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Over the past few weeks, since February 11th to be exact, the Cleveland Browns have been quickly putting together one of the best rosters in the AFC. It all started when they signed the troubled Kareem Hunt (I’ll talk about him more later), and how it has now culminated in the blockbuster trade with New York and some major signings in Free Agency. With many thanks to General Manager John Dorsey, the Browns have finally put together a team that looks to contend for the AFC North, if not the entire league.

The Browns made headlines in February when they made the decision to bolster their already-mighty backfield of Nick Chubb and Duke Johnson by signing Kareem Hunt. Atthe minds of millions of football fans across the country. This trade has been rumored for months now, and it has finally happened. This reunites OBJ with his friend and former college teammate Jarvis Landry, and their old receivers coach from LSU, Adam Henry. Beckham was the OROY in 2014, is a three time Pro-Bowler, and has had four 1000-yard seasons under his belt in his first five seasons in the league. Beckham also joins Rashard Higgins, Antonio Callaway, recent-signee Jalen Strong and others to make one of the best receiving cores in the NFL.

The Cleveland Browns have also bolstered their offensive line this offseason. Starting with the resigning of Greg Robinson, the Browns have also signed G Eric Kush and T Kendall Lamm. They join a decent


Browns OL, and should help to give depth to the position that they needed more of last season. Losing Zeitler hurts, but Cleveland did a good job to replace him. They also added TE Demetrius Harris, who gives Baker Mayfield one more weapon alongside TE David Njoku.

The defensive line has quickly become one of the best in the league. This new DL is downright scary. Joining DE Myles Garrett and DT Larry Ogunjobi are DT Sheldon Richardson from Minnesota and DE Olivier Vernon. Richardson has always been a force to be reckoned with, and Vernon is coming off of one of his better seasons. Even with his 2018 being cut short by injury, he was still able to record 7 sacks and 21 QB hits, according to ProIn a shocking discovery, the police on Sunday retrieved as many as 19 female foetuses from a sewer in a village in western Maharashtra’s Sangli district.

The police, while investigating the death of 26-year-old Swati Jamdade, allegedly after an illegal abortion went awry on March 3, discovered the abandoned foetuses in blue plastic bags in the sewer a few yards away from a private clinic at Mhaisal village, 260 km from here, on Sunday.

The clinic, named ‘Bharati Hospital’ is run by one Dr. Babasaheb Khidrapure. He and an accomplice allegedly ran this racket. His wife is suspected to have been involved as well.

The doctor, who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Homoeopathy, is on the run, said Sangli Superintendent of Police Dattatray Shinde. A number of health authorities from the


that few, if any, of these proposals had ever been seen by, much less negotiated among, the other parties. It is clear that such negotiations would not have been a useless formality, first, because agreements were worked out in open court after the proposals and their impact on desegregation were clarified and, in several instances, after the school defendants modified their motions in response to objections by other parties. Secondly, the negotiation process succeeded last year in producing a major modification of the court's February 24, 1976 order governing rating and screening of administrative personnel.
More significant in the context of the present orders is the school defendants' failure to comply with the court's order included in the Orders of Disengagement that proposed modifications be "detailed, complete, and includeBoston High business magnet is an example of the careful planning and community involvement which is necessary to realize the desegregative potential of a magnet in a community which is geographically isolated and has a neglible number of black residents. Extensive discussions and specific planning for a magnet component at East Boston High began, pursuant to the court's order of May 3, 1976, a full year and a half prior to its implementation in September of 1977. It is this sort of negotiation and planning that the December 23, 1982 Orders of Disengagement require.
On the other hand, the school defendants have identified several advantageous aspects of their proposal were it to succeed: it would eliminate a racially identifiable middle school, the Barnes; it would remove the occasion for


expending substantial funds to renovate the Barnes; and it would enable resources and energy to be concentrated on improving the science education at Technical High. These aspects of the proposal may be sufficient justification for adoption of the Umana modification at some future date.

Examination Schools
Subdivision 6 of the school defendants' motion is a proposal to add grade six to the Boston Latin School and Latin Academy and grades six through eight to Boston Technical. This proposal, though significantly less sweeping than the Umana School proposal, still lacks crucial information on the extent of the impact of this change in grade structure on the overall desegregation of the Latin schools and on the ability of the school defendants to maintain desegregation at the sixth grade at the non-exam schoolsa disproportionately greater number of white students will be drawn from public middle schools. A substantial decrease in the number of white sixth graders at non-exam middle schools could impede meaningful desegregation at those schools. In addition, plaintiff's counsel has pointed out that the school defendants proposal may accelerate the current trend toward concentration of white students in the Latin schools, stating that if the proportion of white students making up the Latin schools' population remains constant, 43% of all white seventh through twelfth graders in the public schools will be attending these two schools by 1988.
However, since the necessary factual analysis of the desegregative impact of this proposal can be readily accomplished by the school defendants, the court will defer decision on this matter.[2] Although the impact


councils, individual parents, the Latin Schools' associations, the headmaster of *811 the Latin School and other concerned members of the community. These criticisms address the inadequacies of the Latin schools' facilities and staff to accommodate sixth grade students and the educational and pedagogical drawbacks of the proposal. Whatever the merits of these criticisms, and they seem to have merit, they are essentially educational quality issues and, as such, are beyond the proper limits of the court's involvement in the affairs of the school system. Morgan v. McKeigue, 1 Cir.1984, 726 F.2d 33, 34. The obligation to make decisions which affect only the quality of education for all students rests solely with the superintendent and school committee.
The school defendants' motion as far as it seeks to add grades sixthrough eight to Boston Technical High School is denied. Unlike the addition of grade six at the Latin schools, absolutely no desegregative nor educational justification for this aspect of the proposal has been advanced. In fact, any mention of Tech in connection with the pending motion was conspicuous in its absence, both at the hearing on January 14, 1985 and in the proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law submitted by the parties. The only reason suggested by the school defendants, or any other party, for transforming the grade structures at the examination schools was the burden placed on Boston public school students by having to enter into competition for admission at grade seven in the midst of adjusting to a new middle school at grade six.


the desegregation of the sending school. Such students would be recruited without regard to their district or geocode. In many ways this proposal represents an adaptation of the policy of encouraging transfers for desegregation first introduced by the court in its student assignment plan issued May 10, 1975. Subdivision 9, as modified, was adopted in principle during the hearing of February 11, 1985, with the assent of the parties. At that hearing, the school defendants sought to add 31 more schools to the list of 27 schools submitted to the parties and the court. This last-minute modification is rejected because of the lack of opportunity for the court and the other parties to consider their inclusion and also because of the comparative success this last-minute group of schoolsare assigned voluntarily and some mandatorily to the same school, (ii) the impact of the program on the school defendants' efforts to desegregate other community district and citywide schools, and (iii) the value of the program compared to the time and resources it may divert from other tasks of the Department of Implementation.

Test of New Assignment Plan in Districts 3 and 4
The motion filed on December 20, 1984 by the school defendants concerning districts 3 and 4 was significantly modified during the hearing held on February 11, 1985. Originally the motion requested that students in those districts be assigned under the terms of the new proposal beginning in the fall of 1985. The proposal has been modified, largely during the hearing on February 11, so its implementation is


with careful planning of magnet programs and the years of cooperation of paired universities, colleges, and businesses, magnet schools are limited in their appeal.
The evidence offered at the hearing on this matter does not support a more positive conclusion. The survey commissioned by the Citywide Education Coalition shows only that, all else being equal, some parents would prefer a "distant" school which offered an educational program superior to that offered at a nearby school. This hypothetical preference is irrelevant in a situation in which programatic offerings and pedalogical approaches at the schools are relatively similar and other factors such as the racial/ethnic make-up and general condition *813 of a school's neighborhood, the quality of a school's facilities, traffic congestion, and the actual distance of the school from the'Did you bring your handcuffs?' Attorney General Barr asks Speaker Pelosi Pelosi has threatened to jail uncooperative Trump administration officials.

As the showdown between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration drags on, Attorney General William Barr and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi crossed paths at the U.S. Capitol for a few memorable moments on Wednesday, when Barr attempted to score a few political points at Pelosi's expense.

But Barr's attempt to playfully taunt the sharp-tongued political veteran quickly backfired.

While officials waited for President Donald Trump to arrive at the 38th annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service on Wednesday morning, Barr and Pelosi engaged in an exchange destined to become an instant Washington classic.

As those seated on the platform waited for the president’s arrival, Barr, who Pelosi accused of committing a crime


SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Thousands of migrants and refugees, stranded in Bosnia on their way to Western Europe, are sleeping rough in parks and abandoned buildings and some have died, the Red Cross said on Thursday.

Bosnia, spared the migrant wave in 2015, has seen an influx of migrants trying to reach wealthier European nations via neighboring Croatia, an EU member. Some report being beaten back by border guards when they try to cross into Croatia.

About 25,000 people from Asia and North Africa entered Bosnia from Serbia and Montenegro last year, and about 6,000 have arrived in the impoverished Balkan country this year, according to Bosnia’s security agencies.

Only around 3,500 have been accommodated in transit centers, leaving thousands sleeping rough.

“People are sleeping in parks, in car parks, on the footpath,said: “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”

Lincoln tries to delete his Twitter account, but it’s too late.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Arrested, tried, and convicted of homosexuality in 1895 England, Wilde was born a century too early.

He runs for mayor of London and wins in a landslide.

Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson (1758-1805): Nelson was arrogant, flamboyant, courageous, and unquestionably one of the greatest naval commanders in history. His tactics and his daring wrought havoc on the enemies of England at the Battles of the Nile, Copenhagen, and, most famously, Trafalgar.

People magazine publishes photos of the famed English naval officer in Florence, Italy with his lover, Lady


urine and called it art (remember that?). He spends his remaining days as a tattoo artist in a state penitentiary.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965): His views on Empire, Islam, and the European Union would either make him the leader of a populist, pro-Brexit revolt or a political pariah. Churchill biographer, Paul Reid, told me that he thinks Churchill “would out-Tweet Trump.”

Churchill claims U.S. citizenship through his American mother, the bewitching Jenny Jerome, and moves to an estate in rural Virginia where he begins a new career as a columnist for The American Spectator.He quietly amends the title of one of his previous works to A History of the (formerly) English Speaking Peoples.

Teddy Roosevelt (1858-1919): The Rough Rider once said, “No, I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.” HeSummary:

The 2017 Nissan Kicks is a compact SUV/cross-over vehicle that first came on the market in Brazil. The exterior looks almost exactly like the 2014 Kicks concept, with an eye-catching contrasting colour roof. The interior is just as nice, also with a contrasting colour scheme, and optional uniform colour. The engine for European and US markets is not yet certain, possible is the same engine as the Nissan juke sports. Tech features are multiple and fine, with standard Around View Monitor and Moving Object Detection.

Nissan has seen the light of SUVs and is releasing a new SUV/cross-over model for the 2017 model year. Besides that, they also redesigned their existing CUVs, like the Juke. We are not sure if the focus on cross-overs indicates a new core incentive


wider and features a different grille pattern. The chrome outline of the grille carries over, but the lower air intake is completely different.

2017 Nissan Kicks side and rear

On the side of the car much takes over as well. The pointy edges of the headlights still run over to the side, creating a look of the car being able to reach breakneck speeds. The lower side of the car is a little different, on the 2017 Kicks there’s an extra body line. Furthermore, there are regular door handles instead of the push-and-protrude handles on the concept and the chrome line under the side windows is absent too.

The back of the car is mainly similar, too. The taillights are the same shape, though with slightly less pointy edges. The rearTechnomads blogging the U.S.A. like never before photographing spectacular, compelling, offbeat, utterly unforgettable cool places. We're the new breed of geeky gypsies livin' the dream on the road! New photos, videos are uploaded to our photo blog frequently, follow today!

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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Phish Superball IX was Phish's ninth festival and it was the social event of the season for Jack and I. Unlike most music festivals, with several stages featuring more music than you can ever see performed, there was a casual, relaxed vibe that prevailed throughout the weekend in Watkins Glen, NY. Phish was the only act on the playbill this 4th of July weekend and they performed only 8 sets including an unannounced late night psychedelic jam session that rivaled some of Pink Floyd's early


rager. We were invited to share a booth with one of the top vendors on the circuit, Rachel and Sage of Fringe Jewelry. They specialize in a variety of different jewelry styles from sterling silver and body jewelry, to earthy tribal designs. Rachel has a wonderful setup and she vend's at virtually every major music festival out east. Of course we accept the invite and set up our stuff. We had a wonderful weekend, Sage's mom Karen from Arkansas was there and she was such a refreshing spirit. She is a hippie from back in the day and her spiritual outlook was light and refreshing. She owns a place in Arkansas which is located in the heart of quartz crystal country.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

It's Saturday and the secondday of a short 2 day music festival in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The weather today at the Catskill Chill is awesome, the clouds have burned off and the music line-up for today is great. I'm looking forward to several really good acts today including everybody's' favorite one man band, the incomparable Keller Williams, Pink Floydish Particle and one of U-Melt's last live performances.

It's Saturday and the second day of a short 2 day music festival in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The weather today at the Catskill Chill is awesome, the clouds have burned off and the music line-up for today is great. I'm looking forward to several really good acts today including everybody's' favorite one man band, the incomparable Keller Williams, Pink Floydish


because they are sort of catchy.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Phish summer tour has just ended and we are in Windham, NY for Gig in The Sky Festival, a small 4-day music festival featuring music by the Everyone Orchestra, EOTO, The JGB Band and much more. With the help of the promoter "LC", Jack and I got an actual permit to vend this weekend and set up our full thing. The festival turned out smaller than we were thinking but that made for a fun weekend of intimate music.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

We are at the Harvest Celebration at Cedar Pine not far from Redfield, NY. We came in the back way on a skinny little one lane gravel road that was a very pretty drive. Very friendly atmosphere here, havingECHR says there is a lack of reasonable suspicion that businessman Osman Kavala had committed an offence.

The European Court of Human Rights has called for the immediate release of Turkish businessman and activist Osman Kavala, saying there was a lack of reasonable suspicion that he had committed an offence.

Kavala has been in jail in Turkey for more than two years while on trial on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, based on accusations that he organised and funded nationwide protests in 2013 against then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who currently holds an empowered presidential seat.

The indictment cited tapped phone calls in which Kavala discussed sending pastries, milk, juice and gas masks to protesters as evidence that he financed the protests. Kavala, who faces life in jail if


as a protest against the redevelopment of Gezi Park in Istanbul and quickly spread across the country.

Kavala at the time sat on the board of the Turkish branch of financier George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. He has said the charity did not provide financial support to the protests.

The next hearing on his case is set for December 24 and 25. Fifteen other defendants are on trial along with Kavala, who is currently the only one in jail.stolen. Two thumbs up. // 10

Telecaster
Reviewed by:
afirocker00, on january 27, 2005 1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Price paid: $ 169.99

Purchased from: Music Man's Music Depot

Features: Made in China. 21 Frets. Beautiful maple fretboard. I have the caramel blonde finish, which really compliments the lighter fretboard. The finish is beautiful, however it chips very easily. You have the pickup selectors, there are two pickups, you can play on the neck pickup or the bridge and put it in the middle for both. Stays in tune pretty well. // 8

Sound: It's actually opened up a whole new musical style for me. Since I bought this guitar I have found myself playing more bluesy riffs and soloing a lot. It's got a really "twangy" sound to it, that makes


a good fight. // 8

Overall Impression: Guitar seems to put up with my taste of music, I've been playing for 3 months and was between a Squire Strat or tele as my first guitar. I took a Tele as my mate has a Mexican Strat. Turns out my descision paid of 'cause the Tele backs up the Strat quite well. Shame my mates down in wales and can't join me for a cream dream supreme. // 8

Telecaster
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Price paid: $ 274.5

Purchased from: GAK

Features: My Tele was 'crafted in China' in 2005, It's a standard 21 fret maple neck with an alder body in a butterscotch finish. It has a flat tele bridge with 6 standard saddles.this guitar, making it quite nice to play along without upsetting neighbours, flatmates or anyone else, plugged in the guitar really comes to life the bridge pickup can cover a whole range of tones very well indeed, whilst still retaining that classic Telecaster sound, so much so my guitar tutor fell in love with it when he played it and proceeded to spend five minutes playing some pretty nifty country riffs, the neck pickup however can sound a little weak and thready, and I tend not to use it very often, however a pickup upgrade is on the cards quite soon. // 8

Action, Fit & Finish: The only blemish to the guitar on purchase was some minor damage to a small area of the wood on the fretboard


at the 20th fret around the area of strings 5 and 6, however it was the only one in the shop, my mind was made up, and it makes no difference to the playing of the guitar, the action however needed to be setup as there was quite a bit of string buzzing and I was gutted at having to leave the shop without it for a few days. The finish is great, although a friend of mine when he borrowed it had a nasty habit of forcing his plectrums underneath the scrathplate area above the strings and there are now some scratches there, along with a fairly significant scratch running down from the top of the guitar to the scratchplate. // 6

Reliability & Durability: My playing stylebody which adds slightly to the sustain. The features of this guitar aren't bad really. The only problems are the tuners aren't the best, the lack of color options and fretboard woods. // 6

Sound: The sound is surprisingly authentic. It has a very defined twang, exceedingly so in the bridge pickup. The amp I use it was in a 100 Watt Fender FM. Obviously the sound of the Tele is very bright and somewhat grainy in a way in the bridge. The neck pickup is much more bassy, almost muddy. The pickups are Vintage which means you can get nearly any kind of sound out of it with just a little tuning of the amp controls. The bridge and neck positions are a little to the extreme but


Repetitive behaviors in the Shank1 knockout mouse model for autism spectrum disorder: developmental aspects and effects of social context.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by persistent deficits in social behavior and communication, together with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. Several ASD candidate genes have been identified, including the SHANK gene family with its three family members SHANK1, SHANK2, and SHANK3. Typically, repetitive behavior in mouse models for ASD is assessed by measuring self-grooming behavior. The first aim of the current study was to assess repetitive behaviors in Shank1(-/-) null mutant, Shank1(+/-) heterozygous, and Shank1(+/+) wildtype littermate control mice by means of a comprehensive approach, including the assessment of self-grooming, digging behavior, and marble burying. The second aim was to establish a test paradigm that allows for assessingwhich is located at the foot of a volcano.

The sight of the smoking pits, called fumarole, that surround these hot springs can be a little unsettling, but the threat of a Pompeii-style eruption is almost non-existent.

So put it out of your mind and concentrate instead on the rather strange grey people who populate the hot springs. The biggest drawcard for the Terme di Vulcano, aside from their proximity to the crystal clear waters of the nearby beach, is the mud, which is believed to help with joint pain. People far and wide slather themselves in the stuff and relax while it hardens to the consistency of concrete.


really lived. But he did, and I love him so much for it.

I've already published a blog on his justly famous signature verse, in which Abhinava Gupta managed to weave together the key teachings that he would expound over thousands of Sanskrit verses in five great works, including Light on Tantra and The Essence of Tantra. That he did so while simultaneously honoring the special circumstances of his own birth in that same verse, bowing to the siddha and yoginī who conceived him, makes the signature verse one of the most extraordinary literary achievements of the tradition.

The death of Abhinava’s mother, Vimalā, at a young age contributed to his passion for spirituality. Speaking both of himself and his sister Ambā, who lost her husband early, he wrote: "Amongprecision, and mature wisdom of his later works. However, in that commentary he quotes from a poem he wrote in which he alludes to his early spiritual experiences:

"Taking refuge in the flow of goddess-consciousness (svarasavāhinī, from the previous verse) that has been brought under its own control and that clearly transcends the physical body, the Fire of Awareness (bodhānala) of its own accord suddenly blazes forth without any fuel, sporting spontaneously, accompanied by thrilling sensations, trembling, and tears." (provisional translation)

Elsewhere he tells us that his first spiritual experience came to him while reading poetry: "while engaged in the intense pleasure of aesthetic emotion from poetic works I was spontaneously seized by an intoxicating devotion to the Lord . . ." (TĀ 37.58, translation by Ben Williams) and perhaps


abiding in nondual awareness) in these terms: as 'delighting in my own inner being' (svātmārāmaḥ) and relishing 'the sweetness of being in constant service to, and adoration of, Reality itself', using the very same phrase, sevā-rasa, that he previously used with reference to serving his gurus.

Having come fully into his attainment, Abhinava then wrote his mature works. All of these are written from the perspective of the Trika, which was his primary reference point due to the influence of his sadguru Śambhu Nātha. However, Abhinava maintained his commitment to the teachings of the Krama, incorporating these as the esoteric core of his theology. His primary works include his Commentary on the Mālinīvijaya, notable for its mystical explanation of the origin and nature of the Śaiva canon (published asAbhinavagupta's Philosophy of Revelation); his commentary called Unfolding the Thirty Verses of Parā (published as A Trident of Wisdom); his multi-volume commentaries on the philosophical masterpiece Stanzas on the Recognition of the Divine, and most notable of all, his magnum opus, the Tantrāloka — Light on the Tantras. (The last two masterworks have not yet appeared in English, though they are extensively studied in academic circles.)

When discussing why he wrote these works, he said it was for three reasons: out of a desire to serve, because of the command of his sadgurus, and because, as he puts it, "Sometimes, one who wishes to dance must take his own instrument down off the wall." (TĀ 37.71)

Illustration of Abhinava Gupta by Elke Avis, based on Madhurāja's 11th-century description.

The influence of


dancing. There are crowds of yogīs and yoginīs, realized beings, and siddhas. . . . In the center of the room there is a golden seat from which pearls are hanging. It has a soft awning stretched over it as a canopy. Here sits Abhinava Gupta attended by all his numerous students, with Kṣemarāja at their head, who are writing down everything he says. . . . Abhinava Gupta’s eyes are trembling in ecstasy. In the middle of his forehead is a conspicuous tilaka made of sacred ashes. He has a rudrākṣa bead hanging from his ear. His long hair is held by a garland of flowers. He has a long beard and reddish-brown skin. His neck is dark and glistening with musk and sandalwood paste. Two dūtīsstand at his side holding refreshments [wine etc.]. . . . He wears a silken cloth as a dhoti, white as moonbeams, and he sits in the yogic posture known as vīrāsana. One hand is held on his knee holding a japa-mālā and his fingers make the mudrā that signifies his knowledge of the highest Śiva. He plays on a resonating lute (ektār) with the tips of his quivering fingers of his lotus-like left hand."

Image based on Madhurāja's description, with Dal Lake in the background.

Let us close with three of Abhinava's most beautiful verses. He composed these, he tells us, for use in his own personal daily practice; how fortunate we are that he shared them! They are brimming with love, devotion, intensified awareness, and poetic feeling.

1. "Those


of the promissory note, appellant Don Stacy signed his name on the signature line that read "General Products, Inc." He signed his name to the licensing agreement with the appellee on a line marked "Licensee." The licensee named in the body of the agreement was "General Products, Inc." But according to an affidavit of the Secretary of State, "General Products, Inc." was not a corporation authorized to do business in Texas at the time the note was signed. In response to requests for admissions, appellant stated that Don Stacy signed the promissory note and license agreement as an officer of Don Stacy Interests, Inc., doing business as "General Products Company." However, this conflicting assertion of capacity is not sufficient to raise a fact issue, because it is settledSig-alert canceled for Hwy 238 crash

April 20, 2009 6:55:16 AM PDT

ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA --

A collision involving four vehicles blocked all lanes of northbound Interstate Highway 238 in unincorporated Alameda County for more than an hour this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The crash was reported at about 5:25 a.m. on northbound Highway 238 just south of the flyover in between San Leandro and Hayward. It involved four vehicles, one of which overturned onto its roof, according to CHP Officer Kevin Kroncke.

All northbound lanes were shut down for more than an hour, and big rigs were allowed to travel on Interstate Highway 580 during the closure, Kroncke said.

A Sig-alert was issued at 5:45 a.m., according to CHP Officer Aaron Quistad, who said it was canceled at about 6:35


Friday, June 03, 2005

Dream Factory in MS

The fastest growing car manufacturer in the USA isn’t Toyota, which seems to get all of the press, but Nissan which has gone thru a transformation since the mid 90s. A new plant in Canton, MS, built in 2003 at a cost of $1.4 billion and size of six football fields, helped Nissan to grow its USA sales by 16% in 2004 compared to Toyota’s 10%. Ford and GM both lost sales volume last year.

The thinking of putting a plant in MS was counter-intuitive. Alabama and Tennessee were typically the states of choice in the south for new auto plants due to their more industrialized traditions. But Mississippi won over Nissan and is rapidly transforming the state with this new plant. Business2.0 features the plant in their June, 2005 issue.

I blogged on the impact of this plant in small towns throughout Mississippi on February 14 and 15th. Already 50 firms, hiring 5,000 people in over 18 towns have set up shop in the state because of Nissan. More will follow.

One of the interesting tidbits from the Business 2.0 story is how Nissan has developed a system to alleviate hail damage to their vehicles at the plant. With as many as 12,000 new vehicles on the back lot being prepped to ship and Mississippi notorious for their hailstorms, Nissan developed a sonic system to break up hailstones in the sky. They’ve installed 12-foot cannons tied into a Doppler radar system that searches for hail formations at 50,000 feet. When the


A European intelligence official is reportedly warning that his country may stop sharing information with the U.S. after reports that President Trump revealed highly classified intel to Russian officials.

The official said sharing information "could be a risk for our sources," The Associated Press reported.

The Washington Post reported Monday that Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information to Russia's foreign minister and ambassador while meeting with them last week in the Oval Office.

ADVERTISEMENTat the gym, the people I’ve met, have all changed my life—for the much, much better.

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The Bitter Lemon is home to lifestyle writer, editor, and author, Holly A. Phillips. She's an obsessive dreamer, TV-addict, and a relentless blogger, who's recently taken up casual calligraphy. She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her cat, Blanche Devereaux.


Hotel.
1993: Light fixture Stockholmspendel wins outstanding Swedish design award (Utmärkt Svensk Form) from the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design which promotes Swedish design within Sweden and abroad
1992: Winner of the architecture award of the Betongelementföreningen for the SEB office building Bankhus 90 in Rissne

A selection of work
Lindhagsskrapan
Rica Talk Hotel
SEB office building Bankhus 90, in Rissne
Västra city
Täby Parkstad
Stockholmsmässan exhibition center, Älvsjö
Ericsson micro-electronics factory in Kista
Hotel Birger Jarl

See also
Rosenbergs Arkitekter

References

Further reading
Arkitektur 2-2012, Lindhagsskrapan
Rum 9-2012, Stockholmsfyren
Arkitektur 7-2006, Rica Talk Hotel
Arkitektur 8-2002, 3xRosenbergs Arkitekter
Arkitektur 5-1996, Ericsson Submicron fabrik i Kista
Arkitektur 7-1992, SEB, Bankhus 90

External links
http://rosenbergs.se

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Category:Swedish architectsSaturday, 15 July 2017

Heartbreaking: Men Arrested With Human Skulls In Ogun State

The Ogun Police Command has nabbed three suspects — Saibu Popoola, Aliu Ajiroba and Jimoh Ijiola - for allegedly being in possession of two human skulls.

According to police report, the suspects were arrested on Thursday when policemen attached to Ayetoro Division were on routine patrol and accosted the duo of Popoola and Ajiroba on a Bajaj motorcycle along Idagba Olodo Road, with a bag which looked suspicious.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said a search was conducted on them and the two human skulls were discovered in the said bag.

He said the duo were promptly arrested and taken to Ayetoro Police Station where they told the investigators that the skulls were given to them by


visited an inner-city school in New Haven in which the tenth-graders, at the beginning of the year, were not eager to read at all. A funny tough teacher named Jessica Zelenski roused them out of indifference and got them reading a book of their own choosing by the end of the year. Finally, at a good suburban school, Mamaroneck, the English faculty coaxed the grudging and non-readers out of their funk by, initially, letting them read whatever they wanted (as well as the core readings). What I’ve done is to offer three different ways that teenagers can be turned into readers. As for the rest of their lives? Who knows? But we need them as readers for the future of literature, citizenship, not to mention such wonderful placesMovies Have a Future? "He is a staff writer and former film critic for "The New Yorker, " and his reviews and essays have appeared in "The New Republic", "The Atlantic", and "New York" magazine, among other places. He lives in New York City with his wife, writer Susan Rieger.

He will be joining us, with Sam Abrams, for an event June 28th at Book Culture on Columbus.


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Edwin Land was a prolific inventor known for his obsessive work habits and would later serve as an inspiration for Apple’s Steve Jobs (see “What Steve Jobs Learned from Edwin Land of Polaroid“).

He began experimenting with polarizing light after studying chemistry at Harvard for a year and invented the plastic sheet-light polarizer in 1929. He then co-founded Land-Wheelwright Laboratories in 1932, which became the Polaroid Corporation five years later.

Over time, digital photography and printing lessened the appeal of instant cameras. Polaroid had to file for bankruptcy and in 2008 it announced it would stop making instant cameras. The


around the world.  Europe will have an expanded focus and the London office
will focus on new opportunities in Europe.  Paul Murray has joined Enron from
Castlebridge Partners and will be moving to London to develop and expand the
continental opportunities.  Ross McIntyre, currently based in London, will
report to Paul.  Bill Windle has joined the weather group and has
responsibility for origination activities for North America.  Bill,s most
recent assignment has been in the EBS organization.  The Oslo weather office
managed by Thor Lien will have responsibility for Scandinavia weather
activities.  In addition, employees are being added in the Australia and
Japan regions.  We are now making markets in 32 cities around the world on
EnronOnline.

Coal
Mark Schroederto expand with the vision to increase the number of
transactions and create a portfolio of assets and contractual access around
the world.  Jonathan Whitehead has joined the LNG group and has
responsibility for all trading and shipping activities.

Neal Gerstandt, previously an independent energy consultant,  Jared Kaiser,
from Enron Americas - East Gas Desk, and Kurt Lindahl, from Enron Global
Assets, have also joined the LNG group with responsibilities in the area of
origination in the Western Region.

Enron Freight Markets
EFM has concluded over 2,000 transactions in its first two months.  Chris
Kravas continues to focus on building the spot trading and mid-market
capabilities that will enable it to be the dominant player in its market, and
has hired four new traders in the last two


weeks.  Kellie Metcalf, from EBS,
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Gas Structuring and Mid-Market, has joined Matt Arnold's forward trading
group focusing on diesel products.

Global Risk Markets
David Hoog joined Enron from Ace Insurance in December 2000 and has quickly
built a team of people specialized in trading unit contingent power price
call options, a hybrid insurance derivative product. Drawing on Ace and Enron
resources, this team is based in New York and includes Alex Tartakovski and
Larry Marcus from Ace, as well as Joana Bekerman and Tony Chang who recently
moved to New York from Houston. Their first transaction closed just 3 months
after startup.

Brad Blesie will be moving to London in June to establish a base of operation
forGRM and expand our insurance derivative activities into the European
market place. Among the opportunities he is currently exploring are
contingent call options applied to shipping and charter rates, trading
insolvent insurance claims, and combining North Sea oil and gas VPP risk with
decommissioning insurance.

In April this year, EGM established a hedge fund origination effort in New
York reporting to Per Sekse and led by Russell Dyk who recently moved to New
York from LNG in Houston. Russell is responsible for expanding our commodity
trading relationship with hedge funds to include crude oil, products, liquids
and other commodities traded by EGM. Joining Russell in this effort is
Stephen Plauche, who comes to us from Enron Americas, power trading desk.

Financial Trading
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Kaveh Ghandizadeh Dezfuli says he will be persecuted if sent back to Iran from London after performing with Iranian musicians critical of regime

An Iranian asylum seeker is facing imminent deportation after the Home Office rejected calls from his MP to delay his removal amid concerns over his safety.

Kaveh Ghandizadeh Dezfuli, who has lived in London for five years, is being held at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre near Heathrow airport until he can be put on a flight back to Tehran.

Friends of Dezfuli, 37, who has become well known in the south London folk music scene, told the Guardian he fears persecution by the Islamic republic for performing with Iranian musicians who have criticised the regime.

Matthew Pennycook, the Labour MP for Greenwich, attempted to delay Dezfuli’s removal on Fridaywith an appeal to James Brokenshire, the immigration minister.

But in a written answer to the MP, Brokenshire said the Home Office was not satisfied that Dezfuli would be at risk in Iran and as he had exhausted all possible appeal rights his deportation should proceed.

The musician was scheduled to be put on a flight to Tehran leaving at 4pm on Friday but Iran Air officials at Heathrow turned him away. Friends of Dezfuli, who briefly spoke to him at the airport, said they understood there was a problem with his travel documents.

He was issued with a limited removal direction in December under which an individual is not given the full details of their deportation.

Pennycook told the Guardian: “It is the abrupt manner in which the immigration authorities have


acted, the apparent lack of due consideration given to the submission of fresh information and, above all, the startling lack of transparency that are of particular concern in Kaveh Ghandizadeh Dezfuli’s case.”

Dezfuli originally came to the UK on a short-term visa in 2010 to study at the London Centre of Contemporary Music. He applied for asylum in 2013 on the grounds of his imputed political opinions. He had performed on the Persian-language satellite TV channel Manoto, which his lawyer said was associated with exiled opponents of the Islamic republic.

Dezfuli’s asylum claim was first refused by an immigration tribunal in 2014, and an appeal was rejected later that year. Two further applications to appeal were turned down in January and April 2015.

In November he applied to make a freshappeal on the basis he had performed on television with musicians opposed to the Iranian regime, including Hassan Sattar, who was a favourite singer of the Pahlavi royal family before the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Dezfuli was summoned to submit evidence in person on 15 December at the Home Office in Liverpool where his submission was rejected and he was detained and transferred to an immigration removal centre in Lincoln.

His lawyer, Ali Rahimi, said: “Iran is a theocracy – anything viewed as breaching Islamic rules and regulations would be interpreted as opposing the fundamental basis of the regime. I would strongly argue that appearing on an exile TV station performing music that cannot be played in Iran is displaying political opposition.”

Rahimi said deporting Dezfuli also risked the safety of his


family in Tehran, who have been harassed by the Iranian authorities because of his TV performances in the UK. “His father is a former political prisoner and victim of torture and a pro-democracy activist,” the lawyer added.

Dezfuli, a bass guitarist, plays in two London bands and is a member of Blackheath folk club in south London. His oldest friend in the UK, Dave Poke, who performs with him in the band Coridor, said: “I’m scared he’s going to be arrested at the airport in Tehran and harmed or worse.”

Another friend, video producer Kay Evans, said: “With Kaveh having been involved musically with a London-based TV channel that is frowned upon in Iran, I am extremely concerned about his physical and mental wellbeing upon any return there. Reports ofUniversities Vulnerable to ID Thieves

(Los Angeles) Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults. A major database breach at the University of California, Los Angeles that went undetected for more than a year and a smaller breach at the University of Texas are the latest examples of how vulnerable colleges are to such attacks, security experts said.

Universities account for more than 50 data breaches on a list of more than 300 so far this year as tracked by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Hackers have broken into computer systems at Georgetown University, Ohio University, the University of Alaska and Western Illinois University, among others.

"They are


a major category, if not the major category," Clearinghouse director Beth Givens said.

The UCLA breach was discovered Nov. 21 when the university noticed a hacker was fishing through the database specifically for names and Social Security numbers. Officials said the hacks date back to at least October 2005.

University officials say that only a small number of records containing Social Security numbers were accessed, probably less than 5 percent of the 800,000 total records. The university notified the FBI, which has launched a probe into the incident.

Hackers also might have obtained the personal information of 6,000 people who worked for, applied to or attended the University of Texas at Dallas, school officials said last week. The information includes names and Social Security numbers, the school said. In some cases,may have been stolen since March 2005, along with names, birth dates, medical records and home addresses.

In 2005, a database at the University of Southern California was hacked, exposing the records of 270,000 individuals.


Multiple women accused Donald Trump of groping or kissing them without their consent in news reports published Wednesday, just days after the Republican presidential nominee insisted in a debate that he had never engaged in such behavior.

One of the women alleges that Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt during a flight more than three decades ago, the New York Times reported. Another says he kissed her on the mouth outside an elevator in 2005, according to the same report. A third woman says Trump groped her rear end at his Mar-a-Lago resort 13 years ago, the Palm Beach Post reported. The fourth, then a People magazine reporter, says Trump kissed her without her consent when the two were alone in 2005right before an interview she was about to conduct with Trump and his wife. Another woman, Miss Washington 2013, said in a Facebook post that Trump groped her and invited her to his hotel room.

Trump denied the first two allegations in an interview with the Times.

Late Wednesday, Lawyer Marc E. Kasowitz sent a letter to the Times demanding the newspaper retract the story, saying the article is "reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel."

Trump's lawyer says the Times article is "nothing more than a politically motivated effort to defeat Mr. Trump's candidacy."

In a statement issued by his campaign after the Times report was published, spokesman Jason Miller said, "This entire article is fiction." Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told the Palm Beach Post "there is no truth" to the third allegation.


His campaign denied the fourth allegation, People reported. The campaign hasn't responded to the fifth allegation.

But in each of the first three instances, the newspapers spoke to people close to the women -- a universe that includes friends, family members, significant others and colleagues -- who verified that they told them their stories about what they say happened months or years ago. In the fourth, the reporter wrote a detailed first-person account on People's website of what she says happened.

The news came five days after The Washington Post reported Friday on a 2005 video in which Trump can be heard making vulgar comments on a hot microphone about physically forcing himself on women sexually.

At Sunday's debate, Trump was asked by a moderator whether he had ever behaved into New York when she was 38. She didn't know him. Leeds said Trump groped her and tried to reach up her skirt. "His hands were everywhere," she said.

The second woman, Rachel Crooks, was at the time a 22-year-old receptionist at a real estate company in Trump Tower who said she came face to face with Trump outside an elevator there in 2005. She said that after she introduced herself to Trump and they shook hands, he would not let go, then kissed her cheeks and "kissed me directly on the mouth."

"I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that," she said.

Days later, Trump, then recently married to his wife Melania, came to her office and requested her phone number, saying


he planned to give it to his modeling agency. Crooks was skeptical, but agreed. She was never contacted by the agency, the Times reported.

Neither Crooks nor Leeds reported their descriptions to the authorities. But the Times quotes Leeds's neighbor, Crooks's boyfriend at the time and her sister, each of whom said that the women previously told them about their alleged encounters with Trump.

Both Leeds and Crooks say they support Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, the Times reported.

Mindy McGillivray, 36, told the Palm Beach Post that Trump groped her rear end at Mar-a-Lago in 2003 when she was there accompanying a photographer friend who was shooting a Ray Charles concert.

"All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it's Ken's camera bag, that was myfirst instinct. I turn around and there's Donald. He sort of looked away quickly. I quickly turned back, facing Ray Charles, and I'm stunned," she said.

"Ken" is Ken Davidoff, the photographer, with whom the paper also spoke. Davidoff said he did not witness the alleged incident but recalled that McGillivray told him about it right after it happened.

Natasha Stoynoff, the reporter who wrote that she went to Mar-a-Lago to interview Trump and Melania Trump for a feature story on their first wedding anniversary, said Trump kissed her without her consent when they were alone in a room.

"I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat," Stoynoff wrote.

She wrote that he told her later, "You know we're going


to have an affair, don't you?"

In a Tuesday phone interview with the Times, Trump denied the claims made by Leeds and Crooks.

"None of this ever took place," he said. As a reporter questioned him about the women's claims, he told her: "You are a disgusting human being," according to the Times.

Miller, in his statement, accused the Times of a "completely false, coordinated character assassination" against Trump. He called it a "political attack."

Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign, said the reports show Trump lied on the debate stage on Sunday.

"This disturbing story sadly fits everything we know about the way Donald Trump has treated women. These reports suggest that he lied on the debate stage and that the disgusting behavior he bragged about inNEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government is setting out to achieve in the next two years what the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme could just about accomplish in the last 10.The rural development ministry is confident of adding 1 million farm ponds and wells and another million vermi composting farms under the programme. That’s almost as much as the total such assets the scheme — put in place by the UPA government-—managed to create in the past decade. The government will be sharpening focus on rural sector schemes in the upcoming budget in a big way.The rural development ministry has utilised more than 90% of the Rs 75,000 crore it was allocated. It is expecting double this year due to expansion of development schemes, including the


last five years mainly due to poor monsoons. In January, NREGS demand exceeded 178 lakh households, compared with 94 lakh in the year earlier.The government said delayed payments have been slashed by 72% and it wants to bring down the level to single digits by June. In FY15, only 28% of payments could be made on time. The rural development ministry is also trying to align the employment guarantee scheme with flagship government programmes.586.  Defense counsel, however, also has responsibilities it cannot shirk; the situation, especially in light of the district judge's remarks, called for a request for challenges for cause and the submission of special voir dire questions to the court.

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Funding Shortfalls Challenge Knoxville's Bridge Refugee Services

Jack Neely

9:20 AM, Jun 15, 2011

"Knoxville is a garden," said the girl from Baghdad. "There are so many trees! Where are all the tall buildings?"

She was settling in her new home, with the help of Bridge Refugee Services. Since 1982, the unusual organization, which combines federal grants with mostly church-based volunteer efforts, has resettled hundreds of approved refugees in the Knoxville area. Most who are granted asylum by the U.S. government are victims of war or severe oppression. The majority of the immigrants Bridge has worked with lately are Iraqis, but the organization has also established colonies of Burmese, Rwandans, Ethiopians, Cubans, and others. Knoxville has recently welcomed a significant population of refugees from the tiny, extremely poor African nation of Burundi.

Bridge'sfederal grant money is tied to the number of refugees allocated to Knoxville. That number had been growing until recently, but because of a new security protocol instituted this year, the paperwork involved in approving refugees has slowed—and so, temporarily, has the organization's revenue. Bridge got only 14 refugees to process this past April, just under a third as many as arrived the previous April, and therefore much less federal funding allocated. Though Bridge has fewer incoming refugees this summer, they're still dealing with the settlers they've taken on. They still have administrative costs to keep up with, and need to make up for what they believe to be a temporary gap.

Jennifer Cornwell is director of the organization, based on Middlebrook Pike in West Knoxville. It employs a


staff of eight but relies heavily on as many as 100 local volunteers, who teach English or help with critical transportation. Local churches help sponsor some refugee families, Cornwell says, but about 95 percent of their funding comes from the federal refugee-resettlement programs.

To help, Bridge is throwing an unusual fund-raiser from 5-8 p.m. on Monday, June 20, which is World Refugee Day, at the Emporium on Gay Street. Bridge board member Leah Berry offered her artist husband's Emporium gallery for the fete. Mike Berry, who coordinates UT's downtown gallery, is well known for his boldly colorful urban landscapes. Several other area artists, including Bobby Crews, Katie Gamble, Katy Smith, and Bobby Mooring will participate, along with Nashville artist Eric Swanagin. Forty percent of proceeds from the art salewill go to Bridge; and though the wine-and-appetizers event is free to the public, a donation of at least $10 is requested. "We want lots of people to come and help us recover from some of our lower-level funding problems," says Cornwell.

Founded in 1982, Bridge works with both the government and Church World Service and Episcopal Migration Ministries. Local churches involved also include Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian congregations. The job comes with rewards and challenges.

"Some children who were kidnapped are afraid to leave their apartments," Cornwell says. Others remark on the strange absence of gunfire in their new Knoxville neighborhoods.

Decisions on who comes to Knoxville are made by federal refugee-resettlement programs, and are based on factors including cost of living and employment opportunities, but especially on the populations


With an estimated 250 million in album and single sales, Rod Stewart is one of the most successful performers of all time. Grammy Award-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart releases Soulbook, a collection of classic sixties/seventies-era soul favourites, all newly recorded by the quintessential “blue eyed soul” singer of our generation. Rod’s Grammy-Award winning recordings of the Great American Songbook have sold over 19 million albums and is the biggest selling ongoing series of new music recordings in history. With the same passion, Rod approaches some of the greatest soul songs ever written. The album features two stunning superstar duets, one with Mary J. Blige joining Rod on the Stylistics’ 70s hit “You Make Me Feel Brand New” and the other with Jennifer Hudson onAP

The Cardinals have waived outside linebacker O’Brien Schofield, the club said Thursday.

The 26-year-old Schofield played and started nine games in 2012, notching 34 tackles and four sacks. An ankle injury in November ended his season.

Schofield’s release comes on the same day the club struck a deal with veteran pass rusher John Abraham. The Cardinals confirmed they had reached agreements with Abraham and tackle Eric Winston on Thursday afternoon.

Schofield (6-3, 242) is slated to make $1.323 million in 2013, per Rotoworld.com salary figures. He could appeal to clubs looking to improve their OLB depth.

The Cardinals also announced the signing of first-year outside linebacker Kenny Rowe on Thursday. Rowe played collegiately at Oregon.


The Museum Of Ice Cream Is Finally Coming To Miami

The newest national phenomenon, Museum of Ice Cream, has just announced that its fourth location is set to debut right here in the Magic City this December following its openings in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco over the past year.

The anticipated museum, paying homage to all things sweet and creamy, will be housed in an impressive four stories at the Faena District in Mid-Beach and showcases iconic and art deco elements with contemporary interiors, featured beautifully alongside stunning ocean views. The sunny destination was chosen by Founder and Creative Director Maryellen Bunn to celebrate its diverse and culturally inclusive environment, provoking the imagination and curiosity.

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In case you’ve been out of the loopA new wave of smears, now about battered women, stormfront and paedophile apologism

by Michael Nugent on June 9, 2016

Update: This statement has been agreed between Atheist Ireland and Person A, whose name I have removed from this article and replaced with this pseudonym.

“Person A has apologised to Atheist Ireland and to the individual people who have been hurt and whose reputations have been harmed by Person A’s comments quoted here.

In particular, Person A has said the reference to ignoring a battered woman in a hijab on the ground was a satirical joke which was too strong, but which was not aimed at anyone in particular. Person A deleted that, and other references to Atheist Ireland, from their Twitter account, immediately on being made aware of how it was


successfully together on this project.

Irish Atheists, Evangelicals and Muslims unite for Secularism at Inter Belief Day
This post includes a video of Jane Donnelly and I, Pastor Nick Park of the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and Imam Ibrahim Noonan of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Ireland, speaking together in support of separation of church and state. It also includes a video of Sunni Muslim scholar Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri speaking at the conference, which was recorded by Atheist Ireland and hosted at Umar’s request on our YouTube channel.

Dublin Anarchist Bookfair breaks agreement with Atheist Ireland
“Atheist Ireland opposes discrimination and abuse based on religion or race or ethnic background, including anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigotry, and Islamist abuses of human rights of Muslims and others. We oppose fascism including fascistic street violence,his age, his installing a new system, learning new players and/or coaches, learning to play at altitude; all these items have been brought up as potential roadblocks in the way of Manning's success in Denver.

One thing is made clear: the Broncos live and die by Peyton Manning.

There were two big surprises on cut day: CB Drayton Florence was sent walking, and RB Knowshon Moreno wasn't. Florence was seen as a key signing this past offseason, and his being released came as a shock across the league. There was speculation that the Chargers would be interested in him (again) but that didn't pan out.

Knowshon Moreno on the other hand seemed to be all but gone this year. Fans have been frustrated with his performance the last few seasons, and


and ILBs Bobby Carpenter and Bryan Kehl. None of those players have been signed yet though.

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The biggest word to describe the Oakland Raiders' offseason: turnover. No not turnovers, but turnover, as in getting rid of people and replacing them with new people.

After the passing of Al Davis last year, the Raiders completely overhauled their front office. As with nearly any front-office regime change, the Raiders then took to overhauling the team on the field. Nearly half of the players from the 2011 Raiders are now gone; HALF! 24 of the 53 players from the 2011 Opening Day roster are no longer on the team. I expected quite a bit of change, but it just really surprises me to see half the team gone after just one year.

TheRoscoe Parrish experiment ended after just one week. The first time he touched the ball in the final preseason game, he fumbled and lost it. He was then cut the next day. Another interesting tidbit: after all the cuts came down, there was not a single CB left on the team from last year.

Aside from that, the Raiders are preparing for their Monday night showdown against the Chargers. The fans especially seem to be licking their chops at the prospect of an undrafted rookie protecting Philip Rivers' blindside.

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HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS and individual activists in Egypt have been targeted by a large and sophisticated phishing campaign, according to a joint investigation by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and Citizen Lab.

The campaign, which the reports call Nile Phish, coincides with an unprecedented crackdown on civil society in Egypt over the past few years, with non-governmental organizations and their staff being subjected to interrogations, arrests, travel bans, asset freezes, forced closures and a long-running trial over accusations of receiving foreign funding to destabilize the country.

The targets of the phishing attacks include seven of Egypt’s most prominent human rights groups (including EIPR), all of which are also defendants in the foreign funding case. The groups include Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms,said Gasser Abdel Razek, the executive director of EIPR. “Who else would be interested and willing to invest the time and effort into this kind of coordinated social engineering except the state?”

The researchers from Citizen Lab did not reach the same conclusion, as their analysis was limited only to what they could demonstrate from a technical perspective.

In its simplest form, phishing is an attempt to trick a target into providing personal information, such as an account password, by sending a deceptive email. The investigation identified over 90 such attacks between November 24, 2016 and January 31, 2017.

In the first phase of the campaign, NGO workers received emails crafted as document shares from legitimate providers, such as Google or Dropbox, containing timely and sensitive information related to the ongoing


government crackdown.

“The sophistication was in the deception rather than in the technology,” said John Scott-Railton, one of the authors of the report from Citizen Lab, which goes by the full name of The Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. “What differentiates this campaign was the extent to which it was tied to things that were going on on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour basis in Egypt.”

A prime example took place on December 7th, when Azza Soliman, a prominent lawyer and women’s rights advocate, was unexpectedly arrested at her home. Just a few hours after she was taken into custody, staff at several NGOs received an email disguised as being from Dropbox with a PDF file purporting to be the police report onof the main mediums people are using to mobilize and to exchange ideas.”

The phishing attacks come as Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appears to be building close ties to President Donald Trump, who has called for heavier surveillance of mosques in the United States. Trump called Sisi a “fantastic guy” after their first meeting in September, and the Egyptian president was the first world leader to congratulate Trump after he won the election in November. Following Trump’s inauguration, Sisi was the second world leader Trump spoke to, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two primarily discussed combating “terrorism and extremism,” according to a statement by the Egyptian president’s office, as well as a possible visit by Sisi to Washington.


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Tongkat Ali Extract Usage and Benefits

One of the recent discoveries in the field of herbal medicine is the medicinal value found in the extract from the tree known as Tongkat Ali. This extract is gaining popularity among men and also in the field of bodybuilding. Studies are still on-going by joint teams of research workers from countries like Japan, England and the United States to determine and find out what other health benefits are resident in the extract.

The Tongkat Ali extract is known to boost the levels of testosterone, which is a well-known steroid much used by bodybuilders. A study was conducted a few years ago on 2 different groups of men; a group was given the extract, while the other group was given an inert medicine.Los Angeles and Vienna alike: to make cities more inviting, with cleaner air and less traffic.

Michael Kodransky, global research manager at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in New York, which works with cities to reduce transport emissions, said that Europe was previously “on the same trajectory as the United States, with more people wanting to own more cars.” But in the past decade, there had been “a conscious shift in thinking, and firm policy,” he said. And it is having an effect.

After two decades of car ownership, Hans Von Matt, 52, who works in the insurance industry, sold his vehicle and now gets around Zurich by tram or bicycle, using a car-sharing service for trips out of the city. Carless households have increased from 40 to


Iran accused of directly helping Syria suppression

The Guardian, DAMASCUS

Iran is playing an increasingly active role in helping the Syrian regime crack down on pro--democracy protesters, according to Western diplomatic sources in Damascus.

The claim came as Syrian security forces backed by tanks intensified operations to suppress anti-regime unrest in three new flashpoint towns on Sunday and it was confirmed that four women had been shot dead in the first use of force against an all-female demonstration.

A senior Western diplomat in Damascus expanded on assertions, first made by White House officials last month, that Iran is advising Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government on how to crush dissent.

The diplomat pointed to a “significant” increase in the number of Iranian personnel in the country since protests began in mid-March.

Mass arrests carried outof Derry
At the time of his appointment as bishop the Irish Times reported him to be "a prelate of thought, ripe scholarship and invariable courtesy."

He received episcopal consecration on 29 September 1907 and for much of his episcopal ministry the social and political backdrop was the rising Home Rule crisis and then more latterly, the Partition of Ireland which divided his diocese into two separate states. McHugh was an active supporter of John Redmond up to the start of the First World War.

In July 1916 Bishop McHugh established the Anti-Partition League to campaign against the threat of the Partition of Ireland.

McHugh died in office on 12 Feb 1926.

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Sharpe ratio provides better return for the same risk (or, equivalently, the same return for lower risk).  However, like any other mathematical model, it relies on the data being correct. Ponzi schemes with a long duration of operation would typically provide a high Sharpe ratio when derived from reported returns, but the inputs are false. When examining the investment performance of assets with smoothing of returns (such as with-profits funds) the Sharpe ratio should be derived from the performance of the underlying assets rather than the fund returns.

Sharpe ratios, along with Treynor ratios and Jensen's alphas, are often used to rank the performance of portfolio or mutual fund managers.

Berkshire Hathaway had a Sharpe ratio of 0.76 for the period 1976 to 2011, higher than any other stockRUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER SOARS TO DALLAS-FORT WORTH
LIVE ON STAGE NOVEMBER 22-23, 2016 AT BASS PERFORMANCE HALL
AND NOVEMBER 25-27, 2016 AT THE MUSIC HALL AT FAIR PARK

The Family-Friendly Stage Adaptation of CBS’ Highest-Rated Christmas Special of All Time Returns to Dallas-Fort Worth for a limited holiday engagement.

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (October 12, 2016) – The “most famous reindeer of all” from the longest-running and highest rated holiday television special will be live on stage with the critically acclaimed RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL at Bass Performance Hall November 22 and 23, for four performances presented by Performing Arts Fort Worth. This fun family classic will then head to Dallas, where it will play at the Music Hall at Fair Park November 25-27, for five performances presented by Dallas


Summer Musicals.

Following two successful years of touring North America, the world’s most famous reindeer and a holly jolly cast of iconic characters, including Hermey the Elf, Yukon Cornelius and the Abominable Snow Monster, will help Santa save Christmas during three North American tours that will visit more than 50 cities this holiday season. The national tour — a “holiday staple” (The Boston Globe) and an “utterly charming, top-notch production” (Orlando Sentinel) – kicks off November 14.

In 1964, the beloved stop-motion animated television classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, made its network television debut, delighting audiences across the country. “RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL is rapidly becoming a tradition for generations of children and adults and we are so excited to bring the show to fans in the Dallas-Fortup and died, and those that were left, if they hadn’t run (and they often did), faced a manic charge of cold steel.

And, make no mistake about it, the British soldier of the time was the absolute best soldier in the world.

He could shoot accurately and en masse. He stood his ground. He charged with fire in his eyes.

Interestingly, until the Americans learned such discipline, they relied heavily on guerrilla warfare.

They were like apaches. They were like VC. They were like ninja, stealing in, opening fire, and running. They hid behind trees and did their damndest. Interesting times.

And, here is the pipper. The Revolutionary war was NOT popular. Many people didn’t want to fight the British. They were loyal to Britain, and they worked against those fool colonists


быть может,            I loved you once, and still, perhaps, love’s yearningВ душе моей угасла не совсем;                          Within my soul has not quite burned away.Но пусть она вас больше не тревожит;             Yet may that nevermore you be concerning;Я не хочу печалить вас ничем.                           I would not wish you sad in any way.Original: Alexander Pushkin behind his back,
securing his handcuffs to a strap in the rear of the patrol car.
       At defendant’s request, Officer Kliebe called defendant’s father. As Officer
Kliebe leaned against the trunk of the patrol car speaking to defendant’s father on the
phone, he felt the vehicle lurch backwards against him. He turned and saw the patrol
car’s reverse lights were illuminated; defendant was in the driver’s seat with his
handcuffed hands in front of him on the steering wheel.
       Officer Kliebe told defendant to stop. Defendant ignored the command and
continued to back up, turning toward the road. Defendant hit Officer Kliebe with the
front bumper or mirror of the patrol car. He then backed the car out of the driveway and
fled the


EARNING IT; Chasing Michael, or, How to Corner a Corporate Nemesis

Michael Moore ambled irrevocably onto the scene with his 1989 documentary ''Roger and Me,'' which chronicled his often comic effort to ask Roger Smith, then chairman of General Motors, why he was laying off so many people.

Now he has a new movie, ''The Big One,'' in which he tries to ask various chief executives the same thing. So it seemed high time to shove a microphone -- a notepad, at any rate -- at Mr. Moore himself.

For a while, this quest was shaping up almost as ''Michael and Me.'' Mr. Moore gives the sense of someone who moves his jovial bulk casually through life, a man you call up and, 10 minutes later, meet for a beer.

But overseveral days, with Mr. Moore in the midst of a not-at-all-casual blitz of promoting the movie, calls poured in from no fewer than five people -- some in public relations, some with Miramax, the film's distributor. Yes, there should be some time on Monday. At 1 P.M., in midtown Manhattan. No, make that 1:30. No, at Miramax's office, downtown, at 3:15. No, still 3:15, but at Mr. Moore's office across from Carnegie Hall. Whew!

An assistant opened the door to a warren of small rooms, the hallways stacked high with file boxes. Michael Moore Central. Four or five people bustled about, one making travel reservations, another keeping tabs on Mr. Moore's site on the World Wide Web (www.michaelmoore.com).

What to expect? Half the new movie is Mr. Moore as (quite


funny) stand-up comedian, the other half Mr. Moore as shining crusader.

In person, he was as imposing as on film, a great mass of denim-shirted man hunched over his computer, his back to the door. After finishing his work, he plopped down on an overstuffed couch, put his feet up and burst out, ''I was kidding about O.J.!'' (In his book ''Downsize This!,'' published by Random House, he has a tongue-in-cheek chapter titled ''O.J. Is Innocent.'')

So it was to be Mr. Moore the comedian? Not at all. To the suggestion that with all the comedy, ''The Big One'' is less political than ''Roger and Me,'' he responded seriously and emphatically: ''No, it's more political. The outrage is stronger. But I'm a film maker, not a political activist. We areall citizens in a democracy. That alone implies we are all political activists. Plus there's nothing wrong with giving people who work hard all week 90 minutes of a good cathartic laugh at the expense of the powers that be.''

And his message is clear: ''It's no longer about just making a profit. Corporate America is now running on pure greed. This whole economic recovery is financed on the backs of overworked and underpaid people.''

In his films, his book, and his series ''TV Nation,'' he has hammered away at the economy's inequities -- the rich getting richer, the rest clawing along on two or three jobs. Does he believe that some new economic cycle is brewing, in which workers will assert their rights to a bigger slice of the


American pie?

''Yes, I do,'' he said firmly. ''That's why I ended the movie with the kids at the Borders bookstore in Des Moines organizing a union -- to end on an optimistic note.'' Soon, across the nation, ''you'll see a rise in unions,'' he said.

Surely things are not as bad as in his hometown of Flint, Mich., in the 1930's, when it was the site of a pivotal auto strike. For workers to rebel, he conceded, ''things have to get pretty bad.''

But he quickly added: ''For some people, it doesn't have to get too much worse. Unions were born when people had to work 60 or 70 hours a week. But today, a lot of people are working two jobs.'' Unions, he added, also were born in reactionminutes was nearly up, and an assistant poked her head in. ''Two-minute warning,'' she said, then closed the door.

So, a last question: Do any chief executives have a conscience?

A blanket condemnation would have been no surprise, but Mr. Moore resisted that. Rather, he mentioned an auto executive: Alex Trotman, chairman of the Ford Motor Company.

''Last year, there was a strike at Johnson Controls -- they fired the strikers and hired replacement workers,'' he said. ''But Trotman refused to buy car seats made by replacement workers. And his action forced Johnson Controls to settle with the union. It may be because he grew up in Scotland. There's a different tradition over there -- even conservatives believe in fair play and a social safety net.''


off the concept of the oath that was struck between the Philistines and the Hebrews.  Issac likely was aware of the similarity between the name he chose and Abraham's choice.  Later the name's origin got confused.  Even the name's designation blurred as by Genesis 26:33 the name Beer Sheba was associated with the city, not just the wells.
Like other origin stories, it seems likely that the name arose because of several different, reinforcing stories working toward a particular name.  The rich associations between "seven" and "oath" that revolve around the two stories recorded in Genesis would have helped firm up the name.  Certainly the area would have had other names both before and after Abraham named it, but Beersheba was the name thateven though Huda-Par also targets the vote of Kurds with Islamic inclinations. Promoting Huda-Par as an alternative Kurdish party is a sly tactic ahead of the June elections, in which the AKP aims to clinch a strong parliamentary majority that would allow it to introduce a presidential system, a goal that will be easier to achieve if the HDP fails to overcome the 10% national parliamentary threshold.

Second, the government — on an uphill track in the Kurdish peace process — appears to be flirting with the idea of taking on Huda-Par as a partner in the talks.

However, a serious problem emerges here: Who is Huda-Par going to represent at the negotiating table, being the offspring of an organization that has fought the Kurdish movement in collaboration with armed


equator, north or south.

This encompasses a region up to the Mediterranean and down to Tasmania, for example. It is governed by the inclination on which Tiangong was launched.

China has limited national tracking facilities around the globe and so had no choice but to keep the vessel on a reasonably tight equatorial path.

The International Space Station by contrast reaches 52 degrees north and south.

Tiangong means 'Heavenly Palace'

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Astronaut Wang Yaping memorably gave a lecture to school children from Tiangong-1

The module was launched in 2011 to practise rendezvous and docking

Two astronaut crews visited in Shenzhou capsules - in 2012 and 2013

They included China's first female astronauts Liu Yang and Wang Yaping

China plans a more permanent space station in the next decade

It has developed a heavy-liftLabor will pledge a financial boost for more than 160,000 women in a new policy that aims to narrow the gap between women's and men's superannuation savings for retirement.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will outline the $400 million plan on Wednesday with a vow to make economic security for women one of his priorities at the next federal election.

The Labor scheme would deliver a top-up payment for thousands of super accounts every year for those on parental leave, addressing one of the factors that leaves women with about 60 per cent of the retirement savings of men.

Labor leader Bill Shorten surrounded by female members of his frontbench on Tuesday. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

Mr Shorten told Fairfax Media the measure to improve economic security "should be an election priority" because of the


Dec.22 (GMM) The days of the highly controversial new 'double points' rule for the season finale appear numbered.

Many fans and drivers have made clear they are not happy with the change, designed to keep the title alive right to the end by offering twice as many points in Abu Dhabi next November.

"I think it's wrong," Toro Rosso driver Jean-Eric Vergne told Italy's Corriere dello Sport, "because it devalues the work a driver has done throughout the whole season.

"As drivers we are not excited about it," added the Frenchman.

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, who has the power to veto key decisions in F1, has also emerged as an opponent of the rule.

"I would not be surprised if the rule is soon abolished," said the Italian.

To discuss this and other(CNN) Some White House officials and a source close to President Donald Trump's legal team continue to balk at Rudy Giuliani's media blitz following his first eyebrow-raising interview last week with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Senior administration officials are complaining they are still in the dark about when and where Giuliani will pop up on their television screens, one senior White House official said. That official said few in the West Wing have had a chance to engage Giuliani since Trump officially brought him onto the legal team last week. Giuliani has said he was tasked by the President to facilitate negotiations between the White House and special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Trump has openly praised Giuliani since the former New York City mayor began hitting the airwaves in defense of the President on Wednesday. And a source familiar with the presidential legal team's thinking said Giuliani continues to enjoy Trump's blessing to do interviews, despite the barrage of negative headlines he is generating by making conflicting claims.

"It goes without saying the President is obviously permitting him to do that," the source said.

Earlier Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the President "certainly feels that he is an added member -- added value member -- to his outside special counsel."

Read MoreOne of the Hyundai A-League greatest-ever goalscorers Shane Smeltz has announced his retirement from football.

Smeltz, 36, has decided to pull the curtain down on his career after 18 goal-laden years for both club and country.

The Kiwi international played for four different clubs during his Hyundai A-League career, starting with Wellington Phoenix in the 2007/08 Season.

After two seasons in Wellington he moved to Gold Coast United before switching to Perth Glory for the 2011/12 Season, helping the club reach the grand final.

Smeltz also had two seasons at Sydney FC before returning to Wellington one last 12 and making 12 appearances during the 2016/17 Season.

After a short stint in Indonesia with Borneo FC, the ex-AFC Wimbledon and Genclerbirligi striker has decided to call it a day.

"It's difficult to know when


the right time is," Smeltz told NZME.

"I could potentially drag my career out a little longer, but I've got a transition I've had in mind for a number of years.

“I had a long career in the A-League and a great international career. It's all about timing and this is the right time."

In 10 seasons in the Hyundai A-League, Smeltz scored 92 goals in 190 games to sit second on the all-time goalscorers list with 92.

He won the golden boot award twice (2008/09 and 2009/10), while he was the Johnny Warren Medallist as the Hyundai A-League’s best player in the 2008/09 campaign.

At international level, Smeltz scored 24 goals in 58 games for New Zealand, including a famous strike against then World Champions Italy to earn a 1-1 draw atof 21. We agree with the standard selected by the hearing officer, and therefore affirm the the Commission's award.
The average monthly wage of an adult, who suffers from either a temporary or permanent injury is determined in accordance with the provisions of A.R.S. § 23-1041B in such amount as:
"... having regard to the previous wage [of] the injured employee or of other employees of the same or most similar class working in the same or most similar employment in the same or neighboring locality, reasonably represents the monthly earning capacity of the injured employee in the employment in which he is working at the time of the accident."
However, when the injury involves a minor workman, and the incapacity is permanent, a different method of computation is required by


the provisions of A.R.S. § 23-1042:
"If it is established by competent evidence that an injured employee is under twenty-one years of age and his incapacity is permanent, his average monthly earning capacity shall be deemed, within the limits fixed by §§ 23-1041 and 23-1046, to be the monthly amount which under ordinary circumstances he would probably be able to earn at the age of twenty-one years in the occupation in which he was employed at the time of injury, or in any occupation to which he would reasonably have been promoted if he had not been injured. If the probable earnings at the age of twenty-one years cannot be reasonably determined, his average earnings shall be based upon four dollars per day for a six-day week."
In contending thathad not been injured." (Emphasis added). On the other hand, it is possible that the word "would" is used in the section as an auxiliary function to the word "earn", to express probability or presumption in present time. See Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Because of this ambiguity, we do not base our affirmance of the hearing officer's interpretation on the mere use of the word "would" in the statute. We additionally note that the statute's language speaks of the projected wage of the minor in individualized terms, that is, "the monthly amount... which he would probably be able to earn at the age of twenty-one years", and "in any occupation to which he would reasonably have been promoted...." (Emphasis added). It does not speak in terms of


home.

Arriving on campus in the fall of 2004, Morgan Goodwin wasted little time making his presence felt. Disappointed in the complacency he saw among his peers, Goodwin and a friend decided to stir things up. One night in November, as their entry prepared for Sunday Snacks, the two gathered in the stairwell of Sage Hall. Goodwin glanced at his watch. “On the count of three, we go. One. Two. Three.” The two young men stripped out of their clothes and began sprinting from common room to common room, yelling hysterically as they crashed through the hallways. For five minutes, the calm of a Williams Sunday was replaced with chaos and bewilderment.

“When I first arrived, Williams felt oddly complacent. Streaking was a way to shake things up, get somefirst semester at Williams he and a friend streaked through the halls of Frosh Quad during Sunday snacks as a way to “shake things up.” He followed that up by pushing the college to take more aggressive action in limiting carbon emissions, leading trips to DC for rallies, and helping to organize Claiming Williams Day.

After graduation, Goodwin resisted traditional paths in favor of uncertainty. He held five different positions in the first two years out of school, never staying at one place longer than six months. All along he learned about the type of organization he wanted to be a part of and the impact he wanted to make on the world.

That “bouncing around period” ended nearly four years ago, when Goodwin began working full-time for Avaaz, an


online platform dedicated to working on progressive issues around the world.

I met up with Goodwin at his home in Truckee, CA – a sleepy mountain town a few miles from Lake Tahoe. After watching him officially register as a candidate for town council, I spent the next six hours learning about his journey, and the variety of ways he is continuing to resist the status quo.manufactures will need to lower costs quickly if they want to include the technology in their vehicles.

Like Japan, India has similarly pursued a GPS-augmenting system known as IRNSS, and it has now launched seven satellites to increase coverage of the subcontinent. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom, which is expected to leave the European Union in March following the referendum over Brexit, will most likely lose access to the EU’s Galileo positioning system, and is planning to launch its own. As for Galileo itself, it is expected to be fully operational in 2019.

In short, the world has moved from one system (GPS) to arguably seven. And while Chinese manufacturers increasingly have GPS, GLONASS and Beidou installed on one chip, that scale may only work in a country the size of


the total number of connections in Europe and the U.S. combined, according to GSMA data. China Mobile and China Unicom together have 800 million users.

China is leading a surge in mobile connections in the Asia Pacific region. Half of the world's 6 billion mobile subscribers will be in the Asia-Pacific region by the end of this year, according to a study released Tuesday.

The region will have 4.1 billion connections by 2015, when it will also account for 40 per cent of mobile data traffic worldwide, according to the study produced by GSMA in collaboration with A.T. Kearney. China had the largest number of connections in 2010, followed by India and Indonesia.

NFC technology would allow phones to become mobile wallets. Users could make purchases simply by waving their phonein New York City. The Appellate Division unanimously confirmed the Comptroller's determination and the petitioner appeals as of right on constitutional grounds.
The petitioner, engaged in the business of dredging rivers and harbors, purchased the dredge here involved in Maryland in 1948. It was registered with the United States Coast Guard in December of that year, its home port being designated as "New York, N. Y." The dredge was immediately put to work in South Carolina and was thereafter used  for some eight years  in dredging operations in Florida, South Carolina and Virginia. It was first brought into New York City in July of 1956 and, after completing dredging contracts in the city's harbor waters  which took about six weeks  the dredge was moved to


Connecticut in September, 1956.
On the assumption that they were not subject to the New York City use tax, the petitioner omitted from its tax returns both the dredge and certain used pipe and pontoon line equipment (also purchased outside New York City) which it employed within the city to haul dredged material over water and land to the shore area to be filled. The Comptroller determined, after a hearing, that there was a tax deficiency on these items of about $33,000 plus penalties and interest.[1]
Section M46-16.0 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York (numbered § M41-16.0 at the time the tax herein was imposed) provides in part that "there is hereby imposed and there shall be paid by every person a tax on the useHowever, deep in an 500-page government document, the administration makes a remarkable admission. Trump's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) foresees Earth's average temperature rising seven degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century.

The administration goes on to argue that the rise in global temperatures will be so large — and so inevitable — that it is useless to try to curb carbon emissions from automobiles, according to a report over the weekend by The Post's Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney.

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The line of thinking in the document underscores not only the sheer difficulty of mitigating climate change and the severity of its impacts, but also the Trump administration's mixed messages on the issue.

The draft statement containing that dire prediction was written to justify rolling back rules


European nations even as the United States threatens sanctions against any countries that would do business with Iran. “If the arrangement comes to fruition — some British and French officials say they have their doubts — it would constitute the most open break between President Trump and European allies that objected vociferously to his decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal,” the New York Times even as the United States threatens sanctions against any countries that would do business with Iran. “If the arrangement comes to fruition — some British and French officials say they have their doubts — it would constitute the most open break between President Trump and European allies that objected vociferously to his decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal,”the New York Times reports

Trump spoke on Saturday with King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia and “discussed efforts to maintain supplies to ensure the stability of the oil market and growth of the global economy, plus the strategic partnership between the two countries,” Bloomberg News and growth of the global economy, plus the strategic partnership between the two countries,” Bloomberg News reports . On Twitter and in person, the U.S. president has repeatedly criticized the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, of which Saudi Arabia is the de facto leader, for curtailing oil supplies and raising prices.

Meanwhile, Trump's interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, said the United States can employ a naval blockade to keep Russia from controlling energy supplies in the Middle East, the Washington Examiner , the


Washington Examiner reports . "The United States has that ability, with our Navy, to make sure the sea lanes are open, and, if necessary, to blockade ... to make sure that their energy does not go to market," Zinke said during Friday remarks at an event hosted by Consumer Energy Alliance in Pittsburgh.

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The Environmental Protection Agency holds a public hearing on its Affordable Clean Energy Proposal in Chicago.

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Tuesday . The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a business meeting on pending legislation on

Tuesday . The Sierra Club holds a panel discussion on the Distributed Energy Resources Authority Act on

Wednesday . The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight will hold a hearing on the EPA's implementation of soundThe Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

I spent a few days in Oxford last week, a beautiful town that is most definitely packed with magic. One of the most intriguing places that I visited was the Pitt Rivers Museum, situated in a suitably gothic building and home to Oxford University’s vast anthropological and archaeological collections.

The wondefully gothic exterior of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Originally founded in 1884 by the magnificently named Lt-General Augustus Pitt Rivers, the original donation of 22,000 objects has now grown to an amazing 500,000, with many of them packed into the maze of glass cases that fills the museum today.

The packed interior of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

The museum collection includes weird and wonderful items from all over the world, many of them collected and donated