had come. Kicking, scratching, striking, biting, she routed the terrified Usanga in short order, and so obsessed was she by her desire to inflict punishment upon her unfaithful lord and master that she quite forgot the object of his infatuation.

Bertha Kircher heard her screaming down the village street at Usanga's heels and trembled at the thought of what lay in store for her at the hands of these two, for she knew that tomorrow at the latest Naratu would take out upon her the full measure of her jealous hatred after she had spent her first wrath upon Usanga.

The two had departed but a few minutes when the warrior guard returned. He looked into the hut and then entered. "No one will stop me now, white woman," hegrowled as he stepped quickly across the hut toward her.

Tarzan of the Apes, feasting well upon a juicy haunch from Bara, the deer, was vaguely conscious of a troubled mind. He should have been at peace with himself and all the world, for was he not in his native element surrounded by game in plenty and rapidly filling his belly with the flesh he loved best? But Tarzan of the Apes was haunted by the picture of a slight, young girl being shoved and struck by brutal Negresses, and in imagination could see her now camped in this savage country a prisoner among degraded blacks.

Why was it so difficult to remember that she was only a hated German and a spy? Why would the fact that she was


a woman and white always obtrude itself upon his consciousness? He hated her as he hated all her kind, and the fate that was sure to be hers was no more terrible than she in common with all her people deserved. The matter was settled and Tarzan composed himself to think of other things, yet the picture would not die--it rose in all its details and annoyed him. He began to wonder what they were doing to her and where they were taking her. He was very much ashamed of himself as he had been after the episode in Wilhelmstal when his weakness had permitted him to spare this spy's life. Was he to be thus weak again? No!

Night came and he settled himself in an ample treeto rest until morning; but sleep would not come. Instead came the vision of a white girl being beaten by black women, and again of the same girl at the mercy of the warriors somewhere in that dark and forbidding jungle.

With a growl of anger and self-contempt Tarzan arose, shook himself, and swung from his tree to that adjoining, and thus, through the lower terraces, he followed the trail that Usanga's party had taken earlier in the afternoon. He had little difficulty as the band had followed a well-beaten path and when toward midnight the stench of a native village assailed his delicate nostrils he guessed that his goal was near and that presently he should find her whom he sought.

Prowling stealthily as prowls Numa, the lion, stalking


a wary prey, Tarzan moved noiselessly about the palisade, listening and sniffing. At the rear of the village he discovered a tree whose branches extended over the top of the palisade and a moment later he had dropped quietly into the village.

From hut to hut he went searching with keen ears and nostrils some confirming evidence of the presence of the girl, and at last, faint and almost obliterated by the odor of the Gomangani, he found it hanging like a delicate vapor about a small hut. The village was quiet now, for the last of the beer and the food had been disposed of and the blacks lay in their huts overcome by stupor, yet Tarzan made no noise that even a sober man keenly alert mighthave heard.

He passed around to the entrance of the hut and listened. From within came no sound, not even the low breathing of one awake; yet he was sure that the girl had been here and perhaps was even now, and so he entered, slipping in as silently as a disembodied spirit. For a moment he stood motionless just within the entranceway, listening. No, there was no one here, of that he was sure, but he would investigate. As his eyes became accustomed to the greater darkness within the hut an object began to take form that presently outlined itself in a human form supine upon the floor.

Tarzan stepped closer and leaned over to examine it--it was the dead body of a naked warrior from whose chest protruded


a short spear. Then he searched carefully every square foot of the remaining floor space and at last returned to the body again where he stooped and smelled of the haft of the weapon that had slain the black. A slow smile touched his lips--that and a slight movement of his head betokened that he understood.

A rapid search of the balance of the village assured him that the girl had escaped and a feeling of relief came over him that no harm had befallen her. That her life was equally in jeopardy in the savage jungle to which she must have flown did not impress him as it would have you or me, since to Tarzan the jungle was not a dangerous place--he considered one safer there thanin Paris or London by night.

He had entered the trees again and was outside the palisade when there came faintly to his ears from far beyond the village an old, familiar sound. Balancing lightly upon a swaying branch he stood, a graceful statue of a forest god, listening intently. For a minute he stood thus and then there broke from his lips the long, weird cry of ape calling to ape and he was away through the jungle toward the sound of the booming drum of the anthropoids leaving behind him an awakened and terrified village of cringing blacks, who would forever after connect that eerie cry with the disappearance of their white prisoner and the death of their fellow-warrior.

Bertha Kircher, hurrying through the jungle along a well-beaten


game trail, thought only of putting as much distance as possible between herself and the village before daylight could permit pursuit of her. Whither she was going she did not know, nor was it a matter of great moment since death must be her lot sooner or later.

Fortune favored her that night, for she passed unscathed through as savage and lion-ridden an area as there is in all Africa--a natural hunting ground which the white man has not yet discovered, where deer and antelope and zebra, giraffe and elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, and the other herbivorous animals of central Africa abound unmolested by none but their natural enemies, the great cats which, lured here by easy prey and immunity from the rifles of big-game hunters, swarm the district.

She hadfled for an hour or two, perhaps, when her attention was arrested by the sound of animals moving about, muttering and growling close ahead. Assured that she had covered a sufficient distance to insure her a good start in the morning before the blacks could take to her trail, and fearful of what the creatures might be, she climbed into a large tree with the intention of spending the balance of the night there.

She had no sooner reached a safe and comfortable branch when she discovered that the tree stood upon the edge of a small clearing that had been hidden from her by the heavy undergrowth upon the ground below, and simultaneously she discovered the identity of the beasts she had heard.

In the center of the clearing


below her, clearly visible in the bright moonlight, she saw fully twenty huge, manlike apes--great, shaggy fellows who went upon their hind feet with only slight assistance from the knuckles of their hands. The moonlight glanced from their glossy coats, the numerous gray-tipped hairs imparting a sheen that made the hideous creatures almost magnificent in their appearance.

The girl had watched them but a minute or two when the little band was joined by others, coming singly and in groups until there were fully fifty of the great brutes gathered there in the moonlight. Among them were young apes and several little ones clinging tightly to their mothers' shaggy shoulders. Presently the group parted to form a circle about what appeared to be a small, flat-topped mound of earthin the center of the clearing. Squatting close about this mound were three old females armed with short, heavy clubs with which they presently began to pound upon the flat top of the earth mound which gave forth a dull, booming sound, and almost immediately the other apes commenced to move about restlessly, weaving in and out aimlessly until they carried the impression of a moving mass of great, black maggots.

The beating of the drum was in a slow, ponderous cadence, at first without time but presently settling into a heavy rhythm to which the apes kept time with measured tread and swaying bodies. Slowly the mass separated into two rings, the outer of which was composed of shes and the very young, the inner of mature bulls.


The former ceased to move and squatted upon their haunches, while the bulls now moved slowly about in a circle the center of which was the drum and all now in the same direction.

It was then that there came faintly to the ears of the girl from the direction of the village she had recently quitted a weird and high-pitched cry. The effect upon the apes was electrical--they stopped their movements and stood in attitudes of intent listening for a moment, and then one fellow, huger than his companions, raised his face to the heavens and in a voice that sent the cold shudders through the girl's slight frame answered the far-off cry.

Once again the beaters took up their drumming and the slow dance went on. There wasa certain fascination in the savage ceremony that held the girl spellbound, and as there seemed little likelihood of her being discovered, she felt that she might as well remain the balance of the night in her tree and resume her flight by the comparatively greater safety of daylight.

Assuring herself that her packet of papers was safe she sought as comfortable a position as possible among the branches, and settled herself to watch the weird proceedings in the clearing below her.

A half-hour passed, during which the cadence of the drum increased gradually. Now the great bull that had replied to the distant call leaped from the inner circle to dance alone between the drummers and the other bulls. He leaped and crouched and leaped again, now growling and


barking, again stopping to raise his hideous face to Goro, the moon, and, beating upon his shaggy breast, uttered a piercing scream-the challenge of the bull ape, had the girl but known it.

He stood thus in the full glare of the great moon, motionless after screaming forth his weird challenge, in the setting of the primeval jungle and the circling apes a picture of primitive savagery and power--a mightily muscled Hercules out of the dawn of life--when from close behind her the girl heard an answering scream, and an instant later saw an almost naked white man drop from a near-by tree into the clearing.

Instantly the apes became a roaring, snarling pack of angry beasts. Bertha Kircher held her breath. What maniac was this who dared approach thesefrightful creatures in their own haunts, alone against fifty? She saw the brown-skinned figure bathed in moonlight walk straight toward the snarling pack. She saw the symmetry and the beauty of that perfect body--its grace, its strength, its wondrous proportioning, and then she recognized him. It was the same creature whom she had seen carry Major Schneider from General Kraut's headquarters, the same who had rescued her from Numa, the lion; the same whom she had struck down with the butt of her pistol and escaped when he would have returned her to her enemies, the same who had slain Hauptmann Fritz Schneider and spared her life that night in Wilhelmstal.

Fear-filled and fascinated she watched him as he neared the apes. She heard sounds issue from his throat--sounds


identical with those uttered by the apes--and though she could scarce believe the testimony of her own ears, she knew that this godlike creature was conversing with the brutes in their own tongue.

Tarzan halted just before he reached the shes of the outer circle. "I am Tarzan of the Apes!" he cried. "You do not know me because I am of another tribe, but Tarzan comes in peace or he comes to fight--which shall it be? Tarzan will talk with your king," and so saying he pushed straight forward through the shes and the young who now gave way before him, making a narrow lane through which he passed toward the inner circle.

Shes and balus growled and bristled as he passed closer, but none hindered him and thushe came to the inner circle of bulls. Here bared fangs menaced him and growling faces hideously contorted. "I am Tarzan," he repeated. "Tarzan comes to dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers. Where is your king?" Again he pressed forward and the girl in the tree clapped her palms to her cheeks as she watched, wide-eyed, this madman going to a frightful death. In another instant they would be upon him, rending and tearing until that perfect form had been ripped to shreds; but again the ring parted, and though the apes roared and menaced him they did not attack, and at last he stood in the inner circle close to the drum and faced the great king ape.

Again he spoke. "I am Tarzan of the Apes," he


cried. "Tarzan comes to live with his brothers. He will come in peace and live in peace or he will kill; but he has come and he will stay. Which--shall Tarzan dance the Dum-Dum in peace with his brothers, or shall Tarzan kill first?"

"I am Go-lat, King of the Apes," screamed the great bull. "I kill! I kill! I kill!" and with a sullen roar he charged the Tarmangani.

The ape-man, as the girl watched him, seemed entirely unprepared for the charge and she looked to see him borne down and slain at the first rush. The great bull was almost upon him with huge hands outstretched to seize him before Tarzan made a move, but when he did move his quickness would have put Ara, the lightning, toshame. As darts forward the head of Histah, the snake, so darted forward the left hand of the man-beast as he seized the left wrist of his antagonist. A quick turn and the bull's right arm was locked beneath the right arm of his foe in a jujutsu hold that Tarzan had learned among civilized men--a hold with which he might easily break the great bones, a hold that left the ape helpless.

With the quickness of a cat Tarzan swung the king ape over one hip and sent him sprawling to the ground. "I am Tarzan, King of all the Apes!" he shouted. "Shall it be peace?"

Go-lat, infuriated, leaped to his feet and charged again, shouting his war cry: "I kill! I kill! I kill!" and again Tarzan


met him with a sudden hold that the stupid bull, being ignorant of, could not possibly avert--a hold and a throw that brought a scream of delight from the interested audience and suddenly filled the girl with doubts as to the man's madness--evidently he was quite safe among the apes, for she saw him swing Go-lat to his back and then catapult him over his shoulder. The king ape fell upon his head and lay very still.

"I am Tarzan of the Apes!" cried the ape-man. "I come to dance the Dum-Dum with my brothers," and he made a motion to the drummers, who immediately took up the cadence of the dance where they had dropped it to watch their king slay the foolish Tarmangani.

It was then that Go-latraised his head and slowly crawled to his feet. Tarzan approached him. "I am Tarzan of the Apes," he cried. "Shall Tarzan dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers now, or shall he kill first?"

Go-lat raised his bloodshot eyes to the face of the Tarmangani. "Kagoda!" he cried "Tarzan of the Apes will dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers and Go-lat will dance with him!"

And then the girl in the tree saw the savage man leaping, bending, and stamping with the savage apes in the ancient rite of the Dum-Dum. His roars and growls were more beastly than the beasts. His handsome face was distorted with savage ferocity. He beat upon his great breast and screamed forth his challenge as his smooth, brown hide brushed the shaggy coats of


his fellows. It was weird; it was wonderful; and in its primitive savagery it was not without beauty--the strange scene she looked upon, such a scene as no other human being, probably, ever had witnessed--and yet, withal, it was horrible.

As she gazed, spell-bound, a stealthy movement in the tree behind her caused her to turn her head, and there, back of her, blazing in the reflected moonlight, shone two great, yellow-green eyes. Sheeta, the panther, had found her out.

The beast was so close that it might have reached out and touched her with a great, taloned paw. There was no time to think, no time to weigh chances or to choose alternatives. Terror-inspired impulse was her guide as, with a loud scream, she leaped from the tree intothe clearing.

Instantly the apes, now maddened by the effects of the dancing and the moonlight, turned to note the cause of the interruption. They saw this she Tarmangani, helpless and alone and they started for her. Sheeta, the panther, knowing that not even Numa, the lion, unless maddened by starvation, dares meddle with the great apes at their Dum-Dum, had silently vanished into the night, seeking his supper elsewhere.

Tarzan, turning with the other apes toward the cause of the interruption, saw the girl, recognized her and also her peril. Here again might she die at the hands of others; but why consider it! He knew that he could not permit it, and though the acknowledgment shamed him, it had to be admitted.

The leading shes were almost upon the


girl when Tarzan leaped among them, and with heavy blows scattered them to right and left; and then as the bulls came to share in the kill they thought this new ape-thing was about to make that he might steal all the flesh for himself, they found him facing them with an arm thrown about the creature as though to protect her.

"This is Tarzan's she," he said. "Do not harm her." It was the only way he could make them understand that they must not slay her. He was glad that she could not interpret the words. It was humiliating enough to make such a statement to wild apes about this hated enemy.

So once again Tarzan of the Apes was forced to protect a Hun. Growling, he muttered[Brazilian physician José Pinto de Azeredo (1766?-1810) and the chemical examination of Rio de Janeiro's atmosphere].
José Pinto de Azeredo, of Rio de Janeiro, studied medicine and conducted notable experimental research in Edinburgh (1786-88), presenting his graduate thesis on gout in Leiden. Already appointed surgeon-general of Angola, he returned to Rio in 1789 and practiced medicine in Brazil. In 1790 he moved to Luanda, where he practiced at the Hospital Real and founded a medical school that did not survive his departure for Portugal in 1797. He worked at Lisbon's main military hospital and as a private physician until his death. His written works (some ten manuscripts and five publications) warrant an examination from the perspective of the history of medicine. In an article published in 1790 on Rio


Endurance sport event Ninja OCR Series held in Philippines

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Contestants participate in the Ninja Obstacle Course Racing (Ninja OCR) Series in Makati City, the Philippines, Nov. 11, 2018. The Ninja OCR Series is an endurance sport aiming to promote fitness and athleticism by climbing and running through various obstacles and hurdles. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)and he proceeds with different
counsel than at trial. We affirm his convictions.
                      I. BACKGROUND
   On August 7, 2015, Cotton shot and killed Trevor Bare.
During the evening prior to the shooting, Bare saw Cotton in
the apartment immediately above his own. Because Cotton and
Bare had a negative history together, Bare confronted Cotton
and an argument ensued. After the initial altercation, Bare and
his girlfriend, McKayla Burnette, left the apartment house. A
couple of hours later, someone set a fire in the back of the
truck owned by Travis Labno, the new tenant of the apartment
immediately above Bare’s.
   Around 6:30 a.m. on August 7, 2015, Bare and Burnette
returned to Bare’s


apartment. Upon their return, Labno con-
fronted Bare outside the house about the fire, while Cotton
exited Labno’s apartment with a shotgun. After the argument
between Labno and Bare ended, Cotton and Bare commenced
an argument, which ended with Cotton’s shooting Bare. Bare
died from his injuries.
   At the crime scene, police found a broken piece of fence
wood on the ground, a spent shotgun casing, and a bloodstain
on the ground approximately 6 to 10 feet from the porch. They
also recovered a sawed-off shotgun in the bushes behind a
nearby house, which shotgun was later identified as the mur-
der weapon.
   A search warrant was obtained for Labno’s apartment.
During the execution of the warrant, police discovered the fol-
lowing: in the bathroom, marijuana on top of the toilet, a bag
in the toilet bowl,and I’m going to use
it.’” Burnette told Bare what she heard just before she heard
the sound of footsteps upstairs running outside, at which point,
Bare went outside as well.
    Burnette said that after hearing a “smack” outside, she went
to the screen door to see what was happening. She testified that
she saw Bare holding a piece of wood, Labno by the porch,
and Cotton sitting in a chair on the porch behind Labno with
a shotgun in his lap, which he was pointing at Bare. Burnette
testified that Labno and Bare were arguing at first, but then the
argument between them seemed to calm down. Burnette stated


whether he left his apartment and returned with
a shotgun, after which the prosecutor said that “we’ll talk about
immunity as it relates to the gun.”
   Labno further testified that as he was getting ready for
work the next morning, he saw Bare and Burnette pull into the
driveway in two vehicles, blocking his vehicle in the driveway.
Labno stated that he yelled out to Cotton that Bare was back
and then went out to confront Bare, who had a board in his
hand. Labno told Bare to drop the board so they could fight,
but Bare refused. Labno testified that he heard a “clack” after
his argument had deescalated and turned around to see Cotton
holding a shotgun. He stated that Cotton and Bare began argu-
ing at that point, from a distance of about 6board and was advancing at him
again with the board.
   Cotton also testified that Bare and Bare’s mother used to
live with him. However, issues arose because Bare and his
mother were stealing things from Cotton and Bare was caus-
ing problems in the neighborhood—yelling at children and
flashing a gun in Cotton’s garage. Cotton evicted Bare and his
mother, but Bare continued to drive through the neighborhood
and would occasionally stop in front of Cotton’s house. Cotton
eventually moved out of that residence and was staying in a
hotel on August 6, 2015.
   Cotton stated that he stayed at Labno’s apartment that night
at Labno’s request. Cotton also testified that at 2:30 a.m., Bare
was knocking on Labno’s door, and that when Cotton answered
the door, he told Bare to leave. When Bare refused to


           STATE v. COTTON
                        Cite as 299 Neb. 650

get the son of a bitch for doing this” and went outside with
the shotgun.
   Cotton testified that Bare came to Labno’s front door and
that a confrontation ensued. Cotton stated that he went out-
side and tried to leave but could not because his vehicle was
blocked in. He heard Bare yelling at Labno, and when he got
to the side of the house, Labno had the shotgun in his left hand
and Bare was holding a board. He stated that as the argument
escalated, Bare swung the board at himwhat he said in
his letters to Labno. Cotton said he was just trying to exonerate
himself on the gun charge. Cotton also said, “I was out of my
mind that day, I was in a heightened thing,” and told Faye that
he would be testifying that he had acted in self-defense. Faye
testified that he believed Cotton was using methamphetamine
at the time of the incident.
   Cotton called two of his former neighbors as witnesses to
testify about Bare’s conduct while living with Cotton. The first
witness testified that Bare often acted like a tough guy, kind
of like a “gangster,” and was abusive toward people he was
with and was confrontational toward neighbors. The second
witness stated that Bare was somewhat aggressive and that he
had seen Bare with a sidearm. He said that Cotton had


she heard Cotton say, “‘I have a round in the gun
and I’m going to use it.’” Then, she stated that when she
looked outside during the altercation, she saw Bare holding
a piece of wood, Labno by the porch, and Cotton sitting in
a chair on the porch behind Labno with a shotgun pointed at
Bare in his lap. While the altercation was between Labno and
Bare initially, Burnette stated that Cotton became upset when
their argument deescalated and that Cotton went into Labno’s
apartment. She testified that when Cotton reemerged from the
apartment, he placed himself in between Labno and Bare, still
with the gun. Bare then stepped toward Cotton and said, “[I]f

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      State v. Braesch, 292 Neb. 930, 874 N.W.2d 874 (2016).
23
      Id. See, also,me in this generation. 2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7And Noah went in, and his


sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12And the rain was upon the earth forty daysand forty nights. 13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. 17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters


increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the faceIf indicted, CIBC too would have faced eradication. In the months before the settlement, rival Canadian banks began to fear for their own health — if Justice were to nuke CIBC, the fallout would hurt everyone.

The Globe and Mail
May 27, 2006

Hunkin's Enron retreat was right move for CIBC
Eric Reguly

John Hunkin invited me to lunch about two years ago and we met in the sleek dining room atop the CIBC tower in Toronto. He was peeved because I had written a column called "Hit the road, Hunkin" and wanted to set me straight. The piece politely suggested he defenestrate himself because of the bank's run-ins with New York State Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer, in the mutual funds trading scandal, and the U.S. Department of Justice, in the Enron case.

Mr. Hunkin


was gracious and funny nonetheless. Before we sat down, he gave me a quick tour of the executive offices. "Is that where Spitzer sits when he's here?" I asked, pointing to an empty desk. "No," he said, "we built him an office down the hall."

Inevitably, the conversation turned to Enron. Only a few months before, CIBC had reached a settlement with Justice in the Enron affair, which came to a sensational conclusion this week with convictions of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the chairman and CEO team who oversaw the biggest fraud in U.S. corporate history.

In the autumn of 2003, the rumours said CIBC was in serious trouble with Justice, that it faced possible criminal indictments for its sordid dance with Enron. The rumours of possible indictments wereforcibly denied by the bank, though Mr. Hunkin was obviously nervous. He went on a damage-control campaign and met with media executives. The message: Call off the dogs, don't print rumours, thousands of employees' jobs are at risk if the bank takes an unjust beating in the press.

CIBC settled with Justice that December while still denying that threats of criminal indictments forced it to run up the white flag. But the wording of the settlement made it clear CIBC had come close to the precipice. Justice said CIBC "has accepted responsibility for the criminal conduct of its employees in connection with a series of structured finance transactions with Enron." It added: "As long as CIBC abides by the terms of the agreement, the Justice Department has agreed to


not prosecute the bank."

CIBC was required to pay $80-million (U.S.) to the Securities and Exchange Commission, exit the structured finance business in the United States and appoint an independent monitor to oversee the bank's compliance systems.

I asked Mr. Hunkin why the bank had settled. Intimidation was more or less the answer. He said arriving at Justice's offices was scary, because the walls are lined with pictures of Justice "kills," (like Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken, though he didn't identify the photos and said he hadn't been there himself). In the end, CIBC had no desire to become a piece of art.

Good call on his part. No financial institution had survived a criminal indictment. The memory of Arthur Andersen was painfully fresh. In 2002, Andersen, Enron's auditor, was convictedof obstruction of justice for shredding Enron documents. Three years later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Andersen's conviction. But it was too late. The Big Five accounting firm had been reduced to rubble.

If indicted, CIBC too would have faced eradication. In the months before the settlement, rival Canadian banks began to fear for their own health — if Justice were to nuke CIBC, the fallout would hurt everyone. The federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions arrived to help broker a deal with Justice. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York probably got involved too, though its role has never been confirmed. The two regulators may have convinced Justice that taking out a big Canadian bank, one with a significant Wall Street presence, would cause more problems


than it solved.

At the time, the settlement costs seemed relatively minor, the equivalent of a speeding ticket. But Justice left behind a time bomb. The settlement prevented CIBC from disputing its unsavoury conduct in the Enron affair, meaning it could not defend itself against shareholder lawsuits. The bomb went off last August, when CIBC settled a class-action lawsuit for $2.4-billion, a price greater than the ones paid by Citigroup and J.P. Morgan for their Enron sins.

Still, CIBC had done the right thing — for the bank, its employees the shareholders — by settling.

The Enron fiasco had a pleasant ending. It seemed to have convinced Mr. Hunkin that the United States was a dead end for the bank. Wall Street's Oppenheimer, bought by CIBC in 1997, was largely soldin 2002. Amicus, the electronic bank, failed and was put to rest. The dream that CIBC could make a splash in the U.S. market vanished.

Canada became the new focus. CIBC bought Merrill Lynch's Canadian retail arm and rode the income trust bucking bronco. Profits roared back. The shares have more than doubled to $80 (Canadian). Over four years, CIBC's shareholder returns have been better than Royal Bank's.

Mr. Hunkin was replaced as CEO last year by Gerry McCaughey. He took his fortune and disappeared from view. Mr. Hunkin will never go down as a bank hero. He will go down as someone who did his best to correct a horrendous series of mistakes made under his watch.


Although more people have been able to get their hands the OnePlus One than ever before, new handset owners won't be able to accessorize them as thoroughly as was first thought. After two months of teasing its bamboo, silk white and sandstone black "StyleSwap" covers, the company has been forced to kill its custom backplates before they got the chance to go on sale. According to a company blog post, "technical difficulties" during mass production meant that covers suffered from creaks or became slightly loose, risking damage to the non-removable battery that it was meant to protect.Why ATMs became cashless more than a year after re-monetisation

A statement from the Finance Ministry confirmed reports of cash shortages and some ATMs running dry or becoming non-functional in some parts of the country, the report said. However, SBI Research in a report said that there was Rs 70,000 crore cash shortfall in the system, which is a third of the monthly withdrawals at ATMs.

On Wednesday, finance ministry officials held video-conference with the heads of state-owned banks and asked them to ensure that more Rs 500 notes are available at ATMs to deal with cash crunch.

"There is also a perception that there may be a shortage of currency in the future".

Some reports suggest that delay in recalibration of cash vending machines to dispense Rs 200 notes is one


of the reasons for the currency shortage. Also, all the four printing presses are working round-the-clock to print smaller currency notes. We always knew that Rs 2,000 notes were printed only to help hoarders.

Hindustan Times via Getty Images NEW DELHI, INDIA - APRIL 17: An ATM with a sign board showing no cash at Bengali Market, near Mandi House, on April 17, 2018 in New Delhi, India.

But the bigger question is that what has led to cash crunch in several states more than a year after the demonetisation. There has been an unusual spurt in demand for cash in the last few months with the withdrawals through ATMs touching an unprecedented level of Rs 45,000 crore in the last 13 days while the inflow of cash back intoan extra 859 people dive into the controversial benefits pool in December, taking the total across the city to 10,253.

(Image: Phil Spencer)

It came in the same month welfare officials were slammed for scrapping a £10 top-up bonus some used in their budgets to stop the festive season becoming a huge burden.

One man on the benefits system - dogged with problems since its introduction in 2017 - told Plymouth Live he was considering going out to steal to fund his little boy's Christmas because he was having issues gaining cash.

He had been signed off work since earlier in the year but was caught in a row over payments because he was previously self-employed.

While another, come New Year's Eve, revealed he'd received a payment of just 1p - leaving him


premises and Agent Powell later testified that he saw appellant Gassaway enter the barn in the dark and pick up one of the stashes.  When appellant was informed that he was under arrest, he dropped the jugs and ran.  The agents checked the contents, and relying upon their own experience determined that the jugs did contain non-tax paid whiskey.  The Government's sole evidence in the case was the testimony of these two Federal agents.  Appellant took the stand and denied their story, although there were no witnesses to corroborate appellant's story.

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Appellant was indicted on three counts for possession and concealment of non-tax paid whiskey in violation of 26 U.S.C. Secs. 5205(a) (2), 5604(a) and 7206(4).  On a jury verdict of guilty, appellant wassentenced to four years concurrently on each count and to run concurrently with his sentence in No. 71-2041.

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The facts in No. 71-2041 may be summarized as follows: On February 25, 1971, the same two Treasury Agents set up an observation point near a duplex at 2147 Ferguson Lane in Macon, Georgia.  They allegedly saw appellant Gassaway visit a woman up the street at 2156 Ferguson Lane.  Together appellant and the woman visited the duplex, from which appellant carried out several five gallon jugs and placed them in his car.  When they drove off, the agents radioed ahead to a third agent who blocked the path of appellant's car.  After a minor collision appellant escaped into the darkness, but the woman, co-defendant Betty Jean Yates,


contraband was found positively identified appellant as the man who rented the premises, and he also testified that appellant rented it under the name "Charlie Williams."  The Government finger-printing expert testified that appellant's fingerprints were found in the car from which he escaped and a chemist testified that the moonshine found in the car was the same as that found in the duplex

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 The specific voir dire question requested by appellant in the court below was: "Is there any juror who would believe the testimony of a law enforcement officer in preference to other testimony for the sole reason that the testimony was given by a law enforcement officer?"

The drilling, completion and production of a plurality of wells in a single area under water has been accomplished in a number of cases in recent years. Thus, in the North Sea Argyll Field, a plurality of subsea satellite wells were installed in the vicinity of a subsea manifold station connected via a production riser to a semi-submersible surface vessel containing equipment for processing crude oil, the staellite wells being connected to the subsea manifold station by remotely installed flowlines. While such prior-art procedures, and the apparatus employed, have achieved considerable success, they have had a number of disadvantages, including the relatively high cost of drilling and completing satellite wells, the relative complexities arising from a plurality of unitary subsea installations, one for each satellite and one for


the manifold station, and particularly the difficulties and cost involved in laying flowlines from each satellite well to the manifold station.
As an alternative approach to drilling a number of underwater wells independently, prior-art workers have proposed to employ templates including both means for establishing a plurality of wells, by drilling through the template, and means for connecting the completed wells to flowline portions carried by the template structure. Typical of such proposals are the apparatus disclosed in the following U.S. Pat. Nos.:
3,004,612: Kofahl PA1 3,633,667: Falkner PA1 3,877,520: Putman
Though such proposals have the advantage of concentrating the wellheads for a plurality of underwater wells in a small area, they provide little aid with respect to the problem of handling the fluid produced from the wells.
There has accordingly beenMIAMI -- Something both unusual and striking took place over the last six minutes of the Miami Heat’s highly entertaining game against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night.

LeBron James was outplayed, at both ends, in a head-to-head matchup. The best player in the fourth quarter was James Harden.

He accomplished it in a man-to-man struggle with James. They guarded each other for those vital minutes in which stars earn their paychecks. Frankly, Harden was the best player in the game. And this was a night when James had 32 points, six rebounds and five assists and Dwyane Wade, Harden's primary defender for most of the game, had 31 points, five rebounds, eight assists and four steals.

That James-Wade 1-2 punch was ultimately too much for the Rockets, as they are


the other end, James struggled to get space with Harden on him. In the fourth quarter, Harden had 16 points and James had two, though James played only the last six minutes.

It was the complete opposite of last June, where guarding James zapped Harden at the offensive end and resulted in him getting in foul trouble on defense as James racked up huge numbers on the way to the Finals MVP.

During that series, the Heat put a bull's-eye on Harden in their game plan. They decided to focus in on him and attempt to take some things away, specifically his ability to get the ball in space so that he could drive and create contact to get fouls. So they attacked him defensively and were able to effectivelyLudgierzowice

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One of the most iconic names in scootering history, Paddy Smith, passed away in hospital earlier this week after a short illness. Paddy, 65, spent much of the 1980s producing the rally patches that came to symbolise the scooter rallies. Sewn-on and collected in their thousands his screen printed designs are still worn on the flight jackets of many scooterists.

Paddy emigrated to the Bordeaux region of France where he lived with wife, Annie and family on their farm in the countryside. In recent years Paddy and the family have put on their low-key, ’boutique’ Sun Run scooter rally in the pretty little village of Allemans de Droit. Paddy and Annie have recently spent a few weeks touring France and the UK in their camper van, during the tripSen. Bernie Sanders issued a sudden live video saying that war with Iran would be "many times worse than the Iraq War," in response to reporting by The New York Times saying that the Trump administration is reviewing a plan to send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East.

The idea was reportedly spearheaded by John Bolton, the president's national security adviser, who served in the George W. Bush administration at the height of the conflict in Iraq.

"Sixteen years ago, the U.S. committed one of the worst blunders in history of our country by attacking Iraq," Sanders said in a video recorded live on Periscope and posted to Twitter. He called out Bolton as one of the "leading advocates" of the war, which he called the "biggest foreign


policy disaster" in modern U.S. history.

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"Now, based on that disaster that he help bring about in Iraq, it appears that John Bolton wants a war in Iran," Sanders said. "A war in Iran would, in my view, be many times worse than the Iraq War."

The senator said that he was working to build a coalition in Congress to force President Trump to ask Congress for authorization if he wants to engage in military action in Iran. Congress authorized Mr. Bush to take action in Iraq in 2002, but did not formally declare war. Opponents of the war in Iraq argue that President Bush did not have the constitutional authority to essentially declare war in the country.

"I am working hard to see ifGordon Klatt

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He had special expertise in two areas, including colorectal cancer and colorectal surgery. He was credited as the founder of the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life.

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After serving three years as a United States Army surgeon, Dr. Klatt returned to school and became a colorectal specialist. He received his medical degree in 1968 from the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Klatt completed his internship at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado, his residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, and his fellowship at the University of Minnesota.   He is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.

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a deputy sheriff.

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"As the McAlesters left Mr. Brown's office and were preparing to [depart] the Defendant returned with a deputy sheriff, and ordered the deputy to arrest Mr. McAlester and carry him to jail, which the deputy did.  There he was mugged and fingerprinted and locked in a cell where he was kept until approximately 4:00 P. M. that evening, when he was finally released under orders of the Defendant."

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Although Mr. McAlester was incarcerated for most of the day on August 31, 1970, a formal order adjudging him in contempt of court, nunc pro tunc, was not entered until October 20, 1971.  At that time Judge Brown formally assessed as punishment for the contempt the time spent in jail by Mr. McAlester on August 31, 1970.

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Theis a minister in the Reformed Episcopal Church, a denomination that includes some six or seven thousand adherents nationwide. When this litigation began, he was the spiritual leader of the Mount Carmel Reformed Episcopal Church congregation. Until the spring of 1981, this congregation met in a local school building. However, an increase in rent forced the group to relocate. The congregation decided to meet in the defendant's home until a permanent location could be found. Its services were attended by about twenty-five people and were conducted once each week for one-hour. These were the same services the congregation previously had held at the school, and included prayers, a sermon, and the taking of a collection.
The Franklin Township's zoning law designated seventeen zone classifications for land use in the


eighty feet from the defendant's home, and that cars parked on the street by those attending the service hindered the passage of traffic. The Township's chief zoning official later testified that one Sunday he heard church music. Based on this evidence the Municipal Court of Franklin Township found the defendant to be in violation of the ban against "churches and similar places of worship." The judge ordered the defendant to cease holding a "worship service" in his home, subject to a $500 fine for each future violation.
Following an appeal and a trial de novo, the Law Division also held that defendant had violated the ordinance by using his home as a "church." State v. Cameron, 184 N.J. Super. 66 (1982). This decision was affirmed by the Appellate Division,Avenue, Somerset, Franklin Township. The property is in an R-15 zone, in which the zoning ordinance permits single-family dwellings on minimum-lot sizes of 15,000 square feet, a restriction with which the Cameron residence complies. So far as the record reveals, the structure is what one might expect to find in such a residential zone: modest in size, with living-room, dining-room, bedrooms, kitchen, bath, and a small addition in the nature of a recreation room  a home in which the Cameron family did what families do: ate, slept, grew, worked, relaxed  in short, lived.
They also prayed. In addition to pursuing his education, defendant acts as minister of a formative congregation known as the Mount Carmel Reformed Episcopal Church (Mount Carmel). Mr. Cameron was graduated from the Theological


Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, and was ordained as a Deacon in 1978 and as a Presbyter in 1980. The Reformed Episcopal Church is a Protestant denomination, having broken away from the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1873 after a generation of struggling between those influenced *604 by the Oxford Movement (high churchmen) and the Evangelicals (low churchmen). In the 1960's total membership of the Reformed Episcopal Church was reported at 7,085. At the end of 1980 there were 6,176 members and a total of seventy churches, generally in the areas of Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. At last count the clergy totalled 101.
Mount Carmel's is hardly an affluent congregation. It cannot afford to rent a location for its services, noteven the $350 per month that 1000 feet of store-front space would cost. It therefore meets in the humble residence of its minister, traditionally a practice of new congregations. One should therefore erase from the mind any image of, say, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, M.C., D.D., 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, plopping down Canterbury Cathedral in the middle of bucolic Somerset County, or of the Camerons' neighborhood being transformed into St. Peter's Square. We are talking about a few folks gathering at someone's home.
Every Sunday, from 11:00 a.m. until noon, Mr. Cameron invites into his residence those with whom he shares mankind's deepest beliefs. His purpose is to pray and sing with his invited guests, a group whose


Cameron's desire to worship in the manner at issue here. He is at home. He is in prayer. He is with friends. He is entitled to be left alone.

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For the foregoing reasons I agree with the Court's decision to vacate defendant's conviction for violating the zoning ordinance in effect at the time he was charged. Likewise do I concur in the conclusion that the recently-enacted ordinance *608 could not support a conviction based on the same activities as produced this brouhaha. But because of Franklin Township's determination to outlaw those activities, a word about the latest ordinance is in order.
The new ordinance became effective after the oral argument in this Court. Under that ordinance, "churches and similar places of worship" are now a conditional use in an R-15Mt. Laurel II, supra, 92 N.J. 158. That power should not be squandered in the prevention of prayer meetings conducted by invitation in the privacy of one's home.
I join in the reversal of the judgment of conviction.
GARIBALDI, Justice, dissenting.
This zoning case presents the issue of whether a minister's home, used each Sunday by his congregation for formal, liturgical services, is a "church" within the meaning of the Franklin Township Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance). I would hold that a home is a church when it is used as the regular site for the traditional services of an organized, recognized religious body, which services are presided over by the ordained minister of that body. When all these elements are present, the use is within the Ordinance's commonly-accepted meaning of "church and


religious denomination that separated from the Episcopal *611 Church in 1893. The Rev. Robert J. Cameron is a graduate of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was ordained as a Deacon in 1978 and later was ordained as a Presbyter, the highest order of ordination in his church. He is currently the minister and spiritual leader of the Mount Carmel Reformed Episcopal Church congregation and is compensated for these services.
Until sometime in the spring of 1981, the congregation held its regular formal Sunday services in a local school building. It advertised its services in local newspapers. An increase in rent led to the transfer of services to defendant's home. The congregation, despite a diligent search, could not find a permanent location thatat the Rev. Mr. Cameron's home to indicate that services were being held.
The Sunday church services held at the Rev. Mr. Cameron's house were the same services the congregation previously had held at the school. Until halted by court order, these services were conducted every Sunday from 11 a.m. to noon, first in the defendant's living room, then in a room that he recently had added to his house for, according to his building permit application of April 29, 1981, "activities of the owner," which included prayers, a sermon by the Rev. Mr. Cameron, singing, and the taking of a collection. It is clear that the home was not "used only infrequently and incidentally for religious worship," as the majority alleges. 100 N.J. 599. A number of people


regularly attended these services. A neighbor testified that he could hear the singing and the sermon from his home eighty feet from the defendant's home, and that cars parked on the street by those attending the service hindered the passage of traffic. The Township's chief zoning code enforcer also testified that one Sunday he heard church music emanating from the Rev. Mr. Cameron's house and saw a total of fourteen cars parked in front of the house, seven in the driveway and seven on the street.
The Ordinance establishes seventeen different zones. Defendant's home is located in the R-15 residential zone, which permits only single-family dwellings. In addition to R-15, "churches and similar places of worship" are prohibited in only two other residential zones, R-10 and R-7. Of allcontinue to rent premises from the Board of Education suggests that financing is a problem with any relocation. That observation, however, is very far from the proof needed to support the conclusion that there were no other practical alternatives that would not violate the Ordinance. Accordingly, there has been no showing that the Ordinance in fact infringes upon the Congregation's right to free exercise of religion.
The municipality also satisfies the second prong of the test set forth in Lakewood  namely, that the Ordinance bears a substantial relation to the public health, safety, morals, or general welfare. The significance of the Township's interest in regulating traffic, safety, noise, and congestion becomes clear when the Ordinance is viewed as a whole. The United States Supreme Court has acknowledged that


is simply that the use of the home for regular religious services did not render his home a "church" within the meaning of the Ordinance. Thus, according to this argument, the Ordinance is inapplicable in this context.
The majority, in concluding that the phrase "churches and similar places of worship" is vague, analyzes the word "church" by focusing on the building or structure that is being used to signify a church or similar place of worship, rather than on the religious activity in which the participants engage. It is the activity, not the structure, towards which the Ordinance is directed. To interpret the Ordinance as narrowly as the majority suggests would leave uncovered many activities otherwise intended to be restricted.
In the absence of an explicit indication to the contrary,a mission by "Faith Curists," was not a church. The Faith Curists, who evidently were not organized under the laws of New Jersey, held services on certain evenings and on Tuesdays (but not on Sundays) and conducted a Sunday school in the building. Id. at 367. The court suggested that the common meaning of "church" is a "body of persons of a common religious faith associated for purposes of worship under some form of permanent organization." There was no testimony "that any religious organization holds within the proscribed area stated meetings for church services," so the court held that a building, in which a group of merely "religiously inclined persons" met "together for Bible study and the like," was not a church. Id. at 368. This reasoning suggests


for conducting
the Sunday school of Trinity Parish, at which there are prayers read, hymns sung, the reading of scripture and bible instruction, twice each Sunday except during July and August. There is choir practice every night in the week except Friday. There are church committee meetings and church social functions held there and services for deaf mutes held once a month except during Lent. In this building are also held meetings of the young people of the church, the women's auxiliary and boy scouts. Meetings of the vestry are also probably held in this building.
[Id. at 58.]
Unlike the people using the mission in George, the people using Trinity Parish were an organized religious body. However, the congregation had a main place of worship, Trinity Church, which suggests thatthe activities at the parish house, like the activities at the Faith Curists' mission, differed from those traditionally reserved for the body's main place of worship.
*621 These cases accord with the following dictionary definition of church in Black's Law Dictionary, 306 (4th ed. 1951):
CHURCH. In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances.
It may also mean a body of communicants gathered into church order, Stebbins v. Jennings, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 193; body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of the same faith, and the observance of the same ritual and ceremonies, McNeilly v. First Presbyterian Church in Brookline, 243 Mass. 331, 137 N.E. 691, 694; building, Combined


would certainly understand that the religious activities engaged in by his fledgling congregation constituted a "church," thereby providing him with the fair notice required by procedural due process.
The Rev. Mr. Cameron is an ordained minister of the Reformed Episcopal Church and the spiritual leader of the Mount Carmel Reformed Episcopal Church. The services consisting of prayers, a sermon, singing, and collections, conducted regularly every Sunday at the Rev. Mr. Cameron's home, were the same services the congregation previously conducted. The services were formal and liturgical and required certain religious equipment, including a prayer desk, a lectern for the church bible, a pulpit, a communion rail, and pews or chairs for the congregation. As defendant himself recognized in his affidavit, the services would be held in his house "untilindia

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A national-level volleyball player was hacked to death while she was practising with friends at Notunpukur in the outskirts of the city on Friday.

The victim, 14-year-old Sangita Aich, was a Class 9 student who had played volleyball twice at the national level and thrice at the state level. Police said the attacker, identified as Subrata Sinha (20), was reportedly furious over Aich spurning his advances several times in the recent past.

According to police, Sinha arrived at the practice camp on Friday evening and demanded that Aich speak to him. When she refused, he advanced towards her with a cleaver. According to NDTV, the girl’s coach — Swapan Das — tried to save Aich by trying to beat Sinha back with a chair. A


Gender equality impact in local communities

Project "Gender equality impact in local communities"

LORI has implemented of the project "Gender equality impact in local communities" with the support of the National Foundation for Civil Society Development. The project was carried out by five NGOs from five different Croatian counties which are covering far geographical points of Croatia and are concerned with different social aspects: NGO LORI – LGBT rights and empowerment of the LGBT community (Primorje-Gorski Kotar County), NGO Zora – human rights and gender equality (Međimurje County), K-zona – gender and media culture (City of Zagreb), Pobjede – protection and promotion of animal rights (Osjek-Baranja County) and NGO Bonsai – development of volunteer practice (Dubrovnik-Neretva County). The main carrier of the project worth 324.953,00 kn was K-Zona, which isthe organiser of the Vox Faminae festival in Zagreb every autumn since 2007.

The main aim of the project is the increase of the impact and appreciation of women's work in the local communities and civil sector. Therefore, through common campaign on the national level and 5 local campaigns the project was raising awareness of the general public on the topics that are central to the partner NGOs as well as lobbied for more efficient implementation and improvement of public policies.

First activity was the research among the NGOs in the areas of the counties involved, questioning why portion of male volunteers in much lower than female volunteers in Croatia (20% of men compared with 80%of women). Moreover, it checked and proved the assumption about marginalisation of the impact and


DCNS Pitches Its Submarine to Norway

The French naval defense firm DCNS has proposed a modified design of its diesel-electric Scorpene attack submarine as a possible option to replace the Norwegian Navy's in-service Ula-class submarines.

DCNS, in collaboration with Thales and FSI, has organized an Industry Day in Oslo, on 6 December, for consolidating its industrial cooperation proposal to Norway in the frame of new Submarine program. The French-Norwegian event is aimed at strengthening and consolidating the industrial long term cooperation between both Industries.

DCNS was shortlisted as one of the two potential candidates for the replacement of Ula-class submarine fleet in April 2016.

The organization of thematic workshops has been the occasion to focus on technological partnerships around specific projects and technical areas. Those following working meetings are part of theMonday, September 6, 2010

Abdul-Hafiz Abdul al-Rahman was released on Wednesday 1 September 2010 by the third individual military judge in Aleppo. Abdul Hafiz Abdul Rahman is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF. He was questioned at the first session on 30 August 2010, and his case will be returned to court on 19 September 2010.Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF welcomes his release and calls for there to be a declaration of his innocence because he did not exceed the limits of law in his activities as a human rights activist.


With Tesla stock crashing on Friday, suffering its worst weekly loss since 2016 as a result of the "tearful", hour-long phone interview Elon Musk gave to the New York Times, in which the full state of his mental and emotional instability were finally revealed, many Tesla investors were unaware of a bizarre subplot which played out on social media in the past week. It featured the rapper Azealia Banks and Elon Musk, who allegedly was tweeting while tripping on acid.

Several days after Musk shocked markets with his Aug. 7 tweet proposal to take Tesla into a private company "funding secured", Banks took to Instagram and her 600,000 to say that she had stayed at Musk’s house, an experience she compared to "a real-life episode” of the movie "GetOut." She then made an explosive allegation:

"I waited around all weekend while grimes coddled her boyfriend for being too stupid to know not to go on twitter while on acid," Banks wrote, referring to Mr. Musk’s girlfriend, the musician known as Grimes a Canadian electronic-music singer and producer whose real name is Claire Boucher.

Musk initially said he had never met Banks after she said she saw him freaking out about his going private tweet; this prompted much confusion whether Banks had been in the house in the first place despite her perhaps overly detailed description.

"I saw him in the kitchen tucking his tail in between his legs scrounging for investors to cover his ass after that tweet," Banks told Business Insider of her meeting with Musk last weekend.


"He was stressed and red in the face."

Banks also claimed that she could hear "that he was scrambling because he in fact - didn't have any funding secured."

Musk denied, and told Gizmodo that he "has never even met [Banks] or communicated with her in any way."

This denial echoed one made by his company Tesla earlier in the day when a spokesperson told Jalopnik that Banks’ claim that he tweeted while on drugs was “complete nonsense.”

But, on Friday, as part of his extensive interview with the NYT, Musk reversed his story and admitted that some of Banks' claims were true:

"I saw her on Friday morning, for two seconds at about a 30-foot distance as she was leaving the house," he said. "I'd just finished working out. She was notwithin hearing range. I didn't even realize who it was. That's literally the only time I've ever laid eyes on her."

She did, however, lay her eyes on him and her story added further fuel to the market's concerns about Musk's mental instability.

Banks had apparently been invited to stay at Musk's home by his girlfriend Grimes, who was planning to collaborate with Banks. The NYT reports that Banks had arrived in the predawn hours, invited to the house by Grimes. The two women had announced plans in June to collaborate on a project, and studio sessions were scheduled for that weekend.

But there was a miscommunication over the plans, Grimes’s representatives said, because Grimes and Mr. Musk had instead made arrangements to go out of town, the NYT reported.

Banks was


left alone in the house, hanging waiting for Grimes to return. She said she arrived at one of Musk's homes in Los Angeles early on Friday, August 10, but said she was left alone for days while Grimes comforted her boyfriend.

Banks finally left on Sunday night, at which point she lashed out at Musk and Grimes on her Instagram account.

"Staying in Elon musks house has been like a real like episode of 'Get Out', she wrote.

Azealia Banks exposing Elon Musk for tweeting while on Acid.. while she was waiting for Grimes at her home ... whewwww lord 😳 pic.twitter.com/i9BXWWrLAD — sadhoeflo (@sadhoeflo) August 13, 2018

She then slammed Musk and Grimes, saying "they're both two fucking crackheads. He's on tweeting on acid fucking up own stocks and whatnot. Areal life dummy."

"They bring me out there on the premise that we would hang and make music," Banks said. "But his dumbass kept tweeting and tucked his dick in between his ass cheeks once shit hit the fan."

In subsequent posts, Banks even suggested that the couple may have invited her to their home for "some weird threesome sex shit to begin with." She also went on a vicious rant about Grimes, who she branded an 'idiot, Musk who she called a 'beta male' and branded them both 'crackhead' in a rambling attack.

Her posts quickly went viral and her account of a brief interlude at the intersection of celebrity and technology was covered everywhere from Vogue to CNBC.

In the NYT interview, Musk who "alternated between laughter and tears", denied


A sign indicating an active cleanup is occurring hangs on the gates to Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood on September 13, 2015. The park was closed last year due to illegal dumping. Photo Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara

Test results at a Brentwood Park where Suffolk prosecutors say thousands of tons of tainted fill was illegally dumped show little to no contamination remains after the fill was removed, according to officials and an environmental consultant.

"In layman's terms, we got it all," said Glenn Neuschwender, president and chief executive of Enviroscience Consultants, the Ronkonkoma company overseeing the cleanup at Roberto Clemente Park for Islip Town.

In April, the town board approved a nearly $3 million contract with Gramercy Group Inc. of Wantagh to remove the fill, which prosecutors said wasdumped in the soccer fields and a recharge basin. That operation began in June, with three-quarters of the fill sent to the Blydenburgh landfill and the rest, which did not meet standards for protection of groundwater, trucked off Long Island.

In a letter Friday to Islip Deputy Parks Commissioner Inez Birbiglia, Enviroscience's senior scientist Greg Menegio wrote that almost all of the soil samples taken from the park after the fill was hauled away showed contaminant levels below the state standard for residential properties -- a stricter standard than required for properties like the park.

While one sample taken from the southern area of the soccer fields showed a level of a hydrocarbon -- benzo(a)anthracene, a suspected carcinogen -- slightly above that standard, Menegio wrote the result was not of


concern.

"Based on its slight exceedance, along with the proposed soil cover that will be installed as part of the park's restoration, all of the results are acceptable and demonstrate that the material removal plan was effective in removing the contaminated fill from the park," he wrote.

That one sample found the benzo(a)anthracene level at 1,030 micrograms per kilogram, while the standard is 1,000 micrograms per kilogram.

Benzo(a)anthracene was found at levels above restricted-residential standards -- a slightly less stringent standard than residential, and one typically used for parks -- in the fill at the park in the southwest corner of the soccer fields and on the southeast edge of the recharge basin, according to testing done by Enviroscience for the Suffolk County district attorney's office in May 2014.

In an emailto Islip Town officials Thursday, Syed Rahman, regional materials management engineer for the state Department of Environmental Conservation's Long Island region, said the DEC would accept the results of the sampling and allow the town to submit its report on the results of the cleanup.

"I think that at the end of the day, we can all just take consolation in the fact the cleanup is done," Town Supervisor Angie Carpenter said. "It's an absolutely welcome sigh of relief."

Carpenter said the town is now waiting for the DEC to give it direction on a restoration and management plan for the property -- expected to occur sometime this month.

"We're pleased with how this has all gone," she said. "We're in the final stage."

Six men and four companies were indicted in


December in connection with the dumping at that site and three others: a vacant lot in Central Islip, a six-home development for veterans in Islandia and a state-protected wetlands area in Deer Park.

All of the defendants have pleaded not guilty.

Neuschwender said a total of 25 sampling locations were tested after the fill was removed -- including five spots in a wooded area adjacent to the soccer fields where the fill had been pushed.

He said removal of the fill took about 42 days of work, and the amount of fill at the site ended up being just under 39,000 tons -- lower than the previous estimate, but higher than his company's original estimate of 32,000 tons.

The contaminants in the fill at the park included pesticides, hydrocarbons and metals, promptingthe Suffolk legislature in December to direct the county's health department to drill test wells at the park to ensure the fill had not impacted the groundwater below the site.

Results from those wells, released in July, showed pesticides at "unusual and unexpected" levels in groundwater at and around the park, but county scientists suspect the source is something other than the contaminated fill.

Grace Kelly-McGovern, spokeswoman for the county's Department of Health Services, would not comment on the results of the endpoint soil testing Friday, saying in a statement that "the remediation process is under the jurisdiction of the NYS DEC and we are available to assist them if they request our help."


cushions, absently fingering the finely embroidered shatra birds that symbolized her house. One who did not know her would have thought her stillness the result of trauma and grief; but Nacoya observed the focused intensity of the girl's dark eyes and was not fooled. Tense, angry, and determined, Mara already strove to assess the far-reaching political implications of the attack upon her person. She endured the ministrations of her maids without her usual restlessness, silent while the servants bathed her and dressed her wounds. A compress of herbs was bound around her bruised and lacerated right hand. Nacoya hovered anxiously by while Mara received a vigorous rub by two elderly women who had ministered to Lord Sezu in the same manner. Their old fingers were surprisingly strong; knotswould don a longer, heavier outer robe. But in the presence of her maids, and Nacoya, Mara could enjoy the immodest but comfortable lounging robe.

At her Lady's command a maid pulled aside a screen that opened onto a small section of the inner court garden, always available to Mara for reflection and contemplation. While a dozen servants could hurry on errands through the central courtyard of the house, the clever placement of screening shrubs and dwarf trees provided a cranny of green where their passing would not intrude.

Nacoya appeared as Mara seated herself before the opening. Silent, and showing signs of nervous exhaustion, the girl motioned for the nurse to sit opposite her. Then she waited.

'Mistress, I have brought a list of suitable alliances,' Nacoya opened.

Mara continued to


at his three sons and found Jiro studying Mara with interest. By the intensity of his expression, the second son found both the rank and the girl intriguing; a sensible youngster, he should welcome the marriage. Presently the boy sought his father's gaze and nodded yes. Jiro's expression was a little too avid and his nod too emphatic for Tecuma's liking. The boy knew power was a hairsbreadth from his grasp and was openly coveting it. Tecuma almost sighed; Jiro was young and would learn. Still, there was a discordant note in all this the old man didn't like. For an instant he considered sending the girl away, leaving her to the not too tender mercies of the Minwanabi. Ambition prevented him. For his son to reach aturned their heavy burden over to his servants. As he walked out through the main door of the town house, where an escort of Acoma soldiers waited to accompany him home, he heard Buntokapi laugh. To the long-suffering servants it was unclear who, at that moment, was the happier man.

The estate settled sleepily into the routines of midsummer. The maids no longer sported bruises in the mornings; Keyoke's subordinates lost their harried look; and Jican's whistling as he returned from the needra meadows to take up his pens and parchment once again became a reliable way to tell time. Aware that this calm was an illusion, the temporary result of her husband's long absences, Mara fought the tendency to grow complacent. Though the arrangement was fortunate, the courtesan


lightly on his sword, though he was no match for a true warrior.

Mara concentrated solely upon the beautiful courtesan before her. In a voice low enough that the soldiers by the door could not hear, she said, 'My honour guard Papewaio was murdered last night, but not by a thief. I say to you that your honour guard, Shimizu, ran a sword through his heart, thereby forfeiting the surety of the Minwanabi.'

A breeze off the lake dimmed the lamp. Teani smiled in the shadow and abruptly waved Nacoya over to pour her tea. 'You are no threat to the Minwanabi, Lady Mara.' Contemptuously, as if her presence were warmly welcome, she crumbled spice bark into the cup, raised it to her lips, and drank. 'Papewaio cannot return toare a true daughter of the Empire, Mara of the Acoma.'

Left no precedent upon which to model a response, Mara could only bow deeply and accept the accolade. Overwhelmed by emotion, she watched Tecuma walk back to rejoin his retinue. All alone, she entered the contemplation glade of her ancestors.

The path to the natami seemed changeless as time. Sinking down on the cool earth where many an ancestor had knelt ahead of her, Mara ran her fingers over the shatra bird carved into the stone. Quietly, but in a voice that trembled with joy, she said, 'Rest you well, my father, and you, my brother. He who took your lives is now but ashes, and your blood is avenged. The honour of the Acoma is intact, and your


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Image copyright PA Image caption Pro-choice rights campaigners held banners at the Supreme Court in London on Thursday morning

A human rights organisation has lost a Supreme Court appeal over the legality of Northern Ireland's abortion law.

The court dismissed an appeal brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC).

But a majority of judges said the existing law was incompatible with human rights law in cases of fatal foetal abnormality and sexual crime.

Unlike other parts of the UK, the 1967 Abortion Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.

Currently, a termination is only permitted in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.

The commission lost on the issue of whether they hadThe law on abortion in Northern Ireland explained

As a result, the judges did not make a formal declaration of incompatibility, which would normally lead to a change in the law.

The ruling comes just weeks after the Republic of Ireland voted decisively in a referendum to reform the country's strict abortion laws, which had effectively banned all terminations.

The referendum reignited a debate about Northern Ireland's law, with some calling for reform while others - including the biggest party, the Democratic Unionist Party - remain opposed to changing the law.

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The NICHR had argued that the current law subjects women to "inhuman and degrading" treatment, causing "physical and mental torture," in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Lord Kerr said that, by a majority of five


in a bitter row over a flawed green energy scheme.

Prime Minister Theresa May has previously said that a government in Northern Ireland should deal with the issue.

Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley, responding to an urgent question in the House of Commons, said the government is "carefully considering" the judgement.

"The analysis and comments from the court on the issue of incompatibility will be clearly heard by this house and politicians in Northern Ireland," she said.

Les Allamby, from NIHRC, said it was "disappointed" at the ruling but that it fell to the UK government to change Northern Ireland's law "without delay".

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption 'Five years too long' for NI abortion change

Grainne Taggart, from Amnesty International, said the ruling was a "very important and longoverdue vindication of women's rights in Northern Ireland".

"All eyes are now on Theresa May and her government. She cannot allow women in Northern Ireland to suffer on her watch," she added.

Fellow campaigner Sarah Ewart said she was "extremely relieved that the court recognised there has been a breach of human rights for women who go through a situation of a fatal foetal abnormality".

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption 'Westminster should not interfere'

Ms Ewart has campaigned for a change to Northern Ireland's law in cases of fatal foetal abnormality after she travelled to England for an abortion in 2013 after being told her unborn child would not survive outside the womb.

Peter Lynas, from anti-abortion group Both Lives Matter said he welcomed the ruling and the recognition


in scenes reminiscent of the Martinelli years, the police reacted violently to disperse the 50-strong protesters, destroying their equipment, trashing their camps, and burning their banners.

The police deny improper use of force.

Many fled the scene before 20 people were arrested (including several minors) and dispatched to the city of Santiago for processing.

While in the private meeting with Saint Malo, the Cacique of Muná, Chito Gallardo, and the Mayor of Muná, Rolando Carpintero, learned of the arrests and quickly intervened to have them returned. The injured were soon taken to the Casa Misionero for treatment and for the Vice President to bear witness.

According to one person at the scene, the vice president appeared coolly uninterested.

For several weeks, hundreds of police units have been stationed in and around Tolé, includingnumerous SENAFRONT troops, an elite militarized squad funded in part by the United States. SENAFRONT is normally charged with defending the jungle frontier with Colombia, making their presence of considerable significance.

Under the US Leahy Law on Human Rights, the US Department of State is prohibited from providing military assistance to foreign units who violate human rights with impunity.

The clashes on the Interamericana foreshadow greater unrest as Barro Blanco’s owner, Generadora del Istmo (GENISA) – a corporation owned by the controversial Kafie family, now mired in a high-level corruption scandal in Honduras – scrambles to complete the final 5-10% of the hydro dam’s construction.

The company has never sought the free, informed, and prior consent of the indigenous communities living on the banks of the Tabasará river, while the project’s


funders, the Dutch and German investment banks FMO and DFE, admit to failing their own due diligence tests. Unfortunately, all funds have now been dispensed to GENISA and the banks themselves made a point of threatening the government when it suspended the project earlier this year.

The negative impacts of Barro Blanco have been identified by scores of technical teams, independent experts, international observers, and the United Nations. Those same impacts are nowhere to be found in GENISA’s Environmental Impact Assessment. Among them, the dam will displace several indigenous and campesino communities, including the community of Kiad, where a unique school and cultural centre is developing the written script of the Ngäbere language.

Additional impacts include the loss of farm plots and fish stocks — vital sources of sustenance forindigenous and campesino communities in the region – as well as the loss of several ancient petroglyphs, part of Panama’s national patrimony and a special significance to the Mama Tata religion, a Ngäbe revivalist movement that syncretises indigenous animism and Catholicism.

Among the most devout followers of Mama Tata are the M22 resistance movement, who successfully blockaded the entrance to the dam for 38 consecutive days – until just ten days ago. International news footage of the groups praying and dancing on the highway may have influenced the government’s decision to enforce a ‘soft’ take-over of the site entrance. In contrast to the force deployed outside Tolé, Ngäbe women lying in the path of machinery were carefully removed.

Construction of the dam has now resumed and M22 are continuing to


pray day and night by the highway. They complain of psychological intimidation with the police shining high intensity lamps on their camp during the night and aggressively entering the temple they have built near the river banks.

For his part, Panamanian President Varela, who continues to talk condescendingly about giving the Ngäbe ‘the keys to the dam’ upon its completion, appears to have acquiesced to pressures from his own business community, tacitly enabling foreign corporations who respect neither the environment nor international law nor indigenous or human rights.

The Supreme Court has cheered him on by annulling a moratorium on hydro projects passed by the environment agency, ANAM, who were concerned with the stress being placed on Panama’s delicate but biologically rich watersheds. With the crackdown last week, the PanamanianOptical stress rosette based on caustics.
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to depend on the biaxial stress field existing at the place of the perforation, as well as on the mechanical and optical properties of the material and the geometry of the optical setup. The double-kidney shape of the caustic presented a maximum diameter D(max), which coincided with one of the axes of symmetry of the caustic. The other axis of symmetry, which passed through the cusps of the caustic, coincided with the axis of maximum principal stress, while the size of D(max) yielded the principal stress difference. Thus, the caustic constitutes a sensitive stress rosette, which defines the orientation and the size of the stress field.Richards and Dr. Paul Keller. Both gave her medication, treatment and advocated certain exercises. Because their administrations appeared to have negative results, plaintiff was referred to Dr. Snow. She first saw him on August 12, 1960 for what was diagnosed as a chronic bursitis condition.
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A man was leaving the coffee shop early one morning when he saw a funeral procession entering the cemetary nearby. There were two hearses, followed by a man with a pit bull on a leash, and behind them about 100 men in single file. He couldn't stand it so he approached the man to ask what was going on. The man told him that in the first hearse was his wife who was killed by his dog. "That awful, who is in the second hearse?" "Her mother jumped in to help her and the dog attacked her as well."
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Why is New Jersey full of toxicparrots to the priest's house. His two male parrots are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage.

The lady puts her two female parrots in with the male parrots and the female parrots say, "Hi, we're prostitutes. Wanna have some fun?"

One male parrot looks over at the other male parrot and says, "Put the beads away. Our prayers have been answered.!"

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Two ranchers were in a bar bragging to each other about the size of their spreads. The first one said "I can leave my house at daybreak and drive all day without leaving my property."

The second one leaned back and responded "Yea, I had a car like that once."


A security researcher has revealed a method for accessing applications running on a locked Samsung handset.

The flaw is somewhat similar to one that was revealed by another researcher earlier this year on iPhones. On a Samsung handset, users can, from the lock screen, pretend to dial an emergency services number, quickly dismiss it, and with some sleight of hand, quickly gain access to any app or widget, or the settings menu in the device. The dialer can also be launched, allowing the "hacker" to place a call.

According to Terence Eden, who discovered the flaw and posted a video on YouTube showing it in action, the technique is only possible on Samsung's Android version, and not on the stock Android option that Google launches. Eden has only tested theclaim  the extent and longevity of the water leakage and the damage it allegedly caused. Additionally Mr. Moore said that a year after he moved into the house he drilled through the basement floor and found "water, spring water." He also stated that the trouble was at least partially caused by Worthington's failure to properly grade the land surrounding the house. Moore testified that in an attempt to prevent the leakage he regraded this area, but his efforts were basically unsuccessful.
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image copyright Police image caption The man was last seen heading down a nearby alleyway on a bicycle

A man wearing a skeleton mask and armed with a walking stick tried to rob a convenience store in Hampshire.

The raider burst into the Best One store in Havant, Hampshire, shortly after 09:45 BST on Monday and demanded cash.

He threatened a 34-year-old female employee, but fled with nothing.

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Anniversaries

Harding

Pat and Bert Harding are celebrating their 66th Wedding Anniversary-and Pat's 90th birthday! Come help them celebrate with an Open House on Sunday, March 17th from 12:00 to 2:00pm at the First Christian Church at 900 Lincolnshire Place in Coralville. Pat was born on March 17, 1923 in Lake Williams, North Dakota. Pat and Bert were married on March 8, 1947 at the First Christian Church in Altoona, Iowa.

They have five children: Ron (Mary) Harding of Chandler, Arizona; Bob Harding of Coralville; Sue (John) Galea of Terre Haute, Indiana; Cathy (Art) Chapman of Lone Tree; and Rick Harding of Waimea, Hawaii. They have eleven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. No gifts please; just bring a story to share. If unable to attend, a card may be sent to themtheir 40th Wedding Anniversary. They were married March 3, 1973, at Zion Lutheran Church in Iowa City. They are the parents of two children: Matthew (Gina) Reynolds of Cedar Rapids and Amanda Reynolds (Augusto Meglio) of Schaumburg, Illinois. They also have three grandchildren: Kyra and Jacob Reynolds and Mason Meglio.

Wilson

Dale and Judy Wilson of rural Iowa City will celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary on March 2nd. Dale and the former Judy Ernst were married March 2, 1963 at Zion Lutheran Church in Iowa City.

Their children are Tracy Hodges of Coralville, Troy Wilson (Jillian) of Kalona and the late Todd Wilson. They also have six grandchildren.

Zikmund

Thomas and Roberta (Voss) Zikmund are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary! They were married on February 16, 1963 at St. Charles Borromeo in Melrose


Park, Illinois. Thomas, from Bensenville, and Roberta, from Stone Park, met on a whim in July of 1962. Tom's friend, on his way to meet his girlfriend and one of her friends (Roberta), happened to drive by and offer Tom a ride to join them. Roberta's youthful grace and Tom's witty charm made them a match for life. They have three children: Bruce (Kiki) of Orland Park, Illinois; Kyle (Stephanie) of Roselle, Illinois; and Todd (Erin) of Coralville. They also have six grandchildren. After raising their three sons in the Chicagoland suburbs, the couple is now enjoying retirement in Iowa City.

Lavely

Calvin and Betty Lavely celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary this week with family. They were married at the Trinity Methodist Church in Riverside, Iowa on February 14, 1953.They are the parents of four proud children: Judy (Jim) Houghton of Iowa City, John (Julie) of Oxford, Jeff (Becky) of Riverside and Jane of North Liberty. They are blessed with twelve grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Calvin and Betty reside in Iowa City and enjoy spending time with family and friends, playing bingo and greeting people at their wooden bowl booth during the summer Farmer's Market. This special occasion was celebrated with love and good wishes at a family dinner in the Amanas.

Forbes

Keith and Ruth Forbes celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary on February 14th!. They are the parents of Paul Forbes (deceased), Gwen (Gary) Schmitt, and Kevin (Lisa) Forbes. They have eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, another great-grandchild expected in July, and two great-stepchildren. Cards may be sent to


them at:

Lone Tree Care Center501 E. Pioneer RoadLone Tree, IA 52755.

Rohm

Charles and Karen (Kemper) Rohm are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary! They were married on February 16, 1963 in Davenport. They have five children: Todd of Honolulu, Hawaii; Jeff of Coralville; Lisa of Tiffin; Mark of Des Moines; and Deb of Milwaukee. Family and friends are invited to help them celebrate on Sunday, February 17th from 11:00am - 3:00pm at North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville (2250 Holiday Road).

No gifts please.

Shay

William "Bill" and Mary "Bobbie" (Quinlan) Shay of Iowa City are celebrating their 65th Wedding Anniversary. They were married February 7th 1948 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Clinton, Iowa.

Weldon

Jim and Sandy Weldon of Oxford are celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary! Jim Weldon and Sandy Shanahan were married onJanuary 20, 1973 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Williamsburg. They have three children: Aimee (Gary) Pitlick of Oxford; Allison (Shawn) Donovan of North Liberty; and Andy Weldon of Swisher. They also have eight grandchildren. Family and friends are invited to an impromptu SURPRISE 40th Anniversary Celebration this evening at 6:30pm in Williamsburg at Stone Creek Country Club.

Durian

Fred and Sue (Paul) Durian are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary today! They were married on Jan. 26, 1963 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Iowa City. They are the parents of Denise (Mike) Gannon and Kelly (Ann) Durian. They have eight grandchildren: Rachael, Jacob, Maria, Jonathan and James Gannon and Erin, Leigh and Gwyneth Durian.Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad! Thank you for all that you have done for us.

We love


you, Your Children and Grandchildren

Jenn

Melvin and Marcia (Willey) Jenn of Iowa City are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They were married December 20, 1962, at St Mary's Catholic Church in Iowa City.

They are the parents of: Kevin (Lynn) Jenn of Lakeville, Minnesota; Tina Jenn (deceased) and Melissa (Sam) McDonald of Rosemount, Minnesota. They have five grandchildren: Kailey and Nicki Jenn and Mason, Sydney and Shayla McDonald.

The couple will celebrate in the spring with a family vacation to Cancun, Mexico.

Help them celebrate by sending cards to:

1505 Hollywood BlvdIowa City, IA 52240

Ruppert

Jeff and Jean Ruppert of Iowa City were married on December 9, 1977.Dear Mom and Dad,You set a wonderful example of the things that really matter in life ? things like taking time to laugh and love and listen.Thank you for the closeness we have as a family, for all the good times we still share, and especially for the first and best lesson you ever taught ... how to love.

Happy 35th Anniversary!!!

Love,Jennifer, Jon, Michaela and Ryan Ashleigh

Bednarz

William and Linda Bednarz are celebrating their 35th Wedding Anniversary. They were married on November 26, 1977 at St. Joseph's Church in Bellevue, Iowa. They have two children: Renee (Dan) Sweeting and Ryan (Ariel) Bednarz. They also have two grandchildren, Piper and William Sweeting. Another grandchild, Ryan and Ariel's baby, is due in April. They are planning a trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Fisher

Jim and Sue Fisher of Coralville are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary tomorrow! They were married on November 11, 1962. They have two children: Scott (Lori)


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As explained in the introduction, the origin of the quick loss of magnetization following the interaction of a ferromagnetic sample with an ultrafast femtosecond laser pulse is still under active debate. The demagnetization process occurs within two kinds of physical interactions. The first is related to the electromagnetic ordering of the system induced by the polarization of the external electromagnetic field, while the second is linked to its internal disorder created by the associated thermal effects. In the last case, the heat filled by the laser generates an increase of the system temperature, and the thermal agitation modifies randomly each spin-orientation leading to a diminution on the average magnetization of the sample.

The coherent magneto-optical signal extracted from the experiment performed inNot An Easy Night Flight

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To illustrate what it is like to fly a Piper Saratoga along John F. Kennedy Jr.'s route at night, CBS News Correspondent Jose Diaz-Balart made the journey from New Jersey to Martha's Vineyard himself this weekend. He flew with Steve Grady, a pilot with 34 years of experience, in the same model of airplane.

Typically preparations for a trip start in the flight planning room, where the pilot calls the flight service station and gets the latest weather information. "Then by calling the flight service, they would take my registration number and have a record of the fact that I familiarized myself with the weather along the route," Grady told Diaz-Balart.

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