''The P.U.C.'s action today was premature because we do not have all
the appropriate financial numbers necessary to make a decision.''
Mr. Davis's statement seemed to reflect the awareness he and his aides feel
about the potential political backlash from big rate increases. Even as other
politicians warned that such increases would be necessary, Mr. Davis has
vowed to avoid them. On Monday he insisted that he had not spoken to any
members of the commission about the rate increase proposal and that he had no
control over its actions.
But Mr. Davis appointed three of the body's five members, and since taking
office two years ago he has been emphatic in saying that he expects his
appointees to state boards and commissions to reflect his policies.
HeHydraCoach, Inc. was founded early in 1999 when the hydration monitor concept was conceived from the personal needs of founders Craig and Kelly Perkins.

Having been avid outdoor enthusiasts all their lives, it was the result of two experiences in particular that taught them the importance of proper hydration. Craig received his second hardest lesson when he was 25 years old and in excellent shape. While attempting to climb 14,497-foot Mt. Whitney, Craig fell ill from dehydration at 13,000 feet and was forced to descend.

Craig’s hardest lesson came in September of 1996, when he and Kelly were making their way down Half Dome in Yosemite after reaching its summit. This was Kelly’s first serious hike following a heart transplant operation only ten months earlier. Using a concealed hydration backpack,


openly anti-abortion, goes on to recognise Dr Lanfranchi's position as "a breast cancer surgeon and a clinical assistant professor of surgery", and said she had a right to free speech in Australia. He is involved with this year's "World Congress of Families" event to be held in Melbourne later this month, where one of the topics to be discussed is abortion and breast cancer. "I am associating myself with the Families Conference - the broad aims of which I support. This does not mean that I endorse the views of every single speaker," he said. The chief executive officer of Breast Cancer Network Australia said on Friday that drawing links between abortion and breast cancer was harmful and concerning.

"I think it's really harmful to give credibility to claims`

Thursday, October 27, 2016

TIME FOR AN APOLOGY, DR MAHATHIR

29 years after Operation Lalang, the time is now ripe for Dr Mahathir Mohamad to apologise to both the victims and the nation.

COMMENT

By Kua Kia Soong

This 29th anniversary of the launch of Operation Lalang is perhaps the best opportunity for Dr Mahathir Mohamad – if he has indeed become a reformed democrat – to apologise to the detainees and to the nation for that dastardly action in 1987 and the subsequent assault on the Malaysian Judiciary.

On Oct 27, 1987, Mahathir’s government began arresting and detaining without trial a very large number of people – Members of Parliament, politicians, unionists, NGO activists, religious leaders and educationists, including this writer. The official figure was 106 people detained.

While the justification given was that


Operation Lalang under the ISA as he could not shirk responsibility for the dragnet, especially as he was Home Minister at the time:

“Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was reported in the media as denying that he was responsible for the infamous Operation Lalang in 1987, where 106 persons were detained under the draconian detention-without-trial Internal Security Act for him to consolidate political control and power in government, Umno and Barisan Nasional. Nanyang Siang Pau today even quoted Mahathir as disclaiming that he was Home Minister at the time of Operation Lalang, claiming that at the time he was in China and the Home Minister was one ‘Musa.’

“Mahathir was talking rubbish. He is not only guilty of selective amnesia when it suits him, as when he toldthe Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Videotape scandal that he could not remember anything about the incidents related to the scandal of the fixing of judicial appointments, he has now shown that he is capable of telling downright lies to disclaim responsibility for the human rights violations perpetrated during his time as Prime Minister and Home Minister.

“Mahathir can tell lies without batting an eyelid about the history of his premiership but he cannot change history at his whim and fancy. It is indisputable that Mahathir was the Home Minister during the Operation Lalang crackdown in 1987 and there was no ‘Musa” at the time acting as Home Minister.

“It is most unworthy, and even cowardly, of Mahathir to deny that he was responsible for the most infamous


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life through animation is a true passion project for us,” the Russos said.

The Russos — known for their work on the Marvel Cinematic Universe entries “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Captain America: Civil War,” “Avengers: Infinity Wars,” and “Avengers: Endgame”– will executive produce the series. Henry Gilroy and Jose Molina will serve as writers and co-executive producers. Yoriaki Mochizuki will serve as supervising director and co-executive producer. Octopie will oversee production, with Todd Makurath, Eric Calderon, and Dave Newberg serving as producers, and Mike Larocca and Isaac Krauss serving as executive producers. Bardel Entertainment will handle animation on the series.

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As discussed above, a drill string is made up of a multitude of pipe joint segments, which are each typically about 30-32 ft. long and which are joined together by rotary connections. The Hall WPS takes advantage of special, high-performance connections, known as double-shouldered rotary tool joints. Double-shouldered tool joints are machined to exacting specifications such that mating tool joints not only engage at the outer, sealing shoulder, but also at an inner shoulder formed by the flat face of the pin 33 and the flat back wall of the box 31. The Hall WPS uses these


Property company Workspace Group has been granted planning permission for the redevelopment of Stratford Office Village.

Workspace has secured mixed use planning consent to replace the existing office buildings with a redevelopment comprising 101 residential units, including a mix of townhouses, private apartments and 25% affordable housing, as well as 1200 m2 (13,000 sq ft) of new commercial space. The scheme will provide housing for the London Borough of Newham.

Stratford Office Village is near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Stratford train station. The site was valued at £14m in March 2016.

Workspace chief executive Jamie Hopkins said: “We are delighted to have received planning permission for this redevelopment in Stratford, which will considerably increase the capital value of the site. This is one of a pipeline of opportunities thatThe Miami football program continues to be one of the biggest suppliers of talent to the NFL despite their struggles on the field. Eight Miami Hurricanes have been invited to the 2020 NFL Combine in Indianapolis beginning later this month.

Eight former Miami football players have been invited to the 2020 NFL Combine in Indianapolis that commences later this month. That tops the six Hurricanes that participated in the 2019 combine. Several of the combine participants from Miami played in college all-star games like the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl.

Senior linebackers Shaq Quarterman and Michael Pinckney participated in the East-West Shrine Game and graduate transfer defensive end Trevon Hill in the Senior Bowl. Pinckney led the East with five solo tackles and tie with Quarterman and three


in 2018 and’19. NFL scouts are looking at these players as individuals, especially at the combine.

Matt Miller of the Bleacher Report projects four of the eight Miami football alums invited to participate to be selected in the NFL Draft in April in Las Vegas. Hill is the first player Miller projects to be off the board from Miami in the third round to the hometown Las Vegas Raiders.

Miller has a prognostication of Quarterman in the fifth round to the Miami Dolphins, Dallas to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the sixth round and Bandy in the seventh round to the Atlanta Falcons. It would be surprising for the productive Pinckney to go undrafted. The potential for the other Miami alums going undrafted sends a message.

Of the four Miami alums Millerprojects to go undrafted, two are juniors giving up their last season of eligibility to enter the NFL Draft. Thomas was likely finished at Miami. It was very thinly veiled that Manny Diaz and his staff were tired of the indiscretions that Thomas has had over the last couple of seasons.

Miller was suspended for two games in 2018 and ultimately not with the team for the final two games of that season. Thomas was suspended for two more games in 2020. After a breakout 2018 sophomore season, Garvin was not productive for Miami until the end of the 2019 season.

Garvin had exclamation to the end of his Miami football career with 10 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and two sacks against Duke in the regular-season finale. Garvin would


1950 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

The 1950 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1950 Big Nine Conference football season.  In their ninth year under head coach Ray Eliot, the Illini compiled a 7–2 record, finished in fourth place in the Big Ten Conference, and were ranked #13 in the final AP Poll. The lone setbacks were losses Wisconsin and Northwestern. End Tony Klimek was selected as the team's most valuable player.

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Players
 Charles E. "Chuck" Brown - guard (1st-team All-Big Ten pick by AP and UP)
 Johnny Karras - halfback (2nd-team All-Big Ten pick by AP and UP)
 Tony Klimek - end (1st-team All-Big Ten pick by AP and UP)
 Lynn Lynch - guard (2nd-team All-BigPARIS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the resounding mandate of 2019 Lok Sabha polls was not just for a government, but for building a 'New India' that focuses on ease of doing business while ensuring ease of living.

Addressing Indian community at the UNESCO headquarters here after inaugurating a memorial in honour of the victims of two Air India crashes in France in the 1950s and 1960s, Prime Minister Modi said in 'new India' action is being taken against corruption, nepotism, loot of people's money, terrorism.

"In 'New India', the way in which action is being taken against corruption, nepotism, loot of people's money, terrorism, this has never happened before. Within 75 days of the new government coming to power, we took many strong decisions," PM Modi


said.

In an apparent reference to the revocation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir, he said, "There is no scope for temporary in India. You would have seen that a country of 1.25 billion people, the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Gautam Buddha, Ram, Krishna, took 70 years to remove what was temporary."

Asserting that people gave resounding mandate to the BJP government for building 'New India', Modi, who is in France on the first leg of his three-nation tour, said that India is moving fast on the path of development.

On triple talaq he said, "We did away with practice of triple talaq; injustice cannot be done to Muslim women in new India."

He said India will achieve most of the climate change goals set for 2030, in the next yearNBA: Bryant back on sidelines for another six weeks

December 20, 2013 07:29 IST

Just 11 days after Kobe Bryant made his long-awaited return for the Los Angeles Lakers, the shooting guard is expected to be out for "approximately six weeks" because of a knee injury, the team announced on Thursday.

The 35-year-old, who spent almost eight months on the sidelines with a torn left Achilles' tendon before making his comeback on December 8, hyper-extended his left knee during Tuesday's 96-92 win against the Grizzlies in Memphis.

Bryant, a 15-time All-Star and five-time NBA champion, had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam on Thursday and was also examined by a team physician.

"Results of the MRI show that Bryant has a fracture of the lateral tibial plateau of his knee," the Lakers said


in a statement. "He is expected to be out approximately six weeks."

Bryant's latest injury comes as a major blow for the Lakers, who only last month signed the league veteran to a two-year, $48.5 million contract extension.

"That's too bad, you hate it for Kobe," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni told reporters after the team practiced at their El Segundo training facility.

"He's worked so hard to get back. But he'll be back. He'll be back in six weeks. He's got to weather the storm to get back. We're going to play hard. We have enough guys and enough talent. We'll be fine."

Xavier Henry will take over as starting point guard in Bryant's absence, the Lakers said.

Bryant, who injured his left knee with 3:25 left in the third quarter of Tuesday'sIn the aftermath of the mass shooting in a Parkland, Fla., high school, Donald Trump talked a good game about ambitious gun reforms. At one especially memorable White House discussion with Republican and Democratic lawmakers, the president not only endorsed a “comprehensive” solution to combat gun violence, he also seemed to publicly mock his GOP allies for being “so afraid of the NRA.”

Two weeks later, Trump abandoned his plans. The National Rifle Association reminded the Republican what he was supposed to believe, at which point the president quietly retreated from nearly all of the positions he’d earlier endorsed.

A year and a half later, after much of the country was shook by back-to-back mass shootings, Trump has been more circumspect, rejecting calls for an assault-weapons ban and restrictions on


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Following an incident in Cornwall the British Horse Society is urging England football supporters to be aware of the dangers that flying flags on their cars create for horses and riders.

A rider was hospitalised in Cornwall when the horse she was riding took fright at the noise of flapping flags mounted on the bonnet of a passing car. The horse bolted and fell, narrowly missing a second car.

Sheila Hardy, BHS senior executive of the safety department, said: "The BHS understands fans wishing to show their support for the England team by flying St George’s flags on their vehicles.

"However, we would ask everyone to be aware that horses are likely to be startled by the loud flutter that car window flags generate and to pass any


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In mammals, platelets are small, anucleate circulating elements best known for their capacity to rapidly aggregate and prevent blood loss during trauma. In the 19th century, the visionary pioneers Schulze and Bizzozero were rapidly drawn to the study of platelets in hemostasis given the efficiency and prominence of the process. Decades of continued studies have identified many of the components and mechanisms that make platelets so sensitive to stimulation but, at the same time, have recognized the many ways in which their uncontrolled activation compromises vascular integrity, as seen in several of the most prevalent and deadly syndromes, from strokes and heart attacks to venous thromboses. These early studies found comforting consistency between the "passive" formation of blood clots and the lack of "transcriptional intelligence" in platelets.

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Little Miss Safe and global catastrophe

The recent freezing weather has brought us a seasonal Darwin Award hopeful in the shape of Capital FM newsreader Laura Safe (no, really!), who this week provides a fitting metaphor for the state of our society.

Engrossed in sending a text to her boyfriend, Miss Safe walked down the steps out of Birmingham's Mailbox shopping centre and straight into a canal.

Fortunately, according to news reports, a gallant passer-by was on hand to fish her out of the icy water and she is none the worse for her ordeal - though I suspect her colleagues will be indulging in a certain amount of amusement at her expense.

Little has changed, then, since we reported the fate of the young man who ran into


more details for Steve’s memorial service, which will take place at 4pm, Saturday April 8, at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN. Directions to the venue are also […]

Behold! More than three years after the first design was unveiled in 2015, and more than two years since a revised version was was approved by Mountain View’s city council, Google’s new campus is finally taking shape in the middle of Mountain View, California, like a titanic metal circus tent. The new campus, designed by Bjarke Ingels […]

‘Tis the season for an endless stream of party invites, personal obligations, and a mad dash to meet end-of-year goals. While the holidays challenge professionals to disconnect and tune in to family time, they also present more stressful responsibilities and etiquetteWhen someone dies, it is usually the end of a narrative, but when it comes to active, expressive personalities — artists, writers or publishers — the work lives on. Feral House Press announced via Facebook that Adam Parfrey, its founder and publisher, died Thursday at the age of 61. But what he left behind in the alternative publishing world won't be forgotten; it will continue to provoke and inspire.

I didn't know Parfrey that well, except we were both in publishing. There is a specific type of character who wants to expose the wizard behind the curtain, running the theater or show. A publisher is that type of person, moving the gears and fixing the type, the design and the language to reveal a landscape one could otherwise miss


“other,” and most of us readers were pleased to have him as our guide.

Parfrey and I are very much the citizens of the publishing world. My press is TamTam Books, which focuses on Paris postwar culture/literature, and Feral House is a specialized press that deals with the undercurrents that are the culture in its many identities. From American hair metal to the dark history of bubble-gum music, the Kennedy assassination to Walter and Margaret Keane — it's the mainstream world turned upside down, and hanging by its pant cuffs facing the pavement many stories below.

His vision was tremendous but extremely focused on the bigger picture, which is apocalyptic culture and all its byproducts, some obvious and some hidden under layers. In this aspect, Parfrey was a great publisherbecause he could take such a culture and split it into digestible bites. I have met people who only read titles from Feral House. Its ethos is well-defined, and like a spider web it can entrap one into an endless adventure of seeking arcane knowledge. In a nutshell, that is what a publisher is supposed to do, and Parfrey was great in that position.

The other thing that impressed me about the writer and publisher was his focus on his father, the great character actor Woodrow Parfrey. On his Facebook page, he would post, one after another, images of his dad in films and TV shows. I never got a clear picture of who his dad was by looking at his posts, but I found his obsession with his


father fascinating, mostly due to my own fascination with my late father, Wallace Berman.

Woodrow was not a movie star but a working actor, and I wondered if he shared his son's fascination with the underworld. Cruelly, the elder Mr. Parfrey died of a heart attack when he was 61 years old. His son died at the same age.

Parfrey was in his 20s when he lost his dad, and I was in my early 20s when I lost mine. Being a young adult and losing a parent is an odd situation to go through. Parfrey started publishing when his father died (first under the Amok name, then Feral House), and when my dad died, I did the same. I never talked or wrote to him about our fathers, butIn the last few months, Indian table tennis made headlines and history. What must India do to capitalise on the momentum in time for Tokyo Olympics? Neha Aggarwal tells Firstpost

In the last few months, Indian table tennis made headlines and history.

Starting with the Commonwealth Games " where India won eight medals, including men's and women's team golds and Manika Batra's women's singles gold " the country made waves at the Asian Games at Jakarta-Palembang with two bronze medals, which came courtesy of the men's team and Sharath Kamal-Manika's mixed doubles exploits.

To top it off, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika broke into hitherto unchartered territories by reaching world rankings of 28 and 47 earlier this year.

But with the Tokyo Olympics looming on the horizon, the next step Indian table tennis


needs to take is to build on the momentum of the past few months.

Unfortunately, with the national team yet to find a replacement for coach Massimo Costantini, the national teams are in a state of limbo at the moment. While the Table Tennis Federation of India was keen on renewing his contract till the Tokyo Olympics, the Italian chose not to stay with the Indian team citing personal reasons in September last year.

"Finding a replacement for Costantini should be the first step for Indian table tennis. A coach is the missing piece right now," said Neha Aggarwal, who represented India at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and is currently the Head of Partnerships at Olympic Gold Quest.

"Finding a coach is very urgent for the men's players, but the biggerCostantini had, over his two stints, helped Indian table tennis take a leap forward.

"India's success has been a long process. At the end of 2008, the whole wave of promoting table tennis from the government started. We did well in 2010. But then Costantini left and we had Peter Engel. 2014 was a bit of a disappointment. And then four players " Sharath, Soumyajeet Ghosh, Manika and Mouma Das went to Rio 2016.

"Costantini and Engel were two good coaches, but the difference was that Peter was not a good administrator. Until 2016, what was missing in Indian table tennis was good management. By that I mean, giving proposals to TTFI in time, having the plans for the players and teams ready, and essentially getting a structure in place.


Planning well ahead about what tournaments need to be played, what countries we can go to for good training.

"I think why the men's table tennis players did well was because they took the onus on themselves to do so. We've seen Sathiyan go out and play in the European leagues. About four to five male players had settled in Europe and were playing there. That made a lot of difference," said Aggarwal before adding, "And when Massimo came back, while the players had taken the onus on themselves, the government also began supporting because there was a plan in place. A structure was there. Players were going to Asia and to Europe for training for different perspectives.

"For the players, there was already a well-laid structure in place, theyRobert Murray, with produce, passengers, and a number of prisoners. She called in at Hobart Town and arrived in Sydney on 15 May 1815. Eliza departed Port Jackson on 28 May 1815 for Batavia and Calcutta.

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Eliza was lost in the Torres Strait on 11/12 June 1815.

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Nicholson, Ian Hawkins (1996) Via Torres Strait – A maritime history of the Torres Strait route and the ship's post office at Booby Island. (Roebuck Societh Publication №48).
Phipps, John, (of the Master Attendant's Office, Calcutta), (1840) A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time .... (Scott).

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public trust for the benefit a corporation or other private interest — no matter how politically powerful it may be.

This fundamental principle is embodied in the laws and constitutions of countries around the world. It was codified in the Institutes of Justinian, issued by the Roman Emperor in 535 A.D., which stated, “By the law of nature these things are common to mankind — the air, running water, the sea and consequently the shores of the sea.”

Use of the Public Trust Doctrine for climate protection has been pioneered by young people represented by Our Children’s Trust, who have brought lawsuits or rulemaking petitions in every U.S. state, against the federal government, and in countries around the world, to require governments to act on their public trust duty toNour El-Refai.

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198 Va. 621 (1957)
C. H. LAMB, COMMISSIONER OF THE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
v.
PIERCE BARNES TAYLOR, JR.
Record No. 4598.
Supreme Court of Virginia.
January 21, 1957.
D. Gardiner Tyler, Jr., Assistant Attorney General (J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General,    on brief), for the appellant.
Present, Hudgins, C.J., and Eggleston, Spratley, Buchanan, Miller and
Taylor's driver's license was suspended for ninety days on the grounds that he had caused an accident resulting in death and had committed a serious violation of the motor vehicle laws.  Evidence at the hearing before the Commissioner showed his car had collided in the center of the intersection of two highways with that of Emanuel Taylor, who was fatally injured.  Taylor was unfamiliar with the road, which ran through flatwhich he died.
The speed limit on both roads in this area is fifty-five miles per hour, and there was no traffic control sign at the intersection for behicles proceeding along route 702.  Traffic on route 693 is, however, controlled at the intersection by a stop sign, and it is conceded that petitioner did not stop before entering the intersection.  The area around the intersection is level and wooded, and the trees are intermingled with broom sedge and weeds described as being about four feet tall and growing near to the stop sign.  Marks and debris on the highway showed that the vehicles collided about the center of the intersection and petitioner's automobile came to rest on the northwest corner and left skid marks about ninety


still there.  They put new signs up the other way to stop traffic all four ways now."
There was other testimony before the Commissioner which showed that petitioner was not familiar with the intersection and that the broom sedge on the shoulder, and the trees and bushes on the right side of the highway as one approached from the south tended not only to obscure the post and the lower edge of the stop sign, which was old and faded, but prevented one from readily observing the intersecting road or seeing a vehicle approaching from the east on route 702 until it was two or three car lengths from the intersection.
Additional evidence introduced before the circuit court consisted of pictures of the intersection and surrounding area and testimonyof several witnesses concerning the condition, location and visibility of the stop sign and intersection to a driver approaching from the south on route 693.  The pictures disclose that a thickly wooded area surrounds the level intersection, and the trees and bushes, intermingled with weeds and broom sedge, grow along the edge of the highway in rather close proximity to the sign.  These witnesses described the broom sedge as reaching up to the lower edge of the stop sign and said that the post on which the sign is mounted is wholly obscured by the weeds and the sign is old, faded and discolored and not likely to attract a driver's attention.
T. Milton Byrd described the intersection and the visibility of the sign as follows:


sun casting shadows on the road and the sign, it is very hard to see."
Frank Carter succinctly described the sign in this language:
"The sign is almost camouflaged."
James Wessells testified to the visibility of the sign as follows:
"Q.  State whether or not it is visible to anyone not accustomed to this road?"
"A.  No, sir, I would say it isn't."
The location and condition of the sign, as well as the growth around it and the level wooded terrain surrounding the intersection all as described by the witnesses and as appearing in the pictures, lend credence to the belief that neither the sign nor a car approaching from the right on route 702 would be likely to attract the attention of a stranger approaching along route 693 from theGrey-hooded sierra finch

The grey-hooded sierra finch (Phrygilus gayi) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

It is found in Argentina and Chile where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

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Rebecca Murphy

Bio

Rebecca worked in the area of community care and aged care services as a coordinator and educator before having two beautiful children. Her background and skills in advocacy and training in social role valorisation helped to foster a firm belief in an inclusive and fulfilling life for Rohan, who has 18Q deletion syndrome. Rebecca faced many hurdles trying to gain a mainstream education for her son but, due to her clarity about the benefits of inclusion, she did not give up the dream. Rebecca is an active member of the QLD Collective for Inclusive Education and has been a part of CRU’s family leadership network, parent advocacy organisations and a contributor to education sessions for parents and conference sessions.

Rohan is a grade 5 student whose education hasrun the full gamut of early intervention, special education school, extreme segregation within a mainstream school and an inclusive classroom. Rohan now enjoys learning in a regular inclusive school and has challenged all critics by achieving high academic results and making strong enduring friendships. He loves going to school and excels at spelling, writing and maths. He has a large group of friends and is seen as an extremely capable student by his school community even though he does not communicate verbally. Rohan has contributed his words, prose and insights to the presentation.

Presentation

Day 2 1:25 – 3:00

Inclusive Education – the Pathway to Unlocking Potential

This presentation will explore the pivotal role of parent advocacy and strong leadership skills in conquering the barriers to an inclusive education and a fulfilling


to make steel stronger, safer and more durable. Their new surface coating, made from rough nanoporous tungsten oxide, is the most durable anti-fouling and anti-corrosive material to date, capable of repelling any kind of liquid even after sustaining intense structural abuse.

The new material joins the portfolio of other non-stick, anti-fouling materials developed in the lab of Joanna Aizenberg, the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science and core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Aizenberg's team developed Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces in 2011 and since then has demonstrated a broad range of applications for the super-slick coating, known as SLIPS. The new SLIPS-enhanced steel is described in Nature Communications.

"Our slippery steel is orders of magnitude more durable than any anti-fouling materialliquid even after sustaining intense structural abuse. Credit: Aizenberg Lab/Harvard SEAS

The biggest challenge in the development of this surface was to figure out how to structure steel to ensure its anti-fouling capability without mechanical degradation. The team solved this by using an electrochemical technique to grow an ultrathin film of hundreds of thousands of small and rough tungsten-oxide islands directly onto a steel surface.

"If one part of an island is destroyed, the damage doesn't propagate to other parts of the surface because of the lack of interconnectivity between neighboring islands," said Alexander B. Tesler, former postdoctoral fellow at SEAS, current research fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the paper's first author. "This island-like morphology combined with the inherent durability and roughness of the tungsten oxide


formation, more myoblasts fuse with primary than secondary myotubes whereas this situation is reversed by the end of secondary myotube formation; and (3) that the nuclei added to primary and secondary myotubes during the early stages of their formation are located within the middle of E20 muscles. The nuclei added to growing myotubes are preferentially located at the ends of the muscles.Speakers

Jill Bunker

Jill is an independent nurse consultant in hypertension and cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention. She was a senior research nurse and nurse specialist in the management of hypertension and cardiovascular disease at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London for over 25 years. She is a Fellow of the British and Irish Hypertension Society and a member of the Nurses & Allied Health Professionals Working Party. She always attends the Annual Scientific Meeting as she finds it an invaluable and enjoyable way to keep up to date in hypertension and cardiovascular disease. She is part of the BIHS project team delivering hypertension education in Malawi. She is an Independent Prescriber and her specialist interests include hypertension education and medicine adherence. She is based in Oxford.


In light of the scriptures the correct baptismal formula is outlined in the book of Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament. This formula notes that one is to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38). However, there is another passage of scripture that has been construed as a baptismal formula post-New Testament housed in Matthew 28:19. This passage of scripture has been attested by historical church documents and more recently research and scholarship to be late development in church history.

Therefore, one should approach the topic of Matthew 28:19 with some cautionary measures. To wit, the question was neatly put by the leading British apostolic oneness author and historian, Mr. Kulwant Singh Boora, whose work on the subject ofis in the name of Jesus Christ (see Acts 2:38). However, this is not the main application that is used so widely in most mainstream churches of today who adhere to the later developed Trinitarian form. Since the beginning of the early Christian church, 100 C.E. to 451 C.E. which is called the Patristic era (the study of early church writers), many people have been at odds to which baptismal formula is correct. All the while more and more historical research is pointing to the direction of the formula from the first century church points towards baptism in the name of Jesus as invoked in the Book of Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.

Therefore one would assume that there are two baptismal formulas, the one given


by Jesus in Mathew 28:19,”Go ye into all the world teaching them and baptizing them in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost.” In Acts 2:38 Peter commanded people to be baptized in the Name of Jesus. There has been a misinterpretation of the correct formula for baptism. God is a Spirit and there are three parts to God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These are not names, but titles of God. For example, my name is Dillard and I am a father, son and grandson. God also has revealed himself by many names; Almighty God, The everlasting father, Jehovah, and finally Jesus in the New Testament. In the New Testament, he became a human being and his name is Jesus. This invisibleacross some disciples that did not know the proper way to be baptized, they were still baptizing unto repentance. This was the formula that John the Baptist taught them. After Paul shared with them the doctrine of Christ, they were re-baptized in the name of Jesus showing obedience unto the teachings of Jesus whom taught his disciples that baptism must be done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

However, Mr. Boora’s recent research and authorship has revealed significant research in the United Kingdom and globally as discussed above. His studies have shown that baptism in the name of Jesus has been performed a myriad of times throughout the UK and worldwide. In some of his research he notes that the King of France around the 6th century


IBM Integrates Dev Tools With Tivoli

The integration of testing and asset management tools enables software developers to more cleanly automate deployment of new apps.

IBM announced Wednesday that it has integrated IBM Rational development tools and its Tivoli systems management so that newly developed software may be automatically deployed to production in a more risk-free fashion.

By integrating the development process with deployment, a company can automate processes that combine the activities of a development team, software testing team, and data center operations team for a production environment, said Al Zollar, general manager of IBM Tivoli software in making the announcement.

The integrations allow enterprises "to automate what was previously a labor-intensive process, with the peace of mind that the new service is developed and delivered quickly and accurately," he saidThe endosymbiotic theory is the accepted mechanism for how eukaryotic cells evolved from prokaryotic cells. It involves a cooperative relationship between two cells which allow both to survive—and eventually led to the development of all life on Earth.

Endosymbiotic Theory History

First proposed by Boston University biologist Lynn Margulis in the late 1960s, the Endosymbiont Theory proposed that the main organelles of the eukaryotic cell were actually primitive prokaryotic cells that had been engulfed by a different, bigger prokaryotic cell.

Margulis' theory was slow to gain acceptance, initially facing ridicule inside mainstream biology. Margulis and other scientists continued work on the subject, however, and now her theory is the accepted norm within biological circles.

During Margulis' research on the origin of eukaryotic cells, she studied data on prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and organelles, finally


Kent County High Point Trip Report

Date: March 16, 2002
Author: Fred Lobdell

With the 21 areas that are candidates for the HP of Kent County, I thus became the 3rd person to complete
the First State, and 2002 makes the 7th consecutive year that I have completed at least one new state.
I stayed at the northern end of Kent Co. in a generic one-star motel in Smyrna, DE. [For those of you
unfamiliar with the hotel rating system, I recount a scene from the British comedy "Are You Being Served",
in which Mrs. Slocum asks Captain Peacock, "Just how good is a one-star hotel?" Captain Peacock replies,
"Let me put it this way, Mrs. Slocum. There is no such thing as a no-star hotel."] My staying the night in
that room probably erased half theHillary for president of the World Mountaineers Association.
It should be noted that more than half of these areas are in farm fields. Thus, one should plan on doing this
county some time between late fall, after the harvest, and early spring, before crops are planted.
Taking the areas in the order described by Mike Schwartz (see his report), I found the first three areas
(the two areas immediately south of the "F" in "Farms" and the third area a few hundred feet south of those)
to be exactly as Mike described them. I concur with him that the area north of Long Ridge Road is obviously
higher than the area south of the road.
The next two areas, northwest of Deer Antler Road, are in farm fields that were in stubble at this time


two areas north of DE 44 are accessed from North Street, which is the unsigned paved road referred to
by Mike. Apparently signs have been put up since his visit; probably the town fathers read his report.
Instead of parking at the crossroads, I drove a few hundred feet further and parked at the cul-de-sac. Here I
walked across another farm field to the obvious ridge that trended roughly east-west. This is my favorite
candidate for the true Kent County HP. The land rises fairly well to the ridge crest, and the area is fairly large,
making it probably that this area approached 85 feet in elevation. I went on to the next area north, but
I don't think it is as high as the larger area. In both instances, as Mike noted, thehighest ground seems to be
in or near a tree line, probably a result of the fields being lowered by wind erosion.
The two areas west of Hartly are owned by the farmer who lives at #635 on DE 44. Following Mike's directions,
I drove up to the farm house where I found the farmer's wife and son working in the garden.
She directed me to the shop, where I found the farmer on his tractor. After some conversation, he granted me
permission to walk into the field west of the house to the high ground. The other area was back near DE 44,
and I parked on the shoulder of the highway to access that point.
Now it was time to return to Crystal Road, which I did, driving up the driveway of #206


Arts & Culture

Beta Israel: Orphans of Circumstance

Under the provisions of Israel's Law of Return, more than 120,000 Ethiopian Jews have settled in the country over the last three decades. Many of these Jews arrived during the 1980s and 1990s, when, in response to civil war and … Read More

Under the provisions of Israel's Law of Return, more than 120,000 Ethiopian Jews have settled in the country over the last three decades. Many of these Jews arrived during the 1980s and 1990s, when, in response to civil war and famine in Ethiopia, the Israeli government mounted massive rescue operations. Operation Moses in 1984 and Operation Solomon in 1991 airlifted over 85 percent of Ethiopia's entire Jewish population to Israel.

All of the immigrant groups who have settled in Israel haveencountered problems integrating into Israeli society, but minority ethnic groups have often had a particularly hard time. Unlike many of their central and eastern European brethren, the new Ethiopian olim arrived without educational qualifications or job skills. Coming from a subsistence economy, they often found themselves ill-equipped to work in an industrialized, first-world environment like Israel. Besides having to start virtually from scratch economically, Ethiopian Jews (like the Mizrachi immigrants two decades before them) have found themselves consistently confronted with prejudice, discrimination, and racism from both Israeli society and the country's political establishment.

While vast amounts of government money have been poured into absorbing these immigrants, progress has been slow. Figures released in 2007 show how serious the socio-economic disparities still remain between Israel's Ethiopian population and the rest


of Israeli society: Ethiopians live in impoverished neighborhoods, face sky-rocketing unemployment, and have the highest high-school dropout rate of any Jewish group in Israel. With average per capita income among Ethiopian Jews standing at NIS 2,000 a month, Ethiopians' salaries are around half those of all other Israeli Jews, and considerably lower even than those of the country's Arab population. Ethiopian youth often fall behind in basic skills like reading, writing and arithmetic early on in their education. As a result, around 40 percent of Ethiopian adults of employable age don't have an education beyond elementary school level. In deprived neighborhoods, drug use is increasing dramatically and criminal activity, practically unheard of among Ethiopian Jewish communities before they came to the country, is on the rise.

Yuvi's Story

Yuvi Tashomearrived in Israel as a young girl during Operation Moses in 1984, when some 33,000 members of Beta Israel were airlifted to the country from refugee camps in the Sudan in a dramatic rescue operation orchestrated by the Israeli government and the Mossad. Two and a half years ago Yuvi, now in her early thirties, was among the co-founders of a community in Gedera that runs initiatives to help the town's underprivileged Ethiopian population.

Before moving to Gedera, Yuvi worked for many years in programs run by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI), designed to help integrate Ethiopian youth into Israeli society. "When I was working with Ethiopian kids there" she tells me, "I began to realize quite how serious the gaps were that exist


identity, the Ethiopian kids who didn't want to hear about Nazareth would listen because you begin with Ethiopia, and Ethiopia interests them.

"So, of course, to work with the kids I needed to go home and ask my parents all about Ethiopia, about the hiking there, about the plants, the animals–everything I wanted to use when I was teaching the kids. This was the first time I'd really asked my parents anything about where we'd come from".

Yuvi's decision to set up a community in Gedera, which is home to around 1,700 Ethiopian families, was born of her desire to work with the youth population of one neighbourhood in particular, Shapira. "I used to work with a lot of the kids in Shapira when I was in SPNI," she toldcommunity in Israel, but highlights the importance of grassroots action and local community involvement in creating meaningful and lasting political change in the face of a government and state unwilling, and often unable, to take care of its own people.

Ricki Rosen's book, Transformations, is accompanied by an informative text by Micha Odenheimer. The book largely celebrates the journey of Ethiopiann Jews to Israel. The images depict, in a generally positive way, the urge to assimilate into Israeli society.


Kiev: Ukraine`s new president Petro Poroshenko said his country would never give up Crimea and would not compromise on its path towards closer ties with Europe, using his inaugural speech on Saturday to send a defiant message to Russia.

The 48-year-old billionaire took the oath of office before parliament, buoyed by Western support but facing an immediate crisis in relations with Russia as a separatist uprising seethes in the east of his country.

Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in March, weeks after street protests ousted Poroshenko`s pro-Moscow predecessor, in a move that has provoked the deepest crisis in relations with the West since the Cold War. "Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia. Russia occupied Crimea, which was, is,and will be Ukrainian soil," Poroshenko said in a speech that was greeted with a standing ovation.

He had told this to Russia`s Vladimir Putin when the two met on Friday at a World War Two anniversary ceremony in France, he said.

Poroshenko, who earned his fortune as a confectionery entrepreneur and is known locally as the "Chocolate King", said he intended very soon to sign the economic part of an association agreement with the European Union, as a first step towards full membership.

This idea is anathema to Moscow, which wants to keep Ukraine in its own post-Soviet sphere of influence.

His voice swelling with emotion, Poroshenko stressed the need for a united Ukraine and the importance of ending the conflict that threatens to further split the country of 45 million


people. He said it would not become a looser federalised state, as advocated by Russia.

"There can be no trade-off about Crimea and about the European choice and about the governmental system. All other things can be negotiated and discussed at the negotiation table. Any attempts at internal or external enslavement of Ukraine will meet with resolute resistance,” Poroshenko said.

Cheering crowds later greeted him on a walkabout in blazing sunshine on the square in front of Kiev`s St Sophia`s Cathedral, which was decked with the blue and yellow national flag.

EASTERN WAR ZONE

Since Poroshenko`s election, government forces have begun an intensified campaign against the separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine who want to split with Kiev and become part of Russia.

The rebels have fought back, turning parts of the east intoa war zone. On Friday they shot down a Ukrainian army plane and killed a member of the Interior Ministry`s special forces in the separatist stronghold of Slaviansk, where residents said shelling continued all day.

Poroshenko urged the pro-Moscow separatists to lay down their arms and said he would guarantee a safe corridor for Russian fighters to go home. "I don`t want war; I don`t want revenge. I want peace and I want peace to happen," he said. "Please, lay down the guns and I guarantee immunity to all those who don`t have bloodshed on their hands."

Switching to Russian from Ukrainian to address the people of the troubled east, he said they had been duped by myths about the Kiev leadership which had been stoked by Russian propaganda.

He said


he would soon visit them with guarantees of Russian-language rights and proposals for de-centralisation, that would give their regions a bigger say in running their own affairs. In the days leading up to his inauguration, Poroshenko met both US President Barack Obama, who warmly endorsed his leadership, as well as Russia`s Putin.

At a brief meeting in France, where they were attending World War Two commemorations, French officials said Poroshenko and Putin shook hands and agreed that detailed talks on a ceasefire between Kiev government forces and the pro-Russian separatists would begin within a few days.

Russia denounced the overthrow of pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovich and has accused the Ukrainian authorities of worsening the crisis in the east by resorting to military force instead of dialogue.

It denies accusations by KievShe met him while teaching English to the spindly Italian immigrant in a Nazareth, Pa. school and a few months later Dee Ann Hoch became Mrs. Mario Andretti in November of 1961.

And for the better part of the six decades Dee Ann Andretti raised their three children, tried to maintain some small-town normalcy and stayed in the background while her globe-trotting husband became one of the world’s most famous and successful race drivers of all time.

Dee Ann passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 76, after suffering a massive heart attack a few weeks ago and never regaining consciousness. Grandson Marco confirmed the news via Twitter:

https://twitter.com/MarcoAndretti/status/1014219273491738624

Mario Andretti left her bedside in intensive care last weekend to go to Road America and was noticeably distraught, only saying the


next few days were critical and she needed everyone’s prayers.

While her husband was and is still IndyCar’s goodwill ambassador and Firestone spokesman making appearances all over the country, Dee Ann followed him in the early days of his USAC career before their three children entered the picture. Thereafter she became more of a homebody who cheered on her hubby and their sons Michael and Jeff on television as they rose up the open-wheel ranks. She made occasional trips of support to the races but fewer and fewer in the past 15 years.

The Andrettis never left Nazareth and maintained friendships for the better part of 60 years, with Michael and Marco living close by at various times.

“Everyone at Hulman & Company sends our condolences to the Andretti family onLate last week I posted a story looking at all the first place teams in every mid-major conference, and their expectations of making the tournament. A lot of those teams were able to maintain, or even improve their lead in their conference, but there were a few shakeups, as well.

The first place teams that took care of business are –

American East – Vermont (19-5, 9-0) defeating UMBC 81-53 was one of the biggest wins of any mid-major team this weekend, as UMBC was two games back of Vermont and second place in the American East. Vermont now holds a 2.5 game lead over UMBC and Hartford. I maintain Vermont is a team you do not want to see as a 4-5-6 seed come tournament time.

Atlantic 10 – Rhode


in the NCAA Tournament and a chance to win a regular season championship.

Western Athletic – New Mexico State (20-3, 7-0) continues to get some love by the polls, as they are in the “others receiving votes” categories. Not that defeating UT Rio Grande Valley 90-67, which they did this weekend, bolsters their chances of making the big dance, but if they were to only lose in their conference championship game, I think they committee would have a decision to make.

Now, here are the teams that lost their hold on first place, and the teams that took over the top spot –

Big South – Radford fell to third place in the division after failing to show up against Winthrop in an important game, losing by nearly 18. Taking advantageThe railroad exhibit features an introductory 10-minute film and approximately 20 panels as well as railroad artifacts. The film also features Andrews Geyser in Old Fort and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial in Asheville.

The exhibit consists of numerous panels, each one describing a different aspect of western North Carolina’s railroad history. The panels describe the convicts building the railroad in the 1870s and how the trains made this part of the state more accessible for tourists and commerce. It shows how the Southern Railway and the Clinchfield Railroad both made an enormous impact on mountain people and their communities. Because of the railroads, towns like Marion, Asheville, Hot Springs, Black Mountain, Little Switzerland and Waynesville became vacation destinations for all kinds of people, according to a brochure.

Other panels talk


about the many small logging railroads that operated back in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Events such as the great flood of 1916 and how they devastated the rail lines are described.

The exhibit is expected to be open most Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons and early evenings from 2 until 6 p.m., except on holidays such as Good Friday, through approximately June 15. After June 15, the display will head to Saluda, which is home to the steepest mainline railroad grade in the United States.Dixville Notche's first voter Clay Smith drops his ballot into the box as moderator Tom Tillotson watches.

Dixville Notche's first voter Clay Smith drops his ballot into the box as moderator Tom Tillotson watches.

THE US PRESIDENTIAL election got underway — on a small-scale — as seven people in a tiny New Hampshire village cast their ballots at the stroke of midnight (5am here).

Dixville Notch has had the honour of launching the voting, symbolically, since 1960.

A man named Clay Smith was the first of the seven residents –five men and two women – to cast ballots as the day’s long-awaited Election Day began. An eighth person voted by absentee ballot.

The tally was announced in a matter of minutes: four votes for Democrat Hillary Clinton and two for Donald Trump.

Libertarian candidate


Gary Johnson won one vote, and there was a write-in vote for Mitt Romney, the Republican who lost to incumbent President Barack Obama in 2012.

Nancy DePalma, a hotel worker voting in the village for the first time, said she voted for Clinton.

“I believe she’s a strong person. She’s got the experience. I think she’s going to lead our country in the right direction,” DePalma told AFP.

She said she had voted for Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator from neighbouring Vermont, in the Democratic primaries.

Another voter, Peter Johnson, who has cast his ballot here since 1982, said there is a populist movement spreading around the world and that no matter who wins the election, Trump “has done well for this country.”

Two other hamlets in New Hampshire, which is on thefor more than a month. During that time, Hall monitored several major freeway arteries and found that average speeds plunged and rush hours grew much longer.

Most notably, average driving speeds on the 101 Freeway, a major commuter artery, dropped from 54 to 44 miles per hour. And on Interstate 5, the length of the normal evening traffic crush increased from about an hour and 45 minutes to more than five hours.

THE BREAKUP

Los Angeles is among the most traffic-clogged cities in the country, according to sobering statistics released yearly by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Second only to drivers in the nation’s capital, the average Angeleno wastes more than two and a half days each year stuck in traffic.

But the automobile may be occupying a less vaunted place in


Prisoner of war stories from World War One

My great-grandfather, Lord Saltoun, fought in World War One in Germany, but was captured by the Germans and spent four years as a prisoner of war. While he was imprisoned in a camp in Germany a friend of his in London concocted a plan to help him. This friend in London sent a package to the camp where he was imprisoned, addressed to my grandfather. The package was a cake but what the German prison guards discovered was that the cake was merely a ruse and a gun had been baked into the center of the cake in question. My great-grandfather was lucky not to be shot because of this, and the friend in question was swiftly packed off to theThe National Security Agency and FBI have been engaging in a highly classified program that mines data from leading U.S. internet companies, according to a bombshell report in The Washington Post Thursday night.

The program is code-named PRISM, and the Post reports that it was established in 2007. According to the report, the nine companies that "participate knowingly" in the program are Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.

The NSA and FBI tap directly into the central servers of the companies, obtaining audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs that "enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time," according to the Post.

The Obama administration defended the practice late Thursday night. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called it responsible for some of the


JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (June 3, 2008) - Red-shirt senior Jenny Knox (Connelly Springs, N.C.) enjoyed an outstanding outdoor track and field career for the ETSU Buccaneers and on Tuesday afternoon the North Carolina native capped off a stellar season by receiving All-Mideast Region accolades, which was announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Knox, who set a new program record in the 100m with a time of 11.45, made her second consecutive appearance at the Mideast Regional this season and worked her way into the finals last Saturday for the first time in her career. By accomplishing this feat, the Interdisciplinary Studies major earned a spot on the all-region team and finished with a national ranking of 47th in the country.

"I am extremely proudof the year Jenny put together and it was a pleasure coaching her over the past five years," commented associate head coach Michelle Byrne. "She is one of the best student-athletes I have been able to coach and to finish out her career with such an outstanding season speaks volumes of her character."

Knox also helped guide the Bucs' 4x100-meter relay squad to a national ranking of 52nd as the group of Nae-Nae Bailey (Statesville, N.C.), Judy Johnson (Knoxville) and Christin Zink (Herndon, Va.) fell one spot short of last Saturday's finals in Fayetteville. However, this powerful quartet also set a new school record, which positioned them into the regional by posting a first-place time of 45.24 at the 2008 Atlantic Sun Championships.

Knox graduated from ETSU last month and


into six themes: utility wear, Hollywood, Ivy League, sportswear, rock ’n’ roll and the American dandy. Each section reflects on the effects of such forces as social upheaval, technology, war, depression and prosperity, and the influential fashion icons and designers who made lasting contributions to the way men dress.

Bryan has been the men’s fashion director of The New York Times Magazine, the men’s editor at W, the fashion editor of Men’s Wear magazine and an editor at DNR.

“I’ve lived through most of the history of men’s wear at this point,” he said. But he had never written a book until he was asked by CFDA executive director Steven Kolb. They agreed the historical scope of the work should begin in the early 20th century.

“I didn’t want to goback to the 17th or 18th century, although I did mention Daniel Boone as an early fashion icon,” Bryan said. If he’d had a bit more free rein, he added, “perhaps I would have emphasized some things more that are to my personal tastes, like the college look of the Twenties. The modern suit evolved then. And you had college students adapting sports styles to their daily lives, as well as utility wear like Woolrich and Pendleton. The Prince of Wales was obviously not American, but he was the most-watched fashion icon and had a profound influence on American style before movie stars. And the essence of American style is they adapted what was happening elsewhere and made it more casual and wearable for daily life.”

The book, which


and BAR. Tyre supplier Bridgestone brought two different tyre compounds to the race; the Hard and the Extra Hard dry compound tyres.

The race marked the return to the Formula One calendar for the United States after being off the calendar since 1991. The race was removed from the calendar because of low attendance and its slot was given to the South African Grand Prix for the 1992 season. It was reinstated in December 1998 following a seven-year campaign pursued by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway owners Hulman and Co. To celebrate its return to the calendar, Jaguar drivers Eddie Irvine and Johnny Herbert drove a demonstration lap aboard a Jaguar R1 and a Taxicab around Broadway in New York City on the Tuesday afternoon before the race.

Going into theThis Week In Tennis
Vol. 28

Before the final ball was struck at Wimbledon, qualifying in five events on the ATP and WTA tours were already underway. The first week post-Wimbledon was even more frenetic with Davis Cup quarterfinals also being contested in the USA, Czech Republic, Italy, and Serbia. Off-court news by a host of players made big splashes too: a pregnancy, multiple weddings, withdrawals from the Olympics, Hall of Fame inductions, and the release of an autobiography.

The International Tennis Hall of Fame inducted Justine Henin, Amelie Mauresmo, and Marat Safin over the weekend at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, Rhode Island.

Victoria Azarenka created the biggest news of the week when she announced her pregnancy, as well as her plans to return to the WTA tour.

This


week saw a slew of withdrawals from the Rio Olympics: Simona Halep, Milos Raonic, Tomas Berdych, Karolina Pliskova. These most recent withdrawals add to an already depleted field in the upcoming Games.

Kiki Bertens won five singles matches in three days on her way to the final in Gstaad. Bad weather limited the event to just over three full days of play. Bertens eventually had to withdraw from the doubles semifinals because of the added work.

Patty Schnyder played her first tour level match since 2011 in Gstaad, Switzerland. The 37-year-old took the opening set from world #92 Katerina Siniakova before losing 6-2 5-7 4-6.

Pablo Cuevas lost in the Hamburg final to Martin Klizan, but cracks the ATP top 20 for the first time in his career.for practice is as crazy as wearing spandex and a hoodie for a workout in Arizona’s summer heat.

24 Hours ... With Sean McVay

8:35 a.m.

Waiting for Peterson on the sun-splashed field is his personal coach, Roderick Hood, a journeyman NFL corner who played from 2003 to ’11. There is also Cardinals second-year corner Brandon Williams, who works out with Peterson. Williams is in a navy athletic shirt and bright green runner’s shorts, which show off his long legs. His arrival is met with the good-natured ribbing of alpha males, and everyone trades barbs as they stretch.

8:45 a.m.

To warm up, the group stands in a triangle, throwing and catching a tennis ball. Almost every drill will end with Hood throwing a tennis ball for Peterson and Williams to catch. Only


further. Eventually he gets Peterson to smile.

9:52 a.m.

Williams’s last rep of the day. Another deep ball. Just before Hood gets into his drop-back, Peterson tackles him low and from behind. The two wrestle on the ground. Our cameras swarm, Jerry Springer-style. Practice is over.

10:12 a.m.

After changing back into his street clothes (which look like his practice clothes, only dry), Peterson heads to the film room. “Mr. B!” he yells when he sees Michael Bidwill down the hall. The team owner is in jeans and a black Cardinals polo. They exchange quick pleasantries.

10:14 a.m.

In the film room, Peterson and Hood watch Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins, whom Peterson will shadow in Week 11. Hood does most of the talking. Peterson looks on, drinking two mini bottles of Gatorade and aheavier than his current weight. After some early career success, he says he got too comfortable and was a little immature. Yes, 2014 was a down year. He cites Julio Jones’s 189 yards against him that season as the worst game of his career.

Peterson discovered he was Type 2 diabetic around that time. He seems comfortable discussing it, but doesn’t have much interest in doing so. Instead, he talks about how after that season, he decreased his meal portions and cut back on candy. “I still eat sugary stuff every now and then, just not like I did when I was . . .” he hesitates, searching for the right word before settling on the one that probably first came to mind . . . “fat. When I


WHEN Mila’s Lechon consented to put its name on a PBA D-League team this season, all management ever wanted was a chance to market its brand to a larger audience.

Little did they know that it would become a bit more complicated.

The new team in the developmental league quickly got dragged into controversy after it got blown out by an average of 26.2 points in four games and got massacred, 102-55, by Zarks Burger–Lyceum in a match where observers felt the players ‘just quit playing’ during the second half.

Immediately after that game, the team, from management to the coaches to the players, were summoned by PBA commissioner Willie Marcial and technical supervisor Erik Castro to a meeting where, sources said, there were more questions than there were answers.

The veryhow games of the D-League, among other smaller leagues in the country, appear to be of interest to major betting sites all over the world for ‘professional gamblers’ to bet on, with tens of thousands of dollars changing hands in one match alone.

Aside from the D-League, games of other smaller leagues, even the NCRAA, appear to have attracted interest from these major betting sites.

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"Milyunan ang taya," bared one member of a D-League team.

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A source familiar with the major betting sites who claimed to be 'following the D-League for two to three seasons now' confirmed the suspicious patterns in some games, the most glaring being the Zarks-Mila's Lechon match last February 28.

In that game, Zarks, as expected, came in as heavy favorites with


an opening spread of +30.5, meaning the Lyceum-backed squad coached by Topex Robinson would have to win by 31 to pay off for bettors.

But the source said the real meat of the betting came in through live bets, where the handicap changed as the match progressed.

The source, who followed the match through live stats provided by the betting site, said he was 'appalled' to see the odds rising despite the game being close in the first half.

The game was tied at 25-all after the first quarter before Zarks took a narrow five-point lead at the half. But instead of the point spread narrowing, bets kept coming in for a huge victory for Zarks, causing the handicap to balloon even more.

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“After one quarter, the line wasfinal two quarters after putting up 25 in the first quarter alone. Fans who trooped to the Pasig Sports Complex were dismayed by turnover upon turnover that led to easy lay-ups for the opponents.

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The team was beaten by 47 points; the betting line ended with a spread of 45.5.

The source who followed the match through live stats said the ending was 'totaly illogical.' So disturbing, in fact, that Zarks coach Topex Robinson spoke out after the game, saying "we're gonna play our basketball no matter if they (other team) don't wanna play basketball."

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It wasn't the first time

As perplexing as the result was, it wasn't the first Mila's Lechon game that left bettors dumbfounded, the source bared.

He cited the first game against Jose


game-fixing, in any level.

The PBA, which runs the D-League, has yet to issue a statement on the Mila's Lechon incident, although a source bared that it was PBA officials who convinced Mila's Lechon to withdraw from the league after being confronted by the suspicious betting patterns.

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A league official also confirmed that the owners of Mila's Lechon were only convinced to back the team and had little or no knowledge about the way the ballclub was run. They also didn't hesitate to pull the plug when informed about the controversy, he added.

The team manager and head coach of the team aren't well-known in D-League circles, even among league officials and veteran sports writers. They have yet to reply to messages seeking comment.Issues

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March 27, 2014

Title: Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act

Vote Result

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Nay Votes

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends the process for the president to designate national monuments.

Highlights:

Prohibits the president from declaring more than 1 tract of land per state as a national monument during his or her 4-year term without an express act of Congress (Sec. 2).

Requires the Council on Environmental Quality to review a historic landmark, a historic or prehistoric structure, or another object of historic or scientific interest which the president has declared a national monument before the land officially becomes a national monument (Sec. 2).

Prohibits the president from declaring a tract of land that includes private property as a national monument without the informed written


Congenital rubella syndrome surveillance as a platform for surveillance of other congenital infections, Peru, 2004-2007.
Rubella during pregnancy can cause serious fetal abnormalities and death. Peru has had integrated measles/rubella surveillance since 2000 but did not implement congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) surveillance until 2004, in accordance with the Pan American Health Organization recommendations for rubella elimination. The article describes the experience from the CRS sentinel surveillance system in Peru. Peru has maintained a national sentinel surveillance system for reporting confirmed and suspected CRS cases since 2004. A surveillance protocol was implemented with standardized case definitions and instruments in the selected sentinel sites. Each sentinel site completes their case investigations and report forms and sends the reports to the Health Region Epidemiology Department, which forwards the data to the nationalscoring lead with Rick Nash of Columbus. Iginla has two more games to make the title his own as the Flames finish off the season against Los Angeles and Anaheim this weekend.

The two games could also help to improve their standing in the West Division. By Sunday they could possibly move as high as fifth place, though it’s probably of no importance where they finish now, just making the playoffs was the goal. Now the real work begins, the Flames who have developed into a solid, hard working team with excellent goaltending could be the team that gets the most mileage out of the playoffs this year.

For Darryl Sutter it keeps returns him to the playoffs, and shows why the Flames were so anxious to secure his services


of play in the Chinese end took its toll. Canadian goaltender Kim St. Pierre didn’t have a lot of work to do, but remained sharp on the few occasions the Chinese team crossed her blue line.

Canada takes the day off today, taking on Germany on Thursday in their final game of the Pool A play. Despite the one sided nature of the game, Canada feels they still have some work to do to get their game in top shape. They fully expect to be in their groove, the further along the go. The fans of Halifax can’t wait.

This is either an ominous development or just some solid planning, but regardless the optics of it all are not good. Todd Bertuzzi has retained the services of legendary Vancouver attorney,week of the season feeling good about themselves, as they offered up little resistance, inviting the Canucks to score at will which they did.
With a 6-1 victory tonight, their third in a row, the suddenly confident Canucks can start putting together a game plan for the playoffs, the uncertain fragility of the squad from two weeks ago finally banished from the ice of GM Place. Out shooting the Dogs 31-9 by the time fourty minutes were up, the Cancuks just kept rolling their lines over the boards, controlling the play and scoring on seemingly every opportunity.

Markus Naslund finally found the net after a ten game drought scoring a goal from the slot in the second. Daniel Sedin also rediscovered his scoring touch on Monday, scoring his second goal


in two games after having gone 14 without a goal. Matt Cooke continued to be strong on the first line, adding a sense of grit and playmaking ability to the line that has suffered the most fall out from the Bertuzzi suspension.

Dan Cloutier while hardly tested frequently had a shut out going until the last two minutes of play surrendering a goal to break his bid for a perfect night in the nets. The win helped the Canucks stay tied with the Stars for fourth in the West, however they still trail the Avalanche by one point, in their bid to take the Northwest division title and a guaranteed home ice advantage.

With three games to go, the Canucks travel to Anaheim on Wednesday and San Jose on Fridaybefore returning home to play the Oilers on Saturday night. Six possible points that could put them over 100 on the season, something not many fans were thinking possible three weeks ago. The last three games have been major building blocks for this team, which is now starting to believe in themselves again. The next three could reinforce to them and the division that road to the Stanley Cup, may have to travel down Georgia Street before the Cup is handed out.

Three weeks after he lay on the ice at GM Place, his vertebrae fractured, and his head concussed, Steve Moore has made his first comments on the infamous Todd Bertuzzi incident.

In a Denver press conference, Moore wearing a large neck brace faced the media, updating one and


and family he had to contact and that was his priority at the moment. He disclosed that he has no real recollection of events roughly fifteen minutes before the incident and twenty minutes after it, suffering a form of amnesia surrounding the hit. When asked if he expected to play again, he said he didn't know at this time.

If the press was waiting for a “forgiveness” quote they went home unhappy. Then again he did not launch an attack on Bertuzzi for his wanton disregard for the health of a fellow player. Moore played the position straight down the middle. Perhaps with a possible eye to litigation later on, he was advised to keep his remarks generic and focused on his injuries and the recovery phase. To thatpoint he thanked the Hospital staffs both in Vancouver and Denver, thanked the fans world wide for their kind wishes and said he hoped that he would reach a full recovery.

His opening remarks along the line of just being glad to be out of hospital and able to walk, basically set the tone for the roughly 25 minute press conference. Covered in force by all three Canadian Sports network and in Vancouver on CKNW (check out the audio vault at 3:25 for a replay of it) it ended as quietly as it began, Moore simply standing up and saying thanks and walking out the door.

With the conference over, the columnists have begun to file their reviews. Alan Maki in the Globe and Mail the first out of the


was Ottawa’s fourth win over the Bolts this season, sweeping the season series 4 games to none.

Chris Phillips scored the winner with just one minute remaining in the Overtime frame, giving the Sens the win and keeping the pace with the Leafs in the hotly contested North East Division title race.

Martin Prusek once again got the start for the recovering Patrick Lalime and kept the Sens in the game in the third period and the Overtime. Prusek had a shaky first period featuring one shot going off a post and another Cory Stillman shot finding the mark behind him after twelve minutes of play. However, as things went along, it became a firewagon style of game, giving him ample opportunity to redeem himself.

Daniel Afredsson fresh off his newlyrenegotiated contracted reached a Senators milestone tonight, his goal in the third period, the 219th of his career put him at the top of the Senators all time scoring list. Purging forever the name of some guy named Yashin, who is apparently in the witness relocation program living somewhere in New York. Alfie who is locked in with the Sens for the next five years, dominated a lot of the play while on the ice, proving that the 32 million dollars is a wise investment.

For Tampa losing out on the two points may be a costly, it may have come in handy in the chase for the Presidents trophy against Detroit. The Wings beat Minnesota tonight and lead the Bolts by 1 point at 105 on the season.


Tampa has two games remaining, the Wings three. For the Sens, they remain one point behind Boston and Toronto for the title to the North East Division, with the winner probably not known til the last puck is dropped on Saturday night. The last week of the regular season is quickly becoming just as exciting as game seven of a Stanley Cup final!

Toronto Maple Leaf fans will be waiting for the Doctor today, and they’ll be holding their breath while he talks. Owen Nolan’s knee will be subject to an MRI and general pushing and probing. All because of a hit he tried to lay on Brian Smolinski in Saturday night’s Battle of Ontario at the Air Canada Centre. Nolan went in awkwardly while trying to finish aweek ranked as the sixth seed, but defeated the mighty Alberta Golden Bears to get to the final, the first defeat for the Bears this year. By the end of the tournament the usually formidable Bears would have their second defeat losing to Dalhousie 4-1 in the consolation round.

That gave all three medals to Atlantic Schools in the tournament, a pretty good testimony to the quality of Hockey being played down east. For Canadian University hockey it was just a super exhibition of the quality of the game and a decent recruitment vehicle for those kids looking for a hockey alternative to the Junior game, or the US college scene.

TSN carried the weekend eliminations and the final on Sunday. Judging by the excitement generated, one wonders if a


game of the week in CIS hockey isn't too far down the line.

"We want the playoffs, We want the playoffs". That was the cry from the sold out Rexall Centre Sunday night, as the Edmonton Oilers did their part to keep the bargain. The Oil continued on their winning ways with a 4-2 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes.

Igor Ulanov, Petr Nedved, Fernando Pisani and Mike York were the goal scorers for the Oil as they collected points in their sixteenth consecutive game. Shane Doan scored twice in a losing cause for Phoenix.

The win keeps the Oilers tied for the eighth and final playoff position in the NHL West with the Blues. The two teams go head to head on Tuesday night. Trailing by two points are the NashvillePredators, who also have a game in hand. St. Louis had back to back games against the Chicago Black Hawks this weekend, helping them to keep pace with the three contenders in the West.

For the Oilers it's one game at a time. With three road games to come, St. Louis on tuesday, Dallas on Wednesday and in Vancouver on Saturday. They have a bit of work to do, if they want to give the Edmonton fans what they were chanting for at games end Sunday.

Sunday, March 28, 2004

A big win for the Vancouver Canucks tonight as Brendan Morrison's overtime marker gave the Canucks a much needed win on home ice. A possible playoff preview had the Stars and Canucks play a tight checking, hard hitting affair at GM


Place. Dan Cloutier making a number of key saves to keep his team in the game during the third period.

The good news for the Canucks was the lack of panic that seemed to envelope them in the games since the first week of March. Tonight, they didn't appear to get rattled when Dallas would pull ahead on the scoreboard, or put a bit of pressure on them in their own end. Another promising sign was the re-emergence of Markus Naslund's offensive touch, he was in the flow of the game much more tonight, getting a number of chances to score. Also finding their game returning a bit were the Sedin's, who had a number of chances to score, only to be thwarted by a fairly solid Ron Tugnuttin the Stars net. Henrik finally got his first goal in 14 games scoring a tying goal in the first period. Dallas took the lead in the second with a Pierre Turgeon marker, Geoff Sanderson answering that goal at 9:38 of the third. The rest of the third was all Canucks as they buzzed around the Stars end of the ice, coming up just short of winning in regulation time.

Tied 2-2 after three they went to overtime, Morrison scoring the winner just forty seconds into the extra period. With the win the Canucks climb closer to the Colorado Avalanche in the hunt for first place in the Northwest Division.

The game was not without it's losses though, Bryan Allen and Brad May both left the game and did not


return. Allen apparently holding his shoulder as he left the ice, May suffering what is called a lower body injury, received when he was hit into the boards by Brendan Morrow. Despite the injuries, which aren't wanted heading into the playoffs, Marc Crawford must have been pleased with the effort of his club, especially the third period which had all the Canucks involved in the play. If he can keep that work ethic up for the next week, the playoff run may not have to be deferred to another year. A game like tonight's' will go along way to giving them both team and individual confidence, a tonic for the uncertainty they've shown during their free fall of the last two weeks.

The Leafs and Sens settled nothing Saturdaynight, each got a point for their efforts on the ice, and both watched a star player leave the ice with knee problems. A 2-2 tie the final result of 65 minutes of entertaining, if not high scoring hockey at the Air Canada Centre.

A rather conservative affair for the national TV audience, as both teams took turns heading into the other’s end firing a shot at the goaltender, then returned to cover their end of the rink. An unlikely goal scorer Rob Ray, who only came out of retirement, last month scored the opening goal in the 1st period. Close checking and lucky breaks were the order of the day, the rest of the game. Jason Spezza jumped on the ice too quickly, resulting in a too many


men on the ice penalty, which Ron Francis capitalized on to tie the Leafs at 1 with the Sens early in the second period. Chris Phillips gave the Sens the lead back in the later stages of the second period. Brian McCabe evened it up and wrapped up the scoring in the third, just trying to get a shot on net, it somehow eluded back up goaltender Martin Prusek, going into the net. The teams would not score any more during the game and overtime.

With both teams gaining only one point, they fall a little further behind the Boston Bruins in the North east Division, they defeated Montreal 3-2 tonight. The Bruins are now two points ahead of the Leafs, three ahead of the Sens. Toronto has threegames left in the season, Boston and Toronto each has four.

The real story tonight though will be the status of Patrick Lalime, who left the game with some kind of knee problem in the first period. He fell awkwardly in his net, and then skated to the bench and off the ice done for the night. Doctors say it probably is not a serious injury and he will continue on with the Sens as the road trip continues. An injury to the starting goaltender not something that Sens fans want to deal with heading into the playoffs. Prusek for the most part played well in the Sens net, with the exception of the winning goal by McCabe.

Over on the Leafs bench, they were holding their breath as Owen


Nolan ended up on the ice in the Ottawa end after trying to finish off a check into Brian Smolinski. Nolan had to be helped from the ice and now has to wait for the swelling to go down before Doctors can determine how much if any damage he has suffered.

For the most part the Sens/Leafs game was a rather tame affair, nowhere near as bitter and nasty as some of the games in the past. The teams renew acquaintances again in six days, the final Hockey Night in Canada from the east of the regular season. Saturday night, could also end up serving as a warm up session for the first round of the playoffs.

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Home Ice advantage is just one of the sub plotshas paid off big dividends for the Oilers, as Petr Nedved put the go ahead goal behind Roman Chechmanek in the second period. It was Nedveds 300th career goal in the NHL. More importantly for the Oilers it was Nedveds fifth goal since joining them for the playoff run, bringing his total points as an Oiler to 11 so far.

Providing the Oilers with the scoring touch that they needed, Nedved is quickly winning fans in the dressing room, along the bench and in the stands. On the short end of tonight’s action were the LA Kings, who with this 3-1 loss have dug themselves a very deep hole in any bid to make the playoffs. Losing their sixth game in a row, they now have only five games


left to catch the St. Louis Blues for the final playoff spot in the West.

Out shooting the Kings 32-19, the Oilers took an early lead gaining a two goal advantage by the 13 minute mark of the first, Fernando Pisani and Ryan Smyth scoring to put the Oil ahead. The Oilers dominated play in the first period marking 18 shots on net compared to the Kings 5. Andy Murray must have motivated the Kings for a bit in the first intermission, as Ian Lapierre, helped the Kings to battle back into the game at 2:33 of the second. The teams would trade chances for the bulk of the period until Nedved put the game away at 18:24 of the second. There would be no scoring in the third.

TyConklin continued to hold down the fort in the Oiler end of the ice and while not tested often, he made the big saves when required. With tonight’s win the Oilers have now gained at least a point in their last fifteen games, and move into seventh place in the West. With LA seemingly drifting away from the pack, the final week should provide some exciting moments for the Oilers, the Predators and the Blues (who have a game in hand) as they jockey for the final spots in the NHL West.

With Nedved starting to fire on all cylinders, the Oilers must be feeling fairly optimistic about their chances.

Friday, March 26, 2004

Not content to find the good name of hockey trashed in the American media for violent incidents


on the ice, the NHL now finds itself in the midst of a sex scandal of all things.

The now ex-captain of the Ranger City Skaters, a cheerleader type of group that appears at Ranger games (who knew the NHL had cheerleaders!) has filed a complaint with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, accusing an un-named Madison Square Garden executive with Sexual harassment. She also claims that she was fired because of she was warning other members of the Skaters of the executives intentions.

Courtney Prince, 25 and an original member of the Skaters has been making the media rounds the last few days telling her story to anyone giving her the time of day. Friday’s appearance was on CNN’s prime time program Anderson Cooper 360, where Prince, fellow skaterAmea Smith and lawyer Katherine Peratis, told the CNN audience stories of MSG executives pressuring the Skater Girls to attend bars with them. Many of whom were only 18 years of age; Peratis suggests they attended as they were afraid to lose their jobs. She also questioned the morality of married MSG execs taking young girls out on “dates”.

Ms. Prince also accused MSG executives of boorish behavior, suggesting some girls go for breast enhancements and cutting off the complimentary cookies for the team due to perceived weight problems. She also said that the execs were rude to the team members suggesting that some of them were ugly.

Needless to say with the Rangers nowhere the playoffs, the New York papers are running wild with the story. This is probably


a good thing for Glen Sather but not necessarily for Gary Bettman. He’s already got Colin Campbell handling the on ice stuff; this backroom material needs an avowed arbitrator of morality. Perhaps he can get Dr. Laura to take a few hours out of her day to sit in on a hearing. She’ll no doubt be able to peel the paint off the walls of the executive offices at the Gardens.

It's a mystery to rival the saga of Jimmy Hoffa, when will Scott Stevens make his re-appearance on the New Jersey blue line. Out of the line up since Jan 7, Stevens was supposed to face the media this week with a health update, but his press conference was unexpectedly cancelled with no reason giving. A situation thathas sent the rumour mill into overdrive.

Such were the wild suspicions being bounced around the Jersey area, that Lou Lamoriello finally held a conference of his own to try and clear up some of the outstanding questions. Listed as suffering from a concussion now, originally Stevens had been described as just ill. A situation that has resulted in whispers of burnout and fatigue taking it's toll on the 40 year old blue liner. Something to which Lamoriello denies is the cause of Steven's absence.

Having started light skating within the last couple of weeks, the Devils are hoping that concussion specialist Dr. Karen Johnston gives Stevens a clean bill of health shortly and that he can rejoin the Blue line by playoff time. Until then though, Stevens will continue


to do to take things to next level. With his improved play, Lalime's confidence should be rising, with it will come the team chemistry that has kept Ottawa on it's winning ways the last couple of years. The time is right to carry things on into the playoff rounds.

There's a pretty special thing happening in Fredericton these days, friendships are being formed and damaged relations repaired, all thanks to minor hockey.

Last year a Peewee hockey team from Brockton, Massachusetts arrived in Montreal to take part in a tournament there, something they had been looking forward to all year. The visit went wrong right from the start, as they were unloading their luggage from their bus, it became the target of Anti Iraq war protestors wandering through the streetsof Montreal, banging on the bus, cursing and yelling at the passengers, 12 year old boys, the moronic behavior of the protestors causing much alarm amongst the chaperones and players alike. Things didn't get much better as the visit went on, the next night while attending the Bell Centre for a hockey game, normally a festive event for any twelve year old, they heard their anthem booed and their presence in the building mocked. They left after the second period and went home, pulling out of the tournament many vowing to never to return to Canada again.

Over the next week and month, the Brockton Boxers received e mails, letters and various forms of apologies for the boorish behavior of a small portion of Montreal. But one fellow in