asks him to generate lightning storms and thunder, so it looks like a massive storm. After all the Boraalans have been herded into their tents by Rozhenko, Worf tells La Forge to beam down the Boraalans to Vacca VI. A few seconds later, the Boraalans, including Worf and Rozhenko, beam down in an identical spot on Vacca VI, where the "storms" have suddenly stopped. Picard notes that the mission was a success, but their success has come at a high price; Vorin, utterly unable to make a choice, committed an apparently ritualistic suicide. Picard states that he wishes Vorin could have bridged the gap between their two cultures.

Worf returns to Vacca VI to say goodbye to his brother. Rozhenko announces that he will replace Vorin as the newStreets of Rogue is a rogue-lite about player choice, freedom, and anarchic fun. The game takes inspiration from fast-paced top-down rogue-lites like Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne, and adds free-form, experimentation-driven, emergent gameplay elements of RPGs like Deus Ex.

Rather than taking place in a dungeon, the game is set in a functioning, procedurally generated city, where complex AI informs denizens from all walks of life, who are just trying to get by in their daily activities.

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Will you play as a soldier who shoots first and asks questions later?

A stealthy doctor who uses chloroform and tranquilizer darts to silently


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Category:Turkish masculine given namesregional tensions from the Syrian civil war.

An Obama administration official confirmed the Israeli airstrike late Thursday, but provided no details. Another security official said the attack occurred late Wednesday in the Syrian port city of Latakia and that the target was Russian-made SA-125 missiles.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the attack. There was no confirmation from Syrian officials, and state media made no mention of the reports.

Since the civil war in Syria began in March 2011, Israel has carefully avoided taking sides, but has struck shipments of missiles inside Syria at least twice this year.

The Syrian military, overstretched by the civil war, has not retaliated, and it was not clear whether the embattled Syrian leader would choose to take


action this time. Assad may decide to again let the Israeli attack slide, particularly when his army has the upper hand on the battlefield inside Syria.

The U.S. and Russia are pushing for a peace conference bringing both sides of the Syrian civil war to the table in Geneva later this month. More than 120,000 people have been killed in the nearly three-year-old conflict, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based watchdog that closely monitors the violence in Syria through a network of activists across the country. The UN said in July that 100,000 Syrians have been killed, and has not updated that figure since.

Millions of Syrians have been uprooted from their homes because of the fighting.

Brahimi warned that if the crisis goes on, expectations areBangor Local Office change of address

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s local office in Bangor is moving from the existing premises at Penrhos Road, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, LL57 2JF.

As from Monday 20 June 2011, Bangor Local Office will be re-located to:

Ground Floor
Ty Glyder
339 High Street
Bangor
LL57 1YA

To ensure the re-location goes smoothly the existing office at Penrhos Road will close for business at 5.00 pm on Thursday 16 June 2011.

The new office at Ty Glyder will be open for business from 9.00 am on Monday 20 June 2011.

The telephone number will remain the same – 0300 790 6818.

The DVLA local office is a familiar destination for the general public, motor trade and fleet operators for a range of services such as the registration of vehicles, applications for refunds, exchange licence


the that record fool you however, the Aggies have played somewhat of a gauntlet early in 2017. Their schedule includes the likes of Arizona State, New Mexico, Troy, UTEP, Arkansas, and App State. They beat rival UTEP and New Mexico and came close to pulling off upsets vs. Arizona State and Troy.

Eagles fans should know by now how difficult NM State is to beat, even in down years. The Aggies took the Eagles to the brink of defeat in 2014 (36-28) and 2016 (22-19). Now lead by QB Tyler Rogers and all-world running back Larry Rose III, the Aggies now expect to contend for the Sun Belt crown, or at least their first bowl since 1960.

What to expect

Let me talk to my fellow Eagles fans for a moment:

Look,Convicted people smuggler Dawood Amiri. Credit:Michael Bachelard As two Australian Federal Police officers waited in the wings, he admitted he had helped organise the fatal ship and three others like it, but that he was now willing to expose the network he worked for. ''They didn't beat me, they just used psychological pressure … they found I was very soft,'' Amiri told Fairfax Media in one of a series of jail-house interviews over the past month. Amiri told police he was a middle-man, a ''co-ordinator''. His big bosses were ''Billu'', real name Javed Mehmud, and an Indonesian former policeman from Ambon known as ''Freddy''. Another man, Sayed Mustafa, was based in Sydney and acted as a ''hawaladar'', or trusted money-keeper, using his spare-parts business to shroud financial transfers


between the syndicates and their customers. Amiri also named his four fellow ''co-ordinators'', who like him were responsible for corralling the passengers and organising transport and an embarkation point. But until last Thursday, when he was sentenced to six years in jail plus a $76,000 fine, he remained the only syndicate member arrested.

He accepts his guilt but he is angry. The sentence is too long for an underling, he believes, and the law has focused on him alone while others remain at large. ''This is a set-up,'' he says, gesturing at the dingy visiting area at Jakarta's Cipinang prison. ''The people smugglers are happy to sacrifice me. A boat sank and they have to fill the gap … but everyone else keeps going on.'' The fatal boat, AmiriKlan, Neo-Nazi, black separatist, neo-confederate and anti-LGBT groups were among the 19 groups included on a list of South Carolina’s active hate groups. Nationally, the number of hate groups has declined in recent years. In 2014, the United States had 784 active hate groups, down from its 2011 peak of 1,018 groups, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In 2007, 127 hate crimes were reported in South Carolina, according to the FBI. The following year, the number rose to 153. But in 2013, the number dropped to 51, FBI numbers show. In July 2014, the KKK distributed leaflets to a South Carolina neighborhood that said “Save Our Land, Join the Klan,” NBC News reported.

Nearly half of the 5,922 hate crimes reported nationally in 2013 were racially based –


The Edmonton Oilers have assigned Anton Lander to the Oklahoma City Barons and have elected to keep Oscar Klefbom with the team. Both players were recalled to Edmonton on an emergency basis on Saturday.

Lander is the captain of the Barons in the American Hockey League. This season, Lander has played in 42 AHL games and has scored 45 points (17-28-45). Lander is the former 40th overall pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He has played in 79 NHL games in his career.

20 year-old Klefbom is the former 19th overall pick in the 2011 draft and has yet to make his NHL debut. He could do so as soon as Tuesday night in Minnesota against the Wild.

The Oilers practice at 10 a.m. Monday before flying to Minnesota. StayGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

The Justice Department will grant early releases to about 6,000 federal inmates within weeks, the federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday.

The inmates, all drug offenders, will be freed between October 30 and November 2, BOP spokesman Ed Ross confirmed to NBC News.

The release, which had been expected for months, is a result of the U.S. Sentencing Commission's change to sentencing guidelines for drug offenders last year.

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It is the largest ever one-time release of federal prisoners, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the story.

The average sentence reduction for those who've applied for retroactive sentencing since


the amendment is 23 months, lowering the average sentence from 131 months to 108 months, the Justice Department said.

Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates said they were "modest reductions" for drug offenders, who will have served "substantial prison sentences."

"The Department of Justice strongly supports sentencing reform for low-level, non-violent drug offenders," she said in a statement. "The Sentencing Commission's actions — which create modest reductions for drug offenders — is a step toward these necessary reforms."

Most of the released prisoners were already in halfway houses and home confinement, Ross said.

There are more than 205,000 people in federal prisons, according to the Bureau of Prisons. The bureau said it expects that population to decline by 12,000 inmates by the end of the 2016 financial year.

The move is separate fromNew Mexico and Montana to demonstrate against House bill 621, which would have seen land in 10 states available for sale.

#GrabYourWallet sees companies dump Trump

The campaign was launched in October 2016, in response to Donald Trump’s infamous boasts that his fame allowed him to sexually assault women; specifically, to “grab them by the pussy”.

GrabYourWallet lists dozens of companies which have ties to the president – either by selling his or his family’s products, or by endorsing him during the election campaign.

Since the campaign started a number of companies have dropped Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, including Shoes.com, Shopstyle and most recently Nordstrom. In addition to delivering a financial hit to Ivanka Trump, the campaign succeeded in upsetting the president, who tweeted that his daughter had been “treated so unfairly”


by Nordstrom.

Temporarily blocking the immigration executive order

Trump’s 27 January executive order suspending immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries sparked protests across the country. Thousands of people gathered at airports in New York City, LA, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Ohio, Orlando and elsewhere as travellers were detained.

At the same time groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and National Immigration Law Center filed lawsuits against the executive order.

On 3 February a federal judge ordered a temporary halt on the ban, restoring travel for refugees and people from the excluded countries, and on 9 February the ninth circuit court of appeals upheld that ruling. Trump on Monday issued a new executive order, which contained a number of revisions.

Overwhelming attendance at town halls

The congressional recess is traditionally a time for elected officialsto hold town halls for their constituents. People took advantage of this to turn out in droves to events, questioning both Republicans and Democrats about their commitment to Obamacare, to the environment and more.

The actions were successful in two ways. Many congressmen and women decided not to host events, enabling activists to draw attention to their lack of interaction with voters. Even Republicans, including New Jersey governor Chris Christie, criticized their colleagues for not facing their constituents.

Separately, elected officials said that the attendance and tough questioning at town halls and other events was having an effect. Representative Mo Brooks, from Alabama’s fifth congressional district, was among those to note the impact.

“In my opinion, the massive obstructionist nature of the protests, particularly the disruption of town hall meetings, is


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The Supreme Court did not go far enough in nullifying the unconstitutional State and local gun laws!

The Tenth Amendment of The U.S. Constitution says:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

The last time I checked The 2nd Amendment prohibits anyone ,(which would include Congers or The States), from infringing on the right to Keep and Bear Arms.

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Donald Trump continues to spiral out of control after being called a "moron" by his own Secretary of State, now calling for NBC to lose its broadcast license in his latest dictatorial outburst.

Donald Trump is apparently obsessed, and very angry, about NBC's report that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called him a "moron." Now he has threatened the network's broadcast license in his latest tyrannical attack on the freedom of speech.

The threat came as part of a morning tweet-rage about another report from NBC that Tillerson called Trump a "moron" after Trump demanded to increase the U.S. nuclear arsenal tenfold. The United States currently has enough nuclear weapons to end all life on earth.

On Twitter, Trump asked, "At what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Badfor country!"

Despite the White House's attempt at spin, it is clear that the "moron" story is agitating Trump.

CNN's Jim Acosta reported that Trump was not joking when he called for an IQ test to compare his intelligence with Tillerson's. CNN's source in the White House said Trump "was pissed that people found out he called him a moron and he spouted out about the IQ test because he was mad."

The attack on NBC was in line with his fetish for authoritarianism and sympathy for dictators.

From the Oval Office, Trump and his underlings have repeatedly made dictatorial decrees and statements. They have argued that black NFL players do not have free speech rights; they have banned reporters engaged in aggressive reporting on the Russia influence scandal; they said they


were "looking at" ways to limit speech; they asserted that journalists should be "forced" to report favorably on the administration; and they have declared that Trump's power "will not be questioned."

Trump has also used the presidency to coddle and praise dictators as he echoes them. Trump bucked the free world and congratulated Turkish dictator Reccep Tayyip Erdoğan for an anti-democratic referendum. Then, after making money from the Turkish government, he praised Erdoğan at the United Nations.

Trump also praised Rodrigo Duterte in the Phillipines after he slaughtered his own people, and even said he would be "honored" to host North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

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Category:Blood testsThis April marks twenty years since the death of Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain, one of the most iconic cultural figures of the late 20th century. In recognition of that anniversary, a host of retrospectives will recognize both the raw potency of Cobain's songwriting and the tragedy of his heroin use and suicide. Echoing the tired, sexist tropes of "John and Yoko" and "Sid and Nancy," many will also associate Cobain's downfall with his wife, Courtney Love. These tabloid narratives will overshadow Nirvana's political and cultural significance. They will hide that Nirvana was a band of rebels.

A year before his death in 1994, Kurt Cobain expressed hope that his generation could reject the "Reaganite bullshit" that was forced upon them during their childhoods. Indeed, from the growing popularity of


countercultural music (both "alternative" rock and hip-hop) to the rise of the global justice movement, the 1990s seemed to offer a youth-led counterbalance to the racism, sexism, and homophobia that swept Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush into office a decade earlier. Twenty years later, however, America's culture wars remain very much alive, and boastful opposition to so-called "political correctness" is used to justify intolerance and oppression in many forms.

In 2012, just a year after the CDC's findings that 1 in 5 American women had been raped, several Republican candidates used their campaigns to share their views on the subject -ranging from Richard Mourdock's claim that rape reflected the will of God to attempts by Congressmen Todd Akin and Ron Paul to clarify which instances of sexual violencethey believed constituted "legitimate" and "honest" rape. The same year, high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio raped an unconscious 16-year old girl at a party and used social media to share images of the assault. One of the perpetrators' friends commented online that "the song of the night" was Nirvana's "Rape Me."

This past August, Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson and conservative pundit Michelle Malkin described transgender rights as pandering to "political correctness" and "social engineering run amuck." A week later, 21-year-old transgendered woman Islan Nettles was beaten to death on a New York City street.

Just as popular anti-feminists like Phyllis Schalfly and Jerry Falwell gave legitimacy to sexist and homophobic political positions in the 1970s and `80s, conservative American voices today provide a wide cover for


bullying, hate crimes, and other oppressive behaviors. This bigotry and its apologists were precisely what Kurt Cobain stood against.

As a band, Nirvana was less openly political than punk predecessors like the Dead Kennedys or the Clash, and they were decidedly less focused on activism than their friends in Bikini Kill. Even so, in August 1992, Nirvana performed at a benefit concert to fight against Oregon's anti-gay ballot initiative Measure 9. The following spring, bassist Krist Novoselic coordinated a benefit for Bosnian rape survivors, a concert that also featured L7 and the Breeders.

Sexual assault was a common theme in Nirvana songs, and the topic was apparently close to Cobain's heart. While promoting the band's breakthrough album Nevermind in 1991, Cobain called rape "one of the most terrible crimes onEarth," and lamented that it occurred "every few minutes." The actual statistic is that a woman is raped every two minutes - in the United States alone. The global figure is much higher (and thus more frequent).

Cobain also criticized the inherent hypocrisy of solutions rooted in women's self-defense, offering instead, "What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there." Nirvana later performed at a fundraising concert for the investigation into the rape and murder of Mia Zapata, singer of the Seattle band the Gits. After Cobain's death, a Nirvana track also appeared on a benefit album for Home Alive, a women's self-defense center established to honor Zapata.

At their core, Nirvana's politics were largely humanitarian, and for Cobain, they


were rooted in a childhood of ostracism and bullying in the small town of Aberdeen, Washington. Frequently beat up and labeled a "faggot," the small-framed Cobain's revenge came through a can of spray paint, which he reportedly used to tag "HOMOSEX RULES" and "GOD IS GAY" on the pick-up trucks of locals. As Cobain told the LGBT-focused magazine the Advocate in 1992, his close friendships with women and frequent clashes with "redneck jocks" had led him, at times, to question his own sexuality.

But while the trucks of Aberdeen provided a somewhat limited canvas, Nirvana's success gave Cobain a broader platform for expressing his indignation. In the liner notes to the platinum-selling Incesticide record, a distraught Cobain relays the story of two rapists who sang the band's song "Polly"also led to a public feud with notoriously intolerant hair rockers Guns N' Roses, who repeatedly threatened to beat them up.

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Nirvana was a punk rock band. Their three-pronged stance against bigotry (racism, sexism, and homophobia) had been well established in the 1980s punk underground by publications like MaximumRocknRoll, bands like Fugazi and MDC, and venues such as 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. But though they dutifully delivered this message to a popular audience, many of Nirvana's biggest critics were from a punk movement that never forgave them for working with the corporate music industry.

In their few brief years of stardom, Nirvana navigated a difficult terrain, with a hostile punk community on one side, and on the other, an endless series of concert promoters, music journalists, and industry


insiders, who hoped to use the band as a means to their next paycheck. While never completely regretting the decision to sign with a major label, Cobain clearly struggled with the isolation that it created. He resented accusations of "selling out" and pleaded that beyond fame and fortune, signing with DGC Records also ensured that Nirvana albums would be available to young people who had not already found an inroad to punk. As Cobain explained, "In some small towns, Kmart is the only place that kids can buy records."

Cobain, Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl were reluctant rock stars, and in the tradition of early punks the Sex Pistols, they continually stuck their fingers in the entertainment industry's collective eye. On multiple occasions, the band agreed to play theirpopular hits on national television broadcasts, only to switch to their most abrasive songs at the last minute. Cobain also famously arrived for a Rolling Stone photo shoot wearing a homemade T-shirt that playfully read, "Corporate Magazines Still Suck." To his surprise, the band still made the magazine's cover.

Nirvana, and Cobain in particular, also attempted to use the band's fame to focus attention on lesser-known artists like the Vaselines, Daniel Johnston, the Meat Puppets, Flipper, and Jawbreaker by covering their songs, mentioning them in interviews, wearing their T-shirts, and inviting them to join the band on tour. In 1992, the band released a split single with legendary Chicago indie rockers the Jesus Lizard, and before Cobain's death, the band had been in negotiations to join the national Lollapalooza


tour and shape its lineup to their liking. Despite being shunned by the punk underground, Nirvana in many ways served as a welcoming committee, ushering a generation of young outcasts into the rebel community that had been their own refuge years earlier.

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In the twenty years since Kurt Cobain's suicide, Dave Grohl has become a rock star in his own right, as the frontman for the Foo Fighters and a sometime member of Queens of the Stone Age. Krist Novoselic has played in a number of musical ensembles, written a book about electoral politics, and directed a film about the band L7. Nirvana as a whole, however, remains frozen in time.

Nirvana was a part of a broad cultural reaction to the conservatism of the 1980s - a moment thatincluded the punk-feminist Riot Grrrl movement as well as anthems against police brutality by N.W.A., Ice T, and Public Enemy - but the band's legacy has been largely limited to the narrow confines of Cobain's personal life. Even before Cobain's death, "Kurt and Courtney" was already just another iteration of the sexist narrative about well-loved bands whose helpless male members were corrupted by evil women. And while Courtney Love plays an effective villain, Cobain took great offense to attempts to portray him as a victim. He proudly insisted that their relationship was a 50-50 partnership.

Much of the focus on Kurt Cobain's contribution to American culture has centered on fetishizing the fact that he shared his final age, 27, with many other prominent artists. A more important lens through


which to remember Cobain and his band is a story relayed by his uncle at a public memorial service. As happened often, a neighborhood bully was beating up a young Cobain, knocking him to the ground over and over again. But rather than punching the bully back or cowering in fear, Cobain instead, after each knock down, simply extended his middle finger in defiance.

Kurt Cobain was an entertainer, not an activist, and he took pains to make that distinction clear. His politics were nonetheless straight-forward. Like Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield, Cobain's frustration and fury were fueled by human empathy. He would have been repulsed by Rush Limbaugh's "slut-shaming" comments about Sandra Fluke. He would have denounced transphobic attempts to ridicule Private Chelsea Manning. He wouldhave been devastated by the murders of young Islan Nettles and Trayvon Martin, and his heart would have broken over the tormented suicides of Lizzy Seeberg and Tyler Clementi.

In an early draft of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Kurt Cobain asked, "Who Will be the King and Queen of the Outcast Teens?" For a brief moment, he himself was the answer. Cobain did not view himself as larger than life, and he openly mocked the suggestion that he might be a spokesperson for his generation. Nirvana nonetheless set a standard for human decency that very few pop stars have lived up to.

Nirvana was a champion for misfits, and Kurt Cobain was the king of the outcasts.

[Dawson Barrett completed his PhD in History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013.


His dissertation explores the impacts of neoliberal policies on American activism since the 1960s. His article "DIY Democracy: The Direct Action Politics of US Punk Collectives" appears in the Spring 2013 issue of the journal American Studies.]

Swiss Open ,Finnish Open and the Welsh Classic once.

He made his World Championship debut in 1991 and won his debut match against Bruno Raes, but lost in the second round to Jocky Wilson. Despite hitting the second highest average of the first round at the 1992, Baxter lost 1-3 to Bob Anderson. After failing to qualify for the 1993 event Baxter was seeded second for the 1994 World Championship after the top player left the BDO and to form the WDC. Baxter lost in the first round to the eventual champion John Part.

After missing out again in 1995 he reached the quarter-finals for the first time in 1996 when he was beaten by Richie Burnett.
Baxter was seeded seventh for the 1997 World Championship but lost in the


the IPNP of the Charles University, the Czech Science Foundation, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the South African Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation, and by the University of Namibia. We appreciate the excellent work of the technical support staff in Berlin, Durham, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Palaiseau, Paris, Saclay, and in Namibia in the construction and operation of the equipment.\
The authors acknowledge the support by the [*Swift*]{}team for providing ToO observations, and the use of the public HEASARC software packages. This research made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) and of the SIMBAD Astronomical Database. Part of this work is based on archival data, software, or on-line services provided by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC).\
The authors would like to thank theImage copyright Pacemaker Image caption Gary Haggarty was a police informer for 13 years

The most senior loyalist ever to agree to become a so-called supergrass volunteered to kill a Catholic to cover up the fact he was an informer.

Sean McParland died after being shot while babysitting in Belfast in 1994.

The Ulster Volunteer Force was to decide the identity of the killer by flipping a coin, Belfast Crown Court heard.

But Gary Haggarty volunteered to be the "primary gunman" because he feared he was suspected of being a police agent.

The intended target was a relative of Mr McParland, who was 55.

Haggarty, an ex-commander of the UVF's north Belfast unit, was working as a paid Special Branch agent at the time of the killing.

He worked as an informer for 13 years.

In


that decision based on the information put before him during the hearing.

It is not clear when the sentence is likely to be imposed.

503 offences

Haggarty is to be the star prosecution witness in the trial of a man accused of murdering Catholic workmen Gary Convie and Eamon Fox in Belfast city centre in May 1994.

But before he can give evidence he must first be sentenced for his own crimes.

Image copyright Pacemaker Image caption Gary Haggarty was the commander of the Ulster Volunteer Force's north Belfast unit

That formal process began on Wednesday when a prosecution lawyer outlined some of the details of Haggarty's confessions to police.

In one of the biggest and most complex cases undertaken in Northern Ireland, he was interviewed by detectives more than 1,000 times and the informationhe gave them ran beyond 12,000 pages.

The extent of his criminal activities is staggering.

As well as pleading guilty to 202 crimes, he asked that 301 others be taken into consideration.

In total he admitted 503 offences, including:

Five murders

Five attempted murders

25 conspiracies to murder

66 charges of possession of firearms and ammunition

Four counts of directing terrorism

In addition to the killing of Sean McParland, he also admitted the murders of:

John Harbinson, a Protestant handcuffed and beaten to death by a UVF gang on the Mount Vernon estate in north Belfast in May 1997

Catholic workmen Eamon Fox, 44 , a father of six, and Gary Convie, 24 , a father of one, shot dead as they had lunch together in a car in Belfast's North Queen Street in May 1994

Sean McDermott, a 37-year-old


Catholic found shot dead in his car near Antrim in August 1994

Relatives of some of the victims were in court on Wednesday as a prosecution lawyer spent more than four hours outlining the extent of Haggarty's activities.

He included harrowing details of some of the incidents.

Gun jammed

The judge was told how three of Sean McParland's young grandchildren ran screaming from his house in Skegoneill Avenue when the UVF burst in to kill him.

Image caption Eamon Fox and Gary Convie were shot dead while eating their lunch at a building site in 1994

In police interviews, Haggarty said he shot the 55-year-old in the chest from close range.

He had planned to fire another five bullets into his chest, but could not do so because his gun jammed.

The prosecution lawyer said Haggarty,who was promoted within the UVF after the shooting, expressed regret during interviews after agreeing to become a supergrass.

"He said he is sorry, it was the wrong person killed, he is sorry for the kids that were there," said the lawyer.

The court was also told that Haggarty acknowledged that two more of his victims, Eamon Fox and Gary Convie, were innocent men and not republicans as claimed by the UVF at the time.

"He said he did not believe they were republicans, but just soft easy targets," added the lawyer.

Beaten to death

Kieran Fox, one of Eamon Fox's six children, was one of the relatives in court as the details of Haggarty's litany of crimes was outlined, and welcomed the admission.

"To hear that Haggarty has admitted before they actually carried


out the shooting that my dad and Gary were both innocent, that they were not republicans as they claimed at the time, it was nice to hear that part," he said.

The court also heard harrowing details about the extent of injuries to John Harbinson.

The dead man's son was also in the public gallery but left shortly after details of the injuries were described.

Haggarty was involved in abducting Mr Harbinson, but told police he thought he was going to be beaten and shot in the legs, rather than killed.

The hearing will continue on Thursday, when a lawyer representing Gary Haggarty will outline details he gave his police handlers during 13 years as an informer.

He is said to have provided information on:

55 murders

20 attempted murders

56 conspiracies to murder

24 bombing offences

Prosecutorshave said Haggarty's evidence is insufficient to provide a reasonable prospect of obtaining a conviction against 11 other suspected UVF members and two former police intelligence officers, allegedly his then handlers.

What is a supergrass?

The police bristle at the very mention of the word supergrass, because of its association with a series of high-profile trials in the 1980s.

Hundreds of republicans and loyalists were convicted on the word of informers and suspects who agreed to give evidence in return for reduced sentences, new identities and lives outside Northern Ireland.

Those deals were done at a political level, with the details kept secret.

Technically, those individuals were assisting offenders but they became known as "touts" and "supergrasses" in communities.

The system collapsed in 1985 because of concerns about the credibility of the evidence provided


[August 31, 2012]Tuesday evening, Darren Forgy of
Prairie Engineers was invited by Alderwoman Marty Neitzel to take
the lead on a discussion about infrastructure projects in the city
of Lincoln.

Neitzel, who chairs the street and alley committee for the
city of Lincoln, had two weeks ago called for a special meeting of
that committee for Tuesday evening to discuss bid proposals for work
on Lincoln Avenue and the Oglesby bridge demolition project.

Bids
for these projects, as well as for bridge approach work on three
streets that intersect Brainard's Branch, and a bid for a sewer slip
line project for Union Street had all been received and opened over
the last few weeks.

At last week's voting meeting of the council, the bids for the
bridge approaches and slip lining were approved, and work is
expected to take place this fall.

This weekForgy explained why some of the other bids had been
tabled and why the special meeting was now taking place.

Forgy said that in the Lincoln Avenue project, more needed to be
done than the bid specifications had indicated.

The original specifications called for the reconstruction of
Lincoln Avenue from North Logan to College. When the bids were
opened, the cost of the project ranged from $300,000 to $363,000

Forgy said that section of Lincoln Avenue is currently "mounded
up" in the middle, and the curbs are not of a sufficient elevation
for the street. He said these problems needed to be remedied and
were not included in the bids.

Forgy said to do a proper job on the street, earthwork needed to
be done to level out the mound in the middle and make the road
flatter.

He said there were


the bidders, but it should be carefully crafted not to make a
promise for next year. He said if the city goes with a five-year
plan, the projects may or may not go forward next year.

Wilmert said he felt the committee should accept the engineer's
recommendation to reject all the bids.

O'Donohue said he felt there should also be a decision on a
five-year plan. He also wondered if there would be added costs
involved from Prairie Engineers for developing the plan.

Forgy said as interim engineers they are being paid on an hourly
basis, but there was time included in their contract for working on
a capital improvement plan, among other things.

Wilmert then wondered if he could amend his motion on rejecting
the bids to include developing of a capital plan. He was told he
could and hedid so, with Jeff Hoinacki, who had offered the
original second, also offering a second to the amended motion.

Neitzel said she was in favor of a five-year plan because it
would give the city an outline of what would be done and when. She
said she preferred that over going about it "helter-skelter" as they
have in the past.

Forgy also noted there are financial benefits to this type of
plan. He said projects can be grouped together for bidding. By doing
this, a contractor will know he has several projects at one time. It
will save the contractor expense, and it could allow for some volume
discounts for the city on materials.

Another topic that arose during this time was the actual timeline
of work being done in the city. Anderson said she didn't like the
idea of waiting


A series of 10 educational sessions to help people who have a hoarding disorder begins Tuesday.

The free sessions, entitled HOPE Workshop, will be held at Abrams Public Health Center, 3950 S. Country Club Road, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. each Tuesday through Oct. 30, organizers said. Participants must register.

Facilitators who will lead the sessions include Jennifer Caragan of the Pima Council on Aging, Lisa O’Neill of the University of Arizona Center on Aging and Dr. Kathryn Sanderlin of the UA Department of Psychiatry.

In 2012, the Southern Arizona Hoarding Task Force was founded to educate health-care providers, social workers, case managers and law enforcement agencies about the disorder.

About 19 million, or 6 percent of the population in the United States, suffer from hoarding, studies show.

The workshops are aimed tohypertension (PAH) in 3.7% and mild pericardial effusion in 3.7% of the cases. The ECG and echocardiography changes indicated myocardial involvement in severe malaria.Interpretation & conclusion: The present study indicated involvement of cardiovascular system in severe malaria as evidenced from ECG and echocardiography. The study also revealed that cardiovascular instabilities are common in falciparum malaria, but can also be observed in vivax malaria.

Malaria is a leading public health problem in Jharkh and state of India[1]. It is situated in the eastern part of India and surrounded by the states of Chhattisgarh in the west, Bihar in the north, West Bengal in the east, and Odisha in the south. The total population is 32,988,134 (census 2011) with 28% of inhabitants being scheduled tribe (ethnic minority tribes). It is predominantly


screen. Participants were shown a purpose-made 5-min recording, showing a young woman (Caucasians) talking about her career in the big media company. The film featured a young person sitting on a chair, seen from her waist up and talking animatedly about her career in a big corporation. The person did not display vivid emotions. At times she would smile mentioning her successes. Also, with the mention of the long working hours, her slight tiredness would show. A resigned look at her face appeared when she mentioned the fact that she was made to take her vacation in the autumn, not in the summer; then, she would talk with interest about a new project. The person complained on the little time she had for herself or her social life.Bruno Mars, producer Mark Ronson, four record labels and others involved with the huge 2014 hit Uptown Funk are the subject of a new copyright infringement lawsuit.

Minneapolis funk group Collage - which has only one surviving member, Larry White - claims the hit is too derivative of its 1983 hit Young Girls, and copies their original song's structure, melody, harmony and rhythm. Though White is the only living member of the band, the estates of two deceased members, Grady Wilkins and Lee Peters, are also listed as defendants.

Uptown Funk remains Mars' biggest hit, and has sold more than 6.1 million copies. It was also number one on the Billboard chart for the second-longest period since records began. Estimates suggest the song earns about GBP 82,000 ($100,000) from streaming


rights on Spotify every week.

The text of the lawsuit, obtained by the site Pitchfork, notes that Ronson and Mars have talked about how Uptown Funk was influenced by early 1980s Minneapolis electro-funk soul music, of which the late Kiss hitmaker Prince was also a pioneer. Collage are seeking damages and profits.

The complaint itself states in part: "Upon information and belief, many of the main instrumental attributes and themes of Uptown Funk are deliberately and clearly copied from Young Girls, including, but not limited to, the distinct funky specifically noted and timed consistent guitar riffs present throughout the compositions, virtually if not identical bass notes and sequence, rhythm, structure, crescendo of horns and synthesizers rendering the compositions almost indistinguishable if played over each other and strikingly similar if playedRussian ship stopped carrying arms bound for Syria

NICOSIA, Cyprus
A Russian ship that made an unscheduled stop in Cyprus while carrying tons of arms to Syria was technically violating an EU embargo on such shipments, say Cypriot officials.

The vessel, however, was allowed to continue its journey Wednesday after changing its destination.

The cargo ship, owned by St. Petersburg-based Westberg Ltd., left the Russian port on Dec. 9 for Turkey and Syria, which is 65 miles (105 kilometers) east of Cyprus, the officials said.

Russia and Turkey are not members of the European Union, so such a route would not have violated the embargo the bloc imposed to protest Syria's crackdown on the uprising against President Bashar Assad's rule.

But the Chariot, a St. Vincent and Grenadines-flagged ship, dropped anchor off the


southern Cypriot port of Limassol on Tuesday because of high seas, drawing the attention of Cypriot officials.

Customs officials boarded the ship to examine its cargo, but couldn't open and inspect four containers in the hold because of "the confined space" they were stored in, the Cypriot Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Nevertheless, the officials determined they were holding a "dangerous cargo."

Cyprus Finance Minister Kikis Kazamias told private Sigma TV that the cargo was of a type that "essentially necessitated its seizure."

State radio in Cyprus went further, saying the vessel was carrying "tens of tons of munitions."

The ship was also carrying an electricity generator, the foreign ministry said.

Russian state news agency RIA Novosti quoted a Westberg spokesman as saying that the Chariot was ferrying cargo owned by Russia'sfeel embarrassed and annoyed. And stuck.

I don't give him any money. I do add Greenpeace to my list.

I've started a list of the charities whose male representatives harass me on the street.

We often think of street harassment as cat-calling out of cars in the early hours of the morning, but my personal experience of it is increasingly occurring in broad daylight, by backpackers with buckets and clipboards (because there's nothing like a bit of sleaze when learning about the plight of the Rohingya).

The list began after an altercation with a chugger ("charity mugger") in Pitt Street Mall whose organisation I didn't manage to note.

"Hey?" I looked up from my phone as he continued his line. "Oh hey, sexy, are you calling me?"

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He reached to take the phone out


sexual advances". They must also not "mislead a member of the public", be reasonably viewed as "forcing a member of the public to enter a conversation against [their] will", or "attempt to follow or comment to a member of the public after a conversation has ended".

Of course, everyone is annoyed by chuggers. But some groups do seem to bear the brunt more than others.

The way chuggers approach their potential donors is unsettlingly gendered. Women in these roles do not pursue men on the street by calling them a "stud" or trying to take their phones out of their hands. In fact, women in these roles seem to hardly pursue men at all.

I regularly find myself waiting to cross at the lights opposite Chippendale's Central Park mall, a chugginghot spot. Watching from across the road, male members of the public seem to just walk past as the chuggers, men and women, seek out the women in the crowd.

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Keen for some data, earlier this week I went to Pitt Street mall at evening peak hour to do a little experiment. In the 30 minutes I watched three men in Mission Australia T-shirts, they approached 97 people (most of the interactions were a rejected outstretched hand). Just six were men. (Funnily enough, the only person who appeared to exchange details with the iPad-wielding chuggers was one of those men.)

Curious, a colleague also watched a group of chuggers, operating between the University of Sydney and Redfern station on a Wednesday afternoon. In 15 minutes, she reported not one white


also brings suit against Defendants in their official capacity. "Official-capacity suits . . . generally represent.. . another way of pleading an action against an entity of which an officer is an agent." Kentucky v. Graham, 473 U.S. 159, 165, 105 S.Ct. 3099, 87 L.Ed.2d 114 (1985) (internal quotation marks omitted). As such, Plaintiff's claims against Defendants in their official capacity are merely claims against the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office ("Sheriff's Office"). Sheriff Wideman "was the Greenwood County Sheriff at all times pertinent to the specific events alleged within this First Amendment Complaint. In his official capacity, he was responsible for enforcement of Greenwood County's laws, ordinances, and policies." (Am. Compl. ¶ 12.) "To hold [the Sheriff's Office] liable for a single decision (or violation), the decisionmaker mustOn this day: In 1956, Pro golfer John Weitzel was killed in a car accident on the way home from a Pro-Am tournament

John Russell “Johnny” Weitzel

Johnny Weitzel was born in 1923. He grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania and fought in World War II. Weitzel was a veteran of the Anzio Beach campaign among other battles. He went to work as an assistant pro at the Manor Country Club for Buddy Heckman when he returned from the service. After that he was the head professional at the Colonial Country Club for three years before becoming the professional at the Hershey Country Club in 1952, one year after Ben Hogan left.

In the 1950s he was one of the leading players in the Section. In 1950 he began to show that


he could compete with the touring pros when he won the Anthracite Open while competing against a number of touring pros that were here for the Reading Open. In a three-week period in early 1954 Weitzel finished third in both the Phoenix Open and the Mexican Open. That year he won $1,678 on the PGA Tour plus $1,387 at the Mexican Open while holding the head pro position at Hershey Country Club. Weitzel qualified for four PGA Championships and four U.S. Opens and he played in the 1955 Masters Tournament. In 1955 and 1956 Weitzel won the Pennsylvania Open on his home course and in 1954 he finished second in both the Section championship and the Philadelphia Open. In September of 1956 Weitzel died from injuries suffered inan automobile accident on the way home from a golf tournament. After Johnny’s death his brother Jay came back to the Section to take over as the head professional at Hershey. He had been working for Jack Grout at the Sciota Country Club. Jay held the position at Hershey for over 30 years.

Article from the Lebanon Daily News Sept 19, 1956

Johnny Weitzel, widely known 31 year old golf professional at the Hershey country clim died last night in the Lancaster General Hospital. His death resulted from injuries sufferd in an automobile accident on the night of September 9 in Elizabethtown when he was returning home after playing in a pro-amateur golf tournament at the Conestoga Country Club near Lancaster.

Weitzel, the father of five small children was driving his


own station wagon when it collided with a cattle truck driven by roy E Fidler of Woodward, Center County. The Hershey golfer suffered a severed pancreas gland, other internal injuries and cuts of the face and knee in the crash. His condition has been critical every since his admission to the hospital. In fact he underwnet a four hour operation on Monday sept 10 and hospital surgeons at no time expressed confidence in his chances for recovery.

It was generally accepted that only his excellent physical condition kept hi in a losing fight for life the past nine days.
A native of Berks County he was the son of Mr and Mrs Earl Weitzel, and was one of eight children. He first attained some golfing prominence when he won thePA Interscholastic Athletic Assoc championship at State College in 1942 whil representing Wilson High School at West Lawn. He too up the sport actively after starting in as a caddy at the manor Golf Club a the age of ten and is well recalled by local golfers who played that course some years ago. The Hershey golfer then entered the service and served in the US Army for twenty two months, mostly in the Italian campaign of WWII. During actual combat in that campaign he was severly injured when German shell fragments pierced a knee and hospitalized him for three months.

After World War II

After his return from war service he took up golf professionally in 1946 and for three years operated the Manor Golf Club as the owner


– professional. He then accepted the position of golf pro at the Colonial Country Club in Harrisburg at the age of 24. He remained there three years. He was named to the Hershey post on March 1, 1952, to succeed Walter Hall, who had preiously succeeded to the position vacated by Ben Hogan after a ten year tenure.

It is coincidental that Hogan almost lost his life ian an auto crash in TX in 1948 while still associated with the Hershey Country Club.
Weitzel began playing so-called bigtime golf as long back as 1951, and through four years qualified for the National PGA Championship tournament. His record also includes impressive performances in qualifying for the US Open Championship Tournament for three years (1952-54) and just this year he set thequalifying pace in area competition at North Hills and Whitemarsh near Philadelphia.
He is survived by his wife the former Annalee McGee, of Harrisburg and five children, Shawnee, 6, Judy 5, Mary Ann 4, Johnny 2 and Jimmy three months old who live at Hummelstown R.D. He is also survived by his parents, residing in Montello, five brothers, Jay (Jackie), an asst golf pro at Scioto Country Club in Col OH, Bobby of New York a former leading Berks County amateur golfer, Charles, Paul and William and three sisters, Mrs Harry Uhler, Mrs Earl Kocher and Miss Marion Weitzel.

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full and cast a silvery light on everything in sight. The trees were winter-bare, and the fall’s withered brittle leaves whispered across the ground. No snow had fallen yet, but it was bitterly cold. The sky was a cloudless black, full of little pinpricks of starlight. The grass was frosted and frail, looking paler than everything else.

Blaire kept her eyes on the wide path in front of her. She was the only one in the park that night. Her sneakers scuffed the sidewalk, and she walked alone, feeling like the only person in the world.

She kept walking, eyes half closed, staring at the sidewalk in front of her.

Suddenly, Blaire froze. What was that?

There it was again. Footsteps. Was someone following her? She whirled around…and saw nothing. Everything wasquiet.

What was that? Blaire thought to herself. Why would someone be following me?

She took a deep breath of the cold city air, feeling the chill burn her throat, and started walking again, just the same as before. Except that she had an idea. Blaire walked another few feet, then abruptly stopped. She listened.

Blaire heard it again. That one odd footstep that was not her own. She tried this method a few more times, and each time she stopped, she heard the footfalls of that strange someone, the person who was following her.

She stopped one last time, and whirled around. She saw nothing. Nobody. Thinking she had been imagining it, she resumed her slow, aimless walk.

Blaire saw something that grabbed her attention from the sidewalk. A huge, ancient oak


tree stood in the grass a short distance away. It was old and its trunk divided into four giant branches, leaving a large dip in the middle. Many times in the warmer seasons children would play at the old oak, sitting in the hollow or playing with the acorns that fell from it. Not knowing why, Blaire walked towards it. She knew the way to climb to the hollow like the back of her hand, which was strange, because she wasn’t good at climbing trees at all. She reached the hollow and sat down. The large branches offered some protection from the wind, but not much. She shifted around a bit.

“Hey.”

Standing below her, leaning against the trunk of the tree, was a boy. He looked about fifteen. Histeam that you used to play for ... Now everybody knows you are going to have a whistle-blower in any other situation too," the three-time Cy Young winner continued. "Whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse and Fiers broke the rules."

In November, Fiers told Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic that the Astros stole signs in 2017 using outfield cameras, which spawned an MLB investigation.

The results of the investigation led to the suspensions and eventual firings of Houston manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow, as well as the loss of draft picks and a substantial fine.

Additionally, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora and New York Mets manager Carlos Beltran parted ways with their clubs because of their involvement in the scheme.

Fiers, who


Stories from the Golden Age of Murder

The Golden Age

Although the Golden Age has roots prior to, and during, WWI, the primary surge in this style of writing happened in the years between the World Wars. It was a time of celebrating the end of the horrors of the Great War, and before the depravity associated with the Second World War. Only during the inter-war years, and particularly in the 1920s, did Golden Age fiction have the happy innocence, the purity and confidence of purpose, which was its true hallmark.(1)Wikipedia – Golden Age of Detective Fiction It was a time when the world looked to lighthearted stories to offset the lingering effects of the war and, later, the grinding effect of the Great Depression. While the publication of thesemysteries continued throughout the Second World War, and indeed even through to today, the end of the glory years was heralded by the loss of innocence engendered by WWII.

These books were meant to be entertainments, games where the reader matched wits with the author. Their hallmarks were the cleverness of both the murder and the detection methods, while keeping graphic violence and sociological comment to a minimum. They consisted of stylish writing, and a satisfactory conclusion where order was restored to the community by an essentially honorable detective. (2)The Golden Age of the British Detective Novel

Because these novels are very much creations of their time, they are an invaluable window into a world that has ceased to exist. Both the wonderful and the unsettling lie within their pages.


The glory of the magnificent manor houses resides alongside casual racism and sexism. While some of the language and concepts may be disturbing to a modern reader, they were as much a part of society at the time as were speakeasies and open-sided cars. I offer the books here unabridged, since the evocation of the era, warts and all, is fundamental to their charm.Marrow Donor Registry as well as hospital volunteers from the same geographic region and of similar age and gender distribution. Due to the frequent use of AC in the general population in Spain it was assumed that a large proportion of the controls would have taken AC during some stage of their lives without developing DILI.

Ethics Statement
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The study protocol was approved by the local ethics committee of the coordinating center at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria (Comité Ético de Investigación) in Málaga, Spain. All subjects who took part in the study were 18 years of age or older. All subjects gave written informed consent, which conformed with the current Helsinki Declaration, prior to study enrolment.

DNA Extraction and Genotyping
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Venous blood was obtained from each subject and DNA


He had to find what his body and soul were truly looking for. Joseph hung up from sally and got a phone call from the department saying a car was on the way to pick him up. Now he was in the white room answering question from a disembodied female sounding voice. It was Joseph’s first time in the white room then he was released to leave. Joseph hated not being told stuff because he didn’t rank high enough in the department. Then Joseph heard his unofficial partner’s voice -Elisa- he asked if she was heading out and she said she had to work with her mentor Mr Robert. Joseph still hadn’t been given a higher ranking official to work under. Then Joseph decides instead of leaving heLocalization of cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of Triatoma infestans (Insecta: Heteroptera).
The distribution of cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity was studied in the central nervous system of the heteropteran insect Triatoma infestans using high-sensitivity immunocytochemistry. In the protocerebrum, CCK-IR somata were observed in the anteromedial, anterolateral and posterior cell-body layers. The neuropils displayed different densities of immunoreactive neurites. Few immunoreactive somata were found in the optic lobe in both the medial and lateral soma rinds, as well as in the proximal optic lobe. Immunoreactive fibers were present in the medulla and lobula neuropils. The sensory deutocerebrum contained a higher number of immunopositive perikarya than the antennal mechanosensory and motor center. The antennal lobe glomeruli displayed a moderate density of immunoreactive fibers. With regard to the subesophageal ganglion, numerous CCK-IR


The present invention relates to a strip winder for winding a strip member such as an inner liner, ply cord or the like on a building drum and joining the ends of the strip in an endless manner.
As a strip winder for the primary building machine for automotive tires, the apparatus disclosed in Japanese Kokai Patent Application No. 59-207227 is known. This apparatus comprises an anvil for cutting a continuous strip, a transfer conveyer and a brake roller disposed in the order mentioned on one side of the top of a tire building machine, and an overhead vacuum cap adapted to suck up and lift a leading end of the strip which lies on the anvil at the forward end of said conveyer and then to travel forwardthe leading end of the strip on the tire building drum.
In the above arrangement, however, when the building drum to which the leading end of the strip is secured is driven to wind the strip on the drum, the brake roller at the rear end of the conveyer applies a tension force to the strip to thereby stretch thin and narrow portions of the strip and exaggerate the unevenness of thickness and width. Moreover, while the strip on the anvil is cut, the portion of the strip located behind the cutting line, that is to say on the conveyer side, is kept stationary by clamp means, but since the strip located forwardly of the cutting line, that is to say on the drum side, is loose, the strip


CP/M world, and diskettes were bigger.
  In 1981 Richard Greenlaw released SQ and USQ, based on Huffman
  encoding and written in BDS C.  This was the first popular compression
  technique.  Greenlaw gave away the binaries and source code.
  <...>
  By 1983 it was getting hard to ignore the IBM PC as programs which
  weren't written in BASIC started appearing.  SQ/USQ was ported by
  Chuck Forsberg from unix C-source code.  LU was ported to the PC by
  Tom Jennings, from a unix implementation named "lar" (for Library
  ARchive).  Jennings and Forsberg gave these programs away.  <...> The
  next advance came in 1985 when Thom Henderson of System Enhancements
  Associates (SEA), releasedNFR popularly known as WNFR (the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo) for sponsorship title, arranged by the PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association), is the prime championship rodeo competitions in the United States. The National Finals Rodeo display PRCA’s top fifteen super performance to gain prize money in each event as they race with against for the world title. You will get NFR Live coverage information form this site before race kickoff.

The National Finals Rodeo is scheduled each year in the 1st week of December and this year of 2019 is schedule to 5th December to 14th December, at the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Full events of NFR will broadcast live on CBSN (CBS Sports Network). You will get NFR Live coverage information form this


site before race kickoff.

The NFR (National Finals Rodeo), popularly known as the “Super Bowl of Rodeo,” is a world championship title event held annually by the PRCA. Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association organized the National Finals Rodeo in 1958 in order to find the world champion in each of rodeo’s 7 main events such as Bull Riding, Steer Wrestling, Barrel Racing, Bareback Riding, Tie Down Roping & Team Roping. The world championship for Steer Roping held separately from regular National Finals Rodeo. The first National Finals Rodeo was held in Dallas in 1959 & followed by at that venue till 1961. But Los Angels Hosted from 1962 to 1964.

After then Oklahoma City successfully bid in 1964 to be the host city. In 1965 the first National Finals Rodeo attract47,027 fans. Las Vegas bid for the NFR in 1984 . Therefore the Oklahoma City Council decided to build a new $30 million arena at Fairgrounds, But the Las Vegas won the bid. Since 1985 the National Finals Rodeo has been held in the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas. The National Finals Rodeo has become Thomas & Mack Center arena’s biggest events, gathering more than 170,000 fans in the ten-day event.

Year of 2001 a great sponsorship deal was signed & Wrangler became the 1st title sponsor of the NFR. The deal, part of the PRCA’s on going effort to develop professional rodeo to a new level. Again Oklahoma City has bid to return the National Finals Rodeo to Oklahoma, but is always outbid by Las Vegas. In


A viral video of four black teens being handcuffed by Minneapolis park police after an officer drew a gun on them at Minnehaha Park on Tuesday has prompted calls for an independent investigation into the incident.

Brianna Lindell posted the video, which had more than 1 million views on Facebook as of Wednesday evening. She alleged in her post that she first noticed that the four teens were being harassed by a white teen who was using racial slurs, telling them he had a knife while holding a metal trash can lid. A girl with him was on the phone.

People nearby seemed to de-escalate the situation, Lindell wrote. After she and her partner walked on, they heard shouts and returned to see two black teens handcuffed and sitting onscene, one officer unholstered his gun and pointed it in the “general direction” of the four teens — ages 16, 14 and two who are 13, police said.

Police said the four boys were handcuffed and detained. Police found no weapons on the boys, and the accounts by witnesses were different from what the 911 caller reported.

Police determined that one of the teens who had been detained was a runaway. He was taken to the Juvenile Supervision Center and has since been released. The other teens were released Tuesday at the park. Police ask anyone who witnessed the incident to call 612-230-6550.

Mary Lynn Smith • 612-673-4788


Nova Southeastern University, the largest private college in Florida, has a revenue sharing agreement with one of its preferred student loan providers and contracts with the company to staff its student call centers, according to papers released today by the state.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum opened an investigation last month into how student loan providers get on schools' preferred lender lists and other questionable practices following a national inquiry spearheaded by the New York State Attorney General's Office.

McCollum and New York's Andrew Cuomo held a news conference this afternoon asking the U.S. Senate to support the national Student Loan Sunshine Act, which the duo said would protect students from quid pro quo arrangements between schools and lenders.

Cuomo said 32 attorney generals nationwide signed a letter of support. Theemployees work in school financial aid call centers.

A handful of schools have also agreed to refund students money they received from lenders for loan business.

The 26,000-student Nova Southeastern University is the only Florida school to be questioned by McCollum and receive a subpoena from New York.

Nova is also the only Florida university in the top 10 U.S. News & World Report rankings for student debt with 62 percent of graduates carrying an average $26,658 in school loan debt.

Nova attorney Thomas Panza said he believes New York targeted Nova because of the number of students who take out loans for its graduate and professional programs.

Panza said school officials are willing to sign a code of conduct, and plan to terminate the contract with loan company Sallie Mae where its


ago the eral Reserve was telling markets to expect as many as four hikes this year. Now, traders are beginning Tags: chance, interest, Post Brexit, odds are up hike out, in. Yes, there’s now at least a slim chance for a eral Reserve - that a few days ago seemed impossible. As global markets plunged in the aftermath of United States Funds 1971-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar The eral Reserve kept its target range for the eral funds unchanged at 1.25-1.5 percent during its January 2018 meeting, in line The kept raising the funds to a peak of 13 in July 1974, and then dramatically lowered the , reaching 7.5 by January 1975. These sudden changes, known as stop-go monetary policy,Professor Spotlight: Dr. Roland Rust

For Dr. Roland Rust, a professor at the Smith School of Business, research is a way of life.

Rust earned a doctorate in business administration from University of North Carolina. He currently holds the David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, and is the founder and executive director of the Center for Excellence in Service and the Center for Complexity in Business.

One of Rust's recent research projects has earned accolades from many in the field. It focuses on the connection between customer satisfaction and consumer spending, a connection Rust says is often overlooked.

"It's really about satisfaction in the aggregate - the satisfaction that, on average, customers have toward a firm - predicting future consumer spending," Rust says. "If you take a look at the satisfaction levels


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HENRY FORD GIVES WOMEN $5 PER DAY
HANDS CREDIT TO WILSON
with that in Europe. Our people are
prosperous and happy; they have
cheerful and comfortable homes, and
their families are well provided with
the best the world affords.
"In Europe the ravages of war
have torn asunder the very hearts of
the people. Europe's sons are dying
Long Branch, Nr J., Oct. 25.
Henry Ford, automobile manufactur
er, has put his women workers in the
automobile industry ort the same
plane with the men workers. He an
nounced Tuesday that hereafter all
of the gentler sex woulddraw-at least
TJ5 per day. In making this decision
Ford hands much credit to President Lby the thousands, while famine and
Wilson. In his statement he said
"I had the pleasure to inform Pres
ident Wilson Tuesday afternoon that
I had established the women work
ers at my plant at Detroit and at all
the branch factories in other cities
upon a pay equality with the men
workers.
"I took this step following my con
ference with the president more than
two weeks ago, and I did so because
of ,an Inspiring talk I had with Mr.
Wilson on the forward movement
among womenkind. This principle is
now in operation and I look forward
with complete confidence to its vin
dication." Mr. Ford blew into Shadow Lawn
to show Wilson advertisements sup
porting the administration which he
plans to have published, prior to elec
tion. When he stepped off the train
and


was asked why he was in 8had--ow
Lawn, he said "To get on the Wil
son band wagon."
Before leaving'Detroit for his visit
with the president, Ford discussed
his backing of Wilson. "This is not
a partisan election," he said, "and
people are not talking about political
parties: they are talking about men
and tire principles they stand for.
"The majority of the people of this
country are going to vote for Presi
dent Wilson because they have faith
in his ability and integrity. I believe
that the young men in our land owe a
great debt to Wilson for carrying us
through critical periods without in
volving us in the horrors of war.
"Contrast the condition of the
young men in this country today
suffering are" almost universal in the
ueiiigerenc iiauuua.
"Let me tell you that the mothers
in the United State understand the
situation just as well as themen do.
Go into the homes of the people and
you will find that the women realize
fully as much as the men that Presi
dent Wilson has not only kept us out
of war, but has given peace and pros
perity to the greatest nation that the
world has yet produced."
Detroit, Mich., Oct 25. "All wom
en employes of the Ford Motor Co.
over 21 years of age have been under
the profit-sharing plan since Oct. 10,"
said Rev. Samuel Marquis, heSd of
the sociological department of the
big auto company, which employs ap
proximately 600 women.
"Women, single or married, with
dependents, have been participating
in the profit-sharing plan ever since
its adoption several years ago, but
now every woman over the age of
21 is entitled to-the increased wage.
This places her on the salary basis
with men employes, and she will re
ceive the $5 per day


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I’m a retired Air Force guy. I was with the Air Force in military and civil service

status all through that time period and beyond. My first enlistment was in

1953 while the shooting was still going on in Korea. I stayed with the Air Force in

military and civil service status until July 1990, a 37-year career.

The most revealing thing in the series to me was Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon

not telling the truth to the American public about how badly that war was going.

I also forgot about the anti-war riots that took place in this country. I did

extensive temporary duty travel as a military and civil service member during

that time frame. I never did encounter an anti-war demonstration.

I’m an old guy now, but I stillSarah Harris watches her tee shot while playing Courtney Chandler during a Championship match in women's state amateur golf tournament at Legends Club in Franklin, Tenn., Friday, June 28, 2013.

Written by

Tyler Whetstone
| The Tennessean

Sarah Harris used her clutch putting and solid short game to beat former Vanderbilt golfer Courtney Chandler in the 81st Tennessee Women's Amateur Championship at Vanderbilt Legends Club Friday.

Harris, a former Donelson Christian Academy golfer who plays for Kentucky, won 3-and-2 in the last match of the five-day tournament.

"The front nine was really tight. It kind of went back and forth," said Harris, 19. "She'd get up one, and I'd get it back, then I'd get up one and she'd get it back. So after the turn I was just like, 'I've got to make


In honor of USAF SSgt Timothy P. Davis, 28, who was killed on February 20, 2009 supporting operations in Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan, when his vehicle was struck by an IED. Timothy is survived by his wife Megan and one-year old son T.J.Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century

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Olympics Financing and Housing Crisis Shape Vancouver Election

By Roger Annis. Vancouver’s November 15 municipal election was a rout for the incumbent Non-Partisan Alliance, which is closely tied to right-wing parties in the provincial and federal governments. Former NDP MLA Gregor Robertson, the candidate of the Vision Vancouver party, was elected mayor, and Vision took seven seats on the ten-member city council. Its electoral allies, the Coalition of Progressive Electors, took two seats, leaving the NPA just one.

The electorate’s lack of enthusiasm for either option was shown by a near record low 26% voter turnout.

This election campaign holds important lessons for independent working class politics across Canada.

The Winter Games have been enthusiastically supported by all major municipal and provincial parties, but from the get-go


politicians and corporate promoters have had a tough time selling them to a skeptical population across the province of British Columbia and especially in Vancouver. Worries run high about the cost of hosting the games and the inevitable drain of public financial resources from pressing social and public transportation needs.

Indigenous activists are campaigning against the very idea of holding the Games because most of British Columbia is unceded Indigenous territory.

It took an extraordinary series of maneuvers in 2002 and 2003 to get the Games approved by a process bearing some semblance of public approval, including aplebiscite in Vancouver in February 2003.

Broken promises

The plebiscite passed in large part due to promises that the Games would not affect government spending on social programs. Among other promises: a portion of thefunding for desperately-needed transit expansion.

Meanwhile, federal and provincial governments are undertaking a vast expansion of roads and highways in the Vancouver region as part of a planned doubling of shipments in and out of the port of Vancouver.

Looming cloud of financial debacle

The biggest Games story of all was the looming financial crisis now looming. This will now dog the Vision-dominated council and dominate the provincial election campaign next May.

Construction cost overruns, falsified budgeting, ballooning security costs and the collapse of world financial markets are setting the stage for a deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars that taxpayers will be paying off for decades to come. The latest bombshell came on November 5 when the Globe and Mail reported details of an emergency meeting of Vancouver City Council


estimated homeless population of 1,200.

After the ruling, tent cities immediately sprang up in several city parks. But the Victoria city council acted equally fast—it passed an emergency resolution banning tents or other structures in parks between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. On October 17, police broke up some dozen tents in Beacon Hill Park, the city’s oldest and largest park. They arrested five people who resisted the brazen police attack on the spirit of the court decision.

Despite the police attack, there is growing public sympathy for people who provide themselves with shelter by any means necessary.

Two candidates for mayor — no solutions

The housing crisis was a central issue in the Vancouver municipal election. The mayoral and city council candidates of the two leading parties—the incumbent Non-Partisan (sic) AllianceCOPE opposed the bid. They saw the Olympics as a profit bonanza for engineering, construction and tourism companies with little benefit for ordinary citizens.

But the party was divided. Trade union leaders and the provincial NDP backed the bid. They lobbied for COPE to support a pro-Olympics mayoral candidate, former policeman Larry Campbell.

Campbell wanted the Olympics to be decided by a plebiscite. After he won the mayoralty, a plebiscite took place in early 2003. COPE was split down the middle and the “yes” side carried the day.

In 2005, three COPE councilors left the party and, with Campbell, formed Vision. They wanted closer ties to the capitalist interests that control the city of Vancouver. They saw COPE’s reform program, timid though it was, and especially its activist member base, as


obstacles to those plans.

In the 2005 election, the NPA retook the mayoralty and won a majority of city council seats. Vision elected four councilors, COPE only one. Popular disillusion with the passing of the Olympics bid and an uninspiring performance by the COPE-led city council saw voter participation drop to 32 per cent, down from 50 per cent in 2002.

To avoid vote splitting this year, COPE and Vision entered into a non-competition agreement. COPE supported Gregor Robertson for mayor. Other municipal candidacies were shared as follows: City Council — 8 Vision and 2 COPE; School Board — five COPE and four Vision; Parks Board — 4 Vision and 2 COPE. The municipal Green Party was also part of the agreement with one candidate for Parks Board.

The two COPEnominees for City Council were chosen at a meeting of more than three hundred party members on September 28. Two proponents of the agreement with Vision, David Cadman and Ellen Woodsworth, were selected in a bitter contest that saw former city councilor Tim Louis lose by a handful of votes. Louis is a voice of COPE’s left wing and a critic of the agreement with Vision. He argued that the party should have achieved a better division of candidacies.

Needed: Independent working class political action

Working people in Vancouver need a different kind of politics than what we witnessed in the recent campaign.

The collapse of the capitalist financial order will hit the city with increasing ferocity. Working people need a party based on popular mobilization and empowerment that challenges the


These axons form the transverse allatal tract (TAT), from whence they branch amongst the CA cells, and into the "cap", the postallatal nerves, and the opposite CA. Electron microscopy of transverse sections demonstrates nine neurosecretory axons entering the SG through NCA2. Proximal to the CA, NCA2 consists of a central bundle of neurosecretory axons and a peripheral zone confluent with the CA "cap". Depending upon the level of sectioning, there are 7--20 axons at the center, and seven pass into the TAT. The peripheral zone has the structure of a neurohemal organ.The idea of taxing financial transactions is an irrelevant one for the UK banking sector and a distraction from the focus of getting banks lending again and building their capital buffers, Richard Lambert, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry.

Lambert was referring to comments made by Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority in a magazine interview published last week, that if tougher capital rules don't prevent excess pay, profits and risk-taking by banks, the UK should consider applying special taxes on financial transactions.

"The trouble is...that the headlines Lord Turner has generated are about the wrong issues," said Lambert at a CBI annual dinner in Gateshead, in the North East of the UK.

The CBI chief said the right questions to ask are how to get credit flowing


local composed of the production workers of the Armstrong Rubber Company, hereinafter called the company. He had previously been in the employ of the company but had received a leave of absence when he took over his full-time job with the local at the weekly wage of $80. Each year he had been reelected president of the local. As president, he participated in collective bargaining negotiations with the company, presided at meetings of the local, handled grievances of its members against their employer, assisted in gathering data in connection with claims for workmen's compensation, and in all respects performed the duties usually associated with the business agent of a union.
On December 6, 1950, a labor dispute occurred between the company and its production employees. *162 As a result,the employees went out and remained on strike until the dispute ended early in May, 1951. On December 8, 1950, the local voted to discontinue payment of the plaintiff's weekly wage, and he thereafter received no pay until he was restored to the union's pay roll immediately after the labor dispute terminated. Nevertheless, he occupied himself until January 20, 1951, exclusively with the affairs of the local and for this reason was not, up to that date, available for work elsewhere. From then on his activities on behalf of the local greatly lessened. He continued to serve on a committee which was attempting to negotiate a contract, and, as a member of an elevenman executive committee, he did some work in and around the headquarters of the local.


Although he performed the work just mentioned, some of which was formerly required of him as president, he did so purely on a voluntary basis.
On January 21, 1951, the plaintiff registered for work with the state employment service and filed a claim for unemployment benefits. From that date he was ready at all times to enter other employment. He reported regularly to the employment service but received no referrals. He was of the opinion that, because of his position as an officer of a union in a plant where production employees were on strike, the only possibility of his getting a job in another factory would be through the state agency and not by his own application to individual factories. For this reason he made no attempt, exceptin one instance, to find, by personal solicitation, the kind of work for which his experience prior to his becoming president of the local had prepared him. The sole exception was when he asked for employment at a shop which manufactured seat covers. He did, however, make several efforts to obtain with *163 other unions work which was comparable to that performed by him as president of his own local, and he also tried on occasions to get a job as bartender on a part-time basis. All of these efforts were unsuccessful. On the basis of the facts recited, the court upheld the panel in concluding that the plaintiff was entitled to unemployment compensation.
The defendant maintains that the court erred in supporting the commissioners because eligibility for unemployment


the relationship of employer and employee." § 7495 (a) (1).
Reduced to its simplest form, the claim of the defendant is that the plaintiff was not unemployed after January 20, 1951, since he performed services for his employer, the local, under a contract of hire into which he had entered when assuming the office of president. The defendant has overlooked the obvious. There was no contract of hire during the *164 period for which benefits were sought. To be sure, the plaintiff rendered services for the local after January 20, 1951, but these services were performed voluntarily, that is, gratuitously. The plaintiff was not paid for them nor has the panel found that payment therefor had been postponed in futuro. Chapter 374 does not define a contract of hireAmerican passengers on the Grand Princess, a cruise ship that has been languishing off the coast of Northern California since Thursday because of the coronavirus, will be transferred to military posts in California, Texas and Georgia to be tested and for a mandatory 14-day quarantine, federal health officials said Sunday during a news conference with Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Health and Human Services officials said nearly 1,000 California residents on the ship will complete the quarantine at Travis Air Force Base north of San Francisco and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar near San Diego. Residents of other states will complete the quarantine at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas or Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia.

The officials said all will be monitored for symptoms of COVID-19 throughout their quarantine, adding


that crew members who tested positive for the virus would remain on the ship.

The Grand Princess ship, which has been carrying over 3,500 people from 54 countries, is expected to dock at the Port of Oakland, Calif., on Monday. It has been some 10 to 12 miles offshore since Thursday.

STATE DEPARTMENT: AMID CORONAVIRUS RISK, AMERICANS ‘SHOULD NOT TRAVEL BY CRUISE SHIP’

Of the 21 people infected aboard the ship, 19 crew members and two passengers had tested positive for COVID-19. As of Friday, only 45 of the ship’s passengers had been tested. The ship canceled its final stop in Mexico en route to San Francisco from Hawaii after officials learned a man who had been on the ship last month contracted the virus and died.

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The invention relates to a dilatation catheter having a tube the operative end of which opens into an expandable balloon and a segment of flexible tubing traversing the balloon, sealingly connected to the distal end of the balloon, and capable of being threaded by a guide wire.
Such a dilatation catheter is described in The American Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 49, Apr. 1, 1982, pages 1216 to 1222, and is employed to enlarge constrictions in vessels and body cavities, in particular coronary arteries. At the tip of such a dilatation catheter, an inflatable balloon is disposed, capable of being filled or emptied by way of a lumen inside the catheter.
In the known dilatation catheter, a tube is provided that passes over into a balloon at its anterior end. ThroughAri Shavit's My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel was rated the #1 best book of 2013 by The Economist, received a rave on the cover of The New York Times' Sunday book review and columnist Thomas Friedman urges President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu to read the book prior to their next meeting. Friedman praises the author, saying Shavit is one of a handful of experts whom I've relied upon to understand Israel ever since I reported there in the 1980s. If you care about fairness and accuracy in the coverage of Israel, all of that should give you pause.

One of the book's most controversial chapters was printed, prior to the book's official release, in The New Yorker magazine. Lydda 1948 recounts a narrative of


a battle during Israel's War of Independence. Shavit claims Zionism had carried out a massacre in the city of Lydda. That's not actually the case, as CAMERA reported, thoroughly dissecting the inaccuracies in the chapter and concluding:

if you know the facts  that the town surrendered, went back on its word, massacred and mutilated Israeli soldiers, and then despite all this the residents were allowed to leave unharmed  the picture looks very different.

The book is selling well, has won several awards and earned accolades from critics. That is an undeniable triumph of marketing, despite the tragic inattention to facts and accuracy. But not all reviewers have described it glowingly.

A Daily Beast review by Sol Stern explains the destructive impact of the false expulsion narrative repeated in Shavit'sto solve by integration of the refugees in their host countries. And yet there is a certain perverse logic to this policy, since it allows Palestinian leaders to continue feeding the refugees a daily diet of Jew hatred, along with the illusion that someday they will be returning in triumph to their homes in Lydda and other Israeli cities. Meanwhile the 1.5 million Arab citizens of Israel are the only Arabs in the region living in a free and democratic society and enjoy the highest standard of living among the Arabs of the Middle East.

I found it morally flawed and in many cases redolent of the peace at all costs mentality of the marginalized left in Israel and their supporters here in the West. Here is an Israeli


leftist intellectual who engages in secular yahrzeit' memorializing all of the disappeared Arab villages and towns whose residents fled the UN partitioned areas at the behest of the Arab Higher Council warning Arabs to flee to let five invading armies crush the embryonic Jewish nation, the State of Israel. Nowhere in Shavit's book does he recognize the enormous toll of Jewish lives in the War for Independence, 6,000 or 1% of the 600,000 Jews. As one graphic example he does not mention the massacre of 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and others in the April 1948 Mt. Scopus Hospital medical convoy. His heart bleeds for the massacre of Lydda when the embryonic IDF was allegedly ordered by Ben Gurion in July 1948 to sweep out the Arab fifth columnistsand Jordanian Legionnaires from Lydda and Ramle after the Arab notables had agreed to surrender.

In a Times of Israel review, Marc Schulman, who describes himself as someone who shares most of Shavit's political views  if anything I may be slightly to the left of him, declares:

Breathtaking, however, is what has been left out of this popular, acclaimed narrative of Israel. For example: The U.N. Commission on Palestine; the decision of the Arabs to oppose the plan, followed by their decision to start a war, is almost a passing reference in his story on Lydda. The refusal to resettle the refugees after 1949; the Hamas bombing after the Rabin assassination; the second Intifada; the rocket fire from both Lebanon and Gaza all omitted- or mentioned in passing the