investigate the incident, suggests that the video was taken on Bolívar Avenue, where President Maduro was speaking.

The second video reportedly taken by a cameraman for Telemundo and tweeted by journalist Adriana Núñez Rabascall appears to show a drone crashing against the wall of a building.

The building seems to be the same one where firefighters reported a fire shortly after President Maduro had left the stage.

However, three firefighters told the Associated Press news agency on Saturday that it had been caused by an exploding gas tank, casting doubt on the government's version of events.

Bellingcat concludes that there were two drones which "likely carried some form of explosive device" and which "attempted to attack a parade at which President Maduro was speaking".

Why would the attack be staged?

Those who believe itwas staged say it allows the government to further tighten the screws on the opposition.

However, Venezuela analyst David Smilde of the Washington Office on Latin America told the BBC he was sure it was not an event staged by the government because it looked "terrible".

"Maduro being interrupted in mid-set and one of his military officials fainting behind him and then the National Guard breaking rank and scattering, running for cover, I think the optics were absolutely terrible for him.


As Clinton releases 'bitter' ad, spokeman claims campaign has been 'civil' Nick Juliano

Published: Tuesday April 15, 2008

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Print This Email This Hillary Clinton's campaign team rarely passes up an opportunity to remind reporters how badly they are being outspent in the ad wars leading up to next week's Pennsylvania primary. For the last few days, Clinton and her supporters have taken just about every opportunity they can to criticize Barack Obama's remark that small-town voters "cling to" cultural issues because they are "bitter." Team Clinton is taking that message to the airwaves now, with a new television ad it is purchasing in the Keystone State featuring supporters criticizing Obama over the remarks. Although they are being outspent two-to-one by Obama, his remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser, which werereported last week, have become an "an important issue in this race because he said them," campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said Tuesday. The new ad features five Clinton supporters saying they were "insulted" by an "out of touch" Obama. At an April 6 fundraiser, Obama was speaking about the challenges of reaching voters who have fallen on hard times over the last 25 years. "So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," he said. Since the comments were reported, Obama has apologized if his phrasing offended anyone, but he's stood by the general sentiment, which has been much explored in


mild campaign," he said. "Both candidates have focused on issues; it has been relatively civil." While the flap over Obama's comments nearly monopolized campaign coverage since they were first reported, indicators are beginning to emerge that the criticism is doing little to damage his standing in the state primary. A Quinnipiac pool showed no change in voters opinion after the comments were reported, and a Survey USA poll conducted since the flap showed similar results. Clinton continues to lead in both polls, and the numbers seem to have stabilized since Obama began to gain ground about a week ago. This ad was unveiled Tuesday from Clinton's campaign:to high fuel temperatures in the future."

The squadron adopted the idea after it was first implemented at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

In the summer months at Luke AFB, temperatures can reach beyond 110 degrees. Painting the tanks white now will help prevent fuel stored in the tanks from over-heating.

"This is the short-term goal to cool the fuel for the F-35; however, the long-term fix is to have parking shades for the refuelers," Resch said.

The white paint is special because it is a solar polyurethane enamel that reflects the heat of the sun's rays. Interestingly, after dropping off the first truck to be painted, the 56th LRS learned it is not the color that reflects the heat.

"The painting process is a two-part process, and the second part is the


Jet ski ridden by missing Americans in Barbados has been found

A Jet Ski bearing the registration number of one used by two Americans missing in Barbados has been found, according to the press secretary for the Barbadian prime minister

Jet ski ridden by missing Americans in Barbados has been found

A Jet Ski bearing the registration number of one used by two Americans missing in Barbados has been found, according to the press secretary for the Barbadian prime minister

A Jet Ski bearing the registration number of one used by two Americans missing in Barbados has been found, according to the press secretary for the Barbadian prime minister.

Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, went missing June 24 after they rented a Jet Ski on Holetown Beach. The search for theUnder the FBI's director, James Comey, whose ethically challenged letter sent last Friday put wind in Republican Donald Trump's sails, the bureau appears to be ready to kick off a partisan witch hunt against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — and it's all because the agents harbor a pro-Trump bias.

As The Guardian reported on Thursday, sources within the FBI told the newspaper that many agents were outraged that Comey decided to not recommend an indictment against Clinton in July in connection with her use of a private email server. Last Friday Comey signaled in his letter that the agency is reviewing newly surfaced emails to see if they are pertinent to the now closed Clinton investigation.

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"The FBI is Trumpland," one agent told The Guardian, with another describing how


Beware the Owlman: The moment terrified urban explorers wandering through abandoned hospital were ambushed by prankster in creepy bird costume

Stunt was set up by Scottish filmmaker Lawrie Brewster in Kirkaldy, Fife

Production team set up seven hidden cameras to record peoples' reactions

He quietly stalks the corridors of the dilapidated building waiting to jump out

Dilapidated St Mary's Hospital used to treat infectious diseases

A prankster is terrifying urban explorers by hiding in an abandoned hospital and creeping up on them.

Photographers visiting the dilapidated St Mary's Hospital near Kirkcaldy, Fife, are confronted by Owlman, who stalks the corridors waiting for unsuspecting visitors.

The haunting creature is the creation of filmmaker Lawrie Brewster, who set up seven hidden cameras inside the Victorian building to film the photographers' reactions.

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Terrifying: The Owlman hasbeen creeping around the abandoned St Mary's Hospital near Kirkaldy in Fife, waiting to scare urban explorers

Vicious: A photographer who walked into the dilapidated building looks terrified as he is confronted by the long claws of Owlman

It captured one man was left cowering in the corner of the room after he tried to close the door on the monster.

Mr Brewster, 33, from Fife, developed a love of the horrific when he was a child and has had his films screened at the Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest (SXSW).

He said: 'As a child I loved eerie dramas of the supernatural and classic spine-tingling classics, such as Hammer Horror films like The Devil Rides Out and The Wicker Man.

'The idea to create the Owlman was inspired by a


Thirty one years ago Diane Warren scored her first Oscar nomination with Nothing's Gonna Stop Us, from the movie Mannequin.

This year she's nominated for a tenth time in the original song category, with I'll Fight, a song she wrote for Jennifer Hudson which features in the documentary RBG.

Video journalist: Alex StangerBehjan

Behjan (, also Romanized as Behjān) is a village in Posht Par Rural District, Simakan District, Jahrom County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,641, in 405 families.

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defendant’s March 2012 trial.
On the evening of September 9, 2009, the complainant was walking home along
Colchester Avenue in Burlington when an unknown man attacked her and tried to
force her into the cab of a pickup truck that was parked alongside the road.
He punched her repeatedly in the face and she fell to the ground.  He pinned
her to the ground with his knee.  She started screaming “rape.”  At one point
he shoved his finger into her mouth and she bit him.  He got up and she managed
to escape.  She ran to a nearby house and rang doorbells until someone let her
in.  The assailant drove off in the truck.  Police and an ambulance arrived
soon afterwards.
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Several people witnessed the event and offered descriptions of the
assailant and the truck to police. his last outing. The majority of people cheering for the Sens tonight hope that the defense will be able to keep Stamkos off the scoreboard tonight. There is only one person who secretly hopes that Stamkos gets another hat trick tonight.There are many people that you could blame for the lack of the Sens success this year, but the truth is that every game was decided beforehand. Ottawa's season was just unlucky as they lost at the game of chance;While this season (and game preview) has been rather smelly, remember that there's alwaysand...well at least we're winning in the cost per point department! Let's end this season on a high note and beat the Lightning!


German Shepherd Traits

Joggin Partner

Lap Dog

Good with Children

Warm Weather

Cold Weather

Grooming Requirements

Shedding

Barking

Ease of Training

German Shepherd History

In late 1800s Germany, herdsmen needed a dog that could take command of large flocks of sheep, preventing the sheep from wandering into fields, driving them from one area to another, protecting them from marauders, and acting as a sort of moving fence by constantly patrolling along the flock's perimeter.

Captain Max von Stephanitz determined to create a sheepherding strain of dog that consistently combined the assets needed to perform all of these functions.

In 1899, Captain von Stephanitz found such a dog, which he named Horand van Grafrath. The Captain founded a club devoted to the new breed, and registered Horand as the first Deutsche Schaferhunde.

Under the Captain's guidance, the breed quickly became unrivaled at herdingstars Strongheart and Rin Tin Tin cemented the breed in the hearts of movie goers. Such was his popularity, Rin Tin Tin is credited as the actor that saved Warner Brothers.

In 1925, the German Shepherd became the most popular dog in America, a position it held until 1936.

It has been one of the most popular breeds in America since then, and remains a popular service and military dog.

German Shepherd Behavior Concerns

Makes a devoted and protective companion.

Generally gentle with children, but may be overly protective.

A one family dog, tending to be aloof toward and suspicious of strangers. It needs early socialization so that it willingly accepts new people.

Does best with reward-based training involving food or games.

Its aptitude for learning and its serious attitude about any job have made it


each participating municipality was estimated into percentages, with Warwick at the top, followed by Penn and then Clay. The financial responsibility by taxpayers from each municipality was calculated accordingly.

Referring to these percentages, Steffen was pleased to inform the board that during January the police department was within five percent of estimates. The following percentages represent the anticipated service distribution at the end of the year:

Warwick — 45 percent

Penn — 41 percent

Clay — 14 percent

He added that no municipality will end up cheated. Throughout the year, the percentages of time spent will vary and be adjusted.

"At the end of the day, the municipalities are insured of getting the level of service that they paid for," he said.

Another issue that Steffen addressed was the handling of situations requiring towing.

The NLCRPDfiles and correspondence in many instances.

Though this catalogue was output in various formats the only formats which cover the entire contents of VPRS 44 are the Category and Number Order section and the Box and Item Order section. The latter is, as the name suggests, a listing in box number order and therefore not very useful when searching for a particular correspondence number. The former is arranged in registry number order and within these broad categories the information is arranged in correspondence number order.

Step 1

Registry numbers were allocated to each item of correspondence or correspondence file in VPRS 44 as the catalogue was being compiled. They are intended to signify the registry in which the correspondence was originally received and registered. A description of the agency to which


agencies responsible for Victorian land administration. The cumulative contents date range of the bulk of VPRS 44 is c.1839 to c.1878 (with a few items from late 19th century and early 20th century).

Background: Creation of the Microfiche Catalogue to VPRS 44

The original order of the records in VPRS 44 was severely disrupted by time and storage moves at the Lands Department. Not only was the arrangement of files to files disrupted, but also the relationship between items on files (ie. letters). As "dockets" were broken and split retrieval using the original methods (the 19th century registers and indexes) was hampered.

In order to rectify this a project to re-box and re-list all correspondence in VPRS 44 was undertaken by the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands with National Estateyear in which the correspondence was received and/or the volume in which it was registered; the district in which the correspondence was registered; or the section of the Act under which the land was selected. The serial is the consecutive number allocated to an individual letter. eg. 48/362: The 362nd letter received and registered in the year 1848. 48/ is the category, 362 is the serial. 72F 10621: The 10621st letter received in 1872, which was registered in volume F. 72F is the category, 10621 is the serial. H 251: the 251st letter registered in the H volumes according to name of sender/subject. H is the category, 251 is the serial. 437/31: File relating to the 437th land transaction under Section 31 of the Land Act 1869. 31


start of this section of the catalogue.

Box and Item Order

Listing of items in unit (box) number order

Description by Land District, Text Description and County, Parish, Town Order

These sections of the catalogue only cover a small percentage of the files in VPRS 44. After fully listing the contents of the first 51 boxes, it was decided that it was not feasible to provide locality/subject details for most of the remaining files. However, in certain cases exceptions were made; where file numbers could not be traced; unregistered files, or files with no known indexes/registers and; large files (indicating greater importance).

County, Parish, Town Order: files are grouped according to Parish, Township and County.

Land District: Where county, parish or township was not identifiable, records are grouped according to land district.

Text Description: WhereArtwell, California

Artwell is a former settlement in Kern County, California. It was located on the railroad  south of Bannister.

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The next big hit for console gamers could be coming in the form of Vampyr - an upcoming action role-playing video game developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Focus Home Interactive.

Vampyr has been releasing a series of behind the scenes videos on the run-up to its launch, each exploring a different element of the game.

This week's video doesn't just take a look at a specific part of the development but also announces the game's release date.

Players on PS4, Xbox One and PC will be able to play the game from June 5th, 2018.

The most recent video - found below - takes a look at how the game fuses gameplay and narrative together.

In Episode IV: Stories from the Dark, DONTNOD explain what makes video games unique compared toother storytelling mediums, as well as their signature approach to narrative.

As Narrative Director Stéphane Beauverger explains, the player is often occupied with Vampyr's intricate gameplay systems. Because of this, the exploration, investigations, citizen encounters, combat and hard-hitting choices are all fundamentally intertwined with the game's narrative.

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Game Director Philippe Moreau elaborates, saying that the relationship between a player and their character, as well as the direct feeling of control, is unique to games and something he has worked to make special in Vampyr.

In combining gameplay and narrative, DONTNOD likens its game to theatre, creating a close relationship between actor and spectator that’s more effective and powerful than any film or TV show.

Total immersion is the goal, and this episode also highlights how the studio has used motion capture to


make the cast of Vampyr that much more human.

Subtleties of facial animation can be recreated and combined with the fantastic music, characters, and creatures of the game to produce a living, breathing 1918 London. It’s then up to you who survives it.

The game casts you as Jonathan Reid, a doctor-turned-vampire, and follows the story of the man as he comes to terms with his supernatural affliction.

The game primarily sees the protagonist in conflict between his biological bloodlust and the Hippocratic Oath he swore at the start of his career.

This means you can choose to kill everyone you encounter to strengthen yourself, or go through the entire game without feeding on anyone.

Set in a semi-open world of London in 1918, during the Spanish Flu epidemic, you'll be exploring fourMethods {#sec006}
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Joe Thomas waited, idling in the middle of the snow-lined street, biding his time, setting up the perfect shot. Someone, he thought—anyone—would soon enter his frame, striding right into his latest photograph of Beacon Hill.

After 10 minutes, his pedestrian appeared, materializing some 100 yards away. He—or she—was a mere speck in the distance, a miniaturized version of the barren trees flanking the brick buildings in this iconic Boston neighborhood.

Thomas captured the scene with his iPhone 5s and then edited the image using three apps—Snapseed, VSCO, and Filterstorm. He uploaded the photo to his Instagram account, wrote up a witty caption—“Rambling around Beacon Hill on a quiet cloudy day is my idea of therapy. Spot the #strideby”—and then proceeded to respond to the flurry of positive feedback, comments rangingHow can working for fairness for Palestinians be considered, "Anti-Semitism"? Definition below:

Person speaking one of a group of related languages, presumably derived from a common language, Semitic (see Semitic languages). The term came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, some Ethiopians, and Aramaean tribes including Hebrews. Semitic tribes migrated from the Arabian Peninsula, beginning c. 2500 BC, to the Mediterranean coast, Mesopotamia, and the Nile River delta. In Phoenicia, they became seafarers. In Mesopotamia, they blended with the civilization of Sumer. The Hebrews settled at last with other Semites in Palestine.

Anti-semitism was a term of self identification invented in the 19th century by racial nationalists regarding the status of ethnically Jewish converts to Christianity. The question was whether Judaism was racial and thus baptism was ineffectual in making one


Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health

Abstract: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of positive income shocks on the mental health of adolescent girls using experimental evidence from a cash transfer program in Malawi. They find that the provision of monthly cash transfers had a strong beneficial impact on the mental health of school-age girls during the two-year intervention. Among baseline schoolgirls who were offered unconditional cash transfers, the likelihood of suffering from psychological distress was 38 percent lower than the control group, while the same figure was 17 percent if the cash transfers offers were made conditional on regular school attendance. The authors find no impact on the mental health of girls who had already dropped out of school at baseline. The beneficial effects of cashto these new images, the official Haruhi Sankyo Fever Pachinko website has opened. The site released new promotional images for the pachinko machine and has also revealed that there will be a Haruhi app coming soon.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. The novels began in 2003 and were originally published as short stories in Kadokawa Shoten’s The Sneaker magazine. Since then the short stories have been compiled into 11 light novel volumes, with the latest releasing in May 2011 (which was translated in November 2013). There has been many manga based on the series since its release. An anime adaptation from Kyoto Animation aired in 2006 and in 2009. The series was followed by the


animated film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya in early 2010. In conjunction with the anime series, two online mini-series were also released: Nyoron Churuya-san and The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya. In December last year it was announced that an anime adaptation of The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan is currently in production.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya blu-ray box set will release on Amazon on August 29 and for¥22,680 (~ $226.80 USD). Additionally, the Haruhi Hunting campaign is still running. With all the recent news about the franchise recently, you would think that it is all leading to something big…on a flat road at the time of the acceleration stage, while the torque is fluctuated and raised as shown in a solid line when the vehicle is cruising on a bad road such as a rugged road and the like at the time of the acceleration stage.
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G2 announced as fifth invite to IEM Oakland

Image courtesy of: ESL

The French/Belgian mix will hope to rebound from their loss at ELEAGUE at one of the fall’s premier tournaments.

IEM Oakland will take place at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California on the weekend of November 19th and will feature twelve teams, 8 of which have yet to be announced. Additionally, IEM Oakland will use the following format, which is identical to IEM Katowice:

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In the past few months, G2 have experienced both great success and huge disappointment. They managed to edge out the #1 team in the world at the time, Luminosity Gaming, at the ECS Season 1 Finals in an unprecedented 2-0 scoreline that saw them collect the grand prize of $250,000. More recently, G2that dates back at least as far the mid-1700s, and was often used to make monograms and jeweled letters. The French jewelry house Cartier reintroduced the style in 1912, and it was widely used by jewelry designers of the Art Deco period, who liked its clean lines and geometric shape.

The term “baguette” in reference to diamonds is most probably less 100 years old. It is the diminutive of the French “bague,” which once meant “jewel” but today is more commonly used to denote a ring. Some claim the name was inspired by long loaf of bread popular in France.

A Baguette-Cut diamond is almost never featured on its own. Often used to highlight center stones in a ring or necklace, such stones can be channel set, one alongside the


Keeping fit and active is becoming an increasingly important part of people's lifestyles. Some of the best forms of exercise for keeping fit include cycling, running and rowing as they make the exerciser work aerobically. This both works the major muscle groups and also strengthens the heart and lungs. The result is an increased level of physical well-being.
With increasing demands being placed on people's lives due to work and the family, it is often difficult to find the time to exercise regularly. Also, for much of the year in many countries it may be necessary to exercise in the dark outside of working hours. This can be unpleasant and dangerous.
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Sheldon Brown, a beloved iconoclast bicycle tech guru, died Sunday from a heart attack. He was 68 63.

Brown championed fixed gear bikes for years before they became essential fashion items for hip kids in New York and San Francisco and had a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of obscure bike parts, odd tire sizes and non-standard gear ratios. He was known for his generosity in helping DIY bike builders with their projects, for his love of weird old bikes, and his passion for cycling.

Brown had been suffering from multiple sclerosis since 2005, which kept him from riding any of his dozens of two-wheeled bikes since September 2006. Brown is survived by his wife and two adult children.

Brown worked as the technical guru and Webmaster for Harris CycleryTeam

Miro has an impressive record of leadership and achievement in both the Australian and international aerospace industries. His contribution to the field of Aviation and Aerospace was recognised by the award of an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering (Aerospace) by RMIT University, Melbourne Australia.

He is currently the Managing Director and founder of memko Pty Ltd, a private organisation bringing together engineering consultants, who are dedicated to providing engineering services, technology and training to aerospace and aviation industry businesses. Fluent in English, German and Serbian, Miro is respected internationally and with 20 years of experience within the aviation, aerospace and defence industries, he is highly regarded as an expert in his field.

Miro is an active member of the aerospace and aviation communities and serves to create positive partnerships wherever possible.

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Vanderbilt YMCA Hotel New York offers comfortable accommodation and easy access to Grand Central Station, the largest train station in the world, offering a total of 75 tracks and 48 platforms. It is at a short driving distance from The Frick Collection, an ideal place to admire a fine collection of European painting and decorative arts. Chrysler Building, a classic example of Art Deco architecture is just few steps away from the hotel.

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Vanderbilt YMCA HotelNew York's location allows tourists to visit Carnegie Hall, one of the most famous venues in the United States for classical music.

Location

Situated in the heart of Manhattan's East Side, Vanderbilt YMCA Hotel is surrounded by a number of tourist places such as Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building and Museum Of Modern Art.

Dining

Vanderbilt YMCA Hotel in New York does not have restaurant facility. Several restaurants are available in the surroundings where guests can relish a wide variety of local, regional and international cuisine.

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Vanderbilt YMCA Hotel features 370 single and twin rooms that are well equipped with essential amenities such wireless Internet access, cable TV and air conditioning.

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The room offers 1 Bunk Bed with upper and lower berth a color TV, air conditioning and daily. housekeeping.

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Lionel Bonavanture, AFP | French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron attends a debate organised by the French private TV channels BFM TV and CNews on April 4, 2017 in La Plaine-Saint-Denis near Paris.

French centrist Emmanuel Macron sought to establish his presidential credentials on Thursday by calling for international military intervention against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he is proved to have used chemical weapons.

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The former economy minister is favourite to win France’s presidential election but faces criticism from his opponents that he is too inexperienced for the top job. His comments about a military intervention in Syria were made just a few hours before US President Donald Trump ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which a deadly chemicalthe vote in the April 23 first round of the election, with Macron tipped to easily defeat Le Pen in the May 7 runoff.

Scandal-hit conservative candidate Francois Fillon is holding on to third place in the latest polls, followed closely by 65-year-old Jean-Luc Melenchon, a veteran far-left maverick, who has moved up fast in the ratings.

Macron, a pro-European former banker who has never held elected office, aims to transcend the traditional left-right divide in French politics and boost economic recovery by reducing public spending and cutting taxes.

Le Pen wants to curb immigration, ditch the euro and bring back the franc, and hold a referendum on European Union membership.

Candidates

Macron sought to answer questions on Thursday about how he would govern, if elected, since the En Marche! (Onwards!) political movement


he created a year ago has never taken part in an election.

That has prompted opponents to cast doubt on his ability to win a majority in the lower-house National Assembly, which would hamper his ability to push through planned reforms.

Macron presented on Thursday the first 14 candidates who will represent his party in June legislative elections, headed by Jean-Michel Fauvergue, 60, a former director of an elite police counter-terrorism unit.

A Harris Interactive poll of a sample of viewers of the France 2 interview with Macron found 51 percent thought he would make a good president, compared with 38 percent who thought the same of Le Pen and 33 percent in the case of Fillon.

Fillon, whose campaign has struggled as he seeks to defend himself from nepotism allegations, wasANATOMY OF TORTURE — Historian Christopher Dietrich on the 100-year-long history of American torture; Jeffrey St. Clair on the implications of giving impunity to the CIA’s torturers; Chris Floyd on how the US has exported torture to its client states around the world. David Macaray on the Paradoxes of Police Unions; Louis Proyect on Slave Rebellions in the Open Seas; Paul Krassner on the Perils of Political Cartooning; Martha Rosenberg on the dangers of Livestock Shot-up with Antibiotics; and Lee Ballinger on Elvis, Race and the Poor South. Plus: Mike Whitney on Greece and the Eurozone and JoAnn Wypijewski on Media Lies that Killed.

Fear of Growing Up

by CHARLES R. LARSON

It’s difficult to think of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 as a novel as its publishers claim. Big print, lots of


But it also reverberates upon the adult inability to regard children as anything but their own lost selves, nostalgia for a time that cannot be recaptured. Children, he reflects, are the most oppressed creatures on earth. “Just look how they were led day and night to their bus stops, in rain or snow or gale-force winds, their bags excessively weighted down by the cumbersome learning of their teachers….”

Ergo, no exit from childhood except into the conformity of adulthood, sameness, lack of imagination and predictable routine.

The innocence of his love for the young girl achieves a kind of purity, repeatedly brought to his attention by her presence at the school bus stop but also her vulnerability and his own: “So while she was waiting there, frail to no end,were reported during these hours.

One quarter of home fire deaths were caused by fires that started in the bedroom. Another quarter resulted from fires in the living room, family room or den.

60% of home fire deaths happen from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.

Cooking equipment is the leading cause of home fire injuries, followed by heating equipment.

Smoking materials are the leading cause of home fire deaths.

Roughly one of every 320 households had a reported home fire per year.

A fire is reported in the United States every 85 seconds.

Cooking

40% of home fires started in the kitchen.

Unattended cooking was a factor in one-third of reported home cooking fires.

Failure to clean was a factor contributing to ignition in 17% of reported home fires involving ovens


conditioning equipment water heater and range.

Candles

More than one-third of these fires (36%) started in the bedroom;

Falling asleep was a factor in 11% of the home candle fires and 37% of the associated deaths.

Smoke Alarms

60% of home fire deaths are caused by fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.

Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in reported home fires in half.

In fires considered large enough to activate the smoke alarm, hardwired alarms operated 93% of the time, while battery powered alarms operated only 79% of the time.

When smoke alarms fail to operate, it is usually because batteries are missing, disconnected, or dead.

Wallin Insurance teams up with the American Red Cross.

As an insurance agency we wanted to do something to help this community. WeTiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus

Saints Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus are three Christian martyrs who were buried on 14 April of some unspecified year in the Catacombs of Praetextatus on the Via Appia near Rome.

According to the legendary Acts of Saint Cecilia, a mid-fifth-century Acts of the Martyrs composition that has no historical value, Valerian was the husband of Saint Cecilia, Tiburtius his brother, and Maximus as a soldier or official who was martyred with these two. The story was retold by Chaucer. Devotional publications make the story more credible by simplifying it.

The three martyrs were traditionally honoured with a joint feast day on 14 April, as shown in the Tridentine Calendar. The 1969 revision of the General Roman Calendar removed this celebration, since the only thing really known about


company cannot just be purchased and taken out of Nova Scotia. - Reinhold Griff

Reinhold Griff, a retired businessman in Middleton, N.S., has also been driving to the farm for years to get mushrooms.

Griff was so upset by the announcement that he dropped by the offices of MLA Leo Glavine and MP Colin Fraser to share his concerns.

"The government should look into this and be able to prevent this," said Griff.

"There should be clauses in purchase and sales agreements between companies that an existing, profitable company cannot just be purchased and taken out of Nova Scotia."group of young soon-to-be superheroes recruited from every corner of the DC Universe. In the action-adventure series, Dick Grayson emerges from the shadows to become the leader of a fearless band of new heroes that includes Starfire, Raven and others.

The series is being produced by Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, and Akiva Goldsman - the same team that behind the DC Universe on The CW. Goldsman has written the script for Titans, and it's expected to premiere in 2018. It will be the first project to debut on DC's direct-to-consumer streaming service.


5 games and that happens, that's good for 3 points. If the Rangers win in 6, that's 2 points. If the Flyers beat New York in 5 games, no points. As a tie-breaker, predict how many points the postseason's leading scoring will collect.

An example of a complete entry would look like this:

First Round:

BOS over DET in 6 games

MON over TB in 7 games

PIT over CLB in 5 games

NYR over PHI in 5 games

MIN over COL in 7 games

CHI over STL in 4 games

DAL over ANA in 7 games

SJ over LA in 6 games

Second Round:

MON over BOS in 7 games

PIT over NYR in 5 games

CHI over MIN in 6 games

SJ over DAL in 6 games

Conference Finals:

PIT over MON in 6 games

SJ over CHI in 7 games

Stanley Cup Finals:

SJ over341 F.2d 560
William C. HARRIS, Petitioner-Appellant,v.Luther THOMAS, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary, et al., Respondent-Appellee.
No. 15889.
United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.
February 23, 1965.

William C. Harris, in pro. per.
Robert Matthews, Atty. Gen., Martin Glazer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, Ky., for appellee.
Before MILLER, CECIL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.

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This cause is before the Court on appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, denying a writ of habeas corpus to William C. Harris, petitioner-appellant, herein. The petitioner was tried before a jury and convicted on an indictment charging armed robbery at the January and February 1956 term of the Marion Circuit Court, Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky. He was sentenced for life to the Kentucky State Penitentiary, at Eddyville, where he is now


Nicky Byrne, best known for his time spent as a member of one of the worlds’ most successful boybands Westlife, releases his debut solo single “Sunlight” today, Friday 12th Feb 2016 through Universal Music Ireland. Sunlight co-written by Nicky, renowned songwriter Wayne Hector and award-winning composer Ronan Hardiman is a modern, mid-tempo, pop track with an ultimately catchy hook, and is available to download now.

Voted one of the top 25 songwriters in the world over the last two decades, Wayne Hector has written hits for leading international artists such as One Direction, Britney Spears and Jason Derulo. His songwriting credits also comprise seven of Westlife’s number 1 singles including Flying Without Wings, Swear It Again and World Of Our Own. Ronan Hardiman has worked as a musician, composerand producer since 1990 and his credits include the soundtrack of Michael Flately’s Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames, as well as scoring the TV series Neverland.

Byrne, from Dublin, joined Westlife in 1998 and after 15 successful years touring the globe, selling over 50 million albums worldwide including 7 number 1 albums and 14 number 1 hits, the band retired. Nicky never retired his passion for music however and it was this appetite that spurred him to pursue an alternate career in the industry, this time as a solo artist. This week, Nicky put pen to paper and inked a solo deal with Universal Music Ireland and will release his debut solo album later this year.

Speaking on behalf of Universal Music Ireland, MD Mark Crossingham welcomed


not going to blockquote the whole next part, but it pulls a neat switcheroo that only becomes baffling and repulsive when you remember that this article was written by someone who is not actually employed by Sam Hinkie.

After conceding that Hinkie had become the target of growing criticism and frustration during the second and third seasons of his tenure in Philadelphia—“In the minds of his critics, though, he failed on every level, and it was getting harder to ignore them”—Brenner characterizes the criticism thusly:

Hinkie, the story went, was impersonal and aloof — high school valedictorian, Stanford Arjay Miller Scholar, Bain Capital consultant, a nerd glued to a laptop, an MBA who treated players as commodities. Definitely not a “basketball guy.”

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Thus is a whole spectrum of well-founded and justifiableunacceptable is both gross incompetence and strategic gaming of a flawed system at the same time. The NBA tolerates strategic gaming of the system every single year. Tanking is nothing new. Being so godawful shitty at cashing in on the spoils of tanking that you lock one of the NBA’s largest markets into a cycle of permanent deliberate failure is new.

During nearly nine hours of live hoops on this chilly Thursday in Dunkin’ Donuts Center, the conversation focused on basketball minutiae. From a few rows behind the scorer’s table, Hinkie demonstrated the way one player’s thumb disrupted the rotation on his shot. He noted how another cupped the ball in traffic and finished by spinning it from tough angles, an indicator that he could convert around the rim


do.

More to the point, Hinkie is completely full of shit. The Rockets didn’t have a three-year plan. In December of 2011, they swung a three-team trade that would have sent Chris Paul from New Orleans to the Lakers and landed Pau Gasol—at that time the NBA’s best center and one of its 10 best players—in Houston. If David Stern hadn’t vetoed the deal, the Rockets would have successfully rebuilt their team in 18 months, without suffering even one single losing season in the interim.

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Contrast that with Hinkie’s plan to rebuild the Sixers after another expensive star center, Andrew Bynum, unexpectedly imploded. In three years, Hinkie never made a single move that improved the Sixers’ actual on-court product, and the Sixers never got within shouting distance of .500, despitefinal message would be misconstrued—and that he has once again closed himself off, refusing to talk to reporters to add clarity about his departure.

Says the reporter who just conducted at least two “hourslong conversations” with the guy. Yes, truly, Sam Hinkie is like Howard Hughes, out here in the mall food court where he sat with a reporter from the biggest sports outlet on the planet for several hours talking about himself and housing chalupas.

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We close with a hilarious anecdote which neither Hinkie nor the guy interviewing him seem to understand is an illustration of everything dumb about The Process:

Hinkie had actually predated Morey’s arrival in Houston; he was the Rockets’ first analytics specialist. And when the team hired Morey in 2006, the new assistant GM spent Easter


Despite threats of rain, Standish car show goes on

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Ed Gilkes of Sterling won Best of Show with his 1931 Ford Coupe.

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Motorcycles line Cedar Street for the Standish Car Show Aug. 11.

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Clockwise from left, Brandon, 9, Lisa, Tim, and Katana Dixon, 8, of Standish are dressed up for the Standish car show as they pose in front of a 1984 Chevy Monte Carlo. Tim Dixon was the DJ for the event.

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Dana Wiltse presents a signed plaque to event organizer Curt Hillman before the awards ceremony.

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Gary Johnson gets some things out of his 1941 Chevy truck.

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A 1940 Ford Coupe owned by Mike and Nancy Kasperski is parked next to a 1972 Chevy Chevelle, owned by Kris Strawn, at the Standish car show.

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A 1978Pontiac Trans Am owned by Mark and Ericka Johnson sits parked in front of the Standish laundromat. It won third in the Trans Am class.

STANDISH — While the sky remained an ominous shade of gray, the rain stayed away for the most part on Saturday, Aug. 11, letting the Standish car show go on without a hitch.

Diversity Entertainment provided 1950s music as tractors, trucks, motorcycles, and cars lined Cedar Street and Grove Street. Vendors had tables on the sidewalk, but packed up as the awards ceremony took place a half-hour early.

Curt Hillman, who organizes the event, mentioned in his closing comments the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe was interested in getting involved in the car show next year, the 25th year it has gone on, but the details of


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Category:African-American college athletic directors in the United StatesSeptember 27, 1954: Tonight!, starring Steve Allen, premieres on national television on the NBC network. Steve Allen hosted the variety show until 1957 with Ernie Kovacs sitting in the host chair on Mondays and Tuesdays for the last four months. In January of 1957, Jack Lescoulie took over, the name changed to Tonight! America After Dark and the format switched to news. Six months later, Al Collins took the helm for a month.

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On July 29, 1957, Jack Paar became the host of the newly formatted talk show now entitled Tonight Starring Jack Paar. He remained as host until March 30, 1962 when a series of guest hosts took over while a permanent host was sought. On October 1, 1962 Johnny Carson opened The Tonight Show Starring


Johnny Carson and he remained on the job for almost thirty years, retiring on May 22, 1992. Jay Leno took over and the show again changed names to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Jay has announced plans to retire in 2009 with a scheduled take over by Conan O’Brian. Conan arrived, Jay moved, it didn’t work out for all concerned and Jay is back on late night television.

The years as a news show simply didn’t work out and the show returned to the variety format with an announcer/straight man at the host’s side and a bandleader off to the side of the stage. Jack Paar was censored for a bathroom joke in February 1960 and the next night he abruptly left the show in protest leaving hisarea and destroy part of the Parthenon. The Parthenon was built by the ancient Greeks in the 5th century BC as a temple to Athena. The name of the temple probably derives from the name of the monumental statue of Athena Parthenos that was in the eastern room of the building. The “Parthenos” refers to Athena’s virginal and unmarried status.

The Parthenon replaced an older temple that was destroyed by an earlier war with the Persians. The temple was not used only for religious purposes, but like most temples of the time, as a treasury as well. The temple was built on The Acropolis, or raised city, of Athens. It represented the ideal form of civilization with architectural masterpieces erected. The most important of these was the Parthenon.

Measured at


the top step, the base of the Parthenon is 228 x 101.4 feet while the inner temple is 97.8 x 63 feet with two tiers of Doric columns. The columns are 31 feet [10.4 m] tall and measure 6.2 feet in diameter. The roof was overlapping marble tiles and needed the columns for support. There were 92 marble panels carved with each side of the building having a theme of various battles by the gods and man.

In the 6th century AD, the Parthenon was converted to a Christian church. During the Turkish and Venetian war, the Turks were using the building as an ammunitions dump. When it was hit with a Venetian cannonball, the explosion damaged a large portion of the wall and many sculptures. In the 19thcentury, Lord Elgin removed many more of the marble sculptures and took them to England where they are displayed in the British Museum.

“Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem upon her zone.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.” – Neil Kinnock

“I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to. “– Shaquille O’Neal, when asked whether he had visited the Parthenon during his trip to Greece

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” – Constantin Brancusi

Also on this day, in 1774 John Chapman, known to history as Johnny Appleseed, was born.

September 25, 1981: The 102nd Associate Justice is sworn in to the Supreme Court of the United States and Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to


hold the post. Women were granted the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. It was proposed on June 4, 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920, ten years before O’Connor was born.

O’Connor sat on the bench for nearly a quarter of a century, retiring on January 31, 2006. She was a moderate conservative and often cast the deciding vote in some of the most highly debated issues of the times. She was said by some to be the most powerful woman in America.

She obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University. She married in 1952 and has three sons. She served in various courts both as attorney and as judge prior to her nomination by President Ronald Reagan to the highest court.

Her timecolumnist John Kieran in 1933 when Jack Crawford was one win away from the feat.

The Grand Slam, as defined in one year, has been won by five singles, one junior singles, and three doubles. Steffie Graf not only won all the major tournaments, but also won the Olympic Gold Medal in 1988 making her the only Golden Grand Slam winner. Martina Navratilova won six tournaments in a row, but three were in 1983 and the other three in 1984. Many others have one each of the four main tournaments, but not in the same year.

Don Budge was born in Oakland, California and was the son of a former soccer player. He grew up playing a number of sports. He was tall and slim and his height helped produce


one of the most powerful serves of all time. His backhand was also powerful with a touch of topspin added. He grew up playing on hard-court surfaces and had to adjust to grass when he moved east to train for the Davis Cup.

After winning the Grand Slam, Budge moved from amateur status and became a professional tennis player with mostly head-to-head matches. With the advent of the Second World War, Budge joined the US Army Air Force. He spent most of his service time playing exhibition matches for the troops. He injured his shoulder while running an obstacle training course and his tennis game was never again the same. He retired and taught children the game. He died after being involved in an automobile accident.

“Tennis is a perfectconcert. Bob Marley brought reggae music off the island and into the world. His best known songs mix reggae with rock and rhythm and blues music.

Bob Marley was born in Nine Miles in Saint Ann, Jamaica. His father, Norval, was a white Jamaican born to British parents – he was a naval officer and a plantation overseer. He married a black Jamaican woman. Norval provided financial support to his wife and child but saw them rarely. Bob was ten when his father died, forcing his mother and him to move into Kingston’s Trenchtown slum. Because of his mixed heritage, Bob was often bullied and so he learned to defend himself.

Bob became friends with Bunny Livingston, later Bunny Wailer, and they began playing music together. Bob also met Joe


Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafarian – one who believes that Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is the human embodiment of God. Higgs introduced his friends to Peter McIntosh – Peter Tosh. The Wailers formed a group in 1963 and continued together until 1974.

Marley is a legend in the Rastafarian movement. He adopted the dreadlocks and use of marijuana as a sacrament in the late 1960s. He began his shows proclaiming his religious beliefs. He was diagnosed with cancer in July 1977 but refused surgery because he was afraid it would affect his dancing and his belief system stated that the body must remain whole. The cancer spread. His last concert was at Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died on May 11, 1981.

“Open your eyes, look within.Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

September 22, 1927: Jack Dempsey loses to Gene Tunney in “The Long Count” heavyweight boxing fight. Dempsey held the heavyweight title from 1919-1926, when he first lost to Tunney. Dempsey was one of the greats, knocking out 26 of his opponents in the first round.

Dempsey lived the life of a celebrity and married a movie star, Estelle Taylor in 1925. He appeared in films and fought rarely in the years leading up to his first match against Tunney.

Tunney, an ex-Marine, was only two years younger than his opponent, but had been fighting regularly. He was fast and skilled and could out-box Dempsey who had lost his timing and reflexes in the intervening years. Dempsey accepted defeat gracefully in 1926, but did


consent to a rematch.

Before their bout, a new rule came into play. It was not accurately followed during the fight which was viewed by thousands and gambled on by even more, especially Mobsters. The new rule said that during a knock down, the standing fighter should go to a neutral corner while the timekeeper began the count. The referee took eight seconds to get Dempsey into a corner and only then began the count. Tunney got up at nine and won the fight on points.

The debate remains. Could Tunney have really gotten up without the extra seconds to regroup? Was the referee paid off by those heavily betting on the fight? Ring size was at issue as well, since rather than the usual 16-foot ring Dempsey favored, thehome from work one day to find his daughter, Virginia, quite upset. Her friends at school had told her that there was no Santa Claus and she wanted her Papa to tell her the truth.

Dr. O’Hanlon, perhaps passing the buck, or perhaps with a then-normal absolute faith in journalism, told his daughter to write to the paper, saying if it was in The Sun, it had to be true. Virginia wrote in and was answered on the editorial page. It is the most reprinted editorial ever published. However, on this date, it was placed far down the page after the newly invented “chainless bicycle” was written up.

Francis Church wrote an answer. Francis and his brother, William, established the “Army and Navy Journal” in 1863 and “Galaxy” magazine in


1866. William owned a newspaper, The New York Sun, and Francis wrote for it. Francis had been a journalist during the Civil War and it was with that background in mind that he answered Virginia.

Knowing the hopelessness and suffering present in the world, especially during war time, Church wanted to show that the world was also a place of love, acceptance, good will, and joy. Taking a child’s plea and giving it an honest response, this is the message he printed, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” His position of hopefulness struck a chord in the hearts of the readers. His message remains the same for children today, celebrating the childlike faith, the poetry, and the romance that make life bearable.

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.He exists certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.” – Francis Church

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith

“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

Also on this day, in 1995 the Milk Miracle visits the Hindu God, Ganesha.

September 20, 1946: The first Cannes Film Festival is held. This was the second attempt of the first Cannes Film Festival. Back in 1939 the festival started with a screening of The Hunchback of Notre Dame but


Hitler invaded Poland and The Wizard of Oz, the next film on the agenda, never hit the screen.

There are several important film festivals held yearly. Including Cannes, one is held in Toronto, another in Berlin, and finally one in Venice. At Cannes, the award for best film is the Palme d’Or which translates to Golden Palm. The festival is a showcase for European films and predicts both commercial success as well as critical acclaim.

Because so many movie stars from across the globe come to the festival, usually held in May, it is a breeding ground for new projects. Producers pitch their ideas to a rapt crowds. They also use the time to sell produced work to distributors.

The festival met with some financial setbacks and was not held inat Cannes.” – Sarah Radclyffe

September 19, 1945: William Joyce is sentenced to death for high treason by the British courts. Joyce was born in NYC in 1906 to an Irish father and English mother who had taken American citizenship. When he was three, his family returned to Ireland to live and when he was fifteen, they again moved to London.

Joyce attended Birkbeck College where he joined the British Fascisti Limited in 1923. During a political protest, he was slashed across the face with a razor. He was kicked out of the Union of Fascists and so founded the National Socialist League in 1937 and then co-founded the British Council Against European Commitment in 1938. He was known as a gifted speaker and a savage brawler. He was committed


to the anti-Semitic philosophy and stirred up civil unrest.

By August of 1939, with MI5 intending to detain him, Joyce fled to Germany. He became a naturalized German citizen in 1940. Radio broadcasts of propaganda material was produced in Berlin and broadcast to England. Lord Haw-Haw was the propagandist. Originally that job went to Wolf Mitler, but in 1939 Joyce took over the role. He was given the Distinguished Service Cross signed personally by Adolf Hitler in 1944.

Many Britons listened to Lord Haw-Haw for news of what was happening on the continent. The broadcasts were more of a uniting force for listeners than a psychologically destructive tool. As the Allies closed in, Joyce’s life unraveled. He was drinking heavily. He was captured at the border by British soldiers. Heprovided for a permanent site for the seat of the national government to be located on the Potomac River by 1800. The land was ceded by Maryland. Pierre Charles L’Enfant was hired to plan the new city.

L’Enfant was also to plan the actual Capitol Building but he refused to produce any architectural plans, saying that he kept the plans in his head. He was dismissed in 1792 and a competition was held for any who wished to submit drawings for the new building. Seventeen plans were submitted, but none were satisfactory. Dr. William Thorton, living in the British West Indies asked for permission to submit plans even though he was past the due date.

Thorton’s plan called for a three sectioned building. The middle section would be topped by


a low dome and there would be rectangular wings on the north and south that would house the Senate and the House of Representatives. The plan was accepted on April 5, 1793 with formal approval from President Washington coming on July 25.

With due pomp and circumstance, the cornerstone was laid. The building site was in a wilderness area and it was difficult to get both the sandstone and the laborers to the area. By 1796, all construction was centered on the north wing so that it would be ready for occupancy by the 1800 deadline. Congress, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and the District of Columbia court moved in towards the end of 1800 even though many of the third floor rooms were not complete. Theenjoyed it, because it seemed like what I was doing was actually improving the community,” she said, during her badge-pinning ceremony in November. By then, Mai See Her had already represented DSI in four online videos explaining fire safety in Hmong.

As St. Paul Parks and Recreation embarks on a study of its facilities, Beckmann is asking the department to look at whether rec center sports and programming fees serve as barriers to youth participation in the city’s low-income areas.

Another goal is to identify recreation centers that lack sufficient programming, again with attention to race and income.

City libraries, Public Works, St. Paul Regional Water and the Office of Financial Services are all engaged, Beckmann and Kingston said.

NOT WITHOUT CONTROVERSY

The equity work hasn’t been without controversy.

Some city employees have openly


The Best History Books Writers Review

From the Thirty Years War to the ancient civilisation of Iran, from Anglo-American rivalries in the desert to the persecution of indigenous peoples, historians select their favourite books of the past year.

Edith Hall

Biography is not usually my favourite route into history, but David W. Blight’s Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon and Schuster) is an exception. Douglass is one of the most contested figures in American history. This is his first comprehensive biography for more than 30 years and makes use of substantial new source material. Blight, who knows more about his subject than anyone else alive, having edited Douglass’ own autobiographies (he published three), writes stylishly. But Douglass was a troubled figure, a true ‘prophet of freedom’, the sheer power of whosepassions and intellect drove him long after achieving his own liberty to continue the struggle for civil rights. Blight brings to his study a lucid objectivity which is refreshing given the hagiographic tone of much that has been written about this man. It partners well with Sarah Kinkel’s Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy (Harvard), which brilliantly outlines the competition for power and authority across the British class system.

Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King’s College London.

Michael Burleigh

David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Making of the FBI (Vintage) is beautifully written, a snapshot of the US in the 1920s very different from the gilded world of F. Scott Fitzgerald. After being relocated to barren land,


the Osage Native Americans discovered huge reserves of oil on their patch of Oklahoma and became so rich they replaced their Cadillacs when a tyre went flat. Greedy whites did not like it and many of them met mysterious deaths. Attempts to get to the truth were stymied by the police, the pathologists and the courts until an agent from the newly founded FBI arrived on the scene. Serhii Plokhii’s Lost Kingdom: the Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation from 1470 to the Present (Harvard) is essential to anyone wanting to understand the current conflict in Ukraine. It is also a rich account of Russia’s – and Vladimir Putin’s – sense of cultural and religious superiority.

Michael Burleigh is author of The Best of Times,the Worst of Times: a History of the Present (Macmillan, 2017).

Bridget Heal

Among the books published on the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, Hans Medick’s Der Dreissigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt (The Thirty Years War: Testimonies to Living with Violence – Wallstein) stands out. In a field dominated by master narratives of political and military history, Medick offers an account of the conflict built around ordinary people, which gives colour and texture to discussions of the war and its place in German history and memory. A collection edited by Neil Gregor and Thomas Irvine, Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor (Berghahn) offers an impressive range of perspectives: from Wagner reception in Meiji Restoration Japan via


concert-going in early 20th-century Frankfurt to queer club culture in contemporary Berlin. Like Medick, the editors are concerned with the memories of violence that pervade German history.

Bridget Heal is author of A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany(Oxford, 2017).

Peter Frankopan

I greatly enjoyed Abbas Amanat’s Iran: A Modern History (Yale), a magisterial account of Iran from 1501 until (more or less) the present day. Amanat has done a wonderful job to shine light onto the past of an extraordinary country – and civilisation – whose future is as important as its past. I also loved Kassia St Clair’s The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (John Murray) as well as Lucy Inglis’ Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium (Pan Macmillan). Both of these remarkable books achieveexactly what they set out to do, tracing histories of the world through textiles and opium respectively. Both are hugely ambitious, sparklingly erudite and wonderfully engaging.

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford. His latest book is The New Silk Roads: the Present and Future of the World (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Eleanor Parker

The most stimulating book I’ve read this year has been John Blair’s Building Anglo-Saxon England (Princeton). This magnificent work draws together a wealth of archaeological, artistic and written evidence to offer a new picture of the inhabited landscapes of early medieval England: a complex world of towns and farms, great halls and holy places, all brought to life in astonishing detail. It is a world in some ways familiar, helping to shape the English


the Sirens. This story comes from Homer’s The Odyssey, a fabulous new translation of which Emily Wilson has provided (W.W. Norton). An accessible and authoritative reading of the first great story of the western canon, it not only matches the number of lines of the original, but also its drama, musicality and pace. Why Does Michelangelo Matter? is the title of a book of essays by Theodore K. Rabb (SPOSS). Drawing on examples from the past 500 years, he argues for the importance of visual evidence and analysis to enhance the historian’s armoury. An eminently enjoyable, provocative read.

Philippa Joseph is an art history tutor at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education and former reviews editor of History Today.

Tom Holland

Gabriel Reynolds’ The Qur’an & the Bible (Yale) fills aBorneo  Labuan: Foo Tong Chai, Capitol  (also a 1951 Singapore Jitts & Co. edition)  Contains twenty-four sketches and stories.
 1954 Prepared a seventh supplemental volume to G. Bannerman Kellager, Laws of North Borneo, in force on the 30th June 1953, Revised edition, 1954 entitled Supplement to the Revised Edition and containing the Ordinances and subsidiary legislation enacted between July 1953 and the last day of December 1954
 1955 "Musah of Paitan River" North Borneo and Sabah Times. Recounts the history leading up to Musah’s rebellion against the government in 1908 and the years of fighting afterwards.
 1956 "The old fort at Kinarut in Sabah: a relic of three hundred years ago" Malayan Historical Journal 3:43–49. Recounts the history of a fort at Kinarut and discusses


confidence was shaken after financier Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. defaulted for the first time in June 2018, shutting the door for bank loans for many shadow lenders. Dewan Housing was among the worst hit in the wake of the IL&FS shock, which also pushed up financing costs and made it harder for non-bank financing companies to access the bond market. Dewan Housing’s credit rating was slashed to D from AAA this year as it delayed repayments.

Under the proposal, Dewan Housing will offer banks new loan pools as security for the funds, the person said. That in turn will help lenders meet their mandatory targets to lend to farmers and small businesses. Dewan Housing is proposing banks fund the company for the next six months, the personBlog Post

The official September Celebrations opening for Belmopan got on the way this evening at the steps of the National Assembly. The Belmopan September Celebrations committee has planned numerous activities leading up to the twenty first and Friday evening is the jump start with performances from several local artists and groups including the Police Drama group, Brother Fem Cruz, and others.

On Saturday the 6th there is a scheduled Battle of the beats at the Governor General Field at 1 pm. Belmopan residents are encouraged to participate in the events leading up to the celebration of the 33rd year of Belize’s Independence.

This year’s September Celebrations are being held under the theme, “Industrious hands, Intelligent minds, Together for Belize”.

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Latest developments:

Government of Canada sending chartered plane to repatriate Canadians on quarantined ship .

. More than 2,000 new cases of infection, 142 deaths confirmed in China.

Americans left cruise ship to be flown home Sunday.

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The Canadian government said Saturday it was sending a chartered plane to repatriate the Canadians stuck on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been quarantined in Japan due to coronavirus.

"This decision was taken because of the extraordinary circumstances faced by passengers on the Diamond Princess, and to lighten the burden on the Japanese health care system," said a joint statement from Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne, Health Minister Patty Hajdu and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan. "We are working closely with Carnival Cruise lines and the government ofon the cruise ship, where 255 Canadians were initially confined to their cabins. Those infected have been moved to Japanese health facilities, and at least three required hospitalization, Champagne said.

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Spencer Fehrenbacher, an American with permanent residency in Canada, speaks to CBC News on Day 12 of the coronavirus-related quarantine of the Diamond Princess in Japan. 2:27

Meanwhile, Canada has reported an eighth presumptive case of coronavirus, British Columbia health officials said on Friday, a woman in her 30s from the B.C. Interior who recently travelled to China. There have been four confirmed cases in B.C. and three others in Ontario, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. The risk to Canadians remains low, the agency said.

U.S. also bringing home citizens

American passengers


cruise ship that's been the site of an outbreak of the coronavirus. CBC'S Austin Grabish has the latest. 2:04

The United States urged its citizens on the ship to leave "out of an abundance of caution" on a special flight due in Japan on Sunday. They will face quarantine for another 14 days upon return, the U.S. embassy said in a letter.

"We understand this is frustrating and an adjustment, but these measures are consistent with the careful policies we have instituted to limit the potential spread of the disease," the embassy said.

A medical worker in protective suit checks a patient's records at Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, in Hubei province, China. More than 1,700 health workers have been infected with the virus, according toa senior Chinese official. (China Daily via Reuters)

American passengers will first be taken to the Travis Air Force Base in California and some will continue on to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.

Japan's Health Ministry allowed 11 passengers to disembark on Friday. It said passengers above 80 years of age, those with underlying medical conditions and those who stayed in windowless cabins during the 14-day quarantine can move to a facility on shore.

Death reported in France

The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in mainland China had reached 1,665, the country's National Health Commission said on Sunday morning, up by 142 from the previous day.

There were also 2,009 new confirmed infections across mainland China, bring the total to 68,500.

An elderly Chinese tourist hospitalized in France has died of the


coronavirus, becoming the first fatality in Europe, French Health Minister Agnès Buzyn said on Saturday. France has recorded 11 cases of the virus. Buzyn said she was informed on Friday that the 80-year-old man, who was treated at the Bichat hospital in northern Paris since Jan. 25, had died of a lung infection due to the coronavirus.

Outside mainland China, there have been about 500 cases in 24 countries and territories. Until the death in France, there had been three deaths outside mainland China, with one in Japan, one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines. On Friday, Egypt reported the first infection on the African continent.

MS Westerdam passenger tests positive

Passengers and crew aboard a cruise ship docked in Cambodia were allowed to disembark on Friday after spendingtwo weeks at sea. Since stopping in Hong Kong on Feb. 1, the MS Westerdam, operated by Holland America, was turned away by Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines and Thailand, before Cambodia allowed docking in the port town of Sihanoukville.

As of Friday, no passengers or crew were found to have COVID-19. However, an 83-year-old American woman who had been a passenger has tested positive for the illness in Malaysia, health authorities in that country said on Saturday.

The woman flew to Malaysia on Friday from Cambodia along with 144 others from the ship, the Malaysian health ministry said, adding that she is in stable condition. Her case brings the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Malaysia to 22.

In a bid to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, the Chinese


government extended the New Year holiday to keep factories and offices closed, but officials have now been ordered to revive business activity as economic losses mount.

Most access to the central city of Wuhan, where the first cases were reported in December, was suspended on Jan. 23. Controls spread to cities with a total population of 60 million people. Restaurants, cinemas and other businesses were closed nationwide to prevent crowds from gathering.

Under new measures, people returning to Beijing will have to isolate themselves at home for 14 days, said a notice published by state media late Friday. It said people who fail to comply will face legal consequences but gave no details.

WHO mission to China

A WHO-led joint mission with China will start its outbreak investigation work this weekend, focusingon how the new coronavirus is spreading and its severity.

Nine more temporary hospitals have opened in gymnasiums and other public buildings, with 6,960 beds in Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, the National Health Commission announced. It said they were treating 5,606 patients with mild symptoms.

Meanwhile, the ruling Communist Party is trying to restore public confidence following complaints that leaders in Wuhan, where the outbreak has hit hardest, suppressed information about the disease. The party faced similar criticism after the 2002-03 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

The party should "strengthen areas of weakness and close up loopholes" after the epidemic exposed "shortcomings and deficiencies," President Xi Jinping said at a meeting of party leaders Friday, according to state media.

The ruling party has replaced officials in charge


One in ten people struggle to recognize their emotions. New research suggests a vital link between our ability to sense our physical bodies and knowing how we feel.

Stephen has been married twice. Two wedding days. Two "I do"s. Yet Stephen has no happy memories from either — or, in fact, from the marriages or any of his relationships.

He met his first wife on a pre-nursing course when he was just 16. Six years later, they were married. Three years after that, they got divorced; she was never really the right one for him, he says. Almost two decades on, in 2009, he met his second wife through a dating site. He threw himself into the relationship and, the following year, with his father and her two adult siblingsfor so long."

He and his current wife stopped living together in 2012. He saw a GP and was prescribed antidepressants. Though he was still in contact with his wife, it was clear that the relationship was no longer working. In June 2015, he attempted suicide. "I had actually been posting on Facebook and Twitter regarding killing myself and someone — I've never found out who — contacted the police. I was taken to hospital and treated."

A psychiatrist referred Stephen for a series of counseling sessions and then a course of psychodynamic psychotherapy, a type of Freudian-based therapy that, in trying to uncover unconscious drivers of thoughts and behavior, is similar to psychoanalysis.

It was in a book called "Why Love Matters" by Sue Gerhardt, which his therapist recommended, that


her confidence. "One time, there was this pretty big fella with wild, long hair sat across from me, and he suddenly said [raising her voice and half getting up from her chair]: 'Aren't you afraid of me?' I was surprised. I didn't see that coming. And I went [not raising her voice, but strengthening the tone]: 'Why — are you afraid of me?' And he sat back down. Then he explained that he was at the end of his therapy and was 're-socializing' and no one would hire him because they were intimidated by him. He wasn't really angry. He was frustrated."

While the nature of psychopathy is still debated, psychologists generally agree that it entails, among other things, a lack of empathy or guilt, shallow emotions, and antisocialthe violent type. In her interviews with this violent group, Nentjes was struck by one similarity, in particular, compared with the white-collar group: "That was their upbringing. Or rather lack of it. Emotional abuse. Sexual abuse. Neglect. A lot of physical abuse. I've heard people literally say that emotion is not of use to them. All they felt during their upbringing was fear."

As a child, Stephen suffered extreme emotional neglect. When he was six, his mother intentionally set fire to their home in Nottingham while she, Stephen, his younger brother and even younger sister were all inside. Fortunately, the children's father, who had left for work, realized that he'd forgotten his packed lunch and came home.

Looking back, Stephen says it's clear that his mother was suffering from post-natal


Pope Francis' inner circle in the position of most trusted theological adviser, was already heavily involved in the writing of Evangelii gaudium, and spent the Summer of 2013 in Rome for that purpose. Last March, as Pope Francis set about to compose his Eco-Encyclical, Archbishop Fernández was again flown in to do the heavy lifting. The close working relationship apparently stretches back to the time when Pope Francis was still Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, with Fernández working largely behind the scenes, drafting the future Pontiff's important speeches and letters.

However, it seems that Archbishop Fernández has let the influence he enjoyed over papal affairs go to his head. In an interview published in Corriere della Sera last Sunday, he took the current wave of Ultramontanism to newheights, implying that the Curia and the entire body of Cardinals are non-essential to the government of the Church - which, while technically true, is Vaticanese for "we will push ahead, with or without the Cardinals' blessing." He also felt safe enough to criticize Cardinal Müller's recent comments that his job as Prefect of the CDF is to give the Pope's magisterium theological structure:

I have read that some say that the Roman Curia is an essential part of the mission of the Church, or that a Prefect in the Vatican is the sure compass preventing the Church from falling into ignominy, or that this Prefect guarantees the unity of the Faith and facilitates serious theology from the Pope. But Catholics know from reading the Gospel that it was


An Italian version of the Ottawa Crisis Resource Management Global Rating Scale: a reliable and valid tool for assessment of simulation performance.
Objective measurement of simulation performance requires a validated and reliable tool. However, no published Italian language assessment tool is available. Translation of a published English language tool, the Ottawa Crisis Resource Management Global Rating Scale (GRS), may lead to a validated and reliable tool. After developing an Italian language translation of the English language tool, the study measured the reliability of the new tool by comparison with the English language tool used independently in the same simulation scenarios. In addition, the validity of the Italian language tool was measured by comparison to a skills score also applied independently. The correlation coefficient between the Italian language overall GRS*Anschluss* to Germany during World War II, Austria became a social market economy with an increasing degree of European integration, and joined the European Union in 1995. Czechoslovakia on the other hand, an independent state after the collapse of the Monarchy, joined the Eastern Block as a planned economy after World War II and became an important supplier of the Eastern Block's COMECON market. In 1989, with the Velvet Revolution, Czechoslovakia turned away from communism, in 1993, it separated into Czech Republic and Slovakia, and in 2004 the two countries joined the European Union. While the political and economic history of 20th century Czechoslovakia and Austria differs strongly, the two regions are similar in many other respects, such as geographic position or population density. A comparison of these


significant coal deposits, and was a major coal extractor since the 19th century, whereas Austria has but few fossil fuel deposits.

This inequality in resource endowment becomes visible in CO~2~ emissions of the interwar-period, when the two regions split into separate countries. In coal-rich Czechoslovakia, CO~2~ emissions grew continuously in the 1920s and decreased for a few years during the world economic crisis of the early 1930s. In coal-deprived Austria, on the other hand, fossil CO~2~ emissions slumped directly after the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy. Here too, the economic crisis had a severe effect on emissions. After World War II, CO~2~ emissions grew extremely steeply in Czechoslovakia, reaching almost 18 t CO~2~/cap/yr in the 1980s. With the collapse of the Eastern Block and the restructuring of the Czechoslovak economy,it grew fairly continuously during the time period in Austria, Czechoslovak population strongly decreased after World War II, related to the transfer of German-speaking minorities out of the country.

Income was similar in the two countries during the interwar-period at 2000--3000 \$/cap/yr, but increased much more steeply in Austria after World War II, reaching 20,000 \$/cap/yr in 2000. In Czechoslovakia, the breakdown of communism went along with a brief, but strong decline of GDP in the early 1990s, and the 1989 value of roughly 9000 \$/cap/yr was reached again only in 2000.

The energy intensity of the economy was consistently and significantly higher in Czechoslovakia than in Austria during the entire time period. In both countries it declined over time. The interwar-period was characterised by fairly high energy intensities in both countries (45 MJ/\$


in Czechoslovakia and 25 MJ/\$ in Austria). In Czechoslovakia, energy intensity decreased rapidly after the late 1920s. From after World War II to the late 1980s, energy intensity was relatively stable in Czechoslovakia around 35 MJ/\$, while it decreased steadily in Austria from the mid-1950s to only 10 MJ/\$ in 2000. From the early 1990s, Czechoslovak energy intensity sunk, and in 2000 the value was below 25 MJ/\$---in the pre-1950s Austrian range.

The composition of Domestic Energy Consumption (DEC) in the two countries differed remarkably, particularly after World War II. In the interwar-period, biomass dominated in both countries; however, the share of coal was higher in coal-producing Czechoslovakia than in coal-importing Austria. After World War II, both countries shifted to higher shares of fossil fuels, but in Czechoslovakia, coal was the most importantfossil energy carrier (dominated by brown coal), while in Austria, coal was soon replaced by crude oil as the most important fossil fuel, and both hydropower electricity and natural gas gained importance. Since the 1980s, and particularly after 1990, also in Czechoslovakia the share of natural gas and primary electricity, mainly from nuclear power, went up, while coal lost importance.

The combination of these factors can be summarized as follows: population was larger in Czechoslovakia, whereas Austria's income was much greater in the second half of the 20th century. The larger energy intensity plus the more carbon intensive energy supply of Czechoslovakia, counterbalanced by the higher Austrian income, resulted in much larger carbon emissions in Czechoslovakia. The comparative Index Decomposition Analysis presented in the next section assesses the absolute


explanatory factor throughout the time period. Its relative importance was greatest in the interwar-period, but declined in the early afterwar period. From 1990 the relative importance of the population effect increased again slightly.

Energy intensity was the most dynamic of the positive explanatory variables. Its relative importance declined in the interwar-period. However, energy intensity became increasingly important quickly after World War II and, from the mid-1960s onwards, it was the strongest explanatory factor for the difference in CO~2~ emissions between Austria and Czechoslovakia. This is consistent with the observation that energy intensity in Central and Eastern European countries in the 1980s was one of the highest in the world ([@bib46]). Interestingly however, the energy intensity effect even gained relative importance after the collapse of the communist regime. This indicatesNorth Carolina, at Durham. William L. Osteen, Senior
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Submitted:   October 5, 2007                   Decided:   August 13, 2008

Before KING and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
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Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

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Carolina, for Appellant. Lisa Blue Boggs, Assistant United States
Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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           Gilberto Vazquez Morales pled guilty to distribution of

methamphetamine and possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.

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most extensive in the country), sustainable redevelopment & landscaping projects, and his emphasis on renewable energy as his strong points. The article also mentioned Chicago’s bid for the 2016 summer Olympics, stating that it “hinges on the event being the greenest Olympics in history.”

The four mayors that topped Daley are: Michael Bloomberg (New York City), Greg Nickels (Seattle), Gavin Newsom (San Francisco), and Ed Malloy (Fairfield, Indiana). While the list is hardly complete, it does give a good indication of the vast geographical diversity in local climate leadership today.

The federal economic stimulus package is like a fat, bloody guy who tips over in his canoe in the Amazon: It’s been swarmed over by every Tom, Dick & Harry org, biz, and state or local government with even theOlorotitanwas a genus of lambeosaurine duckbilled dinosaur from the middle or late Maastrichtian-age Late Cretaceous Tsagayan Formation beds located in Kundur, Amur Region, Far Eastern Russia. The remains, consisting of a nearly complete skeleton, were described by Pascal Godefroit et al. in mid-2003. The generic name means “gigantic swan” while the specific descriptor refers to the location of the fossil find at Arhara County. Olorotitan is distinct from other crested duckbills by its possession of an unusual crest that points backward and takes on a hatchet or fan-like shape. Its discovery has implications for the diversity of lambeosaurine hadrosaurids.

Olorotitan is based on the most complete lambeosaurine skeleton found outside North America to date. It was a large hadrosaurid, comparable to other large lambeosaurines like Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, and may


Jackton Ojwang who are perceived to be sympathetic to Deputy Chief Justice Kalpana Rawal and fellow Supreme Court judge Philip Tunoi's bid to retire at 74 and not 70 as their employer the Judicial Service Commission contends, were of the view that Osundwa should be enjoined.

Chief Justice Willy Mutunga and Justice Smoking Wanjala, who are both members of the JSC, were of a different opinion that he should not and with Justice Mohammed Ibrahim's backing, they carried the day.

Osundwa applied to be enjoined in the interest of the public who he said were invested - both literally and figuratively - in the outcome of the tribunal process Tunoi is subject to.

Chief Justice Willy Mutunga and Justice Smoking Wanjala, who are both members of the JSC, were of aseverally had the opportunity to sit across from President Uhuru Kenyatta and address the pressing issues of the day. Other notables she has had occasion to seek answers from are UN Secretary General António Guterres and John Kerry in his time as US Secretary of State.


the Internet if they don’t have it at home. We started the active club in the morning to get kids out of the building.”

As always, the middle school Jr. Iron Chef program remains a popular choice for students, but Ambrose said there were other cooking programs as well, including a holiday cooking class. And this year, Twin Valley Middle School students won the district spelling bee under the tutelage of Ann Sulzman.

Participation at the high school level has always been lower than that of elementary and middle school students, but over the last two years high school participation has ballooned. Running from 53% to 57% during the first three years, it shot up to 82% two years ago, and 87% last year.

TVHS site coordinator Karen Molina said studentsbe re-created, the line-up is too commercial, and so on. And so the constant nature of change plays out before us. Those who view the original Woodstock music festival as the only one will need convincing that this re-boot is even worthwhile. And yet those of us who have grown up with all kinds of music, including popular music, of which rock ’n’ roll is the very bedrock, understand that in order for it to survive, it must remain in flux. New traditions become old ones over time, and thus the form survives.

In order for the form to survive, however, newer iterations must grab onto at least some thread of the former iteration. Looking at our finest popular culture musical icons, most notably those who were at Woodstock


Muni Metro service was delayed around 1pm today when a train stalled on the line outside Van Ness Station, prompting an evacuation on foot through the tunnel.

One commuter captured and posted footage of the excursion on Twitter.

My @sfmta_muni train broke down near Van Ness Station and they evacuated us through the tunnel. pic.twitter.com/SDabQNNhHy — Eric Butler (@codebutler) March 7, 2017

According to the MTA's Twitter updates, the train was cleared roughly 20 minutes later, and shuttle buses were deployed to keep commuters moving.

Delays are expected to continue on inbound and outbound lines through the afternoon as regular service resumes, the agency has advised.Politics, Theology and Christian Humanism

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Marks and Spencer want to look good to their customers, but they also want to keep their profit margin looking healthy. Fair enough, but not when it means that Indian workers, who produce good for Marks and Spencer and other shops, are being beaten. The contractor, Viva Global, has a history of labour-law violations and human-rights abuses.

Join the protest at Marks and Spencer’s Oxford Street shop on Saturday morning, and/or write and ask why they persist in using such an outfit:

Marks and Spencer Group plc
Waterside House
35 North Wharf Road
London
W2 1NW

Join a solidarity protest in front of the Marks and Spencer store, 173 Oxford Street, London – 11 am, Saturday 4th September 2010 From a press release of Mazdoor Ekta Manch, a union


up and out of reach of those who could potentially be a threat.

MICHAEL TEAGUE

Lake Alfred

RELIGION IN SCHOOLS: Institute prayer time and Bible reading in all Florida schools to give children a moral code to live by and a road map to eternal salvation.

Ban abortion and acknowledged homosexual unions to better align with God's will, as expressed in his written word.

Ban pornography in Florida, including Internet, to remove a stumbling block that destroys marriages and families.

CLAUDE SMITH

Winter Haven

SCHOOL DISTRICT STAFF: Schools should cut back the number of people in Bartow. Put the money into the classrooms.

Polk County should charge the impact fees on all buildings in the county. That helps with roads, schools.

Have government workers in Washington all take a 20 percent cut in pay. Put that money towardthe debt.

SUE PRINCE

Auburndale

DISASTER PREPARATION: Regarding disaster preparation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Florida Division of Emergency Management program called "Resolve to be Ready in 2013": Promoting innovative camping equipment production and sales, and one day off-the-grid practice sessions, will create new jobs.

Promote local food production, a la the book "The Town Food Saved."

Promote horse-culture businesses and sporting events such as horse soccer and broomstick polo as tourist attractions for job creation.

KEYNO HICKS

Lakeland

ROADSIDE TRASH: An improved-and-streamlined system for picking up trash and large discarded articles on the roadside. Eyesores.

Improve methods of dealing with the denuding of the shoreline of the Chain of Lakes. Violators go unpunished.

Increase the number of red-light cameras at intersections. The reason for increased rear-end accidents is some people now stop and others do not


and State Road 37, would be a boon to Bartow and Mulberry, and tie the southern part of Polk County together with the north.

Push for a feasibility study and secure funding to mitigate rail traffic through downtown Lakeland.

HANS ARNDT

Lakeland

MOTORCYCLE PROTECTION: Stop the motorcycle massacre. Require mandatory jail time for at-fault drivers and revoke the driver's licenses for life for at-fault drivers.

LOCAL-FEDERAL LIAISON: The Polk County Commission and Lakeland City Commission should hold quarterly meetings with the public on issues to discuss with U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland.

The School Board should investigate more best practices for pedagogy. We could be leaders in the country for implementing programs that show results such as high school completions and college entrance.

The Sheriff's Office, Lakeland Police Department and other area law-enforcement agencies shouldconsider the best process to license and register weapons only designed to kill human beings.

ALICE PETERSON

Lakeland

MEDICAL-SCHOOL CADAVERS: Change Florida law to allow bodies to be donated to medical schools directly, without a funeral home required to embalm first. California does it.

Change Polk County's name to Park County to give it a positive personality to which people can relate.

HOWIE KEEFE

Mulberry

ABANDONED BUILDINGS: Ordinances regarding abandoned and dilapidated commercial buildings on Memorial Boulevard between Combee Road and Fairway Avenue should be enforced. These have been an eyesore since we moved here in 2005.

GEORGE MILLER

Lakeland

WINTER HAVEN LANDINGS: Remove all Winter Haven commissioners. They do not possess the ability to solve the Landings deal to the benefit of the city of Winter Haven. Give Sheriff Grady Judd a raise. He seems to be


State transport plan lacks proposals for western Sydney: Greiner

6 Feb 2013, 5:37 p.m.

THE O'Farrell government has been ''arse-about'' in releasing plans for transport ahead of its vision of where people in Sydney will live and work in the next 20 years, says the chairman of Infrastructure NSW, Nick Greiner.

State transport plan lacks proposals for western Sydney: Greiner

Nick Greiner ... "There's no point having Transport do its long-term masterplan". Picture: Tamara Voninski

THE O'Farrell government has been ''arse-about'' in releasing plans for transport ahead of its vision of where people in Sydney will live and work in the next 20 years, says the chairman of Infrastructure NSW, Nick Greiner.

Mr Greiner used a presentation on Tuesday to also talk about the lack of proposals to improve transport in western Sydney; toreveal that a deal to build the F3-to-M2 motorway was close; and to reiterate his scepticism about light rail in central Sydney and his support for a Badgerys Creek airport.

One of the weakness is there are not a lot of good ideas about western Sydney … Western Sydney is sort of the problem, it is where the population growth is.

The O'Farrell government had intended to release its view on where development would concentrate in the next two decades at the same time as it outlined what transport projects it would build.

But the metropolitan strategy, developed under the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, Brad Hazzard, has not yet been released. A transport masterplan and a state infrastructure strategy put together by Mr Greiner's Infrastructure NSW were unveiled last year.

''The