paneling of unique sizes and shapes (details generated from
computer design, manufactured by computer commanded robots) was
created, thus allowing for the organically irregular and curved shapes
of the mass. It's like a mutated kind of shingling, taking that
technique to places it has never been before. (Critic Paul Goldberger
noted that changes in architecture have already moved ahead of Gehry;
while Gehry designs in his head and implements with the computer, a
new generation has adopted the computer itself as the generator of
design. Still, Gehry's work could not be implemented without the use
of computers.)?
The reflective nature of the skin of the building contributes in no
small part to the beauty of the building, in all kinds of light, even
the under the frequently grey skies of this city by the Atlantic.
4. Symbolic and historic association ofthe building is composed of two kinds of galleries.
The building has a total of 19 galleries organized around the central
atrium. ?Ten of these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal
look and can be identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine
other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and
can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the
covering of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is 130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It


in Bilboa is
also a very complex subject, but I hope that my answer will at least
give you a good start on comprehending and appreciating this building,
which seems to be considered one of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect fora
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
The


site.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the
main entrance; the idea was to bring the city right to the doors of
the building. A broad flight of steps takes pedestrians down to the
Museum hall although descendingis part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel. It is like nothing we have seen before.?
Gehry himself has described the building as a metal flower set in the
bank of the river. And another observer has seen no lack of allusions
to the city and its history.
http://www.architectsonline.com/publications/bilbao/
The river and the city?s
shipbuilding and industrial past are, this writer thinks, all integral
to Gehry?s vision.
A word here about Gehry in general. At this site you will find a good
account


the city?s history as an important Atlantic port. (Though both are
also typical of Gehry?s work far from Bilboa. Using fish-scale-like
panels as the skin of a building is an idea that dates back to early
in his career. And the sail-like shapes are also a Gehry trademark,
seen again in the recently completed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles.)
Spatial organization and character
The first thing to be said on this subject, in my view, is that the
building discloses very little of how it is organized, when viewed
from outside. But the Museum?s own website says that one can see from
the outside how the building is composed of two kinds of galleries.
The building has a total of 19 galleries organized around the central
atrium. ?Ten of these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal
look and canbe identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine
other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and
can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the
covering of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is 130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It is this
gallery where large works like those of Richard Serra are displayed.
As for movement through the building, the museum website says that,
contrary to the outside appearance, all is easy and clear
inside:?There


of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated.It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
The site.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building


is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the
main entrance; the idea was to bring the city right to the doors of
the building. A broad flight of steps takes pedestrians down to the
Museum hall although descending flights of stairs are not a frequent
feature of institutional buildings. This is an inspired response to
the differences in height between the level of the river and the level
of the city center.back to early
in his career. And the sail-like shapes are also a Gehry trademark,
seen again in the recently completed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles.)
Spatial organization and character
The first thing to be said on this subject, in my view, is that the
building discloses very little of how it is organized, when viewed
from outside. But the Museum?s own website says that one can see from
the outside how the building is composed of two kinds of galleries.
The building has a total of 19 galleries organized around the central
atrium. ?Ten of these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal
look and can be identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine
other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and
can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the
covering of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is


130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It is this
gallery where large works like those of Richard Serra are displayed.
As for movement through the building, the museum website says that,
contrary to the outside appearance, all is easy and clear
inside:?There is a harmonius tie between the architectural shapes and
the contents of each gallery. Undoubtedly, this simplifies the tour
inside the Museum while the atrium, in its very center, and the
walkways that linkSpain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and


cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
The site.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks notto overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the
main entrance; the idea was to bring the city right to the doors of
the building. A broad flight of steps takes pedestrians down to the
Museum hall although descending flights of stairs are not a frequent
feature of institutional buildings. This is an inspired response to
the differences in height between the level of the river and the level
of the city center. It also enables a building with a surface area of
24,000 square meters and more than 50 meters high to be slotted into
the city landscape without it towering over the neighboring
buildings.?
The Wilkepedia


viewed from the stairs.
The city map on the city? website uses the word ?muelle?, the Spanish
word for ?dock,? to describe this area, but clearly the area is now
being put to a purely aesthetic use.
****************
Structural and construction ideas.
First let?s consider the extraordinary shape of the building. The
building was completed in 1997 and a writer in the Washington Post was
among the many who were utterly captivated by it:
http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/gehrys_guggenheim_bilbao.htm
Here is part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel.of the building contributes in no
small part to the beauty of the building, in all kinds of light, even
the under the frequently grey skies of this city by the Atlantic.
Symbolic and historic association of the work
We have already touched upon this. One can say that the titanium
panels pay tribute to Bilboa?s industrial heritage, especially its
shipbuilding. Further, the sail-like shapes can be seen as reference
to the city?s history as an important Atlantic port. (Though both are
also typical of Gehry?s work far from Bilboa. Using fish-scale-like
panels as the skin of a building is an idea that dates back to early
in his career. And the sail-like shapes are also a Gehry trademark,
seen again in the recently completed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles.)
Spatial organization and character
The first thing to be said


on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It is this
gallery where large works like those of Richard Serra are displayed.
As for movement through the building, the museum website says that,
contrary to the outside appearance, all is easy and clear
inside:?There is a harmonius tie between the architectural shapes and
the contents of each gallery. Undoubtedly, this simplifies the tour
inside the Museum while the atrium, in its very center, and the
walkways that link one gallery with another - showing different
perspectives of the exhibitional spaces - facilitate the location of
galleries and services at any time. As visitors enter the Museum they
learn that under the external complex appearancebut it is a fascinating subject,and doing this
research has reinforced my determination to some day see this
remarkable building in person. Perhaps I will run into you there!
Scribe_ga
Hello ttc,
An enormously complex structure, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa is
also a very complex subject, but I hope that my answer will at least
give you a good start on comprehending and appreciating this building,
which seems to be considered one of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both


city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continuedto
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
THE SITE.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website:
http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao


and construction ideas.
First let?s consider the extraordinary shape of the building. The
building was completed in 1997 and a writer in the Washington Post was
among the many who were utterly captivated by it:
http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/gehrys_guggenheim_bilbao.htm
Here is part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel. It is like nothing we have seen before.?
Gehry himself has described the building as a metal flower set in the
bank of the river. And another observer has seen no lack of allusions
to the citymain
materials, paneling of unique sizes and shapes (details generated from
computer design, manufactured by computer commanded robots) was
created, thus allowing for the organically irregular and curved shapes
of the mass. It's like a mutated kind of shingling, taking that
technique to places it has never been before. (Critic Paul Goldberger
noted that changes in architecture have already moved ahead of Gehry;
while Gehry designs in his head and implements with the computer, a
new generation has adopted the computer itself as the generator of
design. Still, Gehry's work could not be implemented without the use
of computers.)?
The reflective nature of the skin of the building contributes in no
small part to the beauty of the building, in all kinds of light, even
the under the frequently grey skies of this city by the Atlantic.
Symbolic and historic association of


building is composed of two kinds of galleries.
The building has a total of 19 galleries organized around the central
atrium. ?Ten of these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal
look and can be identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine
other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and
can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the
covering of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is 130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It isBilboa is
also a very complex subject, but I hope that my answer will at least
give you a good start on comprehending and appreciating this building,
which seems to be considered one of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building


that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
The site.
Themuseum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the
main entrance; the idea was to bring the city right to the doors of
the building. A broad flight of steps takes pedestrians down to the
Museum hall although descending flights


part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel. It is like nothing we have seen before.?
Gehry himself has described the building as a metal flower set in the
bank of the river. And another observer has seen no lack of allusions
to the city and its history.
http://www.architectsonline.com/publications/bilbao/
The river and the city?s
shipbuilding and industrial past are, this writer thinks, all integral
to Gehry?s vision.
A word here about Gehry in general. At this site you will find a good
account ofof shingling, taking that
technique to places it has never been before. (Critic Paul Goldberger
noted that changes in architecture have already moved ahead of Gehry;
while Gehry designs in his head and implements with the computer, a
new generation has adopted the computer itself as the generator of
design. Still, Gehry's work could not be implemented without the use
of computers.)?
The reflective nature of the skin of the building contributes in no
small part to the beauty of the building, in all kinds of light, even
the under the frequently grey skies of this city by the Atlantic.
Symbolic and historic association of the work
We have already touched upon this. One can say that the titanium
panels pay tribute to Bilboa?s industrial heritage, especially its
shipbuilding. Further, the sail-like shapes can be seen as reference
to the city?s history


outside by their stone finishes. Nine
other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and
can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the
covering of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is 130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It is this
gallery where large works like those of Richard Serra are displayed.
As for movement through the building, the museum website says that,
contrary to the outside appearance, all is easy and clear
inside:?There is a harmoniuswhose works I’ve benefitted from was wonderful. I had conversations with literally dozens of other participants – some of them practicing Stoics, some of them people just interested in Stoicism and trying to find out more about it, and even some who were already contributing to the modern Stoic community online!

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At the age of 95, John Glenn has passed away. He was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962 and later served as a United States Senator from Ohio. In 1998, NASA invited him to join the team aboard the space shuttle Discovery and at the age of 77, he became the oldest human ever to do so. He never gave up on his dream or fascination with flight. John Glenn was part of an elite group of astronauts known as the Mercury 7 who became national heroes. That historic mission was immortalized in the 1983 movie, The Right Stuff, starring Ed Harris as the iconic John Glenn. He is survived by his wife of 73 years, two children and two grandchildren. Godspeed,John Glenn.

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Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths anage-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm.

Family Tree is the story of one woman’s triumph over betrayal, and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex, clear-eyed and big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to remember.

"Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater-vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before.


What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met--a journey that leads him to find hope, healing, and self-discovery in the most unexpected places"--Jacket.

On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her act of nonviolent resistance sparked a boycott of public buses in that city that lasted for 381 days. On June 4, 1956, a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, declared that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional. After the state appealed the decision, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Courtwhere on November 13, 1956 the ruling was upheld, leading to a city ordinance authorizing black bus passengers to sit anywhere they chose. The boycott officially ended December 20, 1956. Find out more more about this important milestone in Civil Rights, as well as the history of dissent in United States history with some of the following titles from the Library's collection.

December 1, 1955. Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back section of a municipal bus. This action resulted in a year-long boycott of the city's bus system by African Americans.

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even though we refer to such operations as ‘cyber warfare,’ they are completely different from Taiwan’s Information, Communication, and Electronic Warfare Command, which was formed last year and is responsible for obtaining national security and military secrets.

The technical level and approach involved with these two approaches is as different as night and day, and should not be confused. The ROC military is currently paying more attention to the latter – and does not seem to have much of a clue about the former.

Cross-strait psychological warfare: A confrontation between the CCP and the ROC army

In China, a one-party state, the departments involved in the implementation of psychological warfare against Taiwan and the opinion of its public encompass a wide selection of high-level CCP departments and entities.

These departments span theCCP itself, the government, and the military, including the Central Publicity Department, the United Front Work Department, and the Communist Youth League, but also reach as far as the Taiwan Affairs Office and its peripheral organizations.

The attacks on public opinion online that everyone is familiar with are meticulously planned and then implemented by these departments.

As for the CCP’s psy-war department, they are more focused on the tactical side of psychological warfare – propaganda broadcasts, a war of words – and do not really engage directly in strategic psychological warfare against Taiwan.

So, what are the corresponding departments for countering cross-Strait psychological warfare and public opinion attacks in Taiwan? Let’s look at the same three sectors of political parties, the government, and the military:

On the political side, some parties and


It is the CCP up against the ROC army.

It may feel disproportionate, but it does not mean that Taiwan is doomed to lose. The outcome also depends on whether the ROC army is aware that it is the only official command able to counter the enemy’s attacks, and what actions they choose to take in response.

Within the Political Warfare Bureau, there is in fact a psychological warfare division. The psy-war division has under its command the Psychological Operations Battalion (POB), which should be deployed to balance and cancel out the psychological warfare operations from the other side of the strait.

This is the reality of the situation: the current commander of Taiwan’s special task force for cross-Strait psychological warfare, public opinion warfare, and propaganda warfare is the director ofthe psychological warfare division of the Political Warfare Bureau, General Chen Yu-lin (陳育琳), who was promoted to the position in October 2016.

The person responsible for the implementation of both psychological warfare and propaganda warfare is the man directly under the command of General Chen: the chief of the POB, Colonel Chang Ching-tai (張景泰), promoted in September 2017. All POB operations are basically determined by the psy-war division.

In other words, the official Taiwanese opponent of the CCP’s Central Publicity Department, United Front Department, and Communist Youth League is its Psychological Operations Battallion. It is difficult to emphasize just how important this government entity is.

Credit: Reuters / Tyrone Siu Chinese and Taiwanese flags are displayed around souvenir shops ahead of the 60th anniversary of Second Taiwan Straits Crisis against China,


the problem with it is that most of the information included about China is actually released by the CCP and therefore has a number of discrepancies due to editing. If you cannot tell the difference between authentic information and propaganda, then all you are doing is following the trail of breadcrumbs left by the CCP.

Due to our nation’s over-dependence on second-hand information and lack of cultivating intelligence gathering abilities, Taiwan’s psychological warfare department, which has long been the first line of defense against the information released by the PRC, has been the first group to suffer in the cross-Strait psychological war.

Reuters / TPG Debate in Taiwan tracks topics looked on favorably by China's Communist Party, including the much-vaunted launch of China's first domestically developed aircraft carrier, the Liaoning.

Theirwork consists mainly of responsive action, dictated by the information released by Beijing. When they advocate the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), we adhere to the trend and also discuss the BRI. When they deployed the aircraft carrier Liaoning for patrol, we get dragged along and also discussed the Liaoning. Taiwan’s psy-war division has fundamentally lost the ability to itself come up with creative topics that arouse positive public sentiment.

This is the general reality of Taiwan's current psy-war division. It is a perfect example of the cost of having unqualified professional leadership – even though the division has the most outstanding officers within the entire army, each with exceptional individual abilities, when they are assembled into a mismatched group under the leadership of their senior commanding officers, none


all time, may have been so fucked up on cognac and champagne, that he didn't do some of his great speeches." "They were done by a man from the BBC, who also did "Winnie the Pooh"." "will fight them on the beaches, in the air, on the land!" "Eeyore and Tigger!" "'" "And, he was fighting against Hitler!" "A man who a book recently declared was a homosexual, and I always thought this was a clue!" "That and the leather and the dancing!" "We are now finding ourselves once again drown to England during these troubled times." "Tony Blair, a militant liberal." "Here, George W Bush, compassionate conservative." "This sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack, but..." "Here, Tony Blair, a man who addressed the House ofStory highlights Men are opening up about being sexually abused as children, Roxanne Jones says

The Penn State case is leading men to reflect upon and discuss their own abuse, she says

Jones: One in every six boys are sexually abused before the age of 16, and not just by men

Men may face feelings of shame and guilt when reporting abuse, Jones says

Chad, a 46-year-old father, is still afraid to tell his mother about the woman nearly 25 years his senior who used to sneak into his room at night and crawl into his bed. He doesn't want her to feel guilty.

She was his mom's best friend.

"She would get into my bed naked. Make me take off my clothes and make me touch her. Then, she'd touch me. We would


masturbate and ... do stuff," says Chad, pausing to recall what happened so long ago. "It went on for a long time. She said it was our secret. That she loved me. That's how I learned about sex."

He was 10 years old when the abuse began.

"After her, I got my girlfriend pregnant a few years later. I don't know ... maybe that's why I'm so messed up now. I have problems with relationships."

Roxanne Jones

Until the Penn State child rape case took over our national conversation, Chad (all names have been changed at the request of the interview subjects) had never told his story. He wasn't even sure he'd been abused. No doubt he'd feel very differently if he were talking about his 10-year-old daughter lying in bed witha 35-year-old man.

According to national studies, one in every six boys are sexually abused before the age of 16. And yes, the majority of pedophiles are men, but as much as 40% of sexual abuse is perpetrated by women. Chad's story is not unusual. It is unusual that he's talking about it. And it's healthy.

For many reasons, experts say, men face different feelings of shame and guilt than women experience when reporting childhood sexual abuse. Men don't want to be viewed as weaklings for allowing the abuse. They worry that their sexuality will be questioned if the abuser was another man. And in cases like Chad's where the pedophile was a woman, men may even feel societal pressure to brag about the early unwanted sexual activity. Either way,


friends and families are sharing their painful secrets over kitchen tables -- and often a glass of wine -- without the fear of ridicule or shame men often face around this topic. Sports have always been a safe conversation.

But it's tricky. Abuse experts say that men under-report these childhood incidents when they are called "abuse," but when they are asked about "unwanted sexual experiences," the numbers may be higher than one in six. Not surprising in a world where men are not supposed to be victims, even as little boys.

For Gary, it was his priest. A huge football fan and happily married father of three, Gary says the Penn State story hurts.

He grew up in the Catholic Church and was an altar boy. He was 9 years old,he says, when his priest began being nice to him, giving him special assignments around the church and making him feel special.

"I would stay after and help clean up the church," he says, nearly tearing as he remembers. But then, the touching started, he says, the wrestling, the horseplay -- words consistently used by Sandusky's alleged victims.

"One night, we were wrestling and the priest pinned me underneath him. He grabbed my genitals and started rubbing me there. I didn't know what to do," Gary says. "But somehow, I got out of his grip. I think I may have hit him and I ran home crying."

But when Gary got home and told his mother what the priest had done, she didn't believe him. The priest was beloved in their


taken a lot of hard work and counseling to get Jason to this happy place.

Jason was 7 when his father introduced him to hardcore pornography. "I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was bad. Dad said not to tell Mom," he told me the other day. His father said he would beat him if he told anyone. He was afraid.

As Jason started to have trouble in school and became moody at home, his mother worried. She didn't know what was wrong. "It took him years to tell me about what was going on with his father," she says.

When I asked Jason how he found the courage to tell, he says easily: "Mom always said not to lie. I was scared Dad would be mad, butTourism expected to grow again in 2014, led by strong domestic and European demand
Published on: 13/02/2014

As European Commissioner responsible for tourism, I cannot hide my enthusiasm. The attitudes of Europeans towards travelling published today are a sign of reliable and outstanding performance of the tourism sector, which continues to be the sound economic driver for the EU recovery, said Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President

Tourism has been one of the strongholds of European economy during the recent economic crisis, and according to the results of the new Eurobarometer survey, the positive trend will continue in 2014.

Only 11% of Europeans expect not to go away on holiday in 2014 because of the current economic situation, according to the results of the latest Eurobarometer survey on preferences of Europeans towards tourism


published today. Four in ten Europeans plan to spend their main holiday in their own country (majority of people in Greece, Croatia, Italy and Bulgaria). Three in ten people expect their main holiday to be in the EU, and over four in ten intend to have at least one of their trips in the EU in 2014. A quarter plans travelling to a non-EU country (24%) but only 16% will have their main holiday outside the EU.

According to the survey, the tourism sector has been an engine of domestic demand-driven economic growth in 2013 as well, with more people choosing to spend holidays outside of their own country but within the EU. In 2013, 38% of Europeans spent their main holiday in another EU country, which is 5visitors will be able to make the most of their time in the city, sharing images and posts in real time as they explore what Edinburgh has to offer.”

Wifi will be available in the city centre.

Installation of the WiFi service is currently 82 per cent complete, council officials revealed, with a “soft launch” already in place on the Royal Mile.

The final scheme will see vital connection equipment installed in more than 20 buildings and 185 lighting and CCTV posts – making it the biggest of its kind in Scotland.

Meanwhile, extra WiFi access points will be added over Christmas and Hogmanay to cope with the annual influx of visitors from around the globe.

But critics raised concerns over delays to the project.

Edinburgh Hogmanay 2015 celebrations. Picture; Ian Georgeson

Councillor Cameron Rose,


First Report of Powdery Mildew on Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) Caused by Golovinomyces biocellatus in Hungary.
Lemon balm is a well-known perennial, medicinal and culinary herb, and also a melliferous plant that is grown commercially in many parts of the world including Hungary. In October 2009, symptoms of powdery mildew infection were observed on lemon balm plants grown in several gardens in Budapest, Maklár, and Eger, Hungary, as well as in Ghenci, Romania. Abundant mycelium and conidial sporulation was observed on both leaf surfaces and stems. Conidia were produced in chains and were ellipsoid-ovoid to subcylindrical, measured 29 to 44 × 15 to 18 μm, and germinated with germ tubes produced apically or subapically on conidia. The basal septa of the conidiophores were sometimes displaced from the point ofwas identified as G. biocellatus based on the host plant species, anamorph morphology, and ITS sequence. It was clearly distinguished from Neoerysiphe galeopsidis, another powdery mildew species known to infect lemon balm in Europe (1). Specimens were deposited under Accession Nos. HAL 2369F and HAL 2370F at the Herbarium of Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany. Pathogenicity tests were carried out in cabinets within a controlled environment as described for other powdery mildews in Jankovics et al. (3) using five potted healthy lemon balm plants bought from a nursery. The first powdery mildew colonies appeared 7 to 10 days after inoculation, and 2 to 3 weeks later, nearly all the leaves and stems of the three inoculated plants became covered with powdery mildew mycelium. Light microscopy confirmed that the


AUTOCROSS RETURNS TO SUPER CHEVY SHOW PRESENTED BY CHEVROLET PERFORMANCE AT TEXAS MOTORPLEX

ENNIS, Texas (April 30, 2013) – The popular one-day event at Texas Motorplex will offer crowd-pleasing Autocross again at the Super Chevy Show presented by Chevrolet Performance, this weekend May 3 – 4, 2013.

The North Texas Camaro Club (NTCC) specializing in ’67 – ’69 first generation Camaros, are always a big presence at the action-packed Saturday event, and is the reigning Club Participation winner from 2012, with over 25 cars in attendance.

Looking for ways to continue the Super Chevy Shows success in the Dallas region for years to come, the active Camaro club insisted that autocross be a part of the event again in 2013. In order to ensure the solo agility activity, members and autocrossby each host track and is a member of the Manufacturers Series events. The Series showcases the best in car show, drag race, swap meet, car corral, in addition to autocross at select events. The 2013 season kicks off in March at Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Fla., and closes in October at Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, N.C. The Series will make its debut at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, Calif., May 31 – June 2. The Super Chevy Show is widely considered the best brand-specific event in the country; for more information, visit: www.superchevyshow.com


Chapter Text

"What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue? "

Smiling, Coco looked at Yang for a moment, before her smile quickly faded. Yang was not looking happy. Yang looked angry, her gaze locked on Blake. Everybody stood still, not a word was ushered, before Yang turned around, heading back towards her house, her fist clenched. Coco began to run towards the blond woman, before Yatsuhashi’s hand grabbed her by the elbow, shaking his head softly.

"She wants to be left alone. She’s angry, there’s probably a ton of emotions that are going through her head. Leave her some time. "

Groaning, Coco turned around towards Blake, but yelled in anger when she saw that the cat woman had disappeared once more. Going back towards the forest, the diva punched right throughhouse at a quick pace, Weiss almost tore the garage door off its hinges when she heard the repeated sound of punches on something, as well as Yang’s voice. When she opened the door, she stood still, amazed at the sight. Waves of energy were traveling through Yang’s hair, her eyes crimson and, most importantly, the punching bag was embedded in the garage door, part of it going through. Turning around to look at the person inside, Yang kept her eyes locked on Weiss’ before she got to her knees, crying, the waves of energy slowly lessening in intensity as she kept still on the ground. Weiss dashed to her friend, taking her in her arms. Keeping the brawler close to her, the white-haired woman slowly began to


sing a soothing lullaby that Klein used to sing to her in her child years. After a few minutes, Yang took a few deep breaths, calming down her sobs to a minimum.

"She… she’s here. "muttered Yang, hand shaking on Weiss’ shoulder, pleading lilac eyes locked on icy blue ones filled with questions. "Blake is… outside with team CFVY"

Weiss gasped as tears appeared in the corner of her eyes, a soft smile making its way as well to her lips. She rubbed her friend’s back, before frowning as she looked at the other woman. Yang was looking at something in the distance, her mind lost in the past, in events that had changed her life forever, as the sight of Blake made ravages to her psyche. When she beganI don’t know, you could ask to have a bed inside. "

Everybody stopped what they were doing as they heard the familiar voice of the heiress. Her hands on her hips, wearing a blue dress with a white radiant from the waist to the extremity of the dress, a white pair of leggings, white high heels and a grey light jacket, she was smiling at the other ex-students, but her gaze was locked on Blake, both teens with tears in their eyes. When Blake finally smiled, Weiss ran towards her friend, who did the same. They reached each other, Blake hugging the shorter woman with all her strength, tears rolling on both their cheeks as they held at each other, happy to be reunited with someone they cared


so much about.

"Hey…" said Blake softly, looking down at Weiss with a little smile

"Hey Blake" answered Weiss, happiness irradiating from her voice and body expression as she looked up at her friend.

Coughing loudly, Coco looked at them with a grin, her arms crossed at the monochrome duo, with the rest of her team smiling. Making a round of greetings, Weiss hugged her fellow students before joining the group, sitting next to Blake, a smile on her face as team CFVY explained their last mission, how they were sent to Vacuo to track the White Fang. But after a few days of hunting it quickly devolved in a rebuild and protect effort with the help of Shade academy. Nodding slowly, Weiss turned her head towards her friend, a frownon her face.

"But that doesn’t explain what you’re doing with them. Why did you follow them? "

Blushing, Blake looked down, fidgeting slowly, trying to control her breathing as she felt panic rise in her mind.

"Yeah kitty cat" said another voice making everybody jump in surprise to look at the newcomer. Her left hand on her hip, black pants, brown boots, orange t-shirt and a large duster coat with the right sleeve tied in a knot, completely empty, her usually unruly mane set in a high ponytail, everything about her was showcasing her beauty. Yang, even in her fragile state of mind was still beautiful, except for Blake who was afraid of what the red eyes really meant. "Tell us where you were during all those months. "

"Yang… I…"


the faunus tried to speak, emotion getting the best of her, making her voice tremble as she tried to stand up to get the other woman in her arms.

"Shut it! Where. Were. You? Why are you, my partner, with another team? Why did you abandon your friends! Why did you abandon me? " her voice was cold, angry, but Weiss and Coco could hear the telltale sounds and intonations of someone who was doing everything they could to keep their emotion in check, to keep her rage at the most controllable level she could.

As Blake took a deep breath, she gazed down and she slowly told her tale, how she treated her injuries by herself before beginning her hunt of the White Fang across Remnant, from the icypeaks of Atlas, to the deadly jungles and desert of Menagerie. She smiled slightly when she retold the story of saving a young homeless boy who followed her for a few days, keeping her company. Her eyes grew darker when she described the ruined villages she kept finding along her hunt. She looked up and locked eyes with Yang, gulping hard.

"I… I tried to find Adam, to avenge you Yang, to- "

"Good grief you’re dumb! "

"Yang! " shrieked the heiress as she stood up to look at the blond in the eyes. "Insulting her will not resolve anything! "

"I’m not insulting her, just telling the truth, even if it hurts" shot back Yang, her crimson eyes never leaving the ravenette "You could do nothing against him back then,


girls were holding tight, Blake still crying, Weiss with tears in her eyes and Yang with a stoic face as she looked towards the sky, holding down her tears, trying to appear as a rock for her friends to lean on for support. Maybe she was a mess, maybe she was missing some parts of her body, but she couldn’t prevent herself from going back into "mom mode", not after al those years with Ruby. After all, Blake had run away from her home, Weiss never really had a family at home and Ruby… well Ruby was Ruby. And this team of broken women, of broken teens, needed something to rest on, someone to help them through their ordeals. And Yang had decided, long ago, that she wouldbe this person for the team, she would be their beacon in the dark, for the wellbeing of the four people she cared the most about. After a few minutes, she loosened her grip around her friends and they all disengaged themselves from each other, but they still remained close to each other. Grinning, Coco winked at Blake who blushed as she sat down next to Yang, her hand right next to the metal one of the brawler. They all talked for a while, all 7 of the young adults exchanging stories of their past, be it of Beacon of before. Team CFVY told how their initiation went, how they had to fight twenty-seven beowolves and five alpha as they fled from the temple. Weiss made everybody laugh


men of the group. With a smile, Yang took off, weaving on the small dirt paths of the island as she made way towards the village of Lili, where someone was awaiting her weekly meeting with the brawler.

Forty-five minutes later, the small group perked up when they heard a motorcycle getting nearer. The monochrome pair looked back towards the road while Coco was taking out the meat and fish from the grill. They saw the motorcycle drive behind the house to go park and, as everybody was finishing up to put on the finishing touches to the picnic area, they heard Yang speak to someone else as she got near them.

“I promise you, they are super nice. And I’m sure they’ll like you as much as I do.”you stormed off the other day…” said Weiss as the realisation finally struck her. She facepalmed and groaned, having forgotten that the friend that she went to see that day was a little 6 or 7-year-old girl. When she removed her hand, she smiled as the girl was still staring at her with a big smile. Sighing while still smiling, Weiss shook the small girl’s hand while still looking at Yang and Blake who were talking, sitting down at the table to eat lunch. The heiress quickly looked back at the young girl before winking at her with a smile.

“After we have eaten, I’m counting on you to tell me what Yang has told you about us. Deal?”

“Deal!” answered the young girl with a wink of her own,


Tour of the facilities of Universiade 2013 (3 hours)

The Universiade – the second most important international sporting event after the Olympic Games. Our city Kazan is preparing to open its doors to guests and participants of the World Summer Universiade in 2013. For 26 of the sports that are included in the program of the Universiade competitions in 2013, will involve 64 sports facilities, 30 of which are built to the 2013 Summer Universiade. You will see new super modern sports facilities, including Tennis Academy, Palace of Water Sports, a sports complex “Zilant “, Center for Boxing, Field Hockey Centre and other.During the bus tour will have the opportunity to explore the many sports facilities, the Universiade Village, learn the history of the development of mass sports. TheDiversity-focused nonprofit Gold House is launching an entertainment advisory council made up of industry leaders and a Golden Rider initiative to incentivize diverse representation in film, starting with the Asian diaspora. Both the council and rider are through the organization’s #GoldOpen venture, which supports the opening weekends of multicultural films.

The council — whose members include Albert Cheng (COO & head of TV, Amazon Studios), Abhijay Prakash (president, Universal Film Entertainment Group), Kim Yutani (Sundance Film Festival) and Franklin Leonard (The Black List) — will advise on which films will receive #GoldOpen support in the form of theater buyouts for screenings, social media and press campaigns and global distribution opportunities. Movies that have received such support since the venture’s inception in 2017 include “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Parasite” and “Just


Get Louie Stigs

FBI Agent Dennis Loughney has a problem. So does the Honorable Richard van Gothen, a judge with a social conscience. And so does Charles "Chuckie the Mangler" Mangano, a notorious crime boss. And they're all the same problem. Meet Louis Stigmatelli, small-time con artist, wannabe mobster, and possible federal witness who could sink Chuckie for good. When Louie's convicted of fraud, he lands in a different kind of cell, where the other inmates are monks, the warden is a former boxer turned priest, and his continued existence has become a headache for the Mangano Mob. What about his career as a petty criminal? And what about Agent Loughney's case? How secure is Louie's incarceration? And what kind of oddballs is he locked up with, anyway? Allcalled Mabel.

"You still down in the dumps?" she asked.

"Yeah, but I'll get over it. Anything going on?"

"Our old pal Jacques called earlier."

"What did he want?"

"He searched his employees' lockers like you suggested. Well, you're not going to believe this, but—"

Valentine felt something heavy bump his car. The parking lot backed up onto a swamp, and he was the only living soul out here. "Let me call you back," he said.

He hung up, then heard the noise again, a sharp rustling sound like sandpaper rubbing against a blackboard. A sudden flickering movement caught his eye. Turning his headlights on, he saw an alligator lying beside his car, its tail whacking his door.

"For the love of Christ."

He beeped his horn, and a second gator appeared. It was a monster, and


to paint a picture of Rico Blanco as a big-time scam artist. But more importantly, it showed the trail of a crook working solo, and was enough evidence for Valentine to give the newspapers and save the Micanopy casino from being shut down. Bill Higgins was going to be very happy. He slipped the envelope into his jacket pocket, and said, "I really appreciate this, Saul."

"My pleasure," the elderly con man said.
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Luck, Rico believed, was a tiny naked chick who looked like Jennifer Lopez and sat on his shoulder whispering advice in his ear.

Luck had been good to him over the years. She'd made sure his voice wasn't taped when John Gotti was causing mischief, and spared Rico from a life in prison. And she'd managed to keepand on the name of the woman who said she had been sexually assaulted.

The Free Press has independently learned that woman was a sex worker.

Boyede, who made a brief court appearance by video in London on Friday, was arrested after some of Glenn’s remains were found on Oct. 26 at the residence he shared with his family in southeast London at 252 Leakside Circle.

Glenn, 26, was last seen on Oct. 22, at Clarke Road and Culver Drive in the city’s east end about 3 a.m., about one block from Sweet City massage parlour where she worked under the name Sabrina.

An online classified ad, posted at backpage.com on Oct. 21, pointed to her working at the body rub parlour at 1:27 a.m Oct. 22.

During his court appearance Friday, Boyede


his interaction with the justice system earlier this year.

He was arrested and charged with assaulting a woman on Feb. 26 and was released from London police headquarters on a promise to appear later in court.

He was re-arrested on March 2 and taken into custody, charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement, choking and assault on a different woman.

That woman was a sex worker.

The Crown chose to proceed by indictment — an indication that the charges were considered more serious.

Boyede remained in custody until April 26 when he was recommended for release by the Crown with sureties and specific bail conditions.

They included orders to live at the family home on Leaksdale Circle and to remain in the house between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., unless travelling to work or withThe group, who spent one day exploring the lava flows, which cascaded down from a 200ft cliff, braved red-hot water temperature tipping 50 degrees Celsius. Ben said: "One of the biggest dangers was the toxic steam produced when the lava comes into contact with the water. "You could hear the sound of the lava hissing as it hit the ocean. It was out of this world."Picture: Alexandre Socci / Barcroft Media

Credit : Alexandre Socci / Barcroft Media


          I.

       Petitioner and her children, all natives of Fujian Province and citizens of the

People’s Republic of China, were smuggled out of China in 2002. Petitioner was

eventually placed in removal proceedings, and, in 2004, she requested asylum,

withholding of removal, and relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture

(“CAT”) on behalf of herself and her children. Among other things, Petitioner claimed

that her husband was forcibly sterilized in China and that she feared she would be forcibly

sterilized for violating China’s one-child policy if she were forced to return to her native

country.

       Following an August 2, 2004 hearing at which she was represented by counsel, the

Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denied theQ:

Is "Fredo" an insult to Italian-Americans?

Recently in the news there's been some kerfuffle about a verbal exchange between CNN anchorman, Chris Cuomo, and a person who called him “Fredo”. In the cell-phone video, the man claims

I thought that was who you were

Cuomo responds that his name is Chris and he works for CNN. He then explains why he is offended by the term “Fredo" and why it is insulting for Italian-Americans.

Only punk-ass bitches from the right call me Fredo.
  Fredo is from The Godfather. He was a weak brother. And they're using it as an Italian aspersion. […]
  [“Fredo“] is like the n-word for us.

During the argument, Cuomo's anger escalates and in the ensuing expletive-ridden tirade, he threatens to use physical violence. The


eleven years as governor of New York.
Unfortunately, the President of the USA decided to stoke things further by tweeting the following

  I thought Chris was Fredo also.
    The Truth hurts.
    Totally lost it! Low ratings at CNN

In another Tweet, he added

Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant?  Filthy language and a total loss of control. He shouldn't be allowed to have any weapon. He's nuts!

What did the POTUS mean by saying he thought Chris was Fredo also?

Did he think the CNN news anchor was called Fredo? Was he insinuating that Cuomo was weak and less intelligent than his elder brother? Was the President indirectly insulting Italian Americans? Was he insinuating that the family Cuomo had Mafia connections?

Whenis an insult that’s equivalent to the n-word. (In a statement of support for Cuomo, CNN also characterized the name as an “ethnic slur.”) The latter term has a lengthy and well-trod history as a racist insult, an unambiguous pejorative against black people when used by non-black people. The former is a reference to a pop cultural character from books published in the 1960s and movie adaptations produced the following decade. One is a degrading slur meant to dehumanize the target; the other is a metaphor with unflattering connotations: that the target bears a similarity to a character infamous for his lack of integrity.

A:

Trump was re-tweeting a late-night comic who is allowed to be funny.
In The Godfather (1972) John Cazale plays the brother Fredo. He eventually takes issue


charitable organization provided for labor unions and trade associations by VA.CODE ANN. § 57-48 (Michie 1995) is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and permanently enjoins the Commissioner from enforcing it.

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This case finds its genesis in the activities of Smokey Mountain Secrets, Inc. ("Smokey Mountain"), which operated as a professional solicitor on behalf of charitable organizations in Virginia from 1985 to 1994, and exclusively on behalf of the Virginia State Police Association ("VSPA") from 1988 onwards. Over that six-year period, Smokey Mountain sold food products packaged under its name, retaining 87.5% of the proceeds and remitting the remaining 12.5% to VSPA.
Smokey Mountain met with the Division of Consumer Affairs ("DCA") on June 2, 1994 to discuss plans for door-to-door marketing, which would be conductedunder the name Special Programs, Inc. ("Special Programs"). DCA informed Smokey Mountain at that time that it was investigating its business. On July 1, 1994, Smokey Mountain and VSPA entered into a new royalty agreement; the same day, Smokey Mountain subcontracted its obligations to Special Programs. Special Programs has continued to sell, through telemarketing, products packaged under the Smokey Mountain name, as a subcontractor of Smokey Mountain.
On February 14, 1995, the Commonwealth of Virginia sued Smokey Mountain, alleging violations of the Solicitation of Contributions statute and the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. Special Programs then sued the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services ("Commissioner") on July 28, 1995. In Count 1 of the complaint, Special Programs sought to have the exception from the statute provided for


BKU headquarters, forcing them to back off.

As part of renewed efforts to nab him, officials of inspector rank from Bulandshehar were camping at the circuit house in Muzaffarnagar.

Inspector General (Railways) Gurdarshan Singh, former Muzaffarnagar district magistrate Manoj Singh and Commandant of 32 battalion of Provincial Armed Constabulary Alok Singh were also flown down to Muzaffarnagar, police sources said.

People close to Tikait said the 73-year-old leader went into hiding with the news of intense police efforts doing rounds.

The situation in the village remained volatile with police sources saying the force has been alerted for a late Tuesday night operation to arrest Tikait.

Tikait’s two sons - Rakesh and Surinder - were arrested over the clashes between his supporters and the security personnel Monday.

Tikait’s diatribe against the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)chief has brought to the fore the differences between the upper castes and lower castes in western Uttar Pradesh.

With Tikait’s arrest looking imminent, his supporters blocked the security personnel from entering the village.

In view of the situation in Sisauli, an alert has been sounded in all western Uttar Pradesh districts and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) units have been deployed around the town. Around 6,000 policemen have surrounded village.


Philadelphia cops held a rally of their own Thursday night in response to a protest last week by local Black Lives Matter activists outside the home of a cop identified in a fatal civilian shooting.

The rally was held at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 headquarters and featured several speakers. Emotions quickly escalated and FOP President John McNesby made one jarring statement.

"When you go to work each day, you shouldn't have to worry that a pack of rabid animals will suddenly show up at your home and openly threaten your family," he told the gathered crowd of a couple hundred people, according to WHYY.

That "pack" he referred to is the dozen or so activists who protested last Thursday outside the Northeast Philadelphia house of Officer Ryan Pownall.shot the 30-year-old in the back and buttocks on June 8 following a struggle. The officer stopped Jones for riding an illegal dirt bike in North Philadelphia.

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During a pat down, Pownall felt a gun in Jones' waistband, police said.

A witness in back of Pownall's police vehicle watched Pownall pull his service weapon and warn Jones not to touch the gun, police said. The two men scuffled before Jones allegedly grabbed his handgun, according to police.

Jones then fled. Surveillance video obtained by NBC10 appears to show Jones running away when he was shot.

The same witness later told NBC10 that Jones had dropped the gun before running. A fully loaded .9mm handgun was recovered at the scene.

Jones died at Temple University Hospital.

Activists are protesting the deadly police shooting of


a man riding a dirt bike in Philadelphia back on June 8. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office is handing the investigation of the death of David Jones.

The shooting remains under investigation by both police and the Pennsylvania attorney general's office. Police Commissioner Richard Ross said the department is looking into whether protocol was followed.

Pownall remains on administrative leave.

Black Lives Matter, along with others, have been protesting the shooting for weeks. In July, the group marched on the Police Administration Building and City Hall demanding a larger investigation.

Pownall was called a "racist, bigot pig cop" and Khalif said he has "a murderous spirit" — referring to another shooting that the officer was involved. That 2010 shooting left Carnell Williams-Carney paralyzed when a bullet hit him in the back. TheResources

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August 29, 2016TTIP has failed -- but no one is admitting it, says German Vice Chancellor.

The free trade negotiations between the European Union and the United States have failed, but "nobody is really admitting it", Germany's Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said.

Talks over the so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, also known as TTIP, have made little progress in recent years.

The 14th round of negotiations between American and EU officials took place in Brussels in July. It was the third round in six months.

At the time, the talks were thought to be in trouble after a number of leading European politicians expressed concern about TTIP's effects and the US's reluctance to accept changes to the proposed deal.

In May, cracks emerged when France threatened to block the deal.

President Hollande


said he would "never accept" the deal in its current guise because of the rules it enforces on France and the rest of Europe -- particularly in relation to farming and culture -- claiming they are too friendly to US businesses.

"We will never accept questioning essential principles for our agriculture, our culture and for the reciprocity of access to public procurement markets," Mr Hollande is reported as saying at a meeting of left-wing politicians in Paris. "At this stage of the talks France says, 'No'."

Speaking on Sunday, Mr Gabriel, who is also Germany's Economy Minister, said: "In my opinion, the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it."

He said that during the talks neither side had agreed on a singlecommon chapter out of the 27 being deliberated.

He further denounced the TTIP negotiations, saying the free trade deal proposed between the EU and Canada -- the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) -- was fairer for all parties.

Critics say one of the main concerns with TTIP is that it could allow multinational corporations to effectively "sue" governments for taking actions that might damage their businesses.

They claim US companies might be able to avoid having to meet various EU health, safety and environment regulations by challenging them in a quasi-court set up to resolve disputes between investors and states.

The UK was seen as one of the strongest supporters of TTIP in the EU, so its departure following the Brexit vote would remove one of the US's closest allies in


Iraq right on schedule

Vieira says he and his players have been preparing for the final from the very start.

29 Jul 2007 12:36 GMT

]The 'Lions of Mesopotamia' jog during warm up before the July 29 final in Jakarta [AFP]

Iraq continue to keep their Asian Cup dream alive as they settle in Indonesia, the third country they have had to play in, ahead of their meeting with three-time champions Saudi Arabia in the final on Sunday.

The players sang songs together on the team bus as they travelled to Friday night training, then continued their relaxed preparation with a playful kick-around before coach Jorvan Vieira put them through their paces in a session that was left open to the media for the duration.

It has become increasingly obvious that the Iraq contingentare well aware that they are the centre of footballing attention right now, and they are doing absolutely everything to expose their proud journey of victory and unity on what has been remarkable run to the final.

At Saturday's pre-match press conference Vieira took centre stage and thanked the media for their continued support of the Iraqi team, before start striker and captain Younis Mahmoud sauntered in 15 minutes late and took a seat without his coach even knowing.

Win or lose in tomorrow night's match, the Iraq players and staff know they have already captured the attention of many people worldwide in the face of heavily publicised adversity at home.

"I hope my boys can continue how they have played throughout the tournament," Vieira said.

"They deserve to be in the


Ripon MP Louise Staley petitions state government over Ararat, Stawell and St Arnaud Neighbourhood House funding

Ripon MP Louise Staley presents a petition on Neighbourhood Houses funding with Coalition spokesperson for families and Children Georgie Crozier.

Ripon MP Louise Staley has presented parliament with 337 postcards from the region’s Neighbourhood Houses calling for the government to honour an election promise.

She presented the peititons on behalf of neighbourhood houses across Ripon, including in Ararat, Stawell and St Arnaud.

The Neighbourhood Houses’ mission is to “bring people together to connect, learn and contribute in their local community through social, educational, recreational and support activities, using a unique community development approach”.

Ms Staley delivered the petition on Tuesday to Families and Children, Early Childhood Education and Youth Affairs Minister Jenny Mikakos.

“Tick tock, time is runningNew Delhi (Sputnik): Adding another golden feather to her hat, Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has won a gold medal at women’s 100-metre Sprint at the 30th World University Games, held in Naples, Italy.

Running at No. 4, Dutee was the first of eight athletes to blast off the starting blocks at the World University Games.

India’s fastest sprinter clocked 11.32 seconds to win the race. This is India’s first gold medal in a 100 metres race at this edition of the athletic meet. With her latest feat, she has become the second Indian sprinter to win gold in a global event after Hima Das, who won the 400 Metres in the World Junior Athletics Championship last year.

Dutee free! The sprint for gold goes to Dutee Chand (IND) in the Women's


great to see an Indian athlete powering her way to a 100m gold! Well done, @DuteeChand https://t.co/OwZ89cQRzP — Vikram Chandra (@vikramchandra) July 10, 2019

Congratulations @DuteeChand - India Is Proud of you - generations have waited for this Gold in 100 mtr - Thanks for finally bringing this to India 🙏 — Kapil Mishra (@KapilMishra_IND) July 10, 2019

Dutee was recently featured on a coveted Indian magazine cover. She is on the latest magazine cover of Cosmopolitan India and the magazine has refers to her as “India’s shining star" and "India's first openly gay athlete.”

Dutee is one of the first, of a few athletes in the world, to openly admit a same-sex relationship. She said that her family is not fully supportive of her lifestyle, but she hopes to findfear indicated,” as the author points out in "Appeasing the Ayatollahs and Suppressing Democracy."

Tehran worries about demonstrators backed by NCRI, and uses violence against them. But they confront the regime, with peaceful protests, without such fears.

Among members of the American Delegation in Villepinte were former officials, including: Mayor Giuliani; Speaker Gingrich; Governor Richardson; Attorney General Mukasey; Director Freeh; Under Secretary Joseph; Sen. Torricelli, Col. (Ret.) Cantwell; Col. (Ret.) Martin; Chavez, Assistant to the President; Under Secretary Townsend; Amb. Bloomfield, and yours truly.

Third, there has been a change in Washington. In 2017, Trump succeeded Obama. One consequence is Trump’s Secretary of State was tougher on Iran than Obama’s.

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Expansion and acceleration of protests in Iran constitute a crisis for Iran and an opportunity to use people’s resentmen, as leverage


need help to finish the job, with their escalating, expanding, and continuous protests for a free Iran.

Prof. Raymond Tanter (@ProfRTanter) served as a senior member on the Middle East Desk of the National Security Council staff in the Reagan-Bush administration, Personal Representative of the Secretary of Defense to international security and arms control talks in Europe, and is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. Tanter is on the comprehensive list of conservative writers and columnists who appear in The Wall Street Journal, Townhall.com, National Review, The Weekly Standard, Human Events, The American Spectator, and now in Newsmax. To read more of his reports — Click Here Now.From the moment the phrase "Russian collusion" first crossed a cable-news anchor's lips—at a time before Flynn, and Gates, and Sessions, and Manafort, when George Papadopoulos's guilty plea was but a twinkle in Robert Mueller's eye—Donald Trump began strenuously and repeatedly denying that he had business ventures, investments, or any other form of interest in the country that worked so hard to get him elected president. "I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia," he crowed in February 2017, just a few weeks after taking the oath of office. "And the haters are going crazy."

On Thursday, Michael Cohen walked into a New York City courtroom and provided the strongest bit of evidence yet that this always-implausible assertion is, in fact, a demonstrable lie. In his surprise hearing,


which came just months after he pleaded guilty to a different set of federal crimes in a separate investigation, Cohen copped to misleading Congress about his employer's efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow; although he had claimed that the deal was dead "before the Iowa caucus and months before the very first primary," minimizing the extent to which the campaign's relationship with Russia would draw scrutiny, negotiations continued through at least June 2016. Documents filed by the special counsel's office show that Cohen and others within Trump's orbit were making travel plans to Russia, and debating whether it would be best for Trump to go before or after the convention at which he became the Republican nominee for president.

In court, Cohen offered an explanation for hisTrump's bid for the presidency and his lifelong quest to enrich himself. For Russia, his interest in electoral politics—and his unexpected proficiency at it—was an unimaginable stroke of good luck: Suddenly, the doofy American hotel/Miss Universe guy puttering around Moscow also had the chance of becoming the leader of their most significant global rival! Taking any and all affirmative steps to keep him happy—or, say, to facilitate his candidacy by any means necessary—was the most lucrative investment of time, money, and energy that the country could make.

What reason would Donald Trump have had not to accept this assistance, in whatever form it eventually came? What evidence is there that he would have considered the importance of divorcing his financial interests from his political aspirations? These were business associates


with whom he had spent years developing, at the very least, a mutually beneficial relationship; to him, "conspiring to win the presidency" was just another chapter, not all that different than "trying to break ground on a new Trump Tower," or "hosting Miss Universe in the capital of Russia."

Objectively speaking, this particular transaction could not be like the others, in that its result could have profound geopolitical consequences, allowing a hostile foreign power to hold sway over the president of the United States. But Donald Trump didn't care—or, more likely, the potential gravity of the situation never occurred to him. He had money to make, hotels to build, and an election to win along the way.One of Mexico's most popular resort destinations experienced a rash of homicides last week, raising concerns about the safety of tourists in the area.

In the span of 36 hours, officials said, 14 people were killed in Cancun, according to KDFW-TV (Channel 4). Five people were also wounded in the wave of violence that is believed to be related to cartel activity.

The bodies were found near major tourist destinations in the city, the station reports.

Nine of the deaths took place April 4, making it one of the bloodiest days in Cancun's history, according to Noticaribe, a news organization based in Quintana Roo. The site reports 16 people have been killed in Cancun so far this month.

Five people — a woman, her daughter and three friends — were found shot


to death April 4 in a house about 25 minutes from the beach, according to SIPSE, a Mexican media conglomerate. Police suspect the family was involved in the drug trade, according to the media group.

The same day, three merchants were fatally shot on a street in a commercial area about 10 minutes from the Puerto Cancun marina, the news outlet Novedades de Quintana Roo reported.

On April 5, violence returned to the same part of Cancun, where two more people were killed, according to Novedades de Quintana Roo.

The consul general of Mexico in Austin, Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, acknowledged the risks in the city. "Cancun is considered an area where the American people should exercise some caution."

The Mexican government knows organized crime poses a threat to its economy and hasadded security forces, he said in an interview posted by KXAN-TV in Austin.

"Tourism is an extremely important industry for us. It has increased at approximately 10 percent per year for the last four to five years and that means that for Mexico and for the Mexican government it's extremely important to exercise all cautionary measures," Gonzalez Gutierrez said.

Experts have attributed the increasing crime to drug cartels generally, as well as specifically the United States' opioid crisis and looser marijuana laws are spurring gangs to shift from growing marijuana to producing heroin, according to USA Today.

Mexico reached a record 29,158 homicides in 2017 and the rate in the first two months of 2018 rose 21 percent over the same period last year, the newspaper reported.

But Mexico's tourism officials have


emphasized that such statistics are "not related to incidents that directly affected foreign visitors" to places such as Cancun. The U.S. State Department also has recognized that many "homicides appeared to be targeted, criminal organization assassinations."

But "turf battles between criminal gangs have resulted in violent crime in areas frequented by U.S. citizens," and "shooting incidents injuring or killing bystanders have occurred."

The tropical coastal town of Cancun, which is perched along the Caribbean Sea in southeastern Mexico, attracts millions of Americans to its warm beaches each year.

The U.S. government issued a travel advisory earlier this year for several popular tourist spots in Mexico, including Cancun — which is known as the spring break capital of the country. The advisory said Americans should "exercise increased caution" because of widespread violentNew Japan Pro Wrestling’s G1 Climax block action will wind down tonight at Budokan Hall with the final night of B Block competition. Unlike the A Block, which had only two true outcomes possible, The B Block has Jon Moxley, Tetsuya Naito, Jay White, and Hirooki Goto all tied atop the standings with 10 points, opening up a myriad of possibilities to determine the Block winner.

Sunday night will feature 3 matches of consequence to decide who will face Kota Ibushi in the G1 Finals on Monday.

Jon Moxley (10) v. Juice Robinson (6)

On June 5th, Jon Moxley debuted in New Japan by defeating Juice Robinson in 24:14 for the IWGP United States Championship. In his final G1 Block match, Moxley will face Robinson in his first rematch in Japan.


and steady climb continues but his wBWP of 20.62% is largely held back by his aforementioned steadiness. While Goto has the second-best momentum of the group and key tie-breakers (Moxley, White), his match time and win efficiency metrics have been largely unimpressive. He also faces a strong and motivated opponent in Shingo Takagi on the block’s last night.

Jon Moxley’s fall from the highest probability in the block is staggering. His three match losing streak, low winning match time totals, and only one key tiebreaker (Naito) really drag down his chances of winning the block. Moxley will need a lot of help to come out victorious and he has a very motivated Juice Robinson directly in his path.MADISON, Wis.–Midway through a practice earlier this week, Josh Gasser walked in and pulled up a chair on the sidelines, a few feet away from where University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan was standing at midcourt.

As the Badgers prepared to take on Northwestern — a game No. 19 UW would win easily, 69-41 on Wednesday night in Evanston, Ill. — Gasser split his time conversing with his teammates and listening intently to Ryan’s instructions.

The junior guard has had a front-row seat all season as the Badgers have exceeded expectations despite losing Gasser to a season-ending knee injury in late October.

Anyone who has witnessed how competitive Gasser has been during his first two seasons at UW knows how much he’s felt like ripping off his knee brace


discusses them with players at practice and has an assistant track them during games to help with adjustments....

Vikings coach Mike Zimmer was optimistic punt returner Marcus Sherels will be able to play Sunday at Jacksonville, which would be a boost to a special-teams unit that struggled in several phases in last week’s loss to Dallas. Sherels has missed three of the past four games because of injury, including the previous two. Adam Thielen and Cordarrelle Patterson assumed...

When Mat Robson visited the University of Minnesota last month, he knew it was for him. Bright lights. Big city. Elite players. In Minneapolis, the 20-year-old saw a place similar to his hometown, and a chance to play goalie in front of 10,000 fans at Mariucci Arena. “The first and most importantenvironmental and social risks outweighing the economic benefits. The case was made against the risk of this project, and also against the systemic, or corporate, risk of this company.

At the hearings the province stressed Northern Gateway is not a "typical pipeline," that the behaviour of diluted bitumen in water is "incompletely understood," that "the terrain the pipeline would cross is not only remote, it is in many places extremely difficult to access," and the impact of spills into pristine river environments would be profound.

The province told the Panel one of its principal concerns is the "potential for spills from the pipeline itself, and the ability of Northern Gateway to effectively respond to a spill."

In short, the province was arguing that not only is the terrestrial spill risk along


a northern route unacceptable, but Enbridge is the wrong company to address it. The province cited Enbridge's inability to estimate the likelihood and severity of pipeline leaks, its inability to adequately identify and assess geotechnical hazards, and its tendency to downplay the risk.

The province also raised unique challenges posed by diluted bitumen when it sinks in fresh water. Enbridge consistently denied this at the hearings, despite its own spill experience with the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.

Enbridge did not include the results of the Kalamazoo spill in its statistics or analysis of spill risk. Enbridge aggressively resisted filing as evidence the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report on how the company handled the spill at the hearings.

The report examined the reasons for the Kalamazoo spill and Enbridge's response.season. Bahrain is one of my favourite races, put it on your to-do list. — Martin Brundle (@MBrundleF1) March 31, 2019

Leclerc didn't put enough heat in his tyres on the formation lap - he was pacing it all a touch slowly from his maiden F1 pole position and the Mercedes were hanging back slightly. This gave him too much wheelspin away from the start, and poor grip for the first lap. But tellingly, Charles didn't panic as he dropped to third. It would have been easy to rock up into turn one with the front tyres locked up.

He cleanly re-passed Valtteri Bottas with a nice dummy to distract the Finn, and then scythed past his team-mate Vettel who put up some resistance but not too much. Leclerc then


paced the race from the front like a veteran.

The second most pivotal moment of the race, after Leclerc's technical problem, was the fierce battle between Hamilton and Vettel, particularly into Turn Four. Their commitment and precision were breathtaking, but in wheel-to-wheel combat, Lewis is the king and Vettel can be eventually clumsy, and that's how it transpired as the Ferrari looped around with a combination of too much throttle and a nasty aero scenario of crosswind and being in the wake of Hamilton's Merc.

2:07 Sebastian Vettel spins after being passed by Lewis Hamilton for second place in Bahrain GP Sebastian Vettel spins after being passed by Lewis Hamilton for second place in Bahrain GP

In his urgency to get back to the pits, he was taking it too fast,even opening the DRS rear wing as the flat-spotted tyres literally shook his front wing to pieces, meaning Vettel needed a longish pit stop for replacements. Despite this and the spin, such was the pace of the Ferrari he was able to recover to fifth.

Given Bottas, still just the championship leader, was having a day more reminiscent of 2018 than angry new 2019 spec, through his spectacular racecraft and dogged pace Lewis was the man best-placed to benefit when Leclerc's Ferrari began to slow 15 laps from home.

Hamilton: 'Lucky' Merc must improve

It's the first time we've heard Charles on the radio sounding ragged and animated, but he soon calmed that down and managed his problems to the end of the race. Michael Schumacher was the master of maximising


the pace of an ailing car, and Charles needs to investigate that.

But nonetheless, he was able to bring it home on the podium with the help of the Safety Car deployed to recover the stricken Renaults. He was most magnanimous and charming post-race, serving only to make us even more sorry for him.

The dynamics of the Ferrari pairing will be fascinating this year, just as we expected. And the open calmness of the whole team is a breath of fresh air which is paying dividends. Team boss Mattia Binotto impresses me greatly in his authority and maturity.

1:14 Charles Leclerc reflects on a difficult day after finishing his race third, and says he believes Ferrari will bounce back Charles Leclerc reflects on a difficult day after finishing his raceVassar Brothers Medical Center

Vassar Brothers Medical Center, now part of Nuvance Health (locally known as Vassar Hospital or VBMC) is a medical facility located in the city of Poughkeepsie, New York that is a member of the Health Quest network, a nonprofit family of hospitals and healthcare centers in the Hudson Valley area. It is one of two major medical centers located in Dutchess County, New York, the other being MidHudson Regional Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, or WMCHealth. Vassar Hospital is a member of the Nuvance Health system.

Vassar Brothers was incorporated in 1882 under the name Vassar Brothers Hospital, following contributions made by John Guy Vassar following the death of his brother, Mathew Vassar, Jr.. The hospital opened its doors in


the following seems both inevitable and true: (a) a player is nothing without a good measure of rat-cunning to go with his requisite endurance and strength; (b) referees need to regularly make judgment calls; (c) further to (b), referee satisfaction rates – be it among players, coaches or spectators – must rank as the lowest of any sport, period; and (d) further again to (b), out-and-out dissent towards referees (and tolerance by referees thereof) – be it by players, coaches or spectators – must rank among the highest of any sport, period. Tonight, as the contest becomes increasingly hostile, at the sound of the whistle not one, not two but most players look to the referee with guilty eyes, some with palms up in a vain attempt toPrimary unknown cancer in pulmonary hilar lymph node with spontaneous transient regression: report of a case.
A 69-year-old man was referred to our hospital in December 1993 because an abnormal mass had been detected in the right pulmonary hilum. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest revealed a swollen hilar lymph node between the right middle and lower lobe bronchi, and an adherent tumor in the right ventrobasal segment (S8). Chest roentgenogram in February 1994, however, showed no evident tumor in the right lung field. In March 1996, the mass in the right pulmonary hilum reappeared on chest roentgenogram. Chest CT revealed a swollen hilar lymph node between the right middle and lower lobe bronchi, but there was no tumor in right S8. The patient underwent video-assisted thoracoscopy on 17


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BENGALURU: Hyperloop India has tied up with a city-based Workbench Projects to build the prototype pod that will feature in the global design competition for the super fast transportation system using magnetic levitation technology.

"Hyperloop India team has partnered with us to build the prototype pod in Bengaluru by the end of July. The building work will start from May 22. This will mark India's entry into the international Hyperloop race," Workbench Projects founder and CEO Pavan Kumar said today.

Hyperloop India comprises more than 80 students from BITS Pilani, Indian School of Business and IIM-Ahmedabad, and their scaled down pod prototype 'OrcaPod' has been selected for the final stage of SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Design competition, he told PTI.

OrcaPod, being developed by Hyperloop India -- oneable to produce 14 million bite-sized Snickers bars each day, along with 39 million M&M's, which is enough to fill 1.5 million fun-sized packages. The 500,000-square-foot facility was built south of Topeka and is the company's first new plant in North America in more than three decades.

SWEET DEAL: Topeka-area officials see the plant as a major boon to the region. The plant will have more than 200 employees, and the company has contributed $200,000 to downtown redevelopment efforts. The plant also is pursuing a "gold" certification for environmental sustainability from the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council.

LOCAL FANS: Topeka Mayor Larry Wolgast keeps a dispenser of peanut M&M's on his desk at City Hall. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said he favors almond M&M's, and he sees it as fitting