ritual butchery was recorded was sent as a gift to Izetbegovic.Video-tapes of this massacre were sold for fund-raising purposes. Milan Ivancevic, a Serb member of the Commission for the Search of Missing, was quoted as saying: “General Mahmuljin (military commander) told me that the mujahedin who killed soldiers in Gosovici (village) presented Izetbegovic with 28 heads, while they sent the remaining 28 to Iran” [Sl Bosna, 2001].Izetbegovic’s pleas for the American intervention materialized on August, 30, 1995, when US-led NATO combat aircraft bombed the Bosnian Serb positions turning the tide of the war and contributing to Serbian defeats in Western Bosnia. Prior to that, the US brokered a truce with the Croats, leading to formation of so called Muslim-Croat federation in March 1994. Croatia had been allowed toattack Bosnian Serbs from Croatia and to have troops in Bosnia, while Serbia was sanctioned for helping Bosnian Serbs. The Dayton Accords of November 1995 signed in Paris in December, divided Bosnia: 51% went to the Muslim-Croat federation and 49 percent went to Republika Srpska. This division was proposed by negotiators more than two years earlier.A Haven for TerroristsIzebegovic was dissatisfied as was the rest of the Muslim world. He was pained to sit next to Milosevic and Tudjman at the signing ceremony and signed it in total science. The best he could say in support of the deal was that “this may not be a just peace, but it is more than a continuation of the war.” On December 13, in Khartoum, Sudan-based Pan-Islamic Movement leader Hassan


the US jihad. Izetbegovic argued that they came to Bosnia when nobody else would. He allowed them to marry Bosnian Muslim women and obtain Bosnian citizenship. However, 99 percent of the reporters and politicians, fail to make the point that Izetbegovic was directly responsible for bringing thousands of mujahedin and military equipment from Central Asia and the Middle East to the heart of Europe, to Bosnia, to launch jihad alongside the Bosnian Muslims against the Christian Serbs and Croats. De facto the Bosnian war taught mujahedin how to operate abroad.Two of the September 11, 2001, hijackers who attacked the US, and who came through San Diego, fought in Bosnia and belonged to al-Qaida for six years. Another Bosnian war veteran recruited the Hamburg al-Qaida cell, including Mohamed Atta,Western Europe” [Trifkovic, 10/03]. According to Yossef Bodansky, starting in mid-August 2003, the radical Islamist leaders elevated the role of the terrorist infrastructure in the Balkans as a key facilitator of a proposed conflict into the heart of Europe, Israel and the US Bin Laden’s senior commanders decided to expand the recruitment and activation of Slav cadres because they look European and non-Arabs. The main recruitment pool consists of Bosnian Muslims [Bodansky, 2003].Escaping JudgmentIzetbegovic died in Sarajevo on October 19, 2003. The last, the day before his death, his high level visitor was the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan, leader of the Turkish Islamist party, said: “Alija Izetbegovic enjoys great respect and has a special place in the hearts of Turkish people.” At his funeral there


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Such was the case at the last joint land use meeting on Tuesday, when Planning and Zoning Director Greg Guernsey revealed that the occupancy limit of six unrelated adults per single-family home proposed in the first draft of CodeNEXT had been dropped back down to four unrelated adults in the second draft, in line with the ordinance passed by City Council in March 2016.

Planning Commissioner GregWEST PALM BEACH, Florida (CBSNewYork/AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday called on rival Marco Rubio to drop out of the White House race after the billionaire businessman won in Louisiana and Kentucky — and the Florida senator ended yet another election night with no wins.

“Marco has to get out of the race. Has to,” Trump said at a news conference at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where dozens of friends and club members mixed in with reporters covering his campaign.

Rubio finished no better than third in any of Saturday’s four Republican primary elections and caucuses. Meanwhile, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won in Maine and Kansas.

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“Super Tuesday last week was a phenomenal night where we won victories all over the


it launched the country down a path that within a decade would see it fielding operational supersonic jet fighters and interceptors, with supersonic jet bombers in flight test or under development, and bold plans in the offing for commercial supersonic transports and even faster military aircraft and research vehicles.

The path to supersonic flight involved an international effort, with significant contributions by a number of European and American engineers and designers. Under different circumstances, it might have been Britain, Germany or even the Soviet Union that became the first to break the sound barrier, not the United States. That America succeeded first reflected the tremendous energy and power of its aeronautical establishment, which during World War II produced nearly 300,000 airplanes for the U.S. and its allies. It wasalso a reflection of the comparative strength of America’s robust postwar economy, which made possible vast investment in supersonic research facilities (particularly wind tunnels) and aircraft and missile design programs, something other nations could not readily afford.

The roots of supersonic flight lay in the aerodynamics of the propeller. A propeller is really a rotating wing, generating a horizontal lift-vector, and its tip speeds approach the speed of sound. Just after World War I, engineers at the Army Air Service Engineering Division at McCook Field, Ohio, constructed a small wind tunnel for testing propeller airfoils. Researchers Elisha Fales and Frank Caldwell subsequently found that when the airflow around the airfoils reached 450 mph, the airfoil’s lift abruptly dropped and its drag rose sharply. They had stumbled upon the phenomenon


of aerodynamic “compressibility,” the first inkling of the problems high-speed aircraft would encounter in the late 1930s. Other researchers at the Bureau of Standards built upon this earlier Army work. Hugh Dryden and Lyman Briggs undertook pressure distribution studies of airfoils at the speed of sound, taking the first photographs of shockwave formation on an airfoil as the flow over it exceeded Mach 1. By the early 1930s, George Lewis, director of aeronautical research for NACA (the predecessor of today’s NASA), worried that planes might never operationally exceed 500 mph.

John Stack, head of Compressibility Research Division, was a hard-charging man whose attitude toward unproven technology was usually, "Let's try the damn thing and see if we can make it work." He shared the 1947 Collier Trophy with Chuck440 mph, this might have seemed a distant problem. But in fact it was not. A propeller blade or airplane wing passing through the air at roughly three quarters the speed of sound has accelerated flow passing over it at the speed of sound or even faster. Propellers lose their efficiency, and wings experience an abrupt decrease in lift and increase in drag. Turbulence streaming behind them buffets tail surfaces, sometimes causing catastrophic structural failure or reducing control effectiveness so that an airplane dives uncontrollably to earth. From the mid-1930s into the post-WWII era, a number of aircraft, typically new fighters, broke up as pilots overstressed them while attempting to recover from high-speed dives at near-sonic velocities. These included the Messerschmitt Me-109, Hawker Typhoon and Lockheed P-38 Lightning.


Adolf Busemann had proposed sweeping a wing back to alleviate the drag rise associated with high-speed flight. Surprisingly, though his audience was filled with leading researchers from around the world, the significance of his simple concept went largely unnoticed. But in Germany, where Busemann had great influence, sweptwing designs were the common currency of aircraft and missile development in the 1940s. By war’s end, the German Research Institute for Soaring Flight was developing the DFS-346, an experimental rocket-propelled supersonic research airplane, and had already launched a winged derivative of the A-4 ballistic missile, the A-4b. During its climb out of the atmosphere, the A-4b became the first winged missile to exceed the speed of sound, though it broke up during reentry.

In the fall of 1944, Robert T. Jones,those aircraft enjoyed the emerging benefits of the rapidly unfolding avionics revolution, with force-multiplying technologies such as advanced electronic fire control and air-to-air missiles. If much of this seems rudimentary by present-day standards, it was still impressive by the standards of the late 1950s.

As 1958 dawned, American aerospace was firmly fixed within the supersonic era. Both promise and disappointment lurked in the future: the promise of greater flight efficiencies and capabilities made possible by the advent of very high thrust-to-weight after burning turbofans and electronic flight control (typified by the F-15 and F-16), and the disappointment of overexpectations evident in the drive to build a commercial American supersonic transport. Altogether it had been a spectacular ride, however, effectively doubling flight speed every 10 years from 1938 to 1958,


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 Summer – The Viking chieftains Hastein and Björn Ironside ravage upstream and move to Italy, sacking Luna (believing it to be Rome). They sail up the River Arno to sack the cities of Pisa and Fiesole (Tuscany).
 Summer – Viking raiders led by Weland sail to England and attack Winchester (the capital of Wessex), which is set ablaze. He spreads inland, but is defeated by West Saxon forces, who deprive him of all he has gained.
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South Portland athletic programs could get a boost in funding after the school board approved an advertising measure for high school sports.

Ads can now be placed in the high school gymnasium and on athletic fields.

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Supporters said the ad revenue will help keep athletic programs accessible for students, and pay for 13 unfunded or eliminated coaching positions.

The school district spends more than $700,000 on its athletic programs, but it falls on parents and boosters to fill the funding gaps.

"But we don't feel boosters, in the long run, should have to get the core elements of a program, which are coaches, uniforms, safety equipment, all of which boosters are doing or parents are doing on their own," South Portland Superintendent Ken Kunin said.

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Anime Title: Binbou Shimai Monogatari

Alternative Title:

Status: Completed

Genre: Slice%20of%20Life, Drama, Comedy

Published Date:

Total Episodes: 13

Summary:

The Yamada sisters, Kyo (15) and Asu (9), are students studying in secondary and primary schools respectively. Their mother has passed away while their father ran away after incurring debts due to gambling. Despite the difficult circumstances, both of them decide to overcome the unhappiness and welcome their days with enthusiasm and pride. Fortunately, with the change in the law system several years ago, Kyo is able to study and simultaneously, take up temporary jobs (such as distributing newspapers and tutoring) so as to support the family and make ends meet. On the other hand, Asu will take charge of household chores, prepare meals and manage the financials to assist her older


to support the family and make ends meet. On the other hand, Asu will take charge of household chores, prepare meals and manage the financials to assist her older sister. Surrounding them are also good and kind neighbours such as the novelist, Saegusa-san, and the aunt at the public bath who will watch over them. Although life is difficult and at times painful, the sisters are happy to have each other.

Aired: Oct 4, 2015. According to a notice displayed at Shosen Book Tower in Akihabara, the anime adaptation of Monogatari Series: Final Season's Owarimonogatari will air on TV in Fall 2015. Production of the series was hinted last week when animator Hiroko Kazui listed Owarimonogatari on her online portfolio. In 2012, animation studio Shaft announced it would beanimating all of Nisio Isin's Monogatari Series novels.

Aired: Jul 9, 2016. Time Travel Shoujo is based on a 1983 book titled Jishaku to Denki no Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari by Japanese educator Kiyonobu Itakura. It is part of the Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari Zenshuu series which describes the story of various scientific discoveries and inventions throughout history. The 1983 book focuses on discoveries related to magnetism and electricity.


classes and helping her parents around the shed, the 5-foot-2-inch teen watched rounds of golf as professional players flocked to the course. She had dreams of joining then. “I was so inspired by the players,” she said.

Her first pair of golf clubs were wooden sticks that fell from the trees by the shed. She began teaching herself how to put, mimicking the professionals she saw on the course.

“When I was hitting the ball with a hidden stick the president of the golf association saw me and told me to come to junior camp.”

The opportunity gave Sherpa a chance to shine, learn and grow. She began playing in junior tournaments and eventually traveled to compete in the United States with the help of generous benefactors. In many of Nepal’sSaturday, July 10, 2010

Book Review: Kraken, by China Mieville

This was my first experience reading Mieville, and I feel like I've been on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride - but that ride is far too tame a comparison.

Billy Harrow is a curator at the Darwin Center in London. His greatest accomplishment is preserving the Center's giant squid specimen. So he is astonished to find one day, while leading a tour of the Center, that the squid and its tank have vanished.

Soon thereafter he finds a body in a bottle, and his best friend disappears, swallowed whole by a supernatural hit man named Goss and his sidekick Subby. The police who deal with the supernatural become involved, and Billy finds out that London is awash with cults, all of them certain


that Apocalypse is coming. Very soon. One of the cults is the Teuthies, worshipers of the giant squid known as Architeuthis. One of the Teuthies, whom Billy had known as a guard in the Center named Dane, becomes Billy's protector, though he goes rogue from the cult in order to do so. Everyone is searching for the squid, some of them with harm in mind, including the criminal mastermind who lives as a tattoo on another man's back.

Meanwhile, Billy and Dane are aided by Wati, a spirit that moves from figure to figure and inspires dog and cat familiars and other servant spirits to go out on strike for better working conditions.

Mieville writes about a lot of cults in Kraken, but I suspect that if he belongs toassignment is argued in the brief, the assignment was waived on oral argument, and will be given no further consideration.
The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and judgment is vigorously assailed. At the close of the entire testimony the defendant interposed a motion for a directed verdict in his favor, and the overruling of this motion directly presents the question of the sufficiency of the evidence. The testimony in this case is entirely and wholly circumstantial.
It appears from the testimony that the defendant was the owner of a building at 1142 Independence avenue, Kansas City, Mo., on the first floor of which he was conducting a grocery store. From the time he acquired the property, which was more than three years prior to the date charged


in the indictment, the second floor was leased to a Mrs. Effie Gatewood, whose lease or occupancy continued until after the date of the raid upon the premises and the arrest of the defendant by government agents. She seems also to have been a tenant of defendant's predecessor. She maintained an apartment, and from time to time rented rooms. This building apparently faced south on Independence avenue, and the second floor was reached either by means of the stairway leading from the sidewalk along the front of the building, or by means of a back stairway reached from the alley in the rear of the building. Each of these stairs went directly to the second floor, landing in a hallway on the second floor; these landings being onthe same side of the hallway as shown by photograph, Defendant's Exhibit 7, so that one going up either stairway landed in the hallway on the second floor, the landings being in plain view of each other, although the distance between the landings is not shown. On entering from the alley or porch in the rear of the building is a hallway, and at the foot of the rear stairs is another door. In order to get upstairs from the grocery store, it was necessary to pass through a door in the rear part of the grocery store, into this hallway, pass along the hallway to the foot of the back stairs, a distance of about fourteen feet, open the door at the foot of the stairs, and


pass up the stairs on to the second floor landing. This doorway in the back of the grocery store was kept locked and barred.
On the 12th day of September, 1928, certain prohibition agents made a search of these premises. Entering first the grocery store, they found the defendant in charge of his business. The store appeared to be a well-stocked grocery store. The rear door, whether in the extreme rear of the building, or in the east partition wall, is not clear from the testimony, was closed and barred by means of a wooden bar fitted into strong iron brackets or holders on either side of the doorway. It may also have been locked. Nothing was found on the first floor except a stock of groceries and fixturesand some tables and chairs, but on looking at the ceiling in the back part of the store building it was observed that at one spot some of the plaster was loose and some water had seeped through. The prohibition agents detected in this seepage an odor of mash. This portion of the ceiling was over a balcony or mezzanine floor and was not easily observed from the floor of the grocery store, nor did the seepage through the plaster come onto the floor of the grocery store proper, but was intercepted by this balcony or mezzanine floor. The agents then broke open the door leading from the grocery store into the hallway communicating with the back stair, and finding the door at the foot of this back


stair locked, broke the lock, passed up the stairway to the second floor, and entering the door to the back room on the second floor found twenty-three barrels of mash, fifty-gallon size, fit for distilling, and a seventy-five gallon still set up complete but not in operation. The defendant told the agents that he owned the building and that the second floor was rented to a colored woman. The front part of the second floor was used for living purposes. The tenant, Mrs. Gatewood, testified that she sublet the back room where the still and mash was found to a man by the name of Jennings at a rental of $10 per month. That the contract for gas was in her name, and that she settled with thegas company and apportioned the expense with the defendant; the defendant paying her such portion, apparently, as she from time to time allotted to him.
A government witness testified that on September 11th, he had visited the vicinity of these premises between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morning, and while standing across the street on the south side, saw a young negro *784 rolling a barrel towards the defendant's grocery store. That the defendant opened the door and let him in, the barrel being a fifty-gallon barrel. That he waited in that vicinity about ten minutes and saw the boy come out of the store without the barrel.
Testimony on behalf of the defendant showed that Effie Gatewood had occupied the second floor of this building for about four


testified that he had once observed a little leakage in the place referred to by the government's witnesses, but that he had been advised by the tenant that she had spilled some water in washing, or something of that sort, and that as the leakage did not come onto the main floor, but was intercepted by the balcony which he did not occupy, he paid no further attention to it, and did not observe any odor of mash.
As has already been observed, the testimony is wholly circumstantial, and hence in order to sustain a conviction it must not only be consistent with the guilt of the defendant, but must be inconsistent with his innocence. Evidence creating a suspicion of guilt is not sufficient. There must be substantial evidenceon the day previous to the search of the premises a boy was observed rolling an empty barrel to the front door of the defendant's store, and defendant was observed letting the boy into the store building with the barrel; (3) evidence of a leakage through the ceiling of the storeroom onto the balcony or mezzanine floor was observed by the government witnesses, who detected an odor of mash from the seepage; (4) the gas bills were larger in December, 1927, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, and August, 1928, than they had been in September, 1927, and larger than they were subsequent to the search of the premises on September, 1928. In connection with these circumstances, it is observed that while the defendant owned the premises


involved, the upper floor was not in his actual possession, but was and had been under lease for a number of years. The upper floor was accessible through two stairways, neither of which connected directly with the defendant's store, and the only door through which the upper floor might be reached through the store was locked and barred. As to the circumstance that a boy was observed rolling an empty barrel into the defendant's store, there is nothing to identify this barrel as a mash barrel, or as one found in the room containing the still and mash. The testimony simply indicates that this was an empty barrel. As to the seepage through the plaster in the ceiling of the store, it appears that this seepage came throughroom where the mash was, and if the defendant aided and abetted when he admitted the boy into the room, there is sufficient in that; if he merely admitted the boy into the room with the mash barrel and let the boy go on into the room where the still was, etc." It was proved only that an empty barrel was taken to the front door of the defendant's place of business and the boy with the barrel admitted. The court then presumed from this circumstance that the barrel was a mash barrel, that the boy bringing this barrel to the defendant's premises was permitted to go through the room occupied by the defendant, with this barrel, which is described as a mash barrel, and he was permitted


cross-examination, as to the opinions he has heard expressed by members of the community, and even by himself as one of them, touching the character of the defendant or deceased, as the case may be, and whether he has not heard one or more persons of the neighborhood impute particular acts, or the commission of particular crimes, to the party under investigation, or reports and rumors to that effect.'
"On this principle such inquiries are almost universally admitted."
In 1 Greenleaf on Ev. (16th Ed.) § 461 d 4, the principle is stated in this form: "In testing a witness who speaks to good character, it will expose the untrustworthiness of his testimony, if he admits that rumors of misconduct are known to him; for the knowledge of such rumorsmay well be inconsistent with his assertion that the person's reputation is good. Accordingly the propriety of inquiring whether he had not heard that the person whose reputation he has supported has been charged with this or that misdeed has usually been conceded. A few courts, however, usually through a misunderstanding of the real purpose of the inquiry, and supposing it to be in violation of the rule against proving particular acts of misconduct, have forbidden it."
In Underhill on Criminal Evidence (3d Ed.) § 141, it is said: "But a witness to good character may be asked on cross-examination to test his credibility whether he has heard rumors of particular and specific charges of the commission of acts inconsistent with the character which he was called to prove,


(CNN) The House on Wednesday easily defeated an effort from a Texas Democrat to impeach President Donald Trump in a vote that highlighted the Democratic fissures when it comes to impeachment.

Rep. Al Green was able to force the vote under House rules — the first that Congress has taken related to impeachment since Democrats took control of the chamber this year — in what amounted to the most direct challenge yet to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's handling of impeachment.

The 332-95 vote divided Democrats, with 95 — a little more than 40% of the Democratic caucus -- voting against tabling it, or voting to keep it alive. There were 137 Democrats who joined all Republicans in voting to defeat the measure.

Green's decision to bring up his resolution presented aPresident may have engaged in," Pelosi said. "That is the serious path that we are on, not that Mr. Green is not serious, but we'll deal with that on the floor."

Green brought up the impeachment resolution a week before special counsel Robert Mueller testifies publicly before the House, an event that many impeachment backers say will be key to sway the public — and skeptical lawmakers — on impeachment.

"Our focus should be on making sure that the Mueller hearing goes well," said House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries of New York.

Other House Democrats who support beginning an impeachment inquiry — and in some cases moving forward with articles of impeachment — said they would support Green's measure, even if they didn't agree with his decision to bring it


Last updated on .From the section Fencing

Britain's James Davis won the individual event on Saturday before helping his team the following day

Britain's foil team have qualified for this year's Rio Olympics.

Ninth place at the Bonn World Cup along with Germany's failure to go beyond the semi-finals means Britain are the highest ranked European nation outside the world's top four and so qualify.

"The journey doesn't end here. In Rio we will put everything into trying to win a medal," British Fencing's performance director Alex Newton said.who use drugs, including marijuana.

In Indonesia last year, two Australian heroin traffickers were executed by firing squad, despite pleas from Canberra to spare their lives. Australia recalled its ambassador to Indonesia in protest.

Other parts of the world have grown more receptive to marijuana. In Canada and over 20 US states, authorities have approved the cultivation of medicinal cannabis. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau wants his nation to become the first G7 country to fully legalize pot. Colombia, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Peru, and others have legalized the possession of small amounts of cannabis. The recreational use of marijuana is now OK in some US states, as well.

Australia isn’t new to the cultivation, and export, of pain-relieving drugs. According to the Financial Times it’s one the largest exporters (paywall) of


the raw ingredients for painkillers such as solpadeine, or co-codamol. Those ingredients are grown in poppy plants on the island of Tasmania, about 240 km south of the Australian mainland.

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Samba case: 5 Army jawans face dismissal

New Delhi: Five Army jawans face sack orders while other actions have been recommended by a Court of Inquiry (CoI) against 55 other personnel including the Commanding Officer of a unit in a case of indiscipline in Samba in Jammu and Kashmir last year.

The case relates to an incident in the 16 Cavalry Unit in Samba last year where officers and jawans were engaged in a face-off after a jawan committed suicide on August 8.

The CoI into the Samba indiscipline incident has been completed in which five jawans have been recommended for "administrative termination of service". Under this, the Army personnel can be dismissed from service with immediate effect without facing court martial, Army sources said here.

The recommendations of the CoI haveto be considered and confirmed by higher authorities.

The CoI held under a Brigadier has also recommended disciplinary action against seven other personnel including four Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) and three jawans. Under disciplinary action, personnel have to face court martial.

Administrative action has been recommended against nine personnel including the Commanding Officer, three other officers and five jawans of the unit, they said.

Administrative action under the Army act ranges from severe displeasure to censure.

The CoI has also recommended that 39 jawans be posted out the unit permanently for their role in the whole episode.

The incident had happened after a jawan of the unit Arun V, hailing from Thiruvananthapuram, committed suicide with his service weapon.

The jawan was allegedly facing some issues back home and had asked for leave, which was


Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel will make his first career start this weekend against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Browns coach Mike Pettine announced the decision Tuesday afternoon. The team informed Manziel and Brian Hoyer, who has started Cleveland's first 13 games this season, earlier in the day of its decision, sources confirmed. The Browns made the decision internally on Monday, according to a source.

"This decision is really not about Brian Hoyer or Johnny Manziel, it is about the Cleveland Browns. We are always going to make decisions that we feel are in the best interest of the team," Pettine said in a statement. "Brian has done everything that has been asked of him and he has done so as a true professional. ... We are trying to get themake his first career start in Week 15 or later. Player Year Won Game? Tim Tebow 2010 No JaMarcus Russell 2007 No Rex Grossman 2003 Yes Steve McNair 1995 Yes --EPSN Stats & Information

Hoyer has orchestrated just one touchdown drive in his last 29 series, according to ESPN Stats & Information. He played well to start the year and led the Browns to a 7-4 record but has struggled mightily the past five games.

In Sunday's 25-24 loss to the Colts, Hoyer completed 14 of 31 passes for 140 yards and two interceptions.

The Browns selected Manziel, 22, with the 22nd overall pick in this year's draft out of Texas A&M, where he won the Heisman Trophy as a freshman in 2012.

Manziel's promotion could signal the end of Hoyer's time


with the Browns. A Cleveland-area native who grew up attending Browns games with his father, Hoyer, who battled back from a season-ending knee injury in 2013, is in the final year of his contract. With Manziel as the starter, Hoyer likely will have to sign elsewhere if he wants to remain a starter.

The Browns' switch at quarterback didn't affect the oddsmakers in Las Vegas, as Cleveland stayed as a pick 'em Tuesday.

Asked if there had been any reaction from bettors to the news, Ed Salmons, head football oddsmaker at the Westgate SuperBook said, "None." Added: Nick Bodganovich, director of trading at William Hill: "Not one bit."

Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel will make his first career start Sunday. AP Photo/Bill Wippert

The ticket market, meanwhile, did see a jump.

The averagelist price on the resale market for Sunday's game has gone from $123.78 to $169.49 (36.93 percent increase), according to resale ticket aggregator TiqIQ.

Cleveland ticket broker Mark Klang, who says his company Amazing Tickets is the Browns' largest ticket-holder, said sales picked up Tuesday, despite prices increasing.

"Our prices are about 15 higher so far," Klang said. "If this keeps up the rest of day and evening, I expect prices will jump another 10 percent in the morning."

Manziel couldn't beat out Hoyer during training camp and the rookie's off-the-field behavior, which included weekend trips to Las Vegas, led to outside criticism of his maturity and commitment. The Browns held off on playing him until they felt he was ready, and now Pettine has put the team's season in Manziel's


LAS VEGAS, Calfornia (Dec. 19, 2013) — A 35-year-old woman is dead after being struck by a traffic light pole that was knocked over in a car crash on Bonanza Road just west of Pecos Road, according to a report by News 3.

About 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 16, Felipe Bermejo, 69, of Las Vegas was driving his 1990 Chevrolet Astro van heading eastbound on Bonanza Road when for unknown reasons he veered to the right and struck the light pole on the sidewalk in front of the Clark County Family Courts parking lot. The pole fell onto the woman who died at the scene of the single-vehicle crash.

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The present disclosure relates to an image forming apparatus for controlling a speed of a drive system for conveying a recording material.
2. Description of the Related Art
Among electrophotographic image forming apparatuses, there is an apparatus having a configuration in which a toner image formed with toner according to image data is borne on an intermediate transfer member, and the toner image on the intermediate transfer member is conveyed to a transfer unit by driving the intermediate transfer member. In this configuration, a recording material such as a sheet is supplied to be brought into contact with the toner image on the intermediate transfer member at timing when the toner image on the intermediate transfer member reaches the transfer unit. In the transfer unit, a


voltage difference is generated between the intermediate transfer member and the recording material, so that the toner image on the intermediate transfer member is transferred to the recording material. The recording material with the toner image transferred by the transfer unit is conveyed to a fixing unit. Then, the toner image on the recording material is fixed by heat and pressure of the fixing unit and discharged from the image forming apparatus.
In the image forming apparatus having such a configuration, a pair of registration rollers is disposed to stop the recording material in a predetermined position before the toner image on the intermediate transfer member reaches the transfer unit, and supply the recording material at timing when the toner image on the intermediate transfer member reaches the transferunit.
Herein, in an area near the transfer unit in a direction to which the recording material is conveyed, a force causing the toner on the intermediate transfer member to move to the recording material is generated by influence of a transfer electric field based on the potential difference between the intermediate transfer member and the recording material. Consequently, even near the transfer unit, the toner on the intermediate transfer member is transferred to the recording material. However, the force causing the toner to move to a recording material side continues to decrease near the transfer unit while the toner on the intermediate transfer member is moving to the recording material from the intermediate transfer member. Such a decrease in the force causes the toner to adhere to an


area on the recording material, the area being to which toner is not originally supposed to adhere. This becomes more noticeable as a gap between the recording material and the intermediate transfer member becomes wider near an upstream side of the transfer unit in a conveyance direction of the recording material, thereby causing deterioration in quality of an image formed by the image forming apparatus.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-240954 discusses the transfer of a toner image on an intermediate transfer member to a recording material in a state that the recording material being conveyed to a transfer unit is slightly distorted toward the side of the intermediate transfer member. Specifically, a speed of conveying the recording material by registration rollers is set slightly higher than that byaround them and despite them, displacing their narrative and no small percentage of their countrymen

In describing his agenda, Odeh casts himself as a nonviolent civil rights champion in the vein of Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States. He recalled his youth as an activist, his interrogation at the hands of the Shin Bet security agency and the rage that eventually led him to spar with police at demonstrations. Only when his anger was all used up did he conclude that his only way forward was to work with the Jews.

“In the end of 1998, I was elected to the Haifa city council,” he said. “I was like Malcolm X… I was Malcolm X all the time. It took me three to four years until I made


combat it is also growing.

Two-thirds of "elites" said they would sign a petition against anti-Semitism, while a third of all the respondents said they were willing to take part in demonstrations against anti-Semitism.

The vast majority of respondents recognized there was a rise in hostile behavior toward Jewish people in Germany, with 65% saying that rise was tied to the success of "right-wing extremist parties."

One in four respondents said it was possible that "something like the Holocaust could happen in Germany again."

Read more: German politicians slam right-wing populist AfD over rising anti-Semitism

Nastassja Shtrauchler contributed to this report.

Attacks on synagogues in Germany Cologne, 1959: Swastikas and hate speech In December 1959, two members of the Deutsche Reichspartei (DRP) right-wing extremist party painted swastikas and the words "Germans demand: Jews out"on the synagogue in Cologne. Anti-Semitic graffiti emerged across the country. The perpetrators were convicted, and the Bundestag passed a law against "incitement of the people," which remains on the books to this day.

Attacks on synagogues in Germany Lübeck, 1994: First arson attack on a temple in decades People across the world were horrified at the March 1994 attack on the synagogue in the northern city of Lübeck. For the first time in decades, a synagogue in Germany burned. Four right-wing extremists were eventually convicted of arson. The day after the fire, 4,000 locals took to the streets under the slogan "Lübeck holds its breath." In 1995, the same synagogue was hit by another arson attack.

Attacks on synagogues in Germany Essen, 2000: Stones hurled into Old Synagogue Armed


with paving stones, more than 100 Palestinians from Lebanon attacked the Old Synagogue in Essen in October 2000. The incident occurred after a demonstration against "violence in the Middle East." A police officer was injured. Mahmud Alaeddin, deputy head of the general delegation of Palestine in Germany, distanced himself from the attack.

Attacks on synagogues in Germany Düsseldorf, 2000: Arson and stones A 19-year-old Palestinian and a 20-year-old Moroccan damaged Düsseldorf's New Synagogue with incendiary devices and rocks in October 2000 as "revenge" against Jews and the state of Israel. "We need the respectable people to rebel" against anti-Semitism, then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder demanded. The federal and state governments and various NGOs launched campaigns to counter extremism.

Attacks on synagogues in Germany Mainz, 2010: Molotov cocktail attack shortly after inaugurationShortly after being inaugurated in September 2010, an arson attack hit the New Synagogue in Mainz during the night of October 30. The spectacular Deconstructivist building by architect Manuel Herz was erected on the site of the former main synagogue that was set on fire during the Kristallnacht, the Nazis' national night of pogroms, in 1938.

Attacks on synagogues in Germany Wuppertal, 2014: Incendiary devices In July 2014, three young Palestinians hurled incendiary devices at the front door of the synagogue in Wuppertal. In a highly controversial decision, the court ruled there was "no evidence whatsoever" of anti-Semitic motives. Jews in Germany and the foreign media were outraged. The chairman of the Jewish Community Wuppertal declared the ruling as "an invitation to further crimes."

Attacks on synagogues in Germany Berlin,


2019: Knife-wielding attacker A man wielding a knife climbed over a barrier at Berlin's New Synagogue on the eve of Shabbat on October 4, 2019, during the holy period between the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Security personnel overwhelmed the attacker, whose motive remained unclear. Police released him afterwards, a decision Jewish leaders called "a failure" of justice.

Attacks on synagogues in Germany Halle, 2019: Shooter on Yom Kippur About 80 people were in the synagogue on Wednesday afternoon to observe Yom Kippur, the Jewish calendar's holiest day. The alleged attacker reportedly attempted to shoot his way into the synagogue but was prevented by a safety door. Two passersby were shot to death and two were injured. The suspect, who has a history of right-wing extremist, anti-Semitic,Casey House: interpreting the location of a Toronto AIDS hospice.
This paper focuses on an overtly geographical issue, the introduction of a housing facility for people living with AIDS (PLWAs) into the urban landscape. Specifically, we critically analyze the location of Casey House, an AIDS hospice in Toronto and presently the only facility of its kind in Canada. Three questions are addressed: (i) how did Casey House come to exist?; (ii) why is Casey House located at the corner of Huntly Street and Isabella Street?; and (iii) will Casey House be reproduced? In our response to the first two questions, we draw selectively upon three perspectives (accessibility, structuralist and humanistic) that have been appealed to in analyses of (controversial) health care facility location processes. In the concluding discussion, three


several foreign fighters still holding hostages and refusing to surrender to the authorities.

The Philippine military, however, has not been triumphalist about the news of the top-level militant deaths. Officials are now cautiously assessing the situation on the ground before giving the green light for the return of hundreds of thousands of displaced Marawi residents.

Nonetheless, the prospect of an IS “wilayah“, or autonomous province, in the Philippines seems for now to have been contained. This, Duterte declared, “marks the beginning of rehabilitation” in the devastated city, many parts of which have been reduced to rubble. At the same time, the months-long siege has transformed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) into a nimbler force against urban-based insurgents.

For the past decade, Hapilon repeatedly eluded Philippine authorities. In fact, itdisplayed in front of a military post at Mapandi town in Marawi city, southern Philippines October 19, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Romeo Ranoco

The Maute brothers, Omar and Abdullah, brought in substantial financial and logistical resources, not to mention advanced military and theological training from the Middle East. The death of Hapilon and the Maute brothers would at first blush seem to indicate the elimination of IS’ politico-military leadership in the Philippines.

Intelligence, logistical and training assistance from traditional allies such as the United States and Australia, as well as new strategic partners China and Russia, was crucial to helping the AFP to cope with its first major experience in urban warfare. The Philippine military has decades of experience fighting rebel groups in rural and jungle settings.

The battle against Islamic extremism, however,


assume Hapilon’s leadership position.

However, it remains to be seen if he can forge and maintain as potent and audacious an alliance as his ambitious ASG predecessor.

With the setback to IS’ ambition to establish a wilayah in Mindanao, the next generation of IS-affiliated leaders is expected to switch, at least initially, to more targeted and spectacular terrorist attacks. That would be akin to IS’ tactical shift to high-profile terror attacks in late 2014 after suffering repeated military setbacks in its heartland.

As the Philippine government draws down its full-scale military operation in Marawi, with notable but quiet assistance from American Special Forces and Australian surveillance aircrafts, it is already under pressure to ramp up its intelligence-gathering capacities to prevent terror attacks in major urban centers, including outside of Mindanao.

In early The number of Children in the Home

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:   Toddler Development

ECE

:   Early Childhood Education

EPDS

:   Edinburgh Post Natal Depression Scale

GL

:   Good Language

LOTE

:   Language Other Than English

MECSH

:   Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home Visiting

PL

:   Poor Language

QCA

:   Qualitative Comparative Analysis

RCT

:   Randomised Control Trial

RS

:   Maternal Responsivity

SES

:   Socio Economic Status

VIQ

:   Verbal Intelligence Quotient

WPPSI-III

:   Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence

The authors would like to thank all of the mothers and children who gave up their time over many years to be part of this study. Thanks also to the many research officers and practitioners who collected data in the van and the clinic to name a few: Sheryl Sharkie,


Energy plays an important role in the development and construction of human life. The need for energy is imperative for survival and has become an important activity of human life. Energy is the key component when it comes to the advancement of civilization. Humans have continued to focus on controlling the flows and energy stores that are apart of nature. Chemical energy has been what people relied on and this energy was gained through food that was produced through mechanical energy of productive muscles.

Check Here,Tracing the history of the electrical power and identifying the person responsible for discovering energy is still a subject that is being questioned. The history of electricity goes back to 620-55- BCE, when one found that rubbing amber and fur together caused an attractionfurther acquisitions.

But the FCC, under chairman Ajit Pai, newly appointed to that post by Trump, has moved to reinstate an archaic rule known as the "UHF discount" that allows broadcasters to understate their overall reach. Industry expectations are that Sinclair's acquisition will be approved.

That will no doubt satisfy David D. Smith, Sinclair's growth-driven executive chairman who is responsible for the company's meteoric growth over the last two-and-a-half decades.

When Smith and his brothers took over their father's television company, in the early 1990s, it consisted of three local stations in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Columbus. With David as president and CEO, the Sinclair Broadcast Group blossomed to 59 stations in less than a decade. By 2014, that number had nearly tripled to 162. (Smith stepped down earlier this year and


became executive chairman.)

As Sinclair expanded across the country, so too did its conservative programming. Its ideological bent first came under scrutiny in 2004, when it sent a reporting crew to Iraq with the expressed intention of finding more positive stories about the war there. During the presidential election that year, it announced plans to air an hour-long special attacking Democratic nominee John Kerry. Sinclair's Washington bureau chief protested the special, telling NPR it was "biased political propaganda." He was subsequently fired.

Today, local television stations owned by Sinclair that were once apolitical have grown more conservative. From KOMO 4 News in Seattle, Washington, to WJLA 7 in Washington, D.C., there has been an increase in political news and programming, including the addition of shows like "Full Measure with SharylAttkisson" to "The Right Side with Armstrong Williams." Sinclair has also added reliably conservative political analysts like Mark Hyman, a former Sinclair executive, and Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump spokesperson. Many nightly news broadcasts have taken a more conservative tone, as well.

The influence of such changes is significant, especially in swing states. For all the growth of digital media, more Americans still get their news from local television than any other platform, according to a 2016 Pew Research survey. 46% of respondents said they got their news "often" from local TV, compared with 38% who said they often got news online and 31% who said they often got news from cable.

Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and adviser, was no doubt aware of local television's influence when he struck a


months before his victory, the FCC had voted to do away with the "UHF discount" on the grounds that it no longer applied in the digital age. Overnight, Sinclair's total reach jumped from 22% to just under 39%, threatening to preclude further growth.

The dissenting voice on that vote belonged to Pai, who then served as Republican commissioner under the Obama-appointed chairman Tom Wheeler. Among Pai's concerns was the fact that large television companies "will not have the ability to purchase television stations in any new market."

Four months later, Trump named Pai chairman of the agency.Teaching German

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East Germany's Doping Legacy Returns

German athletics coach Thomas Springstein has been sacked by his club and faces criminal charges after an investigation found banned substances at his home. He is also accused of supplying steroids to minors.

Grit Breuer, Springstein's partner, is also embroiled in the scandal

The specter of the former East Germany's doping culture reared its ugly head again on Thursday when leading German athletics coach Thomas Springstein was suspended by his club SC Magdeburg after a banned substance was found at his house during a state prosecutors' investigation into alleged drug use.

Springstein, the coach who trained Olympic 800 meters gold medal winner Nils Schumann and shamed double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe, had been under investigation since August this year after the German Athletics Federation (DLV)


reported him on suspicion of violating medicine laws and possible attempted bodily harm.

The on-going investigation led to authorities searching the trainer's home on Tuesday and the discovery of medicines containing a banned hormone, state prosecutors said in a statement.

Springstein's club SC Magdeburg took action against the coach, who is allegedly on vacation in Greece, when it was revealed that prosecutors believed there were "concrete signs" that Springstein had supplied several members of his training group with performance-enhancing substances which could have harmful side-effects.

Young athletes mentioned in accusations

"The accused is suspected of giving medical preparations with banned doping substances to members of his training group, some of whom are still youths, to increase their performances," the prosecutors' statement said. It is reported that Springstein administered steroids to at leastone athlete among four 17 and 18-year-old women he was training for SC Magdeburg.

The athletics club added that it reserved the right to start legal proceedings against the 46-year-old and was considering doing so. Springstein could face a prison sentence of between one and 10 years if found guilty of the charges.

Springstein's lawyer issued a statement saying the accusations were "absurd." Peter-Michael Diestel said "The accusations reported by the media are totally fabricated."

German sprint star in hot water

Grit Breuer (center) is accused of missing a drugs test.

Springstein is not alone in the developing scandal. His partner, the German sprinter Grit Breuer, the former 400 meter European champion, is also in trouble after missing a random drugs test on Wednesday, German anti-doping agency NADA confirmed on Thursday. Breuer, who


is believed to be in Greece with Springstein, is accused of failing to tell the DLV and NADA of her whereabouts.

"That goes against doping guidelines and has consequences," explained NADA spokesman Matthias Blatt. "Athletes have to let the association know if they are away from their residence for more than three days."

Breuer's absence was noticed after the head of NADA tried to contact the five-time European champion on Wednesday. "This is a violation of doping guidelines, which will have consequences," Blatt told German sports agency SID.

Breuer is also represented by Springstein's lawyer Peter-Michael Diestel who said the sprinter had informed SC Magdeburg that she was taking a holiday. "My clients will make a constructive contribution towards an explanation after these absurd accusations," the lawyer said. "I have contactedthe state prosecutor investigating the case to inform him of that," he added.

No strangers to controversy

It is not the first time that the duo has been embroiled in a drugs related controversy. Breuer and her East German compatriot Krabbe, both coached by Springstein, were suspended for two years for using the banned steroid clenbuterol in 1992. Krabbe won the 100 meter and 200 meter world titles in 1991 while Breuer won the 400 meters European title in 1990.

Springstein said in 1992 he had given Krabbe and two of her club mates the drug, which acts as an anabolic stimulating the conversion of fat into muscle, but did not know it was a banned substance.

Schumann jumps ship

German sprinter Nils Schumann has distanced himself from Springstein.

Meanwhile, Germany's 800m Olympic 2000


champion Nils Schumann announced on Thursday he will no longer work with Springstein in the wake of the doping revelations. "Nils Schumann will discuss further measures and his sporting future with his club and the German Athletics Federation in the next few days," read a statement from Schumann's manager Frank Thaleiser.

Schumann, who did not start at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens due to injury, was said to be shocked at the drugs allegations surrounding his former coach.The present invention relates to slot machines of the type having a plurality of reels caused to rotate by pulse motors and, in particular, to slot machines of the type in which a plurality of reels are brought to a stop by pushing stopswitches respectively associated therewith.
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Committee to address graduate worker conflicts

February 10, 2014

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Eight members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee/United Automobile Workers were elected to be a part of the GSOC/UAW Local 2110 Bargaining Committee on Feb. 5. The nominations opened on Jan. 22 and, according to the notice about nominations, all eligible union supporters were automatically nominated. The nominees who wanted to participate had to submit an acceptance by Jan. 31.

When all steps in the process were completed, Pushkar Bharambe, Lily Defriend, Brady Fletcher, Yeshim Iqbal, Aryeh Katz, Jeong Min Kim, Natasha Raheja and Theadora Tolkin became the official members.

The group had been waiting to agree on an updated contract with NYU for eight years but had faced opposition to unionization from the administration until last semester.

“The possibility that IBritish, warning that demand for money may not be that stable in the early stages of EMU. Tracking it alone could be prove misleading and potentially damaging the credibility of the new central bank, the report says. So the report leaves the final decision to the European Central Bank, which will also will take over in 1999.

The EMI did rule out three other possible monetary targets: interest rates, nominal income and exchange rates, a policy now followed in the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria.

If all this seems a bit arcane, it is. "It's a theoretical red herring," says Guenther Thumann, a former German government official who now is Salomon Brothers' EMU expert.

Yet behind the academic debate lies the serious question of how the European Central Bank will convince financial


markets that it's serious about ensuring the vaunted goal of price stability and is going about it in the right way. At the same time, it must forge a consensus among central bankers, some of whom chafe at following the Bundesbank's lead.

Already, some investors fear that the euro will be weak compared with the mark and that the new monetary zone will include countries that qualified for EMU only by dint of bookkeeping tricks and unsustainable belt-tightening. If that view spreads, it could mean higher interest rates for Germans and citizens in other so-called "core countries," some of whom already are resisting giving up their national currencies.

The first round of EMU participants will be named in early 1998 on the basis of economic criteria such inflation rates andpublic-sector deficit levels.

Mr. Thumann, for one, is betting that in practice, the European Central Bank will act a lot like the Bundesbank. After all, analysts say, German central bank often gives little more than lip service to its more than 20-year-old tradition of targeting the growth in M3, or cash in circulation, sight deposits, time deposits and most savings accounts. Even so, the Bundesbank and the mark have become the anchor of Europe.

"If the European Central Bank is a clone of the Bundesbank, it increases the chances that the currency will behave like the Deutsche mark," says Michael Lewis, senior economist with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in London. Mr. Lamfalussy himself insists that the euro "is likely to be a stable and reasonably strong currency."

But the unresolved questions extend


their voice, and the Progressives are growing and mobilising in new movements. It takes time for new progressive politics to take shape, with some false dawns. The way forward, what the “politics of paradise” will look like, is for another occasion. But a reconfiguration of society is coming.

Guy Standing is a professorial research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is author of the bestselling “The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class,” co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network and has advised international organizations and governments on labour and social policy.

Opinions expressed in View articles are not those of Euronews.a standards for digital wayfinding and UsTwo, the Shoreditch-based game and app developer—tracks my location as I travel through the station via the ceiling-mounted beacons (whose batteries last for a year apiece).

Within five minutes I am at the platform, without having put a foot wrong.

Euston is the third station in which the Wayfindr technology has been trialled with volunteers in the UK (similar trials will take place in other global locations in the coming months). Some might see the technology as an unnecessary indulgence. After all, TFL already provides a service to partially sighted Londoners to help them get to their destination. Turn up at the ticket barrier at any London Underground station and tell a member of staff which station you’re trying to get to, and they


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Pastor Steven Anderson claims he was tortured during a common border patrol stop in Arizona.

Anderson grew up in Sacramento and was active at the Regency Baptist
Church. His father who lives in Roseville is outraged over his son's
treatment.

"I was appalled they could do that in the U.S.; beat and torture
somebody who didn't resist, but just wouldn't let them search his car,"
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Anderson, who heads a church in Phoenix, was stopped at a boarder patrol check point 75 miles east of Yuma.

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In the continuing conflict between the sovereign Mohawk Nation, US and Canadian federal securityMovement.

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Sheehan's plan to lead a "march on former President Bush's new home in
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Somehow Liberty Rider emerges unhurt, unburnt, technically intact and dry. And so he continues on, pedaling the "Ride For Honesty" message across America. Check his blog for his route and meet him if he comes cranking by you!

The standoff over armed border checkpoints on sovereign native land continues, but with some traditional mediation as the elder culture in


the dispute resorts to it's highest level of recorded treaty law: the Wampums.

What began under George Bush continues under Barack Obama -
targeting dedicated activists with "one of today's most serious
domestic terrorism threats," according former FBI Deputy Assistant
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that created the federal crime of "domestic terrorism" and applied it
to US citizens as well as aliens.considerable gap between her and her brother, Little Frank) is why she is so highly educated. Not that no women were ever educated at the time, but at the age of 14 she’s essentially her father’s business manager and book keeper, and handles legal matters with the family lawyer. In many ways, she’s been groomed as the heir to the family business, the “man” of the house when her father is away. When her father is murdered and robbed in Fort Smith by a tenant farmer, it’s Mattie (again at the age of 14, alone and female) who travels far from home to take care of his business and get justice/revenge. Adults in Fort Smith are quick to underestimate her due to her age and her gender, but


she shows a quick wit and steady head for business. She’s calculating, cold when she needs to be. She’s stubborn and persistent and insists on getting her due. She earns the respect of both Rooster Cogburn, the Marshall she hires to go after Tom Chaney, the coward her shot her father, and LeBoef (pronounced “LeBeef”), the Texas Ranger who is also after him for shooting a senator.

The novel– and both movies– are told in flashback. They’re narrated 25 years after the events of the story by an older Mattie– one who elected not to marry, one who is wealthy and powerful and knows her own worth and was not interested in marriage or being reliant on a husband. She refuses offers to write newspaper articles about her experiencesRace and the Science of Starvation

Among the specious claims about the role of meat in the history of humanity: A meat-rich diet brings with it a masculine vigor that distinguishes carnivorous races.

Soldiers exercising in a gymnasium. From Russell Chittenden's 1905 book "Physiological Economy in Nutrition."

Prior to the identification of the micronutrients we call vitamins in the 1930s, nutrition science was mainly a science of animal energetics, or the study of how animals metabolize food into energy. Animal energetics, in turn, was a science of animal starvation. It was also a science of race.

The questions physiologists asked about animal energetics were straightforward: How much energy was required to keep an animal from starving under various conditions (for example, physical regimen, ambient temperature)? How much protein — specifically, in the


animals were sacrificed by starvation: rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, cats, and dogs. Physiologists were partial to dogs, and canine hunger artists were cited with approval in the energetics literature into the 1950s. A dog in one lab in Tokyo was reported in 1898 to have survived 98 days without food before succumbing, having lost 65 percent of its body mass. Fourteen years later, physiologists at the University of Illinois reported they had fasted their dog Oscar 117 days before ending the experiment: Oscar refused to manifest the increase in excreted nitrogen typical of late-stage morbidity and in fact remained in such good spirits, as his handlers reported, that he had to be restrained as the fast went on from leaping out of and into his cage beforedoing light work needed to consume 118 grams of protein per day — a grossly high estimate by today’s measure. Image: Wikipedia

Chittenden put groups of Yale athletes and newly inducted U.S. Army soldiers (N of eight and 13, respectively) on carefully controlled diets and exercise regimens and observed them over a period of months — their food intake, their excreta, and their performance on various measures of fitness. He also kept notes on his own food intake and physical activity. The diets in question were experimental only in the sense that portions and protein content were controlled. In other respects, the food was ordinary and not especially healthy (lunch for the soldiers for one week included hamburgers, macaroni and cheese, clam chowder, bean porridge, and beef stew).

Opinion was


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The Death of a Treaty

On October 13, 1999, the U.S. Senate conspicuously failed to give its consent to ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The CTBT was the Clinton administration’s major arms control initiative at the time, and the treaty’s high-profile rejection was widely considered the president’s worst foreign policy defeat in Congress. The vote was a stark 48 to 51—not even a majority in the treaty’s favor, and far below the two-thirds required for approval. Despite the Democratic takeover of the Senate in 2001, the CTBT still sits with the Foreign Relations Committee, where it reverted at the end of the 106th Congress. Even if the Senate were to act, the treaty’s ratification by President George W. Bush seems most unlikely. The United States continues tomaintain the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing that it has observed since 1992, but the administration argues that the war on terrorism may require the development of new tactical nuclear weapons and it wants to shorten the time that it would take for the United States to resume nuclear testing. Moreover, although Bush professes deep concern about the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the wake of September 11, he shows little faith in the efficacy of treaty law as a means of thwarting it. The administration has, to be sure, signed and sent to the Senate a two- page arms reduction treaty with Moscow. But it repeatedly said that such a treaty was unnecessary, agreed to it largely as a quid pro quo for Russia’s acquiescence


father’s administration.

Looked at up close, however, the CTBT train wreck seems less the stuff of history than an accident of politics, an executive- legislative stalemate that resulted from clashing institutional interests, partisan struggle, intraparty factionalism, and personal vindictiveness. Certainly it was a story of zealotry, conspiracy, and incompetence in which all the key players share responsibility for an outcome that only a minority really desired. But the Senate’s action was also a result of conflicting substantive judgments on such matters as the science of nuclear weapons development, the politics of nuclear proliferation, the parameters of military deterrence, and the requirements of the national interest. The story is worth reviewing not only for its inherent drama or because it lays bare how hardball politics is played on key foreignthe safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal would be maintained through a $4.5-billion-a-year stockpile stewardship program, using supercomputer simulations, laser blasts, and subnuclear tests of components, including the high explosives used to trigger atomic bombs. As of July 2002, 165 nations had signed and 93 ratified the CTBT. But the treaty can come into force only when it is ratified by all nuclear-capable states—a total of 44 countries. To date it lacks ratifications from a dozen of those nations, in addition to the United States.

When the Clinton administration sent the CTBT to the Senate in September 1997, it had a distinguished record in arms control, having successfully held the Soviet successor states to their renunciation of nuclear weapons, engineered an indefinite extension of the 1968 nuclear


percent certain in national defense, but that the CTBT would surely help stop nuclear proliferation.

These arguments played themselves out against the background of the long struggle, unprecedented in living memory for its personal and partisan bitterness, between Clinton and the conservative Republicans who had taken control of Congress in 1994. The actual defeat of the treaty, however, was precipitated when Senate activists in both parties forced their leaders into strategic and tactical decisions that engaged intraparty factional differences at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, all operating under pressure from grassroots political constituencies and special interests concerned with arms control. It is a story at once highly predictable and totally surprising, a story, for good or ill, of democracy at work in foreign affairs.

Facing Off

The CTBT’s defeat in theU.S. nuclear weapons, and that defeat would strengthen the hand of American nonproliferation negotiators by making U.S. minimum standards for such treaties clear.

In the spring of 1999, Kyl and a few colleagues began contacting like-minded Republican senators to canvass their possible votes, carefully avoiding those who might make the effort known. The group then orchestrated a quiet but elaborate campaign to move those leaning against the treaty into the “no” column. Staffers prepared elaborate briefing books for this inside game, and meetings were scheduled with (and letters and phone calls generated from) experts known to be against the treaty, including former secretaries of defense and weapons scientists. By the end of September, Kyl and company had 42 out of 55 Senate Republicans pledged to vote against the CTBT,


the end, the clash of those intraparty factions may well have had more impact on the treaty’s disposition than either the key senators who kicked off the fight or the party leaders who took it on.

Those who worked on the CTBT at the White House came at the issue rather differently than did Democrats in the Senate. Although administration staffers shared the frustrations of their colleagues on Capitol Hill at the Republicans’ refusal to give the treaty a fair hearing, they were convinced there was no way out without Republican cooperation. For them the CWC was also a precedent, but one that proved the absolute necessity of removing the treaty as a political issue and negotiating amendments that would satisfy senators’ doubts, a process they thought would requirealso had factional splits in his own party to worry about. Republicans divided into roughly four camps on the CTBT as it was presented to them in early October 1999. First, of course, were members of the Kyl group who worked for its defeat. At the other extreme were those who wanted to see the CTBT ratified, including particularly the four Republicans who voted for it: the late John Chafee (R.I.), Arlen Specter (Penn.), Gordon Smith (Ore.), and then Republican Jeffords.

In the middle were Republicans who ultimately voted against the treaty but would have preferred that the vote be postponed. This group was in turn divided: some were opposed to the CTBT but wanted to avoid the setback to nonproliferation efforts and the embarrassment to the United States


leader requesting the postponement, but he refused as a matter of principle to go further. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger explained, “The president believes that it is inappropriate for him to say to the world that the United States is out of the non-proliferation business during an election year.”

With the president unwilling to meet both of the Republican conditions, the majority leader came under enormous pressure. On one side were those wanting to call off the vote, and on the other were those insisting that the treaty be defeated. His own caucus was almost evenly split on the issue, although the Kyl group had the upper hand procedurally, since any single senator could block a negotiated change in a UC. Still, the Democrats tried to help Lott findUnion of Concerned Scientists urged the Senate to approve, the American Physical Society produced 32 Nobel laureates who confirmed that nuclear weapons reliability could be assured without testing, and the American Geophysical Union and the Seismological Society of America affirmed that the treaty’s sensor array would make surreptitious testing by other nations impossible. In his 1998 State of the Union address Clinton noted endorsements by four former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and White House operatives helped generate an October 8 op-ed in The New York Times by the premiers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom urging the Senate to approve the CTBT. The Kyl group was equally active on the antitreaty side. Six Republican former secretaries of defense signed a letter arguing that confidence


in the reliability of nuclear weapons would inevitably decline without nuclear testing, undermining deterrence. One of them, James Schlesinger, was brought in by antitreaty staff to brief Republican lawmakers on the CTBT, and several insiders said he was instrumental in persuading many (including Lott) to vote against the treaty. Having failed in an earlier effort advocating postponement, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote on the day of the vote opposing approval. Among the most influential individuals in the CTBT debate were the directors of the nation’s three nuclear-weapons labs. In February 1998 Clinton had visited the lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico, to promote the treaty, and the directors had issued a supportive statement, assuring the nation that the “stockpile stewardship program will enable us to maintainof doubt that treaty opponents were able to create as they forced a rapid vote on the CTBT.

Inside the Sausage Factory

In the aftermath, the two sides were as divided on the causes of the CTBT’s defeat as they had been on the treaty itself. Democrats maintained that a willful group of senators, using personal animosities, partisan discipline, clever parliamentary tactics, and their control over the Senate, had undermined the will of the majority, causing at least embarrassment and at worst real damage to the interests of the United States in the world. Byrd charged that the Senate had followed procedures that “effectively abdicated its duty” to advise and consent, while Clinton attributed the defeat to “politics, pure and simple.” To most Republicans, on the other hand, the treaty


War threats. Many conservative Republicans in Congress, on the other hand, were unilateralist in their approach to national security matters, believing that it was naive at best and dangerous at worst for the United States to try to cooperate with threatening states or to trust its security to paper promises. Their alternative to arms control treaties was a strong military and a national missile defense system that would physically defend the nation against attack.

Although somewhat weakened since their heyday in the late 1990s, unilateralists are still dominant in the House of Representatives and in the Senate’s minority leadership. Will George W. Bush follow their lead, or will he follow the cooperative internationalist example set by his father? So far his record is decidedly mixed, with the clash betweenswitching elements 92U, 92V, and 92W at an upper side of the inverter are switched on and off. A second transient voltage V2 occurs between an emitter and a collector of switching elements 92X, 92Y, and 92Z in off-state, when switching elements 92X, 92Y, and 92Z are switched on and off at the lower side of the inverter by the PWM control. Moreover, both the first transient voltage V1 and the second transient voltage V2 are greater than the voltage in a normal condition. This relationship between voltages is known in the art.
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Almost 1,000 children in Dublin are homeless and living in emergency accommodation, the latest official figures show.

The figures, from the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE), show that during the week of March 23rd to March 29th there were 411 families in emergency accommodation in the capital with 911 children.

Some 251 of these were headed by single parents, and 160 by couples. The total number of adults and children in family units in emergency accommodation last month was 1,482.

These figures compare with 371 families with 803 children in emergency accommodation in Dublin the previous month and represent the biggest monthly increase since the family homelessness crisis in the capital began to escalate last year.

The latest figures also represent a 55 per cent increase in the number of homeless familiesin the capital since June last year, and a 60 per cent increase in the number of children. In that month, which is when comparable data was first gathered, there were 264 families with 567 children in emergency accommodation.

Sharp increase

The vast majority of these families are coming from the private rented sector, where in Dublin rents increased by an average of 7 per cent from €1,216 to €1,301 for houses last year and by 10.9 per cent, from €1,051 to €1,166, for apartments.

A spokeswoman for the DRHE, which co-ordinates homeless services across the four local authorities in the capital, said services were “managing an unprecedented demand for [emergency accommodation] in the Dublin region”.

“Local authority staff are working on a daily basis to ensure that families who are at


BERLIN – Police are investigating what they call an altercation between two high school students, as a video shared on Facebook shows a student repeatedly punching another in the cafeteria.

An "altercation involving two Berlin High School students" happened around noon Thursday, according to Berlin police. School administrators are aware of the incident and are working with police to "ensure the matter is thoroughly investigated."

The video, which Michelle Nigbor shared on Facebook, shows a male student in a blue sweatshirt repeatedly punching another male student in the head while he covers his head and face with his arms. The student being punched is seated at a table and eventually falls to the ground, when the other can be seen stomping on his head.

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A video uploaded to Facebook shows onestudent from Berlin High School repeatedly punching another boy in the head and face Thursday during the school day.
Courtesy of Michelle Nigbor

In a statement to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, School Board President Catherine Kujawa said the board is taking what happened very seriously.

"Every student should be safe when they are in school. We do not tolerate any form of harassment or altercations, which is why law enforcement was notified and is now investigating this matter," Kujawa said in a written statement from the board.

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin was unable to verify the video's authenticity with police or school authorities, and police say they are not releasing any more details.

Nigbor, whose daughter is a student at Berlin High School, said the boy came up behind the other student and started punching


him because the boy getting punched had been talking to his girlfriend. The student seen throwing punches was suspended from school for three days, she said.

She said the video was very concerning and thinks it highlights what she called the school's problem with bullying and the administration's lack of action. She said her own daughter has been a victim of bullying at the school and was suspended for one day for defending herself during a fight.

"It seems like there’s no adult supervision," Nigbor said. "I don't know where these teachers are hiding or what they're doing."

Safety is a priority at Berlin schools, but it should go beyond the school, Kujawa said.

"The community at large, parents, friends and neighbors need to encourage students to make positive personal choices; toJohnson's Dictionary (1827), which retains Johnson's definitions but changes the spelling to judgement.
Joseph Worcester, A Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1 (1860), page 794, has this interesting note on the orthography of the word:

The following words, abridgment, acknowledgment, and judgment, are to be found, with the orthography here given, in the English dictionaries which preceded the publication of Mr. Todd's improved editions of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Todd altered Johnson's orthography of these words by the insertion of an e, thus, abridgement, acknowledgement, judgement; and he remarks, "Several authors have revived this orthography, retaining the e to soften, as Lowth observes on judgement, the preceding g, and as Johnson himself analogically writes lodgement."
The English dictionaries of Jameson and Smart, which have appeared since the publication of Todd's edition


had alerted the media, who were at the AWU offices even before the police arrived.

Her admission – which sparked fiery exchanges at the Senate committee – came after BuzzFeed reported it had confirmed with journalists that the information to media outlets had come from Cash’s office.

Cash told the Senate estimates hearing the tip-off was without her knowledge. She did not name the staff member, who is David De Garis.

Asked whether he had been sacked, Cash said he had walked in stating he was resigning, and then given his reasons.

Hours earlier De Garis had been present when Cash met Malcolm Turnbull.

The opposition rejected Cash’s account and has called for her resignation. Manager of Opposition Business Tony Burke told the House of Representatives: “The wrong person has resigned.

“There needs tobe a resignation here because it defies credulity that senator Cash gave false information five times to the Senate and her staff said nothing.”

Cash triggered the probe – being done by the Registered Organisations Commission (ROC) – into the 2005 donation, made when Shorten was union secretary. Shorten was one of the founding directors of GetUp.

The ROC, which was established after legislation for it formed part of the 2016 double-dissolution election, launched the investigation when Cash referred the donation matter to it in a letter dated August 15.

She cited reporting in The Australian raising questions about the approval process for the donation. Both Shorten’s office and the AWU said the donation had been endorsed by the union’s national executive.

What is at issue is whether the GetUp donation was


to the union. All of that happens every day of the week, everywhere in Australia all the time. Including frankly, the odd bit of, you know, ancient Spanish practices and a bit of bastardry on the way through. That’s all the nature of politics.

The question is what happens if advisers overstep their roles?

Ministerial responsibility and political advisers

According to the doctrine of ministerial responsibility, ministers are responsible to parliament for the acts of their departments.

British academic Sir Ivor Jennings wrote that the “act of every civil servant is by convention regarded as the act of the minister”. And British MP Lord Morrison proclaimed that the “minister is responsible for every stamp stuck on an envelope”.

But it is doubtful that this principle has ever reflected reality. It is rare forof a war with Russia in Central
Asia; but it has been comforted by the restoration of the fortress of
Gwalior to Maharaja Sindia. Moreover, Burma is no longer confounded with
Bermuda, and no one groans over the annexation of the country, or the
destruction of brigandage by the new rulers. Still there is room for
more knowledge. The author, however, has before him a letter from an old
friend in high position in India, who tells him plainly that the British
government does not want history. Accordingly, the present work is not
called a _History of India_, but _India under British Rule_.

More than one British ruler in India has, however, sinned against
history, and might well like to shut it up with confidential minutes and
secret negotiations. Within the present century, India has been
desolated by wars as


of British India: proposed Reforms.
                                                    _Pages_ 275-302

    INDEX                                           _Pages_ 303-312

INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE.

PART I.

_EAST INDIA COMPANY._

CHAPTER I.

FIRST PERIOD: FACTORIES, FORTRESSES, TOWNS.

1600-1756.

     Sec. 1. India in 1600. Sec. 2.those of his Mogul ancestor, Chenghiz Khan; and within a few years
the slave trade at Madras was as brisk as ever.

[Sidenote: British toleration.]

Sec. 7. The Mogul conquest of the Sultans of the Deccan drove many
Mohammedans to settle at Madras. The British traders protected the lives
and property of Hindus and Mohammedans, and permitted them to worship
as they pleased. In early days, the Directors had repeatedly pressed
their servants at Madras to convert the Hindu worshippers of idols to
the truths of Christianity, and no one in the British Isles seems to
have doubted the possibility or expediency of the work. The British
traders at Madras, however, deprecated any interference whatever. They
described a terrible riot that broke out at St. Thome because of some
interference with a Hindu procession, and they urged that the frays
between


months they were induced by Warren Hastings to return to
Berar. No movement of any kind was undertaken against Bombay; and thus
the strange confederation of Mohammedans and Mahrattas melted away.

[Sidenote: Parliament interferes.]

Sec. 13. The quarrels, the wars, and the irregularities of Warren
Hastings induced the British Parliament to attempt radical changes. The
antagonism between Philip Francis and Warren Hastings had led to a duel,
in which Francis was wounded; and he returned to England to pour his
bitter prejudices against Warren Hastings into the ears of Burke and
Fox. The result was that a bitter animosity was excited, not only
against Warren Hastings, but against the East India Company; and
Parliament was called upon to decide whether the control of the
administration of British India ought not to be transferred from the
Court of Directors to the BritishPatiala.

Runjeet Singh was naturally disgusted at being checked by British
interference. It was unfair, he said, for the British to wait until he
had conquered the three states, and then to demand possession. Metcalfe
cleverly dropped the question of justice, and appealed to Runjeet
Singh's self-interest. By giving up the three states, Runjeet Singh
would secure an alliance with the British, a strong frontier on the
Sutlej, and freedom to push his conquests on the north and west. Runjeet
Singh took the hint. He withdrew his pretensions from the British side
of the Sutlej, and professed a friendship which remained unbroken until
his death in 1839; but he knew what he was about. He conquered Cashmere
on the north, and he wrested Peshawar from the Afghans; but he refused
to open his dominions to British trade, and he was


Peishwa.]

Lord Hastings wanted to crush the Pindharies, but to avoid all collision
with the Mahrattas. The Peishwa, however, seemed bent on provoking
British interference. A Brahman envoy, from the Gaekwar of Baroda, had
been sent to Poona, under a British guarantee, to settle some obsolete
dispute about chout, and, in spite of the guarantee, the Brahman had
been barbarously murdered, under the orders of the Peishwa and his
minister. Lord Hastings accepted the explanation of the Peishwa that he
was innocent of the murder, but ordered the Mahratta minister to be
imprisoned in the fortress of Thanna, near Bombay. Later on the minister
escaped from the fortress with the connivance of the Peishwa, and was
secretly protected by the Peishwa, and it seemed impossible to condone
the offence.

[Sidenote: Elphinstone and Malcolm.]

At this crisis Mr. Mountstuart Elphinstone, one of the25,000 horse and 6,000 Arab infantry. Staunton had but ten
British officers and twenty-four British gunners with two six-pounders.
Staunton occupied the village, but was environed by the Peishwa's army,
and cut off from all supplies and water. The Mahrattas were mad to
capture the village. Three times they tried to storm it with rockets,
but were beaten back by sheer pluck and desperation. Raging with hunger
and thirst, Bombay sepoys and British officers and gunners fought like
heroes, whilst the Peishwa looked on in anger and despair from a
neighbouring hill. Staunton lost a third of his sepoys and eight out of
his ten officers, but the Mahrattas left six hundred killed and wounded
on the field. Next morning the Mahrattas refused to renew the fight,
and the army of the Peishwa moved away.

[Sidenote: Extinction of the Peishwa,