political experiments belong to the later history.

[Sidenote: North-West Provinces.]

Sec. 16. Hitherto the "North-West Provinces" had been a mere appendage
of Bengal. They were known as the Upper Provinces, whilst Bengal, Behar,
and Orissa were known as the Lower Provinces. But a territory which
extended from Assam to the Punjab was too vast for the supervision
of the Governor-General of Bengal in Council. Accordingly the
North-West Provinces were separated from Bengal and placed under a
Lieutenant-Governor, without a Council, but with a separate Sudder
Court and Board of Revenue.[22]

[Sidenote: Hindu village communities.]

The Hindu people in the North-West Provinces are more masculine and
independent than those of Bengal. In Bengal the Hindu village
communities had nearly faded away under the domination of zemindars. In
the North-West Provinces the village communities had survived every
revolution, and have been compared to little commonwealths,were created in the Madras Presidency by the old
Bengal process of grouping villages together, selling them by auction,
and treating the lucky buyer as a zemindar. But the new zemindars failed
to pay the stipulated revenue. The groups of villages were again brought
into the market, and as Lord Wellesley had left India, the estates were
bought in by the Madras government, and the revenue resettled with
individual ryots or cultivators.[24]

[Sidenote: Military bond-holders.]

In Malabar and Canara on the western coast the proprietors of land did
not live in villages. They were landholders of the old military type,
clinging to their lands with hereditary tenacity, employing serfs or
slaves to cultivate them, and paying no revenue except feudal service
and homage to their suzerain. Eventually Malabar and Canara were
conquered by Tippu of Mysore, and the landholders were compelled


a Khalsa was gathered together, he, their Guru,
would be in the midst of them.

[Sidenote: Army of the Khalsa.]

Henceforth the Sikhs were known as the "Army of God and the Khalsa." The
constitution was changed. Guru Govind was taken prisoner by the Moguls
and executed, and his successors lost their spiritual prestige. The
Sikhs were divided into twelve misls or clans, each having its own chief
or Sirdar; but the Sirdars changed with the times. Some took the field
at the head of their sons and vassals, zealous only for God and the
Khalsa. Others were mere freebooters, who led bodies of irregular horse
to devastate and plunder. Others again formed a brotherhood of fanatics
known as Akalis, who called themselves soldiers of God, and were
distinguished by steel bracelets and dark-blue dresses and turbans.

[Sidenote: Runjeet Singh, 1800-39.]

Outattained his majority.

[Sidenote: Lord Dalhousie, 1848-56.]

Sec. 7. Two years passed away. In 1848 Lord Hardinge was succeeded by Lord
Dalhousie, and returned to England accompanied by Sir Henry Lawrence.
Sir Frederic Currie, a Bengal civilian, was Resident at Lahore, and the
Punjab was to all appearance quiet. About this time the Sikh governor of
Multan, named Mulraj, quarrelled with the council of regency at Lahore,
and resigned his post in disgust. Two Englishmen, Mr. Vans Agnew and a
Lieutenant Anderson, were sent to Multan with a Sikh escort to take
overcharge.

[Sidenote: Revolt at Multan, April, 1848: murder of two Englishmen.]

Multan is situated on the river Chenab, about 200 miles to the
south-west of Lahore. The two Englishmen reached the place in April, and
took up their quarters at a mosque in the suburbs. Mulraj paid them a
visit,


was also sent in a like direction. It turned
out, however, that Shere Singh was negotiating with the rebels inside
the fortress, whilst swearing fidelity to the British authorities
outside. When the British guns had opened fire, and the capture of the
fortress was a mere question of hours, Shere Singh suddenly beat the
drum of the Khalsa, proclaimed a religious war against the British, and
started for the north with the whole of his men as fast as their long
Sikh legs could carry them. Whish saw that pursuit was hopeless, and
could only entrench his troops and wait for reinforcements whilst
keeping watch on Multan.

[Sidenote: Army of the Khalsa.]

The hot weather was coming on, British advance was delayed, and the
British authorities at Lahore were discovering that a second Sikh war
was inevitable. The queen-mother was organisingwas the largest in India. At one end were the lines of
three sepoy regiments, two of infantry and one of cavalry, whilst the
bungalows of the European officers were scattered about. At the other
end of the cantonment were the European barracks, in which a European
force was quartered strong enough to have routed four times the number
of sepoys. There was a regiment of Dragoon Guards, known as the
Carabineers; a battalion of the 60th Rifles; two troops of horse
artillery, and a light field battery. The European barracks were thus at
a long distance from the sepoy cantonments, and the interval was
occupied by shops, houses, and gardens.

[Sidenote: Disaffection.]

At Meerut there was to all appearance literally nothing to fear from the
sepoys. The Europeans were all-powerful. Yet at Meerut the agitation
against the greased cartridges was


Lahore was the cantonment of Mian Mir, where
three regiments of Bengal sepoys were quartered, together with one
regiment of Europeans, and two batteries of European artillery.

[Sidenote: Sepoy plots.]

Sec. 14. News of the revolt at Delhi reached Lahore on the 12th of May.
Without a moment's delay, a secret plot was formed between the sepoys in
the fortress at Lahore and those in the cantonment at Mian Mir for the
slaughter of Europeans. On the 15th May, when the sepoy battalion in the
fortress was to be relieved by another sepoy battalion, the two were to
join together, murder their own officers and then overwhelm the European
guard. A signal was thereupon to be given to the cantonment at Mian Mir,
on which the sepoy regiments were to break out in mutiny, murder the
officers, and environ andwhich had been invested in government paper.
He had thus ample funds for carrying out his designs. But neither Nana
Sahib nor the sepoys betrayed the thoughts that were agitating their
brains. Secrecy and surprise, with the necessary element of duplicity,
are the main strength of Orientals.

[Sidenote: Mutiny of 4th June.]

Sec. 8. On the 4th of June, the very day that Neill reached Benares, Sir
Hugh Wheeler was warned that the sepoys were plotting mutiny and murder.
Accordingly he ordered the British officers to leave off sleeping at the
sepoy lines. That same night the sepoys broke out in mutiny. The cavalry
galloped off to the treasury and helped the Mahrattas to plunder it. The
British officers left the barracks and hastened to the lines, but were
fired upon by the sepoys. The rebels loaded a number of


and clay marbles
for working out little sums. Christian missionaries had established
schools from an early period, especially in Southern India; and to this
day nearly every Asiatic servant in the city of Madras can speak
English indifferently well. Meanwhile the East India Company had done
little or nothing for the education of the masses, nor indeed had much
been done by the British government for its own people in those
illiterate days.

[Sidenote: Government High Schools, 1841: Hindus and Mohammedans.]

Sec. 2. In 1841, when a British army was still at Cabul, the British
government established high schools at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay.
Hindu boys flocked to the new schools, but Mohammedans kept aloof. The
followers of the Prophet would not accept an education which rejected
the authority of Mohammed and the Koran. Meanwhile there was an
agitation for teaching theand converted them into landed proprietors. Sir John Lawrence
discovered that the rights of joint village proprietors had been
overlooked. Again there was a paper war, which ended in another
compromise. The talukdars were eventually confirmed in the possession of
their estates, but the rights of under proprietors and occupiers were
defined and respected.

[Sidenote: The cabinet and legislature.]

Meanwhile Colonel Durand was transferred from the Foreign Office to the
executive council, with charge of the military department. As a member
of the council he had a seat in the legislative chamber, and on one
occasion he voted against the other ministers. This raised a question as
to the right of a member of the cabinet to vote against the majority of
his colleagues in the legislative chamber. It was argued on one side
that in England a cabinet minister must


school for Asiatics in which Europeans are the
masters. The teaching has hitherto been successful. Asiatic students are
becoming monitors; some are under-masters; and some may in due course
hope to be masters. The British government is appointing educated
Asiatics to posts of responsibility and trust, which few European
merchants and bankers have hitherto ventured to do. Accordingly,
non-officials, as well as officials, are awaiting the results of an
experiment that will serve to show how far the Asiatic has profited by
his European education; and how far he may be entrusted with the higher
duties of administration, or with the exercise of self-government and
political power.

[Sidenote: Hindu culture.]

Hindus have many virtues. They are obedient to parents, polite to
equals, respectful to superiors, and reverential towards priests and
preceptors. But for ages they have lived under the despotism of caste,
custom,trade in India by three great
        fortresses, 26;
      his humiliation, 27

    Chillianwalla, battle of, 163, 164

    China, East India Company's trade with, 138

    Chout, paid by the Mogul to the Mahrattas, 28;
      plunder of Bengal and the Carnatic for non-payment, 32;
      Mahratta demands on the Nizam, 82;
      demanded by Holkar, 96

    Clavering, General, appointed member of council, 66;
      insolence to Warren Hastings and Elijah Impey, 67, 68

    Cleveland, Augustus, humanises the Sonthals, 78

    Clive, Robert, saves British interests


Human bilateral doubled renal and testicular arteries with a left testicular arterial arch around the left renal vein.
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This is the homepage for the Malvern Prep Rowing Team with updates, schedules, pictures, results and news.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Malvern Competes at Cooper Cup

On Sunday, April 27th, Malvern Rowing competed in the Cooper Cup regatta at Cooper River NJ. Novice Huxley Monaco placed first with a time of 10:12.61 in the Men's Novice single event. He was followed by a novice from Saugatuck and Jake McDonald. In the first heat of the Boy's Novice Quad, Dan Schwarz, Jack Buckley, Austin Moore and Cameron Fuller placed 1st with a time of 7:53.10. Also placing first was Pat Donohue, Alec Somers, Austin Bury and Kevin Quinn with a time of 7:39.52 in the second heat. Pat Donohue, Alec Somers, Austin Bury and Kevin Quinn also rowed in the JV Quadarrested and charged with one count of distribution of cocaine. An attorney was appointed to represent the defendant at trial. Before the defendant's trial began, he informed the court that the he wished to represent himself, stating that his lawyer had done nothing to help his case and that he knew the facts of the case better than his attorney. The court conducted an exhaustive discussion with the defendant concerning his understanding of the potential consequences of this decision. The defendant persisted in his request and ultimately the court allowed the defendant to represent himself.
Following a trial by jury, the defendant was convicted as charged. The trial judge subsequently sentenced the defendant to ten years at hard labor, noting that this was his third felony conviction. The defendant,


in order to carry its burden of proof. State v. Long, 408 So.2d 1221 (La.1982); State v. Smith, 430 So.2d 31 (La. 1983); State v. Ford, 26,422 (La.App.2d Cir. 9/21/94), 643 So.2d 293.
The defendant argues that he was not the person that sold the cocaine and that Officer Edmiston's identification of him as the seller was "flawed" because Officer Edmiston and the apprehending officer, Officer Stansell, gave inconsistent testimony as to where the defendant was located when he was identified by Officer Edmiston. The defendant also contends that, because he did not have the "buy money" or any contraband in his possession when arrested, he was misidentified as the perpetrator of this offense.
Officer Edmiston testified that, after the defendant was apprehended, he returned to the scene to makean identification. Officer Edmiston stated that when he arrived, the defendant was "standing in front of a police unit that was parked in front of the house on Adams street" and at that time, he positively identified the defendant as the individual who had just sold him drugs. Officer Stansell, one of the arresting officers, testified that as they approached the defendant to make the arrest, the defendant was in front of a house in the area of Adams and North 8th Streets. As the police pulled up, the defendant ran "through the back of the house and we actually apprehended him like in the back yard of the house where he made the purchase at." Officer Stansell stated that when Officer Edmiston returned to identify the defendant,


the defendant was in the back yard. According to the defendant, this apparent inconsistency in testimony shows that his identification as the perpetrator of this offense is flawed. This apparent contradiction is not of the sort which would warrant the reversal of the jury's decision. The officer's testimony was not internally inconsistent nor is the discrepancy sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt that some other person was the seller. Officer Edmiston testified that the lighting conditions at the location were good and that he could clearly see the defendant. The officer was also able to closely observe the defendant twice before the arrest. Officer Edmiston never wavered in his testimony that the defendant was the person who sold him the cocaine. The brief time frame and the matchingradio description of the seller's clothing negate any reasonable probability of misidentification.
Defendant also argues that he was misidentified because he did not have possession of the buy money when he was arrested. Quite possibly, the defendant had stashed his drugs and money in a hiding place and that is the reason he made the officer and CI ride around the block prior to the drug transaction. Another possibility brought out at trial is that offenders often dispose of buy money once they discover that police are in the area.
*652 Officer Stansell testified that the defendant "ran off" when he saw the police unit pull up. The absence of the buy money under these circumstances does not create a reasonable probability of misidentification.
Further, the record established the elements of


Maze Jackson and journalist Charles Thomas took to the air to defend a controversial cartoon on the Illinois Policy Institute's website during a recent edition of Chicago's WVON "Morning Show."

The cartoon, which depicts a cigar-chomping white man in a suit and a black child sitting on a street corner holding a hat that reads “Need money 4 school,” has been pulled from the site, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, following charges that it was racist. The white man in the cartoon is holding out one empty pocket while his other pocket bulges with money labeled “TIF $” to represent revenue some school districts receive via tax increment financing.

Jackson said the drawing of the boy's lips and nose fueled some of the allegations of racism.

WVON host Maze Jackson |My interest in Lillian Tiffany the artist came about by chance. I found a reference to her while conducting research for my novel on the Durant family. She was famous for her artwork of dogs, both paintings and sketches, in the 1930s-1950s and lived in New City, New York with her husband, Durant Rose (Timbrell Durant Rose 1896 - 1962), son of Ella Durant Rose (1853-1943).

I was looking though the correspondence of Ella Durant Rose in the Syracuse University Collections of her papers and found letters addressed to 'Lillian Tiffany Rose' Ella's daughter-in-law dated 1932-34.

As if I had nothing better to do with my time, I went to New York City to look through the papers of Poultney Bigelow, housed at the New York Public Library. I discovered


name he found my website and blog about the Durant family (interestingly there is a Durant Rd. and Rose Blvd in the same town).

I explained the connection to him. I don’t know very much about Ella Durant’s life after the lawsuit she won against her brother in 1903 to claim her part of the inheritance left by their father Dr. Thomas C. Durant. She helped found the Dante Society, wrote a few novels and published a book of poetry. She contributed articles to the New York Times.She married Charles Rose late in her life, and had her son Durant when she was around 43 years of age.

The fact that she made Poultney Bigelow the godfather of her only son is a testament to their close friendship that beganIt was fun.

I have also learned that slowing down the pace of writing has allowed me to dwell more in the heads of my characters. The third book in this trilogy starts in 1931 when William and Ella are in their late 70s. They are meeting with people that want to write their biography. For William that person is Harold Hochschild, founder of the Adirondack Museum, and the last biographer to actually invite William to his Adirondack home at Eagle Nest, Blue Mountain, NY and talk to him about his life. For Ella it is Poultney Bigelow, her one-time lover and dear friend. She finds herself at his home on Malden-on-Hudson, NY and they rehash her life story.

Interestingly, both Harold’s home and Poultney’s home still stand. I would


are a regular occurrence in the news cycle:

In October 2012 the TSA at Sea Tac Airport was accused of humiliating a leukemia patient by publicly forcing her to lift up her shirt and check under her bandages after she was refused a private search.

In 2010 it was found out that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was lying about the safety of X-ray scanners as records dating back to 1998 found that machines could be giving up to 100 people cancer every year.

In 2010 the TSA also claimed that no children under 12 years old were receiving pat-downs despite video evidence to the contrary.

Last week it was revealed that the TSA were quietly removing X-ray body scanners and replacing them with machines deemed to be safer.

This week a formerSpring, Md. That business services firm takes care of everything, from paying electric bills to collecting accounts receivable. Statistics Collaborative president Janet Wittes relies on the reports she gets from BusinessMatters. Each month, she receives a 50- to 100-page breakdown of every aspect of Statistics Collaborative's operations. The series of ratios included in that report tracks everything from the productivity of each employee to the profitability of each job.

"One monthly report made clear that I had to fire someone," recalls Wittes. A programmer had a relatively low productivity number. At first, Wittes attributed this to the fact that the programmer was new. After a few months, however, nothing had changed. Another employee, Wittes discovered, was losing money on projects. Further probing revealed that she wasn't redefining her budgets


at the Grafton State School.
In June 1986 Jacque married David Olson, an Air Force officer, who has now retired. Jacque and David have adopted a nine year old girl.
In September 1988 Jacque requested judicial permission to change Joel's residence to Colorado Springs. Supporting that request, Jacque submitted an affidavit showing that Colorado Springs offered excellent opportunities in her career field of nursing as well as job opportunities for David in computers and personnel management. Shortly after Jacque's motion, Richard moved for a change of custody, requesting the district court to give him principal custody of Joel. The trial court approved the change of residence and denied the change of custody.
NDCC 14-09-07 requires a custodial parent to obtain a court order to change a child's residence to another statefive designs featuring Homer; his wife, Marge; and their children, Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie. The stamps sold for 44 cents, 1 cent less than it costs now to mail a letter.

While the Simpsons stamp was the most overproduced during 2009 and 2010, the service also produced more stamps that it sold in those years featuring the lunar new year, civil rights movement figures, Zion National Park, Supreme Court justices, historic U.S. flags, film director Oscar Micheaux and a Christmas stamp showing an angel with a lute.

The inspector general probe found no instances during 2009 and 2010 in which there was more demand for commemorative stamps than supply.

The best-selling commemorative issued by the Postal Service was a 29-cent stamp issued in 1993 on what would have been Presley’s


58th birthday. A Marilyn Monroe stamp issued in 1995 for 32 cents was another top seller.

Stamps issued in March featuring the cherry blossom trees ringing the Tidal Basin oversold initial expectations and were reprinted, said Mark Saunders, a Postal Service spokesman. Other stamps that sold more than their initial print runs were the 1997 Bugs Bunny series and a 2010 series featuring animal shelter pets, he said.

The Postal Service has cut stamp production in line with falling demand for first-class mail, which includes letters and bills. It printed 21 billion stamps in fiscal 2011, down from 29.7 billion stamps, the report said.

First-class mail volume continued to decline in the quarter ended June 30, falling 3.5 percent compared with a year earlier, as people and businesses shift to electronicGrowing up in India, I'd sometimes drop my cricket bat in the middle of the game and say to my friends, "I'll be right back. Going to Pakistan."

None of them would raise an eyebrow. They knew I meant I was off to the bathroom.

I grew up with strong feelings about Pakistan. It was my enemy.

My friends and I wished the worst things for Pakistan, and disliked losing to them — on the battlefield, or the cricket field.

Every time a terrorist attack happened in India, we blamed it on Pakistan and wished our prime minister would declare war.

I thought that's how every Indian should feel; the more you hated Pakistan, the more patriotic you were.

Then, 10 years ago, I moved to the United States, and, for the first time


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Holy Jumpin'—what a game! Brian Elliott stopped 46 shots, Rattie scored his second goal of the season, and Fabbri showed-off his toe-dragging skills.

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Vladimir Tarasenko scooped the puck out of the corner and found Robby Fabbri drifting in. Fabbri took a shot, dodged a defenseman, and then knocked in his own rebound to give the Blues a 1-0 lead 0:36 seconds into the first period.

The Canadiens tallied 17 shots in the first period compared to the Blues' 9. Somehow, the Blues went into the second with the lead.

But Montreal didn't let up then.

P.K. Subban scored his first road goal in 28 games as he lost his balance. Andrei Markov was credited with the assist to Subban's 3rd goal of the season.

Then, Max Pacioretty netted his 18th


goal of the season courtesy of Nathan Beaulieu. Pacioretty's goal gave the Canadiens a 2-1 lead midway through the second period.

However, they wouldn't keep that lead for long. Patrick Berglund slid the puck to Colton Parayko at the point, who ripped it towards the net. On its way, the puck got a piece of Paul Stastny before it ended up behind the goaltender.

Tomas Plekanec made it 3-2 for the Habs, but the Blues were quick to respond yet again.

Patrick Berglund swung the puck behind the Canadiens net before seeing Ty Rattie open in front of the net. His pass hit the stick of David Backes, but it found its way to Rattie. Ty 's shot trickled in for his second goal of the season (scoring in two consecutivegames).

Overtime: a thing Blues fans know very well season.

Fabbri pressured the Habs in the neutral zone as they took a line change. He stripped the puck at the blue line, toe-dragged a defender, and was off to the races. However, he was held during his acceleration and Jori Lehtera regained possession. Lehtera got the tender moving with some body fakes before sliding it under his pads and into the net.

Lehtera's game-winner was his 6th of the season, and it couldn't have come at a better time. The Blues have won 3 of their last four games after breaking a five game losing streak.


up the lights around the banister of the balcony. At least I am not the only one in the neighborhood that has done that. I see more and more of the outdoor lighting coming up. Well anyway I prefer Christmas decorations before Christmas compared to keeping them after Christmas. As soon as the holidays are over I want to take it all down. I am done with it all right after New Years day.

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Hi and welcome to my blog. I am a Swedish-American born in Texas, grew up in Sweden. Moved and lived in Alabama 2006-2010. From the cotton fields of the Deep South back to the arctic winter of Sweden 2010-2012. Now I just moved and started my life among the Swiss alps.                     8
Sims was then sentenced to 46 months of imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised

release.

                                  II. DISCUSSION

A. Waiver of Right to Appeal

      After Sims had filed his initial brief on appeal, the government moved to

dismiss the appeal, arguing that Sims validly waived his right to appeal and had

raised no issues on appeal excepted from the waiver. Sims responded that, at the

time when he entered his guilty plea, he was operating


he had a right to appeal without any cost to him, but

that, by entering the plea agreement, he was waiving his right to appeal, and Sims

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stated that that was what he wished to do. Sims specifically swore that his plea

was entirely free and voluntary, and he signed a statement that he understood he

was waiving his right to appeal his sentence. Because Sims’s sentence-appeal

waiver was knowingly and intelligently made, he waived his arguments that: (1)

his sentence was unconstitutionally enhanced based on facts not charged in the

indictment, admittedavenue to escape a prolonged life behind bars. Those explorations seldom amount to anything, but in the case of two prisoners waiting out their life-term in a jail in Kenya, luck – and a failure of Parliament to sort out a conflict of laws – was on their side.

Peter Muindi and Jimmy Musila were originally charged and convicted of attempted robbery with violence. On conviction they were sentenced to death. Though the death penalty was commuted to life, they lost both their appeal attempts (to the High Court and the Court of Appeal) on the question of conviction and appropriate sentence. That seemed to be the end of the road: they would have to reconcile themselves to spending the rest of their lives in jail.

Malawi’s high court judge


CNN interviewed a group of Hillary Clinton supporters about the election and why they believe their candidate lost.

One supporter said following the election, she cried for multiple days and could not go to work the day after Donald Trump won.

Another supporter, a co-founder of Executive Women for Hillary, blamed Russia’s alleged hacks, saying, “This election was stolen from the American people by Russia.”

She reasoned that the hacked emails “provided an endless supply of negative commentary” on Clinton.

Later, the same Clinton supporter said, “The media had a tremendous love affair with the circus of Donald Trump.”

At the end of the video, she said racism allowed Trump to win, which caused the lone black supporter of the group to shake her head in disagreement.

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                    At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in
the City of New York, on the 9th day of February, two thousand eighteen.

PRESENT:  JOHN M. WALKER, JR.,
                    GERARD E. LYNCH,
                    DENNY CHIN,


               ‐ 3 ‐

of 18 U.S.C. § 371.  The plea agreement expressly stated that the court ʺshall order that

the defendant make restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 3663A,ʺ Govʹt App. 23, although the

government represented during the plea hearing that ʺit appears that there is no actual

loss in this case, so restitution may not be applicable,ʺ id. at 46.

               On March 17, 2017, two months after Quatrellaʹs guilty plea and two

months before his sentencing, investors in the policies advised the United States

Probation Office by email, copying Quatrella and the government, that they would seek

a restitution order as victims under the MVRA.  On May 11, 2017, the investors moved

to intervene and be heard during Quatrellaʹs proceeding, alleging more than $3 million

in losses based on the two lapsed insurance policies.  The government did not advocate

for the investors to be treated as victims.

              On May 25, 2017, following a hearing on May 23, 2017, the district court

concluded that the investors were ʺvictimsʺ within the meaning of the MVRA and

granted their motion to be heard regarding the restitution order.  The court rejected

Quatrellaʹs argument that the investors were harmed by changed market conditions

rather than Quatrellaʹs criminal conduct, explaining that the ʺSTOLI investors were

harmed the moment they made their investmentʺ because Quatrellaʹs

misrepresentations induced them to unknowingly enter into an investment that was

ʺmuch riskier and worth less because of the fraudulent nature of the scheme.ʺ  Govʹt

App. 319.

                                               ‐ 4 ‐


Kerala’s infant mortality rate (IMR) — the number of children under the age of 1 who die for every 1,000 born — has been brought down to 6, a level equal to that of the US and the average for developed nations, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) of 2015-16. To put it in perspective, if India, with a current IMR of 41 could get it down to 6, around seven lakh children would be saved each year.Kerala had been struggling over the past decade to bring down the IMR to a single digit from 12 where it has been stuck since 2009, according to the Sample Registration Survey (SRS) conducted by the office of the registrar of census. In the last NFHS done in 2005-06,The Virtuosity of Earl Wild
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 Earl Wild Performs his own Compositions and Transcriptions (Ivory Classics)
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humanoid robot into space on a rocket bound for the International Space Station (ISS). The robot Fedor will spend 10 days aboard the ISS practising skills such as using tools to fix issues onboard. Russia's deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin has previously shared videos of Fedor handling and shooting guns at a firing range with deadly accuracy. Dmitry Rogozin/Twitter Gadget and tech news: In pictures Google turns 21 Google celebrates its 21st birthday on September 27. The The search engine was founded in September 1998 by two PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in their dormitories at California’s Stanford University. Page and Brin chose the name google as it recalled the mathematic term 'googol', meaning 10 raised to the power of 100 Google Gadget and tech news:In pictures Hexa drone lifts off Chief engineer of LIFT aircraft Balazs Kerulo demonstrates the company's "Hexa" personal drone craft in Lago Vista, Texas on June 3 2019 Reuters Gadget and tech news: In pictures Project Scarlett to succeed Xbox One Microsoft announced Project Scarlett, the successor to the Xbox One, at E3 2019. The company said that the new console will be 4 times as powerful as the Xbox One and is slated for a release date of Christmas 2020 Getty Gadget and tech news: In pictures First new iPod in four years Apple has announced the new iPod Touch, the first new iPod in four years. The device will have the option of adding more storage, up to 256GB Apple Gadget and tech news: In pictures


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in the tractor-trailer.

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Shahan testified that as he approached the intersection he slowed to a speed of from twenty-five to thirty miles an hour. He looked to both his right and left but saw no vehicle on No. 54, his range of visibility being about three hundred feet in each direction. Without stopping, Shahan entered the intersection at the indicated speed. Glancing to his right as the cab of the trailer reached the north edge of the intersection he saw the lights of an approaching automobile. The lights appeared to be about one hundred to one hundred fifty feet away. The witness testified without objection that this automobile was traveling at a high rate of speed.

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Shahan shifted gears to accelerate the speed of the tractor but a collision couldBeacon Hill Taxi Service, 278 Mass. 540, 180 N.E. 503, referred to in State v. Becker, supra, it was held that a witness' estimate of the speed of a car was of no value where he saw the car for the first time only fifteen feet away.

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In our case, on the other hand, Shahan testified that he saw the lights of the Gilliland car when the latter was from one hundred to one hundred fifty feet away. In addition, Shahan had as a basis for estimating speed the knowledge that no car had been in sight for a distance of three hundred feet when he entered the intersection. He also had firsthand knowledge concerning the nature and force of the impact.

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Under these circumstances the trial court did not


purpose in erecting these signs was to designate No. 54 as a main traveled or through highway within the meaning of General Statutes of North Carolina § 20-158(a).3

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The commission had also erected the following signs along No. 55 immediately south of the intersection and facing traffic proceeding north on that highway: Six hundred feet south of the intersection a sign reading "Stop Ahead," five hundred feet south of the intersection a sign indicating a crossroads intersection, three hundred feet south of the intersection a sign indicating a junction with No. 54, and approximately one hundred forty feet south of the intersection a sign indicating destinations east and west on No. 54. On the north side of the intersection there was a stop sign facing southbound traffic on No.55.

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All of the signs which had been erected by the commission, as described above, were standing and visible to motorists at the time of the accident except for the stop sign facing motorists approaching No. 54 from the south. That stop sign had been knocked down about four hours prior to the collision and was not visible to motorists driving north on No. 55.

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Shahan, driving the tractor-trailer, had never been on No. 55 and was not previously aware that No. 54 had been designated as a main traveled or through highway. As he approached the intersection, however, he passed all of the signs along No. 55 south of the intersection which have been described, except the stop sign facing south which was not then in place.

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In holding that


under these circumstances Shahan had no statutory duty to stop, the trial court relied upon Tucker v. Moorefield, 250 N.C. 340, 108 S.E.2d 637, 639. In that case a stop sign which had been erected on the east side of North Smith Street in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, at the point where that street intersects West Eighth Street was not in place at the time of the accident. The North Carolina Supreme Court held that evidence to the effect that a stop sign had been erected at this point should not have been admitted, and it was error to instruct the jury that at this intersection North Smith Street was servient to West Eighth.

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As appellant points out, the Tucker case is not strictly in point. Thebe required was the sign six hundred feet south of the intersection reading "Stop Ahead." This was a cautionary sign which warned drivers to prepare to stop. It was not, however, the kind of a sign described in section 20-158(a) to which approaching drivers are required to render obedience by coming to a stop. The stop signs referred to in that statute are signs erected "at the entrance" to the main traveled or through highway. A sign six hundred feet away from an intersection cannot reasonably be said to be at the "entrance" thereto.5

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Evidence pertaining to the "Stop Ahead" sign and all of the other signs which have been described was relevant on the question of Shahan's negligence, and was properly admitted for that purpose. It did not


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A Justice Department official recently took the stage at the DFRWS computer forensics conference in Washington, D.C. and told attendees that the security in iOS is now so good that it has become a nightmare for law enforcement.

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Four workers had minor injuries Wednesday after a large explosion at an ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance that left ash cascading to the ground and South Bay residents briefly wondering if an earthquake had hit.

The Torrance Fire Department responded to an explosion at the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery on Feb. 18, 2015. (Credit: KTLA)

The blast at the refinery, which is located in the 3700 block of West 190th Street (map), occurred around 8:50 a.m.

It caused a small blaze on the ground that was quickly extinguished by some four dozen firefighters from Torrance and neighboringbeach cities. Meanwhile, the refinery's flare system sent flames shooting hundreds of feet into the air as a safety measure, Torrance Fire Department Capt. Steve Deuel said.

"There was an activation of their flare system, which is a safety feature where you see a large column of black smoke, big flame in the sky. It's like a safety valve," Deuel said. "They typically will take the product that's involved ... and route it up the stack and burn it off."

The fire occurred in a gasoline processing unit and was believed to have involved gasoline, Deuel said. Hours after the flames were out, it remained unclear what caused the explosion.

Air quality was within normal range, Torrance police said, but the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a smoke advisory


due to smoke and ash from the explosion. Residents who could see or smell smoke were advised to avoid outdoor exposure or activities.

The shaking produced by the explosion was equivalent to a magnitude-1.7 earthquake, a measurement taken by a nearby seismometer showed, according to geophysicist Egill Hauksson of Caltech. The impact was felt only the immediate vicinity, he said.

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Nearby residents heard the explosion coming from the plant and reported feeling the ground shake. Several KTLA viewers described the shaking as feeling like an earthquake.

Several residents reported damage, including at one residence where a large flat-screen TV toppled and a window cracked. Vehicles and streets were coated in a layer of ash.

"It looks like it's snowing. ... When people drive down the street,the ash just flies everywhere," said Amanda Hernandez, who has lived near the refinery for her whole life. "I've never seen it like this. I've never seen the ash like this."

A claims hotline for those impacted by the incident was set up by ExxonMobile: 844-631-2539.

After an explosion at the Torrance Refinery on Feb. 18, 2015, one structure appeared to be damaged. (Credit: KTLA)

One large, multistory structure at the refinery was left partially collapsed, with twisted metal hanging from its exterior. Two vehicles in front of the building appeared destroyed, and the area was covered in white ash or foam.

It was not immediately clear if the white substance was from firefighting efforts or if it was a result of the explosion.

The damage appeared to be on a part of


more than five hours.

A temporary shelter-in-place order was lifted as of 11:45 a.m., but those in the area were being told not to use air conditioning. Thirteen schools in the area had been placed under the shelter-in-place order.

"It was just scary in the morning because we were just out at recess and then we heard this explosion," said Olivia Welch, a student at nearby Fern Elementary School. "Then our principal said that we were on lockdown."

Smoke could be seen rising from miles away from the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery on Feb. 18, 2015. (Credit: KTLA)

The refinery covers roughly 750 acres, according to Exxon Mobil Corp. It processes an average of 155,000 barrels of crude oil per day and produces 1.8 million gallons of gasoline each year.

The units at thehas beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. And for the genetic “alchemists, ” Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life…and death. The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture


Greg Lewis enters his fourth season as a wide receivers coach with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2020. This season marks his 14th year in the NFL, with prior stops as a wide receivers coach in Philadelphia (2016) and as an offensive assistant in New Orleans (2015), preceded by an eight-year career as a wide receiver.

In 2019, Lewis mentored rookie WR Mecole Hardman who ranked first in the NFL in yards per reception among all wide receivers with at least 20 receptions (20.7). He also coached fourth-year WR Tyreek Hill who became the fastest player in franchise history to reach 4,000 career receiving yards doing so in 58 games and was nominated to his fourth Pro Bowl.

In 2018, Lewis coached third-year WR Tyreek Hill to his second consecutive1,000-yard season with 1,479 yards and 12 touchdowns, which both ranked fourth in the NFL. Hill's 1,479 receiving yards in 2018 broke the Chiefs single-season receiving yards record previously set by WR Derrick Alexander (1,391 in 2000). He also led wide receivers Chris Conley and Demarcus Robinson to career-highs in receiving yards and touchdowns.

In 2017, Lewis coached WR Tyreek Hill, who had career highs in yards (1,183) and receiving touchdowns (8). Hill had five receptions of 55 yards or more, and 16 receptions of 25 yards or more. Overall, the receivers combined for 2,285 yards and 12 touchdowns under Lewis' tutelage.

Lewis spent the 2016 season in Philadelphia guiding a young receiving core. The Lewis-led group of Eagles wideouts produced 1,839 receiving yards on 170 receptions (10.8 yards per


catch) with eight touchdowns.

Prior to joining the Eagles, Lewis served as an offensive assistant in New Orleans, which was his first full-time coaching role in the National Football League. The 2015 Saints, led by QB Drew Brees, put together a league-leading 460 completions for 5,205 passing yards.

Prior to coaching stints in the National Football League, Lewis spent three seasons coaching in the collegiate ranks, spending time with the University of Pittsburgh (2014), San Jose State (2013) and the University of San Diego (2012).

Working with the wide receivers at Pittsburgh in 2014, Lewis tutored WR Tyler Boyd, a second-round pick by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2016 NFL Draft. Boyd ranked second in the ACC with 1,261 yards in 2014, and left the Panthers as the school's all-time leadingreceiver in receptions (254), receiving yards (3,361) and finished second in all-purpose yards (5,243), earning a first-team AII-ACC nod as a wide receiver.

In his one season coaching at San Jose State, senior Chandler Jones and freshman Tyler Winston, were All-Mountain West Conference honorees. Jones was a first-team selection with 79 receptions for 1,356 yards and a single-season school-record 15 touchdown catches. Jones also established a new University record for career TD receptions with 29. Despite starting only eight games, Winston was named the Mountain West Freshman of the Year. He finished 2013 with 58 receptions for 858 yards and five touchdowns. Winston led all Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) freshmen with four games of 100 or more receiving yards.

Under Lewis' direction, four Spartans wide receivers finished the 2013 season


with at least 100 career receptions. Jones and team captain Noel Grigsby completed their college careers with 248 and 237 receptions, respectively.

Lewis began his coaching career in 2012 as a wide receivers coach at the University of San Diego. The Lewis-led group of wideouts totaled 2,287 yards on 182 receptions (12.6 yards per catch) with 21 touchdowns.

Prior to coaching, Lewis enjoyed an eight-year playing career in the National Football League. Undrafted out of the University of Illinois, then-head coach Andy Reid first signed Lewis in Philadelphia where he appeared in 90 games (23 starts), logging 127 catches for 1,699 yards (13.3 yards per catch) and seven touchdowns. His time with the Eagles was highlighted by a fourth-quarter touchdown pass in Super Bowl XXXIX.

The Chicago, Illinois, native finished hispro career in Minnesota, where he spent two seasons and appeared in 26 games (six starts), tallying 293 yards on 25 catches (11.7 yards per catch) with one touchdown. His most notable achievement in Minnesota came on one of the most dramatic finishes in Vikings history, when he made a tightrope catch in the back of the end zone with two seconds left to lift Minnesota past the San Francisco 49ers, 27-24. Lewis would go on to share an ESPY Award for 'Best Play' with then-Vikings quarterback Brett Favre.

A standout at the University of Illinois, Lewis appeared in 44 games, logging 103 receptions for 1,456 yards (14.1 yards per catch) and 12 touchdowns.


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Comdex Trade Show Leaves Vegas

LAS VEGAS -- The producer of Las Vegas' annual Comdex trade show on Wednesday pulled the plug on
this fall's planned technology showcase, deleting an event that only a few years ago
was considered the city's most important convention.

San Francisco-based MediaLive International called off the trade show, which would
have started Nov. 14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center to allow time to "reshape
the event" in cooperation with information technology leaders.

MediaLive representatives did not return phone calls Wednesday, but the company
issued a statement that said the show is expected to return to Las Vegas in November
2005.

"While we could still run a profitable Comdex this year, it does not benefit the
industry to do so without broader support of the leading technology companies,"
said Robert Priest-Heck, president and chiefexecutive officer of MediaLive. "We
thought it best to postpone this year's show."

This was not the first sign of trouble for the annual technology convention.

MediaLive emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, but not before its
financial problems had raised doubts about whether last year's Comdex show would take
place.

The company said Wednesday it has set up an advisory board to determine how Comdex
best can meet the future needs of its industry. Companies represented on that panel
include technology giants Advanced Micro Devices, Cisco Systems, Dell, Intel,
Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Samsung Electronics.

Comdex has been held in Las Vegas each year since 1979, and in that span it's enjoyed
a love-hate relationship with locals. Las Vegas' economy benefited from the money
spent by event attendees, but many businesses frowned at the show's heavy


traffic and
gaming-averse patrons.

Comdex peaked in 1998, when an estimated 220,000-plus delegates had an estimated
nongaming economic impact of $341 million. After the dot-com bubble burst three to
four years ago, coupled with the events of Sept. 11, 2001, attendance fell
dramatically. Last year, only 51,000 delegates were reported, adding $69.5 million to
the local economy.

The show's popularity also was hurt by growth of the rival International Consumer
Electronics Show, which in January drew 130,000 attendees to Las Vegas.

Rossi Ralenkotter, who on July 2 will become president and chief executive officer of
the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, said he learned early Wednesday of
Comdex's plans. The convention authority, which owns and operates the Las Vegas
Convention Center, now will work closely with MediaLive to bring Comdex back in 2005,
though the company probably will face penaltiesshort term.

One of Comdex's major benefits to Las Vegas was that it helped fill local hotel rooms
and convention space during a normally slow period of the year.

Patti Shock, chairwoman of the tourism and convention department at the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, said Comdex's departure could spawn discounted hotel rooms and
cheap airline tickets come mid-November. Its loss also could free up space for
meeting planners who typically can't book space here, she said.

The city's sex industry could take a hit, however.

"Comdex attendees don't gamble, but they line up in those gentlemen's clubs,"
Shock said. "I've been on flights coming into Las Vegas sitting next to hookers
that fly in just for that week, and they make no bones about it. So all of those
hookers are going to be out of work.

"The casinos


have never liked Comdex because computer people don't gamble that
much; they know the odds. ... It's mainly going to be the restaurants, taxis,
gentlemen's clubs and other places (that attendees) spend the money" that will
feel a loss.

In response to the lecherous leanings of many Comdex attendees, a Marion, Ind.-based
company called TradeShow Productions in 1995 launched AdultDex, an adult
entertainment-themed spinoff that enjoyed an eight-year run in Las Vegas.

Dave Gould, an owner of TradeShow Productions, said Wednesday that last year's
AdultDex show was canceled because of difficulties securing hotel convention space
and an unwillingness by many would-be patrons from Asia and Europe to travel
overseas. Those obstacles are still in place, Gould said, and probably would have
precluded another AdultDex this fall regardless of Comdex's cancellation.

Officials said Comdex's cancellation also won't seriously hurt businesses suchas GES
Exposition Services, a local contracting company that's helped set up and tear down
exhibitor booths at Comdex for several years.

GES spokeswoman Sallie Sargent said Wednesday her company was disappointed to learn
that the event had been pulled but doubted that its absence would leave many laborers
out of work this fall.

"In our business, we have to be prepared for this kind of thing as best you can
be," Sargent said. "Comdex is really one of the few bigger shows toward the
end of the year, so we'll now use that time to get ahead of a lot of the production
work before the January shows hit."

John Mulkey, a gaming industry analyst with Bear Stearns & Co., also expected
Comdex's loss to have little measurable impact on the local trade show industry.

"Attendance has been waning


In a 2017 Freedom House report titled “Breaking Down Democracy: Goals, Strategies and Methods of Modern Authoritarians,” author Arch Puddington notes, “The rewriting of history for political purposes is common among modern authoritarians.”

Though the line was used to describe the actions of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, it fittingly applies, as well, to Donald J. Trump, president of the United States.

At a rally last night in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the president characteristically whipped his supporters into a frenzy of repeated Two Minutes Hate rantings against the news media. What made it different this time, though, are the events that preceded it.

First Daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump, earlier in the day, told Mike Allen of Axios that she does not view the press as “the enemy of the people,”an assertion her father has made repeatedly, naming mainstream outlets such as The New York Times and CNN as “fake news.”

Daddy Trump followed up his daughter's interview with a tweet saying that Ivanka was correct; it is the FAKE news media that are the enemy of the people, he wrote.

More stunning was the display that took place shortly thereafter in the White House Briefing Room, where CNN's Jim Acosta asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders where she stood on the whole “enemy of the people” question.

The press secretary—the person whose job it is to convey the administration's positions and actions to the news media—refused to disavow the claim.

While a few in the news media rolled their eyes at what they see as Acosta's showboating, the drama


Biography

Rise Against is an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois that was formed in 1999. Their current line-up consists of four members, Tim McIlrath (vocals, guitar), Joe Principe (bass guitar), Brandon Barnes (drums), and Zach Blair (guitar). To date, Rise Against has released four albums, two EPs and one DVD.

Rise Against rose to fame with their first two major label releases, Siren Song of the Counter Culture (2004) and The Sufferer and the Witness (2006), with hits such as "Give It All," "Swing Life Away," "Ready to Fall," "Prayer of the Refugee," and "The Good Left Undone." Each member of the band has mentioned in interviews that there will be a new Rise Against album, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2008.An email to a bride-to-be from her future mother-in-law has gone viral on the internet.

Heidi Withers was sent a list of rules by Carolyn Bourne, the stepmother of her fiance Freddie Bourne, after she visited the family home in Devon.

The 29-year-old was apparently shocked to be told she acted "like a brash celebrity" and that she had a "lack of manners".

So she forwarded the email to her mates.

They sent it to others and the message was forwarded around the world.

Old-fashioned

Carolyn Bourne, who is being dubbed the "mother-in-law from hell" online, also hit out at at Heidi's parents.

"I understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the cost of your wedding," she said.

When a guest in another's house, you do not lie in bed until late morning


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Acting under a rarely used provision of Ohio state law, a judge found probable cause Thursday to charge Cleveland police Officer Timothy Loehmann with murder in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year.

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine also found cause to support negligent homicide charges against Officer Frank Garmback, Loehmann's partner, who is accused of standing by after Loehmann shot Tamir in November at a recreation center, where Tamir was playing with a pellet gun.

Adrine agreed with local activists known as the "Cleveland 8" who took the unusual step of independently seeking charges because, they said, they'd lost confidence in the grand jury investigation.

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The ruling is only advisory and doesn't affect the separate grand jury investigation.

Adrine — saying he wasn't performing an "end around" of the city or the county — said the choice to lodge charges remains with Cuyahoga County and Cleveland prosecutors. In a statement, county prosecutor Timothy McGinty said the grand jury would make any final decision.

The citizens motion, known as an "affidavit of person having knowledge of offense," centers on a widely distributed security video of the shooting.

In his 10-page ruling, Adrine called the video "hard to watch," saying he was "thunderstruck by how quickly this turned deadly." As Loehmann and Garmback look on and as at least six other officers arrive on the scene, it appears


that Tamir is left to lie wounded on the ground for eight minutes with no indication that anyone is trying to help him, Adrine wrote.

Related: Read the Judge's Full Order (PDF)

Adrine found that there was enough evidence to justify charges of murder, negligent homicide, reckless homicide, involuntary manslaughter and dereliction of duty against Loehmann — but not aggravated murder, the most serious charge the activists had sought.

Garmback, he said, should face only negligent homicide and dereliction charges.

In a statement issued through their attorneys, Tamir's family praised "the efforts of the 'Cleveland 8' who exercised civility and intellect by invoking Ohio Citizen Participation laws Tuesday."

The ruling, they said, is "a blueprint for the nation to follow" in confronting "many of the relationship problems between African-Americans and law enforcement."

Loehmann's attorney,regular at Aqueduct, Ramon made a seamless transition to riding full-time on the NYRA circuit. He won numerous meet riding titles and many of our top races, en route to becoming New York’s leading rider for each of the past four years.

Ramon’s accomplishments – including the last three Eclipse awards as North America’s top jockey – only tell part of the story, though. He has epitomized class both on and off the racetrack. Universally respected by his fellow riders and beloved by fans, Ramon has built a towering and well-deserved reputation that serves as a standard for all future jockeys. It has been a true privilege to have him in the NYRA riding colony and we wish him and his family the very best in this new chapter


different artistic and visual disciplines:

For the artists under 26 it is foreseen a facilitation on the registration fee;

The artistic disciplines allowed are:

Painting

Sculpture and Installation

Drawing and Graphics

Photography

Video and Digital Art

HOW IT WORKS

All nominated works - including those not selected - will be exhibited online on the website www.premioarteroma.it, from 1 August 2016 to 30 June 2018;

The Scientific Committee of the Prize will select 50 artists and 50 works for the exhibition at the Stadium of Domitian;

A Jury of International Experts will confer the title of Excellence Contemporary on the best work, plus a cash prize of 5000 Euros;

The award ceremony will take place Friday, September 16, during the vernissage of the exhibition.

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As a member of GBCA, you will not only gain access to wonderful benefits, but youWriter David Rakoff, a frequent contributor to This American Life, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan after losing a battle with cancer at age 47.

Born in Montreal, Rakoff began working in the New York publishing world in the early 1990s and became a contributor to This American Life at the encouragement of David Sedaris, who shared his penchant for piercing personal anecdotes and withering wit.

In 2001, Rakoff published his first collection of essays, Fraud, which catapulted him to national attention. It was followed in 2005 by Don’t Get Too Comfortable and in 2010 by Half Empty, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

I am nothing if not compliant. I held still as I was shuttled back and forth through the wondrous high-tech doughnut, inhaling and holding


both parents moved away in search of work, according to the federation. It estimates that 46.74 percent of left-behind children have seen both parents move away - 32.67 percent of them live with their grandparents, while a further 3.37 percent live on their own. The federation said these children are most at risk.

The plight of these children was highlighted on June 9, when four siblings in Bijie, Guizhou province, committed suicide by drinking pesticide at home.

The children had not seen their father since March, when he left home to work in Guangdong province. Their mother left the family home in March last year after a fight with her husband that left her hospitalized. The eldest child, a primary school student, had been tasked by his father with takingcare of his three sisters and two pigs who live in the family's livestock pen.

Guan Jun, a writer at the news portal NetEase, spent more than three months with left-behind children in a mountainous county in Gansu province between December and March. He said the children develop psychological problems much more easily than those in more-settled families.

"The biggest problem they face is that they lack love and the company of their parents," he said. "Many isolate themselves and suppress their feelings."

Many children live with their mothers, while their fathers migrate to other cities to work. That has resulted in a higher level of disputes and divorces among "split couples" than among those who live together in the same place, and can exert extra psychological pressures on the children,


and chip seal part of U.S. Highway 36. Elam earned contracts to resurface parts of U.S. Highway 285 and U.S. Highway 160 with asphalt.

Projects on U.S. Highway 6&50 and Colorado Highway 340 are budgeted but have not yet started.

In addition to paved road projects, the recovery act will cover trails in the great outdoors. Colorado National Monument used $58,000 to renew Monument Canyon, Canyon Rim, No Thoroughfare and CCC trails this summer. The Bureau of Land Management will make trailhead improvements in the Black Ridge Wilderness Area, repair an access route at Little Bookcliffs Wild Horse Range, repair parts of the Book Cliff Shooting Range, restore habitats in McInnis Canyons, reconstruct a campground at Mud Springs and make improvements in the Dominguez Escalante National Conservation Area. The bureauis easily spotted: her edge and timeless style always stand out. When all the cute darlings are lounging in this year's vogue du jour, she has already discovered and is wearing the next trend; she is fielding compliments on her fashion sense.

She is the the Aesthetik customer. She is always well-turned out, playful, with an eye towards the fabulous; she has panache. Her taste is contemporary and her imagination knows no boundary. Her adventurous nature takes her to Prague for espresso, but her soul craves clean sharp lines and innovative beauty. the Aesthetik by Stacy Williams; contemporary clothing with an edge; made to love every inch of her trendy and beautifully eclectic customers.

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The Foreshadowing of Bangladesh: Bengal Muslim League and Muslim Politics 1906-1947

From Amazon: This covers, what Leonard A. Gordan calls, the 'neglected history of the Bengal Muslims before 1947.' It provides a detailed account of the Bengal Muslim League during the period from 1906-1947. It covers its various aspects, such as problems of organization, policies and mobilization, nature of leadership, inner party conflict, bases of support and relations with the parent all-India body.The Syrian army said „enemy“ rockets struck military bases belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, Syrian state TV reported.

An official from a regional alliance including Iran, Hezbollah and Syria, said Monday that the strikes killed 16 people, among them 11 Iranians, according to the New York Times. The report said the bombardment also destroyed 200 missiles. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity, as he was permitted to speak to the press.

A report on a Syrian newspaper’s facebook page attributed the attack to the U.S. and Britain. Media outlets affiliated with the Syrian opposition claim 38 government soldiers were killed in the strike in Hama, with an additional 57 wounded.

According to several Syrian media outlets, the strikes targeted the 47th Brigade base in the southern Hama


district, a military facility in northwestern Hama and a facility north of the Aleppo International Airport.

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Another video of the huge explosion at 46 Brigade arms depot in #Hama, rumours of Israeli Strikes, could be sabotage as well.

Sources in Syria reported explosions in military bases near the districts of Hama and Aleppo on Sunday night. Some Syrian media outlets associated with the Assad regime claim Israel is responsible for the attack.

The area of the earthquake according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological CentreEuropean-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

Israel’s security cabinet is convening on Monday following the airstrike. The session was unscheduled, and Ministers were told it would pertain to the Iran nuclear deal. Developments on the topic are reportedly being presented.

Over the last several weeks, a row of diplomats and intelligence community membersLebanese newspaper Al Akhbar. The report adds that several dozen were wounded and evacuated to nearby hospitals. According to the report, Bunker Buster bombs were used, which makes it likely the launch was airborne.

In the past, several critics have associated Al Akhbar with the Iranian-backed Shi’ite movement Hezbollah, as well as the Assad regime.

The Syrian newspaper Tishreen reported on its facebook page that the attack was carried out by nine ballistic missiles fired from U.S. and British military bases in northern Jordan. This has yet to be verified or confirmed by any other source at this time.

Reports say that dozens loyal to the Syrian regime were killed in the explosion. Contrary to recent attacks on the Assad regime, after which the Syrian army reported its defense systems shot


down some of the missiles, no such claims were made after the strike.

The Iranian news agency Tasnim quoted the commander of the Iranian-backed Afghan militia Fatemiyoun as saying the the military base near the northwestern city of Aleppo is unharmed, as are his forces.

Syrian state TV says successive blasts were heard in the Hama province and authorities are investigating the response. Shortly after the explosions, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said the blasts caused a 2.6 magnitude earthquake in the area.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said shelling targeted a Syrian army base, home to the 47th Brigade, near the city of Salhab, west of Hama, where Iranian forces are also stationed.

The monitor said rockets also hit Syrian government bases in the region surrounding Nairab military airport, which

Lupe Fiasco will perform at Riverfest this year.

Riverfest (May 24-26) announced its 2013 main stage lineup today, and among the headliners are Daughtry, Sugar Ray, Bush, Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker, Lupe Fiasco, Drive By Truckers and Peter Frampton.

Friday’s headliners are Daughtry on the Bud Light Stage and Rodney Atkins, Jana Kramer and Rucker on the Miller Lite/AFCU Stage (a.k.a. Riverfest Amphitheater).

Saturday sees Sugar Ray, Blackstone Cherry and Bush on the Bud stage and Lupe Fiasco and Kelly Rowland on the Miller stage. On Sunday, hometown favorite Cody Belew plays the Bud stage with country duo Florida Georgia Line and Bentley, while Drive By Truckers and Peter Frampton headliner the Miller stage.

Press release is included after the jump.

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Her huge breasts.

Bounces when she meets me.

Her pubic forest with

Hair so thick I cannot see through

Her Pussy is as big as a swamp.

The swamp is filled with her fingers.

Fluids come out and wets me as

Her fingers pushes in and out.

The hot breath of the woman comes out

All I hear is moans.

The Woman is surrounded

By a Deep Curtain of Fog.

When she rubs my Penis on that

Pubic forest, I shiver

She push me in and out.

Until I pumped my Sperm inside her.

She holds my hand

Kisses me as i fill her Fulldevices, this value is highly dependent on HOMO and LUMO energy levels and work functions for the active layer materials

Since power is the product of voltage and current, the maximum power point occurs when the product between voltage and current is maximized.

The fill factor, FF, can be thought of as the “squareness” of a current voltage curve. It is the quotient of the maximum power value and the product of the open circuit voltage and short circuit current. This is shown in the image above as the ratio of the area of the yellow rectangle to the greater blue rectangle. For organic photovoltaics, this fill factor is essentially a measure of how efficiently generated charges are extracted from the device. This can be thought of as a


Hernandez holds an eviction citation she received from Rockport Apartments, the complex where she lives in Houston. (Photo: Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle)

Canás, the tenant from Honduras, said many residents pleaded for extra time to find new housing. Many who lack legal status were afraid of eviction, so they signed the release forms the management company demanded, she said ― even though the forms were in English, and many had no idea what they said. Canás, who is 28 and the mother of two young boys, one with asthma, refused.

“Who knows what’s going on with those apartments?” she asked.

She said she found a new place and told the landlord she could move out by early October, and would continue paying rent until then. She still received an evictionBrowse Notices

Tale of Two Cities -- Revisited

Twenty years from now, what will our children say about our best efforts to improve our city?

New Orleans begins the New Year anticipating both a mayoral primary on Feb. 2 and Super Bowl XXXVI on Feb. 3. Mayor Marc Morial's eight years in office end three months later -- making the Super Bowl his last best shot to showcase our city to a horde of visiting VIPs.

As we enter the New Year, we sense the rhythms and repetitions of history. For example, in January 1981, New Orleans Mayor Dutch Morial greeted visitors to Super Bowl XV with a city-funded brochure titled A Tale of Two Cities. Designed specifically for an audience of visiting business leaders, Dutch Morial's Two Cities still stands, two


decades later, as a serious, fact-intensive "exposition of a new kind of New Orleans growing dramatically within the old." In addition to articulating Dutch's vision of New Orleans' potential, the report offered a remarkably candid assessment of a city struggling to catch the rest of the New South.

Reading the report today, we are struck how some of Dutch Morial's visions for the future faded, while others blossomed, and still others await fulfillment. Dr. Anthony Mumphrey, who today is the master consultant for the $800 million renovation of Louis Armstrong International Airport, served the elder Morial two decades ago as the mayor's executive assistant for planning and development. "New Orleans' fall from glory lasted so long, from the end of the Civil War to the 1970s, that failure, cynicismthe second major industry in the city; now it's No. 1. Then as now, the port boasted favorable but industry-specific statistics. Today, the port's future may depend on the state's selection of a downriver Millennium Port, and tourism's fortunes turn precariously on international events.

In 1981, Two Cities touted the $150 million conversion of "waterfront ugliness" in preparation for the 1984 World's Fair. The Fair was an artistic success and a financial disaster, but it proved to be a major catalyst for the Arts-Museum-Warehouse District and a multi-billion dollar economic engine that now bears the late mayor's name: the Dutch Morial Convention Center. In retrospect, the Fair was a huge success for what it left in its wake, not for what happened during the six months it was open.

Two


Cities saluted developer Lester Kabacoff for building the riverfront Hilton Hotel on the site of old wharves. Today, his son Pres Kabacoff has offered Mid-City the creative conversion of the old American Can Co. factory into a multi-use residential development project. The younger Kabacoff's vision of a Wal-Mart anchoring redevelopment of the St. Thomas project site has proven a tougher sell.

In 1981, Patti Gay, executive director of the Preservation Resource Center, led the effort to rescue 13 architecturally significant structures on Julia Street from the middle of "skid row." That corridor today anchors the arts district. Meanwhile, preservationists battle developments as well as a perception that they obstruct jobs and better housing for the city's poor.

And in 1981, a young zoo director named L. Ronald Forman received recognitionfor leading the rescue of the animals in the Audubon Zoo, which had been "a place of cruelty and neglect." Today, Audubon is one of the finest zoos in the country and the crown jewel of a cluster of Audubon success stories. Redevelopment of the park golf course has hit "sand traps" with some neighbors and park users, however.

Tale of Two Cities shows us that we've come a long way -- and that we still have far to go. Twenty years from now, what will our children say about our best efforts?


Talks between the Chronicle Herald and its striking workers broke off today after union members said the company tabled a position that was worse than the one that prompted them to go on strike in the first place.

The Halifax Typographical Union represents 61 reporters, editors, photographers, columnists and support staff. They walked off the job on Jan. 22, starting a strike at Canada's oldest independently owned newspaper.

Both sides had been meeting with a provincially appointed conciliator. They were making proposals and counter-proposals, but they appear to be at an impasse.

Chief operating officer for the Chronicle Herald Ian Scott said he didn't expect union members to walk away from the table on Wednesday.

"We were actually quite surprised," he said. Scott said the company offered union members "the richest dealA moving burial ceremony in Berlin on Monday reminded us of the high cost of those who stand against evil. Those executed for resisting Adolf Hitler and his monstrous death state suffered the final indignity of secret, anonymous disposal of their bodies. However, the microscopic remains of several hundred of those opposed the Nazis were recently discovered and finally interred, almost 75 years after the failed plot which came closest to killing him.

In July 1944 the catastrophe known as World War II was racing toward its inevitable end. Hitler’s decision to battle much of the known world, most importantly the U.S., Soviet Union, and British Empire, ensured destruction of the Tausendjähriges or Thousand-Year Reich a little early.

However, even after the D-Day landings, creating a three-front war, counting Italy,


Hitler still inspired fanatical loyalty and resistance, dragging Germany and the rest of Europe toward the abyss. Aggression and atrocity, mass murder and genocide, irrevocably stained the German nation’s reputation. The Nazis’ descent to unimaginable depths of depravity gave new meaning to an old word, Holocaust.

Still, there was a German resistance. Good and decent people, but divided, weak, dispirited, horrified, and frustrated. The German military plotted against Hitler early, before the British and French yielded at Munich. There were several unsuccessful assassination attempts against the Führer, some only narrowly missing their target. For instance, in 1943 the detonator failed on a bomb placed on Hitler’s plane when he was returning from the Soviet Union to Germany. The would-be assassin coolly retrieved the defective device before its discovery.

However, “almost”defense ministry building, the Bendlerblock, where Stauffenberg desperately led Operation Valkyrie, now houses the Memorial to the German Resistance; a statue of Stauffenberg stands in the courtyard where he died.

Others were rounded up in the ensuing days and weeks, more than 7,000 in all. Not all were involved in the assassination attempt; many merely suspected of opposing the regime were among the 4,980 known to be executed. A number of resistance leaders were tried before the infamous Volksgerichtshof, or People’s Court, and hung with piano wire. The proceedings were presided over by Roland Friesler — a fanatical Nazi killed, appropriately enough, during a trial the following February by an American air raid. That ended the show trials, but executions continue until the war’s end.

The list of those killed


for their apparent involvement in the July 1944 operation was topped by three field marshals, 19 generals, a government minister, three secretaries of states, the Berlin police chief, and two ambassadors. Among the most famous was theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed just a month before Germany surrendered. Perhaps the most celebrated victim of Hitler’s purge was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the fabled “Desert Fox,” named after his battlefield exploits in North Africa. Historians debate the degree of his involvement, but it was sufficient to force his suicide, forestalling a public trial and punishment of his family. Many lesser known but still gifted, thoughtful, and moral people also sacrificed their lives. Among their professions were architect, lawyer, pastor, farmer, industrialist, diplomat, mayor, priest, journalist, merchant, professor, technician, landowner, and politician.

Admittedly,the bodies to Hermann Stieve, director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy. He used them for research and left no remains.

He died decades ago, his role unknown. However, his heirs recently found tissue samples from some 300 victims that he had preserved and turned them over to Charité research hospital. Only 20 people could be identified, and most families asked that their names not be publicized. However, the descendants of Erika von Brockdorff, executed in 1943 for her involvement in an earlier resistance effort, went public. A plain wooden box containing the remains was buried in Berlin’s Dorotheenstadt cemetery. The grave was placed across from a memorial to the leaders of the July 1944 plot. Charité’s head, Karl Max Einhäupl, observed: “With this, we can give back some


the Trident programme”. MoD employs 159 personnel at the Clyde base, with private contractors Babcock Marine and Lockheed Martin UK Strategic Systems employing 254 and 107 people respectively. The majority of the jobs are for engineering and science specialists.

During a visit to Faslane on 29 October Defence Secretary Philip Hammond claimed that: “The Faslane complex is the largest employment site in Scotland with over 6500 jobs underpinning the local economy”. A further 1500 jobs would be created at Faslane when the Astute and Trafalgar class fleet submarines moved to the base, he said, with even more jobs generated in the local economy as a result of 'multiplier' effects.

About 3,500 of the jobs at the Clyde base are uniformed Royal Navy personnel, 1,700 are contractors and 1,600 are othercivilian employees, most of whom work principally on other aspects of the Navy's submarine programme, rather than Trident. Claims that all these jobs would be lost are based on the unlikely assumption that the Ministry of Defence would close the entire Faslane base immediately.

An expert study into the economic consequences of cancelling Trident commissioned by the Scottish Trades Union Congress and Scottish CND concluded that the total reduction in direct and indirect civilian employment across Scotland if Trident was scrapped would be less than 1800 and that this reduction would not take place until after 2022.

The Scottish National Party has calculated that diverting £1 billion from the Trident replacement programme into infrastructure spending in the west of Scotland would generate around 15,000 jobs.


account of how Polanski took topless photos of her. Gave her Champagne. Split a Quaalude with her. Read how she said, "I was ready to cry … I was going, 'No. Come on. Stop it.' But I was afraid." Read how she says he had intercourse with her, demanding to know if she was on the pill, and how when she said she wasn't, he told her, "Oh, I won't come inside you then," and then he sodomized her. Read how, when asked in her testimony if she "resisted," the then-13-year-old replied, "A little bit, but not really because … because I was afraid of him." And then when you're finished taking all of that in, I'll come back and remind you that the man pleaded guilty tounlawful sex with a minor. He pleaded guilty. Now, who'd like to go back and take a crack at rewriting some headlines?

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Geimer has never fit the popular profile of what we like to call these days a "legitimate rape" victim. And Polanski, with his tragic past and impeccable filmmaking pedigree, doesn't fit comfortably into the role of sex offender. Geimer is now a mother who has spent her life being periodically deluged with reporters outside her house, with invasions into the privacy of her children, and dealing with what her lawyers describe as the "understandable displeasure of her employer" over the continuing scrutiny into her life. She has long pleaded for the charges against Polanski to be dropped so she could attain her own measure of closure —


a move regarded in many circles as something a real victim wouldn't do, a female who isn't, as the late Gore Vidal called her, a "young hooker." Yet in her 2009 court filing, she asked, "This statement makes one more demand, one more request, one more plea: Leave her alone."

Now, her publisher says she says that she hopes her memoir, "The Girl: Emerging From the Shadow of Roman Polanski," will offer "insight into many dimensions of the story." She said in a statement, "I am more than 'Sex Victim Girl,' a tag the media pinned on me. My friends in junior high, scolded by their parents to stay away from that girl, also labeled me. I offer my story now without rage, but with purpose — to sharesmall slice of prairie near the border with Kentucky whose population of about 24,000 is 97 percent white. Having never fully recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, unemployment and poverty plagued the region. Many adults residents had not attained education beyond high school. Unemployment and lack of education are twin indicators of poverty and correlate with poor health outcomes and a lower life expectancy. By the spring of 2015, the health of Scott County was in peril in a brand new way. The county’s rate of new cases of HIV went from roughly five every year to a stunning 200; a full-blown HIV outbreak enveloped this small corner of Indiana.

The outbreak was traced to people sharing syringes used to inject drugs, which the Centers for Disease Control and


Health Justice Now he marshals dozens of similar horrific health calamities that strike impoverished communities to show the uneven distribution of sickness and suffering in America. Aside from demographics, what these 21st century disasters have in common is that they’re all preventable, all unnecessary—an outbreak of hookworm, a parasite that flourishes in humidity and poverty, in Lowndes County, Alabama; housing built on a toxic waste site in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco that was covered up by a Navy contractor; the infamous water crisis in Flint, Michigan, that exposed young black children to lead.

Such crises showcase America’s uniquely abject health compared with other developed nations’. But America is also an outlier in another way: We pay far more per capita on health care than any otheryou'll only need to qualify for a mortgage of 80%.

Help to Buy Scotland is available until 2019 on new build homes in Scotland. The maximum qualifying property value is £230,000 in 2016/17, decreasing to £200,000 in 2017/18 and £175,000 in 2018/19.

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On 10 December 2015, the Welsh Government announced a second phase of Help to Buy (Wales) when the first tranche of funding runs out in 2016. It says the second phase – which will operate under the same criteria as the first – will underpin the building of up to 600,000 new homes in the country.

Under the scheme, first-time buyers and home-movers will need to find a deposit of 5% of the property value. The Welsh Government will then provide an equity loan of a


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    In 1999, a jury convicted Solorio (sometimes referred to
by witnesses and investigators as “Capone”) of first-degree
murder for the March 5, 1998 killing of Vincent Morales
(“Chente”) with the special circumstance that Solorio killed
Chente while lying in wait. The jury also found true the
allegations that Solorio was armed with a handgun during
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the murder, was a principal and that at least one principal
used a handgun, and that he committed murder to benefit a
street gang and carried a firearm during a street gang crime.
Solorio received a sentence of lifewithout parole
consecutive with a ten-year determinate term.

    The following evidence was presented at Solorio’s trial,
as recounted in the California Court of Appeal’s 2001
decision. Solorio, a member of the Vario Greenfas Norte
gang, was friends with Chente, a member of the Las Casitas
gang. Chente was friends with a man named Guillermo Diaz
(known as “Memo”), who was a gang member and worked
at EZ Towing. Memo was acquainted with Solorio. Chente
had warned Memo several times that someone wanted to kill
Memo, apparently because Memo had stopped trafficking
drugs. Memo relayed this information to several people,
including the police.

    Approximately three days before he was murdered,
Chente drove a black Honda to EZ Towing with one or two
others to see Memo. Chente asked Memo to give him the
handgun kept by EZ


a
.38-caliber handgun. The three men then left together in the
black Honda and did not return.

    According to Mario Moya, he and Chente went to
another party the next morning—the day of the murder.
Loredo and Solorio arrived at that party and asked Chente to
leave with them. Chente did so and the three departed in
Solorio’s black Honda at around 1:30 or 2:00 p.m. Chente
was wearing the same clothes as the ones later recovered
from his body, which was found in a ditch on the side of
Highway 152 in Monterey County.

    Rosalie Rivera testified that, on March 6—the day after
the murder—she was in an area known as the “Orchards,”
visiting a man named Gerardo. She saw a green Honda pull
up with Loredo and Solorio inside. The two menremoved a
gasoline can and garbage bag from the car trunk, and set the
bag on fire in a makeshift pit. Rivera witnessed the men
laughing and heard Loredo say: “that fucker’s finally gone.”

   Gerardo apparently knew Loredo and Solorio. Rivera
heard Solorio ask Gerardo if she was a snitch. Rivera later
spoke to her friend, Hector Espinoza, who was a gang
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member. Espinoza told her that some people in a green
Honda had shot Chente, and confirmed that Loredo and
Solorio were responsible for Chente’s death.

    In an interview with police, Solorio contradicted much
of the witness testimony against him. He denied having seen
Chente at the barbeque or at


Cochin International airport, the fourth-largest airport in India in terms of international traffic, now runs entirely on solar power. (Not the planes, though). The move will make the airport completely power neutral, and is a stride towards significantly reducing India's emissions, one of the world's largest polluters.

The nearby solar farm responsible for powering the airport contains 46,150 solar panels. The farm itself covers 180,000 square meters (45 acres) of land. The project took six months to set up and cost $6 million (£3.8 million) to complete. However, this is a cost that the airport is projected to make up in the next five years. Not bad when the solar panels themselves are expected to last 25 years.

These solar panels are predicted to prevent the creation of around 300,000The other side of the dam

With the damming of the rivers has come a great wave of unaccountable administration. Waters are held back without warning, and released without
warning. In both cases, there is little time for the affected communities to react.
Shripad Dharmadhikary
writes.

At a glittering ceremony held in March this year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented the Gold and Silver National Awards to the 1000 MW Indira Sagar Hydroelectric Project of the Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation (NHDC) for early completion of some of the units of the hydropower project. The NDHC, a joint venture of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) and the Government of Madhya Pradesh, was set up in 2000 to undertake the construction of the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar (520 MW) projects on the Narmada river.


Even as the NHDC congratulates itself on 'creating history' with the completion of the two dams in record time, the people of the Narmada valley are loath to join these celebrations.

Why? Consider what happened as the two new projects unfolded.

On 28 June, water levels in the Narmada river in Khargone and Badwani districts fell suddenly and sharply, as the waters were held back in the reservoirs of the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar. Vast sections of the river bed went dry, and at places the river itself became a trickle. As the waters dried up, hundreds of thousands of fish died. Numerous motor-pumps dot the riverbank as farmers living within 5-10 kms on both the sides of the river draw water from it for irrigating their fields. This patchbordering the river is one of the richest agricultural areas in the two districts. As the waters of the river went down, these farmers were literally left high and dry. They rushed in to shift their motors and pumps closer to the river. Towns near the river too mostly depend on it for their water supply, and were also worried.

Then, without warning, waters were released from the Omkareshwar dam, just as they had been held back, without any notice. On the night of 30 June
2007, as most people slept, the waters rose rapidly. Over two thousand motor pump sets that the farmers had with great effort moved to lower levels just two days back, submerged under several feet of water. Nets strung by fisher people in the river


broke or were dragged away by the rising waters. Boats lying on the dry river banks were swept away. In a matter of few hours, the farmers and fisherpeople were faced with losses of lakhs of rupees.

Welcome to the new world of river management - where regulation makes the river unpredictable and erratic - and what are blandly called 'downstream
impacts' of large dams.

Downstream impacts

For years, the people in the Narmada valley have been fighting against the 30 large dams in the Narmada basin. One of the most serious impacts of these dams has been submergence of agricultural lands and displacement of people. Apart from agriculture, the river provides a rich diversity of resources and myriad forms of livelihood. Fishing is one of the most important occupations for thousandsof people in the valley. In several places, the sand brought in continuously by the river from upstream gets deposited on the river bed. This is painstakingly brought out from the river, collected and sold. This sand 'mining' as it is called provides employment to large number of people. Cultivation of the river bank - with watermelons grown on the sandy part closer to the river and other vegetables where the fertile silt is deposited is also an important source of earning for the people.

What is significant is that these activities provide livelihood to mostly landless families. Unfortunately, these and several other occupations are being affected by the dams, and yet, there is no policy to compensate and rehabilitate these families. The tragedy is that often, these families