United States took place. Not being an expert on Uruguay, I wondered about the basic structure of the Uruguayan government, which apparently allowed Batlle to exercise tremendous influence for decades, even when he was not in office. I also wanted to know more about what else was going on in Uruguayan foreign policy—especially relations with Britain—that would have helped gauge the relative importance of the United States for Uruguay. Most importantly, I wanted to know more about the extent of public support for Batlle and his programs. In the U.S. context, historiography over the past twenty years attuned to race and class, among other analytical lenses, has called into question how "good" the Progressives were. Although reformers did many positive things, their initiatives distributed benefits unevenly and cameSony Computer Entertainment America announced that it will introduce a new 160GB PlayStation 3 system to North America as part of an upcoming limited-edition Uncharted Drake's Fortune system bundle.

The pack will launch in November for $499.99 and will include a 160GB PlayStation 3 system, a copy of Naughty Dog's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, a PlayStation Network voucher for Idol Minds' downloadable game Pain, and a DualShock 3 wireless controller.

Says SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton: "As PlayStation Network continues to evolve with our recently-launched video delivery service and more exclusive games, PS3 owners are demanding more storage capacity."

Tretton says the 160GB system is also aimed at providing more space to those who use the PlayStation 3 as an "entertainment hub for their digital media," hoping to enable them to


store content like music collections on their hard drive.

The company also announced that it will release a Wireless Keypad that attaches to the Sixaxis and DualShock 3 controllers. The peripheral will appear in North America in November, shipping in Japan, Europe, and Asia by the end of the year.

With the keypad, users can access PlayStation 3's text chat communication features without using an on-screen keyboard. Two shortcut buttons, a Communication Button and a Message Box Button, are placed on the lower part of the Wireless Keypad, enabling users to jump to pre-set features on the XrossMediaBar, such as "Friends" and "Message Box," while playing a game.

The accessory serves as a Bluetooth device that can be used not only with PlayStation 3 systems, but with other Bluetooth-enabled devices withThe 1999 Beagle 2 remix, which replaces the ambient noise of the Parklife original with bouncy guitars, will surely inspire you to run to the nearest department store and buy a telescope.

The remix was named after the Beagle 2, a craft that was intended to explore the Martian surface and launched by the European Space Agency as part of the Mars Express project. Blur had recorded a composition intended as a call-sign for the Beagle 2, but the spacecraft was lost shortly after it was deployed in December 2003. Its wreckage on the Martian surface was not found until 2015.

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Available as a stand-alone single (2012)

“Under the Westway” charted well in the UK when it was released. Nevertheless, its identity as a standalone single sometimes makes fans


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The trolling motor unit will normally include a depending pipe-like support mounted in a swivel bracket. The pipe-like support terminates at the lower end in a lower unit within which a small electric motor is housed for direct driving of the propeller. The upper end of the support tube includes steering means for angular positioning of the lower unit for steering of the watercraft. The propeller speed is controlled by varying the energization of the electric motor. The steering and speed controls are normally switch controls located within the boat coupled by suitable lines and cables to the motor and to the support tube.
The pivotal mount assembly is preferably constructed such that in the transport position, the motor unit is located within the boat andWas the U.S. federal marijuana ban lifted completely as some reports claim? While the U.S. Senate quietly did lift parts of the federal medical marijuana ban as part of the spending bill, it is not quite as final as supporters of marijuana legalization would hope. In 2016, Bernie Sanders hopes to win not only the election, but to completely end the federal weed ban with the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act.

In a related report by The Inquisitr, some 2016 predictions claim that Bernie Sanders will win the election by a landslide.

When the newest bit of legislation was snuck into the 2,000-page spending bill, many celebrated the news as legalizing marijuana in the United States.

“The war on medical marijuana is over. Now the fight moves on to legalization of


the consumption of alcohol is allowed.

She went dancing but when she returned to the table after the first sip of her drink, she realised that she had been drugged, Lokollo said.

“She felt very unwell,” he said.

The young woman remembers nothing more until the following morning when she woke up in an unfamiliar apartment and “realised to her great horror, that she had been raped”, he said.

The suspected rapist was also arrested but insisted that their night together had been consensual and that the woman had even asked for money.

“She completely denies these accusations,” Lokollo said.

A court hearing is set to take place on Monday and the foreign ministry hopes a decision on whether to charge the Dutch woman will be taken.

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Recent Navy Academy graduate Cody Rome has been named a U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic honoree. Rome was one of 431 male student-athletes to earn All-Academic honors and just one of six Patriot League male student-athletes to receive recognition.

To be eligible, student-athletes must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met either of the following athletic standards: for the indoor season, a student-athlete must have finished the regular season ranked in the national top 96 in an individual event or ranked in the national top 48 (collective listing) in a relay event on the official NCAA POP list provided by TFRRS.org; for the outdoor season, a student-athlete must have participated in any round of the


NCAA Division I Championships (including preliminary rounds).

The standout distance runner met the athletic qualifications for the award three different ways, including by competing in the NCAA's East Regional Championship during the outdoor season, where he placed 23rd in the 5,000m run with a time of 14:24.40. Rome also met the indoor qualification standard by ranking 29th in the nation in the 3,000m run (7:55.24) and 72nd in the 5,000m run (14:10.63).

Earlier this summer, Rome earned CoSIDA Academic All-America Second-Team honors for cross country/track and field for the second straight year. Rome also earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors in track and field for the 2010-11 season and for the 2012 cross country season. Rome was named the Patriot League Indoor Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2011 and 2012.

Rome graduates asNavy's school-record holder in the indoor 3,000m run (7:55.12) and he won five individual Patriot League titles, had six runner-up finishes and was a three-time NCAA East Regional qualifier.

Prior to graduation last month, Rome received the Naval Academy's most prestigious athletic honor as he was the recipient of the NAAA Sword for Men. The award is presented to that man of the graduating class who is considered by the Association's Athletic Council to have personally excelled in men's athletics during his years of varsity competition.

Rome graduated with a degree in applied mathematics with a 3.58 grade point average. Rome's service selection is submarines.


The phrase “Class of ‘92” irks some of its members, but five of them spent Thursday evening in a restaurant part-owned by Ryan Giggs.

Manchester United’s interim manager and his former teammates Gary Neville, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and Phil Neville were in Worsley, a wealthy Salford suburb 10 kilometres west of Manchester City centre, which Giggs has long called home.

The group have bought non-league football club Salford City and held a dinner with local partners. A beaming Giggs joked that he had had “such a relaxing week, nothing untoward at all”. Scholes said that being an analyst on television during the Manchester derby, where he gave a critical but accurate analysis of David Moyes’s United team, was something that he had to do.

At another Manchester dinner on Thursday,and give the fans something to shout about, entertain them, score goals, make tackles, play with speed, play with tempo, and that’s what they’ve done in training so they will take that out into the game on Saturday.”

The Welsh-born winger admitted that he was a little nervous to be United manager, but joked that one of his first steps in the job was to award himself a five-year contract. He also described how other players had put a “gaffer” sign above his place in the dressing room and how they had asked him if he were changing his parking spot to the manager’s one.

Giggs is hugely respected in the dressing room and United fans are awash with spring optimism. They like their former and current heroes being in


Farmers market seeks music, entertainment

Organizers of the Elkins Farmers Market are preparing for this year’s season, which will run each Saturday morning from May 4 through the end of October.

Once again, organizers are looking for music, education programs, workshops and other entertainment for the market. They would like to start scheduling folks as soon as possible.

New this year will be cooking demos. These will take place the third Saturday of June, July and August, thanks to a grant from West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition and assistance from West Virginia University Extension Service.A middle school teacher in Hampton, Georgia, came under fire for a classroom assignment that required students to write letters to pressure Congress for stricter gun laws.

What happened?

The premise of the assignment was that stricter laws could prevent another mass killing at a school, according to reports.

“For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States," the assignment stated. The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States.”

"I asked him what he had for homework that night, and he said he had to write a paper on gun control," William Lee told Blue Lives Matter. "I looked at it, and I told my son, 'No, you're not doing that assignment.' Then I emailed his


careful analysis of the users' requirements and we believe the latter to be fulfilled to a very large degree. The new NHCPD is a relational database which is set up in two important state institutions, the National Institute of Public Health and the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia. The former is responsible for updating the database, while the latter is responsible for the technological side as well as for the implementation of data security and protection. NHCPD will be inter linked with several other existing applications in the area of health care, public health and health insurance. Several important state institutions and professional chambers are users of the database in question, thus integrating various aspects of the health care system in Slovenia. The setting up of a completelyQ:

Was the recurring theme of Stark creating his own villains intentional?

Looking across the Iron Man and Avengers films, the theme of Tony creating his own villains comes up quite often.

In Iron Man, Stane uses Stark's discarded technology to become Iron Monger. In Iron Man 2, Vanko is inspired by Iron Man and uses Stark tech to become Whiplash. In Iron Man 3, Killian becomes a villain directly due to how Stark treated him in the past. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tony creates Ultron and Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch work with Hydra and Ultron in order to get revenge on Stark for building the bombs that killed their parents.

He also arguably creates his own figurative villains in the form of hedonism and obsession.
Has anyone with Marvel ever stated


New German Siege Gun

The Surprise of the War: enormous German siege guns

These guns battered Namur into ruins, reduced Meubeuge and were employed in the capture of Antwerp.
An American picture (by a photographer of Brown Bros.). The orignal caption reads: The Germans demonstrated their marvelous efficiency in the art of war by keeping the existence of these fort-destroyers a complete secret until they were ready to use them against Belgium and France.

Click on the picture to see the next one in this Color Photographs series, or click here to go back to the summary page.Hormuud Telecommunications is a company identified as being one of the single largest financiers of al-Shabaab, which includes large lump sum payments to al-Shabaab in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

On the 26th of August, Rep. Ilhan Omar publicly declared her support for Hurmuud, a notorious organization known for its terrorist leadership and financing of terrorism.

Somali government and peacekeeping forces, need to protect @Hormuud and the Somali telecom industry as they make enormous contribution to the economy and provide vital services. During my visit to Somalia in 2011, I was surprised by the quick evolution of technology in Somalia. https://t.co/u1vAht8sUo — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 25, 2019

I broke the story by writing a detailed report on Hurmuud and their direct links to terrorism with the assistance of Strategic


Analyst. The report was quickly picked up by Judicial Watch, Clarion Project and several media outlets.

There has been a new and serious development to this case. The International Policy Group (IPG) in Nairobi Kenya has released a Report of the Investigation into the link between Hormuud Telecom and the Al-Shabaab Operations in Somalia called: ‘Reaping the Whirlwind,Hormuud Entrepreneurs and the Resurgence of Al-Shabaab’

The Executive Summary of the report states that:

“On August 25, 2019, officials of the company(Hurmuud) enlisted the support of the United States Congress Representative for Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, in its campaign against African peace-keepers in Somalia’s Jubaland State, which it accused of destroying its masts and undermining its business. Ilhan tweeted her support, calling upon the Federal Government of Somalia and the peacekeeping forces to protectHormuud Telecom company”

Exactly one day later, on the 26th of August, Ilhan Omar made the above tweet calling for the protection of the terrorist financing organization.

On page 31, the report also highlights that Ilhan Omar had actually met with Hurmuud and the terrorist-financiers before publicly declaring her support for them in order ‘to rope in the Somali diaspora and internationalize Hormuud’s campaign for control over Jubaland.’

Hormuud and Recent Bombings

A 2018 UN Security Council Report reveals that: On 14 October 2017 a large vehicle-borne improvised explosive device exploded killing as many as 582 people. It was the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history.

“Two employees of the principal Somali telecommunications provider, Hormuud Telecom Somalia Inc., were also prosecuted in connection with the attack, for facilitating the entry of the


large vehicle-borne improvised explosive device through the Sinka Dheerecheckpoint on the outskirts of Mogadishu.” says the report.

Below are snapshots of the second report, which can be read here.

Hormuud Telecommunications is a company identified as being one of the single largest financiers of al-Shabaab, which includes large lump sum payments to al-Shabaab in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In brief: Al-Shabab is a US Listed Terrorist Organization, and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is calling for the protection of their financier and main backer, Hormuud Telecom, after they requested her support. The question here is: How do terrorists contact Ilhan Omar, and is the CIA and or FBI investigating this?

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Imam Tawhidi is an Australian Muslim Scholar, Publicly Ordained Islamic Authority, Thinker, Educator, Speaker, and one of the main leading voices inJapanese company Asahi Kasei Fibers has developed Roboden, an elastic electric cable inspired by the extensibility of human skin

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far not to attack.

The Times of India is reporting that the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) is providing assistance to people who have left their homes.

National harmony minister Paul Bhatti, who is also chairman of the APMA, has contacted Islamic clerics and police to bring the situation under control.

“Rights activists have urged the government to reform or repeal the controversial blasphemy law, which they say is often misused to persecute minorities like Christians,” said the story.

Federal minister Paul Bhatti's brother Shahbaz Bhatti, who was the minister for minority affairs, was gunned down by extremists in Islamabad in March last year after he called for the repeal of the blasphemy law.

Also, Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian mother of five, has been sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy and isappealing the sentance.

Prayer Alert: Young Christian Pakistani Girl Arrested and Accused of Blasphemy against Koran

Rimsha's relatives say she has Down syndrome, although the International Christian Concern (ICC) report could not yet verify her mental state. She was, however, said to be "scared and unable to speak normally" when she was arrested.

(Pakistan)—According to reports, a young Christian girl was arrested for alleged blasphemy on August 16th in an outlying district of Islamabad, Pakistan. The crime is punishable by death.

Rimsha Misrak was accused of defaming the Koran, supposedly carrying burned pages in a bag. But, in a FOXNews report it was noted that there were "various religious and Arabic-language papers that had been partly burned, but no Koran" in her shopping bag when she was brought to the police station.

Neighbors


of Rimsha say she and her family were "sweepers"—work that is common among poor Christians in the slum area where she lived. It's suggested by some that perhaps she accidentally swept up the burned papers into her bag, and was then accused of having burned them. (Photo: AP/ B.K. Bangash 2012)

Reports differ on Rimsha's exact age, some say 11-years-old, some say 12, and Pakistani authorities claim she is older.

Rimsha's relatives say she has Down syndrome, although the International Christian Concern (ICC) report could not yet verify her mental state. She was, however, said to be "scared and unable to speak normally" when she was arrested.

The incident sparked acts of violence against Christians in the area, and according to the ICC report, many Believers' homes were burned, damaged orWoody Paige's Mailbag

Jhoulys Chacin mows down Pirates as Rockies win to halt losing skid

Rockies' Dexter Fowler slides safely into second for a stolen base against the Pirates in Pittsburgh on Friday night. More photos from the Rockies' win. (Keith Srakocic, The Associated Press)

PITTSBURGH — In the quiet of the Rockies' clubhouse Thursday night in Atlanta, Troy Tulowitzki was ejected and dejected. He had been run from a game because of his repeated use of the word "no" to plate umpire Marvin Hudson.

His burst of temper was poorly timed with the bench short, but there were more than a few players who weren't bothered by his short fuse. The Rockies sleepwalked through a beatdown by the Braves that was embarrassing on every level. So a little emotion wasn't the


worst thing.

"The key is that we continue to play hard and play the game the right way and let everything unfold from there," Tulowitzki said.

What seemed like ambitious optimism turned into a blueprint Friday night as the Rockies broke a four-game losing streak behind the brilliance of Jhoulys Chacin and timely hitting in a 4-2 victory over the Pirates at sold-out PNC Park.

"He was nasty. That's the best I've seen him," Tulowitzki said of Chacin, who pitched the final three innings with a compression sleeve on his right forearm after being struck by a line drive. "He's tough. He did exactly what we needed."

Tulowitzki did his part to redeem himself from his early exit, homering on his first at-bat to give Colorado its first lead since Tuesday againstthe Braves. It was his 20th home run of the season, the fifth time he's reached that total in his career, providing a glimpse into his unique skill set as a shortstop.

But this game was about Chacin the Machine. Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland is fond of saying that momentum in baseball is tied to that day's starting pitcher. They are the hub of baseball's universe, the equivalent of a hockey goalie or an NFL quarterback. When the starter is right, a lot of other things can go wrong.

Troy Tulowitzki turns a double play in the second inning against the Pirates in Pittsburgh on Friday. More Rockies photos. (Justin K. Aller, Getty Images)

Little did go wrong for Chacin on Friday, when fans received free Pirates T-shirts. He accomplished


everything but a complete game in one of the most impressive outings of his career. The right-hander was a model of efficiency, allowing just one run and six hits in eight innings. He required only 96 pitches and threw an eye-popping 70 strikes. He was everything the previous four Rockies starters were not.

The right-hander lived ahead of the count, forcing aggression and weak swings on secondary pitches. He painted with a small brush, staying out of the middle of the plate and away from the barrel of the bat.

Rockies starting pitcher Jhoulys Chacin looks on from the bench after leaving Friday's game against the Pirates. More photos. (Justin K. Aller, Getty Images)

Armed with a two-year contract before spring training that eased his mind and left him determined toreward the club's faith, Chacin has pitched like a legitimate front-of-the-rotation arm this season. Colorado is 13-8 in his games, second-best to Jorge De La Rosa (14-8), who pitches Saturday.

Chacin maneuvered around three straight hits in the third inning, limiting the damage to one run when Pedro Alvarez grounded into a double play.

After consecutive singles by Corey Dickerson and Tulowitzki in the sixth inning (Dickerson was hitting third with Carlos Gonzalez hurt and Michael Cuddyer out until Saturday), Todd Helton delivered. Nearly 17 years to the day that he made his big-league debut at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Helton lined a single up the middle, scoring a pair of runs.

They proved necessary with Rex Brother's high-wire act in the ninth. After Alvarez doubled in a run, manager


Walt Weiss, who was late at the switch to prevent Tulowitzki's ejection Thursday, jogged to the mound. He wanted his message clear, the urgency unmistakable.

Jorge De La Rosa is still with the Rockies, which says a lot about what they think of him. He was the Rockies' most valuable piece at baseball's trade deadline, but they never shopped him. There was a reason: Team owner Dick Monfort said the Rockies plan to exercise De La Rosa's $11 million club option next season, and not for the purpose of trading him. De La Rosa is coming off his worst start of the season, when he let the strike zone affect his performance. Francisco Liriano is arguably the best winter addition of any team. The former Twins ace has recapturedlarger proportional to the size of the rotation force that is transmitted by way of the universal joint. On the other hand, in the case of an automobile steering apparatus, which is one example of an apparatus that uses a universal joint, in recent years electrically powered power steering apparatuses are becoming popular. Of this kind of electrically-powered power steering apparatus, in a column type power steering apparatus in which an electric motor, which functions as the auxiliary power source, is located in a position (steering wheel side) further upstream in the direction of transmission of the rotation force during steering than the position of the universal joint, the rotation force that is transmitted by way of the universal joint becomes large. As a result, the axial load


Donald Trump Jr.: U.K.'s Prime Minister Should Have Listened To My Father

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With just over a week to go until the deadline for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, the son of President Trump says that everything would be on track had British Prime Minister Theresa May taken his father's advice on Brexit.

In an op-ed published Tuesday in the London-based Telegraph, Donald Trump Jr. said the failure of the country to navigate an exit from the EU by the deadline is an example of how establishment elites try to subvert the will of the people. Trump Jr. likened Brexit to the political landscape of the U.S., in which he said Democrats and "deep-state operatives" have been "colluding to subvertthe will of the American people."

Nearly three years after the U.K. approved Brexit, the details of the planned exit are still in flux. Because May "ignored advice from my father," he said, a process that "should have taken only a few short months has become a years-long stalemate, leaving the British people in limbo." Now, Trump Jr. said, "the clock has virtually run out and almost all is lost — exactly as the European elites were hoping."

Trump Jr. did not go into detail on what his father had advised. Asked last year for details by the BBC, May said, with an amused expression: "He told me I should sue the EU. Not go into negotiations; sue them."

At a joint press conference with May, Trump said that perhaps she


When Christine Lagarde was symbolically passed the European Central Bank leadership baton during a ceremonial event in Frankfurt on Monday, the 63-year-old Frenchwoman was also handed a golden bell (pictured above) that is used to call the central bank's policymakers to order. Given recent grumblings among the ECB's Governing Council members, notably Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, about a continuation of the bank's ultra-loose monetary policy, the gift may come in handy.

Moreover, the first woman at the helm of the eurozone central bank inherits a fresh round of monetary stimulus, which outgoing ECB chief Mario Draghi managed to push through in his final weeks, partly in hopes to smooth Largarde's transition into office.

Under his 2012 pledge to do "whatever it takes" to save the single European currency fromcollapse, Draghi has driven interest rates deep into negative territory and pumped trillions of euros into the eurozone economy through a quantitative easing program (QE). But a decade of crisis fighting has almost exhausted the ECB's monetary toolkit and has opened up unprecedented dissent between those eurozone members who back this policy and those who are losing faith in further easing.

All this means that Lagarde's leadership skills will be tested from the very first day she begins her eight-year term in office on November 1. But many of those who've worked with her in the arena of international diplomacy are convinced she is up to the job. Nathan Sheets, a former undersecretary for international affairs at the US Treasury, is one of them.

"Throughout her career, Lagarde has been


a synthesizer, a moderator and an arbiter in the way she acted in the international community, and that's how I'd see she would lead the ECB," he said.

Unlike 'Super Mario' Draghi's (right) strong leadership style, Lagarde is said to deal with problems without preconceived ideas and then lean on colleagues to examine every angle of a problem

Unconventional choice

Unlike Mario Draghi, who has a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lagarde is not an economist and has never been forced to devise monetary policy.

After studying law in Paris, she did a master's degree in political science in Aix-en-Provence, France. Twice rejected by the Paris-based elite school Ecole Nationale d'Administration, she joined US law firm Baker McKenzie in 1981. She spent two decades there as alawyer and later became chairwoman before leaving in 2005 to join the French government. Nicolas Sarkozy made her France's first female finance minister — a position in which she won respect for steering the country through the turmoil of the 2008/09 financial crisis.

In 2011, her career entered global politics as she became the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Her diplomatic and negotiating skills became noticeably evident during the Greek financial crisis in 2012, when the so-called troika of IMF, ECB and the European Union hammered out a multibillion-euro bailout deal with Athens that avoided a breakup of the eurozone.

During an eleventh-hour crisis meeting in June 2015, when many participants had lost interest in Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's lengthy explications, Lagarde never stopped listening, diligently and


determinedly asking questions and taking notes

Lagarde once said she "hates math," which betrays a certain lack of technical expertise about setting monetary policy. For that, she'll probably rely on former Irish central bank chief Philip Lane, who was named the ECB's chief economist this summer. Instead, she will focus on crafting diplomatic solutions to emerging problems, which would mark a shift toward a more political bank.

Read more: French court convicts IMF chief Christine Lagarde on negligence charges

In an interview for Bloomberg last month, Lagarde said she would "start with teamwork" that would allow room for disagreement. But once a decision was made, she'd expect policymakers to "move together." After initially hesitating to take the ECB job, she felt she had the diplomatic skills, political sense and understanding todo it, she added.

Challenges galore

Now, Lagarde will oversee the world's second-biggest currency in an economic zone so diverse that a one-size-fits-all monetary policy sometimes seems ill-conceived. A dramatic public schism occurred last month, when the ECB agreed to resume government bond purchases in an effort to kick-start fading economic growth and nudge up inflation to its target of just below 2%.

In what's said to be the biggest dissent ever in the ECB's two-decade history, more than a third of policymakers objected to the move. Governors from economically conservative economies in the north opposed Draghi's stimulus package, while southern European nations supported it. Criticism of the ECB has been fiercest in Germany, where it is regularly accused of penalizing the country's savers while rewarding profligate southern European states.

Marcel Fratzscher,


At his lowest point, veteran Adam Nickoll found himself out of work and out of money, living in a tent in bushland south-east of Perth.

Key points: Ex-veterans have acquired a bush camp property south of Perth

Ex-veterans have acquired a bush camp property south of Perth They offer respite care and assistance to ex-military personnel like Adam

They offer respite care and assistance to ex-military personnel like Adam They are calling on government and local businesses to sponsor the project

After trying to find work in Queensland, Mr Nickoll decided to return to his home state in Western Australia earlier this year to seek employment on the mines.

He enrolled in several courses to qualify himself and applied for countless jobs. But none of the applications were successful, and soon all ofhis funds had dried up.

"I pitched a tent and was living out of that for about two months while doing courses and trying to find work," he said.

"[There were] low points, sad days and lonely days."

Mr Nickoll struggled to find work and a place to live before has luck changed abruptly. ( ABC News: Rhiannon Shine )

Mr Nickoll joined the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in 1986, first serving with Sydney's 3RAR parachute battalion before later moving into clerical work.

He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder earlier this year and hit rock bottom when he lived in the tent and the hope of finding a job had faded.

But virtually overnight, his luck changed.

A job and a place to stay

Mr Nickoll went into the Armadale RSL one Friday to meet


with the WA chapter of the Military Brotherhood, a motorcycle club which supports veterans.

After hearing Mr Nickoll's story, the Brotherhood introduced him to RSL president Lynda Zappelli, who had Mr Nicoll set up in a hotel that night.

By Tuesday, Mr Nickoll had a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) job as a dump truck driver with MACA Mining at a mine site in WA's Mid West thanks to the organisation Working Spirit, which helps veterans find work.

He also became the first resident at a new veterans' "transition centre", set up by a group of ex-servicemen who hope it will become a first-of-its-kind base for WA military personnel transitioning back into civilian life.

The Recovery and Restoration Centre is in bushland about 45 kilometres south of Perth. ( ABC News: Rhiannon Shine )

Thetransition — in other words, grabbing people at the gate when they've still got their chin off their chest with a high sense of self-worth, and then building on that."

He said the long-term vision for the centre was to offer a full suite of services including counselling, training, development and vocational guidance, as well as a "safe house" for any ex-service person who needed accommodation or support.

Call for federal funding

But Mr Baldwin said the group needed funds to achieve the goal and had been lobbying the Federal Government.

The centre is aimed at having "veterans help veterans", Mr Baldwin said. ( ABC News: Rhiannon Shine )

He said the centre had hosted the Minister for Veterans' Affairs Darren Chester earlier in the year.

"He was terrific, and I think believed in


people — than rest of the world (based on 2015 data). Yet that is not enough. Apart from starting a new research and innovation program for AI, South Korea also wants a robotics industry of 600 companies and 34,000 workers by 2018, generating 7 trillion won in revenue (nearly $6 billion).

Thailand hopes for a robotic reboot

In the 1990s, Thailand was a so-called Asian Tiger. The Asian financial crisis of 1998 and later, political upheavals, and natural disasters pushed the economy into the slow lane. Of course, the rise of China and India did not help, either. Like Belarus, Thailand is looking to reboot its economy through advanced technologies.

The government has identified robotics as one of the top sectors to take the country’s economy forward. Thailand has also createddelivery pump into a reactor pre-heated by external heating mantle. The biomass was mixed during EA pretreatment process for 15 min. As the temperature of reactor was increased, the pressure in the vessel raised (between 600 and 800 psi) depending on the ammonia to biomass loading. After the completion of pretreatment process, extractives (mostly lignin) generated during the process along with liquid ammonia was collected via a sintered frit into another high pressure reactor. The collection pressure was released from the vessel and ammonia was vented in the hood to recover the extractives. The pretreated biomass was transferred to a tray and dried in the hood overnight to remove residual ammonia present in the biomass. Then dry EA treated biomass was stored in a sealed polythene bag in a refrigerator


Tall, slim, slender, oh my God this stick was made for my dick. Meet barely 18 year old, Phueng. She's ripe from the vine and this is her first appearance in an adult video.....ever. Phueng has the most adorable face with a button nose and big beautiful eyes. Her body is very lengthy with precious little B-Cup mounds with the perkiest little nipples. And her tiny little box is the cutest yet, with no hair, and small thin folds that attempt to block her tiny hole. It's by far one of the prettiest pussies I've seen in awhile. I just had to give it a lick. Maybe a nibble. Oh stop teasing you know I buried my face in that shit. I like my fruit ripe and fresh,A Canadian kidnapped in Burkina Faso has been found dead, says his family, two days after he was abducted.

Kirk Woodman, originally from Halifax, was abducted Tuesday night by a dozen gunmen at a mining site owned by Vancouver-based Progress Minerals in Tiabongou, near the border with Niger, in an area the government says is under growing threat from armed jihadists.

Woodman's son Matt, a CTV reporter based in Edmonton, told CBC News the family found out Thursday morning.

"Kirk was a loving and hard-working husband, father, son and brother. Not a day will go by that he won't be missed," he said in a statement.

"Our family would like to thank everyone for the love and support we've received, but we ask for privacy while we grieve during this difficult time."

“Canada


with the authorities in Burkina Faso, to be sure that the people responsible for this terrible killing face justice."

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland confirms the death of Kirk Woodman after authorities in Burkina Faso said his body was found 100 kilometres from the site where he was taken captive. 0:49

Alpha Barry, Burkina Faso's minister of foreign affairs and co-operation, referred to Woodman's death as an "assassination."

"The government of Burkina condemns with the utmost energy this cowardly assassination and reassures that an investigation is opened and all the measures will be taken to find and punish the guilty," he said in a statement in French posted to Facebook on Thursday.

Jill and I are devastated to hear about the murder of Kirk Woodman, a Canadian citizen kidnapped in Burkina Faso.operations in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, and Woodman had previous experience working in West Africa.

Adam Spencer, CEO of Progress Minerals, said the company "is heartbroken by the tragic loss."

"Kirk was an incredibly accomplished and highly respected geologist with a career spanning over 30 years, with 20 years spent in West Africa," he said.

"More importantly, Kirk was a kind person, a dedicated father and husband, and considered a friend by all who knew him."

Acadia University Prof. Sandra Barr said in an email to The Canadian Press on Wednesday that Woodman was well known among geologists in Nova Scotia, where he was based, and had worked in Africa for decades.

"He was very passionate about the work that he was doing there," she said.

Security forces patrol in Burkina Faso's capital,


Ouagadougou, in August 2017. Woodman was kidnapped Tuesday in an area the West African country's government has warned is under growing threat from jihadist attacks. (Hamany Daniex/Reuters)

David Duncan, a veteran exploration geologist based in Windsor, N.S., said he worked with Woodman on projects in the province and overseas for more than four decades.

In an interview Wednesday, he described Woodman as a talented geologist — part of a wider community of Nova Scotia-trained geologists who helped find mines around the globe. He had the ability to tell whether a good prospect could become a producing mine, said Duncan.

Duncan and Woodman worked for Etruscan Resources of Halifax on some of the first gold mines in Niger and then in Burkina Faso — as part of a close-knit group of Canadiangeologists pioneering the development of mines in western Africa.

He said working as an exploration geologist in western Africa always had its dangers, ranging from the risk of traffic accidents to contracting diseases such as malaria, but Duncan said in recent years that the risk increased with the rise of Islamic militancy.

"It's a terrible thing, a terrible thing. We understood since the Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler was kidnapped in Niger that part of the world had changed ... with the introduction of Islamic fundamentalists into that part of the world," he said.

"It's gotten to be a much harder place... We were never worried about being kidnapped. Today, it's a different world."

He's the second Canadian to go missing in the country in recent weeks, Burkina Faso Security Minister Clément Sawadogo


said.

Quebec resident Edith Blais, 34, and her Italian travel companion, Luca Tacchetto, 30, were last heard from in the western city of Bobo-Dioulasso on Dec. 15.

Freeland and International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau will meet with Blais's family on Friday. Her mother and sister live in Sherbrooke, Que., where the Liberals have been holding a cabinet retreat.

"We understand that they are going through a very, very difficult situation," Bibeau told reporters. "We want to reassure them that the Canadian government is doing everything that can be done to find Edith and Luca as quickly as possible."

My heart goes out to the family and friends of Kirk Woodman after today's deeply sad news of his death in Burkina Faso. Let us ensure his loved ones are given space to grieveduring this difficult time. —@theJagmeetSingh

Attacks by Islamist militants have surged in the country in recent months, and Burkina Faso has declared a state of emergency in several northern provinces since Dec. 31.

Security has deteriorated in the country as jihadists with links to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, including many based in neighbouring Mali, seek to increase their influence across the poorly policed scrublands of the Sahel region just south of the Sahara Desert in West Africa.

Conservative MP Erin O'Toole, the party's foreign affairs critic, said Canadian companies might have to rethink their presence in the area.

"There's already a pretty strict advisory about Burkina Faso, but I think this should show non-essential travel should cease to that country when there's this sense of lawlessness," he


A Volusia County deputy is under investigation after shooting an unarmed man in the face and killing him while trying to serve a narcotics search warrant at a home in Deltona.

Derek Cruice, 26, was inside a home on Maybrook Drive, when a narcotics task force showed up with a warrant around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The sheriff's office said Todd Raible, a SWAT team member who was working as a narcotics investigator, fired his weapon at Cruice after his actions caused the deputy to perceive a threat.

According to Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson, Cruice was one of six adults — four men and two women — inside the home at the time.

Cruice was taken to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial, in Orange City, where he was pronounced dead.

"They were met withresistance and a shooting incurred," Johnson said.

Some of the other people inside the home contradicted Johnson's account that task force members were met with resistance. Matthew Grady, 24, said he opened the door for deputies when the shooting happened. He claimed there was never any resistance.

"There's a couple of seconds between opening the door, walking out, getting to my knee, and halfway out there's gunfire," Grady said. "I look back as the guy's grabbing me, and my friend is dead or dying."

When asked if Cruice met resistance, Grady replied: "No."

The men who were inside the house said there were no firearms or narcotics. Deputies later confirmed Cruice was not armed during the incident.

The sheriff's office said investigators recovered approximately 217 grams of marijuana during a search of the


house, along with a scale, drug ledger, pipes, plastic bags and nearly $3,000 in cash.

Raible, 36, was placed on paid administrative leave, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has taken over the investigation into the shooting.

The sheriff's office will, however, continue its narcotics investigation.

Raible was hired by the sheriff's office in March 2005.island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was once mentioned, lest the servants learn the identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret expedition in the history of American finance. I am not romancing; I am giving to the world, for the first time, the real story of how the famous Aldrich currency report, the foundation of our new currency system, was written…”

It was never intended for the public to even have a sense of who was behind the scenes pulling the strings to create the Federal Reserve. Just like in the Wizard of Oz, the power of the wizard comes from the smoke and mirrors. And the


locked up at Jekyll Island, out of the rest of the world, until they had evolved and compiled a scientific currency system for the United States, the real birth of the present Federal Reserve System, the plan done on Jekyll Island in the conference with Paul, Frank and Henry… Warburg is the link that binds the Aldrich system and the present system together. He more than any one man has made the system possible as a working reality.”

The Federal Reserve is simply a system that is intent on keeping the banking powers established no matter what ills are committed by their banking brotherhood. This is why after many years in this crisis nearly every penny of the bailouts has gone to aiding and focusing on protecting the banks.The banks in turn lobby and pay Congress to protect and paper over their misdeeds of the past decade. A few op-ed pieces covered the troubling nature of how the SEC actually destroyed suspicious files on many of the banking giants early in the 2000s. Those in the organization who played their hand well enough managed to land lucrative positions at the big banks. Those in big banks have direct connections with Ben Bernanke.

The 100-year anniversary of the Fed goes hand in hand with the purchasing power decline of the U.S. dollar:

The dollar has fallen dramatically over this time and this is reflected through the cost of goods. At one time in history one U.S. dollar was redeemable with one ounce of silver. The cost of silver is


Nadella likely new Microsoft CEO

HEAVY HITTER SOUGHT:A source said that although cloud computing head Satya Nadella has little experience managing investors, he would likely focus on innovation

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Satya Nadella, senior vice president of research and development for the online services division of Microsoft Corp, speaks during a Microsoft Search Summit event in San Francisco, California, on Dec. 15, 2010.

Photo: Bloomberg

Microsoft Corp is likely to appoint its cloud-computing head, Satya Nadella, as its next chief executive, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as the board concludes a five-month search for a tech-savvy heavy hitter to lead the world’s largest software company.

As part of the move, co-founder Bill Gates may step aside as chairman and be replaced by lead independent director John Thompson, saidthe source, speaking on condition of anonymity because the process is private. Gates would remain a director, the source added.

Bloomberg first reported the news on Thursday.

Rising star Nadella, a native of Hyderabad, India — where Microsoft has its largest non-US research center — was promoted to run the company’s fast-expanding cloud, or Internet-based, computing initiatives in July last year as part of current CEO Steve Ballmer’s radical reorganization of the company.

The appointment of the 22-year Microsoft veteran would make him the most powerful Indian-born tech executive in the world and put him alongside PepsiCo Inc chairperson and chief executive officer Indra Nooyi as the leader of a well-known, large-cap US corporation.

Born in 1967 and educated in India and the US, Nadella’s tech career started at Internet software pioneer


says this is far from the first such crime to make the news, but that is has touched a raw nerve with the public and could become a watershed case.

On Wednesday, Delhi's Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit joined thousands of women on a protest march through Delhi to Rajghat and called for stringent anti-rape laws.

India's Junior Education Minister Shashi Tharoor has suggested a new anti-rape law should be named after the victim.

The woman's family have said they would have no objection to such a move.

The woman and a male friend had been to the cinema when they boarded a private bus home in the evening.

Police have said the men on the bus had been drinking and were taking the vehicle on a joyride.

They beat the woman and her companionwith iron bars, raped her for nearly an hour and then threw them out of the moving bus into the street, say police.

The Press Trust of India quoted police sources as saying the driver of the bus had tried to run her over after throwing her out, but that she was saved by her friend.

She sustained serious injuries to her body and brain and died on 29 December in a hospital in Singapore, where she had been flown for specialist treatment.

Helpline launched

image caption A local politician in Assam state was attacked after being accused of raping a woman

Delhi officials have responded to criticism that they are failing to protect women by announcing a series of measures intended to make the city safer.

These include more police night patrols, checks


on bus drivers and their assistants, and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.

The government has also set up a committee under a retired Supreme Court judge to recommend changes to the anti-rape law.

A telephone helpline has been launched for women in distress, connected with police stations across the city.

In what has been seen as an indication of the growing public anger about sexual violence, footage was broadcast on national television on Thursday showing an attack on a member of the ruling Congress party in north-eastern Assam state who had been accused of raping a young woman.a fungus that attacks fruit on the tree during irrigation or heavy rains. It begins with a white growth on the fruit, along with a strong odor. It later causes decayed spots that are brown and leathery. Fruits on lower branches of the tree are most often infected because the fungus is usually in the soil. Soil mixed with water splashes on the fruit and causes the infection.

Greasy spot and sooty mold

Greasy spot and sooty mold are both fungal infections. They infect mostly the leaves but greasy spot can affect the fruit. Insect secretions cause sooty mold. The mold turns the leaves black. Greasy spot causes the fruit to become spotted and creates blisters on the leaves and leaf drop.

Alternaria fruit rot

Alternaria fruit rot is a fungal disease.


The fungus affects mostly lemons and navel oranges. It causes the fruit to prematurely change color. The disease doesn't form until after the harvest and becomes a problem during storage. It causes brown or black spots on the ends of the fruit and rots the inside.

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Liz Ward is a Visual Communications Designer and writer. Ward's articles are published on eHow.com and GardenGuides.com. Ward has written for Demand Studios and Text Broker. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Design and a Minor in photography from Purdue University. She is also a master gardener.CommSoft Hit by Evesham Floods

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Evesham based Commsoft have been hit by the floods that have ravaged the Midlands area and caused chaos for hundreds of businesses in the Worcestershire town. The waters began to rise on Friday, with torrential downpours of rain that quickly caused flooding on a scale unseen in the area for over 50 years.

‘Our offices have been flooded, with water pouring from local fields. At one point, the business park owner had to use a digger to try to make a ditch for the water to collect in but he was powerless to prevent the overflow of water which deluged our offices and the others in the park. The office flood has damaged carpets, cabling and electrics as well as furniture. The roads


to the office quickly became impassable with one of our shareholders forced to spend the night in there as he could not get his four by four vehicle out of our road,’ says Bonnie Church, Sales and Marketing Director.

‘The flood waters came right up to our house as well’ she adds, ‘as the local brook also burst its banks in spectacular style, leaving abandoned cars littering the road. The residents stood watching the waters inch closer to our houses on Friday night, whilst we all piled up the sandbags – it was very alarming and most people in our road had to move all of their possessions upstairs. Though the water outside the house has now subsided, we are still having difficulty in getting hold of essentials suchas milk and bread as the local shops are not seeing any deliveries and many of them were flooded themselves.

Evesham town centre is still under water and there is only one way into and out of the town, which is hugely congested. We are one of the lucky households though: those up the road in Tewkesbury and Cheltenham are facing complete lack of water and no power to add to their misery. Upton-on Severn is cut off with thousands of residents trapped in the town whilst Tewkesbury has effectively become an island. Hundreds of Evesham residents spent the weekend in emergency centres with local people being evacuated by RAF Sea King helicopters from rooftops.’


Rep. Walter Jones, Jr. (R-NC) has looked at war from both sides. As he has readily shared with us, he was hoodwinked by the US intelligence community in the run-up to the Iraq war. He attended the briefings and he trusted the "professionals." As the neocon promised "cakewalk" turned out to be a slaughterhouse, he began to think hard about what he had been told about Iraq and terrorism and 9/11.

He soon realized it was all a fake. He became one of the most important conservative opponents of the wars for the US empire. How many conservatives did his passionate commitment to truth turn against the war? Scores.

Rep. Jones now is convinced that we must end the 16 year US war on Afghanistan. In a recent interview withWith the help of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Empire State is on the cusp of turning itself into a major bike touring hub.

Cuomo recently announced the Empire State Trail proposal during his State of the State tour last month. It would include 350 miles of multi-use path to connect the Hudson River Valley Greenway and Erie Canalway trails with New York State Bike Route 9—resulting in a 750-mile trail running from New York City up to the Canadian border near Buffalo.

RELATED: The 10 Best Car-Free Bike Paths in the US

If approved, the trail would become the largest single-state multi-use trail in the nation. It would cost approximately $200 million; most of the land is already owned by the state, so the majority of the expense will


in a magnetic field. In a d. c. motor the magnetic field is provided either by permanent magnets or by field coils wrapped around clearly defined field poles on a stator. The conductors on which the force is developed are located on a rotor and supplied with electric current. The force induced in the coil is used to apply rotor torque, whose magnitude varies with the magnitude of the current and strength of the magnetic field. However, flux leakage, air gaps, temperature effects, and the counter-electromotive force reduce the efficiency of the motor.
Permanent dipole magnets have a magnetic north pole, a magnetic south pole, and magnetic fields surrounding each pole. Each magnetic pole attracts a pole of opposite magnetic polarity. Two magnetic poles of the same polarity repelhear the Adhan,
repeat after the muezzin what he says. (Bukhari and Muslim)

A supplication made
between Adhan and Iqamah is not rejected. (Abu Daud and Tirmidhi)

The Holy Prophet (PBUH)
said: "Tell me if one of you had a stream running at his door and
he should take a bath in it five times every day would any dirt be left
upon him?"
He was answered: "No dirt would be left on him." The Holy Prophet
observed: "This is the case of the five Prayers. Allah wipes out all faults
in consequence of them." (Bukhari and Muslim)

He who is constant in
the dawn and afternoon Prayers will enter Paradise. (Bukhari and Muslim)

Usman Bin Affan (R.A.A.)
says that he heard the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) say: "A person who offers
night (Isha) prayer in congregation is deemed to have spent half the


life (she was never a heavy drinker) and her uncomplicated adolescence on an Iowa farm.

Her 100 years could also be attributed to her sense of humor. She says it is “the best thing you can have in life” because she always sees the good in situations and people always treat her well.

She gives a great deal of credit for her position in life to her older siblings, who practically raised her.

“You had a lot more parents than everyone else did,” she said. “You were actually raised by your family.”

One of her older siblings paid for her to go to Simpson College, where she studied to be a teacher. After graduating in May 1941, she moved home and began teaching.

Her career dramatically changed, however, when a Department of Defenserecruiter came to town.

“He came into my classroom with a suit on, and so he got my respect, of course,” she said.

He offered for her to work for the Communications Section of the Army Security Agency, processing communications from all over the world.

Ensign knew she did not have a home to go back to after her father remarried, and her older brothers and sisters encouraged her to get out of Iowa and try something new.

“They pushed me out of my nest, and it was good for me,” she said. “At the same time, I knew I had their support.”

She stayed with the agency for the entire World War II effort and for the rest of her career. Her memories of that work are recorded in an oral history


Quinn Ross, four, was on her way to school when a stranger hurled abuse at her (Picture: SBNA)

A four-year-old girl is ‘traumatised’ after a man screamed abuse at her in her wheelchair and told her she ‘shouldn’t have been born’.

Quinn Ross, who has a rare childhood condition called Perthes’ disease, was on her way to school with her mum Emma and big brother Alex, 10, when the thug began ‘yelling in her face’.

Emma, 32, said the abuse in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, was ‘appalling’.

She said: ‘The man was yelling in her face, saying she shouldn’t have been born, she was a drain on the NHS, a drain on society and that I should have had her aborted if I’d known she was going to be disabled.

‘I pushed him away, power-walkedday out of the P10, though the kind of multi-day longevity I've had from the Mate 9 was outside of the phone's reach.

The P10 Plus followed a similar pattern, holding up well against heavy use, and sometimes leaving me with 50 percent in the tank after a day out and about. With those kind of usage patterns, I was looking at around five hours of screen-on time per charge. Again, that's a step below the Mate 9, but in a phone with a smaller battery and a higher screen resolution.

Both phones benefit from Huawei's extra-quick Super Charge technology as well, which requires a special cable as well as a plus-sized Huawei Super Charge plug. First seen on the Mate 9, Super Charge is the only charging tech I've


California Town Fixes Crooked Curb, Breaks Geologists' Hearts

To the average pedestrian, it was just a curb. To an observant one, perhaps, it was an oddly misaligned curb.

To geologists, it was a snapshot of the earth's shifting tectonic plates — an accidental experiment, a field trip destination for decades.

But to the town of Hayward, Calif., it was just a bit of subpar infrastructure.

The Los Angeles Times sums up what happened next:

"Then, one early June day, a city crew decided to fix the faulty curb — pun intended. By doing what cities are supposed to do — fixing streets — the city's action stunned scientists, who said a wonderful curbside laboratory for studying earthquakes was destroyed."

Geologist David Schwartz of the U.S. Geological Survey spoke with NPR on Wednesday. He hasbeen visiting the curb for 30 years.

In California, Fixing A Curb Destroyed The 'Holy Grail Of Seismology' Listen · 1:49 1:49

He says the fault that broke the curb — the Hayward fault — is "one of the major and most important faults in the San Francisco Bay Area."

"In probably the late 1950s, your standard sidewalk curb was built across the fault — and the fault is creeping," Schwartz explained. "That means it moves a little bit every year, maybe about 4 millimeters. It broke through the curb and started pushing it out. And over the years it has moved it 8 inches."

A website for geology-themed field trips has photos of the curb dating back to the early '70s. They show the separating halves of the curb at first


The Insightful Dystopia

This year, 2017, is a particularly interesting year to talk about Children of Men. We’re in the middle of a timeline established by the film’s premiere—it came out a little over 10 years ago, and it takes place 10 years from now. Secondly, [and this is so obvious I’m only stating it for introduction purposes] the film was eerily prescient about immigration and how leaders and citizens of powerful countries have responded.

Children of Men takes place in a dystopian future in the United Kingdom. In this bleak image of the year 2027, a global infertility epidemic means that no babies have been born for 18 years, which has thrown the world into emotional and economic chaos. While the infertility and immigration issues are never explicitly connectedMegan Raposa

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Fewer students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) classes lasts year than the year before, but the overall pass rate is up in Sioux Falls.

Sioux Falls school board members heard a report Monday night from Kristin Grinager, high school curriculum coordinator outlining the AP results from the 2015-16 school year.

Students who pass AP tests may receive college credit. For example, a student who passes an AP biology exam can use that test score to receive a biology college credit.

Nearly 40 percent of high school juniors and seniors in Sioux Falls took an AP course last year, and 84 percent of those students took the exam, which costs $92 to take.

Most of those students passed the exam. Sioux Falls had a pass rate of 70.7 percent, up from 67


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EU leaders were set to agree Friday to start preparatory talks on the bloc's relationship with Britain after Brexit, offering some progress for embattled Prime Minister Theresa May to take back home.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel struck an optimistic note after a summit dinner on Thursday night, saying that despite delays in the negotiations, she could see "zero indications that we will not succeed" in reaching a final agreement.

EU leaders have made clear they will not agree on Friday to move talks on to the future trading relationship with Britain, saying there has not yet been enough progress on the terms of the divorce.

Draft conclusions indicate they will delay the decision until the next summit in December, but they will agree to "start internal preparatory discussions"on trade and a possible transition deal.

The slow progress of the negotiations, particularly on Britain's financial settlement, stoked fears it could leave the EU in March 2019 without a deal in place, risking economic and legal chaos.

Merkel emphasised she did not want this, saying: "I want very clearly a deal and not some unpredictable solution, on this we are working very intensively."

May was due to join her 27 counterparts for a working breakfast on the future of the EU, before leaving them to discuss the state of Brexit negotiations.

The EU agrees that of the three key separation issues at stake, citizens' rights is the most advanced, but sticking points remain on the bill and Northern Ireland's border with Ireland.

- A deal to defend -

Juncker, who previously said it


would take a miracle to move the talks on at this week's summit, said on Friday: "I don't think there will be a miracle."

But an EU source said the leaders would now begin preparations on guidelines for the trade talks, "saving time" if and when the political decision was taken to move forward in December.

May pressed her colleagues over a dinner of pheasant late Thursday for "urgent" progress on a deal she could sell to voters and her own Conservative party, which is still divided over Brexit.

"There is increasingly a sense that we must work together to get to an outcome we can stand behind and defend to our people," she said, according to Downing Street.

A British official noted that May, who lost her parliamentary majority in theJune election and is facing calls by some Conservatives to walk away from the talks, was "working against a difficult political backdrop".

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said May "pleaded her case well", but she did not offer any more detail than in a speech she made in Florence in September.

He called for more "concrete" positions in the runup to December.

European leaders have been increasingly vocal about their frustration at divisions in May's cabinet over Brexit, saying they are still unsure what Britain wants despite five rounds of negotiations.

The exit bill is the most poisonous issue, with Germany and France insisting that there should be no impact on the EU's budget from Britain's departure.

In Florence, May promised to maintain Britain's contributions for two years after Brexit to complete the


Man burnt alive in Rajasthan for 'love jihad', accused held

dpaNew DelhiPolice in India's Rajasthan on Thursday arrested a man suspected of hacking another man to death, setting him on fire and then circulating a video of the apparently religious attack.The suspected attacker also warned on the video, which went viral in Rajsamand district on Wednesday, that those indulging in"love jihad"would meet a similar fate.Radical Hindu groups claim Muslim men seduce Hindu women and convince them to change their religion and marry them - something they describe as"love jihad."Many of these radical groups have links with the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which runs the Rajasthan state and federal governments.The accused, Shambhu Lal Regar, is a Hindu and a local, while the alleged victim, Afrazul Khan, is a dailyhim in.

Eight relatives of Wettlaufer’s victims were consulted in the process of developing the show, Garratt said.

One of those family members, Daniel Silcox, said when he heard about the show, he was initially concerned that it would sensationalize the stories of victims like his father, 84-year-old James Silcox, who was murdered in 2007.

But after speaking to the playwrights, Daniel Silcox said it was clear they had done their homework on the case, and he was reassured by their sensitivity to the feelings of the victims’ families.

One of his requests was that the play be suffused with a message of hope about repairing the long-term care system so no one else has to suffer the loss his family has experienced.

“I’d like to see this play be part of my


six Tests for Ireland. Australian Huia Edmonds shocked the Newlands faithful on his arrival in Cape Town to play Super Rugby for the Stormers with his declaration that playing for the Springboks was on his radar.

The Scottish Rugby Union recently announced their extended training squad for the Rugby World Cup and it includes Joshua Strauss and WP Nel. Strauss’s wild beard might remind us of the famed Scottish Highlanders, but that is as far as his Scottish roots go. Both of these players recently qualified for Scottish selection by virtue of residency and not decent.

Listening to the commentary of the opening games of the World Rugby Under 20 Championship was a further indication of the chaos starting to develop in the game. The number of under 20 players20 sides as their second side and protection of their future playing stock would be the primary reason for this.

This has already had a negative impact on one of the traditional Home Unions. Youngsters Roy Bartle (residency) and Callum Sheedy (English mother) both have the opportunity to qualify to play for England. They surprised the Welsh Rugby Union when they withdrew from their Under 20 Six Nations match against France in order to not compromise their hopes of qualifying to play for England. Neither player has been selected to play for Wales in the Junior World Cup in Italy. Their circumstances are probably more on the fringes of this issue, but it does indicate the possibility of players becoming more mercenaries than players who respect the value of


the jersey and play for everything it stands for is a possibility for most nations. Let’s face it… only 23 players can be in an England match day squad so the numbers looking toward England for their international future is becoming unrealistic.

The sad reality here is that the vast majority of players looking to play for nations other than the country in which they grew up in tend to move up the currency scale. Very rarely, if ever, will you see a player moving from the likes of an England or France to qualify for a South Africa or New Zealand. Make that never… I fully understand and appreciate that this rugby is a professional game and players are entitled to earn a good living using the talentof environmental science and engineering at Caltech and a research scientist at JPL, led an effort to pinpoint methane plumes in the Four Corners region of the United States using low-flying aircraft.

The methane hot spot in the Four Corners region was initially detected by Eric Adam Kort of the University of Michigan, along with Frankenberg and colleagues, using observations made by a European satellite, SCIAMACHY. Following up on that observation, a collaboration of researchers from JPL/NASA joined the Twin Otter Projects Defining Oil/gas Well emissioNs (TOPDOWN) campaign to probe the region with two aircraft flying one to three kilometers above the ground. The aircraft were equipped with thermal and short-wave to near-infrared spectrometers. These instruments are used to identify and quantify methane and other molecules.

The spectrometers were originally


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The day began with Brown cutting a 10-foot triangle into the ice, tying a rope around the end, and sliding the large cutout underneath the surface where it remained for the day (it was later pulled back into place to re-freeze). In groups of two, the divers slid off the edge of the triangle and slipped into the 37-degree water, which was 5 degrees warmer than the air. The divers were tethered with a 100-foot rope attached to their equipment, and held by a tender standing at the edge of the hole. Next to the tender stood a rescue diver with a 200-foot bright orange rope, prepared to help out in the rareDozens killed in fresh Nigeria attack

At least 45 villagers killed in country's northeast after gunmen fool them into thinking they had come to preach.

06 Jun 2014 08:17 GMT

Forty-five people were killed by suspected Boko Haram gunmen pretending to be preachers in a village near the group's spiritual home in northeast Nigeria, two residents told the AFP news agency.

The attack happened at about 20:30 GMT on Wednesday in Barderi, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, and saw the fighters hoodwink locals into congregating before opening fire on the crowd.

Itinerant preaching is commonplace in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria and the fake clerics reportedly told villagers that they had come to show them "the righteous path".

Mallam Bunu, who survived the attack, said: "I counted 45 bodies after the attackers left the village.

"They


to Maiduguri because travel was dangerous and phone connections are poor, the AP news agency reported.

The killings earlier this week in Attagara, Agapalawa and Aganjara villages were confirmed by both Mohammed Ali Ndume, a senator representing Borno and whose hometown is Gwoza, and by a top security official in Maiduguri.

He insisted on anonymity, because he was not allowed to speak to the media.

Fighters from Boko Haram, which wants to establish Islamic law in Nigeria, have been taking over villages in the northeast, killing civilians and political leaders.

Thousands of people have died in its five-year-old campaign, more than 2,000 so far just this year, and an estimated 750,000 Nigerians have been driven from their homes.then sued the city for wrongful termination. He ultimately settled with the city for $200,000 in 2016.

Branch-Wise settled with the city for $75,000 in 2013. As part of that settlement, Branch-Wise agreed not to file claims against anyone else in the city.

She only came forward with the information about Hancock after Denver7 Investigates received an anonymous letter alleging McDonald wasn’t the only one who sexually harassed Branch-Wise — the mayor, the letter claimed, harassed her too. The letter, which reportedly was also sent to other Denver media outlets, made unsubstantiated personal allegations about the mayor.

In an exclusive interview with Denver7 investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski, a veteran Denver police detective said Mayor Michael Hancock and one of his former aides sexually harassed her when she worked on his security


President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE on Sunday said special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE should not testify on the findings of his probe into Russia's election interference, suggesting the move was an attempt by Democrats to renew scrutiny on the White House after the release of Mueller's long-awaited report.

"After spending more than $35,000,000 over a two year period, interviewingto Russian malign influence activities | House Republican introduces bill to set standards for self-driving cars McCarthy threatens motion to oust Pelosi if she moves forward with impeachment MORE's decision as to whether Mueller testifies.

Anticipation has been growing for the special counsel to address Congress after it was revealed he expressed frustration with the way Barr presented his investigation's findings to the public.

Cicilline, who is a member of the committee, during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" earlier in the day said a representative for Mueller had agreed to the May 15 date but walked back his remarks later.

"Just to clarify: we are aiming to bring Mueller in on the 15th, but nothing has been agreed to yet," Cicilline wrote on Twitter. "That's the date the Committee has


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The classic 1920’s Call of Cthulhu campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep

The Carlyle Expedition sailed from New York in 1919, led by Roger Carlyle, a millionaire playboy who inexplicably turned from the life of a wastrel to finance and head an archaeological expedition to Egypt. The principal members of the expedition were Sir Aubrey Penhew, titled, wealthy and noted Egyptologist; Hypatia Masters, a beautiful society girl and an accomplished photographer and linguist; Jack “Brass” Brady, mercenary soldier, weapons expert, and Carlyle’s confidant and bodyguard; and Dr. Robert Huston, fashionable psychoanalyst and interpreter of dreams.

The members sailed from New York to London, to meet with Sir Aubrey Penhew. After a few weeks they departed for Egypt. Using Cairo as a base, the expedition performed several short desert


excavations. An important find was rumored, but the expedition refused to comment to reporters. The principal members departed for Mombassa, Kenya, and went inland to Nairobi.

In Nairobi, at the beginning of August, the expedition hired twenty bearers and headed into the wilderness. They were seen often at first. The last letters from them arrived in early September, and then they vanished. In March of 1920 a Kikuyu tribesman told authorities in Nairobi of a party of whites near the Mountain of the Black Wind, a local name for one of the high Kenyan peaks. Later rumors intimated that the party had been destroyed by inhuman forces.

A search party, hired by Carlyle’s sister Erica, found the remains of the expedition after ten weeks of effort. The corpses of thebearers were remarkably preserved and appeared to have been pulled apart by animals, though a coroner’s report never mentions tooth marks on the bones – they had been horribly killed and torn to shreds. The encampment was totally destroyed, in no little part by the seasonal rains and undergrowth in the months since the disaster. No sign was found of the whites who had led the expedition, a fact easily established by the absence dental work among the corpses. Despite reports to the contrary, the bodies were strewn about in the open, and no effort to conceal them had been made.

Blame was quickly pinned on Nandi tribesmen. Random tribesmen were hung, the expedition members were declared dead, and the incident forgotten, like any crime.


Artoscopic was initiated in 2007 it was an open submissions event primarily to offer a space for artists to experiment and work with the space it really was a case of anyone turning up on the allocated time and date and setting up their work

The space is the St Leonards Railway Tunnel (Innocents Railway) Edinburgh The tunnel is believed to be Scotland's earliest tunnel on a public railway. It was excavated in volcanic rock and lined with Craigleith sandstone, with a semicircular cross-sectional top 20 feet wide, and 15 feet high at the crown; it is 566 yards long.

the grand scale of the tunnel can easily accomodate over 500 artists hence the open submissions policy.and the first half of 2015.

The Lucius play is believed to be producing at maximum rates with Heidelberg estimated to start production in the middle of 2016. Freeport has also dug deep in Atwater valley region after being encouraged by solid results at Power Nap.

Beyond oil, the sales trend of copper, gold, and molybdenum over the quarters is also improving. Freeport delivered 13.1 million barrels of oil equivalents (MMBOE), 23 million pounds of molybdenum, 352 thousand ounces of gold and 964 million pounds of consolidated copper in the second quarter of 2015 as against 16.0 MMBOE of oil. The company has also produced 25 million pounds of molybdenum, 159 thousand ounces of gold, and 968 million pounds of copper for the second quarter of 2014.

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Wednesday's hearing was the first public proceedings on the scandal since it broke earlier this month.

The agents were part of a team preparing for a visit by Mr Obama to the 14-15 April Summit of the Americas.

But asked whether the safety or security of President Obama was ever at risk, Ms Napolitano said that had been one of her first questions to Mark Sullivan, head of the Homeland Security Department, which oversees the Secret Service.

"The answer is 'no'. There was no risk," she was quoted as saying.

Eight of the 12 agents have been sacked. A further 12 military personnel are being investigated, and have had their security clearance revoked.

"We will not allow the actions of a few to tarnish the proud legacy of the Secret ServiceJanet Napolitano, USHomeland Security chief

President Obama described the men as "knuckleheads" on Tuesday, but defended the Service as a whole as "incredible".

'Actions of a few'

Ms Napolitano said a "thorough and full investigation" was under way into events at the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena ahead of President Obama's arrival for the summit.

The scandal erupted after a Colombian woman said one of the agents had welched on a promise to pay $800 (£500) to spend the night with her.

It then emerged up to 20 women were allegedly involved in the scandal.

"All 12 [agents]... have either faced personnel action or been cleared of serious misconduct," Napolitano said.

"We will not allow the actions of a few to tarnish the proud legacy of the Secret Service."

She said part of the investigation would focus on "what


The radical terrorist group controls about third of Syria and parts of Iraq and has pitted itself against the Syrian Army. The group wants to set up a transborder state and leader in the Iraqi and Syrian territory it has captured.American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination

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One of the most important public diplomacy books you have never heard of is American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination by Barry Sanders. An adjunct professor of Communications Studies at UCLA, an international corporate lawyer, President of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Barry provides a unique, fascinating, and worthwhile exploration of the opportunities and risks of American global engagement.

In American Avatar, Barry looks at narratives, their foundations and trajectories. “Now more than ever,” Barry writes, “foreign views of the United States also affects its national security.”

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Hamilton police say a man is in serious condition with head injuries after he collided an HSR bus early Thursday morning and struck his head on a sidewalk.

Police have two lanes of Main Street at Locke St. shut down for investigation.

Paramedics were called at 12:30 a.m. for reports of a pedestrian struck by a bus.

Staff Sgt. Frank Miscione said a 35-year-old man was just west of Locke on Main when the eastbound bus in the south curb lane came by and the man ran at the bus with 'full force.'

Police say the man then struck his head on the sidewalk in the fall.

There were no passengers on board at the time.

The police Collision Reconstruction Unit is investigating. Police say it's unclear right now if drugs, alcohol or mentalcapacity; CHRISTOPHER M.
 PIEHOTA, Director of the Terrorism
 Screening Center, in his official capacity;
 HUBAN A. GOWADIA, Acting
 Administrator, Transportation Security
 Administration (TSA), United States
 Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
 in his official capacity; KEVIN K.
 MCALEENAN, Acting Commissioner
 United States Customs and Border
 Protection; NICHOLAS J. RASMUSSEN,
 Director of the Terrorism Screening
 Center, in his official capacity,

       Defendants - Appellees.
                      _________________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court


Abdi is a United States citizen and resident of Salt Lake City, Utah. Since

2014, Abdi has experienced several delays and extended security screenings at

                                            2
airports, which has led him to believe that he is on the federal government’s

“Selectee List,” a subset of the government’s Terrorist Screening Database

(“TSDB”). The TSDB is a master repository for suspected international and

domestic terrorist records. The Terrorist Screening Center (“TSC”), which is

administered by the FBI, develops and maintains the TSDB. The TSDB has two

primary components: the Selectee List and the NoFly List. Persons on the No Fly

List are prevented from boarding flights that intend to fly into, out of, or even

through United States airspace. By contrast, persons on the Selectee List are not

barred from flying but are systematically subject to extra screening at airports and

land border crossings. Abdi challenges his placement on the Selectee List.

      Abdi alleges that, since 2014, he has been subject to extended security

screenings each time he travels by air due to his placement on the Selectee List. For

example, he is unable to check in for flights online or at the self-service kiosks at the

airport. Instead, he is directed to check in personally with an airline representative

who is required to obtain clearance from the Department of Homeland Security

before he or


gate, Abdi is publicly

searched again by TSA agents before he is allowed to board his plane.

      In addition to regularly experiencing these extra security screenings as a result

of his placement on the Selectee List, Abdi alleges that, on one occasion, he was

prevented from flying for several days because he was “upgraded” to the No Fly List.

Compl. ⁋ 40. On June 14, 2017, Abdi appeared at an international airport in Nairobi,

Kenya, with his family, prepared to board a commercial flight back to the United

States. Abdi was told by the ticketing agent that the United States would not allow

him to board his flight, although his wife and children were permitted to fly home.

Two days later, on June 16, 2017, Abdi was allowed to fly backto the United States.

However, upon arriving at the Los Angeles International Airport’s port of entry, Abdi

was subjected to another lengthy screening that caused him to miss his connecting

flight to Salt Lake City. Abdi successfully flew home to Salt Lake City two days

later, on June 18.

      Since June 2017, Abdi has flown three times—twice domestically and once

internationally. Each time, Abdi was permitted to fly, but he was subjected to the

enhanced screening measures described above. He has not missed any more flights

due to the length of his security screenings.

      Finally, Abdi alleges that, in addition to subjecting him to extra security

screenings, the defendant government officials have disseminated his status as a

“known or suspected terrorist” to state and local authorities, foreign


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personally has experienced various specific travel impediments because of his

inclusion on the Selectee List.

      The complaint does allege that Abdi was placed on the No Fly List for a short

time. In the facts section, the complaint states that Abdi was prevented from

boarding a plane from Nairobi to the United States on one occasion on June 14, 2017,

because he was “upgraded from the Selectee List to the No Fly List.” Id. at ¶ 40.

However, the complaint then states that, two days later, Abdi was allowed to fly back

to the United                                     19
deprivation of (2) a constitutionally cognizable liberty or property interest, (3) without

adequate due process procedures. Abdi asserts that he was deprived of two liberty

interests without due process. First, Abdi contends that defendants prevented him

from traveling free from unreasonable burdens when they placed him on the Selectee

List. Second, Abdi asserts under the stigma-plus doctrine that defendants deprived

him of his liberty interest in his reputation when they labeled him a “known or

suspected terrorist” on the Selectee List and when they disseminated that list to

public and private entities. Abdi argues that both deprivations occurred


           Argued April 23, 2007

     Before: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, FUENTES, and ALARCÓN,* Circuit Judges.

                                (Filed: June 8, 2007)

ROMBEN E. AQUINO, ESQUIRE (Argued)
Ferro & Cuccia
100 Lafayette Street
Suite 201
New York, NY 10013
       Counsel for Petitioner

      *
      The Honorable Arthur L. Alarcón, Senior Judge of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.

             that he was

spreading a Christian cult at his workplace.

       The BIA concluded that Mr. Chen had suffered past persecution on account of the

accusation that he had organized a religious cult at his workplace. It also found, however,

                                               2
that Mr. Chen’s own testimony was sufficient to overcome the presumption that he had a

well-founded fear of persecution, that there was a clear probability that he would be

subjected to future persecution. It also concluded that he would not be


is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China. He was born on February

4, 1979 in Fuzhou, China. He was baptized as a Christian on July 15, 1998. He attended

the Lang Qi Church on Sundays. He began attending this church with his grandmother

when he was young. He started to work in a motorcycle repair shop in February 2000.

Mr. Chen testified that “[o]n June 5, 2002 [he] was arrested by the police because of [his]

belief in religion.” Mr. Chen testified that his employer was also arrested and that he was

“sold out” to the police by a fellow employee whose name was Wang Liao Ming. Mr.

Chen had an argument with Mr. Ming a few days before he was arrested. Mr. Chen

testified that Mr. Ming “was not happy that I triedvisit, he was

questioned for twenty minutes.

       After he was released on July 2, 2002, Mr. Chen did not seek new employment.

Mr. Chen was asked by his pastor to stop attending church services because he feared it

would create trouble for the church with the Chinese government. He worked on his

family’s farm until he left China on October 8, 2003. He employed the services of a

smuggler, or “snakehead,” to obtain a passport for him. He entered the United States on


              B

       Mr. Chen was arrested in Roma, Texas, on December 24, 2003, for entering the

United States illegally on that date. In the Notice to Appear, Mr. Chen was charged with

arriving in the United States without being admitted or paroled after inspection by an

immigration officer in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(A)(i). At his removal hearing,

the IJ concluded that Mr. Chen was removable based on Mr. Chen’s concession that he

was an alien present in the United States without being admitted or paroled. The IJ

ordered that Mr. Chen be removed to China.

       Mr. Chen filed an application for asylum, withholding of removal and protection

underconditions in China.

The background evidence in the report stated that China currently allows Christian

churches in the country, so long as they are registered. Moreover, Mr. Chen testified that

his parents, grandmother and former minister are all currently practicing Christians in

China.

         Mr. Chen argues for the first time in his brief that he fears persecution because

“Chen’s troubles with the police arose out of his proselytizing in his workplace, outside

of the accepted, registered house of worship.” (Br. of Pet’r 12-13.) Mr. Chen did not

testify that he was proselytizing at his workplace. Instead, Mr. Chen stated that his


of a Christian church in the United States in 2004. He did

not testify that he has proselytized while he has been in the United States. He also did not

testify that he intended to proselytize if he is removed to China.

       The country report and Mr. Chen’s own testimony provide substantial evidence to

rebut the presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution. The police had a

mixed motive for arresting Mr. Chen. He was accused of “spreading a cult” and he was

suspected of having information concerning his employer’s alleged anti-communist

political views. After Mr. Chen’s repeated denials of “spreading a cult,” it became clear

that his employer’s suspected political activities and his connection with Taiwanese

relatives was the real basis for his arrest and lengthy detention.

 them in an intense way. They are extremely aware and observant individuals, with a strong capacity for emotion.

ESFP

The Emotions of Others:

ESFPs are very caring and affectionate people, who are very comfortable with emotions. They may struggle with people who are emotionally demanding, since they do not understand the emotions of others easily. They are very caring and open people, who want to be supportive of those around them. They enjoy doing things that make people happy, but will become frustrated if they cannot easily do so. People who seem to be having a hard time with their emotions, sometimes upset the ESFP. They want life to be a positive and enjoyable experience and hate dwelling on the negatives. ESFPs have a hard time with people who they cannot


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Department of Health officials have confirmed a second person has died from coronavirus in Ireland.

The person is a man in the east of the country who had underlying medical conditions.

A further 39 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed this evening.

This brings the total number of cases on the island of Ireland to 163 - 129 in the Republic of Ireland and 34 in Northern Ireland.

Of the new cases, 29 are males while 10 are female.

A total of 21 of the patients are in the east of the country, 13 are in the south, three are in the north-west and two are in theinterest benefits of protecting against warehousing.

II.

BACKGROUND

3.
Pursuant to the Open-Market Reorganization for the Betterment of International
Telecommunications Act (Orbit Act), the Commission submits an annual report to the United States Congress concerning the progress made with regard to the privatization of INTELSAT and Inmarsat.4 The Commission also reports to the Congress, more generally, on the status of competition in domestic and international satellite communications services,5 as required by Section 703 of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962, as amended (the Satellite Act).6
4.
In response to the public notice issued in preparation for the Eleventh Orbit Act Report,
several parties known as "integrators"7 alleged that Intelsat LLC (Intelsat), which operates a large fleet of

1 See FCC Report to Congress as Required by the ORBIT Act: Eleventh Report, FCC 10-112, 25 FCC Rcd 7834,


the operator is otherwise qualified, we grant the request.
9.
The Commission defines a replacement satellite as a satellite that is "authorized to
operate at the same location, in the same frequency bands, and with the same coverage area as one of the licensee's existing satellites," and will be brought into use at "approximately the same time as, but no later than, the existing satellite is retired."20 The Commission adopted the replacement expectancy policy in 1988, when the first generation of privately-licensed, commercial satellites began to reach their end-of-fuel lives.21 At that time, most satellite operators had small in-orbit fleets and generally sought to replace retired satellites at the end of their 10-15 year design life with new, state-of-the-art satellites at the same

15 Id. at 17286, 3.16 See CapRock Eleventh Orbit02 9190 1464

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this process, he sent me financial information, albeit in dribs and drabs. One day he sent me the balance sheet that he had prepared for the banker. I looked at the balance sheet and noted that he had omitted several significant liabilities. I called him to inquire why some liabilities were missing. His answer was that the balance sheet “looks better that way”. Clearly, he had no compunction about falsifying financial statements that were going to his bank.

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A client was considering buying a small business. Based on the financial statements supplied by the seller, I made projections of the income and expense for the next 5 years. The results looked very good. At my insistence, my client engaged a CPA firm to look at the financial records ofoffer the movie “Legally Blonde”. In the movie, the character Elle Woods (played by actress Reese Witherspoon) wants to be admitted to Harvard Law School. As part of her application, she creates a video in which, wearing a bikini and standing in a hot tub, she presents her “arguments” as to why Harvard should accept her.

The chairman of the all-male panel concludes by saying to the panel “Miss Woods welcome to Harvard”.

The job of receptionist is seriously undervalued in the business world. It is typically viewed as an entry-level position and staffed and paid accordingly. It is frequently eliminated altogether. I believe that businesses ignore the reception function at their peril. The receptionist may be the first contact a customer has with a business and first impressions are