commitments and resolutions. As the UN General Assembly agreed in a 2007 resolution and reiterated in the outcome document of the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in 2016, states have a legal obligation to carry out drug control "in full conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with full respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of States, all human rights, fundamental freedoms, \[and\] the inherent dignity of all individuals."[@r23] Similarly, Barrett observes: "*Human rights in international drug control have ... traditionally been absent, and are viewed as a nuisance by many governments and UN agencies ... \[T\]he system consciouslyreducing HIV risk via injecting, which accounts for the largest share of Russia's HIV epidemic. The ban on these medicines is a clear violation of the right to health, and equating education about the medicines with propaganda further violates the right to information. Despite the stance of their government, Russian representatives have served for years on the INCB, sponsor UNODC's informal working group on science, and participate actively in debates on drug dependence treatment and other measures at the CND.

Drug policy undermines access to controlled medicines and impedes the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress {#s10}
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The right to health and the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress are interrelated and interdependent. The right to science is "sometimes considered a prerequisite for the realization of


has been interpreted to mean the state is obliged not to interfere with choices and priorities decided by scientists and not to impose a certain topic or method of research on the academic community.[@r64]

The right to science is broadly acknowledged to be of great significance in the context of globalization, the communication revolution, and the accelerated pace of scientific and technological development; and yet, it is poorly implemented to the extent it was referred to as a right at "vanishing point" by Schabas in 2007.[@r65] In 2009, recognizing the increasing relevance and continued neglect of the right to science and its applications, UNESCO convened a series of discussions designed to clarify the normative content of the right and enhance its implementation. The conclusions and proposals for the normativeframing of the right, captured in the Venice Statement, emphasized freedom of inquiry as a vital element in the development of science, access to the benefits of scientific progress, and the "creation of an enabling and participatory environment for the conservation, development and diffusion of science and technology" as core components of the right to science.[@r66] The right to science has since been the subject of increased attention.[@r67]

The Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights stipulated that a prerequisite for implementing the right to science is "ensuring the necessary conditions for everyone to continuously engage in critical thinking about themselves and the world they inhabit, and to have the opportunity and wherewithal to interrogate, investigate and contribute new knowledge."[@r68] The Special Rapporteur also sets out the normative


strategic crossroads like Snuny and renew an offensive versus the Islamic State group, which controls a broad swath of northern Iraq from its base in Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul.

The Kurds retook Snuny from the Sunni militants last month, but a weeks-old battle has reached a point of stalemate on the other side of the mountain for militant-held Sinjar. To the southeast, the oil-rich city of Kirkuk remains at risk of falling to the Islamic State group.

While Islamic State fighters have been forced to retreat from Kobani, the strategic town on Syria's border with Turkey, the battlefield picture suggests they are far from beaten in northern Iraq, where harsh winter weather and thick mud underfoot hampers military moves and even rear-line positions such as Snuny remain in surprising rangewarplanes to offer close air support to the often lightly armed Kurds.

In Kirkuk, Kurdish forces have suffered painful losses from incessant IS militant activity. On Friday, militants attacked several Kirkuk targets and the Kurds lost a senior commander and eight of his troops in battle. Kurdish authorities since have deployed heavy reinforcements to the city, depriving other positions of needed peshmerga fighters.

Overlooking the main highway near Sinjar linking northern Iraq to Syria, a few dozen peshmerga fighters remain in a holding position as they await more arms and troops. Islamic State fighters sought to overrun them last week but were repelled. Kurds described their enemy as cunning and relentless.

"They will never give up," the commander of that position, Brig. Gen. Bahjat Taymes, said of Islamic State fighters dug


Couple jailed for manslaughter of baby who died after they used homeopathic remedies for skin disorder

A couple whose baby daughter died of septicemia and malnutrition were today jailed for her manslaughter.

Nine-month-old Gloria died after the couple chose to use homeopathic remedies rather than conventional medicine to treat her severe skin disorder.

Thomas Sam, a 42-year old college lecturer in homeopathy, and his wife Manju, 37, of Sydney, were convicted in June after their daughter died in May 2002.

Nine-month-old Gloria died after the couple chose to use homeopathic remedies rather than conventional medicine to treat her severe skin disorder

The Indian-born, university-educated parents had faced a maximum penalty of 25 years each in an Australian prison if convicted.

Instead, New South Wales state Supreme Court Justice Peter Johnson ordered Sam to serveat least six years in jail, with a maximum sentence of eight years, and Manju to serve at least four years in jail with a maximum of five years and four months.

Mr Johnson said it was clear homeopathy wasn't sufficient for dealing with Gloria's severe eczema, and said there was a 'wide chasm' between her parents' approach and the action a reasonable parent would have taken.

Sam's 'arrogant approach' to his preference for homeopathy and Manju's deference to her husband led to their daughter's death, he said.

Prosecutors said the parents rarely consulted conventional doctors and never contacted a skin specialist after a nurse noticed that their previously healthy baby had developed severe eczema at four months old.

Instead, prosecutors said Sam continued to consult homeopaths and natural medicine practitioners as


his daughter's health continued to deteriorate and her black hair turned white.

Gloria became malnourished by battles against frequent infections that got into her bloodstream through broken skin caused by her severe rashes.

Her parents finally admitted her to a hospital, where doctors said she was severely ill.

The doctors gave her morphine for the pain and began treating an eye infection that had started to melt her corneas.

Gloria died three days later.

Homeopathy is a therapy based on the theory that diseases can be successfully treated with minute doses of substances that cause reactions in the human body similar to the disease symptoms.

'Gloria was subjected to significant pain over an extended period of time and the omission of the offenders to seek proper assistance for her may be characterized accurately asArea Historical Organizations

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years in issue and when the petitions in

these consolidated cases were filed.

     Petitioners were married on August 30, 1970.   They had two

children during their marriage--Krista Holly Lovejoy, born on

January 8, 1977, and Dean Ross Lovejoy, born on May 10, 1980

(collectively, the children).

     In May 1992, petitioners separated.    Ms. Miller remained in

the family home, and Mr. Lovejoy moved into a separate residence.

Mr. Lovejoy and Ms. Miller maintained separate residences

throughout 1993 and 1994 and were not members of the same

household at any time during those years.

     Shortly after petitioners separated, Ms. Miller filed a

"Petition for Dissolution of Marriage" seeking, inter alia, a

divorce, temporary and permanent maintenance, and child support

(the divorce case).  agreed to by the parties.    The Temporary Orders

conferred joint custody of the children on Ms. Miller and Mr.

Lovejoy but designated Ms. Miller "the primary residential

custodian for the children".    The Temporary Orders were silent

regarding which party was authorized to claim the dependency

exemptions for the children.

     Following several days of testimony in a contested divorce

proceeding, the State court issued Permanent Orders on January

24, 1994, nunc pro tunc November 12, 1993, granting Ms. Miller

sole custody of the children.    The Permanent Orders also provided

that Mr. Lovejoy "shall claim both of [the] children on his tax

returns as exemptions".   The Permanent Orders were not signed by

Ms. Miller.   However, they were executed by the State court judge

and were


                  - 18 -

     In Neal, the taxpayer, a noncustodial parent who had claimed

dependency exemptions for all three of his children on his

Federal income tax returns for the years at issue, supported his

claim to the exemptions by attaching Forms 8332 (one for each

child) and copies of the Decree of Dissolution and a State court

order amending the decree.    The decree as amended by the related

order granted him the right to claim the dependency exemption for

one of his children but was silent with respect to the other two

children.    The Forms 8332 were not signed by the custodial

parent.   He made no effortheadcount peaked at about 305,000 after he took over, Moynihan said. The bank hired furiously in the aftermath of the financial crisis to help resolve mortgage-related woes tied to the acquisition of Countrywide Financial.

Bank of America began plotting out its digital strategy in 2008 due to a need to reduce costs, Moynihan said. While online banking has been around since the 1990s, Apple's introduction of the first iPhone in 2007 was a game changer, he said. It effectively allowed customers to carry a bank branch in their pockets.


The Blackhawks have talked to the Blue Jackets about acquiring defenseman Ryan Murray, a league source tells Scott Powers of The Athletic.

Murray, who will turn 26 in September, is a left-handed blue liner that scored one goal and 28 assists while posting a 50.1 Corsi-For percentage in 56 games this past season. The former 2012 first-round pick is set to become a restricted free agent this summer and is projected to command a three-year contract worth $4,146,272, according to Evolving-Hockey.

One reason the Blue Jackets might be willing to part with the 6-foot-1, 205-pound Murray is his injury issues. He’s only played 65 percent of the possible games he could have since he entered the league in 2013, and he missed time this past season due to an upper-bodyand Brendan Perlini, in a swap involving three former first-rounders. In January, Chicago traded defenseman Jan Rutta and a 2019 seventh-round pick to the Lightning for defenseman Slater Koekkoek and a 2019 fifth-round pick. Strome and Koekkoek are both under contract for next season, with the latter signing a one-year extension worth $925,000 in May. Perlini is set to become a restricted free agent.

Murray would slot into a second-pairing role on the left side behind veteran Duncan Keith. Connor Murphy would likely be Murray’s defensive partner.

Keith — Henri Jokiharju

Murray — Murphy

Erik Gustafsson — Brent Seabrook

Carl Dahlstrom, who signed a two-year extension with a $850,000 annual salary cap hit in March, and Koekkoek would likely battle it out for the seventh defenseman role in this hypothetical lineup.


activist, says he was in Pensacola, Florida, on a military tour when the news broke last November that the city had hidden sexual harassment allegations against its former police chief until after Mayor Condon's re-election.

Rall started the #RECALLCONDON page shortly after, more than 8 months before CPA David Green submitted an official recall petition.

"Within three days, we were up to 600 people," Rall says.

click to enlarge

Facebook.com screenshot

The message the woman who led the Jim West recall sent a #RECALLCONDON page administrator.

It attracted plenty of attention: Environmental activist Mara Spitzer, one of the page's administrators, says that Shannon Sullivan, the woman behind the 2005 Jim West recall, contacted Spitzer a few months ago, and told her that she was there if she needed any advice.

On Aug. 1, Sullivan taggedhowever, he created yet another social media presence, separate from #RECALLCONDON or Pendleton's presence. Green launched a new Facebook page, the Recall David Condon Committee. He put out a new website, recalldavidcondon.com. Both were sleeker, simpler affairs, focusing mainly on the recall petition.

Shortly after the recall petition was filed this month, Green says, Pendleton contacted him through the website, informing Green that he'd pointed recallcondon.com to recalldavidcondon.com. Pendleton offered to help.

"I didn’t respond to the offer for help," Green says. "I said 'thank you,' (for pointing the domain at the committee's website), but at this point there’s nothing to do until the judicial hearing."

Green also noted that under Pendleton's ChangeSpokane Facebook page he had invoked the committee's name.

"I asked him respectfully to stop doing that," Green says. "I


93 F.3d 58
Charles C. DEAN, Petitioner-Appellant,v.SUPERINTENDENT, CLINTON CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, andDepartment of Correctional Services, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 1057, Docket 95-2351.
United States Court of Appeals,Second Circuit.
Argued May 14, 1996.Decided Aug. 20, 1996.

J. Scott Porter, Syracuse, NY, for Appellant.
Susan D. Nusbaum, Assistant District Attorney, Erie County, Buffalo, NY (Kevin M. Dillon, District Attorney of Erie County, John J. DeFranks, Assistant District Attorney, Erie County, Buffalo, NY, of counsel), for Appellees.
Before MESKILL and MINER, Circuit Judges, and SCULLIN*, District Judge.
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

1
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Heckman, J., denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.  Because we conclude that the petitioner has not carried his burden of showing that he objected to an insanity defense orThere, he abducted Williams' ten year old daughter Andrea at knifepoint, covering her eyes with a pair of boys pants.  He took Andrea to his mother's residence, approximately five minutes away, where he broke a window to gain entry to the house.  There, he repeatedly sodomized Andrea before falling asleep.

4
Although Dean had put band-aids over Andrea's eyes, she was able to see him through the band-aids as daylight broke.  She recognized Dean as someone she had seen at least twice before.

5
When Dean heard his mother returning home, he put Andrea in a bedroom closet.  Later, he took her out of the closet and pushed her outside onto a side stairway.  Andrea recognized her friend Katie's house next door.  A friend discovered her


there, wrapped her in a pillowcase and brought her home.

6
At home, Andrea told her mother that the man who had visited their home a few weeks earlier took her to his house, next door to her friend Katie's house, and raped her.  Her mother then took her to Children's Hospital where fluid samples were taken and placed in a rape kit.

7
The subsequent search of Dean's mother's home revealed a box of band-aids in the bedroom, band-aid wrappers in the bedroom garbage can, a jar of vaseline, a pair of boys pants, Andrea Williams' key ring (with house key), and crumpled-up band-aids with eyelash hairs stuck to them next to the outside of the house.  The investigation at the Williams' home produced petitioner's fingerprints on a pieceof glass found outside the broken window of the house.

8
At trial, defense counsel pursued an intoxication/insanity defense.  In his opening statement, he argued that the prosecution likely would prove that Dean abducted Andrea and was "guilty of certain acts," but that he was not capable of forming the intent required to convict.  In support of this theory, counsel presented the testimony of several of Dean's friends and of a psychiatrist.  Dean's friends testified that Dean was drinking heavily throughout the July 4th weekend and was extremely intoxicated by the evening of July 4th.

9
The defense psychiatrist testified that Dean's drinking produced organic brain syndrome, causing him to lose all rational ability and any sense of right or wrong.  He further testified that Dean already had


been convicted of a sex crime involving a minor and that there was "no doubt that he did it."   Finally, he testified that Dean denied involvement in the crime and was very much opposed to a temporary insanity defense when he interviewed him in October 1983, nearly a year before the trial.  The government's psychiatric witnesses corroborated Dean's opposition to the insanity defense.

10
Dean testified against the advice of counsel.  Out of the presence of the jury, counsel stated to the court:

11
I'm warning him that it's over my advice ..., but making clear that ... I will deliver the summation and control the remainder of the defense of this case including calling psychiatric witnesses to the stand as we have discussed....I'm very adamant about himnot interfering in my attempts and intentions to have psychiatric experts testify ... and I think to some extent between us that's somewhat of a tradeoff also that he be allowed to testify as well.

12
Dean took the stand and testified before the jury that he was intoxicated on July 4th, that Cecelia Williams, with whom he had been having an intimate relationship, had given him the key to her home and that he could not recall any of his activities at the time of the crime.  He denied any involvement in the abduction, and although he recalled seeing Andrea outside his mother's house after he awoke, he specifically denied pushing Andrea out of the house.

13
In summation, counsel argued that Dean's condition precluded him from forming the intent


and argument concerning Dean's mental state, Dean remained silent.  In fact, as far as this record reveals, he did not direct an objection to the court at any time during the trial.  The closest Dean ever came to expressing dissatisfaction with an insanity defense, other than in his pre-trial psychiatric interviews, was during re-cross-examination.  In answer to a question, he explained that he had told his attorney prior to trial that he was not completely truthful with the psychiatrists because he did not want an insanity defense.3  This testimony falls far short of an objection to imposition of an insanity defense.

32
On this record, Dean also has failed to meet his alternative burden of showing that his will was "overborne" by counsel.  In fact,Union said the seven EU countries with embassies in North Korea saw no need to leave, adding that it saw no risk to its citizens in the South.

Some Western diplomats said that the warnings were a propaganda ploy by the North to shift blame for heightened tensions to South Korea and its ally the United States.

Despite the reassurances, there is still growing global concern that sky-high tensions might trigger an incident that could swiftly escalate.

According to Taiwan's Tourism Bureau, about 40 percent of scheduled group tours to South Korea had been cancelled as of Wednesday.

About 1,400 Taiwanese group tourists are currently travelling in South Korea, while local travel agencies have been instructed to advise their clients to delay trips there or switch to other locations, the bureau said.

Seoul


Military forces have to train somewhere, and it's a lot cheaper and easier for them to do it in the country they're based in. The Washington Post found

"Bold Alligator, a naval exercise in which thousands of Marines and sailors have been involved in the past. The most recent version was launched last fall, and included amphibious landings to prevent insurgent groups in the fictional country known as Garnet — Georgia and part of Florida in real life — from launching attacks.

In another example, U.S. Special Forces support fictional guerrilla forces in numerous counties across North Carolina in the exercise Robin Sage. Green Beret soldiers work to liberate the country of Pineland, and operate in close proximity to civilians, who are warned that they may hear blank gunfire." Q:war games and live exercises as far back as the 1700's, and they've continued all the way through modern times. Since the advent of combined arms tactics in World War I, where infantry, artillery and airpower all worked together to achieve a common goal, coordinated training exercises have been vital to ensuring every facet of the operation was on the same page. If the guns and the planes and the tanks don't all know exactly where the infantry is supposed to be at the exact time they're supposed to be there, people get killed and battles are lost.The entire operation was publicly announced by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command's (USASOC) website in March, 2015. Soon enough, like clockwork, the conspiracy panic began. According to numerous "awakened" individuals,


Jade Helm was not a military exercise at all , but a hiding-in-plain-sight plan to seed government troopers around the south, institute martial law in the United States, round up or kill dissenters, consolidate Barack Obama's plan for a third term as president, or even propagate a genocide of Christians and patriots.A popular YouTube video called Jade Helm " PROOF OF A MASSIVE MILITARY BUILD UP IN AMERICA ." Another video, this one from Alex Jones, declares " Military Lied! Jade Helm Is Training To Kill Americans Who Resist !" Websites are practically breathless with pictures of "FEMA death domes," claims of Muslim Brotherhood control of the plot, stories of UN troops and prison camps, and, worst of all, the closure of Wal Mart stores in Jade Helmin Southern California) have everything from snowy mountains to deserts to beaches, so US troops can practice working in extreme cold, heat, wind, whatever their hearts desire. As part of the exercises, the allegiance of the states will shift, so Utah might start as hostile and become friendly - the same way alliances shift in asymmetrical battlefields like Iraq and Ukraine.Texas itself already has a multitude of military facilities, along with a population used to being around military exercises - this Jade Helm paranoia notwithstanding.Q: Does the name "Jade Helm" have any significance? Because I'm hearing some really weird stuff...A: Conspiracy theorists have numerous explanations for the name "Jade Helm." One is that it's actually an acronym, standing for something like "Joint Assisted Deployment Exercise Homeland Extermination Local


apocalypse without rollback prices on guns and canned goods?A: The Wal-Mart thing is both real and a good example of a post hoc fallacy. Wal-Mart did indeed announce that it would close five stores in four states, three of which are Jade Helm states. The reason for these closures was given as "plumbing issues" that would take up to six months to fix.On the surface, this sounds bizarre and troubling. 2,200 people were put out of work because of bad plumbing? While there are rumors that Wal-Mart closed the stores as retaliation for the workers there trying to organize, there are other rumors that claim these stores were closed to prevent citizens from buying supplies with which to fight Jade Helm jackboots — or as "processing centers" forItaly's premier resigns after sacking by own party

ROME – Italy's president has accepted the resignation of Premier Enrico Letta after he was sacked by his own party in a back-room mutiny.

President Giorgio Napolitano said he would start consulting political leaders later Friday with an aim of finding a new government that can win parliamentary approval and enact necessary economic and political reforms.

The consultations are expected to last through Saturday. At their conclusion, Napolitano is widely expected to ask the brash, young mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, to try to form a government.

The 39-year-old Renzi engineered the stunning power play to knock Letta out of the premier's office and move in, accusing Letta of failing to lift Italy out of its economic and political doldrums.


Babies and young children who have hearing loss, or who are diagnosed as hard of hearing or deaf early in life, benefit from the support and encouragement of their families and community, and should have access to alternate forms of personal communication and interaction with their environment from the start.

It is estimated that over a million and a half children under the age of three years old have hearing loss, many of them with delays in diagnosis that cause them to miss out on early intervention and accommodations that would help them keep on track with communication, learning and articulation. It is important to consult your child's pediatrician when you, another family member, or other caregiver suspects hearing loss.

Although some babies are diagnosed with hearing loss before theyspecialists from AbelCine, presented an examination of the evolving business, technology and craft of visual storytelling. This program was structured as a combination of seminars, panel discussions, hands-on workshops and networking.

European Workshops Series
In 2015, Ed Kashi, Ron Haviv, Marcus Bleasdale, Stefano De Luigi and John Stanmeyer, all members of VII Photo Agency led photography workshops in four European capitals: Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Berlin, as part of the Eyes in Progress's workshops program.

Fatal Neglect
Through a partnership between VII, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders), and UNION HZ, Fatal Neglect was a multi-part documentary film project, to tell the stories of the millions of patients left behind by the global health revolution. In Fatal Neglect: The Global Health Revolution's Forgotten Patients, VII documented


For the family of Army Sgt. Mark Cofield, the war in Iraq is far from over.

"Mark was my rock," Mark' s sister, Sara Cofield, said in an interview with the Colorado Springs Gazette. "He was my brother, he was my world. He raised me."

She said it hurt to breathe when she found out that her brother had been killed in Baghdad last month.

Cofield, 25, died July 17 from injuries sustained in a non-combat related incident, according to icasualties.org. He was the latest of 57 American troops to die in Iraq in the year sincethe United States formally ended its combat mission there and just months before the scheduled withdrawal of all its troops.

In 2011 alone, 44 U.S. troops have died, according to icasualties.org, an independent group that tracksAmerican casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. They included four other U.S. soldiers who also lost their lives in July, all on the battlefield. In June, the U.S. suffered its deadliest month in Iraq since 2008, with 15 service members dying.

End of combat?
Officially, U.S. combat operations ended in Iraq on Aug. 31, 2010, two weeks after all combat troops left the country on Aug. 18, 2010. Operation Iraqi Freedom led to the overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein's regime but now has lasted more than eight years and left more than 4,400 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead.

At the time of the pullout, President Barack Obama released a statement calling the troops' withdrawal a "milestone in the Iraq war."

At the height of U.S. involvement, nearly 250,000 troops


operated throughout the country, while by the end of August 2010, around 50,000 Americans remained in the country in a non-combat role.

But that non-combat role is a constantly evolving one.

U.S. forces continue to battle militants
The U.S. military carried out two unilateral air strikes in Iraq in June that did not involve Iraqi forces, both of them in self-defense to prevent attacks, the main U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said.

The airstrikes are another sign of how the United States is being forced to sometimes respond directly to militant threats even a year after it formally ended its combat mission.

The United States is due to withdraw all of its 46,000 forces from Iraq by the end of the year unless negotiations with Baghdad end with an agreement to keep someforces there on a slimmed-down training mission.

Legally binding guarantees for remaining U.S. forces are expected to be part of any such deal, but whether that will include the right for U.S. forces to defend themselves is unclear.

Although violence in Iraq is down from the height of the sectarian killings in 2006-07, a spate of recent attacks has shown that the militant threat could still pose a serious challenge to Iraqi forces if all U.S. troops depart.

Suicide bombers, car bombs and roadside explosives hit more than a dozen Iraqi cities and towns on Monday, killing around 70 people, in the highest number of killings on a single day in Iraq this year.

The U.S. expressed concern at the surge of violence just months before the scheduled withdrawal, The New York


Times reported.

"The Iraqis themselves have more capacity than they did have, but they've got to exercise it," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to the Times.

Photos: Bomb blasts across Iraq

Residents inspect a damaged church after a bomb attack in central Kirkuk, on Monday, August 15, as scores of people were killed across the country in a spate of nationwide violence, just months ahead of a pullout of US forces. A parked car bomb and a motorcycle bomb killed one person and wounded 12 others in central Kirkuk.
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Iraqi security forces inspect damages after two car bombs, one of which was detonated by a suicide attacker, detonated in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, on Monday.
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Residents gather at the site of bomb attacks in Kut, 93 miles southeast of Baghdad, on Monday. Two bombs tore through a public square in the southern Iraqi city of Kut, killing at least 37 people in the worst in a string of bombings and suicide attacks across the country, officials said.
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Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a suicide car bomber plowed his vehicle into a checkpoint outside a police building just outside the holy city of Najaf on Monday.
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the customer is using another
operating system, is 'Have you tried that on FreeBSD?'"

What's new in FreeBSD 8?

FreeBSD is one of the earliest open source operating system projects and is a direct
descendant of the original, open source BSD work performed at the University of
California, Berkeley. According to Lucas, the FreeBSD Project is driven largely by
volunteers with very few actually working as paid developers on the effort.

"While the FreeBSD team has excellent communication skills, many of our people have
lives and careers outside of FreeBSD," Lucas said.

That certainly hasn't stunted the new capabilities baked into FreeBSD 8, however, with
the OS -- often thought of as primarily a server-based operating system -- offering big
improvements that may benefit desktop users, too.

"FreeBSD 8.0 includes many new features and abilities over the 7.x series," Kris
Moore,Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a mower equipped with a cutting bar and having cutting elements extending above a housing, each of the cutting elements being guided and driven in rotation around an axis directed upward by a guiding and driving bearing which includes a casing centered in a corresponding bore made in the upper part of the housing, a guiding bearing mounted in said casing and a shaft guided in said casing with the help of the guiding bearing, said shaft being equipped at its upper end with a fastening part for fastening a corresponding cutting element and at its lower end with a second gear extending inside the housing and meshing with at least one first gear also housed inside said housing, said second


gear having an outside diameter which is less than the diameter of the corresponding bore made in the upper part of the housing, each of said guiding and driving bearings being fastened to the upper part of the housing by bolts the shanks of which extend out of the upper part of the housing and nuts screwed on said shanks, said housing being formed by said upper part and a corresponding lower part assembled in a removable way by assembly members.bring in an additional defendant, Mr. Julius Sirmay.
The invention covered by the patent in suit was made by Mr. Sirmay while he was in the employ of the plaintiff, and his application for a patent was assigned to the plaintiff, which became the patentee. Mr. Sirmay subsequently left the employ of the plaintiff, buying stock in and taking employment with the defendant. The plaintiff charges, by affidavit of a Mr. Miller on information and belief, submitted in connection with the motion to amend, that the defendant associated itself with Sirmay for the purpose of obtaining for its own use and benefit, without compensation to the plaintiff, the knowledge and experience of the plaintiff in the manufacture of knitting machines; that Sirmay occupies a position of influence, authority and


HILLSDALE — Robots will be calling Hillsdale High School home after the first of the year.The school recently received two grants – the FIRST Robotics Competition Robotics Grant and a Michigan Department of Education grant to start a robotics program at the school.The $9,000 MDE robotics grant will pay for the initial startup costs of the program, including entry into two contests and a stipend for an advisor for the program. During the second year of the...

WEEK IN RELIGIONAn evangelical Muslim preacher is being investigated by Pakistani police for allegedly making blasphemous comments about Islam in a viral video that began circulating earlier this month.On the day his mother died, Jimmy wasn't there because he was too busy preparing for the Miami Dolphins' next game. On the day of his mother's wake, Jimmy wasn't there either. And when he finally arrived at the funeral and saw his two sons and his cancer-stricken father, that's when the iconic coach realized there are many things in life more important than 3rd-and-3. That's when he realized that no man lays on his death bed thinking to himself, "I wish I had only spent more time breaking down special-teams tape."


Gurugram: Woman delivers baby in candlelight in government hospital

With no doctors in the maternity ward, nurses had to deliver the baby.

Gurugram: Woman delivers in candlelight in government hospital Pictured: New born babies in a hospital wardReuters

A Gurugram woman was forced to deliver her baby in a government hospital with no electricity and power backup. The nurses at the hospital lit candles and held up their cellphones for light for the delivery on Monday.

The Civil Hospital in Sector-10, Gurugram, Haryana also did not have any doctors on duty when the woman went into labour. The hospital continues to face electricity problems despite being in one of the most metropolitan areas, the NCR.

"When my wife, Kavita, was admitted to the hospital on Sunday evening, the ward was functioning under candlelightand several corridors were in total darkness," Kapil Kumar, father of the three-day old baby boy, told Mail Today.

The woman went into labour midnight on Sunday and was taken to the delivery room. The inverter in the delivery room broke down after some time.

Kumar alleged that there were no doctors in the maternity ward on Sunday night and the nurses had to deliver the child.

"The 25 minutes that I stood out of the delivery room were the longest anxious moments of my life," said Kumar.

Kavita and her son were discharged on Monday and are at home in Daulatabad colony in Old Gurugram.

The situation at the hospital has not improved as it is still dealing with powercuts. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, the government hospital faced an 11-hour power cut.


600 scientists, students and technicians. The Meetings & Courses Program annually hosts more than 12,000 scientists. The Laboratory's education arm also includes an academic publishing house, a graduate school and the DNA Learning Center with programs for middle and high school students and teachers.in Chisholm’s economy even before the two kingdoms had united, the Charisian merchant marine dominated all the seas and oceans of Safehold, and the Royal Chisholmian Navy had disappeared — almost without a trace — into the much larger Royal Charisian Navy, even if the resulting union was officially called the Imperial Navy.

Under the circumstances, it probably wasn’t unreasonable for at least some Chisholmians to nourish a few doubts about how long it would be before Chisholm openly became the junior partner — one might almost say the second-class partner — in the imperial relationship.

Cayleb and Sharleyan were determined to prevent that from happening. The fact that Sharleyan was Cayleb’s co-ruler, that she had governed the entire Empire in her own name from Tellesberg while Cayleb was off


at war in Corisande, and that it was she — not Cayleb — who had overseen the creation of the new Imperial Parliament, had gone quite some way towards accomplishing that goal. The fact that the imperial capital would be located in Cherayth, the capital of the Kingdom of Chisholm, for half the year, and in Tellesberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Charis, for the other half of the year, went even further. It assured the citizens of Chisholm that Charisian viewpoints would not be allowed to dominate the imperial government simply because the people arguing for those viewpoints enjoyed a far better, far closer, and uninterrupted access to the Emperor and Empress.

The formation of the Imperial Army was intended to be yet another reassurance. The ChisholmianCrown’s two great supports under King Sailys and Queen Sharleyan had been the fierce loyalty of the Chisholmian Commons and the Royal Army. As Green Valley had just pointed out, it had been the Army, backed by the political and financial support of the Commons and with its ranks filled primarily by commoners, with which King Sailys had broken the arrogant power of the Charisian aristocracy’s great magnates. It was that same Army and the even fiercer loyalty — the love — of those same commoners for the dauntless courage of the child-queen who had succeeded Sailys after his untimely death which had allowed Sharleyan to survive. And those same deep reservoirs of support were what had carried them with her in her decision to wed Cayleb and


the Proscriptions before going on to steam and electricity themselves. That would be SF, but if it isn’t military tech, Weber isn’t interested in the details.

“S M Stirling has done this in his DIES THE FIRE series.”

Eight years between first and second, and twelve years between the third and fourth (or rather the first and second trilogies). He also skipped eight years between the first and second book of the Island in the Sea of Time series that started it all off.

If Weber has Charis winning a big enough victory at sea that forces the Church to bide its time to catch up, then a time jump could be fitted in.

As far as Siddermark mentioned in the previous snippets, I predicted during OAR that eventually Church is goingNordic And Baltic Exchanges Had Strong 2004

OMX Exchanges have announced that total share turnover in 2004 amounted to Euros 553 billion, against Euros 415 billion in 2003. Total turnover in derivatives amounted to 112,924,208 contracts, against 87,370,965 in 2003. However, the number of listed companies shrank

OMX Exchanges have announced that total share turnover in 2004 amounted to Euros 553 billion, against Euros 415 billion in 2003. Total turnover in derivatives amounted to 112,924,208 contracts, against 87,370,965 in 2003. However, the number of listed companies shrank to 509 at the end of December, compared to 542 a year ago.

February 2004 was the best month ever in derivatives trading for OMX marketplaces and the average daily volume amounted to 636,192 contracts per day, surpassing the January 2004 of 527,910 contracts.

In


March the covered warrant trading for a single month reached an all time high of Euros 95.9 million at Helsinki Stock Exchange, on a daily average of Euros 4.2 million. In addition, it was an all time high in terms of number of trades per day, reaching 615 trades per day.

In April the daily average in share trading reached an all time high of Euros 1,177 million at Helsinki Stock Exchange.

The total figures include statistics from the Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius stock exchanges as well as Stockholm and Helsinki.

Copenhagen Stock Exchange – which is becoming part of the OMX group- also had a record year. Share trading reached new highs and broke previous records – DKK 593 billion, corresponding to a rise of 42 per cent compared with2003.

Oslo Bors, which remains stand-offish in relation to OMX, saw equity market volumes up by 60 % from 2003. The Oslo Bors Benchmark Index continued the upward trend established in 2003, and rose a further 38.4 % in 2004 to close the year at 236.7 having reached an all-time high during the autumn. The market value of companies listed on Oslo Bors totalled NOK 996 billion at the close of the year, about the same size as the Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund.


Katz and Cohen were the CTC Challengers during that same month.

Bits and Pieces

Bits and Pieces is principally a letters-to-the-editor column. It first appeared in January 1955.  The very first letter printed in the column asked the correct play in a contract of 4, and the answer was to take an Ann Gallagher finesse.

The letters tend not to concern questions of bidding or play – these are dealt with in other features such as Pro et Contra (discontinued after Oswald Jacoby's death in 1984). They do tend to focus on issues raised in editorials, editorial style (e.g., matters such as gender-neutral prose, and the use of hyphens), unusual occurrences, laws and proprieties, and how sponsoring organizations such as the ACBL and the EBL regulate the game. The columnYour Play.
 Tournament reports: These were nearly always written by Edgar Kaplan from the time that he purchased TBW until the mid-1990s. They cover the major ACBL events and world championships, although reports of events held by other sponsoring organizations occasionally appear. The approach is to discuss hands that were of particular interest, or that caused major swings in a match. Since 1997, authorship of the reports has been distributed among various reporters, part of the emphasis that Rubens has placed on broadening the magazine's perspective.
 Swiss Match: Usually authored by Jeff Rubens, this feature appears three times annually. It poses seven problems in bidding or play, in the form of a Swiss match. The reader is given a raw score for each of various actions that he


Transformation of a desolate site at the Dumbarton quarry into a new park has been delayed. Located at the end of Quarry Road off Paseo Padre Parkway, just northwest of Highway 84, the park is tentatively named "Dumbarton Quarry Park." This new facility is nestled next to Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont.

Ten years ago, DeSilva Gates, operators of the quarry, used the crushed rock from this site in its grading operations. When they applied to the city of Fremont to extend their quarry operation, a condition to develop the park was a condition for approval of that extension. The new park was to be developed and constructed by DeSilva Gates and turned over to East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) to own and manage.

The EBRPD controls thewith the ACFCD (Alameda County Flood Control District), ACWD (Alameda County Water District) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in addition to the East Bay Regional Park District. As it gets further along the process, other agencies like California Department of Fish and Game and the City of Fremont will all have increased involvement."

The 30-acre lake is the centerpiece of the park. A 6-acre meadow adjacent to the lake will provide space for family recreation and a 5-acre campsite east of the hills will be sheltered from wind to provide overnight campsites. Trees will also provide additional wind shelter. Parking for approximately 300 cars is placed on the east side of the park with access by a two way road and a separate 10' wide bike trail.


was correct.

       Natasha Burak (“Petitioner”) and Mark Burak (“Father”) were married in October

2006, and had a child (“the Child”) two years later. From early 2009 until December 2012,

Petitioner, Father, and another woman – “M” – engaged in a polyamorous relationship and

illicit drug use. The parties scheduled their activities on a calendar kept by Petitioner and,

prior to engaging in any illicit activity, the parties would take the Child to his paternal

grandparents’ house. In 2011, Petitioner and Father purchased a marital home in Silver

Spring, Maryland with funds provided by Father’s parents – Gary and Martha Burak (“the

Grandparents”) – and sometime in 2012, M moved into the basement of the marital home.

       Beginning in September 2012 and continuing untilmoved out

of the marital home and Petitioner filed a complaint for absolute divorce on July 11, 2013.

       On January 14, 2014, a pendente lite consent agreement reached by the parties was

placed on the record. Pursuant to the agreement, Petitioner was granted custody of the

Child, but Father retained visitation rights that were supervised by the Grandparents.

Petitioner and Father were also required to undergo random drug testing and attend therapy.

Father passed all his subsequent drug tests, but Petitioner tested positive for marijuana in

one of the tests.      On February 20, 2014, the custody evaluator issued her report,

recommending that Petitioner have custody of the Child with Father continuing to have a

right to visitation, both parties receive a mental health evaluation and


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       Beginning in May 2014, at the end of the Child’s kindergarten year, the Child began

exhibiting negative and disruptive behavior in class. The bad behavior continued through

the summer and into the start of the Child’s first grade year, when the Child began to leave

class without permission and exhibit bouts of anger. On September 4, 2014, the Child

kicked the assistant school principal and threatened to blow up the school. The school

contacted Petitioner and provided a referral to theMontgomery County Crisis Center

(“Crisis Center”).2 The Child was subsequently allowed to return to school after the

referral was completed.

       Between September 15 and September 19, 2014, the circuit court held a custody

hearing. Thereafter, the circuit court issued an oral ruling, finding that both Petitioner and

Father were unfit parents and that exceptional circumstances existed in the case. The

circuit court granted physical and legal custody of the Child to the Grandparents at the

conclusion of the hearing but held that both Petitioner and Father retained the right to

visitation. The circuit court entered an interim order on September 30, 2014 that granted

physical and legal custody of the Child to the Grandparents, required Father to pay $500

per month in child support to the Grandparents, and stated a hearing


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                                     BACKGROUND

   I. Custody Proceedings

       On October 7, 2006, Petitioner and Father were married. In June, 2008, their child

was born. In late 2008, Petitioner and Father met M in their apartment complex and the

triad developed a friendship. Soon thereafter, Petitioner and Father approached M about

beginning a consensual polyamorous relationship with them, which commenced in early

2009.3 At thethat the parties would sometimes smoke marijuana and
engage in sexual relations while the Child was in the house, but the Child was either asleep
or he was in his bedroom at the time of the activity. Father and M both testified that the
Child never walked in on the parties while they were using drugs or engaging in sexual
relations. M acknowledged, however, that the Child would sometimes come into the
bedroom when all three were in bed together and that the Child was aware of the parties’
various sleeping arrangements. M also acknowledged that the parties’ kept sex toys in the
marital home, but stated that they were confined to her bedroom in the basement, and that
the Child was supposed to knock before entering her bedroom.
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ordered that Father not contact Petitioner or the Child for one

year, but also authorized supervised visitation at the Grandparents’ house.11 Father was

also ordered to vacate the marital home, which he subsequently did. M remained in the

house with Petitioner and the Child until the end of June 2013.

(. . . continued)
         She turned and charged the car and slammed my door, slammed the door on
         my arm. I was pushing the door back and forth with her and she bit me and I
         smacked her.
                    a Reply to the Grandparents’ Opposition. The circuit court denied

Petitioner’s Emergency Motion to Postpone/Continue Custody Trial and Motion for Order

Permitting Discovery on September 12, 2014.

       Also on September 4, 2014, – the same day that Petitioner filed her Emergency

Motion to Postpone/Continue Custody Trial – an incident involving the Child occurred at

his school. Prior to the incident, the Child had been increasingly disruptive during school.

The Child’s school principal testified that beginning around May 2014, when the Child

was in kindergarten, he refused to leave the kindergarten classroom with the other students

to attend “specials[]”17 on several occasions and would walk around the room, push desks,

become angry and his behavior began to escalate. To address these behavioral concerns,

the school had the Child run errands when the


other children left for specials and then he

would meet them in the specials classroom. Additionally, over the summer, the Child was

enrolled in a summer-long camp that had been paid for by Petitioner, but Petitioner testified

that the Child had to be pulled out of camp early due to behavioral problems he was

experiencing, in combination with him wanting to spend more time with the Ks’ children.

       Upon returning to school in late August, the Child’s behavior continued to escalate

and he began to leave class, run around the building, and show signs of anger.18 On the

       17
            “[S]pecials” refers to art, music, and physical education classes.
                     (continued . . .)
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afternoon of September 4, 2014, the Child’s behavior escalated to the point where he

kicked the assistant principal and he told the guidance counselor that he was so angry he

wanted to blow up the school, and he was going to make it bad for everybody at the school.

In response, the school determined that because the Child was showing such


anger, was

not able to de-escalate, and made a threat against the school that a referral to the Crisis

Center was the appropriate course of action.

       The school called Petitioner and asked her to come to the school to discuss the

Child’s behavior. Because the incident occurred on a Thursday near dismissal time, and

because Father had court-ordered visitation with the Child on Thursday evenings at the

Grandparents house, both Petitioner and the Grandmother arrived at the school around the

same time. The principal met with Petitioner alone, at her request, and they discussed how

the Child’s behavior had escalated throughout the day culminating in his becoming violent

and issuing a threat against the school. The principal explained that the guidance counselor

(. . . continued)
     with her for visitation. Petitioner did not tell the

Grandmother about the Child’s behavior or the Crisis Center referral she had just received.

       Later that afternoon, Father learned of the Crisis Center referral from his attorney

and called the Grandparents to determine whether the Child had been taken in for an

assessment. The Grandmother did not know about the referral, but upon learning about it,

she took the Child to the Crisis Center where she met Father and the Crisis Center evaluated

the Child.21 Neither the Grandmother nor Father informed Petitioner that they had taken

       19
          The principal acknowledged at the custody hearing that she could not answer
whether she suggested or implied


  24
            The school guidance counselor testified that on the morning of Monday,
September 8 Petitioner called her to tell her the Child had been aggressive toward her and
she felt it was unsafe for the Child to be at school.

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Grandparents’ house where he kept his toys and books purchased for him by the

Grandparents.

       The Grandmother noted in her testimony that she and the Grandfather were the

caretakers forseveral vacations with them, including, most recently, to the Outer Banks in the summer

of 2014. The record also reflects that although the Grandparents had previously taken the

Child to see family in Mississippi during the Child’s spring break in 2013, Petitioner

refused to allow the Child to go to Mississippi with them during his spring break in 2014.

The Grandparents would also participate in the Child’s doctor’s appointments, at times

       25
        The Grandparents arranged for the Child to attend Little Gym once a week from
September 2011 to February 2012. At Little Gym, the Child would do stretching activities,
tumbling, climbing, and balancing.


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attending with Father and Petitioner, and sometimes taking the Child to the doctor’s

appointments alone.

       When the Child was two years old, the Grandparents also gifted the Child with

tuition for one year at the Silver Spring Day School (“SSDS”),26 and provided daycare

during the afternoons while Petitioner and Father were at work. After the Child’s first year

at SSDS, Petitioner found and enrolled the Child in a different program through the

Montgomery County Childcare Association (“MCCA”), with financial contributions made

by the Grandparents. During that next year, the Child split time between SSDS and

MCCA, spending three days a week atMCCA and two days a week at SSDS. The

Grandparents volunteered their time approximately once a month as teaching assistants at

SSDS while the Child was enrolled there, and when the Child began attending MCCA, the

Grandparents continued to volunteer their time, reading and reciting poetry to the

children.27

       26
         The Silver Spring Country Day School is a yearly preschool program that runs
from 9:30 a.m. in the morning until initially noon, and after the enrollees adjust, to 1 p.m.
       27
          At the hearing, Petitioner testified that the Child repeatedly came home from the
Grandparents’ home with rashes or nosebleeds, but the Grandparents did not


that every time she had a concern with the Child and she called
Petitioner, Petitioner was “very responsive and ready to come up to school whenever need
be.”
       32
          The record indicates Petitioner and her therapist had located a child psychologist
they felt fit with the Child’s needs, and had planned to take the Child to be examined on
September 11, 2014. The appointment was cancelled because Father did not consent to the
Child being seen by that psychologist. Father stated that he refused to give his consent
because he felt the service recommended by the BIA – the National Family Resiliency
Center (“NFRC”) – was a better fit. The NFRC provides counseling and educational
programs to help children cope, heal,and navigate through divorce and other family
transitions. See NAT’L FAMILY RESILIENCY CENTER, https://perma.cc/4R2J-ECBD (last
visited: June 23, 2017). Father testified that he had repeatedly called the NFRC and had
spoken to the executive director twice. The BIA noted that, although she had provided the
contact information for the NFRC to Petitioner on July 30, 2014, Petitioner did not contact
the NFRC until August 28, 2014. Additionally, although the BIA presented evidence that
an appointment had been scheduled for the Child on September 9, 2014, Petitioner testified
that she never received notice that the appointment had been scheduled and, therefore, did
not take the Child in for the appointment.


(4) the father had had his driver’s license had been
revoked in Iowa for six years due to his DUI convictions; (5) the father had assaulted his
wife in front of his stepchildren while the father was intoxicated; (6) the father had a history
of selling drugs, using drugs in the presence of his children, and keeping drugs in the home
while the children were there; (7) the father had a history of unemployment, although he
                                                        allow the Child to take a trip to Mississippi with his Grandparents

during his spring break in 2014. We note that Petitioner allowed the Child to go to the

Outer Banks with his Grandparents during the summer of 2014, and there were multiple

occasions over the years where the Child was allowed to go on both day-trips and vacations

with his Grandparents. We also note that, at the time Petitioner refused to allow the Child

to go to Mississippi with the Grandparents, she was the custodial parent of the Child, and

as we have repeatedly held, “Grandparents … do not enjoy a constitutionally recognized


him to one year imprisonment and a $5,000 fine, suspended upon service of six months and payment of a $2,000 fine and one year of probation. We affirm.

FACTUAL/PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
On the evening of February 4, 1994, appellant was involved in an automobile accident with Mr. Douglas Sperry on 1-26 in Charleston county. Sperry testified he was traveling on 1-26 with no one beside him or in front of him. He observed the lights of other cars about a half mile behind him. He then noticed a set of headlights quickly coming up on him. This car then pulled to the left of Sperry, came up about half the length of Sperry's truck, and then veered to the right into the side of Sperry's vehicle. The car's front passenger sidehit Sperry's left rear tire on the driver's side. Sperry's truck flipped over several times and landed in the median, facing the opposite direction. Sperry estimated the car that hit him had been traveling at a speed of around 70 or 75 miles per hour.
Three witnesses came forward who observed the accident. James Colburn testified he observed appellant's vehicle pass a tractor trailer, then cut over in front of that tractor trailer, causing the driver to hit his brakes. Appellant then cut in front of Colburn and entered the far left lane, traveling at a high rate of speed. Appellant then moved to the right and hit Sperry's truck. Colburn described appellant's driving as "out of control" and estimated appellant's speed at 70 miles per hour or better.


After the accident, he noticed the appellant was staggering around.
Ginger Morrison was traveling on 1-26 with her stepmother, Darlene Wooten, when she observed appellant weaving in and out of traffic, passing other vehicles. She, like Colburn, observed a semi-truck that had to maneuver to avoid a collision with appellant. She then observed appellant's car catch the back area of Sperry's truck, causing the truck to flip over at least twice. After the accident, she observed appellant from a distance. She stated he appeared unsteady on his feet. She described appellant's driving as reckless and erratic. *139 Wooten testified she also observed appellant almost hit the tractor trailer. She stated he was "all over the road." She also noticed, after the accident, appellant was "wobbling back and forth."
A localpolice officer came on the scene first and had appellant sit in the police vehicle. State Trooper Jonathan Hyman responded to a call for the accident and, after making sure the roadway was clear, requested the officer bring appellant over to him. Hyman questioned appellant as to whether he was injured and, at that time, noticed appellant had a strong odor of alcohol about him. Hyman asked appellant if he had been drinking, and appellant responded that he'd had several drinks. Hyman then offered appellant field sobriety tests, which appellant was unable to successfully complete. According to Hyman, appellant was uncooperative and he acted as if everything were a joke. When Hyman asked appellant to state his ABC's, appellant began singing them instead, and he was unable to


his speech was slurred at times. When it was time for appellant to take the test, he refused to blow into the instrument without a public defender present. Barnhill responded that he did not know how to contact a public defender at that time of night, and asked appellant if he had a private attorney, to which appellant responded in the negative. Appellant's test recorded as a refusal.
*140 At trial, appellant testified in his own defense. He stated that he left his place of employment sometime after 10:00 p.m. that evening and stopped at a fast food restaurant for dinner. From there, he went to a bar where he saw a coworker. He stated he only had two beers that night, leaving the bar around 11:30 p.m. Onhis way home, he pulled onto the interstate behind a tractor trailer. He moved directly from the entrance ramp over to the left lane and remained there. He stated his speed was only 60 miles per hour. According to appellant, Sperry merged his truck onto the interstate across the lanes. Appellant then touched his brakes a couple of times, but Sperry continued to move over and Sperry's wheel then hit the side of his car and flipped over him.
After appellant stopped his car, he remained in the vehicle until an officer directed him to sit in his cruiser. When the officer asked him whether he had been drinking, he told him he had a couple of drinks. At the officer's request, appellant recited his ABC's. The officer then


asked appellant to say them again. The officer also requested appellant perform a one-legged stand. Appellant realized the officer thought he was intoxicated, and then asked for a lawyer. When Officer Barnhill spoke to him about the data master test, appellant stated he wanted a lawyer and refused to do anything until one was present. On cross-examination, appellant denied driving at 70 miles per hour, denied almost colliding with the tractor-trailer, denied weaving in and out of traffic, denied turning into Sperry's truck, and denied telling Officer Hyman that he had several drinks. Appellant admitted that he also told Hyman he had not had anything to drink because he was afraid the officer was trying to arrest him.
Following closing arguments, the judge charged the jury on the law.accept a negotiated guilty plea between appellant and the State. He argues that under South Carolina law, the solicitor possesses unfettered discretion to control the pending docket by determining which cases are tried and which are plea-bargained. Appellant maintains that this refusal denied him the opportunity to "plea out" to a lesser offense with a substantially reduced penalty. He asserts he is therefore entitled to reversal of his conviction. We disagree.
During the proceedings, appellant attempted to enter on the record a plea agreement that he and the solicitor had allegedly reached prior to trial, and brought up in the judge's chambers. The judge refused to take up the matter during trial and stated that the parties did not offer to make a plea in front of him in


also took the stand during this hearing. He stated he felt he was under the trooper's authority as soon as he came in contact with him, and that he was not free to leave. He stated that, after he recited the ABC's, he told Hyman he wanted an attorney. Appellant did not state that he was forced or coerced in any way. The trial judge ruled there was "nothing wrong with this investigation" and found the statements admissible. Appellant never requested a specific ruling on the voluntariness of the statements. Accordingly, this issue is not preserved for appeal. See State v. Clute, 324 S.C. 584, 480 S.E.2d 85 (Ct.App.1996) (after trial court ruled defendant was not in custody for purposes of Miranda, defendant failed to request specific rulingThe world’s food import bill is rising despite large production and robust supply

FAO concerned about economic impact on poor countries

Farmers work with a new cassava milling machine in Sierra Leone.

09 November 2017, Rome - While food commodity prices have been generally stable, the cost of importing food is set to rise in 2017 to USD 1.413 trillion, a 6 percent increase from the previous year and the second highest tally on record according to FAO's latest Food Outlook report published today.

The higher import bill is driven by increased international demand for most foodstuffs as well as higher freight rates. Of particular concern is the economic and social implications of the double-digit increases in the food import bills for Least-Developed Countries (LDCs) and Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries (LIFDCS).

"Higher bills do


fruits could reach 92 million tonnes this year, compared to 69 million tonnes in 2008. Currently 95 percent of that output is consumed locally, but rising incomes and changing consumer preferences will likely boost export volumes, especially if freer trade and better market access stimulates further technological gains in distribution.

Major producers of tropical fruits include India, home to around 40 percent of global mango production, Costa Rica, which supplies a large share of the world's pineapples, China and Brazil - and also Mexico, which is the largest exporter.

Africa may set record for cassava output

As well as providing detailed analyses of the production, trade and demand for major cereal and oilcrops, the Food Outlook updates trends for cassava, which has been one of the fastest-expanding staple crops at theglobal level and is the third most important source of calories in the tropics, after rice and maize.

Production in sub-Saharan Africa may reach a record high this year of 156 million tonnes, buoyed by various commercial expansion programmes aimed at curbing reliance on food imports in the region.

Still, global production of this root will likely contract slightly in 2017 - to 278 million tonnes - after two decades of uninterrupted growth, due to a combination of drought conditions, depressed prices and policy changes, FAO says.


Parliament will put on a show of stoic defiance when MPs attempt to go about their daily duties, less than 24 hours after a terror attack brought death and destruction to the heart of London.

Both the House of Commons and the House of Lords will sit at their normal times on Thursday, despite Westminster playing unwilling host to the massacre the previous day.

PC Keith Palmer, a member of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Squad, was killed as he tried to stop the attacker at around 2.30pm on Wednesday, while three members of the public were also fatally injured.

The suspect, who was armed with two knives, injured around 40 others as he mowed down pedestrians with a car on Westminster Bridge before crashing at the gates in front ofthose who were injured and all those affected by this attack.

“One of those who died today was a police officer, PC Keith Palmer, a member of our parliamentary and diplomatic protection command. Keith, aged 48, had 15 years' service and was a husband and father.

“He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift, and he had every right to expect that would happen.”

The attack has delayed the Queen's planned visit to the new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said the decision had been taken to postpone the Queen's engagement in light of the attack.

Stories of heroism and bravery emerged from the incident, which brought central London to a standstill and closed transport networks around the capital


shortly after 2.30pm on Wednesday.

Paramedics fought to save Mr Palmer's life, and that of his attacker, on the floor of the cobbled courtyard in front of Parliament, with Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood among those who rushed to help.

Mr Ellwood, who lost his brother in the Bali bombing, could be seen pumping the officer's chest then standing above him, his hands and face smeared with blood.

Armed officers, some in plain clothes and wearing balaclavas, swarmed around the yard just feet from where MPs had earlier attended Prime Minister's Questions.

The knifeman drove a grey Hyundai i40 across Westminster Bridge before crashing it into railings, then running through the gates of the Palace of Westminster.

His attack left a trail of destruction as paramedics tended to victims on the bridge andaround a dozen people, was the same vehicle which then rammed into the railings of the Palace of Westminster, just around the corner Reuters In pictures: Westminster attack Security sources described the suspected assailant as a middle-aged Asian man, who is understood to have left the car before attacking a police officer with a seven-to-eight inch knife PA wire In pictures: Westminster attack Police have asked people to avoid the immediate area to allow emergency services to deal with the ongoing incident AP In pictures: Westminster attack One woman has died and a number of others, including the police officer, have been hurt, according to a junior doctor at St Thomas' Hospital Reuters In pictures: Westminster attack At least three gun shots were heard by those inside Westminster,


and proceedings in the House of Commons have been suspended AP

One woman hit by the attacker's car before he reached Parliament was confirmed dead by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital. She said others on the bridge suffered “catastrophic injuries”.

Another woman who fell into the Thames was rescued and given urgent medical treatment on a nearby pier.

A party of French schoolchildren were among those targeted on the bridge, while four students from Edge Hill University in Ormskirk were also hurt - two described as “walking wounded”, and another couple said to have minor injuries.

Romanian and South Korean tourists were also caught up in the tragedy.dragons and people living as allies. Touch of romance. Isolation and talent. (Apparently McAffrey studied music herself, in her youth)

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (Science Fiction). Special abilities (intelligence, martial talent), cool concept (originally a short story), and a cool twist (although this was not what drew me back). An audience won over and admiring, despite overwhelming odds of success, but a lonely struggle, and earning success with small and difficult victories.

The Hyperion Cantos Series, Dan Simmons (Science Fiction, Hugo winner). Cool question of the Shrike and its motives. Question revealed at the end, with a cool but logical answer. Have to admit, this story question was a major draw, so I have less urge to revisit the series than some of the others on the list.

The Fionavar


Tapestry Series,Guy Gavriel Kay (Fantasy). Beautiful language (Mr. Kay was originally a real poet and you can feel the care in his wording). Magic. Sacrifice. And Epic, with tie-in to Arthurian legends, which I enjoyed. Touch of romance.

The Player of Games, Iain Banks (Science Fiction, Hugo winner). Cool abilities (intelligence and game playing prowess), cool premise, epic scale (in game and without), a limited understanding of implications of the game, a difficult struggle to master it, earning success, and the respect of people for winning. (Echoes of Ender’s Game here, in themes if not in content, which is interesting to think upon.)

Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny (Fantasy/ Science Fiction), a book about space-faring people masquerading as Hindu gods, with godlike powers, and a rebel in their midst. Coolbuilds slowly, shows strong morals, earning success, underdog, outnumbered, inspiring followers, and cool hidden abilities (talents of assassination, strength, reflexes). I think he had gold eyes, and a disconcerting gaze.

A series (3 books or so), science fiction, where an assassin is cloned and brought back to do a very difficult mission. The first book reveals that the first clone (a twenty year old) died for being rash, so they resurrected the thirty year old. At the end of that book, he fakes his own death, so the following book is a clone created that is even older, to get more wisdom. Cool concept. Outnumbered. Cool abilities (legendary assassin, cold, smart). Has a twisted but strict moral code of his own.

A Bard Series, fantasy, where the main character is


of thought and action in the construction of a new type of civilisational model, as he demonstrated at various moments of his life, defending a tradition of revolutionary struggle that started with the process of independence in our continent. There was no place in it for the chauvinistic prejudices exhibited by some psuedo-revolutionaries for whom the revolution is a process developed within the frontiers of their countries, without adequately understanding the dimension of the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle alongside every other people of the planet.

Mural in Derry's Bogside, Northern Ireland

This internationalist vision of the revolution led him to leave Cuba, where he could have easily remained with his family to perform important functions of the government. Nevertheless, in its place he decided to join up with the guerrillascombating Belgian colonialism in Africa. He even had the idea of joining the guerrillas in Venezuela but, because of differences with those heading it, could not achieve it, having to wait for the moment to go to Bolivia and, from there, create the necessary conditions so that our America would rise up en masse against U.S. imperialism and its traditional lackeys. All this was in the generalised context of an anti-imperialist struggle, the most outstanding symbols of which then were Vietnam and Cuba, facing an asymmetric war against the military and economic power of Washington.

Che's statue in Santa Clara, Cuba

But apart from his known military experiences, Che demonstrated his qualities as an original theorist of revolutionary socialism, in a way that it could count on ideological tools adjusted


to the Cuban reality in the first place and, secondly, serve to orient it to other latitudes with the end of destroying the prevailing order of exploitation and alienation created by the hegemonic capitalist system. This led him to theorise about the new man and woman, leaving for posterity a set of fundamental reflections to undertake the transition towards socialism.

As Comandante Fidel Castro would remember on October 15, 1967 during the gathering in his memory, Che “not only reunited the double characteristic of being a man of ideas, and of deep ideas, and being a man of action but also Che brought together as a revolutionary the virtues of a revolutionary: a man of total integrity, a man of supreme honour, of absolute sincerity, a man of stoicrelevant) dispute with Soviet dogmatism that contradicts the ideological postulations of scientific materialism and which, decades later, would confirm what Che had already anticipated regarding the true counter-revolutionary and reformist character of the existing state and bureaucracy in the extinct Soviet Union.

In the same way that Che alerted in his Message to the people of the world through the Tricontinental in April 1967, “Everything indicates that peace, this unstable peace which bears that name for the sole reason that no worldwide conflagration has taken place, is again in danger of being destroyed by some irrevocable and unacceptable step taken by the United States. What role shall we, the exploited people of the world, play? The people of the three continents focus their attention on Vietnam and learn their


i think the lich was created bye the toxic nuke destroying southern California "los angeles city" was where the blast was strongest but the lich was created from the toxic waste causing horrible effects to the guy causing him to mutate and create the lich soon after all he wanted was to destroy all humanity so created the enchiridion. the enchiridion is the lichi's spell book that he uses with the multiverse and different spells but the lich uses spells like fire blasts and fire balls. he gets his power from toxic waste and drains the toxic waste's power and uses it for his powers and spells. the lich can posses anything that lives(even a fly) he has a trail of death because he destroys everything that lives.Lake County guitarist and his band shine at Rising Stars

UKIAH -- A Lake County guitarist and his band were among the high finishers at the Rising Stars Music Showcase last weekend.

Travis Rinker won overall as well as in the acoustic division Sept. 29 in Ukiah.

Additionally, his band Wretched Sea took home three awards: one for people's choice, one for winning the metal division and one for third place overall.

Wretched Sea is a newly formed metal band consisting of all Lake County residents, with Ty Smith on vocals, Juan Guerrero on guitar, Sean Luke Bradley on drums, Chris Ponte on bass and Rinker on guitar.


Ås Station

Ås Station () is a railway station in Ås, Norway on the Østfold Line. The station was opened on 2 January 1879 and designed by Peter A. Blix in Swiss chalet style. The station was modernized in 1992, when the section between Ski and Moss was upgraded to double track and speeds up to . In 2006, a cultural meeting place comprising a café, concert hall and an art exhibition was established inside the station's building, initiated by the local organization "Galleri Texas" and to the governmental corporation Follo Futura. Galleri Texas and Follo Futura had been arguing a while over how the operating of the café should be, and in 2010, all the maintenance and operation of the meeting place were transferred entirely from Galleri TexasBarnum two steps closer to remodeling project

The Barnum School Board took two more steps in the process toward the addition and remodeling project for the high school and elementary school buildings at the meeting of the board on Tuesday, May 20.

The board approved a resolution to submit a document about the project to the Minnesota Department of Education for review and comment, a requirement before a referendum election can be held.

The school board also passed a resolution relating to the issuance of school building bonds and calling for an election to be held in August.

Board member Michael Line asked for a roll call vote on each resolution and was the only person to vote no on each.

The board approved Plan A in February for additions and remodeling of


Members of a Kansas church that protests at the funerals of slain service members fled the right-of-way near Omaha Central High School on Friday because police said they could not protect them from hundreds of student counterprotesters.

Students threw hamburgers and bottles of lemonade and milk at several members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., students said after the protest. A video of the protest — recorded by 16-year-old student Mason Hartwell — showed one counterprotester on the ground, seated with his hands behind his back and flanked by two law enforcement officers.

Students chanted "Diversity," "Obama" and "Gay is OK." At one point, they broke into a chant of the Pledge of Allegiance, yelling, "Liberty and justice for all," according to the footage. After students dispersed, aflier remained on the ground reading "Zona libre de odio" — Spanish for "Hate-free zone."

Police said no one was injured and they made no arrests. However, a school resource officer at one point sprayed a chemical deterrent into the air.

Westboro protesters had demonstrated at two other locations in Omaha before heading to Central High. Six or seven were standing outside the school, near the corner of 20th and Dodge Streets, when school was dismissed at 2:50 p.m. and students began leaving.

Witnesses said the protesters held up signs that criticized homosexuality and characterized President-elect Barack Obama as the antichrist.

"Unfortunately, it got out of hand, with students throwing objects at the protesters and at police," Police Sgt. Cathy Martinec said as students walked off.

Police had arrived before the trouble began,


By Do-Hyoung Park on December 16, 2015

Senior guard Joshua Garnett became the ninth unanimous All-American in Stanford history after he was named to the American Football Coaches’ Association (AFCA) All-America first team on Wednesday, while sophomore running back Christian McCaffrey was named a consensus All-American when he was also awarded AFCA first-team honors.

Garnett joins Bobby Grayson (1935), Bill McColl (1951), Ken Margerum (1980), John Elway (1982), Toby Gerhart (2009), David DeCastro (2011), Zach Ertz (2012) and David Yankey (2013) as the Stanford program’s all-time unanimous All-Americans.

Garnett became the third Stanford guard in five years to be named for the honor and is expected to be selected in the top two rounds of the upcoming NFL Draft.

The senior was a significant part of a Stanford rushing attack that rankedthird in the Pac-12 and produced the second-best rushing season in Stanford history. With Garnett blocking and sometimes pulling from his left guard position on Stanford’s power runs, the big lineman was deadly at both the line of scrimmage and in space, even once producing a highlight against Washington where he pancaked Washington safety JoJo McIntosh as he blocked in space on a screen for Daniel Marx.

With Garnett as its centerpiece, the Stanford offensive line was also named a finalist for the Joe Moore Award, given each year to the nation’s top offensive line. Garnett was also the winner of this year’s Outland Trophy, awarded to the nation’s top interior lineman, and the Morris Trophy, given to the Pac-12’s best offensive lineman, as voted by the conference’s defensive


linemen.

McCaffrey was the player that had the most to gain from Garnett’s stellar season, as the sophomore broke Barry Sanders’ single-season all-purpose yards record with 3,497 yards, is the nation’s second-leading rusher with 1,847 yards on the ground this season and is 24 yards away from becoming Stanford’s all-time single-season leading rusher.

He was named first-team All-America by Sporting News and the AFCA as a running back, by the Associated Press as an all-purpose player and by the Football Writers’ Association of America as a kick returner. The Walter Camp Football Foundation named him to its second team as both a running back and returner.

In recognition of his achievements, McCaffrey was also a finalist for the Doak Walker, Heisman, Maxwell and Walter Camp Awards and was the Pac-12 OffensivePlayer of the Year. He also won the Paul Hornung Award, given each year to the most versatile player in the nation.

In addition to being the nation’s second-leading rusher, McCaffrey is also second in the country in kickoff return yards and is second among running backs in the nation in receiving yards. He is also the only player in the country to lead his team in both rushing and receiving.

The AFCA teams were the fifth and final All-America teams recognized by the NCAA to be named, following the Associated Press (AP), Sporting News, the Walter Camp Football Foundation and the Football Writers’ Association of America (FWAA). In order to be named a unanimous All-American, a player needs to be named to all five first teams, while consensus All-America


Moosehead was created in order to construct and operate a sewage system in Greenville.  In October 1971, Moosehead entered into two contracts with Wright, Pierce, Barnes and Wyman (Wright, Pierce), a Maine corporation, for design and construction supervision of a sewage system, including a collection system, pumping station, force mains and a tertiary sewage treatment plant.  Moosehead contracted with S. G. Phillips Corporation (Phillips), a Vermont corporation, in December 1973 for construction of interceptor sewers, pumping stations and the treatment plant.  In connection with construction of the treatment plant, Phillips purchased two flocculation-filtration units (also known as moving bed filter (MBF) units) from Johns-Manville, a Colorado corporation.1  The MBF units were delivered to the project in early 1974 and were installed at thehow the organizers of this fundraising effort put the whole thing together. Instead of just asking for donations, the hosts opted to tap in to the competitive spirit of fighting game fans by pitting their favorite titles against one another. Evo 2013 has been slated to feature eight different fighting games, but instead of deciding on each of the games from the get-go, Evo officials only publicly selected seven games, and tasked the fighting game community with selecting the final eighth game, not by voting, but by donating cash toward whichever title they feel most deserves a spot at Evo. In the end, the victor was Super Smash Bros. Melee whose fans managed to raise an impressive $94,683. Melee will now join such titles as Tekken Tag Tournament


Educational Articles

Coverage Initiation: PriceSmart

Kevin Downing
| June 18, 2010

Value Line recently initiated coverage of little-known wholesale club chain PriceSmart (PSMT). The reason why most U.S. consumers are unfamiliar with the brand is because its warehouses are exclusive to Central America and the Caribbean.

PriceSmart is the third venture of Sol Price, the retailing titan who pioneered the concept of paying a membership fee to buy everyday products at discount prices.

Mr. Price entered the retailing business in 1954 when he opened the first FedMart using $50,000 in startup capital and a warehouse he inherited from a family member. The three initial product categories sold by FedMart were jewelry, furniture, and liquor, and its only clients were government employees. Despite the odd combination of goods, the business was quite successful and wenttargets. However, it eventually began to suffer from the mismanagement of Gilbert Partida, a lawyer with no retail experience whom the Prices chose to lead the company.

Mr. Partida’s missteps were plentiful and damaging. Shortly after attempting to solicit a new equity offering, he sold a third of his stake in the company, which rattled investor confidence. Then he rolled out telephone cards with razor thin margins, and opened three stores in Wal-Mart dominated Mexico that proved unsuccessful.

In 2003, Mr. Partida abruptly resigned amidst heavy losses and a plummeting share price. Robert Price took over PriceSmart and attempted to correct his mistakes by closing four stores and exiting the telephone card business. It proved difficult to rectify investor sentiment though as the company was forced to restate its SEC


filings for 2002 and 2003 due to revenue recognition errors.

PriceSmart eventually shuttered its Mexican locations and halted expansion efforts for several years, choosing instead to focus on improving sales and profitability at current warehouses.

The strategy has been paying off as sales have improved steadily after reaching a low point in the November 2004 quarter. The larger purchasing quantities that result from higher volumes have given PriceSmart greater bargaining power with suppliers. This trend should continue since management has resumed evaluating sites for additional warehouse locations and still has ample room for traffic gains in existing markets. In late 2009, it acquired land in the Dominican Republic for a new club to be opened in 2010. Additionally the company is looking to launch multiple clubs in Columbia.Best’s Wines

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Over a period of 150+ years, there has been just 2 owners of Best's Wines with the Thomson family owning the business since 1920. Our flagship wine, the "Thomson Family Shiraz" has an "Outstanding" designation from the esteemed Langton's Classification of Australian Wine, with our Bin No. 0 Shiraz rated as "Excellent".


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Hurricanes and floods not the only thing hampering recovery in Texas

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Texas coast, flood waters are still receding in hard hit areas across the mid and upper coast of Texas and in parts of Louisiana. More than 25,000 residents remain in shelters, hotel and motel rooms or at the homes of relatives or friends.

In cities, communities and across large parts of rural areas, families are still digging out, shoring up and trying to put their homes and often their lives back together. For most itOctober 27, 2006

There is very little that sums up the record of the U.S. Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?

These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable


a failed experiment," says Jonathan Turley, a noted constitutional scholar and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington Law School. "I think that if the Framers went to Capitol Hill today, it would shake their confidence in the system they created. Congress has become an exercise of raw power with no principles -- and in that environment corruption has flourished. The Republicans in Congress decided from the outset that their future would be inextricably tied to George Bush and his policies. It has become this sad session of members sitting down and drinking Kool-Aid delivered by Karl Rove. Congress became a mere extension of the White House."

The end result is a Congress that has hijacked the national treasury, frantically ceded power to the executive, andof limitations was among the several recommendations made by the 23 members of the grand jury.

The report, released on Aug. 14 by state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, identified more than 300 priests as credibly accused of criminal child sex crimes. To date, only a handful of priests have been charged; one has pleaded guilty. Shapiro this week reiterated that the trail of cover-up unearthed by investigators led all the way to the Vatican.

In the wake of the report, which covered six of the state's eight dioceses, victims and victims advocates have been calling for the Legislature to once and for all amend the statute of limitation.

Under state law people who were abused before they turned 18 must file civil suits before they turn 30. Criminal charges must be


abuse scandals involving children and adults, including the one in the Catholic Church.

"Pass the two-year window for all victims," Rozzi said. "Stop the political gamesmanship. Leave it up for the black robes of the PA Supreme Court to decide. It's that simple. And it's what the public is demanding."

Sen. John DiSanto, R-Dauphin County, a practicing Catholic, said, "I am obviously very troubled and concerned about it. I wasn't really surprised by the report but it's very troubling and hurtful when it's in your own backyard. You've seen what's happened in Boston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, so it's not a surprise in that sense. But it's very troubling and makes you wonder a lot. "

He said his primary concern is the victims and thinks the perpetrators need to be chargedBdsm with glam Lily Love

She caught this guy at a party and got him in her bed. She lays down with her ass up and the guy rubs her pussy and licks it, then he ties her legs and hands and starts fucking her beautiful shaved pussy with her legs lifted. After taking her ties off, he eats her pussy like a dish, then fucks her pussy again until he cums all over her naughty face.


In an era when Bowman and Topps were fighting it out to see who would have card supremacy, Red Man snuck under the radar and produced one of the more colorful and collectible sets of the 1950's.

Unlike Topps and Bowman, who were geared for the young collector, the Red Man cards were obviously an adult only purchased product with the intent that the tobacco would be bought, and the cards collected by the purchaser or passed on to the purchaser's child or children. This is noted on the backs of the 1953 thru 1955 cards as follows, "Red Man "Chewers" – start a collection for your boys," and the 1952 card backs as "These Baseball Cards are for Red Man "Chewers" and Their Boys".

When Red Man decided thatthey wanted to add baseball cards to their tobacco pack product, they did their homework well and, to give their cards instant credibility, they turned to a source that was the expert and guru in the baseball field at the time. J.G. Taylor Spink was picked to select the cards that would be produced in each set. Spink was the publisher and editor of The Sporting News, which many considered the baseball bible of that era and he carried the nickname "Mr. Baseball".

The back of each card notes that all players were personally selected by Editor J.G. Taylor Spink of The Sporting News. His credits include a number of outstanding literary works, helping to uncover the 1919 Black Sox scandal and intensely campaigning to improve baseball by keeping


it honest. He also has an award named after him, the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, established in 1962 and presented to the outstanding sportswriter of the year for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. Of course, Red Man did not have all the stars of the time in their set due to contractual reasons but they did have the right person who picked the best of the rest.

It is not known who supplied the artwork that graces the front of every Red Man Tobacco card but, whoever it was, they surely did a phenomenal job in portraying the players and managers in the sets. It is believed that actual pictures were used as the basis for the drawings but no known pictures to date can verify this belief. Redwould be the background or if the player changed teams with the new team name and logo "painted over" the old one.

The front of the card contains the player or manager bio within a white box that lists the accomplishments from the previous season. You will find the players vitals such as height, weight, birth city and date, and how they bat and throw. The short blurbs are very informative and well written.

The card backs, for the most part, remained the same throughout the four years the cards were printed. The 1952 cards have a light green lettered back while the 1953 cards have a red lettered back. The upper portion of the cards are worded differently while the lower portion is worded the same. The 1954 and


1955 card backs only differ in color and, of course, the year printed on the back. The 1954 card back lettering is green while the 1955 card back lettering is red. The cardboard is of a medium stock quality.

The 1952 to 1955 Red Man Tobacco cards all measured approximately 3 ½ inches by 4 inches with the cutoff tab and 3 ½ inches by 3 5/8 inches without the tab. The tab was an important part of the card then as it is now for value. Simply put, cards with tabs today are worth more than the cards without a tab. The tab was used as part of a promotion to obtain a cap of one's favorite major league team. One would purchase a pack of Red ManTobacco for the price of 20 cents per pack wrapped in clear plastic.

The promotion was to turn in 50 cutoff tabs and mail them in for the cap of your choice. In other words, you had to spend ten dollars on Red Man Tobacco to get enough tabs for the cap. Each year the cards had a redemption expiration date for obtaining the hat you wanted. The cap was a felt cap and on the inside it would say "Red Mans Baseball Cap". There are a number of known original Red Man vintage posters that advertised the baseball cap redemption promotion.

The tabs on the 1952 Red Man Tobacco cards say "1952 RED MAN ALL-STAR TEAM" and below that it says either "AMERICAN LEAGUE SERIES – PLAYER #" or