noting his service to the patriots’ cause while in New York. The Continental Congress did not respond to his inquiries, so Salomon turned his focus on growing his own financial brokerage business.

By 1780, Salomon was drawn back to the cause of American independence by serving as a financial liaison with the French government and its military presence in the colonies. He gained appointments as broker to the French consul and treasurer of the French armed forces aiding Washington’s army. He also secured a spot as the fiscal agent to Chevalier de la Luzerne, the French minister to the nascent United States.

Salomon also worked with the Dutch and Spanish government representatives of the era in a similar position, mixing diplomacy and finance in order to cement ties between OldWorld kingdoms and the New World republic. In these roles, Salomon directed foreign funds into the Bank of North America, the financial institution founded by Robert Morris, the superintendent of finance for the new American government. Without this input, the young nation would have been flat broke.

In the final stretch of the war, Washington found his army running on financial empty. Through a mix of fundraising and personal loans, Salomon provided more than $650,000 (approximately $10 billion in today’s money) to finance Washington’s military campaign. He also advanced funds to members of the Continental Congress — the same body that refused to employ him a few years earlier — and to several high-level federal officers who were not being paid by the new government for their services. Although


a prominent and proud figure within Philadelphia’s Jewish community. He was one of the original members of the Congregation Mickvé Israel of Philadelphia and the treasurer of a philanthropic Jewish organization that aided the destitute of all faiths. He also led an effort to force the Council of Censors of Pennsylvania to drop the oath that prevented non-Christians from holding political office and defended the Jewish community from scurrilous newspaper reports that slandered all Jewish business people as being war profiteers.

Into the early 1780s, Salomon’s health began to give out. He contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 44 in January 1785. At the time, he had not been repaid for his loans to the new American government, which left his widow and children deeply in debt.Efforts by his family in the 19th century to seek compensation were routinely ignored by Congress.

Recognition of Salomon’s efforts on behalf of the Revolutionary War was very slow in coming. A movement in 1893 to create a special Congressional Gold Medal honoring Salomon came to naught. Congress got around to honoring Salomon in 1936 with a resolution to build a statue of him in Washington D.C., but funds were never appropriated and the project was forgotten. In 1943, the U.S. Navy named the Liberty Ship S.S. Haym Salomon in his honor.

In 1976, the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring him as part of the bicentennial, which may have been the first time many Americans became aware of his work.

Outside of government, efforts to reclaim Salomon’s legacy


percolated in the mid-20th century. In 1939, Warner Bros. produced the short film “Sons of Liberty” starring Claude Rains as Salomon and Gale Sondergaard as his wife, Rachel. This film, directed by Michael Curtiz, won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (two-reeler). In 1941, best-selling author Howard Fast wrote the first biography on the patriot, “Haym Salomon, Son of Liberty.” Subsequent biographies aimed at adult and young adult readers have since been published. Also in 1941, Chicago unveiled the Heald Square Monument, which featured Washington, Salomon and Robert Morris as equals in a planning conversation.

Salomon has also become the subject of a few amusing myths. For years, conspiracy theorists insisted the Star of David pattern on the Great Seal of the United States was a tribute tohey, i would like to share with you about my passion for the Old Testament (OT). my students call me 'rabbi' or 'reb' for short.
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"I am compassionate," said the owner of the Boot Shop, on James Street.

But the problems associated with homelessness and drug addiction in the area - the mess, the discarded needles and obviously intoxicated people - have now reached the point that she feels overwhelmed.

And she's scared.

"I used to feed the people that came into my store that now frighten my employees," she said. "I don't feel safe. Now my staff are afraid, my customers are afraid."

Her concerns were echoed by many of the approximately 150 people who attended a St. Catharines Downtown Association meeting at Robertson Hall Thursday night to discuss their common problem.

"I don't feel safe for my customers to send them to our downtown


in a way that Niagara had not experienced," she said, adding the opioid crisis began to emerge at about the same time "and it started the perfect storm."

"There are organizations that are working full steam ahead on the opioid issue in Niagara. There are also groups working hard on the mental health issues in our community. All those organizations are coming together," Jugley said.

She said the problems are often highlighted in the media, but "you don't hear about all the efforts and all the work that's going on and all the people that are being assisted."

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For many of the obviously frustrated business owners and residents at the meeting, those efforts are falling short of resolving the issues.

St. Catharines developer Nick Atalick said tenants and staff in his building at the intersection of Carlisle and St. Paul streets experience the same problems almost daily.

Not satisfied with the response from police, he said he has begun offering his tenants rewards for reporting problems within the building, hoping to prevent break-ins, vandalism and thefts from continuing.

"We need to get vigilant to manage this problem," he said.

Craig Doig, who runs a private security business, was also critical of the police response.

He said funding for a police foot patrol program downtown is provided through taxes paid by area businesses, but


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park, but he is thankful it sustains him. Marshall knows his future lies in the hands of a stranger saying yes to donation. Every single day 22 men, women and children in the United States die for lack of an available organ. When you join the Ohio Donor Registry, you provide hope to the more than 118,000 Americans, just like Marshall, who are waiting for a second chance at life. One organ donor has the potential to save eight lives and one tissue donor may enhance more than 50 lives. There is no cost to donate, you are never too old, and your medical care will never be compromised because of your status as a donor.Christmas decorations have been banned in at least four cities and a county in China.

The ruling Communist Party's emphasis on tradition and the suppression of religion under President Xi Jinping are behind the crackdown on festivities.

At one 27-story shopping and office complex in Nanyang, eastern China, the Christmas trees, lights and other decorations were removed within 24 hours after government officials paid a visit.

"Everything is gone and cleaned," said Ma Jun, who works at a tutoring company in the building.

Christmas is still celebrated, albeit more as a shopping festival, across most of China, but anti-Christmas sentiment has been seen in the country before in 2014 and last year.

It is thought to come from local authorities seeking to align themselves with the wider push for cultural nationalism.

"The ongoing local


reaction against Christmas is part of the wider sentiment since Xi took power," said Zi Yang, a China expert at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.

He argues that President Xi is promoting the Communist Party as a bastion for Chinese tradition, saying: "therefore, foreign cultural elements such as Christmas are placed on the chopping block."

An official from the Nanyang's urban management bureau hung up when asked to comment on the removal of the festive items, according to AP.

Elsewhere in the country, official government social media accounts posted to warn that anyone found holding Christmas sales or celebrations that blocked the streets would be punished, Communist Party members should be "models of adherence to Chinese traditional culture", and Christmas stage performances and merchandising promotions would bebanned.

The state-run Global Times newspaper argues the Western media are exaggerating China's crackdown on Christmas and reported that some of the restrictions mentioned are aimed at cleaning up roadside stalls and migrant vendors in hopes of winning an award from the Communist Party.

China's moves to push nationalism has seen the country be forced to deny claims one million of its mostly Muslim Uighur minority are being held in internment camps, while it has also insisted "there are no such things" as re-education centres.


Madhugiri

Madhugiri is a town in Tumkur district in the Indian state of Karnataka.
The town derives its name from a hillock, Madhu-giri (honey-hill) which is to the south of the place.
Madhugiri is one of the 34 educational districts of the Karnataka state

At  elevation, Madhugiri is a single hill. Nestled on its steep slopes is a fort. Antaralada Bagilu, Diddi Bagilu, and Mysuru Gate are the three gateways of the fort. A series of doorways leads to the hill. The ruined temple of Gopalakrishna is located at the top.

The construction of the original mud fort was undertaken by Raja Hire Gowda in the 17th century around 1670 AD. An interesting incident prompted the Gowda family to consider building a fortress. A stray sheep went missing around the MadhugiriThe Nation Shaved With Sickle

Congjiang County is a beautiful ethnic enclave located in southeast area of Guizhou Province, which mountain area living with a group of very special minority - Biasha Miao nationality.

Drive about 8 km from the western mountainous areas of Congjiang County then came to the Biasha Miao nationality tribes, because the mountain road is too difficult to walk, this the 8-km section of road even took for nearly an hour.

Look from a distance, Biasha Miao nationality village is actually somewhat similar to the mountain villas.

The beautiful Biasha Miao girl introduced the history and social life of the Biasha nationality with standard Mandarin and rich knowledge of folk to the visitors.

Most of Biasha Miao nationality girls are ingenuity. Most clothes they wear are made by the


the guns.

After celebrate firing, the stockade elders shaved for the groom – what’s surprising is that the barber's tool is the important cultivated crops sickle.

Elders first wash hair for the groom, then began to shave.

The groom's hairs neatly fall to the ground.

The hair was quickly shaved cleanly by the sharp sickle, only left the middle part intentionally retained.

Teenagers in the Biasha Miao nationality are also allowed to use the gun. Even the children pick up shotgun like the adults.

Some little girls

At present, Biasha Miao people still live a hard life, but the development of the tourism industry has gradually leaded them to a rich life - this family started their business in order to increase income.

This is a restaurant in the stockade, looks pretty good taste. Guizhou southeastMuslim teenager growing up in ‘80s England. The film features Boss music from the '70s and 80s.

The film will be released in U.S. theaters on Aug. 14. International dates have not been announced yet.

“I’ll Stand by You Always” was rejected by director Chris Columbus” for use in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 2001, partly on grounds of it not being British enough, according to Backstreets.

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09 Agustus 2017

RAAF Heron will be Retired

09 Agustus 2017

RAAF Heron UAV (all photos : ADF)End of an Era, as Our Heron DepartsAir Force has marked the end of an era with a decision to withdraw the Heron remotely piloted aircraft from service.The Heron flew its last mission from RAAF Base Tindal during Exercise Diamond Storm on June 23.During Diamond Storm, Heron completed 17 sorties in support of the Air Warfare Instructor Course in an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance electronic warfare (ISREW) role.No. 5 Flight is set to be disbanded at the end of the year. The aircraft has played a pivotal role in Air Force’s ability to deliver air-land integration effects in support of our national security interests including in Afghanistan, where it completed more than 27,000 missionhours during Operation Slipper.CO 5FLT WGCDR Lee Read said it was immensely satisfying to end with such a successful involvement in Exercise Diamond Storm.“I want to congratulate the 5FLT team, including our technical workforce from the contractor MDA and our embeds from No. 87 Squadron, JEWOSU and No. 1 Combat Communications Squadron, who all worked together to ensure that 5FLT and Heron closed for business on a high.”

After its last operational mission from Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on November 30, 2014, Heron then made history by flying in civilian airspace for the first time out of Rockhampton airport during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2015. This led to the commencement of operations from its home base at RAAF Base Amberley in 2016.In October last year, GovernorGeneral Sir Peter Cosgrove presented


the Meritorious Unit Citation to members of 5FLT during an investiture ceremony.From January 2010 to November 2014, 5FLT, operating as Task Unit 633.2.7, provided ISREW support to Australian forces and International Security Assistance Force partners in southern Afghanistan. About 500 personnel who were deployed as part of the task unit were recognised.Air Force has regularly operated the Heron aircraft in restricted military air space from RAAF Base Woomera. The Woomera community has always welcomed 5FLT; this year the hospitality moved to the cricket pitch, where locals and Air Force members challenged each other to two matches.There was definitely a lot of sadness from the team watching the Heron taxi in for the final time at both Woomera and Tindal.See full article RAAFby Kermac Nuclear Fuels which operated, as did the defendant, in the area of Grants, New Mexico.  At this point Ferren left the room and contacted Kermac and was told that plaintiff had a Title VII charge pending against Kermac.  As a result of this information Ferren told plaintiff that his application could not be processed.  The evidence at this point was in conflict as to the exact conversation; Ferren stated that plaintiff was told that he could not be considered because the employment was necessarily temporary since he was prosecuting the claim, which sought reinstatement along with other relief, but plaintiff testified that no mention was made as to his rejection being based on his seeking temporary employment.

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As an American military tattoo, the battlefield cross motif has, for many, become a permanent memorial to loss and mourning. Also known as the 'soldier's cross' or the 'fallen soldier's cross', it has become a much more dramatic icon of loss than an image of a flag-draped coffin. Which is just as well, since the Pentagon has a media ban on photographing the arrival of coffins containing a soldier's remains.

The traditional battlefield cross is comprised of a rifle pointing downward, sometimes with the bayonet stuck in the earth, signifying that the battle (for him) is over. On


the rifle's stock hangs the helmet, and perhaps the dog tags, while his upright boots form the base of this powerful memorial. We also see versions with the rifle nose-down in a heap of sandbags or mound of earth, reminiscent of Christ's cross on Calvary.

Although the elements and design of the battlefield cross presents little mystery, the origins may go all the way back to the American Civil War. It was during this time that the remains of fallen soldiers were repatriated for the first time. Bodies on the battlefield had first to be marked, and what better manner than by driving the muzzle of the soldier's gun into the earth, capped by the helmet. In subsequent military campaigns, the paying of respects to a fallen comrade atfunction as a molecular ruler and an export switch, respectively, monitors the state of hook-basal body assembly in the cell exterior and switches export specificity, thereby coupling sequential flagellar gene expression with the flagellar assembly process. The export ATPase complex composed of an ATPase and its regulator acts as a pilot to deliver its export substrate to the export gate and helps initial entry of the substrate N-terminal chain into a narrow pore of the export gate. The energy of ATP hydrolysis appears to be used to disassemble and release the ATPase complex from the protein about to be exported, and the rest of the successive unfolding/translocation process of the long polypeptide chain is driven solely by proton motive force (PMF), perhaps through biased one-dimensional Brownian diffusion. Interestingly,


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  LatAm comes out in force against Israel

LatAm comes out in force against Israel

Palestinians look at an unexploded Israeli shell that landed on the main road outside the town of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP

Latin America's leaders are among the most vehement in condemning Israel's Gaza offensive -- labelling the Jewish state "terrorist", recalling ambassadors, and offering near-unanimous, unwavering support to Palestinians.

"I can't remember another similar situation where (all the countries in the region) have reacted practically as a bloc," said political scientist Reginaldo Nasser, a professor at the Pontifical University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

One of the most symbolic recent developments came from Bolivian President Evo Morales -- one of the leaders of Latin America's far left -- who put Israel on its list of


"Terrorist States" and eliminated a visa waiver program for Israeli citizens.

More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed and 8,000 injured, two-thirds of them civilians, in Gaza in 24 days of fighting between Hamas and Israel. The conflict has also cost the lives of 61 Israeli soldiers, as well as two civilians and a Thai farm worker killed by rocket fire.

More than 245 of the dead Palestinians were children, UNICEF has said.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff this week called the Israeli military operation a "massacre."

Tensions between the two countries had already escalated a week earlier, when Brazil recalled its envoy from Tel Aviv, a move that prompted Israel's foreign ministry spokesman to call the Latin American powerhouse a "diplomatic dwarf".

Rousseff's condemnation did not go as far as some of herpeers. Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro denounced "a war of extermination that has lasted nearly a century" against the Palestinian people. Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and El Salvador have also recalled their ambassadors for consultations, while Costa Rica and Argentina, which have the largest Jewish populations in the region, called the Israeli ambassador for meetings at their foreign ministries.

On Thursday, Uruguay President Jose Mujica asked for "an immediate withdrawal" of Israeli troops from Gaza and suggested it may also recall its envoy in Tel Aviv.

Other politically leftist Latin American countries had years earlier broken diplomatic relations with Israel, including Nicaragua in 2010, Venezuela and Bolivia in 2009, after a previous military campaign in Gaza, and Cuba, in 1973, after the Yom Kippur War.

In recent weeks, several protests across the region,


Zipra embarks on peace building path

The chairman of the ZPRA Veterans, Retired Colonel Razarus Ncube told Radio VOP that his organisation had already approached some of the chiefs in areas considered to be political hot spots such as Gokwe, Mberengwa, Kwekwe and Chiundura.

“With the coming up of the referendum and the anticipated elections next year we expect more or worse political violence to come. It is against this background that we have stepped up our efforts to heal communities. Some of the chiefs whom we are closely working with in the Midlands on this initiative are chief Sigodo, chief Malarisa, chief Gambiza and chief Chiundura,” said Ncube.

As part of the programme Ncube said his organisation last week trained 32 war veterans on conflict resolution and national healing atGallery View:Forehead felons: The worst tattooed mugshots

The girl with the God tattoo: Jamie Calloway was recently arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland, for stalking a female officer at her correctional facility. Calloway admires God so much that she even had the name inked above her brow for all to see. The convict has reportedly uploaded videos of her reading passages from the Bible on YouTube and even calls herself "Godologist of Godology."

The girl with the God tattoo: Jamie Calloway was recently arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland, for stalking a female officer at her correctional facility. Calloway admires God so much that she even had the name inked above her brow for all to see. The convict has reportedly uploaded videos of her reading passages from the Bible on YouTube


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and remanded for resentencing.
At the resentencing hearing, the court stated that it would enter either a completely new judgment and sentence containing the correction or an order amending the original second degree assault sentence by striking the deadly weapon enhancement. Traicoff elected the court's first option.
At the time of presentation of the new judgment and sentence, Traicoff objected to the length of the community placement portion of his sentence that was stated in the document. His original sentence had erroneously imposed one year of community placement. *1279 But because Traicoff committed his offenses after July 1, 1990, he was obligated to serve a two-year term of community placement.[3] The prosecutor explained that an outdated community placement form had mistakenly been used at the time of Traicoff's original sentencing.legitimate expectation of finality based on the mere passage of time between the original *1280 sentencing and a resentencing after remand.[12]
Traicoff's argument also ignores the important fact that, at the time of the correction on resentencing, he had not yet begun to serve the community placement portion of his sentence. After DiFrancesco, federal courts have considered when there is a legitimate expectation of finality in relation to service of sentences. They have concluded that there is no legitimate expectation of finality until a sentence is wholly or partially served.[13] Our Supreme Court has also stated that "completion of the sentence" is one of the factors to consider in determining when there is a legitimate expectation of finality for double jeopardy purposes.[14] The corollary to this line of authority


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Here, Traicoff's term of community placement was to have commenced upon completion of his incarceration. His representations to this court support our conclusion that at the time of his resentencing in May 1997, he had not yet commenced to serve his term of community placement. In short, there was no question of multiple punishments for the community placement portion of his sentence at the time of his challenge at resentencing. He had no legitimate expectation of finality in that part of hisdramatic impact to the siege report. Back in the studio Emma engages the gunman on the phone, preventing the police from making contact.

This episode of ‘Frontline’ rates through the roof, which is the only priority for the current affairs team. Even the criticisms of the team’s ethics by the police commissioner are seen as good publicity. This episode is particularly ironic in humour as we see the dark-side of the team at ‘Frontline’. It is a very clever episode as it humorously imitates and reveals the lengths that current affairs teams will go to in the name of a story in very critical fashion. In the last shot of this scene the loony is heard talking to Mike More and then he shoots his hostages. Only the sound


is heard.

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While watching Whiteout Press’ favorite morning business show, ‘In Business with Margaret Brennan’ on Bloomberg TV, the show was interrupted by a startling announcement. Bloomberg investigators had uncovered details that the most powerful men in Washington and New York were desperate to keep secret. In fact, Bloomberg had to sue the Federal government for access to the events of 2009 and 2010 regarding the US bank bailout. The Federal Reserve however, insisted all details of the largest bank bailout in the history of the world had to be kept completely secret from the American people.

The government fought releasing the secret details all the way the US Supreme Court. Earlier this year, Bloomberg won their lawsuit. Treasury and the FED weren’t going to surrender to the American people thatBush's 9/11 coverup? Family members of victims of the terror attacks say the White House has smothered every attempt to get to the bottom of the outrageous intelligence failures that took place on its watch.

For family members of those who died on Sept. 11, last week brought a rare chance to meet face-to-face with a man who has become a symbol of their dissatisfaction -- FBI director Robert Mueller. The bureau had quietly invited several dozen family members to Washington to hear a presentation on the war on terrorism, but for the small band of husbands, wives and parents who successfully lobbied Congress last year for an independent 9/11 commission to investigate the attacks, it was a chance to ask some of the troubling questions they have about


CBS News reported that five weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush had been briefed about an active plot by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida operatives to seize civilian aircraft. The revelations stood in stark contrast to White House spin in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks that nobody in the administration or the intelligence community had "specific information" about a possible hijacking plot.

Into that combustible mix came revelations that FBI special agents in Phoenix and Minnesota had warned their superiors about suspected al-Qaida operatives training at U.S. flight schools. For the White House, the "what did Bush know and when did he know it" narrative was its first real political crisis after Sept. 11, the first time the press along with Democrats were asking pointed questions --and gaining traction by the day. Even the New York Post, usually a reliable White House ally, ran a headline that declared "Bush Knew"; the conservative Weekly Standard warned that "the administration is now in danger of looking as if it has engaged in a cover-up."

But the White House, aided by global circumstances and a distractible news media, conspired to change the subject.

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First, a succession of senior administration officials made dire warnings about the certainty of suicide bombers striking inside America. Then, on June 6, 2002, the administration abruptly reversed itself and announced it was backing the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, as first proposed by Democrats. And the White House made the historic announcement the same day FBI agent Colleen Rowley testified before Congress about


her famous Minneapolis memo, ensuring that the Department of Homeland Security was the next day's top headline.

Then, by last August, the Capitol was abuzz in talk of war with Iraq, and the buzz persisted for the next nine months. "Iraq changed everything with the press," says one victims' advocate whose wife died in Tower 1. "Nobody cares about this after Iraq."

"It was a successful attempt to change the story," notes John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a nonprofit defense policy group. "From the White House's perspective, no good can come of these [9/11] investigations. So I think their approach has been entirely predictable, and easy to understand."

Adding insult for some family activists was the fact that Bush used the 9/11 attacks as a justification for the war on Iraq.mired in a deadly Beltway mixture of bureaucratic morass and political sniping.

The first was a bipartisan joint inquiry conducted by the House and Senate examining intelligence and law-enforcement failures that led up to the Sept. 11 attack. Its relatively narrow scope came about after Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney personally phoned then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., in late January 2002, pressuring him to limit the congressional investigation surrounding Sept. 11.

Despite budget restraints and complaints from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that the White House had "slow-walked and stonewalled" the joint inquiry, the panel's 900-page report was completed late last year. Today it remains stuck in national security limbo as the joint inquiry staff negotiates with the White House and its intelligence agencies over what portions can and


cannot be released in the public version of the report. The release date has already been pushed back several times as the declassification process drags on into its seventh month. Even the Republican chairman of the joint inquiry, Rep. Porter Goss of Florida, a former CIA operations officer, has expressed deep frustration at the pace of the process.

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"It appears the joint intelligence committee did too good of a job," quips Breitweiser. Indeed, last fall the New York Times reported that "the findings of a joint committee have been far more damaging than most officials at either agency expected when the panel's inquiry began [in early 2002]." The report is expected to detail disturbing lapses in counterterrorism at the CIA and FBI, where warnings about the Sept. 11 attacksthe joint inquiry's closed-door hearings. Even though he had actually served on the joint inquiry a year earlier, Department of Justice attorneys refused to let him read the transcripts, insisting that the White House needed five days to decide whether it wanted to exert executive privilege to keep the information under wraps. The White House eventually relented.

"It was upsetting to find out the White House was trying to block the independent commission's access to the joint inquiry information, when we all know the mandate that created the independent commission states clearly that the commission is to use the joint inquiry as a starting-off point," notes Breitweiser, who also voted for Bush in 2000. "So why would they be blocking access to that?"

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Today, the negotiating continues over what gets


as what worked and what did not work and what recommendation would we have for the American government and the American people to make it safer."

But the investigation almost never happened at all.

Family advocates complain it was created virtually in spite of the White House; they point to the extraordinary game of hardball the administration practiced right on the eve of last year's midterm elections when it derailed a bipartisan congressional deal to form the commission, citing concerns with its potential scope and subpoena power. Members of both parties who had already scheduled a press conference to announce the panel were stunned by the turn of events. Weeks after the 2002 election, and following a candlelight vigil by 9/11 victim families held in Lafayette Park across the streetfrom the White House, the independent commission was finally formed, more than a year after the terrorists attacked.

"Bush begrudgingly signed [the commission] into law," complains one family advocate. "Since it was created, he's done everything to take the teeth out of it. His fingerprints and Karl Rove's are all over this."

"If President Bush and the administration are not happy with the independent commission, then it's their own fault because all they had to do was set up a commission on their own," adds Breitweiser. "But they didn't, so it was left to other people to make sure it got done. Undeniably the administration has dragged its feet."

In the past the White House has denied the charge, insisting it's cooperating with the commission. Yet even during hearings, that cooperation


on the night of April 18. The next morning at 10:30, a special panel of the Senate Commerce Committee was gaveled into session inside the ornate East Room of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.

Last year, when Cheney called Daschle to urge him to limit any hearings into 9/11, the V.P. argued it would drain sources away from the war on terrorism. By contrast, just 11 days after Japanese bombers hit the U.S. with a sneak attack killing nearly 3,000 people, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating a commission to "ascertain and report the facts relating to the attack made by Japanese armed forces upon the Territory of Hawaii on December 7, 1941 ... and to provide bases for sound decisions whether any derelictions ofduty or errors of judgment on the part of United States Army or Navy personnel contributed to such successes as were achieved by the enemy on the occasion mentioned." It was the first of eight government-led investigations into the Pearl Harbor.

The Warren Commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, was formed just seven days after President Kennedy was assassinated. Last February, after seven astronauts died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated 200,000 feet above Texas, NASA's Columbia Accident Investigation Board was created 90 minutes after the incident; $50 million was immediately set aside for the probe. And in just four months, the board has already made public significant findings about the crash investigation.

By contrast, nearly two years after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center,


a term of incarceration of 21 months, followed by a

three-year period of supervised release.

       On November 1, 2007, the Sentencing Guidelines were amended as anticipated

and the offense levels applicable to certain cocaine base offenses were lowered by two

levels. See U.S. S ENTENCING G UIDELINES M ANUAL §§ 1B1.10, 2D1.1 (2008). On

January 17, 2008, Cariola filed a pro se petition seeking a reduction of sentence pursuant

to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), and a supplemental motion was filed on Cariola's behalf by

appointed counsel on April 8, 2008. The government filed a response on April 10, 2008.

       On May 5, 2008, the District Court issued an order denying Cariola’s motion for

sentence reduction. Then on May 13, 2008, the Court deniedCase Number 04488

THE MOLLY MAGUIRES

The Charge

"You either end up on the gallows or coughing your lungs out, what's the
difference?"

Opening Statement

The Molly Maguires were a secret fraternity of Irish miners in the last half
of the 19th century. Living and working in deplorable conditions, they fought
for workers' rights with a campaign of industrial sabotage, including
gunpowder-laden explosives and carefully planned murders. This is their
story.

Facts of the Case

Jack Kehoe (Sean Connery, Dr. No, Zardoz) and the other Irish
Catholics working the Pennsylvania coal mines of 1876 have little more than
pennies to show for their dangerous backbreaking labor. Attempts at unionizing
have consistently being obstructed by the mine operators, who have employed the
strong-arm tactics of the local police. As a last resort, Kehoe installs himself
as the leader of a group called The Molly Maguires, intent


on striking back
through violence.

As these acts of on-the-job terrorism become more frequent, Detective James
McParlan (Richard Harris, Cromwell, Camelot) is hired to
infiltrate the Mollies and provide the police with the evidence needed to put
nooses around their coal-blackened necks. But when McParlan starts living in the
camp, he not only develops feelings for his landlady Mary Raines (Samantha
Eggar, Doctor Dolittle) but also sympathy and understanding for the
Mollies.

The Evidence

Paramount probably believed it had a hit on its hands with The Molly
Maguires, but sadly, that was not the case. Beautiful cinematography and
strong performances were not enough to save this historical drama, which turned
out to be a big-budget flop when it was released at the beginning of the
1970s.

As presented through the eyes of McParlan, the film is generally sympathetic
towards the Mollies and their plight.film.
Great care certainly went into recreating the period and the wretched conditions
of the mining towns, and the film was shot at a real Pennsylvania coalmine. The
story itself is an important one, and even recent claims that the Mollies were a
fiction used by mine bosses to keep their employees living in squalor does not
negate the conditions and danger that these immigrants were forced to live in.
Where the film falters slightly is in the screenplay based upon those events. It
becomes obvious pretty early on that Bernstein has grafted typical Hollywood
situations onto historical ones for the benefit of the audience who might not
care about the Mollies. Many loose ends are neatly tied up in unconvincing ways,
and the film even incorporates an unlikely love story between long-suffering
Mary Raines and the detective who


what is chalked up to playful civil disobedience in
some scenes invariably results in more grievous acts by both the Mollies and the
police. And the violence in the film is quite striking. Brawls are frequent, and
a Sunday afternoon rugby game proves to be as brutal as onscreen fist fighting
gets. The ending of the film, a confrontation between Kehoe and McParlan, is
ambiguous and concentrates more on personal conflicts than grand statements on
violence and industrial sabotage.

The film is also hindered by its purposely slow pace. Occasionally this
works, calling attention to the deliberate photography of Oscar-winning
cinematographer James Wong Howe. Other times, it just makes the picture drag.
Clocking in at a two hours, including several stretches performed completely
without dialogue, The Molly Maguires feels much longer than it needs to
be.

Besides the camera work, thefilm also gets a boost from its significant
star power. Connery does an admirable job with the few lines he has as the tacit
Kehoe, but he is overshadowed by Richard Harris, who pulls off a great
performance as James McParlan. As the conflicted double agent caught between his
duty, his desires, and his ethnicity, Harris gives a subtle, believable reality
to his character that propels the film in the right direction. Samantha Eggar is
also strong as Mary, easily one of her finest roles before seemingly fading away
in a series of low-budget Canadian horror films.

Kudos are due to Paramount for treating The Molly Maguires with a
more than satisfactory presentation. Very few scratches are evident on this
bright, colorful anamorphic transfer, which does justice to Howe's striking
cinematography. The atmospheric effects on the Dolby Digital 5.1


Filibuster broken, but Texas abortion law fails to pass

Filibuster fails: Wendy Davis spoke for 11 hours in a filibuster but was stopped before the midnight deadline. Still, the Texas abortion law failed to pass when protestors managed to stall a vote.

By
Chris Thomlinson and Jim Vertuno, Associated Press /
June 26, 2013

Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis (D) of Fort Worth, waits for a ruling on a rules violation during her filibusters of an abortion bill, Tuesday, June 25, in Austin, Texas. Senator Davis was given a second warning for breaking filibuster rules by receiving help with a back brace from Sen. Rodney Ellis (D) of Houston.

Despite barely beating a midnight deadline, hundreds of jeering protesters helped stop Texas lawmakers from passing one of the toughest abortion measures in the country.

AsShe was one of five women, as well as the only African American, among the fourteen sales representatives in the Boston Marketing Office. Her immediate supervisor was Zone Manager Helen Meinhold, who reported directly to Lou Giglio, District Marketing Manager.

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On January 19, 1996, while on a sales call for Delta, Straughn fell and broke her wrist, which disabled her from work for most of the ensuing period through March of 1997. Although she returned to work during this period, on each occasion she was unable to continue for more than a few days.

5
Under the applicable Delta employment policy, employees injured on the job were entitled to thirteen weeks' accident leave, as well as accumulated sick leave, vacation time and full salary. Nevertheless, these employees were obligated to reimburse


Giglio was instructed to suspend Straughn pending further investigation.

19
Following the conversation with McColly, Giglio inquired of Straughn in the presence of two Delta supervisors -- Helen Meinhold and Tom Keating -- regarding whether she had received workers' compensation benefits while on accident leave. Straughn responded that she had not, stating once again that she had simply received checks to compensate her for costs related to medical treatment, transportation, and meals.

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Giglio thereupon suspended Straughn, as instructed, and requested that she reduce her statement to writing. Prior to providing Giglio with her written response, however, Straughn consulted with an attorney who had been representing her in a related tort action against the owner of the premises at which her injury occurred.

21
Helen Meinhold later recounted Straughn's responses to Giglio's inquiry asStraughn's employment due to her dishonesty in responding to the repeated inquiries regarding her receipt of workers' compensation benefits. Director Ealey, himself an African American, explained that it was Straughn's dishonesty which distinguished her conduct from that of other employees who had not spontaneously reimbursed Delta after receiving workers' compensation benefits in similar circumstances.

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Straughn commenced an internal grievance procedure with the Delta administrative appeals board. In due course, the board, comprised of McColly and another member, recommended to Director Ealey that Straughn be reinstated. The appeals board neither assigned reasons for its recommendation nor prescribed conditions for the reinstatement, except that Straughn reimburse Delta for all workers' compensation benefits wrongfully retained.

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At that point Giglio offered Straughn employment as a Sales Staff Assistant, a new position with no direct


well enough to drive an automobile - hence unable to service clients, the primary responsibility of her position.

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As concerns Straughn's previous requests to work from a "virtual" home office, one was denied by Meinhold and several by Giglio. The record reflects that her first request to Giglio was made within six months of her hiring. Straughn presented no evidence that other new sales representatives were accorded the privilege so early in their tenure. With regard to the other requests which Giglio denied, she points to no evidence (i) that she was "similarly situated" to any sales representative who was accorded the privilege, or (ii) that she met Delta's criteria for evaluating such requests. Instead, she simply asserts in conclusory fashion that everyone else was permitted to work part-timebeen handled better. And Ms. Straughn did have a good record, and several years with the company, so we decided that we should recommend . . . another chance.

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(Emphasis added).

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Asked to clarify what she meant by "confusion," McColly stated that she had neither concluded that Straughn was confused by Giglio's questions, nor that Straughn had retained the workers' compensation payments unwittingly. Instead, McColly explained: "I still believe that Ms. Straughn very likely knew that she had not been entitled to the payments," emphasizing that the appeals process had in no sense caused her to "question the story that Lou Giglio had been telling . . . [and] that ultimately led to [Straughn's] termination."

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Plainly, then, the recommendation to rehire Straughn was made notwithstanding McColly's earnest belief that it was


One of the news bits that emerged from the annual Owners' Meeting was that the Cowboys seemed to have already moved Sean Lee to weakside linebacker. Although I'm sure most of you don't remember, this was a move that I was in favor of when Dallas first adopted the Kiffinelli 4-3, where the weakside ‘backer is protected so that he can quickly diagnose and run to the ballcarrier unabated.

In addition, the WLB plays a key role in underneath zones (unlike the MLB, who is often tasked with covering the deep middle when the defense is deployed in a two-deep safety look). As it turns out, one of Sean Lee's strengths is his ability to peel off of a receiver and undercut a route to grab an interception. That'swhat Derrick Brooks did for so many years in Tampa Bay, and is one of the reasons he's in the Hall of Fame.

In response to this news, reporters asked about middle linebacker: who would fill the hole vacated by Lee? Jerry Jones told them that the team still wants to sign Rolando McClain (and we might see this as soon as something more concrete takes place in his appeal of an 18-day jail sentence). In the meantime, they have Jasper Brinkley around as insurance. Indeed, he's the typical Cowboys free agent, a bridge player destined to be replaced as soon as the team can draft a more dynamic young talent. If the team doesn't sign McClain, we should look for them to draft Brinkley's replacement in April, and


the JACK linebacker in the old Buddy Ryan 46 defense. For reference, here's a diagram of the most common 46 alignment:

As far as the defensive line is concerned, the 46 defense actually deploys in much the same way as the Tampa-2 "under" front: the D-line shifts to the weak side, leaving the weakside defensive end off-set from the offensive line, all but guaranteeing him a one-on-one match up on the offensive tackle as well as a smooth, unpolluted rushing lane. A key difference is that, in the 46, the strong side defensive end shifts further inside than he would in the typical 4-3 "under" alignment. In the 4-3, he lines up on the offensive tackle's outside shoulder; in the 46, he moves inside, deploying head up on thetackle or even on the strong side guard's outside shoulder.

Another key feature of Ryan's scheme was that both outside linebackers tended to play on the strong side of the formation. The JACK linebacker lined up on the line of scrimmage, on the tight end's outside shoulder on the line of scrimmage and, in a nasty bit of defensive business, the CHARLIE (formerly weakside) linebacker lined up on the tight end's inside shoulder. These two could play a huge assortment of combo games, either pinning their ears back and rushing the passer or dropping back in coverage.

As I noted above, the OTTO linebacker will be expected to function in much this way. How might this look? Although we don't have a lot of evidence from Jaguars game tape (they


depend on the player as well as in-game situations (to be clear: the Cowboys would use the OTTO in certain packages, not as a key ingredient in their base defense). "Oh sure," you might be saying, "the Cowboys could run this is they had a Bruce Irvin on their roster."

Perhaps they do - or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Here's what is interesting: one of the Jaguars' first free agent acquisitions last year (he was inked on free agency's second day) was Dekoda Watson, a former Buccaneers seventh-rounder who was signed with the express intent of playing the OTTO. Jacksonville coaches and scouts found that he possessed the requisite athleticism to be all over the field, rush the passer, and drop back into coverage.

Sadly, Watson's tenure in Jacksonville beganwith him missing the offseason, organized team activities and training camp with a groin injury. He also missed the first two preseason games on the Physically Unable to Perform list. He did manage to play in nine of ten regular season games, with his lone start in London against the Cowboys. But by the time he gained his footing, J.T. Thomas had ensconced himself as the starter at the position Watson was signed to play, and he was released during the bye week, whereupon the Cowboys snatched him up.

In early March, when the Cowboys signed Keith Rivers to a one-year deal, many folks were left scratching their heads. But a perusal of Rivers' history shows a lot of OTTO traits. Allow me to share his scouting report coming


Story highlights Clinton says the U.S. values its relationship with Russia but is committed to democracy

Calls for Russia's parliamentary elections to be re-run will go unheeded, an analyst says

Putin says Secretary Clinton's words sent a signal to opposition leaders

More than 20,000 people have signed up via Facebook for a protest in Moscow this Saturday

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed the United States Thursday for encouraging opposition protests that have broken out since parliamentary elections Sunday.

His accusation followed comments by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week on Russia's election in which she called for a "full investigation" of apparent irregularities.

The United States had "serious concerns about the conduct of the election," she said, at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe Tuesday.

Speakingon state TV, Putin said Clinton had criticized the elections as "neither fair not free -- even before receiving reports from international observers."

This had sent a signal to opposition figures, Putin said, who "with the support of the U.S. State Department" then began "active work."

He told representatives of his All-Russian People's Front movement there was a difference between criticism from within the country and by outside players, and he said Russia should defend itself against "foreign interference."

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Demonstrators have been protesting against what they describe as electoral fraud in Sunday's national vote, which kept Putin's United Russia party in power but significantly decreased the number of seats it holds in Parliament.

More than 20,000 people have signed up via Facebook for a protest in Moscow called "Saturday in Revolution Square." If it goes ahead as foreseen, it would be one of the largest opposition protests in the Russian capital in years.

Rallies are also being planned via Facebook in more than 90 other Russian cities Saturday, as well as in London, New York, Kiev, Ukraine, Paris, Geneva, Switzerland and Stockholm, Sweden.

In his remarks,raised concerns over the conduct of the election in a preliminary report, saying some political parties had been prevented from running and the vote was "slanted in favor of the ruling party."

A draft report by the organization's election-observer mission detailed alleged attempts to stuff ballot boxes, manipulate voter lists and harass election monitors. The group, which monitors and promotes democracy and human rights, cited the lack of an independent body running the election or impartial news media.

There was also "undue interference of state authorities" in the vote, the 56-nation organization said in a statement.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton gave her backing to the OSCE observers' findings in a statement Wednesday, and she said she expected Russia to act on them.

She also voiced concern about the detention of


hundreds of protesters following the election and "reports of police violence against activists, journalists and bystanders."

Criticism of the electoral process has also come from within Russia.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, called Wednesday for new parliamentary elections in Russia over concerns about vote fraud.

Spokesman Pavel Palezhchenko told CNN Gorbachev was "very concerned about how the situation in Russia is developing" and that the Russian people did not believe their will was reflected in the results.

But Margot Light, professor emeritus of international relations at the London School of Economics, said it was highly unlikely that any notice would be taken of Gorbachev's call.

"They won't re-run the election," she said, suggesting the Russian authorities would instead probably run a case-by-case investigation where there have been specific complaints of irregularities. Russia'selection law does have an appeals procedure in such cases, she said.

While she considers Putin's accusation of U.S. interference to be rhetoric, there is a widespread fear of Western interference in elections. This dates back to the so-called "color revolutions" in Georgia and Ukraine, when Russia believed Western non-government organizations and governments were behind opposition protests, she said.

Light suggested Putin will be able to blame failings in the electoral process and United Russia's relatively poor performance on President Dmitry Medvedev, who is "damaged goods" since Putin announced he would run for president again next year.

The election outcome may have given Putin a "great fright" ahead of the presidential election in March 2012, she said, but at the same time there is no other credible candidate to challenge him,


so the chances of him losing, even without falsification of the results, is very small.

Many democratic nations are governed by parties, like United Russia, who have won a plurality of the vote, rather than an absolute majority, she added.

Opponents of Putin have vowed to continue protesting the parliamentary election results despite the arrests of at least 250 demonstrators Tuesday.

A planned opposition rally in Moscow failed to materialize Wednesday, however, with a heavy security presence in the square where thousands of demonstrators were expected to march, but no visible protesters.

Rights group Amnesty International said in a statement Wednesday that Russian authorities "must halt police mistreatment of election protesters, journalists and detainees" before further planned rallies.

Amnesty said more than 1,000 people, including journalists, had reportedly been detained following election protests,of whom possibly more than 100 remain in detention. It had received numerous reports of mistreatment of detainees and beatings of peaceful protesters by police, the group said, with some denied medical treatment.

Police said 8,000 people had turned out for a separate demonstration in support of Putin's United Russia party.

As simmering anger over allegations of official corruption and economic stagnation appear to be boiling over, Putin has promised to make changes, including reshuffling his Cabinet.

He has said the losses his party suffered in Sunday's elections were inevitable.


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UNESCO chief deplores latest killing of a Somali journalist

Somali authorities must do everything in their power to put an end to the continuing violence which has already claimed the lives of eight journalists in the African country this year, the head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom said today, as she condemned the latest killing of a Somali journalist.

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1988, a second Telex, which was addressed to "SerVaas Incorporated, Mr. Clarence Ormsby" and was signed by "AlShaheed Factory Director," notified Plaintiff that a letter of credit had been opened in its favor at Banco del Lavoro in Atlanta.[7] (See SerVaas Decl. Ex. F) (Telex from AlShaheed Factory Director to Clarence Ormsby, dated Nov. 14, 1988 ("Nov. 14, 1988 Telex").) Plaintiff asserts that, through the Nov. 14, 1988 Telex, "Iraq advised that it had opened the requisite irrevocable letter of credit[.]" (SerVaas Decl. ¶ 15.)
Between 1988 and 1990, payments were made to SerVaas Inc. in the United States, "by way of agreed-upon draws on the irrevocable letter of credit the Ministry had established with the Atlanta branch of Banco Del Lavoro." (SerVaas Decl. ¶ 19.) Plaintiff asserts thatwere "Servaas Inc." and "The State of Iraq, more in particular the Ministry of Industry of the State of Iraq." (Freeze Agreement at 1.) The Agreement was executed for the "State of Iraq" by Fakhri Kadhum, (see n. 3, supra), and Noori Taih, who are identified as Head of the Legal Consultation Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of the State of Iraq and General Manager of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Industry of the State of Iraq, respectively. (Freeze Agreement at 4.) The Freeze Agreement provides, among other things, that "SerVaas has obtained a judgment dated 16th April, 1991 against Iraq in France, in which Iraq is ordered to pay to SerVaas U.S. $14,152,800" and that "Iraq herewith acknowledges unconditionally that it owes SerVaas an


of Fin. Insts. v. Euro Pac. Bank Ltd., 661 F.Supp. 1082, 1083 (D.P.R.1987).
[3]  Mr. Kadhum received a law degree in 1972 from the University of Al-Mustanserey in Baghdad, Iraq, and an LL.M. in 1982 from the University of Southampton in England. He was an attorney with the Iraqi Government from 1986 until his 2005 retirement; from 2003 through 2005, he was Director General of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Iraq. (Kadhum Decl. at 1-3.) Mr. Al-Wiswasi received a law degree in 1994 from Heritage College in Baghdad, Iraq, and was appointed Acting Director General of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Iraq on June 10, 2009. (Al-Wiswasi Decl. at 2.)
[4]  Included in the... that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons; and
(iii) any accounts, assets, investments, or any other property of any kind owned by, belonging to, or held by the Central Bank of Iraq, or held, maintained, or otherwise controlled by any financial institution of any kind in the name of, on behalf of, or otherwise for the Central Bank of Iraq.
69 Fed. Reg. at 70,177-78.


WASHINGTON — In Michigan, an ad attacking Terri Lynn Land, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, opens with a shot of rising brown floodwaters as a woman says: “We see it every day in Michigan. Climate change. So why is Terri Lynn Land ignoring the science?”

In Colorado, an ad for Cory Gardner, another Republican candidate for Senate, shows him in a checked shirt and hiking boots, standing in front of a field of wind turbines as he discusses his support for green energy.

And in Kentucky, a spot for the Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, depicts him flanked by coal miners as a woman intones, “The person fighting for our coal jobs is Mitch McConnell.”A state-run newspaper in China has published a front-page story hailing bitcoin as the first successful application of blockchain technology.

The praise marks a significant shift in Beijing's stance towards the cryptocurrency and comes as the country prepares to launch its own digital currency.

Monday's edition of Xinhua went into detail about how bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology works, describing it as "one of the hottest topics in recent years".

China has been slow to acknowledge the potential benefits of cryptocurrency compared to other countries and has typically taken a hardline attitude towards the industry.

In September 2017, as bitcoin was heading towards its record high price, Beijing introduced a ban on all cryptocurrency exchanges to prevent citizens from purchasing digital currencies with Chinese yuan.

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8 1 /8 Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures Satoshi Nakamoto creates the first bitcoin block in 2009 On 3 January, 2009, the genesis block of bitcoin appeared. It came less than a year after the pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto detailed the cryptocurrency in a paper titled 'Bitcoin: A peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' Reuters Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures Bitcoin is used as a currency for the first time On 22 May, 2010, the first ever real-world bitcoin transaction took place. Lazlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins – the equivalent of $90 million at today's prices Lazlo Hanyecz Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures Silk Road opens for business Bitcoin soon gained notoriety for its use on the dark web. The Silk Roadmarketplace, established in 2011, was the first of hundreds of sites to offer illegal drugs and services in exchange for bitcoin Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures The first bitcoin ATM appears On 29 October, 2013, the first ever bitcoin ATM was installed in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada. The machine allowed people to exchange bitcoins for cash REUTERS/Dimitris Michalakis Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures The fall of MtGox The world's biggest bitcoin exchange, MtGox, filed for bankruptcy in February 2014 after losing almost 750,000 of its customers bitcoins. At the time, this was around 7 per cent of all bitcoins and the market inevitably crashed Getty Images Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures Would the real Satoshi Nakamoto please stand up In 2015, Australian police raided the home


of Craig Wright after the entrepreneur claimed he was Satoshi Nakamoto. He later rescinded the claim Getty Images Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures Bitcoin's big split On 1 August, 2017, an unresolvable dispute within the bitcoin community saw the network split. The fork of bitcoin's underlying blockchain technology spawned a new cryptocurrency: Bitcoin cash REUTERS Bitcoin's volatile history in pictures Bitcoin's price sky rockets Towards the end of 2017, the price of bitcoin surged to almost $20,000. This represented a 1,300 per cent increase from its price at the start of the year Reuters

The Xinhua article was not wholly positive about bitcoin, claiming that the semi-anonymous nature of the cryptocurrency meant it was used for illicit activities like money laundering.

"People can freely transfer money through bitcoin without havingto verify various identity information... However, this feature also makes bitcoin widely used in illegal transactions," the article states.

"Currently, the most important use of bitcoin payments are black market transactions and 'dark web' transactions."

China's change in policy towards cryptocurrency and blockchain began earlier this year, prompting rumours that the country was close to unveiling plans for its own state-backed token.

In October, after years of an effective blackout on the subject, adverts for blockchain course began to appear on popular Chinese apps and across social media sites. Days later, president Xi Jinping described the technology as an "important breakthrough" that should be developed.

A law is also set to be introduced in January that will "facilitate the development of the cryptography business and ensure the security of cyberspace and information".

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age of 40 years. She was distressed by headaches, trigeminal neuralgia, and back pain, for which she had been treated with various painkillers including celecoxib (200 mg, twice daily), tramadol (100 mg every 6 hours), and pregabalin (75 mg, twice daily). However, her pain did not improve satisfactorily (visual analog scale score \> 4). Therefore, she was later treated with oral morphine (15 mg every 4 hours) and duloxetine (60 mg daily) for severe pain and depression. Although her pain improved on the above, she frequently experienced drowsiness, dizziness, and nausea. In addition, she had frequent falls during this period. She also had a suicide attempt by overdose of sleeping pills in December 2016. She received surgical decompression for spinal stenosis in March 2017 for worsening back pain and progressive right arm clumsiness. After surgery, her backchromosome 17q, which is a characteristic molecular finding in patients with VBD.^\[[@R6]\]^

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CJC just criminalizes the poor

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Created 05/05/2009 - 7:57pm

My mother and I didn't get affordable housing, mental health services, or access to free child-care for my infant son because I was arrested.

OPINION Two SF police officers stood; another was in the car at the curb, door ajar, lights flashing onto the sidewalk. It was 3:00 p.m. and the lights, the three police officers, and the squad car were all focused on one small man huddled next to a shopping cart and a torn Hefty bag, shining steel handcuffs glittering off his deep brown wrists. The man said nothing as they arrested him. His "crime": sitting, standing, sleeping while houseless in San Francisco.

It's illegal to be houseless in the United States. In fact, arguably it's illegal to be poorand Larkin streets, the system was triggered by Richie, a 56-year-old who used to hold down a construction job until he was laid off. Arresting him didn't get Richie a job. The CJC didn't get Richie a job. But, the folks there would argue, they referred him to job training and a temporary shelter bed. And guess what? Other organizations that didn't arrest Richie also referred him to job training and a temporary shelter bed.

My mother and I didn't get affordable housing, mental health services, or access to free child-care for my infant son because I was arrested.

Acts of revolutionary legal advocacy, art, support networks, and political awareness, like the ones I learned through the Suitcase Clinic, POOR Magazine, WRAP, the Coalition on Homelessness, and People Organized to


The huge rocket NASA is developing to get astronauts to an asteroid, Mars and other distant destinations should also greatly aid robotic exploration efforts, members of Congress were told Tuesday (July 28).

The Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, scheduled to fly for the first time in 2018, will blast unmanned spacecraft toward their targets at incredible speeds, dramatically reducing interplanetary travel times, said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

"My view is that the Space Launch System will be transformative for science," Grunsfeld told members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Science, Space and Technology Committee during a hearing Tuesday entitled "Exploration of the Solar System: From Mercury to Pluto and Beyond." [See images of NASA's SLS megarocket]

NASA's giant Space Launch System, or SLS, is derived fromand a science team and a spacecraft while it's in cruise, even if we hibernate. And that's something that also delays the science."

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which just two weeks ago performed history's first-ever flyby of Pluto, was launched by a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. New Horizons weighed just 1,050 lbs. (480 kilograms) fully fueled, but its mission still required the most powerful variant of the Atlas V, Grunsfeld said.

And New Horizons zoomed straight through the Pluto system at high speed for a one-time flyby. Spacecraft that linger around a celestial body — such as the Europa probe, which will perform at least 45 flybys of Europa from Jupiter orbit — cannot travel so light, said New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research


The Trump administration has denied a request from Exxon Mobil to waive U.S. sanctions against Russia and allow it to resume oil drilling around the Black Sea.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says in a brief statement that the administration "will not be issuing waivers to U.S. companies, including Exxon, authorizing drilling prohibited by current Russian sanctions."

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The decision comes just two days after it was reported that Exxon was seeking a waiver to resume a joint venture with Rosneft, a Russian state-owned oil company.

The request presented an unusual potential for conflicts of interest, given that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was Exxon's CEO immediately before taking the Cabinet position. He lobbied against the sanctions after they were imposed in 2014, in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea.that warmer periods existed on Earth during the medieval warm period as well as during Roman Times and other time periods during the last 10,000 years. There is plenty of evidence found in the Dutch archives that shows that over the centuries, parts of the Netherlands disappeared beneath the water during these warm periods, only to appear again when the climate turned colder. The famous Belgian city of Brugge, once known as “Venice of the North,” was a sea port during the warm period that set Europe free from the dark ages (when temperatures were much colder), but when temperatures began to drop with the onset of the little ice age, the ocean receded and now Brugge is ten miles away from the coastline. Consequently, during the medieval


Ice Age. Many villages in the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps saw their homes threatened and fields destroyed by these large ice masses. Pleas went out to local bishops and even the Pope in Rome to come and pray in front of these glaciers in the hope of stopping their unrelenting advance. Around 1850, the climate returned to more “normal” temperatures and the glaciers began to recede. But then between 1940 and 1980, as the temperatures declined again, most of the glaciers halted their retreat and began to expand again, until warmer weather at the end of the last century caused them to continue the retreat they started 150 years earlier. Furthermore, we now know that many of the glaciers around the world did not exist 4000 tolater that month that it would develop a plan to comply with the EPA.

"While I believe there are significant questions regarding the legality of the Clean Power Plan, these new rules have been put into place by the federal regulatory agency," Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said at the time. "Until a final legal decision has been made, we cannot afford to ignore them."

Other states signed onto the lawsuit appear undecided about how to proceed.

North Carolina quickly developed a proposal that ignores two of the three strategies recommended by the EPA. The plan received initial state approval in November.

"North Carolina is way ahead of the curve in terms of putting pen to paper on a rule," said Clint Woods, executive director of the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies.

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federal power plan rule," he said.

North Carolina officials argue that improving the efficiency of power plants is the only approach out of three encouraged by the Obama administration that would be legal under state and federal law. The other approaches are increasing the use of natural gas and renewable energy.

North Carolina's director of air quality, Sheila Holman, told The Associated Press this month that state officials don't think they have the authority to force power companies to use those approaches.

According to the state's own estimates, its plan would fall short of the EPA's goals for reducing carbon emissions by 2030.

State officials say they will develop a backup plan in 2016 that expands strategies for reducing emissions in case the legal efforts fail. If no plan is submitted, theBookbinder, former chief climate counsel for the Sierra Club reach similar conclusions with respect to the U.S. INDC for the global climate treaty. Hardly ideological allies, both point to the significant gap between the stated goals and reality. Even after summing up reductions from Obama’s entire major initiatives on greenhouse gases, it is clear that additional cuts will be required to meet the reductions announced by the administration.

Where will these cuts come from? In addition to the Clean Power Plan, the White House has already announced rules on everything from higher CAFE standards for cars, light trucks, and now even heavy trucks, to landfill methane, to new energy efficiency standards for appliances. But the gap remains.

With power plants and mobile sources already under the gun, the administration will


beyond. Tragedy and misery are rarer than they were before 2015—and there is every reason to hope they will be even less prevalent in 2016.

To start with acts of violence in America, despite its epidemic of mass-shooting events, the country is still far safer than it was in the past. The latest FBI statistics, reported this September, suggested that the trend toward lower rates of violent crime in the United States that began in the early 1990s continued at least through 2014: There were nearly 3,000 fewer violent crimes that year than the year before and more than 600,000 fewer than in 1995—that’s a 35 percent decline over the period. The latest data from the UN suggests that this is part of a global trend—to take one categoryof violent crime, homicide rates have dropped by an estimated 6 percent in the countries for which data was available between 2000 and 2012.

Furthermore, terrorism, war, and murder together remain a minor cause of death worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 119,463 people died in incidents of “collective violence and legal intervention,” such as civil war, and 504,587 died from episodes of “interpersonal violence,” such as homicide, in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available. In the same year, according to the Global Terrorism Index, 11,133 people died in terrorist attacks—suggesting terrorism accounted for about 1.8 percent of violent deaths worldwide. And for all that terrorism deaths have increased since 2012, they remain responsible for perhaps three hundredths of one percent of global mortality.


All collective and interpersonal violence together accounted for around 1.1 percent of total deaths in 2012. Rabies was responsible for three times as many deaths as terrorism that year. Stomach cancer killed more people than murder, manslaughter, and wars combined. And the good news about many of the more important causes of global mortality is that the world continued making progress against them in 2015.

Take two fellow horsemen of the apocalypse alongside war: famine and pestilence. Both were on the defensive in 2015. There were fears of drought across the Sahel causing a famine this year—especially in conflict zones such as South Sudan. While the risk of major food shortages in 2016 is high, the fear hasn’t materialized yet, at least. Famine deaths are increasingly rare and increasinglycases of measles have dropped by more than two-thirds, saving more than 17 million lives—largely thanks to increased vaccination rates.

Meanwhile, the UN reported this year that global child mortality from all causes has more than halved since 1990. That means 6.7 million fewer kids under the age of five are dying each year compared to 1990. Nearly 7 million families avoided the pain of burying their child in 2015 who would have gone through it if the world hadn’t seen two and a half decades of historically unprecedented progress against childhood illness. 2015 also saw the lowest-ever proportion of kids out of primary school according to the UN—less than one in 10. The number of kids out of school has fallen from 100 million in 2000 to a


projected 57 million in 2015.

Civil and political rights also continued their stuttering spread. While 2015 saw rights on the retreat in countries including Turkey and Thailand, the number of electoral democracies worldwide remains at a historic high according to Freedom House—at 125, up from just 69 countries in 1989 (though less than half of these are considered fully “free;” there is still a lot of progress to be made). This year, there were peaceful and democratic transitions of power in settings as diverse as Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Myanmar, and Argentina. And Saudi Arabia held local elections where, for the first time ever, women were allowed to stand as candidates and vote.

In the United States, this was the year that gay marriage became the law of the land. Anddeeper levels of the ice cores. . Perhaps the gas content of an ice layer approaches a low asymptote under pressure. Dr Zbigniew Jaworowski's criticisms of the assumed reliability of ice core measurements are of course well known. And he studied them for over 30 years.

The world's first "Green" party was the Nazi party -- and Greenies are just as Fascist today in their endeavours to dictate to us all and in their attempts to suppress dissent from their claims.

Was Pope Urban VIII the first Warmist? Below we see him refusing to look through Galileo's telescope. People tend to refuse to consider evidence— if what they might discover contradicts what they believe.

Warmism is a powerful religion that aims to control most of our lives. It is nearly as


powerful as the Catholic Church once was

Believing in global warming has become a sign of virtue. Strange in a skeptical era. There is clearly a need for faith

Climate change is the religion of people who think they're too smart for religion

Some advice from the Buddha that the Green/Left would do well to think about: "Three things cannot be long hidden: The Sun, The Moon and The Truth"

Leftists have faith that warming will come back some day. And they mock Christians for believing in the second coming of Christ! They obviously need religion

Global warming has in fact been a religious doctrine for over a century. Even Charles Taze Russell, the founder of Jehovah's Witnesses, believed in it

A rosary for the church of global warming (Formerly the Catholic church): "Hailto their great woe. Warmists too will not consider that they may be wrong ..... "Bowels" was a metaphor for compassion in those days

Inorganic Origin of Petroleum: "The theory of Inorganic Origin of Petroleum (synonyms: abiogenic, abiotic, abyssal, endogenous, juvenile, mineral, primordial) states that petroleum and natural gas was formed by non-biological processes deep in the Earth, crust and mantle. This contradicts the traditional view that the oil would be a "fossil fuel" produced by remnants of ancient organisms. Oil is a hydrocarbon mixture in which a major constituent is methane CH4 (a molecule composed of one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms). Occurrence of methane is common in Earth's interior and in space. The inorganic theory contrasts with the ideas that posit exhaustion of oil (Peak


reliance on observable facts and is as such one of the founders of modern medicine

"In science, refuting an accepted belief is celebrated as an advance in knowledge; in religion it is condemned as heresy". (Bob Parks, Physics, U of Maryland). No prizes for guessing how global warming skepticism is normally responded to.

"Almost all professors of the arts and sciences are egregiously conceited, and derive their happiness from their conceit" -- Erasmus

"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin." -- Thomas H. Huxley

Time was, people warning the world "Repent - the end is nigh!" were snickered at as fruitcakes. Now they own the media and run the schools.

"One of the sourcesLeftists exploit that with their nonsense about equality. Most people want a clean, green environment so Greenies exploit that by inventing all sorts of far-fetched threats to the environment. But for both, the real motive is generally to promote themselves as wiser and better than everyone else, truth regardless.

Policies: The only underlying theme that makes sense of all Greenie policies is hatred of people. Hatred of other people has been a Greenie theme from way back. In a report titled "The First Global Revolution" (1991, p. 104) published by the "Club of Rome", a Greenie panic outfit, we find the following statement: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and


the like would fit the bill.... All these dangers are caused by human intervention... The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." See here for many more examples of prominent Greenies saying how much and how furiously they hate you.

After fighting a 70 year war to destroy red communism we face another life-or-death struggle in the 21st century against green communism.

The conventional wisdom of the day is often spectacularly wrong. The most popular and successful opera of all time is undoubtedly "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. Yet it was much criticized when first performed and the unfortunate Bizet died believing that it was a flop. Similarly, when the most iconic piece of 20th century music was first performed in 1913-- Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" -- half the audience walked out.oil at around seven MILES beneath the sea bed -- which is incomparably further down than any known fossil. The abiotic oil theory is not as yet well enough developed to generate useful predictions but that is also true of fossil fuel theory

Medieval Warm Period: Recent climatological data assembled from around the world using different proxies attest to the presence of both the MWP and the LIA in the following locations: the Sargasso Sea, West Africa, Kenya, Peru, Japan, Tasmania, South Africa, Idaho, Argentina, and California. These events were clearly world-wide and in most locations the peak temperatures during the MWP were higher than current temperatures.

Both radioactive and stable carbon isotopes show that the real atmospheric CO2 residence time (lifetime) is only about 5 years, and that the