shows that cost of living in Pakistan is lower than in India. And Pakistan's underground economy is larger than India's.

As to your claim that "India manufactures nearly everything they consume", let me help you with some facts here:

1. India's manufacturing value added per capita is about the same as Pakistan's. it still sits at a very low 142nd position terms of manufacturing value added per capita, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's Industrial Development Report 2016. Pakistan's manufacturing value added is ranked 146th by the same report.

Here's an excerpt of a piece by Indian entrepreneur Jaithirth Rao published by Indian Express:

"Uday Kotak said a few months back, in the course of an interview, that he was amazed that in his new office in Mumbai, not oneof the furniture or fixture items were made in India. My friend Rahul Bhasin conducted a similar exercise in his office in Delhi and discovered pretty much the same thing. The carpet is from China, the furniture is from Malaysia, the light fixtures are from China, the glass partition is from all places, Jebel Ali in the Middle East and so on. Kotak went on to add that even Ganesha statues are no longer made in India. They are imported from China."

India has an extraordinarily skewed wealth distribution. In the CS report it has 80 billionaires. Its ratio of billionaires to millionaires is the highest in the world, much higher than in the US or China. I wonder if there is even a single billionaire in Pakistan. I


year’s low level to 800 000 tonnes, in line with the 2016 overall good output and large carryover stocks.

Prices of wheat and wheat flour strengthened in recent months

Prices of wheat and wheat flour, the country’s main staples, have strengthened in recent months, following seasonal patterns, but remained below their year-earlier levels owing to good availabilities following a bumper 2016 crop.

Overall, the food supply situation is stable following two consecutive years of good harvests and large carryover stocks of the main staples. However, food security concerns remain in some areas, particularly in Tharparkar District and northern Pakistan.

In Tharparkar District (southeastern Sindh Province) and the surrounding areas of Sindh Province, a below-average drought-affected cereal production for the third consecutive year, coupled with losses of small animals, especially sheep and goats,has aggravated food insecurity and caused acute malnutrition.

Food insecurity has been exacerbated by the lingering negative impact of the 2015 floods; the provinces of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were most affected. Official assessments reported the loss of lives and severe damage to housing, infrastructure and agriculture. Households in northern parts of the country have also not fully recovered from the impact of the earthquake in October 2015.

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, located in northern Pakistan, are still affected by the return process after the large scale displacement (312 000 families or around 1.9 million people) due to insurgency in FATA. According to OCHA estimates, as of October 2016, over 1.3 million refugees remained displaced in northern Pakistan. These populations rely mainly on humanitarian


assistance, including food aid, healthcare and other necessities.

The government is in process of preparing a pilot project on National Zero Hunger and Family Farming Programme which would be implemented in most food insecure areas. A specially established National Zero Hunger Cell in Ministry of National Food Security and Research was tasked to prepare the pilot project before launching of larger National Zero Hunger Programme.Official sources on Monday said in order to initiate the process of preparation of the pilot programme, a national mapping exercise was jointly undertaken by World Food Programme (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the concerned ministry to gain better understanding of ongoing programmes relating to school feeding, nutrition support, income generation and family farming support.The sources said during the mapping exercise it wasagreed that provinces would be taken into confidence before finalization of the programme. The programme will be implemented in most food insecure areas, in each of the four provinces of the country, in coordination with provincial governments.The pilot project will help analyze the effects of the proposed intervention in each province and to incorporate lessons and experiences gathered into a more comprehensive programme.Answering a question regarding levels of hunger and malnutrition in the country, the sources said the last National Nutrition Survey (NNS) was conducted by Aga Khan University’s Division of Women and Child Health, Ministry of Health and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Ministry of National Health Services is also planning to conduct a National Nutrition Survey in 2017-18 by which latest information will be available. It is


by the time the redemption period is over on December 30th essentially all nullified notes will have been collected — white and black alike.

How the black market was able to take such large amounts of black money and redeem it via the demonetization program is not yet fully understood. Some theories have it that large amounts of previously inactive bank accounts were utilized or money was laundered via various tax-exempt entities. India’s Enforcement Directorate is currently investigating bank branches throughout the country.

However, India also offered an amnesty program for black market players, where the government would accept illicit cash at a 50% tax, and how much of the recovered notes were part of this program is currently unknown.

That said, all the “black money” that Modi and Company wereattempting to wipe out may never have existed in the first place. Prior to this recent wave of demonetization, various studies have indicated that only 6% or so of India’s black market wealth is actually kept in cash. In 2012, India’s Central Board of Direct Taxes came out and publicly advised against demonetization on the grounds that most of country’s illicit wealth is kept in real estate, bullion, and jewelry — not in 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes.

Hundreds of thousands of Indian construction workers have returned home since Prime Minister Narendra Modi abolished high-denomination banknotes, leaving some building sites across the country facing costly delays.

A month after Modi's shock move to take away 86 percent of cash in circulation to crush the shadow economy, the growing labor shortage


threatens to slow a recovery in India's construction industry, which accounts for 8 percent of gross domestic product and employs 40 million people.

Work at SARE Homes' residential projects, spanning six cities, has slowed dramatically as migrant workers, who are out of cash and have no bank accounts to draw from, have little choice but to return to their villages.

"Construction work at all projects has slowed down in a big way," managing director Vineet Relia told Reuters.

Property enquiries, meanwhile, have slumped by 80 percent around the Indian capital since the cash crackdown, according to property portal 99acres.

Getamber Anand, president of Indian builders' association CREDAI, said projects nationwide had been hit, and estimated that roughly half of the migrant workforce, numbering in the low millions, had left for home.

Road developershave also reported a slowdown as they struggle to find sufficient labor.

The exodus shows little sign of reversing, risking damage to construction activity and the wider economy into 2017, despite Modi's assurances that hardships from his radical "demonetization" should be over by the end of the year.

The disruption to building raises doubts about the Reserve Bank of India's view that the impact on the economy would be transitory. The central bank held interest rates on Wednesday despite calls for action.

NO BANK ACCOUNT

Modi's gamble is that the majority of workers will be compelled to open a bank account as sub-contractors refuse to pay in cash, bringing them into the formal economy and expanding the country's low tax base.

That may happen eventually, but for now, millions of workers who depend


economists say the top 1% of the earners captured less than 21% of the total income in the late 1930s, before dropping to 6% in the early 1980s and rising to 22% today. India, in fact, comes out as a country with one of the highest increase in top 1% income share concentration over the past 30 years," they say.

To be sure, India's economy has undergone a radical transformation over the last three decades.Up to the 1970s, India was a tightly regulated, straitlaced economy with socialist planning. Growth crawled (3.5% per year), development was weak and poverty endemic.Some easing of regulation, decline in tax rates and modest reforms led to growth picking up in the 1980s, trundling at around 5% a year. This was followed by some substantialreforms in the early 1990s after which the economy grew briskly, nudging close to double digits in the mid-2000s.

Growth has slowed substantially since then, but India still remains one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The ongoing slowdown - growth was 5.7% in the April-June quarter, the slowest pace in three years - largely triggered by feeble demand, a controversial cash ban, declining private investment and weak credit growth, is a cause for concern.And the need for fast-paced growth, according to Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen, is "far from over since India, after two decades of rapid growth, is still one of the poorest countries in the world".From their latest work on income inequality, Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty contend that there has been a "sharp


Incomes of those at the very top have actually grown at a faster pace than in China.The economists contend that the growth strategy pursued by successive governments has led to a sharp increase in inequality. China also liberalised and opened up after 1978, and experienced a sharp income growth as well as a sharp rise in inequality. This rise was however stabilised in the 2000s and is currently at a lower level than India.In Russia, the move from a communist to a market economy was "swift and brutal" and today has a similar level of inequality to India."This shows that there are different strategies to transit from a highly regulated economy to a liberalised one. In the arrays of possible pathways, India pursued a very unequal way butbiggest gap between the growth of income for the top 1% and the growth of income for the population as a whole. At the turn of the century, the richest 10% of Indians made 40% of national income, about the same as the 40% below them. But far from becoming a middle class, the latter’s share of income then slumped to under 30%, while those at the top went on to control over half of all income (see chart 3).

Hold your elephants. The Indian middle class conjured up by the marketers and consultants scarcely exists. Firms peddling anything much beyond soap, matches and phone-credit are targeting a minuscule slice of the population (see article). The top 1% of Indian adults, a rich enclave of 8m inhabitants making at


least $20,000 a year, equates to roughly Hong Kong in terms of population and average income. The next 9% is akin to central Europe, in the middle of the global wealth pack. The next 40% of India’s population neatly mirrors its combined South Asian poor neighbours, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The remaining half-billion or so are on a par with the most destitute bits of Africa. To be sure, global companies take the markets of central Europe seriously. Plenty of fortunes have been made there. But they are no China.

Worse, the chances of India developing a middle class to match the Middle Kingdom’s are being throttled by growing inequality. The top 1% of earners pocketed nearly a third of all the extra income generated by economic growth between 1980garment firm earns in a year, the study found.

In the US, it takes slightly over one working day for a CEO to earn what an ordinary worker makes in a year, it added.

Citing results of the global survey of 120,000 people surveyed in 10 countries, Oxfam said it demonstrates a groundswell of support for action on inequality and nearly two-thirds of all respondents think the gap between the rich and the poor needs to be urgently addressed.

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi attending the WEF meeting in Davos, Oxfam India urged the Indian government to ensure that the country's economy works for everyone and not just the fortunate few.

It asked the government to promote inclusive growth by encouraging labour-intensive sectors that will create more jobs; investing in agriculture; and


hallucinations of 2 weeks duration. He had a 3 years history of paranoid schizophrenia, diagnosed as per International Classification of Diseases 10, and was on irregular treatment. The current exacerbation happened after about 6 months of partial remission. Detailed history revealed no previous drug or food allergies. The patient was not on any concomitant drug therapy when he reported though he had taken olanzapine intermittently in the past. The patient was started on oral risperidone 6 mg/day in divided doses and was instructed follow-up after 1 week, as the caretakers were not ready to admit him. When he reported back, he showed clinical improvement but complained of generalized pruritus. Examination revealed excoriation of skin. Dermatologist opinion was taken, and he was treated with terbinafine and chlorpheniramine after totalLos Angeles as an engineering undergrad, found he couldn't stand it, and got his degree in European history. That was followed by a
master's degree in journalism at Columbia - which led to another change of course: He became a Special Forces buck sergeant in the military. That experience was followed by a stint as an Army intelligence spy (in Italy), which somehow catapulted him into a career in the waste management business. If it is true that winemaking attracts characters to its faternity, maybe Bill Parsons' ultimate occupation was inevitable.

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And, hey, for the things Parsons couldn't do himself, there was plenty of talent in the rest of the family. Teamwork is a daily mantra and everyone knows his or her role. Bill's focus is on marketing, but he


also oversees
the entire operation and makes the final call when decisions are needed. Wife Mary Ellen does the artwork for the business, but also pitches in wherever she is needed - helping with the harvesting, bottling, or whatever. Son-in-
law Frank Melicia is vineyard manager and does 90 percent of the wine-making. Daughter Ali (short for Alison) runs office operations, taking orders, fussing over shipping and keeping the books. Other family members (daughters Rachael and Brooke and Brooke's husband Marshall Moranda) have full-time jobs elsewhere but help out from time to time - for the glory, and maybe for a little wine.

Still, Parsons can't charge enough for his small bottlings to fully covercosts. Mother Nature is always a crap
shoot. A couple years of lousy weather could put the wholeoperation deeply in the hole. Thus, Parsons decided on a
second product line, a second label, he could use as a safety valve.

The Snosrap label - Parsons spelled backwards - made its first appearance in 2001, with purchased fruit from the Santa Lucia/Arroyo Seco areas. Parsons now sells 1,000-1,500 cases a year of Snosrap pinot noir, red blend, and chardonnay, all of which retail in the $20-$30 a bottle range. Parsons regards Snosrap as good value for the money from a consumer's point of view - with the added advantage for the winery that Snosrap's low overhead costs give the winery's bottom line some much-needed breathing room.

The seven-acre Parsonage Estate Vineyard, with the family home situated firmly in the center, sits a half-mile east of Carmel Valley Village, and


liveable cities in the world, at least for most, if not all of us.

Should you decide that you have to approve this proposal, be careful to check every detail of the permits. I helped negotiate a Community Benefit Agreement with the original owners of Edgewater so that inner city residents would be given at least 10% of the new jobs.

Many of these were contracted through Cook Studio – a social enterprise that trained low income youth. It was contracted to do offsite catering and to operate the onsite restaurant. When Paragon took over ownership of Edgewater, they cancelled the contract. This contributed to Cook Studio going bankrupt and the loss of opportunity for dozens of young people who were taking their first steps out of poverty.

I think itplace on earth – not for most of us; but for all of us.

The following is an historic letter from major downtown Vancouver churches in opposition to the expansion of the Edgewater Casino. The churches are St. Andrew’s Wesley, Central Presbyterian Church, Christ Church Cathedral, First Baptist Church, and St. Paul’s Anglican Church:

Unified in Action

Clergy and Staff from Downtown Vancouver Churches

Mayor and Council
City of Vancouver

March 9, 2011

Re: Mega-Casino Opposition
Dear Mayor Robertson and City Council:

The undersigned, clergy and staff from major downtown Vancouver churches have agreed, personally and collectively, to stand in opposition to the proposed expansion of The Edgewater Casino in The Yaletown-False Creek area.

We are particularly concerned that the people of Vancouver have not been adequately consulted on the subject of gambling expansion in the city, and


Edgewater’s expanded casino by Vancouver City Council: 0

ABOUT BROKEN PROMISES TO THE CITY OF VANCOUVER

Projected return of expanded Edgewater casino to City of Vancouver: $10 million in new revenue from gambling

Projected revenue to City of Vancouver from Edgewater’s original casino in 2004: $10-12-million in new revenues

Actual annual return of Edgewater Casino to City of Vancouver over the past two years: $6.3 million

Promise to arts groups and charities in 2004: increased funding
What charities got in 2010: 14% less than they got in 1995
What BC Lottery Corporation got in 2010: about three times as much revenue as 1995.

Promise to bingo players and their funding recipients in 2004: New Planet Bingo hall at Edgewater
Status of promise in 2011: Never delivered

ABOUT PARAGON GAMING

Number of slot machines in Paragon’s only Las Vegas operation,a sports bar: 15

Source of Paragon’s financing for Vancouver: unknown

Number of jobs promised by Paragon in 2010 bid for a casino in Missouri: 573

Number of jobs calculated by the Missouri Department of Economic Development for the same project: 280

Estimated annual revenue by Paragon in Missouri bid: $103.4 million

Estimated real new annual revenue calculated by the Missouri independent review of the same project: $21.7 million

Status of Paragon bids to build casinos in Sugar Creek, Missouri; Moncton, New Brunswick; Oxnard, California; and Ventura County, California: all failed

Answer of Unite Here, a union of 100,000 gaming workers across North America, to the question: “Is Paragon really the right company to take on this project?”: “no”

Disturbing event that occurred at Paragon’s Cree River Casino outside Edmonton in August 2010: customer murdered after


in Massachussetts. He was retained in the early 90s by the Ford Foundation to carry out a study of the economic costs and benefits of legalized gambling. The original study was done for local governments who were trying to decide whether to allow gambling expansion. He has produced a number of major studies and economic analyses of gambling expansion throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and has been hired by both Democrat and Republican administrations and sat on numerous federal committees.

The video of Goodman was is from a 2008 public hearing for a proposed gambling expansion in Philadelphia. His study of over 200 towns has shown that with very few exceptions the introduction of gambling has had serious adverse affects on business and local economies.

It should be noted thattitle is Rosina, the countess, who is forced to own up to her infidelity with the page Cherubino (now dead), which resulted in the birth of a son, Léon. As in each of the first two plays, an outsider tries to manipulate the situation to his own advantage, and an uncomfortable truth must be faced before a marriage can take place.


or indirectly arming, training, and even financing Sunni jihadi groups" in the country.

Turkey reportedly sent 47 tons of weapons to Syrian rebels during a six-month period in 2013, according to the report.

There are "few questions that it has been Turkish policy to provide support to a range of rebel factions," the report states. "Turkey now appears to allow a broad spectrum of anti-Assad forces, including those with radical ideologies, to operate on Turkish territory."

"Jihadi personnel and finances" have been identified as flowing from Turkey to Syria.

Israeli military officials have additionally claimed that "Syrian al Qaeda groups were training in three separate bases in the Turkish provinces."

Erdogan has also been exposed for having a close friendship with Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi Arabian businessman who has faced sanctions for hisOceano services district set to hire Paavo Ogren as general manager

In what could be seen as a coup for a troubled agency, the Oceano Community Services District board is poised to hire a new general manager on Wednesday — Paavo Ogren, the current public works director for San Luis Obispo County.

If his hiring goes forward, Ogren would leave his job overseeing 180 employees and eight divisions to head up the Oceano district, a small services agency with six employees, a tight budget and frequent turnover in its general manager spot.

He would become the ninth person in that position in seven years, with the last two managers fired for cause.

Ogren, who has spent much of his career with the county including the past seven years as public works director,


2007, eight people, including a few interim managers, have led the small agency.

But after Curtis left, board member Matthew Guerrero said that numerous officials from agencies around the county reached out to provide advice and support. The district later posted a request for résumés on its website.

The Oceano district provides water, sewer, fire protection and street lighting services to more than 7,200 people.existing world order ensures solid and stable business. For them, a Trump who is ready to settle issues with Russia means that the finances will flow in a different direction.”

“The American establishment is merciless,” concludes Kisiliov.

Kisiliov (alternative spelling Kiselyov) is a controversial but prominent journalist in Russia. He was personally appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to head the new official Russian government-owned international news agency Rossiya Segodnya in December 2013.

The idea of Trump being assassinated before he is allowed to take office has become a common theme given the deluge of death threats the New York billionaire receives, threats that prompted him to begin wearing a bullet proof vest at all public events.


Mrs. Bobbie Nell Boyd, went to appellant's place of business in Boyd's pickup truck. Arthur Thompson purchased one-half pint of corn whiskey, and after change had been made from a $5 bill advanced for the purchase of the whiskey, the appellant used harsh words, threatening Ed Boyd. Arthur Thompson got out of the truck and had a dispute with appellant. They went over to a place near appellant's truck where the appellant suddenly began to beat Thompson. *169 He knocked him down, picked him up and knocked him down again. He stomped Thompson while he was lying on the ground so that Thompson's head was mashed in. The witnesses said Thompson ceased to breathe and he was apparently dead. Boyd and his wife left the scene of theassault and waited for Thompson down the road but he never came. William Fair, appellant's Negro employee, testified that he assisted appellant to load the body of deceased, Thompson, onto an uncovered pickup truck. Appellant and William Fair drove the truck about the county, and after having obtained shovels at the home of appellant, they attempted to bury the body in one place but were unable to do so. The body was then transported to another place where a pit was dug and the body was put into the grave, face up. The arms of the deceased were rigid, in a position as if he were carrying wood. Later, the officers made an effort to locate the body at the place pointed out to them by William Fair


but they were unable to do so, although they used bulldozers to dig for the body. The witness, Fair, told them that he had thrown a knife belonging to deceased into a creek, and the officers found the knife, which was later identified by a son of Thompson as belonging to him. Much bulldozer grading had been done near the place where Fair claimed the body had been buried. Part of this bulldozer work had been done by appellant. After the vicious attack alleged to have been made upon Thompson, his body was examined by William Fair and his common-law wife. Ida Mae Harmon testified that after the fight he was breathing but "later he was not." Fair said his eyes were half open and his arms werestates in his brief that "Soon after the motion for a new trial was heard, this witness was, in fact, located at his usual place of abode in Pontotoc County, an adjoining county to the place of the trial." The action of the trial court, therefore, in overruling the motion for continuance, cannot now be urged as ground for reversal of the judgment.
(Hn 10) The appellant complains that the court erred in admitting in evidence a map or plat drawn by a witness, and later requiring him, over his objection, to revise and correct it. The freehand drawing complained of showed the physical surroundings of the place where the crime is said to have been committed. The houses, fences, trees and the location of floodlights on the building


an opportunity, on cross-examination, to point out anything on the drawing which he thought was wrong in the plat. (Hn 11) The cross-examination of defendant with reference to the map was proper. See Dent v. Luckett, 242 Miss. 559, 135 So.2d 840 (1961).
The State of Mississippi offered testimony during the trial to show the physical condition of deceased after the alleged beating: that his head was mashed in, his eyes were half open, he was not breathing, the witnesses could not hear his heart beat, and his arms were rigid as if he were "carrying stovewood." Thereafter, a qualified pathologist was offered as an expert witness by the State. He was asked a hypothetical question as to whether or not, in his medical opinion, the subject was livingconsideration is, was the corpus delicti sufficiently established by the evidence on the trial in the court below, to justify the conviction of the accused. In order to arrive at a correct conclusion it is necessary to understand in the first instance, what is meant by the terms `corpus delicti,' or in other words, `the body of the offense charged.' The corpus delicti is made up of two things: first, certain facts forming its basis; and secondly, the existence of criminal agency as the cause of them. In a case of felonious homicide, it consists of two substantial fundamental facts: 1st. The fact of the death of the deceased; and 2d. The fact of the existence of criminal agency as the cause of the death. The first of


Milwaukee entered the season with a deep, eclectic roster with not enough playing time for all its capable players. The coach and GM each had one year remaining on their contracts with no promise of an extension. As such, the range of on-court possibilities ranged from “sneaky good mid-tier playoff team” to “convoluted train wreck” with seemingly equal probabilities in the area between. They also had no known plan for sustained success – they had young players and old players and new players and familiar players and no one had any idea what was going on. They were stuck on the proverbial treadmill of mediocrity, and no one knew whether or not they’d make changes to escape that bloody area.

In spite of Scott Skiles’ best efforts to geta roster that he hated to hate him back, with rotations that resembled Russian Roulette and with death stares that would make Kobe jealous, the team leaned to the good side of the range of possibilities before he and the team decided the time came to part ways. But now that the team has committed to Hammond as its GM long-term, it allows Hammond to make moves during the season that could impact either this year or his next three. The roster he built has some promise, but it also appears directionless, something he needs to remedy.

So to see what options Hammond has, I decided to break down the players on the roster into arbitrary groups (based upon the roles they play now and the roles they may


Cannabis Startup Explains Why Venture…

Cannabis Startup Explains Why Venture Capital is Largely Unavailable

July 22, 2016 at 5:54 pm

Published by NCV Newswire

In episode 40 of Investing in Cannabis, Brandon David interviews Marshall Hayner, who is a founder participating in the Gateway Incubator program. Hayner, who hasn’t yet renamed his company, joined the inaugural class with a B2C platform but has pivoted to B2B. Hayner is trying to use a bitcoin payment system in the cannabis industry by hiding bitcoin from the user experience and creating a plug and play type of solution using blockchain technology.

Gateway founders Ben Larson and Carter Laren participated in the interview as well. They were impressed with Hayner’s background as a cryptocurrency expert as well as his experience with cannabis delivery. Law firm Morgan Lewisthe atmosphere a year.

These animals would not exist except for the fact that they are raised as food and the natural population of bovines before the livestock industry is much smaller.

When their use is diminished, the populations vanish.

Something like that happened to horses in the US.

In 1920, the horse population was 25 million.

As the automobile became affordable and widely adopted, the population of horses collapsed to 3 million by 1960.

As more knowledge about the pain of animals is discovered through science, and as the information about the effects on climate change are also known, the veganism movement will accelerate.

I was interviewed a few days ago on this subject and had the opportunity to examine this from the Indian point of view.

The fact is that in India the vegan


the prospect of returning to Daughters even less inviting.

“Going on tour wasn’t particularly interesting to me at that time to leave everybody to go play with a bunch of people I was having trouble getting along with,” Marshall said.

Eventually, though, he returned to music, which has been his passion since he was a child.

Looking back, he doesn’t know where he got his interest in music from. He was never pushed to play in school band, or take piano lessons by his parents. His brother played music, but never played seriously. In school, he had trouble finding other students with the same musical interests as him.

“That kind of saved me and pulled me out of where I could potentially still be, in a small town hanging drywall with allHONORBOUND IS IN THE NEWS – VETERAN GETS HEAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SIX YEARS

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Barbara grew concerned about the veteran next door when she observed him in their suburban Connecticut neighborhood wearing a heavy winter coat while walking his dog on an otherwise mild December day. She soon learned that Tom, a 75-year-old Vietnam veteran and his wife had been living without heat for six years as there were issues with his heating system that they simply could not afford to repair. Alarmed, Barbara contacted local agencies and veteran organizations only to find that the couple did not meet enough of their restrictive program requirements. She finally contacted the Veterans


12 times in the game, and she responded by converting 11 points from those attempts.

Free throws had been the team’s Achilles heel on Friday, but they became the reason the Bruins won Sunday. But hidden behind the ability to make free throws at the end of the game when they counted most was the energy the team brought.

Whether the players had to dive for a loose ball or pick themselves up from the floor after getting knocked down, they made sure what they got from the effort would count.

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In Sochi area realized 11 kV substation Rose Farm Building of aThe State Transport Department officials conducted a raid against city cabs at Sadarahalli Toll on Airport Road, Devanahalli on Friday and seized 100 taxis belonging to Ola which have been operating illegally in the city.

Joint Commissioner of Transport Department, Narendra Holkar said that these cabs were found running with state taxi permits and charging exorbitant fares against the rules.

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These seized cabs did not have digital fare meters fitted rather installed mobiles with GPS connectivity which displayed defective and higher fares. In some cabs, it was found that fares were levied at 10 times higher rate than the rate fixed by Government. Cabs


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Five-year Outcome List of Cooperation Between China and Central and Eastern European Countries

2017/11/28

China-CEEC Cooperation (or "16+1" Cooperation) is a new cooperation platform established in 2012 by China and 16 Central and Eastern European Countries, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Thanks to the joint efforts of all participants, under the framework of "16+1" Cooperation, a summit mechanism and cooperation platforms on policy coordination, economy and trade, culture, education, agriculture, transportation, tourism, science and technology, health, think tanks, local exchange, and youth have been established. Remarkable achievements have been made, and resonated well with people from both China and CEE countries.As this year marks the 5th anniversary of "16+1" Cooperation, China has taken stock of the achievements of the past five years and made a outcome list with over 200 items, covering five areas, including policy communication, connectivity, economy and trade, finance, cultural and people-to-people exchange.

1. Establish Policy Communication Platform

(1) In April 2012, the 1st Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries was held in Warsaw, Poland. China and 16 CEECs jointly issued the Press Communiqué of the Meeting between the Prime Ministers of China and Central and Eastern European Countries. China put forward Twelve Measures for Promoting Friendly Cooperation with Central and Eastern European Countries.

(2) In September 2012, the inaugural conference of the Secretariat for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and


the 1st China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Beijing, China.

(3) In October 2013, the 2nd China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Bucharest, Romania.

(4) In November 2013, the 2nd Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries was held in Bucharest, Romania, and issued the Bucharest Guidelines for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries.

(5) In May 2014, the 3rd China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Beijing, China.

(6) In November 2014, the 4th China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Belgrade, Serbia.

(7) In December 2014, the 3rd Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries was held in Belgrade, Serbia, and issued the Belgrade Guidelines for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries.

(8) In April 2015, the Chinese Ministry ofForeign Affairs appointed the Special Representative for China-CEEC Cooperation.

(9) In July 2015, the 5th China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Beijing, China.

(11) In October 2015, the 6th China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Warsaw, Poland.

(12) In November 2015, the 4th Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries was held in Suzhou, China, and issued the Suzhou Guidelines for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and the Medium-Term Agenda for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries.

(13) In February 2016, the 1st Quarterly Meeting of 2016 between the Secretariat for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and CEEC embassies in China was held in Beijing, China.

(14) In April 2016, the 2nd Quarterly Meeting of 2016 between the


Secretariat for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and CEEC embassies in China was held in Beijing, China

(15) In May 2016, the Conference of the Presidents of the Supreme Courts of China and CEECs was held in Suzhou, China.

(16) In June 2016, the 7th China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Haikou, China.

(18) The 3rd Quarterly Meeting of 2016 between the Secretariat for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and CEEC embassies in China was held in Beijing, China in October 2016.

(19) In October 2016, the 8th China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Riga, Latvia.

(20) In October 2016, the China-CEEC Political Parties Dialogue was held in Budapest, Hungary.

(21) In October 2016, the 5th Summit of China and Central and Eastern EuropeanCountries was held in Riga, Latvia, and issued the Riga Guidelines for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and the Riga Declaration on infrastructure and equipment cooperation at the Adriatic-Baltic-Black Sea Seaport.

(22) The 4th Quarterly Meeting of 2016 between the Secretariat for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and CEEC embassies in China was held in Beijing, China in December 2016.

(23) The Quarterly Meeting between the Secretariat for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and CEEC embassies in China was held in Beijing, China in April 2017.

(24) In July 2017, the 9th China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Beijing, China.

(25) The China-CEEC Political Parties Dialogue and the 3rd China-CEEC Young Political Leaders' Forum were held in Bucharest, Romania


in July 2017.

(26) A delegation of high-ranking officials from CEECs visited Beijing, Gansu Province and Hunan Province in August 2017.

(27) The 10th China-CEEC National Coordinators' Meeting was held in Budapest, Hungary in October 2017.

(28) In November 2017, the 6th Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries was held in Budapest, Hungary.

2. Enhance Connectivity

(29) In June 2014, the 1st meeting of the China-Hungary-Serbia Joint Working Group on Infrastructure Cooperation was held in Beijing, China.

(30) In June 2014, the High Level Conference on Transport, Logistics and Trade Routes: Connecting Asia with Europe was held in Riga, Latvia.

(31) In December 2014, customs representatives from China, Hungary, Macedonia and Serbia signed a framework agreement on facilitation of customs clearance cooperation.

(32) In December 2014, China, Hungary and Serbia signed an interdepartmentalMemorandum of Understanding on Hungary-Serbia railway cooperation projects.

(33) In January 2015, the 2nd meeting of the China-Hungary-Serbia Joint Working Group on Infrastructure Cooperation was held in Belgrade, Serbia.

(34) In January 2015, the customs clearance facilitation cooperation mechanism for the China-Europe Land-Sea Express Line among the Chinese, Hungarian, Serbian, Macedonian and Greek Customs was officially established.

(35) In March 2015, the 1st Working Group Meeting on Cooperation in Facilitating Customs Clearance Among Chinese, Hungarian, Serbian and Macedonian Customs was held in Shanghai, China.

(36) In May 2015, the 1st Customs Control Techniques Workshop for the China-Europe Land-Sea Express Line among the Chinese, Hungarian, Serbian and Macedonian Customs was held in Shanghai, China.

(37) In May 2015, the Beijing-Budapest regular flight was launched by Air China.

(38) In May 2015, heads of customs of


China, Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia met in Xi'an, China, and signed the Cooperation Action Plan for 2015-2016.

(39) In June 2015, China signed with Hungary the Memorandum of Understanding on Jointly Building the "Belt and Road" Initiative.

(40) In July 2015, the 3rd meeting of the China-Hungary-Serbia Joint Working Group on Infrastructure Cooperation was held in Budapest, Hungary.

(53) In September 2016, the 5th meeting of the China-Hungary-Serbia Joint Working Group on Infrastructure Cooperation was held in Belgrade, Serbia.

(54) In September 2016, Air China launched the Beijing-Warsaw direct flight.

(55) In November 2016, China signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Jointly Building the "Belt and Road" Initiative with Latvia, and signed bilateral cooperation plans to jointly build the Belt and Road with the government of the Czech Republic.

(56) In November 2016, Chinasigned interdepartmental Memorandum of Understandings on port and harbor industrial park cooperation with Latvia, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Croatia.

(57) In November 2016, China signed with Hungary an agreement for the establishment of a joint venture company for Hungary-Serbia Railway, a construction contract and a Memorandum of Understanding on financing cooperation. China signed with Serbia a commercial contract for the Belgrade Center-Stara Pazova Section of the Hungarian-Serbian Railway Line and a Memorandum of Understanding on financing cooperation.

(58) In 2016, China signed interdepartmental Memorandum of Understandings on enhancing cooperation for Internet Silk Road to promote information connectivity with the Czech Republic, Poland and Serbia respectively.

(59) China-CEEC Coordinating Secretariat for Maritime Issues 16+1 was set up in Warsaw, Poland in February 2017.

(60) In April 2017, the 1+3 Seminar on Customs Valuation of


China-Europe Land-Sea Express Line among Chinese, Hungarian, Macedonian and Serbian Customs was held in Budapest, Hungary.

(61) In May 2017, China signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Jointly Building the "Belt and Road" Initiative with Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania.

(62) In May 2017, China and Serbia signed the loan agreements on the modernization and reconstruction of Hungarian-Serbian Railway Line for the Belgrade Center-Stara Pazova Section.

(63) In June 2017, the Workshop on Customs Transshipment Operation of China-Europe Land-Sea Express Line among Chinese, Hungarian, Macedonian and Serbian Customs was held in Ningbo, China.

(64) In June 2017,The 6th meeting of the China-Hungary-Serbia Joint Working Group on Infrastructure Cooperation was held in Budapest, Hungary.

(65) In June 2017, the China-CEEC Customs Cooperation Forum was held in Ningbo, China, and adopted a cooperationinitiative on building a partnership of connectivity.

(67) In June 2016, the 3rd Working Group Meeting on Cooperation in Facilitating Customs Clearance Among Chinese, Hungarian, Serbian and Macedonian Customs was held in Belgrade, Serbia.

(68) In October 2017,the 2nd China-CEEC Transport Ministers Meeting & Business Forum was held in Warsaw, Poland.

3. Promote Economic Cooperation and Trade

(69) In September 2012, the 7th China-CEEC Agro-trade and Economic Cooperation Forum was held in Hefei, China.

(70) In September 2013, the 8th China-CEEC Agro-trade and Economic Cooperation Forum was held in Hefei, China.

(71) In May 2014, the 1st China-CEEC Seminar on Innovation, Technology Cooperation and International Technology Transfer was held in Shanghai, China.

(72) In June 2014, the China-CEEC Ministerial Meeting on Promoting Trade and Economic Cooperation was held in Ningbo, China, and adopted the Joint


Document of China-CEEC Ministerial Meeting on Promoting Trade and Economic Cooperation.

(73) In June 2014, the 1st Central and Eastern European Countries' Products Fair (CEEC Fair) was held in Ningbo, China.

(74) In August 2014, the China Investment Forum was held in Prague, the Czech Republic.

(75) In September 2014, a China-CEEC symposium on investment promotion was held in Xiamen, China.

(76) In September 2014, the establishment of China-CEEC Investment Promotion Agencies Contact Mechanism was announced in Xiamen, China.

(77) In September 2014, a China-CEEC investment promotion event was held in Xiamen, China.

(78) In October 2014, a promotion event dedicated to CEECs was held in Guangzhou, China, during the 11th China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair.

(79) In October 2014, the 9th China-CEEC Agro-trade and Economic Cooperation Forum was held in Bucharest, Romania.

(80)In October 2014, an event dedicated to China-CEEC cooperation in environmental technologies was held in Poznan, Poland, during the PolEko fairs.

(81) In November 2014, the 2nd Meeting of the Investment Promotion Agencies Contact Mechanism of China and CEECs was held in Warsaw, Poland.

(82) In 2014, China signed with Romania and the Czech Republic cooperation documents on peaceful use of nuclear energy.

(83) In 2014, China signed with Hungary, Latvia, Serbia, and Macedonia cooperation agreements on quality inspection.

(84) In April 2015, the 1st meeting of the China-CEEC Business Council was held in Katowice, Poland.

(85) In May 2015, China signed with Hungary a Memorandum of Understanding on nuclear energy cooperation.

(86) In June 2015, the launch ceremony of the China-CEEC Association on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation and the China-CEEC Agriculture Ministers' Meeting were


held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

(87) In June 2015, the 1st China-CEEC Investment and Trade Expo and its side events - the 1st China-CEEC Forum on Cooperation Development, the 2nd China-CEEC Special Products Fair and the 1st China-CEEC Investment Cooperation Seminar were held in Ningbo, China.

(88)In September 2015, the 10th China-CEEC Agro-trade and Economic Cooperation Forum and the 1st meeting of the Consultative Board of the China-CEEC Association on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation were held in Budapest, Hungary.

(89) In September 2015, the 2nd China-CEEC Seminar on Innovation, Technology Cooperation and International Technology Transfer was held in Bratislava, Slovakia.

(90) In November 2015, the China Investment Forum was held in Prague, the Czech Republic.

(91) In November 2015, China signed with Slovenia a Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of the China-CEEC coordination mechanismfor forestry cooperation.

(92) In February 2016, the 2nd meeting of the Consultative Board of the China-CEEC Association on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation was held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

(93) In May 2016, Sarajevo Business Forum 16+1 was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

(94) In May 2016, the 1st China-CEEC High-Level Meeting on Cooperation in Forestry and China-CEEC Forestry Business Forum were held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and adopted an action plan for forestry cooperation coordination mechanism.

(95) In June 2016, the 2nd China-CEEC Ministerial Conference on Promoting Trade and Economic Cooperation was held in Ningbo, China and adopted the Ningbo Declaration.

(96) In June 2016, the 2nd China-CEEC Investment and Trade Expo and its side events - the 3rd China-CEEC Special Products Fair, the 3rd meeting of the CEEC Investment Promotion Agencies Contact Mechanism,


and the 2nd China-CEEC Investment Cooperation Seminar were held in Ningbo, China.

(97) In June 2016, the 1st China-CEEC Quality Inspection Cooperation Dialogue was held in Ningbo, China, and issued an initiative on e-certificate and trade facilitation.

(98) In October 2016, Poland and Bulgaria participated in the China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair held in Guangzhou, China.

(99) China attended the Brno International Engineering Fair in Brno, the Czech Republic in October 2016 as a partner country.

(100) In October 2016, the China-CEEC Energy Projects Dialogue and Cooperation Center was established in Bucharest, Romania.

(101) The China Investment Forum was held in Prague in November 2016.

(102) In November 2016, the China-CEEC Agriculture Ministers' Meeting was held in Kunming China, issued the Kunming Declaration, and witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understandingon cooperation between the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center of Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and the China-CEEC Association on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation.

(103) In November 2016, the 11th China-CEEC Agro-trade Forum and the 3rd meeting of the Consultative Board of the China-CEEC Association on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation were held in Kunming, China. The website of the China-CEEC Association on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation was launched.

(104) In November 2016, the China-CEEC Conferences on Innovation Cooperation was held in Nanjing, China and issued the Nanjing Declaration.

(105) In November 2016, the Technology Transfer Virtual Center of China and CEECs was formally established.

(106) In February 2017, the China-CEEC coordination mechanism for forestry cooperation held the 1st meeting.

(107) In April 2017, the 4th meeting of the Consultative Board of the China-CEEC Association on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation


was held in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

(108) In April 2017,China-CEEC Agricultural Products and Wine Exhibition was held during the Economic and Trade Fair in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

(109) In May 2017,The 2nd China-CEEC Cultural and Creative Industries Forum as well as the 11th International Service Trade Forum was held in Beijing.

(110) In June 2017, the 3rd Investment and Trade Exposition and its side events - the 2nd China-CEEC Forum on Cooperation Development, the 4th China-CEEC Special Products Fair, and the 3rd China-CEEC Investment Cooperation Seminar were held in Ningbo, China.

(111) In June 2017, the 2nd China-CEEC Quality Inspection Cooperation Dialogue was held in Ningbo, China, and issued a joint statement.

(112) In July 2017,China Investment Forum was held in Prague,the Czech Republic.

(113) In July 2017, China signed with Polanda Memorandum of Understanding on nuclear energy cooperation.

(114) China-CEEC Meeting on E-Commerce within the framework of Belt and Road was held in Chengdu in August 2017.

(115) The 2nd China-CEEC Agricultural Ministers' Forum as well as the 12th China-CEEC Agro-trade Forum was held in Brdo, Slovenia in August 2017.

(116) In August 2017, the 5th Meeting of the Consultative Board of the China-CEEC Association on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia,

(117) Delegations from CEECs took part in the 15th China International Agricultural Products Fair held in Beijing in September 2017.

(118) In October 2017, the China-CEEC Forestry Research and Education Cooperation International Symposium was held in Beijing, China. CEEC representatives visited the China Yiwu International Forest Products Fair.

(119) The China-CEEC Energy Forum and Expo were held in Bucharest, Romania


in November 2017. The Forum issued a white paper on energy cooperation dialogue and a minister's statement on conducting joint research for energy cooperation.

(120) In November 2017, the 2nd China-CEEC Conferences on Innovation Cooperation was held in Bratislava,Slovakia.

4. Improve Financial Cooperation Framework

(121) In June 2012, Bank of China set up a branch in Warsaw, Poland.

(122) In November 2012, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China set up a branch in Warsaw, Poland.

(123) In September 2013, the People's Bank of China signed bilateral currency swap agreements with Hungarian National Bank and State Bank of Albania respectively.

(124) In December 2014, Bank of China set up a branch in Budapest, Hungary.

(125) In December 2014, Bank of China proposed to establish the China-CEEC Coordinated Investment and Financing Framework.

(126) In 2014, Hungarian National Bankand National Bank of Poland invested in the Chinese inter-bank bond market as overseas central banks. Bank of Lithuania invested in the Chinese inter-bank bond market as QFII.

(153) In September 2013, curators of national museum of art from CEECs visited China.

(154) In October 2013, the 1st China-CEEC Young Political Leaders' Forum was held in Beijing, China.

(155) In December 2013, the 1st China-CEEC High-Level Symposium of Think Tanks was held in Beijing, China.

(156) Since December 2013, citizens of all 16 CEECs are entitled to 72-hour visa-free transit in ports including Beijing and Shanghai.

(157) In April 2014, a delegation of CEEC journalists visited China.

(158) In May 2014, the 1st China-CEEC High-Level Conference on Tourism Cooperation was held in Budapest, Hungary, and China-CEEC Association of Tourism Promotion Agencies and Businesses was


officially launched.

(160) In August 2014, the 2nd China-CEEC Local Leaders' Meeting was held in Prague, the Czech Republic. China signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Promotion of the Establishment of the Association of Governors of Provinces of China with the Czech Republic.

(161) In September 2014, the 2nd China-CEEC High-Level Symposium of Think Tanks was held in Bled, Slovenia.

(162) In September 2014, the 2nd China-CEEC Education Policy Dialogue was held in Tianjin, China.

(163) In September 2014, the China-CEEC Higher Education Institutes Consortium was established in Tianjin, China.

(164) In October 2014, artistic directors of international dance festivals and choreographers from CEECs visited China.

(165) In November 2014, a promotion event of Chinese and CEEC tourism products was held at the China International Travel Mart in Shanghai, China.

(166) From November to December2014, delegations of Chinese journalists visited CEECs.

(167) From February to October 2015, the Chinese Art Festival was held in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

(168) In March 2015, the launch ceremony of the Year of Promotion of China-CEEC Tourism Cooperation was held in Budapest, Hungary.

(169) In May 2015, the 1st Meeting of China-CEEC Association of Provincial Governors was held in Hebei Province, China.

(188) In June 2016, the 3rd China-CEEC Local Leaders' Meeting and the 2nd Working Meeting of China-CEEC Association of Governors of Provinces and Regions were held in Tangshan, China, and passed the Articles of China-CEEC Association of Governors of Provinces and Regions and the Tangshan Consensus.

(189) In June 2016, the 2nd China-CEEC Health Ministers' Forum was held in Suzhou, China, issued the Suzhou Joint Communiqué, and announced the


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Thirteen members of a loyalist flute band have been convicted of provocatively playing a sectarian tune outside a Catholic church.

On Wednesday, a judge at Belfast Magistrates Court, ruled that they took part in a rendition of the Famine Song, aggravated by hostility, while marching in a circle at St Patrick's Church in north Belfast during a 12 July parade in 2012.

The 13 defendants, all members of the Belfast band, Young Conway Volunteers, denied playing the controversial tune.

They instead claimed to have been performing the Beach Boys hit Sloop John B.

Three of the defendants received five-month suspended prison sentences for their actions.

The other 10 were each bound to keep the peace forthe next two years, with a prohibition on engaging in aggressive, provocative or disorderly behaviour.

Fines of £300 were imposed on all of the defendants apart from those tried as youths.

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Senior judges in Scotland have previously ruled the controversial Famine Song - which includes the line "The famine's over, why don't you go home?" - to be racist.

The episode outside the church marked the first in a series of incidents at the Donegall Street location.

A judge said it was "outrageous and inflammatory behaviour which could have precipitated serious public disorder."

The defendants had contested a charge of doing a provocative act likely to cause public disorder or a breach of


the peace.

'Racial hatred'

During a hearing, defence lawyers played songs by a Swedish folk singer, a Star Trek enthusiast and football fan chants - all to the same tune - in a bid to have their clients cleared.

Paul Shaw, band leader on the day of the parade, was the only one of the accused to give evidence.

He said they had been forced to stop outside the church due to a break in the parade and started up the Beach Boys tune to ward off lethargy among tired members.

He said he had penned a letter to local Catholic parishioners.

"That was to explain the band in no way had any intention to cause any upset to anybody," he said.

"I felt it was my duty as band leader."

However, District Judge Paul Copelandrejected the defence case, finding that the band could have behaved differently as they waited to march on.

"They had choices to make; they didn't stand and wait quietly, they didn't disperse for the short period of time available to them, they didn't march in silence to a drum beat, they didn't sit down, join supporters or family and take a break.

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Emphasising the context of the situation at St Patrick's, he said the Famine Song has entered into the "repertoire" of loyalist band music.

It has the potential "as an anthem of sectarian abuse at least, or, at worst, racial


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The standing committee of correspondents of the U.S. Senate Daily Press Gallery, a panel of journalists that determines which news organizations should receive congressional press passes, voted to table Breitbart's bid for permanent passes and to discontinue the right-wing outlet's temporary credentials without an extension.

Breitbart's temporary credentials expire on May 31.

In a statement, Breitbart spokesman Chad Wilkinson said the outlet is "unequivocally entitled to permanent Senate Press Gallery credentials and is determined to secure them."

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things, a restoration of the centrality of both civic education and the humanities into the K-12 curriculum. Jefferson valued these traditions because he understood that the foundational pillars of a republican civic identity---freedom, truth, reason, civic engagement, to name a few---were moral capacities whose development depended in no small measure on the tradition of the humanities. Although Jefferson was not the only founder to link the survival of the republic to the project of educating the intelligence and virtue of the American people, he was perhaps the most eloquent in establishing the crucial linkages between education and the ongoing nature of the revolution. It is on these moral and curricular grounds, that I recruit Jefferson today as an iconic, if controversial resource for providing insight into the ongoingof their founding vision. Here, the "chosen people" risk botching their lovely experiment unless prophetically called back to renew the values of their original vision. In the third sequence, the audience is offered a redeeming vision of renewal in which their moral devolution can be turned around, but only if a new connection is forged with the forgotten values that once defined their community.

In the context of this book, then, the "promise" is the secular promise of Jefferson's democratic-friendly revolutionary theory, upon whose creative execution the fulfillment of the revolution depends. The "declension" element comes into play in the chapters ahead as we realize the extent to which the character of today's politics, education, and culture has turned nakedly oligarchic, thereby posing an existential threat to the nation's


political tradition. In several chapters, for example, I link Jefferson's animus against standing armies to figures like George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower, and Martin Luther King, Jr., who reflected similar beliefs in their writings. In other chapters, I argue for a recovery of the relevance and meaning of the Declaration of Independence through an examination of Abraham Lincoln's prophetic writings on the Declaration. In other chapters, I situate Jefferson's educational and revolutionary thought alongside the work of John Dewey and George Counts. Thus, I write within the American political tradition, a tradition that I believe still retains a great deal of potential power to transform things for the better, provided, of course, that we reframe these strands in the right way. Among other things, then, the book is ansee Tom Engelhardt's *A Nation Unmade by War*. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018. My analysis is also indebted to David Blacker's *What's Left of the World*: *Education, Identity and the Post*-*Work Political Imagination.* London: Zero Press, 2019. Blacker's assessment of our educational future is bleak, and I think this reinforces the need for paradigmatic rather than incremental change. For an incisive look at the dismal state of civic education today, see Michael Rebell's *Flunking Democracy: Schools, Courts and Civic Participation.* Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. As both an education litigator and professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, Rebell effectively gives the United States an "F" when it comes to providing a decent civic education to the nation's youth. For a powerful and poetic reflection on the irreversibility of


rooted in the following three sources. More recently, Michael Hardt, in his *Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence.* London: Verso, 2007, makes a strong case for validating Jefferson's revolutionary credentials. Tellingly, Hardt's book is part of a series by Verso Books on revolutionary thinkers. I was surprised to see Jefferson included in such a series, alongside books on the revolutionary thought of Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Gramsci, Robespierre, Guevara, Lenin, Zizek, and others. Dan Sisson's, *The Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction*---*And What It Means Today.* San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2013, affirms Jefferson's claim that the election of 1800 should indeed be properly framed as a revolution. Hannah Arendt's *On Revolution*, New York: Penguin Classics, 1963, is widely recognized to have fortified Jefferson's statusJefferson and the Empire of the Imagination*. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, 235. It is worth noting that the "Spirit of 76" is indexed ten times, a measure of its centrality to Jefferson's thought.

For a comprehensive intellectual history of the American Revolution, republican ideology, and its enlightenment-informed emergence, see Jonathan Israel, *The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775*--*1848*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Philosopher Richard Bernstein has recently brought his analytical acumen to the American Revolution in his *Why Read Hannah Arendt Now.* London: Polity, 2018. See, "The American Revolution and the Revolutionary Spirit," 103--116.

Peter Onuf/Jan Lewis, "American Synedoche: Thomas Jefferson, as Image, Icon, Character and Self." In *The Mind of Thomas Jefferson*, ed. Peter Onuf. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012,


The Spurs have named Ken McDonald the head coach of the team's D-League affiliate, the Austin Toros, the team announced today in a press release. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports first had the story (Twitter link).

Pierre Jackson, whose NBA rights are held by New Orleans, has left his team in France to return to America, according to a report from Le Progres (translation via Sportando). It's not clear whether the Pelicans could fit Jackson into their plans immediately, so he may end up playing elsewhere this season.freedom had finally died down, I went in to check on her, planning to dole out a final kiss and douse the lights. I discovered at that point that she had pulled every toy and book she owned onto the floor, and removed her own (clean) diaper and tossed it onto the pile. She was curled up, puffy-eyed, fast asleep on her bed in a huge puddle of urine.

I would have felt better if I was working or doing something important or worthwhile. But prioritizing television over my daughter while she cried herself to sleep in the midst of filth did feel a little petty.

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The recent confirmation of Africanized honey bees in Modesto  the first confirmed case north of Madera County  is "probably an isolated case, and there probably aren't any more Africanized honey bee colonies in the northern San Joaquin Valley," Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology said today.

"I don't think they moved there on their own," Mussen said. "They probably swarmed during or just after the almond pollination season. The migratory beekeeper left but the bees didn't."

Unfortunately, the Africanized bees colonized in shrubbery along a well-traveled pedestrian and bicycle route and attacked a 70-year-old man and his three dogs on July 5 after one dog disturbed the nest. The man sustained as many as 60 bee stings, mostly on the face, as heran an eighth of a mile to a residence.

A recently released laboratory report from the California Department of Food and Agriculture positively identified the bees as Africanized, known in the Hollywood movies as "killer bees."

The Africanized bees may have come from Arizona, Texas, Florida or southern California, Mussen said. Migratory beekeepers from all over the country truck in their bees to pollinate California's 800,000 acres of almonds, located in the Central Valley from Butte to Kern counties. Each acre requires two bee colonies for pollination.

Africanized bees swarm more often their cousins, the European honey bee, the most common bee in the United States.

"The attack is troubling but I doubt there are any more Africanized honey bee colonies swarms in that valley," Mussen reiterated. "Otherwise, more people would have


encountered them in Fresno and Merced counties before they even reached Modesto in Stanislaus County."

"There's no way to tell if honey bees are Africanized without DNA testing," Mussen said. "They look about the same as the European honey bee. They tend to be a little darker than European honey bees and a little smaller. What sets them apart is their intensive defensive behavior. They've been known to chase their victims a quarter of a mile."

When beekeepers find intensive defensive behavior in their hives, they kill the queen bee and "requeen" the colony. "Over four to six weeks, the original workers die of old age and the new queen replaces them with more daughters," Mussen said.

Africanized honey bees are the result of attempts to hybridize European honey bees withan African species, Mussen said. Researchers brought Tanzanian queen bees (Apis mellifera scutella) to Brazil in the 1950s. In 1957, some of the African bee descendants escaped from the researchers and beekeepers and began expanding their territory.

The descendants reached southern Texas in 1990 and southern California in 1994. "In California, they were first found "just outside of Blythe, in Riverside County," Mussen said.

California State Department of Food and Agriculture officials say the hybrid is now established in more than a dozen counties in the state, primarily those south of a diagonal line that runs northeast to southwest, from northern Tulare County to the southwest corner of San Luis Obispo County. They include Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Madera, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Tulare and Ventura counties. Also


affected are portions of Inyo, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

Madera is considered the most northern county to be colonized, but Mussen believes it likely isn't colonized. Only one case of Africanized honey bees has been confirmed since 2004.

"As an area becomes colonized, the Africanized bees will show their true colors; They will exhibit their intense defensive behavior," said Mussen, a Extension apiculturist since 1976 and a worldwide authority on honey bees.

Beekeepers who collect swarms in colonized counties have a "high probability" of hiving an Africanized honey bee colony, he pointed out, and should always look for unacceptable defensive behavior.

"Massive stinging events involving Africanized honey bee (AFB) colonies have not been very numerous in the United States," Mussen wrote in Bee Briefs, one of his two beeAfter an agonizing two-hour, 45-minute wait in the green room, Johnny Manziel is now a Cleveland Brown. And apparently he's got a homeless guy to thank for his new gig. Manziel's fall through the ranks was one of the early stories of the draft, and once…

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U.S. Atty., with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee U.S.
Before McKAY, SEYMOUR and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.
McKAY, Circuit Judge.

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In 1942, the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation (FFMC) conveyed land in Summit County, Utah, to Hyrum and Florence Newton by special warranty deed.  The original deed and all copies of the original no longer exist;  however, a version of the deed was recorded in the Summit County Recorder's Office.  The content of the original deed is the focal point of this case, because after the 1942 conveyance, both FFMC and the Newtons acted under contrary interpretations of the deed and conveyed overlapping mineral interests in the Summit County property.

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FFMC believed it had retained a fifty percent mineral interest in the land, and, in 1957, conveyed that interest tothe United States by quitclaim deed.  In 1974, the United States leased portions of this mineral interest to the other named defendants.

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The Newtons believed they had received all the mineral rights in the land through the 1942 conveyance.  In 1960 the Newtons conveyed title in the land to a family corporation, and, in 1971, the family corporation conveyed a mineral lease in the land to Amoco Production Company (Amoco).  Amoco subsequently conveyed portions of its leasehold to the other named plaintiffs.

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On January 21, 1976, plaintiffs initiated an action under the Quiet Title Act of 1972, 28 U.S.C. Secs. 2409a, 1346(f), 1402(d) (1982 & Supp.IV 1986), to quiet title in the disputed mineral rights.  Plaintiffs' principal argument was that the only remaining version of the


deed, the one recorded in Summit County, contains no mineral reservation and thus the Newtons had received all the mineral interests in the land.  The defendants contended that the original deed contained a reservation clause and that the Summit County Recorder erred in her recording.  Defendants also claimed that FFMC's quitclaim deed to the United States in 1957 should have given plaintiffs constructive notice of the dispute and thus barred plaintiffs' suit, since it was not brought within the twelve-year limitations period specified in 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2409a(f) (1982):

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Any civil action under this section shall be barred unless it is commenced within twelve years of the date upon which it accrued.  Such action shall be deemed to have accrued on the date the plaintiff orextinguished the United States' counterclaim was also incorrect.  The United States' counterclaim is not based on jurisdiction ancillary to that supporting the plaintiffs' barred cause of action.  The counterclaim is founded on independent jurisdiction conferred upon the district court by 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1345 (1982) (the district court has original jurisdiction of "all civil actions, suits or proceedings commenced by the United States").  The fact that the United States' action was brought as a counterclaim is immaterial because the independent jurisdiction allows the district court to adjudicate the counterclaim despite the dismissal of the original complaint.7   National Research Bureau, Inc. v. Bartholomew, 482 F.2d 386, 388-89 (3d Cir.1973) (where jurisdiction of the counterclaim is independent, "the counterclaim must be allowed to proceed without


United States' evidence and be presumed persuasive evidence of Amoco's right to title.  As when the United States was the defendant, the United States would be placed in the position of having to show some inaccuracy or invalidity in the deed by clear and convincing evidence in order to defeat the presumptive finality of Amoco's deed.  The district court was already presented with this issue and clearly ruled that the United States had not satisfied this standard.

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Because we conclude the district court erred in not requiring the United States' evidence to meet a clear and convincing standard in challenging the contents of the recorded version of the deed, it is unnecessary for us to address whether the district court also erred in admitting the BLM folderSatish Nair, professor of electrical and computer engineering who just received a three-year National Institute of Health grant for further research in fear modeling, and Gregory Quirk, a neuroscientist in the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine research, has been published in the Journal of Neurophysiology and Psychiatric Annals.


and being higher in horizontal level than the bottom area; a connector part metallic film spaced from the mounting part metallic film and arranged at a peripheral region thereof; electrical connecting means for electrically connecting the signal electrode of the semiconductor element to the connector part metallic film and connecting the ground electrode of the semiconductor element to the stepped area of the mounting part metallic film; and a resin for shielding the semiconductor element, the electrical connecting means, and at least mounting/connecting sides of the mounting part metallic film and the connector part metallic film.
At least one of the mounting part metallic film and the connector part metallic film comprises a four-layered film consisting of a gold layer, a palladium layer, a nickel layer and a palladiumlayer sequentially layered from a bottom.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a carrier substrate adapted to be used for producing a semiconductor device, the substrate comprising: a metallic base having at least one reference surface, a central recessed area and a stepped recessed area located at a periphery of the central recessed area, a depth of the central recessed area from the reference surface being greater than that of the stepped recessed area from the reference surface; the area; the metallic base also having a peripheral recessed area spaced from the stepped recessed area and arranged at a peripheral region thereof; a mounting part metallic film formed on the central recessed area and the stepped recessed area; and a connector part metallic film


formed on the peripheral recessed area.
In the same manner as the above, at least one of the mounting part metallic film and the connector part metallic film comprises a four-layered film consisting of a gold layer, a palladium layer, a nickel layer and a palladium layer sequentially layered from the metallic base.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for producing a carrier substrate comprising the following steps of: coating respective surfaces, including a reference surface, of a metallic base with etching resist; partially removing the etching resist on the reference surface of the metallic base so as to form a central vacant pattern, a ring-like vacant pattern at a periphery of the central vacant pattern, and a connection vacant pattern spacedfrom the ring-like vacant pattern; half-etching the metallic base by using the etching resist as a mask and side-etching a part of the metallic base between the central vacant pattern and the ring-like vacant pattern so as to form a mount recessed area including a central recessed area and a stepped recessed area located at a periphery of the central recessed area, a depth of the central recessed area from the reference surface being greater than that of the stepped recessed area from the reference surface and also to form a peripheral recessed area spaced from the stepped recessed area and arranged at a peripheral region thereof; forming a mounting part metallic film and a connector part metallic film on the mount recessed area and on the peripheral


to form a shielded part; and
(e) removing the shielded part from the carrier substrate together with the mounting part metallic film and the connector part metallic film.
A process further comprising a step for forming a stud bump on at least one of the mounting part metallic film and the connector part metallic film of the carrier substrate, after the semiconductor element is mounted on the bottom area of the mounting part metallic film.
The shield part is removed from the carrier substrate by etching the metallic base. Otherwise, the shield part is removed from the carrier substrate by peeling the shield part off the carrier substrate.Meghan Markle and Prince Harry get baby advice from Birkenhead residents on royal visit

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Ashlines: To promote and support the commercially viable and environmentally sound recycling of coal combustion byproducts for productive uses through scientific research, development, and field testing.

Each year, over 100 million tons of solid byproducts are produced by coal-burning electric utilities in the United States. Annual production of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) byproducts continues to increase as the result of more stringent sulfur emission restrictions. In addition, stricter limits on NOx emissions mandated by the 1990 Clean Air Act have resulted in utility burner/boiler modifications that frequently yield higher carbon concentrations in fly ash, which restricts the use of the ash as a cement replacement. Controlling ammonia in ash is also of concern. If newer, 'clean coal' combustion and gasification technologies are adopted, their byproducts may also present aprogram was developed as a focused program to remove and/or minimize the barriers for effective management of over 123 million tons of coal combustion byproducts (CCBs) annually generated in the USA. At the time of launching the CBRC in 1998, about 25% of CCBs were beneficially utilized while the remaining was disposed in on-site or off-site landfills. During the ten (10) year tenure of CBRC (1998-2008), after a critical review, 52 projects were funded nationwide. By region, the East, Midwest, and West had 21, 18, and 13 projects funded, respectively. Almost all projects were cooperative projects involving industry, government, and academia. The CBRC projects, to a large extent, successfully addressed the problems of large-scale utilization of CCBs. A few projects, such as the two Eastern Region projects that


field, length of the molecules, and the interactions between the contacts and the aromatic molecule.

A process is described for removing halogenated aliphatic and aromatic compounds, e.g., polychlorinated biphenyls, from petroleum products by solvent extraction. The halogenated aliphatic and aromatic compounds are extracted from a petroleum product into a polar solvent by contacting the petroleum product with the polar solvent. The polar solvent is characterized by a high solubility for the extracted halogenated aliphatic and aromatic compounds, a low solubility for the petroleum product and considerable solvent power for polyhydroxy compound. The preferred polar solvent is dimethylformamide. A miscible compound, such as, water or a polyhydroxy compound, is added to the polar extraction solvent to increase the polarity of the polar extraction solvent. The halogenated aliphatic and aromatic compoundsfrom petroleum products by solvent extraction. The halogenated aliphatic and aromatic compounds are extracted from a petroleum product into a polar solvent by contacting the petroleum product with the polar solvent. The polar solvent is characterized by a high solubility for the extracted halogenated aliphatic and aromatic compounds, a low solubility for the petroleum product and considerable solvent power for polyhydroxy compound. The preferred polar solvent is dimethylformamide. A miscible compound, such as, water or a polyhydroxy compound, is added to the polar extraction solvent to increase the polarity of the polar extraction solvent. The halogenated aliphatic and aromatic compounds are extracted from the highly-polarized mixture of water or polyhydroxy compound and polar extraction solvent into a low polar or nonpolar solvent by contacting the water or polyhydroxy


vessel. A benzene inlet is located near the upper end of the vessel; an olefin inlet is juxtaposed with said solid acidic catalytic material; a bottoms outlet is positioned near the bottom of said vessel for removing said cumene and ethyl benzene; and an overhead outlet is placed at the top of said vessel for removing any unreacted benzene and olefin.

The potential for conservation of natural gas is studied and the technical and economic feasibility and the implementation of ventures to produce such chemicals using carbon monoxide and hydrogen from byproduct gases are determined. A survey was performed of potential chemical products and byproduct gas sources. Byproduct gases from the elemental phosphorus and the iron and steel industries were selected for detailed study. Gas sampling, preliminary design, marketbase width of 250 feet. A comprehensive geotechnical laboratory testing and field monitoring program is being implemented to evaluate the physical and mechanical characteristics of various CCBPs and to predict the performance of the embankment during and after construction. Preliminary geotechnical laboratory testing results are presented in this paper.

The need to remove the bulk of ash contained in flue gas from coal-fired power plants coupled with increasingly strict environmental regulations in the USA result in increased generation of solid materials referred to as coal utilisation by-products, or CUBs. More than 40% of CUBs were sold or reused in the USA in 2004 compared to less than 25% in 1996. A goal of 50% utilization has been established for 2010. The American Coal Ash Association (ACCA) together with the


of the high boiling organics from the aqueous stream. Two areas were investigated, (1) a stream stripping comparison of the late wash flowsheet to the HAN flowsheet and (2) the extraction performance of the original decanter to the new decanter. The focus of both studies was to minimize the high boiling organic content of the Precipitate Hydrolysis Aqueous (PHA) product in order to minimize downstream impacts caused by organic deposition.

Samples of gasification by-products produced at Polk Station and Eastman Chemical were obtained and characterized. Bulk samples were prepared for utilization studies by screening at the appropriate size fractions where char and vitreous frit distinctly partitioned. Vitreous frit was concentrated in the +20 mesh fraction while char predominated in the -20+100 mesh fraction. The vitreous frit component derived fromof hydrogen sulfide from the oil and gas produced in the region. Lack of local markets and economic considerations limit the traditional outlets for by-product sulfur and the buildup of excess sulfur is a becoming a potential economic and environmental liability. Thus, new applications for re-use of by-product sulfur that will benefit regional economies including construction, paving and waste treatment are being developed. One promising application involves the cleanup and treatment of mercury at a Kazakhstan chemical plant. During 19 years of operation at the Pavlodar Khimprom chlor-alkali production facility, over 900 tons of mercury was lost to the soil surrounding and beneath the buildings. The Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Benefication (Almaty) is leading a team to develop and demonstrate a vacuum-assisted thermal process to extract the


yield on all three soils, and had no effect on corn yield. No detrimental effects on soil quality were observed.

The recovery of uranium values from uranium ore such as pitchblende is described. The ore is first dissolved in nitric acid, and a water soluble nitrate is added as a salting out agent. The resulting feed solution is then contacted with diethyl ether, whereby the bulk of the uranyl nitrate and a portion of the impurities are taken up by the ether. This acid ether extract is then separated from the aqueous raffinate, and contacted with water causing back extractioa of the uranyl nitrate and impurities into the water to form a crude liquor. After separation from the ether extract, this crude liquor is heated to about 118 degC to obtain molten uranyl nitrate hexahydratc. After being slightly cooled the uranyl nitrate hexahydrate is contacted with acid free diethyl ether whereby the bulk of the uranyl nitrate is dissolved into the ethcr to form a neutral ether solution while most of the impurities remain in the aqueous waste. After separation from the aqueous waste, the resultant ether solution is washed with about l0% of its volume of water to free it of any dissolved impurities and is then contacted with at least one half its volume of water whereby the uranyl nitrate is extracted into the water to form an aqueous product solution.

Executive Summary Simbol Materials studied various methods of extracting valuable minerals from geothermal brines in the Imperial Valley of California, focusing on the extraction