2014 was the year of the almost El Niño.

Instead, record warmth in other parts of the Pacific as well as the hottest year on record in Europe were some of the main drivers in fueling the heat. Joe Romm of Climate Progress also notes that heat in Australia early in the year and California’s hottest year further contributed to the heat.

Seasonal temperatures also paint a picture of a planet that didn’t get a break. Spring, summer and fall were all record-setting hot. Last winter was the only season not to set a record, and even that was still the sixth-warmest winter.

JMA is one of the four major groups that use both ground measurements and satellites to compute the planet’s average temperature. The other three include NASA and theonce leaving his office. He learned that the high-temperature gasification industry had to date been focused on destroying waste while relying on tipping fees for its income. Dr. Do sold his practice and set out to develop a high-temperature gasification system designed for efficient energy extraction/recovery while also destroying the waste. Solena was effectively born, patents were awarded and several industry trends have converged resulting in Solena Fuels Corporation having a market leading position in the drop-in, sustainable fuels markets. Dr. Do is responsible for the overall strategy and technology offering of the Company and has graduate degrees in Physics and Medicine from Georgetown University. Dr. Do has extensive experience as an entrepreneur, environmental scientist and in executive management positions. Dr. Do has been advocating the uses of


bioenergy for the reduction of greenhouse gases to combat climate changes and has been lecturing extensively in the US, Europe, and worldwide on the importance of alternative renewable energy. Dr. Do is a Co-Chair for the Transportation Initiative of the American Council on Renewable Energy, a member of the AMA, a Diplomate of the American College of Forensic Examiner, a member of the National Sciences Council for Science and the Environment and a member of the Nationals Who’s Who of Registered Executives and Professionals. He is also founder of the Green Cup, a non-profit charity polo event held annually in DC for the benefit of the environment.

Hung Bui Quang, M.Eng, MBACFO & Director
Mr. Bui Quang joined Solena as a member of the Board of Directors in 2006. Mr.Bui-Quang has extensive experience in project development and project financing, corporate equity fund raising, and is advising Solena regarding its capital strategy for BioEnergy Plant funding. Mr. Bui-Quang has more than 30 years of experience in the energy sector with Hydro Quebec, Gaz Metro Limited Partnership and International Consulting Engineering firms. Mr. Bui Quang is the former Vice-President of International Business Development of Hydro-Quebec; a major integrated electric utility in Canada with an installed Capacity of 35,315 MW, and annual revenue of more than $11 billion. Mr. Bui-Quang currently serves as the Regional Vice-President of RSWI, an engineering consulting firm active in 43 countries and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam-Canada Engineering Company (VCE) with its head office in Hanoi, Vietnam. Mr. Bui-Quang


holds a Bachelor of Science and a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique (University of Montreal, Canada) and an MBA from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). In 1992, Mr. Bui-Quang was awarded the prestigious title "Nouveau Performant 1992" (The New Management Elite 1992) by the Business Community of the Province of Quebec.

Dr. Sylvain Motycka, M.S., Ph.D.- Vice President, Process & Technology
Dr. Motycka leads the engineering teams responsible for Solena's Gasification Island as well as the Waste-to-Liquids plants and the related fuels sustainability compliance. Prior to joining Solena in 2006, Dr. Motycka was a scientific researcher at the Institute of plasma physics; Academy of sciences of the Czech Republic, researching hybrid gas‐water stabilized DC thermal plasma torches. Previously, he designed plasma torch systems for Surfx Technologies applied to thesemiconductors, medical devices and aerospace industries. Sylvain Motycka holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University and he received a Master of Science in Plasma Physics from the Université d’Orléans, France and a Master of Science in Electronics and Optics from the Ecole Polytechnique de l’Université d’Orléans, France. Dr. Motycka is co-author of several US patents and pending patents.

Yves G. Bannel Executive Vice President Europe
Mr. Bannel joined Solena in 2001 and has 30 years of experience in market strategy and project development throughout the world. This includes 10 years of senior management experience in the development, promotion and financing of turnkey projects in Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Bannel was General Manager of Sateco, a French group


dedicated to designing, manufacturing and selling high technology equipment for construction all over the world. During his tenure as General Manager, Sateco became a member of the top 50 companies in France in terms of sales growth, ROI and profitability allowing for the subsequent sale of the company. From 1975 and 1989 Mr. Bannel was successively the General Manager of C2EI, S&T and Gielmetti. Mr. Bannel holds a Masters Degree in Business and a Law Degree from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) de Paris, and a diploma from Ecole Nationale de Aéronautique Civile (ENAC) de Paris. He has served three years as a Professor of Marketing at the Bordeaux School of Business and published three books on marketing industrial products. Mr. Bannel had been Regional President of the CNPF/FrenchAssociation of Businessmen for five years.

Grischa KahlenVice President Business Development for Europe
Mr. Kahlen joined Solena in 2001 in the Prague office where he is responsible for the preparation of Solena projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Mr. Kahlen has 15 years experiences in energy cogeneration and renewable energy production from landfill gas. In the early nineties he founded the company PDI. PDI is in charge of using landfill gas from the two biggest landfills in Prague producing electricity and heat for the district and heating more than 5000 homes in the city of Prague. His company implemented similar projects not only in the Czech Republic, but also in neighboring countries. Before the fall of the socialist system in 1990 Mr. Kahlen wasn't allowed to study in the Country's


University due to political reasons. In those years he worked as a freelance interpreter. In the time of the so called "velvet revolution" in 1989 he was in the team of Mr. Vaclav Havel, the first president of the free Czech Republic, Mr. Kahlen was responsible for establishing contacts with Germany and was accompanying Mr. Vaclav to German speaking countries, as his interpreter.

Trenton Allen, Advisor
Mr. Allen is Managing Director and CEO of Sustainable Capital Advisors. Mr. Allen founded SCA in 2012, to build upon his successful 15 year career in the financial services industry as an investment banker and financial advisor. Throughout his career, Mr. Allen has participated in over $17 Billion of financings, including public debt offerings and private placements (debt and equity). Prior to SCA, Mr.Did the Jeffrey Epstein saga get fishier and fishier with the hanging death of a banker? No, that's not true: Thomas Bowers, who worked at two large banks over recent decades, committed suicide by hanging at his Malibu, California, home on November 19, 2019, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. His suicide has not "caused speculation" about his "real cause of death," except for stories arising from questionable websites known to promote unsourced conspiracy rumors. The only named source in the original report is the publisher one of the stories, and his claim to have personal knowledge of Epstein's banking relationships is in question.

While Bowers' work as the head of Deutsche Bank's American wealth management division has been part of a federal investigation, it was concerning


his approval of loans for President Donald Trump, not relating to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The bank acknowledged it was conducting an internal investigation of its dealings with Epstein, but Bowers, who left Deutsche Bank in 2013, was not himself under investigation.

The claim originated in a TruePundit.com article and was soon repeated in several stories, including an article published by Big League Politics on December 3, 2019 titled "Jeffrey Epstein's Long-Time Banker Found Dead From Hanging, Immediately Ruled a 'Suicide'" (archived here) which opened:

The Epstein saga continues to get fishier and fishier.

Corporate banker Thomas Bowers, who ran the U.S. division of private wealth management for Deutsche Bank AG, reportedly committed suicide last month at the age of 55 by hanging himself with a rope in his Californiaresidence.

However, his extensive ties to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein - who also died from a mysterious suicide - has caused speculation about what the real cause of Bowers' death may be.

Users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail:

Jeffrey Epstein's Long-Time Banker Found Dead From Hanging, Immediately Ruled a 'Suicide' - Big League Politics The Epstein saga continues to get fishier and fishier.

The jail cell suicide of Jeffrey Epstein on August 10, 2019, triggered several conspiracy rumors based on the suspicion that powerful people were using murder to stop revelations about the Epstein's alleged sex trafficking operation. A new rumor was launched a week after banker Thomas Bowers was found dead in his home. Two websites -- TruePundit.com and BigLeaguePolitics.com -- published stories claiming that


Bowers had a close relationship with Epstein while he worked at Deutsche Bank and Citigroup.

The Big League Politics story, which parroted the True Pundit article, noted that Epstein opened several accounts with Deutsche Bank after another bank distanced itself from him in 2013:

Epstein moved millions of his personal wealth through Deutsche Bank before his death. He switched to Deutsche Bank in 2013 after his conviction for child sex crimes when even JP Morgan would no longer do business with him. Following investigations into civil cases exposing the extent of Epstein's criminal network by the Miami Herald, Deutsche Bank finally began to close his accounts. "Deutsche Bank is closely examining any business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and we are absolutely committed to cooperating with all relevant authorities," a spokespersonfor the bank said.

The bank spokesperson quote was lifted from a Bloomberg.com story from July 23, 2019. Bloomberg made no mention of Bowers or an FBI probe of his purported dealings with Epstein. The stories, however, attempted to create a false narative that Bowers had information about Epstein's sex trafficking and that he died "before the FBI questioned him."

Did Bowers have "extensive ties" to Epstein as claimed? Lead Stories has been unable to find a detailed resume' for the banker, but we did find references to Bowers leaving Deutsche Bank in 2013 and also 2015. If Epstein moved his money to Deutsche Bank accounts in 2013, then Bowers would not have been there through much of Epstein's relationship with the bank. Epstein had lost most of his high-powered


friends well before 2013. Former President Bill Clinton and future President Donald Trump cut ties with Epstein before the Florida sex investigation began in 2005. Britain's Prince Andrew stopped socializing with Epstein in 2010.

Both the Big League Politics and True Pundit articles, however, claim that Bowers and Epstein became banking buddies years before when Bowers work for Citigroup and approved big loans for Epstein. Big League reported:

Former bank executive Mike Moore, who led a Citigroup division's anti-money laundering unit during a time when Citi was in bed with Epstein, commented on the nature of Epstein's loans with the corporate lender.

"The loans to Epstein were personal and commercial," Moore said. "The Citi loans I can confirm were for more than $25 million. Some were secured, some were not."

According tosources that spoke with True Pundit, Epstein received similar loans from both Citigroup and Deutsche Bank, and it is not a coincidence that Bowers worked in the same role for both banks when Epstein was doing business with them. Bowers was chief of The Citi Private Bank, and led Citigroup's Global Markets and Wealth Management businesses before he made his way to Deutsche Bank.

Turns out "former bank executive Mike Moore" is the founder of TruePundit.com, where he uses the alias "Thomas Paine." In other words, Moore was the source for Paine's story, but they are the same human. Moore/Paine's approach to journalism has been closely examined by Buzzfeed reporter Craig Silverman for an August 27, 2018 story titled "Revealed: Notorious Pro-Trump Misinformation Site True Pundit Is Run By


copyright infringement in June 2013. He was sentenced to time served of one day in prison, a year of house arrest, and three years of supervised release. During his release he had to provide monthly income statements and facilitate the "investigation of his financial dealings," according to a sentencing document filed on June 17, 2013.

Silverman confirmed that Moore/Paine worked in the past as a journalist, but he could find no evidence he was "a former banker" with CitiGroup. He challenged Moore/Paine in a tweet to explain why Citigroup said he never worked for them:

Hey Mike, you claim to have worked for Citi "running its anti-money laundering Ops in three states." A spokesperson told me they have no record of employing anyone with your name in anti-money laundering operations,claiming Citigroup had defrauded him and misrepresented information related to the investments, which he said had been made on the recommendation of Ms. Davison, who "aggressively solicited my participation." Through a spokeswoman, Ms. Davison declined to comment.

Citigroup filed its own suit in the Southern District of New York for repayment of the loans. Both parties dropped their suits in 2005. Mr. Epstein's relationship with Citigroup was severed in 2006, according to people close to the matter, around the time Mr. Wexner stopped working with Citigroup, the people say. A spokesman for Mr. Wexner declined to comment.

"Mr. Epstein was a client for a short period of time, before his abhorrent behavior came to light," a Citigroup spokeswoman said.

There is no indication that Bowers was close to Epstein during that


Hydra-class ironclad

The Hydra class of ironclads composed three ships, , , and . The ships were ordered from France in 1885 during the premiership of Charilaos Trikoupis, as part of a wider reorganization and modernization of the Greek armed forces, which had proved themselves inadequate during the Cretan uprising of 1866. Launched in 1889 and 1890, the ships were ready for service with the Greek Navy by 1892. They were armed with a main battery of three  guns and five  guns, and had a top speed of .

The ships frequently served together throughout their careers. Their participation in the Greco–Turkish War in 1897 was limited due to intervention by the Great Powers. Modernizations in the 1890s and 1900s upgraded the ships' armament, but by the FirstScientists have found one of human's earliest ancestors 12,000 feet deep under the ocean - a weird pink worm named after a doughnut.

The four-inch (10 cm) long Xenoturbella churro - named for its resemblance to the popular fried-dough pastry - is one of four species discovered 1,700 metre deep in the Gulf of California.

Previously Xenoturbeklla was only known from a single species found in the North Atlantic, puzzling biologists for almost six decades.

Now expeditions half a world away by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at California University in San Diego, the Western Australia Museum and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have helped properly identify the mysterious creatures.

Scripps marine biologist Dr Greg Rouse said: "The findings have implications for how we understand animal evolution. By placing


Xenoturbella properly in the tree of life we can better understand early animal evolution."

The animal's shifting evolution began when the first species, named Xenoturbella bocki, was found off the coast of Sweden in 1950.

It was classified as a flatworm in the 1990s and thought of as a simplified mollusc. In recent years, though, Xenoturbella has been regarded as either close to vertebrates and echinoderms - starfish - or as a more distant relative of its own.

Expets said that knowing where Xenoturbella come from is important to understand the evolution of organs such as guts, brains and kidneys in animals.

MBARI scientist Dr Robert Vrijenhoek, who led the deep-sea expeditions using remotely operated vehicles, said: "When Greg first spotted the worms gliding through a clam field in Monterey Bay, wePolice identify suspect in shooting that killed three as Fraiser Glenn Cross Jr., alias of former Ku Klux Klan white supremacist leader.

Kansas police have published the identity of the 73-year-old suspect in Sunday's shootings at two local Jewish institutions that left three dead. The suspect, Fraiser Glenn Cross Jr., is the former Grand Dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

The name Cross is an alias for Fraiser Glenn Miller, former leader of the white supremacist group, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) statement released Sunday, reports ABC.

SPLC reports having identified the suspect as Miller after a conversation with Miller's wife, Marge, during which she acknowledged police had informed her of her husband's arrest in context of the shootings.

Further, the address listed by local


police for Cross is the same one used by Miller when he ran for Congress in Missouri in 2006, and later sued the secretary of state for refusing his candidacy.

Cross had posted at least 12,000 messages on a neo-Nazi internet forum called the Vanguard News Network. Members of the forum celebrated the shooting with a discussion thread that reached nearly 100 posts by early Monday. "3 ain't bad. Hail Hitler brother!!" read one comment.

The shootings took place a day before Passover outside the Overland Park Jewish Community Center (JCC) and at a nearby assisted living residence, Village Shalom. Cross was reportedly arrested in an elementary school parking lot nearby.

Local reports say Cross shouted "heil Hitler" during his arrest, and indeed local KMBC News filmed the arrest and releasedfootage of him apparently yelling the words out from inside a police car.

Two of the victims have been identified

The shooting at the Overland Park JCC took place just outside a theater where local media said 75 people, mostly children, were inside, reports AFP. They had been auditioning for "KC Superstar," a local singing competition based on "American Idol."

While police have yet to release the identities of the victims, a 14-year-old and his grandfather were identified by their family as being among the dead.

The two, Dr. William Lewis Corporon and Reat Griffin Underwood, were killed at the Jewish Community Center, according to a statement signed "Will Corporon, Son and Uncle."

Reat "loved spending time camping and hunting with his Grandfather, Father, and brother," noted the statement. Corporon retired from family


medicine in 2003, and moved with his wife to Kansas from Oklahoma to be closer to their grandchildren.

Rev. Adam Hamilton of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood reportedly identified the two as members of his church.

A third victim, shot at Village Shalom, is a woman in her 70s who has yet to be identified.

Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass said "we have no indication that he knew the victims. We're investigating it as a hate crime, we're investigating it as a criminal act, we haven't ruled out anything."

"There was a shotgun that was involved," Douglass added, noting two others were reportedly shot at but unharmed. "We are exploring the possibility that a handgun was involved in the shooting at the two persons that he missed,A new species of the hermit crab genus Areopaguristes Rahayu & McLaughlin (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Paguroidea, Diogenidae) from the Mexican Pacific.
A new species of hermit crab, Areopaguristes espetacioni, family Diogenidae, is described and illustrated in detail, including the color pattern in live/fresh specimens. This is the fifth species of Areopaguristes reported from the eastern Pacific. Given the morphological similarity between Areopaguristes espetacioni n. sp. and A. tudgei Lemaitre & Felder, 2012, these can be considered sister species. The presence of a long rostrum, the antennal flagella with short setae, chelipeds and ambulatories legs with dense plumose setae, and telson with calcareous teeth on the posterior margin allow to separate Areopaguristes espetacioni n. sp. from all other species in the genus previously described for the region. A key for


A case of ectopic dysplastic kidney and ectopic ureter diagnosed by MRI.
A 14-year-old girl with a solitary right kidney had continuous urinary incontinence. Four months previously she had undergone surgical resection of a vaginal septum associated with uterus didelphys, which was causing obstructed menstrual flow. She was toilet trained at the age of 2 years, had a normal voiding pattern, and had no history or family history of incontinence. Pelvic examination, abdominal and pelvic ultrasonography, renal scintigraphy, voiding cystourethrography, abdominal and pelvic MRI, fluoroscopic retrograde vaginography, vaginoscopy, cystourethroscopy after administration of indigo carmine, laparoscopy, and pathologic examination of the excised specimen. Ectopic ureter draining into the vagina associated with a contralateral dysplastic kidney. Laparoscopic nephrectomy of the left renal remnant and ligation of the left distal ureter.the Congress and other parties.The court has said that Mr Jindal had "manipulated" the entire government machinery to score a coal block allotment in Jharkhand. It also observed that the CBI's charge sheet showed Mr Jindal had played a "pivotal role" in the conspiracy to get a coal block allotted to his firms Jindal Steel and Power Ltd and Gagan Sponge Iron.The company has denied the allegations.The massive irregularities in allocation of coal blocks came to light in 2012 after the national auditor said Rs. 1.86 lakh crore had been lost as the blocks had been distributed without a transparent bidding process.

Most of these allocations have been made by the erstwhile UPA government. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who had also been summoned in one of the cases,


cool-season annual grass that is a major weed species in turf, turfgrass seed production, and golf courses of the western United States (Webster and Nichols, 2012 Weed Science 60(2):145-157). Annual bluegrass germinates in late summer or fall as soil temperatures fall below 70° F. It continues to germinate throughout winter, allowing several flushes of germination at any one site throughout the season. The life cycles of annual bluegrass and turfgrass are very similar, and annual bluegrass is often more competitive than most turfgrasses. Because annual bluegrass is a grass weed growing with turfgrass, selective control is difficult. Pre-emergent herbicides, such as benefin, bensulide, dithiopyr, oryzalin, oxadiazon, pendimethalin, prodiamine, and benefin/oryzalin, are successful in limiting germination of annual bluegrass. A few post-emergent herbicides reduce Poa annua L. growth, butin the room when Trump heard about and approved the June 9 meeting. That would potentially place the president at the center of the decision to join the electioneering conspiracy. Trump’s later documented effort to dictate a false statement about the meeting looks like an attempt to cover up his culpability. A prosecutor and jury are entitled to view a cover-up as evidence of participation in the conspiracy.

More than one year after telling the world that the June 2016 meeting was about adoptions, Trump and his eldest son stand stripped of their false cover. There is no more denying that the meeting sought to enlist the help of a hostile power to swing the election Trump’s way. The effort and the false statements about it were plainly deplorable.


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This hotel is close to Dolby Theater and TCL Chinese Theatre.

Make yourself at home in one of the 127 individually furnished guestrooms, featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed. Rooms have private patios. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while video-game consoles and satellite programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature designer toiletries and complimentary toiletries.

Enjoy a range of recreational amenities, including an outdoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, andKorban HaEida explains that the students of Shamai stood outside the house and prevented most of the students of Hillel from entering in order to sway the halacha.
Rambam (Pirush Hamishnah) says that all of the leaders of the generation were there, and there was no one fit to rule that was not present. Yet, because most of the sages in that place were from Beis Shamai the halacha was decided like Beis Shamai, who were the majority.
The Chasam Sofer (on Shabbos 17a) explains that although Beis Hillel was the majority, the students of Beis Shamai compelled them to rule their way through arguments. Some of the students of Hillel wanted leave to prevent a ruling, but the some of the students of Shamai stood at the door and


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Comedian and social critic Lewis Black is renowned for his hilariously angry face and simulated mental breakdowns. At his quick-witted live shows, Black skewers the absurdities of history, religion, and politics with impassioned rants that are as funny as they are eye-opening. Whether he's feigning befuddlement with current social trends or making light of pop culture's bloated landscape, Black has made clear that fans at his 2014 tour dates can only expect one thing: the unexpected.

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A brainy kid born into a blue collar household, Lewis Black was raised in the Washington D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland. It was there that he developed the absurd but adroit insights that would later serve his comedic talents. Initially working as a playwright out of the renowned Yale Schoolof Drama, Black found his calling in the roasts he would give plays during his personal introductions of new works to audiences. From there he honed his craft with bit parts in films and TV, eventually earning the respect of New York's funny underbelly. Since then, he's become a Comedy Central staple, both on his own show Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Hot on the heels of a new live CD/DVD released in 2013, Black will hit the road for another round of laugh-filled nights on his 2014 tour.

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"Laughed so hard, I had tears in my eyes! Everyone around us was just having great fun...Such a great mix of people. Can't wait to see him


The two-time All-Star announced that he would retire today as a member of the Brewers, before having his plaque installed at Miller Park during a pregame ceremony on Friday. The Wall, established in 2014, commemorates the careers of players and broadcasters who were influential to the team’s history and success.

The former outfielder/first baseman last played for the Brewers in 2012, amassing career numbers with the club that include a .276 batting average with 154 home runs and 508 RBIs. Five times as a Brewer, Hart logged seasons of 20 or more home runs. He also ranks sixth all-time with a .491 slugging percentage.

The Milwaukee Brewers will add two new names to the Miller Park “Walls of Honor” this season.

The team, in conjunction with the Milwaukee Braves Historical Association,the 1957 World Series, passed away in 2007. Over his 13 years with the Braves — first in Boston and then in Milwaukee, he had an ERA of 3.53 and posted a record 179-120.

“We are very appreciative of this honor and would like to thank the Brewers and the Braves Historical Association,” said Mary Lou Burdette-Wieloszynski, daughter of Lew Burdette. “My father loved playing in Milwaukee and the encouragement from the fans meant the world to him. He often talked about the special camaraderie with his Milwaukee teammates, and he was very proud of helping bring a World Series championship to Milwaukee.”

Burdette will be inducted on Friday, May 26 when Milwaukee hosts the Arizona Diamondbacks, while Hart will be enshrined on Friday, June 30 when the Brewers welcome


there. They then marched on Khiva itself.

In the east, XI. Legio captured island after island, fighting a few small battles on the way.

This was far more than was needed for the eventual peace, but it provided good training for the legions and weakened Iraq.

In Hungary, reactionary rebels were able to impose their will on the nation.

During this war, We waited for the fleets to organize themselves before intervening in the UTA’s war. This was unwise, as Mexihco used the opportunity to begin a mass invasion. When XV. Legio arrived in Texas, they were defeated at Dallas and forced to retreat to Houston. This defeat was startling, as on paper the legion should have been able to smash the Mexican forces. It was surely the abilities of the Mexicangeneral that turned the tide. Once XV. Legio recovered, they began assisting American lands under Mexican occupation, avoiding the Mexican armies.

Meanwhile, VI. Legio was transported to New England, where they completely destroyed the New English army that had been causing the American 1st Army to hesitate. They then boarded their transports and sailed for the gulf coast. The UTA would be left to recapture their lands and occupy New England.

IX. Legio was more bold, and had set sail for Veracruz, intending to march on Mexico City. And once VI. Legio landed in Houston, both they and XV. Legio marched north to sweep the Mexicans from American lands. Before long, XV. Legio had revenged themselves on the Mexicans, and VI. Legio proved they were to be feared.

Once Mexihco was


Mr. Eisenberg's sixth reinstatement petition was denied because he had failed to make restitution to or settle claims of persons injured or harmed by his misconduct, because he had expressed willingness to comply with the continuing legal education requirements for reinstatement only if he were assured that, having met those requirements, his license would be reinstated, and because he intended to practice law in Wisconsin only occasionally but maintain a trust account on his own, rather than in association with another lawyer or law firm in this state.[8]
¶ 8. Mr. Eisenberg currently resides in the City of Orlando, Orange County, Florida, where he owns a process serving business. He intends to remain in Florida and may take the Florida bar examination or practice law there on a proOTTAWA—Mississauga MP Eve Adams stands accused of abusing Conservative Party and Commons resources in her bid to grab a new seat; of insulting and bullying board members in the new riding, and of threatening the riding association’s 2015 election plans.

Yet it may be news of her December tantrum over a $6 car wash at an Ottawa gas station that will turn out to be her political career tipping point.

John Newcombe, a Conservative supporter and the owner of the Island Park Esso station in Ottawa’s west end, said he contacted the Prime Minister’s Office in January to complain about an incident with Adams in December 2013.

Related:

· Stephen Harper mum on Eve Adams controversy

According to Newcombe, Adams was upset about a car wash she felt was unsatisfactory, and parked directly


the first time the party has not protected incumbent MPs in its 10-year history since the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives merged.

Adams represents Mississauga-Brampton South, but last year moved to Oakville with Soudas, her common-law partner. She wants to run there instead.

With files from Alex Boutilier, The Canadian Press

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384 Pa. 316 (1956)
Hyzy, Appellant,
v.
Pittsburgh Coal Company.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Argued September 30, 1955.
March 13, 1956.
*317 Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.
Harry Alan Sherman, for appellant.
Harold R. Schmidt, with him Ralph H. German, and Rose, Rose & Houston, for appellee.
OPINION PER CURIAM, March 13, 1956:
The plaintiff, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, brought the present action against the defendant company, the husband's employer, for damages for his allegedly wrongful death. The defendant filed preliminary objections, in the nature of a demurrer, to the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff's exclusive remedy was under the Workmen's Compensation Act. The learned court below sustained the objections and dismissed the complaint in an order from which the plaintiff has brought this appeal. The


the defendant Pittsburgh Coal Company as motorman of a Joy-loading machine. On January 8, 1953, he was crushed to death by a roof-fall and cave-in. In an action for damages, the Administratrix of his estate charged the defendant with negligence: "(a) In assigning decedent to work under an untimbered, loose, and deteriorated roof, in violation of the Mine Safety Acts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, forbidding assignments of work in hazardous areas. (b) In knowingly directing and permitting the operation of a bull-dozing machine in a section where no timbering or adequate timbering were installed to support the loose and danger roof. . . . (e) In wilfully, wantonly and negligently instructing decedent to operate the said bull-dozing machine in the area in violation of law and toThere are fears that a UN helicopter has been shot down over South Sudan

A rebel commander shot down a UN helicopter in rural South Sudan, said a government spokesman.

The UN has confirmed the crash of one of its helicopters and said it was investigating the cause.

The UN mission said on Twitter that an Mi-8 cargo helicopter crashed near Bentiu, which is hotly contested between the government and rebel fighters.

The UN said it is deeply concerned about the fate of its crew. A search and rescue team has been sent to the crash site, it said.

Contact with the helicopter was lost at about 3:19pm local time and it was apparently shot down near Bentiu, said a UN official.

A South Sudan government spokesman blamed the rebels for shooting down the


helicopter. Rebel commander Peter Gadet was responsible for shooting down the helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade, said Akol Ayom Wek, the press secretary for the governor of Northern Bahr el-Ghazal state, a region loyal to President Salva Kiir.

The UN search and rescue team found three dead at the crash site, said Mr Wek. One person survived, he said. The UN had not yet confirmed any deaths or the number of people on board the helicopter.

Gadet warned the UN last week that he would shoot down any UN planes that flew over his territory, said Mr Wek.

South Sudan has seen widespread violence between rebels and the national army since December.

Online EditorsEXCLUSIVE: Brevoort & Alonso Talk "Fear Itself"

How much fans should read into the roster on this promotional image for "Fear Itself" is not yet known

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and ironically enough for comic book fans, one of the biggest reasons to look forward to 2011 is also "Fear Itself."

Earlier today at New York's Midtown Comics in Time Square, Marvel Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada and VP - Executive Editors Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso announced "Fear Itself," the publisher's latest event series from "Invincible Iron Man" and "Uncanny X-Men" writer Matt Fraction and an all-star art team including Stuart Immonen, Wayne Von Grawbadger and Laura Martin. The series debuts with a special prologue issue from Ed Brubaker and Scot Eaton in


March and the full seven-issue series commencing in April with an oversized first issue. In "Fear Itself," the various heroes of the Marvel Universe will gather together to combat a new threat Fraction referred to as "the god of fear" in a pre-recorded video message. Eight of the most worthy Marvel champions will be selected to defend the cause and fight for what they believe in. The specific characters were not identified at the press conference, as their identities will be teased out in the comings weeks and months.

CBR News had the opportunity to talk exclusively with Brevoort and Alonso at the end of the press conference, and while the main players of "Fear Itself" weren't identified right away, both editors promised that the X-Men would play ain 'Fear Itself.' There's going to be a lot of pay off."

During our chat, Brevoort recalled the origins of "Fear Itself" as stemming from an original idea that Fraction proposed at an editorial meeting. "We'd been talking about stuff to do in the coming year, and he had this thought, this nugget, that grew into 'Fear Itself,'" he said. "It changed a little bit as we talked about it and workshopped it back and forth, but really, the central idea was something that Matt had brought into the room."

The as of yet unnamed "god of fear" will be the chief nemesis in "Fear Itself"

Though the plot details are a bit murky at the moment, the central idea is not. At the outset of the press conference, Quesada kicked


"The Heroic Age," an era where major events were downplayed in favor of considerably more hopeful, optimistic superhero adventures. Now, not only is another event coming to the Marvel Universe, it's an event that's billed as the biggest one yet. With multiple tie-in issues, new series launches, one-shots and more already in the works, is it perhaps a little soon for a story with the size and scope of "Fear Itself"?

"You don't set off saying, 'Let's tell a major event.' You start with a nugget of an idea and it starts gaining steam in the room and it gets workshopped," Alonso said of the decision to pursue "Fear Itself" as an event series. "Matt came in with an idea and we beat it up like we did withPlaintiff Catherine Dower is a female who has been employed by defendants since 1956 in the Music Department of Westfield State College.
4. Defendants Westfield State College and the Board of Regents of Higher Education are agencies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and are "employers" within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 2000e.

B. Evidence of Discrimination
5. Prior to trial, the parties entered a stipulation providing:
The job requirements for all teachers, within ranks, are substantially equal in terms of skill, effort, and responsibility and are performed under similar working conditions.
However, the parties acknowledge that different teachers may have different professional qualifications including different skills, experience, education, and disciplinary and technical backgrounds. Nothing contained in this stipulation shall be deemed to mean that the college could not properly have taken these


fields such as English would be expected to earn $264 more than the Social Science professor.
20. Dr. Kendall's main criticism of Dr. Ash's departmental groupings is that they are counterintuitive. Dr. Kendall testified that, from his understanding of the national labor market, he knows that the Applied fields such as computer science are far more competitive than the Social Science fields. Thus, he believes it illogical for Dr. Ash's study to present science professors consistently earning less than social scientists. According to defendants,
By its inability to control for departmental affiliation, Dr. Ash's regression analysis has failed to take cognizance of market forces that operate at the departmental level and that are not random in their effect on the salaries of male and female members of the faculty atthe toothless imbecilic grin that would one day become legendary. Taking a casual glance around the room, he smacked his lips loudly and said, "What's for lunch?"

After reading dear old Chin Mang's note, I called in the head monk and asked that he show my new student to the monk's quarters. When they had gone I reflected on chin-mang's words. Han-hsin was indeed a most severe place of training: winters were bitterly cold and in summer the sun blazed. The monks slept no more than three hours each night and ate one simple meal each day. For the remainder of the day they worked hard around the monastery and practiced hard in the meditation hall. But, alas, Chin-mang had heard correctly, Among all my disciples there was none


whom I felt confident to be a worthy vessel to receive the untransmittable transmitted Dharma. I was beginning to despair that I would one day, bereft of even one successor, fail to fulfill my obligation of seeing my teacher's Dharma-linage continued.

The monks could hardly be faulted for complacency or indolence. Their sincere aspiration and disciplined effort were admirable indeed, and many had attained great clarity of wisdom. But they were preoccupied with their capacity for harsh discipline and proud of their insight. They squabbled with one another for positions of prestige and power and vied amongst themselves for recognition. Jealousy, rivalry and ambition seemed to hang like a dark cloud over Han-shin monastery, sucking even the most wise and sincere into its obscuring haze. Holding Chin-mang's note beforeAfter due formalities were observed the Emperor signaled for the debate to begin.

Several hours passed as one after another priests and scholars came forward presenting their doctrines and responding to questions. Through it all Wu-ming sat obliviously content as he stuffed himself with his favorite food. When his supply was finished, he happily crossed his legs, straightened his back and closed his eyes. But the noise and commotion were too great and, unable to sleep, he grew more restless and irritable by the minute. As I clasped him firmly by the back of the neck in an effort to restrain him, the Emperor gestured to Wu-ming to approach the Throne.

When Wu-ming had come before him, the Emperor said, "Throughout the land you are praised as a Bodhisattva whose


nice quiet place where he could sleep undisturbed. The Emperor spoke again, his voice shaking with fury, his face flushed with anger: "You have been summoned to this council to speak on behalf of the Buddhist teaching. Your disrespect will not be tolerated much longer. I shall ask one more time, and should you fail to answer, I assure you the consequence shall be most grave. Teach me the True Way that all under heaven must follow!" Without a word Wu-ming turned and, as all looked on in dumbfounded silence, he made his way down the aisle and out the door. There was a hush of stunned disbelief before the crowd erupted into an uproar of confusion. Some were applauding Wu-ming's brilliant demonstration of religious insight, while othersOn June 24, 1963, a San Francisco grocery store had been burglarized and certain identifiable Traveler's Express money orders had been stolen.
 On the evening of June 25, 1963, in San Francisco, an unidentified person who resembled appellant Williams had snatched a purse from Mrs. Berta Erickson which contained, in addition to money, a wallet in which were her identification card and a Bank Americard.
 Thereafter several of the stolen money orders were cashed. The person or persons cashing them had used the names, "James M. Williams," "James Williams," "Berta Erickson," "Paul Erickson," and "Carl Erickson." Mrs. Erickson, a People's witness at the trial, testified that the signatures on the money orders were not hers or her husband's. Nor had she ever purchased or possessed these money orders.


her sister, Marlene Brown. Defendant Williams and one William Scott were in the back seat. Defendant Parks, the driver, got out of the car. He was asked for his driver's *808 license, had none, and stated the car had been borrowed from an unidentified friend. During this part of the conversation Williams volunteered no information.
 Parks was asked to, and did, unfasten the registration certificate from the car's steering post and showed it to the officers. The officers had already noted the license plates on the car--KWM 821. However, the license number stated on the certificate was MVA 002, and the car was registered to "James Williams." Williams then identified himself and told the officers he owned the car. He stated he had no knowledge the license plateswere not the ones issued therefor. Through radio inquiries the California Highway Patrol advised the officers that the license plates on the car had recently been reported stolen from another vehicle at Lake Tahoe. (Later members of the Highway Patrol joined the sheriff's officers.) Meanwhile, upon the officers' request, Williams gave his consent to a search of his car, during which the plates belonging to the car were found in the trunk compartment. Williams told the officers he did not know how the plates had been switched.
 All members of the party were taken to the county jail. Upon arrival, the car was again searched and Mrs. Erickson's wallet and Bank Americard were discovered under the rear seat.
 Thereafter all occupants of the car, except Parks, gave statements


to the police. The men were charged with the offenses noted above. Both women testified for the People at the trial. So also did William Scott who had theretofore pleaded guilty to his participation in the crimes. From the testimony of these witnesses, the following appears:
 Scott testified that Parks had met him on a street in San Francisco on the afternoon of June 29th. Parks told Scott he had won some bondified money orders from a sailor in a "dice game" and wanted to pass them in Reno. He needed transportation. Scott and Parks then went to Williams' residence. Williams joined them and furnished his car. A check protector was obtained and used to print dollar denominations on the money orders. The men visited the two girls,and a third, Mamie, at their residences and persuaded them to join them on the excursion. (Mamie left the party in Reno.) The girls were told that the purpose of the trip to Reno was to gamble at the casinos. The group drove to Reno where they gambled. The men cashed some of the money orders. Efforts to cash others were unsuccessful. There is no evidence *809 that the girls participated in or were aware of this money order cashing. Because of realization that the license number of Williams' Pontiac had been obtained and written on a money order by one of their victims, the men decided to steal and substitute license plates from another car. This was accomplished at the South Shore of Lake Tahoe.
 Marlene Brown


testified that when the officers had signaled their car to stop Parks had given her a "handful" of money orders, telling her to hide them on her person since the police would not search a woman. She did so and later disposed of them in a wastebasket at the county jail. When her sister, Divey, informed a matron that Marlene had the money orders, Marlene showed the matron where they had been put and they were recovered. (They were introduced in evidence.) Divey testified that Parks threw the wallet to her at the same time he had given the money orders to Marlene, and she had first hidden it in her bra and later disposed of it by putting it under the back seat where it was discoveredas related above.
 Williams, at the sheriff's office, made a statement to two officers. Their testimony established it was given freely, voluntarily and without coercion after Williams had been advised of his constitutional rights, including his right to an attorney. The statement coincided closely with Scott's testimony and that of the two girls. Added thereto was the information that two of the money orders had been cashed by him at a casino on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe and that he and Parks had gambled and lost the proceeds. He declared he did not want the girls to be accused as accomplices and go to jail for something they had not done.
 [1a] Appellants' principal contention is that the money orders, wallet and its contents introduced in


The stopping of this car under the circumstances described above was proper. Erratic "weaving" of appellants' car appeared to the officers to be endangering other motorists as they maneuvered to pass. The officers would have been derelict in their duty if they had not stopped the car to ascertain the cause of its weaving. Request made for inspection of the driver's license was routine. Request for inspection of the registration certificate was a natural concomitant. This, in turn, led successively to discovery (1) that the car's license plates were not those issued for that car; (2) that they were stolen; and (3) that the car's own plates were in the car's trunk. The search which produced the latter evidence and also the stolen wallet was made before arresthave relatives raise funds with which to employ another attorney. These attempts had been unavailing. When at the time of trial Williams made his request for a continuance there was no showing of his then present financial ability to employ counsel. Also, upon inquiry by the court, he expressly affirmed that he was being competently represented by his court-appointed counsel. Denial of the continuance was proper.
 Appellant Williams' next contention that his statement given to the officers at the county jail was "coerced" because given under the belief that the girls would be held and prosecuted if he did not confess has no substance. There is no showing in the record that the officers made any representations or offered any inducements to Williams involving the girls. According to


the testimony of the officers, which is uncontradicted, the statement given by Williams was wholly voluntary.
 The last contention of appellants is that it was error to allow the district attorney's office to get a second statement from Williams induced by a promise of immunity and then to repudiate the promise. After an attorney had been appointed for Williams, the latter, upon the advice of the attorney, gave a formal statement to a deputy district attorney with a stenographic reporter present. The giving of this statement was attended by negotiations between Williams' attorney and the deputy district attorney for a deal whereby Williams would become a witness for the People at the trial of Parks in exchange for immunity. These negotiations were discontinued when it was learned thatreleased at the end of March. “We were nothing but commodities for sale,” she said, according to testimony given to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.

She was just 17 years old.

The young woman was violently forced into prostitution by her husband last year not long after they were married. When she discovered she was pregnant later in the year, she was forced to undergo an abortion and made to receive customers again just three days later.

Vicious cycle

Lebanon’s controversial regulations on refugees are making them increasingly vulnerable according to aid workers, creating an environment ripe for abuse.

To register with the Lebanese government, refugees must sign a pledge not to work. Many work anyway.

Forced to pay their own way in Lebanon with insufficient aid, it is the only way to


Administration; the CDC, affectionately known as the Centers For Deceit Control and Procrastination; the USDA, affectionately known as the US Department of Atrocities, and the FTC, affectionately known as the Federal Treachery Commission. Why do I describe them as such? Because they do anything to protect big business and little to protect the people.

The FDA will do anything to further the profits of the drug industry. They have no qualms in shutting down companies dealing with natural remedies. In fact, the head guys at the FDA are former pharmaceutical executives. Right now, in the United States, the Food Czar, overseeing the FDA, Michael Taylor, affectionately known as "Monsanto Mike", used to be an attorney at Monsanto.

It is a known fact that cherry juice is a great remedy forDental Caries in the United States, in the third paragraph on page 4 it states," fluoride's predominant effect is post-eruptive and topical". This means it works on the surface of the tooth after the tooth has come into the mouth. Nowhere, anywhere, does it say you have to drink the poison. Even now, research is evolving that shows that the topical benefits are way less than they thought. Pimps, hookers and tricks.

The USDA is in bed with the dairy industry. The USDA protects the dairy industry as if it were a golden goose. Let me give you a good example: back when Bill Clinton was the President, he hired Dr. Jocelyn Elders, a black woman, as his Surgeon General. Dr. Elders, when in office was going to make


of the US population.

This diet, affectionately known as "the diet of death", adversely affects personal health, healthcare costs, and our children's ability to think clearly. This diet has a negative effect on Corporate America because the workers poisoned by processed foods suffer from repeated sick days, the inability to focus, failure to learn, and failure to create new ideas. With their brains fueled by junk foods and with failed education giving them few options for earning an honest living, more people turn to crime. In time, the prisons become filled with people incarcerated for behavior that could have been at least partially prevented with proper nutrition. With disease rates skyrocketing, violent crime on the rise, education failures rampant, and healthcare costs bankrupting families, happiness hits an all-time low.two uncomfortable truths.

The first uncomfortable truth is that the U.S. has been the poster child of the greed world, not the free world, since its very beginning. Ever since U.S. citizenship was available only to white males in 1790 and voting rights only available to white propertied males, the entire history of the U.S. has been the struggle of native Americans, Blacks, women, Latinos, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, workers, small businesses, and climate activists for social and political rights and economic equality.

I recently spoke to a human rights class at San Jose State University about ESCs. For those of you who have not studied human rights, ESC stands for economic, social and cultural rights, rights which we have not included in our United States Constitution but other countries


candidates who will not take corporate campaign contributions but who do incorporate the values and support the progressive policies we care abou.

The great 19th century Cuban leader Jose Marti, in a reframe of “the people united will never be defeated, proposed that we unite to win. Unite to win. UNITE TO WIN. Ladies and gentlemen, we can never unite to win around Wells Fargo. We cannot unite to win around Monsanto. We cannot unite to win with candidates that take corporate money.

Just weeks before his assassination Martin Luther King warned that he feared the civil rights movement was integrating into what he called a burning house, the United States of America.

We need to fight Trump but also build a warm home, a new vision for America based onand
roosts communally, usually in trees. The Black Kite occurs in all types of
open or lightly wooded habitat including grasslands, rivers, lakes, wetlands
and seashores. It nests in tall trees or on cliffs, building a nest of
sticks lined with various materials; the female lays 2-3 eggs and incubates
them, while the male brings her food.

In Taiwan the Black Kite is a rare resident
in lowlands to 800 m. Previously quite common, its population is now
estimated at only around 200 birds in five isolated sites: Wan-li, Rei-fang
and Hsin-tien in Taipei County, Tseng-wen Reservoir in ChiayiCounty and Northern Mountain in Pingtung
County. It is listed as endangered in
Taiwan and is legally protected.

References: Guide to
Threatened Birds of Taiwan, BirdLife International Red Data Book, 2005 (Woei-horng
Fang); Handbook of Birds of the World Vol. 2; A Field Guide


The same day a Bavarian policeman died after a shootout with a far-right extremist, police in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt were attacked by assailants also belonging to the "Reichsbürger" movement, German media reported on Friday.

Two officers in the town of Salzwedel were struck by a 43-year-old man and his 34-year-old wife after the pair refused to be escorted out of the town square. They called the police officers "Nazis" and continued to throw punches, landing one of the officers in the hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

The "Reichsbürger" movement has received renewed press in recent days after an incident in the southern town of Georgensgmünd which saw three officers wounded and a third killed. The self-proclaimed "Reichsbürger" do not recognize the authority of the German state,and believe the borders of Germany are those that existed prior to the Second World War. They allege that Germany remains occupied by the Allied Forces.

Members of the movement say they are citizens of the "Königreich Deutschland" or the Kingdom of Germany that existed before Adolf Hitler took power

Berlin's state intelligence recently described the group as "an extremely diverse range of small groups and individuals who believe in an ideological mixture of conspiracy theories, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic views, and who have been behaving increasingly aggressively for some time."

Security services will not track 'Reichsbürger'

Although they are nationalists, they are not considered neo-Nazis, and not all of them are right-wing extremists, according to German authorities. According to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper, this means the security services do not intend to


surveil them, as they only believe there to be about 100 active "Reichsbürger" members in Germany and that most of them are not dangerous.

But in Bavaria on Wednesday, an encounter with one member of the movement did indeed turn out to be deadly. A 32-year-old officer was killed and three others wounded, one severely, in a gun fight. The officers had intended to raid the 49-year-old man's house to relieve him of weapons he had been deemed unfit to continue possessing.

The suspect was lightly wounded and taken into custody in the course of the raid. Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann warned that, while small in number, the "Reichsbürger" should not be dismissed as merely an "association of crackpots."Howard tops ex-PMs in perks

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FIVE of Australia's surviving former prime ministers have cost taxpayers almost $1 million in travel and office expenses in 12 months.

John Howard, Australia's second longest-serving prime minister, topped the list with a bill of almost $300,000 for the 2010-11 financial year, documents released by the Department of Finance and Deregulation revealed.

Entitlements for the five former prime ministers totalled $984,880 for the 12 months.

On top of their generous parliamentary pensions, former prime ministers are entitled to taxpayer-funded support, "in recognition of public service", in the form of domestic airfares - for themselves and family - an office and staff and a car.

In 2001 Mr Howard, as prime minister, announced entitlements of former prime ministers, governors-general and life gold passholders would be


(CNN) It's no secret that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees his country as the pre-eminent Muslim power in the Middle East. He regards his vision of political Islam as competing with that of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He frequently accuses the United States of trying to belittle his country, and ruminates about a "greater Turkey."

But does Erdogan believe that Turkey has the right or need to acquire nuclear weapons to cement its status?

Last month the Turkish leader suggested as much, saying that "some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads, not one or two. But we can't have them. This, I cannot accept." He went on to single out Israel, saying: "We have Israel nearby, almost as neighbors. They scare others by possessing these. Nowith the Nazis, and has threatened to unleash hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugee s on Europe.

But it's a long leap from a couple of lines at a party meeting to a program to develop nuclear weapons. Turkey is developing (with Russian help) a nuclear power program, but it is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , and there is a whole world of difference between energy and weapons.

Ziya Meral, senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, says that, at the moment, "there is no tangible sign that Turkey is set to pursue nuclear weapons, nor that we are witnessing a substantial shift in Turkey's decades-long policy of not pursuing them."

"In practical terms, it would take a decade with substantial financial commitment


forces of Khalifa Haftar and Turkey's largest overseas military base in Somalia.

The sea-change in Erdogan's policy came in the wake of the Arab Spring, when he visited Cairo, Tunis and Tripoli to tout the virtues of the "Turkish model" to societies very much in flux, or even chaos: a Muslim society in a secular, free-market state.

That didn't work out so well -- but the civil war that erupted in Syria only deepened Erdogan's determination to project Turkish influence.

US President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, regards this as profound, describing it as the greatest geopolitical shift in the post-Cold War era. He told an audience last month that under President Erdogan, Turkey "wants to see itself as shifting away from Europe and being more inthe Middle East and more Eastern leaning so that it can play situations to its own advantage."

It's a view echoed by commentator Aaron Stein, who wrote in foreign policy website War on the Rocks that Erdogan: "Seemed to be using nuclear weapons as a straw man to make a broader argument about Ankara's place in the world, and how the American and Western systems with which Turkey had long associated itself are unfair and require change."

"He was expounding on a more personal, deeply held grievance about Turkey's global role," Stein says.

Erdogan has already taken this tack when complaining about western "financiers" undermining the Turkish economy. Last year, as the Turkish lira crumbled on international markets, he said those who plotted against Turkey in a failed coup attempt were


must deal with to its own advantage. Inevitably, this means a decoupling from Washington.

Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said on Twitter earlier this month that the US was "long overdue to give up fiction" that Erdogan's Turkey was an ally.

"US should withdraw all nuclear weapons, reduce reliance on Turkey's bases, and restrict intelligence sharing and arms sales. Should also articulate red lines in Syria," Haass tweeted.

Arguably more important than a provocative line about nuclear weapons in a speech to the party faithful was the sight of Presidents Erdogan and Putin in August as they enjoyed an ice cream while admiring Russia's new Su-57 combat jet.

In a dig over the US threat to withhold F-35 sales to Ankara, Erdogan turned to Putin and wasof an optical sensor and a radar sensor embedded respectively on satellites, comprising measuring the positions of the satellites when the sensors point at land areas, is characterized in that it comprises measuring a sight direction of the optical sensor and capturing an image of a land area for each of the measured positions of the optical sensor, measuring the distance between a land area and the radar sensor and capturing an image of the land area for each of the measured positions of the radar sensor, comparing the images captured by the optical sensor and the images captured by the radar sensor, matching the images of land areas captured by the optical and radar sensors and covering common land areas, and determining the distance between the target


land area selected from the common land areas and the optical sensor as a function of the positions of the sensors, the distance between the target land area and the radar sensor, and the sight direction of the optical sensor, which are associated with the images captured by the optical and radar sensors covering the target land area.
The distance between the target land area and the optical sensor is thus determined as a function of simple data measured accurately, in particular on board co-located satellites, by an approach involving the merging of two equations relating to the sensors, without making approximations regarding the position of the satellites, allowing the position of the target land area viewed by the sensors to be provided with great accuracy.of 1975, three Customs Patrol Officers of the United States Customs Service, Kelly, Wade, and Hough, and an informant, Kirkendall, set out to break into the El Paso, Texas home of a suspected drug smuggler.  Their object was to hide a small radio transmitter there.  Their purpose, they said later, was to obtain advance information about this person's movements.  They made no attempt to obtain a warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment, or the approval of the Attorney General of the United States, as required by 18 U.S.C. § 2516(1).  Kelly, an electronics expert, had constructed the transmitter from a sensor device of a kind ordinarily planted near the United States-Mexico border to monitor unauthorized border crossings.

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The four men drove to the street


where the subject's home was located.  Wade went to the house and knocked on the door to make sure no one was inside.  When he returned, Kirkendall went to the house, broke in, and looked for somewhere to hide the transmitter.  Kelly, Wade, and Hough remained outside, keeping a lookout for the home's occupant and for El Paso police.  After a time Kirkendall returned, having failed to find a suitable place to hide the transmitter.  He brought with him a radio monitor and some papers that he had taken from the house.  The four men left.

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In May of 1975 another informant, identified in the proceedings below by the pseudonym "Mr. Smith," made allegations to Internal Affairs agents of the Customs Service concerninga number of instances of wrongdoing by Customs Patrol Officers.  Internal Affairs began an investigation which brought to light the break-in described above, among other things.  Kelly was questioned by Internal Affairs agents in the office of the district director of the Customs Patrol in El Paso on June 10, 1975; by Internal Affairs agents, Drug Enforcement Administration personnel, and Assistant United States Attorney Ederer in Ederer's office in the El Paso federal courthouse on June 11, 1975; and by Internal Affairs agents Kyle and Reimann at a motel in El Paso on August 24, 1975.  On all three occasions Kelly was given his Miranda rights, waived them, and discussed his involvement in the break-in.  These statements were recorded and later transcribed.  Kelly


an evidentiary hearing.

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Before the case went to trial, Kirkendall pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of willfully under color of law depriving an inhabitant of a state of rights secured by the Constitution in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242.  He was sentenced to one year of probation.  Kelly and Wade went to trial on June 7, 1976.  During the course of trial, the case against Wade was dismissed because it was based on a statement by him taken under an implied grant of use immunity.  The case against Kelly continued.

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The government read portions of Kelly's June 10, June 11, and August 24 statements to the jury during its case in chief.  At the close of the government's evidence, the district court deniederred in denying his motion to suppress his August 24, 1975 statement because that statement was not shown to have been made voluntarily.  Second, he argues that Judge Sessions erred in declining to recuse himself because the judge was the United States Attorney for the district in which the indictment was brought at the time the allegedly unlawful acts were committed.  Third, he argues that the district court erred in denying his motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground of selective prosecution and in unduly limiting the scope of evidence that he was allowed to present in support of this ground.  Finally, he argues that the district court erred in refusing to direct a verdict of acquittal, based on his supposed good-faith belief that


358-59.

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Kelly flew to El Paso on the evening of August 24.  Agents Kyle and Reimann met him at the airport and drove him to a motel where a room had been reserved for him.  Kelly got to the motel between 9 and 10 p. m. and spoke briefly with Maloof.  From this point on, Maloof's, Kyle's, and Reimann's accounts differ from Kelly's.

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Maloof testified that when Kelly arrived at the motel, he asked Kelly how he felt and whether he was tired from the trip.  Maloof stated that Kelly said he was not tired, that he would prefer to give the interview that night, and that he had a toothache.  When Maloof suggested that they postpone the interview until the next day, he said,agents he was extremely tired and had a bad toothache.  He said he indicated that he would prefer to postpone the interview until the next morning.  He also said he had been drinking so much on the airplane that he thought it would have been obvious to the agents.  Kelly testified that it was the agents, and not he, who insisted on proceeding with the interview that night rather than the next morning.  He also claimed that the agents had given him two beers during the interview and that Kyle also had had one.  Record Vol. 3 at 353-55, 363-64.

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In addition to his testimony that he had felt pressured into giving his statement that night rather than the next day, Kelly testified that


he had been pressured and lulled in other ways before that night.  He stated that Maloof had said he would try to get Kelly reinstated in the Customs Service if he gave the statement, Record Vol. 3 at 352, 362, although Maloof did not corroborate that claim.  He also said that at the end of his June 11 interview in Assistant United States Attorney Ederer's office, Ederer had said he saw nothing for Kelly to be concerned about, id. at 350-51, and that he thus had been lulled into a false belief before the August 24 interview that he would not be prosecuted for the break-in, id. at 357.  Of two other persons who had been present during the interview in Ederer's office, only oneunder § 455 only if he was United States Attorney when the prosecution was initiated, and that he is not disqualified merely by virtue of the fact that he was United States Attorney when the offense was committed.  It points out that the undisputed facts show that the United States Attorney did not even begin his investigation of the break-in until June or July of 1975, about six months after Judge Sessions left the United States Attorney's office,5 and concludes that the judge was not disqualified.

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The government marshals strong support for the position that it is the date that the prosecution was initiated, and not the date of the underlying offense, that is of critical importance in deciding whether a former United States Attorney is disqualified from


that a former United States Attorney need not recuse himself unless he still was in that position after the "proceeding" began.  That is, "proceeding," like "case" in the old § 455, would be read as referring to a stage in actual litigation.

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An alternative, more narrow reading would emphasize the word "participated," and hold that a former United States Attorney would not be disqualified unless he had taken some actual part in the proceeding.  Another, broader alternative reading would emphasize the word "concerning," and hold that a former United States Attorney would be disqualified if he had participated in an investigation during his tenure in office that led to the institution of proceedings only after he left office.

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We are not required to choose among these possible readingsdue process clause of the Fifth Amendment.  Their claim was that the Justice Department, through the United States Attorney, had decided to prosecute criminal offenses committed by Customs Service personnel while ignoring offenses committed by Drug Enforcement Administration personnel.  The Customs Service is a branch of the Treasury Department, while DEA is a branch of the Justice Department.  In 1973 much authority for investigating drug smuggling was transferred by Executive Order from the Customs Service to DEA.  It appears that friction and a lack of cooperation between Customs and DEA resulted from this change, as did some concern in Congress.  It was Kelly's theory that the Justice Department decided to prosecute Customs Service personnel, who were part of Treasury, and to protect DEA


personnel, who were part of Justice, in order to give Justice an edge in the ongoing bureaucratic squabble.6

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The district court gave Kelly an opportunity to present evidence in support of his allegations.  The court was adamant, however, that Kelly would not be permitted to subpoena the United States Attorney or the Assistant United States Attorney who were handling the prosecution unless and until Kelly made what was characterized as a "prima facie" case of invidiously discriminatory prosecution.  The court also was reluctant to allow evidence of acts committed outside the Western District of Texas, although some such evidence did come in.  After this evidentiary hearing, at which Kelly called but a single witness, the district court denied the motion to dismiss.  Kelly assigns asdirector of the Customs Patrol in Laredo, Texas.  Compton testified that on August 20, 1975 he contacted the United States Attorney and an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas and told them of instances of wrongdoing by officers of agencies under the Justice Department.  On direct examination, Compton did not say what his allegations had been, and he did not know whether the United States Attorney had investigated the allegations.  As far as he knew, no indictments had resulted.  Record Vol. 3 at 414-16.

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On cross-examination by the government, Compton stated that the United States Attorney had, in fact, asked him for additional information concerning his allegations.  He stated that many of his allegations had involved conduct taking place in


Mexico, and that the United States Attorney had explained to him that he did not have jurisdiction over Mexico.  Record Vol. 3 at 422, 424, 427-28.  He also stated that some of his allegations concerned conduct that had taken place in 1967 and 1968, and that the United States Attorney had explained to him that the federal statute of limitations was five years.  Id. at 423, 431.  There also appear to have been other vague allegations of irregularities, none of which was clearly stated.  In short, Compton gave no firm evidence that he had notified the United States Attorney of conduct that might have been prosecuted.

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On redirect examination, Compton testified that other agents had accompanied him to talk to the United States Attorneyin August of 1975.  He said that the other agents had talked to the United States Attorney out of his presence, and the district court, not unreasonably, would not permit Compton to testify as to what was said in those meetings.  Kelly chose not to call those other agents to testify.

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On this evidence, the district court certainly could conclude that Kelly had not shown that DEA agents situated similarly to himself had escaped prosecution for acts similar to his own.  See United States v. Scott, supra,521 F.2d at 1195.  Kelly complains that he could have made a better case if the court had permitted him to call the United States Attorney and Assistant United States Attorney to testify.  The district court quite properly


personnel had authorized the break-in, Record Vol. 4 at 216-17, and that Hough had not told him or anyone in his presence that it was authorized, id. at 217.  He said he wore gloves during the break-in.  Id. at 220.  He also stated that before the break-in, he had asked a Customs Patrol supervisor for some unspecified electronics equipment, and that the supervisor had told Kelly, the electronics expert, to get him "whatever he needed."  Kirkendall did not say he had asked for, or the supervisor had authorized, use of a bug.

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The defense called Wade, who contradicted Hough by testifying that Hough had told him the break-in was authorized.  Record Vol. 4 at 385, 401.  He said, however, that Hough did nottell him who authorized it and that he never asked.  Id. at 402.  He stated that Hough had not told him the break-in was authorized in front of Kelly, id. at 391, that he had never heard Hough tell Kelly that, id. at 397-98, and that he himself had never told Kelly that, id. at 401.  Wade's testimony was impeached by a prior statement in which he had said that Hough did not tell him the break-in was authorized and that as far as he knew, no superiors knew about it in advance.  Id. at 392-93.

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Finally, Kelly testified.  He said that he had been with Kirkendall when Kirkendall asked a supervisor for some electronic equipment.  Kelly said the supervisor had told him


neighborhoods were disproportionately affected when Harris County officials notified 9,000 people their registrations could be cancelled unless they proved they were not deceased, according to a Chronicle analysis of data obtained from the Texas Secretary of State.

Already, 32 percent of voters who received "Are you dead?" letters across the county in September - just six weeks before the presidential elections - have confirmed they are very much alive, election officials said this week. Because of widespread complaints, no county voters will be purged before the November elections unless their deaths are independently confirmed, according to Don Sumners, the county's tax assessor collector and voter registrar.

The Chronicle's analysis showed that voters living in black districts - specifically created by lawmakers to enhance political representation of blacks on the countycommission and the Texas Legislature - received more letters than voters in other districts. Nearly 2,900 live in Harris County Commissioner's Precinct 1 - a minority op portunity district created more than two decades ago that includes most of the county's historically black neighborhoods.

'Neutral party' needed?

In an emailed statement, Precinct 1 Commissioner E. Franco Lee, the only African-American on the Harris County Commissioner's Court, said he hasn't seen as many election problems "in the 27 years he's been in office." Lee said he intends to solicit help from the Harris County Attorney's Office and the U.S. Attorney to investigate.

"The recent mistakes let me know that we need a neutral party to look into the matter. And that's the U.S. Department of Justice," he said.

70,000 names

According to U.S. census


so many "weak matches," Sumners told the Chronicle that the process of comparing names, dates of birth and identification numbers in voter records and social security death data was race neutral. He suggested any disproportionate impact might relate to the aging of voters in historically black neighborhoods.

Most likely to be tagged

Across Texas, voters named Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones, Brown, Davis, Garcia and Rodriguez were most likely to be tagged as possibly deceased in the recent clean-up effort, the Chronicle's analysis of all 70,000 voters identified as "weak matches" shows. Some surnames are particularly common among African-Americans. About 13,000 voters listed had last names associated with Hispanic heritage, according to a list maintained by the U.S. Census bureau.

Reform quickly OK'd

Despite the problems with clean-up attempts, the 2011 reform attractednecessarily exists.
The decision we reach here finds further support in the United States Supreme Court's decision in Morales v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., ___ U.S. ____, 112 S.Ct. 2031, 119 L.Ed.2d 157 (1992). There, the Court considered whether the 1978 Act "preempts the States from prohibiting allegedly deceptive airline fare advertisements through enforcement of their general consumer protection statutes." ___ U.S. at ____, 112 S.Ct. at 2034. The Court answered that question in the affirmative, holding that the particular fare advertising provisions before it, embodied in the Air Travel Industry Enforcement Guidelines promulgated by the National Association of Attorneys General, were expressly preempted by section 1305. ___ U.S. at ____, 112 S.Ct. at 2041.
As noted above,[19] the Court vacated the West decision for reconsideration in light of Morales.


to apply the Supreme Court's standard of broad preemption enunciated in Morales. Furthermore, the court erroneously relied on the prospect of leaving the passenger without a legal remedy in determining the preemptive effect of § 1305. Since Heller relies exclusively on Margolis, I find it to be unpersuasive as well.
In Zachary, a passenger, who was allegedly struck during flight by a suitcase which fell from an overhead compartment, brought a claim asserting that the airlines and its flight attendants rendered negligent services. The court noted that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that by enacting § 1305, Congress intended to preempt state law claims relating to the services of an air carrier. Zachary, 1991 WL 487289 at 2 (citing O'Carroll v. AmericanWest's claim for punitive damages under state contract and tort law was preempted by § 1305, but his claim for compensatory damages was not. West, at 151-52. The West majority opined that "the state contract and tort laws under which West seeks relief are within that range of statutes too tenuously connected to airline regulation to trigger preemption under the ADA, what the Morales court called `borderline questions.'" Id. Since the Morales court did not address where it would be appropriate to draw the line, the West majority determined that it should look to agency regulations for guidance. Id. The West majority then noted that "if Congress has explicitly left a gap for the agency to fill, there is an express delegation of authority to the agency to


"What you measure is what you get," said Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Soon Vermont may measure its economic well-being somewhat differently.

This week, the Vermont legislature sent a bill to Governor Peter Shumlin that charges the University of Vermont's Gund Institute for Ecological Economics with developing a new way of measuring the health of the state economy: it's called the Vermont Genuine Progress Indicator.

The law would be the first of its kind in the U.S. and builds on a growing network of state GPI initiatives, most notably Maryland's.

Since World War II, policy-makers and their economic advisers worldwide have measured economic progress by the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, which tracks the volume of commercial transactions: the purchase and sale of stuff.

"And that's what we've gotten  more stuff,"says Jon Erickson, professor and managing director of UVM's Gund Institute. "But is having more stuff the only purpose of the economy? Is it even the main purpose?"

Erickson doesn't think it is  or should be  anymore.

"GDP accounting grew out of the Great Depression and became the dominant planning tool for post-war expansion," he says. "But today economists and policy-makers alike are questioning the utility of such a narrow metric of progress, looking for more comprehensive measures that reflect the environmental and social realities of our time."

That's why Erickson and colleagues have been working hard on behalf of the new legislation, S.237, "An Act Relating To The Genuine Progress Indicator,"  working closely with the governor's office as well as testifying before the state legislature.

The law will


call on the state government to work with the Gund Institute to "establish and test a genuine progress indicator" the legislation says, that "will assist state government in decision-making by providing an additional basis for budgetary decisions, including outcomes-based budgeting; by measuring progress in the application of policy and programs; and by serving as a tool to identify public policy priorities, including other measures such as human rights."

"It makes sense that Vermont, with its commitment to environmental protection and social justice, would be in the forefront of a movement to redefine progress," says Erickson. "The GPI is a more accurate measure of the economy's costs and benefits than GDP."

"The point of the economy isn't to crank through resources as quickly as possible," says Gund Fellow Eric Zencey whooff, because GDP doesn't deduct the costs or adjust for the distribution of all that economic activity," Zencey says. "This new law calls for a better indicator set, one that will draw on social and environmental research to better guide Vermont economic policy."

Zencey led a graduate class at the Gund Institute last fall that updated a 2003 Gund research project, the first state-level GPI study in the nation. The class drew on widely available data and networked with state legislators, agencies, and Vermont nonprofits to estimate twenty-six GPI variables that adjust Gross State Product (the state-level equivalent to GDP) for economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits to consumption.

The GPI bill was introduced into this year's legislative session by Vermont state senator Anthony Pollina and several co-sponsors. "The


GPI accounts for the quality of peoples' lives, not just the commotion of money in the economy," says Pollina. "We should strive for an economy that produces widely shared prosperity in a way that builds strong families, strengthens communities and protects the environment."

The new bill directs the state's secretary of administration to work with the Gund Institute to review and formalize a Vermont GPI, with broad participation from state agencies, nonprofits and community organizations.

"We're witnessing a shift toward measuring what matters," says Tom Barefoot, co-coordinator of Gross National Happiness USA, a national group based in Vermont working on well-being indicators. "The partnerships being formed around the Vermont GPI bill are taking years of good thinking and putting it into action."

Gross National Happiness USA is working with the GundThe Society of Naval Architects & Marine EngineersThe Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers is an internationally recognized nonprofit, technical, professional society of individual members serving the maritime and offshore industries and their suppliers.USA New Jersey

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Warship 2006 - Future Surface Warships

10/5/2005

Venue: London, UK

This symposium, the 26th in RINA's successful Warship series, will look at the next generation of surface warships. All capabilities of these new ships must be carefully balanced to complement the existing naval inventories, meeting new Operational Requirements in the post cold war world of the expeditionary force and the police action, whilst bringing cost effective improvement wherever possible. This is especially important


Keith Olbermann will announce what the next chapter of his career will be in a conference call at 11 AM on Tuesday.

Olbermann, who left MSNBC in January, said that he and his "new partners" will make an "exciting announcement regarding the next chapter" of his career, according to Yahoo's Michael Calderone.A P.E.I. mother says she watched helplessly Tuesday morning as a driver drove past a stopped school bus and almost ran down her six-year-old daughter.

"She just didn't slow down at all. I guess she must've looked up and saw Koral last second. She swerved around her, and just barely missed her," said Jill Lindstedt.

"I looked back, once the car went by and thought, 'Is she still standing there?' And she was. She was OK. She hadn't gotten hit."

The incident happened about 7:50 a.m. Tuesday on the Trans-Canada Highway in Albany, P.E.I.

"It was a pretty close call," Lindstedt said. "Probably one of the scariest moments of my life."

'Worst he had ever seen'

Const. Jeff Wright with East Prince RCMP said the school bus was stopped on the Trans-Canada Highway in


Albany with its red stop lights flashing and its stop sign deployed, when the driver of a white Jeep Cherokee did not stop.

"The potential in these incidents is huge. Yesterday could have been a major, major tragedy," said Wright.

"The bus driver himself told me he's been driving a bus in that area for 22 years and that was the worst he had ever seen. He actually had to pull over to the side of the road for several minutes to allow himself to calm down. He was that worked up. It was that close."

Randy Gallant, principal of Amherst Cove Consolidated where Koral goes to school, says this isn't the first time he has seen an incident like this.

"My reaction was, 'Not again.' … We've had several incidences, andI would probably hazard I guess most schools have, that there have been vehicles passing through bus stops with the amber or red light flashing. And we've had a couple in the past that have been close enough to shake up the people involved," he said.

"This was probably the closest call we've had due to how everything played out."

Lindstedt said this is not the first time she has seen a vehicle not stopping appropriately for the school bus at the end of her driveway. On several occasions, she said, she has pulled her daughter back, but this time she was already on the road.

She said she watched a van drive through the bus's red lights when she went down to meet her daughter Tuesday afternoon, but in the


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Ashley Tisdale is an American actress, singer, and producer. She was known as Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical franchise. She was critically and commercially praised for the role. To her debut album, “Headstrong” Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified gold.Birth
Ashley was born on July 2, 1985, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA. Her nationality is American and ethnicity is mixed.Education and Early Career
Ashley’s education was paused to high school because she started working for High School Musical movies. Ashley attended Valencia High School. Family life
Michael Tisdale and Lisa Morris are Ashley’s parents. She has an elder sister Jennifer Tisdale, who is also an actress and producer.Professional Career
Ashley had a huge interest in singing and at an early age of 8, she was called to cast


to play in the musical Les Miserables. Later at the age of 12, she got a chance to sing in front of President Bill Clinton in an event in White House.
After Tisdale moved to Los Angeles in late 1990s along with her family, she got a chance to be featured in minor television roles including in Smart Guy , The Hughleys, Boston Public and 7th Heaven. In 2006, she was featured in American teen/romantic comedy-musical television film High School Musical. And later in 2007, she also got a chance to be featured in the sequel of High School Musical which was High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
In 2009, Ashley also got the chance to be part of American family science fiction comedy film“Aliens in the Attic”. Tisdale’s other successful movie is American musical romantic comedy film Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure. Her other major movies are Scary Movie 5, Saving Santa, Hellcats, Playing It Cool. While in 2016, she is scheduled to feature in American comedy film “Amateur Night” and American-Canadian 3D computer-animated musical comedy film “Charming”.
Ashley has also been active in a musical career, where she has released several albums and has also been awarded several awards for her successful music. In 2011, Tisdale released her first musical album “Headstrong”. Her other musical albums include “Degree Girl: OMG! Jams”, “Guilty Pleasure” and “Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure”.Personal Life
Going into Ashley’s personal life, she was linked with many guys. At the beginning, she dated Jared Murillo, an American singer in 2007. They were very


romantically involved in a relationship and but lasted for two years till 2009. Later she was spotted with Scott Speer, a successful American director in various events and parties from 2009 to 2011. It was also said that she was with Martin Johnson, an American singer but this was a short term relationship
Finally, Ashley found her soul-mate in 2012, an American Musician, Christopher French. The couple got engaged after dating for a year. After a year of engagement, they got married on 8th September 2014, in a small private ceremony in Santa Barbara, California. The couple is very happily married but has no children yet and there is no sign of any separation.Net Worth and Salary
From her dedicated work, she has accumulated a total net worth is $5Million which is still growing.Body measurement or physical features
Ashley has a height of 5 feet 3 inches. Her body weighs 52kg. She is a Blonde with Light Brown eyes. Her body measurements measures at 34-25-36 inches. Her dress size is 4(US), her shoe size is 8 and needs a bra size of 34A.Wiki and Facts
Ashley Michelle Tisdale is her birth name. She was presented with the Young Hollywood Awards for Social Media Superstar in 2014. Ashley was previously in rumor when a website claimed that she is HIV Positive. She had contaminated by the disease during the rhinoplasty procedure.Social Media
Ashley is active on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Her Official Instagram account “@ashleytisdale”, has 9.6M followers. She has 14.1M followers on her Twitter account: @ashleytisdaleand. Her official Facebook profile


Business leaders pushing for frictionless free trade have something new to worry about: the potential break-up of the internet, which today forms the backbone of the global economy.

The issue is a hot topic at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, and the forum is seeking to provide a platform for debate over ways to maintain an open, cross-border web in the face of pressures for national regulation.

"Is fragmentation happening? Quite frankly, there is a temptation," said Vittorio Colao, chief executive of mobile telecoms group Vodafone, who pointed to different regulatory regimes as an impediment to network traffic.

A growing volume of business relies on the internet, from tourism to financial services, and the web has empowered firms, especially smaller ones, to find customers in foreign markets who woulda mix of industries and internet technical groups to discuss governance topics.

Company bosses appear to agree that informal moves are not up to that task of keeping the internet open, but that neither is a U.N.-style top-down approach.

Their best hope at the moment seems to be to lend support to the decentralised network of existing technical and policy forums such as the domain-name overseer ICANN, to address hot topics such as security and privacy.

Last year, the World Economic Forum and ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, endorsed a new initiative known as NETmundial to find answers to wider policy issues.

"Businesses have for many years taken the internet for granted," said Fadi Chehade, the chief executive of ICANN.

"If we do not strengthen trust in the integrity


CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Johnny Manziel's latest incident in Texas over the weekend -- in which police searched for him via helicopter and are investigating him for possibly assaulting his ex-girlfriend -- was the absolute last straw for the Browns.

They will cut him as soon as they can -- when the league year opens March 9 -- league sources told cleveland.com.

Of course, if a team is willing to give up a late-round pick for Manziel, they'll take it. But they certainly aren't expecting that to happen, especially not after the bizarre events of the past few months. In addition to the police probe, the NFL is investigating him for the second time in three months for allegations that he assaulted a woman.

"He's a train wreck,'' a source close toout of Dallas is that he still loves him. But the Cowboys have no late-round draft picks left and would probably only take a chance on him as a free agent -- if that.

The Browns were actually effectively done with Manziel the final week of the season when he flew to Las Vegas just two days after being ruled out of the season finale with a concussion. According to USA Today, Manziel wore a blond wig and fake mustache and went by the name of Billy so he wouldn't be recognized.

The day of the season-ending 28-12 loss to the Steelers, Manziel missed his concussion treatment and was ultimately fined. The club couldn't reach him all day and didn't know where he was. As the day wore on, they