trucks (before destroying them) could cause a riot. All of which goes to Doughtery's statement of Iraqis, "I'm looking at people I can't even look in the eye." Moving to Kuwait after serving in Iraq and while waiting to be sent back homes, service members were living in a KBR tent city. Doughtery explained, "When we were leaving . . . we were put in these tent cities. Our tents were completely covered with mold on the inside." The tents had bunk beds and not cots so service members were not allowed to (as some wanted) sleep outside the tents to avoid what appeared to be Black Mold. Instead, they suffered from respitory infections. Dougherty noted "this living condition where we couldn't even be in the place weredestroy whatever cargo it had. That meant setting fuel on fire in front of Iraqis who had no fuel. That meant burning produce in front of Iraqis who were hungry. That meant destroying a brand new ambulance in an area that had none and really needed one. Doughtery explained that even the local sheiks were out on the last one, trying to convince US soldiers that if they would leave the ambulance alone, they (Iraqis) would figure out how to get it off its side and out of the mud."That was pretty much a daily occurence," said Dougherty. "Where we were abandoning vehicles by KBR contractors on a daily basis."

And KBR and Halliburton have the nerve today to blame the US service members? KBR's always in the news.


so anyway. There's no check on his decree. At the start of November, the big story was that the "Awakening" Councils had been turned over to Iraqi control (and that Iraq was picking up their salaries). That wasn't the case either. Today David Axe (Wired) reports on the continued handover of the "Awakening" Councils -- still not completed and will go through at least next month as well. The hopes by many were that they would be absorbed by the Iraqi police. ("Many" is both "Awakening" Council members and US commanders in Iraq.) al-Maliki has seen these thugs as a threat to his control after having staffed so many ranks with his own sectarian thugs and has made clear he does not trust the bulk of the "Awakeing"members on the polic force. Axe notes that the "Daughters of Iraq" number "roughtly 800" and were turned over to the central government already. Also today demonstrations took place in Baghdad against the continued assault on Gaza. AFP reports approximately 2,000 supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated against the assault. al-Sadr's call for retaliation attacks in Iraq against the US was repeated by a spokesperson who read his statements.

Meanwhile the violence continued today. Sahar Issa (McClatchy Newspapers) reports a Baghdad roadside bombing that claimed 1 life and left six wounded, a Kirkuk roadside bombing that claimed the life of 1 Iraqi service member and left two more wounded and, dropping back to Thursday night, a Basra rocket attack that left "at least 20 wounded civilians" requiring medical attention at


Al Fayhaa Hospital. Reuters notes a Baiji roadside bombing today that claimed the lives of 5 Iraqi service members and 3 Basra rocket attacks today that left four wounded. A total of 6 Iraqi soldiers have been reported dead from bombings today. Yesterday's roadside bombings killed 8 Iraqi soldiers. Timothy Williams (New York Times) draws a connection between yesterday's bombings and the upcoming provincial elections in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, "Although the majority of Diyala's population is Sunni, the provincial council is dominated by Shiites because Sunnis boycotted local elections in 2005. But as new provincial elections, scheduled for Jan. 31, are approaching, tensions between Sunnis and Shiites have increased."

The United Nations has warned for months that violence would increase as provincial elections approached. At the startcountry's governorates and plan to further expand our presence and activities in Iraq as the evolving security environment permits. Beyond security, sustainable return to Iraq will require effective action in the areas of property restitution or property compensation for those unable to go back to their places of orign and full and equitable access to welfare services and public distribution systems.

Yesterday's snapshot also included this: "As Stevie Nicks once sang, 'No one ever leaves, every one stays, close til the fire fades' ('Fireflies,' written by Nicks, on Fleetwood Mac Live). Sidebar: Stevie joins bandmates Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Lindsey Buckingham for the group's first tour which kicks off March 1st in Pittsburgh (March tour dates are up at Fleetwood Mac's site)." That should have been "first tour


in five years." My apologies. Public broadcasting notes. Starting with public radio, WBAI on Sunday and Monday offers:

Producer and Artistic Director Mark Russell on "Under the Radar," aspectacular international theater festival now in its 5th season;author/artist Wafaa Bilal on "Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and ResistanceUnder the Gun," his book about an interactive performance piece; andpianist/composer Andrew Shapiro on upcoming performances and his newrecording of "Numbers, Colors and People," works for solo pianomerging classical and pop sensibilities. Hosted by Janet Coleman andDavid Dozer.

Public television finds NOW on PBS exploring global warming's impact on ocean currents and sea chemistry as they travel "deep into the oceans with scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) with help from other researchers for a first hand look at this stunning seasources from the financial and oil communities tell Steve Kroft. | Watch VideoThe ChairmanCBS News correspondent David Martin profiles Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen. WyclefWyclef Jean immigrated to the U.S. as a child and grew up to live the American dream as a millionaire rock star. He's now using his extraordinary talents and wealth to help his native Haiti. Scott Pelley reports. 60 Minutes, this Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.60 Minutes Update:Obama And The EconomyPresident-elect Barack Obama is promoting his economic stimulus plan on Thursday in a speech at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Scott Pelley spoke with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson about the economic crisis in October. | Watch Video

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compound, if inhaled, greatly increases the risk of lung cancer.Last month, 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers sued Houston-based KBR, claiming the nation's largest war contractor "disregarded and downplayed the extreme danger of wholesale site contamination." The suit claims KBR hid its civilian workers' elevated chromium levels and dismissed widespread symptoms -- including constant nosebleeds that toxicologists call "chrome nose" -- as sand allergies.[. . .]In an e-mailed statement Thursday, KBR denied "any assertion" that the company harmed troops or was responsible for an unsafe condition at the facility. KBR has collected $28 billion in military contracts.[. . .]Concern for Oregon soldiers was first raised by Lt. Col. B.J. Prendergast, who served as executive officer of the 1st Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment in Iraq in 2003. His soldiers hadDepartment of Defense Inspector General on December 12, 2008 requesting the new investigation based on claims by former Army civilian Charles M. Smith who worked out of the Army's Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois.In an interview with CBS News, Smith said after he raised serious concerns about KBR's accounting of billions in taxpayer dollars, he was removed from the project.

Former Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jesse Hickey recalled seeing bullets hitting all around him as Marines ran for cover. As the first corpsman to reach the ambush site, he raced to rescue wounded men.Under normal circumstances, the Marines would have pulled back and called in air power to destroy the building. But with wounded Marines in the house, that wasn't an option.Hickey treated and evacuated several Marines, even


Sunday, January 11  the seven-year anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo  more than 200 human rights advocates will join 60 people who are beginning a nine-day fast to encourage President-Elect Barack Obama to keep his promise to shut down Guantanamo and end torture in his first days of office.

At DuPont Circle Park at 12:45 pm in Washington, DC, leading human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, American Civil Liberties Union, The Center for Constitutional Rights and September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, will call for an end to the Bush policies, justice for the detainees, and accountability for possible U.S. crimes. 150 demonstrators wearing orange jumpsuits and hoods will have a prisoner procession to dramatize the plight of the detainees still at Guantanamo.

"Obama's statements,"begins airing tonight in most PBS markets as does Washington Week(check local listings for both) which finds Gwen and the gas bags exploring few topics but pretending they are many. Look for lots of bad puns and what doesn't even qualify as a one-liner. John Harwood (NYT, CNBC) shows up without his twin (John Dickerson), Michael Duffy (Time magazine) and Mark Mazzetti (NYT) will attempt to grapple with topics (and what passes for topics) while Jeanne Cummings grapples with the English language (stands in front of, stands behind -- it's all so confusing for Jeanne).

Producer and Artistic Director Mark Russell on "Under the Radar," aspectacular international theater festival now in its 5th season;author/artist Wafaa Bilal on "Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and ResistanceUnder the Gun," his book about


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WXPN,January 8, 2009 - Soulful pop singer Sharon Little was working as a waitress at the start of 2008, but it didn't take her long to grab a spot as the opening act for Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T-Bone Burnett on their Raising Sand tour. Though she might be called an overnight sensation, Little has been honing her bluesy, jazzy style for years. Return to this space at noon ET Friday to hear her perform live in concert from WXPN and World CaféLive in Philadelphia.

Little's sultry voice attracted the attention of a label early in her career, but she rejected the offer in order to pursue her own sound. She self-released the critically acclaimed album Drawing Circles in 2006, and began co-writing with Grammy-winner Scot Sax over the course of two years as they took a bunch of cross-country trips by train. Her major-label debut, Perfect Time for a Breakdown — which features "Follow That Sound," her theme song for the TV series The Cleaner — was largely inspired by their travels.

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He says that he is still studying the bill, but that one such section might be C-15's provisions related to the commercialization of the Canadian Wheat Board.

Liberal MP Wayne Easter, chair of the finance committee, says he's still studying the document. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

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Controversy over complex legislation is hardly new — according to research by the Library of Parliament, "the omnibus nature of a legislative proposal prompted negative reaction for the first time in 1923."

Pierre Trudeau's signature achievement as justice minister was an omnibus bill that dealt with homosexuality and abortion among other things. Years later, his government's attempt to move a bill related to the nationalenergy program prompted a two-week stand-off with the opposition that ended with the government side agreeing to split the bill.

At extremes, omnibus bills can strain the ability of Parliament to provide proper scrutiny and make a mockery of the single vote an MP must cast. "How can members represent their constituents on these various areas when they are forced to vote in a block on such legislation and on such concerns?" asked a young Reform MP named Stephen Harper in 1994, objecting to a government bill.

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Jesus came to break the veil which Judaism had set up dividing people from G-d. While he did adhere to some of the rules he also broke many others. Why? Because he knew those were the rules ultimately keeping people away from him.

Quoting snookyfritz:

Don't agree. Jesus was a Jew and as a Jew he followed all the God given tenents of his religion.

And while God's love and grace is a gift, we always have the option of giving that gift back through our actions

Jesus broke down the wall that kept the every day people from partaking. He set up a new set of commandments...the Beatitudes.

Quoting Bird_on_a_wire: Jesus came to break the veil which Judaism had set up dividing people from G-d.
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UNITED STATES of America
v.
Charles W. GLASGOW, Jr.
Crim. No. 1028-73.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.
January 27, 1975.
*218 Jason D. Kogan, Asst. U. S. Atty., for the U. S.
John J. Hurley, Alexandria, Va., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION
CHARLES R. RICHEY, District Judge.
This case is before the Court on the Defendant's Motion for Reconsideration *219 of Sentence.[1] On January 4, 1974, the Defendant pleaded guilty to having illegally used the mails for the importation of marijuana (hashish) in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 843(b) and 952(a). The offense in this case consisted of his having sent a quantity of hashish from India to a friend and former college classmate in the United States. The Defendant was twenty-five years old at the time his plea was accepted by the Court.


the time of his conviction, has always resided with his family in the Washington, D.C. area. In 1967, he graduated from high school, where he was active in school athletics, was president of the Hi 4 Club, and received a D.A.R. Citizenship Award for Outstanding Leadership. Upon completing high school, the Defendant entered Washington and Lee University, where he majored in art and history. He graduated in June 1971, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While at Washington and Lee, he participated in intramural sports and dramatics. Prior to the offense involved here, the Defendant had no criminal record.
The Presentence Report described the Defendant's family as reputable and stable. The Defendant is presently living with his parents and three of his four siblings. His father owns and operatesa seafood business in which the Defendant worked during his summer vacations while in high school and college. Since May 1973, the Defendant has been working full time in the business, acting as Secretary of the company and taking charge when his father is absent. His father indicated to the probation officer that the Defendant has actively participated in the operation of the business, and has contributed toward its improvement. The Defendant's father hopes that his son will become president of the company in the near future. The Defendant plans to continue working in his father's business, and is also seriously considering marine biology and agriculture.
Therefore, the Defendant's background reveals that, with the exception of the offense in this case, he has been a hard-working and upstanding member


of the community. He appears to have a close and healthy relationship with his family, and has the potential of enjoying a productive and satisfying future.

B. The Nature of the Offense

Approximately six months after he graduated from college, the Defendant was afforded the opportunity of traveling extensively abroad. While in Nepal, he bought a quantity of hashish, in Nepalese currency equivalent to $25. The sale of hashish was legal in Nepal at the time of the purchase. The Defendant mailed the hashish, as a gift, to a former traveling companion and college classmate in Virginia. The package was addressed to a fictitious name in care of his friend. The Defendant admits that he has smoked marijuana, as have many young people today. He stated to the probation officerthat the fact that purchasing hashish in Nepal was legal, and its inexpensive cost lured him to the admittedly *224 immature act of mailing a small quantity to a friend in the United States.
The Defendant was 25 years old at the time the Court accepted his plea of guilty to a charge of using a communications facility, the mails, in the commission of a felony involving a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S. C. §§ 843(b), 952(a). He admits that his sending the hashish to a friend in the United States was a thoughtless and fool-hardy action. It was the kind of "lark" which is not uncommon among young people, and reflects the current attitude of many thousands of our youth toward marijuana and similar drugs. In


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BACKGROUND
On June 5, 1997, U.S. patent application no. 08/870,002 was filed. On September 11, 2001, U.S. Patent No. 6,289,114 (the '114 patent) was issued and assigned to Thomson-CSF. In late December, 1999, while *1053 the patent application was pending, Thomson-CSF assigned a majority of the shares in its subsidiary, Thomson-CSF Semiconducteurs Specifiques (TCS) to a third party. As part of the agreement, Thomson-CSF also assigned its interest in several patents, including the '114 patent along with the majority interest in TCS. The assignment was effective May 22, 2000. At some point after the assignment TCS became known as Atmel Grenoble.
Until its sale in May, 2006, Atmel Grenoble was a wholly owned subsidiary of Atmel Paris. Atmel Paris is a wholly owned subsidiary of


Plaintiff Atmel Corporation. Plaintiffs provide evidence that, in the United States, Atmel Corporation alone has practiced the patent and been responsible for its enforcement.
On March 22, 2006, Atmel Corporation filed this suit, alleging infringement of the '114 patent. On May 1, 2006, Atmel Grenoble assigned its interest in its patents, including the '114 patent, to Atmel Switzerland. On November 1, 2006, Atmel Corporation filed an amended complaint joining Atmel Switzerland, Atmel France and Atmel SARL as Plaintiffs and added claims regarding U.S. Patent No. 6,459,804 (the '804 patent).
Defendant now moves pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(h)(3) to dismiss the action, arguing that Atmel Corporation lacked standing at the inception of this case.

DISCUSSION
Standing is a threshold issue faced before reaching substantive matters. See Stoianoff v. Montana, 695About Educomp Solutions Limited
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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database (STS CHSD) is the largest congenital and pediatric cardiac surgical clinical data registry in the world. It contains data pertaining to more than 435,000 total operations. The most recent biannual feedback report to participants (Spring 2017, Report of the Twenty-Sixth Harvest) included analysis of data submitted from 127 hospitals in North America. That represents nearly all centers performing pediatric and congenital heart operations in the United States and Canada. As an unparalleled platform for assessment of outcomes and for quality improvement activities in the subspecialty of surgery for pediatric and congenital heart disease, the STS CHSD continues to be a primary data source for clinical investigations andfor research and innovations related to quality measurement. In 2016, several major original publications reported analyses of data in the CHSD pertaining to various processes of care, including assessment of variation across centers and associations between specific practices, patient characteristics, and outcomes. Additional publications reported the most recent development, evaluation, and application of metrics for quality measurement and reporting of pediatric and congenital heart operation outcomes and center level performance. Use of the STS CHSD for outcomes research and for quality measurement continues to expand as database participation has grown to include nearly all centers in North America, and the available wealth of data in the database continues to grow. This article reviews outcomes research and quality improvement articles published in 2016 that are based on STS CHSD


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Over the last several years I personally have had a wonderful experience of giest lecturing on the collegiate level at Penn State Behrend in Erie Pennsylvania, dialoging on the history of anmd production techniques of Electronic Music. Out of this there has been a student…. both of that particular class and the craftmanship of producing colorful sonic arrangements with a heavy Bass element…. Needless to say this student has finally arrived on the main stage and has been embarking on a newly discover DJ career pushing his unique sounds and takes on Bass music. Friday October 6th. Join us for The Electric Circuit hosted2010, Broccoli Samurai has been taking the club and festival scene by storm. The band’s synth-laden, drum and bass influenced, progressive electronica has been thrilling audiences throughout the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast markets, winning them a massive and fiercely loyal fanbase. Eager fans pack dance floors and late-night festival sets with smiles across their faces, waiting to get lost in the band’s ambient soundscapes, anticipating every bass drop that will force them to move with reckless abandon. Broccoli Samurai’s line-up includes founding member Ryan “Bruce” Hodson on keys and synth, Cameron Bickley on drums and percussion, accomplished bassist Zach Wolfe anchors the rhythm section, while guitarist Michael Vincent weaves in and out, exploring new sonic territory.

The band has played countless festivals such as Peach Music Festival, Electric Forest,


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BBC News, Moscow Published duration 23 February 2016

image copyright AP image caption Ramzan Kadyrov has recently branded Kremlin critics as traitors

A report by Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has warned that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has become a national security threat and should be removed.

He heads a "corrupt and dangerous" regime within Russia that operates according to its own rules, he added.

The Chechen strongman has rejected the report as "idle chatter".

Hours before its official presentation, Mr Kadyrov leaked a copy of the document on his social media accounts.

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A group of men due to stand trial for Mr Nemtsov's murder have ties to men close to Ramzan Kadyrov, although the official investigation has made no such link.

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The Victorian blasted his way to 233 runs in the recent tri-series against England and New Zealand, which included his second century.

media_camera Bright star: Glenn Maxwell has been in the form of his life. Picture: Alex Coppel

He was also named man of the series in Australia’s unbeaten five match romp.

That effort has been recognised in the latest ICC rankings with Maxwell climbing five places to sit behind only Kiwi slugger Colin Munro on the list of the game’s best batsman.

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Australia remains second on the T20 team rankings having won seven of the past eight games, including the last six in a row against India then England and New Zealand.Labels:

Jacob "Jake" Hager born 24 March 1982, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed with World Wrestling Entertainment, where he works under the name Jack Swagger on the SmackDown brand.Hager attended the University of Oklahoma as a two-sport athlete, participating in both footballand wrestling.

Hager played footballand was a junior varsity defensive tackle behind the National Football League players Tommie Harris and Dusty Dvoracek. He met with Jim Ross, who was World Wrestling Entertainment head of Talent Relations, and Ross Hager invited to contact him after graduation.

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arrangement was famously challenged by Ronald Coase in an October 1959 article in the Journal of Law and Economics called "The Federal Communications Commission." It's available a few places on the web (for example, here and here), and is also available through JSTOR. As Coase pointed out, the situation in which users might struggle over a common resource arises often enough--for example, in the case of shared farmland. However, in the case of farmland such conflicts are resolved through property rights and ownership, along with the possibility of selling the resource to others. Thus, Coase drew together the work of earlier writers and proposed that the FCC could auction off spectrum, keep records of who owned which frequencies, and keep track of future changes of ownership.

"In the US,and an array of related products, could partner with a consortium of colleges to explore the possibility of offering lots of educational content freely on-line as a way of attracting customers for its advertising content.The consortium of colleges would provide some assurance of quality, and perhaps also a ready-made market for the materials. The search engine company could customize advertising to the students in ways that would bring in the most revenue. The educational materials would also attract pageviews for other purposes, and perhaps even attract young adults who could become relatively "sticky" users of that search engine and its other related products for a time into the future.

"The last time multilateral trade rules were updated, Bill Clinton was in his first term of office, data was shared


by airmailing 1.4 megabyte HD floppy disks (few people had email), cell phones looked like bricks and calling costs were measured in dollars per minute. Trade mostly meant selling goods made in a factory in one nation to a customer in another. Simple trade needed simple rules – a fact reflected in both multilateral and regional trade agreements."

Baldwin points out that patterns of trade in the 21st century are fundamentally different than the make-it-in-a-factory, ship-it-to-another country trade that prevailed in the late 20th century.

"The heart of 21st century trade is an intertwining of: 1) trade in goods, 2) international investment in production facilities, training, technology and long-term business relationships, and 3) the use of infrastructure services to coordinate the dispersed production, especially services such as telecoms, internet, expressparcel delivery, air cargo, trade-related finance, customs clearance services, etc. This could be called the trade-investment-services nexus. ...

"[T]he nexus entails two elements, each of which generated new demands for more complex international disciplines:

Doing business abroad. When firms set up production facilities abroad – or form long-term ties with foreign suppliers – they typically expose their capital as well as their technical, managerial and marketing know-how to new international risks. Threats to these tangible and intangible property rights became 21st century trade barriers.

Connecting international production facilities. Bringing high-quality, competitively-priced goods to customers in a timely manner requires international coordination of production facilities via the continuous two-way flow of goods, people, ideas and investments. Threats to these flows became 21st century trade barriers.

For an illustration, here's a graph of the


number of Japanese auto and electrical machinery plants manufacturers in other countries in east Asia, and how they have increased in the last 20 years or so.

The basic role of the World Trade Organization, as with the GATT before it, has been to reduce tariffs gradually over time, and to referee arguments over what trade practices are "unfair." But when thinking about 21st century trade, in which supply chains and ownership stretch across international borders, this focus is inadequate. Baldwin offers some examples of the kinds of international agreements that are needed to facilitate 21st century trade--or to put it another way, the kinds of agreements whose absence will tend to block the development of 21st century trade. Here are his examples:

The sharing of tacit and explicit technologyand intellectual property is facilitated by assurances that foreign knowledge-capital owners will be treated fairly and their property rights will be respected.

Foreign investments in the training of workers and managers, physical plant, and the development of long-term business relationships are facilitated by assurances on property rights, rights of establishment, and anticompetitive practices.

Assurances on business related capital flows – ranging from new FDI to profit repatriation – also helped foster the investment part of the trade-investment-services nexus.

Connecting factories often involves time-sensitive shipping, world class telecoms and short-term movement of managers and technicians, so assurances on infrastructure services are also important.

Tariffs and other border measures also matter – just as they mattered in the 20th century but more so since the ratio of value added to value on individual shipment


falls as the production chain fragments, even though tariffs are applied to the value of the goods as they cross borders.

In short, tariffs still matter, and non-tariff barriers still matter, but in 21st century trade, they become a much smaller part of the overall trade liberalization agenda. In addition, negotiations over these matters tend to detailed and industry-specific. Baldwin argues that the need for a new kind of trade liberalization has contributed to the near-zero progress in recent years on an overall Doha trade agreement, while at the same time the world economy has seen a "regionalist" trade agenda, in which countries negotiate regional trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties, and even take unilateral steps to reassure potential trade partners. This graph shows on the right-hand axis the dropBut as world trade rules march steadily toward an ad hoc set of bilateral and regional agreements based on the economic power of the participants, it's important to start considering what alternative paths might be viable.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The notion that Charles Dickens was inspired by the gravestone of a real-life character named Ebenezer Scroggie to invent a character called Ebenezer Scrooge may be an urban legend--a good story that's taken on a life of its own.

Last Friday, I posted some "Thoughts on Ebenezer Scrooge," which told the story. Tim Worstall linked to the post here at the Adam Smith Institute website, with some details of his own about Adam Smith. Worstall e-mailed me earlier today to say that he has been told on good authority that the


story is an invention, "created entirely out of thin air by Peter Clarke back in 1996 as an amusing tale and no more. Bit of a pity really but there we are....." Tim adds: "Oh, and the signifier that it must be a spoof? The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Open even now only to priests, elders or deacons. And back then, most certainly not including women so there would be no Countess there to goose. I should have realised that before I ran with the story..."

With Tim's note in hand, I then asked a Dickens expert, who acknowledged having heard the Ebenezer Scroggie story, but was professorially reluctant to opine on whether it was actually true. He wrote: "I've read the same legend about ScroogeLiterature Trust and tour guides all want to see more done to raise awareness of Scroggie's claim to fame."

Here's Feldstein's critique from the 2012 article: "The euro should now be recognized as an experiment that failed. This failure, which has come after just over a dozen years since the euro was introduced, in 1999, was not an accident or the result of bureaucratic mismanagement but rather the inevitable consequence of imposing a single currency on a very heterogeneous group of countries."

Feldstein has long argued that the euro is best understood not as an economic policy, but as a step toward an attempted political unification of Europe. In both the 2012 and 1997 articles, he quotes a comment from German Chancellor in 1956, after the U.S. forced England and


France to abandon their attack on the Suez Canal. As quoted in the JEP article, Adenauer said: "France and England will never be powers comparable to the United States and the Soviet Union. Nor Germany, either. There remains to them only one way of playing a decisive role in the world; that is to unite to make Europe. England is not ripe for it but the affair of Suez will help to prepare her spirits for it. We have no time to waste: Europe will be your revenge."

The Treaty of Rome launched the European Common Market a year later. But it wasn't until the Maastricht treaty in 1992 that a common currency became part of the project. In retrospect, it's obvious to point out that lots of countrieswell on these four categories, which is part of what makes a single currency workable and beneficial. Europe doesn't score especially well on any of these four categories. Thus, the euro was an attempt to put the cart before the horse: instead of first creating a European economic and political structure where a single currency would work, the idea was to first create the single currency, and then follow up later with the needed economic and political structure. As a result, the euro created a situation in which national economies suffering difficult times, like Greece, no longer had an independent monetary policy to help, and also didn't have many other methods of adjustment. Perhaps not surprisingly, they turned to another short-term method of soothing their economic pain: large


fundamentally changed.

Monday, December 26, 2011

In a characteristically ornate, well-considered, good-humored and provocative essay, Dierdre McCloskey has a lot to say about "A Kirznerian Economic History of the Modern World." This essay was originally presented at the 2010 Upton Forum at Beloit College, which focused on the work of Israel Kirzner. This link is from a post by Peter Boettke at Coordination Problem. The conference proceedings will eventually be available third Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, although the essays don't seem to be posted on the Upton Forum website yet. Here's McCloskey:

"What I got with a jolt around age 65 was that economic growth since 1800, the Great Fact of an increase of real income per head by a factor of anything from a factorreshuffling, was the mechanism, and the springs were the nonprudential virtues."

All of this and much else in the essay is very well-said, as one expects from McCloskey, but at some level, the posited separation between supply-and-demand efficiency and economic growth seems to me a bit overstated. Yes, basic supply and demand is static and one-time, and economic growth is a dynamic process over time. But at least when I teach supply and demand, I emphasize that the interaction of utility-maximizing consumers looking and profit-seeking producers is an evolving process. Producers are continually attempting to entice consumers, through combinations of new qualities and new products, along with price competition. Consumers are continually seeking a better deal. To me, at least, even the most basic models of mainstream supply-and-demand economics


beneath me." Shortly afterwards, Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol," with a main character named Ebenezer Scrooge, and the plot revolving around what it would be like to be forever stamped as a "mean man," when there was still time to change your ways.

Apparently Ebenezer Scroggie was about as far from his fictional namesake as one can get. A "History of Leith, Edinburgh" website reported in 2010: "In life, Scroggie was apparently a rambunctious, generous and licentious man who gave wild parties, impregnated the odd serving wench and once wonderfully interrupted the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland by grabbing the buttocks of a hapless countess." However, for those seeking to link Ebenezer Scrooge more tightly to the heartlessness of economics, it may be comforting to knowthat Scroggie was apparently a cousin of Adam Smith. A 2004 article in the Scotsman newspaper reports: "Scroggie was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife; his mother was the niece of Adam Smith, the 18th century political economist and philosopher." There is now some talk in Edinburgh of erecting a monument to Scroggie, although his actual gravesite was apparently removed for redevelopment of the port back in the early 1930s.

Each Christmas you can find an economist or two taking the contrarian position that Ebenezer Scrooge was an unpleasant person, but in economic terms a useful contributor to society. For a good example, here's Steven Landsberg's 2004 half-serious, half tongue-in-cheek riff on the theme: "What I Like About Scrooge."
"In this whole world, there is nobody more generous than the miser—the man


who could deplete the world's resources but chooses not to. The only difference between miserliness and philanthropy is that the philanthropist serves a favored few while the miser spreads his largess far and wide."

I like thinking about Scrooge in various roles: consumer, employer, and man of business.

As a consumer, Scrooge is famously a miser. He likes darkness, because it's cheap. He eats gruel. He uses microfragments of coal. All this is just fine with me. People get to choose how they want to live. Those who save also make a contribution to the economy. Of course, if Scrooge had not been miserly all those years, and instead had been greatly in debt from high living, he wouldn't have had the resources to help Bob Cratchit's family and Tinyand if Scrooge had been willing to use modest nonmonetary rewards like speaking pleasantly, their work relationship might well have been more productive on both sides.

Being a "man of business" is often an epithet in Christmas Carol, so it's worth noting that the book includes examples of men of business in the book who are clearly meant to be admirable characters--with Fezziwig leading the way. But to me, one of the most grim passages in the book is when Scrooge is visiting with the last of the Spirits, and nearly broken by what he has seen, he says to the Spirit: "If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man's death ... show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!" The


Spirit takes him to a room where a mother and children are waiting for a husband to arrive. When the husband arrives, his face has an odd look: "There is a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress." He has learned that Scrooge has died, and the man and his wife are grateful to hear of this, and ashamed for being grateful. The wife asks: "To whom will our debt be transferred?" The husband answers: "I don't know. But before that time we shall be ready with the money, and even though we were not, it would be bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor as his successor. We may sleep tonightwith light hearts, Caroline!"

To me, this passage suggests that Scrooge had moved well beyond the category of being an unloved but tough but essentially fair businessman. Just as he had abused his power as an employer over Cratchit, and enjoyed it, he was abusing his power as a lender. Scrooge wrapped himself in the comforting rhetoric of "man of business" as a self-justification for his actions. A lot of other misanthropes and predators over time have used "man of business" as justification for their actions, so the acid in the term stings. But working in business doesn't require these traits; indeed, one might argue that true "man of business" perceives and pursues all sorts of opportunities for adding value, while Scrooge was actually practicing a machismo of self-congratulatory


this pattern not only in the United States and Europe, but more recently in Singapore,South Korea, and Hong Kong. However, other factors must also be in place for equity markets to thrive: rules and regulations that protect minority investors, transparency by listed companies, sufficient liquidity in the stock market, the
presence of institutional investors, and easy access to markets by retail investors."

If American investors as a group want to own a larger quantity of stocks over time, they will need to turn to stocks in emerging market economies. McKinsey explains: "In the United States and several other developed countries, investor demand for equities will most likely continue to exceed what companies will need because
many companies in these economies generate sufficient profits to finance investment needs. Indeed, US companies atredistribution. A table in Ch. 7 of the OECD report calculates how much of the increase in increase in market incomes from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s was offset by a rise in redistribution.

Denmark is the extreme case: increased redistribution from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s offset more than 100% of the rise in inequality of market incomes. In a number of countries, the rise in redistribution offset from 35-55% of the rise in inequality of market incomes over this time period: Australia, Canada, West Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden. By comparison, in the U.S. the rise in government redistribution from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s offset just 9% of the rise in market inequality.

It's useful to look at redistribution policies both from the tax side and the benefits


side. The striking theme that emerges is that in most countries, benefits for those with low incomes are much more important in reducing inequality than are progressive tax rates.

On the tax side, the U.S. tax code is already highly progressive compared with these other countries. The OECD published at 2008 report called "Growing Unequal: Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, which states (pp. 104-106): "Taxation is most progressively distributed in the United States, probably reflecting the greater role played there by refundable tax credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit. ... Based on the concentration coefficient of household taxes, the United States has the most progressive tax system and collects the largest share of taxes from the richest 10% of theaddition, top income tax rates all over the world have come down in recent decades, and the U.S. top rate is near a fairly common level. From the "Overview: "Top rates of personal income tax, which were in the order of 60-70% in major OECD countries, fell to around 40% on average by the late 2000s." From the
Immervoll and Richardson working paper: "Reductions in top [personal income tax] rates were steepest in Japan (from 70 to 37 percent), Italy (65 to 43), United Kingdom (60 to 40), and France (65 to 48). The flattening of schedules mostly concerned higher income ranges (Australia, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States)."

The real difference in how much redistribution affects inequality arises from differences in benefits. The OECD writes: "Benefits


100m—almost the same as in India now. These households belong to what might be called the consumer class."

Here's Juma in F&D: "Cell phone use has grown faster in Africa than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Africa became the world’s second most connected region after Asia in late 2011, with 616 million mobile subscribers, according to U.K.-based Informa Telecoms & Media. Of course, South Africa—the most developed nation—still has the highest penetration, but across Africa, countries have leapfrogged technology, bringing innovation and connectivity even to remote parts of the continent, opening up mobile banking and changing the way business is done. Seeing the cell phone success, banking and retail firms are eyeing expansion in Africato target a growing middle class of consumers."

Unlike many areas of the world with aging populations, Africa is on the brink of a "demographic dividend" of rising numbers of prime-age workers. The last few decades have seen real strides in health and education. The region is urbanizing. The business climate is improving. It has vast quantities of natural resources and 60% of the world's undeveloped arable land. Africa's economies have strong and developing connections to China and to India, with their rapid growth rates. Africa's diaspora outside the continent of 30 million or so sends back something like $60 billion per year to the region--along with connections to other markets and skills. Capital inflows to the region are rising and now substantially outstrip foreign aid to the region:


its most densely populated countries, has but one kilometer of rail for every 262 square kilometers. Nigeria is not atypical: by radically reducing transportation costs, railways could open up vast tracts of Africa to economic opportunities, especially in agriculture and mining, which many countries are relying on for future growth. The continent needs a decade of massive investment in rail networks. Railways are hardly technologically challenging. They represent the oldest continuous industrial technology. Africa’s lack of railways compared with other regions is primarily a consequence of politics." But as Collier points out, rail in Africa would need to cross many national borders, which raises questions of who will invest, how the railroad would be governed, and how it would be priced.

Electricity is another infrastructure need. Here's the AfricanDevelopment Bank: "Africa’s electrification rate
as at 2009 was estimated at 42%, with coverage of 69% and 25% for urban and rural areas, respectively.
Available projections for electrification rates indicate a steadily rising trend in the coming three decades to a
rate of 51% in 2030." Investment in this area also raises questions of electrical generation and distribution systems that would cross multiple national borders. The AfDB again: "Africa’s road infrastructure development is quite low in quantity, quality and access. Under 20 percent of roads are currently paved, and a study by the World Bank found that a significant share of the road networks built in the 1970s and 80s were in poor condition due to lack of maintenance."
African agriculture has been in reverse. Here's Juma: "There is also vast untapped


more than once as the car arrived into service damaged and mangled. Rocks, um wait... scratch that... BOULDERS seemed to appear on stage causing chaos on every corner. Luckily the damage sustained did not slow the team much at all as they held the rally lead from beginning into the flying finish. With this victory Higgins now has a commanding lead in the Rally America National Championship standings.

Overall championship contenders Ken Block (Ford) and Antoine L'Estage (Mitsubishi) did not fare quite as well. Block spent the entire rally seemingly fighting rally demons. From a lost wheel (yes he lost it completely in a shower of sparks down the stage!), to a broken driveshaft, to 3 separate punctures, the stages took their toll on the car and the stagetimes. Block did manage to claw back and hang on to finish 2nd overall for the weekend.

L'Estage, in the debut of his WRC Mitsubishi Lancer failed to finish the rally after a very uncharacteristic and massive off. L'Estage was coming to grips with the new rally beast, which was quite different from his car of old. His focus surely would have been strained trying to learn a new car and to keep pace. Whatever the cause, he stated he mis-heard a note and with no room to correct, the car left the road careening down a freshly clear-cut hill and into one of the only remaining trees in the forest. The car was damaged head to toe, but luckily both team mates had only very minor injuries. L'Estage


has sadly stated that he's done with the Rally America series for 2013 - let's hope he changes his mind!

Other results of the rally: Super Production battle was won by David Sterckx (Subaru STi), who now moves into 2nd place in the overall SP standings behind 4th place finisher Evan Cline (Subaru STi) who incredibly finished the rally on only 3 wheels!
2wd was dominated by debut driver Brendan Reeves (Ford Fiesta) out of Australia. Sure hope to see more of him at future events, he was flying! 2nd to Reeves was Dillon Van-Way (Ford Fiesta) followed by Andrew Comrie-Picard (Scion xD).

What an insane sport and a totally mental weekend. Cannot wait for the next one! I encourage you to FIND a rally event near you and experience thisAjibola and Adeboye Taiwo's wish to have a baby went unanswered for 17 years. Then they welcomed six babies in a single day.

Ajibola, of West Nigeria, gave birth to three boys and three girls on the morning of May 11 with the help of a 40-person team at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va.

The remarkable birth marked the end of a long road. The couple first learned their wait was over in November after an ultrasound found four heartbeats. Two months later, they discovered they would have six children.

"I was excited," Adeboye said. "For the very first time we were expecting."

The prospect of six premature babies arriving at once prompted the hospital to plan and simulate the busy day. It required experts across the medical


pregnant when she gave birth.

The babies are "doing well," the hospital said in a statement. They remain at the Children's Hospital of Richmond, where the couple helps care for the kids. The hospital said the family and the facility would not provide any more information on the birth.

Dr. Russell Moores, the medical director of the Children Hospital of Richmond's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit called the delivery "an amazing medical accomplishment that would not be possible without the outstanding coordination of our obstetrics and neonatal teams."

The Taiwos are the first to give birth to sextuplets at the hospitals. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 4 million live births last year. Just 24 were quintuplets or more.

Dad was happy with the family's treatment.

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or before you place the song with a publisher. A publisher is the company or individual who makes copies of your song available, or promotes it for singers or bands or use in movies or commercials and TV. The publisher generally owns half of the total income from the song. In the publishing world there is a 200% approach in deciding ownership of the song. The writer or writers own 100% of the writer's income from the song. The publisher owns 100% of the publishing income. If there are two writers they each own 50% of the writer's income. Sometimes a publisher will make a totally different arrangement for the ownership if all parties are in agreement.

Broadcast Music or BMI is an organization which represents publishers and writers.American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, also known as ASCAP is also an organization for writers and publishers. There is one other such organization in the US. It is called SESAC. Follow those links to learn how to join one of those organizations.

Song titles cannot be copyrighted, but you will definitely run into trouble if you try to capitalize on a title which has become a part of the mainstream language and which is instantly identified as being another song or a trademark. You could write a song called "Tell Me Why" and not have much fear of anyone taking legal action. The reason is there have been many hit songs with the title of Tell Me Why. The Beatles had a song with that title. The


House." All those songs were big hits and were recorded by many people. His biggest moneymaking song, however, was not well known. It was called "I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake." It was never a radio hit. The reason it was such a good money song is because it was on the flip side of a vinyl recording by Jimmy Dean called "Big, Bad John." That record sold more than ten million copies.

The songwriter's name is Stuart Hamblen. He gained fame as a cowboy radio star in the 1930s in Los Angeles.

Songwriting can be lucrative, but it requires you not just to be able to write songs, but sell your song. Good luck.of governance over their respective nephrology specialist training schemes. In both the UK and Ireland, national colleges (Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, respectively) oversee the implementation of training schemes in hospitals across each country. In France and Belgium, on the other hand, each university directs its own nephrology scheme (Diplôme d'Études Spécialisées) and is answerable, ultimately, to the relevant government ministry. By setting out a curriculum for nephrology training and making recommendations about its implementation, the Renal-UEMS would become an intermediary in this system and would have to seek approval from the supreme authority in each state before being able to hold individual centres of excellence accountable for maintaining standards \[[@SFV134C20]\].

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The wave of terrorism has engulfed Pakistan, in particular, and the whole world, in general. The menace of extremism and terrorism has plagued the entire human society, taking a heavy toll on innocent people every day. This wave of terrorism is, in fact, a continuation of the tribulation of the Kharijites. The Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace be upon him) explicitly acquainted the Umma with all the aspects, features and details of this monstrous evil. We have to strive collectively with perfect unity and one accord to eliminate the plague and protect our country and people from the peril; the earlier, the better. The safety and survival of human society depends upon total emancipation from extremism and terrorism. The Creator of the universe is the most compassionate


President Trump's proposal moving to a "merit-based" immigration system might resonate with voters, according to Pulse Opinion Research polling sponsored by right-leaning, restrictionist Numbers USA Education & Research Foundation.

The Washington Examiner is the first to obtain Pulse Opinion Research's report. Researchers found that the majority of voters in 25 states, when asked about what levels of immigration the government should allow, preferred between 25 and 75 percent cuts in annual immigration figures. The most popular choice among respondents was requiring at least 75 percent cuts to annual legal immigration numbers.

The majority of respondents in states along the southern U.S.-Mexico border, like Texas, Arizona and California, the Midwest and the Ohio corridor support cuts of upwards of 75 percent in legal immigration.

Pulse Opinion Research polled 1,000 likely midterm electionvoters in each state, with the exception of North Dakota and Indiana. Researchers contacted likely voters primarily through randomly generated phone calls, but also used online surveys for roughly 25 percent of respondents. The margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, and results are weighted to reflect demographic factors.

Numbers USA favors lower immigration levels.

Trump focuses a great deal of his rhetoric on and off the campaign trail on immigration, an issue that largely fueled his rise to the presidency in 2016. Nearly two years into his presidency, the president's supporters remain united behind and energized by the president's immigration platform.

In front of a crowd of 10,000 Iowans and Nebraskans Tuesday evening, many of whom are farmers that rely on immigrant labor, Trump was met with


OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma and its billionaire owners, the Sacklers, on Friday got a temporary reprieve from lingering court battles over their alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis. In exchange, they may have to be more forthcoming about what happened to all the OxyContin money.

US bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain temporarily halted state lawsuits against Purdue as well as the Sacklers—though only Purdue has filed for bankruptcy protections . In pausing the states' cases, Judge Drain cited Purdue's mounting legal expenses , which he noted is money that could otherwise go toward addressing the opioid crisis and its victims, according to The New York Times.

Purdue had sought a 180-day injunction on the state's cases, but Judge Drain's pause only lasts until November 6. In that shorter timeframe, he pushed1. Field of the Invention
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran toddler pictured sobbing in a pink jacket before U.S. President Donald Trump on an upcoming cover of Time magazine was not separated from her mother at the U.S. border, according to a man who says he is the girl’s father.

An upcoming cover of Time magazine. Courtesy Time Inc.

The powerful original photograph, taken at the scene of a border detention by Getty Images photographer John Moore, became one of the iconic images in the flurry of media coverage about the separation of families by the Trump administration.

Dozens of newspapers and magazines around the globe published the picture, swelling the tide of outrage that pushed Trump to back down Wednesday and say families would no longer be separated.

“My daughter has become a symbol of the... separation of children at the U.S. border. She may have even touched President Trump’s heart,” Denis Valera told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Valera said the little girl and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, have been detained together in the Texas border town of McAllen, where Sanchez has applied for asylum, and they were not separated after being detained near the border.

Honduran deputy foreign minister Nelly Jerez confirmed Valera’s version of events.

Varela said he was awestruck and pained when he first saw the photo of his crying daughter on TV. “Seeing what was happening to her in that moment breaks anyone’s heart,” he said.

The photo was used on a Facebook fundraiser that drew more than $17 million dollars in donations from close to half a million people for the


Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides legal defense services to immigrants and refugees.

The Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy had led to the separation of 2,342 children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border between May 5 and June 9.

Video footage of separated children sitting in cages, an audiotape of wailing children and Moore’s photo had sparked worldwide anger over Trump’s immigration policies.

Sanchez and her daughter had left Puerto Cortes, a major Honduran port north of the capital city, Tegucigalpa, without telling Valera or the couple’s three other children, he said.

He said he imagined that Sanchez left with the little girl for the United States, where she has family, in search of better economic opportunities.

“If they are deported, that is                 Pursuant to Code § 17.1-413, this opinion is not designated for publication.
          Father and Demetria Powell (mother) are the biological parents to the child who is the

subject of this appeal. On November 20, 2015, the child was eight years old and entered foster care

after the City of Lynchburg Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court (the JDR court)

determined that he was a Child in Need of Services (CHINS). The child had lived with his

grandmother, his maternal uncle, and his maternal aunt, but none of them was able to manage the

child due to his behaviors. Mother was not active in the child’s life. Father


appeared at the CHINS

hearing and indicated that he wanted custody even though he had not seen the child for one and a

half years. The JDR court deferred the placement until a home study could be completed.

          In addition to the home study, the Department required father to maintain employment and

housing. Father had to participate in a psychological assessment and follow through with the

recommendations. The Department also referred father for outpatient counseling, individualized

parent coaching, parenting classes, and a substance abuse assessment. Furthermore, father needed

to attend all visitations with the child and meetings with the social worker.

          On December 1, 2015, father filed petitions for custody and visitation. Initially, father was

compliant withthrough” and its

negative effects on the child, as well as the therapist’s recommendations.

       In addition to his failure to participate consistently in counseling and visitation, father did

not comply with the court-ordered home study. Despite being contacted numerous times by

different social workers, father never completed the home study. The Department sent him the

necessary paperwork to complete on multiple occasions, but father did not complete the paperwork

until May 24, 2016, which was five months after the Department sent him the first packet. The

social worker attempted to meet with father several times to follow up on the paperwork and inspect

the house, but to no avail. On October 31, 2016, father sent a text message to the social worker and

“asked to wait until December of that


foster home and at

school. His counseling had been reduced from weekly to biweekly, and he no longer needed day

treatment at school. The child was living in a possible adoptive placement.

       Father testified that he wanted custody of the child. He admitted that there were “a lot of

complications” with attending meetings with the social workers and visitations with the child. He

explained that part of the difficulty occurred when he started working full-time, which limited his

availability. Father also agreed that it “took awhile” to complete the paperwork for the home study

because he “just wasn’t keeping up with . . . the paperwork and it was just constantly getting lost

. . . .” Father stated that he was busy with his other children, so hedid not complete the paperwork

quickly and did not have time to meet with the social worker for the home study. He explained that

he did not contact the social worker or complete any services in the fall of 2016 because he “just

wanted to get the holidays out the way.”

       Father testified that he has eight children, who range in age from eight months to

twenty-five years old. Four of the children live with him in his house. Father asserted that the

school-age children were doing well in school and that he was active in their lives.

       After hearing the evidence and argument, the circuit court held that it was in the best

interests of the child to terminate father’s parental


he lost the paperwork

and that he was busy with his other children.

        Father also was not compliant with the Department’s request that he participate in

counseling. He went to a counselor until June 2016, and even though the Department told him

that he needed to continue with counseling, father did not do so until January 2017. He

explained that there was a delay because “he was waiting for the new year, like a New Year’s

resolution to make a fresh start.”

        In addition, father failed to attend most of the scheduled visitations. The Department

explained to father that his failure to appear at the visitations had a negative impact on the child.

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WASHINGTON — Gun legislation is taking shape on Capitol Hill, but President Barack Obama has kept a low profile lately on an issue he's made a critical part of his second-term agenda.

The president has kept a low profile in the debate during the past three weeks as gun bills are written, embroiled instead in a budget battle. He's letting Vice President Joe Biden bang the drum for tighter gun laws.


Accomplice sentenced to 20 years in Rockville Metro shooting

May 2012 shooting injured two people

An 18-year-old Rockville man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison following his conviction of first-degree assault and a handgun charge in connection with a shooting that injured two people at the Rockville Metro station last year.

Prosecutors said Tavares Harris provided the gun used by another teen, Kevin Nguyen, in the shooting, which terrified scores of commuters waiting for their trains in the Rockville station on a weekday evening in May 2012.

Part of the evidence presented during Harris’s trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court were clips that Harris and others had posted on YouTube showing Harris rapping and holding a gun that prosecutors said was used in the shooting.

A Montgomery County jury deadlocked inDecember on the most serious charges facing Harris, including attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.

Nguyen, 17, pleaded guilty in December to attempted second-degree murder and the use of a handgun in a violent crime. Prosecutors had sought a 50-year sentence against Nguyen for his role in the brazen incident, which stemmed from an after-school dispute the day before and left a 16-year-old boy and a 19-year-old woman with gunshot wounds.


Avril Lavigne net worth

Net Worth: $45 million

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There are a lot of young artists who try to stay in the music industry for as long as they can. Some do it successfully and some fail. One of the artists who did not fail to do it Avril Lavigne net worth today reaches around 45 million dollars. It is quite shocking what she has achieved since the time when she was just a teenager performing her hit song “Skater Boy” to the crowds of millions of people. The Canadian singer started off her music career with a style which was not so popular between female singers of that time.

In 2002, she appeared in the public with her punk dressing and music style which warmed hearts of a lotof people. Her first studio album which was entitled “Let Go” was a hit. Around 16 million copies of it were sold in the United States and all over the world, which made her an internationally known star. Of course, a huge part of the revenues from the album went to the singer, which increased Avril Lavigne net worth a lot. Overall, Avril Lavigne has released four albums. All of them sold really well with the albums usually landing in the Top 10 in the Album Charts all around the world. Counting the sales of all of them, Avril Lavigne sold around 30 million copies of albums globally.

Moreover, the singer has released many successful singles. Five of them hit the number 1 position in the music charts not


only in the United States, but in the overseas as well. In addition to her career as a singer, a huge part of Avril Lavigne net worth also comes from her involvement into songwriting, acting, music producing and fashion designing. Critics claim that from being a teenage punk star Avril Lavigne grew up to be a posh glamorous woman during the time when she has been known to the public.

Before she became such a well known international star, Avril Lavigne was a member of her church choir, appeared in a lot of fairs and county festivals. When she began playing her guitar and writing songs in her teenage years, she mainly concentrated on the country music and only later decided to switch to punk style, which brought millions26 experts on the security implications of emerging technologies have jointly authored a ground-breaking report – sounding the alarm about the potential malicious use of artificial intelligence (AI) by rogue states, criminals, and terrorists.

Forecasting rapid growth in cybercrime and the misuse of drones during the next decade – as well as an unprecedented rise in the use of ‘bots’ to manipulate everything from elections to the news agenda and social media – the report is a clarion call for governments and corporations worldwide to address the clear and present danger inherent in the myriad applications of AI.

However, the report – The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation – also recommends interventions to mitigate the threats posed by the malicious use of AI:

Policy-makers and technical researchers


in the graph as "Comienzo del Cepo Cambiario" in November of 2011. That the rate volatility began to fluctuate so wildly after November 2011 is no coincidence. It was then that the Argentine government began to institute capital controls, aimed at restricting the flow of US dollars. The resulting increase in the price of blue market dollars should not come as a surprise. With the supply of dollars severely restricted and demand left unchanged, a price increase is ensured. Keep in mind, Argentina is no backwater banana republic. It's a modern economy, making this situation all the more peculiar. In particular, one aspect that is shared by modern economies is that the populace will require a system by which they can profitably invest. But, with strong capital controlsMorgan support this approach, as do observations of the Argentine CDS rate.

Currently, the case is awaiting a response from the US Solicitor General, as requested by the Supreme Court of the United States, giving Argentina a reprieve until the next session. It is this decades old debt case that appears to be the motivation behind Argentina's currency controls and inflation. It appears that the Argentine government is motivated to get their debt to as small a level as possible, and by any means necessary (especially considering one particular voting member of the ISDA's credit derivatives determinations committee), to avoid the worst possible of outcomes that this ongoing battle could cause.


statements were made by the defendant immediately after the accident indicating that he was the driver of the car, (3) the only other person who might have been driving the car was found dead, the front part of his body protruding from the right (passenger's) side of the car with his legs pinned down in the front compartment of the car, (4) there was the body of another deceased passenger in the center of the front seat with legs pinned by the dashboard and (5) the car in question was owned by the defendant's mother.
The first point raised on appeal pertains to the disqualification of the presiding judge in Santa Cruz County by an affidavit of bias and prejudice filed in pursuance of 17 A.R.S. Rules of CriminalProcedure, Rules 196-200. At the time the defendant came before the court for arraignment on the morning of February 25, 1963, an affidavit of bias and prejudice was filed against Judge Gordon Farley, presiding judge of the superior court in Santa Cruz County. Judge Farley continued the arraignment until that afternoon, at which time it was heard by Judge Alice Truman, a visiting judge from Pima County. At the same time, Judge Farley asked counsel for their preferences as to which judge the case should be assigned. One of three judges indicated as a preference by the defendant was Judge Raul H. Castro. No objection was voiced at that time to Judge Truman handling the arraignment, but that afternoon, when the defendant came before Judge Truman for arraignment,


to Judge Truman for arraignment and, two days later, after the arraignment conducted by Judge Truman, assigned the case for all purposes to Judge Raul H. Castro. Judge Castro subsequently changed the trial date from March 26, 1963 to April 2, 1963, at which time the trial commenced which resulted in the defendant's conviction. Other than the objection voiced at the time of the arraignment before Judge Truman, there were no further objections to the jurisdiction of the court or to the procedure followed in the arraignment of the defendant.
It is the defendant's contention on appeal that he has never been properly arraigned and that the trial therefore was a nullity. Reliance is placed upon the case of Territory of Arizona v. Brash, 3 Ariz. 141, 32 P.one of the other passengers. The person so designated was the passenger found dead after the impact, with the top part of his body hanging out of the right front door. The instruction requested would have specifically informed the jury that "[t]he act of driving an automobile is a fact of continuous nature" and that if they accepted the fact that the deceased was not driving two miles from the crash, there was a "presumption in law" that such condition continued to exist until the impact, which presumption could be overcome only by evidence sufficient to raise more than a "doubt" in their minds.
While the trial court did not give the requested instruction, it did give a general instruction, as to which the defendant finds no fault, in


the defendant, we find not to be in point, in that it is not a decision dealing with jury instruction. The case holds that the undisputed evidence that one of two persons was driving a car when they departed on a journey, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, was "sufficient to warrant the jury in finding" (196 N.E. 373) that the same person was driving the same car at the time of its crash.
The next assignments relate to the alleged impropriety of cross-examination of the defendant by the county attorney. It was the defendant's testimony on direct examination that while he had driven the car on the night in question while south of the border in Mexico, he had not driven in the United States. Thereuponthe indictment or information shall be read to him by the clerk or judge. An entry of the arraignment shall be made of record."
"Rule 161. True name on arraignment
"When the defendant is arraigned, he shall be informed that if the name by which he is charged is not his true name he must then declare his true name, or be proceeded against by the name in the indictment or information. If he gives no other name, the court may proceed accordingly. If he alleges that another name is his true name, the court shall direct an entry thereof in the minutes and record of the arraignment, and the subsequent proceedings may be had against him by that name, referring also to the name by which he was first


were not accurate enough to measure the chemical composition of those stars," explained study leader, Zeljko Ivezic, a University of Washington astronomer.

"With the new SDSS map, astronomers can begin to tackle many unsolved mysteries about the birth and growth of the Milky Way," Ivezic said. The construction and first implications of the map are described in a paper titled "The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity," slated to appear in the 1 August 2008 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers use the term "metals" to describe all elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, including the oxygen we breathe, the calcium in our bones, and the iron in our blood. Although hydrogen, helium, and traces of lithium were created at the beginning of the universe in the Big(Artiodactyla) among mammals: Increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution. PLOS ONE 4(9):e7062

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Major fleets join up to Obama's National Clean Fleets Partnership Program

UPS, FedEx, AT&T, Verizon and PepsiCo have all signed up to the National Clean Fleets Partnership Program and committed to incorporating electric vehicles, alternate fuels and other fuel-saving measures into their fleets.

The White House has also added its commitment to developing a broad range of policies including new incentives for natural gas fleets and new research on advanced biofuels as well as technical assistance and cutting-edge research and development.

President Obama also said that government departments and agencies need to make sure that 100% of the vehicles they buy are fuel-efficient or clean energy cars and trucks by 2015.

And President Obama also reiterated his commitment to a $7,500 tax rebate for motorists buying electric vehicles.

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Chinese Culture Tour: $100,000 — In 2016 the National Endowments for the Arts (NEA) awarded $100,000 to pay for Chinese troupes to perform in communities across the United States.

Shakespeare Adaptation: $30,000 — An NEA grant was awarded to pay for the production of Doggie Hamlet. Included in the cast were humans, sheep, and dogs but no lines from Hamlet were used in the production.


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Each team member has a responsibility to the team. Team members coordinate their efforts weekly with the Drug Court Coordinator to be sure that the Drug Court Judge has all of the information both positive and negative he/she needs on Drug Court Day.

All of the team members have entered in to a Memorandum of Understanding which clearly outlines the goals, objectives and responsibilities of each team member.

Agreement by and between the Broome County District Attorney, Public Defender, Broome County Probation Department, Broome County Sheriff, Binghamton Police Department, other Law Enforcement Agencies, County Agencies, Alcohol and Drug Addiction Programs, Salvation Army, Other Ancillary Service Providers and Binghamton City Court.

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consisted of 3,000 square feet, had four bedrooms and three baths, and was situated along the golf course of the Ridglea Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.  Taxpayer and Morgan purchased approximately $13,000 of furniture for their home in 1974 and 1975.  They lived together in that house during the remainder of 1974 through 1975 during which time Morgan paid the costs of maintaining the house, including mortgage payments and real estate taxes.  Morgan also furnished Taxpayer with living expenses during this period.  Morgan moved out of the house in March of 1976 after his separation from the Taxpayer.  Taxpayer remained in the house until her divorce in August of 1976.

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In 1975, Taxpayer and Morgan shared a joint checking account at Ridglea StateBank ("Ridglea joint account").  She drove a 1974 Chevrolet Monte Carlo he purchased for her, and traveled with him in late 1975 on a snow-skiing trip to Purgatory, Colorado.  Despite having had many of the modern amenities of life during 1975, Taxpayer soon experienced a rather painful change of circumstances in 1976 due in part to Morgan's real estate activities.

8
The particular real estate transaction which gave rise to the problems experienced by Taxpayer occurred in 1975.  During that year, Morgan became a member of Interstate Investors, Inc.  ("Interstate"), an investment group which was interested in purchasing a tract of land known as the Singing Hills property ("Singing Hills").  Interstate consisted of Morgan, Larry Ragland ("Ragland"), and other individuals they knew through a church


testified that she and Morgan periodically separated prior to their final separation in March 1976 because of Morgan's interest in other women.  In addition to these problems, Morgan was extremely secretive about the source of funds he provided Taxpayer to operate the community household.  In late 1975, after repeatedly being warned by Morgan and realizing herself that they were living beyond their means, Taxpayer discovered that Morgan habitually carried large sums of cash on his person.  When she questioned him about the funds, he angrily explained that the money actually belonged to someone else.  It was at this time that Taxpayer first became suspicious of Morgan's financial affairs.

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Before and after Taxpayer's separation from Morgan, Ragland repeatedly contacted Taxpayer and warned her of his suspicionsthat Morgan had defrauded the investment group.  Since Morgan kept his files in his office at home, Ragland pressured Taxpayer to release Morgan's files to him in order to corroborate Interstate's allegations.  Ragland also pressured Taxpayer to relinquish her entire claim and interest in the house and its belongings and threatened to sue her in addition to her husband for his fraudulent acts if she did not cooperate.  As a result of these demands, Taxpayer turned Morgan's files over to Ragland for his inspection, and relinquished to him her interest in the homestead, the household property and furniture and certain stock.

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After the separation in March of 1976, Taxpayer met her present husband, Larry Roberts ("Roberts"), whom she married in September 1976.  At some point