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Statement on the UK?s proposed anti-terror bill October 2005. In its latest statement, ARTICLE 19 examines the fundamental flaws in the Government?s proposals for new measures to criminalise the ?encouragement? and ?glorification? of terrorism. | {
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cruiser guys , i believe form Ohio and somewhere and another harley guy who was riding from Tennessee(headed toward Valdez as well to catch the ferry ride).
those two cruiser guys weren't actually together , but the story was they met somewhere upper north, and they were actually heading towards Anchorage so the tag along, BUT one of guys starter on his bike has failed on him, so the other one was pushing him to start. funny. they were deff done for the day and was ready to get some rest. the Starter issue guy's bike had over 200k miles..with its original starter.
back on the road as i fuel up .
next stop was to the campground which is about 40 miles from Glennallend and about 79 miles from valdez..sothe road got really misty and fogging white, visibility was low.
arrived , and it was still raining , honestly i didint do much. just hung around for a bit and also went to the laundry mat and dry up my gloves cause water got in it a bit.
it was a nice small town tho.
behind me is the AK pipeline;
Left Valdez and head back to camp, sleep the night and got ready for Fairbanks. :cruising:
day 2
got lazy, and slept a bit longer, woke up around 8 am and pack and loaded up the cbr.
now it was back to Gennallen for fuel and take off north to Fairbanks.
so i then fuel up, plan was to stop in a town call Paxson, then stop in Delta Junction and the arrived at | {
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plenty of time to give them to cross.
by the time ive reached fairbanks, i think,,..think the time was around alte afternoon. like 4pm or someN.
first thing i did was stop at Mayflower buffet and fill myself up, yum food.
then headed towards my camping sie; Chena riverside campground,, a bit pricey imo, it was $17 per night for tent camping, but all good, they had drinkable water, wifi and nice clean restrooms..
set up camp ...
behind me was another gentlemen (harley cruiser).. i believe he rode from Utah, spoke to him and he was also heading to the Arctic circle the next day as me.
after camp was set up, i rode to the Pioneer park, its an historical park , was pretty awesome,. kinda made me wish the town was
Matter of Constantopes (2017 NY Slip Op 00966)
Matter of Constantopes
2017 NY Slip Op 00966
Decided on February 8, 2017
Appellate Division, Second Department
Per Curiam.
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
Decided on February 8, 2017
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
RANDALL T. ENG, P.J.
REINALDO E. RIVERA
MARK C. DILLON
RUTH C. BALKIN
LEONARD B. AUSTIN, JJ.
2016-02966
[*1]In the Matter of Alex Constantopes, a suspended attorney. Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts, petitioner; Alex Constantopes, respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2659548)
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING instituted by the Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate | {
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Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on April 5, 1995.
Diana Maxfield Kearse, Brooklyn, NY (Mark F. DeWan of counsel), for petitioner.
PER CURIAM.
OPINION & ORDER
By decision and order on motion of this Court dated August 19, 2016, the respondent was suspended from the practice of law pursuant to former 22 NYCRR 691.4(l)(1)(ii) and (iii), based upon his substantial admissions under oath and other uncontroverted evidence of professional misconduct. Further, the Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts was authorized to institute and prosecute a disciplinary proceeding against the respondent, based upon a verified petition dated March 28, 2016, and was also authorized to serve a supplemental petition dated May 3, 2016, upon the respondent. The petition, which was duly served upon thePrithvi Shaw yesterday termed his journey from Virar to Mount Maunganui a "difficult" one and said words can never express the emotions that he felt while guiding the Indian U-19 team to World Cup glory
As the Indian players ran out on the field to celebrate their World Cup triumph, the support staff that had been so pivotal in the win had a private moment of their own in the dressing room on Saturday
Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar reckoned India under-19 World Cup-winning coach Rahul Dravid played the role of a true mentor in New Zealand where India claimed their fourth ICC U-19 World Cup title | {
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In this March 21, 2018, photo, Andrew Urdiales looks back into the courtroom gallery as opening statements began his trial in Santa Ana, Calif. Urdiales has been found guilty of the murders of five women in Southern California more than two decades ago.
In this March 21, 2018, photo, Andrew Urdiales looks back into the courtroom gallery as opening statements began his trial in Santa Ana, Calif. Urdiales has been found guilty of the murders of five women in Southern California more than two decades ago.
(Mindy Schauer / AP)
Associated Press
A jury on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for an Illinois killer who was convicted of murdering five more women in Southern California more than two decades ago.
The Orange County Superior Court jurors made the recommendation after the penalty phasehearing for Andrew Urdiales, 54.
The former Marine was convicted in May of killing five women in California between 1986 and 1995. He is scheduled to be sentenced by a judge on Aug. 31.
Urdiales was previously sentenced to death for killing three women in Illinois in 2002 and 2004. That sentence was commuted to life without parole after Illinois barred the death penalty.
Authorities said Urdiales, who moved to Southern California as a 19-year-old Marine, killed four women while in the military and a fifth while vacationing in Palm Springs in 1995.
He attacked 23-year-old Robbin Brandley after a piano concert at an Orange County community college in 1986 and stabbed her to death in the parking lot. He picked up 29-year-old prostitute Julie McGhee two years later and drove her | {
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to a remote area where he had sex with her, shot her in the head and left her body in the desert, authorities said.
Urdiales attacked and killed six more women in California and in Illinois who were working as prostitutes, authorities said.Library and Archives Canada's move to finally release a 98-year-old document on Ottawa's treatment of sick First Nations children sheds a small sliver of light onto a part of Canada's history still shrouded by the darkness of locked archives, researchers say.
Library and Archives initially refused to release the document under provisions of the Access to Information and Privacy Act that exempts files covered by solicitor-client privilege.
The 1920 document contained a request for advice from Indian Affairs along with the response from the Department of Justice on whether existing provisions in the Indian Act gave officials the power to create regulations allowing for the forcible removal of sick First Nations children.
The document was requested by researcher Edward Sadowski who filed a complaint last October with the federal Office of | {
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in 1945.
Drees said health records produced by Indian Affairs are only accessible through individual requests under the Access to Information Act.
"You can't actually research this topic as as researcher because it could take you 100 years to get them," she said.
Research for court case
Sadowski was requesting the document as part of research to support a failed court application to include the Fort William Indian Hospital Sanatorium School, where First Nation students who contacted tuberculosis were sent for treatment, as part of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.
Former residential school students who were sent to the Fort William Indian Hospital Sanatorium, seen here around 1960, want to be compensated for their time there through the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. (Thunder Bay Museum)
Sadowski said the document reveals the stepsOttawa took to try to deal with tuberculosis outbreaks in First Nations communities, which were made worse by residential schools, while keeping costs down.
"This is a very complex issue," he said.
"You have to look at the bigger picture in this and everything is interconnected. It was about getting rid of 'the Indian problem."
The document, in the form of two letters, is from the era when Duncan Campbell Scott was deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs. Scott was the architect behind amendments to the Indian Act that made it mandatory for First Nations children to attend residential schools.
Scott once stated that Indian Affairs' goal was to find a "final solution of our Indian problem."
The case of a young girl
The March 27, 1920, Indian Affairs letter was written by the assistant | {
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deputy and secretary for the department who describes a report from a departmental doctor working on the Peguis First Nation.
The letter describes "the case of a young girl with tubercular spine and the case of a child with eye trouble" who can't be "properly treated in their home but whose parents refuse to permit them to be taken to a hospital for treatment."
A portion of a 98-year-old letter released by Library and Archives Canada which was initially withheld under a provision under the Access to Information and Privacy Act that exempts documents under solicitor-client privilege.
The Indian Affairs official wanted to know whether the department could draft new regulations allowing for the removal of First Nations children from their homes under existing Indian Act provisions.
The Justice Department's deputy ministerresponded saying that a new amendment to the Indian Act was needed to create the regulations.
Sadowski said the Indian Act was amended by 1927, giving the department the powers it wanted.
A 1926 letter from the United Church to Scott revealed why parents didn't want their sick children taken away for treatment to places like Selkirk, Man.
"The Indians seem to object to their children being sent to Selkirk, as they say they never see them again, because of the distance, and because most of them go there to die," said the letter signed by the United Church's general secretary Rev. J. H. Edmison.
Edmison was writing to Scott about the possible construction of an "isolation hospital" for children with tuberculosis near the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ont.
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American, 0.12% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 0.35% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.24% of the population.
There were 338 households out of which 32.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.5% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.0% were non-families. 19.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 2.80.
In the township the population was spread out with 24.3% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 26.5% from 45 to 64, and 18.1%and Pennsylvania Route 249 in the northeast part of the township.
Potter Brook – A village on Pennsylvania Route 49 in the western part of the township, near the Potter County line.
Westfield – A borough in the north-central part of the township, at the junction of Pennsylvania Route 49 and Pennsylvania Route 349.
Government
The Westfield Township is governed by three, locally elected Township Supervisors.
County level
Three, elected at large, County Commissioners.
State level
Matt Baker - State Representative, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 68
Joe Scarnati - State Senator, Pennsylvania Senate, District 25
Federal level
Glenn Thompson, Republican, Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district
Pat Toomey, US Senator (elected at large)
Bob Casey, Jr., US Senator (elected at large)
Education
Residents of Westfield Township may attend the local, public schools operated by Northern Tioga School District | {
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Metropolitan '''Epiphanios (Perialas)''' is a hierarch of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]]. He is the [[primate]] of the [[Metropolis]] of Spain and Portugal.
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Metropolitan '''Epiphanios (Perialas)''' is a hierarch of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]]. He was the first [[primate]] of the [[Metropolis]] of Spain and Portugal.
==Life==
==Life==
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On [[April 12]], 2003, the [[Holy Synod]] of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected Fr. Epiphanios as the first [[bishop]] of the newly-created Metropolis of Spain and Portugal. Previously, Spain and Portugal had constituted an [[exarchate]] of the Metropolis of France.
On [[April 12]], 2003, the [[Holy Synod]] of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected Fr. Epiphanios as the first [[bishop]] of the newly-created Metropolis of Spain and Portugal. Previously, Spain and Portugal had constituted an [[exarchate]] of the Metropolis of France.
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In March of 2007, Metropolitan Epiphanios informed the Ecumenical[[Patriarch]] Bartholomew of his intentions to retire. The Holy Synod then elected him as Titular Metropolitan of Vryoula, and elected his successor - V. Rev. [[Archimandrite]] Polikarpos Stavropoulos, from the Metropolis of Italy. Metropolitan Polikarpos was consecrated at the Patriarchate on [[May 6]], 2007 and was enthroned on June 16, 2007 in the Orthodox Cathedral of Apostle Andrew and Saint Dimitrios in Madrid.
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In March of 2007, Metropolitan Epiphanios informed the Ecumenical [[Patriarch]] Bartholomew of his intentions to retire. The Holy Synod then elected him as Titular Metropolitan of Bryoula, and elected his successor - V. Rev. [[Archimandrite]] Polikarpos Stavropoulos, from the Metropolis of Italy. Metropolitan Polikarpos was consecrated at the Patriarchate on [[May 6]], 2007 and was enthroned on June 16, 2007 in the Orthodox Cathedral of Apostle | {
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Andrew and Saint Dimitrios in Madrid.
His Eminence Metropolitan Epiphanios will stay on for a short transition and likely return to the U.S. in early summer.
His Eminence Metropolitan Epiphanios will stay on for a short transition and likely return to the U.S. in early summer.
Life
The future metropolian served for 30 years as a professor of speech and communications at Ithaca College. He also served for a period as a vice president of the college, in charge of student affairs. The college established the Perialas Prize in Epiphanios' honor in 1997. The prize is given to three students annually.
In 1984 he was ordained to the priesthood (taking at that time the name Epiphanios) and served in a variety of parishes, including St. Catherine's in Ithaca (for 15 years) and theAssumption (Koimisis of the Theotokos) Greek Orthodox Church in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, from which he was elected Metropolitan.
On April 12, 2003, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected Fr. Epiphanios as the first bishop of the newly-created Metropolis of Spain and Portugal. Previously, Spain and Portugal had constituted an exarchate of the Metropolis of France.
In March of 2007, Metropolitan Epiphanios informed the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of his intentions to retire. The Holy Synod then elected him as Titular Metropolitan of Bryoula, and elected his successor - V. Rev. Archimandrite Polikarpos Stavropoulos, from the Metropolis of Italy. Metropolitan Polikarpos was consecrated at the Patriarchate on May 6, 2007 and was enthroned on June 16, 2007 in the Orthodox Cathedral of Apostle Andrew and Saint Dimitrios in Madrid.
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billion capital pricetag, are highway projects. A few more are bus projects, such as an Orange Line extension to Burbank and Pasadena, and bus rapid transit on Vermont Avenue feeding the Red and Purple Lines. But the bulk of spending is urban rail, including such projects as future phases of the Wilshire subway to UCLA, an extension of the under-construction Crenshaw light rail line north toward Hollywood, extensions of the Gold Line, and a rail tunnel under the Sepulveda Pass.
It remains to be seen whether anything will come of the 28 by 28 program. In 2010, in the wake of Measure R, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pitched a similar concept called 30/10. Using federal loans, backed by future Measure R revenues, Villaraigosa proposed constructing 30 years worth of transportationits 'L' system has its rail yards at the end of each line, reducing deadheading. Los Angeles should seek to emulate this feature of Chicago's by building yards at the end of rail lines; this in turn requires the lines to have a consistent end, rather than incrementally extending farther out every few years.
Building a subway line to its natural terminus also makes it easier to reconfigure the buses. Were there a subway from Downtown to Santa Monica under Wilshire, most likely Metro would not need to run many buses on Wilshire, and would divert the resources to connecting routes, including Whittier going east and several north-south lines intersecting Wilshire. Building only part of the way under Wilshire, missing key north-south bus routes, makes for a less efficient | {
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has blogged at Pedestrian Observations since 2011, covering public transit, urbanism, and development. Now based in Paris, he writes for a variety of publications, including New York YIMBY, Streetsblog, Voice of San Diego, Railway Gazette, the Bay City Beacon, the DC Policy Center, and Urbanize LA. You can find him on Twitter @alon_levy.She was thirteen years old, struggling as all girls do to make sense of her life and her own self. Her world was crumbling. Her grandfather–the only father figure she had ever known–had died; her siblings were growing up and moving out; her mother had moved them to a new city; her new school was as warm and welcoming as communism; and her new church was hokey. H-O-K-E-Y. Depression settled first upon her with the silence and wonder of October’s first snow, then buried her with the fury and drift of February.
She felt utterly alone, utterly isolated, utterly forgotten.
Her journal was her only solace. Day after day, she inked her frozen prayers on the pages, determined to cling to her faith rather than abandon it. She asked God | {
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to show her why He had brought her to this place. She asked Him why she existed at all. She asked Him where her father was and why he didn’t love her. She asked Him if there was anything beautiful or worthy of love in this life He had given her.
One Saturday evening, the girl sat in her bathroom shaving her legs–more for the privacy than for the need to shave. She wasn’t paying attention, really. Her thoughts were on Michelle, a girl at school who seemed to loathe her with incredible determination. The girl didn’t blame her. She pretty much loathed herself the same.
The girl hardly felt the razor slice through her skin, leaving a small pool of blood on her leg. She reached for the toiletpaper, pulling several sheets from the roll and pressing it to her leg. As the crimson soaked through the toilet paper, the girl saw the design for the first time. How bizarre, she thought, to create toilet paper with such a design that nobody would ever take notice of or appreciate. And why would they? It was toilet paper, after all. The most common, crass invention, purposed only for disgusting things.
The girl was perplexed by it. She stole a spare roll of the Quilted Northern from below the sink and returned to her bedroom. Pulling out her secret stash of colored pens, she began to color in the design. Little circle by little circle, flower by flower, the toilet paper flourished out of its roll and into hands | {
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procurement to have any oversight of the programs, spend and risks nor ascertain the value and ROI of their attendance at these congresses…
Fortune 500 Global Pharma Account (Novo Nordisk)
SMM Program for Merging Companies
In 2009, Merck & Co. and Schering Plough were merging into one company. Although both companies had preferred meeting management suppliers in place, all of the preferred meeting companies utilized different processes, templates and technology tools. They were unable to capture meeting spend and cost savings for the new joined entity. It was decided that they needed to develop an SMM program…Hartford — Three white-robed girls took turns at the podium, each one speaking into the microphone, facing the hundreds who had gathered on the lawn outside Hartford High School Friday evening to honor its graduating class.
The first, aspiring filmmaker and class salutatorian Christine Miller, was introduced by Principal Joe Collea, who quoted staff as saying that “her academic transcript speaks for itself. She has earned straight As throughout high school and taken pretty much every advanced AP course we offer at Hartford High. She is as strong in music and arts as she is in AP calculus.”
Collea noted that the second speaker, valedictorian and performing arts whiz Megan Fariel, was “one accomplished young woman,” who had stacked up, among other honors, the Dartmouth Book Award, National Honors Society | {
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Syria amid the ruins of the houses in Sarmin over which Syrian planes had dropped barrels of chlorine just two days earlier. The umpteenth slap in the face that the United Nations Security Council has suffered at the hands of Bashar al-Assad – just ten days earlier the Council had adopted resolution 2209 condemning the use of chlorine gas and chemical weapons in Syria.
Raed was there in Sarmin. He details the 90 wounded, including 20 serious cases, and the 6 victims, a complete family – three children and a grandmother. His voice is calm, and his words are precise. The anger is kept in check, under control, but palpably present. Doubtless permanently engraved in his memory.
How many times have the hands of Raed, Jehad and Farouq closed theFour Ways America Will React to Winning the World Cup
The US men's national team poses for a photo before the start of a World Cup preparation match against Azerbaijan at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on May 27, 2014.
Photo credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
The FIFA World Cup will kickoff on June 12th from the beautiful country of Brazil. The United States’ campaign will begin four days later with an opening match with Ghana in Natal. The USMNT has been drawn into arguably the most difficult group in the entire tournament being tasked with Germany, Portugal, and Ghana. The odds are long for the U.S. to even be lucky enough to advance out of the group stage into the knockout rounds, but crazier things have happened. But we wanted to | {
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ever again.
Ken Boehlke is the host of Usually Wrong, CBS Sports Radio 1140's only local sports talk show. He's also the assistant producer of The Alan Stock Show on KXNT. Before coming to Las Vegas, Ken was an assistant producer at WBBM in Chicago. He graduated...Interview with world
renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview covers how and when he started creating his own world of cinema,
exactly the way he thought it should look. He is also an accomplished actor appearing in many films directed by other
directors, such as Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer). The interview includes very rare footage of never released films ,
his TV commercials and rare footage of live shows, like "The Adventure of Denchu Kozo" ,at the Kaijyu Theater in
Tokyo. | {
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A California high school teacher has reportedly been fired after he was heard in a video making disparaging remarks about the military in his classroom.
The El Rancho Unified School District voted unanimously to dismiss the history teacher, Gregory Salcido, on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times. Salcido has 30 days to appeal the decision, it added.
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"The classroom should never be a place where students feel that they are picked at, bullied, intimidated," Aurora Villon, president of the district's Board of Education, told the newspaper.
"His comments do not reflect what we stand for, who we are," Villon said.
Salcido is heard saying military members are “not intellectual people” and “the lowest of out low.”
According to the Facebook post that featured the video, his comments were in reaction to aThe idea of NFN attained first public exposure at the CCNxCon 2012 meeting. A year later the project has started getting flesh and bones, with a couple of first workshop papers, and a progress report presented and demoed at CCNxCon 2013. In summer 2014, a first working implementation based on CCN-lite runs NFN-over-CCNx and NFN-over-NDN, with Scala hosting the nameable functions.
Named Function Networking (NFN) is a companion project to Named Data Networking. Likewise, we embrace the "Content Centric Networking" approach, as it is generically called, and would like to see it thrive ... and add to it a new twist!
Named Function Networking is: an ICN style where the request carries at least two names in order to be satisfied Our stance is that CCN can benefit from a | {
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Akhenaten has become quite extreme in his worship of Aten and some powerful people in the court are trying to remove him, in particular Horemheb, whoAkhenaten has become quite extreme in his worship of Aten and some powerful people in the court are trying to remove him, in particular Horemheb, who used to be his friend, but who believes he is destroying Egypt. As in the previous book, the story is told by alternating narratives. In particular I liked the ones by Amonemhet, a humble villager who shows up in a few surprising places. The book has a sad, but expected, ending with the death of Tutankhamon. Altogether these two books gave me a feeling of what life might have been like back then....more
This is the first ofa two-book series about the pharaoh Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti and brother and successor Tutankhamon. Akhenaten upset the poweThis is the first of a two-book series about the pharaoh Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti and brother and successor Tutankhamon. Akhenaten upset the powerful priests of the god Amon when he replaced all the gods of Egypt with the single god Aten, the sun. This book starts with the birth of Akhenaten and follows the palace intrigue around who really has the power in Egypt. It's told in separate narratives by different people near the royal family. I like the viewpoints of these people as they change over time....more
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retinue to convince him to come to Egypt and free them from the Persians. Alexander is a very likeable, smart, charismatic leader. Meriamon is frustrated at his dawdling in Tyre, trying to conquer the seemingly impregnable island city (he does). Things get a bit weird when they get to Egypt. For example, they are led by a couple of giant snakes to the oasis of Siwah, where more other-worldly events take place....more
Alexias tells the story of how he met and fell in love with Lysis in Athens during the last part of the Peloponnesian War. He's just a teenager and isAlexias tells the story of how he met and fell in love with Lysis in Athens during the last part of the Peloponnesian War. He's just a teenagerand is pursued romantically by a few men he's not interested in when he notices the slightly older Lysis at one of Socrates' discourses. They are drawn to each other immediately and are soon inseparable. They participate in one of the Olympiads (in different events), fight against the Spartans and endure the siege of Athens at the end of the war. There's a lot about Socrates and we even get to meet Plato as a very young man. It's really interesting to be immersed in a society where same-sex lovers are as accepted as marriage....more | {
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in the first five weeks of 2018, up from $178 million a year earlier. Viridian Capital Advisors' Vice President Harrison Phillips said: "Investments in cultivation and retail this year have been driven predominantly by the Canadian player. This has been happening pretty consistently from late 2016 through 2017. This reflects the necessity to scale cannabis businesses, to get some kind of advantage, and to explore strategic opportunities, both through acquisitions and international expansion."
Pivot Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCQB: PVOTF) also listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange under the Ticker 'PVOT'. Just announced breaking news this morning that, "The Company has completed the acquisition of ERS Holdings, LLC ("ERS"), a privately-held California company." As previously announced on December 20, 2017, ERS has developed a patented technology called "RTIC" Ready-To-Infuse-Cannabis (the "Patent"),Mr. Patrick J. Rolfes has been appointed President of ERS Holdings, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pivot. Mr. Rolfes will focus on monetizing the intellectual property ("IP") and has already received expressions of interest from multi-national beer and spirits companies interested in partnering with Pivot to develop and commercialize THC and/or CBD infused branded products. Further, Mr. Ross Franklin, co-inventor of the Patent, has been appointed as ERS' Director of Research and Development and will continue to invent new and innovative ways to infuse cannabis into foods and beverages. Alcoholic beverage sales fell by 15 percent following the introduction of medical marijuana laws in a number of US states, according to a new working paper by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Georgia State University. The study | {
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be offered and sold by way of private placement to "accredited investors" within the meaning of NI 45-106 - Prospectus Exemptions and other exempt purchasers (i) in Canada, and (ii) outside Canada and the United States on a basis which does not require the qualification or registration of any of the Convertible Debentures or the Company. The Convertible Debentures and the Common Shares issuable upon the conversion of the Convertible Debentures will be subject to a statutory four month and one day hold period. Subject to the satisfaction of customary of conditions, the Offering is expected to be completed on or about February 28, 2018.
Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZYNE), a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing innovative pharmaceutically-produced transdermal cannabinoid treatments. On January 03, 2018,the highest quality service providers available to the regulated cannabis industry. On February 20, 2018, the company announced revenue results for the quarter ended December 31, 2017. For the three months ended December 31, 2017, the company reported our highest quarterly revenues on record of approximately $990,000, representing an increase of 27% in total revenues when compared to the three months ended December 31, 2016. These increases were driven by record revenues in our Operations segment, Next Big Crop, which had increased revenues of 323% and 193%, respectively, for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2017, compared to the same periods for 2016. As the number of states with regulated marijuana markets has increased, Next Big Crop has found a steady increase in demand for its | {
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Aphria Inc. (OTCQB: APHQF), one of Canada's lowest cost producers, produces, supplies and sells medical cannabis. Located in Leamington, Ontario, the greenhouse capital of Canada. On February 14, 2018, the company announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent with the Société des alcools du Québec to guarantee a supply of high-quality, safe and clean cannabis products for sale in the Quebec adult-use market through their retail outlets and e-commerce platform. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will supply the Quebec market with up to 12,000 kg of branded cannabis products in the first year of the agreement, including cannabis oils and other derivative products and several strains of high-quality Ontario- and B.C.-grown dried cannabis flower.
Follow us on Twitter for real time Financial News Updates:market information along with financial and corporate news. FinancialBuzz.com only aggregates or regurgitates financial or corporate news through our unique financial newswire and media platform. For pivot pharmaceuticals inc. financial news dissemination and PR services, FinancialBuzz.com has been compensated five thousand dollars by vintage capital group inc. Our fees may be either a flat cash sum or negotiated number of securities of the companies featured on this editorial or site, or a combination thereof. The securities are commonly paid in segments, of which a portion is received upon engagement and the balance is paid on or near the conclusion of the engagement. FinancialBuzz.com will always disclose any compensation in securities or cash payments for financial news PR advertising. FinancialBuzz.com does not undertake to update any of the information | {
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successful.
Inside the event:
Asia Inc. 500 is a platform that brings together entrepreneurs, start-ups, digital thought leaders and women leaders across the globe. Growth Conclave 2017 is the debut event by Asia Inc. 500 in India, this was an official Road to GES event. Asia Inc. 500 has helped over 10,000 women entrepreneurs across Asia and Europe.
Katherine B. Hadda, U.S. Consul General in Hyderabad was the Chief Guest at the conclave and she delivered a key note address where she said “Women leaders are changing the way business is done, they are the key part of every organization. Asia Inc. 500 has done a tremendous job in bringing women leaders together and I wish they succeed in their mission to empower 100,000 women by 2020 ”.
Asia Inc 500 andThe Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday released how much the Indian cricketers and the support staff have been paid in August. As per the details, Captain Virat Kohli got Rs 1,25,04,964 as his match fees for the South Africa series and the prize money from ICC. Team India coach Ravi Shastri who is under fire for the team's below-par performance against England was paid Rs 2.05 crore by the BCCI as advance fees for his services for a period of three months.
Here is how much the players have got:
Player Amount in Rs Details Hardik Pandya 5059726 Taxfree portion of 90% Retainership fees for Jan to March 2018 6075000 Taxfree portion of 90% Retainership fees for October to December 2017 Ishant Sharma 5542397 Taxfree | {
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4901386 Match official Fee for IPL Season 2018 Wriddhiman Saha 4434805 Match fees for India tour to South Africa Shikhar Dhawan 11223493 Taxfree portion of 90% Retainership fees for Jan to March 2018 2700000 Match fees for Srilanka tour to India 14175000 Taxfree portion of 90% Retainership fees for October to December 2017
Meanwhile, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) in all likelihood will have a discussion with Shastri on the team's show in England. India lost the ODI as well as Test series to the hosts and the CoA is expected to assess the team's performance after the end of the fifth Test.
''There is a CoA meeting in Mumbai on September 11. While the main discussion will be on implementation of the new constitution, the performance of England seriesand Alex are driving out of town when they stop at a mall so Eve can pick up her prescription. In the parking lot, Alex says that her mother was a “slut” as a teen, earning Alex a brutal face slap (one of the most genuinely surprising moments in the whole hour). While Eve is picking up the meds, Alex calls Kevin and tells him she doesn’t want to go with her mother — but their call gets cut off by the now-descending Mist.
Across town, Natalie Raven (Frances Conroy), the Copelands’ neighbor, and her husband are at the library looking up old Bridgeville newspapers to see if something similar happened a few years ago. Spoiler alert: It did. And earlier in the day, a toad (one of many | {
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survivors.
Our second group is at the mall. Mrs. Carmody, one of the parents who disapproved of Eve for discussing oral sex, tries to shame her in front of the other customers, but Eve points out that Mrs. Carmody’s son Eric is already aware of what oral sex is; she caught him watching porn in school. She also calls her a pathetic bitch and walks away. Talk about a mic drop. (Also, as a reader pointed out, Mrs. Carmody is yet another nod to the original novella.)
Following this exchange, the mall loses power, and Eve runs out into the Mist to find Alex, who, for her part, has exited the car. They quickly find each other and head back into the mall. Here, Mrs. Carmody accuses them of lyingGeneral Interest
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own a giant U.S. theatrical exhibition chain.) A TV news montage of the world going kablooey — Europe in crisis, cyberhackers shutting down power grids, Asian conflagrations and Middle East attacks, and Obama and Biden and Hillary Clinton trying to calm a nation’s frayed nerves — lets us know that things are not going swimmingly. And then Kim Jong-un’s army arrives.
Luckily, a bunch of defiant Washington teens jump in a pickup truck, crash through some barricades, and make for a cabin in the woods, where they plot a guerrilla campaign against Captain Cho (a villainous Will Yun Lee) and his tanks and armored vehicles.
Well-stocked with guns and ammo, and armed with a good nickname — the Wolverines, after the school football team — the boys make sorties intoor copper alloy. Generally, in order to increase its heat conduction, the heat spreader is large relative to the chip, extending in a plane parallel with the proximal ends of the leadfingers. The leadframe is typically planar, with leadfingers extending in a straight path from the edges toward the chip location. This type of arrangement of chip, leadfingers, and heat spreader at least partially underlying the leadfingers, is used in many applications, but is not without its problems.
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end at the exterior of the package where electrical connections may be made to the outside world. During a typical wirebonding process, a ball bond is formed on a bond pad of the chip using heat, pressure, and in many cases ultrasonic vibrations. The wire is then pulled to the appropriate proximal end of a leadfinger, and a stitch bond is formed there, also using some combination of heat and pressure, and often ultrasonic vibrations.
In package assemblies having a heat spreader extending parallel to the proximal ends of the leadfingers, it is often impractical to support the leadfingers during wirebonding. In some applications, where support to leadfingers during wirebonding is deficient, it is known to provide increased clearance between the leadfingers and the underlying heat spreader by increasingEichel may keep straying from middle as Team North America seeks line combos that mesh
TORONTO -- Jack Eichel spent all of Team North America's second exhibition game playing wing and most of its third game Wednesday in Pittsburgh out of his natural position as well. The Sabres' center knew there were too many centers on the World Cup's young guns squad and that he might be the subject of some experiments by coach Todd McLellan.
"It's been a little different but it's been good," Eichel said Thursday on Media Day in Air Canada Centre. "I'm trying to get adjusted. It's something I haven't done in a while but that's a good thing for our team too. A lot of guys are interchangeable. It's a good place to play."
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long "a while" was, Eichel admitted he couldn't even remember the last time he strayed out of the middle. He was at right wing Wednesday with Calgary's Johnny Gaudreau on the left side and Edmonton's Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in the middle. Neither Eichel nor Connor McDavid scored a goal in Team North America's three exhibition games but the team still managed 13 as it went 2-1.
"I think we all kind of knew this was going to be a four-line team," Eichel said. "We have 13 forwards who can score. If you're trying to match up on a line or two, a guy or two, there's a lot of other guys who can pick it up."
How long will Eichel stay out of position? McLellan put Eichel back in the middledo you need an attack guy? It all depends on how you build your lines."
Team North America's first game here is Sunday night at 8 against Team Finland. It will also meet Sweden and Russia in pool play. Eichel said he's looking forward to the chance to play against Sabres teammate and Finnish defensive stalwart Rasmus Ristolainen in the opener
"It's going to be a little different obviously but it's always nice to go against teammates in a good competitive way," Eichel said. "It's a good starting point. Finland is a great team. Rasmus is a physical player, so tough to play against. They're playing really well. He always gets the other team's top line. You see how good he can be."
More thoughts from Eichel on Media Day:
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The United States’ trade wars have allowed Canada’s agriculture industry to pump up sales of soybeans and wheat to China, and pork to Mexico.
FILE PHOTO: A canola crop used for making cooking oil sits in full bloom on the Canadian prairies near Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada July 11, 2011. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
But the same tariff battles are undermining commodity prices and eating into Canadian farmers’ profit margins even as they grab more market share.
Their struggles illustrate the complex global consequences of U.S. protectionism as tariffs launched by President Donald Trump spark retaliations and redraw global agricultural supply lines around the globe. In the case of Canada, farmers have become bystanders hit by retaliatory strikes aimed at the United States.
The situation is bad enough toshare in dairy and poultry under revisions to the free trade agreement between the two countries and Mexico.
Like soybean growers, Canadian pig farmers are hurting. Chinese tariffs on U.S. pork have raised alarm about demand, pressuring the U.S. hog prices on which Canadian sales are based.
Canada, the third-largest pork exporter, sold 19.5 percent more pork to Mexico in the first eight months of the year, according to Statistics Canada, including hams that Mexico would normally buy from the United States. The Canadian sales grew after Mexico imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. pork.
But Canada’s overall pork shipments declined, including to China, which is oversupplied, and the United States, its two biggest export markets.
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Rupert Murdoch's business empire could lose a crucial ally with this week's arrest of one of the world's richest men.
Key points: Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been a crucial ally in the past to Murdoch
Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been a crucial ally in the past to Murdoch Prince Alwaleed was arrested as part of a Saudi anti-corruption crackdown this week
Prince Alwaleed was arrested as part of a Saudi anti-corruption crackdown this week 21st Century Fox's annual shareholder meeting is due to be held next Thursday
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is one of 11 princes, four government ministers, and dozens of ex-ministers rounded up in an anti-corruption crackdown in the desert kingdom.
The Saudi investor has been crucial in the past to Mr Murdoch'sefforts to fend off bids from institutional shareholders to wrest control of the business empire.
"Prince Talal, for about 20 years has been the biggest non-Murdoch voting shareholder in News Corp, now 21st Century Fox," shareholder activist Stephen Mayne said.
"His 5 per cent voting stake has regularly backed the Murdoch control of the company."
The timing of the Prince's arrest could prove disastrous for the Murdoch family, with another attempt to loosen its grip on its company likely within days.
21st Century Fox's annual shareholder meeting is due to be held next Thursday.
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a current passing through the primary conductor, and the signal available at the terminals of the secondary conductor of the transformer is the image of the derivative as a function of the signal time applied to the primary. The primary conductor is a solid cylindrical conductor cable traversed by the current to be measured and whereof the ends are fixed in contact terminals situated on the counter.
The latter solution poses certain difficulties, however.
Therefore, in the case of an increased measuring current, the diameter of the primary cable must be relatively significant to cause an increase in the section of the cable. This raised section causes augmentation in size, especially in width, and overall cost of the current sensor.
In addition, because the electricity counters are becoming smaller and smaller,the marriage of Anthony and Elaine Ierulli and of which First National was the trustee. After a bench trial, judgment was entered for the claimant in that amount plus interest and the executrix has appealed. The executrix, Lydia Ierulli, contends that (1) the decedent's former wife, Elaine, was precluded from testifying under the Illinois Dead Man's Act as codified in section 8-201 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 110, par. 8-201), and (2) First National, as trustee, was entitled only to the net proceeds of the policy in accordance with its terms but was not entitled to recover the loans, interest, and withdrawals which comprised its claim.
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established by Anthony and funded upon his death by a life insurance policy. This trust was executed pursuant to the terms of the judgment of dissolution of marriage of Anthony and Elaine. Under the terms of the judgment, Anthony was to
"immediately execute a Life Insurance Trust Agreement consisting of a policy of insurance upon his life with the Vermont Life Insurance Company in the face amount of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand ($250,000.00) Dollars, wherein the First National Bank of Peoria, Peoria, Illinois is to be the Trustee, and which Trust upon his death shall provide income for the maintenance, support and education of the said children until they attain the age of thirty (30) years, at which time each child as he or she attains the age ofthe time of Anthony's death there was a balance of loans, unpaid interest and withdrawn dividends in the amount of $108,367.88. First National filed its claim and was awarded $124,132.16 as satisfaction for its claim plus interest.
On appeal, Lydia contends that the trial court erred when it permitted Elaine to testify that she had never received the notice from Anthony required under the terms of the trust agreement. She claims that the bar to her testimony is contained in the Dead Man's Act. She further asserts that First National is entitled only to those proceeds received from the insurance company and not to any additional funds from the estate.
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Both Mr Spicer and Mr Trump have repeatedly accused journalists of reporting “fake news” about the new administration.
In his first White House briefing, he lambasted journalists for their coverage of the presidential inauguration, accusing them of misreporting the number of people in the crowd.
He further antagonised the press when he banned journalists from leadingA slim human female with brown hair, high cheekbones, and a small yet prominent nose that gave her face an almost regal air, she held a padd in her hand, her expression one of apology as she nodded to him in greeting. | {
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an organization which is later referred to as the "Fellowship of the Castle", whose agents have been working to ensure Tristran's safe return to Wall. The man who gave Tristran the candle was also a member of this fellowship. The ship sets them down on the road to Wall
And the latter mention:
After Tristan's death, there were those who claimed that he was a members of the Fellowship of the Castle, and was instrumental in breaking the power of the Unseelie Court. But the truth of that, as so much else, died with him and has never been established either one way nor another.
The Fellowship of the Castle was also mentioned in The Tale of Sir Lancelot, which might offer a clue behind the meaning in the Neilwith few words. And
then Sir Launcelot made great sorrow, For never or now was I never at
tournament nor jousts but I had the best, and now I am shamed; and
then he said: Now I am sure that I am more sinfuller than ever I was.
Kellscraft: King Arthur
and
At last it seemed to him that the black Knights nearest the castle
fared the worst, so, as he ever took the part of the weaker, he rode
to their help and smote many of the white Knights to the earth and did
marvellous deeds of arms. But always the white Knights held round Sir
Lancelot to tire him out. And as no man may endure for ever, in the
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stroke; then they took him, and led him away
into the forest and made him alight from his horse and rest, and when
he was taken the fellowship of the castle were overcome for want of
him. 'Never ere now was I at tournament or jousts but I had the best,'
moaned Sir Lancelot to himself, as soon as the Knights had left him
and he was alone. 'But now am I shamed, and I am persuaded that I am
more sinful than ever I was.' Sorrowfully he rode on till he passed a
chapel, where stood a nun, who called to him and asked him his name
and what he was seeking.
Tales of the Round Table: AN ADVENTURE OF SIR LANCELOT (1902)
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J. J. Abrams pitches a great many ideas, and has a way of disappearing after the show has begun, leaving some other writer the thankless job of pretending that they knew where they were going from the beginning.
This just seemed like a nice picture to put here.
I’m not naming names or anything.
One of the few time travel bits I really liked showed up in some of the later spin offs of the Star Trek franchise. There was an actual agency formed to prevent time travel and its aftermath. Time travel was used so many times in the first Star Trek show, that the agents in this Federation agency knew James T. Kirk, the Captain in the original show, by name, and considered him to be one of theSubscribe To
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A couple of photos I stumbled across during my last trip to NARA II in 80-G; Dunkeswell Aerodrome, October, 1944. This was originally meant as a fighter base, but with the stopping of Germany's aerial assault, it was turned over to the Royal Navy and Royal Navy for use in patrolling for u-boats.
The first shot is of a couple of Royal Navy SeaFires (I presume) in front of a temporary hangar.
A crop-in of the planes:
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In predictors of perceived risk in different regions demographic factors (age, sex, level of education, population density, and religion) of welfare (social and economic). There was little overlap. Stress in Mexico and social networks in Ecuador were effective in understanding the dangers of the past
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To further fuel the furor, a special Burberry pop-up store has also opened up inside Printemps, which aims to transport shoppers right into the very heart of London. Plus, it’s selling exclusive rock-chic style products for both men and women, which are no doubt set to become collectors’ pieces.
Our UK Fashion Correspondent, Samantha Robinson, is a London-based fashion and lifestyle writer. She also writes for the Yahoo! Contributor Network UK, and is about to fuel her Kate Middleton style obsession with her new blog 'The Duchess' Style Steal' for helloonline.com. She is also the founder and manager of her own humoristic, collaborative blog, TheFashionGuise.com.� | {
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a special "queen cell" in the hive and fed royal jelly by worker bees to induce her to become sexually mature.
A virgin queen that survives to adulthood without being killed by her rivals will take a mating flight with a dozen or so male drones (out of tens of thousands eligible bachelors in the colony). But don't call these drones lucky because during mating, their genitals explode and snap off inside the queen!
Strange as it is, this actually makes evolutionary sense: the snapped-off penis acts as a genital plug to prevent other drones from fertilizing the queen. But tell that to the dead drone whose penis just exploded.
"IN THRUST WE TRUST"
"We were conservative Jews and that meant we obeyed God's Commandments until His rules became a royal painin the ass."
The next critter on the list is a flatworm, which fights other flatworms using its penis. The ritual is sometimes referred to as penis fencing.
Like slugs, flatworms are hermaphrodites, meaning that they have both mail and female sex organs. When a pair square off to mate, they engage in a duel where they each flatworm attempts to stab the other one with their penises (flatworms have at least two peckers). The winner gets off scott free. The loser is inseminated and is stuck with the responsibility of parenting the offspring
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Singer Aretha Franklin in 1970
A long-awaited Aretha Franklin documentary will premiere in New York City - 46 years after being filmed.
Amazing Grace was shot by director Sydney Pollack in 1972, but it spent decades in an unedited form.
Years of legal complications followed, and now it will finally debut at the DOC NYC festival on 12 November, with the support of the singer's estate.
The "queen of soul" - known for hits like Respect and Think - died of cancer in August, aged 76.
The film Amazing Grace was only finished in 2011 because of technical problems.
After that, Franklin and her lawyers blocked the film's release repeatedly, once suing producer Alan Elliot for using her likeness without her permission.
Legal clearance finally came after the singer'sdeath, when her family members were open to seeing the film.
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It was filmed over two nights at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, when Franklin recorded her Amazing Grace album.
However, Pollack - who later won an Oscar for Out of Africa - made a mistake during the 1972 recording.
By not using clapper boards, an essential tool to match sound with footage in a pre-digital age, he made the 20 hours of raw film frustratingly hard to edit.
The Warner Bros studio, which financed the shoot, ultimately gave up, according to the New York Times.
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were able to put it together using digital technology.
"Aretha's fans will be enthralled by every moment of the film as her genius, her devotion to God and her spirit are present in every frame," said Elliot in a statement.
To qualify for the 2019 Academy Awards, the 87-minute film will run in Los Angeles and New York for one week this year.
Elliot told the New York Times a wider release would likely take place in January, potentially coinciding with the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
"Amazing Grace is the heart and soul of Aretha Franklin," the singer's niece and estate's executor Sabrina Owens told media on Monday. "Her fans need to see this film, which is so pure and joyous."
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that constructed that position." Accordingly, feminists have long challenged the myth of "private woman, public man" (Olsen 1983; Pateman 1983; Okin 1989), while revealing that the perpetuation of the discourse of a strict distinction has gendered and class-specific consequences and the rhetoric of neatly separated spheres both perpetuate and depoliticize injustice (Vickery 1993). Thanks to the women's movements, previously normalized private troubles, such as rape and domestic violence, found recognition as political matters and are turned into public issues to be addressed by the society at large and through state intervention. Similarly, the male-breadwinner model, which treated family as a unit, has been challenged and the welfare states were accordingly obliged to devise ways to approach women's, particularly poor women's, troubles as public issues that require positive discriminationand compensation. As Nancy Fraser argues, the recognition of poverty and gender-based discrimination as public matters was a political achievement. Different interpretations of needs, and the different political positions that address them, began to be articulated and the three groups, composed of experts, oppositional movements, and "privatizing discourses" (voiced by business interests), continued to clash in the public sphere in order to dictate public policy (Fraser 1991, 157, 173). The victory of the emphasis on "personal is political", achieved through political contestation and the emergence of women as social right-bearing citizens, however, had to confront two unanticipated developments: The neoliberal attack on the welfare state and the proliferation of culturally conservative social movements against the ideals of progressive movements. First, the neoliberal Zeitgeist, which seems determined to erase | {
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the public, seemed to have found in the feminist emphasis on "the personal is political" an instrument for its purposes (Eisenstein 2005; Fraser 2009). The feminist emphasis on the political nature of the personal was being recalibrated. On the one hand, what was deemed to be, and would rather remain, private such as the sexual identity of partners or the right to abortion became re-politicized as public matters, but this time by conservative movements. On the other hand, Quietly Reverting Public Matters into Private Troubles 3 the private was recalibrated to refer to "the familial and/or communal sphere," and this sphere was also demarcated as one where the unregulated market can roam freely. Second, neoliberal economic policies have often connected with neoconservative cultural agendas. Politicization of the personalwas reflected in the politicization of life styles at a time when neoconservative movements were on the rise. This can be seen in the regressive politicization of some achievements of the previous era, such as the right to abortion, while the climate became ever more impervious to the demands of relatively new social movements, such as the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender). This regressive politicization of the personal, in turn, dialectically necessitated the reassertion of the privacy and intimacy rights (Cohen 2004) and their protection by the state. Those who originally asserted that "personal is political" this time around reflected on the need for the right to privacy. Some feminists, who study gender while highlighting the ever present significance of social class, such as (Benhabib 1992, 2002), | {
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Public I: The state aims to provide more equality, more freedom, and a better quality of life to all its components, through the funds extracted from the citizens (social welfare state). Public II: Instead of the central political association which hosts many particular ethical conceptions, various ethical communities constitute the new publics. Not Public I, but these ethical communities and the private companies run by the members of these communities deliver 'public' services and carry out philanthropic projects and charity activities. Since these activities must be carried out under the imperatives of market rationality, profit becomes the primary aim; charity is at best considered a positive externality and at worst, merely a justificatory façade (the "minimal" state). (Cultural) Private III: The emergence of a sublimated set of traditionalsphere and life style and collectivizes the person's options. Both Private II and Private III, however, recognize the market as the just distributer of social outcomes. This is entirely at odds with the content of the original Public I, which is then recalibrated as Public II and allied with the idea of monoculturalist communities. Public II turns traditional culture into an area where state intervention is justified as a means of preserving culture and insofar as profit maximization and market logic constitute the ultimate rationality. Economic privatization and cultural collectivization, favored by Private II, Private III, and Public II, appeared precisely at a time when state intervention into the economy for egalitarian purposes was delegitimized in the discourse of both the right and the social democratic left alike. | {
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which allows no place for politics, compensatory justice or political agency" (Brodie 1994, 48). Furthermore, "choice" and "agency", which neoliberalism celebrates as its particular "achievements" are unequally distributed among different classes of women. Thus talking about women and neoliberalism in general terms can mask rather than reveal the class-specific consequences of neoliberal policies. Connell concurs with Brodie and Boyd on the negative impact of neoliberalism for poor or underprivileged women: The result is increased pressure on the social relations of the domesticprivate since average hours of work increase in contrast to sociologists' predictions about the leisure society. The stress is handled first by lowering women's expectations (through conservative rhetoric about family values, women are supposed to choose the housewife role) and secondly by the increase in flexible, low-paidwelfare state policy, contemporary developments move it to the very centre of welfare state activity (Daly and Lewis 2000, 282). The welfare state's involvement in care is an area where neoliberal governance leads to the privatization of public services (euphemistically referred as deinstitutionalization), but unlike other sectors, in many European countries, it also involves the introduction of new means-tested benefits to support the "adult worker family model" (Crompton 1999; Lewis 2001). The care crisis in Europe and North America has been the outcome of demographic changes as well as changes in work (decline of the male-breadwinner model linked to the increasing "feminization of labor"), family structure, and gender relations. The increase in divorce rates has contributed both to the feminization of poverty (Sharma 2005) and to an increase | {
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the patriarchy is shaken due to an erosion of its material bases, women already begin to face the neoliberal policy options provided by a neoliberal and religiously oriented government? Demonstrating once again the assertion that "states embody gender regimes" (Connell 1990; Kandiyoti 1991, 431; Arat 2010), the Turkish government7 views women and children as those who need to be protected despite the fact that domestic crimes against women have increased 1400 percent in the last seven years.8 Reflecting its view of women's primary social role, the government changed the name of "Ministry of Women and Family" into "Ministry of Family and Social Policies" and reduced the number of women's shelters. Women's economic dependence on men, their inability to work either due to the lack of affordable childcare oran increase since 2000s, leaving Turkey the single exception that recorded a 12,7 percent decline in female employment between 1988 and 2008. (World Bank 2009, ii, 16). Turkey has the highest gender gap in employment rates (41.9 percent in 2009) in OECD countries. Mexico, which comes closest to Turkey, has a gender gap of 33.3 percent, while the OECD average is almost half of Turkey's (OECD Employment Outlook, 2010). The divorce rate is low-just 1 percent in 2011-compared with the OECD average of 4 percent, while the marriage rate is the highest in the OECD at 66 percent. Turkey's long term unemployment rate was 28.6 percent in 2010.11 According to EUROSTAT, in 2009, the social protection-related spending in EU was 29.5 percent of the gross domestic product compared | {
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systems and financing options will be developed. Yet shortly after this report was released, SHCEK was abolished and its duties were transferred to Family and Social Services and the Child Services General Directorates, both of which are now under the new Ministry of Family and Social Policies. Since the summer of 2012, the Family Ministry and Health Ministry has announced the banning of abortion and C-sections. This proposal is officially being reconsidered following demonstrations and signs of international concern. Nevertheless reports from hospitals around the country show that public hospitals and most private hospitals no longer conduct abortions, even in the case of rape. In addition there are media reports that pregnant women's medical records are being shared with the Health Ministry to determine whether suspicious miscarriages orfamilies, in Turkey despite the strength of the traditional family model, the feminization of poverty has increased and the rate of child poverty is the highest among OECD countries (Candas and Yilmaz 2011). This reflects the structural nature of children's and women's poverty, the result of the state's determination to keep the structure of the traditional family intact.16 Paying means-tested benefits to family caregivers of elderly or disabled members of their family is at first sight, similar to the care policies in Europe,17 yet Turkish policies differ in two fundamental respects. First, in European countries that favored the care-at-home policies, the disabled person himself/ herself receives the cash transfer and pays it to those whom he/she selects as his/her care-givers. In Turkey, the care-at-home scheme seems designed as | {
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statistics. The added "benefit" would be that the Turkish traditional family structure would be preserved. It is precisely this rationale that perpetuates the gendered division of labor by naturalizing it. Neoliberalism, by eroding class and gender compromises established by the welfare states, not only undermines but also depoliticizes social justice-related issues. Hence, defending the goals of gender equality and advancing social justice requires the setting of barriers against the subjection of all social life to the dictates of economic rationality, efficiency, and the logic of commodification.19 Thus, care, which has never attained a formal institutional character in Turkey, is being also entirely deinstitutionalized and re-domesticated as a preemptive measure that would "protect" the traditional family structure from dissolving and to prevent any progress toward gender equality. The currentPrime Minister's words: "I don't believe that men and women are equal, I think they are different" reflects this attitude. While none of the neoliberal states have completely deinstitutionalized their formal care facilities and while some (such as Japan) are even investing in formal care for the first time (Peng 2002, 45), Turkey has begun to abolish the few institutions that existed and to set up a completely private, i.e. family and private facility based, care. Similarly since 2006, there has been sporadic news of the government's plans to subsidize foster care arrangements through provision of salaries and social security to volunteering families. The project seems to be aimed at completely deinstitutionalizing the care of children who do not have families, while supporting-through subsidies-the proliferation of a foster | {
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women's "essential differences" and communities' and individuals' "choices". Second, the government can enjoy this maneuvering capacity when its actions are not subject to public deliberation, scrutiny, and contestation (Pitkin 1981, 329–330). The public character of state's actions is disowned by the state and not politicized by the society. Thus, the state can deny that it is involved in social engineering. Third, women are affirmatively and not transformatively recognized as a primarily care-giving species differentiated by their ability to give birth and take care of their offspring and family members (Fraser 1997). The costs of not politicizing the movement of the gender regime toward a deliberate gender inequality are very high. If people are recognized as citizens through their public activities, recalibration of the domestic space as wage-making space,an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Bogazici University, Istanbul. As a political theorist, who has written her dissertation on Rawls and Habermas with reference to procedural democracy and social justice relationship, she currently works on the indivisibility of basic rights, freedom of speech, right to privacy, constitutional democracy and its paradoxes, social justice, inequalities of status and social class and their overlapping and diverging outcomes, minority rights, and women. She has various articles that are published in English and Turkish. She is a researcher and an executive committee member of the Social Policy Forum at Bogazici University. Tel: þ 90212359 6558; E-mail: yildiz.silier@boun.edu.tr. Yıldız Silier (PhD 2003, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of | {
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Philosophy of Bogazici University, Istanbul, who is specialized in social and political philosophy. Her dissertation challenges Isaiah Berlin's distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom by focusing on the works of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Charles Taylor, and Gerald Cohen. She is currently working on socialist feminism, the philosophical assumptions and political consequences of different accounts of freedom, struggles for liberation, and global justice. She has published one book in English (Freedom: Political, Metaphysical, Negative and Positive, 2005, Ashgate) and two books in Turkish (The Illusion of Freedom: Rousseau and Marx, 2006 and The Age of Gluttony: Essays in Philosophy and Political Psychology, 2010). 1. For the diverse meanings of the public–private distinction, see (Weintraub 1997) and (Savran 2009). The different senses of "public" and "private" that weone stage of nation building may reappear with the full trappings of the 'public' at another, their boundaries being fluid and subject to redefinition." (Kandiyoti 1991, 430). 4. "Yet not all feminists were committed to a critique of the private sphere or to altering inherited gender patterns. By the 1980s, "pro-family" feminists began to defend women's role as mothers as the necessary basis for gender identity and feminist political consciousness. Pro-family feminists also sought to protect the private world of the family and personal life from all political intrusion, whether from the meddlesome state policies or feminist politicization of the personal sphere" (Landes 1998, 4). 5. Neoliberal states continue to intervene in the economy either to deregulate-which required constantly passing laws and dismantling institutions-or to rescue financial capitalism | {
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in contemporary social theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ----. 1997. Justice interruptus. New York, London: Routledge. ----. 2009. "Feminism, capitalism and the Cunning of history." New Left Review, 56: 97–118. Gal, S. 2002. "A semiotics of the public/private distinction." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 13 (1): 77–95. İlkkaracan, İ. 2010. "The crisis of care: Another limit to sustainable growth in market economies." In IMF and the World Bank: A Critical Debate, ed. A. Tonak. Istanbul: Bilgi University. Kandiyoti, D. 1984. "Rural transformation on Turkey and its implications for women's studies." In Women on the Move: Contemporary Transformations in Family and Society, 17–29. Quietly Reverting Public Matters into Private Troubles 19 Kandiyoti, D. 1991. "Identity and its discontents." Millennium Journal of International Studies, 20 (3): 429–443.housewife, past and present." Journal of Social Policy, (19): 445–467. ----. 1994. "'She has other duties'-women, citizenship and social security." In Social Security and Social Change: New Challenges to the Beveridge Model, ed. S. Baldwin, and J. Falkingham. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf. Nakano Glenn, E. 2000. "Creating a caring society." Contemporary Sociology, 29 (1): 84–94. Oakley, A. 1976. Woman's work: The housewife, past and present. New York: Random House. Okin, S. M. 1989. Justice, Gender and the Family. New York: Basic Books. Olsen, F. 1983. "The family and the market: A study of ideology and legal reform." Harvard Law Review, 96 (7): 1497–1578. Pateman, C. 1983. "Feminist critiques of the public/private dichotomy." In Private and Public in Social Life, ed. S. Benn, and G. Gauss. London: Croom Helm. | {
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Cross-national perspective on 'Cash for Care' Schemes." Ageing & Society, 24: 189–212. Vickery, A. 1993. "Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English women's history." The Historical Journal, 36 (2): 383–414. Weintraub, J. 1997. "The theory and politics of the public/private distinction." In Public and Private in Thought and Practice: Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy, ed. J. Weintraub, and K. Kumar. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press. World Bank 2009. "Female labor force participation in Turkey: Trends, determinants and policy framework", Human Development Sector Unit-Europe and Central Asia Region Report No: 48508-TR. Quietly Reverting Public Matters into Private Troublesstorms reminiscent of the 1930s Dust Bowl. Experts say the new storms have been brought on by a combination of historic drought, a dwindling Ogallala Aquifer underground water supply, climate change and government farm programs.
Nearly 62 percent of the United States was gripped by drought, as of Dec. 25, and "exceptional" drought enveloped parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
There is no relief in sight for the Great Plains at least through the winter, according to Drought Monitor forecasts, which could portend more dust clouds.
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a dust storm stretching over an area of 150 miles from extreme southwestern Oklahoma across the Panhandle of Texas around Lubbock to extreme eastern New Mexico, said Jody James, National Weather Service meteorologist in Lubbock. Visibility was reduced to half a mile in places, stoked by high winds, he said. At least one person was killed and more than a dozen injured in car crashes.
"I definitely think these dust storms will become more common until we get more measurable precipitation," James said.
'Dirty 30s' The Great Plains is a flat, semi-arid, area with few trees, where vast herds of buffalo once thrived on native grasses. Settlers plowed up most of the grassland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to create the wheat-growing breadbasket of the United States,encouraged by high commodity prices and free "homestead" land from the government.
The era known as the "Dirty 30s" -- chronicled by Ken Burns in a Public Broadcasting Service documentary that aired in November -- as when a 1930s drought gripped the Great Plains and winds carried away exposed soil in massive dust clouds.
Bill Fitzgerald, 87, a farmer near Sublette, Kansas, remembers "Black Sunday" on April 14, 1935, when a clear, sunny day in southwest Kansas turned black as night by mid afternoon because of a massive cloud of dust that swept from Nebraska to the Texas panhandle.
"My older brother and I were in my dad's 1927 or '28 Chevy truck a mile north and a mile west of the house and we saw it rolling in," Fitzgerald said. | {
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200 feet of water."
Another farmer in Sublette, 79-year-old Lawrence Withers, whose family farms land his grandfather settled in 1887, is resigned to a future without irrigation.
"We have pumped 170 feet off the aquifer, that's gone. There's just a little tick of water at the bottom," he said.
The Ogallala supplies water to 176,000 square miles of land in parts of eight states from the Texas panhandle to southern South Dakota. That amounts to about 27 percent of all irrigated land in the nation, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The volume of water in the aquifer stood at about 2.9 billion acre feet in 2009, a decline of about 9 percent since 1950, according to the Geological Survey. About two-and-a-half times as much water was drawn out in the 14years ended 2009 as during the prior 15-year period, data shows.
The water may run out in 25 years or less in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and southwest Kansas, although in other areas it has 50 to 200 years left, according to the Geological Survey.
Rationing has been imposed on irrigation in the region but it may be too little too late.
"It's a situation where across the Plains the demand far exceeds the annual recharge," said Mark Rude, executive director of the Southwest Kansas Groundwater Management District.
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heading, “Sacred Heart University Department of Public Safety Bolo Information, Off Campus Sexual Assault” and a photograph of Douglas and his car.
The leaflets also warn, “Do not allow the suspect on campus.”
Police said the 19-year-old rape victim was drinking with friends at the Golden Star Café on Main Street when the 39-year-old Reid tricked the young woman to separate from her friends. He is accused of taking her back to his home, where he allegedly raped her repeatedly, ordering her to hold a stopwatch to time his assaults on her.
Police said Reid was identified as the assailant from campus surveillance video. They said prior to Reid’s arrest on April 6, they had no other suspects.
“The arrest of Alfonso Reid, which clearly identified him as the person committing thecrime of rape, further exposed the defendants’ negligent, reckless and intentional conduct in falsely accusing the plaintiff, Gary Douglas, as the actual rapist by widely publicizing and distributing his photograph,” the lawsuit stated.
On April 26, Douglas demanded university officials retract the leaflets but no retraction occurred, according to the suit.
“In their false accusation, the defendants have held the plaintiff, Gary Douglas, up to public hatred, ridicule, embarrassment and contempt causing him to suffer much damage to his reputation, mental anguish, loss of sleep and appetite and his ability to earn income,” the suit reads. | {
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In the ninth annual Digital School Districts Survey from the Center for Digital Education and the National School Boards Association, three school districts received top honors for technology integration.
The technology and education department at St. Michael-Albertville High School (St. Michael, Minn.) received the Program Excellence Award at the 2013 International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) conference, recently held in Ohio.
Don't have enough credit hours to teach a subject in high school? Apply to a Kansas tech school and teach the college course. Yes, some Kansas tech schools have advertised for instructors of general education courses and the minimum requirement is a bachelor’s degree with 24 credit hours of coursework in the subject taught.
The Board of Education is considering three separate policies geared toward improving the useand security of technology in Howard County (Md.) schools: Ensuring the proper security of all technology within the school system, defining the acceptable use of technology with the school system, and determining the proper use of social media among students and teachers.
The School District of Beloit, Wis. is hiring a Career Technical Education administrator. The new administrator will be in charge of all career technical education programming in the district, including its relationship with Blackhawk Technical College, overseeing advisory committees and curriculum development, working with the counselors for career exploration programming, and more.
District IT leaders are prioritizing BYOD, assessment readiness, and broadband access for their schools, despite that 80 percent predict flat or declining IT budgets for the upcoming year, according to the Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) | {
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first-of-its-kind National IT Leadership Survey.
At Dublin (Ohio) City Schools, Chinese teacher Dun Zhang teaches class in three different high school buildings—at the same time. With a shrinking budget and a desire to keep the foreign language program, the district moved to a blended model this year, with a combination of in-person, online, and video conference classes, to save money while reaching as many students as possible.
Three Texas middle school students joined marine veterans and a team of surgeons on a 12-day expedition through the jungles of Central America. The expedition was part of a science education program called Exploration Nation, featuring real students applying STEM topics to the real world.
A charter school to train high-schoolers for technical and engineering jobs could occupy the first floor of a plannedFOR-PROFIT COLLEGE CLOSURES.
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I started writing this post on Monday, but I have had an insanely busy week – mostly because of the continued sharp drop in oil prices and the impact of that on particularly the Russian rouble. But now I will try to finalize the post – it is after on a directly related topic to what I have focused on all week – in fact for most of 2014.
Oil prices have continued the sharp drop and this is leading to serious challenges for monetary policy in oil-exporting countries. Just the latest examples – The Russian central bank has been forced to abandon the managed float of the rouble and effectively the rouble is now (mostly) floating freely and in Nigeria the central bank the central bank has beenplayer of his class Cheap Nike Air Max 2017 Outlet ," the Argentine added.
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When Angela Merkel first came into office in 2005, George W Bush was in the White House, Tony Blair was British prime minister, and the Elysée Palace was occupied by Jacques Chirac.
The German chancellor’s announcement on Monday that she would not seek re-election as head of her ruling centre-right CDU party and that her fourth term as chancellor would be her last, heralds the end of an era in which she has dominated German and European politics.
Merkel has been a symbol of steadiness and continuity. The departure of the EU’s de facto leader before Germany’s next federal elections – due in 2021 – comes as the continent’s political stability and consensus are arguably at greater risk than at any time since the end of the second world war.
Merkel’sdecision follows a succession of poor election results that began with last year’s federal vote, when the CDU slumped to its worst return since 1949. Regional polls in Bavaria and – this weekend – in Hesse, where the party plunged 11 points to 27%, weakened her further.
After months of fraught negotiations, Merkel’s damaged conservatives renewed a weakened and unpopular coalition with their traditional centre-left rivals, the Social Democratic party (SPD). In an ever more fragmented European political landscape, both are now paying the price as voters turn their backs on the traditional parties of government.
Held together more by a fear of the alternative – and, in particular, the further rise of the far-right AfD – than by any driving policy ambitions, the governing alliance in Berlin lacks clear, | {
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a million refugees, mostly Muslims fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East and beyond, as having speeded her departure, diminishing her authority, dividing her party, her country and its European partners, and boosting support for anti-immigrant parties.
At home, all eyes will will be focused on whether Merkel can manage to stage a smooth exit. In theory, her announcement that she will not be standing again for the party’s leadership at its conference in December should – while she remains chancellor – allow a new CDU chair to build a strong electoral profile before 2021.
But events may well intervene. Merkel is under heavy pressure from her ailing SPD partners to deliver more policy results. The centre-left party, whose vote share has plummeted to an all-time low, could yetsaid that he had asked for a report from the state body on the episode. Kamat said that he had written to the sports authority of Goa to discontinue Ganguly’s services immediately. “He was recommended after many parents requested he be allowed to train students as he was a good coach,” NDTV quoted Kamat as saying.
Goa Swimming Association Secretary Syed Abdul Majid said that Ganguly’s contract had been terminated after they came across the video. “We appointed him because he had a good track record as a coach. There were no prior complaints [of misbehaviour] against him,” he told PTI.
The Goa Legislative Assembly, in 2017, had passed a resolution congratulating Ganguly and a few other coaches for their performance in the 63rd National Games.
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Demand for edible flowers is soaring.
Chefs and keen home cooks want them, as do customers in Hong Kong who buy punnets of Tamsin Wilson's carefully picked flowers airfreighted twice a week.
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Wilson grows the edible flowers in beds in a paddock at Patumahoe south of Auckland.
She acknowledges not everyone likes the idea of popping petals or a bloom in their mouth - such as a guest on a garden tour.
"We had an amazing 90-year-old lady who walked around the garden and her companion said to me that in the car she told her that she thought that 'God had put flowers on this earth to be admired and they should never be eaten.'
"But she was polite while she was here," she says with a grin.
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enables the thumb to be moved inwardly, that is toward the side of the hand, without the palm portion of the glove material bunching up. Alternatively, or in addition, preferably, a second, similar one layer area of the glove body is disposed across the palm area, suitably closer to the finger elements than the first area, but spaced from the first area. High friction, suitably embossed leather material is disposed as one layer of a plurality of layers in the area between these first and the second areas.
Another aspect of this invention lies in the provision of a padded area in the glove body proximate to the heel of the shooter""s hand. Suitably, this padded area is proximate to the first one layer area referred to above. InCrew SC might be sending a representative to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, but just three weeks before the tournament’s opening game, the club and player are still unsure of whether it will happen.
Teams from the United States and Ghana seemed to present the best opportunities for Crew players to attend the tournament. But neither well-recognized national team qualified for the World Cup this year, meaning stars Wil Trapp, Gyasi Zardes, Zack Steffen, Jonathan Mensah and Harrison Afful won’t get the chance to play in Russia.
Instead, it was 21-year-old winger Cristian Martinez, who was named to Panama’s preliminary World Cup squad last week.
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and backward, the method called a clapper type is generally employed. The clapper type has been employed widely since the structure thereof is simple and a relatively long stroke can be secured. Such the kind of the printing method is proposed by JP-A-2005-75000, for example.
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The dot head is arranged in a manner that a plurality of the armatures each thus configured are disposed radially around a print portion.
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shape) so as to oppose to the one sides of the respective arms of the plurality of armatures which are disposed radially. A plurality of outer peripheral projections for positioning are provided at the outer periphery of the annular armature damper. The plurality of outer peripheral projections engage with projections which are provided at the inner periphery of an armature stopper disposed in an annual shape on the outer periphery side of the armature damper. According to this engagement relation, the armature damper is positioned and fixed so as to oppose to the one sides of the respective arms of the plurality of armatures.
Heretofore, the outer peripheral projections of the armature damper are assembled to have a small clearance with respect to the projections of the armature stopper.Usually, since the armature damper abuts against the arms of the armatures, the armature damper is formed by a rigid body with a high intensity. Thus, even when the outer peripheral projections of the armature damper are formed with a high accuracy, it is substantially difficult to assemble in such a manner that the clearance between the outer peripheral projections of the armature damper and the projections of the armature stopper is made zero thereby to completely make them coincide. As a result, as described above, there is a quite small clearance between the outer peripheral projections of the armature damper and the projections of the armature stopper.
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was designed to remove Athenians who aimed for a return to tyranny.
This dubious notoriety is reflected in a condensed form in the story of Agariste's dream, which Herodotus relates (6.131). According to this historian, just before the birth of the future stratēgos, the mother of Pericles dreamed that she gave birth to a lion. If regarded as a sign sent by the gods, the dream seemed a mark of special favor, prefiguring an exceptional destiny for the child about to be born. However, this was a sign that was, to say the least, ambiguous: in the first place, because that dream evoked legends surrounding the births of certain tyrants, in particular that of Cypselus of Corinth; and second, because the dream's content was in itself equivocal. Ever sincenot by chance that several major revolts broke out within this league that now had no purpose. In 447/6 Euboea revolted against Athens, which, after putting down the uprising, imposed democratic systems on the island and installed cleruchies, garrisons of Athenian soldiers, who settled there. It was at this point that the city of Histiaea became the cleruchy of Oreos. In 440/39, the island of Samos was pacified after a long siege, as was then the city of Byzantium. The vocabulary used to speak of the league and its members now changed: the Athenians spoke no longer of their hēgemonia but of their arkhē—their domination—and they now referred to the league members as hupēkooi, dependents, not allies. During the Peloponnesian War, the revolts multiplied, prompting the Athenians to | {
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Étude d'histoire sociale athénienne—périodes archaïque et classique, 2 vols. Lille: Atelier Reproduction des thèses; Paris: H. Champion.
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Briant, P. 2002. From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns [1st French ed. 1996].
Briant, P., P. Lévêque, P. Brulé, R. Descat, and M.-M. Mactoux. 1995. Le monde grec au Ve siècle. Paris: Presses Universitaires dein Divided Houses:Gender and the Civil War, edited by Nina Silber and Catherine Clinton (Oxford University Press, 1992).
THE COMPLETE MARIA CHRONICLES, 2009-2010
Most writing in the vast discourse about American education is analytic and/or prescriptive: It tells. Little of that writing is actually done by active classroom teachers. The Maria Chronicles, like the Felix Chronicles that preceded them (see directly below), takes a different approach: They show. These (very) short stories of moments in the life of the fictional Maria Bradstreet, who teaches U.S. history at Hudson High School, located somewhere in metropolitan New York, dramatize the issues, ironies, and realities of a life in schools. I hope you find them entertaining. And, just maybe, useful, whether you’re a teacher or not.–Jim Cullen | {
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stream of tobacco mixture is formed and transported to an exit or transfer station where segments of the stream, corresponding to single portions, are directed into and along the aforementioned rectilinear feed duct to the wrapping station where they are packaged in respective pouches.
The outer surface of the rotating drum presents an annular groove, connected to suction means and accommodating the continuous stream, which is released at the aforementioned transfer station segment by successive segment, each corresponding to a single portion.
In both of the cases described, the transfer of the mixture at the relative station is brought about by pneumatic ejection means, which operate by producing a jet of air such as will distance the portions singly and in succession and feed them along the rectilinear duct.
The ductSafety evaluation of adenovirus type 4 and type 7 vaccine live, oral in military recruits.
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The Vatican’s long-promised report on the Theodore McCarrick scandal has yet to materialize. Meanwhile, his “nephews” continue to rise in the Church, often taking positions within the inner circle of Pope Francis. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who roomed with McCarrick for five years in Washington, D.C., has been appointed by Pope Francis to the position of camerlengo, which means that he will preside over the next papal conclave. According to the National Catholic Reporter’s Michael Sean Winters, who serves as a stenographer for the American bishops around Pope Francis, Farrell may receive another papal plum this year: a seat on the powerful Congregation for Bishops.
Winters writes that the seat is likely to go to either Farrell or Joseph Tobin, who is another “nephew” of McCarrick, having received his positionas archbishop of Newark through the string-pulling of McCarrick. Donald Wuerl, who covered for McCarrick, currently sits on the Congregation for Bishops but is nearing 80, which will require that he step down, says Winters:
Of special concern to Americans will be the likely naming of a new American prelate to be a member of the Congregation for Bishops when Cardinal Donald Wuerl turns 80 on Nov. 12. This is an onerous job, but a consequential one, requiring monthly trips to Rome but also providing a seat at the table when new candidates for the episcopacy are discussed and referred to the pope. There are really only two candidates at the moment: Cardinal Joe Tobin, who lives 10 minutes from the airport in Newark, New Jersey, and Cardinal Kevin | {
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Farrell, who is already in Rome as prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. Either one would be an excellent choice as both are champions of Francis and neither is an alumnus of the North American College. It is imperative that the nuncio and the congregation look beyond the walls of the North American College for candidates.
The uber-liberal cardinal of Chicago, Blase Cupich, who is another beneficiary of McCarrick’s string-pulling, already sits on the Congregation for Bishops. Should Tobin or Farrell join him on it, that will give liberals two like-minded bishop-makers on the Congregation. Even in his disgraced exile — it was reported this last week that McCarrick is back on the move after leaving the Kansas friary where he was holed up for overa year — McCarrick exerts influence over the Church through his minions.
The abuse cases against him continue to pile up, which will cost the Church untold millions. In Newark, where McCarrick once served as archbishop, the archdiocese is in a lawsuit with workers at St. James Hospital who say the archdiocese has failed to fulfill its pension obligations. Forecaster Beau Henderson writes about the controversy in his December newsletter Strategic Retirement. Henderson predicts that one of the scandals of 2020 will be the Catholic Church’s inability to fulfill pension obligations owing to skyrocketing abuse costs: “In 2019, General Electric made headlines when it announced plans to freeze its pension plan for more than 20,000 domestic employees. In 2020, I expect an even bigger retirement scandal to capture the | {
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CONCLUSION Racial Feelings in the Post–9/11 World In the opening scene of the film Man Push Cart (2005), written and directed by Ramin Bahrani, a pushcart vendor named Ahmad (played by Ahmad Razvi) starts his workday. The first seven minutes of the film have minimal dialogue but are full of activity, with the camera focused on Ahmad conducting the daily rituals of the immigrant service class. In the early-morning hours, he arrives at a busy warehouse to find his pushcart. After loading the cart with goods to sell throughout the day, he drags it through the yellow cab–filled streets of Manhat- tan, a scene depicted several times in the film, making his way to Midtown to sell co√ee, donuts, and bagels. With much e√ort, thedvds to working class men of color. Not only does he su√er from the economic obligations of migration; he also has to prove himself within his familial and social network. He is a single father who must earn enough money to reclaim his son from his in-laws, who refuse to give the child up until Ahmad earns enough money to support him. As the pressure to make money rises, Ahmad’s emotions begin to take a toll. In an act of blind compassion, he takes in an abandoned kitten, which becomes a symbol of his immigrant condition and his slowly unraveling social bonds. He carefully feeds the sick kitten milk and wipes away its vomit; in the end, though, Ahmad must dig a grave for the newborn. Each day | {
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The bottom of the law school market just keeps on dropping.
Enrollment numbers of first-year law students have sunk to levels not seen since 1973, when there were 53 fewer law schools in the United States, according to the figures just released by the American Bar Association. The 37,924 full- and part-time students who started classes in 2014 represent a 30 percent decline from just four years ago, when enrollment peaked at 52,488.
The recession was in full swing then, and many college graduates looked at law school, as they have many times in the past, as a sure ticket to a good job. Now, with the economy slowly rebounding, a growing number of college graduates are examining the costs of attending law school and the available jobs and decidingNRA Headquarters @WTOP pic.twitter.com/YhBuMG42xE — Melissa Howell (@Mhowell003) August 4, 2018
Actress and gun control proponent Alyssa Milano posted a photo in support of the march, but it was unclear whether she attended the event:
Gun control activists across the board–from students, to celebrities, to establishment media talking heads–reacted to the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting by blaming the NRA. The American people reacted by rallying to the NRA, which broke a 15-year fundraising record in March and has now surpassed six million members.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is | {
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Contents
Bio
Sulley made it into the popular college Monsters University at age 18, and received his job not long afterwards and became a scarer, one of the best the company has ever seen in their many years of activity. He is best friends with Mike, who also served as Sulley's scare assistant. After an unexpected adventure involving getting a child back to her room, Sulley realized that it is better for the company to collect laughs instead of screams, so Sulley now became the head of the company and changed the main role to collecting laughs.
Sulley was top scarer of Monsters, Inc. and was naturally afraid of humans due to their rumored "toxic touch" that could kill the biggest monsters in an instant – until he met Boo, ahuman girl who found her way into the monster world and into the factory. Sulley, who was initially hesitant, became Boo's protector and obtained a fatherly role to the human. Constantly worrying about her and protecting her from harm while at the same time unlocking the secrets that humans were not as deadly as rumored. Starting by treating Boo like a pet, he eventually grew to care for her, the attention drawing away from a jealous Mike. Randall Boggs, Sulley's arch-nemesis who also wants to be top scarer (and eventually, CEO of Monsters, Inc.), tries to use Boo in an experiment to forcibly extract screams for the growing energy crisis that relies on their cries to provide, and risking his friendship with Mike, Sulley comes to her rescue | {
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and in the process discovers that a child's laughter is 10 times more powerful than scream. Sometime after Mr. Waternoose, the former CEO of Monsters, Inc., is arrested by the CDA for assisting Randall in kidnapping crime, Sulley becomes the new CEO and changes the policy to obtain children's laughter instead, turning the energy crisis around.
Sometime after the events of the film, Sulley announces Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me, a company play that stars Mike, who has also directed, produced, and written the play, in front of the audience and he appears in the play as a co-star.
In the short, Mike shows his new car to Sulley and brings him outside while telling him not to peek. When Mike tells Sulleyto open his eyes and asks him what he thinks of the car, Sulley asks him what was wrong with the old car, to which Mike replied, "That's 3 little words, Sulley: 6-wheel drive!", then they both got in. Unfortunately for Mike, Sulley accidentally ruins the car by doing various different things, and Mike eventually told Sulley to get out, but ruined the car himself when he sped off.
Sulley reappears in the prequel. He is shorter, skinnier, and shaggier.
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campus, it’s clear he’d rather crack jokes than books — and he learns the hard way that his unfettered talent and family ties can only get him so far. With his ego bruised and future in jeopardy, a stubborn Sulley must put his pride aside, team up with an odd bunch of misfit monsters and actually work if he wants to live up to his true Scaring potential.
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An 18-year-old Sulley appears in Monsters University as an arrogant, yet friendly, monster who thinks that his family name is enough to get him into the scaring business. He is quick to clash with Mike, who he considers to have lower chances of becoming a scarer than himself. He joins the fraternity Roar Omega Roar, only to be kicked out afterhis and Mike's rivalry causes them to be booted from the scaring program. He decides to join Oozma Kappa in order to get back into the scaring program, but he fears that Oozma Kappa will lose the Scare Games because they aren't significantly scary. He eventually develops from Mike's rival to his friend, although he doesn't find Mike scary enough to win and tampers with the equipment so that Mike will register a good score. As a result, Oozma Kappa wins, but Mike finds out that Sulley cheated and enters the human world to prove himself a good scarer. Feeling guilty, Sulley confesses his cheating to Dean Hardscrabble and risks his life to get Mike back from the human world; however, the door is deactivated, stranding the duo. | {
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Together, Sulley and Mike generate enough energy from their side to power the door and scare the newly-arrived human police. They return to the monster world, but are expelled from Monsters University. Despite this, they get to work at Monsters, Inc. in the mailroom and work their way up until Sulley becomes a scarer (with Mike as his assistant) and meets their boss Henry J. Waternoose III.
Personality
Sulley is nice, outgoing, brave, intelligent, selfless, humble, level-headed, confident, and caring. He appears to be popular among the other employees.
In the first film, although his job is to scare children, Sulley makes efforts to befriend Boo and then goes to extreme measures to protect her from Randall and trick Mr. Waternoose into confessing to assisting Randall. It is Sulley who realizesthat making children laugh is a far better way to produce energy than making them scream, thus solving Monstropolis' energy crisis.
Sulley is also very loyal to Mike, going so far as to lend him "odorant" and making reservations for him at an exclusive restaurant on Celia's birthday. Sulley also tries to cover for Mike when he realizes he forgot to turn in his paperwork. In return, he relies on Mike to help him in his madcap efforts to keep Boo safe. When Mike protests, Sulley chooses to help Boo over appeasing Mike's pride; his choice is justified when Mike later changes his mind and comes to help him and Boo.
Description
Comparison between Sulley from Monsters, Inc., and Monsters University
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according to both of his Scare Cards.
He physically resembles a humanoid bear, and his body is covered in light teal fur, with the stomach area’s fur being a light shade of blue. He also has purple polka dots, which are part of his fur’s colour scheme. It is not known what color Sulley’s skin is, but his palms imply that his skin is generally the same color as his fur.
On both sides of Sulley’s temple lay a pair of whitish beige, devilish horns. His limbs are muscular, and his two arms are significantly longer than his two legs. Sulley has four fingers on each hand, and three toes on each foot, with thick and sharp brown claws being present on all of his digits. He has a pairof blue eyes, with eyebrows of a darker teal to compliment them. Sulley’s mouth hides a set of large, sharp teeth. He also has a big reptilian tail with a line of brownish spikes that starts from his stubby neck. Sulley is also one of the few monsters with a visible nose; in his case, it is a stretched out, cone-like nose with a similar colour to his eyebrows. It overall resembles the nose of a dog or a bear.
While Sulley’s physical traits are overall the same between both movies, he is noticeably thinner and shaggier in Monsters University, y, with a mullet-like cowlick on the top of his head.
Video Games
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Trivia
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Tokyo Mater with a car version of Mike.
Originally, Sulley was going to be a janitor and not a scarer in one early version of the first film. This is referenced in Monsters University in a montage of Sulley and Mike's jobs climbing the ranks to become scarers, one of the jobs being a janitor.
According to the original treatment from the DVD, Sulley's working name was Johnson and instead of being the best scarer as seen in the first film, he was a clumsy monster who was very bad at his job.
In another early draft, one of his original names was Hob, and instead of working as a scarer, he actually worked for a TV show.
One prototype drawing of Sulley showed him with brown fur, while another showed himwearing glasses, and a third showed him with tentacles. The reason for Sulley to be drawn with legs for his final design is due to the fact that the animators were afraid that the viewers would focus too much on the tentacles instead of his face had he be drawn with such.
A drawing of Sulley appears on a wood carving in the Witch's house in the Pixar film Brave.
The toilet cover that resembles Sulley's fur in Partysaurus Rex.
In the Toy Story Toons short Partysaurus Rex, the toilet cover in the bathroom has the same design as Sulley's fur.
Sulley is the first Pixar protagonist who doesn't have a love interest, followed by Remy and Merida.
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John Goodman, Sulley's voice actor, also voiced Pacha from The Emperor's New Groove, Baloo from The Jungle Book 2, and Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff from The Princess and the Frog.
Sulley's design was said to be based on that of a prehistoric giant ground sloth.
Sulley has 5.5 million rendered hairs in Monsters University, 5 times as many as in Monsters, Inc.
Physically, Sulley has 5,475,458 hairs on his body. He weighs 985 pounds.
It is revealed in Monsters University that Sulley's father is actually named Bill Sullivan.
At one point, they made Sulley wear glasses, which was a bad idea because it was hard to see the eye expressions of the character.
In France, Sulley's name is spelled Sulli.
Due to the fact that Monster's University came after Monsters Inc.
Keep up to date with Serie A and Italy news with Goal.com's Italy page and join Goal.com USA's Facebook fan page Zac Lee Rigg writes things and stuff for Goal.com. You can follow him on Twitter @zacrigg , if you really want to I suppose.
When Internazionale sold Mario Balotelli to Manchester City, Inter patron Massimo Moratti claimed the youngster was dispensable in part because of the arrival of Philippe Coutinho.Simultaneously, hordes of fans moved the cursor over to Google and typed in the Brazilian's name.What they will have found out is that Coutinho is an 18-year-old attacker, diminutive in stature, who Inter bought as a 16-year-old and loaned back to Vasco da Gama for two seasons. They would have read that he became a starter in Brazil, leading | {
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In the next Champions League matchup, Coutinho earned his first start, capitalizing on a shakeup from the loss to AS Roma and an injury to Diego Milito.Inter won 4-0.Coutinho has started the three matches since, in each further brushing aside his timidness. He even earned his debut for the Brazil national team against Iran earlier this month.His watershed moment came Wednesday against Tottenham Hotspur. Floating in from his left flank like usual, the Brazilian combined ball control as tight as the curls in his hair with short sharp passing (he completed 65 out of 73 feeds) to dismantle Tottenham and give Inter a 4-0 lead by halftime.Despite assisting one goal and creating another in the first half, Coutinho's slickest moments perhaps came in the second half when heChannel, ESPN3.comSaturday's only match could very well be Sinisa Mihajlovic's last as Fiorentina coach. Dunga has already had to deny reports that he would take over the gig, with Viola propping up the rest of the table. Surely Fiorentina will improve on its five points from seven games once Adrian Mutu returns from suspension next week, but Mihajlovic might not have that long.Paulo Barreto, Bari. Bari has been undone by shoddy finishing this season, with Barreto and striker partner Jose Castillo especially guilty. Though Barreto has three goals, two are penalties, and he'll need to find the form of last year to keep Bari running smoothly.Draw.6:30 a.m. EST, Sunday, Oct. 24ESPN3.com, Fox Soccer PlusOne point ahead of Fiorentina in 19th place is Parma, which hasn't won since the | {
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Over the course of the experiment, water samples for DNA extraction of planktonic microbes were taken on six sampling dates: 8 July 2011, 5 August 2011, 25 August 2011, 30 September 2011, 14 October 2011, and 27 October 2011. The first two sampling dates were taken while the adult stickleback were in 24 of the 30 tanks, the August 25th sampling point was taken while all mesocosm tanks were fish‐free, and the last three sampling points were taken after juvenile fish had been added to all mesocosm tanks.
For all sampling points, water was collected from the middle of the mesocosms in sterile glass bottles and placed on ice until filtration (within 5 hr)The JonBenét Ramsey Murder Case Explained
The internet can't stop talking about it.
You may have heard or seen the name "JonBenét Ramsey" floating around recently, and are probably wondering why. The former child beauty queen made headlines in 1996 after she was found murdered in her home a day after Christmas.
Twenty years later, JonBenét is in the news again thanks to new documentaries about the case from Netflix, CBS, Dateline NBC, and A&E. Her brother Burke, who was 9 at the time of her slaying, also recently spoke to Dr. Phil about the case in a series of interviews. He's now suing CBS over insinuations in their recent documentary that Burke was in fact the killer.
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still unsolved. The main suspects were always her family members — either one of her parents or Burke. As most of us are probably too young to remember the details, here's a short explainer on what we know about what happened to the young pageant star.
WHO
JonBenét Ramsey was a 6-year-old child beauty queen who lived with her family in Boulder, Colorado. Her father, John, was a computer services company executive, and her mother, Patricia (Patsy), was a stay-at-home mom. She had one older brother, Burke, and an older half-brother, John.
On the morning of December 26, 1996, JonBenét's mother found a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her daughter's safe return. The note said that the kidnappers would monitor the collection of the money and that JonBenét would be returnedas soon as it was paid. Patsy called the police, who did a search of the house, but couldn't find any signs that someone had broken in.
Interestingly, $118,000 is the exact amount that John received as a bonus that year from his company.
After Patsy called the police JonBenét's body was eventually found in the home's basement eight hours later.
Patsy and John said that Burke slept through the entire thing and only woke up when police arrived, The Daily Beast reports. Police also determined that the ransom note was written with a pen and paper from the Ramsey's house and also found what appeared to be a practice draft of the note in the house.
HOW
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A cord was twisted around her neck, and the cause of death was officially listed as asphyxiation by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma, per a death certificate obtained by the Associated Press. It is also believed that she was sexually assaulted.
WHO
Initially, law enforcement officers suspected a member of her family was involved in the murder, but in 2008, all members were cleared thanks to DNA testing, CNN reports. Instead, DNA testing points to an “unknown male” as the murder suspect. All family members always maintained their innocence.
As the investigation progressed, there were certain details that surfaced, including the fact that the killer may have left a footprint on a suitcase placed below a broken basement window at the Ramsey's house, the Denver Post reports. For a while, policeAn Investigation into the JonBenét Ramsey Case, the Media and the Culture of Pornography, that suggested her murderer was obsessed with child pornography. JonBenét’s role in childhood pageants attracted a pedophile, who killed her, he theorized. And in 2006, a man named John Mark Karr confessed to the killing, though DNA later ruled him out. Other conspiracy theorists say Katy Perry is actually JonBenét.
Burke says the whole ordeal has made him a very private person. "For a long time, the media basically made our lives crazy,” he said. "Seeing that as a little kid is just kind of a chaotic nightmare.” | {
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Nostalgia will be in the air for fight fans this fall.
A feature-length documentary on UFC 1, entitled UFC 1: Origin of the Octagon, is in the works by Emmy-winning production company SI Films for late 2019.
Directed by John Mason Gordon, the film will feature interviews from numerous individuals key in the creation and implementation of the UFC’s inaugural event, including Jim Brown, Royce Gracie, Ken Shamrock, Teila Tuli, Art Jimmerson, Gerard Gordeau, and more.
“The origin stories of sports are often obscured behind layers of time and legend,” Gordon said Tuesday in a statement.
“We are thrilled to work with Sports Illustrated in telling the largely unknown stories of the creators, fighters, and executives who put everything on the line with success so unlikely. That it’s the origin of theUFC, a brand almost everyone knows, makes it an incredibly exciting documentary opportunity.”
UFC 1 took place Nov. 12, 1993, in Denver, Colorado, and marked the first mixed martial arts event to ever air live in North America on pay-per-view.
The iconic event featured a one-night, eight-man tournament that saw Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Royce Gracie win bouts against Jimmerson, Shamrock, and Gordeau via submission in a combined 4:55 of fight time.
The documentary, UFC 1: Origin of the Octagon, will debut on streaming service SI TV. A release date has yet to be announced. | {
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of the fossil moths was produced not by pigments, however, but by physical structure.
Moth wings contain patterns of microscopic structures including ridges, cross-ribs, and branching micro-ribs. When light bounces off of these structures, it scatters in a specific way, producing visible color.
Structural color exists in insects, birds, mammals, fish, and even plants. In September, McNamara and her colleagues reported that they'd deciphered the structural colors of ancient beetle fossils. Moths presented a more sophisticated challenge. "[Structural colors] are most diverse, and most complex, in butterflies and moths," McNamara said in her presentation.
With that complexity in mind, she and her colleagues studied a collection of fossil moths unearthed from the oil shales of Messel, Germany, a site famous among paleontologists for its exceptionally preserved fossils. The moths were similarto modern-day forester moths, a group of bright metallic moths in the family Zygaenidae.
Studying the microscopic structures in the fossil moths' wings, the researchers reconstructed how the insects appeared in life. The moths' bodies were bright yellow-green, and they also sported yellow-green wings rimmed in blue. Unlike their modern cousins, however, these fossil moths did not appear metallic.
Moth and butterfly scales are made up of layered sheets that typically produce iridescent colors. These colors appear to change hue, and seem to flash on and off, depending on the viewing angle.
But the fossil moths suppressed their shimmer and flash. Various physical structures such as tiny holes and well-spaced ridges on the moths scales dampened the iridescence, resulting in bright, solid color that was visible from nearly any angle.
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a low power density High Temperature Super-conducting (HTS) electric machine. The coil support withstands the high centrifugal and tangential forces that would otherwise act on the SC coil. The coil housings are positioned end-to-end along the long side sections of the coil winding in order to evenly distribute the centrifugal and tangential forces that act on the coil. To reduce the heat leakage, the mass of the coil support has been minimized to reduce thermal conduction from the rotor through support into the cold coil. The coil support is maintained at cryogenic temperatures, as is the field winding.
The coil support system includes a series of coil support assemblies that span between opposite sides of the racetrack coil winding. Each coil support assembly includes a tension rod and arotor assembly time, improves coil support quality, and reduces coil assembly variations.
In a first embodiment, the invention is a rotor for a synchronous machine comprising: a rotor core; a super-conducting coil winding extending around at least a portion of the rotor core, the coil winding having a side section adjacent a side of the rotor core; at least one tension rod extending through a conduit in the rotor core; and a housing attached to the tension rod and connected to the side section of the coil winding, wherein the housing comprises a pair of side panels.
In another embodiment, the invention is a method for supporting a super-conducting coil winding in the rotor core of a synchronous machine comprising the steps of: extending a tension rod through a conduit | {
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in the rotor core; positioning the coil winding around the rotor core such that the tension rod and tension bolt span between side sections of the coil winding; assembling a pair of side panels of at least one housing around a side section of the coil winding; securing side panels together, and attaching the housing to a first end of the tension rod.SHARE
Of the world’s 50 most dangerous cities, 43 are located in Latin America and the Caribbean. InSight Crime looks at some of the factors driving the violence.
Business Insider revived the list in a recent publication, based on a report from the Mexican Citizens’ Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice that came out earlier this year, ranking cities around the world by their homicide rates. With the exception of Cape Town, South Africa, the 20 most violent cities are in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Of the 50 urban areas with the highest homicide rates, 16 are located in Brazil, nine in Mexico, six in Colombia, and five in Venezuela (see map below). San Pedro Sula in Honduras was ranked as the most violent city in the world for | {
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the third consecutive year, followed by Caracas, Venezuela and Acapulco, Mexico.
InSight Crime has identified the top five criminal dynamics that have helped make Latin America’s cities the most violent in the world:
1. Booming Domestic Drug Markets
Various Latin American countries have seen a substantial increase in the size of their domestic drug markets, spurring the rise of local criminal groups. Brazil is now the world’s second largest market for cocaine and its derivatives, after the United States, while Argentina, Peru and Colombia have also seen significant growth in their domestic markets in recent years.
As local criminal groups emerge to supply local markets, turf wars over transport and sales territory can lead to spikes in murder rates. This is one of the factors driving homicides in Brazil, which has seenthe domestic drug trade expand beyond Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and into the rest of the country. Gangs have spread to the northern and northeastern regions of Brazil, home to several of the cities on the list including Salvador (#13), Natal (#12), João Pessoa (#9) and Fortaleza (#7). The same dynamic is seen with larger criminal organizations, like the First Capital Command (PCC), which originated in São Paulo and now has a presence in 24 of Brazil’s 27 states.
2. The Fragmentation of Organized Crime
Latin America has seen the fall of many major drug kingpins in recent years, causing criminal organizations to splinter into smaller factions. Without the manpower to carry out large-scale transnational drug trafficking operations, these smaller groups typically turn to more localized — and | {
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of domestic drug markets. Transnational criminal organizations also set up operations in transit nations to oversee drug trafficking, and bring violence with them.
One example of this phenomenon is Venezuela, home to five of the world’s most violent cities, including Caracas, which is ranked as number two. Venezuela is a major transshipment point for Colombian cocaine and has seen Colombian criminal groups battle for control of drug trafficking routes. Four of the five Venezuelan cities on the list are near the coast, and may serve as transit points for drug shipments headed to the United States and Europe via maritime routes.
Honduras has also seen violence surge and street gangs grow more sophisticated as the country has become a major drug transit hub. Honduras is home to the world’s mostviolent city, San Pedro Sula, which is located near the border with Guatemala and close to Puerto Cortes, Honduras’ main port. The city also has a major gang problem, with the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Barrio 18 battling for control of the local drug trade, and the presence of the Sinaloa Cartel.
4. Conflict and the Legacy of Civil War
Civil wars in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua helped give birth to Central America’s ruthless gangs. The MS13, one of the region’s largest and most powerful street gangs, was founded in Los Angeles in the 1980s by Central American refugees fleeing armed conflict. When the US government deported these refugees in the late 1990s and early 2000s, those involved in criminal groups transformed the war-torn Northern Triangle region — made | {
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and facilitate drug shipments, while ties to politicians and local elites lend criminals a façade of legitimacy.
This dynamic was made painfully clear by a recent case involving the disappearance of 43 student protesters in Guerrero, Mexico. The mayor and his wife in the town where the students went missing allegedly ordered the attacks, which authorities believe were carried out by the Guerreros Unidos criminal group. Following the attacks, intelligence reports indicated that 12 mayors from the state of Guerrero may have links to organized crime.Educator Opened Youngsters' Eyes To Adventures In Reading
That is what friends and contemporaries thought of Catherine ''Kate'' Nash.
The retired Seminole County schoolteacher died last week at 75 years of age, leaving behind her a legacy of innovative teaching methods and learning enthusiasts.
''She was one of those people for whom teaching was more than a job, a profession, it was a life's work,'' said Karen Coleman, school spokeswoman, who knew her since 1960.
During her 27 years of teaching, Nash taught English for 18 years at Sanford Middle School. Two years before she retired in 1979, Nash was a special education teacher at Seminole High School.
Nash was especially creative teaching children with different abilities how to read, her friends said. Reading labs in Seminole County schools, with ''nooks and crannies | {
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and carousels with children working on different things,'' were Nash's idea, said Belle Rumbley, a retired teacher, who knew Nash for 26 years.
''Her contribution to children is inestimable,'' said Rumbley, a Seminole County teacher for 39 years.
Among Nash's most tangible accomplishments was a program that teaches children to read by typing. The program was immortalized in the 1974 book The Write to Read, which Nash co-authored with Charlotte Geyer, coordinator of the Seminole County school system's secondary language arts program.
With the help of colored letters and color-coated keys, the teaching method enables children to read as they learn to type. The program was adopted in 1982 by the state Department of Education and recently was revised for use with computer key boards.
Nash also helped found the Seminole ReadingCouncil, said Geyer, who knew Nash since 1960. Also, Nash served as a director of the Florida Reading Coucil and was an active member of the Alpha Delta Kappa honorary teachers sorority and the Sanford Woman's Club. | {
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it without a release from the seller or a court order. Following a court order directing the return of the money, Jonusas agreed to its return. In July 2000, Michael Young again spoke with Jonusas about the return of the money. During this conversation, Jonusas revealed that he had invested the money and lost it all. At the time of trial, the $50,000 had not been returned to the Youngs.
Jonusas was charged by information with theft by deception pursuant to § 28-512. He pleaded not guilty, and a bench trial was held.
A detective from the Omaha Police Department, who had been assigned to investigate the matter, testified that Jonusas claimed that the Youngs had lied to him and that he believed they had forfeited the $50,000 by tryingor a mere five minutes, he could turn her to mush, make her forget all her convictions, probably even her pride.
He almost scared her. Almost. "You're a wizard or something, right?"
Dean had his face resting in the crook of her shoulder, his hot breath pelting against her throat. "I have one minute left, honey. Let me use it to catch my breath, please."
She smiled easily, charmed by his casual attitude toward things carnal and awed by his powerful machismo. He slumped against her and spoke in a raw whisper, and still he seemed more of a man than any man she'd ever known.
Eve drifted her fingers through his thick, light brown hair. "You should probably be in a bed."
"With you? Hell of an idea."
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is involved to a lesser degree.
Even before the changes, however, most members of the multi-county drug task force said they think the three-man ACET team has been successful in drug busts and prosecutions.
One prominent dissenter is Routt County Sheriff Gary Wall. In 2007, shortly after he took office, Wall pulled his department — and its funding — from the program, formerly known as the Greater Routt and Moffat Narcotics Enforcement Team.
Wall recently reaffirmed his decision to pull out of the program, citing problems with Wiggins and the program as a whole.
Wall cited the cases of the two former ACET members — Ken Johnson and Bob Brabo — prosecuted for crimes allegedly committed while working for the drug task force.
Johnson will go to trial in May on charges ofattempting to influence a public servant, accessory to a crime and embezzlement of public property.
A former Craig Police Department detective, Johnson is accused of lying to police during an internal investigation about a relationship he had with a Craig woman, aiding that woman in violating her probation for drug charges, providing her with information about ongoing law enforcement investigations and giving her a laptop computer and other equipment used by ACET.
In early December, Brabo, also a former Craig Police Department officer, pleaded guilty to stealing $500 of ACET money. Brabo was assigned to ACET at the time of the theft.
In a letter critical of ACET and Wiggins that Wall sent to several local law enforcement agencies and the Steamboat Pilot & Today, Wall claims that Wiggins and the | {
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) is formally requesting a classified briefing by U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin on the capabilities of its fifth-generation stealth multirole F-35A Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II, the aircraft’s conventional takeoff and landing version, according to Indian media reports.
The United States has not formally offered the aircraft to India and any classified briefing would require clearance by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State. The Business Standard reports that the IAF would possibly be interested in procuring up to 126 F-35As from the United States as a deal for 126 French-made Dassault Rafale multirole fighter aircraft fell through.
Instead, the Indian government announced in April 2016 that it would procure 36 Rafale fighters in fly-away condition from France. Originally, the IndianEvent summary: ‘Smart Power: The Missing Middle of National Security’
by
Rupert Sutton
and
Alice Bexson
This is an executive summary of an event with Christian Whiton, former US diplomat, senior advisor to the State Department, on 31 October 2013; it reflects the views expressed by the speaker, not those of The Henry Jackson Society or its staff.
Christian Whiton, a former US diplomat, senior advisor to the State Department, and commentator on national security issues introduced his new book ‘Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War’. He highlighted what he believes is wrong with current attitudes to foreign policy and explained why we need to focus on the absent intermediate stages of foreign policy, revisiting the tools of statecraft that fall between diplomacy and war. He also discussed what he considers to be the | {
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three main threats to the US and UK, namely China, Iran, and Islamism. Finally, he stressed the importance of practical policies and action which embodied the ‘missing middle’, and gave a number of historical examples.
What is the ‘Missing Middle’?
As has been seen with Iran and North Korea, the existing diplomatic options are often seen as talk and sanctions on the one hand and war on the other. This ‘missing middle’ is where smart power ought to be, between soft and hard power, between diplomacy and war;
This stems from the first Gulf War in 1991 when there was very limited time to do anything in the middle, something which has stuck in the minds of policy makers given the war’s success;
It is also caused by the lack of coherentsmart power. These include:
UK and US support and funding for the Christian Democrats in the Italian elections of 1948 in order to help prevent the Italian Communists from coming to power and ensuring Italy joined NATO;
The Marshall Plan, which was an important signal from the US that it would stand with Europe, although today it would likely be regarded as soft power and as foreign aid, which today has often lost its objective;
The US reversal of its decline in defence spending in 1948, signalling awareness of the necessity of being ready for a global war at a moment’s notice;
The formation of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which demonstrated to allies like France, Sweden and Germany, as well as to the Soviet Union, that the US would maintain | {
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its commitment in the event of war;
The commitment to and promotion of cultural freedom, including sending pro-Western academics and speakers to events to support socialists and social democrats in the debate against communism.
About Rupert Sutton
Rupert Sutton is a Researcher at Student Rights and the co-author of 'Challenging extremists: Practical frameworks for our universities'. He is originally from Maidstone and holds a BA in War Studies from the University of Kent, and an MA in Terrorism and Security from King’s College London where he wrote his thesis on Loyalist paramilitarism. He previously interned at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation as well as spending two years with the NHS.
The Henry Jackson Society is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under company number 07465741end, an enlargement formed in the lower passage of the exhaust manifold midway its ends, an intake portion formed integral with the exhaust portion and lying almost wholly within the lower passage, a bowl-shaped enlargement formed integral with said intake portion and lying within the enlargement formed in the lower passage so that said upper and lower exhaust passages will be of approximately the same area thus preventing back pressure, an elbow formed integral with the bowl-shaped enlargement and extending below the manifold, said elbow provided with a flange for the attachment of a carbureter, a screw threaded outlet formed at one end of the manifold for receiving an exhaust pipe, an adjustable valve located in the upper exhaust passage adjacent the outlet for controlling the passage of | {
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training. Simply wasn’t going to get regular game time in either of the positions I might use him in (striker, left midfield) in the first team, and I want him to get the game time to get used to playing where I want him to – without threatening my hopes for success.
Bertrand Traoré has had his loan cancelled simply because I was never going to use him, preferring instead to use talent under contract at the club.
Carel Eiting and Che Nunnelly from Jong Ajax, and Matthijs de Ligt from the Under 19s, have been promoted into the first team to provide cover and further their development.
In terms of transfers in and generally strengthening the squad, I have my sights set on this guy as my first choice leftInt’l School Students Set Sights on Asian English Olympics
The Australian International School in Vientiane plans to send 15 primary and secondary students to participate in the 2017 Asian English Olympics in Indonesia and is optimistic they will come back home with some medals.
The English Olympics is one of BINUS English Club’s (BNEC) most prestigious events. Established in 1992, BNEC has been widely acknowledged not only for its achievements in national and international competitions, but also for its ability to create innovative events.
Principal of the Australian International School, Mr Jose Ruthchan Portillo, talked about the competition after his students received The Best Friendly Participants’ award at the 13th International Mathematics and Science Olympiad (IMSO), held in Indonesia.
The Olympiad took place from November 9-13 in Tangerang City, Banten, and drew | {
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more than 400 students. The theme of the event was Smart, Skilled and Creative in a Joyful Competition Excellent’.
The Olympiad aims to enhance the competencies of elementary school students in mathematics and science, motivate students to develop their intellectual capacity and skills in both subjects, and foster friendly relationships among primary school students.
In an interview with Vientiane Times on Friday, Mr Portillo said AIS students represented Laos at the event. During the competition, students took part in the theoretical examination, science experiments, social activities, tours and a cultural party.
Participation in the IMSO 2016 provides our students and teachers with a valuable experience. It will enable our teams to benefit from stronger and better selection and training of participants for international competitions, he added.
This year, Vietnam took the topspot among the 23 participating nations at the 2016 International Mathematics and Science Olympiad for Primary Schools with seven gold, two silver and three bronze medals for mathematics.
The Australian International School is a private educational institution comprising kindergarten to secondary school levels.
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5 with a locking prominence at the end is inserted therein such that the housing 1, the body 6, and the bracket 5 are assembled.
According to the assembly structure of the engine mount having the above structure in the related art, when a strong external shock is applied to a vehicle due to a collision etc., the bracket 5 held by the curling portion 1a may be separated from the housing 1 by the external shock.
Further, in addition to separation of the bracket 5 due to an external shock described above, the housing 1 and the bracket 5 may be corroded by moisture flowing in a small gap in the curling portion 1a.
On the other hand, as the engine mount described above, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.H08-226487 discloses an engine mount formed by integrally pressing a pair of main body plates and one sheet to the lower end of each of main the body plates.
However, the invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H08-226487 has a structure in which only one sheet is pressed to the lower end of the main body plate, such that it is vulnerable to an external shock, such as a collision of vehicles, and the engine mount is not sufficiently fixed.
Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-293607 discloses an engine mount in which a first fitting device and a second fitting device are disposed apart from each other at an opening of one side of a bracket, a cocking portion of the bracket is integrally formed, and a | {
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Seventy-five years ago today, workers completed one of the greatest sculptural feats of the 20th century—four faces, etched in granite, forming the national icon known as Mount Rushmore. These 60-foot-tall presidential mugs, which took 14 years to make, are an incredible engineering achievement even today.
South Dakota historian Doane Robinson was the brains behind this enormous sculpture that now draws more than 2 million tourists to his home state. However, the original faces weren't going to be presidents at all, but rather Western heroes like Buffalo Bill Cody and Red Cloud. But sculptor Gutzon Borglum—who Robinson picked for the project—believed such an immense work should have a more national appeal. Borglum also thought the magma-formed batholith known as Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills provided the perfect stonecanvas.
Gutzon Borglum on a Bosun chair inspecting Mount Rushmore. U.S. National Park Service
"Borglum liked what he saw on the mountain," says National Park ranger and Mount Rushmore expert Marvin Achtenberg, "a good piece of granite that would withstand the test of time."
In 1927, Borglum and his team began constructing the monument, starting with several years of dynamiting. They blew up more than 450,000 tons of rock before even beginning to carve. Only then did they start chiseling the features that would become the heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln using a combined method of facing bits and jackhammers. Several decades later, many of the mechanics that went into creating such a colossal piece are still being used today, most notably on the carving | {
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