or worked in, teams that the Skimming Organization deployed across the United States in order to carry out ATM skimming attacks, casing ideal locations for the attacks, installing skimming devices on ATMs, removing those devices, and cashing out large numbers of fraudulent debit cards manufactured as a result of the skimming operations. Other defendants assisted in receiving packages containing skimming devices or component parts that were shipped from other parts of the U.S. and from abroad. Other defendants assisted in engineering the skimming devices that the Skimming Organization used. Still other defendants laundered the proceeds of the skimming attacks through bank accounts, properties, businesses, and the transportation of bulk cash.

The defendants carried out hundreds of ATM skimming operations across the U.S., including in New York and at leastthis was behaviour likely to cause damage he whipped out his camera and took a photo of the offending vehicle.

Quick as a flash, the vehicle stopped. A PCSO got out and asked him what he was doing. When he said he was taking a photograph of a police vehicle in a place where it had no good reason to be, the PCSO first claimed that they were looking for evidence of drug abuse having been thrown into the undergrowth. Then, according to Mr Sleath: "He advised me that under Terrorism s44 he had good reason to stop me as I was taking a photograph of a police vehicle. He detained me while he checked my driving licence and filled out the appropriate forms and checked the details over


the highest standards of ethics in medical research."

During a conference call Friday with National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins and Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela, officials noted that there were no formalized regulations regarding protection of human studies during the 1940s.

In addition to the apology, the U.S. is setting up commissions to ensure that human medical research conducted around the globe meets "rigorous ethical standards." U.S. officials are also launching investigations to uncover exactly what happened during the experiments.

The episode raises inevitable comparisons to the infamous Tuskegee experiment, the Alabama study where hundreds of African-American men were told they were being treated for syphilis, but in fact were denied treatment. That U.S. government study lasted from 1932 until press reports revealed it in 1972.

The Guatemala experiments,which were conducted between 1946 and 1948, never provided any useful information and the records were hidden.

Susan Reverby, a professor of women's studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, discovered records documenting U.S. experiments that infected Guatemalans with gonorrhea and syphilis.

They were discovered by Susan Reverby, a professor of women's studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and were posted on her website.

According to Reverby’s report, the Guatemalan project was co-sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, the NIH, the Pan-American Health Sanitary Bureau (now the Pan American Health Organization) and the Guatemalan government. The experiments involved 696 subjects — male prisoners and female patients in the National Mental Health Hospital.

The researchers were trying to determine whether the antibiotic penicillin could prevent syphilis infection, not just cure it, Reverby writes.


After the subjects were infected with the syphilis bacteria — through visits with prostitutes who had the disease and direct inoculations — it is unclear whether they were later cured or given proper medical care, Reverby notes. While most of the patients got treatment, experts estimate as many as a one-third, did not.

Secret testing of Guatemalans may renew minorities mistrust.

The STD experiments were conducted with the cooperation of the Guatemalan government. During that time, the U.S. -- which had a long association with the Guatemalan military -- exerted a powerful influence in the Latin American country, largely in order to protect the interests of the American-based United Fruit Company. In 1954 the U.S. CIA helped overthrow Guatemala’s democratically elected president because of land reforms that opposed the multinationalof Wooden, claiming that the

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until June 21, 1948, when she returned to defendant's doctor for further treatment.  She was in a hospital for sixteen days; after being discharged from the hospital she remained at home for a month, and then returned to work.  She continued at work until September, 1948, when she became physically unable to continue working.  August 18, 1948, she executed a compromise agreement with defendant, which was approved by the Industrial Accident Board, receiving a check for $155.

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'It will therefore take no further action against Mr Banks, Ms Bilney, Better for the Country Ltd or Leave.EU in respect of this specific matter'.

Banks, nicknamed the 'Bad boy of Brexit', has been dogged by claims he was backed by the Kremlin to help bring about the UK's divorce from the EU - but he has repeatedly branded it 'b*****s'.

After the announcement he tweeted 'victory is sweet' and said he would tack legal action against the Electoral Commission and Remainers over what he claimed was a 'political witch-hunt led by anti-Brexit MPs'.

Banks, nicknamed the 'Bad boy of Brexit ', has been dogged by claims he was backed by the Kremlin


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The Combination Acts were part of a raft of restrictive laws, aimed at distorting the economy on behalf of mercantile interests. Tariffs and prohibitions were part of them too (supported as much by the workers as by the merchants and manufacturers – and farmer interests). Not surprisingly, modern trade unions also support trade restrictions – even prohibitions too. The ‘brotherhood of man’ extends up to the nations frontier, but no further.

Mercantile political economy lives on. Men and women of ‘system’ still rule the world. Gavin Mueller should contemplate what Adam Smith might have said about that (despite the massive opulence enjoyed by the majority of workers in North America and Western Europe – and soon in China, India, and Brazil, but not, alas, in Venezuela, Cuba,


also raised objections to the bill despite meeting earlier in the day with Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis in a bid to bridge the gap.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also addressed the debate on Monday as he tried to get the five on board, but, apparently, to no avail.

Furthermore, ANEL MP Dimitris Kammenos, who was earlier this year elected deputy parliamentary speaker, expressed his opposition to the bill. He argued it would also pave the way for child adoptions by same-sex couples.

The decision by New Democracy – which submitted its own legislative proposal on Monday – not to vote for the bill was announced during the Parliament debate by lawmaker Nikos Panayiotopoulos. He said the party clearly understands the need to reform legislation on matters of gender identity, but saidThe Furnaces of Rivertownes

People of the Furnaces

Photo courtesy of June Evans

Furnace Workers

The life of furnace workers and their families was difficult. Imagine the amount of smoke and noise around these industrial sites. Workers labored long, hard hours under dangerous conditions. The Shawnee Furnaces employed seventy-five men during most of the time in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In 1881 the men received total wages of $35,420 or approximately $472 per employee.

Their Homes

Numerous fine examples of the homes of Ironmasters and furnace workers exist to this date. Ten row homes at Donegal Place in Marietta were formerly home to workers of the Musselman-Vesta furnace. At that time the tenements were known as Brick Row. At the corner of Donegal Place and Furnace Road, a former carriage house, is


now home to a blacksmith's forge.

A similar tenement in Columbia was home to workers of the St. Charles furnace. Once known as Grubb Row, these modest homes are located on Cedar Terrace. State Route 441 now separates these homes from the furnace site.

Ironmasters

Clement Bates Grubb(1815-1899) was among the wealthiest of the Ironmasters. His interest included the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Mines and the St. Charles Furnace. Grubb owned a mansion in Lancaster at the corner of Lime and Marion Streets, an elaborate Greek Revival building, now home to the Lancaster Museum of Art. The grounds of the mansion now make up Musser Park.

Grubb's more modest home near the St. Charles Furnace (pictured at left) was razed to make way for the construction of today's State Route 441.

Other ironmastersof the area also erected fine mansions, on or near the grounds of their furnaces. This well preserved home is on Garfield Road at the site of the Sarah Ann Furnace, along the Big Chickies Creek northwest of Silver Spring. Buildings of the furnace itself have been torn down, with much of the masonry reused in retaining walls on the grounds.

The most unique of the Ironmasters homes is the Watts Mansion known as Riverview, located at the intersection of the Marietta Pike and State Route 441. The four story tower must have provided Watts with an excellent view of the Susquehanna River and his furnaces.


The pop stars were spotted arriving separately at the Botafumeiro restaurant in Barcelona to celebrate the 26th birthday of their mutual friend, videographer Alfredo Flores.

While Niall arrived in a people carrier with Alfredo, Ariana arrived a short time later, wearing a white top.

The 21-year-old American singer had to fight her way through a crowd of fans as she made her way into the eatery.

Taking to Twitter, she sent her best wishes to the birthday boy: 'Happy birthday to one of my fav human beings on earth @alfredoflores!!!!!! you are an actual angel. a goooooood fkkin egg. i love u, fredo!!'

Low-key: Niall, who last night was seen dining at the same restaurant as Ariana Grande, looked casual in a striped long-sleeved top and distressed denim shorts

Travelling light: The popstar was accompanied by a minder - who carried their trendy black hand luggage

Private: Niall was seen outside the airport's VIP's entrance and the terminal looked deserted as he headed in

Ariana is due to perform at Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi on Tuesday night.

As well as the meal on Monday, Niall was also pictured partying with Alfredo on the latter's Twitter page on Sunday night.

A picture of Ariana partying the night away with Alfredo was also posted on his Instagram page during the fun, along with the hashtag #itsmybdayinSpain.

Last night: Ariana Grande arrives at the Botafumeiro restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday night for a friend's birthday dinner

Two weekends ago, Ariana hit out at speculation about her private life in a feminist speech online.

She wrote: 'I am tired of


living in a world where women are mostly referred to as a man’s past, present or future PROPERTY/POSSESSION. I do not. Belong. To anyone. But myself.'

She also lashed out at speculation she was dating Niall in an interview with The Sun On Sunday.

The two have been spotted spending time together at his home and a burlesque club while the petite brunette is in London kicking off the next leg of her Honeymoon tour.

'A girl can be friends with someone with a d**k and not hop on it,' she told the British newspaper.

'I'm tired of needing to be linked to a guy. I'm not Big Sean's ex. I'm not Niall's new possible girl. I'm Ariana Grande.'

With his boys: Niall Horan had specially flown to Barcelona to celebrate his friendIt's long been evident to beachcombers after rainstorms, but now it's official: Marine debris is getting worse.

A panel of scientists took a hard look at the issue and came to the conclusion that the tonnage of plastic and other debris swirling in the sea is likely to increase throughout this century. Its key recommendation: The United States needs to take a leadership role in cleaning up its own act and coaxing other nations to follow.

"Despite all the regulations and limitations over the last 20 years, there are still large quantities of waste and litter in the oceans," said Keith R. Criddle, a marine policy professor at University of Alaska in Juneau. He was the chairman of a National Research Council committee asked by Congress to assess how well


causes, the report said, "would be problematic and could lead fishermen to underreport losses or obscure the location of gear losses."

-- Kenneth R. Weiss

Photo of trash collected at the mouth of the Los Angeles River after a rainstorm. Credit: Kenneth R. Weiss/Los Angeles Times

Photo of seal with a necklace of netting in Alaska. Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Named after a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Robert Peel, Peel County was created in 1851. The Region of Peel was created in 1974 by the Ontario government in an effort to regionalize this area as well as the other quickly developing counties that surround Toronto. Today, the Region of Peel has over 1.3 million residents and over 88,000 businesses in its three municipalities, those of Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga. It is the second largest municipality in Ontario and much of its growth has been fueled by a dramatic increase in immigration to this area over the past few decades.


The Lego Movie didn't earn an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature yesterday, a fact that sent a lot of fans to social media in protest. The film, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, did earn a Critics' Choice Movie Award last evening, however. The duo was thrilled to be recognized and took the opportunity to respond to their so-called Oscar snub.

"We're really in the black on this movie," Lord told Esquire. "We made it in order to inspire families and kids and people. And we've been justly rewarded for that and we feel really lucky. The award stuff is its own thing and of course we're disappointed, but it's not the reason we made the movie. There's no way to not be pleased with the outcomeof this film." Miller added, "Seeing the outpouring of the fans today was really something special."

In fact, the film spent most of Thursday as a trending topic on Twitter, right alongside the now-iconic flub of cinematography nominee Dick Pope's name. "We were a trending topic!" Lord said. "It's way more permanent. Right next to Dick Poop. Seeing the name of your film next to the words 'Dick Poop' is a true honor. I really felt like a great cosmic poem was written today."

One of the most outspoken critics of The Lego Movie's lack of nominations has been Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. The filmmaker took to Facebook yesterday with a lengthy response to the Oscar nominations, noting that the omission is "just fucking ridiculous." Gunn was


Kasaragod: Cashing in on the traveler surge during vacations, Indian Railways is minting money through the premium tatkal. On the busy trains like Maveli and Malabar, the premium tatkal rates for sleeper coaches have shot up by more than half. In the AC coaches, the rates are running at par with the air ticket rates.

Several passengers have been caught unawares while trying to book tatkal tickets through the railway counters. Recently passengers from Kasargod to Thiruvananthapuram were in for a rude surprise when they realised that the sleeper rates for the sector was Rs. 1025. The normal fares on this sector is Rs. 325 and Rs.425 for the regular tatkal. 121 of the total 242 tatkal seats in Maveli express has been set aside for flexi pricing too.authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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DMC was responsible for the design of the study, patient enrolment, data analysis, and writing of the manuscript. AMC was responsible for the proceedings performed in the Virology Unit, and was co-writer of the manuscript. HR was responsible for patient enrolment. AA and RN were responsible for proceedings performed in the Mycology Unit. MBB undertook design of the study, and was supervisor of the proceedings performed in the Virology Unit, and co-writer and final supervisor of the manuscript. JAB undertook design and general supervision of the study, and was co-writer and final supervisor of the manuscript.

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the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) has been successfully completed. In addition, students must meet all state licensure requirements. Programs in Track III are individualized and must be approved by the Director of the MAE Program.

If any one of the six courses listed above has been satisfactorily completed and accepted by the Director of the Master of Arts in Education program, the Director may make substitutions to complete the 24 semester hour program.

Total Credit Hours: 24

IMPORTANT NOTE: In order to obtain the Master’s Degree, the student must complete the remaining 18 hours (six courses) in the Master of Arts in Education degree programMic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin.

The innocent Ryan Lanza had to take to social media to protest his innocence

In the aftermath of the Newtown shootings, many Twitter users became instant experts on gun control while others turned detective. It wasn't social media users that misidentified the killer as Ryan Lanza rather than his younger brother Adam – but once that titbit was out in the world, anyone bearing the name Ryan Lanza became fair game. Links to Facebook pages and Twitter accounts were shared by mainstream media outlets and web detectives alike.

While the Ryan Lanza related to the case desperately sent status updates to his friends denying he was involved, his picture was bouncing around the world. Meanwhile,


a Twitter user with the name @Ryan_Lanza went from a handful of followers to thousands as he was deluged with abuse. An odd, feverish desire to make comment and seek answers takes hold on social media after tragedies. The unconnected individuals unfortunate enough to be called Ryan Lanza were by no means the first people in recent years to find themselves pursued by a baying online mob.

In 2010, a man named Casey Anthony had to repeatedly tell Facebook users threatening him that he was nothing to do with Casey Anthony, a mother acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter. After the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado in July 2011, Facebook users unfortunate enough to share the same name as the accused, James Holmes, were swamped with friend requests andviews the record in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. See Currier v. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., 159 F.3d 1363, 1364 n. 1 (D.C.Cir.1998). This action arose out of plaintiff's demotion and transfer following the issuance of three "reminder" (i.e. disciplinary) letters by plaintiff's supervisors during the summer of 1995. Prior to that date, plaintiff had been employed by defendant Federal Express since 1982. In 1993, Douglas McKenna ("McKenna"), the Managing Director of the Eastern Region Air/Ground Terminals and Transportation, promoted plaintiff to the position of Senior Manager at the IAD station at Dulles Airport (hereinafter "Dulles") in Virginia. As Senior Manager, plaintiff was responsible for all Federal Express operations at Dulles, which included unloading express mail packages from incoming flights and transporting them by


tractor-trailer to a "receiving station" responsible for final distribution.
At the time plaintiff began as Senior Manager, he reported to McKenna. However, around August of 1994, McKenna was himself promoted and Edward Kuczma ("Kuczma") replaced McKenna as Managing Director and plaintiff's immediate supervisor. In April of 1995. Kuczma asked plaintiff to promote twelve parties into higher paying positions without first posting the positions, in violation of company policy. Plaintiff refused to do so unless Kuczma put the request in writing. Kuczma replied that "if [plaintiff] didn't do it, he would give [plaintiff] a letter" for "failure to work as directed." Beeck January 15, 1999 Dep. (hereinafter "Beeck Dep. I") at 30, 31. After a "heated discussion," plaintiff still refused to comply unless the request was in writing because theplaintiff had not fulfilled his responsibility to chair the meetings of the "CORE Team," a cross-divisional group meeting to improve service within the area and over which the Senior Manager was chairperson.
On August 30, 1995, John M. O'Donovan ("O'Donovan"), who had replaced Kuczma as Managing Director on August 1, 1995, issued plaintiff a third reminder letter after the Federal Express station at Dulles had failed a government ramp audit. The next day, O'Donovan demoted Beeck, allegedly for unacceptable performance. Plaintiff, who had recently turned 55 years old, was replaced as Senior Manager at Dulles by Parker Edson ("Edson"), who was 51. Following the demotion, plaintiff was given the option of resigning or accepting a transfer to the DCA station as a Ramp Operations Manager. On September 6, 1995,


plaintiff accepted the transfer although the position required a much longer commute than his former job at Dulles.
On February 8, 1996, plaintiff requested that he be transferred back to Dulles to work as an Operations Manager. This request was denied. However, plaintiff was subsequently transferred to defendant's facility in Baltimore, Maryland, a roughly 150-mile commute. Later, plaintiff was transferred again, this time to a facility in Florida where he was still employed at the commencement of this action.
Plaintiff alleges that the reminder letters were a pretext, and that in each case, the alleged problem was either not attributable to plaintiff or else was wholly a fabrication. Plaintiff further alleges that the demotion, the subsequent transfers to locations requiring long commutes and the denials of plaintiff's requests for transferImage copyright Daxitales Image caption Brigit Forsyth (left) and Dame Sian Phillips star as former lovers, reunited 60 years after splitting up

The director of an award-winning film about two eighty-something lesbians has called for more visibility of older LGBT people on screen.

Time & Again stars Dame Sian Phillips and was partly inspired by elderly gay people going back into the closet to avoid prejudice in care homes.

Its director Rachel Dax, from Cardiff, said she felt it was important for older lesbians to be seen.

She added that older characters in LGBT films tended to be male-focused.

Homosexual acts between men over the age of 21 in private were decriminalised in 1967, and, while lesbianism was not illegal in the UK, gay women still faced enormous prejudice.

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packed an enormous amount into the short space. It's very moving actually the way the story progresses."

The film premiered in Boston in the US in March and has been shown at nine further festivals, winning the audience award for best short narrative film at the Outfest film festival in Los Angeles.

Bafta-winning Welsh actress Dame Sian said she was "very proud to be associated with the film".

Brigit Forsyth has had a long-running stage and screen career, and is best-known for her role as Thelma in the 1970s comedy Whatever happened to the Likely Lads? and more recent roles in ITV's Boon and the BBC's Still Open All Hours.

Executive producer Leigh-Ann Regan said: "Romantic stories about elderly people are not something we see a lot of, let alone romance betweena first group of zinc, lead and cadmium compounds, where the gas stream further contains one or more compounds from an additional group of metallic chlorides and alkali metal oxides. The gas stream is maintained at a temperature at which the compounds from the additional group are gaseous and the compounds from the first group are solid, and the compounds from the additional group are separated from those compounds from the first group.
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of them being totally blindsided by Sauron's re-emergence
As Joe C points out in comments, the line about "History became legend..." is a little hard to reconcile with Elrond's continued existence.
However, it's clear from the rest of the story that nobody really forgot about the One Ring; the Elves certainly didn't, although they allowed themselves to believe it was lost forever. Gondor didn't forget either, if Boromir's comment at the Council of Elrond is any indication (emphasis mine):

'[Elrond] was the herald of Gil-galad and marched with his host. I was at the Battle of Dagorlad before the Black Gate of Mordor, where we had the mastery: for the Spear of Gil-galad and the Sword of Elendil, Aiglos and Narsil, none could withstand. I beheld the last combat on theslopes of Orodruin, where Gil-galad died, and Elendil fell, and Narsil broke beneath him; but Sauron himself was overthrown, and Isildur cut the Ring from his hand with the hilt-shard of his father's sword, and took it for his own.'
At this the stranger, Boromir, broke in. 'So that is what became of the Ring!' he cried. 'If ever such a tale was told in the South, it has long been forgotten. I have heard of the Great Ring of him that we do not name; but we believed that it perished from the world in the ruin of his first realm. Isildur took it! That is tidings indeed.'
Fellowship of the Ring Book II Chapter 2: "The Council of Elrond"

Even in the film, nobody at the Council (Boromir least


Perez was among those arrested at Mauna Kea in the protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope. He's at Standing Rock as part of the Indigenous Peoples Power Project, training protesters in nonviolent tactics -- even as North Dakota authorities have ordered the camp vacated by next week.Show and Tell: Angelo Rizzuto

On almost every afternoon from 1952 to 1966, a transplanted Nebraskan named Angelo Rizzuto left his crummy rented room to snap pictures on the New York streets. The rest of the day he spent shunning company, writing delusional anti-Semitic letters to politicians, and striving to patent an improved stepladder, with the single-mindedness of a recluse and the meticulous obsessiveness of a paranoid schizophrenic. When he died in 1967, Rizzuto bequeathed his 60,000 photos (including almost daily self-portraits, like the one below) to the Library of Congress, where they sat in an annex basement until a photo historian named Michael Lesy unearthed them.

This month, W. W. Norton publishes 97 of those photographs in Angel’s World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto.
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of the Dublin-based newspaper saw only the same official state portraits of Kim Il-Sung. In the North Korean media, it was common practice to reprint these Western advertisements as if they were news reports and not paid content. Certainly, they are some of the most unusual advertisements to ever appear in Irish newspaper history.

An interesting comment followed us posting this piece on Facebook. It was highlighted there that in the 1970s the library of Trinity College Dublin was presented with a series of books on Kim Il-Sung by the “State Central Library of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” Images of the books have been posted to Facebook by DH History, the history society of the university.Disparities of population exposed to flood hazards in the United States.
This study integrates publicly available datasets to provide a county-based assessment of socio-economic disparities of population exposure to flood hazards in the United States. Statistical analyses were applied to reveal the national trends and local deviations from the trends. Results show that approximately 21.8 million (6.87% of) U.S. population are exposed to 100-year-flood in 2015, and most of the exposure is near water bodies (e.g. ocean and rivers). Additionally, communities near water bodies are more responsive to potential flood hazards by avoiding residence in flood zones than inland communities. At the national scale, economically disadvantaged population are more likely to reside in flood zones than outside. At the local scale, economically disadvantaged population tend to reside in flood


Netflix buys comics publisher behind Kick-Ass and Kingsman

Netflix just made a deal with the creative mind behind blockbuster movies including Captain America: Civil War and Logan.

On Monday, the streaming service announced its first-ever acquisition: Comic book publisher Millarworld.

You may not be familiar with Millarworld, but you've likely heard of founder Mark Millar's work. Before he created Millarworld, Millar wrote a number of comic books for Marvel including Old Man Logan and Civil War, which were brought to the silver screen as the blockbuster hits Logan and Captain America: Civil War. He also authored the comic book series Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service, both of which have been turned into successful feature films.

Netflix has plenty of experience bringing graphic novels to life. Back in 2013, the company landedMark Carney, governor of the Bank of England (BOE), gestures while speaking during the bank's quarterly inflation report news conference in the City of London, U.K., on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images

The Bank of England (BOE) announced Wednesday an emergency cut to interest rates in an attempt to limit the economic impact from the new coronavirus. The announcement follows a similar decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve last week. The virus that began in China late last year has spread worldwide and is impacting all major economies, with flight cancellations, panic buying and strict quarantine measures in some cases. As of Wednesday morning, the U.K. had 382 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including the country's health minister Nadine Dorries. "At its special


mounted in axially fixed, but rotary manner in the same clip. It is particularly suitable for fixing the cable guide of a robot in the vicinity of the robot hand, in that the clip is so positioned in the area of the robot hand that the cables used e.g. for the power supply of a robot tool are fixed by means of the cable clamping piece on the side facing the robot hand and the cable guidance hose on the side remote from the robot hand in said clip.
In a preferred construction the clip is provided on the inside with at least one holding profile for the axially positive fixing of a holding part for the cable guidance hose and a holding part for the cable clamping piecein the clip preferably at least one half-ring of the holding part for the cable clamping piece can be secured in non-rotary manner by means of a pin traversing the same both to the cable clamping piece and to the clip and in particular on the end face of the clip facing the cable clamping piece is provided a groove for receiving one end of the pin and on the cable clamping piece circumference in the vicinity of the fixing structure a recess for receiving the other end of the pin.
In order to ensure increased protection of the cables against abrasion through the rotating hose, according to a further development the cable clamping piece has a spigot engaging in the cable guidance hose and which covers the connection


The Hong Kong economy's first recession in 10 years deepened in the fourth quarter of last year weighed down by often violent anti-government protests and the protracted trade war between the United States and China, advanced estimates showed on Monday.

The economy shrank by a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent between October and December from the previous quarter, versus a revised 3 percent contraction from July to September.

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On an annual basis, Hong Kong's economy shrank by 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with a revised 2.8 percent contraction in the third quarter.

For the whole of 2019, real gross domestic product (GDP) - the sum of all finished goods and services produced in a territory and adjusted for inflation - contracted by 1.2 percent, the first annual decline since 2009.

"Localsocial incidents with violence during the quarter took a further heavy toll on economic sentiment as well as consumption- and tourism-related activities," a government spokesperson said in a statement.

Months of unrest in Hong Kong last year plunged the financial and trading hub into its worst crisis since it reverted from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

Despite a narrower year-on-year decline in Hong Kong's total exports of goods in the fourth quarter, exports of services plunged by 25 percent due to a severe setback in inbound tourism, the estimates showed.

Analysts predict an even worse first quarter in 2020, as measures to restrict cross-border mobility to fight the spread of a new coronavirus, which originated in mainland China, deal a further blow to tourism, retail and other business.

Given the developing


nature of the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China and elsewhere, forecasting the effect on Hong Kong is especially difficult. But combining that with long-standing issues such as the expensive property market produces one of the more difficult outlooks for Hong Kong since the 1997 handover.

"This is really the last nail in the coffin of the Hong Kong economy," Alicia Garcia Herrero, chief Asia Pacific economist at Natixis SA, told Bloomberg about the virus's impact before the data was released. "This time around even the financial sector may be affected, and I doubt protests will calm down."

Drawing on experience from the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in the city, Aries Wong, lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University's School of Business, estimates visitor arrivals from mainland China couldBitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency of all times. Since its inception, the use of Bitcoin has skyrocketed, and people from all corners of the world now utilize it for trading and making transactions. However, the adoption lacks uniformity and then there are various regulations and dependencies that make it hard for Bitcoin-related businesses to sustain themselves. A New Zealand based cryptocurrency portal has become the prime example of such challenges faced by digital currency businesses.

BitNZ, a one-time leading Bitcoin exchange in New Zealand now has a banner on the website announcing its imminent shutdown. The message on bitNZ reads,

“bitNZ will be closing down on April 15, 2017; please withdraw all funds before then.”

The platform has provided the reason behind its decision to shut down on Reddit. A


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Former minnows reeling in the elite

2012 was a big year for women’s football, with three major tournaments showcasing the senior and youth ability at the disposal of a huge range of nations, and providing compelling evidence of rapid change and positive developments in the sport.

As an example, the most junior France side emulated the senior team’s heady ascent, even going one better by ending Asian dominance at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Azerbaijan. The vital importance of youth international tournaments in bringing on and honing future generations of senior stars was underlined by Pia Sundhage, former USA and current Sweden boss, when she spoke to FIFA.com at the FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala.

"It’s very different from when I started to play, which was admittedlyRecent Scores

The Branford Hornets celebrate winning the CIAC Class M Girls Lacrosse Championship by defeating the Daniel Hand Tigers on Saturday June 9, 2018 at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Connecticut.

The Branford Hornets celebrate winning the CIAC Class M Girls Lacrosse Championship by defeating the Daniel Hand Tigers on Saturday June 9, 2018 at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Connecticut.

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The Branford Hornets celebrate winning the CIAC Class M Girls Lacrosse Championship by defeating the Daniel Hand Tigers on Saturday June 9, 2018 at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Connecticut.

The Branford Hornets celebrate winning the CIAC Class M Girls Lacrosse Championship by defeating the Daniel Hand Tigers on Saturday


Freight Services, Inc. ("Air Freight") and Jeffrey Schiff ("Schiff") (collectively, "plaintiffs") pending arbitration, and motion for enlargement of time to respond to plaintiffs' complaint. For the reasons that follow, the court grants defendants' motions.

*323 I. BACKGROUND

Air Freight, an Illinois corporation with its principal place of business in Illinois, provides transportation services in the Chicago area. Schiff, also an Illinois resident, is Air Freight's secretary, treasurer, and shareholder. Airgroup, a Washington corporation with its principal place of business in Washington, provides freight customers with accounting and communication services, under the trade name "Airgroup Express," through local independent agents. Moultrie, Airgroup's president, is a Washington resident. Air Cargo and Pau Pau, both Missouri corporations with their principal places of business in Washington, are agents of Airgroup Express. Hamby, their president,is a Missouri resident. This case is before the court on the basis of diversity of citizenship. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
In March 1992, Air Freight and Airgroup entered into a Transportation Services Agreement ("1992 Agreement"), pursuant to which Air Freight became the exclusive agent for Airgroup Express in the region of Illinois north of U.S. Highway 36. Under the 1992 Agreement, Air Freight provided solicitation, tracking, billing, and cartage services to Chicago-area Airgroup Express customers. Air Cargo operated in the St. Louis area under an agreement containing terms identical to the 1992 Agreement.
On May 15, 16, and 17, 1995, Schiff met with Moultrie, Hamby, and James Boyle, general manager of Pau Pau. By the close of the meeting, Schiff and defendants agreed on a relationship between Air


Freight, Air Cargo and Airgroup.
On May 17, 1995, Schiff wrote Moultrie a letter, also signed by Hamby and apparently memorializing the agreement reached at the meeting. In sum, the letter stated that Hamby would open a sales operation office for Airgroup Express in the Chicago area, and Schiff would maintain the cartage operation for Airgroup Express in the Chicago area. The letter stated that Schiff would maintain existing accounts and receive revenue from the accounts and would receive commissions on future accounts sold by Schiff. The letter stated that Hamby would take over the existing phone numbers for the Chicago Airgroup Express agency, and would employ personnel to handle domestic and international operations. The letter stated, finally, that Schiff would move into an unidentified Airgroup Express location, presumablywherever Hamby set up the location.
On May 23, 1995, Moultrie responded to Schiff's May 17, 1995, letter with a letter in which Moultrie agreed that the 1992 Agreement would be terminated as of June 1, 1995, unless Schiff advised him otherwise. Moultrie advised Schiff that, effective June 1, 1995, Schiff could not represent himself in any manner as Airgroup Express.
On May 27, 1995, Schiff responded to Moultrie's letter, stating that his understanding was that Hamby would operate a sales and operations facility, for which Schiff would be the exclusive cartage agent; and that the 1992 Agreement would be terminated, and a new agreement would be put into place reflecting the new company, which would retain all existing accounts.
Apparently, Moultrie adhered to his May 23, 1995, letter. As of


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  Massachusetts chemist charged in crime lab scandal

September 28, 2012|Daniel Lovering | Reuters

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A former chemist accused of falsifying evidence at a Massachusetts state crime lab where she handled more than 60,000 drug samples was arrested on Friday and charged with obstructing justice and lying about her training.

Annie Dookhan, 34, was arrested by state police at her family's home in Franklin, Attorney General Martha Coakley's office said in a statement.

The scandal shook the very foundation of the Massachusetts criminal justice system - the integrity of evidence used to convict and imprison defendants - and authorities promised to create safeguards to prevent it from happening again.

"Her actions totally turned the system on its head," Coakley said at a news conference.

"People absolutely deserve a system they can trust,"


Coakley said. "Repairing trust is going to take time."

The governor ordered the lab closed in late August and last week established an office to oversee a review of criminal cases potentially affected by the "failures" there.

Dookhan was charged with two counts of obstruction of justice and a single count of pretending to hold a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts. If convicted of the charges, she could face 20 years in prison.

Further charges against Dookhan were expected, Coakley said. She said the criminal activity and misconduct appear to be limited to the single rogue chemist who worked for nine years the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain.

The charges brought on Friday stem from Dookhan allegedly lying about the integrity of drug evidence she analyzedof the crime lab investigation.

Dookhan, who was removed from the testing lab in June 2011, said no one else at the lab knew what she had done and that she had disobeyed orders even though she knew it was "wrong." Dookhan said she was simply trying to get more work done.

Asked why she had forged initials to signal approval of her work in a log book, she said, "There was no one available -- no one has the time -- I wanted to get the work done."

State police took over the lab in July and discovered Dookhan's mishandling of evidence was more widespread than previously thought. During her career at the lab, Dookhan handled more than 60,000 drug samples linked to 34,000 cases, the Department of Public Health


Lady Gaga Opens Up About Her Oscars Performance With Bradley Cooper

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper stole the show at Sunday night’s Oscars, and fans are still talking about their steamy rendition of “Shallow,” which rocked the house and had people feeling some type of way about what they watched the performers do on stage together.

On Monday night, Lady Gaga took to her Instagram account to share a photo of herself and Bradley Cooper from their Oscars performance and opened up about what it felt like to be on stage with her A Star is Born co-star and director for the special night.

In the photo, Gaga and Cooper are both sitting at the piano and snuggled in close together. The actor has his arm wrapped around the singer’s waistas she pulls him in tight and places her hands over his.

In the caption of the photo, Gaga stated, “Nothing could be more special than sharing this moment at the Oscars with a true friend and artistic genius.”

As many fans already know, the intimate performance sparked a ton of rumors that Gaga and Cooper may be seeing each other in secret, or even have romantic feelings towards one another, which would be scandalous since Bradley is currently dating model, Irina Shayk, and the two share a daughter together.

Shayk sat in the middle of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper at the awards show on Sunday and was seen clapping, hugging, and kissing both Cooper and Gaga during the night’s festivities. However, following the pair’s intense performance, fans began to


speak out about Irina having to watch the couple’s chemistry on stage together.

As previously reported by The Inquisitr, following the Oscars on Sunday night, Gaga and Cooper attended the same afterparty. Upon arriving at the bash, Gaga allegedly made a “beeline” for her co-star, where the two were seen getting touchy as they allegedly hugged, leaned in close to one another, and talked in each other’s ears for “almost two hours,” per The Daily Mail.

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Back in August, before A Star is Born was released in theaters, The Inquisitr revealed that Bradley made headlines for revealing to fans that he had fallen in love with Gaga on the set of the film.

Cooper revealed that he and the singer had an instant connection from the time that they met, andLittle Hell Books

Little Hell. We’d like to introduce you to Dram Good Books’ naughty child, our new imprint Little Hell. This will be the banner under which all non-whisky books will be published. Jim Murray’s first ever book – way back in 1988 – was Millwall: Lions of the South, the legendary history of Millwall Football Club, the first on them ever researched and written. Some 32 years on, it remains the most respected and detailed history of the club. As football has remained a passion of Jim’s, he has decided to continue publishing great, untold stories and other titles on the subject. Though with him fully occupied in producing the Whisky Bible (and in non Covid-19 times touring the world on his whisky evangelism) he now engages


other top writers, instead. Why Little Hell? Well, the very spot where Jim grew up in Surrey was once marked on 18th century maps simply as Little Hell, on account of the highwaymen and cut-throats who operated there, their hide-out from robbing the London to Brighton coaches. The first book to come from the Little Hell stable is The Lions’ King, the extraordinary, warts-and-all and hilarious autobiography of Millwall’s legendary, record-breaking goalkeeper Bryan King called up for England by Alf Ramsey and whose career was touched by greats such as Yashin and Gordon Banks. And gives the warts-and-all, no holds barred low down on what football was really like during the golden age of the 1960s and ‘70s. Other books will follow under the Little Hell imprint, aboutMiddle School, Reimagined

As a parent of school age children and as someone who values the importance of good education, I share the anxiety of a lot of parents out there touring schools in hopes of finding a fitting environment for the much feared transition to middle school. My eldest daughter, a product of San Francisco public schools, is a sophomore at Lowell, and my youngest is a fifth grader at Ulloa Elementary. Honestly, neither of us parents nor my eldest daughter can see Maia, the youngest, in a big school setting, and that’s the reason we are looking at private schools with small size classrooms.

Helen, a good friend of mine, and a mother of a fifth grader, suggested I look at Millennium School’s website and attend one of


their pop-up sessions. We went to one such session with the whole family. It was a pretty exciting and informative experience that took place at the studio of EHDD Architects, the same studio that is designing the future school site. The main concern of all attending parents was a need to find an engaging atmosphere for their child. The founding Team – Jeff Snipes, Chris Balme, Veronica Flores and Stephen Lessard were all present and shared their background and their vision for a school designed specifically for early adolescents, based on developmental science. I approached the founding team at the end of the session and asked them for a possible interview for our blog. They gladly agreed and have responded to my questions as a team.

G.B. Would youthey have a few tough years ahead of them, especially finding a temporary site to house the school before the actual school site is ready (originally an automotive engineering school and now a large auto body shop, the building at 1465 Folsom Street, San Francisco is the designated long-term home for the school and it offers an ideal canvas for a 21st century middle school). But with a similarly dedicated team of daring parents and children this concept can fly very high. We all came out of the meeting genuinely inspired and hopeful that such forward thinking teams of individuals can spark a big change in education system sometime very soon, and public schools can implement new ideas in their curriculum or teaching methods. All kids deserve a


when silent movies were around until 1941 with her last film appearance in “Two-Faced Woman”. The fact that she spoke with a Swedish accent made her even more irresistible and mysterious. I’m sold!

Fay Wray (1907 – 2004)

Faye Wray started her acting career in the early to mid 1920’s, but she’s the best known for her performance as Anne Darrow in the 1933 classic “King Kong”. It’s a shame the big ape got to her first.

Bette Davis (1908 – 1989)

Bette Davis is one of the few that stood the test of time. From her first film, “The Bad Sister” in 1931 to her last one, “Wicked Stepmother” in 1989, Bette Davis was in 103 films, six TV series, one miniseries, and made guest appearances on several other TV shows.She showed the world that she wasn’t just a pretty face, but she had that too.

Ingrid Bergman (1915 – 1982)

Ingrid Bergman was another actress that was more than just a pretty face as her film career of nearly 50 years shows. Though she was in movies from 1932 to 1978, her most famous one was “Casablanca” (1942) where she plays opposite Humphrey Bogart. Lucky Bogey!

Betty Grable (1916 – 1973)

Betty Grable starred in her first movie in 1929, but was really big in the 1930s and 1940s. At the end of the 1940s, Betty was the highest paid actress in Hollywood.

Rita Hayworth (1918 – 1987)

Hayworth actually got her start in show business at the age of 6 as part of her family’s dancing group “The Dancing Cansinos”. By the


mid 1930’s, she’d worked her way into films and was a big name in the 1940s and 1950s, but she still appeared in films through the mid 1970s.

Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962)

Marilyn Monroe is probably considered the sexiest woman ever in our history. In her short life of only 36 years, she had been in 35 movies, posed for Playboy’s centerfold (December 1953) and been married three times. There, of course is a lot of controversy surrounding her alleged affairs, especially the one that was said to involve President Kennedy. In fact, some say the Kennedys had her killed. I don’t know if she was killed, but she had killer looks.

Bridget Bardot (1934 -)

This French actress started to wow America in the 1950s and continued for two decades.In 2007, she was named as one of America’s top 100 sexiest film stars. Oh, I love the French!

Farrah Fawcett (1947 -)

Farah Fawcett is perhaps remembered most by her role in “Charlies’ Angels”, but her first appearance on television was in 1967 on “Bat Girl”. Fawcett also did some film acting as well. As many know, she was married to Lee Majors from 1973 to 1982 when they got a divorce and she married Ryan O’Neal that same year. Hmmm…

Bo Derek (1956 -)

Bo Derek got her start in the late 1970s when we saw her first in “Orca: The Killer Whale” (1977). Perhaps her most famous role was in the movie “10”. From that point on, she was known as the “perfect 10”. Yah!

Madonna (1958 -)

For over a


the last two only lasted a few months. The first marriage to Tommy Lee lasted three years and as a product, they have two children.. Does she look like someone’s mother to you? No way!

Kelly Hu (1968 -)

I think we will see Kelly Hu in films for years to come. However, she only started her film career in 1995 when she was in “No Way Back” when she starred as an undercover police officer. What you may not have known was that in 1985, Kelly became the 1985 winner of the Miss USA pageant and in 1993, she came in fourth place in the Miss USA pageant.

Yasmine Bleeth (1968 -)

Yasmine played some roles on a couple of soap operas and gained some exposure in the late 1980s andearly 1990s, but her big break and great exposure cam in 1994 when she was in the hit TV series “Baywatch”. Since then, she’s still remained active on television and on the big screen.

Jeri Ryan (1968-)

Though she starred in roles before her big break and in several after, Jeri Ryan will forever be most famous for her role as 7 of 9 on the science fiction series “Star Trek: Voyager”. When she first appeared on the show, the ratings soared through the roof! Who would’ve thought that that would happened? Duh! Look at her!

Jennifer Aniston (1969 -)

Jennifer Aniston appeared here and there, but we never really knew who she was until the popular sit-com “Friends” first aired. After that Jennifer’s career took off as a film and television


early age of 13. She turned herself around and her career – along with – other things – has blossomed.

Kate Hudson (1979 -)

Kate Hudson has been in films since 1998 where her first role was in “Dessert Blue”. She continues to excel as an actress. Did you know that her mother is Goldie Hawn? Goldie’s cute and all, but Kate’s gorgeous!

Jessica Simpson (1980 -)

In the summer of 2003, Jessica Simpson gained a lot of publicity with her reality show that she shared with her then husband Nick Lachey. The show was called “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica”. The show itself was really stupid, but everyone tuned in because the men wanted to look at Jessica and the women wanted to look at Nick. Since then, she’s been singing mainly,Premier Li’s announcement that his country will give a grant of 150-million Renminbi or about P1.15 billion for the rehabilitation of war-town Marawi City.

Government estimates place the cost of rebuilding the city which was recently flattened by the onslaught of religious violence sponsored by the rouge Islamic State at P50 million.

Marawi City Mayor Majul Usman Gandamra said the Chinese grant will go a long way in helping his constituents who lost their homes to rebuild their lives following the man-made tragedy.

He also cited the initial Chinese donation of 47 heavy equipment recently, including 8 excavators, 8 wheel loaders, five compactors, five track-type tractors, five bulldozers, 8 dump trucks, 8 cement mixers and a container van. DPWH Secretary Mark Villar said these items came from China’s Emergency Humanitarian Assistance


that Nicci and Andrew realised there were thousands of other people going through exactly the same feelings.

"It really helped us," said Nicci. "For the first time in years we're going around with smiles on her faces. We're members of a club none of us wanted to be part of, but it's a very supportive club."

It was this feeling which made them decide to launch their online subscription magazine for other child-free people.

It's just one of a number of ways childfree people are coming together to support each other.

Debbie Norman, aged 50, is a member of Gateway Women, an online community of childless women who meet up every month throughout the UK.

Before joining, she found it difficult to talk openly about the pain she felt at being childless.

"People wouldIn February, the US House of Representatives passed sweeping gun-control legislation. But it was hardly news.

While some House Republicans joined Democrats in favor of the measures, the vote was—to no one’s surprise—mostly split along party lines. The Senate, where Republicans maintain a majority, never bothered to advance or even debate the potential new regulations.

And now they are all on vacation.

The last time the federal government managed to pass laws that limit the spread and use of guns in the United States was 25 years ago. It was 1994. Bill Clinton was president and the original Lion King had just been released in theaters.

That law was known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and it was temporary. Written into the legislation was an expiration date of 10 years. But


to attack President Trump and make President Morales look bad.”

The Trump administration is working with Mexico and the governments of the Central American Northern Triangle countries to find ways to curb the mass-migration through those countries to the U.S. border. The Guatemalan official explained that his country is powerless to stop those who transit Guatemala via the CA-4 highway. He explained that international law blocks Guatemalan law enforcement from interfering with people who use this international highway to travel through Guatemala.

Mexican authorities are not bound by these regulations and recently began a crackdown on migrants attempting to travel through Mexico to reach the U.S. The Mexican president ordered approximately 6,500 National Guard troops to set up checkpoints to search for migrants attempting to move through his country. ThisGay Man Pictures

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Wish her all the best and look for to collecting the rest of her dvd collection. I'm not sure what exactly Nichole on May 14, , She became world-famous for the controversial British reality TV show There's Something About Miriam , in which six men competed on the island of Ibiza to win her affections, then the winner was told she was a pre-op transwoman. What animal would do this to a woman? Susan's Place Transgender Resources. Miriam also stated that she "didn't feel used by it.


According to multiple sources, Smith's production shingle, Overbrook Entertainment, is in the very early stages of developing a present-day family comedy that puts a new spin on the fish-out-of-water tale while maintaining the spirit of Fresh Prince. (An official longline is still being hammered out.)
I'm told a pitch is being finalized now and Overbrook will begin shopping it around in the coming weeks. Smith would serve as an EP alongside his Overbrook producing partners James Lassiter, Caleeb Pinkett and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

James Avery, best known for his role as the no-nonsense Uncle Phil on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has died. In response to Avery's passing, former co-star Alfanso Ribeiro tweeted, "I'm deeply saddened to say that James Avery has passed away. He was a second father to me.I will miss him greatly."
CBS News reports that, according to his publicist, Avery passed away Tuesday due to complications with open heart surgery. He was 68 years old.

A Pennsylvania school district went on lockdown last week after a student's "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" ringback tone ("shooting some b-ball outside of the school") was misheard as a mass shooting threat ("shooting people outside of the school") by an overly vigilant receptionist at the student's doctor's office.

Family Reunion of the Day: Will Smith recently reunited with his Fresh Prince of Bel Air castmates James Avery (Uncle Phil), Karyn Parsons (Hilary), Tatyana Ali (Ashley), and Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton).

"There's nothin' like spending Holidays with fam!" Smith wrote on his official Facebook page.

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film. Kodak is committed to continuing to manufacture film as an irreplaceable medium for image creators to capture their artistic vision, and we are proud to help bring back this classic.”

Kodak will produce EKTACHROME at its film factory in Rochester, NY, and will distribute the Super 8 version of EKTACHROME Film directly.

Kodak Alaris, an independent company since 2013, also plans to offer a still format KODAK PROFESSIONAL EKTACHROME Film for photographers in 135-36x format. KODAK PROFESSIONAL EKTACHROME Film is a color positive film, also known as “reversal,” “slide,” or “transparency” film. Unlike all of the other KODAK PROFESSIONAL Films available today, which are color negative films, EKTACHROME generates a positive image that can be viewed or projected once it is exposed and processed. This makes it ideal forhigh-resolution projection or presentations. It is also well suited for scanning and printing onto a range of professional grade photographic media. Availability is expected sometime in the fourth quarter of 2017.

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Morgantown resident Morgan Alyssa Stephens has been selected as Maid Silvia for the 81st Mountain State Forest Festival by Director General Chad Shoemaker.

The selection of Maid Silvia has been kept confidential for months. She will visit Elkins on Sunday to attend a private reception in her honor, sponsored by Graceland Inn and Conference Center, Davis and Elkins Dining Services and John & Joyce Allen.

“I am very excited to announce Morgan Alyssa Stephens as Maid Silvia for the 81st Mountain State Forest Festival” Shoemaker stated. “From the first moment I met Morgan, I knew she was a young lady who understands and appreciates the honor and privilege it is to represent the Mountain State Forest Festival as MaidSilvia.”

Morgan, is the daughter of Mark A. Stephens and Anna Maria Hawkins, both of Morgantown. She is the granddaughter of John R. and Ruth Stephens of Morgantown and Martin and Ilene Biafora of Pompano Beach Florida. Morgan has one older sister, Marka Stephens.

The future Queen Silvia is a 2014 graduate of University High School. Morgan will be graduating from Fairmont State University in December of 2017 with a degree in Marketing. In her spare time, Morgan enjoys cooking, baking, working out, playing with her rescue puppy, Tobi, and being outdoors.
Currently, Morgan works as a family assistant and is also employed by Tanz2go. When asked what her future plans included, Morgan said she would like to open her own daycare and boarding facility for dogs in Morgantown and to


2017, at the outdoor amphitheater of Davis and Elkins College. Attended by 40 princesses from around the state, two maids of honor and a minor court, she will receive her crown from Governor Jim Justice in an elaborate outdoor ceremony.The present invention relates to improvements in a process and apparatus for the production of a laminated sheath cable composed of a synthetic resin sheath and a cable core with a resin/metal composite laminating tape disposed between the sheath and the core and wound in an overlapping manner along the cable core.
A laminated sheath cable includes, as described above, a cable core, a laminating tape provided around the cable and wound in an overlapping manner along the cable core, and a synthetic resin sheath covering the outside of the laminating tape, which is usually a composite tape composed of a synthetic resin layer and an aluminum or copper layer that are bonded together. Heating at the time of sheath extrusion causes the resin layer to be fused to


 Id. at 1-10.   On January 15, 1991, Coleman, an inmate, was transferred from the Iowa Correctional Facility for Women in Mitchellville, Iowa, to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center (IMCC) in Oakdale, Iowa.  At that time, Coleman was twenty-eight years old and approximately seven months pregnant.  She was transferred to IMCC to facilitate closer monitoring of her pregnancy.  Rahija was a registered nurse employed by IMCC.1

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Upon Coleman's arrival at IMCC, the IMCC Health Services Department (Health Services) conducted a "health screen" and documented Coleman's health history, including the fact that Coleman had five prior pregnancies.  Dr. Timothy Pflederer, a Health Services physician, conducted a routine physical examination of Coleman on January 23, 1991, and noted in his examination notes that Colemanhad a long history of problematic pregnancies.  In 1980, Coleman prematurely delivered twins who were either stillborn or died shortly after birth.  Of Coleman's subsequent four pregnancies, three involved precipitous labors lasting less than one hour and one resulted in a premature delivery.  Based on this information, Dr. Pflederer referred Coleman to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Obstetrical Unit (the University) for an evaluation.  On January 30, 1991, Dr. Katherine Stevenson, a University resident physician, examined Coleman and discovered that her cervix was one to two centimeters dilated.  She reported that Coleman's obstetric history was "significant" and recommended that Coleman remain at IMCC due to its proximity to the University and Coleman's history of pre-term deliveries.

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On January 31, 1991, a notation


was made in the Health Services records that Coleman had been examined at the University and was to remain at IMCC until after the baby was born.  On February 2, 1991, at approximately 8:45 a.m., Coleman awoke and went to Health Services, complaining that her "water" was "leaking."   A Health Services nurse examined Coleman and determined that Coleman's amnion had not ruptured.  Instead, the nurse determined that Coleman was experiencing normal mucous vaginal discharge which commonly occurs during the later stages of pregnancy.  The nurse gave Coleman sanitary napkins and instructed her to notify Health Services if her condition worsened.

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On February 14, 1991, Coleman returned to Health Services complaining that she "had a bloody show."   At that time, Health Services transferredColeman to the University for an examination.  The University physicians determined that Coleman was not in active labor but noted that her cervix was dilated one to two centimeters and she was having minimal contractions.  The University physicians instructed Health Services to return Coleman to the University if her contractions became painful, regular, and separated by ten minutes or less.2

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On February 15, 1991, Coleman awoke early in the morning and noticed some spotting of blood.  She complained of bleeding, back pain, and stomach pain to a guard, who sent her to Health Services.  She notified Health Services of the spotting and decided not to attend her required school classes that day.  At approximately 10:30 a.m., Coleman again reported to Health Services complaining of


more bleeding and back pain.  Although Coleman denied being terribly uncomfortable, Coleman's symptoms were recognized signs of labor and led the IMCC nursing staff to call the University.  Dr. Alvina Driscoll, a University resident physician, determined that the bleeding was likely due to cervical changes and was not a concern unless it increased or was associated with cramping or contractions.  The IMCC nursing staff recorded in Coleman's medical chart that she was to be monitored for increased bleeding or signs of labor.  The bleeding was to be monitored by inspecting Coleman's sanitary napkins.  Coleman returned to Health Services at approximately 2:00 p.m. to complain of more bleeding and show a nurse a sanitary napkin with blood on it.  After looking at thesanitary napkin, the nurse threw it in the garbage.

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At approximately 7:00 p.m., Coleman was watching television when she stood to use the bathroom and felt an extreme pain in her lower abdomen causing her to double over.  Coleman's pain began to subside when another inmate, Felicia Allen, attempted to comfort her.  Sometime thereafter, Coleman went to Health Services and was seen by Rahija, who had come on duty at 3:00 p.m.  Without taking Coleman's vital signs, performing a vaginal examination, or attempting to monitor the baby's heart tones, Rahija sent Coleman back to her living unit and told her to return when the contractions were six to seven minutes apart.

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At approximately 9:30 p.m., Coleman's pain worsened.  She returned to Health Services and reported to


Rahija that she was still bleeding, she hurt "down there," pointing to her abdomen, and her contractions were six minutes apart.  Rahija placed her hands on the exterior of Coleman's abdomen and noted that she was unable to feel any contractions.3  Rahija monitored the baby's heart tones, which were 142 beats per minute.  At that time, Coleman denied experiencing low back pain or rupturing of her amnion.  Despite concluding that Coleman was in "possible early labor," Rahija sent Coleman back to her living unit and instructed her to return to Health Services if the bleeding increased or the contractions increased in severity or regularity.

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Following Rahija's instructions, Coleman returned to her living unit.4  Coleman sat on the edge of her bed in increasing painuntil 11:25 p.m., when she began to scream from the intense pain and moved to the cement floor, where she laid in a fetal position.  A correctional officer allowed Allen and another inmate to enter Coleman's living unit to attempt to calm her by talking to her and rubbing her back and stomach.

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At that point, a correctional officer called Health Services to summon Rahija and Grace Schwickerath, also a registered nurse, to attend to Coleman.  When they arrived, Coleman stated that she was in pain and felt "like pushing."   The nurses observed that Coleman appeared to be "bearing down."   Both nurses placed their hands on the exterior of Coleman's abdomen and were unable to feel any contractions.  One of the nurses


p.m., Coleman was transported from IMCC to the University.  While transporting Coleman, the attending medical professionals repeatedly called Coleman's name to prevent her from falling asleep.  Coleman constantly felt the urge to push and, sometime during the ride, expelled another 20cc of blood.  Shortly after arriving at the University, Coleman delivered a premature baby boy at 12:20 a.m. on February 16, 1991, although she was later unable to remember the delivery.  Neither Coleman nor the baby suffered any complications during the delivery.  Coleman returned to IMCC on February 18, 1991, and the baby was later released from the hospital to the care of Coleman's mother.

12
On March 3, 1991, Coleman completed a form complaint used by prisoners to file complaints under the Civil RightsAct, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Rahija violated Coleman's Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment by being deliberately indifferent to Coleman's complaints that she was in labor, which caused her to suffer both physically and emotionally.  Coleman's complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on April 29, 1991.

13
On September 27-28, 1994, this matter was tried to the district court, sitting without a jury.  The case remained open for further depositions and was completed on April 10, 1995.  The district court held that Rahija's conduct deprived Coleman " 'of the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities' afforded her by the Eighth Amendment," id. at 19-20, quoting Whitnack v. Douglas County, 16 F.3d


Coleman to the University at 9:30 p.m., as suggested by the district court, Coleman would have experienced the same labor in the hospital as she did in her living unit, and, therefore, there was nothing unconstitutional about where Coleman experienced labor or how Rahija treated her.

28
We disagree and hold that the evidence supports the district court's award of compensatory damages for Coleman's physical pain and suffering and mental anguish and suffering.  Fortunately, neither Coleman nor her baby suffered any complications during the delivery at the University.  However, the fact remains that, because of Rahija's unnecessary delay, Coleman was subjected to "a great deal of fear and physical suffering [which] accompanied the prospect of having a baby on the floor of a penal institution," Coleman at 21,BERKELEY, Calif. -- After one of Washington's best starts ever and an impressive unbeaten five weeks, the Huskies suddenly have some serious concerns at the start of the Pac-12 season.

They're on a two-game losing streak.

Jordan Mathews scored 31 points and knocked down three of his career-high five 3-pointers in the second half, leading California to an 81-75 upset of No. 21 Washington on Friday night in the Pac-12 opener for both schools.

Washington shot 53.6 percent in the first half then 38.2 over the final 20 minutes. The Huskies hurt themselves with 12 turnovers and breakdowns on both ends that allowed Cal to establish a nice tempo and shoot 60.9 percent after halftime.

Nigel Williams-Goss had 19 points, eight rebounds and nine assists and Robert Upshaw added 16 points, eight


X factor," Williams-Goss said. "Tyrone was definitely our main priority coming into the game. He was averaging 19 points a game."

TIP-INS

Washington: Upshaw has 60 blocks and is seven from tying the UW single-season record held by David Dixon and Christian Welp. ... Williams-Goss has 89 assists through 13 games.

California: Cal hosted Washington in its conference home opener for the third straight year. The Bears are 9-4 in conference openers dating to 2003. They beat the Huskies during the five-game winning streak in Pac-12 play starting last season. ... Cal is 8-2 at home in Haas Pavilion.

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Washington: At Stanford on Sunday night.

Cal: Hosts Washington State on Sunday.short game had on scoring led me to my basement workshop, where I created the first 60-degree wedge — a dedicated scoring tool. I took a 55-degree sand wedge (the most lofted club on Tour at the time), cut off the hosel, welded it back on with five degrees more loft, and adjusted the bounce.

After showing this club to Tom Kite, Andy North, Jim Simons, Tom Jenkins, Joe Inman and Allen Miller (my original six players) in 1980, it didn’t take long for them to add this “lob” wedge to their bags.

Kite was the first to put one into play, in 1981, the year he topped the money list and was voted most improved player. Major manufacturers soon followed suit, producing lob wedges en masse. The lure of


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Beau Biden, who served for eight years as attorney general of his father's home state of Delaware, died of brain cancer on May 30, 2015, at the age of 46.

Flatiron Books described the upcoming book as an "intimate memoir" that "reveals the most momentous year" in Mr Biden's public life.

"Promise Me, Dad is a personal story from a father, grandfather, husband, and friend as he confronts the inevitability of devastating personal loss, while trying to balance his duty to his family and his country," according to the publisher.

In a statement, Mr Biden said he hoped that sharing his story "will strike a chord with other Americans who have walked the same path I have."

"I have always been fortunate to have an incredible support system around me,and I understand how many people in this country go through far worse than I have, with far less support," Mr Biden said.

Mr Biden, 74, a longtime senator from Delaware, served as vice-president during all eight years of Barack Obama's presidency.

The former vice-president will embark on a tour of 19 US cities in November to coincide with the release of his book.


24.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.6 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $54,714, and the median income for a family was $68,273. Males had a median income of $48,894 versus $34,688 for females. The per capita income for the town was $25,825. 2.5% of families and 4.0% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 6.3% under eighteens and 7.1% of those over 65.

Education
The Middlebury Community School system attracts many families to the area.  The grade alignment is K-3, 4-5, 6-8, and 9-12.  Northridge opened inInside Michigan Politics newsletter, 1987-2013.

See also
Ballenger Building in downtown Columbia, Missouri was listed by the National Register of Historic Places in 2004
Ballenger Creek, tributary of the Monocacy River in Frederick County, Maryland
Ballenger Creek, Maryland, census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland, United States
Ballinger (disambiguation)


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Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References
 Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
 Pisanitsa Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links
 Pisanitsa Island. Copernix satellite image

Category:Islands of the South Shetland Islands
Category:Bulgaria and the AntarcticMatt and Debbie Recker

Matthew
Recker grew up in Northern New Jersey just 15 minutes
outside New York City. As a teen,
he became involved in the empty life of drug and alcohol abuse. As he became
increasingly miserable, the conviction of sin became deep in his soul. By
grace, the Lord saved him during his freshman year at Clemson
University in South
Carolina. When he returned to his New
Jersey home that summer, the Lord led him to begin
attending a Bible-believing church in Manhattan.

Soon Matthew sensed God's call to preach the Word of God and to return to New
York City for full-time ministry. He then enrolled in Bob
Jones University
and received a B.A. in missions (1981) and a M.A. in pastoral studies (1983).
He met his wife Debbie and they were married in 1981, and they were accepted


in
Gospel Fellowship Association Missions in 1983.

Since
1984 God has used the Reckers to establish three urban churches in New
York City: City
View Baptist Church
in Flatbush, Brooklyn (1984-1989); Parkway
Baptist Church
in Jamaica, Queens
(1990-1995); and Heritage Baptist
Church in Manhattan
(1996-present). Heritage Baptist
Church is a multicultural church in
the heart of America's
largest city. Since 1997 Matt has hosted a live radio broadcast entitled
The Heritage of Faith that focuses on Biblical exposition and allows radio
listeners to call in. Heritage also features the Heritage
Baptist Deaf Church,
The Heritage Discipleship Institute, homeless and evangelistic outreach, and
world-wide missionary outreach.

Matthew
is the author of two books on urban ministry: Behold the City and Living
on the Edge of Eternity, published by BJU Press. In 2002 he received an
honorary doctorate degree from Ambassador
Baptist College.
The Reckers reside in Rosedale, Queens,
and have three children: Rachel, Brian, and
Daniel.A judge in Regina has ordered Taj Smith, a receiver for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, to stand trial in a case of an alleged assault outside a night club. Another player charged, defensive back Dwight Anderson, will not stand trial. The judge said there was not enough evidence to proceed in his case.

Smith and Anderson were accused of beating a man in Regina outside of a night club in August of 2013.

A two-day long preliminary hearing wrapped up Thursday morning.

Evidence presented at a preliminary hearing is subject to a publication ban.

No date was set for Smith's trial. He has previously elected to have his case heard by a judge and jury.

It was previously reported by police that officers were sent to a nightclub on the 2000 block of Dewdney


President Donald Trump was also involved in the dealmaking, Meadows said.

Watch: Pelosi and Ryan Discuss Shutdown Possibility

Specifically, the Freedom Caucus secured a commitment for two votes.

The first, on a defense funding bill, will occur within the next 10 legislative days, Meadows said. (The House has a congressional recess scheduled for next week.)

That measure would include language to raise the $549 billion sequestration spending cap on defense funding for fiscal 2018 to the level Congress approved in the National Defense Authorization Act — a roughly $80 billion increase — and then appropriate that money, Meadows said.

The second vote leaders committed to would be a conservative immigration bill and would occur before Feb. 16, the end date in the CR, Meadows said. He said he expects that vote would largelyaware of the exculpatory language, although it had appeared on previous work orders signed on behalf of appellant.
The trial court also found that the appellee knew, or should have known, that the keys were still in the tractor when it closed the garage for the day. The appellee admits that it negligently permitted the tractor, with the keys in it, to stay on its unguarded and unfenced lot adjacent to U.S. Highway 52, a heavily traveled highway extending through Lafayette, Indiana.
When appellee reopened its garage the next morning, its employees discovered the semi-tractor had disappeared during the night. The tractor was never recovered.
The trial court stated the following relevant conclusions of law:

*15 "2. The contract of bailment by which the Plaintiff delivered its tractor to the Defendant provided


Q:

What is the earliest name ascribed to the book of Revelation?

I was teaching Catechism last night, going over 'Revelation'.  I asked, "what's revelation?" and one girl answered, "It's the last book in the Bible". and I was like, "um yeah..." Well I wanted to say, it's also the entire Bible and I was kind of stumbling over my words there.
What I was wondering was, what was the Revelation/Apocalypse of John originally called?
Eusebius called it the 'so-called Apocalypse of John', but if it was 'so-called' then what else might have it been called and when did it begin to go by the name 'Revelation'?

A:

In many languages, the book is called "Apocalypse", which is Greek for "Revelation". It seems that the modern English convention is to use atranslated, rather than transliterated, title.
I am not aware of any title other than "Apocalypse", or a translation of "Apocalypse", for this book, in any language.
In the early English translations, there is some dissent about what to call it.

Wycliffe's Bible (1382-1395) used "Apocalips"
Tyndale's Bible (1525) used "Revelation"
Coverdale's (1535) called it "The apocalips or revelacion of S. John"
Douay-Rheims (1582) uses just "Apocalypse".

The King James (1611) called it "The Revelation of S. John the Divine" and, as the legally authorized English version, its usage seems to have stuck.
I checked the Koine text of Eusebius - he says "τῇ Ἰωάννου λεγομένῃ Ἀποκαλύψει", the relevant word being that middle "legomene". This often means just "called", without a negative slant, as in Luke 22:1 "the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called (legomene)


The Cardinals are shopping for an upgrade at shortstop and Peter Gammons of Gammons Daily hears that Jed Lowrie of the Athletics is now on their list. The A's could theoretically move Lowrie to fill a need elsewhere and promote Addison Russell to the majors this season.

Meanwhile, despite the speculation that the Athletics would move Lowrie, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (on Twitter) hears that it won't happen. The plan all along has been for him to be a two-year bridge to Russell and they are now entering year two.

Lowrie, 29, hit .290/.344/.446 in 662 plate appearances last season for the A's. The veteran came to Oakland in a five-player deal with the Astros in February 2013 .Dancing Barefoot

"Dancing Barefoot" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Ivan Král, and released as a second single from the Patti Smith Group's 1979 album Wave. According to the album sleeve, the song was dedicated to women such as Amedeo Modigliani's mistress Jeanne Hébuterne.

In 1998, the song featured on the soundtrack of Whatever, a coming of age film by Liza Weil.

In 2000, a live version was released on the benefit album Broadcasts Vol. 8 from KGSR in Austin, Texas.

In 2010, the song ranked number 331 on Rolling Stones list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Cover versions
 1986 – Niki Mono & Berry Sakharof (Fuck Your Dreams, This Is Heaven soundtrack)
 1986 – The Feelies
 1986 – The Mission (Extra track on The Mission II,


 occurred in the city to break the drought period. Between 09 and 11 August 2007, a very strong tropical depression produced   Intermittent moderate to heavy rain lashed the mega-city during these 48 hours. Another monsoon low produced  of rain on 22 August 2007 The monsoon typically starts to get weak from the last week of August, but still has the potential to cause heavy rains in the city, as on 31 August 2009, when SE parts of the city received 148 mm rainfall, while precipitation in other areas varied between 40–70 mm. But history has shown that the monsoon withdraws from Karachi during the final days of August. The highest rainfall for August is , which occurred in 1979. The highest temperature was  on 9been a series of back blows. Here's an ARC poster describing the protocol which they call "the five and five." The AHA recommends to first try using abdominal thrusts on conscious responsive adults and children aged 1 or older to dislodge a foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO). “If abdominal thrusts are not effective, the rescuer may consider chest thrusts,” the website states.

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Government agencies in Australia and New Zealand are less convinced by the Heimlich maneuver.

The Australia and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation removed abdominal thrusts from its guidelines in 2010, citing 32 case reports of abdominal thrusts causing life-threatening harm, FOX 2 reported. The agency concluded higher airway pressures could be generated by using chest thrusts rather than abdominal thrusts.

Dr. Henry Heimlich


The Kaikoura Lights

The Kaikoura Lights is a name given by the New Zealand media to a series of spectacular UFO sightings that took place over New Zealand’s South Island in late December of 1978. The first of the sightings occurred on the 21st of December, when the crew of a Safe Air Ltd cargo plane observed a group of strange luminous objects flying alongside them. They were followed by these mysterious objects (some of which were said to have been the size of a house) for several minutes before they vanished and then appeared at a different location in the sky. The objects were tracked on radar by Wellington Air Traffic Control as well as on the radar of the Safe Air Ltd aircraft and were also seenby hundreds of people on the ground.

On the 30th of December an Australian television crew was on-board an aircraft retracing the flight taken by the crew of the Safe Air Ltd plane which had encountered strange strange luminous objects on its way from Wellington to Christchurch. Not long into the flight they were contacted by Wellington Air Traffic Control and told they were being followed by an object. The crew then noticed a whole formation of luminous objects flying behind them. These objects were filmed by the television crew and were also recorded on radar by Wellington Air Traffic Control. One of the UFOs followed them all the way to the airport in Christchurch. When the aircraft took off again (this time heading for the town of Blenheim)


    Justice Schmidt dissented, with opinion.
           Justice Schmidt also concurred in part and dissented in part upon denial
           of rehearing, with opinion.
     ______________________________________________________________________________

                                             OPINION

¶1         Plaintiffs Brian Dayton, individually and as special administrator of the estate of Jill

     Dayton, deceased, Amanda Dayton Nehring, and others notmiles per hour and was traveling at 100 miles per hour

     approximately four seconds before he entered the intersection of Route 67 and University Drive.

     The SUV turned off its headlights as it neared the intersection.

¶4          At the same time the SUV and Pledge were speeding toward the intersection, a minivan

     traveling northbound on Route 67 and occupied by 16-year-old Amanda Dayton, the driver; her

     mother, Jill Dayton, in the passenger seat; and their friend, Mark Lorenz, in the backseat, entered

     the intersection’s center turn lane to proceed left onto University Drive. The SUV passed


through the intersection, and as Amanda began the left turn, the squad entered the intersection

     and struck the minivan on the passenger side. Pledge, Amanda and Lorenz were injured, and Jill

     was killed in the accident.

¶5          Plaintiffs Mark Lorenz, Gary Lorenz, Leslie Lorenz (collectively, the Lorenzes), Brian

     Dayton, individually and as special administrator of the estate of Jill Dayton, and Amanda

                                               anticipated that the SUV would ultimately crash and that it created a “huge safety concern” by

       traveling without its headlights. Pledge knew his speed reached 110 miles per hour during the

       pursuit. He saw the Dayton minivan in the left-turn lane but opted to proceed through the

       intersection in order to keep the SUV in sight. Pledge grew up in the Macomb area and was

       familiar with the intersection where the accident occurred and was aware that other accidents

       occurred there, often involving left-turning vehicles. As an officer, Pledge had responded to


   undisputed that the essential conditions regarding line of sight were not substantially similar

       when the video was created. The pursuit involved speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, while

       the SUV and squad car in the video were driving at 40 miles per hour. The vehicles in the

       experiment were in a different lane than the SUV and Pledge’s vehicle, and standing traffic is

       visible in the video that was not present when the accident occurred. The SUV’s lights were on

       in the video, contrary to the pursued SUV, which had turned off itsadmitted as substantive evidence without objection, was viewed by

       the jury, which was capable of determining the amount of time it thought Amanda had to see the

       squad car. The opinion of the defense expert that the squad was visible to Amanda for 13

       seconds was based on his viewing of the squad video. The jury was free to reject his conclusion

       in favor of its own determination based on what the jurors saw in the squad video, which was

       equipped with audio and an onscreen timer. Watching the video and counting the seconds are


and wanton conduct and such a

       determination was a jury question. Evidence was presented at trial bearing on whether Pledge’s

       pursuit was willful and wanton and included the following. Pledge testified he knew the license

       plate number of the SUV before the pursuit began; he knew that the Macomb police department

       had placed spike strips to stop the fleeing SUV; other accidents involving vehicles turning left

       had occurred at the intersection; and there was an increased population in the area of the

       intersection because school was in session and it was aholiday weekend. Pledge was also aware

       that his speed reached 110 miles per hour at one point in the pursuit. He saw the Dayton vehicle

       in the center lane intending to turn left. Pledge believed that the SUV would crash during the

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       pursuit and that the SUV created a “huge safety concern” to vehicular and


     whether the SUV driver had committed or was going to commit as serious felony involving

       “actual or threatened attack.” He admitted the pursuit did not meet the criteria of the policy but

       believed it was proper under the circumstances. Pledge admitted it was unlikely the SUV was

       going to stop as a result of the pursuit and in light of its flight from the earlier stop and

       extinguishing its lights to avoid detection by the police. Lastly, an eyewitness to the accident

       testified that she saw the minivan begin the left turn and road."

¶ 51            The majority then misquotes the record, claiming Pledge "knew that the Macomb police

       department had placed spike strips to stop the fleeing SUV." Supra ¶ 30. He knew no such

       thing. During the 75-second chase, he heard over his radio "the Macomb Police Department

       talking about putting out spike strips." He had no knowledge of where the Macomb police

       department might eventually put the spike strips. He had limited knowledge of how spike strips

       worked as his department did not use them. Since Pledge


was in response to a citizen complaint to 911, reporting the suspect vehicle driving in

       an "erratic and menacing" manner. (4) Pledge had his lights and siren activated. (5) The pursuit

       occurred on a four-lane highway. (5) The location of the pursuit was not a densely populated

       urban area. (6) The weather was clear. (7) The road was dry. (8) The visibility was good. (9)

       The duration of the pursuit from the time the suspect vehicle fled the traffic stop to the collision

       was only 75 seconds. (10) Pledge entered the intersection on a green light. (11) Theat least one citizen to call the police. Pledge got behind him, observed more such

       conduct and made the stop. After stopping, the vehicle then fled, turning off its lights and

       driving at a high speed. Pledge determined that the best thing to do was try to stop that vehicle.

       Tragically, this accident happened when a 16-year-old driver made a left turn into the path of a

       police car, which was coming into an intersection at a high speed with its lights and siren


proffered video "was filmed in daylight, while the accident occurred at

       night." Id. at 82. Moreover, the French court found that the trial judge made comments

       suggesting "that the film was a dry run of the events which occurred the night of the collision."

       Id. No comments exist in the case at bar suggesting that the trial judge led the jury to believe

       this video was a "dry run" of the events of the night of the accident. Furthermore, both the video

       introduced herein and the accident occurred at night rendering this case significantly different

   Comparison on aerosol physicochemical properties of sea and land along the coast of Bohai, China.
The Bohai Sea is one of four major sea areas adjacent to China, air pollution is becoming an issue along the Bohai coast owing to rapid industrialization and urbanization. To analyze the sea-land interaction and its influence on regional particulate pollution, a comparison of sea and land aerosol physicochemical properties was carried out using observations and numerical simulation. Three observation sites, an ocean site on the Bohai Sea, a coastal station in the Tanggu district, and an inland station in Tianjin City were established. The movements and interactions of pollutants between land and sea were determined, and it was found that the convergence of sea-land breezes produced an ascending motion, which served to concentrate