To comprehensively and extensively review and amend all aspects of the laws and the implementation of the laws relating to sexual offences, and to deal with all legal aspects of or relating to sexual offences in a single statute.
The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No. 32 of 2007) has been amended by the Judicial Matters Amendment Act (Act No. 8 of 2017), Gazette No. 41018 and Notice No. 770, dated 2 August 2017.
The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No. 32 of 2007) has been amended by the Judicial Matters Amendment Act, 2015 (Act No. 24 of 2015) GG 39587, Notice No. 21 dated 8 January 2016.


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How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
How to Fight a Dragon's Fury
How to Be a Pirate - Characters
How to Fight a Dragon's Fury - Characters
This is the page for the book character. You may be looking for the franchise character.
Alias(es):
Valhallarama of the White Arms and Chunky Thighs
Dragon(s):
Unnamed Silver Phantom
Weapon(s) of Choice:
Hairy Hooligan Tribe
Chief's Wife
Viking Hero
Old Wrinkly
Husband- Stoick the Vast
Son- Hiccup
Valhallarama of the White Arms and Chunky Thighs is the wife of Stoick the Vast and the mother of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III.
" Hiccup's mother is a great Hero who is often away questing. "
— Official How to Train Your Dragon Book Website
Partaking in her Family
Valhallarama is considered a great hero amongst the Hairy Hooligans but is often away questing, leaving Stoick to raise Hiccup on his own.
However, her first introduction is being mentioned as present living with her family. She is first mentioned sitting at breakfast with her family the day after Hiccup caught his first dragon on Dragon Catching Day.
Valhallarama: "How did Initiation go yesterday, dear?"
Hiccup: "Oh, it was fine. I caught my dragon."
Valhallarama: "That's nice, dear."
She appears again during the Thor'sday Thursday Festival having a picnic with her family overlooking the axe-fighting display. She offers Toothless a Tuna sandwich.
Finally she is around once Hiccup wakes up after his ordeal with the Green Death. She, along with many other people of the village are around his bed.
" We're all here, willing you to wake up. "
— Valhallarama
" Valhallarama gave Hiccup a rousing punch on the shoulder, which is the Viking mother's equivalent of a really big hug. "
However, Hiccup immediately sees that Toothless wasn't there.
Borrowed Jewelry
Though Valhallarama doesn't seem to be around for a quest to find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure, her jewelry is. Hiccup uses an "old gold bracelet of his mother's" to help train Toothless to sniff out treasure, an ability dragons possess.
Valhallarama's Story
It is revealed that when she was younger, Valhallarama fell in love with Humongously Hotshot the Hero, who was required by tradition to complete an Impossible Task to win her hand in marriage. When she heard of his death, she was heartbroken, but eventually married Stoick instead.
Hiccup as a baby, crawling among Valhallarama's armour
Years later, Hotshot confided to Hiccup that he was captured and held prisoner for many years, but sent a friend to Valhallarama with his half of the ruby heart's stone, the prearranged signal that he needed her to rescue him. Unfortunately, this "friend" was actually Alvin the Treacherous, who kept the stone for himself and told her that Humongous was dead. Believing his true love had given up on him, Hotshot's heart broke, and he decided to get out of the hero business and stick to being a mercenary, working only for money.
During Alvin's confrontation with Hiccup, Fishlegs, and Camicazi on the slope of the Volcano, Hiccup retrieved the bracelet in which Alvin had mounted the stone, which he then showed to his mother. She did not express any lingering feelings for Hotshot, but did hide her face for a time long enough to wipe away tears.
In his memoirs, Hiccup writes that his mother died in a battle with raiders on her 76th birthday, as terrible and fierce as she ever had been in youth. In closing, he called his mother "a great warrior."
Encounter with a Traitor
Valhallarama appears in person. Riding her Silver Phantom, she first tried to kill the Traitor of the Wilderwest, unaware that it was her son. Hiccup's dragons knocked her out by dropping a tree trunk on her head and carried Hiccup away. After he explained it was his mother, they returned to check on her, but she was gone. She had however managed to get Hiccup's map and handed it over to Alvin. A couple weeks later, after Hiccup found the Dragon Jewel, she grabbed him and returned him to Alvin. Hiccup was outraged at her, not only for working with his archenemy, but for spending so much time away from home questing. Excellinor tried to get her to give the Jewel to Alvin, being forced by Valhallarama's silence to explain many things, including that Stoick had been enslaved too. Valhallarama then explained to Hiccup the reason she was always off questing was that because she had been looking for the King's Lost Things.
After hearing Alvin had eight of them, she assumed he must be a great Hero to have succeeded where she had failed for so long, so decided to serve him. But she then learned that Hiccup was the one who found them and that Alvin had simply taken them. She then nominated Hiccup as the true King of the Wilderwest, despite the Slavemark on his forehead. Dramatically and unexpectedly she branded herself with it, declaring the mark to now be the Dragonmark, the symbol of those who would have Hiccup as their King, those who would not see the dragons destroyed unless absolutely necessary. Many of the Vikings accepted the mark, as many of them were secretly following Hiccup already. When the Red Rage attacked, Valhallarama led the Company of the Dragonmark, Hiccup's followers, to the temporary safety of the Bog-Burglar Islands.
As Doomsday Eve approached, Valhallarama left Stoick the Vast in command of the Dragonmarkers, setting off on a Quest to burgle the King's Things away from the Alvinsmen. She very nearly succeeded, being stopped only by Hiccup's burglary of the Things, as he failed to recognize her in her Alvinsman disguise. Though she covered Hiccup's escape, she herself was captured by the Alvinsmen. On Doomsday Eve at the Singing Sands of the Ferryman's Gift, upon being presented the the evidence of Hiccup's death, Valhallarama declared a blood feud against the Witch Excellinor, but was prevented from killing her by the Ferryman. Reluctantly, Valhallarama ordered the Dragonmarkers to allow Alvin's coronation without protest.
Valhallarama's Bra, used in feather-bombing the Green Death
Her bra as a feather bomb
Valhallarama in the Hiccup and Friends Guide on the Official How to Train Your Dragon Books Website.
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An undertrail in a murder case and a policeman assigned to guard him have fled from a civil hospital in Punjab's Kapurthala district.
According to a first information report filed by Kapurthala Deputy Superintendent of Police (jails) Rup Kumar, the undertrial Bikramjit Singh was admitted to the surgical ward with urinary trouble. He, along with constable Paramjit Singh, disappeared the next night.
Two other guards, who were also supposed to be on duty then, had gone home when the incident took place. A fourth guard, who was off duty, was sleeping on the precincts.
The two errant policemen were arrested when they returned in the morning. The fourth guard has also been taken into custody.
The police have registered a case under sections 223 and 224 of the Indian Penal Code against head constable Harnek Singh and constables Major Singh, Rajesh Kumar and Paramjit Singh.


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Vietnamese woman in Iran opens windows to a coronavirus-laced existence
By Phan Duong &nbspMarch 11, 2020 | 12:17 am PT
Do Lenh Hoai Anh, 27, always keeps the windows of her apartment in Felestin Street closed to avoid noise from the busy neighborhood.
Last week, though, she opened them and hung curtains. There's no noise to keep out now.
"I have looked out of the window five times this morning. There were some cars, no pedestrians," Hoai Anh said, describing the street where she lives, one of the busiest areas in the Iranian city of Qazvin.
Hoai Anh had received a scholarship from the Iranian government five years ago and now lives in the northwestern city of Qazvin, surrounded by desert. The city has less than 400,000 habitants.
The street where Hoai Anh lives on March 4, 2020. Photo courtesy of Do Lenh Hoai Anh.
After spending the Lunar New Year holiday (January 23-29) in Vietnam with her husband, Amir Hossein, she returned to Iran. A day later, Hoai Anh developed a fever.
With the novel coronavirus outbreak raging in China, she had been worried about catching the infection as they transited in Moscow, Russia. So she rushed to the hospital and asked to be tested. Having no testing kits, Qazvin's medical authorities advised her to quarantine herself.
"One day later, the fever disappeared. I think I'd just got a cold," she recalled, adding that she had asked her husband to stay with his parents to prevent him from contracting anything.
Over the years, Hoai Anh has faced numerous difficulties living in a country in relative tumult, heavily sanctioned by the U.S. and its allies. On the morning of January 8, when a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Tehran, she was about to get on her plane and return to Iran to see her husband. Trading in Iranian specialities, she travels frequently between Iran and Vietnam.
This was another kind of upheaval, though, as the novel coronavirus found it way to Iran. On January 19, the number of infections had climbed swiftly to 2,500 and around 100 people had died, making Iran the fourth worst country hit by the outbreak. Moreover, the fatality rate in Iran was much higher than the worldwide average.
Qazvin City, where Hoai Anh lives, is 240 kilometers from the city of Qom and 150 kilometers from capital Tehran, both Covid-19 hubs. Last week, Qazvin had its first infection. To date, more than ten acquaintances of Hoai Anh have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Hoai Anh and Amir Hossein wear masks as they transit in Moscow, Russia on February 1, 2020. Photo courtesy of Hoai Anh.
"A neighbor went out to buy some vegetables and tested positive five days later. My husband's cousin, who went on a pilgrimage to Qom, also tested positive," Hoai Anh said.
Worried, she did consider flying to Vietnam, but the cheapest ticket was VND200 million ($8.574), while the regular price for return ticket was just VND20 million ($857). She checked a day later and there was no ticket left.
The only Vietnamese living in Qazvin, far away from her motherland, Hoai Anh knew she had no option but to confine herself to her apartment.
"They all fell sick because of the cold weather, walking around the streets or going to the hospital for tests," she said, referring to the outbreak in Iran. According to the Iranian government, 80 percent of infections were of people staying in the country, where it is always cold and dry from January to March.
Knowing the battle against the novel coronavirus would last long, Hoai Anh and her husband went to the supermarket last weekend and bought foods to stock up for a long time.
Locals had not started stockpiling so shelves in supermarkets were not empty. However, there was no mask or hand sanitizers left. Just 10 days earlier, people were indifferent. Now, the fear is palpable. Kisses and handshakes, normal gestures, have become taboo.
Amir Hossein, Hoai Anh's husband, said he'd never seen the streets in his hometown this quiet since he was born. A week before Nowruz, the Iranian New Year (March 20-23), there was none of the usual hustle and bustle.
Companies, stores and schools have closed, although local authorities have not issued any order. Amir has resorted to remote work in the last few weeks. The only trip he makes these days is to his parents' house, which is 50 meters away.
On March 5, Hoai Anh woke up at 10 a.m. and read dozens of messages from clients and staff. In the flood of messages, there are always two she looks for and never misses. The first is from the Iranian medical authority, and the second one from the Vietnam Embassy in Iran.
According to the embassy, there are 13 Vietnamese, apart from its staff members, living in Iran. Most of them are Vietnamese women with Iranian husbands who have decided stay on and wait the outbreak out.
"Ever since there were signs of the outbreak, we have kept people updated about new developments and suggestions from local authorities about measures to prevent the Covid-19," said a representative of the Vietnam Embassy, adding that it stands ready to support citizens.
As of Wednesday, Iran's death toll was 291, and 8,042 have been infected across the country.
It is difficult for Iranians to give up the pleasure of meeting family and friends, which they do now because of Covid-19.
"Iranians will get used to not going out. But they are annoyed because they cannot meet people during Nowruz," Hossein said.
For themselves, Hoai Anh and her husband are staying put at home, knowing that they are fighting a long-lasting fight.
After days of having just soup, the couple are craving some grilled lamb, but they are resisting the urge to use food delivery services.
Hoai Anh said she's okay with the situation for the time being. "We have to survive this epidemic, then we will see."
Vietnamese in Iran
Vietnam epidemic
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Maruti is the ruling manufacturer of hatchback cars in the Indian car market, company had launched Maruti Ertiga a MPV in Indian car market which is performing quite well since its launch, by getting almost 33000 bookings in a month. Ertiga is going to be a tough contender for Toyota Innova ( ruling MPV in Indian car market), Mahindra Quanto or we can say Mini Xylo, and many vehicles which lies in price bracket of Rs.5 lakh to Rs. 10 lakh. Quanto is basically a smaller version of Mahindra Xylo. Mahindra is the ruling company in Indian SUV car market from a long time and recently mid size car was launched by the company, Mahindra Quanto. Maruti Ertiga price ranges from Rs. 5.90 lakhs to Rs. 8.60 lakh, whereas Mahindra Quanto Price is tagged at Rs. 5.99 lakhs and varies up to Rs. 7.57 lakhs.
MPV from Maruti is available in the market in seven different models with both petrol and diesel engine options. On the other hand mini version of Xylo is available in 4 different models with diesel engine only. Heart of Maruti Ertiga is blessed with 1.4 liter petrol engine with displacement of 1373cc. Engine is capable of producing the power of 93.7bhp with the peak torque of 130Nm. Car can accelerate from 0-100 in 15 seconds. Diesel variant of the car comes with 1.3 liter turbojet DDiS Diesel engine which is capable enough to produce the power of 88.7bhp with peak torque of 202.2Nm. Car can accelerate from 0-100 in just 15.5 seconds. Both the variants of MPV are offering the top speed of 155 km/-hr.
Mini SUV from Mahindra is available in the market in four different models all with diesel engines. Heart of mini SUV is blessed with sub 1.5 liter diesel engine, which can produce a power of 100bhp @ 3750rpm with peak torque of 240Nm @ 1600-2800rpm. Engine of the car is basically a toned down version of Mahindra mHawk 2.2 liter engine. Car is equipped with five speed manual transmission gearbox. Mini SUV can accelerate from 0-100 in just a time gap of 17.41 seconds. It is expected that next generation Mahindra Quanto will be having a rear wheel drive which will zoom up the car.
At present some Mahindra cars are already running on Indian roads like Xylo, XUV 500, Scorpio.
Maruti cars which are already running on roads are Alto, A-Star, and many more.


Abstract In this letter we present an idea which reconciles a homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann universe with a fractal distribution of galaxies. We use two observational facts: The flat rotation curves of galaxies and the (still debated) fractal distribution of galaxies with fractal dimension [FORMULA]. Our idea can also be interpreted as a redefinition of the notion of bias.


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Sunn O))) to launch triple live album
By Christina O'Neill
3LP release was recorded at Sunn O)))'s first ever Moscow show last August
Sunn O))) will release their album Nolife: Alive In Moscow 11 August 2015 on May 29.
The album was recorded at the band's first ever concert in Moscow, Russia, in August last year. It can be pre-ordered via the label webstore.
The performance was described as: "Beyond everyone's expectations – extremely raw, punishingly loud, and ultimately transcendental. Capturing this intensity of this special show, the band's set was recorded direct from the soundboard as well as the audience.
"The members of Sunn O))) are grateful to the amazing audience in Moscow, all who attended, and their hosts for their gracious hospitality surrounding this performance."
In February Sunn O))) reissued their 2008 album Domkirke, which was recorded at Bergen Cathedral, Norway, in 2007, during the Borealis Festival. They released their last studio effort Kannon in December last year.
Sunn O))) will kick off their North American tour tomorrow (May 4).
Sunn O))) tour dates 2016
May 04: Tuczon Rialto Theatre, AZ
May 06: Los Angeles Regen Theater, CA
May 07: Oakland Metro Operahouse, CA
May 21: Durham Moogfest, NC
Jun 06: St Louis Ready Room, MO
Jun 07: Chicago Thalia Hall, IL
Jun 08: Cleveland Grog Shop, OH
Jun 09: Detroit El Club, MI
Jun 10: Toronto Luminato Festival, ON
Jun 11: Montreal Theatre Fairmount, QC
Jun 14: Amsterdam Paradiso, Netherlands
Jun 15: Ghent Vooruit, Belgium
Jun 17: Clisson Hellfest, France
Former TeamRock news desk member Christina joined our team in late 2015, and although her time working on online rock news was fairly brief, she made a huge impact by contributing close to 1500 stories. Christina also interviewed artists including Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and worked at the Download festival. In late 2016, Christina left rock journalism to pursue a career in current affairs. In 2021, she was named Local Weekly Feature Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards.
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Q: Updating a field in NumberAnimation

Item {
    id: valueSource
    objectName: "valueSource"
    property real myvariable: 0
    property real abc: 0
    property real xyz: 0
    SequentialAnimation {
        running: true
        loops: 1

        PauseAnimation {
            duration: 1000
        }

        PropertyAction {
            target: valueSource
            property: "start"
            value: false
        }

        SequentialAnimation {
            loops: Animation.Infinite

            ParallelAnimation {
                NumberAnimation {
                    target: valueSource
                    property: "abc"
                    easing.type: Easing.InOutSine
                    from: a //0
                    to: b //100
                    duration: 3000
                }
                NumberAnimation {
                    target: valueSource
                    property: "xyz"
                    easing.type: Easing.InOutSine
                    from: c //1
                    to: d //50
                    duration: 3000
                }
            }
        }
}

I am using qt and cpp for the first time. So please help me even if it is a silly question.
I am able to update value of abc and xyz from c++ code by using findChild("valueSource") but I would like to update values of 'from' and 'to' in NumberAnimation.
1) I tried to add a field objectName in NumberAnimation and then use this object in cpp code as I used to update abc and xyz but not able to modify value of from and to.
2) Also tried using a,b,c,d variables. Values of a,b,c,d are getting updated from cpp code and reflecting in qml as well but it is not updating value of to and from.
Is there any other way I can do it?

A: The best way to communicate between c++ and qml is to use signal-slot model. Don't use findChild(). I suggest the following steps for you :

*

*Declare a signal inside your c++ and connect it to a slot, which is in fact a javascript function of your qml rootObject.

*Inside this slot (setObjectProperty in my example ) use something like
function setObjectProperty()
{
yourObjectId.setProperty( true );
}
where yourObjectId is an id of the Item you'd like to manipulate

*Inside your Item declare a setProperty function ( as I named it, you can choose whatever name you like of course =)) )
function setPoperty ( val )
{
internalObjectId.someProperty = val;
}
And that should work. If any questions further - let me know, I can provide some code for u.

A: Thanks for the reply but I got the solution.
Actually, by modifying the to and from value I wanted to achieve smooth transition of a needle because when I was directly updating abc, I was not getting a smooth transition.
But using following method I got smooth transition of needle.
Update abc value from cpp code and add following code in your qml file.

    Behavior on kph{
        NumberAnimation{duration: 2000}
    }

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Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence at his wife's side, Elise, and their 3 children until the day when reality skids and he wakes up as an old man in the year 2092. At 120, Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore. But that doesn't seem to interest or bother him very much. The only questions that preoccupy him in the present is whether he lived the right life for himself, loved the woman whom he was supposed to love, and had the children whom he was meant to have... now his purpose is to find the right answer.
Critics Consensus: Mr. Nobody's narrative tangles may bedevil as much as they entertain, but its big ambitions and absorbing visuals make for an intriguing addition to director Jaco Van Dormael's filmography.
Daring sci-fi with mature themes, sex, and violence.
Sarah Polley
Allan Corduner
Jaco Van Dormael
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New York County Lawyers' Association comments on proposed Part 151 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Courts (Part 151 Rule).
Hon. Jonathan Lippman
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals
230 Park Avenue, Ste. 826
Dear Chief Judge Lippman:
On behalf of the New York County Lawyers' Association (NYCLA), I am pleased to submit comments on proposed Part 151 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Courts (Part 151 Rule). As was noted in the February 15, 2011 issue of the New York Law Journal, my initial response to the proposal's announcement was that the proposed Part 151 Rule was "… a bold and innovative step and…should help to restore confidence in the judiciary." NYCLA continues to subscribe to that statement.
The Part 151 Rule issued by the Office of Court Administration (OCA) seeks to improve public confidence in judicial independence and impartiality by establishing a per se recusal rule that prohibits a judge from presiding over a case where an attorney or a party contributed $2500 or more individually or $3500 collectively to the judge's campaign for elective office within two years prior to the assignment of the case to the judge.
NYCLA supports the overall concept contained in the Part 151 Rule. Its adoption will further the goal of improving public confidence in the impartiality and fairness of the judiciary. NYCLA was founded more than 100 years ago as a bar association open to all New York lawyers with a strong commitment to the highest standards of the profession. Fundamental to that commitment has been support for a strong, independent and impartial judiciary.
In 2004, NYCLA established a Task Force on Judicial Selection (Task Force) with a broad mandate to look at all aspects of judicial selection and related issues that affect the strength and independence of the judicial process. In a report entitled, The Roadmap to Reform (Roadmap), the Task Force reiterated NYCLA's long-standing support for an appointive system of selecting judges and, at the same time, recognizing that the election of some judges was likely to continue in New York, made recommendations regarding steps that can and should be taken to increase the openness and fairness of the overall process for the election of judges. That earlier work informs the three comments that follow that are aimed at clarifying and strengthening the proposed Part 151 Rule without making it an administratively unworkable rule.
The Part 151 Rule Should Not Supplant the Need for Additional Disclosure or Existing Ethical Duties of Judges and Litigants
NYCLA believes that the recommendations in the Roadmap are deserving of careful consideration by the Legislature and by other groups involved in judicial elections. Consistent with its emphasis on openness and disclosure, the Roadmap incorporated a prior recommendation made by the Task Force that there be a requirement that contributors of $500 or more to the election campaign of a judge before whom a lawyer appears be disclosed by the lawyer. NYCLA continues to support and advocate this disclosure requirement in addition to the per se recusal rule proposed. NYCLA believes that adoption of such a disclosure role would supplement the proposed per se recusal rule in a manner that would further ensure fairness and the appearance of fairness and therefore strengthen public confidence in the judicial system.
In the process of considering the Part 151 Rule, NYCLA had an informative and productive meeting with OCA. It is our understanding that in drafting the Part 151 Rule, a conscious decision was made not to extend the per se recusal rule beyond contributions made by the lawyer appearing in a case ($2500) or collectively by the lawyer and his or her firm ($3500), both to ease administrative oversight and to limit the potential constitutional issue of overbroad application. However, the Part 151 Rule makes specific reference to the Rules of Judicial Conduct, Section 100.3E(1) and 100.3E(2) as they relate to the "ready public availability of records of campaign contributions" and the effect that information may have "upon public perceptions of judicial neutrality." Section 100.3E(1) addresses judicial self-disqualification in a proceeding where the judge's impartiality may reasonably be questioned, and Section 100.3E(2) requires that a judge be informed about his or her personal and fiduciary economic interests and the economic interests of the judge's spouse and minor children in the household. The implication of this cross-referencing appears to be that the judge's obligations under the Rules of Judicial Conduct remain in place and must be considered by the judge even when automatic recusal does not occur. As with a disclosure obligation, NYCLA does not believe that the proposed per se recusal rule is intended to, or should, eliminate the need to comply with existing rules and ethical duties. Even where a case does not meet the tests for non-assignment, there are cases where recusal or disclosure would be required or prudent. NYCLA suggests that the oblique reference to these Rules be made clearer and stronger. We also recognize that there may be a need to consider a clarifying amendment to the Rules of Judicial Conduct.
The Rule Should Deal More Clearly with the Anticipated Exceptions to the System of Automatic Non-Assignment of Cases
As proposed, the Part 151 Rule does not require judges or lawyers to engage in the screening effort. That would be undertaken by OCA, which would, on a quarterly basis, review Board of Elections' records of judicial campaign committees to determine the applicability of the Part 151 Rule to specific judges, based upon contributions made to a judicial campaign by a lawyer or law firm. It is contemplated that based upon the review of the filed campaign committee records, a case would not be assigned to a judge where the per se recusal rule would apply.
It is our understanding that the Part 151 Rule would not be applicable to all cases, particularly those requiring expedited action or cases in which there were no other judges available, such as certain types of Family Court cases or long motion calendars in Civil Court ("an emergency, or as dictated by the rule of necessity, or where the interests of justice otherwise require…"). NYCLA suggests that the provisions in the Part 151 Rule with regard to the types of situations where recusal would not be required need further clarification, either by expanding the general language or by providing specific examples.
A Method for Waiving Application of the Rule Is an Essential Safeguard to Prevent Unintended and Counter-Productive Consequences
Beyond these observations, NYCLA believes that there should be a procedure available where an adverse party or his or her lawyer can waive application of automatic non-assignment and recusal of a particular judge or group of judges. Without such a waiver process, it would be possible for a lawyer or law firm to "game the system" by disqualifying a particular judge or group of judges from hearing cases involving that firm or lawyer for two years through the simple device of a relatively modest, pretextual campaign contribution. This form of negative judge-shopping would be terribly unfair to other litigants, absent a mechanism allowing them to opt out of the per se non-assignment and recusal of judges they believe would preside over their cases fairly, efficiently and competently without being swayed by the fact of a campaign contribution made only to disqualify them. If the NYCLA recommendation that lawyers be required to disclose campaign contributions of $500 or more were to be adopted, the establishment of a waiver process would not be difficult to accomplish. Given the budgetary crisis in the court system, placing the burden on the bar to disclose may be the wiser course.
Even if our suggestion for additional disclosure is not adopted, it should be administratively feasible and not overly burdensome to affected attorneys to be able to designate confidentially to court personnel other than the judges on a periodic basis those judges to whom they do not wish per se non-assignment of cases and recusal to apply. This seems to NYCLA and its members an essential safeguard to mitigate unintended consequences of any system of non-assignment and per se recusal. We also believe that consideration should be given to developing methods to prevent lawyers from gaming the system and would be happy to work with representatives of the courts and other bar associations to craft and present appropriate language for that purpose through court or disciplinary rules or otherwise.
Again, we commend the development of the Part 151 Rule and the vision behind it. We hope that our suggestions will help to make an excellent proposal even stronger.


Masud Alam was born and raised in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Son of a Poet, he studied Art in Dhaka and Chittagong. He awarded a scholarship to study art at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria where he earned his Master of Arts in drawing and painting. He then later relocated to New York City. Masud achieved his second Masters in Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute in computer graphics and interactive media. He has organized thirteen solo art exhibitions in Asia, Europe and the USA (1976-2016). His recent solo show "Essence of Bengal" held at Dhaka and Chittagong in 2016. He creates art with traditional and digital media. He lives and works in Long Island, New York.


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Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, the Wuhan Lab, and a curious gene patent
John Leake
On February 21, 2022, Frontiers in Virology published a report titled MSH3 Homology and Potential Recombination Link to SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site. The Furin Cleavage Site is the component of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that enables the virus to dock onto human lung epithelial cells, thereby initiating the viral replication process. It is the key feature of SARS-CoV-2 that made it infectious to humans. Examining the genetic code of this part of the spike protein, the authors noted that part of the sequence was a perfect match to a genetic sequence patented in 2016 by Bancel S. et al. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein and MSH3
A peculiar feature of the nucleotide sequence encoding the PRRA furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 S protein is its two consecutive CGG codons. This arginine codon is rare in coronaviruses: relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) of CGG in pangolin CoV is 0, in bat CoV 0.08, in SARS-CoV 0.19, in MERS-CoV 0.25, and in SARS-CoV-2 0.299 (8).
A BLAST search for the 12-nucleotide insertion led us to a 100% reverse match in a proprietary sequence (SEQ ID11652, nt 2751-2733) found in the US patent 9,587,003 filed on Feb. 4, 2016 (9)
On the question of whether this perfect match could be merely coincidental, the authors noted:
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Conventional biostatistical analysis indicates that the probability of this sequence randomly being present in a 30,000-nucleotide viral genome is 3.21×10^-11.
The Daily Mail reported the Frontiers in Virology report, which prompted Fox News's Maria Bartiromo to question Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel about his 2016 gene patent. His cool brushoff was suggestive of a man unconcerned about media queries. Why should he be? When it comes to the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, the US mainstream media rarely asks tough questions, and never pursues serious inquiry.
Inquisitive viewers might have wondered: Who is Stéphane Bancel, and why is a French national heading a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech that was originally funded by a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant?
Prior to become CEO of Moderna, Bancel was CEO of the French in vitro diagnostics company, bioMérieux, from 2007-2011. The large company, operating in over 160 countries, originated in the Institut Mérieux in Lyon, France, founded by biologist Marcel Mérieux (a colleague of Louis Pasteur).
Marcel's grandson, Alain Mérieux, is the company's chief proprietor and (according to Bloomberg) worth approximately$8.80 billion. A personal acquaintance of Jacques Chirac (French President from 1995-2007), in 2003 (following the outbreak of the first SARS) Mérieux was instrumental in forming a cooperative agreement between France and China to build a BSL-4 lab annex to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Bancel was CEO of bioMérieux during the planning and early construction of the lab and the training of its Chinese staff at bioMérieux's lab in Lyon. In the year 2007, Bancel oversaw the company's opening of a new division in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As noted in its annual report:
The opening in 2007 of a dedicated theranostics division in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), a city with an especially high concentration of biotechnology firms and research centers, puts bioMérieux in a hub for personalized medicine, in direct contact with the most influential players in the field.
Four years later, in 2011, Bancel left his plum position at bioMérieux to become CEO of the Cambridge startup Moderna. Back then it seemed like a Quixotic decision. After all, the new company had just one employee and was exclusively focused on developing mRNA therapeutics. As Bancel stated in a December 2020 interview,"When I resigned from my last company, bioMerieux, to start on this journey at Moderna, I told my wife there was only a 5% chance it would work out."
Two years after its founding, Moderna—short for "Modified RNA"—drew interest from DARPA, which awarded it a $25 million grant to develop messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics. Sometime around 2015, Moderna began collaborating with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop mRNA vaccines against the SARS and MERS coronaviruses.
In the year 2016, Bancel et al. filed for their patent of the genetic sequence for part of the coronavirus spike protein furin cleavage site—the same genetic sequence that was, four years later, found in the furin cleavage site of SARS-CoV-2 that apparently leaked from the BSL-4 lab in Wuhan. This was the same lab whose construction Bancel oversaw and whose personnel his company trained. Just a coincidence?
At any rate, Bancel's decision to leave bioMerieux to lead Moderna worked out well. On March 16, 2020—just five days after the WHO declared SARS-CoV-2 to be the causative agent of a worldwide pandemic, NIAID issued a press release stating it had commenced human trials of its mRNA-1273 vaccine.
mRNA-1273 was developed by NIAID scientists and their collaborators at the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) supported the manufacturing of the vaccine candidate for the Phase 1 clinical trial.
Less than a year later—with the United States government relentlessly pushing Moderna's mRNA and Pfizer/BioNTech's mRNA vaccines as the ONLY solution to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stephane Bancel became a billionaire.
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I had severe problems with the dash for vaccines for an alleged novel respiratory viral illness which, we're told, is very much more likely to kill you if you're of advanced age & chronically ill (& not if you're younger & well).
By definition, not many QUALYs are lost when an 80 year old dies of or with flu (or rather, with influenza like illness (ILI). Flu is not the simple idea we're told it is. Most people with ILI have no detectable influenza virus on board.
Here's the smoking gun information which the drug companies & public health officials knew before 2020.
Intramuscular vaccination with flu vaccines (whatever they are) does NOT reduce severe illness, hospitalization or death from ILI. This I regret to tell you comes from a retrospective study of hundreds of thousands of subjects vaccinated or not in UK. The same disappointing results have also been reported out of the US as well.
I recall reading these meta analyses & feeling deeply disturbed. It meant not only rearranging big chunks of basic understanding, but also accepting that for many years, our public health advisors & NHS & drug companies & regulators were flat out lying to us.
Why might this have happened? Many subscribe to the notion that the elderly are vulnerable to respiratory illnesses because their immune systems are senescent. Old, tired & unresponsive to novel infections. Well, if that's true, it won't ever be possible to make effective vaccines against respiratory illnesses, assumed to be viral in origin, which preferentially kill the elderly. Because their immune systems respond poorly to novel threats, they will respond poorly to vaccines, too.
What would succeed is rational, early treatment with medicines which address the multiple stages of such illnesses.
So vaccination was KNOWN to be an ineffective strategy long before "covid19" occurred. So why did the authorities act as if the reality was different? Well, if they weren't interested in saving your life but getting you to roll your sleeve up out of fear, and of making a ton of money, that would explain why they'd lie.
It cannot be money though that's the main motive. I'll show you how I know below.
Soon after this alleged virus was reported to be spreading, a ropey, untrustworthy & unsuitable test was rapidly adopted. Never properly calibrated & absent some crucial controls, diagnostic tests involving PCR were widely deployed. I'm of the opinion that no new virus was actually circulating, but normal ILls were being falsely diagnosed from flu (note that we were told that the disappearance of flu was absolutely fine & no, there was no chance we were picking up illnesss we were familiar with, but instead, a novel disease, "Covid-19".
The mad dash for hopeless "vaccines", which could never have worked, were associated with several very odd happenings.
First, the public health experts all but said the same things everywhere: a range of measures were imposed. I need to tell you they all knew that none of these measures were useful in slowing the spread of ILIs. Those measures though wrecked the economies of most advanced countries & were accompanied by appalling treatments which definitely killed very many people who might otherwise have survived. The misuse of mechanical ventilators, the misuse of midazolam & morphine, the use of toxic remdesivir & the withholding of useful antibiotics for secondary, bacterial pneumonia all occurred widely & led to the excess deaths that were wrongly attributed to "the virus".
The "vaccines" could never have been useful. Yet they are toxic: causing our bodies to manufacture "spike proteins", which are known to cause blood clots & other adverse effects. Given we knew that, how did all four leading vaccine manufacturers choose the same, basic design? (Two DNA, two mRNA products, which never previously been used in a public health context).
Then we were further lied to when we were told nothing important had been missed out in the development of thd "vaccines" but instead, it had all been done in parallel. That was an outrageous lie. They simply missed out almost all of the necessary steps. They committed clinical trials fraud by illegally breaking the blinding & deleting vaccinated subjects who became unwell. They committed regulatory fraud by filing dossiers with huge gaps in them, where required studies should have been. In the case of Moderna, they literally duplicated some parts of their dossier to make it look fuller. There was manufacturing fraud as they failed to conduct the necessary manufacturing R&D needed to make consistent product. Recall that some batches were much more toxic than others?
Then our governments coerced the population to receive these unnecessary, ineffective & toxic substances. They're still doing it. This isn't a mistake or accidental.
The media acted as bullying cheerleaders. The doctors mostly didn't question anything. Scientists & others arguing we were on a dangerous path were smeared & censored. Few in the public followed their instincts that this smelled fishy, but, via peer pressure, coerced each other. The tech companies were particularly awful in lying & censoring.
All the while, the all causes mortality turned upwards as over 5,000,000,000 people on the planet received at least one injection.
A huge wave of clothing and bleeding disorders arose right after mass vaccination began. Immunological & neurological illnesses abounded. Reproductive toxicity spiked, including a big increase in stillbirths. Undertakers spoke out, but very few doctors & nurses. Parliamentarians were briefed by several of us, both separately & together. Not one of them was prepared to use parliamentary privilege to make necessary protected disclosures (one MP stood out for compensation for the injured, for which thanks, but it's too little, too late). By that time, everyone who was susceptible to coercion had been injected & everyone who would rather die than receive these diabolical creations had stood their ground.
How can I be sure it's not about money? Because while a small number of drug companies made a fortune, almost every other sector lost money & lots of it.
This criminal enterprise must have had the approval to do it from those who control the money and the assets in the world. Lockdown & other measures were certain to cause the collapse of the real economies of scores of countries. They are now all on life support & I expect all the leading currencies of the world will formally collapse in the next few months to a few years. Not about money, but about control.
I can envisage several viable paths to imposition of mandatory digital ID & cashless CBDCs. Every proposed transaction would then be subject to central Authorisation (or not). The end of freedom & of politics / democracy.
Still the politicians parroted fear of the alleged virus, pushed the obviously broken alleged vaccines, the dead & dying mounting up.
And they're moving on from covid19, Act I in a multi Act drama, taking us to 2030, sustainable development goals, where we will own nothing yet be happy (enjoy your bugs).
These people are pure evil, Satan-worshipping psychopaths.
They're not going to go away or give up. Only massive & persistent protests have the slightest chance of altering the outcome.
We don't have long, in my opinion. War, food & fuel shortages, economic collapse & currency crises could & I think will be used progressively to deprive each of us of all that makes life eithef enjoyable or at least tolerable.
While absolutely nailing the evil crooks behind these unprecedented crimes against humanity, I urge, plead that we no longer remain focussed solely on the "vaccines". The recovery of the injured will take its own path. Some who've been injured may yet perish. But if en masse we don't anticipate food shortages (for which there's been at least a years warning); if we don't get some MPs & police on side; if we don't pay in cash absolutely every chance to can & hold a moderately substantial wad of money at home; if we don't massively protest against any suggestion of introduction of mandatory digital ID of CBDCs or the withdrawal of cash, we will witness our permanent loss of sovereignty, we will fall under the totalitarian tyranny of the self proclaimed elite class.
There is little more to say & I anticipate only a few new interviews.
Good luck everybody.
The string of coincidences in the tale have close to 0% probability of happening by chance.
In fact, beginning human trials for a "vaccine" for a biological agent that had been identified only 5 days prior (really?) stretches credulity to the breaking point. I think the story that causes my brain to cramp is the fact that at the time, the same impossible chain of circumstances brought nothing but wonderment and accolades in the public discourse. Are we really this gullible?
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Thursday 16th August 2018 – 5.30pm – Claire Brown.
One boy has died and a second has been airlifted to hospital following a serious road traffic collision in North Staffordshire this afternoon.
West Midlands Ambulance Service received several 999 calls to reports of a collision involving a car and a van with one patient reported to be in cardiac arrest on the Uttoxeter Road in Draycott in the Clay, near Uttoxeter at around 12.45pm today (Thursday). Three ambulances, a rapid response vehicle, two paramedic officers, the Midlands Air Ambulance from Tatenhill, the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance with a doctor on board and a second BASICS doctor responded to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "Crews arrived to find a serious road traffic collision involving a car and a van with a total of four patients involved; a driver and two passengers from the car and the van driver.
"A young boy from the car was in cardiac arrest and was already being given bystander CPR. Ambulance staff and the doctors worked as a team to deliver advanced trauma care to him at the scene. He was quickly transferred by land ambulance on blue lights to nearby Royal Stoke University Hospital; a doctor travelled in the ambulance with the crew to continue resuscitation en route. Sadly, despite the best efforts of everyone at the scene and in A&E, nothing could be done to save the boy and he was confirmed dead a short time later.
"Crews assessed the second car passenger, a young boy, and due to his condition and the severity of the collision he was immobilised with a neck collar, spinal board and pelvic binder before being airlifted to Sheffield Children's Hospital for further specialist care.
"The car driver, a woman in her 20s, sustained multiple injuries and received pain relief to help stabilise her condition before being fully immobilised and taken by land ambulance on blue lights to Royal Stoke University Hospital.
"A man in his 40s, the driver of the van, was out of the vehicle when crews arrived and was found to have suffered leg, hip and arm pain. He was given pain relief before being fully immobilised as a precaution and conveyed by land ambulance to Royal Stoke University Hospital."
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of Pakistan-Japan bilateral relations and deliberated on the various possibilities of deepening existing ties in diverse areas including trade, investment, education and cultural cooperation.
and agreed to maintain the momentum through continued high-level exchanges.
The JPPFL chairman called on the foreign minister at Foreign Office. Eto felicitated the foreign minister on the assumption of his office, Foreign office in a press release said.
Both sides exchanged views on the current developments in the region and reaffirmed their commitment to promote the goals of peace and prosperity of the region.
socio-economic development of the country and it actively participated in the Friends of Democratic Pakistan forum, and hosted the FoDP Donors Conference in Tokyo in 2009.
Both sides also reviewed the existing economic cooperation between the two countries.
promotion of investment in Pakistan by the Japanese companies also figured in the discussion.
stressed that Pakistan-Japan relations were making historical progress.
trade and investment possibilities for Pakistan.
Matters related to correct the balance of payment, which was tilted towards Japan and increased Japanese investment in Pakistan also came under discussion.
He lauded the joint efforts of the two parliaments to deepen the bilateral friendly relations.


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Yesterday, I wrote about Inherit the Wind, the play and movie that used the famous 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as its inspiration. As I explained there, the play distorts the events that happened in Dayton, Tennessee to the extreme, making all but the broad outline unrecognizable. This is a shame, because the real story is no less riveting, even though no one has really heard it. In order to understand the events that played out at what was termed "the Trial of the Century,"1 one must understand the motivations behind the trial itself.
The Scopes Trial — The Background
Because of the play, the Scopes trial has been tarnished as an exercise in closed-mindedness and anti-science. Actually, it seems that everyone at least tacitly understood the whole thing to be a publicity stunt. While the Butler Act was passed overwhelmingly by both the Tennessee House and Senate, there was at least some expectation that the bill would be vetoed by Governor Peay. According to Tennesseans and Their History, "The governor considered the Butler Act chiefly symbolic and publically doubted that it ever would be enforced."2
However, no one counted on the newly founded American Civil Liberties Union and its president looking to set up a case to garner some free publicity. According to Marvin Olasky and John Perry:
The organization had a steady flow of money… what the ACLU needed more than cash was publicity. To that end, Baldwin and the rest of the leadership scanned the landscape for government actions they could challenge or laws they could test. With their original rationale gone, ACLU leaders moved from one cause to another in defense of free speech and free thought.3
They go on to describe how the ACLU's secretary, Linda Milner, would collect "stacks of newspaper clippings" on anything that might interest the leadership. When she found an article on the law passed in Tennessee, she showed it to Baldwin and "he and Milner agreed on the spot that enactment of the law signaled an important opportunity to promote the ACLU and its liberal agenda."4 The ACLU then took out an ad in several Tennessee newspapers, asking for a person to volunteer as a defendant in "a friendly test case" of the law.5
The Scopes Trial — Searching for a Defendant
That ad was read by George Rappleyea, a mining engineer, who knew his impoverished town of Dayton needed something to breathe life into its morbid frame. Olasky and Perry write that in reading the ad:
Rappleyea saw something beyond a law or an argument. He saw a national cause in search of a focal point, a national stage casting for a willing star. Surrounded by the rusted relics of Dayton's prosperous past, he saw in the ACLU appeal a chance to put his struggling community in the national spotlight. Big news would generate big crowds, and that meant big business—maybe even a return to the glory years.6
Rappleyea sold the idea to the Dayton town leaders while talking at a local drug store soda fountain table. In The Tennesseans and Their History, it tells that Rappleyea was debating the point that "biology could not be taught without teaching evolution. Scopes happened to come in at this point" and agreed. While he wasn't the biology teacher, he did help the students prepare for their tests. When asked if he ever taught evolution "Scopes said that any teacher who followed the state-approved textbooks taught evolution. The Dayton town leaders decided to take the ACLU up on its offer and had Scopes indicted by the Rhea County grand jury. (This put Scopes in an somewhat awkward position, as he was not sure that he ever had taught evolution, and he hoped his students would not remember he hadn't. The regular biology teacher, however, was a family man who did not want to face trial.)"7
The Scopes Trial — Add Celebrity Lawyers
Give that teaching evolution was a national discussion in 1925, the case made national news. But, the trial positively exploded when two of the most famous lawyers of that day decided to get involved. William Jennings Bryan was a popular figure of the World's Christian Fundamentalist Association, an early 20th century movement. The ECFA was worried that the ACLU would get all the press and spin the publicity against their version of creationism, so they asked Bryan, a nationally known speaker and three-time presidential candidate to partner with the prosecution, an offer that the Dayton leadership willingly accepted.
For the defense, the reporter, atheist, and Friedrich Nietzsche fan H.L. Menken (characterized in the play as E. K. Hornbeck) approached Darrow to lead the defense, but not for John Scopes' sake. "Nobody gives a damn about that yap schoolteacher. The thing to do is to make a fool out of Bryan" he is recorded saying.8 Darrow agreed to do so and waived all fees as "he couldn't resist such an enormous target" as Olasky puts it.9
The Scopes trial is normally offered as evidence of how science and religion are at odds. While it is true the various factions had different opinions on creation, evolution, how to teach, God and law, there is one point upon which everyone agreed: the trial had nothing to do with finding the truth, it was all about the publicity.
1. "The "Trial of the Century" Draws National Attention." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2015. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-trial-of-the-century-draws-national-attention.
2. Bergeron, Paul H., Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith. Tennesseans and Their History. Knoxville: U of Tennessee, 1999. Print. 251.
3. Olasky, Marvin N., and John Perry. Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial. Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2005. Print. 18.
4. Olasky, 18.
6. Olasky, 8-9.
7. Bergeron, 252.
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Noah Strausser Speer Wyle
(1971-06-04) June 4, 1971 (age 51)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Northwestern University (BA)
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(m. 2000; div. 2010)
Sara Wells (m. 2014)
James C. Katz (stepfather)
Edith R. Wyle (paternal grandmother)
Sonia Romero (cousin)
Noah Wyle (born June 4, 1971) is an American actor.
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He is best known for his role as John Carter in the television series ER (1994–2009). This earned him nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards.
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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mine (2006)
The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) then returning for the television series (2013–2018)
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I want to break from a continued and systematic white supremacy so pervasive it is entrenched in the vernacular I use to express myself.
For the longest time, I intensely disliked the word naturalized. It made me feel as if my family's very existence was unnatural, and would only change once they became citizens.


It was only a matter of time before a compact camera with a large Micro Four Thirds sensor appeared. At Photokina 2014 Panasonic lifted the lid on its Lumix LX100 camera.
As the high-end compact camera market continues to grow the competition has been getting tougher. The LX100 sees Panasonic go toe-to-toe with the likes of Fujifilm and Sony in producing a large-sensor rival with stacks of desirable features.
Key to the LX100's design is a 16-megapixel multi-aspect ratio Micro Four Thirds sensor, as adapted from the Lumix GX7, featured alongside a 24-75mm f/1.7-2.5 (equivalent) Leica lens. Unlike other Micro Four Thirds cameras this can't be removed: it's fixed, hence it being a compact camera.
There's a large 2,764k-dot LCD electronic viewfinder with 0.7x magnification (equivalent) built into the design, paired with a rear 3-inch 921k-dot LCD screen. However, no touchscreen or vari-angle bracket has been incorporated into the design.
But the design has obvious points of distinction, led by its dial-driven design. No single mode dial is present, with the retro style of a dedicated aperture ring and shutter speed control leading the camera's control method - much like the Fujifilm X100S. While smaller than that particular Fujifilm, the Lumix LX100 - which measures 114.8 x 66.2 x 61.1mm - is far larger than something like the Sony Cyber-shot RX100 III, and only a touch smaller than the Canon PowerShot G1 X MkII.
The Panasonic Lumix LX100 will be available from 16 October priced £799, available in black or silver finishes. While that might not sound cheap, it's well positioned against its main rivals and the built-in viewfinder and quality zoom lens give the camera a distinct point of interest.


A gorgeous coloring activity book stuffed with magical creatures!
BONUS set of regular coloring sheets (without numbers) for the ones feeling extra creative!
Animals include: Giraffes, starfish, elephants, monkeys, birds, owls, pandas, zebras, koalas, lions, sheep, dogs, bunnies and more!


From the Hollywood Bowl to Runyon Canyon—here we go!
The main act was Florence + the Machine—they put on a fantastic show! One of my favorite moments was when they had the entire audience (all 18K of us!) jumping up in down during an entire song—so cool to see!!
Decided to take a walk the other day, and I just kept going right into this canyon. Came across this explosion of desert vegetation amidst the dry bushes and trees.
I also found myself VERY close to the electrical towers. I was wondering if this is the closest I've ever been to one (never played around them as a kid ;). Cool shot, though I was wary being around all that electricity (you can hear the hum)—just thought it wasn't smart to be in the same airspace as all that energy, and tried to keep my distance as best I could!
With all the smog, there aren't many opportunities to see downtown so easily from the Hollywood Hills, but thanks to strong winds and a bit of rain, things cleared up! The tallest building is Library Bank Tower (or I think it's now called US Bank Tower, sigh)—right across the street from the main library branch.
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The Ritz-Carlton, Abama is an oasis of tranquility and seclusion, a retreat for the body and the mind, where sea, land, and subtropical vegetation mingle seamlessly with architectural forms. The resort's 461 guest rooms and suites are divided between the Citadel and four exclusive rows of villas, enjoying magnificent views over the Atlantic Ocean, the golf course or our beautiful gardens. The Ritz-Carton, Abama offers ten restaurants ranging from light, simple cooking to world-class gourmet cuisine. At the top end of the scale, our Michelin starred restaurants, M.B awarded with two stars and Kabuki with one. Providing a heaven of escape, the Moorish-inspired resort features 7 swimming pools, a golden sand beach accessed by its own cable car, a 2500m2 Spa, offering treatments, classes and wellness programs, a Ritz Kids and the Annabel Croft Tennis Academy.


Looking for white wedding flowers or real touch flowers? Check out this soft and realistic real touch Peony Garden rose in white. A beautiful way to add a classic look to any bouquet or centerpiece, this white real touch rose offers a stunning alternative to fresh flowers!


Legacy Fighting Championship announced they would begin promoting kickboxing events beginning in 2015. Their first event is set to take place January 16, 2015, in Houston, TX. Headlining the event, former UFC heavyweight and Glory veteran, Pat Barry. Barry is set to face Demoreo Dennis.
Other names for the inaugural event, Valentina Shevchenko (51-1), Cosmo Alexandre, Michael Chase Corley, and Marco Pique. As the card fills out, we will keep you updated. The event will take place at the Bayou Music Center, and tickets are available LKFights.com.


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Beni Shigitatsu Sawa (also grown under the name Aka Shigitatsu Sawa) features one of the more unusual styles of variegation among Japanese Maples and also displays a large number of different colors throughout the year. In the spring the leaves emerge a light cream color with dark red and bronze veins and pink margins with hints of green. By summer the colors transition to green with red veins and a green and red margin. In the fall the colors change again to bright red veins against and orange base before filling out entirely with red by late fall.
Like with other plants that are shipped bare root, you should plant your tree as soon as possible. When planting be sure to spread the roots out a little so they are not clumped together at the bottom of the hole. Japanese Maples want the top of their root crown to be covered with just an inch of soil - be careful not to apply heavy mulch directly on top of the roots as this can suffocate them. Water heavily as soon as you plant your tree but after that be careful not to overwater this beautiful specimen - Japanese Maples prefer long but less frequent watering. During the growing season we water our established trees for two hours once per week, depending on the climate and how hot/dry the weather is (maybe a little more frequently during the hottest part of the year and less frequently during spring and fall when it is cooler). If you are growing your Japanese Maples in containers be sure to use a well-drained soil mix (not peat or compost based, bark based soils do best) and water whenever the soil starts to dry out.
Japanese Maples do best when fertilized in the spring, we recommend a slow release pellet like Osmocote Plus in April. Don't apply fertilizer later than mid-June because it will encourage too much late season growth that will not have time to harden off enough for winter. The exact formula doesn't matter too much, we usually use 15-10-10 but any other works fine for Japanese Maples. Osmocote is the brand we use because it releases steadily for several months and so there is very little risk of over-fertilizing your plants.


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The town that would not die
By Ina Lee Selden Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Saltville, Virginia
Eight years ago, this postage stamp town, tucked away in the Appalachians, was supposed to die. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered Saltville's main employer, the Olin Mathieson Corp., to clean up its act by halting the seepage of tons of mercury into the nearby Holston River -- or get out.
Olin got out.
At first it looked like just another Appalachian death-of-a-town story: polluting industry rapes, ruins, and runs from the land when the damage is done. Jobless townfolk trudge to the industrial cities of the North. Bluegrass composers write sorrowful songs to a ghost town crumbling in the shadow of the mountain.
But there'll be no sad songs for Saltville. Almost all of its 2,300 citizens refused to budge from their isolated Rich Valley in southwest Virginia. After a few months of panic, when stores offered 50 percent discounts for purchases paid in cash and the men lined up for unemployment checks, Saltville learned to play the federal and state loan and grant game. And it benefited from the then recently passed environmental laws that obliged Olin to clean up the deadly mercury already in the river and near the plant site.
When Olin first announced it was leaving, Saltville felt orphaned. Since 1984, when the Mathieson Alkali Works built its first soda ash plant of what would become a major national chemical industry on the banks of the Holston, the company and the town had been synonymous.
Mathieson built and owned the churches, the schools, the water works, the bank, and the hospital. On the ridges at both ends of Main Street, Olin built white frame houses that the workers rented at nominal rates -- $10 a month in the 1960s. Mathieson, and later Olin Mathieson, employed virtually every man and like a grand patriarch, did everything for the residents except mend screens and screw in new light bulbs.
During the Depression the plant stayed open. The loyalty to Olin was such that when new factories opened a few miles away in Chilhowie and Rural Retreat, the workers refused to leave the company.
When the EPA chemists found Olin in violation of new water pollution standards in the late '60s, the company assured the workers they would have a two-year period to get new jobs and gradually get used to independence.
But 10 months later, Olin suddenly announced it was pulling out, and threw the town into a state of shock, to the point that many of the workers became ill. "When the company announced it was moving out, we didn't believe it, not even when they took the machinery out in boxes," said Dorothy Gillenwater, a town council member whose husband had worked for the company from the age of 12, as had his father, and grandfather.
The national press swooped into Saltville. Life magazine posed Dorothy Gillenwater and the rest of the town council on a hilltop with the town cemetery in the background, predicting the death of the town.
"They said we were dead," recalls Gillenwater. "They wouldn't 've said that if they knew us."
Food stamps (still widely used) and unemployment checks to got people over the first traumatic months. Rather than relocate with the company in plants in other states, most men accepted lower paying jobs in coal fields across the mountains or with small industries attracted to Virginia for its workers' distrust of unions and its open shop labor policy.
The women, most of whom had never given a thought to working outside the home , took jobs in hosiery and clothing factories to make up the difference in their husbands' paycheck.
"I seen women going to work you never would'a thought would work," says Dorothy Roberts, who took a job sewing collars and working a hot head press in a shirt factory for $1.80 an hour and now works a night shift sewing toe seams on knee-high hosiery.
After long weeks of negotiations, Saltville wrested from Olin 3,708 acres of land, the company's plant, many of the community buildings built by the company, and a cash settlement of $600,000 to make up for the loss in taxes from the company.
The town sold off some of the land to new industries it attracted and turned the cash into investments that give it all but $32,000 of its nearly one half million dollar budget. Saltville now has a half dozen small manufacturing firms which make everything from coal mining machinery to sweaters.
"We got more industry comin' in here than you can shake a stick at," boasts Frank B. Perry, former mayor and self-appointed local historian.
On advice from the Tennessee Valley Authority (the Holston waters flow into TVA reservoirs), Saltville got grants to raze the old Olin plant. It got money to build apartment units from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). It got funds to upgrade the railroad from the Virginia Economic Development Authority (EDA). And Saltville now has an application pending for more housing money from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
As Mayor Frank "T-bone" Lewis puts it, Saltville has done "right well" for itself.
"Sometimes you ask and you get. Sometimes you ask and you don't get. We asked and we got," explained Mr. Lewis, a former athletic coach who works as a guidance counselor at R.B. Worthy High School.
Saltville takes its name from the vast deposits of underground salt and saline springs, which drew prehistoric animals there 15,000 years ago.
During the Civil War, or the War Between the States, as it is still called here, North and South fought over Saltville for possession of the South's salt supply.
Early salt producers dug shafts 200 feet deep to mine the salt. But when water seeped into the shafts, they were forced to pump the salt water brine and boil it down in large kettles to recover the salt. Saltville still has some of the original kettles on display at its "Salt Park," one of the old mine sites the town had hoped to turn into a "major tourist attraction of the south."
The park never drew big crowds of tourists, but its Salt Kettle Theater, where local high school students performed "Little Nell," and a musical comedy called "there's Money in Hawgs," lifted sagging spirits in the early '70s.
"We went to two performances on Saturday. There was nothing else to do, and it was good to be together," says Dorothy Roberts. "We could've gone to Lake Charles [Louisiana] with the company, but we didn't want to move. There's no better place to live anywhere."
Today, eight years later, the why's and how's of the Olin pullout are still a subject of debate.
At the OK Barbershop on Main Street, the men suspect Olin used the EPA's ultimatum to clean up or leave as an excuse to abandon an obsolete plant where production was falling and where labor was becoming more militant. (In 1967, the United Mine Workers struck the plant for seven weeks, a strike which left a bitter taste in everyone's mouth.) "If the EPA ordered them out, Olin could write off a good deal of the losses and settlement," contends Milton Smith, the barber.
Charles C. Norris, Olin's Representative in Saltville, insists that state and federal water pollution standards of the '60s made it unprofitable to operate the plant.
"Twenty-five years ago, everything was lovely. In the late '60s and early ' 70s, they [the federal government] started slapping our hands," says Norris at one of the tables at the town's only restaurant, the Salina. Norris insists that the company was motivated to give the town the cash settlement, land, and plant out of a sense of responsibility and generosity.
"Olin felt obliged to take care of the people. . . . We passed $1 million long ago cleaning up," says Mr. Norris, referring to the work the company had done to keep mercury deposits under the old plant site from seeping into the river.
But officials at the EPA's Toxic Substances and Hazardous Materials Department are less convinced of Olin's sense of duty.
"They were dragging their feet just issuing report after report until we set up a watchdog task force," says Gary Gardner, Deputy Director of the EPA's Regional Office in Philadelphia.
However much disagreement there is about the past, there is little argument that Saltville is better off now than it ever has been.
Business at Goodman's Jewelry and Musical Instruments Shop is running well ahead of inflation, reports Roy Cullop, the owner.
Tom Schlegel, an ex-back-to-the-lander from Chicago, has come down from his mountain home to open a stereo and television outlet and says he is doing a good business on his most expensive turntables.
There are now two drug stores instead of one, not an empty house to rent, and the land is being cleared for a 29-house subdivision on the edge of town.
"If they sell well, we'll go for another 150 houses," says Mayor Lewis.
Saltville's worries are not over yet. Although the pollution in the river has lessened, and fishing for the redhorse, the turtle, and the basis is allowed again, eating the catch is still prohibited until the company completes its cleanup, hopefully next year.
On the slope at the far end of town, the 140 acres of muck ponds where Olin dumped its chemical waste and which caused a landslide that killed 19 people Christmas Eve, 1926, has yet to be cleaned up.
But most officials are sure the company will comply with state and federal regulations.
"It'll cost about $1 million, and I'm sure they'll do it. If they don't, we'd undoubtedly take them to court," said Larry Owens, Regional Director of the State Water Control Board in Abington. "The law's on our side now, and the company knows it."
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All existing pipe penetrations were removed and the berms demolished. A 6 inch compacted sand base was constructed while allowing for a low-lying are for the sump. The site had good access and the project was to go ahead during dry weather conditions in February 2002. an irregular shaped 12 gauge, galvanized, 50ft x 120ft x 46in high containment system was chosen, manufactured by GRIT Industries Inc. and supplied by Layfield Geosynthetics and Industrial Fabrics Ltd.
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Mt. SAC Women Water Polo Advances to Quarterfinals of CCCAA SoCal Championships
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G: Kaitlin Howard - 4
A: 4 Players (#3, #6, #8, #11) - 2
Sv: Kristi Mertins - 10
G: 3 Players (#7, #11, #18) - 2
A: Sona Aghasaryan - 2
Sv: Loreny Valdez - 8
Photo Courtesy of Dave Aguilera (davessportsimage)
(Norwalk, CA) For the sixth year in a row, the Mt. SAC Women's Water Polo Team has advanced to the CCCAA Southern California Regional Quarterfinals, with a 13-8 victory over L.A. Valley College on Thursday (11/08), at Cerritos College.
"They (L.A. Valley) were a very good No. 12 seed," replied Mt. SAC Women's Water Polo Head Coach Chris Jackson. "They had a few close losses to teams ranked above them, including a one-goal loss to No. 2 Santa Barbara City College, so I expected a good game. It was close until the fourth quarter when we opened up our lead. That was a great game for Kaitlin (Howard)."
The Mounties (22-5, #5 seed) will now face South Coast Conference Champion Long Beach City College (LBCC)(16-9, 34 seed) this Friday (11/09) at 10:15 am. The Mounties last advanced to the semifinals in 2014, where they lost to Riverside City College.
This will be the fifth time the Mounties have faced LBCC in the post season since 2013.
Starting the final period, the Mounties held a slim 8-7 lead, but soon exploded for five consecutive goals, with Kaitlin Howard and Colleen Gamboa, scoring two goals a piece to put the game away.
Howard (2 steals) and Erin DeAnda (3 steals) led the Mounties with four and three goals, respectively.
Miranda Silva (4 steals) and Reannon Urias (2 steals) and Gamboa's (2 steals) each had two goals for the Mounties.
Mt. SAC goalie Kristi Mertins made 10 saves in the game.
Follow Mt. SAC Women's Water Polo on twitter @MTSAC_W_Aquatic
Follow Mt. SAC Athletics on twitter @MtSAC_athletics or Facebook @Mountie.Athletics
For additional information, please contact the Mt. SAC Sports Information Office at 909.274.4630.


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UK Court Rejects Nirav Modi's Bail Plea for Fourth Time Over Fears He Would Abscond
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London, June 12: The UK High Court on Wednesday rejected Nirav Modi's bail application, his fourth attempt as the diamond merchant fights his extradition from Britain to India in the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case. In her judgment handed down at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Justice Ingrid Simler concluded there are "substantial grounds" to believe that the 48-year-old fugitive diamantaire would fail to surrender as he does possess the means to "abscond".
Reiterating similar concerns as those raised by the lower court in the UK during previous bail hearings, Judge Simler ruled that after considering all the material "carefully", she had found strong evidence to suggest there had been interference with witnesses and destruction of evidence in the case and concluded it can still occur. Nirav Modi to Remain in Jail, UK Court Rejects PNB Fraud Accused's Bail Plea.
"The applicant has access to considerable financial resources, supported by an increased [bail bond security] offer of 2 million pounds," the Judge noted.
"It is difficult, in my judgement, to see how the UK is safe haven as there is no case of him being tried here…There are still places in world one can escape to which are an even safer haven from Indian investigating authorities," she said, countering Modi's lawyers' assertion that he did not have any incentive to flee the UK as he sees it as a safe haven of justice.
The judge concluded that it is "difficult to predict" how Modi would react to developments in the extradition process, raising a "strong incentive" of failure to surrender before the courts to avoid returning to India. She also accepted the Westminster Magistrates' Court concerns that the diamond merchant had been based in the UK for only a short period of time and had no significant ties to the country, making him a flight risk.
Modi, who was not produced before the court for the latest bail hearing, remains in custody at Wandsworth prison in south-west London and is due to appear for his next remand hearing via videolink on June 27. At the High Court bail hearing on Tuesday, Modi's legal team had repeated many of its assertions from previous three bail pleas before Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster Magistrates' Court to claim that their client was not a "substantial" flight risk, as claimed by the Indian government.
"Modi is not (Wikileaks co-founder) Julian Assange who sought refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy, but just an ordinary Indian jeweller. There is no evidence to show that he would do the prohibitive things listed (such as interfere with witnesses)," said Clare Montgomery, Modi's barrister, as she once again offered to abide by "ostensibly harsh" conditions to be able to stay within a curfew at his lavish Centrepoint apartment in central London.
A reference was also made in court about the diamond merchant's troubled state of mind while lodged at Wandsworth prison, as laid out in "confidential" documents which were not disclosed due to a court order. "The circumstances he has had to endure at Wandsworth have been personally difficult and the confidential exhibits reflect the experience that has marked him deeply," said Montgomery.
"The reality is that he is not the cold-blooded hardened criminal as claimed by the government of India but a jewellery designer from a long line of diamond dealers, and regarded as being honest, careful and reliable," she said, adding that a number of individuals were willing to offer sureties and substantial sums to back up the claim that Modi is not a man who plans to run.
However, the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), arguing on behalf of the Indian government, reiterated the stand that it was at this stage that Modi posed a significant flight risk and had significant funds at his disposal to be able to flee to a country with which India did not have an extradition treaty.
"The government of India has strong, friendly bilateral relations with the UK, including an extradition treaty, and this case involves widespread allegations… which have been submitted in good faith by Indian authorities," said CPS barrister Nicholas Hearn, who argued that the threat of Modi interfering with witnesses and destruction of evidence continued to loom as part of the ongoing investigations.
He also reiterated that while Modi's legal team has attempted to characterise the case as a commercial matter, the Indian investigations carried out at high levels by two agencies – the CBI and ED – prove that it is a serious criminal case. The judge had concluded that such a case usually "has a presumption of bail in the absence of strong evidence" and that she would be proceeding on the basis that the Indian judicial and investigating authorities are acting in good faith.
Modi, who has remained behind bars in judicial custody since his arrest in March, had the automatic right to file an application in the higher court and did not require permission to appeal. The first case management hearing in the extradition case took place at Westminster Magistrates' Court on May 30, when Judge Arbuthnot directed the Indian government to confirm which prison Modi is to be held in if he were to be extradited to India, setting a 14-day deadline for a confirmation of the prison plans in India.
The CPS, representing the Indian government, has until July 11 to present an opening position statement laying out the prima facie case against Modi, with the next case management hearing set for July 29 – when a timeline for extradition trial is expected to be laid out.
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Home/News/African Music/"My Income Has Become Lower"- Ugandan Farmer With 12 Wives, 102 Children And 568 Grandchildren Considers Family Planning
"My Income Has Become Lower"- Ugandan Farmer With 12 Wives, 102 Children And 568 Grandchildren Considers Family Planning
A Ugandan man with 12 wives and 102 children, Mzee Musa Hasahya, has vowed not to have more kids as he's struggling to cope with his huge family.
The 67-year-old farmer has now advised his wives of childbearing age to go on the pill.
According to UK's Daily Star, Hasahya, is feeling the bite of rising cost of living in Bugisa, Uganda, where he lives with his large family.
"I cannot tolerate bearing children any more because of the limited resources. And on that note I have advised all my wives of childbearing age to go for family planning. I also discourage those who wish to marry more than four wives not to do so because things are not good," he said.
He added, "My income has become lower and lower over the years due to the rising cost of living and my family has become bigger and bigger."
Musa, who also has 568 grandchildren, lives in a compound with a 12-bedroom house. He married his first wife Hanifa in 1971 at the age of 16.
He says while he can tell his children and grandchildren apart, he does not know them all by name.
He married his first wife Hanifa in 1971 at the age of 16 after quitting school, and he became a dad for the first time two years later when she gave birth to a daughter.
As the village chairperson and a businessman, he says he decided to add to his family as he had the money and the land.
"Because I was able to earn something, I decided to expand my family by marrying more women," he said.
"I ensured that hoes are provided for each of them to till the land and produce food enough to support the family since the soils are fertile."
However, he is now asking the government for help, saying he is struggling to educate all his children.
But despite his enormous brood, his family say they generally all get on well.
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