the group: Arvest Bank donated $25,000, Bancfirst donated $10,000 and IBC Bank donated $20,000. Meanwhile, the Chickasaw Nation donated $100,000 to SQ 788 is Not Medical.

The biggest single donor, however, was Forward Oklahoma City, a political arm of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, which donated a total of $190,000 to SQ 788 is Not Medical. It was also the group’s first donor, records show, making a single $25,000 donation on May 15.

Tulsa’s Future Inc., an arm of the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce, also donated $25,000 to the group, campaign filings show.

Meanwhile, the group that advocated for passage of the medical marijuana measure — Vote Yes on 788 — received around $176,000 in monetary donations and spent $172,000 during the campaign, Ethics Commission filings show.

Though mostAurélien Menant is the co-founder and CEO of Gatecoin, a regulated cryptocurrency exchange that also partners with banks to develop blockchain remittance solutions. He is also a founding member of the bitcoin association of Hong Kong.

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the best, be the manliest, having the most and grabbing all you can from life because "you only go around once." He lived a life of sensuality. The cattleman wasn't a bad man, he just slightly missed the mark.

This man became what God desired of him. He found comfort in being with the family of the pastor, visiting them frequently and enjoyed having them to his home. There was a real change in his heart. There was a tenderness that he had never experienced before as he let God have more and more of his past, present and future.

Life continued to be difficult for the one cattleman's son. He still had the pain of his upbringing to deal with. Some of his behavior had become so automatic thathe still found himself grabbing for two pieces of bread and challenging the pastor's sons in manliness, but now, he was listening when the Holy Spirit reminded him that he was a new man.

He still had to face his siblings and he worked hard to break down the Esau spirit in their relationships. His own children, who experienced the pain of his lifestyle, finally were able to see that their father had truly changed. He was now working tirelessly to make up for lost time and become more of what God desired for him all along.

The cattleman's son's life is not over. His life is not what it should have been but it is becoming what it could have been. He learned an exciting principle in which he


their own right in different parts of the country, enjoyed their father's advice, steadiness, humble strength and faith in God.

The cattleman's sons did not want to see their father.

In fact, they did their best to avoid him.

Unfortunately, when they would visit their father, it wasn't uncommon for the cattleman and his sons to physically as well as verbally fight each other. They would argue over cattle, land, money, food. The cattleman's sons also had trouble in staying married to their first wives. They and their children experienced the pain of separation, divorce, remarriage, anger, suspicion and the like.

So, now, we are getting to the end of our story. What happened to these two men? These men chose different paths for themselves and their family experienced the consequences ofthese men's choices.

The cattleman died. He didn't experience a long illness. Just one day, he was no longer part of this earth. The world woke up one morning and he did not. The land and the cattle that he once owned were divided and sold. His sons avoided each other. The sensuality that the cattleman pursued, led to disjointed, isolated, marginally spiritual offspring. His children rarely got together. When they did, peace did not rule their relationships.

The pastor lived a long life. He outlived the cattleman by a good 20 years. His children stayed faithful to their spouses. Interestingly, the years after the cattleman died became very rich for the pastor. God's blessings increased exponentially. God increased his faithfulness with abundance. The pastor enjoyed his children, his grandchildren


and quite a few great-grandchildren. The pastor had made several, quiet, steady investments over the years and he found that he was experiencing the most financial success he had ever had. He needed nothing. God gave him all he needed and more.

You see not only did this pastor and his progeny do well, but many of the people who were affected by his ministry over the years were blessed by this pastor's steadiness and quiet confidence in God's ability to care for his children.

The Lord replied, 'My presence will go with you and I will give you rest.' Then Moses said to him, 'If your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.'God promised to be with Moses and to provide him withrecognize the voice of God's Holy Spirit, learning to act upon these promptings immediately. We can lay a gentle but firm hand of encouragement on his shoulder and be a Barnabas, a person of encouragement.

Many thanks to the deceased Dr. Oates from whom much of this information is taken. His seminal work Behind the Masks should be read by those in positions of leadership in the church.

"...I shall be anointed with fresh oil" The word used for "anoint" in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament comes from the Greek word chrio. This word originally denoted the smearing or rubbing of oil or perfume upon an individual. For example, if a patient came to see a physician because of sore muscles, the physician would pour oil upon his


own hands; then he would begin to deeply rub that oil into the sore muscles of that patient. That penetrating application of oil would be denoted by the Greek work chrio. So technically speaking, the word "anoint" has to do with the rubbing or smearing of oil upon someone else.

When you read the word "anoint" in the Bible, think not only of the oil, but of the hands of the Anointer. Oil was very expensive in Bible times; therefore, rather than tip the bottle of oil downward and freely pour it upon the recipient, a person would first pour the oil onto his hands and then apply it to the other person.

Let's consider this concept in the context of God anointing our lives. God Himself -- the Greatfirst, hit a two-run homer in the third and had an RBI double in the fourth off Zach Davies (9-6). Bryant hit a solo homer off Blaine Boyer in the sixth and added an RBI single in the eighth off Corey Knebel for his second career five-hit game.

Bryant, who hit 26 homers while winning the NL Rookie of the Year in 2015, had his third multihomer game of the season. He has 78 RBIs.

Anthony Rizzo doubled twice off Davies, who allowed a season-high seven earned runs and 10 hits in four innings.

The Brewers got left fielder Ryan Braun back after he banged up his left knee and ankle chasing a foul ball Tuesday. But Braun went 0 for 5 and couldn't come up with Addison Russell's fly that


drifted to the wall and was ruled a single in Chicago's three-run third.

Milwaukee was outscored 23-8 in the series and fell to 0-6 at Wrigley Field.

TRAINER'S ROOMBrewers: RHP Chase Anderson (quadriceps) was scheduled to play catch, two days after leaving in the first inning when he was hit by a line drive. "If he's healthy, we'll be able to use Chase out of the bullpen for a couple days this weekend and he'll start at some point next week," manager Craig Counsell said.

Cubs: Manager Joe Maddon said they'll decide in the next couple of days if RHP John Lackey (shoulder) will make his next scheduled start Tuesday.

CONTRERAS MOVES UPWillson Contreras caught Arrieta for the first time. The 24-year-old rookie has moved ahead of struggling veteran Miguel Montero.Contreras hit
281 So.2d 543 (1973)
In re ESTATE OF Laura E. VERDIER, Deceased.
Jean M. VERDIER, Appellant,
v.
John L. VERDIER et al., Appellees.
Nos. 72-202, 72-328.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
July 20, 1973.
Rehearing Denied September 13, 1973.
Guy L. Kennedy, Jr., and Richard T. Bennison, of MacKenzie, Castagna, Bennison & Gardner, Clearwater, for appellant.
Robert D. Jones, of Skelton, Willis & Jones, St. Petersburg, for appellees.
LILES, Judge.
The methods used in probating this estate afford laymen cause to give validity to HOW TO AVOID PROBATE by Norman Dacey (1965).
Laura Verdier died testate on January 26, 1970, in St. Petersburg, Florida, with the expressed hope that the bulk of her estate would be expeditiously distributed to her partially blind, minor niece, Jean Verdier. Such was not to be.
Her will was obviously a simple one designating


her brother, John Verdier, executor and leaving most of her estate, some $160,000, to her minor niece, Jean M. Verdier. Jean lived with her father and mother in Sydney, Ohio. Her uncles, John, George, and Willis, and her Aunt Lola, all *544 lived within a radius of approximately eight miles and had so lived there for many, many years. They were all involved in a business known as the Verdier Brothers, Inc. Laura Verdier had lived in Washington, D.C., prior to moving to St. Petersburg, Florida.
February 13, 1970, John Verdier was appointed executor and commenced the probation of his sister's will. One of the first things the brothers evidently noted was that their niece was to receive approximately $130,000 by survivorship in tenancies held jointly with her Auntfor labor and services but he had interest claims of $13,976, making the total claim $39,636. George was even more consistent with the amount he would have received had John's proposed agreement been consummated. We entertain the same doubt as to the validity of George's interest claim.
Then Virginia Verdier, Willis' wife, filed a claim for room, nursing services, and personal expenses in the approximate amount of $2,000; and the other sister, Lola, filed a claim and withdrew it.
John, the executor, whose duty it was to properly administer the estate, chose not to contest these claims because, in his words he thought it would be in "the best interests of the family relationship." He entirely overlooked the fact that Jean, his niece, was a member of the family. Jean's


father, Doyle, obtained the services of his personal attorney, Mr. Rieck, who had been handling the transfer of assets held jointly by Jean and her Aunt Laura. They could have, simply by complying with the local rule, obtained copies of all instruments filed in the estate. This was not done. Even though Doyle, Jean's father, was shortly thereafter either expelled from the family corporation or voluntarily left, depending upon whose testimony you want to believe, he evidently thought all was well.
The executor of the estate, John, for some unknown reason failed to advise Jean's father or anyone else that these claims had been filed for a period of approximately eight months when he finally got around to mentioning it to Doyle after the time for filing objections hadM656

The M656 is a 5-ton 8x8 U.S. military heavy cargo truck. It was a 5-ton truck in April 1966 and was used with the Pershing 1a missile.

Development
The M656 vehicles evolved from the XM543E2 program. The testing program ended in 1964.

Variants
 XM656- Prototype M656
 XM757- Prototype M757
 XM791- Prototype M791
 M656- Cargo version used to carry the Pershing 1a missile Programmer Test Station and Power Station
 M757- Tractor used to tow M790 Pershing 1a missile erector launcher
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Beginning in 2019, the Indianapolis 500 race will be broadcast on NBC after 54 years on ABC, part of a new multi-year media rights deal between IndyCar and NBC Sports Group.

Under the pact, NBC Sports has acquired rights to present all IndyCar races, qualifying, practices, and Indy Lights races across its platforms beginning in 2019. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The Indianapolis 500 and seven additional Verizon IndyCar Series races will be broadcast annually on NBC, with all remaining races televised on NBCSN. All races will be live streamed to authenticated subscribers on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app. Details of NBC Sports’ 2019 IndyCar schedule will be announced at a later date.

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petition for benefits from the
Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund (UEGF), alleging that his purported employer,
Yong Zheng, was uninsured. Subsequently, on July 14, 2016, Claimant filed a claim
petition alleging that he sustained the October 3, 2015 injury while employed by
Chopstix 4041, LLC, (Chopstix). On October 5, 2016, Claimant filed a second claim
petition for benefits from the UEGF, alleging that Chopstix was uninsured.
             Claimant first testified before the WCJ in March 2016. Claimant, who
resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, stated that he had worked on three different
construction jobs for Mr. Zheng. All three jobs occurred at restaurants and involved
rehabilitation, plumbing, electrical, painting, and drywall work.       The jobs were
physical and required Claimant to lift and carryon the earlier jobs. However, Claimant noted that Mr. Huang had paid
him on the Chinatown job. Although Claimant testified that Mr. Shi was the owner of
the restaurant, he claimed that he only worked for Mr. Zheng and that he was unsure
of the relationship between Mr. Zheng and Mr. Shi. (F.F. No. 1(j); N.T., 3/29/16, at
36-39.)
             Mr. Zheng testified before the WCJ in June 2016. Mr. Zheng identified
Claimant as a co-worker and colleague, noting that he had worked together with
Claimant on three separate jobs in New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Erie. Mr. Zheng
claimed that he had never employed Claimant and that he never saw Claimant get paid
for any of his work. Mr. Zheng explained that the Erie job


Editor's note: In his extraordinary new DVD documentary, "Mega Fix," Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Jack Cashill traces the roots of Sept. 11 to the political exploitation of terror investigations by the Clinton White House in the desperate 1995-1996 election cycle. This 8-part series began in Oklahoma City and now moves on to Croatia.

The "Mega Fix" DVD is available now at Jack Cashill's website.

TRENDING: Alan Dershowitz sues CNN to halt 'malicious' attacks on innocent people

On April 4, 1996, the subject of my radio show in Kansas City was Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown. He and 34 others had died the day before when their Air Force plane crashed into a Croatian mountainside.

Not one to shy from exploitation of a tragedy, President Clinton was busily profaning the memory of Martin Luther King –who had been killed on April 4, 1968 – by comparing King's mission to Brown's.

What Clinton did not say was that Brown had gone to Croatia to broker a sweetheart deal between the neo-fascist strongman who ran Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, and Enron Corporation. This was all part of the Clintons' desperate drive to raise money for their 1996 re-election campaign.

More than a few callers argued that the Clintons had the plane destroyed. I dismissed these arguments out of hand. I believed then, and believe now, that an American president would never do such a thing.

When I began my investigation for my book, "Ron Brown's Body," I thought, however, that I might very well find another link in the Mega Fix chain – that is, the cover-up of a


to church for the first time in his life. He is scared for his life and that of his confidante, Nolanda Hill.

The Croatian government insists on a Dubrovnik stop an unprecedented 36 hours before Brown's scheduled landing.

The Enron executives take their own plane.

The Air Force calls the pilot's nearly two-mile deviation into a Croatian hillside "inexplicable." No aircraft has ever drifted inland before at that airport. The AWACS data suggest sabotage of the ground-based navigation system, a line of inquiry that the Air Force is not allowed to pursue.

For the first time ever on friendly soil, the White House orders the Air Force to skip the "safety" phase of the investigation and move directly to the "accident" phase. There is to be no consideration other than accident, eventhough this airport is near the Bosnian border and in a potential hot-fire zone.

Three days after the crash and two days before his scheduled interview by the Air Force, the Croatian responsible for the airport's navigation system is found with a bullet hole in his chest.

A day later, every pathologist who views Brown's body concludes his head wound, at the very least, looks like a bullet hole. In a decision that reached the White House, there is to be no autopsy. The Brown family is not informed. Nor is there any forensic testing or a search for an exit wound.

The head x-rays that show a possible "lead snowstorm" are destroyed. Officially, they're lost.

The three Armed Forces pathologists and the forensic photographer who blow the whistle on this case


have their careers destroyed.

In silencing these dissidents, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology brass assure the public that Brown died of "multiple blunt force injuries" like the others. The death certificate says otherwise. It notes that Brown died of "blunt force injuries to the head." He was the only one of the 35 victims to have a reported head wound.

Franjo Tudjman, who has feared a trip to the Hague as a war criminal, shows up a week after the election at the Walter Reed Army Hospital to have his cancer treated.

His son, Miroslav, investigates the death of the navigation chief and rules it a suicide.

The evidence strongly suggests that Ron Brown was, in fact, assassinated. In the most likely scenario, Croatian intelligence agents coerce the navigation chief intosabotaging the airport's non-directional radio beacon. After the plane crashes, they divert the rescue efforts, go to the crash site and administer a coup de grace to Brown, who may already be dead. Three days later, they murder the airport's navigation chief lest the Air Force investigators persuade him to talk.

Who commissioned the Croatians is not known, although the list of suspects is small. If the commission came from Washington, it likely did not include the destruction of the aircraft.

Although not technically "terrorism," the Mega Fix paradigm works here just the same: The White House undermines the investigation and exploits the political advantage. The Clintons do not want to know the truth about Ron Brown's death, and they certainly do not want to share it. In this case,


it is impossible to lay the blame on the FBI. That much-maligned agency is not involved.

This time, the Clintons use a reluctant Air Force and a nearly mutinous Armed Forces Institute of Pathology to bury Ron Brown as quickly as possible, literally and figuratively. They exploit Brown's death for political advantage and leave the truth buried with him. Without an autopsy or a serious investigation, that is where it remains to this day.

On April 14 – four days after Brown's funeral – Clinton watches in shock as his buddy Greg Norman blows a six-stroke lead in the final round of the Masters, the greatest choke in the tournament's history.

"Yes," Clinton tells press aide, Mike McCurry, "that's going to be the new theme for the campaign, that we're notMedia playback is unsupported on your device Media caption London Mayor Boris Johnson invoked Romney's earlier comments as he revved-up crowds in Hyde Park on Thursday

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has predicted a "very successful" Olympics, hours after talking of "disconcerting" signs in London.

He backtracked while meeting PM David Cameron, after telling US TV Britain may not be ready to stage the Games.

He said all Games saw "small" mistakes and he had seen "great progress" in the UK. But his remarks were later seized on by London Mayor Boris Johnson.

The Republican contender will take on Barack Obama in November's election.

In the contest for the Republican nomination, Mr Romney made much of the fact that he delivered a successful Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002, when he


was chief executive of the event.

Speaking to reporters outside 10 Downing Street, he said he had been impressed by the enthusiasm of "millions of people across Great Britain" who had turned out for the torch relay.

Mr Romney said he "applauded the work of the organising committee in bringing the Olympic experience right into the heart of London".

Hours later, London Mayor Boris Johnson played on Mr Romney's earlier comments while revving up a crowd of thousands of people in London's Hyde Park.

Calling London "the greatest city on earth," Mr Johnson told the crowd: "I hear there's a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know whether we're ready. Are we ready?"

'Not encouraging'

In an interview with NBC on Thursday, Mr Romney said stories about difficulties with security guards and threatsCameron described the US politician's comments as a "vote of confidence".

"He can see as everyone can see that this is going to be a fantastic Olympic Games in London."

Mr Romney, who will also visit Israel and Poland during a week long trip to boost his foreign policy credentials, earlier met former prime minister Tony Blair, Labour leader Ed Miliband and other senior figures.

The presidential candidate, who at one point addressed Mr Miliband as "Mr leader", said he recognised "the unique relationship that exists between our nations, our commitment to common values, our commitment to peace in the world and our desire to see a stronger and growing economy".

Image caption Mr Romney discussed the Middle East with Tony Blair

He spoke of the "common effort" towards peace and prosperity, adding:


"I appreciate the work of the military of this great nation in our joint effort in Afghanistan, the people of Great Britain have sacrificed enormously in helping bring peace to that nation."

The former Massachusetts governor, who trails President Obama by an average of three points in opinion polls, also met former UK Prime Minister and Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair at Mr Blair's central London offices.

Mr Blair's spokesman said: "Ahead of the Governor's visit to the Middle East, they discussed the Middle East peace process, the situation in Syria, Iran and the wider region.

"The meeting then covered the economic challenges facing both Europe and the US. On the eve of the Olympic Games, the Governor and Quartet Representative also discussed their medal hopes for the US andThomas Taylor. “There were many deciding factors that went into playing with and for Heat. A big factor is how much I respect Sarge and Momma D on and off the field. When it comes to paintball, I have watched how the team is run like a family, like a well-oiled machine, how they put their players in the best position to win with practice, preparation, fitness and mindset. I'm excited to mix in with the team’s young and upcoming talent and be a solid asset on the road to another championship.”The Smiths first met Taylor when they were living in Canada and their son, Ryan, was playing in the Canadian Xtreme Paintball League (CXBL) – a league that Taylor has been playing in for 3 years. It


Steve Bacic (born March 13, 1965) is a Canadianactor of Croatian origin. He is known for playing the character Telemachus Rhade on the Sci-Fi series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. After being a guest star in season 1-3, he joined the cast early in season four. In total, he was in 44 of the 110 Andromeda episodes. Also starred as "Jason" in Season 2 of Hallmark Movies and Mysteries show Garage Sale Mystery.

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Bacic was born in Lisičić, a village in Croatia (then Yugoslavia) and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.[1] He has stated that acting was really his second choice - he really wanted to be a professional athlete and become either a coach or a physical therapist. After graduating from university with an honours degree in kinesiology, he spent sometime at a factory job and, at one point, had his own auto refurbishing business and owned two houses. In his mid-twenties, a road trip with friends led to settling into Vancouver, Canada, where, intrigued by all the television and film production going on there, he decided to stay. He later took acting classes and met rising stars like Ethan Hawke in the process. He did a little work with Hawke and others in their movies and real auditions and a few modeling gigs followed. He went in to read for a bit part in the 5th season of 21 Jump Street but instead landed the lead guest-starring role - a first for a Canadian for the series.


species... I'd like to see them all in GITMO...

"Lincoln was not a "strong supporter of the Fugitive Slave Act" but a reluctant one who didn't want to give credence to the radical abolitionist who where calling for the destruction of the Union and denouncing the Constitution. Anyone who knows anything about Lincoln knows that the preserving the Union was in his view the only way to end slavery and he was correct in that assessment.

Neoconfederate Racist Traitors like racist Bob Roddis hate Lincoln because his defense of the Nation against foreign imperial domination via the "Free Trade" and from attacks by proxy states and terrorists against in the Union in the form successionism.

The strong Federalism of the Union provided the only defense against the formation of a worldBritish Empire with absolute control seeing as the United States was the only truly independent power after the Crimean War and it alone could stand against the international system of Free Trade which demands slavery at it's core to operate.

Bob Roddis is pro-world government just like his buddy Ron Paul as strong it's a "gold standard controlled" by Rothchild and Barring Banks just like it was during the 19th century. All the so-called economist he cites studied at the "London School" and that is why he so obsessed trying to destroy public currency in favor of "sound currency" which was a favorite of the Confederate and Bankster propaganda against the Union.

I'm betting that Bob Roddis will soon start citing Aaron Burr as an authority to use against the


evil's of fiat money as soon as he find it just like many Ron Paul supporters have...

He doesn't believe in state's rights but rather wants the states so weak and conflicted that they can be dominated and controlled by foreign banking interests. He has no principled stand against federalism he only opposes interest of the state acting to protect on the basis of principle rather than property.

Libertarianism is the heart and soul of world Imperialism and slavery for the reason that it cannot abide the idea that Nation by it own authority declare certain actions of international markets and forces that controlled those market will not be allowed to imposed their will on the Nation. By standing on the principle of National Independence Lincoln alone defeated the institutions
86 F.Supp.2d 199 (2000)
William ARAMONY, Plaintiff,
v.
UNITED WAY OF AMERICA, individually and as administrator and named fiduciary under The United Way of America Replacement Benefit Plan, and as administrator of the United Way Supplemental Benefits Agreement, United Way Replacement Benefit Plan and United Way of America Supplemental Benefits Agreement, Defendants.
No. 96 CIV 3962(SAS).
United States District Court, S.D. New York.
January 4, 2000.
Michael Bailey, Dennis Houdek, Falcone, Houdek, Bailey & Curd, LLP, New York, NY, for William Aramony.
Elise M. Bloom, Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, New York, NY, Paul J. Ondrasik, Jr., Sara E. Hauptfuehrer, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC, for United Way of America.

OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
In 1992, United Way of America ("UWA") terminated William Aramony, its President and Chief Executive Officer of twenty-two years. Following his termination,


the remand issue.
UWA is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of New York and having its principal place of business in Alexandria, Virginia. Id. at 153. UWA is governed by a volunteer Board of Governors and a full-time President and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"). Id. The Executive Committee of UWA's Board of Governors ("Executive Committee") is a subcommittee of the Board of Governors that is authorized to adopt pension plans and executive compensation arrangements on behalf of UWA. Id. Aramony served as UWA's President and CEO from 1979 until March 16, 1992. Id.
The general practice at UWA was for the Executive Committee to adopt the concept of a pension plan, but not to decide the details of the plan. Id. at 153-54. Those details were worked outthat this account is corroborated in the three synoptic gospels, including Mark, which is regarded by unbelievers as at least an historical primary source for Jesus’ life and ministry:

“And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors. And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself, and come down from the cross” (Mark 15:27-30).

You know, you sound like one of them.

We could go in a lot of directions to prove that Jesus preached justification through faith in Him by grace, but I’ll settle with one verse


friendship, family, and the everyday magic and adventure that readers of Savvy and A Snicker of Magic love, Cassie Beasley’s newest middle grade book is another crowd-pleasing heart-warmer—perfect for reading by yourself, or sharing with someone you love.

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We are delighted to announce a new partnership with The International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). IOCDF is a leading, international nonprofit organization which aims to help everyone affected by obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders, including hoarding disorder (HD) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), to live a full and productive life.

The IOCDF provides support, education, and resources for those affected by OCD and related disorders, as well as for the professionals who treat them. Based in Boston, the IOCDF has affiliates in 27 states and territories, as well as 13 Global Partners. Since their founding in 1986, the IOCDF has granted millions of dollars for OCD research, trained thousands of professionals to effectively treat


Thursday, January 14, 2010

Taking a break from the tube!

I hate to admit the following but yesterday my daughters killed way too many brain cells watching TV. It started in the morning while I made them breakfast. Then Mia got to watch TV while I was at the Doctor's and Bella was at the library. After returning from the doctor and having lunch, Bella got to watch TV while Mia took a nap. But here's the worst part--Bella didn't even want to watch TV--no--this insensitive, selfish mother made her (almost) 4 year old daughter sit through TWO HOURS of American Idol. TWO HOURS. It was torture for her. In fact, there was a point where she even went up to the TV, turned it off, and told us thatto more sensitively detect and respond to certain chemical agents. The research, supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), was reported May 1 in the journal Cell Reports.

"We have discovered the mechanism that regulates how quickly a pathway gets turned on by an external stimulus," said Matthew Torres, an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "By genetically altering the control mechanism underlying this process, we are able to modulate how much of a signal from outside the cell gets inside the cell and how quickly it gets through. It's all the more astonishing because this mechanism has been hiding in plain sight for decades."

G proteins, also known as guanine nucleotide-binding proteins, are a


PM Modi held the meeting after his Independence Day address. (File)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday comprehensively reviewed the state of the economy with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as his government scrambled for solutions to tackle a fast-spreading slowdown in various sectors, which is eroding wealth and causing job losses.

PM Modi, after delivering his sixth straight address to the nation on the Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi, went into brainstorming with Ms Sitharaman and all top officials in her ministry, sources privy to the development said.

The meeting, they said, was to assess the nature of the slowdown and its long-term impact.

There are expectations that the government would come out with sector-specific stimulus sometime soon.

An email query sent to the spokesperson ofthe finance ministry remained unanswered.

India's economic growth has slowed to 6.8 per cent in 2018-19 - the slowest pace since 2014-15, consumer confidence is waning and foreign direct investment has plateaued. International trade and currency war is further aggravating the problem.

While the finance ministry has remained tight-lipped on measures being contemplated to take the economy out, Reserve Bank Governor had earlier this month stated that the slowdown is more cyclical than structural and the growth is expected to review by the fourth quarter.

But there are ominous signs showing that slowdown may be deep. The auto sector is facing its worst crisis in two decades and reports suggest thousands of job losses in the automobile and ancillary industry.

In the real estate sector, the number of unsold homes has increased


and real estate earlier this month to firm up steps to increase investments and boost economy

Foreign investors during their meeting with Sitharaman had suggested that higher surcharge on income beyond Rs 2 crore, which was imposed in the Budget, should not be applicable on FPIs. The government''s decision on surcharge had impacted the market.

On its part, the Reserve Bank of India, with inflation under its comfortable zone, reduced the key lending rate for the fourth successive time early this month to push economic activities. It has also asked banks to pass on the benefits of the rate cut to borrowers.advances in genome editing,
leading to what is sometimes called new eugenics,
also known as neo-eugenics, consumer eugenics,
or liberal eugenics.
While eugenic principles have been practiced
as far back in world history as ancient Greece,
the modern history of eugenics began in the
early 20th century when a popular eugenics
movement emerged in the United Kingdom and
spread to many countries including the United
States, Canada and most European countries.
In this period, eugenic ideas were espoused
across the political spectrum. Consequently,
many countries adopted eugenic policies with
the intent to improve the quality of their
populations' genetic stock. Such programs
included both "positive" measures, such as
encouraging individuals deemed particularly
"fit" to reproduce, and "negative" measures
such as marriage prohibitions and forced sterilization
of people deemed unfit for reproduction. People
deemed unfit to reproduce often included people
with mental or physical disabilities, people
who scored in the low ranges


of different
IQ tests, criminals and deviants, and members
of disfavored minority groups. The eugenics
movement became negatively associated with
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust when many of
the defendants at the Nuremberg trials attempted
to justify their human rights abuses by claiming
there was little difference between the Nazi
eugenics programs and the U.S. eugenics programs.
In the decades following World War II, with
the institution of human rights, many countries
gradually began to abandon eugenics policies,
although some Western countries, among them
the United States and Sweden, continued to
carry out forced sterilizations.
Since the 1980s and 1990s, when new assisted
reproductive technology procedures became
available such as gestational surrogacy (available
since 1985), preimplantation genetic diagnosis
(available since 1989), and cytoplasmic transfer
(first performed in 1996), fear has emerged
about a possible revival of eugenics.
A major criticism of eugenics policies is
that, regardless of whether "negative" or
"positive" policiesdisabled. Among the ancient
Germanic tribes, people who were cowardly,
unwarlike or "stained with abominable vices"
were put to death, usually by being drowned
in swamps.The first formal negative eugenics,
that is a legal provision against birth of
inferior human beings, was promulgated in
Western European culture by the Christian
Council of Agde in 506, which forbade marriage
between cousins.This idea was also promoted
by William Goodell (1829–1894) who advocated
the castration and spaying of the insane.The
idea of a modern project of improving the
human population through a statistical understanding
of heredity used to encourage good breeding
was originally developed by Francis Galton
and, initially, was closely linked to Darwinism
and his theory of natural selection. Galton
had read his half-cousin Charles Darwin's
theory of evolution, which sought to explain
the development of plant and animal species,
and desired to apply it to humans. Based on
his biographical studies,


Galton believed
that desirable human qualities were hereditary
traits, though Darwin strongly disagreed with
this elaboration of his theory. In 1883, one
year after Darwin's death, Galton gave his
research a name: eugenics. With the introduction
of genetics, eugenics became associated with
genetic determinism, the belief that human
character is entirely or in the majority caused
by genes, unaffected by education or living
conditions. Many of the early geneticists
were not Darwinians, and evolution theory
was not needed for eugenics policies based
on genetic determinism. Throughout its recent
history, eugenics has remained controversial.
Eugenics became an academic discipline at
many colleges and universities and received
funding from many sources. Organizations were
formed to win public support and sway opinion
towards responsible eugenic values in parenthood,
including the British Eugenics Education Society
of 1907 and the American Eugenics Society
of 1921. Both sought support from leading
clergymen and modified their message tomeet
religious ideals. In 1909 the Anglican clergymen
William Inge and James Peile both wrote for
the British Eugenics Education Society. Inge
was an invited speaker at the 1921 International
Eugenics Conference, which was also endorsed
by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York
Patrick Joseph Hayes.Three International Eugenics
Conferences presented a global venue for eugenists
with meetings in 1912 in London, and in 1921
and 1932 in New York City. Eugenic policies
were first implemented in the early 1900s
in the United States. It also took root in
France, Germany, and Great Britain. Later,
in the 1920s and 1930s, the eugenic policy
of sterilizing certain mental patients was
implemented in other countries including Belgium,
Brazil, Canada, Japan and Sweden.
In addition to being practiced in a number
of countries, eugenics was internationally
organized through the International Federation
of Eugenics Organizations. Its scientific
aspects were carried on through research bodies
such


as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology,
Human Heredity, and Eugenics, the Cold Spring
Harbour Carnegie Institution for Experimental
Evolution, and the Eugenics Record Office.
Politically, the movement advocated measures
such as sterilization laws. In its moral dimension,
eugenics rejected the doctrine that all human
beings are born equal and redefined moral
worth purely in terms of genetic fitness.
Its racist elements included pursuit of a
pure "Nordic race" or "Aryan" genetic pool
and the eventual elimination of "unfit" races.
Early critics of the philosophy of eugenics
included the American sociologist Lester Frank
Ward, the English writer G. K. Chesterton,
the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas,
who argued that advocates of eugenics greatly
over-estimate the influence of biology, and
Scottish tuberculosis pioneer and author Halliday
Sutherland. Ward's 1913 article "Eugenics,
Euthenics, and Eudemics", Chesterton's 1917
book Eugenics and Other Evils, and Boas' 1916
article "Eugenics" (published in The Scientific
Monthly) were allharshly critical of the
rapidly growing movement. Sutherland identified
eugenists as a major obstacle to the eradication
and cure of tuberculosis in his 1917 address
"Consumption: Its Cause and Cure", and criticism
of eugenists and Neo-Malthusians in his 1921
book Birth Control led to a writ for libel
from the eugenist Marie Stopes. Several biologists
were also antagonistic to the eugenics movement,
including Lancelot Hogben. Other biologists
such as J. B. S. Haldane and R. A. Fisher
expressed skepticism in the belief that sterilization
of "defectives" would lead to the disappearance
of undesirable genetic traits.Among institutions,
the Catholic Church was an opponent of state-enforced
sterilizations. Attempts by the Eugenics Education
Society to persuade the British government
to legalize voluntary sterilization were opposed
by Catholics and by the Labour Party. The
American Eugenics Society initially gained
some Catholic supporters, but Catholic support
declined following the 1930 papal encyclical
Casti connubii. In


Ernst
Rüdin used eugenics as a justification for
the racial policies of Nazi Germany. Adolf
Hitler had praised and incorporated eugenic
ideas in Mein Kampf in 1925 and emulated eugenic
legislation for the sterilization of "defectives"
that had been pioneered in the United States
once he took power. Some common early 20th
century eugenics methods involved identifying
and classifying individuals and their families,
including the poor, mentally ill, blind, deaf,
developmentally disabled, promiscuous women,
homosexuals, and racial groups (such as the
Roma and Jews in Nazi Germany) as "degenerate"
or "unfit", and therefore led to segregation,
institutionalization, sterilization, euthanasia,
and even mass murder. The Nazi practice of
euthanasia was carried out on hospital patients
in the Aktion T4 centers such as Hartheim
Castle.
By the end of World War II, many discriminatory
eugenics laws were abandoned, having become
associated with Nazi Germany. H. G. Wells,
who had called for "the sterilizationof failures"
in 1904, stated in his 1940 book The Rights
of Man: Or What are we fighting for? that
among the human rights, which he believed
should be available to all people, was "a
prohibition on mutilation, sterilization,
torture, and any bodily punishment". After
World War II, the practice of "imposing measures
intended to prevent births within [a national,
ethnical, racial or religious] group" fell
within the definition of the new international
crime of genocide, set out in the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide. The Charter of Fundamental Rights
of the European Union also proclaims "the
prohibition of eugenic practices, in particular
those aiming at selection of persons". In
spite of the decline in discriminatory eugenics
laws, some government mandated sterilizations
continued into the 21st century. During the
ten years President Alberto Fujimori led Peru
from 1990 to 2000, 2,000 persons were


allegedly
involuntarily sterilized. China maintained
its one-child policy until 2015 as well as
a suite of other eugenics based legislation
to reduce population size and manage fertility
rates of different populations. In 2007 the
United Nations reported coercive sterilizations
and hysterectomies in Uzbekistan. During the
years 2005 to 2013, nearly one-third of the
144 California prison inmates who were sterilized
did not give lawful consent to the operation.
=== Modern resurgence of interest ===
Developments in genetic, genomic, and reproductive
technologies at the end of the 20th century
have raised numerous questions regarding the
ethical status of eugenics, effectively creating
a resurgence of interest in the subject.
Some, such as UC Berkeley sociologist Troy
Duster, claim that modern genetics is a back
door to eugenics. This view is shared by White
House Assistant Director for Forensic Sciences,
Tania Simoncelli, who stated in a 2003 publication
by the Population and DevelopmentProgram
at Hampshire College that advances in pre-implantation
genetic diagnosis (PGD) are moving society
to a "new era of eugenics", and that, unlike
the Nazi eugenics, modern eugenics is consumer
driven and market based, "where children are
increasingly regarded as made-to-order consumer
products". In a 2006 newspaper article, Richard
Dawkins said that discussion regarding eugenics
was inhibited by the shadow of Nazi misuse,
to the extent that some scientists would not
admit that breeding humans for certain abilities
is at all possible. He believes that it is
not physically different from breeding domestic
animals for traits such as speed or herding
skill. Dawkins felt that enough time had elapsed
to at least ask just what the ethical differences
were between breeding for ability versus training
athletes or forcing children to take music
lessons, though he could think of persuasive
reasons to draw the distinction.Lee Kuan Yew,
the Founding Father


1883, drawing on the recent work of his
half-cousin Charles Darwin. Galton published
his observations and conclusions in his book
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development.
The origins of the concept began with certain
interpretations of Mendelian inheritance and
the theories of August Weismann. The word
eugenics is derived from the Greek word eu
("good" or "well") and the suffix -genēs
("born"), and was coined by Galton in 1883
to replace the word "stirpiculture", which
he had used previously but which had come
to be mocked due to its perceived sexual overtones.
Galton defined eugenics as "the study of all
agencies under human control which can improve
or impair the racial quality of future generations".Historically,
the term eugenics has referred to everything
from prenatal care for mothers to forced sterilization
and euthanasia. To population geneticists,
the term has included the avoidance of inbreeding
without altering allele frequencies;this at the University
College London.Eugenics also had a place in
medicine. In his lecture "Darwinism, Medical
Progress and Eugenics", Karl Pearson said
that everything concerning eugenics fell into
the field of medicine. He basically placed
the two words as equivalents. He was supported
in part by the fact that Francis Galton, the
father of eugenics, also had medical training.Eugenic
policies have been conceptually divided into
two categories. Positive eugenics is aimed
at encouraging reproduction among the genetically
advantaged; for example, the reproduction
of the intelligent, the healthy, and the successful.
Possible approaches include financial and
political stimuli, targeted demographic analyses,
in vitro fertilization, egg transplants, and
cloning. The movie Gattaca provides a fictional
example of a dystopian society that uses eugenics
to decided what you are capable of and your
place in the world. Negative eugenics aimed
to eliminate, through sterilization or segregation,
those deemed physically, mentally, or morally
"undesirable".


that the concept of eugenics
based upon genetic inheritance was not completely
scientifically accurate. Additionally, Morgan
criticized the view that subjective traits,
such as intelligence and criminality, were
caused by heredity because he believed that
the definitions of these traits varied and
that accurate work in genetics could only
be done when the traits being studied were
accurately defined. Despite Morgan's public
rejection of eugenics, much of his genetic
research was absorbed by eugenics.The heterozygote
test is used for the early detection of recessive
hereditary diseases, allowing for couples
to determine if they are at risk of passing
genetic defects to a future child. The goal
of the test is to estimate the likelihood
of passing the hereditary disease to future
descendants.Recessive traits can be severely
reduced, but never eliminated unless the complete
genetic makeup of all members of the pool
was known, as aforementioned. As only very
few undesirableAdditional Links

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The Wells Fargo case involved investments sold from January to August 2007, as the subprime mortgage crisis was brewing. Several investors, according to the S.E.C., ''suffered substantial losses'' after three of the deals defaulted later that year.

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Alright, time to introduce our fourth line…1978-1979 Bob Gainey – 1999-2000 Steve Yzerman – 1989-1990 Cam Neely

First, a little bit about Cam. Cam Neely is a 6’1″ 218 lb right handed right winger. Neely played from 1983-1996, appearing in 726 games for the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins. In those 726 games, Neely scored 395 goals, 299 assists, and 694 points. He racked up 1,241 penalty minutes to go along with all those points, encompassing the full meaning of a “power forward”. Cam was a 5 time NHL All Star and also won the MastertonTrophy in 1993-1994 for his perseverance in recovering from his injuries. This perseverance is what truly defined Neely. Neely was often regarded as one of the games fiercest competitors, always going at 110%. He would hit anything that moved, fight anything that got in his way, and on top of that, had a goal scorer’s touch.

The 1989-1990 version of Cam Neely was incredible. He scored a career high 55 goals and 92 points, and led the Boston Bruins into the Stanley Cup Finals. Neely had a particular penchant for scoring big goals, leading the NHL that year with 12 game-winning goals. Neely was also a terror on the powerplay, scoring 25 times on the powerplay that season, the 2nd most in the NHL that year. When Cam got


going, he was a true sight to behold. He was very similar to a wrecking ball, just winding up and then smashing the opposition. That season, Neely also had 117 penalty minutes, which was actually down for him, but represented Neely playing in better control. He truly was at his best this season.

A little bit about Bob Gainey. Gainey is a 6’2″ 190 lb left handed left winger that played 16 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens. Gainey appeared in 1,160 games, scoring 239 goals, 262 assists, and 501 points. While those totals don’t appear that impressive compared to some of the other players on this roster, Gainey had a talent that none of them could match. Gainey is widely considered one of the greatest defensive forwards to everplay the game. He was so good that former Soviet Union coach Viktor Tikhonov once called Gainey “the world’s best all-around player”. To top that, the NHL thought so highly of his defensive capabilities that they created a new award, the Frank J. Selke Award, just to honor the best defensive forward in the NHL. Gainey proceeded to win the first 4 Selke Trophies. Gainey possessed incredible speed and played the game in a very physical manner. However, Gainey was very well respected because he played the game very cleanly. He was not a dirty player and was regarded as one of the cleanest body checkers in the NHL. Gainey never scored more than 23 goals or 47 points in a single season, but his incredible defensive skills


allowed him to earn his place in the Hall of Fame.

The 1978-1979 version of Gainey was probably Gainey at his best in terms of his all-around play. That season, Gainey scored 20 goals, 38 points, won the Selke Trophy, the Stanley Cup, and the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs. In the playoffs, Gainey absolutely exploded offensively, recording 6 goals and 16 points in the 16 games in leading the Habs to the Championship. This was Gainey at his best because his offensive game was at its highest peak. Many felt that when Gainey was scoring, he was the most complete player in the world. That’s why this version of Gainey was so special.

A little bit about Steve Yzerman. Yzerman is a 5’11” 185 lbright handed centerman from Cranbrook, BC, Canada. Yzerman played 22 years in the NHL, all for the Detroit Red Wings. In that time, Yzerman appeared in 1,514 games, scoring 692 goals, 1063 assists, and 1,755 points. Yzerman appeared in 196 playoff ganes too, scoring 70 goals and 115 assists. Yzerman was also a member of 3 Stanley Cup championship teams, winning the Conn Smythe in the 1997-1998 season. Individually, Yzerman appeared in 9 All-Star games, won the Selke Trophy once, the Ted Lindsay award once, and the Bill Masterton Trophy once. But what Yzerman will probably be remembered for most is his ability to go from being an offensive dynamo to one of the best two-way players in the history of hockey. Early in his career, Yzerman scored


at an incredible clip. His 155 points in the 1988-1989 season have only been surpassed by Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. But it was only when Yzerman learned how to play two-way hockey under coach Scotty Bowman did he finally win a championship.

The 1999-2000 version of Yzerman was one of the best seasons ever by a defensive forward. Yzerman still scored at a decent clip, scoring 35 goals, 44 assists, and 79 points (10th in the NHL). But he was a +28 (7th best in the NHL) while playing 21:07 a night and winning 56.8% of his faceoffs, the 6th highest percentage in the NHL. That season, Yzerman also won the 4th most short handed faceoffs, and he won them at a 54.7% clip, one of the bestEarlier, netizens unleashed a barrage of criticism at Hollywood actress Amber Heard after publication of a leaked audio recording during which the star of Aquaman seemingly admits hitting her ex-husband Johnny Depp.

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© AP Photo / Andrew Medichini Johnny Depp and Amber Heard kiss at the premiere of the film The Danish Girl during the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015

The celeb couple tied the knot in February of 2015, but parted waysafter just 15 months of marriage, finalizing their divorce in January 2017. At the time, Heard filed cited irreconcilable differences and accused Depp of physical assault, a claim he emphatically denies.Elephant trail runoff and sediment dynamics in northern Thailand.
Although elephants may exert various impacts on the environment, no data are available on the effects of elephant trails on runoff, soil erosion, and sediment transport to streams during storms. We monitored water and sediment fluxes from an elephant trail in northern Thailand during seven monsoon storms representing a wide range of rainfall energies. Runoff varied from trivial amounts to 353 mm and increased rapidly in tandem with expanding contributing areas once a threshold of wetting occurred. Runoff coefficients during the two largest storms were much higher than could be generated from the trail itself, implying a 4.5- to 7.9-fold increase in the drainage areas contributing to storm runoff. Clockwise hysteresis patterns of suspended sediment observed during most storms was


amplified by a "first flush" of sediment early on the hydrograph in which easily entrained sediment was transported. As runoff areas expanded during the latter part of large storms, discharge increased but sediment concentrations declined. Thus, sediment flux was better correlated to kinetic energy of rainfall on the falling limbs of most storm hydrographs compared to rising limbs. Based on a power function relationship between sediment flux and storm kinetic energy, the estimated annual sediment yield from the trail for 135 storms in 2005 was 308 to 375 Mg ha(-1) yr(-1), higher than from most disturbed land surfaces in the tropics. The eight largest storms (30% of total storm energy) in 2005 transported half of the total annual sediment. These measurements together with site investigations reveal that highlyprop a rolled up blanket under her arms and across her chest to help her.

Developing her muscles will help her with all her developmental milestones such as crawling on her stomach, crawling on all fours, rolling over, sitting up and also pulling herself up to stand. In addition to all these benefits, you will also be able to ensure that she does not develop Flat-Head-Syndrome (Positional Plagiocephaly) from being on her back and in the same position the whole time.

Because babies spend most of their time on their backs sleeping, in bouncy-chairs or car seats, the soft movable plates on their skull can become misshaped and a flat spot can form. The curve of their spine and arch of their legs when they begin to sit can also


Manager""s internet-based system, and entered directly into the legacy computer system of the jobber, saving a great deal of time and effort.
Generally described, the present invention provides a method for providing supplies to an automotive Collision Center from a Supplier having a legacy computer system, the method comprising the steps of a) establishing an internet web site, the web site supervised by an Order Manager and including subsections assigned to a plurality of Suppliers, each Supplier including unique SKU numbers associated with the inventories of the Suppliers, b) providing scannable indicia on the bins of the Collision Center, the scannable indicia corresponding to the SKU numbers, c) providing a scanner and associated hardware at the location of the Collision Center, the scanner and associated hardware configure to allowby the media after performing a final Montreal concert in April 2008. The Nathalie Simard Foundation, which she established in 2005 to assist sexually abused children, was also shut down. Following this cancellation, a $2.3 million lawsuit was filed against Simard and her production company in April 2008 claiming a loss of expected tour profits. Two additional lawsuits were also active as Yves Campeau sought $38,000 while her former manager Éric Dubois sought $60,000. Both Campeau and Dubois were reportedly ex-boyfriends of Simard.

Discography
Le temps des fêtes chez la famille Simard à l'Ile d'Orléans (with other members of the Simard family), 1972
18 ans déjà (René Simard album where she sings on "Tous les enfants du monde" and "Noël des enfants"), 1979
Joyeux Noël...Nathalie, 1979
Nathalie chante pour ses amis, 1980
Nathalie Simard


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About BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational defence, security and aerospace company headquartered in London, United Kingdom and with operations worldwide. It is among the world’s largest defence contractors; it ranked as the third-largest based on applicable 2011 revenues. Its largest operations are in the United Kingdom and United States, where its BAE Systems Inc. subsidiary is one of the six largest suppliers to the US Department of Defense. Other major markets include Australia, India and Saudi Arabia. BAE was formed on 30 November 1999 by the £7.7 billion merger of two British companies; Marconi Electronic Systems – the defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc – and British Aerospace – an aircraft, munitions and naval systems manufacturer.

BAESystems is the successor to various aircraft, shipbuilding, armoured vehicle, armaments and defence electronics companies, including The Marconi Company, the first commercial company devoted to the development and use of radio; A.V. Roe and Company, one of the world’s first aircraft companies; de Havilland, manufacturer of the world’s first commercial jet airliner; British Aircraft Corporation, co-manufacturer of the Concorde supersonic transport; Supermarine, manufacturer of the Spitfire; Yarrow Shipbuilders, builders of the Royal Navy’s first destroyers; and Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, builders of the Royal Navy’s first submarines. Since its formation it has made a number of acquisitions, most notably of United Defense and Armor Holdings of the United States, and sold its shares in Airbus, Astrium, AMS and Atlas Elektronik.

BAE Systems is involved in several major defence projects,


there’s nothing beyond the neighbourhood — the closest bridges to Laval are at Marcel-Laurin to the east and Highway 13 to the west).

Stone (a husband with three hyperactive toddlers I found after he made a comment on this blog) makes a compelling case. His concerns mainly revolve around philosophical objections to creating more roads and encouraging single-passenger traffic. He takes public transit to work and used to bike everywhere.

He was a good sport about the interview, even when I flat-out accused him of being part of the problem by contributing to urban sprawl.

This week in St. Henri there was a public consultation meeting for the Ministry of Transport’s Turcot project, which will see the Turcot Interchange (Highways 15, 20 and 720) reconstructed primarily at ground-level (saving money forA mother whose world was shaken when her five-year-old girl was hit by a dump truck fears her daughter may have permanent brain damage.

"It's been so hard,” said Cathy Green. “It's been the worst thing my family's every gone through."

Green says her daughter, Maddie MacDonald, was struck while walking to catch the school bus with her seven-year-old brother Alex and cousin along the side of the road on Highway 4 in Monastary, N.S., on Tuesday.

She and Maddie were about to cross the road when the incident happened.

“The truck came by and I heard the other two kids I had with me scream,” said Green. “(Maddie) didn't scream. She was about ten feet behind us in the driveway laying there, cold and unconscious."

Maddie was airlifted to the IWK in


Halifax. She’s in stable condition, but has multiple cuts and a collapsed lung.

But Green fears her daughter might never be the same.

"Right now she has a few spots on her brain that are bleeding,” said Green. “They're concerned about brain damage, maybe permanent. We're not really sure at this point."

Maddie was released from the intensive care unit Tuesday night, where she received a blood transfusion and was attached to a breathing tube. Doctors have told the family it could be weeks or even months until she's released from the IWK.

"Every time she's awake she's screaming in pain, trying to pull out the cords and the tubes – so it's really heartbreaking to watch your baby like that,” Green said.

Green says her daughter has always been a sweet littlea unique relationship with Krishna in one of five moods:

with feelings of awe and reverence

as a servant or one who gives protection

as a friend

as a parent or elder

as a lover

"It is the living entity's constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Krishna because he is the marginal energy of Krishna and a manifestation simultaneously one and different from the Lord, like a molecular particle of sunshine or fire." —Sri Chaitanya in Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya 20.108


copywriters, John May, to dream up a character for the coloring books the department store handed out to children visiting Santa. The company gave out nearly 2.5 million books that year alone.

The song has close ties to the original story.

May's brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, wrote the famous tune a decade after the story for Montgomery Ward. Marks might as well have had a PhD in writing Christmas songs. He can claim credit for writing "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," along with other songs featured in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer like "Silver and Gold," "There's Always Tomorrow" and "A Holly Jolly Christmas."

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It's the king of Christmas specials.

Having been broadcast every year since 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stands as the longest-running Christmas special on television.

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Rudolph is smallerthan you think.

The puppet used for Rudolph is only four inches tall. Santa stands twice as tall at eight inches. Bumble is the tallest puppet of them all, measuring a whopping 14-inches tall.

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Santa and Rudolph went missing.

Sadly, most of the puppets used in the program went missing shortly after production, including Santa and Rudolph. However, the two were rediscovered in 2006 on Antiques Roadshow. Apparently, a woman who had worked for the production company stored them in her attic since the 1970s, even letting her children play with them from time to time!

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The original broadcast had one oversight.

In the version of the special that ran in 1964, Rudolph, Hermey and Yukon never return to the Island of Misfit Toys at the end, despite saying they'll do


so. This oversight prompted fans to send angry letters to the network. The next year, a short scene was added in which Santa delivers the misfits to new homes.

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Most of the voice actors were Canadian.

It makes sense, especially because the special took place at the North Pole.

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The animation was produced in Japan.

While the voice actors recorded their parts in Toronto, the stop-motion animation took place in Japan. In total, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer took 18 months to produce, a staggering amount of time for a TV special in the 1960s.

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Rudolph and Hermey were neighbors.

Billie Mae Richards, the voice of Rudolph, and Paul Soles, the voice of Hermey, ended up becoming neighbors later in life. During the early 2000s, they both lived at the Performing ArtsDETROIT (AP) — The family of a Detroit mosque leader has filed a lawsuit against FBI agents, saying his rights were violated when he was gunned down during a raid.

Luqman Abdullah was killed when agents tried to arrest him at a Dearborn warehouse in 2009. He and his allies were accused of dealing stolen goods in an FBI sting operation.

A lawsuit filed Friday in federal court accuses the FBI of using excessive force in Abdullah’s death. He was shot 20 times. The FBI has defended what happened, saying Abdullah was armed and resisted arrest.

The Michigan attorney general said the shooting was justified. The U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division also found no wrongdoing.

The FBI declined to comment on the lawsuit Tuesday. Abdullah was married and had 10 children.

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My wife was excited to play BioShock Infinite, the new first-person shooter from haloed developer Irrational Games. Her video game experiences are few, mostly the easy-to-play shorts made by thatgamecompany. But Infinite and its inescapable ad campaign piqued her interest. A video game about American exceptionalism, religious zealotry, the limitations of science and poor parenting sounded to her like a great book or film. The first 15 minutes enthralled her, as she took the fantastic voyage into a city in the sky, and then protagonist Booker DeWitt buried a steel claw into a police officer's face, and proceeded to shoot grapefruit-sized holes into the heads of another dozen human beings.

I'd assumed complex controllers kept newcomers from first-person shooters, requiring the use of two thumbsticks and a half-dozen buttons,as villain, the first dozen kills more than get the message across. This degree of violence is new to the BioShock universe, which previously only allowed players to contort bodies, not dismember them.

Elizabeth cracks wise about picking a lock as she loiters next to a pile of fresh corpses.

There's an argument to be made that, one for one, a murder in BioShock Infinite is no more graphic than a murder in a film, like Tarantino's Pulp Fiction or Malick's The Thin Red Line. Violence serves these films: Pulp Fiction is a commentary on abuse; The Thin Red Line a voyeuristic view of war's dulling effect on our humanity. BioShock Infinite has little to say about violence. The story of Elizabeth, Comstock and Booker is one of personal dramas


purposefully builds to a conclusion in which the violence is sponged away, as if by holy water and forgiveness. The argument assumes everyone makes it past the dozens of sticky and explosive headshots — and doubly assumes that we need yet another violent video game about how violent video game players are. The best attack on violent games, after all, is not making violent games.

Violence doesn't serve BioShock Infinite. It distracts from it.

The magnitude of lives taken in BioShock Infinite, and the cold efficiency in doing so, is unfamiliar to even the most exploitative films

Levine has been outspoken about his ambition to please both the meathead and the brainiac since the release of the original BioShock. But what about my wife? What about the people who can stomachor sloppy bit of reasoning he didn't like.

Look at his own statement on Harvard's website about Harvard (founded in 1636) being the oldest university in America. He means to say the oldest university in what is now the United States (the National Autonomous University of Mexico is the oldest in the Americas, founded in 1551) but he's not great at clarity.

That's partially the reason his African American Studies Faculty is fleeing as fast as they can.

In broader context, his comments about women in science, do, I think, become troubling. If men believe women's brains don't "work" in a scientific manner and they set out to find out why this is so, how could they ever discover that women's brains do "work" that way? The question is already premised


Eagle--The Shill's husband.

The Super Genius--She lived next door to me my freshman year of college and we've been friends ever since my first day on the floor.

Miss J.--My first adult friend, meaning the first lasting friendship I made after college. She was my roommate in grad school.

Her Lover--Her Husband.

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The Man from GM--I've known him since I was 16 and heRohingya were killed in the first month of the August crackdown alone.

The United Nations has denounced the army’s bloody crackdown, with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calling it a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.

Myanmar’s military used the deadly attacks by Rohingya fighters as a pretext to launch the brutal crackdown on Rohingya, one of the most persecuted communities in the world.

They have been denied citizenship and basic human rights by Myanmar authories since 1982.

Call for accountability

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has given Myanmar until July 27 to respond to a prosecution request that it consider a case on the alleged deportation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to Bangladesh.

This came after the Guardian newspaper published details of horrific acts of violence, the evidence of which has


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important physical trace of the arrival of African slaves on the American continent. Milton Guran New Unesco World Heritage Sites Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine Located in southern Poland, one of the main mining areas of central Europe, the site includes the entire underground mine with adits, shafts, galleries and water management system. Tarnowskie Góry Land Lovers' Association New Unesco World Heritage Sites Taputapuātea Taputapuātea on Ra’iatea Island is at the centre of the Polynesian Triangle, a vast portion of the Pacific Ocean dotted with islands, and the last part of the globe to be settled by humans. SCP New Unesco World Heritage Sites Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk The archaeological site of Sambor Prei Kuk has been identified as Ishanapura, the capital of the Chenla Empire thatflourished in the late 6th and early 7th centuries CE. The vestiges of the city cover an area of 25 square km and include a walled city centre as well as numerous temples, 10 of which are octagonal and unique specimens of their genre in southeast Asia. So Sokun Theary New Unesco World Heritage Sites Qinghai Hoh Xil Located in the north-eastern extremity of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China, this is the largest and highest plateau in the world. This extensive area of alpine mountains and steppe systems is situated more than 4,500m above sea level, where sub-zero average temperatures prevail all year-round. Peking University New Unesco World Heritage Sites Okinoshima Located 60km off the western coast of Kyushu island, Okinoshima is an exceptional example of the tradition


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A mug shot of John Michael Young, of 3605 Centerville Road, Anderson, wanted for unauthorized removal of dead body.

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Cpl. Danny Barton, Anderson County sheriff's investigator, carries evidence, a chain saw in a case, out of the home at 3605 Centerville Road in Anderson.

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Cpl. Danny Barton, Anderson County sheriff's investigator, waits for detective Ricky Scott to get out of his car, to help collect evidence at 3605 Centerville Road in Anderson.

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Anderson County sheriff's investigators collect a belt buckle from the front yard at 3605 Centerville Road in Anderson, investigating after a man and woman were found in barrels in Hartwell Lake near the home.

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Anderson County sheriff's deputies look at a chain saw, collected for evidence, at 3605Centerville Road in Anderson.

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A sign near the front door at 3605 Centerville Road in Anderson. The signs read, gone fishing, bait your own hook, clean your own fish, and tell your own lies.

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Cpl. Danny Barton, Anderson County sheriffs investigator, carries a bag of evidence, including machetes, out of the home at 3605 Centerville Road in Anderson.

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Anderson County sheriff's deputies, with a search warrant, entered the home at 3605 Centerville Road in Anderson.

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Cpl. Danny Barton, Anderson County sheriffs investigator, prepares to put shotgun shells in an envelope. The shells were taken out of a house at 3605 Centerville Road in Anderson.

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Tracy Call, Anderson County sheriff's investigator, looks at a kitchen knife on the front