upon mere allegations and unsupported charges. As mentioned previously, the only witness to testify on plaintiff's behalf was the president and principal shareholder of plaintiff corporation. His testimony was that he became aware of plaintiff's selling tactics when he received one of Quality's fliers in the mail. As mentioned previously, that advertisement announced a special introductory offer price of $19.95 per gallon for Quality's polymer. Mr. Williams then testified that the polymer sold by his company was basically the same as that sold by Quality although he admitted that he had not tested the product. He also stated that he produced his polymer for approximately $15.00 per gallon and did not believe that Quality could cover its costs selling its polymer for only $19.95 per gallon, although againSLOVIANSK, Ukraine/MOSCOW (Reuters) - On Feb. 12 last year, the same day that a ceasefire ended the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine between rebels and government forces, a former rebel fighter seized a chance to turn his inside knowledge of the conflict into hard cash.

A Ukrainian serviceman checks documents at a checkpoint near Slaviansk in Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 29, 2016. Picture taken June 29, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

He traveled to a spot on the Russian-Ukrainian border where he retrieved a cache of weapons hidden there earlier by his comrades in the pro-Russian rebel movement.

Four days later, shortly before 6:00 p.m., he and a friend showed up in a taxi at a fuel station in western Russia where they had arranged to meet a contact ready to


Playoff Projection: Stanford looks for an opening

Stanford quarterback Kevin Hogan (8) looks to run against Washington in the fourth quarter Saturday at Stanford Stadium. The Cardinal defeated the Huskies 31-28, and this week moved into fifth place in the Football Four Playoff Projection.(Photo: Cary Edmondson, USA TODAY Sports)

The Football Four Playoff Playoff Projection panel apparently doesn't believe in the transitive property of college football, but it doesn't believe as much in Georgia as it did a week ago, either.

The transitive property would suggest that Oregon, which in September beat Tennessee by 42 more points than Georgia did Saturday, might get a boost in the eyes of the panel. Instead the Ducks held steady, finishing second in the panel's voting for the fifth consecutive week and gaining one votingA Justice Department official demoted late last year for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” has been stripped of yet another title, Fox News has learned.

Bruce Ohr is no longer head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.

Separately, sources familiar with the discussions tell Fox News that the Justice Department is expected to comply with demands from the House Intelligence Committee to provide Ohr for an interview. He is scheduled to visit the committee on Jan. 17, sources said.

Fox News first reported in December that Ohr had been demoted from the position of associate deputy attorney general, after it was revealed he had conducted undisclosed meetings with dossier author Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that produced


of Wales and the beautiful town of Llandudno.

"We aim to be a part of the strong local community and will endeavour to take the Manor to higher levels of service and hospitality."

Lesley Watmough, from Fleurets, added: "Most would class this as a boutique hotel, due to the quality of the fit-out and environment; and subsequently the property has received high levels of interest throughout the marketing period."Relationships between God and people in the Bible, Part II: The New Testament, with comparisons with the Torah.
IN AN EARLIER study on the first five books of the Bible, the Torah or Pentateuch, relationships between God and people were assessed with the use of a clinical-quantitative method, the core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method. Here, the study is extended to God or Jesus's relationships with people in the New Testament, to obtain the first description of those relationships based on an established measure of relationships. In the New Testament, many different kinds of relationship themes were observed, with benevolent and positive themes as the most frequent. Other results included that: (a) relationships in the New Testament often appeared more positive than in the Torah; (b) New Testament relationships


installation of Pillow Talk, a three-chapter virtual reality (VR) experience that explores the vast spectrum of sexuality and gender, consent and communication in and out of the bedroom, and sex-positivity through toys and self-pleasure. The experience was created by Motherlode, a creative-tech startup for interactive 3D, augmented reality, and virtual reality design that was founded by three female artists, Carol Civre, Isa Ghaffari, and Leah Roh. As artists and developers who are women of color and queer, they wanted out of their previous gigs that they said proved to be male-dominated, and instead opted to create space for themselves to develop the stories that are important to them and their peers.

"We wanted to create a virtual reality experience that all three of us could get passionate about. ThisMymensingh-8

Mymensingh-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Fakhrul Imam of the Jatiya Party (Ershad).

Boundaries
The constituency encompasses Ishwarganj Upazila.

History
The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s
Fakhrul Imam was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

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People v Cruz (2016 NY Slip Op 05507)

People v Cruz

2016 NY Slip Op 05507

Decided on July 13, 2016

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on July 13, 2016
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2013-01527
 (Ind. No. 11447/09)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vMichael Cruz, appellant.

Michael Cruz, Dannemora, NY, appellant pro se.
Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Morgan J. Dennehy of counsel), for respondent.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY (Barry Stendig of counsel), former appellate counsel.

DECISION & ORDER
Application by the appellant for a writHaitians did, in fact, swear a pact with the devil for their freedom. Only Beelzebub arrived smelling not of sulfur, but of Parisian cologne.

Haitian slaves began to throw off the “heel of the French” in 1791, when they rose up and, after bitter years of fighting, eventually declared themselves free. Their French masters, however, refused to accept Haitian independence. The island, after all, had been an extremely profitable sugar producer, and so Paris offered Haiti a choice: compensate slave owners for lost property — their slaves (that is, themselves) — or face its imperial wrath. The fledgling nation was forced to finance this payout with usurious loans from French banks. As late as 1940, 80% of the government budget was still going to service this debt.

In the on-again,


and throwing them overboard. The ship was insured and their loss would be covered: the practice of insuring slaves and slave ships meant that slavers weighed the benefits of a dead slave versus living labor and acted accordingly.

Events on the Rôdeur caught the attention of Sébastien Guillié, chief of medicine at Paris’s Royal Institute for Blind Youth. He wrote up his findings — which included a discussion of the disease’s symptoms, the manner in which it spread, and best treatment options — and published them in Bibliothèque Ophtalmologique, which was then cited in other medical journals as well as in an 1846 U.S. textbook, A Manual of the Diseases of the Eye.

Slaves spurred forward medicine in other ways, too. Africans, for instance, were the primary victims of smallpoxin the New World and were also indispensable to its eradication. In the early 1800s, Spain ordered that all its American subjects be vaccinated against the disease, but didn’t provide enough money to carry out such an ambitious campaign. So doctors turned to the one institution that already reached across the far-flung Spanish Empire: slavery. They transported the live smallpox vaccine in the arms of Africans being moved along slave routes as cargo from one city to another to be sold: doctors chose one slave from a consignment, made a small incision in his or her arm, and inserted the vaccine (a mixture of lymph and pus containing the cowpox virus). A few days after the slaves set out on their journey, pustules would appear in the arm


surgeon opened the ship’s hatch in Montevideo, Uruguay, he was sickened by what he saw: only 31 bone-thin survivors in a foul, bare room, otherwise empty save for hundreds of unused shackles.

City officials convened a commission of inquiry to explain the deaths of the other 270 slaves, calling on the expertise of five surgeons — two British doctors, a Spaniard, a Swiss Italian, and one from the United States. The doctors testified that before boarding the Joaquín, the captives would have felt extreme anguish, having already been forced to survive on roots and bugs until arriving on the African coast emaciated and with their stomachs distended. Then, once on the ocean, crowded into a dark hold with no ventilation, they would have had nothing to do other thanhands of priests, poets, and philosophers and giving them actual medical meaning.

Prior to the arrival of the Joaquín in Montevideo, for instance, the Royal Spanish Academy was still associating melancholia with actual nighttime demon possession. Cisma literally meant schism, a theological concept Spaniards used to refer to the spiritual split personality of fallen man. The doctors investigating the Joaquín, however, used these concepts in a decidedly secular, matter-of-fact manner and in ways that unmistakably affirmed the humanity of slaves. To diagnose enslaved Africans as suffering from nostalgia and melancholia was to acknowledge that they had selves that could be lost, inner lives that could suffer schism or alienation, and pasts over which they could mourn.

Two decades after the incident involving the Joaquín, the Spanish medical profession no longer


market revolution turned — not just in the United States, but in all of the Americas.

Starting in the 1770s, Spain began to deregulate the slave trade, hoping to establish what merchants, not mincing any words, called a “free trade in blacks.” Decades before slavery exploded in the United States (following the War of 1812 with Great Britain), the slave population increased dramatically in Spanish America. Enslaved Africans and African Americans slaughtered cattle and sheared wool on the pampas of Argentina, spun cotton and wove clothing in textile workshops in Mexico City, and planted coffee in the mountains outside Bogotá. They fermented grapes for wine at the foot of the Andes and boiled Peruvian sugar to make candy. In Guayaquil, Ecuador, enslaved shipwrights built cargo vessels that were usedcourts, places of learning and worship, and doctors’ offices. Even the tony clothier, Brooks Brothers (founded in New York in 1818), got its start selling coarse slave clothing to southern plantations. It now describes itself as an “institution that has shaped the American style of dress.”

Fever Dreams and the Bleached Bones of the Dead

In the United States, the reparations debate faded away with the 2008 election of Barack Obama — except as an idea that continues to haunt the fever dreams of the right-wing imagination. A significant part of the backlash against the president is driven by the fantasy that he is presiding over a radical redistribution of wealth — think of all those free cell phones that the Drudge Report says he’s handing out to African Americans!


10 years in the making examines at how many major U.S. universities — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth Rutgers, Williams, and the University of North Carolina among others — are drenched in the sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought to the United States as slaves. In “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology American History Professor Craig Steven Wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. “When you think about the colonial world, until the American Revolution, there is only one college in the south, William & Mary … The other eight colleges were all northern schools and they’re actually located in key sites, for the most part, of the merchant economy whereThe Swedish Embassy in Israel has softened its position regarding the recognition of Palestinian statehood, saying it favors peace negotiation to unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, after an initial announcement by Sweden's new prime minister led to a diplomatic crisis with Israel.

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In a new, more softly worded statement, the embassy said that, Sweden will recognize a Palestinian state at the end of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

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"As part of a statement on government policy, (Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said) that Sweden will recognize the State of Palestine.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven (Photo: Reuters)

"The conflict between Israel and Palestine can only be resolved through a two-state solution… negotiated in accordance with the principles of international law. It must guarantee the


legitimate demands of both the Palestinians and the Israelis for national self-determination and security. A two-state solution requires mutual recognition and a will to coexist peacefully. Therefore, Sweden will recognize the State of Palestine," the statement concluded.

The refined statement seems to indicate a solid support for Palestinian statehood, but only as part of negotiations with Israel which also take into account Israel concerns and positions.

The comments by Lofven, made during his first day in office, sparked a crisis between the two countires, and even the US weighed in, saying that the move was "premature".

Sweden's ambassador to Israel has been summoned for a reprimand meeting on Monday at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, after Lofven made the announcement.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Saturday night that Lofven's announcement was unfortunateas he "likely has yet to have enough time to delve into matters and understand that the side which has been a spoiler for the past 20 years to advancing an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians – is the Palestinians."

Lieberman said that the "Swedish Prime Minister Lofven needs to understand that no declaration and no step by an outside player can replace the direct negotiations between the sides and a solution that will be part of a comprehensive agreement between Israel and the entire Arab world."

He added: "If the Swedish prime minister's inauguration speech is concerned with the situation in the Middle East, he would be better off focusing on the urgent problems in the area, like the daily mass killings in Syria, Iraq, and other places


in the region."

Officials in Jerusalem are concerned by the Swedish declaration for a number of reasons – Sweden is the first major European country, party to the European Union, which has chosen to recognize Palestine as a state.Connexins, connexons, and intercellular communication.
Cells in tissues share ions, second messengers, and small metabolites through clusters of intercellular channels called gap junctions. This type of intercellular communication permits coordinated cellular activity. Intercellular channels are formed from two oligomeric integral membrane protein assemblies, called connexons, which span two adjacent cells' plasma membranes and join in a narrow, extracellular "gap." Connexons are formed from connexins, a highly related multigene family consisting of at least 13 members. Since the cloning of the first connexin in 1986, considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the complex molecular switches that control the formation and permeability of the intercellular channels. Analysis of the mechanisms of channel assembly has revealed the selectivity of inter-connexin interactions and uncovered novel characteristics of the channel permeability


On the Beat: Heavy-metal comedian bound for Buzzbin

Don Jamieson is a stand-up comedian, who will perform at downtown Canton's Buzzbin Shop on Monday, as well as the co-host of VH1's “That Metal Show.”

Dan Kane CantonRep.com entertainment editor @DKaneREP

As a kid in New Jersey, Don Jamieson was a disciple of the band Kiss.

"My first album was 'Destroyer.' Every square inch of my bedroom was covered with Kiss posters, even the ceiling," Jamieson recalled. "My mom always said, 'Where is all this leading?' And 35 years later, I'm interviewing the guys from Kiss on television."

Jamieson is now a stand-up comedian who will perform at downtown Canton's Buzzbin Shop on Monday, as well as the co-host of VH1's "That Metal Show." In its sixth year, the talk show's guests have includedthe likes of Sammy Hagar, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Joe Satriani, Alice Cooper, Slash and Rob Zombie.

Jamieson also is an Emmy Award winner for his work with comedy partner Jim Florentine on HBO's "Inside the NFL," for which they wrote, produced and performed in sports-themed skits.

Q. So Ohio is becoming a home away from home for you?

A. "It started with my friend Tim 'Ripper' Owens, who used to sing with Judas Priest. He opened up a rock 'n' roll bar in Akron and I started coming out and playing, and now I'm coming to Buzzbin. Because of 'That Metal Show,' I've found alternative venues to work in, mainly rock clubs, that most comics wouldn't traditionally play in. I played someone's backyard last time I came through Ohio. So


"The Iraqi government's decision on the case is definite and the decision has been made based on the country's constitution because based on the law no armed group is allowed to be present on Iraq's soil," Abawi noted.

Fars NewsA senior Iraqi foreign ministry official underlined Iraqi government's determination to expel the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq's soil, stressing that they have no option but to leave the country.

"The sole option for the members of the MKO is to go out of Iraq. They will have no other option," Acting Deputy of Iraqi Foreign Minister Labid Abawi told FNA on Wednesday.

"The Iraqi government's decision on the case is definite and the decision has been made based on the country's constitution because based on the law no armedgroup is allowed to be present on Iraq's soil," Abawi noted.

Earlier, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that Baghdad will definitely expel the terrorist group from Iraq's soil by the near future.

Speaking at a joint press conference with his visiting Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi in Baghdad, Zebari said, "MKO's expulsion from Iraq by the end of 2011 is definite."

"Based on agreements, MKO members will be expelled from Iraq's soil at the end of 2011 and should be transferred to a third country," the Iraqi minister reiterated.

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The much-detested Monsanto biotechnology corporation will likely change its name this year following its imminent merger with its European counterpart Syngenta.

Such a merger would beget an unprecedented behemoth that would control 45% of the world commercial seed market and 30% of the global agrochemical sector.

The US-based Monsanto, which began in 1901 as a chemical company, is currently the world's largest seed company, with some 26% of the world market.

In the 1970s Monsanto invented the systemic herbicide glyphosate. Sold by the company under the brand name Roundup, it is the most lucrative agricultural poison in history. This company dominates the world market for genetically modified (GM) seed, trouncing its competitors by a broad margin.

The majority of its GM seeds have been modified to tolerate being sprayed with glyphosate, andare thus called Roundup Ready seeds. This particular use of GM technology allows Monsanto to sell the seed and the herbicide as one integrated package.

Glyphosate's patent expired in 2000, which means that now any chemical company can make its own generic glyphosate and compete with Monsanto's Roundup. So how does the company keep profiting off its herbicide? By requiring farmers who buy Roundup Ready seed to buy only Roundup and refrain from using generic glyphosate products.

Monsanto's GMO seed venture

Monsanto started buying big into the biotech and seed businesses in the waning years of the 20th century, conducting its first open air GM crop field tests in Puerto Rico and other locations in 1987.

It then went on a binge, buying out companies like Agracetus, Asgrow, Calgene, Dekalb and Holden


Seeds, and reorganizing into a 'life sciences' company in 2000. It became the world's number one seed company in 2005 when it purchased Mexico's Seminis for $1.4 billion.

It is estimated that at the time of the Monsanto buyout, Seminis had 40% of the US vegetable seed market and 20% of the world market-supplying the genetics for 55% of the lettuce on US supermarket shelves, 75% of the tomatoes, and 85% of the peppers, with strong holdings in beans, cucumbers, squash, melons, broccoli, cabbage, spinach and peas. The company's biggest revenue source comes from tomato and peppers seeds, followed by cucumbers and beans.

In large part, these numbers reflect usage of Seminis varieties within large industrial production geared towards supermarkets, but Seminis seeds are also widely used by regional conventionaland organic farmers as well as market and home gardeners.

Johnny's, Territorial, Fedco, Nichol's, Rupp, Osborne, Snow, and Stokes are among the dozens of commercial and garden seed catalogs that carry the more than 3,500 varieties that comprise Seminis' offerings. This includes dozens of All-American Selections and an increasing number of varieties licensed to third parties for certified organic seed production.

Syngenta, with 28,000 employees in over 90 countries, describes itself as "a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources".

Founded in 2000, it was the product of a merger of the agricultural businesses of Novartis and AstraZeneca. Novartis was in turn the product of a 1996 merger between Ciba Geigy and Sandoz, back then one of


used for the assessment of glyphosate toxicity by the American EPA and by other regulators worldwide, on the assumption that it was completely reliable. The study purported to show that glyphosate was effectively harmless, and that was accepted as a scientific 'fact'."

And that's just two news items in one month. There is further information on the toxicity of glyphosate herbicides in studies carried out by Argentina's late crusading scientist Andrés Carrasco and the French team led by Gilles-Eric Séralini.

Superweeds make glyphosate redundant

Those unmoved by hazards to human health will perhaps be moved by this: glyphosate is fast becoming useless, thanks to the predictable rise of resistant weeds. There are currently 100 million acres in 36 US states invaded by herbicide-resistant weeds, and at least 24 resistant weed speciesChemChina are courting the company with buyout offers of their own. What's worse, in November, Dow and Dupont, Monsanto's only two real competitors in the US, agreed to merge.

Dow Agrosciences, Dow's agricultural division, has 10% of the world agrochemical market and 4% of the commercial seed market. And Dupont has, through its Pioneer subsidiary, 21% of the world commercial seed market and 6% of the agrochemical market. Monsanto is likely to fear being crushed to oblivion by the offspring of such a merger.

Pioneer has an unusual history. It was founded in the 1920's by plant breeder, business maverick and progressive politician Henry A. Wallace, who would go on to become US president Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture, later the country's vice president, and in 1948 the presidential


candidate of the left-of-center Progressive Party.

In 1941, just as he was starting his vice presidency, Wallace collaborated with Rockefeller Foundation president Raymond Fosdick in founding an agricultural programme in Mexico that would become the model for the green revolution.

In 1999 Dupont bought Pioneer for $7.7 billion, a sum it obtained by issuing the biggest initial public offering (IPO) of shares in history. Dupont thus became the world's largest seed company until it was surpassed by Monsanto in 2005.

Tax avoidance. And the small question of a name ...

What else is in a merger for Monsanto? Tax avoidance, for one. The corporation resulting from a Syngenta merger will most likely be incorporated outside the United States. "Monsanto is one of many US-based corporations eager to switch its incorporation to amatter which mergers / acquisitions ultimately materialize, there's little doubt that the infamous Monsanto name will soon be history."

Carmelo Ruiz is a Puerto Rican author and journalist. He runs the Biosafety Blog and a blog on journalism and current affairs, and is a research associate at the Institute for Social Ecology. His latest book, El Gran Juego de Ajedrez Botánico, is available on Amazon. He tweets @carmeloruiz.

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Quebec premier says proposed law is necessary to separate church and state but educators say they won’t be cowed

Montreal’s Westmount high school last made headlines as the alma mater of the US senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

It now has another distinction: the first Quebec school to publicly commit to ignoring the province’s proposed secularism law, which would ban primary and secondary school teachers, among certain other provincial government employees, from wearing religious symbols.

Teachers, students and parents recently gathered on the school steps in protest against Bill 21, which the government introduced in Quebec’s national assembly last week. As well as teachers, all employees in positions of authority – including judges, public prosecutors, prison guards, police and liquor inspectors – will be prohibited from wearing religious symbols, includingmany platforms, from TV and radio to digital, social media and live events. This content includes, but is not limited to: short-form video and audio segments, long-form scripted and unscripted series and films, native advertising and immersive online and offline experiences.

CEO of Radio One, Inc., Alfred Liggins, III, has tapped Detavio Samuels to lead OneX as an expansion of his current position as president of One Solution. For the past year, Samuels has led One Solution, the company’s cross-platform sales and integrated marketing group. His team grew revenue 54 percent in 2014, and won several industry awards. Prior to One Solution, Samuels led GlobalHue, the largest multicultural agency in the nation at that time, where he developed a reputable body of work and a proven track record driving


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The graduate program in BBME is a new interfaculty program involving the Department of Bioengineering in the Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Medicine. The new joint program builds on the excellence and high standard of quality of its predecessor graduate program in Biomedical Engineering through a restructuring of the program into a broader, interdisciplinary and structurally interfaculty program, accommodating more extensive areas of research and training. The interfaculty program supports the growing trend in research universities towards formalized interdisciplinary studies and multi-faculty collaboration.

Students in BBME have supervisors associated with the program whose home departments will be spread primarily across the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine.

As scientists unravel the molecular and physiological mechanisms of biology, attempt to reverse-engineer naturally occurring


biological solutions, devices, and procedures, or develop increasingly advanced technologies to transform patient care, graduates from the BBME program are poised to play a critical role in shaping our global future.

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The Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill is the first of its kind in Canada and boasts a history of major accomplishments in the areas of artificial cells, brain imaging, nanomedicine and modelling, and identification of physiological systems. With an increased focus on translational biomedical research, the department is amongst the top biomedical engineering departments in North America.

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The Department of Bioengineering is the newest department to join McGill University’s renowned Faculty of Engineering. The department seeks to explore and expand the frontiers of modern bioengineering. Faculty members areYou are here

National Policy on control of Arms and Ammunitions

In 2005 the National Focal Point created the Policy Drafting Committee (PDC) with the mandate to draft the Policy document, facilitate consultations, edit the draft and incorporate comments from consultation process, and prepare the final draft for submission to NSC and subsequently to Cabinet. Membership of Policy Drafting Committee consisted of representatives from Police, Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), Internal Security Organisation (ISO), External Security Organisation (ESO), Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs (including First Parliamentary Council, Uganda Law Reform Commission), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Office of the Prime Minister, Customs Department of Uganda Revenue Authority, Immigration Department of the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration, and civil society organizations (People with Disabilities and Ugandan Joint Christian Council)

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developed through a process of broad consultation with a range of stakeholders including government and law enforcement officials, representatives of business and industry (including the arms industry and private security industry), sports and hunting clubs, and civil society representatives. This consultation process has served to raise awareness on the issue of firearms and the development of the national Policy. It has also provided stakeholders with an opportunity to input into the contents of the Policy, thus ensuring that the Policy reflects the needs and priorities of a range of stakeholders and accurately reflects the needs and context within the country.the Ukrainian ports in the Sea of Azov. At the same time, those sailing to Russian ports navigate through the Kerch Strait freely,” he added.

Slobodian noted the Russian Federation has no legal authority to control passage through the Kerch Strait in the manner he described.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry warned Russia on Friday that it plans to send military ships through the Kerch Strait to clear up the shipping bottleneck. “Otherwise, Russia will fully occupy the Sea of Azov,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak explained.

Russian officials denied they are enforcing a de facto blockade against Ukrainian ports to apply economic pressure against the Ukrainian government, insisting on Sunday their primary concern is the safety of the bridge built across the Kerch Strait to connect Russia with Crimea.

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7:24-27 KJV 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon
a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not,
shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat
upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Matthew 13:41-42 KJV 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they
shall gather out of his kingdom all things thatunto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the
king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his
throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on
his right hand. 20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I
pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother:
for I will not say thee nay.

1 Kings 2:21-25 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah
thy brother to wife. 22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother,
And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the
kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar
the


priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah. 23 Then king Solomon sware by
the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken
this word against his own life. 24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which
hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who
hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this
day. 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada;
and he fell upon him that he died.

1 Kings 2:22 KJV 22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And
why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom
also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, andfor Abiathar the priest,
and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

1 Kings 2:15 KJV 15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine,
and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the
kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from
the LORD.

Tuesday

Abiathar,
Joab, And Shimei.

1 Kings 2:46 NKJV 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and
he went out and struck him down, and he died. Thus the kingdom was established
in the hand of Solomon.

1 Kings 2:46 KJV 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which
went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established
in the hand of Solomon.

1 Kings 2:8 KJV 8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei


the son of Gera,
a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day
when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware
to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

1 Kings 2:28-34 KJV 28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after
Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle
of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 29 And it was told
king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold,
he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying,
Go, fall upon him. 30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of theLORD, and
said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will
die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab,
and thus he answered me.

1 Kings 2:31-34 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall
upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which
Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father. 32 And the LORD shall
return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous
and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing
thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and
Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. 33


Their blood shall
therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for
ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his
throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD. 34 So Benaiah the son
of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in
his own house in the wilderness.

1 Kings 2:26-27 KJV 26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee
to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will
not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord
GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein
my father was afflicted. 27 So Solomon thrustout Abiathar from being priest
unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake
concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

Ellen
G. White, Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 1, pp. 389390

After giving this charge to his son in the audience of the people, and in
the presence of God, he offers grateful thanks to God for disposing his own
heart, and the hearts of the people, to give willingly for the great work
of building. He also entreats the Lord to incline the heart of Solomon to
his commandments. He says, "I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart,
and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart
I have willingly offered all these things. And now have I seen with joy thy
people, which are


these things shall be added unto you.

God promised that as He had been with David, so He would be with Solomon.
If the king would walk before the Lord in uprightness, if he would do what
God had commanded him, his throne would be established and his reign would
be the means of exalting Israel as "a wise and understanding people," the
light of the surrounding nations. Deuteronomy 4:6. {PK 30.1}

The language used by Solomon while praying
to God before the ancient altar at Gibeon reveals his humility and his strong
desire to honor God. He realized that without divine aid he was as helpless
as a little child to fulfill the responsibilities resting on him. He knew
that he lacked discernment, and it was a sense of his great need that led
him to seek Godson is the dead, and my son is the living. 24 And the king said, Bring
me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. 25 And the king said,
Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the
other. 26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king,
for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the
living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither
mine nor thine, but divide it. 27 Then the king answered and said, Give her
the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

1 Kings 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king


had judged;
and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him,
to do judgment.

John 8:3-11 KJV 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman
taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto
him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses
in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus
stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard
them not. 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and
said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast astone
at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they
which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by
one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone,
and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself,
and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine
accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus
said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.


NYC’s enormously popular High Line Park is almost complete. The final 0.58-mile portion of the formerly abandoned railway line making up the elevated Chelsea park was donated by CSX Transportation in early July under the Rails-to-Trails Program, and the elevated NYC park is on track to be opened to the public in 2014.

The CSX donation leaves the City of New York free to turn the property license over to Friends of the High Line, the organization responsible for the park’s maintenance and operations (as well private fundraising to help subsidize the park).

New York City’s Parks and Recreations Department recently allocated $5 million to the High Line, a substantial portion of the $105 million budget available for the 2013-year. Previous sections of the park were released in 2009 andSaturday, April 11, 2009

Polar Bears attacked a women in a German zoo who had jumped into their enclosure during feeding time. Jumping into a bear exhibit for no particular reason is never a bright idea, but doing it when it is time for them to eat is even more foolish. The 32 year old women was bitten a few times before the staff could get her out of danger. She is now recovering in a hospital.


The battle over the memorial to victims of communism is heading to Federal Court after a coalition of architects and heritage advocates launched a legal challenge.

The move comes a day after the board of the National Capital Commission, a Crown corporation, voted 6-3 to allow Public Works to start digging up the planned site to decontaminate the soil.

The legal challenge claims this goes against a provision of the National Capital Act that states work can't begin on a project until it has received final approval from the board.

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The application to the Federal Court is being launched by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Heritage Ottawa and architects Shirley Blumberg and Barry Padolsky.

While Public Works is responsible for the decontamination work, the office of Canadian HeritageIn November, for example, a friend put them in touch with Deputy Interior Secretary Felipe Zamora Castro, a high-level official who promised to help. Two days later, Mr. Zamora was killed in the helicopter crash that also took the life of his boss, Francisco Blake Mora, the interior secretary.

Seeking Help Abroad

The Cazareses now say that they are back to square one: lower-level officials at the Interior Ministry have asked that they file official paperwork, which means additional delay.

“Not a single Mexican authority will help us,” said Zynthia Cazares, the sister of Rodolfo, fidgeting with her jewelry in the Texas home where she now lives amid photographs of the missing and statues of the Virgin Mary. “God has asked us to have patience, confidence and faith.”

The family has also


sought help from abroad. Ludivine Cazares, Rodolfo’s wife, recently started to rally support in Europe, writing to French and German officials. The Cazareses are also trying to involve the United States. The five missing men are all Mexican, but as is common in border families, many of their relatives are American citizens or legal residents, and the gang members seem to fear American authority; the 9-year-old boy kidnapped from the first home was dropped off at the border right away, the kidnappers told the women, because he was born in the United States to an American mother who had contacted the F.B.I.

American officials, who were not aware of the Cazares case, said they, too, were extremely frustrated with Mexico’s lack of progress on judicial reform, but they addedslight curves both above and below the wing. The airframe itself will be carbon fiber composite, with titanium allow along the wings' leading edges. Aerion's chief technology officer, Dr. Richard R. Tracy is one of the world's foremost experts in supersonic natural laminar flow (SNLF), and the company has done research in collaboration with NASA's Armstrong Flight Center.

Will we actually see these planes? I think so. A recent market survey showed that there's a market for over 600 SBJs within the next twenty years, and now with Airbus' backing, it's almost a sure thing. From this arrangement, Airbus will benefit from Aerion's SNLF knowledge and be able to apply that to their own aircraft designs, and hopefully a new supersonic commercial airliner at some point in the future.


With the 2018 Telstra Premiership about to kick off and set to be as tight as any competition in memory, we take a look at each club's goal kicking stocks and find a gulf between the best - and worst - equipped teams.

At the top of the tree, Penrith and Canberra each have the luxury of a player in their starting 13 with a career accuracy above 80% who won't even be required to kick.

At the other end, clubs like Newcastle and Wests Tigers are on the verge of starting the season with a first-choice goal-kicker who has yet to take a shot at NRL level. Yet other clubs, such as Manly and Cronulla, have a host of candidates but none who are established or yet have convincingrecords.

1. Penrith Panthers

Nathan Cleary: 145/168, 86.31%

James Maloney: 707/876, 80.71%

Blues five-eighth James Maloney's precise goal-kicking has been invaluable in former clubs Cronulla and the Roosters achieving premiership glory in 2016 and 2013 respectively. He has also been the Blues kicker in recent series. However, despite being one of the best in the NRL in recent years he has now moved to a club that officially has the competition's most accurate kicker in Nathan Cleary. Most of the other teams would kill for this luxury.

2. Canberra Raiders

Jarrod Croker: 593/728, 81.46%

Aidan Sezer: 173/210, 82.38%

Raiders skipper Jarrod Croker is one of the NRL's top sharpshooters and at just 27 years old is set to break all kinds of point-scoring records. Halfback Aidan Sezer was one of the NRL's best goal-kickers throughout his


of rep duty have forced the Cowboys to lean on Ethan Lowe heavily in recent seasons and after kicking below 70% in 2014 and 2015 the rugged back-rower came into his own in Thurston's long-term absence last year, kicking at 79.7% in 2017.

5. Gold Coast Titans

Michael Gordon: 596/733, 81.31%

Kane Elgey: 18/23, 78.26%

Ash Taylor: 65/96, 67.71%

Veteran fullback Gordon is set to bump Kane Elgey and Ash Taylor out of the top job in 2018 with the former Roosters, Eels, Sharks and Panthers custodian averaging better than 80% over a long career. The young halves pairing provide more than serviceable second-string options.

6. Parramatta Eels

Moses: 109/149, 73.15% (at Parra 31/37, 83.78%)

Gutherson: 50/68, 73.53%

Clint Gutherson was doing a fine job as first-choice Eels kicker before Moses joined mid-season last year, and thesix from 10 in two games.

11. Sydney Roosters

Mitchell: 21/34, 61.76%

Taukeiaho: 30/39, 76.92%

Outside of the 22 games Michael Gordon played for them last year, the Tricolours have had a tough time off the tee since James Maloney left the club at the end of 2015. Lock or prop Sio Siua Taukeiaho is the best of the rest, forging a respectable 77% average in his 39 attempts (which almost all came in 2016).

He kicked a superb 16 from 18 for Tonga at the recent World Cup. The problem for the Roosters is that he is unlikely to play 80 minutes often if at all (especially if he lands in the front row rotation). Back-up Latrell Mitchell had a dusty start to his NRL goal-kicking career, going at barely over 50%


Bert Stern: Original Madman Follows the Photographer and the Many Women He Wished to Snog

Jean-Luc Godard is credited with calling the history of cinema "boys photographing girls," and Shannah Laumeister's documentary Bert Stern: Original Madman considers the life of one boy who photographed many, many girls in his decades-long career. The most famous was Marilyn Monroe, toward the end of her life, and Stern's description of himself as "just a kid who wanted to make out with her" is a recurring theme in his weary recollections of his own, much longer life: so many pretty girls that he wants to snog but settles for photographing instead. Granted, there was plenty of sex to be had while the girl-crazy Stern was a big shot in the mid-20th-century publishing world—advertisinglegend Jerry Della Femina declares Stern "the original mad man," providing the film with a crucial marketing hook—but the movie is much more interesting when it examines Stern's Crumb–like relationships with the women in his life, including director Laumeister. Notably, Stern's skill at seeing "the woman in the little girl" results in his creation of the iconic Lolita poster, thus opening those particular floodgates. Bert Stern: Original Madman is a sometimes uncomfortably intimate portrait of a man who seems unsure if he has a place left in the culture he helped to shape.


paranoia of Sean Payton with none of the playcalling acumen.

Your quarterback: EJ Manuel, who missed six games last season due to various injuries. Good thing the Bills sorted out that backup-QB situation. Maybe they can call up Kevin Kolb and have him boat into practice while shitfaced.

What's new that sucks: Ralph Wilson died. You should have seen all the people praying for his death in last year's installment of this series. Now, don't you people feel shame? Anyway, now that the old man is gone, the Bills can go about the process of fumigating the joint, selling off the Wilson's prized collection of antique nightstands, and organizing a proper sale of the team. Of course, these are the Bills, so that process instantly became a county-fair raffle featuringthe likes of Donald Trump and Jon Bon Jovi, whose sole qualification to be an NFL owner is that he is bros with Robert Kraft. Bon Jovi's bid was too low for the NFL. That's right: The Bills got lowballed by Jon Bon Jovi. They couldn't even get Bruce Springsteen to bid on this team. They had to get Springsteen's private-label equivalent. I would have enjoyed Bon Jovi acquiring the team and then the Patriots using the Bills as their own personal munitions supply. May as well have made it official.

The sale has been such a clusterfuck that no bidder offered more than a billion dollars for the team. This is an NFL franchise, mind you. It could be located in Fairbanks and still rake in hundreds of


bottom of page) is a huge dickbag on Twitter and only picks Twitter fights withBills fans that have the intelligence of a plant. Fuck Jon Bon Jovi, his shitty band, and the cigarette smoking, food stamp using fans that listen to his music.

Sean:

When Dyson ran that ball in for a touchdown, it was like having your dick ripped off in the middle of an orgasm.

Jason:

Buffalo is actually bringing the fair market value of NFL franchises down. They're like the neighbor in your HOA who has the only house with the uncut grass and a '68 Chevelle up on blocks in his driveway. But they have the audacity to bitch that you're cutting your grass at 10 a.m. That's the Bills.

Joe:

16 years old, 1998, Music City Miracle. Watching themy uncle ran a sizable tailgate which entitled him to tickets from the team. I remember being in awe that the place I built up in my head was within my grasp after years of pining. The field was a beautiful shade of green and the red endzones conjured up images of Flutie running to the corner against Jacksonville as time expired and the wild scene that followed. I was as excited as could be, but before the game started I had to go to the bathroom. As soon as I walked into the bathroom I saw a drunk middle-aged man taking a monstrous dump in the sink. He didn't even try to be discreet about it or act like it was something I shouldn't see. He just


there's a new place to wait in line for food and Zubaz. Seriously, this piece on the Bills' website reads like a failed submission to The Onion. Get excited for toilets and SuperGates, Buffalo! Ignore the fact that the stadium is just as uncomfortable and inconveniently-located as it was before we unloaded several dump trucks' worth of your money into it!

Richard:

The peak of Bon Jovi's career was when he was decapitated in the movie, U-571. The could show that scene on repeat throughout all the games at The Ralph and everyone will love it.

James:

That god damn Draft Day movie was supposed to be about the Bills but then movie producers decided to go with the Browns. I guess even the exec's in Hollywood thought that a movie aboutthe Bills having a good draft was too unbelievable.

Drew:

A lot of Bills fans actually enjoy Berman just because he says nice things about us on national TV. That is all.

Kevin:

Our best option for a new owner, Terry Pegula, promptly ran the Sabres into the ground. In 3 seasons the Sabres went from a middle of the pack team to a historically bad 30th place team in a weak draft year.

Joe:

We currently have the longest playoff drought in the league. We were horrible for 90% of our existence. The greatest player in team history is a sociopathic murderer who will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. An 80s rock star is actively trying to relocate the team to Fucking Toronto.

Matt:

I started watching football when I was


in college, and my now-wife and her family invited me into their home to watch the Bills every Sunday. We dated for three years after that, and we've now been married for ten years. I still haven't seen a Bills playoff game.

Matt:

Three fucking people put a bid in. Three.

Matt:

People were calling in to local sports talk radio last season wanting to run Stevie Johnson out of town because he tweeted a picture of himself eating tacos at a Buffalo restaurant late on a Friday night. Keep in mind he is probably the most popular player the team has had in the last 10 years.

Terry:

I'm a Bills fan living in Seattle. Whenever people out here find out I'm a Bills fan they either treat me A) like my dogseason.

Mike:

I once saw a drunk, meathead in a CJ Spiller jersey start shaking a porta potty while someone was inside. Hundreds of people were around and nobody stopped him. They all just drunkenly started chanting "Spiller Guy." It was 9:30 am.

AFC South: Titans | Jaguars | Texans | Colts

NFC South: Falcons | Buccaneers | Panthers | Saints

AFC West: Chargers | Chiefs | Raiders | Broncos

NFC West: Rams |Cardinals | 49ers | Seahawks

AFC North: Steelers | Bengals | Browns | Ravens

NFC North: Bears | Packers | Lions | Vikings

AFC East: Jets | Dolphins | Bills | Patriots

NFC East: Skins | Giants


Power lines to Iran's most controversial nuclear enrichment plant were blown up a month ago, according to its atomic energy chief, who alleged on Monday that the UN nuclear watchdog may have been infiltrated by "terrorists and saboteurs."

The accusation coincides with strident Israeli warnings about the need to stem Iran's nuclear program with a threat of force, as well as new diplomatic efforts to secure better inspections and an abandonment of work that could be used to develop atomic weapons.

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The UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had no immediate response but Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani's comments seemed certain to overshadow those efforts.

He told the IAEA's annual assembly that power lines from the city of Qom to the underground Fordo plant had been blown up on August 17, and "thesame act" had been carried out earlier on power lines to Iran's main enrichment plant, near the town of Natanz.

Satellite image of Fordo nuclear facility (Photo: AFP)

The plants use centrifuges to "enrich" uranium to a higher concentration of the fissile material that be used in nuclear power plans or nuclear weapons.

Fordo worries the West most as it produces uranium of 20% fissile purity, more than needed for power plants and only a short technical step from the 90% needed for a warhead.

"It should be recalled that power cut-off is one of the ways to break down centrifuge machines," Abbasi-Davani said.

On August 18, he said, an IAEA inspector had asked for an unannounced visit to Fordo, built 80 meters below ground to better protect it against enemy strikes.

"Does this


visit have any connection to that detonation? Who, other than the IAEA inspector, can have access to the complex in such a short time to record and report failures?" he asked.

"Terrorists and saboteurs might have intruded the agency and might be making decisions covertly," he said, according to an official Iranian translation of his speech in Farsi.

Ahmadinejad at Natanz nuclear plant (Archive photo: AP)

He later told reporters that back-up power and other defenses had prevented any damage to the Fordo plant.

Abbasi-Davani did not say who he believed was behind the attacks, though Iran has often accused Israel and Tehran's Western foes of trying to sabotage its nuclear program.

At least four scientists associated with the program have been assassinated since 2010, most recently in

January, and the Stuxnet computer viruswas used to cause malfunctions in Iran's nuclear enrichment equipment.

But Abbasi-Davani did for the first time explicitly and publicly suggest that the IAEA might be complicit in sabotage.

Mark Fitzpatrick, the head of non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that according to the IAEA 696 centrifuges are being used to enrich uranium inside Fordo, with another 1,444 installed but not yet operational.

If these machines lost their power supply, they would be severely damaged, he was quoted by British newspaper The Telegraph as saying.

"If there was no power source to keep them spinning, and if they stopped, as they slowed down they would crash," he said.

Fitzpatrick noted that the electricity supply for Iran's other enrichment plant at Natanz had been singled out for sabotage, with one power


surge destroying 50 centrifuges. It was "entirely conceivable" that Fordo could be encountering the same attention, he said.

Davani, who also serves as Iran's vice president, told the annual gathering in Vienna that "nuclear weapons in the hands of the Zionist regime pose a threat to international peace and security."

He denied allegations that Iran was pursuing a nuclear bomb. "To liberate Palestine from the conquering Zionists there is not need for nuclear weapons. The solution is democracy and the holding of a referendum among the original inhabitants of Palestine," Davani said.

The IAEA has voiced growing concern about what Western diplomats describe as persistent Iranian stonewalling of its attempts to conduct detailed inspections of Iran's research.

An IAEA report issued late last month did indicate that inspectors had visited Fordo onAugust 18, but it did not refer to any damage.

Instead it said Iran had doubled the number of centrifuges at Fordo, despite UN sanctions, Western attempts to limit Iran's oil exports, and the threat of an Israeli attack.

A Western diplomat said the Iranian allegation that the agency may have been infiltrated by terrorists was "insulting to the IAEA and its professional staff".

"Their (Iran's) assertions are becoming more desperate and ludicrous to distract attention away from their lack of cooperation and duplicity in dealing with the agency," he said.

Ynet's military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai explained that the covert war against Iran - initiated by the US, Israel and Britain - is ongoing. He said the sabotage at Fordo has been confirmed and proves that Iran's nuclear work can be stopped


without the use of bunker buster bombs.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is due to meet Iran's chief nuclear negotiator on Tuesday on behalf of six major powers, and IAEA head Yukiya Amano said on Monday that his agency would hold more talks with Iran about inspections aimed at allaying Western concerns.

Abbasi-Davani, himself wounded in an attack in Tehran two years ago, made clear his view that sabotage would not slow Iran's nuclear program, which it says is purely peaceful.

Israel, believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear-armed state, sees Iran's atomic work as a threat to its existence and has been suggesting it could launch an attack on Iran to prevent it reaching nuclear weapons capability.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been pressing Washington to threatenmilitary action against Iran's nuclear program, said on Sunday that Iran would be on the brink of being able to build a nuclear bomb in six or seven months.

The United States and its allies have launched a major naval exercise in the Gulf that they say shows a global will to keep oil shipping lanes open as Israel and Iran trade threats of war.

Abbasi-Davani said Iranian experts had devised "certain ways through which nuclear facilities remain intact under missile attacks and air raids."


Mahmoud Ahmed Sherifo

Mahmoud Ahmed Sherifo (born 1948), commonly known simply as Sherifo,  served briefly as the Head of State of Eritrea while the President was away. He joined the Eritrean Liberation Front in 1967. He was an independent activist during Eritrea's war of independence from Ethiopia. Post-independence, he served in various capacities as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Local Government.

In September 2001 he was detained indefinitely along with other politicians who were known as the G-15, a group which opposed the rule of Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki. Mahmud along with 15 other ministers were arrested by the ruling front and detained in unknown location ever since. The ministers were criticizing the border war of the then president, Isaia and signed an open letter. Amnesty InternationalBartenbach’s house to determine why she was not at

school. Upon arriving at the house, Brown noticed that the front door was ajar and the

rear sliding door also was open. Brown then decided to call 911. A police officer arrived

on the scene and went into the house, where he discovered Bartenbach’s lifeless body in a

pool of blood in a bathroom. Bartenbach had been stabbed approximately twenty-five

times.

         Williams lived across the street from Bartenbach with his girlfriend, Sandra

Emous, and Emous’s parents. On September 20, 2009, police went to Emous’s house

after Williams became a person of interest in the investigation. Emous told a detective


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that Williams had gone with a cousin to Fort Wayne on the afternoon of September 19.

Emous also told the detective that she was aware of Williams having been in

Bartenbach’s house only once, about a year and a half before, when he helped Bartenbach

move a dresser into the house. Bartenbach’s ex-husband confirmed that Williams had

helped move furniture on that occasion. Williams submitted to an interview by police on

September 21, 2009, in which he stated that he had been in the house on a few other

occasions as well, in response to police questioning that falsely implied that his

fingerprints had been found throughout the house.

     Emous and Williams also told police that on the evening of September 18, 2009,

they had stayed at home, except for going to a Meijer store at around 8:00 p.m. for

approximately one hour. Ten months after this original statement, Emous told police that

they also had gone to a Walmart store at about 1:00 a.m. on September 19, 2009.

Records of a cell phone belonging to Emous, however, showed that the phone had been

used during the evening of September 18th and early morning hours of September 19th at

locations other than Emous’s house, the Meijer store, or the Walmart store.

      David Lucas of the Indianapolis-Marion County Crime Lab (“Crime Lab”)

swabbed various areas of Bartenbach’s house where there appeared to be blood stains,


as

well as other areas where DNA from skin cells might be expected to be found. Included

among the items that Lucas swabbed was the inside and outside of the front door

doorknob, which he determined had blood on it. The entire doorknob itself was removed

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and taken to the Crime Lab. Lucas also attempted to lift fingerprints in various areas of

the house, but no fingerprints matching Williams were recovered.

         Judith Macechko, a serologist with the Crime Lab, examined mostshe be consistent in her statements to police. Also, after it was revealed that

Williams’s DNA was found in a blood stain at Bartenbach’s house, Emous told

investigators for the first time that she recalled Williams having helped Bartenbach

unload groceries at her house two days before the murder and that he had accidentally cut

himself while doing so, causing his knee to bleed.

         On April 4, 2011, the State filed a request that a video deposition of Macechko be

scheduled to be used at trial in place of her live testimony. Specifically, the State

asserted that Macechko would be unavailable to testify at trial because she had retired

from the Crime Lab and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to care for her gravely ill elderly

mother. Williams objected


blood came

to be at Bartenbach’s house are puzzling. It is undisputed and verified by an independent

witness that Williams was in Bartenbach’s house on at least one prior occasion about a

year-and-a-half before the murder. In the immediate aftermath of the murder, this was

the only occasion that Emous remembered Williams ever being at Bartenbach’s house.

However, after it was revealed that Williams’s blood was found at Bartenbach’s house,

Emous recalled Williams having been in Bartenbach’s house just days before the murder,

and having cut himself and possibly bled while there. Emous had previously failed to

mention this purported incident. Additionally, in his interview with police Williams

seemed to give varying explanations of how many times he had been in Bartenbach’s

house, and where he had been in the house, when confronted with the (admittedly false)

insinuation byhaving committed burglary at the age of fourteen. He had another juvenile

adjudication the next year for receiving stolen property. Beginning in 1987, he has adult

criminal convictions for concealing stolen property in Oklahoma, and in Indiana for

armed robbery on three different occasions, possession of cocaine or a narcotic drug,

battery with injury, and two counts of driving without a license. In addition to these

convictions, Williams has incurred repeated conduct violations while incarcerated in

prison or jail. He also has admitted to using marijuana on a regular basis. He has had

probation revoked on at least one prior occasion. In other words, Williams has engaged


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Peggy Carter, the plucky heroine of Marvel's short film Agent Carter, is getting her own series. Talk of a possible Agent Carter TV show has been rumbling around ever since the character's live-action debut in Captain America: The First Avenger and her subsequent solo adventure, but things were made official today with ABC picking up the property for a series order. The past couple of days have been huge for superheroes on television - this week alone saw pickups for Gotham, The Flash, and Agent Carter by different networks - so to help you decide which comic book crusader to catch on the small screen next year, we've outlined all of the upcoming superhero television series currently hurtling their way to your television sets.
Agent CarterPremiere Date:missteps, Arrow has blossomed into a fun, rollicking hour of television with the right mix of action and melodrama. Given that it's a spin-off, the series already has an established universe to take plots, the scarlet speedster should be in capable hands.
GothamPremiere Date: Fall 2014What It's About: Gotham will serve as an origin story for the entire Batman universe. The series will center on a young Det. Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) during his first couple of years on the Gotham police force, while also exploring the humble beginnings of several classic Batman characters, including Penguin, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, the Riddler and of course, a young Bruce Wayne.Will It Be Good? Creating a series centered on Batman's city sans Batman is decidedly risky, but there's a lot to like


in what we've seen of the series so far. Gotham's first trailer is decidedly moody and the actual depiction of Gotham City - a dark and sprawling metropolis with a ton of secrets hidden in every alleyway - looks just about right, but all the child versions of Batman's iconic rogues gallery does give us pause. It might also suffer from the same problems that have plagued Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D's rocky first season, namely being set in a comic book universe without all the cool comic book characters. If the series can weave a compelling and original narrative with the Batman mythos, then we won't miss the caped crusader all that much.
The Netflix Series: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The DefendersPremiere Dates: Sometime in 2015,if there's anyone in the world who is set to inherit Streisand's legacy, it's Michele, and this would be the perfect place to establish herself as a mini-Barbra.
Thoroughly Modern MillieAlthough the movie might be less familiar to most audiences than Funny Girl, the musical, which was originally produced in 2002, has become a staple of high school theater departments across the country. This connection would allow the network to draw a younger audience, who are familiar with the production, but the 1920s setting and jazz-age inspired music won't turn off an older audience either. And even though the songs might not be as well-known as the score of The Sound of Music, it's catchy and up-beat enough to stick in your head for weeks afterward. For star power,


NBC could go with Sutton Foster, who originated and won a Tony Award for the role when it was on Broadway, as her stint on the beloved but canceled Bunheads would draw a decent sized audience who are eager to see more from Foster.
Wicked Sure, they could choose The Wizard of Oz, which has become part of a holiday tradition for many people already, but let's face it: without Judy Garland, the show's kind of boring. Instead, the network should go with Wicked, which has become somewhat of a modern classic. It's entertaining enough for children, complex enough for adults, and has become a pop culture phenomenon and the biggest hit musical Broadway has seen in quite some time, all of which would translate to massive ratings forshe abide by the command of status quo, delighting in the public's applause for her and keeping them complacently saturated with her smiles and curtsies? Or does Katniss hold three fingers high in opposition to the machine into which she has been thrown? It's a quarrel that the real Jennifer Lawrence would handle with a castigation of the media and a joke about sandwiches, or something... but her stakes are, admittedly, much lower. Harvey Weinstein isn't threatening to kill her secret boyfriend.
Through this chapter, Katniss also grapples with a more personal warfare: her devotion to Gale (despite her inability to commit to the idea of love) and her family, her complicated, moralistic affection for Peeta, her remorse over losing Rue, and her agonizing desire to flee the eye


the novels, the majority of the cast faced super-tough competition to land a part in the film. Here's a look at five characters who in an alternate universe would have been played by somebody completely different.Katniss EverdeenAround 50 actors reportedly auditioned for the series' hero, the most high-profile of which were Abigail Breslin, Chloe Grace Moretz, Hailee Steinfeld and Emily Browning. The last of these shares something in common with J-Law: both actresses had previously missed out on the role of Bella in Twilight.Peeta MellarkAmerican Horror Story's Evan Peters, X-Men: First Class' Lucas Till and Magic Mike's Alex Pettyfer were all in contention for the male lead, as were Liam Hemsworth and Alexander Ludwig, both of whom of course went onto play Gale and Cato respectively.Gale HawthorneHad MileyCyrus' ex been cast as Peeta instead, then Arrow star Robbie Amell, Disney Channel graduate David Henrie and former Hannah Montana regular Drew Roy would all have been poised to take his place.Haymitch AbernathyAccording to various sources, John C. Reilly was in the frame to play the middle-aged victor of the 50th Hunger Games until Woody Harrelson was selected ahead of his fellow Oscar nominee at the last minute.Finnick OdairDespite publicly professing his love for the series, Glee actor Grant Gustin missed out on the role of District 4 tribute Finnick Odair, who will first be seen onscreen in Catching Fire, to Pirates Of The Caribbean star Sam Claflin.
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of The Tonight Show and he subequently mocked Leno, including doing a show dressed up as him and continued on the offensive until the red-headed comedian locked into his own show on TBS. I was happy to see this, since even the Leno/Letterman rivalry had gotten stale.
9. Sinead O'Connor Tears Pope John Paul II's Picture on SNL (1992)
The Irish singer sure tore herself out of the spotlight after that stunt to protest the Catholic church's view on abortion/contraception: she was also unhappy to be on the same show that the misogynistic Andrew Dice Clay was hosting. It was quite a fall: she had been on top of the world with her hit single, "Nothing Compares 2 U" and after that she faded away until making guest appearances onalbums with groups like Massive Attack in the 2000s.
10. Lindsay Lohan on Letterman (2013)
Like Grant, Lohan was surprised by pointed questions about her personal life, which continues to be a train wreck of drugs, alcohol and smoking enough cigarettes to age her 20 years. Letterman can be a good interviewer: he wouldn't last as long as he has without that skill, but he can get testy with people that annoy him. Guess Lohan fit into that category.
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Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins is celebrating after officials at a church in her hometown were granted almost $300,000 (£200,000) to aid the building's much-needed


restoration. The opera star drew attention to St. David's Church in the small town of Neath earlier this year (13) when she hosted a fundraiser and auctioned off a dress she wore on U.S. reality show Dancing with the Stars to help boost donations for the cause.
This week (begs12Aug13), church leaders were awarded thousands from bosses at the U.K.'s National Lottery organisation to enable them to restore the venue's gothic tower to its former glory, and Jenkins shared the good news with fans on Wednesday (14Aug13) by posting a Twitter.com link to a local article about the charity grant.
In the accompanying note, she simply wrote, "Great news".
St. David's Church representatives had originally aimed to raise $750,000 (£500,000) to cover the costs of the revamp.

The news that Star Wars:-- and the manipulation of Count Dooku. On the show, some of that was left in place, but she was also revealed to be a Nightsister, and rather just exiting galactic history stage-right near the end of the war, as in the comics, on the show she became a bounty hunter and, eventually, a quasi-ally to both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano. George Lucas, who had a hand in most, if not all, of the TV show's plot points, personally steered Ventress' arc in that direction. And you've got to admit it's more interesting than what had already been established in the EU. The same goes for Barriss Offee, who in the Season 5 (er, series) finale revealed herself to be a traitor to the Jedi Order and


the person framing Ahsoka for murder and terrorism. In the comics, she was just another anonymous casualty of Order 66. On The Clone Wars, however, she was given a far more compelling exit.
3. The Clone Wars Featured Some of the Saga's Greatest Battles
And, yes, the show had plenty of action. In fact, it offered up space battles and lightsaber duels of true cinematic sweep, the equal of anything seen in the movies. And it set those battles in landscapes and environs unlike anything seen in the movies. Space battles? Try the Sky Battle of Quell on for size, instead.
The Clone Wars even cannibalized unused concept art for the original trilogy that legendary artist Ralph McQuarrie had painted. His original blue-white vision for Hoth became the moon Orto Plutoniain Season 1. And his exotic cityscapes were just as interesting, so his design for Coruscant's Monument Plaza made it onto the show, as well.
NEXT: The Clone Wars was brimming with talent, behind the scenes and in the recording booth.
4. The Clone Wars Was Really Smart
This show was capable of delivering a two-part episode about the passage of legislation that would enact banking reforms (in Season 3), as a kind of commentary on the Wall Street shenanigans that led to our financial collapse in this galaxy in 2008. I know, I know, you'll balk and say that sounds as dry as "the taxation of trade routes," but The Clone Wars made that incredibly interesting. It became a study of the political process, about how Palpatine coerced his minions


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5. The Clone Wars Had an Incredible Roster of Voice Talent
The show's regular cast of Matt Lanter as Anakin, Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka, Tom Kane as the Narrator, Dee Bradley Baker as the clones, the late Ian Abercrombie as Palpatine, and James Arnold Taylor as an inspired (and inspiring) Obi-Wan, was peerless. But supervising director Dave Filoni also managed to score high-profile guest talent: actors like George Takei, Michael York, Tim Curry (as Abercrombie's replacement for Palpatine), Katee Sackhoff, Seth Green, Simon Pegg, and even, in one memorable cameo, Liam Neeson himself as Qui-Gon Jinn. As great as they were, it was the regulars, though, who really made the show shine week-in and week-out. Check out the final time we heard Abercrombie as Dartha show that may never happen. It already has happened. This interaction between Nika Futterman's Asajj Ventress and Simon Pegg's Dengar is perfectly indicative of the languid sleaze and scuzzy sexiness the show could trade in effortlessly.
7. The Clone Wars Had an Unbeatable Rogues Gallery
We've already talked about how great Ventress was on the show. But she's just the tip of the villainous iceberg. Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man and Elf, voiced the sinister, snarling Mandalorian Death Watch terrorist Pre Vizsla, a character who could have been a throwaway baddie but ended up having a kind of karmic--even tragic--story arc. Or the Nightsister coven leader, Mother Talzin. Or Revenge of the Sith's General Grievous, whose unique mix of malice and campiness was perfected by voice artist (and


Oscar-nominated sound editor of There Will Be Blood) Matthew Wood. Or Savage Opress, who, forget Vizsla, really had a tragic arc, and was voiced by Highlander's Clancy Brown! Or Tarkin, the King's English-accented villain inhabited by Peter Cushing in A New Hope, who was the only man capable of holding Vader's leash, and was given a new, equally snide personality by Stephen Stanton. Or Cad Bane, who was the Star Wars Galaxy's answer to Lee Van Cleef's Angel Eyes in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: implacable, unstoppable, someone we'd call a force of nature if he weren't just so damn civilized. He was the kind of bounty hunter willing to kill someone if they had a wider-brimmed hat than him, who was never to be foundwithout a toothpick in his mouth, who just seemed to conjure Morricone-esque music out of thin air. In this scene, the floor of his apartment was originally supposed to have the chalk outline of a Gungan. Even more reason to like him!
NEXT: The Clone Wars drew upon a diverse range of influences from Star Wars itself to Alfred Hitchcock to, I would argue, John Waters. (Yep, we're talking "Hunt for Ziro.")
8. The Clone Wars' Movie Inspirations Were Savvy
Though the call-outs were subtle, several episodes were designed as homages to movies cherished by Dave Filoni & Co. A Season 2 episode recast Seven Samurai with Star Wars bounty hunters, in tribute to the centennial of Akira Kurosawa's birth. One of the characters, the broad-hatted Embo was part of a


race named the Kyuzo, in honor of Seven Samurai's most taciturn badass. There were also episodes rendered in the style of Godzilla movies, zombie flicks, Spaghetti Westerns (note that sarape Boba Fett wears in Season 2!), even a blow-by-blow redo of the end of Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious with Anakin as Cary Grant, Padmé as Ingrid Bergman, and Senator Clovis as Claude Rains.
RELATED: ‘Clone Wars’ Recap: The Fate of Ahsoka
9. The Clone Wars Gave Us Mini Movies.
Serialized storytelling is the holy grail of TV production today, but Clone Wars found a middle ground between a serialized rollout of its stories and an episodic approach. Though a character like Anakin's Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, obviously has an arc throughout the course of the whole series, the show mostly preferred three-to-four episodepurple Hutt who escaped from prison with the assistance of Cad Bane, but forgot to pay Bane for his services, was modeled on Truman Capote, voice and all. Despite Ziro's previously ambiguous sexuality, he was revealed to have a girlfriend in "Hunt for Ziro," the glam lead singer of the Max Rebo Band, as seen in Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi, Sy Snootles. Sy put on a Vegas floor show in "Hunt for Ziro," then rushed to her beloved Ziro's side, after he was locked in prison again. They exchanged some self-consciously overheated Tennessee Williams dialogue like Ziro's "Unfortunately the cage that entraps me now also entraps my chance of loving you again." So Sy helped him escape...and then she gunned him down, proving herself to


he became a Jedi, The Clone Wars will go out on top.
12. The Clone Wars' Animation Kept Getting Better and Better
Every season saw a new visual advance. Mind you, Industrial Light & Magic was already a pioneer in the rendering of CGI fire effects. But foliage, water, and hair had always been more of a challenge. And with each year it met those challenges one-by-one. The Season 3 finale's Most Dangerous Game setup of Trandoshan hunters tracking Ahsoka and fellow Padawans through a dense jungle showed how the Lucasarts Animation team had mastered creating a fully organic environment, where before they relied on arid landscapes of sand and rock. Season 4 tackled water with the season-opening arc's three episodes set entirely beneath the waves of ocean planet MonCalamari. And by Season 5, the characters' hair, previously immobile, had started to move and sway with the wind and their own exertion. Not to mention that their choreography of elaborate fight scenes had never gotten more visceral than by the end of its run. Check out the incredible final showdown between Maul and Pre Vizsla from Season 5's "Shades of Reason."
13. The Clone Wars Could Be Edgy
Oh yeah, Vizsla suffered the fate of Ned Stark there. The Clone Wars could be violent and it more than once got in trouble with timid Cartoon Network censors. Other, more graphic beheadings were cut out of the show altogether. And this scene from the Season 3 premiere, of Asajj Ventress kissing a soldier she's impaled on her lightsaber, was also


pretty heady stuff. But I do think the Clone Wars series picked up a couple threads that maybe weren't explored as effectively as they could have been in Episodes I, II, and III. Namely, George Lucas himself realized the missed storytelling potential of killing off Darth Maul at the end of The Phantom Menace when he decided to resurrect him on the TV show. Or, rather, that we'd discover he'd never been killed but had survived being cut in half because of the power of the Dark Side...which, as we know, leads to abilities some consider to be unnatural. Suddenly, Darth Maul was back and his motivations were as prickly as his horns--did he want to return to Darth Sidious' side? Did he actually resent Sidious for abandoningat arguably the most lovable cast member, Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, Ed Weeks and the rest of the main cast did manage to share some juicy tidbits of information. Here's what else we learned from the panel:
On leaving The Office:It was "so hard" to exit the show Kaling had worked hard on, but her own show was too good an opportunity to pass up, Kaling says. But leaving such a tight-knit group of people has its perks: "I knew all of them so well, which is why they come on the show," she says. Expect to see more Dunder Mifflin-ites pop up throughout the show's run, along with the ones we've seen already. B.J. Novak will be back for at least one more episode in Season 1, Kaling


confirmed.
On the magic of Mark Duplass:Duplass will be back for at least two more episodes. In addition to the next new episode (which was screened before the panel), Duplass just shot an episode in which he gets intimate with Messina. It's an indie-movie-lover's dream: Messina in a Speedo and Duplass in a singlet wrestling on the beach together. "They're submitting it to Sundance," Barinholtz joked. Speaking of Mindy's exes, Tommy Dewey will return for more episodes too.
On Weeks' British charm:The role of Jeremy Reed was originally envisioned as a "Bradley Cooper type," Weeks says. But after practicing the audition pages in his American accent, his roommate encouraged him to go with his native accent instead. Clearly it worked out, though Kaling jokes she was so mesmerized by Weeks'looks that she invited him to her house for a late night casting couch session and that's how he got the role.
On Nurse Beverly:Now that Beth Grant has re-joined the cast full time, we'll learn more about the curmudgeonly character. She's had many different boyfriends of varying ethnic backgrounds, Grant says. At one point, she was engaged to the recently convicted Drew Peterson, Kaling and Barinholtz joke.
On Danny and Mindy's chemistry: The writers' room is very divided between wanting Mindy and Danny to get together and wanting to watch their friendship blossom some more, Barinholtz says. Obviously no one would hint at which way it goes, but they did note that the Season 2 pickup didn't change how they're writing the rest of the season.
As for her non-Mindy-related


seasons. Gentry is a career .274/.354/.366 hitter against lefties (.256/.321/.311 vs. righties) but has slumped dating back to 2014, hitting a combined .230/.297/.273 in 314 Major League plate appearances.

Gentry’s most valuable asset is his glove, as defensive metrics offer glowing reviews of his work in the outfield. In 1860 innings as a center fielder, Defensive Runs Saved pegs him at +40 runs, while Ultimate Zone Rating is similarly impressed at +37. He can also offer the Halos plenty of value on the basepaths, where he’s been successful in 77 of his 90 career attempts in stolen bases. Gentry’s career-high of 24 stolen bases came back in 2013 despite the fact that he received just 287 plate appearances that season.

By signing with the Halos, Gentry remains in the AmericanGoa Police arrested Francis Pereira last night in connection with a series of cases of alleged desecration of Christian religious symbols. (ANI) Goa Police arrested Francis Pereira last night in connection with a series of cases of alleged desecration of Christian religious symbols. (ANI)

THE Goa Police have caught a 54 year old taxi driver named Francis Pereira for vandalising religious structures including crosses at a cemetery in south Goa. The arrest — seen as the end of a two week tense period in Goa where crosses and even a Hindu temple was targeted comes as great relief to the state government. According to DG Muktesh Chander, the initial questioning has led to Pereira admitting his crime. He has told the interrogators he has gone on a rampage due


a hoops scholarship back in the day before transferring to Cal State Los Angeles.

LaVar and his wife enrolled LaMelo in school a year early with the grand plan of having the brothers, whose nicknames are Melo, Gelo and Zo, play one year in high school together. Lonzo and LiAngelo committed to UCLA as high school sophomores while LaMelo followed suit after the eighth grade.

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Alejandro “Ali” Danois is the Editor-in-Chief of The Shadow League. His features “Humble Beginnings”, and “Rocky Flop” were mentioned in the Best AmericanEuskal Oiloa - Marraduna Basque

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Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Urges U.S. to Choose between Two Options

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Foreign Ministry released the following statement on Tuesday:

The DPRK's third nuclear test is a resolute step for self-defence taken by it to cope with the U.S. hostile act against it.

Its successful launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2 in December last year was a peaceful one from A to Z which was conducted according to its plan for scientific and technological development for economic construction and the improvement of the standard of people's living.

The world including hostile countries recognized its application satellite's entry into orbit and greatly admired its development of space technology.

The U.S., however, again prodded the UN Security Council intocooking up a new "resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK, terming its satellite launch a violation of the UNSC's "resolution".

Encroaching upon the right to satellite launch is an unpardonable grave hostile act as it is an infringement on the DPRK's sovereignty.

By origin, the DPRK had neither need nor plan to conduct a nuclear test.

The DPRK's nuclear deterrence has already acquired the trustworthy capability strong enough to make a precision strike at bases for aggression and blow them up at a single blow no matter where they are on the earth.

It was the DPRK's goal to focus efforts on economic construction and the improvement of the standard of people's living by dint of nuclear deterrence for self-defence provided by the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il


all their lives.

The DPRK exercised its maximum self-restraint when the U.S. fabricated the "presidential statement" over its satellite launch for peaceful purposes by abusing the UNSC in April last year.

But the DPRK's patience reached its limit as the U.S. intensified such hostile act as implementing before anyone else the UNSC's "resolution on sanctions", far from apologizing for its renewed wanton violation of the DPRK's right to satellite launch.

The main objective of the current nuclear test is to express the surging resentment of the army and people of the DPRK at the U.S. brigandish hostile act and demonstrate the will and capability of Songun Korea to defend the sovereignty of the country to the last.

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Rightist-leader Luce talks against state education
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Phillip Abbott Luce gives his views on state education.
Alumni plan activities for Stanford weekend
The General Alumni Association and the San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Club have invited alumni, students, parents and friends of USC to join them on Oct. 9 and 10 for a San Francisco weekend in celebration of the USC-Stanford game.
Festivities begin with the Annual Pre-game Reception at 6 p.m. on Oct.


to the new President.”
Dorm food problems cited by food service director
BY PETER WONG
The student opened a plastic bag and dumped three dinner rolls with gray mold in front of Herb Harbeson, director of residence halls and food service.
“These rolls were in the warmer, offered for dinner the previous night,” he told some 150 students who met Tuesday night to discuss food service.
Harbeson cited four major problems in the food operation: finances, quality, service and discipline.
He said the program ran on a deficit this summer partly because of soaring prices on raw food—an average of eight percent. He pointed out that the costs of raw meat has risen about 20 per cent and cooked meat about 40 per cent.
“We considered raising prices for meal contracts, but the forms hadactivities for Stanford weekend
The General Alumni Association and the San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Club have invited alumni, students, parents and friends of USC to join them on Oct. 9 and 10 for a San Francisco weekend in celebration of the USC-Stanford game.
Festivities begin with the Annual Pre-game Reception at 6 p.m. on Oct. 9 in the Imperial Ballroom of the San Francisco Hilton Hotel, located on Mason and O’Farrell Streets. Admission price of $1 per person includes hor d'oeuvres. Cocktails will also be available for purchase.
At 9 p.m. the reception guests, the Trojan Marching Band, and the cheerleaders will march to Union Square for a pep rally.
The San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Club has also announced boat and bus trips to the USC-Stanford game on Saturday.
The Harbor


not be considered official members of the committees and thus would not be allowed to cast a vote.
“Hubbard, as the newly appointed President, has a lot of added work and must be given more time to research the nominations. The ASSC, in making a statement such as this one, is not being very helpful to the new President.”
Dorm food problems cited by food service director
BY PETER WONG
The student opened a plastic bag and dumped three dinner rolls with gray mold in front of Herb Harbeson, director of residence halls and food service.
“These rolls were in the warmer, offered for dinner the previous night,” he told some 150 students who met Tuesday night to discuss food service.
Harbeson cited four major problems in the food operation: finances, quality, service andPresident Trump told CBS News ahead of Monday's meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin that he could have a "very good relationship" with Putin and wants to get along. Mr. Trump also said he may ask Putin to extradite the Russians indicted last week for their roles in hacking DNC servers during the 2016 election, but shifted most of the blame for the hack onto the Democrats and President Obama.

"Again, this was during the Obama administration," Mr. Trump said. "They were doing whatever it was during the Obama administration. And I heard that they were trying, or people were trying, to hack into the RNC, too, the Republican National Committee. But we had much better defenses. I've been told that by a number of people, we had much


better defenses, so they couldn't. I think the DNC should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked."

The comments came as the president sat for an interview over the weekend with CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor. They met at the Trump Turnberry Resort in Scotland.

The dynamics of Monday's meeting between the two world leaders are complicated by the allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. election and the special counsel's search for links between Russia and members of President Trump's campaign. The president brought up the Russia investigation when asked about the tone he'd like to strike with President Putin.

Mr. Trump said the U.S. is "greatly hampered" by what he called "the Russian witch hunt, the rigged situation."

DNC Chairman Tom Perez tweeted in response toeverybody."

The president also criticized NATO allies for not "paying their bills," as he put it. And he singled out Germany for its support of a gas pipeline deal with Russia.

You can see more of Jeff Glor's conversation with President Trump on Monday night's CBS Evening News.

Then, on Wednesday, the president will sit down with Glor for a second, post-summit interview in Washington.