Bryon Herbel, testified on behalf of the government.
Herbel reviewed for the court Micolo's history of psychiatric illness.
In 1995, as a result of Micolo's psychosis, he destroyed government
property, smeared feces around his cell, and assaulted the staff at the
federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Also in 1995, as a pretrial
inmate at FCI-Butner, Micolo was extremely psychotic and disruptive
causing him to be held in four-point restraints and treated involuntar-
ily with Haldol, an anti-psychotic medication.

                    2
Herbel then testified as to Micolo's recent behavior at FCI-Butner.
Though Micolo had been less disruptive, he continued to express
paranoid and grandiose preoccupations. Micolo reported visual and
auditory hallucinations and claimed that God had given him the cure
for AIDS inthe form of honey made from pine cones. Micolo also
claimed that God told him that his destiny was to be beheaded in front
of the Sanhedrin.* Upon arrival at FCI-Butner, Micolo refused to sub-
mit to admission laboratory tests, claiming that his blood was not his
to give away because it was God's, and he did not eat for seven days
due to a perceived need for purification. Dr. Herbel concluded that
Micolo's mental status was at risk of deterioration due to his delu-
sions and preoccupations. On cross-examination, Dr. Herbel opined
that Micolo's behavior crossed the line between genuine religious
beliefs and mental illness.

Further evidence presented at the trial included a psychiatric evalu-
ation by Dr. Billy Royal, conducted at the request of Micolo's coun-
sel. Dr. Royal concluded that Micolo suffered from Schizoaffective
Disorder, Bipolar type. Dr.


Dataminr Wins 2019 AI Breakthrough Award for Best Overall AI Solution

NEW YORK -- 26 June 2019:Dataminr, one of the world’s leading AI businesses, has been named winner of a2019 AI Breakthrough Award. Dataminr’s award is in the leadership category forBest Overall AI Solution.

Now in its second year, the AI Breakthrough Awards program annually recognizes the top companies, technologies, products, and services in the artificial intelligence industry today. Winners of 2018 awards included Google, Qualcomm and Verint. This year, Dataminr was selected from more than 1,500 nominees.

Ted Bailey, founder and CEO of Dataminr, said, "We are thrilled to be recognized with the 2019 AI Breakthrough Award for Best Overall AI Solution. At Dataminr, we believe that AI and real-time data can address critical business needs, while also serving aentered the senate-house, stab him with their styles, and deliver him to the rest to tear asunder. Nor was he satisfied until he saw the limbs and bowels of the man, after they had been dragged through the streets, piled up in a heap before him.

He aggravated his barbarous actions by language equally outrageous. “There is nothing in my nature that I commend or approve so much,” said he, as his “inflexible rigor.” Upon his grandmother Antonia’s giving him some advice, he said to her, “Remember that all things are lawful for me.”

He often talked of the lawyers as if he intended to abolish their profession. “By Hercules!” he would say, “I shall put it out of their power to answer any questions in law, otherwise than by


referring to me!”

Donald Trump “is openly calling for the Department of Justice, which he controls, to put his political opponents in jail.” (The New Yorker, Jan. 2, 2018).

“‘Very Frustrated’ Trump Becomes Top Critic of Law Enforcement” (The New York Times, Nov. 4, 2017).

He was tall, of a pale complexion, ill-shaped, his neck and legs very slender, his eyes and temples hollow, his brows broad and knit, his hair thin, and the crown of the head bald. The other parts of his body were much covered with hair. His countenance, which was naturally hideous and frightful, he purposely rendered more so, forming it before a mirror into the most horrible contortions.

“President Trump Staffers Claim He Scowls and Squints in Photos Because He Thinks It Makes Him Look Tough ‘LikeWinston Churchill’” (DailyMail.com, March 22, 2017).

What most of all disordered him was want of sleep, for he seldom had more than three or four hours rest in a night …

… and even then his sleep was not sound, but disturbed by strange dreams, fancying, among other things, that a form representing the ocean spoke to him. Being, therefore, often weary with lying awake so long, sometimes he sat up in his bed, at others, walked in the longest porticos about the house, and from time to time invoked and looked out for the approach of day.

To this crazy constitution of his mind may, I think, very justly be ascribed two faults which he had of a nature directly repugnant one to the other, namely, an excessive confidence and


Former Smallville actress Allison Mack wept in a Brooklyn federal courtroom on Monday as she pleaded guilty to charges that she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the leader of a purported self-help group tied to the Clintons.

The 36-year-old Mack apologized to the women who prosecutors say were exploited by the group's leader, Keith Raniere, within the "inner sanctum" of his NXIVM self-help business known as "dominus obsequious sororium" - Latin for "master over the slave women."

Mack allegedly occupied the second-most-senior position in the group.

"I believed Keith Raniere's intentions were to help people, and I was wrong," Mack told the judge as she pleaded guilty to racketeering charges. "I know I can and will be a better person," she added. Her sentencing was set for September 11.

MackValley. As anyone who's traveled the length of Oregon knows, the climate (and terrain) of southern Oregon is considerably different from that of the 100-mile stretch of the cool, moist Willamette Valley.

The 2008 vintage, however, was an equal-opportunity growing season for north and south. Both zones suffered a cool spring that affected flowering. That, in turn, reduced the crop size by as much as one-third and also set back the likely harvest date. (Grapes need 100 days to ripen once the tiny berry is formed.) Both zones saw a triumphant harvest thanks to glorious late fall weather with warm days, cool nights and little rain.

In short, 2008 is a handy, one-size-fits-all vintage: It turned out great everywhere -- not least, in the bottle. Evidence of the exceptional quality


of the 2008 vintage is found in the 2008 Del Rio Vineyards pinot noir from the Rogue Valley. Southern Oregon has a spotty track record with pinot noir, in part perhaps because it's warmer than the Willamette Valley.

Pinot noir likes what growers call a long "hang time" where the grape acquires more flavor components in the fall while barely increasing in sugar content, thanks to cool weather. Southern Oregon's sunny, warm weather reduces the opportunity for such long hang time for the ultra-sensitive pinot noir grape. However, in 2008, the fall weather obliged and pinot noir performed, at least as evidenced by this lovely example from Del Rio Vineyards in Gold Hill. Del Rio Vineyards is one of Southern Oregon's largest vineyards, with 180 acres planted with 15An Ainsworth church is taking part in a national program to enhance the relationship community members have with each and other. Sherrie Hazen with Ainsworth Community Church says her congregation is having a “Back to Church” Sunday tomorrow morning where residents can enjoy a casual service and get to know each other.

She says the program is a national movement to get people to go back to church. She says this program is also a way for the church to help bring the community of Ainsworth together.

There will be coffee and cookies along with a social hour before the 10:00 a.m. service.

For more information on the “Back to Church” program, contact Ainsworth Community Church.


individuals.[4] Howe and Robinson came to the conclusion that what was happening was like "outsourcing to the crowd," which quickly led to the portmanteau "crowdsourcing." Howe first published a definition for the term "crowdsourcing" in a companion blog post to his June 2006 Wired magazine article, "The Rise of Crowdsourcing," which came out in print just days later:[5]

"Simply defined, crowdsourcing represents the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call. This can take the form of peer-production (when the job is performed collaboratively), but is also often undertaken by sole individuals. The crucial prerequisite is the use of the open call format and the14,000 photographers produced 70,000 black-and-white prints and 30,000 color slides of the French capital to document the architectural changes of Paris. Photographs were donated to the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris.[16]

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) may provide one of the earliest examples of crowdsourcing. In the mid-19th century, an open call for volunteers was made for contributions identifying all words in the English language and example quotations exemplifying their usages.[21] They received over six million submissions over a period of 70 years.[22] The making of the OED is detailed in The Surgeon of Crowthorne (Published in the United States under the title "The Professor and the Madman"), by Simon Winchester.[22]

Crowdsourcing in Astronomy was used in the early 19th century by astronomer Denison Olmsted. After being awakened


in a late November night due to a meteor shower taking place, Olmsted noticed a pattern in the shooting stars. Olmsted wrote a brief report of this meteor shower in the local newspaper. “As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible,” Olmsted wrote to readers, in a report subsequently picked up and pooled to newspapers nationwide. Responses came pouring in from many states, along with scientists’ observations sent to the American Journal of Science and Arts.[23] These responses helped him make a series of scientific breakthroughs. The major being that meteor showers are seen nationwide, and fall from space under the influence of gravity. Also, they showedthat the showers appeared in yearly cycles, a fact that often eluded scientists. The responses also allowed him to suggest a velocity for the meteors which turned out to be too conservative. If he had just taken the responses as presented his conjecture on the meteor's velocity would have been closer to their actual speed.

A modern day version of crowdsourcing in astronomy is NASA's photo organizing project which asks internet users to browse photos taken from space and try to identify the location the picture is documenting.[24]

Another early example of crowdsourcing occurred in the field of ornithology. On December 25, 1900, Frank Chapman, an early officer of the National Audubon Society initiated a tradition, dubbed the "Christmas Day Bird Census". The project called birders from across North America


to count and record the number of birds in each species they witnessed on Christmas Day. The project was successful, and the records from 27 different contributors were compiled into one bird census, which tallied around 90 species of birds.[25] This large scale collection of data constituted an early form of citizen science, the premise on which crowdsourcing is based. In the 2012 census, more than 70,000 individuals participated across 2,369 bird count circles.[26] Christmas 2014 will mark the National Audubon Society's 115th annual Christmas Bird Count.

Genealogical research was using crowdsourcing techniques long before personal computers were common. Beginning in 1942, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) encouraged members to submit information about their ancestors. The submitted information was gathered together intoa single collection. In 1969 in order to encourage more people to participate in gathering genealogical information about their ancestors, the church started the three-generation program. In this program church members were asked to prepare documented family group record forms for the first three generations. The program was later expanded to encourage members to research at least 4 generations and became known as the four-generation program.[27]

Institutes that have records of interest to genealogical research have used crowds of volunteers to create catalogs and indexes to records.

Since 2005, the Genographic Project has used the latest genetic technology to expand our knowledge of the human story, and its pioneering use of DNA testing to engage and involve the public in the research effort has helped to create a new breed


of "citizen scientist." Geno 2.0 expands the scope for citizen science, harnessing the power of the crowd to discover new details of human population history.[33]

Crowdsourcing has often been used in the past as a competition in order to discover a solution. The French government proposed several of these competitions, often rewarded with Montyon Prizes, created for poor Frenchmen who had done virtuous acts.[34] These included the Leblanc process, or the Alkali Prize, where a reward was provided for separating the salt from the alkali, and the Fourneyron's Turbine, when the first hydraulic commercial turbine was developed.[35]

In response to a challenge from the French government, Nicolas Appert won a prize for inventing a new way of food preservation that involved sealing food in air-tight jars.[36] The British government provideda similar reward to find an easy way to determine a ship's longitude in the The Longitude Prize. During the Great Depression, out-of-work clerks tabulated higher mathematical functions in the Mathematical Tables Project as an outreach project.[37] One of the biggest crowdsourcing campaigns was a public design contest in 2010 hosted by the Indian Government's finance ministry to create a symbol for the Indian rupee. Thousands of people sent in entries before the government zeroed in on the final symbol based on the Devanagari script using the letter Ra.[38]

Today, crowdsourcing has transferred mainly to the Internet. The Internet provides a particularly good venue for crowdsourcing since individuals tend to be more open in web-based projects where they are not being physically judged or scrutinized and thus can feel


entrepreneurs can showcase their businesses and projects to the entire world by creating a profile, typically includes a short video, introducing their project, a list of rewards per donation, and illustrations through images. The idea is to create a compelling message that readers will be drawn towards. Funders make monetary contribution for numerous reasons:

They connect to the greater purpose of the campaign

They connect to a physical aspect of the campaign like rewards

They connect to the creative display of the campaign’s presentation

The dilemma for equity crowdfunding in the US as of 2012 was how the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is going to regulate the entire process. At the time, rules and regulations were being refined by the SEC, which had until Jan. 1st, 2013 to tweak the fundraisingthe BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos team which bested Netflix's own algorithm for predicting ratings, by 10.06%.

Another example of competition-based crowdsourcing is the 2009 DARPA balloon experiment, where DARPA placed 10 balloon markers across the United States and challenged teams to compete to be the first to report the location of all the balloons. A collaboration of efforts was required to complete the challenge quickly and in addition to the competitive motivation of the contest as a whole, the winning team (MIT, in less than nine hours) established its own "collaborapetitive" environment to generate participation in their team.[67] A similar challenge was the Tag Challenge, funded by the US State Department, which required locating and photographing individuals in 5 cities in the US and Europe within 12 hours based only


policy purposes including the use of Virtual Labor Markets for policy assessment purposes, investigated experimentally.[71][72][73] In addition, the first conference focusing on the subject took place at Oxford University, under the auspices of the Oxford Internet Institute in 2014.

One example of Policy Crowdsourcing is a study that took place in North Carolina from 2003-2005. Steve Wing led a study on the health effects of living near a "hog factory". He and his team set up automated air quality sensors in 16 communities to measure the concentration of hydrogen sulfide, and other hog farm byproducts. Also in these communities he had the citizens measure their own health statistics such as ill health, mood changes, and blood pressure. The data analysis revealed that there was a correlation between level ofniche ideas that would not survive Venture Capitalist or Angel funding, many times the primary investors in startups, to be started. Many ideas are killed in their infancy due to insufficient support and lack of capital but crowdsourcing allows these ideas to be started if an entrepreneur can find a community to take interest in the project.[102]

Crowdsourcing allows those who would benefit from the project to fund and become a part of it which is one way how small niche ideas get started.[103] On the other hand, when the raw number of projects grow, the number of possible failures can also increase. Crowdsourcing assists niche and high-risk projects to start because of a perceived need from a select few who seek the product. With high risk and small


Nankai 12000 series

The  is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway in Japan on Southern Premium limited express services between  and  since September 2011. Two four-car trainsets were delivered, replacing the older 10000 series sets.

Design
The new trains feature "Plasmacluster" air-purification technology developed by Sharp Corporation, representing the first use in a private operator (i.e. non-JR) train in Japan.

Passenger seats are  wide,  wider than in previous trains, and AC power outlets are provided.

Operations
 Southern
 Semboku Liner (sometimes substituted for 11000 series)

Formation
, the fleet consists of two four-car sets, formed as follows, with two motored ("M") cars and two non-powered intermediate trailer ("T") cars, and car 1 at the Wakayamashi end.

The two end cars are each18-year-old killed in Kennett crash

KENNETT – An 18-year-old woman is dead and another teen is injured following a crash on Old Kennett Road east of Burnt Mill Road at about 6:15 a.m. Sunday morning.

According to state police, Kristen Felkowski, of Wilmington, Del. was pronounced dead at the scene after the 2005 BMW she was driving struck a tree.

Police said the vehicle was heading west in the westbound lane of travel on the road when the vehicle approached a left curve in the roadway. Felkowski failed to negotiate the curve, leaving the roadway where the vehicle struck a tree.

The passenger, which police identified as a 16-year-old from Scranton, was taken to A.I. DuPont Hospital in Delaware with non-life threatening injuries.


This application seeks continued support for training of predoctoral students in genetics and development at Cornell University. The goal of the program is to produce highly skilled and knowledgeable scientists who will make significant contributions to biomedical research and education. In the program, students are provided research training in the framework of dissertation research carried out under the supervision of a faculty mentor and overseen by a committee of faculty. The 39 participating faculty represent four areas of strength: Evolutionary Genetics, Genetic Analysis of Cell Biology, Development, and Molecular Genetics. Faculty members in each area have extensive training experience and have active and productive laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. The program also has a significant academic component that includes training in quantitative skills, presentation skills, and criticalLinuxGizmos.com Sponsor ads:

Sun Microsystems and several computing giants have joined mainstream businesses such as United Airlines, General Motors, Sprint, Sony and Fidelity Investments to outflank Microsoft's Passport service for saving and checking people's online identities.

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The effort will compete with Microsoft's Passport authentication service, a key part of the upcoming Windows XP operating system and Microsoft's .Net software-as-a-service strategy.

Microsoft already has 165 million registered Passport users. Sun started working on the effort a year and a half ago but only started building the 33-company coalition two months ago, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's senior vice president of corporate strategy and planning, said in an interview.

The


went to the park ..." But would anyway really write in a diary, "Bill entered the room. He saw Sally on the left and me sitting at the desk. He strolled casually over to Sally. Sally nervously brushed her hair ..." etc. There's lots of description that goes into the action of a story that would just seem very unlikely in a diary.
Big advantage: Very conducive to detailed discussion of the hero's thoughts and feelings. In a conventional narrative, this would look odd. But in a diary, it's expected.
Another advantage that occurs to me: You can lie. That is, if in a narrative style you said, "Bob was having an affair with Sally", and then later you say that in fact this never happened, that that was allFerez sweet-talks a young white woman over the Border to be sold into slavery to the sadistic Gonzalez. His description of the Mexican town of Matamoros was probably drawn from his own visits:

The town of Matamoros lies back from the river, a bare squalid place. Since then I have seen other Mexican towns along the border, and some of them equal American cities of the same size. But Matamoros more resembles the strong hold of bandits than anything else. Every where I saw dirty, ragged peons, mostly bare-footed; many carried rifles or pistols and many wore cartridge belts strapped about their waists. Before a drab barrack a few languid soldiers pretended to mount guard, and here and there among the many saloons rurales with gaudy costumes drank mescal


the bad girl of “Vultures of Whapeton” (1936). The Spanish rose in “Through the Ages” goes unnamed, but another Conchita appeared in “The Thunder-Rider”:

And she was a full-blooded Spanish woman, daughter of a captain of Cortez, stolen from below the Rio Grande by the Apaches when a baby and from them stolen in turn by the southern Pawnees, to be raised as an Indian.

The two Conchitas brings up another point: many of the same names recur throughout Howard’s fiction, and the same or similar Hispanic names in particular occur with a regularity that may seem somewhat unusual given the number of different characters, stories, and genres involved. Besides the two Raquels and Conchitas, there at least six Juans and six Lopezes, two Diegos, four Joses, and two Guzmans.2010 News Releases

U.S. Announces $270 Million Bankruptcy Settlement with Chemical Manufacturer

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Justice Department and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York today announced that Tronox Incorporated has agreed to resolve its environmental liabilities for $270 million and 88 percent of Tronox’s interest in a pending litigation. The bankruptcy settlement will reimburse EPA for past cleanup costs and fund future cleanups at contaminated sites across the country.

Tronox and 14 of its affiliates filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on Jan. 12, 2009 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. At the time of the bankruptcy filing, the company was potentially responsible for past costs incurred and


Okla., is a multi-national chemical company that makes and sells titanium dioxide and other specialty chemicals used in plastics, paper and inks. The company has customers located in more than 90 countries and operates in North America, Europe, and Australia. Tronox was created through a spin-off from the Kerr-McGee Corporation. Several months after the spin-off was completed, Anardarko Petroleum Corporation purchased Kerr-McGee for $18 billion.

Tronox is currently involved in litigation against Anadarko and Kerr-McGee over allegations that those companies imposed years worth of legacy liabilities, including environmental obligations on Tronox, leaving Tronox insolvent and undercapitalized. The trial is expected to begin in late 2011 or early 2012. Eighty eight percent of any settlement awarded to Tronox, as a result of that litigation, will be used to fund additionalgrow to a length of about eight feet and are the largest rattlesnakes in the world. The eastern diamondback historically ranged along the coastal lowlands of the southeastern United States from North Carolina to eastern Louisiana, including all of Florida and its Keys. Although once abundant in longleaf pine ecosystems across the southeastern United States, its population size and range has declined. Nearly all of the old growth longleaf pine savannas are gone, and the eastern diamondback survives wherever its native habitats still exist or where open-canopy forests and grasslands are similar to longleaf pine savannas.

The Service is asking for information from state and federal natural resource agencies and all interested parties regarding the eastern diamondback rattlesnake and its habitat. Based on the status review, the Service will


IMPERIAL BEACH
When SANDAG said more sand for Imperial Beach, residents didn’t expect that they would be getting more water, too — in their condominium buildings.

As part of its 2012 Regional Beach Sand Project, SANDAG spent four weeks in September replenishing more than 4,200 feet of beach south of the pier in I.B. with 450,000 cubic yards of sand dredged from Mission Bay. The agency finished the project in October, and for the last two months, says resident John Ireland, his condo garage has been flooding whenever the moon is full and the tide is high.

Ireland and his wife, Elizabeth, live in a beach-side condo on Seacoast Drive, across the street from the Tijuana Estuary.

“We’ve had quite a time here,” he said. “Our underground garage got flooded withnear the tide. The sand was level when it was installed, they wrote in an email to U-T San Diego, and high tides and wave action have since moved the new sand, creating that higher “lip” along the western edge of the beach.

“Flooding in the Seacoast area is due to multiple causes, including higher than usual tides, proximity to the ocean and the estuary, rain runoff, low levels of the condominium garages, and possibly the new sand from the sand replenishment project,” they wrote. “The added sand acts as a filter and slows down the drainage of the water.”

Assistant City Manager Greg Wade said it appears that only buildings with below-ground parking structures are experiencing flooding.

After the first flooding in November, Ireland and some other residents approached SANDAG


have a male friend, a straight male friend fyi, who took the SATC tour when he last visited Manhattan.

The unusual thing is that despite the series beginning in 1998 and being very much of its time, it remains relevant and is still followed not only by those who are now in their thirties but by fans who are far younger. It has achieved the (almost) impossible in being all about fashion which by its very nature has a sell by date, but not actually going out of style. Certainly Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ outlines a very different New York with jobs, apartments and clothes being far harder to come by and with much of the sheen taken off. This more recent story of four girls starting out in thelittle bit of all of the Sex and the City women in all of us. After another ten years when Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte would be in their sixties, they will still, to me, be sipping cocktails in their sequins and heels whilst checking out the talent. The style goes on After Carrie.


In the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, numerous measures were taken in attempt to cleanup the spill. A trial burn was conducted during the early stages of the spill, in a small region of the spill isolated from the rest by a fire-resistant boom. The test was of questionable success, and because of unfavorable winds and weather (e.g., regional meteorological dynamics), and the negative potential impact on air quality and the general environment (e.g., as effects to Nature) no additional burning was attempted during the next 16 years of this (ongoing) cleanup effort. Mechanical cleanup was started shortly afterwards using booms and skimmers, but technical problems due to the thickness of the oil layer and kelp that tended to clog the equipment, became a seriousUnion members and community supporters across Canada have been organizing militant and effective pickets at Canada Post facilities ever since legislation came down on Monday making strikes by Canada Post workers themselves illegal.

Vancouver, Hamilton, Edmonton, Halifax, Windsor, and Mississauga have all seen “cross pickets” or “solidarity pickets” blocking mail trucks from entering or leaving processing plants for hours at a time. The actions have mobilized between 30 and 80 people and targeted key distribution centers.

The solidarity pickets have been made up of a broad coalition of political activists, and labor and community supporters. Major unions and labor councils have turned out dozens of their members.

In several cases, IWW branches and members have been instrumental in coordinating the pickets, and in setting the tone on the line.

Tara, a picketer


In California, Field's legal practice boomed and he was elected alcalde, a form of mayor and justice of the peace under the old Mexican rule of law, of Marysville (curiously, he was elected Alcalde just three days after his arrival in Marysville).[2] Because the Gold Rush city could not afford a jail, and it cost too much to transport prisoners to San Francisco, Field implemented[clarification needed] the whipping post, believing that without such a brutal implement many in the rough and tumble city would be hanged for minor crimes. The voters sent him to the California State Assembly in 1850 to represent Yuba County, but he lost a race the next year for the State Senate. His successful legal practice led to his election to the California SupremeCourt in 1857, serving six years.[3]

During his time on the Supreme Court of California, Field had a special coat made with pockets large enough to hold two pistols so that he could shoot at his various enemies through the pockets.[4] In 1858 he was challenged to a duel by a fellow Judge (William T. Barbour) but at the dueling ground, neither man fired his gun.[5]

In 1859 Field replaced the former chief justice of the California Supreme Court, David S. Terry because Judge Terry killed a United States Senator from California (David Colbreth Broderick) in a duel and left the state.[6] Oddly, Field and Terry's paths crossed again 30 years later when Field, acting in his capacity as a judge of the 9th Federal Circuit Court, ruled against Terry


in a convoluted divorce case (and had him sent to jail for contempt of court as well). Seeking revenge, Terry attempted to kill Field in 1889 near Stockton, California, but was instead shot dead by Justice Field's bodyguard, U.S. Marshal David B. Neagle (1847-1925). Ironically, legal issues arising from the killing of Mr. Terry came before the Supreme Court in the 1890 habeas corpus case of In re Neagle.[7] To no one's
surprise, the Supreme Court ruled the Attorney General of the United States had authority to appoint U.S. Marshals as bodyguards to Supreme Court Justices and Marshal Neagle had acted within the scope of his authority in shooting former Judge Terry.

On March 6, 1863, Abraham Lincoln appointed Field to the newly created tenth Supreme Court seat,[a] to achieveboth regional balance (he was a Westerner) and political balance (he was a Democrat, albeit a Unionist one). The appointment would also give the court someone familiar with real estate and mining issues. Field was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 10, 1863, and received his commission the same day.

Early in his career, Field wrote opinions against California's laws discriminating against the Chinese immigrants to that state.[9] Serving as an individual jurist in district court, he notably struck down the so-called 'Pigtail Ordinance' in 1879, which was regarded as discriminating against Chinese, making him unpopular with the Californian public. However, as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, he penned opinions infused with racist anti-Chinese-American rhetoric, most notably in his majority opinion in The Chinese Exclusion


Case, Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 130 U.S. 581 (1889), and in his dissent in Chew Heong v. United States, 112 U.S. 536 (1884).

Field insisted on breaking John Marshall's record of thirty-four years on the court, even though he was not able to handle the workload. His colleagues asked him to resign due to his being intermittently senile[10] but he refused, staying on until 1897. He lived only two years more, dying in Washington, D.C., and was buried there in the Rock Creek Cemetery.[11][12]

Justice Field's aspirations to become Chief Justice went unfulfilled, as he had made many enemies both political and personal.[13] He is the second longest serving Associate Justice. Field wrote 544 opinions, more than any other justice save for Justice Samuel Miller (by comparison, ChiefRestoration of marine coastal ecosystem health as a new goal for integrated catchment management in Tolo Harbor, Hong Kong, China.
This article demonstrates why it is necessary to have the restoration of marine coastal ecosystem health as a new goal for integrated catchment management in the coastal area of Tolo Harbor. The present goal of integrated catchment management (ICM) in the Tolo Harbor is based on water quality objectives. The performance of the ICM plan, the Tolo Harbor Action Plan (THAP), was evaluated using marine coastal ecosystem health indicators including both stress and response indicators. Since the implementation of THAP in 1988, some significant reductions in pollution loading have been observed: reduction of 83% of biological oxygen demand load and 82% of total nitrogen between 1988 and 1999. There


has also been an improvement in the health of Tolo Harbor's marine coastal ecosystem as evidenced by trends in physical, chemical, and biological indicators, although reverse fluctuations in some periods exist. However, such improvement can only be considered as the first sign of complete ecosystem health restoration, because ecosystem health covers not only physical, chemical, and biological aspects of an ecosystem, but also ecosystem service functions. The findings support the need to take the restoration and protection of marine coastal ecosystem health as a new goal rather than using water quality objectives. Steps necessary to further improve Tolo Harbor's marine coastal ecosystem health are also discussed.experience and knowledge which makes this joint venture an ideal opportunity and a technologically and financially robust platform to obtain a global leadership position within offshore wind.

The new company, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark. Vestas and MHI have transferred 380 employees to the new entity, which is owned equally by the parent companies

The joint venture is responsible for the design, further development, procurement, manufacturing, installation, commissioning and service related to the V164-8.0 MW turbine, as well as all marketing, sales and after-sales service related to offshore wind.

Vestas reports that the closing of the joint venture will only have a marginal impact on its 2014 revenue and earnings due to the deconsolidation of the offshore business unit. A gain on the joint venture transaction of


to the SEC included the following statement:

"The NBC affiliation agreements with WICS/WICD (Champaign/ Spring field, Illinois) and WKEF-TV (Dayton, Ohio) are scheduled to expire on April 1, 2004. NBC recently informed us that they intend to terminate our affiliations in Dayton and Champaign/Springfield effective on or about September 2004 and September 2005, respectively, in order to affiliate with another station in each of those markets.

"We are currently engaged in discussions with the ABC Television Network regarding affiliating with ABC in those two markets since the stations, which are scheduled to acquire the NBC affiliations in Dayton and Champaign/Springfield, are currently ABC affiliates and will be giving up that affiliation in order to become NBC affiliates."Monthly Archives: November 2013

I’m not really a poet, but every once in a while inspiration strikes in a rare form. I found this poem I wrote years ago. I started writing it in my mind as I was walking alone down a Midwestern country road with my eyes turned to the vast sky above me.

Dedicate to God the majesty of the sky.
Praise him with ocean‑wide adoration.

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Riberac, France: In 1793, the commune of Faye joined with Ribérac. In 1851, a part of the commune was dismembered for the creation of the new commune of Saint-Martin-de-Ribérac. Ribérac was the old sub-prefecture that was removed in a decree of 10 September 1926. (Wikipedia).In the United States, some 12 million people are released from jails or prisons every year.

What happens to these ex-cons - and their families - after they've done their time depends heavily on whether they can find paying jobs to help them make their way back into society.

That's when the New Jersey Reentry Corporation steps in.

With offices throughout the state, the nonprofit offers job training, counseling, social work services and legal support to help these men and women get back on their feet.

The corporation also offers them a vision of what their new futures look like. And sometimes we mean that literally.

Most recently, Kedar Hall got out of prison, only to confront a stark reality: He was losing his eyesight.

Fortunately for him, former Gov. Jim McGreevey, who heads


up the corporation, was there to lend Hall his own glasses. Then the agency helped arrange for Hall to get new prescription glasses, in effect allowing him to take the first steps toward his new life.

"This here is a second sight, this is a second chance," the grateful ex-prisoner said recently at the opening of the organization's ninth office, this one in a basement in downtown New Brunswick.

Already operating out of Elizabeth, Hackensack, Jersey City, Kearney, Neptune, Newark, Paterson and Toms River, the NJRC works with about 2,500 formerly incarcerated clients. The number is expected to grow as more people are released from prison in the next few years.

The organization began life as a pilot program in Hudson County in 2014, with support from the Christie Administration.

Since then,the U.S. Department of Justice has singled it out as being in the forefront in the reentry field; the program is one of only seven in the country recognized by the National Institute of Justice, the research, development and evaluation agency of the Justice Department.

Many ex-inmates will run up against seemingly insurmountable challenges: finding housing, finding a job, dealing with health issues and addictions, readjusting to family life after months or years behind bars.

The odds are stacked against them. The Reentry Corporation exists to help even out those odds. Everyone in the state benefits if the mission succeeds.

The daily expense of supervising a probationer is 20 times less than the average cost of supervising a person in jail, according to the organization's research. Teaching a client how to


start a Master of Laws (LLM) degree at NMMU. He also read for his undergraduate and Bachelor of Laws degrees at that institution.

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When 24-year-old Nathi Dwayi was accepted to study law at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), he knew what he wanted to do with his education – contribute to the fight for social justice.

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US and Argentina Caught COVERING UP Iran’s Involvement in Largest Islamic Terror Attacks in Their History

The case against the President and government of Argentina in the coverup of the largest terror attack committed on its soil is incredibly important and is being watched very closely by the world's power brokers. Why? Because it features a battle between a corrupt, establishment government that will do whatever it takes to protect its leaders and a cadre of far less powerful players who are doggedly pursuing the truth in an effort to bring that government to justice.

Sound familiar?

It should also finally bring attention to perhaps the most explosive ruling by a U.S. Federal District Court Judge to ever go virtually unnoticed. That ruling was that Iran was a key collaborator andjustice for the families of dozens of Jews who were murdered in a true hate crime perpetrated by a Muslim country more than 20 years ago is at the center of this fight. Evidence strongly suggests that the Argentine government and its President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, have been covering up Iran's involvement in return for riches and oil deals.

Evidence is coming in that the righteous are standing up despite their fallen soldier, a prosecutor named Alberto Nisman, who was just hours away from dropping a judicial bomb on the Argentinian government when he was shot dead.

Another angle to all of this is that the sitting President of Iran Hassan Rouhani was allegedly one of the central figures responsible for authorizing and coordinating the attack. This is the


the Argentine government due to his AMIA investigation. Argentina has worked to build relations with Iran under President Kirchner.

As Shoebat.com reported last month, Argentina isn't the only government to coverup Iran's involvement in the largest terror attack on its soil. If you believe the ruling of a U.S. District Court judge in 2011, Iran was a very complicit actor – likely to include Rouhani – in the 9/11 attacks.

This introduces another angle into all of this: the notion that the U.S. Government is guilty of the exact same thing the Argentinian Government is guilty of – helping to cover up Iran's involvement in the mass murder of U.S. citizens. An even more maddening, macabre irony is that a planeload of those citizens saved either the U.S. Capitol orserved on active duty in the United States Army
from September 1973 to May 1974. Vann claims that he
injured his back during basic training, and first sought
treatment in January 1974. Vann stated that he had
experienced chronic back pain since November 1973, but
the treating physician noted that x-rays taken at the time
were “essentially negative.” Vann v. Gibson, No. 13-0932,
2014 U.S. App. Vet. Claims LEXIS 979, at *2 (Vet. App.
June 6, 2014). Service records show that Vann had
previously suffered from a bladder infection that led to
similar pain in his back. Vann also had a prior history of
cystitis and endured occasional pain in the left hip.
During his April 1974 service separation examination,
Vann reported no recurrent back pain and his clinical
examination identified no abnormalities with his back.
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his back in a November
1996 accident at work when he slipped on ice. His doctor
diagnosed Vann with “acute lumbosacral sprain with
right sciatica and an acute cervical sprain with cephal-
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    Vann underwent a Veterans Affairs (“VA”) examina-
tion in July 1998 in light of his claims for non-service
connected pension benefits. Vann reported continued
back and leg pain due to his service injury and his fall at
work. The examiner diagnosed Vann with a chronic
lumbar spinestrain, but imaging tests revealed that his
disc spaces and vertebral body heights were preserved. In
August 1998, the VA regional office denied his claim for
non-service connected benefits, and Vann did not appeal
the decision.
    From September 1998 through February 2010, Vann
continued to seek treatment for his lower back pain. A
January 1999 report by a private physician noted that
Vann’s lower back pain was initially caused by the job-
related injury in 1996, and was exacerbated by a May
1998 automobile accident. A September 1999 VA exami-
nation report diagnosed Vann with degenerative disk
disease of the lumbosacral spine.
     Vann filed a claim in December 2003 for service
connected benefits due to his lower back pain. The re-
gional office denied his claim, and Vann did not appeal.
Vann continued to seek


In a theme park, the queue line for an attraction can sometimes be a major part of the overall experience, building anticipation and setting the mood, story, or theme for a ride when done correctly while also managing the crowds of guests waiting to experience it.

When Kingda Ka was introduced as the marquis attraction in the new Golden Kingdom area of the park in 2005 as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, it was also expected to draw large crowds and needed a queue suited to handling them. The entire Golden Kingdom was given a lush jungle theme and even Kingda Ka which had been built in an area that was once formerly a portion of the parking lot was included in the theme elements and plantings.

Theoriginal design for the queue was a long winding pathway between Kingda Ka and the neighboring Rolling Thunder roller coaster. That pathway would be planted with bamboo and other tropical foliage to continue the jungle motif.

Approximately half way down the launch track the pathway turned and went under the ride track. Because the pathway crossed under the launch, a special walkway with shielding was built to keep guests safe in the event of a snapped launch cable.

From the tunnel, the queue continued in a series of switchbacks which were in the infield between the launch and brake tracks. The switchbacks included two squares of concrete pavement with standard queue bars without coverings, though it appeared they were planned to have some sort of sun shades added. The switchbacks


occupied the area between the angled supports for the speed hill at the end of the ride.

The area was planted with grass and bushes and nicely landscaped. Just on the other side of the wall at the end facing the tower the infield area was left stark and covered with black pavement. On the other side towards the station was a covered section of queue. Just beyond that were the vehicle storage and maintenance tracks and shed, which also stood between the launch and brake tracks. The queue pathway continued alongside of it to the station entrance.

All along the edge of the parking lot the fence and a screen of plantings helped block the view out into the "real world". Throughout the queue all of the poles forthe light fixtures featured decorative carvings evocative of the jungle theme of the Golden Kingdom.

When the pathway finally got to the station, the line split into the two sides with half of guests going left and half right. For guests going right, the trains coming into the brakes would slow down right next to them, adding to the excitement and anticipation of riding. For those going left, a climb up and over to the other side of the station offered great views of the tower and the ride in operation.

This elaborate queue was very short lived after the ride experienced a major malfunction which damaged the launch and brake system as well as one of the trains. After this incident, it was decided to not use the queue


since the malfunction occurred right where the queue crossed beneath the launch track. The overflow queue area near the rides entrance served as the ride's new queue and it was extended with ropes and other temporary barriers along the fences and into the Golden Kingdom in order to accommodate the crowds.

Along with the queue being closed off, a viewing area adjacent to the launch track was also closed off. The elaborate queue which was designed to handle the expected crowds and even had misting fans installed to keep them cool as well as concession stands built in along the way was never to be used again in an abundance of caution for guest safety.

The "temporary" line setup became the permanent configuration of the queue, and with lower ridershipat Boeing and asked her colleague, Thomas Letts, to mentor the boy with his first aviation-related projects. Letts, who works in external product implementation, said Krithik came with “grand ideas,” and as a mentor he guided him to focus on a specific goal, to test his assumptions and to find experts when he ran into the limits of his acquaintances’ knowledge. He said he also urged Krithik to try a different field this year, following several projects related to jet wings and engines.

“He will do great things for mankind in his lifetime, and it will be interesting to see what path he takes,” he said.

On Friday, though, the next challenge was an Advanced Placement exam in comparative government, and then he could take a few weeks off before


to sell the United Campground located in Boise. The Showalters contacted Rose in the summer of 1980 to list the property with his agency. The parties entered into three successive listing agreements. The third was signed on November 27, 1980, and provided for a one-year listing period. The Showalters agreed to pay Rose a selling commission if he or anyone else sold, traded or "in any way disposed of the property within the time specified... ." Rose presented offers from two buyers to the Showalters while the listing was in effect. The first, submitted during the summer of 1980, was rejected as being too low. The second, the Johnson offer, was accepted by the Showalters on April 1, 1981. The Johnson offer was significantly lower than the earlieroffer. However, because the Showalters were facing foreclosure of a mortgage against their interest in the subject property during the spring of 1981, the Showalters were anxious to sell and they accepted the Johnson offer. Closing was set for April 15, 1981. When the designated date passed and no closing occurred, and nothing was heard from the Johnsons, the Showalters contacted another real estate agent who had presented an offer while they were considering the Johnson offer. That agent, Kelly Breen, was unable to resurrect the previous offer, but did subsequently present an offer from Richard and Barbara Heaton. The Showalters agreed to sell the property to the Heatons and the transaction closed in May, 1981. At the closing, the entire selling commission was paid to Breen's broker,


low offer.[3] Rose did not reveal his relationship with the Johnsons or that the Johnsons were willing to give him a proprietary interest in the property as payment of the selling commission. Nor did Rose make any effort to cooperate with Breen or his broker. Breen's phone calls were not returned and Rose failed to appear when Breen presented the first offer his office received. After the Johnson offer fell through, Rose not only failed to cooperate with the Heaton transaction, but attempted to prevent its closing.
Another breach of the agent's duty to his principal occurred in connection with the Johnson offer. Rose hired an engineering firm to resurvey the property, to review the adequacy of the sewer system, and to determine the feasibility of altering the property1. Represents stock award for fiscal year 2012 performance that will vest over 4 years at the rate of 25% starting on August 31, 2012 and then at the rate of 25% on each August 31 thereafter, subject to continued employment.

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4. Represents stock award for fiscal year 2013


Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is calling lawmakers to Madison to tackle gun violence, but his plan relies on placing more limitations on guns — drawing an immediate rejection by Republicans who control legislation in the state Capitol.

Evers on Monday announced he was convening a special legislative session, which allows the governor to force lawmakers to consider legislation on a topic of the governor's choice but he can't require them to act.

The Democratic governor wants lawmakers to take up two bills that have, so far, been ignored by Republicans but have the support of the majority of Wisconsinites.

To force the issue, Evers said he would call a special legislative session as many times as it takes to get Republicans on board.

"How many times can you go against 80% ofup all over Wisconsin who thought that they had a nightmare, but when they wake up they realize that it wasn't a nightmare — that they lost a child to gun violence."

RELATED:How a new team in Milwaukee is trying to stop one shooting leading to another.

Democratic legislative leaders praised Evers' decision, including Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling of La Crosse who herself has first-hand experience with gun violence. In 1992, her parents were killed in a massacre at a fast-food restaurant the family owned.

"Too many men, women, and children have already died as a result of gun violence," Shilling said. "Families should feel safe from the threat of deadly weapons and dangerous individuals. Action is needed to prevent more tragedies from happening.”

In the executive order calling the special


Returnee Affairs are trying to relocate refugees to Sherkole camp, some 50 kilometres to the southeast, where they can get basic services and better protection.

So far more than 3000 people have been moved and the pace of relocations is expected to increase. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is helping transfer refugees and their belongings to Sherkole.

With more refugees arriving, the Ethiopian Government has allocated land to build two transit centers near the main border entry points. Farmatsore transit centre will accommodate approximately 3,000 new arrivals entering Ethiopia through the Kurmuk border; and Adimazin transit camp — near the Gizen border crossing — will accommodate another 5,000 people. Another site, Tonga, is also being developed as a camp.

We are an organisation of people dedicated to the propagation andsome phone tree of U.S. senators to endorse," Roe said. "We never built our campaign that way."

Cruz calls for party to back him over Trump

Cruz is pushing for the party to unite behind him and has reached out to one of his former presidential adversaries, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who is among the few in the Senate GOP Conference prepared to back Cruz -- assuming Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio drop out of the race.

Speaking Sunday in Concord, North Carolina, Cruz made the pitch for unity.

"I want to tell you that all across North Carolina and all across this country what we are seeing is Republicans coming together and uniting behind our campaign because ours is the only campaign that has beaten


them weak-willed and "mendacious" -- and essentially accusing them of corrupt backroom deal-making, saying they are part of the "Washington cartel." The rhetoric has made him a hero on the right as he's tapped into the anger with Washington, helping to elevate his presidential campaign as he tries to keep pace with Trump. But it has only served to infuriate his colleagues.

"I'm not a member of any establishment or cartel," scoffed Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, a Rubio supporter.

Since joining the Senate in January 2013, Cruz and his colleagues have repeatedly sparred bitterly over tactics and policy, most notably over the senator's demand to defund Obamacare, a battle that led to a 16-day government shutdown.

Cruz said he is fighting a GOP establishment unwilling to stand up for conservative principles.You don’t have to go very far across the border to get the Canadian take on the War of 1812.

At passport control in Toronto’s Preston Pearson Airport, a border agent asks an American traveler the purpose of his visit. When told that he is in Canada on business, and part of that business is the War of 1812, she launches into a concise but remarkably informed summary of the war—invoking the iconic Canadian heroes of the conflict, and even suggesting some significant historical spots around Ontario associated with specific engagements of the war worth visiting.

When it is pointed out to the agent that she seemed to know much more about the War of 1812 than your typical American, she raises her eyebrows and smiles, before stamping the visitor’s


rattling windows on the far side of Lake Ontario, and killing many Americans, including their commander, General Zebulon Pike (of Peak’s fame). The American troops then went on a rampage, burning government buildings in the city. A year later, in retaliation for this, the British burned Washington, D.C.

The battle was contested at Fort York, located then on the shores of the lake. Today, thanks to landfill as the city has grown, the old fort sits incongruously amidst skyscrapers and an elevated expressway, almost a kilometer from the water. Here, interpreters clad in period costumes lead visitors around a 43-acre facility housing Canada’s largest collection of buildings from the War of 1812. It is at Fort York Historic Site, as much as anywhere else in this country, that theIn this April 2, 2017 photo released by Sacred Heart University, students participate in a candlelight vigil in memory of student Caitlin Nelson on the school's campus in Fairfield, Conn. Police said Nelson, from Clark, N.J., died days after choking during a pancake-eating contest at the college. (Sean Kaschak/Sacred Heart University via AP)

In this April 2, 2017 photo released by Sacred Heart University, students participate in a candlelight vigil in memory of student Caitlin Nelson on the school's campus in Fairfield, Conn. Police said Nelson, from Clark, N.J., died days after choking during a pancake-eating contest at the college. (Sean Kaschak/Sacred Heart University via AP)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A college student whose father was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks has died after choking during a pancake-eating contest.

Police


said 20-year-old Caitlin Nelson died at a New York City hospital on Sunday, three days after participating in the contest at Sacred Heart University. She was from Clark, New Jersey, and was a junior majoring in social work at the Roman Catholic school in Fairfield.

“It’s a tragic event that started out as something fun,” said Fairfield police Lt. Bob Kalamaras.“It was just a tragic accident.”

When Nelson started choking at the contest, two nursing students who were there immediately began lifesaving measures and were quickly joined by police officers and paramedics, Kalamaras said. She was taken to a hospital in Bridgeport in critical but stable condition and transferred on Friday to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

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Several thousand people gathered on the Sacred Heart campus Sunday night to remember Nelson,a member of the Kappa Delta sorority, and share their grief. A Mass dedicated to her was followed by an impromptu candlelight vigil.

Nelson’s father, James Nelson, was a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officer killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in Manhattan. The 40-year-old was killed while trying to rescue people trapped in the World Trade Center. His obituary said he was survived by two daughters, 11-year-old Anne and 5-year-old Caitlin.

School officials said counseling services were being provided.

“The SHU community is mourning today,” the school said in a statement Monday. “We ask that during this time you give Caitlin’s family and the members of the SHU community privacy while they grieve.”

According to her LinkedIn page, Caitlin was certified in youth mental health first aid


and volunteered at the Resiliency Center of Newtown, a nonprofit group that provides free counseling and other services to people affected by the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six educators.

Funeral services have not been announced.in the backfield when instead he should have accepted meeting them for a 2-yard gain...

Here's betting he's one of the most heavily interviewed guys at the Combine..

Ok.... as a player, if he was there at #17 & he was the best on the board... sure, Chadman would be happy if the Steelers took him. As a distraction off the field to a team that needs to focus much more on the field... nah, Chadman would pass on him.

However he interviews will be crucial. The Steelers have a track record of going on 'gut feel' for character concerning players- Mike Adams is a great example. If the Steelers take him in the 1st, he'll have had to have been impressive.

I wouldn't be upset if we drafted him. The whole


the catfish thing - but, until you've met... And if he thought she died, why didn't he try to attend the funeral? And why'd he said he had? And..And...

Even if he wasn't aware inititally, he was absolutely involved in keeping it going AFTER he knew the truth. He said he knew on Dec 6, but, was shown on TV talking about it on Dec 8...

He didn't attend the funeral because the hoaxers said her family didn't want him there. He is a college athlete with no money and a poor family. Plane tickets are not cheap.Checks Checked

Two unauthorized checks were drawn against a man's bank account. At 12 noon on Friday, August 16, a 64-year-old man living on West 77th Street received a call from his bank representative alerting him to unusual activity on his account. Two checks had been cashed against his account, each in the amount of $3,685. The man did not know the names on the checks. He also said that he did not have check numbers that went up that high, nor had he given permission or authority for the checks to be written and cashed.


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This invention is regarding the flexible wiring board piece wherein the narrow part for cutting is formed in the vicinity of the opening edges of the insulating films.
In the flexible wiring board piece according to the present invention, the connecting terminal part and the cut part are provided in such a manner as being exposed in both faces from openings, which are apart from each other, formed in the insulating films. Thus, the flexible wiring board piece is cut not at the connecting terminal part but at the cut part apart from the connecting terminal part. When the flexible wiring board piece is cut, the free end of the connecting terminal part is coated with the insulating films. Owing to this constitution, connecting terminal partsVIDEO: Da Giant Ft. Young Jonn – Mamacita

Having gone on short hiatus to perfect his craft, the Hits Branded Records signee is back to reclaim his admired spot in the music industry. He joined forces with Young Jonn who produced and featured on the song.

Speaking on his new single, ‘Mamacita’, Da Giant, real name Ashi David, said the song was inspired by the inner beauty of African ladies that many don’t see often and the tender hearts they have.

Da Giant is a multi-talented rapper who dazzles effortlessly on any genre of music, he started music at a tender age, decided to delve into music professionally in year 2010 and has since been making waves with his gift.

Da Giant is known for making good music through excellent lyrical dexterity,


HBO Max was the big TV winner with four awards, two each for Succession and Chernobyl. Amazon Prime Video won two prizes for Fleabag (best musical or comedy TV series and best actress in a TV series musical or comedy for creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge). Hulu also grabbed two awards, with Patricia Arquette taking the supporting actress victory for The Act, and Ramy Youssef grabbing best actor for his comedy Ramy. The lone prize for a non-streaming service went to FX's Fosse/Verdon, with Michelle Williams named best actress in a limited series.

The film side was dominated by classic studio releases, with Universal's 1917 winning best motion picture (drama) and Sony's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood garnering the same prize in the musical/comedy category. Joaquin Phoenix won best actorThe scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was first exposed not by a digital photograph but by a letter. In December 2003, a woman prisoner inside the jail west of Baghdad managed to smuggle out a note. Its contents were so shocking that, at first, Amal Kadham Swadi and the other Iraqi women lawyers who had been trying to gain access to the US jail found them hard to believe.

The note claimed that US guards had been raping women detainees, who were, and are, in a small minority at Abu Ghraib. Several of the women were now pregnant, it added. The women had been forced to strip naked in front of men, it said. The note urged the Iraqi resistance to bomb the jail to spare the women further


shame.

Late last year, Swadi, one of seven female lawyers now representing women detainees in Abu Ghraib, began to piece together a picture of systemic abuse and torture perpetrated by US guards against Iraqi women held in detention without charge. This was not only true of Abu Ghraib, she discovered, but was, as she put it, "happening all across Iraq".

In November last year, Swadi visited a woman detainee at a US military base at al-Kharkh, a former police compound in Baghdad. "She was the only woman who would talk about her case. She was crying. She told us she had been raped," Swadi says. "Several American soldiers had raped her. She had tried to fight them off and they had hurt her arm. She showed us the stitches. She"She was held for about six weeks without charge. During that time she was insulted and told she was a donkey."

In Iraq, the existence of photographs of women detainees being abused has provoked revulsion and outrage, but little surprise. Some of the women involved may since have disappeared, according to human rights activists. Professor Huda Shaker al-Nuaimi, a political scientist at Baghdad University who is researching the subject for Amnesty International, says she thinks "Noor" is now dead. "We believe she was raped and that she was pregnant by a US guard. After her release from Abu Ghraib, I went to her house. The neighbours said her family had moved away. I believe she has been killed."

Honour killings are not unusual in Islamic society, where rape is often


of Iraq's secret police, the Mukhabarat. The women, in their 40s and 50s, come from Kirkuk and Baghdad; none has seen their families or children since their arrest earlier this year.

According to Swadi, who managed to visit Abu Ghraib in late March, the allegations against the women are "absurd". "One of them is supposed to be the mistress of the former director of the Mukhabarat. In fact, she's a widow who used to own a small shop. She also worked as a taxi driver, ferrying children to and from kindergarten. If she really had a relationship with the director of the Mukhabarat, she would scarcely be running a kiosk. These are baseless charges," she adds angrily. "She is the only person who can provide for her children."

The womenprecise or properly defined."

During her visit to Abu Ghraib in March, one of the prisoners told Swadi that she had been forced to undress in front of US soldiers. "The Iraqi translator turned his head in embarrassment," she said. The release of detainees, meanwhile, appears to be entirely arbitrary: three weeks ago one woman prisoner who spoke fluent English and who had been telling her guards that she would sue them was suddenly released. "They got fed up with her," another lawyer, Amal Alrawi, says.

Last Friday, about 300 male prisoners were freed from Abu Ghraib, the first detainees to be released since the abuse scandal first broke. A further 475 are due to be released tomorrow, although it is not clear if any of the women will be


among them. General Geoffery Miller, who is responsible for overhauling US military jails in Iraq, has promised to release 1,800 prisoners across Iraq "within 45 days". Some 2,000 are likely to remain behind bars, he says. Iraqi lawyers and officials aredemanding that the US military hands the prisons over to Iraqi management on June 30, when the coalition transfers limited powers to a UN-appointed caretaker Iraqi government. Last week, Miller said "negotiations" with Iraqi officials were ongoing.

Relatives who gathered outside Abu Ghraib last Friday said it was common knowledge that women had been abused inside the jail. Hamid Abdul Hussein, 40, who was there hoping to see his brother Jabar freed, said former detainees who had returned to their home town of Mamudiya reported that several women hadTopNews

President Obama Talks Alternative Fuel in Las Vegas

On Thursday, President Obama visited a UPS facility in Las Vegas to pitch a plan to boost the nations' use of natural gas.

At a UPS facility in Las Vegas, President Obama's podium included two of UPS's Kenworth T800 LNG trucks.

Obama, who stood in front of two of UPS's Kenworth T800 LNG trucks, proposed tax incentives for companies to buy natural gas trucks, which would in turn help build demand for domestic natural gas supplies.

"We've got a supply of natural gas under our feet that can last America nearly a hundred years," said the president, whose re-election campaign is expected to focus a great deal on U.S. energy. "Developing it could power our cars, our homes, and our factories in a cleaner


The Trump administration will take action against an Iranian ship that has been stationed at a key choke point in the Red Sea for months and is believed to be providing significant military aid to terrorist forces in Yemen, according to U.S. officials and military experts familiar with the situation.

An Iranian ship believed to be masked as a cargo vessel has been identified as the "mother ship" stationed in the Red Sea providing targeting information for Houthi anti-ship attacks, which have increased in recent months, including a late July attack by Iranian-backed rebels on a Saudi oil tanker.

The ship, identified as the Saviz, was delisted from U.S. sanctions by the Obama administration as part of its efforts to uphold the landmark nuclear deal with Iran, U.S. officials confirmedgoods, you don't anchor in the same place for weeks at a time, let alone outside a war zone, let alone a war zone where militias are firing missiles at other ships," the source said. "The Obama administration enabled the Saviz to sail globally. President Trump will put a stop to that."

The Iranian ship's suspicious activities have been cited in recent months by U.S. military experts and foreign governments, including the Saudi government, which has been targeted by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

"A ship like Saviz could carry [Iranian military] Qods Force command and control elements and host berthing and logistics, while controlling the activities of smaller, lower-profile craft," according to J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval intelligence officier who recently published a lengthy analysis on the ship. "The maritime


might be enough to make it leave the area. Alternatively, if authorities are able to prove its complicity in military activities, they may have a case for boarding and seizing it, which could yield further evidence that Iran is violating UN sanctions and supporting attacks on civilian vessels."

U.S. military officials with Central Command, or Centcom, which controls American operations in the region, declined Free Beacon requests for information on the Saviz and its operations.

The Saudi government has been tracking the Saviz for more than a year and has documented its extended stay in the Red Sea, activity usual for a typical cargo ship.

"Saviz appears to have remained there for extended periods in the months since," Dyer noted in her analysis. "This is not the typical profile of alarge, modern, ocean-going cargo ship, which would be expensively ill-employed lingering among islands in the southern Red Sea."

U.S. officials and documentation confirm the Obama administration removed sanctions on the Saviz in January 2016, enabling its free travel across the region.

Sanctions were lifted as part of U.S. commitments agreed upon under the nuclear deal, which President Donald Trump recently abandoned, paving the way for new economic sanctions on Tehran. The Saviz is just one of numerous Iran-related vessels that received a pass from U.S. sanctions in 2016.

Sanctions on the Saviz and other Iranian vessels are set to be reimposed by Nov. 5, according to information published by the Treasury Department.


Quick Description: Sail Boats by Peter Macon is part of the Rochester public art inventory. It was commissioned in 2005 by the City of Rochester and is permanently installed in Charlotte, at the Rochester Harbor.

Long Description:The corten steel plates stand 16 feet tall, not counting the base, and is accented with stainless steel cables. It was commissioned as art of the Port of Rochester rehabilitation, in anticipation of the Rochester Fast Ferry between Rochester and Toronto. (visit link) The ferry project was short-lived, but we have an annual Harbor Festival, and frequent visits from the Tall Ships from around the world, so it is still appropriate art for this location.a 50-minute odyssey across London, we're not alone. Simon took a valedictory ride on the last lot of stock:

"The 1938 trains used on the Bakerloo line included one 'standard stock' trailer. These dated from the 1920s or early 1930s.

"Knowing that they were about to be withdrawn and despite not even being a teenager at the time I made a point of riding in them."

The 30s stock Simon talks about has a smart, suburban sitting room feel about it — and can now be admired (and sat in) at London Transport Museum's Acton depot. But there's something special about the design of the current Bakerloo trains that makes them so easy on the eye.

Everywhere you look there are curves: the circular lights that flank the interior doors. The edge


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I’d had my fill of imperial palaces, warriors, pagodas, jade, and even pandas after a few weeks in China. Although I had been very pleasantly surprised by much of the Middle Kingdom and had relished the opportunity to see many big cities like Beijing, Xi’an, Chengdu, and Shanghai, the hectic pace and smothering crowds had me ready for more of the countryside as I headed south to Guilin, the Li River, and the small city of Yangshuo.

The Guangxi region looked and felt very different from much of the China I had seen in the preceding weeks. I felt like I’d stepped out of the craziness of big-city smog, traffic, and crowds, and into a time-forgotten traditional Chinese landscape painting.

The Li Riverarea had a misty, ethereal air about it – indistinct mountains off in the distance, a light haze rising off the river, and quiet country folk going about their daily business in the foreground. Time seemed suspended.

The Li River flows languidly amid towering limestone karst formations. Water buffalo plod along the shore and wallow in the shallow water, and fishermen in long graceful boats ply the waters.

Occasionally, a phalanx of boats clusters together on the riverbanks and small markets spring up.

After about four or five hours, the riverboats dock in Yangshuo, a lively town. But rather than bumping shoulders with the many tourists on West Street who have come to souvenir shop, eat, and drink, we almost immediately head off into the countryside for a look at the


inlet aperture which is closed by means of a rod which controls the output of glass melt, electrodes positioned at an angle of 120 degrees, a coil-in-box cooler positioned on the external side of the upper part of the metal housing, a charging device and a turning-positioning mechanism for the rod.
The danger of operation with the apparatus is high because of the high chemical corrosion of the electrodes and the refractory reflector. The durability of the apparatus is low because of the burn-out of the electrodes and the short service life of the refractory reflector, Furthermore, during the discharge there is the danger of the occurrence of an emergency situation due to the danger of the tubular channel overheating, of its higher chemical corrosion due to the unguaranteedclosure of its reduced inlet aperture because of the higher chemical corrosion of the rod and the tubular discharge channel, and also because of the danger of the formation of a hard-to-remove glass plug in the tubular discharge channel.
A Joule melter is known for processing radioactive wastes (see, for example, Europatent 0 137 579, 1985), comprising a steel casting closed at the top by a steel lid, the inner surface of which is lined with a refractory material. A jumper is positioned on the bottom part of the refractory material, an electrode of cylindrical shape is positioned around the jumper, wherein a partition of cylindrical shape having an aperture is positioned inside the electrode, while a starting heater is positioned on the external side. An outlet pipe for


the discharge of glass melt is located in the center of the bottom part, this pipe being simultaneously a second electrode and with its upper part being covered by a truncated cone with an aperture. A pipe of large diameter for the discharge of waste gases, an inlet pipe for loading the radioactive wastes and vitrification agents, and also a movable plunger with a conical end-piece ensuring closure of the aperture of the truncated cone are positioned in the steel lid.
Due to the burn-out of the electrode of cylindrical shape, which is a part of the melter housing, and of the second electrode, which is an outlet pipe for the discharge of the glass melt, and also due to the higher carrying away of radio nuclides, there isis a discharge pipe provided with a water-cooled jacket and an inductance coil connected to a high frequency generator.
There is a high degree of danger during operation of the apparatus due to high chemical corrosion of the housing of the crucible, the danger of its mechanical breakdown in the presence of high thermal stresses caused by a large difference between the temperature on the outer and inner surfaces, and also due to an increase in the degree of votalization of radio nuclides due to the use of a calciner for calcinating radioactive materials.
Furthermore, the melter has reduced productivity due to the absence of a mixer for preliminary mixing of the calcinate of radioactive materials and the vitrification agents, and also due to the immobility of the inductance coil


lug in the form of a truncated cone made in said lid from the side facing the discharge pipe,
a through cylindrical aperture made in said lug, a longitudinal axis of which coinciding with a longitudinal axis of said discharge pipe,
a group of apertures made in said lid and serving to remove a coolant from said cooling jacket,
a collector for feeding the coolant into the jacket and positioned on said jacket from the side opposite said lid,
a group of apertures made in said collector for supplying the coolant to said cooling jacket,
a discharge gate comprising a pipe, on one end of which, facing said lug, is Positioned a cone-shaped tip, on the other end a lid with an aperture, adjacent which is positioned a pipe for discharge of thecoolant,
a pipe for supplying the coolant, positioned coaxially with said pipe of the discharge gate in said aperture of the lid, one end of which being positioned adjacent the cone-shaped tip, another end protruding outside said lid.
It is advisable that the cone-shaped tip be made of one piece and consist of
a first truncated cone having a large base and a smaller base and being rigidly secured by the large base to said pipe of the discharge gate,
a second truncated cone having a large base and a smaller base, wherein the large base of said second truncated cone is the smaller base of said first truncated cone,
a third cone having a base which is the smaller base of said second truncated cone.
It is advantageous that said first truncated cone


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Outsourced truck drivers contracted to perform work for the Australian multinational company Boral have been on an indefinite strike since June 25 in Dangjin in South Korea’s South Chungcheong province.

Boral specialises in the supply of building materials. Its headquarters are in Sydney and it employs more than 15,000 people in Australia, the United States and across Asia.

In the aftermath of the April 24 Rana Plaza collapse, the plight of Bangladeshi garment workers occupied global media attention in a way it never had before.

The inconvenient thing about Rana Plaza, as far as the fashion brands that rely on outsourced sweatshop labour were concerned, was that so many workers — more than 1100 — died in one spectacular incident.

“Both Liberal and Labor governments have squandered the fruits of themining boom,” said Peter Boyle, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Sydney, in response to the Rudd government's August 2 economic statement.

“And the only real solution lies in reversing the tax cuts given to the rich by the Howard and Gillard-Rudd governments and by nationalising the mines, banks and energy companies and put them under the democratic control of the community.

For the second time in six months, Tunisia's government has been thrown into chaos after the killing of a left-wing leader. Mohamed Brahmi, a leader of Tunisia's Popular Front, was assassinated on July 25.

Brahmi was attacked by two men on motorbike outside his home in Ariana, a suburb of Tunis, and was shot 11 times. He was taken to Mahmoud Matri Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

His


requested asylum in Venezuela.

Farmers in the Rural Workers’ Association of Catatumbo (Ascamcat) erleased a public letter on June 21 asking Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for refuge. They have been protesting and blocking roads since June 10 in response to a campaign to forcefully eradicate coca cultivation in their area. They say they fear military reprisals.

The Barack Obama administration has proposed new regulations for hydraulic fracturing on 756 million acres of public and tribal lands.

The rules were written by the drilling industry and will be streamlined into effect by a new intergovernmental task force, established by the president, to promote fracking ? a practice that has been linked to water poisoning, air pollution, methane emissions and, most recently, earthquakes.

A forum at the University of Wollongong on August 1 called"Trouble in the Edufactory: The Sydney Uni Strike and the Struggle for the University" heard from Sydney university PhD student and casual academic staff member Mark Gawne.

Gawne, a graduate of the University of Wollongong, described this year's series of strikes at Sydney as the product of years of dissatisfaction among staff and students over increasing cutbacks.

It was a powerful moment of solidarity as more than 200 Green Left Weekly supporters who had filled Balmain Town Hall for this publication's annual Sydney fundraising dinner held up Bradley Manning masks.

Looking down from the stage it was an amazing sight. The guests at the dinner included tables of freedom fighters from all around the world: from Latin America to Asia.

In recent years, there has been the emergence of a career path


in the Labor Party that runs from the union movement to political office. Then, after office, to lobbyist and company director.

Of the 23 key lobbyists in the five mainland states in 2010, 17 had connections to the Labor Party. In a reflection of cross-party unity in NSW, 134 of the 272 officially registered individual lobbyists are former MPs or ministerial staffers.

US military lead prosecutor Major Ashden Fein summed up his case against Bradley Manning for "aiding the enemy" with these chilling words: "He was not a troubled young soul. He was a determined soldier with the knowledge, ability and desire to harm the United States in its war effort.

"Your honor, he was not a whistleblower, he was traitor."

We totally disagree.

Manning witnessed a terrible crime and he reported it31st at the NTOM conference “Falling Asleep in the Lord: An Orthodox Perspective on Dying, Death and Grief” at St. Demetrios Greek orthodox Church in Fort Worth.

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Buck Hill, a renowned saxophonist and mainstay of the Washington jazz scene for more than 60 years and who was known as the “Wailing Mailman” for his day job with the U.S. Postal Service, died March 20 at his home in Greenbelt, Md. He was 90.

A daughter, Robin Hill, confirmed the death and said her father had been treated in recent years for heart and prostate ailments.

Mr. Hill was a native Washingtonian who never left his home town, despite having the talent and offers to make a bigger splash. He began performing in the 1940s, when the clubs and theaters along the District’s U Street corridor were known as the “Black Broadway.”

Long considered Washington’s premier tenor saxophonist, Mr. Hill shared the stage with jazz royalty such as Dizzyand I was playing with one of the greatest saxophonists. It’s a mysterious thing, but Buck is a true creative genius.”

Buck Hill performing on clarinet in 2011. (Evelio Contreras/The Washington Post)

Roger Wendell Hill was born Feb. 13, 1927, in Washington. His father was a bookbinder at the Government Printing Office.

As a child, Mr. Hill admired the space-age comic-strip hero Buck Rogers — “and when your first name is Roger . . . ,” he once told The Post, explaining the origin of his nickname.

He began to play the soprano saxophone at 13, then took up the clarinet and the larger tenor saxophone. By the time he was 15, he was playing at such U Street clubs as the Bohemian Caverns and Republic Gardens. He graduated from the District’s


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THE FIRST AGBU SCOUT CAMP IN ARMENIA

The first scout camp under the auspices of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Armenian Youth Association (AYA) opened on July 24 in Lermontovo village of Armenia’s Lori region. Armenian youth from the Middle East countries, Lebanon, Tehran and Syria – a total of 165 scouts – will spend 14 days in the beautiful nature of Lori region and strengthen ties with their compatriots. The second group of scouts will arrive in the first half of August. The opening ceremony of the camp was attended by Lori governor Aram Kocharian, AGBU Armenian Representation Director Ashot Ghazarian, Primate of the Gugark Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bishop Sepuh Chuldjian, Grand Sexton of the Holy See of St. Etchmiadzin Bishop Ararat Galtakchian andtheir moods to their other Armenian friends”, said Ashot Ghazarian in his speech. Grant Sexton of the Holy See of St. Etchmiadzin Bishop Ararat Galtakchian had brought the All-Armenian Catholicos Karekin II’s blessing to the Armenian scouts. Armenian scouts, 50 from Tehran, 95 from Syria, and 20 from Armenia, introduced an important and memorable day in the Armenian history of the third millennium maintaining the strong ties between the youth of Diaspora and Armenia.


hood and top of the car as children inside trailed flags and solicited passersby to join in their celebration.

For days, anti-Morsi supporters have flooded Tahrir Square and other locations across the country to demand that Morsi resign and that early presidential elections be ordered.

The transitional plan announced Wednesday was decided by the National Salvation Front, the main coalition of anti-Morsi groups, said opposition figure Mohamed Abou El Ghar, president of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. It was given to Mohamed ElBaradei â?? leader of the coalition â?? and then to the army, Abou El Ghar said.

"It is a popular move, as you have seen very clearly in the streets," said Abou El Ghar, insisting that this is not a coup.

The constitution is suspended and the military has orderedBrotherhood television channel, called Misr 25, the station was cut off just moments after the military came out with their announcement Wednesday evening. He was home in Egypt's Nile Delta region north of the capital, unable to view a pro-Morsi rally at a Cairo mosque because it was not broadcast on any other local news channel, he said.

Managers of the Brotherhood TV station have been arrested and other conservative channels went black after the army's announcement, reports said.

"And #Egypt enters another military coup cycle," said Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad on his Twitter feed. "Will the ppl of #Egypt take it, AGAIN !!" he said.

Many were glad to see the military step aside from power positions last year after it ruled for more than 16 months in the


interim period after Mubarak's ousted. After Morsi was elected in the nation's first democratic vote, he forced top generals into retirement and gave himself executive and legislative powers.

But this week, opposition protesters exalted the military, which they viewed as their only hope for getting Morsi to step down. They cheered without fail whenever army helicopters flew over the square, yelling "The army and the people are one hand!" â?? a chant that displays unity.

"The military wants to defend Egypt," said Jihan Youssef, wearing a white headscarf and raising her voice over chants, whistles and tooting horns that have made parts of the city feel like a festival.

On Wednesday night, Amnesty International urged security forces and the army to protect the human rights and safety of everyone in Egypt.

"Inthis time of great tension and with the constitution suspended, it is more important than ever that the military comply with Egypt's obligations under international human rights law," said Salil Shetty, General Secretary of Amnesty International.

"Amid fears of possible reprisals and revenge attacks against supporters of President Morsi, along with the worrying trend of mob violence and sexual assaults on women this is a time for extreme caution," Shetty said.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of State warned U.S. citizens to defer travel to Egypt and said Americans living in Egypt should depart due to political and social unrest. The Department of State also ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and family members from Egypt.

But many will celebrate.

Minerva Ezzeldin, from the southern part of Cairo, stood with


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EVERETT — Police in New York last week detained and questioned a sex offender who is wanted on a Snohomish County warrant for failing to register.

Kevin Scott Miller, 45, registered as a sex offender in New York and was released. He was detained in Albany.

Miller, a Level III sex offender, recently entered the United States from Canada. He is wanted by Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office detectives for failure to register as a sex offender.

Miller was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual assault in Canada, where there is a non-extraditable warrant for his arrest, sheriff’s office spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.

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For the first time in the Dirk era, the Mavericks have landed a franchise center. DeAndre Jordan, by far the most explosive center in franchise history, will be running alongside Chandler Parsons and Dirk Nowitzki in the Mavericks' new, potent frontcourt. Jordan spurned the Clippers for the Mavs in large part due to the opportunity to flourish in Dallas and Mavs intend to give Jordan every opportunity to reach his potential, but a prevailing thought that's lingering around is that Jordan cannot thrive without Chris Paul's brilliance. A similar narrative sprung up after Tyson Chandler parted ways with Chris Paul during their Hornet days. Paul is a marvelous point guard, who any big man would be lucky to play with, but his brilliance is not the single prongsupporting Jordan's offensive game.

In his time as a Maverick last year, Brandan Wright led the league in efficiency as a pick-and-roll finisher (minimum 50 possessions) at 1.42 points per possession; Tyson Chandler finished second. Jordan, who scored 1.36 points per possession as a pick-and-roll man, represents the best characteristics of both Chandler and Wright as a finisher. DeAndre has Tyson's physical build with Wright's breathtaking athleticism and body control. At times, Tyson could be a bit stiff around the basket if he had to take a dribble or two before putting up a shot. Conversely, Wright occasionally struggled with contact around the basket. DeAndre doesn't have Wright's touch, but he has the ability to power through defenders while being nimble enough to catch the ball and put on


per NBA.com. DeAndre feasted on short lobs from Griffin when backline defenders stepped up to thwart Griffin's moment to the rim. There aren't many bigs in the league who can throw an accurate lob pass with consistency. Dirk has the ability to replicate some of Blake's passing, but he's not nearly on Griffin's level as a playmaker.

However, Dirk's spacing may prove to be more valuable than Griffin's playmaking. When Griffin sat out 15 games with a staph infection, DeAndre's numbers shot up to 15 ppg and 18.5 rpg playing next to Spencer Hawes. If Hawes' gravitational force could impact Jordan's numbers that dramatically, just imagine what Nowitzki could do.

DeAndre is walking into an offensive ecosystem unlike any other he has ever played in. Rick Carlisle's pick-and-roll heavy systemKenya dams 'a flood risk' after heavy rains Published duration 24 April 2018

image copyright @KenyaRedCross image caption Homes have been submerged leaving thousands homeless

Two dams in Kenya are close to overflowing because of heavy rains, threatening the lives of thousands of people, the Red Cross has told the BBC.

Abbas Gullet, the head of the Kenya Red Cross, advised people in east and central regions to move to higher ground because of the flood risk.

He said that 200,000 had already been displaced because of flooding, many staying in schools or open areas.

Roads have been submerged under water and there have also been landslides.

The two dams - Masinga and Kamburu - are fed by water from Mount Kenya.

People have been sharing pictures on social media of the aftermath of the


flooding, including one of a Red Cross member of staff helping an elderly man in south-eastern Tana River county, where 50,000 have had to leave their homes.

The rains have forced President Uhuru Kenyatta to cancel his travel plans to western Kenya, where marooned houses can be seen below. He was due to attend a high-profile conference and has now decided to read his speech via video link

A drone shot shared by a local TV station shows a damaged section on a major road. It is in Mahi-Mahiu in the south-west where a huge crack that might one day split Africa into two appeared.

The police posted a picture of this officer directing traffic on a flooded road.

This aerial shot of Garissa town, in the north-east of the country wherethe years they were in power, which to him is clearly tied to what Komarovsky did to Lara. Strelnikov believes that in order to forge the way for a new world, everything old has to fall. ("No Mercy At All") Tonia comes looking for Yurii and Strelnikov releases him, but orders the peasant thrown into the ravine.

Yelenka tells Lara that she is going on a date with a mystery gentleman, and asks her to lock up the library where they both work. Meanwhile, Alex, Sasha, Yurii, and Tonia open up the cottage and Alex reminisces about the estate back in its golden days. ("In This House (Reprise)") A few days or weeks later, Sasha asks to go to the library because he has read every book in the