Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh. Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh.

The Election Commission has found Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh’s remark that Narendra Modi should be re-elected as the Prime Minister violative of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and will write to President Ram Nath Kovind to bring it to his notice, The Indian Express has learnt.

The last time a state Governor was found violating the Code was in the early 90s when Gulsher Ahmad, the then Governor of Himachal Pradesh, was pulled up by the EC for campaigning for his son Sayeed Ahmed in Madhya Pradesh. He quit the post when the Commission expressed displeasure over the misuse of official machinery for his son’s poll campaign. Read in Tamil, Malayalam

Singh courted controversy last week when he told reporters in AligarhFormer group chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent (ILP), Denis Casey, departs the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin, Ireland July 25, 2016. , Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne

DUBLIN Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country's economy.

The trio will be among the first senior bankers globally to be jailed for their role in the collapse of a bank during the crisis.

The lack of convictions until now has angered Irish taxpayers, who had to stump up 64 billion euros - almost 40 percent of annual economic output - after a property collapse forced the biggest state bank rescue in the euro zone.

The crash thrust Ireland


into a three-year sovereign bailout in 2010 and the finance ministry said last month that it could take another 15 years to recover the funds pumped into the banks still operating.

Former Irish Life and Permanent Chief Executive Denis Casey was sentenced to two years and nine months following the 74-day criminal trial, Ireland's longest ever.

Willie McAteer, former finance director at the failed Anglo Irish Bank, and John Bowe, its ex-head of capital markets, were given sentences of 42 months and 24 months respectively.

"DISHONEST, DECEITFUL AND CORRUPT"

All three were convicted of conspiring together and with others to mislead investors, depositors and lenders by setting up a 7.2-billion-euro circular transaction scheme between March and September 2008 to bolster Anglo's balance sheet.

Irish Life placed the deposits via a non-banking subsidiary infor the accused argued during the trial that their motivation in authorizing the deal was the "green jersey" agenda, the financial regulator's request for Irish banks to support one another as the financial crisis worsened.

McAteer was convicted in 2014 of illegal lending and providing unlawful assistance to investors, but sentenced to perform community service when a judge ruled he was "led into error and illegality" by the Irish regulator.

Scandal-hit Anglo-Irish, described by Nolan as "probably the most reviled institution in the state", was put into liquidation in 2013 and remains subject to other criminal trials.

Irish Life and Permanent was broken up during the restructuring of Ireland's financial sector and its banking arm, permanent tsb, remains under 75 percent state ownership.

Two other Anglo-Irish bankers, chief operations officer Tiarnan O'Mahoney,


at the helm of Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) – a film that resides somewhere in my top five best-worst movies – and a bajillion more steaming nuggets. There was no way The Night of a Thousand Cats was going to outdo Bloody Apes, but Cardona’s name at least guaranteed that it would to deliver stellar giggles.

THE NIGHT OF A THOUSAND CATS

original title: La noche de los mil gatos

Mexico, 1972, René Cardona Jr.

Christ almighty. Where do I start? The Night of a Thousand Cats has only a few dribbles of a plot and is cut together like an arty first year student project. Cardona jumps back and forth through space and time seemingly without any rational whatsoever. Suddenly a camera will zoom in on a severed headWhile witch hunts may seem to be dusty relics of a bygone age, the persecution, torture and execution of suspected witches continue in many places to the present day.

The problem is especially palpable in India. Two weeks ago in a small Indian village not far from Nepal, Saraswati Devi, 45, was accused of being a witch after a local mystic identified her as having practiced black magic, reported The Washington Post. Over a dozen villagers beat Devi to death as punishment, while her two children tried to intervene. Though Devi's husband identified her attackers and notified police, no arrests were made, news reports reveal.

Saraswati's is just one of many gruesome witch tales out of India. Some 2,097 individuals have been murdered due to accusations of witchcraft between 2000


motivated by "family disputes over property, land rights of women, and village-level and gender conflicts."

In many parts of the world, including India and Africa, people consult witch doctors not only to heal diseases, but also to place curses on social and political rivals. Individuals commonly look to magic for personal, political and financial gain; they turn to accusations of black magic use for similar purposes.

Belief in witchcraft has led to horrific murders and mutilations in recent years outside of India, as well. In 2008, a mob of hundreds of young men killed eight women and three men in rural Kenya. Attackers had accused the victims of witchcraft, saying they cast spells that lowered the intelligence of the village's children.

People who believe in black magic may also attack albinos;the body parts of those afflicted with the skin pigmentation disorder are sought after for use in magic spells and rituals. And in 2012, after being found in possession of "books and talismans from which he learned to harm God's worshipers," a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded for practicing sorcery, according to a statement from the Saudi Interior Ministry.

Gender and class

Accusations of witchcraft are a complex sociocultural phenomenon and involve many factors. Belief in magic is certainly an essential element, but the persecution of witches often involves issues of gender, race and class. Most of the Indian women targeted as witches were poor and of low caste.

The targeting of women (and of lower-class women in particular) was prevalent in early European witch hunts, too. "We can be fairly


certain that the great majority of those persecuted came from the lower levels of society," wrote Brian Levack, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, in his book "The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe" (2006, Pearson). "The mere fact that so many witches were unattached women of no apparent social distinction points to this conclusion." [The 10 Most Destructive Human Behaviors]

The same was true in many other places, as well. "In New England, the great majority of women accused of witchcraft before the Salem episode of 1692 were dependent members of the community who qualified for poor relief," Levack wrote. "In Norway, where large numbers of accused witches were described in trial records as extremely poor, most of those who were actually convicted were beggars.There are a number of reasons why the people who filled the lower ranks of society incurred accusations of witchcraft. Poor people, especially poor women, were the weakest and most vulnerable members of society."

This remains true today in India, many parts of Africa and elsewhere. Those who are seen as occupying positive roles in rural, non-Western communities (such as witch doctors and traditional healers) often take part in identifying and persecuting innocent women as witches. Once mystical methods are used to "verify" who is a witch, the justice can be gruesome, including banishment, rape, disfigurement, torture and death.

Indian lawmakers have begun to address the problem, but the roots of this superstition are centuries old and may never fully be eliminated.

Benjamin Radford is deputy editor of the Skeptical Inquirer


of events significantly.

For example, the last thing that happens before episode one of the second season in the manga is a trip on Sakuya's boat and this will more than likely be referred back to in the second episode (as it was in the corresponding chapters to those events). This is chapter 51 and 52 of the manga. It's episode 43 in the first season.

The first season has a lot of anime original material, but they more often moved to create their own timeline of existing events. Hinagiku doesn't show up in the manga until chapter 35 of the manga. She shows up in episode 4 of the first season in pretty much exactly the same way as she shows up in the manga with some slight modificationsKawaii is a word that originated in 1970s Japan when schoolgirls adopted the term to describe everything cute. This word is now understood world-wide and identifies a particular trend of visual aesthetics (Hello Kitty being the most famous). Kawaii is a recognizable art form practiced by artists all over the world and covers the visual gamut from commercial art (stickers, clothing, calendars, pens, pencils, erasers, video games) to high-brow contemporary art (e.g. Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara).

Presented primarily through full page images, Charuca (a Kawaii artist herself) has curated an international collection of the most popular adorable, hilarious, and sometimes dark Kawaii art being made today. Charuca begins each chapter with a small description of the artist and her feelings towards his or her work, creating an artistic


History of the Mentz Clan

The Ancient Mentz Clan of the empires of Germania, Franconia,
Alemannia
and Schwabenland
were consolidated under Chief Johannes in the the year
914 near the Roman outpost of (Augusto Nemetum or Speyer).
As history shows, it was difficult at this time to organize
as an open clan due to the the occupations of various
Roman Military and later Germanic claims, conflicts, the
French land disputes, and other invasions. The Clan Chiefship
was handed down at Mentz Clan gatherings from the centuries
to Johann Georg Josef the II in the late 1700s. In 1815,
under the Mentz Clan "warrior leader" Johann
Georg Josef II, the Mentz clans banded together and declared
the independent and neutral empire of PfalzerVolk on the
eastern boundary of Bavaria because the French and German
boundary disputes over the land had left uninhabited and
disputed territory. Thisindependent nation only lasted
for 90 days because the rebellion was crushed. However,
the Clan was immortalized for there establishment of a
tiny kingdom and republic. Further, it is handed down
through family history that the Mentz Clans emerged from
the Pfalzerwald "Palatinate Forest" and Wolfstein
forests and were known as "Sippe or Clan Raugraf"
which are lords and protectors over the uninhabited districts
of Pfalz
or Palatinate of which they emerged.

Chief Johann Georg Josef passed the leadership to Georg
Philip Peter II in the late 1830's. After that, the Chiefship
passed to Georg Philip Heinrich II in 1864. In 1904, the
Chiefship passed to Georg Philip Heinrich III.

In 1945, the Chiefship passed to an American Soldier
of the "Battle
of the Bulge" and Rhineland
Campaign named Heinrich Albertus of the Clan who reclaimed
the chiefship and historical "Mentz Clan Lands"
with a small flag


planted in the Pfalzerwald
Forrest "Palatinate" as he reconquered the land
of the orgins of many Mentz's. It is said that after conquering
the land back in the name of his ancestors, he said a
prayer of gratitude in the name of Christianity while
sobbing for the losses of his home country and peoples.
* Heinrich Albertus was a direct blood-line descendant
of Chief Johann Georg Josef.

Chief Heinrich Albertus lived a long and fruitful life
and later passed the clan Chiefship in 2004 to his son
who was anointed Georg Philip IV or Georgius Phillipus
IV who is said to be an International Leader.

Orgins of the Mentz Clan

There are recorded families, tribes, noble clans, and
Catholic Electors (Archbishops) using the name Mentz/Menz
or a variation in Europe and Nordic countries for over
1000 years. It is a fairly common name inBavaria, RhinelandPfalz, and greater Germany. Some
living Mentz families claim to be descendants of the Spiritual
Prince Electors of Papal "Holy See" of Mainz
(or Holy Roman Empire) because these Rhineland Popes (North
of the Alps) could have children and families many centuries
ago. Further, there are still ancient noble families that
use the Mentz name or a variation above in Switzerland,
North Eastern Germany, and even Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Of course, there are thousands of Mentz Families in the
USA, Europe, Latin and South America, Australia, and South
Africa. The Germanic Mentz Tribes from Old Bavaria were mostly farmers, laborers,
bakers, forresters, wine growers, and small business persons
who were eventual subjects of the King of Bavaria in the
1800's. Some even became Knights, Politicians, Judges,
and Military Leaders for varying principalities and governments.
Other Mentz's have also been noted scholars


of German
and Royal History (See: Professor Georg Mentz). As a note,
there is a long line of Christian Mystics, Masons
and Guild Masters within the Mentz Clan. The Region West
of Heidelberg is where many Mentz
Clans emerged and later emigrated to countries around
the world. Thousands of the Clan Mentz members came from
many parts of Germany including: Edesheim, Edenkoben
or "old German" Oedenkoben , Speyer,
The Black
Forest, Wolfstein & Pfalzer Wald Forrest,
Wuerttemberg, Rhineland, Preussen, Mannheim, Sachsen Coburg,
Hessen, Baden, and other local German provinces.
See LDS Family Search Database.
Many Mentz's are from the wine country: Sudliche Weinstrasse
surrounding Edenkoben and Edesheim which is between Landau and Neustadt an der
Weinstrasse. Further, there are also ancient noble
Mentz Clans still located in the Mecklenburg region of Germany.

Catholic Heritage of the Mentz Clan

Most Mentz families in recent history were Roman Catholic.
Inthe late 1500s, you begin to find many Mentz Clan members
registering births and marriages with the Catholic Churches
throughout Bavaria and Germany. Most of the early birth
records are written in latin or ancient roman languages
as the Mentz Clans evolved from Roman Empire rule. Thousands
of Mentz births and marriages are searchable in the Family
Search Genealogy Databases. You will also find many
Mentz families as members of The Evangelical
Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland,
abbreviated as EKD) The EKD is a federation of 23 Lutheran,
Reformed and United churches in their respective regions.
As a note, the word for the great city of Mainz has also been spelled Mentz
in maps and history books for centuries. Further, the
City of Mainz/Mentz is on the Main River of which some
equate the relation in sound to the


Mentz name and orgins.

Clan Chief

The Clan Mentz family of Pfalz von Oedenkoben is one
of the few from Old Bavaria (now Rhineland Pfalz) where
the chiefship has descended in an unbroken blood line
to the present day. Each year, Clan Mentz meets in various
parts of the world to gather. Presently, the Clan Mentz
Chief is Georg-Philip IV or Georgius-Phillipus IV.

Clan Profile

Motto: Nulli expugnabilis hosti "Conquered
by No Enemy"

Flower: The Tulip

Plant: The Grape (Mentz Clans were involved
in wine making for centuries)

Crest: Tulip, Grapes, 3 Stars with Pfalz
colours interior, and Grey Blue Falcon/Eagle surrouned
by stars. Further, the rampant lion is small but centered
in the shield.

Honorary Patrons

Arminius
(also Hermann, Armin, 16 BC–AD 21) was a war chief of
the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci who was the first Germanic
Clan Leader to defeat a Roman army in the Battleof the
Teutoburg Forest.

Meister
Eckhart - Johannes Eckhart (1260–1328), also
known as Eckhart von Hochheim and widely referred to as
Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher
and mystic, born near Erfurt, in Thuringia. Meister is
German for "Master", referring to the academic
title he obtained in Paris.


Tired of Carrying the Load

As some of you may have heard, last week, the Port of Oakland Truckers Association voted to authorize a strike. Even after that vote, they left open the possibility of negotiation, but when by Friday their demands were not met, they voted to stop work at the Port on Wednesday. Right now, the truckers are facing some pretty daunting odds. They have only one month left before new regulations will essentially put 800 people out of work.

The truckers have gone to the state regulatory commission CARB and asked for help meeting the standards to no avail.

The truckers have gone to the Port of Oakland and asked for the sort of assistance that other ports up and down the west coast are offering to truckers,Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Jab Tak Hai Jaan

An ex-army man, leading a double life in London, must choose between his wife and muse. Jab Tak Hai Jaan movie is a love triangle,and also marks the return of Yash Chopra as a director after eight years. In Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Shahrukh Khan plays the character of Samar who is an angry, unforgiving, with loads of emotional baggage. His role will span two ages, one in his late twenties as a musician based in London and the other at an older age as an introverted, composed, dutiful army officer in Kashmir. Katrina as Meera play as a seductress, an unattainable beauty. And Anushka as Akira who is 21 year old and works for Discovery Channel and makes documentaries.


'The Found Series' which explores some amazing creative spaces through the eyes of the people who have found and transformed them into unique environments for creativity to flourish.

Check out the videos below:

Episode 1 - Lightship 95 Lightship 95 was built in 1939 to safely guide vessels entering the Thames Estuary – after its abandonment in the years that followed it was eventually bought by a music producer in 2006 and turned into a music studio. This unique studio is now an inspiration to London based musicians and this video documents London Garage Rock band Mazes recording sessions aboard Lightship 95.

Episode 2 - Off Modern Off Modern are a creative collective based in South East London. Since forming in late 2008 they have established themselves as a significant platformcricket

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni once again drew criticism for his slow strike-rate against Australia in the first T20 International in Vizag, but Glenn Maxwell feels that on a low and slow track, that was all the former India captain could have done.

Dhoni managed 29 off 37 balls in India’s below-par 126 for 7 on a track where the ball was not coming onto the bat. To be fair to Dhoni, a clutch of wickets fell and he also had to stem the rot with Yuzvendra Chahal at the other end.

“It (the slow strike rate) was probably fair enough. With the way the wicket was behaving, it was difficult to score for any batter, let alone a guy who is not known for his power-hitting


Mitt Romney's tax returns reveal that the Republican presidential candidate does something fewer Americans do these days: He tithes.

Romney's 2009 and 2010 tax returns, released Tuesday, show that he and his wife, Ann, gave 10 percent of their income, about $4.1 million, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The couple reported income of about $43 million for the two years.

LDS church members must tithe to participate in temple rituals. Nearly 80 percent of Mormons tithe, a poll released this month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows.

While tithing among Mormons is high, it is at an all-time low – less than 3 percent – among many faith groups, according to an October report by Empty Tomb, a Christian research organization. The theologylonger pass collection plates during worship services. Instead they have boxes or baskets sitting at the back of the church. At the end of the service, they ask believers to give what they can.

"If more churches did this, I think they'd find that more people would come in and so would their money," Kelly said.

Tithing among Mormons remains high because members view it as essential to their faith, said Richard Montgomery, public affairs director for the LDS church in the region. In the Sacramento area, about 20,000 members give 10 percent to the church, he said.

Members pay their tithes to the bishop and that money is forwarded to church headquarters in Salt Lake City. These donations are used to fund construction of temples and building maintenance, and to


Targeted antiviral prophylaxis with oseltamivir in a summer camp setting.
To describe the effectiveness of containment of novel influenza A(H1N1) infection at a summer camp. Targeted use of oseltamivir phosphate by individuals in close contact with influenza-confirmed cases. Boys' camp in Alabama in July 2009. A total of 171 campers, 48 camp counselors, and 27 camp staff. Campers with confirmed influenza received oseltamivir and were immediately isolated and sent home. All boys and counselors in the infected child's adjoining cabins received prophylactic oseltamivir for 10 days, including 8 campers at higher risk for influenza infection (eg, those with asthma, seizure disorder, or diabetes). Alcohol-based hand sanitizer was provided at each of the daily activities, in the boys' cabins, and in the dining hall, and counselors were educated by theAbstract

The chapter challenges the approach of previous studies of Chinese papers which focused on their categorisation as pure and authentic examples, against which English papers in the Chinese taste were seen as inferior and imitative. By analysing the myths surrounding these goods, I argue that both types of paper responded to consumer taste and that demand for Chinese papers was closely bound up with skills developed by the English trade. Extant schemes, and the reconstruction of others from surviving papers and archival material, are used to investigate the significance of spaces decorated with Chinese paper to eighteenth- century consumeers.


between former vice president Vincent Siew (蕭萬長) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) on the sidelines of an APEC meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

Topics on the agenda for the Wang-Zhang meeting will include a communication mechanism between the two governments, the creation of representative offices on either side of the Taiwan Strait, regional economic integration and Taiwanese students’ health insurance policies when studying in China.

Wang dismissed concerns that his meeting with Zhang would pave the way for President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), and said the visit aimed to enhance communication between the MAC and the TAO.

Wang is scheduled to depart for China on Feb. 11 and return to Taiwan on Feb. 14.

He is to meet with Zhang in Nanjing on Feb. 11,[The Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) governments and the policy for the civil servant workforce of the Brazilian government].
This article analyzes the configuration of the active civil servant workforce of the Brazilian government during Fernando Henrique Cardoso - FHC - (1995-2002) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - Lula - (2003-2010) mandates. The article associates the condition of the workforce of the Brazilian government with the changes in the government coalition. The residual participation of the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the direct provision of public services influenced the downward trend of the federal workforce.The implementation of the Unified Health System (SUS) was strongly affected by the structural adjustment of the workforce at the federal level during the decades of 1990 and


One of the Cronulla Sharks' longest-serving players in the modern era has added to the legal drama surrounding the club after joining ex-teammates in suing the premiers over the supplements scandal.

Anthony Tupou, who was contracted at the Sharks until as recently as last year, has joined almost half of Cronulla's 2011 squad in instigating legal action against the NRL club.

It only adds another layer to the legal circus engulfing the Sharks, who were previously asked to mediate a $2.4 million claim from former five-eighth Todd Carney over his dismissal from the club.

Tupou joins a host of other teammates who have engaged Shine Lawyers to represent them.Thursday, November 3, 2011

American nerds go to THATCamp

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending (Arcade blogger!) Ed Finn's very smart talk, "American Networks, American Nerds" at the new Emory Library Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC). In the talk, Ed described the networks among different books in Amazon's recommendation algorithm and reader reviews, as well as in professional reviews.

(It's worth noting that here "books" mainly meant novels, but really were, in the end, books, in the sense of physical widgets that Amazon ships to you, or teleports or whatever to your Kindle. The analysis that Ed did on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Junot Díaz's Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao could not have been done with, say, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art.")

Ed argued (in part) that these networks substantiated


Monday, May 05, 2014

IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK

Stories from 14
MacMahon Street – Hurstville Museum & Gallery

In 2003 Hurstville City Council was
looking for a new home for the St George Regional Museum, previously called The
Centennial Bakery Museum. The museum, which included a large bakery item
collection and historical artefacts from the Hurstville Historical Society, was
outgrowing the small corner building on Forest Road and Bridge Street. 14
MacMahon Street became available after the Fanari Restaurant & Bar had
closed and it seemed to be the perfect place for the museum!

The Mayor of Hurstville, Clr Vince Badalati officially opened the St George Regional Museum on
Friday 6 February 2004. On display in the exhibition are the original pair of
scissors to cut the red ribbon, which was spanned across the entrance.

Courtesy of Hurstville Library Museum &Conrad Gallagher talks about rise and fall of his all-star culinary career

The former Irish Michelin Star winning chef, Conrad Gallagher has unveiled his autobiography: “Back On The Menu: My Rollercoaster Life”.

Gallagher began writing the book in 2003 while he awaited trial over the alleged theft of paintings from the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin, which he was later acquitted for.

He recently finished his memoir which he said he wrote to: "to give my side of the story. I think people mature a lot in their 30s", adding wistfully: "If I'd known in my 20s what I know now . . ."

His book gives a detailed account of the rise and fall of his career, from being honored with a Michelin star at the young age of 27 to being


declared bankrupt at 38.

The chef also talks opening about being twice diagnosed with testicular cancer and the brutal month he spent in prison in the U.S.

He described the reckless borrowing he did for his first Dublin restaurant Peacock Alley as “having to rob Peter to pay Paul” .

He also writes about the historic Christmas party bill of over $40,000, hiked up by the Anglo Irish Bank employees.
Despite the hardship, this year the star chef opened up two restaurants, Salon des Saveurs in Dublin and Conrad's Kitchen in Sligo.

"Sligo has its glitterati too. It's a great town. There's a lot going on for it," he insists.

The rogue chef has made quite the comeback from his days in prison in the U.S., he admits he is still a perfectionist: “Ifeach of the essays in the Écrits. Thanks to this publication, coming to grips with the Écrits in all its complexity has suddenly become possible. Lacan’s cryptic pronouncements are miraculously, lucidly reformulated, revealing them in their original and enlightening contributions to the practice and theory of psychoanalysis. What was involved in putting together this monumental and challenging work of exegesis? What does it say about the Lacanian tradition today — in all its differing styles, emphases and factions? Join us in conversation with Derek, Calum and Stijn as we explore this and more.

Jordan Osserman grew up in South Florida and currently calls London home. He received his PhD in gender studies and psychoanalysis from University College London, his MA in psychosocial studies from Birkbeck College, and his BA


A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to give Congress the grand-jury material related to the former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

The decision is a massive victory for House Democrats, who have been duking it out with the Justice Department for months over obtaining a full, unredacted copy of Mueller's report.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia repeatedly referred to the House's impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump as a "compelling" reason to release the material.

She also threw cold water on Trump's and his loyalists' claims that the impeachment inquiry is illegitimate and unconstitutional because the House hasn't officially voted to open a formal inquiry.

"Even in cases of presidential impeachment, a House resolution has never, in fact, beenrequired to begin an impeachment inquiry," Howell wrote.

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A federal judge handed House Democrats a massive victory on Friday by ordering the Justice Department to turn over grand-jury material from the former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation to Congress.

Judge Beryl A. Howell, the chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, ordered the Justice Department to give the House Judiciary Committee the following:

All portions of Mueller's final report on Russia's interference in the 2016 US election that were redacted.

Any underlying transcripts or exhibits referenced in the redacted portions of the report.

The ruling also said the committee could review the material and "submit further requests articulating" the need for additional grand-jury material going forward.

Howell's decision came after months of


back-and-forth between Democrats and the Justice Department over obtaining the full, unredacted report.

The report details a slew of contacts that members of President Donald Trump's campaign had with individuals associated with the Russian government during and after the 2016 election. Those interactions took place while Russia was meddling in the race to propel Trump to the Oval Office.

Mueller's report also outlined more than 10 instances in which Trump tried to obstruct justice throughout the investigation. Trump's efforts were largely unsuccessful, the report said, but only because his staff largely refused to carry out his directives.

Howell repeatedly referred to the House's impeachment inquiry as part of her rationale for ordering the release of the grand-jury material.

"The need for continued secrecy is minimal and thus easily outweighed" by the committee's"compelling need for the material," Howell wrote. "Tipping the scale even further toward disclosure is the public's interest in a diligent and thorough investigation into, and in a final determination about, potentially impeachable conduct by the President described in the Mueller Report."

The judge also threw cold water on Trump's and his loyalists' claims that the impeachment inquiry is illegitimate and unconstitutional because the House hasn't officially voted to open a formal inquiry.

"Even in cases of presidential impeachment, a House resolution has never, in fact, been required to begin an impeachment inquiry," Howell wrote.


The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry

Bill to expedite Yucca Mountain licensing clears 1st hurdle, Martin Review-Journal Washington Bureau, June 15, 2017 WASHINGTON — A bill to expedite the licensing and development of Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada was passed by a subcommittee Thursday, clearing the first hurdle for legislation expected to be taken up in the House this year.

The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on environment approved the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act on a voice vote. The bill now goes to the full committee for approval…..

Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., who is not on the committee, attended the hearing and spoke on the House floor later to denounce the bill as one that ignores serious challenges from Nevada, which has denied the federal governmentIn September 2012 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization granted Iraq the second Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme under the auspices of the bloc’s latest military collaboration and integration framework, partners across the globe.

The latter program (for which the substantives are occasionally capitalized), NATO’s latest, incorporates to date eight nations in the broader Asia-Pacific region (including West Asia, the Middle East) that have supplied troops for the U.S.-led military organization’s war in Afghanistan under International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) command or are subsumed under NATO consultative arrangements and training programs like the Afghanistan-Pakistan-ISAF Tripartite Commission, the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan and the NATO Training Mission – Iraq.

The partners across the globe currently are Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Korea. Among the 50 nations providing NATO


with troop contingents for the war in South Asia are additional Asia-Pacific states not covered by other international NATO partnership formats like the Partnership for Peace (22 nations in Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia), the Mediterranean Dialogue (seven nations in North Africa and the Middle East, with Libya to be the eighth) and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, which targets the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates).

Those states – Malaysia, Singapore and Malaysia – are likely the next candidates for the new global partnership, as are Latin American troop contributors like El Salvador (present) and Colombia (announced). The inclusion of the last will mark the expansion of NATO, through memberships and partnerships, to all six inhabitedcontinents.

In the past two years there has been discussion about NATO establishing a collective partnership arrangement, which could include individual partnerships as well, with the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which are, in addition to Malaysia and Singapore, mentioned above, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.

During the NATO summit in Chicago this May, Secretary General Rasmussen met with what were identified as 13 partners across the globe.

Regarding the new partnership agreement with Iraq, the NATO website reports that it follows and builds upon the eight-year NATO Training Mission-Iraq, which was employed to train thousands of Iraq officers, soldiers and oil police, and « inaugurates a full-fledged partnership. » (2)

The Alliance further stated, « The signing of the partnership accord marks


the formal accession of Iraq to NATO’s ‘partnerships family,' » which will create the basis for the Western alliance « assisting Iraq as it builds a modern security sector which can cooperate with international partners. »

That is, the NATO-trained Iraq armed forces are being recruited into the Western military axis’ international nexus.

Four days earlier NATO signed an Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme with South Korea in Brussels which, the NATO press release on the occasion stated, « follows seven years of progressive engagement from a dialogue that was initiated in 2005. »

In June NATO Secretary General Rasmussen traveled to New Zealand and signed the same agreement with the nation’s prime minister, John Key.

The first Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme was signed with Mongolia this March. (Though an agreementwith the same title was signed with Switzerland in the same month.) That country borders China and Russia; in fact, of the eight current partners across the globe, three – Mongolia, Pakistan and Afghanistan – share borders with China and two others, Japan and South Korea, are its near neighbors.

In conjunction with the U.S., NATO is striving to assemble the remnants of defunct or dormant Cold War-era military blocs in the Asia-Pacific region, all modeled after NATO itself – the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and the Security Treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America (ANZUS) – to replicate in the East against China what NATO expansion has accomplished in Europe over the past 13 years in relation to


Russia: its exclusion, isolation and encirclement by military bases, naval deployments and interceptor missile installations.

The U.S. has recruited Japan, South Korea and Australia into its global sea- and land-based missile shield grid, with a recent report indicating the Pentagon plans to add the Philippines to the list with the deployment there of an Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance mobile system of the sort already stationed in Japan, Israel and Turkey.

Following Mongolia, New Zealand, South Korea and Iraq, NATO intends to sign Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme accords with its remaining partners across the globe: Afghanistan, Australia, Japan and Pakistan.

Like South Korea with its neighbor to the north, Japan is embroiled in a showdown with China, and Afghanistan and Pakistan are involved in armed conflicts, with NATO waging a nearlystating that the country should not put the guard down while being puffed up by its laurels. Dieter Kempf, president of the BDI, said

Lead acid battery has been extensively used since ages across various industries on account of their reliability, durability, and relatively low cost of maintenance. The continuously growing demand for these batteries from the automotive sector is projected to be one of the chief reasons behind the growth of the lead acid battery market. According to a report published by Transparency Market Research (TMR), the lead acid batteries market in the

Ecommerce took its due to time to penetrate into the cash-dependent Indian market, gaining strong traction from new government, which favors next generation online transactions and is inspiring world’s largest democracy to go cashless. Latest tax


India is planning to sell only electric cars in the near future, delighting environmentalists while disappointing the oil industry. With concerns pertaining to the rising prices of diesel and petrol, not to mention the alarming levels of pollution, the decision is being welcomed as a revolutionary move. Under the new plans of the Indian government, every single car sold in the country from 2030

Although, India is only the second among the countries boasting of highest number of internet users, it still lags behind several Asian nations when it comes down to internet speed. But this will expectedly change in the next few months with the scheduled launch of three new communication satellites—GSAT-19, GSAT-11, and GSAT-20. The Indian Space Research Station (ISRO) has scheduled to launch GSAT-19 in June,2017 closely trailed by GSAT-11

At the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, to be played at three different venues in the U.K in the month of June, Intel will be introducing their new innovations to analyze swing of the bat by a batsman through their Curie module and provide run-time pitch assessment via drones. For the fans at two of the three stadiums (Edgbaston in Birmingham and Kennington Oval in London, except Sophia Gardens in Cardiff),

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is allegedly expected to go smokefree by 2020, according to a latest news exploring future moves of the New Zealand government. In fact, this move is prognosticated to repute the NZDF as the first-ever smokefree armed defence force in the world. However, Rt. Hon. Winston Peters of New Zealand


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Lawmakers want gray-wolf protections to stay

BILLINGS, Mont.—Federal lawmakers pressed Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Wednesday to drop the administration's plan to end federal protections for gray wolves across most of the Lower 48 states.

Seventy-four House members signed onto a Wednesday letter to Jewell that cited a peer-review panel's recent conclusion the government relied on unsettled science to make its case that the wolves have sufficiently recovered.

Gray wolves were added to the endangered-species list in 1975 after being widely exterminated in the last century. Protections already have been lifted for rebounding populations of the predators in the northern Rockies and Great Lakes regions.

Hunting in those regions now kills hundreds of gray wolves annually, though state officials insist the species' population remains healthy.

But lawmakers led by Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio,the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, contend protections elsewhere should remain. That's in part because gray wolves have not yet repopulated areas where researchers identified suitable habitat for the animals in California, Utah, Colorado and the Northeast.

The lawmakers wrote that taking the animals off the endangered species list and putting them under state management would "stifle gray wolf recovery" and undermine decades of restoration efforts.

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Among those signing the letter were two House Republicans—Chris Smith of New Jersey and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.

A panel of independent scientists last month rejected the government's claim that the Northeast and Midwest were home to a separate species, the eastern wolf. The government claim would make it unnecessary to restore gray wolves in those areas, but the peer-review panel said


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The play made its New York debut at the 59E59 Theaters as part of the Primary Stages season on October 7, 2007, with David Beach, Mahira Kakkar, Michael Laurence, Douglas Rees and Richard Topol.  It was adapted as a radio drama performed in May 2012 by L.A. Theatre Works with Kevin Chamberlin, Jere Burns, Steven Culp and Liza Weil, which was released in September 2012.

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Category:2006 playsWestminster will say goodbye to Tony Benn today at a funeral service yards from the House of Commons where he spent a career spanning more than 50 years.

The former Labour cabinet minister's body lay in rest before the funeral service in the Palace of Westminster's Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, only the second politician to be granted the honour after Baroness Thatcher.

The service will take place in St Margaret's, which is known as "the parish church of the House of Commons", after his body makes the short journey by hearse from Parliament, with family members following on foot.

First elected to parliament in 1950, Mr Benn renounced a peerage to remain in the House of Commons, serving in the cabinets of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and staging a


bitterly divisive battle with Denis Healey for the Labour deputy leadership as the champion of the left in 1981.

He famously retired from Parliament in 2001, saying he wanted to "spend more time on politics" and won a new status as a national treasure touring the country to speak to packed audiences in venues from town halls to West End theatres and the Glastonbury festival.

Well into his 80s, he was a familiar and popular figure at demonstrations and anti-war rallies.

Tributes poured in from across the political spectrum after his death at 88 was announced on March 14.

Labour leader Ed Miliband described him as an "iconic figure" while Prime Minister David Cameron said that Mr Benn ensured there was "never a dull moment", even for those who disagreed with everyword he said.

Mr Benn's son, Labour shadow cabinet minister Hilary, told MPs how much his father, who won 16 elections, loved Parliament and was devastated when he was initially barred from entering the Commons upon his father's death in 1960, "because it was alleged that his blood was blue".

He added: "His blood was never blue, it was the deepest red throughout his life."

The funeral will be followed by a private family cremation later in the afternoon and a memorial meeting will be held later in the year.


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Before the Göde-Award was launched in 2010, a smaller prize had already been awarded. Namely, the Göde promotional award, endowed with 10,000 €, was intended to help scientists who wanted to pursue unconventional ideas.

The winning topic of
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reactions (LENR). The prize was awarded to the chemist Dr. Venjamin
Filimonov from the University of Minsk, Belarus.Framework for European Regulatory Agencies (debate)
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The next item is the debate on the Council and Commission statements on the framework for European regulatory agencies.
Paula Lehtomäki
President-in-Office of the Council. (FI) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union and its citizens need effective agencies that work transparently. As you know, in order to promote this objective, on 28 June 2004 the Council adopted conclusions on the Commission communication on the operating framework for the European Regulatory Agencies.
In these conclusions, the Council focussed attention on the Commission's intention to put forward the proposal as a legally binding instrument, which would define the Regulatory Agencies' horizontal operating framework. It was the Council's opinion that the proposal should deal with such issues as the establishment, work and monitoring of regulatory agencies,


Uninvited Guests

He found himself at the bottom of the stairs. Where was he? How did he get there? He blinked at the bright light that a nearby lamp cast. Then in a rush it all came back to him. The police. The gun on the bed. The body of the girl on the floor. The blood staining the carpet a crimson red. He had run for his life.

He stood and stretched his arms above his head. Sighing he walked into the kitchen and got out a Coke and a sandwich from the previous night. He sat down at the table. The sun was shining through the window warming his back and casting a warm golden light on the kitchen floor. He was sixteen years old. His name wasVictor. He had come to this house to hide out. He had wanted to be a writer. Instead he was a killer.

Victor opened the Coke and took a sip. He pulled his shirt off and tossed it on the floor. He threw the can in the trash and walked upstairs to his bedroom. The house he lived in was abandoned. He took a shower and let the hot water turn his back red. When the water finally ran cold he got out and wrapped a towel around his waist before going into the bedroom and pulling on a new change of clothes.

Victor collapsed on the bed and stared up at the ceiling. That girl that kept running through his head every night wasn’t the first person he had


killed. There were other people who haunted his dreams and even his waking days, people who he had killed after he had run away from home at fourteen. He sank into a deep sleep.

It was sunset when he woke up. Victor walked over to the dresser and pulled out his .40 Glock. He stared at it and ran his fingers over the shiny black barrel. He glanced out the window at the distant horizon and decided he’d go for a walk. Victor slipped the gun in the waistband of his jeans and walked outside.

As he was walking along thoughts of his sister pushed into the front of his mind. Anna had been ten years old when she had died at the hands of his father. Victor brushed thetears from his eyes and continued walking. But no matter what he did the images continued to flood his mind of that fateful day.

He had been sitting up in his bedroom working on fractions when he heard the unmistakable sound of his father’s footsteps on the stairs. He had been beaten the previous night for not coming home on time for dinner. His mother had been drinking since she had a miscarriage when he was nine. And his father had become different after he had lost his job as a director and they had been forced to leave their home in Las Vegas, Nevada and drive halfway across the country to Fort Worth, Indiana.

He heard a scream from his sister’s room. Victor had run towards her but his


father had locked the door. Terrified Victor had pounded on the door but his father hadn’t opened it. He had listened to his sister’s terrified cries for help and her pleas for mercy. Five hours later the door had opened and his father smiled and walked past him. Victor had rushed through the doorway and found his sister raped and dead on the bed. Anna had been so full of life.

Victor blamed himself for his sister’s death. He kept thinking he should have taken her away from the abuse and she would have been safe. Shortly after he had turned fourteen Victor had run away from home and started killing. Victor looked up and saw that he had come to an old factory on the outskirts of town.all the lights were on and the blinds were going up and down by themselves. Funny. I was sure I turned the lights off. It’s almost like a haunted house. He blinked his eyes and at once everything stopped.

A cold chill went through Victor’s spine. He rubbed his eyes and went into the house. He threw the shirt in the washer and then collapsed on the couch. Victor shut his eyes and pulled the gun out. He let it fall to the floor.

Victor found himself back in his old house shouting and pounding on his sister’s bedroom door. He struggled desperately to get the door open but it wouldn’t budge. He could hear his father laughing and heard the unmistakable sounds of his father raping his sister. “Anna!


No daddy don’t hurt her! Anna hang on!”

His throat was hoarse from crying and screaming. His hands were getting sore from pounding on the door. Victor struggled to stay awake but exhaustion took over and he fell asleep. He woke up five hours later. He couldn’t hear anything from his sister’s room. His father came out and cuffed him roughly across the head before heading downstairs. Victor ran into Anna’s room and saw her broken body lying on the bed. There was a pool of blood on the sheets.

“ANNA!”

He sat up with a cry. Victor looked and saw it was morning. He was covered in a cold sweat. He must have rolled off the couch in the middle of the night. His voice was hoarse. Victor started thewasher again and poured himself a cup of coffee. He started the water to take a bath. It was just a dream. That’s all it was. Victor turned off the water and climbed in the tub. An hour later Victor got out and threw his shirt in the dryer. Victor put some money in his pocket and went out to get some breakfast. He ate his breakfast and then went for a walk. The sun warmed his back.

He thought back to the girl he had murdered. He hadn’t meant to kill her. He had been hiding out in the girl’s house when she had come into her bedroom and opened the door. She had started screaming and he had snapped. The gun had fired and she had fallen


to the floor. Shocked Victor dropped the gun on the bed and knelt down by the dead girl. He had felt for a pulse and had found none. Terrified he heard the sound of police sirens in the distance and had jumped out the window and took off. He’d been in hiding ever since.

He was watching television when he heard a sound. He shut the television off and looked around. His eyes found a small door in the wall. He had never gone near the door because he wasn’t sure if it was safe or why it was there. On a whim he started walking towards the door and crawled inside. It was dark.

Suddenly the door shut with a loud bang. Victor turned around and tried pushing openthe door to no avail. Guess the only way out is forward. Victor started crawling on his hands and knees in the pitch blackness. It was some time before he felt a draft and felt dirt under his hands.

I must be underground now. But where does this tunnel lead? Victor saw a flickering light in the distance and soon came to an earthen passage where he could stand up. Brushing the dirt off his knees he grabbed a torch and started walking. As the tunnel wound its way downward he lost all sense of time.

Finally he heard a voice and thought he saw a young child sitting on the path in front of him. “Hello?” He called out. The child didn’t answer and instead continued to draw in


the dirt. As he approached the child turned and ran off into the darkness. “Wait!” He shouted but his voice was lost in the depths of the tunnel.

He lowered the torch to peer down at the drawing. It was of a skull with a rose through the top with thorns protruding out of the mouth. He felt another shiver of fear but continued walking. Presently he came to a door and opened it. There was a shorter passage that instantly came to a dead end. He turned around and saw another tunnel on his left. It was too narrow to walk through.

Victor set the torch down and began to crawl. Presently he came to another door and opened it. Inside was a circular room made of stones withThe door at the end of the short passage flew open as he approached and he ran down the path his feet pounding on the dirt. When he glanced down he saw that the floor was littered with human bones. “NO!” He cried and ran on.

His heart was beating hard in his chest. He didn’t dare look behind him but the images he had been forced to watch flashed across his eyes. He heard the voices behind him getting fainter. Victor fell out of the passage into the living room and ran out of the house. As he turned to look back the house burst into flames and disappeared. Victor was half mad. Slipping on the rain soaked sidewalk he flew into the police station and confessed to


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Bernie Sanders, John Kasich push forward on paths to the White House

Updated on March 19, 2016 at 7:31 AMPosted on March 19, 2016 at 7:30 AM

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Despite trailing their respective parties' front-runners in delegates and primary wins, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and Republican candidate John Kasich have remained firm that they can still forge a path to the White House.
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SPRINGFIELD ‒ Despite trailing their respective parties' front-runners in delegates and primary wins, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and Republican candidate John Kasich have remained firm that they can still forge a path to the White House.

With hundreds of delegates still up for grabs on both sides of the 2016 presidential race, candidates are looking to build up momentum for their campaigns asthe primary contest moves into high-stakes states like California and New York.

Although Sanders trails Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by a 1,147 to 830 margin in terms of pledged delegates -- a lead that grows to 1,614 to 856 when adding in so-called "superdelegates" -- his campaign is optimistic that the second half of the primary season favors the Vermont senator.

Kasich, who holds just 143 delegates to Donald Trump's 678 and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's, R-Texas, 413, meanwhile, is pinning his hopes on a contested convention -- an event which would open the door to becoming the Republican nominee.

Sanders' Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver and campaign Senior Strategist Tad Devine told reporters this week that while the primary results currently give Clinton the edge in the Democratic race, they believe


her campaign has hit its "high water mark" in terms of a pledged delegate lead.

With primary contests still to go in more than two dozen states, Weaver contended that the senator will consistently chip away at the former secretary of state's advantage -- particularly on June 7, when just under 700 delegates will up for grabs across six states.

"We anticipate over the weeks and months to come that we will steadily, consistently and ultimately successfully erode her current advantage in pledged delegates... and that will happen on June 7 when a number of states, including California and New Jersey go to the polls," he said in a conference call.

Weaver argued that while the calendar and geography in the first half of the primary season favored Clinton, the secondover Trump in a head-to-head match-up and Sanders a 10-point edge over the GOP front-runner.

Looking to secure his own path to the Republican nomination over Trump, meanwhile, Kasich is looking to block the businessman from receiving a majority of delegates -- a move which would lead to a contested convention.

Following the Ohio governor's home state primary win over Trump on Tuesday, Kasich pledged to take his campaign "all the way to Cleveland and secure the Republican nomination" at the party's national convention this summer.

Touting Kasich's Ohio victory as "resetting the race," his campaign argued that no candidate will win the 1,237 delegates needed for the GOP nomination.

Campaign Chief Strategist John Weaver told Reuters earlier this week that if the governor won Ohio and some other states "nobody is


going to have enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot."

He further contended in a campaign memo that Kasich "is the candidate best positioned to go toe-to-toe in the remaining states," as the electoral map shifts in his favor and he looks likely to pick up support from would-be backers of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, who left the contest earlier this week.

"Of the three remaining viable candidates, only Gov. Kasich will defeat Hillary Clinton in an Electoral College landslide, sweeping in Republicans from the courthouse to the Senate," he said. "The other candidates would lose to Hillary Clinton in dramatic fashion and cost us seats in down-ballot races from California to Maine."

Kasich's campaign has further argued in recent days that Cruz will not win theto an exchange station in which the carrier is out of the transport tube and within reach of the user. After finishing a transaction, the user typically inserts the carrier directly into a vertical section of the transport tube. The user may inadvertently fill the carrier with a load that exceeds the maximum load carrying capacity of the carrier. Consequently, if a carrier is overloaded, the carrier may drop to the bottom of the vertical tube section of the terminal and stop. The pneumatic forces developed in the transport tube may be insufficient to move the carrier through the transport tube. Therefore, the transport tube system is out of service until the overloaded carrier is manually removed. Down send terminals, to which the user has direct access to


Ben Affleck dedicated his honorary doctorate of fine arts degree from Brown to two people for very different reasons.

Affleck, who dropped out of the University of Vermont before becoming a Hollywood name with his and Matt Damon's Good Will Hunting, honored his mother at the graduation ceremony. "This means a lot to her," he said. "She never got to see me graduate from any higher education at all. So, Mom, this is for you. I love you."

He also joked, "This is a spectacular honor for me. Among other things today, in terms of higher education, I passed Matt Damon." Damon left Harvard before finishing his degree, although he recieved an Arts Medal from the institution this year.

During the short speech, he poked fun at himself for receiving anFootball Program in the last five years has nothing to do with Jeff Long or Bret Bielema. Itís when Sam Pittman left for Georgia. The heart and soul of the physical football team was the Oline Pittman built and it has not been replicated since he left.

They have a spread roster trying to play Power ďIĒ football. Square pegs in round holes.

The defense isnít addressed here, but itís pretty simple. The fear of the big play has taken away aggressiveness.

I would take this with a grain of salt also, remember Spears played when that was how the game was played and won, the game and rules have changed to favor the offense and thus the reason everyone who is anyone is using the spread offense. Sorry for you


and that rubs off onto the players. I never liked the hire; never understood it! Why do we hire a coach from the Big 10 when the Big 10 wins 1 out of 3 games against SEC. I want a coach that eats, sh#% and sleep football!!!!!

Now I won't blame Petrino. He tried to keep physical football on both sides especially in the running game. He did abandon the run or forget about it sometimes (Bama 2010). And his oline did spend a lot of time backing up instead of firing off.

Bielema didn't do as he stated he was going to in building the oline. Had he and had they focused on that first and foremost in creating a power running game, the team and program would beExperiments

Peter Meng has a history of tackling the impossible. He helped federal employees at 18,000 offices learn an arcane computer loan program. His secret? He used CD-ROMs featuring Elvis impersonators to teach the classes. His efforts won kudos for $25 million in "cost avoidance," the government jargon for saving taxpayer dollars.

Now Meng is tackling another seemingly impossible task: Helping newspapers win back classified advertising from online, which has cost traditional news organizations billions in lost revenues.

The fourth class of Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Fellows will pursue innovation and entrepreneurship in start-up journalism, new online revenue opportunities, research to improve the design and delivery of news, and networking to more quickly and efficiently share innovation in journalism.

"While our colleagues on the business side deserve credit for pushing newsrooms to


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Carter in pre-op

Chuck took Carter in to pre-op while I got Audrey off to school and Evelyn dropped off at a friend's house. I'm grateful for a wonderful group of preschool mom friends that are my village in times like this. I was able to make it to the hospital shortly after Carter went into the OR. Chuck was with him until he went to sleep and then met me in the waiting room.

They needed to use more sedation than anticipated. He had a tough time waking up as a result. But here he is in post-op giving me a thumbs up.

After some time in recovery, a snack and some juice he was looking more himself and ready to go home. We had a fantastic nurse that hadthe same taste in books as him. She gave him some recommendations with our discharge papers. The morning moved along smoothly. He was discharged and home in time to pick up Evelyn from school.

He had to learn to accept help with tasks as he was ordered non weight bearing for a few weeks.


I mean, look at this. That's a full half page of lost lettermen. Sure, sure, they've got great depth and recruiting and momentum, but I'll believe it when I see it. I'm holding 15 points in escrow until Urban can show he can pull another rabbit out of his hat.

"Hand", "Sticky Situation", "Gets Off Easy", and "Hookers". Make Your Own Headline

The good news for Darrell Hand? He gets to stay on the football team. The bad news? He still has to pay Frank.

Now there's a head-scratcher. In case you haven't heard already, DT Darrell Hand was officially handed down his punishment today for his, um dramatic re-enactment of "Pretty Woman". The punishment: he gets to stay in school and will miss three football games.

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Despite this disappointment Paulo André had impressed Atlético Paranaense who gave him another chance at the top tier when they signed him before the start of the 2005 league campaign.

In his debut season for Atlético Paranaense Paulo André would soon establish himself a vital member of the teams defense and helped guide the club to qualify for the 2006 Copa Sudamericana. After having a personally successful debut season he would spark foreign interests and French Ligue 1 club Le Mans signed Paulo André in June 2006 on a four and half years deal. This would see Paulo André make his league debut for Le Mans on 19 August 2006 against Valenciennes FC in a 3–2 victory, however after only three further games Paulo André was struck with aThree quarters of the Wachbataillon have been diagnosed with the embarrassing condition.

It sounds like a joke from 'Allo, 'Allo: soldiers from a German elite fighting force are growing breasts.

According to a medical report, soldiers in the Wachbataillon unit have been slapping their rifles a bit too hard on the left side of their chests during drills.

The repeated slapping has stimulated the soldiers' glands, giving them breasts.

The condition is called one-sided gynecomastia and has affected three quarters of the battalion.

Professor Bjorn Krapohl, director of plastic surgery at the German Armed Forces Hospital of Berlin, told the German Herald: "There is a very significant link between the activity in the Guard Battalion and the development of the breast on the left side.

"They need to change the way they drill. The


Talks start in Paris to press for long-term Gaza truce

PARIS – US Secretary of State John Kerry and other top diplomats from Europe and the Middle East began talks in Paris Saturday to press efforts for a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Kerry met with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and their counterparts from Britain, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Turkey and the European Union as a 12-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza entered into force. More than 900 Palestinians -- a large majority of them civilians -- have died in a 19-day Israeli offensive on Hamas-ruled Gaza that was launched in response to rockets fired by militants of the Islamist group into the Jewish state.

The Israeli army meanwhile has suffered 37 casualties and world powers are rushing to try andnegotiate a lasting ceasefire to avoid more deaths. "It's now about reaching a common position that we must put an end to the deaths," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said before the talks began.

Kerry, who has been leading international efforts to reach a truce, has been in regular contact with the foreign ministers of Turkey and Qatar as both countries yield influence on Hamas. Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal is based in Qatar, while Turkey's Islamic-oriented prime minister has strongly criticised Israel's assault on Gaza as well as Egypt's role in trying to clinch a ceasefire.

Kerry failed to secure a lasting deal in Cairo on Friday where he met with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukri and UN chief Ban Ki-moon. The United States has worked with Egypt on a


An out-of-control Chinese space station with 'highly toxic' chemicals onboard that is currently hurtling toward earth may crash into lower Michigan, it has been revealed.

It is believed China's first prototype station, Tiangong-1, will come crashing back to the planet around April 3, experts say.

US research organization Aerospace Corporation revealed that parts of southern Lower Michigan are among the regions that have the highest probability of being hit by falling debris, according to MLive.com.

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While a precise landing location remains unclear, ESA has provided the latitudes between which Tiangong-1 is likely to land – and countries at risk include Spain, Italy, Turkey, India and parts of the US. ESA says no fragments will fall higher than 43°N or further south than 43°S

Northern China, central Italy, northern Spain,the Middle East, New Zealand, Tasmania, South America, southern Africa, and northern states in the US have been identified as the regions with higher chances.

But agencies will only know the precise date Tiangong-1 will impact and exactly where debris will fall during the finals weeks of its decline.

The doomed 8.5-tonne craft, which has been hurtling towards Earth since control was lost in 2016, is believed to contain dangerous hydrazine.

Experts from the European Space Agency (ESA), based in Paris, are among those tracking Tiangong-1, which means 'heavenly palace'.

Their Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, predicted earlier this week that it would enter earth's atmosphere between March 24 and April 19.

This narrows down from their previous estimate of March 17 to April 21.

Meanwhile Aerospace has worked in two weeks of


one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot.

'In the history of spaceflight, no known person has ever been harmed by reentering space debris.

'Only one person has ever been recorded as being hit by a piece of space debris and, fortunately, she was not injured.'

On September 14, 2016, China made an official statement predicting Tiangong-1 would reenter the atmosphere in the latter half of 2017.

Experts from Aerospace's Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (Cords) have been studying the space station and in November updated their predictions for its uncontrolled re-entry.

WHAT IS THE 'HIGHLY TOXIC' CHEMICAL ONBOARD CHINA'S TIANGONG-1 SPACE STATION? A 'highly-toxic' corrosive chemical could land on Earth when parts of an out-of-control Chinese space station crash into our planet. The chemical, called hydrazine,in rocket fuel. Symptoms of short-term exposure to high levels of hydrazine include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, dizziness, headache, nausea, pulmonary edema, seizures, and coma, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Long-term exposure can also damage the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system in humans. The liquid is corrosive and may produce dermatitis from skin contact in humans and animals. Increased incidences of lung, nasal cavity, and liver tumours have been observed in rodents exposed to hydrazine. The EPA has classified hydrazine as a Group B2, a probable human carcinogen. Advertisement

The Tiangong-1 spacecraft launched in 2011, with the aim of using the craft to set up a larger space station.

The craft is now at an altitude of less than 300 kilometres (186


of 3.35 metres. It has a liftoff mass of 8,506 kilograms and provides 15 cubic metres of pressurised volume Tiangong-1 is China's first Space Station Module. The vehicle was the nation's first step towards its ultimate goal of developing, building, and operating a large Space Station as a permanent human presence in Low Earth Orbit. The module was launched on September 29, 2012. Tiangong-1 features flight-proven components of Chinese Shenzhou Spacecraft as well as new technology. The module consists of three sections: the aft service module, a transition section and the habitable orbital module. The vehicle is 10.4 metres long and has a main diameter of 3.35 metres. It has a liftoff mass of 8,506 kilograms and provides 15 cubic metres of pressurized volume. Advertisement

'Even shortly before re-entry,to be discovered in the Kuiper Belt of icy planetesimals orbiting in the outer Solar System. Although now only the second-largest body known in the belt (after Eris), Pluto is intensively studied, and is the primary target of the New Horizons mission [@stern03], with a spacecraft flyby scheduled in 2015. In particular, Pluto offers the rare opportunity to study a very cold planetary atmosphere which also evolves strongly with time, and may in fact be transient, settling and freezing out on the surface [@owen93] as Pluto recedes from the Sun in its highly elliptical orbit. As Pluto’s last perihelion was in 1989, subsequent contraction of the atmosphere was expected, but in fact when observed by occultation of stars the atmospheric pressure and size had increased between 1988 and


axes of the depilation rollers, and this housing comprises a head portion containing the depilation rollers and a handle portion merging into said head portion in the longitudinal housing direction and formed in part by a housing cover. The housing of this depilation device comprises a lateral curvature in the region of its handle portion, which curvature is provided for accommodating a drive motor for driving the depilation rollers, but which does not form a separate handle portion of the housing. No particularly comfortable handling was achieved in this known depilation device either, the cause thereof being the longitudinal housing design which extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal housing direction. It may be noted that the elongate housing of the depilation device was realized without lateral curvature byDone for the year. Originator of the rumor is the New York Daily News.

It's sad that everytime Rose laces his shoes he has to throw out the disclaimer that he's not returning this year for the playoffs. He's only said that about 100 times and someone still has to restart that rumor.

Spurs fans have to be getting bored. 15 in a row, mostly blowouts, and they're up 19 at the half in Denver.

You just have to flat out respect what that organization has done for the past decade +

Consistently overlooked because of their non-flashy, workman-like style.

Rarely spoken about as the favorite in recent years. Always looked at as "too old."

Yet year after year they are just a great basketball team. Last year and this year in particular, with


renovation project. The project has now brought in eight residence halls and almost 3,200 new beds to North Campus, fulfilling former-president E. Gordon Gee’s vision.

Gee wanted sophomores to live on campus, and a plan to require second-years to do so was already being put in place — long before the recently announced 6-percent increase on housing fees and 3-percent increase in dining plans will go into effect next autumn.

With its sights set on the soon-to-be-implemented “Second-year Transformational Experience Program,” known as STEP, Ohio State made sure St. Stephen’s would remain a church, and nothing else.

Ohio State is the only Big Ten school that requires second-year students to remain on campus. Many of the 14 schools in the conference do not have any on-campus living requirements.

Ohio State joined otherOhio schools such as Ohio University, Miami University and Bowling Green State University that already required sophomores to live on campus.

It’s been a year since second-years have been required to live in dorms and Ohio State has seen a 34-percent increase in room-and-board revenue as a result. In the 11-month fiscal time period, revenue went up from $121 million in 2016 to $162 million in 2017, according to the most recent documents made available to the Board of Trustees’ financial committee.

Ohio State and other universities maintain their fiscal years according to the academic calendar, running from July 1 to June 30 the following year.

In the documents provided to the Board, the university attributes the jump in revenue almost entirely to the new dorms and the students who are


aesthetics have certainly changed.

The more than 60-year-old church sits 20 feet from the brand new window-covered Busch House.

Around the corner, Curl Market is one of many new dining locations available for the almost 7,000 new students living on campus, many of whom live in the remodeled area, akin to its own small town complete with a clock tower.

As Glazier said back when he first learned his church had been handed the large sum of upfront cash from Ohio State — this is a “win-win” situation for both sides.

Correction, 10/26: This article previously misstated the total cost of the North Residential Project as the projected cost of $396 million. Its total cost was $365 million.II controlled substance.  On appeal, he alleges that there was insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction, and that the district court erred in admitting testimony regarding his prior drug involvement.  Finding no error, we affirm.

A.Relevant Facts

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Scalco was one of four people in a car which was pulled over by an officer of the United States Park Police on the BaltimoreWashington Parkway.  Several other police officers arrived on the scene to provide backup.  One of the officers, Officer Womack, observed Scalco holding a green object with white writing on it between his legs;  he later saw Scalco make motions as if he were kicking something under the seat in front of him.  Another officer, Officer Onolfi, searched the car after the passengers got


out;  he found a jar of parsley laced with PCP under the seat in front of Scalco's seat.  Onolfi testified that the substance in the jar smelled like PCP, and a laboratory exam revealed that the parsley in the jar was indeed laced with PCP.

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At trial, Officers Womack and Onolfi, as well as several other police officers, testified for the prosecution.  Officer Verderaime of the Howard County, Maryland, Police Department testified over Scalco's objection that Scalco had past convictions for manufacturing a controlled substance1 and possession of marijuana, and that Scalco had worked as an informant in two PCP-manufacturing investigations.2  Scalco and William Aisquith, one of the other passengers in the car, testified for the defense.  However, Scalco was convicted.

B.Sufficiency of Evidence

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In reviewingscroll down on the site above, one notices the statue of the Pieta and Latin phrase "And the Word was made Flesh", in the bus...good old days of Malta.

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

On the Indwelling of the Holy Trinity: thoughts for Lent

Theophoroi” or God-bearers. When was the last time you heard a sermon on the Indwelling of the Trinity? I referred to this Truth of the Catholic Church before on this blog, but I return to it today after several discussions with lay friends who had never heard of this before.

Garrigou-Lagrange is my basis for explanation, but we have the Fathers of the Church, and the Scriptures as the foundation of all following teaching. The great Dominican synthesizes centuries of teaching. I am not going to emphasize the Indwelling


on with complaints for a half-hour, then fell into using nasty four letter words. Her beauty became marred by her petulance and foul language. Here was an outstandingly beautiful woman of about 40 ruining her chance to bring loveliness into the world.

On the other hand, a peaceful, tiny woman endured the ordeal of the heat and inconvenience by radiating an interior peace and harmony. Although not as drop-dead gorgeous as the other woman, this small person brought a quiet beauty into the situation.

She has the jewel of God, a quiet and gentle spirit, so rare these days.

1 Peter 3:3-4Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

3 Let not yours be the outward adorning with braiding of hair, decoration of gold, and wearing of robes, 4 but let it be the11 for he who greets him shares his wicked work.

Sacrifice without pain, without suffering is perfect love. Few have written about this in the annals of the saints. But, one can get beyond pain to sheer joy in sacrificing. I am not there, yet. But, I am being given practice runs.

The saint who reminds me of this truism the most is St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who I have labelled on this blog, the Saint of Love.

Another saint of love is St. Alphonsus. He stated that both his honor and glory in God and his greatest temptation to sin was love.

Adam made a huge mistake. Eve sinned first, out of stupid curiosity. Then, she wanted Adam to sin with sin. She had lost pure love and wanted either prideful


solace in suffering or she experienced fear, possibly malice.

Adam did not have to sin. He could see clearly the change in Eve. She was lost to him, lost to God, no longer living in sanctifying grace. Yet, he chose to be with her instead of God. That is called the sin of idolatry.

And, to this day, we call Original Sin, the Sin of Adam, as if he, as the primary leader in nature had not sinned, there would be no Original Sin. God would have raised up another Eve, I suppose.

But, Adam had not yet experienced pain and suffering, having not sinned. He could have sacrificed Eve's company for God's. Adam still was in a state of perfection we offspring cannot understand until we get there. He didand even moments of joy. The "unfelt joy" brings peace, but the real joy is a glimpse of eternity, wherein sacrifice is happy, happy, happy.

We shall be like little sparks in heaven, part of the large Light Who is Christ, loving freely, sacrificing in love with love for the sake of love and living in that love.

We shall be rewarded with Love in return and we shall never be outdone in generosity.

Eden was a small mirror of heaven on earth. Gethsemane brings down heaven in perfect love, perfect unity of Will and Will. Christ wants the same from each one of us.

Dying to self means just that-death of the self and the finding of humility, the finding of sacrificial love. Only grace gives the joy, as if God


Hit BBC crime drama Luther could return as a big screen prequel telling the story of the crime fighting east London detective chief inspector's rise through the ranks.

Speaking at the Edinburgh TV festival, series creator Neil Cross said he hoped to take Idris Elba's maverick police officer back to the start of his career, a move that would also involve restoring many of the series' original castmembers. He is hoping the film will therefore appeal both to hardcore fans and those who have never seen the series.

"I've written the script and we hope to get the film made next year," said Cross, who has also written a Luther novel and is working on a second. "Idris is a brilliant leading man and we've hoped to turn Luther intoa movie for a long time. It will follow his career in the earlier days, when he is still married to Zoe, and the final scene in the film is the first of the initial TV series."

The prequel would also restore Luther's sidekick Justin Ripley (Warren Brown) to life, as well as his shamed colleague Ian Reed (Steven Mackintosh). Slain wife Zoe (Indira Varma) would also return.

Canning Town-born Elba won a Golden Globe for his performances as Luther, which has now run for three seasons and proven popular across the globe, last year. He has previously expressed interest in taking the series to cinemas. "That's where the ultimate Luther story will unfold, is in the big silver screen — London as a huge backdrop and a very menacing,


horrible character to play against," he told the BBC in 2011.

The British actor's profile has never been higher following standout turns in blockbuster fare such as superhero movie Thor and sci-fi spectacular Pacific Rim. He is also being tipped for Oscar success next year for his upcoming role as Nelson Mandela in the biopic Long Walk to Freedom.

Fellow Briton Ruth Wilson has also seen her star rise in Hollywood after hitting the public consciousness following her turn as Luther's murderous confidante Alice Morgan in the BBC show. However, New Zealand-based Cross said there would be no place for her in the prequel film, as the detective does not meet her until later in the timeline.counts of aggravated kidnapping.  He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder plus forty years for each kidnapping count.

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Turner was granted a new trial on the grounds that he had received ineffective assistance of counsel in deciding to reject the two-year plea offer.  Plea negotiations were reopened;  however, Assistant District Attorney General Zimmerman, again representing the interests of the State of Tennessee, refused to offer Turner a plea bargain of less than twenty years imprisonment.  After exhausting all possible state remedies, Turner sought relief from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.  The district court determined that the appropriate remedy for the deprivation of Turner's sixth amendment rights would be a new plea hearing during which a rebuttable presumption


to face the ordeal of another trial.  Through no fault of the state of Tennessee, that early lenient offer was rejected by the defendant and the state was required to proceed to trial, risking the possibility of losing the case entirely if Mrs. Hudson's "apprehensiveness" hardened into non-cooperation.  As it turned out, it did not.  She testified against Turner, and he was convicted of two counts of kidnapping and one count of murder in the first- degree.

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The convictions and the seventy-year sentence that resulted have now been set aside.  The defendant, save for the unconstitutional ineptness of his retained counsel, would ordinarily be entitled to no more than a trial with the prospects of acquittal and freedom on the one hand, or a convictionand confinement for any number of years up to life on the other.  The state of Tennessee, as prosecutor, has done nothing improper to bring about that state of affairs.  The compelling motivation it once had to "give away the store," in the form of a two-year plea agreement, no longer exists, however.  Nevertheless, the state has offered to allow Turner to plead guilty to a single count of aggravated kidnapping rather than the two counts of aggravated kidnapping and one of murder in the first degree, and to recommend a sentence of not more than twenty years.  Whether Tennessee should be permitted to rescind its previous two-year plea offer in favor of its present twenty-year offer is a matter to be resolved by


Who's crashing E3's macho-gamer party? Feminists

By Joe Fitzgerald

Created 06/12/2014 - 12:28pm

Anita Sarkeesian is bringing some much-needed truth to the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Photo courtesy of FeministFrequency.com

The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo is like Valhalla for male video game nerds, and though many gamer blogs are covering the newest thumb-twiddling doodads, only some are now bringing healthy dose of feminism too.

San Francisco-based media critic Anita Sarkeesian is covering E3 via the Twitter machine with scathing feminist critiques of all the newest game announcements, and a new hashtag is rising up to call out a major videogame developer for not coding women into its games.

Ubisoft's announced it'd cut playable women's characters from the newest Assassin's Creed Unity. According to Kotaku, a gaming industry blog, Ubisoft claimed it was "purely a workload issue."the only one. The hashtag #womenaretoohardtoanimate soon took off, and tons of gamers are decrying Ubisoft. Here are just a few of the tweets calling BS on Ubisoft's excuse for not coding playable female characters into the newest Assassin's Creed.

And E3 is an especially big bullhorn[18] with which to tout the new wave of gaming feminism. Every major publisher and developer in gaming plies their trade there, announcing new games (OMG HALO) and new consoles (NEW PS VITA?!) to tittilate and delight a gamer's senses. Video game journalism is an odd place, celebrating or critiquing the newest multi-million dollar blockbuster games solely on the game's playability or popularity.

Video games are oft-talked about as products, but the messages in the media are rarely analyzed.

In that dearth of critical media


The SA Police Service has confirmed that two police officers – a male sergeant and a female constable – were shot and killed during a shootout with other SAPS members.

Spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said in a statement that a team comprising members from Crime Intelligence, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks), the National Intervention Unit and others were conducting operations in the areas of Dalton, Greytown and Wartburg in KwaZulu-Natal.

“At about 2:30am this morning the team was on a road between Greytown and Dalton when they spotted a police patrol vehicle approaching them in the vicinity of Seven Oaks area. The team tried to flag down the police patrol vehicle, but instead of stopping, the sergeant from the patrol vehicle allegedly opened fire on the team,His appeal raises the question whether the state introduced enough evidence to prove that his actions were the proximate cause of the death of the victim.

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Mr. Bishop thought someone had been breaking into his trailer home, so he rigged a gun inside the trailer, set to fire when the front door was opened.  A friend of his, James Ronnie Freeman, came to the trailer when Mr. Bishop was gone, opened the front door, and got shot by the trap gun.  The bullet glanced off his right thigh and entered his forearm.  Mr. Freeman's thigh wound was superficial, but his forearm wound was more serious, fracturing and exposing the bone.

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Mr. Freeman was taken from the trailer home to Humana Hospital.  Upon admission, a doctor treated


Mr. Freeman's wound, operated on his forearm, and stabilized his condition.  He was transferred a few days later to Crawford Long Hospital for reconstructive surgery to his forearm.  There, a 19 X 15 centimeter skin graft was taken from his left lateral thigh, up near the hip area.  Tr. 129.  A bone graft was taken from the left lateral iliac area, higher up than the skin graft.  Tr. 129.  He also apparently had a surface nerve graft.  Tr. 120.  The treating physician at Crawford Long was happy with Mr. Freeman's progress, and after about two weeks in the hospital, he was released and went home.  Late that evening or early the next morning, he developed trouble breathing and died.

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Dueare not commonly seen in persons Mr. Freeman's age, thirty-six years, Dr. Gilbert agreed.  Tr. 125.

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Dr. Gilbert concluded that the pulmonary embolism which struck Mr. Freeman originated in his lower left extremity, which was also the site of the source tissue for the skin and bone grafts.  Tr. 126, 128, 129-30.  He did not state definitely that the gunshot wound or resulting treatment caused the embolism, but he agreed that the wound, and the subsequent surgery and hospitalization "could have" brought about the embolism, and that it was "possible" there was a connection.  He agreed that it is "fair to say that but for a gunshot wound requiring surgery it's not likely that this clot would have occurred."    Tr. 126.

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As part of the finance reform package in Congress, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., got an amendment through the Senate to curb these fees on debit cards. He has now negotiated compromise language in the House-Senate committee that is working on reconciling the Senate and House versions of the bill. The House version, passed earlier, contained no such curbs.

Most of the opposition to curbing these fees comes from the Visa lobby. Visa and MasterCard control 80 percent of the market and fear any kind of regulation. They can use their profitable fees to push consumers to get more credit cards and take on more debt.

Retailers – large and small – favor the regulation as do consumer groups.

Georgetown law professor Adam Levitan explains that fees are chargedagain. Obviously some of the reaction plays into the dialogue in it but as far as the storyline goes – obviously avoiding spoilers though everyone has illegally downloaded the short by now anyway, so “what spoilers?” –

I actually just felt like it was in the lineage of the information we already dolled out in the movies. In the first movie there was the Ten Rings and in the second movie there was a deleted scene where the rings appear again, and in the third movie we were quite clear in the movie and in the press that there was a mantel that had been co-opted by Killian – partly because if we hadn’t said that it would have completely invalidated a huge part of the first movie which


Bridge on April 2, 2016. Those adults who accept a ride with an impaired driver simply buy a ticket to their own funeral. This is yet another case of a group of adults taking their party on the road without any regard for the lives of others or, for that matter, for their own lives. This crash was NOT an accident but a predictable outcome of choices made by adults. First Sgt. Jonathan Green of the Maryland Transportation Police reports that the names of those persons in the sedan will not be released until they have all been interviewed, as they are considered witnesses. The two occupants of the sedan who were taken by ambulance to Anne Arundel Medical Center were released after treatment.OBITUARY

Stevensville, Md. – Maryland TransportationAuthority Police reports that a twenty-one-year-old Queenstown, Md., man was killed when a sedan in which he was either the driver or a passenger crashed into the rear a truck on the eastbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, just after the magic 2:00 am killing hour of bar closings in the Annapolis area. Annapolis is located on the Western Shore of the Bay while Randy Drake Thrower, 21, is from the Eastern Shore, the direction in which the fatal crash occurred.

A police spokesman said that drugs, alcohol ,and speed were all factors in the crash, which fortunately did not injure the driver of the truck — only the party crowd in the sedan.

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Thrower, who lived at 200 Somerset Court in Queenstown,


suspended and speeding at more than twenty mph over the limit on July 2, 2015, while southbound on Rt. 10 at Furnace Branch Road in Anne Arundel County, Md. Anne Arundel County States Attorney Wes Adams dropped all of the charges on Sept. 18, 2015.

A truck on fire in another crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in 2015. WJlA photo

Thrower was ticketed for speeding on Rt. 405 west of Rt. 301 on Oct. 22, 2013, by a Maryland trooper and he entered a guilty plea in Queen Anne’s County District Court on March 14, 2014, and was fined $90.

A speeding ticket on July 8, 2013, awarded to Thrower on Rt. 301 for traveling at 74 mph in a 55 mph zone resulted in a fine of $90 inQueen Anne’s County District Court.

On June 4, 2013, Thrower was cited in Talbot County by Pfc. Merrick for underage possession of alcohol; the charge was fined $195 and put on probation. A drug charge of the same date for less than 10 grams of pot was dropped by Talbot County States Attorney Scott Patterson.

With numerous charges for driving while suspended dropped by prosecutors, Thrower’s luck ran out on Aug. 9, 2012, at 1:15 am when he was cited by Queen Anne’s County Deputy C. Ahern. In District Court for Queen Anne’s County on April 12, 2013, Thrower was found guilty and fined $150.

From The Baltimore Sun:

A 21-year-old man from Queen Anne’s County was killed in a crash on the Bay Bridge early Saturday, police said.

A 2011 Mazda sedan


and a 2014 Freightliner box truck collided on the eastbound side of the Bay Bridge in Queen Anne’s County at 2:22 a.m. Saturday, according to 1st Sgt. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority police.

Two men and two women, all over 18, were inside the Mazda, he said.

One of them, Randy Drake Thrower, 21, of Queenstown, was pronounced dead at the scene, Green said. A woman with serious injuries was flown by state police helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center. She was in stable condition, Green said.

Two others were driven by ambulance to Anne Arundel Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the box truck was not injured. MORE

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and other hard hit cities around
New York State.”

Christie Peale, Executive Director of the Center
for New York City Neighborhoods, said, "This is an
incredible victory for New York homeowners, tens of thousands of
whom have been struggling to negotiate their own settlements with
banks—many with little success. Attorney General Schneiderman's
willingness to stay in this fight and stand side by side with
homeowners throughout the state to secure the benefits of this
historic settlement demonstrates the kind of leadership we need
at all levels of government. We are grateful for his commitment
to delivering to New Yorkers the tools they need to restructure
their mortgages and rebuild their lives.

Kirsten E. Keefe, Senior Staff Attorney at the
Empire Justice Center, said, “Once again, Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman is at the helm, fighting for New York’s
working class and holding a big bankoverseen by an
independent monitor. It is expected that of the $4 billion in
consumer relief, approximately $400 million will flow as
creditable relief to New York homeowners.

The New York Attorney General’s Office investigation and
litigation was conducted under the supervision of Deputy Attorney
General Virginia Chavez Romano who, together with Chief of the
Investor Protection Bureau Chad Johnson, worked closely with the
New York Attorney General to achieve this historic
settlement.