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IDR Environmental Servicesis a premier hazardous waste transportation company that specializes in the disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams. They are also one of the leading Certified Product Disposal companies in the United States. They have been in business for over 40 years with an impeccable reputation.

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IDR Environmental, Inc., a hazardous waste transportation company located in Irwindale, California, was stuck. Their revenue had plateaued for several years and they didn’t know how to get to the next level.

They were searching for a different way to market, not only to increase their gross income by $50,000 per month, but also to improve the quality of their customer base.

IDR had several issues. Their website was outdated andEscape Artist

One spring day in 1974, the world-renowned architect Louis Kahn  creator of a handful of acknowledged masterpieces that include the Salk Institute in La Jolla, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and the capitol building in Bangladesh  was found dead of a heart attack in the mens room at New Yorks Penn Station. He was 73, and it was days before his body was identified at the city morgue. Kahn, who had just returned from India, had crossed out the address in his passport  a small detail, but one bursting with significance for anyone involved with or trying to read this brilliant but elusive mans life. Getting a bead on Kahn, especially if you happen to be his illegitimate son, cant help but


be a quixotic project, as Nathaniel Kahn, who directed and narrates My Architect, a documentary homage to his father, seems all too poignantly aware.

In the film, the architect Moshe Safdie  one of many former colleagues who recall Kahn with varying degrees of affection, idolatry and, in at least one other case, fury undiminished by the passage of several decades  wryly observes that Kahns death was entirely consistent with his life. He was a nomad and, as it turned out, a man of many addresses, none of which he was willing or able to call home. Despite the tactful (more likely, ignorant) elisions of the obituaries, whose only scandalous tidbit revealed that Kahn had died broke, it later came out that he had been running, or runningfrom, not one but three families. In addition to the daughter he had with his wife, Esther Israeli, Kahn maintained secret, long-lasting relationships with two other women, and fathered a child with each of them.

Depending on whom you talk to, everyone got screwed, or emerged the richer, or  more plausibly  both. Nathaniel, Kahns youngest child and only son, was born in 1963 to Harriet Pattison, then a young landscape architect in Kahns Philadelphia office. Kahn junior was only 11 years old when his father died, and before that he saw him once a week at most, and then only for the evening, at the end of which the boy was bundled into the back of his mothers car for the drive back into town, where they


let the secretive patriarch off at a discreet distance from the office where he often worked through the night. Until the funeral, and to a large extent after it, Nathaniel was not publicly recognized as his fathers son. My Architect is an attempt to make the relationship official, and though the film is inescapably tinged with sadness, its rarely mawkish. What makes it enthralling is the younger Kahns openness to a range of emotional responses (his own and others) to his fathers life above and below board, and his readiness to turn his own predicament into both entertainment and a provisional kind of puckish wisdom. Still, as Nathaniel makes the rounds of the handful of buildings that have immortalized his father, as well as the numerous projects thatYet merely to look at Kahn is to doubt his legendary charisma. He was ugly as sin  very short, with a wiry white comb-over, his eyes peering through thick black glasses out of a face scarred from a childhood accident that with hindsight seems not just formative but downright prophetic. At his home in Estonia, 3-year-old Louis, entranced by the light emanating from some burning coals, picked them up and put them in his apron, which then caught fire. In what must surely be an apocryphal story, his mother is said to have predicted that the incident would make of him a great man.

Certainly it turned him inward. Kahn became a dreamer and a visionary, a romantic who favored natural light and struggled for years to define


himself in relation to the cold steel and glass of high modernism, until, in his 50s, he traveled the world and found his muse in the grandeur of the antiquities of Greece, Rome and Egypt. At the end of My Architect, Nathaniel, who has learned everything and nothing about his father, arrives in Dhaka, where the capitol that Louis designed but never saw through to completion stands in all its monumental splendor, a home for Bangladeshs fledgling democracy and also a space for use, a pleasurable area in which to stroll and sit. You could weep (as one local architect and friend of Louis does) at the grace and drama of this building, constructed from Kahns beloved brick and concrete, with its sweeping arches and huge cylindrical doorwayson his passport because he was about to leave his wife for her) to express some anger at being abandoned by Louis, I wanted to turn the camera back on the director and ask, And what are you feeling? My Architect is an intensely personal film, but theres something noticeably held back about Nathaniel, despite or because of his affable demeanor in the film, the eagerness to please of a small man as tentative as his father seemed full of certitude and recalcitrance. And while Nathaniels generosity is touching, its his ambivalence that talks.

Early on in My Architect, theres a lighthearted sequence at the Salk Institute, where Nathaniel gives us the grand tour, pronounces the building a deeply spiritual place, and shares with us his disappointment that it


yields so few insights about his father. Then we see the grown-up son rollerblading around the complexs spacious plaza. Its a lovely scene, filled with a sense of play, the rare capacity to enjoy something you dont fully understand. No one in his right mind would call Nathaniel Kahn a victim  he went to Yale, became a theater director and, on the evidence of My Architect, seems set for a thriving career in film. But in that bittersweet roller-skate around the premises, with Neil Youngs plaintive Long May You Run playing on the soundtrack, we see him as his fathers son, tracing circles like an eternally lost boy.

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In nature, anadromous fish like salmon live most of their adulthood in seawater, but swim upstream to freshwater for the purpose of breeding. As a result, anadromous fish hatch from their eggs and are born in freshwater. As these fish grow, they swim downstream and gradually adapt to the seawater.
Currently, wild Atlantic salmon are classified as endangered species in multiple areas of their native habitats. Among the reasons for their decline has been man made alterations in freshwater conditions in their native streams that have produced multiple problems with their migration, spawning, smoltification and survival. One problem complicating the effective restoration of wild Atlantic salmon is the lack of a fundamental understanding of how these deleterious environmental conditions effect the salmon's ability to home to freshwater streams fromThe national selection Montevizija 2019 was held tonight in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, with five songs competing for just one ticket to Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.

After two rounds of voting, the group D-moll was selected as winner of Montevizija 2019 with the song Heaven, written by Dejan Božović and Adis Eminić.

Montenegro 2019: D-moll - "Heaven"

In Montevizija 2019 there were two rounds of voting: In the first round all five artists performed their songs and were judged by three different juries and public televoting. The three juries were a "radio jury" (representatives of radio stations all over Montenegro), an international jury, and a professional jury.

The three juries and the public chose two songs to proceed to the Super Final: D-moll – "Heaven" and Ivana Popović-Martinović


– "Nevinost". The two songs were performed again, and now it was solely the public televoters who decided the winner of Montevizija 2019.

Montevizija 2019 was organised by RTCG (Radio i televizija Crne Gore). Prior to the contest a committee consisting of professional musicians had the task of selecting the five Montevizija finalists.

Montevizija 2019 – Results

Points from the first round

D-moll – "Heaven" (winner, 17 points) Ivana Popović-Martinović – "Nevinost" (super-finalist, 12 points) Andrea Demirović – "Ja sam ti san" (7 points) Nina Petković – "Uzmi ili ostavi" (4 points) Monika Knezović – "Nepogrješivo" (4 points)

D-moll

The six-member group D-moll consists of: Tamara Vujacic (16), Mirela Ljumic (17), Zeljko Vukcevic (18), Ivana Obradovic (18), Emel Franca (18), Rizo Feratovic (21).

The young hopes for Montenegro were brought together by their mentor, DanijelAlibabić.

Their mentor Daniel has represented Serbia and Montenegro in 2005 with the song "Zauvijek Moja", in the group "No Name".

Montenegro 2015: Knez - "Adio"

Montenegro has participated in Eurovision Song Contest ten times since it's debut as an independent country in Eurovision 2007.

Montenegro 2015: Knez - "Adio"

They qualified for the Grand Final two times out of ten: In 2014, with the song "Moj Svijet" by Sergej Ćetković, and in 2015: Knez with "Adio". Knez finished 13th, which is also the best result for Montenegro.


By Kevin Flanagan

BSD Bruins Correspondent

The goaltending position in the NHL is much like the quarterback position in the NFL, in order to be considered successful the player must rely on his teammates doing their job well more than any player on the team. If a goalie has an inadequate defense in front of him, he will give up more goals than he should. Just like if a quarterback has a bad offensive line or poor receivers at his disposal, he will struggle to move his team down field to score points.

The good ones will find a way to make the most of the talent – or lack thereof – surrounding him and will make his team better as a result. The great ones will elevate their level ofplay, thereby making average players look good, and good players look great. It is what has been the most remarkable part of Tom Brady’s first ballot hall of fame career, he has always found a way to be a championship level quarterback even when he has had not had championship quality weapons at his disposal. His greatness has been his ability to make plays when the team needs them the most, and because of that, the Patriots are perennial contenders every year he takes the field in Foxboro.

Right now the Boston Bruins need Tuukka Rask to be great. Don’t get me wrong, Tuukka has been very good for most of his career in Boston, and he has a Vezina Trophy on his mantel to prove it. But ask


to raise his game another level due to the roster changes and injuries that have affected his team and carry them as they try to figure things out mid-season, not go down to the level of play of some of those surrounding him.

Perhaps he has been spoiled by the high level of play the Bruins have played at defensively the past several seasons, and he is having difficulty adjusting to what most goaltenders deal with on a nightly basis across the league. Perhaps the absence of bigger bodies on the Bruins blue line this season – with Johnny Boychuk being dealt, Zdeno Chara missing time with a knee injury, and Dennis Seidenberg still not back to form after an ACL injury last season – is more than heHenry L. Roediger and Kathleen McDermott, subjects claimed to remember similar amounts of non-presented words as they did the words that were actually presented. The researchers noted that brain activity during the true and false recognition tasks were very similar. Monitoring the blood flow in the brain revealed there were in the left medial temporal lobe for both veridical and illusory recognition.

That is not to say that there were not differences. While monitoring blood flow in the brain during false recognition, a part of the frontal lobe that is thought to be a key monitor of memories actually showed greater activity when presented with a false recognition than with a true one. There seemed to be some discrepancy as subjects attempted to scrutinize the out-placed words, but were


had read, some they had heard, and some new words; the subjects had to determine which words were which. Jacoby found that university students and 75-year-olds were equally likely to correctly recognize whether or not the word had been presented, but 75-year-olds are much more likely to mistake whether the word was spoken or read.

Cohen and Faulkner discovered similar age-related source confusion errors ten years earlier when studying short events rather than word lists. Participants were asked to carry out, imagine, or watch a series of short events (placing a fork on top of a plate, putting a pen inside a mug, etc.). They were later asked whether specific events were familiar and how they happened. The study revealed that elderly subjects were more likely than younger subjectsEndless Space was a well-designed and produced space 4X strategy game, and maybe the best new game from the bumper-crop of 4X strategy games we’ve enjoyed these last few years. Yet for all that I liked Endless Space, I never once loved it. It was too thematically spartan, and its hints at a richer setting were overshadowed by the functionally identical factions and empty, impersonal vision of space exploration.

Their follow-on project abandons space for some fantastical terra firma in Endless Legend. With their new setting, developer Amplitude Studios seem to have found the inspiration and style they have been looking for.

Endless Space backgrounded (a little too much for its own good) the idea that a precursor race called the Endless once ruled the galaxy before vanishing. Endless Legends


PC RPG developer Black Isle Studios has been shut down by Interplay. Despite success in the late 90s with the Baldur's Gate and Fallout series, recent setbacks have proven to be too much for BIS and Interplay to handle.

Many of the studio's most regarded workers, such as producer Feargus Urqhart, have recently left the studio. Furthmore, BIS's Dungeons & Dragons title was cancelled due to legal disputes with D&D rightsholders, Wizards of the Coast, and legality issues also occured with VU Games, resulting in console RPGs Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II being pushed back to next January. Interplay has lost approximately $20 million USD so far this year, making it harder for them to cope with the delays.Mariana Trench

The Pacific plate is subducted above the Mariana Plate, creating the Mariana trench, and (further on) the arc of the Mariana islands, as water trapped in the plate is released and explodes upward to form island volcanoes.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest known submarine trench. It is also the deepest known location on Earth itself.[1] It lies south and east of the Mariana Islands, and has a depth up to 10,971 m. The western end of the trench is near Guam.

The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 miles) long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres (43 miles).

Contents

The deepest part of the trench is known as the Challenger Deep. It is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872–76


Plate. Because the Pacific plate is the largest of all the tectonic plates on Earth, crustal material at its western edge has had up to 170 million years to compact and become very dense; hence its great height-difference relative to the higher-riding Mariana Plate, at the point where the Pacific Plate crust is subducted. This deep area is the Mariana trench proper. The movement of these plates is also responsible for the formation of the Mariana Islands.events at Standing Rock, when water protectors spent months opposing construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.

Although the now infamous videos showing confrontations last weekend between a group of Catholic high school students and a Native elder may pale in comparison to the importance of the camps at Standing Rock, the incident provides an important opening to explore the troubling role the Catholic Church has played in the history and lives of vulnerable people, particularly indigenous communities.

The mocking and disrespect of Nathan Phillips, an elder of the Omaha Nation, has put into sharp focus the violent behavior routinely found at Catholic schools like Covington Catholic High School—behavior that is in many ways an extension of the violence perpetrated by the Catholic Church against marginalized populations since the colonization of


they learn the whole truth of this history.

CovCath and the Covington Diocese

Covington Catholic High School is based in Park Hills, one of several small northern Kentucky municipalities that many consider part of the greater Cincinnati area. Cincinnati is located on the northern side of the Ohio River, which cuts through the two culturally connected areas. The region is politically conservative and predominantly Catholic. In her “How Catholic Are We” article for Cincinnati magazine, former religion reporter Julie Irwin Zimmerman writes that Catholicism is inextricably entwined with Cincinnati’s civic identity. As she notes, many local Catholic school graduates hold positions of influence in community politics, education, and business.

“Catholic school students largely come from affluent white families. Here in Cincinnati, the graduates of these schools often end up becoming themovers and shakers in the community,” Jene Galvin told Rewire.News. Galvin is a retired teacher and school administrator. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Galvin attended local Catholic schools from elementary through graduate school.

Indeed, a Catholic school education is seen as an entry into inner circles of power and leadership, especially into conservative politics. In 2015 about 31 percent of the U.S. Congress was Catholic and many attended Catholic schools; conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas all attended Catholic schools.

Steve Bannon, former advisor to Donald Trump and former executive at the white nationalist website Breitbart, is a graduate of Benedictine High school, a Roman Catholic military school in Richmond, Virginia. Other political figures who attended Catholic School include former House speaker


Paul Ryan (R-WI), U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and President Trump’s top attorney in the White House, Pat Cipollone, who graduated from Covington Catholic High School in 1984.

But while Catholic schools appear to play a crucial role in creating and maintaining right-wing conservative social and political culture, these institutions—like the Catholic Church—have seen countless lawsuits involving rape and assault of vulnerable populations.

CovCath, as it is known to students and locals, is no different. The school has had a number of negative incidents involving students over the years, including the sexual assault conviction of school basketball player Jake Walter shortly before his 18th birthday. Required to register as a juvenile sex offender, Walter was later arrested as an adult in December 2018 for another rape and assault ofa young woman. The son of former Cincinnati Bengals football lineman Joe Walter, Jake Walter reportedly choked and assaulted his victim, laughing at her pleas for him to stop.

In 2007, Jeni Dinkel, mother of a Covington Catholic student and wife of former Cincinnati Bengal player Tom Dinkel, was convicted of raping a 15-year-old Covington Catholic student. The victim’s mother subsequently sued the school’s principal and the Covington diocese, accusing them of willful, wanton, reckless, and grossly negligent conduct.

Meanwhile, the Covington Catholic Diocese, which oversees local churches and schools, created a $120 million fund in 2005 to settle a class action lawsuit over sex abuse by priests, reportedly the largest settlement ever at the time. Unlike similar church settlements, however, the Covington diocese’s fund is the maximum amount it


will have to pay. Any unused money reverts back to the diocese, the Washington Post reported at the time.

The lawsuit claims the diocese covered up the abuse over a 50-year period. According to the diocese’s 2005 report, there were 205 allegations of sexual abuse against 35 priests who worked at churches within the diocese. At least 70 victims came forward.

Beyond these allegations, the diocese has used controversial tactics to pressure community members into joining the anti-choice movement. Prior to the annual March for Life, which Covington Catholic students were attending when they encountered Nathan Phillips, the diocese placed an ad in a local paper listing “pro-life” Catholics. The list, printed annually, includes the names of minors, according to a January 21 report in the New York Times.

One parenta tremendous disservice to students, Galvin explained to Rewire.News.

“Conservative Catholic schools like Covington Catholic aren’t preparing students for life outside of Cincinnati,” he said.

Galvin recalled his experience as a Vista worker on the Nett Lake Reservation in Minnesota.

“I knew nothing about Native Americans when I arrived; nothing in my Catholic school education taught me anything meaningful about Native history or culture,” he said.

“The little history I learned was framed by the Doctrine of Discovery and the Catholic’s role in what was described as civilizing Indians during the boarding school era,” he noted.

The Doctrine of Discovery is part of the 15th-century Papal Bulls, or laws issued by a Roman Catholic pope, that imparted Christian European explorers with the right to claim land uninhabited by Christians for their Christian Monarchs.


Thus land occupied by indigenous peoples, viewed as pagans, was up for grabs. Pagans could be spared if they agreed to convert. If not, they could legally be killed or enslaved.

Although several Christian denominations—such as the United Methodist Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the United Church of Christ, and some Quaker meetings—have formally repudiated it, the Vatican has yet to retract the doctrine.

Tribal leaders in Canada and the United States continue to pressure the Vatican to rescind the doctrine, an ongoing symbol of the Church’s role in the colonial violence and oppression of Native peoples.

Catholic Indian Boarding Schools

The Catholic Church managed most of the religious Indian boarding schools in the United States and Canada.

In the United States, Indian boarding schools were part of the federal government’s assimilation policydevised to separate Native families and place children in boarding schools with the express purpose of killing their languages and cultures. Lawmakers during the Ulysses S. Grant administration devised this policy as a more Christian means to subdue and colonize Native peoples instead of outright extermination.

Many of the schools were rife with violence and abuse, creating generations of traumatized people.

Colonizing Native lands and peoples helped the Catholic Church gain acceptance and influence in the United States, according to Jesuit scholar Francis Paul Prucha in his book, The Churches and the Indian Schools.

“The political weight of the Catholics in the nation and their successful lobbying for their interests in the Indian school question gave them a more accepted role for their interests in national affairs. It was no longer


possible to think of management of Indian affairs without some consideration of Catholic views,” Prucha wrote.

The Indian school question regarded federal payments to Catholic Indian boarding schools, at least part of which came from Indian treaty funds.

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, created by Catholic bishops, oversaw the administration of the schools and the distribution of federal funding. Several Catholic Indian boarding schools— including St. Francis Indian School, St. Joseph’s Indian School, and Red Cloud School in South Dakota and St. Labre School in Montana—operate today.

Although Pope Francis apologized for Catholic exploitation of Native peoples, the Church has yet to apologize for its role in running and profiting from Indian boarding and residential schools in either the United States or Canada.

Leaders at Covington diocese and Catholics in generalare likely unfamiliar with the church’s brutal history in connection with Native peoples; numerous news reports on the incident have failed to acknowledge it. Any reconciliation must begin with Catholics’ willingness to confront and own this painful history, followed by an apology.

Honest reconciliation might go a long way in assuaging the anger between communities since the initial reports spread of the incident. The diocese initially issued an apology to Nathan Phillips and Native Americans in general for the students’ actions but had otherwise stayed out of the public debate until today, when Diocese of Covington Bishop Roger Foys issued an apology to Covington Catholic families—some of whom have received threats of violence—as diocese leaders await the results of a third-party investigation of the incident.

Nathan Phillips has reached out


was raised to relocate the Lower School there. Finally, in 1948, a large donation allowed the rest of the school to follow, and the Garden Street campus was sold. Major additions to the new campus's structure followed: a gymnasium and locker room in 1952; the Almy Building in 1956, initially constructed to house grades 7-9; an expansion of the 1928 boathouse in 1959; the Pratt Building in 1960 for the lower school; the Bradford Building in 1962, which included an auditorium and the school's first library; and the enclosed Bright Hockey-Tennis facility in 1966, all of them now part of the Upper School campus.  Multiple additional renovations and expansions have occurred over the past 50 years, most notably the Nicholas Athletic Center and Renaissance Hall.

The Buckingham SchoolGroups supporting a Republican-held Congress signaled moves to have some of their candidates run as an explicit “check and balance” against a Clinton presidency, an acknowledgment from those groups that the race for the White House may be all but over.

Mr. Trump seemed aware of that Sunday evening as he campaigned in Florida, where he owns properties but where polls also show him behind Mrs. Clinton. Unlike his recent and explicit vows of retaliation against congressional Republicans who have opposed him, Mr. Trump suggested that he needed Republican majorities to enact his agenda.

The Trump camp conceded that it was lagging, but the campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said it still saw a path to victory. Mr. Trump’s schedule this week will take him to battleground states like Ohio. But


for an invite in your platform’s chat room (refer to the #readme in discord to learn how to assign yourself the proper role).

The ranking system for the guild is relatively simple in nature, favoring high participation as a means of promotion. The ranks are as follows for PCNA. Associated guilds may follow similar or the same ranking system but may have their own variations for their specific needs:

New member is someone who is brand new to the guild

Members have been around for 4 weeks

Veterans are people who participate and show up to events consistently

Donators are those who have donated at least 100k gold to the guild bank

Elders are veterans of the guild who have been around for awhile and go above and beyond what regular members do (hasFILE- In this June 12, 2017, file photo, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, left, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Zinke said Monday, Sept. 25, that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and Trump, adding that he is working to change the department's regulatory culture to be more business friendly. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FILE- In this June 12, 2017, file photo, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, left, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Zinke said Monday, Sept. 25, that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and Trump, adding that he


going out for drinks. Defendant returned home first, and the complainant
followed approximately two hours later. She smelled something burning upon returning home
and discovered a roast left in the oven and a pot of cabbage left on the stovetop. The
complainant aroused the sleeping defendant to confront him about the burned food, and an
intense argument ensued. The complainant admitted that she dumped the pot of cabbage on the
floor and threw some at defendant, and further testified that defendant shoved her twice, causing
her to collide with objects and fall down. The complainant continued that she withdrew to the
dining room to sit down and cry, but that defendant came from behind and struck her head so
forcefully that she was knocked off her chair and “went flying into the wall.” According to the
complainant,Late-onset interface inflammation associated with wearing cosmetic lenses 18 months after laser in situ keratomileusis.
To report a case of late-onset interface inflammation associated with wearing a cosmetic lens 18 months after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK). A 25-year-old woman visited our hospital with visual disturbance and ocular pain in the left eye. The patient had undergone LASIK in both eyes 18 months ago and had been wearing cosmetic lenses intermittently for 6 months. The day before presentation, the patient had slept with cosmetic lenses. At presentation, best-corrected visual acuity was 2/200 in the left eye. Slit-lamp examination of the left eye revealed corneal edema and a diffuse granular white infiltrate at the interface. Intense topical steroid and antibiotic treatment resulted in resolution of interface inflammation. After 2 weeks,


One morning, while in Florida in December, I went to Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park hoping to see and photograph the North American River Otter that I had briefly seen the day before. Shortly after arriving at the same location on Lake Wauburg, the otter appeared right in front of me and seemed to be checking me out. My camera and I were prepared, but very surprised to see the otter so quickly after arriving and so close.

An adult North American River Otter can weigh as much as 30 pounds. They are protected and insulated by a thick, water-repellent coat of fur. Fish is a favored food, but they also consume amphibians, turtles, and crayfish. This otter was after fish that morning and proceeded to hunt and catchwon the Junior World Championships in 2014. That's quick progress.

Then, in 2018 (this year) they win their first Senior ISU Title, the 2018 Four Continents Championships and their first Senior Grand Prix, the 2018 NHK Trophy and qualify for the 2018 Grand Prix Final, their first Senior Grand Prix Final. Plus, they placed top ten at the 2018 World Championships, their first senior World Championships.

These two are having a lot of firsts! I am just now appreciating how ambitious and hard working they are. They set goals and achieve them, then set higher goals.... Plus they are such cool, humble, sweet people. I absolutely adore them!

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Nirmala Sitharaman said the government did not intend to review the overseas sovereign borrowings plan

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called for a "significant" reduction in the central bank's policy rates and said the government did not intend to review the budget proposal for overseas sovereign borrowings, the Economic Times (ET) reported on Monday.

India's benchmark 10-year bond yield was down 10 bps at 6.43 per cent after falling to 6.42 per cent immediately after market opened on the back of her comments.

The minister also said the increase in surcharge on foreign portfolio investments (FPI) was not intended to hurt investors, according to an interview published by the paper.

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The Lion King in SF: Long Live the King!

Jelani Remy, as Simba in The Lion King

My family had the opportunity to see the latest incarnation of The Lion King at San Francisco's beautiful Orpheum Theater recently, courtesy of SHN. My son and I had seen the show about 7 or 8 years ago, when he was a very little tyke who was scared to death of the big stampede. He was so scared, in fact, he hid under the seat until the wildebeast stampede was over. As a jaded, world-weary 12 year old, I wasn't sure how he might respond to what had been one of his favorite, yet most traumatic, stories of his childhood. At twelve, he was as enthralled with


this production as he was with the one he had seen at age 5, and more impressed than ever with the showmanship, the dazzling costumes, puppetry and sheer magic of the production.

Prior to the show, we had a chance to meet the stars of the show, Syndee Winters and Jelani Remy, who play the adult Nala and Simba, respectively. Both are hugely talented singers and dancers, and are destined for great things on the stage or movies and television, wherever they chose to land. They were wonderful with all the moms and kids, answering questions and posing for pictures with everyone.

The Lion King is not a show that is easy to write about; so much of it is visual and defies words. From the waving grass on thesavannah represented by dancers posing and contorting themselves on the ground, to the African-inspired songs sung in Swahili, to the visual schtick of comic relievers Timon and Pumbaa, the show is chock-full of stunning imagery and auditory delights.

This is a show I can recommend for the entire family, although, be forewarned that some scenes may be intense for the youngest children. There were a 3 year old and 5 year old sitting in front of me who took the whole thing in stride, but my son was a little more sensitive to loud noises and the death of Simba's father, Mustafa when he was 5. Know what your child's sensititivies and tolerances are for loud noises, the idea of a parent's death, and a tremendous amount of visual


SF: Long Live the King!

Jelani Remy, as Simba in The Lion King

My family had the opportunity to see the latest incarnation of The Lion King at San Francisco's beautiful Orpheum Theater recently, courtesy of SHN. My son and I had seen the show about 7 or 8 years ago, when he was a very little tyke who was scared to death of the big stampede. He was so scared, in fact, he hid under the seat until the wildebeast stampede was over. As a jaded, world-weary 12 year old, I wasn't sure how he might respond to what had been one of his favorite, yet most traumatic, stories of his childhood. At twelve, he was as enthralled with this production as he was with the one he hadground, to the African-inspired songs sung in Swahili, to the visual schtick of comic relievers Timon and Pumbaa, the show is chock-full of stunning imagery and auditory delights.

This is a show I can recommend for the entire family, although, be forewarned that some scenes may be intense for the youngest children. There were a 3 year old and 5 year old sitting in front of me who took the whole thing in stride, but my son was a little more sensitive to loud noises and the death of Simba's father, Mustafa when he was 5. Know what your child's sensititivies and tolerances are for loud noises, the idea of a parent's death, and a tremendous amount of visual stimulation and plan accordingly. Older kids will definitely love the


Anxiety about professional future among young doctors.
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Jordan's performance as Killmonger in the superhit movie Black Panther was appreciated by all. Here's the orthodontist's Tumblrpost below. The scene caused such thirst in one young fan that she clenched her teethso hard she broke her retainer.

"Wait. That girl is me". According to People.com, Sophia's doctor shared the incident on Tumblr, which soon went viral. "I'm going to kill myself", Robb tweeted on Monday.

Robb shared the story on Twitter, and her post has now been retweeted more than 95,000 times and has more than 385,000 likes.

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me". But another reason why the movie is so great is the cast. Sophia told Teen Vogue that her orthodontist was able to glue it back together. And I mean, who can blame her?

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MOVES-Okuliar joins Ares Management from Carlyle

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NEW YORK, Sept 14 (IFR) - Boris Okuliar, a former UBS banker who was hired by The Carlyle Group in 2014 to bolster its credit investments unit, left the firm last week to join rival Ares Management in London.

Okuliar has joined Ares as a partner and will focus on the alternative asset manager’s European credit business, a source familiar with the situation told IFR on Wednesday.

Okuliar was hired by Carlyle in February 2014 in the newly created role of head of capital markets for the firm’s global market strategies division, based in New York. The unit manages around US$35bn of credit, public equities and alternative investments.

Before joining Carlyle, Okuliar spent four years at UBS as head of leveraged capital marketsin London. Prior to that, he held roles at Barclays and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Separately, Carlyle also announced this week that it has hired Mark Jenkins as head of global credit, a newly created role in which he will oversee credit investments across the firm’s global market strategies division.

Jenkins, who joins Carlyle from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, will start at the end of September and be based in New York. (Reporting by Davide Scigliuzzo; Editing by Natalie Harrison)


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entirely instrumental album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released in 1978, on NewSong Records. It was later reissued, with a bonus track, on Myrrh Records in 1989. Phil Keaggy's first instrumental album is a groundbreaking piece of work for him as an artist, for the Christian music genre, and for instrumental guitar music in general. Full of emotional twists, meditative sounds, and world-influenced tonalities, The Master & the Musician stands as an oasis in an otherwise barren field of Christian instrumental music. Pieces like "Jungle Pleasures" and "Follow Me Up" are great works in their own right, Christian or otherwise. An excellent work from an excellent musician. Strobie's 2007, 30th Anniversary Edition included a 29-track bonus disc.

This year (2014) marks Yo La Tengo’s 30th anniversary, and they’re celebrating itby reissuing their sixth album, Painful, released nearly a decade into their career. The cardigan-cozy sound of the record effectively established Yo La Tengo as indie rock’s great romantics, and featured a couple of significant firsts for the trio.

Level 42 were one of the most successful British bands to emerge during the Eighties, their distinctive style of jazz/funk music elevating them to the upper echelons of both the singles and albums charts in the UK, and much further afield including the US and Europe. This collection features several of their hit singles – 'Heaven In My Hands', 'Wings Of Love', 'Weave Your Spell', 'Standing In The Light' and 'Are You Hearing (What I Hear?)' – and many other recordings which have elevated the band to world stardom.


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I continued to handle criminal defense matters. I handled assigned
counsel matters, my own retained criminal defense matters and
worked with some of the partners at the firm--widely held to be some of
the best criminal defense attorneys in town--on their cases. I also
handled all types of civil litigation matters, ranging from personal
injury litigation (plaintiff and defense), commercial litigation and
built up my own employment discrimination book of practice.

In 2002 my first child was born. Later that year, I was told that I
was on partnership track and would likely make partner the following
year. My internal reaction to the knowledge--dread--caused me to take a
deep look inward. I realized that I wasn't happy. I knew that I wasn't
where I wanted to be in life and if I stayed on that track, I'dinformation with attempted first degree murder, sexual battery by the threat of force or violence likely to cause serious personal injury, kidnapping, arson of a dwelling while in the commission of a felony, burglary of a dwelling, and robbery. All of the above offenses occurred on August 14, 1992. The state also filed a notice of intent to seek habitual violent *73 felony offender sanctions. On January 19, 1993, Parker entered a plea of no contest to all six counts. The court accepted the plea and continued the case for sentencing.
At the sentencing hearing, the state introduced evidence establishing that Parker qualified for habitual violent felony offender (HVFO) sentencing. Accordingly, the court adjudicated Parker guilty and sentenced him as an HVFO to concurrent terms of life in prison


arrived at the victim's house under the pretense of performing yard work for the victim. The victim, an 87-year-old woman, recognized Parker as a man named "Tommy" who had done work for her in the past. Parker allegedly informed her that she was mistaken and asked to use her bathroom as a reason to enter her house. Once inside, Parker grabbed the victim, forced her into her bedroom, bound her mouth, wrists, and legs, and sexually battered her repeatedly. When he finished, Parker struck the victim in the face and demanded her money. After the victim informed Parker that she had no money, he ransacked the house and found $55.00 in the kitchen. While this was taking place, the victim was left tied up in the bed. Leavingthe victim still bound, Parker exited the house via the back porch, which he then set on fire, leaving the victim to be burned to death. Fortunately, the victim was able to roll out of bed onto the floor and free her hands. She then crawled toward the front door and was ultimately rescued by a friend who had happened to drive up with the victim's groceries.
Parker contends that the foregoing events formed a continuous criminal episode without any significant separation. The state, on the other hand, contends that the fact that all offenses were aimed at one victim is not determinative and that once Parker had completed the offenses of sexual battery, kidnapping, and burglary inside the home and removed himself from the house, he then formed


imposed consecutive 3-year minimum mandatory sentences under subsection 775.087(2). The underlying facts were that the defendant and an accomplice abducted a woman at gunpoint and forced her to drive away with them in her vehicle. After driving for some distance, *75 Murray parked the car and the two men sexually assaulted the woman and removed her necklace. Afterwards, they drove the victim to a nearby wooded area where Murray walked with the victim away from the car and told her goodbye. As the victim began to walk away, Murray shot her through the back of the head, rendering her legally blind. Murray was convicted of kidnapping without a firearm, two counts of sexual battery with a firearm, robbery with a firearm, and attempted manslaughter with a firearm. Murraynature, time, and place from the armed robbery charge to justify application of the consecutive mandatory minimums. While the entire event could be labeled a "single criminal episode," the sexual battery occurred in one place and constituted one invasion of the victim, while the robberies committed under the threat of gunpoint occurred in other places and represented a separate and additional violation of the victim's most basic rights. The nature of these crimes and the manner of their commission justified the Fourth District's holding in this regard.
Murray, 491 So.2d at 1124.
This court recently applied that rationale in Woods v. State. In Woods, the defendant became involved in an argument with two other men in an area near a restaurant and bar. Woods ran away from the scene after


the fight was broken up, but returned shortly thereafter with a pistol and shot a man outside the bar in the parking lot. After that, he went to the door of the restaurant and fired shots into the building. Another victim inside the building was shot in the leg. Our opinion mentioned that it was unclear how much time passed between the two shootings, and also noted that it was unclear what the distance was between the spot where the first victim was shot outside of the bar and the door of the bar. Woods was ultimately convicted of attempted second degree murder, aggravated battery, and shooting into an occupied building. He was classified as a habitual violent felony offender, and the trial court imposed consecutive minimum mandatoryThe Women’s Law Society and the Family Law Society co-hosted a panel Oct. 28 of domestic violence experts at the Earle Mack School of Law. Panel members discussed past and current issues in domestic violence in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Kim Hollenback of the Women’s Law Society kicked off the event by introducing each of the five panel members and explaining their experience in the field. Renee Norris-Jones, an advocate volunteer of Women Against Abuse, was joined by fellow member Lonnie Snyder, who serves as a community awareness representative with WAA. Also in attendance were Sgt. Randy Crawford, representing the Philadelphia Police Department; Diana Baquero of the Family Law Unit at Philadelphia Legal Assistance; and John Maxwell, an assistant teaching professor with a background in law enforcement.

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been in the field for a number of years, Crawford expressed his frustration with women who make excuses to stay in the abusive relationship. Norris-Jones replied that leaving an abuser is often a psychologically and financially difficult process. In her own situation, her family members accused her of abandoning her marriage, despite the injuries her husband had inflicted on her.

“In addition to needing the intestinal fortitude to go ahead with [leaving], sometimes your own family can actually be an impediment,” Maxwell said.

He went on to say that not leaving has consequences for other members of the family. Children of an abusive relationship may grow up to assume the roles of the batterer, for boys, or the victim, for girls.

Hollenback switched the conversation to the subject of domestic violenceon the college campus. Snyder, a Drexel alumnus and former president of Drexel’s One in Four organization, explained that our own University lacks a dedicated infrastructure to support victims of domestic abuse. As for improvements to the legal system, Baquero explained that the enactment of Civil Gideon would help victims get greater access to lawyers.

After completing the set of prepared questions for the panel, Hollenback opened the floor for questions from the audience.

In the dessert reception that followed, audience members had the opportunity to interact with the panel members. Alisha Lubin, a second-year law student and president of the Women’s Law Society, commented on the success of the event. “It was important to us to bring awareness because we haven’t had a discussion about how we law students


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The 4-year-old Los Angeles start-up sold 100 or so all-electric sedans before deciding to bail out of the increasingly crowded EV market.

Most of the $37,250 Codas that reached U.S. shores were made in China although the car launched last year was completed with a powertrain installed in California. The basic Coda claimed it could go about 125 miles on a single charge. The EPA said 88 miles per charge.

The Detroit News says the fledgling manufacturer filed for bankruptcy after undergoing layoffs and being hit by lawsuits from unpaid creditors.

Coda Holdings Inc., the automaker's parent, said it is "focusing its business strategy on the growing energy storage market" and would restructure the company under Chapter 11 protection from creditors.

Coda indicated it hoped


were affected by an aggressive product-launch schedule," he said.

Chrysler sales have risen for 36 straight months in the United States since the company was purchased in bankruptcy by Italy's Fiat SpA. Fiat, which has been hit by falling sales in Europe, earned just over $40 million in the first quarter boosted by Chrysler's performance and hopes to buy the 41.5 percent of the company held by the United Auto Workers to complete the merger.

"'Imported from Detroit' is and will continue to be the tagline for the Chrysler brand," Chrysler's chief marketing officer said in statement.

Perhaps the best news for U.S. automakers is that analysts see no sales slowdown any time soon.

An analyst as City Investment Research told The Detroit News pent-up demand for replacement vehicles will boost annualauto sales from the current 15.5 million this year to 16 million to 16.5 million by 2015.

"It's entirely driven by the number of vehicles per household," Citi's Italy Michaeli told the News in an interview. "The pent-up demand is still building."

Nissan, which saw April sales increase 24.6 percent from the same month a year ago, cutting sticker prices on seven of the 18 models it sells in the United States to make them more competitive and grab market share.

The venerable Crown Vic, which was discontinued in 2011, is a favorite of police forces and taxi companies, but there have been five incidents where steering columns may have separated on civilian Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis 2009-11 models.

The Detroit Free Press said there have been 42 reports of


the lower steering column partly separating from the upper steering column.

Study: Motorcycle deaths up

A study by the Governors Highway Safety Association found U.S. motorcycle deaths rose 9 percent last year over 2011, with more than 5,000 people killed on two-wheelers.

The study blamed the increase in motorcycle fatalities on a lack of universal mandatory state helmet laws and an improving economy with more riders taking to the road.

Just 19 U.S. states require motorcycle riders to wear helmets at all times. In 1997, 26 states had mandatory helmet laws.

Motorcycle-related deaths accounted for 14 percent of all traffic fatalities in 2012, with speeding a factor in more than 35 percent of fatalities, alcohol a factor in 29 percent and lack of motorcycle training a growing factor.

The study found 22 percent ofriders in fatal accidents did not have a valid motorcycle license.

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The 250th anniversary of when golf became 18 holes

A little over 250 years ago, one of the founding concepts of golf was set in stone – the 18 hole round.

In October 1764, the Society of St Andrews Golfers (today known as the Royal and Ancient Golf Club) decided that the 22 hole Old Course should be reduced to 18 holes. Thus defining what constitutes a round of golf (for better or worse), and for the rest of the world to follow.

But in summary, The Old Course was originally laid out as 22 holes with the same green being used twice (much like the double greens are used today), once on the way out and once on the way in. The course could be played clockwise or anti-clockwise asit is traditionally played today.

In 1764, the members deemed that the first four holes were too short and decided to combine them – effectively eliminating two greens (which were each used twice in a round) and reducing the course to 18 holes.

The influence of the members of the Society was thought to be the reason that other courses began to follow suit and it was enshrined into the rules of golf at some time afterwards as Rule One:

‘One round of the Links, or 18 holes, is reckoned a match, unless otherwise stipulated’


What does "wau" mean in place names like Milwaukee, Waukegan, and Waupaca?

September 7, 1973

Dear Cecil:

Can you tell me the derivation and meaning of the syllable wau, as found in midwestern place names such as Milwaukee, Waukegan, Waupaca, etc.?

— Mimi M., Chicago

Cecil replies:

Not really. The Algonquin Indian languages that gave names to these and many other places in the midwest were oral, like all North American Indian languages. Place names like Milwaukee and Waukegan weren't written down by Indians but by white dudes who had no familiarity with the subtleties of the Indian tongue (some of them had a pretty shaky grip on their own languages, for that matter). The spellings have changed God knows how many times--Milwaukee, for example, first appears as "Melleoiki," which may or may nothave meant "good land" in Chippewa.

Thus we have the wau syllable popping up in a slew of names that seem to have nothing in common: Waubonsee, from the name of a Potawatomi chief who attacked his enemies at dawn (wapin, "daybreak"); Waukegan, from waukeegance, a translation into Indian of the original name, "Little Fort" (the -ce, which meant "little," was dropped out of civic pride); Waupaca, where wau seems to come from waub, the Potawatomi word for "white" (the same goes for Waupecan Creek, "white sand bottom"); Waukesha, "little fox"; Wausau, from wassa, "far away place"; and so on ad infinitum (Latin, "and so it goes").


Description:KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation "A" is a rebalanced version of The King of Fighters 2006 originally meant for competitive arcade play. Four new characters make an appearance: Ash Crimson, Blue Mary, Mizoguchi, and original character Xiaolon.
Most of the single-player modes from the original game have been stripped out, andKOF: Maximum Impact Regulation "A" is a rebalanced version of The King of Fighters 2006 originally meant for competitive arcade play. Four new characters make an appearance: Ash Crimson, Blue Mary, Mizoguchi, and original character Xiaolon.

Most of the single-player modes from the original game have been stripped out, and the focus is now on versus play. Gone are the story and mission modes, as well as the unlockable extra costumes. All the available costumes and characters are available from thePLANET OF FIRE

Like millions of other Brits, by the mid-1980s the members of the Doctor Who production team were budgeting for one overseas holiday per year. That much is clear from the background notes provided in 1983 for incoming companion Perpugilliam ‘Peri’ Brown, which stated she would be introduced ‘in whichever country we decide to film next season’s foreign story’.

In early drafts of Peter Grimwade’s scripts for Planet of Fire, Peter Davison’s penultimate adventure as the Doctor, the Earthbound scenes took place on the fictional Greek island of Aeschyllos, with the writer weaving Significant elements of Greek history into the story.

When Lanzarote was chosen instead – at the suggestion of director Fiona Cumming, who’d spent a Christmas holiday there a couple of years earlier – the scripts were


revised, with the volcanic island doubling for the similarly seismic planet of Sarn. Here, the people worship the great fire god Logar, but the real power turns out to lie in the planet’s volcanic gases, which the Master (Anthony Ainley) hopes will restore him to former glories after having accidentally shrunk himself to the size of a Borrower with his own Tissue Compression Eliminator.

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In its early days, Doctor Who was recorded on cumbersome cameras tethered to claustrophobic and often inadequate studios. The show rarely escaped these confines in the 1960s, but as technology improved, producers and directors became more adventurous. Location shooting has helped to create some of the most memorable episodes in the series’ long history. In this unique publication, new features, exclusive interviewswas as promising as when Bush took office. But a combination of factors turned the surplus he inherited into a deficit - the 2001 recession, costs stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks, lost revenue from the tax cuts and the cost of the Iraq war.

Despite the White House's mid-summer optimism that it can reduce the deficit in half by the time Bush leaves office, the GOP-controlled Congressional Budget Office notes that the longer-term outlook hadn't changed much and predicted "significant strains on the budget" over the next decade.

That's because nothing has been done to fix the two biggest threats to solvency:

l Tax issues. When Congress passed the 2001 tax cuts, it limited the long-term budgetary impact with phony expiration dates. It voted to eliminate the estate tax in


Washington (CNN) Former Vice President Joe Biden called President Donald Trump an "idiot" for saying Russian interference in US elections is a hoax, the latest barb between the potential 2020 rivals.

The comments from the Democratic presidential candidate came during an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" in which journalist Norah O'Donnell mentioned Trump's claim that Russian election interference is a "hoax."

"He's an idiot -- in terms of saying that. Everybody knows this. Everybody knows it. Nobody doubts it," Biden said.

The US intelligence community determined that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Trump. Despite that, and despite indictments against members of Russian military intelligence for their alleged role in hacking, Trump has publicly sowed doubt about Russian involvement.

Biden and Trump have a lengthy historyAmazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest
The 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest is back and already, they’ve received stunning entries from around the world. The gorgeous images depict the beauty of the Namibia sand dunes, the awe-inspiring power of the Calbuco Volcano, and the tranquility of morning prayers in Delhi, India.
The Photo Contest is currently accepting submissions in three
categories: People, Places, and Nature. There will be a first prize
awarded to each category, which includes $2,500 and publishing in National Geographic
magazine and online. In addition, there will be an overall grand prize
winner who receives $10,000 and an amazing trip to the National
Geographic headquarters, plus the chance to participate in the annual
National Geographic Photography Seminar in January 2016.
You


have until November 16 to enter the National Geographic Photo Contest. See the complete rules here, and in the meantime, check out some of the spectacular entries below.Above: Calbuco, The Awakening.
Calbuco Volcano is located in the lakes region south of Santiago,
Chile's capital city and is one of the 10 most dangerous volcanoes in
the country. After more than 40 years of inactivity, the day April 23
the volcano erupts, spewing more than 200 million tons of ash and
causing the evacuation of more than 2,000 people. In the picture is seen
one of the most violent moments of the eruption, which occurred in the
early hours of April 24.
Location: Frutillar, Los Lagos, ChilePhoto and caption by Francisco Negroni / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest
Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestTheEnd of the World
A small group of emperor penguins gathered near the sea ice edge. Ross Sea, Antarctica.
Location: Ross Sea, AntarcticaPhoto and caption by Brian Stetson / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestDunes' picture
This aerial shot was taken from a small plane over Namib desert, Namibia
Location: Namib Desert, NamibiaPhoto and caption by Stas Bartnikas / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestFlamingo
Flamingos are going to flyPhoto and caption by Yu Huiping / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestTerrace paddies in North Vietnam
Terrace rice paddies in Tu Le Valley, Yen Bai province, north Vietnam at
the beginning of new season. The Hmong people are crossing the fields
on


their way home at the end of the working day.
Location: T ̇ L, Yen Bai, VietnamPhoto and caption by Qu nh Anh Nguyen / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestAtocha
A little girl plays in the monument to the victims of the attack of 11M in Atocha train station in Madrid
Location: Atocha, Madrid, SpainPhoto and caption by Javier Arcenillas / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestEnchantment of light and shadows
After the sunset we saw that fog was forming and hoped that it would not
fade away till morning so we set our alarm clock 3 hours before
sunrise. Then we drove for two hours to the location and along the road
we could see through thetrees that the bog was fully covered in fog. We
quickly set up our octocopter drone and flew over the trees, the
opening view was breathtakingly beautiful - sunrays, fog, shadows,
pools.
Location: Järvakandi, Raplamaa, EstoniaPhoto and caption by Kaiti Lillipuu / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestSunset Mountain Work
Nepal is a special place to me for a number of reasons and I was
fortunate enough to go back to see the Himalayas on a trek that offers
amazing views of Mount Dhaulagiri and Mount Annapurna. The mountain
landscape continued to blow my mind!

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestMorning Prayers, Delhi India
I was in Delhi for work and went out exploring in the early morning to
the Jama Masjid mosque. One guy was sweeping


as another came along
behind him laying out the prayer rugs. Soon after, this one man came in
and started to pray, lined up in the one ray of sunlight.
Location: Delhi, NCT, IndiaPhoto and caption by Dale Johnson / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestHigh Hoops
Andrea Grove, a fire performer based in Omaha, Nebraska, practices her
hula-hoop routine before her performance at the Lantern Festival on
Saturday, August 29, 2015. She travels to events around the Midwest with
a group called IncenDance.
Location: Pacific Junction, Iowa, USAPhoto and caption by Calla Kessler / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestAhmed Kelly
Born in 1991 with significant disabilities in all four limbs, Ahmed
Kelly was left at a Baghdad orphanage where hespent the majority of the
first seven years of his life. He was adopted by an Australian woman,
Moira Kelly, and now lives and in Melbourne.Photo and caption by Alex Coppel / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest

Amazing Early Entries from the 2015 National Geographic Photo ContestDaasanach Fisherman
A young Daasanach fisherman guts and cleans a fish on the Eastern shore
of Lake Turkana near the border of Ethiopia and Kenya. The Daasanach are
Kenya's second smallest tribe with between 60,000-80,000 members.
Location: Lake Turkana, KenyaPhoto and caption by Christena Dowsett / 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest


by the elected and appointed leaders in the respective school. Cassandra Francois will serve as the Law School representative on the Inclusive Excellence Student Advisory Council. The undergraduate student representative to the National Alumni Board of Directors will be Frankie Bastone. Kori Lennon has been appointed as the undergraduate representative on the Academic Affairs University Policy Committee, and Roxanne Roknian will represent graduate students on the Student Affairs University Policy Committee.

Also, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Robert Leupp to the University's Planning Action Council. Robert's appointment is in recognition of his leadership, dedication, and commitment to the Santa Clara Community. He has served as Chair of the Undergraduate Student Government Senate, as an Undergraduate Representative for the Student Affairs Policy Committee, and as a JuniorSAN FRANCISCO -- Volkswagen Group argued in a court filing that fines sought by the U.S. government to penalize the automaker for rigging diesel vehicles to cheat emissions test are excessive.

Volkswagen said in the filing Tuesday in San Francisco federal court that it remains fully committed to settling the government's claims. It said it was presenting its response because the government's probe is continuing.

The filing follows a brief court appearance earlier Tuesday in which the judge overseeing government and consumer lawsuits against Volkswagen said that lawyers were "on pace" to meet a June 21 deadline for submitting a proposal to fix 480,000 manipulated vehicles in the U.S. or get them off the road.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said that buybacks, cash compensation for consumers and a fund to


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives at his office at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem Monday. In a speech Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu backed down on decades of opposition to Palestinian statehood and invited the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world to resume talks.

Tel Aviv — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke new ground with his speech Sunday. He voiced support for the first time for a Palestinian state. But he also attached a condition that no other Israeli leader has put on peace negotiations: Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

"A fundamental prerequisite for ending the conflict is a public, binding, and unequivocal Palestinian recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people," argued Mr. Netanyahu, who said the issue lies atthe core of the Arab-Israeli conflict.Under pressure from the Obama administration to move forward with a two-state solution, the prime minister has complied. But in the process, say Palestinian and Israeli critics, the prime minister has created a new roadblock to Palestinian statehood.

"I think [Netanyahu] is just trying to create an obstacle. This is a new issue that was never on the table, and now he is raising it," says Mohammed Dejani, a political science professor at Al Quds University in Jerusalem. The demand reflects Israeli insecurity about Arab acceptance of their claims to Jewish sovereignty in the land of the Bible. It also suggests that the mutual recognition between Palestinians and Israelis established by the 1993 Oslo Accords is insufficient for the Israeli right, Netanyahu's core constituency.


Netanyahu summed up thousands of years of Jewish history in the Holy Land, challenging Palestinian moderates to recognize the justice of the claims of Jewish nationalists to a parcel of land that Arabs consider to be their own.

Netanyahu said that as a corollary to recognizing Israel's Jewishness, Palestinian refugees can't be allowed to be repatriated inside Israel – another highly sensitive issue at the core of the conflict. Palestinians demand the right to return to Israel, from which many fled or were forced to leave during the 1948-49 war after Israel declared independence.

Likewise, the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem – areas Palestinians claim for a future state and capital – is contentious. In his speech, Netanyahu said settlements must be allowed toto recognize Israel as a Jewish state complicates the situation further," the official Nile TV network quoted Mr. Mubarak as saying.

Former President Jimmy Carter, in Jerusalem as part of a Middle East tour, echoed those sentiments. He told reporters in Jerusalem on Monday that Netanyahu had "raised many new obstacles to peace that had not existed with previous prime ministers." But he said he remained optimistic, noting that during his presidency there had initially been "even greater differences" with his Israeli counterpart Menachem Begin before he was able to broker the historic 1979 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt.

"It was confusing, and I would assume deliberately so," he says. "This is an issue that he can talk about, knowing he has backing of the US," he adds.


A woman who had sex with teacher Tom Ellison when she was a student then stayed in a relationship with him for 13 years went to police after she learned he had another girlfriend, his defence lawyer said yesterday in court.

Bridget Ross was 17 when she and two other young women the same age went on a six-week sailing trip and took turns sleeping with Mr. Ellison on his boat. There weren't enough beds, so Ms. Ross, who asked the court to allow her name to be published, shared a bed with the teacher, then 34, every third night.

Mr. Ellison, now 61, is facing 16 sex-related charges involving a dozen of his former female students in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Ms. Ross, 44, said thaton the third night she shared the teacher's bed, after a back massage and rubs on her forehead, cheek and chin, she was shocked when he stuck his finger in her vagina.

The trial has already heard from a number of Mr. Ellison's alleged victims, including one who felt so ashamed that she placed a pillow over her head while he was performing oral sex on her, and another who said the sex was consensual. The testimonies share some similarities: The alleged sexual activities took place mainly on Mr. Ellison's boat and each girl thought she was being singled out by the teacher.

That was Ms. Ross's testimony yesterday. She said that although she was not attracted to Mr. Ellison before she went on the sailing trip after her Grade


11 year, his sexual advances convinced her that she was special.

"I felt it was the first time it happened for me or him," said Ms. Ross, who is now a high-school teacher herself. "I felt special, like he had chosen me over other students. I was very flattered."

Ms. Ross and most of the other alleged victims were students in the Prince of Wales Secondary School's acclaimed Quest program, administered by Mr. Ellison.

The year after the summer sailing trip, Ms. Ross testified, she went to Mr. Ellison's boat almost every Friday night at a designated time.

Although they were unclothed and performed oral sex on each other, Ms. Ross said, her teacher insisted that they wait to have sexual intercourse until after she turned 18 on March 5, 1980.

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The timing of the sexual activities and the birth dates of the victims have become crucial factors in this trial, which is being heard before a judge alone.

Defence lawyer Bill Smart has said that while Mr. Ellison's conduct was unprofessional and wrong, the former teacher's action did not violate the criminal code of the day because the section on gross indecency was so vague that it must be considered unconstitutional.

Ms. Ross said that while she wanted to have a baby with him in 1992, she was also recognizing signs that there were other women in Mr. Ellison's life. She had found a box in his boat full of letters and postcards written by former students, mainly women. Ms. Ross testified that when she asked him why he


kept the letters, he told her they were proof that the girls who wrote them were interested in him and not the other way around.

Earlier in the day, court heard testimony from one woman who said that in an incident in 1982, when she was 15, students and teachers were grabbing each other's underwear and pulling upward hard, giving each other "wedgies." She grabbed one teacher by the underwear and was then chased by all three teachers involved, including Mr. Ellison. He held her hands behind her as she squirmed and another pinned her down and ripped her underwear off.

"I kept saying no, no, no. Get away from me," said the witness, who said she was kind of laughing, but became frightened when the teachers refused to stop.

Humiliated,Big E is proud to see his close friend Kofi Kingston be WWE's first African-born champion.

Just days before Kingston defends his WWE title against Randy Orton at SummerSlam, his New Day stablemate spoke to Uproxx on Kingston adding diversity to the WWE Championship lineage. Big E said while he was a fan of wrestlers such as Goldberg when he was younger, it was nice seeing a black wrestler like Ron Simmons succeed at the level that he did, winning various championships across a number of companies.

"We have a history within the company that I think we need to acknowledge at times, where we had black and brown performers, and a foreign performers, as well, who were put into these roles that were very stereotypical. And I’m not trying


NBC Pulls Trump's "Racist" Migrant Ad

The move comes after the ad aired during 'Sunday Night Football' and received swift backlash.

NBC has pulled an infamous “migrant caravan” ad that ran during Sunday Night Football. The ad featured an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of murdering two sheriff’s deputies in California in 2014. Until Sunday night, the ad ran mostly on the internet. CNN had rejected it as well, labeling it “racist.”

"After further review, we recognize the insensitive nature of the ad and have decided to cease airing it across our properties as soon as possible," said an NBC spokesperson.

In fact, the NFL — in particular the league's media committee — tightly controls the type of ads that can appear during broadcasts of NFL games. It expressly prohibits “social cause/issuelast crossed the border during the administration of George W. Bush. He also was apparently arrested on drug charges in Phoenix but was released by former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an ardent Trump supporter.

The famously controversy-averse NFL has been mired in it since a wave of anthem protests, kicked off by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, exacerbated tensions between the league owners (many of whom are politically conservative) and a large contingent of players, many of whom are African-American. President Trump has used the kneeling players in his ongoing culture war, hurling obscenities at them and calling for them to be fired if they do not stand for the national anthem.

Such rhetoric has come under intense scrutiny after 11 people were murdered at a Jewish


Arts & Eventz

There’s probably no place in the United States except New York City that offers more live opera performances of all kinds than the Bay Area. The commendable broadcast presentations of the Metropolitan Opera in movie theaters have increased public awareness of opera, and now fans who are ready for the next step in the opera experience have ample opportunity to see this art form up close and personal, in small houses for reasonable prices.

The list of local companies is long and getting longer: Island City, West Bay, Verismo, West Edge and Bay Shore Lyric are just a few.

Verdi’s Luisa Miller will be performed in Berkeley’s intimate Hillside Club on Sunday afternoon, November 12, and Saturday night, November 18.

The title role will be sung by Eliza O’Malley,taking care of her other children, Gulley stated she had a babysitter.

The following day, Arbor performed a safety check on Gulley’s other children and found them

at home alone. Arbor called the Little Rock Police Department; an officer found little food

in the refrigerator and a pallet on the floor for the children. While the police were walking

through the house, two people arrived to check on the children and told the officer that

“Sweet Pea” was supposed to be watching the children but had a doctor’s appointment; they

did not know how long the children had been by themselves. Gulley claimed she did not

know the children had been left alone; she also did not know Sweet Pea’s real name, although

he had been staying at her house.


factors arose after the original petition for dependency-neglect, and

Gulley had failed to rehabilitate the circumstances preventing return of the children; and

Gulley had subjected the children to aggravated circumstances.1 Specifically, the trial court

found Gulley was not credible; her life continued to be chaotic, with unstable housing and a

history of moving from one man to another; she was currently pregnant but not in a

relationship with that baby’s father; she had demonstrated difficulty managing her own medical

care and was unable to be a responsible, insightful manager of J.P.’s medical needs; she had

made no progress in bettering her situation, as she would have to quit her job shortly at Pizza

Hut due to the birth of the child she was currently carrying or due to her own poorly

managed sickle-cell anemia; and it wasCOVID-19 Notice

Nuit Blanche Toronto

Nuit Blanche Toronto is a free, annual, all-night, city-wide celebration of contemporary art, produced by the City of Toronto in collaboration with Toronto’s arts community. From 6:58 p.m. on Saturday, October 5 until sunrise on Sunday, October 6, 2019 the streets of Toronto will be transformed by more than 90 contemporary art projects created and presented by more than 300 local, national and international artists. The familiar is discarded and Toronto becomes an artistic playground for a series of exhilarating contemporary art experiences in unexpected public spaces. Since 2006, this award-winning event has featured nearly 1,300 art installations by approximately 4,600 artists, generating over $268 million in economic impact for Toronto. Information and updates are available on Facebook at facebook.com/nuitblancheTO, Twitter at @nuitblancheTO and Instagram


Delightful dollops of rainbow colors dance upon the base of this bud vase, providing a lovely anchor for its heart-shaped stem. Handmade in Rhode Island, molten glass is blown and shaped by hand to conceive the perfect little gift for anyone close to...

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Gracious floral tendrils in low reliefand protected by us, not only for ourselves and our posterity, but also for the good of all mankind.

That a symmetrical culture, a fraternal communion among the college of this country, and a brotherhood of men, whose ideals and beliefs are those of modern civilization, are essential to the welfare of our college men.

In furtherance of these aims, this Fraternity has recognized certain standards of attainment and gentlemanly conduct, expressed in the ideals symbolically represented by the three Greek letters Delta, Sigma and Phi; and it shall be a constant endeavor of the brothers who may be called to preside over and govern the fraternity, or its component chapter, to enforce the precepts of the Fraternity by every reasonable means within their power, and they, and each Brother


of the Fraternity shall exemplify those principles by conduct as well as enforcement in order that the Fraternity may grow and prosper with honor to itself and that the world may ever be convinced of the sincerity of our purpose.

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As the door closed on the final moments of the nineteenth century, a handful of undergraduate men began meeting between classes at City College of New York. Some had known one another before they graduated from the New York public school system, and they had wanted to continue their friendships at City College. The obvious solution was to join a fraternity, but there was just one problem: This was no ordinary group of undergraduates. They were an affiliation of Jews and Christians; and, at the time, entry toall-Jewish and all-Christian fraternities was barred to individuals and groups that mixed religions.

Given that their close association challenged the conventional behavior of the day, perhaps it was only natural that the undergraduates took an even bolder step by founding their own Fraternity on December 10, 1899. Symbolized by the Greek letters Delta, Sigma, and Phi, the Fraternity was based on the principle of the universal brotherhood of man.

Uptown from City College at Columbia University, the second chapter was organized in 1901 but did not become a chapter until 1902. To differentiate the chapters, the first was called Insula, from the Latin insularis, since it was on the island of Manhattan. Because of its location in Morningside Heights, the new chapter was called Morningside.

Delta Sigma Phi was incorporated in


New York City on December 2, 1902. Five members of Insula signed the incorporation papers, with the stated objectives of dissemination "the principles of friendship and brotherhood among college men, without respect to race or creed." The early organizers, including Meyer Boskey (Insula), also drafted Delta Sigma Phi's laws, requiring open membership to all college men of quality. The purpose of the Fraternity, written the same year, was "to fulfill the desire of serious young college men for a fellowship and brotherhood, as near a practical working ideal as possible not fettered with too many traditional prejudices and artificial standards of membership, by a clean, pure, and honorable chapter home life."

Although such principles later would invite problems, the basic concept of the Fraternity-embracing brotherhood and congeniality without regardFeds: Basketball coach bribed by indicted Florida man

July 21, 2018

MIAMI (AP) — Federal authorities say a Florida businessman already charged with orchestrating a massive Medicare fraud scheme bribed a former university basketball coach to help get his son admitted to an Ivy League university.

Prosecutors allege the payments were intended to help the son of nursing home owner Philip Esformes, who is accused of filing false Medicare and Medicaid claims. The Miami Herald initially reported the new charges.

Howard Srebnick, an attorney for Esformes, said his client will plead not guilty.

The indictment released Friday did not name the university or coach. But Srebnick said prosecutors disclosed in court that assistant Celtics coach Jerome Allen received the payments while he was head coach at University of Pennsylvania. Allen has not been


A year later, man finds stolen vehicle

STOCKTON - A Stockton man who reported his vehicle stolen in August 2012 called police again Wednesday to report that he had located the vehicle, authorities said.

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STOCKTON - A Stockton man who reported his vehicle stolen in August 2012 called police again Wednesday to report that he had located the vehicle, authorities said.

The man discovered his vehicle, with different license plates, in the 2800 block of Deborah Lane in southeast Stockton about 5:40 p.m. Officers responded to the location and arrested Enrique Salcedo, 35, on suspicion of auto theft and possession of stolen property, police said. Salcedo also was arrested on twoproperty of a condemned city (עיר הנדחת). Nevertheless, since false deities are also described as "condemned," benefiting from them is also included in the scope of the above prohibition (Megillat Esther, Sefer HaMitzvot, Negative Commandment 194).

Though the Ramban (Hasagot L'Sefer HaMitzvot) disputes the Rambam's decision, support for the Rambam's opinion can be found in several Talmudic sources - e.g., Avodah Zarah 34b, 51b.

The prohibition stated in this halachah and the positive commandment mentioned in the previous one serve as the foundation for all the laws discussed in this and the following chapter.

Commentary Halacha 3

It is forbidden - because of the prohibition mentioned in the previous halachah. (See also Deuteronomy 32:38.)

to benefit from an animal which was sacrificed to false deities in its entirety - The standard published text


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“Super Bowl Champs”

The Baltimore Ravens returned home as champions Feb. 5, bringing home the Super Bowl XLVII trophy to the thousands upon thousands of loyal fans who not only packed the parade route, but filled every available space inside the 71,008—seat M&T Bank Stadium for a homecoming celebration.

On a day when clouds line the sky and temperatures dipped into the 30s, throngs of fans walked, rode bikes, took trains and buses or drove hours through bumper-to-bumper traffic to celebrate the return of their victorious heroes. The parade route, which started at City Hall and stretched through downtown over to the stadium, was dozens of people deep in some places. In a post-celebration statement, team officials said they were originally expecting around 30,000 to gather for the 12:30 liveerrands in his neighborhood. As he drove down the street, he became involved in a traffic dispute with another driver, Edmund Gray, who was a police officer for the City and County of Denver. Officer Gray was not on regular shift, was driving his own car, and was not in uniform. According to Mr. Brown, the two men exchanged insulting hand gestures and thereafter Mr. Brown noticed Officer Gray following and tailgating him for several blocks. The two cars stopped at a traffic light. Officer Gray got out of his car, walked up to Mr. Brown's car, and drew his service revolver out of his jacket. Officer Gray pointed the gun at Mr. Brown's face and shouted that he was a police officer, but he did not display