nutrition, neurology and active rehabilitation. He practices at Schenck Chiropractic in Williston. Dr. Schenck can be reached at info@vtchiro.net or 802-878-8330.

Police are trying to identify a suspicious man who has been spotted in town. On April 1, police said, the man was reportedly “watching children” near the tennis courts and pool in the Southridge development. On April 5, it was reported that a man jumped out of the bushes at two elementary school girls on the bike path near Old Stage Road. Later that day, he was seen on Metcalf Road riding a bicycle, according to police reports.

The man is described as “older with a graying beard and straggly hair,” according to the report. He may have glasses and be wearing a Boston Red Sox hat, dark shirtdelaying the Project would be contrary

to the public interest, but also because Logan had failed to establish that it was likely to

succeed on the merits of its underlying claims. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.

§ 1292(a)(1), we AFFIRM.

                                     BACKGROUND

       The Canadian River Compact (“Compact”) allocates water from the Canadian River

watershed to the states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Following its ratification,

New Mexico constructed the Ute Reservoir (“Reservoir”) on the Canadian River just west

of Logan as a way to store the water New Mexico had been allocated


has the option to purchase up to 24,000 AFY for beneficial

consumptive uses, including municipal and industrial, sanitation, irrigation, and recreation

uses. The UWC is a twelve-member consortium that includes the Eastern New Mexico

Water Utility Authority (“ENMWUA”) members (the municipalities of Clovis, Elida,

Grady, Melrose, Portales, and Texico; and Curry and Roosevelt counties) and the UWC

Quay County entities (Logan, City of Tucumcari, and Quay County). Under the

most-current iteration of the contract, 16,450 AFY is allocated to the ENMWUA members

and the remaining 7,550 AFY is allocated to the UWC Quay County entities. While the

UWC is responsible for funding and constructing any water diversion or conveyance

facilities, the contract makes clear that all diversion projects, and any water withdrawals

               evidence from its probe to local and international media, heaping pressure on the Saudis to provide answers. On Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on the kingdom to reveal "the whole truth" about the murder.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has said that Riyadh is "determined to uncover every stone" in its investigation.

"We want to make sure that those who are responsible are punished," he told Fox News on October 21.

"We are determined to find out all the facts and we are determined to punish those who are responsible for this murder."

'Non-transparent trials'

Political leaders in the United States and Europe, as well as the United Nations and international human rights groups, have urged the Saudis to conduct a thorough, transparent, timely investigation and deliver accountability for the murder.

But


in prison are prevented from talking to lawyers.

Antoine Madelin, director for international advocacy at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), agreed with Aboueldahab's view that the chances of a fair trial in the kingdom are small.

"Saudi Arabia has proven itself as a country where there is no independence of the judiciary and [has] a track record of human rights violations, particularly when these trials regard the Saudi Arabian authorities," Madelin told Al Jazeera.

"Anything related to this crime will neither be independent nor democratic," he argued.

Death penalty?

Last year, at least 146 executions took place in the kingdom, Amnesty International said in a report.

According to Sultan Barakat, director of the centre for conflict and humanitarian studies at the Doha Institute in Qatar, if the suspects are executed, the truthcompared to only 3.1 per 100,000 that year in Chile. In 2013, Mexico’s Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice analyzed crime rates and compiled a list of the most dangerous cities in the world: Guatemala City came in at #12.

5. South Africa

Economically, life remains difficult for most people in South Africa, where the homicide rate was 32 per 100,000 people in 2013, according to U.N. data. The apartheid system was an economic cancer in South Africa, and the country is still suffering from apartheid’s lingering effects. South Africa’s black middle class grew by 78% between 1991 and 1996, yet the country continues to be plagued by brutal income inequality; in 2011, 61% of economic consumption in South Africa came from the top 20% of wage earners.


66 per 100,000 residents in Lae and 33 per 100,000 residents in the National Capital District.

In recent months, student protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Peter O’Toole over corruption allegations have been turning violent, and in June, a Papua New Guinea court issued an injunction barring those protests from college campuses. But in a country where illiteracy is around 37% and about half of the population of the largest city, Port Moresby, live in shantytown slums, violent crime and unrest come as no surprise.had a missense mutation, which replaced Val138 with Phe in the Ail protein. The strains of the caucasica subspecies had an AGT insertion in the ail gene, resulting in Ser148 insertion in the polypeptide chain. The changes in the ail sequence probably exerted no effect on ail expression, since the strains of all subspecies were resistant to blood serum complement.


me to pursue transition so as to identify myself with a greater cause/ideology--one which professed to ease my body dysphoria/dysmorphia with a 100% success rate."

"BPD makes self-identification difficult."

2. Autism

There is a well-documented overlap between transgendered and autistic populations. According to Kids on the Edge: The Gender Clinic, a documentary aired in November 2016, fully half of all referrals to the Tavistock Gender Clinic in London were diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum.

Kathleen Levinson is a social worker who is on the autism spectrum and has a daughter who is also autistic. When her daughter was 16, she decided she was transgender. At age 18, after just two sessions with a "gender therapist", she was approved for a complete double-mastectomy, which was covered by insurance and performed by the therapist'ssurgeon friend. The daughter is so mentally disabled that she is not even capable of handling her own financial affairs, but this was of no concern to the "gender therapist". She also had such a limited understanding of transgenderism that she believed taking testosterone would "grow her a penis", a myth that was perpetuated at her PFLAG support group.

From Desisterresister's detransitioner survey:

"I'd always felt like I had a male brain and I think it had heavily to do with my inability to relate to other females due to pretty secvere ADHD."

"My alienation from femaleness was related in part to how ADD features made me unable to meet the gendered expectations (behaviorally and aesthetically) others had for me."

"My autism made me see other females as a completely different species."

3.


him in his wish to transition. He lived for 20 years as a woman, but never really felt right. It was only after years of GOOD psychotherapy that he realized that it was OK to be a guy and have feminine traits. Unfortunately, he is left with a permanently screwed up hormonal system.

8. Parent's wishes for a child of the other gender

It's hard to believe, but there are many documented cases.

Consider the sad story of Nancy Verhelst, who was legally euthanized in Belgium after a botched sex-change operation. Her patents hated and rejected her because she was a girl and they wanted another boy. So she tried to become a boy, and when it didn't work, she took her life.

In Williams vs Frymire (2012), the mother of aWhile Gran Turismo Sport and its new, online-only e-sports focus were released to a generally positive critical reception in October, old-school fans of PlayStation's flagship racing title—your humble author included—were left craving for a traditional, singleplayer campaign experience that defined Gran Turismo games of yesteryear. Luckily for us, developers Polyphony Digital are addressing those criticisms head-on.

In a blog post, Polyphony has detailed a series of free updates coming to GT Sport over the next couple of months that promise to deliver a full-fledged singleplayer campaign dubbed the "GT League" in addition to 15 new cars. "GT League" should look and feel familiar to whoever played a game in the franchise that wasn't GT Sport, incorporating classic championship labels such as the "Sunday Cup" and "Clubman Cup." While the


Our Father who art in heaven, not father Peter Bernardone.” As Julien Green notes in his biography, God’s Fool: The Life and Times of Francis of Assisi (Harper and Row, 1987, p. 84):

To strip himself of the external signs of wealth, of the clothes in which he had tasted all the pleasures of the world – and the pleasure of a fine appearance meant a good deal to him – to abandon the pride of his youth, showed everyone that Francis violently repudiated his entire past. The renunciation in the presence of the crowd was in itself, according to medieval mentality, a juridical act. From now on, Francis, with nothing to his name, was taking sides with the outcast and the disinherited.

Born in 1181 the son of aprosperous merchant in the Umbrian town of Assisi, he was in his youth like any other youth – easy going, pleasure-seeking and irresponsible. After however a prolonged illness, and after two powerful spiritual experiences, he began to avoid the company of his boon companions. He began to withdraw more and more from festivities and revels altogether, wanting instead to spend more time in prayer and contemplation around the countryside and in the caves of Assisi. He spoke to a friend of a “special treasure”. People thought he meant to get married and asked: “Are you thinking of taking a wife, Francis?” And he would answer them: “I shall marry a nobler and lovelier bride than you have ever seen, one who surpasses all others in beauty and excels


them all in wisdom” – meaning, of course, Lady Poverty, even if he had then only the dimmest presentiment of her spiritual existence.

It was at this time that Francis took to nursing lepers, tending the most repulsive of the victims in the lazar houses near Assisi. His identity with the poor was made plain when, on a pilgrimage to Rome, wearing the poor man’s rags, he changed places for a day with a beggar. One day, after returning from Rome, in the midst of begging for the poor at church doors, just outside the walls of Assisi, in the small ruined church of San Damiano, he stopped to pray before an icon of Christ crucified. Painted as it was in the Byzantine style, it showed not a contorted,around him, the Church extending north, south, east, and west, the “One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church” as institutionalized then throughout western Europe, was itself falling into ruins, filled as it was with corruption, materialism, and crusading violence. It did not take long for Francis to see the bigger picture. Gradually like-minded souls gathered around him to live the gospel life, and when finally his company grew to eleven, with himself making the twelfth, the Pope blessed him and approved the simple way of life he embraced, which was based on a few gospel sayings. The pope, who happened to be Innocent III, one of the most important and powerful popes in the entire history of the Church, had experienced two dreams, a dream in which he saw


a palm tree growing up at his feet, and another dream in which he saw the Poverello propping up the Lateran, which seemed ready to fall. His sense of the first dream was that, as a seedling palm tree growing at his feet, this Little Poor Man of Assisi would, in good time, grow to overshadow himself, the tiara-crowned successor of Peter.

That was in 1209. From this grew the mendicant Order of Friars Minor. Completely orthodox in Catholic belief, committed to utter poverty both collectively and individually, the brotherhood of friars was sent away by Francis two by two on missions throughout Italy and beyond. A powerful preacher himself, he travelled tirelessly, to the extent of attempting even to evangelize the Muslims in Palestine. By the time thatFrancis seventeen years later on October 3, 1226 – blind, sick, bleeding from the stigmata – was laid naked on the bare earth in accordance with his final request to embrace Sister Death, the Friars Minor had spread all over Catholic Europe, a band of them having reached England two years before.

The repair of the Church – One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic – was well underway. As Brother Ramon, an Anglican Franciscan Friar (SSF) notes in his book Franciscan Spirituality: Following St. Francis Today (SPCK, 1994, p. 170):

The Franciscan revolution in the thirteenth century shattered the complacency and hypocrisy of the medieval Church, and Pope Innocent III almost bit off more than he could chew when he recognized in Francis the friar he had seen in his dream,


his shoulder supporting the tottering Church of the Lateran, for Francis was not in the game of promoting ecclesiastical hierarchical power in a corrupt Christendom.

Indeed, the game that Francis was playing was another game entirely. And although one could say that Francis was initiating “a movement for religious renewal”, it was certainly not in any sense a game of “reformation” – or for that matter a game of “counter-reformation” – that he was playing, the heretical Waldensians, Brothers of the Free Spirit, and Cathars being at that time in full competition with the Catholic Church. As P.H. Felder puts it (as quoted in Omer Englebert, Saint Francis of Assisi, 1950, p. 238):

That St. Francis was a social reformer such as, since Jesus Christ, the world had not seen,Gospel to souls.

To give the Gospel to souls, that was the game, that was the passion, that was the God-given mission of Saint Francis – not the polemical business of pushing reforms onto an errant Church – that, and awakening in souls a reverence for the Blessed Sacrament, the Body and Blood of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine in the Holy Eucharist on the altar – for, as he says forthrightly in his Testament, dictated just before his death (Marion A. Habig, ed., St. Francis of Assisi – Writings and Early Biographies: English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of St. Francis, Franciscan Herald Press, 1983, p. 68ff):

And the Lord gave me with such a faith in the churches, that in simplicity I would thus


love and honor as my lords. And I do not wish to discover if they are sinners, because I behold in them the Son of God, and they are my lords. And for this reason I do this: because in this world I see nothing with my bodily eyes of Him who is the most high Son of God except His most holy Body and His most holy Blood, which they receive and which they alone minister to others.

And these most holy mysteries above all else I desire to be honored and adored and kept in precious places. Whenever I shall find writings with His most holy names and words in unbecoming places, I wish to gather them up and I ask that they be gathered up andlegend of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), she who was among the first to become a tertiary of the Order founded by Francis, she who longed to become one of the poor just as Francis did, she whose feast day is tomorrow:

Elisabeth, daughter of a king and wife of a prince, was known for her acts of charity, her penance, and her vigils. Her husband Ludwig, a capable ruler and a brave soldier, often held Elizabeth’s hands as she knelt praying at night beside his bed. One day, surprised by Ludwig, who met her unexpectedly as she went secretly on an errand of mercy to the hungry poor, the bread she was trying to conceal was suddenly turned into roses.

Roses – because humanity, no matter if they be


the hungry poor or if they be the hungry rich, shall not live by bread alone; and because, whether it is a matter of the transformation of bread and wine on the altar or whether it is a matter of a wealthy young man suddenly springing from his horse and kissing a leper, the rose is simply, as Angelus Silesius has said, without an explanation. She blooms because she blooms.

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White nationalist and alt-right mouthpiece Richard Spencer was escorted out of the Conservative Political Action Conference by security guards on Thursday, reportedly on the grounds that his views don't align with those of the conference.

According to tweets by New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi, Spencer was mid-interview when security walked up and ejected him from the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Maryland where the conference is taking place, despite the fact that he had purchased a ticket to be there.

A controversial figure even in the most conservative circles, Spencer is best known for his attempts to mainstream his outspoken brand of white nationalism and anti-Semitism, and for saying things like, "America belongs to white men."

Spencer most recently made headlines when he was punched by an anti-fascistaction.
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Founder of ImagesBazaar, the World's largest collection of Indian images. A World Record holder in photography, he has also received many awards and accolades in recognition of his work. To mention a few; Star Youth Achiever Award, Young Creative Entrepreneur Award and Pioneer of Tomorrow Award. He also featured on the cover of the Business World Magazine as one of the most "Promising Young Entrepreneurs of India". His thoughts have been echoed by almost all the leading magazines, newspapers and television channels such as The Times Of India, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times, India Today, CNBC-TV18, IBN7, ET Now


Richard Dawkins interviews famous admirers of science such as Douglas Adams and David Attenborough, and asks them why science means so much to them. We also see how dangerous ignorance of science can be in classrooms, courts, and beyond.
With so many expressing paranormal beliefs and ignorance of science, Dawkins encourages viewers to contrast these ancient superstitions with the power and beauty of our scientific achievements and understanding.
Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain's leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2007.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised theIan Broudie:Guitars, Elevator and his new album

One of Britain’s best loved guitar pop acts The Lightning Seeds are on the comeback trail with their first new album in a decade due for release.

Formed by acclaimed Liverpool musician and producer Ian Broudie, the band first enjoyed success with the lilting psychedelic anthem ‘Pure’ in 1989. One time Specials singer Terry Hall helped with the song writing as the band produced a number of well received albums, before being dropped due to poor sales.

Broudie played in Liverpool’s fledgling punk scene in the 1970s (he was a member of the band Big in Japan, which also featured Holly Johnson Bill Drummond) but made his name in the industry as a producer. He was also a founder member of John Peel favourites


the Original Mirrors in the early ’80s. and

Broudie worked with bands like Echo and the Bunnymen, The Colourfield, The Pale Fountains, Shack, The Icicle Works, Ellery Bop and The Fallhit with the song “Pure”. under the name ‘Kingbird’ before putting together the Lightning Seeds at the end of the 1980s, scoring a debut

The act produced a selection of well-received singles and albums in the 1990s and twice took football anthem “Three Lions” (with comediansFrank Skinner and David Baddiel) to number one, with different lyrics for the Euro ‘96 and France ‘98 tournaments. (For his own part, Broudie is a supporter of Liverpool.)

Broudie subsequently concentrated on production for other bands working with the likes of The Coral, The Subways, The Zutons, French rock band Noir Desir for their firstlong album Veuillez rendre l’âme (à qui elle appartient), The Rifles and on a handful of I Am Kloot songs, before announcing a solo album under his own name at the end of 2004.

A band discussion led to a new direction, becoming less production based and more like a functioning, touring group. Resigning to Epic Records the Lightning Seeds scored hit after hit in the Britpop era, culminating in the song ‘Three Lions’ - a song that seemed to capture the mood of the English nation in the long hot summer of 1996.

The band last released an album in 1999, before Ian Broudie split the band to become a full time producer. His neat pop touch can be clearly heard in band’s such as The Coral, whose debut


which bars foreign judgments being enforced in the US when it would go against the First Amendment, but this is slightly different. Google is arguing that a US court should, at the very least, stop Canada from being able to enforce the blockade in the US, because that violates both the First Amendment and Section 230 of the CDA.

This Court has personal jurisdiction over the Defendants because, inter alia, the Defendants have knowingly engaged in a course of conduct whereby they sought and obtained injunctive orders in the Equustek v. Jack litigation in Canada that are expressly aimed at requiring Google to undertake actions in the United States—specifically, to delist search results in the United States and throughout the world. In November 2012 Equustek served Google with aALL nations. That cannot be.

Of course Google is now going to get those countries involved, Canada just claimed jurisdiction of its laws over the United States, and many other places as well.

The United States has long claimed jurisdiction of its laws over those of the rest of the world, for decades, really. American politicians, business people, and armed forces have long behaved as if other countries' and international laws don't apply to them when they're in those countries.

To wit, an apt example from Paul Slansky 'The Clothes have no Emperor', a diary of 'highlights' of the loopy Reagan administration:
1984-04-09 - One day after his administration announced it will not recognize the World Courts juristdiction over the mining of the Nicaraguan harbors, President Reagan proclaims May 1 as "Law


around wait idly in the Ziggurat’s shadow.

Just beyond the perimeter of the ruins lies Tallil air base, once bombed and later occupied by the Americans. Nearby is the gritty town of Nasiriya, through which invaders surged on their way to Baghdad in 2003. Ur escaped serious war damage.

The British team and an Italian one working at a Babylonian town in Abu Tbeira, 19 km from Ur, are the only international digging ventures now in Iraq outside the Kurdish north.

“This part of southern Iraq, ancient Babylonia, Sumer and Akkad before that, is probably the most important place in the world from the point of view of the origins of civilization,” says Moon, wearing a white headscarf against the sun and dust.

“No significant excavation has taken place here since thetoday. Even by the Euphrates, salination has ravaged the soil.

Yet thousands of years ago, successful farming was the bedrock of sophisticated city-states such as Ur and the powerful kingdoms in which they were sometimes welded together.

“The key to a lot of the functioning of society was the very rich agriculture and the concentration and control of that surplus to support priests, temple personnel, the hierarchy in general, armies and specialist producers of metalwork, pottery and everything else that made up the complete economy,” Campbell says.

“It was an enormously bureaucratic society,” he says of Ur at its zenith in 2,600 to 2,500 BC – a description that also fits modern Iraq. “Written records were being used to track goods being moved around, to communicate over long distances.

The British team


woman by turns charming and imperious, on his formidable wife Katharine.

Asked if any aspiring women crime writers had visited the present dig-house at Ur, Campbell grins: “Not so far, but if it happens, maybe that could be a source of sponsorship as well.”

The Ur region project is backed by Iraq’s State Board for Antiquities and Heritage, the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and the University of Manchester, plus private donors.

Woolley’s dig was sponsored by the British Museum and the Philadelphia University Museum, which house many of his finds.

Gertrude Bell, the British archaeologist and imperial administrator who founded the Iraq Museum in the 1920s and became head of antiquities, ensured many of the finest artefacts stayed in the country whose borders she helped draw.

Under a 1932 antiquitiespolitical skills have kept him at the pinnacle of power in Iraq since 2006, but the Shi’ite Muslim leader has yet to heal the wounds of a country traumatized by tyranny, occupation and communal strife.

His critics say he has exacerbated that legacy by gaining undue control over the army, police and security services and using them freely against Sunni Muslim and other political foes, while allowing grave abuses in prisons and detention centers.

Yet in April voters may well hand a third term to Maliki – a hardbitten political operator who emerged from obscurity to become prime minister nearly eight years ago – or at least give him a headstart in post-election wrangling for the job.

He spent much of his life before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 in exile


in Syria and Iran, plotting revolt and fearing betrayal.

Maliki was born in 1950 in Janaja, a southern village among date groves on the Euphrates, into a politically engaged family – his grandfather wrote poetry inciting rebellion against Iraq’s British occupiers and his father was a fervent Arab nationalist.

He secretly joined the Shi’ite Islamist Dawa party as a youth, attending Baghdad University’s Islamic law college before becoming a low-level bureaucrat in Hilla, south of the capital.

In 1979 he was briefly arrested and then fled, narrowly escaping Saddam’s police. His family’s land was seized and dozens of his relatives were killed over the next decade. He did not see his home village again until after the 2003 invasion.

That troubled history may color his outlook today.

“UTTERLY RUTHLESS”

“He has proved a fantasticallyand citizens expel the gunmen, but says the army will not assault the city.

The 63-year-old, who struggled for decades against Saddam’s Sunni-dominated regime as a member of the underground Shi’ite Islamist Dawa party, denies his outlook is sectarian.

“PERVERTS AND DEVIANTS”

“I am not fighting in Anbar because they are Sunnis, as I have also fought Shi’ite militias. Al Qaeda and militias are one – they both kill people and blow them up.

In 2008, he sent troops to suppress militias from rival Shi’ite factions which were controlled the oil hub of Basra.

Maliki lists ending sectarianism and militias among his core principles, along with promoting a strong, stable, unified and sovereign Iraq that poses no threat to its neighbors.

He must also balance relations with the United States, whose invasion brought Shi’ites


has also urged Maliki to reach out to Sunnis feeling disenfranchised in the post-Saddam era.

Maliki told Reuters the government would pay and arm anyone combating al Qaeda as part of “Sahwa” (Awakening) Sunni tribal militias that helped U.S. forces drive back the militants in Anbar in 2006-07.

FEAR OF SUNNI RESURGENCE

However, his offer may not herald political concessions to the Sunnis or a move toward genuine reconciliation – policy steps which would be hard to sell to his Shi’ite supporters, who are among the prime targets of al Qaeda suicide bombers.

“Like all Shi’ites, he’s very nervous – they have this tremendous fear of the Sunnis rising up and putting the Shi’ites and the Kurds back in their place,” said James Jeffrey, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

Noting Maliki’s effortshidden character.”

(Additional reporting by Suadad al-Salhy in Baghdad and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Bombs hit Iraq’s capital Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba on Wednesday, killing at least 59 people, police and hospital sources said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that militants were trying to set up an “evil statelet.”

In the deadliest incident, a bomb blew up in a funeral tent where mourners were marking the death two days ago of a Sunni Muslim pro-government militiaman, police said. It killed 18 people and wounded 16 in Shatub, a village south of Baquba.

Two years after U.S. troops left Iraq, violence has climbed back to its highest levels since the Sunni-Shi’ite bloodshed of 2006-2007, when tens of thousands of


the day before, as well as coordinated assaults by militants on a highway bridge and police station near Falluja.

A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden fuel tanker blew it up under the bridge near the town of Saqlawiya, about 10 km (six miles) north of Falluja, causing the bridge to collapse and destroying one of two army tanks parked on top, police said. Gunmen then attacked and destroyed the second tank.

Simultaneously, dozens of militants stormed a police station in Saqlawiya, forcing its occupants to surrender. Army helicopters later attacked the gunmen in the police station, but failed to evict them. Armed tribesmen hostile to al Qaeda were preparing an assault on the police station on Wednesday.

The wrecked bridge spans the main highway leading west from Baghdad across the vastSunni desert province of Anbar towards Syria and Jordan. Police said the truck bomber had driven from Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar.

(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed and Raheem Salman in Baghdad and Isabel Coles in Arbil; Editing by Mike Collett-White)

A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden fuel tanker blew it up under a highway bridge near the town of Saqlawiya, about 10 km (six miles) north of Falluja, causing the bridge to collapse and destroying one of two army tanks parked on top, police said. Gunmen then attacked and destroyed the second tank.

Simultaneously, dozens of militants stormed a police station in Saqlawiya, forcing its occupants to surrender. Army helicopters later attacked the gunmen in the police station.

The destroyed bridge lies on the main highway leading west from Baghdad across


the vast Sunni desert province of Anbar towards Syria and Jordan. Police said the suicide truck bomber had driven from Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar.

Two years after U.S. troops left Iraq, violence has climbed back to its highest levels since the Sunni-Shi’ite bloodshed of 2006-07, when tens of thousands of people were killed.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the spate of attacks in Baghdad but the Shi’ite-led government has blamed al Qaeda-affiliated militants who have regained a strong presence in western Iraq, helped by the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has sworn to eradicate al Qaeda, but has ruled out an army assault on Falluja, saying tribesmen and residents must force the militants to leave.

BOMBS AT MARKET AND ON BUS

The al Qaeda branch nowin the mainly Shi’ite Kadhimiya district.

In western Baghdad, gunmen killed a judge and his driver in a drive-by shooting in Yarmouk district, police said, and gunmen killed two soldiers at a checkpoint in Abu Ghraib.

Four mortar rounds landed on houses in the town of Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad and not far from Falluja, killing four people, a local official and hospital sources said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in a striking change of course, is embracing the Sunni Muslim tribal fighters whose role in combating al Qaeda he had allowed to wither after U.S. troops left two years ago.

Al Qaeda-linked militants, feeding off widespread Sunni resentment at perceived mistreatment by his Shi’ite-led government, swept into the cities of Falluja and Ramadi two


weeks ago in an embarrassing setback to Maliki.

His chances of a third term after a parliamentary election in April hang partly on his ability to project an image as a strong national figure who can impose security and stability.

Maliki has used al Qaeda’s resurgence to muster foreign support for his government, which has otherwise disappointed the United States and allies by moving close to Iran and its failure to forge consensus with the once-dominant Sunni minority.

International engagement was evident on Monday with a visit to Baghdad by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

“We are happy that the whole world stood by us in an unprecedented way,” the 63-year-old Maliki, who has been in office since 2006, told Reuters on Sunday.

But as security unravels in Falluja, Ramadi and other parts ofSunni-dominated Anbar province, Maliki appears to have heeded U.S. and other voices urging him to do more to enlist Sunni tribal support against al Qaeda and its allies.

He is turning the money taps back on to try to quench an insurgency by al Qaeda’s latest incarnation in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), whose rise has helped drive violence back to the worst level in five years.

The Sahwa (Awakening) militias that joined forces with U.S. troops to combat, if not defeat, al Qaeda in 2006-07 when Sunni-Shi’ite violence was at its peak can once again expect full support and recognition from the state, Maliki says.

“Those people contribute to achieving security and the government has to take care of them,” he said, briskly


the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is also at the forefront of Syria’s civil war, last week seized control of Falluja and parts of Ramadi, capital of Iraq’s western Anbar province.

The Shi’ite-led government has asked for volunteers to join the military effort against al Qaeda, which has regained strength in Sunni-dominated areas such as Anbar partly by exploiting widespread Sunni resentment over Maliki’s policies.

Bloodshed in Iraq has returned to its highest level in five years, with the United Nations reporting 8,868 people killed in 2013 – a surge of violence partly fuelled by the war in Syria.

Also on Thursday, police said a car bomb exploded near a local health department building in the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad and hometown ofhas alarmed Western governments and pointed up the links between Sunni militants in Iraq and Syria, but Iraq’s oil industry and its foreign investors see no cause for panic, given that main oil fields are far from Anbar.

Thousands of civilians streamed out of Falluja after ISIL and allied Sunni tribesmen overran police stations 10 days ago, but a few have returned in hopes that negotiations will avert a full-scale army assault on a city that endured two devastating U.S. offensives against Sunni insurgents there in 2004.

According to the United Nations, more than 11,000 families have fled their homes in Anbar province. U.N. agencies delivered the first relief supplies to the displaced people on Wednesday.

“It is essential to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of the people in Anbar province,


since then.

Badie and his deputies were not expected to appear in the first hearing of their case, which will be held behind closed doors for security reasons, a security source said.

Mubarak, who left prison on Thursday after judges ordered his release, was due to attend his session with his jailed sons Gamal and Alaa and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly.

The former president was sentenced to life in prison last year for complicity in the killing of protesters during the revolt against him, but an appeals court ordered a retrial.

The state news agency MENA said a helicopter would fly Mubarak to the court hearing in the Police Academy on the eastern outskirts of Cairo from a military hospital where he was placed under house arrest after his release fromjail.

The government used a state of emergency it declared earlier this month to place Mubarak under house arrest, apparently to forestall any popular anger if he had simply walked free.

The trial of the Brotherhood’s top leaders signals that Egypt’s new army-backed rulers intend to crush what they have portrayed as a violent, terrorist group bent on subverting the state.

The Brotherhood, which won five successive post-Mubarak votes, says it is a peaceful movement unjustly targeted by the generals who ousted Mursi, Egypt’s first freely elected leader.

The military contends it was responding to the people’s will, citing vast demonstrations at the time against the rule of a man criticized for accumulating excessive power, pushing a partisan Islamist agenda and mismanaging the economy.

BROTHERHOOD IN DISARRAY

Charges against Badie and his aides include


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summer. She gives them specially-formulated raccoon milk from Arizona that comes in 20-gallon pails.

The babies start out in rubber bins with heating pads where they are bottle fed. As they are weaned they start on solid food like eggs, chicken and fruit.

Hesseln has been rehabing animals for around seven years. (Courtney Markewich/CBC)

When they are off bottles entirely, they go into her backyard where she has three large pens built for them.

"I've got places to climb, places to nest. They have hammocks."

Once they need more space the raccoons are moved to a friend's place in the country, where there is a giant pen where they can hunt for grubs and mice.

They are released at the end of September. They weigh about six to eight pounds by this point andare quite wild.

Hesseln, who also has a full-time job as an associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan, can then take a break

"You have no idea how much I love winter," she laughed.

They like each other's company

Hesseln said the little critters don't tend to be noisy.

A few have escaped a couple of times, but she said they like to be together so they end up coming back.

One year four raccoons dug out of their enclosure in her backyard.

When she went to look for them she could hear purring, just like cats.

"I looked up and there they were sleeping in the neighbour's tree."

In the evening they came down and went straight back to the cage where she was able to capture them.

A cluster of raccoons in pens at the


Bandit Ranch Rehab. (Courtney Markewich/CBC)

Volunteers

Hesseln said she couldn't care for that many baby raccoons without plenty of help.

She has a dedicated army of volunteers that help feed and take care of the animals. She is also helped financially by donations from people all over the world.

Hesseln said when she started a few years ago she estimated her costs were more than $3,000 per year.

Now a grocery store supplies her with fruit and a group called Farm Loop Resources helps her with chicken.

Craziest call

Hesseln once got a call from a frantic woman who said a raccoon had fallen through her ceiling.

The woman was living on Spadina near the river. It turned out a family of raccoons were living in her walls.

She had been advised to play music and leavelights on to get rid of them..

They did move out, except for one little guy who fell through a ceiling tile, Hesseln said.

When she arrived at the house she found the raccoon, about the size of a small watermelon, curled up in a ball on the floor.

She tried to find his family but Spadina is a bust road.

"He just wanted to follow me around," she said. "So I brought him home and we rehabbed him."

Not good pets

Despite being adorable as babies, raccoons don't make good pets, she said.

"When they are little they are so cuddly and cute and just want to sit on you," she said.

"But once they reach sexual maturity they have other things on their mind."

Hesseln still has a blast taking care of the little ones.

"I


A theory of freedom of expression – Rights, goals, and fairness – Due process – Preference and urgency – Freedom of expression and categories of expression – Human rights as a neutral concern – Contractualism and utilitarianism – Content regulation reconsidered – Value, desire, and quality of life – The difficulty of tolerance – The diversity of objections to inequality – Punishment and the rule of law – Promises and contracts.funds stored abroad as a means of tax avoidance. This move, spearheaded by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, could not come at a better time, both from a political position for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as in terms of taking advantage of global action targeting tax havens used to stash ill-gotten gains around the world. While doubts exist as to the ability of India to fully enforce the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Bill, 2015, it is certainly a step in the right direction. Continue reading →

Robert Packer, a Masters student at of the University of Nanterre, Paris, contributes the following guest post:

When governments attempt to freeze, seize, and repatriate the assets stolen by corrupt government officials and others, they often confront what is


illustrates the serious problems with negotiating “golden handshake” settlements with kleptocrats and their cronies, rather than pushing to do full justice. Continue reading →

On November 15th–two days from now–the latest G20 leaders’ summit kicks off in my home town of Brisbane, Australia, with anticorruption once again on the agenda. Though the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group has made some important progress, many of the member states have been letting down the side. Specifically, Australia tends to receive less critical scrutiny than it should when it comes to international action against corruption, particularly in terms of hosting stolen assets from other countries in the region. And the G20 leaders’ summit is as good a time as any for the international community to press Australia for its many failures to dealSAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— A coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit today arguing that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is illegally delaying Endangered Species Act protection for the Pacific fisher, a relative of the mink and otter that has been decimated by historic fur trapping and logging of old-growth forests. The groups filing the lawsuit are the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Forest Legacy, Environmental Protection Information Center, and Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, represented in court by the law firm Earthjustice.

In response to a 2000 petition from the groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acknowledged in 2004 that the fisher warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act but claimed such protection was precluded by listing of other species considered a higher priority. Hundreds of species have been


our grandchildren of the opportunity to glimpse this reclusive animal would be shameful. The Pacific fisher deserves protection now.”

Background:

A close relative of the mink and otter, the fisher (Martes pennanti) is a shy predator with a diverse diet that includes porcupines and other small forest animals, carrion, vegetation, fungi, and fruit. The Pacific fisher’s historic distribution on the West Coast included all of western Washington and Oregon, northwestern California, and the Sierra Nevada, but is now much reduced.

The fisher has a long, slender body with short legs. Its head is triangular, with a sharp, pronounced muzzle and large, rounded ears. Fishers are mostly brown, with a long, bushy tail. Males range up to 47 inches in length, while females typically only reach 37 inches. Fishers run in abounding gait, with their front feet leaping forward together, followed by the back feet.

Because fishers are the only animal that regularly prey on porcupines, which often kill or damage small trees, the timber industry reintroduced the fisher to many parts of the United States, including the southern Cascades of Oregon. The fisher kills porcupines with repeated bites to the face, devouring the porcupine via the quill-less underbelly. Where fisher reintroductions have been successful, porcupines have indeed declined in number.


Private tensions between US Justice Department leaders and Robert Mueller's team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion as Attorney-General William Barr pushed back at the special counsel's "snitty" complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report.

Key points: The deep partisan divide was on display as William Barr testified at the judiciary committee

The deep partisan divide was on display as William Barr testified at the judiciary committee Mr Barr dismissed criticism by Robert Mueller about his handling of the report

Mr Barr dismissed criticism by Robert Mueller about his handling of the report Mr Barr denied misleading Congress last month about whether Mr Mueller had complained to him

Testifying for the first time since releasing the Mueller report, Mr Barr said he was surprised Mr Mueller did not reachcounsel's finding. Mr Barr called the note "a bit snitty".

"I said 'Bob, what's with the letter? Just pick up the phone and call me if there is an issue,'" Mr Barr said.

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The airing of disagreements over the handling of the report followed Mr Mueller's two-year investigation into Russian interference to help Mr Trump in the 2016 campaign and the possibility that his team conspired with the Russians.

During most of the investigation, the Justice Department and Mr Mueller's team seemed to be unified in approach.

Republican and Democratic politicians have been anything but unified.

And their partisan divide was on full display during the contentious Judiciary Committee hearing, which included three Democratic presidential candidates.

Some Republicans, in addition to defending Mr Trump, focused on the President's 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton's email


and campaign practices and what they argued has been a lack of investigation of them.

As the hearing was getting underway, Mr Trump tweeted his familiar "NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION." Though Mr Mueller reached no conclusion on obstruction, he did report that his probe established no collusion between the Trump team and Russia.

Democrats, for their part, moved to exploit the daylight between Mr Barr and Mr Mueller to attack the Attorney-General's credibility and accuse him of unduly spinning the special counsel's report in the President's favour.

Some also called for Mr Barr to resign, or to recuse himself from Justice Department investigations that have been spun off from Mr Mueller's probe.

They also pressed him on whether he had misled Congress last month when he professed ignorance about complaints from thethe bottom-line conclusions of the investigation and not the introductions and executive summaries that the special counsel's team had prepared and believed conveyed more nuance and context than Mr Barr's own letter.

Mr Mueller said he had communicated the same concern two days earlier.

"There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation," Mr Mueller wrote in his letter to Mr Barr.

"This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the department appointed the special counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."

Mr Barr appeared unmoved by the criticism.

He said repeatedly that Mr Mueller had assured him that Mr Barr's letter of conclusions was not inaccurate but he simply wanted more information out.

Mr Barr said he didn't believe a piecemeal release


Cindy didn't cry or thank anyone when she was made an honorary registered nurse Wednesday; instead, she stood up on her hind legs and looked around.

The 6-year-old golden retriever was honored with a pin and the Paws that Heal plaque for her work with her owner, Suzanne Stanley, as a therapy dog in the neonatal intensive and intermediate care units at Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital.

“It's very therapeutic (because) sometimes being in this environment is difficult,” said Maranda Larweck, the mother of 8-month-old Maya, born 13 weeks premature and with a cardiac condition.

“Sometimes I'll forget (Cindy is coming) and I'll look up and I'll see her and it just uplifts me. She's part of my life right now.”

Stanley teared up as she held Cindy's leash while Beth Crowley,Both of them have Dolby Atmos capabilities for three-dimensional sounds and -- for the first time in TiVo boxes' history -- Dolby Vision HDR for rich and sharp pictures. They also have access to TiVo's OnePass, which can line up all the episodes for a title regardless of the source. Say, only the show's first season is on Netflix or Hulu, while its second just finished airing on cable. OnePass can make both the streamable episodes and ones recorded from cable available from one place. Both devices can also be set to automatically skip eligible commercials, even entire commercial breaks.

In addition, the company has announced the TiVo+ service, which combines live streaming channels, movies and shows from different genres. It will feature titles from partner publishers and content


Wed 28th March 2018

Annual event is hosted by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University in a bid to inspire the next generation of female engineers and scientists
The UK's engineering workforce is currently 94 percent white and 91 percent male
Explore STEM for Girls event is a chance for young females to experience the world of science, technology, engineering and maths
The University of Sheffield, this week (20 March 2018), welcomed 600 local female school pupils to the Octagon Centre to learn about how they can transform the world through science, technology, engineering and maths at the annual Exploring STEM for Girls event.PAO Booking (Contact mail: pz@pao.at)

Best Albums 2010 winner Mansur Scott and the voluminous Blue Brass Band of famous trombonist Paul Zauner. With these distinct geniuses of Jazz two generations of Harlem will form a miracle of sounds in an evening to be remembered.

Their music, deeply black, adopts the styles of the 60's and 70's musical legends and revives some of the most well known Jazz-songs in the spirit of Ray Charles, Lester Bowie, Dollar Brand and the more. Ear catching danceable grooves alternate with gentle tunes and converge to a passionately played Jazz- and Soul-mixture.

Great new arrangements of Songs like "Over the Rainbow", "Moanin", "Work Song", "Mona Lisa", "Stella by Starlight", "The days of wine and roses" are featured at the concerts and the upcoming CD which will


snow falls softly in the night", and Black Soul Music merge with popular songs from Austria.

The basic principle remains the creation of new music. "Jazz at its best"

For many years Paul Zauner performs with the black vocalist Dwight Trible. Los Angeles based Trible features one of the most important voices in Black Jazz these days.

Mansur Scott "Harlem Quartet"

Mansur Scott: It's the small things, some percussive details or a little wink, which convey the rich pool of Mansur Scotts experience. His voice sounds rough, just like his life. He swings back and forth between a withdrawn vibrating timbre and his punchy shouts and develops a capturing expressivity. Simple words like "Masquerade", his introduction to "He was a boy" or his gentle Billy Holiday remembrance "When the lady sings" reachpart of the 1st wave of marathoners to start the race.

We are racing out of the Green Start area in corral 3. This is the first corral behind the elite local competitors in the Green Start Area. Corral 1 starts behind the 199 Professionals on the Blue Course. Corral 2 starts behind the 100 Sub-Elite marathoners on the Orange Course and then our group behind the 499 Local competitive runners (think sub 3:00 hour marathoners) on the Green.

The Orange, Blue and Green groups run on their own route until the 8th mile of the race when the three courses merge into one. At that point the congestion of the mass start has subsided and all of the marathoners follow the blue line, painted the night before the marathon


is officially the worst placing of the organisation ever in its history, apart from the fact that all four players are shocked. A general notion of laziness is all that the community has been given. If the team were to split, as many predict, it would lead to the craziest rostermania that Call of Duty has ever seen, with 4 of the best players in the game in free agency.

With that out of the way, the rest of the event was a joy to watch - an absolutely historical one too. Focusing on Rise Nation, who finished last in their group, they would go on to make the greatest Losers Bracket run in the history of CoD esports - eventually winning the whole event. Gunless was awarded theMVP with a 1.18 k/d. Meeting them in the grand final would be the surprising faces of those from EG, thanks to their new addition in SiLLY. His former team, eUnited, placed top 4.

The current state of CoD esports is volatile. CWL Seattle 2018 was one of the most surprisingly historical events ever - and it's the first time that CoD has ever been hosted there. Optic Gaming serves as a ticking bomb under the infrastructure of the community.


A second boy has been charged over a "clotheslining" trap that caused serious injuries to a motorcyclist outside the Perth train station.

It is alleged the 11-year-old boy tied the rope across Wellington Street that knocked Lawson Mills, 19, off his motorcycle last month.

It is alleged Mr Mills was also attacked with a bottle while he was on the ground.

He suffered severe burns to his throat and a cut to his head.

Police charged a 12-year-old boy from Bayswater over the attack late last month.

Last night, they charged the 11-year-old boy, from Innaloo, was charged with one count of acts or omissions causing the life, health of safety of a person to be endangered.

He is due to appear in the Perth Children's Court on February 5.Ericsson has also reached a number of important 5G milestones in the near future with AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, making 5G a reality to serve our customers. Recently, AT&T announced that Ericsson as one of its national 5G network technology providers; Verizon also listed Ericsson as one of 5G suppliers, Ericsson is also continuing to expand its 5G partnership with Verizon; Sprint also selected Ericsson as one of 5G suppliers .


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WASHINGTON — After a slow start to the new year — a presidential announcement here, a campaign stop there — the 2020 Democratic race picks up speed this weekend.

Today, Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg are in Iowa, Kirsten Gillibrand hits South Carolina, and Sherrod Brown (who’s still on his tour making up his mind about 2020) goes to New Hampshire.

Tomorrow, on Saturday, Elizabeth Warren makes her official campaign announcement from Lawrence, Mass. (after launching her exploratory committee on December 31). Also tomorrow, Booker, Buttigieg and Tulsi Gabbard are all in Iowa; Brown remains in New Hampshire; and Gillibrand stays in South Carolina.

And on Sunday, Amy Klobuchar announces her decision on 2020 from MinnesotaGillibrand is in South Carolina.

RIP, John Dingell

“Former Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., the longest-serving member of Congress who played a key role in many pieces of landmark legislation, has died. He was 92. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year,” NBC’s Rebecca Shabad writes.

“He helped sponsor the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1957, helped pass Medicare in the House and sponsored the Endangered Species Act. And while he initially support the Vietnam war, he later opposed it and called on President Richard Nxon to withdraw U.S. troops… Dingell, who introduced his father’s universal, single-payer health insurance bill every Congress, became one of the original authors of what would become the Affordable Care Act.”


The third season of CBS’ comedy series Life In Pieces will receive its UK premiere on Amazon Prime Video UK on Friday November 3rd, it has been announced. New episodes will then continue to be made available to UK Prime members every Friday, less than 24 hours after they initially air on CBS in the United States.Overseas ESL teaching is an increasingly attractive option for young North American workers facing bleak employment prospects and experiencing a more general phenomenon of downward social mobility. Working conditions vary widely by country and education system, and the temporary nature of much of the work poses particular challenges to potential union organizers. In this interview, ClassRoom spoke to KJ, a former IWW member who teaches English in Korea.

KJ: Before we start, I want to say that there should be a distinction made between foreign ESL workers and Korean ESL workers. The native speaking requirement (that foreign teachers must come from certain countries such as Canada, America and Britain) is blatant racism and discrimination and therefore workers are split into two groups with different working conditions and benefits.

ClassRoom: Right,


media, entertainment
and Internet investments. In his new role, Slabin will focus on developing
Discovery's strategic position and building relationships with the
international investor community.

Slabin
joins Discovery from Toms Capital, where he was co-portfolio manager of a
public equity portfolio and was responsible for investments in the telecom,
media and technology sectors. Prior to Toms Capital, Slabin was an analyst and
portfolio manager for Man GLG, covering the media, entertainment and Internet
industries, and a director of equity research at Merrill Lynch, covering the
media industry. Slabin started his career at John Hancock Mutual Funds and
received a BS in finance and business administration from the University of
Vermont. Slabin will be based at Discovery's office in New York.

Most
recently Vice President of Investor Relations, Burka has been promoted to the
role of Senior Vice President, Investor Relations reporting to Slabin.Burka
will continue to play a key role in driving Discovery's day-to-day
engagement and communication with the investor and analyst
community as well as quarterly earnings and other financial
communications.

Burka
joined Discovery in 2012, after more than a decade at Sanford Bernstein and
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she was a sector specialist covering the
media, cable, Internet and telecom industries. Prior to that, Burka worked in
high yield investment banking at Merrill Lynch and in corporate private equity
at Harvard Private Capital. Jackie has a BA in economics from Princeton
University and an MBA, with Beta Gamma Sigma honors, from Columbia Business
School.

"Jackie
has done a fantastic job leading Discovery's investor relations activities and
communicating our global growth story to investors. Under the leadership of
Andrew and Jackie, our enhanced investor relations team will be optimally
positioned for the future," added


Wiedenfels.

Discovery
Communications was assisted in the search process for Slabin by Howard Fischer
Associates, International.

About
Discovery Communications:

Discovery
Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) satisfies curiosity and captivates
superfans around the globe with a portfolio of premium nonfiction, lifestyle,
sports and kids content brands including Discovery Channel, TLC, Investigation
Discovery, Animal Planet, Science and Turbo/Velocity, as well as OWN: Oprah
Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport,
the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the
Olympic Games across Europe. Available in more than 220 countries and
territories, Discovery's programming reaches 3 billion cumulative viewers, who
together consume 54 billion hours of Discovery content each year. Discovery's
offering extends beyond traditional TV to all screens, including TV Everywhere
products such as the GO portfolio and Discovery Kids Play; over-the-top
streaming services such as Eurosport Player; digital-first andmolecules, consisting only of hydrogen and carbon atoms. They are cheap and plentiful. Until the recent development of the catalysts by the Davies lab, however, alkanes were considered non-functional, or unreactive, except in uncontrollable situations such as when they were burning.

The first author of the Nature paper is Emory chemistry graduate student Kuangbiao Liao.

The dirhodium (shown in blue) drives the reaction, while the shape of the scaffold around it controls which C-H bond the catalyst works on. Credit: Kuangbiao Liao, Emory University.

Davies is the director of the National Science Foundation's Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CCHF), which is based at Emory and encompasses 15 major research universities from across the country, as well as industrial partners. The NSF recently awarded the CCHF renewed funding of $20 million over


a technique which simulates drowning. 'Erosion in standards' The Senate committee's 263-page report was entitled: "Inquiry into the treatment of detainees in US custody". It examined how the use of harsh interrogation tactics by the CIA at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre came to be approved and the effect this had on policy towards detainees elsewhere.

Authorisations of aggressive interrogation techniques... conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees in US military custody

Senator Carl Levin

Cheney enters 'torture' memos row Q&A: Waterboarding The report sets out how, shortly after the 11 September 2001 attacks, Pentagon officials sought information on harsh interrogation methods from specialist military trainers. Despite warnings from military personnel that the use of these on Guantanamo detainees could backfire, 15 specific techniques weresanctioned by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on 2 December 2002, the report said. What followed was "an erosion in standards dictating that detainees be treated humanely", it said. That these techniques had been endorsed became known by US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, setting the stage for the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, it said. "In my judgment, the report represents a condemnation of both the Bush administration's interrogation policies and of senior administration officials who attempted to shift the blame for abuse - such as that seen at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan - to low-ranking soldiers," said Senator Carl Levin, the committee chairman. Claims that detainee abuses could be chalked up to the unauthorised acts of a "few bad


Swords & Soldiers Switch Review – The Battle Rages On

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Swords & Soldiers was first released ten years ago. It could be likened to games like Skyrim or Resident Evil 4 because it’s been ported to just about every single system that can run it. Wii, PC, iOS, 3DS, Android, and even the doomed Wii U have all been graced with Swords & Soldiers. Now it has landed on the Nintendo Switch, but does this game still hold up after ten years of being on the market?

Swords & Soldiers is filled with charm both visually and in its gameplay. Once unlocked, the player can choose from one of four factions: Vikings, Aztecs, Chinese, and Chief Meats Army (an amalgamation of the three). Battles take placefor education expenses and ordered that Ms. Shaffer's food stamp benefits be reduced from $96.00 per month to $61.00 per month effective March 1, 1980.

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On February 29, 1980, Ms. Shaffer filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio challenging the reduction of her food stamp benefits.  The complaint named as defendants the Lucas County Welfare Department;  George J. Steger, the director of the Lucas County Welfare Department;  the Ohio Department of Public Welfare;  Kenneth B. Creasy, the director of the Ohio Department of Public Welfare;  and Thomas McDowell, the Chief of the Ohio Department of Public Welfare, Bureau of Food Stamps.  Ms. Shaffer brought suit on her behalf and on behalf of "all other individuals who,


summary judgment.  The plaintiff countered by filing a cross-motion for summary judgment on September 11, 1980.  On June 5, 1981, the district court issued its opinion and order on the motions.  The district court found that plaintiff's BEO grant had been improperly included as income for food stamp purposes and ordered that the defendants allow an exclusion of the BEOG monies.  The court also invalidated the proposed settlement agreement as being inconsistent with the federal food stamp regulations.  Finally, the court revoked the conditional class certification it had issued on March 27, 1980.

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The Secretary of Agriculture and all the state and county defendants appeal the decision of the district court excluding the BEOG money from Ms. Shaffer's income for food stamp purposes. whether Ms. Shaffer's BEO Grant was "specifically earmarked by the grantor for education expenses" and exempted from her income as a reimbursement.  Unfortunately, the term "grantor" is not defined in the Food Stamp Act, the food stamp regulations, or the legislative history.

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Ms. Shaffer argues that Owens Technical College, which participated in the Regular Disbursement System, was the grantor of her BEO grant since the DOE delegated to the school certain authority regarding the grant.  Ms. Shaffer relies on the operation of the Regular Disbursement System to support the delegation argument.  Owens Tech received grant funds from the DOE as a lump sum and was charged with the duty of determining the eligibility of students applying for grants, calculating the amount of each award, and paying


of applicants, calculating the amount of each recipient's award, and paying the awards to the recipients, but each of these tasks was conducted in accordance with specific guidelines and directions imposed by the DOE.  The college did not have any discretionary authority;  it only carried out administrative functions directed by the DOE.  The DOE regulations did not give Owens Technical College the authority to restrict the student's use of the BEOG funds.  It was the federal government that specified how Ms. Shaffer could use her BEOG money;  not Owens Tech.  Therefore, Owens Tech was not the grantor of Ms. Shaffer's BEO grant for the purpose of earmarking.

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C. "Specifically Earmarked ... For Education Expenses"

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We must consider whether the DOE, as grantor of thisas a reimbursement.

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The Secretary argues, however, that the BEO grant is only a routine grant and that there was no earmarking in this case.  The Secretary maintains that the affidavit did not in any way limit the use of the funds and Ms. Shaffer could use the money for ordinary living expenses.  Likewise, the budget did not restrict the use of the funds or change the general nature of the grant.  Thus, the Secretary urges, the BEO grant was not specifically earmarked by the DOE for education expenses.

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The district court concluded that the affidavit and the college's breakdown of expenses did constitute a specific earmarking of the BEOG funds by the DOE for education expenses rather than for personal living expenses.  As such the


we find that neither the affidavit nor the budget specifically designated Ms. Shaffer's BEOG funds for qualified education expenses.  The BEO grant was a general grant, available to Ms. Shaffer to meet any expenses associated with her being in school, and the affidavit and budget did not restrict her use of the funds or alter the general nature of the grant.  We reach this conclusion after examining and taking into account the affidavit, the college's breakdown of expenses, the structure of the BEOG program, and most importantly the nature of the BEO grant.25

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An examination of what the DOE considers education expenses for BEOG purposes and what the food stamp program considers education expenses under the reimbursement exclusion clearly indicates that BEOG funds are not earmarked assuch general education grants cannot be excluded from income under it.  The Secretary asserts that "reimbursements" should be defined as it would be in the "normal business sense" to mean specific repayments of job-related vouchered expenses incurred for another's benefit.  Such a construction would restrict the use of the reimbursement exclusion to employees and volunteer workers.  The Secretary relies on a passage from the legislative history to support this narrow reading of the reimbursements exclusion.  The report states:
This subsection would also exclude from income reimbursements for out-of-pocket expenses, such as to volunteers serving as foster grandparents, senior health aides, senior companions, or in similar capacities, or to persons in training programs, so long as the reimbursements were no greater than the expenses actually incurred.


discussion of the BEOG program that follows assumes a full funding situation and assumes a full time regular student is involved.

14
 Prior to the 1980 amendments the basic grant was $1800 but an award was limited to no more than 50 percent of the cost of attendance at an institution.  The amendments replaced these ceilings, increasing the maximum grant amount in steps from $1900 in the 1981-82 award year to $2600 in the 1985-86 award year.  In addition, the amendments modified the provision limiting the grant to 50 percent of the cost of attendance such that the allowable percentage increases in future years as the size of the maximum grant increases, starting with a 50 percent limit in the 1981-82 award year and increasing to 70he harvested. Now, a researcher has upped the ante by using a more advanced cracking technique to de-anonymize participants advocating racial hatred and other extreme topics in online forums hosted in France.

Speaking at the PasswordsCon conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, security researcher Dominique Bongard said he identified 45 percent of the e-mail addresses used to post comments he found in France's most well-known political forum, which he declined to mention by name. His job was made easier by Gravatar's use of the MD5 hash function, which is designed to generate hashes quickly and with a minimum of computing resources. Had Gravatar used bcrypt or another "slow" algorithm, his task would have taken considerably longer. In a country such as France, where there can be severe legal penalties for


to perform what's known as a hybrid attack. One half of the crack ran a word-list attack that contained only the domain addresses of gmail.com and other popular e-mail services. He then added a modified brute-force crack, also known as a mask attack, that ran through all possible eight-character combinations allowed in e-mail addresses. By appending the output of the two techniques, he was able to reach the 45 percent threshold in about a day. No doubt, he could have cracked more with additional time and effort.

I spent time reading the privacy policies for both Gravatar and Github and found no mention that e-mail addresses used to register accounts are disclosed to the world in a hashed format. It's likely that the officials representing those services don't considerMichael Hinojosa

Best Public Official

He’s now in his 10th year and second term serving as Dallas ISD’s superintendent. Many people deserve credit for the district’s nationally recognized turnaround (especially the hard-charging interim super, Mike Miles), but the reforms started with Hinojosa, and they continue under him. Big bonus: his testimony and public support of HB3 helped overhaul Texas’ school-finance system.

Best Drag Queen

The tongue-popping former Miss Gay America and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race runs an award-winning dance studio in Mesquite. She also had her own docuseries and just released a makeup line with Anastasia Beverly Hills. Vulture named her the fifth-most-powerful drag queen in America. We just want to be her friend.

Best Columnist

Her voice has increasingly resonated since she took the Dallas Morning News’ Metro columnist job in mid-2018.


version of The Phantom of the Opera with live-score accompaniment; the latest indie releases and repertoire screenings; a slew of Tuesday-night trashy B-movies and film festival offerings; and humorous prescreen promo reels produced in-house and featuring the likes of Werner Herzog, it will remain on our list as the top movie house in Dallas (and the United States, for that matter).

Best Museum

Over the past year, programming at the DMA has been as varied as it has been fascinating. From presenting the first solo museum exhibition of celebrated contemporary painter Jonas Wood to a mind-blowing retrospective of Dior haute couture, the museum keeps giving us reasons to go back for more.

Best TV Broadcaster

He has toiled at Fox 4 for 25 years, even as his natural hair had to betypes of telephone ‘handsets’ make a poor seal to a user's outer ear due to the small physical size of the handset's earpiece. Thus, when a conversation takes place on the phone, the speech signals received by the phone's receiver (referred to as the “receive speech”) leaks out of the adjacent ear cavity, about the ear pinna, into the room. Once the receive speech leaks out of the ear cavity (referred to as an “ear leak”), it will radiate through the air and reach the microphone input sound port(s) of the mobile phone, which then causes the far-end talker (the person on the other end of the line, also referred to as the far-end person) to hear a delayed, acoustic “echo” of their own speech. The pickup of


LE CASTELLET, France -- Daniel Ricciardo feels invigorated by his recent performances for Renault, something he thinks is mirrored in the atmosphere at the team.

Ricciardo turned in his best weekend of the season so far at the Canadian Grand Prix, qualifying fourth and finishing sixth at the circuit he claimed his maiden F1 victory at in 2014.

One standout feature of Ricciardo's race was an entertaining fight with Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas. Ricciardo turned in some stern defensive moves to keep the quicker silver car at bay for several laps, something Bottas admitted afterwards had been hard but fair racing.

Much was made of Ricciardo's move down the grid from Red Bull to Renault for this season and Ricciardo admitted his attitude to that battle was influenced by that.

Asked ifa sniff of that was good to see. Obviously the competitor in me obviously wants that, and that's always there. Seeing it within the engineers, the mechanics and everyone, everyone just had a buzz about them. It was nice."

Ricciardo said he was not panicked during the opening two months of the season, which saw Renault suffer with reliability issues and record just two top-ten finishes in the opening five races.

"I remained fairly relaxed through it all. I knew that I still had a lot for myself to get out of it. I guess I in a way focused continuously on myself, that my speed would come and the team, I guess I knew it would kind of grow naturally over time.

"It's certainly flourished quite a bit the last


BoatUS gathers group of advisers for annual debate on boating issues

A panel of distinguished boating leaders who serve as a sounding board for Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) gathered last week along with esteemed guests and BoatUS staff in Newport Beach to discuss key issues impacting recreational boating, including the changing boat-ownership model and shifting boater demographics.

BoatUS is the nation's largest recreational boat owners group in the U.S. with more than a half-million dues-paying members.

The group also discussed legislative issues that help keep the association's focus on the evolving needs of recreational boaters, including some who now get on the water without having to own a boat via boat-sharing clubs. The National Marine Manufacturers Association, U.S. Power Squadrons, National Association of State Boating Law Administrators,and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary all provided updates on activities.

The volunteer members of the BoatUS National Advisory Council included Robert Baldridge, past chief commander, United States Power Squadrons; Ellen Bradley, senior vice president & chief communications officer, National Marine Manufacturers Association; Lenora S. Clark, former California Boating and Waterways commissioner and former Recreational Boaters of California president; Dean Travis Clarke, former executive editor, Bonnier Marine Group; Ray Durazo, incoming president, Recreational Boaters of California; Jim Ellis, National Advisory Council chairman and former president, BoatUS; John Flynn, principal, Squire Patton Boggs; Mark Brown, president, National Association of State Boating Law Administrators; and Bob Adriance, former editor, Seaworthy.


Task complexity and limb selection in reaching.
Research examining limb selection for reaching and grasping an object in various positions of hemispace has noted a strong ipsilateral bias for using the hand on the same side as the stimulus, an observation that to some extent questions the traditional notion of handedness. The present study examined the effects of task complexity in regard to such actions. Forty-four right-handed, blindfolded subjects were required to grasp a small cube at one location and release it at another site, with movement initiated only after the second cue was presented. In condition A, the first tone identified the location where the subject was to grasp the cube (the second tone, the release point), while in condition B the order was reversed. A view ofa mineral they called “sandarac”, most likely a form of realgar. It was not until the silver mines in Germany opened around 1000 CE that actual native arsenic was found in several silver mines at Freiberg (Saxony), Joachinsthal (Bohemia), and Andreasberg (Harz Mountains). The common arsenic crystal form was mammillary, though a few crude crystals were found.

Examining Arsenopyrite

This combination of hexagonal, tan siderite crystals with arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite on striated, highly lustrous, black ferberite is a good representative specimen from the Panasquiera mine, in Portugal. (Photo courtesy irocks.com)

The primary arsenic mineral is arsenopyrite. The finest arsenopyrite crystals found in recent decades are from the Barroca Grande mine, in Panasquiera, Portugal. This is a source of superb silvery arsenopyrite blades associated with fluorapatite and quartz.

These superb crystals began to


appear on the collector market in the early 1960s, and for 10 years, they were recognized as the finest arsenopyrite specimens found in quantity. Typically, the Portuguese arsenopyrite crystals are about an inch long, but exceptional blades several inches long were found on rare occasion. Some showed oscillatory striations across the crystal faces.

Arsenopyrite is an iron arsenic sulfide that develops in hydrothermal deposits, and occasionally even in pegmatites. In Panasquiera, arsenopyrite occurs with superb, zoned, purple fluorapatite crystals and black, striated ferberite that can be several inches long.

All these minerals occurred on fine quartz crystals.

Legendary Locales

The Obira mine, on Kyushu Island, Japan, once yielded fine, small, sharp, silvery crystals that were slightly curved, with a rounded termination. Trepca, Yugoslavia, also produced nice, small arsenopyrites before World War I.

Shortlyafter that, fine Pansquiera arsenopyrite crystals began coming from the El Tajo mine, in Chihuahua, Mexico. The best reached 2 inches in length, and when they came to grass they were a nice silver color, but they quickly turned gray. The arsenopyrite formed in slightly curved, blunt crystals clustered in subparallel arrangement. The Parral, Chihuahua, arsenopyrites were Mexico’s best, though a mine at Zacetcas did yield some larger crystals, but never in quantity.

The mines of Cornwall are best known for tin and copper. The tin was mined beginning some 3,500 years ago, and perhaps even earlier. What the Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans called the Cassiteride Islands were undoubtedly the British Isles. Tin, or cassiterite, was first sought for use in making bronze. Copper, which came a bit later,


of the Philip Rashleigh collection, which resides in the Royal County Museum at Truro. Rashleigh obtained it in 1811. I have had the privilege of handling the specimen in order to photograph it, at the courtesy of my good friend Courtenay Smale, a Royal County Museum board member.

Aside from the Rashleigh collection, one of the most remarkable and historically important collections in Cornwall resides in Caerhays Castle, near St. Austell, on the south coast. Curated by Courtenay Smale, this collection was described in a superb text by Peter Embrey, then-Curator of Mineralogy, British Museum of Natural History, and R.F. Symes, as being “famous throughout the 19th century”. For decades, the Williams family operated upwards of 22 mines in Cornwall and Devon. Throughout two centuries, they assembled an amazingcollection numbering in the tens of thousands of specimens.

When the family acquired Caerhays Castle in the mid-1800s, they invited the School of Mines, Camborne, and the British Museum of Natural History to help themselves to specimens, thus reducing the size of the collection to perhaps a thousand specimens. It is safe to say that these two organizations owe some of their finest Cornwall specimens to the generosity of the Williams family.

Superb Species

The Williams family collection holds 20 or so liroconites, a handful of superb clinoclase specimens—including the finest spherical specimen—a suite of fine olivenite crystal specimens, and several breathtaking chalcophyllite specimens. These superb arsenic species are complemented in the collection by England’s finest torbernite crystals, stunning Chessy azurites, a choice pyrargyrite from Guanajuato, Mexico, and dozens of other


superb species.

Olivenite from Cornwall develops in tightly clustered needle-shaped, or acicular, crystals lining cavities. These needles are dark green and have an almost velvety shimmer to them. This mineral was found in several Cornish mines, including Wheal Carrharrack, where the original specimens were found. It also came from Wheal Gorland and Wheal Unity, as well as Tavistock, in nearby Devonshire. Both the Rashleigh and Williams collections have several really choice olivenites.

In this country, fine, small olivenite specimens were found by collectors at Gold Hill, Utah, and Majuba Hill, Nevada. In recent years, some fine specimens have come from the famous Tsumeb mine, in Namibia, Africa.

The Tsumeb olivenite specimens were found in several different forms, all of them very fine. It was found as elongate, small, blocky crystals andproduced fine chalcophyllite crystals.

Unfortunately, the arsenic minerals from Cornwall have long since disappeared from the market. Once in a while, a liroconite shows up from an old collection, but they are seldom seen otherwise. The same is true of native arsenic, which showed up sparingly in some of the silver mines of Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Fortunately, small examples of some of the arsenic species have been found at Majuba Hill and Gold Hill, favorite collecting sites for Western collectors. Tsumeb is now closed, so arsenic species from that mine are eagerly sought, but seldom offered for sale.

Author: Bob Jones

Holds the Carnegie Mineralogical Award, is a member of the Rockhound Hall of Fame, and has been writing for Rock & Gem since its inception.

He lectures about minerals, and has written


"baseball card collection". From the context of the conversation, it was clear he was talking about psychoactives, but beyond that we had no idea what he meant. He brought out a small box filled with dozens of carefully labeled plastic bags, vials, and neatly folded bits of tinfoil. He opened each item, one by one, to show us the small pile of powder, pills, paper, or material inside. His collection included a wide array of tryptamines, phenethylamines, and curious plant extracts, many of which we had never seen before.He described when and how he had acquired each, some more than 10 years before. He waxed nostalgic about the experiences he'd had when ingesting a particular material or about the person from whom he had acquired it. Many ofthe items had stories about their provenance: the chemist who made them and how they got from the chemist to him. He also had empty containers that contained residue of substances from some of his most memorable experiences. He would smell them and offer whiffs to us as he related their stories.Since that first encounter more than five years ago, we've met many other Collectors. Some specialize in one class of substance, like the person who sent us a photo of his ecstasy tablet collection including dozens of imprints, or the many who collect LSD blotter art, both dipped and un-dipped.Another Collector we've encountered has gathered all of the psychoactive chemicals he can find and plans to take a dose of each one and encase it in plastic,


and commented that he'd been thinking about the 4-methyl-aminorex synthesis process for a while but was still missing one part. He spent 15 minutes carefully drawing a series of steps for a potential synthesis path, leaving a large space in the middle marked with a question mark. Another day passed and a third chemist dropped in, pausing in front of the whiteboard. Noting the missing step, he commented "oh that step is easy", erased the question mark and replaced it with another drawing of some benzene ring and squiggly lines and letters. Soon afterwards the chemist who had drawn the original synthesis returned to find his drawing completed. He got very excited and happily exclaimed "Yes, yes! I think that would probably work!"For those of us who haveonly a passing familiarity with organic chemistry or those for whom "the tryptamine backbone" is a meaningless phrase, the cryptic language of the Chemistry Geek is something to be experienced aesthetically. It seems a mix of technology and magic, somehow both modern and medieval in its translation from flask to writing and back again. There is something smile-inducing about watching Sasha Shulgin wave his arms as he talks about the "dirty pictures" of organic chemistry or listening to experienced chemists as they chatter at high speed in an alchemical dialect known only to themselves.The Chemistry Geek is perhaps one of the most heralded of the drug geeks, both within the subculture and in the mainstream. There are PhD programs and a large pharmaceutical industry that spur them on


require the approval of a Judicial Commissioner. And it creates a powerful new Investigatory Powers Commissioner to oversee how these powers are used.

Third, it ensures powers are fit for the digital age. The Act makes a single new provision for the retention of internet connection records in order for law enforcement to identify the communications service to which a device has connected. This will restore capabilities that have been lost as a result of changes in the way people communicate.

Public scrutiny

The Bill was subject to unprecedented scrutiny prior to and during its passage.

The Bill responded to three independent reports: by David Anderson QC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation; by the Royal United Services Institute’s Independent Surveillance Review Panel; and by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.All three of those authoritative independent reports agreed a new law was needed.

The Government responded to the recommendations of those reports in the form of a draft Bill, published in November 2015. That draft Bill was submitted for pre-legislative scrutiny by a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament. The Intelligence and Security Committee and the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee conducted parallel scrutiny. Between them, those Committees received over 1,500 pages of written submissions and heard oral evidence from the Government, industry, civil liberties groups and many others. The recommendations made by those Committees informed changes to the Bill and the publication of further supporting material.

A revised Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 1 March, and completed its passage on 16 November,


of divisions between them. True, practicing Christians who love one another have no such wars or fightings among themselves. This really struck me when I was reading Galatians. In Galatians 2, Paul is speaking about false doctrine. He was preaching against some heresy that was in the church, specifically the preaching of following the old Jewish law.

In verse 3, he says, “But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:”

Paul was a Jewish man and a Pharisee at that. He was the Jewish religious elite. He also was a Roman citizen. And he was preaching and traveling with Titus- who was Greek.

This wasn’t something that was necessarily spoken about, or mentioned a lot. In fact, it seemed perfectly natural, his only mentioningof Christ in their lives. And of course, Christ gave it to them.

There was a ruler in the synagogue who’s daughter was sick. There was a woman who had a major illness. And there was a man possessed of demons.

Each one of these stories has an essence of desperation in them. The man’s daughter was literally on her deathbed. The woman couldn’t be healed by any of her doctors. The demon possessed man has a horrible quality of life. Each one of these people came to Christ in their desperation.

The ruler of the synagogue was powerful, and had multiple servants. But he came himself. He counted God’s power to be something that was personal, and worthy of His full attention. We know the woman must have been weak


of a hole in the hub in discrete amounts as the end breaks off or wears off. In operation, the section of the line which extends outwardly from the rotating head attains a substantially straight configuration as a result of the centrifugal force. As the line is swung in a circle by the rotating head, it cuts grass, vines, brush and the like, with which it comes into contact.
The circular cross-sectional configuration of trimmer lines generally leaves a ragged edge on the ends of the blades of grass or plants cut with such trimmers. This is a result of the relatively blunt cutting edge, which strikes the grass and breaks it off. As a result, the ragged grass tends to turn brown shortly after cutting, resulting in aconcerned that the nuclear disaster at Fukushima had exposed weaknesses in nuclear emergency response plans.

They were especially interested in learning why the U.S.government recommended its citizens within 50-miles of the crippled reactor complex evacuate and why the U.S. only requires a 10-mile EPZ around its own nuclear power plants.

"There are 23 reactors in the United States, including Vermont Yankee, with designs similar to the Fukushima reactor in Japan," stated Sanders following the release of the report. "Many of them are close to populated areas. The NRC needs to expand its emergency planning procedures to better protect all of the people living near nuclear reactors, not just those in the 10-mile zone."

We would urge the industry, FEMA and the NRC to follow up on the study’s recommendations and expand


The Detroit Lions have selected Brigham Young outside linebacker Kyle Van Noy in the second round of the NFL draft.

Detroit drafted Van Noy 40th overall, moving up five spots in a trade on Friday night with the Seattle Seahawks.

Van Noy finished his college career with 226 tackles and played 13 games each of his four seasons. The 6-foot-3, 243-pound Van Noy made 26 sacks, half coming during a junior season in which he also forced six fumbles. He could have entered the draft last year, but choses to stay in school and play for the Cougars as a senior.

Van Noy is regarded as an athletic, pass-rushing linebacker, just the kind of player the Lions need on defense.he was driving by a neighborhood park in Dayton, Ohio,

when he observed Day and a female standing on opposite sides of a chain-link fence

engaging in a hand to hand exchange. Olson indicated that Day was standing in the

backyard of a house that abutted the park while the female was standing inside the park

grounds. Olson testified that based on his training and experience, he knew that it was

common for drugs to be exchanged in such a manner and therefore decided to make

contact with the female.

       {¶ 5} Olson testified that the female was startled by his presence and that she

placed a plastic baggie into her pocket as he approached. Based on his training and

experience with drugs being packaged in plastic baggies, Olson testified


for President Donald Trump.

Rodman is one of the few Westerners to have spent time with Kim Jong-un during multiple visits to Pyongyang. The two struck up an unlikely friendship over their shared love of basketball.

He has previously suggested he helped lay at least the groundwork for the summit between Trump and Kim in June.conflict of interest with the information in this manuscript.

Authors\' contributions
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CH, LS, and CB conceptualized the paper. All authors contributed to content of the manuscript and development of the protocol. CH, LS, ES, DV, AD, LP, KS, and CB drafted and edited the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

Authors\' information
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CH, LS, KS, CB and ES are affiliated with the Children\'s Craniofacial Center at Seattle Children\'s Hospital, Seattle, WA. CH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. CB is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Washington. KS is a Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology at the University of Washington. LP, AD, and DV


are affiliated with the University of North Carolina\'s Craniofacial Center at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill, NC. AD is a Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and Director of University of North Carolina Craniofacial Center. LP is the Dental Director at the University of North Carolina Craniofacial Center, School of Dentistry and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DV is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Dental Ecology, School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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This publication was made possible by Grant Number RC1 DE 020270 from the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and doCommentary - Has the concept of Artisan Baker lost its meaning?

Part I.....

It has been said that there is no accounting for taste. This seems painfully true regarding breads available today from large chain food stores and from some artisan bakers. The dictionary definition of "Artisan" is: (Webster's New World Dictionary) -- " a skilled workman or craftsman" . A "Craftsman" is further defined as "a worker in a skilled trade", "an artist: sometimes said of one skilled in the mechanics of his art" .

Both of these definitions connote a certain sense of originality as well as limits. An artist makes only a few of each of his or her piece of art. A craftsman understands all of the nuances of his art. Artisans and craft persons make unique