BMW to Manufacture Electric Vehicles at Leipzig Factory

German automaker BMW has announced that it is gearing up its Leipzig factory to manufacture electric vehicles, which are expected to roll off the factory floor starting in 2013. The news comes as the company recently debuted their Active-E concept EV at the Detroit Auto Show in January. Known for its precise engineering, the German company is certainly capable of making a big splash in the auto world now that they’ve made a serious commitment to produce electric vehicles.à jouer la Mandoline
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Births
January 18 – Antonio Rodriguez de Hita, Spanish composer (died 1787)
March 30 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (died 1847)
April 1 – Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer and conductor (died 1844)
April 25 – Louis Deland, actor, singer and dancer (died 1823)
May 1 – Jacques-Michel Hurel de Lamare, cellist (died 1823)
May 2 – Friedrich von Hardenberg, librettist and poet (died 1801)
June 10 – Greta Naterberg, folk singer (d. 1818)
June 12 – Franz Cramer, violinist (died 1848)
July 15 – Lucile Grétry, French composer (died 1790)
September 3 – Nicola Tacchinardi, cellist and operatic tenor (died 1859)
September 27 – Antonio Casimir


aura) are members of the rather small avian family known as Cathartidae. This strictly New World family also includes the Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus), commonly seen in the southeastern US and in southern Arizona, as well as the condors, the endangered California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) and the South American specialty Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus). There is also the King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa), a strikingly plumaged and strictly tropical species, and two other less well-known close cousins of the Turkey Vulture, the Greater and Lesser Yellow-headed Vultures (Cathartes melambrotus and Cathartes burrovianus respectively). Greater and Lesser Yellow-heads are in fact so similar to Turkey Vultures structurally that you really need to get a decent close-up view of their heads in order to tell the difference. You will only findapparently was studying animals and making illustrations. He became quite accomplished at making lithographs. He was one of the first if not *the* first person to make pictures like this, and I encourage you to do a Google image search on “Swainson’s lithographs” to get an idea of the kinds of illustrations he made. John J Audubon was an admirer of his, for good reason. Swainson worked with another naturalist named John Richardson and in the late 1820s they produced a volume called Fauna Boreali-Americana, which featured hundreds of Swainson’s excellent depictions of birds observed and collected by Richardson in North America. From what I can tell, Swainson himself never visited North America, although he did spend a fair amount of time in Brazil.

Anyway, one of the birds


it’s not unfair to posit that Swainson probably did have a big ego. In an unrelated matter, Swainson later in his life moved to New Zealand, and a few years after that was offered a position as a “Botanical Surveyor” in Australia, based largely on his sterling reputation as a naturalist and illustrator. However, Swainson had little or no real experience with plants, and other more knowledgeable and experienced botanists of his day were more than a little annoyed at his simplistic and casual approach to describing new plants in Australia, where he took it upon himself to name hundreds or even thousands of species of plants, many of which weren’t really separate species in the first place.

In my book, that takes some cojones and an ego, toLast updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby

Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll (left) and Shane Williams of Wales clash during the 2011 World Cup

Ex-Wales wing Shane Williams and former England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson are among 12 players who have been inducted into World Rugby's Hall of Fame.

Wilkinson is one of four English inductees, along with former team-mates Jeremy Guscott and Lawrence Dallaglio, and World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi.

Williams, World Rugby's player of the year in 2008, is joined by fellow Welshmen John Dawes and Arthur Gould.

Former Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll is also on the list.

Scotland's 1925 Grand Slam-winning captain GPS Macpherson, former Canada wing and Winter Olympic bobsleigh gold medallist Heather Moyse, ex-Japan wing and world-record try-scorer Daisuke Ohata and Daniel Collins - a former Australia and USA international and


First World War lieutenant - are the other inductees.

Jonny Wilkinson, World Rugby player of the year in 2003, scored 1,179 points in 91 Tests for England

O'Driscoll is recognised for a stellar career during which he led Ireland to their first Grand Slam in 61 years and became his country's record try-scorer and cap-holder with 46 tries in 133 Tests.

Wilkinson is England's record points-scorer and his extra-time drop-goal against Australia clinched the 2003 World Cup for a team which also included number eight Dallaglio.

Centre Guscott's crowning moment was also a drop-goal, as his for the British and Irish Lions against South Africa in 1997 set them up for a series win.

Alphonsi was a key member of the England side that dominated the Six Nations with seven straight titles -six of them Grand Slams - between 2006 and 2012, and became the first female recipient of the Rugby Writers' prestigious Pat Marshall Award.

After scoring 28 tries in 74 games for England, Maggie Alphonsi retired in 2015

As a player, Dawes led Wales to a Grand Slam in 1971 and the Lions to their first series win in New Zealand. As Wales coach, he guided his country to two more Grand Slams in 1976 and 1978.

A charismatic back, Gould was captain for 18 of his 27 Wales caps - a record that lasted almost a century. He retired in 1897 and remained Wales' most-capped centre until overtaken by Steve Fenwick in 1980.

The full list of new inductees (with induction number and country) is:

Brian O'Driscoll (121, Ireland), Shane Williams (122,


Major League Baseball dipped its toes into the esports world last month with a four-player mini-tournament of "MLB The Show 20."

That, it turns out, was just a hint of what was to come with the actual baseball world on hold, stuck in a coronavirus-mandated shutdown.

On Friday, as foreshadowed in Sporting News articles a couple of times, the main event was revealed: a full esports season of "MLB The Show," played by 30 major league players, each representing his own team. We’ll break down the details in a moment, but basically, each player will play 29 "regular-season" games, and the top eight teams will advance to the playoffs, culminating in a best-of-five "World Series."

MORE ESPORTS: 'NBA 2K' Players Tournament results, schedule

If it’s anything like the four-player tournament, then itshould be a lot of fun.

Amir Garrett, the Reds’ stellar left-handed reliever, was the champ of the mini-event, knocking off Twins pitcher Trevor May in his first game and then beating 2018 AL Cy Young winner Blake Snell in the championship. Snell beat Hunter Pence in his first game.

Streaming information is below, but an MLB source told Sporting News other viewing options could be on the horizon. We will, of course, give you that info as soon as it becomes available.

'MLB The Show 20' Players League

Regular season: Round-robin. Every team will play every other team one time, for a total of 29 games — three innings per game — per team in the regular season. The regular season opens April 10 and is scheduled to end April 28.

First


regular-season game: 9 p.m. ET, Friday, April 10; Blake Snell (Rays) vs. Amir Garrett (Reds). This is a rematch of the title game of the four-player mini tournament in March. Drama!

Playoffs: The top eight teams will make the playoffs, which will start shortly after the regular season ends and largely mirror the MLB playoffs. The first two rounds are best of three, the “World Series” will be a best-of-five.

'MLB The Show 20' Players League contestants

The league is made up of 30 MLB players, each representing his MLB team

Diamondbacks: Jon Duplantier

Braves: Luke Jackson

Orioles: Dwight Smith Jr.

Red Sox: Eduardo Rodriguez

Cubs: Ian Happ

White Sox: Lucas Giolito

Reds: Amir Garrett

Indians: Carlos Santana

Rockies: David Dahl

Tigers: Niko Goodrum

Astros: Lance McCullers Jr.

Royals: Brett Phillips

Angels: Ty Buttrey

Dodgers: Gavin Lux

Marlins: Ryne Stanek

Brewers: Josh Hader

Twins: Trevor May

Mets: Jeff McNeil

Yankees:Tommy Kahnle

Athletics: Jesus Luzardo

Phillies: Rhys Hoskins

Pirates: Cole Tucker

Padres: Fernando Tatis Jr.

Giants: Hunter Pence

Mariners: Carl Edwards Jr.

Cardinals: Matt Carpenter

Rays: Blake Snell

Rangers: Joey Gallo

Blue Jays: Bo Bichette

Nationals: Juan Soto

Host: Robert Flores of MLB Network will "provide commentary, recaps, analysis and conduct player interviews throughout the course of the season, including before, during and after games, via MLB, MLB Network and PlayStation’s social media platforms,” according to an MLB press release.

'MLB The Show 20' Players League streaming options

MLB social: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube

Las Mayores social: Twitter

MLB Games and VR: Twitch

"MLB The Show:" Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch (https://theshownation.com/livestream)

MLB.com: All 30 club websites

MLB Network social: Twitter, Facebook

Charitable donations to Boys & Girls Clubs of America/Canada

From the MLB release: "Major League Baseball, the MLBPA and SIE will donate $5,000 on behalf of each participating player


to a Boys & Girls Club affiliate in their team's community. The stakes for the competition are enhanced with the championship player earning an additional $25,000 donation to the Boys & Girls Club in his community."100 Women We Love: Valerie Madden

We are thrilled to present the 2013 list of 100 Women We Love – Including…

You may not know Val Madden, but you have definitely seen her work. As Creative Director at NBC, she led the marketing efforts for over 216 televisions shows, including Will & Grace, Law & Order SVU, Parenthood, The Office and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She also co-led NBCUniversal's LGBT/Straight employee alliance group, OUT@NBCUniversal, one of the largest LGBT employee groups in the entertainment industry. Striving to "be true to myself and live authentically every day," she shepherded the alliance to a 175 percent increase in membership (with a big jump among female employees) during her two years at the helm. Over time, Madden felt her creative values evolving. Instead


of engaging consumers to watch, purchase or follow network programming, she now uses her branding experience and skills to help individuals and organizations strategically market their ideas for positive change. It's this passion for community building, crafting compelling campaigns for change, and creating opportunities for visibility that moves Madden to devote time and energy to LGBT causes like the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's "An Evening With Women" gala, and the Outfest Board Of Directors, where she’s an officer. -DNmyself.

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Yours affectionately
Alfie Knight

The ‘yours affectionately’ to Lord Kitchener really tickled me.

(For the curious, like me, Alfie was born in 1904, emigrated to Canada when he turned 21, had two children, and died in 1988. He never saw active service despite his early and very keen ambitions, which I’m rather glad about.)


seemingly unconscious on the floor.

Before anyone could comment upon her lack of interest in Angel’s life or death, one of the former Sunnydale potentials came into the room carrying a large shopping bag. She stopped and took in the sight of Illyria’s haughty outline, then Buffy and Willow standing over the two vampires.

“Huh. Guess that explains why I had to clean out the poor butcher’s supply of blood.”

She set the bag down at Buffy’s feet, glancing with no concern at the vampires, but doing a double-take when she recognized Spike. She narrowed her eyes when Angel gave a muffled growl, but stepped toward him rather than away. As she slid a stake from her sleeve, he realized what he was looking at and slumped against the wall.

“Are youwith his fangs extended. “Oh, for God’s sake, here!”

Buffy took a container of blood from the bag and put it in Angel’s reaching hand. When he’d bitten into the lid and begun gulping, she shook her head and took out another container. She placed that one where he could reach it, then opened another, and knelt down beside Spike.

“C’mon, Spike. Wake up and get better.”

When there was no response, she sighed and sat down where she could hold him up with one hand while she held the blood in front of his face with the other. She touched the rim of the container to his lips and tilted it just enough to make them red. Her frown deepened, then relaxed into a smile of relief when his tongue


came out to lick his lips. She quickly tilted the jar again, waiting until his lips had parted to tip it far enough to pour some into his now-open mouth. She poured until she could see that he was awake and aware, then paused to give him time to let it settle.

He grabbed the container from her with one hand and continued pouring, reminding her of how often she’d seen him chugging beer.

“Okay then. I guess you’ve got this.”

She let go slowly, making sure he was able to remain upright on his own, before reaching into the bag again. She set another container down beside Spike, then counted out the remaining plastic jars and split them between the two rapidly swallowing vampires. She was surprised when, after chuggingover his hips and down his legs without unzipping them. She gave a small gasp at the unhealed wounds on his emaciated lower body and quickly covered him with the sheet.

She frowned at his tattered tee shirt, noting the burn holes in it, then took the collar in both hands and with an easy tug, ripped it in half. She slid it out from beneath his inert body and tossed it to the floor.

“If you wanted me naked, love, all you had to do was ask,” Spike mumbled, belying his words by turning on his side and burying his face in the pillow.

“You wish,” she snorted as she pulled the sheet all the way up over him. Tucking it around his shoulders, she leaned down and ran her


pepper spray against a small group of protesters who broke several windows of a bank using a pipe and a skateboard. Some in the crowd burned U.S. flags.

"Ricky is selling the island!" demonstrators yelled in reference to Gov. Ricardo Rossello, whose administration is expected to announce soon whether it has reached a deal with bondholders to restructure a portion of its debt or embrace a bankruptcy-like process.

The protests affected services at Puerto Rico's largest public hospital, paralyzed the bus system and forced many businesses to close. Demonstrators also briefly blocked traffic near San Juan's international airport, prompting some travelers to walk along the highway dragging suitcases.

Juanita Morales Rosa, a 65-year-old retired teacher, said she depends on a public pension system that is expected to run out of moneyAs further proof that compost is to gardening these days what grass-fed beef and gluten-free gourmet foods are to the world of cooking, the Wynbrandt compost heap photographed by the Los Angeles Times would later sell through word of mouth for $1 a pound. Beyond his emerging role as one of L.A.'s kings of compost, Wynbrandt also leads gardening workshops and teaches classes on how to make better soil — all the more impressive given the fact that just three years ago he was a gardening novice.

His journey began in 2009, when, as a 32-year-old surfer, teacher, musician and self-described "spiritual seeker," he returned home after traveling for four months in Central America and moved back in with his mother in West L.A. Looking through her kitchen window,


he had an epiphany.

"I wanted to become more self-sufficient and know where my food comes from," he recalls. He wanted to grow his own food free of pesticides and other chemicals. He wanted to become a farmer.

"He had never planted anything in his life," says his mother, June Wynbrandt. "He might have put an avocado seed in a jar when he was young, but that's about it."

Still, Steven attacked the shade-covered, weed-choked yard with a vengeance. When six trees needed to be pruned, he donned bike helmet and rock climbing harness, climbed 30 feet high and cut the branches himself with a chain saw. Eventually he had four trees cut down completely to bring in the sunlight needed to grow food. ("That was very difficult for him," hismother says.)

For three weeks, he worked 14 hours a day, filling his neighbors' green bins and selling the cut logs he accumulated. He stripped the leaves from the trees and added them to a compost bin the size of a bedroom he built in the side yard. He brought seaweed from the beach and secretly collected 3,000 pounds of food scraps from a raw vegan restaurant at midnight for three months. The alchemy was underway.

Asked if carting 300 wheelbarrows of manure to his backyard and making 25,000 pounds of compost might be viewed as obsessive, Wynbrandt responds: "I'm not obsessive. I'm just doing it right."

Once his clay soil was amended with his homemade compost, Wynbrandt attended gardening workshops and tapped the knowledge of others, including the Westside Permies,


with heirloom and Sun Gold cherry tomatoes. Around the perimeter of the garden, he planted 26 fruit trees — navel orange, pomegranate, avocado, peach, dragonfruit and fig among them — to create a sound barrier from the traffic on nearby Overland Avenue.

"He is unusual," says McAndrew, 77. "He's a very special human being. He has great enthusiasm to learn. I brought a load of manure over to his house and taught him how to make biodynamic compost. Now he's made 15 tons. In the last six months he has accomplished what it took me 10 years to learn."

Wynbrandt shares his surplus with friends and family as well as with the Sova food pantry in West Hollywood, where his mom volunteers.

Wynbrandt's suggestions for home gardeners is simple: "Grow whatHate Crimes against Muslims doubled in UK in 2017

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LONDON : Violence, intimidation, assaults and other hate crimes targeting mosques and Muslims have doubled in Britain during the current year, according to police records.

The police recorded 110 hate crimes from March to July 2017 in Britain compared to 47 in 2016.

Crimes include racist abuse, threats to bomb mosques, attacks on mosques and worshipers.

Shadow Home Secretary Diana Abbott strongly condemned the rise in hate crimes and said that it is totally unacceptable.

In a report obtained by local media, under the freedom of information(FOI), suggests that a comprehensive law was needed in the country to stop the hate crimes , “major incidents of hate crimes took place in London and Manchester”.

The report also says that racist abuse and threats to "bomb


to 11 crimes in 2017.

Crimes recorded as vandalism or criminal damage increased from 12 in 2016 to 15 in 2017.

Due to differences in how police forces record their statistics and the fact that not all forces are included in the figures, the true number of hate crimes directed at mosques are likely to be higher.

Britain endured several terror attacks claimed by Daesh over the period in which the crimes were recorded, at London Bridge, Westminster and Manchester.

The figures came to light within weeks of separate incidents in which an imam and a surgeon who treated Manchester bombing victims were stabbed outside a mosque in Cheshire and a 14-year-old boy was stabbed multiple times in the face and neck outside a mosque in Birmingham.

Other high-profile cases of hate crimeat mosques this year include the Finsbury Park terror attack in June, a Manchester mosque gutted by fire in an arson attack in July and the sending of white powder and bomb threats to three mosques across London in July.


Mono County Sheriff’ Office news release

On Friday, June 15, 2018, at 9:08 am, Mono County Dispatch received a 9-1-1 call reporting a shooting at the second gun range east of the geothermal plant.

A 53-year old man and his 15-year old son, both from Orange County, were shooting targets with a .22 caliber rifle and a 9mm handgun.

For undetermined reasons, while shooting the 9mm handgun, the son shot himself. The son was transported by Mono County paramedics to Mammoth Hospital, where he was stabilized. Due to the severe nature of his injuries, the son was flown to a trauma hospital in Reno.

Mammoth Lakes Police Department immediately responded and held the scene of the shooting for the Mono County Sheriff’s Office and the Inyo National Forest law enforcement.

Our preliminary investigationSouthall Harries pledge their support for Corporate Partnership

Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School (BVGS) Corporate Partnership has continued its outstanding growth, with the introduction of Birmingham-based insurance brokers, Southall Harries.

The experienced firm, who provide a range of specialist insurance services, has joined the initiative’s extensive portfolio, bringing the number of full-time members to 30.

The relationship between Southall Harries and the Corporate Partnership began after Client Relationship Manager and Founder of Southall Harries, Marc Harries, became involved with the Veseyans Rugby Club.

Marc is currently head of the mini and juniors section at the rugby club, and it was through this that Marc met and developed his relationship with Corporate Partnership Development Director, Brian Davies.

Now an official partner of the initiative, Southall Harries will work alongside the other members to support the


1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus and a foreign matter removing method.
2. Description of Related Art
In conventional image forming apparatuses, foreign matter such as toner that is attached on the surface of an image carrier such as an intermediate transfer belt or a photoreceptor drum is scraped and removed after image transfer by means of a blade (abutting member) of a cleaning device that abuts the image carrier.
However, when a large number of sheets of recording media is processed for example, the toner that has been accumulated at the abutment part between the blade and the image carrier may sometimes leak to the back face of the blade at the downstream side in the rotational direction of the image carrier, andthe leaked toner may be gradually accumulated onto the back face of the blade. Then, when the toner on the back face of the blade transfers back to the image carrier, it causes an image defect.
To avoid this, it is possible to attach the toner and the like accumulated on the blade onto the surface of the image carrier by separating the developer from the image carrier and forming a potential pattern on the surface of the image carrier in which a first potential and a second potential lower than the first potential are alternately distributed in the rotational direction of the image carrier, and to collect them by means of a collector (e.g. the developer). The occurrence of image defect can thus be prevented (see JP 2007-094283A).
However,


to the image carrier, also known as beads carry over, occurs, which results in internal contamination of the image forming apparatus, damage of the image carrier and the like.
In contrast, when the fog margin (difference between the first potential of the image carrier and the potential of the developing bias) is maintained at a low level, for example in the range of approximately “−100 V to −150V”, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of beads carry over. However, the potential difference between the second potential of the image carrier and the developing bias is increased compared to the former case. Since toner is transferred to the image carrier according to the significance of the potential difference, a problem with this case is an increased amount of tonerSo you thought that cute little soccer ball droid in the new Star Wars film was just CGI? Wrong!

BB8 made his public debut on stage at the Star Wars Celebration convention in California, to whoops and cheers from adoring fans, on the same day the second teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was launched. And oh yes… it’s real!

Director JJ Abrams and producer Kathleen Kennedy looked on fondly at the new edition to the Star Wars family as it rolled around in front of them, conversing in beeps and whistles with its predecessor R2-D2 who was also on stage.

Quite how BB8’s head manages to stay on top of its perfectly smooth and spherical, beachball-like body remains a bit of a mystery (*magnets, cough) but if Star


Supreme Court's instructions, we now affirm the order of the district court.

2
Jimmy Elem (petitioner) brought this habeas action in federal district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254.  In July of 1986, petitioner was convicted of second degree robbery following a jury trial in Missouri state court.  The underlying offense involved an assault and robbery of an African American woman who identified her assailant as an African American man with "french-braided" hair and wearing a gray sweatsuit.  Petitioner, who fit the description of the robber, was apprehended near the scene of the robbery.  The victim identified him as her assailant.  During jury selection, petitioner objected to the prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges to strike two African American men from the jury panel, (jurorsand the caller never stated
that she observed the men selling drugs. Rather, she said that “drug dealers are
moved between a few blocks around the restaurant. The caller complained
that she had customers from all over South Florida, but as soon as they
would see “that,” the customers would be scared. The dispatcher told the
caller that someone would be there to check things out.

    An officer with some familiarity with the neighborhood, which she
described as a high crime area, was dispatched to investigate a “suspicious
person” call. According to the officer, she was told that there were three
black males on the corner of 7th and Sapodilla possibly selling drugs.
They were wearing t-shirts and shorts. However, the restaurant caller did
not mention shorts in her 911 call. When the officer and


her partner got
to the corner, she observed one adult black male in a white t-shirt. When
this individual saw the police vehicle, he began walking to the rear of the
building, an apartment complex. There were no other persons in the area.

   The officers exited their vehicle, started walking down the alley towards
the building, and ordered the male to stop. He continued walking to the
rear of the apartment complex. As the officer rounded the corner, she saw
two black juvenile males, wearing no shirts and peeking into an apartment
window. The officer recognized appellant, J.H., as one of the boys peeking
into the window because he had been in the area on a prior call to which
she had responded. The officer knew that J.H. lived in the apartment
complex.

   When the juveniles saw the officer, they began walking down the alley
in the other direction. Then they saw another officer at the other end of
the alley. At that point, they reached into their pockets, and the first officer
ordered them to stop because she was nervous for her safety and that of
other officers on the scene. The officer ordered J.H. to walk towards her
and to take his hands out of his pocket. As he approached her, she saw a
container in his hand. It was a white, cylindrical container with a red cap
and appeared to be a Krazy Glue container with the label off. Based on
her training and experience, she knew that these containers are commonly
known to hold crack cocaine. She conducted a pat-down search of J.H.
for weapons and found


Heist Night has been released! Choose your version and download it today!

The Vision of Heist Night

Heist Night is an 3D asymmetric multiplayer stealth video game coming to Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Two players compete against each other; with each player having different objectives, resources and camera perspectives.

One player in Heist Night will assume the role of a thief. Under the cover of darkness, the thief infiltrates a museum in an attempt to steal its valuable exhibits and escape with them. This player will play the game through a first person perspective.

The other player will assume the role of the security guards. In order to secure the museum, the guards must search for the thief and apprehend him/her. This player will play the game from a bird's-eye perspectivecommonly found in traditional "Real-Time Strategy (RTS)" video games.

Why we created Heist Night

In January 2015, NHTV Team Fifteen set-out to create a truly innovative video game that combines the elements of hide-and-seek with the modern stealth genre. An asymmetric multiplayer game that had to be fair, balanced and, in the end, allow both players to experience moments of tension, but maintaining joy.

Heist Night will let players experience:

2 vastly different play styles in 1 game : first person stealth versus top-down real-time strategy.

: Unique real-time asymmetric gameplay

Beautifully stylised environments

An immersive , original score arranged and composed by Mythili Mahendran .

, arranged and composed by . Meaningful choices and strategies.

A moving connection with the opposing player.

Heist Night is a video game developed in half a year (14 work days) by


a team of 10 people varying from programmers, artists, designers and producers attending NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences' International Game Architecture & Design.

On the 2nd of July, 2015; Heist Night was awarded "BEST DESIGN" and "BEST CODE" at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences' biannual Game Awards Ceremony, in which it had to compete with ten other projects. Additionally, Heist Night was also nominated for "BEST GAME" and "GAME OF THE YEAR".

GAMEPLAY TRAILER

FICTIONAL KICKSTARTER VIDEO The following is a fictional kickstarter video, which was another school assignment. WE DO NOT HAVE THE ASPIRATIONS TO SET-UP A KICKSTARTER FOR HEIST NIGHT. THE PROCESS OF MAKING A FICTIONAL KICKSTARTER VIDEO WAS PURELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. HEIST NIGHT IS, AND WILL REMAIN, FREE.

An Immersive Original Score

We have been incredibly fortunateto work with British composer and musician Mythili Mahendran when creating Heist Night. The music for Heist Night was is an original score specifically composed for the game. It results in immersive and feedback-driven music that enhances the setting and the state of the game.

Mythili understood that music is not merely an ancillary part of a video game design, but that it enhances the experience in an emotional, perhaps transcendental and timeless way. Her trust, patience and dedication for “Heist Night” affected the way we attempted to realise our vision. Her vision became our vision… her vision is our vision…. Her music is “Heist Night”.

Please take a look at her website and listen to her work. . Mythilimahendran.com

Listen to the official "HEIST NIGHT OST" Arranged and Composed by


In the past four years, Matt Slobodan has started a new job, moved into a new house, and watched his young family grow by two more children.

Something that Slobodan hasn't managed to do since 2012 is find a good solution to the parking situation at the Century Park LRT station. That's when he first put his name on a wait list for a reserved spot there.

"I get here by 6:10 a.m. every day. They've just made it easier for lazy people who don't want to get here early and now they can pay $50," he said on Wednesday.

To attend an event in Churchill Square, Anthony Waggot searched for a parking stall for 20 minutes at Century Park before giving up. 0:46

Slobodan was in the park and ride the  1

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tremendous passion for developing young talent, is a strong communicator and a good fit for this team.

“The organization is confident in the direction that he is taking our players, and we are committed to him.’’

And not just for another year, as his existing contract stated.

A source confirmed the original Sun-Times report that it will be a three-year deal starting next season, with the hope that some stability will now come to a chair that has been a bit rocky going back to the final two seasons under former coach Tom Thibodeau.

Fred Hoiberg took over for Thibodeau following the 2015 season, but there always seemed to be clouds of doubt hovering over Hoiberg from both within and on the outside. When Hoiberg was fired on Dec. 3, Boylen steppedSports Entertainment Hits the AAA

Where else in Miami can you see a leprechaun, someone who calls himself the Heart Break Kid, and a dead man? You could try your luck at Jimbos, Tobacco Road, or South Beach, but the only sure place to see all three is at tonights 21st annual World Wrestling Entertainment Survivor Series at the American Airlines Arena.

In one of the most mismatched bouts in WWE history, the lovable leprechaun Hornswoggle takes on the seven-foot two-inch, 420-pound Great Khali. The near-immortal Shawn Michaels (a.k.a. the Heart Break Kid) faces WWE champion Randy Orton in a rematch of their recent Cyber Sunday battle that ended with the cowardly Orton purposely getting himself disqualified. In the most anticipated singles match of the evening, the world heavyweight champion,


Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd, owned respectively by their rival business groups, the Habibs and Adamjees. Abedi had joined Habib Bank 12 years earlier as a Senior Selective Service Officer. As UBL’s first GM and its Director at the age of 37, Abedi soon became its President and later its Chairman concurrently. The Saigols thus unwittingly provided the first chink in the armour of the elite club of the predator business families (who did not brook any trespassing into their economic preserve) by letting the professional senior management of UBL dictate policy and also run the bank on a day to day basis. Blessed with a magnetic personality, outstanding leadership qualities and a dynamic business acumen that revolutionized the concept of credit approval and disbursement thereof, Abedi made UBLthat, realizing that Ms. Benazir was in trouble in her stronghold in Sindh, which has been Pakistan’s soft underbelly for the last decade, they went on a broad political offensive to capitalize on the shortcomings of her Provincial government. The IJI took away the urban areas by weaning the disgruntled MQM away from the PPP-MQM Accord, providing cause for sporadic ethnic tension. The IJI then concentrated on the disaffected elements within PPP, increasingly frustrated by a succession of weak, malleable Chief Ministers, puppets in the hands of a shadow-ruler with a totally different manifesto. The Sindhi politician is not unlike other politicians in many Third World countries, or even most developed ones, he lives and thrives on political favours of various kind, bereft of which his loyalties tend


to be suspect. He is extremely sensitive about his ego and pride, unlike other politicians he will seldom swallow it for any length of time.

April 23, 1991

The Accord on the apportioning of Indus River waters between the four Provinces is an important watershed for the people of Pakistan, marred only by the fact that it took more than half a century to decide this issue. Since 1935, many Commissions have been formed, the Akhtar Hussain Committee made a serious effort by making a submission on June 30, 1970, this was still-born because of the dissolution of One Unit only a day after. The Justice Fazal Akbar Committee, constituted in October 1970, never saw an official light of day because it was considered to be his individual views ratherRise and Fall of World Powers”, shooting themselves (rather than each other) in their respective economic feet, overburdening their economies by vast military budgets, the bystanders (and erstwhile losers of the Second World War), Germany and Japan, emerging as the victors. The momentous changes affecting the world have not as yet made an impact on an apprehensive Third World but the spectre of economic aid, already scarce, being transferred from them to a downtrodden Eastern Europe looms as a potential Sword of Damocles. Robert J. Samuelson, columnist for NEWSWEEK, thinks the term “THIRD WORLD” meaningless, for the many hundreds of millions of the Third World lying in abject poverty and prone to creeping anarchy, many rungs below the present misery of Eastern Europeans, it makes good sense. The


reliance on western economic aid has been so total that its stoppage (or slowing down thereof) will be equivalent to “The Day After” a nuclear holocaust, with the debt ridden countries at an economic Ground Zero.

April 1, 1991

General Mirza Aslam Beg has an amazing propensity to confound skeptics. Retiring from the Army on August 17, 1991 according to his oft-repeated promise not to seek extension to his three year tenure as COAS, he has set a unique tradition for his successors to emulate. Presented with the opportunity of acquiring power on a virtual platter on August 17, 1988 and several times thereafter, General Beg stayed firm on his own set course, shunning the temptation of a recurring ambition in this country, exercised thrice before by his predecessors. Propheciesproliferated that his reluctance to take over power on August 17, 1988 would not last and Martial Law was around the corner, to his lasting credit he did not stray from his promise. Supreme power in this nation is always within the grasp of any COAS, it takes an infinitely superior human being to overcome ambition for the greater good of the country.

The former COAS was born in a middle class family in the town of Azamgarh in United Provinces (pre-Independence British India), being brought up in a tradition where knowledge rather than money or material was considered as an asset. Old values reigned supreme in the family and showmanship or exhibitionism were considered as cardinal sins. General Beg’s soft spoken and quiet demeanour had roots in this


upbringing, his intense loyalty to his own immediate family a carry-over of family tradition. In keeping with his family norms, the General Beg is religious but not dogmatic, status symbols are neither sought or flouted.

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About Ikram Sehgal

In 1971, Ikram Sehgal was taken prisoner of war in East Pakistan and successfully escaped from Indian Authorities. Joined 44 Punjab, he was given a battlefield promotion to Major, left the Army in 1974. He worked as a commercial pilot before starting his own business in 1977. A regular columnist in the print media since 1987, he graduated to his own TV Talk Show. He is a member of World Economic Forum (WEF), International Organization for Migration (IOM) & the Chairman of Pathfinder G4S Pakistan.
Educated at Lawrence College,Pass on the Memories

Delivered in partnership with Mersey Care NHS Trust, ‘Pass on the Memories’ supports people living with dementia and their carers.

Run from Goodison Park four times a week, ‘Pass on the Memories’ uses a range of interventions, including sporting reminiscence workshops and custom-made life story memory books, to help people share important memories and create new ones.

The pioneering programme gives participants access to visits of places of historical interest that they visited in their younger years as well as social events including the increasingly popular Blue Bingo as well as sessions on dancing and singing for the brain and arts and crafts.

Now in its third year, the programme also offers activity and interaction games to help those living with dementia-related conditions keep their brain activity at


a high level and ensure the mind remains as active as possible.

‘Pass on the Memories’ also provides vital respite to the carers where they are able to discuss issues that have affected them as well as getting support where needed.

Everton in the Community have been working with Mersey Care since 2007 and together have developed a series of programmes to specifically tackle mental health issues among different groups within the local community.to support individuals experiencing dementia, unemployment and isolation.

Since its launch in January 2013, ‘Pass on the Memories’ has attracted national support from high profile individuals including the former Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham MP and the scheme has also been recognised by Norman Lamb, former Minister for Care and Support, who invited Everton inthe time of clamping. With the frictional force reducing member, the frictional force induced between both seating surfaces can be diminished without performing a high-degree of surface machining to the inner seating surface of the bearing portion of the retaining nut, even if the surface roughness of the inner seating surface is large. Consequently, a nozzle needle slide portion can be prevented from being deformed by a twist of the nozzle body which is caused by the frictional force and hence it is possible to avoid a defective slide of the nozzle needle.
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Serial killer's history a shock to those who knew him in Neah Bay

NEAH BAY -- Israel Keyes was described as a model citizen while he lived in Neah Bay between 2001-2007, fathering a girl, working for the Makah tribe and being a productive part of this tribal community.So learning that he was a self-confessed serial killer was a shock last year to residents of this sea-swept village of 865, tribal Judge Emma Dulik recalled."He never seemed to cause any problems," she said.FBI investigators in Anchorage, Alaska, believe Keyes killed 11 people between 2001 and 2012, and five of the murders happened while he was living in Neah Bay.He claimed he dumped at least one body into Lake Crescent, but Olympic National Park spokeswoman Barb Maynes said park officialsby the FBI.Keyes' former partner and daughter still live on the Makah reservation, tribal members said."He did work for the tribe, doing landscaping all over the village," Dulik said."At the entryway, he cut the grass, put a sign up, and went through the village putting out plants and flowers and things."Keyes also was known as a good father, Dulik added.Keyes often shopped at Washburn General Store in Neah Bay, owner Greg Lovik said."All my help liked the guy," Lovik said."He seemed to be a level-headed, good worker. He could fix about anything, is what I am told."There was nothing that stood out that he was a troublemaker or anything.""When it hit the papers, [about Keyes confessing in Anchorage to being serial killer], everybody was going like, 'Wow, I


The Battle of Vimy Ridge, 9-12 April 1917

Tim Cook

Many historians and writers consider the Canadian victory at Vimy a defining moment for Canada, when the country emerged from under the shadow of Britain and felt capable of greatness. Canadian troops also earned a reputation as formidable, effective troops because of the stunning success. But it was a victory at a terrible cost, with more than 10,000 killed and wounded.

The Canadian Corps was ordered to seize Vimy Ridge in April 1917. [Map] Situated in northern France, the heavily-fortified seven-kilometre ridge held a commanding view over the Allied lines. The Canadians would be assaulting over an open graveyard since previous French attacks had failed with over 100,000 casualties.

To capture this difficult position, the Canadians would carefully plan and rehearse theirannihilated,” warned Canadian Corps commander Sir Julian Byng.

In the week leading up to the battle, Canadian and British artillery pounded the enemy positions on the ridge, killing and tormenting defenders. New artillery tactics allowed the gunners to first target, then destroy enemy positions. A nearly limitless supply of artillery shells and the new 106 fuse, which allowed shells to explode on contact, as opposed to burying themselves in ground, facilitated the destruction of hardened defences and barbed wire. The Canadian infantry would be well supported when it went into battle with over 1,000 artillery pieces laying down withering, supportive fire.

Attacking together for the first time, the four Canadian divisions stormed the ridge at 5:30am on 9 April 1917. More than 15,000 Canadian infantry overran the Germans all along


battlefield victory. For the first time all four Canadian divisions attacked together: men from all regions of Canada were present at the battle. Brigadier-General A.E. Ross declared after the war, “in those few minutes I witnessed the birth of a nation.”

Vimy became a symbol for the sacrifice of the young Dominion. In 1922, the French government ceded to Canada in perpetuity Vimy Ridge, and the land surrounding it. The gleaming white marble and haunting sculptures of the Vimy Memorial, unveiled in 1936, stand as a terrible and poignant reminder of the 11,285 Canadian soldiers killed in France who have no known graves.The 33-year-old has yet to open talks with the Old Trafford outfit over his new contract but will be offered a cut-price 12-month package worth around £60-70,000-a-week

EXCLUSIVEBy Wayne Veysey | Chief correspondent

Manchester United are ready to offer Rio Ferdinand a one-year contract extension in January – but on around half his current salary.

The defender, who turns 34 next month, has yet to open talks with United about a new deal even though his agreement expires next summer.

The club want to extend his spell at Old Trafford beyond 11 years but, in line with their policy of offering reduced terms to its over-30s players, Ferdinand cannot expect a renewal of his current £120,000-a-week wages.

Goal.com understands that when the two parties sit down to begin negotiations in the new year,


'Trixie is known to her friends as bubbly and kind but when she leaves the school gates she no longer exists. The gates that were designed to keep her prisoner but actually allows her to be herself. Once she's walked out these gates she plays a character. His name - Brian Firkus. But maybe playing this character still isn't good enough.'

Aka the trans high school AU no one asked for written by the trans man that this fandom doesn't know much aboutnow.

"We're trying to let the players dictate how much they can digest and how fast," he continued. "We want the players to be able to line and play fast and physical, but most importantly, they have to know their jobs."

Fuqua joined Elliott's new staff after spending the last 12 years at Wofford, including the last three seasons as defensive coordinator. His defense ranked fifth in the nation in total defense, sixth in scoring defense and 12th in rushing defense in 2016 as the Terriers reached the FCS quarterfinals.

He takes over a Georgia State defense that welcomes back seven starters. Top returnees include two-time All-Sun Belt cornerback Chandon Sullivan, as well as cornerback Jerome Smith, outside linebacker Michael Shaw and defensive end Mackendy Cheridor. Another key piece is veteran


safety Bryan Williams, who returns for a sixth year after being granted an extra season by the NCAA.

"At each level, we feel like we do have some play-makers," Fuqua said. "We're trying to make sure that we have them in the right spots and they understand their jobs.

"We moved a couple of guys early and we're still evaluating to see if those are the right positions for everyone. We're teaching the techniques to see who can do what."

Among the position changes, junior Demarcus Kirk, a two-year letterwinner at running back, is now playing inside linebacker, and redshirt freshman Kendrec Grady is at outside linebacker after working at safety during his redshirt season.

Georgia State football will play its first season in the new Georgia State Stadium in 2017, withCounterfeit Euro notes seized during the crackdown on an illegal workshop in Northern Bulgaria are of extremely high quality, according to Bulgarian prosecutors and experts from Europe's joint police force (Europol).

A 100 Euro banknote Cooperating with Europol, Bulgarian authorities detained three suspects and dismantled an illegal workshop in the area of Pleven on April 22, where high-quality forged 100 Euro (US $114) bank notes were found.

Europol called the seizure “one of Europe’s most significant in recent years on account of the quality of the forged notes detected in circulation in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.”

Deputy Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov said Thursday European experts found the notes have a very high degree of compliance with legitimate Euro notes – 9.7 of 10 on


a World Bank scale evaluation system.

Apart from 24,000 Euros (US $27,000) worth of counterfeit bills ready for placement into the market, officers also seized a number of unfinished notes in various stages of production, printing presses, a laser engraving machine, films, inks, hologram stickers and other equipment, as well as 13 fake IDs.

Europol's director, Rob Wainwright, said, "The information gathered during the raid and from the forensic analysis of the seized banknotes attests to the huge production potential of this criminal organization, both in terms of quantities of counterfeited banknotes but also on account of their quality.”

According to him, the Euro is an attractive currency for counterfeiters due to its perceived stability and low inflation.the continuing discrimination of having only men eligible to sit in the House of Lords as bishops."

John Bercow, the speaker of the House, noted that there were "very strong voices" in favor of women bishops among legislators.

He suggested that Johnson approach Maria Miller, the government's minister for women and equalities, to see whether she "has any responsibilities in relation to this matter."

More than 100 members of the General Synod spoke in Tuesday's debate, largely repeating arguments which have become familiar in the 18 years since the church began ordaining women as priests.

Williams, who had campaigned for the change, said that much of the prolonged debate is "not intelligible to our larger society."

John Sentamu, the archbishop of York, said he was confident that women would become bishops in his


The Shocking New Ark Mission of India Fashion Campaign

People often forget that clothing is a privilege, but these New Ark Mission of India fashion ads act as sad reminders of the economic state abroad. In attempt to raise awareness, funds and garment donations from the public, this charity enlisted the help of the Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency in Bangalore to produce a penetrating campaign.

Where Westerners have distinctly seasonal wardrobes, these prints demonstrate that there are poor kids who may wear the same thing in winter as in summer, let alone every day of the week. These articles may be handouts, hand-me-downs or literal garbage. The underprivileged children in the New Ark Mission of India fashion ads sport cardboard boxes, newspaper dresses and burlap sack suits, creating anew high for prison overcrowding. On Monday, state prisons held 5,515 inmates, the most in history and a surprising landmark in light of several efforts to reduce overcrowding. “I hope it’s an anomaly,” State Corrections Director Scott Frakes told a panel of state lawmakers. It means that state prisons are holding...

Islamabad : Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Provincial Assembly of Punjab to build the capacity of Members of Punjab Assembly on legislative oversight and reforms on human rights, peace building, rule of law and climate change. The MOU was signed by Secretary Provincial Assembly of Punjab Muhammad...

This article originally appeared on VICE ASIA. Some 10,350,000 people are currently held in prisons worldwide, according to the advocacy group, Penal Reform


International. Every year this non-for-profit examines the state of incarceration around the world and releases a report. And last year's report can be summarised with this single damning quote: "Detention conditions are...

Since Louisiana moved 15 years ago to overhaul a juvenile justice system notorious for its brutal treatment of youth, legislative victories and policy changes have transformed the system — significantly reducing the number locked up and providing a more therapeutic environment for those in custody. While moving further in that direction remains the goal of the Office of...

Changing NY's discovery rules would make its criminal justice system fairer. Updated March 6, 2019 6:00 AM For those of us who believe in basic fairness in the criminal justice system, New York State is at a critical juncture. LawmakersEugoa sinuata

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Armed officers have shot a woman during a counter-terrorism operation that saw four suspects, including a teenage boy, arrested in north London.

The Metropolitan Police said the operation was part of an “ongoing counter terrorism investigation” but stressed it was not connected to an incident in Whitehall earlier today.

The woman, in her twenties, was taken to hospital but has not been arrested due to the seriousness of her condition. She remains under police guard.

Four people were detained during the operation on Thursday evening at a property on Harlesden Road, north-west London.

A Met Police statement said a 20-year-old man was arrested near the address and a 16-year-old boy and 20-year-old woman were detained inside the property. A 43-year-old woman was later arrested in Kent.

All four are being held on suspicionof the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts and are in custody at a south London police station.

"The address and persons connected with it had been under observation by counter terrorism officers as part of an ongoing intelligence led operation," a statement said.

"Searches at the address are ongoing, as well as further searches at linked addresses across London."

The incident has been referred to the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

It comes as a man is being held for allegedly attempting a terror attack after being arrested near the Houses of Parliament.

The 27-year-old suspect was stopped by armed officers in Parliament Street for a search “as part of an ongoing operation”.

The man, described as "very calm" by a witness, carrying a rucksack containing


(Doc. I.D. No. 71, the "Complaint") pursuant to Bankruptcy Code § 523.[4] The Debtor filed the Motion To Dismiss on October 25, 2005. The Objection was filed on November 11, 2005. (Adv.P.Doc. I.D. No. 10.) A hearing was held on the Motion To Dismiss and the Objection on November 16, 2005 and the matter was taken under advisement, pending timely receipt of post-hearing briefs by the parties. Post-hearing briefing was timely completed.
On January 3, 2006, in the interest of justice and judicial efficiency, the chapter 7 case and both adversary proceedings were reassigned to the Honorable Albert S. Dabrowski, Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for this district. (Doc. I.D. No. 91.) However, the Motion To Dismiss and the Objection were retained by the undersigned for decision. The matterfrom one Frank Ruocco. Count Four alleges that the Debtor testified under oath that he learned on August 13, 2003 that Atlas was in serious financial trouble.[6] Count Four alleges that on October 27, 2003 the Debtor created the Alexandra and Mathew Picard Trust (the "Trust"), selecting his mother (Edith Picard, who was also the chief executive officer of Atlas during the relevant period when Atlas was experiencing financial difficulty) as trustee of the Trust, until July 29, 2009, when the Debtor's mother was replaced by the Debtor's uncle (Donald Picard) as trustee of the Trust. The Trust was allegedly used to shield the Debtor's personal assets. Count Four alleges that neither the Debtor's mother or uncle appeared to have managed the affairs of the Trust but that


the Debtor and his mother, which sum allegedly was later transferred to A & M Family.
Count Four further alleges that, in addition, the Debtor transferred his legal and/or equitable interest in A & M Construction Company, LLC to A & M Family. The Debtor allegedly transferred more than $150,000 from Atlas to himself then to A & M Industries, LLC ("A & M Industries"). A & M Industries allegedly was formed by John Uvino, the vice president and treasurer of Atlas during the critical time period when Atlas allegedly was in the zone of insolvency (approximately two months after the Debtor admitted that he knew Atlas was in financial trouble). The Debtor allegedly also formed, or caused others to form, PGP Group, LLC ("PGP") using personal assets thatPIC Management Group, LLC ("PIC Management") which is owned by the Debtor (1% with all voting rights) and the *549 Trust (99% with no voting rights). Count Four further alleges that on March 23, 2005 control over PIC Management was transferred to the Debtor's uncle (named above), who was named member and manager of PIC Management.
Count Four further alleges that the Debtor allowed Mr. Ruocco to place mortgages on three parcels of the Debtor's property without adequate consideration, after the Debtor repaid Mr. Ruocco the $500,000 loan borrowed sometime between May and July of 2003 (see supra), such repayment being made before payment or interest was due. Count Four further alleges that on February 27, 2004 approximately $400,000 worth of equipment belonging to Atlas was hidden in a


click to enlarge Barbara Nellis worked at Playboy for 33 years.

for 33 years. Brittany Sowacke

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week's Chicagoan is Barbara Nellis, 72, former Playboy editor.

Here's the thing all you young folks need to understand: It was the late 60s, the early 70s, and nobody had the credentials to do anything. People were just looking for jobs. I moved to Chicago when I was 25 because my boyfriend was here, and I took a job in Playboy's marketing department even though I didn't know anything about marketing, and within six months it was clear that the most interesting people were in the editorial department, and they were drinking every afternoon in the Knickerbocker Bar.

In allthose 33 years that I was there, I did a ton of different things. I was the book review editor, the music editor, the fiction editor, the letters-to-the-editor editor. In the last five years I was on staff, I wrote the copy for the two pages that were in the magazine every month called "Are You Lying Down? Hanging With Hef." It was pictures of things he was doing in his life, with caption copy.

In the early years, I encountered him only as wallpaper. Before he moved to California in '75, on Sunday nights the editors were often invited to watch a movie at the mansion. He got first-run movies, he got good popcorn, some weeks he had a buffet. I'm sure the models were around. I wrote


a little Playmate copy—everybody did. My brother married a Playmate; he is no longer married to her, but I have three nephews from that marriage.

It wasn't about the models for me. The mystique of the world I was living in was the writers. I had lunch with Joan Didion. I have a wonderful poem Shel Silverstein did for my five-year-old daughter. William Styron once said to me, "I've always thought of you as Miss Chicago." And he had written Nat Turner. He had written Sophie's Choice. I mean, come on.

Once I went with a photographer to New Orleans, and he was going to shoot Playmates in places where there was hanging moss and all that stuff, and my job was to eat, shop, listen to music, and writea sidebar of what there was to do in New Orleans. That was tough, let me tell you.

What interested me about Playboy was that it was a completely egalitarian environment. There were people there who had MBAs, people who hadn't finished college, people who started in some lowly place and worked their way up. The cartoon editor, who became a very powerful woman there, was Hefner's secretary in the beginning. And she discovered Kliban!

Here's the other thing about Hugh Hefner: He was a midwestern kid. One of the things I used to get at my job a lot was books, and we didn't have room to review everything. I would get a great jazz book or great photography book and I would send it to him, and he


all the measures necessary. It is entrusted with:
 Ensuring that all the Foundation’s goals are taken into consideration,
 Enacting the general principles and provisions necessary for the Foundation’s activity,
 Establishing and evaluating the annual action program,
 Managing the budget.

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The Foundation has an Executive Board composed of a President, a Vice President, a Secretary General, a Treasurer and two Administrators nominated by the Board of Directors. The purpose of the Executive Board is to supervise the Foundation’s activities. It administers day-to-day business and implements the decisions of the Board of Directors.

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The Scientific and Technical Committee ensures that the Foundation’s positioning is transcendent, and furnishes its expertise when selecting projects to be supported by the Foundation. It is entrusted with:
 Ensuring scientific and technical monitoring inThe year 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the formal recognition of autoinflammatory diseases as a distinct group of rheumatological conditions, following the identification of the gene mutated in patients with a dominantly inherited periodic fever known as familial Hibernian fever (FHF) ([@B1]). This nosological concept was introduced by one of the founders of the field, Dr. Daniel Kastner. Prior to this time, the only recognized periodic fever disease was familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and patients presenting with similar symptoms, irrespective of inheritance pattern, were suspected to have a variant FMF. Most patients, with exception for FMF, were treated with NSAID, glucocorticoids alone, or in a combination with immunosuppressive agents. These chronic life-long conditions negatively impacted patients\' quality of life and were associated with significant morbidity and mortality,


pains in the nineteenth century, it remained a mysterious disease and its pathogenesis was attributed to the phases of the moon and other environmental factors. Genetic etiology was not suspected until 1958 when Dr. Harry Heller emphasized the genetic nature of the disease and coined its modern name familial Mediterranean fever ([@B2]). The first accurate clinical description of FMF was published in 1945 by Dr. Sheppard Siegal, who reported 10 patients suffering from recurrent bouts of abdominal pain and fevers but who between attacks "may enjoy good health" ([@B3]). He named the disease "benign paroxysmal peritonitis." The next major break-through was in the early nineties, when Drs. Daniel Kastner and Isabelle Touitou undertook finding the causal gene for FMF ([@B4], [@B5]). Independently, they collected many families with FMFto launch genome-wide linkage mapping. This was incredibly ambitious considering available techniques, Southern blot analysis of DNA by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RLFP) markers not dense enough to cover the entire human genome. Complete sequences of many expressed genes were not available. After 7 years of tedious labor, a poorly characterized transcript harboring bi-allelic missense pathogenic mutations associated with FMF was identified. This discovery was celebrated at the First International Meeting on FMF in the summer of 1997 at Jerusalem, which was organized by Dr. Mordechai Pras.

It was not until late nineties that the second periodic fever disease came to attention. Although a five-generation family of the European ancestry with dominantly inherited fevers was described in 1957 by Drs. Bouroncle and Doan ([@B6]), most physicians were not aware


landmark 425-year anniversary.

Gosset's reputation for excellence starts on the vines. Its champagnes are composed almost entirely of grapes from Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards. Unlike most champagne producers, this illustrious wine house purposely avoids malolactic fermentation and always performs riddling and disgorging of prestige cuvées and large-format bottles by hand. Gosset champagnes are made with infinite care and kept in dark cellars for at least three years – and up to five for vintage and prestige cuvées – before release.

Gosset's inimitable style – powerful and full-bodied, of unrivaled richness and staying power – has changed little over the centuries. Once a favorite of the kings and queens of France, it is now a fixture on the wine lists of some of the most lauded restaurants in theworld, recognized by expert sommeliers for its exceptional capacity to enhance a wide range of cuisine.

Gosset's legacy is today in the safekeeping of the Cointreau family, who also owns and manages the highly regarded Cognac Frapin. While other champagne houses are handing over the reigns to large corporations, the members of this family are personally involved in the winemaking practices that have, over 425 years, made Gosset the ultimate name in champagne. In 2009, the family announced the acquisition of a new property in the heart of Epernay, which, with space for up to 2.5 million bottles, will serve as an extension to its production facilities in Aÿ.
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a great deal of sediment that is extracted through a process of "racking" or "riddling." The bottles are progressively turned upside down until all the sediment is collected in the neck. The necks are then frozen and the sediment is "disgorged." After this phase, the winemaker may decide to add sugar to sweeten the wine. Finally the wine is corked. Some wines move through this process in a couple of months, while others are aged after the riddling phase to build greater complexity and depth.

Champagnes range from dry, "Brut," to slightly sweet, "Demi-Sec." Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes are used in Champagne blends, but "Blancs de Noirs" is made entirely of Pinot Noir and "Blancs de Blanc" is made from only Chardonnay grapes. The high acidity achieved byThe Fall of the American Empire

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R

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127 min

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Comedy

Crime

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Director:

Denys Arcand

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Pierre-Paul Daoust, an intellectual with a PhD in philosophy, is
forced to work as a deliveryman to afford a decent living. One day,
while delivering a parcel, he gets caught in a hold up gone terribly
wrong: two dead and millions in money bags laying on the ground.
Pierre-Paul is confronted with a dilemma: leave empty handed, or take
the money and run?


Donald Trump signed the first animal cruelty bill of his presidency on Monday, outlawing narrow types of egregious violence usually committed for the purpose of videotaping them.

The Senate unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act this month after a similar House vote in late October. It applies to non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, building on a 2010 law that criminalized the distributon of so-called 'crush' videos—footage meant to satisfy an unusual sexual fetish—by also outlawing the production of the films.

Producing a crush video typically consists of filming a small animal being killed by stomping on it. But the new law expands the definition to include animals that are 'purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury.'

President Trump said the billsigned the original bill into law.

One woman who filmed herself torturing and maiming small animals for viewers' sexual gratification pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2015.

In the films, a scantily clad Ashley Nicole Richards, then 24, could be seen stabbing helpless animals including a puppy, a kitten and a chicken.

She would sometimes chop off their limbs and urinate on them while making sexual comments to the camera.

Ashley Nicole Richards from Houston admitted to four counts of creating animal crush videos and one film distribution charge in one of the first cases of its kind in the United States, just a few years ago

The Houston Chronicle reported at the time that one video seen by authorities featured Richards puncturing a cat's eye with a shoe heel.

Richards and Brent Justice,


54, were the first two people to be charged under the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act.

Richards was already in state custody in Texas, serving a 10-year animal cruelty sentence.

Federal Judge Sim Lake had dismissed five counts of animal cruelty video creation and distribution against Richards and Justice, citing the films as protected free speech under the First Amendment.Bank of America is the second-largest banking institution in the United States. Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 47 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 4,500 retail financial centers, approximately 16,000 ATMs, and award-winning digital banking with approximately 35 million active users, including approximately 24 million mobile users.

Just yesterday, February 19th 2020, an article was leaked which was later deleted stating that Bank Of America has joined RippleNet. The speculation started to fly. At this point we did know a couple things:

BOA


Nick Clegg: Offer to resign would not have changed 'disastrous' election result

Nick Clegg gives his first interview since the 2015 General Election(LBC)

Nick Clegg said his offer to quit as leader of the Liberal Democrats a year before the party's "disastrous" election night would not have made a difference to the results if accepted.

Giving his first interview since he stood down as the Lib Dem leader after the party finished with only eight seats, Clegg confirmed he would have quit last May had he felt it "would have helped in election".

Reports say Clegg discussed quitting as party leader following the Lib Dems' humiliating results in the European and local elections in May 2014.

He told one colleague: "If I believe – and I am very close to thinking it –the case in emerging tropical tourist destinations, some visitors do not seek local information about safety conditions before entering the water, and suffer the consequences of wandering into a danger zone. Last week’s death reportedly occurred at an area that was officially closed to swimmers, but warning signs at the beach had been vandalized.

Growing interest in surfing among both La Réunion residents and visitors is especially significant because surfers are the single most shark-affected group among aquatic recreationists. Increased shark attacks since the 1950s in many areas of the world, including Florida, Hawaii, California, Australia and Brazil, are directly linked to increased hours spent surfing in the ocean.

Surfers and local governments can take steps to reduce risks, such as avoiding high shark-contact surfing locations, choosing appropriate times of


stingray or be bitten by a shark.

The risk of being killed by a shark is extremely low. In 2016 only four people died worldwide as the result of shark attacks while engaged in all types of aquatic activities. Meanwhile, because of overfishing, shark populations have plummeted around the globe. Even great white sharks, the top dogs of the ocean, are legally listed as threatened or endangered in many areas of the world.

Authorities in La Réunion have determined that certain beaches present a higher shark risk to swimmers and surfers than other areas. Those beaches are closed to aquatic recreation, and people can learn about the risks from signs and word of mouth. Those who choose to ignore such warnings must accept the risk, just as surfers accept theSurf City Highlights - May 2017 -
Love Grows By Giving

A definite teaching moment at the Golden View Elementary School, as the HB Tree Society took the lead with school kids, school staff, community members and the Superintendent of the OVSD, as new green was made part of the popular farm at Golden View.

A cloudy, overcast day provided a more somber Run this year. The Members of the 3-1 Marines were deployed this year and was not with the organization/City who adopted them and conduct this fundraising event in their honor. In their place, the wives and children of the Thundering Third was featured as thoughts loomed large on the recent loss of 3-1 co- founder and former HB Councilman and Mayor, Gil Coerper and the former 3-1 executive


director, Cindy Cross. It was still a morning that demonstrates the enormous support the adopted Marines and their families have in Huntington Beach.

The Huntington Beach Youth Shelter, a Community Services Program contributor, held a lavish and well-received fundraiser at the Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa. Silent and live auctions were only highlighted by the donated food and wine from area restaurants and wineries.

The Assistance League of Huntington Beach reached record levels of attendance and donations during this year’s fundraiser that goes toward 15 philanthropic programs in our communities...Here is the highlight in pictures by and music. Pictures courtesy of Ami Racinbe the sober, literal rendition:

They switch off the light and its white shade
glimmers for a moment before dissolving
like a tablet in a glass of darkness. Then up.
The hotel walls rise into the black sky.

The movements of love have settled, and they sleep
but their most secret thoughts meet as when
two colors meet and flow into each other
on the wet paper of a schoolboy’s painting.

It is dark and silent. But the town has pulled closer
tonight. With quenched windows. The houses have approached.
They stand close up in a throng, waiting,
a crowd whose faces have no expressions.

The second, from Robin Robertson, we expect to run roughshod over those lines:

They turn out the lamplight, and its white globe
glimmers for a moment: an aspirin rising and falling
then dissolving in a glass of darkness. Around


The urgency of climate change is such that instead of pointing fingers at each other we need to sit down and develop a pragmatic worldview, says economist and environmentalist Jeffrey Sachs. India needs to address its population problem to end the growing food, health and water problems, he adds.

Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University is considered a leading international economic adviser and has pioneered innovative approaches to economic development, poverty alleviation and enlightened globalisation.

He is special advisor to the United Nations on the Millennium Development Goals and has held several other high-level advisory positions in the international sphere. He visits India as advisor to the National Rural Health Mission.

Excerpts from the interview:

Rashme Sehgal: What brings you to India?

Jeffrey Sachs: I am here as chairNaat is already in the university studying nursing. Her father died of cancer in 2011. Her family consists of Naat, her mom, her ailing grandmother, and two other kids in high school. Her mom did not complete high school, and their family lives on at a subsistence level. Naat is the first person in the entire village to ever go to university. Naat did well enough in high school to earn the Princess Scholarship, which is covering some of her university expenses. We are providing Naat with an additional 2000 ($60) baht per month so she can focus on her studies.


through the ranks of industry with very little education, and had almost no theoretical insight into the nature of electricity. He saw electricity as similar to water flowing through a pipe. He would never master AC circuit theory, let alone have any understanding of Maxwell’s equations. Even when it was clear that his view of electricity was wrong, he steadfastly refused to budge. He dismissed theory with disdain. He also had all the political connections to make him a formidable adversary—independent of his meager knowledge.[1]

Preece reviled Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) who was an amazing autodidact. Heaviside would recast Maxwell’s equations into the vector form which is used by engineers and scientists to this day. Heaviside coined the terms inductance, and impedance, admittance and conductance, permeability and reluctance. These areTwo days after he joked about the FBI's recruitment being hamstrung by the agency's policy on marijuana use, FBI Director James Comey was forced to reassure a Senate panel on Wednesday that he was not, in fact, advocating pot smoking.

On Monday, Comey was discussing the agency's new prioritization of cyber crimes, and he lamented the fact that many applicants with excellent cyber credentials might be dissuaded by the FBI's ban on hiring anyone who's smoked marijuana in the last three years.

"I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview," Comey said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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so much," said Bond.

"When they've got 500 postcards lying around, they definitely take notice of what we're saying," Bond said.

A PowerPoint presentation included tips for effectively using Facebook, Twitter and other social media to spread the NRA's message.

The session, called "NRA University," took place in a packed breakout room at the Gaylord National convention center, where CPAC is being held. It featured two speakers from the NRA's legislative arm. Participants received a free NRA hat and a free one-year NRA membership at the end of the session.When was the last time you looked closely and attentively at a map and thought of it as an example of data visualization?

A love of maps and all the information they convey provided a new career for Alli Torban, a data visualization designer at the American Enterprise Institute and Data Viz Today.

Alli Torban

“I came at data visualization how most people come at data visualization, which is in a very roundabout way,” Torban said. She has a degree in math and moved to the Northern Virginia area to pursue a career working fora government contractor but put her career on the back burner when she had her first child.

She stopped working entirely after her second child was bor but when she decided she wanted to rejoin the work force,


a regular boy from South Buffalo, had a press conference in March in front of the Diocese of Buffalo and said ‘I was sexually assaulted by a parish priest in the 1980s.’ He wanted to tell his story. It was a very simple, heartfelt story. It looked to be a one-off, if you will, a story that might last a couple days.”

That night, a reporter with the Buffalo News went to the home of Father Norbert Orsolits, the priest Whalen said abused him, and the priest admitted yes, he had abused dozens of boys over the course of decades.

Specht has worked to get in touch with victims and whistleblowers and tell their stories. He’s doing this in a town that still has deep Catholic roots and deep Irish“There’s no end in sight on this story,” he says.

People across the country were losing their homes in the blink of an eye. The stock market was crashing in ways not seen for decades. Lenders and big banks were going out of business every day.

The leadership at The Penny Hoarder, a consumer-facing publication that provides financial news and advice for everyday investors, had asked its staff to take on a big project, something that would involve multiple departments and would be bigger than “a 5-minute video or a 2,500 word story,” said Lisa Rowan, a senior writer and on-air analyst with the publication.

One of the other writers, Desiree Stennett, grew up in the Miami area and, with the Miami-Dade region being amongs the hardest hit in the country


homes in this neighborhood. He saw his real estate sign on the national news.”

Mahadevan had worked near Lee County prior to joining The Penny Hoarder and remembered the name of the county clerk. Another call there revealed the clerk was named in The Wall Street Journal due to the high rate of foreclosures in the county.

As they reached out to readers who were willing to speak about that dark time in their lives, many of them felt just as raw as they did 10 years ago, Rowan said.

“When you look back at something 10 years ago, it’s easy to look at the numbers and the black and white of it, but there’s so much gray in the middle of it, of what happened to real people, even howincrease women’s representation in media, both in the newsroom and in coverage.

Xanthe Scharff is the U.S.Bureau chief of the Fuller Project for International Reporting

She previously spent a decade in Malawi, first writing about families living on $1 per day, covering their financial decisions and the way they would prioritize their sons’ educations over their daughters’. After her first piece, published in the Christian Science Monitor, one family’s daughter was forced to leave school in eighth grade, while her brother continued on. Readers were so moved by the girl’s story they sent in donations, wanting to help allow girls to keep going to school and ease the burden on their parents.

“I went back to the village and found a way to set up management and identify all the girls


of her life to girls’ education. “I was shocked by the way that a family where the woman was the financial head of the household would deprioritize girls,” she said. Further, when she’d sit and talk with girls about their experiences, they routinely shared similar stories about the abuse they suffered from teachers, but they did so very casually.

She started the Fuller Project with Christina Asquith, who wrote about book about the role and importance the rights of women played in international situations, from the U.S. invasion of Iraq and beyond. Both had reported on issues about women, education and policy and knew that when women step up, everyone benefits and societies become stronger.

Xanthe Scharff, co-founder and executive director of the Fuller Project for International Reporting, joins producerMichael O’Connell to discuss her belief that writing every day and sharing stories can help change lives for girls and women around the world.

Robert Delaney, author of the upcoming novel The Wounded Muse, fell into his career as a journalist and writer.

He also fell into his specialty.

He can, in part, thank his kung fu instructor.

“When I was going to university, I wound up in the school of communications and thought, sure, journalism, that’s fine,” said Delaney, the U.S. bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. “I didn’t have an aptitude for math or science and figured what the hell.”

Robert F. Delaney

He was studying at Temple University and, at the same time, taking kung fu lessons. As part of an independent study project, he looked into the history


though I was covering odd things, I gradually realized it was, in fact, the work of a journalist.”

Robert Delaney, the U.S. bureau chief for the South China Morning Post, tells producer Michael O’Connell about his unusual career path, from kung fu student to futures reporter covering the market in China. He also talks about writing his first novel, The Wounded Muse, which will be released in October.

It was a rare chance to apologize and take responsibility for past sins, when the paper was complicit in the lynching deaths of thousands of men and women.

Bro Krift, the paper’s executive editor, and Brian Lyman, its state government and politics reporter, published a series of articles and an editorial to apologize for the paper’s “callous indifference” toward the practice of lynchingSunday, July 26, 2015

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A memorial for Dale Creighton at the pedestrian footbridge across the Tallaght Dual Carriage where he was seriously assaulted on New Year's Day

A memorial for Dale Creighton at the pedestrian footbridge across the Tallaght Dual Carriage where he was seriously assaulted on New Year's Day

THE FAMILY OF Dale Creighton told of their anger this afternoon as sentences were handed down to seven people charged in relation to the fatal assault.

It was standing room only in Court 13 in the CCJ this afternoon as family and friends of Creighton arrived to support his grieving mother and father.

Dale Creighton was assaulted at the footbridge over the Tallaght bypass between Saint Dominic’s Road and Greenhills Road four hours after he had rung in 2014. He died in hospital the following day.The cause of his death was blunt force injury to his head and face.

Six men and one woman were originally charged with murder and went on trial at the Central Criminal Court in October after pleading not guilty. However, those charges were dropped on the 15th day of the trial, after they pleaded guilty to lesser charges and had their new pleas accepted.

As she handed down sentence, Justice Deirdre Murphy said they were not evil or even bad people but described the fatal assault as prolonged and vicious. She noted that, following an allegation that he had stolen Aisling Burke’s phone, Creighton was ‘marched up the steps onto the footbridge and mercilessly kicked and beaten’.

This afternoon, Justice Murphy handed down the following sentences:

Graham Palmer (26) 10 years with


sentence of Aisling Burke and the suspended sentence of James Reid.

Detective Superintendent Brian Sutton offered the Creighton family his condolences and said the thoughts of the force are with them. He said he hoped the result today may bring some closure and solace. He also thanked the people of Tallaght for assisting them with their investigations.

With reporting by Natasha ReidPresident summed up the Abkhaz-Russian military exercises

The meeting on summing up the results of the Abkhaz-Russian military exercises was held at the Administration of President.

Sukhum. May 6. Apsnypress. President of the Republic of Abkhazia Raul Khadzhimba held a meeting on summing up the results of the Abkhaz-Russian military exercises.

President noted that progress and results of the exercises indicate the need to pay special attention to the state of all available command posts, issues of communications and ensure the functioning of additional control points in the regions of the Republic of Abkhazia.

Vasily Lunev, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Abkhazia, reported on the main themes and activities of the exercise.

“In accordance with the plan, command-staff exercises were conducted with involvement of the


Speakers

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General Practitioner (GP), GP Trainer, Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)

Dr Sarah Jarvis, MBE, FRCGP, has been a GP in London since 2000. She also lectures extensively and broadcasts in the media – she is the doctor to BBC Radio 2, The One Sow on BBC 1 and appears regularly on Good Morning Britain, LBC and ITN. She is passionate about patient empowerment and education.The first thing that Ginny Weasley had ever noticed about Luna Lovegood was her shoes.

It was a rather odd thing to notice, in the scheme of things.

At the time, Luna's hair had been pinned away from her face with a hairclip in the shape of a carrot. But Ginny had noticed Luna's entirely ordinary shoes. The sole had peeled away from the heel of the left one, and they might once have been black. Ginny's own shoes had been brown before her mother had dyed them.

Luna's legs were longer and scrawnier than the average second-year's, and they swung merrily back and forth as she read the potion out loud. Ginny put in the ingredients and stirred when directed to do so. Snape deemed the potion passable.

The following day,


Prudence recovered from her bout of flu and resumed her place at Ginny's side in Snape's dungeon. Luna had reclaimed her customary sat in the back and hummed as she dropped ingredients into her cauldron. The girls had not spoken again, save the occasional polite and entirely silent acknowledgement in the corridors. Ginny had been friendlier than most of the others in their year, but Luna was not the type to misunderstand her place in the complicated and constantly mutating Hogwarts hierarchy.

So Ginny had surprised even herself when she had invited herself into Luna Lovegood's compartment. She, Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville had passed an enjoyable afternoon in the Ravenclaw's company, even though none but Ginny had ever spoken to Luna. But the Ravenclaw drifted away when theyhad arrived at the feast, and Ginny had not spoken to her since.

However, Luna Lovegood's presence of the threshold of Madam Pince's library that afternoon wasn't entirely unexpected. Ginny and her friends had not been the only fourth-years assigned a horribly difficult transfiguration essay. Ginny's notes and books were spread across the table alongside the notes of her dorm mates, Samantha Cauldwell and Prudence Montgomery. Despite the seriousness of their situation, the other two had become consumed by a debate over whether Dean Thomas or Eddie Carmichael was the more attractive. Ginny couldn't blame them. She too found the difference between Dean Thomas and Eddie Carmichael far more interesting than any comparison of switching spells and swapping spells.

Ginny had just hissed that one could not compare Eddie's hair


to Dean's on the basis on length alone when she looked up and saw Luna Lovegood on the threshold. She had piled her perpetually tangled hair atop her head with the aid of no less than four quills. Wide blue eyes caught brown ones, and Luna gave Ginny a vague smile before starting for a table.

She had no sooner unloaded a copy of the Quibbler, ink, a piece of soggy toast wrapped in a napkin, and several transfiguration textbooks when a Ravenclaw girl in the throes of N.E.W.T.'s came barreling around the corner. The older girl's small eyes and brown hair looked even darker against her pallor, which was the sort of colour one achieves after not leaving the realm of Madam Pince for several months. She dartedover to Luna's chosen table and hissed, "Loony! Can't you move?" Her stance was almost territorial.

Luna did not stir, already absorbed in her Transfiguration notes. The other girl tapped Luna on the shoulder with rather more force than the occasion required. "Loony!" she hissed. "Lost your hearing as well as your mind?"

Luna lifted her head to gaze expressionlessly at the offending seventh year, one of the quills from her hair falling to the floor as she did so.

"Move!" said the girl. She moved so quickly that even Ginny hadn't expected it. The seventh year dropped her books upon the table, catching Luna's ink bottle and sending it skidding across the table. With a small crash, it broke, expelling more ink than Ginny thought such a small bottle could


contain. Luna's white shirt suddenly bore a thick ribbon of black that leaked through her shirt and down toward her skirt. The cracked ink bottle spun to a stop near the edge of the table and began dripping straight into Luna's bag.

Luna blinked.

The rest of the students watched the saga of Loony and her tormenter with ill-disguised hunger. For the first time in her life, Ginny prayed for the appearance of Madam Pince.

Luna blinked again.

Ginny stood up so quickly that her chair fell backward and hit a bookshelf. This, of all things, induced a sudden screech and then the low roar of Madam Pince's rapid footsteps around the corner. The librarian's small eyes darted from the upsetter-of-chairs to the dropper-of-books to the spiller-of-ink. Her eyes lingered for amoment on the ink stain on her floor, and she sprung.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, GIRL? OUT! OUT WITH YOU!" She brandished her wand like a knife as she came toward Luna, who shrank back in her chair. Luna Lovegood's ruined ink pooled in her schoolbag and in her lap as she stared at the librarian. The seventh-year girl remained poised over Luna's table, her hands hovering awkwardly over the pile of books. She turned red and dropped her hands to her sides. A small group of fellow seventh-years shuffled to make a space, and the girl sat down at their table without taking her wide eyes from Luna.

"OUT!" said Madam Pince again, brandishing her wand like she might hit Luna round the head.

Luna finally stood. Her shirt had


sagged under the weight of the ink, revealing the top of a pale blue bra. She turned away from her audience to gather her things, though she had no option but to stuff them in her ruined bag. Ginny, who was still standing motionless on the other side of the library, tried to no avail to catch Luna's gaze before the latter darted into the corridor.

The elderly librarian gave the remaining students a threatening look, as if they intended to copy Luna. Ginny resumed her seat and tried to focus on her transfiguration notes. Her vision blurred slightly, whether from anger or tears, she didn't know. The other tables seemed to draw into themselves, no doubt discussing Loony Lovegood's latest oddities. The seventh-year girl who had ignited thewhole incident put her head very close to one of the other girls at the table. The girl smirked for a moment, and Ginny felt her eyes burn with rage and embarrassment for her sometimes-friend. Prudence and Samantha stared at their transfiguration notes, not daring to look up at Ginny.

Had rustling parchment always been that loud? Chairs scraped, books slammed into each other, quills scratched. The ceiling of the library seemed to rise, making each murmur echo across the library and into Ginny's head.

Did you see her skirt?

She didn't even talk, the freak.

Loony, they call her.

I hear the other girls in her dorm hide her things.

The strap of Ginny's bag dug into her shoulder as she made her way out of the library.

Aside from the distant groan of


moving staircase and Peeve's cackle from inside a classroom, the corridor was completely silent. Ginny's feet carried her towards the girl's toilets.

She pushed the door open and ducked her head to do a quick look for shoes. None. She was on the point of leaving when she caught her breath. There had been a sob, she had heard it quite plainly.

She turned around slowly. "Luna?"

A pair of scuffed shoes suddenly appeared, as if Luna had been holding them up to evade detection. There was an unsure silence before Luna answered, "Yes, Ginny?"

Her voice did not crack or waver, but Ginny could sense the effort it took to make those words sound so conversational.

"Are your things ruined?"

One of Luna's eyes appeared suddenly in the crack of the stall. TheLying injured at a lakeside campsite, Greg Sutherland was in the middle of nowhere.

There were no trails or roads, no electricity or phone service.

The only way to reach him was the way he had come, canoeing along a series of lakes deep in the heart of the Hiawatha National Forest in the Upper Peninsula.

Sutherland, 29, of Clarkston had been setting up camp in September when he somehow cut the back of his thigh, said police.

It was the first time he had camped by himself but he was deeply prepared — if anything, overprepared, family members said.

In the end, it didn’t matter. Despite his readiness, the cut had severed a major artery. He died within 10 minutes, a coroner said.

His first night in the wilderness was his last.

“It doesn’t


make sense,” said his wife, Amanda. “It just doesn’t make sense.”

Stay-at-home father

Greg Sutherland poses in a canoe with his son, Finn. Greg died in a freak accident during a canoe trip to the UP. Sutherland family

Sutherland was a talker.

He would chat with anyone, friends said. He might run on a bit long but people liked him. He was quick to smile and make people laugh.

He couldn’t drive by a stranded car without stopping, his family said. Some motorists rebuffed him, intimidated by the hulking 300-pound stranger offering to change their tire.

Working a dozen years at Kroger, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a regional produce specialist.

He was popular with customers and coworkers, frequently sending messages to see how they were doing, said Lacie Stogdill, who worked withhim.

“If there was an award for most selfless and amazing man, I’d have volunteered him for it,” she said.

When Sutherland became a father in 2017, he left Kroger to become a stay-at-home dad.

Amanda made more money as a nurse, and child care would have cost much of what he was making at Kroger.

Truth was, he loved being a dad, relatives said.

A friend joked that Sutherland had always acted like a dad in high school, looking after people, making sure they didn’t drink too much at parties and got home OK.

His father was an alcoholic who had left the family, so Sutherland resolved he would be a different type of parent.

He read to his son, Finn, several times a day, took him to the park and loved to explain