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and issued on Mar. 18, 1975, to Carrington et al. As described in that patent, a deer or other large meat animal can be skinned by attaching the animal by the neck to a tree and fixing a pulling device to the hide at the back of the neck after the skin has been cut around the neck and down the stomach from the neck to the annus. The legs are also removed at the elbow joint. By pulling on the device such as with a vehicle the skin literally can be peeled from the carcass in one motion. This skinning method not only is less laborious but also prevents the carcass from being cut repeatedly as frequently happens when the skin is cut away by hand. Also theDarrell Issa probing how agencies balance the books By Ed O'Keefe Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) (Post) Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and his Republican colleagues are turning their attention to how federal agencies balance their books -- the less prominent, but arguably more important side of the Obama administration's ongoing "open government" reforms. On his first day in office, President Obama ordered agencies to adopt "an unprecedented level of openness" that would lead to the wider distribution of government information by releasing White House visitor logs, fulfilling more Freedom of Information Act requests and by publishing online government information long kept behind closed doors. Transparency advocates and good-government groups initially cheered the reforms, but later panned the early efforts, arguing the information posted online was of little value. White House aides have defended the

Chase Field Officers and directors Address Website links Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark) is the home field of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks. The venue is one of the league's premier facilities, complete with a retractable roof, natural turf, and a swimming pool. Chase Field also hosts football, soccer, tradeshows, concerts, and other events. It seats between 3,000 (basketball) and 60,000 (concerts), depending on the event. The facility changed names in 2005 following the J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank One merger. It is owned by the Maricopa County Stadium District.of Soviet Jewry lives in passive fear, there is growing defiance among young Jews who are drawn to quasi-revolutionary activity. Many, he pointed out, were among the Soviet intellectuals tried and sentenced during 1969. Others engage in clandestine activities to preserve their Jewishness–such as private programs to teach themselves Hebrew. Still others, such as the Georgian 18, have boldly presented their problem to the outside world through letters to government officials and the United Nations. The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.

On Sept. 9, prisoners around the country staged a coordinated strike to mark the 45th anniversary of the bloody uprising at Attica prison in New York. According to strike organizers, more than 24,000 inmates in at least 12 states did not show up for work that day, and protests are ongoing in a handful of places. In Alabama, where the national strike originated, corrections officers joined the strike by not showing up to work this weekend, officials confirmed. But most information about the strike is nearly impossible to confirm. Just as organizers have incentive to make the strike seem as effective as possible, so corrections officials want to play down the action and its impact. Officials in Alabama, Michigan and Florida confirmed work stoppages on Sept. 9. Prison officialsasked the girl if she wanted a ride. The girl hesitated, looked into the car, and declined. Driving on, Levi Smith commented he thought the girl would have gotten into the car if there *453 were fewer occupants. At a service station nearby, Cook, Liggins and the girl friend got out, the girl friend got a ride and went home. Levi Smith and Robert Lee, who was asleep in the rear of the automobile, went back to the girl walking on the highway, who accepted a ride offer from Smith. Smith then returned to the service station, picked up Liggins and Cook, and drove to a nearby wooded area. Smith and the girl walked into the woods, talked for about ten minutes, and returned to the car, where

she entered the rear seat with Smith. The prosecutrix testified Smith had told her in the woods that if she did not have sex with him, the rest of the men at the car would do it to her. She stated she felt that if she refused him, they would kill her. Smith had intercourse with her, followed by Cook and Liggins. Lee, suffering from a sickness, was unable to accomplish the act and the girl's statement to police indicated only three of the four youths had "attacked" her. After leaving the woods, Smith dropped off Liggins, Cook and Lee. He then returned to the woods and forced the girl to have intercourse again; then, following a trip to a nearby drive-in, he again returned to the woodsreported. Buy Photo Officers surround the the building outside Community First Bank Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 in Columbia, Tenn.(Photo: Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean, Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean) Multiple social media users in the area posted photos of police pointing rifles toward the bank. In addition to the Columbia Police Department, the Maury County Sheriff's Office and Tennessee Highway Patrol were also assisting at the scene Friday.

Sex, Drugs, and Silence: Burroughs' Subversive Century By Yael Ksander Posted January 1, 2014 The room comes to a hush as the first volunteer at the mic begins reading I can feel the heat closing in. Feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station… It is the beginning of a marathon reading of the entirety of William S. Burroughs’ (in)famous novel, Naked Lunch. The happening at a Bloomington cafe in early December kick-started the Burroughs Century, a festival slated for February to celebrate what would have been Burroughs’ 100th birthday. Naked Lunch demands silence from the reader, otherwise he is taking his own pulse. Lunch Out Loud Charles Cannon, one of the organizers of the Burroughs Century, assertsseemingly illogical, he concedes, that when reading it aloud, you have to repress a certain instinct within yourself. You have to fight that urge in your own mind – you want it to make sense – but sometimes, you simply have to present his words as they are written. Burroughs and a number of authors who were influenced by him refuse to write logically. Burroughs undermined conventional language not only in his written work, but also in his work as a spoken word artist. Cannon says that in the mid-1960s, he began experiments with tape manipulation. Some of the recordings that came out in the 1970s were Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and another collaborator of theirs, Ian Sommerville, just experimenting with reel-to-reel tape recorders – recording street sounds, recording Burroughs himself reading,

Burroughs distinct from other spoken word artists of the era. His novels are not traditional, in any sense. Not in the subject matter, not in their form. The combination of his voice and his entirely unique way of presenting his own work, the way that he harkens back more to vaudeville than he does to a poetry reading – I think he created a new form. Towards the end of Naked Lunch, Burroughs indirectly addresses readers, informing them that “…Naked Lunch demands silence from the reader, otherwise he is taking his own pulse.” Burroughs’ obsession with undermining conventional language, according to Cannon, worked in conjunction with another obsession – silence. Burroughs is strange in that he’s a writer and a spoken word artist – he is a man who lived by words,A Keep the Pressure hands-on training at Valencia High (Courtesy of Keep the Pressure) During the Saugus High School shooting that left two students dead Thursday, special on-site medical kits were deployed that were inspired by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. It's part of the American College of Surgeons' "Stop the Bleed" program, which has now trained more than 1 million people globally to help slow severe bleeding until professional help arrives. Dr. Bud Lawrence and his two daughters have supplied emergency kits to high schools in Santa Clarita through a related nonprofit they formed called "Keep the Pressure." Lawrence said his daughters raised more than $100,000 in order to donate bleed kits to schools in the William S. Hart School District. "Their idea was to make sure these

kits can be available to anyone in any classroom and anyone can use them," Lawrence said, "and they go along with, of course, the educational piece." "Keep the Pressure" provided the kits used to initially treat the victims at the high school. "This would be things like tourniquets, special gauze called QuikClot gauze, [which] helps your body form clots," Lawrence said. Coincidentally, Lawrence directs emergency medicine at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, where four students shot at Saugus High were treated. Deputy James Callahan, a school resource officer at Saugus High, was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the shooting Thursday. During a press conference Friday he talked about using "Keep the Pressure" kits in the aftermath of the violence. "Having those supplies on hand was definitely a plus,"If you want to see Israelis and Palestinians attempt to make peace, you should head for the National Theatre in London – because you certainly won’t see them doing it anywhere else, least of all in the land they both call home. On stage, it’s all there. The sweat, the tears, the angst are laid bare in Oslo, the Tony-award winning play whose London transfer is just beginning. It tells the improbable story of the secret back-channel opened up by two Norwegian diplomats in the early 1990s, which ultimately led to the White House lawn, where Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands, watched by a smiling Bill Clinton, 24 years ago. Trump's ambassador to Israel refers to 'alleged occupation' of Palestinian territories Read more I saw the play just

by way of cross-appeal, first maintains that the trial court abused its discretion in awarding Joanne's counsel $1,500 as attorney's fees under KRS 403.220 given the absence of any evidence of record to support that amount. It is also argued that the circuit court clearly erred in granting Joanne a portion of Robert's nonvested military pension. Robert and Joanne were married on July 15, 1972, at Fort Lee, Virginia. Approximately twelve years later, on September 24, 1984, Joanne petitioned for dissolution of marriage. At the time of the proceedings on the petition, Joanne was 29 years old and employed as a civil servant at Fort Knox, Kentucky, with an annual gross salary of $13,291. Robert, who had enlisted in the United States Army in July of 1971, was acollard greens. Food hubs, the USDA reports, have jumped in number by 280 percent since 2007. Finally, there are schools—a site long dominated by Big Food, where little consumers learn eating habits before they emerge into the world as income-earning adults. According to the USDA, school districts with farm-to-school programs grew by more than 400 percent between 2007 and 2012. For decades, “American cuisine” was an oxymoron, the punch line to a sad joke. Billions of dollars in profits have been made betting on the US appetite for processed junk. Those days may be drawing to an end. USDA Whistleblowers Tell All–and You May Never Eat Bacon Again In 2004, Elsa Murano stepped down from her post as chief of the US Department of Agriculture division that oversees food safety at the

Indiana Republicans Keep Blocking Early Voting In A Major Democratic County Over the past seven years, as Republicans repeatedly blocked Indiana’s most populous and Democratic-friendly county from adding early voting locations, election officials in GOP-leaning districts approved several early voting locations of their own. Individual, bipartisan county election boards in Indiana must unanimously approve a decision to add early voting sites. Three-person election boards in Indiana consist of the county clerk and one Republican and one Democrat appointed by the circuit court clerk. In 2008, the election board in Indiana’s Marion County ― home to the capital, Indianapolis, and the state’s highest African-American population ― voted to add two early voting sites at a local high school and community center in an effort to make it easier for people to vote.The new additions brought the county’s total number of early voting sites to three. Marion County voters that year overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama, who became the first Democrat to win Indiana since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Two years later, the Marion County election board again tried to add more early voting sites, but the single Republican sitting on the board blocked it. The same thing happened in 2012, 2014 and 2016. Maura Hoff, the Republican who voted against expanding early voting sites in 2016, declined to comment on her vote, citing ongoing litigation. When the move was rejected in 2014, it came after Elizabeth White, at the time the Marion County clerk, described the success of early voting locations. Marion County at that point was down to just one early

voting location again, and White pointed out that parking lots at that site would soon be unavailable due to construction. White and another member of the board supported the motion to add new locations, but the Republican member voted no, killing the motion. Minutes for the meeting do not offer an explanation for why Vincent Perez, the Republican on the board at the time, voted against the motion. Today, Marion County, the state’s most populous county, has only one early voting site, and it’s made a difference. Marion County saw a 26 percent decline in the number of in-person absentee ballots ― the kind used at early voting locations ― between 2008 and 2016, the Star found. While Marion County has struggled, Hamilton County, a Republican-friendly area north of Indianapolis,has had more success increasing early voting opportunities. The county added two new locations in 2016 and has seen a 63 percent increase in in-person absentee voting since 2008. The county, which has a population of 316,373, has three early voting locations. Marion County, which has a population of 941,229, has just one. Kathy Richardson, the elections administrator in Hamilton County, said that even with the two new locations, some of the voting sites have had waits of up to two hours. In 2012, 30,146 people voted absentee in Hamilton County, and while the county did not track in-person early voting, Richardson estimates that 20,000 people may have voted early that year. In 2016, after Hamilton County added its two new vote centers, 42,132 people cast in-person absentee ballots

March 2010, Patrick Dietrick, the Republican then serving on the Marion County election board, voted against adding early voting sites, citing concerns about “process” and backend operations. He also said he didn’t believe the county should be spending money on early voting given an uncertain economy. Two years later, Dietrick again voted to block adding more satellite vote locations, but meeting minutes don’t offer an explanation for his vote. In a June filing in the Common Cause lawsuit, which is also being brought by the Indiana NAACP, lawyers for the board conceded that early voters and Election Day voters in Marion County were more likely to experience “longer lines and wait times than would otherwise exist.” However, the lawyers said in the filing that Republican officials did not haveDownload and links Saturday sport in the Preparatory School Every Year 3-6 boy in the Prep School participates in at least one summer and one winter sport. Sports offered in Terms 1 and 4 are cricket, basketball and tennis (tennis for Years 5 and 6 only). Sports offered in Terms 2 and 3 are rugby union and football (football for Years 5 and 6 only). These compulsory sports require attendance at training sessions twice a week, one during school time and one after school hours. Then games are played against teams from other schools on Saturday mornings. Boys in Year 6 showing exceptional talent in Rugby union, football, cricket, basketball or tennis may be invited by the Sportsmaster to trial for representative honours with IPSHA teams and beyond this with

Combined Independent Schools teams (CIS). All boys also participate in swimming, cross-country and athletics. Trials and training sessions are run either as part of the Physical Education program or after school hours. These sessions culminate in a School carnival in which all boys compete against other boys of approximately the same standard. Boys who show interest and talent are encouraged to attend pre-school training sessions in swimming and/or athletics two or three times per week. All these sessions are run at the School by staff members, with some help from outside professionals. Boys who attend then represent King's at interschool carnivals, and are given the opportunity to trial for representative selection with IPSHA teams and potentially with the Combined Independent Schools teams (CIS).Timothy Egan on American politics and life, as seen from the West. Logic, thy name is not Ted Cruz. The very junior senator from Texas is a well-credentialed windbag, with degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law, and a stint clerking at the Supreme Court. After a few months in Congress promoting Ted Cruz, smartest guy in the room, it looks as if he now wants to be Ted Cruz, extremely obnoxious president. But he keeps saying things that make no sense. There he was, earlier this month, writing in opposition to a bill that would allow cash-strapped states to tax Internet sales. It passed by a bipartisan majority in the Senate, which is like saying Newt Gingrich just climbed Mount Everest. “And, how is it fair for a Texas business to

Information and its availability and accessibility to as many people as possible are instrumental to societal advancement. The advancement of the human civilization over the last 500-600 years can in a large part be attributed to the development of the Guttenberg press and the subsequent availability of printed books to the masses of Europe. Closer to home, the Revolutionary War and independence from Great Britain can in part be attributed to pamphleteers and their persuasive effect on a significant portion of the population. The advent of the library making access to book and other written materials available to people of all social economic classes helped fuel technological development during the industrial revolution. And as more and more information was created and became available to people, advancement in the means offor separating vapors from the conveyance area between the rotating cylinders of the heat exchangers and vapors are also received from an expansion chamber or secondary cyclone separator mounted between first and second sets of heat exchange and material conveyance cylinders. 2. History of the Related Art Hydrocarbon pollution and contamination of soil areas is an ever growing problem which requires the immediate concern of individuals as well as government and private agencies. The destruction to the environment through accidental spills of oil and other hydrocarbon products damages thousands and possibly millions of acres of shoreline and other onshore areas worldwide each year. Over the years numerous techniques have been proposed for cleaning hydrocarbon spills and recovering hydrocarbon products, however most systems have dealt with recovering bulk liquids without providing

Machines, such as trucks, include a truck body disposed behind an operator cab of the machine for loading and unloading material. The truck body is for carrying a payload of the material. The truck body includes a frame formed by multiple beams for defining a bottom side and lateral sides for the truck body. The beams are generally made from steel or cast iron. Further, metal sheets are supported on the multiples beams to define a bottom wall and side walls to contain the payload of the material. Construction of such truck body from multiple beams and metal sheets increase a weight of the machine, thereby reducing efficiency. Such increased weight may increase shipping costs of the truck body. US Patent Publication Number 2007/0256379 discloses a composite panel consisting: 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation Graham Stewart Atlantic Books , Sep 1, 2011 - History - 300 pages 0 Reviews In Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an island's story - from Roman province to twenty-first century European nation-state - through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of Norman bureaucracy, the Domesday Book, and from the designs for the Union Jack in 1606 to Neville Chamberlain's 1938 Munich agreement with Hitler, the documents selected embrace a wide range of national endeavours: politics and religion, warfare and diplomacy, economics and the law, science and invention, literature and journalism, as well as sport and popular music. Thus the first edition of The Times rubs shoulders with the rules of the

newly formed Marylebone Cricket Club; the designs for Stephenson's Rocket with the Catholic Emancipation Act; Lord Kitchener's iconic First World War recruitment poster with Clause Four of the Labour Party's constitution; and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album cover with Britain's accession treaty to the European Economic Community. These are documents that not only defined their own eras, but which continue to resonate today: Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights became vital legal curtailments of arbitrary royal power; medieval election writs and nineteenth-century reform acts shaped the creation of parliamentary democracy; the great translations of the Bible, the plays of Shakespeare and Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary have left indelible marks on the English language; while the influence of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations continues to guide how we doEVIDENCE Testimony of witnesses for the people established that on the day in question, at a Safeway Store in the Westland Shopping Center in Jefferson County, a man identified as Barker presented a check *35 in the amount of $85.20 on which he was named as the payee and upon which appeared a signature "Angelo T. De Carolis." He said he had no identification with him except a draft card, and the clerk remembered the transaction because of the fact that few persons present such item for identification purposes. The notation "draft card" was made on the back of the check. It was endorsed by Barker. He represented at the time that it was his paycheck. The check was a printed one containing in the upper left hand corner

the words: "De Carolis Standard Service 38th and Kipling Ha. 4-9060 Wheatridge, Colorado." De Carolis testified as follows: That a book of his checks and a check writer had disappeared from his station. He stated that he knew Barker; that he remembered his being in his service station, but that Barker had never been in his employ; that there was no occasion whereby Barker would be entitled to receive any check from him or the service station; and that the signature of the check was not his (De Carolis) signature. Evidence was also presented that the defendant had cashed two other checks on the same day, similarly made out for the same amount of money. At one of the other stores, Barker's picture had been taken to record thea total picture which supports the conviction. 2. ADMISSION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS The photographic exhibits admitted into evidence were taken by a camera device known as a Regiscope whereby the check offered for cashing and the person presenting it are photographed simultaneously. Both the check and the person conducting the transaction with the store appear on the negative and on the photographic reproduction. The person is photographed twice, once with the front of the check reproduced and again with the person's endorsement, address and identification data showing on the back of the check. The photographs were not taken in connection with the passing of the check, which was the subject matter of the offense charged in the information, but were taken in connection with another of the similar transactions admitted

has ran stories that are "just totally false." Prior to becoming a U.S. senator from Texas, Cruz served as the state's solicitor general where he argued in 2007 in favor of law approved in the 1970s that banned the sale of sex toys. According to reports, Cruz argued that individuals had no legal right to use them, even within the confines of their own bedrooms. "One of those laws was a law restricting the sale of sex toys. A stupid law. Listen, I am one of the most libertarian members of the Senate. I think it is idiotic. But, it is an opportunity for knuckleheads in the media to claim, oh, isn't this ironic that Cruz wants to ban these things," Cruz said. The Texas senator went on to bash theHot Topics: First new building in 3 decades opens at UMass Lowell The Lowell Sun Updated: 10/11/2012 02:36:23 PM EDT LOWELL -- More than 400 people, including Gov. Deval Patrick, UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan, students, faculty and staff, industry leaders and public officials, on Thursday opened the university's $80 million Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center , or ETIC, the first new academic building constructed on campus in more than three decades. The 84,000-square-foot building will be home to cutting-edge research in nanotechnology, molecular biology, plastics engineering and optics, advancing fields such as life sciences, energy, national security, environmental protection and more. Outfitted with specialized, high-powered laboratories and equipment, a plastics processing high bay and high-tech cleanrooms, the four-story ETIC will prepare students for jobs in emerging sectors, serve as the site of corporate- and

government-sponsored research and foster industry partnerships in the global marketplace. The center - capable of supporting multiple research areas under one roof - is staffed by skilled technicians. "Today, with the opening of the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center, we step into the future, carrying forward UMass Lowell's rich history as a pioneer and leader in advanced technology. Advertisement Students, faculty researchers and private-sector partners who work here will be planting the seeds of the next industrial revolution, fueling the state's innovation economy in ways we can only yet imagine," said UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan. "We are grateful for the support Gov. Patrick, federal, state and local officials, industry leaders and UMass Lowell alumni whose vision has made this day and this beautiful new building a reality." "Providing access to quality,hundreds more in the private sector into the future - was funded through $35 million from the Massachusetts Economic Investment Act of 2006, $5 million from the federal government, $25 million bonded through the UMass Building Authority, a $10 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, and industry and individual donors, including UMass Lowell alumni. The $10 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center helped to fund equipment for the center's cleanroom facilities and supports the build out of the ETIC's third floor for nanomedicine research. "UMass Lowell is a leader in plastics engineering, nanotechnology, and bioprocessing - capabilities that are among the many reasons Massachusetts is considered a global leader in the life sciences," said Massachusetts Life Sciences Center President and Chief Executive Officer Susan Windham-Bannister. "The

opening of this new facility will enhance the university's capacity for innovation, and its emerging role as the heart of the life science cluster in the Greater Lowell region." After the speaking program, attendees toured the ETIC, getting a firsthand look at the breadth and depth of the building's amenities. To date, corporate and individual private donations to the building total $7 million and include the following gifts: · The Mark and Elisia Saab High Bay Manufacturing Center accommodates large-scale manufacturing equipment and includes an overhead crane capable of lifting up to five tons. The center enables plastics manufacturing research and development such as injection molding and extrusion. It will foster research in the blown film and injection molding areas and other plastics and rubber processing areas. Roll-to-roll equipment allowsfor continuous manufacturing operations. The center is named for UMass Lowell plastics engineering alumnus Mark Saab '81 and his wife Elisia, who own Advance Polymers Inc., in Salem, N.H. and live in Lowell. · The William J. Kennedy Nanotechnology Research and Development Center houses wet and dry chemistry, biology and materials laboratories. Spanning the ETIC's entire second floor, the center is the focal point of the university's nanotechnology research and development and includes laboratories for the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, funded by the National Science Foundation. Equipment includes a raman spectrometer, contact angle measurement, an analytical probe station surface profilometer and ellipsometer. The center is one of the first to adopt the dip-pen nanolithography instrument, a complete system that can create structures from a wide range of materials with

nano-scale precision over a large area. UMass Lowell alumnus John F. Kennedy '70, a Naples, Fla., resident who is the retired president and CEO of Nova Analystics Corp. of Woburn, named this center in honor of his late brother. · The Robert and Gail Ward Biomedical Materials Development Laboratory is designed to bridge medicine, biology and engineering, advancing UMass Lowell's research in biomaterials and medial device development. The laboratory will accommodate companies of all sizes - from startups to industry giants - to develop new biomaterial products and applications that may result in the formation of new and spinoff companies and jobs in the life sciences industry. The lab is named for UMass Lowell chemical engineering alumnus Robert Ward '71, and his wife Gail. Robert Ward is the chairmanwas funded through UMass Lowell's partnership with Technovel Corp. "The UMass Building Authority is proud to have managed the planning, design and construction of the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center," said the authority's executive director, Katherine Craven, who attended the opening. "This cutting-edge facility is more than a building - it is a living reminder of what can be accomplished by the University of Massachusetts working together with Massachusetts elected and business officials to bring jobs, innovation and the best in new ideas for the benefit of UMass Lowell faculty and students and the entire Commonwealth." Located at the intersection of University Avenue and VFW Highway in Lowell, the ETIC is the gateway to the university's North Campus and the first completed project in the UMass Lowell building boom that

home care workers to $15 an hour from $9 an hour, according to Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves, who is sponsoring the measure. But Ohio has stripped home care workers of union bargaining rights, and has resisted giving them health benefits, arguing that they can get health care insurance on Affordable Care Act exchanges. Meanwhile, the Department of Labor regulation that would extend overtime and minimum wage protections to home care workers has been tied up in court, with some states (Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico and New York) submitting briefs in favor of the rule but others (Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin) in opposition. Female, Minority and Poor The national median hourly wage for home care workers in 2014 was $9.38. Thatpushed for the deal. Heather Conroy, executive director of the Service Employees International Union in Oregon, which represents 20,000 home care workers, said turnover has decreased sharply with higher pay and benefits. But Dombi said few states are financially prepared for the regulation. He said only two states—New York and California—have set aside any money to comply with the rules, and in both cases it was only about two-thirds of what would be needed. Kelly Buckland of the National Council on Independent Living, which advocates for people with disabilities, also opposes the regulations because of the impact they might have on workers. Buckland said he’s worried some states may reduce higher pay to minimum wage and use the savings to cover overtime. He’s particularly concerned by initial plans in Arkansas that would

The Light Cap has 24 red light diodes strategically placed over the frontal sinuses, the temporomandibular joint, occiput (base of the skull), atlas, axis as well as some of the primary acupuncture points in the area. The base of the skull is one of the most compromised areas of the horses body, the upper neck is one of the most commonly injured areas of the horse and this can affect and disturb the integrity of the whole spine. The Light Cap can be used to calm and relax the horse through the stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous systemIn 1928 when the US-based United Fruit Company – now known as Chiquita Brands International – faced labor issues in Columbia, it had at its disposal Colombian troops which gunned down hundreds of strikers to maintain production and profits. Ensuring that Columbia protected “American interests” was the US State Department who hosted company representatives at the US embassy in Bogotá, which in turn was in contact with Washington. The United Fruit Company’s actions in Columbia was far from an isolated incident. US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler would write a book regarding his personal, first-hand experience in fighting wars on multiple continents for oil companies, bankers, and fruit companies. Nearly a century ago large corporate interests already possessed full control over the mechanisms of American governance, determining its domestic and foreign

the United States, but also some of the largest corporations on Earth, the US Chamber of Commerce today – just as United Fruit did nearly a century ago – has direct access to the levers of US governance. The US State Department today – just as it did in Bogotá in 1928 – represents “American interests,” understood as being synonymous with corporate interests. It is through the US State Department that organizations like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) receive their funding and directives. These organizations are either chaired by or partnered directly with representatives not from humanitarian aid or democracy promotion circles, but from the very corporations they truly serve merely under the guise of “development” and “democracy.” USAID – forinstance – openly boasts of its joint partnership with US Chamber of Commerce member and agricultural giant Monsanto. With US State Department resources and tax money, Monsanto has used the cloak of development aid to spread into developing nations around the world from Africa and Asia to South America. NED – on the other hand – is directly chaired by representatives from some of Wall Street’s largest corporations including, Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Ford, Citigroup, and Visa. While many of NED’s grantees pose as left-liberal activists fighting against corrupt and abusive special interests in their respective nations, they are in fact enabling the most corrupt and abusive special interests on Earth to simply remove obstacles so that they can dominate the markets, resources, and peoples of any given targeted

US military-led regime change operations. These client regimes then serve “American interests” just as the Colombian government did in 1928 when “American interests” required strikers to be shot en mass. It was USAID and NED-funded groups that helped fill the streets of Arab nations in 2011, tipping off years of war, the destruction of whole nations, and the edging of the entire region toward an even wider conflict in pursuit of long-standing, openly declared US foreign policy objectives. In the Middle East Wall Street seeks to eliminate its competitors, fuel its immense arms industry, and grant its energy firms, financiers, and the petrodollar they are both built upon a reprieve from an otherwise inevitable collapse. Today, nations like Thailand face an “opposition” created and perpetuated entirely out of the USCardinal Daniel DiNardo, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has issued the following statement in response to explosions on Palm Sunday at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt that have killed at least 40 and injured at least 100: “In the early hours of Palm Sunday, as Christians began the celebration of the holiest week of the year, our brothers and sisters in Egypt suffered unspeakable persecution. They were at Church. They were praying. And in the midst of what should be peace, horrible violence yet again. I express our deepest sadness at the loss of those killed, our prayers for healing for all those injured, and our condolences to those who suffer the loss of loved ones. I also express our solidarity with

of the explosive ‘Burn’ in early April, Superego has embarked on a dynamic shift towards a polished electronic sound, flawlessly displayed at their recent headline show at Freo.Social. After the gig, I caught up with the band to discuss the band’s new era. Taking lessons learnt from their previous singles and EP’s, ‘shiny pop’ group Priscilla continue their work to produce electro pop bangers that hark to personal experiences in their single ‘Feeling Higher’. From getting down to the nitty and gritty of the creative process, to discussing the Perth music scene and their favourite live venues, the four boys gave us a gleaming insight into their journey thus far as a band. Roxy Music legend Bryan Ferry & his incredible band kicked off the Australian leg of their world tourfive of them only in some. On the ballot in all 9 states Team Stronach (FRANK) NEOS – The New Austria (NEOS - Das Neue Österreich) Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) Pirate Party of Austria (PIRAT) On the ballot in some states only Christian Party of Austria (CPÖ) - on the ballot only in Upper Austria, Styria, Vorarlberg and Burgenland The Change (Der Wandel) - on the ballot only in Vienna and Upper Austria Socialist Left Party (SLP) - on the ballot only in Vienna EU Exit Party (EU-Austrittspartei) - on the ballot only in Vorarlberg Men's Party of Austria (Männerpartei Österreichs) - on the ballot only in Vorarlberg Campaign Issues included corruption scandals across the main parties and Austria's relative financial stability facing a probable crisis. Opinion polling Recent opinion

billion in project proposals for the initial $8 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Recovery Act money is being awarded for a range of activities, such as constructing track and stations, purchasing new passenger equipment, and completing planning studies to develop new high-speed rail service. California received more than $901 million, including $715 million for the construction of new high-speed rail lines in the Central Valley. And, Florida received $800 million for the Tampa to Orlando high-speed rail corridor, part of a planned line linking Tampa, Orlando, Miami, and other communities. More than 30 rail manufacturers and suppliers, both domestic and foreign, have agreed to establish or expand their bases of operations in the United States if they are hired to build the next generation high-speedwhich always makes me give a wry smile, is from Espedair Street by Iain Banks, which is about an ageing prog-rocker living in a church in Glasgow. Wednesday, 7 November 2012 Today's strip was inspired by yesterday's and was created from photographs I took of Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #1136 at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art. If you haven't visited, do - it's on until 25th November. It is an incredible experience to sit in the room and bathe in these bright colours, my photos don't do it justice. I've cropped and rotated each panel to make them into a sequence that works. Monday, 5 November 2012 This strip is the first of a few photo comics that I am planning during the #30dayscomics and is a summary of the comics

events I have been involved with in Dundee in the past month or so as part of my PhD studies and also as Dundee Contemporary Arts comics intern. The top panel shows Colin MacNeil, Cam Kennedy and Al Ewing during a signing session at DCA prior to a screening of the new DREDD movie, they also gave a great Q&A session after the movie and you can see part of it here. The chap in front of the blue slide in the next panel is Dave Gibbons, giving a workshop on creating comics at Dundee University as part of Dundee Comics Day. The inset panel is from a strip by Ulf K. which is showing as part of the Comics, Manga & Co: The new culture of German comicsexhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design until December 8th. The next panel is from the end of day discussion at Dundee Comics Day and shows Frank Quitely, the back of Rian Hughes head, a partially obscured Grant Morrison, Cameron Stewart, Frazer Irving and Peter Doherty. The final panel is the front cover of a 16 page comic created during a workshop with the Discovery Young Ambassadors at the Discovery Film Festival last weekend. Phew, I need a lie down now... Thursday, 1 November 2012 Derik Badman and others are attempting 30 days of comics again this year so I thought that I would try and see how long I last. This first attempt is from me mucking about in Manga Studio for the first time, and