But there's also a genuine hope that Havertz's prolonged stay and the club's strong improvement under Peter Bosz -- ideally culminating in a top four place -- will convince Brandt to stay one more year at least. He's advised by his father Jurgen Brandt rather than an agent, which could help Bayer's cause.

Given Bundesliga clubs' preference for making deals before the transfer window opens properly, we should expect a couple of announcements, or at the very least a drip a of briefings, in due course. Radio silence, by contrast, should be seen as an indicator that the likelihood for moves abroad is increasing for some of Germany's hottest properties. Foreign teams prefer to come in fairly late and with a bang.a revolt in turn led by Esteban Arze, who was fighting for the Independence of what was formerly Alto Peru, from Spain, leaving the city of Cochabamba barren of any men. Goyeneche decided to return to Cochabamba, one can only suppose to allow his men to enjoy the spoils of a battle with what was left there, the women.

Fiercely determined to defend their children, the women of Cochabamba took up arms and prepared to confront the returning army. Together they formed a united front led by an elderly and blind woman called Manuela Gandarilla. They hiked up to the top of hill San Sebastian, shouting out their war cry:

“Our home is sacred!“

Their fight was fiercely tenacious, despite their age or even disabilities. They fought with the power of


gaze toward the voice, gathered in her hand the blood that had been pouring out of a chest wound, and threw it into the face of the soldier standing in front of her, before he shot her.

As always there are conflicting testimonies as to the details, but the fact that women who were not trained for battle, who were unprepared and outnumbered actually fought a foreign army is undisputed. Bolivia eventually did achieve its independence in 1825. In recognition of the bravery of these women on November 8, 1927 a law was passed declaring May 27th as Mother’s Day as a homage.

A monument was built in memory of them and re enactments of the event are carried out as a proud memory of their resistance against submission andsilver plated or was made elsewhere.

The Town Mark

The next mark to check for is the town mark. This mark identifies where exactly the piece was manufacture red. There are a number of these silver hallmarks, so you may need a reference guide to determine what town the mark on your item represents.

The Duty Mark

The duty mark was only used between 1784 and 1890. It indicated that a duty was paid on the silver. Older items may have the King’s head, indicating that the item was made between 1784 and 1837. When Queen Victoria took the throne, the mark was changed to the Queen’s head. These antique silver hallmarks are useful in determining when a piece was made.

The Date Letter

This letter indicates when the silver piece was made. The


Story highlights Jeb Bush supported the federal Wall Street bailout

He also worked for Barclays, which eventually benefited from $8.5 billion in taxpayer money from the bailout

Those issues could provide fodder for some of his conservative opponents in a presidential primary

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's decision to step down from his advisory role at British bank Barclays at the end of the year became the latest indication he's gearing up to jump into the presidential race — and underscored one of the main liabilities he could face if he does run.

The move, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , comes just days after he announced on Facebook plans to "actively explore" a presidential bid.

Testing the waters early, Bush's supporters say, will give him the opportunity to gauge hissupport and tackle some of the more controversial aspects of his tenure in public office and the private sector.

While Bush is seen as a top GOP establishment pick for the party's nomination, he's expected to face a fierce fight from the conservative wing of his party if he jumps in the race, particularly on immigration, thanks to his previous support for a pathway to citizenship, and Common Core educational standards.

But his record on economic issues and his private-sector experience is certain to spark criticism as well, from both his left and right flanks.

Already he's drawn scrutiny over his business career, with a recent Bloomberg report examining his work in private equity and investment banking and declaring, "Jeb Bush has a Mitt Romney problem."

JUST WATCHED Perry talks Jeb Bush,


known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which initially authorized $700 billion in loans from the U.S. government to the banking sector.

From September through December of 2008, Barclays benefitted from $8.5 billion in taxpayer dollars that were used to bail out failing insurance giant AIG, according to a 2009 report in Politico . A spokeswoman for the governor said, however, he didn't join the firm until March 20, 2009.

But years later, during a 2012 hearing on Capitol Hill, Bush endorsed the bailout.

"For a short-term solution to a problem that had global implication, I think that was probably the right thing to do," he said.

Other potential presidential contenders are on record supporting TARP, including Rep. Paul Ryan, who voted for it, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who signed aletter urging Congress to pass "an economic recovery package," though he later said the letter wasn't an explicit endorsement of TARP itself.

And in 2012, Perry called TARP the "single biggest act of theft in American history."

Sen. Rand Paul, another potential presidential primary opponent, wrote in his book that TARP "represented everything that was wrong with Washington," because of how it was passed.

Perry's scramble to clarify his position on the issue underscores how politically unpalatable it's been with the GOP base. Conservative backlash over TARP and the health care reform law contributed to the 2010 Tea Party wave, and the Wall Street bailout remains a potent issue on both the far-right and far-left flanks of the major parties.

Bush's comments, and his role with the bank as it emerged from


Netflix are purportedly making a Resident Evil TV series and will be using the Resident Evil movie studio to make it.

Claims have surfaced regarding Netflix having a brand new TV series in the works, the news is surrounding a supposed development process has beginning for a Resident Evil TV series.

According to an exclusive report to Deadline, the TV series while nothing has been officially confirmed yet will feature a deep dive into the Resident Evil universe and expanded explanations for prominent parts of the Resident Evil storyline. Examples would include; Umbrella Corp., the T-Virus, the New World Order and much more famous Resident Evil themes.

Deadline's report also claims that the TV series will be produced by the same movie studio who produced the now six Resident Evil movies,and nation of increasing enrollment in programs that offer college classes to high school students.

The state is approaching 30,000 students in Running Start and nationally the programs drew in more than 1 million. Washington State University Tri-Cities in Richland also offers a Running Start program.

The Running Start program has a good record as well.

Three-quarters of the participants who finished high school in 2014 went on to a college or university, compared to just over half of the students who didn’t go into Running Start, a retrospective from the Seattle Times’ Education Lab said.

Holden said the high school students are not treated any differently than the older students. And, according to the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, they often perform better on average than their counterparts.

“Some of


Monday, November 2, 2015

Crossover Cover: Deeper

Captain
Joe Bierden takes a research team, including parapsychologists Jacob
and Mary Parsons, to the town of Golden Cove to embark upon a
month-long diving expedition, only to encounter the Deep Ones and
ghostly pirates. Joe’s wife is from Black Stone Bay. Golden
Cove is allegedly built on the site where Innsmouth, which allegedly
was completely demolished by the FBI in their raid on the town, once
stood. Since Innsmouth is shown as still existing after the events of
Lovecraft’s story in several accounts, this must be
considered fictionalization in order to maintain CU continuity. More likely, Golden Cove is actually a neighboring
town to Innsmouth, since many of its citizens possess “the
Innsmouth look.” Jacob and Mary Parsons first appeared in The
Pack,
the second novel in Moore’s Serenity
Falls Trilogy; the trilogy's protagonist, Jonathan Crowley,time, with rhythm, usually finding the open receiver.’

‘Williams took a hard hit in the 2nd quarter where his knee was rolled on by an opposing player. He was on the field surrounded by trainers who were working on his right knee. He got up and limped noticeably off the field on his own followed by trainers. He wound up going to the locker room and was later ruled out with a knee injury.’

‘In that time in the second quarter and the early third, Allen looked poised and comfortable. Perhaps it was because he got his feet wet in one preseason game already and that he knew what to expect this time around, but he looked as though he was playing with much more confidence.’

‘”The center and snapper got


Hurricane Joaquin Impacts The Bahamas, U.S. East Coast Prepares

According to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), on September 30, Hurricane Joaquin became the “10th named hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season”, and has since strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane (CDEMA). As of October 1, a hurricane warning remains in effect for the islands of the Northwest and Central Bahamas, and a hurricane watch is currently in effect for Bimini and Andros (NEMA Alert #9).

Hurricane Joaquin is located (as of 2000 EDT) approximately 25 miles east-southeast of Clarence Town, Bahamas, with maximum sustained winds at 130 miles per hour (NHC Advisory #16A). According to the forecast, hurricane conditions are expected to continue impacting parts of the Central and Southwestern Bahamas through Friday.

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AKRON, Ohio-- The Akron Police Department released details of its new officer body camera program during an event on Tuesday.

Police Chief Kenneth Ball spoke at the news conference at the Stubbs Justice Center.

He said the department started working to get the cameras following a demonstration at the Norton Police Department in 2013.

"During this process, there were some significant national events that brought further attention and scrutiny of law enforcement throughout the country," Ball said. "So the perspective changed dramatically in that now this was not something that was going to be a burden


and

operate a tribal government headquarters to provide housing, health care, education and other

governmental services to its members, and conduct the economic development necessary to fund

these tribal government programs, provide employment opportunities for its members, and allow

the Tribe to become economically self-sufficient.” A.R. 140383. To further that goal, the

Cowlitz Tribe, currently landless, intends to develop the Parcel to establish 20,000 square feet of

tribal government offices, sixteen elder housing units, a 12,000 square foot tribal cultural center

and a casino-resort complex consisting of 134,150 square feet of game floor; 355,225 square feet

2
        The Federal acknowledgment was first issued in February 2000, but that decision was
reconsidered and reaffirmed on January 4, 2002. 67 Fed. Reg. 607 (Jan. 4, 2002).

      and declaring that gaming would be

allowed on the land. Specifically, the Secretary determined that the Parcel qualified for gaming

under IGRA’s “initial reservation” exception to the general ban on gaming. A.R.140494-518.

The ROD did not discuss whether the Parcel would qualify under IGRA’s “restored lands”

exception.

        Plaintiffs are entities and individuals who, for varying reasons, oppose the construction of

the Cowlitz casino-resort complex. The first action was brought by Plaintiff Confederated Tribes

of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (“Grand Ronde”) which owns and operates a casino

that would compete with any future casino built on the Parcel. The second action was brought

by Clark County, Washington, the City of Vancouver, homeowners and community members in
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          At the time


on Indian Affairs discussed Section

19’s definition of “Indian” 5 during both the April 28, 1934 and May 17, 1934 hearings. A.R.

135115. At the April 28th hearing, Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma expressed concern that

in the past “when an Indian was divested of property and money” he was legally no longer

considered an Indian and, as a result, “numerous Indians have gone from under the supervision

of the Indian Office.” Id. The following colloquy resulted between the Commissioner of Indian

Affairs, John Collier, and Senator Thomas:

        Commissioner:       This bill provides that any Indian who is a member of a recognized
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The first bullet point notes the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 which “recognize[s] that bands

to the south of the Colombia River have a legitimate claim to lands on the north shore of the

River.” The next bullet point observes that “Grand Ronde’s tribal members are buried at Fort

Vancouver on the north side of the Columbia River in Washington.” Id. The last bullet point

states that “Grand Ronde considers Clark County, Washington part of its ‘Non-Treaty

Homelands’ and ‘Cultural Interest Lands.’” Id.

       The second


sad thing to see someone violate the trust placed in him as Sheriff over so small an amount of money,” said G.F. Peterman, III, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.

Rathel resigned as Sheriff after charges were brought against him.

By: WCTV Eyewitness News

April 19, 2017

COLQUITT, Ga. (WCTV) -- Wesley Shane Rathel, the former sheriff of Miller County, has been arrested, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation reports.

The GBI says Rathel was arrested Wednesday on one count of felony violation of oath of office and sixteen counts of felony theft by taking.

Officials say warrants were issued as a result of an ongoing investigation after new information led agents to discover the theft of monies in various areas associated with the Miller County Sheriff’s Office.

Rathel turned himself inon Wednesday and was booked in to the Miller County Jail.

Rathel had also been

for selling two stolen firearms.

The GBI says the investigation is active and ongoing.

The GBI and the Miller County Sheriff’s Office is encouraging anyone with information to contact the GBI Region 9 office at (229) 225-4090, or the Miller County Sheriff’s Office at (229) 758-3421.


Pending home sales continued to decline in December, indicating a slow start for 2014 California housing market, C.A.R. reports

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Pending home sales data:

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A sharp fall in international aid reaching the Palestinian territories due in part to Israel's occupation is worsening humanitarian and economic crises in Gaza and the West Bank, the UN's development agency said Tuesday.

The agency also said a spike in Israeli settlement building and confiscations of Palestinian land, water and other resources were keeping poverty and joblessness at intolerable levels.

In a report, the agency said international donor support for Palestinian territories fell by 38 percent between 2014 and 2016, "due in part to the fact that occupation (has prevented) previous aid flows from translating into tangible development gains."

Israel has fought three devastating wars since 2008 against the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in charge of the Gaza strip.

Israel has maintained a decade-long blockade on the coastal


enclave which it says is necessary to prevent arms and materials reaching Hamas militants.

UN chief Antonio Guterres visited Gaza in July and called the blockade "one of the most dramatic humanitarian crises" he had seen.

In its annual report two years ago, the UN agency warned that the situation was so dire that the Gaza Strip could become uninhabitable by 2020 without drastic action to rebuild the area ravaged by wars.

But rather than improvements, "the humanitarian and economic situation has instead worsened since then", Tuesday's report said.

Denouncing a "protracted, unprecedented level of human suffering in Gaza", it said that 80 percent of Gaza's population currently receives humanitarian aid, while half of inhabitants do not know where their next meal is coming from.

- Settlement boom -

Palestinians have for the past50 years of occupation faced "suppressed human potential, ... (leaving the) economy incapable of employing one-third of its workforce," the report said.

Lacking access to land and water, as well as an import ban on suitable fertilisers and other restrictions, for instance helped shrink agricultural output in the West Bank by 11 percent between 2015 and 2016.

"The fact that today, real GDP per capita in the (West Bank) is at the same level as in 1999 is a clear indication of the human cost and lost economic potential resulting from the occupation," the report said.

The per capita gross domestic product in Gaza, meanwhile, had shrunk by nearly a quarter since 1994.

Unemployment, especially among young people, was particularly concerning, the report said.

Despite international demands for Israel to halt its settlement


activity, Tuesday's report said that the country had sped up development this year, following a 40 percent hike in 2016 over 2015.

"In recent years, population growth in settlements has not only surpassed population growth in Israel but also that of the Palestinian population," it said.

Since 1995, the settler population has more than doubled to between 600,000 and 750,000 people, it said.

The overall jobless rate stood at 27 percent in the West Bank and at 42 percent in Gaza last year.

For young people aged 15 to 29, the official unemployment rate is 27 percent in the West Bank and 56 percent in Gaza -- the highest rate in the region.

And even those figures do not tell the full story, since they do not include the nearly 60 percent ofPennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner has called upon the General Assembly to enact legislation requiring the 750 known tattoo parlors in the state to be licensed and regulated by the state Health Department.

Mr. Wagner on Tuesday sent a five-page letter to Acting Health Secretary Michael Wolf, Gov. Tom Corbett, state legislators and Commonwealth Secretary Carol Aichele calling for a law that would also require tattoo parlors to be inspected for safety and sanitation standards by the Health Department.

He suggested the law should require minimum training for tattoo artists, possibly including an apprenticeship; certification of training in blood-borne pathogens, first aid and CPR; adequate liability insurance; and the issuance of fines for artists who operate illegally.

"Licensing of this industry and the establishment of minimum safety standards is in the


movie to promote so he will likely be gone for a while.

On the WWE App, Tom Phillips caught up with Batista who said he was sick of empty promises and has received nothing he was promised since his return.

The match ended with Cesaro’s manager, Paul Heyman, taking Cesaro backstage when it looked like his team was going to lose. Sheamus picks up the win on Barrett after a Brogue Kick.

On the WWE App, Damien Sandow was in an Indiana Pacers jersey and said he was going to address the state of his team.

Sandow came out under the name “Lance Stephenson”…what the? Anyway, he was mocking the Pacers when Big Show came out. He gave Show the ball and dared him to try to score. Show threw the ballinto Sandow’s stomach, gave him a WMD, then took the ball back and put it through the hoop.

On the WWE App, Kofi Kingston said Stephanie McMahon sent Kane to attack him last night at Payback due to opinions he expressed over her treatment of Daniel Bryan.

Next was another attempt at a match between Bo Dallas and Kofi Kingston. Dallas picked up the win with a “bo-dog” (think bulldog).

Backstage, Renee Young talked to Stephanie McMahon who said she was about to go to the ring and make a big announcement as it relates to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

On the WWE App, we were taken back to WrestleMania IV in Indianapolis when Andre the Giant beat Hulk Hogan for the WWE World Heavyweight Title only to try to relinquish


100 percent and that he has a match later in the evening against Roman Reigns.

On the WWE App, Nikki Bella was giving an interview about what it was like backstage for her without her sister there when she was interrupted by Stephanie McMahon who told her her match has been changed to a handicap match against Aksana and Alicia Fox.

The next match is Los Matadores vs. 3MB. Los Matadores picked up the win.

Next was the Divas handicap match. Alicia Fox picked up the win with what was supposed to be a scissors kick.

Next is Jack Swagger vs. Adam Rose. For some reason, Adam Rose got the win with the Party Foul. Sorry guys. Not a fan.

Next was an awesome match between The Wyatt Family, minus Bray Wyatt, againstallowing Eva Marie to get the win.

On the WWE App it was said that the next match is Drew Mcintyre vs….El Torito? Seriously?

Back on TV and it was indeed Drew Mcintyre vs. El Torito and it was a bit ridiculous. Thankfully it was over quickly and El Torito got the win. He was attacked by Hornswoggle after the match and he actually pulled El Torito’s tail off.

Back on TV, Bray Wyatt went on about John Cena but then called out Jerry Lawler and sent Harper and Rowan to get him. When JBL tried to defend him, he was attacked by Wyatt’s goons and they then dragged Lawler into the ring. Bray Wyatt tried to put the blame for what he sees as John Cena’s evils on Lawler because


egocentric jerk. I loved it. He was dressed up like Davey Crockett and told off what was likely a production assistant.

Back on TV, Stephanie called out Daniel Bryan, who came out in a neck brace. He vehemently said that he was not going to give up his titles. Stephanie then showed Bryan what he didn’t see a few weeks ago; video of his wife, Brie Bella, shoving Stephanie as he was being put into an ambulance. She said that at Payback, he either vacates the titles, or Brie is fired.

Next was a match that was essentially a break ; Alicia Fox vs. Emma. I do not take Alicia Fox seriously at all, or this push. Emma picked up the win so Alicia had another tantrum over it. Itreminded Sheamus that it would be he vs. Cesaro at Payback.

Back from break, it was the contact signing between The Shield and Evolution. The Shield came down and said the idea of a contract signing is stupid, tore the ring up and started to sign it when Evolution came out. Triple H said that he found this sad as he remembered when he first signed The Shield and thought they were going to change the world. If they signed that contract and agreed to face Evolution, that would be the last time anyone would ever see them. He asked them one last time if they wanted to sign it. All three members of The Shield signed, threw the contract on the ground where Evolution was standing, then they


in His Hands” and the lights when down. When they came back up, there was a whole children’s choir singing. Led by The Wyatts, they made their way down and surrounded the ring. The lights went down again and when they came back up, all of the children in the choir were wearing the sheep masks. Creepy.

During the break on the WWE App, Michael Cole interviewed Paige about winning the WWE Diva’s title on the day after Wrestlemania XXX.

The first match of the evening is between The Usos and Rybaxel, for the Usos’ WWE tag team titles. During the break on the WWE App, Jey Usos hurt his leg. Jimmy was taking a beating while a doctor was tending to Jey outside. Jey got a second wind andCesaro got the win on Swagger when Heyman attacked Colter causing the distraction.

On the WWE App, Saxton interview the Rhodes Brothers.

Next, Cody Rhodes took on Alberto Del Rio. Del Rio picked up the win with his cross arm breaker. After the match, Rhodes again shoved Goldust who tried to help him on the way back to the back.

On the WWE App, Layla talked about what happened to Fandango last week.

Back on TV, Alexander Rusev took on Xavier Woods, who was disqualified when R-Truth got involved. This whole match was selling the handicap match between R-Truth and Xavier Woods vs. Rusev at Extreme Rules.

Backstage, Renee Young interviewed RVD talked about his match against Bad News Barrett to become number one contender for the Intercontential Title.

Next was 3MB vs. Los


Matadores. Heath Slater picked up the win.

Stephanie McMahon came out and attempted to apologize to Daniel Bryan, but he was not having it. Stephanie tried to apologize by giving his new wife a shot at the Divas title against champion Paige.

After that, we went back to the shot of Kane’s mask backstage, which we learned during Stephanie’s apology, was in her office. However this time, his mask was gone.

On the WWE App, they replayed the interview with Paige from earlier tonight.

During the match, Bryan was always watching the ramp area. And he was wise to because eventually Kane’s pyro hit and his music started. But Bryan’s attention was in the wrong place as Kane came out fom under the ring and and tried to take Brie down. Withsome help from Daniel Bryan, a wrench and some well-placed kicks, she managed to get away.

On the WWE App, Zack Ryder reminisced about some of his times against Kane.

Back on TV, Stephanie went back to the doctor’s office, almost crying, to check on Daniel and Brie. Stephanie was blubbering out apologies, unsure of what to say. Brie insulted her with strong language and told her to get out. Stephanie apologized one more time and left.

Backstage, Colter approached RVD to present an alliance against Heyman. Van Dam said thanks but no thanks.

Backstage Cena was interviewed by Renee Young and seemed to have bounced back from his earlier mood.

Next is Barrett vs. RVD for the No. 1 contendership to the IC title.

On the WWE App, Renee Young interviewed Big E


gets the win with the Bullhammer.

Next it was announced that Cena will face either Luke Harper, Harper and Erick Rowan or all three of the Wyatts. It will be decided via a WWE App vote. Bray gave a speech to rile people up to vote a certain way.

Next is 3MB (Drew McInytre, Jinder Mahal and Hornswoggle) vs. Los Matadores and El Torito. Los Matadores and El Torito get the win.

Backstage, Evolution arrived in a limo.

On the WWE App Dolph Ziggler addressed Damien Sandow calling him a leech and saying he rides on others coattails.

After the commercial, Evolution made their way to the ring. After a video showing Evolution was shown, The Shield came down and Evolution split. Dean Ambrose said they were not humbled and that it wasgoing to be war, in two weeks, at Extreme Rules. The Shield made their way up to the stage to attack Evolution when all of the same guys from last came out and got in between them. Needless to say, The Shield did not get their hands on the COO.

Next is The Usos vs. The Rhodes Brothers, who were interviewed by Byron Saxton on the WWE App. Rybaxel were, sadly, on commentary. With that I was hoping it’d be a short match. Eventually The Usos got the win and an upset Cody Rhodes shoved his brother Goldust away from him in frustration after he was pinned.

On the WWE App, Saxton interviewed Emma who is taking on Layla back on the USA Network. Emma actually got the win by


“Bray Wyatt cut a promo.” Cena then came out and did some pretty funny stuff to his credit and a match was made. Bray Wyatt vs. John Cena in a steel cage at Extreme Rules.

On the WWE App there was an unusual interview where Fandango said his new girlfriend, Layla, smells like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Umm…k.

Back on TV was the aforementioned mixed gender match. Layla got the win when she slammed Emma onto the mat from the top rope and got the pin.

After that, Stephanie was reading Kane the riot act. She was trying to work him up to being the Big Red Machine again. She should have smacked him!!! Anyway, he got worked up and almost hit her, but she smiled. She was working him up andit worked! He grabbed his mask, said he was going to eviscerate Daniel Bryan and walked off. LOVED IT!

Next is Dolph Ziggler vs. Bad News Barrett. We saw a bit of this match on the WWE App during the break but it was ultimately Barrett who got the win. Great match overall, though.

The final match of the night was The Shield against…well we didn’t know at this point. First, out came Alberto Del Rio, then Jack Swagger and finally Fandango. Wait, then there was 3MB, Titus O’Neil, Rybaxel, Alexander Rusev, Bad News Barrett…and then finally they all stormed the ring. The problem is they were all afraid, at first, to get even on the apron. Once they did, The Shield smartly retreated into their corner. It started out


as Heath Slater against Roman Reigns. 11 on three. Wow!

The match ended when, shockingly, Roman Reigns speared someone on the opposite team when he was not the legal man. The match ended in this huge in ring brawl that left The Shield layed out in the middle of the ring. With that, Randy Orton, Triple H and Batista came out to the Evolution music as the 11 men in the ring cleared out leaving just The Shield in the ring, still down. Roman Reigns tried to attack Triple H as he beat on Seth Rollins, but frankly, he didn’t get the opportunity to get that spear, power bomb…or any other of his three moves of doom. We went to black with Evolution standing triumphantly in the ring.

Daniel Bryanwas not on this week’s show due to his honeymoon with Brie Bella. With Kane’s apparent change, and also, just because it’s the return of Daniel Bryan frankly, I expect it should be a heck of a show.

]]>I was busy doing stuff late Tuesday and I got stopped in my tracks. A WWE press release popped up in my email announcing that Ultimate Warrior died.

Warrior, who recently returned to WWE, had a new DVD about his career produced, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on Saturday, appeared at WrestleMania XXX, and spoke just Monday on Raw.

After years of fighting, years of hard feelings, and years of doubt that Warrior would ever again step into a WWE ring again, he did. He got to talk to many


of the people he had problems with in the past, including Vince McMahon, and got the chance to address all his fans one last time.

Warrior, whose birth name was James Hellwig, but who changed his name legally to Warrior for copyright reasons, was 54 and is survived by his wife Dana and his two daughters, who sat in the front row at Warrior’s Hall of Fame induction.

“WWE is shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the passing of one of the most iconic WWE Superstars ever, The Ultimate Warrior,” WWE said in a statement. “Warrior began his WWE career in 1987 and quickly went on to become one of the biggest stars in WWE history. Warrior became WWE Champion at WrestleMania VI, defeating Hulk Hogan in an epicthe cracks in Spain's economic policy began to become apparent. There is a similar trend in the North of Italy, the economically stronger part of Italy -- the Northern League has long agitated for some form of independence.

As for Wales, forget it. As long as we are at the bottom of just about every economic indicator in the UK it will never happen. And can you honestly say with your hand on your heart that Leanne's economic policies will make us even a little bit richer?

I take a longer view of history. Nothing lasts for ever. The rationale for the UK, or 'Greater England' has been and is diminishing. It's a fragile entity. The arguments for retaining the Union (as put forward by Darling et al) are mainly


negative. The constant attacks on Salmond and the SNP, the jubilee, the Olympics, England's Euro 2012 hype, are signs of just how fragile things are perceived to be.

The Union hasn't and isn't working for Wales, which is getting ever poorer relatively. The next step for the anglo-centric Tories is regional pay, benefits and pensions, which will confirm Wales' true status even to the thickest of Labour skulls this side of Offa's Dyke.

With such regional differentiation the rationale for retaining the unequal Union will diminish further. The timescale of the break-up is well nigh impossible to calculate, but no more than twenty or twenty five years at the outside.

Further austerity, which is inevitable, plus more revelations about the moral, political and financial incompetence and corruption in London could hastenit whilst retaining the same political class which harks back to the Great Patriotic War (WW2), class jingoism and fear of the indigenous language.

There are other aspects to Catalan nationalism as well particularly Franco's rule and the statute of autonomy they attained after his death. Wales has had a completely different history, even accepting the obvious points about economics. Catalonia's economic prowess was also at least partly attained under Spanish rule.

It's also misleading to discuss "Leanne's economic policies" (what, you mean, Plaid's?) in such a negative way. Wales' economy has been largely governed by the Tories and Labour. Despite some well-meaning people being involved (Peter Walker) nobody has ever managed to fulfil the Welsh economy's potential, and a significant slice of our population are still affected by the


been declared independent in the past, in 1931 and 1934, was as part of an Iberian Federation, and later under ERC's Lluis Companys (later executed by fascist Spain to whom he was turned over by the Vichy French) as a Catalan State within a wider Spanish Federal Republic. Any development of independence in Wales has to also give a firm view of how the rest of the island ought to be organised. Scotland is starting to do this in terms of its monetary union with the rUK. But even in a monetary union Scotland will still have achieved the right to no longer be overruled or abolished by Westminster. We must redistribute sovereignty across this island.

The Basques pretty much stuck to manufacturing and never lost their industrial baseTo contact the store pleasec all the Nike Store phone number provided above. Nike is a major clothing, footwear, sportswear, and equipment supplier based in the USA. The company head office is in Oregon, and Nike is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel with annual revenue in excess of US$18.6 billion and employing over 30,000 people around the world. The brand is the most valuable brand among sports businesses in the world and the company was founded in 1964, originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports and became Nike on May 30, 1978. The company name has Greek origins - Greek ÃŽÃŽ¯ÃŽºÃŽ·, the Greek goddess of victory. Nike markets its products under its own brand as well as through subsidiaries like Umbro and Converse. The company


Glasgow for the 2013 European Cheerleading Championships, and the event is set to be a major boost for clubs all over Britain. As a proud supporter of the UK Cheerleading Association, and the sport in general, we’re…

There’s some great news for the estimated four million people in the UK who enjoy the sport of angling in the streams, rivers and sea around Britain. As one of the UK’s leading specialist sports insurance experts, we help lots of anglers stay protected while they are enjoying their favourite sport. And thanks to a…

It was the biggest event of the year and had sports lovers all over the world glued to their televisions. The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were meant to inspire a generation, and now Olympic legacy fundingElliott retires from all forms of cricket

Allrounder Grant Elliott, who starred in New Zealand's historic win in the 2015 World Cup semi-final, has quit all forms of cricket after finishing his stint as the captain of Birmingham Bears in the Vitality Blast in England. After finishing sixth in the North Group in the T20 tournament and not being able to qualify for the quarter-finals, Elliott announced his retirement on his Instagram account on Tuesday evening.

"Started in Johannesburg finished in Birmingham," his post read. "I remember being 12 and writing down my life goals. To play in a World Cup, play international cricket and play county cricket. 27 years on and I have loved every minute of it. Thanks to all the memorable people I have met that have


T20 tournament only. He had earlier retired from ODIs in 2016, two days after New Zealand were knocked out of the World T20 by England in the semi-final.

He continued as a T20 specialist to represent Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League, Chittagong Vikings in the Bangladesh Premier League, Wellington in New Zealand's domestic T20s (Super Smash), and was part of the World XI squad that toured Pakistan almost a year ago for three T20 internationals.

Born in Johannesburg, Elliott began his first-class career more than 20 years ago, in South Africa in 1996-97. He then moved to New Zealand in 2001 in search of new challenges and made his international debut for New Zealand in 2008. He played five Tests, 83 ODIs and 17 T20Is. His six offColts coach Chuck Pagano hugs receiver T.Y. Hilton after Hilton scored the winning touchdown on an Andrew Luck pass in the fourth quarter for a 45-44 win. The Indianapolis Colts hosted the Kansas City Chiefs at Lucas Oil Stadium Saturday, January 4, 2014.

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Colts coach Chuck Pagano and his wife, Tina, will team with Olivia Newton-John in a cancer awareness event as part of the May 3 OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon.

The "Pink and Blue for Two'' (PB42) walk is aimed at promoting and raising awareness for the similarities between breast and prostrate cancer, urging couples to do their annual screenings and educate people on the importance of overall all mind, body and spirit wellness.

Chuck Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia Sept. 26, 2012 after Tina urged him to seek


At first, Alex Muyl didn’t think that Sophia cared much for him. Now, the New York Red Bulls midfielder not only has a biggest fan, but he has an inspiration every time he steps on the field. It is a relationship that has helped spur Muyl’s scintillating performances in recent weeks, undoubtedly the best of his MLS career.

On Sunday night, Muyl scored the first goal and beautifully assisted another in the second half to key the Red Bulls’ 3-0 win over the Columbus Crew. With the win, New York advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, where they will face Atlanta United. In Muyl, the Red Bulls have a player who is defying the narrative about him in the biggest moments of the season.

That change began around the timefamily. She also gave him a T-shirt that features a picture of her to remind him of her.

Muyl has worn the shirt before every home game (players are required to wear club polos before away matches, but they can wear what they want at home) since he received it. In a total of seven matches (including Sunday), Muyl has two goals and two assists since receiving Sophia’s gift. In nearly every match, he’s been one of the team’s most dynamic players in the midfield, and has shown a real creative flair down the wing.

Shortly after he entered MLS in 2016 and worked his way into the Red Bulls’ rotation on the wings, Muyl was labeled by fans and the media as nothing more than an effort player—someone who


toughness.

Credit to where it's due: Alex Muyl had the opener (thanks to the smallest of touches)! pic.twitter.com/WDnY0mH03x — New York Red Bulls (@NewYorkRedBulls) November 12, 2018

His second half assist, officially acknowledged by the league as a secondary assist, came after he danced atop the penalty area and turned, nearly taking a shot before finding Tyler Adams open inside the box. Adams then fed Daniel Royer for a 2-0 Red Bulls lead. This is Muyl the attacker, a side that has only come out in recent weeks.

Muyl has made six consecutive starts for the Red Bulls, his growing confidence on the ball a reason why this team streaked down the end of the regular season and lifted the Supporters’ Shield. It is a string of showings that head coachto work in the wine business. Her family going back generations is filled with grape growers and vineyard operators, both here and in France. In addition, her father, a builder who… READ MORE

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Maurice J. Speiser

Maurice J. Speiser (1880-1948) was a young attorney in Philadelphia when he first encountered the stirrings of modernism. During regular trips to Europe in the 1920's, Speiser met Ezra Pound, Hemingway, and others. With his wife Martha Glazer Speiser, he was a patron of music and the theatre, a discerning collector of art, and a friend to many significant writers. During the 1930's, in addition to general legal practice, Speiser developed a special interest in the legal business of artists and writers.

When Constantin Brancusi's sculpture "Bird in Flight" was brought into the United States, the collector of customs ruled that it was not a work of art (duty free under paragraph 1704 of the 1922 tariff act), but a "manufacture of metal," assessed at 40% ofaddendum on recent decisions argues that "modern jurisprudence has not afforded the protection to the interests of performers that it has to those of authors." Homburg's book was originally published in Paris as Le droit d'intérpretation des acteurs et des artistes executants.

The Speiser Hemingway scrapbooks
"Pair of Authors Go To Mat Over Hair on Chest. Hemingway and Eastman Stage One-Round Battle in Scribners Sons' Office," New York Herald Tribune, August 14, 1937.

With associated stories from New York Times,Philadelphia Record, and Philadelphia Inquirer. The Speisers kept clippings from Hemingway's press appearances, filling four volumes.

Maurice J. Speiser and contemporary musicians

Speiser's papers include letters from George Antheil (1900-1959), Aaron Copland (1900-1990, including a 1941 letter about music for the film of For Whom the Bell Tolls), George Gershwin (1898-1937), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951),


(1887-1985), Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), and Edward Steichen (1879-1973). There are several letters from Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), including one with a receipt acknowledging payment for two bronze heads, and one from Brancusi and Martha Speiser written in pencil on a menu from the Restaurant du Pavillon Roumain, at the Paris International Exposition of 1937. The inside of the menu is decorated by Brancusi with notes and drawings.

Raymond A. Speiser

One gauge of Hemingway's position in literature is that he was a collected author from the inception of his career. The Paris publications that preceded his first American book have a high survival rate because of his early-won reputation as a comer. The bibliographical material bearing on the publication of his work over four decades is abundant because collectors and bibliophilesFIRESTONE -- When her 27-year-old daughter died unexpectedly two years ago, Chris Thurnau's heart broke.

Now, she says, she is putting the pieces back together with wax.

Shortly after her daughter, Katrina Fair, died of colon cancer in August of 2011, Thurnau read that that natural light can be seen by those on "the other side." Thurnau began making candles about five months later.

"It was a way for me to feel connected to her so I started making my own candles and experimenting with different wicks to find the brightest light," Thurnau said. "The candles have become about strength, hope, peace and honoring her life, and mine too."

On Saturday, Thurnau will be selling her line of Katrina's Candles at the second annual Full Moon 5K in Firestone, a fundraiser for


the Longmont United Hospital Foundation, which provides colon cancer screenings and support groups.

The 5K race starts at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, and is followed by a fun run at 9:30 a.m., at the Firestone Regional Sports Complex in Firestone. Live music, family activities and local vendors will be at the complex until 2 p.m.

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Longmont residents Shane and Breann Angelovich founded the race last year after Shane's mother, Sindy Angelovich, was diagnosed with colon cancer.

"It was a way for me to feel like I was doing something productive when I felt helpless," Shane Angelovich said. "I wanted to give my mom, and other people like her, a stage to tell her story."

Katrina's family, including her parents Chris and Gary Thurnau and her husband, Josh Fair, will be at the raceto tell her story.

A photo of Katrina and Josh Fair is seen on a counter Wednesday at Katrina's parents home in Evergreen.
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In January 2011, Firestone residents Katrina and Josh Fair found out they were expecting a baby. The next eight months were hard for Katrina, who was constantly sick and in and out of the hospital for what doctors then believed was a difficult pregnancy, Fair said.

"I remember her telling the doctors that she had a history of colon cancer on her dad's side early on when we were going through all of that stuff, but at that point the doctors just told her to consider getting tested after she had the baby," Fair said. "We didn't even know she had cancer until it showed up


on the autopsy about two days after she died."

Katrina was about 81/2 months pregnant when she passed out at home on Aug. 16, 2011. Despite efforts to revive her, Katrina and her baby died in a helicopter on the way to the hospital, Fair said.

Last year, the family did not participate in the inaugural Full Moon 5K, but the couple's former neighbor did. A young girl who lived two houses down from the Fairs in Firestone attended the event wearing a tank top that said "in memory of Katrina Fair."

"I have that tank top framed and hanging in my house," said Fair, who is currently working in Washington, D.C.

This year, Fair will fly back to Colorado to join several friends and family members who will form Team KatrinaThe Wool Testing Authority in Napier tests bales of wool for fibre length, colour, micron, moisture and vegetable matter so that buyers know exactly what they're buying. The testing lets them predict how that particular bale of wool will perform once it's scoured and ready for the next stage of processing. The WTA also tests other textiles such as hi viz material to see it meets NZ codes of compliance.

The Mary River in the Northern Territory is one of the most croc-populated waterways in the world. It's also the boundary for Annaburroo Station, and that causes big problems for Adrian Phillips who estimates he loses more than a 100 head of cattle each year in crocodile attacks. From ABC reporter Lisa Herbert.

Hawkes Bay apple growers are flat out


harvesting Royal Gala, which account for about 40 percent of regions apple crop. Plums are being picked and apple and pear harvesting is due to start soon in Central Otago.

Our guest today is the co-founder of the New Zealand vanilla company Heilala Vanilla, John Ross. He's in Tonga at present where they have around 40 vanilla farmers producing for them on the island of 'Eua which was right on the path of Cyclone Gita this week. They have other farms on Vava'u which escaped damage. John's on Vava'u and he hasn't been to Eua yet, but says he can guess what it looks like because he's seen cyclone

Jason and Trisha Delamore purchased Lavender Hill, a three hectare property 30 minutes north west of Auckland city, two years ago.It is a commercial enterprise with lavender plants, a lavender still, 400 olive trees, 200 lemon trees, alpacas and a B and B. They also host hundreds of overseas tourists during the lavender growing season. They've developed a Limoncello and lavender-infused gin. This is a couple who don't appear to sleep.

Last year we had a musing penned by Neville Martin. He was the Dairy Board's spokesman for many years, and he was talking about growing kohlrabi in the days well well before it was fashionable. After going to the effort of growing it, his father deemed it unfit for eating. Today he's grazing over various farming terms that he picked up as a young child during many farm visits.

Phil Tregidga's family pioneered hydroponic growing in New Zealand. Almost


four decades later he's still using the hydroponic system to grow all manner of herbs and vegetables with his wife Jenny and new boss, their daughter Liz.

Our guest this week is the chief executive of New Zealand Apples and Pears, Alan Pollard. He's in Berlin, Germany at present attending a massive fresh produce trade show called Fruit Logistica. Over sixty thousand people attend the event. It's a very important show because it's the time when exporters set up their programmes into Europe for the coming season. Alan is there with New Zealand apple exporters

American Miniature Mediterranean donkeys were introduced to New Zealand 17 years ago. The little, very expensive donkeys can all be traced back to the island of Sardinia and range in size from 76cm to 90cmtall.

East Coast cropping farmers are flat out. Sweetcorn is coming to an end, the first shipment of squash has left for Japan and brassica crops are maturing quickly. A storm on the West Coast has damaged crops, brought down trees and left a farmer in Hokitika without power in his milking shed.

Heirloom tomatoes can be gnarly, luscious, beautiful and extremely difficult to grow. Angela and Anthony Tringham like to grow 'show off' tomatoes. They persevere with about 40 varieties in their greenhouses near Clevedon, south-east of Auckland.

Spring Collective is a co-operatively run organic market garden. A year ago Penny Sewell, Dominique Schacherer and Logan Kerr pooled their resources, secured an eight hectare block in Leeston and started growing vegetables. Now they employ three full-time staff and are looking


I. Background

     The Wichita Police Department launched a drug investigation after a

confidential informant reported that an occupant of a residence in Wichita,

Kansas, was selling crack cocaine from the home.

      Officers conducted three searches of a trash can sitting on the street in front

of the residence. The first search revealed a small quantity of marijuana and three

letters addressed to the home. The second revealed more marijuana. The third

search revealed two corners of plastic sandwich bags, containing white residue,

which later tested positive for cocaine. The search also discovered eleven other

plastic bags with torn corners. Officers concurrently conducted surveillance on

the home, and noted multiple instances in which individuals arrived at the home,

entered, and left quickly.

      Based onentered the home, they located a Beretta .380-caliber semi-

automatic pistol on one of the couches in the living room. On a coffee table

directly in front of that couch, officers found more torn plastic baggies and a

plastic bag containing crack cocaine. On another couch, officers found a cigarette

box, which contained two plastic bags. The smaller bag contained white powder

that tested positive for cocaine; the larger contained “rocks” later confirmed to be

crack cocaine. Both the bag on the table and the cigarette box were within ten

feet of the pistol. Officers also located cocaine in a plastic container on a shelf in

the hallway, also within ten feet of the gun. Becknell’s right middle fingerprint

was lifted from the container.

      Officers located two other firearms in the home—an


SKS rifle and a Smith

and Wesson .357 revolver. Testimony at trial established that all three firearms

traveled in interstate commerce to arrive in Kansas.

      At trial, government witnesses testified that much of the cocaine was

distribution-quantity. They further testified that, despite the cocaine and cocaine

packaging seized, officers found no cocaine use paraphernalia in the home.

Witnesses also testified that bags with torn corners—like the ones located in the

                                          -3-
third search—often evince cocaine distribution because of how crack cocaine is

sold. Additionally, officers testified at trial thatdominion

(although not exclusive dominion) over the residence. Officers found many

letters addressed to him inside, and he owned a pair of keys. He also identified

and claimed ownership of guns discovered in the house. Second, the government

provided sufficient evidence connecting Becknell to the contraband. Officers

found crack cocaine, with accompanying plastic baggies, on a table directly in

front of the couch where Becknell’s loaded Beretta sat. Officers found other bags

of cocaine in the same room as—and within ten feet of—the Beretta. They also

discovered Becknell’s fingerprints on a plastic container holding cocaine.

      To be sure, less evidence supports intent to distribute. Becknell admits

living at the house, so officers understandably found his fingerprints on the

premises. The baggies and other packaging were arguably just as consistent with

cocaine use as cocaine


Professor Langdon
Hammer: Last Wednesday,
talking about the poetry of
World War I, we were talking
about poems written in the
period 1914 to 1918,
pretty much the period of the
First World War.
This is a period that we've
already had a certain amount to
say about.
It is the period in which Frost
starts writing,
publishes A Boy's Will
in London and then North of
Boston in 1915.
It's the same period in which
Yeats's work undergoes its
important stylistic shift in
development in the volume called
Responsibilities and
other books from the teens
exemplified in that little poem
"A Coat."
It is a period in which,
in London itself,
are gathered Frost,
Yeats, Pound and Eliot – all
poets we'll study – not simply
gathered but interacting,
talking to each other,
reading each other's work and
giving each other ideas and
criticism.
Another figure in this milieu
and of this moment is the poet
H.D.
Here, she is in a photo from
1915uses,
"image," or,
as he would later call it,
"ideogram," borrowing from his
ideas about Chinese writing.

The key to this poem,
as to other Poundian poems,
is syntax.
Syntax is the temporal ordering
of language, the ordering of a
sentence's unfolding and
consequently the definition of
its elements and the
relationships among them.

Pound has here a kind of
abbreviated parataxis,
that is, a syntax of series.

Here, only two elements are in
that series.
The series is joined by an
"and," usually.
But here there is no "and."

Here, the syntax is compressed
in the service of rendering what
is, in effect,
a new kind of perception:
a perception that is modern,
urban, of the crowd,
momentary;
but also, as Pound conceives
it, timeless,
pointing us allusively to
historical and cultural
overlays.
We're in Paris,
but this literary form draws on
Japanese verse models and
Japanese pictorial aesthetics.
The time is now,
the present,
"these faces."
This is self-consciously an
image or picture of


the Blackwall Tunnel, the trams and the A102M road as well as two local authority depots. There is no mention of housing schemes and community buildings – apart from three pubs of particular interest.

Greenwich marsh has been owned mainly by charities since the seventeenth century. It is valuable land and has been exploited for commerce. These charities saw the investment potential of sites near the capital city and with excellent access to the River and trade routes.

From around 1800 riverside areas of the marsh were developed and industry moved in at a rapidly increasing pace until around the time of the Overend Gurney banking crash of 1866. From the 1870s the pace began to slacken and in the twentieth century there was a long slide into service industrieswritten. Bracegridle – he was one of several boat builders and fishing families to be active in the area. I am in touch with a number of family historians who are working on research in this area – some of them from Australia .He is one of the more important. North Pole ice works…… and many many more……. It would be nice to start again with all the stuff missed out!

And since then of course we have had the Dome, the cable car, the new underground station and mega mega housing blocks. I am just trying to keep up.


two Poulsens in the midfield (and three in the team) – Christian is a limited defensive midfielder at club level, but has a more all-round role for the national side, where he dovetails well with his namesake Jakob, who is naturally a more attacking player. In a three, they might be joined by Daniel Jensen, though he often features as a substitute.

The joker in the pack may be Christian Eriksen – the youngest player in the tournament at 18, in an ageing squad. The diminutive playmaker has started just 15 league games in his career (all for Ajax) but has already attracted the attention of various major European clubs. Olsen is generally a conservative manager in terms of team selection, and seeing Eriksen from the start in groupit up and go. It's not really a re-aggravation, more of just a realizing that he wasn't ready to play and taking himself out before he did further damage."

Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer, who did not offer an update on his receiver's condition shortly following Sunday's game, followed suit during Monday's press conference when asked again about Thielen.

"I'm not sure, honestly," Zimmer said with regard to when Thielen may return to the field, via Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk. "Whenever the doctors say he's ready, he's ready," Zimmer said.

With Thielen out, fourth year wideout Laquon Treadwell led the Vikings with 58 receiving yards. While running back Ameer Abdullah, receiver Olabisi Johnson and tight end Kyle Rudolph each caught touchdown passes from quarterback Kirk Cousins, Stefon Diggs struggled


Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Download Mp3 : Perfecta Ekpo – Sweat Ft Skales

After a very short hiatus to engage in academia in New York City, and back from last year’s successful collaboration with Timaya and before then, already riding high on a massive collaboration with the indelible American rapper the one and only Cassidy, the New York City based Nigerian born Afro Beat singer Perfecta Ekpo, is back on a familiar stage. This time with a bubbling tune in title SWEAT, featuring the incredible Skales. Perfecta brings her angelic voice to bare on SWEAT in full throttle, with a mix of rap to synchronized with the rappers delight Skales. Sweat is produced by the amazing Young D. Download and enjoy listening to it.the duo’s much hype status.Question here is, how is Rhianna’s record label viewing her newfound image independence?After all, it was her camp who had urged the singer to break it off with Brown back when he had assaulted her in the much publicized altercation between the two just hours before grammy night several years back. With good reason, as covergirl along with a strew of Rhianna’s cash cow contracts vowed to part ways with the singer if she would have stayed in the abusive relationship ……The singer obliged, kept mum in regards too her feelings of it all til several months later after the incident, when she opened up to Dianne Sawyer in a tell all, much applauded interview where she stood firm on her decision to leave


a lead vocal element, making actual vocals completely unnecessary.

And in the heart of those orchestrations of empty space following a tumult of erupting metal lies the expansive aesthetic beauty of Another Sound Is Dying. Adding to the depth and dynamics of the album, there’s the multiple sequences of brutal versus gentle, an onslaught of all three members wailing away followed by a gentle lingering guitar and softly popping snare and simmering hi-hat that sonically glimmers like a new dawn sunrise after a severe storm the night before. And then the cycle begins again and repeats itself, but because of the improvisational feel of the album and speed of recording, the cycle and underlying patterns syncopate and never get boring.

The way Dub Trio utilize dub as a starting pointa valve which includes a support and a rigid linkage pivotally mounted to the support. The linkage has a first end and a second end. A hose engaging member is positioned at the first end of the linkage. An actuator engaging member is positioned at the second end of the linkage. By pivoting the rigid linkage, the hose engaging member is movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. In the engaged position the hose engaging member overlies and maintains in engagement a hose with a hose coupling of a valve. The actuator engaging member engages a manual valve actuator of the valve when in a first position with the valve open to prevent pivoting of the rigid linkage and maintain the hose engaging member in the


engaged position until the manual valve actuator has been moved to a second position with the valve closed.
The hose coupling lock for a valve, as described above, is effective to prevent a hose from being detached from a hose coupling when the valve is in the open position. The hose engaging member remains engaged to maintain the hose in position on the hose coupling until the manual actuator has been physically moved to place the valve in the closed position. When the valve is placed in the closed position, the linkage can be freely pivoted to move the hose engaging member to the disengaged position and enable the hose to be disengaged from the hose coupling.
According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a methodof locking a hose onto a hose coupling for a valve that has a manual valve actuator with a first position and a second position, in the first the valve being open and when in the second position the valve being closed. A first step involves pivotally mounting a rigid linkage adjacent to the valve. The linkage has a first end and a second end. A hose engaging member is positioned at the first end of the linkage. An actuator engaging member is positioned at the second end of the linkage. By pivoting the linkage, the hose engaging member is movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. A second step involves pivoting the linkage to position the hose engaging member in the engaged position overlying and


maintaining in engagement a hose with the hose coupling of the valve. A third step involves moving the manual valve actuator to the first position with the valve open. The actuator engaging member engages the manual valve actuator to prevent pivoting of the linkage and maintain the hose engaging member in the engaged position until the manual valve actuator has been returned to the second position with the valve closed.
Although the form of rigid linkage may vary, beneficial results have been obtained through the use of a xe2x80x9cZxe2x80x9d shaped linkage having an upper arm, a lower arm and a diagonal connective member. The linkage is pivotally secured by a horizontal pivot pin the extends through the linkage where the lower arm meets the diagonal connective member."The tables have Turn-bulled, now it's Shorten's house".

So rapped Labor leader Bill Shorten on Friday morning, the culmination of an out-dagging competition taking place between the Opposition Leader and Prime Minister over the past week, as they traded policy for rhyme in the race to win Australia's popular FM radio and commercial television markets.

US rapper Macklemore's performance at the NRL grand final on Saturday has triggered more than just a national debate over freedom of speech and same-sex marriage.

It's pushed Mr Turnbull to suddenly "grieve for Tupac," and Mr Shorten to claim: "he's the cat, you're the mouse".


Mobile game Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff will be getting a limited Star Trek-themed in-game event, beginning today and lasting till April 30.

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After sustaining heavy damage from the Borg, the USS Enterprise and its crew set an emergency course back in time for Earth in the year 2015. Commander William Riker is on a mission to protect baby Stewie Griffin, whose future self will create technology that threatens the Borgs' existence. Riker also enlists family patriarch Peter Griffin to repair the Enterprise, save the crew, and protect the future of mankind.Players will get to explore the USS Enterprise, visiting new versions of iconic locations such as the bridge, the holodeck, the sick bay, and engineering. Players will also unlock and meet notable figures from Star Trek: TheNext Generation, including Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Lt. Commander Data, Lieutenant Worf, and more.Players can send teams away on exploratory missions to other planets for resources and rewards, and use photon torpedoes to blast enemies into deep space from the bridge.Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff is available as a free title on iOS and Android. Even when it's not running Star Trek-themed events it features some pretty crazy gameplay, tasking players with battling religious cults and alien invasions . It was released in April 2014 and was written by scribes of the much-loved Family Guy television show.

Katie Williams is a freelance writer and journalist. She tweets at @desensitisation and hopes that one day, a bird will tweet back.


Twitter bans Alex Jones from tweeting for seven days
But after CNET pointed that out to Twitter , the platform reportedly suspended the InfoWars Periscope account as well. He mentions taking action in courts, among other things, and says "people need to have their battle rifles ready".

Iran said to cancel visit by Iraq's prime minister
Abadi on Tuesday said Iraq would reluctantly comply with sanctions against Tehran which took effect the same day. In an article for The Sunday Telegraph Mr Johnson told British companies to stop doing business with Iran...

Bridge Collapses Near Italian City Of Genoa
The bridge was around 100 meters (328 feet) tall, according to Italian media, and crossed over railway tracks and some buildings. The local fire brigade said also victims were likely after the bridge collapsedat around 11.30am during torrential rainfall.

Ben Stokes found not guilty of affray
Both Stokes and Ali claim they were acting in self-defence and blamed each other for being the aggressor. Ali told jurors the England cricketer "was very angry and looking for someone to pick on".

Lyric McHenry, 'EJNYC' Reality Star, Dead at 26
Per the Daily News , McHenry , who reportedly was 20 weeks pregnant, was transported to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital where she died. The reality star reportedly died from a drug overdose, however her cause of death is still under investigation.

Donald Trump Reportedly Uses a Tanning Bed Every Morning

The White House has not disputed the authenticity of recordings she's released so far. A person familiar with the White House response to the investigation said that at no time prior


to her departure did the Mueller team request documents related to her or seek an interview with her. "Good work by General (John) Kelly for quickly firing that dog!", Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to his chief of staff.

Donald Trump is confronting renewed allegations that a recording exists of him using the n-word during the production of The Apprentice.

'Her tell-all mea culpa won't win her any brownie points with most blacks, ' said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of the book 'Why Black Lives Do Matter'.

Now we sit back and wait to see if Trump's current and former staffers really had anything to worry about.

The alleged recording of Trump using racial slurs was purportedly recorded during the taping of his reality TV show, The Apprentice.

"Donald Trump enjoyed every momentof that". When she asked Trump what she thought of Kushner in the early days of his relationship with Ivanka, Trump responded, "He seems a little sweet to me".

Gavejian said the ubiquity of recording devices means it's more important than ever for companies to train those who have tough conversations with employees about such things as terminations to be very careful about what they say.

Manigault-Newman wrote that she had provided the president with a briefing book describing how Tubman had helped free hundreds of other slaves.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders argued that Trump's insults have nothing to do with race or gender.

Lewandowski's comments come after the Trump campaign has accused ex-White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman of violating a nondisclosure agreement.

Instead, he hired a staff beset by


infighting, a Cabinet besieged by ethical questions and a team of aides working under the shadow of the special counsel's Trump-Russia probe.

The tape is of a phone conversation in October of that year between Ms Manigault-Newman, Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson and Lynne Patton, who was an assistant to Trump's son Eric at the time. "And I think that all Americans should be concerned when the President of the United States is showing mental decline, lack of impulse control and he's downright mean", she said.

"Donald Trump now is at the point where he's so fragile and can not ever, ever be in any interaction, any exchange in any room that's just not pure lionization, canonization", Deutsch concluded.

Trump has pushed back hard, tweeting that he had received a callfrom the producer of "The Apprentice" assuring him "there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a awful and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa". Democratic US Representative Frederica Wilson, who is also an African-American, told CNN.


equity was brought by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with the Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, Inc. as intervening plaintiff, against the Sun Ray Drug Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, and Carlo Galletta and Richard Nasuti, individually and trading under the fictitious name of Carl-Rich, to enjoin them from violating the Pennsylvania Ice Cream Law, Act of May 20, 1949, P.L. 1594, 31 PS § 407 et seq., in that they had in their possession with intent to sell and have sold a product alleged to be an inferior simulation of ice cream. The product is known by the generic name of "ice milk". Ice milk is made of the same ingredients as is ice cream except that the finished product (herein called Malt-A-Plentythat there is no difference between the taste of a Malt-A-Plenty drink so prepared and a conventional milk shake made with ice cream. A Malt-A-Plenty drink costs 24 cents, and a milk shake made with ice cream costs 30 cents.
The history and development of the Malt-A-Plenty drink was testified to by Harry B. Burt of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a past president of the National Association of Retail Ice Cream Manufacturers, who originated the drink. His testimony was undisputed. Burt has for some time been the president of a company which operates retail ice cream stores. He noticed that the sale of conventional milk shakes was falling off in his retail stores and determined that the reason was that the heavy milk fat content of milk shakes made with ice


not the fact. Under the circumstances disclosed in the record, and in obedience to settled rules of constitutional construction, it must be assumed that such is the fact. . .".
United States v. 88 Cases, supra, and United States v. Two Bags, supra, considered the principle of so-called "economic adulteration" under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. In the former case coal tar dyes were added to orangeade to deepen its color and make it appear more valuable than it was. In the latter case charcoal was added to white poppyseeds to make them appear more expensive. "Economic adulteration" simply means simulation for the purpose of making an inferior product resemble a more expensive one. The theory is actually based upon the resulting confusion and deception of theinvestigators at bay with claims of secrecy based on national security.

When I was a child, American diplomats described the then Soviet Union as "a midget with a huge right arm." This phrase may be politically incorrect today, but it meant that as a nation, the USSR had a massive inferiority complex that made them easy to provoke, and when provoked they had an enormous military and nuclear weapons with which to respond. Though the USSR is no more, Russia, which led that Union, continues to maintain nuclear weapons and a large military, following its historical political tendencies.

The whole diplomatic world knows this. So, why would President Bush start pushing for this missile defense system in Russia's back yard now, since he must surely know it would provoke a


story and issue has received zero coverage by Big Media news outlets in recent months, despite being proposed by Hillary Clinton and covered in the New York Times on April 13, 2007. Ralph Nader proposed the same thing on April 27, 2007 on the Common Dreams web site. A long time advocate behind the scenes, Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey has been trying to promote this idea since 1994.

The OTA was killed off in 1995 by the Gingrich Revolution. This one act essentially performed a frontal lobotomy on Congress, depriving it of essential counsel by recognized scientific authorities just at the point when scientific and technological issues like AIDS, Climate change, global pandemics, the Internet, and others would become the main issues on the agenda. Coincidence? Igiants you mention (ATT, Verizon, Comcast, etc.) are competing fiercely among themselves for the greatest reach, influence, and profitability in the marketplace, but they are united in their efforts to prevent more players and newer technologies from gaining traction in the marketplace.

Thus, they want to purchase the rights to this new spectrum, not to use it commercially for providing enhanced services, or otherwise in the best interest of consumers, but to warehouse it to prevent newer players and technologies from playing. So they lobby the Congress and the FCC intensively to support regulatory structures that maintain the status quo and keep new competitors out.

Until the 2006 election, in which Democrats regained oversight of the FCC, the FCC had, for many years, abandoned it's proper role as guardian of


the people's interests in national communications policy. It become the Federal Conglomeration Commission, the facilitator of industry initiatives designed to consolidate their ownership and control of the airwaves and physical connections that reach into our homes and lives.

Within days of taking over majority control of Congress, the Communications Committees of both houses called the FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin, on the carpet and laid out in no uncertain terms their total dissatisfaction with the FCC's status as industry advocate and insisted the FCC return to its traditional role. There's more on those hearings at my blog post http://www.newshacker.net/2007/03/la-times-democrats-to-fcc-were-watching.html

If you're interested in understanding these issues, I recommend Jeff Chester's new book: "Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy," which I just finished reading last month. Bill Moyers' reviewNYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him - he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer.

Don't Blink

New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. Shocked and shaken, he doesn't realize that he's accidentally captured a key piece of evidence. Ensnared in the city's most sensational crime in years, Nick investigates for a story of his own.

You've Been Warned

Kristin Burns is making her way in New York City. Her photos are being considered at a


major Manhattan gallery, she works by day with two wonderful children, and the man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps. But just as everything she's ever wanted is finally within reach, her life changes forever with one murderous nightmare.

The Quickie

Lauren Stillwell isn't your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour.

Judge & Jury

Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss "The Electrician", when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI agents are dead, the boss is wounded, and Pellisante vowsfear and desire, Swimsuit transports listeners to a chilling new territory where the collision of beauty and murder transforms paradise into a hell of unspeakable horrors.

Truth or Die

After a serious professional stumble, attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride. He's found happiness with his girlfriend, Claire Parker, a beautiful, ambitious journalist always on the hunt for a scoop. But when Claire's newest story leads to a violent confrontation, Trevor's newly peaceful life is shattered as he tries to find out why.

Kill Me If You Can

Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend, Katherine, fill his thoughts - until he


realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won't stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge.

The Beach House

Patterson's latest is "a slick, vastly enjoyable thriller." Jack Mullen's relentless crusade to discover the truth behind his younger brother's death puts him into a head-on collision with one of the most powerful and ruthless men in New York. As it unfolds that his brother was involved with some of the richest women and men in America - in ways Jack never imagined - his dream of justice fades. Only if he can somehow beat the rich at their own game will he be able to avenge his brother.

14th Deadly Sin

With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer cansafely say that her life has never been better. In fact (for a change), things seem to be going well for all the members of the Women's Murder Club as they gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But the party is cut short when Lindsay is called to a gruesome crime scene, where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight.

Alert

New Yorkers aren't easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them badly. Why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI's Emily Parker, have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility - but they're as good at concealing their identities as they are at wreaking


havoc.

Beach Road

Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in America's wealthiest resort town: legendary East Hampton. But his job barely keeps him in paper clips. His clients make a living serving the rich. The billionaires and celebrities swarming the beaches already have lawyers on their payroll.

Guilty Wives

Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened - something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah aresecret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides - and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his top investigation firm has its headquarters.

Season of the Machete

Cool and glamorous, they could be a successful couple on a holiday. But Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. Their new venue is a picture-perfect vacation island. Their adversary will be Peter Macdonald, the dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure for a confrontation with cold-blooded terror.

The Jester

Hugh De Luc, a poor innkeeper, returns home from the First Crusade wearied


from battle and disillusioned by carnage. After journeying from the Holy Land back to his own small village, he finds his nightmare is just beginning.

Tick Tock: Michael Bennett, Book 4

New York City's number-one detective, Michael Bennett, has a huge problem: the Son of Sam, the Werewolf of Wisteria, and the Mad Bomber are all back. The city has never been more terrified. The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his 10 adopted children, his grandfather, and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Not only does it tear apart their vacation, it leaves the entire family open to attack.

Sail

The Dunnes have set off on a 10 day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact thatthe father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But just when things start to take a turn for the better, disaster strikes.

NYPD Red 3

NYPD Red is the elite, highly trained task force assigned to protect the rich, the famous, and the connected. And Detective Zach Jordan and his partner, Kylie MacDonald - the woman who broke his heart at the police academy - are the best of the best, brilliant, and tireless investigators who will stop at nothing to deliver justice.

Confessions: The Private School Murders

Tandy Angel may have played the hero when she solved the case of her magnificently wealthy parents' mysterious deaths, but she isn't done yet. Her brother, Matthew, stands trial for homicide, young girls are found murdered all around New York's Upper West side, and


Tandy is determined to use her piercing intellect to get to the bottom of both cases. But the biggest mystery of all may be what actually happened to James Rampling, the handsome son of a family enemy, whom Tandy fell in love and ran away with - though most of her memories of the affair are disturbingly absent....

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Paris is stunning in the summer.

NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him - he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer.

The killing is simply marvelous.

Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have beenVideos of the protests in Iran are trickling out despite reports of cellphone and text-messaging services being down, another sign that organizers are finding ways to evade tight government controls to get the message out.

According to tweet messages and opposition websites, protesters gathered at different meeting points in Tehran to head toward centrally-located Imam Hossein Square and Azadi Square, following a plan previously announced by opposition leaders Mir Hussein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. Despite the government...


that since 2015, only two surgeries had been funded while 39 trans people were added to the waitlist — which now sits at 102.

President of the New Zealand Plastic Surgeons Association Dr John Kenealy warned that re-starting the surgeries was a "complex" task needing time, money, and political will.

"Yes, the surgeon is a key part, but there isn't a major [district health board] in the country not up to its eyeballs in other work — we have a woeful shortage of capacity," he said.

"So when the surgery starts, it will likely be displacing something else."

Kenealy said the first thing the Ministry of Health needed to decide was whether GRS funding would continue to be from the high-cost treatment pool — which currently only funds procedures unavailable at NewZealand's public hospitals — or get left up to individual district health boards.

What would happen and when, he said, depended on whether new health minister David Clark chose "to put it on his priority list".

The ministry declined to comment on when gender reassignment surgery would again be performed in New Zealand.

Wi-Hongi said that improved access to counselling and hormone treatments were "still at the top" of trans advocates' agenda. Battles with homelessness, workplace discrimination, and school bullying were also ongoing issues.

But a sex-change surgeon in the country did give trans Kiwis hope "that things are changing", Wi-Hongi said.

"I'm relieved one of our fights has been won — this was one of the big issues we've been pushing for for years."

Dr Yang declined to be interviewed for this article.


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WCN scholars are the future of conservation. These students from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America are committed to working on wildlife conservation in their home countries. They are forward thinkers and out-of-the-box problem solvers, able to navigate the labyrinth of challenges they face protecting endangered wildlife with courage, optimism, stamina, and a nimbleness to adapt to constantly fluctuating political and cultural landscapes—always keeping an eye on the bigger picture.

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Recipient of the Handsel Scholarship for her work with cotton-top tamarins. Location: Colombia University: Institute of Ecological Research (IPE) Read Francy’s story

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Monsoon Pokharel Khatiwada

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Arthur Bienvenu Muneza

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Recipient of the Sidney Byers Scholarship for his work with giraffes. Location: Rwanda University: Michigan State University Read Arthur’s story

Henry Mwape

Henry Mwape

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An Nguyen

An Nguyen

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Gao Yufang

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Tiasa Adhya

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The Vatican has failed to answer detailed questions by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on cases of child sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy, brothers or nuns or brought to the attention of the Holy See. These formal questions were raised as part of the review of the reports the UN Committee require states that have ratified the Convention of the Rights of the Child to provide every five years.

In a formal response to the UN Committee's 'list of issues' or questions, the Holy See based its failure to answer them on the legal technicality that it is "related but separate and distinct from the Catholic Church". It added: "it is not the practice of the Holy See to disclose information onthe religious discipline of members of the clergy or religious according to canon law, unless there is a related matter concerning international judicial cooperation with a State and the request by the State is made, generally, through specific procedures".

The UN Committee prefaced its questions by pointing to "the recognition by the Holy See of sexual violence against children committed by members of the clergy, brothers and nuns in numerous countries around the world, and given the scale of the abuses".

Keith Porteous Wood of the (UK) National Secular Society, which, together with victims groups, has submitted evidence about such abuse to the Committee earlier this year, commented: "Under the direct control of the Pope, the Church operates a firm 'command and control structure' over the worldwide Church, particularly over


See's brazen failure, on arcane legal technicalities, to provide the information sought by the Committee is a new low point in the Church's lamentable record over child abuse.

"Many will be disappointed and surprised by this slap in the face to both the tens if not hundreds of thousands of suffering victims and to a United Nations body.

"The Holy See, under the Pope, uses its considerable diplomatic might to promote the doctrines and the self-interest of the Catholic Church and clearly commands and controls child abuse policy in the Church worldwide, including through its own (canon) "law". It is both shameless and unacceptable for it to undermine the UN's efforts, made in the interest of protecting past and future victims, by refusing to provide the information that the UNVenezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets Cuba's President Raul Castro.

Translated by Federico Fuentes

Cumaná, April 17, 2009

The heads of state and governments of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela -- member countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) -- consider that the proposed Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons:

It offers no answers to the issue of the global economic crisis, despite the fact that this constitutes the largest challenge faced by humanity in decades and the most serious threat in the current epoch to the wellbeing of our peoples.

Unjustifiably excludes Cuba in a criminal manner, without mentioning the general consensus that exists in the region in favour of condemning the blockade and the isolation


the peoples.

We demand that the new government of the United States, whose inauguration has generated some expectations in the region and the world, put an end to the long and nefarious tradition of interventionism and aggression that has characterised the actions of the governments of this country throughout its history, especially brutal during the government of George W. Bush.

In the same way, eliminate interventionist practices such as covert operations, parallel diplomacy, media wars aimed at destabilising states and governments, and the financing of destabilising groups. It is fundamental that we construct a world in which a diversity of economic, political, social and cultural approaches are recognised and respected.

12) Regarding the United States' blockade against Cuba and the exclusion of this country from the Summit of the Americas, thecountries of the Bolivarian Alternatives for the People of Our Americas reiterates the position that all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean adopted last December 16, 2008, regarding the necessity of putting an end to the economic, trade and financial blockade imposed by the government of the United States of America against Cuba, including the application of the denominated Helms-Burton law, and that among its paragraphs notes:

“CONSIDERING the resolutions approved by the United Nations General Assembly on the need to put an end to the economic, commercial, and financial embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba and the decisions on the latter approved at several international meetings, “DECLARE that in defence of free trade and the transparent practice of international trade, it is unacceptable to


in nature and is not only limited to the financial sector. It’s a world disaster with profound structural roots. It includes a sharp fall in stock market value and productive activity; the freezing of and higher cost of credit and the economic recession in the principal powers of the First World. It is accompanied by the withdrawal of world trade and an increase in unemployment and poverty. It is affecting and will considerably damage the lives and well-being of billions of human beings. The countries of the South with be, as always, the ones that suffer the most.

These are the consequences of irresponsible practices tied to deregulation, financial speculation and the imposition of neoliberalism. Also present is the United States’ abusive use of the privileges bestowed on themvery much.

Fifth Summit of the Americas

By Pedro Méndez Suárez

Fifth Summit of the Americas "Grandpa, doesn't Cuba belong to the Americas?" "Yes, sonny, it does, but not to the Americans."

Pedro Méndez Suárez is a Cuban cartoonist. The cartoon was first published by Rebelión. Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi.

Summit of the Americas concludes with controversial declaration; ALBA countries decline to sign

April 19 (ACN) -- The 5th Summit of the Americas concluded today in Port of Spain, Trindidad-Tobago, with a controversial final declaration, which was rejected by several nations of the western hemisphere that described it as insufficient and unacceptable.

The document was considered as approved although it lacked the support of several countries, including those nations that make up the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA).

During the closing ceremony,