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Screening transvaginal ultrasonography of postmenopausal women in a private office setting. The objective of this study was to determine the value of screening transvaginal ultrasonography for the evaluation of endometrial or ovarian abnormalities in asymptomatic postmenopausal women in a private gynecology office at the time of yearly examination. All postmenopausal women who were seen for yearly examination between June 1, 1991, and June 1, 1993, underwent screening transvaginal ultrasonographic examinations that I performed. Women who had any pelvic symptoms or who were premenopausal were excluded from the study group. During the 24 months of this study 478 women were screened. One case of early ovarian carcinoma was diagnosed, one case of superficial adenocarcinoma of the endometrium was discovered, and 28 other ovarian cysts were seen. All women with cysticsuffered insurmountable career setbacks. In general, Hewlett's data show that, for too many women, the demands of ambitious careers, the asymmetries of male-female relationships, and the difficulties of conceiving later in life undermine the possibility of combining high-level work with family. By contrast, Hewlett's research reveals that high-achieving men continue to "have it all." Of the men she surveyed, 79% report wanting children, and 75% have them. Indeed, the more successful the man, the more likely he is to have a spouse and children. The opposite holds true for women. Hewlett urges lawmakers and corporations to establish policies that support working parents. But recognizing that changes won't happen overnight, she exhorts young women to be more deliberate about their career and family choices. learning objective: To appreciate the harm that

A short article summarizing the history and transformation of the CNT’s Defense Committees in Barcelona during the 1930s from their origins as street fighting units to their reorganization as integrated combat/intelligence formations, to their suppression by the Republic after the working class defeat of May 1937. From Defense Cadres to Popular Militias – Augustín Guillamón The defense cadres were formed shortly after the proclamation of the Republic, and were a continuation of the armed defense groups of the years of pistolerismo. From Shapiro’s report to the Presentation of October 1934 A confidential report distributed to a limited number of people, written by Alexander Shapiro, the secretary of the AIT, during his stay in Spain in 1932-1933, outlined the nature and function of the Defense Committees, organized exclusively for instances of insurrectionary combat,the fact that the repression had dismantled the clandestine military apparatus of the CNT, after the insurrections that took place in January and December 1933. In October 1934, when the conditions were ripe for a revolutionary proletarian insurrection on a national scale, the anarchosyndicalists were totally exhausted, disorganized and disarmed, with thousands of their militants in prison. The determination to work to reinforce the Defense Committees, overcome their defects and correct their shortcomings, and especially to take advantage of the state repression as a spur to intensify the struggle, inspired the presentation of the CNCD in October 1934. The old tactic was abandoned in favor of serious and methodical revolutionary preparation: “There is no revolution without preparation; and the more intensive and intelligent this preparation is, the more effective

the confederal Committees of each locality or county district”. The presentation of the CNCD, delivered in October 1934, argued that the group or cadre of basic defense must be relatively small in order to facilitate its secrecy and flexibility, as well as to ensure a profound knowledge of the character, understanding and skills of each militant. It must be composed of a secretary, whose basic task was to maintain links with other groups from the same neighborhood, and to form new groups. A second militant must be responsible for identifying and recording the name, residence, ideology, distinguishing features, and habits of, and the nature of the threat posed by, enemies living in the area assigned to the group. The ‘nature of the threat posed’ refers to the beliefs or ideologiesmen who can be characterized as “discreet and active”. The defense groups, then, after October 1934, were characterized by the reduced size of their basic unit, six militants, each of whom was responsible for quite specific tasks. The secretary of the group maintained links with the other groups in the same neighborhood. They were groups for information gathering and combat that must perform “the role of a just revolutionary vanguard” that “will directly inspire the people”, that is, at the moment of the insurrection they must be capable of mobilizing more numerous secondary groups, and these, in turn, must try to mobilize the entire population. The defense group was the basic cell of the clandestine military structure of the CNT. In each neighborhood a neighborhood defense committee was to be

formed, which would coordinate all these defense cadres, and would receive a monthly report from each of the secretaries of the groups. The secretary-delegate of the neighborhood defense committee would then draft a summary report that he was to deliver to the District Committee, and the latter would in turn transmit it to the Local Defense Committee “and the latter would forward it to the Regional and then the National Defense Committees, respectively”. This organizational schema, suitable for major cities, was simplified in the towns and villages, where the different groups were coordinated directly in the local committees. The Presentation even provided a detailed account of how and where “defense groups or defense cadres are formed, seeking the human elements in the Trade Unions and distributing them throughout theUnions and in order to keep an eye on the internal and public actions of the Trade Unions”. The Presentation of the CNCD also set forth a detailed description of the Defense Committees on a regional and national scale, including those sectors of workers, such as railroad workers, trolley conductors, telephone and telegraph workers, postal workers, and, in short, all those who due to the characteristics of their profession or organization are active on a national scale, emphasizing the importance of communications in a revolutionary insurrection. A special department was dedicated to the labor of infiltration, propaganda and winning sympathizers in the barracks. After considering the need to constantly discuss and perfect the insurrectionary plans and tactics of the Defense Committees at a local, regional and national level, and

formalizing the connection with the FAI, the Presentation concluded with an appeal to the members of the CNT to consider the importance of consolidating, extending and perfecting a clandestine military apparatus of the CNT, “to confront the military and police leviathan of the state and the fascist or Marxist militias”. The defense cadres were mostly trade union members. After July 19-20 some of these trade union cadres formed centuries of the Popular Militias, which immediately departed to fight against fascism on the Aragón front. This is why, within the various confederal columns, one spoke of the century of the metal workers, or the century of the woodworkers, or of the construction workers, formed of militants from the same trade union. The Defense Committees had two essential functions: 1) Acquisition, maintenance, storageand training in the use of weapons. The authority of the Defense Committees was based on their character as armed organizations. Their power was the power of the workers in arms. 2) Logistical responsibilities in the fullest sense of the term, from the provision of supplies and managing popular kitchens to the creation and operation of hospitals, schools, social centers … or even, during the first days after the popular victory, recruiting militiamen and supplying the columns that were departing for the front. The old defense cadres were formed shortly after the proclamation of the Republic, and could be considered as the continuation, reorganization and extension of the armed defense groups of the period of pistolerismo (1919-1923). During the thirties the unemployed were enrolled in the defense cadres for rotating terms

in order to exercise solidarity by providing them with an income, to prevent them from becoming strikebreakers and to spread the knowledge of the use of arms to the maximum number of militants. For these same reasons, and to prevent their “professionalization”, there were no full-time, permanent paid positions in the defense cadres. Throughout the entire republican phase there were armed pickets and trade union defense groups that defended demonstrations and strikes or promoted local insurrections. The Presentation of the CNCD of October 1934 called for a new organization and orientation for the defense cadres, which tacitly accepted Alexander Shapiro’s criticisms directed at insurrectional “gymnastics” and the criticisms of the internal CNT opposition, as reflected in the Manifesto of the Thirty. The Local Committee for Revolutionary Preparedness In Catalonia, the practicalimplementation of this new structure of the Defense Committees was the theme of a presentation organized by the anarchist groups The Indomitables, Nervio, Nosotros, Tierra Libre and Germen, at the Plenum of the Federation of Anarchist Groups of Barcelona, which met in January 1935. This presentation inaugurated the founding, in Barcelona, of the Local Committee for Revolutionary Preparedness. The preamble to the presentation characterized the historical moment as “a period of immense revolutionary perspectives due above all to the manifest incapacity of capitalism and the state to provide any equitable solutions to the economic, social and moral problems that are now overwhelmingly posed”. The international political breakdown after the end of the Great War was highlighted: “More than fifteen years of constant efforts on the part of the leaders

of economic life and just as many attempts of a manifold variety on the part of the state, not to forget the so-called dictatorship of the proletariat, have not produced a minimum of tolerable equilibrium for the broad masses, but have only aggravated the general unrest and have led us to the verge of physiological ruin and the threshold of another military hecatomb.” Against the background of a truly horrifying historical panorama—the rise of fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, Stalinism in the Soviet Union and economic depression with massive permanent unemployment in the United States and Europe—the presentation offered the hope of the revolutionary proletariat: “In the universal collapse of ideas, parties, and systems, all that remains standing is the revolutionary proletariat with its program of reorganizationof the foundations of labor, of the economic and social reality and solidarity.” The optimism of the authors of the presentation saw the workers movement in Spain as strong enough and capable “of unleashing the final battle against the old edifice of capitalist morality, economy and politics”. One may detect in the presenters’ definition of the revolution a profound critique of the puerile tactics, abandoned in October 1934, of revolutionary gymnastics and improvisation: “The social revolution cannot be understood as an audacious coup, along the lines of the Jacobin coups d’état, but will rather be the consequence and the result of the unfolding of an inevitable civil war whose duration cannot be predicted”. Not only did the presentation provide a surprisingly clear anticipation of the Civil War, which was

the Local Committee for revolutionary preparedness that we are currently proposing.” This committee would be composed of four members: two would be appointed by the Local Federation of the CNT, and the other two by the Local Federation of Anarchist Groups. These four persons would in addition organize an auxiliary commission. The principal mission of this Local Committee for Revolutionary Preparedness was “to study the ways and means of struggle, the tactics that should be employed and the deployment of the organic insurrectionary forces”. There was a clear difference between the old combat cadres, from prior to October 1934, and the new defense cadres: “Just as the Defense Committees up until now have been above all street fighting groups, they must from now on be institutions capable ofgroups of Barcelona, in January 1935, insisted on a new structure for the defense cadres, discarding their former status as mere street fighting groups in order to transform them into defense cadres for a rigorous revolutionary preparation, addressing problems of information, armaments, tactics and investigation prior to the outbreak of a long civil war. From the street fighting groups of the period prior to 1934, the step had been taken to the cadres of information and combat. July 1936: the Revolutionary Committees and the militias On July 19-20, 1936, in the midst of the fighting in the streets of Barcelona, when the rebel military units had been defeated, the members of the Defense Committees began to call themselves and were known as “the militiamen”. Without any formal transition, the defense

cadres had become Popular Militias. The basic structure of the defense cadres had been designed in order to respond to the need to extend and expand them by means of the incorporation of secondary cadres. All that was necessary was to make room in them for the tens of thousands of working class volunteers who joined the struggle against fascism, and extend their territories to Aragón. The confederal militias became the vanguard of all the armed units that were looking for fascist enemies to attack. They were the armed organization of the revolutionary proletariat. They were imitated by the other working class organizations, and even by those of bourgeois origin. Because of the absence of a unitary proletarian army, as many militias arose as there were parties andother organizations. These defense cadres underwent a dual transformation. As the Popular Militias, which established the front lines during the first few days on the Aragón front, they introduced the collectivization of the land to the liberated Aragonese villages; and as the Revolutionary Committees, they imposed a “new revolutionary order” in every neighborhood of Barcelona and every town in Catalonia. Because of the common origin of these institutions in the defense cadres the confederal militias and the Revolutionary Committees would always be united and interrelated. After the victory over the fascist and military uprising in Catalonia, the Defense Committees of each neighborhood (or town) formed Revolutionary Neighborhood (or municipal) Committees, assuming a wide array of names. These Revolutionary Neighborhood Committees, in the city of Barcelona, were almost exclusively composed of

centers in every neighborhood for the Militias, which they armed, financed, supplied and paid (up until the end of August) with their own means, and each neighborhood maintained even after May 1937 a very close and constant relationship with their militiamen at the front, welcoming them when they came home on leave. 5) In addition to the storage of weapons at the headquarters of the Defense Committee, there was always a store or a warehouse where the neighborhood supply committee was installed, which was stocked with the proceeds of requisitions of food carried out in the rural areas by way of armed coercion, exchange or purchase with vouchers. 6) Imposition and collection of the revolutionary tax in every neighborhood or municipality. The supply committee established a popular kitchen, which at firstwas free, but after a few months, faced with scarcities and the high cost of food products, it was necessary to introduce a system of coupons subsidized by the Revolutionary Committee of the neighborhood or the municipality. At the headquarters of the Defense Committee there was always a room devoted to the storage of arms and sometimes a small lock-up in which detainees could be temporarily held. The Revolutionary Committees exercised important and quite varied administrative tasks, extending from the issuance of vouchers, food coupons, travel permits, and safe-conduct passes, the formation of cooperatives, the celebration of weddings, and the supply and maintenance of hospitals, to the confiscation of food, furniture and buildings, the financing of rationalist schools and social centers managed by the Libertarian Youth, payments to the

militiamen and their families, etc. The coordination of the Revolutionary Neighborhood Committees was carried out at the meetings of the Regional Committee, attended by the secretaries of each Neighborhood Defense Committee. There was also a permanent Confederal Defense Committee with its headquarters at the Casa CNT-FAI. With respect to all matters relating to the confiscation of large quantities of money and valuable objects, and in relation to all those tasks involving arrests, information and investigation that surpassed the means of the Revolutionary Neighborhood Committees, they were referred to the Investigation Service of the CNT-FAI, directed by Manuel Escorza from the Casa CNT-FAI. Thus, in the city of Barcelona, the Neighborhood Defense Committees were subordinated to the following superior Committees: 1) With respect to the recruitment of militiamen (in July and August) andthe supply of the popular militias (up until mid-September) they answered to the CCMA. 2) With respect to the supply of food and other basic needs they were responsible to the Central Supply Committee. 3) With respect to organization and resolution of problems, they were subordinated to the Regional Committee of the CNT, which issued orders and directives for them to follow. This reflects the famous dependence on the trade unions and the negation of the autonomy of the defense cadres, resolved at the Presentation of 1934. 4) They were coordinated and shared experiences in a Defense Committee of Barcelona, which was nothing but the organizational level above the district committees. This institution was hardly operational. 5) With regard to questions of information, investigation, persecution of fifth columnists and other armed “police”

work, they were responsible to the Investigation Service of the CNT-FAI. The defense cadres, organized territorially in zones that were very carefully delineated with respect to the zones of other groups, composed of six members each, with very precise tasks of intelligence, espionage and investigation, were the primary clandestine armed organization of the CNT. These primary cadres were to be joined during the course of the insurrection by secondary groups of trade union militants, the affinity groups of the FAI, the members of the social centers, etc. After July 19, the tasks relating to intelligence, espionage directed against the enemy, and investigation of the forces and leadership of the class enemy, were coordinated by the Investigation and Intelligence Services of the CNT-FAI, while the other tasks were coordinated inmeetings of the secretary-delegates of each neighborhood committee held with the Regional Committee at the Casa CNT-FAI. Against militarization The real achievement of the CCMA, in its nine weeks of existence, was to facilitate the transition from a network of Local Revolutionary Committees, which exercised all power in the streets and the factories, to its dissolution for the exclusive benefit of the full reestablishment of the power of the Generalitat. The Decrees signed on October 24 ordering the militarization of the Militias as of November 1, and the Collectivization Decree, rounded out the disastrous balance sheet of the CCMA, that is, the transition from a network of working class Militias composed of revolutionary volunteers to a bourgeois army of the classical type, subject to the monarchical code of military justice,

directed by the Generalitat; and the transition from the workers expropriations and workers control in the factories to a centralized economy, controlled and directed by the Generalitat. The Decree ordering the militarization of the Popular Militias aroused a great deal of discontent among the anarchist militiamen of the Durutti Column, stationed at the Aragón Front. After long and bitter debates, in March 1937, several hundred volunteer militiamen, posted in the Gelsa sector, resolved to abandon the front and return to the rearguard. It was agreed that the replacement of the militiamen opposed to militarization would be carried out over a period of fifteen days. They abandoned the front, taking their weapons with them. When they arrived in Barcelona, together with other anarchists (defenders of the continuity and intensification ofthe July revolution, and opponents of confederal collaborationism with the government), the militiamen of Gelsa (Zaragoza) decided to constitute an anarchist organization, distinct from the FAI, the CNT and the Libertarian Youth, whose mission would be to guide the acratic movement by the revolutionary path. The new Group was formally constituted in March 1937, after a long period of incubation that lasted for several months beginning in October 1936. The directive Junta chose to call the organization “The Friends of Durruti Group”, a name that was chosen partly with reference to the common origin of the former militiamen of the Durruti Column, and which, as Balius pointed out, was not adopted with reference to the ideas of Durruti, but rather in the light the popular mythology that had

grown up around his name. This revolutionary opposition to the militarization of the Popular Militias was also manifested, to a greater or lesser degree, in all the confederal columns. Especially outstanding, due to its importance outside of Catalonia, was the case of Maroto, condemned to death for his refusal to militarize the column that he commanded, a penalty that would not be carried out but which nonetheless kept him in jail. Another important case was that of the Iron Column, which on various occasions had voted to “descend upon Valencia” in order to drive the revolution forward and confront the counterrevolutionary elements in the rearguard. In February 1937 an assembly of confederal columns was held which addressed the question of militarization. The threats to withhold arms, food and reinforcements fromthe columns that did not accept militarization, together with the assurance that the militiamen would be incorporated into other units that were already militarized, had a powerful effect. To many it seemed better to accept militarization and to flexibly adapt their columns to the new situation. In the end, the ideology of anti-fascist unity and the collaboration of the CNT-FAI in government operations, in defense of the republican state, triumphed over the resistance to militarization, which was finally accepted even by the recalcitrant Iron Column. The Defense Committees in May 1937 On Monday, May 3, 1937, at around 2:45 in the afternoon, Rodríguez Salas, a UGT militant and devout Stalinist, the chief of the Commissariat of Public Order, attempted to seize the Telephone building in Barcelona. The CNT militants organized

fierce resistance thanks to a strategically placed machine gun. The news spread rapidly. Barricades were immediately erected throughout the city. One must not speak of a spontaneous reaction on the part of the Barcelona working class, because the general strike, the armed confrontations with the police forces and the barricades were the outcome of the initiative taken by the Investigation Committee of the CNT-FAI and the Defense Committees, which was rapidly supported thanks to the existence of enormous generalized discontent, the increasing economic hardships occasioned by the rising cost of living, long queues and rationing, as well the tension that existed among the rank and file militants that pitted collaborationists against revolutionaries. The street battles were initiated by and directed from the Neighborhood Defense Committees (and only partiallyand secondarily by certain elements in the control patrols). The fact that there was no order from the superior Committees of the CNT, whose members were busy acting as Ministers in Valencia, or from any other organization, to build barricades throughout the city, does not mean that the movement was purely spontaneous, but that it was a result of directives issued by the Defense Committees. In April 1937, Pedro Herrera, the “conseller” (Minister) of Health in the second government of Tarradellas, and Manuel Escorza, were the CNT officials who were carrying out negotiations with Lluis Companys (president of the Generalitat) to resolve the government crisis that had reached a high point at the beginning of March 1937 due to the resignation of the “conseller” of Defense, the CNT’s Francisco

government of the Generalitat that, as the real situation had demonstrated, was not yet strong enough to cease to negotiate with the CNT. The failure of the discussions held by Companys with Escorza and Herrera, which had not brought about any kind of political solution during two months of conversations and despite the short-lived new government of April 16, led directly to the armed confrontations of May 1937 in Barcelona, when Companys, without notifying Tarradellas (or, of course, Escorza and Herrera) issued the order to Artemi Aguadé, “conseller” of the Interior, to occupy the Telephone building, and the mission was carried out by Rodríguez Sals. The seizure of the Telephone building was the brutal response to the CNT demands and a gesture of contempt for the negotiations carried outduring the month of April by Manuel Escorza and Pedro Herrera, as representatives of the CNT, directly with Companys, who had expressly excluded Tarradellas from these meetings. Escorza had the motive and the ability to respond immediately to the provocation of Companys from his position in the Investigation Committee of the CNT-FAI, an autonomous organization that coordinated the Defense Committees and the CNT members who held official positions in the departments of public order. This was the real trigger of the armed confrontations of the May Days. The members of The Friends of Durruti Group were the most active combatants on the barricades, and completely dominated the Plaza Maciá (now the Plaza Real), with all the side streets blocked by barricades, and Hospital Street along its entire length. At

the intersection of Las Ramblas and Hospital Street, under an enormous portrait of Durruti draped over the façade of a building in which the Group had its headquarters, a barricade was erected where the Group’s center of operations was established. The Group’s absolute control over Hospital Street provided access to the headquarters of the Confederal Defense Committee (the central barracks of the Defense Committees), at Los Escolapios on the Ronda San Pablo, and from there to the Brecha de San Pablo, which had been secured by about forty militiamen from the Rojinegra [Red and Black] Column, who, under the command of the Durrutista Máximo Franco had “dropped in on Barcelona” for purposes of “observation and intelligence”, after both the Rojinegra Column as well as the Lenin Column (ofthe POUM), commanded by Rovira, had yielded to pressure to return to the front, pressure that came from Abad de Santillán and Molina, that is, from the CNT officials who were giving orders from the Department of Defense of the Generalitat in the absence of Isgleas. The confederal masses, disoriented by the appeals issued by their leaders to leave the barricades—the same leaders they had on July 19!—finally chose to abandon the struggle, although at first they had scoffed at the appeals from the CNT leaders for concord in order to preserve anti-fascist unity. The final dissolution of the Defense Committees The Revolutionary Neighborhood Committees of Barcelona, which had arisen during the days of July 19-20, 1936, lasted until at least June 7, 1937, when the restored forces of public order

of the Generalitat dissolved them and occupied the various headquarters of the Control Patrols, as well as some headquarters of the Defense Committees, such as the Defense Committee of the neighborhood of Les Corts. Despite the Decree mandating the disbanding of all the armed groups, most of them resisted until September 1937, when the buildings they occupied were systematically assaulted and dissolved, one by one. The last to be occupied, and the most important and strongest, was the headquarters of the Defense Committee of Central Barcelona, located in Los Escolapios de San Antonio, which was taken by assault on September 21, 1937 by Stalinists and the forces of public order, which used, in addition to armored vehicles, an entire arsenal of machine guns and hand grenades. The resistanceFor The Win - 11 Sep 2019 The final day of the September international window features one of the most exciting matches of the week with Argentina and Mexico clashing at the Alamodome in San Antonio, TX. Without their suspended captain, the Albiceleste will rely on a few other ... mundoalbiceleste.com - 10 Sep 2019 A few places in the starting eleven remain up in the air as reports are circulating about the tean which will start Tuesday's game. Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni ...

Health Dr. Harry Chen. For the 100-plus members of the public who turned out Thursday — many of whom were seated in the House Chamber seats of those hearing their testimony — the event drew a few familiar faces, along with yet unheard-from Vermonters, many of whom considered this their last chance to make a public appeal. The event also demonstrated a clear effort by home cultivation advocates, several of whom signed up in the anti-legalization line and spoke in opposition to S.241 due to its lack of protection for home cultivators and the high costs for small cultivators to obtain a license. In fact, out of the 19 people who spoke in opposition, at least five were clearly in favor of cannabis reform, but opposed S.241 based solely onkilled more people than anybody else.” One retired teacher spoke in support of legalization, but there were also several current high school students who bravely testified to the committee about attitudes in their schools. Students from Montpelier High School spoke in support of S.241, by sharing the results of a school-wide poll conducted as a class project. That poll apparently showed legalization would not increase the likelihood of their peers using marijuana. Burlington High School was also represented by three students from a high school health class, all of whom spoke in opposition to S.241. Two young ladies (names withheld due to minor status) performed an impressive spoken-word poem in tandem, virulently denouncing legalization. They were preceded by a third student from BHS, a young man who read an original

Dow Drops Over 400 Amid Economic Worries Stocks continued to slide Thursday as weak outlooks from Cisco and Toyota, dismal October retail sales and the prospect of a very grim payrolls number tomorrow rattled the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average wandered around at the open, then spiraled into a triple-digit decline and was down more than 400 in afternoon trading. The Standard & Poor's 500 index and Nasdaqalso declined, with the S&P being the hardest hit of the three. The CBOE volatility index, which has been steadily ticking higher since bottoming at 44.25 on election day, soared past 60. Still, it's a far cry from the fear gauge's peak of 89.53 in October. This is the market's second straight day of decline. All three indexes shed more than 5 percent onWednesday as anxiety over the economy returned after a brief sigh of relief following the historic presidential election in which Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected president. The morning's gloom overshadowed any comfort traders may have taken from some pretty hefty rate cuts across the pond. The Bank of England slashed its key lending rate 1.5 percentage pointsto 3 percent and the European Central Bank cut a key rate by half a percentage point. In the U.S., the number of workers filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell by 4,000to 481,000 last week, in-line with expectations. The prior week, however, was revised to 485,000 from 479,000. The four-week moving average, which smooths out weekly fluctuations, was unchanged at 477,000. U.S. business productivity slowed sharply in the third quarter,

Golden, 42; and Derrick “BoBo” Stewart, 16. All had been shot in the head. Prosecutors described Flowers as a disgruntled employee who’d been fired from his job at the store. They said Flowers didn’t receive his last paycheck because the owner kept it as payment for golf cart batteries she believed he had damaged. Defense attorneys argued that Flowers was at a relative’s home at the time of the murders and that no one saw him go in or come out of the store on the day of the murders. In a brief filed June 18, Flowers’ attorney, Alison Steiner, argues no physical evidence links Flowers to the crimes. She said prosecutors presented a series of witnesses intended to show that Flowers could have stolen a gun and was in thevicinity of the furniture store on the morning of the murders,” Steiner wrote. Among those testifying at Flowers’ 2010 trial was a woman who said she saw Flowers running out of the store at the time of the killings. Another witness, a firearms expert, testified that the residue found on Flowers’ right hand the day of the slayings was in a spot consistent with firing a handgun, according to the court record. About WCBI – TV was the first television station in North Mississippi. The station began its regular operations on July 13, 1956 under the ownership of Birney Imes, Jr. WCBI was first housed in a group of cement block buildings in a pasture east of Columbus on Highway 12

journalists, many of whom felt the press functioned as a kind of commercial department of Yiddish literature—something over which they felt they should have more control. Most of the battles within the Yiddish journalistic world never left the perimeter of the editor’s desks. But on occasion, these spats leapt out of the editorial offices and onto the pages of the papers, making for some of the juiciest Yiddish snark this side of Pinsk. When, for instance, famed columnist Hillel Zeitlin jumped ship in late 1910 from Warsaw’s daily Haynt to a new competitor, Moment, his editor, Shmuel Yatskan, was furious but temporarily held his tongue. Zeitlin had been one of Haynt’s most popular columnists. Born into a family of Lubavitcher Hasidim, he strayed from his yeshiva studies after discovering Spinoza, Nietszche,and a slew of other Western thinkers. Like any shtetl kid in the process of ridding himself of tradition, he moved to the city—Warsaw, in this case—and involved himself in Jewish political matters and journalism. But Zeitlin never completely gave up his traditional ways, and an interest in Kabbalah eventually brought him back, not only to full religious observance, but to a promotion of Jewish tradition in his newspaper columns. Zeitlin’s former editor, Yatskan, was also a Litvak plying journalism in Warsaw. An ordained rabbi from the highly regarded Ponevezh Yeshiva, Yatskan was a major figure in the Yiddish press, having founded some of Warsaw’s early Jewish dailies, including Haynt, which became the best-selling Yiddish paper in Poland. With an understanding that a popular newspaper should have a broad mandate,

station buffet he ate a pork chop, with a roll, followed by a cutlet. Although this rambling sentence (21 lines of one newspaper column) was a grammatical mess, it was also a finely crafted accusation, attacking Zeitlin for his hypocrisy, arrogance, and trangression: the eating of trayf. The accusation was the last straw. Zeitlin and the Moment staff responded in the paper by saying that Yatskan and Haynt were rank liars attacking a former colleague who had left for good reason. In printed testimonials supporting their besmirched colleague, dozens of journalists sided with Zeitlin. Haynt, as well the daily Der fraynd, pounded away at Zeitlin, attacking him for all manner of sin, ranging from writing on Shabbos to violating Yom Kippur. Moment shot back, asserting that Yatskan wrote a fake Torah,Shaq is many things. He's a legendary basketball player with a growing business empire and a one-time great film career. He was also a rapper. But did you know he's a Beyoncé fan? Neither did we until Super Bowl Sunday, when he let the whole world know.

a year or so, we'd gather just to chat about lives and loves, wins and losses. Our conversations flowed easily, the time quickly. Jim moved on to teach at Middleton. A fine woodworker, he built his own home between Cottage Grove and Stoughton. I helped him work on the house one weekend when his friends gathered to share skills and sweat. Jim finished a basement recreation room and filled its walls with trophies, awards and medals. He thrived on canoe racing, cross country skiing and triathlons. But he collected his last award sometime before that fateful motorcycle ride on Sept. 26, 2002. --- You've seen them already, this sure sign of spring. Not bulbs emerging from the earth, nor buds from branches, but motorcycles emerging from garages and storage units. Many bikers thumbargue that they'll likely only kill themselves in an accident. Jim always thought he was a safe rider. He thought that if he was aware enough of his surroundings, he could avoid trouble—it had worked other times through the years. But he also knew that most cycle accidents are serious in nature. --- Jim Winters was motorcycling north on County N at about 4:30 p.m. that autumn day of 2002. Heading toward Sun Prairie, he planned to meet another of my former teachers and her husband. They wanted to roller ski, to work out. He was only a few miles from home and had crossed Highway 12. He was nearing Natvig Road as an oversized vehicle, perhaps a tractor, approached. Behind it was a string of cars. Among them was a Buick, a

16-year-old girl at the wheel. As the big vehicle passed Jim's Yamaha, the girl turned left in front of Jim. She apparently didn't see him coming. Jim locked his brakes, leaving 70 feet of skid marks. Then he realized it was too late, let off the brakes and tried to swerve around the car. Jim's cycle clipped the corner of the car. The impact crushed his left leg. He flew 60 feet in the air and landed in a field, on the side of his face. In Sun Prairie, Jim's friends were wondering why he didn't show up. --- Feel no pity for Jim Winters. That's not the way he would want it. He survived the crash. His days of serious competition may well be over. But he'll still go up north skiingfor pleasure. He'll still pedal a bicycle 20 miles on the back roads of Dane County. He'll still race canoes but would struggle to compete if he had to portage the craft. Jim lost his lower leg in the accident. But he didn't lose his life. He wore a helmet, which likely saved his life, Cottage Grove police officer Douglas Kenney said. Still, the tremendous impact required plastic surgery on Jim's face. Noting the outpouring of concerns from students, co-workers and those from the past 28 classes he's taught, “I learned that having people care about you is way more important than a foot.” Jim maintains an amazingly positive outlook on life. He wouldn't sue the girl or her family. He realized doing so would only hurt her chances of going

Cutaneous anthrax: an endemic outbreak in south India. Although human anthrax has become rare, endemic outbreaks still occur in tropical countries, parts of South America and Europe. We report 23 cases of cutaneous anthrax due to an endemic outbreak of animal and human anthrax in South India. These patients were admitted to our hospital between July 1998 and July 2001. Children outnumbered adults and most of them had lesions on the exposed sites. The majority of patients reported the death of infected animals in the neighbourhood without any direct contact with dead animals. Hence, vector borne transmission was suspected in most of the cases. Diagnosis was confirmed by the presence of a typical ulcer with eschar, Gram-stained smears from ulcers and epidemiological evidence. Except for one fatal case, allTobacco, alcohol, and other drug use among high school students in Bureau of Indian Affairs-funded schools--United States, 2001. In the United States, use of alcohol and other drugs is associated with the three leading causes of death and disability (i.e., unintentional injuries, primarily from motor vehicle crashes; suicide; and homicide) among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons aged 15-24 years, and tobacco use is associated with the two leading causes of death (i.e., heart disease and cancer) among AI/AN adults. This report presents data about the prevalence of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use among high school students at schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The findings indicate that a substantial number of these students engage in behaviors that put them at risk for premature death and

Ganesh Krupa Society is part of Golibar, Mumbai's second largest slum, spanning 140 acres. The site is at the centre of a fierce battle between its residents and a developer that wants to raze the area to make way for a commercial project. Already concrete homes across this narrow maze of more than 300 dwellings have been demolished. In January, violence erupted when the developer tried to evict 45 families following a high court order. None of the families moved, claiming their signatures consenting to the project had been forged. Devasandhan Nair, 47, a resident, says: "The basis of redevelopment is consent but our consent was forged. Even a dead woman's signature was forged. How can the court instruct the builder to evict us when a forgery case has beenup in slums elsewhere. Simpreet Singh, an activist, says high levels of migration to the city due to a lack of rural jobs combined with a shortage of affordable housing means people have no choice but to flock to the city and live in slums. So far only 100,000 homes have been built under the scheme in the last 12 years – and 35% of those rehoused have returned to slums because maintenance costs are too steep in their new accommodation. Around 1.2m homes are needed to house the city's slum dwellers. Against the backdrop of Mumbai's rapidly changing skyline of malls and plush high-rise apartments, the common complaint among the poor and powerless is that the government, corrupt politicians and developers are colluding to grab their land and short-change

the slum dweller. Slum activist Jockin Arputham says: "This policy is about giving cakes and carrots to builders and developers. It's not in the interest of improvement of slum dwellers." In February, the Times of India reported that the Maharashtra state government had gifted 500 acres of land to a developer under a little-known rule that waives the requirement for the 70% mandatory consent to sell from slum dwellers. The lack of trust and transparency over land procurement has brought some of the largest development projects to a standstill, while others have simply failed to take off. In Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, which is located on prime land overlooking the city's new business district, residents are demanding larger homes and a guarantee of their livelihoods. With 80% of people self-employed inthe slum's core businesses in leather, recycling, garments and pottery, residents say they will not agree to any development plan unless they are allotted the same amount of workspace they currently occupy. A short distance away, the Mumbai's international airport is in the midst of the city's largest slum clearance. The airport is right next to scores of slums that need to be moved for security reasons as well as for the airport's expansion. About 88,000 families need to be moved, but the scheme has met stiff opposition from residents who are ineligible for rehousing – while those who are entitled don't want to be rehoused away from their community, schools and jobs. Mumbai's policy on slum clearance puts it at odds with the central government, which wants to see

Emerging Western Bulldogs forward Josh Schache has recommitted to the Club for a further two years. Schache, who was due to come out of contract at the end of the 2020 season, moved early to agree to a two-year extension which will see him remain a Bulldog until at least the end of 2022. The 22-year-old becomes the 20th player to re-sign for the Club this year. “I’ve loved my time at the Bulldogs over the last two years and had no hesitation in wanting to extend my contract with the Club,” Schache said. “I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working on my game and trying to make an impact for the team, and I look forward to continuing my development over the next few years. “We have a talented young group, and I’m excited aboutHomeVisiting Professor Mel Chin’s ‘In the Name of Place’ Subject of Fall Retrospective Visiting Professor Mel Chin’s ‘In the Name of Place’ Subject of Fall Retrospective August 02, 2016 Inaugural Visiting Professor of Community Engagement and artist Mel Chin’s collaborative project In the Name of Place, which insinuated art into the popular ‘90s TV show Melrose Place, will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition at Red Bull Studios in New York this fall. A recent article in ARTnewsprofiled the two-year project, which placed art works, created by a collective known as the GALA Committee, into different episodes of the show over a period of several years with the idea that the work would eventually be shown in a museum and then auctioned off with proceeds benefiting charities. The idea came during a

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is positioning himself as a political mediator, starting with the dispute between Saudi Arabia and Iran. In an exclusive interview with CNN's Max Foster, the Pakistani cricket legend turned politician said that US President Donald Trump had asked him to help defuse tensions by acting as a "go-between" with Iran. "What I like about him is he does not believe in wars," Khan said of the US President, speaking to CNN in Islamabad. Khan met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Sunday, before traveling to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, with the aim of facilitating talks between the arch rivals. Khan said Trump had asked him last month to "try and be a go-between with Iran and the United States." Read MoreBase Flipping in a GCGC Containing DNA Dodecamer: A Comparative Study of the Performance of the Nucleic Acid Force Fields, CHARMM, AMBER, and BMS. The improving quality of empirical force field parameters along with other methodological improvements and ever increasing computational resources have lead to more reliable computations on biological macromolecules. In the case of oligonucleotides, three force fields, namely CHARMM27, AMBER4.1, and BMS, have been developed and are widely used by the simulation community. Testing of these force fields to date has primarily focused on their treatment of the canonical forms of DNA and RNA. However, many biological functions of oligonucleotides involve significant variation of their structures from the canonical forms. In the present work, the three force fields are evaluated via computation of potentials of mean force

rap, which finally propelled black misery to the top of the charts, a new trap revealed itself: When authenticity is everything, musical evolution is actively discouraged. In hip-hop, the beats have grown steadily junkier, and the wit and dexterity of a rapper's flow matter much less than his street credibility. "I'm not a rapper," the nation's top rapper, Jay-Z, informs his fans in a typical aside. "I'm a hustler/ It just so happens I can rap." But Jay-Z's continued success is an anomaly; more representative is the career of Dr. Dre, who kick-started gangsta rap in 1992 with his album The Chronic. His 1996 follow-up, The Aftermath, went easy on the gangsta stylings and showcased his work as a producer (he's the best in the business). The recordflopped. So he put out Chronic 2001, which returned to the virtues of throat-slitting, drug-dealing, and pimping. It sold well into the millions and was heralded as a return to form. Given this musical climate, the very existence of a group like OutKast—an Atlanta duo that released its greatest hits compilation earlier this month—is more than an anomaly; it's something of a miracle. OutKast's Big Boi (aka Daddy Fat Sax, aka Antwon Patton) and Dre (aka Andre 3000, aka Andre Benjamin) first got together in their early teens, after trying to best one another in a local cutting contest. They released their first single, "Players Ball," in the winter of 1993, while Big Boi was still a high-school student and Dre a recent dropout. The song, about a New-Year's-party-cum-pimp's-convention,

was a monster hit, and for good reason. It was backed by live instruments, which gave the song elasticity and warmth. The groove was deep, funky, and Southern-fried; the lyrics gritty and descriptive without being dumb or exploitative—perhaps because they really had run the streets, Dre and Big Boi saw no reason to wallow in the gutter. Most important, they were serious musicians: They could sing without straining, and their delivery was unlike anything anyone had heard before. But if the delivery—which combines smooth Southern drawls with sharp, staccato phrasings, and marks all OutKast's subsequent records (click here for a sample)—was unique, it was hardly the only thing that set the group apart. Never having entered rap's authenticity sweepstakes or based their identities on anything but their abilities, Dreand Big Boi found themselves free to evolve in ways other groups couldn't and soak up influences others ignored. They could sound like Marvin Gaye one minute, Dr. Dre the next, shift effortlessly between the two, and still sound unmistakably like themselves. On their second release, ATLiens, the beats were slower and jazzier and occasionally dropped out entirely while the rappers' voices soared over the gap. On their next two records, Aquemini, and Stankonia, OutKast took over production duties, expanded their palate to include acoustic guitars and harmonicas on the one hand and dense, techno-inspired textures on the other, and sharpened and quickened their delivery almost to the point of scat-singing (albeit with syllables that made sense on the page; here's a clip). Nor were the group's lyrics typical:

as being protected both at a national and international level. There are currently 175 countries that are signatories to the Convention for the International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES) - an organization that oversees the movement of protected and endangered species across international borders \[[@B23],[@B24]\]. Each member country is responsible for the implementation of the Convention at a national level. National legislation has been enacted in many countries which is specifically aimed at the protection of species within their own country. Examples include the Endangered Species Act 1973 in the USA \[[@B25]\], which covers alleged crimes at a federal level. Such all encompassing legislation may include additions and amendments, such as the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in the UK \[[@B26]\] with amendments inThe present invention relates to a vehicular burglar alarm system. More particularly, the invention relates to a vehicular burglar alarm system for an automotive vehicle having an engine, a battery, an ignition circuit including an ignition switch and the battery for operating the engine, a horn circuit including a horn, a horn actuating switch and the battery, a headlight circuit including headlights, a headlight energizing switch and the battery, and an emergency light circuit including emergency lights, an emergency light energizing switch and the battery. Objects of the invention are to provide a vehicular burglar alarm system of simple structure, which is inexpensive in manufacture, installed with facility and convenience in new and existing automotive vehicles, and functions efficiently, effectively and reliably to call attention to a thief stealing

Tucker, Jr. (hereinafter called Tommy), a 12-year-old boy, had been employed on Saturdays and Sundays for about three months at the Dominguez Skeet Range. On Sunday morning, May 3, 1953, the day of the accident, Tommy was ordered to work at the "high house," a tower-like building. His job there was to load a spring apparatus, known as a Remington Trap Machine, with "clay birds" or targets. He had done this work on about six previous occasions. The high house had an opening shielded by metal plates, through which the bird was ejected when another employee, operating in the control house, pressed a button effecting the bird's release. In skeet shooting, the gunner takes a "ready position" at the firing line and calls "pull." Upon this command theoperator in the control house presses the button which releases the bird in the trap machine. Tommy, while working in the high house, was struck by shot discharged from a gun held by defendant, who was shooting from station number 8 on the skeet range. Tommy thereby lost the sight of one eye. The range where the accident occurred was laid out in a half circle. Station number 1 was at the high house, number 7 was at the low house, and the intervening numbered stations formed a semi-circle arching to the south. Station number 8 was located at the midway point of an east-west line running from station number 1 to station number 7, and was about 60 feet to the east of the high house. When

regarding the difficulty of shooting at station number 8 in that it "gives you about half as much time to shoot as the rest of them. You have to shoot much faster there." The high house from which the bird was released was built of 2 by 4 framing lumber, which was covered by corrugated metal. It was 9 1/2 feet high, 60 inches wide and 60 inches deep. The opening through which the bird was ejected, and behind which Tommy was employed in loading the trap machine, was in the east wall and was 7 inches long and 7 inches wide. The opening was shielded by two metal plates attached to the outer wall. The trap machine was mounted on a wooden shelf which extended 25 1/2inches back from the east wall of the high house. From the edge of this shelf to the rear or west wall of the house was 34 1/2 inches. Tommy testified that in operating the trap machine, he would place a bird in the machine and cock it by pulling down a throwing lever; then he would step back to the wall behind him so as to be clear of the upward swing of the throwing lever. After the operator in the control house released the bird, Tommy would step forward toward the machine and reload it. There was no communication between the high house and the control house, and Tommy would step forward to reload without knowing whether a gun was fired at the released bird. While

he could hear the discharge of a gun if there was not too much noise from the lever operating, he could not tell from which range or at what bird it was fired. Defendant Lombardo was using a 12-gauge over-and-under shotgun, with which he was familiar. He had shot skeet once or twice previously. Standing in a "ready position" at station number 8, he looked toward the high house, called "pull" as the signal for the operator, and waited for the bird to emerge. He testified that he raised his gun and fired as the bird was approximately 2 feet from the high house. A second or two later defendant heard Tommy "holler" and saw him come out of the high house. Tommy testified that after the birdhad been released, he stepped forward to load the machine; that he was reaching for one of the birds stacked on the shelf alongside the machine when he was struck by some pellets from the shotgun; that he was thrown against the wall and his face was bleeding. One of the pellets caused a double perforation of his right eye, which was subsequently removed. *462 Defendant introduced photographs of the high house showing perforations resembling shot punctures in the corrugated metal around the opening. The operator of the control house testified that when the boys first started to work in the high house, they were told to stand back after putting the target in the trap machine; that he knew that shot had come before into the high

house through the opening and that he had talked to the boys, including Tommy, about it but he did not remember whether he had so warned Tommy that particular morning. Tommy testified that he had never noticed the shot marks and indentations on the metal around the opening in the high house, and that while he was working there no shot had ever before come through the opening. Mrs. Ruth, coowner of the range with her husband, testified that she had not been aware that shooters had hit the high house though she admitted that she had seen the puncture holes on the metal around the opening and that they were "painted over." Defendant testified that he had never been inside the high house; that he knew thatof contributory negligence was properly covered in the instructions. The court defined contributory negligence (BAJI 103), set forth the various issues to be determined in relation to whether there was contributory negligence chargeable against Tommy (BAJI 113), and declared that a child is not held to the same standard of conduct as an adult (BAJI 147). It appears that there was evidence from which the jury could have found that Tommy was guilty of contributory negligence: He had worked some three months on the skeet range and several times in the high house; he reasonably should have seen the peppered indentation marks on the high house and the metal plates around the opening from which the bird emerged; he had been warned of the danger that shot might

Tracking Tom Cleverley: Ajax – The Return Leg The team lines up before kick-off. Photo: Michael Regan (Getty Images) Cleverley made his first start for United against Ajax tonight for the first time since his injury at the Reebok in October. After he received the call from Stuart Pearce into the England Senior squad, Cleverley would have been keen to impress on the night to show just why he was given the nod. With a midfield partner of Park, the pressure was on Cleverley to be the pillar in the midfield that both dictated and controlled the play, as Carrick was finally given a rest after a long stint without a break. The initial setup saw Cleverley play as the more advanced of the midfield pairing and it was hardly unsurprising. Parkplays centrally in the same fashion as he does across the pitch, biting at the heels of opponents with his unrelenting energy and tracking back, leaving Cleverley in the more central position to allow him to bring the play forward. With an early goal from Chicharito after some nice central play, it gave United the breathing space on the night to simply control the game. The first glimpses of Cleverley brought nothing spectacular with simple possession play bringing calm to the team. On the 15 minute mark, Tom showed the characteristics of his all-round game after he won the ball back, played a neat one-two with Rafael before darting into space and bringing the ball back into the middle. A lovely bit of play. As the game reached the 30

minute mark, Cleverley hadn’t found himself involved in the game much more. Ajax started to play their part in the fixture and United began playing the ball further wide toward Young and Nani. The game was passing him by and he needed to try and stamp more authority and demand the ball. It was clear to see that both Cleverley and Park were far from match sharp but the goal from Ajax spurred life into United. A great effort from Cleverley at the 40 minute mark was parried out by Vermeer nearly into the path of Berbatov as he showed signs of coming into the game. United continued to improve and so did Tom, with his best pass of the game coming with a pinpoint ball over the topthis report, this practice continues through today -- the report shows calls tracked as recently as 2012, and with in-flight calling expected to be far more common in the coming years, the NSA and GCHQ will have many more opportunities to listen in to calls. The forthcoming boom in in-flight mobile phone usage will "further extend the scope of espionage by providing a pool of potential targets comprising several hundreds of thousands of people, a level of popularity anticipated by the NSA seven years ago," writes Jacques Follorou of Le Monde. "This implies a population that goes far beyond terrorist targets. The political or economic surveillance of passengers in business or in first class on long-haul flights could be put to many other uses." Naturally, both the GCHQ and NSA

hosts it. Big Buck Bunny is a whole new concept which is similar to Dreamworks creation of making animal animated films. Big Buck Bunny presents a new face of Blender , the ability to create spectacular 3d models , rendering of grass ,hair, fur etc.. The Movie starts with a beautiful soothing sound and chirping of birds.. The earlier scenes depict the aesthetic Landscape.. Which is followed by screening the Bunny lair and the Movie Title.. The Movie can be divided into two parts in which different faces of Bunny has been presented.. The calm and peaceful loving and outrageous bunny set to teach the rodents a lesson.. As the film proceed we will notice a oversized rabbit known as Bunny or “JC” living in an aesthetic atmosphere surrounded with Plains,Birds , Trees and Butterflies.. Bunny is calm and gentle by nature ,who is fond of butteries and flowers.. But the peace no longer prevailed as the plains was stunned by the arrival of 3 bullying obnoxious rodents, Frank, Rinky and Gamera. .. These rodent amuse themselves by teasing helpless and poor creatures.. The notorious rodents trio ends up by killing the Butterfly which was very close to Bunny.. Soon after that they drove the Bunny out of the plains by redirecting their attacks over him..The intruders destructive and cruel nature outraged the Bunny and the bunny made up his mind to teach the trio a lesson.. Keeping his gentle and loving nature aside The Bunny prepares himself for saga.. The bunny superbly prepares the battlefield with loads of

booby traps and weapon .. He prepares himself to take the revenge of the death of his beloved Butterfly.. The trio finally nail down to the perfectly crafted booby traps and the bunny get hold of the intruders thus successfully completing his revenge.. After the Vengeance, Bunny again lived a happy life in the cozy paradise.. Once again Peace prevailed on the halcyon world and Bunny lives happily with his animal friends..The movie has a fantastic and slapstick end :P The Movie is a 100% entertainer , though the plot and characterization of the movie is little clumsy in the beginning which is followed by trill and creativity later on .. The film does have a unique satire. There are scenes which provide you a small laughter. The MovieAidan Turner has starred in several prominent movies like "The Hobbit" trilogy and television series like BBC's "Poldark." Apart from it, he has also been in the run for next James Bond. As reported by Radio Times recently, Turner was in talks for playing the next Doctor in BBC's iconic TV series "Doctor Who." However, much to the disappointment of his fans, he has turned down the role. According to the website, Turner refused to portray the next Doctor because he thinks that his friend and fellow co-star from "Being Human" Russell Tovey is the best suitable person to take over the role of Doctor after Peter Capaldi. Talking with Radio Times at MCM comic-con in London, Turner said: "He'd do a very good job, wouldn't he? Yeah, I'd be all

should go without saying that large real estate corporations and powerful landlords can take the hit of a few months’ canceled rent and deserve no less, after years upon decades of exploitative and extractive capital accumulation at the expense of tenants. Prior to the pandemic — and thanks to the tireless work of tenants’ unions, activists, and a few progressive Democrats elected in New York in 2018 — a number of pro-tenant legislative reforms were passed last year. These laws, while welcome, were but a small step in the right direction to undo the decades of unchallenged complicity between New York’s politicians and the mighty real estate lobby. For rent strike organizers, the ideal is by no means a return to a pre-crisis status quo. As Weaver putHeterotopic autotransplantation of the pancreas segment after pylorus-preserving total pancreatectomy: a case report of successful surgical treatment for chronic pancreatitis. A 38-year-old man who had suffered for 5 years from persistent abdominal pain caused by alcoholic chronic pancreatitis, presented with diffuse calcification of the entire pancreas with cystic formation of the pancreatic head. After a pylorus-preserving total pancreatectomy, the pancreatic head, including the cyst, was removed extracorporeally by bench surgery, and the remaining segment of the body and tail autotransplanted heterotopically to the iliac vessels with a pancreaticojejunostomy. Total resolution of the pain was achieved postoperatively, and dietary intake has been satisfactory. Both endocrine and exocrine pancreatic functions have been well preserved, and no insulin has been needed. Three months after his operation, the patient has returned to leading

for president for at least several years — were released, with Trump literally comparing U.S. intelligence workers to Nazis over their imaginary campaign to specifically undercut his legitimacy. As the veterans discuss, the members of the intelligence community of the United States work closely with the nation’s military to carry out the effective seeing through of our military objectives. And, quite simply, as has been so often said but far less often actually taken to heart, the intelligence community, along with the military, puts their lives on the line each and every day for the sake of protecting the lives American citizens. The veterans’ letter begins: ‘Let us be perfectly blunt with you, sir: Every single day, intelligence officers and officials put their lives on the line, and many lose theirUnion Pacific Line Back in Service after Derailment U.S. railroad company Union Pacific Corp said on Monday that a rail line on which a train derailed in northern Colorado was back in service. The line, which is used about once a day, connects Windsor, which is in the Niobrara shale play in northeastern Colorado, as well as other towns in the state. The train, which was heading from Windsor to an East Coast destination, spilled 5,300 gallons of oil on Friday morning. Over the past several months, the industry has been under heightened government scrutiny due to an increase in train derailments involving oil tank cars. The amount of oil moving by rail from shale formations has risen sharply because the region is not well-connected to pipelines. Mark Davis, a spokesman for Union

Pacific, said there were no injuries in the derailment and the rail line was back in service by Saturday evening. He did not know who owned the oil or its exact destination. He said six of the train's 100 cars derailed. Only one car leaked. Each car can hold about 28,000 gallons of oil, he said. No oil reached the South Platte River located near the town of LaSalle.Emergency contraception. To review current knowledge about emergency contraception (EC), including available options, their modes of action, efficacy, safety, and the effective provision of EC within a practice setting. The combined estradiol-levonorgestrel (Yuzpe regimen) and the levonorgestrel-only regimen, as well as post-coital use of copper intrauterine devices, are reviewed. Efficacy in terms of reduction in risk of pregnancy, safety, and side effects of methods for EC and the effect of the means of access to EC on its appropriate use and the use of consistent contraception. Studies published in English between January 1998 and March 2010 were retrieved though searches of Medline and the Cochrane Database, using appropriate key words (emergency contraception, post-coital contraception, emergency contraceptive pills, post-coital copper IUD). Clinical guidelines and position papers developed by health or

Kim Jong Un may be on a suicide mission, as President Donald Trump told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, but nobody in the White House with a serious understanding of the effect of war with North Korea would approve of a U.S. response that would indulge it, experts say. Tens of thousands of civilians would likely die in the first hours of a resumption of the Korean War, if only due to the conventional rockets Pyongyang has hidden in the mountains along the Demilitarized Zone and aimed at Seoul. That estimate does not include the 30,000 U.S. forces based on or near the border and the 200,000 American expatriates living in the capital city. The number also does not account for North Korea's ability to employ nuclear weapons, whichcould put the overall death toll as high as millions. And yet, in the most prominent international address of his presidency, Trump on Tuesday escalated the U.S. military threat against Kim's regime. "If it is forced to defend itself or its allies," Trump said of the U.S., "we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea." The purpose then of Trump's bellicose rhetoric is largely to present military action as what diplomats call a "credible threat," forcing all sides to opt instead for peaceable negotiation. It's a familiar tactic for North Korea, as most experts agree that's what inspired Kim to pursue nuclear weapons in the first place. "Both sides are fully aware that open hostilities between the U.S. and North Korea would result in catastrophe," says Charles Armstrong, a

professor at Columbia University and expert on the region. "A military option is not realistic. Even a limited conflict between the U.S. and North Korea would cause tremendous damage and loss of life." READ China Is the Key to Avoiding Conflict With North Korea ] Members of the Trump administration have stressed that they are considering military options against North Korea. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said earlier this month that Kim is "going to have to give up his nuclear weapons because the president has said he's not going to tolerate this regime threatening the United States and our citizens with a nuclear weapon." When asked if that included military options, he said Trump has "been very clear about that, that all options are on the table." U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haleyhad Peru before it. "So, yes, it's working," Mattis said. Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of the Trump administration's policy is that it has not specified what negotiations with North Korea would look like or what terms it would have to comply with before talks could begin. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said on multiple occasions and repeated on Sunday, "We'll know it when we see it in terms of their seriousness." Trump also undercut his own threats by tying North Korean aggression to his criticism of Iran, for which the president has said he wants to tear up an agreement limiting its nuclear program, says Vikram Singh, a former top Pentagon official for Asia issues, now a senior adviser at the Center for American Progress. Pyongyang would have no incentive

open to a formal entry with marble floors. The spacious living and family rooms have two story wood beamed ceilings, hardwood floors and floor to ceiling brick fireplaces. The newly remodeled kitchen has wood floors, a center island, quartz counters, stainless steel appliances and farm sink and a beverage refrigerator! The oversized formal dining room has diamond shaped windows and wood floors. The loft would make the perfect office or library. There is one bedroom down and 4 spacious freshly painted bedrooms upstairs. Upgrades include surround sound, newer HVAC and water heater, Solar, crown molding & ceiling fans! Two bedrooms share a bathroom. There is an additional bathroom in the hall. The enormous master suite has built-in cabinets, crown molding and two large closets. The newly renovated mastergotten closer to the fighting in eastern Ukraine than any senior U.S. diplomat, close enough to see the bombed out villages through the window of his armored car. The seasoned diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to NATO has no illusions about the reasons for the slaughter, which began after a revolution in Ukraine brought a pro-Western government to power in Kiev. Putin responded by sending Russian troops and paramilitaries to occupy large portions of the country, including its industrial rust belt in the east. The resulting conflict has since killed over 10,000 people, more than a quarter of them civilians, according to U.N. estimates. It has also displaced about 1.5 million, more than any other conflict in Europe since World War II. These numbers, which Volker highlighted at a briefing

world’s attention. During a summit of world leaders held in Munich in February, President Petro Poroshenko used his time on stage to paint Russia as an “evil” occupier and to appeal for support from the U.S. and Europe. But the seats of the hall in front of him had mostly emptied out before he took the podium. Poroshenko held up a flag of the European Union, which had once flown, he said, atop one of Ukraine’s front-line positions. “Everything the Russian world touches turns to ruin and decay,” he told a thin crowd of reporters and diplomatic staff. The next day, when the President invited TIME for a brief chat in his suite at the conference venue, he looked exhausted after two days of meetings with U.S. and European officials,were outraged,” he recalls. The leaders of the U.S., U.K., France and Germany also devoted a great deal of time to those negotiations, and Bill Clinton, who was then the U.S. President, hosted the summit in Dayton, Ohio, which finally brought peace to Bosnia in 1995. Today the American role in Ukraine feels very different. In his public remarks, Trump has avoided criticizing Putin for ordering his troops into Ukraine. Instead he has blamed the conflict on his predecessor, Barack Obama, while suggesting that the issue should be set aside in the interest of better relations with Russia. As an initial step, Trump has called for Russia to be admitted back into the G7 club of industrialised nations, whose leaders kicked Russia out precisely because of its attacks against Ukraine.

Betty Jo Bost, 88, of Pine Bluff, formally of Altheimer, passed away Thursday August 17, 2017. She was born March 19, 1929 in Saline County to the late Joe and Cara Mooney Bailey. She was a Baptist and homemaker. Betty is preceded in death... View Obituary & Service InformationA new study from the University of Indianapolis to be published in the American Journal of Public Health finds that citizens living in states with the weakest gun laws are more than twice as likely to be fatally shot by law enforcement compared to those living in states with the strongest gun laws. Aaron Kivisto, assistant professor in the College of Applied Behavioral Sciences at the University of Indianapolis, conducted the research along with doctoral student Peter Phalen, in collaboration with Brad Ray, IUPUI assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The American Journal of Public Health will publish their study, "Firearm legislation and fatal police shootings in the United States," on May 18. Kivisto, lead author of the study, says he and his colleagues utilized data

The former Chief Minister is being backed by most Congress leaders in the state. New Delhi: While most Congress leaders in Haryana have joined the party faction that is being managed by former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his son Deepender Hooda, only a few loyalists in Haryana, including Randeep Singh Surjewala, Kumari Selja and Ashok Tanwar, are left behind as flag bearers of the central Congress high command, that is the Gandhi family. According to sources, Bhupinder Singh Hooda has constituted a 25-member committee comprising 13 MLAs to decide his future course of action. The committee’s decision will be announced by the second week of September. A source close to the Hooda camp told The Sunday Guardian: “Bhupinder Singh Hooda is all set to float his own partyas a 25-member led committee is working to draft a roadmap for launching a party in the state in case the central leadership sidelines the former Chief Minister. Bhupinder Hooda has already warned the Congress high command to fall in line with him in Haryana, otherwise he will part ways.” “The committee is also charting out the campaign strategy for Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the stress is on to regain the lost support in Jatland. The committee is working to make a 15-point suggestion to woo the OBC voters in the state. The committee will also bring out the report about the failures of the incumbent Manohar Lal Khattar-led Bharatiya Janta Party government,” the same source said. To showcase his strength, Bhupinder Singh Hooda held a rally on 18 August

where he openly expressed his dismay and said: “The Congress has lost its way (bhatak gayee).” Hooda added that the party was “no longer the old Congress”. While speaking at the rally, he also backed the Centre’s decision of revoking Article 370. However, though the rally was being touted as the beginning of the Assembly poll campaign, political observers said that it was a show of strength as Bhupinder Singh Hooda wants total control over the party in the state ahead of the Assembly polls. Although the central leadership is almost silent on the ongoing infighting, Congress state unit president Ashok Tanwar has been coming out in public to criticise Bhupinder Hooda’s stand. Hooda has been holding Tanwar’s alleged inefficiency as the reason for the repeated loss of the partyin the state. However, Tanwar has blamed the nationwide decline of Congress for the repeated defeats in the state. Bhupinder Singh Hooda is considered to be the strongest Congress leader in Haryana as he has the support of 13 legislators out of 17 incumbent legislators of the party in Haryana. With a split in the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), Bhupinder Singh Hooda is the most prominent Opposition face in Haryana who still has a large mass base in the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party swept Haryana in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, winning all the 10 seats there. BJP’s vote share significantly increased compared to 2014. Hooda himself and his son Deepender Singh Hooda, were defeated from Sonepat and Rohtak, respectively. Despite losing his own seat from Sonipat in the

recently held Lok Sabha polls, compared to the other Congress leaders like Tanwar and Kumari Selja who lost their seats by over three lakh votes and Randeep Singh Surjewala who stood third in a bypoll in Jind, Bhupinder Hooda appears to be more appealing for most of the Congress MLAs in Haryana. Starting from 2005, Bhupinder Hooda has been the Chief Minister of Haryana for two consecutive terms. He is not only a prominent Jat leader, but also the face of the Congress in Haryana.you have made in the region. There is another reason why the Administration may talk: domestic politics. Sure, the American Taliban may want a war with Iran this fall to drive the sheep from the pews to the polls one more time, but the vulnerable GOP incumbents, and there will be plenty of them, will want the talk of imminent war with Iran to be replaced with a calming that can bring down gas prices. A large part of the high gas prices and resulting bad poll numbers that are crippling the GOP are the result of not only oil company collusion and price gouging, but tensions in the region caused by Bush's botched handling of Iran and their recent rhetoric. Moving this pot of boiling water onto a

Bayern Munich midfielder Xabi Alonso could follow fellow Liverpool great Steven Gerrard to MLS when he contract expires at the end of this season, the Spanish World Cup winner told ESPNFC in an interview. Alonso is currently in U.S. as the German champs prepare for the upcoming season by competing in the ongoing International Champions Cup. They'll meet Real Madrid on Wednesday in East Rutherford, New Jersey (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2/WatchESPN). He's clearly happy in Munich; he extended his stay 12 months beyond the two-year pact he inked upon arriving from Real two summers ago. But he will turn 35 in November, and he admits he's not sure what the next step of his decorated career will be -- if there's a next step at all. "At the moment I don'tplayed several friendlies against MLS teams during the five years he spent with Madrid. He has heard good things about the league from former teammates Gerrard, now is in his second season with the LA Galaxy, as well as New York City FC duo Andoni Iraola and David Villa, whom he played alongside on Spain's all-conquering national squad. "I know they are enjoying so far this experience," Alonso said. "They tell me it's tough, the competition level is good, physically all the teams are very well-prepared, and they are trying to make that effort to help it grow. It is growing." Xabi Alonso said the level of competition in MLS is growing. Christof Koepsel/Bongarts/Getty Images It's not just Alonso's ex-teammates who play in MLS -- a few former foes do, too. NYCFC's

Frank Lampard once broke Alonso's ankle when Alonso was playing for Liverpool against Lampard's Chelsea. And he'll be forever linked to Dutchman Nigel de Jong, who's famous kung-fu kick to Alonso's chest in the 2010 World Cup final remains among the most indelible moments in tournament history. So would De Jong's or Lampard's presence in MLS make him think twice about joining the league? "I have no problems with that," Alonso laughed. "I've met Frank a few times and he's a nice fellow. Those years with Liverpool against Chelsea were great years. We had such an amazing rivalry, competitive games, two top sides fighting for everything and we really enjoyed it." Although he's played against De Jong since the 2010 incident, they've never spoken about the foul. "If we hadn't won," he said,Dune 2 is considered one of the founding games of the real-time strategy genre, and as such it is often given place of pride by veteran RTS players (especially those who prefer Westwood’s style of game design). And, coming back to the game and its sequels as an adult with a more critical eye for games design, I cannot help but appreciate what Westwood did with the series. The Dune RTS series is based on the 1984 movie Dune, by David Lynch and not directly on the novels themselves. Anyone who’s seen the film, with Sting playing one of the major characters, and whom Siskel and Ebert rated amongst the worst released that year, would not have expected it to produce anything along the lines of a memorable and

which are used to cool the steam. More particularly, a sludge forms in the cooling tower and the catch basin. The sludge comprises a mixture of living organisms, dust particles, precipitated salt from the brine and some entrained steam condensate. Many types of airborne organisms are known to grow at a very rapid rate in the hot, wet environment of the cooling tower and condensate catch basin. Such organisms include bacteria, algae, fungi and the like. While it is possible to control the growth of such living organisms, a significant amount of sludge will still form over an extended period of time. The sludge so formed must be periodically removed for disposal to prevent its interfering with the operation of the brine handling system. Since the sludge containsTigers head coach Geordan Murphy thanked May for his contribution when speaking about the departure of the outside-back. “We wish him all the best in his next chapter, and thank him for what he has given to the club during his three seasons in Leicester,” said Murphy. “Assembling the playing squad is a huge challenge with a balance of the players brought in from elsewhere and the talent you bring through as a club. Unfortunately, the international game restricts the number of appearances players can make for their clubs in the modern game and, with the strain that inflating salaries under the salary cap has put on clubs, you need to find the right balance that best works for you across an entire season while still being able to build

Kazakhstan Facts Flag Map Stretching across Central Asia, Kazakhstan is a landlocked and mostly dry land. Flat in the west, it rises to high mountains in the east. More than a hundred ethnic groups live in Kazakhstan; 28 percent of the population is Russian—most live in the north near the Russian border. Second in size only to Russia among the former Soviet Republics, Kazakhstan contained the main Soviet test area for nuclear weapons. From 1949 to 1989 there were 456 nuclear blasts at the Semipalatinsk site, 116 in the air—this highly radioactive range was closed by the Kazakh government in 1991. Russia still uses the Baykonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the principal site for Soviet space launches and the world's oldest and largest spaceport. In the 15th century the Kazakhs emerged asnomadic stock herders of the steppe, speaking a Turkic language and practicing Islam. Imperial Russia colonized the region in the 19th century. An estimated one million Kazakhs died during Soviet campaigns in the 1930s to forcibly settle the nomads. The nation confronts a legacy of environmental abuse left behind by the Soviets, who dictated industrial development in this mineral-rich republic. Kazakhstan faces ecological disaster in the Aral Sea area and is trying to preserve the northern part of the sea in order to prevent desertification. The country is enjoying strong economic growth because of its large oil, gas, and mineral reserves.

build new nuclear plants or extend the life of existing ones. The first to do so was Germany: on March 14th, Chancellor Angela Merkel closed two older plants and suspended plans to extend the life of 15 others. On May 30th, her government made the suspension permanent. In the wake of mass antinuclear rallies and an election setback, she promised to shut all existing nuclear plants by 2022, which, experts believe, will result in an increase in fossil-fuel use. China also acted swiftly, announcing on March 16th that it would stop awarding permits for the construction of new reactors pending a review of safety procedures, though it did not rule out such investments altogether. Other countries, including India and the United States, similarly undertook reviews of reactor safety procedures,putting ambitious nuclear plans at risk. Then, on May 25th, the Swiss government announced that it would abandon plans to build three new nuclear power plants, phase out nuclear power, and close the last of its plants by 2034, joining the list of countries that appear to have abandoned nuclear power for good. How Drought Strangles Energy The third major energy development of 2011, less obviously energy-connected than the other two, has been a series of persistent, often record, droughts gripping many areas of the planet. Typically, the most immediate and dramatic effect of prolonged drought is a reduction in grain production, leading to ever-higher food prices and ever more social turmoil. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Never Miss a Beat. Get our best delivered to your inbox. Intense drought over the

past year in Australia, China, Russia, and parts of the Middle East, South America, the United States, and most recently northern Europe has contributed to the current record-breaking price of food -- and this, in turn, has been a key factor in the political unrest now sweeping North Africa, East Africa, and the Middle East. But drought has an energy effect as well. It can reduce the flow of major river systems, leading to a decline in the output of hydroelectric power plants, as is now happening in several drought-stricken regions. By far the greatest threat to electricity generation exists in China, which is suffering from one of its worst droughts ever. Rainfall levels from January to April in the drainage basin of the Yangtze, China's longest and mostExcerpt: 'Proofiness' Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception By Charles Seife Hardcover, 304 pages Viking Adult List Price: $25.95 “In my opinion the State Department, which is one of the most important government departments, is thoroughly infested with communists.” This was not the sentence—delivered to a small gathering of West Virginia women—that catapulted the little-known Wisconsin senator into the public spotlight. It was the next one. As he held aloft a sheaf of papers, a beetle-browed Joe McCarthy assured his place in the history books with his bold claim: “I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.” That number—205—was a jolt of

Kane sweeps readers back to Regency England where love sparkles throughout a multi-faceted tale of mystery and intrigue. Courtney Johnson, the daughter of a sea captain, is swept underneath a wave of despair when a pirate forces her father overboard and she is taken captive. As a diamond then brings Courtney and her brother together, it glitters with a malice and mystery that draws them toward a haunting evil. From the Publisher:Determined to avenge her father's death, Courtney Johnston finds her destiny intertwined with Slayde Huntley, who hopes to ransom his missing sister with the cursed diamond his family has treasured for generations.College Football The Dordt College Defender football team took the #25 ranked Dakota Wesleyan Tigers into the final quarter before falling 45-31 in a record setting performance for the Defenders. Theo Bartman had a school-record 97-yard run in the fourth quarter…breaking the old record of 95 yards set by current head coach Kyle Achterhoff (1988) and Dave Perrigo (2000) as the Northwestern Red Raiders defeated Midland Lutheran 39 to 20.

at about 5 months, but not by the half-rolling sort of way babies normally do. She would push her upper body with her arms and scramble her legs forward until they were forward of her hands and plop down like a monkey. She would then usually topple over until she was almost 7 months old. She babbled incessantly, played with noises and was intensely curious about sounds. She spoke well formed words before she was a year old and had an amazing grasp of Japanese and English grammar before she was 2 (I live in Japan, hence the two language thing). Second daughter: She didn't care much about sitting up for a very long time, and only crawled a little bit. Instead she would look at where she wantedto go and roll there. Which was hilarious, but a little alarming -- until my mother told me I used to do the exact same thing, and so did my brother's daughter in Texas. She wasn't interested in sounds at all. She made almost no babbling noises, very rarely vocalized anything, and didn't even cry much. When she was a little over a year old, though, it was clear that she understood what we were talking about when we addressed her -- but never spoke. In contrast to the first daughter we were a little worried, but figured it would turn out however it would turn out. She didn't say much until she was about 20 months old. Once she turned two, she just suddenly started saying full

Saturday, June 17, 2017 Rajasthan is considered among the most tourist friendly states in the country. But lately, incidents of lynchings, mob attacks, vigilantism and right-wing group's terror camp is keeping it in the news. Law-and-order seems to have collapsed in this state. An elderly man, Pahlu Khan, was lynched in Rajasthan. But Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje didn't speak a word, despite wide criticism. Mob attacks and vigilantism are becoming increasingly common in the State. People with saffron bands can attack a hotel, believing that it served beef (though lab tests later confirmed it was chicken) and thrash a woman, forcing her to say 'Jai Shree Ram'. Then, Bajrang Dal activists openly impart arms' training to youngsters. A middle-aged man who tries to stop people from taking photographs of women who were going forthe consent of the Commission. On March 26, 1974, some nine months later and subsequent to the date petitioner was to have been released from parole, petitioner was arrested for violation of parole and placed in custody. On April 24, 1974, petitioner was notified that a hearing would be conducted on April 26, 1974, at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, where he was in custody, to determine whether the conditions of petitioner's parole had been violated and what action should be taken by the Commission. The charge read: "... That on or about May 21, 1973, you did leave your residence at 259 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine, St. Johns, Florida, absconded from supervision, and your whereabouts was unknown to the Commission until March 26, 1974, when the Commission

without permission. We are faced with a disturbing situation. Petitioner makes several points which, if true, adequately support his contention that he is being unlawfully detained. The petition states that petitioner had permission from his parole supervisor to move to 10 Spencer Street, and that he in fact was at all times present in St. Johns County; that he mailed his monthly reports to the parole supervisor with the Spencer Street address as the return address and that the Commission knew where he was; that he conferred on the telephone with the local parole office but was never notified of the alleged violation in the June 21, 1973, warrant until he was arrested pursuant thereto on March 26, 1974, after talking to his parole supervisor about obtaining a driver'sTOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar rose to a 13-month high against a basket of currencies on Friday and the yen also made big strides, with investor appetite for risk dropping amid escalating global trade tensions and diplomatic wrangling. The euro fell to its weakest since July 2017, while the pound dropped to its lowest in a year amid speculation Britain will leave the European Union without an agreement regarding its future relationship with Brussels. The dollar index (DXY), which measures the greenback's strength against a group of six major currencies, climbed more than 0.6 percent to 96.103, its highest since July 2017. The greenback has been boosted by growing global trade tensions and strained geopolitical relationships, with the United States this week saying it would impose fresh sanctions on Moscow. Washington

is also embroiled in a diplomatic feud with Turkey. Russia would consider it an economic war if the United States imposed a ban on banks or a particular currency, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday, the TASS state news agency said. "There are all sorts of uncertainties and concerns in the markets currently, with the U.S.-China spat a well established one, but concerns over the European Union, Britain and Turkey also in the air," said Bart Wakabayashi, branch manager for State Street Bank and Trust in Tokyo. "And amidst all this, the yen is suddenly back in vogue as a safe-haven. The dollar and yen are serving as safe-havens at the same time." With the dollar seen to be absorbing safe-haven flows, the yen's gains against the greenback were limited. Thein combination with all the other signals without the thoracic and abdominal movements. One hundred fourteen apneas out of a total of 520 respiratory events were analyzed. With RIP, 58 (51%) apneas were scored as obstructive and 56 (49%) as central. Using PTT, 77 (68%) of the apneas were scored as obstructive and 37 (32%) as central. When using PTT, 30 apneas scored as central by RIP were scored as obstructive. PTT was highly sensitive (81%) but poorly specific (46%) in scoring 58 apneas as obstructive. PTT was less sensitive (46%) but highly specific (81%) to score 56 apneas as central. PTT may be used as an additional tool to RIP to improve the scoring of apneas as obstructive or central in children. The high percentage of artifact

Fire rig alerted to Asiana victim before running her over 16-year-old run over after warning, footage shows The driver of the first of two San Francisco Fire Department rigs that struck a 16-year-old survivor of the Asiana Airlines plane crash in July was alerted less than 15 minutes earlier to avoid the girl as she lay on the ground, newly obtained camera footage shows. The footage, taken by a dashboard camera aboard the rig and reviewed Thursday by The Chronicle, sheds new light on the circumstances surrounding the death of Ye Meng Yuan. She survived the crash at San Francisco International Airport, but died after being hit by the fire rigs, according to the San Mateo County coroner. Several firefighters who responded to the July 6 crash have told investigators theybelieved Ye was dead and that they had concentrated on rescuing passengers and crew members who were still aboard the burning Boeing 777. No one has reported checking her vital signs, however. The rig camera's footage shows that although the plane had crashed just a few minutes earlier, passengers were gone from the area where Ye lay crumpled, and at one point a firefighter walked past her without looking down. Sprayed with foam San Francisco firefighter Roger Phillips directs a fire rig around Ye Meng Yuan after the July 6,2013 crash of an Asiana Airlines jet at San Francisco International Airport. Firefighters had concluded that the 16-year-old Chinese girl was dead, although the San Mateo County coroner later said she was alive when the rigÕs dashboard camera filmed this image. less

rig, driven by firefighter Jimmy Yee, approaching the scene within minutes after the 11:27 a.m. crash, black smoke curling above the wrecked airliner. The rig was forced to stop repeatedly to allow passengers to flee the area. About five minutes after arriving, the rig was positioned at the front of the left wing, where Ye was on the ground. At 11:36 a.m., the dashboard camera's footage showed a man identified by investigators as firefighter Roger Phillips waving his arms to direct Yee around the girl. The rig waited for a moment to allow another firefighter to walk between the vehicle and the girl. That firefighter didn't pause or look at Ye and continued toward the plane. Looked dead Phillips later told investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board that the girl wasin the fetal position, her eyes rolled up, her face waxen and wearing a grimace. He described her as resembling a CPR training mannequin and said she appeared to be dead. Yee has told Fire Department investigators that as he drove by, he saw what he took to be a dead victim. Phillips said he told a higher-ranking firefighter, Lt. Christine Emmons, about the girl and that she replied: "Yes, yes, OK, OK. We've gotta get a line inside," referring to the need to get a hose into the burning craft as part of an effort to rescue victims. '3-second' check Emmons told the federal investigators she had done a "three-second" visual assessment of the girl and considered her to be "our first casualty." She said she had tried to make sure that

the numerous fire rigs driving around the plane did not run her over, but she does not appear in the dashboard footage reviewed Thursday. The footage shows no firefighter attempting to move Ye or mark her with a casualty flag, as first responders commonly do at disaster scenes. After Yee drove around the girl, he sprayed foam at the fuel leak on the plane's left wing, then maneuvered to aim his front-mounted nozzle at the burning fuselage at 11:46 a.m. By then, the footage shows, Phillips had left the scene - the federal investigation found that he went onto the plane - and no firefighters were near Ye. The rig's foam gradually covered the girl, and Yee, working without a spotter, advanced on the plane. At 11:50 a.m., the rig ranover the girl, the footage shows. Yee drove away from the spot three minutes later. Yee did not say in his accounts to the department or federal investigators whether he realized he had driven over anything. Less than 11 minutes after Ye was hit the first time, a second rig ran over the girl, who was now completely covered in foam, according to footage shot by another firefighter's helmet camera. Like Yee, the driver of the second rig, firefighter Elyse Duckett, was working without a spotter. It has never been clear how Ye ended up where she was struck. Her parents, Gan Ye and Xiao Yun Zheng of China, filed a legal claim against the city this week, accusing firefighters of "deliberately and knowingly abandoning" the girl in a spot

where "they knew she would be in harm's way." 'Inexplicable' Their attorney, Anthony Tarricone, said Thursday that firefighters' handling of the incident was "inexplicable." "This makes it clear that several members of the Fire Department responding team knew she was there, did nothing to help her, never examined her and then abandoned her in a position where she was in peril," Tarricone said. "They left her in a perilous position, covered her with foam and then ran her over." The city attorney's office has not responded to the claim, the likely precursor to a lawsuit. Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White has called Ye's death a "tragic accident" and has not moved to file disciplinary charges against any of the firefighters for their actions. She has declined to comment further in recent weeks, citing theof speed. A second method of mailing large quantities of mail pieces is the permit mail system. In such a system, the mail sender places a permit number on the mail pieces and prepares a manifest listing that shows the type and number of mail pieces being mailed on each occasion and the postage required. With both systems, inspection at the site of the mail sender is required. In the case of the postage meter, the lessor of the postage meter, i.e., the postage meter manufacturer, is required by law to inspect the postage meter at least twice a year to ensure that there is no evidence of tampering with the postage meter that will indicate an attempt to obtain unauthorized postage. In the case of permit mail, large quantities

Members of the Sierra Club in Cancún make their feelings clear about countries they say avoid the issue of climate change. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images The UN climate talks in Cancún were in danger of collapse last night after many Latin American countries said that they would leave if a crucial negotiating document, due to be released tomorrow, did not continue to commit rich countries to emissions cuts under the Kyoto protocol. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (Alba) group of nine Latin American countries – who claim they are backed by African, Arab countries and other developing nations – said they were not prepared to see an end to the treaty that legally requires all of its signatories to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They challenged the Mexican presidency of thewhere one country, presumably Australia, had said "they might as well go to the beach" rather than set new pledges for Kyoto. "We will not accept the destruction of the Kyoto protocol in exchange for anything. The new text must include the second period of Kyoto," she said. Wealthy countries were last night trying to avoid a diplomatic disaster, saying they were not trying to kill Kyoto. Britain and the EU have said they are prepared to sign up to a second commitment period – provided others do so too. Developed countries have indicated in closed meetings that there is now little chance of a second commitment period for Kyoto being negotiated in Cancún. Few heads of state are expected to attend this year's talks – in sharp contrast to the

summit in Copenhagen. However, Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, and Bolivia's Evo Morales have said they will be there. All were accused by Gordon Brown of "holding the world to ransom" at the Copenhagen talks. They will be joined by the presidents of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil and Guatemala. Sign up for the Guardian Today Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning.John Stewart's Capitol Hill Testimony for 9/11 First Responders [9:12] Description An angry and emotional Jon Stewart tore into members at a House Judiciary hearing Monday over the government's lack of action on health benefits for 9/11 first responders, calling it "shameful." The House Judiciary on Monday held a hearing on extending... An angry and emotional Jon Stewart tore into members at a House Judiciary hearing Monday over the government's lack of action on health benefits for 9/11 first responders, calling it "shameful." The House Judiciary on Monday held a hearing on extending the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund for first responders and others who experienced health problems after the attacks. At one point Stewart broke down in tears describing the plight faced by 9/11 first responders in their decade-plus

An actress who starred in Game of Thrones is 'devastated' after her baby was taken away by social services in Israel. Josephine Gillan, who played Marei the prostitute in GoT, said her eight-month old daughter Gloria was removed from her care in the middle of the night. The 31-year-old shared an upsetting video of little Gloria being taken away by a woman while two men in uniform kept watch. The person behind the camera can be heard arguing with the social workers as the group head off into the night with the baby. Josephine tweeted: "The disturbing moment that the #Israeli #socialservices kidnapped my baby! At 12:30pm at night on Sunday! (Image: GoFundMe) "My friend pleaded! But was threatened to jail if she did not hand over my baby! me & loving friend andTuesday, 5 March 2013 The Bermuda Triangle: Fact or Fiction? In popular culture the 'Bermuda Triangle' has been cited as a paranormal graveyard for a number of aircrafts and ships. It lies in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean and the region is said to cover up to 1.5 million square miles. Its victims include the famous Flight 19 and USS Cyclops, but was the Bermuda Triangle really the culprate for these unfortunate disasters? There exist a number of outlandish supernatural and legitimate natural explanations for the phenomenon but what scientists and triangle writers want to know is; what is it? Is it a powerful magentic field? A spiralling, unforgiving whirlpool? A relentless storm? The fact is, no one really knows. IncidentsEllen Austin, 1881 Whilst in the region known as the Bermuda

Triangle, the Ellen Austin (an American schooner) met with another ship (with no one on board) and attempted to sail with it to New York. The Captain of the Ellen Austin sent a prize crew on board to help salvage the ship. Mysteriously, it disappeared. USS Cyclops, 1918 After departing Barbados in March 1918, the USS Cyclops went missing without a trace resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat. Flight 19, 1945 On December 5th 1945, a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers failed to return to base after disappearing over the Atlantic. PBM Mariner (one of the search and rescue aircraft sent to locate Flight 19) also disappeared with 13 men on board. Navy investigators have blamedthe disaster on navigational error which led to the aircraft running out of fuel. Douglas DC-3, 1948 Whilst on route to Miami from San Juan, Puerto Rico, aircraft number NC16002 disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle. No trace of the aircraft or the 32 people on board was ever found. ExplanationsThe SupernaturalAtlantis - whoever would have though that the lost city of Atlantiscould have had anything to do with the Bermuda Triangle? According to one wacky theory, the Triangle is the result of leftover technology from the mythical city. Connected to this story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas. This formation is often referred to as the Bermuda Triangle. Magnetic Fields - according to legend, the Bermuda Triangle is one of

is fixed to a securing table of the rolling bearing device for the wheel. Then, by rotating a spindle incorporated in one end of the inner ring at an upper side in the vertical direction, a flange surface of a flange part which is formed at one end of the inner ring at an upper side in the vertical direction is rotated to bring this flange surface which is rotating into contact with a rotary grinding wheel, whereby the flange surface of the inner ring is ground. However, in the above described conventional method of producing the rolling bearing device for the wheel, there is a problem that it is difficult to vary a position of the rotary grinding wheel according to a grinding position of the flange surface,objective comprehensive weighting methods, the basic elements were finally integrated, and an accurate spatial distribution pattern of the RECC in China's Fengxian County was obtained. In addition, based on the construction of a three-dimensional spatial conceptual model, this study was able to finally obtain four specific types of functional partitions in the study areas, and proposed specific development proposals according to the different types of functional zoning from a systemic perspective. It was observed that the RECC had been decreasing from a central built-up area to the surrounding townships, and the spatial distribution patterns were distinctly scattered. In addition, the townships with smaller land scales had more obvious advantages in the RECC. However, fluctuating upward trends were observed after the lowest thresholds had been reached as for the

based on individual need. She doggedly pursues new methods of job search and stays in step with the rapidly changing employment market. Her vision, energy and determination are contagious. As she has made a difference for me, she also has the talent, capacity and compassion to make a difference for scores of others as a leader in putting displaced Americans back to work. Barbara B, Twin Cities, MN I worked with Deb Vosejpka, on several occasions and found her magnificently helpful, as well as pleasantly easy to work with. Mrs. Vosejpka, taught me new methods to search for careers, as we as, way to present myself to employers in order to differientiate myself from the endless competition. With her help and wealth of knowledge, creation of a new resume and job coaching, Iwas able to get in front of and hired by one of the most powerful companies in the world. Years later, my position was eliminated due to no fault of my own. I reached out to Deb again for some advise and/or possible leads through her connections in the workforce. Amazingly, she was generous enough to volunteer to meet with me on her own time. After meeting with her, I was blown away by the effort she put in and the sheer amount of time that she dedicated to helping me. We sat down for four straight hours and created a new resume, strategy, and tips to help me kickstart my job search. Days and weeks later, she continued to call and check in on my till I secured employment

A devastating volcanic eruption and two decades of wars have forced this airport into abandonment - and created the best playground a Congolese street child could hope for. Photographer Christopher Michael Brown captured these breathtaking images of Goma Airport, during a visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A brief lapse in security meant that the street children could guide him through the planes and show him how they have been selling the parts at a nearby market. The New York-based photographer said: 'One is generally prohibited from photographing this airport but in mid-December 2012 after the M23 rebel force which occupied Goma left and before the FARDC, military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, returned to the city, a security vacuum meant that nobody was guarding this sectionof the airport. 'Children guided me through the planes and I discussed what had happened with my Congolese fixer.' Mount Nyiragongo, just outside Goma, erupted in January 2012 and 400,000 people were evacuated from the city across the Rwandan border into neighbouring Gisenyi. Lava covered the northern end of the runway at Goma International Airport, leaving the southern two-thirds unusable. Scroll down for video Photographer Michael Christopher Brown shows how the abandoned planes at Goma Airport have become an ideal playground for Congolese street children The New York based photographer was shown around the airport by the children and told how a volcanic eruption had covered the runway in lava The recent history of Goma has been dominated by the volcano and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, which in turn fuelled the First and Second

Congo Wars Some of the street children sell the plane parts which are made into stoves and other items to be sold on the streets of Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo In January 2002 Mount Nyiragongo erupted and lava covered the northern end of the runway at Goma Airport, meaning that it could no longer be used More than 400,000 people were evacuated from the city across the Rwandan border into neighbouring Gisenyi after the devastating eruption The photographer's guide, Horeb, said: 'I helped move this plane after I and many of my friends living near the airport lost our homes to lava on the first day'adaption of the novel by Raymond Chandler, with a screenplay written by an impressive threesome: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman—with additional work by Hawks himself. It tells the story of private detective Philip Marlowe (Bogart), hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to deal with a blackmailer. The General has two daughters. One, Vivian (Lauren Bacall), is very pretty and somewhat shady. The other, Carmen (Martha Vickers), is very pretty and totally nuts. Marlowe has to track down the man trying to blackmail Carmen over some gambling debts, but before he can find the man, the man ends up dead, with Carmen “higher than a kite” and sitting in the same room. This is, as they say, just the beginning as Marlowe is led deeper and deeper

to create a tarnished knight in the American idiom (in a scene from his novel which was not included in the movie, Marlowe stares at a painting of a knight rescuing a lady and remarks that if he owned the painting he would “sooner or later have to climb up there and help”). Chandler succeeded to such an extent that Marlowe became archetypal, the world-weary private eye with his fedora and cigarette and wisecracks. But noir—at least as most of us understand it—is about weakness, fear, and isolation. Chandler’s tarnished knight descends into the lower depths, but he remains a knight—or as Chandler himself wrote, Marlowe remains “puzzled, but never quite defeated.” One would be hard pressed to find a better director for that worldview than Howard Hawks. Generallyfilm of Carmen high on drugs. Taylor loves Carmen and probably means to destroy the film. In the novel, by the way, Carmen was naked in the picture. 3. Joe Brody kills Owen Taylor and takes the film which he then uses to blackmail Carmen. 4. Carol Lundgren, chauffer and implied lover of Geiger, kills Joe Brody. He thinks Brody killed Geiger. Jake Hinkson, The Night Editor, is the author of The Posthumous Man and Saint Homicide. Read all posts by Jake Hinkson for Criminal Element.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper who set a new "least untruthful" standard for open government in 2013. (Photo credit: Office of the Director of National Intelligence) Washington, DC, March 24, 2014 – Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has won the infamous Rosemary Award for worst open government performance in 2013, according to the citation published today by the National Security Archive at www.nsarchive.org. Despite heavy competition, Clapper's "No, sir" lie to Senator Ron Wyden's question: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" sealed his receipt of the dubious achievement award, which cites the vastly excessive secrecy of the entire U.S. surveillance establishment. The Rosemary Award citation leads with what Clapper later called the "least untruthful" answer possiblehad about the would-be hijackers living in San Diego. The National Security Division lawyers at the Justice Department, for misleading their own Solicitor General (Donald Verrilli) who then misled (inadvertently) the U.S. Supreme Court over whether Justice let defendants know that bulk collection had contributed to their prosecutions. The same National Security Division lawyers who swore under oath in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for a key wiretap court opinion that the entire text of the opinion was appropriately classified Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (release of which would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to U.S. national security). Only after the Edward Snowden leaks and the embarrassed governmental declassification of the opinion did we find that one key part of the opinion's text simply reproduced the actual language

of the 4 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the only "grave damage" was to the government's false claims. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the only "grave damage" was to the government's false claims. Charlie Rose and President Obama. (Photo credit: Charlie Rose) President Obama for his repeated misrepresentations about the bulk collection program (calling the wiretap court "transparent" and saying "all of Congress" knew "exactly how this program works") while in effect acknowledging the public value of the Edward Snowden leaks by ordering the long-overdue declassification of key documents about the NSA's activities, and investigations both by a special panel and by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The PCLOB directly contradicted the President, pointing out that "when the only means through which legislators can try toAward-winning National Security Archive, based at the George Washington University, has carried out thirteen government-wide audits of FOIA performance, filed more than 50,000 Freedom of Information Act requests over the past 28 years, opened historic government secrets ranging from the CIA's "Family Jewels" to documents about the testing of stealth aircraft at Area 51, and won a series of historic lawsuits that saved hundreds of millions of White House e-mails from the Reagan through Obama presidencies, among many other achievements. The Archive established the not-so-coveted Rosemary Award in 2005, named after President Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, who testified she had erased 18-and-a-half minutes of a crucial Watergate tape — stretching, as she showed photographers, to answer the phone with her foot still on the transcription pedal. Bestowed annually

to highlight the lowlights of government secrecy, the Rosemary Award has recognized a rogue's gallery of open government scofflaws, including the CIA, the Treasury Department, the Air Force, the FBI, the Federal Chief Information Officers' Council, and the career Rosemary leader — the Justice Department — for the last two years. Rosemary-winner James Clapper has offered several explanations for his untruthful disavowal of the National Security Agency's phone metadata dragnet. After his lie was exposed by the Edward Snowden revelations, Clapper first complained to NBC's Andrea Mitchell that the question about the NSA's surveillance of Americans was unfair, a — in his words — "When are you going to stop beating your wife kind of question." So, he responded "in what I thought was the most truthful, or leastReviewed by: Xiuzhu Dong, Institute of Microbiology (CAS), China; Manuel Romero, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom [^3]: This article was submitted to Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology

older we learn the skewed reality of the "thanksgiving story", but one thing remains the same. We take the time of Thanksgiving to cook giant meals and get together with friends and family. We sit at the dinner table and everyone says something they are thankful for. Usually people are thankful for their friends, family, and the food on their table. This is my third Thanksgiving outside of the U.S. Even when I am in the U.S., I spend thanksgiving with my friends and family, but there is also a lot of family and friends that are very far away. I have fading memories of spending thanksgiving as a child at my Aunts house or with other family friends. But for many years now, my family of 3from the magnificant views of Nepal and starred in awe at the top of the Himalayas. The cool breeze against our skin, sun on our faces, and really feeling a part of the scenery. It was also funny to see people's reactions of seeing 3 foreigners riding the top of the bus. It is common to see people packed on the top of the bus around Nepal and India, but it is never only 3 foreigners. People waved as we passed by, trucks honked, men and women on motorcycles smiled and waved and lowered their bandanas from their mouths to say "hello" before putting it back to protect them from the pollution. There was even a few guys riding the top of the truck who were joking about

mountains/hills from all angles. Their are fields everywhere and it is on "the road" in this small part of the village. We have neighbors attached to our house and the next nearest house is where the Nepali staff of my program live. Other than that, there is a "Rye Village" about 10 minutes away, another "Rye Village" past that, and those living in the stone quarry down by the river. There is one school at the top of a hill where many of the "Rye" children go to school and farms everywhere. It is absolutely beautiful. It felt like cleaning out someone else's garage as we pulled everything out of the house and layed it out front. We cleaned and went through everything, deciding what to throw, whatoven outside and an outdoor "shower". It's quite impressive the things he comes up with. I think I learn just by watching him. We also have an outhouse... which is..... an outhouse. I am back in Kathmandu after about a week and a half in the town of Mahadav Besi, where I will be spending the next 3 months. The village feels like its in the foothills of the mountains. It is absolutely beautiful. The hills look like they have giant steps, which are the fields where the people get their livelihood. They grow rice, potatoes, cabbage, and whatever else. Their crops are not very diverse but as time goes by, they are widening the variety. The land is green and beautiful and from walking around and talking to

view is nothing compared to that of the countryside sky of Mongolia. Where I live, is along a road that is connected to the "city", which consists of a piece of the main road that is lined with small shops and vegetable venders. Behind the market are a couple schools, the health and police posts, and a few more shops. The roads are full of children in their school uniforms, indicating which school they go to. Throughout the village and the market area are men, children, and women carrying impossibly heavy loads with a strap that goes across their heads. Few people in this area speak English. I find it difficult to meet people, but I have become friendly with 2 people in the market. They are brother Defendant and Appellant. I. INTRODUCTION This appeal is from a summary adjudication order and permanent injunction entered in an enforcement action by the Attorney General on behalf of the People of the State of California against Ardith Huber, a member of the Wiyot Band of Indians. Huber owns and operates a tobacco smokeshop on the Table Bluff Rancheria, an area where the Wiyots live just outside of Crescent City, in Humboldt County. The Attorney General’s complaint alleges a claim for violation

claim, but in all other respects affirm. II. BACKGROUND A. Huber Enterprises and the Table Bluff Rancheria Huber runs a sole proprietorship out of her home called Huber Enterprises, selling cigarettes at retail and wholesale. Although Huber once sold other brands of cigarettes, after 2007 she has sold exclusively Native American brands, which she describes as “cigarettes manufactured by Indians on Indian lands, . . . shipped and sold through Indian and tribally-owned distributors to Indian and tribally-owned retail smokeshops located on Indian lands.” Third District’s recent decision in People ex rel. Becerra v. Rose (2017) 16 Cal.App.5th 317 (Rose), which was decided after the close of briefing. Rose, like Black Hawk and this case, was a UCL public enforcement action by the Attorney General against an Indian-owned retail tobacco business. (Rose, at pp. 321-323.) It, too, involved alleged violations of the Tax Stamp Act, the Directory Act, and the Fire Safety Act. (Id. at pp. 322-323.) The defendant, Rose, was a member of the Alturas Indian Rancheria, but his smokeshops were located more than 150 miles from the rancheria on allotments in which the Alturas had no interest. (Id. at p. 322.) Rose follows and adopts the no-preemption holding in Black Hawk, relying in part on Colville (Rose, at pp. 328-329), but goes further, expressly rejecting the Public Law 280 argument

Each of the States . . . listed in the following table shall have jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians in the areas of Indian country listed . . . to the same extent that such State . . . has jurisdiction over offenses committed elsewhere within the State . . . and the criminal laws of such State . . . shall have the same force and effect within such Indian country as they have elsewhere within the State . . . : “State or Territory of Indian country affected [¶ . . . ¶] California…………………………All Indian country within the State.” [¶ . . . ¶] Structurally, section 2 is laid out similarly to section 4, with aAriana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Brian Swain, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office announced that Yujing Zhang, 33, a Chinese national, was convicted by a South Florida federal jury today of unlawful entry of restricted buildings or grounds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1752(a)(1) (Count 1), and making false statements to the U.S. Secret Service, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001 (Count 2) (Case No. 19CR80056). Zhang is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman, in Fort Lauderdale, on November 22, 2019, at 10 a.m. Zhang faces a maximum statutory

targeting these communities, claiming they’re not doing enough for refugees. On top of the costs of educating the refugees, towns are getting slapped with lawsuits and legal fees. The State Department decides where refugees are settled. The feds pay nonprofits such as Catholic Charities to rent and furnish apartments for refugees, enroll them in English class and put their children in public school. In New York, upstate cities like Buffalo, Syracuse and Utica are magnets for resettlement because the $900-a-month housing stipend goes a lot farther than in New York City or on Long Island. Buffalo has absorbed 10,000 refugees in the last decade. At Lafayette High School there, 45 languages are spoken, 70 percent of students are just learning English and nearly 40 percent missed years of schooling before arriving. EducatorsThe history of feminist movement in Malaysia, its birth and the usage of the very term 'feminist' are contested. Unlike the history of the feminist movement in Britain and the United States for instance, the struggle for women's rights in Malaysia were not founded on women's right to vote. Like many other postcolonial countries during the fall of the British empire, all Malaysian citizens, both male and female, were granted the right to vote during the country's political independence in 1957.[2] To avoid the anachronism of the term feminist, it may be advisable to chart the history of feminism in Malaysia with the recorded usage and political championing of 'women's liberation' in the early twentieth century. The first documented use of women's liberation or women's emancipation as a political

and social project in 1920s Malaya was by Malay Muslim male reformers and writers Syed Syeikh Al-Hadi and Zainal Abidin Ahmad, better known as Za'aba.[3] Although they advocated the education of women and girls as a means to women's emancipation, the Malay Muslim modernists, or kaum muda, stressed the importance of Islamic learning as a way of equipping Malay women with the skills to fulfill their primary role, as educators of their children.[4] In the post-war years between 1946 and 1948, women from different ethnic groups mobilised against anti-colonialism and issues related to women's inferior status in occupied Malaya.[5] Although they were members of the female-arm of nationalist and communist parties founded by men, the women became more radicalised in their gender-oriented anti-colonial aims and eventually gained semi-autonomous statusThis spring America belongs to a Frenchman. Not some world-weary actor, voluble television chef or suave and elegant wine-maker, representatives of trades that on this side of the Atlantic are seen as France's prime contributions to civilisation. No, the Anglo-Saxon superpower is in thrall to a tousled, left-leaning, Parisian economist, aged 42, named Thomas Piketty, and his doorstop of a tome on income distribution in the western world. Capital In The Twenty-First Century, all 685 pages of it, is the No 1 best-seller on Amazon – apparently the first time that anything published by the venerable Harvard University Press has attained such dizzying celebrity. No self-regarding dinner party in Washington or New York is worth its salt without a discussion of it. Last Friday, came the ultimate accolade of

a multiple coronation on the op-ed page of The New York Times. On the left-hand side was a column entitled "The Piketty Phenomenon", by David Brooks, the paper's sensible-conservative-in-residence. Running down the right of the page was an Olympian blast from the Nobel prize-winning liberal economist Paul Krugman with the headline "The Piketty Panic", arguing that conservative economic doctrines that were ruining America had finally been put to the scientific sword. Download the new Independent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines One way and another, there is simply no escape from the man, and in the process every national stereotype has been turned on its head. Where are all those "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"? Instead, Piketty is being hailed, by the left at least, as the Frenchman mostexpert on – and sympathetic to – the United States since Lafayette and De Tocqueville some two centuries ago. The potential impact of his work is being compared by admirers to Karl Marx's Das Kapital or John Maynard Keynes's General Theory. The central thesis of Capital in the 21st Century is that, left to its own devices, the capitalist system will increase the gap between rich and poor, as it always has done. Since the dawn of the industrial era, in countries such as Britain, France and the US, the return on investment and capital has been greater than the return on labour. According to Piketty, the mid-20th century, when these trends reversed, was an aberration, as two world wars and the Great Depression destroyed many great fortunes, and

a disproportionate share of new wealth went to those who already had plenty. And Piketty is not the only one making the point in print. Also in the top five Amazon best-sellers are A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren, Democratic senator from Massachusetts and heroine of the left, who made her name as a consumer champion and scourge of Wall Street and corporate America; and Flash Boys by Michael Lewis, exposing the shady universe of high-frequency traders. At bottom, all three books are about the same thing – how the system is rigged against the little guy, in favour of the rich. Something, surely, is stirring and if US history is any guide, the protest will show up in politics, sooner rather than later. Ms Warren's most fervent supporters urgeDespite being declared brain-dead three months ago, 13-year-old Jahi McMath of Oakland is tossing and turning in her hospital bed and signaling that she's aware of what's going on around her, a family member said Friday. Jahi suffered what doctors say were terminal complications from a tonsillectomy at Children's Hospital Oakland on Dec. 9 and was certified dead three days later. But her family has refuted the certification and moved the teen's body to an undisclosed care facility, where she remains connected to a ventilator and feeding tube. National attention The family's battle with the hospital over her state of consciousness has garnered national attention - and the family has drawn criticism for their insistence that Jahi is alive. In an interview with The Chronicle on Friday at the office of the

family's attorney, Jahi's uncle Omari Sealy, 27, said that while his niece remains unconscious, she looks healthy and moves her head, legs and arms regularly. Showing such signs of life, he said, the family is not going to give up on her. She even turns in the direction of visitors when they enter her hospital room, an indication that she understands her surroundings, Sealy said. "She moves so much, she can turn on her side," he said. "They have to keep her bed rails up. They're afraid she could fall out of bed." Medical experts insist that brain-dead people are not alive. They say movement by people on mechanical support is not uncommon; it's the product of muscle and spinal reflexes. Experts also say patients can remain on support machines for weeksor even months, but their condition is bound to deteriorate. Sealy, however, said none of what the family has been told by doctors has come true. Jahi's complexion color is good, her heart and lungs remain strong and she has shown increasing signs of awareness, he said. 'Knows where she is' "She definitely knows where she is and that we're present," he said. "One of the misconceptions out there is that she's deteriorating or is going to deteriorate over time. But her skin looks better than mine." He wore a button on his shirt with a picture of his smiling niece. Jahi was released from Children's Hospital Oakland to the family on Jan. 5 after the family won a court order to keep her on a ventilator before taking possession of her body

through the Alameda County coroner's office. Family attorney Christopher Dolan argued that families, not doctors, should decide when a brain-dead patient is dead. The hospital was prepared to remove the teen from support machines after doctors declared her death on Dec. 12. The certification was corroborated by an independent neurologist from Stanford University. Jahi suffered cardiac arrest after the removal of her tonsils, uvula and adenoids to treat sleep apnea. Children's Hospital Oakland is prohibited from discussing what went wrong with the surgery because of patient confidentiality laws. But a state Department of Public Health report released this week found that the hospital met government standards in its treatment of patients including Jahi. The family and their attorney have been critical of the hospital's procedures and the recent report. They've chosen not to revealwhere Jahi is staying out of privacy and security concerns. They've revealed only that she's receiving good care from professionals. 'They treat her very well' "They treat her like a live human being," Dolan said. "They treat her very well." Dolan, too, said he has seen Jahi move and show signs that she could recover. Sealy said he visits his niece as often as he can, declining to say just how often for fear of giving away her location. Her mother, her sister and her sister's husband are with her every day, he said, and other family members and friends have visited. "She's progressed since I first saw her" at the hospital, he added. Asked what he hopes will come of his niece, Sealy said "that she wake up, that she open her eyes."

About Education + Apprentices The Fabric Workshop and Museum offers many opportunities for students, teachers, and families to have a more exciting and educational experience during their visit. See more information about our many programs and tour offerings in the pages below. High School Apprentice Training Program The High School Apprentice Training Program (HSATP) is an after-school art program for students interested in developing new tools for artistic expression and self-empowerment in a professional museum and studio environment. During fall and spring twelve-week sessions, apprentices have the unique opportunity to design their own hand-screen-printed textiles with an emphasis on building entrepreneurial and collaborative skills. The summer eight-week session offers an opportunity for apprentices to gain a deeper understanding of museum operations, including receiving training in public speaking, giving tours, and visitinglocal art institutions. HSATP offers exceptional art education for teenagers from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds, with the specific goal of providing participants with opportunities unavailable in their schools. FWM's objective is to complement school resources and improve art education for high school students in the Philadelphia region. The application process includes an interview with the Museum Education Manager, to which each student must bring at least five samples of their artwork, such as: drawings, a portfolio, or journal of recent artworks. To apply, please complete an online application form and email to: [email protected]. College and Post-Graduate Apprentice Training Program The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) invites students and post-graduates from the U.S. and abroad to apply to the College and Post-Graduate Apprentice Training Program (ATP). The ATP is a holistic experience

enabling artists to develop skills in silkscreen printing and working with fabric to enhance their studio practice. Apprentices will also participate in the daily operations of the FWM studio and museum to support FWM and its mission of stimulating experimentation and collaboration among leading contemporary artists and sharing the process of creating works of art with the public. Apprentices have the opportunity to learn many skills, including how to create a design by hand on mylar, mix colors with fabric pigment, use screen printing techniques, register multiple screens, and print their own one-color and three-color repeat yardages with the support of FWM master printers. Additionally, apprentices assist with projects in the artist studio, print production, visitor services, education, and archives. Apprentices present a short lecture on their own work,works are akin to drawings in space, manipulating architectural space to profoundly affect the way it is viewed. Sze represented the United States in the 2013 Venice Biennale.Funding for this exhibition is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, National Endowment for the Arts, and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the Board of Directors and Members of The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM).

George McGovern may be nearly 85 years old, but he isn't sitting back and taking crap from Dick Cheney. From today's Los Angeles Times Vice President Dick Cheney recently attacked my 1972 presidential platform and contended that today's Democratic Party has reverted to the views I advocated in 1972. In a sense, this is a compliment, both to me and the Democratic Party. Cheney intended no such compliment. Instead, he twisted my views and those of my party beyond recognition. The city where the vice president spoke, Chicago, is sometimes dubbed "the Windy City." Cheney converted the chilly wind of Chicago into hot air. [...] He also said that the McGovern way is to surrender in Iraq and leave the U.S. exposed to new dangers. The truth is that Ioppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. In the war of my youth, World War II, I volunteered for military service at the age of 19 and flew 35 combat missions, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross as the pilot of a B-24 bomber. By contrast, in the war of his youth, the Vietnam War, Cheney got five deferments and has never seen a day of combat — a record matched by President Bush. [...] On one point I do agree with Cheney: Today's Democrats are taking positions on the Iraq war similar to the views I held toward the Vietnam War. But that is all to the

legislation for expedited consideration in Congress for free-trade agreements, known as fast-track authority, was not coming up for a vote now, according to several people who were in the meeting. Winning that authority is viewed as necessary for Mr. Obama to extract politically difficult concessions from Japan, Singapore and other Pacific Rim countries. The Trans-Pacific Partnership aims to reduce tariffs on a vast array of goods and services and to harmonize regulations. It would affect 40 percent of America’s exports and imports. For Mr. Obama, the trade deal would also lend economic substance to a policy on Asia that is otherwise largely about shifting some military forces to the region as a counterweight to a rising China.Sometimes conferences have Golden Ages. Think of the Big East's three Final Four teams in 1985. Or the SEC’s clobbering everyone in recent years in college football. The Pac-12 is currently not in a Golden Age. Last winter it was shut out of the college football championship playoff. But it confidently sent out nine of its members into lesser bowl games. They went 1-8, with the only win coming from Utah in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. Washington State managed to lose the Holiday Bowl to Michigan State by 42-17. The basketball season has not been delightful either. Three U.C.L.A. players were arrested in China for shoplifting, leading to an intervention by President Trump. The F.B.I. reportedly launched an investigation into six-figure payments to land star recruits, with Arizona among those programs implicated.

First four European teams to earn their invites to the EPL Season 10 Finals The EPL Season 10 Finals just got three teams richer. Three European squads (Astralis, Heroic, mousesports) have already secured their attendance at the ESL Pro League Finals. One additional team will be joining them by the end of the weekend to form the first four European attendees at the ODINCON EXPO in December. The first round did not bring too much surprises as the top global seed secured their BYE early on. This also means that Astralis will get a chance to defend their recently reclaimed #1 Global Seed at the EPL Finals. EPL Season 10 Europe Round 1 Group A saw neither of the opponents being strong enough to contest mousesports on their way to the finals.With FaZe going through roster swaps and minor instability recently and OpTic players think more about benching themselves and the expiration of their contracts, the opening group seemed pretty straightforward from the get go. Mousesports went on to win all three matches and easily secured their future in the EPL Finals. FaZe Clan and BIG will have to seek their chances in Round 2. Group B became a mess from the get go. Heroic, NiP and Vitality three way tied themselves with 2W-1L as they piled on Sprout for their free win and messed up each other’s games. Heroic earned their 1st place finish by round differential after playing a do-or-die match versus Sprout at the back end of the group schedule. With a few amazing plays Martin “stavn”

second-round pick and allow him to stay in Spain for three more years, or perhaps a team feels as though he'd benefit from working with their coaching staff, strength coaches, and playing in the NBADL. Either way, he's three years from an NBA roster spot." NBA draft prospects Walker Beeken, DraftExpress.com: "Lucas is a very intriguing prospect, but the biggest question for NBA teams is figuring out how far along he is in his development, and whether they are patient enough to wait on him. If a team were to select him in the draft based on his upside, they would need to have a plan in place to develop him over the next few years, and decide where the best place would be for him to work on hisBlazers vs. Clippers Game 5 Preview and Pick My, how the landscape of the 2016 NBA playoffs has changed. Just a week ago the Los Angeles Clippers were preparing to steamroll the Portland Trail Blazers to set up an intense second round matchup with the defending champion Golden State Warriors. Now, they might not get out of the first round. L.A. had taken a commanding 2-0 series lead and had stifled Damian Lillard, only to watch Portland rise up in games three and four at home and tie the series up, two games a piece. There was more damage to be done, however. Los Angeles suffered severe losses in game four, with superstars Blake Griffin (quad) and Chris Paul (hand) both going down with injury. With both stars now officially ruled

home and still have some solid pieces to roll with, but it is going to be awfully tough for them to keep it together in this one. The shock of losing their best two players will hit hard and with Portland carrying all the momentum and confidence, I expect the Blazers to storm into their third straight win. The harsh reality is Portland had pieced together a strong strategy to take down the Clippers at their best, and it was already working in their last two wins. The other arguably scarier aspect is they boast one of the more explosive offenses in the league, yet it still hasn’t shown up through four games. There is a pretty good chance it arrives in a game five win. Series Bet: Blazers in-- as in, locked away from the curious eyes of children. One of those states was Washington where in 2013, the NRA managed to kill an attempt to mandate safe storage. One year later, Sandy Aponte's son, Eddie, was killed by another child unintentionally when the boys got a hold of a loaded gun another friend's stepfather left laying around. Sandy's story is one of those we tell in Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA. The film traces the connection between gun company profits and the NRA. Those profits are amplified by the NRA's marketing strategy which can be summed up as "keep em' scared." That is why they have fought mandatory safe storage. The line they use is that people need to be able to get

as an informal adviser to the governor as he pushed a low-carbon fuel standard for the state. Dan Carol, then a strategic adviser to CEDC, helped Hayes land the position. He was given a $165,000-per-year job in the Kitzhaber administration. Kitzhaber is expected to resign today under intense scrutiny over the scandal. The scandal could extend beyond Oregon given Steyer’s involvement. Steyer has donated millions to a group that helped finance Hayes’ position, which could ensnare one of the Democratic Party’s most prominent fundraisers in the scandal. Hayes was reportedly a fellow at the CEDC in 2011 and 2012, but as of late as August of last year, she was still listed on a since-deleted page of its website. Also listed on that page was Kate Gordon, a member of the CEDC’sboard. Gordon leads the energy and climate division of Next Generation, an environmental nonprofit group founded by Steyer. Another director of the group, according to the website, was Mike Casey. Casey runs a media and public relations firm called Tigercomm that does polling and advertising work for Steyer’s Super PAC, NextGen Climate Action. Casey reportedly wrote NextGen’s communications strategy for its involvement in elections in Massachusetts and Virginia in 2013. NextGen and another Steyer group, the CE Action Committee, paid Tigercomm $387,000 that year. CEDC executive director Jeff King said in an email that Casey and Gordon were never board members, “but were erroneously listed as such at one point.” He would not say who listed them, why, when, or what their roles with the organization were. The IRS revoked CEDC’s

tax exempt status in August after it failed to file annual reports for three straight years. Former CEDC board members, according to the website, include Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union. His former assistant, Josie Mooney, is a strategic adviser to NextGen. David Chen, a former member of CEDC’s advisory board, has hosted Steyer at events held by his investment firm, Equilibrium Capital. Steyer also sits on the board of the Center for American Progress, whose senior fellow in energy and environmental policy, Bracken Hendricks, was listed as a CEDC adviser. As his team and others to which he has ties helped run CEDC, Steyer steered funds to the group financing Hayes’ fellowship. Internal Revenue Servicing filings show that the Energy Foundation provided $75,000 to CEDC inTo be clear though, Gaelic is spoken by at least 50 000+ people in Scotland, including 6000 people in Edinburgh and another 1000 in the Scottish Borders. A dead language, on the other hand, is spoken by no one alive. Also, contrary to common belief, Scottish Gaelic was a dominant language of Scotland during several centuries, including around St Helen’s area and the Scottish Borders. In fact, the nearby parish of Old Cambus is an alteration of the Gaelic Allt Camais, which means ‘burn of bay’. But the reason I started to give Gaelic names to these problems has nothing to do with local history. My son is a fluent Gaelic speaker and was with me when I first visited the place. When I asked him about potential names for the

Femoral artery pseudoaneurysm due to a gunshot injury. Femoral artery pseudoaneurysms are commonly iatrogenic due to increasing use of the artery for arterial interventions. Other reasons of pseudoaneurysm formation are intravenous drug use and penetrating trauma. Here, we have discussed the management strategy of a femoral artery pseuodoaneursym and the modalities for preventing the misdiagnoses of the pseudoaneurysm in the emergency department. A 50-year-old male patient was referred to our emergency department (ED) with claudication and severe local swelling. Ten days earlier, he had been referred to another ED immediately after a gunshot injury to the left inguinal zone. Duplex ultrasound and CT angiography of the left lower extremity revealed a 4 cm sac of pseudoaneurysm on the distal part of posterofemoral branch of deep femoral artery and a"Dateline" team worked with veteran tower dog Doug Delaney for four months documenting this group of tower climbers as they worked their way through 40 towns and cities in 24 states. During this time there were seven fatalities nationwide, including five deaths in a 12-day period in April. "Tower Dogs" airs on Monday, July 15 at 10:00 PM/ET. David Corvo is the executive producer.