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Fates and the Emperor’s sword. That is right. He carries the sword of the Emperor of mankind. Does he need it? No. He can kill every other model in the game with his bare hands. Look at this blonde haired, blue eyed, ubermensch looking fucker. I’m sure seeing this model gives Richard Spencer a boner.
He automatically passes all leadership tests.
He automatically wounds on all hits.
He automatically hits.
He counts as HQ, Elite, and a Troop choice.
His penis counts as a power weapon
He gets 400 attacks per turn. 401 if he is in close combat and can use his penis.
He cannot be wounded, ever.
He immediately claims all objectives on the board as soon as he is placed on it.
If the opposing player so much as looks at the model, theyshakin' with me for the last couple weeks (months???).
First off, Macaulay Culkin (the star of the classic Christmas movie "Home Alone") has a podcast (iTunes link). In a recent episode, he had the Angry Video Game Nerd (YouTube channel) on as a guest. They talked about video game cross-overs and had a neat little discussion about Abobo's Big Adventure!!! I'm particularly happy because they mentioned the game-play as a big positive from the game so that tickled me as the programmer :-)
On a side note, the Angry Video Game Nerd played through Abobo's Big Adventure and had a pretty epic experience a while back, here's the 1st of 2 vids in case you're interested (I think he tears up a bit at the ending...):
In other news, my BFF
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that we get to follow the original colony of people through HUNDREDS of years of terraforming efforts and get to see how the group's various psychological profiles interact with each other and are affected by the environment and long-life (spoiler: the books postulate that human brains eventually start to lose the ability to store old memories after a certain number of years).
To demonstrate some of the fascinating psychology consider this concept from the books: "Aeroforming"
This made-up word contrasts "terraforming" where the colonizers force their standards upon a planet. With Aeroforming, the planet has subtle psychological effects on the colonizers and "imprints" its own unique ways of seeing and being upon the people that live there. For example, the Martian horizon feels much closer than Earth's which subtly affectsthe colonizer's sense of space and time. Also, the sun's light has to travel much further to reach Mars and the martian terrain is wildly different from Earth so that certain kinds of aesthetics that work on Earth don't work on Mars. So architectural design and even color-theory itself has to be rethought because the preconceptions from Earth brought by the colonists are unappealing in the new environment. The cumulative effects of aeroforming end up creating various social strata with differing loyalty to Mars vs. Earth. Spoiler alert: In one of the most iconic scenes, "Reds" (people fiercely loyal to Mars with a separationist mentality toward Earth) commit an act of terrorism on the space elevator cutting off the orbiting space station at the end of the cable.
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in your dreams."
2 out of 5 stars, for dream skimmers.
Third Reich of Dreams - Charlotte Beradt
This was also an @TomFulp recommendation and this one was great! In it the author, who was a psychologist during the uprising of the Nazi regime in Germany, records the dreams of a bunch of her patients from that critical time period and demonstrates how there was a kind of "collective unconscious" of anxiety that predicted in many ways the brutality of the coming Nazi regime. Interestingly, the author was forced to smuggle out her psych records in various letters sent to other countries and in between pages of books in her library.
It's short and hard to find (confession: I actually paid ~$200 to get a nice-condition used copy from a book collectorstrange spiritual-awakening as a result of tragedy in his life.
It's tongue-in-cheek satire, but was a fun read.
2 out of 5 stars, for the spiritually hungry, but lazy.
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
This is another life-changing book, at least for me. It's by a survivor of a few Nazi concentration camps turned psychologist. He took what he learned in surviving the hell of the camps and turned it into a philosophy/psychological method he calls "logotherapy." I listened to the book a few times and have given a lot of thought to its contents.
In a nutshell the premise for logotherapy is that, in the words of Nietsche: "If a man has a why, he can survive almost any how." He presents some compelling thoughts on how one might discover
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PICU for a week:
I also got in a scary accident on the freeway and the insurance company ended up "totalling" my car... which seems pretty trivial looking back on things now.
The biggest change is in my career! I am now a software engineer at a company called TreeRing. It's a funny story because, when I was teaching, I was my school's yearbook editor. We used TreeRing to design, print, and ship our yearbooks. At the time, their product was all built in ADOBE FLASH, which I totally understood and chuckled at when I first saw it because of my background making Flash games. However, I was a bit surprised that they were using a "dead" technology.
Later I started getting emails about their upcoming new product version which wouldArt Pope-owned stores. The purpose is to inform the communities surrounding these stores, North Carolina, and the nation about the ways that Art Pope uses his money to hurt the very people who work and shop at his stores.
Background: Art Pope owns Variety Wholesalers Incorporated, a discount retail chain that includes Roses and Maxway and several smaller discount stores. These stores are located in over 65 cities across North Carolina in working class and minority neighborhoods. These communities are responsible for the millions of dollars that Art Pope and Variety Wholesalers Inc. earn each year. These communities have been good to Art Pope. However, Art Pope has not been a good neighbor or friend to these communities.
Art Pope is the Budget Director for North Carolina and supporter and
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architect of many of the extremist policies and laws that were adopted by the NC General Assembly in 2013. Pope has shown little compassion or concern for the well-being and fair treatment of women, people of color, working people, and the poor. He has supported the attacks on voting rights, denial of the expansion of Medicaid to 500,000 people, cuts in unemployment benefits to 170,000 people, and many other regressive, mean-spirited policies. The budget that he crafted includes cuts to public education, mental health services, and programs and funds for minority and poor communities. The people of North Carolina need to know who Art Pope is and where he stands on issues that impact them. The informational picket campaign is calling on Art Pope to be a goodinto the halls of state power, including Gov. Pat McCrory’s chief of staff.
Art Pope is a close ally of the billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch, and is a regular invitee of the Koch’s secretive national gatherings of wealthy political operatives. The Pope Foundation funds many of the same right-wing groups at the Kochs. Pope has been a national leader of the Koch-supported group Americans for Prosperity, and Pope’s family foundation is the second-largest backer of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
Art Pope personally helped draw a set of racially discriminatory maps for new General Assembly and Congressional districts which packed African-American voters into a small number of districts, weakened their political influence in the state, and maximized Republican control.
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The North Carolina State AFL-CIO is the largest association of
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the first 250 students enrolled with a Texas A&M System regional university at the RELLIS Campus will also be available. Students are not required to submit a scholarship application, but must be admitted to an A&M System regional university offering coursework at the RELLIS Campus and must enroll in at least six credit hours with that school.
Representatives from Prairie View A&M University, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M International University, Texas A&M University-Central Texas, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Texas A&M University-Texarkana and West Texas A&M University will be available to speak to prospective students at the three Transfer Fairs on the following dates:
Founded in 2016 by The Texas A&M University System, the RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas, fosters cutting-edge research, technology development, workforceAdenylate cyclase in the microvessels of the rat brain. A histochemical study with light and electron microscopy.
The presence of adenylate cyclase (AC) in the microvessels of the rat brain was studied by a new histochemical method for light and electron microscopy. The method is based on the precipitation of strontium and the subsequent conversion of the formed strontium salt into lead phosphate. Isoproterenol and 5-guanylylimidodiphosphate were used as enzyme activators. In the light microscope, the final reaction product was detected in the choroid plexus as well as in the walls of the microvessels in the brain parenchyma. In the electron microscope, both the luminal and abluminal endothelial membrane as well as the basal lamina of the parenchymal microvessels displayed reaction product. The observations demonstrate that isoproterenol-stimulated AC is
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Importance and challenges of accurately counting rotavirus deaths in China, 2002.
Rotavirus mortality is an important component of the total burden of rotavirus disease for children under 5 years old, but accurate estimation is difficult for many developing countries. Here we applied a more direct method to improve estimates of rotavirus mortality in China using 2002 Chinese-specific data. Results indicate that in 2002, approximately 13,400 children under 5 years old in China died from rotavirus and 70% of these deaths occur in rural areas. Thus, a national rotavirus immunization program targeting rural areas with high mortality from diarrhoea could dramatically reduce these deaths and urban areas could reduce childhood hospitalizations attributed to rotavirus by 43%.Gujarat Police chief dies while holidaying in Thailand
Gujarat Police chief Amitabh Pathak, who was holidaying here with his family, died of a heart attack on Friday.
Mr. Pathak (58) was swimming when he suffered a massive cardiac arrest, officials of the Indian Embassy in Bangkok told PTI.
Indian Ambassador Anil Wadhwa said the mission is extending all assistance to Mr. Pathak’s family.
Mr. Pathak had gone to Thailand with his family for a vacation. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
An IPS officer of the 1977 batch, Mr. Pathak was appointed Director General of Police of Gujarat on February 27 this year.
On Independence Day, Mr. Pathak fainted while standing near the podium where Chief Minister Narendra Modi was delivering his speech at Bhuj in Gujarat. At the
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local chapter of the IWW and a few supporters stood in the rain outside of the Jimmy John’s restaurant in Eastown today to show support for a new national effort to unionize fast food restaurant chain in the US.
IWW members received primarily positive responses from people walking and driving by the Jimmy John’s location on Wealthy Street near the intersection of Lake Dr and Wealthy.
Despite sending out a Media Release to dozens of local news agencies, the only coverage of the solidarity picket came from Indy media sources, GRIID and a citizen journalist with the Rapidian. WZZM 13 did run a story about the planned picket yesterday, but no commercial news agencies showed up today, despite the obvious tie in to Labor Day.the works are
written for a chamber-size string ensemble, two of them, Nos. 1 and 5, use
horns in their outer movements. One, No. 6, ends with an unusual exchange
between two violins on the one hand and a viola and basso on the other. And the
musical texture of all six works is intriguing, varying from chamber-music-like
delicacy to a surprisingly full instrumental sound from the small complement of
instruments. These are works showing Beck’s interest in experimentation within
the limits of his time period, and if they are scarcely at the level of Haydn’s
symphonies – which regularly transcended those limits – they are very fine
examples of the extent of expressiveness available in the years when the
symphony was just coalescing into the more-familiar form that we know from
Mozart onward. On this new Naxos CD,
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first a piano piece, then orchestrated
as heard here, then included in a different version in King Christian II (1898); Cortège
(1905), a good-humored work from which the composer later took themes that
appeared in Scènes historiques II
and The Tempest; and a
not-very-march-like Wedding March
(1911) that is the only piece Sibelius composed for a play called Die Sprache der Vögel. The final work
on this CD is a real curiosity: it dates to 1938, by which time it is commonly
thought that Sibelius had long since stopped composing. But in fact he only
stopped creating major works after Tapiola (1926): he wrote smaller ones
and revised earlier pieces throughout the ensuing decades. Processional (1938) is an orchestral version of one of the curious
pieces that Sibelius wrote in 1927 after becoming a member of Finland’s Masonic
Lodge. Itis an intriguing if not exceptionally noteworthy piece that will
likely make listeners hope that Segerstam – who is exploring various less-known
works by Sibelius – will venture further into the composer’s late and infrequently
performed compositions.
The Bartók works for violin and piano on a
new CD from Blue Griffin Recording are, unlike the Sibelius pieces, all from
roughly the same time in the composer’s life: the 1920s, more or less.
Actually, the Romanian Folk Dances,
which Sarah Plum and Timothy Lovelace perform with a fine sense of rhythm and
excellent ensemble work, were written by Bartók in 1915, for solo piano; and the Hungarian Folk Tunes were written in 1908-10, also for solo piano.
Plum and Lovelace play a transcription of the Romanian set made in 1925-26 by
Zoltán Székely, and one of the Hungarian tunes
made in
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a whole
seem overdone. Also in this sonata, the violin goes through so many tempo,
rhythm and dynamic changes that it can be a real challenge to put forth the
sort of village fiddling and Romany-derived playing for which the work calls.
Plum rises to this challenge as to all the others on this CD – with the result
that listeners will surely look forward to the next entry in the Plum/Lovelace
survey of all Bartók’s works
for violin and piano.
Written later than any of
the works by Bartók or
Sibelius, the five pieces performed by Teng Li on a new Azica release are
intended to provide a musical portrait of a momentous year in the 20th
century: the CD is simply entitled 1939.
Li is a sensitive, careful performer whose sound practically glows at times,
and she is clearly committedin the Theresienstadt concentration camp and died in another camp,
Fürstengrube, at age 25. But aside from the fact that this duo appears to date
to 1940, the reality is that there is no reflection in it of World War II, much
less of the horrors visited upon Jews such as Klein under Nazism. This is
simply a well-made piece that uses quarter-tones in some effective ways and
that reflects some elements of musical thinking from the first half of the 20th
century. Also here are two works in fairly traditional classical format, with
the Sonata for Viola and Piano by
Hindemith (1895-1963) coming across somewhat more effectively than does the Concertino for Viola and Piano by Joseph
Jongen (1873-1953). The 1939 Hindemith sonata is the largest of his three for
viola and piano, and the last work
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According to their published career profiles, Anita M. Bhatt and Mary Ann Wyrsch are experienced professionals who both played senior administrative roles at the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund (BCKF), created to help victims of the historic hurricane.
Yet, on March 8, 2006, Bhatt, who was BCKF’s chief financial officer, and Wyrsch, the fund’s executive director, falsely swore under oath in Washington, D.C., in a registration form sent across state lines to the attorney general of the state of Minnesota, that no nonprofit organizations provided support to BCKF.
The specific question posed was 18A on a Unified Registration Statement that was marked received in Minnesota on March 13, 2006: “Does [BCKF] receive financial support from other nonprofit organizations (foundations, public charities, combined campaigns, etc.)?
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On or after May 16, 2006, Berger sent $5 million to BCKF at 55 W. 125th Street in New York. The BCKF may not have registered this location in New York, however, as New York law requires.
The Wasserman Foundation (FEIN 95-6038762) sent $500,000 to BCKF by Dec. 31, 2005, and the Clinton Family Foundation (FEIN 30-0048438) sent $25,000 to BCKF by Dec. 31, 2005.
All told, these six nonprofit corporations sent or pledged amounts of at least $99,893,404 prior to March 8, 2006, when Bhatt and Wyrsch illegally registered across state lines using the mail and/or telephone lines with the state of Minnesota.
Food for thought about the BCKF illegal registration in Minnesota. In answer to question 16, Bhatt and Wyrsch stated that they accounted for BCKF using “accrual” rather
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Rodgers is a mainstay at the Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala in Louisville, Kentucky, and he’s expected back on the red carpet on Friday night. The official guest list released today includes Rodgers and Packers teammates David Bakhtiari, Davante Adams, Bryan Bulaga, Corey Linsley and Jimmy Graham. A couple of former teammates who have also been part of Rodgers’ posse in previous years will also be there: wide receiver Randall Cobb, now with the Dallas Cowboys, and retired linebacker A.J. Hawk.
While other NFL teams are represented on the guest list — Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots, Von Miller of the Denver Broncos, Danny Amendola of the Detroit Lions, Jimmy Garoppolo of the San Francisco 49ers and Jacoby Brissett of the Indianapolis Colts among them — theNew Hampshire
A Democrat who has been the longest-serving secretary of state in the nation was re-elected to another term in New Hampshire on Wednesday after a close race that drew scrutiny on his voter-rights record.
Following a trio of departures by Dartmouth professors accused of sexual misconduct, the prestigious school was accused in court Thursday of allowing the men to operate a “predators’ club” out of its psych department for over 16 years.
In a sexual-assault case that brought disgrace to an elite New Hampshire prep school, the state Supreme Court upheld the conviction Tuesday of an 18-year-old who lured a freshman to a campus boiler room as part of an annual hookup competition.
Closely watched for his pivotal role in the battle over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Senator Jeff
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Flake rallied Monday night in New Hampshire for the return of civility and compromise in American politics.
New Hampshire Democrats rejected more progressive candidates in their U.S. House and governor races on Tuesday, while picks for the state’s 1st Congressional District from both parties represent historic firsts.
The Securities and Exchange Commission claims the former head of a New Jersey payment processing firm gave his girlfriend $1 million to buy company stock ahead of a merger announcement, netting the pair more than $250,000 in profits.GAYTUBE.COM
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sale, a number of Premier League clubs are reported to be showing an interest in the 6ft 2in front-man and Sky Sports understands Newcastle are one of those keen on landing him.
And now his mother Kerstin Lasogga, who also acts as his advisor, has revealed that moving to the Premier League could be an option.
She told Berliner Morgenpost newspaper: "Pierre is under contract with Hertha Berlin.
"But those people who know Pierre in person are aware that playing in the English Premiership has always been one of his desires."The bullpen car is coming back after being gone for an entire generation of baseball fans.
The Arizona Diamondbacks will use a helmet-clad golf cart for the first time since the vehicle left Major League Baseball more than two decades ago.
"I think it wore out its welcome," Diamondbacks president and CEO Derrick Hall said. "There were these new stadiums, and the focus shifted to the guys running through gates and onto the mound. We think the time is right to bring it back."
Hall said the Diamondbacks purchased two golf carts and had them retrofitted with big caps by SportsKartz, a company in Tampa, Florida.
It's not all for tradition. The Diamondbacks sold a sponsorship to OnTrac, a West Coast courier service, which will receive branding on the vehicles.
"An ancillary benefit
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might be that it could speed up the game," Hall said. "I expect a lot of teams to follow suit."
The bullpen car is back, as the Diamondbacks will use the decked-out golf cart to bring in relief pitchers for the 2018 season. Courtesy Diamondbacks
The Indians were the first to use a bullpen car -- a "Little Red Wagon" in 1950 -- and by the mid-1960s, much of the league had some sort of transportation for relievers to ride in on.
"Nobody ran in from the bullpen," said Dick Stigman, who pitched for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox in the 1960s. "I don't think we could've made it. We all smoked."
Full adoption by most teams took place in the 1970s, and in the '80s, the carwas replaced by a golf cart.
Over the years, the bullpen car even caused political controversy. In 1982, a Wisconsin senator got upset that the Milwaukee Brewers' bullpen car was a Toyota, which was viewed as a slap in the face to Wisconsinites who worked for Chevrolet.
The Brewers were the last team to use a bullpen cart, in 1995, though it was actually a Harley-Davidson with a sidecar for the pitcher to sit in.
"Everyone was used to watching the carts with the hats on them as a kid," said Diamondbacks bullpen coach Mike Fetters, who pitched for the 1995 Brewers. "I think what happened is that a couple guys who came in on it, got lit up and then it became a superstitious thing to stay off it."
Within a
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few years, relievers started having entrance songs, including New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, who adopted Metallica's "Enter Sandman" in 1999.
Fetters said he thinks today's pitchers will give the bullpen cart a try, though the Diamondbacks won't tell the pitchers what to do.
"Whatever makes them comfortable," he said. "We're not going to force it."
The Diamondbacks' carts will come from the bullpens onto the warning track, head down the first- and third-base lines and stop at the dugout. The pitchers will then make their way to the mound.
MLB's only rule regarding the bullpen cart is that it must be offered equally to both the home and visiting pitchers and that using the cart doesn't grant the pitcher any extra warm-up time.has earned over $200 million worldwide. In 2007, an adaptation of the film made its way to Broadway, bringing to life the tale of the headstrong princess and all the magic and music found under the sea.
Ariel and company have swam their way across the country and around the world, finding themselves currently on the main stage at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland.
The serendipity of the film’s anniversary allowed our family to re-watch it on The Disney Channel just a day prior to attending the live show. However, over the last year, gender stereotypes had begun to sink their claws into my 5-year-old son, so I was worried he might not be too excited to see the play.
This was only Jon’s second live theatre experience, and
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Josh Freeman, the quarterback who rapidly went from one of the most promising young players in the NFL to a major disappointment, is getting another shot.
The Dolphins have agreed to a one-year contract with Freeman, according to Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report.
Freeman was the Buccaneers’ first-round draft pick in 2009, and quickly made the Bucs’ decision to draft him look brilliant. In 2010, Freeman threw 25 touchdown passes and just six interceptions.
But his play declined after that, there was talk that he didn’t get along with new coach Greg Schiano and his staff, and the Bucs cut Freeman during the 2013 season. Freeman signed with the Vikings and quickly became the starter in Minnesota, but he was a disaster and was benched after his first game.
Last year FreemanUFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones believes a potential fight with Brock Lesnar is "somewhat equivalent" to the Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor contest on 26 August.
A super fight between Jones and Lesnar has been all the talk in the combat world ever since the 30-year-old defeated Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 on 29 July.
Read more Randy Couture explains why Jon Jones 'can compete' with Brock Lesnar
With both fighters expressing an interest in facing each other, the first hurdle has been cleared for a contest that many are predicting will be the UFC's biggest ever fight.
However, while a potential bout between the pair will not make as much money as Mayweather vs McGregor, Jones has compared his task at hand to McGregor's when it comes to upsetting the
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Moments after attorney Michael Marin was pronounced guilty of arson in Maricopa County Superior Court on Thursday, the one-time high roller went into convulsions and collapsed.
By the time paramedics got him to the hospital, he was dead.
Investigators suspect he poisoned himself rather than face a possible 15 3/4 years in prison. Video of the sentencing shot by a television pool photographer appears to show Marin putting something in his mouth in the seconds after the verdict was read.
A Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman confirmed that detectives are considering poison as the cause of death.
2009 Biltmore fire photos
Marin, 53, had fashioned a larger-than-life persona. Tall and distinguished, he had a law degree from Yale University and had scaled Mount Everest. He flew planes and wrote books. He owned amansion full of fine art in the ritzy Biltmore Estates neighborhood of Phoenix. He had amassed a small fortune -- and lost it.
His mansion caught fire in July 2009. Marin said he barely escaped by climbing down a rope ladder from the second floor while wearing a scuba tank and diving mask to protect him from smoke inhalation.
But inside, arson investigators found boxes of flammable debris laid end-to-end through the house from the four ignition points, as if to feed the blaze. Marin was charged with arson of an occupied structure.
"Michael Marin couldn't pay his mortgage, so he burned down his house," Deputy Maricopa County Attorney Chris Rapp said in opening statements of the trial on May 21.
Rapp laid bare Marin's dire financial straits. In the year before
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Then the jury left the room so that Cohen and the attorneys could set the ground rules for the ensuing hearing about whether there were aggravating factors that could result in a harsher sentence for Marin.
What video later revealed is that seconds after the verdict was read, Marin rubbed his cupped hands across his face with an expression of dismay. His mouth seemed to open beneath the hands and it appeared as if he swallowed something. Then he took a sports-drink bottle from a briefcase and drank from it.
Seven minutes later, Marin coughed and reached for a tissue handed to him as he sat at the defense table. He buried his bright-red face in his hands and appeared to sob.
But the sobs turned into hoarse snores and whoopsas hewent into convulsions. Marin dropped to his knees, and then fell face-first on the carpet as his attorneys tried to assist him. They pulled off his tie and opened his shirt, and when he began to vomit a clear liquid, they turned him on his side so he wouldn't choke. But he still had a pulse and was breathing.
When Phoenix Fire Department paramedics arrived, they immediately began chest compressions. Cohen cleared the courtroom.
When firefighters wheeled Marin out on a stretcher, his cheeks had gone gray and he had not regained consciousness.
The attorneys and the judge pondered what to do. Cohen released the jury for the day.
Then the word came: Marin was dead.
"I'm at a loss for words, honestly, at this point," Cohen said.
Phoenix Fire Captain Jeff Peabody
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of the ECA surround the head side of the abscess. The tip of the needle is inserted at the center of the abscess in the hypoechoic space. The vertical green dotted line indicates the direction in which the needle advances; this guiding line system is incorporated in the ultrasound machine (Aplio500). (**c**) Schematic image. The periphery of the abscess is indicated by the red circle. It is easy to differentiate between the ICA and ECA because the branch arteries are visualized along with the ECA.
had given a chance of reaching the later stages of the tournament.
Spain had its chances of its own but could not find a way past the Italian defense and was almost inevitably punished when Pelle rounded off a rapid counter-attack.
Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Wayne Rooney walks over to console his teammates -- from left, Gary Cahill, Joe Hart and Dele Alli -- after England were upset 2-1 by Iceland on Monday, June 27. Iceland will play France in the tournament's quarterfinals. England has been eliminated. Hide Caption 1 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Kolbeinn Sigthorsson, left, celebrates after scoring Iceland's second goal in the 18th minute. Hide Caption 2 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 English goalkeeper Joe Hart got a hand on Sigthorsson's
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win over Spain on Monday, June 17. Italy will play Germany in the quarterfinals. Hide Caption 8 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Italian players react after Pelle's goal in second-half stoppage time. Spain, the European champions in 2008 and 2012, had defeated Italy in the 2012 final. Hide Caption 9 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Spanish midfielder Koke, left, eyes the ball next to Italy's Alessandro Florenzi. Hide Caption 10 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon snatches a ball away from Spain's Aritz Aduriz. Hide Caption 11 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Italian midfielder Daniele De Rossi (No. 16)heads the ball in the box. Hide Caption 12 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Italian manager AntonioConte shouts during the match. Hide Caption 13 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Giorgio Chiellini, left, scores the opening goal in the first half. Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea spilled a free kick from Eder, and Chiellini was there to finish after a goalmouth scramble. Hide Caption 14 of 15 Photos: Euro 2016: Day 16 Chiellini celebrates with Eder, center. Hide Caption 15 of 15
Confidence
The Italians began with a confidence and swagger which left their opponents chasing shadows in the opening stages. Spain goalkeeper David De Gea, overworked in the first period, produced an astonishing save to deny Graziano Pelle after the striker powered his header towards the bottom corner from Alessandro Florenzi's cross.
Italy, which topped Group E, continued to thrive and Emanuele Giaccherini forced De
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Gea into another fine save with an overhead kick, though his effort would have been ruled out for a high foot if it had found the net.
Spain, beaten by Croatia in its previous match to finish second in Group D, looked lackluster, lethargic and unable to find a way to cope with Italy's ability to break on the counter attack.
Spain captain Sergio Ramos almost sliced the ball into his own net as Italy continued to whip dangerous crosses into the penalty area.
With 12 minutes of the first half remaining, Italy finally gained its reward.
Pelle was cynically fouled by Ramos about 20 yards from goal and, when De Gea failed to hold Eder's effort, Chiellini reacted first to force the ball home.
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Buoyed by the goal, Italy went close again just before halftime with De Gea once again called into action to palm Giaccherini's exquisite curling effort over the crossbar.
Leading at the interval, Italy's only regret would have been its inability to make the most of its chances.
That failure appeared likely to prove costly as Spain, so anemic in the first half, began to find its feet and should have equalized within three minutes of the restart.
Alvaro Morata, scorer of three goals in his previous three games, found space inside the penalty area but could only send his header straight at the goalkeeper from close range.
It was a poor miss from the striker --
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who is returning to Real Madrid after two seasons in Italy with Juventus -- and only served to increase the frustration of his teammates.
Spain's increased tempo and decision to push forward began to increase pressure on an Italian defense which had been breached just once during the group stage -- during the 1-0 defeat by Ireland, after Italy had already qualified for the last 16.
But Spain's desire to move forward left gaps for Italy to exploit and De Gea had to rescue his side once again when Southampton striker Pelle played Eder through on goal only for the Brazil-born forward to shoot straight at the goalkeeper.
Late drama
Spain, with Lucas Vazquez on in place of the ineffective Morata, continued to pile forward at every opportunity and Andres Iniesta unleashedknockout game at a major tournament since 2006 and leaves Italy facing a date with Germany in Bordeaux on Saturday.
Germany, which thrashed Slovakia 3-0 in the last 16, has never beaten Italy at a major international tournament.
"We're facing two of the best teams in the world in the space of a few days," Chiellini told reporters.
"There were several games we needed to take revenge for but we also wanted and deserved this victory.
"We waited too long before killing the game off, too. We deserved to finish it earlier, and we suffered in the last 15 minutes. But there was a saint behind us, and he stopped everything."
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Effects of Obesity on Asthma New Hartford NY
Women with extra fat around their waists are more likely to develop asthma, even if they aren't overweight, a new study finds. The California Teachers Study of more than 88,000 women found the same association between obesity and increased incidence of asthma that has been seen in other research, according to the Aug. 25 online report in the journal Thorax.
MONDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Women with extra fat around their waists are more likely to develop asthma, even if they aren't overweight, a new study finds.
The California Teachers Study of more than 88,000 women found the same association between obesity and increased incidence of asthma that has been seen in other research, according to the Aug. 25 online report inknow that obesity can cause an inflammatory state," Arroliga said. "Markers of inflammation are increased in obesity."
Other studies have documented the overall association between obesity and asthma, he said. "This is one of the biggest, with more than 88,000 women. It's huge," Arroliga said.
While one conventional explanation is that body fat puts a squeeze on airways, some previous studies have pointed toward the composition of body fat as a possible element in asthma risk, he said.
"But it is still unclear why there is this association," Arroliga said. "The biological explanation lags behind the epidemiological evidence."
Whatever the reason, the association with asthma provides just another reason not to put on extra weight, Von Behren said.
More information
All aspects of asthma are described by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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The Fort Hays State University Faculty Senate voiced concerns about the leadership of the university with the Board of Regents on Thursday afternoon.
The Regents had requested to meet with the Faculty Senate as part of their regular meetings conducted on the FHSU campus Wednesday and Thursday, said Breeze Richardson, director of communications for the board. They did not, however, expect the open session meeting to turn into an airing of grievances against FHSU President Mirta Martin.
The meeting ended up lasting approximately 20 minutes longer than scheduled as Faculty Senate President Carl Miller and others discussed their concerns.
Miller said there were faculty who would like to talk at the meeting, but feared repercussion if they spoke in public.
There is a lack of trust among the faculty with Martin�s abilityReport of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission in Syria regarding the incidents described in communications from the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates and Head of the National Authority of the Syrian Arab Republic from 15 December 2014 to 15 June 2015
In November I presented the main findings of the preliminary Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) report of 29 October. This particular investigation of alleged use by the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had been requested by Syria. Government officials had transmitted four Notes Verbales alleging 26 chemical weapon (CW) events resulting in 432 casualties. The preliminary report focussed primarily on incidents at Jobar (northeast of Damascus) on 29 August 2014. While the investigators believed that government soldiers had been exposed to an
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irritant, they could not confirm that the chemical had been used as a weapon. They as good as ruled out chlorine or a neurotoxicant, such as sarin, as the causative agent.
However, the investigative team also looked into five other events reported by the Syrian government: Al-Maliha on 16 April and 11 July 2014, al-Kabbas on 10 September 2014, Nubel and al-Zahraa on 8 January 2015, and Darayya on 15 February 2015.
On 17 December the Technical Secretariat circulated the final report on those allegations by the Syrian government. Whereas the interim report of 29 October comprised 59 pages, the final report almost doubled in size to 106 pages.
The final report repeats the findings about Jobar. With respect to the five other incidents, it reaches similar conclusions. However, as regardsmy earlier posting), al-Maliha on 16 April 2014 and 11 July 2014, al Kabbas, Damascus on 10 September 2014 and Nubel and al-Zahraa on 8 January 2015, the report offers parallel conclusions. These are:
The affected soldiers ‘may have been exposed to some type of non-persistent, irritating airborne substance, secondary to the surface impact of the launched objects’.
The investigators could not determine with any degree of confidence as to whether exposure was the consequence of the irritant being delivered as the payload of a projectile, or whether the irritant had another source of origin (combustion product of a propellant, detonation of a conventional or improvised explosive device on a stored chemical already in-situ, some combination of substances mixed with surface soil and dust, or a combination of all mentioned
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submitted by the Syrian government on 15 December 2014 that led to the FFM investigation, eight military personnel became casualties in an alleged CW incident on 15 February 2015. It provided a brief description of the incident, signs and symptoms, a more precise location, the hospital where casualties received treatment, and the names of the victims. The incident appeared sufficiently grave for the FFM to investigate it.
The FFM conducted interviews with medical staff and casualties relevant to the allegation and visited hospitals and research laboratories where tests on victim blood samples had been conducted. It also visited the Centre for Studies and Scientific Research Institute in Barzi, Damascus, on 12 and 14 August 2015. On the first day, team members had a discussion with the head of theresearch institute on the storage and research methods for blood collected for acetyl-cholinesterase (AChE) analysis and were made aware of the existence of several blood samples stored onsite related to the Darayya incident. Two days later the FFM revisited the institute to seal the selected blood samples.
In the course of the investigation the FFM received a variety of documents, including battlefield and medical reports, video footage and images from GoogleEarth indicating exact locations. These documents included the medical records of the eight reported casualties and the AChE analyses of six alleged victims. In several cases the investigators were granted access to requested documents, albeit without being provided with photocopies. Four of the reported casualties were given HI-6 (asoxime chloride) and dematropine, both nerve agent antidotes.
The retrieved blood samples
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precisely the type of objective evidence the medical team would have preferred to have had in the aforementioned incidents, in the case of Darayya the presented test results proved more confounding than helpful, as they were significantly outside of the expected range for such a scenario.
As a consequence, the report notes, the recovered blood samples had to be forwarded to an independent laboratory for further assessment. The final results were still pending when the report was issued. In its absence the medical evaluation necessarily rests on the interviews and provided documents, but given the shortcomings of the methodology and gaps, these merely contribute to the uncertainties that permeate the entire report on the allegations by the Syrian authorities. (It should be noted that Appendixes 8 and 9 providereport mentions is chlorosarin (O-isopropyl methylphosphonochloridate), a final precursor to the manufacture of sarin. However, the analysis did not indicate a specific date of exposure, nor a specific time that the blood was drawn. The FFM was also unable to verify the chain of custody between the time the blood was drawn from the casualties and the time it sealed the samples. In addition, blood sample analyses indicated that four of the eight individuals were at some point exposed to sarin or a sarin-like substance, but the investigators were unable to link these results to the Darayya incident of 15 February 2015 as reported by the Syrian government. It is in this context that the report observes that the immediate notification to the OPCW of the suspected chemical
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attack would have allowed the prompt deployment of the FFM to gather primary evidence and establish the facts surrounding this incident.
Some observations
A striking feature of the general debate at the 20th Session of the Conference of States Parties (30 November–4 December 2015) was that not a single country referred to the preliminary FFM report on the allegations put forward by the Syrian government. As one participating diplomat put it to me, conclusions were not yet definite. He added that ‘the Executive Council had kicked the can down the road’ and that the findings would make for a difficult meeting early in 2016. Indeed, a week earlier, on 23 November, the Executive Council had noted the FFM’s inability to confidently determine whether or not a chemical was used asof States Parties the Syrian delegate vehemently denied that his country had ever launched a CW attack. In 2013 Damascus requested the UN Secretary General to investigate certain allegations of chemical warfare; the UN investigative team was in the Syrian capital when sarin-filled rockets hit the Ghouta suburb. The offer to accede to the CWC and have its chemical warfare capacity eliminated under international supervision averted international military strikes and ensured regime survival, at least in the short term.
The request for an investigation submitted in December 2014 was the first since Syria had joined the OPCW. One imagines that the Syrian government would have mobilised all possible resources to substantiate its allegements to the greatest possible extent. Trivial or plainly false allegations would inevitably undermine the country’s standing
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Council on 23 November. The other two reports address allegations of mustard agent use at Marea in northern Syria and chlorine attacks against Syrian government forces around Damascus.
This contribution focusses on the latter investigation. Syria submitted four Notes Verbales alleging a total of 26 chemical weapon (CW) events resulting in 432 casualties. The first reported incident dates back as far as 19 March 2013; the most recent ones took place in May 2015.
The investigative team deployed to Syria on 1 June, 1 August and 13 October. It has not yet finalised its investigation and the interim report circulating among CWC states parties focusses primarily on one incident at Jobar (‘Jober’ as spellt in the report), a municipality northeast of the old town of Damascus, on 29 August 2014.be part of the final report.
Allegations by the Syrian government
The Syrian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, who also heads the Syrian CWC National Authority, submitted Note Verbale 150 to the Technical Secretariat on 15 December 2014. The document alleges 10 separate CW incidents in four Damascus neighbourhoods between April and September 2014 that resulted in 92 casualties, all among military personnel.
Summary of allegations in Note Verbale 150
Syria’s Permanent Mission to the OPCW delivered Note Verbale 41 to the Technical Secretariat on 29 May 2015. It lists 13 separate incidents, five of which preceded Syria’s accession to the CWC, four whose dates fall within the date range of Note Verbale 150 and an additional four that took place early in 2015. These attacks allegedly occurred in the
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as ‘a rapidly onsetting [sic] mass intoxication by an organophosphorous compound in the morning of the 19 March 2013’, but added that ‘the release of chemical weapons at the alleged site could not be independently verified in the absence of primary information on delivery systems and of environmental and biomedical samples collected and analysed under the chain of custody’.
The two other incidents alleged in Note Verbale 41 took place immediately after the infamous Ghouta attack of 21 August 2013 and had also been investigated by the UN team. Of the one at Al-Bahriya (spelt as Bahhariyeh in the UN report) on 22 August 2013, the UN team could not corroborate the allegation. Blood samples all tested negative for any known signatures of chemical warfare agents.
With respect to theincident at Jobar on 24 August 2013 the UN report confirmed a ‘relatively small scale’ use of sarin against soldiers. However, again ‘in the absence of primary information on the delivery system(s) and environmental samples collected and analysed under the chain of custody, the United Nations Mission could not establish the link between the victims, the alleged event and the alleged site’.
Note Verbale 41 is equally intriguing for the absence of several other alleged incidents between March and September 2013 investigated by the UN team. These presumably concerned the investigation requests by France, the UK and the USA included in the mandate of the investigators by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Note Verbale 41 also lists some incidents not addressed by the UN team.
It is clear that the OPCW
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has all but ignored the allegations prior to Syria’s accession to the CWC.
Note Verbale 47 dated 15 June 2015 comprises six incidents that had already been mentioned in Note Verbale 41, but offers more background information, including greater detail on events, greater precision of sites of alleged attacks, and references to symptoms suffered by the exposed victims.
Summary of allegations in Note Verbale 47
Based on Notes Verbales 41, 43 and 47, the FFM was dispatched for a second investigative deployment.
Assessment of the alleged incidents
In view of the large number of allegations, the FFM was unable to investigate each one or had to sequence investigations based on the severity of allegations. Thus it was agreed with the Syrians that the FFM would focus initially on the Jobar event of 29August 2014 because it involved the highest number of reported casualties in Note Verbale 150.
After receipt of the additional Notes Verbales, the FFM proposed additional investigation of two allegations in 2014 and one in 2015. Based on additional data supplied by the Syrian government, the investigative team eventually looked into five reported events during its second deployment: Al-Maliha on 16 April and 11 July 2014, Al-Kabbas on 10 September 2014, Nubel and al-Zahraa on 8 January 2015, and Darayya on 15 February 2015.
The report of 29 October indicates that the FFM completed its mandate for the Jobar investigation. It expresses considerable frustration about the dearth of additional evidence to support the allegation:
The FFM is of the opinion that it would have been able to be more precise in
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its findings if further objective evidence, complementing what was provided by the authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic, had been made available to the team. The FFM was not able to obtain hard evidence related to this incident, either because it was unavailable or because it was not generated in the first place. The lack of hard evidence precluded the FFM from gathering further facts in a definitive way.
While interviews with soldiers point to the possibility ‘of exposure to some type of non-persistent, airborne irritant secondary to the surface impact of two launched objects’, the FFM could not confidently determine whether such exposure might have resulted from the payload of the projectiles or from another source (propellant, a chemical stored in the area of impact, detonation products, etc.)the vulcanisation of rubber. As the report notes, these uses make it ‘relevant to the interests of a militarized non-state actor [and it is] also readily available in the region’. Many of the reviewed symptoms appear consistent with exposure to this non-persistent and volatile chemical.
Jobar: Likelyhood of toxic chemicals to which victims might have been exposed (Source: OPCW)
The report on the allegations raised by the Syrian government is preliminary. The Jobar investigation is in the process of finalisation. The other mentioned incidents also remain under investigation pending final analysis. The interim report only contains an overview of activities undertaken until October 2015. These findings will also be included in the final report.
On 29 October, the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) circulated
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three reports on investigations of alleged chemical weapons (CW) use in Syria. On 5 November Reuters published some details from the one addressing the alleged use of sulphur mustard agent in Marea, a town to the north of Aleppo, on 21 August. The two other reports address a series of incidents between 15 December 2014 and 15 June 2015 at the request of the Syrian government and between 16 March and 20 May 2015 in the Idlib Governorate documented by a variety of non-governmental sources.
For the purpose of clarity, the OPCW maintains a single Fact-Finding Mission (FFM), which has so far produced six reports. Under the FFM, the OPCW may deploy different teams to different locations.
The most recent reports will be released as part of the monthly OPCWreports on Syria to the UN Security Council, presumbly at the end of this month following the special session of the Executive Council on 23 November called to consider the findings.
Incidents in Idlib Governorate, March – May 2015
The Idlib Governorate lies to the south-west of Alleppo. During the spring of 2015 the international press and social media reported a string of incidents suggesting the use of chlorine as a weapon.
This team of the Fact-Finding Mission received its mandate to investigate incidents involving the use of toxicants as a weapon based on open-source media, other sources of information and materials obtained from non-governmental organisations. The investigation could not take place under optimal conditions, because the OPCW inspectors were unable to visit the sites of alleged incidents shortly after their
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and 20 May 2015. They were responsible for six fatalities.
First depiction of a chemical barrel bomb dropped from helicopters
The report also included a depiction of a so-called barrel bomb, based on the various testimonials and collection of bomb fragments. It notes that the design of the improvised weapon underwent an evolution of their manufacture, probably driven by trial and error. However, only a singly type appears to have been used in the Idlib Governorate between March and May 2015.
Depiction of a chemical barrel bomb (Source: OPCW)
The configuration consists of 9 gas cylinders (green) presumably filled with poisonous chemicals. The report suggests that they may have been filled with a chlorine or chloride containing compound. The flasks with potassium permanganate (pink) would then have been used to oxidise theSyrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs embedded with cylinders of chlorine gas on three towns in Northern Syria in mid-April‘.
On the value of the evidence
As usual and for good reason, the reports by the Technical Secretariat remain careful in their conclusions. Determination of reponsibility for the violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and other legal instruments banning chemical warfare is pre-eminently a political judgement. As noted earlier, the Executive Council will consider these findings (as well as those in the other two reports) on 23 November, after which they will be transferred to the UN Security Council. They will also inform the Joint Investigative Mission established by the UNSC in August, whose principal task it is to determine responsibility for chemical warfare in the Syrian civil war.
Meanwhile, the
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caused by the device are also consistent with its being dropped from a height with lesser explosive power. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the devices were not designed to cause mechanical injury through explosive force but rather to rupture and release their contents.
In November 2005 In Flanders Fields Museum organised and hosted an international conference in Ypres, entitled 1915: Innocence Slaughtered. The first major attack with chemical weapons, launched by Imperial German forces from their positions near Langemarck on the northern flank of the Ypres Salient on 22 April 1915, featured prominently among the presentations. I was also one of the speakers, but my address focussed on how to prevent a similar event with biological weapons. Indeed, it was one of the strengths of the conferencenot to remain stuck in a past of—at that time—nine decades earlier, but also to invite reflection on future challenges in other areas of disarmament and arms control. Notwithstanding, the academic gathering had a secondary goal from the outset, namely to collect the papers with historical focus for academic publication.
The eminent Dutch professor and historian Koen Koch chaired the conference. He was also to edit the book with the historical analyses. Born just after the end of the 2nd World War in Europe, he sadly passed away in January 2012. He had earned the greatest respect from his colleagues, so much so that the In Flanders Fields Museum set up the Koen Koch Foundation to support students and trainees who wish to investigate the dramatic events in the
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Ypres Salient during the four years of the 1st World War. The homage was very apt: Professor Koch had built for himself a considerable reputation as an author of studies on the 1st World War. Most remarkable: The Netherlands had remained neutral during the conflagration, which adds to the value of his insights.
Death, unfortunately, also ends projects. In the summer of 2014, while doing some preliminary research on the history of chemical warfare, I came across the manuscripts of the chapters that make up the bulk of this book. They were in different editorial stages, the clearest indication of how abruptly the publication project had screeched to an end. Reading them I was struck by the quality of the contents, rough as the texts still were. Together, thecontributions also displayed a high degree of coherence.
One group of papers reflected on the minutiae of the unfolding catastrophe that the unleashing of chlorine against the Allied positions meant for individual soldiers and civilians. They also vividly described German doubts about the effectiveness of the new weapon, and hence its potential impact on combat operations. These contributions also reflected on the lack of Allied response to the many intelligence pointers that something significant was afoot. In hindsight, we may ponder how the Allied military leaders could have missed so many indicators. Yet, matter-of-fact assessments of gas use by Allied combatants recur in several chapters, suggesting either widespread anticipation of the introduction of toxic chemicals as a method of warfare or some degree of specific forewarning of the German
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assault. Gaps in the historical record, however, do not allow a more precise determination of Allied anticipation of chemical warfare. Still, a general foreboding may differ significantly from its concrete manifestation. From the perspective of a contemporary, the question was more likely one of how to imagine the unimaginable. Throughout the 2nd Battle of Ypres senior Allied commanders proved particularly unimaginative. In the end, the fact that German military leaders had only defined tactical goals for the combat operations following up on the release of chlorine, meant that they had forfeited any strategic ambition—such as restoring movement to a stalemated front, seizing the Channel ports, or capturing the vital communications node that Ypres was—during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, or ever after. The surprise element was never tobe repeated again. Not during the 1st World War, not in any more recent armed conflict.
The second group of papers captured the massive transformation societies were undergoing as a consequence of industrialisation, science and technology, and the impact these trends were to have on the emergence of what we know today as ‘total war’. Chemical warfare pitted the brightest minds from the various belligerents against each other. The competition became possible because the interrelationship between scientists, industry, politicians and the military establishment was already changing fast. But chemical warfare also helped to effectuate and institutionalise those changes. In many respects, it presaged the Manhattan Project in which the various constituencies were brought together with the sole purpose of developing a new type of weapon. In other ways the
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competition revealed early thinking about racial superiority that was to define the decades after the Armistice. The ability to survive in a chemically contaminated environment was proof of a higher level of achievement. In other words, chemical defence equalled survival of the fittest. Or how Darwin’s evolutionary theory was deliberately misused in the efforts to justify violation of then existing norms against the used of poison weapons or asphyxiating gases.
During and in the immediate aftermath of the war, opposition to chemical warfare was slow to emerge. In part, this was the consequence of the appreciation by soldiers in the trenches and non-combatants living and working near the frontlines that gas was one among many nuisances and dangers they daily faced as its use became more regular. Defences, advancedtraining and strict gas discipline gave soldiers more than a fair chance of surviving a gas attack. The violence of total war swept away the humanitarian sentiments that had given rise to the first international treaties banning the use of poison and asphyxiating gases in the final year of the 19th century. Those documents became obsolete because people viewed modern gas warfare as quite distinct from primitive use of poison and poisoned weapons or the scope of the prohibition had been too narrowly defined. By February 1918 chemical warfare had become so regular that a most unusual public appeal on humanitarian grounds by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) badly backfired on the organisation. Throughout the 1920s the choice between an outright ban on chemical weapons
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and preparing populations for the consequences of future chemical warfare would prove divisive for the ICRC. In contrast, peace and anti-war movements in Europe campaigned against war in all its aspects and consequently refused to resist one particular mode of warfare before the Armistice. It is instructive to learn that opposition to chemical warfare specifically first arose far away from the battlefields—northern America and neutral Netherlands—and among a group of citizens not directly involved in combat operations: women. And perhaps more precisely, women of science who protested the misapplication of their research and endeavours to destroy humans. Just like the chlorine cloud of 22 April 1915 foreshadowed the Manhattan project, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom presaged the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, whoPDF file in first instance. However, by the time the electronic edition was ready for online publication, In Flanders Fields Museum had found a publisher willing and able to produce a formal edited volume before the end of the centenary year of the first modern gas attack. My gratitude goes to Ryan Gearing of Uniform Press for his guidance and concrete assistance in making this book a reality.
Time for preparing this publication was very short. To my pleasant surprise, every author in this volume responded favourably and collaboration over several intense weeks—both in the preparation of the original PDF version and the subsequent book project—proved remarkably gratifying and productive. Some contributors even took the time to introduce me to certain concepts widely accepted among historians, which I, with
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my background in linguistics and political science, had interpreted rather differently. For the experience in preparing this volume, I indeed wish to thank every single contributor.
22 April 1915 was not just the day when the chlorine cloud rolled over the battlefield in Flanders. It also symbolises the confluence of often decade-old trends in science, technology, industry, military art and the way of war, and social organisation. That day augured our modern societies with their many social, scientific and technological achievements. However, it was also a starting point for new trends that eventually led nations down the path of the atomic bomb and industrialised genocide in concentration camps. It also highlighted the perennial struggle of international law and institutions to match rapid scientific and technological advances that could leadunwittingly have come to symbolise the progression. Fritz Haber, the scientific and organisational genius who led Imperial Germany’s chemical warfare effort in 1915, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918. Typical for the day, the Nobel Committee detached scientific achievement from moral considerations. His contribution to the development of a synthetic fertiliser for agricultural use, for which he got the prize, equally enabled Germany to continue munition production in the face of an Allied blockade denying it access to foreign raw materials. Haber’s part in chemical warfare too fell entirely outside the Nobel Committee’s considerations. Ninety-five years later, in 2013, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons received the Nobel Peace Prize for its progress in eliminating the scourge of chemical warfare. The decision represented
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2014 on several reports have alleged chlorine use by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq. The claims began shortly after the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had released its first report on its investigation into the chlorine attacks in Syria earlier in the year. In a politically highly charged atmosphere in which supporters and opponents of the regime of President Bashir al-Assad use any incident to blame insurgent forces of atrocities or call for regime change, one must necessarily view accusations of chemical warfare with a healthy dose of scepticism. This is particularly the case if allegations disappear as quickly as they surface.
However, during the autumn of last year there was some consistency in the albeit irregular reports. Furthermore, on10 February, OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü confirmed that the Iraqi authorities had notified the OPCW of chlorine gas attacks against Iraqi soldiers. At present it is not known which steps, if any, the OPCW will undertake with regard to these allegations.
Last October I described how al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a precursor organisation to ISIL, applied chlorine in a campaign of car bombings between October 2006 and June 2007. While many people in the vicinity of the detonation required medical treatment for exposure to the agent, nobody was actually killed by the gas. This posting looks into the various allegations of insurgent chlorine attacks in Syria and Iraq since 2013.
Over the past few weeks several press reports have suggested that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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(ISIL) have resorted to chlorine use in attacks in Iraq and Syria.
The grouping is no stranger to chlorine. In some earlier incarnation it was known as al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and later it rebranded itself as the Islamic State of Iraq when it explicitly began trying to control territory. Harsh imposition of its strict interpretation of Sharia law and extreme violence towards anybody refusing total subjugation to its rule soon had Sunni tribal leaders uniting in resistance early in 2007. They also began cooperation with forces of the US-led coalition occupying Iraq since 2003 and the Shia-dominated Iraqi government. AQI started mounting large-scale operations involving several hundreds of fighters to capture local seats of power. During the first half of 2007 suicide attacks with lorries rigged withto new and previously unknown pathogens. The principle of CureVac's proprietary technology is the use of mRNA as a genetic information carrier to instruct the human body to produce its own proteins capable of fighting a wide range of diseases. Additionally, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has committed a total of 90 million Euros to support this work (Smith [@CR12]).
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in China have also stepped up to the development of vaccines of SARS-CoV-2. Four SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have been approved for phase I or II clinical trial in China at the end of April of 2020. Several biotechnology companies have announced the development of mRNA vaccines against this mated coronavirus. In early January 2020, Stermirna Therapeutics, cooperating with Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, proclaimed
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Tomorrow marks the centenary of the Irish Citizen Army. It was born as a workers’ self-defence force in the 1913 Dublin Lockout but it was March 22nd, 1914, that marked its political rite of passage into the world of realpolitik. On that day it ceased to be “an airy nothing”, as its first historian Seán O’Casey put it, and “began to forge its way into the stormy centre of Irish politics”.
It was a large gathering that met in Liberty Hall under the chairmanship of Jim Larkin, general secretary of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. Those present, scarred by the experience of the Lockout, adopted a constitution, elected an Army Council and agreed the rules and regulations that would transform their aspirations into a programme of action.
Theconstitution was short and is worth quoting in full:
1. That the first and last principle of the Irish Citizen Army is the avowal that the ownership of Ireland, moral and material, is vested of right in the people of Ireland.
2. That the Irish Citizen Army shall stand for the absolute unity of Irish nationhood, and shall support the rights and liberties of the democracies of all nations. 3.That one of its objects shall be to sink all differences of birth, property and creed under the common name of Irish people. 4.That the Irish Citizen Army shall be open to all who accept the principle of equal rights and opportunities for the Irish people. 5. Before being enrolled, every applicant must, if eligible, be a member of his trade
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the emergence of the Ulster Volunteer Force had already evoked a nationalist response in the Irish Volunteers, making weekend soldiering a popular civic pastime. What made the ICA unique was that all these currents converged in Liberty Hall. It was socialist, nationalist, internationalist and militarist in a uniquely Dublin way. Despite the national structures to which it aspired, the heart of the ICA, like the ITGWU, resided in Dublin city and county.
Seminal moment
Unknown to those gathered in Liberty Hall that afternoon, they were also creating the organisational bridge that would link 1913, the seminal moment in Irish labour history, with 1916, its nationalist counterpart. Whether that was a good thing has been the subject of debate ever since.
What is not in question is that the second phase of(Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival in the same year.
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More than 20 people were stung and one hospitalized when a swarm of up to 20,000 killer bees invaded a Phoenix mosque Friday afternoon.
The incident occurred at the Muslim Community Mosque near 32nd Street and McDowell Road, ABC 15 reported.
The road outside the mosque was shut down and fire crews dispatched to spray the building with foam in order to quell the swarms of angry bees.
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Attacked: Covered by blankets, worshipers at the Muslim Community Mosque in Phoenix flee the swarm of up to 20,000 killer bees that attacked them Friday afternoon. The bees' nest was located in the mosque's eaves
Foam: Firefighters coated the mosque with a foam to quell the bees. Killer bees, officially known as Africanized bees, are a particularly aggressive strain of bee
Thebut more than 20 were stung 'multiple times' and one 24-year-old man hospitalized, although everyone was said to be in stable condition.
One man told Azfamily.com that he was stung on the face in five different places.
The bees are believed to have been disturbed by the mosque's speakers, which are located next to their nest.
Nest: The nest, in the building's eaves, is thought to have been disturbed by the building's speaker system. Bees build new nests around this time of year, and it is suggested people check their homes once a week
Stung: This man told Azfamily.com that he was stung five times on his face. Experts warn that trying to swat away bees will only make them angrier, and that instead people should hide in enclosed spaces such as
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On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), codifying indefinite military detention without charge or trial into law for the first time in American history. The NDAA’s dangerous detention provisions would authorize the president — and all future presidents — to order the military to pick up and indefinitely imprison people captured anywhere in the world, far from any battlefield.
The breadth of the NDAA’s worldwide detention authority violates the Constitution and international law because it is not limited to people captured in an actual armed conflict, as required by the laws of war. Under the Bush administration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil in military custody, and many in Congress assertThe response of endocrine system to stress loads during space flight in human subject.
The responses of endocrine system to the exposure to stress-work load and hormonal changes during oral glucose tolerance tests were studied in the Slovak astronaut before (three weeks before flight), during (on the 4th and the 6th days of space flight), and after space flight (1-3 days and 15-17 days after space flight) on board of space station MIR. Blood samples during the tests were collected via cannula inserted into cubital vein, centrifuged in the special appliance Plasma-03, frozen in Kryogem-03, and at the end of the 8-day space flight transferred to Earth in special container for hormonal analysis. Preflight workload produced an increase of plasma norepinephrine and a moderate elevation of epinephrine levels. Plasma
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same design was also used in Ohio earlier this year to dispose of 19 bodies until a state court shut it down, ruling that the process was not compliant with state law.
Mr Sullivan, whose company is now majority owned by Co-operative Funeralcare, claims his machine will provide a more efficient and quicker process. He also believes the equipment can rival cremation for cost, particularly given the expense of fitting mercury abatement systems.
He is now pressing for legislative changes in the UK to make alkaline hydrolysis a reality in Britain.
"The installations in the US will assist in that process because many of the leaders in the funeral industry are coming to see this unit functioning in the next couple of months once it's running," said Mr Sullivan.
"Once they seedeath, to test the efficacy with which the metal joint could be removed during the process.
Ms Wiigh-Masak is now confident commercial operations will begin soon, after the Swedish government promised to introduce new legislation that would allow individuals to use a "burial tax" paid by all Swedes not just for cremation and burial, but also for Promession.
Designs are complete, manufacturers appointed, and four potential sites in Sweden have been earmarked for facilities.
She says 60 countries around the world have expressed an interest in the technology, including councils in England such as Crewe and Nantwich Council and Cambridge City Council (who have also held discussions with Resomation Ltd).
Many individuals have already signed up for the process. The bodies of about a dozen people - including Ms Wiigh-Masak's late parents
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Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday signed HB145, a bill aimed at cutting down on roadside areas where panhandlers may seek money.
It newly bans panhandling on roads with a median — either raised or flat, including the grassy medians on many low-speed-limit Salt Lake City streets — and roads that share space with rail tracks, such as for TRAX light rail.
Last year, the Legislature outlawed panhandling at freeway exits and along high-speed highways by taking a different approach than previous, similar laws that were struck down as unconstitutional.
The old laws specifically targeted panhandling, which courts ruled is a protected form of free speech. The new law — which takes effect May 8 — is ostensibly designed to improve pedestrian safety.
Feb. 6: House votes to shrink where panhandling is allowedRead full text Current Status: Filed Law Introduced in House House Committee House passage Senate Committee Senate passage Governor's OK
Jan. 26: Utah lawmakers want to prohibit panhandling on more roads
Panhandlers may soon find their territory shrinking.
The House Transportation Committee on Thursday unanimously endorsed HB145, which expands the list of areas where panhandling or other traffic-impeding activity by pedestrians is banned.
It adds roads with a median — either raised or flat, including the grassy medians on many low-speed-limit Salt Lake City streets — and roads that share space with rail tracks, such as for TRAX light rail.
Last year, the Legislature outlawed panhandling at freeway exits and along high-speed highways by taking a different approach than previous, similar laws that were struck down as unconstitutional.
The old laws specifically targeted panhandling,
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Eliason, R-Sandy, listens to a short debate about his bill, HB461 - Abortion Waiting Period - in the Utah House of Representatives, Monday, March 5, 2012. The bill passed easily.
The Utah Highway Patrol reported last year that it used enforcement of that new pedestrian safety law to help identify and round up criminals in Operation Rio Grande in the downtown area of Salt Lake frequented by the homeless.
Highway Patrol Lt. Jeff Nigbur earlier said his bosses asked troopers to give extra attention to enforcing any violations of the new law they saw near downtown Salt Lake City freeway exits.
The first three panhandlers stopped “had outstanding warrants. So they were arrested, and all three were found to have illegal narcotics on them,” Nigbur said.deployment of energy storage throughout the region," said Eiseman.
ENGIE, with operations in the U.S. and Canada, imports liquefied natural gas at its Distrigas port terminal in Everett. The company has also made a commitment to renewables and technological innovation, said spokeswoman Carol Churchill.
"Our position remains the same," she said. "It's not efficient to overbuild pipelines to meet peak demand for only 30 days per year, and asking consumers to pay for that. It makes more sense to maximize LNG and battery storage."
She said the region did see expansion of its pipeline infrastructure in 2017, with projects by Spectra and Tennessee Gas adding incremental capacity.
Around half the region's electricity is powered by natural gas, and several new gas power plants are slated to come online by 2020. Meanwhile, large
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coal and nuclear plants continue to retire.
The Northeast Gas Association, which represents the industry, says gas-fired power plants will remain essential to the New England grid "because this technology is both fast-start and highly-efficient."
Under the ISO's forward capacity markets, generators receive payments in exchange for their promise to meet peak demand three years into the future.
During the upcoming winter, the ISO predicts peak power demand at somewhere between 21,000 and 22,000 megawatts, while promised capacity stands at nearly 31,000 megawatts, leaving a comfortable margin. However, 4,000 megawatts of natural gas-fired generation remains "at risk of not being able to get fuel when needed," ISO New England said.
Thursday's ISO statement made oblique reference to the now-shuttered Brayton Point power plant in southeastern Massachusetts, saying the recent retirement of aoperating segmentsare part of Plant 2, which is the subject of this original tax appeal.
On January 24, 1995, Inland filed a Form 131 petition for review challenging Plant 2's assessment as of March 1, 1993. A hearing regarding Inland's petition was held on October 30, 1995. Supplemental hearings were held on June 17-19, 1996. On February 19-20, 1997, the State Board's hearing officers met with Inland's representatives to "analyze and audit the supporting data to certain answers to questions the State Board had submitted to Inland." (Resp't Br. at 2). The State Board, on July 29, 1997, issued its proposed final assessment determination. Another supplemental hearing was held on August 28, 1997, and on November 4, 1997, the State Board conducted a final hearing. On February 16, 1998,
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Dr. Jeffrey Fisher of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, agreed with this position, stating, "It's the subject property that has suffered the loss in value due to depreciation, so it is the subject property that we have to use as the basis for determining depreciation." (Trial Tr. at 196.) Dr. Fisher opined that the date upon which a replacement improvement could have been built it is irrelevant, as long as it could have been constructed on the date of assessment. (Trial Tr. at 200.)
The testimony of these witnesses is logical. Determining excess construction cost involves comparisons of the costs new of two hypothetical buildings: an exact replica of the subject improvement and a modernized, yet equally efficient, building. As "new" structures, thesein the present case supports the State Board's finding as regards the fifteen percent adjustment. Mr. Beres testified on both direct and cross-examination that the costs used for assessments in the 1989 Manual reflected 1985 costs that had been deflated by fifteen percent. Mr. Beres indicated that he had been president of a company with which the State had contracted to update the Manual's cost tables for the 1989 general reassessment. (Ex. U at 581.) The 1989 tables were based upon 1985 costs. (Ex. U at 581.) Mr. Beres stated that his company developed costs for the 1989 Manual and that the State, without explanation, had reduced these costs by fifteen percent. (Ex. U at 657-58.) Unlike the facts in Bailey Seed Farms, where the State Board provided
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Symptomatic and silent ischemia associated with microsurgical clipping of intracranial aneurysms: evaluation with diffusion-weighted MRI.
Silent ischemic events are known to occur during diagnostic and interventional endovascular procedures between 10% and 69% of the time. The occurrence of silent and symptomatic ischemic events in the surgically treated population is not known, although atherosclerotic changes of intracranial vessels or within the aneurysms wall or neck area are seen often during surgery. Patients with unruptured and ruptured intracranial aneurysms treated by microsurgical clipping were prospectively evaluated with MRI using diffusion-weighted imaging sequences before and within 24 hours after surgery. Patients were evaluated clinically before and after surgery. During surgery, the overall and maximal time of temporary occlusion as well as the total number of temporary and finally applied clips was noted.It’s 2002 in Sacramento, California and Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is a 17 year old with big plans. She is making a car trip with her mother (Laurie Metcalf) and an argument ensues. In a fit of rage and while the car is moving, Christine opens the car door and jumps out. Flash forward in time and she is now sporting a plaster cast on her arm from the ‘accident’. Her relationship with her mother is extremely fractured and volatile and she tells everyone that her given name is now Lady Bird. With her best friend, Julie, she auditions for a part in the High School play and along the way she meets and falls for Danny (Lucas Hedges). The pair get extremely close but a major incident
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at 9) However, Series 12 was "Steel Roof Decking" not
"Roof Services" and said nothing about warranties (id. at 18). While Series 13 was
entitled "Roof Services," it similarly said nothing about warranties (id. at 18).
4. The contract also included specification section 07 53 23,
"ETHYLENE-PROPYLENE-DIENE-MONOMER ROOFING" (R4, tab 5). That
section provided that certain listed publications formed "a part of this specification to
the extent referenced." The list included "AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL
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The unit prices were bid by Alliance when it submitted its proposal and accepted by
the Navy upon award of the contract.
may have incurred as a result of its direction. Finally,
the Navy argues that Alliance released its claim for Task Orders 82, 90, 92, 94, and 95.
Alliance's acquiescence to the Navy's demands waived any breach claim. See
Silberblatt & Lasker, Inc. v. United States, 101 Ct. Cl. 54, 79-80 (1944). Because
Alliance's claim arises from its performance of a direction that it says was beyond the
contract's requirements, it is more aptly characterized as seeking an equitable adjustment.
Regardless of whether Alliance was originally obligated under the contract to
provide warranties for EPDM roofs, the Navy accepted its proposals to provide
20-year manufacturer warranties for all of the task orders at issue here (finding 6).
Since the parties did not negotiate alternative
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recall and rock it out in your classroom!
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A large scale methamphetamine trafficking operation described by prosecutors as a “family affair” was recently busted by authorities in Montgomery and Philadelphia counties.
The joint effort between the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Agency and various local police departments netted nearly three dozen arrests, according to a press release put out Tuesday by the Montco D.A. Risa Vetri Ferman.
The alleged drug ring was foiled thanks to the use of three weeks of wiretaps and electronic surveillance on the cell phones of suspects Frank Messina of Hatfield and Troy Dudas of Schwenksville, according to the D.A.
After the surveillance, 14 search warrants were executed on various locations including Cosmo Motors auto-body shop on E Blaine Street in Lansdale. At Cosmos, authorities
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The Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, has been in office a mere 15 business days and has already logged more foreign travel on the taxpayers’ tab than most executive branch personnel see in a year.
Lew was sworn in on March 20, 2013. Five days later he was sitting in Beijing chatting it up with China’s President Xi Jinping. Yesterday and today, he’s flitting about Europe. His agenda includes meetings in Brussels with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro and European Commission Vice President Olli Rehn, and European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier. Lew was also scheduled to meet in Frankfurt with European Central
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Bank President Mario Draghi.
Today, Lew heads to Berlin to have a conversation with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble. Lew’s meeting in Paris with French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici was abruptly cancelled by Moscovici. The excuse given was a scheduling conflict but it may well be that the French Finance Minister didn’t like the feedback he was hearing from the earlier meetings.
While Lew’s boss, the President of the United States, was preparing to release his budget proposal tomorrow which will cut Social Security benefits for seniors, veterans and the disabled, Lew was shilling for Wall Street across Europe, talking down the imposition of a financial transaction tax.
This past February, 11 European countries, including Germany and France, agreed to the financial transaction tax which is expected to raise $45 billionImage copyright PA Image caption The AJ production line in Bridgend Ford closed for five days from 29 October
Ford is in talks with a chemical company about using its Bridgend plant to build a new off-road vehicle.
Ineos Automotive plans to build a car to replace the Land Rover Defender, which went out of production in 2016.
Talks come a week after Ford told staff working on the new Jaguar engine not to come to work for five days.
Ford employs 1,850 people in Bridgend, though there have been concerns about the plant's long-term future.
The car giant will stop producing engines for Jaguar Land Rover in 2020 and the Bridgend plant is looking for business in the globally competitive car industry to replace the work and secure the future of its
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The air war over the Italian mainland commenced in earnest on 3rd September 1943, when the Allies landed in Reggio di Calabria. On the same day, the Italian government signed an armistice with the Allies, which was publicly declared on 8th September. Deserted by their ally, the Germans continued to fight for the Apennine Peninsula. In northern Italy they created the Italian Social Republic, a puppet state under Benito Mussolini. Its air force, the ANR (Aviazione Nazionale Republicana) was under strict operational control of the Luftwaffe.
The Italian National Republican Air Force (the ANR)Initially, the ANR fighter force consisted of only two units, which became operational in January 1944. The autonomous Squadriglia Complementare d’allarme Montefusco (later Montefusco-Bonet) was equipped with Macchi MC.205s and Fiat G.55s, and tasked with theair defence of Turin (where a Fiat factory was located). The other unit was the 1° Gruppo Caccia (Fighter Group), with three Squadriglie (squadrons) on strength. After Magg. Adriano Visconti was appointed to command the group the three component squadrons were led by the following officers:1ª Squadriglia Asso di Bastoni – Ten. Giuseppe Roberto;2ª Squadriglia Vespa Arrabbiata – Capt. Amadeo Guidi;3ª Squadriglia Arciere – Capt. Pio Tomaselli.Following the death of its CO, Capt. Giovanni Bonet, the Squadriglia Montefusco-Bonet was absorbed by the 1° Gruppo ANR. In March the 2° Gruppo Caccia was constituted under Magg. Aldo Alessandrini, and equipped with Fiat G.55s. Its three component squadrons were commanded as follows:1ª Squadriglia Gigi Tre Osei (Ten. Ugo Drago);2ª Squadriglia Diavoli Rossi (Capt. Mario Bellagambi);3ª Squadriglia Gamba di Ferro (Ten.
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band supplemented this paint scheme. There followed some experimental schemes made of wide green and brown stripes, as well as three-colour spotted camouflages of sand, green and brown; most of them can be dated to May 1944. They were soon phased out in favour of the more pragmatic German scheme of RLM 74/75/76. Upper surfaces were often camouflaged in only one colour, usually RLM 75. Fuselage sides, and sometimes also propeller spinners, were freely mottled and stippled. Some artistic freedom in the application of camouflage was retained shortly after the ANR converted to Bf 109s, individual aircraft receiving additional over-sprays of green and brown. During that period both ANR and Luftwaffe fighters could be quickly identified in the air by their yellow lower cowlings and white fuselage bands.By the end of 1944 practically all Axis fighters wore the ubiquitous, factory-applied camouflage of RLM 74/75/76.As for national insignias, German swastikas and crosses, introduced after the Italian armistice, were soon replaced by ANR markings – double fasces on white, black-bordered squares on the wings, and tri-coloured flags bordered by yellow triangles on fuselages and tailfins. This set of markings remained in use until the ANR converted to German-built aircraft. At first, however, Bf 109 G-6s were also painted with full sets of ANR markings. Later, the German Balkenkreuze replaced the wing fasces – or, to be more precise, the crosses were not painted out once the aircraft had been delivered from German factories or handed over by Luftwaffe units. In some sporadic cases the aircraft carried full
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sets of German crosses, with the ANR flag painted aft of the fuselage Balkenkreuz, with small ANR flags replacing the tail swastikas.Unit emblems were usually applied on either side of the engine cowlings. In the case of MC.205 outfits the emblems were slightly asymmetrical due to the location of the air intake on the aircraft’s port side. Aircraft individual numbers were often repeated on the landing gear wheel covers or on the front engine cowlings. The manufacturers data markings, applied to airframes at factories, were sometimes lost when aircraft were repainted (even though official orders forbade it). The ANR followed the Luftwaffe’s practice of painting spirals on propeller spinners, or painting one third of the spinner in white. On the other hand, the ANR’s fighters notably lacked staffUS presidential candidate Donald Trump postponed a rally scheduled for Friday night in Chicago after the event turned into a chaotic scene at the University of Illinois-Chicago, with the thousands of attendees split into opposing camps of supporters of the Republican front-runner and protesters against his candidacy.
Fights broke out after a Trump staffer took to the stage nearly a half hour after the rally was slated to begin and told the crowd that the event would be postponed due to safety warnings from law enforcement.
"Mr. Trump just arrived in Chicago and after meeting with law enforcement has determined that for the safety of all of the tens of thousands of people that have gathered in and around the arena, tonight's rally will be postponed to another date," the
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Trump campaign said in a statement. "Thank you very much for your attendance and please go in peace."
A campaign statement issued slightly later said the event would be rescheduled, but did not offer details.
The crowd acted out after the announcement came over the loudspeaker, according to NBC Chicago.
Watch footage of the events in Chicago here:
Hundreds of protesters had gathered inside and outside of the event, multiple news outlets reported. Inside the now-cancelled rally, "at least five sections in the arena were filled with protesters," according to CNN. By 7:45pm, nearly two hours after the event was scheduled to start, protesters were reportedly blocking vehicles from exiting parking facilities near the arena where the event would have taken place.
After the announcement was made, protesters began to chant and cheer,News. "President Obama has not been a unifier. He has been a divider. I'm a unifier. I'll bring people together."
Fellow Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz reacted to the incident during an interview on Hugh Hewitt's radio show. "There's no doubt that a candidate bears responsibility for the culture that is set from the top," he said, adding that he often engages with protesters when they are civil.
The Texas senator recalled his recent attack on the billionaire businessman for asking rally attendees to pledge loyalty to his campaign. Cruz said that, in contrast with Trump, he views protesters "with respect, not as potential subjects for a monarch."
Trump, speaking to MSNBC by telephone shortly after the postponed event, said he met with law enforcement after arriving in Chicago. Though he
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believed it would have been possible to move forward, he said he made the "wise decision" to postpone the rally to keep everyone safe.
Trump brushed off questions from MSNBC's Chris Matthews about whether such widespread disruptions were to be expected given the increasingly aggressive tenor of recent campaign events.
Trump said his supporters had planned for a peaceful rally and that it was derailed by the protesters.
"You can't even have a rally in a major city in this country anymore," Trump said. "Up until this point we've had no problem."
Trump told MSNBC he expected support for his candidacy would only increase.
Earlier in the day, at a rally in St. Louis, Missouri, Trump had been speaking for less than 10 minutes when protesters began interrupting him. The disruptions continued overthe next hour as Trump urged security to "get them out."
"Can I be honest with you, it adds to the flavor, it's more exciting," Trump said of the disruptions. "Isn't this better than listening to a long boring speech?"
At some events, altercations have turned physical. In New Orleans last week, several protesters supporting the Black Lives Matter movement were dragged out as Trump shouted "get them." In Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Wednesday, protesters interrupted Trump's speech more than 16 times. One was punched as he was led from the arena.
Jedidiah Brown, 29, dashed onto the Chicago stage where Trump was expected to speak Friday and tore the campaign sign from the podium before police took him outside. He was not arrested.
"I was born and raised in Chicago so
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Image copyright Castlebrooke Investments Image caption The application aims to change what was first proposed on a 12-acre area around Royal Avenue formerly known as Royal Exchange
A new planning application has been submitted for a £400m redevelopment project in Belfast.
It aims to change what was first proposed on a 12-acre site around Royal Avenue formerly known as Royal Exchange.
When launched a decade ago, the project was focused on new retail space.
But Castlebrooke Investments, who acquired the site last year, now wants to have more offices, residential accommodation and two hotels.
It could take nine months before the application is heard by Belfast City Council.
The new application seeks to replace planning for the original scheme which was granted in 2012.
Part of the project, at Lower Garfield Street, has already startedunder the previous planning approval.
'Huge responsibility'
The project is the largest ever single redevelopment in Belfast city centre.
A spokesperson for Castlebrooke said: "We are conscious of the huge responsibility we face to regenerate this neglected part of Belfast and believe we have submitted a new plan that will move the city forward.
"More buildings will be preserved than the current planning permission requires."
The company said that the facades of 13-15 and 17-23 North Street would be retained.
The spokesperson said: "The Central Catholic Club, Central Halls and Masonic Hall will also be refurbished and throughout the scheme materials will be used which reflect the area's historic integrity."
The former Royal Exchange scheme was previously proposed as a possible site for a John Lewis department store.
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A Sydney man had a rather tragic start to his New Year’s Eve celebrations when he dropped his carton of beer on the street only seconds after the bottle shop closed.
A series of photos captured by an onlooker showed the man assessing the damage on Enmore Rd in Sydney’s inner west.
He was visibly upset after realising many of his beers couldn’t be saved.
'The more broken six packs he pulled out, the sadder he became,' Tayon McCafferty, who took the photos, told the Daily Mail.
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McCafferty was standing outside the Queen Victoria Hotel in Enmore when he noticed the man.
'He had bought a case and when he walked out of the bottle shop, they locked the door behind him,' he said.
The man was seen holding hison a humanitarian mission in international waters.
Push for an end to the counterproductive Gaza blockade that is causing so much human suffering.
Step up efforts to help bring peace by ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Almost every nation in the international community has condemned this attack. But the United States, with its unique relationship with Israel, has been quiet at this critical time. The President needs to speak out more forcefully and support a truly independent, international investigation of the attack. But we also need a wider vision and wider action. Now while the world is paying attention there is an urgent opportunity to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and build lasting peace in the region. You and I can stand up and make sure our country joins other countries
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calling for an end to the blockade of Gaza.
Since the 2006 elections that put Hamas in power, the U.S. has supported the blockade of Gaza. But the blockade has failed to force Hamas to change its positions. Nor has it encouraged Palestinians to remove them from power. Instead it has caused serious harm to human health and welfare among the civilian population. There are better ways to protect the Israeli population and to promote peace in the region. The U.S. should support efforts to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza and work with the internationally community to end the blockade.
Pressure around the world to end the Gaza blockade is growing. But without the U.S. joining in, the efforts to improve the situation are likely to stall out asto improve concussion assessment in the realm of elite football, and suggest that significant and persistent knowledge uptake and/or attitudinal barriers to implementation may exist.
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Get the story to fuel your conversation today.
Sometimes America's public school system gets black history wrong. So wrong, in fact, that Bethel University student Justin Giuliano created his own hashtag to spread awareness regarding black history he felt was overlooked in the average school's history curriculum.
"I thought, 'I'll just make a hashtag, #BlackHistoryYouDidntLearnInSchool, because he's been erased from history and I never learned about him in school,'" Giuliano, referring to the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, told PBS NewsHour in February. Rustin worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United States recognizes Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 18. We've decided to commemorate his holiday by sharing seven facts about the civil rights leader that you weren't taught in school.
King first had a dream in Detroit.
Source: Anonymous/APTwomonths before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington D.C., he made mention to his dreams in Detroit. In June 1963, King marched down Woodward Avenue with a crowd of 125,000 in the largest civil rights demonstration the US had seen at the time.
The rally, known as "The Walk to Freedom", protested the civil rights issues of the time, such as segregation in the South, but also educational and economic inequality that persisted in the northern states. The march concluded at Cobo Hall, in the heart of Detroit.
"I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children, that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within," King said at
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the end of the march, according to MSNBC, "but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin."
King's mother was assassinated
Most people learn in school that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968. But many don't know that his mother, Alberta King was shot and killed as well.
Dr. King's mother was shot and killed at a Sunday service in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1974 by Marcus Wayne Chenault Jr. He told the police that he intended on assassinating Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., but murdered Alberta King because she was nearer to him, according to the New York Times.
Over 60 years ago in 1952, a young Martin Luther King, Jr. became a member of AlphaPhi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, the first and oldest successful intercollegiate fraternity for black men. The young graduate student studying systematic theology was initiated into the Sigma chapter at Boston University.
Herman Hemingway, retired University of Massachusetts professor and the first black graduate of Brandeis University in Massachusetts, met King in 1951 while pledging Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
"I feel blessed to have met and spent time with Brother King. I was inspired by him as well. This was a man who was on a different wavelength than the rest of us," Hemingway told The Atlanta Journal?Constitution. "We learned the importance of community efforts, brotherhood, self-reliance and respect for our own people."
One of the most recognizable names in American history wasn't always so. The Southern minister was born Michael King Jr.
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on Jan. 15, 1929.
The name change came in 1934, when Michael King Sr. changed his name to Martin Luther, in honor of the 16th Century Protestant Reformation leader. Michael King Jr. followed in his father's footsteps, and changed his name to Martin Luther King, Jr.
King started college at 15 years old
The average student begins their journey into higher education at the ages of 17 or 18. King skipped grades nine and 12 and enrolled into Morehouse College, a historically black college in Atlanta, at the age of 15. He almost decided against becoming a Baptist minister, until he was convinced otherwise by then-Morehouse president Benjamin E. Mays, according to History. King graduated from Morehouse College with both a degree in sociology and as an ordained minister at 19years old in 1948.
The civil rights leader's first speech on the National Mall didn't take place at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, but instead happened six years prior. King gave his first speech in front of a national audience at one of the earlier moments of the civil rights movement, the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom on May 17, 1957.
The crowd of about 30,000 non-violent demonstrators listened to the Southern preacher's speech on voting rights, pushing King to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Organized by the labor movement leader A. Philip Randolph, the three-hour program featured notable entertainers and civil rights leaders such as actor Harry Belafonte, actor and singer Paul Robeson, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and then-NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins.
King
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winged most of his most famous speech
The "I Have A Dream" speech is one of the most well-known addresses in American history, but the civil rights leader ad-libbed most of it, according to Clarence B. Jones, co-writer of the famous speech.
The speechwriter, who wrote a book on his co-authorship of the "I Have A Dream" speech, then goes on to explain how Jackson helped inspire one of the greatest improvisational speeches ever. A gospel singer and close confidant of King's, Mahalia Jackson, told him to "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin, tell 'em about the dream!"
From that moment, the civil rights leader had "given himself over to the spirit of the moment," Jones wrote in the Washington Post.
"In front of all those people, cameras, and microphones, Martin wingedAbstract
The circadian clock acts as the timekeeping mechanism in photoperiodism. In Arabidopsis thaliana, a circadian clock-controlled flowering pathway comprising the genes GIGANTEA (GI), CONSTANS (CO), and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) promotes flowering specifically under long days. Within this pathway, GI regulates circadian rhythms and flowering and acts earlier in the hierarchy than CO and FT, suggesting that GI might regulate flowering indirectly by affecting the control of circadian rhythms. We studied the relationship between the roles of GI in flowering and the circadian clock using late elongated hypocotyl circadian clock associated1 double mutants, which are impaired in circadian clock function, plants overexpressing GI (35S:GI), and gi mutants. These experiments demonstrated that GI acts between the circadian oscillator and CO to promote flowering by increasing CO and FT mRNA
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phase as TOC1, and both gi mutations as well as 35S:GI have effects on circadian phase and period length. In the control of flowering time, GI increases the amplitude of CO and FT expression, which are both increased by 35S:GI and decreased by gi mutations. In addition, 35S:GI and gi mutations have opposite effects on flowering time. GI is therefore proposed to play dual roles acting within the circadian clock to regulate period length and circadian phase, while also more directly promoting expression of a circadian clock output pathway that includes CO and FT and promotes flowering. The effect of GI on flowering probably includes another pathway, indicated with an X, because co mutations only partially suppress the early flowering caused by 35S:GI or lhy cca1. FT activatesNews, notes and reader questions about the San Francisco 49ers
September 20, 2012
It looks as if journeyman Eric Bakhtiari beat out one of the most prominent names at his position to land a spot on the 49ers 53-man roster. According to Scout.com, former Pro Bowl outside linebacker Shawne Merriman visited the 49ers on Wednesday, the day they signed Bakhtiari to fill in for Clark Haggans during Haggans' three-game suspension.
Bakhtiari was the team's most productive defensive player during the offseason, leading the 49ers in sacks and finishing second in tackles during the exhibition season. Merriman, meanwhile, was one of the most dangerous pass rusher his first three seasons with the Chargers but has been plagued by injuries in recent years. He was suspended for four games in 2006 for violating
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the league's policy on steroids and related substances.
It's also worth noting that Bakhtiari was a member of the 49ers' coverage teams during the preseason while Merriman never has had a big role on special teams. The 49ers' coverage units, perhaps the league's best in 2011, have been shoddy early on this season.
MATTHEW BARROWS
Matt was born in Blacksburg, Va., and attended the University of Virginia. He graduated in 1995, went to Northwestern for a journalism degree a year later, and got his first job at a South Carolina daily in 1997. He joined The Bee as a Metro reporter in 1999 and started covering the 49ers in 2003. His favorite player of all time is Darrell Green.Blair talks about Community Player of the Year award
Matty Blair has said that, while nice, he does not do his community work for the awards after he was announced as EFL and PFA Sky Bet League One Community Player of the Year on March 18.
It is the second consecutive year that Blair has won the award as he continues to set the standard for community engagement across League One. He has been rewarded for his tireless dedication to community projects around Doncaster including Fit Rovers which he is now ambassador of.
“I understand the very privileged position I’m in and when I’m asked to do something in the community, who am I to turn that down?” he said.
“It’s a pleasure to be able to be involved in everything I
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Jimmy Munro (footballer, born 1926)
James Ferguson Munro (25 March 1926 – 22 June 1997), was a Scottish footballer. who played as a right winger in the Football League.
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340 S.W.2d 601 (1960)
Russell Gene HARROD, Petitioner,
v.
Henry MEIGS, II, Respondent, and Judith McDowell Harrod, Intervening Respondent.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
December 2, 1960.
*602 Darnell & Johnson (William E. Johnson), Frankfort, for petitioner.
R. Vincent Goodlett, Ben B. Fowler, Frankfort, for respondent.
William A. Young, Frankfort, for intervening respondent.
CULLEN, Commissioner.
This is an original action in this Court seeking an order of prohibition. The basis for the relief sought is the alleged unconstitutionality of Chapter 170 of the Acts of the 1960 General Assembly. The Act provides that the 14th Judicial District shall be composed of Bourbon, Scott and Woodford Counties, and a new district (the 48th), consisting of Franklin County, shall be established. It further provides for the creation and appointment of a judge and commonwealth's attorney for the new district, and
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the entire state. It is not complained in the case at bar that the creation of the additional district of Franklin county causes the entire number of districts to exceed one for each 60,000 of the state's population.
"If we next read all the above sections of the Constitution down to section 138, it is clear that there is no prohibition against legislation by the General Assembly erecting any single county into a separate circuit judicial district. The only prohibition as to any single county is that no county shall be divided into separate districts. Beyond this prohibition, the Legislature was left to exercise its entire freedom of will and judgment in the creation of districts, subject alone to the demand that the General Assembly should have due regarddistrict justified the erection of such a district.
"But the Constitution, in section 138, went somewhat further. It gave to the General Assembly the right, or imposed the duty (the one way or the other as its language may be read), to constitute a district of any county of 40,000 population, with a city of the requisite size within its borders, without any regard whatever to the territory and quantity of legal business within such county. By section 128 the Legislature, in the general creation of districts, was required to have regard to territory and business. This discretionary standard was set as the guide to the General Assembly in its general creation of districts; but an entirely different and arbitrary standard was fixed as to counties having a population
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of 40,000, with cities within them of 20,000. In other words, the Constitution itself fixed such a standard for counties meeting this requirement, and did not exact of the Legislature to exercise any regard to territory or business in such counties before one of them might alone constitute a district. The makers of the Constitution, practical men in the exercise of sound good sense, took it upon themselves to say that in counties of the character described in section 138 a circuit court might exist upon the natural premise that its business would of necessity justify it; but it did not take away from the General Assembly the general power and the general right to constitute any other single county, having due regard to territory, business, and population,into a separate district, so long as the total number of districts did not exceed one for each 60,000 of population. This construction of the Constitution's intent makes the whole of it upon the subject of circuit districts harmonious. It leaves to the General Assembly the right to create a district of a single county when, with due regard to its territory and business, it might deem the creation of the district proper, necessary, or beneficent to the expedition of the litigation of the people of the commonwealth. *606 It is not charged that the business of Franklin county does not justify the erection of it into a separate judicial district, and that the act of the General Assembly creating it was arbitrary or without regard to the
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to ensure distribution of fair price commodities to entitled persons.
In the petition, it was alleged that in collusion with the officers of food supply department, the fair price license holders used to wrongly verify Aadhaar and misappropriated crores of government fund in the name of entitled person and used to sell commodities in the open market.
The state government instituted an enquiry in this regard by a subsequent order dated August 29, 2018, after which the investigation was handed over to the STF. PTI RAJ CKwater; the marble may be very hard, but each
prayer is like the hammer's stroke that wears away its roughness.
XXVII.
The sweet peace of GOD bears the outward token of resignation.
When the Holy Spirit dwells within us everything seems bright.
Everything may not be exactly as we would wish it, but we accept all with
a good grace.... For instance, some change in our household or mode of
living upsets us. If GOD is with us, He will whisper, "Yield cheerfully
thy will; in a little while all will be forgotten."
Some command or employment wounds our pride; if GOD is with us, He will
say to us, "Be submissive, and _I_ will come to thine aid."
We may dislike a certain neighborhood; the society there may be repulsive
to us, and we are about to become morbid:
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BREAD
How blessed, O LORD, to depend only upon Thee ... behold me, Thy child,
waiting with outstretched hand to receive Thy benefits.
Grant me my temporal blessings,--clothing, nourishment, shelter ... but not
too much of anything; and let me have the happiness of sharing my
blessings with those poorer than myself to-day. Grant me the blessing of
intelligence, that I may read, or hear one of those golden counsels that
elevate the soul, and lend wings to the thoughts.
Grant me the loving heart, O my FATHER! that I may feel for a moment how I
love Thee, and Thy love towards me; let me sacrifice myself for the
welfare of another. Give me the Bread of Life, the Holy Eucharist! I have
just received it, LORD! Grant me again ere long that great blessing.
And then, give allmeditations, wearies, torments, fatigues the
brain, drying up the soul, and hindering the work of the HOLY SPIRIT.
2. _Curiosity_ lays the soul open to all external things, fills it with a
thousand fancies and questionings, pleasing or vexatious, absorbing the
mind, and making it quite impossible to retire within one's self and be
recollected. Then follow distaste, sloth, and ennui for all that savors of
silence, retirement, and meditation.
Curiosity shows itself, when _studies_ are undertaken from vanity, a
desire to know all things, and to pass as clever, rather than the real
wish to learn in order to be useful--in _reading_, when the spare time is
given up to history, papers, and novels--in _walking_, when our steps would
lead us where the crowd go to see, to know, only in order to have
something to retail; in fact,
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to appellant. From such order, he has duly appealed to this court.
*697 On April 28, 1951, the last day appellant worked for respondent, Sunset Minerals, Inc., he was a married man, 60 years of age. He had spent most of his adult life in the Coeur d'Alene mining district working as an underground miner, carpenter and sawmill man. In 1939 he went to work as an underground miner for the Federal Mining and Smelting Company. At that time he was advised by the examining doctor that he was afflicted with silicosis. He continued such employment until October 31, 1944.
On December 20, 1945, appellant went to work for respondent, Sunset Minerals, Inc., as a surface carpenter and sawmill man. Apparently, he was again told that he had silicosis. Hesuch five-year period, his right to compensation against such employer shall not be affected by the fact that he had been employed during any part of such period outside of this state."
The principal ground for the denial by the board of an award of compensation was that appellant did not qualify under the terms of the foregoing statute. In this connection the board made the following findings of fact:
"Dec. 20, 1945, Yanzick went to work for Sunset Minerals, as a carpenter and continued in that status until his termination at the end of his shift, April 28, 1951. At infrequent intervals his duties were underground, building forms and pouring concrete. These underground activities did not aggregate more than half a year and were not performed in close proximity
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TEHRAN, Mar. 27 (Press Shia Agency) – Head of Interior Ministry’s Elections Headquarter has announced this morning that there has been 14% rise in number of candidacies this year.
With deadline for registration as a candidate for city and villages councils across the country arriving at last midnight, Ali Asghar Ahmadi, Head of Elections Headquarter in Ministry of Interior Affairs appeared this morning in fornt of media representatives to report the latest official figures.
According to Ahmadi, during the registration time from 15 to 26 of March, 287,425 people have registered their candidacy which is 14 per cent more than previous round four years ago.
Ahmadi elaborated that 54,858 candidates which is about 20 percent of the whole candidates are running for city councils and 232,537 nominees are running for villagecouncils.
The figures include 17,885 women and 269,540 men, where 6,743 women are running in cities and 11,142 women compete in villages.
Meanwhile, Afzal Abad village in Khash in Sistan Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran has set a record with all candidates running for village council being female.
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and breaking the taillight. There was a crashing sound of metal on metal and the force of the impact knocked Mrs. Ray's body forward and then jerked her back against the seat. At the time of the collision and immediately following she felt pain in her back and shoulders, upper shoulders, neck and head. After exchanging names with defendant Mrs. Ray drove home. On the way home she was nauseated. She put a heat pad on her neck and took two aspirins and went to bed. This was on Friday. On Saturday she stayed in bed most of the day and continued the heat applications but did not get any better. She kept on applying heat and taking aspirins on Sunday. On Monday she went back to work,got sick, left her work and went to her family doctor's office, about noon. After examining her the doctor gave her prescriptions to relieve the pain and relax the muscles. She had the prescriptions filled, went home, took the medicines and went to bed. That evening she and her husband went out to eat but she got sick at the restaurant. After they got her home she "passed out" and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. She was nauseated and her back hurt badly. Medicine for nausea helped but the nausea persisted for a week. Her doctor saw her every day. After 10 days in the hospital she went home and there spent another 10 days before going back to work. She rested, spent time in
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bed. She became an outpatient at the hospital, taking physiotherapy (heat and massage) three days a week for two weeks, followed by exercises *841 taken at home for her arm. Two months later she went back to the hospital for two weeks of additional therapy, 5 days a week. For weeks after her release from the hospital she continued to make visits to her doctor, and she was still seeing the doctor 2 weeks before the trial, for relief of pain in her back, and pressure. Her total loss of salary was $256. At trial time, approximately one year after the accident, she was continuing to suffer pain in her back and left arm. The use of her left arm was limited. She was taking medication for painfour times a day and doing exercises twice a day as prescribed by the doctor. She was able to do her work but it caused her pain if she had to use her left arm, and she experienced more severe pain following a day's work, and when the weather was cold. The doctor testified that following the collision he found neck muscle spasm, tenderness, pain on movement of the neck, upper-back pain with radiation around to the left chest wall, and tenderness over both shoulder areas. X rays indicated loss of curvature of the neck due to muscle spasm. He felt the pain in the upper dorsal region of her back was due to neuritis; that neuritis can be caused by trauma; that the pain in her shoulder
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and arm was due to the injury in her neck region; that she had 20 physiotherapy treatments. At one time she was given traction to try to relieve the pressure on pinched nerves and relax the ligaments. When he last saw her a few weeks before trial she had substantially the same complaints she had in the hospital, back pain radiating around the ribs, and pain on left arm movement. In his opinion the symptoms found on his examination following the collision were due to trauma experienced in the collision and her injuries were of a permanent nature. There was testimony that plaintiff's automobile was damaged to the extent of $150.
Defendant emphasizes evidence showing that plaintiff experienced a number of previous operations and afflictions (fracture of a collarbone,Prime Minister Theresa May, once a reluctant supporter of EU membership who won the top job in the turmoil that followed the 2016 Brexit referendum, steps down with her central pledge - to lead the United Kingdom out of the bloc and heal its divisions - unfulfilled.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to unite the country after a big election win, with his party on course to increase its majority on a mandate of business-friendly policies and a tough stand on national security.
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Captain for captain. The face of the Lightning franchise — unhappy as he was at the time — for a homegrown, hard-working blue collar guy the Rangers were not going to be able to re-sign.
For the Rangers, it was the last piece of the puzzle in getting them to the Stanley Cup Finals. St. Louis probably provided more of an emotional lift than a scoring one with his ability to rally after his mother's death in the second round.
A year later, St. Louis and Callahan are again focal points, this time as the Rangers and Lightning meet in Game 1 of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden.
Coming in, both carry question marks. Callahan has yet to score a goal in the postseason andgo against the kid line of Tyler Johnson centering Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov, or face up against Steven Stamkos, Alex Killorn and Callahan, if he's in the lineup? Johnson (8), Kucherov (5) and Palat (3) have combined for 16 goals in the postseason.
DIFFERENT TEAM: The Lightning are in the conference finals for the first time since 2011. Just two players, Stamkos and defenseman Victor Hedman, remain on the roster from then. Tampa Bay also made it in 2004 en route to winning the franchise's only Stanley Cup championship.
GOALTENDERS: Henrik Lundqvist of the Rangers has a 1.60 goals-against average and a .944 save percentage in 12 playoff games. Bishop has a 1.81 GAA and .937 save percentage in 13 playoffs games. Don't expect many goals.
REGULAR SEASON: The Lightning
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first and second bond wires 116a, 116b from the second die 104. The first bond wire 116a is also connected to the lead finger or bond pad 112, while the second bond wire 116b is connected directly to the lead frame 106. The bond wires 110b and 116a effect an electrical connection between the first and second dies 102, 104 by way of the lead finger or bond pad 112.
The second die 104 is encapsulated within a mould compound 118, such as a thermosetting resin typically used in a semiconductor mould encapsulation process. The first die 102 is encapsulated within an encapsulation gel 120, also typically used in semiconductor manufacturing processes. The encapsulation gel 120 is constrained between a package wall 122 and the mould compound 118. Ato earn points for the use of her name, she said, "Maybe, but yes." When asked whether her employer, the Disney Company (a Council on Foreign Relations member), was simply trying to discredit Dr. Paul by linking him to a side-dressing issue, she denied that dressing was involved at all.
Dr. Paul's campaign was thankful for yet another unofficial grassroots support movement making news and spreading his message. Communications director Jesse Benton pointed out that stripping to protest government overreaching goes back to the prophet Ezekiel, a noted ecdysiast. A campaign staffer who preferred anonymity commented, "For 30 years, Dr. Paul has affirmed that preventing women from disrobing has never been an enumerated Constitutional power of Congress. He knows that whenever any woman goes on a stage with no
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McClain Smith, editor, of The Parsons Advocate, a West Virginia weekly newspaper, in Hart's diversity libel action against them. We affirm.
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Hart filed his action in the district court in 1979. It lay dormant for a number of years before the Smiths moved for summary judgment against Hart. Hart, an attorney, had been indicted by a state grand jury for fraudulently presenting a false affidavit to a bank, thereby obtaining a cashier's check. In reporting the indictment, the newspaper paraphrased it and, according to Hart, mischaracterized the action for which he was indicted. In addition, the story mistakenly reported that he had cashed two checks instead of one.
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In a second one paragraph story summarizing earlier events in the community, the paper reported that HartHow a new sport called ‘fowling’ was born and brought to Detroit
Hitting the pins
There's a sports success story brewing on the border of Hamtramck and Detroit, and it's like nothing you've ever seen on television. It's a sport created by fans of automobile racing, but it has nothing to do with motors. It involves throwing a football, but no player is the receiver. The goal is to knock down 10 pins, but there's not a bowling ball, lane, or gutter in sight. And the prize for the championship is a can of sauerkraut.
It's called "fowling" (pronounced FOAL-ing) and its chief aficionado, organizer, and historian is Chris Hutt, proprietor of the Fowling Warehouse in Detroit.
The sport involves teams throwing a football at an array of pins, trying to knock
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a standard bowling ball at the end of the lane, nothing seemed to work. The ball kept bursting past their barrier of rebar and snow fence, rolling into adjoining campsites. And, even at Lot 1A, people have limits on how much of that they're willing to take.
"We took the bowling balls and locked them up in a trunk and gave ourselves an F," Hutt says. "Then, the day before the race, a couple guys were playing catch with the football and someone made a bad pass: It wasn't caught. It rolled and went right into the pins and knocked some pins down."
It was a magical moment when a mistake becomes an inspiration, as when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in a contaminated petri dish, or when Archimedes saw hisbathtub overflow. "We had another box of spare pins and set them up at the other end of the lane and spent the rest of the day making up rules as we played. By the end of the day, we had our basic rules, which are still used today."
After a few years of fowling at the speedway, the lane made of risers had become something of a nuisance, so the crew took the six risers apart and made it into a game involving two platforms, driving to a local bowling alley to buy 40 pins. It was a good thing too as people might endure a three-hour wait for a chance to play the winners; with three setups going, wait times dropped considerably.
"After a full day of fowling,"
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a red ribbon, no. It was Marathon black with free refinery smell. The second I came here, even though it was totally full of shit and a disaster, I knew this was it."
There's no food, but Hutt is amenable to people bringing their own, noting that several Hamtramck spots deliver to the warehouse. He says plans are also in the works for food trucks and pop-ups. Setting up a kitchen would be another six figures, and, besides, the ultimate DIY sport shouldn't be so ... swanky. Not quite yet.
"We're a little rough around the edges on purpose," Hutt says, with a laugh. "It's industrial. People like it. The bar isn't mahogany, it's bowling lane. This is the only place you can do fowling in the world."
The Fowling WarehouseMaryland High School Basketball - Bishop O'Connell succumbs to DeMatha
In their next game, the Stags face the Northwest Catholic Indians (West Hartford, CT) in a non-league game, on Saturday, January 14. DeMatha will attempt to better on its 15-0 season record. The Indians come into the contest with a 8-0 record after their 68-34 league win over Simsbury (Simsbury, CT).
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Middlebury students shout down lecture by Charles Murray
Submitted by Scott Jaschik on March 3, 2017 - 3:00am
Hundreds of students at Middlebury College on Thursday chanted and shouted at Charles Murray, the controversial writer whom many accuse of espousing racist ideas, preventing him from giving a public lecture at the college.
Murray had been invited by Middlebury's student group affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank at which Murray is a scholar. Many of his writings are controversial, but perhaps none more than The Bell Curve, a book that linked intelligence and race and that has been widely condemned by many social scientists (even as Murray has been supported by others).
Prior to the point when Murray was introduced, several Middlebury officials reminded students that they were allowed toprotest but not to disrupt the talk. The students ignored those reminders and faced no visible consequences for doing so.
As soon as Murray took the stage, students stood up, turned their backs to him and started various chants that were loud enough and in unison such that he could not talk over them. Chants included:
"Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Charles Murray, go away."
"Your message is hatred. We cannot tolerate it."
"Charles Murray, go away. Middlebury says no way."
"Who is the enemy? White supremacy."
"Hey hey, ho ho. Charles Murray has got to go."
The scene was recorded and posted to YouTube. Murray appears around minute 19.
After the students chanted for about 20 minutes, college officials announced that the lecture would not take place but that Murray would go to another location, which the
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college didn't name, and have a discussion with a Middlebury faculty member -- livestreamed back to the original lecture site.
According to Middlebury officials, after Murray and the professor who interviewed him for the livestream attempted to leave the location in a car, some protesters surrounded the car, jumped on it, pounded on it and tried to prevent the car from leaving campus.
Laurie Patton, president of Middlebury, attended the attempted lecture and spoke before Murray took the stage. She received some boos from the crowd, although she was applauded when she said she disagreed with Murray's views. Patton said she attended because students invited her, and she tries to attend events when invited -- regardless of her views of a speaker. She said that "the very premise of freethey expected a protest and possible disruption, the size of the protest was unexpected, making it impossible to clear the hall.
College officials framed the decision to allow the event to take place as being about free speech.
But critics said that Murray shouldn't be treated simply a person with whom they had differing political views. Many noted that he is classified as a white nationalist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which sums him up this way[1]: "Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has become one of the most influential social scientists in America, using racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women, and the poor."
An open letter[2] by hundreds of
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Alta Resort is only PHP 450 and already comes with a plated lunch, use of showers and the swimming pool, as well as use of the various sports, game, and playground facilities. Along with Cordova Home Village, Karancho Beach Resort, and Lowaii Cebu Marine Beach Resort, Alta Resort is among the cheapest team building venues one can find in the Mactan-Cordova area.
Alta Resort
For a budget team building venue in the Cordova-Mactan area, Cebu Teambuilding Services recommends Alta Cebu Village Garden Resort and Convention Center in Tugbungan, Pilipog, Cordova, Cebu, Philippines. Day use atis only PHP 450 and already comes with a plated lunch, use of showers and the swimming pool, as well as use of the various sports, game, and playground facilities. Along with Cordova Home Village, KaranchoBeach Resort, and Lowaii Cebu Marine Beach Resort,is among the cheapest team building venues one can find in the Mactan-Cordova area.
Facilities
Outdoor Venues
There are two potential outdoor venues at Alta Resort where groups can hold team building activities, at the Mactan Clubhouse near the new building and the area where most of the sports facilities are. Set-up for some activities are already in place such as the spider's web.
Outdoor stage
Spider web
Outdoor space
Function Rooms
Function room
There are five (5) air conditioned function rooms available at Alta Cebu where indoor team building activities can be done. Function rooms vary in size to accommodate groups of varying numbers.
Location & Transportation Information
Alta Cebu Village Garden Resort and Convention Center is located at Sitio Tugbungan, Barangay Pilipog, Cordova town, Cebu, Philippines.
For those driving their own
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as if chlorella knows which metals belong in your body and which chemicals need to be removed. Supplementing with chlorella is like unleashing a tiny army inside your body to fight the battle of removing toxins from your tissues and ushering them back outside your body where they belong.
The History of Chlorella
Chlorella is one of the most widely studied food supplements in the world. Aside from being the subject of medical research in the USA, USSR, Germany, Japan, France, England and Israel, chlorella has been extensively studied as a food source since it is made up of a whopping 50 percent protein and is considered a complete amino acid-based food.
Even NASA has studied using chlorella as the one of first whole foods in space on the international spaceTripoli (AFP) - The jihadist Islamic State group acknowledged losing control of the city of Derna in eastern Libya, promising to "avenge" its fighters, in a video posted on Twitter.
The 10-minute video posted late Saturday by the "media office of the province of Barqa" in Libya confirmed the loss of Derna after clashes.
The coastal city near the border with Egypt has often been described as the bastion of IS supporters in the North African country since its fighters first entered Derna in November 2014.
It has seen fierce fighting in recent weeks between the jihadist group and members of the Mujahedeen Council of Derna.
Its gunmen ousted IS from many areas of the city controlled for more than a year by armed groups including Ansar al-Sharia, which is close to
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Al-Qaeda.
In the video recording, a man in military uniform promises to avenge the IS members who died in the fighting.
Senior Middle East analyst Michael Nayebi-Oskoui at US-based global intelligence firm Stratfor said the loss of Derna does not greatly change IS's effectiveness in Libya.
"IS being kicked out of Derna does not dramatically alter the capabilities or effectiveness of the IS in Libya, as the group has faced and will continue to face stiff opposition from local competitors," he said.
"IS remains constrained in its ability to retaliate for any potential loss in Derna."
"That said, attacks (including suicide attacks) against security checkpoints in and around Sirte, Benghazi and Tripoli are all possible," Nayebi-Oskoui added.
After the fall of dictator Moamer Kadhafi's regime in 2011, Libya now has two parliaments and twogovernments vying for power, one based in Tripoli and one in Tobruk in the east.
Only the latter is recognised by the international community.
IS, which already controls large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, has exploited the chaos in Libya, notably taking control in June of the city of Sirte just 450 kilometres (280 miles) east of Tripoli.
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have never heard of and I've lived here for a long time].
At some point during the 1960's residents of the small community of Elysian Valley stepped outside to a veritable flood of frogs blanketing the streets and yards of the neighborhood. Legend has it that the polluted water of the neighboring Los Angeles River caused a decline in the natural predators of the native red-legged frog: the herons and the crayfish. The resulting reptile explosion caused the frogs to overrun the banks of the river and to stray into the neighborhood. This event gave the area its enduring nickname, Frogtown. The boundaries of Elysian Valley (Frogtown) are the 2 freeway to the north, the 110 freeway to the south, the Los Angeles River to the east, and theMeg Jones
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Spring-like weather is in the forecast later this week — high temperatures in the 50s — and it's all because the jet stream decided to swing further north than usual for this time of year.
With the jet stream hovering north of Wisconsin, warm air will blow in from the southwest, boosting temperatures across the state, said Tom Kines, a meteorologist with accuweather.com.
"We can thank the jet stream for the tranquil and eventually milder weather coming our way," Kines said Monday afternoon. The jet stream "is well north of us. When that happens it allows milder air from the south to move north."
Though temperatures were in the 40s Monday and likely on Tuesday, the forecast calls for a dip into more normal temperatures in the 30s
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why thank you , you do as well
-----Original Message-----
From: Villarreal, Alexandra
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:10 AM
To: Griffith, John
Subject: RE:
you look so handsome today
-----Original Message-----
From: Griffith, John
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:01 AM
To: Villarreal, Alexandra
Subject: RE:
I was making a joke that your friend sees you every month
-----Original Message-----
From: Villarreal, Alexandra
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:59 AM
To: Griffith, John
Subject: RE:
what??
-----Original Message-----
From: Griffith, John
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:44 AM
To: Villarreal, Alexandra
Subject: RE:
good, it is always good to be able to rely on someone
-----Original Message-----
From: Villarreal, Alexandra
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:34 AM
To: Griffith, John
Subject: RE:
my friend "took off" already. she said she will be back to visit next month. hee hee ; - )
-----Original Message-----
From: Griffith, John
Sent: Wednesday, Octoberthe US Army, The Marines, the FBI, the CIA and the Rangers visit the house of the old man, take the whole garden apart, search every inch, but can't find anything. Disappointed they leave the house.
A day later, the old man receives another e-mail from his son. "Beloved Father, I hope the garden is dug up by now and you can plant your potatoes. That's all I could do for you from here. I love you, Ahmed."
Jim decided to propose to Sandy, but prior to her acceptance.
Sandy had to confess to her man about her childhood illness.
She informed Jim that she suffered a disease that left her breasts at maturity of a 12 years old.
He stated that it was OK because he loved her so much.
“I too have
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sweetie for Valentine's Day.
As they had not been dating very long, it was a very difficult decision.
After careful consideration, he decided a good gift would be a pair of gloves.
Accompanied by his sister, he went to the store and bought the gloves.
His sister purchased a pair of panties at the same time.
The clerk carefully wrapped both items but in the process got them mixed up.
The sister was handed the gloves and the young man got the panties.
The young man mailed his Valentine's Day gift with the following note:
"This special Valentines Day gift was chosen because I noticed you are in the habit of not wearing any when we go out in the evenings. If it had not been for my sister, I would have chosen the ones withme."
Love, Cuddle Bear
PS: The sales lady says the latest style is to wear them folded down with just a little fur showing.
Bill wakes up at home with a huge hangover.
He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table.
He sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed.
Bill looks around the room and sees that it is in a perfect order, spotless, clean.
So's the rest of the house.
He takes the aspirins and notices a note on the table "Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping. Love you."
So he goes to the kitchen and sure enough there is a hot breakfast and
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the morning newspaper.
His son is also at the table, eating.
Bill asks, "Son, what happened last night?"
His son says, "Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk and delirious.
Broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black eye when you stumbled into the door."
Confused, Bill asks, "So, why is everything in order and so clean, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?"
His son replies, "Oh that! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off you said, "Lady leave me alone, I'm married'!"
A woman is driving for 1st time on the highway.
Her husband calls says: "Be careful love, It's just been on the radio, that someone is driving opposite to the traffic on the highway.."
She replies: "Someone...? These296 Ga. 512
FINAL COPY
S14A1359. KOSTURI v. THE STATE.
NAHMIAS, Justice.
Appellant Kevin Kosturi was convicted of malice murder and other crimes
in connection with the shooting death of Angel Hope Freeman. On appeal, he
argues only that the evidence presented at his trial was legally insufficient to
sustain his convictions. We affirm.1
1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, the evidence
presented at trial showed the following. Appellant was 15 years old, and
Freeman was 16, when she was killed. The two teenagers
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had started dating in
the fall of 2010. Over the next several months, they had numerous arguments
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Freeman was killed on February 21, 2011. On May 5, 2011, a Clayton County grand jury
indicted Appellant for malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,
making false statements, tampering with evidence, possession of a handgun by a person under the
age of 18, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. In the same indictment,
the grand jury charged Robert Bethune with furnishing a handgun to a person under age 18 and
contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Appellant and Bethune were re-indicted on the same
charges on September 8, 2011. Their trialwas set to begin on February 25, 2013. That day, Bethune
pled guilty to the two charges against him; he was later sentenced under the First Offender Act to
ten years in prison, with the first 36 months to be served in confinement and the balance to be served
on probation. Appellant was tried from February 25 to March 1, and the jury found him guilty of
all charges. On March 18, 2013, the trial court sentenced Appellant to serve life in prison for malice
murder and consecutive terms of years on other counts. Appellant filed a timely motion for new
trial, which his new appellate counsel amended on August 5, 2013. The trial court denied the motion
on December 30, 2013. Appellant filed a timely notice of appeal, and the case was docketed in
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Freeman, telling her that he had a gun
and suggesting that he was going to kill himself. Freeman told Appellant that
she loved him and agreed to meet him at his home the next day. When Freeman
met Appellant on the afternoon of February 21, he led her to a small wooden fort
in the woods nearby, where he was keeping the gun. Appellant then killed
Freeman with a single shot fired through her heart at close range. At some point
thereafter, Appellant called 911. When the police arrived, Appellant told them
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that a Hispanic maleBVA9510703
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On appeal from the decision of the
Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Nashville,
Tennessee
THE ISSUE
Entitlement to service connection for a psychiatric disorder
to include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
REPRESENTATION
Appellant represented by: Disabled American Veterans
WITNESSES AT HEARING ON APPEAL
Appellant, and his brother
ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD
John M. Clarkson, III, Associate Counsel
INTRODUCTION
The veteran had active service from February 1969 to February
1971. By rating action of May 1969, the Nashville, Tennessee
Regional Office (RO) denied service connection for PTSD.
This appeal arises from a November 1990 rating action by
which the RO reopened the veteran's claim, but denied service
connection for PTSD. While the RO has phrased the issue as
entitlement to service connection for PTSD, it is clear that
the claim is for service connection for a psychiatric
disorder, however diagnosed.
REMAND
The U.S. Department of Veterans
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Vet.App. 121 (1991).
Moreover, with respect to PTSD claims, the Court has held
that the question of whether a specific event reported by a
veteran as a stressor is a question of fact for the Board to
decide. Wilson v. Derwinski, 2 Vet.App. 614 (1992).
The appellant contends, in effect, that he suffers from PTSD,
as a result of combat conditions. During his military
service in Vietnam, the veteran was assigned to a supply and
armor unit. He testified that he came under hostile fire in
June or July of 1970 during which time he suffered a nervous
breakdown and was medivaced out of Vietnam. It appears that
the date of the alleged stressful event is incorrect as
reported by the veteran since the service medical records
reflect he was admitted to a hospital on June 1, 1970 for
psychiatric evaluation. Thus,Study Of Art – Painting In The Fifteenth Century: Umbria.
Ottaviano Nelli, son of a painter of Gubbio, has left a wall painting in Gubbio and frescos in the town hall of Foligno which seem like enlarged miniatures. He removed to Urbino in 1420.
Gentile, born in Fabriano, traveled and painted throughout Italy. In 1419 he was in Bergamo and Brescia. In Venice he was intimately associated with Pisanello and Jacopo Bellini. His masterpiece was painted in Florence in 1423. In 1427 he painted a series of frescos in St. John Lateran, Rome, of such excellence that Roger van der Weyden pronounced him the most excellent painter in all Italy.
NOTES ON THE PICTURES.
No. 111. Madonna and Child, Saints and Angels.
S. Maria Nuova, Gubbio.
A well-preserved wall painting, signed by Ottaviano and
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dated 1403. Kugler says of it, ” it is a gay mixture of unsubstantial figures, with graceful heads, on a blue diapered ground, like a magnified miniature.” Donors kneel on either side. The charming motive of the angel musicians who play to the Christ child suggests C 214 and D 366.
No. 112. Adoration of the Magi.
Academy, Florence.
Painted by Gentile in 1423 for S. Trinità, Florence. The colors are bright and clear; gold is used lavishly in halos, ornaments, and trappings of the horses. Dogs, monkeys, and falcons suggest the hunting train of courtiers. In the background is seen the train winding up to the city. One of the most delightful of mediaeval pictures, though painted in the decade during which Masaccio was at work in the Brancacci Chapel.
No.meet for our interview. Sitting next to the training pitch, we talk, watching the Timbers’ United Soccer League team (T2, for short) practice, the air light and cool, scented with pine. Nagbe is dressed in athlete casual: training top, shorts, a walking advertisement for league sponsor Adidas. Unlike some professional athletes, there’s nothing inherently superhuman about his appearance; he will never draw gawking glances at the grocery store. His most remarkable feature are his eyes –deep, wide, and expressive – that appear to take in more than they give out. It follows that Nagbe is a natural observer, more comfortable on the periphery of a crowd than at its center.
In conversation, his supposed introversion proves to be overblown. Forthright and funny, he speaks in a clipped baritone. His
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fanfiction than all the Law & Order and CSI franchises com...
Picture the scene -- you return home and the temperature rises, the lights go on, and your oven heats itself in preparation for dinner. You didn't have to lift a finger; it happened because your iPhone's GPS told it you had come home. It may be a whi...
When Hurricane Sandy came ashore in October 2012, it made waves in the virtual world as well as the real one. Photographs posted to the picture-sharing website Flickr track Sandy's landfall on Oct. 30, 2012, precisely, according to a new study publis...
Jake Foushee, the 15-year-old voice actor who made a name for himself in mid-2012 with his "Movie Trailer Guy" impression video, is back with 10 amazing impressions that will meltNipah virus (NiV) and Hendra virus (HeV) are emerging zoonotic paramyxoviruses capable of causing fatal diseases in animals and humans. NiV and HeV are unusual among the paramyxoviruses in their ability to infect and cause potentially fatal disease in a number of host species, including humans. These viruses cause viremia and systemic infections in the host, and the incubation period in animals and humans is relatively long (several days to weeks). HeV was identified first and isolated from cases of severe respiratory disease that fatally affected both horses and man. Subsequent to that appearance, an outbreak of severe febrile encephalitis associated with human deaths was reported in Malaysia, and follow-up studies identified a Hendra-like virus, now known as NiV, as the etiologic agent of that episode. NiV and
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