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2018 Imperial Assault National Championship earn an Imperial-themed unit tray, featuring a slot for your unit's deployment card and room to track the tokens associated with each of the unit's figures. Finalists If you make the finals of a 2018 Imperial Assault National Championship, you'll have truly established yourself among the galaxy's greatest military minds—setting yourself in position alongside the likes of Emperor Palpatine and Hera Syndulla. However, your victory won't echo their past successes; it will usher forward a new legacy—yours. And as your reward, you'll have the cance to continue forging your legacy at the next Imperial Assault World Champion. The Top 2 players from each 2018 Imperial Assault National Championship earn a free seat at the Imperial Assault World Championships! National Champion If you win one of the 2018 ImperialA NEW STORY FOR A NEW AMERICA By Archbishop Gomez Catholic University of America May 12, 2018 (Archbishop José H. Gomez delivered the 129th Annual Commencement Address at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., on May 12. During the exercises, the university awarded the archbishop with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree for his contribution in advocating for immigrants. The university also conferred honorary degrees on four other immigrants who have made notable contributions to their communities and their new country. The following is Archbishop Gomez’s address:)For full video click here. Dear friends and dear Class of 2018: What an honor it is to share this podium with these distinguished Americans. What a witness. We are truly a nation that thrives on the gifts of peoples from every land. Three years ago,

I had the privilege to be here when Pope Francis canonized St. Junípero Serra. It was a historic moment, the first time that a Catholic saint was being canonized on American soil. And it is interesting to think: St. Junípero Serra never even saw Washington, D.C. He was a Hispanic missionary who came up from Mexico to preach and build in California. And he never left there. The United States of America was not even established as a nation until the final years of his ministry. But the pope made this decision to canonize Father Serra in our nation’s capital, because he believes we should remember him as one of our nation’s “founding fathers.” My dream is that one day, we will take that seriously in this country, because I believethe Church we call her Venerable Maria Luisa Josefa of the Blessed Sacrament. She was a servant of the poor, a teacher and a healer, a wife and a widow; and later she became a religious sister. Mother Luisita sought refuge in Los Angeles during the anti-Catholic persecutions in Mexico in the 1920s. America welcomed her and the Catholic Church took care of her. And she established a religious community that is still thriving in Los Angeles. Mother Luisita used to tell everyone, “For greater things we were born.” My friends, this is the meaning of our lives. This is the meaning of America. America’s founders — the missionaries and the statesmen — they knew this truth. They knew that we belong to a story that began long before us, the story of

Haremhab’s Contemporaries Haremhab and the Crown Prince Sheshonk. According to this reconstruction, Haremhab began his career under the last kings of the Libyan Dynasty. We get a first glimpse of him in the tomb of the prince Sheshonk, son of Osorkon II and his wife Karoma. The prince, named as successor to his father, died young, still during his father’s reign, and never assumed the royal diadem. The king built for him a funerary chamber in Memphis, where the prince had served in his lifetime as the high priest of Ptah. The excavations of Samaria, discussed above, revealed that the Libyan king Osorkon II was not a contemporary of Ahab, as is usually asserted, but reigned after the time of Jeroboam II—i.e., after ca. -744, which marks the death of Jeroboam II, but before the destruction of Samaria by theAssyrians in -722. The tomb was discovered in 1942, and its clearance and publication were entrusted to Ahmad Badawi.(1) At the entrance to the tomb, on the lintel of the doorway, Badawi found an incised relief showing Haremhab kneeling in front of a talbe bedecked with offerings; behind Harmhab can be seen the deceased prince, also in a kneeling position. Haremhab’s cartouche is somewhat damaged; a deliberate attempt had been made to erase it. But from what remains Badawi could identify the figure in front of the crown prince as that of Haremhab. In the accepted scheme of history Haremhab is supposed to have reigned some six hundred years before the funeral chamber for Prince Shoshenk, son of Osorkon II, was built. But what incentive would the builder of the tomb have to decorate the monument with the figure of Haremhab

and his cartouche? This king did not enjoy such reputation that six centuries after his death a Libyan prince should prominently show himself and Haremhab in an offering scene. There was nothing in the memory of Haremhab that an occupant of a tomb of about -725 would consider as bringing salvation or possessing magic against unclean spirits. Therefore Haremhab’s figure and cartouche in a Libyan tomb made historians wonder and grope for a solution. One detail needs an explanation: Haremhab is depicted as a king, his name enclosed inside a cartouche, sign of royal power—this at least twenty-five years before his appointment as king by Sennacherib. One could assume from this that he was a viceroy of Memphis under the last Libyan kings, continuing in that position under the Ethiopians, until his defection to the Assyrian side in -702. Assuch he could well have enjoyed the privilege of using the insignia of royalty. Haremhab and Tirhaka. In this reconstruction Haremhab and Tirhaka, the Ethiopian, are contemporaries; in the conventional version of history they are separated by more than six centuries, Haremhab being dated to the late fourteenth and Tirhaka to the early seventh. A certain scene, carved on one of the walls of a small Ethiopian temple at Karnak, shows them together. The scene proves not only the contemporaneity of Haremhab and Tirhaka, but also permits to establish a short period in their relations from which it dates. De Rouge in his 1873 study of the monuments of Tirhaka, describes the relief: Tirhaka is standing and takes part in a paneguric. An important personage, named Hor-em-heb, a priest and hereditary governor, addresses to the people the following discourse in the

name of the two forms of Amon: “Hear Amon-ra, Lord of the Thrones of the World and Amon-ra, the husband of his mother, residing in Thebes! This is what they say to their son, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt [Neferatmukhure] son of the sun, Tirhaka, given life, forever: ‘You are our son whom we love, in whom we repose, to whom we have given Upper and Lower Egypt; we do not like the kings of Asia _ _ _’”(2) The monument must be dated to the time early in Haremhab’s career when he was acting as priest and governor under his brother Sethos. Egypt was then allied with Ethiopia, actually under Ethiopian domination, and was bracing itself to meet the armies of Assyria; for Sennacherib had shut up Hezekiah in Jerusalem “like a bird in a cage”and was advancing to the border of Egypt. The Egyptian-Ethiopian army which had gone to block him had suffered a crushing defeat at Eltekeh in Palestine. The declaration “We do not like the kings of Asia” was appropriate for the moment. The ways of Tirhaka and Haremhab would soon part: Tirhaka would flee to Ethiopia and become the bitterest enemy of Haremhab, who would go over to the side of Sennacherib and campaign against the Ethiopian king and his own brother Sethos. The Tomb of Petamenophis. Of the hundreds of rock-cut tombs crowding the Theban necropolis, the Valley of the Kings, one bearing the name of Petamenophis, a high official of the Ethiopian time, early attracted the attention of Egyptologists by its large size and ambitious layout. It was first described in detail by Lepsius in his pioneering work Denkmaeler aus

Aegypten und Aethiopien.(3) To have occupied a spatious tomb in this prestigious location, Petamenophis must have been a person of distinction. In his inscriptions he describes himself as “Sealbearer and Sole Beloved Friend, Lector and Scribe of the Records in the Sight of the King, Petamenophis.”(4) The king is not named, but his identity is revealed by an inscription, also reproduced by Lepsius, on a wall in the northern part of the great outer courtyard. Though much damaged in the course of time it contains two names, still clearly legible: Petamenophis, and next to it a cartouche of King Haremhab.(5) The tomb was later visited and described separately by Wilkinson, by Duemichen, and others, before Maspero, seeing its deteriorating condition and realizing the necessity of protecting it from despoliation, had it sealed at the end of the last century. It remainedas his own the years of the heretical pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty: Akhnaton, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamon and Ay.(9) But it is now admitted that such a solution would require the sole reign of Haremhab to have lasted not less than twenty-seven years, while his dated monuments cease after year eight,(10) indicating that he reigned but eight years after being crowned. In the light of the understanding here presented of the true time and role of Haremhab, the thought must come that the “fifty-ninth year” refers to an Assyrian era. On February 26, -747 started the era of Nabonassar; this era was still in use in the second Christian century when Claudius Ptolemy, the Alexandrian scholar, wrote his astronomical treatises.(11) The year 59 in the era of Nabonassar is the year 689 or 688 before the present era. About this time Tirhaka came

theory of instrumentality itself, and its application) and further explanation of belanger’s thoughts (which i generally love). I have a theory on the situation- the modern civil engineering paradigm evolved at those french army engineer schools that Picon writes about. They were then writ large across the american continents by the US Army Corps (and those of other nations- the relationship between french army engineers, the US army corps, and even north american urbanism is pretty easy to track, at least on the surface). Problem was, this paradigm evolved in central France and assumed a particular type of geology (and society for that matter) that was stable over a given (long) period of time. And this was incredibly effective, for the most part, which is why it attained suchferry accident.jpg A Delaware River and Bay Authority worker is seen looking over the two vehicles involved in a crash on board one of the Cape May-Lewes Ferry vessels at the Cape May terminal Friday morning. (Special to the Times/DRBA) NORTH CAPE MAY — Three people were taken to an area hospital after a driver hit his gas pedal instead of his brake causing a two-vehicle collision aboard one of the vessels in the Cape May-Lewes Ferry fleet Friday, officials said. The accident took place about 9:40 a.m. on the MV Delaware as vehicles were disembarking at the Cape May ferry terminal, according to Jim Salmon, a spokesman for the ferry’s operator, the Delaware River and Bay Authority. Salmon said that Jeffery Singley of Fort Washington, Maryland, the driver of a white 2012 Ford

Explorer rental vehicle that was parked on the port side of the ferry vessel is believed to have accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes, causing the Explorer to run across car deck and broadside a silver Honda Civic on the starboard side of the ferry, pinning it against the ferry vessel’s starboard bulkhead. The occupants of the 2013 Honda Civic, Diane Manville and Roger Level of Millsboro, Delaware, and Singley were transported to Cape Regional Medical Center by Lower Township EMS. The vehicles were aboard the MV Delaware, which departed the Lewes, Delaware, Ferry Terminal at 8:15 a.m. Friday. The MV Delaware sustained minor cosmetic damage crash, Salmon said. The ferry schedule was delayed for approximately one hour for the crash investigation and cleanup. The MV Cape Henlopen,another vessel in the ferry fleet, took over for the MV Delaware while the accident scene was cleared and cleaned up. Responding to the accident were the Town Bank Fire Department, Villas Fire Department, Lower Township Police, Lower Township EMS, Villas Fire Department, and Delaware River and Bay Authority Police. The accident remains under investigation by the DRBA Police Department, Salmon said. South Jersey Times may be reached at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @theSJTimes. Find the South Jersey Times on Facebook.

Johnson was born in [[New York, New York]] and graduated from Morehouse College before earning a law degree from Columbia Law School.<ref name="bio"/> + Johnson was born in [[New York, New York]], and graduated from Morehouse College before earning a law degree from Columbia Law School.<ref name="bio"/> ==Career== ==Career== Line 88: Line 88: Three [[United States Senate|Senate]] [[Republicans]]-- [[Chuck Grassley|Grassley]], [[John McCain]] and [[Lindsey Graham]]-- publicly stated that they intended to place a hold on Johnson's nomination.<ref name="jeh"/> Three [[United States Senate|Senate]] [[Republicans]]-- [[Chuck Grassley|Grassley]], [[John McCain]] and [[Lindsey Graham]]-- publicly stated that they intended to place a hold on Johnson's nomination.<ref name="jeh"/> {{ExecDeptsbox}} {{ExecDeptsbox}} + + ==Controversies== + ===Secretary of Homeland Security=== + ====Immigration policy enforcement==== + ::''See also: [[2014 illegal immigration surge]]'' + Having declared immigration reform a top priority for his second term, President [[Barack Obama]] made border policies stricter on June 20, 2014, due toherein. Exemplary alkylamino groups include methylamino, ethylamino, butylamino, cyclohexylamino, and the like. xe2x80x9cArylaminoxe2x80x9d refers to R55NHxe2x80x94, wherein R55 is an aryl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cDialkylaminoxe2x80x9d refers to R52R53Nxe2x80x94, wherein R52 and R53 are each independently an alkyl group, as defined herein. Exemplary dialkylamino groups include dimethylamino, diethylamino, methyl propargylamino, and the like. xe2x80x9cDiarylaminoxe2x80x9d refers to R55R56Nxe2x80x94, wherein R55 and R60 are each independently an aryl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cAlkylarylaminoxe2x80x9d refers to R52R55Nxe2x80x94, wherein R52 is an alkyl group, as defined herein, and R55 is an aryl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cAminoalkylxe2x80x9d refers to an amino group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, an arylamino group, a diarylamino group, an alkylarylamino group or a heterocyclic ring, as defined herein, to which is appended an alkyl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cAminoarylxe2x80x9d refers to an

or an aryl heterocyclic ring, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cSulfonamidoxe2x80x9d refers to xe2x80x94S(O)2xe2x80x94N(R51)(R57), wherein R51 and R57 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylaryl group, or an arylheterocyclic ring, as defined herein, and R51 and R57 when taken together are a heterocyclic ring, a cycloalkyl group or a bridged cycloalkyl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cAlkylsulfonamidoxe2x80x9d refers to a sulfonamido group, as defined herein, appended to an alkyl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cArylsulfonamidoxe2x80x9d refers to a sulfonamido group, as defined herein, appended to an aryl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cAlkylthioxe2x80x9d refers to R50Sxe2x80x94, wherein R50 is an alkyl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cArylthioxe2x80x9d refers to R55Sxe2x80x94, wherein R55 is an aryl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cAlkylsulfinylxe2x80x9d refers to R50xe2x80x94S(O)xe2x80x94, wherein R50 is an alkyl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cAlkylsulfonylxe2x80x9d refersto R50xe2x80x94S(O)2xe2x80x94, wherein R50 is an alkyl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cArylsulfinylxe2x80x9d refers to R55xe2x80x94S(O)xe2x80x94, wherein R55 is an aryl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cArylsulfonylxe2x80x9d refers to R55xe2x80x94S(O)2xe2x80x94, wherein R55 is an aryl group, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cAmidylxe2x80x9d refers to R51C(O)N(R57)xe2x80x94 wherein R51 and R57 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylaryl group, or an arylheterocyclic ring, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cEsterxe2x80x9d refers to R51C(O)Oxe2x80x94 wherein R51 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylaryl group, or an arylheterocyclic ring, as defined herein. xe2x80x9cCarbamoylxe2x80x9d refers to xe2x80x94Oxe2x80x94C(O)N(R51)(R57), wherein R51 and R57 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylaryl group or an arylheterocyclic ring, as defined herein, or R51 and R57 taken together are a heterocyclic ring,

lower house of the country Loksabha the new era begins not only in Indian politics but Indian society as well because the centrist political force in Indian polity has almost evaporated and the bipolar ideological division of left and right is very much visible from politics to society . The majority mark for BJP has put it in a fix also because they are on the crossroad to define their identity and role in politics and society and very cleverly BJP want to project its paradox as the paradox of national identity and nationalism. On the issue of Nationalism BJP find herself in rock and hard place because their ideological fraternity want its political party to play the role of Modern day Hindu Alexander or Medieval Hindu King Shivaji whoRamayana Ram too reached out to new races and people who were unaware of the culture and politics of Aryavarta. In the whole history of India since ancient days whenever Indian rulers accommodated the new ideas their overall growth had been in direct proportion to their openness and on the contrary whenever they become fearful and went in the cell their geographical and cultural growth shrunk to unlimited level. If India has to define herself in new perspective it could be the “Spiritualism” with modern day statecraft. India is more than a Nation is a confederation of amalgamation of process of evolution of civilization with different ideas and philosophies and the depth of spirituality is the only common factor in all of them and other than this common factor if

Violence has periodically cut through the western state, where communal rivalries have been sharpened by British colonial meddling, chicanery by Myanmar's army and fierce dispute over who does -- and does not -- belong in Rakhine. But the events of August 25, when raids by Rohingya militants unleashed a swirl of violence across the north, have sunk Rakhine to new depths of hate. "All of our family died at the village... we will not go back," said Chaw Shaw Chaw Thee, one of hundreds of displaced Hindus seeking shelter in the state capital Sittwe. The 20-year-old said she lost 23 family members as Rohingya militants swarmed the clutch of Hindu villages in Kha Maung Seik, near the Bangladesh border. On Sunday the army said 28 badly-decomposed bodies of Hindu men, women andchildren had been pulled from two mass graves in the same area. It was not immediately clear if they belonged to Chaw Shaw Chaw Thee's family. Heavily pregnant when she fled, she gave birth at a disused football stadium in Sittwe, where hundreds of traumatised Hindus now sleep on grubby mats in the overcrowded concourse. An army lockdown has made it impossible to independently verify what happened in the villages of northern Rakhine, an area dominated by Rohingya Muslims who are a minority elsewhere in the mainly Buddhist country. But allegations, carved along ethnic lines, are spinning out as conspiracy and competing identity claims override empathy between former neighbours. Hindus, who make up less than one percent of Rakhine's population, accuse Rohingya of massacring them, burning their homes and kidnapping women for marriage. Meanwhile

the Rohingya, some 430,000 of whom have fled to Bangladesh, trade accusations with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists of grisly mob attacks and army "clearance operations" that have emptied their villages. Small ethnic groups such as the Mro, Thet and Diagnet have also been caught up in the killings and chaos of the last month. "We were barbers for Muslims, our women sold things in Muslim villages, I had Muslim friends, we had no problems," said Kyaw Kyaw Naing, a 34-year-old Hindu who can dance across linguistic divides in Hindi, Rakhine, Burmese and Rohingya. Community ties in what is also Myanmar's poorest state have now unravelled. "We want to go back, but we will not if the Muslims are there." Bitter history Last week Myanmar's leader Aung san Suu Kyi told the international community that Rohingyarefugees were welcome back if they were properly "verified". But delivering on that promise will be almost impossible in a country where the status of the Rohingya is incendiary. The Rohingya say they are a distinct ethnic group whose roots stretch back centuries. Myanmar's powerful military insists they are "Bengalis" who were first brought to the country by British colonisers and have continued to pour in illegally ever since. "It can't be solved in the short-term... to be stable and harmonious could take decades," Oo Hla Saw, a lawmaker for the Arakan National Party, which represents Rakhine Buddhists, told AFP. Rakhine's history is bitterly contested and flecked by rivalries. Once a proud a Buddhist kingdom with a deep Muslim influence from trade and settlement, Rakhine's demographics were overhauled by British colonial administrators. They shunted in

large numbers of Hindu Indians and Bengali Muslims as farm hands to an area already populated by a soup of ethnicities including the Rohingya and Rakhine. The Japanese invasion during World War II saw Rakhine clash with Rohingya, who were perceived to have been favoured by the retreating British. Since 1962 the military has kindled anti-Rohingya sentiment, painting itself as the protector of the Buddhist faith from conquest by Islam. Three major campaigns -- in 1978, the early 90s and now -- have driven Rohingya from Myanmar in huge numbers. The army, which ran the country for 50 years and still has its hands on key levers of power, has also gradually rubbed out the group's legal status. A 1982 law stripped Rohingya of citizenship, subjecting them to suffocating controls on everything fromwhere they can travel to how many children they can have. "The army wants to clear the Muslim community from Rakhine state," says Kyaw Min, a Rohingya and former MP, who has had his citizenship revoked. "The intention is to drive down the Rohingya population. They have achieved that in the south of Rakhine, now they are targeting the north." Repression has fed Rohingya militancy, according to analysts. 0:00 Number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh surges 00:00 / 00:00 Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook 'Next time no escape' Last month a government-backed commission on Rakhine's troubles, led by former UN chief Kofi Annan, urged "all communities to move beyond entrenched historical narratives". But a few hours after its report was published, the militants attacked, sparking a ferocious military response that the UN believes amounts

I was at the counter in the Mister Donut store on Central Avenue in Yonkers at about 3 a.m., making small talk with the clerk. I had finished loading newspapers into the vending machine there and was sipping the free coffee she always happily offered. We heard a car pull up outside, and then a loud thud, followed by the screech of tires as the car sped away. We both ran out to discover a kitten, injured after being thrown against the concrete wall at the back of the lot. As soon as Donut was nursed back to health, she rode shotgun with me for several years as I delivered newspapers in the wee hours. It was a time of day when there always seemed to be exciting adventures. That’s whyA police officer wounded in a shooting rampage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last year that left three officers dead sued Black Lives Matter movement leaders on Friday, accusing them of inciting violence that spurred the attack, Reuters reports. Yahoo reports: The lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in Louisiana named DeRay McKesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders as defendants and sought at least $75,000 in damages. It came on the one-year anniversary of one of the deadliest days in modern U.S. history for law enforcement. On July 7, 2016, a black man angered by what he saw as deadly racial bias in U.S. policing launched a downtown Dallas sniper attack, killing five officers deployed at a protest decrying police shootings of black men. McKesson was not immediately available for

It worked like a charm in 2001, and 15 years later it's deja Blue all over again. Watching the current run by the Bombers, I can't help but think back to the days of Dave Ritchie, Brendan Taman and Lyle Bauer and one of the most memorable seasons in Blue and Gold history. Ritchie went into that season in the third and final year of his contract, having won a combined 13 games through two losing seasons. We all know what that means: win or else. After a mediocre 2-2 start, all Ritchie's Bombers did was rattle off a club-record 12 straight victories to barge into first place in the CFL East and earn the popular Gramps, as they called him in the front office, a new deal. Playing the role of Ritchiethis year is Mike O'Shea, also feeling the heat going into the last season of his deal after a combined 12 wins his first two seasons. We wondered if job insecurity would help O'Shea find his mojo, and sure enough, his Bombers shook off a 1-4 start, started winning in Edmonton in late July and haven't stopped – seven in a row, and counting. All that early-season noise about O'Shea's contract: gone. We wouldn't be surprised if CEO Wade Miller or GM Kyle Walters, playing the roles of Bauer and Taman, respectively, plopped a new contract in front of O'Shea before season's end. Ritchie got his in early October, 10 games into the streak. O'Shea on Tuesday gave no indication those talks have even begun, yet. “Early in the season I wasn't worried about

in his first full season as a starter, had made veteran Kerwin Bell expendable. There are even similarities in the front office. Walters, like Taman before him, is a likeable, unassuming straight-shooter who was born and trained in Canada. Miller and Bauer, non-imports, too. Both played their entire decade-long career with one team -- the Bombers. One big difference: that Winnipeg team 15 years ago was the best in the league during the regular season, at 14-4. It reached the Grey Cup, where it lost to 8-10 Calgary, a loss that eats away at those involved to this day and one that allowed the current championship drought to reach a ridiculous 25 years. Through a dozen games this year, the Bombers are 8-4, while the Stamps are the cream of the CFL crop,and temperatures above 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit). That potent combination, more extreme than any conditions seen in the area during the past decade, is what prompted forecasters to call the fire danger historic. One of the fires was burning hot enough to produce a pyrocumulus cloud, noted Bill Line of the National Weather Service on the Satellite Liaison Blog. These towering clouds can loft smoke plumes several kilometers into the air, where they can encounter winds capable of transporting the smoke over long distances. Other observers have noted smoke from these fires had reached an estimated 9 kilometers (6 miles) above the surface. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the United States Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS

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granted Davis' request for a third sentencing hearing in compliance with the Sixth Circuit's mandate. {¶ 6} A third sentencing hearing was subsequently held on September 8 through September 10, 2009, with Judge Andrew Nastoff presiding. Over the course of the two-day hearing, Davis provided extensive evidence and testimony from, among others, Scott Nowak, Davis' current prison case manager, Cynthia Mausser, the Chairperson of the Ohio Parole Board, and Jeremy Stineman, a volunteer who conducted Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with death row inmates, including Davis. The three-judge panel also heard testimony from Davis' mother, Alluster Tipton, step-father, Charles Tipton, younger sister, Carol Smith, younger brother, Victor Davis, daughter, Sherry Davis, and two friends, Rick Rotundo and Fran Welland. Following this hearing, the three-judge panel once again sentenced Davis to death. This court affirmedwith Davis on death row. As pertinent here, Stineman testified that Davis regularly attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings where he was an active participant. Nowak also specifically testified as to Davis' good behavior and noted Davis' position in the "extended privilege unit" or "honor block." {¶ 17} Counsel also introduced an institutional summary of Davis' work history indicating he had been employed in five different capacities while in prison, as well as his successful participation in programs teaching stress management, anger management, positive thinking, and meetings for military veterans. The institutional summary also noted Davis' good behavior while on death row as he had only been involved in one instance of misconduct occurring in 1990 since being placed back in prison in 1984. {¶ 18}

(AP) -- U.S. and European diplomats have criticized the harassment of foreign reporters in China who were trying to cover calls for peaceful protests like those that swept the Middle East. It wasn't clear how many people, if any, tried to protest on Sunday, but Chinese authorities met the demonstration calls with an outsized response, detaining several Chinese and placing strict controls on foreign reporters. Bloomberg News said one of its reporters was assaulted by five men who appeared to be plainclothes security and had a video camera confiscated, while a BBC journalist wrote that he and a colleague were roughed up while being thrown into a van by plainclothes thugs. U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman said in a statement that he had met on Monday with foreign reporters who had beenharassed, and called such intimidation "unacceptable and deeply disturbing." "I am disappointed that the Chinese public security authorities could not protect the safety and property of foreign journalists doing their jobs," Huntsman said. In a similar statement, the European Union's delegation in China urged authorities to respect the right of foreign journalists to report freely. It was the second Sunday in a row that China deployed large numbers of police to squelch overt protests modeled on recent democratic movements in the Middle East. This time, police near Shanghai's People's Square also blew shrill whistles nonstop to keep people moving, while street cleaning trucks in Beijing drove repeatedly up the Wangfujing shopping street, spraying water to keep crowds pressed to the edges. Authorities had called foreign reporters in Beijing and Shanghai on Friday

the new restrictions on foreign reporters have created a precedent. "Once they start taking away or eating away at some of the more liberal measures they set out, one wonders in the future how often they'll do the same thing," he said. Online posts of unknown origin that first circulated on an overseas Chinese news website 11 days ago have called for Chinese to gather peacefully at sites every Sunday in a show of people power meant to promote fairness and democracy. People reached by phone at businesses in the cities of Tianjin, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Shenyang and Harbin on Sunday said no demonstrations occurred. A renewed call on Monday expanded the target cities to 35, from 27. Beyond the several Web postings, the calls lack a clear leader or organizationTo Get A Gun License, First You Have To Plant 10 Trees Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of the Deputy Commissioner of Ferozepur District Courtesy of the Deputy Commissioner of Ferozepur District Tajinder Singh, 47, a farmer in the North Indian state of Punjab, applied for a gun license. He told the authorities that he needed a revolver for self-defense. While tending to his 20 acres of land, he often had to walk long hours to reach home after nightfall. He wanted to protect himself from wild animals and bands of armed robbers. Once the background checks were completed in June this year, Singh was told he had to fulfill one more condition to get his gun. He had to submit two photos: One showing him planting 10 saplings on his

property, and then another with the thriving trees one month later. To mark World Environment Day in June, Chander Gaind had an idea. He's the deputy commissioner of the district of Ferozepur — roughly the equivalent of an American mayor. "I thought about how much Punjabi people love guns," Gaind told NPR. "We receive hundreds of applications for gun licenses from this district every year. Maybe I could get them to love caring for the environment too." And so he decided that anyone who applied for a gun license from this district, home to 2 million people, would need to sprout a green thumb first. And that's how the ten tree rule was born. The goal wasn't to discourage people from getting a gun licence, Gaind says. Gun licenses in India areAs an agriculturalist, he had no problem complying, he says. He planted a lime tree (Citrus aurantifolia) and trees native to Punjab like the baheda, tilkan, harad and sent the photos in. At the end of July, Tajinder Singh received his license. "It's a very interesting initiative," says Alok Kumar Dubey, a consultant in public policy and social development at the NITI Aayog (National Institute for Transforming India), the top think tank for the government of India. NITI Aayog encourages innovation — primarily in health, nutrition, education, agriculture, infrastructure and finance. When Dubey paid a visit to Ferozepur, he met a few of the applicants who had come to the administrative office with their paperwork for the gun license and saw the photos they'd taken with the trees they'd planted.

Deposit Insurance Corporation, are seeking a writ of mandamus. The newspapers request that we vacate an order of the district court which permitted the bank to remove from the court's record, prior to public inspection, two exhibits the bank had filed in its lawsuit against the FDIC. 2 On January 25, 1983, bank examiners of the FDIC, pursuant to their statutory authority to regulate federally-insured state banks, presented the bank officials with a list of 423 questionable loans in United American's portfolio. The list contained the names of borrowers and the amount of each loan. The bank responded by submitting to the FDIC a loan-by-loan defense of each of the 423 loans listed by the FDIC as questionable. This response contained extensive discussion of the borrower'sfinancial condition, prospects and personal life. 3 During this time, stories were appearing in the Tennessee news media discussing the FDIC's concern over the bank's financial condition. Apparently in response to this media attention, the bank issued a press release on January 28, 1983 disclosing its fourth-quarter and year-end financial results for 1982. The figures relied upon in this press release came from an audit report prepared by the bank's own independent accountants. The press release did not mention the FDIC's list of questionable loans. 4 On February 4, 1983, the FDIC served on the bank a Temporary Order to Cease and Desist which required that: 5 Immediately upon service of this TEMPORARY ORDER TO CEASE AND DESIST, the Bank shall correct the false or misleading public statements disseminated by the

personalities of "immense public interest." They contended public access to the file was needed to facilitate further discussion and debate among the citizens of Tennessee about these important matters. 9 In a memorandum opinion dated February 11, 1983, the district court set forth its reasons for sealing the court record. First, the court noted the sensitive nature of the exhibits relating to the bank's customers and the bank's loan policy. The district court acknowledged the bank's contention that public disclosure "would result in the FDIC prevailing in the action before the issues are joined or any necessary hearing is held." In light of these circumstances, the court concluded there was authority to deny public access to the court file in order to"protect the interest of the Bank in this case." 10 On February 14, the Tennessee Commissioner of Banking ordered United American closed because of extensive loan losses, and appointed the FDIC as receiver of the bank. On February 15, the FDIC negotiated an agreement with the First Tennessee Bank of Knoxville to assume all the assets and liabilities of United American Bank. On the same day, the district court issued an order dismissing the lawsuit between United American and the FDIC. This order also lifted the February 8 protective order, but directed that Exhibits 3 and 4 be withdrawn from the court file and returned to counsel for the bank, "with the understanding that the exhibits will be preserved and submitted to the Sixth Circuit if requested

wiring board under the demand of lowering cost in recent electronic information instruments. Accordingly, there is a requirement to shorten the drilling processing time and increase the number of sheets produced per hour, and it has been necessary to increase the rotational speed of a drill bit, make the processing speed of drilling higher, increase the number of a printed wiring boards which are processed at the same time, and extend the life time of a drill, etc. For these demands, it is required to design to make the quality thereof high, as the patch board for a protective board which is used in a severe condition of drilling processing so as to improve the precision of drilling position and the smoothness of the inner surface of therecently required in particular. Therefore, the abrasion of the drill is reduced, and simultaneously through hole in which the inner wall of hole after the drilling processing is smooth is obtained. As described in detail above, according to the present invention, the metal plate coated with a lubricating resin film obtained by forming the resin composition of the present invention on the metal plate composed of aluminum and the like as a coating film has an excellent hole positional precision, inner wall roughness, stickiness of the coating film, and water resistance, and can be adequately applied as a patch board at the time of drilling processing of the printed wiring board. Furthermore, the coating film of the lubricating resin composition of the present invention can be formed by a

two counts of making "false allegations" on social media regarding the quality of food, and carrying two mobile phones while on operational duty, the spokesman said. He said making "false allegations" about the quality of food was an act "prejudicial to good order and discipline" of the force, and that he did not adhere to formal grievance redressal mechanism available. The spokesman alleged that constable Yadav did not obey a general order of the force and carried two mobile phones while on operational duty which was against the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). Yadav also posted photographs in uniform on social media in contravention of instructions, he said. The SSFC began its proceedings from April 13 during which "all opportunities" were given to Yadav to defend himself, the spokesman said, adding hecan appeal against the punishment to an appellate authority within three months. Yadav, clad in battle fatigues and carrying his service rifle, had in January this year posted a video on Facebook, claiming poor quality food like watery dal and burnt chapatis were being served to the troops serving across the inhospitable terrain. While the government procures essentials for the soldiers, the higher-ups "sell them off" in an "illegal" manner in the market making the lower level personnel in the force suffer, he had alleged. The jawan, who was part of a BSF unit posted along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, had also said in the video that a watery soup-like dal, which he claimed had only turmeric and salt, and a burnt chapati were served to them. Yadav

plea for voluntary retirement was rejected in February this year on the ground that a Court of Inquiry was looking into allegations levelled by him as also charges of indiscipline that he was facing. Rejecting Yadavs plea, BSF had said his request for voluntary retirement was "cancelled pending the Court of Inquiry (CoI) and finalisation of its recommendations". PTI NES SKL SK SK This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire. Get real-time alerts and all the news on your phone with the all-new India Today app. Download frompublicity however, a lot of work goes behind the scenes. To change public attitudes campaigns have to be run continuously against factory farming and drilled down to the severe confinement in sow stalls, farrowing crates and cages, the killing of day old male chicks, the slaughter of male calves as a dairy industry byproduct, the deliberate omission of anesthesia for operative procedures such as castration, dehorning, beak trimming, teeth clipping, tail docking, the use of antibiotics as prophylactic treatment against mass sickness in a closed environment plus a whole lot more animal welfare issues. With active campaigning the major supermarket chain Coles has decided its own branded pork products would be sow stall free from 1st January next year and their own branded eggs would be cage free also. The

law. Defendants made a motion for a new trial, which was denied. They have appealed from the order denying their motion. On May 28, 1963, Officer Grennan, a police officer of the City of Los Angeles assigned to the Narcotics Division and who had conducted or participated in several hundred narcotics investigations and was an expert in the use, symptoms and effects of narcotics, received information to the effect that persons known as Janice and Bobby Samuels were living in apartment 1 at 4075 South Broadway and were selling heroin at that location. Approximately a week later (on June 3) Officer Grennan, with his partners, Sergeants Hanks and Flynn, went to the above address at about one o'clock in the afternoon. Officer Grennan had a conversation with thethe door and verifying if they are home or not?" The manager went up and knocked on the door. The officer went along and stood just outside the door jamb approximately a foot and a half from the manager but out of the vision of anyone coming to the door. He could hear everything that was said. Shortly after the manager knocked on the door, a man (Bobby Samuels) came to the door and opened it. The manager said, "Oh, I see you are not dressed. I wanted to talk to you about something. Could you come down to my apartment afterwards?" Defendant said yes, he would be down in a few minutes. This concluded the conversation. The door was closed and the manager went back to her

apartment. The officer did not ask the landlady to request either of defendants to come to her office. That was voluntary on the part of the manager. The officer merely asked the manager to verify if the Samuels were home. None of the officers suggested anything to the manager whereby she would induce either of the defendants to come out of their apartment. Officer Grennan and his partners assumed a vantage point and placed apartment 1 under surveillance. Some 10 or 15 minutes later Bobby came out of the apartment into the hallway that was outside of the Samuels' apartment. This was a public hallway for the use of all occupants of the apartment house. As Bobby stepped out into the hallway and closed the apartment door, OfficerGrennan approached him, displaying his badge and identified himself as a police officer. Bobby was outside of his apartment and headed in the direction of the manager's apartment. The officer asked if he was Bobby Samuels and received an affirmative reply. He asked him if he lived in apartment 1, to which Bobby also replied in the affirmative. The officer then inquired if he had ever been "busted" for narcotics, which is slang for having been previously arrested on a narcotics charge. Bobby stated that he had been arrested for "marks" which meant that he had been arrested for illegal use or addiction. Officer Grennan then asked, "How about let's having a look at your arms?" Bobby was wearing clothing that covered his arms. He did not make

any audible response. However, he started pushing his sleeves up and displayed his arms to the officers. Upon examining his arms, Officer Grennan observed what appeared to be fresh needle marks on his left forearm. Bobby was then told, "You are under arrest for possession of narcotics." *355 After the arrest, Bobby was asked if he had a key to his apartment. He inquired of the officers if they had a search warrant. They responded in the negative. Officer Grennan then went to the manager, obtained a key from her to the Samuels' apartment, opened the door and entered. At the time he obtained the key from the manager, it was his bona fide opinion that this apartment was rented to the Samuels. He entered the apartment bythe use of the key without knocking because he wanted to search the apartment before anyone who was inside would have an opportunity to dispose of contraband through the use of toilet facilities. Officer Grennan went into the apartment and back into the kitchen where he observed defendant Delores Samuels standing facing the sink. She was only partially dressed. He identified himself, stating, "Police officers." On top of the sink was a hype outfit (kit) and two balloon fragments, each of which contained a gram of heroin. The kit is used for the injection of heroin into the veins and it, too, contained heroin. Officer Grennan displayed the two balloon fragments to Delores and said, "What about these things?" She replied, "They are mine." He asked if she

was using heroin and she said yes. He examined her hands and arms and they bore evidence of recent usage of heroin. The officer then placed her under arrest. In the top left drawer of a bureau located in a small dressing room across from the bath, Officer Grennan found 53 balloon fragments wrapped in yellow tissue. Each of these balloon fragments contained a grain of heroin. On top of the TV in defendants' apartment was a receipt given by the manager for the payment of rent by Bobby for the apartment. After Officer Grennan found the balloons in the bureau, he asked Delores if they were hers and she said yes. Later at the Police Administration Building, Delores stated to Officer Grennan that Bobby was the bossAngeles. As a means of investigating this clue the officer and his partners went to the apartment house in question. There the manager confirmed the information that the Samuels were actually living in apartment 1. The manager further stated that there had been numerous persons who visited this apartment and left after a short period. To Officer Grennan, an expert in the narcotic traffic, this information indicated that these persons were there to purchase narcotics from defendants. The fresh needle marks that were observed on Bobby's left forearm when he rolled up his sleeves indicated that he had recently received injections of heroin It was at this time when the officers and Bobby were in the hallway just outside of his apartment that he admitted he had previously

TNW has spent significant time over the last two years covering Starcraft 2, a popular video game, and esports, the competitive gaming scene. This post is the first of several in our new ‘Inside Esports’ series that will be published from time to time, as TNW secures the interviews that it requires. Esports existed before Starcraft 2, its predecessor, Starcraft, being one of its stalwarts for years. However, the release of Starcraft 2 was the spark that brought together a number of factors that led to an explosion in esports in the Western world, taking it to a level that had before only been seen in South Korea. New teams were formed, all around the globe. Tournaments swelled. Sponsorships grew in size, and frequency. Prize purses expanded. In the earlier daysof Starcaft 2, one particular sponsorship took a small team and a large community to the next level. That post is part of the tale of Team Liquid and The Little App Factory (TLAF). For those looking or the full story, head here. Let it suffice to say that at the time, TLAF’s decision to put enough money into Team Liquid that it could pick up new players and attend tournaments on several continents was a gutsy move. In South Korea, teams are sponsored by large corporations, but that a smaller software company would put such faith in esports, and one team, was incredible. TNW approached Mathew ‘Heosat’ Peterson, who headed up the deal between TLAF and Team Liquid, interviewing him on both his personal work in esports, and where

Scientists fear a bigger earthquake could be in the wings. They admit they were caught out by the location of yesterday's earthquake, expecting a serious jolt to occur further west. Now they are warning the 4.36am 7.1 on the Richter Scale quake - centred 40km west of Christchurch and with its epicentre 10km south-east of Darfield - was not the big one they had been predicting. GNS scientist John Ristau said while quakes of such magnitude were expected every so often in the South Island, the area of yesterday's quake was not known to be particularly seismically active. The earthquake triggered a release of pressure caused by the collision and locking together of the Pacific and Australian plates, which are constantly moving in different directions. ''Stress builds up and then everything snaps,'' Ristausaid. Canterbury University geologist Mark Quigley said there was a network of blind faults under the Canterbury Plains that could not be detected on the earth's surface, but the location of yesterday's quake was unexpected and didn't match any known faults. His students had located the scarp or stretch of displaced ground at the centre of the earthquake at Kirwee, 9km from Darfield. It was a long crack in the ground and about half a metre deep. Other scientists said it was astonishing that for such a large, shallow quake so close to a main city, the damage in Christchurch was relatively light. The quake was 10km deep, not surprisingly shallow, according to Quigley, who said aftershocks could continue for weeks but would gradually diminish in size and frequency. But South Islanders can

Marriage and the Family Family, cornerstone of a Civilised Society – I wrote this as a speech 17/11/2004 – nothing has changed. The Hon. DAVID OLDFIELD [10.23 p.m.]: This week my wife, Lisa, and I had the privilege of meeting the President of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Family Association, Mrs Mary-Louise Fowler. Mary-Louise and many committed and well-meaning individuals and organisations are doing their very best to promote the family. The family is the cornerstone of decent society and the matchless building block of any good civilisation. Unfortunately, there is a considerable ongoing attack on traditional families and traditional family life. Such assaults are largely the work of social engineers with personal agendas related to the justification and promotion of their own circumstances, not the welfare offall," Turner told the audience. Microsoft quietly announced it would be opening its own chain of retail stores in February. At that time, company officials also announced they had hired David Porter away from animation studio DreamWorks Animation SKG, where he headed worldwide product distribution. His official job title is corporate vice president of retail stores and he reports directly to Turner. The stores will be the first two of what Microsoft has characterized as a small number of retail outlets. Gizmodo claims to have come into some 140 PowerPoint slides, of which it posted 54 online. The slides are labeled Lippincott, for the famed 65-year-old brand-focused design firm. While confirming that the slides are authentic, however, Microsoft said they are just ideas. "As a part of our process in briefing creative agencies,

The city of St Louis, Missouri, remains one of the most segregated cities in the US, according to a study by the Manhattan Institute. But one street in particular has been known to residents as the "dividing line". Delmar Boulevard, which spans the city from east to west, features million-dollar mansions directly to the south, and poverty-stricken areas to its north. What separates rich and poor is sometimes just one street block. The BBC's Franz Strasser talked to residents, business owners and pastors on both sides of the street about why things are the way they are. Graphics feature 'Google Earth' images.One franchise of the popular pizza chain is serving as a model for how restaurants can give back to their community. One location of Little Caesars is serving as a model for how restaurants can give back to their community. Jenny Stevens, who opened a small franchise of the popular pizza chain in Fargo, North Dakota with her late husband Mike Stevens in 2016, talked to TODAY Food about their commitment to feeding homeless citizens in their town. To date, the location has served over 142,000 slices of pizza to those in need of a meal—a commitment which began after they noticed people going through their dumpster for leftover food. Get push notifications with news, features and more. This prompted Mike, who died of leukemia in 2017, to put up a sign

Imperial War Museums In a country defined by class, only 'gentlemen' from the upper- and middle-classes were expected to become new officers in 1914. Dressing the part: The CEF officer in World War I – CCGW Until the First World War, most officers came from the upper middle class and were already well connected within the army, usually receiving the recommendation of a family friend that would allow them to take a position as an officer. Almost to a man the upper class of Britain were the product of a public school education. They were an intellectual elite who would endure the highest attrition rate of any social strata during ‘The Great War’. Craig Mowbray answered on Quora. Their education imbued them with a sense of loyalty and obligation, the expectation that they should​Zulu (isiZulu) is the language of the Zulu people with about 12 million people (2011 census) using it as their first language. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa (24% of the population, as well as being understood by over 50% of the population.) In 1994 it became one of the official languages in South Africa. Zulu migrant populations have taken it to adjacent regions, especially to Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Swaziland. Like most indigenous South African languages, it was not a written language until contact with missionaries from Europe, who documented the language using the Latin Script. The first written document in isiZulu was a Bible translation that appeared in 1883 from Norway. The Zulu version of the Great Invocation was tested for its

By Cameron Spencer In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election when abortion was a much-discussed topic, there were 654 demonstrations held at 374 Planned Parenthood abortion businesses across the United States to protest taxpayer funding. Tens of thousands of people participated. But now the protesters are setting an agenda to go big. TRENDING: Americans against unconstitutional mask mandates Planned Parenthood, after all, has been in the news much of late. An undercover video investigation by the Center for Medical Progress in 2015 exposed the organization's heartless and illegal profiting from the sale of the body parts of babies. "A lot of people want intact hearts these days because they're looking for specific nodes," said Deborah Nucatolah, a Planned Parenthood executive. Another, arguing for higher prices, said, "I want a Lamborghini." The videos prompted Congress totop of that, Planned Parenthood is trafficking baby body parts. "Taxpayers are sickened to see their money spent in support of these atrocities." About 60 groups are part of the coalition, including 40 Days for Life, Alliance Defending Freedom, American Family Association, American Life League, Americans United for Life, Anglicans for Life, Ave Maria Radio, Black People Against Abortion, Californians for Life, Catholics Called to Witness, CEC for Life, Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Center for Family & Human Rights, Cwentral Oregon Right to Life, Christian Defense Coaliation, Church on the Hill and Cincinnati Right to Life. Monica Migliorino Miller of the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society said, "The defunding of Planned Parenthood is a matter of moral principle. Not a single cent of American tax dollars should go to an organization

with opposition from the Woman's March the week before. His group carried signs stating "Women and Children First." Harrington said he has never witnessed such "lewd and rude behavior." "Volunteers and staff were threatened, shouted-down, had their equipment stolen, and were spat in the face," he said. "Culture has coarsened," he said. "When you jettison the Christian world view you unleash this mob like behavior." Another participant, Monica Miller, the director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, described a similar atmosphere where her peaceful group was met with "vulgarity and vitriol." Congress has discussed defunding Planned Parenthood, and it could come with the anticipated repeal of Obamacare. Last Thursday, the Hill reported House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke of defunding the group by "cutting off federal funds" that will "be included in a reconciliation billLosing Samajwadi Party minister can't get enough of Modi magic It sealed Ravidas Mehrotra's fate on March 11, and his official residence less than a week later. After receiving a body blow in the UP Assembly polls and crying hoarse over the tampering of EVMs, a reluctant loser from Samajwadi Party was literally locked in humiliation. The "Modi magic" that sealed former UP family welfare minister Ravidas Mehrotra's defeat on March 11, also sealed his official residence less than a week later, when the SP leader and several other MLAs were vacating their state-allotted accomodation following their historic drubbing in the Assembly polls. That Modi magic is a double lock for the Samajwadi Party's future is no more just the writing on the wall. To add insult to injury, incidentally, the lock -

PRE-SEASON tours spent cooped up in hotel rooms, being bussed around foreign countries and turning out against lower-league opposition are not always the things dreams are made of for the ambitious young footballers of today. Stuart Armstrong, the Dundee United midfielder, gives the impression that he is rather different from the norm, though. He has talked in detail already about his commendable decision to use the spare time afforded by his current job to embrace the challenge of a six-year law degree through the Open University rather than while away the hours tweeting about his favourite chicken restaurants or singing about refugees in the pub. Those studies are being undertaken with a view to a life beyond football, of course, but this intelligent 22-year-old has clearly been weighing up what hewants from the Beautiful Game for quite some time as well. It crystallised during the course of last summer as he travelled around Germany with United in preparation for what has been a pleasing season, both personally and collectively. The campaign is due to conclude next month with the small matter of a Scottish Cup final appearance against St Johnstone. Forget the fact Jackie McNamara's team suffered comprehensive pre-season defeats by German second division sides Energie Cottbus and Union Berlin. Armstrong - who grew up a Leeds United supporter fascinated by the glitz and glamour of the English Premier League - got the chance to see the German game up close and gain a flavour of the terrific organisation and positivity which surrounds the sport in that country. Ryan Gauld, said

to have been on scouting lists passed under the noses of those in the know at Real Madrid, dreams of one day gracing La Liga with his technical skills. Armstrong, stronger and more athletic than his tanner ba' team-mate, likes the idea of furthering his career in the Bundesliga. "Gauldy said he liked the Spanish League," said Armstrong, who has been attracting the interest of Celtic alongside teams south of the border. "I definitely prefer the German one. "When I was younger, I always liked watching the English Premier League with all the big players. I was a big Leeds United fan when they had Harry Kewell, Mark Viduka and Alan Smith. I've got some family there and I remember going along to a really exciting 0-0 draw with Sheffieldgot it most. He's got a bit of a temper on him. Maybe it's because he's Glaswegian. On the way down here, he kept saying we were on our way to the Big Smoke, that he knew his way around the town and that we should stay by his side. "He's very passionate about winning and he's not happy when that doesn't happen. Sometimes, that's a good trait to have. I'm the calming influence. I just ignore him. Gauldy's very much the same. He concentrates on himself and doesn't let anything faze him too much." Armstrong is a little more advanced in footballing terms than the likes of Gauld and John Souttar. The midfielder is possibly ready to move away from United and test himself at a higher level and

best way to learn and you do get plenty of games at United. We feel part of something that's quite special and reaching a cup final is very special for all of us." Armstrong, Gauld, Souttar and Robertson have commandeered the headlines at Tannadice this season thanks to their fine performances, but it must be questioned whether they would ever have been able to prosper without the unsung heroes of Paul Paton and John Rankin doing so much of the dirty work in midfield. "I don't think they get the credit they deserve," said Armstrong. "Pates got his man of the match award in the cup semi-final with Rangers at the weekend, which was very pleasing as he's put in a lot of good performances this season. "Ranks has too. Itit to Clara in Time of the Doctor. As a result, when they were "shot", they acted as the real Doctor would have (given the information they had on file), mimicking the process of regeneration before it was interrupted by a second shot. His companions, especially the River watching, would have been suspicious if he hadn't started to regenerate. Out-of-Universe: Moffat, as usual, didn't think that far ahead. Part of it was that "The War Doctor" wasn't even a thing in 2011 (when those episodes would have been written), since the BBC were still hoping that Eccleston would come back for the 50th anniversary special. After it became apparent that he wasn't going to forgive them that easily, 'The War Doctor' came into being. Another part of it was that

The predominantly Catholic island nation of Malta, which only legalized divorce six years ago and where abortion remains outlawed, is on the cusp of sanctioning same-sex marriage. At the urging of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who won his second-straight term in a snap election last month, the Marriage Equality Bill is the first law being debated by the country’s new parliament, which convened for its first sitting on Monday. Muscat, leader of the center-left Labour Party, has vowed to expedite the legalization process, calling marriage equality a top priority for his government. “The first law that we are going to put on the agenda — and I hope that it is approved as quickly as possible — is that of the Marriage Equality Bill,” said Muscat after his swearing-in ceremonySicily and the North African coast remains the only country in the European Union where abortion is banned under all circumstances. Yet, when it comes to LGBTQ rights, Malta has emerged as a European leader. In 2014, the Maltese government passed a law recognizing same-sex civil unions, including the right of gay couples to adopt. Last year, Malta became the first European country to make gay conversion therapy illegal, deeming it to be a “deceptive and harmful” act. “Life has changed a lot for gay people in Malta over the past two years,” Russell Sammut, a Maltese gay rights advocate, told Time magazine in December. “Up until 2014 we had no rights here, but once civil unions were enacted people changed their attitudes overnight. Everyone is afraid of the unknown, but

Read: Is it time for the Jews to leave Europe? Whereas Sayoc is a recognizable member of the pro-Trump internet subculture, the Tree of Life murderer will likely prove someone too extreme even for that underworld. But if no important voice in any way encouraged this shooter, there are a great many important voices who ensured that he had easy access to the guns with which he committed the shooting. Post-Newtown, post–Las Vegas, it remains a supreme priority of American politics to protect access to instruments of death by the potentially violent. The gunman who killed two at a Kentucky supermarket on October 25 reportedly had a long history of mental illness. Orders had been entered against him to prevent him from obtaining firearms. He carried one with him atall times anyway—because in a country where guns are ubiquitous, guns will be everywhere. And where guns are everywhere, death by guns can strike anywhere. Synagogues, churches—we have not yet even reached the first anniversary of the mass slaughter in the Sutherland Springs church in Texas—and of course schools. Everywhere. There’s no politician to blame for the ideas in the synagogue murderer’s head. There are plenty to blame for the weapons in his hands. And at the top of that list is Trump, whose response to the killing was to blame the synagogue for not having armed guards of its own. In his famous letter to the Jewish congregations of Newport, Rhode Island, the nation’s first president pledged to them a country that would fulfill the biblical prophecy: “Every one

was four enemy airplanes destroyed, eight driven down out of control. On 19 August 1917, he was shot down and wounded by Ernst Hess of Jagdstaffel 28, and then captured. Postwar life On 26 July 1919, Richards was transferred to the unemployed list of the Royal Air Force. As of 2 April 1948, Richards is referred to in Australian government papers as living at 26 Weewanda Street, Glenelg. He subsequently died in Glenelg on 28 March 1973. Honors and awards Military Cross (MC) 2nd Lt. Cecil Roy Richards, R.F.C., Spec. Res. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when on offensive patrols in attacking and shooting down hostile machines. On one occasion he shot down four in one day, displaying great dash and a fine offensive spirit. Sources of information References Pusher Aces of Worldof courses shut down in the last three years will be about nine, said Julio L. Torres, director of the Venezuelan Golf Federation. A project on Margarita Island, designed by the American architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. and intended to be South America’s top course, was halted because of financial problems. Most of the closed courses are in oil regions, near Maracaibo in western Venezuela and in Monagas State, in the east, and were initially built for Americans working in the oil industry. Mr. Chávez’s purge of dissidents from the national oil company focused suspicion on the golf courses, which were seen as bastions of the old elite. A housing shortage has also pushed the government’s hand, Mr. Chávez said last month, when he questioned why Maracay had so many

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is now facing a third federal investigation into its sexual assault policies. This time, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating allegations that UNC inappropriately retaliated against Landen Gambill, a sophomore at the university, after she publicly came forward about her rape. Gambill was one of several students who filed a federal complaint against the university at the beginning of the year, alleging UNC has created a “hostile environment” for rape victims attempting to report sexual crimes. In February, the sophomore faced an honor code violation that claimed she “intimidated” her alleged rapist by publicly sharing the story of her sexual assault — even though she never named him, simply referring to him as an “ex-boyfriend.” Later that year,Stay safe at Christmas Find out how to have a merry Christmas at an event giving tips on staying safe during the festive season. The third ‘Have a Safe Christmas’ event is being hosted by Wokingham Borough Council on Wednesday, December 8, at the Bradbury Centre in Rose Street, Wokingham. Residents will be able to meet representatives from the emergency services, Trading Standards, the council’s community safety team and other organisations interested in helping keep people safe over the holiday period. The event will run from 11am to 1pm and has been organised with the help of the Take Notice Group, a self-advocacy team of people with learning disabilities who champion the interests of others with disabilities.

in March slowed to 3.44 percent, a seven-year low, and mortgage loan growth slid to a three-year low. Consumers are not the only ones feeling the pinch. Non-financial corporate bond issuance has dropped by more than a third in the year through April from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters data, and Canadian industrial corporate bond yields as tracked by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch have hit their highest in four-and-a-half years. Analysts and investors see U.S. rates markets as the culprit behind the quickened pace of financial tightening in Canada. “A concern for the Bank of Canada is that rising U.S. rates will drive up term interest rates in Canada more than it would want with its domestic monetary policy,” said Ed Devlin, head of Canadian portfolio management at Pacifica year ago. That is the widest spread in nearly five years. Last month Toronto-Dominion Bank lifted its posted rate for five-year mortgages by 45 basis points to 5.59 percent even as the BoC stayed on hold. Some of the other major Canadian banks have since lifted their posted rates. The increases come as nearly half of outstanding mortgages face a rate reset within the year, according to BoC estimates from late 2017. “Financial conditions in Canada are tightening perhaps more aggressively than the Bank of Canada anticipated,” said Karl Schamotta, director global markets strategy at Cambridge Global Payments. Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz cautioned in a speech earlier this month of the risks to the economy from record high household debt. It rose in the fourth quarter to more than

He played every minute of the tournament for his country, including their first ever World Cup win over Nigeria on 17 June 2010. But, after the participation in two major events, Greece coach Fernando Santos dropped Alexandros Tziolis from his final 23-player squad for the UEFA Euro 2012. Tziolis had a poor season and could not even get a regular spot in the Monaco team, in Ligue 2, while his performance in the last friendlies did little to change Santos's mind. Two years later, Tziolis exceptional season year with both PAOK and Kayserispor was his passport not only to be called by Santos to the 30-man provisional World Cup squad, but also to the final 23-man squad for 2014 FIFA World Cup. Style of play Tziolis is a tall defensive midfielder, goodPARK RANGER MARGARET ANDERSON was operating a roadblock in Mount Rainier National Park on New Year’s Day to prevent cars without snow chains from proceeding up the mountain. What should have been a routine assignment turned deadly, authorities say, when Benjamin Colton Barnes tried to evade a stop by shooting repeatedly into the side of Ms. Anderson’s patrol car. The barrage killed the 34-year-old mother of two little girls. This was not the first violent incident of the day involving Mr. Barnes, officials said. In the first few hours of 2012, Mr. Barnes and a group of friends were playing “show and tell” with their guns when a fight broke out and Mr. Barnes and another individual are believed to have shot four people. Mr. Barnes then traveled to

Mount Rainier to hide from authorities. After shooting the park ranger, Mr. Barnes escaped into the woods; he was found hours later frozen to death, wearing only a T-shirt and jeans, with a knife, ammunition and at least two firearms, including an assault-style weapon. Mr. Barnes apparently was an emotionally plagued young man. He served a tour of duty in Iraq in 2007 but was discharged from the military some two years later after a drunk driving incident and improper transport of a private weapon, according to The Seattle Times. An ex-girlfriend, with whom he has an infant daughter, filed for a restraining order over the summer after describing Mr. Barnes as erratic and possibly suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. She noted that Mr. Barnes owned a small arsenal.one has to look southward. Antarctica's ice sheets are melting faster than initial models predicted, and ocean currents sweep that water northward. Gravity is also to blame: Antarctica's tremendous mass exerts a huge pull on the oceans, extending all the way to the Atlantic—but as the continent loses ice, its grip will weaken, allowing that closely held water to flow toward the opposite pole. Melting mountain glaciers add more water, and higher global temperatures make the oceans warm and swell in a process called thermal expansion. So-called sunshine flooding—inundation without storms—now occurs in Norfolk as often as nine days a year, up from two days a year in the mid-1980s, the report says. City officials are employing everything from earthen dikes to water-permeable pavement to tame the rising waters. Authorities

electric motor, allowing it to reach a maximum speed of 160km/h. It produces no harmful emissions – only water vapour comes from the tailpipe – and has an official driving range of almost 600 km on one tank of hydrogen. Cape Business News, founded in 1980, is a specialist online and print platform that provides business readers with comprehensive news, with extensive coverage of general business trends, events, statistics, new products, services and projects.two sources. Indeed, beginning with a “founder” figure, the Dynastic Vases hold out the prospect of unlocking the entire early sequence of this important kingdom, constituting a record as important as the Temple of Cross Tablet has been for understanding the royal line of Palenque, or Altar Q and the Temple 26 Hieroglyphic Stairway for the sequence at Copan. Figure 1. Roll-out image of K6751 (photograph by Justin Kerr). As the earliest researchers to work on the Dynastic Vases realized, the chronology of the text, consisting only of Calendar Round dates without a tie to the Long Count, is flawed (Robicsek and Hales 1981:157-159). Day- and month-names are consistent, but variations in their coefficients produce a number of impossible combinations—some arising from the inventions of modern restorers, but others plainly

G. 2003. Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship at Quiriguá. University of Texas Press, Austin. Martin, Simon. 1996. Calakmul en el Registro Epigráfico. In: Proyecto Arqueológico de la Biosfera de Calakmul: Temporada 1993-94 by Ramón Carrasco V. et al., Centro Regional de Yucatán, INAH, Mérida. _______________. 1997. The Painted King List: A Commentary on Codex-style Dynastic Vases. In The Maya Vase Book, Volume 5: A Corpus of Roll-out Photographs, edited by Barbara Kerr and Justin Kerr, pp. 846-867. Kerr Associates, New York. _______________. 2003. In Line of the Founder: A View of Dynastic Politics at Tikal. In Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, and Affairs of State, edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff, pp. 3-45. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series, School of American Research Press and James Curry, Santa Fe and Oxford. _______________. 2005.Tikal, Guatemala. Martin, Simon, and Erik Velásquez García. 2016. Polities and Places: Tracing the Toponyms of the Snake Dynasty. The PARI Journal 17(2):23-33. Miller, Mary, and Simon Martin. 2004. Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya. Thames and Hudson, London and New York. Nalda, Enrique. 2004. Dzibanché: El context de los cautivos. In Los Cautivos de Dzibanché, edited by Enrique Nalda, pp.13-55. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. Robicsek, Francis, and Donald M. Hales. 1981. The Maya Book of the Dead, The Ceramic Codex. The Corpus of Codex-Style Ceramics of the Late Classic Period. University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville. Stuart, David. 2005. The Inscriptions from Temple XIX at Palenque: A Commentary. Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco. Tokovinine, Alexandre, and Marc Zender. 2012. Lords of Windy Water: The Royal Court of Motul

Soviet Army tanks drive towards the Russian White House in central Moscow early on August 20, 1991. Boris Yeltsin never suspected how a precursor to the Internet helped him foil the August 1991 coup and bring down the USSR until he bumped into a blinking computer and noticed something called e-mail. Boris Yeltsin never suspected how a precursor to the Internet helped him foil the August 1991 coup and bring down the USSR until he bumped into a blinking computer and noticed something called e-mail. A quick presentation by a starry-eyed woman who worked on the Soviet Union's maiden computer communications programme left Russia's first president stunned. For Yeltsin was peering at an electronic version of his own momentous decree pronouncing the Communist coup attempt illegal and proclaiming himself the country'sultimate leader. His astonishing gamble of August 19 -- taken as the fate of Soviet Communism hung in the balance -- had paid off only because people managed to hear about it. The veteran coup plotters seized immediate control of all airwaves and shut the presses in an attempt to appear in full command and make sure that the pride of a unified Soviet Union stood unshaken. But there was a communications loophole -- one neither the KGB knew how to plug nor which Yeltsin had ever heard about. And it involved a team of geeky technicians and a revolutionary Soviet e-mail system called RelCom. "He was astounded," former RelCom manager Maria Stepanova said of her sudden encounter with Yeltsin a few months after the late leader's unlikely victory over the Communist

hardliners. "And there I was thinking: the newspapers are closed, the radio is not working, television is down -- and the people still know. So you were the one responsible!" she recalled a visibly-moved Yeltsin as saying. The story of RelCom -- the Soviet Union's first private computer network and forerunner of what became known as the Internet -- begins in the bowels of the super-secret Kurchatov Institute on the dusty outskirts of Moscow. Its team of 10,000 nuclear scientists and math whizzes had orders to keep up with the West during the Cold War. The breakthrough came in 1990 when it managed to zip a computer file by phone line to Finland. The leader of the Soviet-era Russian republic Boris Yeltsin (C), flanked by guards holding a bulletproof shield, makes aspeech during a funeral procession of the victims of the coup in Moscow on August 24, 1991, after the coup attemp failed. The find's importance seemed fleeting at first. RelCom had just 3,000 clients ranging from institutes to a few state organisations by the time tanks rumbled into Moscow that fateful summer. But that lone Finland link fed RelCom's e-mails into a global forum known as UseNet -- the pre-Internet community's main means of spreading gossip and swapping files. And this is where excited researchers like Stepanova came in and did their bit to alter the course of history. "We realised that something big was happening and that people needed to know," Stepanova said in the office of her new private Internet development company. "Perhaps Yeltsin's decree (of August 19, 1991) reached one

of our clients by fax -- we had them in those days -- and then they posted it with us. But either way, Yeltsin's appeal to the people was one of the first things we published." RelCom went on to open the floodgates and pass each of its posts to UseNet -- an onslaught of e-mails with titles such as "eyewitness account" that were echoed two decades later during the Twitter revolutions of the Arab world. It was not a move taken without risk. RelCom feared that its cover may have been blown for good when one Western television network attributed a news flash to an e-mail received from Moscow. People stand on the barricades surrounding the Russian White House in Moscow on August 24, 1991. "That was horrible. (The Western network)disclosed the source of all this information. That really frightened us," Stepanova said. "But then somehow ... it never happened again." One of the greatest mysteries of the entire episode is why the KGB security service never shut down the team or tried to arrest its members. Stepanova recalled how one agent visited the group's office in the weeks preceding the attempted coup only to come away confused by the role a little box called the modem could play in international communications. "I think the KGB had a suspicion that something untoward was happening," said Stepanova. "They understood that we were engaged in some sort of international telephone negotiations. That something was happening. And then they saw the modem. But they could not make the link." Soviet Army soldiers sit a top APCs

in central Moscow on August 19, 1991, in front of the Russian White House. Russia marks on August 19, 2011, the 20th anniversary of the abortive 1991 coup against then Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Tanks rolled through Moscow towards the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin had gathered his supporters after denouncing the coup. Stepanova -- a merry chain smoker who once studied the murky science of how computers can help humans in life -- said she was driving out of Moscow and about to start her summer vacation when she ran into a column of Soviet tanks. She told her son that their vacation plans were finished and then re-joined the RelCom crew for a three-day spell in which they sent out tens of thousands of e-mails to information-starvedhead coach about their free agency plans. Of course, the big upside for the Redskins is that everyone has been distracted by the train wreck that the Giants have been to notice what's going on in Washington. Key players added/re-signed: QB Case Keenum, RB Adrian Peterson, OT Ereck Flowers, S Landon Collins 29. Kansas City Chiefs The Chiefs had one of the worst defenses in the NFL last season and it doesn't seem like there's any way it's going to get much better with the team losing Dee Ford, Eric Berry, Justin Houston, and Steven Nelson since the beginning of the month. The Chiefs signed multiple defensive players to make up for their losses, but it's starting to feel like 2019 could turn out a lot like 2018 in Kansas City: Patrick

see both Jamon Brown and James Carpenter start for the Falcons in 2019, that might not be such a good thing for Matt Ryan. Key players added/re-signed: G Jamon Brown, G James Carpenter, RB Kenjon Burner, DL Grady Jarrett, LB Bruce Carter, EDGE Steven Means 24. Minnesota Vikings The Vikings first week of free agency basically boils down to this: They didn't want to overpay for Anthony Barr, but then they ended up overpaying for Anthony Barr, who got a five-year deal worth $67.5 million that included $33 million in guaranteed money. The Vikings also re-signed Dan Bailey even though he struggled through his first season in Minnesota. Bailey hit just 75 percent of his field goals, which ranked second-to-last in the NFL for any kicker that had 15 or moreThe 49ers took a big risk with two of their signings by adding Kwon Alexander and Jason Verrett, two players who missed most of the 2018 season. The upside for San Francisco is that if those two don't pan out, there's minimal financial risk in their contracts and they can be cut after just one year. Besides those two, the 49ers also added Dee Ford, which is probably a good thing, because San Francisco's defense surrendered 27.2 points per game in 2018, which was the fifth-worst number in the NFL. Key players added/re-signed: OLB Dee Ford (Trade), LB Elijah Lee, CB Greg Mabin, LB Kwon Alexander, S Jimmie Ward, LS Kyle Nelson, K Robbie Gould, G Mike Person, RB Tevin Coleman, WR Jordan Matthews, LB David Mayo, S Antone

He actually spent some money. Now, that might not sound like a novel approach, but it is in Green Bay, where there's a better chance of seeing someone wear a bathing suit outside in December than there is of seeing the Packers burn through money in free agency. Not only did Gutekunst go on a spending spree, but he added players on the defensive side of the ball, which means Aaron Rodgers won't be called upon to win every game for the Packers. Key players added/re-signed: S Adrian Amos, EDGE Preston Smith, EDGE Za'Darius Smith, G Billy Turner, TE Marcedes Lewis 4. Carolina Panthers The Panthers went into free agency with needs at several positions -- tackle, center, safety and pass-rush -- and they were one of the few teams ableto fill their needs with quality players without breaking the bank. The Panthers re-signed Eric Reid after watching him start 13 games for them last season. Carolina also filled a big hole at center by signing Matt Paradis away from the Broncos. The Panthers also got Daryl Williams and Bruce Irvin on low-risk one-year deals. Key players added/re-signed: EDGE Bruce Irvin, S Eric Reid, C Matt Paradis, OT Daryl Williams 3. Arizona Cardinals Cardinals general manager Steve Keim clearly got tired of watching Arizona's quarterbacks get sacked last season, because one of the big things he did during free agency was beef up the Cards' offensive line. Not only did they land Marcus Gilbert in a trade with the Steelers, but they also signed guards J.R. Sweezy and Max Garcia at

well in free agency over the past few years that our own Will Brinson has jumped on the hype train in pretty much every season since 2013. From March 2013. From March 2014. From March 2017. Unfortunately for the Browns and Brinson, those offseason moves over the past few years haven't really translated to any success on the field. However, this year actually feels different. Not only did the Browns make the biggest move of the offseason by trading for Odell Beckham, but they also made some underrated moves like trading for Olivier Vernon and adding Sheldon Richardson. Former Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt will likely also make a splash in Cleveland once he's eligible to play (Hunt has been suspended for the first eight games of the season). Key players added/re-signed: EDGEAlleged British pedo arrested after NGO probe Alleged British pedo arrested after NGO probe Anti-human trafficking police arrested a British national yesterday on charges he molested three girls between the ages of 8 and 11. Keo Thea, director of the police’s anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection office, confirmed the arrest of the 55-year-old suspect. NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) tipped police off to allegations against him following an investigation they began last year. According to APLE, the man returned to Cambodia this month after molesting underage girls during past visits. MOST VIEWED Caretaker prime minister Hun Sen used a meeting with 18,400 factory workers on Wednesday to predict that he would beat the record for being the world’s longest-serving non-royal leader. He also used the platform to slam political opponent Sam Rainsy who he

said had lost Sihanoukville, the Kingdom’s most famous beach destination for tourists, is seemingly becoming a paradise for Chinese investors as well. The huge influx of Chinese investors has caused property values to rise, especially the price of land, which has nearly doubled in some places near US President Donald Trump on Friday appointed W Patrick Murphy as the new US Ambassador to Cambodia, replacing incumbent William A Heidt. A press release posted on the White House’s website said nominee W Patrick Murphy is currently acting principal deputy assistant secretary at It was dubbed a success by caretaker prime minister Hun Sen after the electoral victory of his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), which is poised to take all seats in the National Assembly. But the July 29 national election has not been positively lookedof mutual funds were held by corporations in 2010, and 65 percent of individual stockholders in 2009 owned no mutual funds." He was however not clear about the reason why individuals preferred to own stocks directly in India. Speaking on the topic, "Getting Better: Learning to invest in the Indian stock market', at the two-day IFC organised jointly by IIM-A, IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Calcutta, the professor from Oxford University said, that there is, however, an increasing trend towards directing investments through mutual funds. Tellingly, Ramadorai who analysed 20 million individual accounts from NSDL said rookie investors in India tend to choose "high momentum stocks" unlike investors with 7-8 years of experience. There is also a greater tendency among rookie investors to hang on to stocks that are losing in the market, and

councillor protesting that it was taking bread out of the mouths of the poor and he could not agree as he was a “trade union leader” – the decision eventually went to a vote. 33 members of the Council voted in favour, and 22 against. This caused uproar in the gallery, with people calling Mr Willis a traitor and a turncoat – although the Star acknowledged that Mr Willis was clearly affected by emotion during the proceedings. Elsewhere the paper reports on the ongoing recruitment drive, saying that there were now 100 men in the Battersea battalion. It also records that Wandsworth had instituted a “corps of lady recruiters… Battersea will go one better, it always does when in competition with Wandsworth. Wait a little while and we shallace. And then, the regular season -- and the exhausting demands of reality -- hits. We realize how hard it is to run an experiment in the middle of a season. Everybody mostly falls in line. With nearly a quarter of the season complete, it's a good time to check in on the offseason and spring training hopes that the revolution might, finally, this time be nigh. Here's a State of the Bullpen in 2017: All 30 teams, ordered by loyalty to convention so far. 1. Cubs Oh, that kooky Joe Maddon. Nothing he won't try, no unconventional strategy he won't employ. Like, check my dude out: Maddon's closer, Wade Davis, hasn't appeared in a game before the ninth inning all season. When the score is tied and Maddon is on the

managers make their decisions based on roles more than on personnel. Remember when Buck Showalter didn't use Zach Britton with the score tied on the road in last year's wild-card game? He used, among other pitchers, Brad Brach instead? Of course you do. I've already linked to it three times in this article. Well, Showalter still wouldn't use his closer with the score tied on the road this year, against the Reds on April 20. His closer this year, though, is Brad Brach, the guy Showalter did use in the same situation last year. Brach had been the closer for exactly five days, after Britton went on the disabled list. He had one save on the season, four in his entire career. But on that day he wasthe closer, and the closer closes, so Showalter kept him out until the Orioles had a lead to protect. See also the Royals, where Kelvin Herrera, after years as a setup man, is now the Royals' closer. He got the job by pitching so effectively in the seventh and eighth innings, but now that he's the closer he pitches the ninth, and only the ninth. Jeanmar Gomez, meanwhile, was the Phillies' closer until he wasn't. In the former role, he was kept out of games with the score tied. In the latter role -- which he got because he wasn't pitching well -- he pitches in the ninth inning of tie games on the road. It seems weird. It is weird. But we're pointing it out not to indict

on one game: April 12, against the Twins. Manager Brad Ausmus was without his regular closer and his regular setup man that day. He sent Alex Wilson out to pitch the eighth, and, according to the game story, "while Wilson was working the eighth, Ausmus pondered whether Shane Greene or Anibal Sanchez would be his ninth-inning guy. But before he could make a decision, Wilson already had breezed through the eighth, and was the pick to go back out there." Wilson got the save. Nothing about that might seem all the important -- it was a weird day, with weird bullpen limitations -- but the fact that Ausmus went into a game, went into the eighth inning even, without a declared "closer" is notable. They've otherwise been traditional. Thisthe committee plan. Steve Cishek -- just off the disabled list, having pitched the day before, and having lost the closing job last year -- got the first crack. ("He's been out there before," manager Scott Servais explained.) The Mariners had said they would play matchups and "use multiple relievers to piece together the ninth," but Cishek was allowed to face four batters, the first three of whom reached against him, two of whom were lefties, one of whom hit a winning home run. Nobody was warming up in the Mariners' bullpen. Now, the Mariners relief corps was taxed, and not everybody was available that night. Going to Cishek and staying with him might have been the best move. On another night, the Mariners might really have used multiple

relievers to piece together the ninth, like they said. More likely, though, that game was a glimpse at the actual reality: The Mariners have a closer, and they're going to use him like a traditional closer. They're just trying to figure out who it is. 20-22. Padres, White Sox, Pirates Padres manager Andy Green hinted during the spring that he might try using an "opener," a reliever who would start the game before giving way to the "starter," thus preventing his opponents from loading up on lefties or righties. Was he serious? Probably not. The conversation was oddly coy, with lots of "said with a grin" in the recounting of it. Needless to say, the Padres have not done this. They have used their closer as the first choice ininning, you'll come out in the eighth as Alex Colome did in April. Kevin Sousa/USA TODAY Sports 25-27. Rays, Red Sox and Dodgers Closer Alex Colome has come into the eighth inning of a save opportunity five times already. Kenley Jansen has done so four times for the Dodgers. Craig Kimbrel has entered one save situation in the eighth and entered with the score tied in the eighth. The year Francisco Rodriguez set a record with 62 saves, he didn't pitch in the eighth inning even once. Through teams' first 35 games this season, there have been 28 saves of four outs or more. That's the most (in the first 35 games of a season) since 2007, seven more than last year and double the number we saw in 2014, 2013

postseason, when all questions of fatigue and stamina and pacing get tossed out. Would they use him the way they did last summer, bringing him into tight spots early in games and to bridge innings, as a less-established reliever would expect to be used? The answer is yes, with two caveats. As for the yes: Miller has already made six appearances that bridged innings. When he was the Yankees' setup man last year, he did this only twice, over about double the time period. He is averaging more than an inning per appearance, which he told me is something he keeps an eye on with pride. Thanks to this -- and to how well he has pitched -- he's fourth among all relievers in win probability added, despite appearingin the ninth inning only once. As to the two caveats: Four of his past five outings have been three-out jobs in the eighth inning, the sorts of outings that regular setup men do in their regular setup jobs. So he might be slowly falling into a more orthodox setup role. More disappointing, though, is how little his presence has affected the way the Indians use their closer Cody Allen. Having Miller around should free them up to use Allen more expansively, knowing that if he pitches two innings one night, Miller will be there to carry the load the next night. The opposite has happened: Allen has been asked to get four outs only once. On the other hand, it's a long season. 29. Astros The more pressing Andrew Miller

the first quarter of last season. There's also their closer, Ken Giles, who has twice come into games in the eighth and then given way to other pitchers. Once, it was because Mike Trout and Albert Pujols were coming up; Giles got through them and let Will Harris face the bottom of the order in the ninth. The other time was also interesting: The Astros were trailing 5-4 in the top of the eighth, and manager A.J. Hinch decided to get Giles warm and use him in the bottom of the inning. The Astros scored four runs while Giles was warming up, and now it was a save situation. Hinch stuck with his plan -- Giles pitched, got the hold, then gave way to Luke Gregerson. "[Hinch] has said since springtraining he reserves the right to use Giles in high-leverage situations ahead of the ninth inning," the game story reported. "'I've said time and time again I don't really care what the order is. Ken's still going to finish most of the games. But that's what I mean by 'most of the games.' " 30. Reds The Reds aren't afraid of using Raisel Iglesias for multiple innings in a game. Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The committee that actually stuck. Four relievers have saves for the Reds, and while Raisel Iglesias is clearly the closer (with seven saves), the "committee" has made it possible for the Reds to do all sorts of fun things with him. He has three six-out saves, which is almost unheard of from closers, because managers don't want

to be without their closer the next day. On April 15, he entered a game in the fifth inning, pitched two innings and got the win; Michael Lorenzen ended up with the save. In 15 games, Iglesias has thrown 21⅓ innings. That's more than 40 percent more innings than appearances. In the past decade, only three pitchers have collected 20 or more saves while throwing even 20 percent more innings than appearances. In two cases, the relievers racked up innings in very different roles before or after closing: Jenrry Mejia started seven games, Alfredo Aceves lost the ninth-inning job and worked in long relief to close out the season. The third, Andrew Bailey, threw 55 innings in 48 appearances after taking over as closer. Which all means this: Raisel Iglesiasimmediately return to his cell and that he also resisted orders to stand still while Foster attempted to handcuff him. Foster used force only as a result of this resistance and the force he used was an approved method to combat physical resistance. Finally, the record reflects that Stokes hit his head against a wall due to his resisting Foster's attempt to handcuff him and not due to an intentional act on Foster's part. Because Foster could only restore order by restraining and handcuffing Stokes, Stokes' claim of excessive force is deficient as he has failed to show a constitutional violation. See id. 7 Stokes also contends that the district court erred by failing to allow him to complete his discovery. This contention lacks merit. 8 The

happen,” Rotarian Suzanne Bragdon said of the participants who spent eight days, from March 22 to March 29, in the small village of about 5,000 people. Bragdon was one of those who went, spending her time there admitting and filling out intake forms for several hundred Haitian patients who came to the clinic for treatment. “We had women come to the clinic dressed in their Sunday best,” Bragdon said of the importance the Haitians put on being treated by the American doctors. “The people were wonderful and very friendly. They would wait hours without complaint.” The clinic was near where the village children would come to get buckets of water to carry home. It was also where residents would go to take showers because there was no other infrastructure in themust repay more than £53 million. The 49-year-old fled to Pakistan, Dubai and finally Canada, where he lived under a new identity. He fled to Lahore, Pakistan, in 2006 when he was on trial for smuggling 2.25 tonnes illegal hand-rolling tobacco, worth £750,000 in evaded duty, into the UK in 2000. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison in his absence. Chohan was also linked to a £185m VAT fraud involving phony companies set up to fraudulently reclaim VAT by faking the import and export of mobile phones and microchips. Evidence was presented to a confiscation hearing in December 2006 of Chohan’s involvement in the VAT fraud as well as the tobacco smuggling. The court ruled Chohan’s lifestyle was funded by crime and ordered him to repay £28.6 million

brought back to face justice thanks to the work done here in the UK and abroad particularly by the Canadian Mounties.” Chohan, who is thought to have used a number of aliases during his time on the run, is also believed to have lived in the Jumeirah area of Dubai, regularly travelling between Pakistan and Dubai from 2011 to 2013, before settling in Ottawa, Canada. It is thought that Chohan first started to travel to Canada from Dubai in 2010 to lay down roots for his new life. Chohan was identified living under the false identity, Muhammad Afzal Khan, in Ottawa, and was tracked down by HMRC, working closely with the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency. RCMP arrested Chohan at Toronto airport as he returned to Canada from the UnitedArab Emirates in September 2016. He was placed on remand at a correctional centre in Lindsay, Ontario, before being flown back to the UK. He arrived back in the UK today (1 June 2018) accompanied by HMRC officers before being taken to Birmingham Crown Court where his sentence was confirmed. Chohan is the latest in a string of tax fugitives caught and returned to face UK justice, including Jamie and Brian Colwell , Mariusz Chorazy, Lieb Berger, Antonio De Sousa, Mbarak Gowie, Wayne Hardy, and Geoffrey Johnson.

Up Next Citizenship net catches another More National News Videos Life in a refugee camp: Marie Marie Sesay was eight-years-old when she fled war-torn Sierre Leone for a refugee camp in Guinea where food was scarce and sanitation obsolete. Now aged 25 and studying in Sydney, she tells her story to mark World Refugee Day 2014. Up Next Barcelona Terror attack: Aussies injured Barcelona Terror attack: Aussies injured Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed three Australians have been hurt when a van mowed people down in a popular tourist spot, killing more than a dozen people and injuring around one hundred more. Calombaris pleads guilty to assault Life in a refugee camp: Marie Marie Sesay was eight-years-old when she fled war-torn Sierre Leone for a refugee camp in Guinea where food was scarce and sanitation obsolete. Now aged 25and studying in Sydney, she tells her story to mark World Refugee Day 2014. Against the backdrop of these figures, Australia's efforts to help alleviate the crisis have stagnated or worsened, with the country sliding backwards in the global rankings according to some measures. Last year there were 51.2 million people displaced, six million more than in 2012. Related Articles Worsening conflicts in Syria, Central African Republic, and South Sudan contributed to major new displacements, the report said. The staggering figure reflects a continued and increasing demand for international protection throughout the year, the Global Trends report said. Advertisement Australia's refugee resettlement program was ranked second in the world in 2013, behind only the US and marginally ahead of Canada. These three countries hosted 90 per cent of resettled refugees in 2013. Worsening conflicts in Syria,

Central African Republic, and South Sudan contributed to major new displacements, the report said. Photo: AP/Gregorio Borgia When ranked in terms of all refugees resettled and recognised last year, Australia's ranking drops to 17th, compared with a ranking of 10th in 2010, according to figures from the Refugee Council of Australia. The result worsens when Australia's contribution is ranked by the number of refugees living here. Fewer than 0.3 per cent of the 11.7 million refugees under the UNHCR's mandate live in Australia, placing Australia 48th out of 187 countries. Our ranking slides even further when measured against the size of the population (62nd) and the country's wealth (74th). UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told an audience at the UNHCR-NGO consultations in Geneva this week that he was ''verylast year and 41st when applications were measured against the size of each country’s population, according to figures from the Refugee Council of Australia. Commemorating International Refugee Day on Friday, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said that Australia was meeting its international refugee obligations and doing its share of ''heavy lifting''. He told reporters in Perth that 4000 places in Australia's humanitarian intake had been opened due to the government stopping the boats. Elaine Pearson, the Australian director of Human Rights Watch, said it was no surprise that more and more people were making their way to Australia. ''This report shows that the entire world is facing a crisis of forced migration at a level never seen before due to persecution, conflict and human rights abuses,'' she said. ''While it's true Australia is comparatively

Medicine ----------------------------------------- Medicine is one of the fields to have benefited most from the use of computers, as a pioneer in the use of Knowledge Based Systems \[[@b18-sensors-13-07522]\]. Two landmarks that showed the validity of these technologies in medicine are ELIZA and MYCIN. The laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed in the 1960s the ELIZA project, simulating the behavior of a psychoanalyst. This was the first application in psychiatry that offered a "credible" answer to patients\' questions by constructing generated sentences to these questions by changing certain words or phrases. In the mid-1970s, the MYCIN project emerged, and over time it became one of the most influential systems in the history of KBS \[[@b19-sensors-13-07522],[@b20-sensors-13-07522]\]. MYCIN was a system designed for diagnostics and therapy of infectious blood diseases. Theto a semi-formal specification of the domain. This facility makes easier the understanding of the ontology for smart screening of language disorders by consulted neuropediatricians and language therapists as well as the system developer. One key point to guarantee the success of the KBS construction is the selection of a suitable team of experts. Next, the members of the team of experts are presented: A neonatologist with high expertise in development disorders and child disability, former director of the neonatology department of San Carlos Hospital in Madrid,Five primary care pediatricians, in two Primary Attention Centers,A neuro-pediatrician presently working in the Quirón Hospital of Madrid,Two experts in specific language impairment who are therapists at the Language Intervention Center (LIC) at La Salle Campus (UAM) of Madrid.A therapist working at Legamar

hospital,The details of the appointment with the specialist will be received by the pediatrician.The appointment details reach the child and his family.The child goes to the specialist.The specialist checks the KBS response for the corresponding case.The DSS returns the result of the evaluation process for that case.The DSS notifies the pediatrician that the specialist has accessed to the system. The specialist will validate the KBS outcome in order to improve the KB. 4.2.. Knowledge Base (KB) for Language Disorders ------------------------------------------------ The KB has been built through an iterative process of structured meetings between September 2011 and May 2012. Only the two language therapists and the neuro-pediatrician participated in the meetings, using CK techniques to extract information such as structured interviews to complete the KB with questions to be asked by thesuch as entity-relationship model. More powerful languages, as frame-based languages, allow the definition of concepts and relationships. Currently, the most expressive languages are based on logic-based models, as First-order Logic for example, which allow the specification of concepts, relationships and restrictions. The challenge to choose one or another language is the agreement between expressiveness and computability. Next, the formalization process of the conceptualization model is presented. In the revision carried out for this research, the construction of the ontology according to Methontology required categorizing the questions the pediatrician must ask according to the months of age of the child at the time of evaluation. Protégé was used in formalization of the knowledge model to create the KB and the inference engine needed to support decision making. Protégé offers an open

The invention is directed to the field of cordless telephony, and in particular to the field of digital cordless telephony. Cordless telephones comprise a base unit and a handset, wherein the base unit is typically coupled to a telephone network, such as the public switched telephone network, and the handset is free to roam within the vicinity of the base unit. The area within which the handset can roam is limited by the range of an RF link between the base unit and the handset. The early versions of cordless telephones were known as xe2x80x9canalogxe2x80x9d cordless telephones, and typically operated in the 46-49 MHz range. The xe2x80x9canalogxe2x80x9d designation of these telephones derives from the analog nature of the RF link. The analog RF link is a product of transceivers inInteractive, Inc. Diller Building His Media Empire: 1995–98 Media mogul Barry Diller became the chairman and CEO of the newly formed USA Networks, Inc. in 1998. Prior to that Diller’s distinguished career included serving as chairman of the board of Paramount Pictures Corp. from 1974 to 1984. From October 1984 to April 1992 he was the chairman and CEO of Fox, Inc., where he created the Fox Television Stations group and established Fox Broadcasting as the United States’ fourth broadcast television network. From December 1992 to December 1994 Diller was the chairman and CEO of the cable shopping network QVC Inc. While at QVC Diller attempted to gain control of CBS, but the merger was blocked by Comcast Corp., which subsequently took control of QVC. In 1994 Diller attempted to

gain control of Paramount Pictures but lost a $10 billion bidding war to Viacom. In August 1995 Diller was named the chairman and CEO of Silver King Communications, Inc. Silver King was a subsidiary of the Home Shopping Network, which owned and operated 12 TV stations that carried primarily HSN programming. Eight of Silver King’s stations served the top 12 markets in the United States. Diller gained control of Silver King with the help of investors such as billionaire David Geffen and John Malone, the head of the nation’s then largest cable system, Tele-communications Inc., later known as TCI Inc. Although Diller was interested in Silver King’s television stations and their potential to reach an audience of nearly 30 million viewers, he was perhaps more interested in gaining control ofSilver King’s parent company, Home Shopping Network, Inc. (HSN). HSN had been founded in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club in St. Petersburg, Florida, by radio station owner Lowell “Bud” Paxson and attorney and real estate investor Roy Speer. In 1985 the Home Shopping Club went national as the Home Shopping Network, and in 1986 the company went public. Paxson resigned from HSN in 1990 and went on to establish the Pax TV network. From 1991 to 1995 HSN’s annual sales leveled off to about $1 billion per year. At the end of November 1995 Diller agreed to acquire the 41 percent controlling interest in HSN that was held by Liberty Media, a subsidiary of TCI, for a stock swap valued at nearly $1.3 billion. Liberty’s stake in HSN

represented 80 percent of HSN’s voting stock, and Diller became HSN’s chairman. At the same time he also acquired Savoy Pictures Entertainment Inc., a film and television production firm. After these acquisitions passed regulatory approval, Silver King, HSN (including the Internet Shopping Network), and Savoy Pictures merged in December 1996. Silver King Communications, Inc. was renamed HSN, Inc. Following the merger, Liberty Media owned about 20 percent of HSN and about 36 percent of Silver King’s stock. In mid-1997 HSN, Inc. completed its acquisition of 50 percent of the Ticketmaster Group, Inc. from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen in a stock-for-stock deal valued around $210 million. The acquisition of the ticket sales and fulfillment company gave HSN additional capabilities in interactive electronic commerce. Acquisition Resulting in Creation of USA Networks, Inc.:cable households, while USA Network was in 73.3 million households. By packaging USA Network, Sci-Fi, and Home Shopping Network together, HSN would reach a wider customer base. Other aspects of the Universal deal, which closed in February 1998, included an exclusive 15-year license for the domestic distribution of Universal’s large TV library. In addition, Universal and USA Networks, Inc. would be equal partners in international offshoots of the USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel as well as any other Universal-branded international channels. When the deal closed in February 1998, USA Networks had a market capitalization of approximately $8 billion. Liberty Media owned about 15 percent of the company, with an option to increase its ownership to 25 percent. In March 1998 Liberty Media paid $300 million to increase its stake

in USA Networks to 20 percent. USA Network: 1977–97 The USA Network that Barry Diller acquired from Seagram Co. was founded in 1977 as the Madison Square Garden Network (MSGN). UA/Columbia Cablevision’s CEO Bob Rosencrans wanted to distribute cable broadcasts of Madison Square Garden sporting events to cable operators nationwide. He asked Kay Koplovitz, who had developed new franchises at UA/Columbia since 1973, to head the new network. In 1978 and 1979 Koplovitz persuaded the major franchises in Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League to sign up with MSGN for cable broadcasts, and MSGN soon had several million viewers. Koplovitz also added children’s programming and changed the cable network’s name to USA. When USA was sold to a joint venture of Time Inc., MCA,and Paramount in 1979, Koplovitz remained as CEO. For nearly two decades Koplovitz expanded the programming at USA Network to include original movies, first-run theatricals, off-network series, and an original block of Sunday night dramatic series such as the hit La Femme Nikita. During much of the 1990s USA Networks and Turner Broadcasting’s TNT competed as cable’s highest rated ad-supported network. In 1992 USA Networks acquired the Sci-Fi Channel. Key Dates: 1977: Madison Square Garden Network (MSGN) is founded. 1979: Cable network MSGN, now renamed USA, is sold to a joint venture of Time, MCA, and Paramount. 1982: Home Shopping Club is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida, by Lowell Paxson and Roy Speer. 1985: Home Shopping Club goes national as the Home Shopping Network (HSN). 1986: HSN becomes a public company, and Silver King Broadcasting is formed as a subsidiary. 1992: Silver

King Communications, Inc. is spun off to HSN shareholders. 1995: Barry Diller, former head of Paramount Studios, Fox Broadcasting, and QVC Inc., is named chairman and CEO of Silver King. 1996: Diller acquires Silver King, which then acquires HSN for $1.2 billion; the company is renamed HSN, Inc. Acquisitions include Precision Response Corporation and North American Television. 2001: USA Networks completes the sale of its television station group to Univision and announces the contribution of its entertainment group to a joint venture with Vivendi Universal. 2002: USA Networks is renamed USA Interactive, Inc. upon completion of its deal with Vivendi Universal; acquisition of controlling interest in Expedia, Inc. is approved. Koplovitz and several other executives resigned from USA Network shortly after it was acquired by Diller from Seagram Co. In April 1998 Diller created the position of co-presidentand hired Stephen Chao to head programming and USA Network veteran Stephen Brenner to handle operations and related matters. Chao had worked with Diller at Fox and was instrumental in developing popular Fox shows such as Cops, America’s Most Wanted, and Studs. Once the new USA Networks was formed, the company announced that it would acquire the remaining interest in Ticketmaster. Later in the year Ticketmaster Online merged with CitySearch. In December 1998 Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Inc.’s initial public offering raised $92 million, with USA Networks retaining a 69.5 percent ownership of the company. In other deals USA Networks paid $150 million to MGM for programming to air on the Sci-Fi Channel, including the 1960s series The Outer Limits. Not all of Diller’s proposed acquisitions were successful. In mid-1998 it was

was declared officially dead in May 1999. In May 1999 USA Networks acquired most of the assets of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment from Seagram Co., which had acquired PolyGram Holdings for $10.4 billion in December 1998. The assets acquired by USA Networks included the video division and specialty film distributor Gramercy Pictures as well as Seagram’s October Films. The new combined entity was named USA Films, with PolyGram Video changing its name to USA Home Entertainment. Two acquisitions in 1999 strengthened USA Networks’ electronic commerce capabilities. In May the company acquired the Hotel Reservations Network, which booked discount hotel reservations over the Internet and by telephone. In September USA Networks’ subsidiary Ticketmaster Online-City Search (TMCS) acquired the Sidewalk city guides from Microsoft in exchange for a 9 percent interest in TMCS. Beforeto create a network of 10,000 workstations that could handle more than 160 million calls a year in 40 worldwide call centers. USA Networks operated two e-commerce web sites, Firstauction.com and Firstjewelry.com, through its interactive business unit, USA Networks Interactive. In January 2000 the company announced that it would acquire e-commerce solutions provider Styleclick.com, Inc., which operated the web sites Fashiontrip.com and Styleclick.com and had its own e-commerce technology platform. The acquisition was completed in July 2000 when Styleclick.com merged with USA’s Internet Shopping Network in a deal valued at $500 million. Throughout 2000 Diller continued to shop for new cable networks. In May 2000 he acquired two niche cable networks from Canada-based North American Television Inc. for $100 million. They were Toronto-based Newsworld International, a 24-hour news channel, and

Trio, an arts and entertainment channel. Although the two channels had satellite distribution over DirecTV, they had little cable distribution when acquired by Diller. In mid-2000 USA Networks reorganized into three business units: USA Entertainment, USA Electronic Retailing, and USA Information and Services. USA Entertainment included the cable channels USA Network, the Sci-Fi Channel, Trio, and Newsworld International, as well as Studios USA, USA Films, USA Broadcasting, and Scifi.com. Stephen Chao, who was president of the recently formed USA Cable unit, became president of USA Entertainment. USA Electronic Retailing included the Home Shopping Network, HSN International, and HSN Interactive. Falling within the USA Information and Services unit were Ticketmaster, City Search, Match.com Inc., Hotel Reservations Network, Precision Response Corp., USA eSolutions, and Styleclick.com, Inc. The reorganization at USA Networks cameformed new e-commerce partnerships with the PGA Tour, NASCAR.com, and Sportsline.com, while obtaining the domain name and other URLs from defunct sports e-tailer MVP.com. In March USA Networks acquired the web site Crime.com and announced plans to launch a digital network based on the web site in 2002. In July 2001 USA Networks agreed to pay $1.5 billion for a controlling interest in Microsoft’s online travel service, Expedia.com, which had been spun off as a separate company, Expedia, Inc., in 1999. USA Networks also wanted to acquire the National Leisure Group (NLG), which was known primarily as the largest seller of vacations and cruises through infomercials. The events of September 11 and their aftermath negatively affected the financial condition of NLG, however, and USA Networks backed away from acquiring

Tranchina said. A market study by "Yoga Journal" and conducted by Harris Interactive Service Bureau in February showed that 16.5 million adults in the U.S. practice yoga. The poll surveyed 4,700 respondents - a statistically representative sample of the total U.S. population - and also showed that the number was up 43 percent from a similar poll in 2002. The fastest growing segment was the 18 to 24 age group. Stump has taught students from high school to those in their late 70s and every skill level, though she has a saying: "There is a yoga for everybody but every yoga is not for everybody." Carolina Alvarez, a yoga and acting instructor from New York City currently living and teaching in Marietta, believes that her two loves go hand in hand. "A lotWilliam Fogg Osgood William Fogg Osgood (March 10, 1864, Boston – July 22, 1943, Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, born in Boston. Education and career In 1886, he graduated from Harvard, where, after studying at the universities of Göttingen (1887–1889) and Erlangen (Ph.D., 1890), he was instructor (1890–1893), assistant professor (1893–1903), and thenceforth professor of mathematics. He became professor emeritus in 1933. Osgood was chairman of the department of mathematics in Harvard from 1918 to 1922. From 1899 to 1902, he served as editor of the Annals of Mathematics and in 1904–1905 was president of the American Mathematical Society, whose Transactions he edited in 1909–1910. Contributions The works of Osgood dealt with complex analysis, in particular conformal mapping and uniformization of analytic functions, and calculus of variations. He was invited by Felix Klein

Assyrian Americans react to plight, persecution of Iraqi Christians TURLOCK - Thousands of Assyrian Christians have fled Mosul, Iraq in the past few months because of terrorist activities. What's happening in Iraq is hitting home with many of the estimated 30,000 Assyrian-Americans currently living in Modesto, Ceres and Turlock. Assyrians Christians are a religious minority in Iraq. Terrorized Assyrians in Iraq have been forced from their homes because of religious persecution by jihadist group ISIS, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. They and many Yazidi refugees are trapped on Mt. Sinjar, a mountain in Northern Iraq. Turlock's Assyrian American Civic Club President Sam David said he is monitoring the news from Iraq. "It's modern day genocide," David said. "For them to be directed this way, attacked this way becausethe Jackson v. Denno hearing, Lieutenant. Joe Estenes with the City of Griffin Police Department, testified that on January 16, 1998, Segura came into the office at Estenes' request; that Segura was not under arrest; that after he was read Miranda rights, Segura executed a waiver form; and that on the form, Segura stated that he was not threatened, promised anything, or forced in any way to answer questions or to make a statement. According to Estenes, Segura then made an oral statement. Segura said that he did not "do anything" in Spalding County, in the City of Griffin, but that in Haralson, in Coweta County, he touched the two young female victims' breasts and the girls touched his penis. Estenes testified that he did not threaten Segura

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss and Treasurer Joe Hockey. During the week, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop was a star speaker at the Australian Council for International Development conference in Canberra. The two-day event was open to the public, including the media - except for Bishop's speech. It's understood the media was barred at the request of the minister, who is tasked with enforcing the government's $4.5 billion cut to foreign aid over the next four years. Announcing the government would respond to Australia's ballooning credit card bill by almost doubling the borrowing limit to half a trillion dollars, Treasurer Joe Hockey held a 10-minute press conference and took few questions. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has radically overhauled the approach of his department and others to information aboutMinister's office - directed by Abbott and his chief of staff Peta Credlin - is causing ructions in the federal public service, responsible for delivering the new government's agenda. Already rattled by the looming axe that will fall on 12,000 jobs (many within the service doubt that many can be found by natural attrition alone), the public service is doubly rattled by the centralisation of decision-making within the Prime Minister's Office. Public service sources report at least two ministers have made themselves known to their public servants only by conveying the message, "don't f--- it up". One section head said: "His [the minister's] office won't tell us much". "Pretty much all we've heard is, 'I want no f----ups'. No one wants to upset the minister, but he needs to

the moment will be to try to secure the trust of the incoming government against a background of distrust among some members of the government and particularly among its main supporting community, for instance in the business community and so on, a sense that the public service is not necessarily to be trusted to support a right-of-centre government as much as a left-of-centre government." The list of roadblocks is growing. In 2010, Treasury and 15 other departments released under freedom of information laws partly redacted versions of "red books", the briefs prepared in advance for a re-elected government to the media and to the then Coalition opposition. But this year, requests for the Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Attorney-General's department "blue books", or advice prepared for an incomingor agencies or ministerial offices on handling FOI requests for their incoming government briefs, Senator Brandis' office said: "The Attorney-General may, from time to time, provide guidance to the government on the operation of the FOI Act." And asked whether Brandis supported a recommendation of the recent review of FOI laws by former public servant and diplomat Allan Hawke - that incoming government briefs be exempt from FOI - Brandis' office said: "The government is closely considering all recommendations of the Hawke Review." The Coalition's policy blueprint, Real Solutions, promised a new era of transparent government. "The Coalition will do the right thing for Australia and deliver a strong, stable, accountable government that puts the national interest first and delivers a better future for all Australians," it vowed. "We

The Independent Payment Advisory Board: A New Approach to Controlling Medicare Spending In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act authorized the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) to help control the growth in Medicare costs. Beginning in 2014, IPAB will issue recommendations to lower Medicare costs in the event that spending exceeds targets established in the health care reform law. This brief explains how the Independent Payment Advisory Board will be structured, the process and timelines for IPAB to make recommendations to achieve Medicare savings and the scope of its recommendations. It also explores issues and questions that have been raised about IPAB, its implementation, and its workings in practice. Finally, the report describes the various policy options that could be considered to modify the roleWilson told Nextgov in an email. New for 2016, the spy agency has added "network traffic analysis" to the specialties players will have to apply during the competition. "Software reverse engineering and network analysis are two disciplines that are critical foundations of both NSA's defensive mission and its support to offensive missions carried out by the military," Wilson said. The tasks range from identifying IED network ports to decrypting an IED key file to permanently disabling any IED, according to a competition FAQ. A scoreboard on the contest site ranks participating students by tasks solved. So far, Georgia Tech is leading in three of the six tasks, with Carnegie Mellon University first in two activities. The most active players hail from Carnegie Mellon University Georgia Institute of Technology Dakota State University, University

of Maryland, Baltimore County, North Carolina State and Johns Hopkins University. Other resources available on the site include four online lectures about hacking techniques, including heap overflow and format string attacks. Interested programmers must sign up through their school's .edu email accounts to compete and receive more information. "The scenario will revolve around finding an improvised explosive device and having the students figure out how to reverse engineer and then disarm the IED," NSA officials said in a Sept. 12 announcement. "The 2016 scenario differs from previous challenges in that it provides insight into both offensive and defensive missions of the agency. Previous challenges had focused heavily on only the offensive mission." During Operation Enduring Freedom, there have been more than 1,400 IED-related deaths since 2001, according to iCasualties.org. On Aug. 23,a U.S. service member was killed while conducting an operation with Afghan forces when their patrol triggered an IED, Military.com reports. "Starting in 2005, we started seeing a big uptick in casualties caused by IEDs and ambushes," NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett told Fox News in May. The agency then created a secretive program to deploy NSA specialists on the battlefield in order to send troops fresh intelligence so they could avoid ambushes. The program, called the Real Time Regional Gateway, created to combat the IED attacks “was really a complete change in how we provided signals intelligence support to the tactical warfighter," Ledgett told Fox. For the first time, the student competition has added a beginner track so freshman with basic skills can compete. As with last year's contest, NSA liaisons

convenient, in reality) little fact when he did, I presume, but I can imagine he'd inteded to incite Dreadwing's wrath at some point, to get Megatron to dispose of the blue-winged fellow and allow Screamer to reclaim his proper position. The LA Times Hero Complex has posted a new still from tomorrow's new episode of Transformers Prime, "Regeneration". They have also posted an interview with the show's executive producer Jeff Kline, click here to read the full interview. He mentions that we can expect some characters to change allegiances and a sibling type relationship between Earth and Cybertron. The image and an excerpt from interview are mirrored below. HC: Have you formulated a new three-year plan? JK: We definitely reconfigured ourselves through Season 3, which we are in production on now. Onethe home of Gregory and Deborah Franzen, parents of one of the boys. Later that same evening, at 1:51 a.m., another prowler call was made by the same household. Fragodt responded with Hennepin County Deputy Sheriff Curt Roberts. Although no prowlers were found at the scene, Fragodt suspected the two boys had returned to the residence. While driving toward the Franzen home, Fragodt instructed a dispatcher to call the Franzen house. The dispatcher's call reached an answering machine. When the deputies reached the Franzen home, they found it dark, with several cars parked outside, one with a warm engine. After knocking on the front porch door, the deputies noticed the porch door was unlocked and the interior French glass doors were open. At that time, the temperature was approximately 60

degrees outside. The deputies then walked into the attached porch and knocked on the open French doors. They announced their presence loudly as the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department. Getting no response, they yelled the same message two or three additional times. Still receiving no response, they took two or three steps into the kitchen, yelled again, and received no response. After repeated announcements with no response, the deputies proceeded upstairs where they encountered Mr. and Mrs. Franzen. The deputies explained there had been an earlier prowler complaint and that the Franzen's son had admitted to being near the complaining home. The deputies further explained they thought the Franzen boy might have been out again near the same house and they had come to the Franzen's home with the intentionto his. Id. at 572. After driving the woman to her apartment, the good samaritan and a neighbor called the police because they were worried about her condition. Id. When the officers arrived, the good samaritan and the neighbor described the woman's condition and the preceding events. Id. The court upheld the officers' warrantless entry into the woman's apartment, since the officers reasonably believed the woman was in need of immediate aid. Id. at 573. In contrast, in United States v. Selberg, 630 F.2d 1292 (8th Cir.1980), due to thefts and vandalism that had occurred on several occasions, Mr. Selberg asked a neighbor to watch his home for suspicious activity. Id. at 1293. After observing Selberg leave his home one day, the neighbor later noticed that Selberg's front door,

you are interested in adopting myron or one of his friends, please contact the small animal clinic and arrange to fill in an adoption application form This gorgeous ginger long haired cat freddie, was recently rescued, when he became seperated from his family. He is extremely affectionate, as soon as he meets you he is winding himself around your legs - he's just gorgeous. He has a lovely gentle nature, and is very playful. He would love either and outdoor or indoor home, and would be ideal for a family with or without children. If its a companion you are after then freddie is also for you. Freddie is desexed, microchipped, vaccinated, wormed and flea treatedAt the CES 2019 in Las Vegas, graphics card manufacturer Nvidia showed a new trailer for Bioware's Anthem, which makes the game shine in a beautiful 4K look. The online action game supports the modern AA technology DLSS and is bundled with Nvidia's latest graphics card RTX 2060. New trailer new graphics card Bioware's developers are once again working closely with hardware manufacturer Nvidia on the development of Anthem. For this reason, the online action game was also part of the graphics card specialist's press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. A new trailer for the game was shown here, which of course was mainly about the graphic splendour of the title. In fancy 4k, the one and a half minute clip shows impressive landscapes, light

January 2, 2016 Ditko in 2015 wrapup Busy year for new and reprint Ditko in 2014. As usual, go here for the occasionally updated list going back to 2005. Robin Snyder and Steve Ditko's publishing continued with two all new books in their 32-page series, some reprint and previously unpublished material in two revivals of old Charlton titles, a 40th anniversary reprint of a Mr. A. book and the final three installments in the FOUR-PAGE SERIES of essays. Ditko also contributed to a few issues of Robin Snyder's newsletter THE COMICS, including a wraparound cover on the January 2015 issue. A few things from other publishers, the most noteworthy is STEVE DITKO'S WEIRD COMICS #1, from Mort Todd, reprinting coloured versions of five black and white stories Ditko did under Todd's editorship ofdefeated n Congress’s Saurabh Narayan Singh by 159,128 votes. MADHYA PRADESH TIKAMGARH (SC) IN THE RING: Virendra Kumar (BJP), Kiran Ahirwar n (Congress) and RD Prajapati (SP) QUICK TAKE: Sitting MP Virendra Kumar, 65, who n is the Union minister of state for women and child development, faces a tough fight given the anti-incumbency factor and Congress dubbing him an outsider. Kumar has been winning Lok Sabha elections since 1996. The Tikamgarh seat, a part of Bundelkhand region, was created in 2009 and Kumar won it both in 2009 and 2014. Congress has relied on Kiran Ahirwar, 47, who is a new face in the electoral battle. Ahirwar is a secretary of the MP Mahila Congress. Samajwadi Party has fielded RD Prajapati, 56, an ex-MLA who joined the party three weeks ago.

St. Louis globe-democrat vol. 2 no. 14 THE SALT LAKE MORMONS. The Story that They Intend to Move to New Mexico Denied. [From the New York Times.] For some time past it has been occasionally stated in the newspapers that the Mormons of Salt Lake City had purchased large lots of land in the Territory of New Mexico, with the intention of moving there in a body. Mr. Wm. Jennings, a prominent Mormon citizen of Salt Lake City, who is now here on his way to England, was called upon at the Me-tropolitan Hotel last evening by a Times re-porter, and in answer to a question as to wheth-er any such removal was contemplated, replied most emphatically in the negative. The state-ments of the newspaper correspondents, he said, were sensational, and entirelyerroneous. The Mormons had built a large city in Utah, and had erected many large and line build-ings, and they had not oxen and horses enough to remove them to New Mexico, or anywhere else. He himself had a house three stories high, fifty feet wide and seventy-five deep, a large stable, a hot house, a beau-tiful garden, and a lawn which had been pro-nounced by horticulturists the finest in the United States. These could not be removed, and he had no intention of abandoning them. His Mormon friends felt as he did in regard to their property, and would certainly con-tinue to hold it. About two years ago the Mormons had sent about 200 of their number to Arizona as missionaries, with the object of extending their

faith and making proselytes, but they had been unsuccessful at that time. Last winter another body of 200 had been sent to the same place with the same object. It was the policy of the Mor-mons to extend their religion as much as pos-sible throughout the whole of the country adjoining Utah, in order to control the vote in each section if they could, as they needed a large area of territory for their sect, which was rapidly increasing by reason of the large number of proselytes continually arriving from Europe. They had also sent a mission to New Mexico, but it consisted of a few preachers only, who were attempting to lead the people to join the Mormon faith. In regard to the statement that it wasthe intention of the Prophet Brigham Young, to appoint his son Brigham to succeed him as President of the Church, Mr. Jennings said that he did not think this would be done, as there was con-siderable opposition to the measure. Click tabs to swap between content that is broken into logical sections. THE SALT LAKE MORMONS. The Story that They Intend to Move to New Mexico Denied. [From the New York Times.] For some time past it has been occasionally stated in the newspapers that the Mormons of Salt Lake City had purchased large lots of land in the Territory of New Mexico, with the intention of moving there in a body. Mr. Wm. Jennings, a prominent Mormon citizen of Salt Lake City, who is now here on his way to England, was

called upon at the Me-tropolitan Hotel last evening by a Times re-porter, and in answer to a question as to wheth-er any such removal was contemplated, replied most emphatically in the negative. The state-ments of the newspaper correspondents, he said, were sensational, and entirely erroneous. The Mormons had built a large city in Utah, and had erected many large and line build-ings, and they had not oxen and horses enough to remove them to New Mexico, or anywhere else. He himself had a house three stories high, fifty feet wide and seventy-five deep, a large stable, a hot house, a beau-tiful garden, and a lawn which had been pro-nounced by horticulturists the finest in the United States. These could not be removed, and he had no intention ofnumber of proselytes continually arriving from Europe. They had also sent a mission to New Mexico, but it consisted of a few preachers only, who were attempting to lead the people to join the Mormon faith. In regard to the statement that it was the intention of the Prophet Brigham Young, to appoint his son Brigham to succeed him as President of the Church, Mr. Jennings said that he did not think this would be done, as there was con-siderable opposition to the measure.

Share This! Pandora: The World of Avatar opens officially at Animal Kingdom on May 27, 2017 and crowds will flock to the park to take in the new attractions. Expect to wait 200 minutes or more to experience the new attractions during the first week of operation. We also expect wait times at other Animal Kingdom attractions to increase 15% when the new Pandora attractions open, and we expect that increase to last throughout most of the summer. The last major addition to a Disney Park was New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom. The expansion ended with the opening of Seven Dwarfs Mine Train on May 28, 2014, two days after Memorial Day. Wait times at Magic Kingdom rose dramatically after the headliner opened, not just at nearby Fantasyland attractions butDid the Great Recession affect mortality rates in the metropolitan United States? Effects on mortality by age, gender and cause of death. Mortality rates generally decline during economic recessions in high-income countries, however gaps remain in our understanding of the underlying mechanisms. This study estimates the impacts of increases in unemployment rates on both all-cause and cause-specific mortality across U.S. metropolitan regions during the Great Recession. We estimate the effects of economic conditions during the recent and severe recessionary period on mortality, including differences by age and gender subgroups, using fixed effects regression models. We identify a plausibly causal effect by isolating the impacts of within-metropolitan area changes in unemployment rates and controlling for common temporal trends. We aggregated vital statistics, population, and unemployment data at the area-month-year-age-gender-race level,

of conservators, conservation technicians, a collections manager, registrars, and a full-service, business storage-and-retrieval solutions firm. The first stage of the project, undertaken between October and mid-March 2013, consisted of transferring the furniture from existing shelving to a temporary space. In preparation for their move, objects were examined, dusted, and vacuumed with minor treatments performed as needed. The team ensured that all protective padding, stabilizing support, and archival linings remained in good condition. During the next stage, shelving was dismantled and compacting carriages were installed. Removal of shelving allowed for a thorough cleaning of the storage facility, a key component of normal collections care. After installation of new shelving, the furniture pieces were returned and placed on the new mobile units. To the greatest degree possible, objects were grouped togethercourt pronounced sentence in accordance with the jury's verdict. On appeal, Chadwick argues that the trial court erred when it denied his request to proceed pro se and that the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to support the verdicts. Because we determine that the trial court did not err in denying Chadwick's motion to proceed pro se and that the evidence was legally and factually sufficient to support the verdicts, we affirm the convictions. BACKGROUND On the morning of February 11, 2004, Chadwick was at the Tom Green County Courthouse waiting to see a judge on an unrelated case. Chadwick was an inmate in the county jail and was being guarded in an otherwise empty courtroom by a transport officer, Deputy Sheriff Jerry Rychlik. Chadwick was restrained by a chain that circled his arms

and chest, limiting the mobility of his arms, and by handcuffs. Rychlik testified that he was informed, late in the morning, that the judge was not going to see Chadwick. According to Rychlik, when he told Chadwick they were going to return to the jailhouse without seeing the judge, Chadwick responded, "That's bullshit. I'm going to see the judge." Rychlik testified that he told Chadwick to calm down and return with him to the jail, to which Chadwick responded, "You better get some backup, because I'm going to see the judge, Jerry." According to Rychlik, he walked over to Chadwick and reached out, at which point Chadwick "lunged" at Rychlik. Rychlik testified: Well, when he lunged at me, he pinned me against the chair rail there in the courtroom. And I wasin a position where I could not fall over, I could not--I couldn't go nowhere. And I felt pressure on my gun. Well, I quickly pushed--I pushed down as--as hard as I could because he was trying to get my gun. In the ensuing struggle, Rychlik testified that Chadwick was using both hands, which were handcuffed together, to pull up on Rychlik's gun, which was snapped into Rychlik's holster on the right side of his waist. At the same time, Rychlik testified, he felt Chadwick kick his left leg several times. After a few seconds of struggle, Rychlik saw Bailiff Philip Race in the hall and called out to him for help. Rychlik testified that Race came into the room and attempted to pull Rychlik away from Chadwick, and when that

did not work, Race instead pulled Chadwick off of Rychlik and all three of them tumbled to the floor. At that point, Rychlik noticed that his gun holster was unsnapped, though the gun was never removed from the holster. Race testified that he had been patrolling the courthouse hallway when he overheard Chadwick arguing with Rychlik about returning to the jail and that he decided "to stay real close" in case there was trouble. Race testified that he did not see the beginning of the alleged altercation, but that "the next thing [he] knew, [he] looked in the door and Jerry was bent over" the railing that separated the gallery from the bar tables. According to Race, Chadwick was pushing up against the right side of Rychlik's body, which made Race concernedthat Chadwick could take Rychlik's gun. Race testified that he went into the courtroom and grabbed Rychlik's left leg to try to pull him away from the railing. When Rychlik exclaimed, Race then pushed Chadwick away from Rychlik before using a pressure point to "take [Chadwick] down." Chadwick was initially found incompetent to stand trial for the charges in the instant prosecution and was committed to Big Spring State Hospital in June 2004. In December 2006, the Texas Department of State Health Services issued a report concluding that Chadwick's competency had been restored and he was returned to Tom Green County. At Chadwick's request, he was examined by a defense expert, who also concluded that Chadwick was competent. On the basis of these reports, the trial court found Chadwick competent to stand

Rychlik, a reasonable jury could not have found that Chadwick caused bodily injury to Rychlik. Chadwick argues that the only reasonable interpretation of the evidence is that Rychlik's leg was injured when Race pulled on Rychlik's leg when trying to separate Rychlik and Chadwick. However, Race did not testify that Chadwick did not kick Rychlik; he testified only that he did not see Chadwick kick Rychlik. Race further testified that he did not see what happened between the time he heard the arguing from the hallway and the time he entered the room to see Rychlik up against the railing. According to Rychlik, Chadwick kicked him in that intervening period before Race entered the courtroom. At trial, Chadwick attempted to show that Race had in fact seen the entire altercation andthat the State did not prove that he "attempted" to take Rychlik's firearm from him because the State failed to prove any acts by Chadwick that constituted more than mere preparation. Rychlick testified that he felt pressure on his gun and that while Chadwick was "pulling up" on his gun, he was "pushing as hard as [he] could" to prevent Chadwick from taking the gun. Rychlick also testified that the strap on his holster was snapped shut before the struggle with Chadwick, but he noticed after the altercation that it was unsnapped, though he did not know how or when during the altercation the strap became unsnapped. Race could not confirm whether Chadwick was pulling up on Rychlik's weapon, because he could not see Chadwick's hands. Race did, however, testify that, based on Chadwick's

AP HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 16-year-old student faces arraignment on murder charges in the stabbing death of a classmate at their high school on the day of the junior prom. Police haven't released the suspect's name, but people who saw him taken into custody identified him as Chris Plaskon, a friend of the victim, 16-year-old Maren Sanchez. Plaskon's attorney, Richard Meehan, says his client is being held in a hospital under psychiatric evaluation and will not appear at his arraignment, scheduled for Monday in New Haven. Plaskon is charged as a juvenile but Meehan has said he expects him to eventually be charged as an adult. The stabbing occurred Friday morning at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, hours before the school's prom, and authorities are investigating whether Sanchez was stabbed afterturning down the boy's invitation to the dance. Connecticut's chief medical examiner said Sunday that Sanchez died of wounds to her torso and neck. Milford Alderwoman Greta Stanford said the school would remain closed Monday. A memorial service is scheduled for 7 p.m. on the school's football field. Organizers are seeking donations so the junior class can buy a memorial bench in Sanchez's honor. Mark Robinson, a technical education teacher who saw the suspect being taken out of the school in handcuffs, said Plaskon is the third of five brothers and has a good sense of humor. His family has deep roots in the community, Robinson said. "There's no reason to suspect he would have done this. I think that's what makes it harder," Robinson said. Classmate Imani Langston, who saw Plaskon being

read his rights and taken away in a police car, said Sanchez and the boy were just friends and had never dated. Sanchez, a member of the National Honor Society who was active in drama and other school activities, had been focused on prom in the days before her death. She had posted a photograph on Facebook of her blue prom dress and was looking forward to attending with a new boyfriend. People who know Plaskon said he is an athlete and described him as genial and respectful. "His family is devastated not only for him, but the youngster who was killed," Meehan said." It's a terrible situation all the way around."absent! He linked the two facts together, and turned white and sick. But he did not rouse the camp. Indeed, he thanked God that all the men were sleeping. He sprang softly back from the tent, turned on his heel, and stole out of the camp so silently that he scarcely seemed a living thing. The ground towards the water was boggy and spongy, and the scent of the thickly growing myrtles was heavy in the air. Renfrew brushed through them swiftly. He heard the harsh snuffling of a boar, and the tread of its feet in the mud at the water-side. And these sounds filled the night with a sense of unknown dangers. Darkness, a wild country, wild men, wild beasts, and his beautiful Claire out somewhere alone, near him, perhaps, yet hidden behind the impenetrable veil

man or the most excited woman in it, his bursts of dancing humour, his deadly stillness, his playful familiarity with his dangerous captives, his mesmeric anger when they were sullen and recalcitrant, his relapse into the savage churchwarden with the collecting box when his "show" was at an end,--every side, every subtlety of such a creature Claire could give with the certainty of genius. As you watched her, you beheld the snakes, you beheld their master. Even at the end you almost saw the vast and trackless desert open its haggard arms to receive its child, who passed from the crowd to the silence in which alone he could learn to fascinate the crowd. At the great morning performance in London, a prince who knew the East had said to Claire, "Miss Duvigne, you must have lived with snake-charmers.further information. Renfrew's curiosity was aroused. "Why do you look at me like that?" he asked. "What do you want to know?" "Nothing, Desmond. How dark it is getting! There is Mohammed ringing the bell. And look, those must be the soldiers. They are just marching in from the city." With the coming of night a wind arose, blowing towards the sea from the mountains; and with it came up a troop of clouds which blotted out stars and moon, and plunged the plain into a gulf of darkness. Tetuan does not gleam with lamps at night like a European city, and all the distant villas of the Moors were closely shuttered. So the wind, warm and scented and strong, swept over a black land, deserted and vacant. Only in the camp was there movement, music, and an illumination that

because I envied them, because they were stronger than I, because they could do what I could not do, say what I could not say. Gavin, Dr Wedderburn, my tenants, the smallest farm boy, the grooms, the little leaping peasants--I hated, I hated them all. And then I obeyed the voice of the ivory foam, and I went down into the hiding-place of the burn. It ran through strange and secret places where the soft mists hung in wet wreaths. I seemed to be in another world when I was in its lair. On the sharply rising banks stood the sentinel trees like shadows, some of them with tortured and tormented shapes. As I turned and looked straight up the hill of the burn's descending course, the mountain from which it came closed in the prospect inexorably. A softcore of me. Oh, to be stunted and desire to be straight and tall, to be dwarf and wish to be giant, to be stupid and long to be a genius, to be ugly and yearn to be in face as one of the shining gods, to have no power over men, and to pine to fascinate, hold, dominate a world of men--this indeed is to be in hell! I was in hell that Autumn day. I clenched my thin, weak hands together. I clenched my teeth from which the pale lips were drawn back in a grin; and I realised all the spectral crowd of my shortcomings. They stood before me like demons of the Brocken--yes, yes, of the Brocken!--and I cursed God with the sound of the burn ringing and chattering in my ears. And I