reacted immediately.

"I'm going down to get him out," he told his flight as he headed for a tiny mile long by half-mile wide uninhabited island called Chodo, less than a mile from the North Korean coast.

The island, codenamed Bloodstone, was a designated emergency landing area for United Nations aircraft. It had a short arcing beach with bookend high rock outcroppings. Ireland had set down there because he had a hung rocket that could neither be fired nor jettisoned. The carriers had strict rules about aircraft landing with live ordnance—they weren't allowed.

Ireland had to tread a thin line when landing. Close to the water, the sand was hard and compact. Farther away, it was loose, providing little support. His Corsair had made a decent landing but as it slowedit ran into loose sand, which bogged its wheels, causing it to flip onto its back. Ireland was unhurt but completely trapped, his prospects for survival slim. If the leaking gas didn't catch fire and burn him, the rising tide could drown him. He needed help.

Within five minutes of hearing the first call, Cooper, with Ireland's precarious situation visible through his windscreen, landed on the island a bit closer to the water. "I burrowed into the sand to get him out," said Cooper. "I—we—were both wary of the dripping gas." It took about 15 minutes to dig a ditch about two-feet deep and two-feet wide to reach the inverted pilot.

But then Cooper discovered that "We had another problem. He couldn't release his harness. I got out my knife,


but it was too dull to cut through the thick webbing. He gave me his and I cut him out." Both crawled out from under the overturned aircraft. Ireland always carried his camera with him when he flew. He recovered it, and the unlikely tourists took snapshots of each other next to the overturned fighter.

After returning to the United States in 1953, Cooper was awarded the Navy-Marine Corps Medal for his rescue. "One thing I've always wondered," Cooper mused, "is what happened to Ireland. We lost contact shortly after we transferred to the Bataan (CVL-29). I often wonder how his life turned out."Foster Family

The twins - Ania and Michał - are both 8-years-old and their elder brother Marcin is ten.

The children's biological mother died of AIDS when Ania and Michał were four and Marcin was 6-years-old.
Michał was born healthy. Ania and Marcin were not that lucky. They were born with the virus.

Mr and Mrs Gołębiewscy learned about the orphans thanks to the tv appeal of the actress Anna Dymna. They had never planned being a foster family. Before they decided to see the children for the first time, they had spent long hours talking about the consequences of a potential adoption. The first visit at hospital dispelled their doubts.

At first, the children addressed their new parents by saying to them Mrs Mother, Mr Father. They overcame their modesty during the


with the main differences in vent layout. The Azulle Quantum Access LAN Windows 10 Fanless Mini PC Sticksets itself apart with a ridged radial design, and the Asus VivoStick PC is slimmer and oblong rather than rectangular.

As with all of these stick PCs, the Stick 300 plugs directly into a TV's or monitor's HDMI port through a connector on its front end. Lenovo includes an HDMI extension cable in the box, since (depending on the display's port locations) fitting the nearly 4 inches of plastic behind a monitor or in a tight space can be a tough or impossible squeeze. Power is supplied through an included AC cable, which plugs into a micro USB port on the stick. Once connected and plugged in, the device is turned onU.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter says he will plead guilty to misusing campaign funds — a criminal case he'd once decried as a politically motivated "witch hunt."

The Republican lawmaker will formally enter his guilty plea in a hearing in federal court in San Diego on Tuesday morning, his court docket shows.

In an interview with KUSI News, Hunter said he would plead guilty to one count of misusing campaign funds in the case.

"I did make mistakes. I did not properly monitor or account for my campaign money," he said. "I am responsible for my campaign and what happens to my campaign money."

The change of plea was first reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Prosecutors had charged Hunter and his wife "converted and stole" more than a quarter million dollars in campaign


funds for their own use, including trips to Hawaii and Italy, bar tabs, theater tickets and school tuition for their kids. Prosecutors have also charged that Hunter used campaign money to finance romantic flings with lobbyists and congressional aides.

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Both Hunters pleaded not guilty last year, but the Republican congressman and Iraq war vet appeared to blame his spouse for their problems in an interview on Fox News soon after.

"When I went away to Iraq in 2003, the first time, I gave her power of attorney. She handled my finances throughout my entire military career and that continued on when I got into Congress," Hunter said on "The Story."

"She was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did, that’ll beof Congress to endorse his 2016 presidential campaign.

The first, Rep. Chris Collins of New York, pleaded guilty last month to federal charges related to insider trading and resigned his seat. Like Hunter, he had taken a page from the Trump playbook and said the investigation into his actions was "a political witch hunt."

Hunter, who'd been running for re-election next year, was vague when asked what would happen with his seat.

"We're going to pass it off to whoever takes the seat next. I think it's important to keep the seat a Republican seat," he said. "President Trump right now needs support more than ever."


 On appeal, Jamison alleges three errors in the court

below.   First, Jamison alleges that the district court wrongly

enhanced his sentence.        Jamison argues that his sentence violates

Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004), because his sentence

was   enhanced   based   on   his   criminal   history,   which   was   never

admitted by him or found by a fact-finder beyond a reasonable

doubt.   Jamison also contends that his enhancement as a Career

Offender violates the spirit of his plea agreement because, in his

plea agreement, the Government agreed not to file a notice of

                I am Sam Blaylock from Portland, Oregon.

My mom got pregnant with me as an accident and then both my parents decided to abort me. Thankfully, the abortion failed. It led to me being born two months premature.

My dad was extremely abusive to my mother and it only got worse when I was born.

When I was around four years old, my parents decided to get divorced and my mom gave me up to my dad knowing he was abusive. My dad and I moved to Virginia and within six months, he decided to take me to Pakistan – where he was born and grew up. He then got married to my stepmom and left us there with his family.

I saw things a kid should never have to see and


This is a collection of anecdotes that don’t explain but do give some context behind the Chiba Lotte Marines’ bizarre 2009 season.

The year an owner threw a season

With MLB teams all but locking out free agents in name of higher profits, much has been made of teams tanking to save money at the expense of winning. Joe Posnansky recently wrote how the antagonist of the movie “Major League,” Rachel Phelps, the fictitious owner of the Cleveland Indians, was a genius who was ahead of her time, by trying to lose games.

But it actually happened in Japan.

During the 2008 season, the acting owner of the Chiba Lotte Marines, Akio Shigemitsu, bought into the idea Bobby Valentine, who was under contract through the 2009 season for $5 million a year,could be driven out without being paid. The scheme was fiendish and simple. Valentine’s contract contained a clause stipulating that should he criticize the team’s management, he could be fired without compensation.

If the top executives could sabotage the season enough to make Valentine criticize the organization, he could be fired without cost and it would be mission accomplished.

The tale of Bobby Valentine

The plot, ostensibly hatched by former team executive Ryuzo Setoyama, had complicated roots that author Robert Whiting explains in some detail in a four-part 2010 series published in the Japan Times. Setoyama was technically Valentine’s boss, but after winning the Japan Series in 2005, it was clear how far out of the loop he was. Valentine was being wooed by at least one MLB team, rumored to


representative on the Pacific League’s board of directors and the NPB executive committee, Setoyama could present reforms Valentine wanted discussed.

But in the middle of the 2008 season, Setoyama went on walk about.

It was not exactly clear what…Setoyama’s motives were, whether he was so frustrated that he really did intend to quit, or whether his threat to resign in 2008 was just a ploy to get skipper Bobby Valentine to leave and save the team some of Valentine’s salary. Robert Whiting

The first shoe dropped that winter, when Valentine was summoned back for an emergency conference. He’d reportedly spoken with the agent of a South Korean player, at the 2008 baseball winter meetings in the United States. Lotte to the press that Valentine had raised suspicions of tampering as theplayer in question was not a free agent.

“The meeting was a setup,” Valentine said. “I was tipped off by a phone call before I went in that the plan was to make me angry and maybe even take a swing at someone, so they could fire me.”

At the meeting, Valentine was told he was being stripped of his general manager duties, and that a number of his trusted subordinates were being reassigned within the organization.

Akira Ishikawa, who had worked with Setoyama with the powerhouse Hawks before Setoyama was fired, was brought in as a top executive–ostensibly so the Marines could sign Tadahito Iguchi. Ishikawa had signed Iguchi to his first pro contract and he had gone on to be one of the best Japanese players of his generation.


But Iguchi had just turned 35, and had posted a .292 on-base percentage in 2008, when he suffered the first injury of his career.

The move was a surprise because Valentine was not involved and had already groomed a young second baseman, Shunichi Nemoto, to take over second. For the first time in his career, Valentine took a job away from a promising younger player to give it to a veteran past his prime. However, Iguchi exceeded expectations and Valentine, to his credit, gushed, “We knew he was a good player, but what we didn’t know was what a great teammate he is.”

But more surprises were in store.

After working on a play to lure opposing pitchers into balking a runner from third base home, the Marines successfully executed ittheir manager, trying to turn individual players against him and of sabotaging the team’s efforts by turning the players against him, criticizing him in the press and demoralizing the support staff of video analysts and batting practice pitchers by depriving them of an important source of income — the cash bonuses called “fight money” teams distribute after wins.

Valentine had made a point of including the analysts and batting practice pitchers and others in these payouts to recognize their contributions. Several of them confirmed that this practice was suspended by Ishikawa and Setoyama in 2009 because fight money was suspended.

Recognizing that the guys depended on the cash supplements to pay bills, Valentine began paying them out of pocket, which they also confirmed.

As the season wore on, Valentine didn’t know


who was with him or against him, and every time he was criticized in the press, he was dogged after the game by two cub reporters brought in to record any complaints he might make about the team — that would result in immediate forfeiture of his pay.

In a weekend day game, banners in the stands urged Lotte ownership to keep Valentine and fire Setoyama. Tsuyoshi Nishioka, whom Valentine believed had been bought off by Setoyama and his gang to oppose him in the clubhouse, was selected by Ishikawa to give the on-fielder “hero interview.”

Nishioka launched into a speech about how the fans should be more positive to set a good example for the children in attendance.

Nobody in Japan had better tools than Nishioka, which Valentine freely admitted.He is an upbeat guy, who Matt Murton credited with lightning the stodgy atmosphere at the Hanshin Tigers in 2014 in their run to the Japan Series. But Nishioka is a guy, who despite his obvious ability, was only a great ballplayer at times, and Valentine ripped the shortstop’s hypocrisy over concern about the children.

“I was surprised he even knows children comes to the games, because he never sees them when they try to get his autograph,” Valentine said.

The team struggled to a .446 winning percentage, the Marines worst since 1994, the year before the first time Valentine had been hired to run Lotte and steered them in their dramatic 1995 pennant challenge.

Although the fans loved him, and the team executives decertified the most vocal of his support


groups, he finally recognized nothing he could do would bring back the Marines he’d known from 2004 to 2008.

The aftermath

In 1995, Valentine was blamed for losing the pennant by then-general manager Tatsuro Hirooka and fired after one year despite the Marines posting their best record in 11 seasons. The following year, Shigemitsu fired Hirooka.

The 2010 aftermath was similar in some ways, although it took a year longer to play out. The 2010 season started with a hint about what was to come.

Longtime Tokyo sportswriter Wayne Graczyk informed other writers that something was amiss with Lotte in the spring of 2010. Graczyk purchased head shots of players for his annual media guide and fan handbook. When he asked how he should pay for the photos, he was directed totransfer the cash into a personal account of Setoyama’s.

The Marines finished third that year, qualifying for the playoffs by winning their last three regular season games and then climbing Japan’s rigged playoff system to knock off the second-place Seibu Lions and the league champion SoftBank Hawks before winning the Japan Series.

It was great for the fans, who had suffered through so much in 2009, but seeing the team tossing Shigemitsu in the “doage” celebration ceremony after he had signed off on a plan throw the 2009 season in order to save a fraction of Valentine’s $5 million salary was repugnant.

In the wake of their triumph, the Marines took a page out of their 1996 playbook and blamed Valentine for holding the team back. A reporter for the Nikkan


the addition of the best chefs, player liaison officers to call if you need a restaurant booked or the media off your back and, bizarrely, at one of my clubs, a resident priest. I never did get round to asking who sent for him.

One of the most important things, though, is to remember what got you in the Premier League in the first place. Ian Holloway, the Blackpool manager, was particularly shrewd in this respect last season. His players were eating their lunch from tin-foil packages delivered in the boot of a car to their training ground (otherwise known as a hut with smashed windows with some playing fields) and washing their own kit. Little wonder they kept their feet on the ground.

The manager is so often thekey to the hopes of a newly promoted team. He is riding high on the back of last season's success along with his players and, if promotion has been on the cards for a while, he may already have targets earmarked to improve the squad. The trick is to strengthen without upsetting the harmony in the changing room, which isn't always easy if a new signing has joined on higher wages than those who slogged their guts out to win promotion.

Victories in the Premier League come nothing like as easily as they did the year before but there is enormous satisfaction to be taken from getting results as the underdogs. I've been in that position and at the end of games witnessed top professionals refusing to shake hands


Former GOP senator Bob Bennett lay partially paralyzed in his bed on the fourth floor of the George Washington University Hospital. He was dying.

Not 48 hours had passed since a stroke had complicated his yearlong fight against pancreatic cancer. The cancer had begun to spread again, necessitating further chemotherapy. The stroke had dealt a further blow that threatened to finish him off.

Between the hectic helter-skelter of nurses, doctors, and well wishes from a long-cultivated community of friends and former aides, Bennett faced a quiet moment with his son Jim and his wife Joyce.

It was not a moment for self-pity.

Instead, with a slight slurring in his words, Bennett drew them close to express a dying wish: “Are there any Muslims in the hospital?” he asked.

“I’d love to go upto every single one of them to thank them for being in this country, and apologize to them on behalf of the Republican Party for Donald Trump,” Bennett told his wife and son, both of whom relayed this story to The Daily Beast.

The rise of Donald Trump had appalled the three-term Utah senator, a Republican who fell victim to the Tea Party wave of the 2010 midterms. His vote for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, had alienated many conservative activists in his state, who chose lawyer Mike Lee as the GOP nominee for Senate instead.

But as Bennett reflected on his life and legacy in mid-April, following the stroke, he wasn’t focused on the race that ended his political career. Instead, he brought up the issue of


core principles.”

The Tea Party wave that ousted Bennett from the Senate in 2010 was one of the first signs of popular discontent that has arguably led to the tsunami of support for Donald Trump. As that initial wave receded, it swept away many of the values that Bennett cherished: bipartisanship and concern for vulnerable refugees among them.

But even as he was passing away, Bennett struggled to press the issues—to ensure that though his life was ending, the ideas he held dear would not go with it. He died Wednesday, May 4.a chance to act on the bacteria. An example of this is CPEs (Carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae), which along with Clostridium difficile and Neisseria gonorrhoeae were listed by the CDC in 2013 as the top three “urgent” threats for the US in terms of antibiotic resistance. In September this year, the United Nations made a pledge to eradicate these kind of infections, following in the footsteps of HIV, non-communicable diseases and Ebola.

Resistance in the clinic and the lab

European antibiotics awareness day (which was on the 18th November) is a public health initiative organised by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control to highlight antibiotic resistance as a problem for public health, and promote public understanding of it.

In light of this, on this episode of Contagious Thinking we spoke to


[An offspring of love. Freud on belief].
This paper elucidates Freud's ideas of belief and believing. By investigating the semantic field, it discusses the place of his theory of religion in the context of his thought. It argues for a consistent model which does not stem from antireligious prejudice but meshes with his whole thinking. For Freud religious belief was a special case of the general attitude of believing. He situated it within a three-stage development of the individual as well as of humanity, starting with a state of magical-animistic thinking in autoerotism and narcissism and leading, via object-dependency and a belief in omnipotent parental figures, to emancipation through rationality and critical judgement. The origin of belief in wishing accounts for the believer's lack of judgement and submission to  The husband appealed to

this Court from the divorce decree and raised several issues.     In

response to that appeal and as part of her request for relief,

the wife requested this Court to affirm the judgment and award

her attorney's fees for the appeal.    Although this Court affirmed

the ruling of the trial judge in all aspects, this Court failed

to address the wife's request for attorney's fees for the

appellate services provided by her counsel.    The husband then

filed a further appeal to the Supreme Court.    The Supreme Court

dismissed the husband's petition for appeal and, thereby,

affirmed the ruling of the trial judge.    However, the Supreme

Court also failed to act upon the wife's request for attorney's

fees for the


The nutritional status of school-aged children: why should we care?
The nutritional status of school-aged children impacts their health, cognition, and subsequently their educational achievement. The school is an opportune setting to provide health and nutrition services to disadvantaged children. Yet, school-aged children are not commonly included in health and nutrition surveys. An up-to-date overview of their nutritional status across the world is not available. To provide a summary of the recent data on the nutritional status of school-aged children in developing countries and countries in transition and identify issues of public health concern. A review of literature published from 2002 to 2009 on the nutritional status of children aged 6 to 12 years from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean region was performed. Eligible studies determinedthe prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies or child under- and overnutrition using biochemical markers and internationally accepted growth references. A total of 369 studies from 76 different countries were included. The available data indicate that the nutritional status of school-aged children in the reviewed regions is considerably inadequate. Underweight and thinness were most prominent in populations from South-East Asia and Africa, whereas in Latin America the prevalence of underweight or thinness was generally below 10%. More than half of the studies on anemia reported moderate (> 20%) or severe (> 40%) prevalence of anemia. Prevalences of 20% to 30% were commonly reported for deficiencies of iron, iodine, zinc, and vitamin A. The prevalence of overweight was highest in Latin American countries (20% to 35%). In Africa, Asia, and the


understand who Iran is in the Bible.

Elam/Iran in the Latter-DaysJeremiah 49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

Elam is an ancient geographical location mentioned in the Bible. Today its location would be mainly in Iran with a small section in Iraq. It bordered with the ancient Babylonian Empire. The actual location of Elam would be the very northern end of the Persian Gulf and down along with the west coast of Iran. Today one of main sections of ancient Elam would include Bushehr Province with the capital city of Bushehr. On a map of the Persian Gulf, Bushehr would be directly across from Kuwait (it is the red area of the picture.)

Bushehr is veryword Elam seldom appears. The name was derived from Noah’s grandson from Shem (Genesis 10:22). In Genesis 14, a battle is recorded between Abraham and a confederation of Kings. Chedorlaomer was listed as the king of Elam and part of the battle. In Isaiah 11:11, Elam is listed as one of the locations the Jews will return from just prior to the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus. In Daniel 8, the prophet was in Elam.Elam was listed with the nations that assisted the Assyrians and Babylonians in their attacks against Jerusalem. The prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel all write blistering judgments against Elam.The Prophet Jeremiah speaks the most about Elam, as he describes a severe judgment against Elam. In very powerful language God describes His fierce anger


the God of Israel setting His throne in Elam. This has never happened. This is all future because this prophecy was never fulfilled. It appears that with Elam now the focus of world attention, God is about to fulfill it.According to Obadiah 1:15, God judges nations in relation to what that nation does to Israel. The judgment as recorded in Jeremiah 49 indicates that Elam was a fierce enemy of Israel. It participated in two attacks on Jerusalem. Elam was with the Assyrians and assisted the Babylons in their attacks on Jerusalem. Now, Israel is once again a nation and ancient Elam/Iran is again trying to destroy Israel and capture Jerusalem. Iran wants to destroy Israel and drive the Jews into the entire world; therefore, Elam is goingIran to scatter all over the world. It seems reasonable to me that every nation would accept such a need for relocation.

I'm really curious why God says in the one passage that He will set His throne in Iran.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Weekend field trip to Huntington Reservoir and River, the site where in 1988 a Mastodon elephant's body was found, intact, after 11,000 years in a bog. The reservoir was under construction when a backhoe operator dug up what at first looked like a log.

Upon further examination, it was determined to be bone and a paleontologist was called in. The mastodon body was so well preserved that it was possible to tell what he had last eaten (pine needles) his age (65, with a lot of arthritis) and


Season 10 of CNN Original Series Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, Launches Sunday, October 1 at 9pm With a Tour of Singapore

Non-Theatrical Premiere of CNN Films Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, Executive Produced by Bourdain, Airs Sunday, November 12; Prime Cuts: Through the Seasons Airs October 1

(September 13, 2017) Season 10 of the top-rated Emmy and Peabody award-winning CNN Original Series Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown begins on Sunday, October 1 at 9pm ET/PT with a trip to Singapore.

The eight-episode season also features tours of the French Alps, Puerto Rico, Lagos, Nigeria, Seattle, Sri Lanka, Pittsburgh, and southern Italy.

Airing just prior to the season premiere, on October 1 at 8pm ET/PT, is Prime Cuts: Through The Seasons in which series executive producer Chris Collins asks Bourdain to reflect upon the10 seasons of Parts Unknown.

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown follows the world-renowned chef and best-selling author as he travels the globe to uncover the little-known, off-the-road, and sometimes seemingly-familiar areas of the world in a celebration of their diverse foods and culture.

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown is produced by Zero Point Zero Production with executive producers Chris Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig, and Anthony Bourdain.

Please click on the following link for the season 10 trailer: http://www.cnncreativemarketing.com/project/anthony-bourdain-parts-unknown-season-10/

Following are the locations and episode descriptions for season 10 of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown:

Singapore (season 10 premiere – airdate: October 1) Bourdain tours the historically rich streets of Singapore and immerses himself in the vast array of multicultural foods found throughout this island city-state. An old-school style prawn mee lunch with his go-to Singaporean


and overindulging in delicious cheese dishes. The pair team up to prepare a French meal, featuring caviar and steak au poivre, with the help of Ripert’s mentor Maurice Guillouet. Bourdain and Ripert also venture across the Italian border to La Maison Rose and surrender to Bourdain’s love of pasta with gnocchi, ravioli, and polenta.

Lagos, Nigeria (airdate: October 15) Once considered the most dangerous city in the world, Lagos is, in many ways, the epicenter of modern Africa. The driving force of the city is a pervasive, almost pathologically positive outlook, a sincerely entrenched “can do” spirit. The ingenuity of the Nigerian people is the focus of Bourdain’s travels as he explores its food, music, and rich cultural diversity. Among the food offerings are fresh fish dishes, spicy soups,Kevin Suousa serves grass fed beef short ribs at his new restaurant, Superior Motors.

Sri Lanka (airdate: October 29) As peace spreads throughout Sri Lanka following the end of its brutal civil war, Bourdain travels to the once divided nation to experience the reinvigorated people, food and landscapes. Starting in Colombo, the country’s capital, Bourdain discovers change in in a place he visited nearly a decade ago as he enjoys street food on The Galle Face Green, dining on light curries and lots of seafood. Taking a 10-hour train to the northern “time capsule” city of Jaffna, Bourdain experiences crab curry, a dish he calls the “holy grail of Sri Lankan cuisine,” for its spicy and fiery flavors.

Puerto Rico (airdate: November 5) When Bourdain heads to Puerto Rico to


people.

November 12 – Pre-empted for the television premiere of CNN Films Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent

Seattle (airdate: November 19) Bourdain immerses himself in the “boom or bust” city of Seattle. Two industries are reshaping the city and its culture – tech and the newly legalized cannabis industry. Bourdain gets the skinny on the “tech bro” invasion of Capitol Hill, throws back a dozen succulent oysters at the Taylor Shellfish Company and enjoys fish & chips at the Pacific Inn Pub with band members of The Gods Themselves. Along the way, he also hangs out with legendary Seattle rocker, Mark Lanegan and mad food scientist, Nathan Myhrvold.

Southern Italy (airdate: November 26) The“Heel of the Boot” draws Bourdain back in time as he visits the largely untouched landscapes and colorfullocals of Southern Italy and a culture steeped in both Christian and Pagan traditions. Unlike any other part of Italy, locals here perform a Taranta dance and speak the ancient language of “Grieco.” The local cuisine of the Southern Italy is showcased during a meal with Italian-American film director Francis Ford Coppola at his hotel, Palazzo Margherita, where Bourdain is served traditional dishes of the Basilicata region like ‘Pecora Pastorale,’ a Summer preparation of mutton and herbs.

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-30-The oldest known whale to ply the Antarctic has been found, scientists say.

A 24-inch-long (60-centimeter-long) jawbone was recently discovered amid a rich deposit of fossils on the Antarctic Peninsula (map).

The creature, which may have reached lengths of up to 20 feet (6 meters), had a mouthful of teeth and likely feasted on giant penguins, sharks, and big bony fish, whose remains were also discovered with the jawbone.

The early whale swam polar waters during the Eocene period, some 49 million years ago. Its age suggests fully aquatic whales evolved from their mammalian ancestors more rapidly than previously thought, said researcher Thomas Mörs, paleozoologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Based on 53-million-year-old fossils of whale-like, semi-aquatic mammals, scientists had thought mammals gave rise to whales in a process that


took 15 million years. The new find suggests it took just 4 million years. (See a prehistoric time line.)

What's more, "as soon as they became fully marine animals, they dispersed all over the world, showing the great success of the whale construction," Mörs said in an email.

Whale Lived in Warm Antarctic

Not even cold waters were obstacles for early whales, he said—though Antarctica during the Eocene was much warmer than it is today.

The continent was green, carpeted in forests that housed marsupials and mammalian survivors from the dinosaur age, said Mörs, who is preparing a paper on the whale for publication in a journal.

"The shores were inhabited by colonies of penguins, among them giant ones. And the marine waters were still warm enough for leatherback turtles and a diversebut Barack Obama as an idea marks an evolutionary flash point for humanity.” - Will Smith.

The actor/rapper Will Smith and his son Jaden recently had a close encounter of the presidential kind.

While the Smiths were visiting President Barack Obama as part of
Easter celebrations in April, Jaden, now 13, could not withhold a
pressing question he had for the leader of the free world. Will Smith,
who stars in "Men in Black 3" (in theaters May 25), explained during a recent interview with BBC Radio 1:
"I was at the White House with my family and we were getting a tour
and, you know, Barack and Michelle and Sasha and Malia... And it's me,
Jada and the kids and we're walking through the White House. And the
night before Jaden had said to me, 'Dad,


region of the country, 142 km (88 miles) southwest of Bam,
Iran.

Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth's crust, and is
prone to frequent earthquakes, many of which have been devastating. The
worst in recent times hit Bam in southeastern Kerman province in
December 2003, killing 31,000 people - about a quarter of its population
- and destroying the city's ancient mud-built citadel. The deadliest
quake in the country was in June 1990 and measured 7.7 on the Richter
scale. About 37,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 injured in
the northwestern provinces of Gilan and Zanjan. It devastated 27 towns
and about 1,870 villages. Tehran alone sits on two major fault lines,
and the capital's 14 million residents fear a major quake.

JMA reported that during 11-15 May explosive eruptions from Sakurajima's Showa Crater occurredjoined to the
Osumi Peninsula during the major explosive and effusive
eruption of 1914. Activity at the Kita-dake summit cone ended about
4,850 years ago, after which eruptions took place at Minami-dake.
Frequent historical eruptions, recorded since the 8th century, have deposited ash
on Kagoshima, one of Kyushu's largest cities, located across Kagoshima
Bay only 8 km from the summit. The largest historical eruption took
place during 1471-76.- Weekly Volcanic Activity Report.

The following video, taken from a closed-circuit television, captured
several of the spectacular images.

Rating agency Moody's downgraded 16 Spanish banks on Thursday, the latest sign of distress in Europe.
Among
those downgraded were giants Banco Santander and BBVA, the country's
two largest banks. Moody's cited concerns about the banks' exposure to
Spain's faltering economy and the "reduced" ability of the Spanish
government to support them in a crisis.

"The Spanish economy


has fallen back into recession in first-quarter
2012, and Moody's does not expect conditions to improve during 2012,"
the agency said. "Moreover, the real-estate crisis that began in
2008 is ongoing, and unemployment has risen to very high levels, with
rising risks to white-collar employment (in addition to extremely-high
youth unemployment) affecting the outlook for banks' household lending." The downgrades come amid mounting concern about a potential Greek exit from the euro,
and the implications this could have for other fiscally troubled
nations like Spain and Italy. Greece, currently operating with a
caretaker government, could leave the euro should anti-austerity parties triumph in elections next month.Earlier Thursday, Moody's downgraded Spanish regional governments in
Catalunya, Murcia, Andalucia and Extremadura because they are using
massive amounts of debt to fund their operations and are unlikely to
meet the financial target setash plume from Karangetang rose to an altitude of 3.7 km (12,000 ft) a.s.l.
and drifted 130 km SE. On 16 May an ash plume again rose to an altitude
of 3.7 km (12,000 ft) a.s.l. then drifted about 110 km SE. Karangetang (also known as Api Siau) lies at the northern end of the
island of Siau, N of Sulawesi, and contains five summit craters strung
along a N-S line. One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, Karangetang
has had more than 40 recorded eruptions since 1675. Twentieth-century
eruptions have included frequent explosions, sometimes accompanied by pyroclastic flows and lahars. Map

KARTHALA Grand Comore Island 11.75°S, 43.38°E; summit elev. 2361 m

Observers in the villages of Mde and Mkazi, on the W flank of
Karthala, reported increased incandescence from the summit during the
night of 9-10 May. The


southernmost and largest of the two shield volcanoes forming Grand Comore Island (also known as Ngazidja), Karthala contains a 3 x 4 km summit caldera generated by repeated collapse. Elongated rift
zones extend to the NNW and SE from the summit of the Hawaiian-style
shield, which has an asymmetrical profile that is steeper to the S.
Historical eruptions have modified the morphology of the compound,
irregular summit caldera. More than twenty eruptions have been recorded
since the 19th century from both summit and flank vents. Many lava
flows have reached the sea on both sides of the island, including
during many 19th-century eruptions from the summit caldera and vents on
the northern and southern flanks. Map

POPOCATEPETL México 19.023°N, 98.622°W; summit elev. 5426 m

CENAPRED
reported that during 8-10 May multiple gas-and-ash plumes rose 1.5 km
above Popocatépetl's crater andof the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty
with strict safeguards and inspections. This language makes such a
negotiated solution impossible. At the same time, the language lowers the threshold for attacking
Iran. Countries with nuclear weapons "capability" could include many
other countries like Japan or Brazil. It is an unrealistic threshold. The Former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell has
stated that this resolution "reads like the same sheet of music that got
us into the Iraq war."

H.R. 4310: Authorizing War Against Iran and Preparing the Military for itWhile H. Res. 568 undermines our diplomatic efforts and lowers the
bar for war, H.R. 4310, the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2013 begins military preparations for war. Section 1221
makes military action against Iran a U.S. policy. Section 1222 directs
our armed forces to


that the U.S. and Iran have barely engaged
in direct negotiations. Prior to last month's negotiations, the U.S.
and Iran had only engaged in 45 minutes of direct talks since 2009. (b) Declaration of Policy- It shall be the policy of the United
States to take all necessary measures, including military action if
required, to prevent Iran from threatening the United States, its
allies, or Iran's neighbors with a nuclear weapon. This is an authorization for the use of military force against Iran.
It ignores the warnings of both current and former U.S. top military
brass who have spoken in opposition to the use of military force against
Iran, including former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and current
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. A February 2012 poll demonstrated that less than 20%
of the Israeli public supports anIsraeli strike on Iran if approved by
the United States. Congress must avoid the same mistakes it made in
the Iraq war and reject any language that can be construed as
authorizing war against Iran.

SEC. 1222. UNITED STATES MILITARY PREPAREDNESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.Section 2 (A) pre-positioning sufficient supplies of aircraft, munitions, fuel, and other materials for both air- and sea-based missions at key forward locations in the Middle East and Indian Ocean; (B) maintaining sufficient naval assets in the region necessary to signal United States resolve and to bolster United States capabilities to launch a sustained sea and air campaign against a range of Iranian nuclear and military targets, to protect seaborne shipping, and to deny Iranian retaliation against United States interests in the region; (D) conducting naval fleet exercises


One woman was injured when she fell out of bed and cut her arm, CNN affiliate KSLA in nearby Shreveport, Louisiana, reported. And the Shelby County sheriff's office had reports of broken windows from the temblor, dispatcher Karen Shield told CNN.

The quake was the second to hit the area in a week. A 3.9 quake shook Timpson May 10. Thursday morning's earthquake was the third-strongest in East Texas history, KLTV reported, surpassed only by quakes in 1957 and 1964. Cliff Frohlich, a University of Texas scientist, said it's possible the most recent quakes are related to energy production activity in the area. "There are some injection wells in the part of the country where these earthquakes occurred," Frolich told CNN. "If they were very close to an injectionwell, that would suggest they were." Injection wells are used in the disposal of dirty water from energy production, Frohlich said. Frohlich said injection wells should not be confused with fracking, a process which involves injecting water, sand and some chemicals deep into the earth to crack shale rock, which frees oil and gas. "Fracking almost never causes quakes," Frohlich said. - CNN.

The early April earthquake of magnitude 8.7 that shook Sumatra was a grim reminder of the devastating earthquakes and tsunami that killed tens of thousands of people in 2004 and 2005. Now a new study, funded by the National Science Foundation, shows that the residents of that region are at risk from yet another potentially deadly natural phenomenon – major volcanic eruptions. Researchers from Oregon State


than perhaps has been appreciated,” he added. Until this study, little was known about Sumatra’s volcanic history – in part because few western scientists have been allowed access to the region. The most visible evidence of recent volcanic activity among the estimated 33-35 potentially active volcanoes are their steep-sided cones and lack of vegetation, indicating at least some minor eruptive processes. But in 2007, an expedition led by OSU’s Chris Goldfinger was permitted into the region and the Oregon State researchers and their Indonesian colleagues set out to explore the earthquake history of the region by studying sediment cores from the Indian Ocean. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it was the first research ship from the United States allowed into Indonesia/Sumatran waters in nearly 30 years.

While searchingrain was attributable to sea surface temperatures," said Dr Evans, a future fellow at the University of NSW's Climate Change Research Centre. While the flooding occurred during one of the strongest La Nina events on record it was insufficient to produce the extreme rainfall recorded, he said. The effect of the high sea surface temperatures coupled with the impact of a La Nina, both of which are associated with above average rainfall over eastern Australia, plus tropical cyclone Tasha, combined to create an extreme weather event, he said. The resulting floods stretched across 1.3 million square kilometres all the way to Brisbane, caused billions of dollars in damage and killed 35 people.

Matthew England, who was not involved in the study, said ocean temperatures off northern Australia were the


rainfall in the future would also rise, he said. - The Age.

"Right now, just very worried, very upset," Krissy
Davison, a friend of Kuykendall, told the station from the hospital.
"Still in disbelief that here is my friend, who just had these two
beautiful babies, and now she is incubated upstairs and not able to
enjoy the bonding experience and enjoy the babies." The news of the latest attack of the disease comes days after reports
that Aimee Copeland, 24, a grad student in Georgia, lost her leg and
part of her abdomen battling the bacteria. Darren Kuykendall told WYFF-TV in Spartanburg, S.C., that his wife's vitals and blood work are good and physicians remain positive. "It's devastating, very devastating, very overwhelming, probably the worst thing I've ever done in my entire life," Darrentechnology. This puts them at a disadvantage in the industry.

Sachs adds that increasing temperatures due to climate change may lead to lower yields in countries and regions such as Colombia, India, Malaysia, and Central America, which would accentuate the risks of deforestation, poverty and inequality, and co-dependency of the global supply of Vietnam and Brazil.

He concludes that joint action is necessary from all main actors within the coffee industry, in coordination with governments, to invest in the sustainability of the coffee sector.

A total of 25 million families are engaged in coffee cultivation around the world. More than 1500 producer were in attendance at Sachs’ WCPF keynote speech.


plaza to allow employees to reach the booths without walking through the high-speed lane.) Also, the renovation of the maintenance garage is still underway. When completed, the two buildings will match. “It will carry the same canopy around the outside,” Darlington said, but the maintenance garage will not feature so many glass windows.

The final jobs are a parking lot expansion and landscaping.

According to Darlington, the new headquarters looks like an entirely new building, but is actually two new additions on both sides of the old structure. The additions increase the space by about 90 percent, he said. The old building contained about 4,000 square feet. With the new additions, the authority’s headquarters measures about 7,800 square feet.

Bill Burgin of Burgin Lambert Architects in Newport designed the building. TheAnnouncing the full line-up for Le Guess Who? 2017

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The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda performed by the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers

Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s devotion to spirituality defined the final decades of her life. By 1983, she had established the 48-acre Sai Anantam Ashram outside of Los Angeles, where she quietly began recording music. Earlier this year, David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label released the first-ever compilation of recordings from this period: a powerful, largely unheard body of work that finds Alice singing for the first time in her recorded catalog.

The compilation showcases


The capital of Ukraine, Kiev is the most important industrial, cultural, historical and political center of Ukraine. According to the legend, the city was founded in 482 by three brothers, a prince of a Slavic tribe named Kyy, his two younger brothers and their sister, Lybid. And during the last 15 centuries, Kiev has become one of the most beautiful and populous (3 million residents) cities in Europe.

It’s impossible to visit the capital of Ukraine Kiev and not fall in love with this green city, located on the banks of Dnipro River! Everybody finds something special in its charm. Some spend hours looking at the golden domes of the heavenly cathedrals and churches on Kiev’s hills. Other tourists explore downtown where historic monuments from ancient times are justAfter weeks of speculation, US officials have told news outlets that North Korea was involved in November's devastating Sony hack. Especially because the group threatened violence if Sony released its North Korea-focused comedy The Interview, this could turn the issue from a major security problem to an international incident, and American politicians have begun formulating their responses — whether that's simple condemnation or calls for new cybersecurity bills.

The White House hasn't said anything about the hacks, or publicly attributed them to North Korea. But Congress members and others have been less circumspect. Representative Peter King (R-NY) called for legislators to pass the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, which reimburses insurers for terrorism-related losses. The policy was adopted after September 11th, but an extension failed to pass the Senate earlier


adversaries has emboldened, and will continue to embolden, those seeking to harm the United States through cyberspace," he said in a statement. He reiterated promises to focus on the issue if elected chair of the Armed Services Committee, including plans to create a subcommittee for cybersecurity issues. "Congress as a whole must also address these issues and finally pass long-overdue comprehensive cybersecurity legislation," he said. McCain has been pushing cybersecurity bills for years, including the Secure IT Act, a competitor to the controversial CISPA bill.

In a statement on Tuesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a major proponent of cybersecurity and author of multiple bills, said that "this is only the latest example of the need for serious legislation to improve the sharing of information between the private sector and\[[@B76-ijerph-16-04964]\], not only do Korean plastic surgeons go to Chinese-owned clinics to provide medical services, but from 2005 onwards, they also own and operate clinics in Shanghai and Beijing. For example, Participant 22 mentioned that:

"We have a partnership with a hospital in Japan, which operates franchisees in Japan. In China, we opened a branch in last year, 2012. Chinese specialists had trained in the main hospital in Korea, and there are also Korean specialists in China. As opening a plastic surgery branch in China, Chinese medical tourists who are required follow up care can receive it in their home countries more comfortably. Moreover, medical tourists can receive Korean medical surgeries in their home countries because there are Chinese specialists who trained in the main hospital and Korean specialists


Laura Belle Watson Hill, 103, went home to be with the Lord January 30, 2018. She was a domestic worker for many years but retired after 30 years from the Henderson Country Club. She was a faithful member Seventh St. Baptist Church where she... View Obituary & Service Informationone single thing that sucks up the majority of the money we do have – it’s rent.

In the last 50 years, as the vast majority of the US population has come to live in cities, the cost of rent and housing over all, has gone up much faster than actual wages. This reality was accelerated by the housing crisis during the 2008 meltdown, as corporations bought and flipped massive amounts of foreclosed housing stock, which helped to displace large numbers of working class residents, often largely of color. These new rental properties, coupled with new waves of condo and luxury apartment development, ushered in a new wave of gentrification in major US cities, as tech companies set up shop in urban cores.

This is Aja, one of the children


18, 2019

The occupation also serves as an example of what might be possible on a much larger scale. With vacant properties dotted across major cities, what is stopping more families and those in need of housing from taking those buildings and creating an even larger network of support and defense against police eviction?

Rising Homelessness

Coupled with with increasing gentrification and rising rent costs is the growing amount of people living on the streets and in their vehicles, as for first time since the recession of 2008, homelessness is growing. Currently in cities like Los Angeles, long famous for Skid Row, the size of the homeless population is exploding, while other major cities are also experiencing an increase.

Across the US, the burgeoning crisis is pushing the State to adopt moreinstead into large shelters that some have compared to prisons.

But while across the US tent cities are being evicted and the homeless are under attack, many groups are getting organized to resist. Stop the Sweeps, a network of people mobilized in different areas to fight the eviction of tent cities, is once such group, another, The Village, located in Oakland, has also organized a series of land occupations. In cities like Seattle, people have also self-organized to build Tiny House communities, and currently are pushing back against a possible eviction in March of 2020.

Cuts to Services & Crumbling Infrastructure

While wages have stagnated and the cost of living has gone up, the wider push towards austerity has also led to State attacks on a variety of social safety net


of mutual aid centers and popular assemblies to meet everyday needs that the State refuses to.

Two years after hurricane Maria, the State in #PuertoRico has receded, but the organization, infrastructure + spirit of the Centers for Mutual Aid continues, as new projects and assemblies flourish. @MutualAidRelief reports on the current terrain. https://t.co/gt4c75LuC7 — It's Going Down (@IGD_News) October 22, 2019

Mass Transit

As with much of the country, mass transit systems are seeing both an increase of fares, coupled with increasing fare enforcement. In Philadelphia, a young African-American man was killed this summer after he was electrocuted, following a pursuit by authorities. In New York, increased State repression has also lead to continued attacks by police on the homeless, youth of color, and street vendors, catapulting a series of “FTP”An exterior rendering has been released showing the planned design of the Feather River California Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Feather River California Temple Rendering of the Feather River California Temple. 2019 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.

The temple, which was announced in October 2018 by Church President Russell M. Nelson, will be built at 1470 Butte House Road in Yuba City, California. Plans call for a temple of just over 38,000 square feet, as well as a new meetinghouse and distribution center to be built next to the temple. An existing meetinghouse on that site will be demolished.

The temple site will cover nine acres, which includes a small parcel of land the Church plans to purchase from Yuba City in the near


future.

Detailed design plans for the temple are still being developed. Further information — including interior and exterior renderings — will be made public later. A groundbreaking date has not been set yet. Project leaders will begin working with city officials on preliminary plans for the temple, and they will start filing public documents in the coming months.

This will be the eighth temple in California. Other temples are located in Fresno, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Oakland, Redlands, Sacramento and San Diego.Greg Louganis won four gold medals and one silver while on his way to becoming the only male diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive games. You are not Greg Louganis. This can be troubling, considering it's summer, and that means pool parties, which can be broken down into four parts: 1) Grilling and eating 2) Drinking 3) Someone getting pantsed and 4) Diving competitions.

Luckily for you, Steve Foley, USA Diving's High Performance Director, wants to help with part four. Foley isn't Louganis either, but he's damn good. Foley is a three-time Olympic diver for his native Australia. He served as the country's head Olympic diving coach, and before coming stateside, was Great Britain's High Performance Director for a decade. Now he's responsible for


Palawan striped babbler

The Palawan striped babbler (Zosterornis hypogrammicus) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References
 BirdLife International 2004.  Stachyris hypogrammica.   2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.   Downloaded on 27 July 2007.
Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers)  pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Palawan striped babbler
Category:Birds of Palawan
Category:Birds described in 1961
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polboteye patch of sorts. Bright lights accentuate her chiseled features, erasing all evidence of her dermatographia and presenting her in a hi-fashion style.

Ariana Page Russell graduated from the University of Nevada with a BFA in Photography and BA in Psychology. She received her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2005. She received a review in Art in America for her first solo show at Magnan Projects (Axial Bloom 2006-07) and was featured in ABC News 20/20. In 2008 Russell received the Artist Trust Grant for Artist Project. She has exhibited at numerous galleries throughout the US and recently moved to New York City from Seattle, Washington.


Alli (film)

Alli is a 1964 Indian Tamil-language film produced and directed by S. S. Rajendran. He also stars, along with C. R. Vijayakumari and Sowcar Janaki playing the title character. The film was released on 5 March 1964, and became a commercial success.

Plot
Kannan is an ideal police officer, whose sense of duty transcends filial affection and the basic norms of human sentiment. He is very duty conscious, that even when he finds his own kith and kin and those, to whom he should remain beholden for his life, guilty of breaking the law, he rises above his mental conflict and performs his duty without swerving from the path of truth and justice. He does not mind "booking" his own beloved for meting out punishment when he discoversto the Georgia Court and to this Court regarding his views toward promiscuity, the gay lifestyle and his fears of danger attending each. Certainly, this is an issue which could have a significant bearing on the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of the minor child involved and should be taken into consideration, along with all of the other factors, in determining what is in the best interest of the child and what will materially promote her well-being."
There is also testimony and evidence supporting the trial court's disregard of the daughter's counselor's testimony that it was not in the best interests of the daughter that she be returned to the mother. The counselor testified that her opinion was based upon a less than thirty-minute interview with the mother,


doll representing the stepfather, after which the counselor stated that "[w]hen [the mother] saw that, she began to cry, and it was in that emotional moment when she had seen the extent of her daughter's injury that she turned to her and said it wouldn't have gone on as long as it did if you had told me." It strains the credulity of the counselor to interpret this statement as the mother blaming the daughter for her own abuse. It may have been this strained reasoning that caused the trial court to conclude that the counselor's opinions and conclusions were without sufficient basis to be well received. That notwithstanding, the trial court, not this court, is in the best position to determine the credibility of the witnesses, andwith whom she has a close relationship. Mindful of the daughter's young age, the trial court expressly found that the daughter "came across in an appropriate and well-received manner" and that her "testimony should be given some weight."
The trial court expressly noted that the Georgia court contemplated that the paternal grandmother would be involved in the day-to-day *756 care of the daughter when it granted custody to the father. The Georgia order specifically concluded that the father's residence with his mother in rural Alabama placed him "in a position to provide a safe and secure home for the child." Based on the evidence in the record, the trial court found that during the brief time that the father and the daughter lived in the grandmother's home, the father


and the grandmother were not "getting along." The daughter's counselor testified that this "fussing" and "fighting" upset the daughter and that it "is a source of stress for [the daughter]."
Further evidence disclosed that in the time between the December 1991 custody change and the November 1992 hearing, the father and the daughter have moved into an apartment and then a house. Other evidence disclosed that the father is unemployed, and that his income consists of disability income for himself and for the daughter, and the child support paid by the mother. The daughter also testified that a couple of times while they lived in the apartment, she walked in her sleep, and that one of those times, her father found her outside on the steps in the night.the team behind Little Branch.

Dutch Kills 27-24 Jackson Avenue

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The Economy - Economic Structure

Until late 1989, Bulgaria had a command economy based on centralized planning rather than on market forces. In such a system, crucial economic decisions such as allocation of output, rates of expansion of various sectors, values of goods and services, and the exchange rate of the national currency were made administratively, not by the market. Bulgaria's faithful adherence to the Soviet model of economic planning included rapid industrialization, large-scale investments, and other resource allocation to heavy industry at the expense of light industry and agriculture, higher rates of spending for capital investment than for consumption purchases, and forced nationalization of industry and collectivization of agriculture.

The Centrally Planned Economy

Proponents of centrally planned economies (CPEs) maintained that the advantages of such systems far outweighed the disadvantages.downturns. (As their national economies became more interrelated with international markets, however, CPE proponents admitted the difficulty of isolating themselves from swings in world economic conditions.) Another theoretical advantage was that economic decisions could be based on long-range goals because the financial losses of any individual enterprise or industry could be offset by profits in other areas of the economy. And, since the organization of the entire industrial and agricultural base was determined administratively, economies of scale could easily be incorporated into the planning process.

Western economists were generally critical of the CPE, however. Their criticisms had two essential components. First, central economic planners often were unable to plan an economy efficiently; and second, even when they could plan well, they were unable to achieve the goals they planned.


enterprise. Despite such experimentation, however, Bulgaria remained faithful to the general Soviet model for over four decades. In the years after the end of communist rule, the CPE remained the predominant structural element in the Bulgarian economy, especially in large enterprise management.

The Planning System

Prior to 1990, the planning hierarchy in Bulgaria included several levels. The ultimate economic authority was the BCP. The party determined general economic policies, identified economic reforms and their structure, and monitored economic activity. Planning and control were the responsibility of the Council of Ministers, which was roughly equivalent to a Western cabinet. The most important planning committee within the Council of Ministers was the State Planning Committee (SPC). Within the Council of Ministers were specialized economic ministries, such as the Ministry of Finance andthe Ministry of Foreign Trade, and various governmental committees and commissions. The composition and authority of the ministries underwent frequent change. In 1986, for example, six ministries with economic powers were eliminated and five cabinet-level "voluntary associations" were formed. The aftermath of these changes, however, showed few new power relationships. In the later Zhivkov years, the prime responsibilities of ministry-level agencies included forecasting development of their industries, assessing development bottlenecks, and generally overseeing state development policy. However, the ministries were not to participate actively in planning. That was a function of the associations.

The associations, also known as trusts, were an intermediary organization between the ministries and the lowest level of the planning hierarchy, the enterprise. The association integrated production, research and development, design, construction, and foreign trade functions.


Unlike associations in the Soviet Union, which were merely an intermediary link in the chain of economic command, Bulgarian associations retained several essential decision-making prerogatives and were in direct contact with centers of economic power such as the SPC, the Ministry of Finance, and the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB). At the bottom of the economic hierarchy, enterprises were distinct economic entities that operated under an independent accounting system. They were expected to earn a planned amount of profit, a portion of which went to the state as a profits tax.

In the Bulgarian command economy, almost all economic activity was directed toward plan fulfillment. Economic directives were outlined extensively in the plans, which were not merely guidelines but binding, legal documents. The best known of these was the FiveYearand output targets for critical commodities to the SPC, which reconciled them with required inputs. A draft plan then was created by a process of negotiation and information exchange up and down the planning hierarchy. After negotiating with the SPC on targets and resources and formulating specific guidelines, the associations then negotiated with their individual enterprises to establish final figures. The output targets then went back to the SPC for a final negotiation with the associations.

The final version of the plan was submitted to the Council of Ministers for approval or modification, after which the approved targets were sent down the hierarchy to the individual firms. Thus enterprises were informed of their binding norms for a planning period, including volume and mix of output, procurement limits, level of


In the last few years, several countries around the world have taken steps to promote responsible business conduct. While in some cases it has been voluntary and non-binding like the National Action Plan on Business & Human Rights, in other cases, there are legislations such as the Modern Slavery Act and the mandatory human rights due-diligence code for the same. India has recently launched its National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct and has started a process of developing a National Action Plan on Business & Human Rights.

Upholding this spirit, Oxfam India in collaboration with The Indian Law Institute, Delhi (ILI) and Human Rights and Business Academy (HURBA) organised a five day long intensive course on ‘business and human rights’ (BHR), starting from 8 July 2019. The course providedexposure on international and comparative perspectives in the field of BHR to over 50 law and business management students, lawyers, civil society representatives, policy makers, corporate executives, and government officials. It provided them an opportunity to share insights on:

Governance and accountability of state owned companies

Corporate criminal liability for grave human rights violations

Judicial mechanisms and non-judicial mechanisms for corporate human rights violations

Accountability of lead firm for violations in a supply chain

Liability of financial institutions and investors for conduct of its investee companies

Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence

Modern slavery legislations

Corporate tax evasion

Stock exchange listing obligations related to social and environment disclosures

The course was spread across 35 hours of interactive seminars. It was conducted pro-bono by eminent national and international academicians and practitioners focusing on comparative and international perspectives on BHR. The


course elaborated on policy frameworks and mechanisms like the UN Guiding Principles on Responsible Business, OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct and Sustainable Development Goals (SDSs). It also focused on the role of civil society organisations, human rights defenders, investors and consumers and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to protect labour rights in global supply chains, human rights due diligence and maintain gender balance as part of BHR. Moreover, the course also included a session on technology in BHR and a case study on negotiations.

The course faculty included Dr. Ranjit Singh (Joint Secretary, National Human Rights Commission of India), Prof. Surya Deva (Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong), Tara Van Ho (Lecturer, University ofBy SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's main opposition party said Wednesday it would challenge the outcome of the country's April 16 referendum on expanding the president's powers at the European Court of Human Rights a day after a high court rejected its appeal.

The pro-secular Republican People's Party, or CHP, is disputing the referendum, which gave President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's "yes" side a narrow victory. Critics say there have been a number of irregularities, including an electoral board decision to count ballot papers that lacked official stamps. International monitors also noted irregularities in the voting process and said the decision to validate the unstamped ballots removed an important safeguard against fraud and was in violation of Turkey's laws.

CHP spokeswoman Selin Sayek Boke announced the party's decision


to take the appeal to the Strasbourg, France-based court after the country's high administrative court rejected its bid to have the electoral authority's decision on the unstamped ballot papers overturned. The Supreme Electoral Board also rejected an appeal by the opposition last week.

"It is our duty to protect the votes of every citizen that went to the polls," Boke said. "We will be applying to the ECHR in the period ahead. We are confident that we will meet again in more enlightened times."

Erdogan and other government officials have said the electoral authority's decision is final, and that efforts to challenge it in courts — including the European court — would be futile. The electoral board has published past rulings on the validity of unstamped ballots.

The electoral authority isValdis Dombrovskis said that despite the rift between the two, cooperation on issues like refugees and migrants remained necessary.

"We have serious concerns but at the same time there are a number of areas where we must work together," Dombrovskis said. "It is up for Turkey to clarify its intentions toward EU and as regards the accession process."

EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn said however, that it was "crucial" that the allegations of irregularities are addressed through transparent investigations.

Addressing the European Parliament in Brussels, Hahn added that "the close referendum result makes the need to seek a broad consensus all the more important" in Turkey.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, meanwhile, confirmed that he had congratulated Erdogan on his victory in the referendum.

Orban said that while the quality of democracy was important,


admission neatly encapsulated all that was wrong with Guantánamo. Following a Military Order issued in November 2001 and an Executive Order issued in February 2002 (PDF), the administration had labeled all the prisoners as “unlawful enemy combatants,” who could be held without charge or trial, and had, moreover, deprived them of the protections of the Geneva Conventions, but in fact little was known about any of them.

In Afghanistan, where most of the prisoners had been held and processed before their long flight to Guantánamo, in brutal, makeshift prisons inside the US bases at Kandahar airport and Bagram airbase, the US military had been ordered to dispense with the Geneva Conventions’ Article 5 competent tribunals. The hearings, which involved calling witnesses close to the time and place of capture,attacks, or any other terrorist plots (until a handful of significant prisoners were transferred into Guantánamo from secret CIA prisons in September 2006), and no one knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, despite being asked ad nauseam. For terror cells to be successful, secrecy is the key. As few people as possible must know the plans, and in this al-Qaeda had been particularly successful.

For the rest of the prisoners — the Afghans — the truth was equally bleak. Dozens were unwilling Taliban recruits, forced to serve on pain of death or punishment, and numerous others were betrayed by rivals, who took advantage of the gullibility of the US forces. Deprived of useful intelligence in Afghanistan for at least a decade, and unwilling to risk US troops in


dollars for helping the anti-Taliban force catch al-Qaeda and Taliban murderers. This is enough money to take care of your family, your village, your tribe for the rest of your life — pay for livestock and doctors and school books and housing for all your people.” In Pakistan alone, President Pervez Musharraf bragged, in his 2006 autobiography, that in return for handing over 369 terror suspects (including many transferred to Guantánamo), “We have earned bounty payments totaling millions of dollars.”

II.

Long before any of this came to light, however, the administration compounded its initial failure to screen the prisoners by embarking on a cruel and misconceived attempt to unlock their mostly non-existent secrets. The end result resembled nothing less than the activities of the witch-hunters of the seventeenth century.

Thefocused on interrogation (which itself contravenes the Geneva Conventions), in which the use of torture had become commonplace.

III.

It was inevitable, of course, that America’s leaders would react to the attacks of September 11, 2001 with a show of colossal force. The world’s preeminent military power had not been attacked on its own territory since Pearl Harbor in 1941, and was hardly likely to sit back after such a devastating and symbolic terrorist attack. However, those in charge could hardly have been less qualified to react to the attacks in an appropriate manner.

Behind the presidential façade of George W. Bush, most of the key decisions about America’s response to the attacks were made by Vice President Dick Cheney, with support from defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and crucial advice from


techniques in a mildly amended form, although Mora was not informed. When the Abu Ghraib scandal broke in April 2004, Mora realized the extent to which he had been sidelined. He told the journalist Jane Mayer, “Everything we had warned against in Guantánamo had happened — but in a different setting.”

IV.

While these struggles remained largely hidden from view, however, other challenges were more difficult to dismiss. Legal challenges to the legitimacy of Guantánamo began almost as soon as the prison opened in January 2002, although it took nearly two and half years for the cases to reach the Supreme Court, allowing the administration a shockingly large window of opportunity to indulge in its extra-legal abuses.

In many ways, the Guantánamo project’s viability was shattered on June 29, 2004, whenthe Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that the prisoners had habeas corpus rights; in other words, the right to ask a judge why they were being held, under the 800-year old “Great Writ,” a cornerstone of American justice, inherited from the British, which prevents arbitrary detention. Crucially, the Rasul verdict allowed lawyers to visit the prison (to begin filing habeas petitions on behalf of the prisoners) and finally pierced the veil of secrecy that had been necessary for systemic abuse to take place.

In other respects, however, the administration refused to be swayed by Rasul. Instead of allowing the prisoners access to the US courts, as the Supreme Court intended, the authorities introduced administrative reviews — the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) — to ascertain whether, on


capture, the prisoners had been correctly designated as “enemy combatants.” These were a pale mockery of the Article 5 competent tribunals, not just because they took place two and a half years too late, and half a world away from the time and place of capture, but in particular because of reasons identified in June 2007 by Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, a veteran of US intelligence, who had worked on the tribunals.

In an affidavit for one of the Guantánamo cases, Lt. Col. Abraham declared that the entire process relied on intelligence “of a generalized nature — often outdated, often ‘generic,’ rarely specifically relating to the individual subjects of the CSRTs or to the circumstances related to those individuals’ status,” and was designed, essentially, to rubber-stamp the prisoners’ priorof the judiciary, were enormously significant, but when it came down to it, public pressure in the prisoners’ home countries, and diplomatic pressure exerted by their home governments, played a more significant role. The real failure lay with Congress, which capitulated when confronted by an Executive branch that regarded its influence with disdain, and, it must be said, with the American public, who were prepared to let their President and Vice President seize dictatorial powers, undermine the US Constitution, shred the Geneva Conventions, spurn habeas corpus, tear up the Bill of Rights, discard the Army Field Manual, create a system of show trials for terrorists out of thin air, spy on American citizens with impunity, and pour scorn on the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman


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By
Alejandro López and Alex Lantier
4 December 2010

The Spanish military took control of 10 airports last night after Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero, of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE, Spanish Socialist Workers Party), signed a decree giving the Defence Ministry control of the Spanish airspace. Yesterday evening, a wildcat strike by Spain's air traffic controllers left 330,000 passengers stranded in airports throughout Spain and Europe.

The air traffic controllers struck after a decree on their labour conditions was passed by the Council of Ministers on Friday afternoon. This decree stated that the controllers have to work 1,670 hours per year, without counting parental/maternal permits or sick leave. It also included the possibility of militarising the airports immediately if air traffic


that the Defence Ministry “will demand the presence at their workplaces of civil air traffic controllers.” Military police marched on the Hotel Auditórium in Madrid, near Madrid's main Barajas airport, to break up a meeting of air traffic controllers and force them back to work.

Last night soldiers were reportedly taking over Spain's central air control facilities in Sevilla, Madrid, Barcelona and Canarias. They also planned to reinforce and take control of civilian employees at airports in Valladolid, Murcia, Salamanca, Toledo, Badajoz, León, Zaragoza, Albacete, and the smaller Cuatro Vientos and Torrejón de Ardoz airports in Madrid.

Army units are authorized to forcibly seize air traffic controllers from their homes, transport them to control towers, and force them to work “under military authority”. The government will treat disobeying orders givena one-day national strike in Portugal, the defeat of a large-scale oil strike in France, and the breaking of a Greek seamen's strike by a government back-to-work order.

In Spain, 10 million workers, or 70 percent of the country's workforce, marched in a one-day general strike called by the unions in September. An October opinion poll in El País found 61 percent disapproval for Zapatero's handling of the economic crisis. He has forced a two-year increase in the retirement age, wage cuts for state workers, and labour reforms making it easier to hire and fire workers.

On Wednesday, Zapatero cited pressure from banks and financial markets, who were speculating against Spain's public debt, to justify new social cuts. These include not only the 49 percent privatization of AENA, but the


The Witches

The 1967 omnibus film The Witches was concocted by producer Dino De Laurentiis as a lavish, star-studded vehicle for his then-wife, actress Silvana Mangano, who features prominently in each of its five segments. What any of these episodes has to do with the quasi-folkloric figure of the witch remains mostly a matter of individual interpretation: The title likely shouldn't be taken as anything other than metaphorical. What's more, it mistakenly primes us to anticipate a certain kind of genre material, akin to the gothic chills of the Hammer horror film of the same name starring Joan Fontaine. Instead, The Witches offers a quintet of artfully contrived stories that examine the role of the feminine in modern society, each very different in tone and content.

The film is unevenin terms of both episode length and quality. Mauro Bolognini's Civic Sense is an attenuated comic sketch in which a middle-class motorist (Mangano) solicitously comes to the aid of a truck driver (Alberto Sordi) injured in a traffic accident (her callous motivation for doing so is only revealed in the segment's downbeat punchline). Even slighter, The Sicilian Belle parodies provincial mores, as well as commedia all'italiana gems like Pietro Germi's scathing Seduced and Abandoned, in an ultraviolent tale of revenge that's prompted by—you guessed it—seduction and abandonment.

Luchino Visconti's The Witch Burned Alive opens the film with a suitably self-reflexive take on the perils of international superstardom. The auto-da-fé suggested by the title refers to the literal and figurative deconstruction of renowned actress Gloria (Mangano) when she decides to


pay an unannounced visit to the Austrian chalet owned by her oldest friend, Valeria (Annie Girardot). The other guests cajole Gloria into performing a sexy dance routine, favorably compare her to industrial goods like canned meat, and generally set their sights on her in one way or another: The men are all on the make, married or no, and the women delight in stripping Gloria of her various beauty aids (wig, false eyelashes, etc.) when she swoons from overexertion.

As with Visconti's The Leopard, one of the key scenes is illuminated entirely by firelight. The hearthside chat in The Leopard allows Prince Fabrizio to burrow down to the core of his longing for oblivion. Here the decadent game of erotic tag between Gloria, Valeria's husband (Francisco Rabal), and anotherguest (Massimo Girotti) crystalizes for Gloria the impossibility of finding further gratification in the act of infidelity. Because she's pregnant, Gloria turns inward, attempting to find purpose and happiness in the existence of the child. But those hopes are dashed in an excoriating long-distance phone call with her producer husband. (In a nod to Mangano's real-life experiences, the photo clearly visible on the nightstand shows De Laurentiis.) All that's left for Gloria is to reconstruct the false idol of her celebrity.

Pasolini's first color film, The Earth as Seen from the Moon plays like a companion piece to The Hawks and the Sparrows: Both works pair veteran comic actor Totò with fresh-faced Ninetto Davoli, feature the music of Ennio Morricone, and find aptly oblique angles from which to critique


the lambent lighting schemes of Luchino Visconti's segment to the brash primary colors of Pier Paolo Pasolini's with equal aplomb. Civic Sense deploys a lot of hectic handheld camerawork, and The Sicilian Belle is dominated by solemn blacks and earthy browns. Vittorio De Sica's segment uses diffuse lighting and a slightly out-of-focus image to differentiate between Giovanna's imaginings and her humdrum reality. Arrow's 2K restoration of the film reveals more in the way of fine details, and boasts deeper blacks and a bolder color palette, compared to the earlier DVD from MGM. It's also free from practically all the blemishes that were displayed in that transfer, save for a stray hair or two caught in the gate.

Piero Piccioni scored four of the film's episodes, providing a jaunty, jazzytitle theme that runs through the opening animated credits and all of Visconti's story. Also of note is his unusual rendition of the pop song "I Will Follow Him" arranged for male chorus. Ennio Morricone scored Pasolini's vignette, leaning heavily on folk tunes and discordant harmonica (eerily reminiscent of the one played by Charles Bronson in Once Upon a Time in the West). The PCM mono mixes (in Italian or English) do fine by the dialogue, which can be subtitled in either version, but really excel in putting across the distinctive soundtrack.

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In another thoroughly researched commentary track, film critic and novelist Tim Lucas conveys a wealth of information about the history of the anthology film in Italy, as well as the variously intersecting work histories of The Witches's


cast and crew. He offers a nuanced reading of the film's variegated themes and visual stratagems. Where the MGM DVD contained an alternate version of De Sica's episode, with Clint Eastwood and Silvana Mangano delivering their lines in English, Arrow includes the entire English-language version of the film. Complete with inserts and intertitles written in English, this version runs about seven minutes shorter than the Italian: The majority of the cuts have been made to Pasolini's segment, which is sort of ironic, since some critics consider it the best of the bunch. There's also an amusing difference in the dubbing of the De Sica episode: When Eastwood jadedly intones a litany of film titles, many of them are De Laurentiis productions, including the Eastwood vehicle A Fistful ofPlease approve access.

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How The Wave Of Synthetic Cannabinoids Got Started

Drugs like K2 have been responsible for overdoses and spikes in emergency room visits in the U.S. Several of the formulas for these drugs came from the lab of a chemistry professor in South Carolina.

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

Over the past 10 years, a group of drugs called synthetic cannabinoids, also known as Spice, K2 or synthetic marijuana, have been responsible for mass overdoses and tens of thousands of emergency room visits around the country. Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi of our Planet Money podcast looked into where this wave in synthetic drugs began.

ALEXI HOROWITZ-GHAZI, BYLINE: The story of the modern synthetic drug revolution begins in a scientific lab with a well-intentioned professor.

JOHN W HUFFMAN: Let me explain how we got into the synthetic cannabinoid business.

HOROWITZ-GHAZI:John W. Huffman is a retired organic chemistry professor from Clemson University. And his role in the multibillion-dollar synthetic drug market began in the early 1990s. A few years earlier, biochemists had discovered a part of the body called the cannabinoid receptor. In addition to getting pot smokers high, this receptor seemed to be involved with all sorts of important things - sleep, appetite, pain, which meant a whole new horizon of potential medicines. But first scientists had to figure out how the receptor worked.

HUFFMAN: And that sounded like a fun puzzle to attack.

HOROWITZ-GHAZI: John Huffman's job was to synthesize brand new chemical compounds to trigger the receptor. And those would be tested on rodent brains to measure their effects. Huffman and his colleagues eventually created more than


300 new compounds. They published their scientific findings and formulas, and for over a decade, that was that. Then around the end of 2008, John Huffman received an unexpected message from a blogger in Germany.

HUFFMAN: They had discovered that one of our compounds had been found in a drug called Spice.

HOROWITZ-GHAZI: Spice was the brand name for a new kind of product being sold as herbal incense and labelled as not for human consumption. But humans were, in fact, consuming the stuff, getting high and exhibiting some troubling symptoms. And when authorities analyzed this Spice, they found JWH-018.

HUFFMAN: It was the 18th compound that we synthesized, and it was pretty potent - never thought anything of it.

HOROWITZ-GHAZI: Some enterprising chemist appeared to have poached Huffman's recipe straight fromwhile doing double duty as GM of Four Seasons properties in Buenos Aires and Carmelo, learning to tango and enrolling in flight school in hopes of cutting travel time between the two hotels. “I could dance,” he reports of the former, though he “never quite got there” on the latter.

For Giacometti, Budapest was a bit of a culture shock – especially the Hotel. An Art Nouveau landmark of sweeping staircases, stained glass, mosaics, ironwork and soaring gardens, it was designed by a local architect in 1904 to house an insurance company and was eventually turned into government offices before being immaculately renovated by Four Seasons in 2004. It serves more leisure travellers than business travellers. “Today it is really a little architectural museum, so different from the two


Chanonry Point lies at the end of Chanonry Ness, a spit of land
extending over a mile south east into the Moray Firth from
Fortrose and
Rosemarkie. The ness projects so far
that Chanonry Point actually lies south west of
Fort George, on the "south"
shore of the Moray Firth.

Chanonry Point Camp
Site

Fortrose
& Rosemarkie Golf Club

Dolphins at Chanonry
PointImage Courtesy Jürgen Rösemeier

Chanonry Point is a popular place, where parking can be at a
premium at times. People come here to enjoy the superb coastal scenery and the
views across the Moray Firth to the vast and grimly functional bastion of
Fort George. And Chanonry Point
is particularly popular as one of the best onshore locations in Scotland - or
perhaps anywhere - from which to view dolphins. The Moray Firth is home to
around 130 dolphins, which can often be seen atvery close quarters here as
they fish and play in the turbulent waters off the point. The viewing area is
wheelchair accessible.

Chanonry Point
Lighthouse

Brahan Seer Memorial

Dolphin Watching

The landward end of Chanonry Ness houses the two caravan and camping
sites in the area, while as the point narrows it is largely given over to the
Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Club, founded in 1888. Signs remind you to keep an
eye out for stray golf balls while driving along the road leading to the point.

The crossing between the spit, occupied since 1748 by
Fort George and Chanonry Point,
is the shortest crossing of the Moray Firth east of
Inverness and has furnished
a ferryman with a living for many centuries: a passenger ferry continued to
operate here as late as 1953.

The ferry pier at Chanonry Point dates back to the mid


1700s, when
the nearby Ferry House was also built, probably initially as an inn providing
shelter and sustenance for those waiting for or recovering from the crossing.
The lighthouse, first lit in 1846, was designed by Alan Stevenson and comes
with the Egyptian styled keepers cottages the Stevenson's preferred for a
while.

In about 1675 the point was where Kenneth Mackenzie or
Coinneach Odhar, better known
as the Brahan Seer is said to
have met his end. The Brahan
Seer is often though of as a Highland Nostradamus. When asked by Isabella,
3rd Countess of Seaforth, why her husband was late returning home he first
prevaricated, but when pressed simply told her that her husband was dallying in
Paris with a lady who was more attractive than the Countess herself.

Coinneach Odhar's
reward was to be hauled off to Chanonry Point where heto a tiny bobbin of thread. By the end of the TTT he had repaired his shoe and was back on the road.

L’Equipe, the French sports daily, are not Giro regulars and are only here to report on Armstrong. You have to smile at their flip-flop attitude to the American; on the one hand trying to nail him for doping; and on the other following his every move in the build-up to the Tour, which they know will bring big bucks in his wake.

It’s been fun riding alongside the Texan in the peloton, getting shots of him having a laugh with Mark Cavendish, or talking to Bradley Wiggins (they can’t both be Style Council fans surely?). He looks like he is enjoying himself and complimented Graham on his


cultivation.

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In compliance with the depth requirement, the gas line was originally laid about 36 inches below the surface.  It had continued in use from its installation until the time of the occurrence of the accident involved in this case.  During that period the character of the land changed from wilderness to residential, and a house was constructed thereon in 1946.  The evidence was such that the jury could have inferred that the surface of the land had changed to the point that the pipe line may have been only five or six inches deep at the time of the accident.  The area was grown over and had been undisturbed for some time.  Mississippi Valley made periodic foot patrols along the gas line todetermine potential problems from erosion, construction, and the like, but there were no signs marking the path of the line except where it crossed a public highway some distance from the point of the accident.

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On April 17, 1971, Claude Wideman was operating a road grader on the Beasley property in response to Beasley's request for county assistance in alleviating a drainage problem created by water running off the city-maintained road immediately in front of his property.  While Beasley was aware of the general location of the pipe line on his property, neither he nor decedent contacted Mississippi Valley to ascertain the exact location of the line.  Mississippi Valley was not otherwise made aware of the fact that decedent intended to operate the road grader over the


would persist, generating second-order effects that have an adverse impact on prices.
The peso has been under pressure against the U.S. dollar since November 2014 and fell to record lows in the wake of the election victory of Donal Trump, who has threatened to renegotiate trade deals with Mexico and build a wall between the two countries.
The peso fell around 11 percent to 20.7 per U.S. dollar after Trump's victory and was trading slightly higher today at around 20.4 to the dollar following the central bank's rate hike.name to FemOne. The shell had planned to be a gold-prospecting company. It had no revenues, and its only employee, its chief executive -- a longtime diddler in mining stocks listed on the raucous Vancouver Stock Exchange -- only spent one-tenth of his time at the company. He had received his shares for one-tenth of a penny each.

In August, the company abandoned its gold-mining ambitions -- if there had ever been any -- and permitted FemOne's honchos, mainly Rancho Santa Fe's Raymond W. Grimm Jr., to gain control and thus get a public market for the stock without having to bare its soul in a prospectus.


Several members of the Gay in the Lord Church, Lynchburg Virginia,
recently left the congregation after the pastor, Frank Lee Wright, performed
a union for a heterosexual couple. The official church doctrine remains
rather ambiguous in regards to heterosexuality. (Article IX, subpoint 3,
section F, sub section point 34.5 of the church constitution states: "We
affirm God's will for humans to express their God-given sexuality in the
context of committed partnerships of mutuality.") Many church members,
however, maintain strong views on the subject, and clear factions are
forming. One long-time church member claims that the Gay in the Lord
congregation hasn't been this divided since 1978 when they had to pick new
carpet for the sanctuary.

'Hate the sin and kick out the sinners.'

One faction adamantly opposes Rev. Wright's actions. Many in this
group have already left the church. Othersview sums up the majority opinion in the church, there
are those, Rev. Wright among them, who adamantly declare that
heterosexuality is a valid lifestyle for committed Christians. Despite
libelous remarks by critics that Rev. Wright is himself a closet
heterosexual, he affirms his own homosexuality and has indeed been living
with his male partner for more than 20 years.

"The issue for those opposed to heterosexuality," says Rev. Wright,
"is cultural, not Biblical." Wright points out that scriptures most often
used to condemn heterosexuality are taken out of context and, at times, rely
on specious translations of the original texts.

Holly R. Zanthou, who mastered in divinity at the School of the Bible
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, agrees. "Not only are their translations and
interpretations suspect, but these people (anti-heterosexuals) are ignoring
the larger issues present in the scriptures. Love, justice,