big Four” to answer the bell in Cincinnati. He was upset by enigmatic Aussie Nick Kyrgios in the quarterfinals. This event marked the end of 42 consecutive Masters Series events where none of the “Big Four” reached at least the semifinals.

Kyrgios and Grigor Dimitrov faced off in a final that featured two players who had not yet lived up to their immense potential on a consistent basis. Dimitrov prevailed in two relatively tight sets. The Bulgarian was once


given the nickname “Baby Fed,” a nod to his playing style that mimics that of the greatest player who ever lived. He struggled with handling the hype and expectations for a while. Something clicked for him this year. He reached the semifinals in Australia and won his biggest title yet this past week in Cincinnati.

Much like his opponent in the final, it was never a question of talent with Kyrgios either, it was the mental game. The 22-year-old has been served with a handful of fines and suspensions over the years for poor on court behavior including lack of best effort last year at the Shanghai Masters.

Despite those issues, he still managed to pick up big wins and become a solid top 30 player. Anyone who can dofor methodologies

he innovated and developed in this field of research. In recognition of his

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       In 2006 Dr. Wang registered the trade name 3W Consulting (3WC) with the

State of Utah. He operated 3WC as a sole proprietorship, conducting and

furthering his research under its name. He did not incorporate or organize 3WC

by any other means, nor did he file with the Secretary a Form 1128, Application to

Adopt, Change, or Retain a Tax Year.


for 2009 and 2010,

respectively. Because petitioners’ Schedule C reported that 3WC generated no

gross income for 2009 or 2010, respondent disallowed the deductions for these

home office expenses.

      Petitioners argue that respondent erred in reclassifying and disallowing

these amounts. Petitioners argue that they incurred these office expenses because

they provided their research team with a necessary working space and study area

by renting three rooms on the third floor at the Palm St. address. Petitioners allege

      4
       In their petition, petitioners admit that 3WC operated from the Palm St.
address for tax years 2009 through 2011.
                      character that overshadowed the rest of the cast. Each seemed to have something to contribute to the story or to keep the pace swiftly bouncing along with a joke or an escalation of violence that underlined the characters’ need to keep moving in the right direction. Taika Waititi has said that one of his chief intentions with the property was to make Thor the most interesting character in his own movie. This is something he succeeds in doing by stripping the character down, removing his hammer, forcing a new look upon the character, and dropping him in new environments with an earned confidence. The additions of Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner’s Hulk also have merit as they remain consistent while moving the various characters forward in development. Strange


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21 December 2017

Blogmas Day 9: 2017 - Year In Review

2017 has been a whirlwind year. I graduated uni in May and started my internship in September. I also started (and sadly ended) a podcast, interviewed lots of great people and kept up with writing this blog (an achievement in itself!).

University
I graduated from uni in July, with a BA (Hons) in Popular Music Journalism, achieving a 2:1. I'm so proud of myself as uni was so stressful, especially third year. It went by in a flash though and before I knew it it was the last day of my degree and handing in my dissertation. University was a great life experience though and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Career
Once I finished my degree, the job search started. Istructure was unsound when it was torn down in 2016, Garcia said.

"Now, two years later, (Carmack) files this lawsuit because he could not get special treatment from the administration in his effort to reclaim the property he had lost through a legal process," Garcia said in the statement.

After Leland demanded money to help with the property dispute, Carmack went to the FBI, according to the lawsuit. The FBI then asked Carmack to wear a recording device and to make the payment Leland requested.

Carmack said in an interview Thursday he was surprised by Leland's demand.

"That's the first time he ever asked me for money of that amount, and cash," Carmack said. "He never asked me for cash before."

By that time, Carmack and Leland had become familiar with each other.


They met multiple times dating to 2015 to discuss the Michigan Avenue property, according to the lawsuit. Leland chaired a City Council economic development committee that was handling a proposed sale of the property. Carmack claimed he owned the property but the city was trying to sell it to somebody else.

The day after Leland requested the campaign contribution, the lawsuit reads, Carmack met a woman he believed was a Leland campaign worker on a side street near a bank on East Jefferson Avenue and handed her $7,500 in cash in an envelope.

“During the exchange, (Carmack) explains to the female campaign worker that the cash in the envelope was for defendant Leland and the female campaign worker responds by (stating) that it was not for her and that sheOn June 6th and 7th, National Nurses United, Progressive Democrats of America, and other activists converged on Washington, D.C. to call on our elected officials to "Heal America - Tax Wall Street". The activists are proposing a fair-share tax plan on Wall Street, not on "Main Street". The nurses were there to speak out for better care of their patients, and they feel that currently, "People are suffering, because there are not enough nurses at the bedside," said Pamela Young, 54, who traveled from Oviedo, Fla., for the event. Many nurses at the rally said they were concerned that staffing reductions in hospitals and doctors' offices due to budget cuts could be dangerous to patients. National Nurses United has over 160,000 members.

The event lasted 2 days, and started


with a Rally at Marrott Wardman Park, then on Tuesday they rallied in Lafayette Park and called on the White House to protect nurses jobs, and to protect patients. They marched past the US Chamber of Commerce, chanting "Hey Chamber you can't hide! We can see your greedy side!". The activists are upset with the US Chamber using their enormous influence to prevent corporate tax rate hikes, and feel that corporations should pay their fair share of taxes to rebuild America.

As the protesters walk by the front door of the US Chamber of Commerce, they handed in "invoices" of demands like "pension contribution increases" and "Mortgage payments" to 2 activists on the steps, one wearing a sash labeled "Goldman" and the other tuxedo-wearing billionaire playing "Sachs". Watch thethe Forum on behalf of IDSN to advocate the necessity of addressing caste discrimination in humanitarian response and deliver statements commenting on the draft recommendations.

Nikarthil spoke under item 3 of the Forum discussion on: “Respecting minority rights as a means of preventing or mitigating the impact of humanitarian crisis”. Nikarthil recommended the Forum and national mechanisms to explicitly recognize caste based discrimination as an exclusionary variable in disaster management, as well as in disaster risk reduction and to focus on disaggregated reporting on caste by the governments and humanitarian stakeholders across the spectrum of interventions from disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.

Commenting on item 5. which was focused on ensuring durable solutions for minorities in crisis recovery, Bishwakarma recommended states to ensure the establishment of proper security measure


Issues to highlight violence and atrocity crimes committed against Dalits and other caste-affected communities and especially Dalit women. The following statements were delivered at the Forum:

Second thematic session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues: Effective political participation

The focus of the second thematic session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues, held in Geneva on 12-13 November 2009, was on ”minorities and effective political participation”. The Forum considered current practices and ways to increase the effective participation of minorities including, among other issues, the impact of discrimination on the political participation of minorities; meaningful representation/representation and empowerment; obstacles to the political participation of minorities; and quotas, reserved seats or other mechanisms to ensure representation of minorities.

The Independent Expert on Minority Issues, Ms. Gay MacDougall, will report back tothe Human Rights Council with recommendations from this event at its 13th session in March 2010.

Oral statements

A panel discussion on “Minority Women and Effective Political Participation” was held by Minority Rights Group International (MRG) in collaboration with Gay MacDougall, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues, on 12 November. A panel of speakers outlined some of the main obstacles to minority women’s political participation. Manjula Pradeep from Navsarjan Trust, Gujarat, India, highlighted the situation of Dalit women in India, and gave her perspectives on how to these obstacles to effective political participation of minority women can be overcome and their rights can be realized.

Several other Dalit activists from India and Nepal participated in this event to highlight the problems facing Dalits, especially Dalit women, when trying to access equal


political participation. The following statements were delivered at the Forum:

First thematic session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues: Education

The first thematic session, held in December 2008, had a focus on minorities access to education. Ms. Meghna Guhathakurta from Bangladesh was invited by OHCHR to speak about Dalit rights and access to education. Ms. Guhathakurta is the Executive Director of Research Initiatives and she contributes actively to the work of the newly formed Bangladesh Dalit and Excluded Rights’ Movement (BDERM).Sydney dad jailed for filming daughter playing with pistol

The dad filmed himself pretending to shoot his daughter. Picture: 9 NewsSource:Channel 9

A Sydney dad has been jailed almost a year after terrifying videos, showing his four-year-old daughter playing with a .45 calibre pistol and pretending to be shot, came to light.

The 33-year-old father, from Revesby in Sydney’s south west, filmed himself encouraging his daughter to shoot him as she laughed and waved the weapon around.

“Go, go, go,” he’s heard telling his daughter in footage obtained by 9 News. “Kick it back, come on you know what to do”.

In another video, the dad is seen pretending to shoot his daughter as she plays along, pretending to die and lying on the ground.

The little girl was filmed playing with the gun.Source:Channel


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Dr. Linton is the Emergency Department Director for Howard County General Hospital. He has served as Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine for Medstar Union Memorial Hospital from 2008 to 2014 and completed his M.B.A. in medical services management from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2010. Dr. Linton has served on and led a number of hospital based and regional Emergency Medicine committees. In addition, he has served as an officer on the medical executive committee for Medstar Union Memorial and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Maryland ACEP.

Departments / Divisions

Education

Degrees

Residencies

Howard University Hospital / Emergency Medicine (1999)

Board Certifications

American Board of Emergency Medicine / Emergency Medicine
(2001)

Patient Ratings & Comments

The Patient Rating score is an average of all responses to physician related questions onwhich can live in the genitals, anus, mouth or eye and also cause illness elsewhere in the body. Scientists in Melbourne, Australia, said mouth-to-mouth transmission could be more common than previously thought (stock image)

Scientists at Monash University and the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre in Australia surveyed around 3,000 gay and bisexual men in the city.

'A number of pieces of evidence suggest transmission from the oropharynx [back of the throat] may be more common than previously thought,' Professor Eric Chow and his colleagues wrote in the paper.

'[The bacteria] can be cultured from saliva, suggesting that the exchange of saliva between individuals may potentially transmit gonorrhoea.

'Several case reports in the 1970s suggested kissing as a mode of transmission for oropharyngeal gonorrhoea... but kissing has always been neglected as a risk


also spread the infection from the throat to the anus or genitals.

They acknowledged the study, based on homosexual men at only one sexual health centre, may be difficult to apply to the wider population, but women can also catch oral gonorrhoea.

Super gonorrhoea – strains of the infection which have evolved to resist treatment with typical antibiotics – is becoming a growing concern around the world.

Experts have warned it will only be a matter of time until the infection becomes untreatable with current methods.

Two women in the UK were this year among the first to be diagnosed with super gonorrhoea, with both their infections being traced back to holidayers in Ibiza.

The research is published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, part of the British Medical Journal.of Human Services.

Pribla said Mejia, who also has three older children and is an undocumented immigrant, still faces up to 30 years in the care of the department of human services — or until doctors at Elgin's Mental Health Facility determine that she has recovered.

If she’s found guilty of attempted murder, she faces up to 30 years in prison, he said.

Mejia's husband, Osvaldo Mejia, was in court today, but declined comment after the hearing.

He has previously said that his wife suffered from postpartum depression, and described her as a loving mother. He has maintained through the court proceedings that he wants her to return home to her family.


presence of defendant and when the verdicts were read outside the presence of the jury?
3. Did the court abuse its discretion in refusing to allow further cross-examination of the prosecutrix as to prior inconsistent statements?
The events leading to the charges culminated in the home of the victim on June 15, 1976, in the city of Kingman, Arizona. During the evening hours appellant attacked the victim and, in the midst of considerable physical abuse, forced her to engage in both anal and vaginal intercourse, the sordid details of which require no further elaboration in the decision of the issues before us.
Appellant had met the victim for the first time on June 14, 1976, in the Castle Rock Bar near Kingman. After a drink there, they went to the BigG Bar and continued drinking. When the victim learned that appellant was married, she wanted nothing more to do with him. The next day the two *584 met again through happenstance while driving their cars. After stopping the vehicles, appellant asked the victim if she would have a drink with him at the Castle Rock Bar, but she refused, stating she had to go home. Appellant asked if he could follow along and she agreed. At her house, the victim proceeded to go in without waiting for the appellant, but he followed and entered behind her. After an interlude in which appellant and the victim left the house to take her children to the baby-sitter's, they returned. The pair seated themselves on a small sofa. Appellant asked for


the present case, after the victim testified on direct examination, appellant sought to cross-examine her by reference to alleged prior sexual acts with other males under circumstances where remuneration for sex might have been involved. With the court reporter as the only other person present, the trial judge conducted an interview of the victim in his chambers. A sealed transcript of this interview is a part of the present record. The interview centered mainly on the victim's past relationships with certain men whose names had been furnished by appellant. The trial judge stated the result of the interview as follows:
The Court has had an in camera inspection with the victim and I have questioned her rather specifically on any prior sexual acts from the date of her separationvictim was not made and the court correctly denied the appellant the right to inquire into the subject of prior acts of *586 prostitution in the presence of the jury. The fact that appellant was not present during the interview did not thereby result in the denial of the right of confrontation.
Appellant raises another issue with reference to the interview of the victim. After the interview was held, the case was concluded and was submitted to the jury. The rape charge, however, was withdrawn from the jury at the request of the appellant and submitted to the trial court for determination of guilt or innocence. Appellant argues that the interview procedure prejudiced him because, in his absence, the judge had heard the victim's statements and could have been


the two groups were as follows:

Average IQs

Adopted children

105

Nonadopted children

90

Although the adopted children’s IQ scores were, on average, lower than those of their adoptive parents, they were about 15 points higher than the scores for the control group children, who were raised by their biological parents.

Effects of early nutrition

Severe malnutrition, either before birth or during the early years of life, can limit neurological development and have a long-term impact on cognitive development and intelligence (Ricciuti, 1993; S. A. Rose, 1994; Sigman & Whaley, 1998). Attention, memory, abstract reasoning, and general school achievement are all likely to suffer from inadequate nutrition. Children sometimes recover from short periods of poor nourishment (due, perhaps, to war or illness), but the adverse effects of long-term deprivation are more enduring (Sigman & Whaley, 1998).

Someto intervene as a heckler with a cowbell single-handedly canceled a College Republicans meeting. This is the second time in 2019 that PSU allowed hecklers or would-be hecklers to shut down campus expression — and the second time the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has demanded the university adhere to its First Amendment obligations. FIRE first wrote to the university Feb. 18 after PSU’s law enforcement unilaterally canceled a meeting of a socialist student group after the founder of the group Patriot Prayer said he would show up.

Be Careful What You Wish For on Social Programs

Nathan Glazer, the last of a group of famous neocon social scientists, died at the age of 95 on January 19 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. (He resisted the label


Real Betis Keeper Hails Lionel Messi

The goalkeeper of La Liga side Real Betis, Antonio Adan, has hailed Barcelona star Lionel Messi after their clash in the league. Adan is a former Real Madrid man, Barcelona’s main rival, but he had to set all that aside in awe of the Argentine.

According to Adan, the five time Ballon d’Or winner makes football better. The diminutive soccer star was spectacular when Barca played Betis at Estadio Benito Villamarinon Sunday. He grabbed a brace and an assist to help the Catalan giants continue their strong run in the league. Barcelona are now 11 points adrift in the league with the 5-0 victory. Messi was in stunning form in the second half after a slow start.

“It’s spectacular. In the first half he hadnot appeared. He seemed to be walking. But he takes four balls to score two goals and give two assists. He makes the sport better,” an overawed Adan said after the game. The vice president of Real Betis Lorenzo Serra Ferrer also felt privileged to see Messi continue at the top level after more than a decade. Ferrer praised the “humility and ability” of Messi, saying it makes him “bigger.”

Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde also joined in the praises. He declared that his forward was the “best player there is and there ever will be.” Ivan Rakitic, and Luis Suarez also scored as Barcelona put up a real show in the second half of the game. The Uruguayan scored his 100th goal for Barcelona since moving from Liverpool in


side surfaces extending in respective planes which are generally parallel to the central axis, and a pair of end surfaces extending generally parallel to the central axis, each adjacent pair of side surfaces meeting along a respective edge of the chip-like electronic part, the process comprising the steps of:
applying a first band of conductive material to at least one of the side surfaces; and
applying a second band of conductive material to the remaining side surface(s) in such a manner that the first and second bands meet at respective ones of the edges and together form a continuous band of conductive material extending around the outer periphery of the chip-type electronic part.
In the preferred embodiment, the first and second bands are applied to the side surfaces at an areathat lies between the end surfaces, and more preferably in the middle, of the chip-like electronic part and do not extend to either end surface.
In the preferred embodiment, the chip-like electronic part has four side surfaces, the first band is applied to first and second contiguous side surfaces and the second band is applied to third and fourth contiguous side surfaces by bringing the side surfaces into contact with strips of conductive paste. The chip-like electronic part is first held in a holder with the first and second side surfaces extending outwardly from the holder and the first band is applied to the first and second side surfaces by moving a strip of conductive paste located on an elastic paste base into contact with the first and second


side surfaces. Thereafter, the orientation of the chip-like electronic part is changed by either moving it within the same holder or moving it to a second holder to ensure that the third and fourth side surfaces extend outwardly from the holder. Once in this position, the second band is applied to the third and fourth side surfaces by moving a strip of conductive paste located on an elastic paste base into contact with the third and fourth side surfaces.
When desired, the first and second bands can be applied to the side surfaces at an area of the side surfaces located adjacent one of the end surfaces thereof and can simultaneously be applied to the adjacent one of the end surfaces as well as the side surfaces.
The process ofas to be spaced from one another; and
applying a set of second bands of conductive material to the remaining side surface(s), each of the second bands being applied at a different axial position of the remaining side surfaces so as to be spaced from one another, each band of the first set meeting a respective band of the first set at two respective edges such that each respective pair of bands forms a continuous band of conductive material extending around the outer periphery of the chip-type electronic part. More preferably, the chip-like electronic part has four side surfaces and is in the form of a quadrangular prism.
In the preferred embodiment, three continuous bands are formed, two adjacent the end surfaces of the chip-like electronic part, the third at


one of the outer surfaces of the chip-like electronic part extends outwardly from the holder and wherein the surface(s) of the chip-like electronic part which have the band of conductive material located thereon face inwardly of the holder and are not exposed.
In the preferred embodiment, the holder includes a recess in which the band of conductive material is located without the conductive material touching the walls of the recess. The holder has a groove, including a plurality of side walls, for holding the electronic part, the shape of the groove corresponding generally to the shape of the portion of the chip-like electronic part being held in the groove. The walls of the chip-like electronic part which have the band of conductive material formed thereon are preferably in contactcentral axis, each adjacent pair of side surfaces meeting along a respective edge of the main body portion;
a pair of end electrodes located on the end surfaces of the main body portion; and
a central electrode comprising a sintered metal formed of an electrode paste and extending over each of the side surfaces of the main body portion so as to extend entirely around the outer periphery of the main body portion, the central electrode being formed of two bands of sintered conductive paste, the two bands meeting at respective edges of the main body portion.
The two respective edges are preferably located 180 degrees apart from one another as measured around the central axis of the main body portion with the two bands overlapping one another at the respective


blood type, transplants from unrelated donors are as successful as those from a close relative. In addition, kidneys from a living donor have a significantly better long-term survival rate than those from a deceased donor.

Iran started kidney transplants in 1967 but surgeries slowed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran, in part due to sanctions. Iran allowed patients to travel abroad through much of the 1980s for transplants — including to America. But high costs, an ever-growing waiting list of patients and Iran’s grinding eight-year war with Iraq forced the country to abandon the travel-abroad program.

In 1988, Iran created the program it has today. A person needing a kidney is referred to the Dialysis and Transplant Patients Association, which matches thoseother major health problems or are too old.

Some 8 to 10 percent of those who do apply are rejected due to poor health and other concerns. The average survival rate of those receiving a new kidney is between seven to 10 years, though some live longer, according to Iranian reports.

In the United States, about a third of kidney donations come from living donors. The average kidney from a deceased donor lasts 10 years, while one from a living donor averages about 15 years, according to Dr. David Klassen of the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, which oversees the US transplant system. Recipients of living-donor kidneys in the US fare better in part because they haven’t been on dialysis as long before their transplant.

For Hajikarimi, a 52-year-old


A. Buccina (representing the prosecution) conducted voir dire. In questioning this first panel, Mr. Cimino reminded the prospective jurors how preconceived notions can result in an unfair trial. He received specific assurances of impartiality from two panelists who knew a family member or friend that had been a victim of sexual or physical assault. Mr. Cimino unsuccessfully challenged one prospective juror for cause due to her high blood pressure. He exercised a peremptory challenge on a woman who had been the victim of a robbery. After the first round of questioning, four jurors had been selected.
Fourteen new prospective jurors were seated for the second round of questioning. Assurances of impartiality were received from a panelist whose sister had been raped, and another panelist indicated his hope that hecould be impartial despite his daughter having been raped six years prior to the trial. Mr. Cimino also received specific assurances of impartiality from a panelist whose niece had been molested by her grandfather. The prosecution did not receive assurances from yet another panelist who had been a victim of spousal abuse. Mr. Cimino successfully challenged this panelist for cause, and exercised a peremptory challenge on the man whose daughter had been raped. Thus, after the second round of voir dire, nine jurors were seated.
After the judge excused a panelist for his admission that he would draw a negative inference if petitioner did not testify in the case, a Mr. Lewis was seated on the panel. Mr. Lewis responded in the affirmative to the court's inquiry of whether