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stated that during the interview with Mr. Callanan Jr., Mr. Callanan Jr. stated that Mr. Hughes came to Roach's on June 21, 1999 with two unidentified men and purchased seven firearms. Under cross-examination Agent Murphy explained that this date should have been June 17, 1999. Murphy testified that Hughes could not have been in Roach's on June 21, 1999, because on that date he was under surveillance by East Bridgewater police in East Bridgewater and was later arrested. Furthermore, the ATF firearm applications from Roach's indicates that Hughes purchased the firearms in question on June 17, 1999. Agent Murphy explained the discrepancy as a typographical error on his part. But when pushed to review his notes from the interview with Mr. Callanan Jr. to see if they indicatedthe date about which Mr. Callanan Jr. was talking with Mr. Murphy, his notes indicated only "7:30 p.m."; his notes did not indicate a date of any kind. C. The Freeman Connection Agent Murphy testified that the only two connections of which he was aware between Till Freeman and the defendant were the following: (1) that on June 21, 1999, Detective Allen from the East Bridgewater Police department saw Mr. Hughes on Plain Street in Brockton, the street on which Till Freeman's last known address is located; and (2) that when Freeman was arrested on October 28, 2000, he was in possession of one of the firearms that Hughes had purchased at Roach's on the night of June 17, 1999. Agent Murphy further testified in his affidavit that when the

defendant was arrested on the night of June 21, 1999 for driving without a license, the defendant explained to Agent Murphy that after purchasing the firearms at issue, he stored them at a friend's house in Brockton. Agent Murphy *55 further stated in his affidavit that the defendant told him that on June 16, 1999 those firearms were stolen from his friend's house in Brockton. The other testimony regarding Till Freeman came from Officer Calderone and Sergeant Fleming, two Boston Police Officers who were involved in the arrest of Till Freeman and thus in the recovery of one of the firearms that Hughes purchased at Roach's. Neither Officer Calderone nor Sergeant Fleming testified to any connection between Freeman and Hughes. They testified only to the circumstances of the arrestof Till Freeman on October 28, 1999. Officer Calderone testified that on October 28, 1999, he was called to 295 Center Street in Jamaica Plain where a man who said his name was Julio Agusto was alleged to have been robbed and carjacked. At the scene, Mr. Agusto told Officer Calderone that at 3:15 p.m., when he was on his way to buy liquor at the store on the corner of Seaver Street and Blue Hill Avenue, a stranger, a man who was later identified as Till Freeman, forced him at gunpoint into Agusto's car and told him to drive to Mr. Agusto's house. Officer Calderone said that Mr. Agusto told him that the two men then drove to 295 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, which was not Mr.

Agusto's home, and that Mr. Freeman then robbed Mr. Agusto of $500.00 and fled on foot. Officer Calderone then testified that the interview with Mr. Agusto continued immediately afterwards, back at the police station. Once at the station, Mr. Agusto changed his story. He said that he was at the corner of Seaver Street and Blue Hill Avenue not to purchase liquor but to engage in a drug transaction with Mr. Freeman. Officer Calderone testified that Mr. Agusto volunteered this new version of the events at the station in response to further questioning by the police officers present. Mr. Agusto told Officer Calderone that when the drug transaction did not take place as planned, Freeman forced Agusto at gunpoint into his car and they drove to 295 Centre Streetwhere Freeman got out of the car and ran away. This new version of events was not contained in any police report of the incident, and thus the first that the defense heard of it was under cross-examination of Agent Murphy on April 27, 2000. Agent Murphy stated that he first heard of it the morning of April 27, 2000, when he was on a conference call with Officer Calderone and U.S. Attorney Chuang, the prosecutor in this case. When defense called Officer Calderone to testify the following day, Officer Calderone testified that the drug transaction, and Mr. Agusto's recanting of his original story about purchasing liquor and not knowing Mr. Freeman, was not in the police report because he was instructed by his supervisor, Sergeant Fleming not to

to the police on October 28, 1999, not his name, his address or his date of birth. Officer Calderone also testified that the only witness to Mr. Agusto's being abducted at gunpoint from the corner of Seaver Street and Blue Hill Avenue was Mr. Agusto's girlfriend. Officer Calderone did not interview Mr. Agusto's girlfriend, however, and the results of the interview with her by others do not appear in the police report of the incident. When defense counsel showed Officer Calderone the blank space in the police report where witnesses to the alleged crime were supposed to be listed, Officer Calderone could not explain why that space did not contain the name of Mr. Agusto's girlfriend. Officer Calderone also testified that he spoke with Mr. Agusto's girlfriend at 295Centre Street and that she told him that Mr. Agusto had been held at gunpoint as he had said. It was not clear from Officer Calderone's testimony, however, how Mr. Agusto's girlfriend witnessed the alleged abduction from Seaver Street and Blue Hill Avenue and then was also at 295 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain to witness events and recount her witnessing of the abduction from Seaver Street to the police officers in Jamaica Plain. Agent Murphy testified that Officer Calderone told him that he interviewed a female witness, whose name Agent Murphy could not remember, who worked in the office building at 295 Centre Street. Agent Murphy testified that Officer Calderone told him that the female witness saw a man, later identified as Till Freeman, bending over a wastebasket

in the building at 295 Centre Street. When she asked him if she could help him, she said that he pointed a gun at her and said "No, ma'am" and then left the office. At the prompting of U.S. Attorney Chuang, Agent Murphy recalled her name as Florri Niane. Officer Calderone testified under direct examination that her name is contained in the police report as a witness at the scene of the alleged crime. Officer Calderone also testified that she was not the woman who said that she was Mr. Agusto's girlfriend. Agent Murphy testified that Till Freeman is being prosecuted in federal court for the crime of a felon in possession of a firearm and that to his knowledge Mr. Freeman is not being prosecuted for the allegedcharge Mr. Hughes with trafficking in firearms, for example, the government asks that I conclude that the circumstances of the purchases of the firearms demonstrate that Hughes was, in fact, buying firearms to then sell them, and perhaps, to finance his drug habit. In this day and age, the government says, guns that are purchased in this fashion end up in the hands of persons who have serious criminal records or for other reasons are likely to use them in very dangerous ways, thus posing significant dangers and a threat to society. The government's rhetoric strays far from the language of the regulation. The regulation requires that I make a finding that the crime involved "causes or directly threatens loss of life ..." The crimes involved are making a

60 Years since the Baby Boom of the electric guitar By Miguel Ángel Ariza The electric guitar as a musical instrument is on its way to a century of existence, but it wasn’t until the 1950s when the real geniuses of design and construction made the models that have marked the history of popular music up to the present day. Yes my friends, we’re talking about the 50s from the last century, and still today a high percentage of the models we see in the hands of our heroes were designed in that era which witnessed the birth of Rock and Roll. That decade crowned the electric guitar in songs that filled the charts as a solo instrument far above the rest. The horn sections, and the solos, especially thesaxophone, which reigned until the end of the 40s were being replaced, little by little, by electric guitar solos in the new groups and idols of Rock and Roll. That’s how the first great figures of the instrument such as Scotty Moore,Cliff Gallup, and Carl Perkinsappeared. The rest is history, that which we review everyday in Guitars Exchange. The funny, yet alarming thing about the universe of the electric guitar is that since that decade you can count on the fingers of one hand the new models that have been able to throw a bit of shade on the designs which we all, sons and daughters of rock, have in mind when we think of the electric guitar. A brief summary of the newcomers: the Telecastercomes in the form

of its prototype called the Broadcaster in 1950, the Gibson Les Paulin 1952, and the Stratocaster in 1954. And now comes the good part, the year is 1958, which incredibly turns 60 years old in 2018, can be considered the authentic birthday of the baby boomer electric guitar models. That year the four big guitar makers of the time, put a ton of new ideas on the table (all good although some would take time to realize) making that year really the last prolific and meaningful one in the history of the electric guitar. It was 1958, 60 years have gone by, and the four big brand names of the time introduced these models for the first time: FenderIn 1958 Leo Fender decided to put to market what then wascreations already made but especially putting on the table what would become one of its most legendary guitars over the following years and one of the most sought after by collectors nowadays: the Gretsch Country Gentleman. This luxury guitar (back then only the White Falcon fetched a higher price) met a few of the improvements of the brand and hadChet Atkinsbrooding; they wanted to make guitars narrower and with less noisy pickups. The result was this model that features the f-holes painted on the closed-body to avoid feedback problems and the introduction of the legendary Filter Tron pickups that sought to reduce the different sound troubles and interferences that the older models had. Its little sister, the Gretsch Tennessean, had the same pickup fittings, also introduced in 1958 as a more

economic model than the older one, with just one pickup on the bridge and the Fs cut into the body. Rickenbacker The brand that invented the electric guitar was still a giant manufacturer in the 50s, and under the watchful eye of Mr. Roger Rossmeisl. In 1958 they would release to the market one of the models that would make history with its brand until this very day, with theCaprimodels from the 300 series, among them: the 325, 330, and the 360. These three models, all from 1958, became the go-to model of the 60s as it was to be used by the band that would lead the way for all the rest, the Beatles,of one John Lennon, who would not part with his 325 in those early years into a striking design that the cowlick greaser lads didn’t take well, but some 10 years later would become a real success, this time with the bearded ponytail lads at the end of the 60s and throughout the 70s. The Explorer had a set of two humbuckers on its ‘Martian’ shaped body added to it, a shovel-shape never seen before until it was designed by Grover Jackson(who would go on to form his own brand of pointy guitars with his name). However, the real precursor and creative mind behind the Explorer and the Flying V was the then vice president of Gibson Ted McCarty, not as well-known as Leo Fender, and who didn’t play the guitar either, like Leo, yet of supreme importance to Gibson's history and the electric

goes without saying this was the year the planets aligned themselves around their Les Paul model. In ‘57 the Les Paul started to be fitted with the famous PAFhumbuckers, pickups that even today some say have mystical powers, the bridge Tune-O-Matic was already part of the design shortly before that, and it was in the year 1958 when the gold or black finish gave way to the notorious ‘burst’ which left the wood grain open to see, like the violin style of past centuries, making the guitar an absolute beauty in the eyes of the world. Nonetheless, between 1958 and 1960, Gibson chose to take it off the market, they produced less than 2000 Les Paul units with those features, something you must realise that here at GuitarsPeople who bought this also bought... Charlie Chan Carries On Inspector Duff works with the Scotland Yard. He is called in to investigate a mysterious murder that occurred at a famous local London hotel. He finds himself wishing for the assistance of his old friend, Charlie Chan, who now resides in Hawaii. The plot thickens when one of the suspects is found dead at a further stop on the trip. Poirot's Finest Cases: Eight Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations John Moffatt stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The ABC Murders: A chilling letter sets the sleuth on the trail of an enigmatic killer. After the Funeral: A wealthy businessman is dead, and his sister thinks it was murder. Death on the Nile: Poirot is in Egypt when a chilling murder takes place.

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Thursday Oct 11, 2018 at 3:17 PM Todd Haley ran to Anthony Lynn's side and later was told that what had just happened to Lynn is fatal '100 percent of the time.' Miraculously, Lynn lived. Years after they coached together with Bill Parcells, their teams collide in Cleveland. BEREA Part of the way Todd Haley plays old school is taking "us vs. them" through the week and to the stadium. There, he makes it a point not to engage in pregame chit-chat with "them." On Sunday, Haley will make an exception. The offensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns will not pretend the head coach of the San Diego Chargers, Anthony Lynn, is not his brother. He was there during the horror and recovery that made them "brothers for life." In the summer of 2005,Cowboys training camp had just ended in Oxnard, Calif. Two buddies who were assistant coaches for Bill Parcells' Dallas offense went out for some pizza and some laughs. Haley made his way across a street, saw that Lynn had not followed, and called for him to come along. Lynn began to cross. A driver who later tested three times over the legal limit was roaring off an exit ramp and veered into Lynn. "I heard a thud," Haley has said. "I turned around and saw Anthony just cartwheeling across the air. When I got to Anthony, I thought he was dead." The initial impact was compounded by the landing. The force of a 200-pound man hurtling at high speed into a parked Volkswagen left the car totaled and Lynn in the street. Lynn

awoke to find Haley cradling his head with bloody hands. His first reaction was to wonder why Haley was bleeding. Lynn didn't realize the blood was from his head. Lynn's survival was miraculous. Haley would talk to doctors who told him such impacts figure to be fatal 100 percent of the time. Lynn has shared his recollection of lying on the pavement a number of times. A close paraphrase: I will never forget, as long as I live, Todd holding my head up, saying, ‘Hang in there, buddy. Hang in there.’ I’m certain he thought I was dying, right there in the street. Lynn arrived at the emergency room with part of his nose torn off, terrible cuts on his face, two collapsed lungs and assorted other issues. Lynn recalls plastic surgeons doing"a really good job of covering up those scars and blending that stuff back in." He cringes when he thinks of photographs of how he looked when he arrived at the hospital. It was a two-part miracle. One, Lynn survived. Two, he was back working with Haley and Parcells within two weeks. His youth and fitness (he was an ex-NFL running back who stayed in shape) served him well. In the immediate aftermath, Haley had a hard time shaking what he had witnessed. Haley would look at his friend and blurt out, "I can't believe you're alive." Lynn would say, "Dude, quit staring at me." Lynn came around to thinking Haley, in a way, was more victim then he was. All Lynn remembers is headlights moments before impact. Haley had to absorb

the whole thing. Lynn was struck on Aug. 20, 2005. The drunk driver was sentenced to 300 days in jail and five years of probation. Haley and Lynn got on with their coaching lives. They worked together with the Cowboys through the 2006 season, the last of Parcells' four seasons as head coach. In 2007, Lynn left for Cleveland; He was running backs coach for a team that wound up 10-6. Haley became offensive coordinator of the Cardinals, who had been a doormat, but suddenly became a contender. Haley's work landed him a head coaching job in Kansas City in 2009. Lynn's shot at being a head coach came later. He had a long run as Rex Ryan's running backs coach with the Jets and jumped with Ryan to Buffalo, wherehe was a strong voice on an offense featuring Tyrod Taylor at quarterback. While in Buffalo, Lynn paid his old friend a tremendous professional compliment. "I don't think Todd has any idea how often I study his tape," Lynn said. "I think he is the best offensive coordinator in the game." "That's nice of him to say," Haley said Thursday. The Chargers hired Lynn as head coach in 2017, which became Haley's last season as offensive coordinator in Pittsburgh. The road leads to Cleveland, where the "brothers for life' will engage in a unique sibling rivalry. "I just like to beat him," Haley said. "There won't be any hugs and kisses before the game. "... Anthony and I are very good friends, very close. We had time together in Dallas and a couple of

break. Duncan made four 3-pointers in each half as he topped his previous scoring high by six points. The Lobos shot 55.6 percent from the field but were outscored 16-2 on points off turnovers. New Mexico had no answer on how to defend Marks and Duncan, who made 20 of Boise State’s 26 field goals. Marks also had five rebounds, five assists and two steals. Marks, a leading Mountain West Player of the Year candidate, had his sixth 30-point outing of the season which moved him into sixth place on the Mountain West’s all-time scoring list. Marks has 1,814 career points and he passed former New Mexico guard Kendall Williams (1,813 from 2010-14). Boise State led for nearly the entire contest but the Lobos battled back from a 19-point first-half deficit tooff 11 straight points a short time later to take a 38-19 lead as Marks scored eight points during the burst on two 3-pointers and a fast-break dunk after a steal. The Lobos finished the half strong, getting 3-pointers from Sam Logwood and Greenwood during a 10-0 surge to cut their deficit to 39-29 at the break. ___ TIP-INS New Mexico: The Lobos won six of seven meetings with Boise State until being swept in this season’s two meetings. . New Mexico lost the rebounding battle (27-26) for the first time in 13 games. . Greenwood is 25 points away from becoming the 33rd player in school history to reach 1,000 career points. Boise State: The Broncos hit a school record 16 3-pointers against Elon on Dec. 21, 2004. … Duncan’s previous career

high was 20 points against Air Force earlier this season. . Marks (523) passed the 500-point mark for the third different season, joining Tanoka Beard (1989-93) as the lone players in program history to do so. . Webb had just two points on 1-of-6 shooting after scoring 23 and going 7-of-7 from 3-point range when the teams met in New Mexico on Jan. 18. UP NEXT New Mexico travels to play Fresno State on Saturday. Boise State visits San Diego State on Saturday. Sign up for Daily Newsletters Manage Newsletters Copyright © 2020 The Washington Times, LLC." the attorney told me. The witness spoke of more than just Seidlin's relationship with the elderly widow; the attorney also provided insight into the former judge's infamously lax work ethic. "He'd roll in a little after 9, and he would come in and order some clothes or jewelry for his wife over the phone," said the lawyer. "Then he would do the juveniles and then maybe some probate. At about 11 o'clock, his wife would come in... to shoot the breeze and go with him to lunch." In the afternoon, Seidlin did what the attorney described as "drive-bys." "He would come back in the afternoon in his car, and he would sign what he had to sign out in the street," said the lawyer. "He would have someone in his

by WSVN-TV (Channel 7) reporter Carmel Cafiero. "[W]hen we watched the judge April 10th and 11th and April 17th and 18th, Seidlin's lunch breaks lasted close to three hours," Cafiero reported. "If he worked at all in the afternoons, it was for about one hour. And by 4, he was at a tennis club three out of the four days." Seidlin had a short attention span, said the attorney, never read books, and had little knowledge of the law. "You could put all his knowledge of the law in a thimble and still have room left over," said the lawyer. "I don't know how he got a bar license; he had the worst attention deficit I've ever seen. He was always afraid people were going to figure out thatby the end of the year. The fact that Pyongyang has returned to this harsh rhetoric after a relative thaw in relations with Seoul marks a further rise in tensions on the peninsula – allegedly provoked by the latest summit between Washington and Pyongyang which ended in a deadlock. Earlier, North Korea abruptly withdrew its entire staff from a liaison office in the North Korean border town of Kaesong in a move that unnerved the South. Days later, Pyongyang sent some workers back to the office, although it is still unclear if it plans to restore a full staff. Seoul, meanwhile, warned that North Korea almost finished rebuilding a long-range rocket site it had promised to close. Trump wrecked summit with Kim by suggesting N. Korea give all its nukes

to US – report Details: https://t.co/mH7EKA70wLpic.twitter.com/cKcAedzXx6 — RT (@RT_com) 30 марта 2019 г. The situation on the Korean Peninsula began to change after the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was abruptly wrapped up without the sides reaching any agreement. At first, the collapse of the meeting was blamed on the fact that the US and North Korea failed to agree on the terms for removing US-imposed sanctions on Pyongyang as Washington allegedly refused to consider even partial relief. A later report by Reuters revealed that Trump allegedly proposed that North Korea transfer all its nuclear weapons to the US and completely dismantle its nuclear and missile programs. The scheme, which closely resembled the one the US used in Libya years before the NATO interventionThis weekend in Biloxi, Miss., the Louisiana Press Association bestowed its highest honor, the Freedom of Information Award, on The Independent for its investigative work into the shenanigans of Lafayette City Marshal Brian Pope, who is scheduled to go to trial Sept. 25 on seven felony counts of malfeasance in office and perjury and is facing an effort to recall him in a special election. Read the latest on the never-ending saga of his administration here. IND Staff Writer Christiaan Mader was the lead reporter on the Pope investigative series, with IND editors Leslie Turk and Walter Pierce contributing to the reporting and editing of the body of work. IND Photo Editor Robin May and contributing photographer Wynce Nolley captured the story through powerful images of Pope, from his

bizarre 2015 press conference to his numerous trips to the parish courthouse and multiple bookings into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center. Here’s what the LPA had to say at the convention about this year's Freedom of Information Award, which The IND also won a decade ago for its investigative reporting on the Horse Farm: For its fight on behalf of the public’s right to know, please congratulate The Independent for earning this year’s Freedom of Information Award. Lafayette City Marshal Brian Pope has been in a lot of trouble with the law, and much of it is the result of dogged investigative reporting and use of public records by The Independent. The newspaper sought the records, including scores of invoices and emails, after Pope staged a news conference criticizing the localDoctor Savannah is riding boner in the reality porn video and the guy she's on top of is fantastically well hung. She wears beautiful black stockings and has a belly button ring to go with those big tits and that tanned skin. She seems to have a flawless body, which makes watching her fuck even better.

stopping the grass cutting operations, thanks to the presence of a particular elastic mechanism provided inside the housing in which the spool is arranged, or inside the spool itself. The elastic mechanism allows the spool to move axially with respect to the housing when the head is pressed against the ground. With this alternating movement in axial direction the spool is disengaged from a series of teeth or projections provided on the bottom of the housing and engages with a corresponding series of teeth arranged on the upper part of the housing with respective projections integral with the spool itself. The teeth and/or the projections are angularly offset in such a way that the alternating movement of the spool inside the head causes an angularly stepped forward movementConference breakdown SEC: 71. Every conference school has at least one participant and eight have at least five. ACC: 48. Every conference school has at least one participant and five have at least five. Pac-12: 45. Every conference school has at least one participant and five have at least five. Big Ten: 36. Every conference school has at least one participant and three have at least five. Big 12: 25. Every conference school but one (Kansas) has at least one participant and two have at least five. FCS schools: 22. Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern and Tennessee State each have two. Mountain West: 22. Air Force, Hawaii and New Mexico have zero participants. The other league schools have at least one each. Independents: 15. BYU, New Mexico State and Notre

Dame are the independents with participants, and BYU and Notre Dame have at least five each. AAC: 14. Cincinnati, SMU and Temple have zero participants. The other league schools have at least one each and one has at least five. Division II schools: 14. Bloomsburg (Pa.) and West Texas A&M each have two. Mid-American: 10. Ball State, Buffalo, Kent State, Massachusetts, Northern Illinois, Ohio and Toledo are the league schools with participants. Conference USA: 8. Florida Atlantic, Louisiana Tech, Rice, Southern Miss and Tulane are the league schools with participants. Sun Belt: 5. Arkansas State, Georgia State and Western Kentucky are the league schools with participants. 2013 NFL Scouting Combine Check out the top prospects for the 2013 NFL Draft going through drills in Indianapolis. Some items of interest » Kansas is theonly school in one of the five major conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) without a participant. » More than half of the quarterbacks at the combine (10 of 19) are from the ACC and SEC (five each). There are zero quarterbacks from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12. » Alabama, LSU and Florida have the most participants in the SEC, a combined 31. That number would be fifth-most among conferences. » Florida State (nine) and North Carolina (seven) combined have one-third of the ACC's 48 participants. » Ohio State and Wisconsin lead the Big Ten with six participants each. Having six participants would rank fifth in the SEC, third in the ACC and Pac-12 and tied for first in the Big 12. » Baylor is the only Big

12 school with more than five participants and one of only three league schools with more than two. » The Big Ten is a league long known for its line play. But the SEC has a combined 28 offensive and defensive linemen at the combine, while the Big Ten has just 10. There are just two defensive linemen from the Big Ten; the ACC's Boston College has two by itself. » Ball State from the MAC and Western Kentucky from the Sun Belt have three participants each; that's more than all but three teams in the Big 12 and more than all but four teams in the Big Ten. » FCS member Georgia Southern (two) has as many participants as Georgia and one more than Georgia Tech. » Division II Colorado State-Puebloof the events. On the $7^{th}$ January 2015, two Islamist gunmen forced their way into and opened fire in the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, killing twelve. Simultaneously a second attach happened in a kosher grocery store in Paris, killing 5. As a result, the French government organized an event when several million people marched across France, lead by 50 world leaders in Paris in tribute for the terror victims (’We are here to support freedom. We will not be beaten.’). The media coverage in France was of the similar dimensions as the one of the march. A series of measures, including the prosecution of citizens who propagate terrorism on the internet and the authorization of intelligence services to gather on-line, phone and traveller data has been introduced

for people suspected of threat. In the days after, some number of people started questioning the real conspiracy behind the 2015 attack, carried out by the perpetrators, two French Muslim brothers of Algerian descent, who were killed in the manhunt after the attack, presuming that they have evidences that the current French government is behind it. Background information about conspiratorial rumors and mass opinion ------------------------------------------------------------------- Conspiracy theories as political explanations have long been a part of French political culture, as well as of many others throughout the history. They are becoming particularly powerful when they are widely accepted. An empirical analysis has been reported in [@Wood2015], which concerns the nature of their support in the mass public, confirms that the chance that a person will endorse conspiracy theory can be predicted byhonorary president of the ultra right winged party Front National. Therefore, in the fourth article, Friday, January 16, in an interview with the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, Jean-Marie Le Pen gave controversial and undefined statements mentioning a conspiracy theory with regards to the Charlie Hebdo attack. Then, in the fifth article, he reacted to the criticism of the Vice President of his party, who suggested that Jean-Marie Le Pen had been drinking before mentioning a conspiracy theory in the attack at “Charlie Hebdo”, in the earlier mentioned article. In the sixth article the same case is being discussed. All three of those articles had more then an average number of responses and they will be analyzed too in the following section. Finally, the third ‘wave’ of discussions about Charlie

Hebdo conspiracy has a very different view point, analyzing the causes, the possible control and the prevention of those. In the seventh article (or the first one of the last set) the following question is asked: ‘How to distinguish right from wrong?’, and a plan of the government to give more resources to the national education system to better train the youth is announced. In the following article the case of two teachers who decided to dissect in class conspiracy theories is reported. Finally in the ninth article, a summary of the earlier discussed conspiratorial ideas is made (an example: during the mobilizations for Charlie Hebdo march of January 11, the route would thus, according to conspiracists, have taken the shape of the map of Israel! etc.). TheseAmerica's robotic air force gets all the attention – especially with U.S. drones continuing to blast suspected militants in Pakistan. But China is developing its own fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. High-flying spy drones, unmanned attackers, and handheld mini-bots are in Beijing's arsenal. DefPro has a rundown of China's UAV programs. Many of them appear to be knock-offs of U.S. drones. The Xianglong ("Sour Dragon") is shaped like the American Global Hawk, and is supposed to fly almost as high: 60,000 feet. The Yilong looks awfully like one of those Predators the U.S. is now flying over Pakistan. "China's copycat tradition goes back to the 1960s," Defense News notes. "Recovered U.S. AQM-34N Firebee drones lost over China and North Vietnam led to the production of the WZ-5 Chang

Krylatskoye Rowing Canal The Krylatskoye Rowing Canal is a canoe sprint and rowing venue located in the Krylatskoye Sports Complex in Moscow, Russia. Constructed in 1973, the venue hosted the 1973 European Rowing Championships. It then hosted canoeing and rowing competitions for the 1980 Summer Olympics. It was the host venue for the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. References 1980 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 91–94. ICF Bidding Questionnaire: 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Moscow. - accessed 11 April 2010. Category:Venues of the 1980 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic canoeing venues Category:Olympic rowing venues Category:Sports venues completed in 1973 Category:Sports venues built in the Soviet Union Category:Sports venues in Russia Category:1973 establishments in RussiaDatabases Here you can find databases licensed for the WZB and other electronic ressouces. For information on WZB licensed and freely accessible databases please visit DBIS, the "Database Information System" of the University Library of Regensburg. Information on DBIS holdings in general can be found here. (german only) The Book Citation Index contains over 40,000 (as per 2013) editorially selected scientific books (online and print editions) published since 2005 in a wide range of disciplines. 10,000 new titles are to be added each year, including volumes published as a series. As a module in the Web of Science Core Collection, the Book Citation Index adds over 13.5 million references to that collection. Among other things, it allows users to search for comprehensive bibliographic information and to display the accurate numbering of citations

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David M Jackson USA TODAY Update: Donald Trump on Monday blamed a faulty earpiece for his repeated refusals to disavow the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke during a weekend interview. "I'm sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me," Trump said on NBC's Today show regarding an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's State of the Union. "And you can hardly hear what he was saying." Trump declined repeated invitations from CNN host Jake Tapper to criticize Duke and the KKK. Rivals Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and other critics hammered Trump for failing to condemn the Klan. On the Today show, Trump said he didn't understand which groups CNN was asking about. Noting that he did disavow Duke's support during a news conferenceCurb Appeal: Balance home with neighbour's colour The cream-coloured home has darker neighbours. The new, darker window frames can be the inspiration for the exterior wall and some new shutters. Photograph by: Handout photo / Suzanne Rowe , The Gazette I had a liking for the soft demeanour of this west-end home but an introduction of slightly darker elements would improve the balance with the neighbour's stronger red brick wall colour. I chose a warmer tone of sand to replace the pinkish cream painted surface. On the same palette from the harmonized colour swatches, the next deeper shade was going to be the choice for new shutters as well as the mouldings near the roof and the porch area. In fact all this same family of colours will derive from the even darker tint

a yearly moderate trimming around the end of June. The contrasting colour association of the red pink Berberis, the green and white persevering leaves of the Euonymus as well as the yellow green foliage of the Filipendula perennials are a great support to the generous flowering of the Becky daisies and the orange spring blooms of the rhododendron. In winter, this one's year-round leaves alter to red. For a constant Becky show, the cutting of the wittered daisies is recommended. Because of their similar earthy tones, the rusty peach and brownish red foliage of the Peach Flambé Heucheras will sympathize with the brick wall colours. To soften the surface on the right, three vigorous Juniperus will be planted in a line and centred in front of the neighbour's wall. These willFormer President Bill Clinton is warning that President Barack Obama's edge in the polls may not be enough to defeat GOP hopeful Mitt Romney because the Republican Party was using voter suppression techniques to target traditionally Democratic voters like African-American church members and the elderly. "How much will the vote be lessened or reduced by the fact that in Florida except for four counties, the pre-election voting -- advanced voting -- has been cut down to and doesn't include the Sunday before the election?" Clinton told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired on Sunday. The former president added that the tactic was "an arrow aimed straight at the heart of the African-American church, who pull up the church busses on the Sunday before the election and take elderly

congestion -- residents in both cities have said. The MTC program that's funding the project aims to improve travel time and reliability along main thoroughfares or arterial streets. It seeks to improve vehicle, bike, pedestrian and transit-rider safety and, potentially, air quality by decreasing vehicle emissions and fuel consumption, according to the agency. John Goodwin, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said the agency's project team will meet with Palo Alto's transportation officials this month to begin the study and work. The final report will be due in June 2019, but Goodwin said the synchronization would be working much sooner. The June deadline relates to a signoff after all reports are finalized. "We believe that significant benefits will accrue to the city of Palo Alto after the project is completed andWe featured footage of Ryan Tuerck sending his Ferrari 458 V8 engined Toyota GT86 affectionately named the GT4586 into the side of the hillside during part of a hillclimb shoot for Donut Media two months ago. This week, Donut released a short behind-the-scenes video of filming that GT4586 clip. The best part of being a legit filming operation is when the cops come, you flash your fancy permits and the cops leave. That is what happened at the shoot. According to Tuerck, cops were called and they showed up, but the film crew had the correct permits to shut the street down and film there. While checking on the crew, the cop wanted an autograph from Tuerck. Tuerck wanted to sign the ticket book, but was only allowed to

clean energy. The alternative – their full utilization – entails climate disaster. What began as an emergency measure in Texas in 1931 quickly evolved, with the passage of the Texas Market Demand Act of 1932, into a system of rational government control and conservation of oil in the United States. In a sane world, events would follow the same path in Alberta this year. In the meantime, those who truly have the interests of our children’s children at heart are gearing up to stop the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline: the next fight in the campaign to secure by direct action what should have already been done by government regulation. Let no one say it isn’t worth it. Michael Dobson is a PhD candidate at the New School for Social Research focused onThe Le Dynasty and Southward Expansion Le Loi, one of Vietnam's most celebrated heroes, is credited with rescuing the country from Ming domination in 1428. Born of a wealthy landowning family, he served as a senior scholar-official until the advent of the Ming, whom he refused to serve. After a decade of gathering a resistance movement around him, Le Loi and his forces finally defeated the Chinese army in 1428. Rather than putting to death the captured Chinese soldiers and administrators, he magnanimously provided ships and supplies to send them back to China. Le Loi then ascended the Vietnamese throne, taking the reign name Le Thai To and establishing the Le dynasty (1428-1788). The greatest of the Le dynasty rulers was Le Thanh Tong (1460-97), who reorganized the administrative divisions of the country and upgraded the civil service system. He ordered

a census of people and landholdings to be taken every six years, revised the tax system, and commissioned the writing of a national history. During his reign he accomplished the conquest of Champa in 1471, the suppression of Lao-led insurrections in the western border area, and the continuation of diplomatic relations with China through tribute missions established under Le Thai To. Le Thanh Tong also ordered the formulation of the Hong Duc legal code, which was based on Chinese law but included distinctly Vietnamese features, such as recognition of the higher position of women in Vietnamese society than in Chinese society. Under the new code, parental consent was not required for marriage, and daughters were granted equal inheritance rights with sons. Le Thanh Tong also initiated the construction and repair of granaries, dispatched his troops to rebuild irrigation works following floods,and provided for medical aid during epidemics. A noted writer and poet himself, he encouraged and emphasized of the Confucian examination system. A great period of southward expansion also began under Le Thanh Tong. The don dien system of land settlement, borrowed from the Chinese, was used extensively to occupy and develop territory wrested from Champa. Under this system, military colonies were established in which soldiers and landless peasants cleared a new area, began rice production on the new land, established a village, and served as a militia to defend it. After three years, the village was incorporated into the Vietnamese administrative system, a communal village meeting house (dinh) was built, and the workers were given an opportunity to share in the communal lands given by the state to each village. The remainder of the land belonged to the state. As

each area was cleared and a village established, the soldiers of the don dien would move on to clear more land. This method contributed greatly to the success of Vietnam's southward expansion. Although the Le rulers had ordered widespread land distribution, many peasants remained landless, while the nobility, government officials, and military leaders continued to acquire vast tracts. The final conquest of Champa in 1471 eased the situation somewhat as peasants advanced steadily southward along the coast into state-owned communal lands. However, most of the new land was set aside for government officials and, although the country grew wealthier, the social structure remained the same. Following the decline of the Le dynasty, landlessness was a major factor leading to a turbulent period during which the peasantry questioned the mandate of their rulers. In the Confucian world view, emperors were said to havethe "mandate of heaven" to rule their people, who, in turn, owed the emperor total allegiance. Although his power was absolute, an emperor was responsible for the prosperity of his people and the maintenance of justice and order. An emperor who did not fulfill his Confucian responsibilities could, in theory, lose his mandate. In practice, the Vietnamese people endured many poor emperors, weak and strong. Counterbalancing the power of the emperor was the power of the village, illustrated by the Vietnamese proverb, "The laws of the emperor yield to the customs of the village." Village institutions served both to restrain the power of the emperor and to provide a buffer between central authority and the individual villager. Each village had its council of notables, which was responsible for the obligations of the village to the state. When the central government imposed

levies for taxes, for corvee labor for public projects, or for soldiers for defense, these levies were based on the council of notables' report of the resources of the villages, which was often underestimated to protect the village. Moreover, there was a division between state and local responsibilities. The central government assumed responsibility for military, judicial, and religious functions, while village authorities oversaw the construction of public works projects such as roads, dikes, and bridges, which were centrally planned. The autonomy of the villages, however, contributed to the weakness of the Vietnamese political system. If the ruling dynasty could no longer protect a village, the village would often opt for the protection of political movements in opposition to the dynasty. These movements, in turn, would have difficulty maintaining the allegiance of the villages unless they were able both to provide security andHeadmaster’s Message – Putting others first As a fan of Triathlon and supporter of British sport in general, I was disappointed to see Jonathan Brownlee narrowly lose the opportunity to claim his title in the World Triathlon Series. However, my disappointment was tempered by the incredible scenes at the end of the final race in Mexico. If you didn’t watch it, Alistair Brownlee, Jonathan’s older brother, seeing that his younger brother was suffering terribly from heat exhaustion, picked him up and helped him over the remaining 700 metres, running with his arm underneath him, literally throwing him across the finishing line. It was an astonishing example of someone else putting their own needs second and helping someone else first. It is why I showed footage of the race in my

With the news of Doug Pederson being unofficially named the next Eagles head coach, his staff will now begin to take shape. Don Banks of Sports Illustrated is reporting that the Eagles are interested in bringing in former Lions head coach and former Bills and Titans defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz as Pederson's defensive coordinator, along with other teams: Source says Eagles have interest in Jim Schwartz as defensive coordinator. Do not know if he's Doug Pederson's DC choice, or the team's? — Don Banks (@DonBanks) January 14, 2016 Source says Jim Schwartz has offers to serve as defensive coordinator from multiple teams. But not known if Eagles have made an offer yet. — Don Banks (@DonBanks) January 14, 2016 Schwartz is an experienced defensive coordinator, having spent eight years in Tennesseewith Jeff Fisher before taking over the 0-16 Lions. After he was fired from Detroit following the 2013 season, he was Doug Marrone's defensive coordinator in Buffalo, In his lone season with the Bills in 2014 they finished 4th in scoring and yards. Schwartz parted ways with the Bills after the hiring of Rex Ryan and was unemployed in 2015, but is reportedly waiting to see if a return to the Titans would be possible. This interest in Schwartz clearly signifies a philosophical shift to the 4-3 defense, with Schwartz having run it and the Wide 9 variation of it successfully throughout his career. UPDATE: Jeff McLane of the Inquirer also reports that Schwartz and Mike Pettine, who Schwartz succeeded in Buffalo after Pettine was hired as Browns head coach,

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in a row. In Germany, women started having fewer children in the 1880s, and in just 50 years family size had mostly stabilized again. In Southeast Asia and Latin America, average fertility dropped from six or seven children per woman to two or three in a single generation, thanks in large measure to the modern contraceptives available by the 1960s. Because most countries—with exceptions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia—have now gone through this transition, the global population is growing more slowly every year. As Hans Rosling, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and one of my favorite data geeks, said, “The amount of children in the world today is probably the most there will be! We are entering into the age of the Peak Child!”" Saving lives will improve humanity and -- as humanity has discoveredNevada The Transcedence of Demographics Various factors demonstrated more clearly the problems of domestic life— such as the ordeals of building enough housing acquiring schools, in the gaming resort. Because all both problems threatened more directly the cornerstone of traditional hometowns— the nuclear family. The perpetual undersupply of housing between 1940 1965 presented a major stumbling block for newcomers in southern Nevada. The crisis was worst during the 1940s because, while the population virtually tripled, the housing stock increased little more than two-fold. Workers recruited wartime industry had to live in auto courts, trailers, cars, tents, even remodeled packing crates. Conditions improved after the war, but the shortage of building supplies the continuation of wartime controls inhibited residential construction. A 1947 housing survey estimated that the local vacancy rate stood at the

subdivisions that began to fill in patches of desert around downtown the Strip. By 1960, the many recently completed residential units attested the sudden growth in southern Nevada. Almost two-thirds of the housing stock of Clark County had been completed during the last ten years, still more was needed to satisfy the continuing influx to the town. Between 1950 1955, the number of students exped an average of 21 percent annually, of 2 a half times over the five-year span. Many students attended schools in double sessions for much of the postwar period, wearing out both their classrooms their underpaid teachers. In Nevada, a perennial lack of funds compounded the national shortage of educational facilities. Hoping to maintain its reputation as a tax haven, the state hesitated to raise enough revenueto finance substantial improvements in schools. Even after the legislature approved a sales tax with proceeds earmarked foe education, children in the resort city continued to attend relatively overcrowded, obsolete, understaffed schools. The development of a housing project supply a public school system typified Las Vegans’ approach to the hometown. They tended to build the residential city in bursts that were inevitable begun long after needs became critical, leaving little time for coordinated planning. Uncontrolled growth certainly suited the individualism of Las Vegans, but they began to reconsider their priorities when their style of city building seemed to pose threats to the nuclear family.

Part of a plane wing washed up on a beach on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean this week. The wreckage is now en route to France for identification. It appears to be part of a Boeing 777. Malaysia Airlines flight 370 — which mysteriously disappeared over the Indian Ocean last year — was also a Boeing 777. It took two years to find the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for an Air France jet that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. In that tragedy, the crash site was found within two days of the accident. With Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the search may be much harder. Malaysian officials now say that there's firm evidence flight 370 flew into a remote area of the Indian Ocean,plane wing washed up on a beach on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean this week. The wreckage is now en route to France for identification. It appears to be part of a Boeing 777. Malaysia Airlines flight 370 — which mysteriously disappeared over the Indian Ocean last year — was also a Boeing 777. As Indonesia recovers from the devastating 2004 earthquake and tsunami, many tourists are coming to the country because of the disaster. They want to see the recovery and especially the iconic location photographed after the tsunami. The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is nearing the end of its 10th day and investigators are no closer to solving the mystery. They may only have three more weeks before batteries die in

New Season Brings Seven New NHL Coaches The National Hockey League has become a revolving door for head coaches. This year, seven teams are in training camp with a new head coach. Three of the new guys are replacing coaches who were new to the position just last year. Last year, the season began with 11 new head coaches. Jon Cooper of the Tampa Bay Lightning is the dean of current NHL head coaches. (Image: tampabay.com) How many of the 31 NHL head coaches have been with their current team at least seven years? Answer – none. Jon Cooper, head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning was hired in March of 2013. That makes him the longest tenured, currently working head coach in the league. Half of the remaining 30 head coachesthe first round by wild-card qualifier, Columbus. When seemingly every game — every single point — is critical to making the playoffs, any faltering inevitably leads to a coach being fired. The 2018-2019 season had several incredibly close races, but getting close doesn’t count. Eastern Conference 2018-2019 Each conference qualifies three teams in each of its two divisions. Last season in the Eastern conference, the six leading teams and the two wild-card qualifiers looked like this: The Montreal Canadiens finished with seven wins and one tie in their last 10 games, only to miss the playoffs with 96 points. Eight teams missed the Eastern conference playoffs. Four of those fired their head coach: For the Flyers, this is their second consecutive year with a new head coach. In the East, the head coach

was a 50/50 chance to lose his job if he missed the playoffs. The Detroit Red Wings took a different path this season — they kept their coach, fired their GM, and brought back their Hall of Fame captain, Steve Yzerman, to take over the front office. Western Conference Merry-Go-Round Central Division (Western Conference) The Nashville Predators won the Central division with 100 points. In second and third place were the Winnipeg Jets and the St. Louis Blues, both with 99 points. The last two weeks of the regular season saw Winnipeg fall out of first place, and St. Louis vault out of a tight wild-card race. That final regular season push served the Blues well — they went on to win their first Stanley Cup since they came into theleague in 1967. Parity probably saved several head coaching positions in the Central Division, but at least two coaches are already on high alert as the new season approaches. The Chicago Blackhawks and the Minnesota Wild could be on early season lookout for new bench general. Pacific Division (Western Conference) Calgary had an easier time taking down the Pacific division with 107 points, followed by San Jose (101), and the Las Vegas Golden Knights (93). The Golden Knights edged out Dallas (also 93) for third place, leaving the Stars in a wild-card slot. The real action in the Pacific division came at the bottom of the standings. The Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, and Anaheim Ducks finished last, next to last ,and dead last. All three teams missed the playoffs and fired

their head coaches. Longest Lasting NHL Head Coaches Has something really changed in the NHL coaching ranks? Are head coaches being fired more often today than in the past? Only one current head coach has been at his job longer than six years. Half have yet to see a third season with the same team. This isn’t like the old days in the NHL. Scotty Bowman is the dean of NHL head coaches in terms of longevity. He was behind the bench for 2,141 games with five teams. He coached Detroit in more than 700 games, and was with Montreal for another 600+. Another 27 head coaches have over 1,000 games coached. Many of those were in the days where the teams only played 50 games a season. But today, the rule seemsthe key opportunities for the players in the NVH testing market. Hardware is expected to hold a larger share of the NVH testing market between 2017 and 2023 On the basis of type, hardware accounted for a larger share of the NVH testing market in 2016. Increasing use of mechanical and electronic components in automotive, aircraft, and industrial machinery has led to the dominance of hardware in the NVH testing market. Hardware is further classified into sensors and transducers, analyzers, meters, data acquisition systems, signal conditioners, and shakers and controllers. Automotive and transportation is expected to hold the largest share of the NVH testing market between 2017 and 2023 On the basis of end user, the NVH testing market for automotive and transportation held the largest share of the NVH testing market

in 2016. Advancements in vehicle technology and increasing use of the semiconductor content in vehicles, as well as increasing challenges to test them during the design and development process, has led to the dominance of automotive and transportation in the NVH testing market. Telecom testing application to register the highest CAGR during the forecast period The NVH testing market for the telecom testing application is expected to register the highest CAGR between 2017 and 2023. Advancement in telecommunications technology affecting features of design including generation of acoustic noise and its impact on human lives have driven the demand for the telecom testing application in the NVH testing market. North America to hold the largest share of the NVH testing market between 2017 and 2023 North America held the largest share of theState-university collaboration in psychiatry: the Pew Memorial Trust Program. This contribution summarizes the background leading up to the goals of and the experience gained from a major national initiative to expand and improve collaborative activities between state departments of mental health and university departments of psychiatry through regional conferences, national workshops, ongoing consultations, and awards. It details the problems of the public system and how successful collaborative efforts have improved the situation, cites the role of one such a program (in Maryland), recounts the process of holding a national invitational conference and the subsequent "Call to Action," and summarizes what the Pew Project is intended to do and how the project is progressing.

high class restaurant and those foods ranges from appetizer, soup, main course & dessert. Although it was small, but you will be full by the end of the dinner...Simply delicious. The environment: The appetizer: The main course: The soup: The desert: There were songs that sing by those crews on board, as a matter of appreciation and entertainment.pilot, a number of Jaffa are killed in the embarkation room, and later seen being studied by the SGC. A lack of medical knowledge about the Jaffa is never a theme of the show. They knew the biology of the Jaffa and Goa'uld. What they didn't fully understand was the politics and culture - things that a corpse is of little (but not no) help with. A: Never seen on screen, so this is speculation, but we know goa'uld are brought back alive and dead for study, and that Jaffa have been killed inside the SGC. Tretonin could not have been created without the study of both. But the SGC is run by scrupulous people that recognize the Jaffa as both brainwashed slaves, minor foot soldiers, and

Yagura Fuuko announces Graduation NMB48 member Yagura Fuuko announced she will graduate from the group, she made her graduation announcement during NMB48 7th Anniversary ceremonial LIVE in Osaka-jo Hall on 11 October 2017. Though Yagura Fuuko did not reveal specifics about her future plans, she told the fans she plans to stay with NMB48 until March 2018. Yagura Fuuko passed NMB48's second-generation auditions in May 2011, and debuted on 5 June 2011. Her stage debut was on 13 August 2011. In January 2012, Yagura Fuuko was selected to form Team M. In April 2013, she started holding a concurrent position in AKB48 Team A.Clarification 18/03/2018:: A previous version of this article has been edited to reflect a correction issued on March 17 by ProPublica which stated they had inaccurately described Gina Haspel's role in the treatment of Abu Zubaydah. Gina Haspel has been named by US President Donald Trump as new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, becoming the first woman to hold the post if confirmed by the Senate. Trump announced last week that Haspel, currently the intelligence agency's deputy director, would be replacing Mike Pompeo, who was appointed the new secretary of state after incumbent Rex Tillerson was sacked on Tuesday. In a statement issued by Trump to the Washington Post, he said the nomination of Gina Haspel was "a historic milestone". Speaking to reporters, the president said Haspel is "an outstanding

person". But Haspel's career is a point of concern with many human rights advocates. Haspel became the US spy agency's second-in-command in February 2017, but joined the CIA as an intelligence officer in 1985. Her former posts at the intelligence agency include deputy director of the national clandestine service for foreign intelligence and covert action. The former Deputy CIA head has operated "black site" prisons and drafted orders to destroy evidence that would reveal torture. "I think she's a particularly disastrous choice, being one of the principal actors" in the torture programme of former President George W Bush, Alberto Mora, the former general counsel for the US Navy and a senior fellow at the Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, told Al Jazeera. Controversial past The New York Times and ProPublica reported in2017 that Haspel played a direct role in the CIA's "extraordinary rendition programme" through which captured fighters were abducted and tortured. She ran the CIA's first overseas detention site in Thailand, also known as a "black site", in the early 2000s. The detention centre was the place at which the the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, two Saudi citizens currently held in the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba for alleged links to al-Qaeda, took place. The interrogations involved extensive use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques, the term used for waterboarding and other interrogation methods internationally classified as torture. The news outlets also reported in 2017 that Haspel had overseen the interrogation of Mr Zubaydah, which included 83 instances of waterboarding in a single month in 2002. But on Thursday, ProPublica retracted

its statement, saying that while she had been in charge when al-Nashiri was waterboarded three times, she did not arrive at the base until after the waterboarding of Zubaydah had ended. The New York Times on Friday issued an editor's note also saying that she "did not supervise the interrogation and waterboarding" of Zubaydah. Haspel's rise to the head of the US spy agency should cause concern, Mora said: "To hold her up as an exemplar, an individual whose career will serve as guidance to those who will join the agency in the future, is shocking". Evidence destroyed Videotapes of the interrogations in Thailand were destroyed on the orders of a cable drafted by Haspel and agreed to by her former boss, then-CIA director of counterterrorism operations Jose Rodriguez. "This is not justanother political controversy. Of all the problematic nominations that have been made, this is the most problematic by far," John Sifton, Asia Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera. "Haspel is complicit in the destruction of videos of interrogations. She drafted the order to destroy the videos even after the White House instructed the CIA not to do so. "This is a woman who has shown she is willing to break the law. That is the most disturbing thing about the nomination," he said. Still, Haspel enjoys widespread support from within the US intelligence community. When she was appointed as deputy director in 2017, she was described by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper as "a seasoned veteran of the agency who is widely and deeply respected by the

workforce". Michael Hayden, former National Security Agency director, told US broadcaster NPR on Tuesday, "In all this turmoil, I actually think CIA is going to be a bit of a calm spot with Gina now being elevated to the director position." Rami Khouri, a senior fellow at the American University of Beirut, told Al Jazeera Haspel's appointment was "in keeping" with previous actions by the Trump administration. "This is very much in line with what we've seen ... Appointing people in high positions who are, to say the least, controversial - not only in terms of their views but in terms of their adherence to fundamental ethics and law in the US and international law against torture," he said. Foa, the director of Reprieve, agreed. The "[a]ppointment should be a warning to alliesletter from Mulvaney will continue a policy established by President Trump in an executive order issued on March 13. That order called for "a plan to reorganize governmental functions and eliminate unnecessary agencies (as defined in section 551(1) of title 5, United States Code), components of agencies, and agency programs." That said, because the federal budget is so complicated, the process is not expected to begin right away. Axios reported that a final list of official cuts may not be produced until as late as next year. Mulvaney has been under fire recently for his role in the Trump administration's failed attempt to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. The House Freedom Caucus, which Mulvaney had formerly been been affiliated with, was instrumental in causing the bill's failure.

The MARGE Career Development and Training Program is divided into two parts. The overriding objective of the first part, the Individual Career Development Support Program, is to bring a cadre of bright, motivated, young scientists into the broad area of biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research. Two Career Development Awards be offered in the amount of $150,000 per year for two years of supervised study and research for professionals who have the potential to develop into productive scientific investigators. This Program will enhance and support the MARCE Strategic Plan in several ways. First, the addition of new investigators will complement the existing interactions between established MARCE investigators and inject fresh ideas into the field. Second, the addition of the recipients'projects will further expand the research portfolio. Third, CareerThe Knicks' overall 3-point percentage as a team this season wouldn't indicate they have the best long-range gunner in the game. Currently, the team's 33.1 percent accuracy from downtown is the eighth-worst in the NBA. But Steve Novak has basically single-handedly put the Knicks in a tie for fifth place for most 3-pointers made (488). Novak is 125-for-268, and those makes equal 25.6 percent of the total team amount. Carmelo Anthony is second on the team with 65 (33.2 percent accuracy), and J.R. Smith proceeds him with 62 (34.8 percent accuracy). As for Novak? Currently 46.6 percent -- the best in the league. In fact, he's within striking distance of the best 3-point shooting season ever (with a minimum of 250 3-pointers attempted). Former Knick Hubert Davis is third on

basically the same every practice and game. After practices, he works his way around the perimeter several times with an assistant coach, getting extra shots in. Then, about an hour before tip-off, he practices different shooting routines -- some standstill, some off of screens, some running into his set-up and others from five feet behind the 3-point line. Novak always looks balanced upon lift-off and release, which is a credit to his footwork, and during games he utilizes a timely pump fake to create space when the defender is closing in. In addition to his technique, Novak said his confidence is higher than it's ever been in his career. Every day, Novak estimates that he puts up between 500 and 1,000 shots -- something he's been doing ever since heXCritic Interviews Kayden Kross Interviews Dana Vespoli Longevity is something very difficult to attain in the adult industry, but Dana Vespoli has made it look easy. Vespoli got her start in the adult industry performing back in 2003 and now has 400 titles to her credit. It's a massive body of work, with an impressive amount of quality performances. Dana Vespoli has not only made her mark in front of the camera, she also has an exceptional career behind the lens with over 140 director credits. XCritic is proud to bring you a very special interview with Dana Vespoli, conducted by none other than the amazing performer Kayden Kross. Kayden brings the kind of insight to the interview that only a performer could have. This interview is brought to you in

Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book, "Propaganda," published in 1928, Bernays wrote that the "intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses was an important element in democratic society" and that the manipulators "constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power in our country." Instead of propaganda, he coined the euphemism "public relations." The American tobacco industry hired Bernays to convince women they should smoke in public. By associating smoking with women's liberation, he made cigarettes "torches of freedom."In 1954, he conjured a communist menace in Guatemala as an excuse for overthrowing the democratically-elected government, whose social reforms were threatening the United Fruit company's monopoly of the banana trade. He called it a "liberation." Bernays was no rabid right winger. He was an elitist liberal who believed that "engineering public consent" was for the greater good. This was achieved by the creation of "false realities," which then became "news events." Here are examples of how it is done these days: False Reality: The last US combat troops have left Iraq "as promised, on schedule," according to President Barack Obama. TV screens have filled with cinematic images of the "last US soldiers" silhouetted against the dawn light, crossing the border into Kuwait. Fact: They are still there. At least 50,000

troops will continue to operate from 94 bases. American air assaults are unchanged, as are special forces' assassinations. The number of "military contractors" is currently 100,000 and rising. Most Iraqi oil is now under direct foreign control. False Reality: BBC presenters and reporters have described the departing US troops as a "sort of victorious army" that has achieved "a remarkable change in [Iraq's] fortunes." Their commander, Gen. David Petraeus, is a "celebrity," "charming," "savvy" and "remarkable." Fact: There is no victory of any sort. There is a catastrophic disaster; and attempts to present it as otherwise are a model of Bernays' campaign to "rebrand" the slaughter of the first world war as "necessary" and "noble." In 1980, Ronald Reagan, running for president, rebranded the invasion of Vietnam, in which upto three million people died, as a "noble cause," a theme taken up enthusiastically by Hollywood. Today's Iraq war movies have a similar purging theme: the invader as both idealist and victim. False Reality: It is not known how many Iraqis have died. They are "countless" or maybe "in the tens of thousands." Get Truthout in your inbox every day! Click here to sign up for free updates. Fact: As a direct consequence of the Anglo-American-led invasion, a million Iraqis have died. This figure from Opinion Research Business is based on peer-reviewed research led by Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, whose methods were secretly affirmed as "best practice" and "robust" by the Blair government's chief scientific adviser, as revealed in a Freedom of Information search. This figure is rarely reported

or presented to "charming" and "savvy" American generals. Neither is the dispossession of four million Iraqis, the malnourishment of most Iraqi children, the epidemic of mental illness and the poisoning of the environment. False Reality: The British economy has a deficit of billions, which must be reduced with cuts in public services and regressive taxation, in a spirit of "we're all in this together." Fact: We are not in this together. What is remarkable about this public relations triumph is that, only 18 months ago, the diametric opposite filled TV screens and front pages. Then, in a state of shock, truth was unavoidable, if briefly. The Wall Street and city of London financiers' trough was on full view for the first time, along with the venality of once celebrated snouts.Billions in public money went to inept and crooked organizations known as banks, which were spared debt liability by their Labour government sponsors. Within a year, record profits and personal bonuses were posted, and state and media propaganda had recovered its equilibrium. Suddenly, the "black hole" was no longer the responsibility of the banks, whose debt is to be paid by those not in any way responsible: the public. The received media wisdom of this "necessity" is now a chorus, from the BBC to the Sun. A masterstroke, Bernays would surely say. False Reality: The former government minister Ed Miliband offers a "genuine alternative" as leader of the British Labour Party. Fact: Miliband, like his brother David, the former foreign secretary, and almost all those standing for the Labour leadership, is

immersed in the effluent of New Labour. As a New Labour member of Parliament and minister, he did not refuse to serve under Blair or speak out against Labour's persistent warmongering. He now calls the invasion of Iraq a "profound mistake." Calling it a mistake insults the memory and the dead. It was a crime, of which the evidence is voluminous. He has nothing new to say about the other colonial wars, none of them mistakes. Neither has he demanded basic social justice: that those who caused the recession clear up the mess and that Britain's fabulously rich corporate minority be seriously taxed, starting with Rupert Murdoch. Of course, the good news is that false realities often fail when the public trusts its own critical intelligence, not the media.Goldsboro Goldsboro is a bustling southern community in North Carolina. This town of 38,000 boasts wide, tree-lined streets, friendly residents, and an old-fashioned vibe that resonates through the historic downtown district. Goldsboro boasts an excellent school system and is only 55 miles southeast of the state capitol of Raleigh.

coaching on how to tackle. This is an important point, because research based on South African youth players found that poor tackle technique is more likely to result in a tackle leading to a head injury. Given this, and the fact that most injuries in rugby occur during the tackle (up to 64%), rather than an outright ban on tackling, strategies aimed at making the tackle safer appear to make the most sense. Coaching the tackle In this way, player and coach education strategies to reduce injury rates have been found to be effective – particularly with youth players. Most notably the RugbySmart scheme in New Zealand and the BokSmart scheme in South Africa. The two schemes share similar programme structures and aim to educate coaches and referees in an attemptpain or discomfort. The research is based on a health survey of over 250 retired elite UK rugby players, with the results compared to survey data from the general population. While the increased pain and joint problems is a concern, it’s not all negative; the authors also noted rugby players were less likely than the general population to suffer diabetes or high blood pressure. The researchers recommend providing targeted osteoarthritis education and advice to retiring elite players. They also say more research is needed to understand exactly how playing high-level rugby contributes to later joint and bone problems – and how to prevent them. Similar results in NZ rugby Lead researcher of the NZ Rugby Health study, Prof Patria Hume from AUT. The study was based on players in the UK, but the findings

line up with data from New Zealand. The NZ Rugby Health study conducted in 2015 also found that ex-professional rugby players had far higher rates of arthritis than people of the same age who played non-contact sports like cricket or hockey. Thirty-six percent of elite rugby players in the study reported they had arthritis, while only five percent of people who played non-contact sports suffered arthritis (the baseline rate for New Zealanders of a similar age is between 13 and 25 percent). In light of the new Oxford study, the Science Media Centre put some questions to the lead researcher of the NZ study, Professor Patria Hume from the AUT School of Sport & Recreation: Are these health issues linked to the high-impact nature of rugby? “We do not know. Thewith baseball since its inception, and despite being replaced by smoking in the 1950s, returned in the late 1970s. By 2003, the number of major league players regularly using smokeless tobacco was 36 percent. Ice-hockey is another sport where reports have emerged of 30 to 50 percent of players actively using nicotine. Other professional sports with higher than average (average being the roughly 25 percent worldwide prevalence of smoking tobacco) use of nicotine immediately before or during a game are reported by the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses as American football, bobsleigh, gymnastics, rugby and skiing. Research into nicotine so far has mostly centred on its pharmacodynamics and smoking cessation. Despite its widespread use among athletes, there has been little research into whether it does actually affect sporting performance, and

University Professor of Psychology Joyce Benenson found moments of triumph or loss were very similar to behaviour she observed in the animal kingdom. Benenson spent years studying the conflict resolution in groups of chimpanzees. Her curiosity in the subject was piqued after seeing male chimpanzees act relatively friendly to their rivals in the wake of a conflict. This contrasted with the cold-shoulder treatment she saw between female chimps after a fight. Benenson wondered if the same could be true in humans. Benenson watched hours of online videos of the social interactions between athletes following professional sports matches to see how humans act in situations of conflict. The study looked at three years’ worth of videos of table tennis, badminton, tennis and boxing, altogether observing athletes from 44 countries. Swimming with Sharks Youback up. Phelps’ mouth was scrunched into a tight frown as he stared intently at Le Clos, the man who edged him out of a gold medal in his signature event by five-hundredths of a second. When Phelps won the 200-m butterfly this year by four hundredths of a second, it was the smallest margin in the event’s history. He raised his arms in triumph at the pool’s edge and beckoned into the air as if to encourage the thundering applause. In the next lane over, le Clos’ came to terms with his fourth place standing, which failed to get him onto the podium. The two embraced in the pool as le Clos congratulated Phelps on his win. The Warrior Hypothesis Benenson watched the videos on sporting events for hours, looking

cooperating with international sports bodies. They have transferred testing of athletes to non-Russian laboratories. Officials (including the deputy Minister of Sport) implicated by Richard McLaren’s World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) commissioned report have been suspended pending investigation. The President himself has urged officials not to react defensively but to deal with the problem. Grigory Rodchenkov, Russia’s sacked anti-doping lab director. Considered a criminal in Russia and a “whistle blower” in USA. Credit: Emily Berl for The New York Times Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory, was a key figure in the current scandal. He was taking bribes to supply illegal drugs to athletes and (apparently) to enable falsification of test results. When he was sacked and criminal proceeding taken against him he fled to the US. Now treatednew when it comes the history of staging important international events by the Russian Federation (and the previous USSR). In the 1980s we saw boycotts of the Moscow and San Francisco Olympics. Attempts at collective punishment of entire nations because of disagreements in the international political arena. There were attempts to inject political issues into the Sochi Olympics, and even promoting the idea of boycotts, and who seriously doubts that there will be political attempts to harm, or even prevent, the 2018 World Football Cup in the Russian Federation. Yet, international sporting and cultural events offer great opportunities to encourage goodwill and understanding between nations. They should not be used as weapons in the geopolitical struggle – because that, in turn, only enhances that struggle and harms peace. Political motivations can

the provisions of the Olympic Charter. The same Charter states that the one of the missions and roles of the IOC is to “protect clean athletes’” and that the Olympic Games brings together athletes selected by their National Olympic Committees, (NOCs), whose entries have been accepted by the IOC. It also states on the other hand that the NOC’s must adopt and implement the World Ant-Doping Code. Further on the Olympic Charter states that one of the roles of the International Federations (IF), within the Olympic Movement, is to “establish and enforce, in accordance with the Olympic spirit, the rules concerning the practice of their respective sports…”. Who is responsible? Within these statements clear dilemmas emerge. The dilemma emerges, not as to whether the laws, rules, regulations, policies etc ofGéri Henri Ghion (23 March 1934 - 3 February 2015, Belgium) Mr Magellan Henri Ghion, later known as Géri, was a Belgian comic book artist born in Anderlecht, near Brussels. He had his first job at a printing firm and at the age of sixteen, he became an apprentice of Raymond Reding, the artist of 'Jari'. During this apprenticeship, he also made his first illustrations for advertisements. In 1953, he was hired by Studio Hergé as a colorist and artist of backgrounds for the 'Tintin' stories. He became a regular artist of covers, illustrations and short stories for Tintin after fulfilling his military service. He was also a productive artist for PubliArt, the ad agency of Tintin's publisher Le Lombard. Skblllz In 1962, he created the kangaroo 'Pif' in the pages of Junior, the

supplement of Chez Nous that published a lot of material from Tintin. The character was later renamed to 'Baf' and continued in Tintin. In 1966, he replaced 'Baf' by the more absurd comic about a strange animal, the 'Skblllz'. In addition, he drew 'Picratt' in Pilote, a series of humorous stories scripted by Jacques Acar. Géri is however best-known for his series 'Mr Magellan', that made its first appearance in Tintin in 1969. The first two stories were written by Jean Van Hamme, who was then succeeded by André-Paul Dûchateau. In 1980, he illustrated his final comic, 'Lady Black face au diable', in Tintin. He left the comics field due to a paralysis of his right hand although in later years, he learned himself how to paint with hisknown for, a title which undoubtedly inspired the macabre themes in Inuyasha. I enjoyed the fantasy elements that Takahashi presented in this piece. While they were not particularly original, the various myths and legends explored were intriguing to read about. I especially liked the design of both the monsters and the landscapes. While they were all faithful to the classic Takahashi style, an ancient, grandiose atmosphere was present while reading. I genuinely believed I was roaming through castles that were centuries old, and battling creatures whose names are, to this day, cemented in legends. However, the designs of the human characters were quite lacklustre. While it was important to create characters that the reader could identify during different periods of time, they were too generic for protagonists. While it

Main tags Add a new page "The University of Bologna Hospital Corporation “Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi” is the first hospital in Bologna, with more than 400 years of history. Today it is home to the School of Medicine and Surgery and is an internationally acclaimed institution for the study and treatment of various pathologies"1. In the late 16th century the two medieval monasteries of Sant'Orsola and San Gregorio were transformed in hospital institutions from which the modern complex originated2. Unfortunately, few vestiges remain of the oldest buildings of Sant'Orsola's hospital, while something of the historical part of San Gregorio's hospital is still visible.Migraine: a "woman's disease?". Migraine, a chronic disorder characterized by episodes of headache, has a profound effect on the well-being and general functioning of its victims, not only during the acute attacks, but also in terms of impairment of school achievement, work performance, and family/social relationships. Despite staggering social and economic costs, it remains under-diagnosed and under-treated worldwide. Migraine has been labeled a "woman's disease" because it is three times more common in women than men, the attacks tend to be more severe and disabling among women and, in some women, they seem to be modulated by such hormonal "milestones" as menarche, menstruation, pregnancy and menopause. After a brief review of the diagnosis of migraine, this article will examine the nuances responsible for that label and their implications for

Early last month, Minister of Civil Aviation (Independent Charge) Hardeep Singh Puri informed the Rajya Sabha about the status of UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme. A total of 705 routes have been awarded thus far of which 174 routes are operational. A dismal 24.7 percent! The Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) was first mentioned in the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) in 2016. Subsequently it went through some iteration before being launched in October 2016. The scheme has the best intentions in mind with the thought of Hawai Chappal in Hawai Jahaj predominantly aiming at subsidised travel from Tier-II and Tier-III cities helping grow trade, boost air traffic and connect cities to towns. First jolt The first round of RCS-UDAN saw bids from Air Odisha and Air Deccan – bothof which were bidding without aircraft in fleet. While both of them couldn’t sustain the operations for more than one reason, Zoom Air lost the plot mid-way. That left Alliance Air – the regional arm of Air India, Spicejet and to a small extent Trujet – the Hyderabad-based regional carrier to take the UDAN scheme to success. However, a large percentage of routes were won by Air Odisha and Air Deccan which led to the success percentage being on the lower side. While the scheme couldn’t come out of the first jolt, there was some hope when IndiGo placed an order for the ATR – turboprop aircraft and participated in the subsequent rounds of UDAN. Scheme changes The original idea of the scheme was to connect the underserved and unserved airports.

back to basics and see how can there be a push to operationalise more and more airports and connect them to the nearest metro as was envisioned in the early days of UDAN. With Jet Airways out of action – there is some availability of slots at major metro airports which could be used to cater to UDAN flights. The civil enclave at Hindon will soon see flight operations and could cater to additional flights in the northern region. UDAN has its success stories – Salem, Kishangarh, Bikaner and many more have seen flight connectivity for the first time or after many years due to RCS-UDAN. The scheme needs more of such airports to be a success rather than have one airport and multiple flights from there which probably isCuba, once bustling with heavy-spending Americans, sees steep decline in U.S. travelers Rick Jervis | USA TODAY U.S. cruise ships still call on Cuban ports and U.S. airlines, such as American and Southwest, still list Havana and Camaguey as destinations. But Cuba – not long ago bustling with good-tipping, heavy-spending Americans – is experiencing a steep decline in U.S. travelers. Reasons vary, including new restrictions on travel imposed by President Trump and Hurricane Irma's brush with the island last year. But the main reason fewer Americans are traveling to the communist island is one of perception, said Tom Popper, president of InsightCuba’s, a New York-based tour operator that organizes trips to Cuba. On April 19, Raul Castro is expected to step down as president of Cuba and be replaced by Vice President Miguel

reporting a sharp drop-off. Trump rolls back Obama's Cuba policy Pressing "pause" on a historic detente, President Donald Trump thrust the U.S. and Cuba back on a path toward open hostility Friday with a roll back of President Obama's Cuba policy, and a blistering denunciation of Cuba's government. (June 16) The Trump administration has said the rollback of Obama’s Cuba policies are aimed at cutting off dollars to the Cuban government, which controls many tourist destinations, and diverting them to individual Cuban entrepreneurs. But the changes have significantly cut down the number of U.S. travelers there and made it harder on budding Cuban bed-and-breakfast and restaurant owners on the island, said Ted Henken, a Barush College Latino studies professor with expertise on Cuba. “It might shift a small percentage of people Dr. Harvey was notified of Jennifer Soco Scott's admission to Labor and Delivery shortly after her readmission, between 9: 13 p.m. and 9: 16 p.m.18 Dr. Harvey testified that she believed she arrived at Labor and Delivery shortly after she was notified of Jennifer Soco Scott's admission, but Nurse Romalini testified that at 9:29 p.m. she was still waiting for Dr. Harvey to

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The new 2001 Census question set on cultural characteristics: is it useful for the monitoring of the health status of people from ethnic groups in Britain? The health of minority ethnic groups has been accorded a priority position in the British government's strategy to improve the population's health, including the provision of the necessary information to address inequalities. The independent Acheson Inquiry has also called for improvements in the capacity to monitor inequalities in health of ethnic groups which requires the use of appropriate ethnic group categories. The new 2001 Census question set includes a substantially revised ethnic group question and a new question on religion which address some of the shortcomings in the 1991 Census question. However, the token breakdown of the white group and its unsatisfactory capturethe official FIFA World Cup soccer ball giving you the same experience as the players in the World Cup; as well as the official soccer ball used by the MLS, English Premier and other top-tier leagues. In addition to World Cup soccer balls we offer a variety of soccer balls featuring the world’s most talented teams including Manchester United, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Inter Milan and others so you can show your support throughout the year. Still, when it comes to soccer ball, which should work well for most people, we recommend the adidas Adidas WORLD CUP Official Match Ball. Every aspect of this ball is designed for professional play including the stitching that actually uses the superior thermal bonding for a truer flight. Even better, this ball

north of Paris, Parc Asterix, the theme-park devoted to the comic book crusader from ancient Gaul, is also building new attractions. At a protest picnic on the farmland known as the Triangle de Gonesse, where EuropaCity is planned, Jean-Yves Souben remembered cycling his bike near here as a child. The Green councillor said: “Right now the mayor of Paris is planting greenery on walls and roofs in Paris to combat climate change and fight the city’s rising temperatures. And yet this prime farmland bordering the capital is about to be concreted over. It makes no sense!” Environmentalists opposing the theme park have presented their own project to turn the area into a market-gardening hub to meet organic food targets in local school canteens. “This is about the climate,” said RobertIsaac aims for Hispaniola, strengthens, but still not a hurricane Forecasters think it could become a hurricane by Monday SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened slightly as it spun toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, but seemed unlikely to gain enough steam early Friday to strike the island of Hispaniola as a hurricane. The storm's failure to gain the kind of strength in the Caribbean that forecasters initially projected made it more likely that Isaac won't become a hurricane until it enters the Gulf of Mexico, said Eric Blake, a forecaster with U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. "We think it could become a hurricane on Monday," Blake said late Thursday. "It would be somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico." The latest five-day forecast showed the storm's path shifting

to the west, possibly making landfall near the Alabama-Mississippi border, Blake said. But he said it was "too early to know" the exact course and stressed that Florida's Gulf Coast, including Tampa, the site of next week's Republican National Convention, was still in the forecast cone. The storm dumped heavy rain Thursday across eastern and southern Puerto Rico and whipped up waves as high as 10 feet (3 meters) in the Caribbean as it churned across the region. Early Friday, Isaac was centered about 165 miles (265 kilometers) south of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph). It was moving west near 15 mph (24 kph), according to the hurricane center. In flood-prone Haiti, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe urged people to avoid crossing rivers,to tape their windows, and to stay calm, saying "panic creates more problems." Lamothe and other Haitian officials said the government had set aside about $50,000 in emergency funds and had buses and 32 boats on standby for evacuations. But among many Haitians, the notion of disaster preparedness in a country where most people get by on about $2 a day was met with a shrug. "We don't have houses that can bear a hurricane," said Jeanette Lauredan, who lives in a tent camp in the crowded Delmas district of Port-au-Prince. About 400,000 people remain in settlement camps comprised of shacks and tarps in the wake of Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake. So far, Isaac itself had caused no reported injuries or deaths, but police in Puerto Rico said a 75-year-old woman died near

the capital of San Juan on Wednesday when she fell off a balcony while filling a drum with water in preparation for the storm. In the Dominican Republic, authorities began to evacuate people from low-lying areas but encountered resistance. "Nobody wants to leave their homes for fear they'll get robbed," said Francisco Mateo, community leader of the impoverished La Cienaga neighborhood in Santo Domingo, the capital. The Dominican government planned to close all of the country's nine airports by dawn Friday, said Alejandro Herrera, civil aviation director. Schools closed by Thursday afternoon. The storm's approach prompted military authorities at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to cancel pretrial hearings for five prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They also evacuated about 200 people, including legal teams and relatives ofSept. 11 victims. Blake, the U.S. forecaster, said that while Isaac hadn't strengthened much in the Caribbean, it could gain power as it moves away from Cuba. "When it moves back over water, it has a chance to restrengthen," he said. Organizers of next week's Republican National Convention in Tampa were working closely with state and federal authorities on monitoring storm as they prepared for the arrival of 70,000 delegates, journalists and protesters. "We continue to move forward with our planning and look forward to a successful convention," convention CEO William Harris said in a statement. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said RNC officials had consulted with state, local and federal authorities and there were no plans to cancel the convention. Out in the eastern Atlantic, another tropical storm, Joyce, was downgraded to a

Two months after Hurricane Maria knocked out power to most of Puerto Rico, gasoline and diesel generators have become household necessities for most people on the island. But the machines are noisy and emit toxic fumes, and some puertorriqueños can barely bring themselves to plug in their only source of energy. With costs as high as $600 a month for gasoline, generators are not a sustainable long-term solution for most households. But what else can residents do while they wait for electricity? Solar-powered lanterns are one part of the answer. The Sierra Club’s Hurricane Maria Response Team mobilized to get support to the U.S. territory as quickly as possible after the Category 4 storm made landfall on September 20. A donation from a solar energy entrepreneur and Sierra Club Foundationboard member sparked an initiative to deliver solar lanterns to the hardest-hit areas of the island. A founding member of the Puerto Rico Chapter who is now based in New Mexico, Camilla Feibelman jumped at the news and quickly began working out the details with the response team, spearheaded by Adriana Gonzalez, the Club’s Puerto Rico–based environmental justice organizer. Sending anything to Puerto Rico after the equivalent of a 50-mile-wide tornado wiped out much of the island’s infrastructure made for a serious logistical challenge. Especially since the ports had become clogged with traffic by all those trying to get supplies to the island. Taking heed of warnings of the congested port, Feibelman coordinated with contacts on the ground largely through Facebook (one of the only reliable communication platforms available

to puertorriqueños in the weeks immediately after the storm) to arrange the first shipment of 1,000 solar lanterns by air. The Sierra Club’s deep network in Puerto Rico helped to get the lamps delivered to communities amid nearly impossible conditions. TAKE ACTION The Supplemental Funding Bill For Disaster Relief Must Help Puerto Rico Send a message to Congress and demand these storm-struck communities get the support they deserve. Working directly with local partners like the Coalition for the Northeast Ecological Corridor (CEN), the Sierra Club is providing on-the-ground support to communities throughout Puerto Rico. One of the first people the response team made contact with was Cristóbal Jiménez, president of the coalition. Jiménez knew that the abandoned San Martín Elementary School, outside the town of Luquillo—which had been converted intocellphones, and listen to their favorite radio programs without having to depend on the slow-moving government programs—and also without having to pay for gasoline to run their generators. At night, some families congregate around the solar lanterns, taking refuge in their light. In La Vega, a small community at the gateway to El Yunque National Park, the Center for Conservation of the Landscape (Centro para la Conservación del Paisaje) has delivered solar lanterns to 74 of the 104 families living there. A local resident who works with the center, Madeline Matta, explains that power outages are not restricted to when hurricanes hit Puerto Rico. Her town is accustomed to being without power for hours at a time, sometimes even all night, whenever trees get tangled up in the transformers.

Governor Apirak Kosayodhin announced. Prime Minister's Office Minister Newin Chidchob also declared yesterday special services for Bangkok drivers who run into trouble during the storm. A fleet of large forklift trucks will be on standby at 10 stations around the city ready to remove six- to 10-wheeled trucks that hit difficulty. There will also be 130 smaller forklifts available to remove or repair smaller vehicles, he said. Drivers in trouble should call the 1376 hotline number. The tropical storm is expected to hit Bangkok today and is expected to cause widespread flooding in the capital from when the BMA's centre will begin operations. "Normally, rainfall in Bangkok is less than 60 millimetres and we could drain that water within an hour. However, the continual rainfall we will face today is expected tocause flooding as high as 150mm, making it impossible to drain the water." The problem might be more serious as most canals and swamp areas are already filled to brimming with water, he said. Apart from Bangkok, the weather men yesterday warned nine provinces in the East and Northeast to expect to feel the brunt of the tropical storm: Nong Khai, Nakhon Phanom, Sakon Nakhon, Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen, Prachin Buri, Sa Kaew, Chantaburi and Trat. Fishermen in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand were also warned to expect strong winds for the next four days. In Nakhon Sawan, about 500 banana farms in Chum Saeng district were hit by a 150cm-deep flood, forcing farmers to harvest their product early. Subsequently, they had to sell bananas at Bt2 per kilogram instead

of the market price of Bt7. In Phichit, continual rain has caused flooding in the districts of Sak Lek, Muang and Wangsai-phoon. Local villagers accused the provincial irrigation office of not opening the local dam's water gate in time, causing the area to flood. In Chachoengsao, flooded areas increased to affect 700 families yesterday. Water levels rapidly rose at the rate of 20cm per hour, creating concern that the local dam could break. Local radio stations broadcast a warning to residents to evacuate to higher ground. However, authorities denied at the end of the day that any danger had existed. Despite flooding in other provinces, Phuket continues to suffer from drought. Deputy Interior Minister Somchai Sunthornvut visited the province yesterday and announced several measures to cope with the water shortage, includingusing water from old mine reservoirs and diverting water from Ratchaprapha Dam. Local businessmen said they would invest Bt500 million to produce 10,000 cubic metres of freshwater per day from seawater. The project is expected to in the next six months. Forecasters expect Rita to strengthen into a hurricane as it churns toward the Keys and the Bahamas. At 11 a.m. ET, Rita's center was about 195 miles southeast of the Bahamian capital, Nassau, moving west-northwest at nearly 12 mph, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported. Maximum sustained winds were clocked near 65 mph. A hurricane warning is in effect for the Exumas and for Andros Island in the Bahamas and in Florida from Golden Beach southward to Florida City and westward to East Cape Sable. The warning also includes the Keys

from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas. About 11:30 a.m. Monday, Monroe County Sheriff's Office and the county Office of Emergency Management expanded an earlier evacuation order for the lower Keys to include the entire island chain. Tourists were told to leave on Sunday. There are about 80,000 residents of Monroe County, which includes about 27,000 residents of Key West. Rita could become a Category 1 storm in the next 24 hours, the center said. Category 1 hurricanes have winds of 74-95 mph. In Key West, Mayor Jimmy Weekley said Monday that although tourists already had been ordered to leave, residents might not be so willing to follow. "Conch is a mussel and it's a very tough mussel," Weekley said. "So, a lot of the old Conchs here, as Key Westers are known,recovery efforts from Katrina continued along the Gulf Coast, the possibility of another storm prompted reaction from President Bush. "There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans," Bush told reporters Monday during a Homeland Security council meeting. Rita is the 17th named storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, and with water temperatures in the Florida Straits in the high 80s, it has plenty of fuel. Forecasters predicted the storm would move over the eastern and central Bahamas on Monday. In the Bahamas, Earnel Brown, manager of the Baycaner Beach Resort, told The Associated Press that few people on Mayaguana Island had bothered to board their windows or stock up on emergency supplies. "I don't expect that much trouble," Brown told the AP. "I don't think we're going

want to protect our investment," Friend said. "Plus it gives us an excuse to take a day off and drink." Florida was sending a National Guard cargo plane to evacuate 22 patients from Key West's hospital to Sebring, near Lake Okeechobee, the AP reported. Several critically ill patients already had been evacuated to hospitals in Miami. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency Sunday, activating National Guard troops, authorizing the use of public buildings as shelters and invoking state laws against price-gouging. A storm surge of up to 8 feet is forecast for the Keys. The storm surge could reach up to 5 feet in extreme southeastern Florida and the northwestern Bahamas. In Cuba, the hurricane center issued a hurricane warning for the provinces of Villa Clara and Matanzas. Ahurricane watch is in effect for the provinces of Ciudad de Habana, La Habana and Pinar Del Rio. A tropical storm watch is in effect for the provinces of Ciego de Avila, Sancti Spiritus and Cienfuegos. Rita is the third tropical system to emerge from the Atlantic in two weeks. Tropical Storm Philippe was upgraded to a hurricane Sunday night, while Tropical Storm Ophelia was fading into the North Atlantic as it chugged northward off Newfoundland. At 11 a.m. ET, Hurricane Philippe had top winds of 75 mph. It was centered about 365 miles east of the Leeward Islands, moving north-northwest at about 7 mph. That track was expected to hold for the next 24 hours, the hurricane center reported. Tuesday, September 20, 2005 High tide ... 11:17 AM: PS: The worst is

now behind us: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Watcharee's friend (Pen) in Fort Lauderdale recently had her second child. She is shown here with her two kids: Johnnie and Daniel. Pen has 'dish' TV in her home so she is able to watch five Bangkok channels (albeit with a 12 hour time shift) [*] ... so her house is a popular place to visit for Thai exPats. [*] This makes it easy to catch up on infomercials during normal prime time ... and prime time shows when you are stricken with insomnia. PS: This TV 'infomercial' is for an "Extreme Hamstring Stretch Stool". Thursday, September 22, 2005 Faith based in Florida: Buddha, Hindu, Voodoo. PS: Worship her, too: PPS: Upgrade? Friday, September 23, 2005 This is 'Bangkok on the Intracoastal' [*]. It is a one stop place for Thai Expatswho live in this part of South Florida. It stocks thousands of Thai videos and DVDs that range from classical Thai dancing to daily TV soap operas. Watcharee goes there once a week for her 'fix' in flicks. The very pretty girl sitting on the couch is Namfon [**], the owner's 15 year old daughter. [*] For those familiar with "Moscow on the Hudson". [**] 'Namfon' means water from the rain. PS: Reader J. Salisbury writes from what was once called Rangoon, Burma (now known as Yangon, Myanma): "Can we have a close-up of Namfon?"

composition for Oud and ensemble created by composers Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland) and Zaid Jabri (Syria). The world premiere will take place in 2016 at the Institute for National Arabic Music. Sherif’s favorite part about working in this field is “the entire process, from becoming an idea, developing it, until it happens, challenging, exhausting, but great pleasure.” When asked about his impression of his first ISPA Congress, Sherif said: “ISPA is a unique gathering, very welcoming and sincerely dedicated to the performing arts.” To learn more about Caprice, visit EECMS's website here. More details regarding the launch of Heritage and Modernity will also be made available here. In 2015, ISPA brought 52 Fellows from around the world to the New York Congress. We know it's impossible to meet all these emerging leaders onsiteDān Fěi, the heroine of Thunderbolt Fantasy - a wuxia puppet TV show written and directed by Gen Urobuchi and featuring footage and puppetry by Pili International Multimedia - is now the subject of her own series that is serialized on the Champion Cross digital manga website. The series is entitled Thunderbolt Fantasy - Sword Travels from the East - A Maiden's Magical Journey, and it is illustrated by Kairi Shimotsuki (Brave 10). The series is a gaiden ("side story") that is told from the perspective of Dān Fěi as she is just beginning her quest with the assistance of Shāng Bù Huàn and Lǐn Xuě Yā. Sources: Hupu.com Comic Natalie Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

Brown-throated Sloths Thrive at REGUA SEARCH NEWS After nearly 20 years conserving the Atlantic Forest at the Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve (REGUA) in south-east Brazil, much of the biodiversity that calls this forest their home is steadily recovering. One of the most charismatic animals benefiting from protection at REGUA is the Brown-throated Sloth (Bradypus variegatus). A decade or so ago, these rather bizarre looking canopy dwellers were a less frequent sight at the reserve than they are today. Although Brown-throated Sloths are mainly diurnal, their arboreal lifestyle and habit of sleeping up to 20 hours a day, can make them difficult to spot, and before the reforested areas at REGUA had become established, reaching suitable sloth habitat invariably involved going on a hike. Nowadays, with more of the forest in thefound exclusively on sloth fur. The female moths lay their eggs in the dung deposited by the sloths, and emerging adults fly up onto the sloth’s fur during their toilet break. When the adult moths die, their bodies decompose in the fur, providing nutrients for algal growth. The sloths ingest the algae, supplementing their nutrient poor diet. Despite the dangers of being on the ground, with the Atlantic Forest so fragmented, Brown-throated Sloths are not infrequently forced to crawl across roads and tracks to access isolated groups of trees. Locals will often stop to give them a helping hand, by picking them up and placing them on a suitable tree trunk. REGUA is well known locally as a wildlife haven, when people find sloths on the ground in places

Cultural Development Board meetings and other meetings as needed, to include sending out meeting notices, filing agendas in a timely matter according to state regulations, maintaining member lists, taking minutes at meeting and keeping members updated. Handle all bookkeeping functions for Office of Cultural Development and Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, including requisitions, purchase orders, and maintaining up-to-date spreadsheets of all active accounts. Manage & order office supplies, and other office support systems including coordinating repair and other maintenance requests. Distribute marketing collateral including banners, flyers, posters, and postcards on foot throughout the downtown area and by car elsewhere as needed. Represent the Office of Cultural Development at meetings and events where needed. Serve as the administrative coordinator for the Upstreet Cultural District Partnership, maintaining member list, meeting schedule & minutes. Assist with specialprojects and new & existing public events, initiatives, festivals, and activities, including 3rd.Thursdays, the Pittsfield Ethnic Fair, First Fridays ArtsWalk, and others. Assist in researching and writing grant proposals and other documentation as needed. Other duties as needed. LICHTENSTEIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS Staff Lichtenstein Center gallery during open hours as needed. Maintain internal Lichtenstein calendar & schedule volunteer artist coverage of the gallery on Saturdays and during special events. Schedule classes, exhibitions, space rentals and performances at Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Set up & take down tables and chairs for meetings and events as needed. Collect payment from renters and ensure all agreements and liability forms are filled out and collected. Work with artists and organizations regarding installation and deinstallation of exhibitions, including coordinating sales, artist contacts, receptions, forms and other needs. Promote Lichtenstein Center

Shahram Haqiqatdoust studied Theatre at Islamic Azad University and started his career with stage-acting in 1994. He quickly became recognized as an influential theatre, TV and cinema actor. His first small screen appearance was the series ‘Love of the Blessed’ (1995) and his movie debut was a small role in Mehrjoui’s ‘Pear Tree’ (1997). He later joined the cast of the social drama ‘Story of a City’ and his performance led to further collaboration with director Jafari in his next project ‘The Red Line’ (2000) which brought him fame. In the years that followed his success in TV, he took roles in movies such as ‘Greed’ (2002), ‘Crime’ (2003), ‘How Much for You to Cry?’ (2005), ‘Mouse’ (2007), ‘Morning of the Seventh Day’ (2008) and ‘Kalashnikov’ (2013). Among the series he hasacted in are ‘The Story of a City’ (2000), ‘Spellbound’ (2004), ‘The Rise of Mokhtar’ (2004-2009), ‘Passion to Fly’ (2011) and ‘Goodbye Child’ (2012). Artists Shahram Haqiqatdoust Haqiqatdoust, Shahram (born March 17, 1972, Rasht) Shahram Haqiqatdoust studied Theatre at Islamic Azad University and started his career with stage-acting in 1994. He quickly became recognized as an influential theatre, TV and cinema actor. His first small screen appearance was the series ‘Love of the Blessed’ (1995) and his movie debut was a small role in Mehrjoui’s ‘Pear Tree’ (1997). He later joined the cast of the social drama ‘Story of a City’ and his performance led to further collaboration with director Jafari in his next project ‘The Red Line’ (2000) which brought him fame. In the years that followed his success in TV, he took roles

As Andrea Vecchio heads down the corridor from his office in Palermo, two men parked behind a desk doing nothing leap to their feet to salute him. But Sicily's new assessor for infrastructure is not impressed. "Just look around," he exclaims. "No one here is doing any work at all." Vecchio, a sprightly, grey-bearded entrepreneur and tough anti-mafia campaigner, has been drafted in to slice through Sicily's public-works red tape and tackle its idle hordes of civil servants, but even he may be too late to save the sun-drenched island's economy. Long renowned for its sultry beauty and deadly mafia bosses, Sicily has now been dubbed "Italy's Greece", an island awash with misspent EU funds, state jobs traded for votes and a €5bn debt pile that some fear could pushItaly's delicate economy into the abyss. Union and business leaders last week implored the Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, to take control of Sicily's disastrous local finances and, after credit rating agency Moody's downgraded the island, Monti himself warned Sicily could default. "Something has finally snapped here, it's the end of an era," said Maurizio Bernava, head of the CISL union in Sicily, who claims that pay cheques for transport and refuse collection workers could dry up within months. "Sicily is on the brink of collapsing, with the risk that we won't be able to pay salaries or even run ferries from the island," said Vecchio. A cash injection of €400m (£311m) from Rome allayed fears of imminent meltdown, but Sicily continues to pay about 144,000 regional staff, nurses, consultants and

temporary workers, including around 26,000 forestry workers – more than British Columbia in Canada – many working limited hours and holding down second jobs. Full-time office staff total 20,000, one for every 239 inhabitants compared with one for every 2,500 in the northern region of Lombardy, while public officials treat themselves to top wages, notably former waste boss Felice Crosta, who retired on a €500,000 annual pension. The problem is called clientelismo – handing out jobs in return for votes, a practice that has proliferated since Sicily was granted autonomous status in 1946. "The habit of hiring scores of temporary staff, who will then vote for you in the hope of winning a permanent post, is shameful," said Vecchio. The current governor, Raffaele Lombardo, has promised to end the practiceand has hired reformers such as Vecchio to flush out loafers, but the jury is still out on his efforts. "Lombardo sees the times are changing, but has the same Christian Democrat background as his predecessors and has quietly been busy hiring dozens of consultants," said Enrico Del Mercato, co-author of La Zavorra, which lifted the lid on Sicily's civil service. Nothing sums up the excess in Sicilian politics better than Palermo's Palazzo dei Normanni – which resembles a baroque palace mixed with an Arab fort and sits on a rise overlooking the city's elegant turn-of-the-century villas, swaying palms, brutal modern suburbs and the piles of rubbish left over from a recent dustmen's strike. It is home to the regional council . Named after Sicily's Norman occupiers and built on

Phoenician and Arab foundations, the palazzo has been refurbished by successive waves of rulers. Between votes, Sicily's 90 councillors can today duck into the Norman chapel, which gleams with wall-to-wall gold-leaf Byzantine mosaics and is topped with an Islamic-style painted wood ceiling. Parliaments have been sitting on and off in the same room in the palazzo – where friezes on the walls and ceiling depict the exploits of Hercules – since 1560, and councillors have never had it so good, after voting through wages and benefits reckoned to cost Sicilians about €500,000 a year per elected member. A measure awarding members €5,000 for their funeral expenses was only halted thanks to public outrage. This week the chamber was deserted as members paid tribute to magistrate Paolo Borsellino on the 20thanniversary of his murder by Cosa Nostra, the mafia often hailed as the reason Sicily remains an economic backwater and still front-page news in Italy. Magistrates now suspect Cosa Nostra agreed to halt a bombing campaign in the early 1990s in return for relaxed jail conditions for mobsters, and that Borsellino and fellow magistrate Giovanni Falcone were killed when they stumbled on evidence of the talks between bosses and government officials. In Sicily, the mob's influence is still shaping politics. Lombardo is being investigated for mob contacts and has promised to resign this month, while his predecessor, Salvatore Cuffaro, is serving seven years for his links to bosses. But experts believe Cosa Nostra is now on the back foot after losing its role in the global drug trade to the

of job skills trainers. "Sicily now has 7,000 instructors, many of whom seem to teach hairdressing, while only 4% of trainees actually get a job," said Del Mercato. Funding from the European Union is meanwhile seen as a handy cash fix, although Brussels is now demanding €600m be returned after money was spent on dubious projects such as couscous festivals, golf tournaments and the refurbishment of a bar. "Another €7bn in funds has been supplied since 2007 but not spent because politicians are unable to spend it in the transparent way demanded by the EU," said Bernava. Sitting behind his large desk in the massive headquarters of the infrastructure department, Vecchio spent last week trying to get his office computer to work, six weeks after he took the job asassessor. "There are six computer technicians, none of whom has been able to fix my computer," he said. "I told one that I would throw him and the computer out the window if he couldn't fix it, and I haven't seen him since." The man who won his spurs fighting the mafia's influence on the construction trade is now going up against a staff who appear to spend a lot of time in the corridors. "You see people wandering around, getting fit," he complained. Vecchio's claim that Sicily is on the verge of insolvency has been fiercely contested by Lombardo. "If he wants to fire me, he is free to," said Vecchio. Meanwhile, he will continue fighting an enemy – bureaucracy – which he considers more resilient than the mob.

Mayor Andrew Gillum talks about The Edison before its opening during the groundbreaking ceremony for the space on Thursday Feb. 5, 2015. "We have historic preservation being kept alive," said Mayor Gillum. "We're taking what was the city's original electric building, nearly 100 years old, and will house Tallahassee's newest and best attraction." Adam Corey, whom the FBI is investigating pertaining to the restaurant’s opening, can be seen behind him at right. (Photo: Joe Rondone/Democrat)Buy Photo The state ethics probe of former City Manager Rick Fernandez provided a glimpse into an apparently common football game-day practice of elected and other Tallahassee government officials — skybox hopping. And in the fall of 2016 lobbyist Adam Corey's big, luxury box was a popular place to be. City Commissioner Scott Maddox stopped by, as didLeon County Commissioner Bryan Desloge, testimony received during a Florida Commission on Ethics investigation of Fernandez showed. Also among those seen hobnobbing in Corey's Doak Campbell Stadium skybox was Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, a Democratic candidate for governor. "During the 2016 football season, Mayor Gillum attended multiple games as a guest of Florida State University and would watch the games from the President's box," Jamie Van Pelt, the mayor's chief of staff, told the Democrat. "Throughout the course of the game, the Mayor would briefly visit multiple other boxes, including Mr. Corey's." Who visited Corey's skybox was of high interest to state ethics investigators, according to recordings and documents released Wednesday that support the allegations Fernandez misused his position to accept gifts. The investigator asked specifically about Gillum and Maddox and

other officials who were seen in the box. Gillum has told the Democrat that he severed ties with Corey, a friend since college. Gillum also has said repeatedly that he's been told he is not a focus of the FBI's investigation. Buy Photo Adam Corey, former lobbyist, real estate developer and restaurateur who received $2.1 million in local tax money to renovate the building that now houses his Edison Restaurant. He is a longtime friend of Mayor Andrew Gillum, and was his volunteer campaign treasurer when Gillum ran for mayor. He also lobbied before the city on behalf of several clients and arranged a trip to New York City that also involved Gillum and undercover agents.(Photo: Hali Tauxe/Democrat) Nick Lowe, a former lobbyist of Corey’s firm and Eddie Kring, the restaurant's formercatering director, told Ethics Commission investigators they saw at least five public officials and several city administrators in Corey's luxury skybox that season. Lowe said both Gillum and City Commissioner Scott Maddox visited the skybox, as did county commissioners Nick Maddox and Desloge. "I've never been there as his guest, but I have been in the box to visit," said Desloge, who owns a box seat two doors down. As FSU alumni and parents of two FSU students, Scott Maddox and his family have had their own skybox for over 20 years, said Allie Fleming, Maddox's commission assistant. People visit each other's skyboxes during halftime and before and after the games, she said. Nick Maddox said he never received any tickets and didn't recall being in Corey's skybox. Gillum's then chief of staff

Dustin Daniels, who is now running for mayor, also was spotted there, Lowe said. But Daniels dismissed any notion that he was a guest in Corey's skybox. "I have attended FSU games, but as a guest in the President's box as a part of the volunteer alumni initiatives I serve," Daniels told the Democrat. "The source of this information is suspect, and their motivations are completely political." Human Resources Director Ellen Blair and Underground Utilities Director Mike Tadros and Fernandez's daughters were also there, according to Lowe. While the written report noted that Lowe told investigators he also saw city Communications Director Alison Faris in the skybox, Lowe told the Democrat he reviewed the audio and that wasn't the case. Faris also told the Democrat she was not in Corey's skybox. Blairtold investigators she was in Corey's skybox for two FSU games in 2016 at the invitation of Fernandez, who gave her the tickets. Tadros attended at least one of those games, she said. Tadros said he was not a football fan, but attended two games. "To understand how it was that he came to sit in Mr. Corey's skybox, the investigative report said, "Tadros said it was important to understand that the city's utilities department operates like a private rather than a public entity." Tadros explained he saw Corey as a customer and not a lobbyist. "We do this all the time," Tadros told investigators. "In utilities we perceive things totally different." This photo shows the three men believed to be undercover FBI agents who used aliases and cover stories as part of

men were thought to be undercover FBI agents. "People often stop by their box without invitation as Mr. Corey and his associates did," said, Fleming, Maddox's assistant. Edison manager points to Gillum discount Other statements and material provided by Former Edison manager Sam McKay to the Florida Commission on Ethics also shed some light on the relationship between Mayor Andrew Gillum and lobbyist and The Edison co-owner Adam Corey. In one email to investigator Keith Powell, McKay includes snapshots of text messages from Corey about a discount for the wedding reception of former City Manager Rick Fernandez's daughter. A catering discount for the wedding also was a focus of the ethics investigation. Andrew Gillum(Photo: Special to the Democrat) "I also included one (text) that is about the mayor as well," McKay said. "Adam saysOriental cholangiohepatitis from outside of Asia. Oriental cholangiohepatitis, also known as recurrent cholangitis is exclusively endemic in Asian countries. Sporadic cases have been reported in the United States, however almost all cases have been seen in the Asian immigrants to the United States. We report a 31-year-old male from outside of Asia who developed oriental cholangiohepatitis.

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Germany's Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe made a landmark ruling on Thursday to allow relatives of people who have died access to the deceased's digital data. The court ruled that the contract with Facebook was part of the parents' inheritance, and they should therefore be given complete access to their daughter's account. Just as books and letters are passed to the heirs, so should the data, presiding Judge Ulrich Herrmann ruled, saying there was no reason to treat digital content differently. "I don't think there will be an appeal," German lawyer Christian Rohnke, who represented Facebook in the case, told DW. The case involves parents of a 15-year-old girl who asked Facebook to give them access to her data and messages after she was killed by an underground train inour allies and our territory.' SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley spoke forcefully during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday as world leaders wrestled with responses to North Korea's latest atomic bomb test North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un is shown with a nuclear warhead in an undated photo issued by his government United Nations Ambassadors Koro Bessho of Japan, left, Matthew John Rycroft of the UK, center, and Nikki Haley of the U.S. conferred in an animated conversation on Monday Haley asked the United Nations to adopt the strongest possible sanctions against the rogue communist nation. The U.S. plans to circulate a new Security Council resolution on North Korea this week and wants a vote next week. In a more immediate response to North Korea's

nuclear saber-rattling, the Trump White House told South Korea it was waiving a 2012 agreement that imposed a weight limit on Seoul's missiles. Under the existing missile pact between the U.S. and South Korea, the nation's warheads can't be heavier than 500 kg, about 1,100 pounds. An unlimited warhead weight allowance would enable the South to strike North Korea with greater force in the event of a military conflict. Monday's hastily assembled Security Council meeting was called in response to North Korea's most powerful nuclear test – as the Trump administration warned any threat to the US or its allies would trigger a 'massive military response.' Haley spoke with South Korean Ambassador to the UN Cho Tae-yul before Monday's UN Security Council emergency meeting The meeting, convened at the request of the UK,U.S., Japan, France and South Korea, came after Kim Jong-Un's totalitarian regime carried out its sixth test of a nuclear device. Defense Secretary James Mattis briefed President Donald Trump about the military options available if the crisis escalated, adding that Washington was capable of launching an 'effective and overwhelming' response. While the US was 'not looking to the total annihilation' of North Korea there were 'many options to do so', he said Sunday. But in the UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson cautioned against a military strike, because North Korea already had the ability to 'vaporize' large parts of the population of South Korea even without nuclear weapons. Haley spoke with Chinese Ambassador to the UN Liu Jieyi before Monday's Security Council meeting. China is North Korea's largest trading partner Prime Minister Theresa May

said Pyongyang's actions posed an 'unacceptable further threat to the international community' and urged world leaders to increase pressure on the regime. The test blast came after propaganda pictures were published of Kim examining what was said to be a nuclear warhead being fitted on to the nose of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Mrs May reiterated the call for 'tougher action, including increasing the pace of implementation of existing sanctions and looking urgently in the UN Security Council at new measures' she had made alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during her visit last week. She said: 'This is now even more pressing. The international community has universally condemned this test and must come together to continue to increase the pressure on North Korea's leaders to stop their destabilizing actions.' Defense Secretaryon Sunday that she, along with UN representatives from the UK, France, Japan and South Korea, had demanded Monday's emergency session A North Korean missle is paraded on North Korean state TV in this undated image The UN Security Council is comprised of permanent members China, France, Russia, UK and the U.S., and ten rotating member countries that serve 2-year terms The Chinese government 'expressed firm opposition and strong condemnation' and urged North Korea to 'stop taking erroneous actions that deteriorate the situation.' But Johnson urged Beijing to go further in putting economic pressure on its neighbor. He said: 'Our message to the Chinese is, and we are working ever more closely with them, we think there is more scope for you, the Chinese, to put economic pressure on the North Koreans. 'It has

Q: When did 'wyrm' lose its meaning as dragon? I'm interested in finding out (roughly) when the Old English word 'wyrm' began to lose its meaning as 'A serpent, snake, dragon' due to the competing 'draca' and the later borrowing 'dragon'. I've consulted the OED but it suggests wyrm retains its meaning as 'dragon' until the 19th century, surely as an archaism. Can anyone could tell me approximately when draca and/or dragon became the popular choice to denote dragon A: According to the OED, wyrm (in the spelling worm) was first used to refer to the earthworm and similar creatures in Middle English, and even in early use it seemed to refer to a wide range of creepy crawlies. The Middle English Dictionary documents all of these meanings. Dragon also emerged inMiddle English as a loan word from French, transmitted through some combination of bestiaries, saints' lives like St. Margaret's, Biblical translations, and romances. I would consult the Middle English Dictionary quotations to see the sheer range of sources dragon appeared in. Throughout Middle English the two terms coexisted, both referring to dragons. In the early modern period, the more modern meaning of worm has already taken over its earlier large and serpentine sense. The Lexicons of Early Modern English database shows the dominance of worm referring to insects and small serpents even in early entries. In Latin-English dictionaries they are often vermis, Latin for the modern worm. By Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755) he defines "worm" primarily in this way: A small harmless serpent that lives in the earth. A poisonous serpent. Then

parasites, then silkworms, then grubs, and then more figurative senses. Wyrm is absent. In contrast, dragon even in the 16th century was the primary translation of draconic words. The Dictionary of Sir Thomas Elyot (1538) glosses draco, -onis as "a dragon." Such usage continues down to Johnson's Dictionary, where "dragon" was defined in its modern meaning: A kind of winged serpent, perhaps imaginary, much celebrated in the romances of the middle age. So save in specialized or archaic uses, dragon outpaces the draconic sense of worm by the 16th century. As someone who has studied medieval literature for a long time, my sense is that worm was fast diminishing in Middle English save in texts that hearkened back to Old English usage like the alliterative Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(late 14th c.), whereas dragon became the preferred expression in popular saints' lives and romances. I consulted a few popular sources and one database to work through this hypothesis: (1) Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur (written ~1470, printed 1485), the Arthurian romance seminal to 19th and 20th century adaptations of King Arthur and his knights, features the dragon at several key points, including in a dream King Arthur has before fighting a giant. I'm writing from the Winchester MS and updating the spelling but not the syntax: As the King was in his cog and lay in his cabin, he fell in a slumbering and dreamed how a dreadful dragon did drench much of his people, and come flying on wing out of the west parts. ... Dragon occurs several times

throughout the story. Worm and wyrm never appear. A later epic romance, Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590, 1596) fits the same pattern: dragon appears 13 times and worm only appears as "gealouse worme" and "worm-eaten." That's remarkable, since the Redcrosse Knight defeats a dragon at the end of book 1, so there was a perfect opportunity to fight a worm, but Spenser never chose that word for that purpose. (2) The Wycliffe Bible are an early complete translation of the Bible completed by religious reformers under the direction of John Wycliffe. Dragon appears 47 times and usually refers to serpents or monsters: (Revelation 12) : And another sign was seen in heaven; and lo! a great red dragon, that had seven heads [having seven heads], and ten horns, and in"What you need is faith; faith that there is a long-term plan that is bigger than you or me." –Hera Syndulla, Star Wars: Rebels You'll need a big plan if you hope to claim victory at one of this year's Imperial Assault National Championship tournaments! Top-level events that celebrate all the very best players and strategies Imperial Assault has to offer, the 2018 National Championships feature some of the skirmish game's most exciting armies, action, and prizes—including the chance to win seats at the next Imperial Assault World Championships for you and a friend! Top 64 The Top 64 participants at each 2018 Imperial Assault National Championship receive an alternate art deployment card for Emperor Palpatine. Illustrated by Ryan Barger and depicted atop his throne with his face seemingly ready to break into a