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choose gun-free zones such as Umqua or that Aurora, Colorado movie theatre to target their victims knowing there will be no one thereto immediately return fire:
As John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, wrote in an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, "Since at least 1950, all but two mass public shootings in America have taken place where general citizens are banned from carrying guns." This is usually why they are selected as targets, Lott says. In the July 2012 mass shooting inside a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., the shooter had a choice of seven movie theaters within 20 miles of his home that were showing the Batman movie he was obsessed with. The Cinemark Theater he chose wasn't the closest, butand redoing his labor of the past hour. “What did they fear to find?” I wondered. What could be so threatening about the contents of these simple bags? Then I recalled the armamentarium that had lovingly been placed into each one, weapons of warfare that seriously threatened the power of the enemy.In each bag there was a butterfly, a symbol of new life. It had been skillfully knitted by the faithful Christian remnant in Cuba. People who had also known the pain of threat and religious oppression. Yes, these women had packed the ammunition of new life with which to fight the enemy of death.
In addition to new life, each suitcase made room for a new hat. These hats were especially dangerous for they brought with them joy.
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corner, I remembered the most deadly weapon that had been enclosed. These were the origami paper cranes, a symbol of peace. Each one with its cockeyed beak and resolute tail had been carefully folded with prayer and petition. These symbols of peace would surely be a terrible threat to the continued bloodshed.
Yes, at the Syrian border, the weapons of war would be uncovered. Inside each piece of luggage would be found new life, joy, laughter, prayer, and peace. As our beloved sisters returned to the war zone they call home, these weapons that they cherished would no longer be concealed… and never, never confiscated.INTRODUCTION {#S1}
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In the last decade, Spanish community pharmacies have incorporated into their existing services a series of extra activities included within the concept of Pharmaceutical Care, with the aim of achieving the maximum benefit from patients' therapy. These activities are endorsed by the new Spanish law of Guarantees and Rational Use of Medicines and Medical Devices.[@B1]
Although implementation of these activities in daily practice has generally been lower than initially hoped, the challenges inherent in pharmaceutical care and pharmacists' services in general, have been taken on by a large number of pharmacists in Spain. As evidence of this is the appearance of specialized journals such as Seguimiento Farmacoterapéutico and Pharmaceutical Care España. There has also been a noteworthy increase in the number of communications presented at conferences focusing in
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community pharmacies and pharmaceutical care. At the last Spanish National Congress on Pharmaceutical Care, held in Valencia[@B2] in 2005, the number of communications was three times the number at the First National Congress on Pharmaceutical Care, held in San Sebastián in 1999.[@B3]
To achieve greater dissemination and implementation of pharmaceutical care and to confirm the value of the system, research to demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions by community pharmacists must be undertaken. This can be extended to the other services that community pharmacies offer, such as pharmacovigilance and health promotion.
Review of the scientific literature helps researchers to obtain information about the current state of research in particular areas, and how the system is working and designs being used. This allows researchers to identify and undertake new lines of research.out by using the following databases: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA)[@B8], Medline[@B9], and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).[@B10] A direct search was made in primary sources, specifically in the journals Seguimiento Farmacoterapéutico and Pharmaceutical Care España.
For the PubMed/MEDLINE search, the term community was used in combination with pharmac\* and Spain, and the search was limited to the period above mentioned. In another search the term community was combined with pharmac\* and the search was limited to articles originally published in Spanish. The term "pharmacy office" was used in another search.
For the search involving the CSIC database, the keywords farmacia\* comunitaria\*, oficina\* de farmacia and atención farmacéutica y farmacia were used. These searches were conducted in the IME (biomedicine) and ICYT (science and technology) summaries.
In the IPA search the
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pharmacists (none of the authors), or studies that did not involve at least the participation of community pharmacists in the design and development of the research, were also excluded. The selection was made independently by two reviewers.
The articles retrieved were entered into a Microsoft Access database. The variables registered for each article were: main author, number of authors, year of publication, journal, objective, design and area of study, existence of grants or official funding and the number, year and origin of the bibliographic references.
Production indicators: The change in the number of publications in the period studied, the number of authors per publication, transitivity index (percentage of occasional authors with respect to total number of authors) and the scientific productivity per autonomous community were used as production indicators. Tothere exists more experience in scientific research, such as hospital pharmacy. Hospital pharmacists published 260 articles in Farmacia Hospitalaria between 1995 and 2005.[@B136] Production of scientific articles in community pharmacies in Spain is, however, similar to that in other countries, such as for example, Canada; in Canada, 38 original articles[@B5] were published between 1995 and 2001, and 40 original articles were published in Spain in the same period. In a study of worldwide research in Pharmaceutical Care in the past 5 years[@B6], Spain occupied a high position in terms of production, below the USA, at the same level as the UK and above countries such as France, Italy and Germany.
Our study showed that scientific output in community pharmacy research has notably increased in the study period. Only 25
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articles were published in the first 6 years, between 1995 and 2000, whereas some 97 articles were published between 2001 and 2005. However, in 2005 there was a slight decrease in the numbers of articles published.
The increase in the number of articles published appears to be related to the appearance in Spain of specialized journals such as Pharmaceutical Care España and Seguimiento Farmacoterapéutico. The number of original articles published rose from 1 in 1998 to 13 in 1999, coinciding with the release of the first volume of Pharmaceutical Care España, and from 17 in 2002 to 25 in 2003, the year in which the journal Seguimiento Farmacoterapéutico first appeared. The two journals published 78.7% of the articles considered, which demonstrates their importance in diffusion of community pharmacy-based researchin Spain, and indicates the need for such specialized journals in which pharmacists can publish their work. The fact that in 2005 there was a decrease in the number of original articles may be partly attributed to the fact that one of the three-monthly issues of the journal Pharmaceutical Care España was not published.
The research groups make an important contribution to community pharmacy-based research. Most of the studies carried out by these groups were published in the latter years of the period considered, which demonstrates consolidation and an increase in the number of groups. The work carried out by these groups is not limited to research or collaboration with other researchers and their activities also include training of other pharmacists in research methods and in pharmaceutical practice, and
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these journals. Bradford's nucleus did not contain the journal Seguimiento Farmacoterapéutico, probably because of its short life since the first volume was published in 2003. The nucleus of publications represented 4.3% of the total number of primary publications, but contained 49.4% of the total number of references cited. Of the 15 journals, 7 (46.7%) are published in English.
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI: Philadelphia, USA) calculates the yearly IF for all journals included in the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index databases and publishes them in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).[@B141] Many Spanish journals are not included in these databases[@B142], and thus a study entitled "Potential impact factors of Spanish medical journals",[@B143] was carried out with the purpose ofmiddle 50% group in the 16-year-old girls had a slight increase of their mean BMI. In the 2002 4-year-old, and both 10-year-old samples, a higher proportion of the girls were overweight/obese compared to the boys, but no difference was seen in the 16-year-old sample. Young children, especially girls, have become much more overweight/obese during the past 20 years, despite a high proportion of post-graduate education in the population. The lack of major change in 16-year-olds may suggest a rather recent change in the children's environment/lifestyle.
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President Trump announced Saturday that Chinese President Xi Jinping told him he plans to implement new sanctions against North Korea.
"President Xi of China has stated that he is upping the sanctions against #NoKo. Said he wants them to denuclearize. Progress is being made," Trump tweeted.
President Xi of China has stated that he is upping the sanctions against #NoKo. Said he wants them to denuclearize. Progress is being made. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2017
China has not formally announced any plans to further sanction North Korea. According to a report by Reuters, leaders of South Korea and China agreed during a summit meeting Saturday to strengthen security and find a stable resolution to nuclear tensions with North Korea.
Trump is abroad on a 12-day Asia-Pacific trip, during whichhe has been meeting with regional leaders with a heavy emphasis on curbing North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
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The United Nations (U.N.) has passed two resolutions recently aimed at squeezing the North Korean economy by cutting off oil, labor and exports to the nation. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley Nimrata (Nikki) Haley'The soul' versus 'law and order' Author Ryan Girdusky: RNC worked best when highlighting 'regular people' as opposed to 'standard Republicans' GOP lobbyists pleasantly surprised by Republican convention MORE has said those measures have “strangled their economic situation,” but acknowledged
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The new CEO will be Richard Plepler. Back in 2007 Plepler, who had been in charge of public relations for HBO, was named one of three co-presidents of HBO under Nelson, the story says.
According to an HBO press release, Eric Kessler, who was also appointed co-president in 2007, will be president and COO. Michael Lombardo will stay with the company as president of programming. Both will report to Plepler.
Jeff Bewkes, chairman and CEO of HBO parent Time Warner Inc. — and himself a former chief of HBO — said in a statement: "The company will not miss a step with the new team, which has the combination of talent and experience to drive HBO to new heights of creative excellence, innovation, and financial performance. Richard and Eric arecontrol tilting of the blind slats, wherein securing the cord within the rotating wand almost guarantees entanglement. In addition, the weight and force required to lift the bottom rail along with the blind slats would create a significant burden on the rotating gears that open and close the blind slats including the entire attachment of the wand to the headrail.
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Category:Populated places in SichuanWater rationing in Nairobi will continue despite the rise of water levels at Ndakaini dam.
"Water rationing will go on in most parts of Nairobi because of historical failures but the county has promised to improve it through laid out mechanisms", Water CeC member Larry Wambua said on Tuesday.
Nairobi gets slightly over half a million cubic meters per day against a demand of 700,000 cubic meters.
This means there is a water deficit of approximately 200,000 cubic meters per day.
Wambua was speaking at a public participation meeting organised by Nairobi City Water and Sewerage to highlight on issues affecting residents.
In 2015, NCWSC partnered with the national government to rollout 24 underground water projects at Sh160 million each, to counter the deficit.
Water rationing affects informal settlements, exposing many to threats such
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group.
Discussion
Main observations
First, the selection bias for vaccination was very strong, with the healthier children receiving DTP earlier. Second, DTP
was associated with a significantly different effect on mortality for boys and girls in both crude and adjusted analyses.
Third, in adjusted analyses DTP vaccinated girls had significantly higher mortality than girls in the delayed DTP group. Fourth,
the negative effect of early DTP was most marked for children randomised to the WHO schedule of BCG at birth and then DTP
6–7 weeks later. Fifth, nutritional status had no or limited impact on survival among girls, whereas the association with
survival was very strong among boys.
Strengths and weaknesses
We resolved the methodological problems found in previous studies of DTP.14152021 First, classification as ‘unvaccinated’ was based on reading the vaccination card and did not include childrenbooster DTP.42 The effect was beneficial in both trials. Hence, DTP may induce an harmful immune profile that live vaccines can improve.
Implications
The negative effect of DTP has only been studied in situations with herd immunity to pertussis. Little is known about pertussis-related
child mortality in the prevaccination era in Africa. Only one community study in Kenya has assessed the impact of pertussis:
in the early phase of the vaccination programme, case fatality was 1.3% and pertussis accounted for 6% of infant deaths.43 With increases in mortality of 80–150% in observational studies1153233 and threefold reductions in mortality in randomised trials providing a live vaccine shortly after DTP vaccination and thereby
reducing exposure to DTP as the most recent vaccination,4142 DTP is likely associated with increased female mortality also in situations without herd
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The protocol was approved by the Danish Central Ethics Committee and the Guinean Ministry of Health's Research Coordination
Committee.
.; Working group on non-specific effects of vaccines. Epidemiological studies of the non-specific effects of vaccines: II–methodological issues in the design and analysis of cohort
studies. Trop Med Int Health2009;14:977–85.
. The effect of high-dose vitamin A supplementation at birth on measles incidence during the first 12 months of life in boys
and girls: an unplanned study within a randomised trial. Br J Nutr2011;105:1819–22.
. Differences in female-male mortality after high-titre measles vaccine and association with subsequent vaccination with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis
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In 1982, defendant Robert Raymond ("Raymond") became Coleman's supervisor in the maintenance department. In 1984, Raymond brought to the attention of Plant Manager John Oberlatz the vacancy of a supervisory position in the maintenance department, and recommended Eugene Laroux, a white male, for that position. Oberlatz had final decision-making authority over that promotion decision; however, Raymond's evaluation of job performance was a factor which Oberlatz considered *148 when making that decision. On January 28, 1985, Oberlatz promoted Laroux to
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in the following ways:
1. denial of promotional opportunities (Counts One and Two);
2. Raymond subjecting Coleman to, and Dow permitting Coleman to be subjected to, racial harassment; and denial to him equal terms of employment and equal pay (Count Three); and
3. evaluating Coleman's performance as inferior, in retaliation for filing a race discrimination complaint with the EEOC (Count Four).
In 1986, Dow promoted Chris Kulaga, a white male, to the position of supervisor in the Styrofoam Department; and in 1988, in the course of a multiple personnel shift, Dow promoted Mike Bonanno, a white male, to a supervisory position in the Latex Department. Oberlatz had final appointment authority over both promotions.
II. VIABILITY OF COLEMAN'S § 1981 CLAIMS
In part, Dow and Raymond claim entitlement to summary judgment because of the interpretationpurpose of the rule of law announced in Patterson was to interpret the language Congress chose in drafting § 1981 and to clarify the extent of overlap between protection against racial discrimination in employment as afforded by that statute and by Title VII. 109 S.Ct. at 2379. The court declined to stretch the meaning of the words used in § 1981 to encompass the problem of racial discrimination in the conditions of continuing employment where Congress had chosen to address that problem through the conciliatory mechanisms of Title VII, in order to try to salvage the employer-employee relationship. Patterson, 109 S.Ct. at 2375.
Further, applying Patterson to Coleman's claims will not be inequitable. Coleman may still pursue his harassment claim against Dow under Title VII; and although he is
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evaluations throughout the time period in question, which evaluations were factors in determining who was promoted. Coleman has also presented evidence that Raymond harassed and discriminated against him in assigning work, which impaired his opportunity for promotion.
The extent of Raymond's role in the promotion decisions, and whether he discriminated on the basis of race in making his recommendations, are material issues that a reasonable factfinder could resolve in Coleman's favor, based on inferences on the record. Therefore, Raymond's motion for summary judgment as to Count Two is denied.
C. Count Three: Racial Harassment, Denial of Equal Terms of Employment, and Denial of Equal Pay
Count Three of Plaintiff Coleman's Second Amended Complaint alleges that at Dow, he "has been subject to racial harassment, epithets, and abuse and to denial ofsuit, contrary to that statute's goals. This court finds that reasoning persuasive in the present case as well.
Dow alleges that the evaluations of Coleman's job performance did not become less favorable immediately after he filed his complaints. Dow points out that Coleman's July 1985 evaluation, the first after the filing of the EEOC complaint, indicates no change in Coleman's rating and ranking from 1984. Dow and Raymond also point out that Raymond's participation in the evaluation process decreased starting in 1985, as other employees' opinions received increasing weight.
However, while Coleman's rating did not change in 1986 either, his ranking dropped from 6th out of 22 people in the department in 1985, to 11th out of 19 people in 1986. Coleman claims that this drop is due to retaliation
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for the filing of the EEOC complaint and the present lawsuit, both in the evaluation process itself, and in the fact that since filing the complaints his work assignments have not been suitable for someone of his experience and seniority. Coleman and other Dow employees state that Coleman's actual performance remained consistently high during this period.
Coleman plans to testify that Raymond told him he would "get him" for filing his complaint with the EEOC. Further, the extent of Raymond's participation in, and his impact upon, Coleman's performance evaluations is a question for the trier of fact to determine.
Whether Coleman's evaluations suddenly dropped, and whether Dow's and Raymond's actions were motivated by retaliatory intention, remain in dispute for the trier of fact to determine, based on the credibility ofArticle content continued
Spence, in a rambling but defiant statement, decried the devolution of power in Canada from the Crown to the prime minister, and suggested the news media were misleading Canadians. A spokesperson said she would continue her protest.
A number of aboriginal leaders are siding with the protesting chief and planning to boycott the Friday meeting between Harper and the Assembly of First Nations, as unrest grows among aboriginals and relations with the federal government continue to sour.
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AIPAC Is Coming to Town
The annual grovel begins next week
By Philip Giraldi
March 15, 2016 "
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I am reluctant to write two weeks in a row about Israel’s malignant influence over the United States but as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is meeting in Washington for its annual Summit beginning next Sunday some commentary would seem desirable. AIPAC’s website claims that its “…mission is to strengthen, protect and promote the U.S.-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of Israel and the United States. Our staff and citizen activists educate decision makers about the bonds that unite the United States and Israel and how it is in America’s best interest to help ensure that Israel is safe, strong and secure.”
That is, of course, aSo one should assume that he will talk fulsomely about his love of Israel but at the same time it has to be hoped that he will assert his independence when it comes to policy affecting the United States.
Netanyahu also regularly appears at AIPAC. Last year he used the platform provided to harangue the American public and the inside the beltway chattering class about the dangers posed by Iran while also exploiting the opportunity to do some serious fundraising in New York. The visits also frequently provide an opportunity to meet with and scold the President of the United States or to address Congress on how the U.S. should conduct its foreign policy. It is a given in Washington that Netanyahu will show up in the nation’s capital
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personally to kick some butt at least twice a year but it is also understood that Bibi will not fail to dish out some harsh criticism the rest of the time by way of the media, his own patented form of international extortion.
Nothing illustrates the unbridgeable abyss between the media/talking head vision of Israel promoted by the Israel Lobby and folks like Hillary and the real thing more than the recent embarrassments and indignities being delivered by the Netanyahu government, which AIPAC really represents. Benjamin Netanyahu is, to everyone’s surprise, not coming to AIPAC this year but will instead address the conference by video link. The visit was planned but canceled at the last moment and, per Netanyahu, the fault is that of the president of the UnitedStates who had reportedly said that he would not be available for a meeting due to the upcoming trip to Cuba.
The Obama Administration was genuinely puzzled, partly due to the fact that it first learned of the cancellation through a newspaper story rather than from the Israeli Embassy or Foreign Ministry. It was also astonished by the explanation given as it had indeed set up a presidential meeting at Netanyahu’s request in spite of a very tight schedule. The White House did not complain openly about the deliberate snub, but it was clear to everyone involved that Netanyahu was yet again sending a message to the Administration regarding who was in charge.
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to challenge his behavior, but when it became embarrassingly clear that he had been fibbing about why he was not coming to Washington he immediately resorted to Plan B, stating that he did not want to interfere in the presidential primaries currently underway. No one believed that argument either as Netanyahu has not hesitated to interfere in American politics in the past, notably when he made clear that he would prefer a Republican president in 2012 and appeared in ads in Florida endorsing Mitt Romney.
The White House meanwhile resorted to its own Plan B when confronted by a truculent Netanyahu. It first groveled a bit about how much it loves Israel and then expressed hope that Vice President Joe Biden, who was in the air on his wayTuesday, March 13, 2012
The Mediterranean NATO Part 2
Part II: The Cold War, Decolonization, and Israel
While Part I of this series detailed the post WWII ascendancy of the NATO powers through 1958, their grasp began to slip throughout the 1960s. First, French President Charles de Gaulle gradually withdrew Paris from the Alliance between 1958 and 1967, banning the presence of foreign troops and nuclear weapons on French soil. As a result, the U.S. Air Force transferred 200 aircraft out of the country and relinquished control of 10 airbases back to France.
One major development that spawned from the French withdrawal was the basing of nuclear equipped Jupiter missile squadrons in Italy and Turkey. The U.S. Air Force had originally wanted to station the mid-range ballistic missiles in France, but when
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De Galle balked at the idea, the Pentagon moved the batteries to Italy and Turkey. Starting in 1961, ten Jupiter sites were established in Italy, housing two squadrons, each consisting of nuclear warheads, fifteen missiles, and 500 support personnel. In Turkey, one Jupiter Squadron was deployed over five sites near the eastern coastal city of Izmir.
These sites, especially in Turkey, were seen as a major Cold War provocation by Moscow, threatening the Soviet's southern flank. In response, they began to set up similar missile bases in Cuba, triggering what is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the negotiations between Kennedy and Kruschev that ended this crisis, both powers agreed to abandon their ballistic missile sites.
The rise of nationalist governments in former colonial states also eroded NATO's Mediterraneanpower. In Libya, Wheelus Air Force base had originally been established outside of Triploi by the colonial Italian government in 1923, then captured by the British during World War Two and transferred over to the American Air Force shortly thereafter. According to an article in Air Force Magazine, the U.S. presence at Wheelus was never looked on fondly by the Libyan population, and the 1967 Israeli-Arab war triggered riots at the American embassy and attacks on vehicles going to and from Wheelus, as well as calls from the Libyan parliament to remove all foreign bases from the country. Sensing that their time at the base was running out, Air Force planners began to seek facilities elsewhere, and when a military coup overthrew King Idris and empowered Colonel Gaddafi
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in 1969, Wheelus was soon evacuated by the Air Force.
The 1960's was also when todays "special relationship" between the U.S. and Israel was built. While the U.S., and especially President Truman, had been instrumental in the creation of the Levantine state in 1948, the U.S. provided it with virtually no military support for its first half decade of existence. This changed during the Presidency of John F. Kennedy, when in 1962 the Pentagon approved the sale of Hawk surface-to-air missiles.
As recounted by Jeremy Salt in his book, The Unmaking of the Middle East, during his presidential campaign in August 1960, Kennedy struck a deal with top Jewish-American politicos like Abe Feinberg and Meyer (Mike) Feldman, and in return for their money and support placed numerous pro-Israeli voices incontrol of his Administrations Middle East Policy. Feldman himself was appointed to be the Presidential "point man" on all matters involving Israel, in what even President Kennedy called "a political debt that had to be paid." (Salt, 187)
Soon, Israel was pressing the White House on all sorts of issues. Robert Komer, a senior NSC staff member, speaking to the President in December 1962, put it bluntly: "We have promised the Israelis Hawks, reassured them on the Jordan waters, given a higher level of economic aid (to permit expensive arms), and given various security assurances. In return we have got nothing for our efforts... The score is 4-0." (salt, 189) What Kennedy was looking for most in return were inspections of Israel's Dimona nuclear plant, which the U.S. suspected
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was being used to develop nuclear weapons.
When Lyndon Baines Johnson assumed the Presidency following Kennedy's assassination, the Pentagon's weapon spigot opened wide for Israel. Throughout Johnson's long Congressional career, first in the house and then the Senate, he had built close to the Jewish-American political base, and during his Presidency the situation was no different. Building on Kennedy's overtures, Johnson authorized the sale of 200 Patton tanks to Israel in 1964, and then in 1966, 24 "A24E "intrusion" aircraft.
The clearest U.S. support for Israel came during the two Arab-Israeli wars, in 1967 and 1973. In the first, what is known as the Six Day war of June 1967, the U.S. acquiesced to the Israeli position, and by standing pat gave Tel Aviv a virtual green light to launchthe war. The Administration knew that Nasser's Egypt was not likely to launch any sort of attack, and yet still played along with the Israeli position that the war was a "preemptive" strike. Johnson's White House used none of the U.S.'s numerous ties to Israel in negotiations to prevent the conflict, as described by Salt:
[Johnson] could have followed Eisenhower's example and threatened Israel with economic and political sanctions if it dared to go to war before all the diplomatic processes had been exhausted. He could have threatened to remove the tax free status of 'philanthropic' donations. He could have blocked Export-Import loans and the supply of arms. The crisis involved U.S. national security, so these were all valid means an American president could have used to prevent war,
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but Johnson resorted to none of them. At no stage did he involve the power and authority of the world's most powerful country against a government dependent on U.S. aid and presenting a case for war based on obvious untruths and exaggerations. (Salt, 223)
At the conclusion of the war, the U.S. made an equally hollow attempt to enforce UN Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from the Arab territory it was occupying at the end of war: the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Jordanian West Bank. The 1967 war made it clear that the U.S. would stand firmly behind Israeli aggression, no matter the conduct. In a good metaphor for their overall relationship, the Israeli military "accidently" attacked aU.S. Naval ship, the USS Liberty, killing 34 American seamen, with virtually no consequences.
During the 1973 war launched by Egypt, known as the Yom Kippur War, the U.S. went further, supplying Israel with emergency military airlifts, pulling tanks and planes directly from bases and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, some of which Israel sent to the front line within hours of it being received (Mehran Kamrava, The Modern Middle East, 129).
While the first decade of the Cold War saw a NATO ascendency in the Mediterranean, the sixties and early seventies witnessed a diminshed control. Cold War tensions, decolonization, and the U.S. Israel relationship all served to paint Washington into a corner.
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for example. Israeli pilots and tactics are considered superior, and, in terms of operationally assigned fighter aircraft rather than total inventory, Israel has a slight edge—256 to 222...Nevertheless, we consider that the Israeli forces have retained an over-all superiority."
"Nasser explained that he did not want repetition of 1956 affair when he was reluctant to believe that an attack had begun and was slow in moving troops to Sinai only to be caught between the Israelis in the north and the British at Port Said...."He was asked specifically if he intended to begin any conflict and he said to please explain to my govt that he would not begin any fight but would wait until the Israelis had moved."
-Menachem Begin (then serving as Minister without Portfolio in Israeli Government),allegedly knocked on Ortiz's door, claimed to be from the county district attorney's office, and demanded to know if Ortiz was an illegal alien. In addition, Ortiz alleged that Reyes-Hatch treated him differently because he is Mexican-American. Because Ortiz thus alleged a violation of his civil right under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, Ortiz's claim against Reyes-Hatch is not frivolous.
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Ortiz contends that the County of Orange is liable for the actions of its employees under the respondeat superior theory. Orange County is allegedly the employer of the three named defendants, Arellano, Mech, and Reyes-Hatch. Ortiz contends that respondeat superior is actionable under section 1983 if statutory consent is found.
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Camilla Naprous takes care of some of the biggest stars on “Game of Thrones” — its horses.
She joined the series during its first season for what was intended as a two-week job coordinating a jousting scene. That was almost nine years ago. As the show’s horse master, she is responsible for coordinating and choreographing the many equine performers.
She and her brother Daniel run The Devil’s Horsemen, a company based in Buckinghamshire, England, which provides horses to an array of film and TV projects including “Wonder Woman” and “The Crown.”
“Every horse you see currently is pretty much one of ours,” she says.
Their father, originally from France, fell in love with horses as a young man and once worked at the Lido, a Paris nightclub famed for its jousting horses.Mostly About Organized Crime
04/13/2012
Alleged Philly Mobster Will Plead Guilty
Uncle Sam indicted him, and now Gaeton Lucibello is crying uncle.
Lucibello was among the thirteen defendants charged last year for his alleged role in a gambling racket run by reputed Philly mob boss Joe Ligambi, and apparently now he's folding as reported by George Anastasia for The Inquirer: "notice of Lucibello's intention to plead guilty was filed Thursday with Judge Eduardo C. Robreno, who is presiding over the Ligambi case." At the time of Lucibello's arrest federal prosecutors characterized him as a "long-standing soldier" in the Philly mob.
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Fatigue Syndrome" and certified her as disabled from work. Kennedy was off work on medical disability leave from August 26, 1992 to November 30, 1992.
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Kennedy worked for the next month at her usual job. On January 11, 1993, Dr. Lynch once again concluded she was unable to work and required a medical leave of absence. Later that day Kennedy informed her supervisor at Applause that her doctor had put her back on medical disability because of her Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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The next day several things happened: Dr. Lynch signed a disability note which was submitted to Applause, stating that Kennedy was disabled from work until at least February 15, 1993; Kennedy signed an application for state disability benefits; and Kennedy's work supervisor, calledonly individual left in Cat Tien National Park. The poacher got his prize: the rhino’s horn, which in the traditional Chinese medicine market is worth $65,000 per kilogram, more than gold.
The Javan rhino is not alone in its plight. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) rates three of the five remaining species of rhino critically endangered, only one step away from extinction. The Javan
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Sumatran rhinos are spread so thinly that individuals can’t find one another to mate.
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‘There are too few rhinos left to survive without bold human intervention,’ says one expert.
MORE FROM YALE e360 Against the Odds: Saving
Rhinos in a Troubled Land Raoul du Toit has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental
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Prize in 2011. In an interview with Yale e360, he talked about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s economic collapse and a new wave of poaching. For three decades,has led the fight to protect black rhinos in Zimbabwe, a struggle that earned him a Goldman Environmental Prize in 2011. In an interview with Yale e360, he talked about the challenge of saving this iconic African animal in the face of his country’s economic collapse and a new wave of poaching.
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rhino’s closest relative, the Sumatran rhino in Sumatra and Borneo, also has a tenuous hold, with fewer than 275 believed to exist in the wild. Experts put the likelihood for survival of either species at 50 percent.The outlook in Africa— home to three species of rhinos, totaling 20,000 individuals — is only slightly brighter. Surging horn prices, boosted by booming middle class demand in Vietnam and China, have reinvigorated the mass slaughter of rhinos. South Africa, home to more than 70 percent of the world’s wild rhinos, lost 448 to poachers last year, a new record. Meanwhile the western black rhino, a sub-species of black rhino, was declared extinct in 2011 . It, too, eventually succumbed to poaching.The pressures driving the demise of rhinos are relentless. Over the long term, habitat loss has been the main culprit, but as their numbers have dwindled, threats to individual populations have diverged. In Africa, where rhinos are distributed across vast savannas and often occupy unprotected or poorly protected lands, demand
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for rhino horn is the primary threat. But in Southeast Asia, where rhinos cling precariously to existence in relatively well-protected rainforest areas, guarded by rangers, lack of suitable habitat and low population densities are the biggest dangers.The state of Javan rhinos is especially precarious. Their sole habitat is an area of forest that only exists as a consequence of the massive volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883; the resulting ash fallout and tsunami killed everyone living in the area that is now Ujung Kulong National Park. Fear of future eruptions left the area uninhabited, allowing forest to regrow and providing the Javan rhino a refuge on an island that is the most densely populated in Indonesia.Conservationists are working hard to expand the Javan rhino’s habitat. The International RhinoFoundation is working with its local partner, the Rhino Foundation of Indonesia (YABI), and the national park administration toextend protected status to some 3,000 hectares of forest adjacent to the park, which has roughly 38,000 hectares of prime rhino habitat. The goal is to boost the population to 70 to 80 rhinos by 2015, roughly double the current number. The effort will not be easy: Rhinos have to compete with colonists encroaching into the area, clearing forests for agriculture and poaching game with snares that endanger non-target species like rhino.In 2010 and 2011, the park administration, together with the YABI, successfully convinced 70 farmers to abandon fields planted illegally inside the park and move, with compensation, outside park boundaries. Yet incursions into the park by hunters remain a
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fertile. Some of the fertile ones will have no access to a rhino of the opposite sex, because there are almost no rhinos left.”The hope is that with good protection, adequate habitat, and facilitated match-making, the Sumatran and Javan rhinos can stage a comeback. It’s happened before. In Nepal, Indian rhino populations rebounded to 534 in recent years, thanks to a combination of strict law enforcement and programs that deliver benefits to people living in and around rhino habitats. Last year, not a single rhino in Nepal was lost to poachers.Meanwhile, the southern white rhinoceros in South Africa narrowly escaped a brush with extinction and now numbers more than 17,000 in the wild. Butdespite such success stories, challenges to rhino conservation remain sobering, as evidenced by the sharpevery region has been provided in the report.
The market overview chapter explains market trends and dynamics that include drivers, restraining factors, and the current and future opportunities in the aviation actuator system market. Market outlook analysis has also been provided in the report. Additionally, the report provides analysis of different business strategies being adopted by leading players operating in the global aviation actuator system market. The market introduction chapter helps in gaining an idea of different trends prevalent in the global aviation actuator system market.
The aviation actuator system market in North America has been segmented into Canada, the U.S., and Rest of North America. Furthermore, the Europe market has been divided into France, Germany, the U.K., Russia, and Rest of Europe. The aviation actuator system market in Asia
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Pacific has been classified into China, Japan, India, and Rest of Asia Pacific. Middle East & Africa comprises GCC, South Africa, and Rest of Middle East & Africa. Similarly, South America includes Brazil and Rest of South America. The report provides all strategic information required to understand the aviation actuator system market. The report also offers insights into different components and applications according to various geographic regions mentioned above.
Primary research involves telephonic interviews, e-mail interactions, and face-to-face interviews for detailed and unbiased reviews of the aviation actuator system market across geographies. Primary interviews are usually conducted on an ongoing basis with market experts and participants in order to obtain latest market insights and validate the existing data and analysis. Primary interviews offer new and fresh information on importantDespite ominous predictions of delays, threats and violence fostered by the mainstream media over the past several months, voters in southern Sudan, over a one-week period beginning this Sunday as scheduled, will be choosing between unity and separation.
If they vote for independence from Sudan, as widely expected, Africa’s largest country will be split, and the new Republic of South Sudan will become the 54th state in the African Union and the 193rd member of the United Nations.
The vote is the culmination of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Sudanese government and the Southern People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M), ending two decades of civil war that claimed about 2 million Sudanese lives.
The CPA created a north-south unity government, allowed semi-autonomy for southern Sudan, mandated the even splitting of oil
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groups, the right of Sudanese to choose their citizenship after a split, and a commitment to demarcate the border if southern Sudan becomes independent. The two sides also pledged to avoid a resumption of war.
Behind the scenes, U.S. and UN diplomats have offered Khartoum various incentives to permit the south to secede, including debt relief and the easing of sanctions. The Obama administration reportedly promised to remove Sudan from the State Department’s list of so-called state sponsors of terrorism, evidence of that list’s deceitful function.
A complication to these negotiations is the fact that Bashir, re-elected last April in a presidential poll boycotted by opposition parties, faces an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and genocide committed in the Darfur region of westernSomali pirates detained a Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks, rocket launchers and small arms destined for southern Sudan via Kenya. According to secret State Department cables recently released by WikiLeaks, Bush administration officials condoned that shipment as well as previous secret weapons cargoes.
Although Communists as a principle support the right to self-determination, they see the further division of the continent as a setback in the struggle for African unity. Indeed, the Sudan Communist Party, whose leaders and members hail from both the north and south, campaigned against separation. Until the opposition boycott, SCP Secretary General Muhammad Ibrahim Nugud ran in last year’s presidential election on a platform of national unity and development. Interestingly, until the death in 2005 of its famed leader John Garang, the SPLA/M itself did
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Learn more, including about available controls: Cookie Policy. Citation needed, traditionally established in 872 and existing continuously for over 1,100 years, the Kingdom of Norway is one of the original states. With him the House of Oldenburg, in the form of its junior branch, resumed occupancy of the throne of Norway. Vikingtid og rikssamling: 8001130. Se gratis erotik här hos oss, allt gratis, både bilder och filmer med gratis erotik. If they are blue, you have cool undertones.
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Hello I'm Jennifer bond. Match US and European auto rescues. Jessica Schneider returns with a part to report. But first a look at your headlines. Toyota reporting today that its global sales rose 28%. To seven point four million in the first nine months of the year. Normally that would be an impressive increase. But it marks a decline from the 34%. Gain chalked up after six months. Plunging sales in China following anti Japan protests in that country. Cool Toyota's third quarter gains. EPA says the global sales race with General Motors could tighten as a result. Toyota had overtaking GM through June bouncing back from last year's earthquake in Japan. Look for Toyota to posing as much as say 20% rise in US sales for October.principle of the present invention is based on the fact that the plug connector is guided in a statically defined manner during the insertion process. After ending the insertion process, while the plug connector is resting on the connector base, centering elements retain the plug connector in the correct position in the mating connector, and at the same time, the guide elements provide no further function.
The guide elements may be composed of cam-like elements on the plug connector and guideway-like recesses on a mating connector. To ensure the functioning of such guideways according to the present invention, the cam-like formations are located in the immediate vicinity of the opening of the plug connector, so that when mounting the plug connector on the mating connector, the cam-like formations are
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paper in one, with an emphasis on the central point of novelty.
To make a nest, the Bembicinae (previously called Nyssoninae) sand wasps dig a tunnel of many body-lengths, at the end of which they build a cell or a complex of cells, where they place their offspring and the prey on which the offspring will feed (Evans [@CR44]). They have natural enemies---two taxonomic groups of flies (the bee flies, Bombyliidae, and miltogrammine flies, Sarcophagidae) and two taxonomic groups of parasitic wasps (the cuckoo wasps, Chrysididae, and "velvet ants," Mutillidae)--- that parasitize their nests by laying there, and whose larvae either takes up valuable resources or destroy the larvae of the sand wasp. Parasites of the former two groups seek the nests of their hosts by sight, and ofthe notion of random mutation means that there is nothing of importance to be studied about the causes of mutation from an evolutionary perspective, the concept of non-accidental mutation provided by interaction-based evolution implies instead a whole world of biological mechanisms open to investigation.
Before Darwin, people used to think that different species were each created separately in an instant. While Darwin made an immense contribution by showing that this is not the case, and that species are generated gradually, a notion of creation in an instant has been maintained in neo-Darwinism in other areas: the origin of life, the origin of mutations, and cooption. While Livnat ([@CR113]) argued among other things against the origin of life in an instant, this paper argues against the other two. Novelty arises
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and from NSF grant 0964033 to Christos Papadimitriou, Division of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, during a formative part of the work in the years 2006--2011, and from the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1986/16) during the final stages of the work.
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The Department of Homeland Security has been closely monitoring the activities of the Black Lives Matter movement—news that should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the U.S. government's history of spying on civil rights groups and other activist collectives.
The Intercept's George Joseph reported on Friday that the DHS has been assiduously tracking Black Lives Matter activists ever since Michael Brown's killing sparked major protests a year ago. In detailing the Department's methods, Joseph writes:
[T]he department frequently collects information, including location data, on Black Lives Matter activities from public social media accounts, including on Facebook, Twitter, and Vine, even for events expected to be peaceful. The reports confirm social media surveillance of the protest movement and ostensibly related events in
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the cities of Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and New York.
Some documents obtained by Joseph even show minute-by-minute surveillance of various marches.
People who know their history would be far from shocked by all of this. Though the platforms and methods of surveillance may have changed somewhat, the DHS is honoring a very old American tradition.
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The FBI relentlessly targeted the civil rights, Black Power, and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s through its notorious COINTELPRO program. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover instructed his staff to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" black activists. Federal agents infiltrated every major civil rights group of the era with a mission to destroy them from within.
Martin Luther King, Jr., became a particular obsession of Hoover's,who, with the approval of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, launched an expansive program of surveillance against King. Agents frequently bugged King's hotel rooms and, in one particularly infamous letter, even threatened to reveal his history of infidelity in an attempt to get him to commit suicide.
But King was far from the FBI's only target. The Bureau worked—very successfully—to cripple the Black Panther Party, as well as to sow divisions between Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. It also went after student radicals, anti-war activists, and other elements of the so-called New Left.
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COINTELPRO was eventually exposed and shut down; the FBI itself admits, somewhat vaguely, that the program became "rightfully criticized by Congress and the American people for
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abridging First Amendment rights and for other reasons."
Even so, the American government has continued to monitor dissident groups. Over the past decade alone, everyone from Occupy movement activists and Quakers protesting the Iraq War to environmental and animal rights groups have found themselves in the federal government's crosshairs.
Given all of this, the real surprise would be if the Department of Homeland Security had decided to leave Black Lives Matters activists alone.Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine
The Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine provides a forum for the rapid publication of topical articles on all clinical aspects of forensic medicine and related specialties. The Journal carries definitive reviews, original communications, hypotheses, learning points of important issues, offering critical analysis and scientific appraisal. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, and the Journal is listed in MEDLINE/Index Medicus. Please login to view the journal
All aspects of the medical principles of care and forensic assessment of individuals in contact with the judicial system are examined and the journal has a broad international perspective.
Topics covered in the journal include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following, particularly within the clinical setting:
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All Points Bulletin (APB) takes the universal theme of Criminals and Enforcement and brings it to a persistent, open world multiplayer setting in a modern, crime-ridden city. Realtime Worlds currently employs 250 developers and is looking to recruit an additional 50 by early 2010.
Founded by industry veteran David Jones, creator of Lemming’s, Grand Theft Auto 1&2 and Crackdown, Realtime Worlds’ latest project takes the universal theme of Criminals and Enforcement and brings it to a persistent, open world multiplayer setting in a modern, crime-ridden city.
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“It truly was the incumbent protection plan,” Cole said.
But here in Trump country, where Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is widely viewed as a threat to the struggling coal industry, straight-ticket voters could have been GOP gold.
Ten other states still offer straight-ticket voting, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures: Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Michigan, where the legislature’s decision to abolish it has been held back by a court challenge.
But instead of coasting back into Senate leadership, Cole faces a challenger: well-known businessman Jim Justice, who last year declared himself a Democrat for his first run at public
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office. The owner of coal mines, farms and the Greenbrier resort, Justice, 65, has the backing of the United Mine Workers of America, the state Farm Bureau and the West Virginia Hospitality and Travel Association. He has spent $2.6 million of his own money on the race.
The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce supports Cole. He has also loaned at least $500,000 to his campaign and paid other in-kind expenses. The governor’s salary is $150,000 a year.
Cole, the 60-year-old owner of three car dealerships that employ some 400 people, saw the mandatory exit of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin after two terms as an opportunity to also remove administrative regulation and further support the free market.
He said that’s critical to West Virginia’s economic comeback from the decline in coal mining.
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Washington (CNN) -- A second air traffic controller has been found to have fallen asleep on the job, this one intentionally sleeping for five hours while a fellow controller, working alone, landed seven aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.
The FAA is taking steps to fire the controller, the agency said.
The incident occurred at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee, on February 19. A controller on duty in the radar room went to sleep during his midnight shift. A fellow controller, working in a different room, handled both the radar and tower positions while the other controller "was unresponsive," the FAA said.
All seven of the planes he handled during the five-hour period landed safely, it said.
The Knoxville airport is considered an "up-down facility," meaning the airport control towerReagan Airport incident, Babbitt indicated it is, saying, "This was a willful violation."
In a statement released later Wednesday, the FAA said it "will not tolerate this type of unprofessional and inappropriate behavior. The agency is committed to ensuring the safety of the traveling public and is conducting a nationwide review of the air traffic control system, including overnight staffing at selected airports around the country."
The investigation into the Reagan Airport incident is continuing. In that incident, the controller, a 20-year veteran supervisor, acknowledged falling asleep during his midnight shift, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which is conducting the investigation.
He was the only controller at the time in the Reagan Airport tower. Two aircraft landed at the airport while he slept.
Normal sleep a 'privilege' for night workers
After
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roles of highly trained military operatives who have volunteered for service on the team. As the title suggests, most of the game takes place within the 28 maps of the trial, in which players compete against other applicants for a place on the elite squad. Most standard first-person shooter options are offered, including solo and team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Defend the Base, and several options for online play.Premier Kathleen Wynne announced today that Ontario will establish an Anti-Racism Directorate to address racism in all its forms — including individual, systemic and cultural. Michael Coteau [Pictured right] will oversee the Anti-Racism Directorate as Minister Responsible for Anti-Racism and continue as Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport. The Directorate will work with key partners such as business, community organizations, educational institutions and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The Directorate will aim to: Increase public education and awareness of racism to create a more inclusive province, and;
Apply an anti-racism lens in developing, implementing and evaluating government policies, programs and services. The Anti-Racism Directorate is part of the government's commitment to fight discrimination and ensure that everyone in Ontario has the opportunity to fulfill their potential and participate equally
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upon the output shaft before the latter is fitted into the transmission housing, the gears on the opposite side of the bearing being thereafter mounted upon the shaft.
Once the output shaft assembly is fitted to the transmission housing, the assembly of the additional gears thereof in the manner described may be difficult or even impossible without unduly enlarging the transmission housing, complicating the access of the interior thereof or creating sealing problems.Money that Would Have Helped Low Income Families Afford Homes
The explosive information from last week that the Obama Administration was taking money from Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to pay for Obamacare moved from online news sites to cable television as Maria Bartiromo emphasized it on Fox News.
The money could have otherwise helped low income families buy homes in rural areas across the country, and in inner cities that voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
According to documents presented by Infowars, the Obama administration planned in 2011 to take funds from Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, two Government Sponsored Organizations that helped provide middle-class Americans with home loans, in order to fund his failing healthcare plan.
What the Treasury document reveals is that top Obama Treasury officials
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(CNN) Georgia Southern University was in mourning Thursday after five nursing students were killed the day before in a multivehicle wreck near Savannah .
Caitlyn Baggett, Morgan Bass, Emily Clark, Abbie Deloach and Catherine (McKay) Pittman -- all juniors -- were killed in the Wednesday morning crash as they were traveling to a hospital in Savannah, according to the school website
Fellow nursing students Brittney McDaniel and Megan Richards were injured as was another person, who was not identified by the Georgia State Patrol.
The young women were on their way to finish their first set of clinical rotations.
"Today should have been a day of celebration for this bright group of students," at St. Joseph's/Candler hospital said in a Facebook posting . "It was their last day of clinical rotations ...in their first year of nursing school." Clinicals include hands-on instruction at a health care facility.
A post commander for the Georgia State Patrol said a tractor-trailer smashed into an eastbound line of cars that had slowed for a prior accident on Interstate 16.
"He came along from behind them and he just did not stop for those cars," Sgt. Chris Nease said.
There were four passenger vehicles and three tractor-trailers involved in the 5:45 a.m. accident. The women who were killed were in two cars, a Toyota Corolla and a Ford Escape.
One of their vehicles caught on fire, Nease said, but it will take an investigation to determine whether the women died on impact.
"Right about the time I got here, the car was just about catching on fire," Cayne Monroe
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told the station. "The car just burned up really quickly. And I run up there, but there was nothing anyone could do. I've never witnessed something like that in my life. It was pretty tragic."
The state patrol said the truck driver is from Louisiana. The 55-year-old man had not been charged as of Thursday evening, Nease told CNN.
'Incomprehensible' loss
"Every one of our students contributes in no small measure to the Eagle Nation," university President Brooks A. Keel said in a statement . "The loss of any student, especially in a tragic way, is particularly painful. Losing five students is almost incomprehensible."
Georgia Southern flew flags at half-staff and counseling was offered to students. A campuswide vigil was held Thursday night.
On the university's Twitter page, a tear was added tothe profile logo of the eagle mascot.
"You could tell that they really loved what they did," Sherry Danello, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at St. Joseph's/Candler, said on the hospital's Facebook posting. "They didn't just go through the task, they really connected to the patients."
Luke Bryan, a country music star and school alumnus, tweeted his condolences: "Praying for everyone at Georgia Southern and the families who lost loved ones."
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of the medical companyís total assets, and between 2000 and 2006 Caputo used the fund for personal expenses and loans.
He paid for boat insurance, real estate investments, a motorcycle and motor home, vacations and gifts, the lawsuit contended. Caputo also paid for a divorce and covered the costs of his alimony with employee retirement money, the lawsuit said.
Caputo, 65, a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology whose office is on Redstone Avenue in Crestview, was not in the office Wednesday. Efforts to contact him for comment were not successful.
The lawsuit alleged that Caputo and Bankert violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by allowing the pension plan to purchase stock from participants at inflated prices. The men didnít keep accurate records, didnít allow older workers to diversify their accounttheir size and whether Rumsavich was supposed to remit some or all of them to a telemarketing firm that did much of the work of drumming up business. When Rumsavich and Tel-Save had their falling out, each claimed that the other owed it money. By 1996 Rumsavich was in financial distress as a result of a failed pizza venture (his activities peddling partnership interests in that business led both Illinois and Indiana to bar Rumsavich from ever selling securities again, and led the National Association of Securities Dealers to fine and expel him) and ongoing difficulties with the Internal Revenue Service. On March 20, 1996, Rumsavich traveled to Tel-Save's headquarters in Pennsylvania, where he and Daniel Borislow, Tel-Save's CEO, negotiated a compromise. Borislow initially
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of producing a contract.)
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The document purports to create a personal debt from Borislow to Rumsavich, an unlikely way to settle Tel-Save's corporate obligation to a sales agent.
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Rumsavich sent the "addendum" to Borislow via Borislow's assistant Thomas, and told Thomas to look at Borislow's face when he saw it. The district judge remarked: "That comment is clearly more consistent with a document that would come as a total surprise to Borislow ... than with a document that was already known to Borislow and was now sought to be enforced". Thomas characterized Borislow's reaction as one of astonishment.
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The district judge might have added that the sheer sloppiness of this "addendum"--which on top of informality ("Dan Borishow") and spelling errors uses inconsistent punctuation and abbreviation, and contains grammaticalhttp://www.JewishWorldReview.com | California's governor has demonstrated virtue, understood as the good we do when no one is watching. With his state and the nation paying no attention to an anti-constitutional campaign to alter how presidents are chosen, Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that, had it become law, would have imparted dangerous momentum to a recurring simple-mindedness.
The bill would have committed California to cast its electoral votes today, 55 for whichever candidate receives the most popular votes nationally. The commitment would have been contingent on a compact with other similarly committed states, all having a combined total of at least 270 electoral votes.
Such legislation has been introduced in six states and passed by Colorado's Senate. Advocates offer two rationales:
First, California and other states that are not
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electoral votes. Direct popular election of presidents would be an incentive for fragmentation of the electorate by the proliferation of factional candidacies.
Imagine 2008 with independent candidacies by, say, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo (deport illegal immigrants), Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha (out of Iraq immediately), New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (independence from the two parties is a virtue) and Jesse Jackson (he would think of a reason). None could win but cumulatively they could prevent the major-party winner from reaching even 40 percent.
And the multistate compact cannot include a runoff provision. That would require a constitutional amendment; 34 senators can prevent a constitutional amendment from being sent to the states for ratification, and many more than 17 of the smaller states benefit from the additional weight the electoral vote systemgives them.
It is perverse that the 2000 election, which culminated with the lawyers' riot in Florida, is cited to undermine an electoral vote system that prevented 2000 from being a calamity. If in presidential elections all popular votes were poured into one national bucket, a close election such as the one in 1960, which was decided by fewer votes (118,574) than there were precincts (166,064), would unleash a coast-to-coast frenzy of litigation about ballot design, voting hours, alleged voting-machine malfunctions, etc. The electoral vote system quarantines electoral disputes to a few closely contested states.
Under the multistate compact, Californians, who in 2004 supported John Kerry by a 1.2 million popular vote margin, would have seen their electoral votes swell President Bush's winning margin. In 1960 and 1976, too,
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Bet on the NBAThe Los Angeles Clippers have been on a good run in recent weeks, thus potentially helping to improve coach Vinny Del Negro's job security.
The 31-21 Clippers have five wins in a row and are 7-3 in their last ten games. The Dallas Mavericks are also 7-3 in their last ten and have a 30-23 record. These two teams are dealing with the same momentum and will be taking each other on tonight in Dallas' American Airlines Center.
The Mavericks' Delonte West has returned for the Mavericks after suffering a finger injury that kept him out for about a month. West had 15 points in Friday's 100-98 win over Orlando. However, Lamar Odom has an unspecified illness and is in a questionable status for this game.
Dirk Nowitzkihas experienced his best month of the season in March. Nowitzki averaged 25.2 points per game in March. This includes 40 on March 3 against Utah. The lowest total he had in March was 13 against Sacramento on March 9.
The Los Angeles Clippers have a potential to go for their first six game winning streak since 1992. However, the Clippers will be doing with some injury concerns in mind. There are no signs of Chauncey Billups coming back from his injury any time soon. Billups was fourth on the Clippers with 15 points per game.
Chris Paul also had a bruised elbow on Saturday and was forced out of the game. He is expected to come in for tonight's game but it is unclear as to what extent. Paul
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Step back in time and immerse yourself in idyllic 17th century Dutch landscapes of gently turning windmills and charming bridges, arching over peaceful canals. Enjoy a slower pace of life with all the comforts of modern touches.
Day 1 - Welcome to Brussels.Airport transfers depart Brussels airport for your centrally-located hotel at 09:00, 11:00 and 14:30. After checking in, the afternoon is yours to relax. At 17:00, join your Travel Director for a visit to the cheeky Manneken Pis statue and leisurely stroll around the Grand Place, voted the most beautiful square in Europe. Your delightful first evening also includes a Welcome Dinner with wine at a local restaurant in the heart of the Old Town with3 - Ghent and on to Bruges.In the morning, admire the contrast of the Chinese and Japanese Pavilions and the impressive, metallic spheres of the Atomium. Your journey then crossed the pasture lands of Belgian Flanders to your next stop in Ghent, the City of Flowers and rival to Bruges for its rich treasury of medieval heritage. With a Local Expert, visit St. Bavo’s Cathedral with its Van Eyck masterpiece and see the Castle of the Counts. Continue to picture-perfect Bruges for a fabulous Dine-Around Evening, amid the old-world atmosphere of the town centre.(Breakfast / Dinner with Wine)Accommodation: Radisson Blu Hotel, Bruges.Meals: Breakfast,
Day 4 - Sightseeing Bruges.Meet your Local Expert from Bruges for a stroll along cobbled streets, lined with high-gabled houses from the 16th century. Visit the
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Market Square dominated by the 80-metre belfry of the Market Hall. Explore Burg Square with its ornate Gothic town hall and glorious frescoes on the walls of the Holy Blood Chapel. With your free afternoon, maybe shop for handmade lace and praline chocolates? In the evening, perhaps an visit the town of Ypres, where buglers sound the Last Post each evening in a moving tribute to those who fell during World War I.(Breakfast)Accommodation: Radisson Blu Hotel, Bruges.Meals: Breakfast
Day 5 - To Luxembourg.Travel into the French-speaking Walloon region where picturesque country roads lead you to the late 19th century Scourmont Abbey. The surrounding plateau on which it is built, was once considered wild and barren land, but the Trappist monks have toiled for over 100 years to create aII’s Battle of the Bulge. You may choose to climb to the top for a perspective of what it might have been like during the winter of 1944. Visit the Bastogne War Museum, a fascinating modern and interactive memorial centre highlighting the causes, events and consequences of WWII. Travel through the centre of Belgium as your journey continues to Rotterdam, the world's largest port rebuilt after wartime devastation. During your orientation with your Travel Director, marvel at the radical modern design of the city that has become its distinguishing feature and see the impressive market hall and the Erasmus Bridge.(Breakfast)Accommodation: Inntel Hotels Rotterdam Centre.Meals: Breakfast
Day 8 - Delft, the Hague and on to Amsterdam.Visit one of the manufacturers of original Delft blue pottery before moving on to the
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Hague, the elegant governmental centre of the Netherlands. See the Binnenhof courtyards where the Parliament is situated and the impressive Peace Palace. Pass through picturesque villages and windmills of the Dutch countryside to Amsterdam for three fabulous nights.(Breakfast)Accommodation: NH Hotel Amsterdam Centre.Meals: Breakfast
Day 9 - Amsterdam Sightseeing.Today you explore Amsterdam, a living museum of the 17th century, yet still a vibrant metropolis and port. The best way to see this remarkable city is from the water as you cruise through the canal district, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Admire the elegant merchant houses from the 16th and 17th centuries, their facades are a reflection of when trade flourished during Amsterdam's Golden Age. Relax as you pass stunning gables, beautiful churches and the iconic Magere Brug, better known asthe Skinny Bridge. Disembark your cruise to wander the city with your Travel Director. See the floating flower market, Dam Square and the Royal Palace. The rest of the day is at your leisure.(Breakfast)Accommodation: NH Hotel Amsterdam Centre.Meals: Breakfast
Day 10 - A True Dutch Delight.If you choose, you could start the morning by visiting the world's largest flower auction at Aalsmeer? Later, in Amsterdam, visit the newly refurbished Rijksmuseum with a Local Expert, Amsterdam's famed treasure trove of Dutch art, housing Rembrandt's ‘Night Watch.' Journey to the village of Monnikendam and learn the secrets of the Cheese Maker's craft, from milk to the finished product. Then witness a traditional Shoemaker turn a block of wood into clogs. In the evening, join your newfound friends and Travel Director at
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a beautiful restaurant to enjoy your Celebration Dinner.(Breakfast / Dinner with Wine)Accommodation: NH Hotel Amsterdam Centre.Meals: Breakfast,
Inclusions
Scourmont Abbey: Visit the late 19th century abbey, built upon what was once wild and barren land. Then, learn about the production secrets of the Chimay Trappist beers and cheeses before sampling freshly brewed beer along with a taste of golden-crusted cheese.
Monnickendam: Enjoy a Celebration Dinner with wine in an elegant restaurant in the quaint village of Monnickendam.
Dining Summary: 10 Breakfasts (B) and 5 Dinners with Wine (DW) all with tea or coffee.
Insight Experiences
Amsterdam: Explore the Rijksmuseum with a local art historian.
Volendam: Journey through the polder landscape to visit Volendam. Along the way, visit a rustic cheese workshop to learn the secrets of the dairy industry and witness the ancient art ofclog making.
Stay in Style
Clervaux: The Château D'Urspelt is a magnificent 18th century residence, classified as a national monument and fully renovated to feature both modern convenience and style, together with traditional charm.
Top Rated Highlights
Keukenhof Festival: Visit Keukenhof to see millions of multi-coloured bulb-flowers in bloom on select departures.
Brussels: Visit the Grand Place and view the Mannekin Pis.
Waterloo: 200 years after the fall of Napoleon, visit the site to discover why the Battle of Waterloo was such a defining moment in European history. Those feeling adventurous can experience panoramic views from atop the Lion's Mound, worth the effort of the 230 steps.
Brussels: See the Atomium, and the Chinese and Japanese Pavilions.
Ghent: With a Local Expert, visit St. Bavo's Cathedral with its Van Eyck masterpiece and see the Castle of
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the Counts.
Bruges: Visit the Market Square and famous belfry of the Market Hall with your Local Expert. See the Gothic town hall in Burg Square and the frescoes on the walls of the Holy Blood Chapel.
Luxembourg: With your Local Expert, enjoy views over the Petrusse Ravine and walk through the Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. See the cathedral, the Palace of the Grand Duke and visit the grave of U.S. General George S. Patton. Lookout from from the Pont Adolphe.
Bastogne: Experience a fascinating insight into the history of the World War II at the modern Bastogne War Museum. Visit the Mardasson Monument, dedicated to those who fell during the Battle of the Bulge.
Rotterdam: Witness the impressive market hall and Erasmus Bridge on your orientation of thismodern city.
The Hague: See the Binnenhof courtyards and the Peace Palace.
Delft: Visit one of the manufacturers of original Delft blue pottery and see the potters at work on your guided tour.
Amsterdam: Cruise along the old waterways, discovering the architectural gems of the old city, including mansions dating from the Golden Age of the 17th Century.
Amsterdam: Led by your Travel Director, wander the city to see the floating flower market, Dam Square and the Royal Palace.
Scenic Drives: Enjoy the scenery as you travel through Flanders, the Walloon region, along the River Meuse, across Ardennes Plateau and through the Semois Valley and Dutch countryside.
Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights, without missing any of your Local Expert's fascinating commentary.
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A Fresno man is dead after Anaheim police say a suspected DUI driver struck him on Disneyland Drive on Saturday night.
According to the Anaheim Police Department, 47-year-old Stefanie Lyn Bieser of La Mirada was driving a 2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser northbound on Disneyland Drive (near Katella Avenue) at about 11:04 p.m. on Saturday when she jumped the curb and struck a 54-year-old Fresno man, as well as a utility box and a tree.
The man had been walking southbound when he was hit. He was taken to a local hospital where he later died, and his identity has not yet been released.
Bieser was arrested for suspicion of Gross Vehicular Manslaughter while Intoxicated and Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol/Drugs Causing Bodily Injury. She was booked into the Anaheim DetentionStonie is a fresh-faced guy who's happier slurping foreskin than studying for finals, and could be called the Kate Moss of gay porn. His smooth skin may be more reminiscent of spring buds than foliate birches, but his youthful exuberance reminds his fans that no matter what the season, hope does still spring eternal. Fans adore starring at his massive package and tight ass while he hangs with his homeboyz, macks on collegiate cuties or follow orders from his dictatorial daddies. His sizable member even landed a role as Borat's son in Sacha Baron Cohen's hit movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America in late 2006. – Courtesy of NakedSword
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DALLAS -- Double-digit deficits are becoming just a minor annoyance to the Boston Celtics as they continue their winning ways.
Kyrie Irving scored 10 of his season-high 47 points in overtime as the Celtics rallied from 13 points down in the fourth quarter to beat the Dallas Mavericks 110-102 on Monday night and extend their winning streak to 16 games.
The winning streak ties the fourth-longest in franchise history, and for the third game in a row, Boston trailed by double digits.
In contrast to recent wins over Golden State and Atlanta, this one required a fourth quarter comeback. For that, the Celtics turned to Irving, who delivered his best performance for his new team after Dallas had taken an 87-74 lead with 7:47 to play.
"For us it's just about battlingnever got closer.
"I don't really see it as a pressure situation," Irving said of his late-game play. "It's just like playing basketball, man. It's just like being in a park 7-7 and game is eight."
Harrison Barnes scored 31 points and Wesley Matthews had 18 for Dallas, which came back from an early double-digit deficit as the Celtics went cold for much of the second and third quarters. Barnes missed a jumper with less than a second to go in regulation that could have won it for Dallas, which fell to 3-15.
"We just needed to make a couple more plays at key times," Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said. "Probably just one more key play in the last minute or minute and a half. That would have been the difference."
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finished with 22 for Boston. He and Irving combined to go 24-for-35 while the rest of the Celtics went 14-for-49.
The Mavericks fell behind by as many as 15 points in the first half, outscoring the Celtics 55-35 over the second and third quarters.
NO MORAL VICTORIES
Similar to recent home games against Cleveland and San Antonio, the Mavericks fought one of the NBA's best teams until the end, getting their home crowd into it. But the Mavericks have three close losses to show for those efforts and perhaps are unfairly saddled with the league's worst record.
"At the end of the day, it's got to show up in wins and losses," Barnes said. "There are no moral victories around here. Tonight was playing against a great team, and a great opportunityto win here in front of our home fans. We let it slip away."
TIP-INS
Celtics: Marcus Smart came into the game shooting just 27 percent from the field, worst among NBA players with at least 10 attempts per game. And he shot 3-for-15 Monday as the Mavericks backed off and dared him to shoot. But Smart's 3 with 1:24 to play in the game put Boston within 96-94. . Boston shot just 10-for-34 over the two middle quarters after building the early lead. ... The game was a homecoming for Boston rookie Semi Ojeleye, who played college basketball at SMU in Dallas.
Mavericks: Guard J.J. Barea won the NBA Cares Community Assist Award for October for the relief work he did in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in his native
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Puerto Rico. He was presented with the award at halftime. Barea has provided more than 100,000 pounds of supplies to the island, and he has raised nearly $750,000 in funds through his own efforts and a YouCaring.com fund drive.
UP NEXT
Celtics: At Miami on Wednesday. The Celtics beat the Heat on October 28 for win number four of their streak.
Mavericks: At Memphis on Wednesday for the team's third meeting of the season. Each team won at home in a back-to-back series in late October.Sunday, 14 December 2014
This pair of TRUMPETER SWANS were discovered at Boyton Marshes in Suffolk yesterday (13 December 2014) and were still present today keeping to the edge of a 70-strong herd of Mute Swans. Both birds were unringed, with one showing traces of orange iron ore on its head - a feature often associated with recently-arrived Whooper Swans from Iceland. They have also arrived following a particularly deep Atlantic low from North America and Canada that crossed the northern isles of Scotland.
These two birds follow a number of records of this species in Britain, most notably the following -:
1) An adult was at Keyhaven Marshes (Hampshire) on 25 February 2001 before moving to the nearby Test Valley at Horsebridge on 19 April. It then relocated to Stocksbridge
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Water Meadows, where it remained until 27 April.
2) A pair visited Bowling Green Marsh RSPB, Topsham (South Devon) on 15-18 February and 3-10 March 2005. A single adult then moved to Apex Pit, Highbridge (Somerset) from 31 March 2005 to 19 February 2006, with a further adult present in Somerset from 21 January 2006 until the present day.
In Northamptonshire, about a dozen escaped from a private wildfowl collection at Apethorpe Hall in late 1989, the birds although pinioned travelling down the River Nene to Willow Brook. They were seen at Yarwell in March 1990 and at Tansor GP, where 2-3 adults remained until 21 April 1999. They bred in 1997, successfully rearing a single cygnet - thus far, the only such breeding of this species in the UK.Tansor GP then became a private fishery with all monthly WeBS counts ceasing (many thanks to Bob Bullock and Mike Alibone for this information).
At least 27 others have been recorded but generally as escapes from neighbouring collections, several of them private. At one time, they were passing hands at £2,500 per pair but more recently, prices have dropped and as little as £450 can now secure a pair.
According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Trumpeter Swan's historic breeding range extended in a wide band from the Bering Sea east through almost all of Canada and south to Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. However, hunting pressures and habitat loss early in the 20th Century pushed the dwindling population almost to the brink of extinction. With the arrival of
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European people to the United States, Trumpeter Swan feathers, quills, down and skins were quickly commodified, being used for everything from the manufacturing of pens to powder puffs and bedding. By 1932, the US population outside of Alaska was estimated to number just 69 birds.
Today, the central Alaskan population numbers some 15,000 birds and winters from southeastern Alaska along coastal British Columbia south to the mouth of the Columbia River on the southern border of Washington State. Although migratory, this population is relatively short-distant in movement. Away from Alaska, Trumpeter Swans are found in mixed migratory/non-migratory populations across the Great Basin region of Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, South Dakota and Minnesota (known as the Interior population) while a further 2,000 or more reside in Canada. A mostrecent population survey suggested 1,469 individuals in the Interior in September 1997.
Over the last decade, various reintroduction programmes have been initiated along the East Coast, centred primarily around the Great Lakes region. As many as 800 birds are now established in the southern part of Ontario but their movements are largely sedentary or short-distance.
The 2010 Census
A comprehensive count took place in the summer of 2010 resulting with the Central, Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways achieving respective totals of 9,809 and 9,236 individuals, increases of up to 111% on 2005 figures. Of the 9,809 birds counted, 7,154 were adult and 2,655 sub-adult.
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
A 'wheatear' was first seen on the beach at Seaton Snook (County Durham/Cleveland) by a novice birdwatcher on Saturday 22 November 2014 but after it was
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subsequently seen next day by local guy Gary Flakes (who sensibly tweeted as such on his twitter feed), top county birders Chris Bell and Tom Francis visited the site expecting to find a Desert Wheatear. What they both didn't expect to find was they they were faced with a very pallid, long-legged, long-billed and staunchly upright individual - very quickly confirmed as County Durham's first-ever ISABELLINE WHEATEAR!!
The bird was showing exceptionally well on the sandy beach, either side of the end of Zinc Works Road in Seaton Carew, and remained on view until dusk on the Sunday allowing some 25 or so local birders to connect. Despite a clear and frosty night, it survived until next day and was still present on Wednesday 26th when I finally decidedto make the pilgrimage.
Being a first-winter, the bird was surprisingly 'warm' for an Isabelline Wheatear, being tinged with warm buff in the flanks, and quite sullied on the underparts with some colour on the supercilium. Such individuals are quite tricky but this bird can be safely distinguished from Northern Wheatear on a number of characters, most noticeably the black alula feathers contrasting with the much paler upper wing coverts and rest of the wing, the broad black tail band, the long, pointed bill and in flight, the pale underwing. Supplementary characters include the thin supercilia extending behind the eye, the broad, dark, well-defined loral area, the pale ear-covert patch and the lankier appearance.
Additionally, often considered diagnostic (eg, by Lars Svensson & Keith Vinicombe) is the relative position of
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Britain and Ireland. I also have a fascination for the Birds of the Western Palearctic, where I have currently recorded 880 of the 1,064 species ever recorded. I am widely travelled in North America, as well as in Africa and Asia, and have written at least 29 books on my chosen subject, including best-sellers ''Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds' and 'Rare Birds in Britain 1800-1990'. Established the UK400 Club in 1981 to cater for the most obsessive of the British birding fraternity and now concentrate on online publishing, via the www.uk400clubonline.co.uk website. Record Birding achievements include recording 386 species in Britain & Ireland in 1996 and 627+ in the Western Palearctic in 2008Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Giants Finally Figure Out Nationals
The Giants opened up this crucial 3-game set by getting embarrassed by the Nats behind the guy who's been their ace of the second half in Ryan Vogelsong. They turned to their left-handed stopper Tuesday night to get them on track and Madison Bumgarner threw a gem.
MadBum Shuts Down Nats
Bumgarner threw a complete game, allowing 1 run on 5 hits with 6 strikeouts in route to his team-leading 13th win on the season. In what was really a fine pitching matchup, the Giants' young arm got the better of Jordan Zimmerman, who is probably the Nationals' best arm right now, and gave the Giants a chance to take the series in the matinee Wednesday. Madison was certainly masterful in this one,
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but once again, the key to the game for me was the Giants jumping out to the early lead, albeit by just a run. We saw what happens when they get behind early on Monday, and then we saw the complete 180 turnaround Tuesday. The Giants definitely had their offense clicking on all cylinders in game two, and the bottom of the order really stuck out. Their 6-8 hitters combined to go 7-12 and drove in 4 runs. Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt each had 3-hit games and Belt led the team with 3 RBI and missed two home runs by a combined 18-inches.
Another huge step for the Giants Tuesday night came before the game even started, as Bruce bochy got to pencil in the lineup he'd beenenvisioning since the trade deadline acquisitions of Marco Scutaro and Hunter Pence. Pablo Sandoval made his return to the starting lineup and although he didn't do a whole bunch himself, you could see the ripple effect his return had on this team. Bochy said before the game that he'd likely stick with Tuesday's batting order on most nights for the rest of the season, with Cabrera and Posey sticking at 3 and 4, Pablo moving into the fifth spot and Pence dropping to 6. I think the move takes some pressure of Pence, who had really been pressing since the deal, and it will eventually pay off for Panda as well to have #8 protecting him in the order. Boch also said Marco Scutaro will take over as
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the primary second basemen and number 2 hitter, but Theriot will still see time at 2nd, and Scutaro time at third when Panda rests or plays first. All in all, the Giants lineup is whole again, and things are already falling into place!
So the Giants, for the first time in 2012, figured out this Washington National squad and just in time for huge matchup Wednesday afternoon. The Giants will send Tim Lincecum up against Stephen Strasburg for the series and final meeting of the regular season between these two teams. Something tells me the Giants will be seeing them again down the road though!time."
That's one reason Palau recently banded together with seven of its South Pacific neighbors to try to protect their tuna populations better. They even worked with regional authorities to largely ban big tuna operations from the international waters between their countries.
It's an unprecedented arrangement. But enforcement is still a constant battle. So Palau has called on outsiders for help, including organizations like Greenpeace, which now helps patrol the waters around the country.
On one recent excursion over international waters about 500 miles offshore, a Greenpeace helicopter carrying a Palauan Marine Officer and Greenpeace activists spotted three tuna boats. The passengers suspected two of them were moving tuna onto the third, for transfer to market.
It's a process called transshipment, which can obscure the tuna's origins, making it impossible to track
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where the fish was caught. Conservationists call it tuna laundering.
As the chopper flew in closer, a bucket of fish could be seen swinging from one of the boats onto the deck of its neighbor, leading one of the Greenpeace crew to exclaim, "Caught in the act!"
The receiving vessel was a Cambodian-flagged refrigerator ship named the Heng Xing 1. When the activists and the Palauan official boarded the ship a few hours later and descended a frosty ladder into its dark, icy belly, they found the hold jammed with tons of frozen skipjack and yellowfin tuna.
The captain of the vessel admitted that he didn't have a license on board, although he claimed that the company that operated the ship back in Cambodia did.
It's impossible to know whether the fishin the Heng Xing 1's belly were caught legally, but the transfer of the fish to the ship was illegal. Although moving fish at sea is a common practice, authorities here in Palau require that boats offload only in port so they can track the tuna.
And as a Cambodian-flagged vessel, the Heng Xing had no right to work here at all.
But since it was operating in international waters the Palauan officer riding with Greenpeace couldn't bust the ship. All he could do was report the incident to the regional fisheries authority.
A few days later, the monitors came across another of the boats that took part in the illegal transshipment. Palauan Marine Officer Earl Benhart says it seems pretty clear the boat was up to no good. He says
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LONDON — President Obama landed in London on Monday night for a state visit at a time when Britain faces a reckoning over whether it can afford the global reach its allies in Washington have come to expect.
Officials on both sides of the Atlantic are publicly hailing the strength of U.S.-U.K. bilateral ties, with Obama set to address parliament Wednesday in a speech billed as the highlight of his European trip.
Yet Obama arrives as Britain is attempting to balance financial constraints against a still ample desire for global influence — an influence bought in large part through its strategic and military alliance with the United States. Perhaps foreshadowing an election season debate in the United States about the cost of America’s own projections of power overseas, the British— just like the United States — has been shifting its diplomacy away from nurturing existing relationships with allies and toward improving ties with emerging economic powers like India, Brazil and Turkey. There are also differences in how Britain and the United States view China, which is seen here as less of a military and strategic threat, and more as an economic opportunity.
But the military partnership remains the core of the alliance. First and foremost in their talks this week, officials say, will be the need for Obama and Cameron to choreograph the pace of withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Cameron raised alarms in Washington by revealing plans two weeks ago for the early withdrawal of at least 400 British troops by next February — a decision apparently made public before
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SpArc Philadelphia has been committed to the vision of ensuring that people are provided with supports and services of the highest quality. Founded in 1948 by parents who sought better services for their children, The Arc of Philadelphia is one of the first Arc chapters in the United States. The parents who created The Arc labored tirelessly for the equal rights and human dignity of people with disabilities at a time when institutionalization was the norm.
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This is the first report of a coronary artery with an anomalous origin from the proper sinus resulting in ischemic events in a child. Transthoracic echocardiogram, computed tomogram, and coronary angiogram revealed that, although the left main coronary trunk originated from the left sinus, its ostium was displaced horizontally and was located near the commissure between the left and noncoronary valve cusps. Moreover, it was associated with an acute take off angle and an intramural segment, which are known contributing features for ischemia in cases of anomalous origin of a coronary artery from the wrong sinus. Surgical intervention, involving the unroofing procedure, was employed successfully to eliminate the ischemic events. At
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The costs of the Roger Ailes era at Fox News keep rising.
Ailes resigned in the summer of 2016, but Fox's parent company 21st Century Fox spent another $10 million on settlements in the first three months of 2017.
A corporate filing on Wednesday said that the costs were "related to settlements of pending and potential litigations."
Current and former Fox News employees accused Ailes of sexual harassment and other improper behavior after ex-anchor Gretchen Carlson sued him last July. Ailes resigned two weeks after the suit was filed.
Carlson received a $20 million settlement payment. An unknown number of other women received smaller amounts.
All told, including the most recent $10 million, the company has incurred costs of about $45 million relating to the sexual harassment scandal, according to Wednesday's filing.
The figuresreleased on Wednesday do not include Fox's exit payment to Ailes. He reportedly received $40 million, which represented the amount owed to him for the remainder of his contract.
Related: Fox News' 30 day long nightmare
The disclosures came on the same day 21st Century Fox shared its first quarter earnings.
The first quarter ended on March 31, the same day The New York Times published a story about allegations of harassment by Fox News prime time star Bill O'Reilly. In mid-April O'Reilly and Fox parted ways.
O'Reilly is receiving about $25 million as a condition of his exit.
It is unclear whether Fox will have to pay additional sums of money to additional accusers. But the company is facing many more lawsuits.
The company is also under federal investigation. Among the matters being
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Psychotherapy in Mexico: practice, training, and regulation.
Psychotherapy conducted by psychologists in Mexico has a long history and shows promising developments but offers a relatively limited choice for health care recipients, especially in public facilities. Psychotherapy by psychologists occurs mainly in private practice, although it is spreading to public institutions such as hospitals and outpatient clinics. Most clinical psychologists in Mexico are trained in some type of psychodynamic approach, although the use of cognitive-behavioral treatments is spreading quickly. The probability that a patient will actually be seen by a psychologist depends mainly on such characteristics of the patient as socioeconomic status, place of residence, and insurance coverage, if any. These and other attributes of psychotherapy in Mexico are illustrated by the probable treatment of Mrs. A. Psychotherapy in MexicoCANNABIS ACROSS CANADA
Legislation & Regulation By Province.
Legalisation of recreational cannabis in Canada finally takes effect today, Oct. 17, after it was delayed from the original date of July 1 to give provincial governments more time to put their individual plans in place.
For the most part, the provinces have cannabis legislation and frameworks finalised, although some have said things could change after legalization takes place.
There are some similarities in the legislation and regulations regarding recreational cannabis across the provinces and territories. For example, all jurisdictions maintain the federal 30-gram possession limit for non-medical marijuana, except for Quebec, which currently sets the limit at 150 grams. All of them ban consumption in vehicles.
Adults across the country can grow up to four plants at home, except in Manitoba and Quebec, which
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Emily Lucid
Emily Lucid
Emily Lucid is a San Francisco born and Hawaii raised Jewish trans woman. She is a visual artist and actress currently residing in Los Angeles. Emily's work deals with her interest in gender and beauty. Emily has performed in galleries, films and venues in L.A., N.Y.C. and Portland Oregon and is studying for her BFA at Calarts.how and why people think and act as they do. A psychology degree can open doors of understanding that will benefit students later in their career. A second reason is to further enhance the psychology degree. A student who plans to pursue neuropsychology might benefit from undergraduate training in both psychology and biology. A student with a plan to enter the field of industrial and organization psychology would benefit from a dual degree in business and psychology. By broadening your educational plan to include two majors, it might help to open doors in terms of graduate training and career paths.
Will It Take Longer To Earn A Dual Degree?
Most colleges and universities throughout the United States are very willing to allow students to dual major. Because it is a
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Shorter, revised Mormon Miracle Pageant still draws good crowds
Robert Stevens
Managing editor
6/29/2017
MANTI—Despite some challenges and changes to a 50-year tradition, under the guiding hands of a new president and director, attendance rose at the Mormon Miracle Pageant from last year, and thousands of people got to see it again, “for the first time.”
Official attendance numbers for the eight-night production was 74,805—up more than 4,000 people from the 2016 tally of 70,600.
New Pageant President Milton Olsen says his first year had a happy ending, with loads of positive feedback from the attendees and cast members.
I think it went well,” Olsen said. “It’s a little hard to know for sure, but in the grand scheme of things, I think it went really well.”
In regards to the pageant attendees, Olsen said, “ThereKosovo Albanians by Serbian security forces.
After 78 days of bombing, under the terms of an armistice, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ordered his troops to withdraw from Kosovo and be replaced with NATO control.
Mikic’s post sparked criticism in the predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo where most people praise NATO for halting the two-year war and clearing the way for its independence in 2008. As many as 4,000 NATO peacekeepers are still deployed.
Mikic was not immediately available for comment.
Haradinaj dismissed the deputy minister with immediate effect.
“In Kosovo government there will be no place for individuals, despite their ethnicity, to denigrate our common euro-Atlantic values,” Haradinaj said in a statement.
More than 13,000 thousand people, mainly local Albanians, were killed in the 1998-99 war.
Kosovo has earned recognition from the United States and
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any Samoan lives or travels to. And with that comes those much-needed jobs that will keep the local economy turning.
Latafale Auva’a
– Courage, inspirational and true beauty
By Mata'afa Keni Lesa
By now, the story of Latafale Auva’a has been well told.
The young Law and Music student at the University of Otago is a former Miss Samoa, former Miss Pacific Islands and most recently became the most popular Pacific representative on the world stage when she represented Samoa at the Miss World in China. At the time, there were countless wonderful tributes to her commitment, perseverance and how she overcame the odds to be an inspiration to thousands of Samoan women all over the world.
INSPIRATIONAL: Miss Wolrd Samoa, Latafale Auva'a
But none more personal, touching and accurate than a post by oneof her friends, Karla Lua'ao Leota, of Island Thrift, on her Facebook page. It captures and depicts Latafale’s journey perfectly.
It reads: “She chose to postpone her degree and try out a beauty contest, she chose to play at the Pacific Games instead of staying to greet the All Blacks, and she chose to go to Sanya, China and compete against over a hundred girls in the Miss World contest instead of giving her crown away at the 2016 Miss Pacific Islands."
“Now she has held 4 crowns, a silver and gold medal, she has made the live shows for the Miss World, and has made the top numbers for almost if not all the categories including 4th in the latest sports challenge!"
“Life is always going to throw you choices,
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said.“I had a lot of encouragement from Samoan communities all over the globe, especially in New Zealand.”
She thanks everyone for their support – including the thousands of Samoans and non-Samoans who uplifted her journey in prayers and well wishes.
By way of background, Latafale was born and raised in New Zealand by her European mother and Samoan father. Currently at University, she is a fourth year student of Law and Music, with aspirations of a career in musical theatre or practicing family law.
An active individual, Latafale is a skilled musician, playing a variety of instruments, and is a competitive touch rugby player, winning gold and silver medals in the sport at the 2015 South Pacific Games.
Indeed, she is an inspirational young woman who deserves the best for whatever sheduring his time as a politician, Le Mamea said he will remember the positive changes he helped to create to improve the lives of Samoans.
“I will always remember the challenges that came with the great successes not only in the Education system but also in the Agriculture and Fisheries ministry,” he said.
“We must always focus on the bigger picture and that is to help the people of Samoa to live a better life.”
Le Mamea, a Pharmacist by profession, has had a colourful career. He entered politics in 1979. In 1982 he served as the Minister of Lands Survey, Post Office and Broadcasting.
He subsequently served as Minister of Education, Youth, Sports & Cultural Affairs and Labour in the government of Tofilau Eti Alesana. Between 2001 and 2006, he was
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Leader of the Opposition Samoa Democratic United Party.
In February 2010 Ropati revealed he had been asked by his village to run as a candidate for the Human Rights Protection Party.
Le Mamea and his family owns the Le Mamea Pharmacy at Sogi and other business ventures including Hotel Elisa. Married to Maiava Elisa Fagalilo with seven children and 14 grandchildren, Le Mamea is also the Secretary of the E.F.K.S. Church’s Finance Committee.
Faleomavaega Vincent Fepulea’i
- For the love of country and the game of rugby
By David De Lorean
If there is one word that describes Faleomavaega Vincent Fepulea’i, it would have to be “passionate”. He has lived and breathed rugby his entire life, and since February has directed that passion into helping the embattled Samoa Rugby Union (S.R.U.), during one oflife in Samoa.
He was initially educated here, first at the Marist school, then at Chanel College.
Faleomavaega and his family then, like many Samoans, made the move over to New Zealand, where they settled in the capital city, Wellington.
He attended St. Patrick’s College in Wellington, before heading off to Europe for a couple of years for his big O.E. (overseas experience).
But Samoa was still home, and in 1992 Faleomavaega permanently returned to local shores, got married, and found work.
The whole time, rugby was on his mind.
Faleomavaega made the St. Patrick’s College first XV in 1983, something he said was a huge boost for his rugby aspirations.
“I think we only had one loss and one draw in the whole season,” he said, remembering his days on the rugby field at
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ensured the S.R.U. worked closely with the Samoa Tourism Authority as preparations for the Manu Samoa vs. All Blacks match progressed.
He got the New Zealand High Commission on board as well, to help offset some of the massive costs of the event.
“We wanted to make sure we were putting on something fitting for the number one team in the world.”
As preparations continued, Faleomavaega said player safety was the biggest concern of the New Zealand Rugby Union and All Blacks management, especially since it was a Rugby World Cup year.
“I think their (All Blacks) demands were very high and we met them head on, with the assistance of the government.”
Apia Park had to be up to scratch, and that took a lot of time, money and effort doing theS.H.C. which was certainly once viewed as the poor relation amongst the larger financial institutions.
It has largely been during her tenure from 2005 to the present day, that this previously small and largely unknown Corporation, which was set up in 1990, has really come to the fore.
Prior to moving to the Corporation, Matautia spent many years working in various positions at the larger Development Bank of Samoa.
And before that, she had graduated with a degree in Economics from Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand. Even in those early days, there were already signs of her natural leadership skills in the social and professional circles.
But it is 2015 in particular that stands out as a time to look back in terms of change, growth and development both locally and globally.
It
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life building.
He spent his formative years on the Wetzell Family Siusega Cocoa Plantation.
“I enjoyed it, I made my own carts, I made my own wheelbarrows, I made my own slingshot from a guava branch,” said Tupua, reminiscing about his childhood.
He attended Apia Primary at Leifiifi from 1938 to 1945, and then underwent one of the biggest changes of his life to that point, by moving to New Zealand.
His family ended up heading to the North Island, and Tupua found himself attending Porongahao Secondary School in Hawkes Bay, then Napier Boys High School.
Once he finished up at school, he was awarded an apprenticeship as a motor mechanic at John Andrew Ford Motor Company in Auckland, New Zealand.
Over the course of the next decade, he travelled between New Zealand andlater found, after the complaint was submitted with the Office of the Special Project Facilitator, that they had a case.
A six-member team was sent to Samoa late last year for three weeks to investigate the complaint. Meetings were held in Upolu and Savai’i and with prominent people in the civil service who were involved with the first round of consultations.
A Roundtable meeting was held and attended by the four matais, with representatives from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development. The Customary Land Advisory Committee (C.L.A.C.) was also represented.
The fight is far from over but Fiu is adamant that they will not give up.
He says they will continue to fight against the use of customary
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for the Pacific delegation to the first ever Summit on climate change for Indigenous Peoples held in Anchorage Alaska in 2009. He has represented the Pacific Indigenous Peoples in a number of conferences and authored a number of critical critiques of these global processes receiving wide coverage in Samoan and Pacific media avenues.
Prior to O.L.S.S.I, Fiu worked with United Nations Development Programme (U.N.D.P) in Samoa from 1993 to 2001.
He was responsible for the Global Environment Facility (G.E.F) and was closely involved with the South Pacific Regional Environment Programe (S.P.R.E.P) and other environmental partners in the implementation of environment programmes around Samoa and the Pacific Island countries.
Before joining U.N.D.P, Fiu was the Director of the Department of Lands, Surveys and Environment.
He was one of the official government representatives whothe idea into public conversation propels it forward until people finally find it palatable (hello, Snap Spectacles).
"The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn't offer a compelling enough vision," Khanna told me as he sipped cappuccino from a paper cup inside New York's Chelsea Market building one crisp morning in March. "As we saw with this election, people are attracted to bold clear ideas."
But the boldest part of Khanna's plan isn't merely what it will cost a budget-conscious Congress. According to the Tax Policy Center, which assisted Khanna in crafting this bill, this plan would compensate the bottom 20 percent of earners for wage stagnation dating back to 1979. Currently a family with one child
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related, this one is all about style.
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While environmental groups and some senators have expressed skepticism about the nomination of Barry Lee Myers, the CEO of AccuWeather, to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the criticism to date has focused on possible conflicts of interest that could arise from the fact that he has spent much of his career leading a private sector weather forecasting company.
However, potentially more problematic is Myers' role in securing a 2015 deal with the Chinese government that set up a 20-year joint venture to disseminate weather data in China.
The deal may spur national security concerns, at least on the surface, considering that China is a potential adversary of the U.S. Shortly before
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AccuWeather announced its expansion into China, Chinese hackers were implicated in a 2014 hacking incident that knocked out NOAA's satellite data dissemination. In other words, the nominee to lead NOAA is doing business with the country suspected of hacking the agency.
Satellite view of Hurricane Maria. Image: noaa/cimss
AccuWeather, based in State College, Pennsylvania, entered into the 20-year agreement with the Huafeng Media Group, a commercial weather media company wholly owned by the China Meteorological Administration, a government entity.
Through this partnership, AccuWeather and Huafeng set up the Huafeng-AccuWeather (Beijing) Co., Ltd., whose mission is to "advance, enhance, share, and distribute weather forecasts" from AccuWeather for locations across China.
According to a 2015 press release announcing the partnership, the joint venture would include other arrangements to distribute weather information through other Chinesewebsite weather.com, also conducts activities in China, but does not have nearly as extensive a meteorology operation in the country as AccuWeather does, according to a spokesperson for The Weather Company.
When it was announced, AccuWeather claimed that the joint venture makes it, "the only company sanctioned under the new Meteorological Law of China to distribute a full and detailed set of official weather information and forecasts of the China Meteorological Administration and the unique forecasting techniques and Chinese patents of AccuWeather."
Myers is quoted in the release as saying:
AccuWeather is pleased to introduce a groundbreaking endeavor with China to serve the China market.
AccuWeather's technical and meteorological innovations, including our unique forecasting products and longer-range forecasts, will provide new value to the people of China. We are committed to providing
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forecasts with Superior Accuracy that offer the most innovative weather information available, helping people in all parts of the world to make informed decisions, protect their property and business interest and protect the lives of citizens.
The Chinese market is massive, and the growing population and increasing popularity of mobile devices there offer tantalizing prospects for weather information providers such as AccuWeather.
But there is one big problem in having a NOAA nominee who was the CEO of a company that struck such a deal: The China Meteorological Agency (CMA) is a government entity, just as the National Weather Service (NWS) is in the U.S.
Not only that, but the Chinese government has also been implicated in cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, including NOAA's own systems in 2014, the year beforeAccuWeather inked its deal.
According to the Washington Post, hackers based in China breached federal weather systems pertaining to satellites and other critical infrastructure. The attack on web servers led to a satellite data outage, affecting millions of U.S. users of weather information and partners abroad. While Chinese officials denied any involvement in the incident, then-Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia told the Post that the attack was of Chinese origin. (Wolf was a key player in cybersecurity and NOAA oversight at the time.)
Scathing criticism of Trump pick to head NOAA, Barry Myers, from former Obama official. More: https://t.co/LScLv4xHv0 pic.twitter.com/VzwknqT89Y — Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) October 12, 2017
China continues to be a major cybersecurity concern of the U.S. government, perhaps second only to Russia.
According to Antonio Busalacchi, the president of
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focused on conflict of interest issues and AccuWeather's past activities lobbying for a bill that would have narrowed the role of NOAA's National Weather Service. For example, when contacted for comment about AccuWeather's China operation, a spokesperson for a senator said he was unaware the deal existed.
Myers is the first head of a private weather company ever to be nominated for this position, and his lack of a formal science background and any experience with oceans issues has been a main focus of criticism. The Chinese deal, when combined with the hacking incident, may add to some lawmakers' skepticism toward his nomination.
AccuWeather helped push a 2005 bill that would have severely curtailed the ability of the National Weather Service (a NOAA agency) to unveil new products and servicesUnder 30 list, citing her work on the Lenny Letter launch with the newsletter reaching 400,000 subscribers in under six months. i-D called her "a guiding voice in the worlds of writing, art and activism." Brooklyn Magazine named St. Félix to its 2016 list of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture," calling her Pitchfork essay on Rihanna "definitive." The Huffington Post named the same essay to its list of "The Most Important Writing From People Of Color In 2015", NPR called it "excellent" and Paper Magazine described it as "the best damn thing ever written re. Rihanna."
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St. Félix co-hosts a podcast at MTV News with Ira Madison III called Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen, focused on music, pop culture, sex and race.
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Kentucky, sitting by designation.
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House v. Johnson Controls, Inc.
beam with a cable, permitting them to hoist the I-beam (and thus the die) with a vehicle. Once the
die has been lifted, either it will flip over of its own accord or the employees must use another
vehicle to flip the die manually. Once the die flips, the original vehicle lowers the I-beam, which
allows the die to land back on the ground.
Before his accident, House had participated in many die-flipping operations and seen many
others. Based on these experiences, he came to the belief that the process was unnecessarily
dangerous;politics, is Speaker Boehner trying to stave off the cries of some members of his party for impeaching the president by going after the president in court.
MONTAGNE: And is that likely to work though? Will the talk of impeachment give way so House Republicans can focus on the lawsuit?
ROBERTS: Well, it certainly doesn't seem to be stopping Sarah Palin, who's calling for impeachment. But there was a poll published in the Wall Street Journal last week saying more Americans are tired of hearing from her than any other past politician. And Speaker Boehner's probably chief among them. The same day by the way that a Wall Street Journal editorialized against impeachment, no serious Republican officeholders are talking about it but the Democrats want to keep the conversation going
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Writer and Director John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles, California takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together in the "hood". Half-brothers Doughboy (Ice Cube) and Ricky Baker (Morris Chestnut) are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Ricky is the "All-American" athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while Doughboy succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who is lucky to have a father, Furious Styles (Laurence Fishburne), to teach him to have the strength of characterNICKELODEON TREATS VIEWERS TO CHILLS AND THRILLS WITH SPOOKTACULAR HALLOWEEN-THEMED PREMIERES BEGINNING MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 Lineup Includes Series Premiere of The Bureau of Magical Things and All-New Episodes of Double Dare, Henry Danger, Knight Squad, PAW Patrol, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and More NEW YORK-Sept. 27, 2018-Nickelodeon is getting into the Halloween spirit, with a month-long lineup of hauntingly good premieres from its live-action, animation and preschool series. Beginning Monday, Oct. 8, at 12 p.m. (ET/PT), Nick will treat viewers to ghoulish fun with all-new episodes of the net's hit series Double Dare, Henry Danger, Knight Squad, PAW Patrol, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and more. Additionally, Nickelodeon will premiere the spellbinding mysterious
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Inside Trump’s war on the investigations encircling him
For two years, President Trump has waged a very public assault on federal law enforcement over the various investigations that have consumed his presidency, including the special counsel’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election. But an examination by The New York Times reveals the extent of more secretive maneuvers.
When federal prosecutors in New York began investigating Mr. Trump’s role in paying women hush money during the 2016 campaign, the president asked his acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, to give control of the inquiry to a Trump ally who had already recused himself. Mr. Trump called that account “fake news.”
Here are takeaways from our investigation.
How we know: Times reporters interviewed dozens of current and former government officials and others closeTUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Authorities in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas say at least 25 Central American migrants died when the truck they were traveling in overturned.
The Chiapas state prosecutor’s office said in a statement late Thursday that 29 others were injured in the accident. It appears the driver lost control of the truck around 6 p.m. near the town of Francisco Sarabia in the municipality of Soyalo.
The injured were transported to hospitals as authorities investigated the cause of the crash.
In a statement, Guatemala’s foreign ministry said 23 of those killed were Guatemalan migrants.
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Photographs on social media show an overturned truck in an unpopulated area, with dozens of people lying on the ground nearby. Some of the wounded appeared to be waiting for help from paramedics.
The
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Guatemala foreign ministry said its consulates in the area were assisting those affected.
Chiapas is the historic entry point for Central Americans arriving in Mexico from the neighboring country.
The normal migratory flow has attracted additional attention recently with the arrival of several large migrant caravans from Central America during the past year.holes in very bad people." Well, that's my "elevator pitch" at least.
The story begins with an orphaned baby gorilla being won in a card game, by a kindly Irish circus man named Malloy, and then being brought to America. His adoptive father names him Kumba and he grows up in the circus, where he is taught to use giant, hand-crafted pistols as part of a sharpshooting act and quickly becomes a sensation. Although he loves his adopted father, his closest relationship is with his "sister", Abigail, a trick horse rider. They grew up together and share a secret sign language that only the two of them can understand.
All is well until one day they discover a wounded man stowed away in one of their gypsy wagons named Giuliano
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Catherine Emert – Oregon Broker
Catherine Emert is a Central Oregon native, growing up in La Pine, Oregon. Catherine spent her life exploring all that Central Oregon has to offer. She was raised to love and appreciate the diversity of the area and the people who live and visit here. Her real estate career started by working as a bookkeeper and managing over 100 Home Owner Associations in Central Oregon and venturing into property management as a tenant specialist for a large property management company in Bend, Oregon. She was the Director of Information Technology for the Central Oregon Association of REALTORS®/MLS of Central Oregon and leverages her unparalleled experience of real estate technology for you.
Catherine’s addition to our team gives Strategic Realty, LLC a tremendous boost in ourvulnerability, until it was made public in a private-sector cybersecurity report. Reports that say otherwise are wrong.” The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and a White House spokesperson have both made similar claims.
Google security researcher Neel Mehta first discovered Heartbleed on March 21 or before, the SMH reported, and by that evening the Mountain View, California-based company had committed a patch for the flaw. CloudFlare found out by March 31, OpenSSL was informed the following day and soon after certain tech firms were told under embargo that the exploit had been discovered and needed to be processed as efficiently as possible in order to disclose it to the public quickly.
"If the federal government, including the intelligence community, had discovered this vulnerability prior to last week, it
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SRINAGAR: Fed up with repeated strikes by separatists in Kashmir Valley , shopkeepers are up in arms against protestors, who are tasting their own bitter pill as locals are attacking them with stones.Clerics have also started making fervent appeals from mosques to open shops and restore normalcy in violence affected areas.An incident of clash was recently reported from Peerbagh in Budgham district of Central Kashmir - the scene of violent protests during the last few weeks.As separatists and their goons reached the area to enforce the strike, they were greeted with stones. Local shopowners showered stones on these rowdy elements who tried to force them to close down their establishments.The police could not do anything to quell the locals and shopkeepers as securitymen were outnumbered.These shopkeepers and localsreached the police station later and filed an FIR against 10 people of neighbouring Nabir Gund village holding them responsible for spoiling peace and threatening the locals.Far away in Anantnag in South Kashmir, an appeal for opening of shops was made as people were facing lot of hardships on account of frequent strikes during the Holy month of Ramzan The separatists' strike calls have hit the economy and at many a places people have been seen selling off their belongings at distress rates.The business of shopkeepers has suffered a lot as the turmoil not only brought tourism to an abrupt halt but also forced establishments to remain closed for nearly two months now.In Ompura area in central Kashmir, there have been instances of exchange of hot words between
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locals and anti-social elements when businessmen were forced to shut down their shops.In Meehama Pulwama in South Kashmir, four men were beaten up by locals three days back when they were trying to enforce a strike in the area.Senior police officials said people were voicing their concern and police was only intervening to prevent situation from turning worse.These issues are not limited to villages only. In Natipora area of the city, anti-social elements ransacked a bakery shop. The owner's only fault was to supply fresh traditional Kashmiri bread in his area. The incident triggered resentment among the public against the separatist agenda."It is heartening that people have started coming out to register their protest against the separatists though such protests are scattered," said a senior police official.of Jacobs & Goodman P.A. in Altamonte Springs - said the restrictions violate their freedom of speech and prevent them from effectively selling their legal services to the public.
Before the ban, Jacobs & Goodman, one the nation's top TV advertisers, used former Orlando Magic basketball player Sam Vincent to promote itself.
Joining Jacobs in the suit are David Singer of Hollywood, Fla., and Richard Mulholland of Tampa, both heavy advertisers. Singer used dramatizations, including one in which a barber tells a young boy to stop squirming or he'll cut off his ear. The boy threatens to call Singer.
Singer said his ads performed a public service because they informed consumers in an entertaining fashion like any other TV commercial. The public was not clamoring for changes, he said, and few
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has a negative image of lawyers trying to drum up business through the electronic media.
It said that prospective jurors may be prejudiced against lawyers who advertise and their clients, a theory that Singer calls ''ridiculous legal fiction.''
Rogow, a law professor at Nova University Law Center in Fort Lauderdale, and his clients said the Bar's surveys are unscientific and invalid. They use other surveys to counter the Bar's claims, including one from the ABA that showed most of the public finds lawyer advertising generally acceptable.
Restrictions in Florida and other states may blunt artistic creativity in TV and radio ads, but nationwide they haven't dampened the legal profession's enthusiasm for TV advertising.Testament guitarist Eric Peterson and Canadian celtic metal singer Leah have teamed up to bring the powerful track "Winter Sun" right in time for the start of winter. The song, premiering right here at Loudwire, blends the atmospheric and ethereal voice of Leah with Peterson's moody lead work, trading off melodies back and forth in true duet fashion.
"Winter Sun" gradually builds in intensity, shifting from delicate and welcoming to, ultimately, dark and pensive. The opening lines paint a gorgeous picture of the transitioning of seasons: "Crystal icicles / glimmering in this cold dark heart / leaves are falling leaving naked / trees to warm a fire." Winter is welcomed, but by the song's end, we're treated to Peterson's familiar body of work with a brief heavy segment accented
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has completely revolutionized the way we write music." Describing her personal experience, she continued, "As a busy artist and mother of five kids, it was vital for me to be able to quickly record my vocal and lyric ideas and literally sing them into WhatsApp and fire it off to Eric in seconds. It made this song entirely possible.”
Though the duo are the stars of the song, they enlisted members of Peterson's black metal outfit Dragonlord — drummer Alex Bent, bassist Tilen Hudrap and keyboardist Lyle Livingston -- to round out the recording. Peterson and Leah also worked together in 2013, penning the track "Dreamland" which can be downloaded here.oil contained in the glands, pairs of glands were placed on preweighed sections of filter paper, approximately 2 mm2, and the glands allowed to dry for one hour. The papers were then reweighed. This procedure allowed water clinging to the glands to evaporate and the walls of the glands to dry, largely reducing them to their oily contents. The ratio of each pair of glands to the total wet body mass of the caterpillar from which they were dissected was calculated. The papers bearing the 10 pairs of glands were then placed, collectively, in 1 mL of hexane, vortexed, and allowed to soak for 24 hours to prepare a stock solution for bioassay. Bioassays were conducted by laying out 5 µL of the stock solution or a 10x
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a positive attitude to being on the road and recording.
“In the many years he worked with The Kinks, he added great colour and dimension to The Kinks’ music and he was a good friend.
“I’ll miss him greatly. Lots of love to his family and friends at this difficult time.”
Remembering when they first hired Gibbons 40 years ago, Sir Ray said: "When he auditioned for the band, he only played a few chords before I knew he was the right guy to have on keyboard – he seemed to know the right voicing to musically slot in between the other members of the band. And with The Kinks that took some doing!
“He was also was a brilliant accordion player and, apparently, a bit of a childhood prodigy on thatinstrument. In the studio, he would willingly try out the most random musical idea I would throw at him.
“On the road, he could always be guaranteed to give a smile of encouragement from his side of the stage and buy a round in the bar after the show so we could have a party in Ian’s noisy room.
“Being in a band is like being in a family and today it is as though we have lost family member.”
Gibbons first joined the Kinks in 1979 and stayed with the group for 10 years. He rejoined the band in 1993 until they split three years later in 1996.
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By Matthew Davis
BBC News
China has stepped up its censorship of information in recent days
The anti-Chinese protests are an extremely sensitive issue for Beijing, which is desperate to avoid bad publicity only months before the Olympic Games.
In recent days, TV broadcasts have been blacked out, websites blocked or censored by China's keyword filtering system and reporters on the ground prevented from reaching the region.
The degree of censorship appears to be fluctuating and uneven, however.
On Friday - said to have been the worst day of violence in Tibet since demonstrations in 1989 - the first few live interviews on BBC World with correspondent Daniel Griffiths were blocked from local transmissions.
But repeat broadcasts of these interviews were allowed to go ahead.
In one particular hour, correspondents talking about Tibet from London couldbe seen on screen, but when the story shifted to a BBC correspondent in India, TV sets in Beijing went black.
None of us are doing anything illegal. It's just that it's very easy for officials in the hinterlands to stop us and ask endless questions, creating delays, or simply bar us from entering areas for unspecified security reasons
Tim Johnson
Foreign journalist
Chinese media toe party line
On Monday and Tuesday, such censorship appeared to be less frequent.
Yet one line in a piece on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's news conference, by the BBC's Quentin Somerville, appears to have irked the censors.
When our reporter said: "Overnight, China's deadline passed for protesters in the city to stand down - there's no immediate word on the fate of those involved in the protests", the transmission
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was momentarily blocked.
Other broadcasters like CNN have also been affected - with transmission blocked, and reporters obstructed, amid tight controls on physical access to Tibet, which is off-limits to foreign reporters without a permit.
Writing on Tuesday for CNN's In The Field blog, correspondent John Vause said he and his crew were intercepted by Chinese police, some 300km from Ngawa county in Sichuan province, where Tibetan exile groups claim Chinese security forces have killed protesters.
"It had to happen - sooner or later they were going to find us and stop us. This morning they did. Chinese police, armed with those almost toy gun-looking small calibre machine guns pulled us over, asked for passports, and told us this was the end of the road," he writes.
Earlier, on the China Risesrecent days sites like Yahoo and Youtube have also been similarly affected.
However, while there are strong efforts to stem the flow of information, the proliferation of blogs, chatrooms and mobile phones has helped information about Tibetan protests to stream out.
Jeremy Goldkorn, editor of Danwei.org, which monitors China's media, said that new technology had forced the authorities to promptly acknowledge such events.
"They cannot lock down a disaster anymore," Mr Goldkorn told news agency AFP.
"Before the internet, it was possible in China to isolate an area because ordinary people did not have access to information, but that is not possible now."
'Glossed over'
Meanwhile, Chinese state media has been giving very different accounts of the violence than those found outside the country.
Chinese analysts have accused Western media of sympathising with the Tibetan
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people, giving prominence to critics of China's policies and reporting that hundreds of Tibetans have been injured by the security forces.
For the last few days, the state media has described the protesters as a small, politically-motivated group of criminals. State television has shown images of injured civilians in hospital, saying they were beaten or burned by the mob. The security forces have been painted as innocent victims.
At Premier Wen's news conference on Tuesday, he was asked four questions on Tibet by foreign journalists.
The state news agency Xinhua reported the government line about calm returning to Lhasa, while many other newspapers and web portals glossed over the issue, saying merely that the premier answered many questions, including on the Tibet issue, our correspondent says.
But analysts say the reporting ofthe protests is shaping attitudes within China, which were generally unsympathetic to Tibetans to start with.
The Chinese authorities have poured billions of dollars into building houses and big infrastructure projects in Tibet. Many Chinese view the region as a backward place which they are generously paying to develop.
They also view the Olympics as a focus of intense national pride. Attempts to undermine China's big moment are likely to spark anger.
The BBC's Jill McGivering says the differing perceptions of the violence are having a tangible effect on relations between China and the West.
In many ways they confirm the worst fears of both sides, she says.
The Western version of events fuels the belief that Beijing is still a repressive government, willing to use brutal methods to crush opposition.
In China, media
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the entire population of
the colonies. The total that took up arms is a little more than 10%."What motivated folks to be on one side or the other?"For the Patriots, the initial rally to arms was impressive in 1775.
As the war dragged on, enthusiasm waned. Many colonies were compelled
to entice soldiers with offers of cash bounties, clothing, blankets and
enlistments shorter than the one year term of service established by
Congress. The following year, Congress mandated three year enlistments
and offers of cash and land bounties became an absolute necessity."Longer enlistments radically changed the composition of the Army.
Washington’s troops in 1775-76 had represented a cross section of the
free male population. But few who owned farms were willing to serve for
the duration, fearing loss of their property if years passed without
producing revenue fromwhich to pay taxes. After 1777, the average
Continental soldier was young, single, propertyless, poor and in many
cases an outright pauper. In some states, such as Pennsylvania, up to
one in four soldiers was an impoverished recent immigrant. Patriotism
aside, cash and land bounties offered an unprecedented chance for
economic mobility for these men."The average Patriot was poor and many were motivated by the writings
of Thomas Paine and others like him who suggested an equality of
opportunity in a new country."The typical Loyalist was a little wealthier and was more settled in
their ways. They owned shops and businesses. They were leaders and
respected in their communities. Most of them left America at the end of
the war."This is a very long lead into this post, but the background is needed when we talk about today.
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how it can be made
better."More to follow in future posts."
"Midsummer, also known as St John's Day, is the period of time centred upon the summer solstice,
and more specifically the Northern European celebrations that accompany
the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25
and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary between different
cultures. The Christian Church designated June 24 as the feast day of the early Christian martyr St John the Baptist, and the observance of St John's Day begins the evening before, known as St John's Eve."These are commemorated by many Christian denominations.[1] In Sweden the Midsummer is such an important festivity that there have been serious discussions to make the Midsummer's Eve into the National Day of Sweden, instead of June 6.It may also be referred to as St. Hans Day.[2]
"In Latvia, Midsummer is called Jāņi (plural of Latvian name Jānis, which is equivalent to John) or Līgo svētki (svētki = festival). It is a national holiday
celebrated from the night of June 23 through June 24 on a large scale
by almost everyone in Latvia and by people of Latvian origin abroad.
Celebrations consist of a lot of traditional and mostly pagan elements –
eating, Jāņi cheese,
drinking beer, baking pīrāgi, singing Latvian folk songs dedicated to
Jāņi, burning bonfires to keep light all through the night and jumping
over it, wearing wreaths of flowers (for women) and oak
leaves (for men) together with modern commercial products and ideas.
There are tens and hundreds of different beliefs and traditions all over
Latvia on what should be done on
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that day for good harvest, for
predicting the future, for attracting your future spouse etc. People
decorate their houses and lands with birch or sometimes oak branches and flowers as well as leaves, especially fern.
In rural areas livestock is also decorated. In modern days small oak
branches with leaves are attached to the cars in Latvia during the
festivity. Jāņi has been a strong aspect of Latvian culture throughout
history, originating in pre-Christian Latvia as an ancient fertility
cult."In the western town of Kuldīga,
revellers mark the holiday by running naked through the town at three
in the morning. The event has taken place since 2000. Runners are
rewarded with beer, and police are on hand in case any 'puritans'
attempt to interfere with the naked run.[22]"
Thursday, June 23, 2016
"Gaslighting or gas-lighting is a form of mental abusein which a victim is manipulated into doubting their own memory, perception, and sanity.[1][2] Instances may range from the denial
by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the
staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
"The term owes its origin to the 1938 play Gas Light and its film adaptations. The term has been used in clinical and research literature.[3][4]"
"RACINE RESIDENTS TO SEE MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WAUKESHA SHIT WATER FLOWING INTO RACINE’S ROOT RIVER.
"Thanks
to Racine Mayor John Dickert, Waukesha will divert an average of 8.2
million gallons of Lake Michigan water per day and return treated
wastewater to the lake via the Root River.
"Under the plan,
Waukesha would buy Lake Michigan water from Oak Creek, and build new
infrastructure to pipe it west.
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bad. So
sad. Shouldn’t have been so greedy.
When I went to St. Catherine's High School, freshmen and sophomores were required to take Physical Education (gym class). I can't remember if this happened my first or second year of PE, but it happened. I didn't have Bob Letsch as a regular PE instructor for either year. However, one day I showed up to gym class and there he was, filling in for whoever was our regular coach.
He was relatively new on the job back then. Coach John McGuire had his legendary career going. Letsch is a graduate of St. Catherine's and that's where he returned to work after getting his degree.
Anyway, so Letsch is filling in as coach and he tells us were going to play kickball. Three representatives fromof power and the filing of a false affidavit
into court records.
Yes this is the same corrupt
Michael Nieskes that under the watchful eye of Judge Ptacek committed many of
his offenses and then BEAT IT to Hudson
Wi.
Despite the filing of a
100 plus page criminal complaint to the Wis. Attorney General’s office, Nieskes
was named Judge in 2011 by Governor Scott Walker. The voting public kicked him
out of office 4 months later in the general elections. Over 1,700 plus Republicans
agreed to remove Nieskes and voted to remove the corrupt ass out of office.
In the matters of his record
in office in Racine County, the abuses of power, court records tampering, court
date tampering and the filing of a false affidavit into court records, that is
all part of Racine County Circuit Court records.
In court testimony,
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his preliminary hearing."
"Clinton,
North Carolina - A quarter of the Clinton police force is on
administrative leave after an armed man was shot early Sunday in a
Burger King parking lot, officials said.
"John Mark Coffey, 53, of
Warsaw, was identified Monday as the man who police say pointed a
shotgun at officers from a pickup truck in the parking lot, police said.
"Clinton
Police also identified the seven officers and an N.C. Trooper who would
be placed on administrative leave, along with their time on the force.
There are 28 officers on the Clinton Police force.
"On Monday, neighbors of Coffey, who lived about 15 miles east of Clinton, said they were surprised by the deadly shooting.
"'It’s
shocking. Very, very shocking. He was quiet. I thought he was quiet and
kept to himself,' said Brenda Murphy, who added that Coffeydid come to
her home and introduce himself when he first moved in.
"Another neighbor said that Coffey was often seen in the neighborhood with his dogs.
“He was the type that didn’t bother nobody. He’d come out and walk his dogs,” said neighbor Donald Darden.
"The
police department also revealed more details about the incident, which
began at 12:01 a.m. Sunday when two officers arrived at the business
after a 911 call.
"Shortly after arriving on the scene, one of the
officers called by radio stating that the man had a shotgun, police
said in a statement.
"As the two officers backed away from Coffey,
they took cover and started negotiating with him. Six more Clinton
Police officers and one NC State Highway Patrol trooper responded and
cordoned off the parking lot.
"'Officers
attempted to negotiate for approximately 20 minutes with the male
subject
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to put the weapon down and surrender,' the Clinton Police said.
"'During
this time, the commander coordinated with officers on the scene and the
E911 (operator) to ensure the safety of citizens at a nearby home and
at the Burger King,' police added.
"The commander also asked for an EMS unit to come the scene.
"During
the police attempts to negotiate, Coffey told officers that he had five
rounds and 'was not coming out of the vehicle,' police said.
"Coffey was unresponsive and would not comply with their requests to put the shotgun down, according to the police statement.
"At
approximately 12:18 a.m. Coffey opened the driver’s door of the white
pickup truck and pointed a weapon at the officers, police said.
"'The officers then fired multiple rounds at the male, fatally striking him,' according to the police statement.
"EMS was immediatelytall and Charlie can easily reach the ceiling from the top perch. He and I are very happy with this gift. Thank you, Ms. N.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
"Former Mount Pleasant Payroll Coordinator Jillian Schumacher Monday
in public comments before the village board accused Village
Administrator Kurt Wahlen of firing her for being a whistleblower.
"Schumacher said she was fired unfairly and without any prior warning
because she questioned financial processes that didn’t align with the
personnel handbook or standard practices.
"'In short, I believe I was terminated for being a whistleblower and
not blindly following policies I felt were unprofessional,' she
continued.
"Specifically, Schumacher claims Wahlen fired her just four months
after she had a positive review during which she was awarded another
week of vacation and told she was on track to receive a raise.
Schumacher worked for Mount
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