NEW YORK, N.Y. - From the football field to the broadcast booth, Frank Gifford was a star. And a winner.

An NFL championship in 1956 with the New York Giants. An Emmy award in 1976-77 as television's "outstanding sports personality." Induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in '77.

Gifford, as well known for serving as a buffer for fellow announcers Don Meredith and Howard Cosell on "Monday Night Football" as for his versatility as a player, died Sunday. He was 84.

"Frank Gifford was an icon of the game, both as a Hall of Fame player for the Giants and Hall of Fame broadcaster for CBS and ABC," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. "Frank's talent and charisma on the field and on the air were important elements in thegrowth and popularity of the modern NFL."

In a statement released by NBC News, his family said Gifford died suddenly at his Connecticut home of natural causes Sunday morning. His wife, Kathie Lee Gifford, is a host for NBC's "Today."

"We rejoice in the extraordinary life he was privileged to live, and we feel grateful and blessed to have been loved by such an amazing human being," his family said in the statement. "We ask that our privacy be respected at this difficult time and we thank you for your prayers."

A running back, defensive back, wide receiver and special teams player in his career, Gifford was the NFL's MVP in 1956. He went to the Pro Bowl at three positions and was the centerpiece of a Giants offence that went


to five NFL title games in the 1950s and '60s.

Beginning in 1971, he worked for ABC's "Monday Night Football," at first as a play-by-play announcer and then as an analyst.

Later in life he stayed in the spotlight through his marriage to Kathie Lee Gifford, who famously called him a "human love machine" and "lamb-chop" to her millions of viewers.

"He was a great friend to everyone in the league, a special adviser to NFL commissioners, and served NFL fans with enormous distinction for so many decades," Goodell added.

Gifford hosted "Wide World of Sports," covered several Olympics — his call of Franz Klammer's downhill gold medal run in 1976 is considered a broadcasting masterpiece — and announced 588 consecutive NFL games for ABC, not even taking time off after thedeath of his mother shortly before a broadcast in 1986.

"Frank Gifford was an exceptional man who will be missed by everyone who had the joy of seeing his talent on the field, the pleasure of watching his broadcasts, or the honour of knowing him," said Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC.

"His many achievements were defined by a quiet dignity and a personal grace that is seldom seen in any arena; he truly embodied the very best of us."

While he worked with others, including Dan Dierdorf, Al Michaels, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson, Gifford was most known for the eight years he served as a calming influence between the folksy Meredith and acerbic Cosell.

In its early years the show was a cultural


touchstone, with cities throwing parades for the visiting announcers and celebrities such as John Lennon and Ronald Reagan making appearances.

"I hate to use the words 'American institution,' but there's no other way to put it, really," Gifford told The Associated Press in 1993. "There's nothing else like it."

A straight-shooter who came off as earnest and sincere, Gifford was popular with viewers, though some accused him of being a shill for the NFL.

He experienced the highs and lows as a player. Gifford fumbled twice early in the 1958 NFL championship game, both of which led to Baltimore Colts touchdowns, and later came up short on a critical third down. The Colts eventually won 23-17 in the league's first overtime game, which helped popularize the NFL and was dubbed "TheGreatest Game Ever Played," although not by Gifford.

"Not my greatest game," Gifford told the AP in 2008. "I fumbled going out (of the end zone) and I fumbled going in."

Gifford had his best year in 1956, rushing for 819 yards, picking up 603 yards receiving and scoring nine touchdowns in 12 games. The Giants routed the Bears 47-7 at Yankee Stadium, where Gifford shared a locker with Mickey Mantle.

"Frank Gifford was the ultimate Giant," co-owner John Mara said. "He was the face of our franchise for so many years."

A crushing hit by 233-pound Eagles linebacker Chuck Bednarik in November 1960 flattened Gifford and likely shortened his football career. Bednarik was pictured standing over the unconscious Gifford, pumping his fist in a celebration thought by many to be over


the top. Gifford was in the hospital for 10 days and sidelined until 1962.

Born Aug. 16, 1930, in Santa Monica, Calif., Frank Newton Gifford was the son of an itinerant oil worker. Growing up in Depression-era California, Gifford estimated he moved 47 times before entering high school, occasionally sleeping in parks or the family car and eating dog food.

Gifford's 5,434 yards receiving were a Giants record for 39 years, until Amani Toomer surpassed him in 2003. His jersey number, 16, was retired by the team in 2000.

When he wasn't on the field, Gifford tried to put his movie-star good looks to use in Hollywood, appearing in about a dozen films, most notably the 1959 submarine movie "Up Periscope."

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AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFLsituation is precarious. He may have genuinely endorsed the two-state solution, but he doesn't have the means to push on with it. His main coalition partners are competing with each other for right-wing credentials. This leaves Netanyahu the possibility of teaming up with the centrist Kadima party, and to form a new center-right government with the explicit agenda of pursuing the peace process. But his own Likud party is largely composed of genuine right-wingers who do not believe in the two-state solution, and many of them may defect if Netanyahu chooses to drop his right-wing coalition partners.

Because Netanyahu is a weak leader, he needs the pretext of external pressure to move on - and in this Obama seems to be succeeding. The current crisis has created a remarkable


is that Israelis have so far not bought into the reassurances received by Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden; nor have they bought into Obama's repeated assurances that U.S. friendship for Israelis is unshakeable.

While Netanyahu needs pressure from the U.S. to convince his electorate that he has no choice but to cooperate, Obama must, at the same time, persuade Israelis of his friendship, and in this matter he should take his cues from his predecessor Bill Clinton. At Yitzhak Rabin's funeral, Clinton reached the hearts of almost all Israelis by ending his speech with the Hebrew words Shalom Chaver, "goodbye, friend."

Obama must reach out to Israelis directly; not through negotiating with the government and not through Biden. Since Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Israel, it has turned out thatonly by coming to Israel can leaders have a true impact on its state of mind. Given the high priority that Obama is giving the Middle East conflict, he may find it worth the while to put on the line his considerable rhetorical skills and charm in person, and in Israel. Chances are high he will also persuade Israelis there is hope we can believe in.

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These New Puma Suedes Feature a Sleek Statement Design

A series of new Puma suede designs were recently revealed by the popular sportswear brand, with a vivid aqua blue and white version now offered, in addition to a more subtle black and white one.

The sneakers have a sleek silhouette to them, with a low-top design, soft suede material taking over the uppers, and elegant gold lettering marking the brand's name and motifs on the sides of the uppers, as well as on the tongues.

The laces on the sneakers are thicker than usual, and have a ribbon-like texture to them. On the backs of the heels on both sneakers, there are large bows that match the rest of the colorway, maintaining the sleek aesthetic.Singapore Trip: Day 1 – Waterloo St and Marina Bay Sands

Because for the urban traveler with business and global acumen, Singapore is the place to be.

Singapore is one of the most urbanized country in Asia, so no doubt, I knew I had to visit it one day. Singapore is a sovereign city-state located in Southeast Asia, south of Malaysia. Due to its dense population with over 5.6 million people, Singapore is also very culturally diverse, with many practicing different religions (such as Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, etc.). While their national language is Malay, the country’s four official languages English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil. Singapore uses the Singapore dollar (SGD) as currency.

Continue reading to see some tips and how I spent my first day (and the rest of


locals. Best of all, it’s free! We met our tour guides (2 young ladies studying hospitality in university) in front of the subway station, and we started our tour of the Bras Basah and Bugis precinct.

First stop is the cute building that is the Jacob Ballas Centre and The Jewish Welfare Board, which provides support for Jewish people who travel or live in Singapore. First look at the multicultural population in Singapore.Address: 24-26 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187950

Next stop is the Singapore Art Museum, housed inside a beautiful building that used to be a school. Open from 10am to 7pm.Address: 71 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189555

Next stop, is St Joseph’s Church, with a Gothic Revival architecture and latin cross. It is a Roman Catholic church built by the PortugueseMission.Address: 143 Victoria Street, St. Joseph’s Church, Singapore 188020

We continue to walk down Waterloo St, which is a long street in the heart of Singapore and passes many attractions and landmarks – great for first time travellers! We passed by the Fortune Centre, which is a commercial building. Nothing special there, but houses many eateries inside and in nearby buildings.

We reached the Sri Krishnan Temple, South Indian Hindu temple worshipping the Hindu deity Sri Krishna.

Due to Singapore’s multiculturalism and the temple’s proximity to another Chinese temple, many Chinese devotees come to worship at this temple as well.Address: 152 Waterloo Street, Krishnan Temple, Singapore 187961

A minute away is the Kuan Yin Thong Hood Cho Temple, a Chinese temple that worships the Goddess of Mercy. The temple is usually busy


To Binge Netflix’ Maniac with Jonah Hill and Emma Stone

To Binge Netflix’ Maniac with Jonah Hill and Emma Stone. Adopted from Norwegian TV series with the same title, Maniac is the new dark comedy miniseries by Netflix that we all need to watch.

Premiere on the 21st of September, Maniac will tell you stories about two strangers named Annie Landsberg (Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Hill) that are drawn to the late stage of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial (with other people) by their own causes. With glitchy sounds and effects, this series written by Patrick Somerville and directed by Cary Fukunaga is giving us the vibe of Garden State modern reboot.

Maniac

With a slightly similar premise with Eternal Sunshine and The Spotless Mind where people try to disconnect themselves from theoperator and has not engaged in any gainful activity since May 21, 1988.

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The plaintiff filed this claim for benefits on November 2, 1989.  The claim was denied initially and again upon reconsideration.  The plaintiff then requested a hearing before an administrative law judge (ALJ) and the hearing was held on August 13, 1990.  The plaintiff testified concerning his injury, his persistent pain, his attempt to return to work, and the results of examinations and treatment by various doctors.  Many medical reports were submitted as part of the administrative record.  The plaintiff's treating physician, Dr. Johnston, stated in 1988 that the plaintiff was totally disabled and would never be able to return to work.  Dr. Johnston based this conclusion on physical examinations, CAT


Aryay – Never Gonna Leave (Single)

Last Update -
September 29, 2016

America based singer Aryay back to music scene with new single called Never Gonna Leave. it’ll be releasing on digital platform on 29th sept. he announced this via his twitter page few weeks back he said “Never Gonna Leave out on Owsla at the end of the month” its a follow up to his debut album vicious released last year.been displaced internally and thousands have tried to flee to
neighbouring countries. The leaders of the European Union have been debating
about human solutions and emerging leaders in Asia have remained passive for
strategic reasons.

We all are aware that in spite of them living in Myanmar for
decades, the Rohingyas have no legal standing and are seen as illegal settlers
from Bangladesh. There are restrictions on them in areas such as land
ownership, marriage, employment, education, and movement. In the 2014 census,
the first in three decades, Myanmar officials said they would not accept those
who registered themselves as Rohingyas. Buddhist nationalists threatened to
boycott the tally over fears that it could lead to official recognition for the
Rohingyas. The temporary ID cards which were given to the minority community
were also revoked in 2015 as result of protests


from Buddhist majority groups.

We have seen that the plight of the Hindu minorities in neighbouring
Bangladesh and Pakistan is always taken seriously by India. In the last five
years, around 1,200 Hindus facing persecution in Pakistan have been provided
shelter in Delhi. Ironically, Rohingya refugee crisis has garnered little
attention from Indian policymakers. The inevitable question then
is, do the Rohingyas or any other minority group have to belong to a particular
religion to get the attention and importance they deserve from India?

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
there are around 9,000 Rohingyas registered in Delhi and thousands more unregistered
living in other parts of the country. The UN has declared the group as one of
the most persecuted minorities in the world.

War is no solution of any humanitarian issues but how long the
worldThe exodus to Europe is well underway, and a pair of Edmonton Oilers joined the discussion today. Lennart Petrell has signed with Helsinki, his old team in the top Finnish league, while Ladislav Smid is rumoured to be en route to the Czech Republic.

It’s not really a surprise to see Petrell return to Helsinki; not only is it his hometown team, but prior to joining the Oilers Petrell spent more than a decade either with the club or in its system. His breakthrough 34-point campaign in 2010-11 (over 56 games) earned him an NHL shot in the first place.

The rumours surrounding Smid are of much the same variety. The Liberec White Tigers (Bílí Tygři Liberec) are the team that developed Smid and where he spent his pre-NHL career.

In


both cases, these returns represent homecomings.

Tip of the hat to EliteProspects.com on both the transfer of Petrell and the rumoured transfer of Smid.

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He currently works for Oilers Nation, Sportsnet and Bleacher Report.
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Thanks for adding the "...in 56 games" on Petrell. I like him as a player because of his effort, but a "breakthrough campaign of 34 points" in an audience acclimatized to thinking in 82 game seasons is kind of frightening.

I'm hopeful that Smid signs soon. He needs to keep playing, given that he has just recently gained some traction, I'm veryfringe professional hockey players to make even more money.

Do you mind explaining the rationale behind you being sick with the NHL players taking the jobs of fringe professional hockey players, instead of being sick with the fringe professional league team owners who are signing them and allowing it to happen?

I think it depends on their league, but I recall Ralph Krueger saying that players going overseas to the Swiss Elite League aren't really taking all the jobs away from the locals. If I recall correctly, and I probably don't, each team is limited in the number of "imports" they can have on the roster, so in essence Joe Thornton or Jason Spezza may only be taking away a job from another North American.

@RexLibris
That's all fine then...as long as


Best of Rio 2016 Summer Olympics: Table Tennis(29 images)

The most popular racket sport in the world, table tennis has been an Olympic event since being introduced at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul.

Multiple exposure of Bastian Steger of Germany serving during the Men's Team Table Tennis bronze medal match against South Korea in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 1, 2016. Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI | License Photo

Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa lines up a return during a match against Singapore's Tianwei Feng in the Women's Team Table Tennis bronze medal match in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 16, 2016. Japan clinched the bronze in four matches. Photo byTennis bronze medal match in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 16, 2016. Japan clinched the bronze in four matches. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo

Germany during play against South Korea in the Men's Team Table Tennis bronze medal match in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 17, 2016. Germany won the bronze medal 3-1. Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI | License Photo

Youngsik Jeoung of South Korea serves in the Men's Team Table Tennis bronze medal match against Germany in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 17, 2016. Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI | License Photo

ChinaÕs Ning Ding (L)


watches teammate Shiwen Liu serve against Germany during doubles play in the Women's Team Table Tennis gold medal match in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 16, 2016. China defeated Germany in three matches to win the gold. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo

Slow motion view of the bronze medal match between Bastian Steger of Germany and Youngsik Jeoung of South Korea during the Men's Team Table Tennis bronze medal match against South Korea in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 17, 2016. Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI | License Photo

Koki Niwa of Japan in action against Ma Long of China in the Men's Team Table Tennis goldmedal match in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 17, 2016. Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI | License Photo

Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa lines up a serve during a match against Singapore's Tianwei Feng in the Women's Team Table Tennis bronze medal match in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 16, 2016. Japan clinched the bronze in four matches. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo

GermanyÕs Ying Han lines up a serve in the Women's Team Table Tennis gold medal match against ChinaÕs Xiaoxia Li in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 16, 2016. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo

China's


Ma Long celebrates in the final moments of his gold medal match against China's Zhang Jike in the Men's Singles Table Tennis final round 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 11, 2016. Long went on to win gold for his second straight Olympic champion title. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

Japan's Ai Fukuhara hits the ball towards a Singapore player during doubles play in the Women's Team Table Tennis bronze medal match in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 16, 2016. Japan clinched the bronze in four matches. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo

Japan's Mima Ito (L) and Ai Fukuhara prepare for a serve from Singapore during doubles play in the Women'sthe bronze in four matches. Photo by Matthew Healey/UPI | License Photo

Koki Niwa of Japan looks on after missing a crucial point against Ma Long of China in the Men's Team Table Tennis gold medal match in Riocentro Pavilion 3 at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 17, 2016. Photo by Richard Ellis/UPI | License Photo


of the high-profile nature of the case.

Members of the jury will be sequestered in Milford during the week and be able to return to their homes in Chester County on weekends for a trial that is expected to take as long as five weeks.

If the jury convicts Frein, they will have to decide between a death sentence or life in prison.

Frein pleaded not guilty.

In a Dec. 2014 restraining order filing, Frein blamed Olympic Park Bomber Eric Rudolph and alleged mobster Joey Merlino for the murders. In his complaint, Frein claimed the two had framed him.Terupt book? Sign me up! I requested it from the library immediately (instead of pre-ordering it, because I was out of shelf space and trying to teach myself the Art of Patience), and snapped it up the day it came in (which was three days after its release date, thank you very much. I hate really don't like my library). I devoured it that same day.

The first thing I discovered was that it had been too long since I read the first two books. It took me a few chapters to remember the ins and outs of who was who. It didn't help that there were three girls and three boys (all conveniently crushing on each other in three neat pairs), and the girls sometimes got kind of


while before choosing my topic, but once I had it I knew it was the once: Slow-Burn Romance 101. Be careful below, because each of these features pretty major spoilers for their books/series.

1. The Harry Potter series
This series is basically one big slow-burn, because the characters all start out as little kids and discover their feelings for each other slowly as the books go on. You'll notice, class, that there are two main romantic couples at the end of the book: Harry and Ginny, and Ron and Hermione. You'll also notice that Harry and Ginny waited five (and a half) books to become official, but Ginny had been showing signs of a crush on Harry for a lot longer than that. Ron and Hermione never really seemed romanticallyin his school binder at the beginning of the second book. The way he was the most upset out of everyone else at camp when Annabeth was kidnapped by monsters in the third book. The way Annabeth is absolutely furious when she found out that Percy spent a few weeks with Calypso in the fourth book. When you add in the more obvious signs (like Annabeth kissing Percy in book four), it's extremely clear by the fifth book that Percy and Annabeth love each other - which makes it that much sweeter when they finally get together.

3. All Fall Down (Book 1 of the Embassy Row series) by Ally Carter
This one is a little bit harder, because the rest of the series isn't out yet and Grace and


biding his time), and he had some inner monologues that cleared up a little bit of the fog around his motives throughout the series, but still. I just don't like him.

Things weren't perfect over on Cara's side either (I mean seriously, her grandmotheris terrible at communicating with people - and not in a "this makes sense" kind of way, but in a "I'm trying to keep the reader in suspense" way), but it was on the whole a much better read. I love Cara a lot, and while she still feels rather like a vanilla character, you really can't help but root for her. The discoveries she makes at the end of the book are pretty mind-blowing, and I love the new friend she makes along the wayof the fourth book from a different library system, because it went out of stock in, like, a day as far as I can tell. I'll post a review when I get my hands on a copy.

Friday, August 21, 2015

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west.
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family divided overnight. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden


thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city.
But one day, while on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance. Then, when she receives a mysterious drawing, Gerta puts two and two together and concludes that her father wants Gerta and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. No one can be trusted. Will Gerta and her family find their way to freedom?

(384 pages; Release date August 25)

Wow. Just wow. I love Historical Fiction, and I'dthat both Fritz and Gerta have files (meaning they've been marked by the government as future traitors) that basically ruin their prospects for the rest of their lives would definitely help tilt me towards leaving, but their mother didn't even know about the files. And since they kept her in the dark about that, I don't think they can really blame her reluctance to risk all of their lives to escape.

Speaking of "the dark," I love the imagery of light and dark that Nielsen uses throughout A Night Divided. Gerta reflects on themes of lightness, darkness, and the sun and moon, using them as metaphors for her situation in East Berlin. At the beginning of the book, when the wall first goes up and she feels the warmth


in unique situations and settings and all the rest. But the one thing they all have in common is a particular stubbornness in their nature, a certain penchant for breaking the rules. I do love this personality trait, and Nielsen has done it very well every time, but I would like to see her write a completely different character one day. It's Gerta's rebelliousness that is probably the only thing that bugs me with A Night Divided, because there's this separation created between her and her family (who bear "Papa's blood," which somehow makes them more resilient against the brainwashing) and everyone else. Later in the book Gerta references her father's training as the reason she and her brother are that way, but I would have liked agood books that I work very hard to get my hands on.

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west.With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family divided overnight. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and


friends are prisoners in their own city.But one day, while on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance. Then, when she receives a mysterious drawing, Gerta puts two and two together and concludes that her father wants Gerta and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. No one can be trusted. Will Gerta and her family find their way to freedom?

(384 pages)

Here's this week's teaser, from page 1:

It was Sunday, August 13, 1961, a day I would remember for the rest of my life. When a prison had been built around us as we slept.

Let me know what you think of theend up on the run, having adventure after mishap after scary, thrilling escape. When they reach Aspen's kingdom, they learn to their horror that their actions have divided the country and plunged it into violence. Every minute counts: it is time for Snail and Aspen to figure out a way to stop the building war—together.

(256 pages)

Honestly, just look at that cover. Does this look like a good book to you? Snail's leggings are truly hideous, and Aspen . . . well, he kind of looks like a girl. Which is kind of ironic, thinking after having read the second book.

Yeah, I've already read the second book as well. Because while The Hostage Prince looks very mediocre from the cover, it's actually really, really good. My mother, who also


the low, and she knows it. She understands her own position of weakness, and while she may get a little bitter from time to time (when the nobility get especially capricious), and she never loses her own self-respect, most of the time she just goes along with however things are going. She begins to gradually lose this mindset of needing to "keep her place" as the story goes on and she develops a friendship with Aspen.

Speaking of the prince, he's not always the brightest bulb. But then again, I think that goes along with his upbringing. He's basically just meant to be a placeholder to keep war from breaking out between two kingdoms; there's really nothing he can be expected to actually do with his life besides that,your comments regarding the contents or
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Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family
Support, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives:
United States Government Accountability Office:
GAO:
April 2010:
Unemployment Insurance Trust Funds:
Long-standing State Financing Policies Have Increased Risk of
Insolvency:
GAO-10-440:
GAO Highlights:
Highlights of GAO-10-440, a report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on
Income Security and Family Support, Committee on Ways and Means, House
of Representatives.
Why GAO Did This Study:
The federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) program relies


funded trust
funds. Now is the time to consider changes to policies to improve the
long-term financial structure of UI trust funds.
Figure: Financial Condition of State UI Trust Funds:
[Refer to PDF for image: map of the U.S., with associated data]
Map depicts states in the following categories:
Status of UI trust funds: States with relatively weak trust funds
(loans outstanding as of April 1, 2010): 35 states.
Status of UI trust funds: States with relatively strong trust funds
(at least 1 percent of annual UI-covered wages, as of fourth quarter
2009): 14 states.
Note: States highlighted in white did not have an outstanding loan as
of April 1, 2010, and had trust funds with less than 1 percent of
wages in reserves as of fourth quarter 2009.
Source: Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor.
[End of figure]
What GAO Recommends:
The CongressUI Program Statistics:
Appendix V: Comments from the Department of Labor:
Appendix VI: GAO Contact and Staff Acknowledgments:
Related GAO Products:
Tables:
Table 1: Summary of Major UI Federal Accounts:
Table 2: State UI Trust Fund Financial Conditions as of End of 2007
vs. End of 2009:
Table 3: Key Trust Fund and Employment Statistics for Last Four U.S.
Recessions:
Table 4: UI Financial Statistics, States with Indexed Taxable Wage
Bases vs. Other States, 1979-2008:
Table 5: Distribution of Minimum and Maximum Statutory UI Tax Rates by
State, 1978 to 2008:
Table 6: Policy Options for Improving UI Funding:
Table 7: States with Loans from the Federal Unemployment Account, as
of December 31, 2009, and April 1, 2010:
Table 8: UI Contributions, Benefits, and Reserves as a Percentage of
Total UI-Eligible Wages, 1979-2008:
Table 9: UI-taxable Wages as a Percentage of Total UI-eligible Wages,
States with Indexed Taxable


rate:
UI: unemployment insurance:
UTF: Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund:
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United States Government Accountability Office:
Washington, DC 20548:
April 14, 2010:
The Honorable Jim McDermott:
Chairman:
Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support:
Committee on Ways and Means:
House of Representatives:
Dear Mr. Chairman:
The recession that began in December 2007 has resulted in the worst
labor market conditions in the United States since at least the early
1980s, if not since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The federal-
state unemployment insurance (UI) program provides temporary
assistance to unemployed workers by replacing a portion of lost wages.
States maintain reserves, funded through employer taxes, in trust
funds, out of which they pay UI benefits. However, the severity and
length of the recent recession, and the slow pace of recovery, have
placed a heavy demand on state UI trust funds, and many states have
needed loans from thefederal government to continue to pay benefits.
While preliminary data showed that the economy added the most jobs in
any month in 3 years during March 2010, unemployment remains very high
and has continued to increase in most states, suggesting that state UI
programs will continue to face serious financial challenges for at
least the near future.
Concerns over the adequacy of UI trust fund levels are not new. For
the last 3 decades and particularly during prior recessions, there has
been concern that some states were not sufficiently funding their
programs. Two national commissions, one in the early 1980s and the
other in the mid-1990s, have examined UI financing, as did GAO in
1988, 1990, and 1993. Each of these studies raised concerns that long-
term state practices in UI financing have been insufficient to fulfill
the goals of the


one considers that fund levels
are buoyed by federal loans, which surged during 2009 and continue to
grow. As of April 1, 2010, 34 state trust funds had taken out federal
loans totaling $38.9 billion (see figure 1); this total loan balance
is up almost 50 percent since just December 31, 2009. By comparison,
24 states required loans during the recession of the early 1980s,
during which unemployment nationally approached 11 percent. Aggregate
net reserves (reserves less loans) as of December 31, 2009, measured -
$15.4 billion, the first such deficit since the end of 1983 and the
lowest level in the program's history. As a result of the huge outflow
of money to state trust funds, the FUA has had to borrow $33.9 billion
from the general fund as of April 7, 2010; the Department of Labor
projects FUAbillion at
the end of fiscal year 2012 before starting to grow again, with net
balances not becoming positive until well beyond fiscal year 2014. DOL
anticipates that the number of outstanding UI loans that states have
from the federal government will increase until 2012, when they could
total $90 billion. Employers in states that cannot make their loan
payments within the required 2-year period could lose some of their
FUTA tax credit and pay increasing tax rates each year until the loan
is repaid. For example, a 2009 UI solvency study by the state of New
Hampshire projected that if the state's employers lose FUTA tax
credits in 2012, they will owe an additional $153 million in taxes
through 2016, plus an additional $71 million in 2017. During past
recessions in the 1980s and 2000s, employers in approximately 20
states


ARRA, as amended, the impact
would have been much greater; it remains to be seen if EB becomes a
significant burden on states later in 2010.[Footnote 46]
States Annually Adjust Tax Rates Based on Trust Fund Levels:
Currently, all states adjust UI tax rates yearly, based on an annual
measurement of the size of the trust fund and calculation of employer
experience rating. Generally, states raise UI tax rates as the trust
fund diminishes in order to try to replenish the fund and lower them
when the fund grows to a certain level. This practice has the
advantage of providing automatic stabilization to UI funding. However,
it creates two problems. First, annual adjustments might allow rates
to remain inappropriately high or low for up to an entire year if
economic conditions change sharply soon after the "fund trigger date"
on whicha state measures its trust fund. Some states told us that
this occurred during the recent recession, which began in late 2007,
and worsened in fall 2008 following the financial meltdown, right
after some states had measured their trust funds. If states adjusted
their tax rates more frequently, employers may have seen more gradual
rate increases instead of the widespread sharp increases going into
effect in 2010. Second, tying tax rates to trust fund conditions means
that states are likely to raise taxes on employers when economic and
labor market conditions are weak (coinciding with increased benefit
payouts and low trust funds). Higher taxes during weak economic times
may exacerbate labor market conditions (since higher UI taxes make it
more expensive to hire workers) and economic recovery in general.
Thus, the effects of state tax adjustments erode at least some


event given the short period of
recovery between them. According to NBER, the recessions began in 1980
Q1, 1981 Q3, 1990 Q3, 2001 Q1, and 2007 Q4. Because of data
constraints, we use end-of-year HCM and IUR data for the 1980 and 1990
recessions, and quarterly data for the 2001 and 2007 recessions. We
categorized a state as a "borrowing" state if it had an unpaid end-of-
year loan balance to the federal government during the business cycle
starting with each recession. Additional states that we do not
categorize as a borrower may have received cash flow loans that they
repaid during the same calendar year as long as they had a zero loan
balance at the end of the year.
[36] Some states have indexed their taxable wage base for only certain
years from 1979 to 2010; others haveSpire permanently installed on WTC tower

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Show Caption Hide Caption World Trade Center hits record height The silver spire topping One World Trade Center on Friday brought the structure to its final height of 1,776 feet. Loud applause and cries of joy erupted from construction workers as the spire was gently lowered and secured into place. (May 10)

The spire weight 758 tons

The needle will be held in place by a temporary structure

To cheers from spectators and workers alike, construction crews set a silver spire atop New York City's One World Trade Center on Friday to bring the structure to its full 1,776 height and cap an emotional 12-year effort to restore a key part of the city skyline shattered by the 9/11 terror


attacks.

The 408-foot spire, which weighs 758 tons, includes a broadcast antenna and a light that will be visible from miles away to serve as a both a beacon for aircraft and a permanent signal of triumph over extremists who jolted the city and the country.

"This really is a symbolic moment because this building really represents the resiliency of this country," Port Authority Vice Chair Scott Rechler told TODAY's Matt Lauer, who was perched on the 104th floor to witness the process. "These people, the thousand men and women who have worked here tirelessly, really as a tribute for the people that perished on 9/11 right on this site."

The needle will be held in place by a temporary structure until iron workers finish off the permanent base in thecoming weeks.

The 1,776 feet — or 541 meters — is symbolic of the year 1776, when the U.S. declared its independence.

The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The area is well on its way to reconstruction with the 72-story Four World Trade Center and other buildings.

The tower is scheduled to open for business in 2014. Tenants include the magazine publisher Conde Nast, the government's General Services Administration and Vantone Holdings China Center, which will provide business space for international companies.

The elegant spire gives the building the extra height needed to claim the status as the tallest structure in the U.S. and the third-tallest in the world, although building experts dispute whether


the spire is actually an antenna — a crucial distinction in measuring the building's height.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would be looking up at the Willis Tower in Chicago, which tops out at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed. By contrast, a spire is something that is part of the building's architectural design.

Contributing: Associated PressWilliam Kalan in his military uniform from World War Two. William Kalan receives the Legion of Honor medal from the French Consulate at his home in Walnut Creek on December 29th, 2009.

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William Kalan (top row in the center) with his crew and their plane from World War II.

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An undated picture of Andre and Yvonne Roussay. The couple took in and cared for William Kalan after his plane crashed in German-occupied France. Andre was the leader of a French-resistance group ini the area.

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A picture of some of the photos that William Kalan used for false documentations.

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William Kalan gets a glass of Champagne after receving the Legion of Honor medal. William Kalan receives the Legion of Honor medal from the French Consulate at his home in Walnut Creek on December 29th, 2009.

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Jackson Wells takes a close look at the Legion of Honor medal on William Kalan's jacket. William Kalan receives the Legion of Honor medal from the French Consulate at his homein Walnut Creek on December 29th, 2009.

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William Kalan gets kiss from Jennifer Lieds after receiving his medal. William Kalan receives the Legion of Honor medal from the French Consulate at his home in Walnut Creek.

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Odette LePendu fixes William Kalan's Legion of Honor medal. She has the Legion of Medal as well.

The government of France awarded the Legion of Honor on Tuesday to a Bay Area man who was shot down over occupied France during World War II and then joined up with a secret French underground to fight the


Germans.

William Kalan, 91, a retired advertising executive who lives in the Rossmoor retirement community in Walnut Creek, received France's highest decoration from Pierre-Francois Mourier, the French consul general in San Francisco, during a ceremony at Rossmoor.

Mourier called Kalan "an exemplary human being."

"You left your country, your family and friends to fight at the risk of your life," he said.

He pinned Kalan with the Legion of Honor - a five-pointed Maltese cross with a red ribbon - then embraced the old hero. "Your sacrifice and that of your comrades has not been in vain," Mourier said.

Kalan got a standing ovation from about 100 family members and friends.

Kalan had seldom discussed his wartime adventures after he returned home, but Tuesday he told his war story slowly and softly: how hejoined the U.S. Army Air Corps when he was 24 and learned to be a pilot, though he had never before flown a plane of any description. A year later, he was the pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber on a mission over occupied France.

Bailing out

On June 22, 1944, German anti-aircraft fire knocked out one of his plane's four engines. Kalan took the crippled plane out of formation, hoping to get away. But then German fighters hit his bomber and knocked out two more engines. With only one engine left, Kalan ordered his nine crew members to bail out and then jumped, too.

Just before he hit the ground, he saw his plane swerve and miss a huge white building, which turned out to be the Chateau de Chambord,


one of France's Renaissance treasures. Inside, the French had hidden priceless objects from the Louvre, including the Mona Lisa.

Later, when he learned what was in the chateau, he was amazed.

"I almost killed the 'Mona Lisa,' " he said.

At the time, though, he had to hide from German patrols, saving his own life. He climbed a tree and hid there for two days.

"I was lucky," he said. "The Germans looked but they didn't look up."

Later, a French couple, Yvonne and Andre Roussay, took him in. The Roussays lived with their family in the village of Huisseau-sur-Cosson, in the Loire Valley, and, as it turned out, Andre Roussay was the head of an underground resistance group.

The family risked their lives to save Kalan. Death was the usual German punishment forharboring Allied airmen.

The underground

Kalan then risked his own life by working in disguise with the underground. "We were harassing the Germans, watched the roads, kept track of their movements," he said. Once they ambushed a German truck convoy, and Kalan shot the driver of the lead truck.

"I dropped a lot of bombs and probably killed people," he said. But coming face-to-face with the soldier he'd shot was different. "It is not the same," he said softly, "not the same."

Eventually, he and his co-pilot, Kenneth Klemstine, who was hidden in a nearby village, managed to hook up with U.S. troops and their war was over.

After many years, Kalan got in touch with the Roussays. They are dead now, but their youngest son, William Roussay, was on hand at Rossmoor


On October 9, 2018, the 57th Annual Session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) kicked off in Tokyo, Japan. Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Minister of Justice Takashi Yamashita of Japan and others attended and addressed the opening ceremony. 33 member states of the AALCO, observer states including Russia, and international organizations such as the United Nations attended the session as observers. The Chinese delegation, which was headed by Director-General of the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Xu Hong and consisted of the representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, attended the annual session.

The Chinese delegation expressed at the general debate that against the overall background ofglobal governance reform, it is of great significance for Asian and African countries to strengthen cooperation in international law. Asian and African countries should take the idea of a community with a shared future for mankind as guidance, unequivocally adhere to multilateralism, safeguard the core values and basic principles of international law, and uphold extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, so as to better maintain the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries and jointly promote the development of international law in the new era.

Established in 1956 in accordance with the decision of the Bandung Conference, the AALCO is the only inter-governmental international organization of Asia and Africa in the field of international law. At present, the AALCO consists of 47 member states and 2 observer states.


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On Jan. 1, New Zealand limited the purchase of existing homes to New Zealanders, Australians and permanent residents , arguing foreign speculation was distorting the real estate market.

David Parker, New Zealand's Minister of Trade and Export Growth, introduced the bill in December.

"The underlying point for us is that we think the New Zealand market for homes should be for people who live in them," he told CBC Early Edition host Stephen Quinn.

The ban doesn't apply to Australians because of previous agreements and because New Zealanders are exempt from home ownership restrictions there.

Under the new rules, non-residents can buy undeveloped land for the purpose of


building property, but it then has to be sold to a resident.

Foreign ownership in Vancouver

In the past few years, Parker said, money was flowing in from overseas — particularly from mainland China — and the property market in cities like Auckland was red hot.

He said it's difficult to know exactly to what extent the market was being influenced by foreign buyers or the number of homes they owned but that didn't stop the policy from being implemented.

In Vancouver, non-Canadian residents are estimated to own less than five per cent of properties.

Some argue, however, the number is actually much higher and masked behind shell companies, nominees and trusts,

In nearly half of Vancouver's 100 most expensive property deals, the beneficial owners are unknown, according to a 2016 report by Transparencyprejudice. The plaintiffs now appeal, raising issues centered around the alleged deprivation of their Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury.

DISCUSSION
The right of an individual to be tried by a jury of peers was deemed so important by the nation's founders that the Bill of Rights contained explicit reference to the principle. In the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, the drafters provided:
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
The phrase "common law," does not, however, mean "merely suits, which the common law recognized among


at the same conclusion. The plaintiff in Osborn v. Haley, 549 U.S. 225, 127 S.Ct. 881, 166 L.Ed.2d 819 (2007), filed suit against an employee of the United States Forest Service alleging tortious interference with an employment relationship. Under the authority of the Westfall Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2679(b)(1), the Attorney General certified that Haley, the Forest Service employee, had been acting within the scope of his employment when the alleged wrongdoing occurred. See Osborn, 549 U.S. at 230-31, 127 S.Ct. 881. Consequently, upon the filing of the certification, the case was removed from state court to federal court, and the United States was substituted for Haley as the named defendant, thus negating Osborn's right to request a jury trial. See id. at 234, 127 S.Ct. 881. BecauseAs usual, Serena Williams stands alone.

The 23-time Grand Slam winner is again the last American left at the U.S. Open following Taylor Townsend’s 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 fourth-round loss to 15th-seeded Bianca Andreescu early Tuesday morning at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Andreescu will face 25th-seeded Elise Mertens in her first-ever grand slam quarterfinals — the first by a Canadian at the U.S. Open since 1992 — while Townsend leaves with the best two weeks of her young career.

After reaching the third round of the 2014 French Open in her Grand Slam debut, Townsend had failed to reach the third round of a major in 15 straight main draw appearances. Then, the 23-year-old won three matches in U.S. Open qualifying and another three over the past week to reach the second week


first and second opposing end walls that define a longitudinal axis, and first and second opposing side walls. The block further includes two apertures extending from the upper surface toward the lower surface, the apertures being sized and configured to receive each of the plurality of twisted pairs of a cable. Each of the side walls includes at least one open-ended slot opening downwardly, the slots being sized and configured to receive a respective twisted pair of conductors and hold them in place. From there the conductors can be punched into place with a punch tool to connect to the IDCs of a terminal connection region.
Although these solutions are adequate, it may in some instances be desirable to provide even more control of the positions of the conductorsDonald Trump’s Supreme Court ‘Survivor’ reaches a dramatic conclusion

If the suspense building ahead of President Trump's Supreme Court announcement seemed familiar, then you might be a fan of reality television. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)

The season finale of "Supreme Court: Donald Trump edition" was — if I'm being honest — a little anticlimactic.

Trump announced Tuesday night that he had selected Colorado appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia 11 months ago. In the run-up to Trump's prime-time announcement, which was carried live by every network, most of the reporting pointed to Gorsuch as the pick — with most people hedging their bets only because Trump is, well, Trump.

But, if Trump's pick for the court wound up being predictable and


He delivered a relatively brief speech, noting that he had conducted the "most transparent judicial selection process in history."

Trump also took time to acknowledge Maureen McCarthy Scalia, the widow of the late justice who, of course, was seated front and center.

Then Trump got to the main event. He named Gorsuch, who emerged from the wings with his wife — again to sustained applause. (One hiccup for Trump: He botched the introduction of Gorsuch. "Neil Gorsuch of the United States Supreme Court, to be of the United States Supreme Court," Trump said. Er, what?)

Trump, clearly pleased with both his pick and the production, couldn't help but engage in a revealing bit of self-congratulation. "So was that a surprise?," Trump asked no one in particular. "Was it?"

The stage, the show,Petro Poroshenko in Kiev. I am told that the communication to him was forceful, like an ultimatum, and that he was informed that he could either cooperate or be replaced. But the Merkel-Putin agreement went awry with the tragedy of the Malaysian Airlines flight shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17.

Kiev’s strategy

Poroshenko and the Kiev government have done their part to undermine the chances of a cease-fire. Since late spring, Kiev’s strategy has been to launch so-called volunteers in the hastily formed National Guard against the Donbass region. The recent indiscriminate shelling, mortar fire and rocketing of the major city of Donetsk is part of a strategy to drain the morale of pro-Russian Ukrainians. The Kiev plan includes undisciplined violence by paramilitary units such as the shadowy


Azov Battalion, which is reportedly camped on the Sea of Azov at Berdyansk, approximately 80 miles southwest of Donetsk. Members of the battalion include foreign nationals recruited by a self-described former French legionnaire. Many of the non-Ukrainians boast of their far-right ideology. The Ukrainian members reportedly identify themselves as ultra-right Ukrainian nationalists and wear symbols meant to be associated with neo-Nazis, such as the Celtic cross.

Time favors the Kremlin. Winter does not delay its arrival because of EU meetings, gambits by the US or debates at the UN Security Council.

The most outspoken member of the Azov Battalion is Swedish national Mikhail Skillt, who says that he was a member of the Swedish neo-Nazi party Svenskarnas and that the Russian separatists have placed a bounty on him. The KievThe "Four Seasons Animation Concert Executive Committee" announced on Thursday that it will launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for its animation project based on Antonio Vivaldi's classical concerto series The Four Seasons . Ann Yamamoto, assistant professor at Tokyo University of the Arts and president of Pied Piper, Inc. (Skip Beat!, Time of Eve Kickstarter campaigns), is assisting with the project.

A Japanese crowdfunding campaign already launched on the Ready For platform last month. As of press time the project has earned 3,435,000 yen of its five million yen (about US$44,604) goal and has 14 days remaining.

The project will consist of four animated shorts by different directors, one for each season. Russian animator Anna Budanova will handle the "Spring" segment, Estonian husband and wife team Priit Pärn and Olga


Pärn will handle "Summer" segment, Japanese animator Atsushi Wada ("The Great Rabbit," "Anomalies") will handle the "Autumn" segment, and Bulgarian animator Theodore Ushev will handle the "Winter" segment.

The project is aiming to debut the animation in both live performance and on DVD. If funded, the project's first performance is slated for November 19 at Hibiki Hall in Kitakyushu, with a Yokohama performance to follow in December.Carmel's L'Auberge gets a cosmetic make-over

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The entrance to the historic L'Auberge built in 1929.

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Carmel's historic L'Auberge hotel has been around since 1929, when it began life as the "Sun Dial Court and Bungalows." According to David Fink, CEO of Mirabel Hotel and Restaurant Group - which owns L'Auberge - it was built by former Carmel Mayor Allen Knight. "He was on a bike trip in Prague when he fell in love with a building there," said Fink. Knight asked the owners for the blueprints, made drawings, brought them back to Carmel, and with the help of architect Albert Farr, had the hotel built on a property where his aunts had a home. According to Fink, the aunts' home was moved on


A common type of thermionic converter of a nuclear reactor includes a housing with a hollow collector, and an emitter containing nuclear fuel within the collector. The emitter has one end fixed to the collector and a second or "free" end lying within but out of contact with the collector. The "free" end of the emitter must be supported against sideward movement against the collector while allowing it to move axially as it expands and contracts with changing temperatures. The space between emitter and collector is filled with a cesium plasma in the normal mode of operation of common thermionic converters.
One prior type of support arrangement for the "free" end of the emitter, includes a spring structure formed by a pair of Belleville washers. A forward end ofthe spring structure lies against the "free" end of the emitter and a opposite rear end lies against a support structure that is supported on the housing. The support structure was formed of ceramic. In tests it was found that as a result of extended exposure to high temperatures, nuclear radiation, and the cesium plasma environment, the ceramic support structure cracked, discolored at its outside edge, and apparently disappeared in the center. These phenomena raise concern over contamination of the space between the emitter and collector by loose ceramic particles, as well as shorting of the cell by the unsupported emitter second end touching the collector. A support arrangement which avoided these problems would be of considerable value.


RA90

The RA90 disk drive was the first Digital Equipment Corporation drive to be based on "thin film" technology.  Prior to the RA90 all Digital disk drives used "oxide" disks, which were an aluminum disk coated with a polyurethane binder resin containing gamma ferric oxide particles as the recording medium. The RA90 was used with controllers implementing the Mass Storage Control Protocol.

Technics
Thin film disks, on the other hand, consisted of a metallic coating applied onto an aluminum substrate which had first been coated with a nickel-phosphate alloy (non magnetic) to add hardness to the soft aluminum substrate. The reason thin film disks could provide higher storage capacity has to do with the physics of magnetic recording. A plated or sputtered magnetic layer could be made much thinner thanvoltage to a load and a feedback circuit for feeding back the output voltage to the operational amplifier; a first inductance unit disposed between the constant voltage supplying circuit and the load; and a first bypass capacitor of which one terminal is coupled between the first inductance unit and the load and the other terminal is coupled to a constant voltage unit.
Inductance between the first bypass capacitor and the load of the constant voltage source circuit may be smaller than inductance between the constant voltage supplying circuit and the load.
The constant voltage source circuit may further comprise a first resistor coupled to the first inductance unit in parallel.
The constant voltage source circuit may further comprise a compensation circuit comprising a second resistor, a second inductance unit and a


second bypass capacitor, one end of each of the second resistor, the second inductance unit and the second bypass capacitor being coupled to each other, wherein the other end of the second resistor is coupled to an end of the first inductance unit near the constant voltage supplying circuit, the other end of the second inductance unit is coupled to a load side end of the first inductance unit and the other end of the second bypass capacitor is coupled to the constant voltage unit.
Inductance between the second bypass capacitor and the load of the constant voltage source circuit maybe larger than inductance between the first bypass capacitor and the load.
Capacitance of the second bypass capacitor of the constant voltage source circuit may be larger than capacitance ofthe first bypass capacitor.
Inductance of the second inductance unit of the constant voltage source circuit maybe smaller than inductance of the first inductance unit.
At least one of inductances between respective the first and second bypass capacitors and the load of the constant voltage source circuit maybe inductance of respective wiring lines between the first and second bypass capacitors and the load.
At least one of the first and second inductance units of the constant voltage source circuit may be a wiring line.
Inductances between respective the first and second bypass capacitors and the load of the constant voltage source circuit may be inductances of wiring lines between the first or second bypass capacitors and the load, and the first and second inductance units may be wiring lines.
The constant voltage source


circuit may further comprise: a first compensation circuit comprising a second resistor, a second inductance unit and a second bypass capacitor, one end of each of the second resistor, the second inductance unit and the second bypass capacitor being coupled to each other, wherein the other end of the second resistor is coupled to an end of the first inductance unit near the constant voltage supplying circuit, the other end of the second inductance unit is coupled to a load side end of the first inductance unit and the other end of the second bypass capacitor is coupled to the constant voltage unit; and a second compensation circuit comprising a third resistor, a third inductance unit and a third bypass capacitor, one end of each of the thirdresistor, the third inductance unit and the third bypass capacitor being coupled to each other, wherein the other end of the third resistor is coupled to an end of the first inductance unit near the constant voltage supplying circuit, the other end of the third inductance unit is coupled to a load side end of the first inductance unit and the other end of the third bypass capacitor is coupled to the constant voltage unit.
Inductance between the second bypass capacitor and the load of the constant voltage source circuit may be larger than inductance between the first bypass capacitor and the load, and inductance between the third bypass capacitor and the load may be larger than inductance between the second bypass capacitor and the load.
Capacitance of the second


capacitor of the constant voltage source circuit maybe larger than capacitance of the first capacitor, and capacitance of the third capacitor may be larger than capacitance of the second capacitor.
Inductances of the second and third inductance units of the constant voltage source circuit may be smaller than inductance of the first inductance unit, and inductance of the third inductance unit may be larger than inductance of the second inductance unit.
Resistance of the third resistor of the constant voltage source circuit maybe larger than resistance of the second resistor.
At least one of inductances between respective the first, second and third bypass capacitors and the load of the constant voltage source circuit may be inductance of respective wiring lines between the first, second and third bypass capacitors and the load.
Atleast one of the first, second and third inductance units of the constant voltage source circuit may be a wiring line.
Inductances between respective the first, second and third bypass capacitors and the load of the constant voltage source circuit may be inductances of respective wiring lines between the first, second and third bypass capacitors and the load, and the first, second and third inductance units may be wiring lines.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, a constant voltage source circuit board comprises: a constant voltage supplying circuit comprising an operational amplifier for supplying an output voltage to a load and a feedback circuit for feeding back the output voltage to the operational amplifier; a first inductance unit disposed between the constant voltage supplying circuit and the


load; and a first bypass capacitor of which one terminal is coupled between the first inductance unit and the load and the other terminal is coupled to a constant voltage unit, wherein the first bypass capacitor is disposed near the load.
The first inductance unit of constant voltage source circuit board may be a wiring line.
The constant voltage source circuit board may further comprise: a first compensation circuit comprising a second resistor, a second inductance unit and a second bypass capacitor, one end of each of the second resistor, the second inductance unit and the second bypass capacitor being coupled to each other, wherein the other end of the second resistor is coupled to an end of the first inductance unit near the constant voltage supplying circuit, the otherend of the second inductance unit is coupled to a load side end of the first inductance unit and the other end of the second bypass capacitor is coupled to the constant voltage unit; and the second bypass capacitor is disposed at a place farther than a place where the first bypass capacitor is disposed from the load.
At least one of inductances between respective the first and second bypass capacitors and the load may be inductance of respective wiring lines between the first and second bypass capacitors and the load.
At least one of the first and second inductance units may be a wiring line.
Inductances between respective the first and second bypass capacitors and the load maybe respectively inductances of wiring lines between the first and second bypass capacitors


and the load, and the first and second inductance units may be wiring lines.
Capacitance of the second capacitor may be larger than capacitance of the first capacitor.
Inductance of the second inductance unit may be smaller than inductance of the first inductance unit.
The constant voltage source circuit board may further comprise: a second compensation circuit comprising a third resistor, a third inductance unit and a third bypass capacitor, one end of each of the third resistor, the third inductance unit and the third bypass capacitor being coupled to each other, wherein the other end of the third resistor is coupled to an end of the first inductance unit near the constant voltage supplying circuit, the other end of the third inductance unit is coupled to a load side endof the first inductance unit and the other end of the third bypass capacitor is coupled to the constant voltage unit, and the third bypass capacitor is disposed at a place farther than a place where the second bypass capacitor is disposed from the load.
At least one of inductances between respective the first, second and third bypass capacitors and the load may be inductance of respective wiring lines between the first, second and third bypass capacitors and the load.
At least one of the first, second and third inductance units may be a wiring line.
Inductance between respective the first, second or third bypass capacitors and the load may be inductance of respective wiring lines between the first, second or third bypass capacitors and the load, and the first, second


or third inductance units may be wiring lines, respectively.
Capacitance of the second capacitor may be larger than capacitance of the first capacitor, and capacitance of the third capacitor may be larger than capacitance of the second capacitor.
Inductance of the third inductance unit may be larger than inductance of the second inductance unit and smaller than inductance of the first inductance unit.
At least one of the first, second and third bypass capacitors may be disposed around the load.
At least a portion of the wiring line may be disposed around the load.
At least a portion of at least one of wiring lines between respective the first, second and third bypass capacitors and the load may be piled over other wiring line.
One wiring line of constant voltage source circuit board mayface first on the cobbles. He was taken to Ieper hospital where he was diagnosed with concussion and a fractured eye socket. His teammate Matthew Wilson sprained his wrist, while compatriot Mathew Hayman (Rabobank) broke his elbow. American Tyler Farrar (Cofidis) came down and broke his kneecap, which will put him out of action for a month. Milram's Alessandro Petacchi and Fabio Sacchi both suffered contusions, while their teammate Marco Velo broke two ribs and injured his knee and collarbone. Landbouwkrediet's Andy Capelle broke his elbow while teammate James Vanlandschoot broke his wrist, thumb and elbow. Belgian Wilfried Cretskens (Quick.Step) suffered a deep cut to his right arm, and will not be racing Paris-Roubaix this Sunday. Wim de Vocht (Predictor) broke his thumb, and Heinrich Haussler (Gerolsteiner) bruised


we are left with the utilitarian trappings of a once highly decorative (“grand,” as the playwright says) apartment overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. It is a world of echoes, of dust just out of reach, of the staggering journey from the chair to the bedroom, and back again. A room that is somewhat lost in time, inhabited by a woman who is simultaneously antique and vibrant. Old and current. There are others in the apartment, Mathias and Chloe, but it was not built for them, and it is not them. Mathilde is the apartment, and the apartment is Mathilde. Now distilling all of that into logistics Darren Sextro, the director, and I, had lunch. During which we talked about a great many things having nothing at allat Union Station. Performance and ticket info at www.kcactors.org or 816-235-6222.

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Bret is a recent graduate from UMKC with an MFA in Scenic Design. Originally from Long Beach, CA, Bret got his BA in Technical Theatre from Cal State University Long Beach. He is currently the Props Master for the Unicorn Theatre’s current season and for The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Bret made his Kansas City Debut designing Clybourne Park for the Unicorn Theatre and has subsequently designed The Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Liar for UMKC Theatre, and The Whale for the Unicorn Theatre. Recently Bret designed The Way We Get By at the Unicorn Theatre. Bret is excited to be working with Kansas City Actor’s Theatre.


Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has described Scott Ludlam's oversight regarding his New Zealand citizenship as "remarkable".

Mr Ludlam, the Greens deputy leader, has stood down from the Senate after he was told he had not renounced his New Zealand citizenship, meaning he was ineligible to be a candidate for parliament.

"Obviously Senator Ludlam's oversight is a pretty remarkable one when you think about it - he's been in the Senate for so long," Mr Turnbull said.

"Anyway, there it is, he's ineligible, and so there'll have to be, I assume, a countback ordered by the High Court to produce a replacement for him."

Mr Turnbull was asked if Mr Ludlam would be required to pay back his salary.

"There is a practice about that, it'll be considered by the Minister for Finance ismy recollection of the way it's dealt with in the past, so I'll leave that to be dealt with by him."

John Cameron, a Perth barrister, has admitted he informed the clerk of the Senate and then-senator, after he made the discovery.

Precedents for debt being waived

Sorry, this video has expired Greens senator Scott Ludlam resigns over failure to renounce dual citizenship

The Senate and the Department of Finance had pursued former South Australian Family First senator Bob Day and former West Australian One Nation senator Rod Culleton for repayment of salaries and allowances.

The Federal Government later agreed to waive debts owed by Mr Day, who the High Court had ruled was not validly elected.

Former WA senator Rod Culleton was asked to pay back his salaries and allowances. ( ABC News:


David Weber )

The government said it had advice Mr Day may have been unable to repay the funds.

In May, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said Mr Culleton had received the same letter as Mr Day outlining options related to the debts.

The ABC's election analyst Antony Green said he thought it was unlikely Mr Ludlam's salary would be clawed back.

"In the past, the rule has been that they've waived that, Senator Ludlam has worked as a senator, carried out the functions, done constituency work, he's attended parliament, so he's done all the work," said Green.

"The question of qualifications has come up — the parliament doesn't usually try and get the salary back.

"It's history making, there's three senators have now been ruled out all by different sections, different parts ofManchester City's owners are assessing a number of potential locations as they consider expanding their global network of clubs.

The City Football Group, which also owns New York City and Melbourne City as well having a share in Japanese side Yokohama F Marinos, could add to its portfolio.

The Chinese Super League has been identified as a market of potential while there have also been reports of a possible move into South America.

Manchester city owner Sheik Mansour (centre) is looking to expand their club portfolio

Tom Glick, CFG chief commercial officer, said: 'The important thing for us is to add the right clubs in the right cities, in the right leagues. We are open to this.

'There are a number of leagues and countries that are quite interesting. It is certainly something


we are focused on.

'We are equally focused on making sure each of our current clubs - Manchester, New York, Melbourne, Yokohama are performing at their highest level.'

Glick was speaking in Manchester at an event to announce Korean tyre manufacturer Nexen Tire, a partner since 2015, as City's new shirt sleeve sponsor.

The City Football Group also own New York City as well as Australian outfit Melbourne City

City are the first club in the Premier League to establish such an arrangement, which will be allowed in the competition from the start of the 2017-18 season.

Glick said: 'We feel fortunate that Nexen Tire not only want to continue with us but want to intensify and elevate their investment and involvement. We have a great relationship with them.

'This is an exciting companyFollowing the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Eric Paddock said that he and his brother, the suspected Las Vegas gunman, did not see their father much during their childhood. Their dad, a bank robber and con man, was in and out of prison — and often on the run.

“We didn’t grow up under his influence,” Eric Paddock told reporters outside his home in Orlando on Monday.

“I was born on the run,” he added, noting that “my dad was about to be arrested for robbing banks.”

Benjamin Hoskins Paddock escaped from federal prison in 1969, earning a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

He was described in the FBI’s wanted poster as “psychopathic’’ with suicidal tendencies. According to news accounts, he was not captured until 1978, when he


was nabbed while running a bingo parlor in Oregon.

Officials confirmed that he was the father of Stephen Paddock, who authorities said opened fire from the window of a 32nd-floor hotel room overlooking a concert on the Las Vegas Strip, where 22,000 people had gathered for a three-day country music festival. At least 58 people were killed, including an off-duty police officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, authorities said. More than 500 others, including two on-duty officers, were injured.

After the shooting, he was found dead by Las Vegas SWAT officers in his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

More than five decades earlier, Benjamin Hoskins Paddock was in the same town, running from suspected crimes of his own.

According to newspaper clippings from the summer of1960, FBI agents had been searching for Paddock, who was accused of robbing banks in Arizona. When agents approached him in Las Vegas in late July of that year, he jumped into his car and tried to run one of them down, the newspaper reported.

He surrendered after an FBI agent fired through his windshield.

“It was a harrowing experience,” the agent, John T. Reilly, said at the time.

Reilly said he aimed at Paddock “to save my own life,” adding that the fugitive’s car stopped about a foot away from him — “so fast that it [the car] was rocking.”

Benjamin Paddock had already served time behind bars in the 1940s and 1950s, according to articles in the Arizona Republic.

After his capture by the FBI, he was convicted in 1961 of


bank robbery and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. But on Feb. 3, 1969, he escaped.

At the time, Stephen Paddock would have been 15 years old. Eric was half Stephen’s age and said Monday that they had two other brothers, Bruce and Patrick.

Benjamin Paddock died in recent years, Eric Paddock said, adding that it was news to him: He said he grew up thinking his father was dead.

At 6-foot-4 and 245 pounds, Benjamin Paddock used a host of aliases, and was also known as “Chromedome” and “Old Baldy,” according to his FBI Most Wanted alert, which bore J. Edgar Hoover’s signature.

The Arizona Republic reported in July 1960 that Paddock was “known as a hot rod racer” and shaved his head so he would look like actor YulNorth Korea has declared war about 200 times in the past 20 years.

So Monday's chest-puffing announcement that the rogue regime was ready to shoot down American planes since it believed the United States had issued "a declaration of war," was really just par for the course, rather than the ratcheting up of tensions.

"[T]his is clearly a declaration of war on all members states," North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told reporters on Monday. "The whole world should remember U.S. declared war on our people. The U.N. charter stipulates right of defense in charter."

Under the U.N. Charter, Ri said, North Korea has the right to self-defense and "every right" to take countermeasures, "including the right to shoot down the United States strategic bombers even when they're not yet inside


the airspace border of our country."

AS NORTH KOREA THREATENS ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE ATTACK, QUESTIONS OVER LAPSES IN US GRID SECURITY RISE

The White House pushed back on Ri’s claim saying: “We have not declared war on North Korea.”

Ri's statement was met with instant alarm by many, and seemed to be yet another escalation in the war of words -- that threatens to explode into something more -- between the U.S. and North Korea.

But Wall Street Journal Japan Editor Alastair Gale tweeted Tuesday the phrase "declaration of war" has appeared in North Korean state media more than 200 times since 1997.

The most recent time before Monday came in July, when the U.S. placed sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and 10 other officials for “human rights abuses,” according toThe Atlantic. North Korea’s news agency described the sanctions as “a declaration of war.”

Before the release of the Seth Rogen and James Franco film “The Interview” in June 2014, North Korea threatened military action against the U.S. due to the film’s plot, which revolved around a mock assassination of Kim Jong Un.

In November 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia’s parent company, was hacked by the “Guardians of Peace,” an organization the FBI said was linked to North Korea, USA Today reported. The group also warned it would attack any movie theater that showed the film. North Korea denied any involvement in the hacking.

North Korea has lethally targeted the U.S. before and succeeded.

In 1969, North Korean fighter jets shot down a U.S. Military aircraft, killing all 31 people aboard. President


Richard Nixon reportedly contemplated responding with nuclear weapons, but ultimately reconsidered, The Atlantic reported.

The last time North Korea fired on a U.S. aircraft was in 1994, when it shot down a U.S. Army helicopter around the heavily armed inter-Korean border, killing one of the pilots and capturing the other. The surviving pilot said after his release he was pressured by North Korean officials to "confess" the helicopter had crossed into North Korea.

OTTO WARMBIER’S PARENTS OPEN UP ABOUT SON’S TORTURE BY NORTH KOREA: ‘THEY ARE TERRORISTS’

Experts told The Associated Press it was highly unlikely North Korea would attempt a similar attack today -- mainly because the country probably can't.

Amid tensions created by the North's nuclear weapons tests and threats to detonate a thermonuclear missile over the Pacific Ocean, suchan attack would pretty much guarantee retaliation from the U.S. that could lead to war -- and ultimately to the ouster or death of Kim Jong Un, Du Hyeogn Cha, a scholar at Seoul’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies told The Associated Press.

"The most obvious reason Ri made those comments was because North Korea simply can't tolerate such high profile insults to its supreme leadership," Cha said. It's also possible that the North is trying to fan concerns about a potential military clash in the region now so that it can win room to save face later when it tries to de-escalate, he said.

North Korea currently has about 1,300 aircraft, most of them from the Soviet Union era, The U.S. Defense Department said in 2015. The planes could


Mamphela Ramphele Speaks Out About the State of Education in South Africa

At the third congress for the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa), held last month, Ramphele compared the state of South African education to a sinking ship. She likened the situation to that of the Italian passenger ship Costa Concordia, saying that government officials that have pulled their children out of public schools are like the ship’s captain who was among the first to leave the sinking vessel. She called for experts and specialists to fill teaching positions and encouraged parents and children to insist on their right to a good education.

The following week, Ramphele delivered Unisa’s 2012 Founders Lecture on “Educating and Training the 21st Century South African Citizen”. She spoke about the negativeimpact of South Africa’s inability to close the gap between the education offered to poor students and that of their wealthier counterparts.

Mamphela Ramphele has compared the state of education in South Africa to a sinking ship, Beeld reported on Thursday.

Speaking at the third congress of teacher’s union Naptosa in Benoni on Wedesday, Ramphele, the founder of the Citizens Movement, an organisation that lobbies for social change, used the example of the Italian passenger ship the Costa Concordia, where the captain slept while his ship was wrecked.


of Schönburg.

The castle was burned down in 1689 by French soldiers during the War of the Grand Alliance.

Schönburg today
Schönburg castle remained in ruins for 200 years until it was acquired by the German-American Rhinelander family who bought the castle from the town of Oberwesel in the  late 19th century, and restored it.

The town council of Oberwesel acquired the castle back from the Rhinelander family in 1950.

Since 1957 the Hüttl family have been living at the castle on a long-term lease; they operate a successful hotel and restaurant there.

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Aerial views of Schönburg castle

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Category:JugendburgCorporation, valued by the court at $54,000. Bert's primary contention on appeal concerns this valuation.
The Rostel Corporation is a close corporation, founded in 1971. At the time of these proceedings it was owned equally by Bert and Kathryn. Its sole source of revenue is commissions on sales of electrical equipment earned by Bert, who is employed by the corporation and who represents different electrical manufacturers from outside Alaska. The court arrived at the $54,000 figure by averaging the corporation's income for the years 1976, 1977 and 1978, as established by the Rostels' joint income tax returns and withholding forms for those years. Bert claimed that the correct valuation was only around $22,000, representing the corporation's cash, earned commissions and equipment (automobiles and office furnishings).
On appeal, Bert renews his


Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. She sang the role of Countess Geschwitz in Lulu in Paris in 1979. She has also made many concert appearances, notably with Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Her recordings include Parsifal (Armin Jordan),  Der Rosenkavalier (Georg Solti), The Marriage of Figaro (Colin Davis), Bach's Mass in B minor (Karl Münchinger), Rossini's Stabat Mater, Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, Mahler's The Song of the Earth, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (all with Solti), Tristan und Isolde (Leonard Bernstein), and Béatrice et Bénédict (Daniel Barenboim).

In the New Year Honours 1980, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to music.

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New York Times review of Eugene Onegin at Glyndebourne, 4 JuneAccording to the European Court of Human Rights, the feelings of Muslims are more important than liberty. A critique of the Religion of Peace can be deemed a threat to "religious peace."

The European Court of Human Rights ruled this week that defaming the Prophet Muhammad is not protected speech. More specifically, the court said an "Austrian woman's conviction for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn't breach her freedom of speech," the Associated Press reported. The ECHR explained in its ruling that Austrian courts had "carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected." The woman explained in 2009 during a seminar discussion that the Prophet Muhammad's marriage to a six-year-old girl was basically "pedophilia." "A 56-year-old


mass immigration, in every large European city. We all know where this kind of appeasement leads to.

What this shameful episode shows is that the legal elites of the faltering European Union have a complete different idea about liberty, as compared to the ideas of the Founding Fathers in the USA. In pursuit of a European "Bill of Rights," large treaties were signed, great speeches held, and supranational institutions created. But when push comes to shove, freedom of speech, one of the basic liberties – maybe the most fundamental one of them all – is deemed less important than the feelings of Muslims. Moreover, ironically, critique of the "Religion of Peace" is now deemed a threat to "religious peace."Under Fregosi, team shows signs of life

PHILLIES: A LONG ROAD BACK

May 05, 1991|By Bill Glauber | Bill Glauber,Sun Staff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia--Welcome to baseball's outback.

Sure, about 2 million fans will show up at Veterans Stadium this season, populating otherwise rutted terrain in the National League East. But does anyone outside Philadelphia actually follow the Phillies? Howard Spira has a higher profile.

But suddenly, in this spring of 1991, the Phillies are presenting an intriguing picture. Maybe by September they'll be renowned for something other than Lenny Dykstra's inability to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em.

After replacing Nick Leyva 13 games into the season to win baseball's fire-the-manager sweepstakes, the Phillies are veering on course under the born-again patience of Jim Fregosi. The starting rotation


remains a nightly mystery, and fielding ground balls is often an adventure, but the Phillies are recasting their image with a blend of experienced wall-bangers and clubhouse flakes.

"I can see light at the end of the tunnel," general manager Lee Thomas said.

Goodness knows this team was threatening to fall out of the playoff chase by May Day.

Spring training opened with Dykstra called as a witness to explain losses totaling $77,000 in poker games organized by Jackson, Miss., businessman Herbert Kelso. Kelso was acquitted, and Dykstra was placed on a year's probation by baseball commissioner Fay Vincent. Kelso said he and Dykstra were so close that if Dykstra were a woman, they'd be lovers.

Meanwhile, back in Clearwater, Fla., Leyva was under siege, trying to cobble together a pitching staffwhile warding off rumors that his job was imperiled. The rumors never died. And the pitching staff eventually cost Leyva his job when the team got off to a 4-9 start.

Dave LaPoint lasted 2 2/3 innings and gave up nine runs in two starts before being released. Good thing, too, because Phillies fans actually were getting angry at this guy.

In the first game of a doubleheader April 20, starter Jason Grimsley allowed one hit, two walks, one wild pitch, two hit batsmen and five earned runs. Oh, he did get one batter out before leaving the game.

Did we mention the wild pitches? Nineteen of them in the first 21 games. Tommy Greene threw one that bounced off the top of the backstop at New York's Shea Stadium. A


their own heart of darkness. Years of blundering trades, front-office politics and minor-league ineptitude brought the Phillies crashing to the bottom of the NL East with 96 losses in 1988 and 95 in '89. The 1989 retirement of future Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt also left the team without a star figure.

"Every organization has ups and downs," said Thomas, the former director of player personnel for the St. Louis Cardinals, who was hired as Phillies general manager in 1988. "This ballclub was at a low ebb."

Thomas backed up the moving vans, signed a few modest free agents and made 21 trades in three years. In all, 18 of the current Phillies were acquired by Thomas. In five major deals, he plucked Dykstra and Roger McDowell fromthe New York Mets, John Kruk and Randy Ready from the San Diego Padres, Dale Murphy from the Atlanta Braves, Charlie Hayes and Mulholland from the San Francisco Giants and Mitch Williams from the Chicago Cubs. Not a bad winning streak for a team that once traded away Ryne Sandberg and Guillermo (Willie) Hernandez and let George Bell leave in a minor-league draft.

"We got lucky on some trades," Thomas said. "I'm not out to rip someone off."

Thomas said the team, coming off a fourth-place, 77-85 finish, was capable of winning 85 games and contending in the NL East this season. After the faltering start under Leyva, Thomas brought in Fregosi, who was neatly stashed in the broadcasters' booth.

Fregosi is the answer to that trivia question: Whom did the


New York Mets covet when they traded Nolan Ryan to the California Angels back when Richard Nixon was president? Among Fregosi's accomplishments were becoming a six-time All-Star shortstop with the Angels and serving two terms as a major-league manager, with the Angels (1978-81) and the Chicago White Sox (1986-88).

By his admission, Fregosi was a boorish figure when he managed the Angels, who won the 1979 American League West title and lost to the Orioles in the playoffs.Trent Lowe has probably been long forgotten in the pro cycling world. However, whenever I hear of more fall-out and see the inconsistency with the way riders and staff are treated, I can’t help think of Trent Lowe who may have received the worst end of the stick. Last week Trent’s name was briefly back in the spotlight with an apology issued by cyclingnews, and I had a chance to catch up with him and talk candidly about their apology, the recent doping admissions at his ex-teammates, and his views on the current state of cycling for young professionals.

Before I interviewed Trent Lowe in early 2011 I only knew him by reputation. Upbeat, positive, talented, and an all-round good bloke. The interview was at the time when both


for various inaccurate statements that were published about him on our news site. Cyclingnews.com would like to apologise to Trent Lowe for various inaccurate statements that were published about him on our news site. Cyclingnews.com acknowledges that Trent Lowe has in no way been involved in the doping scandals surrounding Floyd Landis and Ricardo Ricco and apologises for inferring in an article in February 2011 that he was involved in doping or cheating. Cyclingnews.com also acknowledges that it was wrong to suggest in an article in January 2011 that Mr Lowe was fired from the Garmin Cycling Team due to doping involvement with Dr Del Moral, or that he intended to blackmail Garmin. Cyclingnews.com acknowledges that Garmin has since confirmed Mr Lowe’s innocence regarding doping; and that Mr.Lowe was in fact fired for allegedly attending another team’s training camp. Cyclingnews.com understands that Mr Lowe consulted Dr Moral after being referred for a health check, by the former directeur sportif of Team Garmin, to Dr Moral’s clinic in Valencia where Mr Lowe was living at the time. It was determined Mr Lowe was suffering from chronic fatigue at the time. Cyclingnews.com apologises unreservedly to Mr Lowe for any damage that may have been done to his reputation.

Trent Lowe is now settled into life back home in Melbourne and is doing well for himself. A couple days ago I spoke to Trent about the apology, his take on the recent fall-outs at his ex-team, and his views on the current state of cycling for young professionals.

[CyclingTips] How


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On June 26, 2009, Epstein was released from prison and began his second term of supervised release. On August 14, 2009, he was discovered at an unauthorized location and in possession of an unauthorized cell phone in violation of the conditions of his supervised release. On September 17, 2009, after Epstein admitted to these violations, the District Court again revoked his supervised release and sentenced him principally to 24 months' imprisonment with no term of supervised release. Epstein filed a timely appeal.

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