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second period, lashing in a low drive that Pickford again repelled. But as the half reached its midway stage, that was about the sum of things: Everton were becoming ever harder to break down, and Pedro was eventually replaced by Cesc Fabregas as Antonio Conte sought another way through.
Hazard drew another decent stop from Pickford, and Chelsea, at last, began to peg their hosts back concertedly. They were agonisingly close to breaking through 15 minutes from time when Ashley Williams, flinging himself at Victor Moses' drive cross, glanced a header against his own crossbar.
Pickford saved once again, this time from point-blank range after the ball pinged off one of his own defenders, and gathered a deflected Hazard shot while Fabregas saw an effort of his own fizz widein Linton, North Dakota; born in 1988 and raised on the family farm. He attended North Dakota State University and graduated in 2010 with a degree in Agricultural Economics with a focus on commodity marketing as well as a minor in Crop and Weed Science. After graduating he returned to the family farm for the next five years before pursuing a career in commodity marketing. Brian works with grain and livestock producers and end users of all sizes across the United States helping them develop risk management strategies. As a former producer who hedged through Zaner, Brian brings a unique perspective with vast experience on the client side of this industry.
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The Pacific Northwest has been engulfed in wildfire smoke from Montana, British Columbia, Eastern Washington and Oregon for much of this summer. (Photo: Dahr Jamail)
When one envisions the US Pacific Northwest, one thinks of green ferns, moss-covered trees in Olympic National Park, or the Hoh Rainforest, where annual rainfall is measured in the hundreds of inches. Moisture, greenery, evergreens, abundant rivers. It’s a large part of the reason why I live here.
But thanks to abrupt anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD), this region is shifting at a rapid pace. On the Olympic Peninsula where I live, this has been the summer of wildfire smoke.
As I write this, Puget Sound, Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula, are all engulfed by thick wildfire smoke and ash from fires burning in Eastern Washington andit has often appeared blood red through the thick smoke.
NASA satellite photos show the smoke plume even reaching the East Coast.
Given past and recent scientific reports, this is apparently the world we, and much of the rest of the United States, had better prepare to live in from now on.
Extreme Heat, Extreme Drought
The smoke plume from all of these fires, at the time of this writing, extends from up into British Columbia all the way down into central Oregon.
A wildfire outside Portland has forced hundreds of residents to evacuate while it burned out of control in the Columbia River Gorge. That is just one of 81 wildfires burning across the US at the time of this writing, with 20 of those fires in Oregon alone.
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season in U.S. history, surpassing 10 million acres for the first time on record. So far this year, wildfires in the US have burned 7.8 million acres, but the fire season is far from over. The average fire season is 78 days longer than it was in the 1970s and now lasts nearly seven months — beginning and extending beyond the typical heat of summer. By April of this year, wildfires had scorched more than 2 million acres in the US — nearly the average consumed in an entire fire season during the 1980s.
Extreme Heat
When it comes to hot weather — and relatedly, fire — this has been a summer for the record books in the West. During the first week of September, San Francisco saw a stunningrecord high temperature of 106°F, amid a heatwave that saw 36.5 million Californians (98 percent of the state population) living under a heat advisory issued by the National Weather Service.
Earlier this month, Los Angeles saw its largest wildfire on record scorch 7,000 acres before rains from a remnant tropical storm helped firefighters get the upper hand.
Yale Environment 360 warned of this likelihood last December. The magazine, published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, reported that as the Arctic continues to warm twice as fast as the rest of the globe, winds in the upper atmosphere would be pulled into the polar zone and cause the jet stream to become wavier during extreme weather patterns. This is a more technical explanation for the fact that, as | {
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Marion Bailey was spotted filming her first scenes as the Queen Mother for season three of The Crown
She joined Olivia Colman, who portrays Queen Elizabeth II, at St Mark's Church in Englefield on Sunday
Firmly marking her return after her Oscar's glory last month, Olivia, 45, cut a regal figure in a lavender coat
Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh (Tobias Menzies) and, Princess Anne (Erin Doherty) Prince Charles and Andrew, Colman led the procession into the picturesque church
The Broadchurch star is taking over the lead role from Claire Foy
The show's time setting moves along to follow the monarch's rule across the 1960s and 1970s
Pippa Middleton married James Matthews at St Mark's in 2017
Fans of the hit Netflix drama The Crown can now catch their first glimpse of Marion Baileyas the Queen Mother.
The award-winning actress, 67, was spotted filming her first scenes alongside Olivia Colman, who portrays Queen Elizabeth II, at St Mark's Church in Englefield on Sunday.
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Firmly marking her return after her Oscar's glory last month, Olivia, 45, looked the epitome of grandeur in a lilac floral coat as she joined the Royal Family cast to film Season Three.
First look: Marion Bailey was spotted filming her first scenes as the Queen Mother for season three of The Crown alongside Olivia Colman, who portrays Queen Elizabeth II, at St Mark's Church in Englefield on Sunday
Olivia, who won the Best Actress Oscar for playing Queen Anne in The Favourite, cut a regal figure as she transformed into our current monarch, pairing the feminine coat with a lavender hat | {
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Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh (Tobias Menzies) and Prince Charles and Andrew, Colman led the procession into the picturesque church as they shot the historic scenes.
Marion meanwhile, followed shortly behind with Princess Anne (Erin Doherty) and looked unrecognisable as she transformed into the Queen Mother, donning a mint green dress, matching coat and grey wig.
Exciting: Fans of the hit Netflix drama got their first glimpse of Marion as the Queen Mother as filming got under way at the chapel
Regal: Firmly marking her return after her Oscar's glory last month, Olivia, 45, looked the epitome of grandeur in a lilac floral coat
Family affair: Olivia joined the Royal Family cast to film scenes for Season Three, with Outlander star Tobias looking thespitting image of Prince Philip in a sharp black suit and burgundy tie
Replaying history: The group will follow in their predecessor's footsteps and play the Royal couple for two seasons before the cast will change once again, in order to portray the characters accurately as they age
Replaying history: The Royal Family walking to church at Sandringham in 1968(l-r) Prince Charles, Prince Philip, Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Prince Andrew, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Queen Elizabeth II
After filming a service in the chapel, where Pippa Middleton famously married James Matthews in 2017, the Royal Family filed out.
While Olivia remained stony-faced when the cameras were rolling, the cast were spotted laughing as they chatted away in-between takes.
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to date 'because everyone knows what she looks like, everyone knows what she sounds like, everyone has an opinion on whether the casting is right’.
The Broadchurch star is taking over the lead role from Claire Foy, as the show's time setting moves along to follow the monarch's rule across the 1960s and 1970s.
Royal: The Hot Fuzz actress, who won the Best Actress Oscar for playing Queen Anne in The Favourite, cut a regal figure as she transformed into our current monarch
The whole family: Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh (Tobias Menzies) and Prince Charles and Andrew, Colman led the procession into the picturesque church as they shot the historic scenes
Elaborately dressed: Marion meanwhile, followed shortly behind with Princess Anne and looked unrecognisable in a mint green dress, matchingcoat and grey wig
In character: Erin Doherty cut a striking figure as she transformed into Princess Anne in a green patterned coat and white kitten heels
Stepping back in time: With the time-setting of the drama moving to the 1960s, the children's costumes reflected the era with a young Prince Charles dressing up in a navy suit, while Prince Andrew wore a grey pea coat and white knee-length socks
Religious: After filming a service in the chapel, where Pippa Middleton famously married James Matthews in 2017, the Royal Family filed out
High spirits: While Olivia remained stony-faced while the cameras were rolling, the cast were spotted laughing as they chatted away in-between takes
Big shoes to fill: Midsummer Murder's actress Marion has succeeded Victoria Hamilton in the role, and said she was | {
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delighted to be portraying Queen Mother in the upcoming series after her casting was announced
Her latest role: Marion will portray the Queen Mother in series three of The Crown
Her latest role: Marion will portray the Queen Mother (pictured in 1991) in series three of The Crown
Moving on: Broadchurch star Olivia is taking over the lead role from Claire Foy, as the show's time setting moves along to follow the monarch's rule across the 1960s and 1970s
Biggest challenge: Colman recently described playing the monarch as one of her most difficult to date 'because everyone knows what she looks like, everyone knows what she sounds like, everyone has an opinion on whether the casting is right’
Impressive: Olivia and Tobiaz are joined on the star-studded cast list by Helena Bonham Carter,who will star as Princess Margaret, Jason Watkins as former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and Josh O'Connor, who will play an older Prince Charles
Intimidated: Olivia Colman has described playing the monarch as her hardest role to date
Intimidated: Olivia Colman has described playing the monarch as her hardest role to date (pictured in 1968)
Spitting image: Meanwhile Erin bore a remarkable resemblance to a young Princess Anne
Spitting image: Meanwhile Erin bore a remarkable resemblance to a young Princess Anne (pictured in 1979)
A moment in time: The crew swarmed around St Mark's chapel where they filmed a service for the upcoming series
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O'Connor, who will play an older Prince Charles.
The group will follow in their predecessor's footsteps and play the Royal couple for two seasons before the cast will change once again, in order to portray the characters accurately as they age.
Midsummer Murder's actress Marion, who has succeeded Victoria Hamilton in the role, was quoted in a tweet on the programme's official profile, saying how delighted she was to be portraying Queen Mother in the upcoming series.
She wrote: 'Wonderful to be joining The Crown. It’s a brilliant show. We have a tough act to follow but what a gift to be playing the fascinating and greatly loved Queen Mother. Thrilled to be on board and working with such a top-notch team.'
Filming began at the start of the July - withRep. Trey Gowdy, the House Oversight Committee chairman, on Wednesday asked Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to release all communications and documents relating to allegations by a senior agency official who claimed she was demoted and replaced after raising concerns over expensive spending at the agency.
Why it matters: Gowdy's request comes a day reports said that HUD officials used $31,000 to purchase a dining set for Carson’s office last year. The South Carolina Republican asked Carson to submit receipts of redecorating and furnishing expenses between January and December 2017. He also asked Carson to arrange a briefing with his panel after submitting the documents.
The backdrop: Helen Foster, the high-ranking official, said in a complaint filed to the Office of Special Counsel that she was targeted after | {
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health services. This has led to faster appointments and better quality treatment for the hundreds of thousands of veterans suffering from mental illnesses such as PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Unfortunately, Dr. Washington faced retaliation from hospital managers for testifying before Congress. She was stripped of some of her duties as a psychologist and given her first-ever unsatisfactory performance review.
As an AFGE member, Dr. Washington turned to the union for help. AFGE representatives filed charges against the agency to roll back the retaliatory actions taken against her, allowing her to continue to serve veterans without fear of reprisal.
AFGE representatives were able to take on the VA and protect Dr. Washington thanks to a congressionally mandated tool known as official time.
Through official time, federal employees who are union representatives arewas a very lively, productive area of research for more than 10 years before Timothy Leary ever tried psychedelics--which doesn't happen till 1960. The drugs are--well, LSD is invented, you can either say in the 1930s when it was synthesized, but it wasn't realized what it was till the 1940s. Albert Hofmann was a chemist at Sandoz, and he was looking for a new drug to treat women in childbirth, to staunch bleeding, I believe it was. He accidentally hits on this--he's working with ergotamine, which is this chemical that's produced by a fungus called ergot, which infects grain and actually has an interesting role to play in European history. But, he realizes by accidentally ingesting a tiny bit that he's got this powerful psycho-active substance. He has | {
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of people-which, a range, from religious scholars to therapists to a former head of NIDA--the National Institute of Drug Abuse. And, they start, you know, coming up with some plans, of: What would you study? How would you go about it? Jesse has some money, and he raises some more money. And he, then, approaches some researchers, and is introduced to a man at Johns Hopkins, a very prestigious, well-regarded drug researcher named Roland Griffiths, who had been studying, you know, drugs of abuse for a long time. As it happened, Roland had had a powerful mystical experience of his own in his meditation practice. He was not using psychedelics, but he was a very serious meditator, and had been exposed to some ideas about consciousness that heAbout the document
The beginning of the First World War saw a decrease in import and export between Latin America and Europe, both ways. The Latin American countries did not bow down to Europe, despite the financial pressure that was exerted by Germany, through its financial networks. Most Latin American states remained opposed to pan-Germanism, as they were influenced by the ideals of the U.S.A.
When the US entered the war in 1917, the Latin American countries followed the U.S, and fought alongside the U.S. During the war, many countries in Latin America experienced real prosperity, in terms of high growth, modernization, and trade, along with swelling trade surplus. Brazil, Argentina and Chile were three countries that experienced excellent growth.
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European nations as well. There was a marked development in the industrial sector, textile, and food industry. This era also marked the beginning of heavy metallurgy, mechanical engineering and automotive industries. Ford and General Motors set up their branches in Brazil, which boosted the nation's economy. Meanwhile, agricultural products, and extraction of mineral resources increased dramatically. Wheat production in Argentina increased by at least 50% at the end of the war, with wool and Brazilian coffee increasing by 48%. The production of rubber and Mexican petroleum increased ten fold. The war saw the beginning of the exploitation of Venezuelan oil. Trade flow was genuinely reoriented. The share of the USA had increased significantly, and this was maintained after the war.
In 1919, Mexico imported about 70% goods from theU.S, and exported about 78% goods. Latin America had entered the orbit of the USA, along with South America. Despite this, it kept up links with Europe, in terms of investing on a few things, for example, Brazil preferred buying coal and Cork from Pittsburgh. Nations in Latin America preferred Standard Oil to the oil from Shell. However, this growth was fragile and uneven. The crisis of 1920-1921 reversed almost everything that had been experienced by South America until 1924. Growth decreased substantially. The trade surpluses also declined, and this gave rise to the resurgence of trade deficit. Social differences increased, especially between the cities and the countryside. On the political front, tensions manifested themselves in the form of violent movements, strikes and student unrest. These movements were | {
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severely repressed, but they contributed to the emergence of leaders. The media also played a great role in admiring these movements and the emergence of leaders.
The war confirmed the dependence of Latin America vis-a-vis the USA, as they engaged in war, their exports to this region had fallen and then the traffic of the port of Buenos Aires was seen to collapse to 2 / 3 between 1939 and 1943 with a lack of oil, energy and manufactured goods. Industrialization was meant to meet those needs of the USA and then the export was back up with the trade balance in surplus and with a significant investment in the industry. In 1945 there are real industrial areas around major cities like Mexico City, Monterrey, Rio de Janeiro, SaoBest known for her huge natural breasts, Girlsway GOTM Angela White is an award-winning Australia native who produces and directs girl on girl content for her own Los Angeles based company. She believes that passion, chemistry and eye contact make a great lesbian scene. Angela venerates women who also are strong, intelligent and independent. She's dominant during sex, but loves to submit to a woman more powerful than her. Her first lesbian experience involved an older woman who ripped off her fake nails just so she could finger bang her. A definitive intellectual, her favorite film is Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac. She blows off steam with a game of Tekken, but an orgasm would be even better. Kiss her on the neck if you want her to cum.
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"The islands, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, are located in the East China Sea. Japan has controlled the chain for more than 100 years, and this week officially purchased the islands – which it had been renting – from private owners." Image Source: Kyodo/AP via CBC.
Despite the endless percolating trouble that plagues the Middle East, there are reminders that oil's domination of the world stage is always closely followed by nuclear concerns. One reminder comes with the fact that - despite 2012's 9/11 Islamic furor - American military attentions are moving toward the Asia-Pacific region:
The Obama administration is forging closer defense ties to countries near China, including India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore; repositioning troops, planes and ships; and stepping upis coming from the special counsel, Robert Mueller, whose team of 17 prosecutors was authorized in May to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump" and related matters. This investigation has no set end date, but Mueller appears to be moving quickly, and many observers expect him to issue a report of some kind in 2018, although any talk of a timeline is speculative. Meanwhile three congressional committees are conducting parallel, if less focused, investigations of the Trump presidential campaign, Russian hacking, the firing of FBI director James Comey and related issues. The committees (House intelligence plus Senate intelligence and judiciary) may issue reports at the end of their investigations. They can also call high-profile witnesses | {
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also seized on the exchange to suggest the Mueller team is biased against Trump.
The issue is likely to be a focus of a congressional hearing on Wednesday involving deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel in May and oversees his team’s work.
A spokesman for Mueller said Strzok was removed from the team as soon as the allegations were brought to the office’s attention, and that Page had already concluded her work by that time and returned to the FBI. Strzok has been reassigned within the FBI.
The texts seen by the AP began mid-2015, soon after the FBI launched its email server investigation, and continued over the next year and a half as the presidential race was in full swing.
The messages – 375 were releasedUSC To NFL: How Each Trojan Signee Fits On New Team
USC To NFL: How Each Trojan Signee Fits On New Team by Alicia de Artola
Mar 11, 2014; Los Angeles, CA, USA; General view of Southern California Trojans helmets at spring practice at Howard Jones Field. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Steve Sarkisian and his staff have landed their sixth commitment for the 2015 class in Clovis North defensive tackle Jacob Daniel.
USC has landed a verbal commitment from Fresno (Calif.) Clovis North defensive tackle Jacob Daniel pic.twitter.com/ejNqGuy4xy — WeAreSC.com (@wearescstaff) May 13, 2014
Last week, Daniel indicated that he had narrowed his college choices down to Oregon and USC. Now we know that the 6’5, 300 pound defender has decided to become a Trojan.
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in California according to Rivals. ESPN ranks him at No. 13. 247Sports lists him sixth in the state.
With prototypical size for a tackle, he could become a monster in the trenches for the Trojans in the years to come.
This is the second time Daniel has committed to play for Sarkisian and defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox. He had been a Washington commit before USC brought to the two to Los Angeles.
Daniel is USC’s fourth four-star commit for the 2015 class, but is the first defensive lineman to sign up. He joins quarterbacks Ricky Town and David Sills, offensive linemen Chuma Edoga and Roy Hemsely, and defensive back Taeon Mason among the Trojan commits.Cabbie on a mission to promote native languages
By Hung Ting-hung and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A taxi driver working in Greater Kaohsiung, worried that the Hoklo (also known as Taiwanese), Hakka and Aboriginal languages are gradually dying off, has been giving out flyers to customers urging parents to respect their children’s right to inherit their native language by using it with them.
He also thinks the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) may owe Taiwanese compensation for enforcing a Mandarin-first policy for decades.
Pan Ching-hsiung (潘清雄), 65, who was born in Pingtung County’s Yanpu Township (鹽埔), has been driving a cab since he was 34. He said that in many conversations with his passengers, he found that although they knew how to speak Hoklo, they chose not to.
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Ching-hsiung waves on Wednesday in Greater Kaohsiung. Pan urges his passengers to speak their native languages to their children. Photo: Hung Ting-hung, Taipei Times
Curious about such reluctance, Pan began his very own survey of passengers 13 years ago. To reduce awkwardness and lessen chances of conflict, Pan said he often started by asking his passengers, in Hoklo, why they didn’t talk to their children in Hoklo.
Although most replied that it was because teaching Hoklo is difficult, Pan said he suspected that the real reason was that they deemed it classier to use Mandarin.
Once he met a mother who used English to talk to her child and Pan said he took the opportunity to suggest to her that her child was still young and could learn English later andKMT administration during the Martial Law era (from May 20, 1949, to July 15, 1987) was an erroneous policy that has ended up threatening the viability of native languages.
Pan said he has asked the Taiwanese Mother Language League to consider establishing a committee to seek compensation from the KMT for the Taiwanese who have lost the right to speak or inherit their native languages. | {
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therefore contends that the Secretary improperly applied the medical-vocational guidelines.
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Alsept filed his applications for disability benefits and SSI benefits on March 7, 1984, alleging disability due to a crippled hand and right ankle, arthritis in his back, and kidney and gland trouble. On July 18, 1984, after the applications were denied both initially and upon reconsideration, Alsept filed a request for a hearing before an administrative law judge (ALJ). Alsept's request was granted and a hearing was held on August 29, 1984. Since Alsept last met the earnings requirements of the Social Security Act on September 30, 1983, he had to establish disability prior to that time.
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At the time of the hearing, Alsept was fifty-three years old, having been born on December 9, 1930. Alsept stopped attending school in the fourth grade when he was thirteen years old. He can read very little of the newspaper, and cannot write letters. With regard to his past employment, Alsept stated that he worked for twenty-three to twenty-five years as an automobile body repairman, and last worked in August of 1982. According to Alsept, he had to quit at that time due to pain in his back, right foot and left arm.
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Alsept had injured his left arm in an automobile accident in 1950 which caused permanent damages to the ulnar nerve of his arm. He stated that as a result of the damage, the muscles in his left arm and hand are deteriorating, thus reducing the size of his left hand, | {
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which is his nondominant hand. Alsept testified that although his hand generally caused him pain "deep in the bone," he did not have feeling in about one-half of his hand. Elaborating further, he stated that he could not make a fist with his hand nor could he straighten his fingers. According to Alsept, he had limited use of his hand but could not handle small objects with it. He stated that his hand and arm did not prevent him from doing his past work as an autobody repairman because he had adapted to handling large objects with it.
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With regard to complaints other than his hand, Alsept stated that he had disabling pain in his back, left leg and right ankle. Alsept had broken1983, at the request of the Secretary. Dr. Weeks noted Alsept's complaints of pain in his back, right ankle, left arm and chest. Dr. Weeks' impressions were of status post trauma to the left forearm, status post old comminuted fracture of the right ankle, status post trauma to the right ribs and back with chronic low back syndrome, chest pain, and essential hypertension. Dr. Weeks commented, however, that neither Alsept's back nor his ankle condition limited his range of motion. Dr. Weeks further commented that Alsept's hypertension was well-controlled. Dr. Weeks made no conclusions regarding the effect of Alsept's hand condition, although he did note that Alsept had "somewhat reduced" grip strength in his left hand as compared to his right.
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a trial and face other financial repercussions.”
During the hour-long trial, court heard that Hall was arrested on Aug. 9, 2015, outside the B.C. legislature for being intoxicated in a public place. During the arrest, a 15-gram bag of marijuana fell to the ground. Hall testified that he told the arresting officer, Const. Callum Campbell, he had a licence for marijuana. The officer advised Hall that he would be charged with possession.
Hall, who has been diagnosed with hepatitis C, testified that a doctor at the Cool Aid Medical Clinic had given him a prescription for medical marijuana. Prescription in hand, he went to the compassion society and told them he wanted marijuana to help increase his appetite. He was given a membership card with his photo on it.
“For me,US Navy Revisiting Feasibility Of A Sub-Launched Global Strike Weapon
USS Ohio (SSGN 726) arrived in Yokosuka, Japan, Oct. 16 for a scheduled port visit. (U.S. Navy Photo). Back in the mid 2000s the U.S. Navy converted four nuclear missile submarines (SSBN) into guided-missile submarines (SSGN). The converted submarines carry up to 154 Tomahawk or Tactical Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles. The missiles are loaded in seven-shot Multiple-All-Up-Round Canisters (MACs) in up to 22 missile tubes. These missile tubes can also accommodate additional stowage canisters for Special Operations Forces (SOF) equipment, food, and other consumables, extending the amount of forward-deployed time for on board SOF forces. The missile tubes also promise additional capability to host future payloads such as new types of missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and unmanned undersea vehicles. | {
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capability.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced during a press conference on January 26 that the administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2013 budget request of $525 billion includes funding for the US Navy to renew efforts to develop a non-nuclear, sub-launched missile capable of striking a target anywhere in the world within an hour of launch. The only weapons presently available in the inventory capable of hitting global targets so quickly are nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). ICBMs are subject to severe restrictions regulating their numbers, deployment, warhead capacity, and range by multiple international treaties.
Back in 2000, the US Navy attempted to adapt the D-5 Trident missile for use as a Prompt Global Strike weapon, but met with strong opposition from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Committee members,a controlled environment. Furthermore, a completed system includes many accessories such as camera supports, cables and connectors.
Most computer vision systems use visible-light cameras passively viewing a scene at frame rates of at most 60 frames per second (usually far slower).
A few computer vision systems use image-acquisition hardware with active illumination or something other than visible light or both, such as structured-light 3D scanners, thermographic cameras, hyperspectral imagers, radar imaging, lidar scanners, magnetic resonance images, side-scan sonar, synthetic aperture sonar, etc. Such hardware captures "images" that are then processed often using the same computer vision algorithms used to process visible-light images.
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when she ran a paper on antidepressant drug treatment, the authors´ financial ties to the manufacturers - which the journal requires all contributors to declare - were so extensive that she had to run them on the website. She decided to commission an editorial about it and spoke to research psychiatrists, but "we found very few who did not have financial ties to drug companies that make antidepressants."
She wrote: "Researchers serve as consultants to companies whose products they are studying, join advisory boards and speakers´ bureaus, enter into patent and royalty arrangements, agree to be the listed authors of articles ghostwritten by interested companies, promote drugs and devices at company-sponsored symposiums, and allow themselves to be plied with expensive gifts and trips to luxurious settings. Many also haveequity interest in the companies."
In September her journal joined the Lancet and 11 others in denouncing the drug companies for imposing restrictions on the data to which scientists are given access in the clinical trials they fund. Some of the journals propose to demand a signed declaration that the papers scientists submit are their own.
The success of Prozac, the antidepressant which became a cult "happy" drug in the 1990s, substantially raised the stakes in psychiatry. Its promotion coincided with the decline of state funding for research, leaving scientists in all areas of medicine dependent on pharmaceutical companies to fund or commission their work. That in turn gave the industry unprecedented control over data and ended with research papers increasingly being drafted by company employees or commercial agencies.
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of scientists for the content of their papers takes on serious significance in the context of court cases in the US, where relatives of people who killed themselves and murdered others while on SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) - the class of drug to which Prozac belongs - claimed the drugs were responsible. According to David Healy, a north Wales-based psychopharmacologist who has given evidence for the families, the companies have relied on articles apparently authored by scientists who may in fact have not seen the raw data.
Dr Healy, who had unprecedented access to the data that the companies keep in their archives, said: "It may well be that 50% of the articles on drugs in the major journals across all areas of medicine are not written ina way that the average person in the street expects them to be authored."
He cites the case brought last year against the former SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) by relatives of Donald Schell. The court found that the company´s best-selling antidepressant, an SSRI called Seroxat, had caused Schell to murder his wife, daughter and granddaughter and commit suicide.
The company´s defence was based on scientific papers which analysed the results of trials comparing Seroxat with a placebo and found there was no increased risk of suicide for depressed people on Seroxat. But the raw data probably does not support that, argues Dr Healy. Some of the placebo suicides took place while patients were withdrawing from an older drug. When the figures are readjusted without these, he says, they show there | {
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is substantially increased risk of suicide on Seroxat.
This raises the question of whether the eminent scientists whose names were on the papers ever saw the raw data from the trials - or saw only tables compiled by company employees, he says. David Dunner, a professor at the University of Washington, who co-authored one of the papers in 1995, admits he did not see the raw data. "I don´t know who saw it. I did not," he said. "My role in the paper was that the data were presented to us and we analysed it and wrote it up and wrote references."
His co-author Stuart Montgomery, then of St Mary´s hospital medical school in London, declined to answer calls and emails from the Guardian. The third name on the paperVienna Coffee House Culture
There may well be any number of things I appreciate more than a historic cafe with a cozy atmosphere and superbly tasty coffee, but anytime I’m in Vienna the memory of those others seems to get lost in the search for the perfect Wiener Melange.
Vienna Coffee House Culture has its origins in the Siege of Vienna by Ottoman armies in 1683, but many of the modern trappings like marble tables / newspapers from around the world / the freedom to linger as long as you like date from closer to the heyday of Viennese Cafes at the beginning of the 19th century. Trotsky and Klimt and Hitler and Freud all frequented these establishments, which were the social heart of the city of Vienna and so | {
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Reuters
Jan 11, 2014
, Last Updated: 11:42 PM ET
David Cassidy, a former teen idol and star of the 1970s U.S. television series "The Partridge Family," was arrested in California on Friday night on suspicion of drunken driving - his third such arrest since 2010.
Cassidy, 63, was stopped on a road near Los Angeles International Airport after making a right turn on a red light in violation of a posted sign, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.
After smelling alcohol coming from Cassidy's vehicle, an officer gave him a field sobriety test that showed a blood alcohol content of 0.19 percent, police said. That level is more than twice the 0.08 legal limit for driving in California.
Cassidy was alone in the car, police said.
Cassidy was charged in Augustwith drunken driving in Schodack, New York, after initially being stopped for not dimming his headlights, authorities said at the time. He was arrested and convicted for drunken driving in Florida in 2010.
Cassidy's manager and publicist, Jo-Ann Geffen, said in an email on Saturday that the singer had just finished a stint in rehab and was faring well in sobriety. He was in Los Angeles for a deposition related to a lawsuit he has filed over money he says is due him from "Partridge Family" merchandise, videos and other material, she said.
"After attending his and his manager's depositions, it appears as if the pressure led to a brief relapse," Geffen said. "He was on his way to the airport to return to his home in Florida and to | {
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transitional rehabilitation. He plans now to return to rehab in an undisclosed facility."
Cassidy became a worldwide teenage heartthrob in the 1970s with hits such as "Cherish" and "I Think I Love You" during the run of "The Partridge Family," a television series about a family of pop singers. He has since appeared on Broadway, in U.S. stage shows and in films.line of Blake Comeau, Josh Bailey, and Brian Rolston struggled mightily through the first nine games, last night the line looked like they were starting to mesh. The third line was the best line last night and now is not the time to switch Comeau, Bailey, and Rolston around as they are finally starting to form some chemistry.
As far as the Isles other lines go, that is a different story. While the Isles first line of Matt Moulson, John Tavares, and PA Parenteau was the Isles best line through the first five or six games, they have struggled in the last two games. Doing some shuffling between the first line and the second line of Kyle Okposo, Frans Nielsen, and Michael Grabner wouldn’t be such a bad idea | {
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Andre Ellington has technically been one of the best 12 running backs in Fantasy this season, but you wouldn't know it by his recent performance. With just 12 yards on five carries Week 13 at Atlanta, he has averaged 25.3 yards on 13.0 carries in his last four games -- a stretch that almost directly coincides with the loss of quarterback Carson Palmer to a season-ending injury.
Of course, health hasn't been Ellington's ally either. He has contended with a foot injury all season, costing him valuable practice time as well as limiting his ability, and to make matters worse, he suffered a hip pointer Week 13 at Atlanta, leaving before the end of the first half.
So if you're keeping score at home, he was already hobbled and therunning back Michael Bush was signed for the long haul and not just for Sunday's game against the Falcons. He added Bush might play Week 13, but it is difficult to get up to speed that quickly.
Bush last played for the Bears in 2013. He has 3,250 rushing yards and 29 rushing touchdowns in 89 career games.
Cardinals coach Bruce Arians told SiriusXM NFL Radio that the team signed running back Michael Bush because "we need a guy who's going to pound it in there and close out games for us." Bush, 30, scored 25 touchdowns over the past four seasons before getting released by the Bears.
Cardinals starter Andre Ellington has averaged under 3.0 yards per carry in three straight games and has rushed for three touchdowns this season. | {
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established by developers that parcel up plots to sell on to individuals.
Developments vary in nature from fully gated enclaves to more open and permeable streets, and this falls into the latter category, resembling a standard suburban cul-de-sac, distinguished only by the curious and underused communal garden and clubhouse positioned on axis at the far end of the street. These elements supposedly justify the service charge that all residents pay but, as Kathpalia points out, ‘when we arrived people had lost interest in this place.
Even though it was a relatively wealthy enclave they didn’t even have a proper road and the garden was a rubbish dump.’ As part of this project, Kathpalia spent a year convincing the housing society to pay for improvements. He says residents are now muchconcrete was cast. By providing the formwork himself, he deftly economised on the most expensive part of the casting process. ‘I bought some old wooden pallets that they sell by weight,’ he explains. ‘You strip them down to get decent pine planks. We also used plywood, mixing the two to make the patterns.’
This improvised process is common in Indian construction, partly by accident and partly by design. Into this are inset beautifully crafted timber windows and panels, again inspired by historic precedent, the architect recalling how he was reminded of walking through the streets of a medieval town lined with timber facades.
The timber here is teak, and the composition creates different rhythms that resonate with the dappled shadows on its surface. With double skin concrete walls, freestanding columns | {
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and floating concrete slabs, the structure is held in equilibrium without the support of any internal walls.
The interior could be opened up to make, as Kathpalia speculates, an interesting gallery. As it is, however, freestanding storage walls define the internal rooms, with clerestory glazing and built-in lay-lights enhancing the house’s spatial fluidity. On the first floor all rooms have at least one roof light, set into ceilings that rise up to trace the line of the distinctive white ceramic roof.
Sitting in a sunken roof terrace, this external space is perhaps the most overt reference to the lineage of Kathpalia’s work, building on the legacy of his father-in-law, Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi. Since 1995, Kathpalia and his wife Radhika have worked alongside Doshi. Recently joined by two new partners, Doshi’sa result, the washing cost is high and water resources will be polluted to a certain extent.
China Patent Publication No. CN2898085Y discloses an impeller of washing machine, comprising a round underpan and water string set on the underpan, which is characterized in that the underpan has high circumference and low center, forming a concave curved sphere. The water string comprises a central water string, a primary water string and a secondary water string, and the central water string is positioned in the middle of the underpan; the primary water string is arranged radially on the underpan, on both sides thereof, a bevel tilting outwards is positioned; the secondary water string is also arranged radially on the underpan, on both sides thereof, a bevel tilting outwards is positioned; the | {
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Leimert Park People St Plaza: Making a Cookie-Cutter Program Fit a Cultural Community’s Aspirations
On my way to a meeting of the Leimert Park Village stakeholders at the Vision Theater a few weeks ago, I poked my head into the art space known as the KAOS Network looking for founder and artist Ben Caldwell.
I found him huddled around a table with Sherri Franklin, the founder of Urban Design Center, and Alison Kendall, Principal Architect at Kendall Planning + Design (both of whom worked on the project pro-bono), finalizing the designs for Leimert Park’s People St. plaza project to be implemented at 43rd Pl. between Leimert Park Bl. and Degnan.
As Kendall and Franklin discussed the color scheme and the type and placement of street furniture and foliage around the perimeter,take responsibility for the financing, maintenance, and programming around the project. Then they needed to gather signatures and letters of support, pull together a budget and list of potential plaza-centric activities, and design the space in a way that felt organic to the community but fit within the standard options that LADOT was offering (see more about the development of the project and the Thought Leadership Team here).
While they had embraced the idea of putting together a People St. project, they had been adamant that they wanted it to reflect the character and culture of the community. It also had to fit into their “20/20 Vision” — the longer-term strategy for the future named, in part, for the year the Leimert Park station of the Crenshaw Line is | {
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studio, the soon-to-be-renovated Vision Theater, and the KAOS Network, and within a few hundred feet of the planned Metro stop — would serve as one of the anchors of that effort. It would also, they hope, serve as a catalyst for pedestrian-oriented improvements along Degnan, which is home to a number of shops, galleries, studios, and places to eat.
That zone is already ground zero for the Leimert Park Art Walk and a number of other cultural events that take place throughout the year. In the not-too-distant-past, it was also the site of a vibrant late-night scene thanks to Richard Fulton and the musicians, poets, and artists from his cafe, 5th Street Dick’s, and The World Stage that filled the evening air with joyful noise.
Stakeholders are counting on bothon the trees they would potentially prefer to see along Crenshaw once the subway construction was completed.
The plaza will also feature wooden benches, bistro-style chairs and tables, and a portable stage, and possibly be complemented by wicker street furniture to be set along the sidewalks of 43rd Pl. and Degnan.
A number of ideas for how to activate the space were suggested on Monday, as well, including fitness classes, youth theater performances, solstice celebrations, open-air movie screenings, dinner-and-discourse events, a dance program modeled after the Music Center’s Dance Downtown, reading circles, and a concert series.
All said, it’s a lot to line up for what is essentially a temporary installation (People St. plaza are pilot programs intended to be in place for a year, with the possibility for renewal). But | {
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Reading Pride 2014
Live updates
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Reading today in a colourful display of solidarity for the town's annual Pride parade. The event, which is in its eleventh year, is a celebration of the community's diversity and a march for equality.their home countries. In Yemen, IOM provides additional humanitarian assistance to migrants, including health care, shelter and aid items and psychosocial support, while also supporting displaced and conflict affected Yemenis. In Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti, IOM also provides emergency support to migrants starting out their journeys, while in transit and when returning.
This return movement from Yemen is funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), the Government of Germany and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fund. | {
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minister Eric Abetz and then-human services minister Marise Payne, Mr Andrews expressed "significant concerns" about the razor gang's request.
"This is a fundamental change to Australia's universal social security system … it is not clear that there is a strong evidence base for this approach," he wrote in the attached proposal.
"Young people in financial hardship could experience homelessness, be driven to crime and other antisocial behaviour, family breakdown and possible criminal flow-on resulting from removing the social security safety net."
He noted that there was already a crackdown on youth welfare factored into the 2014 budget and suggested any further changes be part of a broader review of welfare.
In a statement provided to the ABC this morning, Mr Abbott said:
"While I never comment on the deliberations of cabinet, the 2014Robert Natelson, a retired constitutional law professor who is allied with the ultra-conservative Heartland Institute, writes in The Hill that the Supreme Court may well strike down the state prohibitions on funding religious schools (known as “baby Blaine amendments”) because of their origins in anti-Catholic bias. If this happened, it would pave the way for government to divert public funding from public schools to pay for vouchers for religious schools, as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos advocates.
The Blaine Amendment was proposed by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives James G. Blaine in 1875. Blaine was an ambitious politician from Maine who ran for president in 1876, 1880, and 1884. He was interested in a wide range of issues, including trade, monetary policy, and foreign affairs. He is | {
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19th century were deeply imbued with Protestant teachings and practices. I wrote about the battle between Protestants and Catholics in my history of the New York City public schools (The Great School Wars). The arrival of large numbers of Irish immigrants in the 1840s, mostly Catholic, concurred with the beginnings of public school systems in urban areas.
In New York City, Bishop John Hughes (later Archbishop Hughes) fought the local school authorities over the content of the textbooks, which contained anti-Catholic selections, and the daily Protestant prayers and rituals in the schools. Hughes demanded equal funding for Catholic schools, since the public schools served as Protestant schools. Even if they cleansed the textbooks of Protestant views of history, he said, the schools would still fail to meet the needsof Catholic children for a Catholic education. He did not want nonsectarian schools; he wanted Catholic schools. He proposed that the state fund both Catholic public schools and Protestant public schools. He ultimately lost the battle, but he determined to build an independent Catholic school system that was privately supported to make sure that Catholic children were not exposed to Protestant teachings in the public schools. His example eventually persuaded the American Catholic Church to require all parishes to open their own schools, and to expect all Catholic children to attend them.
The Protestants who then ran the New York City Public School Society tried to placate Bishop Hughes by expurgating textbook content that he found offensive. Their efforts did not satisfy Bishop Hughes because he did not want | {
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nonsectarian public schools. He wanted schools that taught the Catholic religion to Catholic children.
In the 1840s and 1850s, the Know-Nothing Party formed to advocate for white Anglo-Protestant nativism and to harass Catholics and immigrants. The popular press was rife with cartoons ridiculing Catholics and articles warning about the Catholic menace. Prejudice against Catholics and Irish immigrants occasionally turned violent, and churches and convents were burned to the ground.
The Blaine Amendment appealed to anti-Catholic sentiment among the dominant Protestant majority (Blaine’s mother was Irish-Catholic, and as Natelson points out, there is no evidence that he was prejudiced). Blaine was a member of the moderate faction of the Republican party and a strong supporter of black suffrage. (Ironically, Archbishop Hughes of New York was an opponent of abolitionism.)
SCROLL TO CONTINUEpublic beaches, libraries, and parks. Separation of church and state is a valuable principle that protects the church schools from government intervention and mandates. Religious liberty is best protected by keeping it separate from government dollars and government control. | {
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I. Facts
As we understand the facts, the St. Paul Inter-Tribal Housing Board is a
coalition of the four major Indian organizations serving St. Paul: the St. Paul
American Indian Center; the Red School House, Inc.; the St. Raul American
Indian Movement, Inc.; and the St. Paul Urban Indian Health Board Clinic.
Three different Tribes are represented on its five-member Board of Directors.
The Board has applied to be the nonprofit sponsor of 24 scattered sites, detached
rental housing units of three and four bedrooms, for low-income Indian families.
The contemplated sites are six central St. Paul neighborhoods with high Indian
concentrations.' Only Indian families whose head of household has at least “ one-
quarter degree Indian blood, as verified by tribal enrollment,” would 307
Thus, the Housing Act, its legislative history, and the accompanying Indian
housing regulations all indicate that insofar as Congress intended to treat Indians
specially under the Act, federal assistance would be directed to Indian areas. The
Act is silent on the possibility of Indian-only off-reservation housing. If Congress
has not authorized preferential treatment as part of the unique relationship
between the federal government and the Indian Tribes, the Court has found that to
interpret the law specially for Indians is “ not shown to be necessary to the
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$15,000,000 per annum, which amount shall be increased by
not less than $ 15,000,000 per annum , on July 1, 1975, and by not less than $ 17,000,000 per annum
on October 1, 1976, to assist in financing the development acquisition cost of low-income housing
for families who are members of any Indian tribe, band, pueblo, group, or community of Indians or
Alaska Natives which is recognized by the Federal Government as eligible for service from the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, or who are wards of any State government, except that none of the funds
the park. Past accomplishments include Splash Mountain and, with Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, Star Tours, the first major motion simulator ride. He also helped develop New Fantasyland and EuroDisney.
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But the Indiana Jones Adventure, a new ride--Baxter and his colleagues refer to it, not incorrectly, as a "show"--opening Friday, takes the concept of amusement park attraction to a new level. As Baxter himself says, with a smile acknowledging his understatement, "I like creating rides that don't relate to any other ride you've ever been on."
Michael Eisner, chairman and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Co., is certainly a believer.
"It's always important to exceed guest expectations, to top ourselves each time out, and this time we've clearly done it," he says. "Tony is a fountain of ideas. He's | {
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a very creative guy, and I always enjoy working with him."
One tricky part in developing the new attraction, in fact, came in writing the disclaimer warning off pregnant moms, easily frightened kids and folks with weak hearts, bad backs and a predilection for calm.
"It's not a roller coaster, it's not like anything you've ever been on before," Baxter says. "Putting it into words is difficult."
Eventually, it was decided to compare the ride to an off-road vehicle journey. "If you were leaping off the edge of a riverbed, then running over cobblestones in a dried-up wash, then roaring over to the other side, that's exactly what it felt like," he says.
"This is kind of the first performance in this medium. It's a medium that hasn't been explored before. WhenSam Loomis. Its all fairly effectively (even though they leap-frogged the major plothole of Michael and more shockingly Loomis being alive somehow) and none of it comes off as too on-the-nose or meandering. The exposition does its job early (74% prevalence at minute 18) and then vacates the premises for the rest of the movie ( 29% at the end of the movie) as seen in Figure 4.
While exposition is front-loaded (not a bad thing), character work is much more balanced. The dialogue scenes early on with Jamie and Rachel bonding and Dr. Loomis regretting his career in mental health are strong but they are intermingled with
exposition. The movie really doubles down on the characters once Loomis is chasing Michael to Haddonfield though. Between 30 and 45 minutes,character | {
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recorded:
2 SCO gentlemen's bicycles, from 1970-1980, and 1 home trainer, a little younger than the others.
Recorded inside a studio with the bikes either being on a dynamo or suspended from the ceiling, all bikes had lavalier microphones mounted front and back, and a microphone overhead of the rider. Some takes has a contact microphone track to add to the misery.
The collection consists of 43 stereo recordings of 12 rare, industrial machines used many decades ago in German power plants and industrial sites. It includes the sounds of massive 10KV power switches, a Siemens exciter machine (power generator) built in 1945 and many other vintage machines.
All machines were recorded in isolation without background noise and at high sample rates (192 kHz / 24 bit) with a Sound Devices 633around the turn of the 20th century and had a single unique function – to stamp and emboss checks for banks. The Burroughs corporation has been around since 1886, and was an early force in the adding machine, check stamper and typewriter industries. This Protectograph version had an electric mechanism that would move large printheads down through a ribbon and would stamp a check hard and repeatedly for as long as the print key was held down. Our machine was acquired in perfect working condition.
Its keys have a short through but a satisfying clack, and the punch mechanism is a huge whir stamp sound than can cycle if the punch button is held down. We rolled with the case both on and off, which revealed very different sounds | {
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to ease a ban on legislators visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque compound next week, according to news reports said.
The news prompted calls by activists on social media asking Palestinians to also be present at the site in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Thursday.
Earlier, AFP news agency had quoted an Israeli official as saying that members of parliament would be allowed to visit the site known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and Jews as the Temple Mount in a one-day trial next week.
"In consultation with security officials, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to open the Temple Mount to MPs' visits, for one day at this stage, on Tuesday, August 29," the member of the prime minister's office, whospoke on condition of anonymity, said.
"The decision was taken in light of the improvement in the security situation at the site," he said. "Decisions on the issue will continue to be made in accordance with assessments of the security situation."
Israel's Channel 2 cited officials confirming the move on Thursday.
READ MORE: The battle for al-Aqsa 'has just started'
Netanyahu instructed police in October 2015 to bar MPs from visiting the site in the Old City of Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, which houses the al-Aqsa Mosque complex.
It was meant to help calm unrest that erupted in part over Palestinian fears that Israel was planning to assert further control over the compound.
The site is the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam, and it is central to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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allowed to visit the compound but not pray there, and the site has been the scene of regular confrontations over any attempt to flout the rule.
Yehuda Glick, a legislator from Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, petitioned Israel's Supreme Court in March against the ban on members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, from visiting the hilltop site.
Glick performed prayers outside al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of Israeli police early on Wednesday, and more than 130 Israeli settlers entered the compound.
READ MORE: 'We won': Al-Aqsa Mosque reopened to all Palestinians
In July, Palestinians protested night and day for nearly two weeks, refusing to pray inside the compound after Israel installed metal detectors at its entrances.
They held prayers in the streets and just outside the gates to the Old City.
Palestinians viewed theinstallation of the surveillance equipment as Israel asserting further control.
The new regulations came after an attack on July 14 by three Palestinian citizens of Israel, who killed two Israeli policemen in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The three men were then chased inside the compound before they were shot and killed.
In 13 days of protests, Israeli forces wounded more than 1,000 Palestinians during clashes, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
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a wingspan of about 15 feet (4.6 m). Two of the vehicles could fit inside a space shuttle's payload bay.
The Air Force is known to have two X-37Bs, both of which were built by Boeing. These twin craft have flown four missions to date. OTV-1 launched on April 22, 2010, and landed on Dec. 3 of that year, spending 224 days in orbit. OTV-2 started on March 5, 2011, and wrapped up on June 16, 2012, after 468 days in space. OTV-3 launched on Dec. 11, 2012, and landed on Oct. 17, 2014, after circling the Earth for more than 674 days.
The current mission, OTV-4, lifted off on May 20, 2015.
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane launches atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May2007 by Norwegian web browser company Opera, is essentially an extension of the landmark case in the 1990s that saw Microsoft go up against the US government over allegations of anti-competitive behaviour.
In 1998, the US government tried Microsoft over accusations that it unfairly maintained its monopoly, ending with that the company "will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm… that could intensify competition".
Although the US Department of Justice initially sought to split Microsoft in two, an intervention by President George Bush culminated in a settlement in 2001 – although thanks to a torturous appeals process, the agreement was not finally settled until 2004.
But commission officials said that the punishments put in place by Washington lawyers did not affect the legal standing of Windows | {
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piece of land at 119 Lai Chi Kok Road from the Government of Hong Kong and appointed W. H. Bourne, a local architect who specialised in designing shophouses to construct Lui Seng Chun. The construction work was completed in around 1931. The total area was about 600 square meters, a total of four floors. Each floor contained a wide balcony that could be used to block the sunlight and the rain.
Mr. Lui married three wives and had lots of children. In order to balance between his family's accommodation and his income, he decided to use shophouse as "Lui Seng Chun" building type. The upper floors became living quarters for the members of Lui's family, while the ground floor of the building was occupied by a Chinese bone-setting medicineremote enough not to be a casual place to visit.
Carn Kenidjack stands on the hill to the north of the site and the Scilly islands can be seen to the south west on a clear day, which it was when I was there.
22.10.05
Drove up through village to the end of the tarmac. parked and followed sign up track rather than cross fields on footpath. Passed the farm and hit the mud! Once out onto the open moor it is a short walk to the right to find the stones. There is now no sign of the burning from a year or so ago, infact the stones are now surrounded by a good covering of bracken. The sky over Keninjack was ever changing from gray to blue as the | {
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sun threatened to come out...I waited patiently and finally got my rewards. Behind me from atop of the wall the Scilly Isles stood out proud whilst St Just church tower gleamed in the sunlight...I would have loved to have walked up to the carn but time was against me...perhaps next time.
It's a stiff old walk up from the bottom of the village, but just over a year on from the unintentional scorching the stones received (see News), they appear to be healing well. Most of the burnt lichen has been removed, and the stones look in good condition. I didn't notice any obvious cracking on the stones I inspected closely.
I parked in the lane below Hailglower farm,it was a lovely day and the walk was most enjoyable.I wasis another involving pixies enticing passers by and hosting "Little Folk" parties with dancing! There are stories of actual encounters with the Devil on nearby Carn Kenidjack, which dominates the horizon.
"I should not choose to walk the moor at night; but a neurotic modern would have had nothing to fear on that sunny September morning. Nevertheless, it was with a sensation, not entirely pleasant, of passing from the land of humans to the land of shades that I left the last farm behind and crossed the moor, near the barrow where the famous Tregeseal urn was found, now in the British Museum, in search of the Tregeseal stone circles - two circles seventy-five feet apart. In one, sixty-nine feet in diameter, eight stones are erect and five prostrate; | {
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President Donald Trump's administration also invoked the threat from Iran to declare a national security-related emergency that would clear the sale of billions of dollars' worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries without required congressional approval. The actions were the latest by the Trump administration as it highlights what it sees as a threat of potential attack by Iran, and follows decisions to speed the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group as well as send bombers and additional Patriot missiles to the Middle East. The deployments, decried by Iran as escalatory, have come amid a freeze in direct communication between the United States and Iran that has raised concerns about the increasing risk of an inadvertent conflict.
British Prime Minister Theresa Mayfrom the White House?” Instead of answering that question, Sanders stammered a bit as she once again accused Democrats of being “incapable of doing anything other than investigating this president.”“They spend all of their time attacking him and the fact that they would have a meeting an hour before they are set to arrive at the White House where Nancy Pelosi literally accuses the president of a crime and then wants to walk into his office and sit down as if nothing happened, that's just—that's lunacy,” she continued. “That's not even in the realm of possibility. The president absolutely wants to get infrastructure done, he wants to secure our border, he wants to do things that help our veterans, he wants to improve our education system, he wants | {
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Climate change has long been a disaster in the making, but until recently the American public tended to treat it as an afterthought. The Green New Deal brought climate change front and center, and made Americans think about big bold solutions instead of technical tweaks and half measures. The think tank Data for Progress has a plan that actually predates Ocasio-Cortez’s, but which goes into much greater detail about how to combat climate change both at home and abroad.
Facebook has been accused of leaving 'broken children' as collateral damage in the wake of their commercial aims, the child sex abuse inquiry has heard. Barrister William Chapman, representing the victims of abuse at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), said social mediajustify their hostile policies and to raise tensions in the Persian Gulf," Zarif told state news agency IRNA.
US President Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his claim of an "attempted coup" against him as his battle with Democratic foes entered a vicious new phase of personal insults and strong-arm tactics. Hovering over it all: the looming question of whether or not the Republican leader will be impeached -- "the big I-word," as Trump put it recently. The president said he has given his attorney general wide latitude to declassify intelligence information as he probes the origins of the government's investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign ties to Russia.
This month Alabama passed a law banning abortions at any time period with no exceptions for rape or incest, only when the | {
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November and also free the 24 sailors it detained. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued its order at its Hamburg headquarters following a hearing earlier this month. Russia stayed away from both the hearing and Saturday's session.
A student at Oregon State University died on Sunday after falling 100 feet from a scenic lookout on the Oregon coast, authorities said. Michelle Casey, 21, was taking pictures of the popular coastal viewpoint near the city of Manzanita when she lost her balance and slipped off the steep edge, KPTV reported. Her boyfriend told deputies that she landed in a tree, which stopped her from falling into the Pacific Ocean, the sheriff's office said in a statement on Monday.
Investec Asset Management, Aberdeen Standard Investments and Pictet Assetof everyday practicality with up-coming collector car status.
CHICAGO/SEATTLE May 24 (Reuters) - United Airlines said on Friday it is extending by one month its cancellations of Boeing Co 737 MAX flights, through Aug. 3, as the jetliner remains grounded following two fatal crashes. United, which operates 14 737 MAX jets, said the decision would lead to about 40 or 45 daily canceled flights. The Chicago-based carrier joins rivals Southwest Airlines Co and American Airlines Group Inc which had already suspended 737 MAX flights into August as global carriers await regulatory approval for the aircraft to fly again.
At a rambling White House news conference, President Trump on Thursday sought to refute House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's description of his demeanor at a meeting on infrastructure that the president walked out | {
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of the day before. “She said I walked into the room right next door yesterday and walked in and started screaming and yelling,” Trump told reporters. Seeking backup from his staff, Trump asked White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for her description of his bearing during the meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Narendra Modi swept back into power on Thursday as his Hindu nationalist party made unexpected gains in a landslide victory. After a mammoth six-week election in which over 600 million people voted, all the results were tallied on Thursday and within hours the TV networks predicted a win for Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Official data from the Election Commission showed Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party ahead in 300 of the 542 seats upfor grabs, up from the 282 it won in 2014 and more than the 272 seats needed for a majority in the lower house of parliament. That would give his party the first back-to-back majority for a single party since 1984. "Together we grow," Mr Modi said on Twitter. "Together we prosper. Together we will build a strong and inclusive India. India wins yet again!" Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at BJP headquarters to attend a ceremony to thank the Union Council of Ministers for their contribution in India's general election, in New Delhi Credit: AFP The win by Modi and the BJP has surprised even the most hardened political analysts, with the consensus being that they would be returned to power but with a reduced majority. | {
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His re-election reinforces a global trend of right-wing populists sweeping to victory, from the United States to Brazil and Italy, often after adopting harsh positions on protectionism, immigration and defence. The result reinforces Mr Modi's immense popularity and vindicated what at times was a belligerent campaign by several parties, with the focus heavily on the economy, national security, and from the BJP's perspective, an affirmation of its underlying ideology of Hindu nationalism. Nalin Kohli, a senior BJP official, claimed his party had picked up votes from Muslims, especially Muslim women. “We are the party of power, we are the flavour of the season. It is the aspirations of 1 billion-plus people that have elected us." The main opposition Congress party was heading for a better performance than itsrightist agenda with all the institutions of the state under its control, the party will be more likely to convert India into a majoritarian state. “Law, education and culture will be the major areas expecting paradigm shift. Foreign and Finance policies will continue as they are going on now.” The election has been the biggest democratic exercise in history with an electorate of 900million, more than 1 million polling booths, seen phases of polling, seven national parties and dozens more regional parties vying for seats in the New Delhi parliament. Commentators have said Mr Modi put himself at the centre of a more presidential style of campaign, often making himself and his party interchangeable. At a packed victory rally at the BJP headquarters in Delhi, Mr Modi said: | {
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Allen Boisjoli had been waiting more than two years for his day in court, but halfway through the first day of his trial the charges against him were stayed.
Before any evidence had been heard on Monday, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Sterling Sanderman raised concerns about the charges.
Boisjoli, a self-proclaimed Freeman on the Land, was accused of launching a campaign of "paper terrorism" against a peace officer who wrote him a speeding ticket.
In the fall of 2015, he allegedly "engaged in conduct with the intent to provoke a state of fear in a justice system participant," according to the charges filed with the court.
The Crown alleged Boisjoli's target was Mitchell Knudson, and the intention was to stop Knudson from doing his job. Boisjoli tried unsuccessfully to file paperworkDespite rumors one cast member probably wouldn't come back to the show considering all the drama that went down during The Real Housewives of Atlanta's sixth season -- especially between Moore and Williams during the reunion special in March -- all the ladies are reportedly inking their contracts and will reprise their roles.
A source had told E! News at the time it was "highly doubtful" both women would return to the show following their huge fight.
Speculation has also recently surfaced Leakes wouldn't be returning to the show after her successful stint on Dancing with the Stars.
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Mr Harper has been in office since January 2006 Opposition parties in Canada have joined forces to try to topple the minority Conservative government less than two months after elections. The Liberals, New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois say the government is failing to tackle Canada's economic problems. They intend to use their joint majority to vote against PM Stephen Harper in a confidence motion due next Monday. If Mr Harper loses, Canada's Governor General would call a snap poll or ask the opposition to form the government. Constitutional experts say Governor General Michaelle Jean may favour the second option as the country has had an election so recently. Mr Harper's Conservatives were re-elected in October but as they failed to secure a majority, they must rely on thethe 14 October polls and had already announced plans to step down next May. The opposition parties say they were spurred to action by the failure of the government to deal with the financial crisis and boost the country's economy, and that they are set to introduce a stimulus package. Governor General Michaelle Jean's post is usually largely ceremonial "Given the critical situation facing our fellow citizens and the refusal and inability of the Harper government to deal with this critical situation, the opposition parties have decided that it was now time to take action," Mr Dion said. The opposition parties were also angered by Mr Harper's attempt to eliminate public financing of political parties, a move that would hit them hard, Reuters reports. Mr Harper said the | {
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and staying with us. She really cares about him. You'd like her."
"Not going to happen," Rudi warned.
Frances sighed and looked at her watch. Then she looked at Ivari. "He's done it again."
"I DON'T KNOW when he started doing this," said Ivari. "He just has too much to drink."
"Which really is something new," Rudi added.
Ivari had opened the lock on the bathroom door with a screwdriver kept handy for the purpose. They were standing in the doorway looking at Toomas, who was sitting on the toilet with his jeans and boxer-shorts around his ankles. His head was leaned against the wall and his eyes were closed and he was snoring gently.
Frances, who was standing behind them, said, "The first time, it was a little worrying. The second time, itclaiming that they conspired to deprive him of his constitutional rights. Specifically, Tate's complaint alleged that the Defendants conspired to present perjured testimony to a federal grand jury sitting in the Western District of Virginia, implicating Tate in the murder of a person who was to be a witness against him in his 1981 drug conspiracy trial. According to the complaint, the Defendants then conspired to have the same evidence presented to a state grand jury in North Carolina, leading to Tate being named as an unindicted co-conspirator for the murder. A witness who implicated Tate in the murder later recanted his testimony. Finally, Tate averred that the Defendants conspired to use the fact that he was an unindicted co-conspirator to impact negatively on | {
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league has been a loyal companion to its big brother, Code S, and has served as baptism for upcoming players as well as the home for gamers who struggle to meet the high level standards of competition in Code S. The relegation of the “up and down matches” connected the two leagues, but this is now set to change. Instead of Code A, a set of qualifiers will be ran to populate Code S, with no detail on the format of said qualifiers.
GSL has run since 2010 and 2017 will mark the arrival of its 30th season.is divorced. At the same time, the conversion court held that our client was a “questionable” Jew (safeq yehudiyah) (!). Her case is on appeal.
In CWJ's current case, our client also wanted a divorce. But in contrast to the first case, the couple had reached an amicable settlement. They arrived at the Ashdod rabbinic court for the express and solitary purpose of completing the ritual of the get. Rabbi Atia, the judge in charge of the get procedure, noticed that our client was a convert and, at his own initiative, started asking her questions: Did she turn on lights on the Sabbath? Did she observe the laws of family purity? When he was not satisfied with her answers, Rabbi Atia held that she, like our other client, was | {
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Justin Hartley Reveals What He Wants to See Next for Kevin Pearson on This is Us Season 2
Justin Hartley is opening up about his character Kevin Pearson and what he expects to see for him in This is Us Season 2. Viewers last saw Kevin making yet another huge decision in his life, as he once again left his family and friends behind for another shot at Hollywood. In fact, he received the phone call of his career when director Ron Howard called him to offer him a new role in an upcoming film.
According to Justin, he feels as though Kevin will be forced to decide if he wants to once again focus on his Hollywood career or his new relationship with his ex-wife, Sophie (played by actressLaMichael James and A.J. Jenkins, the 49ers' first two 2012 draft picks, are active. It's the first time James has been in uniform this season, while Jenkins has dressed twice but has yet to play a snap.
Manningham is dealing with a shoulder injury. However, Jacobs, who appears to be healthy, recently went on an Instagram rant in which he expressed his unhappiness with the 49ers, calling this season "by far the worst year I ever had." | {
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On September 21, 2001, a huge explosion occurred in the AZF fertilizer factory in Toulouse, France, belonging to the Grande Paroisse branch of the Total group.
Three hundred tons of ammonium nitrates were stored (the maximum capacity was 2,000 tons) in the hangar #221. The whole factory was destroyed making a crater of depth 20 to 30 m (65 to 100 ft), with a diameter of 200 m (650 ft); steel girders were found 3 km away from the explosion. The explosion was heard 80 km away (50 miles). Due to the acoustics of the hills and the large sound, the explosion was reported as occurring in multiple places. Police at first believed that at least five bombs had simultaneously gone off. There is still controversy over theexact number of explosions.
The factory was close to the city: one of the most inhabited areas, Le Mirail, is just one kilometer away (0.6 miles). Several schools, one hospital and a psychiatric hospital had to be evacuated.
The disaster caused 29 deaths (28 from the factory, one lycéen — secondary school/high school pupil — from a neighbouring school), 2,500 seriously wounded and 8,000 light casualties. Two thirds of the city's windows were shattered, causing 70 eye wounds and several thousand wounds which had to be sutured. The full environmental consequences of the catastrophe are not yet completely known.
On September 21, 2001, a huge explosion occurred in the AZF fertilizer factory in Toulouse, France, belonging to the Grande Paroisse branch of the Total group.
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had to be evacuated.
The disaster caused 29 deaths (28 from the factory, one lycéen — secondary school/high school pupil — from a neighbouring school), 2,500 seriously wounded and 8,000 light casualties. Two thirds of the city's windows were shattered, causing 70 eye wounds and several thousand wounds which had to be sutured. The full environmental consequences of the catastrophe are not yet completely known.
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Other hypotheses explaining the explosion have been discussed by the public:
- an unexplained initial subterranean explosion roughly 8 seconds before the main AZF explosion, in the SNPE (Société Nationale de Propulsants et Explosifs) located mere hundreds of meters away from the AZF factory, which would have caused electrical deficiencies (as shown on the records by the national electric company EDF)Monday, April 23, 2012
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According to a new diagnosis by a surgical pathologist, Frida Kahlo most likely suffered uterine damage during a streetcar accident as a teenager and this led to a rare condition known as Asherman's syndrome, and that would explain the Mexican artist's infertility.
Dr. Fernando Antelo, from the Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, said, "Her survival defied the grim prognostication by her physicians; however, complications from this physical trauma would emerge in her adulthood." He presented his diagnosis yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association of Anatomists in San Diego.
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Tough stretch
The Portland Trail Blazers split a back-to-back against the Miami Heat and the Golden State Warriors heading into the weekend, but things aren’t slowing down, as the Oklahoma City Thunder are set to enter the Rose Garden Sunday night.
The defending Western Conference champions have played some competitive games against Portland in the past, and while the Blazers have a whole new look about them this season, don’t think that they’ll let up in their first trip to Pacific Northwest of 2013.
The Blazers have grown up quickly since last playing the Thunder. (Photo: Sue Ogrocki/AP)
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The Trail Blazers and the Thunder faced off in just the second game of the season, and while Portland hung around most of the way, their youth and inexperience let[Study of the relationship of growth and morphological differentiation to antibiotic formation in heliomycin-producing cultures].
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Finally, when preparing or storing the food, it
must not touch or be near food items that have failed to comply to the
first three rules, and anything else that is regarded as unclean.
Requirements for the halal label are similar to that of the
certificate. When the halal label is displayed during business hours,
it indicates that the food available has met four requirements.
The
enforcement and carrying out the law, said the deputy minister, extends
to government agencies such as the Royal Brunei Police Force and
Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources, and is not solely under the
Ministry of Religious Affairs.
The Order was part of the
government’s initiative to assist users by giving knowledge and
acquiring food categorised as quality halal food (halalan taiyiban).
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food items in the Order includes chewing items, medicines, prepared
ingredients to be sold orWillendorf (26,000 years old) found at Willendorf, near Krems an der Donau. In 2005 in the same area, a double infant burial site was discovered at Krems-Wachtberg, dating from Gravettian culture (27,000 years old), the oldest burial ground found in Austria to date.
Mesolithic
Mesolithic remains include rock shelters (abris) from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine Valley, a funeral site at Elsbethen and a few other sites with microlithic artifacts which demonstrate the transition from living as hunter-gatherers and sedentary farmers and ranchers.
Neolithic
During the Neolithic era, most of those areas of Austria that were amenable to agriculture and were sources of raw materials were settled. Remains include those of the Linear pottery culture, one of the first agrarian cultures in Europe. The first recorded rural settlement from | {
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this time was at Brunn am Gebirge in Mödling. Austria's first industrial monument, the chert mine at Mauer-Antonshöhe in the Mauer neighborhood of the southern Vienna district of Liesing dates from this period. In the Lengyel culture, which followed Linear Pottery in Lower Austria, circular ditches were constructed.
Copper Age
Traces of the Copper Age (Chalcolithic era) in Austria were identified in the Carpathian Basin hoard at Stollhof, Hohe Wand, Lower Austria. Hilltop settlements from this era are common in eastern Austria. During this time the inhabitants sought out and developed raw materials in the central Alpine areas. The most important find is considered to be the Iceman Ötzi a well-preserved mummy of a man frozen in the Alps dating from approximately 3,300 BC, although these finds are nowmust answer to the Diet for not recognising the new emperor, Rudolf. Ottokar refused either to appear or to restore the duchies of Austria, Styria and Carinthia with the March of Carniola, which he had claimed through his first wife, a Babenberg heiress, and which he had seized while disputing them with another Babenberg heir, Margrave Hermann VI of Baden.
Rudolph refuted Ottokar's succession to the Babenberg patrimony, declaring that the provinces must revert to the Imperial crown due to the lack of male-line heirs (a position that however conflicted with the provisions of the Austrian Privilegium Minus). King Ottokar was placed under the imperial ban; and in June 1276 war was declared against him, Rudolf laying siege to Vienna. Having persuaded Ottokar's former ally Duke Henry XIII of | {
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Empress Elisabeth of Austria, making Francis brother in law to the Emperor. Ferdinand died a few months later in May, and Francis and Maria Sophie ascended the throne.
In the meantime Austria had fallen into a trap set by the Italian risorgimento. Piedmont, jointly ruled with Sardinia had been the site of earlier insurrections. This time they formed a secret alliance with France (Patto di Plombières), whose emperor, Napoleon III was a previous Carbonari. Piedmont then proceeded to provoke Vienna with a series of military manoeuvres, successfully triggering an ultimatum to Turin on 23 April. Its rejection was followed by an Austrian invasion, and precipitated war with France (Second Italian War of Independence 1859). Austria mistakenly expected support and received none, and the country was ill-prepared for war, whichthat emerged from the dissolution of the Empire and all the lands in question remained separated from the new Austria.
In the words of the then French premier Georges Clemenceau "ce qui reste, c'est l'Autriche" ("Austria is what's left"). An empire of over 50 million had been reduced to a state of 6.5 million.
1919
On 19 February elections were held for what was now called the Constituent National Assembly (Konstituierende Nationalversammlung). Although the Social Democrats won the most seats (41%) they did not have an absolute majority and formed a grand coalition with the second-largest party, the Christian Socialists. On 12 March the National Assembly declared "German Austria" to the part of the "German Republic".
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Rathkolb, Oliver. The Paradoxical Republic: Austria, 1945–2005 (Berghahn Books; 2010) 301 pages). Translation of 2005 study of paradoxical aspects of Austria's political culture and society.
Secher, H. Pierre. Bruno Kreisky, chancellor of Austria: a political biography (Dorrance Publ., 1993).
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The Mormon church’s humanitarian aid program, though heavily invested in flood relief efforts under way in Texas, has not forgotten the victims of a deadly mudslide in the West African nation of Sierra Leone.
LDS Charities officials confirmed Wednesday that they have shipped and delivered relief supplies including mattresses, food, water and emergency aid to 105 families so far.
The items were distributed on the ground by area Mormon and community leaders in Sierra Leone. The vast majority of them have no connection with the Utah-based Mormon faith, church officials say.
After several days of torrential rains,, a massive mudslide struck near the capital city of Freetown on Aug. 14, killing an estimated 1,000 people and left thousands more homeless.
The church reported that John Titus O’Neil, leader of a Mormon congregationseriously. It does not take much to imagine the cycle of provocation and deterrence getting out of hand, especially if South Korea and the United States misjudge North Korea’s actions—or vice versa. And even without nuclear missiles, conflict on the crowded Korean peninsula would be savage. Decrepit North Korea would certainly be outgunned by South Korea and America. But nobody should doubt the cult-like commitment of the North’s armed forces. The human cost of war would be huge: 1.7m men serve in uniform on the peninsula, and North Korean artillery batteries are trained on the megalopolis of Seoul. American generals guess that a conflict could kill at least 1m, including thousands of Americans. Oh, and it would also be curtains for Asia’s thriving economy.
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regime that cares nothing for its own brutalised people. Some 150,000-200,000 North Koreans—individuals and often whole families—rot as political prisoners in a vast gulag. Farmers are herded into collectives and forced into gruelling manual labour. Women trying to make a living by smuggling refugees across the border with China are shot if they do not know the right people to bribe.
In some ways the North is even scarier under its new ruler than it was under his father, who died in 2011. Early hopes that Mr Kim might prove a youthful agent of change seem entirely dashed by his nuclear explosion and boundless bombast. He is thought to have ordered the sinking of a South Korean naval corvette in 2010, with the deaths of 46 crewmen, and thethat happen,” remarked a smiling Yoshiko Tsuwaki, deputy director of the information and communication electronics division in Japan’s ministry of economy, trade, and industry (METI). She was speaking at a dinner hosted by Naotaka Nishiyama of Deloitte Japan’s Tohmatsu Venture Support. It was a part of the Tech in Asia Bangalore conference on July 6-7.
One of the participants in the conference was Flutura, an industrial IoT startup from India, which has already got a foot in the door in the US and European markets, with clients like airport equipment maker JBT and energy equipment maker Siemens. The Flutura CEO and co-founder, Krishnan Raman, was a speaker on a conference panel discussion on new age technologies.
Japanese hardware and Indian software make for a winning combo in IoT.
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has expanded into the US and Southeast Asia, and is now looking to expand its footprint in Europe via London.
Bangalore-based RxPrism provides customer engagement tools and services, focusing on the healthcare domain which has special needs, such as creating a scientific animation video or tablet app. Headquartered in India, it already has local offices in the US, UK, Dubai, Singapore, and Japan. It hopes to expand its footprint in Europe, Australia, and China.
Bangalore-based SigTuple uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to automate what a pathologist does – examining slides under a microscope and diagnosing diseases. After running pilot programs in several Indian medical institutions, the startup recently raised a series A round of US$5.8 million – the biggest for any Indian healthcare AI startup. It is now lookingDerick Jose and Srikanth Muralidhara, collectively have more than six decades of experience in the industrial engineering and advanced analytics space. A rapid learning curve achieved by working with some of the world's most cutting edge industrial companies and learning from fluctuating market dynamics has helped refine their approach to customer acquisition. Flutura had earlier received a seed fund from the Palo Alto based Hive, who is focused on the big data and analytics space. Arihant Patni, Managing Director, The Hive India, said, "We placed our bets on the founding team and are delighted at what has been achieved. We welcome Vertex and Lumis to help power Flutura into the next orbit of global growth".
About Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics:
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Freddie Hunt, son of 1976 Formula 1 world champion James, is aiming to resume his career in endurance racing.
The 26-year-old gave up racing seriously after contesting the 2009 ADAC Formula Masters series, but took part in selected rounds of the Chevrolet Cruze one-make series in Germany in 2011-12.
He now is now looking to re-start professional racing in the Group CN category ahead of a move into LMP2.
Hunt, 26, told AUTOSPORT: "The plan is to get the rust off in CN this season and then move into LMP2 next year or the year after."
The Briton is working with the Tiga marque, which has been relaunched by two-time Le Mans 24 Hours LMP2 winner Mike Newton.
The plan is that Hunt will race one of Tiga'sCN12Bs, most likely in the Superlights class of the Dutch Super Challenge, with a car run by Dave Beecroft's Orex Competition team and then graduate to the marque's forthcoming LM214 P2.
Tiga, which is in the process of moving into new premises near Oulton Park, is currently homologating new aerodynamics for its P2, which is effectively a rebodied Embassy/WFR WF01 of 2008 vintage.
Newton explained that he hoped the car, which will be powered by the Judd/BMW V8, will begin testing in the summer and that it could race this year ahead of a full programme in 2015.
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James Hunt once finished second in a major international endurance race?
He took the runner up spot in the Kyalami Nine Hours in 1973 at the wheel of a Mirage-Cosworth M6 shared | {
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won an Oscar for the latter, and a Razzie for her third 2009 release. She still a star.
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A real problem with a country that neither Romney nor Obama ever mentioned is a serious issue that has been boiling for years: the Japan problem.
Thousands of Japanese recently protested the deployment of American Osprey military aircraft on a southern Japanese island. Citing safety concerns and recent crimes committed by U.S. military personnel, protesters chanted “Ospreys out! Marine Corps out!” as they called for the removal of 12 MV-22 Osprey hybrid aircraft from Okinawa, where more than half of the troops in Japan are stationed. The protest came just days after an alleged assault by a U.S. airman on a teenage boy and just two weeks after a curfew was imposed on U.S. troops | {
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in Japan after the arrest of two Navy sailors in the alleged rape of a local woman. Even before these latest alleged crimes, all active-duty U.S. sailors in Japan were, and are, barred from drinking in public from midnight to 6 a.m. between Monday and Friday and between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
These embarrassing episodes for the U.S. military in Japan are not isolated incidents by a few bad apples. Crimes against Japanese by American soldiers have been taking place for years (see the works of Chalmers Johnson).
But there is an even bigger crime against the Japanese people: the continued U.S. occupation of Japan. The U.S. government has maintained bases and stationed thousands of troops in Japan since it defeated the Japanese inWorld War II.
According to the Department of Defense’s “Base Structure Report” for fiscal year 2012, the U.S. military has 109 military “sites” in Japan with 9,436 buildings totaling 33,736,309 sq. ft. on 126,450 acres. And according to the latest edition of the DoD’s “Active Duty Military Personnel Strengths by Regional Area and by Country,” the United States has 36,708 military personnel stationed in Japan.
And then there are the two other major countries that the United States defeated in World War II: Germany and Italy. The same DoD “Personnel Strengths” report lists 53,526 U.S. military personnel in Germany and 10,817 in Italy.
Does anyone really think it is necessary to keep so many American troops in Japan, Germany, and Italy so that they don’t try to wage war against the | {
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United States again?
The “Japan problem” is not limited to Japan or other Axis powers in World War II. There are still 9,317 U.S. troops in Great Britain — one of the Allied powers in the war.
But World War II was not the beginning. Since the Spanish-American War of 1898, the foreign policy of the United States has been one of interventionism. Even before World War I, U.S. troops were sent to Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, China, and Mexico. Between the two world wars, U.S. troops were sent to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Russia, Panama, Honduras, Yugoslavia, Guatemala, Turkey, and China.
The United States currently has troops in about 160 countries and territories — about 75 percent of the world. It doesn’t matter which partythe following:
The removal of members of the land armed forces from within the continental limits of the United States and the Panama Canal Zone for any cause whatsoever is hereby prohibited. The vessels of the United States Navy, or of the other branches of the armed service, are hereby prohibited from steaming, for any reason whatsoever except on an errand of mercy, more than 500 miles from the U.S. coast. Aircraft of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps are hereby prohibited from flying, for any reason whatsoever, more than 750 miles beyond the coast of the United States.
That rules out military advisors, foreign bases, entangling alliances, nation-building, regime changes, spreading democracy, enforcing UN resolutions, drones, policing the world, invasions, occupations, bombing, maiming, killing — and stationing Marines in | {
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In this report, the global Industrial Robot Servo Motors market is valued at USD XX million in 2016 and is expected to reach USD XX million by the end of 2022, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2016Bulgaria is a welcoming country with few specific threats targeting American citizens, businesses, or organizations. Located strategically as a gateway between the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, Bulgaria is one of the key exterior borders of the European Union. While illegal migration and smuggling have challenged law enforcement, the Syrian conflict has exacerbated the migration/refugee situation in the poorest of the EU’s member states. Bulgaria has struggled with housing/caring for the asylum seekers and refugees and the political backlash from vocal minority ultranationalists.
Crime Rating: High
Crime Threats
The Ministry of Interior (MOI) reported an 8.2 percent decrease of all registered crimes in 2014 compared to 2013. 40 percent of cases were resolved in 2014 compared to 39 percent in 2013. According to the MOI, since 2000 the majority of | {
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with a quick turnover (cash, jewelry, or electronics), the non-professionals steal anything they can use, trade, or resell.
Registered robberies decreased by 29 percent in 2014 compared to 2013 and were concentrated mainly in Sofia, where 44 percent of all robberies occurred. Other cities with high rate of robberies are: Burgas, Plovdiv and Varna. The targets of armed robberies were financial institutions, gas stations, retail stores, and restaurants.
Europe’s open borders and uneven patchwork of vehicle databases make car theft relatively easy. The MOI registered 3,627 car thefts in 2014, with almost 80 percent of them being stolen in Sofia, representing a 2.1 percent increase over 2013. Car thieves target new luxury cars, various models of SUVs, and older cars that are usually dismantled and sold for parts. In thelast few years, the main markets for the stolen vehicles have been the Middle East, Albania, and Kosovo. Vehicles stolen and moved into Syria were used by terrorist groups, including in one in a suicide attack. Less than nine percent of stolen vehicles are recovered.
The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by criminal elements against each other and by hate groups remains a challenge for law enforcement, although the total number has decreased precipitously since its height in the 1990s and early 2000s. The MOI registered 16 IED attacks in 2014 compared to 21 in 2013. Another seven were disabled by the authorities in 2014.
A continuing trend over the past three years of anonymous telephonic bomb threats has impacted OSAC constituents. During the first 10 months of 2014, | {
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222 telephonic bomb threats were registered compared to 271 threats in 2013 and 145 in 2011. Charges were filed against 30 percent of perpetrators. Bomb threat calls were directed at schools, shopping malls, court houses, airports, railway stations, and large office compounds – some including private American businesses. The police have handled these extremely disruptive threats professionally – both in terms of the initial public safety response and the follow-up investigation. No actual devices have been located during these incidents.
Contract killings by organized crime largely dropped off following the arrest of five “Killers” gang members beginning in 2010. In 2014, another “Killers” group, disrupted in Plovdiv, is suspected of being responsible for the contract killing of Customs officers in 1998. Four contract killings targeting criminal actors were reportedwere in the form of malicious code and 18 percent in the form of distributed denial-of-service attacks. In December 2014 alone, 319 attacks were registered, 37 of which were identified as threats with very high risk.
Transportation-Safety Situation
Over charging by taxi drivers, poor road conditions, and aggressive driving are the most frequent road risks faced by Americans.
Road Safety and Road Conditions
Road conditions are generally underdeveloped aside from some of the main roads and highways that have been renovated or newly constructed over the past few years. Most of these major highways and roads are still under construction. Secondary roads are often poorly maintained. In 2015, the government plans to continue and complete the construction of new highways and renovate roadways, including main boulevards and some secondary roads in the | {
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larger cities. This process could cause heavy traffic and lead to more road accidents. In some cities, late at night, traffic lights blink yellow in all directions, leaving right-of-way unclear and contributing to accidents.
Heavy truck traffic along the two-lane routes from the Greek border at Kulata to Sofia and from the Turkish border at Kapitan Andreevo to Plovdiv creates numerous hazards. Motorists should expect long delays at border crossings.
Travel conditions deteriorate during the winter, as roads become icy and potholes become larger. Traffic difficulties are experienced even on small streets in Sofia, where the snow is not cleared, and the tenants must have a four-wheel-drive vehicle to drive safely. Rockslides and landslides may be encountered in the mountains and Black Sea area.
Aggressive driving habits, the lack of safeISIL have increased border pressure, raising concerns of potential foreign fighter infiltration legitimate asylum seekers. Countermeasures put in place by Bulgarian and Turkish officials in 2014 helped cut illegal border crossings by more than 50 percent from the spike in 2013. However, 2014 still saw double the number of illegal border crossers compared to 2012.
On July 18, 2012, Lebanese Hizballah conducted a bombing against Israeli tourists in Burgas. The attack killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver and injured 32 Israelis.
Terrorism Rating: High
Anti-American/Anti-Western Sentiment
There are several small political parties and organizations with anti-American rhetoric. Most active are the ultra-nationalists from the political party “ATAKA,” the nationalists from the youth organization “BNS,” and followers of the “Skinheads” sub-culture.
Civil Unrest
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focused on Muslims and Christian missionary groups. In February 2014, over 2,000 people protested against the return to the Chief Mufti’s office of an ancient mosque in Karlovo, which was nationalized more than 100 years ago. Over 120 people were detained after protestors confronted police around the mosque, chanting anti-Islamic slogans, and smashing windows by hurling stones.
U.S. missionaries have been targets of harassment and assaults. They have been physically assaulted and threatened directly and indirectly. There have been cases of pepper spray used against missionaries, as well as armed threats with guns and knives. Missionary property has also been defaced with anti-American graffiti.
Ethnic violence tends to be focused on Roma or, to a lesser extent, the Turkish minority. In September 2011, protests erupted in Plovdiv following the deathof a 19-year old Bulgarian male in Katunitsa. A Roma driver who hit the victim claimed it was an accident; however, the investigating magistrate ruled that this was an intentional hit-and-run. Villagers marched on the Roma clan leader's compound and overturned several of his vehicles and ransacked and burned several buildings. Violent protests spread over two weeks to several other cities and villages, including Sofia, Varna, Burgas, Stara Zagora, and Pernik. Instances of violence were mainly fueled by members of various soccer fan clubs, motorcycle groups, and the ultra-nationalist ATAKA political party. Protestors vandalized the largest mosque in Plovdiv, breaking several windows of the building. No injuries were reported.
Post-specific Concerns
Environmental Hazards
Bulgaria is in a seismically active area. There were no registered earthquakes over 4.5 in 2013. The last | {
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significant earthquake occurred on May 22, 2012, and registered a 5.8. Its epicenter was 15 miles from Sofia, close to Pernik. OSAC constituents are urged to take steps to prepare themselves and review safety measures.
Flooding primarily occurs during the spring and winter in areas close to water. Floods are more likely in smaller villages and towns due to insufficient infrastructure to handle heavy spring rainstorms and winter runoff. In January 2013, melting snow and heavy rain in Smolyan and Kardzhali increased the levels of some reservoirs and rivers. The situation became critical, as a river overflowed and submerged a road section between Nedelino and Krayna.
In July 2014, a severe hailstorm hit part of Sofia. Substantial damage was reported to vehicles, building roofs, windows and façades. Another severe hailstormwith similar consequences was reported in Lovech.
Cold weather and sizable snow fall can cause serious transportation problems, floods, and electrical outages. In case of heavy snowfall, roads may not be plowed or salted and can be extremely dangerous or closed to traffic. Three tourists survived an avalanche in the Pirin Mountain in January 2014, and one person was killed by an avalanche in the Rila Mountains on December 26, 2013.
Forest/wildfires are more likely in mountain areas during the summer time. During 2014, 39 forest fires were reported compare to 171 fires in 2013. Wildfires were concentrated in Sofia, Haskovo, Sliven, Yambol, and Razgrad.
Hot weather can cause serious transportation and health problems. In late July, a Code Orange for extremely hot weather was declared with temperatures reaching 100-104F.
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ammunition plant in Kostenets in August. A third incident occurred in December at an ammunition plant in Maglizh, leaving one person dead and three wounded. In all cases, government regulators cited numerous irregularities during inspections, according to press reports.
Economic Espionage/Intellectual Property Thefts
Counterfeit and pirated goods are widely available on the local market. Websites that allow free illegal downloading of software are accessible from Bulgarian IP addresses after almost a decade of efforts to disrupt these operations. Music revenue per capita is USD 0.4 compared with USD 2 in Croatia and USD 14 in US, and Bulgaria ranked 57 out of 58 on an International Property Rights Index in 2014. Alcohol and tobacco products are frequently counterfeited. According to a survey by the Center for the Study of Democracy,skinheads and neo-Nazis has been reported more frequently throughout the region, including in Bulgaria. Several attacks against foreigners were highly publicized in Sofia in 2014. In October 2014, a pregnant Bulgarian female and her Moroccan husband were assaulted and seriously injured after a group of skinheads overheard the husband speaking to his wife in English. In 2014, several incidents of racism, ethnic slurs, and harassment of African-Americans, including diplomats, private sector expats, and missionaries, were reported. The media widely reported incidents of assaults, armed assaults, and harassment of refugees and asylum seekers.
Concerns about the rise of xenophobia, racism, and extreme nationalism in the society have been expressed by the likes of Amnesty International, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, and the Jewish organization, “Shalom.”
Drug-related Crimes
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rising. While drug abuse and addiction continue to climb, the age of first-time drug users is dropping.
Bulgaria is a “gateway” country for the transit of illicit drugs and contraband. Bulgaria serves as a major transshipment point for heroin from Southwest Asia along the Balkan Route to Europe. Organized crime groups are heavily involved in drug trafficking. Heroin and synthetic drugs are the primary drugs transported through Bulgaria, principally via overland methods, including Transport International Routier (TIR) trucks, passenger vehicles, buses, vans, and small trucks. Small amounts are smuggled by air. Varna and Burgas are used as entry points for controlled substances, including cocaine, that are smuggled into the Balkans, Greece, and Western Europe. In recent years, there has been a steady rise in cocaine smuggling from South America.Two arrested Bulgarian citizens are believed to have been linked to 1.4 tons of cocaine that was seized from a freight ship in France in February 2014.
Bulgaria disrupted illicit laboratories producing counterfeit Captagon (amphetamine) in 2014. Since the beginning of the year, police have broken up more than 40 drug labs primarily in the Sliven, Yambol, Burgas, and Sofia regions. In 2014, over one ton of heroin, 105 kg cocaine, 404 kg marihuana, 727 kg cannabis, and 468 kg synthetic drugs were seized.
Kidnapping Threat
Kidnapping as a tactic used by organized crime largely dropped off following the arrest of the “Impudent” gang in December 2009. Kidnapping was primarily used between rival criminal groups for ransom or because of unresolved financial dealings. The “Impudent” gang was accused of at least | {
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more than 55,000 employees. Most interactions American citizens would have with law enforcement would be with MOI employees.
The customs administration is a centralized administrative structure, organized within the National Customs Agency (NCS) under the Minister of Finance. NCS counteracts the contraband channels of different goods, drugs, etc. It also is responsible for collecting all duties and excises paid to the state budget.
The National Investigative Service (NIS) is the investigative arm of the Prosecution Service, which is part of the Judiciary. They work with the Ministries of Interior and Justice to bring investigations through the court process.
The National Protection Service (NSO) provides protective security to national leadership, including the president, prime minister, and visiting government dignitaries. NSO does not conduct criminal investigations.
The State Agency for National Security (DANS) isOrganizations involved in the making of systems that control oil pipelines and other critical infrastructure have been infected with malware directly derived from the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran's nuclear program, security researchers said.
Parts of newly discovered malware are almost identical to Stuxnet, and were written by the same authors or by those with access to the Stuxnet source code, researchers from antivirus provider Symantec blogged on Tuesday. Dubbed Duqu, the remote access trojan has been detected in a handful of organizations, where it installed additional components that gathered keystrokes and system information that can be used to attack a third party.
One Duqu variant was developed as recently as this month, and another may have been surreptitiously infecting targets since December, Kevin Haley, Symantec's director of product management, | {
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Wiki: “Though it was one of the few combatant territories not to raise fighting men through conscription, proportional to white population, Southern Rhodesia contributed more manpower to the British war effort than any other dominion or colony, and more than Britain itself. White troops numbered 5,716, about 40% of white men in the colony, with 1,720 of these serving as commissioned officers. The Rhodesia Native Regiment enlisted 2,507 black soldiers, about 30 black recruits scouted for the Rhodesia Regiment, and around 350 served in British and South African units. Over 800 Southern Rhodesians of all races lost their lives on operational service during the war, with many more seriously wounded.The territory’s contributions during the First World War became a major entry in many histories ofthe colony, and a great source of pride for the white community, as well as for some black Rhodesians. It played a part in the UK government’s decision to grant self-government in 1923, and remained prominent in the national consciousness for decades. When the colonial government unilaterally declared independence from Britain in 1965, it deliberately did so on Armistice Day, 11 November, and signed the proclamation at 11:00 local time. Since the territory’s reconstitution and recognised independence as Zimbabwe in 1980, the modern government has removed many references to the war, such as memorial monuments and plaques, from public view, regarding them as unwelcome vestiges of white minority rule and colonialism. The Zimbabwean cultural memory has largely forgotten the First World War; the country’s war dead today have | {
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friends.
"Once she decides you're not part of her life, she can be very cold. It's this shutdown mechanism she has.
"There's nothing to negotiate. She's made her decision and that's it.
"The way she handled it, Trevor definitely had the rug pulled out from under him. He was hurt."
Meghan and Ninaki, both now 36, grew up together in California.
They visited Europe together at 15 and posed for a snap outside Buckingham Palace.
Meghan Markle’s first marriage continues to haunt her new life as a royal-to-be. FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA
Ninaki, who Meg called Niki, said the future screen star always wanted to be famous, owned a book about Princess Diana and loved the Princess Diaries film.
And she recalled Meghan "literally shone with happiness" when she wed Hollywood producer Trevor, 41, in 2011.
Ninaki said: "We'dbeen like sisters since we were two years old, so I knew she'd always wanted to get married.
"It was such a moving wedding. I started crying the moment I saw her in her dress.
"We had the ceremony on the beach. It was so beautiful to watch, beautiful to be a part of. They each wrote their own vows. They loved each other so much."
At the time, Meg had recently moved to Toronto to film Suits.
Ninaki said: "Meg had just finished the first series. It was a big part for her - her first full-time role. She'd hustled for years to get there, so that was huge.
"Trevor was so supportive. He travelled back and forth from LA and there was a lot of Skyping and FaceTiming going on.
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an exciting time. This was the man she wanted to have children with. Meg used to tell me she couldn't imagine a life without Trevor. She said if anything were to happen to him she wouldn't be able to go on.
"He cherished her too. You should have seen the way he used to hold her face in his hands. We all felt he was her eternal love. It was such as shock when she told me they were getting divorced."
Ninaki says she fell out with Meghan, wed just two years, because she disapproved of the manner of the breakup.
She said Meghan also developed a sense of "entitlement". She added: "After the wedding, it was like a light switched off. There's Meghan Before Fame and Meghan After Fame.
"It's notwe came as a two."
Meantime, new details have emerged about Markle and Prince Harry's royal wedding next year.
Prince George and Princess Charlotte have been confirmed as pageboy and bridesmaid.
The pair, who stole the show at Pippa Middleton's nuptials, will resume their roles as adorable members of the much-anticipated wedding party.
George, 4, and Charlotte, 2, will follow Meghan, 36, up the aisle when she weds the prince at Windsor Castle, the Sunday Times reports.
A Kensington Palace spokesman told the paper: "The wedding will be a family event. You can expect the family to be involved." | {
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The man who armed the Black Panthers turns out to have been an FBI informant. FBI files, uncovered by journalist Seth Rosenfeld, reveal that Richard Aoki, a prominent activist in the 1960s who was the first to supply the Black Panthers with guns and weapons training, was also an undercover FBI source. A mysterious character who always sported sunglasses, even at night, Aoki was a militant leader of the Third World Strike and an activist with the Asian American Political Alliance at UC Berkeley.
The revelation about Aoki's role as an informant emerged from FBI files obtained by Rosenfeld and an interview with the FBI agent who says he recruited Aoki. Rosenfeld has spent the last 30 years researching the history of the FBI and radicals in Berkeley for[Photograph 2012.201.B0089.0240]
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That amounts to $21,708 per person — the highest in Canada.
Interest payments on the debt were $9.8 billion in the 2012-13 fiscal year, which was equivalent to more than 11 per cent of government revenues.
"That's money unavailable for health care, education or other social services," notes Filip Palda, a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.
Quebec's net direct debt amounts to 49 per cent of its GDP, the highest among the provinces, and is much higher than Ontario's 37.4 per cent.
Even New York, with a bonded debt level of 12.3 per cent of GDP, pales when compared with Quebec, the report says.
"Comparisons with other North American jurisdictions including New York, a state known for its debt issues, might prompt Quebecers to insist that their government take action to curbConfirmation day at Catholic church in Kampala, Uganda. (Photos courtesy of Catholics & Cultures.)
While vacationing, many Catholics attend Masses in other states or countries and see similarities to and differences from ways they worship in their home parishes. But unless they have the chance to travel the world visiting Catholic churches and families in remote villages or large cities, they might not get full the experience of the universal church.
A new website, Catholics & Cultures, created by the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, offers just that: a global snapshot of how Catholics around the world live out their faith and practice their beliefs.
The site’s founder, Thomas Landy, director of the school’s McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, points out that “most people imagine the | {
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church through their own cultural lens, but we should realize that people around the world are living and imagining it in surprisingly different ways.”
Worshippers buy flowers and candles to place at shrine of Mary in Bangalore, India.
He told Catholic News Service in an e-mail before the site went live last month that Americans make up only 7 percent of the world’s Catholic population. The largest number of Catholics live in Latin America and this number is rapidly growing in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asian-Pacific.
Children await Easter procession in Brazil.
He also said the experience of the faith in different parts of the world is “often vastly different from our own” and realizing this can help people think about faith beyond their own experiences
Landy describes the new site — whichAddison Locke Roache Memorial Lecture series
Addison Locke Roache Memorial Lecture series
This lecture series was funded by the Addison Locke Roache Memorial Lectureship Trust from Indiana University at Bloomington. The I.U. series brought lectures to the campus given by persons eminently qualified in their fields of knowledge, particularly law, business, education or letters. The co-sponsors for the IPFW campus were the Student Union Board of Governors and the Honors Program. | {
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to an adjustable cover element in a vehicle, in particular a convertible vehicle, and an adjustable vehicle roof.
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A multisection hard-top vehicle roof is disclosed in German published application DE 102 37 363 A1, the roof sections of which may be adjusted between a closed position covering the vehicle interior in which the roof sections form a common, continuous outer roof skin, and a stored position in which the roof sections are folded away in a rear storage compartment. A rear shelf section is located directly below the rear roof section in the closed position of the vehicle roof. The rear shelf section assumes an approximately horizontal stored position and is situated above the storage compartment in which the roofUnderground Inspiration
Last year, the inaugural SHIFTboston Ideas Competition called on architects, designers, engineers, and others to submit provocative visions “to enhance and electrify the urban experience in Boston.” The competition sponsors weren’t necessarily looking for build-able schemes, but rather for inspiration—for ideas that would engage citizens and galvanize the local design community.
But the winning proposal, announced last month, actually doesn’t seem that far-fetched. The architects Sapir Ng and Andrzej Zarzycki—the former is an associate at Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, the latter an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology—envisioned a new use for the abandoned Tremont Street Subway tunnel, which runs underneath Boston Common. In their scheme, the tunnel becomes a network of underground cultural venues, including a theater, a cinema, art galleries, and a “media-infused trolley | {
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to 16 percent in less than two decades using public investment in jobs, education, housing and more. In part Brazil's success reflects Bolsa Família, a cash bonus introduced in 2003 that goes to poor families that keep their kids in school and make sure they have medical care—a huge boon to families whose survival might otherwise depend on their children's labor.
Whether in a poverty-plagued Latin America or in the big, rich USA, commonsense strategies have worked to make advances against hunger and poverty.
So yes, we are in big trouble, _but it's not for want of answers_. This is the second reason I'm a possibilist. Solutions are known and are within our reach.
## **Three: It's not all locked up**
Surely one reason it's easy to feel defeated is thatdeath, typically brings out terrible things in human beings. Psychologists Tom Crompton and Tim Kasser report that most of us humans, when confronted with a survival threat, try to enhance our self-esteem through material gratification and by denigrating the "out-group," which in this case might well be environmentalists or even nonhuman nature itself. We also try to avoid exposure to the bad news and to appear not to care.
So, messages that trigger guilt and fear might enable the messengers to feel as if they're being tough realists.
_But are such messages actually tough?_
Not if they fail to challenge us to dig deep, to dig to the system roots of our crises. How often, for example, do I hear leaders bewail our lack of environmental progress and call for a | {
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and ritual. Earlier humans didn't have to learn to "think like an ecosystem" because they'd not lost their sense of living within the ecosystem.
For over 1,000 years in Bali, dense networks of handmade irrigation canals, called _subak_ , have made rice growing possible on steep, terraced terrain. Today, rice planting and harvesting, as well as the timing, volume, and sharing of water flowing through the _subak_ , are embedded in religion and ritual. Century after century it's worked without degrading the island's breathtaking mountain ecology. Yet, most Balinese probably couldn't tell you why the _subak_ were originally constructed as they are or, in scientific terms, how the system aligns with nature.
In a similar vein, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, who so inspired my daughter and me onThe head of UNESCO has expressed alarm about widespread illegal archaeological excavations across war-ravaged Syria.
The UN's cultural, education and science arm has warned auction houses museums and collections about the problem.
More than 100,000 people have died in Syria's civil war since 2011 which has forced millions to flee their homes and created a massive humanitarian crisis.
UNESCO says the conflict has also placed Syria's cultural heritage and reporters trying to the cover the war increasingly under threat.
"The biggest danger there, apart from the destruction we have seen of the world heritage sites ... is the illicit archaeological excavations," UNESCO general director Irina Bokova said.
"This is something that is not very high on the radar of the international community," she said at the UN in New York.
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said illicit Syrian artefacts have surfaced in neighbouring Jordan.
In February, Maamoun Abdulkarim - head of Syria's antiquities and museums - said illegal archaeological digs have threatened tombs in the desert town of Palmyra and the Bronze Age settlement of Ebla.
Ms Bokova was in New York to speak at an informal UN Security Council meeting hosted by France and Guatemala on the protection of journalists, something she said was an issue of growing concern in Syria and other conflict zones around the world where reporters are being targeted.
Earlier this week international news organizations called on Syrian rebel leaders to stop armed groups kidnapping journalists, saying dozens of abductions were preventing full media coverage of the war.standards in everything we do, act with honesty, never give up, respect others and lead with style."
Unit History
The establishment of military police in Colchester dates back to 1937 when provost assistance was required for the 10,000 strong Garrison. However, it was not until the summer of 1950 that 156 Provost Company RMP as it is now known was established in Colchester. The Company conducted patrols in the East Anglia District Area and assisted the civilian authorities during the floods in the Canvey Island and Norfolk areas in 1952.
By the summer of 1953 156 Provost Company had established Detachments in Thetford, Norwich, Orsett and Brentford. The Company first deployed to Kenya in the late 1953 to assist with the Mau Mau terrorists
In 1960 Harwich Ports Provost Company became part | {
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of 156 Provost Company and the same year 156 and 192 Provost Companies amalgamated to become 156 (EC) Provost Company based in Colchester.
In 1962 156 Provost Company moved to its current home in Goojerat Barracks, Colchester. The Establishment of the Field Force as it is known today, came into being on the 27 Aug 1976, providing for an Operations Cell, to control the deployment of Provost in the field. This Field Force element was to consist of 2 Platoons, each consisting 32 men. At this time the first Operations officer was posted into 156 Provost Company, with 2 Platoons and a Head Quarters element on ready to deploy at short notice anywhere in the world.
Throughout the past decade 156 Provost Company RMP have regularly deployed to Operational theatresJefferson (toe) returned to practice on Wednesday. He is expected to be in the starting lineup on Sunday against New Orleans, but he's too unreliable to use Fantasy-wise. Ryan Leaf , QB DAL - Free Agent Updated 10/17/01 Leaf worked with he first team offense during practice on Wednesday. He was filling in for Anthony Wright, who was given the day off to rest his swollen right knee. Leaf will have his chance to win the starting job in Dallas, but he has no real Fantasy value at this time. Troy Hambrick, RB DAL - Free Agent Updated 10/17/01 Now that Robert Thomas is gone for the year, Hambrick is expected to become Dallas' starting fullback. He's shown flashes of brilliance at times, | {
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Titans on Tuesday reached a contract agreement with Nedney, an unrestricted free agent who played most of the 2000 season with the Carolina Panthers. The five-year veteran will replace longtime Titans kicker Al Del Greco, who was cut last week after a poor postseason performance and for salary cap reasons. Nedney converted 26 of 28 field-goals attempts and all 20 of his extra-point tries for 98 points last season. [IMAGE] Copyright 2001 Commissioner.COM Inc FB10NFWhen Defense Secretary James Mattis learned he had escaped an assassination attempt while he was a Marine Corps general during the Iraq War, he did something unexpected that showed why he is one of the most beloved and respected members of President Donald Trump’s administration.
He went to talk to the would-be assassin after learning the man could speak English.
According to an Associated Press report, Mattis offered the insurgent a cigarette and coffee, and asked him why he tried to kill him. The man told Mattis he resented American soldiers in his land.
The general told the insurgent he understood the sentiment and then assured him he was headed for the prison in Abu Ghraib. | {
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but far more frequently in Greek literature is used to simply refer to a distinct "period" of time, hence why the word is also translated "season" (as the KJV does in Jn 5:35 for this word) or "time" (as the NIV and NET do for v.28), for the word has a much more generic meaning in Greek associated to it.
The meaning of a term is always a key starting point for the grammatical-historical hermeneutic upon which dispensationalists build their understanding of the text.
The "Plain" Reading
So the "plain" reading is that there is "coming a period of time in which all who are in the graves will hear and come forth."
This period may refer to the "type" of period it is, that is to many separate but distinctFresh attempts have been made to block Martin Schulz from serving another term as European Parliament President.
The leader of the UK Conservative MEPs, Ashley Fox, has submitted an amendment to the revised rules of procedure being drawn up by Parliament's constitutional affairs committee.
Fox has suggested limiting the Parliament presidency to two terms, as a way of promoting "fresh leadership."
Schulz is preparing to seek re-election for an unprecedented third term.
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The German MEP is believed to be seeking to continue in the post beyond January 2017, when he was supposed to step down as part of a "gentlemen's agreement" between the EPP and S&D groups.
Some senior political figures, including the Socialist leader, Italian MEP Gianni Pittella, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, are believed to support his continued presidency.
Juncker | {
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As our time in Prague comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on my days here and marveling at all this city has to offer and everything that it truly is. The Czech people have set their turbulent past in stone for all visiting peoples to see and experience for themselves. From the tops of buildings, to the surrounding walls, into the crawling streets and the stretching alleys, the art of reverent memorials, silent statues, and vivid graffiti serve to illustrate and celebrate the history of the Czech Republic. These structures and depictions are visible and decorative complements to the Czech saga and this country’s journey through persecution and oppression and her emergence in democracy.
From the memorial of Jan Hus and the statue of Charles IV, tostages of the mollusks will settle out in low flow areas or attach to substrate within the cooling system and grow to mature organisms.
One of the species of mollusks controlled by the method of this invention is the Asiatic clam, Corbicula spp. As indicated in the article entitled "Freshwater Macrofouling and Control with Emphasis on Corbicula" in the December 1983 Proceedings of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Asiatic clam has caused significant incidents of macrofouling to fresh water cooling systems of power plants. Another freshwater mollusk, Dreissena spp--the Zebra mussel, causes fouling problems in Europe to cooling systems in a similar manner as the Asiatic clam. Both Drissena and Corbicula have free floating planktonic veliger larvae which allow easy penetration into cooling systems. Similar macrofouling problems | {
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conference calling done right. We make it easy to join phone conferences without having to enter a PIN, see who is in the call and who is speaking, and run calls smoothly with powerful call management features. Led by Craig Walker, the founder of GrandCentral and Google Voice, the team includes other past members of the Google Voice team, and has deep experience in developing innovative telephony features at scale. Winner of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012, ÜberConference has received rave reviews in the press for its innovative approach to conference calls. The company is backed by top-tier investors, Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, and has raised $18 million.
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In virtually all counties, the local board of elections office is an early voting location. Some larger counties, such as Wake and Durham counties, have regional satellite locations for those who want to vote early.
As they will be on primary day, voters will be asked to show photo identification. According to the State Board of Elections, acceptable forms of ID include:
A driver's license issued by the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles, including a learner's permit or a provisional license. IDs that are four years out of date may still be used.
A current passport issued by the United States.
A veteran's ID card issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. A veteran's card with an expiration date | {
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is the caliber of quarterback you think he is, he will take that experience, learn from it, and become a better quarterback in the long run because of it. It's the same thing with Wilson.
Jim Mora was Seattle's head coach for one lamentable season and I knew it was going to be a disaster when he said that he had "never failed in anything." A man who can say that is either lying through his teeth or has never attempted anything worthwhile. Wilson and Kaepernick have both failed at times. They have both been shaken and rattled at times. What is going to define their careers is how they respond. Kaepernick will probably be better prepared for his next game at CenturyLink and do a better job inthat game because the first one shook him so badly. The Seahawks will still win, though.
Giedi wrote:I think the shellshock was more the defense being run over by Seattle and the Seattle special teams creaming the 49ers, than the QB getting shell shocked. They are a power run team, and if you get a lead on them, they start to panic and cant to their regular routine of winning the game in the 2nd half with the power run game. Seattle did a great job of getting the jump on them early and they started to break down and panic and get away from their game plan. It happens. Anytime the score margin is in the plus 14 differential, *something* has happned that the losing team didn't expect. | {
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is Kap has pure talent and the attributes to succeed, where Wilson has these as well but also has the "IT" factor.... you can just sense greatness with him..
LOL. There you go again.
I was with you right up until that last line.
Seattle fans ALWAYS do that...and I will lump them together in this regard. Why does Wilson have "it" and Kaep does not? Kaep took his team to the Super Bowl in his 10th NFL start. Kaeps career QB rating through his FIRST 10 starts is nearly 100. He broke an NFL record in his first playoff start.
The guy has Terrell Suggs of all people, a notorious QB hater, singing his praises. He calls him "special" and that Kaep will play in "a few of these" in referenceto the Super Bowl.
In his 1st start, he ripped the Chicago Bears a new one on Monday Night Football.
In his 5th career start he went into NE. In December. He threw FOUR TDs to beat the Patriots who hadn't lost there in that month in a decade.
In his 8th career start he started the game by throwing a pick 6 and then rebounding with one of the most impressive performances by a QB in playoff history (263 yards passing, 2 TDs, 181 yards rushing, 2 TDs). He accounted for 444 yards and FOUR TDs in his first playoff game...and again....8th NFL start.
He was down 17 to Atlanta and took the team all the way back for the win...in the NFCCG.
He was down 22 in the Super Bowl and | {
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was this really offensive article that was published by the Sporting News I think. It was VERY durogotory in regards to his tatoos. The theme was somehting like "Kaepernick will probably raise a Lombardi trophy in the near future and the inmates at San Quantin will rejoice". It was BAD. I think its one of the reasons he kinda distrusts the media.
Kaep never said much about it....but when he scored a TD vs Miami on a 50 yard run he kissed the Tattoo on his arm and Kaepernicking was born. His management company ended up trademarking the term and made T-Shirts that he sold and gave the money to his favorite charity. Colin was adopted because his parents had lost two infant sons to Heart Disease. His charitythe independent review will be its deputy director, Pamela Atchison.
The issues around Ms Cahill's allegations were discussed at a meeting of the assembly justice committee on Tuesday.
'Slightly higher level'
Justice Minister David Ford said the Public Prosecution Service's independent review of the cases "takes this particular issue further than what has been the established practice of the PPS in recent years".
He said the decision to hold an independent review "takes it to a slightly higher level" and he thought it was "entirely appropriate" for the PPS to set up a review.
However, committee chairman Paul Givan said he thought more was needed.
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The FBI has ordered a Florida medical examiner’s office not to release the autopsy report of a Chechen man who was killed during an FBI interview in May over his ties to one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers.
The autopsy report for Ibragim Todashev, 27, killed by an FBI agent during an interrogation which took place in his apartment on May 22 was ready for release on July 8. However, the FBI barred its publication, saying an internal probe into his death is ongoing.
“The FBI has informed this office that the case is still under active investigation and thus not to release the document,” according to statement by Tony Miranda, forensic records coordinator for Orange and Osceola counties in Orlando.
The forensic report was expected to clarify the circumstancesof Todashev's death.The Bureau’s statement issued on the day of the incident provided no details of what transpired, saying only that the person being interviewed was killed when a “violent confrontation was initiated by the individual.”
Back in May Ibragim Todashev’s father showed pictures of his dead son’s body at a press conference in Moscow, revealing he had been shot six times.
"I only saw things like that in movies: shooting a person, and then the kill shot. Six shots in the body, one of them in the head,” Abdulbaki Todashev said .
The medical examiner's office promised to check on a monthly basis whether the FBI is ready to grant permission for release of the autopsy report.
Todashev was interrogated by the FBI several times following the Boston Marathon bombings, with | {
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The Renault Formula 1 braking system deemed illegal by the FIA was in use as early as the 2015 Belgian Grand Prix when the team was Lotus, claims Romain Grosjean.
Renault was disqualified from the Japanese Grand Prix for using the system - a pre-set brake balance adjustment, which it admitted was a driver aid.
Team boss Cyril Abiteboul revealed the device had been used "for a while" but would not confirm how long, beyond admitting it was in operation before 2019.
Grosjean drove for Lotus in 2015 - the final season before it became Renault again - alongside Pastor Maldonado, but moved to Haas the following year.
Asked if he had mentioned on Thursday at the Mexican Grand Prix that he drove with the system sincethe Spa round in 2015, in which he scored a podium, Grosjean said: "I may have. Yes."
Grosjean was then asked whether he considered the device to be legal, and responded: "Well let's say that I asked to replicate it later on and they wouldn't do it.
"It was good though."
Racing Point challenged the braking system after the Japanese GP, and said it had done so because the FIA confirmed it was not allowed to replicate the system.
Abiteboul said Renault had not sought approval from the FIA for the design because it was convinced it was legal given how long it had been on the car.
He also stressed it was not a performance-enhancing driver aid, simply a way to reduce the driver's workload.
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I just happened to see this devastating film about surveillance in communist East Germany last night. Some will be attracted to it out of an interest in a narrative of the impact of a surveillance state on the lives of its citizens. It is also simply a superbly crafted film.
Warning: Ash's review discloses the way the film turns out, down to its very last line. This blog excerpt includes only a partial plot description, and does not give away the ending. I recommend both the film and the review most highly. Readers might prefer to see the film first, and then read Ash's full essay.
Ash writes:
One of Germany's most singular achievements is to have associated itself so intimately in the world's imagination with the darkest evils of thetwo worst political systems of the most murderous century in human history. The words "Nazi," "SS," and "Auschwitz" are already global synonyms for the deepest inhumanity of fascism. Now the word "Stasi" is becoming a default global synonym for the secret police terrors of communism. The worldwide success of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's deservedly Oscar- winning film The Lives of Others will strengthen that second link, building as it does on the preprogramming of our imaginations by the first. Nazi, Stasi: Germany's festering half-rhyme.
Ash, it turns out, has a Stasi file himself, having lived in East Berlin in the 1970s. He tells the story of his Stasi surveillance in his book The File. Because of this experience, he writes,
It was therefore with particular interest that I recently sat | {
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down to watch The Lives of Others, this already celebrated film about the Stasi, made by a West German director who was just sixteen when the Berlin Wall came down. Set in the Orwellian year of 1984, it shows a dedicated Stasi captain, Gerd Wiesler, conducting a full-scale surveillance operation on a playwright in good standing with the regime, Georg Dreyman, and his beautiful, highly strung actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. As the case progresses, we see the Stasi captain becoming disillusioned with his task. He realizes that the whole operation has been set up simply to allow the culture minister, who is exploiting his position to extract sexual favors from the lovely Christa, to get his playwright rival out of his way. "Was it for this we joinedup?" Wiesler asks his cynical superior, Colonel Anton Grubitz.
At the same time, he becomes curiously enchanted with what he hears through his headphones, connected to the bugs concealed behind the wallpaper of the playwright's apartment: that rich world of literature, music, friendship, and tender sex, so different from his own desiccated, solitary life in a dreary tower-block, punctuated only by brief, mechanical relief between the outsize mutton thighs of a Stasi-commissioned prostitute. In his snooper's hideaway in the attic of the apartment building, Wiesler sits transfixed by Dreyman's rendition of a piano piece called "The Sonata of the Good Man"—a birthday present to the playwright from a dissident theater director who, banned by the culture minister from pursuing his vocation, subsequently commits suicide. Violating all the rules that | {
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