kidnapping and murder last year of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The WPnotes up high that Mohammed has been fingered by captured al-Qaida operatives as being the one who actually slit Pearl's throat. "He is widely described as the most dangerous man in al-Qaida," the paper says.

Everybody fronts word that Turkey dealt a major blow yesterday to the Bush administration's war plans against Iraq: By three votes, the Turkish parliament defeated a measure that would have allowed the U.S. to deploy troops from the country's bases. While the White House downplayed the vote's effects, it could force a major rewrite of the Iraq playbook, which had called for troops to advance toward Baghdad from both the north and the south, in hopes of dividing the Iraqi army.

U.S.officials tell the papers they won't request another vote—though diplomats did ask for a "clarification." The results seemingly caught everyone off guard—especially Turkish leaders, many of whom had endorsed the resolution, the NYTnotes. Prime Minister Abdullah Gal announced he and other leaders would meet on Sunday to discuss how to proceed, though many declared the vote to be "final." While most agree that anti-war sentiment in Turkey contributed to the outcome—9 out of 10 Turks oppose the war, the WPreports—the LATspeculates that a less than savory economic aid package from the U.S. also sank the deal.

Meanwhile, a front-pager in the WP says, developments in Turkey aside, the U.S. war plan is ready to go. The piece, largely a retread of what's already been reported, says, among other things,


that Special Operations forces are already working inside Iraq (are you serious?), there will be a lot more bombs this time around (really?), and most of those bombs will be so-called smart bombs, as in precision-guided munitions.

Under the watchful eye of United Nations weapons inspectors, Iraq yesterday destroyed four of its reported 100 Al Samoud 2 missiles, the papers report. Instead of blowing them up, as the UN would like, Iraq insisted on crushing the missiles with a bulldozer. The WP fronts an update on the number of Allied troops in the Persian Gulf. About 225,000 troops are now within striking distance of Baghdad—most of them are in Kuwait.

The LAT off-leads word that potential war in Iraq has increased the number of young men joining anti-American extremist groupsin Europe. According to law enforcement officials, the new recruits come from all classes—rich or poor, educated or not—and al-Qaida is taking advantage of the situation to beef up its membership. The group reportedly has set up training camps throughout Europe and Russia to compensate for the loss of ground in Afghanistan.

Yesterday, the United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to call for Saddam's resignation, everybody reports. According to the NYT, UAB president Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan proposed immunity from prosecution if Saddam and senior Iraqi officials leave their posts within the next two weeks. The proposal jolted members of the Arab League, where it was presented, and after a few testy exchanges, the panel adjourned without formally taking up the measure.

In the LAT, Ron Brownstein


looks at President Bush's increasingly aggressive governing style that has taken Washington by surprise. Bush talked up being "a uniter, not a divider" when he ran for the White House in 2000 and even boasted some centrist qualities when he was governor of Texas. Yet these days the divide between Democrats and Republicans in Washington is wider than ever—but the president insists the partisan bickering isn't his fault. Says Bush: "In Texas, everybody was a lot friendlier and a lot more interested in the result than the process."

Finally, are you feeling lucky today? A piece in the NYT's "Week in Review" section says several online gaming sites are taking bets on whether there will be a war between the U.S. and Iraq. So far, at least 7,000 peopleplaintiffs have attached several exhibits to their amended complaint, including notices of termination of their trading accounts with Christian Schindler, a German national now serving three years for embezzlement, and an alleged assignment of rights from Schindler to plaintiffs. Those documents will be *561 considered in addition to the complaint on this motion.
This action results primarily from the fraudulent financial activities of Schindler, who now resides in Bernau Prison outside Munich, Germany. (Compl. ¶ 15) In 1991, German authorities began investigating Schindler's financial activities and issued a warrant to arrest him for embezzlement. Schindler fled Munich for New York. (Id. ¶ 16)
Upon arrival in New York, Schindler established several companies to solicit money from Europeans for investment in the commodity futures and options markets in the United States.


Schindler set up: (1) Falcon Investment Corp., incorporated in Delaware in 1991; (2) FIC, Inc., incorporated in the Cayman Islands in 1991; (3) Investment Banker's Brokerage, Inc., incorporated in Delaware in 1991; and (4) IB Brokerage, also known as IBB, incorporated in the Cayman Islands in 1990 (together, "the Schindler Companies"). (Id. ¶ 18) These companies operated out of offices at 52 Wall Street and 40 Wall Street in New York City, and offices in Miami, Florida. (Id. ¶ 20) Schindler never registered any of these companies with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"), in violation of § 4d(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA"), 7 U.S.C. § 6d(1) (1988), even though he obtained a legal opinion from attorney Bradley Beckman, advising him of the need to doto work with Schindler and his companies until January 1993. (Id. ¶ 26)
Plaintiffs further allege that, contrary to the sworn statement described above, Alpert actively helped Schindler solicit money from members of the public, including plaintiffs. (Id. ¶ 25) To this end, plaintiffs allege, Alpert led tours of the New York Futures Exchange ("NYFE") trading floor and the Refco offices at One World Financial Center in Manhattan for Schindler and potential investors, including many of the plaintiffs in this action. (Id. *562 ¶ 27) Plaintiffs contend that these tours occurred almost monthly  in or about February, March, April, May, June, July and December 1992, and in February and June 1993. These tours often lasted several hours, during which Schindler told his guests that Refco and Alpert were


to the United States, had been issued sometime in 1991 and internationalized in May 1993. (Compl. ¶ 14) Schindler was convicted of felony criminal fraud in Munich and sentenced to approximately three years in prison. An identical sentence was imposed in Traunstein, Germany in September 1995. Schindler is currently serving those sentences, and is scheduled to be released in April 1998. (Id. ¶ 15).
The plaintiffs in the present action first filed their complaint on March 1, 1995. After meeting with Schindler in Germany, plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on December 8, 1995, seeking relief on nine separate claims, denominated "counts." The first group of counts concern LIT, Angus Jackson, Jennison, Michael Rose and Lawrence Rose, of whom only LIT currently moves to dismiss: Count I alleges violations byfor fraud in December 1992  Wieder and Munch  plainly knew of Schindler's antics before March 1, 1993. Had Schindler's relationship with defendants been deliberately concealed or otherwise difficult to discover, *565 actual notice of Schindler's fraud might not translate into inquiry notice of defendants' alleged wrongdoing. But here, the allegations of agency in the complaint reveal that Wieder and Munch at least had inquiry notice, if not actual notice, by the time they filed their suit against Schindler, that Refco, Alpert and LIT may have helped Schindler to perpetrate his fraud. Accordingly, the CEA claims asserted by Wieder and Munch against Alpert, Refco and LIT are timebarred.
Six other plaintiffs also betrayed their awareness of Schindler's fraud on or before March 1, 1993 by demanding that Schindler


1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a belt cleaning apparatus and an image forming apparatus.
2. Description of the Related Art
In an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is employed a method in which a toner image is obtained by developing an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image bearing member with a toner and the toner image is transferred to a recording medium to form the toner image on the recording medium. As a transfer method in an image forming apparatus is used a method in which a toner image formed on an electrostatic latent image bearing member is transferred to an intermediate transfer belt which bears and conveys a toner image transferred thereto, the toner image transferred to the intermediate transfer belt is electrostatically movedwant to make sure that we’re embracing them.”

A large group of allies from Asian descent, #API4BlackLives, were there in solidarity and Chong, a queer Hmong-American, said:

“In silence we unconsciously condone it. We have to say it loud over and over again, ‘Black Lives Matter’.”

Before the march left the park an elder led the people in a libation and asked for protection.

As the march ensued, the one thousand strong marchers chanted and sung their way to the gates of the Minnesota State Fair.

The marched stopped once on a bridge and did a silent die-in for four minutes in remembrance of Mike Brown.

Police kept their distance for most of the 2 mile march, but once the march reached the State Fair, police moved quickly, locking State Fair gates, as the


was a tremendous help in writing the script, but the process, as always, was a labor of trial and error, questioning and experimenting with answers. I was still at the beginning of a long journey.

In my early research of arboretums I discovered the writing of Laura Barton. Laura is an English writer on staff at The Guardian. Her work, especially on the Westonbirt Arboretum in Tetbury, England, was instantly inspiring. She is a natural writer and clearly in love with words. Her poetic description of Westonbirt, cut to the thoughtful cinematography of Felix Clay, influenced the poetic direction I intuitively wanted to go.

For further influence I returned to two sources that never fail: Charlotte Brontë and Shelby Foote. Passages from Jane Eyre always leave me breathless while Foote’slike the Bonsai, refined and shy as the Asian garden…

The line had potential for the ending. I recorded a scratch track of it and, not fitting as well at the end as I imagined, found a useful place for it in the middle (which later had to be removed for time’s sake). But adding that line forced me to move a couple of other sequences around and that rearrangement, after living with it four more weeks, led to a discovery that has become the ending.

While in conversation with Dr. Margaret Pooler, head of the research unit, I mentioned that the Arboretum seemed to me a grandmother people go to for a hug. Pooler was struck by the line and commented on its sweetness. I agreed. It was a


Last updated on .From the section Football

Joe Riley (left) made his first star for Sheffield United at Bristol Rovers on 14 February

Sheffield United defender Joe Riley could be out for the rest of the season after dislocating his shoulder in a "freak accident" in training.

The 20-year-old full-back, who is on loan from Manchester United, has featured twice for the League One club.

Blades manager Chris Wilder said Riley has returned to United for a scan.

"It was a bit of a freak accident in training, something out of nothing. He stumbled and dislocated his shoulder," Wilder told BBC Radio Sheffield.

"It is desperately back luck for Joe and ourselves. It's not looking good for him in the short term.

"He has gone for a scan back at Manchester United. Those results willcomes from parents."

Before establishing Sporting Initiative Nelson, Mr Corlett was general manager at Sport Tasman, and head of the sport and recreation department at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology.

He also has more than 20 years' experience as a physical trainer with the New Zealand Army.

Despite some of his concerns, Mr Corlett is passionate about his job and the kids he teaches.

He reckons he knows almost every preschooler in Nelson by name, and hopes to meet even more of the region's promising sports stars when he expands his programme to include rural area schools in 2014.

"I just love working with kids."


was able to escape and defeat Ub'x and his army. Shortly afterwards, Ch'p entered training on Oa in the same class of recruits as Hal Jordan.

Acting as the Green Lantern for his sector, Ch'p kept his civilian identity a secret from his girlfriend M'nn'e and his best friend, D'll. His adventures as Green Lantern included multiple battles against Doctor Ub'x as well as other local villains like Battle Beaver, the Mole Patrol, Chick Fury and his Eagle Scouts, and the Terrible B'Gul Bears. In space, Ch'p defeated the pirate crew of the Blackheart Pogo, and evacuated the planet Berrith when its sun became unstable. He also served with the Corps on many occasions, including the defeat of the Anti-Green Lantern Corps and the defeat of the criminal Maalador.

DoctorWhen the multiverse was collapsed into a single time continuity, Ch'p discovered that in the current timeline he was supposedly killed in an accident several years earlier, and his wife M'nn'e was married to his friend D'll. Effectively without a past, Ch'p decided to relocate to Earth, where his fellow Green Lanterns were the only beings who remembered his existence.

As a member of the Green Lantern Corps of Earth, Ch'p became good friends with Salakk, Arisia, and John Stewart, although he was initially distrustful of Kilowog. In one of the Corp's first adventures, Ch'p again encountered Doctor Ub'x, who defeated the Green Lanterns through the use of his new weapon, the Sucker Stick. Ub'x, the only other H'lvenite besides Ch'p that remembered the previous timeline, prepared to kill


his nemesis, but realized that doing so would destroy the only link he had to his previous life. Ub'x's hesitation broke his concentration long enough for the Green Lanterns to revive. Ch'p confronted his old enemy one-on-one, but Ub'x's control of the Sucker Stick had weakened to the point where he began to fade from existence. Realizing that Ub'x was alone in the Universe like himself, Ch'p used his ring to save his nemesis, and the two buried their differences and became friends.

Death

When the Central Power Battery on Oa was destroyed, Ch'p was one of the few Green Lanterns whose ring still functioned. Distraught after failing to rebuild his life on H'lven, Ch'p was about to hang himself when his friend Salakk appeared and convinced him to livelater killed by Guy Gardner.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Abilities

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Transportation

Flight: Via Power Ring.

Weapons

Oath

"In brightest day, in blackest night,

No evil shall escape my sight.

Let those who worship evil's might,

Beware my power...Green Lantern's light!"

Notes

Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.

Trivia

A rock group based out of Swansea, Wales, was called "Ch'p Run Roadkill" after the Green Lantern Mosaic issue where Ch'p was killed. The cover of the issue depicted John Stewart yelling "Ch'p, Run!" and the title of the story, "Roadkill".

Hal Jordan gave Ch'p the nickname, "The Little Guy".

Related


When we last left Ladislav Scurko, the Slovak player who was charged with murdering a referee in 2008, he had just been released with a new trial pending and was playing again, this time with HK Slovan Gelnica and later HK Trebisov in Slovakia.

On Monday, Scurko was convicted of murder and sentenced to eight years, the minimum for such an offense. The prosecution was looking for at least 15 years.

From Korzar (translated):

After the final speech of evidence were presented. They gave the prosecutor, the injured party's legal representative, advocate the defendant, substitute counsel and the defendant himself. The conclusions of the psychiatric examinations Ščurko act committed in a state of diminished sanity, the court considered a mitigating factor and therefore imposed a sentence at the lower rate. Thecourt imposed a protective psychiatric outpatient treatment by a prisoner. The sentences him among the facilities for imprisonment with moderate surveillance.

Scurko confessed originally and claimed that the referee, Marek Liptaj, had moved into his home and lied about having cancer. He attempted to get Liptaj to move out after learning about the cancer lie, but an argument broke out during a drive that ended with Scurko using a kitchen knife to stab him multiple times. Last July, Scurko recanted his statement claiming he was tricked by local police.

A 2004 draft pick of the Philadelphia Flyers, Scurko spent three years in the Western Hockey League with the Tri-City Americans and Seattle Thunderbirds before beginning to play professionally in 2007 with HC Kosice of the Slovakian Extraliga where he won


The main metabolic pathway of oracin, a new potential cytostatic drug, in human liver microsomes and cytosol: stereoselectivity of reoxidation of the principal metabolite 11-dihydrooracin to oracin.
Chirality is a prominent feature of most biological processes. The intrinsic asymmetry of receptors, enzymes, and other endogenous macromolecules represents the basis for biological discrimination between the stereoisomeric forms of all foreign compounds in organism. Stereoselectivity and stereospecificity, two principal chiral attributes of enzyme activity, play important role in biotransformation process of drugs and other xenobiotics. The stereospecificity of enzymes leads to the preferential formation of certain enantiomer, the stereoselectivity of enzymes, on the other hand, expresses the preference of one stereoisomer form of substrate for subsequent biotransformation. An approach to the study of different conditions for the formation of the twoThe two-time Emmy nominated Australian TV series is now a feature film, dancing into cinemas 6 April!

To celebrate the release of DANCE ACADEMY we have 10 double passes to giveaway. The feature film based on the incredibly successful two-time Emmy nominated Australian TV series, ‘Dance Academy’, that saw a group of teenagers through the ups-and- downs of elite dance training at the National Academy of Dance. Picking up eighteen months after the television series finale, the much-loved characters have moved on from the Academy and are living very different lives. Tara (Xenia Goodwin) was destined to become one of the top dancers of her generation but suffered a devastating injury that crippled her career… Can she make a comeback when she discovers what being defined by a dream


for gudgeon pin eyes of the connecting rods. The pivoting bearing has radial bearing regions which are provided with the pin bores, are arranged on both sides of a center longitudinal axis of the reciprocating piston, and delimit the gudgeon pin eyes in a manner which forms an intermediate space. The bearing regions of the pivoting bearing are configured as cylinder bodies with a cup-like cross section, of which each cylinder body has a base wall and a bearing ring shell. The base walls of the two cylinder bodies extend at a spacing from one another, and the bearing ring shells which surround the base walls are guided away from the base walls in opposite directions. A plurality of connecting stubs run between the base walls in suchof the gudgeon pin eyes, and secondly that through openings, which face one another in the connecting stubs and the ring sections for the access of lubricant of the lubrication, are arranged in bearing points between the pin bores of the connecting rods and the gudgeon pins, achieve the advantages in an exemplary manner.
It is exemplary firstly that the through openings have an oval shape in the connecting stubs and a circular shape in the ring sections, and that secondly the through openings of the connecting stubs and the ring sections have common center longitudinal planes. It is of technically high importance that the lubricant of the lubrication firstly passes by way of roving particles of aerosol-containing gases in a crankcase of the internal combustion engine and secondly


parting plane of the produced tire, and at the same time, forming a hermetic seal between the parts of the steam chamber.
Both parts of the steam chamber are usually hermetically closed by action of a crank mechanism or by means of pressure cylinders located between a frame and one half of the steam chamber, or between the two halves of the steam chamber. According to one known solution, both parts of the steam chamber are connected by a lug type closure usually designed as a system of wedge recesses and projections formed on edges of both chambers, and in a hoop that encircles them. By slightly turning the hoop, the parting plane between the parts of the steam chamber is gripped. When a mold size used in thesteam chamber is changed, the upper part of the mold is usually rearranged in the steam chamber. The mold clamping plate is designed in known constructions to be readjustable in the upper part of the steam chamber. Readjustability of the clamping plate is provided by an adjusting screw joint placed along an axis of the steam chamber and the mold. The screw joint goes through a bottom of the upper part of the steam chamber and is partly located inside of the steam chamber, especially when molds of smaller dimensions are used. Due to an intensity of transmitted force it is necessary to choose a screw joint with a thread of a larger diameter because the screw joint is very prone to seizing after exposure to a direct


led to a nine-year hiatus of CFL football in the city.

The current Alouettes franchise was established in 1996 by the owners of the Baltimore Stallions. The Stallions were disbanded at the same time as the Alouettes' re-establishment after having been the most successful of the CFL's American expansion franchises, culminating in a Grey Cup championship in 1995. Many players from the Stallions' 1995 roster signed with the Alouettes and formed the core of the team's 1996 roster.

For record-keeping purposes, the CFL considers all clubs that have played in Montreal as one franchise dating to 1946, and considers the Alouettes to have suspended operations in 1987 before returning in 1996. Although the Alouettes' re-establishment in 1996 is often considered a relocation of the Stallions, neither the league nor the"cross-over rule" for the playoffs was scrapped and not revisited until 1997). The CFL held a dispersal draft for the Alouettes players. Some of the players left out of work by the team's demise (both on the Alouettes and players on other CFL teams who were cut to make room for former Alouettes) played in the NFL as replacement players during another players' strike later that year.

Baltimore Stallions (1994-95)

The Baltimore Football Club was granted an expansion franchise for 1994 by the Canadian Football League during their American expansion of the early-mid 1990s. After the NFL's Indianapolis Colts (who had moved from Baltimore in 1983) blocked attempts to name the new team the Baltimore CFL Colts, owner Jim Speros eventually settled on Stallions as a nickname. The Stallions were


play in the game, when they started their comeback. It all came down to the foot of field goal kicker Damon Duval, who after missing a 43-yard field on the last play, got a second chance, when the Roughriders were called for having too many players on the field (The 13th Man), which was a ten-yard penalty, so kicking from the 33 yard line, Duval nailed it through the uprights, giving Montreal an improbable Grey Cup victory, after trailing the entire game. The game turned into a Grey Cup classic, thanks to the great play of the Alouettes veterans, and broke a streak of 4 straight losses in Grey Cups. The 2010 season was another good season for Montreal, as they went 12–6 and became the first teamEmphasis on aesthetics and a coordinated uniform style of business environment

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Restoration and conservation: Those are the goals that will guide management of the U.S. forest system under the Obama administration, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in his first major policy address on the nation's forests.

"It is time for a change in the way we view and manage America's forestlands with an eye towards the future," he told a crowd gathered at Seattle's Seward Park.

"This will require a new approach that engages the American people and stakeholders in conserving and restoring both our national forests and our privately owned forests. It is essential that we reconnect Americans across the nation with the natural resources and landscapes that sustain us."

The address was short on policy specifics but remarkable in the generally positive reception it got both from conservation groups andthe timber industry, who often find very little to agree on.

Vilsack did let drop two important points: One, that the Forest Service won't be appealing the recent federal court decision in Northern California striking down the national forest planning rules promulgated by the Bush administration -- rules designed in part to foreclose protracted litigation over management plans for the nation's 192 million acres of national forests.

The new rules, conservationists charged, relied too little on science and provided fewer guaranteed protections for wildlife. Vilsack also affirmed what the Justice Department had already quietly revealed a day earlier: that the government will uphold a 2001 ban on development in the nation's last remaining roadless wilderness areas by appealing a Wyoming federal court decision striking down the ban. (A federal appeals


were identified in 99 baladiyas and 531 muhallas.

At the beginning of 2017, progress continued towards each of the Endgame Plan’s four objectives. The world has never been closer to eradicating polio, with fewer cases in fewer areas of fewer countries than at any time in the past.

Abidjan, 16 November, 2017 - A newly released nutrition report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa has revealed that undernutrition is still persistent in the region and the number of stunted children has increased. The Africa Nutrition Report, launched today in Abidjan, Ivory Coast also indicates that a growing number of children under five years old are overweight.

Writing in 1901, William Osler, one of the founders of modern medicine, described pneumonia as “the captain of the men ofdeath”. He was writing about the USA, where the disease was a major killer of children – and a source of fear for their parents. Pneumonia remains a “captain of the men of death”. No infectious disease claims the lives of more children. Today, almost all of the victims are in low- and middle-income countries. The vast majority are poor.

Nairobi, Kenya, 18 October 2017 - The African Union has announced plans to increase the number of member States with national disaster loss data bases and to put a training programme in place in preparation for the roll-out next year of the Sendai Monitor, the UNISDR-backed mechanism for measuring progress in reducing disaster losses.

On Monday 16 October 2017 the Council adopted the EU Annual Report on Human Rights And


Democracy in the World in 2016.

2016 was a challenging year for human rights and democracy, with a shrinking space for civil society and complex humanitarian and political crises emerging. In this context, the European Union showed leadership and remained strongly committed to promote and protect human rights and democracy across the world.

• Many countries across the African continent face recurrent complex emergencies, frequent food insecurity, cyclical drought, and sudden-onset disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and storms. In FY 2016, as in previous years, USAID/OFDA not only responded to urgent needs resulting from disasters, but also supported DRR programs that built resilience and improved emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response capacity at local, national, and regional levels.

By the end of 2016, progress continued towards each of the Endgame Plan’s fourThe National Urban League Partners With TVOne To Discuss the #StateOfBlackAmerica With Today’s Brightest Black Minds

The National Urban League has been releasing its annual report, The State of Black America, for 41 years; it’s an amalgamation of data which quantifiably measures African American (and now Hispanic) progress in six key areas: economics, employment, education, health, housing, and criminal justice.

Last night, for the first time, the National Urban League brought the issues of the annual report to television, partnering with TVOne on the National Urban League Presents: State of Black America Town Hall, so that “the conversation to a much wider audience and be the catalyst for a national conversation on issues of racial and economic justice,” according to NUL CEO Marc Morial.

Hosted byTV One host Roland Martin, the


two-hour special featured some of the nation’s greatest thought leaders. The conversation was spirited but never contentious, and the Urban League made sure that those African Americans “from both sides of the aisle” were part of the critical dialogue. The hashtag #StateofBlackAmerica was trending on Twitter last night, as many across the country partook in the discussion.

Some interesting facts came out during the various segments including the fact that during the Great Depression, more African Americans owned their homes than they do today. Also that it would take two generations for African Americans to make up just what was lost during the years when the housing market collapsed. Yet, there was not just a rehashing of issues but some innovative suggestions and solutions as well.

The panel discussions wereinterspersed with vignettes of Urban League affiliates showing off the real work that they do, and success achieved, in various communities across the country including Miami, Atlanta, Houston, and New Orleans, presenting affordable housing solutions; working with young people to prepare them for college; work readiness after incarceration, and business mentorship.

The first segment with the panelists was on education,a contentious issue in the African American community for some time, and featured Angela Sailor, Senior Advisor, The Gloucester Institute; Touré, culture critic and journalist; Symone Sanders, former national press secretary for Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and journalist Jeff Johnson.

Johnson received the first applause of the night when he noted, “We keep losing out with both sides of the aisle dictating how we talk about choice,” and stressed that Black


picked up and talked about on Later… with Jools Holland, reaching over 1 million live BBC viewers.
3. The stories engaged a new audience, who went on to listen to the new music and propel Concrete and Gold to number 1 in the album chart. It sold more units in week one than any other album that quarter, and was the best selling international rock album of 2017driving climate change, we must also prepare for the impacts that are too late to avoid,” the climate plan released in late June states.

“The president will direct federal agencies to identify and remove barriers to making climate-resilient investments; identify and remove counterproductive policies that increase vulnerabilities; and encourage and support smarter, more resilient investments, including through agency grants, technical assistance, and other programs, in sectors from transportation and water management to conservation and disaster relief,” the plan states.

It also vowed establishment of a task force of state, local and tribal leaders on climate preparedness.

Federal officials say extreme weather – such as heatwaves, drought and strong storms – is a major economic threat.

Disasters including Hurricane Sandy cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion in 2012, according to the


Lynsey Sharp focuses on 'proper' European title win

ANOTHER day in the European Championship arena; another supremely assured victory by a Scot.

ANOTHER day in the European Championship arena; another supremely assured victory by a Scot.

Lynsey Sharp only received her long-awaited 2012 European gold medal in January at the Emirates Arena. Picture: SNS

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Sadly, there were no medals on the line when Chris O'Hare strode clear of the pack in heat two of the men's 1500m yesterday morning, just qualification for tomorrow's final.

Still, a place in history is beckoning for the young Borderer on the closing weekend of Zurich 2014. It is the same for Lynsey Sharp, a fellow Edinburgh AC member, and for Eilidh Child, the pride of Pitreavie AAC, who were both highly impressive semi-final winnerson Thursday night. Their finals fall this afternoon. For Sharp, who is first up, there is a title to defend - and a little score to settle.

The 24-year-old law graduate may have received her 800m gold medal in touching fashion, presented by her father at Glasgow's Emirates Arena in January, but she was denied the glow of a lap of honour in Helskini in 2012 by Russia's Yelena Arzhakova, whose biological passport subsequently revealed she'd been powered to a hollow victory by something more potent than Smarties.

Today's two-lap final is a chance for Sharp to win the title and celebrate on the same day. "That's the thing," she said. "Everyone says about the last one, 'Well, it was upgraded'. It would be nice to do it properly and


experience the full thing rather than it being a year and a bit later."

It is also an opportunity for Sharp to claim a piece of history. No female British athlete has ever won back-to- back European outdoor titles. No Scot has done so, although two Edinburgh AC athletes went close. David Jenkins won the 400m in Helsinki in 1971 but finished runner-up in Rome four years later. Yvonne Murray won 3,000m gold in Split in 1990 but took silver in Helsinki in 1994.

If Sharp were to succeed, she'd join a select band of Britons: Linford Christie, Roger Black, Steve Cram, Mo Farah, Colin Jackson, Steve Backley and Daley Thompson. She would also complete a job that the great Lillian Board was heartbreakingly unable to. Board won the 800min Athens in 1969 but died of cancer nine months before the 1971 championships in Helsinki, aged 22.

There is every chance that Sharp will claim her place in history. Far from draining her, her rollercoaster home Commonwealth Games experience (being hooked up to an IV drip the night before the final and then emerging with a silver medal) looks to have infused undiluted confidence into her system.

The big danger is Yekaterina Poistogova, the Russian who was a far from flat-out runner-up to Sharp in her semi-final. She has a lot more to come and the pedigree of a London 2012 bronze medallist.

Child appears to be a class apart from her rivals in the 400m hurdles. On season's bests, the Perth woman's 54.39sec puts her 0.24sec clear of the


next quickest in Europe: Czech Denisa Roslova, whose ex-husband, Lukas Rosol, delivered a second-round knockout blow to Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon two years ago.

World Student Games champion Anna Titimets of Ukraine could push Child closer but the form book points towards the Glasgow 2014 silver medallist becoming only the second British winner after Sally Gunnell, who prevailed in Helsinki in 1994.

As for O'Hare, having started near the back and easing through to win his 1500m heat in 3min 39.24sec yesterday, he will have the chance in his final tomorrow to become the first British medal winner in the event since 1986, when Cram took gold and Sebastian Coe silver.

The 23-year-old from West Linton will face a Frenchman on a mission, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad, who finished third in the othermade by the plaintiff and asserted affirmatively that he drove his truck at a speed of less than 50 miles an hour, and that as he approached a point about 2¼ miles west of the intersection of Highways Two and Three, he noticed a car approaching from the east going west, and just as he passed this vehicle he suddenly came upon a vehicle that was stopped on Highway Two in the defendant's lane of traffic, without any lights or warning signs that were visible to the defendant whatsoever; and that as the defendant pulled out to the north in order to avoid colliding with said vehicle, he noticed several persons standing near to the rear of said parked vehicle who had obstructed the view of the taillights


of said vehicle, if any taillights were burning at said time; that he felt a slight jar to his truck; that he stopped immediately and upon investigation noticed that a woman was lying on the pavement in a position thereon adjacent to the bumper of the parked car that he had just passed; that this woman was later identified as the plaintiff in this action; that at the time the accident occurred the plaintiff was standing on the pavement of Highway Two in a position to the rear and directly north of the vehicle that was parked on the highway, and that she saw or should have seen the defendant's vehicle approaching from the west; that she saw or should have seen other cars approaching from the east,just prior to the accident; that she was warned by others standing behind and adjacent to the car that was parked, not to stand on the highway and to get off the pavement, but that notwithstanding said warnings the plaintiff carelessly, negligently and recklessly continued to stand on the highway, knowing and realizing that she was in peril and her life was in danger; that she did not exercise ordinary care, caution, or prudence in the premises to avoid the accident and the resulting injuries, and that the injuries and damage sustained by her, if any, were proximately contributed to and caused by her failure to exercise ordinary care, caution and prudence.
The case was tried to a jury and resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff.


any necessity therefor and without keeping any adequate watch for her safety and that under circumstances which necessarily contributed to and were responsible for her injuries.
3. That the evidence conclusively shows that the presence of the car in which the plaintiff was riding, together with Sheets' car upon one side of the road, with the plaintiff standing near the center of the road, and with a car coming towards the defendant, created a hazardous condition and an emergency, and that the defendant acted as a reasonable and prudent man might in such emergency, while the plaintiff had voluntarily helped to create the emergency by wholly failing to act as a reasonable and prudent person would in the light of such hazardous condition and emergency.
The defendant has abandoned thespecifications of error with reference to plaintiff's Exhibit 1.
For a better understanding of the facts, we set them forth. At about 9:30 p. m. on August 11, 1951, the plaintiff, with five other persons, was riding as a passenger in the 1938 Chevrolet driven by her brother-in-law, Marvin Bjoraa, who was on his way from Minot to Rugby on Highway Two. At approximately two and one-half miles west of Rugby, Mr. Bjoraa's car was struck from behind by a car driven by John Sheets. The impact between Mr. Bjoraa's car and that of John Sheets caused Bjoraa's car to leave the highway and come to rest on the south side of the south ditch of the hard surfaced highway. The Sheets' car came to a stop just east


of the Bjoraa car with two wheels on the blacktop and the two right wheels on the graveled shoulder of the road. After the collision Sheets got out of his car and all the occupants of the Bjoraa car got out and came towards the stalled car of Mr. Sheets, and stood near his car in the ditch or on the shoulder of the pavement, either to the rear or north of *655 Sheets' car. The evidence is in conflict as to the exact location of the plaintiff at the time of the accident between the defendant's truck and the plaintiff. Most of the witnesses place the plaintiff to the rear of Sheets' car. One of them locates her five or ten feet behind the car, standing partlyon the pavement and partly on the gravel. Another places himself six feet behind the car, towards its south side, and puts her directly north of himself on the pavement. Still another witness locates her to the rear and about three feet north of the Sheets' car, but does not state how far to its rear she stood.
There is some testimony indicating that the plaintiff and others on the pavement were warned to stay off the pavement and to keep out of danger. The testimony is in conflict as to whether or not this was directed specifically to the plaintiff. At the time of the accident the defendant was driving his truck with the lights on dim. At about the time of the accident he had just met


a car coming from the east and another car was some distance away, also driving towards the west in the north lane of the highway. The defendant was driving at a speed of from 45 to 50 miles per hour. His testimony is that he did not see the Sheets' car until he was 15 feet away from it. Mr. Sheets says that the defendant swung to the north when he was only three or four feet away from the car. As he swung towards the north to avoid hitting the Sheets' car he struck the plaintiff with the right front fender of his truck. The testimony is not clear as to whether the plaintiff was hit by the front of the fender or received a glancing blow.operation of his truck or was negligent therein. There is no testimony that he could not see further than 15 feet ahead of his truck with his lights on dim. The testimony is that he did not see the Sheets' car until he was about that distance from it. Because of the defendant's failure to observe the Sheets' car until he was within 15 feet of it, he was no doubt unable to give any warning of his approach. He never saw the plaintiff. However, he felt the impact of his truck against her. He does not know, nor is the testimony clear, whether he applied his brakes prior to hitting her or about that time, or immediately after she was hit.
The act of negligence charged against the


plaintiff is that she was in a place of danger; that she did not look, or that if she looked she did not see the approach of the defendant's truck, or paid no heed to it. The plaintiff has no memory of the events surrounding the accident. Her position on the highway is in dispute. The jury has determined that no act of the plaintiff proximately contributed to the accident. It must have taken that view of the evidence which indicates that the plaintiff was not located on the highway in a place of imminent danger and that she had a right to be thereon at the time of the accident.
It is strenuously argued that the physical facts as to the location of the plaintiff after the accidentdemonstrate that it could not have happened as indicated by the testimony of her witnesses. The evidence is not in agreement as to the plaintiff's position on the pavement after the accident or as to her exact proximity to the Sheets' car. Mr. Sheets did not see her as she was hit. Mr. Volk, one of the witnesses, was perhaps 200 feet away, driving in the north lane and was about to meet the defendant when he observed the accident. It is uncertain whether the plaintiff was hit by the front part of the right front fender of the defendant's truck or by the side of the fender. She was a living object. No one knows whether or not she was carried forward by the impact. There are


circumstances the question remains whether this was prejudicial error. The jury had before it the facts of the collision with the rear of the Bjoraa car, which forced it into the ditch. It knew that Sheets had been convicted of some traffic crime and fined. He had admitted as much. No objection had been made to the testimony of Mr. Sheets concerning the details of the charge and its nature until the inquiry was made as to whether or not a coupon of his driver's license had been taken from him. He was further examined concerning the matter, again without objection. Although the witness had never admitted the crime by its name, the jury had before it information as to the crime involved. This was true when Mr.by the exercise of ordinary care by the injured party, and that the injured party did not exercise such care and was negligent, and such negligence contributed to cause the injury, the injured party should (would) be guilty of contributory negligence. If you find such contributory negligence, it bars recovery by the party guilty of it."
The other three requests for instructions made by the defendant pertained to the designation of the plaintiff as a "pedestrian". They placed particular emphasis upon her duty of care as such upon entering a place of danger; that she was "bound to take notice of danger incident to public travel on highways, especially where automobiles are constantly passing and repassing"; and as such, "must look out for approaching traffic with such attentiveness and


plaintiff is not prejudicial error. The court had correctly stated the law to guide the jury in its deliberation upon the facts that had been presented to it.
There is no merit to specification that plaintiff had failed to prove that portion of her complaint, "that plaintiff was standing on the south side of the road observing the damaged automobile which said automobile was parked on the south edge of the road facing east." There is no proof in the record that the plaintiff was in the north lane of the road. The stalled automobile of Mr. Sheets was in the south lane, partly on and partly off the highway. The jury must have found, as indicated by its verdict, that the plaintiff was not negligent, that she wasfalling into Group I, II, III or IV. Of these, the Group I, II, and III oils are natural mineral oils. Group I oils are composed of fractionally distilled petroleum which is further refined with solvent extraction processes to improve properties such as oxidation resistance and to remove wax. Group II oils are composed of fractionally distilled petroleum that has been hydrocracked to further refine and purify it. Group III oils have similar characteristics to Group II oils, with Groups II and III both being highly hydro-processed oils which have undergone various steps to improve their physical properties. Group III oils have higher viscosity indexes than Group II oils, and are prepared by either further hydrocracking of Group II oils, or by hydrocracking of hydroisomerized slack wax, which


CALGARY—Canadian oil sands producers failed to meet promised targets for reducing toxic waste, but the chief provincial regulator has waived enforcement penalties, citing progress the industry has made introducing new technology.

A report from Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board, which was released last week, found all four mines reviewed in the province's main area of production didn't meet clean-up goals over a two-year cumulative period.

...Symons, 17, was pregnant when she was killed and her body left in soil at the tunnel’s earthworks site in 1930. According to research by the Mount Victoria Historical Society, there was evidence Symons was buried while still alive. Her boyfriend, George Errol Coats, was later hanged for her murder.

Coats, 29, was a widower and father of six who had previously worked on the tunnel’s construction.

The memory of Symons is supposedly what inspired the tooting tradition, although Joanna Newman, the historical society’s convenor, said there was no proof of that.

James Gilberd, a Wellington man who investigates paranormal events with the New Zealand Strange Occurrences Society, said the Wellington Paranormal episode was likely to revive interest in the Symons story. He had never conducted an investigation of the Mount


hearing and from the technical record are as follows. Father was employed as

an attorney by a law firm. In 1994, at the time of the divorce, his income was $60,030.00 per

year.   However, his compensation package with the law firm changed and he became

dissatisfied. In February of 1995, Father voluntarily left the law firm and now practices law in

a shared office with another attorney. He made $5,769.24 in early 1995 before leaving the firm.

At the hearing, Father testified that he was only making approximately $1,000.00 per month, but

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the children has not changed since he left the law firm, and that he adequately provides and cares

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Back in April, right-wing activist Star Parker joined Alaska GOP politician Joe Miller on his radio program to discuss the riots in Baltimore and the Supreme Court marriage equality arguments, which had happened on the day of the interview.

Parker naturally found a way to tie the two together, saying that the violence in Baltimore was happening “because we declared a war on poverty during the same time that we were declaring a war on marriage through the feminist movement and declaring a war on religion through scrubbing our schools of God, taking the Bible from the schools.”

Later in the interview, Parker got into the details of the marriage equality case, saying that a ruling striking down gay marriage bans would mean that “as a nation, we have toFoster parents' state of mind with respect to attachment: concordance with their foster children's attachment patterns at 2 and 3 years of age.
The present study investigated the possible differences between foster and comparison parents' state of mind with respect to attachment, and the concordance between caregiver state of mind and child attachment classifications among 60 foster children, all placed before the age of 2 years, as well as 42 comparison children. Caregiver state of mind was measured when the children were 2 years old (Time 1) while child attachment classifications were assessed at age 2 and again at age 3 years (Time 2). The associations between foster children's attachment, age at first and final placements, number of placements, and reasons for placement also were investigated. Descriptive analyses, including


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Chess's Lost Soul, Bobby Fischer, Is Held in Tokyo

After two decades of living in secrecy, semi-isolation and increasingly distressed obscurity, Bobby Fischer, the former world chess champion, was arrested Friday by Japanese immigration authorities in Tokyo and accused of trying to leave the country without a valid passport.

An American Embassy official in Tokyo confirmed that Mr. Fischer was detained at Narita Airport. Japanese news reports said Mr. Fischer, 61, probably would be deported to the United States, where he faces charges for violating economic sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match there in 1992. But Mr. Fischer's immediate future remains unclear.

Richard A. Boucher, the State Department spokesman, said it was not yet determined whether the United States would ask that Mr. Fischer beturned over to the American authorities. He said only that Mr. Fischer, who has expressed virulently anti-American views since the warrant was issued for his arrest on Dec. 15, 1992, had been visited by an American consular officer.

''Questions about extradition or charges would have to be answered by the Department of Justice and the appropriate courts,'' Mr. Boucher said. The Justice Department had no comment, but an official said it was looking at the case to determine its legal options, including possible extradition. The official added that it was too soon to predict how the case might turn out. The detention of Mr. Fischer came the day before another longtime American fugitive -- Charles Jenkins, 64, who is accused of deserting the Army in 1965, when he entered


North Korea -- was scheduled to arrive in Japan, and who is also expected to be the subject of an American extradition request.

It was unclear why Mr. Fischer was in Japan, though it is possible he was living there. In a radio interview broadcast from Manila in June 2003, he told the host that he was in Japan at the time. And chess publications that have long been obsessed with tracking the movements of the mysterious former champion have reported that Mr. Fischer travels frequently between Tokyo and Manila.

The episode is just the latest wrinkle in the strange international saga of Mr. Fischer -- indisputably the greatest American chess player in history and some say the greatest ever in the world -- whose life has spiraled weirdly andprecipitously downward since his greatest glory.

Born in Chicago but reared in Brooklyn, he first drew attention as an adolescent prodigy, able to hold his own with the strongest American players at the Marshall and Manhattan Chess Clubs in Manhattan. A national champion at 14 and a grandmaster at 15, he became an international celebrity in 1972 when, at the height of the cold war, he unseated the Russian world champion, Boris Spassky, in a match in Reykjavik, Iceland. That, however, was to be the last of Mr. Fischer's triumphs. A petulant, demanding man with a cruel unpredictable streak, by the time he became world champion he was already known for his outlandishly self-aggrandizing behavior. It was part of what made him a legend.

In ''Searching for Bobby Fischer,'' the


1988 book about the chess world that is partly about Mr. Fischer's status as an icon, the author, Fred Waitzkin, summed up Mr. Fischer's behavior in Reykjavik this way: ''He drove the organizers of the tournament to despair. He argued about the choice of chess table, about his hotel room, about the noise in the auditorium, about the proximity of the audience to the players and about the lighting. He demanded that the organizers lend him a Mercedes with an automatic transmission and arrange for the private use of a swimming pool. He came late to each game and kept threatening to pull out of the match if his demands weren't met.''

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It was a harsheccentricity that soon grew self-destructive. Mr. Fischer's sanity seemed to frazzle in the limelight, and he sank into a contrary isolation that seems to characterize him to this day.

After the Spassky match, he refused offers to play chess for titanic sums of money, and he lost his title after three years because he refused to defend it against Anatoly Karpov of the Soviet Union. His time was evidently consumed by lawsuits, one brought against him by Chester Fox, who had held the film rights to the Spassky match, but which became worthless because Mr. Fischer had refused to play before the cameras, which he said he could hear whirring. Mr. Fischer unsuccessfully sued a biographer, Brad Darrach, and the Time-Life Corporation, for invasion of privacy. Another suit, against


a student group that he claimed published, without permission, remarks he made about his affiliation with a fringe church, also failed and reportedly left him bankrupt.

A virulent anti-Semite in spite of his own Jewish ancestry (his mother was a Jew), he has claimed that his belongings were stolen by a Jewish conspiracy from a warehouse in Southern California, where he lived during the 1980's. The federal indictment against him after the match in Yugoslavia seemed to ignite an equally virulent anti-American fire in him. Over the past five years, his occasional rants to radio stations in Iceland and Hungary, as well as the Philippines, have been full of hate against Jews and the United States.

On Sept. 11, 2001, he told a radio talk-show host in Baguio, the Philippines,that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were ''wonderful news,'' adding he was wishing for a scenario ''where the country will be taken over by the military, they'll close down all the synagogues, arrest all the Jews and secure hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders.''

Mr. Fischer lived for a time in Pasadena, Calif., and it has been reported that from 1975 to 1992, he lived in cheap rooms around Los Angeles. Over the past decade, however, he is known to have lived in Budapest, and reportedly has also lived in the Philippines and Switzerland.

For two decades, Mr. Fischer was a specter that haunted the chess world; its greatest genius had vanished with almost no trace. The few people he kept in touch with


were under threat that he would never speak to them again if they discussed him -- which was why it was colossal news in 1992 when he was lured out of hiding for a rematch against Mr. Spassky in Yugoslavia.

Just before the match, however, the United Nations imposed sanctions against Yugoslavia for supporting Serbian aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States banned its citizens from doing business there. Mr. Fischer ignored a formal warning from the government against playing the match, and at a news conference spat on the letter. He won the match, collecting $3.3 million, and has been in exile from the United States ever since.

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Three of Guadeloupe's Internet service providers — Dauphin Telecom, Orange Caraïbe and SFR — signaled their intent to grow the Caribbean Internet by signing a memorandum of understanding that outlines the terms for the region's newest IXP, called GIX.

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The three competitors control some 80 percent of the local market of residential and mobile Internet users.

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Sweden's Nordqvist claims Thai golf win

Anna Nordqvist completed a two shot pillar-to-post win at the $1.5 million Honda LPGA Thailand tournament, holding off a dramatic late challenge from world number one Park In-Bee.

In a thrilling battle at the Siam Country Club Old Pattaya Course,Nordqvist, who led the event from the first round, held her nerve to notch her third LPGA title and her first win since 2009.

The Swede finished 15-under with a four round 273 (66-72-67-88), two up from South Korean defending champion Park whose birdie-studded final round 66 was just not enough to claim victory.

But she finished with an impressive overall 275 (71-71-67-66), securing her place at the top of the rankings after a disappointing run of results had imperiled her status as the world's top womens'player.

Scotland's Catriona Matthew was two shots further back after a championship 277 (76-71-65-65), while America's one-time teen star Michelle Wie rattled in three birdies and an eagle to finish with a 69 and 278 overall.

Nordqvist had to draw on all her reserves to win the $225,000 prize-money, with both Park and Wie playing some of their best golf for a while.

"I am so happy to finally break through again," Nordqvist, who admitted that her disappointing form last year made her almost give up the game, told reporters.

"Michelle played so great and In-bee was pushing me all the way I knew I had to stay strong."

Both Park and Wie came within one shot of Nordqvist at the turn, but she held them off in determined fashion.

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to get a win here and look forward to the rest of the year."

Holding a four-shot overnight lead, Nordqvist appeared to be going smoothly until a double-bogey at the fifth saw her come under pressure, first from Wie and then Park.

The trio reached the turn separated by just two shots, setting up an intriguing battle on the back nine.

There was high drama at the 10th when Wie converted an eagle, while Nordqvist and Park sunk birdies.

Facing a serious challenge, Nordqvist rose to the occasion in style as she birdied the next two holes to pull three clear of her nearest rivals.

Wie then began to fade, leaving Park as the main challenger, but another birdie at the 15th, her fourth in five holes, gave the Swede some breathing room.

Overthe final three holes Nordqvist remained in control, finishing up with 15-under par, two clear of Park.

Scotland's Catriona Matthew made a late charge with her second successive 65, but the veteran Scot just fell short,finishing in third place on 11-under, four shots behind Nordqvist.

Wie finished fourth while Americans StacyLewis, Lexi Thompson and Gerina Pillerled a clutch of five players in joint fifth place.

Also sharing fifth spot were Taiwan's Tseng Ya-ni who is showing a welcome return to form and Paraguay's Julieta Granada.

One of the pre-tournament favourites, Norway's Suzann Pettersen, had to settle for 10th place, despite shooting a 66 in the final round.

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On April 24, 1987, when Williams was being sentenced on the second conspiracy conviction, the Superior Court found him in violation of his current probationary term on the forgery charge, but terminated his probation for this offense without imposing the suspended sentence of four years. Additionally, the trial court revoked Williams' unexecuted probation on his robbery/conspiracy *1014 convictions and imposed the previously suspended three year term of imprisonment upon the defendant. Finally, the court sentenced Williams to an additional two years' imprisonment on the latter conspiracy conviction.

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In itsATTAWAPISKAT, Ont. -- Thirteen-year-old Sheridan Hookimaw killed herself on the banks of the river that flows through Attawapiskat, ultimately sparking a crisis that has now drawn international attention to her isolated First Nations community.

The sickly girl, who had to be flown out weekly for medical appointments, recorded video messages to her family saying she wanted to end her pain, and telling them not to blame themselves.

Since then, as many as 100 others in Attawapiskat -- a community of 2,100 people -- have apparently tried to kill themselves, sparking panic among the First Nation's leaders, who recently declared a state of emergency in a desperate cry for help.

Among them is the big sister Sheridan left behind.

"Every morning when I wake up, when I don't see my sister there or


when I don't hear her voice, I feel so lonely without her," Rebecca Hookimaw, 16, says at the home they shared.

"I just tell myself: 'She's out of town, she's at her appointment.' I still don't want to believe she's gone."

Beyond the grievous personal loss, Hookimaw's acquaintance with desolation runs deep. Her eyes speak of things no teenager should have to know about.

She grew up with her grandparents rather than with her mom and dad, she says. Her father disappeared from her life, leaving a void, although she vacillates between whether or not it still bothers her.

Her background has also helped her understand why her peers -- most from damaged families living in over-crowded, frequently substandard houses in which drug and alcohol addictions wreak havoc -- might want tokill themselves.

"I've been through that, too," she says, waving her long black hair from her face. "I started drinking and doing drugs because I couldn't handle the pain anymore."

There was also bullying: people called her fat and ugly, she says. Adding to her woes, her four-year-old cousin was killed by a truck a few years ago as she rode her bike on a rutted street -- there are no sidewalks and few safe places for kids to play in Attawapiskat.

By last fall, when her sister sought out the means with which to end her life, Hookimaw had already tried suicide several times.

"I never made it through, but my sister did," she says. "I got mad about it and sad about it, but I'm starting to think that God


Defense fuels Delaware Valley's success

MILFORD, Pa. — Five years ago, coaching middle school football, Jeff Krasluski came up with an idea that he thought might eventually work on the lacrosse field.

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MILFORD, Pa. — Five years ago, coaching middle school football, Jeff Krasluski came up with an idea that he thought might eventually work on the lacrosse field.

He was going to take the tough-minded trio of Garret Midlarsky, Gianni Gelormino and Sean Burkert and turn them into the central pieces of a lacrosse defense.

"I know their mentality. We strategically put them on defense," Krasluski said. "At first, they thought it was, 'I'm not good enough, that's why you put me on defense.' But these guys are hard-nosed guys. They understand the field and spatial awareness and they're aggressive2 weeks ago

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Our championship game pits fourth seeded Connor Pelton up against the fifth seeded, two-headed monster in Mark Sandritter and Jeff Nusser (CougCenter). Below are the rosters, followed by commentary from the respective owner:

Connor Pelton

Head Coach – Slats Gill, Oregon State

Guard – Reggie Miller, UCLA

Guard – Isaiah Thomas, Washington

Guard – Chauncey Billups, Colorado

Guard – Baron Davis, UCLA

Forward – Kiki Vandeweghe, UCLA

Forward – Klay Thompson, Washington State

Forward – Richard Jefferson, Arizona

Forward – Jon Brockman, Washington

Center – Steve Johnson, Oregon State

Center – Robin Lopez, Stanford

Connor’s Take:

Obviously, CougCenter’s team is loaded with talent. Behind my own, of course, it’s my favorite in the field. But you can’t tell me that Darren Collison and Eddie House would even compete with Reggie Miller or Chauncey Billups in a


been espousing the benefits of the move (please try to get by Gary Parrish’s incredibly lame headline). While we agree that the move will open more recruiting in-roads for Utah, there is one catch for Boylen. He might not be invited along for the ride. According to local media, the move to the Pac-10 also affords the school the perfect point from which to sever ties from Boylen. Boylen has had a long track record as a successful assistant both at the college level — at Michigan State under both Jud Heathcoate and Tom Izzo — and also in the NBA — with the Houston Rockets where he won two NBA titles, the Golden State Warriors, and the Milwaukee Bucks. Utah, however, is the first head coaching positionhe has had at any level. Following a successful 2008-09 season that saw Boylen lead the Utes to a 24-10 record, the MWC regular season and conference tournament titles, and a NCAA appearance, Boylen was awarded a new contract that raised his annual salary to $850,000 as the Utah administration believed it had found its coach for years to come.

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Then last season things came unraveled and the Utes finished 14-17, the team’s worst record in the past 25 years, which predates the Rick Majerus era. On top of that, Boylen struggled with the local media with the most notable example following the Utes loss to BYU, and after the season he lost several key players including highly touted guard Marshall Henderson. Since that


Thursday morning despite unresolved ‘procedural and logistical issues.’ After nearly a week of uncertainty, the move sets the stage for a dramatic and pivotal day of testimony on Capitol Hill that could determine the fate of President Trump's second pick to the nation's highest court. ‘We made important progress on our call this morning with Senate Judiciary Committee staff members,’ the attorneys, Debra Katz, Lisa Banks, and Michael Bromwich said in the statement. ‘We committed to moving forward with an open hearing on Thursday Sept 27 at 10:00 am.’ Sources on Capitol Hill tell Fox News they are now preparing in earnest for the Thursday hearing, which is likely to push a confirmation vote on the Senate floor beyond October 1, the start of the next Supreme Courtby The New York Times, show that Judge Kavanaugh was out of town much of the summer at the beach or away with his parents. When he was at home, the calendars list his basketball games, movie outings, football workouts and college interviews. A few parties are mentioned but include names of friends other than those identified by Dr. Blasey.”

[Watch Fox: Tune in tonight for Martha MacCallum’s exclusive interview with Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his wife, Ashley. Watch “The Story with Martha MacCallum” tonight 7 pm ET.]

POLL: DEMS HOLD DOUBLE DIGIT LEAD IN GENERIC BALLOT

CNBC: “Congressional Republicans are facing a mid-term election wipeout fueled by voter resistance to President Donald Trump, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The survey, six weeks before Americans head to


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The Sunshine Coast Stadium (the Stadium) is a regional level sport, recreation and event facility catering for local, regional, national and international sporting events. The Stadium is located within the suburb of Bokarina on the Sunshine Coast. Sunshine Coast Stadium is home to a wide range of sporting groups including football (soccer), rugby


league and rugby union. There are 14 formal user groups across the sports of football, rugby league, gridiron, rugby union and touch football with a number of these sports having their administrative hubs located on-site. The venue has been used by the Australian rugby union team, the Wallabies and the NRL Melbourne Storm team.

The Sunshine Coast Stadium - Facility Development Plan area includes the main stadium and sporting infrastructure (including fields) directly to the east of the Stadium (known collectively as the Eastern Fields Precinct).

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The Sunshine Coast Stadium is a highly utilised facility. A study into the social and economic benefits of the site found that over 50,000 local residents attended or participated in regular sporting fixtures per year at the site, with an additional 82,000 people attendingBrendan Rodgers will consider a move for Hatem Ben Arfa this summer as the Liverpool manager looks to capitalise on the uncertainty surrounding the midfielder's future at Newcastle United and the prospect of Andy Carroll returning to St James' Park.

Rodgers is a firm admirer of the France international, who has made no secret of his desire to play for Paris Saint-Germain. Ben Arfa did not push for a move in the January transfer window, as he recovers from a hamstring injury, but Newcastle's resolve to keep the player is likely to be tested at the end of the season. The 25-year-old has a contract at Newcastle to the summer of 2015 and would command a sizeable fee.

Ben Arfa is older than all the signings Liverpool have made since


Rodgers became manager and Newcastle's asking price could prove an obstacle, but their interest in re-signing Carroll could work to the Anfield club's advantage and an exchange deal.

West Ham United have an option to buy Carroll at the end of his season-long loan but Liverpool dropped their demand for a guaranteed move to remove the £35m striker from their wage bill in August.Environmental and individual influences on Australian young adults' likelihood of attending university: a follow-up study.
In this longitudinal study, which is a follow-up analysis of a previous investigation (K. Marjoribanks, 2002a), the author examined environmental and individual influences on the likelihood of Australian young adults attending university. Participants were 5,181 Anglo-Australian (parents born in Australia, English was the language of the family), 460 Asian, 699 English (parents born in England), 746 European, and 163 Middle Eastern students (M age = 14.7 years, when the study began). The analyses indicated that Asian, European, and Middle Eastern young adults were more likely to attend university than were young adults from Anglo-Australian and English families, and young women had higher odds of attending university than did young men. Family social status variations


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The STI is formed by trench etching the silicon substrate 501. At this time, an active region of the silicon substrate 501 is etched away under such a condition that a removal preventing film (C-group deposition) 507 is formed on the side wall of a hard mask (the silicon oxide film 502 and the silicon nitride film 503). According to this, the removal preventing film 507 is formed so as to round the active region shoulder part 506. Hereinafter, the portion of the active region shoulder part protruding from the hard mask along the lateral directiondenotes a silicon shoulder round part (crowding), numeral 606′ denotes a silicon shoulder round part (isolated), numeral 607 denotes a removal preventing film, numeral 608 denotes a taper angle of the removal preventing film (crowding), numeral 609 denotes a projection part of the silicon substrate (crowding), numeral 610 denotes a taper angle of the removal preventing film (isolated), numeral 611 denotes a projection amount of the silicon substrate (isolated), and numeral 612 denotes a height of the removal preventing film, respectively. FIGS. 25A and 25B are enlarged views showing the round part, wherein FIG. 25A shows the part in which the distance between the active regions is close and FIG. 25B shows the part in which the distance between the active regions is large.
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our government of what is in the best interests of our nation."

Sources tell ABC News the tapes were provided as part of that congressional subpoena issued to Parnas, and the former Giuliani ally also provided a number of documents both in English and Ukrainian to the committee in two separate productions, sources told ABC News.

However, some of the material sought by congressional investigators is already in possession of federal investigators within the Southern District of New York and thus held up from being turned over, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Parnas' associate, Fruman, has not cooperated with the committee.

Parnas, a Ukraine-born, American businessman, was subpoenaed last month by House committees at the same time as Fruman. The two men had previously announced through their attorney at thetime that they would not be complying with the subpoena.

Separate from the House impeachment probe, Parnas and Fruman were arrested earlier this fall at the Dulles International Airport just outside of Washington, with one-way international tickets, and charged in a criminal campaign finance case in the Southern District of New York. Accused of allegedly circumventing campaign finance laws against straw donations and foreign contributions, Parnas and Fruman pleaded not guilty.

According to the indictment, Parnas sought then-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s ouster earlier this year along with his efforts to get Ukrainian officials to investigate the president’s political rival, matters that have repeatedly emerged in the House impeachment inquiry.

Giuliani’s relationship with Parnas and Fruman is the subject of a criminal investigation in the Southern District of New York, according to


An Army veteran is being credited with saving a bald eagle by shooting it out of a tree.

Jason Galvin was driving near his home in Minnesota when he saw the bird hanging upside down by a rope about 75 feet up.

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After telling his wife Jackie, the couple decided something needed to be done so they started calling local officials.

According to Jackie, all of them gave the same answer, the bird had been stuck there for 2 and a half days and it was dead.

The Galvins believed the eagle was alive so Jackie encouraged her husband to shoot the rope the bird was tangled in.

Jason had to be careful since killing a bald eagle is a crime. He borroweda neighbor's rifle and after an hour and a half and 150 bullets, the bird was loose. Galvin, who served 2 tours in Afghanistan, didn't hit the eagle once.

The couple named the bird Freedom, wrapped it in a blanket and it was taken to the Raptor Center where it's expected to make a full recovery.

Mission accomplished!

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Dating from around 1830 Solsgirth House is one of the finest homes in central Scotland. It has recently undergone a significant programme of refurbishment. (Knight Frank)

From where I write I can see that every ten minutes or so a bus passes. When I started writing this post I had no idea that on the front of each bus was an insignia that linked each one to this country house located hundreds of miles away. The badge proudly says ‘Alexander’ and is a name celebrated by bus enthusiasts throughout the world.

The house in question is Solsgirth House, a desirable Grade B listed mansion set below the Ochil Hills, bordering Clackmannanshire, Fife and Perthshire. It was built about 1870 for William Connal, a member of an old Stirlingfamily going back generations. He was born in Stown, Stirlingshire, the son of Patrick Connal, merchant and banker, who had the misfortune of having shares in the Stirling Bank when it crashed in 1826. He was ruined but had better fortune when he was appointed the first local agent for the National Bank of Scotland.¹

Solgirth House is an impressive Victorian mansion of dressed stone with slate roofs. The house is set in about 30 acres of gardens and grounds. (Knight Frank)

William Connal (1819-1898) – the pig-iron manAs a young man William Connal had entered his Uncle William’s firm which specialised in tea and sugar importing and the Virginia tobacco trade. In 1852 his pedigree allowed him to marry Emelia Jesse Campbell, the daughter of Colonel R.N. Campbell of


Ormidale in Argyllshire. His uncle’s company prospered but William chose to practice his skills in an entirely different market. In the 1860s he set up a pig-iron business in Glasgow which became known as ‘Connal’s Store’. It was here that he collected pig-iron against warrants, the object being to keep the market from unduly fluctuating.² As a recognised storekeeper iron was brought into Connal’s yard and cashed in by iron merchants. Sometimes they were granted bank loans against the iron warrants. It proved a lucrative business and William quickly made his fortune expanding into Middlesbrough and opening the Cleveland Warrant Stores in 1864.

William’s main residence was at 19 Park Circus in Glasgow (but he would later own property at 87 St. Vincent Street). From his meaty earnings Williamcommissioned the building of a country house in 1870. Solsgirth House was built as a weekend retreat but where he could also entertain local gentry and business associates. It was described as ‘broadly Scottish Domestic in style’. It began as a straightforward two-storey oblong with a south front of five bays.

The original house was built in 1870 in the baronial style with later sections added at the end of the century in a more ornate design with many Art Nouveau features. (Elemental Photography)

A newspaper report from 1877 describes a happy occasion at Solsgirth. ‘A number of tenantry were entertained at dinner on the occasion of the marriage of Miss Helen Alexa, daughter of Mr William Connal to Mr Richard Niven, Dalnottar. About 50 guests adjourned to the dancing


room, which was tastefully decorated for the occasion, where they were joined in a large party of young people. The ball was opened with a Scotch Reel, in which Mr and Mrs Connal and family took part. The proceedings terminated with ‘Auld Langsyne’.⁴

However, there were sad times ahead. In October, Emelia Jessie Connal died and William faced life alone at Solsgirth. He turned his attention towards the arts and became an avid collector of paintings by Edward Burne Jones, Edward Poynter, Frederick Sandys, Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Fernand Knopff and Adolphe Monticelli as well as a few Old Masters. He also owned James McNeill Whistler’s Symphony in Silver and Grey. In 1877 he invited the artist Albert Joseph Moore to stay at Solsgirth House allowing him to recuperate aftera serious illness. It was during this stopover that William commissioned Moore to paint his portrait, one of significance that shows him wearing a honeybee brooch, a personal emblem that he used on his personal stationary. The portrait now belongs to York Art Gallery.⁵

In later years William Connal handed over the running of his business to his son, also William, and spent more time at Solsgirth House. He had little time for public affairs but in 1887 was granted the Freedom of the Borough of Stirling. In return he gifted to Stirling a beautiful stained-glass window which was inserted into the west wall of the ancient High Kirk of Holy Rood Church.⁶

William died at Solsgirth House in July 1898 aged 80 leaving estate worth £202,200.⁷ A correspondent from


the nearby village of Blairingone paid a handsome tribute to the man:-

“During his thirty years residence amongst us, Mr Connal had endeared himself to the hearts of the villagers by numberless acts of large hearted liberality. Blairingone had always a handy interest for him, and was the sphere wherein many of his benevolent deeds were done. The Sabbath scholars of past and present years long remember the fondness which annually found expression in the Sabbath School pennies and the Halloween treat. Yet too, he contributed to the comfort of the poor and aged by substantial gifts of coats in the winter season. He never seemed to grow weary planning for the benefit of the villagers and some years ago conferred a lasting good upon the village by bringingin a permanent supply of water which was led to the people’s very door. Far from the smoke and stir of city life he died on Thursday 14th July at the summer residence he loved so well, in the midst of the people whose lives he had done so much to brighten, and whose love he had so universally acquired. His remains were conveyed to Glasgow on Saturday last, where they were interred in the family burying ground at the Necropolis.”⁸

Sale details following the death of William Connal. From the The Scotsman, 11 Oct 1898. (British Newspaper Archive)

The Sutherlands and days of grandeurFollowing William Connal’s death there was no desire for his family to remain at Solsgirth House. The house was put up for auction in November 1898