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weakly with the motor head; thus, it alone cannot generate the required force. The authors now discover an additional mechanical element not previously implicated in kinesin motility---the cover strand, which dangles nearby.

When ATP binds to the motor head, the cover strand and the neck linker form a new β-sheet domain, which the authors named the cover neck bundle. The bundle pushes the neck linker into its binding pocket, where it then latches on, powering the free motor head forward. Force analysis indicated that forces generated by the cover neck bundle agreed with experimental measurements.

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She believes they are being given too much homework which is causing stress and disruption at home.

The 35-year-old has now stopped all three from doing any.

"They are not doing it, it's as simple as that," said Mrs Billing.

"I'm not against homework for older children but they are too young.

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Most octopus females will mate with a male and then bite his head off—literally. But one elusive species has the sex without the snack.

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The larger Pacific striped octopus is known as a harlequin for the patterns and colors seen on the female (at left) and her male partner.

Photograph by Roy L. Caldwell

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In most octopus species it’s customary after sex for the female to make a meal—of her partner. To avoid being eaten, the male typically “jumps on top of the female, they mate in a position where he’s as far from her mouth as possible, and when they’re done, the male runs away,” says marine biologist Richard Ross ofClarence graduated from the Jefferson Township High School Class of 1930. He married Mary Eloise Bricker on Tuesday, March 1, 1932 in Andrews. He was a farmer and also worked at Bentz Construction as a carpenter. He retired from Memcor in Huntington. Clarence enjoyed fishing, woodworking, mechanics and traveling. Clarence was a Bible scholar and much loved Sunday school teacher.

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Fearghal O Snodaigh (23) is alleged to have become threatening before resisting arrest and assaulting the officer in an incident at a garda station.

The case against him was adjourned when he appeared before Dublin District Court accused of three offences.

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On Monday 18 June, a group of 14 girls travelled to Bracknell for the annual West Surrey Athletics event. It is the most prestigious event of the athletics calendar with the top two finishers selected to represent Surrey at the National Prep Schools Finals in Birmingham.

Whilst it was a hot and sunny day, many of the girls qualified for finals on the track, with Lauren I (1500m) and Hannah B (800m) both obtaining the qualification time required for Birmingham. Overall the girls finished third in their disciplines meaning they will act as non-travelling reserves.

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image caption The SNP said it was respectful of the role of religion in Scotland

The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland has claimed independence would weaken the position of the Christian church "at the heart of the nation".

It said the Treaty of Union secured the Protestant religion and Presbyterian church and any change "would be a provocation of God".

Education Minister Alasdair Allan said the SNP had no plans to alter the present role of the established church.

The Western Isles SNP MSP said it was respectful of the role of religion.

Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland spokesman, the Rev Allan MacColl, told BBC Alba that religion and morality were in a "terrible" state across Britain.

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arrangements guarantee Christian religion in its position at the heart of the nation, and defends the position of the church and the Bible clearly teaches that.

"It is the duty of all nations to recognise the position of Christ church and any move away from that would not only be dangerous for the church, it is dangerous for the people."

The Rev MacColl added: "We are very uneasy about any move to secularize, or even change the existing arrangements."

He said the church could not tell people how to vote in a referendum on independence, but could warn them.

Mr Allan said the Synod of Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland had expressed similar views in the past.

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A brakeman for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad poses on a train platform possibly in Colorado. He wears the company uniform of a suit and a conductor's cap with a "Brakeman" pin and two railroad insignia pinned to his collar.

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Cardinal Francis George has asked for the letter to be distributed throughout the Chicago archdiocese Sunday.

Those attending services at Roman Catholic churches in the Chicago archdiocese Sunday will get an anti–marriage equality letter in their church bulletin.

Cardinal Francis George, who heads the Chicago archdiocese, has asked for the letter to be distributed throughout the region, reports Chicago TV station WMAQ. This comes after the head of another Illinois Catholic archdiocese, in Springfield, announced plans for a service of prayer and exorcism Wednesday, the day Gov. Pat Quinn is scheduled to sign the Illinois marriage equality bill into law.

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Aston Villa History

Aston Villa are a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. One of the most successful teams in English football, Aston Villa began the 2016/2017 season in the English second tier, the Championship.

The history of Aston Villa Football Club begins in 1874. Jack Hughes, Walter Price, William Scattergood and Frederick Matthews were members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel and they were the instigators in the foundation of Aston Villa.

In 1876, the club moved to Wellington Road and four years later the club won their first trophy, the Birmingham Senior Cup.

The first major trophy in Aston Villa FC history came in 1887, with the club winning the FA Cup for the first time. The following season, Aston


Villa became founder members of the Football League with William McGregor, an Aston Villa director, founding this new English football system.

Aston Villa became the most successful English football club at that time. The club won five First Division titles and three FA Cups before moving to Aston Lower Grounds. Aston Lower Grounds is Villa’s current home, the Aston Villa supporters gave the ground its name of Villa Park.

Aston Villa’s success continued into the 20th century, and they club won another FA Cup in 1920. However, following the great success the club had enjoyed, Villa began to slide down the table, eventually resulting in their relegation to the Second Division in 1936.

The club regained the First Division place before the Football League was suspended for the duration of theSecond World War, as it had been throughout World War One. When the Football League calendar resumed, Villa began a rebuilding process.

However, Aston Villa’s next trophy didn’t arrive until the 1956/1957 season. Villa broke the record for the most FA Cup wins with their seventh trophy after beating Manchester United in the final.

Unfortunately for Villa, the club couldn’t replicate their cup success in the league. Just two seasons after winning their seventh FA Cup, the club were relegated once again.

It was another short stay in the Second Division however. Joe Mercer took over the Aston Villa manager role and led the club to a Second Division title, and with it promotion back to the top tier.

In 1960, Aston Villa won the inaugural League Cup. Again, though, their league


form couldn’t match their performances in cup competitions. Joe Mercer left in 1964, and in 1967 Aston Villa suffered a third relegation.

Serious financial problems hit the club around this time. Debts were increasing and the Aston Villa hierarchy struggled to pay them off. Pat Matthews bought the club, and appointed Doug Ellis as chairman but it came too late to save Aston Villa’s Second Division place and in the 1969/1970 season Villa were relegated to the third tier for the first time in their history.

The 1971/1972 season saw Aston Villa break the total points record in the Third Division, gaining 70 points that saw the club storm to the Third Division title. Ron Saunders was given the manager’s job in 1974, and he continued to develop the AstonVilla recovery.

A season after his appointment, Saunders led his side to another League Cup victory and promotion back into the First Division. Villa continued to improve and as the 1980’s began, Aston Villa won a seventh First Division title, and earned them entry into the most prestigious European club cup competition, the European Cup.

Ron Saunders quit his role midway through the 1981/1982 campaign. The Aston Villa assistant manager, Tony Barton, took over and he led the club to winning the European Cup, beating Bayern Munich in the final 1-0.

The club’s European success continued in the following season, when Aston Villa beat Barcelona to win the European Super Cup.

Again, after a period of success, Aston Villa couldn’t sustain their good form. As the 1980’s progressed, the team’s performances dropped


and in 1987 the club suffered relegation once more.

Immediate promotion was earned under the guidance of new Aston Villa manager Graham Taylor, and in their first season back in the top flight, Villa finished as runners-up.

In 1992, the Premier League was founded and Aston Villa were one of the founding members of this new division. Aston Villa’s reputation of performing well in the cup competitions but average in their league performances continued throughout the 1990’s. Three managers came and went amidst inconsistent league finishes, but the club won two more League Cups and qualification into the UEFA Cup.

Aston Villa also took part in the last ever FA Cup Final played at the old Wembley, but were beaten 1-0 by Chelsea.

After a spell of different managers in charge, DavidO’Leary took the Aston Villa manager job. However, O’Leary left the club and Doug Ellis, chairman and biggest shareholder, sold his stake in Aston Villa. The club was then bought by Randy Lerner, who also owned the NFL side the Cleveland Browns.

Martin O’Neill was the manager of Villa, and it appeared that Aston Villa could go on and replicate their past glories. The club reached the League Cup Final in 2010, but were beaten 2-1 by Leicester City.

The optimism that surrounded the club quickly began to fade. O’Neill resigned and his replacement Gerard Houllier had to resign due to his ill health. Alex McLeish then took over, but his appointment wasn’t a popular one with either set of Birmingham football fans as McLeish was manager of Birmingham City


at the time he was approached. McLeish’s appointment was the first time a manager had left Birmingham City for Aston Villa directly.

McLeish wasn’t a success at Aston Villa, and the club only narrowly escaped relegation in the 2011/2012 season. McLeish was sacked, and replaced with Paul Lambert.

Amidst these managerial changes, the finances of the club were also in a dire strait. With financial losses of over £50 million, Randy Lerner put the club up for sale. These problems off the pitch affected the players on the pitch and Lambert was fired after his side had only managed to score 12 goals in 25 matches, an unwanted Premier League record.

Tim Sherwood became the latest in a long line of Aston Villa managers, and again Villa only just escaped therelegation trapdoor. Sherwood also led the club to another FA Cup Final, but they were beaten once more.

Despite Tim Sherwood seemingly stabilising matters on the pitch, he lost his job during the 2015/2016 season. Remi Garde took over, but he didn’t last the season either. Eric Black, a member of the backroom staff, took over as caretaker manager but after a series of near misses, the club were relegated to the Championship. For the first time in almost thirty years the club were now playing second tier football.

Before the 2016/2017 season began, Roberto Di Matteo was given the manager’s job.

Badge

The Aston Villa badge has undergone a series of changes since an Aston Villa crest was first introduced in 1956.

From 1956 to 1969, the Aston Villa football badge consisted


of a shield shape featuring the the Aston Villa logo of a rampant lion. In 1969, the badge was altered and the shield was removed.

This design lasted until 1973, when a new Aston Villa club crest was designed. This new badge consisted of a circle shape coloured brown on the outside, with Aston Villa FC printed around the circumference, and blue colouring inside containing a brown rampant lion.

In 1992, a new Villa badge was revealed. This marked a return to the shield shape, with claret and blue stripes behind a gold coloured image of the lion, and the word ‘Prepared’ featuring in a banner underneath the shield.

From 2000 to 2007, another badge was used. Similar to the previous design, this Aston Villa club badge was again a shieldshape with a golden lion on top of claret and blue stripes, but the banner underneath was removed and the word ‘Prepared’ featured in the shield itself.

This badge underwent another update in 2007. The claret stripes were removed leaving a blue background, with AVFC written above the rampant lion and ‘Prepared’ featuring underneath.

In 2016, this badge was updated once more. The lion in this new design now features claws, and ‘Prepared’ has been removed.

Colours

Aston Villa kit colours are famous for being claret and blue. During Aston Villa’s time of success in the early 1900’s, other English football teams took inspiration from the Aston Villa colours and adopted them for themselves, including Burnley and West Ham United.

It wasn’t until the 1897 season that Aston Villa began wearing claret and


blue. Before this, the club wore a variety of different colours and styles.

Between 1874 and 1877, Aston Villa wore red and blue hooped shirts, with white shorts and blue socks. This kit was changed for the 1877/1878 season, when the club adopted the colours of black and white hooped shirts, white shorts and black socks.

The kit changed again, and from 1878 to 1880, the club wore plain black shirts with white shorts and black socks. From 1880 to 1882, the club retained the colours of the shorts and socks, but the jersey itself changed from black to claret.

A whole new design was introduced and used between 1882 and 1884. For this period, the club wore blue and white hooped shirts, worn with white shorts and dark blue socks.

Acomplete change in shirt colour followed in 1884. The Aston Villa players wore green shirts, worn with white shorts and black socks. This was followed by a white shirt featuring red patches, called ‘piebald’, along with the same white shorts and black socks.

In 1886, the Aston Villa team wore black and white striped shirts with white shorts and black socks, and the season after the Aston Villa kit colours changed to blue and brown striped shirts with white shorts and brown socks.

1887 saw the arrival of claret and blue, and the club wear these colours today. Styles have alternated, some seasons have featured claret and blue quartered shirts, or half claret half blue shirts, but the standard Aston Villa kit is claret shirts with blue sleeves, white shorts


and claret and blue socks.

Aston Villa Stadium

The current Aston Villa stadium is Villa Park. Villa Park is one of few English stadiums to be awarded a UEFA 5 star rating.

The Aston Villa football stadium is the largest football ground in the East Midlands, and in the top ten of largest football grounds in England. The Aston Villa stadium capacity is 42,682.

The Aston Villa stadium layout features four all seater stands. These are the Holte End, the Doug Ellis Stand, the North Stand and the Trinity Road Stand.

The Holte End is a two tiered structure and underwent reconstruction during the 1994/1995 season. This stand generates the most match atmosphere, with the most vocal Aston Villa supporters seated here.

The Trinity Road Stand is a three tiered structure, and the largeststand at Villa Park. As well as seating for fans, this stand also is home to the director’s boxes and executive areas.

The North Stand is the oldest stand at Villa Park. A two-tiered structure, this upper tier features claret coloured seats with the bottom tier housing blue seats. Aston Villa stadium plans include the rebuilding of this stand to increase the capacity to around 50,000.

The Doug Ellis Stand, named after the former Aston Villa owner and chairman, was originally known as the Witton Lane Stand. This also features two-tiers, and underwent a refurbishment in 1996.

Supporters

Aston Villa are one of the biggest supported clubs in England, and have a good following across the globe. There are many branches of Aston Villa supporters clubs in a variety of different countries.


The Aston Villa Supporters Trust maintains strong links with the football club itself, and works to bring the club and the fans closer together.

Aston Villa supporters have a huge rivalry with neighbours Birmingham City. When these two clubs meet, the game is known as the Birmingham derby or the Second City derby. West Bromwich Albion are also fierce rivals, with Coventry City and Wolverhampton Wanderers being less so.

Ownership

The Aston Villa owner is classed as Recon Sports Limited, with the owner of the company Tony Jiantong Xia holding the position of chairman.

Xia Jiantong bought the club from Randy Lerner for an estimated £76 million in 2016. Lerner himself had bought the club in 2006, buying amongst others Doug Ellis’s shares and Lerner became the owner-chairman of Aston Villa.

Doug Ellisstarted buying shares in Aston Villa Football Club during the 1960’s. He became chairman of the club in 1968, and the majority shareholder in 1982.

Stats

Aston Villa stats begin with their all time leading appearance maker. Charlie Aitken holds this record, making 657 appearances for Villa between 1959 and 1976.

Two other players have made more than 500 appearances for the club. These are Billy Walker, who played in 531 games between 1919 and 1934, and Gordon Cowans who made 506 appearances over two spells at the club from 1976 to 1985 and then again from 1988 to 1991.

The Aston Villa record goalscorer is Billy Walker. Walker scored 244 goals in 531 games for the club. One other player scored over 200 goals for Aston Villa, Harry Hampton found the


came in the Premier League in 2012 when Chelsea beat them 8-0.

The highest league attendance at Villa Park was 69,492. This number of spectators watched Aston Villa play Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1949. Since Villa Park turned into an all seater stadium, the highest attendance came in 2010 when a crowd of 42,788 people saw Villa take on Manchester United.

Other Aston Villa records include the all time record for goals scored in a top flight season, 128 Villa goals were scored in their 1930/1931 campaign.

Aston Villa have also scored more goals in the FA Cup than any other team, with over 800 goals so far in the competition.

Aston Villa Players

Aston Villa players past and present have included some of the best known names in English football. Archie Hunter, oneof the first Aston Villa players, was also one of the first footballers to be a household name.

The English Football Hall of Fame features two ex Aston Villa players, Peter Schmeichel and Danny Blanchflower.

Other former Aston Villa football players who have won individual awards include Andy Gray, David Platt and Paul McGrath, who won the PFA Player of the Year award. Andy Gray, James Milner, Gary Shaw and Ashley Young have all been recipients of the PFA Young Player of the Year award.

The current Aston Villa players list consists of 27 first team squad members. There are also nine Aston Villa players out on loan.

Aston Villa Manager

The current Aston Villa manager is Roberto Di Matteo. Di Matteo took over in the summer of 2016.

George Ramsay is Aston Villa’s


first, longest serving and most successful in all of Aston Villa manager history. Ramsay managed the club 1,327 matches from 1884 to 1926, winning six First Division titles and six FA Cups. Ramsay also holds the record for the best all time win percentage with 49.59%.

Tony Barton was the first Villa manager to win a European trophy, winning both the European Cup and the European Super Cup between 1982 and 1984.

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Prescription drug overdose deaths in Florida fell sharply after the state began strengthening its prescribing laws and stepping up enforcement. Federal researchers said Tuesday that it was one of the first significant documented declines in the nation since the epidemic of prescription drug abuse took hold more than a decade ago.

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Psychiatrist: Convicted Chesco killer still a danger to public

WEST CHESTER — Richard Greist, the infamous Chester County killer who has been confined to a state psychiatric hospital for decades, still remains a potential danger to himself and the community at large, his treating psychiatrist testified Thursday.

Dr. Olu Fakiyesi of Norristown State Hospital, who has led the team of staffers overseeing Greist’s treatment for years, told Chester County Common Pleas Court Judge Edward Griffith that Greist suffers from a severe mental illness, and should be re-committed to the hospital for another 12-month period.

Although the psychosis that Greist suffered from when he killed his wife, Janice Greist, and unborn son, is in remission, Fakiyesi said Greist still faces the very real possibility of sinking back into that state if hewere released and left unsupervised.

Griffith must determine whether Greist should continue to be confined to the hospital under the state’s Mental Health Procedures Act.

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Now 63, Greist has lived at the hospital in Montgomery County under court order since 1980.

Even though Fakiyesi said that Greist is still diagnosed as psychotic, he testified under questioning by attorney Bruce Laverty, representing the Chester County Department of Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, the committing agency, that the hospital treatment team believed that Greist deserved to have some of his off-ground privileges relaxed.

He told Griffith that instead of being allowed a 12-hour pass from the hospital to make unsupervised trips to the Norristown home he shares with his wife, Frances Greist, every other month, that privilege should be increased to once


the Chester County District Attorney’s Office. The court and the team have the ability to deny the passes.

In May 1978, Greist flew into a drug-fueled psychotic rage and stabbed his wife to death with a screwdriver. He cut her body open and killed and mutilated their unborn son, then stabbed one of his two daughters in the eye and attacked his grandmother with a butcher knife. He also dismembered the family cat.

He was arrested by police in the yard of his home, shirtless and splattered with blood.

At a non-jury trial the following year, Greist was found not guilty by reason of insanity by a Common Pleas Court judge after a defense expert testified that he was suffering from severe psychosis at the time of the attacks and couldnot understand what was happening. Because of that finding, he will never have to serve time in prison, but has been involuntarily committed to Norristown since 1980.

Greist, through his court-appointed attorney, has for some years contended that he deserves to be released from the hospital and left to live on his own, as his mental illness has been in remission for several years. At last year’s commitment hearing, he demanded to represent himself in the case, but this year left that task up to attorney Marita Malloy Hutchinson of Westtown.

According to the description given by Fakiyesi, Greist continues to live a fairly subdued life at Norristown.

He works as the manager of the hospital’s snack bar, The Hub, and also has a job as a janitor in the locked


to see if we now have more off-grounds passes from Mr. Greist so that he may have more community participation in the future,” Fakiyesi said.

Deputy District Attorney Peter Hobart, who represents the state in asking that Greist not be released, asked Fakiyesi about a few incidents at the hospital that had been reported involving Greist.

In one case, Greist was reprimanded for trying to get access to a locked mailbox in the ward where he lives. In another instance, he was spoken to by staff about having thrown another patient out of The Hub for a minor infraction.

Hobart also noted in his questioning of Fakiyesi that Greist continues to take regular, and frequent, doses of Percocet for his back pain, and that it was Greist’s drug use in 1978that led to his psychic break and the violence he caused.

Hobart also raised concern about a letter that had been sent to the prosecution’s psychiatric expert. Dr. Barbara Ziv of Philadelphia, and signed by both Richard and Frances Greist. Ziv has for some years opposed Greist’s release, testifying that she believed that he was not taking his psychiatric counseling seriously and had deeper mental health problems than others allowed for.

In the February 2013 letter, there is mention made to Ziv about testifying truthfully and the phrase “a life for a life, and eye for an eye” from the biblical Book of Deuteronomy.

Hutchinson, however, contended that the letter was written by Frances Greist to express her feelings, and that Richard Greist was not the author. She also noted that


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Now a family man with aHugh Jackman ended up reading plenty of X-Men comics for his role as Wolverine, but he apparently couldn't do it on the set thanks to director Bryan Singer.

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Yingluck makes 6 points in closing statement

Supporters of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra swait outside the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for People Holding Political Positions, where she gave her closing oral statement in her rice-pledging trial on Tuesday. (Photo by Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

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Dispatchers at the 911 center had trouble hearing Plush because the 16-year-old was using "Siri" on his iPhone to call 911, which was in his pocket, according to Issac. Plush’s voice in his first 911 call was “overridden” by 911’s automatic greeting, so dispatchers never heard his initial words that he was "going to die in here."

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Isaac said that dispatchers don't hear anything said by callers until after that initial message.

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Kyle Plush's father attended the meeting and, although he said he had many unanswered questions, he stressed that he is committed to helping fix issues with the city's 911 communication center, according to FOX19.

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The Los Angeles and OpTic Gaming Los Angeles will be hosting the third regular season home series event for the 2020 Call of Duty League. The event will take place March 7-8 in Los Angeles, CA and feature 8 of the 12 Call of Duty League teams.

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Tournament Prizing:

The first-round matchups for each


group will be determined ahead of each event by the League Office. Over the course of each Home Series Weekend, the four teams that have won two matches in their respective groups will advance to compete in a single-elimination bracket to determine the Home Series Weekend event winner.

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Drake doesn't eff with lint on the court, as we already know.

Drake making sure Curry’s hair stays lint free #NBAFinals pic.twitter.com/Kam0m4CvjJ — Def Pen Hoops (@DefPenHoops) May 31, 2019

Overall, Drake was reasonably well-behaved during the game.

It was after Game 1 — which the Raptors won 118-109, for the record — when he really got the internet talking by putting up the little piece of fuzz he'd pulled from Curry's head on eBay.

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Fans got a kick out of the double-shot at Curry and Draymond Green, whom Drake apparently does not believe should be wearing the same number as


NBA great Michael Jordan.

An ebay account with the username DraymondShouldntWear23 does exist, but the listing for Curry's lint has been removed.

It did rise in price quite quickly, however, while it was still live.

Drake put the lint he picked from Steph Curry's hair on eBay current price is $86,300 pic.twitter.com/UVSUQcWshn — Brody Logan (@BrodyLogan) May 31, 2019

Dozens of copycat listings have popped up on eBay since last night, most of them asking for ridiculous amounts of money and using Drake's own Instagram photo of the lint.

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"Take home your very own replica of the iconic hair lint captured by Drake after Game 1 of the NBAWhiteford is in full guard. Pineda doing a good job keeping Whiteford from posturing up. Whiteford stands up, Pineda gets to his feet and is immediately pushed against the fence. Pineda reverses and gets a takedown, Whiteford gets to his feet. Pineda landing more leg kicks. Whiteford lands a good head kick, Pineda looks hurt, but continues to push forward. Pineda is cut. Whiteford goes for a takedown, fails. Whiteford lands another good head kick. Whiteford gets Pineda against the cage. Pineda rolls under for a knee bar. It looks deep, but Whiteford gets free and is on top. Lots of blood from Pineda. Whiteford throws a knee to the chest. Fighters separate and meet in the center. Whiteford begins to jog backwards. Whiteford 10-9.

ROUND 3- Whiteford gets


again. Mcdaniel goes in with punches, then looks for a takedown. Strickland gets right back to his feet. Mcdaniel has him against the cage. Stickland gets the takedown, is in half guard. Strickland stands up and comes down with a punch, back in half guard. Strickland lands a few good punches from the top. Mcdaniel working hard to get up. Strickland postures up and lands some hard punches. Strickland gets to the back and locks in the rear naked choke. Mcdaniel taps. Fight over.

ROUND 1 – Scoggins lands leg kick. Campuzano throws a front body kick. Scoggins rushes in and gets Campuzano down, Scoggins has the back. Campuzano tries to get up, Scoggins gets him down again, against the cage. Campuzano gets to his feet. Scoggins lands aand is on top in half guard. Scoggins gets pushed to full guard, is fighting to improve his position. Scoggins gets to side control, Campuzano rolls and Scoggins gets the back. Campuzano rolls again and ends up bottom again. Again Scoggins gains the back, is trying to get both hooks. Campuzano rolls to his back again. Scoggins is on top in half guard. Campuzano gets to his feet. Campuzano throws a combo, Scoggins backs up and counters with a combo up his own. Scoggins 10-9.

ROUND 3- Scoggins comes out with a few head kicks. Scoggins goes for a takedown and gets it, is in full guard. Scoggins moves right to mount, Campuzano gets him back in full guard. Scoggins postures and lands several brutal punches. Campuzano rolls, Scoggins


the takedown. Forte working to stand up, Trevino grabs his neck. Trevino 10-9.

ROUND 3- Good right hand by Trevino. Lands a body kick. Forte slips, Trevino lets him up. Trevino gets Forte against the cage and gets him down. Forte gets back to his feet, Trevino breaks away with a spinning elbow. Trevino has Forte against the cage, lands a few knees, then breaks away with another elbow. Trevino landing with ease. Trevino throws a spinning elbow, misses. Trevino lands two good right hands. Trevino lands a leg kick. Forte lands a hard punch, takes Trevino down. Against the cage, Forte gets to the back of Trevino, but gets shaken off. Trevino has Forte up against the cage. Forte clinches, lands a knee and breaks away. Forte landsfull guard. He postures up. Hettes is trying to roll out of danger. Bermudez postures up again and is pounding on Hettes. Bermudez stands up, lets Hettes up. Hettes goes for a takedown. Hettes is being overwhelmed, gets dropped again by Bermudez, the fight is stopped.

ROUND 1 – Andrade comes with a flurry, then clinches and pushes against the cage. Pennington has Andrade’s neck. She is looking to get her other arm through in order to lock up the choke. Andrade gets out and keeps Pennington against the cage. Andrade throws Pennington and gets her down. Andrade is in half guard. Now in full guard. She picks Pennington up and slams her down. Pennington gets to her feet, Andrade does the same throw and gets her down again.


is using her reach. Andrade continues to come forward and close the distance. Andrade has Pennington against the cage and is landing huge punches. Pennington moves off the cage. Andrade has her against the cage again, Pennington lands a good knee to the body. Andrade is going forward, throwing bombs. Andrade pushes Pennington against the cage. Pennington locks up a guillotine, standing. Andrade gets free and jumps on Pennington, going for her own choke. Andrade 10-9.

ROUND 3- Andrade coming forward like an animal. Pennington lands a good leg kick. Andrade charges again, swinging punches. Both fighters exchange leg kicks. Andrade has Pennington clinched against the cage. Pennington trying to stick and move. Andrade continues to walk her down. Both fighters are swinging at each other. Andrade has Penningtonwobbles. Gastelum gets him down, is in full guard. He moves to side control. They scramble, Gastelum gets to the back. Another scramble, both fighters are up. Story really bleeding. Gastelum lands a big combo. Story throws a huge punch, misses. Leg kick from Story. Gastelum 10-9.

ROUND 2- Story trying to find the jab. Story swinging for the fences. Gastelum again lands a clean jab. Gastelum with a leg kick. Another leg kick. Gastelum threw a huge right hand. Gastelum lands a leg kick, Story tries to counter with a body punch. Gastelum comes in for a body punch, Story swings a counter. Story lands a body punch. Gastelum lands a good combo. Story just misses with a huge punch. Good leg kick by Gastelum. Story returns the


favor. Story hurts Gastelum with a right hand, swoops in. Gastelum is down, Story is trying to finish. The round ends. Story 10-9.

ROUND 3- Leg kick from Story. Another kick. Body kick from Story. Story goes in for a double jab. Leg kick from Gastelum. Leg kick from Story, jab from Gastelum. Story shoots in , gets stuffed. Story had Gastelum against the cage. Gastelum reverses position, both fighters break free. Gastelum hurts Story, then takes him down. Gastelum gets to Story’s back. Story shakes him off. Story now is on the back of Gastelum. Story has both hooks in. Story is trying to lock up the choke. Both fighters hand fighting. Gastelum switches and gets to his feet. Both fighters are swinging. Both fighters are landing hugeI learned firsthand about the realities of executive branch power 40 years ago, when I discovered that a handful of U.S. executive leaders from both political parties, liberals and conservatives, had secretly destroyed the 700-year-old Plain of Jars civilization in northern Laos without congressional or public knowledge, let alone consent.

The Executive and Congress: Craven Fear

I learned then that one key to executive power is its secrecy and deception. As described in an earlier piece, executive officials did not inform Congress it was bombing Laos, as Senator J. William Fulbright stated in the fall of 1969. Even after the refugees from U.S. bombing had been brought to the capital city of Vientiane in September 1969 (each said their villages had been partially or completely destroyed, and I had photographed


dozens who had been blinded, burned by napalm, and lost arms and legs), U.S. Executive Branch officials still lied to legislators by denying they had bombed civilian targets.

Back in D.C. on April 22, 1971, I saw an executive branch representative, former U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan, look directly into the eyes of a legislator, Senator Edward Kennedy, and lie to his face, saying, "It was the policy not to bomb civilian targets in Laos."

I knew Kennedy knew he was being lied to. He had issued a report six months earlier saying that, “the United States has undertaken a large-scale air war over Laos to destroy the physical and social infrastructure in Pathet Lao-held areas. The bombing has taken and is taking a heavy toll among civilians."

In the fictional democracymany pundits think we still live in, Kennedy would have sworn Sullivan in and indicted him for perjury for lying to Congress.

But even 40 years ago, one of the Senate's most powerful legislators did not dare seriously challenge what he knew was unaccountable executive mass murder. The killing of civilians in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam continued for two more years until it was finally halted.

This craven congressional fear of the Executive is another key to its power. I first observed this in 1967, when I accompanied my congressman, Lester Woolf, along with Congressman Rex McCarthy, on a visit to Sam Thong. It was portrayed in the press as a center for refugees fleeing communism, but actually was a camp for dependents of Hmong soldiers fighting in the CIA's


heard, he nervously interrupted me and burst out, with genuine fear in his voice, that I needed to understand that he had been elected on Lyndon Johnson's coattails in 1964 and that nobody crossed Lyndon Johnson! He was not interested in learning anything more about Laos.

It was only some months later I learned the true significance of our trip. The "auxiliary landing strip" we had landed at was actually part of the giant Long Cheng airbase, the center of CIA military operations for northern Laos. The U.S. executive branch had been waging a full-scale war on the ground as well as from the air, including building this giant military base, while keeping it secret even from a congressman who had landed there.

Four years later I visited Congressman Wolfftranslator and fixer for top journalists visiting Laos for a week or so. I worked closely with journalists from CBS, ABC, NBC, the New York Times, Time magazine, the Jack Anderson column and others.

My most revealing experiences were with ABC's Ted Koppel and CBS' Bernie Kalb. I took both out to the refugee camps, and was even interviewed about the bombing by Kalb on camera for a CBS documentary. I particularly liked Koppel, a decent, caring guy who choked up when hearing from the refugees what they had suffered from Henry Kissinger's bombing. Both men saw closeup the crimes against humanity that Kissinger had committed against these innocent people.

Some years later I had lunch with Ted Koppel at the State Department, where he was the ABC correspondent covering


Mr. Kissinger. A fawning biography of Kissinger had just been published by Bernie Kalb and his brother Marvin that did not even mention the bombing of Laos. Everyone I knew was disgusted by them. As Ted and I had lunch, I said something like "Can you believe that garbage by the Kalb brothers?" To my surprise, Ted immediately stiffened, and said "I'll have you know that Marvin Kalb is a close personal friend of mine. And so is Dr. Kissinger, for that matter!"

Shocked, I tried to remind him of Kissinger's war crimes he had personally witnessed just a few years earlier. He refused to discuss it.

On October 22, 2004, the New York Times published an article titled, "In Calls To Kissinger, Reporters Show That Even They Fell Underwas only bombing North Vietnamese soldiers who were trying to “take over” Laos.

It was never reported that the U.S. was using northern Laos as a base to attack North Vietnam, that the North Vietnamese had no interest in conquering Laos because they were focused on Vietnam, and that at least until February 1971 when I left Laos, there were no more than a few thousand North Vietnamese troops in northern Laos. I thought this critical since it was a fictional “North Vietnamese invasion” of northern Laos that was being used to justify the savage bombing of civilian targets there that so upset me.

At one point in 1970 I set up an interview between Time magazine’s David Greenway and the U.S. military attachÃ©, who let slip that there were


to write a long story for Rolling Stone on the primary race between John Tunney and Tom Hayden, with whom I was working as director of research. Joe and I were on the same wavelength. I found him smart, decent and fun, and we agreed on everything from the Vietnam war, to the phoniness of liberals like Tunney, to the evils of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. We spent hours together, enjoying each other's company, and I was not surprised to learn he was an admirer of Woody Guthrie, about whom he later wrote a biography. We kept in touch off and on after that, a kind of "Washington friendship," always hitting it off whenever we met.

And then Joe Klein wrote Primary Colors. After America spent months guessingwho its "Anonymous" author was, he became famous, prosperous and a columnist for Time magazine. Although he remained mildly liberal on domestic issues, I was struck by how he suddenly began reflecting executive branch views on foreign policy. He bragged of his close friendship with the State Department's Richard Holbrooke, reporting that Holbrooke had given Joe's son his first job at the U.N., and then mentored his son’s career at the State Department. Joe, the journalist, was proud of his friendship with executive branch official Holbrooke, "an extraordinary mentor and an even better friend," and praised him to the sky in his columns.

And then there was Joe's reporting on David Petraeus, a government artiste on a par with Kissinger who became not only a valued source but a


"friend" to the major journalists who covered him. As I was writing about how Petraeus had savagely and pointlessly escalated the war in Afghanistan, I came across a Joe Klein column titled "David Petraeus' Brilliant Career," in which his readers learned that "the general's most important legacy may lie in the role he has played in transforming the Army from a blunt instrument into a 'learning institution.'"

But of all the columns Joe Klein wrote, the one that struck me the most occurred after the Wikileaks revelations. "Greetings from Afghanistan. I am tremendously concerned about the puerile eruptions of Julian Assange," Joe wrote. "If a single foreign national is rounded up and put in jail because of a leaked cable, this entire, anarchic exercise in 'freedom' stands as ahuman disaster. Assange is a criminal. He's the one who should be in jail."

Not a word of concern about the "Collateral Damage" video, the revelations that U.S. soldiers had been knowingly turning over captured suspects to be tortured and killed by the Iraqi police, no interest in or concern about the revelations of war crimes. Thousands of actual U.S.-caused deaths ignored, outrage at one imagined death of a U.S. ally.

Knowing Joe as I did, I felt it was clear what had happened. His writings for the Boston Phoenix and Rolling Stone and book on Woody Guthrie grew out of his originally decent value system and concern for the non-powerful. But then he became famous and rich, got a commentator gig on CNN, was invited to fancy conferences, became


is representing the Three Lions, he admits he has “no idea about football” and added “but I guess England are gonna win the football World Cup”.

Mambo is PROGRESS born and bred, having been trained at the promotion’s school in London while he was studying at university.

Known for his surfer-dude style, high energy in-ring action, and beach ball filled entrance, the wrestler is a popular star on the UK scene.

From Newquay, Cornwall, the 6ft 3in, 196lb Mambo is ready to take his career to the next level with a win at the Wrestling World Cup.

PROGRESS Wrestling is one of the biggest promotions in the UK, running events around the country while mainly being based on of London.

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Mambo said: “In all honesty I have no idea how they chooseif he outlasts him, Mambo will face a gauntlet featuring Germany’s own Bad Bones John Klinger, Japanese star Naoki Tanizaki and Fantastic David Francisco from Portugal.

And also facing him down will be Australian star Adam Brooks, Icelandic wildman Einar Ironside, and The Predator Slayer from Switzerland Oliver Carter.

The last winner of the PROGRESS World Cup back in 2014 was Noam Dar, who went on to be signed by WWE.

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Mambo added his wrestling journey started as a youth before he got “distracted by surfing and being a teenager” before picking up the sport when he moved to London.

He said: “I saw a ‘Defend Indie Wrestling’ sticker in a toilet in Shoreditch, and that led me to finding the PROGRESS Facebook page and I saw their training school was


World RX promoter IMG has announced a multi-year deal with the venue, with construction of the brand-new permanent rallycross track set to begin in the next six weeks.

The South African round will mark rallycross’ first visit to Africa, joining events run previously in the series in Europe, North America, South America and Asia.

Killarney will be the tenth new circuit introduced to the championship since the formation of World RX in 2014.

“Killarney is delighted to be hosting this first of its kind event in Africa. Our thousands of loyal fans and spectators, Cape Town and its New Seven Wonders of Nature Table Mountain deserve no less,” said Des Easom, Executive Manager of the circuit.

“Rallycross is a thrilling, highly competitive form of racing with international appeal and media coverage.

"We lookforward to working with IMG and pooling our expertise and experience on the series of events.

"This is a great addition to our whole-year racing calendar and spectators can look forward to an international and world-class event,” he said.

Located in the shadows of Cape Town’s Table Mountain, the Killarney circuit was built in 1947 and ran a non-championship Formula One race on January 1, 1960.

As well as circuit racing, the venue has also played host to motocross, karting, stock cars and drag racing.

“Worldwide, motorsport is a significant generator of economic activity. This in turn enables economic growth and drives job creation.

"The City of Cape Town will do everything in its power to create an enabling environment to unlock investment and employment opportunities,” said Alderman Ian Neilson, City of Cape


UNZA confers honorary Doctor of Law degree on Zuma

President Jacob Zuma about to lay a wreath at the Freedom statue in Lusaka

Visiting South African President Jacob Zuma has been conferred with a honorary Degree of Doctor of Law by the University of Zambia (UNZA) Great East Campus.

UNZA Chancellor Dr. Jacob Mwanza bestowed the honorary degree on President Zuma at a colourful ceremony held at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre and witnessed by President Rupiah Banda, in Lusaka today.

Others who attended the ceremony include Ministers from Zambia and South Africa, Diplomats, and several Zambians and South Africans.

This was when President Zuma gave a Memorial Lecture on Oliver Reginald Tambo.

Speaking during the ceremony, Dr. Mwanza said the University of Zambia is privileged to honor President Zuma, whom he described asa Great son of Africa.

He said by honoring, now Dr. Zuma, the institution was fulfilling one of its mandates for which it was established, public service.

In accepting the honor, President Zuma said this was the first honorary degree he has received from outside South Africa and thanked the people of Zambia for the gesture.

President Zuma, in his key lecture reflecting on veteran South African freedom fighter and liberator Oliver Tambo, said the latter had distinguished himself by endeavoring to re-build what the colonial apartheid regime had destroyed many years ago.

Mr. Zuma said the late Tambo produced the Harare Declaration because his wise counsel united African National Congress (ANC) members as well as those in the neighboring countries to have vigor to fighting for a noble cause.

The late Tambo


was born on October 27, 1917 at Kantolo village in the modern Eastern Cape. He died in 1993.

Mr. Tambo, a former ANC secretary general and President was a scientist, teacher, humanist and veteran leader who championed the fight against injustice on the South Africans.

Mr. Zuma further paid tribute to Zambia’s First Republican President Dr. Kenneth Kaunda whom he said refused to be intimidated but stood bold for the freedom of neighboring countries and their freedom fighters.

At the same ocassion President Banda said he was happy that Zambia, through the University of Zambia, had decided to honor President Zuma with an honorary degree of Doctor of Law.

Mr. Banda also described the late Mr. Tambo as a gallant freedom fighter who embraced unity and orderliness not only among south Africansbut Zambians as well.

He said this was meant to enhance democracy and good governance on the African continent.

Meanwhile, the two leader this afternoon proceeded to the Leopards Hill cemetery where the laid their wreaths on the graves of African National Congress freedom fighters.

President Banda and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma laid among other grave on former ANC secretary General Johnny Mfanafuthi Makhatini who died on December 3, 1988.

Over 20 South African freedom fighters lay at the Leopards Hill cemetery in Lusaka.

Mr. Zuma, who is in the country, on a three-day state visit is accompanied by his wife Nompulelelo Nthuli, eight ministers and senior government officials.

A true son of Afrika Dr. J ZEE iz and dezervedly so that he should be honoured. A sincere and timely gesture by


past decade, apparently directly from infected birds, about 60% died, a rate frighteningly higher than the estimated 2% who died after contracting the Spanish flu in the devastating 1918 epidemic that killed 20 million people worldwide. The saving grace of A(H5N1), so far, is that it does not pass from human to human through the air.

The work under review, done at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, by Yoshihiro Kawaoka and coworkers and at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by Ron Fouchier and coworkers, was designed to find out whether A(H5N1) could evolve the ability to spread between mammals through the air. Fouchier presented some details of the work at a conference in Europe in September 2011. From sketchy press reports it appears that infecting oneworking with companies on what they see as market conditions that are changing or to better facilitate their dreams," he said.

Andrew cited a few examples, including allowing Hampton Inn & Suites on Holland Dam Road to increase its number of hotel stories to five from three, and the Publix-anchored shopping center on Spout Springs Road to build a larger sign to stay visible among spreading development.

He said he had initial doubts about the scope of the Old Town project, which called up front for the demolition of the old Country Craft building.

"They had pulled permits and all this, and we just felt like they weren’t going to do anything with them," Andrew said.

He said he was shocked when he saw equipment moving into town for the project.

"The vision


The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic garnered much attention, but that's not the only centennial milestone marked this year. Fenway Park, Oreos and California chardonnay
are other institutions commemorating 100 years of existence in 2012.

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The oldest Major League Baseball stadium that's still in use celebrates its centennial today, and the
commemoration will be as elegant and Bostonian as you'd expect: Academy Award-winning composer John Williams's tribute, "Fanfare to Fenway," will be performed by the Boston Pops. Fans
will come together for a celebratory toast to the park that could set a Guinness World Record. If all of this isn't enough to keep the team's 700+-game sellout streak going, on the field
the Red Sox will face -- who else? -- the New York Yankees, the sameteam they played on April 20, 1912 (who were then called the New York Highlanders).

"This [Fenway Park anniversary] goes beyond the Red Sox. It goes beyond baseball," says Charles Steinberg, senior advisor to the president/CEO of the Boston Red Sox. "You imagine fans
saying, 'My grandparents sat in these same seats.' Here's a place that has been a constant in your life. It looks and feels like the place it has always been." In March, Fenway Park was
added to the National Register of Historic Places.


Myanmar's army signed a peace agreement to end its long-lasting civil war, but drug cartels—and corrupt military officials—are providing an incentive for the militias to stick around.

A policeman rides past as a fire engulfs about $930 million USD worth of illicit drugs in Yangon, Myanmar, in this file photo taken by Jason Reed/ Reuters.

The biggest thing standing in the way of lasting peace in northern Myanmar isn't political differences, or even the region's long history of conflict with the state, it's crystal meth, according to a new report released by the International Crisis Group.

The report, titled "Fire and Ice: Conflict and Drugs in Myanmar's Shan State," focuses on the impacts of a monumental shift in drug manufacturing in the Golden Triangle region from heroin and opium to methand its cheaper cousin, the amphetamine pill known as yaba. The meth industry in Shan State, located near the borders of China, Thailand, and Laos, now brings in so much money that this illicit economy dwarfs the money made by legitimate industries, the report found.

With so much of this money entering the hands of both corrupt members of the Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, and the militias and paramilitary groups that carved up much of the region, there's little hope of a full-scale disarmament or end to the conflict, the report concluded.

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"The drug trade is an important source of revenue for armed groups and militias, with the huge profits fueling greater militarization in Shan State that, while it does


not always produce immediate or intense armed clashes, greatly undermines the future prospects for peace," the report reads. "Illicit activity also drives a political economy dominated by armed groups, organized crime and corruption that will be more difficult to dislodge over time and as it generates greater profits.

"Graft and other ills associated with the drugs trade aggravate the grievances among ethnic minorities at the heart of the long-running civil war."

Today, it's the conflict and ongoing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine State, where the Tatmadaw has been accused of committing acts of genocide against Rohingya Muslims, that grabs most of the headlines, but for decades it was conflicts in the north, places like Shan and Kachin states, that were responsible for the displacement of more than 100,000 people.

The "NationwideCeasefire Agreement" between the government and nearly a dozen indigenous armed groups in 2015 put an end to what was, at the time, one of the world's longest-simmering civil wars. But the specifics of that ceasefire had some unintended consequences in Shan State, where the Tatmadaw struck tenuous deals with pro-government militias and paramilitary groups who were allowed to retain control over their territories as long as they stopped fighting the state.

This new patchwork of semi-autonomous territories run by armed groups, as well as checkpoints and local tax schemes, created the perfect environment for a new kind of narco industry to grow. The Golden Triangle had already begun to shift from opium and heroin to meth and yaba amid pressure from China—an important political force in a region


that's closer to China than Myanmar's capital—and eradication efforts backed by the United States as part of its global "war on drugs."

Opium production levels in 2017 were only 26 percent what they were in 1996, according to data compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The production of amphetamines, on the other hand, has continued to rise, with recent estimates placing total amount of product made in Shan State last year in excess of 250 metric tons.

But, according to a report by Bibhu Prasad Routray, a Singapore-based securities analyst, there's another reason behind the shift away from opium and heroin in the Golden Triangle—money.

"The decline in opium cultivation has occurred, UNODC admits, against the backdrop of ‘a changing regional drug market,’" the report read. "Whilespecial regional coordination meeting in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw in May of last year. At the time, UNODC had estimated that the meth trade was worth some $40 billion USD annually.

Jeremy Douglas, the regional representative for UNODC in Southeast Asia, was pretty frank in his assessment of the issue, pointing out that the industry had been allowed to grow thanks to the "conditions" in northern Myanmar— namely a state of relative lawlessness and a well-established patronage network of corruption and protection.

"Ensuring governance and the rule of law will be crucial to any long-term reduction in drug production and trafficking," Douglas said, according to Reuters.

"To be candid, it also means addressing the corruption, conditions, and vulnerabilities that allow organized crime to keep expanding operations."

That kind of money is sure to


of the last two seasons with the club. Catcher Max Stassi was called up from Class AA Corpus Christi to take Corporan’s spot on the roster.

Stassi, who hit 11 home runs in July, hit .277 with 17 homers, 20 doubles and 60 RBIs over 76 games with the Hooks. The Astros also called up righthander David Martinez from Class AAA Oklahoma City and designated lefthanded reliever Wade LeBlanc for assignment.

Martinez was 14-3 with a 2.20 ERA combined between Corpus Christi and Oklahoma City. His 14 victories at Corpus set a club record with the Hooks. He still has the Texas League lead in victories and ERA (2.02).

Corporan suffered the injury when he was hit in the forehead on a foul tip off Alex Rios bat in the thirdWell, that didn’t take long. LOLOL.

HHS Secretary Tom Price resigns. President Trump accepts his resignation:

Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the President accepted. The President intends to designate Don J. Wright of Virginia to serve as Acting Secretary, effective at 11:59 p.m. on September 29, 2017. Mr. Wright currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (link)

EARLIER – Price is toast. We all know President Trump is loyal, but this one is business. HHS Secretary Tom Price was already on tenuous ground because he was supposed to be the central figure behind the ObamaCare repeal and replacement effort.

Prior to the inauguration House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority


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"It's like my entire time in grade school had a negative connotation," he said in an interview about a year ago, "feelings of anger and guilt and sadness."

His wife, Mary, used to ask, "Why don't you ever talk about that?" Jim would tell her, "I really don't know why. I just don't want to.

"I shut down thoughts about my grammar school experience for years."

It had much to do with the events of Dec. 1, 1958. Jim was a sixth-grader in Pearl Tristano's class at Our Lady of the Angels School on the West Side. About 2:30 that afternoon, Jim and a classmate pulled trash duty, disposing of the day's refuse in


preparation for the end of the school day at 3 p.m. On their way back in, they noticed smoke coming from the north wing and notified Miss Tristano, who confirmed their observation and led her students out of the building, pulling the fire alarm on the way.

But the fire alarm didn't sound.

"I don't remember hearing the bell," Jim told John Kuenster for the newly published oral history book, Remembrances of the Angels, "but I distinctly remember her setting it off as we left."

Jim and his entire class got out safely, but not everyone did. The students on the second floor of the north wing were soon trapped by the heat and thick, black smoke.

According to the 1996 book, To Sleep with the Angels, by Kuenster and David Cowan,the first thorough account of the catastrophe, investigators later determined that the fire began in the basement at the bottom of a little used stairwell in the north wing, in a trash bin filled with paper and cardboard.

The building, though lovingly cared for, was a fire safety nightmare. Constructed of flammable materials, largely varnished wood and plaster, it had no sprinkler system or smoke detectors, only one fire escape, no firebox outside, an inside fire alarm that wasn't wired to the local fire station and which didn't work the first time its switch was flipped.

The first floor hallway at the school did have a fire door separating it from the stairwell in question, but the second floor did not-in effect, turning that stairwell into a chimney, up which


the flames and heavy smoke swept toward six teachers and 329 unsuspecting students (the school held some 1,600, though many were absent on this first day back from Thanksgiving break). At the same time, the fire had traveled up an open pipe shaft inside the wall to the cockloft between the roof and ceiling, so the fire was already well established overhead by the time the smoke from the stairwell reached the second floor.

After Tristano and fellow teacher Dorothy Coughlan took their two classes to the church next door, Tristano, who lived with her parents in Oak Park at the time, returned and flipped the switch again. This time the alarm sounded.

Unfortunately, it didn't help the students on the second floor of the north wing. The teachers (allBVM nuns, i.e. Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary) and students became aware that something was wrong when they smelled smoke and noticed their rooms becoming very warm.

They didn't have much time to react. When doors were opened to the hallway, thick black smoke rolled in and the heat was already too intense to attempt an evacuation.

The students and teachers crowded the open windows and started screaming for help. That's where the first fire units found them when they arrived on the scene. Many of the ladders available did not reach the unusually high second floor windows. That, and the rapid advance of the fire, is what caused the students to start jumping, the most horrifying and enduring image from this conflagration. Some died in the