of inferred dispersion events that obscure the evolutionary history among drainage basins. When we restrict the analysis to areas that harbour endemic mitochondrial lineages, there is evidence of shared history across taxa. We hypothesize that there were two to three distinct waves of invasion into LCA from putative source populations in northwestern Colombia. The first probably happened in the late Miocene, prior to the final emergence of the Isthmus in the mid-Pliocene; the second was probably coincident with the rise of the Isthmus in the mid-Pliocene, and the third event occurred more recently, perhaps in the Pleistocene. In each case the geographical scale of the dispersion of lineages was progressively more limited, a pattern we attribute to the continuing development of the landscape due to orogeny and thefurther action in Iraq. No surprise; few Republicans demanded that the commander-in-chief call back Congress last month, as bombs dropped on ISIS. But while McKeon had been around for a while, and supported the 2002 vote to move into Iraq, younger and more libertarian Republicans were no less critical of Cheneyism than they'd been before he entered the room.

"His views don't reflect the views of most Republicans," said Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, talking to a small group of reporters, the Washington Post's Robert Costa asking most of the questions. "His worldview is that we should be in countries around the world, and have armed forces everywhere, and most Republicans don't agree with that."

Costa asked Amash if the GOP's hawks were making a comeback.

"No," said Amash. "Did you see


my election?" It had only been a few weeks since he routed a more hawkish Republican, who accused Amash of being a friend of al-Qaida.

After the other reporters moved on, Amash kept talking about the danger of listening to hawks who'd called for invading Iraq in 2002. "They have no credibility," he said. "The claims they made have been proved to be wrong. They helped destabilize the region, and now they're calling for greater use of force without any clear-cut strategy. That doesn't sound like something the American people will get behind."

Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie, who like Amash won his office with the support of Ron Paul backers, was just as direct. "Constituents in my district are very war-weary," he said. "I'm war-weary. The president would have tomoving forward. The only shame is that the movie is an original Netflix production — and a film this moody really deserves to be seen (and heard) in a theater if at all possible.

But while I went into Perkins’ film unfamiliar with his prior work, the opposite was true of Daguerrotype. It’s the newest film from Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, famous for exploring his obsessions with technology and death in films like Pulse and Cure. His first film in French (Kurosawa used a translator to speak to his cast while making the movie), Daguerrotype, centers on a young man who gets a job working for an eccentric photographer that is obsessed with shooting long-exposure, life-size daguerrotypes of his own daughter.

There’s a moment early on when the photographer looks


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the buttocks. The other four would squeeze in the back with the gear, an uncomfortable ride but it made sense for a way of getting everybody to venues on time and economically advantageous, for some of the band members didn't actually drive, Luke included.

One summer evening we were on our way to The Roadhouse in Covent Garden, a popular nightclub that hosted live music most nights of the week and extorted its customers with inflated drink prices. The pay was poor, the parking a nightmare and the staff were resentful that we got paid at all, but we did get a free meal, a crate of beer and it was a prestigious venue to showcase the band to potential clients who seemed keen to have a night outand April.Acknowledgment: Mom's Favorite Reads, you all know who you are.

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Tina Jean didn't look forward to it. She didn't know one woman who did. It might be a little better in Anchorage where they had real sidewalks, but out in rural Alaska it drove her crazy for almost three weeks. If they had the money, she'd spend the next three weeks in Hawaii.

Jimmy walked up to the porch, two milk buckets in either hand. She knew he brushed off the bottoms of the buckets before carrying them inside. That wasn't the problem. The combination mud, straw, and snow caked on the bottom of his boots was.

He was considerate. Jimmy tried. He put both buckets on the bottom step and used the side of the step to


he should breed their sow within the next couple weeks. The tractor needed work if he wanted to get a hay crop in. As warm as the winter had been, Jimmy prayed for an early spring. The quicker the seed got in the ground, the better.

Unless they had a cold snap. A long cold spell could kill the seed. With a grimace he tightened the last nut. If it happened, he'd deal with it as he had everything else that came along.

Maybe Arne would have an idea. Jimmy pulled out his phone, tugged the milking

stool over and sat down. His best friend for his entire life, Arne picked up on the third ring.

"Yo, Jim boy what's up?"

"I'm sitting out here in the barn trying to think of whatrespecting your partner's beliefs, wherever they may have originated. There is so much more to be gained, in fact, by discussing them, analyzing them and even accepting them. What I've found, more often than not, is that Lola was a "pretty smart cookie".

So, there we have it, in this month of romance, just a few ideas on how to not only survive, a cross-cultural relationship, or indeed any relationship, but also to make it grow and flourish. I wouldn't change what Thess and I have for anything. Every day is another step forward in our deep and loving relationship and I can honestly say, I've never been happier.

Grant Leishman is a fifty-nine-year-old full-time author and editor, domiciled in the beautiful islands of The Philippines. After careers in finance


sweetheart."

A Special Celebration

by Kate McGinn

\- 49 \-

He sat across the table from his wife. Time had not detracted from her beauty. No, his heart galloped in his chest when she smiled at him with her eyes still tightly shut.

"Okay, you can open them." Lawrence's voice cracked as he uttered the sentence his emotions beginning to swell within.

Her lashes parted, and her dark eyes reflected the sparkle of the candlelight. Tears streamed down her gaunt face. Lawrence didn't see her bald head or her

body \-- so thin from fighting the ravaging cancer. At this moment, he saw his beloved wife, and all he wanted was to give her joy today on their 20th wedding anniversary.

She pressed her hand to her lips kissing it before dropping it enough to blowsecond time. When I pass, it will come out; it will come \- it knows me; it does not bark at me. It says, "I know you." Having loved other dogs, they are silent.

• Tell someone a good word and do not think anymore. What he will do, whether he deserves the good word – you don't need to worry about this. This person was not born to understand you. It is important that you understand God and can help others. This is the meaning and beauty of life.

• Do not visit your friend's house when you are ill or sick. Do not go to your friend when you are unhappy and mad. Stay in the forest, walk among the trees or around the lake and complain to


be bad. "Yes, I heard you." Even her voice is all kinds of mellow.

"You're ok with me entering the academy?" "I wouldn't say okay with it. But I know the feeling of wanting to help others and solve the unknown. I guess you come by your sense of duty and curiosity honestly."

I let out a relieved breath. "Thanks for not being angry mom. I figure if I walk home from center of town each night this wee—"

"Oh, make no mistake, I am angry. I thought I raised you smarter than this."

I raise my eyebrows in shock. I've been an honor student since sixth grade. I graduated valedictorian with a four-point-oh GPA. "I was just acting on your plan. You're calling your own plan dumb."

"My plan is smart. Yourspainful grip. He sure can move fast for a big guy. I look up into his eyes and realize I'm in trouble.

"I'm afraid I must insist, Nancy." Ignoring my protests and me trying to pull my arm loose, he half pulls, half drags me to the passenger side of his SUV.

"Sheriff Dobbson, I like looking at the moon as I walk." I grab my phone from my pocket just in case my distress word wasn't heard. Before I can do anything, Sheriff Dobbson snatches my phone and tosses it. I hear the thud of it landing somewhere in the woods. I look in to his eyes. They're hard, unrelenting orbs of anger. Giving up his act of good Samaritan, he slaps me, picks me up with one hand,


ramekin. Microwave for 90 seconds. Flip out of the ramekin and slice in half.

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I'm hoping he can see all this in my eyes, these thoughts I'm trying to convey, but it's useless. He stands motionless.

'Fine,' he says miserably. 'Just one thing though. It's your courage you need to work on. Not your trust.' And with that, he turns and walks away. I look up, bargaining with myself that if he looks back, stops, hesitates even, I will tell him. But he does none of these things. I hear the front door click quietly as he closes it behind him.

I know he won't call.

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tell me all was well.

\- 86 \-

Vidocq – The First Detective

by Hannah Howe

Eugene Francois Vidocq, born in 1775, was a thief turned detective, Europe's first bona fide private eye. At fourteen he killed a fencing master in a duel and this incident paved the way to a life of crime. After serving his time as a convict in the galleys, Vidocq became a police spy and later the head of the Paris Surete.

A powerful physical specimen with a leonine head and muscular arms, Vidocq was the son of a respected baker from Arras. After killing the fencing instructor Vidocq stole two thousand francs from his father's safe and fled to America. However, within a year he was destitute and so returned to the family home.

Back in France hebecause they paved the way for the plethora of Victorian detective stories that followed and still influence the detective fiction we read and write today.

Pictured, Eugene Francois Vidocq

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The Goalkeeper's Love of the Penalty

by Mansel Jones

I could have been a contender. In my youth I was a goalkeeper for a below-average team that lost most of its matches. But because we were no good my goalkeeping prowess was often on display and quite often the coaches of the teams who beat us would come up to me after the game and ask me to join them. Yet, I stayed loyal to my local no-hopers and played the game for what


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No Fears, No Regrets

Rhoda D'Ettore is a Multi-Genre author of Erotica, Historical Fiction, and Suspense/Thriller novels. She is always looking for a new adventure and after working for the USPS for years, she decided to start a new career. She took advantage of a program, allowing her to obtain her CDL Class A, and headed out to drive big rigs. Unfortunately, this leaves little time to pursue writing and blogging at this time butBoehner's emotional moment came as he held up — and then slammed down — a copy of Friday's Wall Street Journal, where he'd read that an unnamed administration official said "we are winning ... It doesn't really matter to us" how long the shutdown lasts.

"The American people don't want their government shut down and neither do I," Boehner added. He called on the president and his aides to "sit down" and negotiate.

"All I'm asking for is to sit down and talk to each other like the American people expect us to," Boehner also said.

The White House and other Democrats, of course, say it's Boehner and his Republican colleagues who are at fault for insisting that any deal on getting the government running again include steps to either defund,


When the Pneumonic Influenza, or Spanish Flu as it was popularly known, reached Australia in late 1918 (first case was in Melbourne), within days it would travel to Sydney and throughout NSW. Between 1918 and 1920, the pandemic killed more people worldwide – between 50 million and 100 million - than died during World War I.

It travelled to Manilla, in northern NSW where Dally Messenger, rugby league’s first superstar, and his wife, Annie, operated the Royal Hotel. They both became critically ill and were hospitalised. Annie died. Only weeks earlier, they had been visited by Annie’s son from her first marriage, Private Cyril Macaulay, who had recently returned from active service in Europe.

On June 18, 1919, the disease claimed the life of Sergeant Mick Frawley who had playedin the Roosters first premiership team. A forward, Frawley began his career with Easts in the code’s first season of 1908, represented Australia against New Zealand the following year, played in the 1911 premiership team and retired. He enlisted in 1916, fought on the Western Front and was only 33 when he died in Moore Park Emergency Hospital from Spanish Flu.

NSW was the worst affected state, as appears to be the case with the coronavirus. In Sydney alone, there were eventually 3500 deaths. It was estimated that 36 per cent of the population was infected with a death rate of one in eight, far higher than today. However, unlike the coronavirus which appears to affect the unwell and elderly, Spanish flu attacked the healthiest, usually those between 18


and 40, and mainly men.

Yet rugby league competitions continued and, in mid-1919, an Australian team toured New Zealand. Crowds increased in Sydney’s eight-team, 56-game competition. In 1918, the average crowd was 5524; 1919 it was 4607; 1920 was 5757 and 1921 was 7585.for the vehicle cargo floor. Other considerations, such as ground clearance, establish the height of the cargo floor. The suspension system components reside in or around the wheel well. This area around the wheel well, however, still represents limitations to the cargo area. Further compaction of the wheel suspension system will result in more efficient and convenient use of cargo space.
Briefly describing one aspect of the present invention there is provided an apparatus comprising a wheel, a wheel support, and an air spring. The wheel support is pivotally attached to the vehicle frame and is pivotable between a first position and a second position. The wheel support rotatably supports the wheel by the rotational axis. The wheel support includes an air spring support. The air spring urges the


wheel support apart from the vehicle frame. The wheel support receives the air spring in the air spring support. The air spring support is located below the rotational axis. The wheel support may be of the trailing-arm type, in which the rotational axis is rearward of the pivot axis, or the leading-arm type, in which the rotational axis is forward of the pivot axis.
Briefly describing another aspect of the present invention, a wheel support is coupled to the frame by a pivotal attachment which permits adjustment of the camber angle of the wheel. Another aspect of the present invention concerns a wheel support that is pivotally coupled to a frame such that the pivotal attachment permits adjustment of the toe-in angle of the wheel. In another aspect ofto a frame, and a shock absorber for dampening motion of the wheel support, the shock absorber being located substantially below the rotational axis of the wheel. In yet another aspect of the present invention, there is a vehicle with multiple wheels for supporting the vehicle from the ground. The wheels are arranged on either side of the vehicle, such that the rotational axes of the wheels are not coincident.
These and other aspects of the present invention will be apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiment, the drawings, and the claims.


Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has just sent a letter to Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein to inform her he was denying her request to postpone Thursday’s hearing.

Not only did he deny it, he pointed out that the new accuser, Deborah Ramirez, has not come forward to the Judiciary Committee, as requested, and no Democrats have given the committee any evidence on her behalf.

And as the tweeter noted in her tweet, Grassley slammed the Democrats, telling them “the obvious connection between the two claims is that Senate Democrats hid both allegations of misconduct from the Committee and the public”.

He also mentioned that it was reportedly Senate Democrats who took Ramirez’s claims to the MEDIA instead of to the committee.

No more Mr. Nice Guy. BOOM. "In fact, the obvious connection betweenConnecticut prisoners express anger over porn ban

HARTFORD (AP) -- A group of prisoners has begun a letter-writing campaign to protest what they see as an unfair ban on pornography inside the state's correctional institutions.

The Department of Correction announced in July that it would be banning all material that contains "pictorial depictions of sexual activity or nudity" from the prisons beginning next summer.

The state says the ban is intended to improve the work environment for prison staffers, especially female staffers, who might be inadvertently exposed to pornography.

"While it is not supposed to be displayed, it is still visible to staff, whether it be on the inside of a foot locker or underneath their bunks, so they are still exposed to it," said Correction Department spokesman Brian Garnett. "And secondarily,


the ban has a legitimate goal other than to simply suppress material that some people might find objectionable -- such as maintaining safety in the prisons, or keeping the material out of the hands of sex offenders.

"The courts don't require the prison officials to look for other ways of achieving those goals without infringing on First Amendment rights, to the extent that they would for government outside the prison," he said. "Based on the press release and the notice to the prisoners, it looks as though it's in the general area of regulations that have been upheld in the past."

But the state's total ban on sexually explicit material appears to go beyond bans that the Supreme Court has upheld in the past, he said.

The American Civil Liberties Unionformer side Fiorentina when La Viola make the trip to Turin. Then comes Derby Day against Torino and a trip to Bergamo to face upstart Atalanta — who just so happen to have some future Juventus players on the roster with the likes of Mattia Caldara, Riccardo Orsolini and Leonardo Spinazzola — and a home fixture against Lazio.

(Round 8 is a monster round in Serie A, by the way, with the first Milan derby of the season as well as the Derby del Sole between Roma and Napoli in Rome.)

The final month of the first half is one heck of a stretch — especially when you throw in the final rounds of the Champions League group stage — with games against Napoli, Inter Milan and Roma all on


Foley Square, in the City of
    New York, on the 16th day of March, two thousand eighteen.

    PRESENT:
                ROBERT A. KATZMANN,
                      Chief Judge,
                AMALYA L. KEARSE,
                      Circuit Judge,
                J. PAUL OETKEN,*
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for the duration of the study. Thus, they were allowed to engage in as much or as little spatial exploration as they wished and therefore have as much or as little potential enrichment as they wished. To maintain engagement, at the beginning of the second week, participants were given a scavenger hunt list of objects and places to find to encourage further exploration of the Minecraft world. This scavenger hunt list included flowers, gems, resources, waterfalls, villages, and other objects/locations that were in the local areas.

The Explore and Build group was designed to bring in both potential avenues of enrichment by combining the two activities. The first week was the same as the first week of the Free Exploration in which they explored and learned the spatial layoutbe. While we tried to limit spatial exploration of both Free Building and Directed Building, their environments became progressively more spatial as they began to build structures and added to the uniqueness of their own individual worlds. With more time, Free Building and Directed Building might naturally increase their exploratory behaviors as they build and make their environment more spatial. In addition, this correlation highlights the fact that, similar to the animal studies, spatial exploration is a powerful factor driving our observed results and that its effects may be independent of other factors underlying enrichment's effects.

In addition to spatial exploration, our results showed that building within Minecraft can also lead to improvements in hippocampal-based memory. The effects were less robust as simply giving people the world to explore


observed here as well), but the translation of the building aspect of Minecraft is less clear. In part, this may be because there simply are not analogous experiments in the rodent. However, several explanations recapitulate a common question in the hippocampal literature: whether the observed results stem from spatial aspects of the Directed Building group, such as spatial mental imagery, or whether they are the result of non-spatial forms of novelty and learning, building in Minecraft allows users to create their own unique, complex and spatial environments. As mentioned previously, building is a way to change the surrounding environment and inherently makes an environment more spatial. After all, cities are a product of building within our own environments and the complex structures and the spatial nature of modernAs CEC, he saw to it that the model code of conduct was taken seriously by political parties and candidates

T.N. Seshan, as Chief Election Commissioner during 1990-96, had initiated the process of cleaning up the electoral system. The introduction of electors’ photo identity cards was a measure towards this direction. He also saw to it that the model code of conduct, till then considered a document of academic interest, was taken seriously by the parties and candidates. Despite facing a volley of criticism that he had exceeded his brief, Mr. Seshan demonstrated to the outside world that his post was no pushover.

Born on December 15, 1932 in Palakkad, Kerala, Mr. Seshan belonged to the 1955 batch of Tamil Nadu cadre officers of the IAS. An alumnus of the


Madras Christian College, he, as an IAS officer, did a year-long course in management at the Harvard University in the 1960s.

Anti-Hindi agitation

Even though the Tamil Nadu part of his career was largely regarded as uneventful, he, as Madurai District Collector during 1965-67, came into the attention of the public when he dealt sternly with participants of the anti-Hindi agitation. According to K. Govindan Kutty’s biography Seshan: An Intimate Story (1994), then Chief Minister M. Bakthavatsalam was “flooded with complaints of suppression of civil rights” in the district. Yet, Mr. Seshan was left intact.

In the Tamil Nadu government, he held positions such as Industries Secretary and Agriculture Secretary during M.G. Ramachandran’s first innings (1977-80) as Chief Minister. His differences with his political masters forced him to opt for aCentral posting.

His batchmate-friend and former Vigilance Commissioner in Tamil Nadu P.N. Vedanarayanan said he was not surprised by what Mr. Seshan did as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). “His qualities as an administrator were clearly evident when he was part of the State government,” he recalled.

At the Centre, Mr. Seshan held several positions, including Environment and Forests Secretary, Secretary (Security), Defence Secretary, and later, Cabinet Secretary. When Rajiv Gandhi lost power in 1989, he was eased out of the post of Cabinet Secretary and accommodated in the Planning Commission as Member.

Meant business

When Chandra Shekhar became Prime Minister with the support of the Congress, Mr. Seshan was made the CEC in December 1990. Soon, he had shown that he meant business.

He was known as a no nonsensical CEC and


one who enforced, in his own way, discipline on political parties and contestants. He earned the wrath of several politicians including former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who once described him as an “embodiment of arrogance.”

He did not compromise on his position that every election had to be held in accordance with the model code of conduct and electoral laws. During the Karnataka Assembly elections in December 1994, he famously pulled up Union Ministers Sitaram Kesri and Kalpnath Rai for “attempting to influence voters.” Then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao had assured him that such a problem would not recur.

Electoral reforms

As part of his variant of electoral reforms, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had listed 150 malpractices in the elections. The process that Mr. Seshan had launchedas he was seen as a crusader against corruption and electoral malpractices. His work was recognised internationally when he was given the Ramon Magsaysay award for 1996.

In October 1994, days before the launch of Mr. Seshan’s biography, the book had attracted widespread controversy as it had some references to former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai which, political parties in Tamil Nadu had thought, were offensive. Later, the book was published, excluding the references.

In July 1997, Mr. Seshan unsuccessfully contested the presidential election against K.R. Narayanan. Two years later, in the Gandhinagar parliamentary constituency, the Congress fielded him against then Union Home Minister L.K. Advani but he lost.

Subsequently, he had served as an adviser of the Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, a deemed to be university. He was a


Matthew's church (until the late C18 All Saints) was at the heart of the medieval town of Walsall, and by the C18 was heavily built-up. By the C19, however, the commercial centre of the town had moved west to the area around The Bridge and Park Street and many of the properties on Church Hill had become dilapidated. There was some demolition south of the church in the middle of that century, and further slum clearance in the 1930s when the area's inhabitants were moved to new council houses.

Church Hill was left largely open, and after the Second World War was declared an 'Area of Special Development' with a high priority for reconstruction. In 1947 Geoffrey Jellicoe (kt 1979) was awarded a contract to design an ambitious schemewhereby the hilltop would be left open as a garden, to include a memorial to the town's war dead, which would be linked to the town by bridges. Jellicoe's final scheme was slightly less ambitious. The initial phase of the project included the construction of the greater part of the Memorial Garden and the Terrace, opened in 1952. The second phase, comprising the building of the memorial chapel in the Memorial Garden, and the flats and Brotherhood or Church Hall to the south of the open space known as St Matthew's Close, was completed c 1960. The buildings were intended to preserve, to some extent, the church's urban setting. The Memorial Garden and Terrace were restored c 1994 when some changes were made to the materials used for


paths and surfacing. In 1998 the gardener's house was under restoration.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING
The Memorial Garden, as here defined c 2ha, lies immediately south of St Matthew's church, at the south-east end of High Street, on Church Hill at the heart of the medieval town. The hill is bounded by Church Hill to the north-east, Peal Street to the north-west and New Street to the south-west, while to the east the site is bounded by a hedge which defines the west boundary of an open grass space connecting Hill Street and Birmingham Street.

ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES
There are several approaches to the hilltop garden, the main one from the north-west, via the steep and cobbled Church Hill. At the top of this, along the south side of the churchyardand convenient for its lych gate entrance, is a small car park.

GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS
Jellicoe's scheme comprises three separate elements: the Memorial Garden, the Terrace, and St Matthew's Close and its flats.

The Memorial Garden itself is rectangular, 70m long from south-west to north-east and 25m wide. It lies within a 3m tall wall of handmade red brick in Flemish garden wall bond capped with artificial stone copings. This wall has a number of distinct architectural features. Equidistantly spaced down the south-east side are three doorways with open, concrete pediments. The doors themselves are steel grilles. Along the north-west side are three shallow bays for benches. The north-east, end wall is pierced by high, square, window-like openings edged with artificial stone which give glimpses of St Matthew's church and


the sky. Either side of the north corner is another open-pedimented doorway, each opening onto a small, semicircular railed balcony. That to the north-east provides a view towards the church, that to the north-west a panoramic view (now somewhat obscured by London planes on the hillside below) over the Terrace below and across the town. Both exploit the Garden's position, along the west edge of the summit of Church Hill. At the east corner of the Garden is a brick, pavilion-like memorial chapel with undercroft. This projects north beyond the corner of the Garden as an artificial stone structure with full height mullion and transom windows supported on two round columns with walkway beneath. The two bays of the chapel are covered with a roof in the formof twin, copper-sheathed, truncated pyramids.

The interior of the Garden is divided up by a grid-like arrangement of paths, relaid c 1994 with red-brick paviours. Narrow lawns run down the two long sides of the garden while the interior, divided up by paths laid in Greek key pattern, is occupied by beds with shrubs and irregularly spaced silver birch trees. At the north-east corner of the garden, close to the memorial chapel, is a circular pool, 8m in diameter and with a simple jet fountain. In the south-west corner is a raised circular slate slab bearing the dates of the two World Wars and also that of 1 May 1951 when work on the garden began.

Attached to the outside of the south-west corner of the Memorial Garden is a


two-storey Modern Movement gardener's house with small balconies on each of the four, rough-cast sides of the upper floor. This stands at the head of the Terrace, which runs along and slightly below the north-west wall of the Memorial Garden and was designed by Jellicoe as a viewing terrace or promenade walk with sweeping views over Walsall towards Wolverhampton. The north-east side of the house projects forward, with its first floor supported on four round columns, originally providing an open verandah-like area for seating looking down the Terrace. The Terrace is now surfaced with red-brick paviours divided into bays by small buff-coloured flagstones. Two rows of six low, square, planting compartments run down the interior. This scheme, of the 1990s, replaced the original one which comprised gravel withinthe bays and a staggered avenue of whitebeam planted in pre-cast concrete planting boxes. From the north-east corner of the Terrace a flight of shallow steps leads down to Church Street, close to the point where it joins Church Hill.

In 1998 the gardener's house, previously derelict, was being renovated as a private house. A short section of the Terrace had been sold off with the house.

The gardener's house occupies a tower-like position on the corner of Church Hill. West of it the ground falls sharply away; adjoining the house are mature shrubs, while to the north, running down to the railings along Church Street which runs around the base of the hill, is a grassy slope.

East of the Memorial Garden is St Matthew's Close, an undulating square c


100m across. It is bisected by a road also called St Matthew's Close, which runs north-east to south-west across its centre connecting New Street to the south with the parking area south of St Matthew's church. The rest of the Close is mown grass with shrubs and some mature trees, notably a row of London planes alongside the Memorial Garden. Along the south side of the Close, and abutting the south-east corner of the Memorial Garden, is a terraced row of two-storey flats, brick with low, pitched tile roof, through which St Matthew's Close road passes through a two-storey opening. The flats have open balconies opening on to the Close, and were constructed to designs prepared by Jellicoe. Immediately north-east of the east end of the flats isthe Brotherhood or Church Hall, again by Jellicoe, under the projecting east end of which is a balcony-like platform giving views east. This lies on a curving path with hedge which defines the east side of the Close, connecting Birmingham Street with the churchyard. The Church Hall, which replaced one on the Memorial Garden site, was originally intended to be aligned north/south rather than, as now, east/west, further to enhance the cathedral close-like feel of St Matthew's Close.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 1 September 2017.

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Julie graduated from Creighton University with a major in dance and Theology and taught for several years at an inner-city school in Milwaukee. With a desire to expand her knowledge of the arts and spirituality, she attended St. John’s University in Collegeville and completed a Masters in Theology and Liturgical Studies. Over the years, her quest to merge diverse religious beliefs and practices through the commonalities of love and peaceful living, led her to travel, live, and study with shaman practitioners, herbal healers, Native American medicine women, Buddhist priests and other earth-based spiritual teachers. Through these experiences and experiences with global metaphysical teachings, she learned to honor the eternal source of love in all people.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Attic Sealing Project One

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Westminster Abbey is one of the most recognizable churches in the world and certainly the most famous in Britain. Settled in 960, and built over hundreds of years, the church is the heartbeat of British Royal activity. Take a 90-minute, verger-led tour, which takes you through the Shrine and Tomb of Saint Edward the Confessor, the Royal Tombs, the Poet’s corner, the Cloisters and the Nave (£5 + regular admission, £20 for adults).

Big Ben, located right at the edge of Westminster Bridge, is a perfect spot to snap an iconic "I was in London!" photo. Face the other way and you'll also get a great shot with the famous London Eye in the background.

The 16-storey Gothic clocktower is a national symbol, located at the Eastern end of theHouses of Parliament.

With a tinted red road to imitate the large red carpet at Buckingham Palace, take the Pall Mall route to Trafalgar Square for a hearty afternoon walk. The mall has Union Jacks lining the street up and down the path, and London's iconic black taxis and horse-drawn carriages passing you by in true vintage movie style.

Take a gander at Buckingham Palace, the working headquarters of the Monarchy, where The Queen carries out her official and ceremonial duties as Head of State of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth.

The famous "changing of the guard" takes place at 11AM every day, and the entire ceremony takes about an hour, complete with a live band of buglers.

Make your way to Timmy Green for all things Aussie. The


the most vibrant neighborhoods in the city, full of neon, decorated with pagodas and paper lanterns, bustling with people from all nationalities shopping for produce, sipping bubble tea, searching for souvenirs, or munching on kimchi buns at one of the many bakeries.

A pedestrian-only plaza in the heart of west London’s theater district, Leicester Square is teeming with restaurants, shops, playhouses, and cinemas – so many cinemas, in fact, that this is where most of London’s big movie premieres happen. A-listers like Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, and Sir Ian McKellen have all left their handprints in bronze here. The half-price ticket booth next to the John Hunter gate is a great place to score theater tickets.

Located in London’s Chinatown, the Duck and Rice is a stylish two-storyHBO's new late-night series The Newsroom is set in the busy backstage of a CNN-like cable news TV show, but had the creators of the premium cable show really wanted to expose the most shocking behind-the-scenes realities of modern journalism, they'd instead have had to cast actor Jeff Daniels as a reporter for a company named Journatic.

Perhaps not even Aaron Sorkin could pen a compelling drama about copyeditors staring at computers alone in their living rooms, or outsourced reporters silently typing stories on their MacBooks at far-flung Starbucks in St Louis or Manila. Nonetheless, a quiet revolution is happening in the American newspaper industry and it has not been televised. Don't feel bad that you haven't noticed or heard of Journatic – I hadn't either until after nearly


a horde of firings of editorial staff at those news organizations, as some full-time office-dwellers cede work to a small army of low-paid freelancers living all around the globe.

In this brave new media world, the face-to-face has been rendered as obsolete as health benefits and vacation pay, leading to a bizarrely disconnected state of affairs between the newspapers and the people putting words on its pages. I've copyedited or written news stories for a handful of major US newspapers over the past 18 months – the Houston Chronicle in Texas, San Francisco Chronicle in California and Newsday in Long Island, New York and others – yet it's doubtful that any of the editors or senior executives for those news organizations could pick me out of a police line-up.according to Journatic CEO Brian Timpone, for the fake bylines to begin appearing on the stories in 2007.

"We were writing things that were controversial," Timpone told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Our writers were being threatened individually by the subjects of stories. We did it to protect them from the threats."

The writers weren't the only thing protected by Journatic's fake name policy. Even their director of customer service listed on their Blockshopper website – someone named Scarlett Simpson – was a fictional character.

I noticed the alias system on the stories almost right away – a Filipino writer named Junbe, for example, could become Jimmy Finkel and Gisele Bautista might have a byline with the porn star-sounding moniker Jenni Cox. It struck me as strange and a little unethical, but


shameful secret of editing for Blockshopper in the closet. Or at least, I would until the end of 2011.

In November 2011, I got asked by Frank, a co-worker I'd never heard of, to write a story for the Houston Chronicle. He'd heard I had reporting experience and assigned me to interview a student at Bellaire High School for a "student of the month" blurb. Sprawled on a couch in my apartment in Chicago, I picked up my iPhone the next day and called the principal, while trying to suspend my own disbelief that I'm that reporting on a local news story from 1,000 miles away. The facade doesn't last long.

"Hey, how about you come down to the school tomorrow and go ahead and do the interview then?" thesports scores, crime blotter feeds, and rewritten press releases. Lots and lots of press releases, like the local library hosting a movie night or an announcement of swimming lessons offered by the park district.

But Journatic doesn't stop there. They also write more important local stories – about, perhaps, a park district adding new programs, a city's budget for the new fiscal year, even the Illinois governor's new healthcare initiative. Yet these stories will be little more than rewritten news releases. For instance, here's the exact wording of a press release about the previously mentioned healthcare plan.

"Governor Pat Quinn today visited the new Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital to sign three laws that will help more working families acquire insurance and stay healthy throughout their lives. These measures,


quoting the Bible.

I learned more about Journatic's idea of local journalism in April, at firsthand. The Tribune deal had just been announced, and the company was desperately seeking someone to write news stories about Homewood and Flossmoor – two small towns in Chicago's south suburbs. One reporter, I was told by a Journatic editor, had been fired for plagiarizing stories from Patch.com, and another had been canned for doing nothing. I was to be an emergency fill-in reporter.

I'd write three stories for the Homewood/Flossmoor section – a news feature on a historic building being redeveloped into a boutique hotel, a piece on the city of Flossmoor's 2012-2013 annual budget and a Q&A with a person with strong community ties. When I talked to the Peter Gallanis, the editordecided to pitch a story to This American Life. I'd just heard Mike Daisey's story on the NPR show and saw the positive impact it was having on Apple's questionable practices in China – even if that turned out to be full of fabrications and exaggeration.

The response to Sarah Koenig's excellent story on Journatic on This American Life called "Forgive Us Our Press Passes" has been dramatic. In the week since the story has aired, many of Journatic's clients conducted internal investigations and several of them found fake bylines. Meanwhile, GateHouse media and the Chicago Sun-Times both announced they were ending their contracts with Journatic. Free Press created a petition protesting the outsourcing of local news that's been signed by tens of thousands of people.

With regard to my


Trade Picture: February 13, 2004

Soaring imports from China push U.S. trade deficit to new record

The U.S. Department of Commerce today reported that the merchandise trade deficit reached a record level of $549 billion in 2003, an increase of 14%. The aggregate U.S. trade deficit, which includes both goods and services, was $489 billion, a 17% increase. Growth in the trade deficit reflects surging imports and the declining competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing industries. The merchandise deficit as a share of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) increased to an unprecedented 5% in 2003.

The U.S. trade deficit poses great risks for the economy. To finance its trade deficits, the United States must borrow abroad. The recent decline in the dollar indicates that private foreign lenders are less willing to supply newcredit. Foreign governments have been forced to step into the gap and finance a growing share of U.S. international debt. A rapid, uncontrolled decline in the dollar could push the U.S. economy into a sharp recession. In his testimony before the House Committee on Financial Services on February 11th, normally circumspect Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged this risk: “…given the already substantial accumulation of dollar-denominated debt, foreign investors, both private and official, may become less willing to absorb ever-growing claims on U.S. residents.”

The 6% annual decline in the real value of the U.S. dollar since 2002 probably starts the process of reducing the trade deficit in the future. As the dollar declines, it makes U.S. exports cheaper in many foreign markets and makes foreign imports to the


Union exports caused by the sharp appreciation of the euro more than it reflects an increased volume of imports from the EU. The deficit with Europe should begin to fall in 2004. The small U.S. deficit with South and Central America rose sharply in 2003, reflecting the lingering effects of the financial crises of the late 1990s and the globalization of export supply chains.

The gain in the real value of the dollar between 1995 and 2002 helps explain the rapid growth of the U.S. trade deficit results. The dollar began to rise significantly in 1997 and peaked in 2002. It usually takes five to six quarters for the trade balance to respond to a change in the value of the currency. The real value of the trade deficitthe goods trade deficit was explained, in part, by large increases in both the price and volume of natural gas and petroleum imports. The balance of trade in agricultural products was essentially unchanged in 2003.

Manufacturing lost 582,000 jobs in 2003, and 3.3 million manufacturing jobs have been eliminated since December 1997. The real value of the trade deficit has nearly tripled in this period, which explains a large share of the job losses in manufacturing. The U.S. deficit in manufactures rose from $430 billion in 2002 to $471billion in 2003 alone, an increase of 10%. Job losses have also expanded because of the recent U.S. recession and continued growth in productivity, which is strongly associated with intense import competition.

Of particular concern is the large and rapidly growing U.S.


Man hurled piece of concrete at his mum's car after row

John Deehan

A disgruntled son lobbed a piece of concrete through his mum's car window, stuck two fingers up at her house and shouted abuse - just as an off-duty police officer drove past.

Ashley Pickering (27) who had just been thrown out by the victim after a row, was arrested, but claimed that's what he wanted as he had nowhere to go.

Burnley magistrates were told how Pickering did get himself a bed and meals as he wished - but only for one night. He spent 24 hours in the cells, but wouldn't be jailed for the offence and he was released after appearing before the bench. The defendant had no previous convictions.

Pickering who described himself as "homeless" to thestuck two fingers up and shouted at the house."

Mrs Yates said the officer stopped and got out to speak to the defendant and ask him what was going on. He replied :" It's my mum's car . She has just thrown me out and I have nowhere to go." Pickering was arrested by on-duty patrols, showed no remorse and said he wanted to be arrested as he had nowhere to go.

Mark Williams, in mitigation, said Pickering had been living and working in Kendal. He had come back to Burnley as he had children there and had the promise of a flat and work.

The solicitor continued: "It seems that's not worked out and he has found himself in a position where he has no income and nowhere to live."

Mr


Williams said the defendant had been to his mum's. He went on: "It seems she decided he has got a problem with the misuse of drugs - which he says is completely untrue - and she doesn't want him there."

The solicitor added: "She has thrown him out. He accepts in temper, in frustration he picked up a piece of concrete and smashed the window with it. He took the view at the time, 'Well, lock me up. At least I will have somewhere to sleep for the night.' Of course, that's not going to happen."

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Nelson father banned from driving abuses and confronts man after being calledsensitive for Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a Pentecostal devotee who said last year gay conversion therapy was "not an issue" for him to debate.

Gay conversion therapy is an umbrella term given to any attempt to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity, and takes many forms, including counselling, prayers and exorcisms, and online courses.

Victoria recently became the first state to announce plans for a legislated ban, after a state-wide inquiry by its Health Complaints Commissioner found "overwhelming evidence" that it does serious and long-term harm to those who receive it.

Federal Labor's announcement is the first time a federal party vying for government has made such a commitment, although much of the detail is yet to be developed.

Policy documents to be released on Tuesday show that a Shorten government


would work with survivor groups and the states and territories to develop strategies to end so-called conversion practices - including a nation-wide ban.

It is understood that Labor supports criminalising some forms of conversion therapy, but is aware of the need to strike a balance between enforcement and education.

Banning gay conversion would require parliament to pass legislation, and approval from the Council of Australian Governments.

It could also face a backlash from the Australian Christian Lobby, whose chief executive Martyn Iles previously described the prospect of laws against conversion therapy as "a dangerous policy for parents, counsellors and even medical practitioners with a faith identity".

Although the notion that homosexuality can be "cured" has been discredited globally, an Age/Sydney Morning Herald investigation revealed last year that its ideology still exists inAustralia.

Recent research by La Trobe University and the Human Rights Law Centre found at least 10 operations in Australia and New Zealand advertising the provision of conversion practices, but warned that criminalisation alone would merely force proponents further underground.

As part of a broader LGBTI package to be announced today, Labor will also recommit to removing exemptions allowing religious schools to discriminate against students and staff on the grounds of their sexuality.

Equality Australia chief executive Anna Brown welcomed the proposed ban.

"It's fantastic to see federal Labor commit to playing a leadership role in tackling the lasting harm caused by these insidious practices in faith communities across the nation," she said.


Primary bone tumours of the shoulder: an audit of the Leeds Regional Bone Tumour Registry.
An audit of the prospectively gathered data of the Leeds Regional Bone Tumour Registry found that primary bone tumours of the shoulder constituted 145 of 2039 cases (7%). Seventy-five per cent of these occurred in the proximal humerus, 20% in the scapula and 5% in the outer half of the clavicle. Malignant and benign tumours were of equal overall frequency (73 vs 72) but the malignant lesions tended to occur in an older population (mean ages 43 years and 17 years respectively). Simple bone cyst was the commonest diagnosis in children, chondrosarcoma in the middle age group and osteosarcoma in the over-60s. Presenting symptoms were a poor guide to whether the lesion was malignantthe beginning of the story.

Festival Fact: 120,000 andagi made at the Okinawan Festival

A Change in Evolution

For many ethnic festivals, change is one of the only constants. That was true for the Okinawan Festival. It all started in 2016 when the event was canceled just three days before because of the threat posed by Hurricane Lester. A committee formed to research new indoor venues.

Weather wasn’t the only factor. It was becoming difficult to hold the event at Kapi‘olani Park due to strict commercial activity rules, a challenge facing other ethnic festivals. Volunteers were also getting older. That meant it was harder to recruit a crew to set up tents, hook up the electrical and plumbing systems, and do all of the manual labor needed at the park.

The group considered


each area out in paper and pasting it in place. All 25 booths, along with 1,000 seats, four rest areas and the 120-foot-wide bon dance circle, were shuffled in a musical chairs-like fashion. By the end of June, the floor plan had changed at least 16 times.

Jo Ige, festival chair, shouldered the rest of the responsibilities, from overseeing all 12 committees to scheduling site visits and training sessions to holding weekly meetings. It’s a massive undertaking, especially for someone who has never organized an event of this size before. But ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that Ige, a retired teacher and principal, is the right person for the job.

Ige, 61, runs her meetings, some with more than 100 attendees, like a teacher would a classroom, snapping herand you’ll never change that.”

Festa Italiana hosted about 20 food vendors, most of which sold authentic Italian dishes.

The idea of an Italian festival in an Asian- and Pacific Islander-centric state drew skepticism from several people when he pitched it in 2017, even some close to him. He soon realized that it was difficult to sell people on the idea, with no track record and few resources. The board members didn’t get any grants and raised about $6,000 in sponsorships, scraping by with a small profit (from the VIP section and the beer and wine garden), which was used to throw a pasta party for volunteers.

Annie Kamiya, the festival’s entertainment director, recalls adjusting to communicating and doing business in Hawai‘i. An Oregon native who moved to O‘ahu a decade


with everyone he meets. Making his way through the sea of people, he spots a friend and his family, and bends down to greet their two kids (the youngest, with pursed lips, patiently waits for a kiss on the cheek, Italian style).

As day turns into night, the street comes alive, with food-booth lines blending into each other and people cramming on the sidewalk to sit. A boy and his mom dance to live Italian music reverberating through the streets. Later, DiIonno says the festival went terrifically—it was much easier to gain people’s support this time around.

It looks like second time’s the charm.

An artist paints the scene at Festa Italiana.

Photo: courtesy of festa italiana

A New Bolt of Energy

One thing remains clear. For a festival to survive, the legacy mustPress Release Archive

September 2014

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CLOUD LAW TO ASSESS PRIVACY, LIABILITY CONCERNS FOR ENTERPRISES IN EUROPE

A new conference, Cloud Law, to be held in London November 25th will address key concerns for enterprises contending with liability, cyber-security, the implications of new privacy legislation from the European Commission, and the US Patriot Act.

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DATACLOUD Central & Eastern Europe 2014

Datacloud is a new conference summit for IT infrastructure executives focused on cloud transformation for digital enterprises and their datacenter.

Why is this new summit important?The conference uniquely approaches cloud challenges – integration, procurement, management, hybrid cloud, and security among others for enterprises and assesses the implications for their datacenter infrastructure and energy use - whether owned or outsourced.

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firm BroadGroup has announced the lead sponsors for Datacloud 2014 which takes place in Warsaw 15th October (www.datacloudforum.com)

Schneider Electric, Anixter, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Digital Realty, Socomec and Baltic Servers are all sponsoring the new event for IT infrastructure executives in Central and Eastern Europe.was sold to Flamengo in 2013, there weren’t too many tears in Gooners’ eyes.

It was unsurprising, then, to discover that after his spell in North London he had struggled to remain at the top level. A season with Flamengo was followed by contracts in India and the second divisions of Switzerland and Turkey.

The real intrigue in the interview, though, lay in the revelation that he was carefully planning for his post-football career by opening a restaurant in São Paulo, the city where I reside.

He’s not the only high-profile player to move into the food business – but the picture he painted was irresistible.

Flavours.sp, he said, is “small, sort of vintage”, before going on to extoll the virtues of the eclectic offerings: “We serve wraps, gourmet hamburgers, unusual sushis


New Delhi: Palestine has decided to recall its ambassador to Pakistan a day after he shared the stage with 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed at an event in Rawalpindi.

Palestinian ambassador to India, Adnan Abu Al Haija, confirmed the decision soon after the ministry of external affairs said it had conveyed to him that Waleed Abu Ali’s meeting with Saeed was unacceptable.

India's Secretary (economic relations) Vijay Gokhale in the external affairs ministry called Palestinian ambassador Haija to the South Block after which the ministry said, "the concerns were conveyed both in New Delhi to the Palestinian Ambassador and in Ramallah to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, State of Palestine."

Palestine expressed “deep regret” and assured the Indian government that it had taken serious cognizance of their ambassador'sattended the Difah-e-Pakistan Council-organised rally in Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Friday. Difah-e-Pakistan Council is an association of religious and extremist groups in Pakistan, headed by Saeed. The hardline Islamic parties advocate conservative policies and often target India.

Saeed, who has been declared as a global terrorist by the United States State Department, carries a bounty of $ 10 million on his head. But more importantly, he is wanted by India on charges of being the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in which ten terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed over 160 lives and injured over 600 people.

This appearance by the Palestinian envoy came just days after India voted in the United Nations in support of Palestine and against the American decision to move its embassy from Tel


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Blue Carpet

This carpet was only used in SASUKE 1 and it is so far the only color carpet in SASUKE to be in the first three stages. It was removed in the next competition when the course was brought outdoors.

Green Carpet

Probably the carpet with the longest use in each SASUKE tournament and it was first in use when the course was placed outdoors and it is the only carpet to be only in the first stage. It originally lasted from SASUKE 2 to SASUKE 12, but after Urushihara Yuuji's Kanzenseiha it was brought back into the First Stage. A portion of the carpet would be used on the Sosoritatsu Kabe from SASUKE 3 to SASUKE 4, and a line of green paint would be used on the Soritatsu54 countries around the world, with dedicated sales offices in France, Belgium, Ireland, Germany, Holland and more. Their brand ambassadors are leaders in their respective sports, and their products and service are highly rated on consumer review sites such as Feefo.

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local governments.

Attorney General Cordray co-sponsored the amicus brief along with the attorneys general of Texas, Arkansas and Georgia, while 34 other states also signed the brief. Cordray had previously joined the effort in asking the court to take this case. As the amicus brief argued:

"Over the last century, the Court has held that virtually all of the individual rights found in the Bill of Rights apply to state and local government through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Under the doctrine of selective incorporation, these rights have been applied to state and local government because they are considered fundamental — that is, necessary to an Anglo-American regime of ordered liberty.

"The right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment is a fundamental liberty interest subjecta small handful of cars, with very little difference between them all. Dull.

It baffles me that Force India don't seem to be ready to snap him up for a race seat because he clearly has the most potential of all the drivers they are considering. His main competition (i.e. di Resta and Liuzzi) are not bringing money to the team so why not go for Hulkenberg who has good experience, an excellent track record and can only grow from his first season.

I fear that a season as a reserve driver might disrupt his momentum a bit though.

James, other than Sauber, Williams, and HRT (hoping at least), who else has (openly) paying drivers?

If Virgin and Lotus can afford to pay their drivers, then perhaps it is not an issue


car can actually be sued for several season, that could be a very good thing.

Currently each car is an evolution while some are completely redesigned. If the 2011 car was to be used until 2018, with only minor changes each year then while it may be spread out in 2011 and maybe 2012, by 2013 the extra money RBR has over Sauber would only mean a tenth or so rather than half a second or so.

2009 was a complete design of the entire car

2010 increase of weight (and hence weight has to be redistributed again and made into the chassis) and new front tyres

2011 has new tyres, new changing wings, weight distribution changing again

2012 will no doubt herald several major changes

2013 has a new engine

And that is onlywell in non-F1 series came back to Toyota and produced good results for Toyota, didn't show any arrogance to downgrade to Virgin and keep a race seat in F1.

Personally I think he should have swallowed his pride and taken the Virgin seat than end up with the Force India 3rd driver gig. If he was on the grid then he would still have a foot in the door and with a reasonably proven team mate like Glock he would have a benchmark against which he could attempt to impress. He would have had much more opportunity to do so than he will in a few FP1s.

I think Heidfeld can be used as a case study to illustrate this. In 2004 he went to the struggling Jordan team without


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Each gripping member is movably constrained to the carousel conveyor radially to a rotation axis of the carousel conveyor between a retracted position and an advanced position.
More specifically, each gripping member is placed at a maximum and at a minimum radial distance from the axis of the carousel conveyor respectively in the corresponding advanced and retracted position.
Each gripping member is arranged in the advanced position when it withdraws the opening device fromIn November 2009, EA hit the headlines when the BATTLEFIELD HEROES team made sweeping changes to their in-game economy and virtual item catalogue that many felt would completely destroy the game Kotaku's headline summed up the feelings of the press - 'BATTLEFIELD HEROES Is Practically Ruined'. A game that had previously been perceived as welcoming to free players suddenly demanded much more grinding to maintain a player's free items, a team that had previously promised they had no plans to sell items that gave an advantage were selling 'super' and 'uber' weapons that many players felt were more powerful than standard equipment, and the Battlefield Heroes forum posters were in uproar with an 'EA Failed' campaign against the changes. Despite the predictions of destruction, over a year on,


BATTLEFIELD HEROES continues to be a powerhouse in the free-to-play space, with nearly 7 million registered users, no declining trend in active users, and it long-term future assured. So, what happened? In this talk, Ben Cousins, General Manager of Easy (the EA studio behind BATTLEFIELD HEROES) takes us through the story of this controversy. Through the development of BATTLEFIELD HEROES and the early performance of the title, into the high-pressure environment in EA that forced the sweeping changes and out the other side with detailed look at the games store catalogue and business performance.before they had learned to advance. But future generations will thankfully not have to rely on the likes of me to appreciate Inglis’ miracle.

Sam Burgess continues to show his commitment to South Sydney’s cause for the rest of the season, catching a 6am flight from Brisbane to Sydney on Saturday for surgery on an elbow injury. The operation was booked on a holiday weekend to maximise his recovery time before the Bunnies' next game, against Gold Coast on May 10. Burgess had right up until Glenn Stewart’s signing to change his mind about the switch to rugby union but remains committed to his decision. Captain John Sutton’s quadriceps injury before the win over the Broncos was more serious than admitted; he was in doubt right up to the


Ringleader Williams, 24, was jailed for five years; Jamieson, 29, was given a custodial sentence of three years and nine months; and Wilson, 23, was imprisoned for three years.

Jamieson’s offending breached the conditions of a suspended sentence. As such a further nine months was tagged onto his prison term.

The investigation into the trio began after cars hired by Jamieson were seen being driving around Macclesfield on 13 and 28 December 2017.

On the second occasion Jamieson and Wilson suspiciously drove straight back to the Greater Manchester area after being spoken to by a police officer who was patrolling the roads.

When they returned to the Macclesfield area on 4 January 2018 they were pulled over by officers following a surveillance operation.

They were subsequently arrested and searched and Wilson was foundto be in possession of numerous individual wraps of heroin and cocaine.

The class A drugs seized had a street value of around £850.

The hire car they were in and Jamieson’s home in Manchester were also searched and forensic examinations of the mobile phones seized revealed the pair to be drug runners acting on behalf of Williams.

Whenever they were in the area Jamieson and Wilson would send text messages informing drug users in Macclesfield that they had drugs for sale.

The pair would then deliver class A drugs to those who wanted to buy them.

After they were arrested Williams continued to sell heroin and cocaine on a large scale using pay-as-you-go phones in order to distance himself from his criminal activity.

On 17 July 2018 a search warrant was executed at


An Illinois woman was fatally shot in a Wisconsin home on Saturday while her 5-year-old daughter was present, according to reports.

Stacia Hollinshead, 30, was an assistant state’s attorney, Army intelligence officer, and a single mother, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Authorities have classified the case as a homicide.

Police said Hollinshead was shot in a home in Beaver Dam – about 70 miles northwest of Milwaukee – around 2:40 p.m. Her ex-husband, Ulisses W. Medina Espinosa, was arrested after the shooting, but has not been charged in the murder, police said. He was booked into Dodge County Jail pending formal charges.

BABY DELIVERED AFTER MOTHER FATALLY SHOT HAS DIED

Bob Barrington, managing attorney of the Dodge County District Attorney's office, told Chicago's ABC 7 News that domestic violence charges are beingconsidered and are will likely be filed on Tuesday.

Public records indicate that Hollinshead and Medina Espinosa divorced in 2016. That same year she filed a protective order against him in DeKalb County, according to records.

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Hollinshead had served for 11 years as a U.S. Army Intelligence analyst before becoming an assistant state attorney in Illinois. Her 5-year-old daughter, who was reportedly at the scene of the shooting, is in the care of family members, Barrington said.

Authorities said it was Beaver Dam's first homicide case in more than 30 years.


For years, U.S. Army Africa has hosted hundreds of civil affairs and Special Forces troops in a bid to build security and deter extremist groups in the region.

Their work, particularly in countries like Cameroon, Niger and Mali, remained largely unknown, taking a back seat to news about ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the Army’s missions in Africa were pushed into the spotlight Oct. 4 when four soldiers from 3rd Special Forces Group were killed in an enemy ambush in southwest Niger.

A day after the attack, Army Times spoke to acting U.S. Army Africa Commander Brig. Gen. Gene LeBoeuf about focusing on West African extremist groups and bumping up exercises with African partners.

3 Green Berets killed in Niger, 2 others injured in attack A joint American andwindshield washer configurations, the washer pump is a bidirectional pump having two flow outlets formed in the pump housing. Depending upon a direction of revolution of the pump impeller, only the outlet in the direction of revolution is open; while the other outlet is closed. This alternating flow path switching is controlled by a valve system established by two silicone or rubber membranes, one facing up and the other facing down in valve grooves between two parts of the pump housing. The valves are formed as check valves and alternately open and close flow paths to the respective pump housing outlets in response to the direction of fluid flow created by rotation of the pump impeller.
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The equipment Debbie Jaffe and I used was primitive, but was a step up from 60 MINUTES OF LAUGHTER. Along with the tiny toy-like Casio VL-Tone, we had a new Casio MT-11 polyphonic keyboard. We had recently bought a Boss Dr. Rhythm DR-55 drum machine, just like the one our friends Rick Karcasheff and David Mattingly used in their band Gabble Ratchet. Deb played clarinet on a couple tracks. We performed most of the vocals using our Shure vocal microphone through my guitar amplifier. We used the amp for the keyboards too. All of the pieces on IN A FOREIGN FILM were recorded with an Audio Technica stereo microphone directly into our Pioneer CT-F750 cassette deck, which had stereo mike inputs on the front.

It waswe went across the street to the Library to use the pay phones. The apartment was overrun with mice and cockroaches.

Downtown Indianapolis was a depressing place to live. There were a lot of direfully poor people living in rundown buildings that had once been luxury accomodations before all the wealthy people abandoned them and moved out to the suburbs on the north side of town. There were hundreds of homeless people living in alleys and condemned buildings, foraging for scraps of food in garbage dumpsters and trash cans in fast food restaurants. Within a few blocks of our apartment were several mammoth, gray, icy-looking war memorials made of huge blocks of Indiana limestone.

Winters in Indiana can be bitterly cold, with harsh winds that can drive the wind chill


truly invigorating, joyful, creative feeling!). We knew each other so well that we could complete each other's sentences.
The bed, floor and chairs were littered with hundreds of books, tapes and scraps of paper on which we had written poems, tracts, manifestoes. The words poured out of us as we tried to make sense of our lives and the struggle of existence.

Rick Karcasheff had made dozens of tape copies for us of intriguing recordings by underground audio artists from all over Europe, Japan, Canada and the U.S. It was around this time that we first learned that there was a worldwide network of people who made recordings in their homes of their own electronic and experimental music. This was an exciting time because we were finding out all aboutthat hell!

Yes, it is true that I had read a lot of existentialist literature: all the Dostoevsky (Crime And Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov), Camus (The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague) and Kafka (The Castle and The Trial). Samuel Beckett's bleak vision of a meaningless world in Waiting For Godot had made a big impression on me. The dystopian visions of William Burroughs had convinced me that reality itself was a vast conspiracy of cosmic proportions. I could not get enough of Ingmar Bergman's films (Cries And Whispers and Persona were my favorites). At this time I favored music that presented a morbid, pessimistic view of life (Joy Division and early New Order, as well as Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and a little Nico).

And, in late 1983


What is Applied Legal Education?

For most of the 20th century American law schools were content to train students to "think like lawyers," leaving the job of training students to practice law to the workplace. In the early 1960's a handful of law faculty began small experiments in applied legal education through the development of legal clinics. The goal was to facilitate a reflective and experiential learning process without the economic and efficiency pressures of the workplace, and to help students understand how the law works in action while providing sorely needed pro bono representation to the poor.

In 1969, the Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility (CLEPR) was formed upon the notion that "applied legal education effectively places the practitioners-to-be in the chaos of real life; sharpens theirof "off-site" field placement programs in which students are simultaneously taught and supervised by law school faculty
and practicing lawyers in the field.

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The Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education is a
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legal education and the promotion of related scholarship. Located at the University of Michigan Law
School, CSALE collects data on applied legal education in areas including program design, capacity, administration, funding, pedagogy, and the role of applied legal education and educators in the academy. Seventy-seven percent of ABA accredited law schools participated in CSALE's 2007-08 Survey, 84% participated in its 2010-11 Survey. Law schools, legal educators, scholars and governmental agencies examining or navigating issues in these and other areas repeatedly rely on CSALE's data in their work.

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Clinical Legal Education. CSALE's work continues today with support from the University of Michigan Law School, a grant from the Law School Admission Council, and, by necessity, from people like you and Law Schools who believe in the value of CSALE's work. Visit our support page to support CSALE's work. To join the growing list of Gold Circle Institutional Supporters contact CSALE or call CSALE'S President, David Santacroce, at 734.763.4319

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Institutional support is critical to the functioning of CSALE and its work. CSALE thanks the following organizations that have given generously to support its work:In Highlight Reel, we ask the people who make movies and TV about their favorite individual scenes from their careers.

The actor: Lamorne Morris is in a much more comfortable position this fall than the one he was in two years ago. In 2011, the actor scored his first series-regular role, playing Winston Bishop on Fox’s New Girl—a part that was created only after the last-minute renewal of Happy Endings prevented Damon Wayans Jr. from filming any New Girl episodes beyond the pilot. Introduced in the series’ second episode, “Kryptonite,” Winston was one of a handful of kinks the New Girl writers and producers had yet to work out—kinks that relaxed as the series progressed beyond its initial premise (a newly single Zooey Deschanel moves in with three bachelors


Naval Sea Systems
Command, a position that required him to hold a DOE
security clearance (“Q clearance”). On January 8, 2014,
the DOE suspended Wilson’s security clearance. The
DOE listed as security concerns that Wilson: (1) knowing-
ly brought a personal firearm onto a Navy facility in
violation of regulations and directions he received;
(2) armed himself with a personal weapon while acting as
a Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) reserve officer,
contrary to regulations; and (3) made false statements
and false time and attendance entries to his civilian
employer, the Naval Reserve Unit and the MPD. Wilson
maintains that he brought his firearm to the Navy facility
in response to the Washington Navy Yard shooting that
occurred on September 16, 2013, in perceived fulfillment
of his duty as a Navy Reservist.
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Demas is a Democratic strategist, serving as vice president at Farough & Associates. She is a 17-year veteran of journalism and a syndicated political columnist for 12 years. She was most recently the editor and publisher of Inside Michigan Politics. Follow her on Twitter @sjdemas.

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Ammara Ansari is a Masters in Public Policy student at University of Michigan. She is a board member of the Canton Democratic Club and Finance Director for Megan Cavanagh for SupremeIncrease your company's exposure in the sport business marketplace and get your message in front of the industry's top executives. For more information on placing a classified in SportsBusiness Daily, please contact Grady Garrison at 704-973-1449 or gradymgarrison@bizjournals.com.

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Address by President Kennedy at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
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I have . . . chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived-yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace.

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children-not merely peaceI previously welded the bottom flat piece to the angle piece. The weld bead interfered with the steel plate. I had to grind down the weld in the area where the curved plate buts up against the angle steel. The inner steel plate was welded to what I call the open-ended box and to the edges of the frame rail. This inner plate boxes in the hole. Not shown but a second piece of 3/16 steel was welded on top of the first one. The second pieces was ground down to match the thickness of the frame rail metal and to follow the contours of the wheelhouse. I think my welder was set too hot. This method is different from other posts. I hope that boxing the inside


I bent it to match the contours of the wheelhouse. I tried to get it as close to the wheelhouse as possible. Notice that it sticks up above the floor pan. It sticks up because I did not want to accidently weld the wheelhouse to the floor.

The strip of steel was spot welded to the floor pan and the wheelhouse was removed.

I finished welding the strip and ground it down flush with the floor pan.

The flange at the rear of the wheelhouse was created the same way. This method gave me tight seams. The imperfections and waviness of the cuts were eliminated because the weld bead filled in the holes.

Mini Tubing a Convertible: Modifying the Wheelhouse Brackets Part 6:The convertible mechanism bracket that was removed previously has towas put back on the car to determine if I had ground down the bracket enough to fit the wheelhouse. The extra temporary brackets help locate the convertible bracket in its correct location. I used the broken spot welds on the temporary brackets as a reference.

After a lot of trial and error, the bracket was ground down enough to fit tightly against the wheelhouse. The flange that was cut off was welded back on the bracket. In addition, the two brackets were joined back together.

Mini Tubing a Convertible: Modifying the Wheelhouse Brackets Part 7:The trunk bracket has to be modified.

I just cut the top off and punched new holes at the top. When I took this bracket off the old wheelhouse, I had to drill a spot weld


that was on the edge of the bracket. Now the bracket has a ragged edge. I used a piece of copper bar to fix the ragged edge with weld. The copper bar gave me a straight edge since the weld would not stick to the copper. After grinding down the weld and making a second pass the bracket looks a lot better.

The outer wheelhouse was welded to the car. The inner and outer wheelhouses were welded to the B pillar. And the outer wheelhouse was welded to the trunk pan flanges.

Patrick, I just found this thread and read alot of the posts and few of the pics(I have alot blocked at work so I'm a little in the dark, i plan on looking at this thread when IZarine Khan debut film - News, Photos & Videos

New Delhi, After playing a prince early in his career in portions of 1992 film “Suryavanshi”, macho star Salman Khan is returning to period drama in his latest venture “Veer” that releases Friday. Interestingly, the epic has been written by


mental conventions expected of the typical school day. He has learned that these ways of being, acting, speaking, and moving follow a particular script, and he can conform his body to that script in ways that are socially acceptable to peers and teachers.

My younger son is different. Going home, or, more often than not, to violin lessons, cub scouts or soccer practice — he is at times sullen, explosive, irritable, at times all three. Unlike his brother. He has not been able to conform to the school day. When he explodes after school — and that is the only way I know how to describe it, a terrific explosion, the sound of all that anxiety releasing — it is because he has spent the last 8 hours completely30-33) (emphasis added). The word "between" is defined as "in, linking, or connecting the space separating (two points, objects, etc.)." The verb "transilluminate" is defined as "caus[ing] light to pass through." The word "through" is defined as "in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other." The verb "reflect," on the other hand, is defined as "cast[ing] back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface." The Random House College Dictionary, 130, 1395, 1370, 1108 (respectively) (Revised ed. 1980) (emphasis added).
Given the above, as understood by persons of ordinary skill in the science of oximetry, the court concludes that the language of the claim describing transillumination does not render the claim invalid as indefinite. The *615 structure of the claimed invention is limited, inter alia, to


to its effective date shall be governed by the provisions heretofore contained in LSA-R.S. 15:8; and if, on the effective date of Act 25 of 1960 the institution of prosecution has already been barred by the prescription of one year established by LSA-R.S. 15:8, nothing in the Act of 1960 shall affect such accrued prescription.[1] If this latter contention is meritorious, the bill of information *382 was timely filed on December 15, 1961, which is within two years of March 26, 1960, the date of the commission of the offense, and the prosecution should proceed.
The trial court, however, sustained the plea of prescription, to which ruling the district attorney reserved a bill of exceptions. The district attorney then moved to amend the bill of information to negative prescription,one-year time limitation applicable on the date the offense was alleged to have been committed (Art. 8, Code of Criminal Procedure), and Act 25 of 1960, which became effective on July 27, 1960, more than four months after the alleged commission of the crime, cannot affect or change that time limitation by increasing it to two years. To do so, it is urged, would violate the ex post facto provisions of the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Louisiana.[2] It is asserted that the limitation applicable as of the date of the commission of a criminal offense is not merely a procedural right, but is a "substantial right."
By its provision against ex post facto laws, the constitutions of our Federal and State governments inhibit


article XVI, section 11 of the Texas Constitution.
In 1977, Bayland Publishing, Inc. ("Bayland") leased a commercial building at 2472 Bolsover in Houston from the Olsons. In 1979, the lease was renewed for three years, and an addendum was added granting appellee an option to purchase up to 50% ownership in "the property better known as 2472 Bolsover Bldg.," and setting out terms of the payment. Neither the lease nor the addendum mentioned two other lots owned by the Olsons that were used by Bayland and other tenants of 2472 Bolsover for parking.
On the last day of the option term, September 30, 1982, Bayland exercised its option. It set a closing date, but the Olsons did not appear. Bayland then sued for specific performance or damages and requested reformationincluding the lots, to Bayland in 1977 and did so again in 1978. Both lots were pledged to secure appellants' mortgage on the building. Appellee, in July 1979, leased about 50% of the building through September 30, 1982. Testimony established that the parking lots were important to building tenants because no other adequate parking space existed. Signs on the parking lots stated that parking was allowed there only for tenants of the building. When Bayland expressed an intent to exercise the option, the Olsons did not offer to close on the property other than the lots. Finally, the Olsons, who prepared the option agreement, earlier furnished to Bayland a written description of "2472 Bolsover Building" that included a legal description of the two parking lots. Taking this evidence


the trial court erred in admitting Bayland's exhibits 8 and 19, and in excluding appellants' exhibit 11.
With respect to exhibit 8, appellants' objection at trial was that the exhibit was not a document. The exhibit consisted of six pages, identified by Franklin Olson as documents he had given to the president of Bayland over the years. He did not recognize one of the pages; however, that page was removed from the exhibit. This cured the harm.
Bayland's exhibit 19 was a computer printout showing leasehold improvements it made. The Olsons objected that it was not produced during discovery. After their objection, the trial court had a discussion with counsel off the record and looked at appellants' request for production. He then overruled the objection. Appellants' request for production isThe Revisionaries

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Ron WetheringtonKathy MillerCynthia DunbarDon McLeroyDirected by Scott Thurman

In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American children. Once every decade, the highly politicized Texas State Board of Education rewrites the teaching and textbook standards for its nearly 5 million schoolchildren. And when it comes to textbooks, what happens in Texas affects the nation as a whole.

Don McLeroy, a dentist, Sunday school teacher, and avowed young-earth creationist, leads the Religious Right charge. After briefly serving on his local school board, McLeroy was elected to the Texas State Board of Education and later appointed chairman. During his time on the board, McLeroy has overseen the adoption of new science and history curriculum standards, drawing national attention and placing Texas on the front line


of the so-called "culture wars."

In his last term, McLeroy, aided by Cynthia Dunbar, an attorney from Houston and professor of Law at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, finds himself not only fighting to change what Americans are taught, but also fighting to retain his seat on the board. Challenged by Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, and Ron Wetherington, an anthropology professor from Southern Methodist University in Texas, McLeroy faces his toughest term yet.

THE REVISIONARIES follows the rise and fall of some of the most controversial figures in American education through some of their most tumultuous intellectual battles.A Virginia high school principal apologized after a plan to have students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish was poorly received.

The principal at Westfield High School in Chantilly, Virginia, made the apology after receiving pushback from upset parents who discovered their children had been asked to recite the pledge in Spanish.

The school administrator initially planned for native speakers of foreign languages—such as French or German—to lead the student body in the recitation of the pledge in other languages.

“A school administrator suggested students lead the pledge in Spanish to promote engagement and inclusion,” Fairfax County Public Schools told Fox 5 DC. “Administrators believed this was an opportunity for other voices and languages to be heard and recognize the school diversity.”

The school district said the initiative was supposed to


last for two days before the Thanksgiving holiday, but some parents are suggesting there was more to the story.

“They had a native Spanish speaker read it Tuesday. End of the school day Tuesday afternoon, the principal comes on and said, ‘He was sorry.’ He was sorry and didn’t want it to be offensive,” said parent Stephanie Somers, whose son is a senior at the high school.

Other high schools implementing similar initiatives to recite the pledge in foreign languages have had to issue apologies to parents.

In 2015, one upstate New York public school issued an apology for asking its students to recite the pledge in Arabic after Jewish families and families who lost loved ones in the Afghanistan war complained.That sucks in industries geared up for bigger passenger volumes that now have to spread those fixed costs across a smaller number of fliers. Worse, airline security measures increased the fixed costs of flying at the same time as they reduced the number of travellers over which those costs could be spread. New Zealand lets small airports provide low cost services.

Want cheaper flights and better service within the US? Look at airport slotting fees, cabotage rules, and security arrangements before putting in price and route controls.

Thursday, 26 April 2012

My biggest complaint? They forget that beer also gave us modern hypothesis testing: Student's t-distribution
wasn't given its name because it's useful in undergraduate econometrics; it's the pseudonym that was used by William Sealy Gosset when he published his statistical results.


always fabricate an incident whipping up support for a bombing run if they want to.

But I still reckon Seasteading the best value play around. The odds on its all panning out still aren't great. But the upside gains are potentially very very large.

Two years on and it seems the musician was still affected by the court decision, which is believed to have had a significant impact on his financial situation. The 58-year-old's body was discovered by friends at his North Carlton home yesterday - in a modest house he recently moved into after being forced to sell a grand property nearby bought during the Men At Work days and later turned into a studio where Archie Roach's Charcoal Lane was recorded.

Detective Senior Sergeant Shane O'Connell said there wereseveral unexplained circumstances surrounding the death, but would not go into detail.

The cause of death remains unknown, but a close friend of Ham's told The Age last night that he believed Ham had begun using heroin heavily and also abusing alcohol after the Kookaburra case. ''The whole case had undone him,'' said the friend, who asked not to be named.

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Academia in New Zealand's always had a bit of a public perception problem. Because credential inflation came very late to New Zealand, a large number of very talented people have been successful without having bothered to go to university. They're sceptical about whether universities add much value.

The New Zealand press yesterday gave extensivecoverage to research from the University of Victoria at Wellington predicting that, by 2050,


logo turned on. The email, calendar, and contacts apps take advantage of the tablet design giving you a split view as already present in iOS and Android so as to make best use of space. New messages are highlighted by the top left corner of the screen glowing red whatever app you are in, and currently via Bridge everything is secure and safe.

Apps

Forget the lack of mail, calendar, and contacts for now and the PlayBook comes with a selection of apps preinstalled. Key apps are the browser, Kobo Books, Music, Music Store, Need For Speed Undercover, Tetris, Adobe Reader, Word To Go, Sheet To Go, Slideshow To Go, Slacker Radio, Video Chat, Weather, Clock, Voice Notes, Calculator, YouTube, Bing Maps, and then App World to get more. UKBig loss for MD, MD drops from a top national team to a good regional team and with theschedule they have this season with top national teams look for MD's overall record to be one of their worst in many years. Open division title now up for grabs to several teams.The also lost the 3/4 star transfer from Washington who transferred back recently.

Hopefully some new far off student-athletes similarly deeply imbued with parochial athletic tradition will transfer it in so that we won't have to sully ourselves mingling with the mere regional programs............Luca

Hey Luca, J Serra gets more than their fair share of out of state, out of county and out of country transfers.

Liberalism is like an out-of-control 5 year old at McDonalds. All the talking to and