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Logan, 73, a Civil Rights Aide and Cabaret Singer," New York Times, November 28, 1993.
. "Profiles of Members of First Wednesday in Mississippi Team," Series 19, Folder 302, NCNWP. Height, interview by Shulman, January 24, 2003, draft of transcript, 35.
. Brandeis University Office of Planned Giving, "A Lifetime of Commitment," Brandeis Today and Tomorrow, accessed September 2, 2016, <http://giving.brandeis.giftplans.org/index.php?cID=174>.
. Jean Benjamin Registration Form [May 1964], Series 19, Folder 12, NCNWP; and "Jean K. Benjamin," obituary notice, New York Times, October 6, 2007, <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E6DF163AF935A35753C1A9619C8B63>.
. "Profiles of Members of First Wednesday in Mississippi Team."
. For more on Catholic women's interracial activism, see O'Halloran, "Organized Catholic Laywomen," chap. 4 and 5.
. For more on the challenges to the domestic homemakers ideal, see Hartmann, "Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal in theThe Queen has been pleased to give her formal approval to the appointment of His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales as Captain General Royal Marines, succeeding the role from The Duke of Edinburgh.
Today Prince Harry was appointed Captain General Royal Marines, succeeding the role from The Duke of Edinburgh.
The Queen was pleased to give her formal approval to the appointment today as The Duke of Edinburgh carried out his last official duty as Captain General – receiving Major General Robert Magowan, Commandant General Royal Marines, and Major General Charles Stickland, Commandant General Royal Marines Designate.
Prince Harry was also present upon becoming Captain General Royal Marines.
The Duke's association with the Royal Marines dates back 64 years to 2nd June 1953, when he was appointed Captain General in succession
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this town is familiar to Tarvanus, a drow warlock who has recently been inducted into the Preservers’ Guild, having sworn an oath to a fey patron who empowers him with ice and frost powers. On the outskirts of the town, a sorcerer named Garrosh Penndragon is on his way to arrange for the sale of some stone when a catastrophe strikes the town!
A massive object crashes to earth outside Hawk’s Bill, gouging a burning swath of destruction through the center of the town common. The meteor leaves puddles and rivulets of flaming ichor that even cause some of the stone buildings to melt and sway. In the tumult, a slave known as Sefu makes his escape from a cruel master who was crushed as the town fell. SefuCHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Monday he would cut his family vacation in Cuba short to address the fatal shooting of two more black residents by a city police department already under federal investigation over its use of deadly force.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel listens to remarks at a news conference in Chicago, Illinois, United States, December 7, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young
The decision comes after activists stepped up calls for Emanuel’s resignation over his handling of policing in the nation’s third-largest city. A protest is planned at City Hall on Thursday.
“While Mayor Emanuel has been in constant contact with his staff and Interim Superintendent (John) Escalante, he is cutting his family trip short so that he can continue the ongoing work of restoring accountability and trust
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by the 2015 Sale of Champions poultry exhibit buyers, Gerber Poultry, Cooper Farms, Weaver Brothers, Case Farms, Hertzfeld Farms, Trillium Farms, Prairie Star Farms, Hemmelgarn and Sons, Cal Maine Foods, Sauder Amish Eggs, Hillandale Farms, Stoller Farms, Kalmbach Feeds, Wendel Poultry Service, Nature Pure, New Day Farms, Mercer Landmark and Kroger Co. Because no live poultry were exhibited at the Fair this year due to the threat of avian influenza, these Sale of Champions buyers purchased the meal sponsored by the Ohio Poultry Breeders Association and recognized Ohio’s top youth poultry skillathon winners in each age class.
In addition, the Ohio Poultry Association generously donated $1,000 to the Ohio Agricultural Clearance Program, a program of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, which directly benefits Ohio’s farmers and provides fresh, Ohio-grownHe spoke of their wisdom especially in dealing with the earth and all the living beings.
For the Awajún and Wampis in Amazonas Department in northern Peru, their cosmovisión (world view) and traditional religion are an important source of inspiration and endurance in their struggle for safeguarding their living space. In the integral vision of the world they share with other indigenous peoples, all living beings – not only human beings – are considered agents within a single big energy. Everything is connected – similar to the “integral ecology” mentioned in Laudato Si.
Highlighting the urgent need of a “bold cultural revolution,” the encyclical implicitly embraces the indigenous people’s concept of “Buen Vivir,” an alternative way of life based on respect for the earth and on living in relationships of
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the region’s tropical forests – the biggest lung of our world – and the vanquishing of peoples like the Awajún and Wampis would be a tragic loss for us all.
October 11, 2017
* Birgit Weiler is Director of the Area of Research at the University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya in Lima; collaborates closely with the Vicariate of Jaén (Catholic Church) and with the Awajún and Wampis; and contributes to CLALS’s project on religion and climate change.
A ceremony at Mount Huaytapallana during the Andean New Year. / Photo by Karsten Paerregaard.
Peru – one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change – is experiencing a surge in religious ceremonies highlighting the plight of its rapidly shrinking glaciers, but the increased attention has downsides as well. Peru hasthem good fortune. The Andean New Year on June 24, one of the most spectacular events, attracts more than a thousand people. They offer food, drinks, candles, and cloths that are burned while the shamans say prayers to Huaytapallana in Quechua. The event reminds people of the suffering that global warming is causing to the mountain.
In the southeastern highlands, Mount Ausungate attracts even bigger crowds. Around the feast of Corpus Christi each year thousands of pilgrims walk up to a sanctuary to pay tribute to an image called Señor deQoyllur Rit’i (the Lord of the Snow Star), declared an Intangible Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2011. The image represents Christ, who according the local legend revealed himself at the sanctuary in the 18th century, but it is also
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Latin America – like all papal visits since Pope Paul VI made the first in 1968 before the historic meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellín, Colombia – is pastoral. The media are grasping for the implications of his visiting Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay this week, looking for a theme, for example, in the common factors of their poverty, indigenous populations, and environmental conflicts. Others wonder if this Argentine pope, well acquainted with Peronism, carries a political message about the dangers of left-wing populism. Yet others posit this trip in terms of religious “competition” to recapture market share from Evangelicals.
This visit and this extraordinary pope, however, are focused on his broader pastoral message – conveying to the faithful his deepest beliefs about what their faith demands of himhelp us confront the most fundamental problems of our future together in this world. Latin Americans have shown growing awareness of these problems. Their response to this trip is probably not best judged by Mass attendance but rather by whether they can take concrete steps to link, as Francis does, the “cry of the poor” and the “cry of the earth” in their societies.
No politician in recent years has been able to shake and polarize Brazilian politics as Marina Silva has since becoming the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) presidential candidate after its original nominee, Eduardo Campos, died in a plane crash last month. She has an alluring biography: born into an extremely poor family and illiterate until she was 16, she worked as a rubber tapper and rose
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to become one of the most prominent ecologists and defenders of the Amazon region alongside Chico Mendes, a true Brazilian hero. After earning a degree in history, Silva entered politics in the mid-1980s. Several years later she received the most votes as a state representative for Acre, served twice as a senator, and later became the Minister of Environment in Lula’s administration (a position from which she resigned due to fundamental divergences with the Workers Party and Dilma Rousseff). In 2007 she won the UN’s Champions of the World award, and three years later she ran for President under the Green Party banner, amassing 20 million votes on a platform emphasizing environmental issues and education.
Recent polls find roughly a third of Brazilian voters favoring Silva in the firstan evangelical Christian, winning a large chunk of religious voters in 2010, and she has defended the teaching of creationism in schools, saying that God created even Darwin. She rolled out an agenda for advancing LGBT rights recently, but criticism by Pastor Silas Malafaia, one of Brazil’s main evangelical leaders, forced her to reverse course and abandon her position 24 hours after having presented it.
Although Brazil is a religious country, laïcité – a French version of secularism – is a serious matter for the upper and middle classes, and Silva’s religiosity may cost her votes. She has exposed her core weak spot, which the other candidates will exploit in the upcoming debates and electoral campaigns. But popular concerns about corruption run much deeper in the eyes of the
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$65,000. In 1980 an appraiser in Bangkok, hired by plaintiff, placed a value of $20,205,000 on the statuary. The next year, in April 1981, this same appraiser revised his estimate for the collection to $27,000,000, and then later that year, in the beginning of September, to $30,307,500. Meanwhile, at some time between 1980 and summer 1981, the 222 pieces of sculpture were shipped in various lots from Bangkok to Singapore.
Claiming that he was planning to sell the Buddhas and fable gods to a European collector, in February 1981 plaintiff contacted the London brokerage firm of Hogg Robinson to arrange for insurance. He requested coverage of $20,205,000 to insure the collection during a sea shipment from Singapore to The Netherlands. The insurance was successfully placed on the London *479market. In May of 1981, pursuant to the increased valuation of his Bangkok appraiser, plaintiff requested and obtained through Hogg Robinson an additional $10,000,000 coverage for the voyage.
All did not proceed smoothly, however. In June of 1981, Mr. Robert Jensen, plaintiff's broker at Hogg Robinson, received two anonymous phone messages from callers who said they had a score to settle with plaintiff. Knight, they informed the broker, was about to perpetrate a fraud with his shipment of Buddhas and fable gods. Jensen conveyed this information to the lead London underwriters of plaintiff's policy who, in turn, expeditiously ordered an independent appraisal of the statues which were still awaiting shipment in Singapore. A few days later, plaintiff received a telex from Jensen in London. It informed him that the
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observe human movement and interaction for inspiration. He often pines over his long lost Russian love, "The Meeshk," (one of our former kitties) and uses that as a basis for dramatic and intensely passionate photographs.
Next is our high maintenance model (and sometimes our personal trainer), also known as "The Talent." We call her the "Itty Bitty" but don't let that fool you...she has an overwhelming size and ego. Sometimes we need her in front of the camera, so that we can put together some ideas on (digital) film to see if they would work or not. She certainly knows how to strike a pose and is definitely not afraid of the camera. She's also a recent graduate from Thomas's Bootcamp for Min Pin's, and passed all her requirementswith flying colors. She will gladly sit, stand, bark, and even DANCE on command.
Last is our key grip and our 'muscle'. "Goose" is our rock we center around in hectic situations. His calming presence brings the focus back to the project at hand. His nickname comes from the phrase 'goosfrabba', and is certainly fitting for his steady personality. He likes to take long walks and yearns for the day he finds true love. A romantic at heart, he knows the perfect lighting to bring out all the elements of 'the moment' that truly describes each couple.
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playoffs. Westbrook, his usual partner on the news-conference dais, was gone.
Then came the question: What have you learned about yourself without Westbrook?
"That we need him," Durant told the assembled media. "We miss him."
A torn meniscus in the opening round sidelined Westbrook for the duration, and the Thunder would ultimately bow out with a 4-1 series loss to Memphis. The struggles would continue the following season, as Westbrook underwent two more knee surgeries and missed 36 games.
The Thunder were forced to forge a new identity in 2014, and that meant duct-taping the green light in the on position for Durant. The result: a January known now as the "Slim Reaper" era. Durant averaged 35.0 points, 7.5 rebounds and 6.3 assists without Westbrook, leading the Thunder to 10 straight winsand establishing himself as the MVP front-runner.
Westbrook returned after the All-Star break, but the Thunder were smoked by the Miami Heat on national television in his first game back. They lost two more with Durant and Westbrook trying to share possessions, and Durant, who desperately wanted to win MVP, began worrying that the readjustment to Westbrook would hurt his chances.
Then Brian Keefe, a Thunder assistant at the time, delivered a blunt message: Get over yourself.
"He let me know how bad I was -- my body language, my attitude," Durant told NBA.com's David Aldridge in 2014. "I just decided to look at myself and self-evaluate. And he was right. I had to change how I was thinking, how I was acting toward my teammates. Everything."
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form and the Thunder went on to 59 wins. In his now-famous MVP speech, Durant saved his much-maligned teammate for last.
"There's days when I just want to tackle you and tell you to snap out of it sometimes, but I know there's days when you want to do the same thing with me," Durant told Westbrook. "I love you, man. I love you. A lot of people put unfair criticism on you as a player and I'm the first to have your back, man, through it all."
A season later, the roles reversed. A foot injury forced Durant to watch as Westbrook tried to drag the Thunder into the postseason. After one particularly incredible performance, Durant texted friends that Westbrook was the best player in the league.
One year afterDurant had surged to the top of the MVP race with Westbrook sidelined, an unfiltered Westbrook went on to win the scoring title. Durant and Westbrook, it's fair to say, were both at their individual best with the other out for long stretches.
But the two seasons in which injuries would have kept either one from the playoffs were also the only two since the Thunder came to form that they did not advance to a conference finals. Indeed, the evidence has long suggested that Oklahoma City is at its best when the ball is moving and everyone is working in concert. Even this season, when Golden State and San Antonio dominated the West with ball-movement-friendly attacks, the Thunder finished last in the NBA in passes per 100 possessions,
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yelled. They cursed. And then, as they walked back onto the court, Durant rubbed Westbrook's head and Westbrook slapped Durant on the back.
Durant isn't afraid to admit he still gets mad at Westbrook. He talks about how they still cuss each other out. Practices and film sessions can get heated. But in their eight years together, there's always been the assurance of tomorrow. After every spat, after every celebration, they could count on regrouping the next day and moving forward.
There have been no indications that Durant, an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his career this summer, plans to move. But until he makes it official, a franchise and the city that lives for it holds their breath in hopes that he'll be back to finishthe lives of others, creating an autoimmune disease awareness organization and volunteering for years to lead youth religious gatherings.”
According to Green, the individual honorees will be profiled in a special publication next month.
“Their stories of charitable giving and genuine volunteer spirit epitomize true generosity and we look forward to sharing their stories with the community,” he said.
The honorees will be featured in an April 13 magazine that will be inserted into The Dispatch and circulated at the awards celebration in their honor on April 24 at Fager’s Island. Tickets are available for the event and can be purchased at www.thedispatchshorestars.com or by calling 410-641-4561.
The campaign is sponsored by D3 Corp, Atlantic General Hospital, Taylor Bank, the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore and The Dispatch.
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New regulations prohibiting bow-riding on vessels could be in place as soon as next spring after a productive meeting last week between the area’s representatives in Annapolis and state boating officials. In the wake of several serious boating accidents in the resort last summer, including a fatal propeller strike that claimed the… Read more »
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Our recent story on chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wisconsin now has a followup in the treasured Greater Yellowstone country. In both places, wildlife managers and politicians continue to take a heedless attitude toward the always fatal elk, deer and moose disease, and fail to take action. States like Wyoming have massive winter elk feeding programs that dangerously concentrate the elk, inviting CWD to take hold. Other states like Idaho, have numerous elk farms and elk shooting ranches similar to those that have spread the disease into many states and provinces of Canada.
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition just issued a map and news release about CWD’s relentless spread to the northwest across Wyoming.
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The Crick Boat Show is the premier boat show for the inland waterways, held at Crick Marina in late May it is organised by Waterways World in association with the Canal & River Trust and Crick Marina (www.crickboatshow.com).
Under the brand of SelfBuild & Design magazine, we organise the premier self build exhibition in the south-west of England - SelfBuild & Design South West and in the East of England SelfBuild & Design East is the premier event for self build in the region (www.selfbuildanddesignshow.com)present invention may be accomplished in the following manner. Specifically, a substrate is provided. A first patterned dielectric layer is formed over the substrate. The first patterned dielectric layer having at least one first opening exposing at least a portion of the substrate. A first planarized structure is, formed within the at least one first opening. A second patterned dielectric layer is formed over the first planarized structure. The second patterned dielectric layer having a second opening exposing at least a portion of the first planarized structure. A second planarized structure is formed within the second opening whereby the first planarized structure and the second planarized structure comprise the electrical metal fuse. The electrical metal fuse having a middle portion, having a thickness and a width, between two
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Ear-battering distortion? Check. Vocals that are a cross between a ranting professional wrestler and a deranged Ralph Kramden? Check! There's even the usual assortment of cover songs, all done up Mongrolls style. There's no denying Greg's considerable songwriting prowess ("Smash It" and "Drunk Again" are modern classics of garage punk in my book), but I always enjoy his interpretations of other bands' material. This time he has a go at Loli and the Chones, Unnatural Axe, Menace, and The Minds. Yeah, I know: that's some great taste in music. Plus they're cool versions. It seems like in the current age, people look down on cover songs like they're filler or something. Compare that to say, in the '60s, when the craft of interpreting someone else's song was rightfullyaway with everything. Two and a half thousand years ago, Plato told the story of Gyges, who finds a ring that makes him invisible. Within weeks, he has turned from innocent shepherd into corrupt monster.
Bankers have Gyges's ring of invisibility. Most of society can't see what they're doing. They enjoy virtual impunity for acts that harm other people and society as a whole.
But there's an added twist: not alone can they not be fully seen, but they themselves cannot see. The bonus culture and the grotesque inequality it sustains create a disconnection from everyday society. Nothing out there is real: clients are just more inputs for the profit machine; interest rates are just numbers to feed bonuses.
Decent people will always be eaten up by such an indecent system.
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animals and this distinguishes them from other groups that which make a living by combining with other itinerant professions such as blacksmithing by Gadia Lohar, or selling salt by the Lambadi. These pastoral groups are concentrated in certain regions such as the semi-arid and arid Thar desert region and the neighbouring salt marshes of Kutch along the Indo-Pakistan border, the alpine and sub-alpine zones above 3200 metres in the Himalayas forming the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Types of livestock kept in mobile pastoral systems include buffaloes, sheep, goats, camels, cattle, donkeys, and yaks among others. Unlike in the Middle East, where pastoralist are organized in tribes occupying distinct areas, in India pastoralist are integrated in the caste system, representing endogamous social units specialisingHistory
Connie Swartz started Creative Courseware in 1984 on her dining room table.
She already had over 15 years of experience in Computer-Based Training (CBT). Those years of creating storyboards, writing code, and punching 80-column cards somehow made her think she could start and run a company. Connie's unique mix of technical experience, naïveté, and lessons learned along the way all contributed to her founding vision for Creative Courseware.
The company's name comes from terminology that was standard at that time. You see, in 1984, three categories of “stuff” covered everything that existed in the world of computing:
Hardware – computers, printers, and such
Software – machine coding that told the computers, printers, and such what to do
Courseware – online training for how to use the computers, printers, and such
Cheri Stubblefield joined the
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company in 1990. She brought expertise in instructional design, development, and delivery based on her experience in education, both as a classroom teacher and as part of a cadre that mentored other teachers. Cheri and Connie soon found that their complementary skill sets and work styles were the perfect mix for business success. And happily, their personalities have made for a perfect business partnership as they have shaped today's Creative Courseware.
That shaping of the company continues. From the beginning, staying current has been a big part of the company's history. Creative Courseware evolves along with technology and business trends—defining and redefining who we are to meet the needs of the organizations we work with.better UK would be from the rest of the league. The conference not only hasn't kept up with Kentucky, but in fact it's lost ground. Yes, Florida is also 5-0 atop the SEC, but we'll wait until UK-UF on Feb. 4 before remotely entertaining the idea that the Gators belong to sit at the same table as the Wildcats.
Right now, UK is in the discussion for best team in the country while the rest of the league is looking outclassed. It's sort of feeling like those years when Gonzaga is at arm's length from the rest of the WCC.
So now that we know Kentucky is going to waltz to yet another league title, it's become a game of how UK's going to win. Few teams are as fun
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to dissect, to watch evolve, like Calipari's clubs.
The big news from Saturday's game, from a performance standpoint, was Kentucky's 57.1-percent shooting. That's the best UK's been from the field this season. UK is yet to dip below 50 percent in SEC play. That hasn't happened through five games at UK since the 1980s.
Because of this shooting spree, UK had five players hit double figures, and for the eighth game in a row at least one player starred by way of going for 20 or more points. On Saturday it was, of course, Malik Monk. The freshman sensation had a game-high 24. Even better, he had six assists, the most in a game in his fertile UK career. Here's his highlight again.
The fun wrinkles with Kentucky's evolution include somethingone in the conference can afford to watch them shoot better than 40 percent from downtown. If Kentucky is able to shoot better than 40 percent from 3-point range in conference play, then look the hell out. Kentucky's put up half a hundred in the first half in eight of its 17 games, and it's gone to the century mark five times this season. I'm setting the over/under on Kentucky getting to 100 3.5 more times this season, and gladly taking the over.
The defense was expected to be great -- and has fallen short of Calipari's calculations -- but the offense has been beyond anticipation.
It wasn't totally smooth on Saturday, by the way, and that's a good thing. De'Aaron Fox fouled out with more than seven minutes to
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Russian Explorer Claims Unusual Access to the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia
Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov has become the latest person to make a claim about viewing the relic (VOR).
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Published: Thursday, August 26, 2010
New York (TADIAS) – The Voice of Russia is reporting that celebrity explorer and ordained Orthodox deacon Fyodor Konyukhov has been given the unusual access to view the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia.
According to the radio station’s website, the world-famous traveler went to Ethiopia to work on an officially sanctioned project of producing a map with new tourist routes to Ethiopia’s historical sites. The Voice of Russia announced that he is now “the first European to see the Ark of the Covenant where the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments communicatedArk of the Covenant was brought to Ethiopia from Jerusalem with the return of Menelik I after his famous visit with his father, King Solomon.’”
Meanwhile, The Voice of Russia says the explorer has also been granted permission to build a Russian Orthodox church in Addis Ababa, which will be named St. George chapel. “We met with the builders and Ethiopian workers. Our embassy helped us. I hope to install a cross at the site before I leave for the expedition in February,” Konyukhov said.
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You may read the original story at The Voice of Russia.
Related:
The Not-So-Lost Ark of the Covenant
Related video:
Ethiopia – Keepers of the Lost Ark (David Adams Films)
Join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook.
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di-carboxylic acid type complexing agents having at most 4 hydroxyl groups in the molecular structure thereof, but not having any one of nitrogen, halogen, sulfur and carbon atoms as a donor atom and not having a carbonyl group.
(Group B6) Complexing agents having at least one carbonyl group in the molecular structure thereof.
In the present invention, a donor atom means an atom which can provide electrons necessary for a coordinate bond with a metal. Examples of a coordinate group having a nitrogen atom as a donor atom in the Group B1, include an amino group, an imino group, a nitrilo group (tertiary nitrogen atom), a thiocyanate group, a hydroxyamino group, a hydroxyimino group, a nitro group, a nitroso group, a hydrazino group, a hydrazono group, a hydrazo group, anSeize The Book - An Australian book blog containing book reviews, giveaways and author interviews
26 March 2013
Review: Redemption on the River | Loren DeShon
* From author for review *Redemption on the River is set up and down the Mississippi River in 1848, and features Silas, our main character escaping dark problems on the farm at home and looking for redemption and a way to make things 'right'.Silas learns how to gamble, use a knife, falls in love, makes a best friend - a giant of a man named one-ball - and all this against a background of slavery.Big steamboats, big stakes at the faro gambling tables and lots of danger make Redemption on the River an exciting and action packed read.The only other book I've read set on
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the Mississippi is Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and interestingly, I found out afterwards that it was set in 1845 (around the same time as Redemption on the River) although published in 1884.Now, while I didn't enjoy Huckleberry Finn (2 stars), I'm pleased to say I enjoyed reading Redemption on the River, and the book even permeated my dreams. I had several dreams about boats on the river while I was reading it; the sign a book is getting to you!I recommend Redemption on the River by Loren DeShon to those who would like to know more about this era, life on the Mississippi in the time of steam boats, and the gambling lifestyle that went on, also made famous by the 1994 movie starring Mel Gibson, Maverick.MyBonucci made a mistake over Kean comments, insists Sarri
Maurizio Sarri says Leonardo Bonucci's comments in the aftermath of alleged abuse towards Moise Kean by Cagliari supporters were a "mistake" but insists the Juventus defender is "not racist".
Kean's fine display in his side's 2-0 Serie A win against Cagliari on Tuesday was overshadowed by allegations that the 19-year-old, who scored Juve's second goal, was the target of racist taunts.
The Italy international celebrated his late strike in front of Cagliari's supporters, and team-mate Bonucci said after the game that Kean should take 50 per cent of the blame for the incident because he incited the home crowd.
Defender Bonucci later clarified his remarks via social media, saying that he was "too hasty" in expressing his thoughts and "firmly condemned racism".
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4. Requests the State Party to consider the boundaries of the property as proposed by the UNESCO Urban Regeneration of Historic Cairo Project (URHC) team, to be submitted to the World Heritage Centre by 1 February 2015 ;
5. Notes with concern the information provided by the State Party and the URHC team on the alarming situation of the state of conservation of the property;
6. Strongly urges the State Party to ensure that measures are taken as soon as possible to stop illegal construction and to protect the archaeological areas;
7. Also urges the State Party to prepare a management plan for the property;
8. Also requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2015 , a report on the state of conservation of theBy Levy Acs, president of American Integrated Security Group (AISG)
Stretching over an expansive range, large-scale solar generation sites can be challenging and expensive to secure if not done properly. Security at solar farms not only involves the ability to safeguard critical infrastructure from outside threats, but they also help deter copper theft, protect personnel and limit disruption of power for huge numbers of consumers. Security being a major concern, it is essential in the planning stage of solar site development to enlist the services of an experienced security systems integrator to handle the security side of the project. A five-year veteran of securing solar generations sites, American Integrated Security Group has worked with a large range of clients.
Much of AISG’s success comes from understanding the market and developing
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A decade of homelessness: Thousands in S.F. remain in crisis Ten years ago, San Francisco launched an ambitious effort to end chronic homelessness. Today and Sunday, The Chronicle looks at the city's limited successes and many failures at moving people off the streets.
Surviving the streets: A homeless woman who calls herself "U" camps within sight of San Francisco City Hall. Surviving the streets: A homeless woman who calls herself "U" camps within sight of San Francisco City Hall. Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle Buy photo Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 45 Caption Close A decade of homelessness: Thousands in S.F. remain in crisis 1 / 45 Back to Gallery
A decade ago, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom made an unlikely promise.
In 10 years, he pledged on June30, 2004, the worst of San Francisco's homeless problem would be gone.
The most seriously ill homeless people would be moved indoors, clearing downtown streets of in-your-face transients who were startling residents and tourists alike. Emergency shelters would cease to exist because nobody would need them, he said. And new arrivals to the streets would be helped immediately.
"This is a dramatic shift," Newsom announced as he unveiled his "Ten Year Plan to Abolish Chronic Homelessness." "This won't all happen tomorrow. But it will get done."
San Franciscans are still waiting.
A decade and roughly $1.5 billion later, the city has succeeded in moving 19,500 homeless people off its streets, roughly equivalent to relocating the entire Castro district. But despite that major effort, the homeless population hasn't budged, showing that as one
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homeless person is helped, another takes his place.
In addition, Newsom left City Hall for Sacramento and has had no success pushing his pet issue as a statewide cause. His replacement, Ed Lee, has shifted the city's focus away from homelessness and onto job creation and tech promotion.
Meanwhile, new homeless encampments dot downtown alleys. Panhandlers still pervade the city. Needles, urine and human feces still litter sidewalks. It's not unusual to see homeless mothers with children begging downtown, people bathing in the sinks at the Main Library, and open-air crack and heroin use within view of the mayor's balcony at City Hall.
The homeless population is up 3 percent since 2005 - and that doesn't include a new count of 914 unaccompanied children and youths who don't have anywhere tocall home. In one of the richest cities in the world, an estimated 2,200 public school students lack permanent homes.
Back in 2004, Newsom appointed former Supervisor Angela Alioto to head the council charged with crafting the plan to end chronic homelessness within a decade. On the ambitious plan's first page, Alioto expressed confidence it would work, writing, "I certainly look forward to this particular victory party!"
But a walk around the city finds little reason to celebrate.
10 years later
Lt. Gov. Newsom and a Chronicle reporter visited Civic Center Plaza, Mid-Market and the Tenderloin to see whether the streets had changed in 10 years.
Newsom, 46, now lives in Marin County, but to San Francisco's homeless people, he's still instantly recognizable and beloved. People shouted his name, stopped him for cell
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phone photos and said he should run for president.
"It's you!" Sterling Hardaway, 43, exclaimed when he saw Newsom. "In the flesh!"
"Where are you staying?" Newsom asked.
"On the streets with my cardboard," Hardaway answered.
He said he has been homeless in San Francisco since 1997.
That was the same year Newsom joined the Board of Supervisors, where he developed a keen interest in homelessness. In 2002, he championed the Care Not Cash program to slash county welfare checks in exchange for housing and spearheaded the 2003 ban on aggressive panhandling, which banned begging near ATMs or on public transportation and prohibited repeated solicitations after a person declined to give money, following the person or blocking their passage.
In that November's election, he and then-Supervisor Matt Gonzalez emerged as the top two candidatesin the first round of the mayor's race. Alioto had also run, and Newsom visited her law firm armed with a dozen red roses to ask for her endorsement in the December runoff.
"I told him, 'When you put me in charge of homelessness, which I think you're doing a terrible job of, I'm going to support you,' " Alioto said. "And he did."
Newsom installed Alioto as the leader of a 33-member panel given four months to craft the city's Ten Year Plan to Abolish Chronic Homelessness. Perhaps surprisingly, the plan was encouraged by then-President George W. Bush's administration, which had focused on ending chronic homelessness and tied federal grants to the writing of 10-year plans.
The majority of those who worked on San Francisco's plan or provide homeless services
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annually. Getting the chronically homeless off the streets would free up city money and time to serve less needy homeless people, the plan's authors believed.
In some ways, the plan worked. In the past 10 years, 11,362 homeless single adults have been housed. An additional 8,086 people have been sent home to a willing friend or family member through the Homeward Bound program, which pays for bus tickets out of San Francisco and back to their hometowns.
Alioto maintains that the plan is "not flawed" and that it was going great for about five years. Then the jolting economy and change in mayoral leadership meant the plan was essentially shelved, she said.
Newsom gave annual State of Homelessness addresses, whereas Lee does not. Newsom constantly visited homeless people, service providers andshelters, whereas Lee's most frequent audiences are tech employees.
Newsom stationed his homeless czar across the hall from his second-floor office and constantly met and texted with him. Lee moved his homeless czar to the basement and hardly ever meets with him.
"Gavin was very attentive to homelessness," Alioto said. "You have a new administration who's not as attentive. It's not the issue he wants to deal with as mayor."
Changing leadership
Lee came to office as the appointed replacement for Newsom, without an agenda vetted at the polls. The onetime head of the Department of Public Works has focused on the homeless - if at all - with an eye to clearing them from mid-Market Street and surrounding alleys so those areas, now home to major tech companies, can be cleaned
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from the wealthiest tech titans to those most down on their luck.
"We're not closing our borders," he said.
The city spends $165 million a year on homeless services, about half of which funds supportive housing. That's one of the highest levels of per-capita spending on homelessness of any city in the nation, said Philip Mangano, who served as the nation's homeless czar under President Bush.
Lee and members of his administration can point to some wins. The percentage of the jail population that is homeless has been cut in half, signaling that the city is focusing on treatment rather than incarceration for homeless people. And veteran homelessness could be eliminated by next year, said Bevan Dufty, the mayor's point man on homelessness, which is not only good news for theveterans themselves but also proves that individual populations of homeless people can be focused on and virtually eliminated.
Lee's proposed budget for the next two years includes an additional $29 million for homeless services, including eviction prevention, mental health care and a new women's shelter that will be open in winter months.
But San Francisco can't end homelessness without much more support from the state and national governments, said Trent Rhorer, director of the city's Human Services Agency.
"The state budget that Gov. Brown put out does not mention homelessness once - he doesn't have any sort of agenda statewide for homelessness," he said. "And 25 percent of kids are in poverty now in California. That's what's frustrating."
Families left behind
Some of those children live in San Francisco - and ignoring them
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was a weakness of the Ten Year Plan.
Jennifer Friedenbach is director of the Coalition on Homelessness, which has Tenderloin offices covered in posters, like one reading, "How many people do you need to start a revolution?" In a recent interview there, she said the crux of the plan shouldn't have focused exclusively on single adults at the expense of families with children.
Her cell phone rang. It was Dufty, who had news that prompted a loud expletive from Friedenbach. The two thought they'd finally found housing for a homeless family with six children that lives in a van, but it fell through. One of the couple's children is developmentally disabled because she hasn't had space to learn to crawl or walk, a common problem for homeless children.
There are just74 shelter spaces for families, and it's a six-month wait to secure one of them. Currently, about 200 families are on the waiting list, fewer than last year thanks to a new supportive housing complex for families that opened in the Bayview in the fall. But just 6 percent of the homeless housing planned for construction is intended for families, Friedenbach said.
It's easier for politicians to ignore homeless families because they're more likely to sleep unseen in cars, on the floors of friends' living rooms or elsewhere. Since they're hidden away, they don't pique voters' frustration.
Those families lucky enough to score a coveted rental subsidy from the city or from the San Francisco Housing Authority are increasingly having a hard time spending it in San Francisco because landlords
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homeless people rose dramatically.
The center's clients who'd previously come to play chess, use the telephone or pick up mail had nowhere to go at night. So it allowed them to stay, 100 men sleeping wall to wall on mats in one of the city's first homeless shelters.
Now, about 30 people sleep there at night - in real beds - and roughly 500 more a day go to the nonprofit's two drop-in centers to use bathrooms, access a range of services or just get a break from the streets.
Jenks called it a "nice idea" to think people shouldn't sleep in shelters, but said it belies reality in a city where 6,436 people have nowhere to sleep at night.
Daytime disincentives
Just because the plan moved 3,000 people inside at night doesn'tActivists Ask Ecuador Not to Drill at Oil Block
Part of ITT block located within country's largest nature reserve
Quito, Ecuador – Environmental activists called on Ecuador's President Rafael Correa to abandon plans to develop the Ishpingo-Tambocoha-Tiputini oil block.
A portion of the ITT oil block, as it is known, is located within Yasuni National Park, the country's largest nature reserve and considered one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.
Last August, Mr. Correa abandoned the so-called Yasuni-ITT initiative, a plan to refrain from drilling for oil in the block if international donors pledged $3.6 billion over 12 years to finance renewable energy projects and protect nature reserves, among other proposals.
The Yasuni-ITT initiative was announced by Mr. Correa's government in 2007, but the trust established to protect the land received
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developed using modern technology to minimize the impact on the environment.
According to experts, a single hectare of the Yasuni National Park can contain 2,274 species of trees and shrubs. It is home to 593 species of birds, 80 species of bats and 150 species of amphibians, among others. It is also home to two indigenous tribes, the Tagaeri and Taromenani, which have resisted outside contact.
Initially, the government plans to produce oil only from the Tambococha and Tiputini fields, starting in 2016. In a second stage, planned for 2018, production will begin at the Ishpingo field.
State oil company Petroamazonas, which will run the operation, plans to drill 360 wells, of which 90 will be in Tiputini, 90 in Tambococha and 180 in the Ishpingo.
The development of the ITT blockMajed's warm personality and charm make him a favourite with his varied clients. Highly versatile and experienced, Majed creates natural, spontaneous and engaging imagery, whether in a working environment or photographing a group of models. He enjoys the challenge of shooting on location and is equally comfortable in the studio. His dynamic and graphic style is the result of creative intuition and a keen understanding of light and composition.
Contact Majed to discuss a project or visit his website to see more of his imagery.
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Clifford James Kramer
Clifford J. Kramer, born on March 16, 1951, passed away in Madison on Nov. 17, 2012 with his family beside him. He is survived by his wife Betsy (nee Scott) and their children Scott and wife Laura, Anna, and Michael; in-laws Esther and Ralph Scott; John and Eleanor Scott, Bill Scott and Heidi Holdener, Dan and Kate (Scott) Nelson, and nieces and nephews: Jennifer, Katy, Charlie, Dave and Emma; his sister Carol Smorch, aunt Audrey Krueger and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents, Alexander and June Kramer, other relatives, and precious friends.
Cliff earned a BS in Education (UW-Oshkosh), an MS in C&I and in Ed. Admin. (UW-Madison). He worked as a teacher and Reading Specialist in Sheboygan, Hartford and Middleton-Cross Plains. His keencuriosity, knowledge of brain research, and desire to help students with reading disabilities, resulted in numerous classroom research studies. Cliff published articles in professional journals and newspapers, books for use by teachers, and a remedial reading screening test. He inspired his students to learn through humor, creativity and praise, which made Mr. Kramer a beloved teacher and resulted in a "Congressional Award for Excellence in Teaching". But Cliff's true legacy is in the children whose lives he changed forever as their gifted teacher, coach, uncle and father.
Cliff loved his family, friends, reading, and nature. He also enjoyed a good joke, trivia, math, sports, playing Sheephead with buddies and swimming in Lake Michigan as a founding member of the Sheboygan Polar Bears. In his modest way, Cliff taught us
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the Antwerp Circumcision procession of
1561. The personifications on the wagons together depict the cycle of human
action.”
Condition: crisp and well-printed impression with small margins
around the platemark on the left and lower edge, trimmed along the image
borderline on the right and upper edge. The sheet is in excellent condition in
terms of being free of holes, creases, abrasions, significant stains, foxing or
signs of handling, but there is a closed tear (approximately 1 cm) on the lower
edge. The sheet has been laid upon a support sheet of archival (millennium
quality) washi paper.
I am selling this allegory set against an townscape of Roman antiquity
about the attendant miseries of pride personified in mythological figures—the
grim figure of Envy (Invidia) shown sucking on a heart at the feet of Pride
(Superbia) portrayed seated on the wagon pulled byfrom Planet Labs. In particular, we were interested in whether reports of the Iskander deployment coincided with an exercise at Pavenkovo – in which case, the deployment would likely be temporary – or whether it coincided with construction at the missile base in Chernoyakhovsk to permanently station the missiles in Kaliningrad.
2.
Tracking Iskander Deployment In Russia
Russia has been deploying the Iskander since 2013 to the missile brigades that, like the 152nd Guards, previously operated the SS-21 Tochka.
Using English-language and Russian sources, we generated an order of battle for the Iskander. In August 2015, Reuters released a story reporting on a leak about supposed Iskander-M deployments at a number of sites: Luga, Molkino, Mozdok, Birobidzhan, Znamensk (Kapustin Yar), Totskoye-2 and Shuya. In addition to the location of the missile units,
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Argentine election goes to run-off in blow to ruling Peronist faction
By
Rafael Azul
28 October 2015
Twenty-five million Argentines voted on Sunday for president, vice president, both houses of the federal legislature, several governorships and provincial parliaments.
The results are a blow to the ruling Kirchnerista wing of the Peronist movement, aligned with the incumbent President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term, and her late husband and predecessor as Argentina’s president, Néstor Kirchner.
The ruling faction’s candidate, Daniel Scioli, running on the ballot line of the Frente Para la Victoria (Front for Victory, Peronist) failed to win an outright majority. The Frente also lost the key province of Buenos Aires.
Preliminary results indicate a virtual tie between the top two contenders. With a little over 9 millionin austerity measures and attacks on wages and jobs. Government finances have reached critical levels. Public debt continues to mount in part due to accelerating demands for energy and transportation subsidies and other welfare programs. The fiscal crisis is compounded by a collapse in the world prices of raw materials and agricultural commodities.
Shut off from Wall Street financial markets, the national economy managed to stumble along with an $11 billion one-time line of credit from China.
Declining Central Bank reserves leave Argentina’s capitalist government no alternative to an aggressive campaign of budget cuts, and attacks on jobs and living standards combined with subordination to the Wall Street vulture funds that hold billions of dollars in Argentine bonds, under the supervision of the International Monetary Fund.
Argentina is in its third
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year of economic stagnation, and is expected to transition into a recession in 2016. Since 2012, almost 40 percent of the Argentine labor force has joined the ranks of contingent workers. Half of the labor force earns less than 6000 pesos (US$634) per month, just shy of the poverty line of 6400 (US$673).
Sunday’s ballot result is considered a victory for Macri by the mass media, and a setback for the FPV, in part because of the repudiation by Buenos Aires voters of the FPV candidate for governor, Aníbal Fernández. This is the first time that there will be a runoff election for president in Argentine history.
Now begins the usual bourgeois political horse-trading, including the courting of Sergio Massa and his supporters with the aim of an endorsement forthe runoff. With that aim in mind, according to the Madrid daily El País, Macri is considering calling for a government of national unity, a coalition government of a section of the Peronists and his own right-wing bourgeois party.
The Left Front in turn performed better than expected, particularly in Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Mendoza. In the industrial city of Córdoba the FIT candidates obtained 9 percent of the vote, 10 percent in the northwestern city of Salta, and in the province of Mendoza. In the industrial areas surrounding the city of Buenos Aires, the FIT obtained 4.3 percent of the vote and one federal deputy, Néstor Pitrola.
The FIT candidates had presented themselves as the only left alternative to the bourgeois parties, campaigning on a national reformist program and
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switch is switched off. Accordingly, if a sensor signal indicative of the off state of the ignition switch is output during movement of the vehicle due to a failure in a sensor provided to detect the on state of the ignition switch, supply of electric power to the electric motor will be stopped to thereby terminate supply of the steering assist force to the steering system even though the vehicle is actually in the running state with the engine operating continuously. Since there is no power assist available from the electric motor, a great muscular effort or force should be exerted by the driver to turn the steering wheel. Additionally, such steering operation is contrary to the driver's anticipative power-assisted steering operation and hence disconcerts the driver. AsSlideshow ( 7 images )
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities in the Russian region of Chechnya on Friday inaugurated what they said was the largest mosque in Europe in a pomp-filled ceremony attended by local and foreign officials.
Named after the Prophet Mohammed, the marble-decorated mosque has capacity for more than 30,000 people and has been described by the Chechen authorities as the “largest and most beautiful” mosque in Europe.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said the mosque -- located in Shali, a town of 54,000 just outside the regional capital Grozny -- was “unique in its design, and majestic in its size and beauty”.
The mosque’s grounds, planted with flowers and sprinkled with fountains, can host an additional 70,000 worshippers, local authorities said.
Kadyrov, who was appointed by
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Putin to rule the Muslim-majority region in 2007, has spearheaded a revival of Islam in Chechnya, including by building opulent mosques.
In 2008 he unveiled the “Heart of Chechnya”, a mosque with a capacity of 10,000 worshippers in Grozny, a city that had been ravaged by two wars between Moscow and separatists after the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union.
Kadyrov has been criticised by rights groups for widespread rights abuses in the region, allegations he denies.
His supporters credit him with bringing relative calm and stability to a region dogged for years by a simmering insurgency.things hidden in plain sight!"
"To long forgotten realms, that appears when you open your mind!"
The carriage and drive descended, with the grace that would be the envy of any royal, down from the sky with the 'moon' at his back, its light shining in a way that made it seem like a parent was watching it's favored child.
The moonlight light tumbled down, combined with the movement of the carriage, it was like the driver was descending on horseback a staircase towards the grandest ball ever and he was this evening's guest of honor.
"See a place which is more uncanny than what you imagined could be;"
"From the deep dreamland, to the heaven's endless sky!"
"As what's real is stranger than any fiction I you could see."
"As the truth is more
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great blade!"
Deux said and brought from within his cart, that seemed to be bigger on the inside, a strangely curved sword.
That surprised the New Amurg, for in that moment something stirred inside him, of what it was he did not know, but there was a familiarity with that weapon, of what he was not certain, but it was a peaceful feeling.
"Why, this is the blade of the mighty one that faced a billion foes and fought a thousand battles and won all of them! Well one of his many weapons actually."
"That looks like a field plow and a cheap one made from different scraps cobbled together! Nobody would say that has any value!"
"Then why am I drawn to it? Did I say the words to correct Deux orother half conquered!"
"That, my friend is a jar filled with sand!" the Amurg paused to let that statement sink in.
"Are you actually trying to sell me sand, here in a desert!" the statement was so 'unique' that the one who said it had trouble believing that he actually said such words.
"Yes, he is and it's not a lie! These worthless grains somehow set whole stars ablaze and eclipsed entire worlds." The touch of........of something that could not be put into words caressed his person.
Or rather a teasing of it brushed his soul as something that was forgotten seemed to be just close enough to be felt, but not enough to be clearly discovered.
But, isn't that how all good stories start?
"I see your right again sir, enough with the
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died, what their last moments were, but what really weight heavily on his mind was the fact that he was starting to forget their names and their faces were starting to slip as well.
Metternich now knows that before he manages to leave the fleet, he will have forgotten even more names and faces and that would haunt him forever.
Maybe if he had been faster, stronger or smarter he could have prevented more deaths; maybe he could have paid the butcher's bill more that the other side could have.
Was there a way he could have killed more foes than before?
"Did I just.........saints and sinners how......was that really my thoughts, just now? Did I seriously just.......Is that really me when I look into the mirror?"
The scars left on his soulit was only for a moment.
But then again...........it was there, even if for only a moment.
After some more contemplation, Metternich banished those vile thoughts, since in his opinion life was always worth living and you had to do your best to get over you're more difficult moments and move on.
Even if sometimes you forgot that.
So he remembered happier times, if not happier faces.
Many died because of him, but many also lived and at the very least the civilians in the sectors that he fought would be protected from the opposing armies and fleets that he vanquished, so some good, in fact a lot of good, had come as a result of his actions.
Those thoughts did manage to raise his spirits and grace his lips, and his souls, with
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who prevented her from reaching her prey.
Who in turn only grinned and with his still functional left hand drew a simple combat knife that was devoid of any magic.
He gestured with it for Kalynka to come and fight him, she more than happily obliged, taking two steps forward and preparing to strike him down with the knife that she from her hip.
She drew it back in a striking motion, preparing for a stab.
The captain, thought wounded as he was, struck the first blow! One that made Kalynka stop in her tracks and become paralyze from the attack's target.
The captain had jabbed the knife straight into his neck!
Kalynka could only gaze in shock at the one who deprived her of her victory not once, but twice, who now slumpedon the deck as his life faded away.
Thus Captain Isandor Barbados lied ended there and then, as he did so, he smiled knowing he saved his crew, prevented the enemy from winning and brought honor to his service.
His last thoughts were of his family that made his life worthwhile, of his friends that now lived and who would toast his memory, his comrades that fallen before him which he would see soon at the table of thunder, and finally of the great hero with red eyes that he had fought alongside many years ago.
During that siege, that seemed like a lifetime ago, he had witnessed the hero's great skill, and after that the man had shook his hand, and deem Isandor worthy of acknowledgment by saying it was
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of the early morning shift scouts that just woke up and were surprised to see their commander awake before them.
He asked Butz, who insisted on accompanied Metty every time he went for a walk, to spare give them some kava, and after a few salutes from them and a one that was more sloppy-like from him, Metty was on his way back to his quarters, for the 13th time this day, now early morning.
His stomach was aching from nervousness for the battle ahead, preventing him from resting, but he judged that he did manage to get at least 3 hours in during the night and he plan to get a least another 3 before today's daily meeting.
As Metty made his way back to his bed, his stomach wasnow and then.
The old Metty hoped for the best and avoided the worst.
The new one would not let his fate be left to the whims of chance.
He would forge his own starting now!
Or at the very least he hoped he could spy a moment when destiny wasn't looking so he could nick his fate from destiny's workshop.
To someone who knew the truth about his true colours, it seemed like Metty would actually grow and change and make the lies about him a reality.
But this is not that kind of a story.
With that feeling in his heart, Metternich took out a pack of cards from his pocket.
With his newfound determination in mind, he decided to test his new resolution and would now try with all his might to pick
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695th fighter wing were exhausted and weary, not just from the fact that most of them where from temperate climates and they were in a desert, but also because their current commander Lt Lance Hendrickson was dragging them along Captain Hannibal Rogue's extended patrol mission.
"Why, by all Saints and Sinners, are we here?" Bob, one of the pilots asked the others around him.
"Our regiment is here because the Volunians are allies of the United Federation of Planets (U.F.O.P), and we're here to protect them from the Empire." Hogan, his squadron mate replied.
"I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about why are we going each night on an extended patrol here of all places? I mean we're dozens of miles away from our front lines, that and we're fliersnot ground pounders! Also, there's nothing here but the edge of that forest!" Bob said to him.
"Well, that's what we get for having 'Silly Billy' in our task force; the crazy fool actually thinks the enemy will come from behind us! What's next? Will their monarch do a triple summer salt, land on our right, left, and rear and moon us to death?" Hogan said in a whisper towards them, since no one wanted their officers hearing what they just said; the others around him chuckled silently at that.
They had little respect for their current commanding officer, since his proposals had been time and time again rejected by their senior officers for being too outlandish.
The generals had even gone as far as to reprimanding him publically and they
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and Federal armies and how whole battalions and regiments were smashed almost instantly.
"We'll, we-re kriffed. No sense kriffing about how kriffed we are, better get kriffing away from here so we can kriffing kriff, these kriffers, back and hard." Hannibal said with a smile on his face, it was that kind of situation, where all you could do was smile, tears just wasn't enough for this.
As the sound of thunder and lightning, mixed with the flashes and sounds of Earth Breakers, echoed throughout the landscape the small group saw some movement at the foot of the hill.
An enemy soldier was there and he was walking up the hill towards them.
They immediately moved a few feet back over the crest, so as to not be seen from the otherour desperate struggle began.
We were on the top floor of an Ancient's Castle that served as our HQ, and I moved to one of the corridor's windows and looked through it. It was enchanted with a zoom option in it and I used it to take a better look at the forest's edge.
From the east I could see the sun rising and the lines of infantry, cavalry, chariots emerging from the forest as the roar of Earth Breakers accompanied the thunder, the flicker of hundreds of artillery salvos from the trees seemed to be competing with the storm above at how many shots they could strike at us.
With the red tint that the morning sun gave the tree line, combined with the artillery lights and marching units, it
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each other and they suffered at the hands of their own great massed spells of fire, water, earth and wind.
They burned, drowned, were ripped by winds and buried alive, all the while also suffering the power of our lands mines.
And when those poor souls in the enemy cavalry thought it was over, the earth mines sprang to life, forming battle Golems, these creations always took the shape or form of their nearest targets worst nightmare.
Thus a horde of beasts with the faces of dreaded men and women, the sight of their loved ones dying, images of pain and hatred, along with all manner of monsters from ancient times, and deadly predators of the wild started attacking and decimating them.
But these were not green troops!
They had fought in battlesfew more bright ones approached slowly and tried to bat away the spears so they could reach the first ranks of shields. But as a few managed to do so and got close, the third rank, formed out of men and women that were armed with halberds, jabbed them forward, pushing back or killing the mounts and riders.
They eventually broke, withdrew and then tried again.
Seven times they charged us.
Seven times they failed.
But we also lost many and were staring to tire ourselves.
As the 8th charge seemed too poised to begin, we braced ourselves. But just then the enemy broke and ran away, as from over the hill's crest Commodore de Morowetz's cavalry came to our aide.
They broke and ran, leaving behind nothing but dead, wounded, mud, blood and
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pain that came from it, he was unable to properly, or even half properly use either the two blades.
The volunian felt so much pain in his torso that he was certain his ribs were cracked. He could not deflect the blow that Adrian struck at his left side once more.
The imperial commodore did not have time, nor the energy, to charge up his blade once more. So he had to rely on just his wits, guts and every muscle in his body!
He used not just his arm, but also his chest and leg muscles to power the blow. He attacked by using every muscle in his body for this strike!
Adrian's whole frame move and rotated, and he hit with every fiber and cell in his entire body rightlord.
"Your place is nowhere near where you're looking at my lord." The Avian said and gestured to the front lines, where the enemy was.
"Don't I know it.........Don't I know it." Metty said, with a resigned voice as he gazed at where the trains for evacuations where.
This had another profound impact on the troops around him. They felt their devotion, and their loyalty, for their commodore grow from his 'honest' devotion to them and his conduct both within and out of battle.
This man truly was a 'Hero of The Empire'!
It was now obvious to anyone who knew, could properly see from above, and even to the ones who would read about this one day, that there and then, that was the reason why those around Metty were not currently
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friend was in grave danger.
378th corps flanking force, Tarkan's position.
7:08
Commodore Tarkan looked at his division as it was pushing back the enemy and saying that he was happy was an understatement, if there ever was one!
Things were going incredibly well!
The force he was facing had so foolishly lined up their chariots in two great lines.
This was done to avoid the danger of sabotage from infiltration, but it turned them into an attacker's dream come true!
Keeping his chariots still in the tree line, Tarkan ordered a full barrage.
With the first volley they took out the leading and rear vehicles,. With that the rest were now trapped in the columns, and one by one they were shot to pieces.
A few did manage to fire back and Tarkan even saw abe charged by the 'cavalry' on the field.
But they did would not last long.
For even if they could withstand the barrage from the chariots, they would not hold against the coming infantry assault.
Tarkan had ordered his regiments forward, and as he saw them marching to battle his mind flashed back to when he was a freshly enlisted sailor in his first ground battle.
The fleet that he was part of as his first assignment had been beaten an hour before he arrived to join it, and its personal joined the infantry to continue the fight planetside.
The smoke, the noise, the smell, there seemed to be no order, just chaos as the earth itself exploded beneath his feet.
The regiment that his shipmates had been assigned to had formed a square
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formations and aide the other regiments still in combat.
And just like that the whole enemy line collapsed, their commander even saw a battalion situated in the very rear of the enemy's formation, whom upon seeing what was going on withdrew before it even engaged in battle.
That was what Tarkan witnessed all across his lines.
Soldiers running away from a fight, many before they even drew their blades.
It was marvelous!
And with reports coming in that the enemy cavalry was routed and destroyed by Adrian and the commander, the situation seemed to be getting better and better!
Especially now, for as they pursued the routing foe, they came up to the enemy's main supply base!
And its walls, trenches, towers, and the fresh foes that manned them.
And the routing enemy infantry was aboutpriest then ducked out of the way of another imperial's water spear attack and gave a powerful sweeping kick.
One that hit the soldier's knee cap; a horrifying scream then engulfed the battlefield as he too fell to the ground in pain.
A third soldier fired an air arrow at the priest, and a fourth one took out his two handed earth mace, activating the magic within it.
The mace's metal spikes began to rotate and oscillate around its surface, turning it into a deadly spherical chainsaw-like pattern.
The priest simply caught the arrow and threw it back at the third soldier, impaling his bow drawing hand while side stepping the fourth soldier's mace, tripping him. And as he fell down, the priest gave a powerful kick in the soldier's side, shattering
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had just emerged from the woods.
Metternich gave a sigh of relief at that.
At least they were safe now! Since they could now loose the pursuing chariots.
He turned his gaze forward and saw before him the entire volunian and federal army!
Metternich now stood before over 50.000 foes!
Nuts!
"This wasn't an attack! This was a rout! They were not searching for the field hospital; they were trying to get away! And I just followed the path left by the taffers straight into the HEART OF THE BATTLE!"
The chariot squad had emerged at the rally point where the enemy force was regrouping in order to make for the supply base.
There Metty he could see his own forces was busy taking it.
Before him was now the entire enemy army, and his own forcesupply base's defense was falling and with the command centre itself having been hit by the artillery fire, the entire staff had panicked and ran away.
I looked to General Pompeii for guidance but I saw that he, along with Al-Hambra, was amongst those that broke.
Looking out trough the newly created hole I saw our forces that had been railing at point 22 in order to retake the supply base and the vast imperial army that was now storming the base.
I could also see lines and columns of enemy brigades that came from the western front line that we had abandoned, they were hot on the heels of our own troops that had retreated from those hills and were trying to reach the supply base.
There and then I knew
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was starting to recover from the shock of the ambush.
The battle was in their favor but it was far from being decided, let alone over.
"Butz, tell Werner that the enemy has started their counterattack and that he'll be receiving guests soon. Also, inform Tarkan that he is to redeploy to block a counter-attack from the base's sides that we've manage to take from the enemy." Metternich told his aide.
"Yes sir!" Butz replied and relayed the orders trough the communications crystal attached to their jeep's windwaker.
"Things are going ok for now, if we can break through here, smash the last of the supply guards and capture enough fresh crystals we can win this battle and withdraw from this rock!" Metternich thought to himself as he gaze a glance toat volunian and federal force trough his binoculars and saw that they did not look like they could storm the supply base that Metternich's forces had just stormed.
Also, the 88th was an elite unit. And one up until now, with the exception of that cavalry fight, been kept in reserve and was still fresh, while the remaining forces of both armies were exhausted.
The brigades commanders had protested against this, with Werner being the exception, a fact that surprised the others, but Metternich assured them that when the enemy would send in their reinforcements they would be the decisive factor and that time had come.
Looking once more at the screen that depicted both armies, he realized that whoever held out the longest would win.
It was now a battle of
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position.
I realized then and there what was happening.
I sounded the alarm and my battalion quickly formed up, alongside the other battalion from our regiment, for battle and marched to take a position on the wall to repel the enemy.
The regiment was now about 70 meters away from the wall and the regiment was poised to reach it, but by then it was too late.
For the first enemy vanguard was right behind our routing allies.
I could not tell whether they were volunians or federals, but damn them both for not dying where they stood!
For the enemy had used them as meat shields to reach our lines, they were so close to our routing comrades that no one took a shot at the imperials before they reached the trenches andfire axe appeared, seemingly out of nowhere.
It deflected, not blocked, but deflected his attack with so much skill that Turneissnen immediately jumped a foot backwards in order to avoid a potential attack from his new foe.
9:36 Local Planetary time
"Sorry priest, but you may call the shots in what you call heaven, but you're too far away from home for that." the shape of an Imperial Officer came out of the dust cloud.
"Your God doesn't rule here, BUT I DO!" the officer added and charged Turneissnen.
A fury of blows, thrusts and parries from both combatants followed, all of which seemed to be fast to be anything less than either two divine or two cursed being clashing blades.
After a few seconds of relentless fighting, the two opponents broke off their
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had been a disaster!
How much prestige did he lose?
How many terrorists would be emboldened by this?
How could something that originally seemed like a cakewalk become such an embarrassment?
What he could do to salvage the situation?
He grabbed the biggest bottle, filled with the strongest spirits from his cabinet, and tilted it to pour the contents in a glass. He paused just as he was about to tip the neck enough to start pouring the liquid.
Gelios looked at the bottle, then at the glass, then back at the reports about today's disaster and then put the glass back on the table, still empty.
And then drank directly from the bottle.
A very big bottle that felt too small for his sorrows.
"To others, it brings great dangers."
It was over!
The battle was now alldid not let it go to his head.
The report about Admiral Yemen reminded him that the struggle was far from over.
He knew that today he had won, but tomorrow was a different story.
Just then he received a report from Werner's brigade.
It said that the enemy was stopping their retreat and was now rallying.
"Tomorrow comes today." Metternich muttered as he moved his hand away from the deck and decided to play the final card up his sleeve.
He had won the battle, now he just had to survive it.
"To others the beginning is simply a repeat of what has happened before."
Adrian smiled as he watched what was happening all around the battlefield.
He could feel the familiar glow of pure ecstasy that victory brought, coming from his troops and from all
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Down at the End of Lonely Street
The more we learn about Elvis Presley, the more sad and pathetic his life seems to have been. Presley's apologists will maintain, of course, that his music and presence were so world-changing that they render all his other personal characteristics moot. But as the audience that was initially transformed by his music grows older, the bulk of the population is left with the image of a man...You are here
Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India
From Google Books: "This important volume traces the history of the Dalit movement form its origins to the death of its most famous leader, B.R. Ambedkar, in 1956. Focusing on three states-Andhra, Maharashtra, and Karnataka-the author skillfully analyzes the ideology and organization of the movement and its interaction both with the freedom struggle and the class struggles of the workers and peasants."
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The Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function (Gene Center) at Hunter College is now a highly rated research consortium in one of the largest public universities in the nation. Our success derives from funds and collaboration with the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCM1) Program of the National Center for Research Resources of the NIH;coordinated strategies developed in the Gene Center;productive, entrepreneurial researchers of the Gene Center;and some institutional support. Having surpassed most of the recruitment and productivity goals of the previous five-year grant period, this new proposal seeks to focus on research on AIDS, Human Behavior, and Bioinformatics, which impacts on health disparities. This focus mandates hiring outstanding researchers with appropriate expertise, especially scientists underrepresented in minority populations. Essential staffing requests include veterinary support andSign up for monthly updates from the SDSN.
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What are Solutions Initiatives?
Solution Initiatives promote new technologies, business models, institutional mechanisms, policies and combinations thereof that can dramatically accelerate progress towards sustainable development. With the help of its members, the Regional and National SDSNs, its Thematic Groups, and members of the Leadership Council the SDSN will address three common barriers inhibiting the deployment of such solutions including lack of awareness outside a narrow technical community; high transaction costs, and long decision times. The following Solution Initiatives are in an advanced stage of development.
The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) is an SDSN Solution Initiative co-founded with the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) to prepare national low-emission development pathways to 2050, consistent with limiting the rise in global
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on establishing a record label to release my own projects and those of my friends. That record label officially launched on August 10th 2012 and is called Make Music Productions. Make Music Productions released Opener by A Rising Force, my band, on August 9th, submitting the song through TuneCore to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, and other music distribution stores.
With the release of Opener, there has a been a significant increase in the fan base due to the promotion of the single. The SoundCloud page now has 135 followers and continues to grow steadily. The A Rising Force Facebook page is up to 145 fans, but is largely dependent on running ads to gain fans; without the full album available, it’s hard to promote a single song for a veryStates (1920-1933), which severely curtailed exports to Irish whiskey's second-biggest market; widespread counterfeiting of Irish whiskeys in America and Britain; protectionist policies introduced by the Irish Free State government, which significantly capped whiskey exports in the hope of taxing domestic consumption; and finally, over-expansion and mismanagement at several Irish distilleries. Together, these factors greatly hampered exports and forced many distilleries into economic difficulties and out of business, and by the early 20th century, Scotland had surpassed Ireland to become the World's largest whiskey producer.
When Alfred Barnard, a British historian, published his account of the distilleries of Britain and Ireland in 1887, there were 28 distilleries in operation in Ireland. By the 1960s, there was only a handful of these remaining in operation, and in 1966, three of these
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to have a minimum alcoholic by volume content of 40%
Individual technical specifications for the three varieties of Irish whiskey, "single pot still", "single malt", "single grain", and "blended" whiskey (a mix of these two or more of these varieties) are also outlined in the technical file. The use of the term "single" in the aforementioned varieties being permissible only if the whiskey is totally distilled on the site of a single distillery.
Maturation only takes place on the island of Ireland
Labelling
There are several regulations governing the labelling of Irish whiskeys. In particular:
Spirit drinks must not be labelled, packaged, sold, advertised or promoted in such a way to suggest they are Irish whiskey or any of the sub-varieties unless they meet the relevant requirements
Any ageDefamation case filed against Kejriwal over "Thulla" remark
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:32:40 IST
New Delhi, Jul 23: Delhi Police yesterday filed a criminal defamation case in a court against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for referring to policemen as 'thulla', a slang, during his recent interview.
The complaint was filed by a constable, posted at Govind Puri police station here, in which he has claimed that he was insulted by Kejriwal's remark.
"Using a derogatory and demeaning term like 'thulla' to refer to police personnel is equivalent to referring to all Delhi Police officials as lethargic and unproductive. This word has, therefore, harmed the reputation of the complainant in the eyes of general public including his family, relative and friends," the plea filed by constable Harvinder said.
He further said that Kejriwal
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Hulme School.Located in a quiet cul de sac and benefitting from a large south facing garden.The property is close to major motorway and public transport...
This four bedroom detached property is currently tenanted and can be sold chain free or with a sitting tenant. The accommodation comprises entrance hall, lounge, dining room, kitchen, utility room and wc along with access to the integrated garage via the entrance hall.
Bridgfords are delighted to offer for sale this charming three bedroom, detached property. Upon entering you instantly feel at home, the layout flows perfectly for any family.Offering three good sized reception rooms downstairs and three double bedrooms upstairs as...
A spacious Period Five Bedroom Period Home. This spacious detached family home is located in the ever popular area of Hazel Grove. The homeoffers many original period features throughout and is a credit to the current house proud owner. There are some rooms within the
This beautifully presented property not only sits in an excellent location but offers a great opportunity for a young family to acquire a 'ready to move into' purchase. The property sits on a large plot offering ample parking and large rear garden overlooking the...
Three/Four Bedrooms Spacious Corner Plot Must ViewA spacious and well maintained detached property with a large corner plot, large block driveway and single garage. There is a hallway with wc, spacious lounge with attractive bay window, additional sun room to the...
This four bedroom detached house, is ideally located in a cul-de-sac location within a mile of Timperley Village. This family home is well maintained
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and well presented throughout, benefitting from two separate reception rooms, Kitchen/Diner, four bedrooms, family...
This is one of the finest town houses that you will come across with a superb town centre position yet set in a fine secure development. The spacious and well presented property is presented over three floors with the benefit of canal side views. The accommodation...overwhelming number of suicides have been reported among native populations in Canada, the USA, Norway, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Greenland, Brazil, and Russia ([@CIT0014]). A common finding from all of these studies was the high alcohol consumption in the described populations.
Alcohol was introduced in the indigenous populations during their colonial history. Natively, it has never been a part of their traditional cultures. For example, Russian merchants of 19th--20th centuries played an important role in the drinking habits of the Nenets. The Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) is located in the Russian North and is home to an indigenous people called the Nenets, who make up 17.8% of the population there. Previous papers have reported that the prevalence of suicides in the NAO is considerably higher than that found in
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the act of deliberately killing oneself ([@CIT0001]).
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The territory of NAO is situated in Northwest Russia, close to the Arctic Ocean. According to National Census data, in 2010 the total population of the NAO was 42,090 ([@CIT0015]). The main ethnic group in the NAO is indigenous Nenets; non-indigenous groups include the Russians, Komi, and others. The Nenets are one of the largest indigenous population groups in Russia, and they have a large environmental, cultural, and social impact on the region. Many of them still follow the traditional lifestyle of nomadic or semi-nomadic reindeer herders and live in temporary (seasonal) settlements. The AO borders the NAO and covers a large part of Northwest Russia. The AO is one of the most ethnically Russian areas in theand the AO as indigenous and non-indigenous areas, respectively, as the NAO comprises one of the largest indigenous populations in Russia, and 99% of the population of the AO is ethnically Russian. It is well known that suicide rates in Russia are among the highest in the world ([@CIT0018]). In addition to South Siberia and the Far East, six Russian regions were mentioned as regions with the highest suicide rates in 2012: Altay, the NAO, Buryatia, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Chukotka, and Tyva ([@CIT0019]). All of these regions contain high proportions of indigenous people, although the NAO has the highest indigenous population.
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There is less access to alcohol in the NAO compared to the AO. Indeed, as the NAO has no permanent road connection with the
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rest of Russia, goods like alcohol must be ordered outside the region and then transported by plane, winter roads, or ships during the short summer. Despite this, mass-produced alcohol remains the norm in the NAO. Homemade alcohol, known as "moonshine" or "samogon," is not common as the ingredients required to make it, such as sugar, are too expensive. Vodka is the most popular type of alcohol in the region, though wine has been gaining favor in recent years. The amount of alcohol sold illegally in the region, be it mass-produced or homemade, remains unknown, but is likely to be high.
Access to alcohol is far less fettered in the AO than in the NAO, as transportation and delivery by road and railway is easy, and distribution by shops isCoaches at EFC
You are here
Naomi Farmer
Naomi has been fencing for over 20 years and runs the Thursday night junior sabre class. She brings a fresh enthusiasm to her sessions and loves footwork more than anything, while her Four Minutes of Hell fitness segment has become the stuff of legends. She is currently working towards her Level 3 sabre coaching qualification, overseen by Phil Carson and the rest of the Scottish Fencing coaching team. She's taking a break from competing at the moment, but she is a former Scottish Champion and, in her youth, represented Great Britain internationally as part of the junior and cadet squads.
Naomi is available for individual sabre lessons on Tuesday and Thursday evenings by appointment: simply send her an email to book in.
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The facts favorable to the conviction follow. In April 2010, Cathy Vlamos and her
boyfriend, Maurice Downs, lived in a townhome in Gary, Indiana. Downs was a local
mechanic. On the evening of April 10, Downs wrecked Perry’s vehicle near the townhome.
Downs attempted to find a tow truck to take it to the shop where he worked.
Around midnight, Perry began pounding on Vlamos and Downs’s door. He had been
told about the wreck and was angry. Downs walked Perry down an alley to the vehicle to
show him the damage. Vlamos continued to hear arguing, so she called the police. The
officers had left by the time Perry and Downs returned. Perry was still angry about the
situationto Officer Wolf and repeatedly indicated that he
wanted it fixed. Downs remained timid during the encounter, and Perry left without incident
shortly after the officer arrived.
On the evening of April 13, Downs had returned home and was about to have dinner
with Vlamos when he heard an alarm go off outside. Shortly after going out the back door,
Downs told Vlamos to call the police. While outside, Downs was stabbed three times (once
in the face and twice in the chest) by Perry and cut once on the neck.
While Vlamos was on the 911 call, Perry came through her back door. He cut the
telephone cord and approached Vlamos. She backed into the living room and considered
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YouTube channel. These professional light painting artists create pictures with software programs, hand-held light sources and cameras to create pictures, and amazing light picture shows. To get an idea of their work, check out the video below that won the German Web Video Award 2012 in the Jury and Audience Price category AAA (Academy Approved Art).
Artist Jason Page states on his YouTube channel profile, “Every light painting is unique and unrepeatable.” In 2012, he auditioned for America’s Got Talent. The light paintings can take hours to prepare, but just minutes to create. Check out his demo video to see his work:
Another artist that paints with light is Jinpei Washiro. He is a Japanese oil painter that uses luminous paint and a small flashlight to create an awe-inspiring lightversion.
What will you paint with lights in the middle of the dark? What favorite videos do you have in the light painting genre? Share your video links and thoughts below on this technique.
About The Author
Alane Jewel is a journalist, online marketer, and professional artist. She is a social jack of all trades and loves reinventing herself every couple years. She has been a women's magazine editor, newspaper columnist, retail buyer, and fine art artist. She loves sci-fi and to travel, write, paint, and spend her free time sharing all of her business on her social networks. She lives north of Pittsburgh with her husband, Steve, and a large beast of a Great Dane, Duke.
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by feral pigs, birds and humans. The vine can also be found all across the highlands of New Guinea.
It is considered an environmental weed in South Eastern Australia (Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales), but not declared or considered noxious by any Australian state government authorities.
Banana passionfruit is used as rootstock for grafting the passionfruit varieties more commonly grown for food, especially in climates too cool for productive passionfruit growing. Regrowth from beneath the graft is one means of its outbreak as a weed, so growers should be vigilant for sprouting low on the main stem or from around the base of the plant, and should pull up and cut back the plant when (typically after 6–9 years) the grafted passionfruit is no longer as productive.
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The School of Schooling is happy to announce that we’ll be welcoming Dr. Alexandra Stoddart to our Faculty as the new tenure-monitor, assistant professor in bodily schooling, bodily literacy, and academic core studies. Olympic superstar Cathy Freeman is celebrating 10 years of success with her Cathy Freeman Foundation, which has discovered great success in serving to Indigenous youth gain new levels of training. Dr. BR Ambedkar Open University MBA Entrance 2017: June 29.
A Regina GSA mini-conference will be held on Could 27, 2017. Graduating seniors from Wake County faculties Class of 2017 return to elementary school to talk with first, third, and fifth graders. In an election 12 months, it will improve democracy to hear extra from enterprise figures.
Leaders speculated about matters, together with how the decision
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could win the award, so there’s already a fair age enough age limit. The NHL could, however, change the rules of the award so that no player with more than a certain number of seasons or games played at the professional level can be eligible to win the Calder. This could include professional leagues in Europe, such as the KHL, SEL, or SM-liiga, and professional leagues in North America, such as the AHL. This way, the Calder will be awarded to the player who not only was the best rookie, but also was the most improved player.Investigation: Lack of headlamps caused bicycle, squad crash
11:00 PM,
Jun. 28, 2013
Written by
B.C. Kowalski
| Stevens Point Journal Media
The lack of a bike light was the cause of a crash last week involving an unmarked Stevens Point police car and a 20-year-old on a bicycle, according to the Portage County Sheriff's Office.
Darren Blair, 20, of Stevens Point, hit the side of an unmarked squad car with his bicycle at the intersection of Main Street and Michigan Avenue at about 10:45 p.m. June 19.
Police say Sgt. Gregory Bean was on his way to an investigation with his emergency lights on when he left the intersection. Blair had the green light, but didn't have a headlamp on his bicycle and did not yield for the emergency vehicle, police ...
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May 5, 2015 at
10:30 AM
This year, the winners of the SoxProspects.com Player and Pitcher of the Month Awards will be chosen by the SoxProspects.com community through voting on our Forum. This month, Manuel Margot ran away with the Player of the Month voting, while Eduardo Rodriguez(pictured) squeaked by Brian Johnson in the Pitcher of the Month poll. With Blake Swihart in the majors and Yoan Moncada still in extended spring training, Margot and Rodriguez represent the current top position player and pitcher in the minors per the SoxProspects.com rankings.
Margot’s impressive month was highlighted by the fact that he did not strike out until his 70th plate appearance of the season, the top mark in all of professional baseball. But he did not win the award just for hisability to make contact. Margot showed that he can impact the game on every level, with a triple slash of .324/.377/.515 to go along with nine stolen bases and typically positive reviews of his defense. He slugged four doubles, three triples, and a home run, and collected seven walks to go along with his one strikeout.
Despite not turning 21 until the end of September, Margot could be in Portland around the All-Star break if he stays healthy and maintains his current production. That would make him the youngest player in the Eastern League, assuming nobody younger than him gets promoted first. The Phillies have reportedly scouted Margot this season, but it will be tough for the Red Sox to give up the promising center fielder in any deal.
While
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side chain of Phe192 and the molecular surfaces of both pockets are comparable. Another significant difference is located at the northern bottom part of the pocket. The bottom of this pocket is lined with the side chain of Met171 in SplD and with the side chain of Ala213 (equivalent to Met171 in SplD) and Phe228 in HNE. Despite this difference, the van der Waals surface of this section of the pocket is similar in both enzymes because the positions of the side chain atoms of Met171 correspond to pocket exposed atoms of Ala213 and Phe228. Further differences were found in the southern and northern bottom sides of the pocket that are lined respectively by the side chains of Ser155 and Ser184 in SplD, and of Asp194 and Asp226Photos of paint splashes in mid-air by Martin Klimas show what music looks like
German artist Martin Klimas set out
to answer the question "What does music look like?". In order to
find out, he selects some music, puts splatters of different colours of
paint on a translucent sheet over the diaphragm of a speaker and then turns
up the volume. The vibrations of the speaker send the paint up into the air,
creating beautiful patterns and sculptural forms, and Klimas photographs the
results. He typically chooses dynamic and percussive music such as Steve
Reich, Miles Davis or Jimi Hendrix.
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who looks after adults with epilepsy, has had to reduce her hours to look after her seven-year-old son since schools were shut last month to help limit the spread of coronavirus.
As a key worker she is entitled to continuing childcare but her son's school said they can only provide two days a week.
Image caption Zeenab said she has been forced to cut her working hours from around 50 a week to just 12
She says she has been forced to cut her working hours from around 50 a week to just 12 and now takes home £300 a month after deductions and transport costs.
"I don't know what I'll do," she said.
"In a few weeks I won't have enough for food or rent and I'm really worried.
"I love my job.fantasy. From March 12th-31st, she will be donating royalties from both paper and digital copies of THE FAIRY GODMOTHER DILEMMA: CATSPELL to purchase Kindle Fires for a pediatric unit in a local hospital. Click here if you'd like to learn more.
Monday, February 27, 2012
We would like to thank everyone who entered our January agent-judge contest with the wonderful Natalie Lakosil of the Bradford Literary Agency. And we would especially like to thank Natalie for taking the time to judge the entries and for the generous prizes. There were so many amazing entries, but alas, she couldn’t pick them all.
And the winners are:
Third place: 15 pg. request & critique
THE STAIRS AND THE FLY by Stacy Stokes
Genre: Young Adult
Word count: 57,000
Pitch: When high school student Taylor Anderson is struck by
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a Cheshire grin plastered on my face.
Second Place: 30 page request & critique
THE GREAT CORSET REBELLION by Kerri Nelson
Genre: Historical Romance
Word count: 92,000
Pitch: Bored with the binding feminine dress code of polite society, Lady Ainsely Archibold designs her own daring new clothing line but when the object of her infatuation mistakes her for much less than a lady, Ainsely must choose between the laws of love and linen.
It was love at first gasp.
Lady Ainsely Archibold breathlessly watched the magnificent creature as he stood on the west balcony overlooking the garden below. She was absolutely woozy at the mere sight of him.
Of course, the unsteadiness of her breathing could also be contributed to the unbelievably cramped binding of her lungs courtesy of her world-class, tightlacing proficient maidservant.
Consequently, if itweren't for this blamed corset, she'd be able to achieve this moment of simple adoration without concern. As it were, she was trussed up like the feathered fowl for the fall feast on which they'd just dined.
First place: 50 page request & critique
A PLACE TO CALL HOME by Linda Jackson
Genre: Middle Grade
Word count: 40,000
Pitch: Twelve-year-old Stacey Graham is not happy when she finds out that the only person willing to take her and her younger siblings in after the deaths of their mother and beloved "Granny" is their uncle Percy, who lives in the back of his funeral home.
It really bugged me when it rained on the day Granny was buried. Rain just came pouring down first thing that morning and kept on falling all through the funeral.
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has had several pools which offer public swimming sessions: Central Pool, Arthur Hills, the Meadway and South Reading Leisure Centre. Swimmers could also travel slightly further afield to Bulmershe and Carnival pools in neighbouring Wokingham.
With unfortunate timing, most of these swimming pools have reached the end of their useful lives over the past three years. Arthur Hills closed at the end of 2016, followed by the Central Pool at the end of 2017 (the closure of Central Pool took place once a 25 metre demountable pool at Rivermead was completed, which has at least ensured some continuity of provision pending the development of new facilities in Reading). In Wokingham, Carnival Pool was closed in June 2016 and Bulmershe in February 2018.
In 2016-2017, the Royal Berkshire Hospital’s Hydro poolservice on behalf of the council. The council will still have a role in setting performance standards and contract managing the operators.
In the meantime, swimmers will continue to have access to the pools at Meadway and South Reading Leisure Centre, alongside the temporary demountable 25 metre pool at Rivermead that opened in January this year.
Times: There are no specific sessions for people with disabilities, however, South Reading Leisure centre say that the Stay Active session that takes place on a Monday between 11.00am and 12.00 noon is currently very quiet and the perfect environment for people with special needs. The session is aimed at older people, offering a gentle swim without children splashing or other adults ploughing up and down in lanes. They also offer Aquatone sessions on
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Story highlights Google opens a digital music store, and prices are comparable to iTunes
The company is also opening Google Music, the storage service, to everyone in the U.S.
Google Music will be free for storing as many as 20,000 songs per account
Google opened an online music store and a free Web storage locker on Wednesday for listening to tracks from computers, tablets and phones, the company announced at a news conference in Los Angeles.
The music store sells songs and albums for prices comparable to iTunes and Amazon MP3, but Google's catalog is smaller. The storefront can be found in the Android Market, an application and website where Google smartphone users can download apps.
Songs purchased from the store are automatically uploaded to Google Music, a locker that can be accessedfrom an app coming to recent Android phones and tablets in the next few days, or from a website. They allow users to stream songs from their various devices.
The Google locker service launched to a small group in May, and it opened to everyone in the United States on Wednesday. Google Music is free for storing as many as 20,000 songs.
More than half of all smartphones sold worldwide in the last quarter run Google's Android software, according to market research firm Gartner. Google said more than 200 million devices have been activated.
But in the music download market, Apple is king, selling more than half of all U.S. downloads through its iTunes Store, analysts say.
Apple took steps to broaden its offering with the belated launch of iTunes Match on
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Monday. ITunes Match is similar to Google Music in that it allows customers to store their music catalogs, up to 25,000 songs, on Apple's servers and access them from their computers, iPhones and iPads. Match costs $25 per year.
"At Google, digital music has become fundamental to many things we care very much about," Jamie Rosenberg, Google's director of content for Android, said onstage at the news conference. "Other cloud music services think you have to pay to listen to the music you own. We don't."
Google executives announce the Google Music store and locker at a news conference in Los Angeles.
ITunes Match has a technological leg up on Google because subscribers can upload their libraries much more quickly. That's thanks to Apple's deals with the music labels that allowour fleet and a valuable source of information about various types of yachts.
On a personal level, Maciej is just the sort of person you would love to sail around the world with. Always in high spirits and with a grin that no tempest can wash off, he is an accomplished skipper with extensive experience in sailing destinations all over the world. He is a keen regatta sailor – he is always there, where speed and adrenaline come into play. Maciej has competed, among others, in the Sailing Champions League, St Maarten Heineken Regatta and Volvo Ocean Race: Legend.
JAROSŁAW CHŁOPEK
This sailor knows everything about yachts and numbers. Although his professional development began with the finance industry, Jaroslaw traded his suit for a storm jacket. He is known in the
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He further acknowledged that he confronted her, and used a knife while doing so,
the next morning. He told her that her message made him a “fool” and told her to “go
upstairs” with him because he wanted to “fuck her” because of the message she had sent
him. He also acknowledged using the knife to force Doe up the stairs, but that they
fought and fell to the floor, and she later ran out the door.
During the course of his interview with the police, appellant acknowledged (1)
holding the knife against Doe’s side, (2) using a closed fist to punch her in the back of the
head to keep her from getting the knife, (3) putting his hands on Doe’s neck three times
and applying pressure inAPL’s 5th newest 9,200-TEU ship enters service
Liner carrier APL has put its newest containership, the 9,200-TEU APL Savannah, into service in the transpacific.
The vessel, the fifth of a series of 12 on order, will operate between Asia and the United States on the South Asia Express (SAX) service, rotating ports in San Pedro, Busan, Kaohsiung, Chiwan, Yantian and Singapore.
APL said its new 9,200-TEU series of vessels is designed for "greater operational efficiency and more environmentally-sustainable operations." For instance, an optimized hull form reduces sea resistance and results in less fuel consumed for propulsion.
“APL has taken active steps to invest in green technology on our new ships to minimize our carbon footprint and promote sustainable global trade,” said Kenneth Glenn, APL president, in a recent statement. “In addition to
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In a statement lodged with her employer, Robertson denied the allegations.
"While conversing with Mr. Fiennes during my break, I expressed a need to go to the toilet,'' Ms Robertson said in her statement.
"I went to the nearby toilet and entered it, he followed me and entered the same toilet.
"I explained to him that this was inappropriate and asked him to leave. Mr. Fiennes became amorous towards me and, after a short period of time, I convinced him to leave the toilet, which he did," she said.
Robertson was reportedly in hiding this weekend after being grounded without pay.
Fiennes was flying from Australia to India as a Unicef ambassador to promote awareness of HIV and safe sex at the time.Gillette brings live sports news into the rail environment
10/04/2017
SYDNEY: Leading Outdoor operator APN Outdoor, has partnered with Gillette to bring live sports content into the daily commute across key rail stations in Sydney and Melbourne through their innovative digital outdoor platform, XtrackTV.
The leading shaving company, has a long association with sporting events, and Gillette’s newest product; Gillette Proshield, can be seen top and tailing the sports updates on XtrackTV ensuring it’s in front of the key audience, when they are getting their sports update throughout the commute across Sydney and Melbourne. In addition Gillette has also utilised the more traditional rail format, static Cross Track Posters to engage the commuter and further drive brand awareness to educate the audience about the intricacies of this new product.
Gillette recognised the
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area between Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria. While it is only an idea, it highlights an ongoing regionalization trend.
Nationalism was on the rise before the attacks – in their aftermath we could see the rise accelerating. The policy changes that may follow in asylum regulation in Germany will likely be followed by political changes, with Merkel having to admit some of her mistakes in front of the voters.
In light of the recent developments, Turkey relationship with the EU will become even more important, considering all the leverage that goes to Ankara post-Paris attacks. While military reactions towards Syria are still expected from nation states, they will remain limited: airstrikes will likely intensify in the short term and Italy and the UK will join in, along France. But nothe world. This blog comments on what's important, breaking down international news and raising questions to analyze their potential effects on global markets and politics.
About: Global Perspectives - Antonia Colibasanu
Antonia Colibasanu is a geopolitical risk analyst. Currently she is Stratfor's regional partner for Europe as well as Honorary Adviser to Romania’s Minister of Energy. She also works closely with the bestselling authors George Friedman and Robert D. Kaplan. A supporter for educational activities, she's also taking any opportunity to discuss with students and fellow researchers. Antonia frequently speaks on international economics and security topics at conferences and events in Europe, and since 2012, she has served on the educational board of the International Academy of Advanced Studies in Greece. Prior to joining Stratfor in 2006, Dr. Colibasanu held
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a variety of roles with the World Trade Center Association in Bucharest. With a background in academia both in Europe and the US, she holds a doctorate in international business and economics from Bucharest's Academy of Economic Studies, where her thesis focused on country risk analysis and investment decision-making processes within transnational companies. She also holds a master's degree in international project management. She is an alumna of the International Institute on Politics and Economics, Georgetown University.Amid all the fuss over Treasury Secretary Jack Lew getting heckled at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York on June 7, you might have missed the day’s biggest bombshell.
I refer to the nasty smackdown that morning between Post columnist Caroline Glick, the poison-pen darling of the pro-Israel far right, and two of the most storied figures in Israeli security, former Mossad director Meir Dagan and former military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi.
It happened during a panel discussion on the Iranian nuclear threat. Dagan, Ashkenazi and two other generals who shared the stage all argued that a negotiated agreement is preferable to military action. Then came Glick. Recalling her longtime advocacy of a military strike, she voiced “worry that some of the men on the panel with me
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ADEN // Yemen’s pro-government forces on Tuesday seized key ground in Hajjah province from Houthi rebels near the insurgents’ stronghold in Saada.
The gains came as Saudi Arabia shot down another ballistic missile fired from Yemen.
The missile, fired late on Monday night, was intercepted on a trajectory towards the Saudi city of Jizan. The Houthis said the missile was aimed at oil installations in the south of the kingdom.
The Shibh Al Himrayah and Shibh Al Hosia areas in the Haradh district of Hajjah were captured by highly trained Yemeni troops who entered the country from Saudi Arabia last week.
A Saudi Arabia-led coalition of countries, including the UAE, has backed Yemen’s government against the Houthis, who are aligned with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
“There are many loyalists to... Ali AbdullahHow I Got Started
I started playing disc golf in college around 2015. I was attending CSU Monterey Bay and was curious what the baskets that I kept seeing around campus were for. My boyfriend was familiar with disc golf and showed me the ropes with a few of his own discs he'd still had from college.From the moment I threw my first disc, I WAS HOOKED! The first course I ever played was a 27 hole beast of a course named Ryan Ranch Disc Golf Course in Monterey, CA. My first disc ever thrown was a champion Teebird and it is still one of my go-to fairway drivers in the bag to this day.
How I Started Competing
Don't ever underestimate the power of social media.
After my first disc
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her and the other females on the disc golf team. I gladly accepted the invitation and from the moment we all played our first round together, we clicked splendidly. The men and women's team helped me go from a beginner level to an intermediate level of skill in just a few short months and by April 2016, I had already competed in three tournaments and was ready to help the team head back to CollegiateNational's to defend their women's title, which we successfully did in 2016 and then again in 2017, making CSU Monterey Bay the first team in history to win the title for three consecutive years in a row.
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.bowl and cover when hot food is placed inside, whereby the freshness and heat of the food contained therein is retained.
The present invention comprises a bowl and cover assembly wherein the bowl includes a bottom, an upper annular rim and upwardly extending side walls rising from the margin of the bottom and terminating in the upper annular rim. An integrally formed annular interlocking lip depends radially outward from the annular rim. The annular interlocking lip comprises an annular top sealing surface and an annular edge sealing surface depending downwardly from the margin of the top sealing surface about the peripheral edge of the annular interlocking lip, and the seal between the cover and the bowl is interrupted at at least one location along its annular edge whereby to
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provide an opening into said bowl and cover assembly.
In another embodiment, on the inside of the annular skirt of the cover are interspersed undercut grooves for venting purposes, numbering six in this embodiment. Between each set of neighboring undercut grooves is a radially inwardly protruding semicircular interlocking bead which extends almost to the edge of each undercut groove. This bead acts as a locking member when the cover is placed on the bowl because the diameter of the semicircular bead is smaller than the diameter of the lip of the bowl.
In yet another embodiment, between the edge of the semicircular interlocking bead and the edge of an undercut groove is a section of thinned foam that lacks the semicircular interlocking bead. Because such section lacks the additional foamused to form the semicircular interlocking bead, and because no interlocking takes place between the cover and the bowl at that location, the cover is more flexible and such configuration allows for annular spring action making it easier to place one'ss fingers under the annular skirt of the cover and remove the cover from the bowl.
In yet another embodiment, the annular skirt of the cover may include an annular trim lip integrally formed with the cover which defines a radially protruding circumferential member extending from the lower edge of the lower downwardly depending portion of the annular skirt remote from the peripheral flange. The junction between the trim lip and the lower downwardly depending portion defines an inwardly facing stacking heel. The shape and circumferential length of the
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Stars Steppin' Out
A rep for the "Blue Lagoon" star confirmed to E! News today that Teri "passed away peacefully" in New York on Oct. 31.
Before Teri became her daughter's full-time manager when Brooke first entered showbiz as a child, the New Jersey native was herself a model for Lord &Taylor department store, as well as a makeup artist, hair stylist and a hostess at the famed Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village.
She married Brooke's father, Francis Alexander Shields, in 1964, but they divorced when their daughter was 5 months old. Francis died in 2003.Short news stories on pay strikes by Met office workers, campaigning against blacklisting on Crossrail, Freedom Riders protest, day school on workers' resistance in China and solidarity campaigns with Palestine.
More than 20,000 marched through central London today, Saturday, demanding urgent action to tackle climate change. The Time to Act demonstration was called to put climate change at the top of the agenda ahead of the general election in May and the international talks in Paris in December.
With just weeks to go until the general election Ukip STILL has no policies. But don’t think this reflects internal wrangling and rows within the racist party. On the contrary, it is in fact a cunning plan by party leader Nigel Farage.
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America, Genzyme Corporation and Shire Human Genetic Therapies, and has received lecturing and conference fees (not retained) from Genzyme Corporation, Shire Human Genetic Therapies and Actelion Pharmaceuticals. He has also received honoraria for investor consultancy from Genzyme Corporation, and has provided expert advice on legal proceedings related to neglected treatment of acute porphyria. DA has received research and operating grants, honoraria for speaking, and travel funds from Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Genzyme Corporation, Protalix Biopharmaceuticals, and Shire Human Genetic Therapies. CEMH has received consultancy fees from Actelion for participation in clinical trial programs and other projects, and speaker fees for participation in scientific congresses and sponsored events. CEMH donates all fees to the Gaucher Stichting, a national foundation that supports research in the field of lysosomal storage disorders. RDS hasdata. All authors have reviewed and interpreted the data, reviewed each draft of the manuscript and approved the final version for submission.
Acknowledgements
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The authors would like to thank the investigators of the Miglustat Maintenance Study Group for their valuable contributions; a complete list of the members of the Miglustat Maintenance Study Group appears in the Appendix A. We are also grateful to the Steering Committee members (Drs. Atul Mehta, Derralynn Hughes, Stephan vom Dahl, Claus Niederau and David Kuter) for their work in the study adjudication process. The authors gratefully acknowledge Linda Pavis at SYNARC, Sèvres, France for central assessments of organ volumes and BMB scores, Dr Ivo van Schaik at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for central assessments of neurological safety endpoints, and Patricie Paesold-Burda at
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Just minutes after English Premier League club Crystal Palace announced they were sacking Neil Warnock, there were rumblings from Australian football fans as to whether Western Sydney Wanderers coach Tony Popovic would be the man to take over.
Speculation has been rife all over Twitter and English bookmakers Skybet have installed the former Palace centre-half as second favourite for the position, behind ex-Spurs boss Tim Sherwood.
Gone: Dumped Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock. Credit:AFP
Popovic played for the London club from 2001 to 2006, and quickly became a fan favourite. Former Palace manager Tony Pulis is another option, with the Welshman winning last season's Manager of the Year award, steering the team to 11th place, before leaving the club "by mutual consent", reportedly after he failed to gain the confidence ofHartford Area Technical Publishing Company Set to Launch National Television Channel
(PRLEAP.COM) LearnToProgram announced today that it would be launching a featured channel on Roku's streaming internet television service. The channel will make LearnToProgram's unique technical training programs available to over 3 million Roku customers in the United States. The Roku device has been among the most successful internet television streaming devices made, with programming offered by major media companies like HBO, Amazon, Netflix and Hulu.
"It's about accessibility," Mark Lassoff, President of LearnToProgram stated. "We will be bringing entertaining, informative and effective technical training programs right to the user's television." LearnToProgram will launch the new channel with two programs developed just for the Roku audience. The first program, Coding Your First Web Site, will guide viewers through the process
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physics. Max Planck scientists working in Greifswald are also researching this topic.
Eight postdoctoral fellows from PPPL and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences will staff the center, along with 13 postdoctoral fellows from the Max Planck institutes. These researchers will work with senior scientists on both sides of the Atlantic who will oversee the fellows as part of the scientists' regular duties.
Financial support for the center will come from the United States and Germany. Funding for the Princeton side will come from the DOE, the National Science Foundation and Princeton University. The Max Planck Society will fund its institutes' collaborative activities.The Venice Commission, an advisory body to the Council of Europe, has queried the push by Albania’s Socialist-led government to impeach President Ilir Meta, saying it doubted the move was justified. It also criticised a draft law on property right, saying it was not clear enough.
The Commission statement came after the final report of the Commission, expected to be published on Monday, was partially leaked to the Albanian media.
“Council of Europe constitutional experts of the Venice Commission conclude that while the President may have acted beyond his constitutional powers, there are indications that his acts may not have been of a nature justifying impeachment,” the statement reads.
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elections to be delayed to October 13.
The President claimed he was simply trying to resolve the deadlock between government and opposition over the elections and defend political pluralism.
But the government claimed he was exceeding his constitutional powers, ignored him, and unilaterally held the elections in June – which the opposition boycotted. Meta made no further attempt to stop the polls.
After the elections, Rama started an impeachment procedure against Meta, and sought support from the Venice Commission for the initiative.
The fate of the impeachment process now remains unclear. The head of the Socialist Party parliamentary group said after the release of the statement that “it belongs to the parliament of Albania to judge the President’s conduct”, without elaborating further.
The Commission was harsher regarding the co-called property rights law, sayingFrom Britten's design was eye catching as it walked out on a chiselled male model wearing a collarless shirt, a black vest, look black pants and a striking dark teal wool overcoat.
The LMFF National Designer Award is open to all Australian fashion labels in their first five years of...
The bag I designed is rectangular in shape and fits the car boot but also evokes the dimensions of vintage luggage, this is further emphasized by the metal feet on the base and the leather handles and interior detailing. The over aesthetic is clean and sleek and just like the car, form...
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Learning Development Group
The Council of Professors and Heads of Computing have constituted a sub-group, the Learning Development Working Group (LDG).
The aims of the LDG are:
To promote the development of learning within computing departments.
To provide a focus for addressing disciplinary-focussed teaching and learning issues for the CPHC community
To identify existing and/or potential actions inside and outside of the CPHC community relevant to these issues.
To facilitate sharing practice across the CPHC community
The Chair of the LDG is elected from the main CPHC Committee. There is no fixed membership for the LDG. Rather the group undertakes one or two activities a year (in line with the LDG aims) for which working groups are individually convened.
Chair: TBC
LDG Working Groups …
WG5 – Promoting Careers in Computing Education
Remit: In response to Royal Society ReportInc. was a fullservice introducing broker during all times relevant to the allegations brought here. It was guaranteed[2] by futures and commodities merchant, Iowa Grain beginning in 1992 and at all relevant periods. R.J. Fitzgerald & Co., Inc. ("RJFCO") was opened in November 1992 and unquestionably opened as a successful introducing broker from 1992 until at least 1998. It operated as a legitimate business whose primary market focus was to serve small accounts customers with relatively little experience in the commodities market.
2. Raymond James Fitzgerald was at all times the sole shareholder, owner and operator of RJFCO. He was principally responsible for all decisions, actions, and trading recommendations made or entered into by the firm. He expressly approved by his endorsement virtually all trades entered by brokers on
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a registered representative with the firm F.N. Wolf and held both Series 7 and Series 62 licenses. Burnett next went to the securities firm Olde Financial, where he started as a registered representative and was promoted up the ranks to registered representative in charge, branch manager, and, ultimately, to regional manager over seven branch offices. His responsibilities included broker hiring, compliance monitoring and audits, trade approvals, suitability determinations and branch office audits. Throughout his career in securities, he dealt with the options market extensively. During his tenure at Olde Financial he obtained his Series 24 (NASD principal's license) and Series 8 licenses (Branch Manager license) and received all the compliance training attendant with such licensure. After resigning from Olde due to personal problems, Burnett briefly did consulting work,for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, on compliance issues. His next post was as trading supervisor for RJFCO, where he approved trade tickets, monitored telephone calls, directly observed the traders and eventually managed client accounts. During his tenure at RJFCO he held both the Series 3 and Series 30 licenses, and as part of his training for RJFCO, he spent a week at Iowa Grain observing operations, including compliance procedures. He also underwent additional training on compliance rules specific to the commodities market in connection with obtaining these licenses. He was well qualified to serve as supervisor of traders and brokers at RJFCO.
5. Chuck Kowalski was RJFCO's chief market analyst during all relevant time periods. His responsibility was to study the various commodities markets and develop firm recommended trades
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periods that predate the window period challenged in this enforcement action. Such audits occurred on August 12, 1996, nine months after inception of the alleged scheme to defraud, again at the end of 1997 and at the end of April 1998. Iowa Grain's principal compliance officer during the relevant time period was Anne Farris. Ms. Farris preapproved all promotional material now challenged by the CFTC in this action except the video version of the challenged CNBC promotional advertisement that aired approximately two weeks in March 1998.
14. It was the firm's policy to disclose consistently to customers the high risks inherent in the commodity trading market. The predominant evidence is that the firm's policy of requiring customers to read and endorse risk disclosure statements prior to opening accounts, wasto fax risk disclosures, but this practice was quickly suspended. Before then and subsequently, a single group of individuals, including Kathy Dempsey and Erica Bogardus, was responsible for mailing new account packets, with the risk disclosure booklet, to clients prior to their opening accounts. The CFTC offered evidence that Bingham was faxed a partial form and never received by mail the original, entire package before trading commenced.
16. The evidence established conclusively, however, that Bingham signed an acknowledgment that he received the booklet on March 5, 1998. His trading commenced on March 6, 1998. In opening his account and allowing trading, RJFCO, RJFCO's principal and Iowa Grain reasonably relied on Mr. Bingham's representation. Further, Bingham acknowledged at trial that risk of loss was disclosed to him and that he
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of Robert Bingham, a RJFCO customer during March 1998. The Court finds Mr. Bingham's testimony not fully credible. Mr. Bingham testified that he did not know anything about investing in commodities or the risks involved and that he told his trader, Al Coringrato, that he wanted a safe investment as he was risk averse. On the other hand, Mr. Bingham testified that he was a gambler, who frequented casinos 20-25 times per year, with a tax writeoff in gambling losses of at least $27,000 in the year in which he traded with RJFCO. He also testified that he had maintained several stock and mutual fund investments for at least six years with another brokerage firm. Additionally, while Mr. Bingham testified that he knows he did not receive thebody of "booklet 2" because he was in the habit of saving everything he received related to his investments, he testified that he threw away the monthly statements from Iowa Grain which showed a loss of $25,000.
27. The Court similarly does not find the testimony of Diane Banks-Pazzanese to be fully credible. She attempted to represent that the funds she used in her investment with RJFCO were from her last reserve of savings. Upon further examination, Ms. Banks-Pazzanese was revealed to be a successful businesswoman who owned the building in which her hair salon was located, owned her own home, and reported to RJFCO she had a net worth of approximately a quarter of a million dollars. She acknowledged that she understood there was a risk of loss
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synthetic futures would expose him to "unlimited downsize risk". At trial, without prompting, he corrected this statement in his notes to "unlimited downside risk" and explained that he understood this to mean he could lose *1303 more than his initial investment. His assertion that he was confused and did not appreciate the risk of loss was further damaged by his testimony, on cross-examination, that he had previously lost $150,000 in a previous stock options transaction in which, but for negotiations with the broker, he would have lost substantially more than his investment.
29. Linda Ralston admitted that she received booklet 2 with the new account packet. Despite clear warning in the literature against it, she opened her account with borrowed funds. She approved all the transactions as well asgenerated materials. Finally, he, like the other customers, acknowledged in writing that he understood the risks of the trade he was entering.
31. Daniel Danaher, also a customer, maintained that he contacted RJFCO because he wanted to learn about commodities training. When he did receive the instructional packet, with charts, from RJFCO, however, he admits he spent only fifteen to twenty minutes looking at it and did not study the materials. Also, Danaher testified that he never authorized any of the trades executed on his account. On cross-examination, however, he admitted that there was actually only a single trade, and he did, indeed, authorize it.
32. The Court did not find the testimony of Scott Kelley, another customer, to be fully credible. His testimony that he received the business card,
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establish that Mr. Burnett had a number of financial problems including an IRS debt, child support obligations and alimony obligations which the CFTC argued would establish motive for him to commit fraud at RJFCO. The CFTC's questions and contentions had no basis in fact. Burnett testified that the IRS debt of $17,000, occasioned by his late payment of quarterly withholdings, had been fully paid by 1996 well before he came to RJFCO, and that he had no children and no alimony obligations.
37. Similarly, Chuck Kowalski's testimony was credible. His demeanor throughout direct and cross remained straightforward, honest and frank. His testimony regarding the firm's operation was extremely informed, precise and consistent with the evidence.
38. Leiza Fitzgerald testified credibly regarding her numerous leaves of absence from thefirm during the relevant period due to complications with her pregnancy, illness and an accident. During the limited time when she was active at the firm, she was primarily responsible for conducting the sales training for the new brokers. In so doing, she taught them to utilize various solicitation devices that she had been taught. For instance, she taught brokers to employ the "Give, Get, Sell" technique whereby they were taught to "give" the customer a piece of relevant information about the market to arouse their interest, "get" information from the prospective client about themselves and their interest in trading, and then "sell" the customer on opening an account. Another closing technique was "Agree, Disarm, Comeback," pursuant to which sales brokers were trained to diffuse customer objections to
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rise due to certain predicted market forces, including the El Nino weather phenomenon, resulting drought conditions, decreased acreage of corn being planted, and heightened demand for corn. The decision, though risky, was based on deliberate research and logical assumptions and the strategy was developed primarily to yield profit for RJFCO clients, not simply to generate commissions.
46. Typically, the firm never previously recommended selling options, so this synthetic futures strategy also constituted a departure from the firm's investment philosophy. Before the strategy was implemented, the firm's clients were contacted and informed of the precise nature of the trade, and RJFCO disclosed that the move to selling puts exposed them to virtually unlimited risks of loss. Some customers declined and those customers were not placed in the synthetic futures position.
47.In making the predictions about the price of corn and developing the synthetic futures strategy, which was supposed to be the vehicle by which the price increase was to be exploited, Kowalski studied numerous reports from various sources including: the Hightower Report, Smith Barney, Prudential Securities, Stewart Peterson, Freese-Notis. He also researched the weather through the following sources: Freese-Notis, Weather.com, Iowa Grain meteorology reports, and Crop Cast.
48. Kowalski predicted that weather problems would start to be factored into the corn prices in December of 1998, when the new crops are harvested.
49. Kowalski deliberately chose a synthetic futures strategy rather than a straight futures position even though the straight futures contract could achieve the same effective position in the market but with half the number of trades. Kowalsk, reasoned
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for two weeks in the beginning of March 1998, the firm aired a promotional advertisement on CNBC, in which it represented that the EL Nino weather phenomenon could produce huge profits in the grain markets. The prediction of El Nino's potential impact of grain prices was based on extensive study by RJFCO's researcher and analyst, Kowalski, and partially informed by various meteorological reports and sources, as well as reports from other commodities analysts. The commercial was not deceptive or misleading. When the advertisement firm submitted the advertisement to Mr. Fitzgerald, he edited it and included additional risk disclosures. RJFCO sought and obtained pre-approval of the text of the advertisement by Iowa Grain's Compliance Director. After the advertisement had aired a few times during a brief period, Mr. Fitzgeraldtheir solicitations to clients. Further, a large portion of the firm's training sessions was devoted to ensuring that its brokers and traders fully understood and complied with the firm's policy of full disclosure. With this, the Court finds that the Defendants fully discharged their duty of disclosure and, under these facts, were not under any additional duty to disclose the firm's trading record.
In any event, CFTC failed to prove that the trading record of RJFCO was substantially different from that of other similarly situated firms, or that brokers ever represented to clients that the firm had a superior trading record, giving rise to any duty to disclose. Under these circumstances, the Court does not find that RJFCO was under a duty to disclose the firm's track record or
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of the Defendants to defraud or cheat customers in association with the recommendation of the synthetic futures trade strategy.
Based on the foregoing, the Court finds that there was no intent on the part of the Defendants to cheat, defraud or deceive or attempt to cheat, defraud or deceive any person in connection with the offer to enter into, the entry into, the confirmation of, the execution of, or the maintenance of, any commodity option transaction. The Court, therefore, finds for the Defendants as it relates to Counts One, Two, Three, Four, Seven, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Fifteen.
Controlling Person Liability
A central feature of the CFTC's claims against Raymond Fitzgerald involves his role as the controlling person in the firm, having direct control over the persons accused of the underlyingrotated in the opposite direction, the crank shaft can not rotate. Further, the pulley is equipped with a spiral spring or power spring for storing energy with pullout of the starting rope, and the combination of this spiral spring with the foregoing one-way clutch performs the function of automatically rewinding the starting rope pulled out, onto the pulley without rotating the crank shaft.
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Son Refuses to Quit on Justice
Crime: Brian Godkin was 8 when his father was shot to death. The boy grew up to be a marshal. Then he went looking for the killer.
NEW YORK — More than two decades ago, on the night of his father's murder, Brian Godkin was just 8 years old.
His 10-year-old sister, Christine, sat watching television as their dad prepared for a shift pouring drinks at his Queens tavern. Richard Godkin hugged his oldest daughter, kissed her good night, and walked out his front door for the last time.
By the early morning hours of April 11, 1981, his neighborhood bar--opened six months earlier--was packed. Among the revelers, authorities say, was a mob wannabe celebrating his 24th birthday.
The party ended with Godkin and his co-owner deadon the barroom floor. Police identified a suspect named Frank Riccardi, the son of a reputed Gambino family bookie.
Riccardi walked out of the bar and into the wind. Two other suspects were eventually collared, but Riccardi became the invisible man.
The Godkin boy grew into a man--a 6-foot-6 Navy veteran intent on becoming a federal marshal. In August 2001, he achieved his goal and joined the Las Vegas office.
Brian Godkin was 28. And Frank Riccardi was still on the lam.
The murder case was in the hands of a New York City cold-case detective, a dogged investigator determined to find Riccardi. During four years on the case, the detective had become friendly with young Godkin.
One week into his new job, acting on a tip from the detective, Godkin typed a
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name into a federal database.
Another name popped up on the screen. It took 20 years, but Brian Godkin had tracked down the man accused of killing his father.
In April 1981, the nation was recovering from an assassination attempt on President Reagan. Nobody wanted their MTV; it didn't exist. "Celebration," the party anthem by Kool and the Gang, blared from jukeboxes around the city.
It was no different at the Shamrock Bar, a popular joint owned by Godkin and partner John D'Agnese.
Godkin, father of four and married for more than a decade, was working two jobs: days at the Queens Boys Club, a local youth organization, nights at the bar. "A little extra money to make life work," his widow, Catherine Godkin, says now.
About 2 a.m. on April 11, FrankRiccardi's birthday celebration was in full bore--until a drink was accidentally spilled on his date. Court papers detailed an incident that escalated from innocuous to incendiary.
An out-of-control Riccardi was tossed from the bar. "I will be back!" he screamed. Twenty minutes later, accompanied by two gun-toting friends, Riccardi returned.
D'Agnese was slammed against a pinball machine, then shot point-blank in the face. His girlfriend, Linda Gotti--the niece of local Mafioso John Gotti--stared in disbelief with two dozen other patrons. Godkin rushed to his partner's aid, and was mortally wounded too.
A suspect was quickly arrested, but his case was dismissed after Linda Gotti inexplicably recanted her identification.
The hunt for a second suspect, Bartolomeo "Pepe" Vernace, produced nothing. Riccardi disappeared too; he was indicted in absentia.
As the years passed, Catherine Godkin
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made her personal peace: "I've been past it a long time."
Brian Godkin wasn't past it. After finishing a stint in the Navy, he became a federal corrections officer, angling for that job as a U.S. marshal.
When the 16-year-old Godkin murder arrived at his desk, one thing jumped out: "The amount of people in the bar." He re-interviewed witnesses and delved into the life of Frank Riccardi, known as "Frankie the Geech."
Riccardi's father was reputed Gambino family loan shark Frank "Cheech" Riccardi, who had died in 1979, reportedly leaving behind a hefty inheritance for his widow and son. Mansfield heard rumors that "Cheech" was killed by the mob for messing with Gotti's niece.
Mansfield's gut told him young Riccardi was alive and living with his mother.
"I always had this feelingthat he was in Florida," the veteran detective said. "Where do retired mobsters go? Florida or Arizona. And my theory was if you find the mom, you're gonna find him."
Mansfield soon developed information about the third suspect in the bar shooting. In November 1998, 17 years after the slaying, he arrested a very surprised Vernace.
Mansfield was pleased. But his hunt for Frank Riccardi continued.
*
Last summer, in Boca Raton, Fla., Anthony Frank Alonzo was living in a posh condominium with his elderly mother. He drove a silver 1999 Mercedes and worked as a circulation manager for the Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
Neighbors described him as a quiet man who offered little more than a casual wave hello.
Alonzo knew nothing about Tom Mansfield, who had spent the last four years viewing mug shots
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35 F.3d 37
63 USLW 2256
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Anthony VIOLA, Louis Gazzoli, Michael Formisano, GaetanoIzzo, also known as Guy Izzo, also known as Guy,Defendants-Appellants,Fred Rosen, also known as Rosie; Gerard Petrozelli, alsoknown as Rosie Petrozelli, also known as Rosie, also knownas Tony; Barry Imhoff, also known as Rosie Imhoff, alsoknown as Rosie, also known as Number 15 Jr.; VincentSorrentino; Pasquale Moschetta, also known as PattyMoschetta, also knownas Patty; Max Emmanuel Herman, alsoknown as Old Man Herman; Thomas Antonelli, Sr.; CarlosBarona; Hernan Zapata; Jimmy Barona; Paulo Zuluaga, alsoknown as Paulo Lnu; Carlos Pazmino and Frank Pinto, Defendants.
Nos. 1257, 1343, 913 and 1344, Docket 93-1272(L), 93-1291,93-1405, and 93-1583.
United States Court of Appeals,Second Circuit.
Argued July 20, 1994.Decided July 28, 1994.OpinionViola who, in turn, would use his influence and access to information to locate the drugs and remove them from the pier in circumvention of United States Customs regulations governing inspection of imported goods. The indictment also alleged that the defendants purloined cargo from the waterfront and then sold the goods on the black market. The government's case consisted of approximately forty witnesses, including three cooperating witnesses, and extensive recorded conversations obtained through over one year's electronic surveillance of Viola's office.
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See Olano, --- U.S. at ----, 113 S.Ct. at 1777. As to the third condition of prejudice, the government is unable to persuade us that the instruction did not affect Formisano's substantial rights. The entirety of the proof with respect to Formisano showed that, acting under Viola's instructions, he transported some stolen beer and lamps to buyers and returned most of the proceeds from the sales to Viola. In contrast with the other defendants, Formisano's participation was limited to these two acts which were undertaken without the exercise of appreciable discretionary authority. Viola was the kingpin of the operation who was contacted by drug owners and who would decide how best to remove the drugs from the docks. Viola and the otherdefendants also decided to whom to sell stolen goods, and for how much. Formisano, on the other hand, was not consulted in the decision-making process and exercised no discretion in carrying out Viola's orders. Compare Thai, 29 F.3d at 816 (defendant conceived and performed racketeering acts without prior approval). There was no evidence that he was even aware of the broader enterprise. See Part B, infra. While Formisano's acts might have contributed to the success of the RICO enterprise, he simply did not come within the circle of people who operated or managed the enterprise's affairs. Although Reves still attaches liability to those down the "ladder of operation" who nonetheless played some management role, it is plain to us that, since
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testified that Appellant told him that he had killed Williams and her dog and then had set Williams’ apartment on fire. Appellant showed Coleman his knife
(footnote: 2) and told him that he had parked Williams’ van around the corner. Coleman testified that although he did not believe Appellant at first, when he saw a brief news report about a woman, a dog, and an apartment on fire, he knew that Appellant had told him the truth.
Coleman testified that he told Appellant to get rid of the van because that was the only thing he could think of to get Appellant out of the house and that Appellant said to meet him at a McDonald’s in south Dallas. After Appellant left, Coleman and his family went to the Arlington Appellant confessed to his involvement in Williams’ death in a videotaped police statement, which was admitted into evidence and played for the jury.
Testimony from the various firefighters provided details about the fire in Williams’ apartment—although all four burners on the stove and the oven had been turned on high, the fire itself occurred in Williams’ bedroom. A Coleman fuel can, located on the bed in Williams’ bedroom, was admitted into evidence. Arlington fire investigator Stuart Brozgold testified that in his opinion, the fire had been a set fire, not an accidental one. The medical examiner testified that the heat injuries to Williams’ body occurred after she was already dead, that the four stab wounds were the cause of her death, that the blade width of the knife
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Appellant stated that he choked Williams with his hands. He claimed that he hit her with his knife one time and that it was an accident. He indicated that he thought she was just choking and that he knocked the lighted candle onto the bed. He stated that he did not know how to stop the blood and did not try to stop the bleeding. He said that he did not know if the bed caught on fire and that he just left. He used her keys to lock the door. He stated that the apartment was smoky when he left.
In addition to Appellant’s videotaped confession, the jury also heard testimony from the medical examiner that Williams was killed by four stab wounds, caused by four separate thrusts.30 counts against Anand Jon dropped
Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 18:23 [IST]
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Los Angeles, Aug 26 : The legal team of Indian fashion designer Anand Jon's has confirmed that the 30 counts - including almost all rape charges - against him have been dropped by the prosecuting agency.
According to a source, 10 prosecution witnesses have also been dropped.
Jon has been in LA County jail for past 15 months due to legal gridlock as New York has refused to grant him a bail hearing.
Recently, the lead detective in Jon's criminal case was questioned by the judge on withholding evidence for 11 months.
Detective Elwell had been in possession of illegally retrieved attorney-client privileged information.
As per court documents, the evidence was obtained by hacking into the defence's computers thus
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Jurgen Klopp has congratulated Katarina Johnson-Thompson after the Liverpool fan won heptathlon gold at the World Championships in Doha.
The 26-year-old broke Jessica Ennis-Hill's British record to post 6,981 points and take the title.
Klopp conceded he had not watched Johnson-Thompson's golden moment but expressed his delight at her achievement, as well as that of Germany's Niklas Kaul, who triumphed in the decathlon.
The manager said: "I am a big supporter of these kind of sports anyway, so I will say congratulations, brilliant. I knew about her relationship with Liverpool before, but I didn't watch it last night, I saw it in the newspapers this morning. Well, well done.
"The German headlines are not too bad as well, because the guy who won the competition is from Mainz, a 21-year-old. So, aoccupation requires of a worker. See generally Introduction to DOT (4th
ed. 1991), available at 1991 WL 645964. Along with VE testimony, the SSA generally relies on
the DOT to determine if there are jobs in the national economy that a claimant can perform given
his RFC. See 20 C.F.R. §§ 416.966–416.969.
B. Relevant Facts
1. Plaintiff Geraldine Campfield
At the time of the alleged onset of her disability, Plaintiff was a 51-year-old woman
residing in the District of Columbia. AR 19. She reached the 10th grade in high school
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arbitration with Great Britain in 1910, and was appointed by President William H. Taft as a member of the International Joint Commission, created to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada from 1911 to 1914. He was counsel for the United States before the International Joint Commission from 1918 to 1924 and practiced law in Spokane. He died there in 1932 and is interred at Greenwood Cemetery. Mount Turner on the Alaska-British Columbia border was named for him.
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Category:Alabama RepublicansWith a new spate of US sanctions against several Russian companies already in place, reporter’s decided to look into the possible consequences of these restrictive measures for Russia.
Last Saturday, a US State Department spokesperson said that the United States had imposed sanctions against eight Russian companies in connection with the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA).
The spokesperson added that these sanctions “are separate from the broader economic sanctions that have been in place since 2014” in connection with the Crimea’s reunification with Russia and the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The current sanctions are due to remain in force for the coming two years. They ban US government departments and agencies from developing any trade cooperation with the blacklisted companies, which cannot obtain licenses for buying goods listed
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Prime Time Delivers First Crusader Fiver
Chris Hermon (left) and Jeff Rank (center) of Prime Time Manufacturing present the first Crusader fifth-wheel to (from left) Loren Baidas, Wade Stufft and Dennis Anderson of General RV
Prime Time Manufacturing, a division of Forest River Inc., has expanded its product offering with the introduction of the company’s first fifth-wheel, the mid-priced Crusader.
Full production of the new Crusader started in June at Prime Time’s facility in Wakarusa, Ind., and officials recently delivered the first production model to General RV in Wixom, Mich., according to a news release
Loren Baidas, president of General RV, and several members of the dealership’s management and sales team were presented with the 2011 Crusader 270RET fifth-wheel by Prime Time president Jeff Rank and Chris Hermon, Prime Time’s vice presidentduring the crunch, which in turn needed to be tested.
According to Craddock, there are artists who, to this day, cannot play Diablo 2. They’re proud of the game, but it was also one of the most grueling professional experiences of their lives.
But despite the pain and suffering, even those who absolutely hated the crunch admitted that it was probably necessary. The near constant churn of ideas led to features such as Mercenaries being added at the 11th hour. No one would have ever said it was a good idea to work 18-hour days for almost two years, and many didn’t think it last as long as it did, but great ideas were born from it.
Managing Chaos
The long crunch period turned Blizzard North into an accelerator for ideas, which
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Relationship between parental bonding and mood disorder in six European countries.
The linkage between adverse parental child-rearing styles and the occurrence of mood disorders in adulthood has been investigated in a number of studies from different countries and cultural backgrounds. However, as direct cross-cultural comparisons hardly exist, little is known about cultural variations of this relationship. The European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) is a cross-sectional study in a stratified multi-stage random sample of 21,425 adults (18 years or older) from the general population of six European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain). Parental child-rearing styles were measured by means of a short form of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) in 8,232 of the respondents. Based on the extraction and confirmation of a three-factorLa banlieue l'emporte à Toronto
Toronto Coun. Rob Ford has widened his lead in the mayoral race, according to a new public opion poll. Toronto Coun. Rob Ford has widened his lead in the mayoral race, according to a new public opion poll. (CBC)
A new public opinion poll suggests that maverick councillor Rob Ford's campaign for mayor of Toronto has struck a deep chord with voters.
Among decided voters Ford's lead in the race is widening, according to the results of a survey done by Pollstra Research of Hamilton, Ont.
The city councillor's message in the campaign has been one of fiscal restraint — saying if he is elected he will cut the wasteful spending at city hall.
"Toronto has a spending problem, not a revenue problem," he says on his website.
The
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