the expansion of private colleges and the establishment of state tax-supported universities. Largely as a result of the Morrill Act (1862), public lands were granted to the states for the formation and support of state agricultural and mechanical schools (see land-grant colleges and universities). Another important influence at that time was the founding of institutions (e.g., Johns Hopkins Univ.) devoted to graduate study and research. They were modeled on the German universities, with their separate graduate and professional schools each devoted to a particular area of study.

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Since the early 20th cent. universities have played an increasingly important role in scientific and technical research, largely as a result of social and governmental demands for these services. The nationalization and bureaucratization of research functions has been especiallymarked in the United States, where various government agencies dispense large amounts of money to both public and private universities for research purposes. The federal government also provides direct aid to various categories of students, such as veterans and disadvantaged students.

Since World War II there has been worldwide proliferation of new universities, expansion of old ones, and merging of small institutions into larger university systems. As former colonies gained independence during the 1960s and 1970s, each struggled to define its specific educational needs and establish a university system. In Africa, for example, universities were established in Ghana and Nigeria in 1948, in the Côte d'Ivoire in 1959, and in Congo (Kinshasa) in 1971.

Further proliferation has occurred as a result of the desire for political equality. Educational reforms in


Japan, for example, have decreed that there must be at least one national university in each of 47 sections of the country, so that there are now more than 80 such institutions. Similar pressures operated in Great Britain, where seven new universities were established in the 1960s alone, and in the United States, where the State Univ. of New York grew from a small group of teacher training colleges in 1948 to a multicampus system with some 460,000 students in 2010.

The development of radio and television led to their use as an alternative means of instruction, but the broadcasting of university courses was generally not significant except in a few cases (see Open Univ.). The rise of the Internet has led to the development of online instruction, oneresult of which has been the rise of educational institutions that teach most or all of their classes online. The development of universities (and colleges) the operate largely online has also contributed to an increase in the United States of the number of institutions that are run on a for-profit basis. Many universities now use various combinations of online and classroom instruction depending on the course being taught; videos of classroom sessions are often posted on a university website for the benefit of students. So-called massive open online courses are designed to be available to anyone with a suitable Internet connection, and can reach beyond the walls of the classroom to enroll tens of thousands of students in a single class.

Colleges

Early Years to 1900

Like universities, colleges first appeared


in the Middle Ages; the earliest were founded in 12th-century Paris. Originally the college served as an endowed residence hall for university scholars, but later it absorbed much of the university's activity. It was in England, at Oxford and Cambridge, that the college became the principal center of learning, with the university serving mainly to examine candidates and confer degrees.

The Industrial Revolution brought a demand for scientific and technical education, and separate technical colleges (e.g., Yorkshire Science College in Leeds) were founded. Moreover, extension lectures, sponsored by the universities, created a demand for educational centers in remote areas. Degrees, however, continued to be conferred by the universities with which the colleges were affiliated.

It was in America that the liberal arts college first appeared extensively as a separate institution.In the 17th and early 18th cent., numerous colleges were established in the colonies, primarily to train young men for the ministry. Notable were Harvard (1636; Puritan), William and Mary (1693; Anglican), Yale (1701; Congregationalist), Princeton (1746; New Lights Presbyterian), Columbia (1754; Anglican), Brown (1765; Baptist), and Rutgers (1766; Dutch Reformed).

During the 19th cent. a number of women's colleges were founded. Notable early women's colleges were Mt. Holyoke (1837), Elmira (1853), Vassar (1861), Wellesley (1871), Smith (1871), and Bryn Mawr (1881). Another development of the 19th cent. was the growth of normal schools, which later became teachers colleges (see teacher training). Though the curricula and ideals of American colleges continued to be influenced by English schools, many American colleges, stimulated by the German university system and by the


increasing demand for technical instruction, began to expand their facilities to include graduate and professional schools. In the 21st cent., colleges have been affected more dramatically than universities by the rise of online education and the increase in for-profit educational institutions. By 2010, a tenth of all students attending college full-time were enrolled in a for-profit school.

Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

By the 20th cent. many American colleges had become universities, and by the middle of the century universities were giving out twice as many bachelor's degrees as were the traditional liberal arts colleges. In an attempt to reassert the importance of the colleges, many of them have been empowered to grant graduate degrees, especially the master's degree. Since the 1960s, the community college movement has been most important inasserted jurisdic-
tion over Dickson's motion and that it did not err in granting the
motion. We therefore affirm the district court's grant of a preliminary
injunction.

I.

Pamela Dickson is a shareholder of Schmidt Baking Company
(Schmidt or the Company), a Maryland corporation engaged in the
manufacture, distribution, and sale of bread products throughout the
state of Maryland. Prior to the issuance of the stock option plan

                    2
described below, the stockholders of Schmidt were composed of three
groups: the "Bowyer shares," of which Dickson is a member; the
"Smith shares," which include C. Peter Smith, the CEO of Schmidt,
and his sister, Susan Smith House; and the "Obrecht Trust shares."
Through late 1997, the Bowyer shareholders collectively owned
40.63% of the


outstanding Schmidt common stock, Smith and his sis-
ter owned 42.82% of the stock, and the Obrecht Trust shareholders
owned the remainder, approximately 16.55%. Until January 1, 1998,
Smith also controlled the Obrecht Trust shares pursuant to a Voting
Trust agreement, which gave him effective control over almost 60%
of the shares. On January 1, 1998, the Voting Trust Agreement ended,
and the Obrecht Trust shareholders reasserted control of the Obrecht
Trust shares.

During 1997, the Bowyer shareholders and Obrecht Trust share-
holders discussed selling their interest in Schmidt, which, combined,
constituted a majority of the outstanding Schmidt common stock,
after the Voting Trust expired. These shareholders informed Smith
that they were interested in selling their interests in Schmidt to a third
party and asked Smith whether he and the other Smith shareholders
also would be interested in selling their interests inno import
because combined, Smith and the three vice-presidents owned over 50%
of the stock.

                    4
Dickson moved for partial summary judgment on Count One (pre-
emptive rights) of her amended complaint. Defendants cross-moved
for partial summary judgment on Count One. After holding a hearing
on the motions on July 2, 1998, the district court issued an Order
dated August 20, 1998 (the August 20 Order) with an accompanying
opinion granting Dickson's motion for partial summary judgment and
denying Defendants' cross-motion for summary judgment. The
August 20 Order declared the 1997 stock issuance to be in violation
of Dickson's preemptive rights because it failed to offer her the
opportunity to maintain her proportionate interest and voting power
in Schmidt. The August 20


Order also rescinded the actions of the
board of directors that resulted in the issuance of said stock to Smith,
Morrison, Stewart, and Filippi.

In response to the district court's August 20 Order, on August 24,
1998, Appellants, acting as the board of directors, sent out a "Preemp-
tive Rights Notice" (the Notice) to all existing stockholders of the
Company informing them of their right to purchase a proportional
interest in the latest issuance of 19,175 shares of the Company's stock
at $235 per share within two weeks of the notice (the 1998 stock
issuance).3 The Notice stated that failure to accept the offer would be
deemed to be an irrevocable waiver of the right to purchase such
shares. The Notice further recited that the remaining unpurchased
shares of Schmidt stock would be distributed to certain unnamed
employees of the Companyabused its discretion
in granting injunctive relief by relying upon its erroneous August 20
Order granting partial summary judgment to Dickson. Appellants'
argument requires us to examine the district court's analysis of the
"likelihood of success on the merits" prong of the Blackwelder test.9
_________________________________________________________________
8 Although the Notice was dated August 24, 1998, Dickson stated in
her affidavit that as of the signing of the affidavit (August 26, 1998), she
had not yet received such a notice.
9 The August 20 Order is not properly before us on appeal. Although
the district court granted Appellants' motion for certification to file an
interlocutory appeal of the August 20 Order, this Court denied Appel-
lants' petition for permission to appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A.
§ 1292(b) (West 1993). Insofar as the district court granted Dickson a
preliminary injunction to protect her claim of


US President Donald Trump is the politician who British people would most like to see don a space suit and be exiled to the Moon to mark the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, a new poll reveals.

UK polling company Ipsos Mori surveyed more than 2,000 British people on which politician they’d most like to send to the Moon, with 45 percent nominating Trump to spend the rest of his life elsewhere in the galaxy to reflect on his time on Earth.

Donald Trump tops our poll of politicians British want to send off to the moon #MoonLanding50pic.twitter.com/RBgR7BEcQN — Ben Page, Ipsos MORI (@benatipsosmori) July 19, 2019

In second place was Trump’s new BFF, Kim Jong-un, on 31 percent, closely followed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 29 percent.

ToppingA MONSTER rodent has been found dead in an inner city family’s backyard, prompting calls for a special “rat taskforce”.

At one point, the Alexandria family were so worried about the whopping great critter, that they were scared to let their young daughter play in the backyard.

It follows months of concern about a rat problem across the city that has been a boon for pest control specialists but a headache for councils.

This giant rat was found by a young father in his home in Alexandria.Source:Supplied

Independent City of Sydney councillor and businesswoman Angela Vithoulkas warned of the scale of the problem back in March, saying her fellow business owners were also calling for action.

In the months since, she says, the problem has only “calmed down” in certain parts of the


Most liveable suburb of the future Yarrabend

Yarrabend is design, innovation, technology and community rolled into one. It is a brand new suburb launched by progressive property developers Glenvill.

We were called in by PR’s Isle of Lime to capture imagery for the launch of this dynamic urban renewal development project.

Recognised by The Future Lab as being at the forefront of global liveability, YarraBend is projected to be one of The World’s Most Liveable Suburbs by 2025. Coined as the ‘suburb of the future’, the project encapsulates ideas across technology, health and wellness, the arts, gastronomy, knowledge and sustainability.In August 2007 the film was given the title CJ7,[6] a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. It was previously known by a series of working titles—Alien, Yangtze River VII, Long River 7 and most notably, A Hope.

Contents

Chow Ti is a poor construction worker. He lives in a partially demolished house with his nine-year-old son, Dicky. Chow is eager to save money so he can continue sending his son to private school. However, Dicky is often bullied by other children and chided by his teacher at school.

One day, while at a department store, Dicky begs his father to buy him a popular robotic toy called CJ1. Chow cannot afford it, and the situation ends badly when Chow spanks the stubborn Dicky in


front of other customers. Dicky finds comfort in Ms. Yuen, who is passing by. That night, Chow visits the junkyard where he often picks up home appliances and clothes for Dicky. He finds a strange green orb and takes it home, telling Dicky that it is a new toy. He is hesitant at first, but later accepts it. The following evening, the green orb transforms into a cuddly alien creature that befriends Dicky. After playing with the alien, he names the alien "CJ7", and then falls asleep. He dreams that the alien will help him gain popularity and good grades at school.

When a group of students see the alien with Dicky they forcibly take it and try to cut it but nothing seems to work. At last theytry to use a drill and Dicky jumps on them. Dicky tries to hit one of the students but a fat boy stops him who in turn is stopped by Maggie, a fatter and much bigger size girl. They are then punished for fighting. When the teacher, Mr. Cao left, CJ7 comes out from hiding and Dicky gets it to perform tricks for the other students and they are awed. Dicky thanked Johnny, the leader of the group of students, for not letting Mr. Cao know about CJ7. They shake hands and agree to not letting the adults know about it.

At the construction site Ti shows everyone Dicky's test paper in which he scored a 100. His boss tells him that Dicky changed the marks and is a


cheater. Then Ti threatens his boss that if he continues saying his son cheated he will hit him. As a result his boss gets angry, repeatedly calls Dicky a cheater and knocks Ti's safety helmet off. Ti's boss then tries to hit him again with his clipboard but Ti took his boss' safety helmet and put on his own head so that it will not hurt when the clipboard hits his head. Then he runs off while his boss shouts after him that he is fired. Ti meets Dicky at home and gets angry with him for lying. He takes CJ7 from him saying he does not get to play since he does not work hard. When Dicky asks Ti to leave him alone, he promises to dothat if Dicky can score more than 60 on his own effort.

The next day Ti comes to Dicky's school to give him his lunchbox. There he meets Ms. Yuen, who offers to help Dicky study. Ti goes back to his boss and apologizes; his boss does the same and gives him back the job. At work, an incident happens and Ti dies. Ms. Yuen tells Dicky about it just when he gets his test result in which he scores 65.

The alien, still in the backpack which is now under the table on which Ti's dead body is lying, gets out of the backpack and uses his repairing power on the body, even though he knows it will take his full power and he will die.

The next morning Dicky


finds Ti sleeping next to him. The alien comes out of the backpack, and lies on the table, powerless. The ball inside his antenna falls and disintegrates, and he turns into a doll. They try many ways to get him back but are unsuccessful.

In the end, it is shown that everything is back to normal. The fat boy is in love with Maggie who is in love with Dicky who is in love with another girl who the bully Johnny takes away. Ti is in love with Ms. Yuen but is "not funny enough" for her. Dicky wears the alien doll as a neck pendant all the time, expecting it to come back to life.

In the end, Dicky sees a UFO landing and many other alien dogs likeCJ7 of different colours and patterns come out and realizes that that the CJ7s are headed by his very own toy.

As with the title CJ7, the earlier working titles, A Hope, Yangtze River VII, and Long River 7, referred to the Chinese manned space program. The mission of Shenzhou 6 was completed in 2006 and the real Shenzhou 7 successfully launched in September 2008.[7] The film had a budget of US$20 million, and heavily uses CG effects.[4]Xu Jiao, the child who plays Dicky, is in fact female. She had to cross-dress to be in the film.[8]

References to Chow's other films are made during some scenes, particularly during Dicky's dream sequence. These references include Dicky using his super sneakers to kick a soccer ball into the goal, which subsequently


collapses (referencing Shaolin Soccer) and Dicky flying into the sky with his sneakers, jumping from the head of an eagle, seeing CJ7's shape as a cloud and using the Buddha's Palm, (referencing Kung Fu Hustle). The scene where Dicky tosses away his glasses while they self-destruct is a reference to John Woo's Mission Impossible II. On one of the DVD featurettes, Chow cites E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Doraemon as an influence on the film.

The film fared no better with local Hong Kong critics. Perry Lam of Muse gave a decidedly negative review of the film: 'We go to see a Stephen Chow movie for its great entertainment value and, occasionally, its terrific cinematic panache. We don't need to be told that we are morally superior because we don'tPoetry Park is a
resource dedicated to contemporary poetry. Like the best of parks, it is full
of variety and constantly growing. Our seasons are the events around us. The
small and the vast, the sweet and the ugly of everyday happenings; the
personal and the public . We are a garden of reflection and a humble
chronicle.

Ours is a park with
open gates. Gardens to be shared for a moment's respite in a stroll, or a
longer sojourn on a bench amid the verses. We, the poets and the keepers,
want you to enjoy the beds and lawns, the woods and water features, of our
world.

Uses and Users

Poetry Park has several
purposes:

1. An Educational Resource for Schools and Colleges

Poetry Park , as it
grows, will provide a wide range of contemporary poetry in an attractive
setting. Students and teachers


the above rationale, the CAAV (Chieti Affective Action Video) was created with the aim of solving, or at least smoothing-out, some of the issues that affect currently used databases, most of which rely on already existing video clips. Specifically, the CAAV was developed to control for the following critical aspects: the camera angle, the number of stimuli included in the scene, the number of actions presented, the gender of the actors, and the POV with which the actions are carried out.

The most innovative aspect of the CAAV consists in being the first database to present emotional stimuli through videos of actions filmed and developed specifically for experimental research. In relation to the emotional aspect, the development of the CAAV database is founded based on the Dimensional Model ofcauses the toner to flow to some extent into the fibers or pores of the support member. Thereafter, as the toner material cools, solidification of the toner material causes the toner to be bonded firmly to the support.
Typically, the thermoplastic resin particles are fused to the substrate by heating to a temperature of from about 90.degree. C. to about 200.degree. C. or higher, depending on the softening range of the particular resin used in the toner. It may be undesirable, however, to increase the temperature of the substrate substantially higher than about 250.degree. C. because of the tendency of the substrate to discolor or convert into fire at such elevated temperatures, particularly when the substrate is paper.
Several approaches to thermal fusing of electroscopic toner images have been described.


needed to promote fusion of toner to paper. This increase in thermal conductivity also allows for increased speed of the fusing process by reducing the amount of time needed to heat the fuser member sufficiently to promote fusing. Efforts have also been made to increase the toughness of the fuser member layers to increase abrasion resistance and, accordingly, the life of the fuser member.
With regard to known fuser coatings, silicone rubber has been the preferred outer layer for fuser members in electrostatographic machines. Silicone rubbers interact well with various types of fuser release agents. Perfluoroalkoxypolytetrafluoroethylene (PFA Teflon), however, which is frequently used as an outer coating for fuser members, is more durable and abrasion resistant than silicone rubber coatings. Also, the surface energy for PFA Teflon is lowerthe University of Plymouth in providing the highest quality professional development for maths teachers.

David is Director of three international longitudinal comparative projects, "Kassel Project", "International Project for Mathematical Attainment (IPMA)" and "International Comparative Study in Mathematics Teacher Training". David has also implemented projects for Primary Mathematics in Chile (in 11 schools in a country area with low achievement in mathematics) and in South Africa (in 3 township schools in the Potchefstroom region) both of which have shown promising gains in raising standards and have linked Plymouth with local Universities, namely University of Valparaiso and North West University.

Methodology

This workshop will be hands-on with participants trying out a variety of mathematical problem solving questions, reflecting on practice from mathematically high performing countries, discussing video clips and analyzing different aspects of


Barely three weeks since America elected its first black president, noose hangings, racist graffiti and death threats have struck dozens of towns across the country.

More than 200 such incidents -- including cross burnings, assassination betting pools and effigies of President-elect Barack Obama -- have been reported, according to law enforcement authorities and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.

Racist websites have been boasting that their servers have been crashing because of an exponential increase in traffic.

And America’s most potent symbol of racial hatred, the Ku Klux Klan, is reasserting itself in a spate of recent violence, after decades of disorganization and obscurity.

Nearly two weeks ago, the leader of a cell based in Bogalusa, La. -- a backwoods town once known as the Klan capital -- wasward 13. 10:54 Swabi: ANP s Hussain Ahmed wins elections, securing 1260 votes in ward 56. 10:48 Bunir: Anwar Iqbal secures 1907 votes to win elections in ward 29. 10:44 Mardan: PPPs Asad Ali secures 1860 votes in ward 10 to win elections.10:33 Swat: ANP s Iftikhar Ahmed wins elections bagging 1500 votes in district council seat in ward 31. 10:28: Former President and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has crticized KP LB polls. He has alleged that the whole world has seen the rigging conducted by PTI adding that Imran Khan s intentions have been seen during the LB polls. 10:24 Hassanzai Tehsil: ANP s Syed Muhammad Khan wins in ward 10 by securing 610 votes. 10:20 Shangla: Independent candidate Haji Sultan wins elections in ward 28.


Commission.“The power is in Election Commission’s hand,” he added.The Chief Minister said there is a huge number of candidates contesting today. EC announced army would be deployed, but didn`t comply.3:40 Polling process stopped after dozens of miscreants attack Bhana Mari women polling station in Peshawar. Angry men smash several ballots boxes. Woman voter clashes with police at Girls Highschool University Campus polling station, tries to snatch pistol from police officer when she was forced to leave the room

3:33 Counting process will be conducted as per the law: ECP 3:27 ANP s Senator Zahida Khan reaches to cast vote in Lower Dir 3:05 A policeman caught casting fake vote in Govt Girls Primary School polling station’s ward number 16 in Kohat. 2:48 Signed ballots in hands of voters outsideAleksandr Kogan, the academic who mined Facebook for the data firm linked to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Cambridge Analytica, filed a defamation suit against the social network Friday before the statute of limitations would have run out.

It was a Friday night exactly one year ago when Facebook "tried to get ahead of the Cambridge Analytica story," in Kogan's words, and issued a statement accusing him of deceiving the company when he developed his app in 2014, allowing him to collect Facebook data for Cambridge Analytica, the U.K.-based data firm that worked on Trump's campaign.

Kogan told NBC News that he had been waiting on investigations by the Department of Justice, the Security and Exchange Commission and the Federal Election Commission of the Cambridge Analytica scandal to wrap up before


lawsuit from someone who recklessly violated our policies and put people's data at risk," Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said Saturday.

Kogan's lawyer, Steven Cohen, said Facebook found "a convenient scapegoat" in Kogan.

"They accused him of being a liar and a fraud and they knew that wasn't the truth and that's the standard for defamation for a public person," Cohen said. "Alex Kogan was clearly not a public figure, rather he was thrust into the limelight by Facebook's defamation."

Cohen said Facebook strategically referred to Kogan as a "Russian American" in its statement.

"They were reacting to all the negative publicity they posed for allowing Russian trolls to post fake news on Facebook and they found a convenient scapegoat in Alex Kogan."

Kogan says he gave Facebook the terms of service of hisSocialise

goNORTH Screening Programme 2014

Once again we created our very own pop up cinema at goNORTH this year. Lights dimmed with popcorn to the ready, we brought an incredible range of Scottish made and World cinema to Inverness from filmmakers as far flung as Ukraine, Latvia, France, Ireland, Belgium (to name a few) and all over Scotland. Through an open submission process over 70 short films were entered shortlisted to the final programme below.

In addition we had a curated programme of films which included author, Denise Mina's Multum In Parvo, the collaborative feature 50 Kisses, award winning BAFTA animations, CARE and As He Lay Falling. Our man on the ground, Adam Cook, reviewed all the films in the curated and short film programme, which you can read here, categorised


US scientist has genome screened for disease risk

By Helen Briggs

Health reporter, BBC News

This man knows his genetic destiny A US scientist has had all his DNA screened for genes which predict the diseases he may develop in later life. Stephen Quake's genetic profile was probed for genes linked to dozens of diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. The healthy 40-year-old was told he was at increased risk of heart attack, diabetes and some cancers. Scientists say the study, published in the Lancet, ushers in a new era of personalised medicine, but raises ethical dilemmas. Professor Quake received publicity last year when he used new technology to sequence his entire genetic code, or genome, for less than 50,000 US dollars (£33,000). This was a relatively cheap figure compared withLast updated on .From the section Man Utd

Jose Mourinho took over as manager at Old Trafford on 27 May, 2016

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has signed a contract extension until 2020, with the option of a further year.

The 54-year-old's previous deal at Old Trafford was due to expire in 2019.

Mourinho said he was "delighted" that United "feel and trust that I am the right manager for this great club for the foreseeable future".

"I feel a privileged one to work with such a fantastic group of boys," he added.

"My initial contract was three years, we made now the decision to make it clear for everyone that it is not for three, it is for four or five, and who knows, more."

Mourinho, appointed as Louis van Gaal's successor in May


2016, won the EFL Cup and Europa League in his first season.

This season United are second in the Premier League, behind runaway leaders Manchester City, with the club still in the Champions League and FA Cup.

"We have set very high standards - winning three trophies in one season - but those are the standards I expect my teams to aim for," the Portuguese said.

"We are creating the conditions for a brilliant and successful future for Manchester United. I love my players and it is a pleasure to know that we are going to be together for at least the next three years."

Woodward praised Mourinho for his "exceptional work rate and professionalism", as well as for "embracing the club's desire to promote top-quality young players".

He added: "He has broughtan energy and a sense of purpose to everything that he does and I am sure that will continue to bring results for the fans and the club."

What did I say to convince Sanchez? Nothing - Mourinho

Speaking at his news conference earlier on Thursday - before his new contract was announced - Mourinho hailed the club's recent signing of Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal.

He said the Chilean had moved from a "fantastic club to a giant club" in the swap deal that saw Armenia midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan head the other way.

Mourinho said it was "a great deal for everybody" and confirmed Sanchez will be in the squad for United's FA Cup fourth round tie at Yeovil on Friday.

The match will be shown live on BBC One and the BBC


Sport website.

If Mourinho does stay at United until 2020, it will be his longest single spell in charge of a team.

The former Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid boss spent three years at Stamford Bridge between 2004 and 2007, returning for a second two-year period between 2013 and 2015.

He also managed Madrid over three years, between 2010 and 2013.

Other than Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Matt Busby, who spent nearly 27 and 24 years in charge respectively, United's longest serving post-war manager is Ron Atkinson, who was manager for five years and five months before making way for Ferguson in October 1986.Credit manager jobs in Halifax (county)

...ensure a bright future for NTT DATA Services and for the people who work here.
NTT DATA Services currently seeks a ITIL Service Manager to join our team in Halifax , Nova Scotia (CA-NS) , Canada (CA) .
Day to Day job Duties
Ensure that the infrastructure...

...Our Talent Acquisition Team can't wait to meet you!
The next step to your sales career starts here at The Source as a District Sales Manager!
We’re looking for the best Sales Leaders to join our District Leadership team in supporting our ongoing brand transformation. As...

...bright future for NTT DATA Services and for the people who work here.
NTT DATA Services currently seeks a Senior Technical Project Manager (SCRUM) to join our team in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada .
Primary Responsibilities:
Capture and sign-off of


and is in the business of building quality ships and repairing vessels. The company's primary site is Halifax Shipyard, with three other...

...Supportability Manager
Irving Shipbuilding, located at 3099 Barrington Street Halifax NS B3K 5M7, is part of the J.D. Irving Group of companies and is in the business of building quality ships and repairing vessels. The company's primary site is Halifax Shipyard,...

...Position Description
GoodLife Fitness is 100% Canadian and one of Canada's Best Managed Companies!
GENERAL MANAGER
At GoodLife Fitness, we’re known for being an industry leader in fitness across Canada. Since opening our doors in 1979, our Associates have shown dedication...

...Integrated Staffing Firm is actively recruiting for an Operations Manager to work for one of our National clients in Dartmouth NS. This... ...concerns.
- Ensure the company’s inventory control methods and creditneeded” to be absent from work without being penalized by employers, Manalich told reporters.

Costa Rica said its number of cases has reached 13 after four more cases were detected, including two kids and two adult males. The new cases are linked to a prior patient currently in the hospital.

In Peru, officials confirmed two new cases, raising the total to 11 in the country. Health Minister Elizabeth Hinostroza said the new patients are two brothers from the central Huanuco region who recently returned from a trip to Europe.

Paraguay’s Health Ministry reported its second confirmed case of the coronavirus, an elderly patient, 83, who recently arrived from Argentina.

The Argentine government announced it was earmarking 1.7 billion pesos ($27 million) to better combat the coronavirus, which has so far infected 17


more suitable for launch conditions.
For example, the Mercury capsule was uncovered for both Mercury-Redstone and Mercury-Atlas launches with only the Launch Escape System on its nose. Left image
The Apollo missions launched with the Command (and reentry) Module covered by the Boost Protective Cover which shielded the module from atmospheric heating and the LES exhaust in the event of an abort. The Apollo Service Module's cylindrical body was exposed during launch. The much more fragile Lunar Module was protected inside an adapter below the Command Module. Centre
The in-operation Soyuz spacecraft has close to the same volume as its payload fairing, but the spacecraft is fully enclosed during launch due to the non-aerodynamic shape of its Orbital Module. Right and bottom

A:

A fairing like the one SpaceX uses onMountain West Conference approaches Pac-12 about West Coast alliance

The Mountain West Conference has approached the Pac-12 about a West Coast college football partnership, MWC Commissioner Craig Thompson said on Wednesday.

According to Thompson, the alliance would involve nonconference scheduling, as well as the sharing of officials, and bowl matchups. The Mountain West and Pac-12 already share New Mexico and Las Vegas Bowl tie-ins, but an alliance would allow for both leagues to save on travel costs, according to CBS' Jeremy Fowler.

Thompson said there is no deal in place yet but the Pac-12 is open to the idea. The 24 combined teamed in the two conferenced make up most of the West Coast landscape of college football.


in a non-volatile memory. When a roaming rejection is received from a PLMN, the identity of that visited PLMN is Written into the list. If the list already has four PLMN identities, the oldest is removed from the list. The processor in the mobile equipment (ME), the terminal, will not automatically make registrations on PLMNs provided in the list in the SIM card. The size of the list was chosen to suit the situation for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) operating at the 900 MHz frequency range and DCS (Digital Cellular System) operating at the 1800 MHz frequency range where two or three operators were operating in each frequency band in each country.
In a situation where five of more PLMNs not allowing registration exist, and the homein the terminal but which may allow registration at a later time. The invention is characterized by providing at least a part of the list erasable to be erased at intervals; transferring surplus identities of rejected PLMNs on a non-volatile part of the list to the erasable part of the list.
Erasable part of the list are preferably erased when the mobile terminal is switched off. When a non-volatile list of registered PLMNs is provided on a SIM card in the mobile terminal, the erasable part of the list could be provided in a volatile storage connected to a computer in the mobile terminal. Each identity outputted from the non-volatile PLMNs card list when a new rejected PLMNs is registered could be transferred to the volatile storage list. The


by   the   William   Wilberforce   Trafficking   Victims

Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA), Pub. L. No. 110-

457, 122 Stat. 5044 (2008).3

       In pertinent part, the statute provides that SIJ status can

be granted to an alien present in the United States

            who has been     declared dependent on a
            juvenile court located in the United States
            or whom such a court has legally committed
            to, or placed under  biological    mother,      J.C.P.,    concealed     his    parentage

from    the    child,   and    at    his    birth    she   handed    him    over   to

petitioner, his then seventeen-year-old sister.                     Petitioner, at

seventeen, was expected to raise the child as her own, as well

as support both the child and the mother.


The mother pretended

to be the boy's grandmother and provided him with no support.

       According to petitioner's filing, she eventually moved to

the    United    States,     entering      without   legal    documentation,       in

order to support her brother and her mother financially.                           She

left the brother with the "grandmother."                   While in Guatemala,

the boy was menaced by local gang members                        3                                A-0334-14T1
was in Guatemala.           Fearing for her brother's safety and well-

being, petitioner revealed to him that she was his sister, and

arranged for him to travel to the United States, where he lived

with her and enrolled in the local high school.


       The boy, who

speaks    limited     English,       was     still       in    high     school      when    the

petition     was     filed,     and     he       was      completely          dependent       on

petitioner, financially and otherwise.

       The TVPRA, as interpreted by the federal agency responsible

for its implementation, appliesconglomerate, Mashad-based Astan Qods Razavi, a Shiite Berkshire Hathaway that controls land, industry, and media, and employs hundreds of thousands of people. Estimates of its tax-free assets, which include massive religious donations, vary dramatically, but are often north of a hundred billion dollars.

Raisi is also notable for his role as one of four judges who implemented an order from then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini order to summarily execute over 5,000 young Iranian political prisoners in the summer of 1988. Many were members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq opposition group, and most were hanged by crane or shot by firing squad. A mother I interviewed years ago in Tehran told me that when she sought to retrieve her executed daughter’s body, the government demanded payment for the bullet. “Raisi should be


it more difficult for the United States to rally international support against Iran, given that those men are perceived as reasonable pragmatists. This is precisely why notable Iran hawks in Washington have endorsed Raisi.

While the differences between Rouhani and Raisi are meaningful, and the competition between them is genuine, four decades of Iranian presidential elections have had little impact on Iran’s major domestic and foreign policies.

Iran continues to execute more people per capita than any country in the world. Virtually every human-rights and press freedom index ranks Iran near the bottom. It likely holds more U.S. citizens hostage, including the ailing 80-year-old Baquer Namazi and his 44-year-old son Siamak, than any country in the world. Women are treated as second-class citizens; religious minorities and homosexuals are persecuted.

Nor havestarting of the Institute of Technical Education & Research (ITER), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, and the evolution in the last 15 years has been the birth of other institutes in Medical, Dental, Nursing, Management, Hotel Management, Pharmacy, Biotechnology and Law. The group of institutes was grouped under a University structure since 2007. The University is socially inclusive with an open admission process through its National level test SAAT and other National level tests such as AIEEE, AIPMT, CAT, XAT, MAT, CLAT etc. The university’s academic offerings include undergraduate, graduate and research programs. All these programs have academic rigour, and periodic up-gradation of curricula in order to keep the students up-to-date of contemporary development. The placement record of the university students, both UG and PG, is a testimony


to the acceptance of these processes by the market. The Research programs of the university have been reinforced from 2007 onwards, are also showing steady progress. The Ph.D. regulations have been framed to keep in line with regulations of reputed institutes like IITs. The number of full time scholars is increasing continuously. Commensurate to this, the university is establishing new centers and advanced facilities in existing departments to promote research. The university is committed to these activities to much higher levels in the coming years. The university also supports large number of research projects of faculty members by in-house funding. The steady growth of facilities, the ambitious growth taken, and setting up of research centers serve as catalyst for the University to move towards the path of excellence.In the path of the building up and strengthening the university, the leadership of the management and academic teams are taking all steps required in the right directions. The growth and change paradigms do put strong pressure on the university yet the path of progress has remained on the right track. Some of the directions are visible by promotion of research activity, constant revision of academic curricula, transparent and strict valuation, increasing number of collaboration with other institutes.

Vission & Mission :

Vision

To build a State-of-the-art educational system, facilitating the process of imparting quality professional and technical education in India and abroad.

Mission

To promote learning by students, and faculty.

To promote quality teaching of global perspective.

To acquire knowledge skill through updated training and research.

To achieve transformation of knowledge.

To establish an effective, efficient


New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Tuesday cleared the way for updating the National Population Register (NPR) – a precursor process to the creation of the controversial National Register of Citizens – and allocated a budget of Rs 3,941 crore for this task. The government aims to finish the enumeration exercise between April 2020 and September 2020 in all states and Union Territories except Assam.

The NPR is a process, first mooted by the first National Democratic Alliance government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to collect basic demographic and biometric details for the creation of an identity database of every resident of the country. It will be conducted along with the house-listing exercise for Census 2021, for which the government allocated a separate amount of Rs 8,754 crore in Tuesday’scabinet meeting.

What is the NPR?

In simple words, the NPR is a list of “usual residents” in the country – a term used for a person with regard to the particular area he or she is living in for the past six months or where he or she intends to live for the next six months or more.

The first NPR was conducted in 2010 and an updating of the register was done in 2015 through a door-to-door survey.

Though it is mandatory for every citizen to register themselves in the NPR, which will be conducted under the provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955, and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, it is not clear what the outcome of the earlier enumeration exercises was.

Whatever


the government may say today to defuse the raging controversy over the Citizenship Amendment) Act and the NRC, it has in the past repeatedly stressed that the NPR and NRC are linked.

As the then minister of state for home affairs told the Rajya Sabha on November 26, 2014, “The National Population Register (NPR) is a register of all the usual residents which include citizens and non-citizens as well. The NPR is the first step towards creation of National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) by verifying the citizenship status of every usual resident.” (emphasis added)

According to the specified form during the first enumeration and updating exercise, the NPR collected 15 demographic details from each resident – name, date of birth, place of birth, address, relationship to head of household,1987 is an Indian by birth regardless of the identity or age or place of birth of his or her parents. Children born in India after 2004 are Indians by birth only if at least one parent is Indian and the other is not an “illegal immigrant”.

Also read: NRC or No NRC: Who Is Lying, Narendra Modi or Amit Shah?

As protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the NRC have spread across the country, many state governments believe that the updating of the NPR is a prelude to the NRC. They have opposed it on the basis that the updated NPR may smoothen the process of the NRC, which the Union government plans to conduct to identify and then drive out “infiltrators”.

The NRC has become contentious as


the rules notified on December 10, 2003 by the Vajpayee government, the National Population Register is the basis on which the National Register of Citizens is prepared. It is clear that the NPR is the first stage of the exercise to implement the NRC.”

It added that “this linkage was made clear as early as July 23, 2014, soon after the Modi government assumed office, in an answer to a question (starred question No. 229, Rajya Sabha) by the Minister of State for Home Affairs.”

The then junior home minister Kiren Rijiju, in a written reply to MP Asaduddin Owaisi in the Lok Sabha, had said, “The government has now decided to create the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) based on the information collected under the scheme of NPRNRC from the NPR master list.

The process is spelt out in the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003:

“For the purposes of preparation and inclusion in the Local Register of Indian Citizens, the particulars collected of every family and individual in the Population Register shall be verified and scrutinised by the Local Registrar…

During the verification process, particulars of such individuals, whose Citizenship is doubtful, shall be entered by the Local Registrar with appropriate remark in the Population Register for further enquiry and in case of doubtful Citizenship, the individual or the family shall be informed in a specified proforma immediately after the verification process is over.” (emphasis added)

Against this backdrop, Union home minister Amit Shah’s assurance in an interview to ANI that the


Union Ministry of Home Affairs in 2014 made direct links between NPR and NRC.

The first was regarding the issue of an NPR smart card on July 15, 2014.

“The Citizenship Act, 1955 provides that the Central Government may compulsorily register every Citizen of India and issue National Identity Card to him. Accordingly, Government has decided to create National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) by verifying citizenship status of all persons in the National Population Register (NPR) and issue National Identity Cards to all the Citizens of India.”

The second press release by the MHA was issued on November 26, 2014 and admitted the link between them more clearly.

“The National Population Register (NPR) is a register of all the usual residents which include citizens and non-citizens as well. The NPR isThe video will start in 8 Cancel

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox Sign up today! Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Valeria Morales, 20, has come under fire after saying transgender people shouldn't compete in the Miss Universe beauty pageant.

She said the competition should only be for "women who are born women".

The leggy brunette was referring to Spanish trans model Angela Ponce, 26, who in July was crowned Miss Universe Spain.

Ponce will be the first transgender representative at the Miss Universe contest, set to take place in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 17.

Morales was crowned Miss Colombia on Monday.

In an interview with Colombian television, she said: "I think that beauty shows like Miss Universe


is an avid social media user, and regularly shares pics and video with her 20.4k Instagram followers.

On the morning after her Miss Colombia win, she posted a picture of her holding her crown, to the delight of her fans.

"Now we go for the Miss Universe crown... STUNNING," wrote one fan.platform for Central New Yorkers to comment about the issues of the day. If you’d like to submit a column, email Larry Dietrich at ldietrich@syracusenewtimes.com.

Koko, the gorilla, communicates with people through American Sign Language and her understanding of a large vocabulary of spoken English. She is gentle with her kitten, and hugs people she likes.

Although he can escape from the killer harpoons, a whale returns to his wounded mate and stays with her until he, too, is killed by the whalers.

A cow manages, incredibly, to jump a fence at a slaughterhouse. The media and people sympathetically follow her escape as she wanders the streets of New York City and cheer as she is brought to a sanctuary, where she can live out her life in peace.

During animal behavior


Goldman Upgrades Tiffany; Raises Price Target

Goldman Sachs upgraded its rating of Tiffany & Co. to "neutral" from "sell," citing a rebound in the Japanese market and the retailer's success in passing along higher commodity prices to consumers.

Photo By: minxlj

Tiffany Gift Box

The luxury goods seller had been on Goldman Sachs' sell list since Sept. 23, 2010, according to a report released on Thursday. During the past 12 months, the company's stock rose 72.9 percent—outperforming the S&P 500's 12.5 percent increase during the same time period.

The investment bank said its negative view on Tiffany failed to materialize due to three factors:

Tiffany has been helped by a faster-than-expected Japanese recovery. Japan's jewelry category in department stores has seen recovery after the country's March earthquake.

The luxury brand has successfully been able toSeveral Republicans were at odds with the president after a bipartisan gun control summit.

President Donald Trump hosted a televised session with lawmakers on Wednesday in which he asked Congress to send him a single bill to reduce gun violence.

The session came two weeks after the February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School left 17 people dead. The survivors of the shooting have pushed for accountability and legislation, and Trump responded by expressing his willingness to address gun reform. But on Wednesday, back-and-forth arguments between Trump and members of both parties occasionally dominated the conversation.

During the four-hour bipartisan meeting, Trump signaled his support for strengthening background checks, raising the minimum age to buy some firearms, taking guns away from the mentally ill, and allowing “very talented


what specific legislation he would actually support, and Republicans are skeptical of such a bill passing through Congress.

The president did give special mention to a bipartisan bill by Democratic senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican senator Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania, which failed with 54 votes in the Senate in 2013, according to CNN. The bill was originally created in response to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, according to The Washington Post.

Trump said he "hasn't heard a lot about" the Manchin-Toomey bill, which is largely focused on bolstering the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Trump asked Toomey if the proposal would raise the minimum age for firearms purchases. When Toomey said it wouldn't, Trump responded, “Because you're afraid of the NRA, right?”

However, withPages

B-17 Boeing Plant Seattle You Haven’t Seen Many of These Images Before (38 Pics)

Boeing Plant 2 (also known as Air Force Plant 17) was a factory building which was built in 1936 by the Boeing Corporation in King County, Washington in the United States. By the time production ceased in the building, the plant had built half of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, the Boeing 307s, the Boeing 377s, some of the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, Boeing B-50 Superfortresses, B-47 Stratojets, B-52 Stratofortresses, and the initial Boeing 737s. It was located between the Duwamish River and Boeing Field.

Boeing began making aircraft parts at Plant 2 in 1936, when the total number of employees had just passed the 1,000 mark. Raw materials and large parts were barged up the Duwamish


to the back doors. At the peak of the war effort, on a single day in April 1944, Boeing assembled 16 of its B-17 bombers. In all, the facility built 6,981 B-17s during the war, according to Boeing.

Many workers were women, part of the country’s “Rosie the Riveter” war effort. To protect the facility against a potential Japanese bombing raid, the rooftop was camouflaged to look like a suburban neighborhood.Part of the problem then (and maybe even today) was the inherent conservatism of the Royal Navy, and government in general. Just prior to the Triton project, we'd had an interesting debate over the FSC design, when a group put forward the view that a "short, fat" frigate might be far better for the role, as it was largely about having enough room to fit and carry stuff (the research going on in the research establishment I ran at that time was trying to find innovative ways to fit all the myriad of sensors and weapons systems on to a relatively small deck area).

I believe that the Triton RV project only got as far as it did for two reasons. The first was that it was marginally more


How to spot Mediclinic and Netcare scam jobs

By Drum Digital

25 January 2016

Mediclinic is the latest healthcare facility to be targeted by unscrupulous scamsters.

"It has come to our attention that Mediclinic is being falsely indicated in current social media job scams, allegedly seeking to employ various staff members through a number of social media platforms," said Lika Tolken, corporate communication coordinator, in a statement.

Tolken noted that positions advertised may include enrolled nurses, learnerships and other training opportunities.

"The modus operandi of such scams includes the solicitation of money through informal channels such as money market counters to cellular telephone numbers as part of the application or training process."

Mediclinic pointed out that they would never require an applicant to make a payment as part of the application process.

"We seek to distanceIntroduction

We report, with review of the literature, the case of a patient who developed a subcutaneous abscess after intravenously injecting his own semen in an attempt to treat longstanding back pain. He had devised this “cure” independent of medical advice. This is the first reported case of semen injection for use as a medical treatment.

Case Report

A 33 year old male was seen complaining of severe, sudden onset lower back pain. He reported lifting a heavy steel object 3 days prior and his symptoms had progressed ever since. This gentleman had a history of chronic low back pain without neurology. Thorough physical exam of the upper and lower limbs revealed an erythematous papule with a central focus on the medial aspect of his right upper limb. His ASIA score


to Sea Shepherd, including this statement from Sea Shepherd spokesman Chris Aultman:

“The vessel was dead in the water. It was completely and absolutely a wilful act,” he said.

and one statement from the Japanese Fisheries Agency. The article contains not a single word of the statement made by the Institute of Cetacean Research (pdf file), a pro-whaling organisation, which claims that the Adi Gil attacked the Japanese whaling vessel the Nisshin Maru for two hours today:

In a manner similar to their 23 December attack on the Shonan Maru No. 2, at about 0300JST [Japanese Standard Time, 2 hours behind Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 9 hours ahead of Universal Time] the Ady Gil came to collision distance directly in front of the Nisshin Maru bow repeatedly deploying andSayara, 46, sits among the mourning women, her hand pressed closely against her chest as if to stop her heart from breaking. Her blue-grey eyes look at you, through you, beyond you. She is the mother of the young men who were lynched on Thursday evening on the train which runs from Delhi to Mathura.One of her sons, Junaid, just 15 years old, was buried in the local cemetery yesterday in the village of Khandauli in Haryana. Junaid had been beaten and repeatedly stabbed. His bloodied body was thrown out of the train just before it reached Palwal.Her elder son Shakir is in hospital grievously injured. He has three serious stab injuries. He was not in the group of four young men which had travelled to Delhi to


shop for Eid. He had got an urgent call from a cousin who was with the group with the SOS that they were being attacked. Shakir rushed to the Ballabgarh railway station to help but found that his brothers Junaid and Hashim and his cousins were not being allowed to leave the train.He desperately tried. Instead, he was pulled in and stabbed. He too was thrown out at Palwal. He was soaked in his own blood and that of his beloved younger brother's whom he had tried to save.Sayara's third son Hashim escaped with two stab injuries. It was he who cradled his brother Junaid's body on the station platform while a crowd of people stood and stared, until the ambulance called by someone took them away toa local hospital.Sayara does not know all these details, but she knows her grief and her loss so when she speaks, her voice is clear. She says "He (Junaid) had come home after a year after completing his Madarsa course in Surat, Gujarat. Along with his brother, he was going to celebrate his achievement on the auspicious occasion of Eid. I had given them Rs 1,500 to buy themselves new clothes. I curse myself. If I had not given them the money, he would have been here.. He was on the Roza fast. All my sons are fasting. I keep thinking, he did not have a sip of water, I was waiting here to feed them, but I could not give him his last morsel. My son, my


son..." She is weeping, someone offers her a drink of water. She refuses, she too is fasting.The group of four young men had got onto the train at Sadar Bazar, Delhi. Seats were available for all of them. The compartment started filling up. A group of men got on at Okhla station. The harassment began then. Junaid got up to seat an elderly man. But as soon as Junaid stood up, the others in his group who were sitting down were abused and told to stand up as well. Hashim's skull cap was snatched off his head and stamped upon. His beard was pulled. The young man resisted. It was then that the beating started. They were abused in the most derogatory communal language. They were called "filthybeef-eaters who should be killed" Their mothers and sisters were abused.Shockingly, not a single passenger in that crowded compartment objected. On the contrary, many joined in. One of the group, Mohsin, a cousin, escaped and tried to pull the emergency chain but nothing happened. It was mob rule in that compartment. The stabbing started after the train pulled out of Ballabhgarh station and a young man was killed right there, in public, with shouts of abuse ringing in his ears.It was not an aberration or a one-off incident by drunken louts. It was not a dispute about seats. There was not even the absurd pretext of beef-eating, they were all fasting. It was a crime completely and totally motivated by communal feelings, a crime of hate.People in the


Being a Student Parent: How Policy Is Improving for the Next Generation

by Ann DeMeulenaere Weedon

As part of my work as a summer intern at IWPR I have had the privilege of working with the Student Parent Success Initiative (SPSI). The SPSI report, Improving Child Care Access to Promote Postsecondary Success Among Low-Income Parents (2011), reflects my personal obstacles to higher education. Lack of access to childcare was the sole reason I did not attend college earlier and it is the reason many student parents struggle to complete their education. I am an IWPR intern, a single mom, and a graduate student at the age of 42 because I could not do these things when my children were young. I am sharing my story here as a thanks tothe SPSI team at IWPR for research that improves the lives of student parents. I hope this serves to add some personal context to the SPSI research.

Like many people, when I graduated high school I was unsure of the career I wanted to pursue. I decided some life and work experience would help me choose. For a year, I worked for a citizen lobby organization where I felt like the work I was doing was important and made a real difference. The job paid well (for a recent high school graduate) but there were no benefits as I was considered an independent contractor. Shortly after leaving that job, while working a part-time temp job, I discovered I was pregnant. I was 19 years old, had no secure, permanent


700 different species, some growing monstrously tall." "Some thrive in the baking north, some in the chilly south, and some even grow in the snow." "Wherever they find a foothold, gum trees attract a vast assortment of wildlife." "Australia is the eucalypt's native home - it was born here." "But how has this peculiar tree managed to spread itself over the entire continent?" "And why is it that so much lives around it?" "Fifty million years ago, when the climate was wetter, much of Australia was covered in rainforest." "In this lush land eucalypts barely existed." "But the continent was gradually drying out and the eucalypts seized their chance." "Far better able to cope with the harsh new conditions, they rushed out and thrived." "Now eucalypt bushland encircleshomes, but to live in these big trees you have to be agile." "Mountain brush-tailed possums are far bigger and slower, but they're competent climbers." "They're tree-dwellers, but they spend a fair bit of time on the forest floor, coming down in the darkness to eat fungi and fallen seeds." "It's tricky enough having to negotiate these dense trees by yourself, but imagine what it's like having to haul a baby around with you." "This female has carried her baby in her pouch for six months, and it will ride on her back for another two." "But alongside her, and safe from attack by owls, it learns all the skills it will need for a life on its own." "For now it can feast on fallen seeds, and


Clare Conaboy Dedication:

In memory of our former borough secretary Clare Conaboy, officials of Moosic borough took time to honor the former secretary on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. The unveiling of a bench was presented in front of the Conaboy family and Officials from the borough. Jane Sterling, Borough Administrator, officiated the ceremony in memory of her good friend, and also Thanked the donors that made the bench possible, Alan Goldstein, James McDonough, John Brazil, Building Inspectors Underwriters and PennEaster Engineers. Clare’s son said it best: “The best way to continue to serve her memory is to serve Moosic Borough.657 (10th Cir.1985): Plaintiff was employed as the general manager of the Springs Motor Inn ("Inn") in Colorado Springs, Colorado, when a serious fire caused substantial damage to the Inn in September 1980. On the morning of the fire, the defendant Dan Baker, a detective in the El Paso County Sheriffs Department, conducted a fire scene investigation. From his investigation he determined that the fire had been set to obtain money through insurance fraud.
On April 2, 1981, Anthony was indicted by an El Paso County Grand Jury for felony theft based on insurance fraud. The indictment was returned after the Grand Jury, during six sessions, heard the testimony of over twenty witnesses, including Anthony and Baker. Although El Paso County District Court Judge David Parrish concluded that the


Public Security, the 984-foot tunnel was near the back of the Reynosa Sanctions Execution Center (Cedes).

HATING JAIL: El Chapo reportedly despises solitary confinement

Tunnels in, and out, of prison near the U.S.-Mexico border are nothing new. Jaoquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from prison twice, once on July 11, 2015 through a tunnel underneath Mexico's Puene Grande prison.

Video continues below...

Authorities did not reveal who built the tunnel or what it was built for.

El Chapo has been extradited to the United States and hasn't escaped for some time. After he was captured the second time, there were still false rumors that he escaped again.

Click through the slideshow above to see more tunnels that have been discovered by authorities.The family of a British dad have spoken of their devastation after he was confirmed as a victim of the Stockholm terror attack.

Chris Bevington, 41, was among four people who died when a hijacked beer lorry was driven through a crowd and into a department store in the Swedish capital on Friday.

A Belgian and two Swedes were also killed.

The man suspected of carrying out the attack has also been identified as Rakhmat Akilov, according to Sky sources. He is believed to go by a number of aliases.

Image: Rakhmat Akilov, 39, is believed to go by a number of names

Police said he was an asylum seeker who had his residence application rejected and was wanted for deportation.

Officers were unable to find the 39-year-old from Uzbekistan when they were sent


to arrest him in February.

The suspect was also said to have "showed sympathies" towards Islamic State and other extremist organisations.

In a statement after Mr Bevington's death was confirmed, his father John said: "We are all devastated by the untimely and tragic death of our talented, compassionate and caring son Chris.

"A wonderful husband, son, father, brother and close friend to many.

"The family requests absolute privacy at this incredibly difficult time to mourn his passing in peace."

Image: A truck tows away the hijacked lorry which struck pedestrians

Mr Bevington was director of global partnerships for music streaming site Spotify and had been based in Stockholm for several years.

A statement from Spotify's founder said: "Chris has been a member of our band for over five years. He has had a great impactBad debt in Vietnam is expected to account for about 9 percent of total loans, after careful calculations, below the 15 percent ratio estimated by Moody's Investors Service, the central bank said in a statement.

Vietnam has one of Asia's highest ratios of non-performing loans, which has squeezed the economy and led to a tightening of credit needed to boost flagging consumer spending and keep businesses afloat.

Banks in Vietnam managed to cut bad debt to 3.63 percent of loans at the end of 2013, from 4.73 percent last October, the State Bank of Vietnam said in the statement issued late on Friday after a Moody's report on Feb. 18.

The central bank revised down the 3.79 percent bad debt ratio estimated by the central bank last month.

Moody's estimated on Tuesday


discussions and, at the same time, bring together scientists working on fundamental aspects of leukocyte signaling pathways and on the clinical implications of these pathways (including relevant disease models) are far and few between. Funds are requested to support The 7th International Leukocyte Signal Transduction Conference to be held in Kos, Greece, on September 8-13, 2013. This is the latest in a series of similar meetings initiated in 2000. The meeting, with ~80 anticipated participants, will bring together scientists working on fundamental aspects of leukocyte signaling pathways, related animal disease models, and clinical implications of these pathways, who is cutting edge technologies to address fundamental immunological problems. The invited faculty consists of ~24 internationally known scientists who are recognized experts in relevant research areas. Scientists at the early,Image copyright Other Image caption Shanie Ryan: 'Smoke was billowing in. Sounds of people screaming for help. I was screaming'

The 7 July London bombers killed 52 people and inflicted life-changing injuries on dozens more. But hundreds caught up in the blasts walked away that day - only to experience delayed emotional effects.

"It was a split second decision, that probably saved my life," says Shanie Ryan.

On that muggy Thursday morning 10 years ago, she was a 20-year-old dance student on her normal Piccadilly Line college commute with her flatmate Leon.

They were packed into their usual spot in the front carriage. As the train pulled into King's Cross, she jumped out to hug him goodbye.

Just yards away, bomber Germaine Lindsay was boarding the carriage.

Hearing the doors beep, Shanie turned to


find her space gone. She hopped into the second carriage and squeezed in against the connecting doors.

Seconds later, as the train plunged into the darkness of the tunnel, Lindsay detonated his device.

Image copyright Coroner's Inquest Image caption Germaine Lindsay's passport was found in the bombed carriage

Shanie has never spoken publicly about what followed.

"I just remember a huge bang. Pain in my ears. The train screeched to a halt and a woman fell on me. It was like time stood still. There was eerie silence - but loud, like white noise.

"Then it was senses coming back. Smoke was billowing in. Sounds of people badly injured, screaming for help. I was screaming, 'We're on fire', crying and panicking. The woman who fell on me - her name was Priscilla -were caught up in the blasts in some way.

Like Shanie, the vast majority of them were relatively physically unharmed. She suffered perforated ear drums and some breathing problems.

An unknown number of people simply walked away. Some even tried to wash off the debris and go to work as normal.

Risk analyst Sudhesh Dahad was also on the Piccadilly Line train, standing just six metres from the bomber.

He remembers a "popping noise", then coming round into a scene he describes as "Dante's inferno".

"I thought I was dead, and it was some kind of afterlife. From the sounds, I imagined it was people clawing, trying to get help, trying to pull themselves out of some kind of fire pit. Then I realised I was alive."

Image copyright Phil Coomes Image caption For


Sudhesh Dahad, sounds and smells would trigger vivid flashbacks that he was back in the midst of the blast

Sudhesh was able to pick himself up, unharmed but for some cuts to his face and burst ear drums. The blood on his shirt wasn't his. Because he was ahead of the blast, the driver was able to lead them out through his cabin within 10 minutes.

By the next day, he was back to conference calls with colleagues in America and the demands of his high pressure job.

"I was still doing these things, but I was barely able to contribute. I was like a zombie.

"I just wanted someone to tell me what to do, but my boss said, 'Do what you feel is right'. I had no idea what thatwas."

While his physical wounds began to heal, his psychological ones grew worse: vivid flashbacks triggered by the slightest noise or smell, recurring nightmares that he was back on the train, overwhelming anxiety that it would all happen again.

Police came to collect his blast-tattered clothes as evidence and took a statement. He thought, "Good, I'm in the system". But there was no follow up of help.

From 2006 to 2010, Sudhesh immersed himself in work, until the feelings became overwhelming.

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, New York City's health department estimated 61,000 people suffered "probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)".

Psychologist Patricia d'Ardenne, head of the NHS's Institute of Psychotrauma in east London, says she knew on the day of 7/7 there would be hundreds, if not thousands, of people like


mattered, she says, to help people rationalise what had happened, and how small the chances were of it happening again.

Image copyright PA Image caption Near Edgware Road, the walking wounded were treated at the London Hilton Metropole

One patient - so unlucky as to have also been caught up in a previous terrorist attack - was only reassured after being taken to a bookmakers to see how long the odds were of being in a third.

That said, a failed attempt by bombers to attack London's transport network again, exactly two weeks later, raised fear levels further. It was the day of Shanie Ryan's first trip back on the Tube and she was evacuated at King's Cross again.

But as well as usual symptoms, Dr d'Ardenne and her team began toFellow member Angela Ioannou, who was in the third carriage of the train, and also diagnosed with PTSD, says the bond between some of them is "like family".

Five fellow 7 July survivors were at her wedding last year.

"It's a link we'll always have," says the north Londoner.

Image copyright Angela Ioanou Image caption 7/7 survivors now firm friends Tim Coulson, Joanne Cole, Angela Ioannou, Jacqui Putnam and Ellie Thompson at Angela's wedding

"It was very difficult to talk to others around me at that time. They had no idea of the anxiety, the fear, the guilt. It was a relief to know it wasn't just me feeling like that."

The positive effects of peer support for survivors of major terrorist incidents has begun to change how treatment is planned in case


of future attacks. The Foundation for Peace in Warrington, set up in the wake of a 1993 IRA bomb, runs a Survivors Assistance Network for anyone affected by terrorism, grant-funded by the Ministry of Justice.

It is already preparing to offer support to survivors of the recent shootings in Tunisia.

The authorities know they need to act faster to record contact details of those affected, and Cabinet Office guidance means that hospitals should in future share survivor details with mental health teams.

They are lessons learned the hard way from 7 July 2005, when Dr d'Ardenne believes as many as 2,000 people may have slipped through the cracks.

For Shanie, it was eight years before she sought professional help, and was finally diagnosed with PTSD. The presenter and beauty expert from south-eastFor many years, Vince Bartels has been a prominent member of the Sacramento jazz scene in California. He has anchored the popular Fulton Street Jazz Band's rhythm section since 1977. Vince was just a kid back then, having grown up in the world of jazz due to his father, Hank Bartels, a renowned bass player and Louisiana native who grew up with clarinetist Pete Fountain and worked with him in the original Dukes of Dixieland band in New Orleans.

Then in 2004, Vince organized an all-star band and recorded a CD loaded with masterly performances. This talented bunch from all parts of the U.S. includes: Eddie Higgins, piano/composer; Dan Barrett, cornet/trombone/arrangements; Allan Vaché, clarinet; Russ Phillips, trombone; and Dave Stone, bass. A second recording was made in 2005 with


Jennifer Leitham on bass. Together, this group (aka "Migrant Jazz Workers") has a vibrant, magical chemistry that was evident at their recording sessions and during their performances at the 2005 and 2006 Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. Vince continues to work with various combinations of world-class jazz musicians at festival in the U.S. and Europe.

For three years, Vince was President of the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society (STJS), which sponsors the annual Sac. Jazz Jubilee -- the largest trad. jazz festival in the world. The STJS also operates a Youth Jazz Camp and an Adult Jazz Camp every summer in Sly Park, CA, amidst the beautiful alpine setting of the Sierra Nevada. The camp is staffed by some of the best working jazz musicians in the world. "A good time isthe Health Officer of the District of Columbia would be known as the Director of Public Health. The Health Department of the District of Columbia, including the office of the head thereof, was abolished and the functions thereof transferred to the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia by Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1952. Reorganization Order No. 57 of the Board of Commissioners, dated June 30, 1953, and Reorganization Order No. 52, dated June 30, 1953, combined and redesignated Organization Order No. 141, dated February 11, 1964, established under the direction and control of a Commissioner, a Department of Public Health headed by a Director, for the purpose of planning, implementing, and directing public health and hospital care programs, and for performing certain other allied medical


and paramedical functions. The Anatomical Board was established under the direction and control of the Director of Public Health consisting of members as prescribed in the D.C. Code. The Order prior to redesignation abolished the previously existing Health Department, Gallinger Hospital, Glenn Dale Sanatorium, and the Anatomical Board and transferred their functions and positions to the new Department. The organization of the new Department was set out in the Order. The executive functions of the Board of Commissioners were transferred to the Commissioner of the District of Columbia by § 401 of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967. Functions stated in Organization Order No. 141 were transferred to the Director of the Department of Human Resources by Commissioner’s Order No. 69-96, dated March 7, 1969, as amended by Commissioner’sSTALKYARD HURTS: The 2012 End of the World Reunion Tour @ IANA Theatre Company

IANA Theatre Company was founded in 2009 with a focus on Canadian Musical Theatre Production. This year they have two Original Canadian Musicals as part of their season, starting with STALKYARD HURTS.

This season, IANA Theatre Company searched the country to find Canada’s most successful band ever to do a show about. What they found was STALKYARD HURTS. This mockumentary style musical follows the band on their 2012 reunion tour, as we learn about what brought them together, why they were such a success, and what eventually tore them apart. For the band that wrote such hits as ‘LOVE’ and ‘SDRAWKCAB’ the first backwards song ever to be performed live, why did they choose to end


their most successful tour mid-way through?

Fearing the end of the world, the band is doing one last concert of their biggest hits, and hopefully this time, they’ll make it to their big hometown show.

This fictional musical features all new Pop music in the style of ABBA and Fleetwood Mac, and features an incredible cast of Canadian Musical Theatre performers and comedians.Madagascar occupied by people 2,500 years earlier than previously thought

Published: July 20, 2013 by Rhett A. Butler

New research indicates that Madagascar was occupied some 2,500 years earlier than previously established. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests a more complex view of the human role in the extinction of the island's mega-fauna.

A large body of research holds that village communities began to appear in Madagascar around 500 AD. These were established by people of Indonesian and East African heritage, according to past studies that found linguistic similarities between the Malagasy languages of southeastern Borneo as well as genetic markers tying modern-day Malagasy people to both Indonesia and East Africa. But there have been plenty of hints that people came to the world's third


island. Although human activities were involved, including hunting, the specific causes and pattern remain to be determined. More generally, the view that Madagascar’s history can be sharply divided by the arrival of humans between an undisturbed Eden and anthropogenic chaos is no longer tenable.

The researchers conclude by urging more archeological research to locate and excavate more forager sites to understand "the chronology, origins, geographic spread, and environmental impacts of the human occupation of Madagascar."

Original.

Note: Lead author Robert E. Dewar died in April 2013

REFERENCE: Robert E. Dewar et al (2013). Stone tools and foraging in northern Madagascar challenge Holocene extinction models. Published online before print July 15, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1306100110 PNAS July 15, 2013

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will be heading to the Nintendo Switch as reported by Nintendo Everything. The game's logo was included in a series of images showing future content coming to the game in a Nintendo News post deployed to consoles in Europe.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is described by the developers as an "Igavania", which is defined as "A gothic, exploration-focused action platformer, designed by one of the godfathers of the genre!" In essence, they've made a portmanteau of Koji Igarashi's name and the gaming genre term "Metroidvania" which describes games similar to Metroid or Castlevania. A Metroidvania typically features side-scrolling gameplay where players explore a non-linear game world and acquire items to access new areas.

Koji Igarashi has a pedigree for designing these types of games


- he was the Assistant Director, Programmer, and Scenario Writer for the Metroidvania classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (working under the pen name of Kouji IGA). He has since had a hand in over a dozen successive Castlevania games as Producer and occasionally chipping in as a Scenario Writer. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night purports to be a revival of this particular genre of game from one of the people who was heavily involved with them. Players will be able to explore a gothic-themed castle using side-scrolling platforming, RPG elements, and a crafting system.

The game is the product of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign, earning over 11 times of its requested $500,000 funding goal. Every single listed Stretch Goal on the campaign page was unlocked with nearlyPosts tagged 'Scheveningen Harbour'

On a free day during the Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014, a special press programme was organised by The City of The Hague and yours truly, a travel blogger, was invited along too.
On board the chartered Tall Ship Minerva, we sailed along the Scheveningen Coast for close to an hour, and another façade of The ... continue reading »

Built in the shape of a boat, Restaurant Catch by Simonis, opened for business since last year at the Marina Scheveningen, is one of three restaurants owned by the Simonis family.
Among the three, this is a high class restaurant, as pointed out to me based on the liquor served here, and caters to the upper ... continue reading »


Postponement of affect

Postponement of affect is a defence mechanism which may be used against a variety of feelings or emotions. Such a 'temporal displacement, resulting simply in a later appearance of the affect reaction and in thus preventing the recognition of the motivating connection, is most frequently used against the affects of rage (or annoyance) and grief'.

Negative postponement: repression

Grief

In the affect of grief, postponement seems to be an essential component. What happens in mourning is nothing other than a gradual "working-through" of an affect which, if released in its full strength, would overwhelm the ego'. John Bowlby considered the first of the "four phases of mourning" to be a 'Phase of numbness that...may be interrupted by outbursts of extremely intense distress and/or anger'. Thus one can speak ofof principle. For it is hardly possible to go Pawn-grabbing or checkmating and, at the same time, give the required attention to proper development. Still a Pawn is a Pawn, and the King is the King. These are important considerations. Surely, if the target is the opposing monarch and if it can be ascertained with a reasonable degree of certainty that he will topple from his throne, then definitely it is correct to violate principle. Checkmate leaves no weaknesses in its wake. If, however, the target is a Pawn and even if its successful capture is assured, the consequences of the action should be further appraised in the light of its effect on the entire position. In the quest for immediate material gain, the strategic plan is bound


of the squares KB5 and Q5 and also frees the Bishop and Queen for future action. As control of the central squares is of greater value than loss of control of the other squares, the move _1_ P-K4 adds a net plus to the position.

## GIVE AND TAKE

The move _1_ P-K4 adds a net plus to the position. For control of the central squares Q5 and KB5 is of greater value than loss of the control (by the King Pawn) of the squares Q3 and KB3. Every move in chess carries some minus as well as plus value.

Similarly, every move on the chessboard involves a sacrifice and a gain. It is a mistaken notion to think only in terms of gain. It is essential, however to weigh theWhite's extra Bishop Pawn is no idle curiosity. It is a potential threat. And, in the background, Black's chronically weak King Pawn is the strategic target. It will figure in the denouement.

6 Black swaps Knights: _19_... NxN. (What else? The threat was _20_ NxP, BxN; _21_ RxB, QxR; _22_ BxP, pinning the Queen.) There follows _20_ QxN, R-N1; _21_ R-K3, P-N4. Black's Queen Bishop Pawn is doomed, and so Black breaks out in a new spot, to complicate and give White a chance to go wrong.

7 White continues simply with _22_ RxBP. There follows _22_... PxP; _23_ PxP, B-Q2, (White's KBP is poison. For, after _23_... QxP; _24_ R-N3 _ch_ is decisive.) Even the semblance of Black's attack has vanished.... Now is the time to take stock. White's


David A. Galloway

David A. Galloway (born 1943), a Canadian, was the CEO of Torstar and was chairman of the board of Bank of Montreal from 2004 to 2012, which is also known as BMO Financial Group.

As well, Galloway served on the audit, human resources, governance and risk review committees of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Montreal.

He has also served on the Board of a number of public companies, including Abitibi, Cognos, Shell Canada, Hudson’s Bay Company, Westbourne Inc. and Clearnet Communications.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, he attended the University of Toronto Schools before receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1966 from the University of Toronto. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1968.

From 1983 to 1988, he was the president and C.E.O. of Harlequin Enterprisesof the 12 jurors initially voted for murder one. I was one of them. The other 10 wanted involuntary manslaughter, citing her behavior and his cocaine use as “excuses”. I should mention here that the man had left his dead girlfriend in his bed, while he went out and partied with friends all night. Also, according to witnesses, he was quite sober at the time of the
murder.

The other juror and I fought for, and eventually won, a murder one conviction. Before we left the courthouse, the judge spoke to us privately. She congratulated and thanked us for the conviction. At that time, she was able to tell us what had been carefully kept from us throughout the trial; the man we’d just convicted had a long history of


Storms and -- the two dominating topics today -- Governor Cuomo state of the state address the biggest headline. Making New York -- one of the toughest gun control states in the country. Even tough for a ban on assault weapons and limiting the number of bullets in any one weapon that's what mr. Cuomo is proposing I was a reporter Marcus Solis was there. He's an Albany for us tonight Marcus. Indeed bill this was a state of the state address to there was talk about economic development jobs and education but it is clear that gun control is a priority for the governor specifically. Passing an assault weapons ban. -- the issue of gun violence took center stage even before Governor Cuomo uttered a word --the families of the upstate firefighters who were shot and killed on Christmas Eve were honored. Then during his state of the state address the governor made clear he wants New York to have the toughest assault weapons ban. In the nation. It is about ending the unnecessary. Risk of high capacity -- Right. Back. What this is about. The governor who was a gun owner and hunter is proposing sweeping changes to the State's gun laws. Specifically rewriting the existing and that actually exists on assault weapons but -- virtually unenforceable. High capacity ammunition clips would be outlawed. Background checks would be required for private sales. There will be enhanced penalties for crimes committed with guns on school grounds. New measures would prevent the mentally ill from


Mathematical modeling of the aging processes and the mechanisms of mortality: paramount role of heterogeneity.
Main problems of modeling the link between aging processes and mechanisms of mortality are addressed. Various applications of Gompertz's law, which allowed to formulate some fruitful hypotheses on the field, are reviewed. Some pitfalls occurring in its applications are also discussed using a model built on purpose to overcome these difficulties. The role played by heterogeneity emerges as the common cause of some relevant failure in using Gompertz's law and the necessary key ingredient of any model aimed to interpret the link between aging and mortality correctly. Though a number of problems are related to inter-individual variability, the search for their solution can lead to an intriguing approach to the study of aging andCLL #728 (feat. The Love Between the Two Hosts) – 07/14/1998 – Tuesday Night Show

Source –Kevin Tape (2016) with TobyDog Tape (2007) Patches

This is the new Kevin Tape with patches from the TobyDog Tape, Adam and Drew field a call relating to conjugal visits and an intense call from Megan who claims to have HIV, fans on LoveLineTapes have once again created a controversy regarding the possible bogosity of her call, once again decide for yourself, there is a similar call on CLL #758 coming up with Dana Gould making his one and only visit to the show during the Adam era and Dr. Drew confronts Adam on his habit of writing sequential numbers on scratch paper while taking calls.


Matthew Brabham is back in dominant form in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires wining the first leg of the Allied Building Products Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio.

After a disappointing weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (Mosport) two weeks ago when he was involved in a heavy accident in the second race, he scored his eighth win from 11 races so far contested in 2013.

Despite wet conditions, the third-generation racer qualified on the pole for the fifth time of the year. The race was in the dry and he was never challenged throughout the 20-lap race to equal the single season record established by last year’s champion Jack Hawksworth.

Even with a two full course cautions, Brabham still took the victory by 3.89 seconds at the chequered flag.

“CanadaArmored vehicles continue to be a key element of South Africa’s arms exports, a government report indicates.

The National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), a government agency overseeing South Africa’s arms trade, said in its first quarter 2019 report that between January 1 and March 31, 38 locally made armored combat vehicles were delivered abroad to four customers. Mali purchased 19 vehicles at a cost of ZAR55 million, while Saudi Arabia acquired 15 vehicles, the U.S. procured three, and the UAE acquired one.

DefenceWeb, which reported on the NCACC document, noted, “The NCACC does not provide any information on type of vehicles, whether it is armed and with what or whether it is new or used.”

Mali received 29 Casspir armored personnel carriers (APCs) in July (outside of the first quarter),


art. VII, § 4; Ind.Appellate Rule 4(A)(7).

Background
On July 24, 1994, defendant broke into the apartment of his ex-wife, Tricia Bishop, and found her and Derek Oshinski asleep in the bedroom. Defendant woke Derek and shot him three times, firing one bullet into Derek's left temple from within eighteen inches. Derek died immediately from the wound caused by that bullet. Tricia got up from the bed and fell against a wall, where defendant also shot her several times. Tricia did not die immediately, but was pronounced brain dead on July 29, 1994.

Discussion

I
Defendant challenges the jurisdiction of the LaPorte Circuit Court over the charges against him. On July 25, 1994, the State filed in the LaPorte Superior Court No. 1 an information charging defendant with Murder, a class A felony,defendant's criminal history.

A-4
The fourth aggravating circumstance found to exist by the court was the heinous nature of these particular crimes. In its sentencing order, the court found that defendant "shot Tricia Bishop three times, one of the shots being in the head at point blank range." (R. at 1361.) Defendant argues that no credible evidence supports the "point blank range" finding, and the only evidence suggesting this finding is the forensic "homicide reconstruction" opinion of Michigan City Police Detective Ben Neitzel. Defendant claims that the reports of the surgeon who operated on Tricia's brain and the pathologist who performed Tricia's autopsy do not corroborate detective Neitzel's testimony. Defendant contends that his videotaped confession, in which he himself stated that he shot Tricia and Derek each three times, is


did he alert the police to his whereabouts in order to facilitate his capture. Here, before defendant confessed to the police, he went to a friend's house to clean up and to talk to her. This friend then drove defendant to his sister's home where defendant told his sister, brother-in-law, and nephews that he loved them. Defendant walked from his sister's home to his mother's house, a distance of approximately five blocks, where he subsequently was taken into custody. And unlike the defendant in Brewer, who was never a suspect and who likely never would have been apprehended, defendant already had been identified as the person who shot Tricia and Derek, and the police had surrounded his mother's house. Successful escape and avoidance of punishment under these conditionsII-A-1, supra, and we reject it on the same grounds. Second, he challenges the finding itself. The restraining order here in question was issued in temporary form on April 4, 1994, upon the motion of Tricia Bishop during her divorce from defendant, and was made permanent on April 11, 1994. The sentencing court found that a restraining order in a dissolution case dissolves automatically upon entry of the dissolution decree. The marriage of defendant and Tricia Bishop was dissolved by court order on July 18, 1994. The record demonstrates that defendant twice violated the restraining order during its effective period from April 4, 1994, to July 18, 1994. We therefore conclude that the court's finding that "[d]efendant violated a court issued Restraining Order on two occasions ..." was


the night. People are present. If completed, the wall will leave 4-inch slots, barely big enough for the smallest of wildlife to feel safe passing through.

The endangered Sonoran ocelot

A new study documented 18 ocelots living on a Sonoran cattle ranch and wildlife refuge near the U.S. border. Photo: Jim Rorabaugh

One of the species in question is the endangered Sonoran ocelot. While the discovery of a breeding, northern Sonora ocelot population just south of the border is a good sign for binational wildlife conservation, it is a sad reminder of those who are being forgotten in a move of racism and hatred.

This northernmost known breeding population of endangered ocelots was detected on a conservation-oriented ranch lying amidst mountainous terrain, some 30 miles south of the border. The study publishedin PeerJ is the result of eight years of observations.

To record wildlife observations, various cameras were placed at over 50 remote sites across Rancho El Aribabi, an almost 40,000-acre group of cattle-ranching properties situated in the Sky Island region of northern Sonora, Mexico. These ranches are privately owned.

Using the cameras, researchers got photos of 18 ocelots over an eight-year period. They included eight males, five females and five of undetermined gender.

A female ocelot called Coontail is shown on Sept. 18, 2017 in Arroyo Tinaja, a tributary drainage off the Rio Cocospera in Sonora, Mexico, just south of the border. Video: Jim Rorabaugh

In February of 2011, a female ocelot was photographed with a kitten, a telltale sign of breeding. Their presence makes this group a probable source of the


Bio

James Douglas Shuffield was born October 12th, 1972 in Little Rock, Arkansas to the venerable James F. Shuffield and the beautiful Kathryn Shuffield. Doug, as he was nicknamed, was the long awaited son and third child in the Shuffield family with his sisters, Beverly and Valerie. Doug’s new birth occurred at the age of 14 when he surrendered his life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Doug continues to enjoy the life-long adventure of being a Christ-follower.

After showing a knack for computers and electronics during his childhood, Doug attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where he studied Electrical Engineering. In 1994, the summer of his junior year, Doug was married to his high school sweetheart and beautiful wife, Shawn Nutt. His studies continued until 1995 when he receivedhis Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

After graduation, Doug moved to Austin, Texas to begin work as an electrical engineer. Doug has lived and worked as an electrical engineer in Austin from 1996 to the present. Doug currently enjoys his job as the Director of Engineering for the up-and-coming virtual reality startup, Virtuix.

Doug and Shawn had three children: Meagan, Molly, and Joshua, and completed their family with their trusty dog, Jack Bow-wow (named after Jack Bauer of 24 fame).

Doug’s acting career began in the summer of 2013 when his daughter Meagan suggested they submit for work as extras on NBC’s show Revolution which was moving production of the second season to the Austin area. Doug was selected and began work as a Patriot on August 5th, 2013.