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It Was Not Gold
by Ashok Bhasin
Category : Adult
Two passengers coming from Dubai were intercepted by the customs and 40 kgs. of gold was detected. The passengers were arrested and produced in the court. An unusual plea was taken by a young lawyer Anitha before the court, which was reluctantly accepted by the magistrate. The seized gold on testing was found to be made of brass instead of gold leading to suspicion of substitution. A CBI enquiry was ordered and Anitha was called by her boss.
The investigation by CBI was conducted and it was prima facie inferred that the customs officer in whose custody the property was given had substituted gold bars with replica made of brass. He was arrested. A senior intelligence officer in DRI wanted to take over the investigation but the permission was not granted by seniors.
The DRI officer unofficially took over the investigations. Vijay Singh, a senior intelligence officer started gathering information bit by bit to solve the mystery of missing gold. Supplier sitting at Dubai was worried about the consignment worth 5 million Dhirhams. Everyone in the gold trade, the lawyers, and the officers suspected that Anitha had prior knowledge that it was not gold. Her own boss ........ too suspected.
Ashok Bhasin
Born in 1955 and graduating from Hindu College, Delhi University, Ashok Bhasin joined Customs & Central Excise department in 1976. During his service tenure, he pursued his studies further and did his M.A. in Philosophy and LLB from Delhi University. He left the department in 1996 and started practicing as an advocate, getting himself enrolled under Bar Council of Delhi. He is member of Delhi High Court and Supreme Court Bar Associations.


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Mission Accomplished (V2.2) !
When will the Iranian rulers invite former President Bush to Tehran to accept his "Medal of Freedom" from the Shiite clerics?
By Reg
Jan 5, 2011 1:23:31 PM | Iraq
Nobody talks much about it anymore.
Nov 27, 2010 8:44:02 AM | Iraq
Worst news of the week
Worse, even, than the mid-term polls. (After reading "The Gamble" by Thomas Ricks, on Iraq in the wake of the so-called "surge," I held out hope that General Petraeus' strategy - the core of which was bribing Sunni insurgents to turn against al Qaeda - would have some lasting impact on prospects for politics to break out amidst a civil war. Not so hopeful now.)
Oct 17, 2010 4:25:38 PM | Iraq
Ghosts of Iraq, without comment
Former British PM and "W" enabler, Tony Blair, in his newly minted memoir:
"I still keep in my desk a letter from an Iraqi woman who came to see me before the war began. She told me of the appalling torture and death her family had experienced having fallen foul of Saddam's son. She begged me to act. After the fall of Saddam she returned to Iraq. She was murdered by sectarians a few months later. What would she say to me now?"
(Via Maureen Dowd - not one of my favorites, but whose NYTs column today on Blair is well worth reading in it's entirety.)
Sep 5, 2010 11:05:18 PM | Iraq, Moral Reprobates
Are you talkin' to me ? The UK Guardian (via Glenn Greenwald):
An Iraqi taxi driver may have been the source of the discredited claim that Saddam Hussein could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, a Tory MP claimed today.
Adam Holloway, a defence specialist, said MI6 obtained information indirectly from a taxi driver who had overheard two Iraqi military commanders talking about Saddam's weapons.
The 45-minute claim was a key feature of the dossier about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that was released by Tony Blair in September 2002. Blair published the information to bolster public support for war.
After the war the dossier became hugely controversial when it became clear that some of the information it contained was not true.
Dec 9, 2009 11:53:51 AM | Iraq
In the heart of the Iraq War debate, the one argument I could never abide was the humanitarian argument; not because Saddam Hussein wasn't an awful, brutal dictator, but because it was, frankly, it was a classic example of shutting the barn long after the cows, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, horses, etc., have long since fled.
Marc Danner explains it far better than I do in his response to George Packer's rather churlish review of his book, Stripping Bare the Body:
In Bosnia, the United States should have acted to stop genocide, which I witnessed and reported on and which was going on, and on, even while American warplanes patrolled overhead and United States intelligence agencies recorded the "number liquidated" in Serb concentration camps. In Iraq in 2003, there was an autocratic government but no genocide. Indeed, when Saddam Hussein's army had engaged in mass killing — against the Kurds in 1989 and against the Shiites in 1991 — American officials, who had been supplying Saddam with critical intelligence in 1989 and who commanded a United States Army in Iraq in 1991, had stood aside and done and said nothing.
A dozen years later, many of the same officials who had looked on when tens of thousands of Iraqis were being killed had no compunction about pointing to those graves to drum up support for an invasion of Iraq. The Bush administration's "humanitarian argument" for the Iraq war was shameful and dishonest from the start. Sadly, many of those who well understood its dishonesty and cynicism, and who could have served the country — and done their jobs — by acting to expose it, for their own reasons stood and cheered America on to war.
The humanitarian argument for the Iraq War was post-facto ass-covering. Nothing more.
Nov 8, 2009 9:50:03 PM | Iraq, Republican Perfidy and Cowardice
The Right's Historical Amnesia
History according to the right, with apologies to Pastor Martin Niemöller:
"First they installed Reza Shah Pahlavi. I did not speak because I really couldn't care less.
"Then they installed his son Reza Mohammed Pahlavi. I did not speak because he did our bidding.
"Then they overthrew a democratically elected leader. Mohammed Moosadegh. I did not speak because my source of cheap oil was protected.
"Then Reza Pahlavi created SAVAK. I did not speak because he was our s.o.b.
"Then he spent lavishly on himself and his Pharaonic projects while so many were unemployed. I did not speak because oil was still cheap.
"Then he was overthrown. I spoke up because they took our citizens hostage.
"The Iran was invaded by Iraq and Ronald Reagan became a supporter of Saddam Hussein who was committing war crimes by using poison gas against Iran. I did not speak because everything Reagan did was correct.
"Then Reagan sold weapons to Iran - considered by his own administration to be a terrorist state - to finance an illegal war in Central America. I did not speak because was incapable of ever doing anything wrong.
"Then George Bush invaded Iraq, strengthening Iran in the region. I did not speak because Saddam had suddenly become a bad man after invading Kuwait and of course Reagan still could do no wrong.
"Then Mahmoud Ahmadinejad participated in a farcical election and the people who I had joked about bombing, whose nation I was foaming at the mouth to invade needed only our president to verbally challenge Ahmadinejad and he would fold like a lawn chair because a show of testicular fortitude would make him cringe.
"But then there was no on left to listen because everyone saw it for the cheap and rank bit of political opportunism that it was."
Jun 25, 2009 11:37:05 PM | Adventures in Wingnuttery, Iran, Iraq
Obama-Maliki '08
There's been much ado about Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's interview with German newsmagazine Der Spiegel about a timeframe for withdrawal of U.S. troops. Here's the key text:
SPIEGEL: Would you hazard a prediction as to when most of the US troops will finally leave Iraq?
Maliki: As soon as possible, as far as we're concerned. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.
SPIEGEL: Is this an endorsement for the US presidential election in November? Does Obama, who has no military background, ultimately have a better understanding of Iraq than war hero John McCain?
Maliki: Those who operate on the premise of short time periods in Iraq today are being more realistic. Artificially prolonging the tenure of US troops in Iraq would cause problems. Of course, this is by no means an election endorsement. Who they choose as their president is the Americans' business. But it's the business of Iraqis to say what they want. And that's where the people and the government are in general agreement: The tenure of the coalition troops in Iraq should be limited.
SPIEGEL: In your opinion, which factor has contributed most to bringing calm to the situation in the country?
Maliki: There are many factors, but I see them in the following order. First, there is the political rapprochement we have managed to achieve in central Iraq. This has enabled us, above all, to pull the plug on al-Qaida. Second, there is the progress being made by our security forces. Third, there is the deep sense of abhorrence with which the population has reacted to the atrocities of al-Qaida and the militias. Finally, of course, there is the economic recovery.
P.M. Maliki is, like Senators Obama and McCain, immersed in the implications of upcoming elections in the fall and deep anti-U.S. occupation sentiment among his electorate when he makes public pronouncements on the war. Nothing he says to the press isn't colored by politics and appearances. So we're looking at a landscape not just of Obama '08, or McCain '08, but Maliki '08 as well.
The Iraqi government has vaquely backpedaled from Maliki's comment, but it has issued no specifics on what he said off-the-cuff that was inconsistent with his "official" views. That the "official" statement was released through the U.S. military command office in Baghdad says more than the statement itself. It was a "non-denial denial", which usually means that what was said reflected the speaker's thinking, although he wants to back off of responsibility for its specific implications. Sometimes this is a calculated position. Sometimes its recognition of a "gaffe" that might have more diplomatically formulated. In any event, the "correction" didn't actually correct anything, other than attempt to make the impression left by the comments more diffuse. But there are several things worth noting about the Maliki interview.
First, Maliki raised Obama's 16 month timetable as a good benchmark for withdrawal - he wasn't prodded into discussing Obama's plan by the interviewer. So it is clearly consistent with Maliki's general thinking on the tenure of U.S. troops in Iraq. (Or to be more cynical, referencing Obama was part of a strategy to embarrass Bush, given Washington's intransigence in dealing with the Iraqi government on a forward plan for the U.S. presence.)
Second, in discussing reasons for decrease in violence in Iraq Maliki doesn't invoke the surge. He puts the shift among Sunni insurgents against al Qaeda - which had nothing to do with the surge - as the biggest factor. Al Qaeda's overreach, inflaming sectarian violence as a strategy, ultimately worked against them. It wasn't hard to predict that the folks who would ultimately become al Qaeda's worst enemies were the Sunni tribesmen themselves, once al Qaeda was no longer useful to them or overplayed their hand within the insurgency. Bribes, not more American troops, were the key to this "victory."
Maliki doesn't address the fact that the growth of anti-war sentiment in the U.S. and revulsion at the idea of continuing to occupy the country indefinitely has converged with sentiment among growing numbers of Iraqis. But he clearly recognizes that a politics of reconciliation and negotiation, not more aggressive military tactics or endless perpertuation of sectarian violence and ethnic cleansing, is the key to Iraq's future. Unfortunately, it must be said, the actual decrease in sectarian violence is largely a measure of the "success" of the tactic. The demographic map has already been re-drawn in many parts of Iraq. In the wake of killings and millions of refugees from the terror, sectarian divisions are more embedded than ever. Whether, in the wake of this tragedy, some form of political rapproachment can be pulled from the fire is an open question. Some small steps in the direction of political pragmatism seem to be taking hold in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq.
The overriding fact of the matter is that the U.S. is not a welcome presence in Iraq and the Iraqi population is terribly weary of a war that was imposed on them by Washington. John McCain and Barack Obama represent polar opposites on the wisdom and conduct of the occupation of Iraq. That the Iraqi Prime Minister, on his own initiative, would invoke Obama as being closer to his own thinking about the near-term future of his country than John "100 years of Occupation" McCain is remarkable. Iraq has been McCain's signature issue in the current campaign. To boil this down to the pure politics, if it appears he's running not just against Obama, but against Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki on this issue - to quote one of the McCain campaign's own strategists when asked about the Maliki comment - John McCain is "f..ked."
Jul 20, 2008 2:51:40 PM | Iraq
Conan the Bushbarian
"Kick ass!...If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message...There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!"
George W. Bush, in a 2004 teleconference with his generals and national security team. Recounted in former Iraq commander Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez' "Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story" and quoted in the Washington Post.
Jun 2, 2008 1:18:12 PM | Iraq
Deep insights
Credit where credit is due. Even total tools, egregious hacks and amoral empty suits get it right occasionally:
"If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
"The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served."
Former Bush administration Press Secretary Scott McClellan, in his forthcoming "tell-all" book.
Update: David Corn, a journalist who helped break some of the Iraq-related stories the White House attempted to fabricate or cover up, asks McClellan, "where's the apology" for his part in the administration's deceptions and pushback against those who questioned them - and suggests all profits from his sure-to-be-a-bestseller go to help families of people killed or gravely injured in the Iraq war.
May 28, 2008 9:28:20 AM | Iraq

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When Journalists Repackage Themselves as Politicians
Explaining the reporter's urge to run for office.
By Jack Shafer
When Slate stalwart Mickey Kaus filed successfully last month to run for the U.S. Senate from California, he joined a fat list of accomplished American journalists who ditched their pens and microphones to storm the political arena. In recent decades such pressies as Patrick Buchanan, Ron Klink, Scott L. Klug, Ralph Nader, Phil Keisling, Gore Vidal, Steve Forbes, Laura Miller, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, Lionel Van Deerlin, Al Gore, Al Franken, William F. Buckley, Sarah Palin, and Norman Mailer have become candidates for office, taking their political complaints and policy prescriptions to the hustings seeking a place on the ballot box for voter approval.
A few of these campaigns—notably those of Mailer, Buckley, Vidal, Nader, and now Kaus—weren't conceived of as practical runs for office. They were political stunts, designed to season the cold, canned lima beans of American politics with new ideas, raucous debate, and pleasing spectacle. Superficially, at least, the jobs of journalist and politician overlap—both are in the business of extracting and publicizing information, of explaining, of leading, and of persuading.
But even the journalist who runs to advance the conversation is driven by the same impulse as the journalist who runs to win: He believes that a government of journalists is superior to the government made up of lawyers, political hacks, and sons and daughters of legislators. Perhaps the greatest migration of journalists to local politics came in 2002, when a half-dozen Hawaiian TV journalists appeared on the ballot.
The egomania of journalists who think they can be better politicians than the politicians is matched by a slew of former elected officials who believe they can do journalism (especially TV journalism) better than journalists: Mike Huckabee, Joe Scarborough, John Kasich, Jerry Springer, Susan Molinari,and Slate's own Eliot Spitzer. Radio talk shows have become a place for many out-of-office politicians to park their ambition between elections (Maryland's Robert Ehrlich), after stints in the pokey (Ohio's James Traficant and Chicago's Jim Laski), or after felony convictions (San Diego's Roger Hedgecock and Boston's Tom Finneran).
In Arizona, sportscaster-turned-member-of-Congress-turned-sports-anchor-turned-talk-show-host J.D. Hayworth has crossed over so many times, he can't figure out which team he wants to play on. He's currently challenging John McCain in the state's Republican primary for a Senate seat.
William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), English journalist
The tradition—if you can call it that—of American journalists directly mucking around in politics goes back more than 100 years, when newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst adopted the views of British editor William Thomas Stead. Stead, a near-worshipper of the Puritanism of Oliver Cromwell, believed in "government by journalism." Stead formulated his views in an 1885 essay, in which he proclaimed the "natural and inevitable emergence of the journalist as the ultimate depository of power in modern democracy." As press scholar W. Joseph Campbell writes:
Central to Stead's vision was the editor's ability to frame and shape public opinion, which he called "the greatest force of politics." Editors, he wrote, "decide what their readers shall know, or what they shall not know. … He can excite interest, or allay it; he can provoke public impatience, or convince people that no one need worry themselves about the matter." In essence, Stead asserted, an editor, by applying "either a stimulant or a narcotic to the minds of his readers," could bring to bear decisive influence on the important matters of the day.
Where Stead mostly preached governance by the press, Hearst and his New York Journal practiced it. The Journal sought injunctions to block the awarding of municipal public service contracts that Hearst thought were crooked, Campbell writes. They provided disaster relief in Galveston, Texas, after the 1900 hurricane. The Journal staged a jailbreak in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and distributed welfare for the downtrodden in New York. "While Others Talk, the Journal Acts," read the Journal motto. In an 1898 Journal editorial, Hearst wrote:
The force of the newspaper is the greatest force in civilization. Under republican government, newspapers form and express opinion. They suggest and control legislation. They declare wars. They punish criminals, especially the powerful. They reward with approving publicity the good deeds of citizens everywhere. The newspapers control the nation because THEY REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
When Hearst discovered to his dismay that the Fourth Estate didn't trump the other three, he ran repeatedly for office, winning two terms in the House of Representatives but losing in bids for president of the United States, New York governor, and mayor of New York City. But there's a good chance that running for office on the back of his newspapers was Hearst's plan from the beginning. (His millionaire father, George Hearst, enjoyed a political career of his own.)
One explanation for the political tendencies of journalists is that they, like politicians, are animated by a desire to change the world for the better. I've heard a lot about this idealism in both newsrooms and in caucus rooms but rarely seen it demonstrated. Mostly, journalists want to make a better world—but for themselves. They want recognition for their work, they want prizes, they want a raise, they want to appear in a better venue, they want higher status. Mostly, politicians want to make a better world—but for the constituents that can return them to office in the next election so they acquire more power, exercise it, and increase their status. Sometimes all this jockeying makes the world a better place. Sometimes it doesn't. But lip service to the ideal is never absent.
On this point, not everybody agrees, even my fellow realist (and friend) Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard. A couple of years ago he wrote that "Journalism is a character defect. … It is a life lived at a safe remove: standing off to one side of the parade as it passes, noting its flaws, offering glib and unworkable suggestions for its improvement." Ferguson, no lover of government, sympathizes with those who leave the peanut gallery for the peanut-butter factory and actually do something.
The problem with taking a job in the peanut-butter factory, as the journalist-turned-politician quickly learns, is that he's turned into a tiny cog in a gigantic machine. How this must have rankled Hearst, who was a god at his newspaper but just one of 476 votes on Capitol Hill. Just getting a new piece of legislation considered by a congressional committee has always been a heroic act. Small wonder that journalists, possessing attention spans honed by daily or weekly deadlines, rarely adapt to the groaning pace of government.
Which brings me back to the Kaus-for-Senate campaign. The subversive thing about Mickey's candidacy is that he abandons his Slate audience, which could number 200,000 nationally for an especially provocative piece, for an audience provided by various California media entities—talk shows, broadcast news, newspapers, magazines, Web sites—and political clubs that will be interviewing and grilling him. This new audience, culled from a population of almost 37 million, could be potentially larger than his old audience if the press is attentive. Hell, it may even be more influential if it causes the incumbent, Barbara Boxer, to shift positions.
The worst thing that could happen to Mickey would be to win the primary and general elections, for the same reason William Randolph Hearst's election to the House frustrated him. From the outside, it looks like elected officials are doing something. But mostly they're having something done to them.
I suspect that Mickey, like Hearst, will return to journalism after his political interlude for the same reason Sarah Palin has ensconced herself at Fox News Channel, why Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart would never leave their shows for a place in government, and why Rush Limbaugh stays put in radio. A high-profile journalist—or even a practitioner of the parajournalism of Palin, Beck, Stewart, and Limbaugh—occupies commanding heights compared with a legislator if their goal is to spread a message, straighten the record—or, god forbid, make the world a better place.
If you don't believe that Glenn Beck has it over Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., just to pick a lowly legislator's name from a hat, ask yourself this: Which has more political resonance these days, Fox News talking points or Republican Party talking points? No less a Washington insider than Joe Scarborough recently called Fox News President Roger Ailes "the head of the Republican Party." As David Frum put it to ABC News last month, "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."
So lift your heads, ink-stained wretches. If you're dying to kiss babies, make speeches, eat rubber chicken, and raise campaign funds, don't let me stop you. But if you really want to be where it's at, stay right where you are.
As long as we're talking politicians who've crossed over into the media, we must include Oliver North, who after losing a Senate raceembarked on his radio and TV career. He just didn't fit into the mix. Also, I wanted to find a place for Michael Bloomberg, but except for his autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg, which was written with "invaluable help from Matthew Winkler" (the boss of Bloomberg News), I can't recall him having ever written anything. Thanks to Graham Vyse and Hillary Busis for research help. Does anybody want to argue with the tabulation of 476 votes on the Hill in 1904? There were 386 members of the House and 90 Senators. If you dispute that, send e-mail to slate.pressbox@gmail.com. For a cheap thrill, monitor my Twitter feed. It's twice as influential as Cynthia Lummis' Twitter feed, much more active, and has about five times as many followers! (E-mail may be quoted by name in Slate's readers' forums, in a future article, or elsewhere unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)
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'Frozen' is named top entertainer of the year by AP
Dec. 24, 2014 03:23 pm JST Dec. 24, 2014 | 08:16 am JST
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Whenever they play that screeching theme song at my sports club I just want to murder the singer.
Raymond Chuang
While the movie was extremely successful in the USA (including two Oscar wins for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song), I think even Disney was unprepared for how extraordinarily well the movie did in Japan (where the official Japanese movie title is Anna and the Snow Queen). Try getting any goods related to this movie in Japan--they sell out very quickly.
One wonders if Elsa's character reminding people of the yuki-onna from Japanese folklore helped in the success of the movie in Japan.
Dec. 25, 2014 01:30 am JST
How is Frozen an entertainer?
I am so sick of seeing Frozen... why do Japanese girls love blonds..
'Cowboy Bebop' anime creator disappointed with Netflix version from first scene he saw
'Avatar 2' tops North American box office for 7th weekend
'24,' 'Runaways' actor Annie Wersching dies at 45


With only 13 episodes in the final season of "Fringe," one might assume that the show would pick up the pace in order to cram as much action and mythology into the remaining time — but you'd be wrong. The second episode, titled "In Absentia," slowed things down. Without a concrete "freak of the week," the episode served to give us, and Olivia, a better understanding of Etta, while starting to draw a road map for the season's overarching mission.
Walter's brain: When the episode opens, Walter is using the Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11 again, but as it attempts to unify the fragmented plan in his mind, it seems to make him even more addled. He's pretty adamant about not taking it off, though. With all the manipulation of Walter's brain that's happened over the course of five seasons — not to mention, you know, a whole bunch of drugs — we're starting to have some concerns that the damage might go too far. He didn't even remember ambering the lab.
Loyalists vs. The Resistance: Etta captured a Loyalist soldier and tortured him with an aging device in order to get him to tell them about the Harvard science building, which housed the power source they needed for their laser. Her methods were pretty ruthless, and revealed quite a bit about how vicious the war between the Loyalists and the Resistance has become. When we heard Etta say that the Resistance would "dispose" of Gale, our hearts broke a little bit. She barely batted an eye. This is not the little girl blowing dandelion seeds.
Mother vs. Daughter: Gale's story revealed weaknesses in both Olivia and Etta. Olivia's maternal instinct and her inexperience with the Loyalists left her extremely vulnerable to manipulation by the soldier — she believed his elaborate lie because she didn't understand how bad things had gotten, and because she could relate to his worry that his son would always be waiting for him to come home. Etta, on the other hand, had his number right away and could easily pick out his lies — but she still didn't see the humanity in him until her mother opened her eyes. Ultimately, it was Olivia's and Etta's trust in each other that helped them to meet in the middle and do the right thing by him.
Agent Foster: While in the Observer territory, Etta got a gruesome look at what's happened to her friend, Agent Simon Foster, who sacrificed himself to save the team last season. His disembodied head was hooked up to a disturbing contraption — and then he blinked at her. She flew into a rage, as one might expect, but Peter used his Serious Dad Voice on her and she eventually came to her senses.
Etta's backstory: It seems like Peter and Olivia are so relieved to have Etta back, that they haven't bothered to ask the obvious questions. What happened to her that day in the park? Who raised her? How did she get into the Fringe Division? Why did the Observers target her when they arrived? Until we see some concrete evidence that she wasn't raised by Observers to be a double agent, we're going to hold her at an arm's length.
The plan to defeat the Observers: Walter didn't write his plan down — that would be far too easy. Instead, he put it on a series of videotapes of himself. "It is important that you follow the tapes," he said — and it felt as if he was speaking not only to his team, but to us as viewers. "You must begin this journey right away. You are humanity's only hope. Now, you must retrieve the first tape." (Seriously, it felt like the start of a video game.) It sets in motion the team's journey for the first part of the season: getting their hands on those videotapes, and then carrying out the plan as the tapes advise. But… where is that first tape?
What's up with Etta's necklace? Once again, the writers made sure to draw our attention to Etta's necklace in this episode. She handed over the chain, but held onto the mangled bullet she's been wearing as a charm.
Could Agent Foster still return? That head blinked, y'all. We're not giving up hope.
What did you think of the episode? Any theories brewing? Weigh in below!


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Two Camden County Men Admit Drug Trafficking
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CAMDEN, N.J. – Two top-level managers in a drug-trafficking organization today admitted their roles in distributing significant amounts of illegal drugs in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
Federal officials say Ronnie Lopez, 45, of Pennsauken and Nelson Salcedo, 41, of Camden, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb in Camden federal court to their roles in managing a drug trafficking conspiracy that was based on the 500 block of Pine Street in Camden.
Officials say Lopez pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, cocaine and fentanyl.
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By Ari Shapiro
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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Audie Cornish. We begin this hour with the latest from eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military is continuing an operation to oust pro-Russian militants from occupied government buildings, but today, it experienced a setback. Ukraine's defense department confirms that some of its armored personnel carriers began flying the Russian flag. NPR's Ari Shapiro went to investigate.
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: The military vehicles showed up here at dawn in this industrial city of Kramatorsk. A teacher named Liza pulls out her phone to show me the video she filmed.
LIZA: It's the real tanks, as you see.
SHAPIRO: Oh, yeah. I can see the video.
LIZA: The Ukrainian army, it was at 6:00 a.m. in the old parts of Kramatorsk. There were six tanks.
SHAPIRO: Several locals in different parts of the city told us the same story. All of them were sympathetic to the pro-Russian militants. These are people who were happy to see Ukrainian military vehicles fly the Russian flag. Marina is a housewife who says the armored personnel carriers rolled right past her house. She was furious.
MARINA: (Speaking foreign language)
SHAPIRO: We are peaceful people, she says. I have a lot of children and my kids saw the tanks coming. So what jujitsu did the unarmed locals of Kramatorsk use to seize these massive Ukrainian military vehicles and flip them to the Russian side? Liza, the teacher, says nobody had to seize anything. The troops showed up miserable and demoralized.
LIZA: We are very sorry for them, really.
SHAPIRO: You mean the military tank drivers.
LIZA: Yeah, they were dirty and wanted to eat and some of our friends just came to them to let them eat.
SHAPIRO: And gave them food.
LIZA: Yes, and give them food just so, yes, a little - some bread, some water, milk.
SHAPIRO: A woman named Margarita says it was easy as that.
MARGARITA: (Through interpreter) Those guys in the old city just switched sides, gave up their vehicle and raised the Russian flag.
SHAPIRO: And once the flag was raised, a man named Yuri says...
YURI: (Speaking foreign language)
SHAPIRO: They went to the toughest place, to Slavyansk. Separatists have taken over government building in almost a dozen cities and towns around this region, but Kramatorsk and nearby Slavyansk have been the main focus of the government's military operation.
There are still plenty of tanks flying the Ukrainian flag in Kramatorsk. About a dozen are parked on the outskirts of town. The troops sitting on top don't have uniforms. It's all mismatched camouflage. They look dirty and tired, like they would rather be anywhere else. None of them will talk and there's no military spokesman on hand.
Dozens of locals showed up this morning to stand in the tank's path. Now, they sit among the blooming apricot trees, some of them drinking beer. They chat with the Ukrainian troops and give them food, maybe hoping that these men will switch sides, too. Every couple of minutes, the Ukrainian military provides an air show.
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SHAPIRO: A jet swoops in so low it rattles the telephone wires and sets off car alarms. Camouflage helicopters buzz overhead. Liza, the teacher, says everything about this situation feels surreal.
LIZA: I'm here to protect my town from our Ukrainian army. How strange it sounds. I realize that it sounds really strange, but I try to protect all of our country, our town from our army.
SHAPIRO: Hours after we left the scene, the tanks began to roll, their destination unclear. This video shows people throwing rocks. One tank crushes a car that somebody parks in its path. Kiev insists that this entire standoff was orchestrated by Moscow as a pretext to invade eastern Ukraine. But here in Kramatorsk, the people surrounding these tanks insist that if the army starts killing people, they will have only Ukrainian blood on their hands. Ari Shapiro, NPR News, Kramatorsk. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Q: Calculate limit involving $\sin$ function Calculate the following limit:
$$\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{x-\overbrace{\sin (\sin (...(\sin x)...))}^{150\ \text{times}\ \sin}}{x^3}$$
I tried applying L'Hospital's rule, but it got too messy.
Thank you in advance!

A: Use short form of series expansion:
$$
\sin(x)=x-\frac{x^3}{6}+O(x^5)\\
\sin(\sin(x))=\sin(x)-\frac{\sin^3(x)}{6}+O(\sin^5(x))\to\\
\sin(\sin(x))=x-\frac{x^3}{6}+O(x^5)-\frac{(x-\frac{x^3}{6}+O(x^5))^3}{6}+O(x^5)\to\\
\sin(\sin(x))=x-\frac{x^3}{3}+O(x^5)
$$
Important part here is to notice that each additional $\sin(...)$ leads to the expression of the same form, while adding $-\frac{x^3}{6}$.
Then,
$$\overbrace{\sin (\sin (...(\sin x)...))}^{150\ \text{times}\ \sin}=x-150\frac{x^3}{6}+O(x^5)$$
Hence,
$$\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{x-\overbrace{\sin (\sin (...(\sin x)...))}^{150\ \text{times}\ \sin}}{x^3}=\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{x-x+150\frac{x^3}{6}+O(x^5)}{x^3}=\lim_{x \rightarrow 0}(25+O(x^2))=25$$

A: The derivative is not at all messy.
Let's denote $N=150$, $S_k(x)$ the $k$-fold sine and $C_k(x)=\cos S_{k-1}(x)$. Note that we have $S_k(0)=0$ and $C_k(0)=1$.
In this notation, the numerator is $x-S_N(x)$. Its derivative is $(x-S_N(x))'=1-C_1(x)\dotsm C_N(x)$. The derivative of this (i.e., the 2nd derivative) is
$$(x-S_N(x))''=\sum_{k=1}^{N} C_1^2(x)\dotsm C_{k-1}^2(x) S_k(x) C_{k+1}(x)\dotsm C_N(x),$$
because $C_k(x)' = -C_1(x)\dotsm C_{k-1}(x) S_k(x)$ and we simply use the product rule. Therefore, the 2nd derivative of the numerator is a sum of $N$ products, each containing one sine and then some cosines.
The second derivative of the denominator is $(x^3)''=6x$. If we prove that $\lim_{x\to0}\frac{S_k(x)}{x}=1$ for all $k$, we receive (applying l'Hospital twice) the result $N/6=25$, which is correct. But this is true as we have $S_k(x)'=C_1(x)\dotsm C_k(x)$ whence $\lim_{x\to0}\frac{S_k(x)}{x}=\lim_{x\to0} \frac{C_1(x)\dotsm C_k(x)}{1}=1$.

A: Here is a more or less elementary calculation of the limit.
A quite commonly known limit is
$$
\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}=\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x-\sin 0 }{x-0}=\sin'(0)=\cos(0)=1.
\tag{1}\label{1}
$$
Also, you may prove with L'Hopital that
$$
\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{x-\sin x}{x^3}=\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{1-\cos x}{3x^2}=\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{6x}=\frac{1}{6}\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}\stackrel{\eqref{1}}=\frac{1}{6}\cdot 1=\frac{1}{6}.
\tag{2}\label{2}
$$
Using this, we see
$$
\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin^{(n)}x-\sin^{(n+1)} x}{x^3}\\
=\lim_{x\to 0}\left[\frac{\sin^{(n)}x-\sin^{(n+1)} x}{\left(\sin^{(n)}x\right)^3}\cdot\left(\frac{\sin^{(n)}x}{\sin^{(n-1)}x}\right)^3\cdot\left(\frac{\sin^{(n-1)}x}{\sin^{(n-2)}x}\right)^3\cdots\left(\frac{\sin^{(1)}x}{\sin^{(0)}x}\right)^3\right]\\
=\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin^{(n)}x-\sin^{(n+1)} x}{\left(\sin^{(n)}x\right)^3}\right)\cdot\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin^{(n)}x}{\sin^{(n-1)}x}\right)^3\cdot\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin^{(n-1)}x}{\sin^{(n-2)}x}\right)^3\cdots\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin^{(1)}x}{\sin^{(0)}x}\right)^3\\
=\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{x-\sin x}{x^3}\right)\cdot\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}\right)^3\cdot\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}\right)^3\cdots\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}\right)^3\stackrel{\eqref{1}\&\eqref{2}}=\frac{1}{6}.
\tag{3}\label{3}
$$
Where $\sin^{(n)}x:=\overbrace{\sin(\sin(...\sin(x)...))}^{n\text{ times}}$ and $\sin^{(0)}x:=x$. We used the fact that if for two functions $f,g$ we have
$$
\lim_{x\substack{\to\\ \neq}a}g(x)=b\qquad\text{and}\qquad \lim_{x\substack{\to\\ \neq}b}f(x)=l
$$
and $g(x)\neq b$ in a neighborhood of $a$ then
$$
\lim_{x\substack{\to\\ \neq}a}f(g(x))=l.
$$
Finally we conclude
$$
\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{x-\sin^{(n)} x}{x^3}=\lim_{x\to 0}\left[\frac{x-\sin^{(1)}x+\sin^{(1)}x-\sin^{(2)}x+...+\sin^{(n-1)}-\sin^{(n)} x}{x^3}\right]\\
=\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{x-\sin^{(1)}x}{x^3}\right)+\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin^{(1)}x-\sin^{(2)}x}{x^3}\right)+...+\left(\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin^{(n-1)}-\sin^{(n)} x}{x^3}\right)\\
=\overbrace{\frac{1}{6}+...+\frac{1}{6}}^{n\text{ times}}\stackrel{\eqref{3}}=\frac{n}{6}
\tag{4}\label{4}
$$
and therefore
$$
\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{x-\sin^{(150)} x}{x^3}\stackrel{\eqref{4}}=\frac{150}{6}=25.
$$

A: Let us denote
$$\phi(x;n):=\sin^n(x)=\sin(\sin(\dots\sin(x)\dots)$$
and
$$\Phi(n):=\lim_{x\to0}\frac{x-\phi(x;n)}{x^3}.$$
Then you want to compute $\Phi(150)$. First of all, check by L'Hôpital rule that
$$\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin(x)}{x}=1,\quad\text{and}\quad
\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{x-\sin(x)}{x^3}=\frac16.$$
Note that the first limit implies that
$$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sin(\sin(x))}{x}=
\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sin(\sin(x))}{\sin(x)}\frac{\sin(x)}{x}=
\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sin(\sin(x))}{\sin(x)}
\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sin(x)}{x}=1$$
and in general (by an inductive argument),
$$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\phi(x;n)}x=1.$$
Now, write
$$\begin{align*}
\Phi(n)&=\lim_{x\to0}\frac{x-\phi(x;n-1)+\phi(x;n-1)-\phi(x;n)}{x^3}\\
&=\Phi(n-1)+\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\phi(x;n-1)-\phi(x;n)}{x^3}\\
&=\Phi(n-1)+\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\phi(x;n-1)-\sin(\phi(x;n-1))}{\phi(x;n-1)^3}\left(\frac{\phi(x;n-1)}{x}\right)^3\\
&=\Phi(n-1)+\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\phi(x;n-1)-\sin(\phi(x;n-1))}{\phi(x;n-1)^3}\lim_{x\to0}\left(\frac{\phi(x;n-1)}{x}\right)^3\\
&=\Phi(n-1)+\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\phi(x;n-1)-\sin(\phi(x;n-1))}{\phi(x;n-1)^3}\\
&=\Phi(n-1)+\frac16.
\end{align*}$$
This is, $\Phi$ satisfies the recursive relation
$$\Phi(n)-\Phi(n-1)=\frac16.$$
Telescoping we see that
$$\Phi(N)-\Phi(1)=\sum_{n=2}^N(\Phi(n)-\Phi(n-1))=\sum_{n=2}^N\frac16,$$
or
$$\Phi(N)=\Phi(1)+(N-1)\frac16=\frac16+(N-1)\frac16=\frac{N}6.$$
Now set $N=150$ to obtain $\Phi(150)=25$.


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Alumni Boycott of UCSD Begins in Support of the C.H.E. Cafe
Donations to Stop Until Eviction Dropped and Lease Restored
LA JOLLA – The annual UCSD Alumni Weekend will be June 4 – 7 this year and features many events for alumni at the campus. They will be greeted with informational leaflets and sign-up sheets to join a boycott of alumni donations to the university.
On March 24 a court order for eviction went into effect, to push the C.H.E. Cafe Collective out of its home of 35 years, the C.H.E. Cafe. The Cafe's appeal of the court order is still pending in the appellate court.
Rally to Protect the C.H.E. Cafe. March 24, 2015, 5 a.m.
Following a 5 a.m. Rally to Protect the C.H.E. Cafe attended by over a hundred people, an occupation of the building by students and other supporters was started on March 24. The occupation, or sit-in, has continued for over two months, in defiance of the eviction order.
Since the sit-in/occupation of the C.H.E. Cafe began, events and activity at the Cafe have multiplied. Events at the Cafe in recent weeks have included Student Film Nights, UCSD Triton Art, Earth Day Planting Party, Creative Dance Class, Paint the C.H.E. With Mario Torero, Co-op Prom, presentation on activist history at UCSD by Professor Emeritus Fred Lonidier, Meatless Mondays, an ongoing Queer Film Night, and events with the Roger's Community Garden.
Paint the C.H.E. With Mario Torero event. April 16, 2015
The UCSD administration has shown no interest in calling off the eviction and Sheriff's Deputies can arrive at any time to try to force people out of the building. With the summer break starting on June 13, the administration and the Sheriff's Department may make their move to finalize the eviction once most students are gone. Although this timing tactic would reduce the size of the student body response, supporters are confident that the general community will turn out to protest.
For over a year the UCSD administration has attempted to shut the C.H.E. Cafe Collective out of its historic home using a variety of secretive bureaucratic maneuvers, manipulations, and blatant lies. More than a million dollars is the cost projection the UCSD administration has claimed to need to make the C.H.E. Cafe building "safe" to use. At the request of the C.H.E. Cafe Collective, a reputable licensed general contractor with experience in rehabilitating historic wood structures did a preliminary walk through recently and thought the building was in better shape than what he expected to find.
The UCSD administration's claim that the building is "unsafe" because of a lack of automatic fire sprinklers has been thoroughly debunked. The administration has not explained why a lack of fire sprinklers suddenly became a concern after almost 50 years of use of the building by UCSD. The University's commissioned 2010 report on the condition of the building states "addition of full fire suppression is not recommended at this time." Research by alumni revealed that the UC Office of the President (UCOP) abides by the California Fire Code, which states that buildings such as the C.H.E. Cafe are exempt from any requirement to retrofit an automatic fire sprinkler system. Fire extinguishers and all other Fire Code requirements have always been maintained. Other than retrofitting sprinklers, the official UCSD administration assessments of repairs needed include a long list of items like replacement of all the plumbing pipes, despite the fact that no leaks have been found. This is how the cost estimates from the administration end up topping a million dollars.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT GROWING
The C.H.E. Cafe continues to be an invaluable "hands-on" laboratory for students and community members to learn the skills needed to run a vegetarian restaurant, concert/events venue and community center. It continues to be a shining light of the "diversity" that the University claims to promote.
During the past year, despite the protracted struggle over funding of building maintenance, termination of the lease, the eviction lawsuit and the appeal of that ruling, more than 100 shows and events were held at the Cafe.
Organizations and individuals publicly opposed to the eviction of the C.H.E. Cafe Collective from the CHE Cafe building include the University Council-American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, the UCSD Faculty Association, the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE), United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865 (UCSD teaching assistants and student employees), AFT Local 1931 (faculty and staff in the San Diego Community College and Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College Districts), KSDT Radio, UCSD Mecha, The General Store Co-op, Rabbi Laurie Coskey, Ed.D.(Executive Director, Interfaith Center for Worker Justice), Martin Eder (Interim Director, KNSJ Radio), UAW Local 5810 (Post Doctoral Researchers Union at UCSD) Alor Caleron (Director, San Diego Employee Rights Center), UCSD Co-ops and Collectives Alumni, and many others.
More than 14, 000 people have signed online petitions to tell the UCSD administration to stop the eviction of the C.H.E. Cafe Collective, to restore the lease and to fund basic building maintenance costs. The current petition, with 900 signatures, is at https://www.change.org/p/university-of-california-and-other-state-officials-public-statement-of-support-for-the-c-h-e-caf%C3%A9-and-the-c-h-e-caf%C3%A9-collective
ALUMNI ALARM GROWS LOUDER
Over this past year, hundreds of alumni have signed petitions and open letters of protest. Even a past president of the Alumni Association wrote a letter of protest. UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla has refused to meet with concerned alumni to discuss the eviction and building repairs dispute. Now, the C.H.E. Cafe Support Network has decided to call a boycott of alumni donations to pressure the UCSD administration in a language it understands: money.
Alumni have donated millions of dollars to UCSD. Thousands of alumni have eaten at or attended shows and meetings and events at the C.H.E. Cafe or enjoyed the low-cost services of one or more of the three other student coops. Hundreds of alumni have actually worked at the C.H.E. Cafe or at the other coops.
The boycott demands that Chancellor Khosla:
STOP THE EVICTION OF THE C.H.E. CAFE COLLECTIVE FROM THE C.H.E. CAFE FACILITY
RESTORE THE LEASE
RESTORE THE BASIC BUILDING MAINTENANCE FUNDS
STOP THE "BIG LIE" PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN TO BRAND THE BUILDING "UNSAFE"
RENEW THE LONG TERM LEASE FOR ALL FOUR OF THE STUDENT COOPS
Organizers say the action at the Alumni Weekend events is only the public opening of the boycott. More information about the annual Alumni Weekend is available at the official UCSD website for
the event at http://www.alumni.ucsd.edu/s/1170/landing/index_rot.aspx?sid=1170&gid=1&pgid=6224
Alumni wanting to join the boycott are asked to call (858) 373-7018 or write to mkroopkin@juno.com
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C.H.E. Cafe Makes SOHO "10 Most Endangered List" for 2015, San Diego Free Press, June 1, 2015
See more background on the fight to save the Che Cafe at http://newindicator.org/?p=5 .
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Ordinances by Alderman Joseph Vaccaro
71433 Fire Fighters Assistance Grant
The purpose of this ordinance is to authorize the Fire Chief, on behalf of the City of St Louis, to enter into and execute an Assistance to Firefighters Grant Agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to receive $273,568.18 in such grant award funds. The ordinance appropriates the awarded funds and the required match amount of $27,356.82 and authorizes the Fire Chief to spend the program funds for approved purposes, which include fitness training, health and wellness programs, and exercise equipment for the firefighters' use. The ordinance contains an emergency clause.
71430 Detention Facility Oversight Board (DFOB)
The proposed bill establishes a Detention Facility Oversight Board (DFOB) authorized to receive and investigate complaints of misconduct and certain incidents occurring in the City's detention facilities, investigate patterns of misconduct and systemic problems. The DFOB would have the power of subpoena. It is to function as an advisory board to the Mayor and Board and may make recommendations regarding detention facility operations and conditions, training and disciplinary action for Division of corrections' employees, and Division policy directives. The DFOB would report directly to the Mayor.
71363 Chapter 99 Redevelopment Plan for the 3810 Watson Rd
This Board Bill seeks to approve a Chapter 99 Redevelopment Plan and Blighting Study for the 3810 Watson Rd. Redevelopment Area. This Board Bill will allow up to five years of tax abatement based on 50 percent of the assessed value of the incremental improvements. This Area includes a former residence which will be demolished to construct a commercial building.
71351 Protection Program for Witnesses of Violence Grant
This Board Bill proposes an ordinance authorizing the Police Commissioner, on behalf of the City of Saint Louis, to enter into and execute a Grant Agreement with the Missouri Office of Crime Victim Services to fund the Protection Program for Witnesses of Violence grant program upon approval of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and to expend funds by entering into contracts, or otherwise, in a manner that is consistent with the provisions of said Grant Agreement; containing a severability clause and an emergency clause.
71347 United States Relief Fund
An Ordinance wherein the Board of Aldermen authorizes the receipt of and appropriates funds to the Department of Public Safety (solely to the extent received) awarded for COVID-19 related expenses under the An Ordinance wherein the Board of Aldermen authorizes the receipt of and appropriates funds to the Department of Public Safety (solely to the extent received) awarded for COVID-19 related expenses under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Relief Fund; and containing an emergency clause. ; and containing an emergency clause.
71304 Grant from the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Inc. (CDC Foundation)
Authorizes the Acting Director of the City of St. Louis Department of Health to accept a Two Hundred Thousand Dollar ($200,000) grant from the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Inc. (CDC Foundation), with a Project Name of COVID-19 Care Kits for Faith-Based Communities and known as Project #1085, to develop messaging and COVID-19 packages for distribution to Communities of Faith, as well as community assessments of the impact of COVID-19 resources and faith based messaging, primarily for persons of color and in those communities hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
71300 Lead Hazard Reduction Grant
This Board Bill seeks the approval of a competitive Lead Hazard Reduction Grant in the amount of Two Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand ($2,520,000) received by the Community Development Administration (CDA) from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Funding from the grant will allow for CDA, the Building Division and Department of Health to continue efforts in reducing lead poisoning and will also allow for the remediation of lead hazards from 210 units of housing.
71247 Earnings Tax
An ordinance submitting to the qualified voters of the City of St. Louis, pursuant to Section 92.115 RSMo, the question of whether to continue the earnings tax imposed by the City of St. Louis for a period of five years; providing for an election and the manner of voting; providing that if such question shall receive the votes of a majority of the voters voting thereon that such earnings tax shall continue; and containing a severability clause and emergency clause.
71241 COVID-19 related relief under the Community Development Block Grant Program
An Ordinance wherein the Board of Aldermen authorizes the receipt of and appropriates funds (solely to the extent received) awarded for temporary financial assistance for rental payments as part of COVID-19 related relief under the Community Development Block Grant Program; and containing an emergency clause.
71230 Rezoning 6839 Flyer Ave.
An Ordinance recommended by the Planning Commission on September 2, 2020, to change the zoning of property as indicated on the District Map, from the "A" Single-Family Dwelling District to the "F" Neighborhood Commercial District, in City Block 4669 at 6839 Fyler Avenue, including a legal description of land in City Block 4669 and containing an emergency clause.
71180 Residency of City Employees
The proposed Bill would submit qualified voters of the City of St. Louis, a proposal to revise Section 2 of Article VIII of the City of St. Louis Charter which requires City employees to reside within the boundaries of the City of St. Louis and thus allow said employees, except for City Agency and Department Directors appointed by the Mayor, to reside outside of the boundaries of the City of St. Louis. The Bill provides an election to be held for voting on the proposed revision on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The proposed bill's impact on the community is unknown at this time.
71146 Update to the City's Environmental and Demolition Ordinances
This bill is intended to update the City's Environmental and Demolition ordinances to protect the health and welfare of those engaged in commercial demolition work within the City of St. Louis's limits as well as the public health of those who live and work near demolition sites and protect the citizenry from dangerous airborne contaminants. The bill also updates fees and penalties to achieve its goal.
71107 Three Way Stop at Mardel Avenue and Macklind Avenue
The proposed Board Bill establishes a three-way stop site at the intersection of Mardel Avenue and Macklind Avenue regulating all traffic travelling eastbound on Mardel Avenue at Macklind Avenue and regulating all traffic travelling northound and southbound on Macklind Avenue at Mardel Avenue, and containing an emergency clause.
71105 Four Way Stop at Oleatha Avenue and January Avenue
The proposed bill would establish a four-way stop site at the intersection of Oleatha Avenue and January Avenue regulating all traffic traveling northbound and southbound on January Avenue at Oleatha Avenue and regulating all traffic traveling eastbound and westbound on Oleatha Avenue at January Avenue.
71104 Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Firearms by Persons Subject to a Restraining Order
The bill would prohibit the carrying of a concealed firearm by persons who are subject to a restraining order or who have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence when the firearm such person is in receipt has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce as prohibited by Title 18, Section 922g (8) and (9) of the United States Code.
71063 2018 International Energy Conservation Code
An Ordinance to amend the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code; and containing a severability clause, savings clause, and an effective date.
71037 Police Services on Metrolink
An ordinance adopted and approved pursuant to § 70.815 RSMo, authorizing the Police Commissioner to make a contract on behalf of the City of St. Louis with St. Louis County allowing St. Louis County to provide police services on MetroLink Property within the city limits of the City of St. Louis, including exercising powers of arrest for criminal offenses and violations of the ordinances of the City of St. Louis the same as possessed by the police officers of the City of St. Louis, and with the same immunity as if acting within St. Louis County, and containing an Emergency Clause.
71031 3 Way Stop Site at January & Tholozan
An Ordinance establishing a three-way stop site at the intersection of Tholozan Avenue and Sulphur Avenue regulating all traffic traveling northbound Sulphur Avenue at Tholozan Avenue and regulating all traffic traveling eastbound and westbound on Tholozan Avenue at Sulphur Avenue, and containing an emergency clause.
An Ordinance establishing a four-way stop site at the intersection of January Avenue and Tholozan Avenue regulating all traffic traveling northbound and southbound on January Avenue at Tholozan Avenue and regulating all traffic traveling eastbound and westbound on Tholozan Avenue at January Avenue, and containing an emergency clause.
71026 Cure Violence
An ordinance recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, making a supplemental appropriation to the Annual Budget Ordinance 70963 for Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2019 and ending June 30, 2020 amounting to the sum of Eight Million Dollars ($8,000,000) for the purpose of providing funding for the violence prevention alternative program, "Cure Violence," and containing an Emergency Clause.
71009 4 way stop site at Childress & Bradley
An Ordinance establishing a four-way stop site at the intersection of Childress Avenue and Bradley Avenue regulating all traffic traveling northbound and southbound on Childress Avenue at Bradley Avenue and regulating all traffic traveling eastbound and westbound on Bradley Avenue at Childress Avenue, and containing an emergency clause.
70991 Candidate Tax Compliance
An ordinance repealing Section One of Ordinance No. 68605, approved March 16, 2010, and codified as 2.08.430 in the City of St. Louis Revised Code of Ordinances, which pertains to election rules and procedures relating to the payment of taxes by candidates for elective office in the City of St. Louis, and replacing said section of Ordinance No. 68605 with a new Section One requiring all candidates for elective public office in the City of St. Louis to have paid in full at the time of their filing the those taxes and bills for services set forth herein and to provide evidence thereof in a sworn affidavit at said time.
70982 Medical Marijuana
An Ordinance recommended by the Planning Commission pertaining to the Zoning Code, Title 26; amending Chapter 26.08 of the Revised Code by adding a cross-reference in the definition section for marijuana related uses; adding a new Chapter to the Zoning Code, Title 26, pertaining to the regulation of medical marijuana facilities and including sections on the purpose, definitions, use regulations and site requirements for Medical Marijuana Facilities, to be codified as Chapter 26.70 of the Revised Code of the City of St. Louis ("Revised Code"); and containing a severability and an emergency clause.


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Tavares Calloway – Black, age 20
Sentenced in Miami-Dade County, Florida
By: a judge upon jury recommendation (7-5)
Date of crime: January 21, 1997
Prosecution's case/defense response: Calloway executed five men during a drug heist and was charged with 5 counts of 1st-degree murder, 1 count of robbery with a firearm, kidnapping and burglary of an occupied dwelling. The drug dealers killed were Adolphus Melvin (age 27), Gary St. Charles (age 22), Trenton Thomas (age 26), Frederick McGuire (age 31) and Derwin Bernard Copeland (age 28). Antonio Clark was charged as an accomplice after his thumbprint was found at the scene. He testified against Calloway, which led to his conviction.
Sources: Miami Herald (FL) 7/22/09 (2009 WLNR 13968534), Miami Herald (FL) 7/30/09 (2009 WLNR 14705961), Miami Herald (FL) 1/27/10 (2010 WLNR 1687356), Miami Herald (FL) 2/5/10 (2010 WLNR 2441208), Miami Herald (FL) 10/1/10 AP Alert – FL 20:28:25.
Ralston Davis – Black, age 20
Sentenced in Broward County, Florida
By: a judge upon jury recommendation
Date of crime: December 2005
Prosecution's case/defense response: Davis was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder after the home invasion of Myosha Proby (age 28). The motive for the killing was Davis' belief that Proby had set him up. Davis ordered Proby onto her knees before firing 26 times. Davis also shot and killed two strangers after leaving Proby's home. The defense pled not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming Davis had been under the influence of crack cocaine.
Sources: South Florida Sun Sentinel 1/8/10 AP Alert – FL 08:00:59.
Randall Deviney – White, age 18
Sentenced in Duval County, Florida
By: a judge upon a jury recommendation
Date of crime: August 5, 2008
Prosecution's case/defense response: Deviney was found guilty of the first-degree, stabbing murder of his neighbor, Dolores Futrell (age 65). Futrell often paid Deviney to do odd jobs and invited him and his siblings over to visit when they were younger. At the time of the killing, Deviney was aware Futrell's live-in boyfriend was out of town. He claimed to be upset and lost control when she brought up questions about his childhood. An indiscernible call was made to 911 before Futrell was found dead in her living room, her throat slit and her clothing cut off. Defense attorneys argued that due to Deviney's age, remorse and a deprived childhood (he was raised by parents convicted of murder, witnessed domestic violence and was abused himself), he should be spared from the death penalty. The judge stated she considered those factors but found the heinous nature of the crime and the victim's vulnerability (Futrell had multiple sclerosis and walking/balancing problems) convincing enough to support the jury's findings.
Sources: The Florida Times – Union 6/11/10 (http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-06-11/story/judge-imposes-death-penalty-randall-deviney-killing-65-year-old-neighbor), 6/12/10 AP Alert – FL 10:30:41.
Rasheem Dubose – Black, age 22
By: July 26, 2006
Date of crime: a judge upon jury recommendation (8-4)
Prosecution's case/defense response: In retaliation for being robbed and forced at gunpoint to drop his pants by Willie Davis, Dubose fired 20 shots at his home, killing his niece DreShawna Davis (age 8). Dubose's brothers, Terrell Devon Dubose (age 20) and Tujuan Arkeem Dubose (age 18), were accomplices in the shooting and received life in prison. Prosecutors argued aggravating factors such as killing a child, posing a risk to 6 other people in the house and having a prior violent felony on his record made Dubose eligible for the death penalty. Defense attorneys maintained Dubose had a difficult upbringing and that a death sentence would be disproportionate to his brothers' sentences. They also claimed Dubose should've been spared due to his low IQ of 82 and because he suffered a frontal lobe brain injury that could've been caused by abuse suffered as a child or head injuries from boxing/football and was aggravated by drug/alcohol abuse.
Sources: Florida Times Union (FL) 12/10/10 (2010 WLNR 24457146), 12/8/06 AP Alert – FL 22:41:06, Florida Times Union (FL) 3/12/10 (2010 WLNR 5321352), Florida Times Union (FL) 1/27/10 (2010 WLNR 1729961), Florida Times Union (FL) 3/10/10 (2010 WLNR 5002284), Florida Times Union (FL) 4/24/10 (2010 WLNR 8514301).
Enoch Hall – Black, age 38
Sentenced in Volusia County, Florida
Date of crime: June 25, 2008
Prosecution's case/defense response: Hall was serving two life sentences for kidnapping at Tomoka Correctional Institute, where he killed correctional officer, Donna Fitzgerald (age 50). Hall hid in the facility and killed Fitzgerald when she came to find him, stabbing her over 20 times with a homemade knife.
Sources: Daytona News Journal 12/28/08 (2008 WLNR 24935858), Orlando Sentinel 4/17/09 (2009 WLNR 7209433), Daytona News Journal 10/28/09 (2009 WLNR 21917114), Channel 9 News WFTV-FL 10/29/09 (2009 WLNR 21642574), Orlando Sentinel 1/16/10 (2010 WLNR 1025771).
John Hampton – Black, age 33
Sentenced in Pinellas County, Florida
Prosecution's case/defense response: Hampton was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Lashonda McKinnes (age 25). McKinnes had been beaten, raped and repeatedly stabbed. Shortly after the police discovered her body, they also found a pair of bloody socks in a trashcan at McKinnes apartment complex. The socks were used to identify Hampton who was found nearby with bloodstains on his shorts and shoes and was not wearing any socks. Prosecutors relied on the brutality of the murder and Hamptons attempt to cover it up by pouring lighter fluid and cleaning chemicals on McKinne's body in an effort to wipe away his DNA. The defense claimed the two had consensual sex after a night of drinking and in the morning Hampton was awoken by a male friend telling him it was time to go. Upon leaving the apartment, Hampton saw the body and tried to revive her, causing him to panic and attempt to clean the apartment before fleeing the scene. However, one of McKinnes nieces, De'jhana McKinnes (age 7), was hiding in the closet and witnessed parts of the attack. In addition, Hampton was also wanted on a kidnapping charge in Georgia at the time of the attack. Consequently, De'jhana's testimony (did not take the stand but made statements to detectives) coupled with Hamptons prior 11-year prison sentence for child molestation and the warrant for his arrest in Georgia was enough for a jury to recommend the death penalty.
Sources: St. Petersburg Times 6/23/09 (http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/article1012361.ece), The Tifton Gazette 7/1/09 (http://tiftongazette.com/local/x1048551341/Ashburn-man-convicted-of-Fla-murder-rape).
Michael R. Jackson – Black, age 36
Sentenced in Clay County, Florida
Prosecution's case/defense response: A self-described sexual monster, Jackson was convicted of the rape and murder of Andrea Boyer (age 25), a local veterinarian, as she arrived at work. Jackson was a registered sex offender at the time, due to his role in the rape of a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint eleven years earlier. He had served 20 years of a 30-year sentence. The prosecution presented DNA evidence that revealed Jackson raped Boyer before stabbing, beating and strangling her. Jackson claimed to have had consensual sex with Boyer and denies any involvement with her murder. Defense attorneys described Jackson as a model prisoner and claimed the evidence to have been inconclusive as to whether Boyer was conscious during the attack. Likewise, the pointed out that Jackson was only 16 when he committed the first rape and was himself a victim of sexual abuse by a state counselor who was hired to help him.
Sources: 1/24/07 AP Alert – FL 11:51:04, The Florida Times Union (FL) 2/22/10 (2010 WLNR 3730405), The Florida Times Union (FL) 4/30/10 (2010 WLNR 9015397) First Coast News (FL) 4/30/10 (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=153048).
Leo L. Kaczmar, III – White, age 24
By: a judge upon jury recommendation (11-1)
Date of crime: December 13, 20008
Prosecution's case/defense response: Kaczmar killed his father's girlfriend, Maria E. Ruiz (age 49). Kaczmar was a sex-offender with a prior history of attempted burglary, felony theft and dealing in stolen property. Kaczmar was determined to have been under the influence of crack when he stabbed Ruiz 50+ times. Despite setting the house on fire to try to cover up the crime, Ruiz's blood was found on Kaczmar's socks, which led to his conviction. He was ultimately charged with 1st-degree murder, arson and attempted sexual battery.
Sources: Florida Times Union (FL) 4/28/10 (2010 WLNR 8779869), Florida Times Union (FL) 8/11/10 (2010 WLNR 15989270), Florida Times Union (FL) 8/13/10 (2010 WLNR 16136992), Florida Times Union (FL) 8/13/10 AP Alert – FL 23:59:20, Florida Times Union (FL) 8/14/10 (2010 WLNR 16208719).
David Martin – White, age 22
Date of crime: March 11, 2008
Prosecution's case/defense response: Martin was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Jacey McWilliams, whose body was found in a wooded area. Martin's cell phone was also found near the body. It was determined that Martin beat McWilliams to death with a hammer so he could steal her car to visit his girlfriend who lived outside the area. Likewise, it was discovered that Martin and McWilliams knew each other, and that on the day of the murder Martin had told McWilliams he was going to take her to a special place. Martin's family spoke to the jury about his difficult upbringing and his compassion for his family.
Sources: Channel 4 News WJXT Jacksonville 12/2/09 (http://www.news4jax.com/news/21788915/detail.html), Intimate Violence Deaths in the News 12/5/09 (http://intimateviolencedeathnews.blogspot.com/2009/12/clay-county-fl-clay-jury-says-death-to.html), Channel 4 News WJXT Jacksonville 3/4/10 (http://www.news4jax.com/news/22741470/detail.html), Crime and Capital Punishment 10/22/10 (http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-3242.html).
Douglas Matthews – Black, age 26
Date of crime: February 20, 2008
Prosecution's case/defense response: Matthews received the death penalty for using a knife to hack Kirk Zoeller (age 50) to death in a crack house. Prosecutors cited multiple aggravating factors, such as: testimony by Justin Wagner (age 20) who was buying drugs at the time, that Zoeller screamed for help when Matthews chased him down from behind; Zoeller was stabbed 24 times and Matthews' two prior robbery convictions. Also murdered was Donna Trujillo (age 51), whose body was found with Zoellers, each stabbed multiple times in the head, neck and chest. However, prosecutors were unable to seek a death sentence for Trujillo's murder after jurors found Matthews guilty of manslaughter rather than first-degree murder. This difference in verdicts resulted from Wagner only witnessing Zoeller being attacked. Authorities said the motive for the murder was robbery due to Zoeller's wallet being found in Matthews' blood-soaked clothing. The defense maintained Zoeller killed Trujillo and that Matthews killed Zoeller in self-defense when he came at him with a knife.
Sources: The Daytona News-Journal (FL) 5/18/10 (2010 WLNR 10810839), The Daytona News-Journal (FL) 5/20/10 (2010 WLNR 10810875), The Daytona News-Journal (FL) 5/24/10 (2010 WLNR 10997785), The Daytona News-Journal (FL) 5/25/10 (2010 WLNR 10997794), The Daytona News-Journal (FL) 8/13/10 (2010 WLNR 16199346).
Justin McMillian – Black, age 25
Prosecution's case/defense response: McMillian's girlfriend, Danielle Stubbs (age 26), told him she had an abortion, which caused him to fire two gunshots in the room where she was. Days later when McMillian was stopped on a traffic charge he shot at the police while trying to escape but was shot himself and captured.
Sources: Florida Times Union (FL) 6/10/09 (2009 WLNR 11116538), Florida Times Union (FL) 6/19/10 AP Alert – FL 07:01:49, Florida Times Union (FL) 10/1/10 AP Alert – FL 14:43:48, Florida Times Union (FL) 10/4/10 (2010 WLNR 19694769).
Miguel Oyola – Latino, age 37
Sentenced in Jefferson County, Florida
Date of crime: December 3, 2007
Prosecution's case/defense response: Oyola used Michael Lee Gerrad's (age 35) business credit card to make multiple purchases of gift cards roughly totaling $4,000. Gerrad was his boss in the landscaping business. When the credit card company notified Gerrad he confronted Oyola who attacked him with a shovel and stabbed him multiple times. Oyola was charged with 1st-degree murder, false imprisonment, armed robbery with a deadly weapon and grand theft of an automobile. Defense attorneys argued the time line of the homicide was speculative and couldn't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. They also argued the crime was committed in the "heat of passion."
Sources: Tallahassee Democrat (FL) 10/4/08 (2008 WLNR 26623397), Tallahassee Democrat (FL) 8/27/10 (2010 WLNR 17168930), Tallahassee Democrat (FL) 8/30/10 (2010 WLNR 17242706), Tallahassee Democrat (FL) 8/31/10 (2010 WLNR 17316240), Tallahassee Democrat (FL) 10/26/10 (2010 WLNR 21396056), Tallahassee Democrat (FL) 4/23/11 (2011 WLNR 7942290).
Richard Robards – White, age 39
By: a judge upon a jury recommendation (7-5)
Prosecution's case/defense response: Robards, a former body builder, tried to steal $80,000 from a safe belonging to Frank (age 60) and Linda Deluca (age 59) but never got it open. Robards worked as the couple's personal trainer, which allowed him to befriend them. They were both stabbed multiple times and their home was set on fire in an attempt to cover up the crime. Robards fingerprint was found at the scene of the crime, in addition to the fire in the house going out shortly after it was lit. Prosecutors claimed aggravating factors such as the crime being especially brutal and having a motive of robbery made Robards eligible for the death sentence. His defense argued his family history when coupled with his history of traumatic injury and steroid use should've motivated jurors to spare his life.
Sources: St. Petersburg Times (FL) 5/26/10 (2010 WLNR 10837461), Tampa Tribute (FL) 5/26/10 (2010 WLNR 13003444), St. Petersburg Times (FL) 5/26/10 AP Alert – FL 10:08:46, St. Petersburg Times (FL) 10/30/10 (2010 WLNR 21905361).


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was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Harima Province in what is now the southwestern portion of modern-day Hyōgo Prefecture. It was centered around the Hayashida jin'ya which was located in what is now the city of Himeji, Hyōgo and was controlled by the tozama daimyō Takebe clan throughout all of its history.

History
Takebe Mitsushige was the 700 koku Amagasaki gundai under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and was married to an adopted daughter of Ikeda Terumasa. Their son, Takebe Masanaga, fought at the side of Ikeda Terumasa's sons at the Siege of Osaka from 1614-1615, and was rewarded by being made daimyō of Amagasaki Domain, an honor which he unusually shared with Ikeda Shigetoshi, with each having a kokudaka of 10,000 koku. This proved to be unwieldy, and when the Ikeda clan was transferred to Himeji Domain, Takebe Masanaga moved a slightly distance away to form Hayashida Domain in 1617. Although a tozama clan, the Takebe ruled the domain unbroken to the Meiji restoration. The 3rd daimyō, Takabe Masanori, served as Ōbangashira , Fushimi-bugyō and as Jisha-bugyō in the shogunal administration. The 7th daimyō, Takabe Masakata, established a Han school in 1794 and the 9th daimyō, Takebe Masanori, also served as Ōbangashira and castellan of Nijō Castle in Kyoto. The final daimyō, Takebe Masayo, served in the guard of Prince Kachō Hirotsune in 1868 and supported the Meiji government in the Boshin War.  The clan was ennobled with the kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount).

The lecture hall of the han school survives, and is a Himeji City Important Cultural Property.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period
As with most domains in the han system, Hayashida Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.

Harima Province
25 villages in Itto District

List of daimyō

{| class=wikitable
! #||Name || Tenure || Courtesy title || Court Rank || kokudaka
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|colspan=6|  Takebe clan, 1617-1871 (Tozama)
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||1||||1617 - 1667||Tanba-no-kami (丹波守)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
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||2||||1667 - 1669||Tanba-no-kami (丹波守)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
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||3||||1670 - 1715||Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
|-
||4||||1715 - 1732||Tanba-no-kami (丹波守)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
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||5||||1732 - 1762||Tanba-no-kami (丹波守)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
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||6||||1762 - 1764||Ōmi-no-kami (近江守)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
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||7||||1764 - 1812||Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
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||8||||1812 - 1849||Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
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||9||||1849 - 1863||Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
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||10||||1863 - 1871||Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||10,000 koku
|-
|}

See also
 List of Han
 Abolition of the han system

Further reading
 Bolitho, Harold. (1974). Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press.  ;  OCLC 185685588

References

Domains of Japan
1622 establishments in Japan
States and territories established in 1622
1871 disestablishments in Japan
States and territories disestablished in 1871
Harima Province
History of Hyōgo Prefecture

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Q: Riemannian Manifolds with $n(n+1)/2$ dimensional symmetry group Given a $n$-dimensional connected Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, its symmetry group $G$ can be considered as a subbundle of orthonormal frame bundle of $M$ (which I call $F_OM$), yielding: $$\dim G\le \dim F_OM=\dim M +\dim O(n)={n+n(n-1)\over 2}=\frac{n(n+1)}{2}$$ (Here the embedding $\phi:G \hookrightarrow F_OM$ is defined by singling out an arbitrary point $p \in M$ and orthonormal frame $(v_1,...,v_n) \in F_{O,p} M$ and defining $\phi: g \mapsto (gp,g_*v_1,...,g_*v_n)$. However, it takes some work to verify that this map is indeed injective.)
These considerations made me wonder which manifolds have a maximally large symmetry group, i.e. which $M$ do satisfy $\dim G= \frac{n(n+1)}{2}$. Of, course $\Bbb R^n,\Bbb S^n$ and $\Bbb H^n$ have got this property, but are there any other exotic examples?
(Some thoughts of mine on this problem: One can see that $M$ is homogenuous and isotropic. Each stabiliser of a point has to be isomorphic to either $SO(n)$ or $O(n)$. In particular, $M$ has constant curvature, which implies that $M$ has to be one of $\Bbb R^n,\Bbb S^n$ and $\Bbb H^n$ if $M$ is complete and simply-connected.)

A: See Kobayashi for the definitive answers to this question and more.

A: The complete list of such manifolds consists of the three simply connected ones as well as the real-projective space with the constant curvature metric. Here is why. Suppose that $\pi$ is the group of covering transformations of M, identified with the subgroup of the full group G of isometries of the universal cover of M. Then $\pi$ commutes with the connected component $G_o$ of identity in G, otherwise the isometry group of M has dimension less than G. Now, you just have to do case by case analysis. You see that only in the spherical case the group $G_o$ has nontrivial centralizer in G, namely, it is the center of G, generated by the antipodal map. This gives us the projective space.


On Thursday morning the mood was euphoric after reports that PM Theresa May was close to a withdrawal agreement with Europe. This morning - at least in the Far East - the anticlimax was almost palpable after all 28 EU leaders had given that agreement their imprimatur.
In a normal universe the agreement on the agreement would be positive for sterling: A compromise has been reached which leaves all 28 participants feeling slightly dissatisfied but better off than they feared. The world should move on. But on planet Brexit one of the 28 participants might be forced by a rebellious Parliament to renege on the deal. It is that possibility - some say likelihood - that makes investors feel no easier about sterling than they did before the Brussels summit.
Compared with Thursday morning's levels the pound is an average of 0.4% firmer against the other major currencies, having added a third of a US cent and three quarters of a euro cent. Relative to Friday morning, though, it is on average fractionally lower.
Outside the Brexit bubble there were other distractions. America's Thanksgiving holiday dampened financial market activity and Black Friday provided investors with thousands of opportunities to get rid of unneeded pounds.
The top performer over the long weekend was the South African rand, which strengthened by a net 0.5%. It had a good week too, thanks to speculation that the South African Reserve Bank might increase its benchmark interest rate on Thursday. The SARB went on to do just that, lifting the repo rate from 6.5% to 6.75%, a level it last saw in February.
Provisional purchasing managers' index readings from Europe and the States were almost universally disappointing. Only the composite measure for France was above forecast and even that was lower on the month. The relatively bright spot on Friday was Canada, where inflation accelerated to 2.4% and retail sales increased by an above-forecast 0.2% in September.
Now that the EU 27 are in agreement about Britain's withdrawal from the union, all that remains to be seen is whether Parliament is ready to endorse what the government has put together. That decisions could come on 12 December, until when the pound is likely to remain under pressure.
There is an assumption by the media that a majority of MPs will vote against the prime minister's deal, for a variety of ideological and practical reasons. The uncertainty about what might happen afterwards - a second vote in the Commons, a second referendum, a second general election, a second coming even - will not easily be dispelled.
Today's agenda is rather more mundane. New Zealand has reported zero growth in retail sales for the third quarter. And Japan's leading economic index was a point lower in September at 114.4. IFO reports this morning on German business confidence and after lunch the Chicago and Dallas Federal Reserves will reveal their activity and manufacturing indices. New Zealand's trade figures come out tonight.