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Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP government at the Centre was using the central forces to influence voters in West Bengal.
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It is with great sadness that Cara reports another tragic loss for the University of Mosul.
Cara’s sources have confirmed that Professor Lokman Safar, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Assistant Professor Abdul Aziz Mahmoo, Head of the Department of Geology, were killed as the Iraqi military offensive on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul continues.
According to the UN, the almost two-month-old battle for Mosul has the potential to become one of the largest humanitarian disasters in history. | {
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recently with Penn about his new films, The Interpreter and The Assassination of Richard Nixon, he was bemusedly reading a letter from a fan resident in a lock-down facility in Modesto, California. This inmate was encouraged to hope that Penn might like another prison pen-pal - such is the kind of correspondence you will get as a celebrity with well-advertised principles.
Then again, Penn's principles can rub some observers very firmly the wrong way - such as when he rose to rebut Chris Rock's vigorous mockery of Jude Law at this year's Oscars. Or when, in the countdown to he US presidential run-off of 2004, he upbraided the makers of Team America: World Police for their assertion that uninformed 19-year-olds would do better to abstain than cast a voteas a mirror of Penn's antipathy to the current US president, but Penn himself is not of a mind that Nixon's own baleful influence has yet receded. He is still irked by the attacks made on John Kerry's presidential run by John O'Neill, prime mover of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who proclaimed Kerry unfit to be commander-in-chief. Like Kerry, O'Neill is a decorated Vietnam veteran. Unlike the senator, he never changed his mind about the rightness of America's cause, and so became a tool in Nixon's original counterassault on the veterans' protest movement of which Kerry had emerged as an eloquent voice. "Among the Nixon White House tapes," Penn says, still seething, "is the conversation that began the Swift Boat attacks on Kerry, back in | {
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1971 - where they brought in John O'Neill and talked about using him to destroy Kerry. That had an enormous impact on the 2004 campaign."
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In the final days before polling, Penn embarked on a whistle-stop tour of battleground states Arizona and Nevada, even canvassing door-to-door. The folks he met there had no quarrel with a well-paid actor exercising hisit work."'
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World Bank approves $611m to assist Nigeria’s out-of-school children
The World Bank has approved $611 million to support the Nigeria government in tackling the rising statistics of out-of-school children, who are currently put at about 10.5 million.
The World Bank Education Specialist and Consultant, Adebayo Solomon, stated this in Abuja at the 2017/2018 annual school census exercise.
The exercise will run across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Solomon said the step by the World Bank was to support the Federal and state governments in their efforts to foster inclusion in education, which is in consonance with the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Federal Government.
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The next contest is in New York, a state where both candidates have ties, on April 19, and it could have major implications for both campaigns even if Clinton does win. The latest state poll, released by Quinnipiac University on March 31, had Clinton leading by 12 points.
"If she were to lose, or if it were very close in New York -- a state that she represented in the Senate -- that would be very devastating," Campbell said.
Campbell noted that even if Clinton won but Sanders still had "a respectable showing" of upwards of 40 percent of the vote, that could lead to problems for the Clinton camp.
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a German count, or "Graf," developed the Zeppelin airship. The design was patented in 1895 in Germany and 1899 in the U.S. Designed to carry passengers, the airship began commercial operations in 1910 through the company Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG (DELAG).
By the middle of 1914, the craft had made over 1,500 flights and carried over 10,000 fare-paying passengers. It was the world's first commercial airline, and was so successful that the word Zeppelin was used to describe all airships.
During WWI the German army used Zeppelins in bombing raids on Britain, | {
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Restrictions were lifted in 1926 and after two years of fundraising and construction, the LZ 127 — christened the "Graf Zeppelin" — was launched. It was the largest dirigible (airship with a solid frame) built thus far.
Later that year it flew to the U.S., landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station for some repairs.
Then in 1929 American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst backed an ambitious project: a four-leg circumnavigation of theglobe. On Aug. 8, 1929 the Graf Zeppelin took off from Lakehurst and headed east. It carried several distinguished passengers and Hearst correspondents, including Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, making her the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by air.
After refueling in Germany it continued across Eastern Europe, Russia and Siberia to Tokyo. After five days there, the Graf continued across the Pacific to California, completing the first ever nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean. From there it crossed 13 states and several American cities, including Chicago, arriving back at Lakehurst from the west on Aug. 29, three weeks after its initial departure. | {
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China is the world’s largest tobacco producer and consumer. One-third of the world’s smokers live in the country where tobacco control is a work in progress, but also a protracted war with the tobacco industry.
Eight years! That was how long it took Jamaica to adopt tobacco control regulations after ratifying the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
2005 was a good year for Jamaica: the FCTC was ratified, a series of progressive tax increases were levied on tobacco products, and draft tobacco control legislation was prepared. But for the next eight years there was limited progress on tobacco control in spite of the work of the Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control (JCTC) and the Ministry of Health.
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been smoke-free in The Netherlands since July 2008. In July 2011, a new decree came into force that exempted small cafes with an area of less than 70 square metres from the smoke-free provision. CAN, a public health NGO, sued the government, claiming the exemption violated Art 8(2) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
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Originally posted by Edena_of_Neith Heedless of the situation behind them in the Flanaess, the Torilians go to war in Hempmonaland.
They are taking on forces entrenched in a tropical rainforest, who have had decades to prepare for this, and who know the land.
Of course, the Torilians come from a tropical land themselves, but THIS tropical land is not a paradise.
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Acererak, his Undead Minions, and his Scarlet Brotherhood allies are completely overmatched, so they are resorting to guerilla tactics, which in this maze of swamp and jungle are easily accomplished.
It turns into a very nasty war, with hard deeds and harder death on both sides, where | {
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the front line could be well behind you, and death lurks around every tree trunk.
First of all, in another post you said that I lost 300PL of forces. That is, I did, or I did in combination with other forces in the Flaeness.
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But our soldiers aren't jumping in front of other soldiers of other nations to take the hits -- with the sole exception of the war against the demons. We were there byEmployees of MF Global's British offices may have received their quarterly bonuses last Monday, just hours before MF Global filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, The Telegraph is reporting.
It's an interesting development - because last Monday, Robert Preston at the BBC reported very early in the morning that London employees had been sent home. Maybe they were sent home with their bonuses?
MF Global's bankruptcy was announced at around 10:30 a.m. EST last Monday - that was 2:30 p.m. London time. (England is usually five hours ahead of the US - but their daylight savings time occurs one week before the US, so London was only four hours ahead last Monday.)
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that bonuses were also paid out to US employees, but | {
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A MAN who lives with nine life-sized plastic dolls took home a dead sheep and deer and “may have posed naked” with them, a court heard.
Cops investigating stalking claims found a snap of Everard Cunion with a carcass, plus indecent images of kids and extreme porn.
2 Everard Cunoin was arrested for stalking an old schoolmate when police raided his home Credit: Bournemouth News
2 Police discovered indecent images of children and images of extreme pornography, as well as a photo of Cunion posing with a sheep's carcass during the raid Credit: Bournemouth News
Police uncovered a photo of the 63 year old posing with a sheep carcass while raiding his home during an investigation into allegations of 'harassment and stalking' made against him.
He had rekindled an infatuation for a schoolfriend 50 years later and began stalking her, despite not having seen her since they left school in 1972.
Prosecuting, Sadie Rizzo said: "Mr Cunion had his computer seized from his home in September 2018 in relation to an unrelated investigation. Police then examined his computer and he was arrested again in June 2019.
"He went on to describe another incident involving a deer."
Sentencing at Bournemouth Crown Court, Judge Oba Nsugbe QC told the defendant there was an 'element of depravity' to his offending.
He said: "Despite careful enquiries and long discussions, the Probation Service is unable to fully understand what precisely drove you to have this activity in your life.
MOST READ IN UK NEWS KILLER HUSBAND NABBED Moment husband who murdered wife before going to the pub is caught CANCER | {
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"Your view is that you weren't harming anybody, and it's entirely something you kept to yourself.
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Cunion, of Christchurch, Dorset, received a 12-month community order with 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days and a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Sex offender whoThe Read the Bills Act (RTBA) is proposed legislation intended to require the United States Congress to read the legislation that it passes. It was originally written in 2006[1] by Downsize DC, a non-profit organization focused on decreasing the size of the federal government. The proposed act is a response to the passing of bills that are thousands of pages long and are passed without copies being made available to the members of Congress who vote on the bill. The bill is aimed at limiting the size and growth of the federal government.
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Similarly, a separate bill nicknamed | {
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“When I was in West Berlin during the 1980s, the wall was still there,” she said. “West Berlin was referred to as a lonely island, because it was completely surrounded.”
Despite the story’s setting, the movie had a smooth process of approval by the Chinese censors. Mr. Lou and Ms. Ma attributed this to the historical nature of the film, which was shot in black and white.
“In termsthat while using those certificates would restrict industrial emissions, they would not affect fossil-fuel consumption by ordinary consumers.
Liberal Leader Brian Gallant's plan for consumer carbon pricing diverts a share of the existing 15.5-cent-per-litre gas tax into a climate fund. (Michel Corriveau/Radio Canada )
2 targets, 1 of them met
The Gallant government has cited two emissions targets for New Brunswick. One has been met and one has not. The province's legislated goal is 35 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030, or 10.7 megatons.
That objective was agreed to by the Eastern Premiers and New England Governors in 2015, and was written into law by Gallant's climate legislation.
The Paris climate agreement sets out a less stringent goal: a reduction of greenhouse gases to 30 per cent below 2005 levels.
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tax into a climate fund and calls it a carbon price, with no net increase for drivers.
The government is arguing that with New Brunswick emissions already below Paris targets, a higher tax isn't needed.
New Brunswick met its emissions target of under 14.3 megatons in 2015, which is why PCs say no carbon tax is needed. (CBC)
Liberals accused of hypocrisy
When he was asked last Friday for his emissions-reduction plan, Higgs at first accused the Liberals of hypocrisy for talking about lowering them while at the same time embracing large, carbon-emitting projects.
"I wouldn't be buying a smelter up north, let's put it that way. I wouldn't be putting government money into one of the largest emitting plants possible," he said, referring to the Gallant government's promotion of a proposed ironthis mix, he adds environmental politics, thinking about ecosystem loss and restoration as a way of delving more deeply into cure. Ultimately Brilliant Imperfection reveals cure to be an ideology grounded in the twin notions of normal and natural, slippery and powerful, necessary and damaging all at the same time.
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Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, also published by Duke University Press, and The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at conferences, community events, and colleges across the United States and Canada about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies. Clare lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont and can be found | {
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starred the two-time Oscar winner as an astronaut leading a crew attempting to become the first humans to set foot on Mars. Designated Survivor‘s Natascha McElhone co-starred as the Elon Musk-esque CEO funding the mission. The cast also included LisaGay Hamilton (The Practice), Hannah Ware (Boss), Keiko Agena (Gilmore Girls) and James Ransone (The Wire).
The eight-episode season dropped in September and received mostly tepid reviews. It marked Penn’s first significant foray into television.his identity. "He was advertising himself as a psychologist, a mental doctor."
Bill, as we are calling him, says he was suffering from stress and anxiety, and searched online for a psychologist or psychiatrist with a PhD. He says he came across an online ad for Haberle that stated he was a psychologist practicing in Winter Garden.
Bill said he saw that Haberle had several five-star reviews on Healthgrades.com and RateMDs.com, so he decided to contact his office and schedule an appointment.
"He seemed more worried about how much I could pay him and how often I could pay him," Bill said. "We spent most of the first session talking about my finances instead of the reason I was there."
Bill says during his session at a Winter Garden office, Haberle encouraged | {
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him to try to apply for disability benefits and charged him a total of $3,500 to get the ball rolling.
"He claimed he had an 80-85 percent track record of getting people approved for disability," Bill said. "So I was like, 'Hey this guy must be really good.'"
Bill says he also saw Haberle had a PhD from Wellington Shaw Christian University. But after three sessions, he says he grew suspicious, and started doing research.
"He supposedly gave himself his own PhD to become a psychologist, which is ridiculous," Bill said.
A Google search revealed Wellington Shaw Christian University was advertised as an online college that bragged about getting the quality of an Ivy League education with the convenience and affordability that only an online university can offer.
On Manta.com, it states theuniversity proudly featured some of today's greatest minds in the areas of psychology, theology, Biblical leadership and business teaching. On Yelp.com, it showed WSCU specialized in substance abuse, depression, anxiety and mental health but stated it had grown to be one of the top-rated mental health and substance abuse clinics in Central Florida, not a university.
News 6 went to the address listed for Wellington Shaw Christian University and discovered it led to a house in a gated community in Ocoee, the same house Haberle lists as his home address.
Even though Haberle is out of jail on bond, he wasn't home when we came to ask questions about the university and the allegations against him. However, a family member was and told us she did not know about the | {
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see if he was still presenting himself as a licensed mental health professional. In December 2016, Department of Health investigators served Haberle with a cease and desist order for practicing mental health counseling without a license and issued a citation.
The Department of Health conducted another investigation in 2017, after a patient contacted the Winter Garden Police Department about Haberle swindling him out of more than $3,000. DOH investigators again issued a citation and a notice to cease and desist for practicing without a license from November 2016 through mid-February 2017. Their investigative report states Winter Garden Police Department recovered approximately 120 patient files out of Haberle's office.
"My heart just sank," Bill said. "Because I knew he had got me and it was very likely I would not geta PhD and as a licensed practitioner.
The police document states during a June 16, 2017 police interview with his lawyer present, Haberle described himself as a Christian counselor, spiritual advisor and someone who facilitates mental health counseling.
Haberle claimed that his spiritual counseling was part of a ministry through the Universal Life Church, where he is an ordained minister, and that payments were donations to further the ministry.
Many claimed to have received no spiritual counseling whatsoever and claimed that their interaction with "Dr. Drake" was entirely secular in nature.
When investigators asked Haberle where the money went, he confirmed it all went into his own accounts. Investigators also pointed out that the Universal Life Church will declare anyone an ordained minister if they fill out a form on their website, | {
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The United States government stood at the brink of crisis. For more than three months, there had been no agreement in Congress over an appropriations bill to fund the government. The Democrats had taken a stand to protect 800,000 young people who had arrived in the United States as minors and been protected by former president Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which President Trump had rescinded, giving it an expiration date of March 2018. Trump had won the presidency on a campaign that blamed the nation’s problems on immigrants, promised to deport them, and pledged to build a massive wall to keep them out. The issue divided the American people, and that division was now threatening to shut down the government.
Without a bill to protect theseimmigrants, Democrats refused to approve the legislation. The government’s funding was set to end at midnight on Friday, January 19, 2018. As of Friday afternoon there was still no path in the Senate to break a filibuster. If they failed to reach an agreement, the government would shut down. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees would be furloughed. U.S. government operations around the world would grind to a halt, and stay that way indefinitely until the two sides could come to a compromise. The situation was tense, the stakes were high, and I, like many other Americans, was glued to my television set watching the “shutdown clock” tick down on CNN.
I was captivated as senators huddled together in small groups around the Senate chambers trying to wheel and | {
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little more skin in the game. “I liked the idea of putting my money behind my convictions,” he says. He deposited $10 on PredictIt, which he had seen advertised on Facebook. He bet that Sanders would see the biggest polling boost from the debate. He lost his $10.
A few months later, Gill had graduated and was working as a quantitative analyst at Jane Street Group, a trading firm in New York. The Wall Street traders he worked with loved to gamble. Prop bets were a part of the work culture. After losing some money to his coworkers betting against the Cubs, Gill turned to political prop bets to try to even the score. It was an election year, so everyone had strong political opinions. Gill would find lineson PredictIt that he felt were fair and then offer to take whichever side of the bet his coworkers didn’t want.
Gill hadn’t paid much attention to PredictIt while he was trying to settle in at his new job, but when checked back in, he noticed that PredictIt had grown. There were new and interesting markets and there were more people using the site. Since he now had some disposable income, he deposited a few hundred dollars on the site. By the time the Connecticut primary rolled around, Gill felt confident enough to deposit a few thousand. There were a handful of primaries that night on the East Coast, and Gill felt good about a number of the contracts he could buy. He bet it all. The next morning | {
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might have an edge by being glued to his computer and ready to make trades as new information broke. He was quickly hooked, spending all of his time hanging out in the comments section and monitoring Twitter for information related to his investments. Eventually he involved his childhood friend, David Rees, a comedian, author, and host of the TV show Going Deep With David Rees. Rees and Kimball teamed up with the writer and producer Starlee Kine, who had recently produced and hosted the hit podcast Mystery Show. The trio created a podcast called Election Profit Makers in which Rees and Kimball would discuss their PredictIt trades and the week’s news. The podcast was largely tongue-in-cheek, with Rees investing small amounts of money, often only a few dollarsgrand in the market the very first week it was offered. He woke up the next morning to discover the president had gone on a tweetstorm and Gill had lost it all while he was sleeping.
While many users on PredictIt were trying to figure out how to make money in these new Trump tweet markets, one user, who goes by the handle Jane Kay, was mastering the game. The 32-year-old pediatrician was becoming a known quantity on PredictIt despite rarely paying much attention to politics before setting up her account during the 2016 election cycle.
“Like a lot of people my age, I became more politically aware during the last election,” she says. “It seemed more important as Trump became a major contender.”
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story online. Though she considered herself very conservative with money (“All of my retirement accounts are in index funds”), she was inexplicably drawn to PredictIt. She liked debating in the comments section, where the anonymity allowed her to come out of her shell and blow off steam. “I could call people stupid, which I would never do in real life.”
She also loved that she could blend science and current events to make money. She was drawn to the polling markets, where traders tried to predict what polls would say before they were released. The markets were very mathematical, which appealed to Kay. She realized that understanding the math and doing some research gave her an edge. Like Kimball and Gill, she made money by betting against overconfident “Trumpers”quickly, mainly because instead of holing up in one market, his money was spread among lots of them at once. “I was everywhere on the site.” He started to make friends with other hardcore traders, and they would share information. “They would give me advice, I would reciprocate.” His advice proved valuable, and soon other traders were coming to him asking him what he liked.
Gill also discovered that once he was maxed out on a position, which he almost always was, then he had no incentive to keep his trades secret from the market. In fact, he had every incentive to shout it from the rooftops, to get others to agree with him and invest in the same position with him, and help drive the price up. He | {
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Chance the Rapper Net Worth $9 million
Chance the Rapper salary $33,000,000
Chance the Rapper Net Worth: How rich is Chance the Rapper? & How much money is Chance the Rapper worth? Time to find out!
Chance the Rapper is an American recording artist, record producer, and philanthropist and his current net worth is $9 million.
Born as Chancellor Johnathan Bennett, he grew up in West Chatham, a middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. His father, Ken Williams-Bennett, a former aide to the Chicago mayor, worked for then-Senator Barack Obama.
In High School, he formed the hip-hop duo Intrumentality with a friend. Many of his early performances took place at the YOUmedia Lyricist Loft at Harold Washington Library in Chicago.
Chance mentioned in an interview that The College Dropout, Kanye West’s 2004 debut albumis the first hip-hop album he ever bought.
How did Chance get famous?
He recorded his first full length project during a 10 day suspension in early 2011 for possessing marijuana on campus, a mixtape titled 10 Day. In February 2012, Complex highlighted him as one of the 10 New Chicago Rappers to Watch Out For.
He released his mixtape for free, as per all his music, on April 3rd 2012 and got the attention of Forbes magazine, featuring it in the Cheap Tunes column.
After appearing on Childish Gambino’s mixtape, Royalty, Chance joined his concert tour through North America as the opening act.
How does Chance make money?
Upon the release of Acid Rap, his second mixtape, now downloaded over one million times, his fame increased. Due to downloads from iTunes and Amazon, | {
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Acid Rap debuted at number 63 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. His music is released for free, but his tours, brand endorsements and merchandise is what brings in the cash.
Forbes listed Chance the Rapper on their “Forbes 30 Under 30” 2015 music list as number 7.
In a collaboration with The Social Experiment, he released a free album on the American iTunes store for which he received a score of 86 on Metacritic and a lot of critical acclaim.
During Kanye West’s process of writing The Life of Pablo, Chance had the opportunity to meet and work with some of Hip Hop’s greatest. He also co-written and appeared on several tracks on the album, including Ultralight Beam, Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1, Famous, Feedback and Waves.
In the first weekof the release of his new mixtape, Coloring Book, Chance debuted at number eight on US Billboard 200. It became the first release to top the charts only on streams. This became another project of his to be met with great critical acclaim and fan enthusiasm.
After his Magnificent Coloring Tour and various brand endorsements, he launched a campaign to get his music on the radio.
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Shaun Hill
Hill didn't attempt a pass with the Lions in all of last season, but owns a 62 percent completion rate and 41:23 TD:INT ratio over his career. He'll now have a chance to lead the Rams' offense, with S...
Hill completed just 18-of-35 passes for 198 yards and one touchdown in Sunday's 27-24 loss at San Diego. He also had three turnovers, including a costly end-zone interception in the final minute of the game.
It was reported Tuesday that Davis would remain the Rams' starter, but head coach Jeff Fisher changed course, and will go with Hill this week instead. Hill has not started a game since Week 1, but Fisher is hopeful that he will give the Rams a better chance to win this week in a toughenvironment, facing the league's top run defense.
10/1/2014
Hill's teammate, Austin Davis will start Sunday's game against the Eagles.
Hill will be the first in line to take snaps should injury befall Matthew Stafford, who has dealt with his fair share of maladies in his short career. He threw just three passes last year after playing in 11 games in 2010.
2011
As the backup for what might be the leagueÔŅĹs least durable quarterback, Hill is much closer to stepping onto the field than most No. 2 QBs. He was surprisingly productive last year, throwing for 250 yards or more in six of his 10 starts while totaling 16 passing touchdowns in the same span. You can probably expect a similar showing from the 10-year veteran if Matthew Stafford goes down again in | {
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2011.
2010
Hill is the presumptive No. 2 quarterback behind second-year pro Matthew Stanford. Drew Stanton will be in the mix during training camp, but Hill certainly has a leg up. Stafford dealt with knee and shoulder injuries last season and the Lion' offensive line is barely mediocre, making a stint under center for Hill not out of the realm of possibility. But it'll take an injury to Stafford to make that happen as the Lions are committed to the former Georgia signal caller.
2009
Heís not pretty, but he gets it done. Sort of a modern-day Billy Kilmer.
Alas, heíll have to get it done now without Mike Martz, who has been rudely jettisoned from the NFL completely. So all those inspiring stats from last year, including the most impressive 7.1 YPAsize is also miniscule.
But Smith had two TD passes in 193 attempts,
posted a pathetic 4.7 YPA and has been backsliding
since September of 2006. Yes, Martz is his
fourth offensive coordinator in four years, but
Smith's the primary reason those predecessors
got canned. The major surgery to his throwing
shoulder is another issue, as is his public feud
with his head coach. Smith's leash is two games,
max, and might be as short as two quarters.
The career progressions of Smith and Hill are
a perfect illustration of how flummoxed NFL decision makers are when it comes to scouting and
developing QBs. Hill wasn't even drafted and got
some attention only after playing well in NFL
Europe, which no longer even exists. He came to
the Niners by way of the Vikings and only got a
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all the other options
were injured. Now, he has a three-year deal and a
serious chance to start over a No. 1 overall pick
who plays like an undrafted free agent.
Whoever emerges in August should be a
late-round pocket pick as a third QB because of
Martz, who has made a career of turning other
people's castoffs into fantasy value and sometimes
even fantasy gold.
2007
Third quarterback for the 49ers.
2006
Hill, the #3 quarterback in Minnesota the past three years, will battle Jesse Palmer to serve a similar role in SF.
2005
Hill returns as the third-string quarterback, but he has yet to throw a pass in a regular season game.
2004
Hill returns as the third quarterback for Minnesota, but hasn't played a snap during the regular season in his two-year career.
2003
Third string QB for the Vikes. He spent theReligion slowly returns to public sphere in France
PARIS (Reuters) - Religion has returned to the public sphere in proudly secularist France and Islam, religious ignorance and the late Pope John Paul all had something to do with it.
And, although he is twice-divorced and only goes to church occasionally, President Nicolas Sarkozy is also doing his part to keep it there.
The separation of church and state is deep in the political DNA in this traditionally Catholic country. Regular Sunday Mass attendance is down in the single figures. Priests almost never wear a Roman collar outside of their churches.
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French art and literature.
Max Gallo, a popular historian who was a communist in his youth, is another prominent intellectual preaching this message.
Lenoir himself has contributed to this trend. His magazine covers faith from a secular point of view and his latest book Le Christ Philosophe (Christ the Philosopher) examines the ethical impact Christian thinking has had on Western civilization.
SARKOZY BREAKS TABOOS
Starting in 2002, when he became interior minister, Sarkozy began stressing the positive role religion could play in giving hope and meaning to alienated youths, especially the young Muslims in France’s poorer suburbs.
“When he was interior minister, people said it was interesting, new, courageous and possibly dangerous,” Lenoir said. “When he repeated it as president, there was an uproar.”
Sarkozy kept up the controversy last December with a speechManager Bob Woodruff, ending with the U.S. national anthem:
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm Chief Master Sargent Bob Woodruff Station Manager of the American Forces Radio and Television Service in Tehran. After 22 years of radio broadcasting and 17 years of telecasting in Tehran, AFRTS Radio 1555 and TV Channel 7 cease all operations in this country at this time. I give you all goodbye and thank you for letting us serve you. And now the national anthem of the United States of America."
The following day, AFRTS radio and television services in Iran were replaced by those operated by the state broadcaster National Iranian Radio and Television (NIRT), which were similar in content, appealing to the 60 000 US Army and civilian personnel then stationed in Iran, as | {
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Pacific Architects and Engineers (PAE). ARS stayed on the air until the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. It was to play Bing Crosby's version of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" as a signal for Americans that the final evacuation of Saigon had begun. The Crosby version of the record could not be found so Tennessee Ernie Ford's record was played.
Thailand
In Thailand, the Department of Defense began the planning for the Armed Forces Thailand Network in 1964 with Project Lamplighter and Project Limelight. By late 1966, implementation of the network began by the U.S. Air Force with stations on the air at Korat, U-Tapao, Ubon, Udorn, Takhli and Nahkon Phanom. In addition, there were more than 20 satellite stations that rebroadcast one or more of the primary stations, and('80s, '90s)
The Voice (News, talk and information)
AFN Clutch (sports programming from ESPN and Yahoo! Sports Radio)
AFN Fans (sports programming from FOX Sports Radio and Sports Byline USA)
Power Talk (liberal and conservative talk programming)
NPR (public radio programs from NPR and others)
Parenting (Positive Parenting)
Television
Like its radio counterpart, AFN TV tries to air programming from a variety of sources to replicate programming on a typical U.S. TV channel; sourcing from U.S. commercial networks (including PBS), and program syndicators at little to no cost since AFN does not air commercials and in that regard cannot profit from airing shows like stations in the United States can. In their place, AFN inserts public service announcements on various subjects; these can be civilian "agency spots" created by The Ad Council, nationally recognized religious and | {
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Risk is lower, but Paris attacks could hit United States
When Fran Townsend was counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, she says, her worst nightmare was that the al Qaida network would send men with assault rifles into malls across the American heartland on a crowded shopping day.
Al Qaida was more focused on airplanes and spectacular bombing attacks, and it apparently never attempted such low-tech mayhem. But current and former American officials say last week's attacks in Paris show the extent to which the Islamic State aspires to hit Western soft targets, including in the United States.
"I certainly would not consider it a one-off event," CIA Director John Brennan said Monday. "It is clear to me that ISIL has an external agenda, that they are determined to carryLast words from MH370 spoken by co-pilot
KUALA LUMPUR--The last words from a Malaysian passenger jet missing for 10 days were spoken by the co-pilot, the airline said Monday, providing a new glimpse into the crucial period when the plane was deliberately diverted.
Confirmation that the voice was First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid's came during a press conference at which Malaysian officials hit back at "irresponsible" suggestions that they had misled the public — and passenger's relatives — over what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
China has led some harsh criticism of the Malaysian authorities, suggesting they withheld important information and were slow to act, hampering the search for the Boeing 777 in its crucial early days.
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focus of the investigation, with one of the key questions being who was in control of the aircraft when it was deliberately taken off course about an hour into its flight to Beijing.
The last message from the cockpit — "All right, good night" — came around the time that two of the plane's crucial signaling systems were manually disabled.
The last signal from the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) was received 12 minutes before the co-pilot's seemingly nonchalant final words.
ACARS transmits key information on a plane's condition.
The plane's transponder — which relays the plane's location — was switched off just two minutes after the voice message.
U.S. intelligence efforts have also focused on the cockpit crew, according to a senior U.S. lawmaker.
"I think this all leads towards thecockpit, with the pilot himself, and co-pilot," said Michael McCaul, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, citing information he had received in intelligence briefings.
Political Dimension?
The Malaysian authorities have stressed that the backgrounds of all the passengers and crew were being checked, as well as engineers who may have worked on the plane before take-off.
Senior U.S. intelligence officials cited by the New York Times said they had run the names of everyone on board through their data banks without any tangible result.
That included a check on a passenger identified as an artist belonging to China's Muslim Uighur minority. Uighur separatists have become increasingly militant in their fight against Chinese rule.
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at his home.
In a highly controversial case, Anwar was convicted of sodomy — illegal in Muslim Malaysia — just hours before MH370 took off.
But friends said Zaharie exhibited no extreme views.
Fariq, meanwhile, was accused in an Australian television report of allowing two young South African women into the cockpit of a plane he piloted in 2011, breaching security rules imposed after the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
But acquaintances have attested to his good character, and reports said he planned to wed his flight-school sweetheart.
Hishammuddin noted that the two pilots "did not ask to fly together" on flight 370."59% of white kids moved up".
As for "Those two groups should sum to less than 100%, certainly not 103%.",
this is incorrect: the 25% refers to the kids who had parents in the bottom
two levels, while the 78% refers to kids who had parents in the top three
levels. Those are separate groups. (same for the number with white kids)
So, if you look at kids coming from the 40% poorest (unclear if it's overall
or amongst white/black people), from 1955 to 1970, only 25% of the black kids
moved up while 59% of the white kids moved up.
And if you look at kids coming from the 60% wealthiest, 78% of black kids
moved down while 43% of white kids moved down.
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was decorated with lights
and candles and flowers and all sorts of beautiful things. He said the people
there had pooled their money, despite having so little. He then told me a lot
had to do with the Hindu religion. Most Hindu's believed the position they
were born into in life was the place in their spiritual journey they were
meant to be, and doing well in that life was fundamental. It's a completely
different way of looking at one's poverty.
He remarked that I wouldn't find the same type of sense of community in slums
in Muslim parts of India, because their beliefs about their poverty and their
lot in life was different.
I don't know if that's true, I didn't travel to any Muslim-dominated areas of
India. It may have been true, it may have been hisperception, but for that
night, he was at least right about this local community, and it was a huge
culture shock for a young man in his early 20s who had only seen slums in the
US and, potentially more dangerous, Mexico City (and was warned to never, ever
go there by my private corporate-sponsored driver).
~~~
facepalm
I find that Hindu bit fascinating because it is presumably what allows so many
people to coexist on so little space. However, it is also a very convenient
belief for the people who are better off. Kind of like the meritocracy on
speed.
~~~
choosername
I don't see the difference to capatalism (disclaimer: hardly looked). The
believe that anything can be achieved when doing well enough is rather
fundamental, because it's tautological. The modesty to currently accept the
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condos right
next to or in the middle of up-middle-class communities,the result is that
people move out and the house price drops, does not look like a right fix to
me.
~~~
bo1024
Yes: you are missing the history of the United States. This was most of the
point of the article: Black people disproportionately live in poverty (not to
mention the history of discrimination in this country), and the effects of
living in poverty are extremely harmful. Your post seems to be missing the
history of human slavery in the United States, the subsequent history of
discrimination, and the conditions it created whose effects and legacy are
still very strong today. You can't control for these factors by comparing to
other minority immigrant groups!!
One can argue that there are negative cultural effects, but it's a chicken-
and-egg issue because history hasThursday, January 29, 2009
Yesterday I was playing with Stinky in her room. I would stack a block on top of another block and she would knock it down. Pretty soon she was stacking the blocks and then knocking it down herself. It was pretty cool to watch her hand-eye coordination as she attempted to put one block on top of the other. It took her quite a few tries before she got it. I had to encourage her through out the process because I could tell there were times when she wanted to quit. But then she decided she was done. She put her hands on the floor, spread her legs out and slowly stood up. It was so matter of fact. I clapped and enthusiastically said yeah. | {
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She plopped down and continued to repeat the process, this time she would clap and smile. She was so proud of herself. Luckily Daddy came home just in time to see her do it a few more times before she moved on to other tasks. We tried to get her to duplicate the act again later but she wasn't interested. How fun is it to watch your child grow.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Happy New Year!! This was Stinky's first Chinese New Year that she was really aware of things. We dressed her in her Chinese outfit that her cousins gave her for Christmas. She was so excited to see her cousins, eat lots of Amah's yummy food, and receive her red envelopes. Boy did she sleep a long timeyou will see her modeling as a Perfect Princess
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Yesterday Stinky was laughing hysterically and I turned around to see what she was doing that was so funny. She had the TV remote in her hand and she was holding it up toward Lucy (the tan one) and Lucy would do a little jig around Stinky. Stinky thought that was the funniest thing she had every seen. She laughed and laughed and would repeat her movements and laugh all over again. It was so nice to see her interacting with the two loves of my life pre-Stinky. Sometimes I feel bad because after she was born they don't get as much attention and aren't able to go as many places, but I still love them just | {
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Final Occupy Wall Street Defendant, Cecily McMillan, is Sentenced
UPDATED | An Occupy Wall Street member was sentenced to 90 days in jail Monday for assaulting a police officer in a case that recalled tensions from the protest’s heyday.
Cecily McMillan, a 25-year-old New School graduate student, was the final criminal defendant stemming from the group’s demonstrations in 2011 and 2012, most in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.
Ms. McMillan, who faced up to seven years in prison, will also serve five years of probation. She has already served about 14 days in jail, which will be credited toward her 90-day sentence.
Her case has become a cause célèbre of Occupy Wall Street, attracting attention from a broad range of supporters, including City Council members and members of Pussy Riot, a group thatverdict was read, and shouted “shame, shame!” when she was ordered to be held in jail pending sentencing.
Ms. McMillan stands out as a figure for Occupy Wall Street supporters to rally around. She is relatively moderate, and some of the movement’s members who knew her said she was alienated for insisting the group disavow violence. | {
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other ample grounds for which to discharge Robinson and is thus has an affirmative defense under the Act. It asserts that there are no genuine issues as to any material fact and that it is entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law.
I. BACKGROUND
Clinton Robinson was employed as a used car salesman at defendant Morris Moore a short period of time beginning in December 1995 and ending on February 29, 1996. During this period, Robinson also served as a reservist in the United States Army and worked part-time as a volunteer with the Vidor Police Department in Vidor, Texas.
In February 1996, Robinson notified his supervisor, Mike Croker, that he had to attend a mandatory physical examination for the reserves on February 23, 1996, and would therefore misswork at the Morris Moore dealership. An important sales event had been scheduled by Morris Moore for that same day. Croker asked Robinson whether attendance on that specific day was mandatory, to which Robinson replied he was unsure. Thereafter, Croker contacted Army Sergeant Angelina Craigan to determine whether Robinson's attendance was mandatory. She informed him that the physical was mandatory, and that Robinson had no discretion to choose a different time. Thereafter, Robinson was given permission by his supervisor at Morris Moore to miss work in order to attend the mandatory physical.
Less than one week after his February 23, 1996 military-related absence, Robinson was fired from his position with Morris Moore. Robinson claims that his firing was related to that absence. Morris Moore denies that claim, and asserts | {
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he failed to report to work two days in a row without an excuse, and had informed his employer that he did not show up because he was not happy selling cars and was quitting to pursue a different career. Id.
Based on these facts, Morris Moore asserts it would have fired Robinson regardless of his status as a reservist. Morris Moore concludes that even if the scheduling conflicts arising as a result of Robinson's military service had some role in his discharge, Robinson was fired because of his unacceptable job performance as determined by the totality of the situation, which included his frequent absences from work, his constant tardiness, and his below average sales. Morris Moore argues summary judgment is therefore proper as a matter of law becauseobvious hostility toward the idea of Mr. Robinson leaving work to attend the physical." Pl.'s Resp. Craigan Aff.
Robinson avers that he "was selling well, and had never been disciplined or counseled" prior to requesting time off for the mandatory physical. Pl.'s Resp. at 2. He also asserts that Morris Moore's allegation that he missed several hours of work to complete police paperwork the day he was fired is false, and that he listened to the police scanner with his supervisors' permission and this activity did not interfere with his duties. Id. at 3. Further, he argues that although he was occasionally late in the morning and in returning from lunch, no one at Morris Moore complained of this fact and there were other employees who were late more | {
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service to survive the motion for summary judgment.
The summary judgment evidence, taken in the light most favorable to Robinson, indicates no employer complaints regarding Robinson's performance prior to his request for leave to attend the mandatory military physical. Robinson's supervisor was angered by this request and the resulting absence. Complaints regarding Robinson's work performance and accompanying threats of termination then began to surface. Robinson was fired within days of his absence from work on February 29, 1996 due to that physical. Finally, Robinson asserts the reasons given by Morris Moore to justify its decision to discharge him were not told to him prior to this lawsuit.
Thus, Robinson has alleged a chronology of events from which it may plausibly be inferred that his absence due to reserve related obligationsdevelopment for Dr. Melanie S. Joy, Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology. Her mentor, Dr. Ronald Falk, is the Division Chief of Nephrology and an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of glomerular diseases. Her co-mentor, Dr. Kim Brouwer, is an expert in the area of drug transport and metabolism. Together with her mentors, the applicant has devised a combined didactic, clinical, and laboratory research plan, using resources from the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy. The goal of this plan is to enhance the applicant's skills to become an independent nephrology clinical investigator with expertise in drug transport and metabolism. The selection of collaborators with expertise in the areas of this grant will enhance the career development of Dr. Joy. | {
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In a tune-up game before the start for the upcoming season Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente defeated the current Liga MX champion Club America, 5-2.
Played at Petco Park, the atmosphere took on the feel of the team's regular venue at Estadio Caliente in Tijuana with constant chanting and fans wearing Xolos jerseys throughout the stadium.
In the 11th minute Xolos defender Pablo Aguilar scored the first goal of the night with a header. Sixty seconds later Fidel Martinez made a brilliant goal with a diving header. The relentless Xolos found the opponent's net again as Martinez assisted Diego Olsina for 3-0 and then Emmanuel Cerda to establish a commanding 4-0 lead at the half.
In the second half the relentless Xolos continued attacking, and it was time for Chula Vistanative Paul Arriola,18, to show his skills and he seized his chance, scoring the last goal for the Xolos in his first professional goal.
In the 57th minute Luis Gabriel Rey scored for America. Minutes later the Colombia striker added his second goal of the night.
The Xolos show signs to be contenders but only time will tell as the regular season begins July 19.
Arriola, who usually plays for the squad's Under-20 team, said he was excited to play for Tijuana's senior squad and that he hopes to earn a permanent spot with them.
"It was good I couldn't have asked for a better way to start the season," said Arriola. "Mexico is a great place to play, for young players is a great place to develop."
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The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, by Kevin Williamson. The author takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the “beast with many heads” that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. He believes it’s destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging us down “the Road to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos of the Twitter age finds itself feeling small and blue.”
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789, by Joseph J. Ellis. This is a gripping portrait of one of the most crucial and misconstrued periods in American history – the yearsbetween the end of the Revolution and the formation of the federal government – and the men most responsible for this second American founding: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt. This is a book about ten Great Ideas. Haidt draws on philosophical wisdom and scientific research to show how the meaningful life is closer than you think.
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even as a web-readable document.
Open Curtains by George Spix and Richard Fernandez. Technology represents both unlimited promise and menace. Which transpires depends on whether people can claim ownership over their knowledge or whether human informational capital continues to suffer the Tragedy of the Commons.
The War of the Words, Understanding the crisis of the early 21st century in terms of information corruption in the financial, security and political spheres
Rebranding Christianity, or why the truth shall make you free
The Three Conjectures, reflections on terrorism and the nuclear age
Storming the Castle, why government should get small
No Way In at Amazon Kindle. Fiction. A flight into peril, flashbacks to underground action.
Storm Over the South China Sea, how China is restarting history in the Pacific.Former U.S. Diplomat Weighs In On State Department Dissent Cable
NPR's Ari Shapiro interviews former U.S. diplomat John Brady Kiesling about how a dissent channel works and responds to the White House message to career diplomats that they should "either get with the program or they can go."
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
For a bit more context on the State Department dissent cable, I'm joined by John Brady Kiesling. He spent two decades at the State Department and signed dissent cables during his time there. One of them was a push for intervention in Bosnia. It earned him an award for constructive dissent from the American Foreign Service Association. John Brady Kiesling, welcome to the program.
JOHN BRADY KIESLING: Thanks for having me.
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signed by close to a thousand State Department staff members. How unusual is that?
KIESLING: Completely unusual. It's never happened before. I think the previous record must be around 50.
SHAPIRO: That's quite a jump from 50 to a thousand.
KIESLING: It reflects a direct challenge to the professionalism of the State Department and to the idea that the State Department is an institution that knows what it's doing and does it.
SHAPIRO: Explain what you mean by that.
KIESLING: Terrorism has been on the landscape for over a hundred years. The United States government has been protecting the U.S. borders for even longer than that. A system has evolved. It's not a perfect system, but it's pretty good. And it's staffed by professionals who are absolutely committed to protecting their country.
Now yourecall includes 234,054 of its 2011-2017 G5 SUVs due to the affected vehicles being prone to sunroof damage that can allow water to soak into foam around the side air bag inflators. If water soaks the foam, the side airbag inflator could rupture and send shrapnel flying inside the vehicles.
VW first investigated the incident in June 2016 in China, and reports that "the production process was modified to include a plastic sleeve over the side head airbag curtain canister."
Neither Audi nor the National Highway Traffic Administration state whether the air bags included in the recall were made by Takata. Both recalls are expected to begin in mid-February. | {
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Common Names
Pittosporum shield bug, Pittosporum bug
Synonyms
Strachia humeralis Walker, 1868 Antestia orbona Kirkaldy, 1909
Biostatus and Distribution
This adventive shield bug comes from Australia and is found in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It was first detected in New Zealand in 1950. It occurs on host plants, Pittopsorum species, in gardens and parks as well as in native ecosystems.
Conservation status: Widespread Australian insect that is a minor pest of Pittopsorum species.
Life Stages and Annual Cycle
The Pittosporum shield bug overwinters as adults. Adults appear to gather in suitable overwintering sites and on plants for breeding. They are probably attracted to each other by an aggregation pheromone (volatile chemical). Breeding occurs on Pittosporum trees with unripe fruit and starts in spring, possibly as early as October, and continues until latesummer. There are probably several generations per year. The overwintering adult females start laying eggs late spring. Each female lays several batches of eggs over several weeks, perhaps up to 8 weeks. This results in nymphs of all sizes being present at the same time. The resulting adults may mate and lay eggs until early autumn. Sometime during late summer the adult females cease laying eggs. This change is probably induced by a change in day length and perhaps by a combination of day length and temperature.
Eggs are laid in a cluster of up to 14, one for each ovariole. The eggs are a pale blue-green colour when first laid and turn white after a few days. Eggs are about 1 mm in diameter. Eye spots of the | {
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nymph are visible just before the egg hatches
Nymphs hatch from the eggs and are seen from November until April. First instar nymphs are like small, black, wingless adults. Nymphs go from one stage to the next by moulting, where the “skin” on the dorsal side splits and the next stage pulls itself out. As the insects progress through the nymphal stages their body and antennae change colour. The first instar is almost circular in outline, and coloured dark brown to black. The head and thorax (middle section of body) are usually black after the first day. The abdomen may be dark brown or black. The areas around the stink glands are black as are the edges of the abdomen. There is a pair of white spots near theNew Zealand, Pendergast found that the time from egg to adult was 52 days during February and March in a laboratory.
Walking and flyingThe nymphs and adults have six legs (three pairs) that are used for walking. The adults have two pairs of wings; the front pair is modified as covers for the hind wings. Part of the forewing is coloured brown, while the rest is membranous.
FeedingLike other Hemiptera, the Pittosporum shield bug has sucking mouth parts. The long stylets, special shaped rods, are held in the rostrum. When it feeds, the bug moves the tip of the rostrum to the surface of an unripe fruit or other suitable part of the plant. During feeding the stylets are inserted into the plant. The mandibles hold the rostum in place. | {
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The maxillae stylets are inserted further into the plant. They form two tubes, one through which saliva is injects into the plant and a second through which plants juices are sucked up into the insect. Feeding of the Pittosporum shield bug has not been studied, but it probably can use its saliva to digest the tissues of the plant.
Recognition
Pittosporum species, the host plants of the Pittosporum shield bug (Monteithiella humeralis) are also hosts of the Australasian green shield bug (Glaucias amyoti). The adults of the two species are easily distinguished, but the other life stages can be more difficult to tell apart.
Adult Pittosporum shield bugs are brown and smaller than the green adults of the Australasian green shield bug.
Eggs of the two species are of similar size, butdiffer in colour. Freshly laid eggs of the Pittosporum shield bug are pale green and turn white, while the eggs of the Australasian green shield bug are tan coloured, they can be much paler, more like off-white.
NymphsIn New Zealand the first instar of both species are black and they both sit on their egg shells or stay close so they can be identified by the colour of the eggs.
Second instar nymphs of both species are also similar and are most easily identified by the colour of the egg shell if these are nearby. Pittosporum shield bugs may have a brown abdomen. Both species start with white abdominal spots and as the nymph ages the spots turn yellow. Both species may have white patches on the lateral margin of | {
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the thorax and the first abdominal segment.
Later instars of the Pittosporum shield bug are black or dark brown with paler brown areas. Australasian green shield bug third-fifth instar nymphs may be green, though some have a dark head and thorax, and the abdomen is much paler.
Natural Enemies
Eggs of the Pittosporum shield bug may be parasitized by two species of tiny wasps belonging to the family Platygasteridae. Trissolcus oenone (Dodd, 1913), a native species, parasitizes several native shield bugs. Another egg parasitoid, Trissolcus basalisi (Wollaston 1858), was released into New Zealand in 1949 to control the green vegetable bug, Nezara viridula. It also parasitizes eggs of other shield bugs including the Pittosporum shield bug and the Australasian green shield bug. When this wide host range was discovered in theThe funding of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is likely to become the next growth sector for bank lending globally, according to the ‘futurebankinglab’ conference, an international conference hosted in Madrid, Spainon the future direction of funding SMEs.
The conference was attended by 20 of the leading SME financiers in the world, with Standard Bank and Business Partners representing South Africa. Several differentiated models of funding were reviewed as to their applicability in other jurisdictions and by traditional banks.
One thing evident from this conference was that South Africa does not lag the rest of the world, and is ahead of many of the global banks. We have an increasingly strong entrepreneurial mindset when it comes to finding funding solutions in this country, and I came away highly | {
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the streets of the local business community to finding viable businesses worthy of funding.
Another was initiatives in the business-to-business space, particularly in the US where peer-to-peer funding is being experimented with. I must emphasise that this model is in the very early stages.
Another theme was improving linkages between seed or risk capital partners and banks to provide more early-stage risk financing.
Niching is also going to be another part of the toolbox. This involves looking at a small geography, sector or community, and is currently most developed in the franchising market. By addressing the risks of a common activity or market, financing becomes more predictable.
Posted on: Jul 12, 2012
Clive Pintusewitz
Clive Pintusewitz is the director of Small Enterprise and Enterprise Development at Standard Bank. He is an experienced problem solverFox News' Chris Wallace is one of the moderators of the long prayed-for final GOP debate before the January 3 Iowa Caucus. And on December 14, Wallace had some interesting things to say on the Neil Cavuto show re everyone's favorite scrappy libertarian doctor:
According to Raw Story.com, with video at the link:
"The Ron Paul people are not going to like my saying this," Wallace began. "But to a certain degree, it will discredit the Iowa caucuses because, rightly or wrongly, I think most of the Republican establishment thinks he's not going to end up as the nominee."
"So therefore, Iowa won't count," he added. "It would certainly be a knock to Gingrich because, you know, right now he was the frontrunner — or a week ago he was the | {
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Primary school students are more likely to eat a nutritional breakfast when given 10 extra minutes to do so, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Tech and Georgia Southern University.
The study, which is the first of its kind to analyze school breakfast programs, evaluated how students change their breakfast consumption when given extra time to eat in a school cafeteria. The study also compared results of these cafeteria breakfasts to results of serving in-classroom breakfasts to the same group of students.
"It's by far the most sophisticated, accurate measurement of school breakfast intake ever done," said Klaus Moeltner, a professor of agricultural and applied economics in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "We know exactly how much the students consumed and how muchtime they had to consume it."
Using food weighting stations developed by co-author Karen Spears of Georgia Southern University, the researchers collected information on the number of students who ate a school breakfast, how much they ate, and their exact nutritional intake.
The findings, recently published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, revealed that the number of school breakfasts consumed increased by 20 percent when students were given 10 extra minutes to eat in the cafeteria, and an additional 35-45 percent when breakfasts were served inside classrooms, bringing the overall rate of breakfast consumption close to 100 percent.
"The percent of students that go without breakfast because they didn't eat at home and they didn't have time to eat at school goes from 4 to 0 percent when given 10 | {
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Back in February, the U.S. Navy announced it was “looking to expand the civilian police force for installations in the Navy Region Mid-Atlantic.”
“No experience is required and the hiring process is being done through direct hire authority which will streamline the process to help identify candidates who fit the job,” read the announcement on the Military News website. It said applicants must be 21, pass a background check, a physical agility test and a drug screening.
The installations include the Philadelphia Naval Yard, where the civilian police force has jurisdiction over the Naval Surface Warfare Center and the Naval Foundry & Propeller Center.
In one eye-catching case, expanding the force meant hiring a former Philadelphia police officer who was the focus of a controversy that landed in the headlines.
While Philadelphiawhere Ian Hans Lichterman – the former Philadelphia police officer who drew negative attention because of an “apparent Nazi tattoo” – landed after leaving the city force in mid-March.
Lichterman is a captain on a force that some say has other questionable hires.
Thom Carroll/PhillyVoice Although the U.S. Navy has scaled-back its operations at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, it currently operates a Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, (or NISMF), where inactive ships are held while their final fate is determined.
The roster already included an officer – Howard “Doc” Giles – who was investigated for inappropriate behavior and viewing child pornography as chief of a department in Iowa more than 15 years ago and a captain – Shane Daly – who was permanently barred from law enforcement work in New Jersey | {
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after pleading guilty to charges that he stole items from the USS New Jersey in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Camden County spokesman Dan Keashen said Daly was employed as an officer with a county parks police force that’s since been disbanded.
A county attorney in Iowa and the state’s Department of Criminal Investigation were unable to track down the outcome of the allegations against Giles, who resigned several days before the accusations were brought to light.
Update: Several days after this story was posted, Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the field operations for the Iowa Department of Public Safety, told PhillyVoice that "no charges were filed in connection with the investigation" into Giles.
Chris Cleaver – public affairs officer for Naval Support Activity – confirmed last week that Lichterman, GilesEconomic costs of trauma, United States, 1982.
The economic costs of trauma to the United States were analyzed by taking latest available data from United States Vital Statistics and using models to convert to dollar costs for trauma fatalities and nonfatalities. Trauma cost the nation approximately +61.025 billion dollars in fiscal 1982 (1977 figures indexed to 1982 dollars). This included +19.278 billion for direct costs (treatment related) and +41.746 billion in indirect costs (forgone earnings). The largest single category by group was indirect costs (forgone earnings) for male fatalities (+26.635 billion). The next largest was direct costs (treatment related) for male nonfatalities ($ 12.145 billion.) This disease is currently responsible in economic costs (1982 dollars) for 6.9% of health care expenditures and 2.3% of the United States gross national | {
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Predators winger James Neal was the first publicly named offender in the NHL's new anti-diving push. And given Neal's non-pristine reputation, it's hardly surprising he received the dubious distinction.
The Hockey News
It is something of an understatement to say Predators winger James Neal has a reputation among NHL players and officials, and it isn't a good one. Even before he was dealt to Nashville this summer, he became infamous for embellishing and vicious episodes.
So it wasn't in the least bit eyebrow-raising to hear Neal was the first NHLer publicly named and fined under the NHL's new anti-diving legislation. He had already received a warning after a Nov. 13 game against St. Louis, but apparently the message didn't sink in. Because even the most ardent Preds fan who's being honestLook: Jiu-jitsu world champ Meggie Ochoa visits anti-mining campers
Three-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Meggie Ochoa visited Tuesday the camp of the protesting residents of Manicani Island, Eastern Samar and Sta. Cruz, Zambales picketed in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) office in Quezon City.
The Manicani islanders, who have been picketing in Quezon City for almost a month, are calling for the closure of open-pit mining operations of Hinatuan Mining Corporation, which has been operating since 1992 and was suspended in 2002 but was permitted by the DENR to continue its loading operations.
According to Marcial Somooc, president of Save Manicani Movement, Hinatuan Mining has practically destroyed the environment of the 12 square kilometer island of 3,000 people. His group has been calling for rehabilitation and | {
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Leonardo Jaimes Marín
Leonardo Jaimes Marín has dedicated his entire life to defending human rights. He began as a Claretian order seminarian in 1988, a year later he began accompanying farmers from El Carmen de Chucuri and since then has remained devoted to a “profound life choice at the service of marginalised sectors” as he describes his work. Between 1991 and 1994 he coordinated the albergue, a farmers’ hostel for displaced small-scale farmers, in Barrancabermeja, a gratifying period because of the work he was doing, but also full of risks: he suffered threats and attacks until he was forced to leave. He was one of the founders of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission (CIJP). Between 2007 and 2015 he was a lawyer with the Santander office of theFoundation Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners, and in 2008, together with other human rights defenders, he founded the Equipo Juridico Pueblos. Now he combines working as a Criminal Law professor at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) with defending human rights, and he affirms that he will continue to work alongside victims until impunity is overcome. | {
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that illegal drugs were being sold at the Plaintiffs' residence, a small mobile home co-owned by Plaintiffs at the end of a dead-end road. First, Defendants received information from a North Carolina Highway Patrol officer that a person who lived near the Plaintiffs' mobile home had reported that he suspected drug activities at the Plaintiffs' residence. The Highway Patrol officer also stated that he personally suspected that drug activity was taking place at the residence based on his observation of vehicles coming and going to the residence containing individuals whom he knew from personal experience to be drug users. Second, Sergeant Henry Fleetwood of the Caswell County Sheriff's Department advised Defendant Brandon that he had been approached by at least three or four concerned citizens who lived nearpersonally witnessed Harold Scott deliver crack cocaine to unknown individuals at the Plaintiffs' residence and that Plaintiff Beth Ann Lea participated in the sales.
Based on the information the Defendants had received, they sought and received a search warrant from a local magistrate. On June 19, 1998, after receiving the search warrant, Defendants and three other officers went to Plaintiffs' residence. As the officers approached, they saw Harold Scott drive a car up to Plaintiffs' residence. The officers arrived immediately after Scott and ordered him to exit his vehicle. Scott responded by fleeing in his car down a path behind Plaintiffs' residence. The officers quickly apprehended Scott, and later recovered a change purse thrown from Scott's car, which contained a quantity of aluminum-foil-wrapped rocks of crack cocaine. The purse | {
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was turned over to Defendant Kirby who served as evidence custodian during the search.
After arresting Scott, the police searched Scott's vehicle. The officers found a loaded .25 caliber pistol and notes referring to how Scott had taught Plaintiff Beth Ann Lea to put away some of the money from a sale after she sold and something about an unnamed male who was "going to get the money up" and who had "spend [sic] most of the money." (Pldg. 12 Ex. C).
While other officers were apprehending Scott, Defendant Brandon and another officer legally entered Plaintiffs' mobile home and announced that they had a search warrant. The police immediately found Beth Ann Lea, who informed them that Saul E. Lea was in a back room. The police then brought bothdreams of dragging a mother out of a river, nightmares of alienation, belonging and revenge, narco-dreams and dreams of a mad changeling, and even a dream vision of the original play with kings, princes, clowns and crowns. The language itself is dreamed up, employing a syntax that harkens to Shakespeare and Calderón, but also liberally blends in the Tejano-pop vernacular that roils around my border towns. Names are figments of identity themselves: Blanca means white, an allusion to origins unknown; Lazaro calls to mind the risen dead of the New Testament; Celestino is a stargazing narcoleptic; Pepín hints at both Clarín of Life Is a Dream and Memín Pinguín of the Mexican comic books of my youth; Sincero is honesty translated, and yet Frank is far from that. | {
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and the temporal plane that ghosts and demons dwell in. Conceived here, born there/American father, undocumented mother. This DREAM state is what the denizens of Dreamlandia exist in, and they suffer, exploit and buck against the shifting sands of their reality, trying to make sense of the most elusive chimera of all, the American dream.
And so I am delighted to be revisiting this early work of mine. Dreamlandia is feeling the burn of new relevance as El Paso once again becomes its own fantasia, disparaged by a President who concocts for it a false history of crime and violence; and acclaimed by a rising young statesman named Beto who knows how the city of his birth and mine captures the dreams and aspirations of so many on theLatest Activity On Twitter
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A recent PROGRESS networking event at a Colorado State University solar field. Image Credit: Ilana Pollack/Colorado State University
November 14, 2017 – To retain more undergraduate women in geoscience majors, a supportive network that includes faculty mentorship seems to be a key driver, according to a new study led by Colorado State University.
The study, published earlier this month in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first official result from an ongoing effort led by Emily Fischer, assistant professor of atmospheric science.
Fischer and colleagues from seven universities across the Front Range, Wyoming and the Carolinas are in the fourth year of a five-year, $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant for a program called PROGRESS (PROmoting Geoscience Research, Education and Success). They are investigating how best to attract | {
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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (, or LELB) is a Lutheran Protestant church in Latvia. Latvia's Lutheran heritage dates back to the Reformation. Both the Nazi and communist regimes persecuted the church harshly before religious freedom returned to Latvia in 1988. Unlike Estonia, where state atheism and the ongoing European secularization reduced the once 80% Lutheran majority to almost 10% by 2011, the Latvian Lutheran church had dropped to around 20% but has recovered slightly and now includes approximately 30% of the population.
History
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia sees itself as being in a continuous tradition of Christian life since the earliest recorded Christian missionary work in the area, in the 12th century. Latvia was highly influenced by the Reformation and the styleis forced to spend most of their day working in an environment that demands very little body movement. Sitting in a chair at a desk for hours at a time is not uncommon here and quite often the only movement such a worker will experience while at work will stem from the rapid, albeit slight movement of their fingers, hands and wrists as they operate their computers and phones while “comfortably” seated. A typical worker will not only sit most of their day while at work, but also will sit during their commute between work and home and also when eating their lunch. This may lead to them being in a seated position for upwards to 9-11 hours each day, and often for long uninterrupted periods of time.
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went to the border, to Damascus, to Latakia, to Lebanon, and a lot have come back, which has given us hope that future can again be good and that we will have good people working for a new church rising up.”
The 72-year-old archbishop was in New York last week for a conference on the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. Knights of Columbus CEO Carl Anderson, who also spoke at that conference, invited Archbishop Jeanbart to speak at the Knights’ headquarters. He also celebrated a Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine rite in the Knights’ chapel for employees and spoke the night before at St. Mary’s Church, near Yale University, which is where Father Michael J. McGivney founded the fraternal organization.
The Knights have raised some $10.5 million toAdult Film Star Amber Rayne Found Dead At 31
Game of Thrones, ASOUE, and all things '00s. Twitter: @gen_vanvee Email: gen@moviepilot.com
Porn actress and cancer survivor Amber Rayne — whose real name was Meghan Wren — passed away in her Los Angeles home on Saturday, April 2 at the age of 31.
Originally from Detroit, Rayne obtained her bachelor's from CSU LA before going into the adult film industry in 2005. She quickly became a successful star, gaining fame until ultimately retiring in 2005.
Adult film director and friend of the late Rayne, Stormy Daniels, disclosed to AVN:
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Spotlight on Commerce: Andrea Pacheco Dhamer, Deputy Director for the Office of Business Liaison, Office of the Secretary
Andrea Pacheco Dhamer, former Deputy Director for the Office of Business Liaison
Ed. note: This post is part of the Spotlight on Commerce series highlighting members of the Department of Commerce and their contributions to an Economy Built to Last.
I grew up in a town on the border between the U.S. and Mexico; a place where two cities abutted one another culturally and geographically. At the time, I was too young to understand all of the influences at play around me. I went to school in the U.S. and actively volunteered in varied capacities throughout high school. In college, I discovered the intoxicating world of study abroad and sought every opportunity tostarted to emphasize its readiness to make all-electric vehicles, in a move that apparently aims to sweep away its public image as slow to jump on the bandwagon.
On Monday, Toyota announced it plans stop selling all-gasoline cars by 2025 and produce 5.5 million electrified vehicles — which include hybrids and FCVs as well as ‘pure’ EVs — in 2030, including 1 million zero-emission vehicles such as EVs and FCVs. Toyota has sold about 11 million electrified vehicles since the debut of its Prius, the first mass-marketed hybrid, in 1997.
And last week, Toyota President Akio Toyoda announced the firm will strengthen its cooperation with Panasonic Corp. — the leading maker of lithium-ion batteries used for electric vehicles and the battery supplier to U.S. carmaker Tesla Inc — and work | {
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into infinity, the terraces at SunTrust Park form more of an enclosing wall. If and when the Braves can rally their fans, they’ll have a hell of a home-field advantage. (Until then, Cubs, Red Sox and Yankees bandwagoners will have the run of the joint.)
View photos SunTrust Park is ready for its close-up. (Yahoo Sports) More
SunTrust Park features Braves history around every turn, from the bat Hank Aaron used to hit home run No. 715 to the brace Sid Bream wore as he trundled around third base to win the 1992 National League Championship Series. Braves players must pass the long list of Gold Glove and Silver Slugger winners. There’s even a Braves alumni lounge tucked away on the suite level, where the many former Braves who livein the area can hang out when they’re in the park. Current players get the luxury of theater seating, wide lockers and a pool table in their clubhouse. The team takes care of its own.
The team takes care of its field, too; we’re a long way from the days when the Braves had to share a stadium with the Falcons, the occasional soccer club, and whatever turf-shredding motocross event came to town while the ballclub was on a road trip. The grass resembles the greens at Augusta National; the infield dirt is as delicate as Himalayan salt. You cringe at the thought of the first pitcher scuffing up the mound, the first baserunner carving a trench en route to second base.
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Longtime Aide to Obama Leaving White House
At the end of December, one of the longest serving presidential advisers to President Barack Obama will be leaving the White House.
Pete Rouse, who has worked for Obama since the President was a Senator in Illinois, is scheduled to leave as part of a White House administration shake up due to the problems with the healthcare roll out.
Obama said it would be a tough loss when Rouse leaves. The President said he completely trusts Rouse. He called Rouse a model of discretion who has no ego and is as wise as anyone is.
Obama did say he would continue to speak to Rouse during the rest of his second term in office.
However, poll numbers for Obama have reached a low point for histime in the White House due to the rough start for the health care plan enrollment, referred to as ObamaCare.
Obama has also added familiar faces to his staff at the White House. Phil Schiliro is returning for a short appointment to help with the ObamaCare problems.
Schiliro was an aide for many years to Henry Waxman the Congressman from California and has worked for Tom Daschle, the former Senate leader for the Democrats.
John Podesta also returned for an assignment of one year to focus on energy and climate issues.
Josh Earnest a spokesperson for the White House said that departures at year-end, such as Rouse’s, are traditional for those staff that is in positions of high stress. Earnest said the departures should not be looked at as a condemnation or | {
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a commendation of their work.
Rouse, who is known for not liking the spotlight, has worked skillfully behind the scenes since first starting to work for Obama in 2004 as his chief of staff following Obama’s election to the U.S. Senate.
Rouse graduated from the London School of Economics and had worked since 1971 in the Senate, including for Daschle for 19 years.
Rouse and Podesta formed a part of the team that helped fill key staff roles for Obama when he first entered the White House in 2009.
Rouse was also interim chief of staff for Obama when Rahm Emanuel left in 2010 to run for the Chicago Mayoral position.Just as the American Civil War was not fought to end slavery (it was fought to defend it), nor was slavery resigned to the history books the moment General Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Court House. Any historian worth their salt will tell you this, and yet for too long and with very few exceptions, Hollywood has chosen to explore this dark chapter in US history in binary terms. Free State of Jones is pitched as a more nuanced picture of the struggle between white masters and black slaves, but crucially it retains an all-too familiar perspective.
The hero of this story is Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), a poor farmer from southern Mississippi who led an interracial rebellion against the Confederacy. | {
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Trends in classification usage in the mental retardation literature.
Trends in classification usage were analyzed through examination of all issues of Mental Retardation, American Journal of Mental Deficiency, and American Journal on Mental Retardation from 1980 through 1989. The research was undertaken to determine whether the recommendations by Taylor (1980) and MacMillan, Meyers, and Morrison (1980) regarding subject description had been implemented. Results indicated that the system of the American Association on Mental Retardation (previously the American Association on Mental Deficiency) was used in over 50% of the articles, whereas the American Educators system was used in only 10%. A further analysis regarding the use of various classification systems as a function of the age of the subjects was also conducted. Implications of these results were discussed.The girl, Chrissiya Berry, was listed as stable at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital with a gunshot wound in her arm. She was initially listed in critical condition Wednesday.
"We was watching TV, and then I heard gunshots and one had come through the window and shot C.C.," Chrissiya's 6-year-old sister, Chrissy, told NBC station WMC of Memphis, using her little sister's nickname.
The bullet was one of several that flew as a fight broke out among several people Wednesday morning outside the Warren apartment complex on Clementine Road near Elvis Presley Boulevard in South Memphis, police said. At least one man was taken to Methodist North Hospital with a gunshot wound.
No arrests had been reported late Thursday.
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mother is at work, said he heard five or six shots.
"Then I started yelling, 'Get on the floor! Get on the floor!' and they all started hollering and screaming and laying down," McCracken told WMC.
"I was trying to get to her in time," McCracken said, choking back tears. "I was too late."
News reports over the last several years reveal the area to be crime-riddled, with shootings a frequent occurrence.
A 68-year-old man was stabbed to death nearby just last Friday, according to police reports.
In 2010, the Warren apartments survived issuance of a nuisance order that could have led to its shutdown after new management took over. Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Thursday that she still had serious concerns about the complex.Rowans-blog
Thursday, February 26, 2015
I hope, and indeed, I hope I am not alone, when I say
that I believe that the tide isbeginning to turn as far as official concern regarding banking
wrongdoing is concerned.
I am starting to sense a stiffening of the sinews among
those responsible for over-seeing the activities and the actions of the banks,
and although the stirrings are small at present, I hope that they will continue
to increase, as more and more, those responsible for banking management, are
required to give an account of themselves.
Yesterday 25th February, saw an interesting
example of what I mean.
Douglas Flint, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc, and
Stuart Gulliver, Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings plc, were called
to make such an account before the House of Commons Treasury Committee.
After the usual pleasantries and thanks for coming, the
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repeated his question to Gulliver
why he had felt it necessary, as a Hong Kong domiciled person, to have a
Panamanian company incorporated in his Swiss-based structures.
Gulliver was immediately at great pains to say that this
structure was not used for tax purposes, in fact he protested this at least 4
times, although no-one had alleged any wrong-doing regarding tax issues.
He was like the man arrested by the Flying Squad in the
early hours of the morning who, when questioned at the police station, but before
any direct allegations are put to him. the first thing he says is ‘well I haven’t
been doing any robberies’!
Gulliver
was listed as the beneficial owner of an account in the name of Worcester
Equities Inc, an anonymous company registered in Panama, containing a balance
in 2007 of $7.6m.
It was through thisentity that Gulliver’s HSBC bonuses were
paid until 2003. It was subsequently closed in 2009. He also held a second
account in the name of Worcester Foundation, which had been closed before 2007.
Although
now based in the UK, where HSBC has had its headquarters since 2003, Gulliver
is domiciled in Hong Kong for legal and tax purposes.
So let us look at what HSBC had been doing during these
years with a specific focus on tax arrangements.
The
Guardian reports that HSBC’s Swiss bankers had been aggressively marketing a
device that would allow its clients to avoid a new taxation facility,the
European Savings Directive, introduced under a treaty Switzerland signed with
the European Union, the HSBC files reveal.
The
documents show for the first time that rather than acting as a passive party to
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One such BVI
sham entity was even wittily named Alter Ego Ltd.
It may be purely
coincidental, but it is of interest to note that Stuart Gulliver was Chairman
of HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) SA from February 2010, but he had
been a Director since September 2007.
To a possibly unsophisticated eye, unfamiliar
with such fiscal niceties, it might look remarkably like Gulliver was taking
advantage of such protections, so why would he need such corporate secrecy protection?
He told
the committee yesterday that it was merely for secrecy so that his Hong Kong
colleagues would not know how much he was earning! He repeated that it had
nothing to do with tax!
The
Guardian had also asked this question in the last week.
In response to queries from
the Guardian about his personal account as revealed in the leaked files, a
representative forGulliver said he had made use of HSBC Suisse to hold his
bonus payments prior to 2003, when he moved from Hong Kong to London.
Lawyers for Gulliver said
that Hong Kong tax had been paid on this income – and explained that he
“followed this procedure because he wanted his taxed bonus earnings to remain
private from his then colleagues in Hong Kong, which they would not have done
if he had kept them in an HSBC Hong Kong account”.
The Guardian asked Gulliver
why he used a Panamanian company to hold the funds, given Swiss accounts
already offer secrecy. His lawyers declined to answer.
Gulliver now claims that a
computer programme in use in the bank would have allowed colleagues to know how
much he was earning, which he wanted to avoid!
Gulliver’s legal
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have “for a number of years” been
voluntarily declared to UK tax authorities. They declined to specify the exact
date they were first declared.
Gulliver is also among those
current and former clients of HSBC Suisse to take advantage of non-dom status.
Gulliver is a registered non-dom based on his long residence in Hong Kong – now
a special administrative region of China – which he considers to be his home,
despite his UK-based position.
A representative for Gulliver
said: “Having lived there since the 1980s, our client has become a permanent
Hong Kong resident with right of abode, as has his wife who is an Australian
national. Hong Kong continues to be their home albeit that our client now works
primarily in the UK. As a matter of law, our client is domiciled in Hong Kong.”
Non-dom status can confer
severala contract with HSBC Group as such!
The
Guardian has established a separate employment route.
Gulliver, HSBC's highest paid
banker was on a £10m deal in 2009, and was not employed by the bank's main
holding company at all, despite taking over as chief executive.
The British-born executive
who has spent 20 of his 30 years at the bank working outside the UK, is only seconded
to work for HSBC Holdings – the overall operation – through a Dutch-based
company called HSBC Asia Holdings.
His contract, seen by the
Guardian, shows that his principal place of work is Hong Kong, where the bank
moved the office of the chief executive in 2010.. HSBC Asia Holdings has an Amsterdam
address.
The contract, signed in February
2011, also shows that he expected to pay income taxes in Hong Kong and Britain
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for him to receive advice on filing tax returns in both
places.
Gulliver's contract gives his
address as the main HSBC Hong Kong office in Queen's Road Central, and confirms
he is on a £1.25m salary. He is also entitled to an additional 50% as a
contribution to his pension. About £375,000 is paid into a Jersey-based defined
contribution scheme called Trailblazer while the remaining £250,000 is paid in
cash.
Gulliver has been employed by
the bank since October 1980 and is one of 443 HSBC bankers who are also
employed through the Amsterdam offshoot, which HSBC said is designed to allow
them to continue to receive benefits and pension entitlements regardless of
where the bank – which has operations in 87 territories – locates them.
As far as can be ascertained,
Gulliver, on the face of what is known and disclosed,facilitation of tax evasion and the laundering of the
proceeds, presumably took place, at least in part on Gulliver’s watch while he
was a Director.
They see him being quizzed by
MPs as to how he structures his own financial affairs, and they learn that
despite being British to all extents and purposes, (he lives in Kensington), he
and his wife enjoy significant beneficial non-domiciliary status, a tax privilege
denied to ordinary UK residents.
He states he pays UK tax on
his world-wide income, but he is not obliged so to do under his non-dom status,
only on earnings he generates in the UK, or on any earnings abroad he remits to
the UK. On paper, this sounds very generous, but wait, he is not employed in
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Take the case of
Ben Lawsky.
Benjamin Lawsky heads a new
financial regulator in New York called the Department of Financial Services (DFS).
He investigated Standard
Chartered Bank and accused the bank of conducting secret money laundering
transactions with Iran, triggering a 23.5% drop in share price. On August 14,
2012, Standard Chartered Bank agreed to pay a fine of $340 million (£220
million) to the New York State Department of Financial Services, conceding that
$14 million in financial transactions involving Iranian parties were in
violation of U.S. banking laws.
On June 18, 2013, the
Department announced that Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (“Deloitte
FAS”) was fined $10 million and banned from advising banks in New York for one
year after accusing the firm of watering down a report about money-laundering
controls at Standard Chartered.
He is noted for targeting
individuals within the financial sector– clerical errors – and we talked about last year a number of
transactions which clearly were clerical errors or mistakes that were
made."
This was not what had been
agreed with the New York Authorities, and the words used sought to ameliorate
the egregious conduct complained of. This wilful refusal to acknowledge the truth
of the Deferred Prosecution Agreement resulted in an immediate riposte from the
US Authorities, and later, Sir John Peace, was forced to retract his comments
describing the breaches as "clerical errors" and apologised for
describing them as not "wilful acts" after US regulators were
infuriated by his comments at the bank's full-year press conference.
City banks are not accustomed
to being treated like that by mere regulators. The FCA usually knows its place
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for the
banks being disciplined. Well, the Americans are different!
Back in 2014, Ben Lawsky was
invited in his official capacity to attend a conference/seminar evening in
London and to make a short talk to an invited London audience of British and European
bankers, on the subject of "Consumer Financial
Protection & Enforcement".
The organisers had also
invited some other US speakers, Mr.
William K. Black – former US Regulator involved in cleaning up the
Savings and Loans Scandal in the late 1980's, and Mr.Neil Barofsky, formerly the the
Special US Treasury Department Inspector General overseeing the Troubled Assets
Relief Program. From the UK, Mr. Martin
Wheatley, the Chief Executive Officer of the UK's Financial Conduct
Authority and Mr. David Green CB
QC, the Director of the UK's Serious Fraud Office were invited to take part.
This would
have been a very interesting and valuableface to him,
his office and by extension, to US regulators more generally.
No
doubt Martin Wheatley felt he had dodged a bullet by refusing to speak at this
event, but the whole affair speaks volumes about the way in which the British
Regulatory environment views itself and the way in which it conducts business.
It
is this kind of behaviour which enables the British financial sector to turn a ‘Nelsonian’
blind eye to the actions of other regulators and enables them to pretend that
they are immune from other regimes.
In
a similar case, some years ago, John Moscow, a New York specialist white collar
prosecutor was addressing a British audience on the subject of the rogue bank
BCCI. This Pakistani-owned bank had been operating from London for years and
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on the watch list of every major law enforcement agency in the free
world.
Take
a look at these facts reported in Business Insider magazine and then tell me
you aren’t concerned enough to stand up and say something.
Herve Falciani
worked in HSBC's IT department between 2006 and 2008, when he became a whistle
blower to French authorities.
100,000, the number of HSBC
client accounts under scrutiny related to tax evasion and money-laundering
investigations, involving £78 billion —
the accounts' asset total between 2005
to 2007 — the years in which the account data stems from, involving
203 countries
The other
countries launching investigations into HSBC over client tax evasion and
money-laundering allegations are Belgium, France, Argentina, the US, and
Switzerland.
Are you
worried now, Mr Cameron?
I
believe that your silence in the face of this tsunami of financial crime and
organised criminality taints you and your colleagues.Ever since the internet came along, our relationship to libraries has changed dramatically. But recent studies show that these institutions—pillars of the OG sharing economy—are still viewed as essential to American communities. So it's fascinating to take a look through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's collection of posters and propaganda from the American Library Association, an organization founded in 1876 and still going strong in its quest to make libraries—both physical and digital—cultural hubs for learning and leisure.
Lots of the images on file are from efforts to increase book donations from civilians during WWI, then later from the Victory Book Campaign during WWII (anyone particularly interested should check out the the posts over at Books For Victory, which has some great background info).
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fit the data and showed that teams with more than one high-interaction-anxiety member were negatively affected. Interaction anxiety inhibits the social activities of team training, in turn reducing team-training effectiveness when there is more than one high-interaction-anxiety individual on the training team. These results highlight the importance of examining interaction anxiety as a training team compositional variable that may inhibit behaviors and team processesnecessary to capitalize on the positive social activities on which team training depends since the interaction anxiety composition of training teams may serve as an important boundary condition on the effectiveness team-training interventions.Commentaries on "In the Waiting Room" thed to agree that the poem
presents a young girl's moment of awakening to the separations and the bonds
among human beings, to the forces that shape individual identity through the
interreleated recognitions of community and isolation.
[. . . .]
What, one might ask, is so strange about critical agreement on the literal
events that take place within the poem?
One response to such a question might begin by observing that the text itself
seems to undermine the stability of the literal. Certainly the poem appears to
appropriate—and to ground itself in—the particulars of a literal reality or
truth. Bishop takes pains, for instance, to describe the contents of the
magazine read by the young girl in the waiting room. Not only does she evoke in
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"black, naked women," but she
specifies the particular issue of the magazine, identifying it as the National
Geographic of February, 1918. But Bishop, as Jerome Mazzaro puts it,
"tampers with the actual contents." While that issue of the magazine
does indeed contain an article on volcanoes—lavishly titled "The Valley
of Ten Thousand Smokes: An Account of the Discovery and Exploration of the Most
Wonderful Volcanic Region in the World"—it offers no images of
"Babies with pointed heads," no pictures of "black, naked women
with necks / wound round and round with wire" (p. 159). In an interview
with George Starbuck, Bishop, responding to the critics who noticed the factual
"error" in her text, declared: "My memory had confused two 1918
issues of the Geographic. Not having seen them since then, I checked it
out in the New York Public Library.In the February issue there was an article,
'The Valley of 10,000 Smokes,' about Alaska that I'd remembered, too. But the
African things, it turned out, were in the next issue, in March."
Bishop's clarification only underscores her insistence on literal origins—and
her wariness of her own imaginative powers. For the curious reader will discover
what might have been suspected all along: the "African things" are not
to be found in the March issue of the National Geographic, either. In
fact, that issue has no essay about Africa at all.
With this in mind we are prepared for the warning that Alfred Corn offers the
unsuspecting reader. He notes that, just as the picture essay Bishop describes
"is not to be found in the February 1918 National Geographic,"
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the poem itself is
less interested in the event than in the doubts about it, and that the critics’
certainties distort the poem’s insistence on confusion.
[. . . .]
This, then, is "Elizabeth"'s situation after her exercise in
reading: sitting in the dentist's office while her aunt receives treatment
inside, she looks at the cover of the National Geographic and tries to
hold on to the solid ground of literality outside the abyss of textuality she
has discovered within it. In doing so, she silences the voice of her own
internal desire and conforms to the socially determined role that her shyness
forces her to play. At the same time, however, she recognizes, as a result of
her reading, the inadequacy of the inside/outside polarity that underlies each
of her tensions—tensions that mount until they no longer admit ofrepression
or constraint: "Suddenly, from inside, / came an oh! of pain."
With this we come back to where we began—back to the question of the voice
and the question of the place from which the voice originates. But we return
with a difference to the extent that the critical desire to locate or to define
or to frame any literal "inside" for that voice to emerge from has
been discredited as an ideological blindness, a hierarchical gesture. There is
no inside in this poem that can be distinguished from its outside: the cry
emanates from inside the dentist's office, and from inside the waiting room, and
from inside the National Geographic, and from inside "In the Waiting
Room." It is a cry that cries out against any attempt to clarify its
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unleash the textuality that rips the fabric of the cultural
text. To conclude, then, is only to urge a beginning, to urge that we attend to
this cry as a cry of female textuality, a cry that links "Elizabeth"
to her "foolish" aunt and to the tormented mother in Bishop's story,
"In the Village." In this way we can approach the poem's cry, in
Stevens's words, as the "cry of its occasion" and begin to engage the
issues of gender and constraint that are so deeply involved in Bishop's story of
"oh!"
"In the Waiting Room," then, properly tells
or narrates the "growth of a poet's mind." The poet originates in the
recognition of her separation from, and identity with, her world, at once
finding and losing her "self." Her birth or awakening comes with a
scream from inside thedentist's office that is also the voice of the child in
the waiting room, since "inside" says "either." When the
child produces her explanation, she is a poet:
How—I didn't know any
word for it—how "unlikely" . . .
To explain an identity in nature, she finds the word "unlikely";
the perception of sameness is unlikely, because it is more than a likeness or
likely. If all accounts of phenomena are likely stories only, the breach that
gives birth to the poet is an origin that both is and is unlikely. This
is also the breach of metaphor—unlikely identities. The scream, which is not
"like" the child's voice but is hers all the same, signals a
birth into natural identity and an unlikely language. For one's identity, one's
sameness with and difference from others and objects, comes to be adequately
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fifth/of February, 1918." In one way, the language
of this poem seems to suggest that one can make the terrifying and strange normal and
orderly by putting ordinary words in ordinary places. In another way, it suggests (by its
halting, anxious flatness and its flashes of menacing imagery) that just beneath the
individual attempt at rational arrangement or domestication is intractable otherness,
ready to erupt like the volcano pictured in the dentist's office copy of the National
Geographic.
The child in the waiting room appears orphaned (no mother or father enters the picture,
only her "foolish aunt"), and this makes her attempt to domesticate the strange
particularly poignant--even more so when we remember that Elizabeth Bishop herself was
brought up not by her parents but by an assortment of relations. The grave and literate
child in this poem, likethe oddly whimsical and studiously plainspoken adult in
"Crusoe in England," is obviously an autobiographical figure. And "The
War" mentioned at the end of "In the Waiting Room" evokes Bishop's
embattled poetic stance, just as Crusoe's fashioning of makeshift entertainments and tools
suggests her poetic fashioning.
[. . .]
[T]he almost-seven-year-old Elizabeth in "In the Waiting Room" experiences
not a Wordsworthian sense of cosmic embrace, but rather the alternating terrors of a
centripetal force that squashes her together with other people (her aunt, whose scream
"from inside" seems to be her own, the woman in the National Geographic
Magazine with "awful hanging breasts") along with a centrifugal force that
threatens to spin her off "into cold, blue-black space."
As the emphasized name later in the poem makes clear, the precocious female minor in
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and interest in reading,
her acute powers of observation and her anxiety about growing up a woman--is a
prefiguration of the adult poet or "minor female Wordsworth." Elizabeth Bishop
looks back in this poem (in what will be her final book) on her anxious and overwhelmed
child self with still-fresh empathy, but with the assurance and control of the
accomplished artist.
On the broadest level, "In the Waiting Room," like other Bishop poems,
inscribes the terrifying instability of the "I" and individual identity as the
traditional bounds between inside and outside, self and world collapse into mere
boundlessness and flux: "Why should I be my aunt, / or me, or anyone?," the
child asks, as the waiting room begins "sliding / beneath a big black, wave, /
another and another." But the poem also registers the girlchilds terror and
resistanceas she experiences her identification with other women as a fall into
the oppression and constraints of gender signified by her "foolish aunt"
and "those awful hanging breasts" she sees in the National Geographic as
she reads and waits in the dentists office. In words that adumbrate Bishops
later refusal to be categorized and anthologized as a woman poet and her lifelong
friendship and struggle with Marianne Moore, the childs terror registers
Bishops own desire for distinction and difference and her simultaneous fear of
having her historically specific "I" lost and absorbed in the sexual identity
she shared with other women including Marianne Moore.
How had I come to be here,
like them, and overhear
a cry of pain that could have
got loud and worse but hadnt?
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"What similarities /made us all just one?" this
"just" indicates that the thought entails a sense of diminishment, one that
makes the child resist this levelling equivalence of self and other. The young Elizabeth
might be seen as rejecting with all her energies the horrifying knowledge that she is like
the people with whom she shares the waiting room. This knowledge is presented in imagery
that resembles that of "At the Fishhouses," where knowledge is presented as a
burning, uninhabitable liquid: "The waiting room was bright / and too hot. It was
sliding / beneath a big black wave, / another, and another." Indeed. The entire world
seems to become insufficiently distinct and separate, as the "night and slush"
outside echo the "big black wave" breaking inside.
From Vernon Shetley, "Elizabeth Bishops Silences," in After the
Death of Poetry:Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham: Duke University
Press, 1993), 55-56
Joanne Feit Diehl
Two poems from Bishop's last volume, Geography III, by means of apparently
contrasting yet structurally similar experiences. "In the Waiting Room" and
"The Moose" both explore the selfs relation to others as they articulate a
moment that interrupts the continuous act of sublimation that enables us to preserve an
ongoing constitutive identity. In each poem, the crisis of that interruption is resolved
through a gesture of reunion with life beyond the self that allows identity to
reconstitute itself in a recognizable form. These poems delineate an ecstasis that recalls
the vertiginous psychic shifts of the experiential Sublime. "In the Waiting
Room," strangers isolated by anxiety and anonymity come together, their status
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the
liminal is again invoked as strangers embark on a communal journey only to await their
arrival at various destinations. Against these provisional environments, Bishop introduces
images of family. The bus passengers in "The Moose" catch a glimpse of a woman
shaking out a tablecloth. Anonymous voices float softly from the back of the bus (the
recesses of the mind?) to create a soothing lullaby of conversation that retells the
history of people's lives. But the family is not the narrator's own; if the recollections
draw her back into her past, it is through the aura of remembrance created by others'
voices.
Within "In the Waiting Room," familial forms assume a more terrifying guise.
While she waits for her aunt to emerge from the dentist's chair, "Elizabeth"
reads an article in National Graphic where human images assume macabre, distorted
forms:
Adead man slung on a pole
--"Long Pig," the caption said.
Babies with pointed heads
wound round and round with string;
black, naked women with necks
wound round and round with wire
like the necks of light bulbs.
Their breasts were horrifying.
What is meant to pass the time becomes a rite of passage as the seven-year-old
"Elizabeth" is led into the abyss of a self she had not earlier recognized as
her own:
Suddenly, from inside,
came an oh! of pain
--Aunt Consuelo's voice--
not very loud or long.
........................
. . .What took me
completely by surprise
was that it was me:
my voice, in my mouth.
Without thinking at all
I was my foolish aunt,
I we - were falling, falling,
our eyes glued to the cover
of the National Geographic,
February, 1918.
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external world and contemporary events. What has threatened her
perception of identity can be traced, at least for its proximate cause, to the grotesque
pictorial representations of man, woman, and child. What so disturbs "Elizabeth"
that she loses the sense of self one takes for granted in order to live in the world? Lee
Edelman addresses this issue:
Though only in the course of reading the magazine does "Elizabeth" perceive
the inadequacy of her positioning as a reader, Bishop's text implies from the outset the
insufficiency of any mode of interpretation that claims to release the meaning it locates
"inside" a text by asserting its own ability to speak from a position of mastery
"outside" of it. For this reason everything that "Elizabeth"encounters
in the pages of the National Geographic serves to disturb the stability of a binary
opposition.
Thisdisturbance incorporates, moreover, a questioning of the internalized structures
and cultural codes that inform the interpretation of experience. If Bishop's sexual
poetics more generally deconstructs the binary oppositions of heterosexist discourse,
"In the Waiting Room" addresses a related epistemological concern that arises
from Bishop's destabilization of the distinctions by which persons organize information
about themselves and their world. Edelman continues, "Though Bishop's text, then, has
challenged the stability of distinctions between inside and outside, male and female,
literal and figurative, human and bestial, young 'Elizabeth' reads on from her own
position of liminality in the waiting room until she confronts, at last, an image of women
and their infants: . . ." By focusing on "Elizabeth's" vexed response to
the horrific image of maternal sexuality, Edelman introduces us to the larger question of
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he urges us to hear the "oh!" that
"emanates from inside the dentist's office, and from inside the waiting room, and
from inside the National Geoqraphic, and from inside 'In the Waiting Room.' It is a
cry that cries out against any attempt to clarify its confusions because it is a female
cry - a cry of the female - that recognizes the attempts to clarify it as attempts to put
it in its place." That voice of protest emanating from an epistemological
uncertainty, echoes throughout Bishop's work in poems that reengage the mediations between
rhetoric and sexual identity. The fall away from awareness of distinctions disrupts the
assurance of a constitutive identity, and the restoration of that identity through the
intervention of the external is akin to the final stage of the experiential Sublime,
wherein the poet'sbeing human. And she wants to be sure to
make it through the perception of an individual, an "Elizabeth."
"In the Waiting Room" may be seen as a prelapsarian poem of anticipation of
that social state that precedes the acceptance of received namings; "Crusoe in
England" may be read as a postlapsarian meditation on the originating power of naming
and renaming. In reinventing the social world that connects the two, she seems willing to
reconsider all forms of "name" appropriation: place, family, sex, generation,
things. Discovering a world where (as Stevens found) "Mrs. Anderson's Swedish baby /
Might well have been German or Spanish," she then rejects all such forms of naming as
well as (what Foucault calls) "author construction." Each poem reenacts
"birth, procreation, and death" as a debate between naming and unnaming, the
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social (i.e., authorial) identity.
In 1961, Bishop wrote "The Country Mouse," a posthumously published memoir
dedicated to her childhood return to Worcester, Massachusetts, after a lengthy stay with
her maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia. Were it not for its startlingly revealing
conclusion, the memoir, in spite of its abundance of details, would suffer from (by
Bishop's own standards) insignificance. In the final paragraphs, however, which constitute
the nucleus of "In the Waiting Room," Bishop begins to trouble over the obvious:
the social obligation of being human. Having been jolted into awareness of her adoptive
family's class status (hers was a family with servants), she recalls with equal
sensitivity the strangeness of being a human being. As she waits for her aunt in
the dentist's waiting room:
I felt . . . myself. In a few days it would beof "it" and its corresponding reluctance or inability to name
throughout the poem.
Left alone, the child "I" sees and reads the named National Geographic. Its
"studied photographs" reveal an unpredictable, eruptive (prelapsarian)
landscape. Literacy fails, except as an escape route, where metaphor is concerned.
Investigating scenes from this magazine, she catalogues that which she can name: volcano
erupting, Osa and Martin Johnson. Properly attired people bear names: "Osa and Martin
Johnson"; dead people lose their names: "'Long Pig,' the caption
said." Orality and literacy compete for the child's attention, each seductive in its
way. But she mishears what "the caption sa[ys]": "A dead man slung
on a pole / --"Long Pig." Mimicking the instability of spoken language and
substituting a euphemism for a proper name, the conversational caption confuses the
earnest student, who fails to understand that the dead | {
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man is here regarded as a food
source.
The verbal unknown occasions further confusion as the childs eye traces the
physical, sexual uncertainties of uncovered women. So foreign are the native unnamed women
"with necks / wound round and round with wire" that the child "reads"
right through them: "I read it straight right straight through. / I was too
shy to stop" [emphasis added]. Unable to name, the child resorts to the tense comfort
of the unnamed: "it." She retreats from the shifting planes of unnamed,
unnamable uncertainty to the fixity of that which bears a name: "the cover: / the
yellow margins, the date." Such is the force of Dickinson's notch in the maelstrom.
Unable to read her way into the larger constellation of human beings, the child
nevertheless recognizes the sounded family identity when she hearsit. Like the auditor in
"The Country Mouse," this child hears from the inside out. History and memory
fuse, creating a new identity for her:
What took me
completely by surprise
was that it was me:
my voice, in my mouth.
Without thinking at all
I was my foolish aunt,
Iwewere falling, falling,
our eyes glued to the cover
of the National Geographic,
February, 1918.
The intensity of this "it" draws upon the accumulated chain of reference:
"winter," "dark early," "Babies with pointed heads,"
"horrifying breasts," and Aunt Consuelo's "oh! of pain."
Acceding to the social demands, the effect of her aunt's voic,. the child involuntarily
discovers her own collective voice: I becomes we. Dates, like names or Aunt
Consuelo's voice, momentarily pierce the surface of the "cold, blue-black
space"the sea of habit threatening the child's consciousness. She has lost
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for Bishop. She may require (what Beckett calls) a
"temporal specification""fifth / of February, 1918"to
allow her "to measure the days that separate [her] from that menace" (that which
threatens identity). The "falling off" enacted in this poem is the fall into
social identity, restrictive or inaccurate naming. The alternative seems to be the
"big black wave" of annihilation or namelessness. To be "back in it"
is to survive with a social surfacename, age, gender, placeat odds with the
continually unnamed self. "The War was on" presages a career intensely committed
to slipping the yoke of social identity and changing the rules of the name game.
The child of "In the Waiting Room" advances with uncertainty from the
passivity of reader to the tentative aggressiveness of writerto the authority of
authorship. The socializing power of language itself lures thediscern that the world of women, with whom she is suddenly
identified, includes many women of many colors, including white.
While waiting for her Aunt Consuela in the dentist's office, the young Elizabeth scans
through a National Geographic. She surveys among the pictures some black, naked
women with interesting necks:
wound round and round with wire
like the necks of light bulbs.
Their breasts were horrifying.
(Complete Poems 159)
While she is reading, her Aunt Consuela lets out an "Oh!" of pain, and
the young Elizabeth of the poem experiences a moment of sheer empathy with the aunt. She
empathizes in multiple confusing ways: with the pain, the fact of Aunt Consuela's
femaleness, with the family sound of the voice. The sensation is overwhelming and causes a
feeling of vertigo for Elizabeth.
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poem "In
the Waiting Room" and the prose narrative, "In the Village".
Although others, most notably Lee Edelman, have written at length on "In
the Waiting Room", I wish to focus on the dynamics specifically associated
with the handling of aggression. In this poem, the almost-seven-year-old
Elizabeth passes the time in the dentist's waiting room reading the National
Geographic and "carefully" studying photographs that represent
various kinds and consequences of aggression:
The inside of a volcano,
black, and full of ashes;
then it was spilling over
in rivulets of fire.
. . . . . . . . . . .
A dead man slung on a pole
—"Long Pig," the caption said.
Babies with pointed heads
wound round and round with string;
black, naked women with necks
wound round and round with wire
like the necks of light bulbs.
Their breasts were horrifying. (159)
What she witnesses inthe magazine is a prelude to what she hears:
Suddenly, from inside,
came an oh! of pain
—Aunt Conseulo's voice—
not very loud or long. (160)
The confusion surrounding the origins of the cry, whether it comes from the
girl or the aunt, or both, initiates a vertiginous loss of identity. The cry
results from an act of clinical performance that might be construed as a form of
prophylactic aggression situated in an oral site. The cry emerges from inside an
identification that the girl assumes with the aunt. To offset the vertiginous
feelings that issue from this fusion of identities, the girl says to herself,
"three days / and you'll be seven years old". She inserts the language
of fact between the conclusion precipitated by her perceptions of aggression,
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to maintain.
Almost lost to the uncanny experience of merger between herself and her aunt,
between herself and the images in the National Geographic—something
pulls her back—the "cry of pain . . . could have / got loud and worse but
hadn't". On the verge of being overcome by sensation,
The waiting room was bright
and too hot. It was sliding
beneath a big black wave,
another, and another: (161)
the self is returned to ongoing reality, to the matter-of-fact. The process
of recuperation is silent, transpiring in the space between the poem's closing
stanzas:
Then I was back in it.
The War was on. Outside,
in Worcester, Massachusetts,
were night and slush and cold,
and it was still the fifth
of February, 1918. (161)
Whatever psychic processes are enacted within that trans-stanzaic silence,
the outcome is a return to the quotidian, the facticity of dailiness that
orientsthat the movement of this poem enacts a
characteristic version of the sublime with a three phase progress from an
initial state of equilibrium into a state of terror and confusion brought about
by the unsettling eruption of a sublime idea, to end with the mind's
reappropriation of equilibrium, though on a higher or transcendent level.
"In the Waiting Room" recalls a childhood moment of terror about
individual and human identity and shapes it into a characteristic expression of
the "sublime".
from "Bishop and the Negative Sublime." In Kelly Lionel (ed.) Poetry
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to build an ongoing and highly effective support network. Rather than indiscriminately dumping the clothing at various encampments, FDL has built a network of liasons and representatives to ensure that it goes to the places that need it most, and that it reaches those who will use it for its intended purpose: primarily, the "sleeper" protesters, largely impoverished, who form the backbone of the camps. Beyond that, FDL has expended great efforts to ensure that the goods it distributes are manufactured not in Chinese sweatshops but rather entirely by American unions -- a difficult challenge in this age of disappearing American industry -- which in turn ensures that the workers producing the products enjoy health insurance, living wages, and a decent standard of living: aims of the Occupymovement itself.
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That last point underscores one of the most significant aspects of the Occupy movement: that it is not devoted to voicing grievances as much as it is finding a model to solve them. It's one thing to demand middle class conditions for American workers; it's another to help sustain them by patronizing unionized manufacturers. It's the difference between talking and doing, and that difference has quietly fueled the Occupy movement from the start.
One of the most striking conversations I had was with an organizer at Occupy Oakland right around the time that media reports began trying to demonize the camps by pointing to the homeless contingent that had become a part of them. She reacted with scorn at the notion that there was something improper or odd | {
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describe, but the social construction of the camp has been part of the political movement, and our success has already been in declaring that middle class teachers, union workers, homeless people and even mentally ill people can inhabit the same political space as equals. This is the strength that we used to launch an unprecedented action at the port of Oakland, where tens of thousands responded to the call and shut down the port of Oakland as a clarion call to the nation and city. It was the largest human mass I've ever seen in my life. We've shown mainstream people that the right to assemble is a right that they can take without mediation or permission, and that the power of assembly can even push police back,The police picks up a Genk-supporter in which you’re a firework between the Standard’s supporters threw
The police department has still not been returned as a supporter of a first division soccer team KRC Genk are arrested. In the last match, on the 19th of may, against Standard Liege, which had a supporter, you’re a firework, in the bezoekersvak together. That’s what happened when a few of the hundreds of supporters in the field and assaulted after the final whistle of the match. There is also an investigation of the thirty or so other supporters.
A 20-year-old, his supporters from the village of Houthalen-Helchteren was when the Last fireworks of the and at this very moment, and walked to the bezoekersvakken of the Standard, and on the other side of | {
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voetbalwet. Wearing a ski mask, he may have a GAS-to-fine.
The identification of the other supps are still working on
The police department is also currently working on the identification of the thirty or so other supporters who, on the 19th of may and violations are committed. Before, during, and after the game was the pyrotechnic material be used. After the match, had to have the police intervene on the field of play, in order to be a confrontation between fan groups are to be avoided. A number of the supporters are used to this violence. There are reports in the framework of the voetbalwet.contrast to China's security apparatus, which includes widespread blocking of websites and deep monitoring of online communications. China even shut down the internet in the Xinjiang region for 10 months in 2009 after riots.
"Media in the US and Britain used to criticise developing countries for curbing freedom of speech. Britain's new attitude will help appease the quarrels between East and West over the future management of the internet," an editorial in China's Global Times read. "As for China, advocates of an unlimited development of the internet should think twice about their original ideas." During the mobile reception shutdown in San Francisco by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) on Thursday, commuters at stations from downtown to near the city's main airport were affected. BART officials sought to thwart a | {
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a mind with the former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak," the Electronic Frontier Foundation said on its website. Echoing that comparison, vigorous weekend discussion on Twitter was labelled with the hashtag "muBARTek." Aaron Caplan, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who specialises in free-speech issues, was equally critical, saying BART clearly violated the rights of demonstrators and other passengers. "We can arrest and prosecute people for the crimes they commit," he said. "You are not allowed to shut down people's cellphones and prevent them from speaking because you think they might commit a crime in the future." Similar questions of censorship have arisen in recent days as Britain's government put the idea of curbing social media services on the table in response to several nightsthe ability to think straight. But Western governments should avoid such knee-jerk reactions as they served only to highlight the perceived hypocrisy in the West's efforts to bring democracy to other parts of the world. "The domestic challenges posed by the internet demand a measured, cautious response in the West," he wrote. "Leaders in Beijing, Tehran and elsewhere are awaiting our wrong-headed moves, which would allow them to claim an international licence for dealing with their own protests." Queensland University of Technology associate professor Axel Bruns, writing in The Conversation, said he felt like repeatedly smacking his head on his desk when he heard Mr Cameron's proposal.
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Slavery Abolition Act , (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada . It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834.
Several factors led to the Act’s passage. Britain’s economy was in flux at the time, and, as a new system of international commerce emerged, its slaveholding Caribbean colonies—which were largely focused on sugar production—could no longer compete with larger plantation economies such as those of Cuba and Brazil . Merchants began to demand an end to the monopolies on the British market held by the Caribbean colonies and pushed instead for free trade . Thepersistent struggles of enslaved Africans and a growing fear of slave uprisings among plantation owners were another major factor.
Legal challenges to slavery in British North America
British abolitionists had actively opposed the transatlantic trade in African people since the 1770s. (Several abolitionist petitions organized in 1833 alone collectively garnered the support of 1.3 million signatories.) Such antislavery views spread to Upper Canada (later Canada West), influencing the passage there of the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery, the first such legislation in the British colonies.
In the eastern colonies of Lower Canada (what is now Québec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, however, abolitionist attempts had been unsuccessful. In 1793, for instance, Pierre-Louis Panet introduced a bill to the National Assembly to abolish enslavement in Lower Canada, but the bill languished over | {
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several sessions and never came to a vote.
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Instead, individual legal challenges first raised in the late 1700s undermined the institution of enslavement in these areas. One important case arose in February 1798, when an enslaved woman named Charlotte was arrested in Montréal and refused to return to her mistress. She was brought before James Monk, a justice of the King’s Bench with abolitionist sympathies, who released her on a technicality. According to British law, enslaved persons could be detained only in houses of corrections, not common jails, and no houses of correction existed in Montréal. Charlotte and another enslaved woman named Judith were accordingly freed that winter. Monk stated in his ruling that hewould apply this interpretation of the law to subsequent cases. Another significant 1798 case came before the courts in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, when a local military officer, Frederick William Hecht, sought to establish his title to an enslaved woman named Rachel Bross. After a lengthy trial, the jury rejected Hecht’s claim, ruling instead that Bross was a free servant.
Rulings in such cases did not always favour emancipation, however. Only two years after the trials of Charlotte and Bross, an enslaved woman named Nancy petitioned for her freedom in the New Brunswick courts. Fourteen years earlier, Nancy had run away with her son and three others, but they were caught and returned to her owner, a farmer and loyalist settler named Caleb Jones. The challenge filed by her | {
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the flow control at the information channel level is transmitted in a band), a first control word is used to transmit the flow operation information of 16 information channels of the first group, a second control word is used to transmit the flow operation information of 16 information channels of the second group, and so forth. After transmission of the flow operation information of information channels of the last group is completed, that is, after transmission of the flow operation information of the information channels is completed, transmission begins from the flow operation information of the 16 information channels of the first group again.
In a transmitted data stream, the proportion of a control word is generally far less than that of the data payload, and the refresh periodA man has been charged after a head-on collision in Raleigh on the night of December 2 in which a woman died of the personal injuries she suffered.
According to police, while the woman was traveling along Skycrest Drive, she was struck head-on by an oncoming vehicle that was in the wrong lane. The driver of the oncoming vehicle had run off the opposite side of the road, overcorrected, and crossed the yellow line. | {
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a former youth leader refused health authorities permission to take her 90-year old grandmother for an Ebola test.
Dr Manso Dumbuya, the District Medical Officer, said he had been forced to abandon the hospital because of the rioting. The diamond-rich district of Kono, which includes the town of Koidu, does not have an Ebola treatment centre and cases are taken to neighbouring Kenema or Kailahun.not owe anything to the gambler. It may sound interesting to some people, but W88-Info-Blue-logo1this will actually reduce the betting sensation
Wolverhampton Wanderers have signed a two-year sponsorship deal with online betting W88, that the newly-promoted Premier League soccer club are describing as a new record.
The partnership sees the company secure primary sponsorship of the newly-promoted club’s playing kit and adult replica shirts until the end of the 2019/2020 season. The W88 logo will appear on the front of Wolves’ shirts and training wear.
Although no figures have been released, the deal with the global online gaming leader is described by the club as ‘the largest of its kind in the club’s history’. The move comes after Wolves, who will play in the English top flight for the first time | {
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“We have come to a fuller understanding of the Old Town over the years,” said Gerard Meagher, the storied establishment's current co-owner.
It appears Viemeister’s was predated by L.E. Reichenecker Cafe, and before that it was Burckel Brothers’ Cafe, the bar that likely opened in 1892.
A Burckel Brothers' Cafe business card (DNAinfo/Amy Langfield)
Many of the bar's iconic fixtures date to those early days, including the 90-foot mahogany bar, possibly the city's oldest operating dumbwaiter, and of course the men's downstairs urinals, which got their own centennial party in 2010. (The women's restrooms remain upstairs, the only part of the bar where women were originally allowed, Meagher said.)
Other celebrated features came later, such as the booths with Prohibition-era hiding places under the seats for bottles of booze. The | {
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taken up along the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, although the remaining dextral strike-slip component of the relative plate motion is accommodated by the North Island Fault System (NIFS).
The focal mechanism of the earthquake, its depth and the distribution of aftershocks show that it was a result of oblique normal faulting within the upper part of the subducting Pacific Plate, with the rupture terminating upwards at the plate interface.
Damage
It was felt strongly down the country, from Auckland in the north to Dunedin in the south, and more than 9,000 reports were submitted by the public to GeoNet, the geological hazards monitoring network. The New Zealand Herald newspaper reported damage to walls and chimneys and road closures in the lower North Island.
The Earthquake Commission, (EQC) received 5,013 claims, 1,514 of themwas like in her formative years, and neither does she. I imagine she was quiet and shy, because the woman I know today isn’t outspoken or loud. (I got that trait from my father). I imagine her stepmother called her a whore whenever she saw her dance. (At my wedding, my mom said it was the first time she’d danced in thirty years.) I imagine she loved her older brother so much that when he left to attend high school in America, she never forgave him. (Maybe, anyway.)
The last time she was in the house she grew up in, the Revolutionary Guard was storming into her father’s home, looking to arrest him for sympathies with the Shah. He’d already fled Iran.
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up on the basement stair, meeting my father in one of the rug-filled prayer rooms as he prepares a pipe he probably no longer has. The smoke is sweet and soothing, like his hand on my head, stroking my hair and massaging around my eyes after a long day. My childhood sounds like high-pitched eeeeeee’s in the background, the thumps of my brother’s hard run. I remember cramps that curled me in the back of the car, ready for a hospital, or headaches that saw me lying on the floor in the middle of gym class while the other students thought I was faking.
Unhappy memories are not summoned when I remember my childhood. I think of the House with the Big Blue Sign, the Sufi spiritual center wherePresident Trump will hold a rally next week in El Paso, Texas, his campaign announced Wednesday after he highlighted the border town in his State of the Union address to make a case for a physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico divide.
The event will be the seventh Trump has held in Texas, and his first in El Paso, since he first announced his candidacy in June 2015.
“As the President continues his fight to secure our border, there’s no better place to demonstrate that walls work than in El Paso. President Trump looks forward to visiting with the patriots of Texas who are on the front lines of the struggle against open border Democrats who allow drugs, crime, and sex trafficking all along our border every day,” said Michael Glassner, | {
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chief operating officer of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. in a statement.
During his 82-minute speech to Congress Tuesday evening, Trump cited El Paso as being a success story for a border town with a wall as he continues to call on Congress to come up with a long-term spending agreement that includes $5.7 billion in funds for a physical barrier.
"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our Nation's most dangerous cities. Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities," he said.
The Democratic congresswoman in the room who represents El Paso, Veronica Escobar, did not like that line.
He lies. @POTUSis once again lying and using the #SOTU address to spread falsehoods about our beloved city of El Paso.
Fact is that El Paso has been one of the safest cities in the nation long before the wall was built in 2008. #WallsDontWork — Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) February 6, 2019
"He lies. @POTUS is once again lying and using the #SOTU address to spread falsehoods about our beloved city of El Paso," she tweeted in response. "Fact is that El Paso has been one of the safest cities in the nation long before the wall was built in 2008. #WallsDontWork."
The claim about a drop in crime rate after the wall was built in El Paso has been examined by fact-checkers. An El Paso Times review found the rate of | {
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eliminated asset forfeiture for almost all crimes, they kept them for drug trafficking offenses.
The radical change in Russian drug policy came as part of sweeping reforms of the criminal code, which also include the strengthening of citizens' protections when facing criminal charges. But the real impetus for the change probably lies in the country's festering, overcrowded, and disease-filled prison system. With some 850,000 prisoners, Russia is second only to the United States in the number and percentage of its people it imprisons, and an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 of them are incarcerated on drug charges.
Russian Deputy Justice Minister Yuri Kalinin told a Moscow news conference shortly before the package passed that it could reduce the prison population by 150,000 by next year. The amendments are "aimed at easingthe state's punitive policy, above all with respect to minors, women and persons guilty of insignificant public offences," he said. "The state's criminal policy is being moved towards more liberal punishments and more objective assessment of deeds committed by an aberrant person," Kalinin said.
Russian drug expert Lev Levinson told the Moscow Times that in addition to stopping new drug possession prisoners from entering the gulag, the change in the law could lead to the early release of the hundreds of thousands currently doing time on drug possession charges.
According to official statistics, Russia has seen a nine-fold increase in drug addiction in recent years and suffers 70,000 drug-related deaths annually. State Narcotics Control vice-chairman Alexander Mihailov told a press conference last month that another massive increase could be on | {
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