Powell about three weeks after he was relieved of his duties, according to the chairman’s calendar. A Fed spokesman declined to comment on the reason for the meeting or what was discussed. Dzina, a former Army officer, began his career at the Fed as a bank examiner in 1991 before working his way up the ranks. In addition to leading the financial services group, he also managed a key network central to the U.S. payments system called Fedwire. He’s been described in conversations with those who know him as a steady hand who projected confidence and a team-first attitude. His oft-repeated credo was, “Mission First, People Always.”

So what caused the rift that led to the termination of Potter and his associate? Curiously, that's one thing that remains unknown.– On the Bubble): This show debuted with passable numbers for a Syfy series, but airing it on consecutive nights did not work in its favor as it was not able to sustain its nightly viewership. It may have done better in digital viewing, but Syfy is apparently keeping those numbers under wraps. A second season is still possible as the network tends to renew freshmen shows to give them a chance to build up an audience, but I consider that very much a tossup at this point which I discuss in more detail at this link.

Origin (YouTube, Status – Renewal Possible): This show has flown under the radar since its debut in November, but it is receiving mostly positive buzz thus far. YouTube is in the early


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Redskins safety Taylor dies

The 24 year old Washington player fails to recover from gunshot wounds.

27 Nov 2007 13:44 GMT

Washington Redskins saefty Sean Taylor: Dead at 24 [GALLO/GETTY]

A family friend of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor has announced that the player has died, a day after he was shot at home.

Richard Sharpstein said he did not know exactly when the 24 year old had died.

Doctors had been encouraged as recently as Monday night when Taylor squeezed a nurse's hand.

But Sharpstein said he was told Taylor never regained consciousness after being transported to the hospital.

He said Taylor's father called him around 5:30 a.m. (10.30 GMT) to tell him the news.

"His father called and said he was with Christ and he cried and thanked me," said Sharpstein, who was alsoTaylor's former lawyer.

"It's a tremendously sad and unnecessary event. He was a wonderful, humble, talented young man, and had a huge life in front of him. Obviously God had other plans."

The Redskins safety was shot early Monday morning in the upper leg, damaging an artery which caused significant blood loss.

Miami-Dade Police were investigating the attack, which came just eight days after an intruder was reported in the player's home.

Officers were dispatched about 1:45 a.m. (0645 GMT) Monday after Taylor's girlfriend called police. Taylor was airlifted to the hospital.

Investigation continues

Sharpstein said Taylor's girlfriend told him the couple was awakened by loud noises, and Taylor grabbed a machete he keeps in the bedroom for protection.

An investigator loads material into a police vehicle in front of the home where an intruder


shot Sean Taylor [GALLO/GETTY]

According to the player’s girlfriend someone then broke through the bedroom door and fired two shots, one missing and one hitting Taylor, Sharpstein said.

Taylor's 1-year-old daughter, Jackie, was also in the house at the time, but neither she nor Taylor's girlfriend were injured.

"It could have been a possible burglary; it could have been a possible robbery," Miami-Dade Police Lt. Nancy Perez said.

"It has not been confirmed as yet."

It came about a week after someone pried open a front window of his house in the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay, rifled through drawers and left a kitchen knife on a bed at Taylor's home, according to police.

Teammates and coaches often have portrayed Taylor as widely misunderstood player.

A private man with a small inner circle, Taylor becamedistrustful of reporters and anyone else he didn't know well.

But, behind the scenes, Taylor was described as personable and smart; an emerging locker room leader, especially since the birth of his daughter Jackie.

"From the first day I met him, from then to now, it's just like night and day," Redskins receiver James Thrash said.

"He's really got his head on his shoulders and has been doing really well as far as just being a man. It's been awesome to see that growth."

An All-American at the University of Miami, Taylor was drafted by the Redskins with the fifth overall selection in 2004.

Controversial career

Coach Joe Gibbs called it "one of the most researched things" he's ever done, but the problems soon began.

Taylor fired his agent, then skipped part of the NFL's


mandatory rookie symposium, drawing a $25,000 fine.

Driving home late from a party during the season, he was pulled over and charged with drunken driving.

The case was dismissed in court, but by then it had become a months-long distraction for the team.

Taylor was also fined at least seven times for late hits, uniform violations and other infractions over his first three seasons, including a $17,000 penalty for spitting in the face of Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman during a playoff game in January 2006.

Meanwhile, Taylor endured a yearlong legal battle after he was accused in 2005 of brandishing a gun at a man during a fight over allegedly stolen all-terrain vehicles near Taylor's home.

He eventually pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to 18 months' probation.

Taylorsaid the end of the assault case was like "a grey cloud" being lifted.

It was also around the time that Jackie was born, and teammates noticed a change.

"It's hard to expect a man to grow up overnight," said Redskins teammate and close friend Clinton Portis, who also played with Taylor at the University of Miami.

"But ever since he had his child, it was like a new Sean, and everybody around here knew it. He was always smiling, always happy, always talking about his child."

On the field, Taylor's play was often erratic.

Assistant coach Gregg Williams frequently called Taylor the best athlete he's ever coached, but nearly every big play was balanced with an error.

Taylor led the NFL in missed tackles in 2006 yet made the Pro Bowl because of


The present invention relates to a carrier for guiding rolling stock in a sizing mill to be supported in a rolling stand in a manner permitting secure positioning during rolling but pivoting out of the way for removing the rolls.
Proposals have been made concerning generally the problem of exchange and adjusting of guidance and guiding facilities for the rolled stock in sizing mills. Generally the exchange of rolls requires also an exchange of the guiding structure or at least a shifting thereof on the respective carrier, because subsequently the guiding of the rolling stock has to be different. The German printed patent application, 1527756, proposes a carrier for the guiding facilities which can easily be exchanged. The principle employed here is to provide a girder in a frame
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225 Ill.Dec. 627
Rock Island County Sheriff Michael GRCHAN and Rock Island County, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
ILLINOIS STATE LABOR RELATIONS BOARD; Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council; and Michael Huff, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 3-97-0043.
Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.
August 7, 1997.
Brian A. Schroeder (argued), Thomas F. McGuire & Associates, Ltd., Long Grove, for Michael Grchan.
Arthur W. Eggers, Califf & Harper, Moline, for Rock Island County.
James Ryan, Attorney General, Mary E. Welsh (argued), Asst. Attorney General, Barbara A. Preiner, Solicitor General, Chicago, for Ill. State Labor Relations Bd.
John Roche (argued), Illinois FOP Labor Council, Countryside, for Fraternal Order of Police Council and Michael Huff.
*1291 Justice BRESLIN delivered the opinion of the court:
Plaintiff Michael Grchan, the Sheriff of Rock Island County, appeals the trial court's denial of his motion


seq. (West 1996)) when he retaliated against Huff with a reprimand and two suspensions after Huff was successful in asserting a grievance against the Sheriff.
Shortly thereafter, the Sheriff filed a complaint with the Sheriff's Merit Commission. In the complaint, the Sheriff alleged that Huff failed to properly investigate a domestic disturbance three months earlier. Huff was suspended without pay, and after a hearing the Commission entered an order discharging Huff. Huff filed for a review of the decision. On review, the court found that the Commission acted unreasonably and/or arbitrarily when it discharged Huff, and the court remanded the case back to the Commission for it to consider a different sanction. Huff v. Rock Island County Sheriff's Merit Commission, No. 96MR28 (Cir. Ct. Rock Isl. Co.).
The Union thenMESA, Ariz. -- Chicago Cubs pitcher Jon Lester declared himself ready for Opening Day after throwing 84 pitches in a minor league contest on Tuesday.

After he missed a spring start earlier this month due to a fatigued arm, there was some concern over Lester's availability for Sunday night's opener against the St. Louis Cardinals. But after two minor league outings, Lester says he's ready, even though he may not be at his very best in his first start for his new team.

Jon Lester is set to start on Opening Day despite dealing with a fatigued arm in spring training. Joe Camporeale/USA TODAY Sports

"Once we get to a game with some fans and some adrenaline I think things will sharpen up a little bit," Lester said. "We'll figure it


had just learned the shocking news that planes had struck the World Trade Center when they saw something equally inconceivable: a twin-engine jetliner flying straight at them. It was American Airlines Flight 77, rushing toward its target. In his Pentagon office, Army major David King was planning a precautionary evacuation when the room suddenly erupted in flames. Arlington firefighters Derek Spector, Brian Roache, and Ron Christman, among the first responders at the scene, were stunned by the sight that met them: a huge flaming hole gouged into the Pentagon’s side, a lawn strewn with smoking debris, and thousands of people, some badly injured, stumbling away from what would become one of the most daunting fires in American history. For more than twenty-four hours, Arlington firefighters and other crewsfaced some of the most dangerous and unusual circumstances imaginable. The size and structure of the Pentagon itself presented unique challenges, compelling firefighters to devise ingenious tactics and make bold decisionsuntil they finally extinguished the fire that threatened to cripple America’s military infrastructure just when it was needed most. Granted unprecedented access to the major players in the valiant response efforts, Patrick Creed and Rick Newman take us step-by-step through the harrowing minutes, hours, and days following the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon’s western faade. Providing fascinating personal stories of the firefighters and rescuers, a broader view of how the U.S. national security command structure was held intact, and a sixteen-page insert of dramatic photographs, Firefight is a unique testament to the fortitude and


Naden Boats Receives Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Award

Naden Boats, Temagami, Ontario, was one of 16 award recipients honoured by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) in April. The foundation recognized the efforts of organizations and individuals at a special gala held at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.

Naden Boats was honoured for the Pink Boat Tour campaign it organized last October, which included a donated 14-foot Naden Fisherman aluminum boat package being raffled off in support of the CBCF CIBC Run For the Cure in North Bay, Ontario. The raffle raised nearly $20,000 for breast cancer research.

"Each and every sponsor of items for the boat / motor / trailer package as well as each ticket purchaser, volunteer ticket seller and dealer who organized events were all instrumentalExiled Russian-Germans look for home in new land

SARATOV, Russia -- Two million Russian-Germans, prisoners of time and history, are struggling to wrest a future for themselves in this newly emerging country.

They are emblematic of the scores of nationalities nervously trying to define and protect themselves as the old Soviet shackles fall off, only to be replaced in many cases by fear, jealousy and ethnic animosity.

Throughout the fallen empire, people once ordered to march forward as "Soviets" are now stepping apart, proudly calling themselves Tatars, Chechens, Cossacks, Meskhetians, Tuvinians and Buryats.

And Germans.

On a chilly Sunday night, eight Russian-Germans sit in a cramped sleeping compartment on the overnight train from Moscow. They are heading to a homecoming of sorts in Saratov, a city of 900,000 on the Volga River that


once was the heart of a thriving German community.

Germans had already lived here for 150 years when Josef V. Stalin declared them traitors in 1941. The German army was advancing, and Stalin called the Russian-Germans a fifth column, waiting to betray Russia and help Germany.

The Germans were so established here in the heart of European Russia -- and yet still so distinct -- that they had their own republic along the Lower Volga, 500 miles southeast of Moscow. The capital was Engels, just across the river from Saratov. Stalin dissolved the Volga German Autonomous Republic and deported the Russian-Germans to labor camps.

The Germans traveling on this 15-hour train ride from Moscow are members of the Union of Soviet Germans. Their leaders in Saratov are pondering whether or notthey can re-establish the German republic in post-Soviet Russia.

While other Russians lounge about the train in slippers and jogging suits, the vodka already pouring, these eight face each other, four and four, looking serious if not glum.

They speak Russian and their clothes are Russian, but their names are Hugo Wormsbecher, Kurt Wiedmeier, Vally Merz, Johann Frizen -- names nearly impossible even to spell in Russian.

They also speak German, a 200-year-old German dialect that excites German linguists.

Johann Cornelius Frizen was born in this region 71 years ago, and he remembers the suffering vividly. In 1938, as anti-German feeling swept Russia, he was forced to change his name to Ivan Kornelvich Frizen.

"They started to close German schools and German libraries," Mr. Frizen recalled. "They burned the books. If it was


a book in German about Lenin, they burned it. If it was about Christ, they burned it."

Before the deportations, Mr. Frizen joined the Soviet army. "I fought in the Soviet army," he said. "I was wounded twice. There was a whole regiment of Germans, and they fought as well as Russians."

War heroes or not, ethnic Germans in the Soviet army were sent deep into the Siberian forests in November 1942, a year and a half after Germany invaded Russia.

"We were deprived of our medals," Mr. Frizen said. "It was called a work army, but it was worse than being in prison."

From 1945 to 1952, Mr. Frizen was kept in forced labor in Siberia. He was in his 30s when he was released.

After Stalin's death, history was rewritten. TheRussian-Germans were rehabilitated. Mr. Frizen got his Soviet medals back. He wears them proudly, pinned to his gray suit.

With Soviet medals and a lineage that goes back nearly 200 years in Russia, his identity remains clear as ever to him. "German," he says. "I feel German, of course."

He speaks German at his home near Tula, south of Moscow. He has taught his Russian wife German. His son and daughter -- and their Ukrainian and Belarus spouses -- speak it. So do the grandchildren.

Vally Merz was born on the Volga. Her grandfather, born here in 1893, was an officer of the Imperial Army. Her mother and father were German teachers, as she is now.

Mrs. Merz was 2 years old when her family was ordered out. "They gave us 24


hours to get out," she said. "They divided the men and the women and sent the men to Yakutia" -- in the farthest reaches of Siberia.

The Germans were invited to Russia in the 18th century by Catherine the Great, who ruled from 1762 until 1796. The empress, a German herself, wanted farmers to plant along the Volga.

They prospered and their region grew rich with grain, becoming a major center for trade and flour milling. The Volga German Autonomous Republic was created in 1918, and the Germans had their own schools, libraries and universities.

Religion -- the Germans were Protestant -- and resentment kept them apart from the Russians. Russians were jealous of how well the Germans did with the land; Germans looked down on Russians.

Today, about half of theCervical vertebral maturation method and mandibular growth peak: a longitudinal study of diagnostic reliability.
The capability of the cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) method in the identification of the mandibular growth peak on an individual basis remains undetermined. The diagnostic reliability of the six-stage CVM method in the identification of the mandibular growth peak was thus investigated. From the files of the Oregon and Burlington Growth Studies (data obtained between early 1950s and middle 1970s), 50 subjects (26 females, 24 males) with at least seven annual lateral cephalograms taken from 9 to 16 years were identified. Cervical vertebral maturation was assessed according to the CVM code staging system, and mandibular growth was defined as annual increments in Co-Gn distance. A diagnostic reliability analysis was carried out to establish the capability


Tone Valley Partnership

In 2016 the Headteachers and Chairs of the Governing Bodies at Kingsmead School and local Primary Schools for Cotford St Luke, Milverton, Lydeard St Lawrence, Oake Bradford & Nynehead and Wiveliscombe signed a charter of collaboration between the schools as part of The Tone Valley Partnership (TVP).

"Our joint vision is to provide the best possible and most rewarding education for all children as they progress through our schools. This will improve their life chances by delivering improved results, greater security and broader horizons for all children within the partnership through strong collaboration and commitment to joint endeavour."

Chair of the group Richard Stead, Headteacher at Milverton Primary School

Charter of collaboration between schools in The Tone Valley Partnership

Our joint vision is toprovide the best possible and most rewardingEditor Natalie DiBlasio Back at USA Today

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The deputy prime minister says the government will co-operate with a Scotland Yard investigation into secret MI6 rendition operations Press Association

Scotland Yard has opened a criminal investigation into secret MI6 rendition operations that resulted in leading Libyan dissidents being abducted and flown to Tripoli where they were subsequently tortured in Muammar Gaddafi's prisons.

The announcement came as police and the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute any individual MI5 or MI6 officers following lengthy investigations into allegations of British complicity in the torture of terrorism suspects in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The new investigation is to focus on Abdul Hakim Belhaj and Sami al-Saadi, who lodged complaints with the police last November after the chance discovery of a cache of classified documents in anabandoned Libyan government office laid bare the role that MI6 played in their rendition.

Saadi was detained in Hong Kong in 2004 and then forced on to a plane to Tripoli with his wife and four children in an operation that MI6 mounted in co-operation with Gaddafi's intelligence chief, Moussa Koussa. Saadi says he suffered years of torture.

Belhaj was detained in Bangkok along with his pregnant wife after an MI6 tip-off, and allegedly tortured by American agents for several days before being flown to Tripoli where he says he was tortured and detained for several years. His wife, who was detained for several months, has not spoken publicly about the manner in which she was treated.

British officials have not sought to deny the involvement of MI6 in either rendition.


detainee inquiry".

Scotland Yard detectives have spent 30 months investigating allegations that the UK's intelligence agencies had become so close to the torture inflicted by overseas governments that their officers had committed serious criminal offences.

One inquiry, codenamed Operation Hinton, focused on the events surrounding MI5's interrogation of Binyam Mohamed in May 2002, several weeks after he had been detained in Pakistan, and later events in Morocco.

Proceedings brought on Mohamed's behalf showed that MI5 knew he was being mistreated before an officer was sent to Karachi to question him.

The CPS decided more than a year ago that that officer – identified only as Witness B – should not face charges, but Operation Hinton continued while detectives pursued what Starmer described as a "wider investigation into other potential criminal conduct". Thiswas lawful."

A second investigation, codenamed Operation Iden, concentrated on events in 2002 at Bagram airfield north of Kabul, where the US military had established a prison, and where both MI5 and MI6 officers interrogated a number of suspects after being given written instruction from London that "the law does not require you to intervene to prevent" the mistreatment they were witnessing.

That investigation was triggered after MI6 referred one of its own officers to the attorney general in September 2009.

"The offences considered were aiding and abetting torture, aiding and abetting war crimes, false imprisonment, aiding and abetting assault, and misconduct in public office," the statement said.

That investigation foundered on unsuccessful attempts to take a statement from a particular individual who was said to have been mistreated in the presence


announcement in due course."

Most major human rights groups are boycotting the inquiry, claiming that it will be too secretive and is insufficiently independent of government, but the Foreign Office is mounting a renewed effort to persuade them back on board.

The head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, said he welcomed the decision not to charge any of his officers at the conclusion of the twin investigations and said that the "courageous individual" at the centre of Operation Iden would now be able to continue his work in support of national security.

He added that MI6 would co-operate with the Libyan investigations. "It is in the service's interest to deal with the allegations being made as swiftly as possible so we can draw a line under them and focus on thecrucial work we now face in the future."

Detectives are thought to have already begun examining the documentation that was uncovered in Tripoli last month by an investigator with Human Rights Watch, the New York-based NGO.

The documents will also form the basis of civil claims that Saadi and Belhaj and their families are bringing against the British government.

It is not yet clear which ministers may have authorised the secret Libyan rendition operations in the way that well-placed Whitehall sources have asserted.

After the documents were discovered, Tony Blair, who was prime minister at the time, insisted he knew nothing about them. Similarly, Jack Straw, who was then foreign secretary, said in a radio interview: "The position of successive foreign secretaries, including me, is that we were opposed to unlawful rendition,


"unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are lying, that I am lying, that behind this there is some kind of secret state which is in league with some dark forces in the United States".

Asked following Dearlove's statement whether he still maintained that he was unaware of the Libyan rendition operations, and whether he knew which ministers Dearlove could be referring to, Straw said he had no further comment to make.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation United Assistance, which is providing support to civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence management support related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa. In furtherance of this operation, under the stated authority, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast


Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, under their respective jurisdictions, to order to active duty any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit of the Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category and designated as essential under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, and to terminate the service of those units and members ordered to active duty.

This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 16, 2014.2007, the state passed the Renewable Portfolio Standard, and in 2005 New Hampshire joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the first market-based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

RGGI and the RPS have helped to create jobs, spur innovation and attract investments. With the increased development of solar, wind and biomass energy, we are on the path toward reaching the goal of 24.8 percent of all energy produced from renewable sources by 2025.

New Hampshire businesses like Stonyfield, Timberland, SustainX and Worthen Industries are addressing climate change, while increasing revenues. And by the way, while there are many things that make New Hampshire unique, that’s not one of them. The Carbon Disclosure project reports that an index of companies considered leaders in addressing climate risks


and opportunities outperformed the Bloomberg World Index between 2010 and 2014. These businesses show investors and policymakers that we can grow the economy and reduce emissions. The Clean Power Plan will provide additional certainty for companies and investors and offer clear market signals that the United States is committed to lowering emissions.

Thankfully, the Clean Power Plan recognizes all of the successes states, businesses and households around the country have already achieved in reducing carbon emissions. The EPA has crafted a flexible means for states to reduce emissions from power plants, including through existing energy efficiency and renewable energy measures. The significant carbon emission reductions that have already taken place in New Hampshire and the other states that are part of the RGGI program will form the basis forThe Weather Man (2005) - Yify Movie Torrent

The Weather Man (2005)

Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well while his personal life -- his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children -- is spiraling downward. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this film, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.


continued success, or increased success, in a changing workplace environment. The Enneagram offers a path of continual learning and growth to access your full potential.

The Enneagram makes possible an accurate assessment of your leadership strengths and challenges, and provides a developmental plan for better decision-making, successful relationships, and getting results.

It also teaches the quality of "Embodied Presence," bringing attention to the inside to deepen awareness and knowing from the heart and body, as well as the mind.

"Today's business and world leaders are faced with unprecedented complexities and rates of change in markets and social conditions. This places extreme pressure on leaders to develop all aspects of themselves to the highest degree possible…. their cognitive, emotional, inter-personal, and ethical capacities, as well as their fundamental sense of self…. Onlybusiness recognize that success comes from focusing the talents of others toward shared goals. Organizations are discovering that their competitive edge comes not from rugged individualism, but from creating effective workgroups or teams and maximizing each employee's contribution. Ultimately, the effectiveness of any group or organization depends upon the skill and ability of its members or staff.

" Leaders must create environments where employees are encouraged to learn, make intelligent decisions, and take action. More responsibility is placed directly in the hands of individuals and the team unit. Leadership serves as a gate keeper for these types of changes and encourages continuing development. ....... Today's workplace requires staff capable of learning new ways of thinking and behaving, responsive and flexible to work with change, and who can envision and


my focus is on designer practices and community; my responsibilities are also inclusive of our DesignOps and Design Management activities.

I've been at IBM for about five and a half years now. I joined in early 2013 just a few months after we announced the launch of our renewed user experience design program which was at the very end of 2012. And with that announcement there was a commitment of a significant investment in building a design program, including hiring a lot of designers and building a network of studios around the world, and also building a set of practices that our designers and teams would be using to actually do design.

That was in 2013. Before that I was the National President of AIGA, which is the professional associationMcFadden has been training with Motherwell

Former Scotland forward James McFadden hopes to make a short-term impact with Motherwell before completing a move to Philadelphia Union in January.

The 32-year-old began a third spell at Fir Park on Friday after training there since the summer.

"I've been getting fitter every day and it just made sense," he said. "It is a good fit for me and for the club.

"It is short term, hopefully everything works out and I will be off to Philadelphia in the new year."

McFadden has been without a club since being released by Well's Scottish Premiership rivals, St Johnstone, at the end of last season.

The former Everton, Birmingham City and Sunderland striker has travelled to see the set-up in Philadelphia, where former Dunfermline Athletic and St Mirren defender


Tommy Wilson is director of the youth academy and former Scotland full-back Iain Munro is a coach.

"I went over, I had a trial, they were very happy with how it went and at the time they couldn't sign me even if they wanted to," said McFadden of the club that finished second bottom of Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference this year.

"It is a case of just waiting. They've got a few things going on in terms of getting rid of some players and then hopefully we'll get round the table to agree a deal for January.

"I held off signing anywhere until I knew what was happening as that's what I wanted to do."

McFadden (right) played for Motherwell in September in a testimonial game against Bolton Wanderers

McFadden made halfof his 20 St Johnstone appearances from the bench last season but is hopeful of breaking into Mark McGhee's Motherwell side.

"The manager's been impressed with what he saw, so it just made sense," the striker said of his short-term contract.

"I just want to help the team push up the league and help the younger players - that was another part of the conversation I had - to try to help the younger players the manager is trying to introduce to the first team.

"The motivation for me is purely for the love of the game. I love playing, I love turning up for training, but anybody who knows me knows I am never happy sitting on the bench."

McFadden came through the youth ranks at Fir Park to win a


Police are searching nationwide on Wednesday for the owner of an Idaho farmhouse where the badly decomposing bodies of three slain women were discovered earlier this week.

Authorities investigate a scene in Caldwell, Idaho, on Monday, June 19, 2017. Police say three people were found dead inside a home and the Canyon County Sheriff's office is investigating the deaths as possible homicides. (Kimberlee Kruesi/AP)

In this undated photo released by the Canyon County Sheriff's office shows suspect Gerald "Mike" Bullinger, formerly of Ogden, Utah. Canyon County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Marv Dashiell says Bullinger, is considered a person of interest in the murders discovered Monday, June 19, 2017 at a Caldwell, Idaho home. A sheriff’s deputy found the bodies hidden in a shed after family members from out-of-state called to askanimals including a snake, rat and some rabbits were removed during the subsequent investigation.

At first, investigators couldn’t determine the gender of the bodies or what killed them, but autopsies completed Tuesday revealed that the three women had each been shot once. The women ranged in age from mid-teens to late 50s, and their ages and statures matched the description of people thought to have been living at the home. Dashiell said investigators are working with family members to try to positively identify the bodies using DNA or other forensics.

The women had been dead for one to two weeks before their remains were found, Dashiell said.

Police are actively seeking Bullinger, Dashiell said, and believe he may be driving a white 2007 Ford Focus with Utah license plates numbered 129UMP.


deserve a non-judgmental place to be heard. Happy journaling!

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Park, J. H., (2013). Keynote speech at the International Group Development Questionnaire Conference at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA.Bedfordshire Cricket Ltd runs County Representative Cricket under the banner of Bedfordshire Young Cricketers. The Bedfordshire Young Cricketers Programme delivers high-quality coaching and playing opportunities for the best players that are selected from clubs and schools who are motivated and aspire to improve their game.

Players are recruited into our squads through our trials process. This process involves asking all clubs and schools within the county to nominate the players they feel are capable of playing representative cricket. These players are then invited to attend a trial for our winter training squads from which we will select a squad of players to take us into the playing season.

For the 2017 season, Bedfordshire Young Cricketers will have teams represented at Under 17, 15, 14, 13, 12 and 11, and an


Under 10 side. The sides will play a mixture of ECB-led competitions and friendly matches that will take the boys to counties all over the country. They will also play in festivals and tournaments such as the London Schools Festival, Malvern College, and Royal Hospital School, Ipswich. In 2015, our Under 15s won the Cambridgeshire T20 competition - pictured.Image caption The abuse centred on two takeaways in Heywood, Rochdale, which are now under new management

Nine men have been convicted of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring in Greater Manchester.

The men, from Rochdale and Oldham, "groomed" girls, one as young as 13.

Liverpool Crown Court heard the men plied their victims with drink and drugs so they could "pass them around" and use them for sex.

The case, involving Asian defendants and white victims, sparked protests by far-right groups but police insist the grooming was not "racially motivated".

The offences which centred on Heywood included rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.

Two of the defendants on trial, Qamar Shazad and Liaquat Shah both of Rochdale, were acquitted and walked free


from court.

The court was told that the abuse, which began in 2008, took place at two takeaways in the town involving a group of men aged between 24 and 59. The takeaways are now under new management.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Grooming victim: "What they did to me was evil."

A failed police investigation in 2008 allowed the abuse to go undetected for another two years.

The oldest defendant, a 59-year-old man from Oldham was found guilty on all counts but cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Some of the girls were beaten and forced to have sex with "several men in a day, several times a week", the jury was told.

One teenager told the jury she was forced to have sex with 20 men in onenight.

Another recalled being raped by two men while she was "so drunk she was vomiting over the side of the bed".

'Incapacitated by alcohol'

Police said the victims were from "chaotic", "council estate" backgrounds. The girls were targeted in "honeypot locations" where young people were seen to congregate, such as outside takeaways.

Rachel Smith, for the prosecution, told the jury: "No child should be exploited as these girls say they were."

In court, many of the defendants argued that they were not aware the girls were underage.

But Senior Investigating Officer Det Insp Mike Sanderson said this was no defence.

"What we are dealing with here is the deliberate targeting of young, vulnerable girls by a group of older and in most cases much older men who simply saw them as 'fair game'.

"They preyed


35, of Jephys Street, Rochdale, was convicted of one count of rape, sexual activity with a girl under 16 and trafficking for sexual exploitation but not guilty of a second charge of rape.

Mohammed Amin, 45, of Falinge Road, Falinge, was convicted of sexual assault.

Hamid Safi, 22, of Tweedale Street, Rochdale, was convicted of trafficking girls for the purposes of sexual exploitation.

Abdul Qayyum, 44, of Ramsay Street, Rochdale, was convicted of the conspiracy charge.

Qamar Shahzad, 30, of Tweedale Street, Rochdale was found not guilty of conspiracy and acquitted.He Hali`a Aloha No Lili`uokalani

Celebrate the 20th annual Queen Lili'uokalani's birthday festival, known as He Hali`a Aloha No Lili`uokalani. It is an all-day event in Lili`uokalani Gardens with live entertainment, mass hula, craft and demonstration booths, food trucks along Lihiwai Street, children's games, tea ceremony in Shoroan, and more! This is a free event with festivities beginning at 10 am!


Rikoko to Sponsor Hollywood Beauty Awards

January 23, 2018|12:13 PM

Hair care line Rikoko announced it will be the title sponsor of the 4th Hollywood Beauty Awards (HBAs), which will take place Feb. 25, at the Avalon Hollywood.The 2018 HBAs will benefit the Helen Woodward Animal Center.

The annual award show celebrates the top hairstylists in film, TV, music, editorial, and the red carpet, as well as makeup artists, stylists, photographers, and special honorees.

Lead by chemist and formulator, Sheree Ladove Funsch, along with husband and wife duo, expert colorist Richy Kandasamy and brand visionary Renee Cascarina, Rikoko is a line of products created by a team of chemists using ingredients found off the Seychelles islands.

“We are thrilled to be a part of such a memorable evening for the entertainment and beautyindustry,” Funsch said. “To support these incredibly talented artists and some of the most well-known hairstylists in the business is an honor.”

Choosing from five different types of coconuts and over 150 indigenous plants, Rikoko is a natural, sulfate-free product line. The Rikoko team is also cruelty-free and passionate animal activists.

The brand lineup includes the Lock Shampoo, Lock Conditioner, Kokobalm, as well as the Prism/Leave-In-Conditioner for five different shades.

Rikoko will have a presence throughout the HBAs, from the red carpet to the luxury gift bags.

MODERN and the industry mourns the loss of Gino Trunzo who died yesterday in Mexico of a heart attack. Trunzo made a name for himself in the nail world as both a manicurist and essie’s Assistant Vice President and was named assistant vice president of


FILE PHOTO: Monarch butterflies cling to a plant at the Sierra Chincua butterfly sanctuary on a mountain in the Mexican state of Michoacan, Mexico November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Josue Gonzalez/File Photo

URUAPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican authorities said on Saturday they are investigating the possible murder of a tour guide working at a famous butterfly reserve in the western state of Michoacan, just two days after its former environmental activist was buried.

Raul Hernandez’s body was found in the area in the early hours of Saturday, with different parts beaten, and a head injury possibly caused by a sharp object, the state attorney general said.

Earlier this week, Mexicans in El Rosario mourned the death of activist Homero Gomez, who had fought for a decade to protect the monarch butterflies until hisfood grains in near future," the official added.

A helpline is also being set up in all the districts of the state to provide the latest information about persons stranded at various pilgrimage sites in Uttrakhand. The state government has already sent Uma Devi, Resident Commissioner of Chhattisgarh Bhavan in New Delhi and Disaster Management Secretary, K R Pisda to Uttarakhand to ensure every possible help to the stranded pilgrims from the state.

Besides, four teams from the Chhattisgarh were also deputed in Uttarakhand to organise evacuation of pilgrims hailing from the state. "So far 22 pilgrims from Chhattisgarh have been brought safely to Chhattisgarh Bhawan, New Delhi from Uttarakhand," the official added. According to sources, over 100 people from the state were stranded in the hill state.


the truth. To help those people, here are some debunks of five of the biggest conspiracy theories surrounding Donald Trump:

1. DONALD TRUMP ONCE MASTURBATED A TORTOISE AND CREATED A MAN-TORTOISE BABY

This one has been doing the rounds. The despicable lie goes that Donald Trump masturbated a tortoise and then drank a cup of his semen. He then visited a Russian prostitute and performed a sex act on her with his mouth. Some of the tortoise semen was still in his mouth during the sex act and it went inside the woman and got her pregnant. Seven months later that prostitute gave birth and now Donald Trump has a son who is half tortoise and lives off lettuce pizza. This is absolutely fake news. We can prove this iscut. The San Quentin Warriors practice on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for their Saturday games against civilians.

Unlike recent years, when the San Quentin Warriors’ dominance had mirrored that of their NBA namesakes, they are slogging through a bit of a rebuild. The team is still adjusting to first-year head coach Rafael Cuevas, who took the job when longtime coach Daniel “Bear” Wright recently was transferred to another prison.

More than wins, Cuevas’ focus as a coach is on keeping his players accountable. To don the blue jerseys Golden State officials donated last year, San Quentin players must be enrolled in at least one self-improvement program and stay out of trouble.

It is a path Cuevas has traveled: He is well into a sentence of 16 years to life for stabbing


organized by Bill Epling, a Silicon Valley software executive. Epling’s squad, which faces the inmates on the first and third Saturdays of the month from April through November, entered Friday 6-1 on the season.

Six years ago, Golden State assistant general manager Kirk Lacob — a regular on Epling’s Green Team — convinced some friends from the office to join him. The experience so resonated with them that the game became an annual tradition.

These days, the Golden State operations staff’s visit is the highlight of San Quentin’s athletic calendar. For months before the game, the chow hall is abuzz about which players might tag along to the game.

Many of the inmates, even the ones who are Lakers fans, watch as many Golden State games as possible inside their cellsbasketball court rimmed with barbed wire, barely glanced up as they hammered out pushups.

Not like Oracle Arena

By the time the Green Team and San Quentin started warm-ups, most of the inmates in the yard had surrounded the court. Hip-hop music thumped. There were inmates working as a statistician, timekeeper and scoreboard operator. Two prisoners trained in NBA rules assisted a local high school referee with the officiating. Because whistles are a distress signal in San Quentin, they used duck calls.

Golden State center JaVale McGee served as color commentator in the first half before giving the responsibility to KGO sports anchor Larry Beil so that he could challenge some inmates in dominoes. Aaron Taylor, an inmate who grew up in Southern California idolizing Lakers play-by-play announcer Chick Hearn, called


Warriors dived for loose balls, attacked the rim and dug out of an early hole to lead the Green Team by two points with 15.3 seconds left on the clock.

Fouled on a corner three-point try, Golden State video intern Khalid Robinson hit all three of his free-throw tries to give the Green Team a 102-101 lead. Cornell “Fatality” Shields, an athletic swingman with an NBA-ready frame, took the inbounds pass, drove upcourt, slid past a defender and converted the go-ahead layup.

Down to the last play

Trailing by a point with six seconds left, the Green Team went to Myers for the game-winning shot. The man who has ruled this annual matchup — he had 32 points and 31 rebounds Friday — lost the ball as he tried to spinWhat:
Deputies assigned to the Major Accident Investigation Team are investigating a fatal vehicle vs pedestrian crash in Seminole.

When:
The crash occurred at about 9:23 p.m. on July 09, 2019.

Where:
The crash occurred on Seminole Boulevard, just north of 66th Avenue North, in Seminole.

Why/How:
According to investigators, 71-year-old Ronald Lake was operating his 2003 Toyota Tundra northbound in the curb lane of Seminole Boulevard passing through the green traffic signal at 66th Avenue North.

The pedestrian, a 50-year-old woman, was walking along the sidewalk on the east side of Seminole Boulevard, just north of 66th Avenue North, when she stepped into the roadway in front of Lake’s Toyota Tundra.

Lake was unable to take any preventative action before striking the woman in the roadway.

Paramedics responded and pronounced the woman deceased at the scene.

During the


course of the investigation, deputies learned the woman had been drinking alcohol with her boyfriend behind a business located at 6595 Seminole Boulevard, prior to the crash.

Lake showed no signs of impairment and provided two voluntary blood samples.

Deputies say the woman was not in a designated crosswalk at the time of the crash. Speed was also not a factor in the crash.agent also has high-commission products like insurance schemes that vie for investors’ mind space.”

Menon said DSP BlackRock wanted to try and “reach out to as many agents in as many locations as possible”.

He also pointed out that equity funds are mandated by law to collect at least Rs.10 crore in the new fund offer (NFO) period, or the scheme had to be shut down and the money returned to investors.

To be sure, the burden of paying commissions has shifted largely to AMCs from investors as was the case earlier. In 2009, the capital market regulator abolished entry loads (charges of up to 2.25% that MFs used to collect upfront at investment opening that was eventually passed on to the distributor as commission).

Since then, fund houses have been paying


By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier

After long months of hectic campaigning, a constant barrage of e-mails and ads, and billions of dollars spent by the candidates and their supporters, the US presidential and congressional elections did not change the American political landscape. The United States will have the same President for another four years and the same majorities in the House and Senate. The House remains in the hands of Republicans, and the Senate in the hands of Democrats.

This means that Pres. Obama’s foreign and domestic policies will remain more or less unchanged and Congress will continue to be deadlocked for two or more years, negatively impacting the prospects of a quick economic recovery. House Republicans will probably not support Pres. Obama’s social and economic agenda, particularly onhealthcare and taxes.

Even though there were no great political changes resulting from the Nov. 6 elections, Armenian-Americans scored important gains in congressional and local elections. Armenian voters were not instrumental in the outcome of the presidential race, since Pres. Obama received over three million more votes than his Republican rival. It was therefore politically astute to concentrate the Armenian community’s resources and votes on congressional and local races.

The November 6 elections may result in an unexpectedly favorable development in Congress for the Armenian-American community. Cong. Ed Royce, Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, has a good chance of being elected by his colleagues as next Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. A strong supporter of Armenian causes, Cong. Royce would replace outgoing Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,


Republican of Florida, a staunchly pro-Turkish House member.

A similar highly favorable development may take place in the Senate when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton retires shortly at the end of Pres. Obama’s first term. Most political analysts believe that Sen. John Kerry, currently Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a close friend of the Armenian community, may assume a Cabinet position as Secretary of State or Defense, in which case Sen. Menendez, a staunch supporter of Armenian issues, may become next Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The possible simultaneous selection of Cong. Royce and Sen. Menendez as chairs of these two powerful committees would give Armenian-Americans unprecedented access to key foreign policy decision-makers.

More important than the election of friends of the Armenian community wasthe success of at least 16 Armenian-Americans who were either elected for the first time or reelected to continue serving their constituencies. Armenian-American members of congress, Anna Eshoo and Jackie Speier, both from California, were overwhelmingly reelected. Other Armenian-American winners in state and local races were: Linda Arzoumanian, Superintendent, Pima County School Superintendent, Arizona; Khacho Achadjian (incumbent), State Assembly, California; Adrin Nazarian, State Assembly, California; Tim Kapucian (incumbent), State Senate, Idaho; Mary Lou Marzian (incumbent), State House, Kentucky; Peter Koutoujian (incumbent), Middlesex County Sheriff, Massachusetts; James Miceli, State House, Massachusetts; John Fresolo, State House, Massachusetts; Gary Azarian (incumbent), State House, New Hampshire; Charlene Takesian, State House, New Hampshire; Brad Avakian, State Labor Commissioner, Oregon; Scott Avedisian (incumbent), Mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island; Jared Nunes, State House, Rhode Island;


external domain. The front-end proxy server accepts the Ajax client's request and forwards it to the local Ajax back-end server. The proxy server asks the local AJAX server for the credentials to be used in the “external” AJAX request. The local Ajax back-end server then responds to the proxy server with meta-data for the external domain request that the proxy will make to the external domain. The proxy server uses the credentials of the “external” AJAX request to make the external request to the external Ajax server in the external domain. The proxy server performs any authentication and necessary domain mapping with the external Ajax server before sending a response from the external Ajax server back to the client.

11-19-2009

20100005266

Technique for estimating the size of an in-memory cache -first and second steering inputs. In the second, straight mode, the operator is able to steer the vehicle straight by operating both the first and second fraction devices together via one of the first and second steering inputs.

06-05-2014

20150315769

SINGLE PEDAL PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR STRAIGHT TRAVEL OF WORK VEHICLE - A work vehicle is disclosed with a propulsion system that is selectively operable in a first, turning mode or a second, straight mode. The vehicle includes a first traction device, a second traction device, a first steering input, and a second steering input. In the first, turning mode, an operator is able to steer the vehicle left, right, or straight by independently operating the first and second traction devices via the first and second steering inputs. In the second, straight


number

Description

Published

20120273586

Plasticized Elastomer Including a Volatile Compound - A plasticized elastomer includes a polymeric carrier and a volatile compound, such as a fragrance, medicament, or antimicrobial, disposed in the polymeric carrier. The polymeric carrier absorbs microwave energy and slowly dissipates it as heat until the polymeric carrier reaches thermal equilibrium with the ambient temperature. The heat of the polymeric carrier increases a vapor pressure of the volatile compound, which boosting its evaporation into the ambient environment.

11-01-2012

Michael T. Shook, New Kensington, PA US

Patent application number

Description

Published

20140064859

TELESCOPIC MINE ROOF SUPPORT - A longitudinally yieldable support for underground roof support includes a first support section with a first elongate outer shell filled with a solid compressible filler material and a second support section filled with a second solid compressible filler material with asecond elongate outer shell extending above the first elongate outer shell. The second support section has density that is greater than a density of the first solid compressible filler material. A pair of attachment members are coupled to the second elongate outer shell and are configured for lifting the second elongate outer shell relative to the first elongate outer shell and for securing the second elongate outer shell relative to the first elongate outer shell once lifted.

03-06-2014

20150184512

TELESCOPIC MINE ROOF SUPPORT - A longitudinally yieldable support for underground roof support includes a first support section with a first elongate outer shell filled with a solid compressible filler material and a second support section filled with a second solid compressible filler material with a second elongate outer shell extending above


Russia's two main stockmarkets bounced back dramatically this morning after trading resumed today for the first time since Wednesday, but amid strong signs of continuing volatility.

Russia's rouble-denominated MICEX and dollar-denominated RTS reopened after their suspension two days ago – only to shut again for an hour as shares soared. The exchanges re-opened at midday Moscow time.

Regulators sought today's temporary closure after share rises jumped above 15%. By this afternoon the MICEK was up 23.1% on the day, while the RTS had risen 15.5%.

The sudden revival of Russian markets, which coincided with shares rallying strongly on Wall Street and in London, came after the Kremlin pumped nearly $60bn (£33bn) into money markets.

Russia's finance ministry announced on Wednesday it was lending $44bn to the country's three main banks, while thecentral bank announced loans of $14bn designed to ease the acute liquidity crisis.

This morning the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, said that the economy remained healthy. Speaking at an investors' forum in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, he said that "fundamental indicators' including Russia's foreign debt surplus were in line with "the norm".

"Our response to problems that emerge will be market-orientated. The government and the central bank have sufficient reserves to defend the currency and the financial system," Putin declared. Other Kremlin officials made clear the Russian government was prepared to intervene in the crisis.

Russia's market has performed worse than any other emerging market this year – falling some $680bn since its all-time high in May. On Tuesday the MICEX dropped by 17% – its biggest slide


since Russia's 1998 financial crash.

Russia's economy is these days integrated into global markets, and has suffered as shares have fallen this week around the world. But the slump in Russia has been particularly acute because of falling oil prices. There has also been a huge flight of capital from Russia since last month's war in Georgia, with foreign investors taking out $35bn.in 2016, Hillary Clinton won women by 12 points. Moving forward, the party will need to continue winning women's votes by landslide margins if they hope to seize power at the state and national level. Yet women's representation has not kept up.

In the 115th Congress, women make up about 33 percent of the Democratic congressional delegation, certainly much better than the dismal 9 percent on the Republican side, but far from a reflection of how important women are to the Democratic coalition. This year, women, inspired in part by their revulsion at the loathsome misogynist in the Oval Office, are running for office in unprecedented numbers. They've won 65 percent of open Democratic congressional and gubernatorial primaries. More than 600 African American women are running for office nationwide.


Stacey Abrams in Georgia is the first African American woman ever to be nominated by a major party to run for governor. And younger women favor Democrats by heady margins — 47 points, according to Pew.

The ongoing demographic takeover of the Democratic Party by its actual constituents is mirroring the white, male takeover of the GOP. As the Republican Party marched rightward after the Civil Rights era and transformed itself into the awkward union between conservative Christians and supply-side economists, it gradually lost the support of African Americans, Latinos, women, and young people. While the party's congressional delegation is even older, whiter, and dude-ier than the people that voted for them, there's no question that Republican elected officials are a reflection of their political coalition. The runaway homogenizationof the party, as evidenced by any photo of President Trump's shockingly white, male Cabinet, is increasingly functioning as a repellent for people considering joining or voting for the GOP.

But it isn't just demographic diversity. The 21st century has been characterized for some time by what Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann call "asymmetric polarization," during which the GOP has led the way in its transformation into a rigidly ideologically minded organization. Data tracked by political scientists at UCLA shows the Republican Party, as measured by congressional roll call votes, becoming twice as conservative between 1980 and 2012, with very little movement to the left for Democrats. In many ways this is the most important story about modern American politics. Republican ideological unity and the party's willingness to deploy


temporary bond of the New Company. Stites, the bankrupt's trustee, objected upon the ground that the bankrupt was a corporate agency entirely owned and controlled by the National Bank of Kentucky (herein called the Bank), from whom Banco, with knowledge thereof, had on July 3, 1930, acquired its claim. George D. Caldwell, trustee under the mortgage, filed a foreclosure petition in the bankruptcy cause. Stites, trustee, by answer resisted this petition upon substantially the same grounds upon which he disputed Banco's claim. Paul C. Keyes, receiver of the Bank, also filed a claim against the bankrupt for $71,713.14, representing money advanced to the New Company after Banco had acquired its claim, which for the same reason was objected to by the bankrupt's trustee.
The court sustained the objection toboth claims, hence this appeal.
Prior to 1922 the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company of Kentucky (herein called the Old Company), was engaged in building and selling wagons and other vehicles. In that year it sold its property to the National Motors Company, which was unable to pay for it and was subsequently adjudged a bankrupt. For this and other causes the Old Company was forced into bankruptcy. The Bank, in addition to being the principal creditor through the making of large loans, had, in an effort to protect itself, bought in substantially all the Old Company's indebtedness. In July, 1924, Nicholas H. Dosker, agent of the Bank, purchased the assets of the Old Company at a bankrupt sale for $385,000. He paid $38,500 in money of the Bank, and


was credited with the balance by claims due from the Old Company to the Bank. Thereupon the Bank brought about *803 the incorporation of the New Company for the operation of the business and paid all the expense of the incorporation.
The three incorporators met in Louisville at the offices of the Bank on July 26, 1924, and went through the form of choosing five directors. These directors were in fact designated by James B. Brown, president of the Bank. One of them, Mr. Angermeier, was vice president of the Bank. Another director, Mr. R. V. Board, president of the Old Company, was employed by the Bank as president of the New Company at a fixed salary of $12,000 a year. He was later advised by a phone messagethat his salary had been reduced to $10,000 a year. All the other executive heads of the New Company were employed by the Bank.
On August 8, 1924, the board of directors of the New Company as above constituted ostensibly purchased, as evidenced by a bill of sale, all of the assets of the Old Company which had been sold to the Bank. (At that time the Bank owned only the equitable title to the real estate, but in 1927 it purchased the legal title and vested it nominally in the New Company.) The bill of sale was signed by the Bank, by Board and J. R. Duffin, creditors of the Old Company, and also by both the Old and the New Company. Just why it was thought necessary


$10 per share and of the market value of $45,000, and to Robert V. Board 45,000 similar shares. The notes were never executed and the stock was never issued.
The amount to be paid to the Bank represented the indebtedness of the Old Company to it together with the amounts paid by it in the purchase of the Old Company's assets and in the organization of the New Company.
Being thus organized, the New Company was ready to operate, although it could not legally do so in Kentucky under its laws because fifty per cent. of its capital stock had not been subscribed for. But it had no capital, and to meet its operating requirements the Bank permitted the New Company to make large overdrafts without security for the periodfrom August, 1924, until bankruptcy. It was the custom to settle these overdrafts by allowing the New Company to execute its notes in blank to the Bank and the Bank would fill in the requisite amounts In this manner the alleged indebtedness to the Bank grew until it amounted to the sum set out in the Bank's claim. Of the four directors of the New Company who authorized the $2,000,000 mortgage on November 1, 1927, three of them were directors of the Bank and were admittedly acting for it.
The New Company borrowed no money from, and kept no deposits in, any other bank. The officers and directors of the New Company had no independent policy. They operated under the forms of corporate management and organization, but they always


faithfully carried out the orders and directions of the bank. No stock in the New Company was ever issued. No stockholders' meetings were held, and, when it became necessary to select new directors, they were always designated by the Bank. It was generally understood that the Bank was the owner of the assets of the New Company and was in actual control of its affairs, and during that period the Bank at large expense, involving many thousands of dollars, made strenuous efforts to sell stock or to sell the property and recoup its losses.
Mr. Brown, the president, testified that "of course the Bank was in the Wagon Company business, no question about that, but banks frequently go into businesses that they don't like to be in." He furtherwith our approval. Mr. Gijax *804 and Mr. Robinson were elected by our Vice-Presidents and required to consult with them. They put them in."
Mr. Jones, first vice president of the Bank, also testified that, so far as he knew, the Wagon Company "was owned absolutely and entirely by the Bank."
The record discloses more than one instance in which the Bank held itself out as the owner of the New Company and as responsible for its debts and in this way secured credit for it. It so represented the situation to the Comptroller.
Banco purchased the claim of the Bank on July 3, 1930. Banco and the Bank had the same president and an interlocking directorate, and Banco was chargeable with knowledge of the nature of the claim it acquired.
The


to be performed under light sedation without need for intubation anesthesia.

The boy had suffered from continuous wheezing since the age of one month, and symptoms worsened during respiratory infections. Because respiratory symptoms continued despite inhaled bronchodilators and corticosteroids, trachea compression was suspected, and at the age of eight months, the magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) of the thorax and abdomen was performed. The MRA confirmed the total absence of a SVC. Blood from the right arm and the right side of the head drained into the azygos vein, and blood from the left arm and the left side of the head drained into the hemiazygos vein. The azygos and the hemiazygos veins were fused below the level of the trachea bifurcation, and this vein formed a loop beneath thethe local authority area of Dumfries and Galloway.

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Bill Tilden did not lose a single tennis match of substance for seven years, between 1920 and 1926. He was so dominant a player in his time that he would often purposely lose points and games and even sets just to make the matches a little bit more interesting. One of his favorite tricks, when he seemed in trouble, was to hold five tennis balls in one hand, serve four consecutive aces, and throw the fifth ball away disdainfully.

Don Budge was an American amateur tennis player who in 1937 and 1938 played in six consecutive grand slam tournaments — he won all six. He also led the U.S. to their first Davis Cup championship in more than a decade. He turned professional and, shortly after that, went towar.

Pancho Gonzalez was the No. 1 ranked player in the world for eight consecutive years, an unmatched record, and numerous experts including Bud Collins have said that if you needed someone to play a tennis match for your soul, you would choose the temperamental and brilliant Pancho Gonzalez.

Rod Laver won tennis’ Grand Slam in 1962 then turned professional, which prevented him from playing at any of the four — the Australian Championship, the French Championship, Wimbledon or the U.S. Championship — for five years. Then in 1968, those tournaments opened up to professionals (which is why we call them “Opens” now). One year later, Laver won the Grand Slam again.

Bjorn Borg won the French Open and Wimbledon — widely viewed as the two most prestigious and the two


most different tennis tournaments — back-to-back in 1978, 1979 and 1980. No man or woman has ever even pulled that double two years in a row, much less three, Borg retired when he was 26 years old and had grown bored by tennis.

Pete Sampras won Wimbledon seven out of eight years and is widely believed to have the greatest serve — that uncommon combination or power, accuracy and consistency — in modern tennis history.

Andre Agassi was the first male tennis player to win the career grand slam — winning in the heat of Australia, on the red clay of Roland Garros, on the lightning fast grass at Wimbledon, and in the New York mayhem of the U.S. Open — since Roy Emerson 25 years earlier.

Still, most of usseem pretty sure that the greatest tennis player of all time is either Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal who happen to be playing now. There seem to be a couple of major reasons for this.

One: Federer and Nadal are piling up grand slam championships in unprecedented numbers. Federer has won 17 of them, which is the record, and he reached the final of another seven. From Wimbledon 2005 until the Australian Open in 2010 he reached the final of all but one grand slam championship. Nadal, meanwhile, has a chance to win his 14th grand slam in Australia this weekend, that would tie him with Sampras for second place on the list.

Two: Federer and Nadal play in a time where the equipment — specifically the tennis rackets but


reason. Federer and Nadal (and Sampras before them) happen to play in a time when the world is a lot smaller and the top tennis players go to every grand slam event all over the world. This wasn’t even close to true before. Rod Laver won 11 grand slam events but he missed TWENTY major tennis events in his prime because he had turned professional. When you consider he won the yearly Grand Slam on both sides of that, it seems all but certain that he would have won more than six of the 20 majors he missed (he won eight professional majors during that stretch). Laver, certainly, would have the record.

Borg only played in Australia one time and that was before he won his first Wimbledon. JimmyConnors won the Australian Open the first time he played it in 1974, reached the final the next year, and never played there again — he also skipped five consecutive French Opens during his prime. John McEnroe routinely skipped the Australian and French Opens also. Bill Tilden entered only eight events we now consider grand slam titles in his prime. He won all eight.

This is not to downplay the amazing performances of Federer and Nadal. Heck, Federer set the record by reaching an almost unbelievable ten consecutive Grand Slam finals, and after that had another stretch where he reached eight consecutive finals. Nadal has lost one match — ONE MATCH — at Roland Garros and has beaten Federer nine of the 11 times they have faced at a


doesn’t mean — and Johnson himself would never suggest — that he’s a better driver than Petty was. Times change.

The one thing that seems clear is that Rafael Nadal is better than Roger Federer. Rafa is five years younger and so the timing is a little bit off. Nadal was not quite ready to compete with Federer on anything but clay from 2004 to 2007 or so. In those four years, Federer won 11 grand slam championships:

2004 Australian over Marat Safin

2004 Wimbledon over Andy Roddick

2004 U.S. Open over Lleyton Hewitt

2005 Wimbledon over Andy Roddick

2005 U.S. Open over Andre Agassi

2006 Australian over Marcos Baghdatis

2006 Wimbledon over Nadal

2006 U.S. Open over Andy Roddick

2007 Australian over Fernando Gonzalez

2007 Wimbledon over Nadal

2007 U.S. Open over Novak Djokovic

It was a remarkable run. Nadaldominated him on clay, beating him three times at the French Open. But no one else could touch Federer on any other surface. And then, Nadal ascended. He utterly destroyed Federer at the 2008 French Open (losing just four games) and has not lost to Federer in a major tournament since. Nadal beat Federer on what had been his home court of Wimbledon in 2008. Nadal beat Federer at the Australian Open in 2009 — that was the loss that broke Federer and left him in tears. And since then, at grand slams, Federer has not even been able to push Nadal to five sets, much less beat him. They have played 33 times in total, and Nadal has won 23 of them. And Nadal has beaten Federer


remaining checks, totaling $132,000, were presented individually by Zappacosta to the bank whereupon the bank would issue its own check for the same amount payable to a person designated by Zappacosta. In most cases the payee she selected was either a friend or a relative who would either indorse over the the check to her or cash it and deliver the proceeds.
In furtherance of her scheme, she concealed these unlawful withdrawals, as best she could. As bookkeeper, she was the one who first checked the cancelled vouchers and examined these bank statements. Before submitting a statement and the accompanying *431 checks to plaintiff's accountant, she would withdraw the checks involved, write void on their corresponding checkbook stubs and then prepare a tape which, while excluding the amounts ofon September 11 last year from a remote beach resort near the Kenyan-Somali border by armed men who shot dead her husband David. She is reported to have hearing difficulties.

She was released in the Addado region, about 50km from the Ethiopian border and about 500km northeast of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.

The couple was attacked in their room at night. They were the only guests at the upmarket Kiwayu Safari Village, some 40km from the Somali border.

Spate of kidnappings

A French woman, Marie Dedieu, kidnapped from the same coastal area three weeks later, died in captivity.

In October, gunmen captured two Spanish aid workers from Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, who are believed to be still held in Somalia.

The spate of attacks prompted Kenya to send in troops and tanks into southern Somalia


super doctor who is guarded around the clock. AIDOC has four highlights, including bit digital man, life bank, AI super doctor and life data mining.

Winning the GBBC Excellent Blockchain Project Award in the Switzerland Davos Forum, AIDOC has been actively expanding its overseas market! The leader of AIDOC (Founder and CEO of MEDP.AI , AIDOC Asia Pacific Consultant Wu Shizhan) held a meeting and shared the vision and development plan of AIDOC with fans in Lair East, New York, USA.

In terms of products, AIDOC has already started the registration of DEMO limited open beta test of bit digital man modules. The new beta version will access more intelligent hardware to further improve the health data of bit digital man modules. In terms of cooperation, AIDOC has joined theof blockchain in the medical field, progress and technical framework of AIDOC project with domestic AIDOC fans.

On March 30th, AIDOC was listed at the Houbi Korean, and took the Houbi Korean as the first step to enter the Korean market. AIDOC exchanged opinions with local Korean media, exchanges, and well-known critics on overseas blockchain companies meeting this Friday and built up the layout of the Korean market! AIDOC has made efforts to develop the Korean market from multiple dimensions such as local community construction, commercial projects landing, and recruitment of core volunteers, thus improving the global strategic layout of AIDOC Chain.

AIDOC has showed on the NASDAQ giant screen recently, which demonstrates the strong brand image of AIDOC. We have the reason to believe that in the near future,


A 381kg manta ray was transported back to the ocean from its by helicopter.

The footage was released after the operation, which involved a marine scientist and a team of 20 marine aquarists transfered Leyley, who was an 11.4-foot wingspan.

The manta ray was being housed at Atlantis resort in The Bahamas, one of only two aquariums in the Western Hemisphere which currently cares for and studies the manta ray.

It took 105 seconds to transfer Leyley from the resort's 2.7-million gallon marine habitat back into the Atlantic Ocean, as part of their renowned release and research program.WAPP include the song "Runaway" on the station's compilation album of local homegrown talent. Jon was reluctant, but eventually gave them the song, which he had rerecorded in 1982 (following a rough early recording in 1981) with local studio musicians whom he designated The All Star Review: Guitarist Tim Pierce, keyboardist Roy Bittan, drummer Frankie LaRocka, and bassist Hugh McDonald.

Bon Jovi

In March 1983, Jon Bon Jovi called David Bryan, who in turn called bassist Alec John Such and an experienced drummer named Tico Torres. Guitarist Richie Sambora later joined the band; Bon Jovi, Sambora, Such, Bryan, and Torres became the founding members of Bon Jovi.

In 1984 and 1985, Bon Jovi released their first two albums and their debut single "Runaway" managed to crack the Top 40. In 1986,


the movies Moonlight and Valentino, The Leading Man, Destination Anywhere, Homegrown, Little City, No Looking Back, Row Your Boat, Vampires Los Muertos, U-571, Cry Wolf, National Lampoon's Pucked, and New Year's Eve. He also had a supporting role in the movie Pay It Forward, where he played Helen Hunt's abusive ex-husband. His TV series appearances include Sex and the City, 30 Rock, Las Vegas, The West Wing, and an extended stint on Ally McBeal as a plumber who was Ally's boyfriend for a short period of time. He also had a brief, uncredited role in the 1990 film Young Guns II. On January 24, 2011, it was confirmed that Bon Jovi would be cast in the film New Year's Eve, released later that year, as a successful rockon a semiconductor substrate. After the transfer of the mask patterns to the resist, patterning is executed on the resist, and a semiconductor device is fabricated by use of the resist as patterned.
In the exposure step, the resist is irradiated with light through the photomask after the surface of the semiconductor substrate (also referred to as a wafer at times) is covered with the resist. As a result, a latent image of the mask patterns is formed in the resist. Subsequently, upon the development of the resist, parts of the resist, corresponding to the latent image, are selectively left out or removed, thereby forming resist patterns on the wafer. In the case of pattern fidelity being excellent, the resist patterns are substantially equivalent in shape to the mask


MAVERICK LNP backbencher Jason Woodforth will call on his parliamentary colleagues to "open their minds" and allow a medicinal cannabis trial in Queensland.

The Nudgee MP, who famously lobbied the party room to rid the state's water supplies of fluoride said he would use the first party room meeting back, expected to be held on February 10, to put his case,

"I will be lobbying for a trial," Mr Woodforth said. "It's time we opened up our minds and listened and did something about it."

Mr Woodforth said he was moved to take a stand after reading the story of epileptic eight-year-old Tara O'Connell's recovery in The Sunday Mail.

Doctors had told Tara's family she would be lucky to make it to the age of nine but her mother Cheri said herlong. The trophies were awarded in seven categories, and yes, there was one fairly clear winner throughout the night.

Best Concept

Awarded to the truck with an original idea and best execution of their final concept.

The winner: El Gastronomo Vagabundo, also recognized as the first truck in Canada to bring gourmet food to the streets.

Best Graphics

The truck that draws you in before you even catch sight of their menu board.

The winner: The aqua blue colour and signature, cartoonish donkey helped Blue Donkey walk away with this one.

Best New Food Truck

Awarded to the newbie on the block who deserves a little recognition.

The winner: Dobro Jesti. The risotto balls this truck serves were being talked about all through the event.

The Road Warrior

Awarded to the truck owner who has paved the way for


new food trucks to start up in the city.

The winner: El Gastronomo Vagabundo, the first gourmet truck and at two years, has been operational throughout the city the longest.

Best Pop-Up

The vendor who's missing wheels but still producing great food.

The winner:

Fidel Gastro's is bringing a food revolution to Toronto, one extreme sandwich at a time--like the Toronto Cheesesteak, a medium rare, rib-eye finished with caramelized onions, Havarti cheese and a fried egg. And best of all, he now has a food truck.

Best Menu Item

The one dish that Torontonians want more of.

The nominees:

Gorilla Cheese (pork sandwich)

El Gastronomo Vagabundo's (fish taco)

Rome'N Chariot (meatball slider)

Dobro Jesti (risotto balls)

Cupcake Diner (caramel apple pie cupcake)

The winner: El Gastronomo Vagabuno made its third trip to the podium for their sweet and spicy tacos.

The People's Choice

Votedon by customers and food truck fans as their personal favourites.

The finalists:

Blue Donkey Streatery

Buster's Sea Cove

Cupcake Diner

Dobro Jesti

El Gastronomo Vagabundo

Gorilla Cheese

Rome'N Chariot

Southern Smoke

The winner: Gorilla Cheese, this crew drive in their truck from Hamilton to serve up a lunchtime staple--the grilled cheese sandwich.

Additional photos:

Photos by Bruce Emberley


Parents sue school, town after girl falls through SHS bleachers

By Jason Schreiberjschreiber34@comcast.net

BRENTWOOD – The parents of a Salem student seriously injured in 2010 after she fell 15 feet through an opening in bleachers at Salem High School are suing the school district and the town.Ann and Christian Butterworth of Salem filed a civil lawsuit recently claiming the school district and town were negligent because they allegedly failed to address “sizeable gaps” in the bleachers at Grant Field that allowed their daughter, Kayla, then 12, to fall through.

According to the suit filed in Rockingham County Superior Court, Kayla Butterworth was a member of the Woodbury Middle School track team and was participating in a meet at the high school when the incident occurred on May 12, 2010.

At the time,the track team was gathered in the area of the Grant Field bleachers, which have a maximum height of 20 feet, waiting for the meet to begin when Kayla spotted her sister, Lauren, sitting in an announcer’s booth, the suit said.

Kayla decided to walk over to speak with her sister, but when she climbed the bleacher stairs and crossed a section of bleachers to reach the booth, the suit said she fell through an opening between the seats and footrest.

Kayla, who fell approximately 15 feet and landed on the ground, suffered a broken right wrist, dislocated right elbow, multiple fractures of her right pelvis, facial lacerations, and other injuries, the suit said.

“The lack of any protective netting or screen to cover the openings posed a hazardous and dangerous


drove over several
speed bumps at about twenty miles per hour.  Holt then proceeded to drive around the complex at
speeds up to forty miles per hour.  In the meantime, Officer Pontillo responded to Dockins' request
for assistance.  As Holt approached Pontillo's marked patrol car, "[h]e immediately turned left
through the parking lot" and "started traveling north" at a high rate of speed.  Pontillo followed on
a parallel exterior street.  When Holt passed a second entry point to the apartment complex, he
avoided Pontillo by continuing around the complex at a high rate of speed.
            Eventually, Holt stopped at the end of the apartment complex where there was no entry or
exit point.  Officer Pontillo stopped, straddling the center lane on the exterior street.  Holt had driven
partially overa grassy berm and sidewalk separating the apartment complex and the exterior street
where Pontillo had stopped.  Pontillo was parked perpendicular to Holt's truck facing the truck.
Officer Dockins parked his unmarked car four or five feet behind Holt's truck and exited his vehicle
with his weapon at his side.  Dockins and Pontillo testified Dockins yelled, "Police.  Turn off the
vehicle."
  At this point, Dockins approached Holt's vehicle.  Dockins testified he was unsure
whether Holt could see his badge, but did not think Holt could see his weapon.  Dockins testified
he and Holt made eye contact in Holt's rearview mirror.
            At this point, Holt put his truck in reverse, squealed his tires, and backed into Officer
Dockins' unmarked car.  Dockins testified Holt turned while backing up toward


where Dockins was
standing in front of the unmarked car on the driver's side.  Dockins testified that, if Holt had backed
straight, he would have only needed one step to get out of the way.  Because Holt turned as he
backed, Dockins had to jump out of the way.  Dockins testified that he would have been "crushed"
if he had not jumped out of the way and that Holt's actions placed him in fear of imminent bodily
injury.  Officer Pontillo fired several shots at Holt as he backed toward Dockins.  Holt's truck ended
up on the top of Dockins' car, with the rear wheels resting on the bumper.
            Holt then leaned down in the truck, drove over the median, and sped off, turning right just
enough to miss Officer Pontillo'scar.  Pontillo pursued Holt.  Holt led Pontillo on a high-speed chase
during which Holt ran two red lights, drove over another median, and was eventually detained after
colliding with Pontillo's patrol car, penning Pontillo in the car.  During the high-speed chase, the
officers were informed by the dispatcher that the truck being driven by Holt was stolen.
            Viewed in a light most favorable to the State, a rational juror could have found beyond a
reasonable doubt all the essential elements of aggravated assault.  A rational juror could have found
Holt intentionally or knowingly placed Officer Dockins in fear of imminent bodily injury.  A rational
juror could have also found that Holt used the truck he was driving in such a manner as to constitute
a deadly weapon.  The evidence


list for Temple Street – perhaps the Minister can enlighten me. I understand the list is divided between the two hospitals.

I wish to share a case with the Minister of State. Obviously, I will not disclose the name of the person on the floor of the Seanad, but I am happy to provide it to the Minister of State. It is very illustrative of why this is such a critical issue.

One young boy, who is now six years of age, when aged three had symptoms including very poor balance, being tired and lethargic and the development of a tick in his head. His parents were able to afford to bring him to a neurologist on a private basis. The neurologist advised them that the child probably had flatfeet and questioned whether something was happening in the home which caused him to develop the tick. Thankfully, the mother insisted on the scan. The neurologist was reluctant to put the child forward saying the child was not an urgent or high priority case. Given that there are only two MRI scanners, at that time the waiting list was eight months.

The child went for an MRI scan over two and a half years ago on a Friday morning and the parents were advised that they could receive the results in about four to six weeks. They were in the recovery room 30 minutes later and a team of medical staff surrounded the bed. The team said a brain tumour had been found and a biopsy needed to be


done, the earliest opportunity for which was Monday. The first test was done on the biopsy on Monday and the parents were told there was an 80% likelihood that the child had cancer, but the results were inconclusive and a second, more intrusive, test needed to be done, and was done two weeks later. The further test found that it was a low-grade tumour which required regular monitoring but, thankfully, was not cancerous.

These parents initially brought their child for three-month checks, and then tests on a six-month basis to establish a baseline and ensure they could monitor the situation. At a six-month scan in April 2014, they were told that they were not allowed to leave the hospital as the child had developed hydrocephalus. He was transferred bya National Oversight Group, consisting of representatives of umbrella organisations, representing the Disability Service Providers, service user representation and senior staff from the health service. In addition, the health service has assigned a full-time Project Lead to work to co-ordinate the implementation of the Project in 2014.

Work has been ongoing on the 2014 process since October/November 2013. The Oversight group met and agreed the timelines. A template was agreed for collection of information regarding each individual seeking to access health funded services. A letter was circulated by the National Council for Special Education to all mainstream schools to ensure that individuals with disabilities and their families would be aware of the revised process. The Health Service Guidance officers engaged with the special schools directly. The National Disability Governance


the community, including hospital liaison and Day Hospital services. In 2008, there were 54 CAMHS Teams. There are now 66 Teams in place – 60 Community, 3 Adolescent, and 3 hospital liaison mental health teams.

The additional €90m provided for mental health over 2012–14 is being used, in part, to expand and enhance the skill mix of CAMHS Teams. Around 230 new posts were allocated to CAMHS Teams over 2012-13, and recruitment of these is well advanced. Of the 150 posts approved in 2012, 136 or 91% are complete with 8 further posts at an advanced stage in the recruitment process. Of the 80 posts approved in 2013, 35 or 43% are complete, with a further 18.5 or 23% at an advanced stage of the recruitment process. In summary,Child and Adolescent psychiatric in-patient beds nationally. In 2008, there were 16 such beds and at present there are 51 beds operational country-wide, with more planned. Capacity will be enhanced also, with the completion of the CAMHS Forensic Unit as part of capital developments now underway for the National Forensic Mental Health Service, and the National Children’s Hospital. In addition, improved community based services, coupled with increasing bed capacity, are all aimed at discontinuing the practice of placing children and adolescents in adult acute in-patient units, except in exceptional circumstances. Admissions of children to adult units have decreased by almost 60% from 2008, when there were 247 reported, to a provisional figure of 106 in 2012.

The review of the Mental Health Act 2001, already well progressed, is a


key step in providing a revised and more modern mental health legislation in this country. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to review the Act, informed by human rights standards and consultation with service users, carers and other stakeholders.

The review has been delayed due to a number of factors, including the wishes of members of the Expert Group to first see details of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) legislation, which was published in June 2013. Due to the high level of inter-connectivity between both sets of legislation, members of the Expert Group reviewing the Mental Health Act felt it would be necessary that the Capacity Bill should be finalised before they completed their own review.

Work is continuing on the completion of the report of the Expert Group,many areas at local level. The Government will retain its commitment to mental health, and focus on up-grading all aspects of mental health care, in line with evolving service demands and resources available overall for the Health sector, for 2014 and beyond.

to move to the following access targets:

– 6 month target inpatient / day care

– 9 month target for outpatient

– again with hospitals effecting full compliance with performance targets in the first half of the year and subsequent maintenance for the remainder of the year

To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide the most up-to date figures on the following, in relation to Special Care Placements:

a) What is the current waiting list for Special Care Placement?

As of 11th March 2014, there was one young person


the Child & Family Agency (with an enhanced focus on prevention, early intervention and family support) and the roll-out of the €30m Area Based Childhood (ABC) Programme.

Early Years/Childcare

The EU recommendation on ‘Investing in Children’ recognises the importance of early childhood education and care. The EU Commission has set a target of member states having at least 95% of four year olds in pre-school. Ireland is in compliance with this target through provision of the free pre-school year.

The EU recommendation on ‘Investing in Children’ also recognises the importance of access to affordable childcare. In this context I announced a review of existing targeted childcare schemes to consider how best to structure future childcare support, to both support working families and to incentivise labour market activation, which could be expandedto more families as resources allow.

Delivering improvements in quality standards and staff qualifications is a critical precursor to any future expansion of universal childcare provision and/or Government supports.I have prioritised implementation of an eight-point Quality Agenda, and there has been significant and unprecedented progress in the implementation of this agenda over the past eight months. This will continue in 2014 with establishment of landmark new National Quality Support Service, which is being seen a significant development in the context of developing EU policy.

Social impact assessment

In February 2012, the Government decided to develop an integrated social impact assessment to strengthen implementation of the new national social target for poverty reduction and to facilitate greater policy coordination in the social sphere.

Work in the area of social impact assessment is being


1991 to strengthen the aftercare provisions for children in care was approved by Government on 25 February 2014 for publication, and has been submitted to this Committee for its consideration.

I understand that the Committee plans to consider the matter during the month of April. Following the Committee’s deliberations the text of the amendment may need to be refined in conjunction with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, after which a timeframe for the progression of the legislation will be discussed and agreed with the Houses of the Oireachtas. I am very appreciative of the work of the Joint Committee and the contribution of the members.

Regarding children leaving detention, on average approximately one third of such children normally would have care orders and so would, in the main, berequired to have an aftercare plan prepared by the Child and Family Agency.

At present, the mechanism for supervision of a child post-release from a sentence of detention (other than those who were in the care of the Child and Family Agency) is by the Probation Service if the courts impose a “detention and supervision” (i.e. in the community) order at conviction stage. Extending the right to an aftercare plan to all children completing a sentence of detention would require significant and detailed examination by officials in the relevant units of my Department, and the relevant other Departments and agencies involved, before any recommendations in relation to the matter might be formulated.

Question 3: Childhood Obesity

In light of the growing childhood obesity epidemic in Ireland and Government policy as set