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her. This was enough to satisfy Jessica but not Harvey who really wanted his partnership. He soon discovered that the money was not for Alicia but for Monica Eton, with whom Daniel was having an affair. Threatening to tell his wife, Harvey asks Daniel to sign a piece of paper saying Daniel is walking away from the firm. Daniel reluctantly agrees. And this was removing Hardman from actively participating firm's business and just being a guy whom name kept as a name partner, because Jessica couldn't came up with money to buy his shares.
First attempt:
Five years later, when Alicia loses the fight against her cancer, Hardman comes back and manages to take over the firm once again and takes advantage of a lawsuit filed against Harvey by TravisTanner, saying Harvey had buried evidence in a case. Harvey, who had done no such thing, ordered Donna to find any such evidence in the file room. When Donna found the evidence stamped with her name on it, she destroyed it in an attempt to protect Harvey. Later, it was revealed that Hardman had planted the CM memo to make it look like Donna had buried it, and then had Travis Tanner attempt to sue the firm. Hardman was then dismissed from the firm for fraudulently suing the firm.
Second attempt :
More than two years later after his dismissal, Hardman once again returns to New York and is trying to take over the firm from Jessica and Harvey, by using senior partner Jack Soloff.
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areas of the cat auditory cortex (AI, Ep, and association). Wong observed that the shapes of basal dendritic fields ranged from relatively circular to "extremely polar," although elongated fields were unusual. He concluded that the degree of elongation is greater in the visual than in the auditory cortex.
More recently, [@B10] examined the orientation of basal dendritic arbors of Layer III pyramidal cells that were labeled using intracellular injections of Lucifer yellow in tangential sections of the monkey cerebral cortex, including: the primary visual area (V1), the second visual area (V2), the middle temporal area (MT), the ventral portion of the lateral intraparietal area (LIPv), and the portion of cytoarchitectonic area 7a within the anterior bank of the superior temporal sulcus. They classified neurons based on polar plots ofThe Supreme Court has come down heavily on public interest litigations (PILs) in the Rs 11,400-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam.
The apex court said, "It is fashionable to file PILs after seeing news headlines."
Reprimanding the PIL petitioners the Supreme Court said, "It is clear that the petitioner is seeking publicity and playing to the gallery. Such PILs are a gross abuse of process."
The PILs were filed separately by lawyers Vineet Dhanda and ML Sharma. On Tuesday, a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud considered lawyer JP Dhanda's submission that the scam was of enormous magnitude and the plea be listed for urgent hearing.
The court had listed the matter for today.
Dhanda's plea had made PNB, Reserve Bank of India, finance, and law
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ministries as parties.
The PIL asked for setting up a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the scam as well as look into the role of PNB management.
It also wanted the finance ministry to frame guidelines for disbursal of large-ticket loans. The plea also sought the framing of rules for the recovery of loans.
ML Sharma's PIL alleged that the multi-crore-rupee PNB scam has caused serious injury to the general public and the state's treasury.
Also read: Did Riteish Deshmukh just take a dig at 'Bank Chor' Nirav Modi?
Earlier today the government opposed the PILs in the PNB fraud case.
Appearing before the court the Attorney General KK Venugopal said a probe is in full swing and arrests have been made. He also questioned the locus standi of the petitioners.
Opposing the AG,Offrez un Bon ou Chèque Cadeaux à vos proches ou amis.
Your 3 Star Hotel in Arcachon
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Charming 3 Star Hotel located in the "Golden Triangle" of the city center of Arcachon, Hôtel Villa-Lamartine opens its doors to you, where every detail is thought for an unforgettable stay in a warm, calm and elegant atmosphere.
In the heart of the center city, close to the beach, the market, its restaurants and shops,
A few steps from the beach and cultural and event centers (Theater, Casino, Palais des Congrès...),
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March opening for Wal-Mart SuperCenter
January 21, 2004
The opening date for the new 204,000-square-foot Wal-Mart SuperCenter has not yet been set, however, local store officials say they are aiming to be open sometime in March. Meanwhile, workmen, above, put some finishing touches on the building's front exterior.Big story: Once again, the Anaheim Ducks and Detroit Red Wings are going the distance in a Western Conference Quarterfinal series. Four years ago, the underdog Ducks took the Red Wings to a Game 7 before falling in Detroit; this time around, they'll try to take advantage of the home ice that came with being the No. 2 seed in the West this season. Anaheim has been no worse than tied at the end of regulation in all six games, but Detroit's knack for overtime heroics -- most recently Henrik Zetterberg's goal in Game 6 that sent the teams back to Honda Center -- has prolonged the series to a winner-take-all battle Sunday night.
Team Scope:
Red Wings: It was Gustav Nyquist in Game 2 and Damien Brunner in Game
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4. After a pair of Stanley Cup Playoff neophytes kept Detroit afloat in the series, it was the captain who came to the rescue in Game 6 on Friday with the entire season on the line.
Zetterberg had already scored the go-ahead goal in the third period, but when that turned out not to be enough he provided some additional heroics just 64 seconds into overtime, sneaking a shot from the far left wing boards past Jonas Hiller for a 4-3 victory.
"Those two were kind of ugly ones, but that's what you need in the playoffs," Zetterberg said after scoring his first two goals of the series. "We started to feel the frustration when the puck doesn't go in, but at the same time we've been doing a lotwith a goal in the third. The Ducks are still waiting for the first goal of the series from Corey Perry, who has been held to two assists.
Who's hot:Pavel Datsyuk had a goal and two assists in Game 6 and leads the Red Wings for the series with seven points. Zetterberg has five points in the past two games. … Palmieri has goals in consecutive games for the Ducks. His five points tie him for the Ducks' lead along with Ryan Getzlaf.
Injury report: Anaheim defenseman Toni Lydman (head/stiff neck) hasn't played since Game 3 and isn't likely to return until the next round, if the Ducks advance.
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Jean Rouaud : "In the Face of Mercantilism, Ours Is a Formidable Power"
A writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1990 for his novel Les Champs d’honneur. (Fields of Glory), and author of many other novels, poems and essays, Jean Rouaud invites his readers in his last essay entitled Manifestons notre désintérêt (Let Us Show Our Lack Of Interest), to cast a sidelong, poetic glance on the global capitalist world around us in order to invent practical ways of “bypassing the dictatorship of the markets”.
Jean Rouaud was interviewed by Pierre Chaillan
Fields of Glory
HUMA : In this early year, the centenary of WWI, a lot of potentially historical debates have resurfaced. The literary production it inspires is very important. It was very present in the run-up to the prixsays Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Withholding grants is not the only enforcement tool available to funders. On 31 March, four UK higher-education funders announced that from 2016, only open-access papers posted to online institutional archives will be considered in the Research Excellence Framework — the periodic research audit that grades academic work and guides the distribution of money to UK universities. Because the audit has become an academic obsession (see Nature 502, 288–290; 2013), the policy will be “a game-changer”, says Paul Ayris, director of library services at University College London.
Research institutions can also help with bottom-up policy enforcement, says Bernard Rentier, rector of the University of Liège in Belgium. At Liège, only articles placed in a local repository count towards
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Hurricane Fly in Festival Hurdle romp
Hurricane Fly cemented his position as Ireland's premier hurdler with a slick display to land the Istabraq Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown.
Willie Mullins' charge was sent off a long odds-on favourite to land the Grade One prize and he obliged with the minimum of fuss.
Hurricane Fly's stablemate Thousand Stars set a decent gallop from the off but Ruby Walsh always had him in his sights. Hurricane Fly swept to the front jumping the second last and sauntered away from his rivals.
He jumped the final flight in style and cruised clear from Unaccompanied and the staying on Thousand Stars.
We're delighted with that, not just with the win but by the way he settled," Mullins said. "He was easier to lead around the ring beforehand andRuby said he settled beautifully throughout the race.
"He's a much more settled horse all round this year, with age and racing. He will come back here for the Irish Champion Hurdle before going to Cheltenham.
"If we can get him back to Cheltenham in the same form that he's in now, he'll have a very good chance."
Having been beaten by Mikael D'haguenet last time, Lord Windermere broke his duck over fences in the Ballymaloe Country Relish Beginners Chase. Jim Culloty's charge, the 9/4f, was briefly denied a run turning for home, but once seeing daylight he stuck on well to fend off Marasonnien.
There was Grade One action at Newbury and trainer Jonjo O'Neill landed the Challow Hurdle with Taquin De Seuil. The 13/8f has looked very smart in his
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outings to date and despite a couple of sloppy leaps up the straight, he was much too good for Easter Day in the hands of Tony McCoy.
Pete The Feat made every yard of the running to make it five wins on the spin with victory in the Mandarin Handicap Chase. Charlie Longsdon's charge jumped superbly and did not see another rival in justifying 15/8 favouritism.
Module bounced back from a fall on his chasing debut to land the Hallowe'en Trophy. Tome George's 7/2 shot stuck on well to score in the hands of Paddy Brennan, but Colour Squadron could be the horse to take from the race as he finished a close second despite Tony McCoy being unable to give him any assistance in the home straight due toRepublican Rep. Steve King says young immigrants brought to the United States as children and now here illegally would generate an economic lift for Mexico and other Central American nations if they were to return.
The Iowa congressman says "maybe the best thing we could do for our neighbors to the South is give them back their talent and restore our rule of law."
King is opposed to a program under former President Barack Obama that granted a deportation reprieve to about 800,000 young immigrants.
President Donald Trump is phasing out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but gave Congress six months to act before recipients' work permits begin to expire.
House and Senate leaders say they want a legislative solution to extend protections, but prospects are uncertain.
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Socialists trounced, Right on rise in French local polls
Anne Hidalgo was elected the new mayor of Paris, the one silver lining for François Hollande’s Socialist Party. Photo: AP
AFR
by
Emma-Kate Symons
Paris The President has no clothes. Even the left-wing press has joined in the condemnation of
François Hollande
and his threadbare economic policy after the Socialists’ historic defeat at local polls.
The keenly watched vote for mayors across France, paving the way for May’s European elections, was marked by a sharp rise in support for the extreme right Front National among disaffected former working class voters.
‘‘The king is from now on nude – he doesn’t have many voters any more, he still has not notched up any good economic results, and his parliamentary majority is ready to tear itself apart,’’ Libération newspaper said.
‘‘Unprecedentedstage for the Front National’’. ‘‘From now on we need to count on a third big political force in our country.’’
Voters abandon Socialists
Socialist voters, meanwhile, abstained in droves, with a record low turnout below 40 per cent. The exception to the Socialist gloom was Paris where
Anne Hidalgo
became the first female mayor of the capital. She ‘‘saved the Socialist honour’’ by roundly defeating
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
, the glamorous centre-right candidate and protégé of former president
Nicolas Sarkozy
.
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The opposition centre-right UMP claimed overall victory, after it wrested power in the former left-wing stamping grounds of Marseilles and Limoges.
Mr Hollande should not be surprised by either the election outcome or the deluge of criticism. Despite the mea culpas of his nervous Prime Minister
Jean-Marc Ayrault
, the President must shoulder much of the blame
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for the left’s drubbing, its worst score since the 1980s Mitterrand era.
The week before the second round of the municipal ballot, unemployment edged up again beyond 10 per cent. On Monday the government will be forced to announce it cannot hold to deficit- reduction targets it signed up for last year. The President has failed in the two years since his election to pursue vital structural reforms, preferring to raise taxes on the rich and the middle classes.
He is under intense internal party pressure to veer hard left again in economic terms, abandon his “responsibility pact’’ aimed at cutting the deficit and reducing red tape on business, sack his uncharismatic prime minister and reshuffle his flailing government. Interior Minister Manuel Valls and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius are beingmentioned as likely successors.
But Mr Hollande, ever the timid conservative of the Socialist variety, knows a reshuffle will only be a temporary way of distracting voters from the abysmal state of the French economy.
The political earthquake confirms the French left is dead at the national level outside of Paris thanks to its backward industry and general economic policies, and its inability to tackle long-term unemployment and a rigid labour market. – even if the opposition centre-right did little over its decades in power under Jacques Chirac and Sarkozy to stop the rot.The local election debacle lays the way for a three-way presidential race in 2017 with the National Front in much better shape to try to win presidency for the first time.
This may be Marine Le Pen’s finest
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Radio talk show host and Religious Right activist Penna Dexter was the keynote speaker at the National Day of Prayer event yesterday in Rapid City, South Dakota. Dexter, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, last year blamed a gay California youth who was murdered by another student for his own death. According to the Rapid City Journal, Dexter lamented that while Osama bin Laden is dead, the “the advancing homosexual agenda” continues to flourish:
A smaller than expected crowd of about 350 people, including at least two out of four mayoral candidates, turned out for Rapid City’s National Day of Prayer event Thursday at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center to hear Christian political commentator Penna Dexter encourage Americans to offer “fervent prayer” for aA Texas woman miraculously survived being submerged underwater for 50 minutes by apparently breathing in her car's air pocket.
The Houston Chronicle reported that the woman plunged Thursday morning into the Lake Houston waters. Rescuers were able to pull the car to dry land and take the woman to a nearby hospital. Fishermen in the area watched the car drive into the water, KHOU.com reported, and they alerted authorities.
The condition of the woman, 60, was not immediately clear, but KHOU.com reported that she was talking to police while she was transported to the hospital. Police are investigating the circumstances behind the incident.
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makes the following Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. Plaintiff Swango Homes, Inc., is an Ohio corporation with its principal place of business in Ohio. Swango is in the business of constructing and selling residential homes.
2. Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff Columbia Gas Transmission Company is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in West Virginia. Columbia is in the business of transmitting natural gas through underground transmission lines.
3. Third-Party Defendants William and Vernetta Moravek are citizens of the state of Ohio.
4. Swango has been involved in the development of a residential subdivision known as Cobblestone Crossing, located in Washington Township, Montgomery County, Ohio. The real property upon which the subdivision is situated is owned by Swango.
5. A number of the lots in Cobblestoneanomaly or leak in the pipeline, Columbia must follow up with "side drain" testing, excavation and appropriate repairs.
24. On October 9, 1990, Mark Clark, a Columbia transmission mechanic, while performing a routine car patrol, noticed that a storage shed had been erected along the back property line of Lot 10, the Moraveks' property.
25. The shed is approximately twelve feet long, ten and a half feet wide and ten feet high. The frame is constructed out of two-by-four lumber, with the walls and floor made of particle board. The entire storage shed rests on concrete blocks. The shed was built on site.
26. Swango and the Moraveks refer to the storage shed as a "temporary" structure.
27. The shed is located within the easement, with part of the shed directly over
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of whether Birdseye's rail system is feasible, the storage shed is temporary in name only. It is movable, if at all, only by a complex procedure lasting at least two hours and requiring various materials which may well not be readily available.
32. When he discovered the storage shed within the easement, Clark went to the Moravek's residence and informed Vernetta Moravek that the shed would have to be moved. Vernetta Moravek told Clark that she would have to talk it over with her husband.
33. The Moraveks informed Birdseye of the problem. Birdseye contacted Clark and indicated that the Moraveks were willing to move the shed, but said that they were waiting until the weather was drier and the ground harder.
34. Clark contacted Birdseye in April, 1991, and toldArts & Culture
Mumbai Attacks Recap
While Americans were doing their Thanksgiving thing and the citizens of the rest of the world did whatever it is that they do on any given day, India was rocked by what may end up being their 9/11. At least … Read More
While Americans were doing their Thanksgiving thing and the citizens of the rest of the world did whatever it is that they do on any given day, India was rocked by what may end up being their 9/11. At least 138 are dead, with sources putting the death toll as high as 172 as of Monday morning, and hundreds more have been injured in a series coordinated attacks on locations across Mumbai, the world’s most-populous city. The attackers have been called terrorists
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Kasav claims that the various attacks around Mumbai were in fact related, and that the goal of the attacks was to replicate other international terror acts, including the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the infamous bombings in Islamabad, Pakistan and Jakarta, Indonesia. The casualties of the attacks include citizens of at least 16 countries other than India, including America, Australia, Canada, Germany, Australia, China, Israel, Japan, and Mexico. Kasav claims that foreigners, particularly Jews, were targeted in the attacks. Mumbai is the world’s most populous city and fifth-largest metropolitan area, with a population of over 13 million within the city limits and over 19 million in the total metropolitan area. The city has experienced at least six other terrorist attacks since 2002.Free trade zone is focus of advisers
BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Providing advice on the development of the recently opened Shanghai free trade zone will be a focus of the city’s political advisory body in the coming year, deputies heard yesterday.
Innovation in government management also featured among tasks highlighted at the Second Plenary Session of the 12th Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which opened at the Expo Center.
The 29-square-kilometer free trade zone was launched in late September as a test bed for China’s leadership’s drive to deepen market-oriented reforms.
Chairman of the standing committee of the 12th CPPCC Shanghai Committee Wu Zhiming told delegates that they have a vital role to play in the city.
“Shanghai is at a key stage of reform and overcoming difficulties.
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collocation arrangement. Id. at 17823, ¶ 30. Indeed, even in the case of physical collocation in which the CLEC ultimately has physical access to the collocation space to install, maintain, and repair its equipment, the FCC requires the ILEC to "finish construction in accordance with the requesting carrier's application" before "turn[ing] functional space over to the requesting [CLEC]." Id. at 17812, 17823, ¶ 9, 30. Once the space is turned over to the CLEC in a physical collocation arrangement, responsibility then passes to the ILEC to "install, maintain, and repair its equipment".[6]Id. at 17812, ¶ 9. Thus, the Order describes a scenario in which the incumbent carrier is responsible for constructing the collocation space or arrangementthe part of the job that involves the incumbent's equipment and spaceand theMode of production and population patterns: policy implications for West African development.
Recent developments in population theory have made possible a re-examination of demographic evidence from West Africa which suggests that population growth and migration are primarily responses to changes in the nature of the production system. Precolonial, colonial, and independence period data provide a series of correlations consistent with the approach and suggest a possible new synthesis of the West African data. The poorest countries of West Africa are those bordering on the Sahara Desert, known as the "Sahel" region. In response to the drought and famine in that region from 1968-1974, numerous proposals have been made for increased attention to reducing population growth. The analysis presented in this paper leads to the conclusion that population policies other
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Burgundy wine prices may have to rise due to violent hailstorms hitting the region's vineyards for a second year running, and leaving producers seeking government aid.
Some vineyards, and particularly those in the north of the Cote de Beaune, have lost close to their entire crop to hail. Pommard and Volnay were among the worst affected by the downpours in late July and August, leaving morale at rock bottom.
While the region’s wine trade body, the BIVB, has cautioned that hail has only affected 4.5% of Burgundy’s wine growing area. In September, it forecast the 2013 harvest would be up to 10% lower than the region’s ten-year average.
Following a small grape haul in 2012, Burgundy supplies could be squeezed. ‘There is a big pressure,’ Caroline Parent-Gros, of Domaine AF Gros.
‘Ifcurvature of the neck. Scans have been performed from different angles lateral to the neck, but misleadingly depict the relationship of the IJV to the CCA. In this study, the authors examined the effect of scanning at a 45° angle at the level of the cricoid on the depiction of the IJV in relation to the CCA. Furthermore, the influence of 30° head rotation to the contralateral side was also investigated. The relationship of the IJV to the CCA was recorded using ultrasound in 600 patients. Patients were placed in a supine position and the probe was coupled at the level of the cricoid, scanning at an angle of 45° from the lateral side of the neck. Based on the ultrasound images, the position of the IJV in
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Marcos Alonso joined Chelsea from Fiorentina on transfer deadline day
Chelsea's £24m deal for former Bolton and Sunderland defender Marcos Alonso received a mixed reception, but there is logic behind the transfer. Nick Wright profiles the Spanish defender and explains why he could be a good fit for Antonio Conte's side.
Transfer deadline day saw contrasting signings at Chelsea. On the one hand there was the blockbuster return of David Luiz, a larger-than-life character back in west London after two years away, and on the other there was Marcos Alonso, an uncapped Spanish defender best known in England for spells at Bolton Wanderers and Sunderland.
Alonso's arrival from Fiorentina was predictably overshadowed in the media frenzy surrounding Luiz, but it is no less important. The left-back spot has been an issuefor the Blues ever since Ashley Cole's decline and departure in 2014, with Cesar Azpilicueta forced to move across from right-back as specialist signings Filipe Luis and Baba Rahman failed to meet expectations.
Conte will be hoping the latest pretender can buck the trend, but the jury is out among supporters. Alonso comes from an illustrious footballing family, rose through the youth ranks at Real Madrid and has spent the last two seasons competing near the top of Serie A with Fiorentina, but eyes are more easily drawn to the less glamorous entries on his CV.
Alonso spent three seasons at Bolton between 2010 and 2013
Alonso suffered relegation to the Championship during his three-year stint at the Macron Stadium between 2010 and 2013, and he landed in another relegation battle
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when he was loaned to Premier League strugglers Sunderland just a few months after his move from Bolton to Fiorentina.
On the face of it, those curious chapters in his career don't exactly scream of a player destined for the Premier League's elite, but Alonso has left a positive impression wherever he has been, and there were clues about his potential along the way.
The 25-year-old won a fans' player of the year award in his final season at Bolton, and Alonso was similarly impressive at Sunderland. He was named man of the match after starring on his debut in their Capital One Cup semi-final first leg victory over Manchester United, and the Black Cats tried to sign him permanently after he helped them climb from 20th to 14th inthe Premier League.
Alonso in action for Sunderland against Manchester United
Fiorentina could have cashed in. Instead, their manager Vincenzo Montella was impressed by Alonso's attitude in pre-season and made him a regular starter. He kept his place when Montella was replaced by Paulo Sousa in 2015, and he became well-known to Conte, too, lining up against his Juventus side on six occasions between 2014 and 2016.
Rather than possessing a single outstanding quality, Alonso's broad footballing education has helped him develop into an accomplished all-rounder. His marauding runs down the left flank became a feature of Fiorentina's playing style over the last two years, and last season he had the highest combined total for goals (three) and assists (four) among defenders in Serie A.
Alonso scored three Serie A goals in
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his final full season at Fiorentina
Those numbers will not have gone unnoticed by Conte, who likes to send his full-backs on the attack. Alonso has even become a dangerous set-piece taker, and he has defensive strengths too. He is particularly adept in the air, and he developed an intelligent reading of the game during his time in Italy.
"I've improved a lot in the last two years," he told Chelsea's official website. "Italy is like a masterclass for defenders. I used to play for Real Madrid and because you rarely had to defend there I used to work more on my attacking qualities, but in Italy I've improved defensively and also mentally."
Alonso has signed a five-year contract at Stamford Bridge (Picture: Chelsea FC)
Crucially for Conte, Alonso is also versatile.80.3% 2013/14 Sunderland 71.9%
Alonso is not a spectacular player and he is prone to the occasional lapses of concentration, but he offers tireless work rate, and his eclectic CV - he was only 19 when he rejected Benfica to join Bolton from Real Madrid - demonstrates an obvious willingness to learn. That's perfect for Conte, a reputed man-manager who specialises in ironing out his players' weaknesses - as long as they are fully committed.
Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi has already said he feels like he is "progressing a lot" under Conte's guidance, and Alonso could be the next new signing to feel the benefits. The Spaniard has taken an unusual route to the top and he didn't cause much fanfare on Deadline Day, but he has a history of
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All the way back in 2015, we reported the news that director Vincenzo Natali (Splice, Cube) had signed on to helm an adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill's remarkably disturbing novella, In The Tall Grass. At the time, the film was allegedly being prepped for pre-sale at that year's Cannes Film Festival.
This was an exciting development - King and Hill's brutal piece of short fiction, brought to life by a guy who definitely knows a thing or two about disturbing horror! We celebrated this news...and then promptly didn't hear anything else about it again until (checks watch) just now, which just so happens to be three years ago to the day since we first published that report.
Anyway, here's the news on In The Tall Grass, via Deadline:
"Despiteits absence from the official film program here at the Cannes Film Festival, Netflix continues to move forward in its feature slate building. A deal has closed for In The Tall Grass, a novella written by Stephen King and his son and fellow bestselling horror author Joe Hill. Westworld‘s James Marsden is in negotiations to star, and Vincenzo Natali is adapting to direct."
For those of you who remain unfamiliar with this one, here's a logline:
"After hearing a young boy’s cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of grass in Kansas but soon discover that there may be no way out."
Not a word of that logline is inaccurate, but hoo boy, are they leaving a lot out; In The Tall Grass takes some wild
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Ulf Leonhardt, Univ. of St. Andrews
(But no, the US Navy still denies it was ever trying to make ships invisible to radar during WWII.)
Traversable wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy. Dr Eric Davis, Earthtech International High Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications, Dr. Robert Baker, GravWave.
(Didn't Thomas Townsend Brown propose something similar in the 1950s? Well, he did, and "whew!" thank goodness they're still looking into it, even though they told us they never snatched up Brown's project.)
Antigravity for Aerospace Applications Dr. Eric Davis, EarthTech International. Field Effects one Biological Tissues Dr. Kit Green, Wayne State Univ. Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications, Dr. G. Shvets, Univ of Texas at Austin Warp Drive, dark energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, Dr. R. Obousy, Obousy Consultants Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms Dr J.Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun wrote this 2005 remembrance of his experience on the press junket for "Star Wars," which was released 40 years ago this week.
My first encounter with "Star Wars" was a doozie.
It was a Friday morning in early June 1977, and I was running late as usual. There was still work to be done on the Sunday arts section of the paper, which was my responsibility, and a plane to catch to the best coast for a late-afternoon screening of some idiotic movie or other to satisfy one of my other hats at the paper, as the film reviewer.
In that era, movie studios routinely picked up the tab for critics on junkets, just tacking the expenses onto the cost of making and marketing the picture.
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later it seems absurd not to have gotten it right away, now that we take for granted the stratospheric success of George Lucas' "Star Wars" films, let me suggest that at the time there wasn't huge optimism by the studio, or the main players, that America would be bowled over by this film. Quite the opposite.
A good example of that was Mark Hamill, who was about as much a gee-whiz young pretend actor as I'd ever interviewed, eager to talk to the press about what a thrill it was to be in motion pictures. It was pretty clear from our conversation, though, that he was not banking on a sequel - either the existence of one, or his involvement in it. Confidence in his abilities was not hisstrong suit.
Bear in mind, when "Star Wars" came out, Hamill was a nobody, and he wasn't alone among the cast. The best-known actors were Alec Guinness, who was quite ill, and the disembodied voice of James Earl Jones. Neither was present for the initial promotion. Carrie Fisher had enjoyed a little celebrity two years earlier after her small role in "Shampoo," but only a little.
Harrison Ford was most uncomfortable with the media, even one-on-one. Sour and scowling. It was clearly work for him. He shrugged his shoulders a lot when asked if he liked the movie. "If you try to analyze 'Star Wars,' " he finally offered, "it falls apart. You either take it whole, or leave it alone. As far as how the public will respond? I
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haven't the faintest idea."
At that point in his career, Ford was spending as much time framing out houses as a carpenter as he was acting. By the time I spoke to him again six years later when the third chapter, "Return of the Jedi," was being touted, he had already ascended into hyperspace as a superstar, and he has stayed there. No more one-on-one interviews. Only a brief classroom appearance for perfunctory questions, and no mention of hammering nails. Only of turning down scripts.
By far the most illuminating in terms of uttering their candid frustration was the trio of Brit actors who went entirely unseen in "Star Wars."
David Prowse, a charming but huge 6-foot-7 weightlifting champion, was the body of Darth Vader. His scenes were shot in aLondon studio without his having even the faintest idea what words James Earl Jones would later dub in, or what the storyline was. Lucas was obsessed with keeping his project under cover.
Even bigger than Prowse was the shy and reclusive Peter Mayhew, a 7-foot-2 English hospital orderly who was talked into becoming the Wookiee Chewbacca. Of the three, only classically trained Anthony Daniels, the voice and body of C-3PO, could rightly be called an actor. He was in a West End production of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" when Lucas interviewed him for the tin man job. (In a tidy bit of closure, Stoppard is widely rumored to have tuned up Lucas' script for the final "Star Wars" chapter, which opens today.)
To a person, this trio
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slick PR machinery of the separatist cause.
Within minutes of Cuixart and Sánchez being jailed on Monday, an online poster had gone viral, depicting the two men, dressed in white next to the slogan "Llibertat Jordis!" ("Free the Jordis!"). They had each also prepared a video message for their supporters, in the event of their detention. A three-minute video was also soon circulating, in English, in which a young woman presented Catalonia as a utopian region under siege from an oppressive state.
Such initiatives draw scorn and ridicule from opponents of independence, and Madrid has successfully kept the governments of powerful EU countries such as France and Germany on its side in this dispute. But Josep Borrell, a Catalan Socialist and former Spanish government minister, recently admitted "the independence movementCamel Pose With Strap and Wall is a variation of the standard Ustrasana (Camel Pose), done and practiced by beginners who find the backbend tricky without support. This variation is done to bring emphasis on alignment and also a safe way to go into the backbend. This variation of Camel Pose done with props was introduced by B.K.S Iyengar under the category of Restorative Yoga Poses.
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Camelone of the countries most influenced by climate change and has unique national population conditions. The influence of extreme precipitation depends on the degree of exposure and vulnerability of the population. Accurate assessments of the population exposed to rising rainstorm trends are crucial to mapping extreme precipitation risks. Studying the population exposed to rainstorm hazard areas (RSHA) at the microscale is extremely urgent, due to the local characteristics of extreme precipitation events and regional diversity of the population. The spatial distribution of population density was mapped based on the national population census data from China in 1990, 2000 and 2010. RSHA were also identified using precipitation data from 1975–2015 in China, and the rainstorm tendency values were mapped using GIS in this paper. The spatial characteristics of the
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management, but there are few studies on this topic in China. The goal of this study is to analyze the relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction, and to further examine whether psychological capital (PsyCap) can serve as a mediator between stress and job satisfaction in Chinese township cadres. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out during the period of from October 2015 to January 2016 in Liaoning Province of China. The questionnaires, which consisted of an effort-reward imbalance scale, Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) for job satisfaction, and the psychological capital questionnaire (PCQ-24), as well as questions about demographic characteristics, were distributed to 1800 township cadres and complete responses were received from 1525 participants. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the role that psychological capital played inhigh rate. The rapid expansion of the middle-income urban class and the ageing people ratio have dramatically pushed up the demand for healthcare goods, particularly in terms of pharmaceutical products. Since the early 1990s the government has addressed the necessities of rising demand for healthcare products by formulating a series of policies aimed at promoting the development of the pharmaceutical industry. However, the implementation of such policies does not seem to have been completely efficient given that the country still needs to import up to 90% of its pharmaceutical consumption. This paper aims to explore the development of the pharmaceutical industry during the years 1990–2015 and to identify a series of weaknesses in the government promotion of the industry. Future developments will also be discussed on how the
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637) were recruited from previous population-based studies and randomized into intervention and control groups. The intervention group received evidence-based information leaflets and summarised “Beat the Heat” tips. Post summer 2013–2014, participants responded to questions about their behaviours and their health experiences. Chi square analysis and risk ratios (RR) were used to determine the difference in effects. Responses were received from 216 intervention subjects and 218 controls. Behaviour modification during extreme heat was similar in both groups except for significant increases in the use of cooling systems and the use of a wet cloth to cool the skin in the intervention group. Both actions were recommended in the information package. More people in the intervention group also claimed to have had adequate heat health information. After adjusting for confounders,communities. A group of 106 mothers from Lebowakgomo village and Hammanskraal Township, respectively, participated in the survey. Additionally, six focus group discussions were conducted per
This study assessed the food and nutrition security status of children receiving complementary food in rural and peri-urban communities. A group of 106 mothers from Lebowakgomo village and Hammanskraal Township, respectively, participated in the survey. Additionally, six focus group discussions were conducted per study area to assess the mothers’ perceptions about children’s food access. The Children’s Food Insecurity Access Scale (CFIAS) was used to assess the food security status (access) of the children. The Individual Dietary Diversity Score (IDDS) together with the unquantified food consumption frequency survey were used as a proxy measure of the nutritional quality of the children’s diets. The age and
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intervention aimed at modifying the environment and coaching youth/parents, was found to be effective in improving youth participation in chosen community activities. In order to complement existing quantitative evidence, this study examined parents’
Pathways and Resources for Engagement and Participation (PREP), an innovative intervention aimed at modifying the environment and coaching youth/parents, was found to be effective in improving youth participation in chosen community activities. In order to complement existing quantitative evidence, this study examined parents’ perspectives on the PREP approach. Twelve parents of youth with physical disabilities (12 to 18 years old) who received the PREP approach participated in individual semi-structured interviews following the 12-week intervention delivered by an occupational therapist. Thematic analysis revealed three inter-linked themes, the first of which was informative, describing the “nature of intervention”,in children are associated with FMS regardless of whether the Passport for Life or the PLAYbasic was used as the assessment tool. It is worth investigating if interventions that improve FMS lead to improvements in these health indicators.
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Previous studies revealed that Honghu Lake was polluted by trace elements due to anthropogenic activities. This study investigated the spatial distribution of trace elements in Honghu Lake, and identified the major pollutants and control areas based on the fuzzy health risk assessment at
Previous studies revealed that Honghu Lake was polluted by trace elements due to anthropogenic activities. This study investigated the spatial distribution of trace elements in Honghu Lake, and identified the major pollutants and control areas based on the fuzzy health risk assessment at screening level. The mean total
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facing MSWM issues. In-depth interviews with individuals and focus groups were conducted with key informants including the municipality staff, residents, and external organizations. The major influences affecting waste management were categorized into six areas: social-cultural, technical, financial, organizational, and legal-political barriers and population growth. SWOT analysis shows both internal and external factors are playing a role in MSWM: There is good policy and a reasonably sufficient budget. However, there is insufficient infrastructure, weak strategic planning, registration, staff capacity, information systems, engagement with programs; and unorganized waste management and fee collection systems. The location of flood prone areas has impacted on location and operation of landfill sites. There is also poor communication between the municipality and residents and a lack of participation in waste separation programs. However, external supportthey were touching patients, but their supervisors checked the five instances for HH only in the case of 27 respondents (27%). Students experienced any control of HH in the workplace less often. Interns and physicians mentioned that the most important preventive action in HAI is HH, but for students it is the use of gloves. Conclusions: The level of knowledge and skills of physicians and students in the field of HH is insufficient. Deficiencies in skills and knowledge of HH were identified as early as at the level of the first internship.
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Little is known about the patterns of sedentary time (ST) and physical activity (PA) levels throughout the week among adults and older adults with Intellectual Disability (ID). We analyzed ST and PA patterns of adults and
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affordability and tenure security all have the potential to lead to more positive health outcomes.
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The role of the family as the social environment in shaping adolescent lifestyle has recently received substantial attention. This study was focused on investigating the association between familial and parenting predictors and alcohol use in school-aged children. Adolescents aged 13- and 15-year from
The role of the family as the social environment in shaping adolescent lifestyle has recently received substantial attention. This study was focused on investigating the association between familial and parenting predictors and alcohol use in school-aged children. Adolescents aged 13- and 15-year from a representative sample (N = 3715) of schools in Lithuania were surveyed during the spring of 2014. The methodology of the cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)each town. Disaster Governance was found to be highly influenced by decisions taken during regional, urban, and emergency planning. Governance is better in towns of higher order in the communal hierarchical structure. Most of the emergency institutions were found to be located in central and urban areas, which, in turn, assures more redundancy, overlap, and diversity in governance in the event of a tsunami. Lack of flexibility of emergency plans also limits governance in rural and indigenous areas. While the spatial relationships found in this study indicate that urban sectors have better Disaster Governance than rural and indigenous sectors, the influence of resource availability after tsunamis, the role and responsibility of different levels of governments, and the politics of disaster also play an important role in Disaster Governance
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in these maps may adversely impact on their use and application for
Most mortality maps in South Africa and most contried of the sub-Saharan region are static, showing aggregated count data over years or at specific years. Lack of space and temporral dynamanics in these maps may adversely impact on their use and application for vigorous public health policy decisions and interventions. This study aims at describing and modeling sub-national distributions of age–gender specific all-cause mortality and their temporal evolutions from 1997 to 2013 in South Africa. Mortality information that included year, age, gender, and municipality administrative division were obtained from Statistics South Africa for the period. Individual mortality level data were grouped by three ages groups (0–14, 15–64, and 65 and over) and gender (male, female) and aggregatedair pollution on the health of residents, which is a topical issue in China. Methods: Taking
Background: Air pollution has become an important factor restricting China’s economic development and has subsequently brought a series of social problems, including the impact of air pollution on the health of residents, which is a topical issue in China. Methods: Taking into account this spatial imbalance, the paper is based on the spatial panel data model PM2.5. Respiratory disease mortality in 31 Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2008 is taken as the main variable to study the spatial effect and impact of air quality and respiratory disease mortality on a large scale. Results: It was found that there is a spatial correlation between the mortality of respiratory diseases in Chinese provinces. The spatial
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Underdog Strauss keeps up his lively campaign
The helicopter drops down somewhere nearby, the Schmidt Happy Time Band blasts out another rousing refrain, and the 10,000 faithful bused in from surrounding localities watch expectantly for the chancellor candidate to appear.
Then Franz Josef Strauss himself comes around the edge of the brick wall of the P.J. Wolff machine building plant that forms the backdrop for this open-air campaign rally. The crowds applaud; the candidate beams; some boys unfurl a hand-lettered banner reading "Youth for Fr. Jos Strauss.
It's a tough act. The opinion polls all show Mr. Strauss losing decisively to incumbent Chancellor Helmut Schmidt at the Oct. 5 election. And even the conservative stronghold of Duren, while still giving the conservatives the majority in the state election last spring, droppedseveral percentage points in its support. So did a lot of other districts in West Germany's most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The reason, pundits thought, was north German's misrust of the highly intelligent, oratorically gifted, but often vindicative Bavarian who is now running for chancellor.
The two local politicians who precede Strauss on the platform welcome him in the name of their city, the home of the paper the West German constitution is printed on. They present him with a lump of brown coal mine in the region. Then they turn the podium over to the star.
As usual, Strauss holds his audience easily. There's not the kind of avid loyalty here that moves some Bavarian taxi drivers to refuse riders who have "Stop Strauss" stickers on their luggage --
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or that caused one Bavarian Catholic priest to throw himself on the road in front of the cars of an itinerant anti-Strauss theater troupe to prevent its procession. But there is respect for the conservative standard- bearer, and a liely interest in this first- class showman. An there is delight in the barbs Strauss throws effectively at the few hecklers in the crowd.
Strauss has notes, but he hardly glances at them. He knows what he wants to say. He is for two principles: mean fredom of workplaces, freedom for consumers , free enterprise and free management decision, and freedom of private property. It's shameful, he says, how many German enterprises have lost faith in the future because of socialism at home and the Soviet shadow in Europe andare investing abroad rather than at home.
Unlike Chancellor Schmidt, Strauss continues, he has no "Moscow faction" in his party that forces him to "decouple" from the US. As chancellor he, Strauss, would travel first not to Moscow or to Danzig, but to Washington. In his unbroken service in the Bundestag in the entire postwar period (until he retired from parliament to become minister- president of Bavaria two years ago) he voted for all those things Schmidt's Social Democratic Party (SPD) voted against, including a West German Army and alliance with the West.
Look at the record, Strauss insists. In 1969 the conservatives said the SPD wanted to recognize East Germany and the Oder-Neisse line as the eastern border of Germany. The SPD called this a pure lie. But as
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inadvertently capture the ballots of other voters who did not wish to have their ballots publicized,” he added.
Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed he will turn his home state of New York red on Election Day, but polls show Democratic rival Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE leading him there by double digits.OK, I think we'll get started.
My name is John May.
I'm the Director of
the MDes program here
but also the Area Head of
the History and Philosophy
of Design and Media Group, which
we are co-hosting this event
with, GSD Women and Design.
And I want to thank Women
Design for co-hosting Rosi
and for hosting her for
the event this morning.
I'm honored to welcome
Rosi Braidotti to the GSD.
It's no exaggeration
to describe Rosi
as one of the most important
living philosophers
and a central international
figure in feminist
and posthumanist thought.
Her intellectual project
sits at the convergence
of some of the most difficult
conditions of our time,
asking questions that cut
across all of lived life--
questions of gender
and sexuality;
of technology and materiality;
of politics, power,
and marginalization;
and, increasingly,
of ethics and the earth.
The past year has
been an emotional one
in the design fields,
perhaps nowhere more so
than at the GSD.
And as we reckon
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the Women's Studies Program
at Utrecht, established
the first official PhD program
in Women's and Gender Studies,
and for 17 years, directed
the Utrecht Women's Studies
Center--
a center whose enrolled
student cohort now
numbers in the hundreds.
She helped establish
and later directed,
for 10 years, the
Athena Network--
an extensive community of
European scholars and activists
committed to women's studies--
that included, at its height,
over 130 member institutions
all over the EU.
And in 2010, Athena was
awarded with the Erasmus Prize
for its outstanding
contributions
to fostering social
inclusion through education.
Rosi was born in
Italy and grew up
in Australia, where she
received first class honors
degree from the Australian
National University in Canberra
in 1977, and was awarded the
university medal in Philosophy.
She then moved on to do her
doctoral work at the Sorbonne,
where she received her
degree in Philosophy in 1981.
Her publications
have consistently
been placed in
continental philosophy
at the intersection with
social and political theory,
cultural politics,
gender feminist theory,
and ethnicity1792.
Almost immediately, a woman by
the name of Olympe de Gouges
Notices that the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
only applies to
free men and writes
the alternative, a Universal
Declaration of Women's Rights.
Does anybody know what
happens to Olympe de Gouges?
Anybody knows that heroine?
Her grave is up on the
[INAUDIBLE] of Paris.
She was sent to the
guillotine immediately,
because life is short, and
we've got a revolution to run.
Thank you, brothers.
1792, Toussaint
Louverture in the middle
of the French Revolution,
Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.
He says, well, does this
apply to the slaves?
Aren't they humans, too?
Sojourney Truth will
have the same speech
in the 19th century, but in
1794, Toussaint Louverture
triggers the Haitian Revolution,
liberates all the slaves,
establishes a free
democratic republic
on the basis of the principles
of the French Revolution.
What happens to
Toussaint Louverture?
The French Imperial Army goes
in, squashes the whole thing,
and he dies in captivity.
Thank you, brothers.
The critique of
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The roof was as bad as Joe had made it look but it succumbed to a move involving a one-handed mantle on a small hold at the same time as turning through 180 degrees. Bizarre, but effective. Excellent bridging then led to a good stance at the end of a fine but harder than expected pitch. The next two were a bit scrappy but the last was a gem. John cruised up it, a vertical open book on immaculate rock in a superb position. I followed, slightly worried with the insubstantial nature of the stack as I could see right the way through the corner crack to the sea on the other side. Joe and Bruce passed us on their way down, resisting blandishments to wait
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be let out of a lock-in. Somehow we managed to put tents up and fell into exhausted sleep.
The next day dawned fine and we realized the master plan might actually now be attainable. This could cost me a pound I thought as we drove across to the Old Man of Stoer, Bruce entertaining us with tales from his days as wicket keeper for England. We soon found the stack and swung across the Tyrolean Traverse rope already in place. John and I elected to climb the ordinary route, a three pitch VS in the sun while Joe and Bruce went up a shadowed E2. It was a glorious climb on perfect gritstone-like rock above a twinkling sea, the presence of several other climbers giving it a party atmosphere.This was the time to unleash our secret weapon-a childrens’ rubber boat!
We inflated the boat and tied a rope to it. There was just room for Joe and Bruce to kneel down in it and they began to paddle across. On reaching the plinth Bruce leapt out. Unfortunately he hadn’t timed his leap very well and, instead of landing on a ledge, he finished up clinging on to a barnacle-encrusred boulder, his feet dangling in the water. The reduced weight in the boat now enabled the wind to push it along the channel and towards the open sea, despite Joe’s frantic efforts. John and I were, by now, convulsed with helpless laughter and it was some minutes before we could get a grip on the situation. With Joe
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as to the rope slowed then stopped altogether for a long time. Bruce could not tell us what was happening and we began to get very worried as the climbing was only supposed to be VS and Bruce is a bold leader but after 15 minutes of occasional jerky movements the rope ran out more quickly and shortly three tugs indicated he was safe and ready.
It had been a good lead. There had been no worthwhile protection and once again a leader fall was out of the question. Even following the pitch was a nightmare. The holds went straight up but the rope from Bruce pulled me up and right while the rope to John, blown into a tight arc pulled me down and right. All the whilefeatures and reviews appearing alongside articles.
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Why 'Footless Crow' ?
Footless Crow is a seminal rock climb in the Lake District of Northern England. It was the creation of legendary British climber Pete Livesey-1943-1998. Livesey was one of the new breed of climbers who eschewed the traditional laid back, fags and booze, ethic prevalent at the time and instead pursued a rigid training regime designed to increase his physical and mental attributes to the extent that he could push British climbing to new technical standards. In effect he was one of the first UK rock athletes.Footless Crow was a breakthrough climb which at the time was the hardest climb in the Lakes at E5-6c (US 5-13a). Currently E6-6c due to a flake peeling off.First climbed as an
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aid route by 50's Lakes legend, Paul Ross and then called -The Great Buttress-. Livesey's much rehearsed test piece was finally led on the 19th April,1974 to the wide eyed astonishment of the UK climbing community. One well known climber was said to have hung up his climbing boots after witnessing the ascent !The name Footless Crow was a brilliant piece of imagination from Livesey who claimed that as there was almost nowhere on the route where he could rest he had to hop about like a footless crow.
So now you know.
In 1976 I saw Ron Fawcett, rock-master since the middle Seventies, on the second ascent of Footless Crow in Borrowdale, then the hardest climb in the Lake District – 190 feet of overhanging rock without a resting-place.06:00 on 7 Jun 2020.Schedule: From 21:00 on 7 Jun 2020 to 05:00 on 8 Jun 2020.Lanes Closed: All lanes will be closed.Nearest town: 8.4 miles from Duxford.
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The Future of International Cyber Attacks
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next level. The CHL will continue to be the world’s largest development league and the number one supplier of talent to the National Hockey League and Canadian Interuniversity Sport.”
The decision was made by the CHL Board of Directors at their meeting in May.
The 2013 CHL Import Draft takes place on Wednesday July 3 with the Vancouver Giants currently holding the first overall pick. The two-round draft will take place online with the order of selection rotating through each of the CHL’s three leagues using an inverse order of final regular season standings from the 2012-13 season. Each team in the CHL is permitted to carry two European import players each season who are selected annually through the CHL Import Draft.Q:
Were there hints before the first Doctor's regeneration that timelords could regenerate?
Was the ability of timelords to regenerate mentioned in any episodes before the first Doctor became the second Doctor?
Or was regeneration presented as a surprise to the audience when it happened the first time? Or even an post-hoc explanation of why Patrick Troughton replaced Willieam Hartnell as an actor.
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The use of the word regeneration to describe the transition of The Doctor or other Timelords from one form to another as a means of renewal after taking an otherwise mortal wound didn't take place until the 1974 serial Planet of the Spiders, which introduced Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.
The concept of regeneration is only introduced in the final serial of the First Doctor, The Tenth Planet,
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when a regeneration was actually recorded and broadcast at the end of the final episode.
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Was the ability of timelords to regenerate mentioned in any episodes before the first Doctor became the second Doctor?
No. Regeneration was a completely unknown concept to viewers when the first regeneration took place in the final serial of the First Doctor.
Most of the concepts we now accept as canon were added very slowly over the show's long run. The Doctor was meant to be a mysterious character, and the audience did not really know who he was - hence the title of the show. Little was said about The Doctor's species or home planet, and there was no mention of the Timelords until the final serial of the Second Doctor!
The concept of regeneration(although it was not initially called that) was conceived out of necessity. The show was a huge hit and the BBC wanted it to continue, but William Hartnell had shown signs of failing health, and the idea of him changing his face was thought up so that they could bring another actor in. Patrick Troughton apparently made a conscious decision to only stay in the part for 3 years (advice he supposedly passed on to later leading actors on Doctor Who) and so regeneration came to be a feature of the show. The first use of the term "regeneration" was in the Third Doctor's final serial, as he regenerated into the Fourth Doctor.
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didn't."
Schweitzer had laughed his ass off. Chang had even managed to crack a smile out of Ahmad's normally iron visage. She'd gone to talk to the skipper, and that was the last they heard of the matter. The corpsman stayed on the pier. As far as Schweitzer knew, Chang never talked to her again.
Put monkeys with needs in charge of a secret and highly dangerous government program, and they still acted like monkeys with needs.
Ninip was paying attention now, his own reaction shifting between amusement and rising arousal. Whatever else might bore him about humanity, base lust was a thing he understood. Schweitzer felt the jinn's filter begin to slide over their vision, pushed it back. He knew how Ninip saw the world when he was hungry forsomeone all the way, but this was a rush job."
She hung up without saying good-bye, her mind and stomach doing loops in time. She looked back at the can on the counter, duct tape sealing in a lie. _Maybe there was some mistake._ What mistake? Do they typically keep pigs on navy bases? Cremate them? It didn't make sense.
She turned back to Patrick, who was standing now, coming to her.
And suddenly the sensation returned with such force that she staggered.
She'd seen no body, there'd been no funeral, no article in the papers. The navy had shrouded the whole thing in secrecy, and now there was a can full of pig ashes on the kitchen counter of her rented, extended-stay suite.
Jim was alive.
She swept Patrick into her arms, pressed
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tactical light pointed outward in his left hand, thumb flicking it on. The tension of his hands stabilized his firing platform, his eyes falling naturally onto the gun sights, his finger indexed gently above the trigger guard. All in a single smooth motion, in the space of a few breaths. Silent, expert, professional.
Maybe not such a bad SEAL after all.
He didn't waste time with threats, idiot shouts of "Who goes there?" that would give away his position. His light flooded the side of the berm, washed up to the road's edge, confirmed that, so far, no one had followed him to the crash site. Then the light was off and he was moving, defying anyone homing in on the illumination to locate him. He crab walked sideways alongthe drone miles above him. Perhaps it had his position now, was relaying it to the spotters. Perhaps it was still searching for him, pinging his tracker uselessly.
The helo was a lump behind them, rotors folded and covered with camouflage netting. He could sense Jawid now, the spicy musk of his magic rising as Schweitzer approached. Schweitzer wondered if the pickets would fire on him, decided that his utter lack of stealth would put them as much at ease as men that vigilant ever were.
_We see you,_ Jawid sent when Schweitzer was practically on top of them. Had his own faculties been so weak in life? Could an enemy have gotten so close to him without being spotted? He remembered the lopsided fight on the tanker, Chang going
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pits of the sockets, the corners of that vicious wood-chipper mouth dipping in what should have been an arc of concern, and instead became a hungry, predator grin.
"S-rah," he croaked. _Sarah. He's trying to say my name._
She looked at the smoking shards of metal, embedded deep in his arm, his neck, his chest. She saw the ragged wound in his throat, the gray slashes across arterial pathways.
Maybe her husband wasn't alive after all.
Patrick was screaming. The little boy huddled against the closet where Drew had retrieved the gun, hands over his head. If he recognized his father, he gave no sign at all. Jim's eyes finally moved from her to his son. He froze, trembling.
Drew shouldered her aside, standing fully over his wife. Jim showed no reaction, hisBir el Ater Information
About Bir el Ater
Bir el Ater is a city of approximately 100 000 inhabitants located in extreme eastern Algeria towards the south, near the Tunisian borders and just beyond theSahara, about 87 kilometers south of Tébessa.
Bir El Ater was the cradle of the Aterian civilization (the term Aterian derives from el-Ater) which was around 40000 - 20000 years BC.
It is now a mining city, located 15 km south of Bir El-Ater. There are deposits of Djebel Onk Phosphates, the largest in Algeria which are extracted and shipped by train to Annaba a port, 300 km north on the Mediterranean or are used locally..
North of Bir el-Ater is a plain. Agriculture flourished in Roman times. Nowadays, the soil is dry and infertile. The vegetation is mainly
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The used antibodies were as follows: FITC-labeled mAb against human CD90, CD10, CD7, CD3, CD56 (all from IQProduct), CD66b, CD11b (both from Serotec), CD45 (LeucoGATE), CD25, CD34 (both from BD Pharmigen), and PE-labeled mAb against human CD44, CD13, CD20, CD22, CD33, CD16, CD19, HLA-DR (all from IQProduct), CD14 (LeucoGATE), CD146, CCR3, CCR4, CCR5 (all from BD Pharmigen) as well as unlabeled mAb against human CD105 (Abcam). Appropriate fluorescent labeled isotype matched control antibodies were also used. After incubation, the cells were washed with washing buffer twice. In the case of CD105, an extra incubation period with a secondary mAb (goat FITC-labeled against mouse Abs (Serotec) followed by washing was also performed. Finally, cells were examined on a FACSCalibur flow cytometry (BD Biosciences) using CellQuest data acquisition and analysisI personally know appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who has been nominated by President Donald Trump to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. To call him qualified for the role is a massive understatement.
A graduate of Yale Law School, Kavanaugh has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit since 2006. Previously, he served in multiple clerkships, including one for Justice Kennedy. In fact, several of his opinions have been adopted by the Supreme Court.
As a judge, Kavanaugh has a solid track record that reveals a consistent fidelity to the U.S. Constitution and a brilliant legal mind. The people who know him best overwhelmingly agree.
Kavanaugh's former law clerks have vouched for the judge's terrific credentials.
"We never once saw him take a
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Court nominee "prioritizes the Constitution's original meaning" and has "shown flashes of greatness."
It is clear Judge Kavanaugh will defend and uphold the Constitution and the rights of Floridians. Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson has no legitimate reason to oppose this respected jurist's confirmation.
However, if Nelson's previous record is any indication, he will oppose and obstruct Kavanaugh's confirmation. Nelson voted against Kavanaugh's circuit court appointment in 2006, which Kavanaugh won by a 21-vote margin with bipartisan support. Nelson also voted against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch last year.
By February 2018, the Senate held roll call votes on 29 of President Trump's 69 judicial nominations. Nelson voted against nearly one third of them.
Soon after the announcement of Kavanaugh's nomination, Nelson tweeted a liberal litmus test for Judge Kavanaugh.Our Beliefs
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“He” was a resident studying to be a counselor/psychologist. He was a newbie, fresh out of college, wet under his wings, and was trying to learn from this lady that currently was his mentor. I could tell by the looks and his body language that he did not care for her much either but had no choice and couldn’t stand up to her as he was just a nobody in his career still. I politely asked her to leave, kinda, and asked him to stay to talk with. I remember her giving him a look and walking out the room like a diva.
He made me feel comfortable and I didn’t know him
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Remembered: CES founder 'Analog Jack' Wayman
BY KIMBERLY PIERCEALL
Jan. 10, 2015
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The man who started the Consumer Electronics Show in 1967 was known affectionately as "Analog Jack" by family and friends.
Jack Wayman died in August at the age of 92. He loved a good gimmick (a phone on his bedside featured a statuette of Marilyn Monroe whose skirt would waft up when it rang) but wasn't the most tech-savvy by modern calculations, laughed son Jack Wayman Jr. as he waited in the audience before the event's opening keynote speech this week.
When the elder Wayman decided he needed an email address, he called Jack Jr. to set it up, then later phoned to ask if he had gotten any email yet.
It didn't stop him from enjoying thelatest and greatest gadgets, though. He liked small ultrahigh-definition televisions. He wasn't crazy about 3D. He would have been surprised to see as many car companies as there were at the show this year, 10 total, Wayman Jr. said.
The International CES in Las Vegas is now the largest trade show in the Americas, with more than 2 million square feet of exhibit space — the size of about 35 football fields. CES takes over the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Sands Expo and several nearby hotels. More than 160,000 people attended in 2014. The show opened to the public on Tuesday and closes Friday.
Hundreds of tech companies use the gadget show as a platform to unveil new products. Hot trends this year included Internet connectivity in everyday products
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Editor’s note: Given the enormous controversy between President Obama and the US Catholic Bishops now underway, this article by R.T. Ravenholt, M.D., MPH, Former Director, Office of Population (1966-79) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on the seizing of the control of the USAID population programme by the Catholic Bishops in the late 1970s is highly relevant to today’s discussion in the press. It was first published by Stephen D. Mumford, DrPH, founder and President of the North Carolina-based Center for Research on Population and Security.
Pronatalist Zealotry and Population Pressure Conflicts: How Catholics Seized Control of U.S. Family Planning Programs by R.T. Ravenholt, M.D., MPH, Former Director, Office of Population (1966-79) at the United States Agency for International Development chronicles his fourteen year effort toof State from 1966 to 1979. During this time it became the world’s foremost program in the field, providing more than half of all international population program assistance ($1.3 billion) in those years. In 1971 he originated the World Fertility Survey, the largest international social science research project ever undertaken. He has also researched extensively and published more than 140 scientific reports in the fields of epidemiology, preventive medicine, population and family planning, smoking and health.
R.T. Ravenholt was born in Wisconsin, received his Medical Doctorate from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California. After epidemiological positions with the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta and the Seattle-King County Health Department, he was Epidemiological Consultant in Europe for the U.S. Public
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Health Service. After directing AID’s population program, he served successively as Director of World Health Surveys for the Centers for Disease Control, Assistant Director for Epidemiology and Research, National Institute of Drug Abuse, and Chief, Epidemiological Branch, Food and Drug Administration.
In 1972, Dr. Ravenholt was awarded AID’s Distinguished Honor Award, “In recognition of his distinguished leadership in the development of worldwide assistance programs to deal with the challenge of excessive population growth.” Other awards he has received include the Hugh Moore Memorial Award from the Population Crisis Committee, the International Planned Parenthood Federation Award for “innovation and vision in the population field,” and the Carl S. Schultz Award of the American Public Health Association for “distinguished service in the field of population and family planning.” He is BoardCertified in Preventive Medicine, and a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and of the American Public Health Association.
The Address Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Washington State Chapter of Zero Population Growth, Inc., at Seattle, March 4, 1991
Some three decades ago, I was director of Epidemiology and Communicable Disease Control for the Seattle-King County Public Health Department during seven years. Among my responsibilities was the annual school immunization program; and the last time I was here in University Heights School I came to immunize several hundred children for smallpox, DPT and polio. Thus, Seattle has been close to my heart for many years.
Following this in 1961, I ventured to Europe as epidemiology consultant for the European region for the U.S. Public Health Service, attached to
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the American Embassy in Paris. Whenever there was an important epidemic in Europe I could investigate it—smallpox epidemics in West Germany, Yorkshire, Wales and Stockholm; typhoid at Zermatt; thalidomide-induced malformations in many countries, and so forth. After two adventurous years, I returned to Seattle, as a full-time faculty member in preventive medicine at the University of Washington, focusing mainly upon the research and teaching of the epidemiology and prevention of cancer and tobaccosis.
Then I was offered the ultimate job of directing the development of a global population/family planning program for the U. S. Agency for International Development (AID). There are many epidemics in the world: tobaccosis, AIDS, and of course all the old infectious diseases, but I think this audience would agree that the global epidemic of peopleoutstanding pioneers in the global population/family planning field. I think particularly of General William H. Draper Jr., who was, in my estimation, the most remarkable activist in the 60’s and 70’s until his death at the age of 80 in 1974. Even in his seventies, no one could match Bill Draper’s tremendous pace and accomplishments. He was just an extraordinary person in raising and mobilizing private and government resources. And we thrived on the fruits of his labors.
Also, I enjoyed the special satisfaction of leading a band of most intensely motivated population warriors who often worked themselves to exhaustion in overcoming omnipresent bureaucratic inertia while implementing vitally needed population program actions.
The third Appendix (C) is a statement by President George Bush, written almost 20 years ago when he
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was the U.S. Representative to the United Nations and published as the foreword to Phyllis Piotrow’s book, World Population Crisis: The United States Response. As you will perceive, George Bush is not entirely ignorant of the importance of the population variable. While in the Congress he chaired the Republican Task Force on Population and Earth Resources, and was enthusiastically supportive of AID’s population program when I presented it to the Task Force.
His current equivocal or negative stance on population/family planning issues is clearly a pragmatic political stance, fashioned to keep malignant Far Right zealots at bay, and thus avoid the political oblivion which befell his father when he demonstrated forthright commitment to family planning.
But now that President Bush is riding a crest of acclaim following the swift conclusionquestions.
Population Pressures and War
In the past few months, once again during this fateful 20th Century, the United States and many allied nations have engaged in the momentous task of constraining an aggressive tyrant whose territorial ambitions violated the security of neighboring countries and the world.
A door to the dark room of murderous human conflict was opened, and no one yet knows the ultimate consequences of that war. Officially the war is ended, and the cost in dead Coalition Force soldiers seems light, but the ultimate cost of the Iraqi war may nevertheless be huge.
When considered along with the Vietnam and Cambodian wars, the ongoing fratricide in Lebanon and Israel, and the incessant wars in Central America, it is obvious that the world remains a bubbling cauldron of sectarian
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every household in a population of 15,000 people at Shanawan. At first, Drs. Saad Gadalla and Leila Hammamsy were reluctant to undertake this task, but when confronted with the realization that continued research support indeed depended on household distribution of contraceptives, they went ahead with the project and soon learned to their surprise that no one was killed, nobody set the dogs on them, and many poor peasants were very appreciative of this novel service.
Picture what happens in a peasant village which has had virtually no previous experience with family planning when, on a certain day, a team of field workers, a man and a woman, go to each household, offering a package of three monthly cycles of OCs and discuss family planning and contraception with the householder.and his campaign staff with fifteen Catholic leaders at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1976, on which occasion they pressed Carter to deemphasize federal support for family planning in exchange for a modicum of Catholic support for his presidential race, President-elect Carter proceeded to put the two Federal agencies with family planning programs under Catholic control.
Joseph Califano became Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the first one to whom President-elect Carter offered the U.S. AID Administrator position was Father Theodore Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame University.1 When Father Hesburgh declined the role of AID Administrator, the appointment was given to John J. Gilligan, a Notre Dame graduate and a former governor of Ohio.
Also, a long-time Catholic adversary of AID’s family planning program, John
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political appointees selected by Jack Sullivan was Sander Levin, newly defeated Democratic candidate for governor of Michigan. Not a Catholic, but an opportunistic lawyer without family planning program experience, Levin immediately upon entry to AID proceeded to maul and discombobulate AID’s population program, as desired by his political superiors. He became the Assistant Administrator with direct responsibility for disorganizing and dispersing Office of Population personnel and for the removal of Ravenholt. This was accomplished after several years of wrangling before the Merit System Protection Board, when Ravenholt accepted transfer to the role of Director, World Health Surveys, Centers for Disease Control. Since then, AID’s dismembered and otherwise crippled family planning program has been sustained to the extent possible by dedicated staff and likewise dedicated Members of Congress andother supporters. It has continued many operations, though certainly not all, despite continued harassment from the Reagan-Bush administrations and anti-birth control zealots.
Carter’s political appointees took other actions to curb birth control initiatives and obstruct family planning programs. According to members of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Committee on Obstetrics, in 1978 after the FDA already had informed the Upjohn Company that its product, Depo-Provera, was “approvable”, it was HEW Secretary Joseph Califano who specifically directed that FDA disapprove Depo-Provera for marketing as a contraceptive—a disapproval that has endured until now despite overwhelming evidence that Depo-Provera is one of the safest and most effective of all contraceptives. It has been approved for marketing in more than 90 other countries, and has been safely used by more than 12
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Middle-East, Africa and Latin America would follow. All this is essential for progress toward a kinder more peaceful world.
Back in 1968, in defining the ideal contraceptive, I aimed for something a woman could use at the end of a monthly cycle if her period was late—to assure the onset of her period and her non-pregnant state. We put tens of millions of dollars into research on this, especially on prostaglandins, which had emerged in 1969 as a means of pregnancy termination. We also strongly supported antiprogesterone research, especially by Dr. Arpad Csapo at Washington University in St. Louis, one of the foremost experts in the world. His work contributed to the development of RU486, the last stage of which was done in France; and now RU486, an antiprogesterone,combined with prostaglandins, is working very well indeed.
In France, more than 85,000 women have used RU486 with outstanding success and minimal difficulty, and it is about to go into production in Britain. But it has been kept out of the U.S. until now by religious opponents, who seek to deny American women access to this extraordinary product. Likewise, Depo-Provera, an excellent contraceptive, is being denied to American women and poor women dependent on foreign assistance, because AID can only buy for overseas distribution to less developed countries those contraceptives which are approved for use in the United States.
To ease Roman Catholic adversarial pressure upon AID’s family planning program during the Reagan Era, many millions of dollars were lavished upon “natural” family planning methods—an antithetical diversion from the fundamental
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So there would be less resistance to them compared with RU486?
Ravenholt: Yes, Norplant doesn’t threaten the religious opposition the way RU486 does. They can foresee if RU486 becomes generally available in the United States, most women will have a few of these in their purse or in their medicine cabinet.
Remember what happened when the oral contraceptive appeared. Religious defenses were not greatly mobilized against the pill, and it was licensed for marketing in the United States in June, 1960. Women began using oral contraceptives very rapidly. Until oral contraceptives became available, there was a considerable difference in family planning/birth control activities by Protestants and Catholics in the United States.
But as soon as the pill was available, it could be taken quietly, by the woman herself. Soon Catholic womencountries. More than 12,000 population and family planning personnel, including program managers, surgeons, nurses and other paramedical personnel, specialists in information, education, and communication, demographers, economists, and sociologists have been trained in the United States in appropriate skills, including the most advanced techniques of fertility management. In addition many tens of thousands of family planning personnel have been trained in the developing countries with A.I.D. support. For population and family planning training A.I.D. has provided $153 million.
—Origination (with Dr. Phyllis Piotrow), development and strong support of the Population Information Program, first at George Washington University, and now at Johns Hopkins University, which has published and widely distributed comprehensive and authoritative Population Reports on many priority issues relative to population and family planning programs. PIP Reports, published in five
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languages, are among the ten most widely read medical publications in the developing world ($11 million from A.I.D.).
—Origination (with Dr. Elton Kessel), development and major support of the International Fertility Research Program (IFRP) for comparative testing and rapid dissemination of improved technologies. With AID support the IFRP has measured the comparative performances of each means of fertility control in many developing countries. By this action latest technologies have been widely introduced in the developing world, with careful measurement of results by indigenous investigators. IFRP, now operating in more than 50 countries, has developed a Maternity Care Monitoring Program which collects salient facts on reproductive health, delivery, and contraceptive use before and after each pregnancy from hundreds of thousands of women delivering in selected hospitals in many developing countriesthese action research projects from A.I.D. through fiscal 1979).
—Origination, development and support of Contraceptive Retail Sales (CRS) Projects (with contraceptive advertising campaigns) in six countries Jamaica, Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana, Mexico and El Salvador. These projects have achieved greatly increased availability of non-surgical contraceptives by sales at low prices through many thousands of neighborhood shops. In Bangladesh the Contraceptive Retail Sales program currently accounts for one-third of all contraceptives distributed in that country. (A.I.D. support of CRS projects, including contraceptives, totals $15 million through fiscal 1979).
—Support for University Population Centers and diverse research, training, technical assistance and evaluation activities by universities, e.g. Johns Hopkins University, University of Hawaii and the East-West Center, University of North Carolina, Columbia University, George Washington University, University of Michigan, University of California, University of
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Chicago, State University of New York, Meharry Medical College, University of Minnesota, Washington University, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology. ($156 million support from A.I.D.).
—Support for collaborative activities by non-university educational and professional associations such as the Population Council, the National Academy of Sciences, Salk Institute, Smithsonian Institution, American Public Health Association, Battelle Memorial Institute, American Home Economics Association, Airlie Foundation, and the International Confederation of Midwives. ($88 million support from A.I.D. through fiscal 1979).
—Support for allied U.S. Government agencies: The international activities of the Family Planning Evaluation Division of the National Center for Disease Control; the International Demographic Statistics Center, U.S. Bureau of the Census; and the National Center for Health Statistics ($33 million support from A.I.D.).
—Major support for national family planning programs on a bilateral basisor more of these links is weak or missing the entire enterprise may fail.
Appendix C
World Population Crisis: The United States Response
by Phyllis Tilson Piotrow
Praeger Publishers
New York Washington London
Foreword by George H. Bush, Jr.
U.S. Representative to the United Nations, 1973
Few issues in the world have undergone such a rapid shift in public attitudes and government policies over the last decade as the problems of population growth and fertility control.
My own first awareness of birth control as a public policy issue came with a jolt in 1950 when my father was running for the United States Senate in Connecticut. Drew Pearson, on the Sunday before Election Day, “revealed” that my father was involved with Planned Parenthood. My father lost that election by a few hundred out of close to a
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countries.
World Population Crisis: The United States Response recounts and analyzes the events which mobilized the United States leaders to action. Dr. Piotrow presents a story of determined and sometimes disruptive advocates, of conscientious, careful scientists, of political leaders striving to reach a new consensus, of vigorous officials building action programs. It is above all, a story of individuals and institutions struggling to solve a new kind of worldwide problem within the framework of individual choice and responsible government.
The population problem does not have easy answers. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1960s, I remember very well how disturbed and perplexed my colleagues and I were by this issue. Famine in India, unwanted babies in the United States, poverty that seemed to formTaft, Bill Fulbright, Joe Tydings, Bob Packwood, Alan Cranston, and many others from both parties and every section of the country. Presidents Johnson and Nixon both were seriously concerned about the problem, too. In fact, early in 1969 President Nixon delivered an official Message on Population to Congress. In the federal agencies there were at first only a few determined individuals like R.T. Ravenholt in AID and Philander P. Claxton, Jr. in the State Department who were willing to urge their superiors ahead. Now the recommendations of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, chaired by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, have urged many agencies to take on a larger role and have called for the U.S. government to adopt a national population policy.
When I moved to
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the United Nations in 1971 as United States Ambassador, I found that the population problem was high on the international agenda, though lacking some of the urgency the matter deserves. The General Assembly had designated 1974 as World Population Year with a major conference of government scheduled. The UN Fund for Population Activities, which has raised some $50 million, now stands ready to help agencies and governments develop appropriate programs. It is quite clear that one of the major challenges of the 1970s, the Second United Nations Development Decade, will be to curb the world’s fertility.
The United Nations population program, including the Fund and specialized agenda, stands today at the threshold of international impact. The problem has been recognized; the organizations exist; the resources are at hand. Butdifferent points of view. How well we and the rest of the world can make the policies and programs of the United Nations responsive to the needs of the people will be the test success in the population field. Success in the population field, under United Nations leadership, may, in turn, determine whether we can resolve successfully the other great questions of peace, prosperity, and individual rights that face the world.
Dr. Piotrow’s study of evolving population policy, in the United States and in the United Nations, is necessarily a sway without an ending. It is not a blueprint for the future, but rather a search for the meaning of the past, an exploration of the means, the arguments, the individuals and the events which did, in fact, influence
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U.S. policy making over the last decade and a half. But the lessons suggested here—about leadership, about innovation, about national and international organizations—surely have continuing application for the future. Dr. Piotrow was in a unique position to observe and even participate in many of the actions taken.
I worked with Phyllis Piotrow on some of these issues. This book is far too modest about her own efforts, for she has contributed significantly herself to public understanding and support of population activities through her work with the Population Crisis Committee. Certainly the private organizations, like the Population Crisis Committee, Planned Parenthood-national and international, the Population Council, the Population Reference Bureau, the Population Institute, Zero Population Growth, and others, have played a major role in assisting government policy makers and inlynching cases that give a time, record that the lynching took place between midnight and 2 a.m. when the accused was usually encouraged to confess his or her crimes before being strung up. Sometimes they were allowed to make a statement, to smoke a cigarette, or confess to a priest, and after it was over, the bodies would usually be left to hang through the night. This public display of the body can be found in every case, with the shortest times usually lasting around thirty minutes, and the longest, until the bodies decayed.
In one instance, in the small village of Newtown, an African American man known only as “Brown” was apprehended for stealing money. The evidence was completely circumstantial but he was found guilty and sentenced to
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be hung by the mob on March 4, 1852. Unfortunately for Brown, the rope was a little too long, and once he was hanged to the tree, the branch slowly gave way — until his legs dangled to the ground. Struggilng in agony, the poor man was cut down in order to be properly hanged. Once he was fully revived, he was tied to a higher branch and the whole process was repeated. When he was finally cut down, a physician was asked to examine the body, at which point he annunced that if Brown’s body was left above ground for five minutes that he would regain consciousness. As a result, “he was therefore hastily dumped into a grave that had been dug and was half full oftensioner includes a body in which a rotatable reel is provided. A chain is wound around the reel. A hook is provided on the outer end of the chain. Another hook is fixedly connected to the body. A worm wheel is set on the reel. A worm is further provided within the body which could be turned. The worm is engaged with said worm wheel and the outer end of the worm extends out of the body.
The above two hooks are hung on the goods when the goods are to be bound. Then the worm is turned to drive the worm wheel to rotate. The worm wheel is fixedly connected to the reel, so that the chain is furled once the reel is driven by the worm wheel
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reflections and insights. Over the last twenty months, it has come to house Sean's open attempts at writing, and currently tries to serve as a venue of ideas for the average stable of writers and readers.
All items posted on this weblog are Sean's original works (except where posted), indicating that Sean is the rightful owner of all copyrights pertaining to these items. Further foundation is given by the Creative Commons License currently located in the right-side area of this blog, and in addition to that, Sean keeps printed and semi-officially dated copies of some entries.
Any items excerpted or quoted from outside sources are acknowledged in their respective posts. In the event that the proper references are not given for a particular entry, the aggrieved parties only have toof just what I plan to do with these kinds of people; Suffice to say that they invariably involve coal tar, cream cheese, an alunimum baseball bat, and a very good law firm. You don't want to know the details.
About Me
Sean has been writing since he was 12 years old, and is a writer of essays and short stories. He writes mostly about life, logic and imagination in general: Sean writes, Sean writes about writing, and sometimes Sean even writes about writing about writing. Then, when he feels like scribbling down a few other things, he concerns himself with games and game design, some contemporary issues, and a few jabs at artistic design and authorship. He is a silent anti-plagiarism advocate, an occasional critic of modern storytelling, and
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CHICAGO (STMW) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced an order setting deadlines for completion of cleanup and restoration work where an oil pipeline spill was discovered Tuesday near south suburban Lockport.
The pipeline, which is owned by West Shore Pipe Line Co. and operated by Buckeye Pipe Line Co. L.P., released about 21,000 gallons of oil near New Avenue in Lockport and Romeoville Tuesday, according to a release from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA order requires West Shore and Buckeye to take immediate action to contain, remove and restore areas where oil spilled, the release said. The affected area is near wetlands home to several endangered species, the release said.
The EPA is also monitoring air quality to assess any potential impacts on the health andwere surprised by how long the strike had lasted. Still, they had gotten used to the dull routine of shuttling between the picket line and their homes.
Garcia said he knew the first thing he was going to do once the strike ended.
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2023. Like Johnnie Walker, Heineken spells out a clear responsibility message: ‘when you drive, never drink’, as well as heavily promoting its alcohol-free beer at F1 races.
TAG Heuer
Swiss luxury watch brand TAG Heuer has a long-running history in F1, largely spent with the McLaren team. The company was first involved with F1 in the 1970s as Ferrari’s official timekeeping partner, but switched to McLaren in 1985 following its takeover by TAG and then-chairman Mansour Ojjeh’s arrival at the F1 team as an investor.The McLaren partnership ended for 2016, when TAG Heuer became a partner of Red Bull, which has rebranded its Renault engines under the watch company’s name.
Rolex
Rolex has a long history in motorsport, but only became an official F1 timekeeping partner in 2013 after winning a raceagainst TAG Heuer and Hublot for a 10-year deal worth an estimated $24 million a year.
Rolex has enjoyed heavy trackside advertising at F1 races as a result of the partnership, as well as being the title sponsor for several events, including the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 2017.
Mobil 1
A brand of American multinational ExxonMobil, Mobil 1 has established itself as one of F1’s most recognisable brands through its supply of fuel and lubricants to teams. Mobil 1 enjoyed a 21-year-long technical partnership with McLaren that came to an end in 2017 when the brand teamed up with Red Bull. As well as being a key part of the team’s race operations on a grand prix weekend, Mobil 1 has also been able to use F1 as a
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laboratory for its products.
Renault
Renault first entered F1 in 1977 with a factory racing team, introducing the turbo engine to F1 that would set the benchmark for the sport throughout the 1980s. Renault’s heyday came in the mid-2000s as it won back-to-back titles, but its works team has dipped in and out of F1, making a return in 2016 after four years away.
The company has remained ever-present in F1 by supplying engines to other teams, winning 10 titles as a partner with Williams, Benetton and, most recently, Red Bull. Renault is looking to use its F1 interests as a wider marketing tool, pouring significant resources into the operation jointly run out of the UK and France as it bids to emulate Mercedes and conquer the grand prix world.
Shell
Shell’s partnershipwith Ferrari can be traced back to 1947, three years before the first F1 race was held. Ferrari’s first of 228 grand prix wins was taken with a car filled with Shell fuel and lubricants, setting the tone for one of the most successful combinations in F1 history.
Shell helped power Schumacher and Ferrari through the most dominant period in F1 history in the early 2000s
Despite a brief hiatus in the 1970s and 1980s, Ferrari and Shell linked up in 1996 on Michael Schumacher’s arrival at the team. Shell helped power Schumacher and Ferrari through the most dominant period in F1 history in the early 2000s, and it continues to play an integral role in the team’s on-track efforts. Shell ended its trackside F1 sponsorship deal in 2016 to
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focus more on its partnership with Ferrari.
Mercedes
Mercedes may currently be F1’s most successful team, yet the time it has spent in the sport is shorter than that of rival manufacturers Renault, Honda and Ferrari. After powering Juan Manuel Fangio to consecutive F1 titles in 1954 and 1955, Mercedes quit F1 and did not return until 1994, and only then as an engine supplier to the McLaren team.
The McLaren-Mercedes combination ran towards the front of the F1 field for much of its 21-season stint, powering Lewis Hamilton to his maiden championship in 2008. Mercedes returned with its own team in 2010, which went on to take F1 by storm, once again led by Hamilton, and has taken 63 wins in the last four seasons. If any brand is thewith Red Bull, and while the team has not won a championship since 2013, 20-year-old Max Verstappen aims to restore its former successes as its new leader.
Ferrari
Ferrari and F1 have enjoyed an intrinsic relationship dating back to the formation of the world championship in 1950, when the scarlet cars hit the grid for the inaugural grand prix. Seven decades later, Ferrari remains a considerable force in F1, having become the sport’s most successful team with more than 200 race wins, 16 drivers’ championships and 15 constructors’ titles.
Ferrari remains the biggest talking point in F1, holding an almost mythic status in the paddock
Despite varying levels of success on track in recent years, Ferrari remains the biggest talking point in F1, holding an almost mythic status in the paddock, which
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Food and Agriculture
Genetically Modified Food. Public opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops has not been based solely on concern about biological risks. Economic risks have been widely cited too: the fear that the world's food supply will be concentrated in the hands of a few large firms, the fear that such firms will engage or are already engaging in anti-competitive practices, and the fear of the transfer of ownership rights over genetic resources to the private sector. This essay by Dietmar Harhoff, Pierre Régibeau and Katherine Rockett assesses whether these fears are justified. "Genetically Modified Food: Evaluating The Economic Risks" is published by Economic Policy
A Dow Jones Index for Nature. Is it possible to construct a composite indicator for measuring the development of biodiversity? The NaturalCapital Index captures changes in biodiversity as changes in the makeup of important ecosystems such as forest, grassland, tundra and deserts. "Biodiversity indicators for the OECD Environmental Outlook and Strategy" is published by the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment.
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missing...I'd got nothing to do and I hadn't really got any friends. Although I was dating lots of girls, I never met one that I liked, and it was always too difficult to see my mates. Either they were broke and I was rich, or vice versa, and they were all scattered far apart.
So in a way, I had everything except companionship and something to do, and Heaven knows when I'd ever make another television programme. As it turned out, 'Floyd's American Pie' was the last time (I think it was 1988) that I worked for the BBC.
So what did I do? I had all that, and I went and bought a pub!
The South Hams in Devon is probably one of the prettiest areas in the West Countryvalued customer and a long-standing friend, now retired from the hotel industry, who would be a perfect man to occasionally, unannounced, pop into the pub and keep an eye on things.
At that particular time I had no personal manager to handle my television and writing affairs, my personal appearances, etc., etc. John Miles, my agent/business manager, and I had parted company without any acrimony or ill feelings – it just cost a lot, that's all! My contract with the newspaper was up for renewal so I asked this chap who was keeping a rough eye on the pub if he wouldn't mind negotiating the new deal for me. It was also a condition of the bank that this money would be paid each month into the pub account
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at the time she was disabled by the injury, or did the employment terminate a week later when she received written notice thereof?
The essential facts testified to on behalf of plaintiff or admitted in her brief are: In 1960 plaintiff was hired by defendant as a secretary. A part of the fringe benefits promised her was that each year she was to have twenty days of sick leave with pay. Early in 1962 plaintiff's husband began making frequent phone calls to her and to her supervisor at the office. These calls falsely accused them of improprieties, and interfered with the orderly conduct of the office. Finally, plaintiff was told that because of this she was free to seek other employment, and that if there was such further conductshe would be discharged. Then on May 10, 1962, plaintiff's husband came to the office and assaulted plaintiff, breaking her jaw. Plaintiff then had eleven days of sick leave unused. She was taken to the company doctor and later to a hospital. Then on May 15th plaintiff's superior wrote her a letter saying her employment had been terminated on May 11, the day following the assault. A check was enclosed covering plaintiff's regular wages to May 11. This letter was received by plaintiff in the hospital on May 17. On May 21, plaintiff's attorney wrote the defendant demanding *69 "all severance pay due her" but defendant denied further liability.
Plaintiff's petition and her submission to the jury were on the theory (1) that her employment was not terminated until
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Algeria debuted at GC2 with Delit by Amel Bent,they placed 8th at the semi-final with 67 points and 4th at the final with 116 points. They sent Presque arrivés by Leïla Lanova Feat. Charlie Brown placing 6th at the semi-final with 78 points and 12th at the final with 76 points. They will participate at GC4 with C'est la vide by Khaled.Police
Career Criminal Facing Indictment?
Isaac Gaon, who has told police in the past he steals cars to feed his heroin habit, being led away from courthouse after being arraigned last week. Independent/T. E. McMorrow
A serial car thief is facing time in state prison after being arrested last week by the East Hampton Town police. For Isaac Gaon, 49, prison time is nothing new: He has been convicted at least six times on felony charges, including multiple grand theft auto charges, and has served time in five of New York’s 55 state prisons.
His most recent arrest came after he was picked up by East Hampton Town police after he reported to his parole officer in Bohemia on December 12. He was charged with criminal possession of stolen property, a car.
Using
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DNA samples extracted from a glove and a partially smoked marijuana cigarette left behind in a 2010 Volvo XC90 midsize sport utility vehicle reported stolen this past March in the Northwest Woods area, the Suffolk County Crime lab linked the items to Gaon, whose DNA, as a convicted felon, is on file with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
His history of arrests and convictions is as long as any in recent memory to come through East Hampton Town Justice Court, where he was arraigned December 13.
In 1992, Gaon was sentenced for four to eight years after being convicted on grand larceny, burglary, and criminal possession of stolen property charges in Nassau County. He served his time after that conviction at the Queensboro Correctional facility in Long Island City. Hewas released in 1996, and was soon back behind bars, after being convicted in Suffolk County on an attempted burglary charge. He served that time upstate in the Marcy Correctional Facility.
An arrest by police in Old Brookville in Nassau County in 2000 led to a 2002 conviction for grand larceny, and attempted grand larceny landed him in the upstate Ulster facility, not once, but twice after violating terms of his parole in 2008.
Yet again in Nassau County, in 2010, he was convicted of grand larceny for stealing a car. According to an article in the Voice of the Village in Old Brookville in 2009, following the arrest that led to the 2010 conviction, Gaon was accused of stealing high-end cars, then taking them to Brooklyn. He allegedly told
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police at the time that he targeted wealthier areas along the north shore, because people frequently left their cars unlocked overnight, which appears to be the case with the Northwest Woods theft in March.
Often, according to his record, his haul included not only the autos, but credit cards left inside. All this, he reportedly told Old Brookville police after his 2009 arrest, was to feed his heroin habit. He served five years out of the three to seven-year sentence he received after that arrest in the Bare Hill Correctional facility upstate in Malone.
A 2016 conviction on another grand larceny charge out of Suffolk County landed Gaon in the Willard Correctional Facility, from which it appears he was
released after six months.
Gaon is not partial to committing crimes on LongIsland: his record includes a conviction on a grand theft auto charge in Miami Dade County in 1999, and there appears to have a Massachusetts conviction somewhere along the line, as well.
Because of his multiple convictions, Gaon remained in custody as of Tuesday.
Monday was an important day for another person with a history of felony convictions arrested recently by East Hampton Town police. Daisy Guerrero, 33, was arraigned in the Riverside County Courtroom of State Justice Stephen Braslow, who set bail at $100,000. She remained in custody as of Tuesday morning.
Guerrero was arrested on a felony drunken driving charge December 2, and was indicted by a grand jury a few days later. She has two prior felony driving while intoxicated convictions, plus a felony grand larceny conviction in
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IT WAS IN the 1970s that American politics began to polarise around voters’ levels of educational attainment. The Republican Party, until then a party of tweedy north-easterners, began recruiting less-educated southern whites, alienated by the civil-rights movement. Over time, the partisan gap between college-educated voters and less-educated ones widened. In 2016 it exploded. The Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, found that overall, college graduates favoured Hillary Clinton by 21 percentage points, while those without a degree backed Donald Trump by a seven-point margin. Among whites, the difference is greater: those without a college degree backed Mr Trump over Mrs Clinton by a margin of more than two to one.
How far did this educational divide determine the outcome of the 2016 election? To answer this question, Michael Sances ofThe company considered making similar modifications to the Elise but it decided not to because they would make the two-seater noticeably heavier and more expensive.
"We'd need smart airbags, plus side airbags and to change the whole front crash structure. It would add 220 pounds," said company boss Jean-Marc Gales in an interview with trade journal Automotive News.
The bad news for Lotus enthusiasts is that the British car maker hasn't even started to develop the next Elise. The company is currently allocating the bulk of its resources to its first-ever SUV, and a brand new fully-compliant Elise isn't expected to land until 2020.
Note: Lotus Elise S Cup pictured
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Citizens for Aspen’s Community Center is the city’s second issue committee
In a close advisory vote, the Armory building's use as a community center passed Tuesday. But what will happen next with the site remains largely unknown.Jeremy Wallace/The Aspen Times |
A group pushing the Armory building’s use as a community center, once City Hall relocates near Galena Plaza, is the second issue committee to register with the city of Aspen prior to November’s election.
Citizens for Aspen’s Community Center formed Tuesday. It is the campaign committee stemming from the original pro-community-center group, known as the Armory Hall Restoration Committee, whose goal is to return the building to its historical use.
From 1892 to 1957, the Armory building, located at the corner of East Hopkins Avenue and Galena Street, served as a Francis told the Barnharts that other people had expressed an interest in the Allentown franchise. The Barnharts confirmed their intention to operate the Allentown franchise and took possession of Dollar's counter at that airport on July 1, 1976. Their employees answered the phone and took out-of-town reservations. They were unable to offer automobiles for hire because of an inability to insure their operation. Under the lease with the airport authority, Dollar had assumed primary liability for any rent payable for the counter. During their occupancy, the Barnharts paid no rent to either Dollar or the airport authority.
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On August 4, 1976, Flannery wrote to George Barnhart in response to Paxton's letter of June 21. Flannery again noted that the present terminal at
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The boy's mother has not been identified and was not in the courtroom. Prosecutors said the boy lives with his father, and is only with his mother on the weekends. It's unclear why the mother was caring for the baby that day.penalty as the Browns punted on their first six possessions. Taylor underthrew wide-open rookie wideout Antonio Callaway for a potential 75-yard touchdown four minutes into the game.
Per ESPN Stats & Info, Taylor was the first QB to throw for fewer than 20 yards on 14-plus attempts in the first half of a game since 2011.
Cleveland still has not won on a Sunday under Hue Jackson, as its lone 2016 victory came in a Saturday Christmas Eve game.
--Field Level Media
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"to lead." We borrowed "hypnagogic" (also spelled "hypnogogic") from French "hypnagogique" in the late 19th century.
: of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep
Examples
"People who play lots of computer games sometimes experience 'screen dreams' as they fall asleep, in which they see vivid images of the game they have been playing. These screen dreams are also products of the hypnagogic state." - From Paul Martin's Counting Sheep, 2002
"These hallucinations, called hypnagogic hallucinations, may occur when falling quickly into REM sleep, as you do when you first fall asleep, or upon waking." - From an article by Jeff Barnet in the Las Cruces Sun-News, January 11, 2011Three black trans women have been killed in Texas since October, and activists believe that attacks are on the rise due to a hostile political climate
The transgender community in Dallas was still grieving for Muhlaysia Booker when news broke last week that the body of Chynal Lindsey had been found in a lake, making her the second black trans woman murdered in the city in the space of a fortnight.
Three black trans women in their 20s have now been killed in the city since last October, when Brittany White was discovered fatally shot in a vehicle. Booker was found face down on a Dallas street on 18 May, five weeks after cellphone footage of her enduring a sustained beating in front of a jeering crowd went viral.
“I think
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recent years. In April a woman was repeatedly stabbed and left for dead but survived. The decomposed body of Shade Schuler, 22, was located in a field in 2015, and the remains of another woman were discovered in 2017. None of the cases have been solved. Karla Flores-Pavon, a 26-year-old Hispanic trans woman, was strangled in a Dallas apartment in May last year. Police arrested a man and said the motive was robbery.
The attacks in the Texan metropolis underline the dangers faced by trans people across the country, with trans people of color in southern states especially vulnerable.
Lindsey appears to be the eighth black trans woman killed in the US this year, according to information collected by the Human Rights Campaign. It tracked 26 deaths among all racesDozens of people living in tents across Toronto have been moved into furnished apartment buildings as part of the city's response to protect the vulnerable during the COVID-19 crisis.
The encampments have popped up throughout the city during the pandemic as those living in shelters have taken to the outdoors, many of them afraid of catching the novel coronavirus in overcrowded shelters.
On Thursday, officials focused on moving about three dozen people who've been camped out at Sanctuary Ministries Toronto in the city's downtown.
There will soon be 125 units available that come with a kitchen, bedrooms, beds, linens, Wi-Fi and a television. Residents will also be fed three meals a day and have laundry service, the city said.
Nikki Renaud and her partner, Romeo Pratt, had been hunkered down in one
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tent with their close friend Rob Dods for the last month.
Nikki Renaud and Romeo Pratt share a moment after moving from a tent to a temporary apartment In Toronto, provided by the city, on Thursday, April 30, 2020. (The Canadian Press/Chris Young)
The trio could not stop smiling on Thursday.
"A bed," Renaud said, laughing. "I haven't slept on a real bed in a long time. Outside we're just sleeping on cardboard and sleeping bags."
Pratt said he was ready for a new beginning.
"I'm excited, excited, excited and paranoid," he said. "You know when good things happen, you think there's gotta be something bad behind it."
Pratt said he's been on the street for two years, mostly living at a shelter he hated. He said he wants to work again and believesthose in need of food and a place to go to the washroom — the organization rented portable toilets to help.
In a month, nearly 30 tents had surrounded their building, said Greg Cook, an outreach worker at Sanctuary.
"While it's not ideal, it's better than having to sleep in the rain," he said.
Hundreds of workers deployed to help
The city has redeployed hundreds of workers to help a massive relocation effort as it moves those in shelters and on the streets into hotels and apartments.
"I am so proud of this project — it's born out of a terrible pandemic, but I'm really excited to see this happening," said Mary-Anne Bedard, the general manager of the city's shelter, support and housing administration.
A developer, the Times Group, approached the city about using
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two vacant buildings it was set to demolish, Bedard said.
The city is not issuing demolition permits due to the pandemic, so the buildings were available, she said. They had worked with the organization two years ago when the company offered use of one of its buildings for a city-run refugee program.
"They are a family development company who themselves are refugees who fled the Iranian war and have since done really well and wanted to give back," Bedard said.
The company is charging a "reasonable rate" for the building and will donate all the money to local foodbanks, she said.
While the move is a good step, it is nowhere near enough to get everyone out of encampments, she said, so the city is looking for more vacant buildings.
Before the pandemichit, there were about 7,000 people in the city's shelter system. The city has been buying and leasing hotels in an effort to get everyone out of the shelters, many of which are crowded, "open-air" settings with many cots in large rooms.
About 3,000 residents of the shelter system were already in hotels and family settings before the pandemic hit. In the last month, the city has moved 1,700 more out of the shelters, Bedard said.
COVID-19 has made its way inside some shelters, with 211 people testing positive. Nine have been hospitalized.
Bedard said the city moved people from five long-term encampments underneath the Gardiner Expressway on Wednesday and have targeted several other areas.
The entire relocation project will cost about $200 million by the end of the year, she said,
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and the city is hoping for more money from the provincial and federal governments.
Dods, who had been living in a tent with Renaud and Pratt in a tent for a month, said he's happy, but anxious.
"I haven't had a place of my own for about four years," he said.
"It wouldn't happen without the virus, but at least the city is taking action."
He said he is excited for the bathroom.
"I can't wait to take a bubble bath," he said. "I haven't had a good soak in a while."Women and girls to blame for one in four violent attacks in UK
London, May 26 (ANI): More than half a million assaults were either carried out by a girl or woman last year or involved a female as part of a group - and the trend is increasing, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Women and girls were responsible for 13 per cent of all violent attacks in 2007/08, according to the British Crime Survey, which was the equivalent of 281,320 assaults, robberies and muggings, compared with 11 per cent in the previous year.
A further 11 per cent of incidents - or 238,040 crimes - involved both male and female offenders, the figures from the Home Office show.
Females were also either directly responsible for or involved in 21 per cent
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Valencia 2017 was the last race for Jorge Lorenzo with Yamaha. This is the image that remains of the Majorcan, triumphant at Ricardo Tormo before starting the adventure with Ducati. The Spaniard has come a long way in these years, passing through Borgo Panigale and then Honda, and then returning home, on his M1.
Lorenzo took to the track during this week's shakedown, then he will get back on the bike again tomorrow for the last day of testing in Malaysia. Many observers are wondering, however, when it will be possible to see the Majorcan again in action. The answer seems to be almost certainly on June 7, on the occasion of the GP at the Barcelona circuit.
The news comes from Massimo Meregalli, even if there is still nothingYamaguchi Sensei’s dream does indeed exist in this world.”
– Tatsuo Kimura
Discovering Aiki My 20 Years with Yukiyoshi Sagawa Sensei
Yukiyoshi Sagawa often traveled as an attendant to his teacher, Daito-ryu Chuku-no-so Sokaku Takeda, who was also the teacher of Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba. At one time, around 1956, an agreement was made for Sagawa to become an instructor at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo, but he took exception to some remarks about Sokaku Takeda made by Morihei Ueshiba in an interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun around that time and changed his mind.
Yukiyoshi Sagawa’s younger brother and favorite sibling, Hiroshi Sagawa (佐川廣), was born in Shimo-yubetsu Hokkaido in 1909 (Meiji Year 42) into a family in which both his father and his elder brother trained extensively with Sokaku Takeda.
Tatsuo Kimura (木村達雄)
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Aiki that forms the foundation must be absolutely the same.
Sagawa: With both Takeda Sensei and my brother, when Aiki was applied one’s strength would be removed.
Kimura: Sagawa Sensei said that Takeda Sensei would throw with a conventional technique after removing their power (with Aiki), but there was even further development (by Sagawa Sensei) from there. He made a great discovery concerning Aiki when he was seventy years old. By the way, I first met Sensei when he was seventy-six years old, from that time – that is, from the beginning, he was incredible. (laughing)
Azumi: (laughing)
True Throws – the Intensity of the Last Practice
Kimura: When I was thrown by Sagawa Sensei, I experienced truly being thrown for the first time. Until that time I did Aikido and it feltU.S. must take a strong stand against Iran, keep strait open
Iran's threat to close a vital international waterway if stricter sanctions are imposed on Iranian oil exports is more than just bellicose and provocative. It is also a test of U.S. will and commitment in the Persian Gulf at a time when our role in the region is changing.
The world has grown used to chest-thumping by Tehran, and there was nothing particularly noteworthy about the exercises conducted by Iranian armed forces earlier this month to demonstrate their ability to close the Strait of Hormuz. But how the United States reacts to the threats is crucially important.
Iran's large arsenal of mines would certainly present a challenge to shipping in the region if Tehran makes good on its threat. Iran
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has the ability to lay mines from many platforms: small boats, submarines, midget submarines, even merchant ships. And Western navies, including America's, have long underinvested in minesweeping technology. The U.S. Navy and its allies would be challenged, therefore, to sweep the strait clear of mines laid in large numbers.
But there is no doubt that the United States can prevent Iran from closing the shipping route, through which much of the world's oil travels. The United States and its allies could ultimately clear traffic lanes and destroy Iranian vessels attempting to lay minefields. As long as the major stakeholders in the global economy remain confident that the strait will remain open, the impact of any Iranian attempt to close it will probably be mitigated.
It is important, therefore, for theUnited States to declare its commitment to using all necessary force to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. Such a declaratory policy would be explicitly defensive: If Iran violates international law by attacking shipping in transit through the strait, the United States will act in defense of international law to stop the illegal action and eliminate the capabilities of the violator to persist in such behavior.
Tehran would portray any such declaration as an act of aggression on the part of the "global arrogance" -- as it calls the United States -- and an escalation in the conflict. The Iranian regime has illegally seized a series of small islands in the strait belonging to the United Arab Emirates, and it uses them to claim that the whole Strait of
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about 30 miles southwest of Mount Pleasant. While touring the property, the man spotted the rock propping open a door and asked the farmer what it was.
The farmer told him it was a meteorite, that it was part of the property and he could have it.
The farmer said that it had come down onto the property in the ’30s — “and it made a heck of a noise when it hit,” the new owner recalled him saying, according to CMU’s statement. In the morning, the farmer and his father found the crater and dug out the still-warm meteorite.
The new owner lived on the farm a few years, and when he moved, he took the mystery rock with him. For the past thirty years, he has used it asBible's four accounts of his life, but he was unequivocal in condemning divorce among straight couples.
“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery,” Luke 16:18 quotes the Nazarene as saying – although in Matthew 19:9 he does apparently allow it in cases when the wife has been unfaithful.
Oddly, very few objectors to LGBT marriage seem to have read this part of the Bible, and it’s never brought up by religious leaders who depend on buns on seats to pay their church's bills. In the US, around half of all marriages involve a divorced person, and yet there seem to be no pickets outside these weddings or complaints from protestors.
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fell in love and lived with for four years. Working side by side, both painted dreamlike surrealist works . Vezelay became well respected in modernist Parisian art circles and was elected in the 1930s to membership of the French abstract movement, Abstraction-Création, which was largely established as a reaction to Surrealism.
On the outbreak of the Second World War she moved back to London, but had difficulty in gaining recognition by the British art establishment, possibly because of her identification with Paris at a time when the London art world was beginning to acquire its own separate and different reputation. However, in 1952 she was invited by Andre Bloc, president of the Parisian constructivist abstract movement Groupe Espace, to form a London branch of that movement. After many difficultiesWhen Jack and Virginia Cotterman made the decision to move closer to their kids in Connecticut, they made a mental checklist of what they needed in their new location.
Kent County met their needs.
Low taxes? Check.
Affordable housing? Check.
Central location on the eastern seaboard? Check.
Before moving to Dover's Longacre Village more than a year ago, the Cottermans were living out their retirement years in Texas, which meant a cross-country trip to see their kids and grandchildren on the East Coast.
When the trips became fewer and farther between, the retired couple decided to look for an area of the country that would afford them easy access to their family without breaking the bank.
"We checked everywhere, like Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey before we decided to move here," Virginia said.
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County home.
Kent County data shows a steady decrease or no change in other age groups.
Kathy Sperl-Bell, broker and co-owner of Active Adults Realty in Lewes, has based much of her business on finding homes for retirees in Delaware. She said the 60+ group is eyeing the state more and more.
"Even though Delaware flies below the radar in many studies, it is popping up with at least a mention when the topic is Baby Boomers and retirees," she said.
With less than a million people in the entire state, Sperl-Bell said Delaware is attracting relocating retirees from surrounding states and the Northeast. A recent nationwide study ranks Delaware 10th in the nation with a net annual gain of 2,448 persons age 60 and older between 2011 and 2015.
The bottom 10states include New York (#51), New Jersey (#49), Pennsylvania (#48), and Connecticut (#43).
"A huge percentage of our relocating buyer clients are coming from those four states with more coming from Virginia (#41) and Maryland (#40)," Sperl-Bell said. "Obviously, many people leaving these states are moving to the top few, especially Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina, but a good percentage of them are moving to Delaware for very good reasons."
Lower taxes is one of the main drivers.
"Houses aren't always cheap here, but the taxes are and that is attractive to retirees," she said. "Delaware and Kent County are no longer a secret for folks in the Mid-Atlantic. There is culture, the capital and the beaches are just an hour away."
While Sperl-Bell and her husband, Bill (co-owner of Active
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Adults Realty), find houses up and down the state for those relocating to Delaware, their focus has turned to Kent and Sussex counties more recently.
They have seen a steady increase of retirees choosing to spend their retirement on homes in Kent County. Sperl-Bell said that in Dover's Longacre Valley alone, her company has sold 25 properties since 2011.
A growing trend
The latest data shows a per capita personal income of $38,498 in 2016 in Kent County, which reflected an increase of 2.6 percent over 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis
While the county ranked third in the state and the personal income was just 80 percent of the state average, Kent County outgained Delaware's other two counties in the percentage of increase (2.2 percentin Sussex, 1.3 percent in New Castle, 1.7 percent overall in the state).
For George Sharpley, with the Delaware Department of Labor, those numbers signal a movement of retirees to Kent County, especially when you factor in that transfer payments – social security and government payments that transferred from working people to retired people – make up a large percentage of the per capita income.
"Transfer payments increased by 3.9 percent in Kent County in 2016 and now make up more than a quarter of all income (25.6 percent) in the county," he said.
In Sussex County, which is a haven for retirees, transfer payments mirror that of Kent County at 25.5 percent of personal income.
"The cost of living is less in Kent County, so people who can't afford beach homes
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not planning to make any return to the ice. Unfortunately, he likely has career-ending medical issues, but he likely will not be retiring. It is neither in his interest (since he will continue to be paid on the LTIR) or in the interest of the Maple Leafs (for the reasons to come below) for Horton to retire at this time.
Thus the question should be asked why the Maple Leafs did not place Nathan Horton on the LTIR at the start of the season. That can illustrated with the graph below:
The black line represents the salary cap ceiling for the Maple Leafs. The blue line is their daily cap hit and the green line is a projected cap hit for the team at the end of the year. Amentioned above, the Maple Leafs can receive a salary cap ceiling exception equal to the overage created by the Horton contract after putting replacement players on their roster (whose total contract values cannot be greater than that of Horton’s contract), which occurs immediately after Horton is placed on the LTIR. At the start of the season, the Maple Leafs were operating at a projected $70.48m cap hit. If they had placed Horton on the LTIR at that point and fully replaced him, they could have created a maximum allowed overage of $4.38m. Instead, the Maple Leafs waited. Then on October 27, 2015, they called up Casey Bailey from the AHL (at a time when they had three players on the regular IR and needed a call-up), which put
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29, 2015, they returned Casey Bailey to the minors, called Byron Froese up to the NHL, and signed Richard Clune. Overall, those moves put the Leafs at $71.5m, just slightly over the normal salary cap ceiling. This only lasted for a single day. From December 30, 2015, to January 10, 2016, the Maple Leafs were at $71.7m in salary after an emergency call up of Mark Arcobello and Antoine Bibeau. (Both were sent back to the minors on January 3, 2015, for some reason but promptly returned to the NHL on the next day.) From February 8, 2016, to February 22, 2016, the Maple Leafs were well above the normal $71.4m salary cap ceiling. One of the main factors was the trade that sent Phaneuf out of townmainly related to them calling up a large number of their minor league prospects including Kasperi Kapenen and William Nylander.
Finally, it should be mentioned that sometimes the contract of a player on the LTIR can itself become a good asset. We saw that happen this past summer when Marc Savard was involved in a trade that sent him from the Boston Bruins to the Florida Panthers. The thing is: Savard has not played a single game since 2010-11, when he received a career ending concussion. So he had spent his entire time in Boston after his injury on the LTIR, which makes cap management a bit more complicated for the reasons described in detail above. However, Florida found his contract attractive as a cash-strapped team because it added
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a priority for a company focused both on leveraging the cloud and making sense of Big Data – the ability to turn massive volumes of information into business intelligence.
It also meant that, regardless of the success of the Band, the platform would evolve to take advantage of the intensifying stream of health data being pumped out by millions of other wearable devices. For now, that market is dominated by Fitbit, Apple Watch, Garmin, Samsung Gear and Jawbone UP. However, a strong push from Chinese manufacturers like Lenovo, Xiaomi and Huawei is likely to change the early shape of the industry.
Even in South Africa, fitness bands or activity trackers are beginning to graduate from fad to trend to mainstream. The local market is led by Fitbit, which at onestage threatened to become the generic name for activity trackers globally. In an interview last year, US president Barack Obama said he was planning to get a Fitbit – but appeared to be talking about the category rather than the brand. He suggested he might consider an Apple Watch.
In the USA, Fitbit sells two-thirds of all activity trackers. For wearables in general, including smart watches, its share drops below half, but it still leads the market. In South Africa, it helped that it was endorsed by Discovery Health, which gave members of the Vitality wellness programme bonus points for using the device. Discovery did the same for brands like Garmin, Nike, Fitbug, Jawbone, Polar and Adidas.
In the near future, it is likely that medical insurance companies will plug
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specific medical fields. A similar competition is observed in the academic area to become and remain a key player in clinical research and also because it constitutes a strong economic vector through allocated budgets, royalties, patents, grants.... While it was mostly a Northern American and Western European activity few decades ago, most of developed countries are now involved in clinical research. This increases the international competition to actively participate in RCTs, with some countries which are now offered to participate in research projects, or with a much lower number of sites. In pharmaceutical-sponsored trials, the competition is even initiated by the companies themselves or the clinical research organizations (CRO) to accelerate completion of the trial.
### Inappropriate trial design resulting in absence of "ICU-specific" drug {#Sec7}
Critical care remains oneIn the summer of 2012 Michael Hengler moved to the Big Island of Hawaii to conduct research for his thesis project that consisted of him traversing the lava fields, launching lava boats into the molten rivers, and capturing it on video. Prior to moving to the Big Island, he discovered the cultural belief that Pele, the volcano goddess, is embodied in the lava itself and therefore should not be used, but after months of research and meetings, Hengler received blessings and cultural permission from numerous Hawaiian Anthropologists and Hawaiian Cultural Practitioners to proceed with his project. Ironically, he also learned that a company on Hawaii harvested and sold lava cinder which would now become the medium for his lava boats. Michael constructed six one-foot boats (as seen in
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the above picture) which he launched into the lava rivers, one by one, on three separate trips.
The photo above is on location at Bryson Cinder on the Big Island of Hawaii. It shows where the company extracts and crushes the cinder that they then package and sell to home improvement and garden centers as an attractive and durable ground cover. In the photo below, you can see the view from Michael’s front porch while living in Kalapana, Hawaii. The entire area has been decimated by the active volcano and, if you look closely, you can see the molten lava glowing in several locations. A small community of approximately 100 off-the-grid houses have built new homes on the 50 foot thick solid volcanic rock earth. Small shrubs and plantsIn Case You Missed It:
FINALS WATCH: Celebrities aplenty, as usual
Former Texas A&M football quarterback Johnny Manziel, left and entertainer, Drake leave the floor during halftime of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game between Wisconsin and Kentucky Saturday, April 5, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Kentucky Wildcats had Drake celebrating with them after a victory, and Dwight Howard was doing the “Gator chomp” in the Florida student section.
As usual, the NCAA Final Four drew plenty of stars and celebrities.
After Kentucky won on a late shot to advance to the championship game, Drake was in the locker room with the Wildcats.
“That’s great. He just told us to stay confident, and it’s on us now,” said Andrew Harrison, who had the
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NFL draft.
NASCAR driver Danica Patrick tweeted a picture from the Final Four, along with the note, “Whoa! This is a lot of seats. Don’t always claim my birth state since I grew up in Illinois, but I’m cheering for WI.”
Patrick is in town for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.
Former Duke teammates Christian Laettner and Grant Hill were in the building. Laettner made perhaps the most memorable shot ever in the NCAA tournament, his game-ending turnaround jumper after a court-length pass to beat Kentucky in 1992.
Howard, who went straight to the NBA from high school, was there with Houston Rockets teammate Chandler Parsons, who played at Florida from 2008-11.
NCAA Finals Watch follows the Final Four games and all the activities surrounding the event asAMLU Spring Bowling Tournament
AMLU Spring Bowling Tournament
The Association of Minor League Umpires is teaming up with UMPS CARE this spring training to raise funds and make a difference in communities across the country. The umpires in Arizona and Florida are working together to host three bowling tournaments during spring training. These events will be a friendly competition between crews as each team tries to be the top fundraisers and the top bowlers. Proceeds from the event will allow UMPS CARE to provide the following programs in 2018:
Build-A-Bear workshop experiences to critically ill children at 14 different hospitals nationwide,
VIP baseball experiences to at-risk youth at each major league ballpark across the country,
College scholarships for children adopted later in life,
Short-term financial assistance to families in need in umpiring communities across
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from employment in any capacity with any member or member organization; and (2) a petition to this court (No. 78-1022) filed January 10, 1978, under section 25(a) of the Securities Exchange Act ("Act") seeking review of the SEC's order of November 23, 1977, denying a stay of the NYSE sanction.2
BACKGROUND
2
At the time of appellant's defalcations, he was a vice president and registered account representative with Dean Witter & Co., Inc. ("Dean Witter"), a broker and dealer in securities registered with the SEC and a member of the NYSE, employed in Dean Witter's Chicago office. He had been in the securities business as a salesman for some twenty-six years and had been a vice president of Dean Witter for about seven years. In January of 1975,appellant was assigned responsibility for the account of Mrs. Lillian Park, an 80-year old patient in a nursing home, whose nephew, Harold Burwick, represented her. Due to a clerical error, $10,000 in school district bearer bonds purchased by another customer were posted to Mrs. Park's account, and the January account statement sent by Dean Witter to Burwick so disclosed. Burwick called appellant about this, and appellant said he would take care of it. However, the bonds continued to show up in Mrs. Park's monthly account statements. Finally, in June, appellant requested Dean Witter's New York office to deliver the bonds to the Chicago office. When they arrived near the end of June, appellant, without authority, put them in his safety deposit box.
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He also requested the firm's cashier to issue a check to Mrs. Park's order for $162.50, representing six months' interest on the bonds which had been erroneously posted to her account. He endorsed Mrs. Park's name on the check without her knowledge or that of Burwick. He then gave the check to his brother-in-law as a gift for his nephews. The brother-in-law added his endorsement to the check and cashed it. The bonds remained in appellant's safety deposit box until December 3, 1975, when he presented them for payment at a Chicago bank and received a check for $10,162.50, which he endorsed and deposited to his personal brokerage account at Dean Witter.
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During the annual audit of Dean Witter in December of 1975, the doubleendorsement on the $162.50 check was routinely questioned, and Burwick advised that the endorsement (which appellant had made) was not that of Mrs. Park. This was brought to the attention of the vice president for operations of Dean Witter's Chicago office, who then discovered that appellant had requested delivery of the bearer bonds and had signed the delivery ticket. Appellant was contacted in Florida, where he was vacationing, and he flew back to Chicago the following day "to straighten up the matter." He borrowed some money from his bank and repaid the misappropriated sums to Dean Witter officials. At first he denied that he was solely responsible, alleging that he "was taken in" by Burwick, who forged Mrs. Park's name on the $162.50 check
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and who had agreed to split the proceeds from the bonds. However, he eventually admitted his personal wrongdoing. On January 8, 1976, he was formally discharged by Dean Witter. He then contacted a longtime friend who was the president of Loewi and Co., Inc. (a registered broker and dealer in securities registered with SEC and a member of the NYSE), which hired him on January 16, 1976. His application for qualification as a registered representative with Loewi and Co., Inc. was "conditionally approved" on January 26, 1976, thus:
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This approval is given subject to the outcome of the Exchange's investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr. Allen's (sic) termination from Dean Witter & Co., Inc. This may result in disciplinary action being taken againsthim under Rule 345.
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Upon being advised by Dean Witter that appellant had been discharged, the NYSE undertook an investigation. Approximately a year later, on January 28, 1977, after its investigation had been completed, formal proceedings were held before a NYSE hearing panel, which found that appellant had misappropriated bonds from a customer's account, misappropriated funds from a customer's account, and endorsed a customer's name on a check issued to the customer without the knowledge or permission of the customer. By a 2-1 majority, the panel voted that appellant "be permanently barred from employment in any capacity with any member or member organization." (The minority panelist felt that a $15,000 fine and six months' suspension was the proper sanction.) The panel's decision was appealed to
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otherwise orders, summarily or after notice and opportunity for hearing on the question of a stay. . . . Each appropriate regulatory agency shall establish for appropriate cases an expedited procedure for consideration and determination of the question of a stay.
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It is noted that appellant's defense before the hearing panel of the NYSE was based, in part, on his argument that "ineptitude and gross negligence" and "mismanagement and sloppy practice" of Dean Witter, his employer at the time of the violations, brought about the conditions that tempted him to engage in illegal conduct
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Appellant argues that, at the time of his petition for stay, he had been "back selling securities to the investing public for 21 months" and that the SEC "knew that not acitizens and make sure that they can prevent this from happening as opposed to trying to pass laws that would prevent law-abiding citizens from having guns.
Guns in churches seem like some sort of grotesque oxymoron but in the right hands a firearm can be the ultimate peacemaker. Many were thankful that day in 2007 that Jeanne Assam, a volunteer security guard at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, had easy access to a gun when Matthew Murray entered the east entrance of the church and began firing his rifle. Murray was carrying two handguns, an assault rifle, and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Assam, who worked as a police officer in downtown Minneapolis during the 1990s and is licensed to carry a weapon, shot and killed Murray. Had she
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not done so, more than two would have been killed at the church that day. Two others had been killed by Murray at the Youth Mission School in nearby Arvada. New Life’s senior pastor Brady Boyd said Assam’s actions saved the lives of 50 to 100 people:
A former police officer, Assam, 42, was on security duty Sunday morning at New Life Church here. Hours earlier, a 24-year-old who had been rejected from a missionary school in a Denver suburb had shot and killed two staffers there. Now he was spraying New Life's parking lot with gunfire and pushing through the doors to the sanctuary. Assam hid and inched toward the gunman, Matthew Murray, as dozens of terrified worshipers fled. She waited until he got close enough, revealed herself,aimed her pistol and fired. Murray dropped to the ground. He was carrying an assault rifle, two pistols and a backpack holding more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition. "I just prayed to the Holy Spirit to guide me," Assam said at a packed news conference Monday. "I give the credit to God. This has got to be God, because of the firepower he had versus what I have."
As they say, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. In places like Sutherland Springs, San Bernardino, Orlando, and other mass shooting sites, the slaughter of the innocent could have been cut short by someone with a gun. As the widow of one of the San Bernardino victims noted:
Amy Wetzel is the widow of San Bernardino shooting victim Michael Wetzel and
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