Samuel E. Pingree

Samuel Everett Pingree (August 2, 1832June 1, 1922) was a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran who received the Medal of Honor.

Early life
Pingree was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, the son of Stephen and Judith (True) Pingree. He received his early education in Andover, New Hampshire, and McIndoes Falls, Vermont, then entered Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1857. He studied law in Bethel, Vermont, and was admitted to the bar in Windsor County in December 1859. He began practicing law in Hartford in partnership with his brother Stephen (1835-1892).

Civil War

He enlisted in Company F, 3rd Vermont Infantry, and was soon chosen 1st lieutenant. In August 1861, he was promoted to captain, and was commissioned major on SeptemberLaurentian™ font family

Maclean's is a weekly Canadian newsmagazine with a broad editorial mission. A typical issue covers everything from violence on the other side of the globe to the largest pumpkin grown in a local county.

In 2001, Maclean's invited Rod McDonald to become part of the design team to renovate" the 96-year-old publication. The magazine wanted to offer its readers a typographic voice that was professional, clean, and easy to read. Above all, the typeface had to be able to speak about the hundreds of unrelated subjects addressed in each issue while remaining believable and uncontrived.

A tall order, perhaps? Now add in that this would be the first text typeface ever commissioned by a Canadian magazine. McDonald, who some have called Canada's unofficial "typographer laureate," took on the


Anton Yelchin Received Recall Notice

Seven days after his death, Anton Yelchin received a recall notice for the vehicle that killed him, according to his family’s lawyer.

“The safety recall was way too little and way too late,” attorney Gary Dordick. “They should have never used this device.”

The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Anton drove reportedly lacked the grooves found in old school transmissions that allowed drivers to feel the various gears. Fiat Chrysler recalled more than 800,000 vehicles in April after receiving hundreds of complaints on the matter.

Anton passed away on June 19 from “blunt traumatic asphyxia” after his car pinned him against a gate at his Studio City, Calif. home. At the time, authorities believed the 27-year-old thought he had put his car into park when he got outfood and shows off bright potted flowers.

Michelle and Eric’s Aristocrat Lo-Liner Photo by Michelle Sullivan California-based photographer Michelle Sullivan also found her family's trailer on Craigslist. Her family, which includes her husband Eric and three daughters, goes camping every summer with a group of friends who started acquiring trailers around 2006. They were inspired when they saw a 1960 Aristocrat Lo-Liner available online and decided to buy and remodel it themselves in pink, gray and red-orange.

Michelle and Eric’s Aristocrat Lo-Liner Photo by Michelle Sullivan According to Michelle's blog, the project took about four months of working with her husband. They installed a new stove, some VCT flooring, a new sink and Formica countertops.

Michelle and Eric’s Aristocrat Lo-Liner Photo by Michelle Sullivan Then they added a few splashes of


plumbing and cabinetry.

Karina and Evan’s mod Airstream Photo by Moorea Seal Now, it has a light and bright interior with pops of green and yellow, some mod lighting and stunning blue bathroom tiles.

Kristiana’s Airstream Bambi Photos by Wendi Nordeck, courtesy of Kristiana Spaulding When Kristiana Spaulding, a California- and Las Vegas-based metal artist and jewelry designer, first saw the 1963 Airstream Bambi model at the New York Museum of Modern Art's collection in 2007, she knew she wanted one of her own.

Kristiana’s Airstream Bambi Photos by Wendi Nordeck, courtesy of Kristiana Spaulding "I made a vow to myself that if I came across an affordable '63 Bambi, it would be a worthwhile investment," she wrote. "The following spring I came upon one on Craigslist for a fair price.It was love at first sight."

Kristiana’s Airstream Bambi Photos by Wendi Nordeck, courtesy of Kristiana Spaulding Spaulding's 16-foot model, with an interior she refurbished herself, is a 1962 Bambi. The native grasses of Lotus, California, near the South Fork American River, inspired its peaceful color palette. There are pieces of collected beach glass on display, as well as other personal touches reflecting her connection to the local environment. It's available to rent for events and commercial photo shoots, along with the other Airstreams in Spaulding's Silver Trailer collection.

Tiffany’s “Audree” trailer Photo by Tiffany Kirchner Dixon Seattle-based photographer and blogger Tiffany Kirchner Dixon completely transformed this 52-year-old trailer into a mod, pink "Fancy Farmgirl" abode called Audree. While Dixon purchased the trailer used from a stranger, she was surprised


claims it's the largest women's outdoor and fly fishing group in the country, with over 6,000 members. Continuing what appears to be a widespread glamping trend, she has used pink as a signature color to bring a touch of femininity to a pastime that was once considered predominantly masculine. Burns also added cowgirl-inspired accessories like a rodeo toss pillow, upcycled saloon-style chandelier and "Lonesome Dove" wall placard.

Angela and Jorge’s Fleetwood Wilderness trailer Photo by Angela Gallardo Angela and Jorge Gallardo found their 28-foot 2001 Fleetwood Wilderness trailer on Craigslist for $6,900 and set to work on shrinking and simplifying their lives. It wasn't easy getting rid of most of their possessions, according to their Anchored Home Blog, especially when it came to Angela's piano and wedding jewelry.

Angela andJuly 26, 2018 - Mind-body therapies - biofeedback, mindfulness, yoga, and hypnosis - provide a promising approach to the very common problem of anxiety in adolescents, according to a review in the March issue of The Nurse Practitioner. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer

"A growing body of evidence supports the implementation of mind-body therapy as a low-risk and cost-effective strategy in the management of anxious teenagers," write Bernadette Fulweiler RN, MSN, CPNP-PC, and Rita Marie John DNP, EdD, CPNP-PC, DCC, of Columbia University School of Nursing, New York. They highlight the role of pediatric nurse practitioners (NPs) in integrating screening and treatment for adolescents with anxiety.

Mind-Body Therapies - Promising Approach to Dealing with Teen Anxiety

Anxiety affects approximately one-third of US adolescents, with more


Fulweiler and Dr. John write. They reviewed and analyzed published research on mind-body therapy for anxiety in teens, focusing on four approaches:

Biofeedback techniques enable individuals to increase self-awareness and physical control through feedback on biological measures. The review identified four studies of biofeedback approaches, showing significant reductions in anxiety and stress in teens receiving heart-rate variability (HRV) monitoring and video game-based biofeedback.

Mindfulness techniques incorporate aspects of meditation, body scanning, and mindful breathing to help focus attention on the present moment and separate from negative thoughts. Six studies showed positive effects of mindfulness approaches for teens with anxiety, including school-based programs in high-risk populations

Yoga is one of the most popular mind-body therapies, with positive physical and mental effects including reduced anxiety. "Low in cost, easy to implement, and accessibleYPSILANTI, MI - Ypsilanti Community Schools will bring its middle school students into one school in a new location for the 2018-19 school year.

Ypsilanti Community Middle School, which is currently located at 235 Spencer Lane, will move to East Middle School, located at 510 Emerick St.

The current YCMS building is about twice as big as necessary to accommodate the middle school student population, said Superintendent Benjamin Edmondson, and East Middle School will provide a more personal setting.

East Middle School currently houses Washtenaw International Middle Academy and Washtenaw International High School.

The two schools are in the process of consolidating under the authority of the Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium, and they are expected to relocate to Ypsilanti's West Middle School, located at 105 N. Mansfield St., going into the 2018-19


Spencer Lane is vacant, the school district will be looking to lease the space for a year or two while administrators explore options for "repurposing" the building after that, Edmondson said.

"We want to repurpose - so after two years, repurpose and open it up as something different, something very exciting to this community and to our school district," he said, adding that he recognizes some people feel the former Willow Run schools have been underutilized since the consolidation of Willow Run and Ypsilanti Public Schools in 2013.

"My attitude has always been that whatever decisions we make for these buildings will be in the best interest of our school district and our taxpayers," he said.

Relocating YCMS and Washtenaw International Middle Academy was one of the recommendations Ypsilanti Schools' facilitiesadvisory committee made in March 2016, as the school district looked for ways to reduce the expense of keeping up vacant properties.

Ypsilanti Schools officials previously discussed relocating the middle school programs going into the 2017-18 school year, but the move was delayed a year to provide more time to prepare West Middle School for the two International Baccalaureate schools. Administrators also briefly considered starting an alternative middle school, but that is no longer part of the plan.

Here's a look at the progress made on the facility advisory committee's other recommendations for the school district's vacant buildings:


vena cava was exposed. The renal vessels were isolated and clipped with Hem-o-lok (Teleflex Medical, USA) and an adequate hemostasis was achieved. During the entire procedure there was persistent bleeding from the hematoma\'s surface. The specimen was placed in a laparoscopic entrapment bag and removed. Finally, the drain was placed and the port sites were closed. The blood loss during operation was 750 mL (including the hematoma blood content). The duration of operation was 120 minutes. No intraoperative complications were encountered. The specimen was sent to the uropathologist. Final histopathology showed a central renal AML without malignancy and with highest diameter of 10 cm.

The postoperative course was uneventful. The drain was removed three days after operation. During the stay in the hospital the patient received prophylactic antibiotic (1 gram ofno sex. Sweet death, take us all now.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Here in York County, PA every September after Labor Day we have the York Fair. It’s the oldest county agricultural fair in the United States at 245 years. The York Fair has happened every year since 1765, which is pretty amazing.

I went to the fair last Saturday and it was a lovely day. The Sun was showering us with healthy rays, leaving out the gamma, x-rays and the ultraviolet radiation. Clouds danced across the sky doing a delicate samba. Mothers were reading poetry to their children while fathers hummed madrigals in the background. As I traipsed down the midway, bluebirds alighted on my arms, singing a song they had written for me extolling my virtues and damning my


come into contact with the game board, causing large and highly aggressive movement of the toy top on the game board. In the last half of the battle game, the rotating shaft having lower frictional force maintains the rotational force of the toy top, exhibiting high rotational continuity.
Unfortunately, this toy top exhibits low aggression in the last half of the battle game.Aircraft lavatory

An aircraft lavatory or plane toilet is a small room on an aircraft with a toilet and sink.

History

An early aircraft fitted with a toilet was the 1921 Caproni Ca.60, However, it crashed on its second flight and never saw service. The Handley Page H.P.42 airliner, designed in 1928, was fitted with toilets near the center of the aircraft.

The British Supermarine Stranraer flying boat, which first flew in 1934, was fitted with a toilet that was open to the air. When the lid was lifted in flight, airflow produced a whistling noise that led to the aircraft being nicknamed the "Whistling Shithouse". The Short Sunderland flying boat, which saw military service from 1938 to 1967, was comparatively well equipped, carrying a porcelain flush toilet.

During World War 2, large


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By Talia Day, Special to CNN

Updated 1217 GMT (1917 HKT) June 19, 2014

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Explorations into the deep – CNN iReporters shared their best photos from under the sea. Here, a diver swims with a lemon shark at Tiger Beach in Nassau, Bahamas. This is a popular location for veteran divers looking to mingle with sharks without a cage.

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Explorations into the deep – Christmas tree worms get festive on top of brain coral in the waters of Cozumel, Mexico, where reefs offer divers an opportunity to photograph a variety of sea life.

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Explorations into the deep – Experienced diver Boaz Meiri wishes more people would give sharks a break. "Sharks


are not what they remember from the movie 'Jaws,'" he said. Meiri photographed a large female tiger shark 19 feet underwater at Tiger Beach in Nassau, Bahamas.

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Explorations into the deep – Bob Fish (yes, that's his real name) has been photographing his underwater adventures since 1994 and can't imagine stopping. In this shot, he caught a school of Bermuda chubs traveling together toward shallow water.

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Explorations into the deep – This photo of a moon jellyfish floating gracefully in the waters of Key West, Florida, is one of Fish's favorite underwater shots he's taken.

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Explorations into the deep – Jorge Gonzalez said, "Relax and be patient. You will be rewarded at the end with abeautiful photograph." Gonzalez photographed this lobster 45 feet underwater in Groton, Connecticut.

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Explorations into the deep – Christian Baki's wife claims her spot on top of the Felipe Xicotencatl shipwreck during a dive in Cozumel, Mexico.

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Explorations into the deep – Dolphins pass in Rangiroa, French Polynesia. "It was the craziest, most incredible underwater experience I've ever had," said Laura Waters. Rangiroa is the second largest atoll in the world.

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Explorations into the deep – Meiri said, "Look for the small details when you dive. There are a lot of hidden creatures in the oceans." He captured this tomato clown fish in 2011 during a dive in Dauin, Philippines.

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deep – Rich Muller has been a photographer for more than 40 years, but this photo shoot was his first time experimenting underwater. He spied a starfish on a small reef in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

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Explorations into the deep – Trevor Murphy captured this photo of international surfing champion Mega Semadhi catching a wave at Padang Padang Beach in Bali, Indonesia. "The hardest thing about water photography is the preparation and timing ... there is no room for error," he said.

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Explorations into the deep – A tiny octopus shows its elegant side during a nighttime dive in the waters of Anilao, Philippines. Simon Lorenz shot this photo about 20 feet below the surface.

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Explorations intothe deep – Beautiful creatures can be found in any ocean. This tube worm flexes underwater in Jamestown, Rhode Island.

Explorations into the deep – Brains aren't just in your head. Professional photographer Matt Swinden snapped this macro shot of brain coral during a dive in Isla Mujeres, Mexico.

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Explorations into the deep – Huy Duong spotted a fellow diver while exploring the Second Cathedral in Lanai, Hawaii, last year. There are two famed caverns, the First and Second Cathedrals, which were formed from massive underwater lava tubes.

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Explorations into the deep – A colorful Northern Anemone in the waters off of Gloucester, Massachusetts, waits to stun its prey with its stinging tentacles.

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– Tom Logston said, "Every dive is a new adventure." Logston photographed this cuttlefish during a dive in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea. He's been diving since the '70s and was inspired by the exploration of Jacques Cousteau.

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Explorations into the deep – A sea of fish passed by Robert Ondrovic's lens during a 10-day excursion in the Galapagos Islands. Ondrovic said, "Sometimes you need to go below the surface rather than just scratch it to explore the wonders and beauty of nature."

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Explorations into the deep – Can you spot the two seahorses embracing in this seahorse garden? Bill Schwamle did in Cozumel, Mexico.

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Explorationsinto the deep – During a dive at Stuart Cove in Nassau, Bahamas, Konstantinos Kohilas gets photo bombed during an underwater selfie by a shark.

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Explorations into the deep – A flamingo tongue sea snail feeds on coral in the waters surrounding Cozumel, Mexico.

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Explorations into the deep – Ted Alan Stedman took this photo 60 feet underwater during a dive along the reefs of Bora Bora, French Polynesia.

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Explorations into the deep – A macro shot of coral taken during a dive in Cozumel, Mexico, shows off an intricate pattern.

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Explorations into the deep – A whip coral goby is photographed deep underwater, off the coast of Dauin, Philippines.

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Explorations into the deep – Fish, who captured this puffer fish in Islamorada, Florida, said, "Get a few dives under your belt. Be sure you have good (or great) buoyancy control before doing anything."

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Explorations into the deep – Baki said, "On my first dive trip, I had a small point and shoot camera, and this started me on my journey to learn underwater photography. I upgraded as I became more proficient." Baki captured this image of divers exploring the wreck of the USS Spiegel Grove about 70 feet underwater in Key Largo, Florida.

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Explorations into the deep – A red-gilled nudibranch slithers on the ocean floor in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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Explorations into the deep– A playful harbor seal pup waves hi to Marla Matin near San Clemente Island in California.

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Underwater photographers are often SCUBA certified and experienced divers

With a little patience and the right equipment, underwater photos can be captured anywhere

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." -- French explorer Jacques Cousteau

It's said that the ocean is like space: Vast and filled with life, most of which we have yet to discover. The aquatic frontier captivates those who dare to explore its depths, by offering a new realm filled with


in use at various times, experimental BMT cars, including the Green Hornet and the Bluebird (and you thought there were only the redbirds), abandoned stations, how the trains get their power and what a substation is, the block signal system versus computer-based train control, different map formats used over the years and which is best (e.g. the Vignelli map controversy), a discussion of subway station mosaics, and legal technicalities such as the City of New York’s leasing of its system to the MTA for $1 per year for them to operate.

All omitted information is readily available on the internet, in libraries or by a visit to the New York Transit Museum, housed in an abandoned subway station in Downtown Brooklyn, and in use only for a few yearshighest elevated station or the deepest subway station is located.

The following sites will provide you with much information depending on your level of interest:

Subchat.com is where you can ask and receive answers to questions. The 76th Street Station is a favorite topic of discussion there.

arrts-arrchives.com is an extensive site about the portions of the subways that were originally railroads, as well as the entire Long Island Railroad history and includes many photographs, maps and memorabilia.

bmt-lines.com – facts just about the BMT, a very progressive and innovative company

oldnyc.com – explores old railroad rights of way with pictures of the underused Bay Ridge Line

Straphangers.org – maintained by the Straphanger’s Campaign, a leading consumer watchdog group

Mta.info – the official MTA website. (Click on MTA Home if checking on the weekend.)

If you


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"We began working with Sydney Dance Company, one of Australia's leading dance centers, in 2005. As their design agency for five years our work included advertising, collateral, set design, annual reports, environmental graphics and their brand identity. In 2009 Sydney Dance Company welcomed a new artistic director Rafael Bonachela. We were asked to advertise the new season launch, paring back any superfluous design to visually communicate their fresh start. The focus shifted dramatically from last season's group shots of multiple dancers, elaborate costumes and graphic flourishes, to individual portraits of the dancers shot in black and white with minimal costumes. The dancers used their bodies to create strong shapes in a state of tension to express their individuality and passion. This minimal approach was reflected in the verticallyWhite House physician Ronny Jackson announced that he would withdraw from consideration for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

“Going into this process, I expected tough questions about how to best care for our veterans, but I did not expect to have to dignify baseless and anonymous attacks on my character and integrity,” Jackson said in a statement to reporters released by the White House.

Jackson announced his decision after Senator Jon Tester released a two-page list of unproven allegations smearing Trump’s nominee, who served as the White House physician for three different presidents.

President Donald Trump nominated the White House physician as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, but faced stiff opposition from both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate.

Jackson denied the allegations which included medical misconduct, drinking while on duty and wrecking


went into service. When the Anglo-French design made its public debut in Toulouse in 1967, two years before its maiden flight, there was talk of seventy-four orders from sixteen airlines. Pan-Am went so far as to take adverts in the British press welcoming the “aircraft of the future”. The future of flying was, in fact, to be anything but Concorde, or Pan-Am.

How different things had seemed in 1956 – just two years after the Spitfire last flew in regular service with the RAF – when the supersonic programme that launched Concorde took flight. This was the New Elizabethan age when British design and technology were still world-beating, an era in which the talk was of ever higher, ever faster flight.

Entente cordiale

Teaming up with their French rivals, British engineersdesigned one of the most astonishing aircraft yet to fly, a machine marrying mechanical sorcery with ravishing looks. A much-hyped American rival from Boeing was never built, while the Soviet Tu-144 lookalike never made the grade: one of the sixteen built crashed in front of the world’s cameras at the 1973 Paris Air Show.

Meanwhile, Concorde’s maiden flight in 1969 was within weeks of that of Boeing’s 747 Jumbo jet. Although very safe – just one crashed in a flying career spanning thirty-four years – Concorde was never very profitable even in its best years, unlike the double-deck Jumbo and the airbuses that followed in its wake.


among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis. The two committees deal with many of the nation’s most sensitive issues, information and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism. The brothers are suspected of serious violations, including accessing members’ computer networks without their knowledge and stealing equipment from Congress. Three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs were among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis. The two committees deal with many of the nation’s most sensitive issues and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism. The brothers are suspected of serious violations, including accessing members’ computer networks without their knowledge and stealing equipment from Congress.Jamal handled IT for Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat who serves on both the intelligence and foreign affairs panels. Jamal, who public records suggest is only 22 years old and first began working in the House when he was 20, was paid nearly $160,000 a year, or three times the average House IT staff salary, according to InsideGov, which tracks congressional salaries. Abid was paid $161,000 and Imran $165,000.

Democrats evidently paid the Awan brothers over $4 MILLION dollars. They are also aliens from Pakistan. This hiring of aliens to work in Congress is a treason issue. Pakistan teems with terrorists. It is their ‘bolt hole’ and supposedly, though the proof was deliberately dumped into the ocean due to orders from Cheney years ago, the proof is this


night by people whose addresses later could not be verified.

Only 1.5 percent of the new voter identification cards mailed to voters who registered on caucus night were returned to county auditors as undeliverable. That's an indication that the vast majority of new caucus-night voters had a bona fide address in Iowa.

State officials say the low error rate is impressive, especially since caucus-night turnout vastly exceeded expectations and overwhelmed local party officials around the state.

The other argument I hear from the occasional conspiracy theorist on a different blog is that Obama's campaign bused in large numbers of students from out of state. First, that would have affected turnout in a relatively small number of Iowa's 1,800 precincts.

Second, as long as those students attend Iowa colleges and live in statemost of the year, I have no problem with a campaign helping them get back to their campuses in early January. What's the qualitative difference between that and my giving someone in my neighborhood a ride to the caucus if he or she can't drive?

The caucuses never should have been scheduled during the winter vacation of most colleges anyway.

The Obama caucus strategy was very different from Kerry's--it was more like the Dean strategy of mobilizing new voters (only Obama's campaign pulled it off).

I think the Edwards campaign was trying to duplicate Kerry's strategy from 2004, and the Edwards and Clinton campaigns both underestimated Obama's potential here because they didn't believe so many first-time caucus-goers would show up on a cold January night.


for respondent.  With him on the
brief were Linda Sher, Associate General Counsel, Aileen A.
Armstrong, Deputy Associate General Counsel, and Frederick
C. Havard, Supervisory Attorney.  John D. Burgoyne, Depu-
ty Associate General Counsel, entered an appearance.

     Barry A. Macey was on the brief for intervenor.

     Before:  Silberman, Randolph, and Tatel, Circuit Judges.

     Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge Randolph.

     Randolph, Circuit Judge:  Macmillan Publishing, Inc. re-
fused to bargain with, or furnish information to, a union that
won the second of two representation elections.  The compa-
ny defended against the resulting unfair labor practice
charges on the ground that the National Labor Relations
Board had improperly certifiedthe union as the employees'
bargaining representative.  The Board ruled against the com-
pany and ordered, among other things, that the company
bargain with the union.  The company's petition for judicial
review followed.  The Board then cross-petitioned for en-
forcement and the union--the Union of Needletrades, Indus-
trial and Textile Employees--intervened.

     The company is engaged in the wholesale distribution and
sale of books and reference materials.  It operated two
warehouses in Indianapolis, Indiana.  The union filed a peti-
tion with the Board seeking to represent "all full and regular
part-time warehouse and distribution center employees" at
the two facilities.  The company objected to an election as
premature:  in six months, it would be transferring its India-
napolis operations to a new "Customer


Center" some 17 miles
away;  no formal offers of employment had yet been made to
the current unit employees;  additional employees would be
hired to work at the new operation.  The Regional Director
overruled the objection and ordered an election, which the
union lost by a vote of 78 to 75.  The union filed eight
objections.  The Regional Director sustained the union's Ob-
jection 2 and ordered a new election, without passing on the

union's other complaints. The union won the second election
by a vote of 58 to 52.

     The union's Objection 2 centered on a campaign leaflet the
company handed to its employees.  The leaflet read:

           THE RISK?

                             VOTE NO!
The "$2,522.00" referred to an across-the-board wage in-
crease the company had announced two days earlier.  (One of
the union's objections dealt with the timing of the wage
increase.)

     We may quickly dispatch the company's argument that the
first election was premature because of the impending trans-
fer to the Customer Center.  As the union rightly points out,
the second election (which the union won), not the first (which
the union lost) led to the Board's bargaining order.  By the
time of the second election, the company's move to the new
facility


had already taken place.  Of the employees eligible to
vote in the second election, 86% had previously worked in the
company's two Indianapolis facilities.  The Regional Di-

rector's predictive judgment before the first election--that
the work force at the old locations would be a substantial and
representative complement of the work force at the new
location--thus turned out to be accurate.  Nothing more is
needed to sustain the Board's order insofar as it rested on the
results of the second election.  See NLRB v. AAA Alternator
Rebuilders, Inc., 980 F.2d 1395, 1397-98 (11th Cir. 1993).

     The remaining question is whether the Board, through its
Regional Director, properly overturned the first election be-
cause of the company's leaflet.  For its part theCALGARY -- Authorities need the public's help to identify a male suspect in connection with an armed robbery in Trochu, Alta. Thursday morning.

Officers were called to the Alberta Treasury Branch (ATB) in the central Alberta community at about 11:30 a.m. for reports of a robbery.

They were told a masked man entered the vestibule of the bank and took a firearm out of a duffel bag.

He then went into the bank, pointed the gun at a teller and demanded cash.

The suspect fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of money.

No one was injured as a result.

Three Hills RCMP are now asking the public for help to identify the suspect, but advise against anyone approaching him because he is believed to be armed and dangerous.

Anyone with details about the incident


zoom magnification of the barrel lens is generally known. An example of a camera including such a viewfinder is disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2004-258167. Further, an example of a camera including a zoom-strobe mechanism is disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2002-182097.
In the technology of Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2004-258167, a viewfinder cam plate is provided to rotate as a moving cam ring in the zoom barrel rotates, and a viewfinder zoom operation is performed by way of a viewfinder lens following a cam groove provided in the viewfinder cam plate. During this operation, the moving cam ring and the viewfinder cam plate are interlocked using a specially provided protruding member on the moving cam ring.
In the technology of Japanesefeel seen by him? Did she help him? Is he in a drama? And then there's another interpretation, where this is a woman that needs to have a drink. Because she has so much pain, and she's about to crumble. She opened up, and now she's deeply ashamed.

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ESQ: That great performance from the bartender not giving her the shots of Jagermeister seemed to set off the whole manic episode. And I wondered how much of it was her trying to prove to him, and to herself, that she was fun and awesome and didn't need booze.

PP: It can totally be looked at in that way. But then I think there are layers to that show that are interesting, too.

ESQ: Louis is notorious for having


culture and so many other Central Asian influences. It's a country with incredible diversity - ancient ruins, beautiful palaces, lovely beaches, fantastic mountains, Ottoman palaces and religious sites. And where else can you claim you have visited 2 continents in one city?' Richie Karaburun, President, GTA/Travelbound

Summer Travel Recs

'Although this itinerary is not new to Insight Vacations, it is new to many Americans. Most have no idea how much beauty there is in their own country, let alone in the American West. Zion, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Canyonlands, and Monument Valley and Lake Powell [pictured] are all part of Insight Vacations? Wonders of the American West tour--which truly lives up to its name. What nature has carved through millions of years of erosion is a wonder, and to beup close and personal is a privilege.' Richard Launder, President, The Travel Corporation, USA

Summer Travel Recs

'Summer 2011 will continue to see an increase in extremely unique, 'bucket-list' experiences in far flung destinations. Travelers are looking to tick those must see travel experiences off their lists and are now seeking the experiences that will allow them to return home with bragging rights among their friends. These thrill seeking experiences include: the 'Nepal: Himalayan Helicopter Safari' journey by Cox & Kings, which offers the opportunity to view eight of the highest mountain peaks in the world, including Mount Everest, at 29,035 feet.' Thomas Stanley, Chief Operating Officer, Cox & Kings, The Americas

Summer Travel Recs

'Air New Zealand just started flying our new 777-300 aircraft with the Skycouch and Spaceseat to London,


so I'm planning to spend some time in England this summer. Peter Gordon, one of Air New Zealand's consultant chefs, co-owns the Providores in London. I always try to make it there to enjoy a glass of New Zealand sauvignon blanc with their delicious Sunday roast.' Roger Poulton, Vice President, Air New Zealand/Americas

Summer Travel Recs

'British Airways inaugurated new daily non-stop flights with Boeing 777 aircraft from San Diego to London Heathrow on June 1, 2011. Discover day trips from London, like Stockbridge on the River Test in Hampshire. Stockbridge is known for incredible trout fishing, and my favorite culmination to a day's fishing outing is having a pint or two at Three Cups Inn, a quaint riverside favorite very popular with locals.' Kevin Burns, British Airways, Regional Directorsure to delight wine aficionados. Emirates recently launched a second daily nonstop flight from Dubai to help support a growing interest in this iconic South African destination. Customers in the United States can connect from our four American gateways to Cape Town through our state of the art terminal in Dubai.' Nigel Page, Emirates Senior Vice President, the Americas

Summer Travel Recs

'On April 5, American Airlines began flying to Budapest from JFK, the only airline to offer nonstop, year round service from JFK to BUD. Budapest has all the classic venues, with great architecture that can be compared, without too much of a stretch, with Paris: the Parliament, Buda Castle, St. Stephen's Basilica, and the list goes on. But it also has hip attractions for the young, like the


ruin pubs where you can get down and dirty in pleasant, grungey surroundings. Budapest is also gay-friendly and is a big draw for the LGBT audience. Then there's the wine country just half an hour away, and Hungary has some excellent wines, white, rosé, and red.' Jim Carter, American Airlines Vice President, Eastern Sales Division

Summer Travel Recs

'JetBlue's new service to Anchorage from L.A./Long Beach on May 23 is sure to be a hit with pets and people alike. Summer is the best time to visit with lots of daylight hours, great hiking on Alaska's canine-friendly trails and a chance to hang with Star, Anchorage's resident reindeer.' Moose, JetBlue?s official 'Most Traveled Pet, 2010' and spokesdog for the airline?s JetPaws TM programin private, forgivable loans being made available to Texas small businesses.

Trump asserted Monday that it will be up to him to determine how and when to reopen the coronavirus-stricken country, though it is unclear what authority he has to overrule the states. Abbott said he spoke with Trump over the weekend and that the White House understands that "what may work for Nebraska may be different than what works for New York."

Abbott also hinted at a decision coming later this week on whether Texas school will remain closed for the rest of the year. Classes statewide are currently suspended through May 4.

Bail for Texas Inmates

The Texas Supreme Court awaited arguments Monday following a weekend decision that temporarily restored Abbott's executive order restricting some inmates release on bail.

The state's


highest civil court Saturday stayed a lower court's ruling temporarily blocking the order. It came a day after a Travis County district judge found Friday that Abbott likely overstepped his constitutional authority in prohibiting judges from releasing people accused or previously convicted of violent crimes on no-cost bonds.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that the decision would help to protect state residents. The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, which brought the suit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Supreme Court has asked both parties to respond by the end of Monday.

By the Numbers

13,906: Number of Texas people infected with the coronavirus;

287 deaths;

1,176 hospitalized;

133,226 tests performed.

*Map locations are approximate, central locations for the city and are not meant to indicate where actual infected peopleJr., an Arlington police officer, was working as an off-duty security guard at a Whataburger restaurant in Arlington. He testified that, at sometime around 3:20 a.m., he saw two vehicles enter the parking lot, one was a Honda and the other was a Nissan. A female passenger got out of the Honda and went into the restaurant. The driver of the Honda got into the passenger seat of the Nissan. The driver of the Nissan then drove into the drive-through line. While Officer Fobbs was watching, he noticed that the two men in the Nissan were looking at each other and then looking down. He could see the passenger reach toward the center of the car and place something in his lap. He had seen the same things


in connection with narcotics activity at this Whataburger, and he believed that a narcotics transaction was taking place in the Nissan.
As Officer Fobbs went to the passenger side of the Nissan, he heard the passenger say, "Here comes the police." Although Polk and the female passenger (who had come out of the Whataburger by this time) both testified that Officer Fobbs was wearing dark clothing with neither a badge nor insignia, the officer testified that he was wearing his City of Arlington police uniform. The night manager of the Whataburger also testified that Officer Fobbs was wearing his police uniform, badge, and sidearm. Officer Fobbs said that he opened the passenger door of the Nissan and told everyone to "Freeze, nobody move, police." When he gave that order,the passenger in the Nissan threw whatever items were in his lap onto the floor. As Officer Fobbs attempted to reach across the interior of the Nissan to take the keys out of the ignition, the driver, who Officer Fobbs identified as Polk, put the car in reverse, stepped on the gas, and quickly left the Whataburger. Polk said that he sped away because he believed that he was being "car-jacked." As Polk was driving away, Officer Fobbs was struck by the passenger door and was knocked to the ground. The officer suffered injuries that not only required medical attention but also caused him to miss work for three days.
Through the use of the license plate number from the Nissan, law enforcement personnel ultimately located Polk and arrested


at the apartment complex in which he lived. While working in that capacity, he was called to quiet some folks who were making excessive noise in one of the apartments. In the process of trying to stop the noise, the detective was assaulted, and Thompson was convicted of that assault. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected Thompson's argument that the detective was not in the lawful discharge of his duties as a peace officer. Thompson v. State, 426 S.W.2d 242, 243 (Tex.Crim.App. 1968).
In Selvage, an off-duty Harris County deputy sheriff was shot while in a jewelry store on personal business. The owner of the store was nervous about some other customers who had come into the store. The owner told the deputy that he was nervous aboutthe other customers. The deputy removed his coat to reveal his badge and service weapon in an attempt to stop any potential wrongdoing. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said that, at that time, he assumed the role of a peace officer. Selvage v. State, 680 S.W.2d 17, 19, 21 (Tex.Crim.App.1984).
In Hafdahl, an Amarillo police officer was on his way home after his shift ended. Hafdahl cut in front of the officer in a reckless manner, lost control of his vehicle, and wrecked. At the scene of the wreck, the officer told Hafdahl that he was an officer and also told him to halt. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that, at that point, the officer was no longer off-duty. Hafdahl v. State, 805 S.W.2d 396, 401


uniform complete with badge and firearm. As he went up to Polk's vehicle, he heard the passenger say, "[H]ere comes the police." When Officer Fobbs reached Polk's vehicle, he opened the door and yelled, "Freeze, nobody move, police." Sarah Crouch, the night manager at the Whataburger, testified that on the night of the assault Officer Fobbs was working security there. He was wearing his police uniform, badge, and firearm at the time.
Polk testified that Officer Fobbs was not wearing a distinctive police uniform and did not identify himself as a police officer. He said that he thought someone was trying to steal his car.
Chelsea Antoinette Jones, an exotic dancer who was with Polk at the time of the assault, testified that Officer Fobbs was wearing a black T-shirt,black slacks, and black shoes. She did not see anyone wearing a police officer's uniform or badge at the Whataburger. Jones did not hear Officer Fobbs identify himself as a police officer. She did notice, however, that Officer Fobbs was carrying a weapon. Although she had been drinking that night, she knew what was happening. Jones also testified that she had lied to the police that night and that she recently had been released from jail on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Polk also talked about his criminal record: convictions for burglary, two assaults, marihuana possession, and driving while his driver's license was suspended.
As the trier of fact, the trial court was the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight


This invention relates to a sunroof assembly for a vehicle, and more particularly, the invention relates to a motor for driving the sunroof of the sunroof assembly.
Sunroof assemblies are desirable features for vehicle consumers. A sunroof is driven between open and closed positions to provide ventilation, increased sunlight, or access to the vehicle. Sunroof assemblies are typically rather small and are located above the driver's and forward passenger's seat of the vehicle. Prior art sunroof assemblies have used a drive motor located in the interior of the vehicle to drive the sunroof between the open and closed positions.
Recent sunroof designs have become more complex in design and larger, which presents new problems for installing the sunroof assembly onto the vehicle at the factory. In particular, large sunroofs haveof DAMPs may explain why Toll-like receptors seem to respond both to external and endogenous signals (while acknowledging controversy over this issue). By emphasizing her theory that the tissues drive the nature of the immune response (i.e., the "what type" rather than the "whether" of immune response), Matzinger describes a dynamic immune system with complex webs of signalling, rather than an immune system that can be explained by a simple and easily reducible set of molecular signals that initiate response or by a small set of cells (e.g., regulatory T cells) that shut it down.

Challenges to Matzinger's theories
There is now a growing body of work on regulatory T cells which argues that immune activity is stopped by a special subset of T cells. These ideas challenge several of


disability. Finally, Coons alleges that the IRS demoted him in retaliation for making disclosures protected by the Whistleblower Protection Act ("WPA"), in violation of the Civil Service Reform Act.

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We hold that the district court correctly found that Coons is not disabled within the meaning of the Rehabilitation Act and that he did not make out a prima facie case for retaliation. However, because Coons made disclosures that are protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act, we reverse in part the district court's grant of summary judgment.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

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Coons worked for the IRS from 1970 until January 2001. By January 1995, he was a Collection Division Chief and was responsible for a staff of about 400 IRS employees. In early 1997, Coons began making disclosures regarding certain actions takenby IRS officials. He complained to his supervisor, Division Director Robert Ah Nee, of the inappropriate conduct of a former IRS Regional Counsel who was representing a taxpayer in a collections matter. Coons claims that this, and other disclosures, are the reason for the adverse employment actions he suffered in 1998 and 1999.

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Also in early 1997, Coons was given access to the Internet. In August of that year, Deborah Gavina, while installing new software on Coons's computer, discovered that Coons used his computer to view non-work related web sites. This eventually resulted in an investigation by the Office of Inspector General into Coons's alleged misuse of his office computer. In February 1998, Coons was detailed to the San Francisco Regional Office pending the outcome of that investigation.

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On June


22, 1998, Coons took sick leave, claiming symptoms resulting from the stress of work. In late August 1998, Coons, through his attorney and doctor, claimed that he could return to work, but that he would require reasonable accommodations to be made. Specifically, Coons's doctor explained that Coons suffered "continuing abdominal distress" and various other stress-related ailments. Coons's doctor stated that Coons could return to work if he was not required to take "unplanned extended absences from the home, and excessive travel." The IRS did not meet with Coons to discuss his request for accommodation, but, in early September 1998, it detailed Coons to a position in the Quality Program that would not require extended absences from the home or excessive air travel.

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In December 1998, Coons filed a WhistleblowerProtection Act complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, stating that his February 1998 detail to the San Francisco Regional Office, allegedly the result of Coons's computer misuse, was actually the result of complaints he had made regarding improprieties at the IRS. That complaint was eventually dismissed by an Administrative Law Judge in August 2000, and the Merit Systems Protection Board upheld the dismissal. Coons was notified of his right to appeal that dismissal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, but he did not do so.

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In August 1999, as a result of the investigation of Coons's misuse of government computers, the IRS demoted Coons to the position of Program Analyst and reduced his grade from a GS-15 to a GS-14 — roughly a $14,000 reduction in annual


pay. Coons appealed the demotion to the Merit Systems Protection Board and, after hearings in December 1999 and January 2000, the Administrative Judge denied Coons's appeal. A three-member panel of the Merit Systems Protection Board upheld that decision in November 2000.

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In December 2000, Coons filed a complaint in district court challenging the Board's findings, alleging Whistleblower Protection Act violations, unlawful discrimination based on disability, unlawful discrimination based on age, and retaliation. The district court dismissed Coons's age discrimination claim and granted summary judgment in favor of the IRS on the whistleblower, retaliation, and disability discrimination claims. Coons appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment.

DISCUSSION

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Although appeals of Merit Systems Protection Board decisions generally must be filed in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, district courts have jurisdiction tobut cannot be disclosed to the American public. Why? Fear of public opinion? For many citizens, this reeks of the Bush administration’s multiple deceptions about alleged weapons of mass destruction that took us to war in Iraq, destroyed that country and left hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers injured for life.

Third, what possibly can be the “moral weight” of our air strike against Syria for its suspected use of chemical weapons against its people, when the United States has a long history of much more extensive and deadly use of chemical and radiological weapons in war?

We used napalm, which burns through the skin to bone, in World War II. In Vietnam, American soldiers employed napalm and the dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange in Vietnam, for which there are millions of


Vietnamese and American veteran victims. U.S. troops used white phosphorus, which burns human tissue like napalm and causes organ damage and death, in the 2004 battle of Fallujah in Iraq. Depleted uranium-tipped bullets and armor piercing munitions, used by the U.S. and Britain in the 1991 Gulf War and more extensively in the 2003 Iraq war, have littered Iraq with radioactive waste. Since these wars, Iraqi children are now suffering extreme rates of hideous birth abnormalities, cancers and heart defects. Finally, our government gave technical assistance to Saddam Hussein in his use of mustard gas and nerve agents against Iran in the late 1980s.

Between military force and doing nothing, there are strategic choices. Many experienced policy, intelligence and military strategists have proposed alternatives to our government’s headlong rushThe line about therapeutic medication to produce a fit, healthy equine athlete and a drugged-up superstar, capable of pedalling or galloping forever is being argued. "Horse racing is an industry in transition," wrote Dr Scott Palmer, an internationally known equine surgeon and practitioner, following the Breeders' Cup forum entitled ''Racing medication and its 'shades of gray.'" Palmer has served on the Task Force on Racehorse Health and Safety and is a former president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners. "It is a sport with a rich tradition but is competing for relevance in today's culture. Scrutiny from the public is greater and horse racing is struggling to redefine itself. "A number of controversial issues - particularly medication and injuries - were spotlighted [last year] in the national


media and before Congress. Racehorse medication is the flashpoint … "

No doubt the US fuel, of a super nature but barred in Australia, is permitted. However, drug (or medication) law is getting tougher there. Sure, dirt racing takes more a toll on thoroughbreds than turf and slack has been cut for US trainers. However, Rick Dutrow jnr recently had what could be his final appeal turned down regarding being outed for 10 years after syringes containing a painkiller and a sedative were found in his desk. The painkiller butorphanol - an opioid analgesic - was found in a urine sample of his charge Fastus Cactus in 2010 after he won at Aqueduct. Dutrow was also fined $50,000. By Palmer's reckoning, veterinarians are at the centre of the medicationveterinarians. " He maintains ''due consideration be given to the obvious distinctions between therapeutic overages, repeated violations and use of prohibited medications". Loading

Meanwhile, in Oklahoma a quarter-horse trainer, Roberto Sanchez-Munoz, has been banned for 100 years, 80 of them suspended, in the latest penalty handed down on frog juice. The Oklahoma Racing Commission also fined him $100,000 after 10 different positives came up for the class-one drug in his horses at Remington Park. Since the key to detecting the drug was developed last year, positives have cropped up in "lower-grade'' and quarter horses in Louisiana, Nebraska and New Mexico as well.


EXCLUSIVE: A24 just landed one of the hot titles of the Cannes Film Festival, buying domestic rights to Gaspar Noe’s Climax. The widely acclaimed Directors’ Fortnight film blew away critics and audiences.

Written and directed by Noé, the film stars Sofia Boutella and follows a young street dance troupe who gather in a forest for a celebration that descends into madness. It has been referred to as a sadistic Step Up, and its young cast and crossover into genre makes it a strong candidate to be the filmmaker’s commercial breakout.

The film is produced by Edouard Weil, Vincent Maraval, Richard Grandpierre and Michel Merkt, and co-produced by Les Cinémas de la Zone, Artémis Productions and VICE Studios. Danny Gabai and Eddy Moretti Executive Produced for VICE Studios, who helped financed.

CAADuke University, at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

5:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the New East (UNRWA), at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN

10:30 a.m. Under Secretary Sherman meets with Ambassador of Japan to the U.S. Kenichiro Sasae, at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS

12:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats participates in the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Luncheon with George Ingram, Co-chairman of the USGLC, in Washington, DC.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

3:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Bart Peterson from APEC Business Advisory Council and John Steele, Director for International Government Affairs, at the Department of State.(CLOSED


PRESS COVERAGE)

4:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov, at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

6:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the Intel Science Talent Search Awards Gala held, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)

ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER

9:15 a.m. Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller delivers remarks to the POLAD Conference on international security priorities, at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL

11:10 a.m. Ambassador Marshall assists with the working visit of the Sultan of Brunei, His Majesty Sultan Haji Jassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, at the White House.(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)

2:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall assists with the bilateral meeting of the Foreign Minister of Norway, His ExcellencySecretary Jones will represent the United States as Head of U.S. Delegation at the inaugural Joint Committee on Science and Technology between Malaysia and the United States. Assistant Secretary Jones will also meet with the Science Advisor to Malaysia’s Prime Minister, visit the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, host a science outreach event with local youth, and conduct media interviews. In Australia, Assistant Secretary Jones will serve as Head of the U.S. Delegation at the Joint Committee Meeting on Science and Technology between Australia and the United States. She will also visit the Sydney Institute of Marine Science and the Australian National Fabrication Facility, in addition to leading a roundtable with students at the University of Sydney. Please click here for more information.

11:30 a.m. LOCAL Assistant Secretary Jones delivers


remarks on the United States science and technology priorities and research strengths at the Joint Committee Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation, in Kuala Lumpur.(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)

1:40 p.m. LOCAL Assistant Secretary Jones participates in a sub-committee meeting on cross-cutting topics at the Joint Committee Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation, in Kuala Lumpur.(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)

2:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard and U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford meet with Russian Deputy Chief of Mission Oleg Stepanov, at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

5:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard joins Deputy Secretary Burns at his meeting with Filippo Grandi, Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS ANDREW SHAPIRO

12:00 p.m. Assistant SecretaryShapiro delivers remarks to the Business Council of International Understanding (BCIU), in Washington, DC.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK

11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Stock meets with Ambassador of Vietnam to the U.S. Nguyen Quoc Cuong to discuss ways of increasing educational exchanges between the United States and Vietnam, at the Department of State.(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)

AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LUIS CDEBACA

10:15 a.m. Ambassador CdeBaca delivers remarks at an Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing, at the OAS General Secretariat Building, in Washington, DC.(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)

ACTING SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS THOMAS DEBASS

Acting Special Representative Debass is on travel to Miami, Florida through March 14. He is attending the 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative to promote


Anti-Chinese violence in Washington

There were at least several incidents of anti-Chinese violence in Washington, a United States territory and later, a U.S. state, which occurred during the 19th century. Following the Rock Springs Massacre in Wyoming, a wave of anti-Chinese riots and incidents occurred in Washington in September 1885. There were riots and mob actions in Issaquah (then known as Squak), Seattle and Tacoma which resulted in at least four people being killed and extensive property damage.

See also
Anti-Chinese violence in California
Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers, 1885
Seattle riot of 1886
Tacoma riot of 1885
 Bellingham riots of 1907

Notes

Further reading
 (Gov. Squire's report includes a lengthy appendix of communications related to the "anti-Chinese disturbances" of 1885–86.)

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Technology transfer arrangements to bring scientific discoveries out of research institutions and onto the market are important for many organizations, from colleges to hospitals. The Healthcare Innovation Alliance network, which is a group of eight healthcare systems, universities and organizations, aims to help its members commercialize the results of their research more quickly, according to Xconomy. The Cleveland Clinic allows other members of the group to use its commercialization staff and resources in exchange for a royalty from any technology licensed with its help.

Recently, a very small Wisconsin hospital joined the network. Marshfield Clinic, which serves a population of 19,000 in a small Wisconsin city, joins more metropolitan healthcare groups in the alliance. Marshfield added a research arm in 1959, and since that time has made


for the position of Sheriff-Coroner of Orange County,” said Hutchens. “Don has worked for our Department for 29 years and has excelled at every position and assignment. He possesses the experience and qualities needed to lead an agency with 3,800 sworn and professional staff members and over 800 reserve personnel. I am confident that Don Barnes will work tirelessly and effectively to keep the citizens of Orange County safe in their homes, neighborhoods, schools and places of business.”

Sandra Hutchens was elected as the 12th Sheriff-Coroner for Orange County in June of 2010, after having been appointed by the Orange County Board of Supervisors to serve out the remaining two year term of Sheriff Mike Carona, who had resigned. Hutchens began her law enforcement career with the Los Angelescareer with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in 1989 and has served in numerous leadership roles inside the department. Please visit BarnesforSheriff.com for more information.

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has released the following statement:

“I want to congratulate Sheriff Sandra Hutchens on her decision to retire upon expiration of her term and wish her the very best as she enters this new and well deserved phase in her life. She has devoted 40 years to her honored profession of serving and protecting the public. I have enjoyed our close working relationship and appreciate all she has done to strengthen our many joint partnerships including the Orange County Cold Case Homicide Task Force, Human Trafficking And Exploitation, Orange County Regional Computer and Forensic Lab, and


Despite banking restrictions put in place by the Reserve Bank of India, the country has not put any blanket ban on trading in cryptocurrencies yet, the government has clarified.

Responding to questions in the Rajya Sabha on whether the government has prohibited cryptocurrency in the country, Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur this week said the answer was no.

"Presently, there is no separate law for dealing with issues relating to cryptocurrencies. Hence, all concerned departments and law enforcement agencies, such as RBI, Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax authorities, etc. take action as per the relevant existing laws," the Minister said.

"Similarly, police/courts take action on IPC (Indian Penal Code) offences. Further, in view of the risks and dangers associated with cryptocurrencies, (the) government and RBI havebeen issuing advisories, press releases and circulars to the public," he added.

Earlier the Reserve Bank of India issued a circular banning regulated entities from providing services to crypto businesses. The ban went into effect on July 6 last year, Bitcoin.com reported on Friday.

But a draft bill for banning cryptocurrency has been in the works for some time with Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg leading the exercise.

According to the draft "Banning of Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill 2019", holding, selling or dealing in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin could soon land you in jail for 10 years.

The draft has proposed a 10-year prison sentence for persons who "mine, generate, hold, sell, transfer, dispose, issue or deal in cryptocurrencies.

Besides making it completely illegal, the bill makes holding


Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by aubin on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 10:00 AM (EST)

Matt Young, vocalist of Amber Pacific has left the band. His former bandmates posted the announcement/explanation:

As the days turn to weeks, and the weeks into months, I have found myself
searching to find my place in life, in this very place and time.
Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that my place is no longer as
a member of Amber Pacific.

I'm now going to shift my efforts to going back
to school and pursuing a career in public education as a principal, in
hopes that I can better prepare future generations for what lies ahead.

actually, at the high school i went to they were so desperate for a new principal, they convinced the old one toOne of the first video recordings of a David Lynch interview dates from 1979. The twenty-minute black-and-white segment was produced for a television course at the University of California, Los Angeles, and conducted in the oil fields of the Los Angeles Basin, one of the locations that constituted the barren wasteland of his first feature, “Eraserhead” (1977). This was the moment of Lynch’s first brush with cult fame: “Eraserhead” was a year into its three-year run as a midnight movie at the Nuart Theatre on Santa Monica Boulevard. Against a backdrop of hulking tanks and rusted pipes, an eager student reporter named Tom Christie directs questions to Lynch and his cinematographer, Frederick Elmes. The thirty-three-year-old Lynch, in a voice so flat and nasal it verges on cartoonish, enthuses


Death Stranding is an upcoming open world action video game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It is game director Hideo Kojima and his company's first game following the 2015 disbandment and termination of their contract from Konami, and was officially announced at Sony's E3 2016 conference. It is tentatively scheduled to be released sometime prior to 2019.

The game features actors Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen, as well as director Guillermo del Toro, who are portrayed in-game via motion capture. The game's title is a reference to the cetacean stranding phenomenon.bring a much needed spark to United’s forward line. After rejecting €25m from Tottenham earlier in the window, Monaco have allowed the forward to sign for the Red Devils, and despite his considerable talent this is hardly surprising when you consider the size of the fee.

As a young footballer beginning his career, Martial spent his early years at CO Les Ulis who play in the Division Supérieure Régionale, France’s seventh tier of football. They are primarily known in France for being the club where former Manchester United and now Juventus left back Patrice Evra, and all time Arsenal leading goalscorer Thierry Henry began their careers. In 2009, aged just 14, he was spotted by scouts from Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) and joined their academy that same year.

In his second


season playing for the Lyon development sides, Martial put his name on the radar after scoring 32 goals in 21 games, which resulted in a call-up to the U17 French national team for the European Championships in 2012. Throughout 2012/13, he played mostly for Lyon Olympique II, the club’s second team, scoring five goals in 11 games. His good form for both club and country at youth level saw him rewarded with a promotion to the first team mid-way through the season, as he clocked up 57 minutes of football in four appearances in Ligue 1, understandably without scoring.

Despite a handful of appearances here and there, there was no real path for progression for Martial at Lyon with the likes of Lisandro Lopez and Bafetimbi Gomis firmly settledat the top of the striking hierarchy. It was still a surprise, however, when on June 30, 2013, a move to Monaco was announced for a minimal figure of €5m, especially with Radamel Falcao, Dimitar Berbatov and Valerie Germain all expected to provide similarly formidable competition for a first team place. Regardless of this, The then 18 year-old made 15 appearances in Ligue 1 throughout 2013/14 under Claudio Ranieri, scoring two goals.

The 2014/15 season would be an eventful one for Monaco, as Martial came of age. In spite of their second place finish the season previous, Ranieri was dismissed by owner Dmitry Ryblovlev with Leonardo Jardim coming in as his replacement. Jardim’s arrival was also accompanied by the departure of James Rodriguez and Falcao, signalling a substantial change


pass out wide to former winger Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco saw Martial lurking ominously in an offside position, before bending his run to perfection and springing away in an instant, latching onto the pass with acres of room to run into. He then controlled the ball, taking two touches to compose himself before slotting the ball into the back of net without a Lens defender in sight. While his future is likely to lie as a central striker, Martial has shown that he can be effective on the left and right wing with his intelligent movement in behind. He has often been compared to Thierry Henry in style, and watching his approach to being stationed out wide you do notice similarities. On April 10, 2015 against Caen, the teenager wasthe furthest man forward, receiving the ball on the left hand side. Dragging two defenders over, he dribbled past both of them with consummate ease before cutting in just as he reached the penalty area. 18 yards out, he feigned to shoot, drawing Caen left back Emmanuel Imorou completely out of position before sliding a gorgeous pass through to the onrushing Bernardo Silva, who then chipped the keeper as he came out to close the angle. Manchester United have often lacked pace in their play this season, but Martial, in addition to their other summer signing Memphis Depay could both offer a lot on the counter attack, adding another dimension to their somewhat predictable play.

Another impressive aspect to Martial’s game is his ability to work the goalkeeper consistently.


ended the campaign on 47% while Lille’s (now of Liverpool) Divock Origi and Renne’s Paul-Georges Ntep did so on 44% and 51% respectively. Not only is he cooler in front of goal than those in his age group, he can hold his own amongst the big boys in the league. Edinson Cavani (59%), Alexandre Lacazette (59%), Andre Pierre Gignac (52%) and Max Gradel (49%) who were four of the highest scorers in France’s top flight last season. After only managing to score three goals in four games in the Premier League this season, Martial could be some welcome firepower as United look to kick on after a hit and miss start.

As a forward thinking player, taking on and beating defenders is a box on the checklist that willregular football at his new club.

There is no doubt that Martial is a talented player, and along with Alexandre Lacazette, probably one of the best young strikers in France. However, he is just about to turn 20 and has only three seasons of first team football under his belt, with only one of those seeing him play regularly. While his pace and versatility will bring a lot to Louis van Gaal and Manchester United, asking a teenager to come in to a huge club like this and instantly have an impact is a big ask, not to mention the risk that the huge price tag will hang over his head. While comparisons to Thierry Henry may be slightly premature, the Frenchman will have all the resources he needs


Former Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell was arrested in Mobile, AL today for possession of a controlled substance.

The substance in question was codeine syrup, this according to the Mobile Press-Register.

According to jail records, he was booked this afternoon and released a few minutes later.Lee Canyon ski area, about 30 miles northwest of Las Vegas, has proposed a major expansion that's entering its final phase for gaining approval.

Because the resort is located in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, operators have a special use permit with the U.S. Forest Service. That means they have to go through the same review process as required on other public lands.

In November, the Forest Service released the project's final environmental impact statement. Following a review of any objections filed before the deadline this month, forest service officials will make a recommendation on the project.

While the plan wouldn't extend resort facilities beyond the 785-acre area covered by the special-use permit, it would add two chair lifts, 23 ski runs, mountain bike trails, a mountain coaster, a zipline, and several


or just to play in the snow knows it can get crowded with people parking along the narrow road.

Seely said one of the first items on the list of improvements - if approved by the Forest Service - will be an expanded parking lot, which he believes will help alleviate some of the traffic and parking problems.

Lee Canyon owners hope to get final approval soon and possibly start working on the new parking lot, trails and lifts this summer.

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PHC asks govt not to release TTP ex-spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan

PESHAWAR - A division bench of the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday directed the government not to release Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s former spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan without order of the highest court of the province.

The bench comprising Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ijaz Anwar also directed the government to inform the court when investigation is completed in cases against Ehsanullah Ehsan.

The court issued these directives in a writ petition of Fazal Khan, who is a practicing lawyer and father of Sahibzada Umar Khan, a grade-8 student who had embraced martyrdom during terror attack on the Army Public School, seeking orders of the court to restrain the government from granting clemency to Ehsan, and instead try him in the military court.

BarristerAmeerullah Khan Chamkani submitted before the bench that the Ministry of Interior had given one line reply which shows the government had kept the former TTP spokesman as a guest and would soon grant clemency to him.

He further stated that the government did not mention in the reply that the clemency is not being granted to him. He further added that under Army Act trial of such a dangerous militant will not take time.

The lawyer further added that he had accepted responsibility for the terrorist attack on the Army Public School, which is also confession of the terrorism act.

The petitioner had made the government of Pakistan through secretary Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Defence through secretary defence, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government through chief secretary and others as respondents in


on some speedFollow my lead, oh, how I needSomeone to watch over me

(bridge)

Won’t you tell him please to put on some speedFollow my lead, oh, how I needSomeone to watch over me

Someone to watch over me

Parts of the song certainly fit Kara; other parts, if you change “he” to “she” apply to Tyrol. Both are lost at the beginning of the episode. By the end, Kara is on the road to getting answers, perhaps finding some peace. Tyrol, on the other hand, has been destroyed.

The teaser was great. In addition to giving hope immediately that the series was back on track, it did what a really good teaser should: review where we are at, establish the tone, and set up the plot of the episode.

Kara, as they allthe baseship convinced Boomer she could have her old life back. It’s clear that her alienation from the fleet, from humanity, has done too much damage. She even explicitly states to Tyrol she felt betrayed by him, by everyone, when she was imprisoned and killed. It was foreshadowing of what was to come.

Her actions aren’t born of love for Cavil or a belief that she is one the right side in the civil war. Her vicious beating of Athena, her frakking her husband in front of her (though not planned, she took great, er, pleasure in the moment), and her do or die mentality that could have caused the destruction of Galactica as well as end her own life, all of that was motivated by revenge. She’s consumed


but she’s hit with the fact the man she loves – and sacrificed so much for – couldn’t be bothered to notice he was having sex with another Eight.

However, this all confirms a long standing suspicion I’ve had about Helo and his relationship with Athena. Did he ever stop to consider who it was he was in love with? He thought it was Boomer who came back to Caprica to rescue him. He thought it was Boomer he was fraking on Caprica. There has never been any indication that he stopped and thought about the fact that he fell in love with one Eight, but was married to another.

I don’t have a lot to say about Tyrol. He got played big time. He murdered a Cylon to rescue;)

I supported the info dump in 'No Exit', but I do prefer being shown to being told and, yes,Weddle and Thompson did a great job here. I also liked that they advanced the plot as well the character arcs. The series has struggled with balancing the two in recent years.

I think you're being too harsh on Helo. Chief is a cylon and guessing that it was Boomer who came back from the cylon fleet isn't that surprising as she was the only one out there.

Helo had no reason to expect that Athena wasn't Athena. Boomer was in Athena's clothes, where Athena was supposed to be and didn't immediately shut Helo down. He was horny and had no reason to question who she was. I don't think Athena will


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KITCHENER — Regional councillor Michael Harris is hoping the "resignation" of Doug Ford's chief of staff, Dean French, will be a reset for the Ontario PC Party.

A year ago, Harris sat on the sidelines as his party marched to victory in the June election. The former Kitchener-Conestoga MPP had been tossed out of caucus in a controversial move, a decision he blames squarely on French.

When French parted ways with Ford last week after a patronage scandal — embarrassing the premier by trying to install his wife's cousin and his son's friend in six-figure overseas government postings — Harris was among conservatives celebrating.

"No surprise many people have become a victim of Dean French's reckless and vindictive behaviour. I'll never forget the threatening phone call I received from him overa year ago," he tweeted.

"Hopefully now PC MPPs will no longer work within the 'culture of fear KGB environment.'"

Harris says it was French who took a nearly six-year-old transcript of a BlackBerry Messenger conversation between Harris and a former party intern and blew it out of proportion.

Harris says French called him last April and berated him into stepping down. French could not be reached for comment.

The former MPP believes French, who was running Ford's election campaign at the time, was trying to clear a path in the riding for Mike Harris Jr., the son of one of Ford's biggest fundraisers.

Harris Jr. was ultimately appointed the candidate by Ford and won the election, replacing the MPP with the same name.

"Dean wanted me gone. It's as simple as that," he


said, in an interview. "I was just in the way. I was just a pawn in his game ... There was nothing he wouldn't do to serve his agenda."

Harris, now a Region of Waterloo councillor, described French as "control freak" who stifled debate within the PC caucus. Harris believes he was punished because he was a vocal critic of the Ford campaign's wish to appoint candidates in certain ridings instead of letting the local riding association elect someone.

"He's beyond anything I've ever seen before in terms of his need to control everything," Harris said. "We used to have good debates when we went into caucus. We did that for years, and no one would be vindictive enough to try to remove someone because of a difference of opinion."

Theformer MPP, who opposed Ford's leadership campaign as the co-chair of Christine Elliott's bid, said he hopes with French gone the PC party can get back to the business of running the province.

"This is the best thing for our party, for our province, for democracy," he said. "We have to do better. We expected better. They way we were going, with the vindictiveness and unethical decisions being made behind the scenes, I hope we can reset and govern with integrity."

French, an Etobicoke businessperson with little previous political experience, was named chief of staff after helping Ford win last June. That move gave the close friend of the premier enormous power within Queen's Park — which critics say French tried to flex too often and too overtly.

His behaviour while


chief of staff drew attention from the ethics commissioner and concern from inside and outside the party. Last week, two cabinet ministers personally appealed to Ford to fire him.

MPPs complained privately that French was hurting the party — while MPP Randy Hillier warned of a "culture of fear and intimidation" he'd created within caucus.

The NDP, meanwhile, said the premier is still ultimately calling the shots at Queen's Park, and French can't be used a scapegoat as the PC Party tries to regroup.

"The buck stops with Doug Ford. As long as he's plowing ahead with his callous cuts for families, backroom deals for friends and relentless bullying of anyone who disagrees with him, changing back room staff won't help the people of Ontario who are hurting under the Fordprioritizing safety, the passengers' experiences, and airline operations."

DIA began remodeling the Great Hall in July 2018 through a $1.8 billion contract with Great Hall Partners, a consortium that includes Ferrovial Airports, Saunders Construction and JLC Infrastructure. The renovation is supposed to add more dining and shopping options, as well as overhaul airport security and the airline check-in space to accommodate the boom in passengers that DIA has experienced in recent years.

But the project has been fraught with problems since at least February, when the contracting team reported weak concrete in the main floor of the terminal that, coupled with changes requested by DIA and other delays, could add hundreds of millions of dollars in costs and years of delays to the project that was originally scheduled to be


US version comes out in September).

Earlier this month I published the opening section of the book. Here is an extract from the chapter 16, ‘The Unravelling of Morality’, in which, through exploring Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique of the Enlightenment, I look more closely at the meaning, and problem, of morality in the modern world.

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The Quest for a Moral CompassExtract from Chapter 16: The Unravelling of Morality

A series of environmental catastrophes devastates the world. Blame falls upon scientists, leading to widespread anti-science riots. Labs are burnt down, physicists and biologists lynched, books and instruments destroyed. A Know-nothing political movement comes to power, abolishes the teaching of science and imprisons and executes scientists.

Eventually there is an attempt to resurrect science. The trouble is that all that remains of scientific knowledge arelegislator and a police force. God was that legislator, the Church the enforcer. Modernity dethroned God and enfeebled the institutions of faith. New forms of morality, such as Kantianism and consequentialism, still viewed morality in terms of rules or laws, but no longer had any figure that could play the role of legislator. They lacked the proper foundations for the meaningful employment of their moral concepts. All these themes MacIntyre was to develop.

At the time Anscombe published her seminal paper, MacIntyre was a Marxist, though no longer in the Communist Party. By the time he wrote After Virtue, he had been drawn to Aristotelian virtue ethics. Eventually he was, like Anscombe, led to Roman Catholicism. He is today one of the leading Thomist philosophers. Through all these twists


and turns, a number of themes have remained constant. Whether as a Marxist or as a Catholic, MacIntyre has always expressed a loathing of liberal individualism, and an insistence on the social embeddedness of the individual. He has insisted, too, that morality can be understood only in its historical context.Yet, he has been equally fierce in his opposition to relativism, emotivism and nihilism. MacIntyre’s critique of modern moral philosophy is insightful. The weaknesses of that critique are equally revealing of how and why morality has unraveled.

Why is contemporary morality in such grave disorder? Because of the Enlightenment, MacIntyre argues. The Enlightenment rejected, indeed destroyed, the Aristotelian notion of a virtuous life that had shaped Western thought for nearly two millennia. It rejected, in particular, the notion of thefrom John Locke and David Hume to John Rawls and Robert Nozick.

Yet, the relationship between modernity and teleology is more complex than MacIntyre suggests, as was Enlightenment thinking about human nature. Hobbes’ was not the only model of human nature. Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, all of whom while critical of the Enlightenment nevertheless also placed themselves under its wing, developed a distinct tradition, built in part through a critique of the Hobbesian individual. The critics of Hobbes pointed out that humans are not individuals who become social, but social beings whose individuality emerges through the bonds they create with others. Through this tradition there developed not simply a distinct concept of human nature but a distinct concept of history, too, and a new vision of humans as historical


beings. And this in turn led to a new concept of teleology. Teleological notions, expunged from nature, were introduced into the human world.

It is true that this new historical consciousness found voice in the Romantic challenge to the Enlightenment. Its most radical expression came, however, with those who married the Romantic vision of history to Enlightenment ideas of equality and freedom. Conservatives, such as Burke and Bradley, seized upon history as ‘an idea of continuity’, a means of resisting modernity, an instrument through which an individual could understand and accept his or her place in a long-crafted social order. Radicals viewed history as an idea not of continuity, but of change and transformation, as a means of negating all that which restricted freedom and reason.

There was an ambiguityin the radical vision of history. On the one hand, it expressed the idea of humans as made by history, on the other of humans as making history. Agency was seen both as objective, embodied in impersonal historical forces, and as subjective, the product of human consciousness and activity. This ambiguity was perhaps greatest in Marx. In ‘setting Hegel on his feet’, Marx insisted that history was driven not by a mystical Spirit but by real material forces, and in particular the conflicts that emerged from class antagonisms. This argument could be, and has been, read in two ways. Some have viewed class conflict and the ‘iron laws of history’ as propelling humanity through its various stages to the inevitable, and predestined, triumph of communism. Real, concrete human


wrong. Yet, the social conditions of the premodern world, the inability of such societies to raise their productive capacities, ensured that slavery remained woven into the social fabric. Not until the emergence of capitalism did the social and economic conditions for the abolition of slavery come into being. There were certainly arguments against slavery in the premodern world. Such opposition to slavery was rational from a God’s eye view, but not necessarily when viewed against the background of the societies in which the critics lived. Aristotle and Augustine were wrong in their support for slavery. And yet, there was something rational in their arguments given the social conditions of their time.

Not till modernity could slavery be seen as wrong not just from a universal perspective but from theour job."

Houston returned to a normal schedule on Monday for the first time since playing its third preseason game in New Orleans on Aug. 26.

From New Orleans the Texans flew to Dallas in advance of the storm and remained there, practicing in the Cowboys' facilities, until driving back to Houston on Wednesday when the roads into town were finally clear enough to return safely.

Players and staff spent Sunday in various locations around the city volunteering before returning to practice on Monday.

NRG Stadium was not damaged in the storm and O'Brien confirmed Monday that Sunday's game against Jacksonville will be played there as planned. He said team officials spoke with Houston mayor Sylvester Turner before making the decision.

"Everyone agrees that our game will not take resources away from other


week and still (volunteer), even though we have a game Sunday, and I don't think that's going to mess our focus up," he said.

The Texans face a quick turnaround after Sunday's game with a Thursday night game at Cincinnati in Week 2, making preparations this week even more important with the short turnaround looming.

"We're professional coaches and professional football players. The train's not stopping in the NFL," O'Brien said. "Nobody feels real sorry for us, for the football team.

"Obviously there's been a great outpouring of support for the city, but in the NFL, they're moving forward and we have to move forward."

The Texans enter this week with questions on their offensive line with veteran left tackle Duane Brown continuing his holdout. He told reporters at a charity eventhello guys in this video we're gonna be
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BAGHDAD — The U.S. embassy in Baghdad said on Monday it has limited the movement of its personnel after receiving "credible threats of possible attacks on hotels frequented by Westerners".

"As a reminder, U.S. citizens should maintain a heightened sense of security awareness and take appropriate measures to enhance their personal security at all times when living and working in Iraq," an emergency security message for U.S. citizens on the embassy's website said.

It did not give details on the nature of threat.

U.S. authorities advised citizens to avoid traveling to Iraq citing the risk of being kidnapped by armed political groups or criminal gangs and bombings by the group Islamic State.

Three defense contractors kidnapped inJanuary 2016 in Baghdad and released a month later were the first Americans kidnapped in Iraq since U.S. troops pulled out in 2011.

Iraq is one of seven majority-Muslim countries that are subject to President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban, which Iraq's government has said is unfair.


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