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A disruption recovery model in a production-inventory system with demand uncertainty and process reliability
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This paper develops a risk management tool for a productioninventory system that involves an imperfect production process and faces production disruption and demand uncertainty. In this paper, the demand uncertainty is represented as fuzzy variable and the imperfectness is expressed as process reliability. To deal with the production scheduling in this environment, a non-linear constrained optimization model has been formulated with an objective of maximizing the graded mean integration value (GMIV) of the total expected profit. The model is applied to solve the production-inventory problem with single as well as multiple disruptions on a real time basis that basically revises the production quantity in each cycle in the recovery time window. We propose a genetic algorithm (GA) based heuristic to solve the model and obtain an optimal recovery plan. A numerical example is presented to explain usefulness of the developed model. © 2013 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
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On Nov. 8th, the American people defied polls and expectations and elected a presidential candidate who has openly spoken against almost every minority group in the country. Nobody thought it would happen — FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times polls both gave Secretary Hillary Clinton at least a 70 percent chance of winning the White House. But the tables turned on election night, and now, America is left to learn from this experience and face a future nobody predicted.
The first and most important task that all now-endangered minorities must work to complete is to understand how we can prevent our voices from being squashed again. We must bond together and organize to ensure that in the future, no other politician will be able to spew Trump-like rhetoric and still have a path to the presidency.
Many are saying we must "heal and recover" from this shock. But we can't afford to heal. Healing means crawling back into a liberal bubble, where nobody even considered the possibility of a Trump presidency. We cannot heal, but we can learn. It is time for us to realize that we are out of touch with the majority of the American people.
Trump brought to light the white, Evangelical, heterosexual, male population's feelings of disenfranchisement and dissatisfaction with President Obama's policies. Their anger is not to be taken lightly. Those who feel oppressed are angry, because they feel the system has failed them; they will turn out in droves to vote, which is what happened on Nov. 8. Liberals, on the other hand, became complacent, and did not vote because they assumed people across America would outright reject Trump. Next time we have a Democratic White House, we must remember that it could all be taken from us in a second. We cannot afford to grow overconfident, which is what happened to liberal America in this election.
Our first instinct is to get angry, denounce America and claim we — the liberal populace — have nothing to do with the country we live in. That's the easy way out. That would be embracing the hatred and polarization that this election created. We have to make an effort to reach out and heal the divided country our polarization has created. As Democrats, as the people who have championed the slogan of "Love Trumps Hate," we have to be the ones to put our emotions aside and adopt a growth mindset. We cannot afford to refer to Trump supporters as "those people." They are Americans, as we all are. And like it or not, we have more similarities than we think. Both sides want the American economy to grow faster, want better quality of life for working class Americans, want to be supported by their government.
Right now, being involved in politics means choosing a side and wholeheartedly supporting that side while spreading the narrative that your opponents are the most evil demons to grace this side of the globe. It is our job to work to create an America where people can agree with ideas from both parties, instead of feeling the need to vote down the ticket.
But while we are compromising and creating discussion, we must remember to never lose hope. We can open a dialogue, we can understand the issues conservatives have with Obama's America, but we will not, cannot, give up on our ideals of love, of equality, of an America for everyone. We must defend human rights, the belief that all people were created equal, that labels such as "illegal" and "Muslim terrorist" have no place in our society. We have a duty to protect the individuals being harmed by the significant spike in hate crime since Trump's election. We will lobby, we will speak out when nobody else will, and come next election, we will make Donald Trump a one-term president. We believe in Obama's America, and we have an obligation to protect that dream.

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President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will visit Trinidad and Tobago next week.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs said the visit will take place on June 13th and 14th, 2019.
During the visit, President Akufo-Addo will call on President Paula-Mae Weekes and will meet with Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, to advance interest to both countries in the fields of energy, health, finance, education, tourism and culture.
The statement said that this visit will build on the inroads made during Dr Rowley's visit to Ghana in May 2016.
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The water needs to be hot enough to steam the three bathroom mirrors, and I need to brush my teeth before getting in. I start with my left arms, then my chest, then my right arm. Then the rest, sometimes in no particular order. (side note: i once showered with a woman who pointed out how violent i was towards my penis when i washed it. she had no idea how clean it needs to be if there was any hope of putting it to use later.) the back is so hard to wash. I find myself an inch away from dislocating my arm just to maintain a clean back. Is this where God messed up on us? Why is it so hard to do?
Then the lotion. The same issue shows its ugly head. Why, God, Why? But today I woke up, did my shower dance, then my lotion dance, and stood in the mirror when I came to the final waltz. "I'm not supposed to do this," I thought. Lightbulb. Someone should be doing it for me. This sometimes impossible, but usually difficult act of self-grooming is proof that we are supposed to find that person who will have our backs. Right?
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Gobo in the Land of Dreams - A Gobo Strip Book [Also contains a second story, Gobo and the Bad Boys]
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Date not stated but known as 1955. Both stories were first published in the Evening Standard in 1952. There is a small greasy mark and abrasion on the leading edge of the front cover, just slightly affecting the title page and first page as well. Covers are slightly rubbed and creased. No names or inscriptions. Single staple binding. Binding sound. 3.25" x 7".
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I didn't witness the Phoenix lights but had heard bits and pieces about the case over the years. Nay sayers point out that one guy saw them through a telescope and said they were planes so end of story. I just now went to the National UFO Reporting Center website and pulled up Arizona sightings for the date of the event. These reports are statements about something far different than planes in a formation or flares and due to the large number of reports that means there were at least 100's more people who witnessed something but didn't know to report it to NUFORC.
I just read a cynical article that downplayed anything other than planes or flares as explanations of this event and the people adding to it in the comment section were arrogant and nasty about how they perceived the "nut cases" who think there might be objects out there other than known.
I'm going to dig in thoroughly into the Phoenix Lights case as an example of "When Does a UFO Become an IFO" and see if I can come to a solid conclusion about it. Will I end up with it being an IFO incident at the end of the day with what I research and, if so, will that IFO be a classification of something unknown as far as anything of Earth origin? This will be interesting and I'm looking forward to opinions.


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Schaefer, Kerrie and Edwards, Delyth and Milling, Jane (2017) Performing Moretonhampstead: rurality, participation and cultural value. Cultural Trends, 26 (1). pp. 47-57. ISSN Print ISSN: 0954-8963 Online ISSN: 1469-3690 (Accepted for Publication)
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This paper is based on a multi-sited ethnography of subjects engaged in performance-based participation – amateur theatre, community-based theatre and Carnival – in the market town of Moretonhampstead on Dartmoor in the South West of England. Given its setting, the case study examines the rural dimensions of participation and cultural value. In addition to understanding the meaning and value of performance-based participation taking place in shared communal spaces, including the parish hall and the high street, this article seeks to understand everyday participation as a fundamentally embodied and emplaced practice. Place is not simply a venue or site for performance (or any other type of) participation. Drawing on the place theory of Edward Casey, who follows the European school of phenomenology, it is argued that place is, rather, the fundamental ground of human experience: embodied subjects and places co-evolve in a dialogic process of inter-animation. The main question we ask is how rurality shapes participation and how participation re-produces material and imaginary rural spaces. A key characteristic of government funding of arts and culture in the UK is extreme inequality in the distribution of funds to the City of London compared to the rest of the UK. While the cultural ecosystems of all UK regions outside London are equally disadvantaged in this respect, economic and cultural development in the South West region exacerbates this unequal situation by focussing investment and service provision in urban hubs, leaving contrasting rural areas doubly disadvantaged. This case study argues that an idyll-ised rural imaginary re-produced in and through everyday participation is only compounded by government deficits. Furthermore, it asserts that cultural policy making concerned with the value of equality must adopt a co-ordinated approach that takes into account complex interdependencies of national, regional and local registers of place.
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Tibor Karl Lohmann, Anne Christine Rieck, Florian Waschkowski, Wilfried Mokwa, Thomas Laube, Claudia Brockmann, Norbert Bornfeld, Claudia Etzkorn, Gernot Roessler, Peter Walter; Post-surgical findings in 10 rabbits implanted with the VLARS (Very Large Array Retina Stimulator) device in two shapes over a period of 12 weeks. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2015;56(7 ):748.
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Over the last years noteworthy improvements in visual prosthetics have been achieved but restoring a substantial visual field is yet a task to be accomplished. Our research group created a large stimulation array with a 12mm diameter covering 37.6° visual angle and mounting 250 individual electrodes to address this problem. In an animal trial study two different shapes of these arrays have been implanted into 10 rabbits in order to observe the surgical outcome and biocompatibility.
10, 4 to 6 months old rabbits (4 albino, 6 pigmented) were implanted with the VLARS-device through vitreous surgery. Post-surgery examinations were performed 1 day, 1 respectively 2, 4, 6, 8 and 12 weeks after surgery and included clinical examination, funduscopy, OCT (optical coherence tomography) and ultrasound imaging. Finalization took place after the 12th post-surgical week. The implanted eyes were enucleated and underwent histological examination in order to observe damage or cellular immigration.
During surgery 3 eyes experiences retinal detachment which lead to the termination of the implantation in one animal. At least 2 eyes experienced noteworthy intra-vitreal bleeding which was being staunched during surgery. Due to the corneal incision, damage occurred and corneal blur rendered optical examination impossible in most animals during the first weeks after surgery. After application of steroids, imaging could be performed showing an overall positive outcome in terms of long-term compatibility. No cellular immigration, additional retinal detachments or other adverse events were observed, the arrays stayed fixated at implantation site. A gap between the stimulator array and the retinal surface enlarging towards the periphery has been unmasked. Histologic examination showed expected mild gliosis in the area of retinal fixation.
The long-term implantations showed no adverse effects on behalf of the used materials. The surgical process, and especially the trans-corneal Insertion caused damage on the cornea. This was improved by using different techniques of corneal insertion in order to minimize the incision's size. The vitreous surgery itself and the fixation of the array regularly healed off. To establish a closer contact between the array and the retina additional ways of fixation have to be introduced in the study.
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Orbis marathon heroes: Long time supporter James
April 2018
James Buchanan is running his first, and only, marathon for Orbis this April. He felt at the age of 59 it was time to make his lifelong ambition a reality.
As a long-time runner and supporter of Orbis (since 2007), he felt which better charity for him to run for.
James's running career began at the age of 11 at school in St Andrews. Scotland. He always enjoyed the fresh air and freedom. When the Chariots of Fire film came out with a running scene filmed on the beach in his home town of St Andrews – inspired, he too ran dreamily along the beach, and so began a life-long love affair with running.
Marathon training is going well he says
"The main thing is to enjoy the experience, not worry about speed and count my blessings for each day without an injury."
The runs are powered by radio two, salads and a big bowl of pasta the night before running.
He's looking forward to a pint of beer after the race and is hoping for a finish time of 4.5 hours.
Why is he supporting Orbis?:
"Orbis has a brilliant mission to prevent avoidable blindness. It's very easy to be enthusiastic about the work of the charity when its work is so dramatic and life-changing. I was inspired when I met the staff and toured the Flying Eye Hospital at Stansted Airport last March. I love aeroplanes so maybe that helps too!"


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9 Filmmakers Receive FilmTT Funding
Photo caption: FilmTT's Chairman with the winners of the 2017 Open Call for Small Marketing and Development Grants. (Standing, left to right): Everard McBain, Dixie Ann Archer-McBain, Leslie-Ann Wills-Caton, Annisa Cadogan, Carver Bacchus, Mariel Brown, Christian James and Christopher Din Chong, (seated, left to right) Abigail Hadeed, Chairman of FilmTT, Dionne Mc Nicol Stephenson, Lesley-Ann MacFarlane, Tenielle Newallo.
The Trinidad and Tobago Film Company Limited (FilmTT) recently awarded investment funding to nine (9) T&T film and audio-visual producers who applied for the company's 2017 Open Call for Small Marketing and Development Grants. The Open Call, which was available to all residing national and permanent residents of Trinidad and Tobago, was published in March 2017 and attracted more than twenty (20) applications for various film-related projects.
Nneka Luke, General Manager of FilmTT, explained, "FilmTT remains committed to driving the development of the sector, even more so in a year where the company and the wider community are experiencing financial constraints. This Call has allowed us to provide micro-funding towards active film and audio-visual projects, at a time when the company is not positioned to invest larger amounts in initiatives such as script development or productions. All applications were carefully evaluated against specific criteria, and nine of them will now be one step closer to advancing their respective projects."
Small grants were awarded to 9 local filmmakers for the following projects:
- Michael Mooleedhar - social media marketing strategy for the upcoming feature film Green Days by the River
- Leslie-Ann Wills-Caton – marketing strategy for FIXERtales, a Trini-Caribbean television series
- Abigail Hadeed –Spanish and French subtitling for feature film Play the Devil for distribution to international audiences
- Lesley-Ann MacFarlane – production of a 60-second sizzle reel for feature script in development Scattered
- Tenielle Newallo – social media marketing strategy for feature film The Cutlass
- Everard McBain – online distribution for the animated short Celflux Reluctant Heroes: The Secret Weapon
- Mariel Brown – production of a trailer for the upcoming feature film Unfinished Sentences
- Clarence Carver Bacchus – Attend the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival to seek distribution agreeements for the Green Screen's library of content.
- Christopher Din Chong - Attend ScriptFest 2017 and take part in the Great American Pitchfest including masterclass, one-on-one meetings and consultations for his slate of films.
Awardees will report on the progress of their projects so that FilmTT can continue to track overall development in the sector.


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Today's lead editorial in the New York Times:
The Massachusetts Way
The pioneering Massachusetts program to provide health insurance for all citizens looks more and more successful with each passing month.
The number of uninsured has dropped — Massachusetts now has the lowest rate in the nation — and so have the number of those who turn to costly emergency rooms for routine care. And while the state has had to seek additional sources of revenue — mainly because of the program's popularity — the gains in the first 21 months suggest that the plan could become a model for universal health coverage for other states or the nation.
Massachusetts enacted its ambitious health insurance reform two years ago under bipartisan leadership from then-Gov. Mitt Romney and a Democratic Legislature. Although Mr. Romney distanced himself from the plan during the Republican primaries, he was back to extolling its virtues in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal last month.
The plan requires everyone to take out health insurance or suffer a tax penalty and requires employers to offer coverage or pay a small assessment if they don't. Low-income residents can enroll in an expanded state-federal Medicaid program or receive subsidies to pay all or part of the premiums for private insurance. Those who earn more than 300 percent of the federal poverty level (about $63,000 for a family of four) receive no subsidy but can buy private policies through a new insurance exchange at much lower rates than before.
More than 439,000 people have taken out coverage since the program began in mid-2006 — two-thirds of the estimated 650,000 who lacked health insurance when the program began.
More than 40 percent of the newly insured purchased private commercial policies without any government subsidies, defying dire predictions that employers would drop their plans and a horde of individuals would drop private policies. What seems to be happening instead is that workers who previously shunned their employers' plans have decided to sign up now that insurance is required.
The big expansion in coverage has yielded a commensurate drop in the number of "free riders," those who use hospital emergency rooms and community health centers for routine care that they don't pay for. The cost of that uncompensated care dropped from $166 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2007 to $98 million in the first quarter of 2008.
Far more people have enrolled far more quickly than expected, driving up the total budget for subsidized care beyond Medicaid to $869 million in the next fiscal year, about half of which will be absorbed by the state and the other half by redirected federal funds. The cost per person is actually less than expected. The program to date is fully financed.
That may still look like a lot of money, but universal coverage is vitally important to enhance the health of previously uninsured citizens. In the long run, full coverage should serve as a springboard toward reforming the health care system to deliver higher quality, more cost-effective care.


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How to Discover Hidden Apps on an iPhoneby Alexander PoirierUpdated September 28, 2017
Apple's iPhone smartphone can have up to 11 screen pages of apps. With each screen holding 16 apps and the device's dock holding four, that's a total of 180 individual app icons that can be displayed in the iPhone's homepages. If you download more than 180 apps, however, the extra applications don't appear on the iPhone's homepages, effectively becoming hidden apps. If you want to find a hidden app on your iPhone, you must simply search for it using the device's built-in Spotlight search feature.
Press the iPhone's home button to navigate to the device's main home screen. Press the home button a second time to enter Spotlight search.
Type the name of the hidden application in the Spotlight search bar and tap the "Search" button.
Tap the name of the hidden application you want to launch in the list of search results. The application launches.
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A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing a schoolboy to death outside a busy shopping centre in broad daylight, Scotland Yard said.
Officers were called to Broadway in Stratford, east London, shortly after 3pm on Thursday following reports of a stabbing.
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The teenager's former football team, Mindset FC, tweeted that Baptista was a "very humble boy, with great manners and very talented".
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Want to taste something funky and deemed disgusting, and yet extremely refreshing? Take a bottle of 7-up and mix it with milk! I put my taste buds here at stake and say this, "It tastes Bloody Awesome!" Try it and be amazed.
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i had given up on your blog ages ago man. lucky i click today. otherwise i would've deemed your link on my blog, a DEAD one. haha.
btw, 7up and milk sounds revolting! coffee, coke and ice cream on the other hand.. sounds pretty cool. hur hur hur!
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Well, 2011 was a good year for us, regardless of any issues we may have encountered with the health of family members, relationships, or the usual stuff we complain about because we don't have anything worse to complain about. In the grand scheme of things, we never went hungry, we didn't miss any car payments, and nobody had anything amputated. When you look at it from that perspective, I think it is only fair and reasonable to conclude the life has been good out here.
I gave up making new year resolutions a long time ago. You won't find me at Gold's on Tuesday looking to get in on a new health club membership only to forget the address a few months later, and I sure as hell don't plan to stop watching cable TV. You wouldn't be shocked to learn that I also don't participate in Lent, though I'm not offended in any way by those who do.
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Eat less, exercise more. But I won't stop eating burgers when I need to. And pizza if it is necessary. And ribs. Catfish is not fattening.
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The biggest disappointment of 2011 for Eva and I was that we have not been able to enjoy more time with our granddaughter. This often happens in military life when families live far from home, and it also happens when relationships are strained. And sometimes, it is both. Like I say, I'm not here to make resolutions for the new year, but I'm hoping for a better 2012.
In 2012, I will not purchase my wife anything pink. I know this probably sounds silly. I am a huge fan of the entire Breast Cancer awareness thing and all the pink ribbons and NFL uniforms and such. I support it fully. But I made the mistake of purchasing Eva a pink digital camera (several years ago) so she could take more pictures on her own to contribute to the blog. I go through at least one camera a year, so between cameras, I end up using hers. The pink one. You won't find any masculinity issues here, and in fact, I often wear pinks, yellows, and other pastel colored shirts to work, but there is something about borrowing her pink camera or heaven forbid, needing to make a call on her pink iPhone. Just this evening, the last day of the month in the last month of 2011, I dropped my camera on the patio and it did not survive the fall. Any pictures I take until I can find a suitable replacement will be taken with a pink camera, and that just doesn't seem like something I want to do in 2012.
Do you suppose a hundred years from tonight we will all get sick of that Rush album, 2112? I like to think I'm a hip guy and have enjoyed a Prince album from time to time, but can we all agree that by new years eve going into 2000, we were all tired of partying like it was 1999?
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"We, with the help of regional friends and the Iraqi nation, are ready to fill this void." Saudi Arabia was one of the countries Iran was ready to work with, he said.
The U.S. military accuses the Islamic Republic of arming and training militias behind some of the violence in Iraq. Iran rejects the charge and blames the presence of U.S. forces, numbering about 162,000, for the violence.
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The region did not need countries from "thousands of kilometers away" to provide security, Ahmadinejad said, and U.S. and other forces in Iraq and Afghanistan had run out of solutions.
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...Ahmadinejad dismissed reports it was not making such fast nuclear progress. "These (reports) are not true," he said.
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I'm going off "the science of mortgages". It was all very good when I had "the art of mortgages" which I then decided to change into a more "Sherlock" themed science version, but I'm not sure how well it works.
I suppose a strap-line should be related to what I do, and condensed down to something that someone would remember easily, like a little verbal jingle.
"every little helps"
"live well for less"
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That kind of thing. Except when you read them, they don't really make any kind of sense. They just sound nice.
So, how do encapsulate me (professionally) in a few words?
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United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Southern Division
May 2, 2018
VINCENT CREPPEL PETITIONERv.JACQUELYN BANKS RESPONDENT
Creppel entered a guilty plea in the Circuit Court of Jackson
County, Mississippi, to armed robbery and aggravated assault.
By order dated August 2, 2005, he was convicted and sentenced
to serve a term of 30 years for armed robbery and 20 years
for aggravated assault, the sentences to run concurrently. He
now brings this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant
to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Respondent has filed a motion to
dismiss the petition as untimely. Having considered the
motion, response, and reply, the undersigned recommends that
the motion be granted and the petition dismissed with
Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
(AEDPA) imposes a one-year statute of limitation for
petitions for writs of habeas corpus under § 2254:
(1) A 1-year period of limitation shall apply to an
application for a writ of habeas corpus by a person in
custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court. The
limitation period shall run from the latest of
(A) the date on which the judgment became final by the
conclusion of direct review or the expiration of the time for
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(B) the date on which the impediment to filing an application
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retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review; or
(D) the date on which the factual predicate of the claim or
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(2) The time during which a properly filed application for
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28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). Creppel's conviction became
final on September 1, 2005 (30 days after his conviction),
and his one-year limitation period began to run that
He had one year from that date, or until September 1, 2006,
in which to file for federal habeas relief, subject to
tolling for any period during which a properly-filed motion
for post-conviction relief (PCR) was pending in the state
court. Creppel did not file any PCR motion prior to September
1, 2006.[2] Therefore, his limitations period expired
on September 1, 2006. He filed his federal habeas petition on
or after May 18, 2017.[3]
argues that his failure to comply with the time requirements
of the statute should be excused because he is proceeding
pro se, has no knowledge of the law or court
procedures, and has had trouble obtaining legal assistance.
AEDPA's limitation period is subject to equitable
tolling, but only where a petitioner shows that in spite of
diligently pursuing his rights, some extraordinary
circumstance prevented him from timely filing. Holland v.
Florida, 560 U.S. 631, 649 (2010). Creppel's
allegations fall far short of a showing of either diligence
or "extraordinary circumstances."
also asserts that his petition should be considered,
notwithstanding its untimeliness, because he is actually
innocent of the crime of armed robbery. Specifically, he
argues that the only role he played in the crime was the
stabbing of the victim, whereas his wife actually took the
money from the victim.[4] The standard for making a showing of
actual innocence such that a late petition will be considered
is demanding. McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383,
401 (2013). The exception applies only to that very limited
number of cases in which newly discovered evidence indicates
that "it is more likely than not that no reasonable
juror would have convicted [the petitioner]."
Id. at 399 (citing Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S.
298, 329 (1995)). Creppel's belief that he is not guilty
of armed robbery because he was not the one who physically
took the money from the victim does not meet this demanding
undersigned concludes that Creppel's petition is untimely
and that no exception is applicable. Accordingly, it is
recommended that the motion to dismiss be granted and the
petition be dismissed with prejudice. The parties are hereby
notified that failure to file written objections to the
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Salamis,-nos: Eth. and Adj. Alaminios, Salaminius: Adj. Salaminiakos,
Salaminiacus: Kuluri. An island lying between the western coast of Attica and
the eastern coast of Megaris, and forming the southern boundary of the bay of
Eleusis. It is separated from the coasts both of Attica and of Megaris by only
a narrow channel. Its form is that of an irregular semicircle towards the west,
with many small indentations along the coast. Its greatest length, from N. to
S., is about 10 miles, and its width, in its broadest part, from E. to W., is
a little more. Its length is correctly given by Strabo (ix. p. 393) as from 70
to 80 stadia. In ancient times it is said to have been called Pityussa (Rhituoussa),
from the pines which grew there, and also Sciras (Skiras) and Cychreia (Kuchreia),
from the names of two heroes Scirus and Cychreus. The former was a native hero,
and the latter a seer, who came from Dodona to Athens, and perished along with
Erechtheus in fighting against Eumolpus. (Strab. ix. p. 393; Paus. i. 36. § 1;
Philochor. ap. Plut. Thes. 17.) The latter name was perpetuated in the island,
for Aeschylus (Pers. 570) speaks of the aktai Kuchreiai, and Stephanus B. mentions
a Kuchreios tagos. The island is said to have obtained the name of Salamis from
the mother of Cychreus, who was also a daughter of Asopus. (Paus. i. 35. § 2.)
It was colonised at an early period by the Aeacidae of Aegina. Telamon, the son
of Aeacus, fled thither after the murder of his half-brother Phocus, and became
sovereign of the island. (Paus. i. 35. § 1.) His son Ajax accompanied the Greeks
with 12 Salaminian ships to the Trojan War. (Horn. Il. ii. 557.) Salamis continued
to be an independent state till about the beginning of the 40th Olympiad (B.C.
620), when a dispute arose for its possession between the Athenians and Megarians.
After a long struggle, it first fell into the hands of the Megarians, but was
subsequently taken possession of by the Athenians through a stratagem of Solon.
(Plut. Sol. 8, 9; Paus. i. 40. § 5.) Both parties appealed to the arbitration
of Sparta. The Athenians supported their claims by a line in the Iliad, which
represents Ajax ranging his ships with those of the Athenians (Il. ii. 558), but
this verse was suspected to have been an interpolation of Solon or Peisistratus;
and the Megarians cited another version of the line. The Athenians, moreover,
asserted that the island had been made over to them by Philaeus and Eurysaces,
sons of the Telamonian Ajax, when they took up their own residence in Attica.
These arguments were considered sufficient, and Salamis was adjudged to the Athenians.
(Plut. Sol. 10; Strab. ix. p. 394.) It now became an Attic demus, and continued
incorporated with Attica till the times of Macedonian supremacy. In B.C. 318,
the inhabitants voluntarily received a Macedonian garrison, after having only
a short time before successfully resisted Cassander. (Diod. xviii. 69; Polyaen.
Strat. iv. 11. § 2; Paus. i. 35. § 2.) It continued in the hands of the Macedonians
till B.C. 232, when the Athenians, by the assistance of Aratus, purchased it from
the Macedonians together with Munychia and Sunium. Thereupon the Salaminians were
expelled from the island, and their lands divided among Athlenian cleruchi. (Plut.
Arat. 34; Paus. ii. 8. § 6; Bockh, Inscr. vol. i. p. 148, seq.) From that time
Salamis probably continued to be a dependency of Athens, like Aegina and Oropus;
since the grammarians never call it a demos, which it had been originally, but
generally a polis.
The old city of Salamis, the residence of the Telamonian Ajax, stood
upon the southern side of the island towards Aegina (Strab. ix. p. 393), and is
identified by Leake with the remains of some Hellenic walls upon the south-western
coast near a small port, where is the only rivulet in the island, perhaps answering
to the Bocarus or Bocalias of Strabo (ix. p. 394; Leake, Demi, p. 169). The Bocarus
is also mentioned by Lycophron (451). In another passage, Strabo (ix. p. 424)
indeed speaks of a river Cephissus in Salamis; but as it occurs only in an enumeration
of various rivers of this name, and immediately follows the Athlenian Cephissus
without any mention being made of the Eleusinian Cephissus, we ought probably
to read with Leake en Eleusini instead of en Salamini.
When Salamis became an Athenian demus, a new city was built at the
head of a bay upon the eastern side of the island, and opposite the Attic coast.
In the time of Pausanias this city also had fallen into decay. There remained,
however, a ruined agora and a temple of Ajax, containing a statue of the hero
in ebony; also a temple of Artemis, the trophy erected in honour of the victory
gained over the Persians, and a temple of Cychreus. (Paus. i. 35. § 3, 36. § 1.)
Pausanias has not mentioned the statue of Solon, which was erected in the agora,
with one hand covered by his mantle. (Dem. de Fals. Leg. p. 420; Aeschin. in Tim.
p. 52.) There are still some remains of the city close to the village of Ambelakia.
A portion of the walls may still be traced; and many ancient fragments are found
in the walls and churches both of Ambelakia and of the neighbouring village of
Kuluri, from the latter of which the modern name of the island is derived. The
narrow rocky promontory now called Cape of St. Barbara, which forms the SE. entrance
to the bay of Ambelakia, was the Sileniae (Sileniai) of Aeschylus, afterwards
called Tropaea (Tropaia), on account of the trophy erected there in memory
of the victory. (Asch. Pers. 300, with Schol.) At the extremity of this promontory
lay the small island of Psytalleia (Psuttaleia), now called Lipsokutali,
about a mile long, and from 200 to 300 yards wide. It was here that a picked body
of Persian troops was cut to pieces by Aristeides during the battle of Salamis.
(Herod. viii. 95; Aesch. Pers. 447, seq.; Plut. Arist. 9; Paus. i. 36. § 2, iv.
36. § 3; Strab. ix. p. 393; Plin. iv. 12. s. 20; Steph. B. s. v.)
In Salamis there was a promontory Sciradium (Skiradion), containing
a temple of the god of war, erected by Solon, because he there defeated the Megarians.
(Plut. Sol. 9.) Leake identifies this site with the temple of Athena Sciras, to
which Adeimantus, the Corinthian, is said to have fled at the commencement of
the battle of Salamis (Herod. viii. 94); and, as the Corinthians could not have
retreated through the eastern opening of the strait, which was the centre of the
scene of action, Leake supposes Sciradium to have been the south-west promontory
of Salamis, upon which now stands a monastery of the Virgin. This monastery now
occupies the site of a Hellenic building, of which remains are still to be seen.
Budorum (Bondoron or Boudooron) was the name of the western
promontory of Salamis, and distant only three miles from Nisaea, the port of Megara.
On this peninsula there was a fortress of the same name. In the attempt which
the Peloponnesians made in B.C. 429 to surprise Peiraeeus, they first sailed from
Nisaea to the promontory of Budorum, and surprised the fortress; but after overrunning
the island, they retreated without venturing to attack Peiraeeus. (Thuc. ii. 93,
94, iii. 51; Diod. xii. 49; Strab. xi. p. 446; Steph. B. s. v. Boudoron.)
Salamis is chiefly memorable on account of the great battle fought
off its coast, in which the Persian fleet of Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks,
B.C. 480. The details of this battle are given in every history of Greece, and
need not be repeated here. The battle took place in the strait between the eastern
part of the island and the coast of Attica, and the position of the contending
forces is shown in the annexed plan. The Grecian fleet was drawn up in the small
bay in front of the town of Salamis, and the Persian fleet opposite to them off
the coast of Attica. The battle was witnessed by Xerxes from the Attic coast,
who had erected for himself a lofty throne on one of the projecting declivities
of Mt. Aegaleos. Colonel Leake has discussed at length all the particulars of
the battle, but Mr. Blakesley has controverted many of his views, following the
authority of Aeschylus in preference to that of Herodotus. In opposition to Col.
Leake and all preceding authorities, Mr. Blakesley supposes, that though the hostile
fleets occupied in the afternoon before the battle the position delineated in
the plan annexed, yet that on the morning of the battle the Greeks were drawn
up across the southern entrance of the strait, between the Cape of St. Barbara
and the Attic coast, and that the Persians were in the more open sea to the south.
Into the discussion of this question our limits prevent us from entering; and
we must refer our readers for particulars to the essays of those writers quoted
at the close of this article. There is, however, one difficulty which must not
be passed over in silence. Herodotus says (viii. 76) that on the night before
the battle, the Persian ships stationed about Ceos and Cynosura moved up, and
beset the whole strait as far as Munychia. The only known places of those names
are the island of Ceos, distant more than 40 geographical miles from Salamis,
and the promontory of Cynosura, immediately N. of the bay of Marathon, and distant
more than 60 geographical miles from Salamis. Both of those places, and more especially
Cynosura, seem to be too distant to render the movement practicable in the time
required. Accordingly many modern scholars apply the names Ceos and Cynosura to
two promontories, the southernmost and south-easternmost of the island of Salamis,
and they are so called in Kiepert's maps. But there is no authority whatever for
giving those names to two promontories in the island; and it is evident from the
narrative, as Mr. Grote has observed, that the names of Ceos and Cynosura must
belong to some points in Attica, not in Salamis. Mr. Grote does not attempt to
indicate the position of these places; but Mr. Blakesley maintains that Ceos and
Cynosura are respectively the well-known island and cape, and that the real difficulty
is occasioned, not by their distance, but by the erroneous notion conceived by
Herodotus of the operations of the Persian fleet.
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