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the oil market to remove the advantage the American empire has when the dollar is used as the currency of oil transactions. This would have an effect on the American economy, but not the large effect that some people seem to hope for. There is some advantage for the Americans in having oil priced in dollars, but since dollars can be readily converted to other currencies, and other currencies into dollars, all for relatively small transaction fees, the advantage is not crucial to the health of the American economy. The key to the American economy is the tacit agreement by oil producers to reinvest the largest part of their oil revenues into the American economy, and the robustness of the economy caused by this constant massive injection ofcapital has attracted huge amounts of other capital (it is not a coincidence that the dominance of the American economy coincided with the militancy of OPEC). All this investment pushes up the dollar, thus improving the value of the investments in the eyes of non-Americans, thus further making the American economy a desirable place to invest. The high dollar policy is practically a perpetual motion machine, but carries with it a severe danger of crashing once the dollar starts to fall. The key to forcing the Americans to their senses is to reduce the flow of investment capital into the United States. If Europe, China, Japan and the oil-producing states agreed to gradually decrease the massive flow of capital into the United States, it would not take long
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for the American economy, and thus politicians who hope to be reelected, to get the message. Indeed, the recent rapid fall of the American dollar has been caused by just such a withdrawal of investment (it would be interesting if this withdrawal of capital was the start of such a secret organized international program). There is a cost to such a process, as the world is so invested in the success of the U. S. that these other countries will lose money if they damage the American economy. Can greed be stifled long enough for the rest of the world to save everyone from the evil men who currently run the United States?
Sunday, May 18, 2003
Iraq:
In Baghdad, banks have been looted of at least $500 million, importers arebe the Americans giving the Iraqis the benefits of government by and for the people, free speech, and a right to defend themselves. Er, no:
The United States and Britain have indefinitely (or here) postponed allowing Iraqi opposition forces to form a national assembly and an interim government by the end of the month. The British and Americans will remain in charge for an indefinite period.
The new U.S.-sponsored Iraqi television news station was censored (or here, slightly different) by the Americans before it went on the air. It has postponed plans to air a live news program because of disputes over editorial control. The Americans wanted the content of the show to be reviewed by the wife of a Kurdish leader before being broadcast. Weeks earlier, in Mosul, the
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from looters and Kuwaiti arsonists. They said the Kuwaitis were bent on revenge for the 1990-91 invasion and war."
Robert Fisk reported seeing the arsonists arrive in identically colored buses. Is it possible that there was an organized Kuwaiti arson squad which had been allowed in to Baghdad by the Americans with the intention of getting revenge for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
There is a water crisis in Nassiriyah, as reported by Chris Stuart, Public Health Promoter with Oxfam in Iraq:
"The water quality is very poor and smelly and after the intense bombing of this town, many homes have no water. Every civic building has been destroyed. . . . . it is a town of rubble and despair. . . to access water . . . breaking intothat was basically the
"Bloomberg of Australia".
At the time, the Australian stock exchange (ASX) ran its own sharemarket
information service called "Jecnet". It was serial dumb terminals connected
over phone lines back to an HP minicomputer/mainframe in Sydney. It was
extremely popular amongst professional trading houses and institutional
investors.
And the stock exchange decided to get out of the market providing information
services, so they announced they were shutting down Jecnet.
So all the stockbrokers and institutional investors around Australia who used
Jecnet - and there were alot - were going to lose their service. They would
all be forced to move to a new system, away from the one they knew well.
And this guy turned up at equinet - I think he had previously worked for the
ASX.
What he had done, is written a DOS Modula2 application which
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necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
I. Summary
In recent years, China has made enormous strides in economic development and modernization, particularly in urban areas. It now attracts more foreign investment than any other country in the world as international companies are increasingly attracted to a huge potential market and a source of cheap labor.
While some suggest that economic development will inexorably lead to improvements in human rights and the rule of law, in the past few years the rights situation has deteriorated. The rule of law continues to seriously lag behind economic expansion. The judiciary, a pillar of a rights-respecting society, remains poorly trained and under the political control of the Chinese Communist Party. Access to justice remains severely limited for citizens withalso aided by extensive corporate and private sector cooperation – including by some of the world's major international technology and Internet companies. In China, the active role of censor has been extended from government offices into private companies. Some companies not only respond to instructions and pressures from Chinese authorities to censor their materials, they actively engage in self-censorship by using their technology to predict and then censor the material they believe the Chinese government wants them to censor.
On February 15, 2006, four U.S.-based companies, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, and Cisco, were brought before a U.S. congressional hearing to explain their operations in China. The following day, Representative Chris Smith introduced the Global Online Freedom Act of 2006, which if passed would, among other things, make it illegal for
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is built into all layers of China's Internet infrastructure. Known widely in the media as the "Great Firewall of China," this aspect of Chinese official censorship primarily targets the movement of information between the global Internet and the Chinese Internet.
Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is overseen technically by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII). Policy about what substantive content is to be censored is largely directed by the State Council Information Office and the Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Department, with input from other government and public security organs.2 Physical access to the Internet is provided by nine state-licensed Internet Access Providers (IAP), each of which has at least one connection to a foreign Internet backbone, and it is through these connections that Chinese Internethundreds of organizations including Chinese companies, universities, and government offices. This "Public Pledge on Self-discipline for the Chinese Internet Industry," initiated by the Internet Society of China (ISOC), commits signatories to "energetic efforts to carry forward the rich cultural tradition of the Chinese nation and the ethical norms of the socialist cultural civilization" by observing all state industry regulations. In particular, signatories vow to refrain "from producing, posting, or disseminating pernicious information that may jeopardize state security and disrupt social stability."10 The Internet Society of China is the major professional association for the Chinese Internet industry. While the ISOC is called a "nongovernmental organization," its "governing body" is the Ministry of Information Industry,
the government ministry in charge of China's national Internet infrastructure.11 To date, Yahoo! is the only
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in mid-2005, after the formation of a joint venture between MSN and Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. (SAIL) to create MSN China in May 2005.88 (Funded by the Shanghai City Government, SAIL is a venture fund led by Jiang Mianheng, son of former PRC president Jiang Zemin.)89
Blog censorship: Within a month of MSN China's rolling out its Chinese portal, Microsoft came under criticism from the press and bloggers (both Chinese and Western) for censoring words such as "democracy" and "freedom" in the titles of its Chinese blogs.90 Meanwhile, testing of the service in December showed that censorship of MSN Spaces Chinese blogs had been extended beyond titles of the full blogs to the titles of individual blog posts themselves. As shown in Fig. 6, testing also showed that whilesensitive words such as "Tibet independence" and "Falungong" (the banned religious group) could be posted in the body of blog posts, use of such words would cause the entire blog to be shut down within days, by Microsoft staff on Microsoft servers.91
The extent of MSN Spaces censorship created an uproar after the popular blog of Zhao Jing, writing under the pseudonym Michael Anti, was shut down on December 30, 2005.92 In 2005 Zhao had become one of China's edgiest journalistic bloggers, often pushing at the boundaries of what is acceptable. He had started blogging on MSN Spaces in August 2005 after his original blog hosted by the Scotland-based company Blog-City.com was blocked by Chinese Internet service providers. In December Zhao used his blog to speak out when propaganda
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these headlines would likely result in Google News being blocked altogether in China.114
Active censorship with Google.cn: In December 2005 Google received its license as a Chinese Internet service. Then on January 26, 2006, Google launched a censored version of its search engine for the Chinese market in which Google became the censor, not merely the victim of state and ISP censorship. Tests of the site showed that Google.cn censors thousands of keywords and web addresses.115 The "block list" was not given to Google by the Chinese government, but rather – as with the other search engines operating in China – was created internally by Google staff based on their own testing of what terms and web addresses were being blocked by Chinese Internet service providers.116
Google's CEO Eric Schmidtphrases such as "Falungong" and "Dalai Lama."147
In an April 2006 interview with the Financial Times, Skype's chief executive Niklas Zennström responded to a question about Skype's Chinese-language censorship, explaining that Skype was simply complying as necessary with local law. "Tom had implemented a text filter, which is what everyone else in that market is doing," the Financial Times quoted Mr Zennström as saying. "Those are the regulations."148 Neither Zennström nor any other Skype executive, however, has clarified exactly which regulations are being complied with or which keywords are involved. Nor has Skype made public a full list of the keywords being blocked by the TOM-Skype client. Skype's Jaanus Kase followed up with a post on the official Skype blog with some further clarification. He said:
TOM operates a text
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of the right to free expression, information, privacy, association, or other internationally recognized human rights.
Press companies to adopt a principled and effective code of conduct.
Press China to end all political censorship of the Internet and to stop pressuring companies to act as censors.
Press China to end the use of the criminal law against individuals on the basis of speech that would otherwise be protected under international law, and to release all such Internet prisoners.
To the Chinese Government
End all censorship of internationally protected expression on the Internet.
Cease putting pressure on or ordering companies to engage in censorship.
End all criminal actions against individuals using the Internet for peaceful political and religious expression.
Create formal, well-documented and legally transparent processes by which content censorship requests are made to companies, formal written proceduresby which companies can challenge or respond to censorship requests, and formal, transparent legal procedures by which members of the Chinese public can safely and fairly challenge the legality of any act of censorship without fear of reprisal.
Acknowledgements
Rebecca MacKinnon was the principal researcher and editor of this report, which was prepared for the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. It was also edited by Brad Adams, Asia division executive director; Sophie Richardson, Asia division deputy director; Arvind Ganesan, director of the Business and Human Rights division; and Ian Gorvin, consultant to the Program office. Dinah PoKempner, general counsel for Human Rights Watch provided legal review. Valuable contributions were made by Sophie Beach, Nicholas Bequelin, Xiao Qiang and Mickey Spiegel. Jo-Anne Prud'homme, Jonathan Cohen, and Andrea Cottom, associates for
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list were allowed to remain on several sites, but quickly removed from others. One site also blocked the computer used to conduct the tests from posting anything else.
In addition, on most sites, at least some of the sensitive phrases cannot be posted at all. Depending on the site, filters replace the offending words with asterisks or block the entire message. Below is the list. Obscenities have been withheld.
Appendix III: Details of Shi Tao's case
Shi Tao (师涛) was taken from his home in Taiyuan, Shanxi, by security police on November 24, 2004, and transported back to Changsha, Hunan, where he had served as a reporter and editor for the newspaper Contemporary Business News. Shi was subsequently formally arrested on state secrets charges stemming from the release of details froma top-secret memorandum issued by central Party and government departments entitled "A Notice Regarding Current Stabilizing Work."
In its case against Shi Tao, the prosecution charged that he improperly took notes on the memorandum as it was being discussed at an editorial meeting at the newspaper and then hours later sent an outline of its contents by email to be published in an overseas web forum under a pseudonym. Evidence presented during the trial included account verification information provided by Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd., which linked the IP address used to send the email from Shi Tao's personal Yahoo! email account to a computer located in the Contemporary Business News office.
The memorandum in question, which was in fact published in the "Democracy Forum" Internet newsletter in the name
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of "198964" on April 20, 2004, warned of activities by democracy activists around the fifteenth anniversary of the crackdown on the June 4 demonstrations, as well as the perennial threats posed by Falun Gong, the increasing number of mass incidents, and danger of harmful content on the Internet. Those in the media were particularly warned against voicing any opinions not in step with central government policies, and to report any suspected contacts between democracy activists and journalists.
During his trial, Shi did not deny sending details of the memorandum for publication overseas, and his defense attorney argued that he should not receive severe punishment because his actions resulted in no serious damage to the security or interests of the nation. However, the Changsha Intermediate People's Court, citing China's regulationson state secrets, rejected this argument and convicted Shi of the crime of "divulging state secrets abroad," sentencing him on April 27, 2005, to 10 years in prison, with subsequent deprivation of political rights for two years.
Shi appealed the verdict to the Hunan Higher People's Court, arguing in part that he had not been aware that the memorandum was classified and charging police with failing to adhere to legal procedures during his arrest. The Hunan court rejected Shi's arguments and upheld the original sentence on June 2, 2005. Shi is currently serving his sentence in Hunan province's Chishan Prison, and he is due for release on November 24, 2014.
Appendix IV: Details of Li Zhi's case
Li Zhi (李智), a government employee from Da county in Sichuan province, was taken
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into custody by domestic security police on August 11, 2003, on subversion charges. On December 10 of that same year, Li was convicted by the Dazhou Intermediate People's Court and sentenced to eight years in prison, with subsequent deprivation of political rights for four years.
Li is alleged to have used free email accounts through SINA.com and Yahoo! China to make contact with an overseas representative of the outlawed China Democracy Party (CDP) beginning in 2001. Having expressed his agreement with the CDP platform, Li received a membership certificate, which he saved on his computer, and was given responsibility for local organizing activity. Among Li's alleged recruits was a middle-school student surnamed Ying, to whom he sent CDP documents and instructions for how to join the party.
Li was alsoof the Dazhou court, claiming that he had only been allowed to meet with his defense attorney shortly before his trial was set to open, making it impossible to develop an adequate defense. In Li's second trial, acclaimed defense lawyer Zhang Sizhi pointed to evidence from the case file to suggest that Li's email accounts may have been used by a suspected police informant whom Li befriended after meeting online. Although Li's attorneys made a vigorous defense in which they raised a number of questions about the prosecution's use of its electronic evidence, the Sichuan Higher People's Court decision on February 26, 2004, rejected the defense submission with hardly any comment and upheld the original eight-year verdict.
Li Zhi is currently serving his sentence in Sichuan province's Chuandong Prison,
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this account was discovered a copy of the same political declaration authored by Liu and Li.
In part because of international pressure following their arrests, Liu, Wu, and Li were all released rather than being prosecuted alongside Jiang. Because of unaccounted-for photographs of the group that were submitted as evidence in Jiang's trial, and Li Yibing's mysterious disappearance after being released, at least one member of the group has speculated that Li may have been acting as a police informant or provocateur. This could also help to explain how police were able to access information in the Yahoo! email account.
After being convicted by the Beijing court, Jiang Lijun was transferred back to Liaoning province to serve his sentence. He is due to be released from Jinzhou Prison on Novemberfor two years. He is due to be released from prison on August 31, 2012.
Appendix VII: Liu Xiaobo's letter to Yahoo!
My name is Liu Xiaobo. I was born in Changchun, China, in 1955, and am now a freelance writer in Beijing.
I can't address you as the "respectful Mr. Yang", because I write this letter for the sake of my friend Shi Tao, who is now in a Chinese prison.
In preparation for writing this letter, I read your resume for the first time and learned that you co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994, along with David Filo, and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995, which has now developed into a world famous Internet enterprise. In terms of social status you are the rising star of the
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you.
Born in Taipei in 1968, you moved to the United States at the age of 10 and then entered Stanford University to study electrical engineering. Your business intuition and talents are admirable. While preparing your doctoral thesis, you designed software for Internet searching, and then, in 1995, you co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. Your company brings convenience to billions of netizens around the world, including about 100 million Chinese netizens.
Shi Tao, aged 37, is a native of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He was a famous campus poet and took an active part in the pro-democracy movement in 1989 when he was a student at East China Normal University. The Tiananmen Massacre changed many people, including Shi Tao, and rendered himof your diminished status as a man.
IV. The serious consequences of conspiring with an evil force
Your company's conspiracy with the CCP has led to serious results:
First, you are helping an evil regime to control the free spread of information and the freedom of speech. Ever since the era of Mao, the CCP has tried various means to build "a prison of the soul" for the Chinese people. After the Tiananmen Massacre, this prison came to the brink of collapse. With the advent of the Internet, the days of this prison's doom are numbered. Aware of this, the CCP spends a great deal of money on building its "Golden Shield" to enforce its "prison of soul". A profitable market has draw many Western companies to China, many of whom,
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Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
CHICAGO — An Illinois law that takes effect Sunday aims to take advantage of the trusted relationship between hairstylists and their clients to prevent domestic violence.
Stylists, barbers, cosmetologists, estheticians, hair braiders and nail technicians in Illinois will receive an hour of mandated abuse-prevention training as part of the licensing process. The law does not require them to report any violence, and it shelters them from any liability.
Instead, the training provides beauty professionals with information about local help and resources they can share with clients. The Illinois measure appears to be the first of its kind in the country, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Two customers, one reading a newspaper the othersaid Hurley, also a Democrat. "She refills them all the time."
Cosmetologists Chicago helped write the measure so that it did not require beauty professionals to become involved or report violence unless they choose. Once that was clarified, Nelson said, the professional response was "overwhelmingly positive."
The first training sessions will be offered in March at an industry trade show in Chicago.
Gordon has been in the beauty industry for 38 years and said she thinks she would have used the training if it were offered earlier in her career.
"I wish I'd had the tools," she said. "I wish I'd had the resources."
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said.
The report looked at 995 students who were selected through a lottery to receive scholarships through the program, as well as 776 students who applied for scholarships, but weren't chosen. It considered student performance in reading and math, as well as parental satisfaction and general feelings about their childrens' schools after the first year of enrollment.
Math achievement for students who used a tax-payer funded voucher to attend private school was 7.3 percent lower than for students who did not participate in the program, the study found. It also found a difference of 4.9 percentage points in reading achievement between students who used the vouchers and those who did not, but researchers didn't consider those results to be statistically significant.
The report also found that parents of children in gradesBored? Turn your passions -- whether they are juggling chainsaws, chasing tornadoes or walking on fire -- into cool and profitable companies just like the following 12 entrepreneurs did.
Linda Teglovic's father was a college professor who didn't appreciate his daughter making her living showing off her body as a model, until she got paid $72,000 as one of three "butts in jeans" for a print ad.
Teglovic started modeling in New York City at 14. A leggy blonde beauty, who is 5'10, she supplemented her income at college and later after she became sales manager for Federal Express.
"The money was great, and I know how to use cornstarch to buff my legs to give the illusion of flawlessness," she said. This led her to become a body double for
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actresses like Rene Russo in "The Thomas Crown Affair." "It was more cost effective to show my leg hanging off a ladder and save Russo for the wide shots."
But when Teglovic moved permanently to LA, she couldn't find an agency to represent her as a leg model or body double, so, with $1,000 of her savings, she started her own agency, Body Parts Models in 2001. She put up notices of a casting call at car washes and supermarkets. When 1,000 people showed up, Teglovic knew she was onto something.
Now Body Parts Models represents 250 "parts" and books 20 jobs a month. Most are not professional models. "We have schoolteachers, firefighters, even an astronaut who is one of our hand models," she said.
There are 14 divisions for whichthe personal experience of Ibn Sheikh al-Libi and Binyam Mohamed, both of whom got tortured before Black’s departure. In his book Jose Rodriguez claims, falsely, the torture program started in June, and he led it. If this official CIA chronology is correct, Black should have had no role — and no personal interest — in the torture program.
And yet there he is with the other torturers, leading pushback.
Even in their pushback effort, then, the CIA proves that they’ve been lying for years.
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of
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signature tobacco plantations the "Ranches of Puerto Plata."
At the time of the Devastations of Ozoria, the community helped maintain communication between the Valley of the Cibao and Port Silver. It also served as a refuge and hideout for settlers who refused to abandon the region.
During the period of the Annexation, Altamira became a part of the Province of Santiago by Law No. 40 of 1845. After the War of Restoration brought national independence, Altamira's importance grew, as not just an area of strategic military importance, but also as a demographic and commercial center.
In the times of the Restoration, Altamira's initially dispersed shacks became more numerous. They were grouped in the shape of a village that held 60 to 75 families. The villagers cultivatedPrysmian win ExxonMobil submarine cable contract
In 2013, Prysmian was awarded a contract worth more than $100 million for the supply and installation of submarine cables for a section of ExxonMobil’s existing offshore operations in the United States.
The scope of work involved the replacement of approximately 50 km of submarine power cables with increased capacity 40 kV EPR submarine cables, designed for water depths of up to 450 metres. The cables will supply electric power from the existing shore-based generating plant to offshore platforms.
The turnkey project was executed by Prysmian, with the submarine power cable being supplied by our Drammen factory in Norway. Installation has been undertaken by our Cable Enterprise laying vessel. The Cable Enterprise underwent significant modification work in 2014 to be converted to a full Dynamically
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revisions, according to Jessica Charles, director of professional programs at the Graduate School of Education.
Wasserman alerted the journalism community to the proposal Sept. 12, and three meetings have been held since then.
At the journalism school, the estimated average financial impact of the fee per student, after factoring in financial aid, would be $4,083 per year for in-state students and $1,226 for those outside of California, Wasserman said in a Tuesday email to the journalism school community.
Faculty members voted on two points Thursday, determining first whether to implement the fee and then deciding what the amount would be. The result of the first vote was 12 in favor and two opposed. For the second vote, faculty members were given six fee levels to choose from. Six faculty members votedEX-Board
eX-Board is an arcade system board released in 2008 by the Japanese company Examu.
Hardware Specification
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Input: Operators are able to add buttons with JAMMA input
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settle the case before a trial, as it did with Stapley and New Times -- and don't forget retired judges Gary Donahoe, Barbara Mundell, Ana Baca, and Kenneth Fields, businessman Conley Wolfswinkel's family, county IT chief Stephen Wetzel, Deputy County Manager Sandi Wilson, and Stapley assistant, Susan Schuerman.
Campbell says, in retrospect, Wilcox's $975,000 settlement looks like a "bargain." Her settlement was made in April 2012, he points out, long before relevant depositions and documents that came out during the lawsuits by Donahoe and Stapley.
"I don't understand what the county is doing," Campbell says. "It really makes no sense."
Perhaps politics make the difference: Wilcox is a Democrat, and the other four supes and the county attorney are Republicans.
If the county loses the appeal, after the March 11 hearing inFile - In this Aug. 9, 2013 file photo, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai presents his dissent during a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing at the FCC in Washington. Pai is asking the nations largest hotel chains whether they require guests to dial 9 before 911 in the wake of a Texas girls struggle to call for help while her mother was being stabbed.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)
FCC Chief Says Economics Will Play Larger Role in Future Policies
The head of the Federal Communications Commission announced Wednesday the creation of a new economics office at the agency to help guide future policymaking, something critics of the FCC say it has lacked in recent administrations.
Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said he wants economics to play a much larger role in the agency’s
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THE rise of big emerging economies like China and India, and the steady march of globalisation, have led to a surge in the numbers of people wanting to travel abroad for business or tourism. As a result, demand for visas is at unprecedented levels. In the fiscal year to the end of September 2014 the United States granted just under 10m visas—up from around 6m in 1997, despite blips in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 and the global financial crisis of 2007-08 (see chart 1).
Citizens of America, Britain and some other rich countries can travel to most places without a visa. Chinese and Indian travellers are far more likely to have to apply for them. And citizens of a few benighted places, suchgovernments. Of the 113m visa applications made worldwide in 2013, one in three went through a contractor, reckons VFS, which has about half the market. Its main rivals are CSC, with around 10% of the market, and TLScontact, with around 7%. Dozens of smaller firms make up the remainder of the market. The private contractors collect and verify the applicant’s paperwork, ensure that forms are filled in properly, take fingerprints and other biometric information and collect the fees. The consular staff of the destination country simply decide whether to grant the visa, and slap a sticker in the passport of successful applicants. For the contractors, it is a nice little earner. VFS probably enjoys operating margins of 20%, reckons Kathleen Gailliot, an analyst at Natixis, a French bank.
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and Asia Pacific legal and business experience, focusing on Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions (including anti-trust) and International Trade. Matthew has been listed as a leading corporate/IP lawyer by various publishers such as Euromoney, Chambers and the Legal 500 and is an arbitrator with the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, an arbitrator and mediator with the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, and a domain name dispute arbitrator with the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre in Beijing. Matthew is a regular contributor of articles on Chinese and IP law to major journals, and regularly teaches international IP and technology law at the post-graduate level at a number of leading universities. Prior to joining MMLC, Matthew was with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Simmons & Simmons in Hong Kong Plaintiffs - Appellants,
versus
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Defendant - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern
District of West Virginia, at Wheeling. Frederick P. Stamp, Jr.,
Senior District Judge. (5:04-cv-00143-FPS)
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Bola Tinubu Net Worth 2018: According to the recent forbes list for 2018, is a Political Leader In The Federal Republic Of Nigeria whose Net Worth is $80 Billion USD (2018).
Bola Tinubu Salary 2018
Bola Tinubu Salary 2018: According to the recent forbes list for 2018, Bola Tinubu Was The Former President Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria whose Salary is $900,000 Million USD (2018).
Bola Tinubu Biography And Net Worth 2018
Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) was elected Senator for the Lagos West constituency in Lagos State, Nigeria in 1993. The election was just prior to a military take-over in December 1993. After the return to democracy, he was elected governor of Lagos State, holding office from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.
He is aninfluential member of the All Progressives Congress party; he also holds both the chieftaincies of the Asiwaju of Lagos and the Jagaban of the Borgu Kingdom in Niger State, Nigeria.
He has been routinely referred to as the national leader of the APC during the presidency of Muhammadu Buhari.
Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu,(Jagaban of Borgu) was born on 29 March 1952 in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. He attended St. John’s Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos and Children’s Home School in Ibadan, South West of Nigeria.
Tinubu then went to the United States in 1975, where he studied first at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, Illinois, and then at Chicago State University. He graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
Tinubu worked for the American companies Arthur Andersen,
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Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, and GTE Services Corporation.
After returning to Nigeria in 1983, Bola Tinubu joined Mobil Oil Nigeria, and later became an executive of the company.
His political career began in 1992, on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (where he was a member of the faction of the Peoples Front led by Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and made up of other politicians such as Dapo Sarumi and Yomi Edu).
He was elected to the Nigerian Senate, representing the Lagos West constituency in the short-lived Nigerian Third Republic.
After the results of the 12 June 1993 presidential elections were annulled, Tinubu became a founding member of the pro-democracy National Democratic Coalition, a group which mobilized support for the restoration of democracy and recognition of the results of the 12th ofJune. He went into exile in 1994 and returned to the country in 1998 after the death of the military dictator Sani Abacha, which ushered in a transition to civilian rule.
In the run-up to the 1999 elections, Bola Tinubu was a protégé of Alliance for Democracy (AD) leaders Abraham Adesanya and Ayo Adebanjo.
He won the AD primaries for the Lagos State gubernatorial elections in competition with Funsho Williams and Wahab Dosunmu, a former Minister of Works and Housing. In January 1999, he stood for the position of Executive Governor of Lagos State on the AD ticket and was elected.
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place Kateryna Lagno in Round 10, while against Tan Zhongyi in Round 12 she later admitted she never made it out of the opening. In a line of the Caro-Kann where Anish Giri had crushed David Navara in Shamkir Chess 2018, Tan Zhongyi looked to have an overwhelming position, but first she missed some chances, then she allowed a fortress and finally Goryachkina could have won by playing e.g. 54…Bg4! (gradually the white pawns and indeed pieces will fall)
Goryachkina sensed she was probably winning, but, like Peter and Jan, she couldn’t see it at a glance, and she was delighted to end a tough game and tournament with the draw she needed to secure first place in the tournament.
She drew quickly against Nana Dzagnidze in the penultimate roundon winning
It’s been an incredible year for 21-year-old Vladislav Artemiev, who started by winning the Gibraltar Masters and then just couldn’t stop. He won the European Individual Championship and had Grischuk comparing him to Chuck Norris as he scored 6.5/8 for Russia in the World Team Championship. Even when it seemed he was slowing down, e.g. by starting with 4 draws in 5 games in the Russian Team Championship, he then went on to win the last 4 games. You can argue about the level of his opposition, but there’s no doubt about the performance:
That was enough for Artemiev to become one of the very few players in recent years to break into the Top 10:
He’s currently just short of that mark on the live rating list after
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Wesley So rejoined the Top 10 with a +1 performance in Norway.
The other impressive run Vladislav Artemiev was nursing was an unbeaten streak in classical games that seemed to have stretched to 60 after draws in the first two rounds in Poikovsky. It was going to take something special to beat him, and that was provided by 38-year-old Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran, who played arguably the game of his life to beat Artemiev in Round 3. It was the kind of game that was so beautiful that despite losing Artemiev couldn’t deny his opponent the pleasure of finishing with checkmate on the board.
Here are Jan and Peter talking about the game during the Norway Chess live broadcast:
So that was a tough blow for Artemiev, but he simply shruggedwas also an impressive 50% performance for 17-year-old Andrey Esipenko, who could easily be keeping Artemiev company at the top of the rating list in a few more years.
Le Quang Liem wins the Asian Continental Championship
The final recent event we’re going to look at is the Asian Continental Championship, which took place in Xingtai, China from 7-15 June. When 15-year-old Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja started with 3.5/4 he was threatening to match Wei Yi and Magnus Carlsen by crossing 2700 on the live rating list before his 16th birthday. In Round 5, however, he was to run into an absolutely stunning move by 20-year-old 2-time Indian Champion Karthikeyan Murali:
Karthikeyan paused for 21 minutes here before unleashing the positional queen sacrifice 9…Qxc3+!! It seems it didn't come as quite
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such a shock for everyone!
After 10.bxc3 dxe3 11.f3!? Nh5! Black already had good compensation, and within 10 moves had taken over. Karthikeyan didn’t spoil his masterpiece but went on to win in 52 moves.
The queen sacrifice immediately reverberated around the chess world, with Peter Svidler giving it high praise before he began his Banter Blitz session on a Norway Chess rest day:
You can replay the game here.
Firouzja bounced back after that loss to defeat Aravindh in the very next round, but he went on to lose one more game, to the eventual tournament winner, Le Quang Liem.
The US based Vietnamese star finished in clear first on 7/9:
The main intrigue about the tournament wasn’t first place, however, but gaining one of the five World Cup places available. Le QuangLiem had actually already qualified from the 2018 Asian Championship, while Rinat Jumabayev did so via a zonal tournament in Uzbekistan, so that the places went to Karthikeyan, Sethuraman, Narayanan, Firouzja and Gupta (check out all the qualifiers so far here). Top seed Vidit and stars such as Adhiban, Praggnanandhaa and Nihal Sarin missed out, though Nihal did get a consolation prize on the final day!
We now have a slight lull in the top class action before the Croatia Grand Chess Tour starts next Wednesday, June 26th, but we mean slight. Ding Liren and David Navara are playing a 10-game rapid match in Prague (with 67-year-old Jan Timman also taking on 17-year-old Thai Dai Van Nguyen) and Le Quang Liem will join Shankland, Jones, Howell, Xiong and Swiercz
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of those players had 300+ carry years before that point or years with 349, 348, etc. carries. The myth is just a myth.
Justin Forsett is amongst my favorites of this year. Sitting behind one of the best offensive lines in the league under coordinator Marc Trestman is a recipe for high volume. Trestman's RBs (even before Matt Forte) regularly caught over 60 passes a year, with at least two players eclipsing 80. Forsett is starting on a team that is mostly trotting out first time starters (Kamar Aiken, Breshad Perriman, Maxx Williams, Crockett Gilmore), so might see even more volume as familiarity gives him an edge.
Some might point to Forsett's past, but it's hard to fault a player for being in the wrong place at the wrong timeover some of the other potential greats.
Isaiah Crowell is a whole 10 spots higher in my ranking than his Expert Consensus rank. At the time of this writing, the entire Cleveland RB squad is injured minus Crowell. All of them sit behind a top 5 run blocking offensive line, and of them all Crowell is the one that the Browns coaches have said is the best at running on the ground (and many analysts would agree with that sentiment).
While Duke Johnson will take touches from Crowell eventually, they've already relegated him into more of a Giovani Bernard role by word of mouth, so this is likely to be a split backfield. But Crowell still stands to benefit greatly from the protection ahead of him, and especially with the
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on the bench works to Sankey's favor. Sankey is almost a guaranteed Week 1 starter, and if he does play well he has the chance to start all season long. At his worst, just like Freeman, he is the best passing down option on this team and becomes the second fiddle. For a player regularly falling into the 9th round that's a low impact price.
The last time Danny Woodhead was healthy, he finished the season as RB13 in PPR and RB19 in standard. He's a huge potential boom this year with the Chargers offense looking far better than it did in his 2013 year. Even with Melvin Gordon there, the Chargers ran the ball 470+ times in Woodhead's best year, and the moves to gain offensive lineman andPalace Hotel removes 'cultural treasure'
"The Pied Piper" by artist Maxfield Parrish had been displayed for many years in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco until it was removed and shipped to an auction house on Friday, March 22, 2013. "The Pied Piper" by artist Maxfield Parrish had been displayed for many years in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco until it was removed and shipped to an auction house on Friday, March 22, 2013. Photo: Courtesy Of The Palace Hotel Photo: Courtesy Of The Palace Hotel Image 1 of / 5 Caption Close Palace Hotel removes 'cultural treasure' 1 / 5 Back to Gallery
(03-22) 15:50 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The owners of San Francisco's Palace Hotel have removed the famous Maxfield Parish Pied Piper painting that has graced
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the hotel's main bar for over a century and plans to sell it at auction.
The mural was removed Friday morning and will be sold as the centerpiece of the Christie auction house's spring sale of important American paintings on May 23.
The painting, which measures 16 feet long by six feet deep, is considered a major San Francisco cultural treasure and is a major feature of the Pied Piper room, selected as one of the city's "legacy bars and restaurants" by the San Francisco Architectural Heritage. The hotel said the painting was being sold because "it is no longer practical for the hotel to display, an original work of this value and cultural signifcance, in a public area."
The hotel estimates the value of the painting to be between $3million and $5 million.
It was painted by Parish, one of the most noted American painters of the 20th century, in 1909 especially for the Palace Hotel, which reopened that year. The original Palace Hotel was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
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in middle school, many of us brought our pocket knives to
school. We also made knives and "throwing stars" in metal shop. We made billy clubs on the wood lathes and got graded on them. How many stabbings
and shootings took place at schools back in the 70s and 80s? It just didn't happen. We were a different people then.
When I was in high school, it was nothing to look out into the parking lot and count 20 or more rifles or shotguns hanging in the back windows of many
trucks. Especially during hunting season. When I was in middle school, many of us brought our pocket knives to school. We also made knives and
"throwing stars" in metal shop. We made billy clubs on the wood lathes and got graded onfor ONE 19 year old teen. Now martial law can be declared for anything!
So the people are afraid of the government more than of terrorism.....
Go figure...
Could be because the radical jihadi's only stick it to them once every ten years or so...
Meanwhile the government are sticking it to them every day...
Bush cried out "They hate us because of our freedom, they hate us because of liberty and out way of life......."
Meanwhile the government voted into power democratically by the people is trying to destroy the self same freedom and liberty and way of life, just by
different means.
What threat of terror? 4 people have died in 10 years as a result of terrorism in the United States. The TSA has failed to catch 1 terrorist in the
over 10 years
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it has been in operation. Despite tens of billions of dollars in annual budget, funding manpower, armored vehicles and intelligence
gathering, the DHS, FBI and CIA failed to stop the one terror event we actually did have in the last 10 years.
Please......... Terrorism is a non issue in America. It's a manufactured fear of a "boogey man" with no credible statistics to back up any credible
threat to our society, way of life or possibility of mass casualties outside of "normal" risk as it pertains to our foreign affairs policies.
Terrorism is only real in the sense that it exists. Brown recluse spiders exist too, their bite causes horrible necrotic wounds and sometimes death
yet I don't live my life in fear of being bitten because cold hard statistics tell me thather 1961 autobiography My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House that she had heard them.
Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, said she heard a specter rapping at the door of the Lincoln Bedroom when she stayed there, and believed it was Lincoln.
President Truman himself was once wakened by raps at the door while spending a night in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Several unnamed eyewitnesses have claimed to have seen the shade of Abraham Lincoln actually lying down on the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom (which was used as a meeting room at the time of his administration), and while others have seen Lincoln sit on the edge of the bed and put his boots on. The most famous eyewitness to the latter was Mary Eben, Eleanor Roosevelt’s
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secretary, who saw Lincoln pulling on his boots (after which she ran screaming from the room).
Others have actually seen an apparition of the former president. The first person reported to have actually seen Lincoln’s spirit was First Lady Grace Coolidge, who said she saw the ghost of Lincoln standing at a window in the Yellow Oval Room staring out at the Potomac.
Theodore Roosevelt and Maureen Reagan and her husband have all claimed to have seen a spectral Lincoln in the White House. A number of staff members of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration claimed to have seen Lincoln’s spirit, and on one occasion Roosevelt’s personal valet ran screaming from the White House claiming he had seen Lincoln’s ghost.
Perhaps the most famous incident was in 1942 when Wilhelmina ofthe Netherlands heard footsteps outside her White House bedroom and answered a knock on the door, only to see Lincoln in frock coat and top hat standing in front of her (she promptly fainted).
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill loved to retire late, take a long, hot bath while drinking a Scotch, and smoke a cigar and relax. On this occasion, he climbed out of the bath and naked, but for his cigar, walked into the adjoining bedroom. He was startled to see Lincoln standing by the fireplace in the room, leaning on the mantle. Churchill, always quick on the uptake, simply took his cigar out of his mouth, tapped the ash off the end of his cigar and said “Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have me
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at a disadvantage.” Lincoln smiled softly, as if laughing and disappeared. Churchill smiled in embarrassment.
Lincoln’s ghost was reportedly seen outside of the White House as well. In Loudonville, New York, Lincoln’s ghost was said to haunt a house that was owned by a woman who was present at Ford’s Theatre when Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. Other Lincoln hauntings included his grave in Springfield, Illinois, a portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln and a phantom train on nights in April along the same path his funeral train followed from Washington, D.C. to Springfield.
The last sighting of Lincoln’s ghost was in the early 1980s, when Tony Savoy, White House operations foreman, came into the White House and saw Lincoln sitting in a chair at the top of somestairs.
Abraham Lincoln is not the only Lincoln ghost witnesses claim to have seen in the White House. Willie Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s 11-year-old son, died in the White House of typhoid on February 20, 1862.
Willie Lincoln’s ghost was first seen in the White House by staff members of the Grant administration in the 1870s, but has appeared as recently as the 1960s (President Lyndon B. Johnson’s college-age daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, saw the ghost and claims to have talked to him).
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Skull Knight 2018 version-Limited Edition I(with attachment of a Senma Soldier and the Sword of Actuation)2018 Version
Estimated Delivery Date:around end of November to December, 2018
Limited Manufacture to 60 pcs only!
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Installment Plan
This newly-designed art statue features for the first time ever a running movement pose of Skull Knight on his horse galloping at full speed.Unlike any of our previous statues that showed the Skull Knight in a static pose, this new model aims to express the movement and power of the Skull Knight, perfectly symbolizing its charisma as a knight to the utmost.A long period of product development has resulted in a new modeling that shows in minute detail an unparalleled and wonderful finish from all angles. Moreover, we have painted the statue with various colors in fullJune 20th. It will be held on June 20th, 2019 at 7:30 P.M. at the Penn Hills Government Center, 102 Duff... More
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
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The Wilkinsburg Board of School Directors will hold a Public Budget meeting on Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 7:00 pm for the purpose of reviewing the Preliminary Budget for 2019-2020. The meeting will be held in the 1st floor Board Room of the Administration Building at 718 Wallace Avenue,... More
LEGAL NOTICE OF MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING
The Moon Industrial Development Authority (the "Authority") will conduct a public hearing on Monday June 10, 2019, at
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Traveling to new locations, meeting fun people, running in cool places. This is why I decided to run marathons in all 50 states and the Casper Marathon in Wyoming did not disappoint!
I actually flew into Denver which was much cheaper and only a 4 hour drive from Casper. While in Denver, I met up with fellow blogger, runner and triathlete Iron Eric and his wife Nicole for lunch. They'd had a new family addition since I last saw them at Florida 70.3 in 2007.
The drive up to Casper also allowed me to see Southern Wyoming, which I'd never been through before. It was not as stunning as the Yellowstone area, which I'd seen on the drive between my week-apart marathons in South Dakota and IdahoDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke Beto O'RourkeJimmy Carter says his son smoked pot with Willie Nelson on White House roof O'Rourke endorses Kennedy for Senate: 'A champion for the values we're most proud of' 2020 Democrats do convention Zoom call MORE, a former Texas congressman, said Sunday that President Trump's racist rhetoric is in part to blame for the mass shooting in O'Rourke's hometown of El Paso.
"Let's be very clear about what is causing this and who the president is. He is an open avowed racist and encouraging more racism in this country," O'Rourke said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Twenty people died in the mass shooting Saturday at an El Paso Walmart. The shooter is alleged to have written a manifesto ahead of the attack filled with
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Hybrid epicardial and endocardial ablation of a persistent atrial tachycardia arising from the marshall bundle: the importance of a detailed analysis of the local potentials.
Radiofrequency catheter ablation of an atrial tachycardia (AT) and atrial fibrillation (AF) was performed in a patient with a history of pulmonary vein isolation for paroxysmal AF. The AT exhibited a centrifugal pattern with the posterolateral LA as the earliest activation site. The AT was not terminated by ablation at the endocardial earliest site, but its cycle length was prolonged by ablation at an opposite site within the Vein of Marshall. Finally, the AT was terminated by an energy application at a site 7 mm posteroinferior to the initial earliest activation site. We analyzed the local potentials of each energy delivery site in detail.US with no knowledge of the outside world—the only constant in his life a purple marble.
Lost, shattered, and afraid, only hope gives them the strength and courage they need to begin anew.
Friday, November 10, 2017
Christy looked at the paper cup containing his medication. It sat in the same place on the breakfast tray every morning. He hated that he had to take medication and, as much as he valued food, he lost his appetite every time he saw the pills. They reminded him of before, of what they did to him. He hated them with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns. He hated the pills even more for reminding him of them. He spent every moment of his pathetic existence fighting not to think about them, not
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a summer in Iceland and finally settled in the country of her dreams with her dream team: a husband, a cat, a tandem, a hammer and a laptop.
Jackie writes thrillers, suspense, sci-fi and fantasy - often with love stories built in. She loves unexpected reunions and second chances, and characters who don't follow the rules when those rules are stupid. She blogs about English history and food, has a thing for green eyes, and is a great believer in making up soundtracks for everything, including her characters and the cat.
And she still hasn't found the place where the bus stops.
For questions and comments, not restricted to green eyes, bus stops or recipes for traditional English food, you can find Jackie Keswick in all the usual places:
Saturday, June 17,2017
An Interview with Robin Reardon: What's a straight, cisgender (slightly queer on the inside) female author like you doing writing in the world of GLBTQIA teen fiction?
Author Robin Reardon answers this and other questions about her work and her latest release, Waiting for Walker, which features a gay teen and an intersex teen.
It's my great pleasure to have Robin on my blog today, and she was kind enough to allow me to interview her. Her newest novel, Waiting for Walker, is a wonderful story and I can't recommend it highly enough. So much so, I wrote a foreword for the book. Check out my awesome interview with Robin and don't forget to scroll down and enter the give-away! FIVE lucky people will win an ecopy of Waiting for
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Linnwood Park is now the one name that will be used for senior group homes at Meriden and Valley Falls, reports co-owner Ken Hartle. Previously known as LinnWood Place and Deer Park, they are all under one ownership and will now be marketed under the one name.
The Jefferson West Board of Education welcomed its newest member, Scott Gibson, to its midst July 5 in a special meeting.
The one-hour session was held to handle a number of reorganizational matters as the board begins a new fiscal year.Eurostars Domus Aurea Is Next To Ancient Roman Ruins And The Church Of Santa Maria Degli Angeli. A Generous American Buffet Is Served Daily On The Roof Terrace Overlooking The Terme Di Diocleziano.
This Charming Hotel Is A 1-Minute Walk From Termini Train Station, Where Both Metro Lines, Trains, And City Buses Are Available.
Room Are Compact, And Feature Elegant Parquet Floors And Classic Furnishings. Each Room Is Complete With Wi-Fi Access, And A Satellite Tv.
The Professional Team Of Staff At Reception Can Book Guided Tours Around Rome And Boat...
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being replaced by a more aggressive, transaction-oriented Wall Street, with underwriters entering the trenches and selling securities directly to the public—territory Kuhn, Loeb stubbornly refused to enter. When asked how many people worked at Kuhn, Loeb, one partner famously quipped, "about half". Such was life at Kuhn, Loeb, resting on its laurels, while Wall Street passed it by.
In 1977, facing a capital crisis, the firm succumbed and merged with Lehman Brothers, to form Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. Internationally, the merged firms were known as Kuhn Loeb Lehman Brothers Inc., in recognition Kuhn Loeb's superior international reputation.
The merger did not, however, prove to be the panacea to what ailed Kuhn, Loeb. Indeed, as detailed more closely in the Lehman Brothers history, a period ofBright: The Album
BRIGHT: THE ALBUM is the companion soundtrack to Netflix’s forthcoming Fantasy-Action blockbuster starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. It features a mind-blowing track listing of original music from a genre-defying collection of massive artists and reunites director David Ayer with GRAMMY® Award-winner Kevin Weaver, Atlantic Records President, West Coast; the team first worked together as producers of Atlantic’s blockbuster ARIA #1, platinum SUICIDE SQUAD: THE ALBUM.
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Washington State legislators went back to work on Monday, kicking off a 60-day legislative session. The legislative session is shorter than last year’s since odd-numbered years are expected to have legislative work completed quicker. Democrats now hold both the upper and lower chambers of the Washington State Legislature after winning the all-coveted Senate seat up for grabs last November in the 45th Legislative District.
Scores of pre-filed bills were introduced on the first day of the legislative session, including eleven bills affecting public transportation policy–more than a dozen from the 2017 legislative sessions were also reintroduced. The first cutoff for policy bills to get out of committee is February 2nd–less than a month away. Progressive transportation advocates will need to stay on their toes this year to ensure thatClub. It was announced on December 1, 2010 that Bledsoe would return to TV, replacing Niecy Nash as the host of Clean House on Style Network. Her first episode aired on January 26, 2011. In 2012, Bledsoe was heard as the voice of Sheriff Hooper in the Laika animated film ParaNorman. In 2014, Bledsoe appeared in the Instant Mom episode "Not Your Mother's Day" in which she reprised her role as Vanessa Huxtable. She's a second cousin of Drew Bledsoe, American Football player who played for the New England Patriots and Dallas Cowboys.
Personal life
Bledsoe earned a bachelor's degree in finance from New York University. Since 1993 she has been in a relationship with actor Darryl M. Bell, who co-starred in the NBC TV comedy A Different World, a
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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.
A son allegedly shot and killed his mother at a home in an upscale Irvine neighborhood before turning the gun on himself, police said Thursday.
The suspected murder-suicide took place around 12:20 p.m. Wednesday in a residence on Hexham in the Turtle Rock Community, according to an Irvine Police Department news release.
Officers responded to the home where they found a man and woman deceased from apparent gunshot wounds, the release stated.
Authorities have not released their names, but the preliminary investigation indicates the decedents were a mother and her son, according to the release.
A handgun was recovered at the scene, andassigned to the *5 Region II Narcotics Strike Force which investigates drug violations in Southeastern Penna.
2. On 28 February 83, the affiant received information from Cpl. Gregory DELP, Patrol Unit PSP Limerick, that on 27 February 83, at approximately 1945 hours, he was involved in an interview with Hazel Maxine COON, W-F-35, DOB 9-23-47, from Semmes, Ala., in reference to drug information concerning Robert Harry WEIDENMOYER, aka "BABBIT". Ms. COON related that she was staying at BABBIT'S residence in Trappe, Penna., which is located at 439 Main Street, Trappe, Penna., with a Walt KUGLER. They stayed at Babbit's residence from Friday 25 February 83 until the present date (27 February 83). While she was at BABBIT'S residence she observed a plastic bag with white powder in it,
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has no steady type of employment and to the best of the informant's knowledge his (WEIDENMOYER) sole source of income is selling drugs. The informant has not had personal contact with WEIDENMOYER within the past three or four (4) months, however, he/she has heard through other individuals that WEIDENMOYER is still selling methamphetamine.
6. On 1 March 83, the affiant checked with Tpr. William DAVIS, PSP Motorcycle Club Intelligence Unit, concerning the activities of WEIDENMOYER. Tpr. DAVIS related that he received intelligence information concerning WEIDENMOYER approximately one (1) year ago and learned that he was selling methamphetamine. Tpr. DAVIS related that his information had WEIDENMOYER purchasing methamphetamine from Ronald "Ronnie" FOSTER, the National President of the Warlocks and that WEIDENMOYER was purchasing pound quantities.
7. On 1 March 83, thebeen established for a search warrant for the WEIDENMOYER residence.
The affiant was presented to District Justice Bernard Maher who found that probable cause existed. He issued a warrant to search the named premises. That same day, Troopers Thomas M. Bowman and George Painter went to 439 Main Street to execute the warrant. After knocking, they were met by appellee Carter who indicated that Weidenmoyer was not in the house. The officers identified themselves, handed Carter the warrant, and proceeded to search the premises. Thereupon police discovered contraband believed to be controlled substances and placed Carter under arrest. Weidenmoyer surrendered to police three days later.
A suppression hearing was held before Judge Anita B. Brody on August 25-26, 1983, to determine the admissibility of the evidence seized pursuant to the
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on June 27, McCain's campaign pretended that Obama wanted to put his face all over American icons, including the 100 dollar bill. It's not a flattering picture, as this still shows.
Apart from suggesting that Obama is arrogant, it strikes me as an exercise in illustrating how out of place he would be in the presidency. Obama looks slightly dazed or hesitant, and the very white T-shirt like thing is both jarring and heightens the contrast with his skin color.
And just in case that wasn't sufficiently scary, the McCain campaign turned Obama's visage into this ghoulish image just before cutting away. As the 100 dollar bill image grows large on the screen, bright lights begin to stream out of his eyes, his face turns a deathly yellow and finallyYears ago for Sunday, Sep 29, 2013
Sept. 26, 2013 at 4:26 a.m.
1913
Oct. 2 - The river began rising again here Wednesday morning after dropping to its normal stage, and now is up sixteen feet. It rose four feet this morning
Oct. 3 - Charles C. Zirjacks, local observer of the United States Weather Bureau, was advised by the director of the weather Bureau at Houston today that the Guadalupe River had risen 36 feet at Gonzales, the highest rise on record there, and that it would be 25 feet or higher at this point, the crest to reach here probably Sunday. The highest rise on record here is 24 feet, and 23.3 feet in November, 1907, has been the highest here since 1905, when the recording station was established.
Oct.
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5 - C.F. Hirschhauser, who was in the city today from Inez, reports the Blanco Creek near Telferner on a big rise. He says about one-fourth of the cotton and corn crops in that section will be lost on account of the rains. The average loss of these crops over the county will reach about one-third.
1938
Oct. 1 - The six-man football team of St. Joseph's High School added its third win Friday afternoon at Louise by defeating the strong Louise team by a score of 30 to 0. Brownson Jecker scored two touchdowns for St. Joseph's, Carl Slaughter scored two and Frank Welder one. Elmo Coffey, the regular center for the previous games, was lost to the team for the season by an operation for appendicitis.
Oct. 5 -F.B. Lowry, assistant city engineer, endured a weird experience Tuesday during the electrical storm and brief rain when a bolt of lightning struck almost at his feet and set fire to a clothes line pole in his back yard. Mr. Lowry was returning to the house and stepped near the pole when the bolt struck, sending up a cloud of dust in his face. He was unhurt other than being momentarily stunned by the repercussion from the strike.
1963
Sept. 29 - Seventeen ladies of Victoria rank as members of the 600 Club and were recognized at a recent meeting. They are Anna Marie Brown, Evelyn Schroeder, Mary Ann Jarisch, Lucille Ulrich, Joyce Broyles, Evelyn Kashouty, Gloria Dick, Naomi King, Mary Beller, Helen Bardwell, Jane Wagner, Maeola Farmer, Wanda Karnes,
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Juanita Rigamonti, Sarah Bollman, Eunice Huddleston and Jesse Waldrop. Mrs. Bardwell received a trophy for having bowled the highest scratch series in the series in the city last year.
Oct. 4 - Victoria bank deposits soared to a new all-time high in the October bank call. In response to last Monday's bank call, the four Victoria banks reported total deposits of $114,778,623.
1988
Sept. 30 - Information released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau shows Victoria County had a population in July 1987, the most recent data available, of an estimated 75,500.
While that figure is down from the previous year, local officials pointed out it amounts to an overall increase of 9.7 percent from the 1980 census.
The population was estimated at 76,000 in July 1986, indicating a loss of about 500residents since that time. But the 1987 estimate is up nearly 6,700 from the census count of 68,807 in 1980, when Victoria first became a metropolitan statistical area.
Executive Director Pat Kennedy of the Golden Crescent Regional Planning Commission said the latest figure shows Victoria's change in population is consistent with both the region and the state.
"Overall it looks pretty darn good," he said. "We have gained more than 6,000 people since 1980, which is about a 10 percent increase."
He said 8 percent of that growth occurred in 1980, 1981 and 1982. The balance has occurred since that time.
"What you can see is a large increase between 1980 and 1982 of almost 6,000 person," Kennedy said. "There has been virtually no growth since about 1982."
He said three factors in
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weighing changes in population are births, deaths and migration out of the county. He said births are always higher than deaths, so the loss in population from 1986 to 1987 was probably due to people leaving the county.FSEA Contributes to LaManna Alliance 2017 Predictions
The Foil & Specialty Effects Association
Jeff Peterson, executive director of the Foil & Specialty Effects Association, recently shared his 2017 predictions on the blog of the LaManna Alliance.
He expects a continued surge in the use of foils and metallic finishes, among other things, in 2017. "In the last few years, there has been a huge uptick in methodologies for how metallic foils are applied to printed products," he said. "This has helped our industry see growth in new metallic processes, as well as with more conventional hot foil stamping applications."
Peterson joined a wide range of industry prognosticators and specialists in marketing and sales, as well as other industry thought-leaders, in assessing what's to come in 2017.
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Orion Blue Book: Professional Sound 2000 PDF Orion Blue Book: Professional Sound 2000 PDF By author last download was at 2017-04-24 31:27:12. This book is good alternative for Orion Blue Book: Guitars & Musical Instruments 2000 (Orion Blue Book Guitars and Musical Instruments). Download now for free or you can read online Orion Blue Book: Professional Sound 2000 book.
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Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Imangaliy Tasmagambetov outlined to parliament earlier this week (25 February) the key tasks facing the new government for 2002 to 2004. He stressed that it will be necessary to strengthen economic security, step up the movement of capital in diversified sectors, as well as to attract investment to small and medium-sized businesses.
Prague, 28 February 2002 (RFE/RL) -- Kazakh Prime Minister Imangaliy Tasmagambetov addressed a joint session of parliament earlier this week (25 February) and outlined what he believes are the biggest challenges facing the new government for 2002 to 2004.
Tasmagambetov was appointed last month after the resignation of Qasymzhomart Toqaev as prime minister, which prompted the entire government to step down.
Although he said economic growth of 10 to 12 percent over the next three yearsis needed to effect a perceptible change in the population's standard of living, Tasmagambetov said annual growth of 5-7 percent is more realistic.
He also said one of the goals of the cabinet is to reduce the percentage of the Kazakh population living below the poverty line, to less than 20 percent. In 1999, the World Bank estimated Kazakhstan's poverty line at 35 percent.
Kazakhstan's economy has been expanding in recent years thanks largely to strong world demand for oil and minerals. In 2001, Kazakhstan's gross domestic product (GDP) increased by more than 13 percent -- the highest growth rate in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
With sufficient export options, analysts say Kazakhstan could become one of the world's largest oil exporters in the next decade. With major new oil fields
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there are "numerous opportunities" for Kazakhstan to diversify, not only on the world market but also at the regional level.
"So in principle, yes, I think it is possible [to diversify]. There are some constraints on Kazakhstan's ability to diversify, which are largely geographic. The country is far away from its most important markets, so it will need to invest in infrastructure to improve market access. There are also constraints in terms of the availability of cheap labor. Kazakhstan is not very densely populated, and that means that -- unlike East Asia -- it can't go down the route of a labor intensive industrialization strategy as easily."
Gregory Gleason is a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico in the United States who specializes in Central Asia.In an interview with RFE/RL, he says Kazakhstan's national stabilization fund and economic diversification measures are important steps in the country's strategy to avoid oil dependence in the years ahead. Gleason says he believes the most promising step is that Tasmagambetov realizes Kazakhstan's long-term strategic development depends heavily on its ability to integrate into the world economy.
In that sense, Gleason says Kazakhstan strongly supports regional integration projects, such as the Eurasian Economic Community (EEC), which consists of Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Russia. In a meeting on 26 February of the Interstate Council of the EEC, Tasmagambetov recommended increasing coordination between the customs services of the member states.
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allegedly misbehaved with the nurses, making lewd remarks and dropping their pants, following which the Uttar Pradesh government slapped the stringent National Security Act against them.They were later shifted to a temporary isolation ward at a private educational institute. Some of them are in Ghaziabad at an isolation ward of the MMG District Hospital.In a sharp reaction, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath called those involved in the hospital incident "enemies of humanity".Police said the Tabligh-e-Jamaat members have been booked for indulging in ugly acts and passing lewd remarks against the women staff members at the hospital.On Wednesday, the Delhi government, along with the Delhi Police , cleared the Nizamuddin Markaz and evacuated over 2,000 people.In Delhi alone, 1,810 people linked to the markaz have been quarantined andto quarantine facilities.One person from the markaz, who was admitted at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, "attempted suicide", but was saved by the hospital staff, while two other inmates at a quarantine facility in Narela escaped and were tracked in Patparganj, a letter to Delhi's Police Commissioner said.During an interaction over a video link with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday, a senior doctor had also said that the patients brought from the markaz were "not cooperating" with the medical staff.The hospitals where the Delhi government has sought more security are Lok Nayak Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and AIIMS Isolation Centre in Jhajjar.They have also sought more security at the seven quarantine centres in DDA Flats, Narela,
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Ratdog took the stage Wednesday night at Sweetwater Saloon in Mill Valley, CA during a Jemimah Puddleduck show. During the second set, the members of Ratdog one by one began to take the stage. Eventually the entire group assembled (including Mark Karan who is also a member of Jemimah Puddleduck) and performed a long jam that segued into Estimated Prophet > All Along the Watchtower > Odessa. Jemimah Puddleduck plays tonight and tomorrow at the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit http://markkaran.com.
moe.‘s Al Schnier and Rob Derhak to Tour as Duo
moe. members Al Schnier and Rob Derhak have announced plans for a mini tour this month. The duo will play November 12 at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, GA, November 13 atThe state government has vowed to crack down on an Opal card loophole that cuts the cost of travel to the airport train stations by allowing savvy passengers to tap off with a negative balance.
Figures released on Wednesday show the cumulative amount of revenue lost has hit $7.8 million since Opal was introduced, with the total almost doubling in the past year alone.
As long as a passenger has the minimum balance on an unregistered Opal card to tap on, they can complete the journey and tap off with a negative balance. Credit:Janie Barrett
Since 2015, the NSW Audit Office has been reporting the total amount owed on unregistered Opal cards with a negative balance.
In 2017-18, the number of Opal cards with negative balances spiked from more than 776,000 to
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Turning Out the Lights on the Enlightenment
by Ken Sanders
www.dissidentvoice.org
March 25, 2005
The
government's reaction to and intervention in the sad tale of Terri Schiavo
is but the latest indication that the United States is gradually slipping
farther and farther away from the moorings of the Enlightenment: rationality
and empiricism over faith and religion. This dimming of the Enlightenment
ideals upon which the U.S. was founded is spearheaded by Bush and the
Republicans, who profess to be conservatives but behave like zealots.
It should not be news to anyone that President Bush, who famously declared
Jesus Christ as his “favorite political philosopher,” has no qualms about
making religion, specifically evangelical Christianity, a cornerstone of his
presidency. Granted, all presidents invoke God in their speeches and
statements. What makes Bush stand apart, however, is the number of times he
references God and howFormer Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran is to be given a post in the Economic Affairs Ministry.
Sources said that Mahendran was offered the post of Board Of Investment (BOI) chairman but he had rejected it. However, sources told The Sunday Leader that Mahendran is expected to be given a post in the Economic Affairs Ministry which falls under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
4 Responses to Mahendran To Get Post In Ministry?
Make sure Bond Mahendran is issued with a Ministry Credit Card so that he can buy the LKR 1m suits when he goes overseas at taxpayer expense, in First Class Air Travel, thrown in !! Also, the Ministry Credit Card will be handy to pay for his lunch which costs the taxpayer LKR 28,000 per day.
Since he was posted
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Thursday, November 04, 2004
The American election was a great tragedy, both for the American people and for the world. It will be the direct cause of untold suffering, death, and destruction. It is impossible to overstate how terrible an untrammeled Bush is going to be, and the full extent of the damage won't be known for years. The Democrats are already starting to turn themselves into knots over their loss. They had a perfectly presentable candidate who twisted most of his policy positions around to satisfy all but the most right-wing of right-wingers, and who was facing a blundering idiot with an unparalleled legacy of disastrous political decisions. How could Kerry possibly lose? Two reasons:
People aren't entirely prepared to admit it, but there really is an underclass ofmind-blowing Rockford Fosgate audio system with eight speakers and a subwoofer. Satellite radio is available, too.
The 4-liter, double overhead cam V-6 is a longtime, award-winning power plant at Nissan and moves the heavy vehicle along in sprightly fashion. The Nissan merged well into traffic. But wind noise became noticeable at just over 40 miles per hour, and even at stoplights, sounds from nearby cars entered the passenger compartment.
There’s no refined ride. On uneven pavement, passengers felt a bounciness, and a sensation of heaviness at the four wheels was evident. In turns and sweeping curves, passengers felt “head toss” in the tall 4,200-plus-pound vehicle as weight shifted from one side to the other.
Fit and finish on the Tennessee-built Xterra was excellent, with body gaps outside consistent and interior plastic
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Touring the Hawkesbury, history and heritage
The Jersey Butter Factory on Windsor Terrace and its conversion to flats
The decision to draw up the Articles of the Association for the Hawkesbury Dairying Company and to select a site for the establishment of a butter factory in Windsor was made at a meeting held on Thursday, 14 January 1892 at Bushell’s Royal Hotel in Windsor. The meeting was chaired by Mr James Bligh Johnston and was attended by a large number of Hawkesbury farmers and interested local residents. It was estimated that £2,000, in £1 shares, would be required to form the company and a further £1,000 would be required to run the factory. This cost was based on figures obtained from Mr Josephson of Messrs Waugh and Josephson, ‘boilermakers, dairy1892. It was officially opened on Wednesday, 24 August, by His Excellency the Governor (Lord Jersey) and afterwards became known as the ‘Jersey Butter Factory’.
There was an underground Cooling or Butter Room built into the bank of the river with dimensions of 30 x 12 feet. ‘The floor, like the rest of the building, is of concrete. Brick walls of double thickness, and round this building outside is an air-space or shaft of 3 feet in width which allows a current of fresh air to be continually passing round the room, and by means of many moveable ventilators the air can be admitted or excluded from the chamber…The room is roofed with patent Traeger Wellbleck iron and covered with 4 feet of earth and turf to exclude the
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reports of the Jersey Butter Factory building constructed on the site in 1892. The entrance doorways to the flats are installed in original window openings that have been opened up to floor level. The doorways feature terrazzo thresholds over the full width of the opening and the original two-inch timber (probably Oregon) quad moulding that covered the joint between the verandah decking and the brick wall on each floor is still in place on some of the flats. These are typical of construction details used between the wars and are consistent with the reported conversion of the factory building into flats in 1937.
(This article by Carol Roberts first appeared in Hawkesbury Historical Society Newsletter, April 2015.)
Carol Roberts, 2017.
References:
All newspaper references from the National Library of AustraliaTrove, http://trove.nla.gov.au, accessedAwakened Ones are such paintings and all paintings of Awakened Ones are Awake. You must see these painted Awakened Ones and "painted cakes" with the whole body. Which is the black stone tortoise and which is this iron staff? Which is form and which is mind? Follow through and look into this closely. Practice like this and you will know how to paint birth and death, coming and going, and how to paint Primordial Awareness. All worlds and spaces are just such paintings.
An old Buddha wrote this verse on a painting of Shakyamuni Awakening in the midst of a landscape:
"In this Awakening, layers of snow over green hills.
On scroll after scroll, the world is revealed."
This verse speaks of Great Awakening and of how to exert the practice of
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because the insured would not want to subscribe to the master policy without the SBCL. Jane Ferry testified that she marked the SBCL application "approved per Michele" after Michele Milone, an FCIA sales representative, telephoned on March 3, 1982 FCIA's approval of both the master policy and SBCL applications. Milone agrees that she telephoned Ferry with a quotation for a master policy, but denies that she communicated FCIA's approval of the SBCL.3 That same day, Ferry informed Nu-Air that both the master policy and the SBCL had been approved. Nu-Air immediately accepted the Nigerian order, relying on Intercredit's word that insurance coverage was in place. In fact, FCIA had not yet completed the paperwork for the SBCL and had only processed thecould not issue Nu-Air an SBCL. On March 19, 1982, FCIA orally informed Intercredit, Nu-Air's broker, that FCIA had decided to withdraw Nu-Air's SBCL application. On April 2, 1982, FCIA mailed written confirmation of this decision to Nu-Air. Nu-Air did not receive this confirmation until April 12, 1982.6 On March 16, 1982, Nu-Air had begun shipping the order to Jacksonville, Florida, the point of departure for Nigeria. By the time Nu-Air received the notice of cancellation, eight of the twelve containers had already been shipped to Jacksonville and Nu-Air had fabricated almost all of the remaining four.
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remand Nu-Air's tort and contract claims against Intercredit for trial before a jury.
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REVERSED and REMANDED.
*
Honorable C. Clyde Atkins, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, sitting by designation
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Intercredit, a division of one of the nation's largest insurance brokerage firms, specializes in the business of selling export credit insurance
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FCIA is an association of private insurance companies. FCIA was established in 1961 at the encouragement of the United States Export-Import Bank. See generally Lovell Mfg. v. Export-Import Bank of the United States, 777 F.2d 894, 895 (3rd Cir.1985)
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Ferry has dealt with FCIA on a daily basis for approximately 20 years. At the time of this transaction, Milone had only six months experience with FCIA in export credit insurance sales
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them together with one of my messages and a few reply! Never second guess yourself because of what a woman has ever written on her profile. If she is appealing enough send a message to her and then take action! Women's Profile Pictures Ifyou're searching through women's images, make certain at least two really are full- body, close up of one of her smiling, and her encounter using no filters, showing her teeth. They will caption the picture together with dates. If she's" Athletic Body Sort" checked off her profile then make sure she has images to prove it, there are some women that say that they have an" Athletic Body" but are actually typical body form with a major booty.
Stories About Black Sluts Who Only Fucked White
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vessels work in the combat information center (CIC) or combat direction center (CDC), aka: "combat", the tactical nerve center of the ship. Using a wide variety of assets available to them, they are responsible for the organized collection, processing, display, competent evaluation and rapid dissemination of pertinent tactical combat information to command and control stations, upon which sound tactical decisions may be made. Beginning training (called "A" school) for operations specialist's was originally located at the Naval Training Center (NTC) in Great Lakes Illinois. In 1979 it was moved to Dam Neck in Virginia Beach, Virginia; the school has since moved back to Training Support Center (TSC) NAVSTA Great Lakes in Illinois. Intermediate and advanced training are in locations like California, Virginia, and various locations throughout the UnitedStates Navy.
List of Marvel Comics characters: S
Sabra
Sabre
Sabre I
The first Sabre was a former knife thrower named Paul Richarde until he was selected by Modred to oppose Black Knight. Paul Richarde was given an armor, an animated gargoyle. and Mordred's Ebony Dagger (the weapon with which Mordred had killed the first Black Knight). He was defeated by Black Knight after his horse Aragorn kicked the dagger from Le Sabre's hand.
Sabre II
The second Sabre is a mutantsuper villain. His first appearance was in X-Men #106. Young and reckless, Sabre was chosen by Mystique to join her new Brotherhood of Mutants, though never actually participated in any missions. He had the mutant ability of super speed, and took the name of the deceased Super Sabre. It is unknown if he continues
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to serve Mystique behind the scenes, or if he even retains his powers after Decimation. Hyper-accelerated metabolism augments his natural speed, reflexes, coordination, endurance, and the healing properties of his body.
Specialist degree
Specialist degree in the Commonwealth of Independent States
The specialist degree (Russian:специалист) was the only first degree in the former Soviet Union. It was traditionally inherited from the Engineering education of Russian empire, and currently is being phased out by the bakalavr's (Bachelor's) - magistr's (Master's) degrees.
Aviation
Aviation is the practical aspect or art of aeronautics, being the design, development, production, operation and use of aircraft, especially heavier than air aircraft. The word "aviation" was coined by French writer and former naval officer Gabriel La Landelle in 1873, from the verb "avier" (synonymous flying), itself derived from the Latinword "avis" ("bird") and the suffix "-ation".
Lighter than air
The modern age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21, 1783 of a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers. The practicality of balloons was limited because they could only travel downwind. It was immediately recognized that a steerable, or dirigible, balloon was required. Jean-Pierre Blanchard flew the first human-powered dirigible in 1784 and crossed the English Channel in one in 1785.
Aviation (cocktail)
History
The Aviation was created by Hugo Ensslin, head bartender at the Hotel Wallick in New York, in the early twentieth century. The first published recipe for the drink appeared in Ensslin's 1916 Recipes for Mixed Drinks. Ensslin's recipe called for 1½ oz. El Bart gin, ¾ oz. lemon juice, 2 dashes
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centers, and spectacular access to Korean food and culture.
Korea is a great place to live, work or visit. Whether this is your first tour to Korea or a return assignment, you can look forward to a personally and professionally rewarding experience in the Land of the Morning Calm.
To learn more about living and serving with the US Army in Korea, visit us online at http://imcom.korea.army.mil
To learn about serving in the US Army, visit http://www.goarmy.com
Aviation Operations Specialists help operate one of the largest fleets of aircraft i...
published: 27 Oct 2008
Aviation operational specialist (7041) MOS school guide
Just a little bit of info on what it's like to be a marine student at naval air station meridian Mississippi mostly wanted to reach out to the people who graduate MCT before thethe target.
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Genomic structure of the human cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase gene.
We have isolated and characterized several overlapping clones from two human genomic libraries constructed in cosmid and bacteriophage vectors. They span about 80 kbp and include the entire human cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH1) gene. Restriction endonuclease mapping, Southern blotting with cDNA and specific oligonucleotide probes, and DNA sequencing were performed to analyze the cloned genomic DNA. The ALDH1 gene is about 53 kbp long and is divided into 13 exons which encode 501 amino acid residues. Primer extension results defined the transcription initiation site to 53 bp upstream from the A of the initiation codon ATG. The promoter region of the gene contains an ATA box and a CCAAT box, which are located 32 and 74 bp upstream, respectively, fromgreats like Pollock and Rothko is surprisingly evident and comforting; but, his mellow yet keenly awake insight seems eerie and ominous. Roth occasionally pulls from personal and cultural inspiration. As he was raised in Israel, some of his works reference a Jewish heritage and lineage, but the majority of the pieces seem to circle around Roth's real obsession, people. "As to why I was given the privilege to disseminate this art, I can only speculate," Roth says. "It could be because I am a people-centered, forward looking person who has expressed and illuminated the colors of mankind for many decades, with readiness to explore new directions."
Many artists throughout history have utilized coffee in their art--Karen Eland, Daneil Lorenzetti, Ed Ruscha--though Avi Roth seems to be the most coffee-centric
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Gunners win 1–0 through Laurent Koscielny's volley and confirm their Champions League spot for next season. The defeat sees Alan Pardew's team drop to 16th, though they had the consolation of finishing above local rivals Sunderland. In the 37th minute, the fans do a minute's applause for retiring goalkeeper Steve Harper.
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Accounts for all competitions. Last updated onA young woman who was rescued by a homeless man after missing her last train home has said she will "never look down at homeless people again".
Nicole Sedgebeer, who was in London for a night out on Thursday, said she nearly burst into tears when she had nowhere to go after missing her train from Euston Station to Milton Keynes.
The next train did not leave until the following morning and the station doors were locked, leaving Ms Sedgebeer out in the cold on the street.
But, recounting the experience in a post on Facebook, she said a homeless man named Mark approached her and showed her the way to a cafe that stayed opened all night, and made sure she was safe.
He told her he had to go back
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It is the story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara. One of the most controversial and influential figures in world politics, he takes us on an insider's view of the seminal events of the 20th Century. Why was this past Century the most destructive and deadly in all of human history? Are we doomed to repeat our mistakes? Are we free to make choices, or are we at the mercy of inexorable historical forces and ideologies?
From the firebombing of 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo in 1945 to the brink of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis to the devastating effects of the Vietnam War, The Fog of War examines the psychology and reasoning of the government decision-makerswho send men to war. How were decisions made and for what reason? What can we learn from these historical events?
As American forces occupy Iraq and the possibility of additional military conflict looms large, The Fog of War is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand how the American government justifies the use of military force. Combining extraordinary archival footage, recreations, newly declassified White House recordings, and an original score by the Oscar nominated composer, Philip Glass, the film is a disquieting and powerful essay on war, rationality, and human nature.
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songs did not necessarily match the accompanying scene (as explored below), they were still effective and tied-in perfectly with the nature of this film.
Below are some of the most unexpected songs featured throughout the film.
Ashes – Celine Dion
Céline Dion - Ashes (from the Deadpool 2 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Watch this video on YouTube
Celine Dion? In Deadpool? The ‘opening credits’ served as a parody to the James Bond films, which are commonly known for their extensive opening scenes, usually by a popular artist such as Adele. In its typical comedic fashion, Deadpool 2 used a beautiful Celine Dion song called “Ashes” as the background to an introductory scene full of jokes and swearing, rather than announcing the cast members (along with Deadpool’s very own interpretive dance). Why was this sothat can be classified as a comedy, he successfully put sentiment and energy into the film through his choice of songs, and found the perfect balance between comedy and emotion. The film jumps between serious and humorous tones, and to be able to effectively implement these elements through licensed songs set for some really high impact scenes throughout, albeit for the purpose of comedy. Overall, the soundtrack elevated the impact of every scene in question, and the blatant juxtaposition of the song with the scene makes this completely genius. With Dolly Parton providing the musical backdrop for a montage of violence, how could you not think so?
What do you think? .
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Péter Zilahy was born, raised and educated in Budapest, Hungary. His collection of poems, Statue Under a White Sheet Ready to Jump, was published in 1993 and has won the Móricz Zsigmond Prize. His dictionary novel, The Last Window Giraffe, was published in 1998 and has been since translated into 22 languages. Among other awards it has won ‘The Book of the Year Prize’ in Ukraine in 2003 and influenced the Orange Revolution in 2004. Zilahy has had exhibitions of his photos all over Europe and has performed with a CD-Rom based on the novel in 28 countries. In 2001 he was a visiting scholar at New York University. In 2002, Ludwig Museum Budapest held an exhibition of his selected photographs and interactive works. In 2003, he hadan exhibition in Akademie Schloss Solitude, where his book of short proses, Drei, was also published. In 2007, he published a collection in Budapest with the title Three plus 1 written in seven genres. In May 2007 his theatre play Der lange Weg nach nebenan was performed in Volksbühne, Berlin, then it went on touring Germany in Leipzig, Stuttgart, Weimar and Düsseldorf. The play was published as a book by Passagen in 2008. Zilahy regularly writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Guardian and The New York Times. Zilahy Péter (the Hungarian name) is presently a fellow at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
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Ryan Couture and Quinn Mulhern, two former Strikeforce fighters, are set to square off in a lightweight bout at UFC 164 on Aug. 31 in Milwaukee.
UFC officials announced the new bout on Tuesday.
Couture and Mulhern is each making his sophomore appearance for the promotion, and each lost his UFC debut.
Couture (6-2) was on a four-fight streak entering the Octagon, but couldn’t keep the momentum going when he faced Ross Pearson at UFC on Fuel TV 9 in Sweden. Pearson took the fight to Couture, defeating him by TKO stoppage late in the second round.
Mulhern (18-5) suffered a TKO loss to Rick Story in his Octagon debut at UFC 158. That bout, like the majority of Mulhern’s past bouts, was at welterweight. He is now making the move downMOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the United States of raising the risk of nuclear war by threatening to spurn a key arms control treaty and refusing to hold talks about another pact that expires soon.
In a news conference that lasted more than three hours, Putin also backed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria, said British Prime Minister Theresa May had no choice but to implement Brexit and that Western democracy was under serious strain.
The annual event, the 14th of its kind, is used by Putin to burnish his leadership credentials and send messages to foreign allies and foes.
This year, he made clear his biggest worry was what he called a dangerous new arms race, something he accused the United
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result of the U.S. moves. He also cited the dangerous tendency of lowering the threshold for using nuclear weapons and the idea of using ballistic missiles with conventional warheads.
“If, God forbid, something like that were to happen, it would lead to the end of all civilization and maybe also the planet,” said Putin.
But though Putin criticized Washington, he made clear that he still hoped to meet Trump sometime soon, saying it was important the two leaders discussed issues such as arms control.
With relations between Moscow and Washington strained by everything from Ukraine to hacking allegations, Putin said he did not know when a meeting with Trump might take place however.
Putin won a landslide re-election victory in March, giving him six more years in power. Although he faces nogo for a trim, your hair needs a salon appointment during the October heat!
Hope you will benefit from this post, as the October heat might extend till the first fortnight of November (According to the weather bureaus in India).
Priya Adivarekar
Priya Adivarekar - Founder and Creative Director at Diary of a Dancebee. She is also a renowned Voice Actress and award winning artiste, with serious passion for dance. When not working round the clock, she can be seen reading, enjoying a movie-binge or listening to music.
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Sheriff Salutes 2 Students For Crime Fighting
Deltona - Education notes
May 30, 1993
Shannon Salinski, an eighth-grader at Galaxy Middle School, and Andrew Diamonti, a Deltona High School student, are winners in Sheriff Bob Vogel's Youth Crime Prevention program. Each received a $50 savings bond during a School Board meeting Tuesday at Silver Sands Middle School.
Shannon, who was nominated by school resource officer Olin Duckett, is an honor roll student who helped deputies solve four burglaries in the Deltona area. A suspect was arrested and most of the stolen property was recovered, Duckett said.
Shannon refuses to look the other way when there is wrongdoing, Vogel said.
Deputy Greg Roberts nominated Andrew for his leadership in forming a Neighborhood Watch group in his area. Andrew designed a flier to attract attention when20 people showed up for the first meeting.
Andrew now is a block captain and more people are participating because of his efforts, Vogel said.
Prizes were donated by the Fraternal Order of Police, Jim White Lodge 40, New Smyrna Beach.
DARE GRADS
TIMBERCREST ELEMENTARY School's students in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program will graduate at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Deputy Sheriff Olin Duckett will conduct the ceremonies honoring the elementary students he has taught. He also is school resource officer at Galaxy Middle School.
More than 900 fifth-graders in Volusia County schools completed a 17-week DARE study course.
The Sheriff's Office has 10 DARE instructors who provide drug prevention education and help build self-esteem.
NEW BIKE RACKS
GALAXY MIDDLE School's after-school students in welding courses made bike racks that were dedicated on Thursday. The Student
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of the Year contest were announced last night at a gala occasion at the Natural History Museum in London, England. The winner of the Underwater Species category was Indra Swart Wonowidjojo of Indonesia with an image of two whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) taken at Cenderawasih Bay. Heartfelt congratulations to all those placed in the contest.
The schedule for the 2014 Image Resource Center at the DEMA Show has been posted onto the DEMA website. The IRC serves as a centerpiece to the imaging section of the show. Speakers include Cristian Dimitrius, Erin Quigley, John Ellerbrock, Berkley White, Stephen Frink and Chris Parsons. As always Wetpixel will be reporting from the show for those that can’t make it!
Jason deCaires Taylor, well known for his underwater sculptures, has unveiled a newsculpture titled Atlas off New Providence in Nassau, Bahamas. The 18 foot tall and 60 ton sculpture is the larges underwater sculpture ever to be deployed underwater. The sculpture was commissioned by the Bahamas Reef Environment Education Foundation and the hope is that it will eventually be colonized as an artificial reef.
The Bahamas Underwater Photo Week was held in May this year, with Alert Diver with the Bahamas Diving Association inviting 4 pro shooters to document a week underwater in the islands. Wetpixel reported “live” from the event, with Abi Mullens and Adam Hanlon embedded into the photography teams. At the same time, Emmy Award winning filmmaker Cristian Dimitrius undertook a” DCI inducing” tour of all the photo teams at work at their respective islands.
During a recent visit
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on since societies exists and things keep changing. The image of women in video game is obviously a new subject, but in the end it's the same old debate, which will never end.
Originally Posted by dethtoll
Equal pay for equal work
The idea of equal pay for equal work is great in theory, but in practice it's one of the worst argument someone who fights for social equality can make. When a woman will take a one year paid maternity leave, men will see that women have privileges they don't. When a woman refuse to do overtime because she says she has to take care of her household, or when she'll demand to leave early because one of her kid is sick, and when because of that the enterprise askfibre...
... and here are the guts of the finished beast:
The screen is a 10-inch LCD capacitive touchscreen with a 5V HDMI-LVDS converter board, meaning the thing runs off the same voltage as the Pi. A phone charger provides external power, with an onboard 10,000mAh good for around 6 hours run time.
Michael finished the build in two weeks, in time to hop on a plane to San Francisco for the Maker Faire Bay Area. Suffice it to say, the PiPad didn't provoke a diversion to the alternative Bay at Guantanamo, and Michael says his movie choice of Talladega Nights attracted a favourable review from one flight attendant.
Raspberry Pi head honcho Eben Upton was similarly impressed at the Maker Faire New York, where he signed the PiPad on its sleek
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Day 2: Seb Coe on Trust and Doping
Double Olympic gold and silver medalist, 11-time world record holder and 2012 London Olympic chairman Sebastian Coe is running to succeed Lamine Diack as the next head of the IAAF.
We’re honored that Coe has chosen LetsRun.com as the venue to make his case for the presidency to the US track and field and world (and mid-d and distance fans across the globe). Recently, Coe sat down for an interview with Brendan Foster, the 1972 Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist and founder of Nova International, and talked about his vision for the sport moving forward. The interview, which has been broken up into five parts, is being released first on LetsRun.com. We’ll have one video for five days straight. Day 1: Seb CoeLight is an important, if complex, tool in architecture. Not only does it lend atmosphere, texture, and vibrancy, but it is increasingly essential in an age where technology alienates us from nature. In this excerpt from Mary Guzowski's new book, The Art of Architectural Daylighting, she introduces the science and art of daylighting - and details six ways the masters approach the challenge.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the winners of their 18th annual Housing Awards, which recognize the best in housing design for new constructions, restorations, and renovations. This year the five-person jury selected eleven projects to receive awards in four categories: one- and two-family custom residences; one- and two-family production homes; multifamily housing; and specialized housing.
The American Institute of ArchitectsCommittee on Architecture for Education has
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earned world renown for its inventive architecture and its founder, Bjarke Ingels, has become one of the most popular names in the architectural world. However, with success comes criticism; BIG has been called out by some critics for what they believe is the "infantilization of architecture," referring to their designs as isolated, self-admiring and solely photogenic.
On her most recent visit to Spain, Spanish journalist Anatxu Zabalbeascoa spoke with Ingels about the impact of the Danish office on architecture and how their work wavers on a tightrope between "breakthrough projects for the world of the powerful" and "a face for people who are not happy with existing architectural models."
On the 4th of February, Minneapolis will host the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles for the 52nd Super Bowl.With over 100 million people expected to watch the game this Sunday, all eyes will be on the city of Minneapolis—a city known for not allowing the harsh climate get in the way of their celebrations—and the brand new US Bank Stadium, where a huge permanent roof will ensure that, come rain, shine, or snow, Minneapolitans will have a space to gather and enjoy themselves.
HKS Architects took on the challenge of designing the stadium to replace the Minnesota Viking’s previous home, the Metrodome, which was known as "Minneapolis’s living room" for the strong relationship it had with the population as both a civic hub and a stadium. Unlike past stadiums the Dallas-based architects have designed, the US Bank Stadium required a different outlook, with a focus on designing
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invites you to head south of the border on April 10 for an unforgettable gastronomic journey inspired by the colorful flavors of Baja California, Mexico. The evening will begin with a tequila cocktail reception and tasting at 6:00 pm followed by dinner at 7:00 pm. Tickets are priced at $129 per person, plus tax and gratuity and can be purchased at westgatehotel.tix.com.
Cost: $129
What: The 3rd Annual VinDiego Wine and Food Festival
When: Saturday April 11, 2015
Where: NTC at Liberty Station, San Diego
Description: America’s finest city will once again become the epicenter of the California wine world as the Third Annual VinDiego Wine & Food Festival takes over NTC Liberty Station in Point Loma on Saturday, April 11, 2015.
The festival will feature elite wineries from California and Oregon as wellof Art
Description: Among the many art education initiatives at The San Diego Museum of Art, no program has as long a history as Young Art. In its 85th year, the Museum’s biennial student art exhibition takes inspiration from The Art of Music (Fall 2015), the final of the Museum’s 2015 exhibitions. Included in this larger program, Young Art 2015: Visualizing Music features artwork by Kindergarten through 12th grade San Diego County students. Young Art 2015 will be accompanied by several programs and interactives including an audio guide narrated by Education staff and student artists, student-led exhibition tours, and a reading area and participatory space complete with books and family-friendly activities.
Cost: $0 – $12
What: Balboa Park Centennial Informal Gathering
When: Saturday April 11, 2015
Where: Throughout Balboa Park
Description: An independent gathering
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of many diverse friends of history and the park, supporters of the park’s future, and fun seekers. Several different local groups of period costumers will gather in varied venues in the park for group picnics and social meetings in circa 1915 clothing, strolling about the park. Period bike owners will occupy the public spaces of Plaza de Panama and Plaza de California, posing for pictures, wearing period clothing, and answering questions.
What: Earth Day Festival
When: Saturday April 11, 2015
Where: La Colonia Community Center, Solana Beach, San Diego
Description: Our first annual Earth Day Festival, a party for the planet at La Colonia Park. Join the Kidsecoclub, the City of Solana Beach, the County of San Diego, and San Diego County Supervisor David W. Roberts for a day of fabulous foodprepared by local chefs and purveyors. With live animals and activities for the whole family.
What: Lalla Essaydi
When: Sunday April 12, 2015
Where: The San Diego Museum of Art
Description: Moroccan-born, New York-based photographer Lalla Essaydi (b. 1956) explores issues surrounding the role of women in Arab culture and their representation in the western European artistic tradition. Her large-scale photographs are based on nineteenth-century Orientalist paintings, but work to subvert those stereotyped and sexualized representations. One group will be shown in the gallery dedicated to contemporary art, while others will be shown in the context of the Museum’s Permanent Collection: alongside examples of historic Middle Eastern tilework and calligraphy; with related European paintings; and as part of the discourse of Modern art.
Cost: $0 – $12
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Health of Societies in Transition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Advocates for global health aid say it is critical for healthcare infrastructure development in poor countries and for sustaining existing health projects and starting new ones.
"There is a clear association between better health and economic growth, and if money given in development assistance is appropriately designed to improve health, then we can expect there will be a positive effect in terms of economic growth," McKee said in a telephone interview.
Last year, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged debt-ridden donor countries not to cut aid to the poor despite their budgetary difficulties.
In a report of their study, which was published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, McKee and colleagues said that according to2009 reports of global aid budgets, Italy and Ireland have reduced development aid by 56 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
On the other hand, Britain has protected its aid budget from cuts and Australia, Germany, and the United States have all made commitments to increasing their support to protect vulnerable groups from the impact of the crisis, they said.
"It's no longer reasonable to think about far away countries of which we know little. We are interdependent and we need to consider the implications of that," McKee said.
The researchers analyzed data on health aid and economic downturns from 15 European Union (EU) countries covering the past three decades, from 1975 to 2007.
They found what they described as "surprisingly little" evidence that economic downturns are associated with deep cuts in aid,
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March.
The Park Service proposal has a Trump twist: it would limit access to demonstrate in this space to those who can pay for the privilege! Citizens would have to pay to exercise their First Amendment rights to speech and peaceable assembly on the very property that they own. The people, after all, do own public space.
The Park's proposed regulation, citing costs, would curtail demonstrations on the Mall and other staging grounds for protests in Washington, including Lafayette Square across from the White House and the Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalks in front of the Trump International Hotel. The period for comments on the rule ended in October so final rules could surface any day now. Access to comments can be found here at this link.
Park Service rules governing rallies andJan Gehl, is to prevent people from meeting:
"Entrenched political interests and undemocratic forces find public spaces loathsome, and, accordingly, their agents seek to exercise strict control of them in order to limit popular assembly."
The leaders of Bahrain, for example, turned what used to be a huge public square into a traffic roundabout in order to prevent people from gathering there during the "Arab Spring" uprisings. And, in Turkey, Taksim Gezi Park and Square in Istanbul, is in the cross-hairs of a government "transformation plan" to deprive citizens of a place to gather.
Who can forget the student-led pro-democracy uprising and the massacre that took place in Tianamen Square in Beijing, China? The name of the square has become a rallying cry for democracy.
Spain offers a compelling contrast. When Barcelona
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be accepted across all Chinese-speaking regions, mainly complicated by the fact that PRC has made「於」obsolete and Taiwan has a habit of using「於」and not「于」. This is also why you wouldn't find「于」on all but the most thorough Taiwan-Chinese input methods.
「于」and「於」are both phonetic loans; they both originally represented something else.
Glyph origin of 于
「于」was originally a picture of a wind instrument:
It was later simplified to
then further simplified to「于」. The original sense of the wind instrument is now written「竽」after「于」became extensively used for its grammatical function meaning and had lost its original meaning.
Glyph origin of 於
「於」and「烏」were originally the same character, but have been graphically differentiated. For reference, their development looked something like
There was absolutely no difference between the characters「於」and「烏」before the Qin dynasty, and「烏/於」was used for its current grammatical function long before they became differentNew Hampshire's largest public employee labor union is backing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, bucking its national affiliate's endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
The State Employees' Association/SEIU Local 1984 represents 11,500 workers across New Hampshire. President Richard Gulla says the chapter is backing Sanders because of his support for maintaining retirement benefits, lowering college costs, better wages for workers and his willingness to take on Wall Street.
The parent Service Employees International Union, which represents 2 million health care workers, recently endorsed Clinton — delivering a blow to Sanders.
The local chapter will spend most of its efforts communicating the endorsement to members and encouraging them to volunteer or help with Sanders' campaign here. It cannot form its own political action committee for federal spending.
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Experts say Va. Tech gunman 'prototypical' school shooter
BLACKSBURG - In high school, Cho Seung-Hui almost never opened his mouth. When he finally did, his classmates laughed, pointed at him and said: "Go back to China."
As such details of the Virginia Tech shooter's life come out, and experts pore over his sick and twisted writings and his videotaped rant, it is becoming increasingly clear that Cho was almost a textbook case of a school shooter: a painfully awkward, picked-on young man who lashed out with methodical fury at a world he believed was out to get him.
"In virtually every regard, Cho is prototypical of mass killers that I've studied in the past 25 years," said Northeastern University criminal justice professor James Alan Fox, co-author of 16 books on crime."That doesn't mean, however, that one could have predicted his rampage."
When criminologists and psychologists look at mass murders, Cho fits the themes they see repeatedly: a friendless figure, someone who has been bullied, someone who blames others and is bent on revenge, a careful planner, a male. And someone who sent up warning signs with his strange behavior long in advance.
Among other things, the 23-year-old South Korean immigrant was sent to a psychiatric hospital and pronounced an imminent danger to himself. He was accused of stalking two women and photographing female students in class with his cell phone. And his violence-filled writings were so disturbing he was removed from one class, and professors begged him to get counseling. He rarely looked anyone in the eye and did not
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Thursday that because he did not speak much as a child and after the family emigrated to the United States, doctors thought he may be autistic.
"Normally sons and mothers talk. There was none of that for them. He was very cold," Kim Yang-soon said in an interview with AP Television News. "When they went to the United States, they told them it was autism."
Neither school officials, who have his educational records, nor police who have his medical records, have mentioned such a diagnosis this week. Autistic individuals often have difficulty communicating, but such a diagnosis would not necessarily explain his violence.
Regan Wilder, 21, who attended Virginia Tech, high school and middle school with Cho, said she was sure Cho probably was picked on in middle school, but sowas everyone else. And it didn't seem as if English was the problem for him, she said. If he didn't speak English well, there were several other Korean students he could have reached out to for friendship, but he didn't.
In other developments Thursday:
• Gov. Timothy Kaine appointed an independent panel to look into the tragedy and how authorities handled it. The panel will be led by former Virginia State Police superintendent Gerald Massengill and will include former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
• University officials said that all of Cho's student victims would be awarded degrees posthumously, and officials are outlining a way to let students complete their courses, possibly by allowing their work to this point in the semester count as completed.
• Private funeral ceremonies were held in
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Blacksburg for two international students killed in the massacre. Egyptian Waleed Mohammed Shaalan and Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan, a civil engineering doctoral student from Indonesia, also will have funerals in their home countries.
• With a backlash developing against the media, and some warning of copycat killers, the major TV networks cut back on showings of Cho's video rant. "It has value as breaking news," said ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider, "but then becomes practically pornographic as it is just repeated ad nauseam."
A 2002 federal study on common characteristics of school shooters found that 71 percent of them "felt bullied, persecuted or injured by others prior to the attack."
The report said that "in some of these cases the experience of being bullied seemed to have a significant impact onthe attacker and appeared to have been a factor in his decision to mount an attack at the school. In one case, most of the attacker's schoolmates described the attacker as the kid everyone teased."
Cho "would almost be a poster child for the pattern that we saw," said Marisa Randazzo, the former chief research psychologist at the U.S. Secret Service and co-author of the study, conducted jointly with the Education Department.
Among the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre were two other Westfield High graduates, Reema Samaha and Erin Peterson. Both young women graduated from the high school last year. But police said it is not clear whether Cho singled them out.
However, another expert who has worked with mentally disturbed young criminals suggested that Cho's actions probably had genetic
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causes.
"This is very different" from someone who was bullied to the breaking point - Cho was clearly psychotic and delusional, said Dr. Louis Kraus, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center.
"This type of mental illness that this poor man had was not something that was likely precipitated by teasing or bullying," he said. More likely, he said, is that Cho had a biological psychiatric disorder that may have worsened in recent years because of the pressures of college life and his leaving the support of his family.
Randazzo said about the only difference between Cho and the killers studied is he hadn't bragged about the assault in advance, though that may surface later, perhaps in blogs or chat rooms.
Fox, the criminologist, said Cho probablyPhotos
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Constructed on a 5-acre block of land on the Whitsunday Coast in Queensland, Villa Simar is the ultimate in exclusivity. This labour of love was designed by husband and wife, Sigrid and Ingemar Eriksson. Starting with a blank canvas, Villa Simar has been designed to complement the beauty of the natural surroundings.
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With 360 degree views from the grassed rooftop, this property has achieved a very impressive DA
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The stunning and stylish home holds its own amongst other premier properties in the area.
Walk to the sandy beach, exercise on the shores of Illawong Beach, keep fit on the walking path of the park next door or relax and take in the ocean views and urban surrounds.
A media room/2nd office/6th bedroom, is generous in size and boasts a self-contained kitchenette and flows to a glasses in deck with knockout views.has been two months since India learnt the ugly truth that a society which fails to protect nearly half its population from sexual violence cannot call itself a civilised one after all.
Some telling images from the last two months prove that this time, Indian women are in no mood to forgive or forget.
Sweety, 22, a student, takes a self defence class in New Delhi. Sweety travels four hours every day from her village to the city to learn karate and taekwondo.
She says, "Boys in my village are scared to tease me after I beat up one boy who was passing lewd comments about me".
Since a medical student died after being gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi, the issue of women's security in India has been under the
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Peter Alonso has had a season of milestones, including his ballyhooed blast at the Futures Game. On Thursday, he hit another high-water mark.The second-ranked Mets prospect became the first player in professional baseball to reach 100 RBIs this season as he homered, doubled and drove in two runs to help
Peter Alonso has had a season of milestones, including his ballyhooed blast at the Futures Game. On Thursday, he hit another high-water mark.
The second-ranked Mets prospect became the first player in professional baseball to reach 100 RBIs this season as he homered, doubled and drove in two runs to help lift Triple-A Las Vegas over Reno, 10-4, at Cashman Field. Boston's J.D. Martinez leads the Majors with 99 and Fresno's AJ Reed stands second in the Minors with 95.
Inthe same game, Reno's Ildemaro Vargas extended his hit streak to 33 games with a single to left field in the eighth inning. The streak marks the longest in the Pacific Coast League since Joey Cora hit in 37 in a row in 1989 for Vegas.
Vargas tied John Dickshot (Hollywood Stars, 1943) and Frank Baumholtz (Los Angeles Angels, 1950) for the fifth-longest streak in PCL history. Joe DiMaggio's 61-game run for San Francisco in 1933 remains the standard.
It took a while for the 27-year-old shortstop to get his knock. He grounded out in the first, struck out in the third and lined out in the sixth before keeping the streak alive. He is batting .374 (55-for-147) over 33 games.
The homer marked Alonso's 13th of the year for Vegas.
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Major Pettigrew was still upset about the phone call from his brother's wife and so he answered the doorbell without thinking. From Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen SimonsonOn the damp bricks of the path stood Mrs. Ali from the village shop. She gave only the faintest of starts, the merest arch of an eyebrow. MORE
Featuring: Andrew Pettigrew Professor at Said Business School at University of Oxford, Bob Johansen, Barbara Kellerman, Deborah Ancona, Daisy Wademan Dowling, Dr. Ellen Langer, Evan Wittenberg, [.]. In this video, several Management Thought Leaders share their ideas on the Role of Tomorrow’s Leaders. You’ll find out about what Leadership means in a world that is less hierarchical and more globally interconnected. MORE
Major Pettigrew was still upset about the phone call from his brother'swife and so he answered the doorbell without thinking. From Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen SimonsonOn the damp bricks of the path stood Mrs. Ali from the village shop. She gave only the faintest of starts, the merest arch of an eyebrow.
Featuring: Andrew Pettigrew Professor at Said Business School at University of Oxford, Bob Johansen, Barbara Kellerman, Deborah Ancona, Daisy Wademan Dowling, Dr. Ellen Langer, Evan Wittenberg, [.]. In this video, several Management Thought Leaders share their ideas on the Role of Tomorrow’s Leaders. You’ll find out about what Leadership means in a world that is less hierarchical and more globally interconnected.
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individual was the prime suspect, and, it’s unfortunate, but we will continue to allow the district attorney to proceed with her case and weighing the case to prosecute for the break-in of our office,” said DeMaio, a former San Diego city councilman trying to unseat Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) in one of the nation’s most competitive House races.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP hopeful: 'A proud gay American')
In a telephone interview with POLITICO later in the day, a San Diego man named Todd Bosnich said that he was the former staffer making the harassment claims. He denied that he broke into the campaign office.
Bosnich, who worked as policy director on DeMaio’s congressional campaign, also said that on June 2, he taped a 27-minute interview with a conservative San Diegoradio station in which he described in explicit detail how, over the course of more than six months of employment, DeMaio became increasingly aggressive in his sexual behavior toward him. The interview, which was conducted with host Mike Slater and obtained by POLITICO, never aired.
When Bosnich complained about DeMaio’s alleged behavior to the candidate’s campaign manager, the response was that he shouldn’t have told DeMaio he was gay, Bosnich alleged in the radio interview.
Bosnich, who was 28 at the time of the radio interview, said he approached DeMaio on May 18 and told him he needed to quit the race or stop his behavior. The next day, Bosnich said, the campaign manager called him into his office and told him that DeMaio had lost his trust in him.
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of Battle Meditation, which can turn the tide of
the battlefield. The young Shan's Battle Meditation had been a key in many
victories of the Jedi in the war against the their fallen brethrens Revan and
Malak. One of them was a important success in neutralizing Darth Revan on his
own flagship. However, Malak seized the chance to become the Dark Lord as he
continued his Master's incomplete work: conquer the galaxy. And you, a recruit
under Bastila Shan's command in the Republic ship Endar Spire, which is under
attack by a Sith battle fleet, need to find someway to escape and survive the
attack for a greater goal: stop Malak and the Sith in their never-end conquest
(and continue their incomplete work once again?). And here ... your adventure
begins. Sorry so much for straying too farStory
Flora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to be euthanized, the circus owner's 14-year old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from the circus. All that stands between them and the safety of the elephant preserve is two hundred kilometers of woods, one raging river, two elephant hunters and the fear of not making it.
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____________
Before LOKEN and BEAM, Circuit Judges, and PERRY1, District Judge.
____________
PERRY, District Judge.
Loren George Jennings was convicted of two counts of mail fraud and one
count of money laundering in 2005. His conviction and sentence were affirmed on
direct appeal. See United States v. Jennings, 487 F.3d 564 (8th Cir. 2007). After the
1
The Honorable Catherine D. Perry, Chief Judge, United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Supreme Court issued its opinion in Skilling v. Unitedpassed, Jennings approached two Minnesota
utility companies, NSP and Minnesota Power, to see if they would provide CIP funds
to Northern Pole. Jennings told the utility companies that he was working on behalf
of a constituent and that he had no other interest in Northern Pole. The utilities
decided to award money to Northern Pole; testimony showed that the decision was
made primarily because of Jennings’s political power and influence. When each CIP
payment was awarded, Northern Pole paid part of the money directly back to M & M
and C & J to repay the loans that Jennings had personally guaranteed. Because CIP
payments are public funds, they must be approved by the Minnesota Department of
Commerce. In May 2000, Jennings, James, and the acting president of Northern Pole
fabricated a report for the Department of Commerce,
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Monday, November 02, 2015
Rugby World Cup Independent Tasks
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about the Rugby World Cup 2015. One of our learning tasks was that we had to choose three or more out of seven rugby tasks. Some involved maths, literacy and all kinds of cool ways to learn. I chose to do this because I was very proud and pleased with my work.
Task 8
Create a table showing the following information.
past RWC winners
past RWC host countries
past RWC years
past RWC captains of winning teams.
Year
Winners
Host Country
Captain of winning team
2011
New Zealand
New Zealand
Richie McCaw
2007
South Africa
France
John Smit
2003
England
Australia
Martin Johnson
1999
Australia
Wales
John Eales
1995
South Africa
South Africa
Francois Pienaar
1991
Australia
United Kingdom
John Eales
1987
New Zealand
New Zealand and Australia
David Kirk
Task 10
Pool Play Choose some data from this page and graph it in an appropriate graph. Make sure your information iscorrect and you give informative titles.
Task 11
Find out for EACH country and display in an interesting way
Team name
Captain
Population of country
Capital city
Famous landmark
A celebrity from this country that you have heard of before
A celebration in their country
An odd and interesting fact
New Zealand. Team Name: All Blacks. Captain: Richie McCaw. Population: 4.4 million. Capital: Wellington. Famous Landmark: Huka Falls. Celebrity: Jonah Lomu. Celebration: Waitangi Day (6 February) . Odd Fact:The longest place name in the world is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a hill in Hawkes Bay.
(1 June). Interesting Fact: Samoa became an independent country from New Zealand in 1962.
U.S.A. Team Name: Eagles. Captain: Chris Wyles. Population: 318.9 million Capital city: Washington DC. Famous Landmark: Empire State Building. Celebrity: Brad Pitt. Celebration: Martin Luther King Jr Day (3rd Monday of January). Odd Fact: The
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most dangerous city in the world last year is in the U.S.A; it is called Camden.
Famous Landmark: Rainbow Reef. Celebrity: Nemani Nadolo. Celebration: Fiji Day. Odd Fact: Fiji shares marine boundaries with Vanuatu to the west, New Caledonia (France) to the southwest, Kermadec (New Zealand) to the southeast, Tonga to the east, American Samoa, Samoa and Wallis and Futuna (France) to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north.As it makes its way north through Florida over the weekend, East Tennesseans will want to pay attention early next week as forecast models have the remnants of Irma over northern Georgia and/or Alabama and into Tennessee late Monday through Tuesday. In some models, the center of Irma could come into Tennessee, drift West, then turn towards the East, possibly bringing tropical storm-force winds, and dumping torrential rainfall in the area and causing flooding issues as it changes directions.
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Alan and Sonya met when they were 11 years old in middle school. They carried their friendship into high school and then began dating while in college at the University of Baltimore, where they both attended. They are now celebrating almost 15 years of memories friendship and love!
Boraie Photography is super excited to be covering their wedding in July, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.Thursday, December 15, 2011
Mary and Me
Identifying with Mary the mother of Jesus during pregnancy . . . it's something I never thought about before. Even though I may be 10 years her senior, I imagine our first-time-pregnant experiences have a few similarities. I can imagine her . . .
feeling baby Jesus kick for the first time
feeling nauseous all day long
feeling her baby's hiccups for the first time
feeling calf cramps in the early morning
feeling the turns and rolls and boxing all day long
feeling such love for this baby inside her
On the other hand, our experiences are so completely different . . .
she was a virgin, while I've been married for over two years
she was most likely ridiculed and ostracized for her pregnancy, while mine has been nothing but excitement
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and congratulations
she had her baby in a stable with only a husband attending, while I will have mine in a hospital that feels more like a fancy hotel
she knew there was something special and infinite about her baby, while mine will be simply human and a sinner, just like me
Despite the obvious dissimilarities, I can't help but somehow feel closer to Mary this year and more understanding of her condition and experiences.
May I praise the Lord as she did:
My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. . . .
His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation.
He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;
he has scattered those who areNaples Vacations
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Naples Tourist Attractions
Naples (Italian: Napoli) is known for its art, culture, music, gastronomy, architecture and rich history. Naples has played an important role in the existence of the Italian peninsula for more than 2,800 years. Situated on the west coast of Italy by the Gulf of Naples, the city is located halfway between two volcanic areas, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields. Due to its vast artistic heritage, the historic centre of Naples has earned the UNESCO World Heritage Site denomination. Naples is steeped in history and has many beautiful sights, including the Palazzo Reale, Teatro San Carlo, Galleria Umbero I, Castel Nuovo (fortress protecting the port), the Duomo, Basilica Santa Restituta, Church of San Francesco di Paola, Museo Archeologico Nazionale and much more. Naples offers
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Several weeks ago, Sweden’s foreign minister defied threats from China and awarded a freedom of speech prize to Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen and bookseller who was kidnapped in 2015 and remains detained somewhere in China.
The day after, two Australian politicians were refused visas to visit China over their outspoken criticisms unless they apologized. But they promptly refuted Beijing’s demand to “repent.” In October, the mayor of Prague cut sister city ties with Beijing since the agreement insisted on the European city’s recognition of Taiwan being a part of China. He has since initiated a plan to establish a similar relationship with Taipei instead.
Photo Credit: AP / TPG Images Swedish Culture and Democracy Minister Amanda Lind presents Swedish PEN's Tucholsky Prize to jailed Swedish-Chinese publisher Gui Minhai inChinese encroachment in border areas or waters but otherwise are also careful not to antagonize China.
The reasons might be obvious but they are still disconcerting and point to a sad reality.
Take the ongoing Hong Kong protests, which started off opposing a sinister extradition bill, have broadened into an outcry against the local government and the Chinese Communist Party. While President Tsai has openly voiced support for the pro-democracy protesters, as have Japanese politicians, no other Asian country has done so.
Photo Credit: AP / TPG Images A protester holds an American flag at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, November 20, 2019.
Instead, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien-Loong and other officials have spoken out against the Hong Kong protesters. Meanwhile, countries like Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, have remained
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will continue to behave with more impunity and it will be even more difficult to take action in the future. China is increasingly threatening its neighbors in many ways including territorial encroachment, military threats, arbitrary detention of foreign citizens, and taking control of resources like water and islets.
As can be seen by China’s unopposed takeover of much of the South China Sea during the past few years, the failure to act by Asian nations, especially those from ASEAN, was costly.
The Philippines did launch a challenge in an international arbitration tribunal against China, and actually won in 2016. Unfortunately, the Philippines failed to follow up as current president Rodrigo Duterte decided to placate Beijing. Years on, he vacillates between fawning over China and Xi Jinping and talking tough duechemically found discoveries was in 1669, when Henning Brand discovered phosphorus by boiling urine in his quest to discover the philosopher’s stone.
What Is the Most Recent Element Discovered?
The latest element discovered wasn’t so much “discovered” as it was synthesized: tennessine (Ts). A Russian-American collaboration created the element in 2009, officially announcing it in 2010. This most recently discovered element was one of several that have been synthesized in labs in the 21st century, with others including Nihonium (named after Japan), Moscovium (named after Moscow), Oganesson (named after scientist Yuri Oganessian), and Livermorium (named after a U.S. federal research laboratory).
Are We Still Discovering New Elements?
Many people believe the discovery of chemical elements has slowed down since the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, but this is not the case. No
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Hidden away in the Suffolk countryside, this abandoned concrete structure with a rusty metal hatch may not look like much.
However descend 14-feet down the narrow ladder shaft and it gives a fascinating insight into life inside a Cold War bunker.
The scene inside the bunker has barely changed since it was left in 1991 and there are still instructions on the wall explaining what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.
This abandoned Cold War bunker in the Suffolk countryside, built in 1958, has been overgrown by vegetation
A 14ft ladder shaft descends into the Cold War bunker that has remained largely untouched since it was closed down in 1991
Inside the bunker there are two grubby mattresses propped against the wall, as well as a canvas chair in thecorner
This note details the instructions the volunteers had to carry out during the 'transition to war' stage
The reports from hundreds of these tiny bunkers would be communicated back to headquarters, who'd create a picture of the country, deciding which areas were safe and which were not
During the Cold War there were 1,563 bunkers built across the country - at a distance of about 15 miles apart - in case the simmering tensions between Russia and the USA descended into a nuclear war.
They were manned by volunteers from the Royal Observer Corps who were charged with finding out how many nuclear bombs were falling, where they might land and to monitor the subsequent radiation as it drifted across the country.
Underground, there was a bomb power indicator to measure the
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JULY 6--Eight young moviemakers are facing indecent exposure charges for allegedly filming simulated sex acts on a South Carolina beach for a spring break-themed production.
Myrtle Beach cops rounded up the group--all of whom attend or have graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts--after witnesses reported seeing a woman "fellating or simulating fellatio" on a man late Wednesday evening. None of the witnesses, however, reported seeing any nudity, according to a July 2 Myrtle Beach Police Department report.
One of those busted told TSG that the group was filming "Beach Week," a comedy about six college students, and that "there was nothing illegal going on" during filming, which included no nudity.
The eight arrestees, seen in these mug shots, included actress Taylor Hancock, 21, and actor/director Joseph Flanders, 21.Bombers need to sever ties with James Hird
The inescapable conclusion from Tania Hird’s ill-timed 7.30 Report attack upon the AFL was that the Essendon Football Club can never truly put the past behind it until it severs its ties with James Hird.
Not as a club legend and not as a favourite son although the scars will take years to heal before Essendon people will forgive his selfish and cavalier treatment of both the club and the players he promised to protect by becoming their senior mentor. But Hird is finished as Essendon’s coach.
Essendon must sack him and accelerate what has been a lumbering attempt to rebuild the club, which still has no chief executive, no football operations boss and a caretaker coach. Mark Thompson has been saying for
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through inflection points in history. Those deepest inside the U.S. government and the intelligence community in the late 1980s were among the last to acknowledge that the Cold War was really over as the Soviet Union unraveled. “The Great Depression” as a proper noun only came into popular use in the 1950s, long after the event was over. As the economy bounced around in the mid-1930s, there were many premature calls that the crisis had ended, including one by President Roosevelt in 1936, after three years of impressive recovery, but just before a vicious new recession hit, and unemployment rose to new highs.
This blindness is deeply embedded in human nature. Such is our commitment to the world view we forge during our formative years that often we can’tThursday, July 4, 2013
Ambient Sound - Lifeline to Liberty?
"All the while that they were talking the half-remembered rhyme kept running through Winston's head: 'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St. Martin's!' It was curious, but when you said it to yourself you had the illusion of actually hearing the bells, the bells of a lost London that still existed somewhere or other, disguised and forgotten. From one ghostly steeple after another he seemed to hear them pealing forth. Yet so far as he could remember he had never in real life heard church bells ringing." (George Orwell, 1984 - p. 88)
The subconscious memory of bells and nursery rhymes and miscellaneous other sounds -- and their subversive
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memories for me of my 1960s youth?
And what about those bells? I had a reminder of the power of the sound of bells -- as well as the sound of trumpets, and of thundering drums, and children's singing - in a magnificent performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem last week in Chicago. The bells ring out during the Sanctus, recalling the dead to memory at the same time that they transcend death in a declaration of "Glory to God in the highest!"
If you were to ask me about bells, I would probably say, like Winston, that I don't have any particular memory of bells. But as the hammer strikes the bells in the percussion section during the War Requiem the memories come back.
With the sound of those bells,Thousands of Serbians took to the streets of the capital Belgrade on Saturday to voice their opposition to the creeping authoritarianism of President Aleksandar Vucic and his administration. Braving the bitter cold and snow, the crowds blew whistles and horns, echoing demonstrations against former strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
"Vucic, thief!" protestors, including Belgrade's mayor, Dragan Djilas, chanted.
Vucic is a former hardline nationalist who has said he now wishes to reform Serbia and steer it towards membership in the European Union. But last week, when a similar protest marked Serbia's first major show of defiance since Vucic's 2017 election, the president declared that he would not meet opposition calls for fair elections and uncensored media "even if there were five million people in the street."
In response, many of Saturday's protestors wore
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High Street with his mother and his cousin. He was a sociable man who cultivated the opinions of local merchants as well as those of intellectuals. In 1787, he remembered his years as a professor at the University as "by far the happiest and most honourable" in his life.rather apt since the Zionist regime launched its onslaught – Pillar of Cloud – on the people of Gaza with presumptuous divine right only to find that their God was not on their side. While the casualties and toll of human suffering are as usual disproportionately inflicted on the Palestinian men, women and children, nevertheless the victors in this latest battle are the people of Gaza and the many people around the world who stood with them.
Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inhabitants, according to a report commissioned by the World Bank. The continued failure to respond aggressively to climate
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To me that story shows just how crazy things were during the Monday Night War!
On February 8, 1992, at Saturday Night Main Event, Flair tagged with Taker against Hogan and Justice. Justice turned on Hogan completing his turn and cementing his feud with Hogan. Hogan might have been alone out there, but he managed to win by DQ. Flair went on to WrestleMania VIII to try to defend his WWF Championship from Macho Man Randy Savage, but Flair lost and Savage was the new WWF Champion. Flair and Savage feuded through the spring and summer, but it was Ultimate Warrior who was #1 contender going into SummerSlam. Flair and Mr. Perfect attacked both Warrior and Savage during the match. Savage lost by countout, but retained the Title. OnSeptember 14th episode of Prime Time Wrestling (taped Sept.1) Flair reclaimed the WWF Championship from Savage through interference by Razon Ramon (Scott Hall). Flair quickly lost the WWF Championship on October 12th to Bret Hart.
At Survivor Series Flair and Ramon faced Mr. Perfect and Savage. After chair shots, a ref being knocked out and other shenanigans but both Flair and Ramon, the match ended in DQ with Mr. Perfect and Savage getting the win. On January 24, 1993 Flair was eliminated from the Royal Rumble Match by Mr. Perfect. The following night on RAW they faced off in a Loser Leaves The WWF Match. Mr. Perfect defeated Flair who then left the WWF. The funniest thing about this was that the match had been taped the week prior.
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NBA Africa to honour Madiba through youth development, community service
French President Emmanuel Macron receives a basketball jersey from NBA Africa managing director of Amadou Gallo Fall at the French Louis Pasteur high school in Lagos, Nigeria in July. Photo: Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters
JOHANNESBURG AND NEW YORK – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) have announced a series of youth development, community service and business events in the week leading up to the NBA Africa Game 2018.
The NBA’s third game in Africa will take place Saturday August 4 at 5pm CAT at Sun Arena at Time Square in Pretoria. The game will air live in sub-Saharan Africa on Kwesé Free Sports, Kwesé Sports 1, the Kwesé TV app, as well as Kwesé’s partner pay-TVand free-to-air channels. The game will air live in the U.S. at 11:00 am ET on ESPN2, ESPN Deportes (in Spanish), and the ESPN app.
The week of activities, which will embody Nelson Mandela’s legacy and his belief that sports have the power to inspire and change the world, include the 16th edition of Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Africa, a Habitat for Humanity service project, a training camp for the boys and girls teams that will represent Africa & Middle East at the first Jr. NBA World Championship, a youth leadership program hosted by the NBPA Foundation for eight students to learn about Nelson Mandela’s legacy and participate in the week’s activities, and the second NBA Africa Innovation Summit.
As part of Wednesday's announcement, the NBA and NBPA also announced
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