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had urinated on his exercise mat. The mother testified that in April 2002 the parties were on a trip to New Orleans for one of the older son's soccer matches. She stated that the father had been drinking and that the father called her an obscene name several times while the children were awake in the next room. The mother stated that the father shoved her against the door twice, leaving a bruise to her sternum. The father admitted being drunk and calling the mother the obscene name. The mother stated that the incident in New Orleans "was the straw that broke the camel's back," prompting her to file for a divorce in May 2002.
The mother admitted that after she had filed her petition for a divorce, shehad a three-month affair with Craig Ginsberg, the older son's soccer coach. The mother testified that at the time of trial the affair was over. The father presented evidence that the mother had spent 107 hours on the telephone with Ginsberg from October 2001 to December 2002, with the time dramatically increasing near the time she filed for a divorce.
Patty Norris, a teacher at the private school attended by the children, testified that she taught the younger son and the daughter. She also knew the older son because she has a child in the same grade at the school. She stated that she had *259 been a teacher for 25 years and that the mother was one of the best room mothers that she had ever had. She | {
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said that the older son is well-rounded, sweet, and very athletic. She testified that the younger son is quiet, loving, sweet, and kind and that the daughter is a "fun loving, wonderful little girl." Norris testified that she has seen the mother interact with the children and that the mother is very close to the children. She said that the school does not have a parent-teacher association but that each teacher has parent-teacher conferences. She stated that the mother attended all of the parent-teacher conferences concerning the younger son and daughter and that the father had never attended the conferences.
Rachel Frederick, also a teacher at the children's school, testified that she was the daughter's teacher at the time of trial. She said that the daughter is well-adjusted, aleader in the classroom, and that she wished she had a "room full" of children like the daughter. She said that she sees the mother quite often at the school because the mother relieves the teachers at lunch time. Frederick testified that she had met with the father only once after he telephoned in October 2002 requesting a conference. She stated that in talking with the father and observing him, he did not appear sincere and that he stated that he was trying to get custody of the children.
Daniel Koch, a clinical psychologist, testified on behalf of the mother. As part of his evaluation, Dr. Koch interviewed the family. He also administered several psychological tests to the mother and the children. The father made three appointments to participate | {
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in the psychological testing, but he subsequently canceled each appointment. Dr. Koch testified that the mother should have custody of the children. He stated that the mother had taken care of the children's daily needs.
Logan Cowart, who has a son on the older son's soccer team, testified that the mother generally stays to watch soccer practice and that one day per week the mother helps to train the soccer players by running with them as a group. Cowart testified that occasionally one of the soccer coaches would stay in the parents' rooms during the out-of-town trips because the coaches "were young and couldn't afford it" and because it helped keep the costs down for the soccer team if the coaches did not have to be reimbursed for aroom. Cowart testified that, based on her observations of the mother for the last four years, she thought the mother was a good mother.
The older son testified that he loved both the mother and the father. He stated the mother has been the person who has taken care of him over the past 12 years. He said he wanted to live with the mother. He stated that either the mother or father would fix breakfast for him, but that recently the father had fixed breakfast. He also testified that since the mother had filed for a divorce the father bought the groceries.
The older son stated that he had recently gone to church with his father and that in front of the church the father grabbed him and said, | {
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"Stop it, because we're in theright in front of a fucking church." The older son testified that when a soccer coach would stay in a hotel with the mother and the children, they all stayed in a suite that had more than one bedroom and that the coach would stay in a different bedroom and a different bed than the mother and the children. The older son's testimony indicated that he was not aware of any inappropriate relationship between the mother and Ginsberg, his soccer coach.
*260 William Harrison, the older son's baseball coach, testified that the father was an assistant coach in 2002 and that the father regularly attended games before he was an assistant coach. He stated that on one occasion the mother introduced him to Wittenbrinkand indicated that Wittenbrink would like to help coach the baseball team.
Phillip Gachassin, M.D., a former medical resident at the father's hospital, testified that the father was his instructor. He stated that he had been to the parties' home a few times and that he had seen the father interact with the children in a friendly and active manner. He testified that on occasion he would go to bars with the father but that the father's social life never interfered with his work.
Jeffrey Ikler, M.D., a colleague of the father, testified that he had been to the parties' home two or three times and that he observed that the father had a very good relationship with the children. He stated that on occasion he and the father would | {
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go to a bar for a drink. He stated that he had been at the bar late at night with the father. Dr. Ikler stated that the father oversees all the surgical care units at the University of South Alabama. He testified that the father is responsible for every trauma case at the hospital and that the father also travels to lecture on trauma care.
Thomas Bennett, a clinical psychologist, testified on behalf of the father. He stated that the father had brought the older son to him after the mother had filed for a divorce. Dr. Bennett testified that he interviewed the father, the mother, and the children; however, he did not perform any psychological tests. Dr. Bennett testified that his role was as a therapist to theolder son and that he was not hired for the purpose of a custody battle. However, he opined that the parents should have joint custody and that the father should have primary physical custody of the children because, he said, the mother had had an affair and because she refused to take responsibility for the couple's problems.
The father testified that he is the primary caregiver for the children. He stated that he makes breakfast and supper for the children and that he does the grocery shopping. The father admitted that he made derogatory comments to the wife when she was overweight and that he had encouraged her to lose weight. He testified that the mother became "self-absorbed" and "self-centered" after she began losing weight.
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believed that the mother had had an affair with Wittenbrink, the college baseball player who lived in the parties' home in May 2001. However, the father admitted that he never asked Wittenbrink to leave the parties' home, that he went out drinking with Wittenbrink, that he worked out with Wittenbrink, and that he recommended Wittenbrink for admission into law school.
The father testified regarding his work schedule. He stated that he is in charge of the trauma unit that cares for all trauma patients at the University of South Alabama. His work involves critical care as well as surgery. The father testified that because of his work schedule he would have to hire help to care for the children if he were awarded custody. He stated that he couldnot control when he was called to the hospital for an emergency.
The father admitted that he had called the mother profane names on occasion. He admitted that there had been sporadic instances of physical violence between him and the mother, but he stated that the mother was the instigator and that he had defended himself. He admitted drinking alcohol to excess. The father testified that *261 he owned and watched pornographic videos, and he admitted that he watched pornography on the Internet.
The father admitted that he hid $10,000 in Jim Walker's bank account during the divorce proceedings. He said that he hid the money in Walker's account in order to hire an additional lawyer but that he did not want it known until he had hired the lawyer. | {
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He testified that if he obtained custody he would want to live in the marital home but that if the mother were awarded custody he would want her and the children to live in a place that the mother could afford. Since the mother filed for divorce, the father had taken the children to Disney World, Baton Rouge, and Chicago.
Arnold Luterman, M.D., a colleague of the father's, testified that the father was a hard worker and that in addition to being on call at University Hospital the father was also on trauma call for Knollwood Hospital.
Following the proceedings, the guardian ad litem appointed to represent the children's interests recommended that the mother have custody. On February 21, 2003, the trial court divorced the parties without making any findingas to adultery and awarded custody to the father. Both the mother and the father filed postjudgment motions. The guardian ad litem also filed a postjudgment motion. The mother filed an instanter motion for custody, alleging, among other things, that the father had left the children at home alone on several occasions.
The trial court held a hearing on the postjudgment motions and the mother's instanter motion. At the hearing, the trial court took additional testimony.
The older son testified that the father had left the children home alone on two or three occasions since the divorce. He stated that he wanted to live with the mother. He also stated that the father was angry at him for his testimony during the divorce proceedings. The younger son and the daughter | {
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also testified that the father had left them at home alone. Both the younger son and the daughter testified that they wanted to live with the mother.
Carrie McCarthy, the father's cousin, was hired to act as the children's nanny and arrived in Mobile on April 11, 2003. She testified that she had been treated for depression. She said that she became upset when the father had become angry with her when she took the children to buy a gift for the mother for Mother's Day because the father had wanted to do that.
Jim Walker testified that he babysat for the children when the father was called to work and that he has occasionally slept in the nude at the family home with the children present in the home.children. The mother has been the parent responsible for the children's health-care needs. She has transported the children to the doctor's office and cared for the children when they were ill. The mother has regularly met with the children's teachers throughout their lives, in contrast to the father who has done so only recently as a result of the divorce litigation. It is clear that the children have a close relationship with their mother; all three children, after living with the father following the divorce, want to live with the mother. The father has a demanding work schedule that has required the hiring of a full-time nanny to care for the children's daily needs. Although the dissent focuses on Dr. Bennett's recommendation that the father have custody, even | {
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Dr. Bennett, the father's expert, testified that the children would be better off with either the mother or the father rather than a nanny.
It is clear from the record that the father admitted to drinking alcohol in excess, throughout the children's lives. We note that although the father stated he would want to live in the marital home *263 with the children if he were awarded custody, he would not want to provide his children with that home or one of that value if the mother were awarded custody. Each party accused the other of having an affair during the marriage. The mother admitted that she had had an affair after she had filed for a divorce; however, the older son's testimony reflects that he was unaware ofthe nature of that relationship.
The father criticized the mother for allowing one of the soccer coaches to stay in the same hotel suite with the family during soccer trips; however, the older son testified that the coach was in a separate bedroom. We note that on occasion when the father accompanied the family to an out-of-town soccer game, he also allowed a coach to stay with the family. Further, the father has allowed Jim Walker to spend the night in the nude in his home when the children were present.
Accordingly, that portion of the trial court's judgment regarding custody is reversed.
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that the father had been "pretty good" at working with him on his homework, had "always worked" with him on improving at baseball, and had taught the parties' youngest child to ride a bicycle. Other testimony indicated that the father played with the children and was active and friendly with them; in fact, one of the father's medical colleagues was impressed by the father's balancing of career and family obligations.
Dr. Thomas S. Bennett, a clinical psychologist who had been treating the parties' oldest child for depression and who had also evaluated both parties, opined that, of the parties, the father had exhibited the best judgment and the best capability to put aside the parties' animosity towards one another for the benefit of the children. While Dr. Bennett notedbestselling writer John Layman (CHEW) is back, teaming up with New York Times bestselling artist Nick Pitarra (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS) and colorist extraordinaire Mike Garland in the all new, ongoing series—that’s Godzilla by way of black magic—in LEVIATHAN.
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Todd McFarlane, President of Image Comics and creator of SPAWN, took to the stage today to announce five new comic projects. The timing of these come on the heels of his upcoming directorial debut for the new SPAWN feature film. The movie will be in production by late spring so these comics will | {
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hit shelf just as the SPAWN movie is getting wide publicity across multiple platforms.
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This May release is a re-teaming of two of Image’s most popular original characters.
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Fan favorites Spawn and Witchblade together for the first time in two decades!
2) SPAWN KILLS EVERYONE 2 (mini-series)
Due to the wonderful success of the one-shot, Todd McFarlane is creating along with Will Robson a four part mini-series that has our childish Spawn giving birth to hundreds of smaller SpawnLNG export facility will produce the chilled fuel for ST Cove Point, the joint venture of Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation and Tokyo Gas, and for India’s GAIL under 20-year contracts.
The $4 billion Cove Point facility will be the second US exporter of LNG sourced from shale gas.
Houston-based LNG export player Cheniere became the first in February 2016 when its Sabine Pass liquefaction plant shipped its first cargo to Brazil. | {
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Afaq MasudDormitory
(1981)YataqxanaAfaq
Masud [pronounced ah-FAHG mah-SUD] is one of the very few women
in Azerbaijan who have succeeded in making a career out of writing.
She was born in Baku on June 3, 1957. She graduated in Journalism
from Baku State University, and has worked in Azerbaijanfilm
Studio. She has been a member of Azerbaijan Writer's Union since
1981.
Masud is the author of the following books: On The Third Floor
(Uchuncu Martabada), Transition (Kecid), Saturday Night (Shanba
Gejasi), Alone (Tak), Crowd (Izdiham) and Freedom (Azadlig).
Three films have been made for television based on her scripts:
Punishment (Jaza), Sparrows (Sarchalar) and Night (Geja). Her
works have been translated into Russian, English, German, French
and Turkish. She has translated the novels "The Web and
the Rock" by Thomas Wolfe and "Autumn of the Patriarch"
by Marquez Gabriel Garcia from Russian into Azeri.
Presently sheis the Director of the Center of Translation for
Art Works and Literary Relations of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union.
In Dormitory, published here
in English for the first time, Masud provides a satiric spoof
on what it is like to have everybody poking their noses into
everything you do. No doubt, since it was written in 1983 when
Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union, her story has meaning
on numerous levels. The author concludes, however, that societal
restraints, no matter how limiting, have their own place. Dormitory
was translated by Aynur Hajiyeva and edited by Betty Blair.
· ·
·
Art: Vugar Muradov. Visit AZgallery.org
for contacts.
When
Mastan said: "My back hurts," everybody in the building,
replied: "Jan".1 When Mastan sneezed, everybody in the
building said: "Be healthy!" Mastan coughed, everybody
in the building brought medicine. Mastan's wife cooked a dish.
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praised it, whether they liked it or
not. Mastan's wife bought a pair of shoes. Everybody in the building
said: "Mubarak"!2
Mastan's child fell down in the yard, everybody in the building
sighed. Such was the building where Mastan lived. It always seemed
to Mastan that he was not living in a house, but in the street
or in the middle of the courtyard. He was afraid to act freely
at home. Whatever he wanted to say, he would think about it 30
times before saying it. It was as if Mastan's apartment had ears.
If he sneezed twice, there would be a big confusion among his
neighbors, and they would call him all day long to ask how he
was. That's why Mastan, his wife and child always behaved very
cautiously. They were talking to one another, using thepolite
forms of "yes," "no," 3 "Here you are," 4 and "You're welcome." 5
Mastan wore a tie at home. Several times a day, he would check
to see that it was straight and that he was neatly groomed. And
at night when everyone in the building was sleeping, Mastan couldn't
even be comfortable in bed. His wife would turn this way and
that way in the bed and look at herself, checking hair in the
mirror, opposite the bed. Neither of them dared to sleep without
the blanket, even on the hottest summer nights.
It was as if there was a big camera in Mastan's house, which
was recording everything that they were saying and doing from
morning until night, and it was transmitting everything directly
from Mastan's apartment into the courtyard for everyone to see.
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only Mastan's family. All the tenants of
the building - all 150 families - felt the same way. Maybe, that
was the reason why no accident had ever happened up to that time
in any of those 150 apartments.
The only place where Mastan could feel comfortable was in his
study. Every day when he arrived at his office, he would lock
the door from the inside, sit in his chair, look around and enjoy
the strange loneliness of his study. His study was the only place
that provided any solace for Mastan. Sometimes, he would look
around his study and his heart would start to beat because he
was afraid that this loneliness could disappear one day. Then
he would chase away these frightening thoughts and be proud of
his small refuge. He would think: "Four walls, the ceiling,
thefloor and me." This small room was turning into such
a sweet and charming place for him that if no one would have
criticized him, he would have brought his bed to his study and
slept there.
Art: Vugar Muradov. Visit AZgallery.org for contacts.
Mastan's apartment had
three rooms. Each of those rooms was twice as spacious and full
of light as his study. In addition, there was beautiful furniture,
comfortable, soft couches and carpets in his apartment. In spite
of all these things, he found comfort only in his small study
and this situation made Mastan feel very strange.
Maybe the reason was that Mastan could sit as he liked in his
study. If he wanted to, he could even put his feet up on his
desk. He could snap his fingers for two hours, write poems and
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clothes. Nobody saw Mastan there. Nobody expressed
any opinion about his behavior there or asked additional things.
And this was worth the entire world to him.
This study where Mastan was happily breathing every day was the
manager's office of the dormitory of a technical school. And
Mastan was the "owner" of this office; that is, he
was the manager of the dormitory. He did his job very well. Sometimes,
he would even write poems.
At home, Mastan never dared to write a poem because, once, on
a day off while he was sitting on the sofa, Mastan had drawn
a picture just for fun and this caused great trouble. Two hours
later, all the building had learned about it. The phone calls
started. One was congratulating him, another was making fun of
his new hobby, and others were asking whathe had drawn.
Afterwards Mastan was very careful about such things. Now whenever
Mastan wanted to draw a picture or read a book, he would go to
the bathroom. Even there, he couldn't sit for a long time. All
the building would say to each other: "What happened to
Mastan?" "Is he having a stomach ache?" "Maybe
he caught cold?"
Mastan had moved into this building the day he married. They
had been living under the same roof for 16 years already. They
had a son who was 15. But still they were treating each other
very modestly just like when they got engaged. They couldn't
tell each other what was really in their hearts; they even had
to hide their anger inside. It wasn't a joke, they were living
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was
on their minds.
During those 16 years, Mastan had never joked with his wife the
way he wanted to. Sometimes when Mastan was in a very good mood,
he wanted to jump with joy, to hit his head against the wall.
Or sometimes he would shake and become green with anger, but
he could never share his anger or his happiness with his wife.
Their balcony was adjacent to the neighbor's and just like all
the other apartments; their balconies were separated from each
other only with a board that substituted for a door. Therefore,
in the middle of the day or night, Mastan would see the neighbor's
child across from their balcony coming to get a drink of water
in the kitchen. Or see someone hanging clothes out to dry on
the balcony or rinsing them in the bathroom.
So,during all these 16 years, Mastan's anger and joy had accumulated
like a heavy stone inside him, and the anger and fury of 16 years
had accumulated like venom in his heart. That's why Mastan felt
alone exactly like he had when he was young and not married.
He would drink a glass of water when he got angry, and go to
the bathroom and bite his finger when he got happy; after all,
a grown man couldn't jump up and down like a ball in the midst
of 400 people. The entire building would have shaken with laughter
and, God knows, maybe, the building might have collapsed.
Lately, he neither had time nor needed to talk to his wife and
son about anything. His wife would share all her problems with
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them what she wanted
to learn and say what she wanted to say. And his son would spend
time with the boys living in their building and rarely be at
home.
The neighbors would flow like a river with its many branches
here and there across Mastan's rooms, not leaving the slightest
chance for Mastan and his family to even talk or look at each
other.
As the years passed, Mastan got used to this world of his.
Even when the lights would go out at night, Mastan would sense
that everyone in the whole building was sleeping with him in
his own bed. Even in his dreams, Mastan wouldn't lose his control
over himself.
In fact there was no difference at all between Mastan's work
and home. They both seemed like a dormitory to him. The only
difference between the dormitory ofthe technical school and
this one was that the tenants of that dormitory were temporary,
but these were permanent.
Sometimes, especially at nights when Mastan was thinking about
this, he would become horrified. He arrived at the conclusion
after thinking a lot that he would have to live in this damned
dormitory for the rest of his life, having a great desire for
freedom and independence. When thinking like this, Mastan's hair
would stand on end. The most frustrating moments were related
to thinking about the end of his life for even when dying, he
would be together with his neighbors.
It was impossible for him to imagine that he would be allowed
to lie alone in some cemetery, far from his neighbors, and that
his neighbors would live quietly in their houses as if nothing
happened. Mastan's building really resembled a | {
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have
its limits?
Mastan would quietly think about this only when sitting in the
office of his small study. Sometimes, he would provide such answers
to his own questions that he would get frustrated and nervous,
pound the folders on his desk, leave his study, calm himself
down by smoking a cigarette as he wandered in the semi-dark corridors
of the dormitory. But it wouldn't last long and he would get
afraid that the watchful "projectors" that lit up his
apartment's interior would do the same with his brain, enabling
the neighbors to see everything in his head as clearly as they
saw everything in his house.It was as if this disease - like
solicitude and kindness of Mastan's building was increasing,
day by day, instead of becoming less. It seemed to Mastan that
the building was trembling with kindness from theneighbors,
the apartments, balconies and garages were coming closer and
turning into a single large area, melting the walls between them.
The kindness of the building even affected the dogs and cats
as well. These street animals, which were usually chasing after
each other, started licking one another all day long.
And when the summer came Mastan's trouble would only become more
serious, it was as though a rock as big as the building of the
dormitory was falling on Mastan's head from the sky. During the
summer time, the dormitory would empty out and Mastan could not
find any work there so he would have to spend most of his time
among his kind neighbors.
After thinking a lot on one such summer day, Mastan decided to
move to his sister's dacha (country house) in order to get away
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confusion for at least 10 to 15 days, to breath freely
and to have a sense of peace.
The dacha thing worked. All the building came to say good-bye
to them. The neighbors kissed them and cried. The following day
they moved to the dacha.
When he entered the dacha, it seemed to Mastan that he had arrived
at the most native place. What a dachasilence, spaciousness.
Even the birds were singing.
The moment he got inside, the first thing that Mastan did was
to take off his clothes. It had been a long time since the curly
black hair on Mastan's body, chest and back had seen the open
air and sun.
He rolled up his trousers to his knees and took off his socks.
It had been a long time since Mastan's big feet - his crooked
toes that sweatedno matter how
hard she shook the tree, Mastan didn't hear a thing. Mastan's
eyes became glazed over from singing. They became as big as plums.
Mastan's face became swollen from singing. Swollen and ruddy-colored
like fresh bread. His chest expanded like a lion's.
While singing, Mastan was feeling that something was slowly happening.
Something was draining out of his body, his innards and marrow.
Mastan was becoming relieved and comfortable as he was singing.
That day Mastan sang until he lost his voice. He came down after
his voice got hoarse, and he became breathless and his heart
started beating faster.
That very day Mastan's wife said a lot of nasty things to him.
She said everything that she had wanted to say for the past 16
years that she had kept in her heart until now.
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he wasn't itching anywhere, confused,
first started scratching his stomach and then his head. Then
he rubbed his hands nervously together. It wasn't a joke. During
16 years this was the first time that Mastan was seeing his wife
- her red face and bulging eyes. It was the first time in his
life that Mastan realized that his wife's mouth was really big.
When she was angry, her nostrils expanded like walnuts and she
had the face of dragon from some horror movie.
It was as if that evening Mastan saw his wife for the first time.
It was as though Mastan had lived with a different person - a
quiet, warm and young woman up until then. As if even her face
and voice were different.
The following day Mastan's son tied two cats together by their
tails andrubbed their backs with something. This was the same
son who was always getting top grades at school and whose photo
never was omitted from the honor boards of his school for studying
and good behavior.
Suddenly, the screams of the cats were heard all over the dacha.
A day later, his son drowned someone's hen in the pool.
Mastan was really confused and lost. Every day either his wife
or son was doing something crazy. Things were getting worse,
day after day. His wife had turned into a witch and his son into
a mad goat. They were turning everything upside down at the dacha.
His wife was wearing anything she could get hold of, and she
was wearing it the way she liked and walking in the streets of
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were so
dirty. She would go for days without changing her clothes and
combing her hair.
Once Mastan noticed that his wife's manner of walking and posture
had changed as well. Her manner of laughing was scaring Mastan
for some reason now. She was stirring up the dust in the air
when she walked. His son was climbing the walls. He was biting
into the trees like a wolf and saying nasty things to his parents.
There was not a single dog or cat left in the dacha because of
him. They had all run away and hidden in some corner.
Mastan had really lost himself. What was going on? Was this a
dream? Why were they acting like this? Was this what they called
a quiet and independent life?
When his son again started to gnaw on the trees likea mad goat,
Mastan got really angry and lost his temper. He was repairing
the handle of the door that his wife had broken when slamming
the door. And the heat was burning his back.
That moment a clamor rose from the depth of the dacha, and Mastan
understood what was going on. He found himself grabbing his son
by the ears and lifting him up and screaming and yelling as loud
as he could.
He didn't realize himself what he was doing. He couldn't pull
himself together or stop his hands from shaking. He was biting
his son's arms, twisting his ears, pinching his cheeks and kicking
him.
No matter how much his wife tried, she couldn't calm Mastan down.
Mastan himself tried, but couldn't calm down. He was trying to
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not obeying him.
His son's voice was heard all over the dacha:
"Daddy, I'm dying. Dad, please, don't beat me"
But Mastan couldn't stop. When he got tired of beating up on
his son and needed to rest his tired hands, he climbed up on
his son's back. He was biting his son's ears and screaming as
loud as he could until his eyes became bloodshot. His hands were
pinching and twisting whatever they could get a hold of.
Mastan's wife had completely lost herself. During those 16 years,
her husband had never slapped their child. Now all of a sudden,
she was lost because of her husband's strange behavior.
Mastan was going around the garden riding on the back of his
son who didn't know where to run. He was just trying to escape
from his father who was screamingand yelling and making his
body black and blue from pain. Now he was remembering the cats
that he tied together with their tails. Mastan was confused by
his own behavior. It was as if a big unreasonable, cruel monster
that had got bigger, little by little, for 16 years inside him
had finally awakened. It was as if Mastan had fed the monster
with all his problems up to then. And the monster had become
bigger and fatter, thriving on all those poisons.
By the time the neighbor men came to help, Mastan's son was lying
on the ground, moaning. And Mastan was out of breath, sitting
on his son's back.
Mastan's wife was leaning against a mulberry tree, crying. It
seems she was more afraid that her husband was going crazy than
for her son.
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his wife, nor his son could manage
to fall sleep until morning. His son's ears and nose had become
blue and swollen. He couldn't move his arms or head because of
pain. He tossed back and forth, and kept moaning until morning.
Mastan's wife was also tossing from side to side. She couldn't
understand how things had turned out like this. Everything had
been so good. Up until then, there had never been any problems
at home. Why were they having such a hard time since they had
moved to the dacha?
But Mastan was worse off than the others. On the one hand, he
was ashamed of what he had done; on the other hand, he felt sorry
for his son. He was terrified to realize that the independent
life he had been wishing for up until then, andthe 10 to 15
days that he had wanted to have for himself and his family had
turned out to be so dangerous. How had things turned out to be
so bad?
Mastan thought a lot and decided that they should return home
in the morning.
So they did.
As soon as they got home, the whole building came out to greet
them. Everybody was interested in the black and blue ears of
Mastan's son. They said that he had got into a fight with some
kids. Then the whole building said: "Jan". Then for
a whole week they kept bringing medicine, delicious dishes and
fruits for his son. His son's mad goat phase passed. The kid
became the well-bred, shy boy just as he had been before. He
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¶ 5 as "loss of hearing, loss of feeling and movement in fact [sic] and jaw, quivering of jaw and pain."
Facts adduced by the United States and undisputed by Espinoza flesh out the barebones allegations of the Complaint. Dr. Bruce Bloom,[4] an expert retained by Espinoza, testified medical records indicated the onset of TMJ syndrome was in 1979 after the surgical procedure (and it was probably caused by the procedure). Records of Dr. George Goldstein (an eye, ear, nose and throat physician not employed by the United States) reflect visits to him by Espinoza beginning in December 1980, with a diagnosis of TMJ syndrome[5] and the prescription of a "TMJ regimen" at that time. Dr. Debra Klein (a dentist also not associated *209 with the United States) examined"first knew or should have known" of the claim on March 27, 1985. On February 13, 1987 an amended claim was submitted, changing the "first knew or should have known" date to September 11, 1984.
After the government's denial of the administrative claim Espinoza filed the current action. It was initially assigned to the calendar of this Court's colleague Judge James Holderman (that was in accordance with this District Court's regular system of random assignment, because the action had not been specified as the refiling of a previously dismissed case). When that status as a refiled case was identified, the case was reassigned to this Court's calendar in accordance with this District Court's General Rule 2.21(d)(2).
Jurisdictional Time Limitation
Section 2401(b) states in pertinent part:
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applied it to a less intensive treatment over 22 years. Though the court noted that "merely intermittent" services were not continuous, the plaintiff in that case had continued to see doctors only at one hospital. Espinoza thus cannot rely on Wehrman, for he began seeing outside physicians back in 1980. Otto applied the doctrine even though plaintiff saw outside doctors, where he did so only at defendant's request and under defendant's supervision again a wholly different situation from Espinoza's.
It is worth examining the reasons underpinning each of the two situations in which the notion of continuous treatment has been employed. As for the first, it is predicated on the idea of negating presumed discovery an idea not in issue where (as *211 here) actual knowledge exists.[9] AsWe welcome the following nine new editorial members. Given the number of countries they collectively represent is truly a reflection of the international focus of our open access journal. We thank them for their wiliness to give of their time and expertise to serving the journal in this capacity. We look forward to working with them.
Judi Johnson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Editor-in-Chief, APJON
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Margaret Barton-Burke, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Director of Nursing Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is Emeritus Professor at the University of Missouri St. Louis, and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and The City University of New York. Margaret retired as Colonel from the Army Reserve and was the first female to hold the rank of Colonel in the Massachusetts National Guard. She | {
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pediatric, cancer and palliative care research which has broadly impacted on the profession, patients, families, community, and nursing education. Her main fields of research specialization include symptom management, psychosocial care, sexuality, advance care planning, pediatric care and cancer screening. As 'symptom cluster' has been acknowledged to be at the cutting edge of science in symptom management, Professor Chan\'s early PhD work on the identification and management of 'symptom cluster' in patients with cancer was novel and contributed to the international development of nursing knowledge. It also laid a foundation for her subsequent studies on symptom management including the treatment of oral mucositis, skin rash, breathlessness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, anxiety and sexual function. Professor Chan\'s palliative care research focuses on the promotion of advance care planning andChan, RN, PhD, is Professor of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology and Royal Brisbane and Women\'s Hospital. He holds an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Health Professional Research Fellowship. Raymond is currently the President for the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia (CNSA), the peak professional body representing nurses across Australia. He is also the Associate Editor for Cancer Nursing: An International for Cancer Care. Raymond\'s research interests include cancer survivorship, palliative care, management of cancer- and treatment- related symptoms and toxicities, and management of vascular access devices. In recent years, Raymond focuses his research on the health services' and health professional\'s responses to the needs of people affected by cancer in the survivorship phase. The most recently completed project includes the STEP study, which examined health | {
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all of her research career in the field of cognitive therapy and alternative therapies for patients with mental health disorders. She is also a consultant to the patients with psychological problems in Wen-Fang Hospital. She has been serviced as the Director of Graduate Institute of Nursing from 2006-2011 and promoted to the Acting Dean of College of Nursing, Taipei Medical University. During these years, Dr. Chou served as the chair of research committee of Asian Oncology Nursing Society, the executive director of Oncology Nursing Society of Taiwan, the executive director of community service and international affairs committee of Lambda Beta Chapter-At-Large, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the director of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses Association R.O.C. Dr. Chou has received numerous awards in recognition ofher research, teaching and service. Kuei-Ru can be reached at <kueiru@tmu.edu.tw>.
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Mary Elizabeth Davis, RN, MSN, AOCNS, is an Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, New York. She graduated from University of Delaware in 1985 with a Bachelors degree in nursing and followed in 1989 with a Masters of Nursing from Columbia University specializing in oncology. Mary Elizabeth work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist within the 13 practices that make up MSK\'s ambulatory medical oncology consultative services. Her role includes modeling professional practice to the nurses of the services for which she has responsibility including mentoring and precepting nurses who are new to a practice, coordinating and evaluating their clinical experiences, and overseeing their development in the oncology nursing specialty and the | {
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Visiting Fellow with the Faculty of Medicine. Dr Levesque attained her PhD in 2012, and is developing her research profile, being awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to complete her PhD, \$2.8 million in research funding through a Cancer Council Program grant, and various small grants, authoring 20 articles, two book chapters, 11 published abstracts, and 31 presentations and posters at national and international conferences. Since completing her PhD in 2012, Dr Levesque has worked in a postdoctoral research role coordinating several research projects including a national randomized controlled trial of a psychosocial intervention for couples dealing with cancer, pilot studies examining the needs of culturally diverse patients, and a translational project examining the integration of patient reported outcome data into routine care in oncology settings. In 2016, DrLevesque commenced her role at Monash University, which involves teaching and research supervision in the Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Advanced). Janelle can be reached at <janelle.levesque@monash.edu>.
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Lize Maree, DCur, RN, FANSA, is appointed as Head, Department of Nursing Education, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her academic career started in 2000 when she joined the then Technikon Pretoria as part time lecturer for the oncology nursing learning programme. She joined the University of the Witwatersrand in 2011 and reintroduced the diploma and course work Master\'s degree in oncology and palliative care nursing the following year. She has taught and mentored oncology nursing scholars on all levels ranging from informal up to PhD and hosted International Atomic Energy Agency nurse fellows from other African countries. She assisted with the | {
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that provides Palliative and Hospice Care and Education to marginalized patients and elderlies in the Philippines. Prior to returning to her country of birth, she enjoyed a successful academic and clinical career at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a faculty member at the School of Nursing and as an Associate Scientist at the University\'s Comprehensive Cancer Center. She also served as a content/curriculum developer for the St. Jude Children\'s Research Hospital/International Outreach Program educational website (www. Cure4Kids.org). Her experiences include being an Item Writer and committee member for the Bias Sensitivity Review Committee of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. She has co-authored in nursing management and palliative care textbooks. She has received several awards including the Oncology Nursing Society\'s Pearl Moore Making aDifference and the ELNEC Pediatric Education awards. Ayda can be reached at <anambayan@yahoo.com>.
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Susan Williamson, PhD, RN, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Cancer, Supportive and Palliative Care Research Group School in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire. She qualified as a nurse in 1978 and was awarded her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2001. She has a history of work in applied health care research, focused on identifying and meeting the psychosocial, information and support needs of people who have been diagnosed and treated for cancer. This has led to the implementation of nurse-led interventions which fit well with the aim of the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative in the UK "*to ensure that those living with and beyond cancer get | {
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Fortunately for the United States, the Japanese strategic plan for World War II was flawed in that the Japanese High Command decided to take on a sleeping giant in order to gain control of the Pacific basin, rather than attack the USSR. There was no way for the Japanese to beat the U.S., even with their alliance and the support of Italy and Germany. On the other hand, if the German grand strategy had been followed and carried out by Germany AND Japan, we could, very possibly, have lost the war, and today be speaking German on the East coast and Japanese on the West coast!
A lot of historic material exists to support various theories about how the Germans and the Japanese could have won World War II.What follows here is my take on this subject, based not only on standard history books, but on information gathered from formerly classified intelligence from U.S., German, and Soviet files, much of it published in excellent books. This treasure trove includes the released German files from Enigma deciphered and other captured materials, the Venona transcripts, the selectively released KGB files, and best and perhaps most authoritative of all — The Mitrokhin Archives (i.e., almost the complete files from the archives of the KGB's First Chief Directorate up to 1984).
As a result of the information contained in the Mitrokhin Archives, hundreds of Soviet spies and traitors have been uncovered, some even prosecuted for their treachery many years after it occurred.�� But even though we could read German and Japanese | {
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secret messages during World War II via SIGINT, and the German high command was infiltrated by Western (e.g., the Black Orchestra) and Soviet spies (including the Red Orchestra and the funkspiel radio broadcast), the Germans could still have won the war, but the Japanese got greedy and overconfident in their estimate that they could defeat the British and American forces in the Far East and did not cooperate with the German Grand Strategy.
The German Strategy was of course to crush the USSR by a two-front attack: The German Panzers were to roll into the USSR from the west, which actually took place on June 22, 1941, and the Japanese Imperial Army was to attack Siberia from the east, which never took place. As a result, we shall seewhat actually happened.
The Germans pleaded with the Japanese to invade Siberia in the east and catch the hated Russians between two fronts in crossfire between the two powerful, invading armies. Stalin, fearing the Japanese, had placed his best troops in the east just for that contingency. His best troops were then in Siberia, heavily armored and motorized divisions, well stocked, and with suitable winter clothes (e.g., white snow fur coats to blend in with the Siberian terrain, etc.) placed there awaiting the Japanese, who never came. The Japanese decided they wanted a different prize — namely, the Pacific region.
Just before the onset of World War II, the Japanese Army in Mongolia had been decisively defeated by those elite Siberian Soviet army units at Khalkan Gol and Lake Khasan | {
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in an almost secret encounter that involved a million soldiers. More than likely this defeat helped convince the Japanese to proceed with the Tanaka Plan or Southern strategy for the conquest of the Far East and the Pacific, rather than invade Siberia, where the Soviets had their best troops. After their defeat in Mongolia and other concerns, the Japanese Navy's arguments for the Southern naval strategy had prevailed over the Army's Northern Siberian military strategy.
Now we know there is more to the story thanks to two books: 1) Stalin's Secret Agents — The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government (2012) by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein and 2) Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor (2012) by John Koster. Soviet Agents of Influencein the FDR administration led by the spy Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, acted at the behest of Moscow and Stalin, to push the Japanese into war against the United States to protect the USSR.
Harry Dexter White pushed the Japanese into a corner. In the summer of 1941, Japan deficient and desperately needing raw materials and oil, resources crucial to its survival, was deliberately blocked access to them by the FDR administration. By late 1941 further deprived of oil and vital resources, Japan was forced to go to war and manipulated to attack, not the Soviet Union but the U.S., protecting the USSR from invasion from the east and being attacked and crushed on two fronts.
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Moscow and reassured the Soviets that there would not a Japanese invasion of Siberia. Japan had decided to proceed with the Tanaka Plan to attack the Pacific Rim and get her raw materials and oil from Southeast Asia. On December 7, 1941, "a day that will live in infamy," the Japanese navy and air force attacked Pearl Harbor. In 1942 the Roberts Commission placed much of the blame for America's lack of preparedness for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, unfairly, on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the Navy and Army commanders. We now know where the blame should have been laid.
Spies Working Against the Third Reich
Among the greatest spies who infiltrated the nerve center of Nazi military intelligence were civilians like FritzKolbe and high ranking German officers, including Von Gaevernitz and Hans Gisevius. But treason in the Third Reich led all the way to the top. Rear Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, German military intelligence, was himself a double agent, our top man in Hitler’s circle! A fascinating book makes a good a case that one member of Hitler's inner sanctum, Martin Bormann, was also a Soviet spy. The book is Hitler’s Traitor (2000) by Louis Kilzer.
Kilzer also wrote Churchill’s Deception — The Dark Secret that Destroyed Nazi Germany (1994). â?¨â?¨As I stated before, the Allies could already read the German ( i.e., Enigma traffic) and Japanese secret messages because we had broken both of their codes with our decoding machines at Bletchley Park. (Some years later, | {
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he responded with his planned Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia over a thousand mile front, with 3 million men and more than 3000 tanks.
The German's Army Group Center was pointed like a dagger toward Moscow. Their Army Group North was aimed at the Baltic States and Leningrad. And, their Army Group South was to roll toward the South, the Crimea, and eventually capture Stalingrad and the Soviet oil fields near the Caspian Sea.
Soviet spies, such as those in the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) and most remarkably, Richard Sorge, not only uncovered the exact date of Operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941), but also tried to assure Stalin that the Japanese had no intention of attacking Russia, that their intentions were in the Pacific area. But Stalin refused tolisten to them or even to listen to Winston Churchill, who also tried to warn him.
And so the Germans were initially extremely successful. They conquered large chunks of Soviet territory, including the Russian breadbasket region of the Ukraine and the most populated regions in western European Russia.
The Germans did need oil and refineries to conduct the war, especially after they were not able to knock Russia out on their first blow before the winter of 1941-42 set in. In fact, one of Stalin’s reasons to “trust” Hitler in 1939-40 was the fact that he knew that Germany needed oil, and much of her oil came through the Trans-Siberia railroad that ran across the vast territory of the USSR, bringing oil and other raw material and supplies from the | {
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Miss Tea - Too Good To Waste...
Catering company Miss Tea is delighted to join the likes of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Thomasina Miers and several other high profile chefs and restaurants in championing the Sustainable Restaurant Association‘s Too Good To Waste campaign.
The Too Good To Waste campaign was launched in October within the London area in an attempt to reduce the amount of food waste in restaurants, which equates to a massive 21 tonnes of food per average restaurant per year. The campaign aims to roll out on a National level in the future.
Talbot, who discovered the campaign through her sustainability guru Joanne Upton of Eco-Outsource spotted an early opportunity in trying the scheme in Cornwall for the SRA as letting her own food not go to waste has alwaysGetty Images
Charles Woodson always had Hall of Fame talent, which is why the Raiders took him with the fourth overall pick in the 1998 NFL draft. But some of his Raiders teammates say that he wouldn’t have become the future Hall of Fame player he is if he had stayed in Oakland.
Two of the veteran leaders on Woodson’s teams in Oakland, Rich Gannon and Tim Brown, say that Green Bay has made Woodson appreciate the importance of a great work ethic, and that work ethic has made him a great player.
“Green Bay was a career-saver for Charles,” Gannon told the San Jose Mercury News. “He was an elite talent in Oakland, but he was never held accountable. He practiced the way he wanted to and played the way | {
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he wanted to. There wasn’t the discipline and structure that he needed.”
Brown, who played with Woodson for six years in Oakland, said that when he ran into Woodson after Woodson had spent his first year in Green Bay, he was surprised to see that Woodson was noticeably physically stronger than he had ever been in his time with the Raiders.
“He said he was lifting weights,” Brown said. “In seven years I never saw him lift a weight in Oakland. He’d ride the bike and that was about it.”
Although Woodson made an immediate impact in Oakland — he was chosen to the Pro Bowl in each of his four seasons — his play began to slip as he struggled through injuries, and he never made any secret of theThis subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB;Category B agent), a toxin that commonly causes classic food poisoning and can cause a nonmenstrual toxic shock syndrome (TSS), is a potential biological warfare agent. Importantly, SEB is derived from common readily accessible bacteria, is relatively easily produced, and can be delivered in a stable aerosol form. An SEB attack would be devastating to civilian populations as well as on the battlefield during times of war. | {
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owned and rented by suburban landlords, along with a significant decrease in the number of owner-occupied properties.
For 75 years, city employees had been required to live in Milwaukee as a condition of employment. But in June 2013, the Wisconsin Legislature approved an end to local residency requirements for municipalities. The new law was praised by unions representing Milwaukee police and firefighters but quickly challenged by the city in court. The city lost. In June 2016, a 5-2 majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Milwaukee could no longer enforce its residency requirement.
A spokesman for then-Gov. Scott Walker praised the decision, calling it “a big win for individual freedom.” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett called it a “sad day.” Barrett, citing the experiences of other cities where residency requirementsBut you can find other city employees as far away as Cedar Grove in Sheboygan County and Williams Bay in Walworth County.
Where the impact has been the greatest
Some neighborhoods in Milwaukee have been disproportionately affected by the end of residency. For years, three aldermanic districts — the 11th on the southwest side; the 13th on the far south side; and the 5th, on the far west side — have been home to large numbers of city employees, especially police and firefighters. The three districts have some of the city’s highest median residential property values and owner-occupancy rates, as well as the lowest crime rates.
Ald. Mark Borkowski represents the 11th District, which has approximately 40,000 residents. As of early 2018, the latest numbers available, city data showed 295 city | {
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least 1990, which has accelerated in recent years. As one example: In 1990, in the 2nd Aldermanic District on Milwaukee’s northwest side, there were 104 single-family homes owned by someone in the suburbs. In 2018, that number was 842.
The trend is evident in aldermanic districts where large numbers of city employees have historically lived.
We looked at a 15-year window from 2004 to 2018 — from before the Great Recession to the recovery that followed. During that time, the increase in suburban ownership of homes in these Milwaukee districts has been dramatic. In 2004, in the 5th District on the far west side, there were 120 single-family homes owned by someone in the suburbs. In 2018, that number had quintupled, to 548.
In 2004, in the 11th District on Milwaukee’sfar southwest side, there were 125 single-family homes owned by someone in the suburbs. That number jumped to 408 by 2018.
And in 2004, in the 13th District on Milwaukee’s far south side, there were 105 single-family homes owned by someone in the suburbs. That number nearly tripled, to 308, by 2018.
Our data analysis could not determine whether city employees who had moved to the suburbs still owned their former Milwaukee homes and were renting them out.
Not surprisingly, the increase in Milwaukee homes owned by people who live in the suburbs has coincided with a decline in the rate of owner-occupancy. In some Milwaukee aldermanic districts, the drop has been precipitous. From 2004 to 2018, the city’s 1st District on the far north side saw owner-occupancy rates plummet from | {
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78% to 55%. Even in the three districts favored by city employees and their families — some of the most stable neighborhoods in the city — owner-occupancy has fallen.
The debate over residency is and always has been two separate debates.
One is philosophical — it's about the freedom to live where you want. The other is about real-life consequences.
While parts of Milwaukee enjoy a welcome renaissance, the mettle of the city is being tested by the departure of thousands of middle-class residents who, for decades, have been a stabilizing force in city neighborhoods. And the future of those neighborhoods increasingly is being determined by people who see Milwaukee as a rental market opportunity — not as a place to live.
Mike Gousha is a distinguished fellow in law and publicthe proprietary differentiators in their gear and providing a mechanism for common interoperability and manageability would enable the Chinese to come into the US market with their monolithic arrays, which would be loaded with proprietary value-add software features, and clean our proverbial clocks.
Managers vs. Innovators
The difference between the managers and the innovators was that the former lacked the faith in the consumer articulated by the latter. Consumers were simply not sufficiently aggravated by the cost and inefficiency of monolithic storage to actually change their infrastructure model. The time wasn't ripe for revolution. Another key difference was that the managers held the purse strings, which in politics or technology has a tendency to shape outcomes.
So, ENSA went nowhere.
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meme" doesn't make you less competent or time-bound in your thinking or uncool. It makes you smart.
And that's what we need most of all in IT today.
About the Author
Jon Toigo is a 30-year veteran of IT, and the Managing Partner of Toigo Partners International, an IT industry watchdog and consumer advocacy. He is also the chairman of the Data Management Institute, which focuses on the development of data management as a professional discipline. Toigo has written 15 books on business and IT and published more than 3,000 articles in the technology trade press. He is currently working on several book projects, including The Infrastruggle (for which this blog is named) which he is developing as a blook.Alexander Victorovich Voloshinov – Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor. He is the author of more than 200 scientific works, about forty of which are in English and French, the author of the books “Mathematics and Art” (two editions), “Pythagoras: Union of Truth, Goodness and Beauty”(five editions),“ The Wreath of Wisdom of Hellas ”(three editions),“The Trinity of Andrei Rublev: Geometry and Philosophy”.
Alexander Voloshinov’s PhD thesis was devoted to mathematical modeling of the damping of a shock wave from an atomic explosion, while the “The Ontology of Beauty and the Mathematical Principles of Art” doctoral thesis was completely peaceful.
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Sciences Boris Rauschenbach, who gave a high rating to the opposed work.
His research interests include empirical and mathematical aesthetics, information-synergistic and symmetrological methods of art analysis, philosophy of collaboration between science and art. Member of a number of international associations and societies. Included in many international biographical directories.
We met Alexander Voloshinov on the eve of the third edition of the “Mathematics and Art” book:
Alexander Viktorovich, mathematics and art are traditionally perceived as two poles of human creative activity that are divided by the abyss. How did you manage to combine these two areas of intellectual activity in one book?
My merit is not great. This is the state of affairs in reality, that science and art are united, they are connected by thousands of invisible threads, and all Ito the book.
The latest example of the unity of the harmony of nature and the harmony of art is the theory of fractals, that are self-similar structures of fractional dimension. As it became clear at the end of the twentieth century, the whole world around us — mountains, rivers, clouds, trees, blood and neural networks — all of these are fractals.
If at the dawn of the modern natural science Galileo claimed that the book of nature was written in the language of circles and triangles, then today it can be argued that the book of nature is written in the language of fractals.
Moreover, for the last 20 years we have been trying to prove that the book of art is written in the language of fractals. Indeed, fractal | {
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I believed in the real Pythagoras and collected the surviving information about him bit by bit.
But the best proof of the existence of the real Pythagoras is his teaching. 500 years before our era in the law of integral-valued proportions in consonances, Pythagoras discovered the connection between mathematics and music, the two highest exponents of science and art. However, the greatness of Pythagoras consisted not only in the fact that he discovered the consonance law, but also managed to appreciate its true ideological significance. Not only “earthly” music is harmony and number, but the whole universe has a beautiful, simple and clear mathematical structure, the whole world is harmony and number, the whole Universe is organized according to the principle of musical harmony, the divine music of celestialspheres is played throughout the Universe. So the Pythagoreans came to their famous principle that everything is a number.
The ideas of Pythagoras were soon taken up by Plato and formulated by him in the form of the most important transnational and transepochal principle of science, which is the principle of mathematization of science. And Plato is in fact the whole subsequent world philosophy. That’s why the English philosopher and mathematician A. Whitehead called all Western philosophy only the sum of the footnotes to Plato.
So from Pythagoras and Plato you came to the whole of ancient philosophy?
Yes, the book “The Wreath of Wisdom of Hellas” – its latest edition – has the subtitle “Ancient philosophy in portraits and destinies from Thales to Boethius”. This is the essay of all | {
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ancient philosophy, which is really woven into a tight and beautiful wreath. Truly, it is a laurel one, but it is also a thorns crown of ancient Hellas, for the path to truth is always torn through thorns. The fate of the wise man is woven into his philosophy, and this fate is usually so difficult, the mocked Geraklit wanders in the mountains and it is not known where and how he dies.
The captive Zeno of Elea bites off his tongue and spits it to the tyrant face, now he can no longer say anything to him.
Democritus blinds himself so that his vision does not interfere with his inner speculation.
On the night before his execution, Socrates refuses to escape and calmly takes death in the morning.
Slandered, Boethius, whiletest against a side that defended deep was passed comfortably.
"They are an intelligent group of men and they kept probing the opposition and looking for gaps, to that end they kept their composure and found small little chinks of light along the way," reflected Dublin's manager Jim Gavin.
Monaghan played with just three players in advanced positions. The rest dropped deep and sought to make up the ground when the counter-attack presented itself. In Croke Park it is such a difficult tactic to deploy successfully.
But it was worth trying and for 22 minutes it worked with Dublin frustrated into snatched shots. It took 11 minutes for the champions to add a second point to their first in the opening minute. When have they gone as long without score?
Throughout that | {
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opening spell Colin Walshe was outstanding on Bernard Brogan. He conceded the first free but didn't put a foot wrong after that.
IMPACT
What impact a jarring of his knee had at that stage is difficult to tell but within three minutes Dublin rammed in two goals through the same channel from Diarmuid Connolly and Brogan who also added a free in between.
Dublin's success stemmed from their tenacious attacking of Rory Beggan's kick-out. They won four in succession between the 25th and 29th minutes and from those came the scores and the cushion.
Monaghan manager Malachy O'Rourke was left to ponder what the best way to set up against them might be.
They opted not to challenge the vast majority of Dublin's kick-outs – they did win a couple in the secondof winning the game," added O'Rourke.
"It worked for a wee while but as the game wore on they just overpowered us."
Dublin may well have won this game by over 20 points but for spurning a sequence of second-half goal chances.
Connolly and substitute Cormac Costello both pulled shots to the left of the Monaghan posts when they might have moved closer or laid off, while Connolly was far too casual when Dick Clerkin was stripped of possession and Bernard and Alan Brogan combined to create the opening which Beggan got a touch too on 57 minutes.
It was arguably Dublin's best defensive display of the championship. Philly McMahon and James McCarthy had big games while Rory O'Carroll had a lot of success against Conor McManus, Monaghan's only real outlet.
McManus still | {
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got a lot of ball, scored two points, won three frees that he converted himself and set up Clerkin for his second point. But he also registered six wides and dropped two more shots short.
When Monaghan reflect they will feel they didn't do a whole lot wrong.
But the effect of extra-time seven days earlier may have told.
All of Dublin's forwards chipped in with scores. Alan Brogan struck the ball particularly well while Eoghan O'Gara's strength eventually got the better of the resolute Drew Wylie.
Paul Flynn became more influential as the game wore on and he was arguably Dublin's best player in the second half.
Monaghan may justifiably argue with the officiating. Dublin came close to seeing their first black card when Eoghan O'Gara collided with an opponent in the'Love Commandos' flock to protect widow whose husband died in suspected 'honour killing' after marrying her for love
They identify themselves as the true-blue defenders of true love, helping hapless lovers escape the wrath of their orthodox families and community members.
And now the novel crusaders known as Love Commandos have taken it upon themselves to protect a woman who fears she and her 18-month-old daughter are next on the hit-list of her family members after they allegedly killed her husband in a cold-blooded daylight attack last week.
Actor Aamir Khan (middle) with Love Commandos' chairman Sanjoy Sachdev (on his right) and chief co-ordinator Harsh Malhotra (on his left) on the sets of Satyamev Jayate
It was revealed on Monday how Abdul Hakim of Adoli village in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr was gunned | {
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down last Thursday, in an alleged incident of honour killing. His wife Mehwish has alleged the murder was part of a conspiracy hatched by her family to punish the couple for marrying for love.
So, on Tuesday, over half a dozen Love Commandos reached Adoli to guard Mehwish (25) and her daughter Manteshan. A few more are expected to come in by Wednesday.
Abdul Hakim (left) of village Adoli in Uttar was gunned down last week. His widow Mehwish (right) has alleged the murder was an incident of honour killing
'Abdul is the first 'love martyr', who was under our protection. He feared for his life and I had asked him to think twice before returning to his village,' said Love Commandos chairman Sanjoy Sachdev, who had featured on the same1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to autologous bioadhesive sealant compositions, and more particularly to a convenient and practical two-phase method for preparing a bioadhesive sealant specifically from blood components derived from the patient who is to receive the bioadhesive sealant.
2. Description of the State of the Art
When the lining of a blood vessel is damaged, a complex series of events takes place which is designed to prevent blood loss and, ultimately, to restore the integrity of the vessel. Although short-lived vasoconstriction and physical factors such as the pressure of extruded blood on the vessel wall may play some part in haemostasis, the main factors in the haemostatic mechanism are platelets and the blood coagulation system.
Blood coagulation is the result of the complex interaction of a | {
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Angel is on his way to the trials to save her life."
After snapping off one more horn, the demon gave Spike all the information he needed. Spike learned that, in order to repeat Angel's performance, he would have to travel to Caritas, a demon karaoke bar in LA, run by The Host.
"Bollocks! That means I'm gonna have t' sing." With a quick twist the demon was dropped on the floor with a broken neck. "The things I do for the Summers women." Stalking out the back door, he started muttering to himself. "No way can I tell her the great poof took the trials. I can't tell her he took 'em for Darla, either."
The next day, Spike made his way through the maze of underground tunnels into theon and on, each one sounding progressively more dangerous. The doctor also explained that if they needed to go back in to remove whatever the biopsy showed, there was a possibility for further complications.
Buffy let the doctors words flow over her not really listening any more. The fear was stifling. If she lost her mom, Buffy didn't know what she would do. She couldn't fight a shadow. Buffy wasn't ready to be an adult yet, taking care of the house and Dawn too. Scary crazy thoughts kept running through her head; tumors, cancer. Nothing that she could fight. With all her strengths, Buffy was helpless to save her mother. Grasping at the faint hope that Spike offered, Buffy made a snap decision; she had a few days until | {
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the surgery, and it couldn't hurt to take Spike up on his offer. If it didn't work, they would just go ahead with the surgery.
After reaching her decision Buffy came back to the conversation with a snap.
"Thank you, Doctor Isaacs."
"I will schedule the biopsy for three days from now," the doctor responded kindly.
As soon as the doctor left, Buffy told the gang that she would be right back. She grabbed Dawn and went to go see her mother.
"Hi mom, how are you feeling?" Buffy spoke just as soon as they entered the room.
"Tired," Joyce replied.
"I spoke with the doctor; he told me that you had a shadow." Buffy took a deep breath "Spike came to see me last night; I told him you were sick. He stopped byPilot killed in Crawford County plane crash
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CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mo. - The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of a deadly plane crash Sunday about a mile north of the Cuba Municipal Airport, Sgt. Cody Fulkerson said.
The pilot in the crash is identified as 54-year-old Jeffrey Hansen of St. Charles. According to the flight path, Hansen took off from Bransen this morning in route to Creve Coeur. Fulkerson said the plane crashed into a heavily wooded area and broke into multiple pieces. Hanson and his dog were the only two on the plane. Both were killed, Fulkerson said.
Fulkerson said officers' received a call at 7:45 a.m. about a possible single engine aircraft that went down north of Cuba Municipal Airport. Officers arrived on the scene about | {
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three-quarters of mile away and found the Piper PA-32 plane.
"The debris field is quite extensive," Fulkerson said. "The plane suffered a lot of damage on impact. We have two independent eye witnesses that said that the aircraft appeared to be coming apart while in the air."
Fulkerson said Hansen sent a text to the family about severe weather while flying over Rolla at 7:40 a.m.
As of right now, officers do not know the exact cause of the crash.
"Only thing we can speculate here is that he was trying to land due to some problems," Fulkerson said. "That he was having problems would be the only explanation why he was heading back to this airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration has not immediately returned a phone call or message for comment.The textbooks are among the first 16 reviewed by state education officials as part of the Digital Textbook Initiative launched by Schwarzenegger in May.
The report released Tuesday is intended to help local school districts identify online learning materials that meet state math and science standards.
State officials plan to review digital textbooks for other academic subjects in coming months.
The governor is promoting digital textbooks to help districts save money and create more interactive learning environments, but experts say many California schools don't have enough computers to take advantage of them. | {
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surrender possession of the premises. On July 16, 1996, when Ragan still had not paid the amount due, Woodcroft instituted an unlawful detainer proceeding against her in the General District Court for the City of Richmond, seeking accrued rent, costs, fees, and possession of the leased premises.
Ten days later, prior to the return date on the unlawful detainer summons, Ragan paid Woodcroft the sum of $247.50, the entire amount due under the lease. Woodcroft accepted Ragan's payment with reservation, in order to preserve its right to seek possession of the leased premises. See Code § 55-248.34.
When the parties appeared in the general district court on the unlawful detainer summons, Woodcroft agreed that Ragan had paid all amounts outstanding under the lease. The general district court entered judgment awardingMichael Laudrup: Missed out Hearts teenager Adam King
King is regarded as one of the best young players to emerge in Scotland in recent years and is tipped for a big future.
The 17-year-old has represented Scotland at Under 18 and Under 19 level and is held in high regard within the corridors of power at Tynecastle.
A number of English Premier League clubs are thought to have been alerted to King's talent and have been monitoring his progress.
Swansea are believed to have firmed up their interest in King with a bid for the midfielder, but Hearts turned down the offer.
Despite being in administration, Hearts were able to fend off the bid in King like they did with Nottingham Forest's offers for Jason Holt. | {
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"With the announcement of partition in 1947, the Indian sub-continent moved away from the unique ideal of non-violence. The partition holocaust wrought havoc on all as communalism made people go berserk. The tragic and momentous event has stirred the creative imagination of many an Indian English writer. However, Kushwant Singh's train to Pakistan, Chaman Nahal's Azadi, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas and Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man have been chosen for the thematic study of partition theme with an intention to encompass variegated perspectives.
This thematic study is divided into six chapters. The very first chapter, an historical perspective of partition, seeks to explore and unravel the breakdown of inter-communal networks and, most importantly, addresses a larger historical question-national leaders' failure to realise a united India. This fair sized historical perspectivein indispensable because the novels have been cast against the backdrop. The subsequent four chapters, named after the novels, are intended to study the thematic paradigm of partition-theme. In the second chapter, Train to Pakistan, the disintegration of social mores with the advent of partition has been brought out. In the third chapter, Azadi, partition has been viewed as the leaders' collective failure and the Raj's studied indifference to ease up the communal tangle. The fourth chapter, Tamas, evinces the beguiling impact of communal forces hell-bent on whipping up the Frenzy. The fifth chapter, Ice-Candy Man, has been mainly seen as a study of minority complex. The last chapter sums up the generalizations that have been inferred." (jacket) | {
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Tracee Ellis Ross might be the next Hollywood actress to join the watershed movement for pay equality.
In its story about the way women are fighting for equal pay for equal work in Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Ross makes significantly less than her black-ish co-star Anthony Anderson. The actress is in the process of negotiations for her fifth season contract and is arguing if the show can't bring her up to Anderson's pay level, she'll do less episodes to allow her to appear as a guest star on other shows to make up the pay difference.
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The black-ish situation is more complicated than what happened with Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg for re-shoots of All the Money in theWorldwhere Williams was paid one percent of Wahlberg's pay check to return to the film after Kevin Spacey was replaced with Christopher Plummer. Williams and Wahlberg were both just actors in the film. Anderson is not only Ross' costar but helped developed the series and serves as an executive producer with black-ish creator Kenya Barris. Still, Ross has a right to argue to match Anderson's acting pay check.
According to THR, the move has split support from the TimesUp movement, with some of the women worried that Ross taking less episodes is a retreat rather than an empowering move. Guest starring and extra work isn't a guarantee and it definitely doesn't pay as much as being the star of a broadcast show.
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Bonanza: The Official Second Season Value Pack
One Of The Longest Running And Most Popular Of All Television Programs, Bonanza Has Become A Part Of American Mythology. For Fourteen Seasons, Audiences Enthusiastically Tuned In To See The High-Sierra Adventures Of The Cartwright Clan. Nestled Amongst The Pines Above The Shores Of Lake Tahoe Is The Ponderosa, The Thousand-Square Mile Home Of Ben Cartwright And His Sons, Adam, Hoss And Little Joe. Guest Players Were A Veritable Who'S Who Of Classic Hollywood And Upcoming Superstars, And Timeless Stories Continue To Appeal To Contemporary Audiences Of All Ages.
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One Of The Longest Running And Most Popular Of All Television Programs, Bonanza Has Become A Part Of American Mythology. For Fourteen Seasons, Audiences Enthusiastically Tuned In To See The High-Sierraby surgical curettage. This was carried out via an intra-oral approach under general anaesthetic. A large window of buccal bone was removed with a burr and the tumour was exposed in part. It was noted to vary in consistency from bony hard areas to soft tissue components. Resection was carried out in a piecemeal fashion, with osteotomes and curettage. The tumour filled the antrum and breached the nasal mucosa medially, however the orbital floor was intact. Primary closure was achieved. Post-operative histopathological diagnosis confirmed a lesion composed of numerous anastomosing bony trabeculae between which were islands of fibrous tissue with giant cells and osteoid formation. The appearance was that of a giant cell lesion.
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With the recent success of the Stanford football program, it's only natural that coaches on the staff, David Shaw most notably, start getting mentioned as potential options elsewhere.
In Peter King's most recent Monday Morning Quarterback column on SI.com, he ranked the top-five hottest potential NFL head coaches that are currently leading college programs.
The first name he listed was Oregon's Chip Kelly. No surprise there, he flirted with the idea of taking the Tampa Bay job just last season and those rumors haven't quieted this year as he led the Ducks to another impressive season.
No. 2? Shaw.
It makes sense too. Shaw has an extensive NFL resume, is 21-4 running a pro-style system in college, had a hand in developing Andrew Luck and his predecessor at Stanford, Jim Harbaugh, hasset a track record for helping coaches advance in their career, The Farm will become a more desirable destination for talented assistant coaches in the future.
That's important. Keeping good assistant coaches for long periods of time is hard to do and being able to replace them without missing a beat isn't an easy task.
Shaw's old boss a hot name: Early in his coaching career Shaw coached under Jon Gruden with the Oakland Raiders. He's a frequent point of reference for Shaw when he talks about his coaching style.
Gruden's name is one that usually comes up this time of year in association with coaching opening. The most recent was at Tennessee where Gruden reportedly turned down an offer that apparently including a partial ownership stake with the Cleveland Browns.
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to start, Montgomery to play: Jamal-Rashad Patterson will start at wide receiver against UCLA, but Ty Montgomery will rotate in, according to Shaw, who confirmed Montgomery is fully healthy.
"Now he is," said Shaw of Montgomery's health. "The last week, he was probably 100 percent, but this week I know for sure."
Terrell in: Wide receiver and punt returner Drew Terrell will play against UCLA, despite some concerns early in the week.
"Drew is going to play," Shaw said. "He looked good today. No soreness from yesterday. He passed every test."
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Salutations, fellow fart-fanatics! Please heed my warning!
The following little fiction contains excessive amounts ofEproctophillia, with dashes of Coprophillia, Urolagnia, Salirophillia, and some slight sadistic elements.
If you're OK with, or even better, enjoy these fetishes, please read on and enjoy!
If, however, you don't, read on anyway!
The sun rose steadily into the warm yellow sky, providing the newly-formed drops of dew on the flowers a complimentary glimmer of sunlight.
Somewhere distant, bird song echoed through the spears of tree trunks, plotted in a maze around the quaint little cottage.
Fluttershy awoke in her soft bed, stretching out every aching muscle, and letting a ductile yawn escape her lips.
She raised herself out of bed with her wings, and made the bedsheets, as was customary every morning.
The newly-awoken yellow pegasi peered towards her whitebunny Angel, who had just hopped into her room.
"Oh... Hello Angel. Did you sleep well?" She asked her rabbit benevolently. The finical rodent simply stomped his foot in response, and hopped away to another part of the cottage.
Fluttershy noticed a rumble of her stomach, which indicated that she was hungry.
She decided she would go to the market and purchase something to eat, or at least some ingredients for her breakfast.
The lethargic pegasi cantered her way down the stairs, and out of the front door. Her intent was to find something delicious, and nutritious for her breakfast. There was a nice little stall in town square, which sold a lovely collection of veggies.
She was grid locked on her journey by a corporate, new looking building.
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in and out of the store, and Fluttershy found herself somewhat intrigued.
She edged into the unfamiliar building, a sharp garlicky smell hitting her nose.
There was much noise and walla inside the humid restaurant, and Fluttershy decided to stay quiet and join the lengthy queue.
After a few minutes of waiting, she reached the front where a cheery pony smiled to her.
"Hello miss, welcome to Bronco Bell, what can I get you today?" she asked customarily.
Fluttershy took a glance at the menu: "Spicy bean burrito" "Extra cheese broccoli burrito" "Bean and cheese Taco" amongst other related foods.
Not wanting to waste the clerks time, Fluttershy looked down to her adding a quiet "Extra cheese broccoli burrito, please..."
Fluttershy had never had one of these 'burritos' before, but they certainly seemed to beselling well.
The store clerk handed Fluttershy a small wrapped paper cylinder, and Fluttershy was promptly pushed aside by another ravenous customer.
Fluttershy took the warm parcel back to the cottage, and made her way into her dining room. She lay the wrapper down on the table, and used her mouth to open it.
Inside, she found a burrito, one end deluging with beans, cheese, and broccoli.
Fluttershy dipped her head down, and munched away at her meal.
This burrito was delicious, and the greedy pegasus pony devoured the entire thing in a matter of seconds.
"That was nice. I should go to Bronco Bell more often." Fluttershy said to herself, licking her lips .
Fluttershy realised she had other things to get on with than complimenting fast food, and took a watering can in | {
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her mouth, flying out to the front of her cottage.
Two little squirrels appeared from the forest, and ran up to watch Fluttershy. She watered the flowers; as she did everyday.
After a good couple of minutes of hardcore watering, Fluttershy came to notice an unpleasant discomfort in her lower stomach. She had already eaten, and was not hungry, so she wondered what this feeling could mean.
Her question was soon answered by a sharp pressure by her ass, which led to a silent hiss of flatulence leaking out uncontrollably, and directly into her Squirrel friend's faces.
One of the two furry witnesses fell flat on its back, unconscious from the sheer potency of Fluttershy's ass blast.
Fluttershy was shocked, apologizing profusely to the squirrels, and rushing inside.
"What was that!? I never... Inever do that!" Fluttershy cried to herself, frantically waving her hoof at her tush.
The pain returned, and Fluttershy had no option than to let more gas out.
She ashamedly encouraged the release, hearing a little rasp of indication.
A ripe, sour stench arose to Fluttershy's nose, and she couldn't help but take a quick whiff. She instantly smacked her hooves to her face, trying to block out the thick malodour.
"Oh... Oh my..." Fluttershy muffled through her obstructing appendages.
The cloud of horrendous gas spread like a disease throughout the cottage, and her other animal friends soon took wind of the fetid stench.
Another butt bomb ripped from Fluttershy's malleable little plot with a loud, blaring tone.
The sound alerted the animals, and they coughed and gagged in response.
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washed over the poor pegasi's face, and she was forced to breathe the awful fumes in.
Upon taking in this breath, the smell seemed less harsh than before, and Fluttershy was actually able to remove her hooves from her nose.
She sniffed again, hard. It was hard to pinpoint exactly how her fart smelled, but it seemed to resemble a tepid oniony stench, with lucid connotations of cheese and broccoli. The smell was foul, and offensive to the nose, but there was a certain sweetness to the stench that seemed to appeal to exclusively Fluttershy.
She ripped another rasping blast, making sure to sniff the warm vapours. The smell was starting to grow more and more appealing to Fluttershy, and a smile broadened on her face.
The scent may have become pleasantto Fluttershy, but it was evidently not so much so to her woodland friends. They were all retching and gagging at the thick fog of effluvium that had formed in the room.
Fluttershy giggled naively, a red blush flooding her cheeks.
She lowered herself to her sofa, sitting down upon it. She leaned forward, letting loose a gruff shrill fart into the cotton couch.
She let a sigh of relief, and blew another squeaking rip into the cushion.
The familiar rancid odour raised again to Fluttershy's nose, and she inhaled deeply.
The room was simmering, and the farts were so thick you could almost see them.
Fluttershy hadn't thought to open a window or door, so the vile miasma had no choice but to fill the room.
The reeking pollution was toxic to any other | {
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living organism in the room, and even the flowers began to wilt, but Fluttershy still inhaled and inhaled, enjoying the contaminating stink. It was highly congenial to the pegasi, and she continued to issue to herself more coarse blasts of gas.
Despite what her animals may have been trying to depict, Fluttershy was not going to stop enjoying her farts.
"Where in Equestria is the girl!?" Applejack alarmedly asked her four associates, increasingly worried about Fluttershy's absence as of late.
"I have no idea what she is doing, but she has been secluded in her cottage for three days! I do hope she is alright." Rarity added in her prim, proper tone.
"That's it; I'm gonna go and check on her." Rainbow Dash impatiently announced to the gang, raising herself off theDash by surprise, and she was physically knocked back by it.
"Holy hay! What died in here?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, chancing her luck and moving slowly into the stinky sauna.
She noticed the unconscious critters scattered around the floor, starting to become freaked out by the queerness of it all.
Rainbow's initial notion was that there was some kind of dead body in the cottage, but there seemed no logical explanation for that.
She managed to wade her way through the lounge, her eyes watering at the pure potency of the emissions.
"Fluttershy?! Are you in here?!" Rainbow Dash cried, trying to avoid inhaling even a molecule of the air around her.
"I'm up here." A distant voice bellowed from somewhere upstairs.
Rainbow Dash followed the sound, still trying her best to avoid opening her | {
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they lose."
Fluttershy smiled, somewhat maliciously, and nodded.
"Sounds fun. You go get your burrito, and I'll get the place aired out a bit. We don't want all this gas ruining the contest!" Fluttershy giggled playfully.
Rainbow Dash left to get herself a burrito, still with the grotesque odour of Fluttershy's cottage singed into her coat.
Fluttershy started on letting some of the miasma out of the cottage, by opening every window and door she could.
She was interrupted halfway through her ordeal by a pounding against wood. She shot her head round to see none other than her own Angel impatiently tapping his foot at her, gesturing mutely to his food bowl.
"Angel?! You're not passed out?" Fluttershy gasped to the rabbit, surprised her gas hadn't knocked him out as it had doneher other pets.
He merely continued to thump his foot, and exasperatedly hopped away.
Most of Fluttershy's exhaust had diffused out into the open, and she could feel her personality regress back to that of a timid pony.
"Oh no. What have I gotten myself into? There's no way I can out-fart Rainbow Dash, even if my farts are bad!" Fluttershy fretted, pacing steadily across the room.
Suddenly, a clever little idea formed in her clever little head, and she flew into the kitchen to gather what she would need.
Rainbow Dash returned shortly, her belly bloated and ready to release.
"Holy hay, Fluttershy. The burritos there are delicious! So delicious I had two...or three...or six." Rainbow Dash announced, seemingly proud of her indulgence.
Fluttershy was still slightly anxious that she may be out-gassed by | {
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minute, and she made sure to keep the clench on her buttocks to prevent Angel from getting free.
After the smell had slightly diffused, she let the grip go, and he fell to the floor, coughing and gagging.
"Nice one, Fluttershy!" Rainbow chucked, collapsing to the floor in pure hysterics.
She moved over to the retching Angel, and once again planted her supple posterior onto him, pinning him underneath her.
This time, Fluttershy noticed, Rainbow Dash's fart sounded slightly wet. It rattled against Angel for a good half-minute before ending in a single staccato squelch.
Rainbow laughed, raising herself off the rabbit again. "He's still going.Gotta hand it to the little guy, he has tenacity!"
Fluttershy's turn. She spread her cheeks, and snapped them down onto Angel's head, trapping him in-between them again.
She fartedinto his stupid little rabbit face - the fart silent, but certainly deadly. The rabbit twitched and shook against Fluttershy'splothole, which caused her to let the strain on her ass.
Angel once again fell to the floor, now not bothering to stand. He smelled of a combination of both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's farts, which let off the odour of pure hell.
Before he could take another breath, Rainbow Dash sat back down on Angel. She wiggled her plot against the floor, smearing Angel against her dirty perineum. This was followed up with a very decent, lengthy wet rip. The fart was certainly juicy, with spluttering rips and pops accompanying the whining splatter the gaseous release made.
The pure wetness of the fart brought Rainbow into another fit of hysterics. Fluttershy | {
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took a sniff of Rainbow's back wind, to see what she was up against.
The smell was mainly eggy, with a slight undertone of stilton cheese.
The fart was vile, but Fluttershy thought that her own special blend was worse.
With her gas on her mind, Fluttershy realised it was her turn.
She held Angel, who only struggled slightly, and took a deep sniff of his coat. It had been soiled with a purely atrocious smell, which was nearly too much for Fluttershy to handle.
Nearly.
She held the rabbit by the neck, and moved her hoof to her behind.
There was still some of her last air biscuit lingering, which made Angel squirm slightly.
She pushed his head into her plot, applying more and more pressure until she could hear a loud *plop*
Angel's head hadbeen subjugated in Fluttershy's anus. He couldn't possibly escape now!
Fluttershy released more of her contemptible gas, which had nowhere to go but Angel's lungs.
The majority of the fart went inside Angel, so no sound came of the fart, but what it lacked in smell it gained very much in odour.
Fluttershy tugged at Angel, pulling him from her plothole with a loud slimy pop. Angel was on the threshold of unconsciousness, but he was hanging on by a thread.
Rainbow snatched the tiny adjudicator, ready to finish him off.
She got herself into position, laying down with her hind legs both pressed together, holding Angel's head so that it was adjacent to her plot.
"Nighty night, you little bastard." Rainbow Dash muttered under breath before letting all hell loose on Angel.
The momentous | {
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such trivial matters.
The fart was now bubbly and juicy - an ongoing slosh of watery vapour, which seized up into a single puff of wet gas.
Rainbow Dash let out a deep sigh of relief, overwhelmed by the sheer duration of her vile fart.
She spread her legs, letting Angel fall to the floor.
She bend over to examine the rabbit, letting a rotten gust of her own gas into her nose whilst doing so.
The smell was violent: the eggy tones from before now offensive spicy tones of burned rubber and manure.
The gas irritated Dash's throat, making it sore and dry.
Fluttershy also shuffled over to inspect Angel, glaring at the body.
To both the pegasi's surprise, Angel started twitching, half-opening his eyes.
"What!?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "How did that not knock him out!?"
"Iguess he's just robust." Fluttershy added meekly.
She took Angel, and placed him down on the floor, squatting over him.
She was about to do something she was not proud of, but that was vital if her plan was to work.
Fluttershy's plot exploded into a blaring, high-pitched buzz of putrid gaseous rips. The fart buzzed into a squelching, spluttering barrage of wet farts, which then lowered to a near-silent hiss of pre-shit gas.
Fluttershy could feel the solid matter worming its way through her intestines, and reaching her anal sphincter.
The hiss of gas turned into three whining bubbles of wet gas, which were followed immediately by the head of a log of ripe Fluttershitpeeping and inch out of Fluttershy's plothole, before being sucked back in.
"Whoopsie!" Fluttershy giggled, blushing a dark shade | {
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of red.
"That's gross." Rainbow Dash remarked, grimacing.
Fluttershy never thought she would hear Rainbow Dash speak those two words, but she didn't want to waste her opportunity.
"I think I'd better take a visit to the little filly's room." Fluttershy giggled playfully, edging her way towards her bathroom.
"Yeah; I think you'd better." Rainbow Dash added in a deadpan tone, flying hesitantly over to check on Angel.
Fluttershy hurriedly made her way to her bathroom, accidentally letting a short squeak escape her plot.
She locked the door, and landed down on the toilet bowl, letting out a sigh of relief as a spluttering, whining fart spewed into the ceramic bowl.
This followed with a loud blast of rasping, spluttering air, which morphed into a single high whine, encouraging the feces back out.
The log slitheredslowly from the depths of Fluttershy's putrescent rectum.
With a loud crackling tone, the chunk of shit eased its way out through her external anal sphincter, and Fluttershy broke it off with a pinch of her plothole, the newly-formed loaf falling into the toilet water with a loud splash, covering Fluttershy's cheeks with little specks of toilet water.
As she applied some more pressure to her abdomen, a warm stream of urine flowed silkily into the toilet too, adding to the build up of excrement.
As Fluttershy got to work releasing the second log, she jumped at a hammer on the bathroom door, letting an erratic burst of raunchy flatulence to escape her tush.
"Wh-what is is?" She asked, trying to keep her feces discharging at a steady rate.
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kicked in, it would kick in with relentless force!
Fluttershy spent another few minutes on the porcelain throne, blasting all manner of wet rips and smelly shits. A cloud of cheesy odour was now flooded around Fluttershy, and she felt that spending even longer on the can would make her throw up.
She wasn't sure if the foods had kicked in, but she took the risk, taking a wad of toilet paper and dragging it over her besmirchedplothole.
She repeated this several times, until her anus was less shit-coated, though she wanted to keep a thin layer to add to the potency of her farts.
She hopped off the toilet, still with a substantial accumulation of gas inside her.
She walked out of the bathroom again, and over to the front lounge, whereshe found Rainbow Dash sitting impatiently on her couch.
"You might want to leave that ten minutes." Fluttershy giggled, trotting over to Rainbow.
"Sweet Celestia you were in there for forty minutes! Were you shitting out a house or something?" Rainbow Dash cried angrily to Fluttershy.
"No. I was shitting out my poop." Fluttershy replied, not picking up on the cyan pegasi's sarcasm.
Rainbow ignored this, and got up from the couch.
"Are we gonna do this or not? I think Angel's over hiding under the chair there." Rainbow Dash informed, gesturing to a chair in the corner of the room.
Fluttershy dragged her bloated body across the room with her wings, picking up Angel and cradling him in her hooves.
"I get to start." Rainbow Dash barked, snatching Angel and sitting on him.
"My gas | {
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again, shuffling her plot about to try and aim her plothole directly at his nose.
She silently strained herself, a tension growing in her lower body. This followed with a sloppy, rather liquidus swill of spluttering methane.
The eggy potency of Rainbow Dash's farts was immediately overcome by Fluttershy's coma-inducing flatulence, not doing anything to Angel.
Rainbow anxiously stood up, trotting slowly away from Angel, who was on his last legs.
Fluttershy smirked.
This was going to be the big one - the one that saw the annoying little rabbit out cold.
Confidence flooded Fluttershy as she relocated over to Angel, grabbing him in a hoof.
She brought him up to her face, and stared him in the eyes.
"I'm impressed, Angel. You've done such a good job at enduring mommy's farts. I can understand thatyou could survive Rainbow Dash's farts - they weren't bad at all, but my farts? I'm surprised you're still breathing!"
Fluttershy closed her eyes, and eeked a burp through her lips, directed at angel. The thick stench of garlic and onion caused him to lazily struggle in her hoof, much to his avail.
She then put Angel to the other end of her, pressing him in-between her plump buttocks. Fluttershy then glanced over to Rainbow Dash, a wicked and mischievous expression on her face. "You might want to hold your nose." Was all
she said before opening up in a torrent of hell in gas form. The explosive, blaring flatus raged rigorously against Angel's face. The fart became suddenly sticky and juicy, garbling and bubbling thick,unadulterated bubbles of
toxic stench against the | {
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not happy about it."
Fluttershy grinned, pleased that Rainbow Dash was complying with her.
The two pegasi made their way up to Fluttershy's bedroom, the door slammed behind them.
Fluttershy hopped into her bed, letting a sort parp out into the matress. She patted the sheet next to her. "Come on in, Rainbow Dash."
Rainbow reluctantly flew into the bed, pulling the sheet up to her neck.
"How does this thing work again?" She asked, incredibly anxious.
"You just stick your head under the sheet and sniff my stinky farts."Fluttershy said modestly, forcing the blanket over her friend's head with an innocent giggle.
The first gas bomb was released with a muffled splatter, immediately filling the confined space with a ripe dose of toxic fumes.
The smell hit, and hit hard. Rainbow Dash started writhing uncontrollablyat the strong, fetid stink, being forced to breathe it in.
Fluttershy farted another one, just as wet as before. The humid stench in the gas chamber increased, and Rainbow Dash's eyes started watering.
"Fluttershy! Please stop! I... I can't do this!" Rainbow screamed, gagging in-between words.
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you." Fluttershy replied harshly, holding Rainbow's head down under the bed sheet.
She let more foul wind into the chamber, accompanied by a frightfully wet splutter.
Rainbow's struggling was starting to weaken, and she seemed to be losing strength.
Fluttershy decided to transpose her current position, planting her sweaty, shit-covered plot down right onto Rainbow's muzzle, suffocating her slightly.
She rocked backwards and forwards, smearing excrement and sweat over her face, some of the fluid entering her mouth.
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muffled protests into Fluttershy's plot, but it was no use.
"Open wide, Dashie!" Fluttershy giggled before cutting a ripe hot fart straight into the half-conscious pegasi's muzzle. The wet odorous rip squelched traces of fecal matter over Rainbow's face, coating in in a nice shade of
Russet.
She was still shrieking into Fluttershy's plot, only causing more of the foul fumes to enter and fill her lungs.
"I still can't hear you." Fluttershy giggled playfully, letting more of her unendurable aroma inflate Rainbow Dash's soiled lungs.
She farted again, this time a bubbling, squelching wet rip rattling and popping against Rainbow's face, coating it in more and more of the unbearable effluvium.
Rainbow Dash had given up hope now, twitching slightly, and almost out-cold.
With an explicit rumble of her stomach, Fluttershy positioned herself foran octave every five seconds until it was too high for
pony ears to pick up. The fart raged on, a relentless barrage of sodden filth.
After at least three whole minutes of farting, Fluttershy began to feel her stomach grow decreasingly full of gas, which eventually depleted with a trumpeting squelch.
Fluttershy rolled over onto the bed, panting heavily. Her bloated stomach had deflated to its normal size, the gas contained inside now filling the room around her.
She lay in relief, smelling her own stinky flatus and laughing at how vile it was.
Rainbow Dash's body was flaccid and unanimated, sprayed out across the bed and laminated in Fluttershy's fecal matter.
"Wow. I even knocked out Rainbow Dash with my farts! They must've been bad." Fluttershy said to herself with a giggle, | {
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impressed at what a smell she had managed to make.
A groan of her stomach and a pain in her lower gut told Fluttershy that it was about time to go and take a dump again, and let out the very last of her stomach's contents.
She decided to leave Dash in the mephitic sauna, flying to her bathroom.
The room still smelled unpleasant, but Fluttershy wasn't sure if it was excess gas from earlier, or the gas that had singed its way into her coat.
She closed the door, and landed softly onto the toilet, letting loose a sigh of relief.
It would seem that any and all gas-based products had been all let out in her room, because a fat, and soft log of feces was the very first thing toemerge from Fluttershy's pinkish-brown plothole.
It splashed into the toilet bowl followed by two more, which slid quickly from Fluttershy's anus.
She continued to let out the waste matter for a couple of minutes more, until there seemed to be nothing left to let out at all.
A new smell lingered in the bathroom, smelling similar to her previous farts, only slightly worse.
She wiped her plushy plot, and flushed the fecal matter away.
It had been at least five minutes, and Fluttershy would expect that Rainbow Dash was now awake.
She let herself back into her bedroom, which still stunk of her emissions. Rainbow Dash was still sprawled out over the bed, not moving a muscle.
"Uh... Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy called out quietly.
She flew over to her friend, poking her with a hoof.
"Are you..."
Fluttershy | {
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forest, and making up a story that Rainbow Dash was called back to Cloudsdale regarding a great importance.
She wasn't sure how long her story would last, but it was the only way to get away with what she'd done.
She flew over to the body, and took Rainbow Dash my the shoulders, raising her from the bed and managing to carry her out of the room.
Making sure that nopony was around to see, she dragged the corpse out behind her cottage, and off into the Everfree forest.
There she found a murky lake, and she let the gassed-out Rainbow Dash fall into it, the body submerging into the water with bubbles of air escaping from her various cavities.
Time passed, and Fluttershy managed to cover her tracks.
After these two days, thesmell had not completely gone from her bed, but it had diffused to the point where the smell was not overbearing.
Fluttershy was in the town square with her friends, explaining herfalse story to them.
"So you're sayin' she up and left?" Applejack inquired, confused at the story Fluttershy had provided.
"Yes. I don't know why, but she just... Left. Said it was important."
"I'm sure she'll write and let us know." Twilight added, trying to raise the overall morale of the group.
"Course she will!" Applejack laughed.
"I'm starvin', what would you girls say to some lunch?"
The group arose into a chorus of agreement, all evidently very hungry too.
"They just opened a new restaurant on the outskirts of town, the food is really good I hear." Twilight suggested.
"What's it called?" Pinkie chimed in.
"Bronco | {
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'Golden' rice's lack of lustre
Addressing vitamin A deficiency without genetic engineering
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VAD continues to be one of the most serious health problems in the developing world. The last two decades have seen tremendous improvements in the treatment of VAD, and it has been virtually eliminated among specific sectors of the population in many countries.text JCCT16 £5 to 70070 to donate.
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According to ABC News, the 9-year-old Eliza Fonseka had also found an unexpected ally in former Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell, who advocated for her to be granted the visa.
"I'm very excited for Eliza, I'm very excited for the family," said Chappell, who was approached to help Eliza's family by her father, a cricket coach.
"I think in this case compassion has won out." Chappell said it was the first time he had been involved in an immigration issue.
"Probably in this particular style, yes, but through the years | {
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First in Kaliningrad procession on motorcycles and priest
KALININGRAD, RUSSIA - JUNE 17, 2015: The Church of Peter and Fevronia. Prayer for the Day of memory and grief, beginning of the Great Patriotic War. First in Kaliningrad procession on motorcycles and priestQ:
Anime with a suicidal girl who can see people's "death marks". Meets two reapers
There was this girl who always wanted to die and then she met two guys who were reapers. She started seeing black ribbons around other people's necks and they explained to her that was a death mark or something like that.
Then she got one around her neck and she realised that she didn't want to die anymore.
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This is Zombie Loan.
Michiru Kita possesses the Shinigami Eyes, a power which allows her to see a person's closeness to death by seeing a ring around the person's neck. When a person is marked to die, a gray ring appears, which darkens over time. Once the ring turns pitch black, the person dies. Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana, | {
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JONES, JOHN VIRIAMU (1856 - 1901), first principal of the University College, Cardiff
Name: John Viriamu JonesDate of birth: 1856Date of death: 1901Spouse: Katherine Jones (née Wills)Parent: Thomas JonesGender: MaleOccupation: first principal of the University College, CardiffArea of activity: Education; Science and MathematicsAuthor: Edgar William Jones
b. 2 January 1856, at Pentre-poeth, Swansea, one of several distinguished sons of the then famous Congregational preacher Thomas Jones (1819 - 1882); his middle name — the Erromanga pronunciation of ‘William’ — reflects his father's admiration of the famous missionary, John Williams.
His university career was a brilliant one. He obtained his London B.Sc. degree (at 19) with the University Scholarship in Geology. In 1877 he was made Fellow of London University. In 1874 he gained the Brackenbury scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford (wherehe became very friendly with Benjamin Jowett), in mathematics and took not only first class honours in Mathematical Moderations and Finals, but also a first in Physics.
After some coaching in Oxford, Viriamu Jones, at the early age of 25 years, was in May 1881 appointed principal of Firth College, Sheffield. The college was in a somewhat moribund state, but in the two years of his principalship he revived and reorganized it, and made possible the future development of the college into the University of Sheffield.
In 1883 the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire was established at Cardiff, and in June of that year Viriamu Jones was appointed principal. With the help of a band of able scholars and teachers, he made the College a great centre of | {
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learning. He was greatly helped by his wife, Katherine Wills, daughter of judge Sir Alfred Wills. He collected some £70,000 fot the college, and persuaded the Cardiff Corporation to make the college the generous grant of the site of the present buildings in Cathays Park.
Viriamu Jones early realized two great needs of Wales — a Welsh university and a system of secondary education — and for both ideals he worked indomitably. He had a large share in framing the charter of the university (of which he became the first vice-chancellor, 1895-6), and he was mainly responsible for the greater freedom of choice of subjects in its degree-schemes. He became first vice-chairman of the Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education.
In the midst of these indefatigable activities, he devoted everymoment of his leisure to scientific research, mainly in physical measurements such as the determination of the ohm. For this research work he was elected F.R.S. in 1894. He died 1 June 1901 [at Geneva ] and was buried near his father in S. Thomas's cemetery, Swansea. His brother, Sir David Brynmor Jones, is separately noticed. | {
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born abroad.
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The discussion flared up after the murder of a 16-year-old girl in the Austrian city of Steyr. The key suspect in her brutal stabbing is asylum seeker Saber Akhondzada, who was denied asylum, but allowed to stay in the country, as he is wanted on murder charges in his home country of Afghanistan because Austria does not deport people facing a death sentence in another country. According to the victim’s family, she had recurring rows with her possessive boyfriend Akhondzada, reacting violently to the girl talking to other men and thus trying to intimidate her.to seek approval of construction plans, and to detail every aspect of construction.
On August 21, 1998, the property was sold to the current owner, Ginsburg Development L.L.C. ("GDC"). During the period from the acquisition of the property through approximately June 1999, GDC presented and secured various approvals from the Village to amend the 1996 resolution. On June 17, 1999, GDC's consulting engineer sent a set of plans to GDC (and copied them to the Village) indicating that a retaining wall was to be constructed in a way that could encroach on plaintiff's property.
*383 The construction on the site now called Livingston Ridge began in earnest in early 1999.
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approved plans and encroached on the property of a neighbor to the south Dr. Christine Sekaer. As a result of GDC's work, a slope failure had adversely impacted Sekaer's property and presented a safety risk. Building Inspector Bonsteel issued a stop work order and a imposed a requirement on GDC to secure an easement for any work on the adjacent property. On April 7, 1999, Bonsteel imposed several restrictions on GDC's work, including a requirement that GDC provide the Village with "copies of easements and/or agreements with neighboring property owners for work to be conducted on their premises." (Overhoff Aff. at Ex. D.)
On April 14, 1999, one of the Village consultants, TRC Raymond Keyes Associates ("RKA"), recommended that work resume, provided that (among other requirements) it was"I get bored easily and I look for ways for me to be creative," the actor, singer, writer and voice-over artist tells PEOPLE. "I'm always looking for things that are fun and new and exciting."
McCartney, 26, is known for his 2003 hit "Beautiful Soul" and his work on the television shows Army Wives, Greek and Summerland. But did you know he got his start in 1998 on All My Children? Or that he co-wrote Leona Lewis's hit "Bleeding Love"? And what about his time spent voicing video game and cartoon characters including Theodore in the popular Alvin and the Chipmunk films?
"Once in a while, I'll get a 40-year-old gamer and he'll say, 'I love that video game you did for the Japanese. I've spent 80 hours playing it,' | {
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collaboration with British pop star Leona Lewis.
"I certainly knew there was going to be some shock value," the 21-year-old told the Associated Press. "Musically, I definitely took a risk; I took a chance. I wanted to do something new. But it was also something that I knew I was comfortable with, and so I'm really happy"
And if raising eyebrows makes him happy, then he must be ecstatic over the first video single from his new album, "Departure." The well-received video, for "Leavin'," shows a lot of skin from both him and a bed-romping model.do on defense.”
In making preparations simpler this week, Ward also made them more fun. He called for a one-on-one drill in practice Tuesday that was a hit with the players. He has also seemed to get through to the players with his message to loosen up Saturday. | {
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also produced Jaws and Cocoon, and who first met the "painfully shy" Lucas at an advance screening of Steven Spielberg's first feature film, The Sugarland Express, believes the fact that Lucas took his massive profits from Star Wars and used them in the name of industry innovation elevates him into the Edison territory.
"He's the only person, with the exception of Sam Goldwyn, who literally put his own money in," said Zanuck. "Sam financed and owned 100 percent of all those great pictures he made, and no one else has ever done that, not like he did. George put it back into ILM and Skywalker Ranch and THX sound. He put it into the greatest equipment, all of it up to date. ... He's the only one who everDennik N. “People see [Kotleba] talks dirty but so does everyone else. And at least Kotleba offers solutions [to the people]. Divisions between normal and extremist politics started to become really thin.”
Kotleba, a former school teacher, first tried his hand at politics with his “Slovak Togetherness – National Party,” but it was banned in 2007 for fomenting hate. He re-emerged in 2011 with L’SNS, and shocked Slovakia in 2013 when he became the governor of Banská Bystrica. At that point the victory was looked upon as an anomaly, says Mr. Kostolný. “But when his party won at the national level, people started to see there is a bigger problem.”
Slovakia now joins just Hungary and Greece, via Jobbik and Golden Dawn respectively, in electing national lawmakers from parties with | {
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District of Columbia, all US territories, and in many urban areas throughout the country. Non-Hispanic whites are also not the majority in several southwestern states.
Overall the highest concentration of those referred to as "Non-Hispanic Whites" by the Census Bureau are found in the Midwest, New England, the northern Rocky Mountain states, Kentucky, West Virginia, and East Tennessee. The lowest concentration of whites was found in southern and mid-Atlantic states.
Although all large geographical areas are dominated by White Americans, much larger differences can be seen between specific parts of large cities.
States with the highest percentages of White Americans, as of 2007:
Vermont 96.2%
Maine 95.5%
New Hampshire 95.0%
West Virginia 94.3%
Iowa 92.9%
Idaho 92.1%
Wyoming 91.6%
Minnesota 90.94%
North Dakota 90.9%
States with the highest percentages of non-Hispanic Whites, as of 2007:
Vermont 95.4%
Maine 94.8%
West Virginia 93.7%
New Hampshire 93.4%
IowaSunshine Coast Council, in partnership with Regional Development Australia Sunshine Coast, recently engaged KPMG Demographics led by Bernard Salt to explore the Long Distance Commuter Workforce (LDC) based at the Sunshine Coast.
“Sunshine Coast Airport has previously undertaken a number of surveys that indicated there was strong demand for flights north from the Sunshine Coast,” Mayor Mark Jamieson said.
“In fact, more Sunshine Coast workers commute regularly up north than go to Brisbane to work.
“The report confirmed that in South East Queensland the Sunshine Coast is one of the top providers of long-distance commuter workers into the Bowen and Surat Basins.
“In fact, LDC worker numbers for the Sunshine Coast have grown by 62% from 2006 to 2011, much higher than the Australia-wide average of 37%.
Economic Development (aviation) portfolio councillor Stephen | {
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at a point P0 on the reflective surface 72c. Meanwhile, when the polygonal mirror 72 is positioned at a rotational position A1, the beam proceeding toward the polygonal mirror 72 is reflected at a point P1 on the reflective surface 72c. As a result, the deflection point shifts by a distance d0 along an optical path of the beam proceeding toward the polygonal mirror 72 from the point P0 to the point P1.
Since a deflection angle which is an angle formed between a central axis of the beam proceeding toward the polygonal mirror 72 and a reflective surface of the polygonal mirror changes between the rotational position A0 and the rotational position A1, the change of the deflection point is also considered as a phenomenon caused in connectionVenue : Hard Rock Cafe, DLF Cyber Hub, Ground and First Floor, R-Block, DLF City, Phase 3, Gurugram, NCR 122002Venue Info : Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Station 4 (Rapid Metro Gurgaon)' & 'Sikandarpur(Yellow Line)'Area : GurugramEvent Description : MUSIC : Soul Inclination liveDetermined to bring back the long-lost era of the late 80's/early 90's Grunge/Alt Rock, the band was initially founded by Puneet Vohra (ex-Hundred Octane) who after moving on from his last band, sought out music that he has always been true to. A sound which was an intense, heavy & melodic amalgamation of all that are intended to move people beyond physical dancing.A supergroup of sorts, with members honed with a little over a decade of experience in the independent music industry, presently comprises | {
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Noel Gallagher On Becoming A Politician
Noel Gallagher was asked by the current issue of the Australian 'Rolling Stone' has he ever considered running for government?
He said "Wow. Not a fucking chance. What kind of man would think "You know what, I think I'll be a good politician." A fucking idiot thinks like that. Like Donald fucking Trump. What the fuck was he thinking? Here's a guy that is a billionaire, a multi-billionaire, never worked a fucking day in his life. He was a TV star, people found him mildly amusing and a bit quirky, and know he's the most hated man on the planet. His Wife must be thinking, "wow, Thank you very much for that."
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Christian Arnesen (26 July 1890 – 18 November 1956) was a Norwegian wrestler. He competed in the featherweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
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However, McCormack will remain as a consultant to the association's board of directors through November 2014, said PCUA board Chairman Michael Kaczenski.
McCormack's leadership has earned praise from the Credit Union National Association.
"Jim has contributed immeasurably to the growth and success of the credit union movement during his more than 40 years of service," said CUNA President/CEO Bill Cheney.
"I've known Jim for most of my own career with credit unions, and I have always had enormous respect for Jim's leadership ability, his innovative thinking--the league's iBelong public awareness campaign is just one great example--and his extreme passion for the cause of credit unions," Cheney added.
"During my 26 years in the credit union movement, and my tenure on the PCUA board, Jim has exemplified the qualities of a true creditunion leader," PCUA's Kaczenski said. "He is a visionary whose commitment to cooperation, advocacy and growth of credit unions around the state, country and globe has made the movement stronger for all who are in it now and will be part of it tomorrow.
"We will miss what Jim has brought to us; yet, we know that he will be an ongoing resource and promoter of the credit union movement in his retirement," said Kaczenski.
A nationwide search for McCormack's successor is being conducted by credit union consulting firm Dollar Associates LLC of Birmingham, Ala.
"It's been a privilege to serve this board and Pennsylvania's credit union movement for the last 32 years," McCormack said.
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with CUNA Mutual Group, both in Pittsburgh and its corporate headquarters in Madison, Wis. In 2009, he was presented the Eugene H. Farley League Leadership Award by the American Association of Credit Union Leagues.
McCormick also served in the past on the boards of CUNA and the National Credit Union Foundation. He is a native of Scranton, Pa.This invention relates to a motor/generator provided with a plurality of rotors.
Tokkai-Hei-8-340663 published by the Japanese Patent Office in 1996 discloses a motor/generator having one stator and two rotors. The stator and rotors are disposed co-axially, one rotor being arranged on the inner side of the stator while the other rotor is disposed on the outer side of the stator.
In this motor/generator, the stator is provided with an independent group of coils for each rotor. Two groups of coils respectively drive the rotors by producing two different rotating magnetic fields.
In order to supply power currents of different waveforms to the two groups of coils, the motor/generator has two inverters. Accordingly, the construction of the motor/generator is complicated and the switching loss in the inverters is also large. Furthermore | {
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magnetic field. The second rotation shaft rotates relative to the first rotation shaft and is supported co-axially with the first rotation shaft. The second rotor rotates with the second rotation shaft and has a second number of magnetic poles that form a second magnetic field.
The first number and the second number are different. The first rotor and the second rotor are disposed in series along the first rotation shaft. The stator comprises coils that generate a first rotating magnetic field in synchronism with the first magnetic field by application of a first alternating current, and generate a second rotating magnetic field in synchronism with the second magnetic field by application of a second alternating current. The current control device supplies a composite current comprising the first alternating currentand the second alternating current to the coils.
This invention also provides a motor/generator comprising a first rotation shaft, a second rotation shaft, a first rotor, a second rotor, a first stator, a second stator and a current control device.
The first rotor rotates with the first rotation shaft and has a first number of magnetic poles that form a first magnetic field. The second rotation shaft rotates relative to the first rotation shaft. The second rotation shaft and the first rotation shaft have different rotation axes. The second rotor rotates with the second rotation shaft and has a second number of magnetic poles that form a second magnetic field. The first number and the second number are different. The first stator comprises a third number of first coils that | {
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(NTO) – to enter high-pressure helium tubes during ground processing. A slug of this NTO was driven through a helium check valve at high speed during rapid initialization of the launch escape system, resulting in structural failure within the check valve. The failure of the titanium component in a high-pressure NTO environment was sufficient to cause ignition of the check valve and led to an explosion.
The leak was apparently caused by a reaction between the nitrogen tetroxide and the titanium that comprises the tubes
It is worth noting that the reaction between titanium and NTO at high pressure was not expected. Titanium has been used safely over many decades and on many spacecraft from all around the world. Even so, the static fire test and anomaly provided a wealthThird baseman Travis Shaw slugged the first two home runs of his major league career and had four RBIs as the Boston Red Sox overcame another shaky start from Joe Kelly in an 11-7 win over the Tampa...
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Jeff Locke went only four innings Thursday against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. He struggled, but the Bucs managed the win. (Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports)
Bucs win on another Locke off-night
By BILL BRINKPittsburgh Post-Gazette
SAN FRANCISCO — Wednesday's game once again made it evident. The Pirates need runs. They cannot always rely on their exceptional pitching staff.
The need for runs intensified Thursday, when Conway, N.H.'s Jeff Locke took the mound. This is second-half Jeff Locke we're talking about, not the man who put up All-Star numbers | {
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through June but the one who struggled with his walk rate since the break.
From the first at-bat of the game Thursday night, the Pirates delivered. They pounced on Matt Cain, feasted upon the San Francisco Giants' middle relievers and won, 10-5, at AT&T Park. The Pirates won their third game out of four and continued to hold off the St. Louis Cardinals, who also won Thursday.
Garrett Jones broke out of a slump with a home run into McCovey Cove. Pedro Alvarez doubled twice. The Pirates sent 11 men to the plate in a seven-run fifth inning, patiently taking their walks but pouncing on pitches they could hit.
"We had a real good night offensively off a tough pitcher early," manager Clint Hurdle said.
The Pirates scored at least 10 runsfor the sixth time this season and the first time since June 28 against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Locke walked four batters in four innings, at which point Hurdle told Locke he was done, but Hurdle sent Locke to the plate in the fifth inning.
"I've pitched on the edge all season," said Locke, who noted that he hasn't changed his approach.
Locke allowed three runs in four innings. After issuing four walks Thursday night, he has walked at least four in four of his seven second-half starts. The increased emphasis on the two-seam fastball this season has caused Locke to try to paint the corner, he said, lest one of those two-seamers leaks over the heart of the plate. | {
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Thanks to league measures intended to help small-market teams retain talent, if Gordon Hayward (center) makes an All-NBA team this year, he'll be eligible for an extra $70 million in his next contract.Rick Bowmer / AP
What does it take to keep a basketball player from leaving his team? Some Utah Jazz fans are hoping a billboard will help. With the team’s season over, its 27-year-old star Gordon Hayward is eligible to enter free agency and likely to entertain enormous contract offers from several teams in July. In anticipation, some Salt Lake City residents have chipped in to emblazon his likeness and the slogan “#STAYWARD” on a massive sign near the arena.
Ultimately, though, whether Hayward re-signs in Utah may hinge not on a billboard, but on the NBA’s latestsuperstar to maximize his salary would be to stay with his team through a four-year rookie deal, a four- or five-year maximum extension, and then a five-year super-max contract, adding up to 13 or 14 years with the same team (and hundreds of millions of dollars).
Currently, Hayward is right on the cusp of that status. Next season will be his eighth year, and he’s in the likely prime of his athletic career; if he continues on his current trajectory, he’ll be a strong candidate for a slot on an All-NBA team, if not for this past season than for the one starting this fall. If he does, he’ll be eligible for a super-max contract from Utah, as enticing an incentive as any to stay on his team.
That is, | {
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and this year’s all-star game, epitomize the trend. For a championship-minded player, fealty to the team that drafted him only makes sense if his team finds a way to bring two or three superstar-caliber teammates onboard, whether through the draft or by wooing players over from other franchises. That could be reason enough for Hayward to leave Utah for a team where his presence might be enough to push the team toward superdom and into true contention—the exact kind of move the super-max contract was designed to disincentivize.
The designated-player exception also creates unusual pressure for members of the sports media. End-of-season awards—not just the All-NBA teams and the MVP but also the Defensive Player of the Year, Most Improved Player, and Rookie of the Year awards and theValve's Source engine.
Engineer's degree
In Europe, the engineer degree is ranked at the same academic level as a master's degree, and is often known literally as an "engineer diploma" (abbreviated Dipl.-Ing. or DI). In some countries of Latin America and the United States, the engineer's degree can be studied after the completion of a master's degree and is usually considered higher than the master's degree but below the doctorate in engineering (abbreviated Dr.-Ing.) in Europe. In other countries of Latin America, there is no proper engineer's degree, but the title of Engineer is used for 4 year bachelor's graduates.
Canada
Through the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB), Engineers Canada accredits Canadian undergraduate engineering programs that meet the standards of the profession. Graduates of those programs are deemed by the profession to | {
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the way. Chiefengineer, projects, V Raviraj, was not available for a comment. ....
Pointing out that they had completed works in residential areas, a senior corporation engineer said they were now layingpipes for UGD scheme on main roads in the city ... When contacted, an EMC officer said they would lay tar road after the completion of UGD, and pipe line and optical fibre cable laying works....
A smoking pipe and inscribed pencil ... The unknown soldier, discovered in 2016 by engineerslaying water pipes, had been found next to the two Australians in what is believed to have been a field grave, hastily made in a shell crater, in the centre what was then a muddy battlefield....
Dean Behnke, director of engineering for RWRA, said laying the pipes connecting flow fromthe Kentucky 81 corridor and FriendlyPark to the agency's western treatment plant is important for completing one of its vital projects, but it could also open up potential for more sewer development for that area in the future....
Dean Behnke, director of engineering for RWRA, said laying the pipes connecting flow from the Kentucky 81 corridor and FriendlyPark to the agency’s western treatment plant is important for completing one of its vital projects, but it could also open up potential for more sewer development for that area in the future....
Residents of the locality say haphazard pipe-laying work carried out by the BangaloreWater Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) brought down the trees ... Navaneeth, assistant executive engineer (waste water management), BWSSB said they are laying large pipes in front of | {
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They are also trained and encouraged to put environmental protection practices to use in their own communities. The porters we work with are not directly employed by our local partner but we work with the same communities each year; we supply uniforms, walking shoes and provide safe transport and community support for them. Our Trek Manager is a leading figure and consultant for the Porters' Federation, which campaigns for the fair treatment of porters in the region.
In Cuzco and Aguas Calientes there are opportunities to visit the markets and purchase local handicraft products or to sample Peruvian street food; try the Mercado San Pedro in Cuzco for local produce and the artisan market in Aguas Calientes for textiles. This helps to spread the income from tourism to thethey started building on top of the Incan structures, resulting in unique architecture, a fusion of the Incan and Spanish colonial styles.
The group flights usually arrive in the mid-afternoon, giving time to wander the cobbled streets admiring the old houses, visiting its interesting museums, churches and pre-Columbian buildings, such as Qorikancha – the Sun Temple, or to sit in a café, enjoying a coca-tea watching locals go about their business.
Day 3
Today we visit the magnificent Sacred Valley of the Incas and the incredible ruins at Pisac before continuing on to Ollantaytambo, where we spend the night.
The Sacred Valley, which runs along the Urubamba River near Cuzco, is the true heartland of Incan culture and tradition, which is still strong today. The high-Andean scenery is dotted with old towns | {
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