business during the tax season. In previous years, France had made similar late payments of his premium, with no serious consequences. France's testimony and exhibits introduced into evidence also indicated that France had sought reinstatement of his policy upon notification of its cancellation by sending in an application and full premium payment, but that the application and check were returned by the Fund pending receipt of payroll records and completion of a final audit. Since France had previously submitted all of the necessary information for the audit, he continued under the mistaken assumption that he had taken all necessary steps to reinstate his policy, believing that he had instructed his secretary to follow up on the matter.
Based on this evidence, the bankruptcy court held that France's debt toWhen elimination diets go wrong

Consumers are being warned about unnecessarily cutting foods from diets, after a four-year-old boy suffered an anaphylactic reaction despite previously testing negative to food allergies.

The New Zealand boy was rushed to hospital suffering hives, facial swelling, throat tightness and stridor after swallowing three spoonfuls of yoghurt.

He'd been on a heavily restricted diet, despite having had a skin-prick test that showed negative to food allergies including soybean and cow's milk.

Experts say the case highlights the risk of anaphylaxis from loss of oral tolerance, a consequence of unnecessary food exclusions.

Pediatricians from Waitakere Hospital in New Zealand reported on the case for The Australasian Journal of Dermatology, saying: "Prolonged dietary elimination can potentially induce a loss of oral tolerance leading to anaphylactic reactions on the intentional or


Three U.S. citizens have joined Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, CNN reported Friday, citing a spokesperson for the Yekineyen Parastina Gel, or YPG -- an armed Kurdish group.

While the identities two of the Americans have not been revealed, one of them is believed to be 28-year-old Jordan Matson from Wisconsin, according to media reports. YPG spokesperson Redur Xelil said that Matson was fighting in the Jazaa area, in Syria's northeastern Hasaka province, according to Reuters.

Matson had earlier told his friends that he was joining a “private army” to fight the Islamic State group, Reuters reported Thursday.

“He told us… that he was getting hired by a private army and he let us know two to three months in advance…He told me he dropped hisgirlfriend and stopped looking for a job,” Miguel Caron, a friend of Matson’s, told Reuters.

The U.S. military also confirmed that a man named Jordan Matson had enlisted in the Army in and served from May 2006 to November 2007, according to CNN.

Meanwhile, airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition continued in northern Syria and Iraq. Overnight airstrikes targeted Islamic State group-held areas in al-Mayadeen in the Deir al-Zour province, Manbij and Jarablus in northeastern Aleppo, and Tal Abyad in Raqqa, near the Turkish border, according to an Al Jazeera report.

Violent clashes between Kurdish forces and ISIS militants were also reported near the Syrian border town of Kobane on Friday. On Thursday, 16 militants of the Islamic State group and 7 YPG fighters were killed in the region, according to the


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   ARGUED JANUARY 7, 2015 — DECIDED JANUARY 23, 2015
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around the world but its headquarters in Michigan, brought
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2                                                 ROOT — In a legal settlement reached Wednesday, a Montgomery County town will pay $25,000 to a gay couple who were denied a marriage license and it will amend its policies to permit those marriages.

Lambda Legal, a national LGBT rights group, reached the settlement with the town of Root, whose town clerk last year objected to marriages between same-sex couples on religious grounds.

In July, the couple, Dylan Toften and Thomas Hurd, visited the clerk's office in Root, which is about 50 miles northwest of Albany. Clerk Laurel "Sherrie" Eriksen, declined to process the couple's request.

Lambda Legal argued that refusal was in violation of New York's Marriage Equality Act, passed in 2011, along with federal and state civil rights laws and constitutional protections.

As part of the settlement, according to


JAN: Boker Tov, Michael. Our subject today is
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
& how this movie influenced American thinking about the Middle East. LAWRENCE
was originally released in theaters in December, 1962. When was the first time you saw it?

MICHAEL: My father took me to see it when it came out. I was 7. It’s all fantasy. There was no darkness, no disease, only the beautiful sprawling desert with rhapsodic music–charging on camelback, swords flashing. The whole thing was deeply, deeply romanticized & so irresistibly alluring. If that was your image of the Middle East, you wanted to learn about that.

I’ll tell you an interesting story: Bernard Lewis was my professor at Princeton. I was living in the desert for five years & I took Bernard Lewis out for a trip inone of the highest mortalities rates from the world. There’s nothing romantic about it, but several generations of Americans were sold on a romantic image of the Middle East by
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.

JAN: When journalist “Jackson Bentley” (Arthur Kennedy) asks: “What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?” “Lawrence” (Peter O’Toole) replies: “It’s clean.” (See the end of DVD chapter 38.)

MICHAEL:
The movie is a reflection of well over 200 years of Western, especially American, romance with the Middle East. Maybe the movie was revolutionary in cinematographic terms, but it was no revolution in terms of American perceptions of the Middle East; American myths about the Middle East go back hundreds of years.

In my new book, I talk about the first American explorer to the Middle


disclose.

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JHB: Data collection, analysis and interpretation of the results, drafting and revision of the manuscript. MN: Conception and design of the study, data collection, drafting and revision of the manuscript. JHJ: Data collection, analysis and interpretation of the results, drafting and revision of the manuscript. ME: Data collection, drafting and revision of the manuscript. JWE: Conception and design of the study, data collection, revision of the manuscript. BL: Conception and design of the study and revision of the manuscript. LJ: Data collection, analysis and interpretation of the results, drafting and revision of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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The Northern Sweden Medical Research Bank providedMartin Shkreli, the 'Pharma Bro' who raised the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 per cent, arrived in Brooklyn federal court on Monday.

Even with his federal securities fraud trial set to begin, Shkreli has blatantly defied his attorneys' advice to lay low and keep quiet.

The former pharmaceutical CEO, who became a pariah after raising the cost of a life-saving drug 5,000 per cent, has been preening for cameras and trolling on social media, potentially complicating his defense.

'I'm excited,' Shkreli said of the trial in a brief phone call last week to The Associated Press. 'I can't wait.'

Martin Shkreli, the 'Pharma Bro' who raised the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 per cent, arrived in Brooklyn federal court on Monday

Even with his federal securities fraud trial set


to begin, Shkreli has blatantly defied his attorneys' advice to lay low and keep quiet. He is seen on the left alongside his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman

The former pharmaceutical CEO, who became a pariah after raising the cost of a life-saving drug 5,000 per cent, has been preening for cameras and trolling on social media, potentially complicating his defense

'I'm excited,' Shkreli said of the trial in a brief phone call last week to The Associated Press. 'I can't wait'

Since his high-profile arrest in late 2015 when he was led into court in a gray hoodie, Shkreli has been free on bail and free to speak his mind.

He went on Twitter to label members of Congress 'imbeciles' for demanding to know why his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, raised the price ofDaraprim, a drug used to treat toxoplasmosis and HIV, from $13.50 to $750 per pill.

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He took to YouTube for a series of lessons on chemistry and stock market analysis.

His Twitter posts mocking a freelance journalist turned so creepy - one showed a fake photo of him canoodling with her - that his account was shut down.

And on Facebook, he mused about the possibility of being 'unjustly imprisoned.'

Since his high-profile arrest in late 2015 when he was led into court in a gray hoodie, Shkreli has been free on bail and free to speak his mind

He went on Twitter to label members of Congress 'imbeciles' for demanding to know why his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, raised the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat toxoplasmosis and


company for $11 million to pay them back.

The 34-year-old Shkreli 'travels to the beat of a very unique drummer,' exasperated-sounding defense attorney Benjamin Brafman said at a pretrial hearing this month

The defense has argued that he had good intentions.

'Everybody got paid back in this case,' his lawyer said. 'Whatever else he did wrong, he ultimately made them whole.'

The defense has floated the possibility that it would put Shkreli on the witness stand to try to highlight how he grew up in a working-class Albanian family in Brooklyn, taught himself chemistry, interned at a financial firm founded by CNBC's Jim Cramer and struck out on his own to become a rising star in biotechnology startups.

He wanted to develop new life-saving drugs after seeing 'several classmates and other children heSunday, December 23, 2007

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My brother lives in San Diego and I live in Ohio, so I maybe see him twice a year. It's been that way since he left home for the Navy the day after Thanksgiving eighteen years ago. I was sixteen then. I finished my last two years of high school, went on to college and law school, got married, had kids, and settled down in the Midwest. He spent six years on an Aegis cruiser, a couple more at Coronado, and took his discharge in 1997. Since then he has worked as a club DJ, dipped a toe in and then back out of the goth scene, spent time with a number of shady women before meeting a nice one, played Kato Kaelin to the


a Vintners Guild meeting that night, but Mabel and I would be delighted to attend.' Mrs Puttock looked at her daughter, who nodded.

Jonathan stood up. 'Wonderful. I shall collect you at seven.' He smiled. 'And I'm sure we'll have a splendid time.'

Jonathan stared at the dead child lying on an old straw mattress against the wall and a lump formed in his throat. The youngster's mother had combed the boy's hair and dressed him in school clothes ready to receive those who wanted to pay their last respects. This was the third such visit Jonathan had made to a pupil's house in the last two weeks. Three days ago it was Millie Carroll who was carried to an early grave by a winter chill, and then Peter Williamssilence hung in the air. Jonathan made a play of finishing his tea and carefully placed the cup back in the centre of the saucer.

'I must say, Barbara, I like the way you've decorated the room,' he said, indicating the dark red flowered wallpaper and heavy chenille, tasselled drapes. 'I'm afraid my current living quarters are very plain by comparison.'

'All it needs is a woman's t—'

'I hear Louise Davenport has become engaged to Major Cruickshank,' their father cut in.

'Yes, Captain Braithwaite told me the news in his last letter,' Jonathan replied evenly.

The news of Louise's engagement didn't sting Jonathan as much as it might have done a month or two back. Annoyingly that wasn't because of his growing friendship with Mabel Puttock but because he seemed to have


Iran has dismantled a "terror network" backed by Israel's Mossad intelligence services which planned to disrupt the upcoming presidential election in the Islamic republic, the state broadcaster said on Sunday.

"The intelligence ministry has identified and arrested the members of this terror network, and confiscated their weapons," IRIB said on its website, quoting a statement by the ministry.

It said the arrested group was made up of 12 members, but did not say when it had been busted.

The ministry neither identified any of those arrested nor mentioned their nationality, but said the cell leader originated from an unnamed "regional Arab" country.

On June 14, Iran is to hold its first presidential election since massive street protests, stifled by a brutal state crackdown, marred the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.

Iranaccuses its arch foes Israel and the United States of waging a deadly campaign of sabotage against its disputed nuclear programme, announcing from time to time the arrest of suspected Israeli or US spies, but provides little or no public evidence supporting the accusations.

The statement on Sunday said the group had been instructed "to conduct terrorist acts ahead of, and in particular, on election day" as well as "creating ethnic and religious divisions" in restive areas of Iran.

It said the group had already "hit several targets in a town," and that "its main culprit was in contact with a headquarters in Britain". It did not elaborate.

Last month the Islamic republic said it had hanged two convicted spies, one found guilty of working for Israel, and the other for


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Appellants are the natural children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.  Their parents were executed in June 1953 after conviction for conspiring to transmit information relating to the national defense to the Soviet Union.  Appellees Louis Nizer ("Nizer"), Doubleday & Co., Inc.  ("Doubleday") and Fawcett Publications, Inc.  ("Fawcett") are the author and publishers respectively of an account of the events surrounding the Rosenberg trial entitled The Implosion


specify in what respect the passages were false in answer to interrogatories from appellees.  Their answers consisted in general allegations that the account misrepresented historical facts and cast their parents and their supporters in an unfavorable light.  Three charges of falsity relating specifically to appellants are however included in the answers to the interrogatories.

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On page 400 of his book Nizer writes, "Bloch (the Rosenberg's attorney) had placed Michael, nine years old, and Robert, five years old, in a Bronx shelter home."  Appellants counter that they were never placed in a shelter by their parents' attorney.  In fact the children were, at one point, transferred to a foster home because their paternal grandparents were ill and unable to care for them.2

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Nizer's account of the eveningof the Rosenberg's execution contains the following account on page 483:

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On the evening of the execution, the kind woman with whom the children were staying sought to shield Michael from the shock.  There was a baseball game between the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers on television.  She lured him into watching it.  She had underestimated the overriding interest in the case.  Suddenly, there was a fearful scream like those that ejected him from his nightmares.  A bulletin had flashed across the screen: "President Eisenhower has turned down Ethel and Julius' final appeal.  They must die tonight."

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She rushed into the room and found Michael curled up in a corner of the big leather chair in a fetal position, whimpering.  With difficulty,


she lifted him in her arms and carried him to bed, where she held him tenderly during the sleepless night.

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This constitutes an untrue description according to appellants because "Plaintiff sat quietly with his hands folded looking down.  Plaintiff did not cry."3

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Passages at pages 23, 242 and 366-67 of Nizer's book refer to the neurotic behavior of Michael and Robert as children.  The accuracy of these descriptions has been documented in appellants' own book and in other sources.4 The allegations that Nizer distorted the trial record, deleted relevant parts of letters by their parents which were quoted in the book, or cast their parents' actions in a false light are irrelevant to an action for defamation brought by Michael and Robert Meeropol.5 The literary and historical worthsuch are the mores of the community, it would be unwise for a court to bar their expression in the newspapers, books, and magazines of the day." Id. at 809.

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All references to appellants in The Implosion Conspiracy are to Michael and Robert Rosenberg, not to Michael and Robert Meeropol.  After their parents' death, Robert and Michael were adopted by the Meeropol family and except among a few intimate friends, were known exclusively under the name of their adoptive parents.  Their true identity was concealed even from most of their closest friends and associates until sometime after the Nizer book was published.  Nothing contained in the Nizer book linked the Rosenbergs to the Meeropols.  Thus, even if we assumed arguendo that Robert and Michael Meeropol


and will remain at double-digit in 1Q13," said Chrystelle Labesque, research manager, EMEA Personal Computing, IDC.

In Western Europe, PC shipment contraction remained severe, with an overall decrease of 22.5%, and remaining negative for the third consecutive quarter. Almost all countries showed a double digit decline, with southern European countries strongly affected by weakness in consumer markets. The U.K. market held slightly better while Germany performed lower than expected. Tablets and phones continued to capture customer attention and spending while in the corporate space decelerating renewals and the lack or delay in IT investment directly impacted commercial results. The public and education sectors across most countries also remained under pressure, announcing further cuts and austerity measures, adversely impacting PC demand.

"Results fell short of expectations in the consumer segment assoftness in demand persisted amid a continued shift to tablets and ongoing budget pressures," said Maciej Gornicki, senior research analyst, IDC EMEA Personal Computing. "Shipments in the commercial market remained constrained as predicted, following continued economic pressure and slowing corporate renewals after two years of Win 7 migrations."

"The PC market experienced a significant decline in both regions Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and Middle East and Africa (MEA)," said Stefania Lorenz, Associate VP, IDC CEMA Systems. "The PC market recorded a drop of 17.5% year-on-year, reaching just over 10 million unit shipments in 1Q13. The CEE region was the worst affected by market contraction and declined by 20.8% year on year. Desktop and notebook shipments reported over 20% decline respectively. The increasing shift in demand towards tablets is


demand and an unfavorable year-on-year comparison with a strong first quarter of 2012 related to delayed shipments from 4Q11 due to HDD shortages. Performance was soft in all three subregions with a priority given to tight inventory management while preparing the transition to several new product launches and a strong upcoming product line across both consumer and commercial markets.

Lenovo consolidated its second place in the overall EMEA ranking and remained the only vendor among the top 5 posting growth in a depressed market. The vendor's shipments were up 11%, representing 11.9% market share in EMEA, and gaining share across all subregions. Lenovo's growth continues to be driven by consumer expansion in key geographies, while maintaining a strong focus in the commercial market.

Acer ranked third, directly impacted, as mostvendors, by the weakness in the consumer market across the region. The vendor however continued to place attractively positioned products, ultra slim notebooks in particular, while investing further in the Tablet space and continuing to extend its product portfolio. Acer benefited from a good adoption of touch-enabled portable PCs in comparison to a slow market uptake overall.

Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) regained fourth position in the overall ranking in comparison to previous quarter. Albeit recording shipment contraction, the vendor performed better than the market. The limited exposure to the consumer market turned to Dell's advantage this quarter, while overall performance reflected cautious business investment levels.

Asus moved to fifth place with a double-digit decline in shipments, directly impacted by a decline in portable PC sales. Lackluster consumer demand for notebooks directly


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Skywatchers with telescopes can probably see Juno from now until the end of the year, but it is most visible to binoculars in late September. On or before Sept. 21, look for Juno near midnight a few degrees east of the brighter glow of Uranus and in the constellation Pisces. It will look like a gray dot in the sky, and each night at the end of September, it will appear slightly more southwest of its location the night before. By Sept. 25, it will be closer to the constellation Aquarius and best seen before


midnight.

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Image 2: On or before Sept. 21, 2009, look for Juno after midnight a few degrees east of the brighter glow of Uranus and in the constellation Pisces. Image credit: NASA/JPLthe time of the occurrence, testified that she was at the Chatham Food Center around 9 p.m. on June 7, 1993; the store was located at 79th and Calumet Streets. While she was using a pay telephone outside the store, she heard the sound of a gunshot. Barnes looked up and saw someone holding a gun, and she then heard another shot. The shot was fired at a car. Barnes then saw a person inside the car slump over, and the car started to roll toward where she was standing. The person who fired the shot got in the back seat of a Mercedes, which then drove off. Barnes identified the defendant as the gunman. Barnes estimated that she was standing about 20 to 25 feet away from


the car when the shots were fired, and she testified that she got a good look at the gunman. On June 9, 1993, police officers showed Barnes a brochure of various Mercedes models, and Barnes selected one that matched the car she had seen. About a week later, on June 15, Barnes viewed a lineup and identified the defendant in the lineup as the person who had fired the shots.
On cross-examination, Barnes acknowledged that she had provided different officers with somewhat different descriptions of the gunman. She told the first officer on the scene that the gunman was a black male, 5 feet 11 inches, weighing 170 pounds. Later, she told a different officer that the shooter was a black male, 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet,weighing 150 to 160 pounds, and 17 to 18 years old. Barnes testified further that the defendant had bushy hair, and that he was the only person in the police lineup with bushy hair. Barnes also said that the defendant had a wide nose and wide lips. Although Barnes told investigating officers that the shooter wore a blue terry cloth jacket with a hood, with pink and yellow accents, and an Aladdin genie on the back, at trial she did not recall seeing a figure or emblem on the back of the jacket.
Theodore Traylor, who was with the defendant when the offenses were committed, also testified on behalf of the State at trial. Traylor said that on June 7, 1993, around 8:30 p.m., he was standing at 67th


and Ada Streets with Antoine Moore. At that time, some of Moore's friends drove up in a grey Mercedes. In the car were the defendant, Howard McClinton, and Demetrius Daniels. Traylor had seen the three previously. After they talked to Moore, Moore told Traylor to get in the car and they would take him home. Traylor lived at 79th and Woodlawn, which he said was a "couple" miles away. McClinton was driving, and Moore sat in the front seat; Traylor, Daniels, and the defendant sat in the back, with Traylor in the middle. According to Traylor, the four others talked about a movie they had seen, "Menace II Society," which was about carjacking; Traylor had not seen the movie. After 15 or 20 minutes they reached 79th andCalumet Streets. There, McClinton, the driver, saw some girls to whom he wanted to talk. McClinton pulled into a parking lot, but the girls did not want to talk to him. Then, McClinton said, "There go a jack move *453 there." According to Traylor, McClinton drove toward an old man who was leaving a grocery store. The man got in his car, and McClinton pulled the Mercedes near the man's car. Traylor testified that McClinton handed Moore a gun and said, "Jack him." Moore got out of the Mercedes and tapped on the window of the victim's car, but the man would not open the door; he instead turned the ignition on. Moore told the man to get out of the car and tapped on the window with


the gun. Moore then got back in the Mercedes and said to shoot the victim. The defendant jumped out of the car, pulled a gun from under his shirt, and shot the victim twice. The defendant then jumped back into the car, and the Mercedes drove off.
Traylor testified that he then asked the others to take him home. They were laughing about the shooting. Traylor said that he had not known that they would try to take a car at gunpoint. They drove Traylor to Woodlawn, where he was then staying. Traylor said that he saw Moore two or three days later, when Moore came to his house. Traylor turned himself in on June 17, when he learned that the police were looking for him. Traylor said thathe told the authorities what had happened and later signed a handwritten statement describing the offenses.
The parties stipulated that an evidence technician would testify that bullets were recovered from the front seat and the back floor of the victim's car. The parties also stipulated that a firearms expert would testify that he concluded from his examination of the bullets that they had been fired from the same weapon, a .38 Special revolver.
At trial, the prosecution also presented testimony detailing the defendant's inculpatory statements to authorities. Detective Herman Cross, assigned to Area 2 violent crimes, testified that early in the morning of June 12, 1993, he learned that the Mercedes involved in the crimes had been stopped. The investigation eventually led Cross to Moore, Daniels, McClinton, and the defendant.


Cross found the defendant on June 15, 1993, and he and his partner, Bernatek, transported defendant to Area 2 headquarters. There, they arranged a lineup, at which Theresa Barnes identified the defendant as the gunman. Cross and Bernatek then gave the defendant Miranda warnings and, after the defendant agreed to waive those rights, questioned him about the case. In a brief statement, the defendant said that he and Antoine Moore got out of a silver Mercedes, walked up to the victim's car, with Moore on the passenger's side and the defendant on the driver's side. The defendant pointed a gun at the car window and someone called out, "Bust him, bust him." The defendant then fired two shots.
On cross-examination, Detective Cross explained that a report about the lineupnight. After waiving Miranda rights, the defendant told Chiampas about the offenses. He then agreed to repeat the statement in the presence of a court reporter. After the statement was transcribed, Chiampas reviewed it with the defendant, who made several corrections. The statement was then initialed by the defendant and Chiampas, as well as by Detective Bernatek and Chiampas' supervisor, who were also present during the statement.
In the statement, the defendant said that on June 7, 1993, around 6 p.m., he was home when four persons came over: Howard McClinton, Demetrius Daniels, Antoine Moore, and Theodore Traylor. The defendant took his gun with him, a .38 Special, and *454 all five then drove to the area of 68th and Ada, in a Mercedes. McClinton was driving, Moore was


in the front seat, and the three others were in the back seat. McClinton also had a gun with him. With the exception of Traylor, they talked about a movie they had seen, "Menace II Society," which was about carjacking. They stayed at 68th and Ada for about two hours. Then, all five got back in the car and drove down Calumet Street. Moore talked about the movie again, and as they crossed a street, Moore said, "Let's jack that mark in the lot." McClinton thought that the person looked young and might have a gun; he believed that older persons were less likely to be armed and therefore made better targets. By this time they had driven into a parking lot, and there Moore got out ofthe car, with a gun in his hand. According to the defendant, Moore ran up to a car, which was occupied by a man, and tried to open the door. The door would not open, so Moore told the man to get out. Without replying, the man tried to back up his car. Moore ducked away and said, "Bust him," which the defendant said meant to shoot him. The defendant jumped out of the back seat and shot the victim twice. The first shot shattered the car window; the second shot hit the driver. The defendant then heard his friends yelling at him, and he returned to the Mercedes. Later that night, Moore was laughing and joking about the offenses; according to the defendant, he told Moore that


it was wrong to tell him to shoot the victim. The next day, Moore, McClinton, and Daniels came over to the defendant's house. Moore said that he would get rid of the gun used by the defendant in the offenses, and the defendant gave it to him.
The parties also stipulated that Dr. Barry Lifschultz, an assistant medical examiner for Cook County, if called as a witness would testify that he performed an autopsy on the victim on June 8, 1993. The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head.
The only evidence presented by the defense was testimony by Charles Moore, deputy chief investigator for the Cook County public defender's office. Moore stated that he took four photographs of the defendant on June17, 1993, two days after he gave his statements in this case. Moore took the photographs while the defendant was in the lockup area of a courtroom. The photographs depict the defendant's face and head. These photographs had been shown to Assistant State's Attorney Chiampas and Detective Cross during cross-examination; both witnesses testified that the photographs revealed only one injury, to the defendant's lip.
In rebuttal to the preceding evidence, the prosecution presented, through a stipulation, the statement of Officer Hughes concerning the lockup area for Area 2. On June 16,1993, around 1:15 a.m., Detective Cross returned the defendant to the lockup area, so that he could be transferred back to the Cook County jail. Hughes, if called as a witness, would have testified that he performed a visual


described a carjacking committed by the defendant on June 5, 1993, just two days before the offenses involved here. Harrison testified that she was driving home from work around 3:10 that morning when she pulled off the road because a friend driving behind her had flashed his lights and pulled over. The friend got in Harrison's car. Immediately after that, two young men pulled up; one of the men, whom Harrison identified in court as the defendant, got out of the passenger's side of the car, holding what appeared to be an automatic rifle or machine gun. The defendant pointed the gun at Harrison and told her to get out of her vehicle. Harrison and her friend got out of the car, and Harrison thought that the defendantwas going to kill them. The defendant backed away from them and drove off in her car. Harrison testified further that she viewed a lineup on June 11, 1993, and identified the defendant as the person who had taken her car.
Detective Michael McDermott, of the Chicago police department, also testified at the sentencing hearing. McDermott stated that he investigated a carjacking committed by the defendant on June 3, 1993. According to McDermott, the victim of the carjacking, Kirschmar Norman, arrived home from work around 1:50 in the morning. As Norman was getting out of his car, he saw a person approach from a nearby van. The person was carrying a Tech 9 mm machine pistol, which he pointed at Norman. The person told Norman to put his money


and keys on the ground, and Norman complied. The person then picked those items up and got in Norman's car. The van from which the person had appeared pulled away and was involved in an accident. The driver of the van ran over to Norman's car and got in with the first person, and they then drove off. Norman viewed a lineup in December 1993 and identified the defendant as the person who had taken his car.
The State also presented evidence of two drug offenses committed by the defendant. On one occasion, on March 5, 1992, a plainclothes police officer saw the defendant engaged in what appeared to be a drug transaction. As the officer approached, the defendant turned, walked away, and let go of three bags, whichwere later found to contain cocaine. The defendant later pleaded guilty in this case and received a period of section 1410 probation. On another occasion, on May 22, 1992, an undercover officer saw the defendant, who was sitting at a table, drop a napkin that contained five small plastic bags. The contents of the bags were tested and found to contain cocaine.
Further evidence in aggravation came in the form of testimony relating the defendant's misconduct while in jail awaiting trial in the present case. Deputy Sheriff Alonzo King testified that on November 6, 1993, the defendant was found in an unauthorized area and refused to be included in the inmate count. The defendant received an oral reprimand for these infractions. Deputy James Brown testified that on May 11,


1994, during a search for weapons, two six-inch homemade knives were found inside the mattress of the defendant's cell. The defendant received 20 days in isolation as a result. On April 9, 1995, Deputy Brown found the defendant on the wrong tier of cells; when Brown asked the defendant to explain his presence there, the defendant swore at the deputy. The defendant received 10 days in isolation for the infractions.
Deputy Robert Adorjan testified that on August 17, 1994, he was performing a routine cell check when he found a piece of metal nine inches long and one inch wide among the defendant's belongings. It was sharpened at one end and had strips of cloth for a handle. For this infraction the defendant was given 10 days in isolation.
LieutenantRamon Torres testified that on September 14, 1994, he received a report of a fight. He found the defendant with a shank in his hand. Another inmate said that he had been jumped by the defendant and others. The defendant was given 29 days in *456 isolation-the maximum penalty-for these violations.
Deputy Donnie Booker testified that on May 28, 1995, he was assigned to help quell a riot after a jail inmate had been murdered. As Booker was searching cells, he found a homemade knife, about two feet long, in the defendant's mattress. The defendant received 29 days in isolation as a consequence.
Peggy Chiampas, the assistant State's Attorney who had taken the defendant's formal statement, also testified at the defendant's sentencing hearing. Chiampas said that throughout her interrogation the


defendant never exhibited any remorse for the offenses and seemed "cool, calm, and collected." Chiampas also read into the record two pages of the defendant's statement that had been omitted from evidence at trial. In this portion of the statement, the defendant said that he and the four others with him in the car that night were members of a street gang, the Black Disciples. The defendant held the title of assistant regent, and he was to discipline gang members who broke gang rules. On cross-examination, Chiampas said that the defendant, in reviewing the statement he had given to the court reporter, added the comment that Antoine Moore was laughing and joking after the murder, and that the defendant replied that it was wrong for Moore to telldefendant's separate conviction for attempted armed robbery.

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The defendant raises on appeal a number of challenges to his convictions and death sentence. We will first address the issues arising from the guilt phase of the proceedings, and we will next consider the issues involving the capital sentencing hearing.
The defendant first argues that he was not proved guilty of the offense of attempted armed robbery. The indictment in this case alleged that the defendant took a substantial step toward the commission of armed robbery by ordering the victim from the car and shooting him. The defendant correctly observes that the prosecution failed to present any evidence that the defendant ordered the victim from the car, and the defendant therefore argues that he was not proved guilty of the offense. The


the door of the victim's car. When the victim's door did not open, Moore ordered the victim from his vehicle. When the victim refused to comply, Moore got back in the Mercedes. At that point the defendant got out of the car and fired a shot at the victim's window, shattering it. The defendant next fired a shot at the victim, striking him. Viewed in a manner most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to establish the defendant's guilt for the offense of attempted armed robbery. The guilty parties had discussed carjacking and had selected a victim for that end. By firing a shot at the victim's car window, the defendant took a substantial step toward the planned offense of taking the victim'sthe State presented evidence regarding the recovery of the Mercedes used in the murder. Detective William Egan of the Chicago police department testified that on June 9, 1993, after receiving information from another officer, he went to Evergreen Park, where he spoke to a woman named Delores Barnes. Delores Barnes and Theresa Barnes are not related. Egan then spoke to Theresa Barnes, showing her a brochure of Mercedes Benz models. Following those conversations, Detective Egan had a broadcast issued for the license plate and model of Delores Barnes' car. On June 12, 1993, Officer John Graham of the Chicago police department went to the vicinity of 69th and Loomis Streets in response to a report that the car being sought was possibly located there. Officer Graham found the


car in that area and stopped the vehicle. It held seven *458 occupants, six of whom were juveniles. The defendant was not in the car on that occasion.
The parties stipulated that an evidence technician would testify that on June 12, 1993, he went to the location where the Mercedes had been recovered and saw red stains on the driver's seat. He also took a number of fingerprint and palmprint impressions from the vehicle. The parties further stipulated that none of the fingerprints taken from the car when it was recovered matched those of the defendant, McClinton, Moore, or Daniels. The palmprints were also negative.
Although defense counsel raised this issue prior to trial, the judge did not then rule on whether the evidence was admissible, preferring to wait untilthat he was somewhat evasive about the location and identity of the treatment he had then received.
In a further argument relating to Traylor's cross-examination, the defendant contends that the trial judge erroneously limited questions about the circumstances surrounding Traylor's detention by the police after he turned himself in for questioning on this case. The trial judge sustained the prosecutor's objections to certain questions about the nature and length of Traylor's detention. The defendant now argues that the trial judge's rulings improperly prevented him from exploring a possible area of bias on the part of the witness, and possible motivation for the witness to testify on behalf of the State.
The trial judge allowed some questions on the circumstances of the defendant's detention in relation to this case. Thus, on


he was illegally transferred from the Cook County jail and placed in the custody of the Chicago police department. Before this court, the defendant contends that the transfer occurred in violation of the Illinois Habeas Corpus Act. The defendant maintains that suppression of his two statements-the oral one he gave to the police officers, and the written one he later provided to the assistant State's Attorney-is an appropriate sanction for this statutory violation.
Before trial, the defendant filed a motion to suppress his confessions, alleging, among other grounds, that he was illegally taken from the Cook County jail to Area 2 headquarters for questioning in the present case. At the suppression hearing, police detectives Herman Cross and Paul Bernatek and Assistant State's Attorney Raymond Brogan testified that on Junewas then in court. The detectives went to the specified courtroom and waited for the conclusion of the proceedings on the defendant's case, a probation violation, at which the defendant was represented by appointed counsel. The defendant was then taken back to the jail, and the detectives returned to the intake unit. The detectives presented the letter to personnel there and then removed the defendant from the jail and transported him to Area 2 headquarters. At Area 2, the defendant was placed in a lineup, and he later gave authorities two statements regarding his role in the present offenses. The detectives returned the defendant to the Cook County jail early the next morning. At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial judge denied the suppression motion. With respect


sufficient also to establish the defendant's eligibility for the death penalty under section 9-1(b)(6).

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The defendant next argues that one of the victim impact statements introduced into evidence at the second stage of the sentencing hearing improperly urged the trial judge to impose the death penalty. The defendant argues that introduction of this portion of the statement denied him a fair sentencing hearing.
The evidence in question was presented as part of the victim impact statement of Olivia Chase, one of the victim's two daughters. Reading from her statement at the second stage of the sentencing hearing, Olivia Chase concluded:
"Clifford Chase's murderer has been apprehended, tried, convicted and must now face punishment for his cowardly despicable act. An act, which in most societies, ancient or modern, carries with itthat defendant and his cohorts had recently seen a film about carjacking. The sequence of events here is clear. Defendant and his young friends saw a film which glamorized carjacking. They talked about carjacking on more than one occasion. While committing the carjacking in this case, one of defendant's companions encountered the noncompliant victim, and told defendant to shoot the victim. Defendant complied. This sequence of events shows that defendant was not only violent, but also that he was susceptible to a cohort's influence, that he was immature, impressionable, and reckless. It does not show that defendant is a hardened criminal. The death penalty should be reserved for the most dangerous and incorrigible criminals-the "worst" criminals. Foolishness, susceptibility to peer influence, immaturity, impressionability, and recklessness by an 18-year-old,


or minimize the loss defendant has inflicted on the family and friends of Clifford Chase. Indeed, the egregiousness of defendant's conduct is accentuated by the fact that defendant has shown little or no remorse since the murder, and that the victim was 71 years of age and totally innocent. But the pain caused by this senseless murder will not be mitigated or alleviated by taking defendant's life for an impulsive act he committed when he was 18 years old, and which he committed at the instigation of a friend after seeing a film glamorizing carjacking. The deterrence and retributive functions owed society would be served in the facts of this case if defendant were imprisoned for the rest of his natural life.
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (; ; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer.

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Agrippa was born in Nettesheim, near Cologne on 14 September 1486 to a family of middle nobility. Many members of his family had been in the service of the House of Habsburg. Agrippa studied at the University of Cologne from 1499 to 1502, (age 13-16) when he received the degree of magister artium.  The University of Cologne was one of the centers of Thomism, and the faculty of arts was split between the dominant Thomists and the Albertists. It is likely that Agrippa's interest in the occult came from this Albertist influence.<ref name="twet55">Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas, The Western Esoteric Traditions', 2008, ,


Margaret, duchess of Savoy and regent of the Netherlands, and became archivist and historiographer to the emperor Charles V.

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CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Blanca was downgraded to a tropical storm Sunday as it neared the Baja California Peninsula, where residents boarded up home and storefront windows in preparation for the heavy rains and high winds that were forecast to lash a wide area including the resorts of Los Cabos.

After building into a powerful Category 4 hurricane on Saturday, Blanca quickly lost strength the following day. It was expected to pass to the west of the peninsula's southern tip, moving near or along its southwestern coastline at night and on Monday.

But with memories still fresh from Hurricane Odile, which battered ramshackle homes, stores and luxury hotels when it made a direct hit on Los Cabos as


a Category 3 storm in September, authorities put thousands of troops on alert and issued maritime warnings.

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Blanca a tropical storm as it nears Mexico's Baja California

AT SEA - OCTOBER 28: In this handout satellite image provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Sandy, pictured at 00:15 UTC, churns off the east coast on October 28, 2012 in the Atlantic Ocean. Sandy which has already claimed over 50 lives in the Caribbean is predicted to bring heavy winds and floodwaters to the mid-atlantic region. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

IN SPACE - SEPTEMBER 11: In this handout satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), hurricane Humberto (R) forms asa category one on September 11, 2013 in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean. Humberto is the first hurricane of the 2013 season. (Photo by NOAA/NASA GOES Project via Getty Images)

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Locals nailed down roofs and dragged food stands in from the beach in Cabo San Lucas, even as some tourists strolled the sand taking pictures of the cloudy skies and rising surf. Gusty winds whipped thesurf and "extraordinary rainfall," with possible localized accumulations of 10 inches (250 millimeters) or more in Baja California Sur state, which is home to Los Cabos.

Los Cabos Civil Protection director Wenceslao Pettit said conditions were calm and the area had begun to experience light rains associated with Blanca. He added that no evacuations were being carried out, although nine emergency shelters had been readied, and the port was closed to small watercraft.

Blanca's maximum sustained winds decreased Sunday evening to 70 mph (110 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The storm's center was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Cabo San Lucas and moving north-northwest at 10 mph (17 kph).

A tropical storm warning was in effect from Loreto to Punta Abreojos, including Cabo San Lucas. A


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Guidelines range was 108 to 135 months, but the statutory mandatory minimum was
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To describe the concepts, strategies and field results of a project to scale up prevention programmes and services for female sex workers (FSWs) in Karnataka, India. A strategy was developed to scale up urban sex worker interventions in 18 districts in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Macro-level coverage objectives were defined by mapping the urban locations where FSWs operate and estimating their population size. Prevention programmes were initiated in the urban locations that contained at least 90% of the estimated urban FSW population in each district. Within each location, a micro-planning process was used by FSW peer educators and outreach workers to design local outreach and service delivery plans. An estimated 48 973 FSWs were


the vehicle below the roof track structure and a rigid, generally linear strut which is pivotally mounted at its upper end to the carrier frame and pivotally mounted at its lower end within the guide slot. After the load carrier is pulled along the track structure to a slightly inclined position alongside the vehicle, the lower end of the support strut may be slideably positioned within the guide track to a lower position in order to further lower the outside portion of the carrier frame and allow easier accessibility to the load.
While the pivot and slide mounting arrangement of the support strut permits some adjustment of the incline of the carrier rack for loading and unloading, the range of adjustment is limited by the length of the sideOne of downtown Chattanooga's most expensive apartment buildings will soon start pre-leasing, and the developer says that dealing with its poultry plant neighbor is part of urban living.

"If people want to be in downtown with all the activity, they'll unfortunately have to put up with some things not as nice as the suburbs," said John Murphy of Knoxville-based Murphy Development.

The $35 million, 158-unit apartment building on Broad Street sits across 17th Street from the Pilgrim's Pride chicken processing plant. The plant and its unique odor have been a lightning rod for criticism by some, even as others defend the facility and the jobs it provides.

Murphy said he builds in other cities' downtowns and sees the same type of tension.

"The outskirts of central business districts were light industrial," he


said. "In the last decade, it has changed dramatically."

Murphy said he's struck by the condominiums and townhomes in the "immediate area" of his project, which are selling from $350,000 to $600,000 each.

Just this week, a Chattanooga-based information technology company, Conversant Group, revealed plans for an up to $9 million headquarters building just a block away at 1600 Broad St.

John Anthony Smith, the company's founder and president, told a city panel that the chicken plant is "bad for our city."

"Our city stinks," he added, asking the panel to do something about the plant.

Last year, there was talk of a possible chicken processing plant relocating to Northwest Georgia. Dade County residents were told that Chattanooga real estate developer John Wise was considering helping facilitate the move of Pilgrim's Pride toa 300-acre farm he purchased earlier last year in the county. But, Wise told the Times Free Press he had no plans at that time to develop anything on the property, adding that he wanted to keep it as a "gentleman's farm" and provide quail hunts.

Still, Southside Chattanooga resident Eric Wilkerson defended the presence of the chicken plant, citing the people who live in the area who need the jobs. The plant and another Pilgrim's Pride facility in the Southside employ about 1,300 workers, according to the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.

Wilkerson, who said he lives on Williams Street, added that people who don't like the plant don't have to live or work in the area, noting it was there first.

Amy Donahue, director of marketing and communication for


the New Testament also has some similar problems. Jesus did not have a personal scribe who followed him around, and many books were not included in the bible, as while they followed what Jesus commanded, they were considered to polluted by the beliefs of those who wrote them. Yet I ask about the Old testament as it is much older, written over vast periods of time, and in cases the teachings can be quite different than those expressed in the new testament.
God chooses who does his biding and knows all. But as seen in much of the bible, it was written such that even a simple man could grasp the words. Depending on the writer, the examples given could vary. Similarly I could know God wishes me toheartbeat.

The Holy Water was supposed to neutralize the poison.

"Not so much," she said, falling back onto the pillow. Time slowed.

Riley knew what was happening. She'd heard her dad talking to her mom about this when he thought she wasn't listening. Her leg would go septic in a few hours and the poison would spread throughout her body. It would kill her.

Maybe that's best. She could be with her parents. Do whatever angels did all day. No worries about money or school or demons.

An annoying noise pulled her out of her fevered imaginings. It was her cell phone. She faded out until it started making noise again. With sweaty hands Riley flipped it open. Someone called out to her in a frantic voice. "Riley? Are you okay?"

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Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Munenori Kawasaki currently leads the majors in personality, and nothing else. The 31-year-old is batting .235 in this, his second year since jumping to MLB from the Japanese League, while serving as a fill-in for the injured Jose Reyes. Yet to judge him based on his baseball skills—particularly in Toronto, where there's such little emphasis on baseball skills—would be to miss the point entirely. Rather, it's better to form your opinion on Kawasaki based on his reaction to Pablo Sandoval's full arm piece (above), or him telling the Toronto Star, “I’m always serious — Japanese style. I’m serious like a samurai.” Those are just two of the reasons the utility infielder is the most entertaining man in baseball. Here are 16 more.

1. He becameDaMarcus Beasley's international career revival reached another milestone on Wednesday, when U.S. Soccer announced that US men's national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann had named him the team captain for the upcoming 2013 Gold Cup.

The three-time World Cup veteran, one of the few holdovers from the squad Klinsmann used in World Cup qualifying in June, has worked his way back into the international fold in 2013, earning the 100th national team cap of his career in a May friendly against Belgium and has started four of the USA's six World Cup qualifying matches in 2013.

READ: Klinsmann has high hopes for RSL's Beltran, "a special talent"

“DaMarcus is a pure giver," Klinsmann said in a statement. "When we called him in back in March, he told me he would play


his own hopes, has
also a larger significance in voicing the aspirations of those for
whom, as is shown in many other poems, he becomes a voice, a
representative.

Mr. Jones' work has already won for him the approbation of many
literary people, his poems having appeared from time to time in
various publications; this fact not only justifies his gathering them
together in this volume, but being so recognized must fill him with a
certain assurance for the future. To this I can only add that, good as
these are, they give us the hope for better from one who ought
certainly to go on and upward.

            WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE.

_Boston, April 5, 1911._

CONTENTS

             as April showers wash the dusty plain.

VIII

I sing now of thy heroes of today,
  Thy sturdy warriors and thy gallant knights,
Who charge into the thickest of the fray,
  And die for country and their free-born rights,--
For orphans, widows and their little mites.
  Thus, Attucks brave, without a moment's pause,
(While reeled the Nation in her darkest plights)
  Full bared his breast in Freedom's holy cause,
  First fell and tore the code of Tyranny's cruel laws!

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Now, if my lay is yet not sweet enough,
  I'll bid a gentler, subtler strain awake,
And sing of fights with Jackson on the Gulf
  And Perry's hard-fought battle on the Lake!
Of fights in fen and moor and hoary brake,
  On Lookout Mountain and the rolling main--
Through searing


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However, this evidence deals not with mailing, but with receipt which was not an issue in the retrial of this case.
Plaintiff offered an exhibit which was a handwritten notice of cancellation sent to the Commercial Credit Company, with whom plaintiff had a mortgage on his car. The cancellation was dated June 16, 1966, with an effective date of cancellation of June 29, 1966, and originated in Madison; whereas, the cancellation sent to plaintiff originated in Stevens Point, was printed, and the effective date was May 18, 1966. Plaintiff claims this shows that no notice of cancellation was sent to plaintiff on May 3, 1966, and should have been admitted *578 as evidence. Plaintiff also contends that prior to the accident he was not aware of any proceedings toof free or low-cost supplies") replace commercial discharge materials for breastfeeding women. Some states have made active efforts to remove formula samples from hospitals. For example, the launch of a major breastfeeding initiative in 2006 by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene led to the elimination of formula sample packs from all 11 public hospitals operated by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation \[[@B14]\].

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pump on the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding. The role of the manual pump in early postpartum is made clearer from the mothers\' descriptions of their use in this study. It is important to remember that previous studies that tested the content of hospital gift bags were conducted more than a decade ago. The positive impact of receiving the gift bag containing a manual pump in addition to breastfeeding information in the current study could be a combination of evolution in attitudes toward breastfeeding, staff support during hospital stay, and the technological advancement of the manual pump over the past decade.

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Category Archives: What makes him so good

Patrick Mahomes was one of the most polarizing and fascinating draft prospects I can remember in years at the quarterback position. He put up mind-boggling numbers at Texas Tech, including a senior year with over 5000 yards and 41 touchdowns through the air. At his pro day, Mahomes threw the ball 80 yards and he showed off his tremendous arm talent throughout his collegiate career, when he was tossing deep bombs on a weekly basis. However, he came from an Air Raid offensive system, which have produced dozens of signal-callers who have put up crazy stats in college but never were able to come close to that kind of success in the pros. Therefore the Chiefs received some criticism for trading upall the way to the tenth overall pick for their quarterback in 2016, with Alex Smith still on the roster. Less than two years removed from that, Mahomes now has set a new NFL record for most passing touchdowns in his team’s first two games with ten of those and has his offense scoring 40 points per game. I want to recap why I had him graded as a second-round pick and how he has proven me and so many other analysts wrong in such phenomenal fashion.

With the NFL season all wrapped and the draft as well as free agency still some time away from this point, I wanted to take a look at the newest quarterback, who got paid. Jimmy Garoppolo was traded to San Francisco for


a second-round pick in the middle of the 2017 season and completely turned the franchise around, helping a 1-10 team win their next five games. That resulted in the front office making him the highest-paid player in NFL history, by giving him a five-year, 137.5 million dollar contract. After just seven career starts, it is fair to question if he is worth all that money. Therefore, I watched every snap of his time with the 49ers to offer an analysis on the young QB. I looked at his two games with New England as well, but decided to leave those out for now, since I’m judging him based on the system he will be a part of going forward, with Kyle Shahan signing a six-year contract himself, justin.

Le’Veon Bell racked up 2215 yards from scrimmage this year which ranks him second among all players only behind DeMarco Murray from the Cowboys. He also was a big reason the Steelers won their division this year for the first time since 2010. To me he is the best overall-running back in the league at this point. The following should tell you why he’s so good.

Watt was the Defensive Player of the Year a couple of years ago, has led the Houston Texans to their first two playoff appearances in franchise history and has put up unbelievable stats over the first four years of his career.

Now I want to explain to you why he should win the award for Defensive Player of the Year this season.


Taiwan: Asia's Beautiful Island

Little visited just a few years ago, the island of Taiwan is drawing new travelers with an alluring blend of rich culture and physical beauty.

The year is 1542. The place, 100 miles off China’s southeast coast. As a Portuguese ship passes a large, uncharted island, the sailors become the first Westerners to glimpse an Eden of golden beaches, fertile coastal plains, and a mountainous interior carpeted in mist-shrouded forest. Ilha Formosa, they call it. Beautiful Island.

Now called Taiwan, the island retains its startling physical beauty, alongside a rich cultural landscape where prayers echo through incense-perfumed temples, bullet trains zip between cities, and the world’s most fabulous trove of Chinese art dazzles museumgoers. Throw in one of Asia’s liveliest food scenes and it’s no wonder thatand visit Taipei 101, the world’s second-tallest building, to take the 37-second elevator ride to the observation deck on the 89th floor. From there street-level neon lights appear as mere blips of color as the sun sets over the darkening city. At first light, visitors to Longshan Temple, built in 1738, can catch a procession of brown-robed worshipers chanting before scarlet and gold pavilions.

The National Palace Museum can display only a fraction of its collection of nearly 700,000 works of Chinese art, most of them spirited out of Nanjing by the nationalists during the communist takeover. But what a fraction it is, from milky-green jade earrings, circa 6000 b.c., to a 19th-century basket of ivory carved so thin you’d swear it was lace.

Leaving Taipei on the bullet train


the claimed amount of their total indebtedness.  Moreover, at the time of the jeopardy assessment and resultant levies the taxpayers, who had not filed a complete inventory of their possessions, appeared to be the owners of mortgaged income producing rental property, a furnished home, a life insurance policy, bank accounts, automobiles and the contents of a safe deposit box.  It is not disputed that in the aggregate the levies on their property were intended to and probably would yield substantial revenue, although in the district court counsel for the government conceded that at least some of the real property was so heavily mortgaged that a forced sale would not in likelihood benefit the government.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has opted to stay quiet on a local free-speech case, marking a victory for a group of evangelical Christians who marched around Dearborn with a pig's head on a pole while telling Muslims they would "burn in hell" at a festival five years ago.

A federal appeals court had previously ruled in favor of the demonstrators, concluding members' speech was protected activity.

Today, the nation's highest court declined to hear the case -- offering no reason -- which means the lower court ruling stands.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit had previously ruled the demonstrators were protected by the Constitution.

"The First Amendment ... envelops all manner of speech, even when that speech is loathsome in its intolerance, designed to cause offense,


case on behalf of the Bible Believers, applauded the decision.

"If this went the other way, it would incentivize violence as a legitimate response to free speech, and that is wrong in our country," Muise said following the Sixth Circuit decision.

The lawsuit was filed against Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon and two deputies, who had argued that they had a right to protect the public from violence on the night of the festival, noting the Bible Believers had caused problems in the past. According to court documents, the group attended the Dearborn festival the year before and things got ugly: Members spewed hate messages, fights broke out and the group was evicted.

When it returned the next year, the group requested extra protection, saying it was entitled to police protectionHarris since his commitment to Michigan State; he's since opened up his recruitment after deciding he'll focus exclusively on football at the next level, though he still remains a soft Spartan verbal. Wilton Speighttold Sam Webb he's been talking with Harris on a daily basis and convinced him to spend two days on campus this weekend. While Harris doesn't seem close to making a final decision, a productive visit could move him closer to making a change in his commitment.

NC RB Elijah Hood — The four-star back had Michigan tied for fifth in his recruitment as of last week, but he's since updated that list and now has the Wolverines in fourth, per ESPN's Kipp Adams ($). This weekend will be key if Michigan hopes to make up


ground on Notre Dame, Hood's leader, especially since he plans to make a decision before his senior season.

MI DE Lawrence Marshall — Marshall briefly committed to Ohio State a couple weeks ago before opening up his recruitment after visits to Michigan State and Michigan forced him to reconsider. I'd expect the Southfield four-star end will take a little longer before making another pledge.

MI DE Malik McDowell — While McDowell has been a familiar face around Ann Arbor, he's yet to spend a lot of time with the coaches—that should change this weekend, obviously. McDowell has been mum about his leaderboard, but it's believed that Michigan and Notre Dame hold an edge over Ohio State and Michigan State, and this will be a chance for the Wolverines to separatefavorites in an interview with Scout's Bill Greene ($). He already holds offers from Illinois and Tennessee and ran an electronic 4.52 40-yard dash at a Nike SPARQ combine last week, so don't be surprised if Michigan comes through with an offer sooner or later.

The only player on this list that can be reasonably expected to commit this weekend is Mason Cole, and that's by no means a guarantee. As we've seen in the past, however, strange things can happen when this many prospects get on campus at the same time.

[Hit THE JUMP for the early leading candidate for dumbest rumor of the 2014 cycle, a couple of new offers, and more.]

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Sam Webb: Who are some of the other guys off the top of your head that maybe


longshot at best—pulling a top-flight player out of Louisiana is one of the taller tasks for any school, let alone one that experiences several months of snow.

One of the top tackles in the class, NC OL Bentley Spain, has narrowed his list to six schools—LSU, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Stanford, and Virginia—per Scout's Michael Clark ($). Spain plans a spring decision and says he won't do any more interviews until he makes a commitment; don't expect him to land at Michigan unless he visits before making his choice.

GA LB Bryson Allen-Williamstells Steve Lorenz($) that he'd like to visit Michigan—a school his mom "loves"—but that they're currently trailing South Carolina (his leader), Georgia, and Alabama. Allen-Williams picked up an offer from the Wolverines last week.

2015 Cass Tech prospectsNovember 20 in LGBTQ History

1934: Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour opens on Broadway to rave reviews and sellout audiences. An account of two schoolteachers accused of lesbianism by one of their students, the play is loosely based on an actual case in 19th-century Scotland.

1998: In the U.S. state of Texas, John Lawrence and Tyrone Garner are fined US$125 each after being arrested for having sex in their home. They refuse to pay the fine, resulting in a challenge of the Texas sodomy law which would eventually lead to the 2003 nationwide repeal of sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas.

2003: The United States Congress passes a resolution condemning all violations of internationally recognized human rights norms based on the real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity of an


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Savior is a 2D action adventure game in static screenshots, but developer Starsoft is promising so much more than that — and a successful Kickstarter shows that people believe in their vision. Indeed, early trailers have shown off a game with combat and parkour that seamlessly blend together engaging gameplay with intense moments. Mix in a Metroidvania structure, dialogue trees, and a few dragons, and suddenly Savior is set to impress in a big way when it releases sometime in the next few years.

Project and art lead Weston Tracy recently took the time to talk with The Escapist about Savior and Starsoft’s plans to live up to player expectations. The studio is using its experienced team to create a retro title that feels fierce and cinematic. There isWith red lipstick peppered around his cheeks and a glassy reflection in his eyes, any attempt by Richard McLaughlin to conceal an emotional response was in vain.

"It really gets you by the..." he said. "Tears come to your eyes."

While some cried, others were filled with mirth as they took part in the latest veteran sendoff that honored soldiers who fought during World War II.

"It's such a warm welcome for guys, and some guys have not been in a crowd before where World War II veterans have been welcomed," said Arthur Fishman. "It's an amazing experience."

McLaughlin and Fishman were among 30 veterans that were dropped off at the Detroit Metro Airport Wednesday afternoon. While their service is long over, another mission was laid before them: Board a plane and


visit the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

While not the toughest objective the men have faced, they did have a swarm of people to maneuver before reaching their plane.

"It's very exhilarating, it's making me feel wonderful," said Charles Chartiel, another veteran.

The Gary Sinise Foundation worked with the museum and American Airlines to put together the event. Its ambassador and actor D.B. Sweeney was also in attendance.

"But when you come out here with these veterans and you see what they've done, and you're able to come out and just be a small part in thanking them," Sweeney said. "It is a great honor and I'm very humbled to be a part of it."

Certainly some of the men boarding the planes felt honored too.

"I feel young, I feelrevolve in the wafer-baking oven from a dough-pouring station, in which liquid wafer dough is poured onto the lower baking plates of the opened baking tongs, through the baking space, in which the wafer sheets are baked in the closed baking tongs, to a wafer-taking station, in which the wafer sheets are taken from the wafer-baking oven. To start the wafer-baking oven the chain of baking tongs revolves in an empty state and the oven is heated up to the desired operating or baking temperature and only when that temperature has been reached are the supply of dough to the dough-pouring station and the pouring of the wafer dough started. When a wafer-baking oven comprising a chain of, e.g., 80 baking tongs and operated to bake each wafer


sheet within two minutes is to be shut down, the supply of dough is initially shut off and the chain of baking tongs is caused to revolve further until the last wafer sheet for which dough has been poured has completely been baked and has emerged in the wafer-taking station. About 75 wafer sheets are involved in that processing after the supply of dough has been shut off. In the wafer sheet-coating machine, 25 wafer blocks consisting each of three wafer sheets and two cream layers are made from said 75 wafer sheets and must then be processed in those plant portions of the production line which succeed the wafer sheet-coating machine. When the operation of the wafer-baking oven is to be resumed, two minutes will expire fromsame office.   He attended the 1976, 2000 and 2004 Democratic National Conventions as a delegate from North Carolina.   He served as a member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)'s Commission on the Presidential Nominating Calendar in 2005.

Turlington holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University and received his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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surprise, but OH MY GOD. It was so beautiful that I may have cried a little.

After that, the game becomes both more structured and more visually dynamic. The player now understands that each area of the game is the stage for a narrative surrounding one character, an understanding the game encourages by having the name of that character appear on the screen as one of the choral pieces of its soundtrack plays during the transition from area to area. After the first transition, the world of the game also becomes more active, with floating pollen, falling leaves, swaying flowers, billowing air-dried laundry, and moving shadows suggesting wind moving through the trees. As the natural world becomes more alive, so too do the characters as the pieces of thePenn Scores An Upset of Villanova 104 Years in The Making

In the summer of 2010, just prior to the start of a new college football season, I wrote a feature story for CBS on the success of the Philadelphia’s Div. I college football programs: Penn, Temple and Villanova.

Temple was coming off its first bowl season in 30 years, Penn had won the Ivy League championship, but Villanova set the City of Brotherly Love’s benchmark with the 2009 FCS national championship.

The 2009 Villanova team beat both Temple and Penn, further lengthening the shadow the Wildcats cast on the city. It was a familiar spot for Penn, as then-head coach Al Bagnoli alluded when I interviewed him.

““We respect Villanova’s program tremendously,” he said. “[2009] we played them well. Now the


particularly noteworthy, as they’ve established themselves as one of the nation’s preeminent FCS programs and Penn fell back in the Ivy League.

If head coach Ray Priore accomplish nothing else in his first season replacing Bagnoli (now at Ivy League counterpart Columbia), he already has his own chapter in the annals of Quaker football history.

This win may come with the footnote of Villanova playing without 2014 Walter Payton Award-winning quarterback John Robertson, who came out in the Wildcats’ Week 3 defeat of Delaware, but it’s an asterisk Penn will gladly accept.and asks Spargo to testify. Spargo first agrees, but when Jack is captured again, Spargo decides to join Hickok and Bat. With the help of Rose Griffith, Jack manages to escape again and hopes to clear his name. Meanwhile, Hickok, Bat and Spargo have left for Kansas City. In search for gold, they plan to destroy the Sioux Indians. Jack, while still trying to clear his name, becomes aware of their plans and tries to stop them.

Cast
 George Montgomery as Jack McCall
 Angela Stevens as Rose Griffith
 Douglas Kennedy as 'Wild' Bill Hickok
 James Seay as Bat McCall
 Eugene Iglesias as Grey Eagle
 Willam Tannen as Spargo
 Jay Silverheels as Red Cloud
 John Hamilton as Col.


Citation Nr: 1719099
Decision Date: 05/31/17    Archive Date: 06/06/17

DOCKET NO.  12-03 515	)	DATE
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On appeal from the
Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Hartford, Connecticut

THE ISSUE

Entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and schizophrenia.

REPRESENTATION

Appellant represented by:	Disabled American Veterans

ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD

C. Kersten, Associate Counsel

INTRODUCTION

The Veteran served on active duty from July 1965 to June 1967, including service in the Republic of Vietnam from November 1965 to November 1966.

This matter comes to the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) on appeal from a September 2011 rating decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Regional Office in Hartford, Connecticut, that, in pertinent part, denied entitlement to service connection for schizophrenia and PTSD.

The Board notes that the Veteran requestedclaimant.  38 U.S.C.A. § 5107; 38 C.F.R. § 3.102; see also Gilbert v. Derwinski, 1 Vet. App. 49, 53 (1990).

Analysis

The Veteran contends that he incurred PTSD as a result of his service in Vietnam.  He has also contended that his diagnosed schizophrenia and anxiety are the result of his time on active duty and the stress he encountered while serving in Vietnam.  He has stated that he did not experience anxiety prior to service, and that he has experienced anxiety and panic attacks since he returned from service in Vietnam.

During the course of his claim, the Veteran has provided several written statements regarding his contentions.  In November 2010, the Veteran asserted his belief that his diagnosis of schizophrenia many years after service


is related to his time in Vietnam, and he described an experience in which he fired at a small boy.  In February 2012, the Veteran submitted a statement regarding being shot down near the Cambodian border in 1966, and contended that he "suffered" from 1967 to 1986 without knowing what was wrong with him.  He related his "nervous breakdown" and hospitalization in 1987, a separate hospitalization, and continued treatment for anxiety and panic attacks, to stress from his missions in Vietnam.  In another statement submitted in August 2014, the Veteran discussed several events from his service in Vietnam which he associated with his PTSD.

The Veteran's STR's contain a report of examination for induction dated July 1965, wherein his vision is the only defector diagnosis noted.  In a report of medical history dated August 1965, the physician noted "no significant abnormalities."

The Veteran's post-service medical records include hospitalization records from Manchester Memorial Hospital dating from October 1986, when the Veteran was admitted with a tentative diagnoses of "acute psychotic breakdown, rule-out schizophrenia, paranoid type".  The staff psychiatrist noted that he had been treating the Veteran over the preceding year, and confirmed that the veteran had been hospitalized at the Natchaug Hospital several months prior with a diagnosis of atypical psychosis.  Tentative diagnoses of "atypical psychosis" and "rule out schizophrenia" were identified.  A later treatment record dating from September 1991 for diabetic ketoacidosis, lists "chronic schizophrenia, controlled" as a discharge diagnosis.

VA Medical Center treatment notes


dated from October 2010 to May 2011 show that the Veteran received private treatment for schizophrenia and anxiety.  A PTSD screening was performed in October 2011, and the results were negative for PTSD.

Private treatment records from psychiatrist Dr. LY reflect an initial psychiatric evaluation in May 2010 with follow-on treatment through November 2012 for a diagnosis of "late-onset schizophrenia."  The evaluation report states that the Veteran had seen his previous treating psychiatrist for 10 years.  Dr. LY noted a long history of schizophrenia, which was well-controlled with medications, going back to age 44 (more than 20 years).  She noted that the Veteran began taking medication for anxiety at some point during that period, but he did not recall when.  The report notes thatthe Veteran served in Vietnam, but that he reported no PTSD, no PTSD symptoms, and that he did not feel that war experiences bothered him.  Progress notes from December 2010, include a review of his experiences in Vietnam as well as PTSD symptoms.  He reported that right after the war, he experienced an increased startle response and more arousal, and but denied having them currently, stating the memories did not affect him on a "big scale."  No diagnosis of PTSD was provided.

As noted above, in November 2011, the Veteran was afforded a VA PTSD examination.  At his examination the Veteran reported that while serving as a corpsman with the 1st Cavalry Division, he was exposed to frequent combat, and on one occasion, while acting


the Hartford Vet Center.  His intake evaluation noted that a friend had recommended he visit the Center to meet people.  He discussed his time in Vietnam, but did not discuss any stressors, except to say that he has a memory of destroying a village, but wasn't sure whether it was real or a dream.  He reported that upon return from Vietnam, he was "numb" and spent time with his family.  His post-military life included being met by friends and working successfully.  He discussed his diagnosis of schizophrenia and the episode of onset while golfing, describing returning to golf as the hardest thing he'd ever done.  The counselor's report described him as trying to forget about Vietnam.  During the course of hisis silent as to any psychiatric symptoms prior to approximately 1985.  However, it does include discussion of the Veteran's service in Vietnam, noting that "after discharge, he did not develop any PTSD and does not feel that war experience bothered him."  During his November 2010 VA PTSD examination, the Veteran did not report experiencing anxiety at any time, whether in service or after discharge.  In his November 2010 statement, the Veteran noted that he was not injured in service and did not experience a "stress disorder" until "some years later."  However, in February 2012, he contended that he "suffered" from 1967 through 1986, and that due to anxiety and panic attacks, he sought the help of a psychiatrist.  As noted above, there is


the agenda for this shareholders' meeting was a proposed bylaw amendment which would substitute a classified board with three classes of three members each for the existing nine-man board elected annually. The notice of the annual meeting and the management proxy statement informed the stockholders that if the amendment were approved, they would then elect three board members for a term of one year, three for two-year terms, and three for three-year terms. At all subsequent annual elections, three directors would be elected for three-year terms.
Plaintiffs commenced this action on January 20, eleven days prior to the scheduled meeting. They sought a restraining order and injunction, enjoining the holding of the annual meeting and the further solicitation or reception of proxies until this court determined the applicability offuture annual meeting and thus dilute the voting strength which the minority had possessed by cumulating its votes in an election of the full board of nine directors.
Plaintiffs therefore sought a declaration that the stockholders could defeat the amendment in the event the shares voted against it, if cumulatively voted, would be sufficient to elect one director to a nine-man board and that the management proxy statement was invalid in failing to inform the stockholders of that fact.
During the hearing on the order to show cause held on January 26, the plaintiffs advised the court that they wished to withdraw all pending requests for temporary injunctive relief. After a full discussion and with the consent of all parties, the court ordered that the meeting and vote scheduled for


January 31 might be held as planned. The order further provided that if the amendment passed by a majority, but enough votes were recorded against its adoption to defeat it under plaintiffs' theory of the law of cumulative voting, then the court would later determine whether its adoption had been valid and, if it found for the plaintiffs, the terms of all nine directors elected at the meeting would be deemed to be for one-year terms.
The annual stockholders' meeting was held on January 31 and February 1 and the amendment was adopted on the affirmative vote of the holders of 690,738 shares. The Inspector of Election recorded only 50,801 votes in opposition, refusing to validate proxies representing 73,137 additional votes against the proposal.
Defendant's renewed motion for summary judgment,Times Past, Present, and Future: A Look Back at Starman, Part III

Before we continue, I should take this opportunity to talk about The Shade. As I mentioned in Part I, The Shade was a second-string villain who battled both the Golden Age and the Silver Age Flash. My knowledge of DC comics of the 1940s is very sketchy, so I cannot say when he first appeared. I've only seen him in the historic Flash #123, where the Silver Age Flash discovers a parallel world with his Golden Age counterpart. Since his re-introduction, The Shade continued to plague both scarlet speedsters in fanciful jousts before fading away into obscurity following the 'Crisis on Infinite Earths'.

(Forgive me if my language should seem strange now and then. It is an after-effect