10 games.

DOUBLE A ERIE

Who’s hot …

Spencer Turnbull, RH starter: The Tigers have been waiting on Turnbull since they drafted him in the second round in 2014 (University of Alabama). In his last two starts, Turnbull has thrown 14 innings, allowed eight hits and two runs, struck out 18, and walked none. He’s 6-3, 215.

Kyle Funkhouser, RH starter: Two very strong back-to-back starts for Funkhouser: 13 innings, five hits, one run, 16 strikeouts, one walk. He was a Tigers fourth-rounder in 2016 (University of Louisville).

Matt Hall, LH reliever: Looks as if that curveball could earn Hall a ride to Detroit the way he’s been dealing at Erie. He has a 1.72 ERA in his last 10 games, with 26 strikeouts in 15.2 innings. He also is walking too many(12). The Erie development process will continue.

John Schreiber, RH reliever: This guy is merciless. No earned runs in his last 10 games, and only three hits against him. The man is becoming Public Enemy No. 1 among Eastern League hitters. He also is from Rockwood. The big leagues are getting closer, week by week.

And who’s not …

A.J. Simcox, SS: Ah, the cruelty of professional baseball: .056 in his last 10 games. Simcox has the glove to play big-league baseball. Doubtful the bat will ever allow it.

SINGLE A LAKELAND

Who’s hot …

Cam Gibson, OF: Nice month for Gibson, who’s batting .314 in his last 10 games. He was a Tigers fifth-rounder (Michigan State) in 2015. Gibson, 24, bats left-handed, is 6-1, 215.

Alex Faedo, RH starter: Getting closer to an inevitable


there’s no rush, but he’s been pitching well enough to invite thoughts about what could be ahead. In his last five starts (29.2 innings), Rodriguez has reluctantly allowed 19 hits and four runs, all while striking out 37 and walking seven. He was part of the Tigers’ compensation when they sent Ian Kinsler to the Angels.

Burris Warner, RH reliever: No runs in his last five games (11.1 innings), which has featured 11 hits, 11 strikeouts, and zero walks. Warner is 6-foot, 190, and in 2016 was a 22nd-round grab (Marshall University).

And who’s not …

Dylan Rosa, OF: That is some June chill-down by Rosa: .083 in his last 10 games. He was an 18th-rounder from Kent State in 2017.you’re just a part of the overall process in an organization, did not suit my personality. I wondered if there was any job out there that would allow me to utilize my own talents. Just then, I chanced upon an article smack in the middle of the local news page in the paper with the headline ‘Kurosawa Ryo² Establishes Voice Dubbing Academy’.

Back then, Kurosawa Ryo-san was known as the dub voice of Gary Cooper and also did a lot of CM work – he was a leading figure in the seiyuu world. At the time there were only about 100 or 150 seiyuu actively doing voice work… the industry as a whole, probably thought that ‘it was time to inject fresh blood’. Regardless, it was surprising to see


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BlackSYDNEY is on the verge of a population explosion, fuelled by a boom in the construction of new apartment buildings in the inner city.

A new residential development in Redfern is set to bring at least 20 more residences to Renwick St once it has been completed.

Renwick Apartments at 71-73 Renwick St will span four levels and contain a mix of one and two-bedroom units and two-bedroom penthouses with prices starting from $595,000.

Set to launch on June 20 with CARE Residential Projects, the development is one of the many projects that are expected to be completed within the next five years in the inner-city.

media_camera The rooftop at the new Renwick apartments in Redfern.

media_camera How the Renwick interiors will look.

According to City of Sydney council, around 100 new homes are


on luxury at Barangaroo.

More apartments are being built in the City of Sydney LGA than in any other council areas in Sydney.

It saw 2848 dwellings built between July 2014 and January 2015 while the second highest numbers were seen in Blacktown City Council with 924 dwellings built.

Around half of the dwellings completed in the City of Sydney area during this time were built in the Green Square, Central Park and Harold Park developments.

BARANGAROO BUYERS MAKING HUGE PROFITS

BUYERS SNAP UP CENTRAL PARK REAL ESTATE

Within the next four years, the Green Square development alone will consist of around 10,000 apartments once completed.

Central Park will feature around 2200 residential apartments and 900 student dwellings by the time it is completed. Barangaroo South will have 900 apartments and Darling Square in DarlingHarbour will feature 1500 units.

media_camera The Darling Square development will be build on the site of the old Sydney Entertainment Centre.

Other smaller developments set to be built in the inner-city include The Foveaux in Surry Hills which will have 55 apartments, East Central also in Surry Hills, with 42 apartments and Pier 99 in Pyrmont which will consist of 71 apartments.

With the impending number of dwellings expected to be built within the next five years, a spike in the area’s population is also expected.

City of Sydney strategic research manager, Phil Raskall, said the City’s population was on track to hit 250,000 by 2022.

“That’s three years ahead of earlier forecasts which predicted the City would hit a quarter of a million people in 2025,” Mr Raskall said.

Ms Moore said


Matthew Boulton and entrepreneurs like George Cadbury have carved place in Birmingham’s rich history and give the children a sense of pride for their city. Venturing further away from home, years 4 and 6 unearth the early and ancient civilisations of China, Greece and Baghdad, identifying similarities and differences to their own lives and seeing the impact these cultures had on different societies. Additionally, Year 1 look at our impact on other places with Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America and how that lead to the beginning of one of the most powerful countries in the world.

Throughout all of these themes, teachers aspire to wow their children, make them think about and question what they find, hopefully encouraging a lifelong enchantment with history.

PE

At Billesley Primary School we pride ourselvessaid Jerad Miller was killed by his wife.

Amanda Miller shot and killed herself.

Police released a short video from a Wal-Mart security camera that showed the couple’s final moments.

In the video, posted on Reviewjournal.com, Amanda and Jerad are already on the floor of the Wal-Mart. Jerad Miller is on his stomach; Amanda Miller, who had already been struck by police gunfire, is on her back. Jerad Miller had pulled items from store shelves in an effort to fortify his wife’s position, McMahill said.

Amanda Miller points her gun at her husband several times. At one point, the gun appeared to recoil, McMahill said.

Metro’s video also included audio from an unidentified police officer watching the scene unfold live on the security camera and relaying the details to other officers on his


1. Introduction {#sec-1}
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Pandemics, are well-known as the epidemics on the basis of worldwide spread and cause excessive number of sickness, deaths in the world and cause disruption for social economic situation of the countries which were affected. As the result of the globalization, change of lifestyles, social and economic improvement caused the emerging infection and accelerated occurrence and circulation of new microbial agents beside this globalization has also facilitated sharing information and experiences.

Many pandemics have occurred throughout the history of mankind. Primarily plague, smallpox, cholera and Spanish flu are the longest-lasting, repetitive, and caused large numbers of human deaths. In the beginning of 20th century, at least 20 million people deaths were estimated due to1918 Spanish flu. The first originated place of the pandemic is not clear, butmany experts assumed that the possible origin was in China. However, the first outbreaks occurred at the same time in North America in March 1918 \[1\].

Influenza spread to across the US country. Infection was spread to France in April 1918 by US naval forces. From France, infection transmitted to British Military Forces in May 1918, and spread to Italy, Spain and Germany at the same month. After that North Africa India, China, New Zealand and the Philippines were suffered from pandemic flu, infection expanded to every country in a short time. At the end of the First World War, Spanish flu caused many more deaths than all the troops. The pandemic has widespread to all continents with the mobilization of the military troops. Although pandemics in mankind history


50% of people, and 25 ± 30% of them had clinical signs. Most of the deaths were due to secondary bacterial pneumonia. Mortality rate was calculated as 1 per 4000. The mortality was high among children and elderly people \[1\]. The 1957 (Asian) influenza pandemic, estimated the basic reproduction number (R0) was 1.8 and 60%--65% of infected individuals were manifested clinical symptoms \[6\].

Excess mortality due to Spanish flu was 598 deaths per 100,000 people per year. However excess mortality of Asian flu was only 40.6% \[7\].

After a decade occurrence of Asian flu pandemic, the new flu strain H3N2 was caused a new pandemic known as the Hong Kong flu in 1968. Although new virus was extremely transmissible, degree of severity was milder than the Asian flu. Excess mortalityfor dyspnea secondary to refractory pleural effusions in the setting of pulmonary extramedullary hematopoiesis. She had received 4 prior courses of radiation therapy for extramedullary hematopoiesis over the previous 13 years at another institution. Limited available records showed that the patient had received 15 Gy in 21 fractions to T6-T11 in 2005, 25 Gy in 10 fractions to the pelvis in 2009, 25 Gy in 10 fractions for brain involvement in 2010, and 30 Gy in 12 fractions to T7-9 in 2014, resulting in relief of symptoms on each occasion.

The patient had been on maintenance therapy with hydroxyurea for several years. Five months prior to consultation with radiation oncology, she began to experience dyspnea and was found to have bilateral pleural effusions. Sequential thoracenteses resulted in improvement of symptoms. Cytology was negative


The GOP cherry-picked states with the largest number of job gains this year to promote its claim that “GOP tax cuts have fueled a massive acceleration in job growth since this time last year.”

There has been a net increase in the number of jobs added in the first six months of 2018 compared to a similar period in 2017. But the nationwide gain isn’t nearly as dramatic as those individual states highlighted by the Republican National Committee, and in 12 states fewer jobs have been created this year. Economists tell us it is premature to assess the impact of the tax cuts on job creation.

President Donald Trump frequently touts the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — a Republican-crafted bill that the president signed into lawabout their doom and gloom predictions on the effects of the tax cut bill,” Mike Reed, research director and deputy communications director for the RNC, told us. “The research shows that in a lot of states where these candidates are running there has been an uptick in job gains since tax cuts passed, compared to the same timespan before the bill was passed.”

That research — which includes other data points like rising consumer confidence and falling unemployment — was highlighted in press releases on Aug. 8 and Aug. 14.

But the GOP is cherry-picking states with the largest percent increases. Nationwide, the number of jobs added in the first half of 2018 was 22.3 percent higher than the number of jobs added in the first six months of 2017,


court's disclosure orders of June 22 and July 6, 1988, and which are described and discussed hereafter. These documents, except for the Quality Assurance Program Incident Report (Incident Report), were received. Following our conference, on November 4, 1988, we entered our order quashing the trial court's discovery order in two respects, and stated that our opinion would follow. This is that opinion.
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
In the early part of 1986, Sherry Giordano (plaintiff) sustained injuries in an automobile accident. Plaintiff was admitted to Lincoln Hospital, where she was treated for injuries sustained in the accident. On March 29, 1986, while still in the hospital, a nurse employed by Lincoln Hospital entered into plaintiff's room to find that some of her vital organs had ceased functioning. After resuscitation, her organs10 abreast behind the massed pipes and drums of the division's highland regiments. A memorial service was held in the nearby Canadian military cemetery to honour those killed in the Dieppe Raid.

Post-war
Dieppe, a city in New Brunswick, Canada, received its present name in 1946, in honour of the commemoration of the 913 Canadian soldiers killed in the Dieppe Raid. The majority of its inhabitants are of Acadian descent.

Notable people

 Jean Ango (1480–1551), ship owner
 Jean Asselin (v. 1610–1652), painter and drawer

 Jean Cousin (15th century), navigator

 Jean Crasset (1618–1692), writer
 François-Antoine-Henri Descroizilles (1751–1825), chemist

 Adrien De Pauger (?–?), engineer and architect of the Vieux Carré at New Orleans

 Pierre de Chauvin, sieur de Tonnetuit (1575–1603), Huguenot trader at Honfleur
 Isaac de Caus (1590–1648) architect engineer
 Abraham Duquesne (1610–1688),


widening work was conducted so that only half of the bridge was under repair at one time.  The eastern half involving northbound traffic was completed first.  The western half involving southbound traffic was being widened at the time of this accident.  This required the removal of an upright concrete abutment and a portion of the old roadway, resulting in a narrowing of the original 12-foot southbound traffic lane to something around 7 1/2 feet.  The completed northbound lane was 22 feet, 4 inches in width.

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The contractor (defendant) warned the traveling public of this unusual and dangerous condition of the roadway by placing some 19 caution signs and warning devices on both the north and south approaches to the bridge area and by erecting atemporary guardrail along the western edge of the narrowed southbound traffic lane.  The guardrail was made with boards of varying sizes, some plain, some painted black and white, nailed to two-by-four posts set on two-by-six-inch wooden plates which were nailed to the asphalt near the edge of the roadway.  Various witnesses described the guardrail as extremely 'flimsy'--'shabby'-- 'sagging'-- 'scanty'-- 'just stacked up'-- one witness said the rail 'zigzagged'-- photographs corroborate these descriptions.  The defendant knew the guardrail had been knocked or blown over into the swamp by passing automobiles on previous occasions.  Its employees would retrieve the pieces and put them back on the edge of the roadway.

10
When the railing was first erected the defendant placed four truck flashing lights on the top rail.


 They were soon knocked or blown off by passing trucks.  The foreman then removed the lights to a barricade near the approach to the bridge.  There were no flambeau or flashing lights on the temporary guardrail or painted lines marking the western edge of the narrowed southbound traffic lane on the night of the accident.

11
The accident occurred on a dark night at approximately 10:50 p.m.  The Greenhills and the Tumblestons were returning home from North Carolina in the Greenhill automobile.  Mrs. Greenhill was driving, Mrs. Tumbleston was in the right front seat, Mr. Greenhill in the right-hand rear seat and Mr. Tumbleston in the left-hand rear seat.  Mrs. Greenhill saw the numerous warning signs as she approached the bridge area.  Shedropped her speed to about 20 miles per hour and proceeded across the bridge.  Just as she got on the bridge a speeding truck approaching from the south rounded the curve with its bright lights on.  Mrs. Greenhill dimmed her lights and looked down at the road-- she followed the white line and did not deviate, swerve or move her course of travel.  When she got about midway across the bridge a board struck the front end of her automobile and one came through the windshield, hitting Mr. Tumbleston in the face.  Mrs. Greenhill continued on across the bridge and stopped just before getting to the curve because she felt trapped and wanted to get off the bridge.  She testified that whatever she


ran into had to be sticking out in front of her but she did not see it before the accident.

12
The board that came through the windshield and pierced Mr. Tumbleston's head was identified as being part of the temporary guardrail.

13
The point of impact was near the middle of the bridge, involving a 15- to 25- foot section of the guardrail.  The northern end of the guardrail remained erect-- the railing up to the middle of the bridge was undisturbed.

14
The defendant admits that it did create at this site on the highway an unusual situation which could be dangerous and might cause damage or injury to persons not aware of the unusual or dangerous situation and that it had the duty of maintaining signs warning the traveling publicthe road.  Others described the guardrail as 'sagging,' 'flimsy'-- one said it 'zigzagged.'  There was evidence the guardrail had been previously knocked or blown into the swamp by passing automobiles.  The board that came through the windshield and hit the plaintiff was from the guardrail.  The bridge was dark.  Neither the guardrail nor western edge of the roadway was lighted or delineated at the time of the accident.  The southbound traffic lane was narrowed to approximately 7 1/2 feet.  The northbound lane was more than 22 feet wide.  Mrs. Greenhill was partially blinded by the bright headlights of an approaching truck.  The northern half of the bridge railing was untouched.  There was some evidence that Mrs. Greenhill collided


with the northern end of the barricade.

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Although the defendant was not an insurer of the safety of the travelers using the bridge in question, it had the duty of keeping the highway in reasonably safe condition for travel and to erect and maintain sufficient signs, guardrails and warnings as may enable the users of the highway, exercising ordinary care and prudence, to avoid injury to themselves and others (see Cooper v. South Carolina State Highway Department, 183 S.C. 155, 190 S.E. 499), and if the defendant failed to do so it was guilty of negligence.

18
Of course the plaintiff must prove more than negligence to justify an award of damages.  He must prove that the negligent, willful or reckless act relied upon was the proximate cause of histhe job closed down temporarily some three weeks prior to the accident.  He helped in narrowing the southbound traffic lane and in building the temporary guardrail.  He testified about finding the railing in the creek on some mornings and about the lights getting knocked off the railing by passing trucks and the foreman telling him he was not going to get any more (lights).  This witness testified no lights were on the guardrail when the job closed down on August 6th.

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The defendant moved to strike this testimony on the grounds of irrelevancy and remoteness.  No authority was cited in support of the motion.  Rule 43(a), F.R.Civ.P., puts admissibility on the basis of relevancy and materiality.  The cast of subdivision (a) is toward


in enhancing relations between the AU and the UN, EU and International Community at large.

Other leadership roles include:

Co-Chair of the UN High Level Advisory Group on Every Woman Every Child; Member of the UN Lead Group on Scaling Up Nutrition, the Global Ambassador for Immunization, Member of the World Malaria Council; Commissioner of the International Education Commission for Financing Global Education Opportunity; Co-Chair of the World Refugee Council; African Union High Level Representative on Libya; and Chairman of the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Foundation.

Her Excellency Amira El Fadil illustrates the power of high-level political will and its ability to drive lasting change for UHC in Africa. As the Commissioner of Social Affairs at the African Union, H.E. Amira El Fadil actively engages with top political figures and mobilizes themon the right path and he also has a strong understanding of many of the functions that SS-Ko possesses. He also seems to somehow have knowledge concerning the Universal Child Welfare Organization. He also has a dog, which he states on page 57. He pilots SS-Ko in battle.
 Tatsuta Katsumoto: In many ways, Tatsuta is the complete opposite of Kirio. He is extremely anxious and does not react well to stressful situations. He also becomes emotionally invested in situations very easily, which causes him to miscalculate (as when he accidentally pilots his robot into power lines). Tatsuta’s eye was permanently injured by older students in a fight, and harbored a deep grudge against them because of the wound. However, when given the chance to kill the students during


she is rarely home due to her job.  She works in the local branch of the Black Hares.  The full extent of her work is never stated, though her main office was in the 'Doll room', where several of the dolls were kept (one of them being RK.KO-chan)  15 years ago Ririko had gone to China where she first saw the dolls.
Lt. Akaza: Another member of the Black Hares.  Is an impatient soldier whose real motivations were never truly revealed.  Pilots a 'Bucket head' mech, which most other soldiers would be too embarrassed to fly.  He also has an attraction to Ririko.
Kaptain-chan:  The leader of an organization called JAG G.  She has a rather bubbly personality, yet is utterly heartless,biospecimens.

the de-addiction centre started with a doctor trained to treat addicts, the jail,By: IANS | Los Angeles | Published: October 5” said Barca boss Ernesto Valverde. the area had three tempo vehicles which could take in eight-nine trolleys of garbage each.” Rajesh laughs. After his funeral, yellow fever, in 1964, we have traced these travels along a source of water.

enlivening many related memories. This book, the sole reporter covering the expedition, the main agenda of the Prime Minister, estimates his ancestral home to be at least 200 years old. labels industrial growth around Udvada as one reason for the migration away from the town. Uttaranchali, I had a slight change of heart. Subhash Chandra during the event being organised on the occasion of Essel Groups 90 Years celebrations


confusing. However, after saying all of this, I found myself thinking about the story quite awhile after I finished it, which is an indication of a good book for me! And actually, the story was very good.

From the back cover of the book:

Myra Lamb is a wild girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain. Her grandmother, Byrdie, protects her fiercely and passes down "the touch" that bewitches people and animals alike. But when John Odom tries to tame Myra, it sparks a shocking disaster, ripping lives apart. Bloodroot is the dark and riveting story of the legacies-of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss-that haunt one family across the generations.

That is what initially attracted me to the book. And itsums it up well.

Chapter One is told alternately by Byrdie Lamb and Doug Cotter. Byrdie is Myra's grandmother, who has raised her. Doug is a neighbor on the mountain, who has loved Myra since they were little kids. Byrdie and Doug are dealing with the fact that Myra has fallen in love with John Odom and both are afraid that he will take Myra away from Bloodroot Mountain. Chapter Two is then narrated by Johnny Odom and Laura Odom Blevins, the twin children that were born to Myra and John Odom. Chapter Three is told by Myra Odom, and the Epilogue is told by John Odom.

For me, Bloodroot was primarily about mother and child relationships. The story takes place in the mountain country of Tennessee. Byrdie had lost


of the McLeod family. It is divided up by the three Junes. The first June (1989) is about Paul McLeod, a Scotsman recently widowed, who is on a group tour of Greece. This section of the book is where Paul reminisces about his marriage and his three sons. The second June (1995), begins with Paul's death and the family gathering at their home in Scotland. This section is primarily seen through Paul's eldest son, Fenno, a gay man who had long ago moved and settled in New York. The third and last section (1999), takes place in New York, where Fenno meets Fern, a woman who had met Fenno's father Paul in Greece in 1989.

Of course, the above is a very simplistic summary of the book. Ms. Glass'minus numbers?"

The book opens on Jack's fifth birthday. Jack was born in Room and that is the only place he has ever been. He lives there with his Ma, and once in awhile Old Nick visits, but Jack stays in Wardrobe when Old Nick visits Ma.

Ma has been held captive in Room for seven years. She and Jack have spent every single moment of Jack's live together. She has taught him to read and has taught him games to play and made his life as "normal" as she possibly could. But as Jack turns five, Ma decides that he is old enough to help her with their escape. What is unknown to her is how difficult it will be if the plan succeeds, and they enter Outside.

The whole


In the first quarter (January-March) of 2010, California employers reported 528 mass layoff events that resulted in the separation of 93,773 workers from their jobs for at least 31 days. This is a decrease of 318 mass layoff events and 32,989 separations compared to the first quarter of 2009. California's total number of 528 mass layoff events was 28 percent of the nation's 1,870 reported layoff events and the 93,773 separations were 30 percent of the nation's 313,660 reported separations. The most notable job losses were in 'Construction,' 'Manufacturing,' and 'Retail trade.'

Extended mass layoffs that involve the movement of work within the same company or to a different company, whether domestic or outside of the United States, occurred in 2 percent of the non-seasonal layoff events, which resultedand his colleagues believe that this is due to a slower rate of decomposition of the allicin analogs in the onions, leaks and shallots, which leads to a lower level of sulfenic acid available to react as antioxidants with radicals.

The study was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Ontario Ministry of Innovation. Other members of the research team are Queen's Chemistry post-doctoral researcher Vipraja Vaidya and Keith Ingold, from the National Research Council of Canada.


Council President John P. Kennedy on April 1 as a second lobbyist. Kennedy is a senior adviser to Ginther's mayoral campaign and served on his 2015 transition team.

"We're new to the area," John-Baptiste said. "These guys are experts to this area."

Why hire Coleman? He is the city's longest-serving former mayor, with longstanding political ties to both Ginther and City Council President Shannon Hardin. Coleman endorsed Ginther to replace him weeks after announcing his retirement from office in 2014, and Hardin had been hired by Coleman after college.

In fact, many of the key city administrators negotiating the Crew stadium project formerly had worked for Coleman when he was mayor, including Steve Schoeny, the development director who left the city recently for another job, and Greg Davies, a deputy chiefof staff to Ginther. Some work in a new city administration building that bears Coleman's name.

Ginther, through his spokeswoman, declined repeated requests to be interviewed for this story. Coleman didn't return messages left with his office seeking comment, and Kennedy couldn't be reached. Schoeny did not return a message seeking comment.

While city officials say the added costs are unrelated to the stadium, most of them are assigned to the city in a draft development contract with the team, which will develop land around the stadium into retail, offices and apartments as a city incentive.

The additional projects, which the city considers a westward extension of the Arena District, include a $25 million parking garage 60 feet from the stadium, the burying of high-voltage power lines, moving a cellphone tower,


relocating a sewer, building a pedestrian bridge and park and upgrading nearby intersections. The new figure apparently doesn't include the value of donated city land and reimbursing the former owner for previous tax-increment-finance expenditures.

The lobbyists were involved in negotiations, records show.

"I began crafting some language last night that Mayor Coleman wanted to review first," Damita Brown, Ginther's interim chief diversity officer, wrote in an April email. "I'll send to him shortly and try to connect with him to get his initial feedback."

"It probably makes sense to get Coleman and Kennedy on the line as well?" former Recreation Director Tony Collins asked Crew and Cleveland Browns general counsel Ted Tywang in a May email on a different topic, to set up a conference call on project schedules.

"Yes, that makesense," Tywang responded. "Coleman previewed the discussion."

Asked whether Coleman should have been involved since key negotiators formerly worked for him, Ginther spokeswoman Robin Davis said: "The interactions the city had with Mr. Coleman and Mr. Kennedy were focused on community engagement, ensuring the Crew’s commitment to historic minority participation and working to meet very aggressive timelines. Their engagement was not in any way unusual or improper."

In November, Coleman and Kennedy also had been retained as lobbyists on the Crew project for the Columbus Partnership, a group of Columbus business leaders, according to city lobbying disclosures.

On Monday, Ginther announced that Davies, Coleman's former chief of staff, was leaving Ginther's office to become vice president of planning and development with the Columbus Partnership.

Coleman was a mentor to Hardin, who served


as a city community affairs liaison after graduating from college in 2009. Coleman lobbied for his appointment to the city council in 2014.

Hardin also declined repeated requests to be interviewed for this story.

"Mayor Coleman was an advocate to the City for Crew Stadium," Michael S. Brown, the city council's chief of staff, said in an email. "He was helpful in taking President Hardin’s desire for more local minority companies and workers to be hired in projects."

In December, the city council authorized Ginther to negotiate a Crew deal using $50 million as a city contribution.

Asked when the city council first became aware of the new $113.9 million total Confluence Village price tag, Brown responded: "That is the latest estimate for various district projects; some are still being planned forgiven and circumstances dictate that it must be broken (or if the one giving the oath deliberately breaks it), one must offer expiation (kaffara) by freeing a slave, or feeding or clothing ten needy people with the average of what is needed for one's own family, or if neither of those can be done then a fast for three days is prescribed instead.

Beginning and ending

In accordance with traditions handed down from Muhammad, Muslims eat a pre-dawn meal called suhur. All eating and drinking must be finished before the adhan for fajr, the pre-dawn call to prayer. Unlike the zuhr and maghrib prayer, which have clear astronomical definitions (afternoon and after-sunset), there are several definitions used in practice for the timing of "true dawn" (al-fajr al-ṣādiq), as mentioned


Gun Law Should Serve As Model For Nation

Gun Violence Prevention

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A coalition of Connecticut gun violence prevention groups held a press conference Thursday at the state Capitol. Supporters of the Enough Campaign, from left, Dana Horowitz of Stamford, Matilda Heyfron, 19 months, and Caithlin DeMarrais, both of Easton, and Wendy Skratt were among those in attendance.

A coalition of Connecticut gun violence prevention groups held a press conference Thursday at the state Capitol. Supporters of the Enough Campaign, from left, Dana Horowitz of Stamford, Matilda Heyfron, 19 months, and Caithlin DeMarrais, both of Easton, and Wendy Skratt were among those in attendance. (Brad Horrigan / Hartford Courant)

EditorialThe Hartford Courant

On Monday, with little fanfare, a law went into effect requiring anyone buying a rifle or shotgun tohave a gun permit or eligibility certificate. Thus ended the phase-in of the multifaceted gun safety law passed in 2013 by the General Assembly and signed a year ago today by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

The measure, one of the toughest gun safety laws in the country, was passed in response to the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre of 20 small children and six female educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown by a deeply troubled young man armed with a military-style assault rifle.

As with the long gun permits, most aspects of the new law — universal background checks, safer storage requirements, a gun crime registry and others — have quietly gone into effect and are helping to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

But the law's ban on


of which are committed with firearms — recorded in the state in 2013, the third lowest number in 40 years. Shooting incidents are also down. More than 200 people were stopped from buying rifles and shotguns when background checks turned up issues such as felony convictions and domestic violence charges; 1,747 pistol permits were revoked for similar reasons.

There's also a sense that citizens are more aware of the gun problem and more willing to cooperate with police. Citizens helped police arrest a troubled 18-year-old woman in Torrington this week who allegedly told friends she wanted to shoot students and teachers at two high schools, and also arrest a heavily armed young man near the University of New Haven campus in December.

The evidence suggests that the gun law isAmerica's Cup: Other great sporting comebacks

Updated

Team USA has completed a remarkable comeback victory over Team New Zealand in the America's Cup, winning eight consecutive races after trailing 8-1. Grandstand looks at some of the best Australian and international sporting comebacks of all time.

Kieren Perkins wins Olympic gold from lane eight

After just scraping into the final of the 1500 metres freestyle at the 1996 Atlanta Games, the reigning Olympic champion dominated the race. He won gold in a time of 14:56.40, with team-mate Daniel Kowalski claiming silver.

Michael Bevan's last-ball boundary

On January 1 at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Michael Bevan welcomed the new year by guiding Australia to a last-gasp victory against the West Indies. With Australia chasing 173 for victory and needing a four off the final ball of


the innings, Bevan duly delivered with a sweetly-timed strike straight down the ground.

Australia II wins the America's Cup

Trailing 3-1 in the 1983 best of seven series, Australia II won the final three races to claim the America's Cup, breaking America's 132-year stranglehold on the title. Prime minister Bob Hawke said any boss who sacked a worker for not turning up to work that day was a "bum".

Mark Coyne's miracle try

Trailing 12-4 with five minutes left on the clock in the opening game of the 1994 Origin series, Queensland narrowed the gap to just two points when Willie Carne scored a try that was duly converted by Mal Meninga. The Blues rallied their defence from the kick-off and pinned the Maroons down in their half. With 60 seconds remaining,the Maroons launched one last attacking raid. The ball travelled from the left side of the field to the right and play culminated in Mark Coyne slamming the ball down in the corner. Commentator Ray Warren famously exclaimed: "That's not a try, that's a miracle."

Bledisloe blockbuster

With time blown and the Wallabies trailing the All Blacks 23-21 in 2000, John Eales calmly kicked the match-winning penalty to retain the Bledisloe Cup for Australia. The captain is forced to take the shot himself after being informed regular kicker Stirling Mortlock is off the field.

Bombers bounce back

Down by a whopping 69 points 10 minutes into the second quarter, Essendon pulls off the greatest comeback in AFL history to beat North Melbourne by 12 points in their round 16, 2001 encounter. Full


forward Matthew Lloyd booted nine goals in the 27.9 (171) to 25.9 (159) victory. The win eclipsed Hawthorn's revival from 63 points down against St Kilda in 1999.

International

Want more great comebacks and collapses in sport history? Below we feature some of the highs and lows from around the globe.

Headingley Miracle: England cricket team, 1981 Ashes Test series against Australia: When Australia declared on 401, England managed 174 in response and were 5 for 137 at tea on the fourth day after following on. But Ian Botham struck 149 not out and Bob Willis took 8 for 43 as Australia crumbled to be 111 all out in its second innings, handing England an incredible triumph by 18 runs.

Nick Faldo, 1996 Masters: The Englishman trailed playing partner Greg Norman bysix strokes entering the final round at Augusta National and beat him by five strokes, firing a 67 while the Australian slumped to a nightmare 78.

Boston Red Sox, 2004 Major League Baseball play-off series: The New York Yankees won the first three games of the best-of-seven American League Championship Series before arch-rival Boston became the first team in Major League Baseball history to win the last four games to capture a series. The Red Sox went on to sweep St Louis for their first World Series crown since 1918.

Liverpool, 2005 Champions League final: Trailing 3-0 at half-time to AC Milan, Liverpool scored three times in six minutes and won the title on penalties.

Sport's biggest chokers ABC Grandstand looks back at six of the worst chokes in sporting history.


ABC Grandstand looks back at six of the worst chokes in sporting history.

Europe golf team, 2012 Ryder Cup: With the Americans ahead 10-6 entering the final day's 12 singles matches, the European side pulled off the "Miracle at Medinah" with a record fightback for a 14 1/2-13 1/2 triumph to keep the Cup.

Stephen Hendry, 1992 World Championship snooker final: England's Jimmy White led 14-8 but Scotland's Hendry made an astounding rally, taking 10 frames in a row to win 18-14.

Buffalo Bills, 1993 NFL play-offs: The Houston Oilers seized a 35-3 lead early in the second half but Buffalo quarterback Frank Reich sparked the most improbable comeback in NFL history with five touchdowns, the Bills winning 41-38 in overtime on their way to the Super Bowl, where they lostto Dallas.

Jean Van de Velde, 1999 British Open: Van de Velde reached the 18th hole of the final round needing only a double-bogey six to become the first Frenchman since 1907 to capture the Claret Jug. But Van de Velde found the deep rough, the Barry Burn and a greenside bunker on his way to a triple-bogey seven and lost in a play-off to Scotland's Paul Lawrie.

Indiana Pacers, 1995 NBA play-offs: Trailing the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, the Pacers were rescued when Reggie Miller scored eight points in nine seconds - he hit two free throws, a 3-pointer off an in-bounds play, then made a steal on a Knicks in-bound play to hit another 3-pointer for the win.

Henri Cochet, 1927 Wimbledon semi-finals: Frenchman Cochet battled


back from 5-1 down in the third set for a 2-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 Wimbledon semi-final triumph over US star Bill Tilden. Cochet, who also rallied from two sets down in the quarter-finals, saved six match points against countryman Jean Borotra to win the 1927 title.

Boston Bruins, 2013 National Hockey League play-offs: The Bruins became the first team in NHL history to trail by three goals in the third period to win the seventh game of a play-off series, rallying to beat Toronto 5-4 in overtime to capture the first-round match-up four games to three.

Miami Heat, 2013 NBA game at Cleveland: During Miami's 27-game win streak, the second-best in league history, the Heat's best comeback was at Cleveland, where the Cavaliers led by 27 points in thehis Council Of Minister and Legislature
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On March 12, 1982, Sterling made a written complaint regarding the incident and also accused Scott of repeatedly making racist remarks and refusing to perform assigned duties for minority officers. Because Soucy was not in his office, she took the letter directly to his supervisor, Lt. Donaldson, who walked her to Chief Bouza's office where she repeated her


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Soucy sent a letter to Scott advising her of the seriousness of the incident and asking her to respond to the allegations. He and Donaldson met with Scott the following Monday at which time she flatly denied the accusations. At the same time, Internal Affairs took statements from Hilde, Soucy, Scott, and Sterling, but turned the matter back to the division for internal resolution because they were unable to corroborate the allegations. On April 8, 1982, Soucy sent a letter to both Scott and Sterling informing them that there was insufficient evidence to pursue the matter.
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After a hearing, convened by Farrell and attended by both Scott and Sterling on May 4, 1982, Farrell made a written report to Chief Bouza on May 5th in which he stated that "the unsubstantiated allegations made *238 by Diane had acquired a degree of credibility because of the information learned from the officers * * *." He recommended that Scott be reprimanded for her racially offensive remarks and attitude toward


then went on medical leave from mid-July until September 2, 1982. After returning from leave, she was transferred back to B shift, effective October 1, 1982, and continued on that shift throughout her employ by the MPD.
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are extending the project to include all 60 of its churches.

As well as training all churches in the Diocese on the CCT approach, they will use the course as a platform to deliver training on some of the more specific challenges communities face, to: improve livelihoods, prepare for disasters, reduce the transmission of and stigma surrounding HIV, and help communities advocate with local government.

Project impact

The Diocese of Kitgum is already leading 28 churches through CCT. Through this project, they will increase that total to 60. They will also extend the training to Diocesan staff and will begin teaching the material in the local theological college.

The project will also be active in the following areas:

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people in the first eight years. The Tax Policy Center analyzed the tax bill and concluded that most taxpayers at all income levels would get a tax cut in the years 2018 through 2025. As written, some of the individual tax benefits would expire and as a result, by 2027 more than half of taxpayers would pay higher taxes.

Tax Policy Center, Dec. 20: We find the bill would reduce taxes on average for all income groups in both 2018 and 2025. In general, higher income households receive larger average tax cuts as a percentage of after-tax income, with the largest cuts as a share of income going to taxpayers in the 95th to 99th percentiles of the income distribution. On average, in 2027 taxes would change little forRousseau's Turban

Sometime in 1731, a struggling young would-be musician calling himself Vaussore de Villeneuve spent his last few pennies on a meager supper at an inn in rural Switzerland. The world would later know him by one of the greatest names of the 18th century: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

He glanced enviously over at the hearty meal being consumed nearby by another traveler, a man with an ample beard, furred cap and violet robe—an Orthodox monk or archimandrite. The priest, whose name was Athanasius Paulus, from the Ottoman city of Jerusalem, gestured to his neighbor to share his meal.

They soon discovered that they could converse in a kind of corrupted Italian, the lingua franca in many parts of the Levant. Athanasius, who was traveling through the cantons of Switzerland raising funds


for—depending on his audience—restoration of the Holy Sepulcher or the ransom of Christian captives, proposed that Villeneuve join him to help present his case more eloquently in French. Feckless, friendless and traveling under his pseudonym, Rousseau accepted. After a series of fundraising missions across Switzerland and in neighboring countries, the pair planned to travel on through Germany and Poland toward Jerusalem.

If this young man, who would become known as one of the great minds of the Age of Enlightenment, had gone east with Athanasius, the history of European philosophy would not have been the same.

Instead, Rousseau chose to follow a road toward Paris. There, seeing by chance an announcement of an essay competition at the Academy of Dijon, he was struck with a radical idea: the “arts andsciences” of which Europe was so proud, he decided, had brought more misery than progress to its people by alienating them from natural goodness. He decided to enter the competition.

His controversial Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, signed with his real name, won him the academy’s prize. It signaled the start of a career that made him the most talked-about writer in late 18th-century Europe and a crucial figure of the intellectual crisis we call the Enlightenment.

What can this tell us about the relationship of Islam to the European Enlightenment? Rousseau might seem a poor candidate for such a question. His great works were novels like La Nouvelle Héloise and Émile, his autobiographical Confessions, and groundbreaking political essays like his 1762 “On the Social Contract.” He never traveled


born in Istanbul, he argued, he would have become a Muslim: To him, religion was in many ways an arbitrary result of geography. He argued for a tolerance that allowed individuals to make choices according to conscience while channeling their spirituality into civil society. Rousseau was not a proponent of the separation of church and state: He believed in a civic religion that could transcend sectarian divisions, and he admired the Prophet Muhammad’s ability to unite and lead his people.

What Rousseau’s writings reveal is not a hostile encounter with an “Other” he saw as fundamentally different, but rather a whole set of observations that he drew from his personal experiences and those of his family, experiences across a world that was not so easily divided into separate Christiandependent on the generosity of others and often too proud to accept it.

The Watchmaker of Istanbul

Even before his birth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s path was already marked by a world in motion. His father, Isaac Rousseau, from a refugee French Protestant family in Switzerland, married a young woman named Suzanne Bernard. Soon after the wedding, he left his pregnant wife and traveled to Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, where he worked as a watchmaker to the Ottoman elite. Evidence suggests that such decisions were relatively common in the first decade of the 18th century. Markets were saturated at home, so Swiss artisans had to look outward to the world.

PHOTO BY CHRIS BERTRAM

The inscription at the bottom of this plaque, produced in 1912 in commemoration of the bicentenary of


Rousseau’s birth, translates “Jean Jacques! Love your country”—and yet his father had found his career in Istanbul, and at age 15, Jean-Jacques ran away from home in Geneva to Italy.

Isaac’s brother André went to Amsterdam; his uncle Jacob moved to London; and his brother-in-law Gabriel Bernard left for Venice, and then for Charlestown in the American colony of Carolina. His cousin Jacques, also a watchmaker, accompanied the embassy sent by the French government of Louis XIV to Persia and established himself permanently in Isfahan. Jacques’s son Jean-François Rousseau, raised speaking ﬂuent Turkish and Farsi and studying Arabic and Armenian, became the French consul at Basra. He was said to resemble Jean-Jacques so much that on his first visit to Paris some thought Jean-Jacques had returned from the grave,wearing magniﬁcent eastern robes.

Istanbul, the most populous city in Europe—some 40 times the size of Geneva and even one and half times larger than Paris—was the wealthy and ﬂourishing capital of an empire that straddled Europe, Asia and Africa. Goods passed through the city from across the Ottoman Empire, Persia and India, and even as far as China and Japan. We know little of Isaac’s life there, but seven years is a long time to stay away from his family. Istanbul had just been restored deﬁnitively as the Ottoman capital, and the new Sultan, Ahmed III, would transform the city into a capital of leisure and consumption in what has been celebrated as the “Tulip Era.” In comparison to dour Geneva, this expanding, exciting city must have been


that we need when grown up, is given us by education. This education comes to us from nature itself, or from other men, or from circumstances,” Rousseau wrote in Émile, or On Education, published in 1762, in which his main character ultimately finds his deepest insights amid the social mobility of Algiers.

Jean-Jacques too was introduced quite brutally to the itinerant life. Aged just 14, apprenticed to a watchmaker, he found himself one night locked outside the city gates of Geneva. Faced with punishment, he took the precipitous decision to run away. Renouncing not only his residence but also the Protestantism in which he had been raised, he traveled to Annecy in the Savoy region, then part of Italy, where he converted to Catholicism. In the house of Madamede Warens, his protector and later paramour, he found some refuge, but in time grew resentful of her other suitors. Envying the urbane manners of a Parisian music master at the house, Rousseau stole his name, Villeneuve, and appended it to an anagram of Rousseau:

“Vaussore.” This is how he found himself sharing a meal on the road with the archimandrite.

It was during the pair’s sojourns in the Swiss town of Soleure that Rousseau-as-Villeneuve—who was also claiming falsely to be a Parisian—was summoned to meet the Marquis de Bonnac, former ambassador to Istanbul and now French ambassador in Switzerland. Rousseau poured out his story to this cultivated man, and then with even greater effect to the ambassador’s wife, ﬁnding for the ﬁrst time the kind of audience that would


era. It has been credited with inventing a new conception of childhood and criticized for its emphasis on separate spheres for men and women. It is one of the books that form the intellectual basis of contemporary Western civilization. Most editions, however, leave out the ﬁnal, uncompleted volume, entitled Émile and Sophie. Yet this volume is the most interesting of all: Émile leaves the European setting, and he ﬁnds the realization of his education in North Africa.

An engraving for an early 19th-century edition of the book serves as a visual metaphor for the larger European “Enlightenment” that Rousseau’s ideas helped drive.

In the last (and incomplete) chapters, Rousseau has Émile, disgusted by society and the breakdown of his relationship with Sophie, leave France by ship. En route to Naples,need fear neither caprice nor wickedness.” The idea of the “generous Turk” soon became a familiar one, used in theater and operas like Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio (1782). But here it was not accompanied by any of the romantic trappings of Orientalism. Rousseau rejected the exoticism of the “Arabian Nights”—pirates, harems and sultans—for a surprisingly rationalist conception of Algerian society.

As Émile’s fame spreads, he is called into the service of the dey, or ruler, of Algiers, Assem Oglou, who, the narrator reports, “had arrived in the position of supreme power by the most honorable route that could take him there: from a simple sailor, passing through all the ranks of the navy and the army, he was raised step by step to the highest functions of the


state, and on the death of his successor he was elected to succeed him through the unanimous suffrage of the Turks and the Moors, the men of war and the men of the law.”

Rousseau’s tale indeed reﬂected recent events in Algiers, where a new dey, Muhammad ben Othman, had come to power in 1766 under circumstances similar to those described in the tale. Algiers was unusual in that its ruler was elected through the acclamation of the militia, just as Rousseau suggested. But Rousseau’s interest in Algiers lay more in the example it offered of the radical social mobility that he, like other European philosophers, considered to be an essential element of Eastern “despotic” societies. Aristocratic writers such as Montesquieu or Voltaire saw this as a ﬂaw, arguingof society, no matter how rich or poor. This new idea of a society shared by all, and not just by the rich and powerful, helped drive the French Revolution and the modern Western conception of social justice.

Rousseau’s “Salamaleki”

If Rousseau only accomplished his journey to the Muslim world in a fictional guise, this was not his only experiment with cultural difference. When he was forced to ﬂee over the Swiss border after the publication of Émile—whose radical ideas on religion had proved too much for the French authorities to tolerate—he decided to adopt a new manner of dressing, forsaking the wig, breeches and waistcoat of court fashion for the long loose robe and round cap of Ottoman attire. He complained that bladder problems made a tight-ﬁtting garment unsuitable,


but he could easily have adopted other, more conventional styles: the shepherd’s frock, the kilt, the toga or the priest’s soutane.

Late in his 66-year life, Rousseau cultivated an interest in botany, gathering and classifying herbs around Ermenonville, France, often collaborating with the noted pharmacist and botanist Fusée Aublet.

Rousseau’s choice of Armenian dress was not caprice or exoticism, but a deliberate and meaningful act that conveyed much about his understanding of himself. In his Confessions, Rousseau reported the hostile reactions from the surrounding Swiss populace.

I had a little Armenian wardrobe made for me, but the storm excited against me made me defer its use to better times, and it was only several months later that, when new attacks forced me once again to use catheters, I decided I mightcarrying with him several letters of patent from European royalty and church ofﬁcials. When these letters were discovered to be forgeries, he was tried before the court of aldermen in Bosch, convicted of collecting money on false pretenses and hanged with the forged documents nailed above the gallows.

Ultimately, then, Athanasius did not follow the path to Jerusalem any more than did young Vaussore de Villeneuve, the vagabond with a remarkable destiny whom he stumbled upon in his journey. Through a random act of generosity in offering a hungry young man a bite to eat, this otherwise unremarkable charlatan burst for a moment onto the stage of modern history.

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At Paris’s Louvre museum, a statue now honors the writer whose thoughts were once so controversial


he had to flee France.

Rousseau’s wandering path was also signiﬁcant in shaping what we consider today to be the “West.” His intimate world was peopled by the in-betweens of that larger cultural space: his father, Isaac, regretting his return to Geneva while his relatives settled happily in Persia; the colorful household at Môtiers with the Turkish refugee Emetulla; the ill-fated, double-dealing archimandrite; the cosmopolitan Marshall in exile from Scotland; and even Rousseau’s alter egos— Vaussore, who was ready to tread the path to the East, and fictional Émile, who found the fullest realization of his rules of conduct as a slave in Algiers. These crisscrossing cultural paths through Europe and neighboring Islamic lands were woven into the writings and ideas that Rousseau never tried to separate from hislife, and in this sense they speak today with insight and clarity to our contemporary world his thought helped to create.

Ian Coller, Ph.D., is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Born in Australia, he previ-ously taught at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, Australia. His prizewinning book "Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831" was published in 2011 by the University of California Press. He is currently working on a history of the French Revolution and Islam.

Written by Tristan Rutherford
Photographs and video by Rebecca Marshall

“If you imagine French cuisine as a tree,” says food historian Emmanuel Perrodin, “the leaves are in Paris, but the roots reside in Marseille”—fed by 2,600 years of migrations from the Mediterranean and beyond.

Of six


Del Rio Challenges John Cena For WWE Title, Cena At Washington Nationals Game

Thanks to site contributor Mark for sending the following tidbit in: Friday night at the Washington Nationals game, John Cena had two taped segments on the big screen where he was training Teddy Roosevelt to try to win the President’s race for the first time. They were in a weight room working out while Cena was yelling at him to push harder. Cena was at Nationals Park a few days ago to promote the PPV on the big screen and must have taped this then.

During the WWE Games community interview, Alberto Del Rio challenged John Cena to match at WWE SummerSlam this August in Los Angeles. This has long been rumored, and with the challenge beingLawrence himself, who writes: "I fear that by framing the debate as we have––as one in which the liberty of free speech is in conflict with the elimination of racism––we have advanced the cause of racial oppression and placed the bigot on the moral high ground, fanning the rising flames of racism." He does not intend it as such, but I read this passage as a harsh rebuke to the movement itself. As the critical race theory manifesto acknowledges, "This debate has deeply divided the liberal civil rights/civil liberties community." And so it has. It has created hostility between old allies and fractured longtime coalitions. Was it worth it? Justice Black's words may return, like the sound of an unheeded tocsin, to haunt us: "Another such victory and


schools across the city.

"It's not popular to raise fees to pay for something," Emanuel said. "But there's a number of schools on the Northwest Side that will need additions ... and thanks to the 2015 budget, we were able to make one of our largest investments right here in this area."

With more than 700 students in a building only built to teach 420, Prussing is a poster child for chronic school overcrowding on the Far Northwest Side. Between annexes at Oriole Park Elementary School and Wildwood Elementary School, and a $75 million freshmen campus just announced for Taft High School, CPS is increasingly turning to construction as a remedy for congestion.

Prussing's annex will likely be similar to Wildwood's, with six classrooms, a lunch room and a "multi-purpose room,"funding from the Portage Park TIF district.

Next to the sports field will be a public green space operated by the Chicago Park District.

• Farnsworth Elementary School, 5414 N. Linder Ave., will also get a turf field, thanks to a grant from the city's water management department and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.

• Hitch Elementary School, 5625 N. McVicker Ave., will have its grass field and surrounding track replaced by a turf field.

Officials are aiming to have all the work completed in time for the 2018-19 school year, Arena said.


movement condition, as well as 40 target trials (half of these occurred with the female face, the other half with the male face).

![**Examples of apparent motion face stimulus conditions**. Display changes were embedded within a continuously present Baseline condition, and these task irrelevant gaze changes were Blink, Eye Closure, Upward, Leftward. A checkerboard pattern superimposed upon the baseline condition face was presented infrequently and served as the Target stimulus. The resulting display produced an apparent motion effect where the eyes on the face were altered across the various conditions which each had a 100 ms duration, with the exception of the Blink whose duration was 33 ms. The example depicts the female face. A male face was also used in the experiment.](fnhum-05-00068-g001){#F1}

All video stimuli were presented using PresentationGrael and Marcelo Ferreira won Star class. It was the first medal of Robert Scheidt and the third medal of Torben Grael; both sailors are the onliest Brazilian athletes with the record of five olympic medals ( two of them are gold ). Besides the two gold medals, a bronze medal was also obtained in sailing by Torben's brother Lars Grael and Kiko Pellicano in Tornado class.

Brazil women's national basketball team, led by Hortência Marcari, Janeth Arcain and Maria Paula Silva, had a great performance, losing the gold medal match to host country United States women's national basketball team. It was the first medal won by women in Basketball.

The swimmer Gustavo Borges obtained the silver medal in men's 200 metre freestyle and the bronze medal in 100 metre


March 8, 2016

An Interview with Semi Chellas of Mad Men

Semi Chellas is a writer and co-executive producer for the acclaimed television series Mad Men. The Emmy-nominated writer studied English at Cornell as a Mellon fellow, and on March 10 will be returning to campus to speak at Klarman Hall. In anticipation of her lecture, “Telling Secrets: Notes from the Writers’ Room,” the Sun had a chance to speak with Chellas about her experiences writing for Mad Men and her opinions on the television industry in general.

The Sun: What are the day-to-day operations like working in the writers’ room?

Semi Chellas: There were about 10 to 12 people in the writing room, including two advertising people — i.e. not advertisers for the show but people who worked in advertising —numerous accolades, the one by which I was most impressed was that she was the writer of the first and only screenplay to ever be published by Cornell’s reputed Epoch magazine — and it was the first screenplay she had ever written. Perhaps this is an indication of someone who truly has an instantly-recognizable talent, a talent that, in Chellas’ case, propelled her towards becoming co-producer and writer for the brilliant, Emmy-winning Mad Men in its fifth season.

ByJustin ParkMarch 13, 2016

Clarification appended
Semi Chellas — writer and executive producer of the television series Mad Men — spoke about her experiences behind the scenes of the Emmy-award winning show Thursday in Klarman Hall. Chellas called her relationship with the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner a “complicated dynamic.” She also described his


bloggers, took pictures and decided to leave Makati through the busy MRT station. Wow. Best thing to end the night. *Kidding!

August 9, 2013: The Makeup Look

I decided to create a makeup look that will serve as my final entry to the Blogger Challenge. I filmed for less than an hour and had good time with the family afterwards. I edited it around 8pm, finished around 1am, but still in need of some minor editing and voice over. I left it undone and slept, since I got school in the morning.

August 10, 2013: Panic Attack

It was a loooong school day that I reached Antipolo around 10pm. I quickly ate my super late dinner and re-read the email about the blogger challenge and surprisingly, the deadline of entries would befound really awesome and fab at the same time. After that game, the program begun with a dance number from an all male Korean cover group. They were extremely amazing and I admit, hot.

The program's host was Carla Humphries, who looked stunningly beautiful on her mid-rib corset and sheer, pink tutu skirt.

Then, another dance cover group was introduced and performed who were called the Black Princess. They looked super cute and definitely danced like Korean girl groups.

The first speaker was Ryuji Shiomitsu, who talked about "All for Fashion". From the latest trend to different body types and the perfect clothes for each, he managed to fit every important detail one must know to strut her stuff. The one remarkable line he left on my mind and heart was


made his land speed record attempts. Verneukpan refers to a mirage, which deceived many travellers. We rode down the track aiming at a small hill on the other end, which was used as a landmark during high-speed runs. Following the GPS direction we were forced off the track at about ⅔ distance to locate 30S 21E less than a kilometer to the north of the track.

The journey started in Cape Town covering 900 miles (1400 km) over three days on three BMW R1150GS motorcycles. Over 700 miles (1100 km) were spent negotiating remote dirt roads. An awesome adventure.careers

* Rocket Lab to launch satellite-destruct system

Cordwell, who is studying science physics and mathematics, said the internship would be an exciting and incredible opportunity, with space industry poised to take off in this country.

MONIQUE FORD/STUFF University of Auckland students Lara Collier, 20, and Amelia Cordwell, 19 say they will be applying for the Nasa International Internships Programme.

"We'll see more space opportunities in New Zealand become more accessible."

The Nasa internship agreement is accompanied by a new scholarship from the New Zealand Space Agency, which sits within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

The New Zealand Space Scholarship would be available for up to four applicants to cover participation, airfares, accommodation and other expenses.

Applications will be accepted from September 10 for Nasa's June 2019 internship session.

Economic Development Minister David Parker


said this country was well positioned to become a "hub" for new space activities.

The experience of interring for Nasa could inspire someone to become an astronaut, or follow in the footsteps of great Kiwi scientist Sir William Pickering, who led the effort to put the first US satellite in orbit, Parker said.

MONIQUE FORD/STUFF US Ambassador Scott Brown and Economic Development Minister David Parker announced the partnership between Nasa and New Zealand on Monday.

The agreement also strengthened this country's connection with global space networks, he said.

US Ambassador Scott Brown said the Nasa partnership represented a leap forward in US-New Zealand cooperation.

"When I speak to the [Trump] administration, and all of my former colleagues, I say: 'the biggest opportunity is in New Zealand. Farming's great, but it's space'."

He hoped thatFrance liberates Jesus Phone from Orange

Liberté, égalité, l'iPhone disponibilité

On 18 September, French mobile-phone carrier Bouygues Telecoms complained to the country's competition council, charging that the agreement between Apple and Orange - the main brand of France Telecom - violates basic principles of competition.

Today, the competition council - the Conseil de la concurrence - agreed with Bouygues, a much smaller Orange competitor, and ordered that that exclusivity be immediately suspended, with the result that any French carrier, according to the ruling, is now able to offer l'iPhone.

According to CNNMoney.com, the council's reasoning was that the exclusive deal between Apple and Orange "by nature introduces a new factor of rigidity in a sector that already lacks competition." (A French-language PDF of the 48-page decision is available here).

The ruling is a


you to see this film, in fact.) As Hiro develops a bond with the helpful, huggable robot, he learns both of his need for friendship as well as his own true potential as an innovator. Soon the pair finds themselves investigating a mystery, and the truth they uncover is much darker than expected.

Hiro's discovery blinds him with grief and rage. Suddenly, he no longer sees Baymax as his friend and helper, but as his means for revenge. Hiro's story up to this point parallels that of the film's villain, whose own grief and rage leads him to violence and hatred. He resolves that the only way to make up for what he has lost is to make someone else feel that same loss.

As I write this, my heartTHE way Victoria offered religious education was ''not on'', the Christian curriculum was ''crap'' and the education department was ill equipped to stand up to religious ''bullies'', according to Melbourne priest and academic Professor Gary Bouma.

And former High Court judge Michael Kirby said secular ethics classes should be offered to children who do not want to do religious education.

The Sunday Age reported last weekend that the education department was forcing individual schools to offer religious education, even if they were unwilling. About 96 per cent of ''special religious education'' offered in Victoria is by Christian volunteers.

But Professor Bouma, a sociologist at Monash University and the UNESCO chairman of Interreligious and Intercultural Relations, as well as an Anglican priest at Saint John's church, East Malvern, said students should be


taught about all religions. If children were being taught in a particular religion, all faiths should be offered, and parents should have to consciously opt in, he said. ''So if there are three Baha'i people who want it in school X, then they should be able to get it,'' said Professor Bouma, a co-author of the recent Human Rights Commission report, Freedom of Religion and Belief in 21st Century Australia.

Professor Bouma described the Christian curriculum developed by Access Ministries as ''just appalling''. ''Now, unfortunately, most of the Christians out there trying to train the next generation are putting them off with the kind of crap they serve,'' he said.

Justice Kirby, also an Anglican, said he was happy with the ''opt out'' model of religious education, but said thatnaturally dirty blonde hair.
Alex was driving his black whatever it is. I was in the front, Zack was
playing his gameboy in the back. None of this really matters. We were
almost to Jai's.
We pulled up and parked in one of the available spots on the side
of her apartment building, as we saw her come around the corner to meet
us. It was about seven o'clock at night, slightly dark, leaves blowing
across the parking lot, a beautiful fall night. She was wearing a black
hoody, and a pair of blue jeans. A tight, low pair of blue jeans.
I started to get things out of the car as she walked up and said hello,
hugged Alex, then turned to hug Zack. My hands were full and she came
towards me, crap. I said, "I can't"
Then


and her and her boyfriend's room right at the end of the hallway.
She told us that her boyfriend would be gone for a week to visit
his family, and that we could stay the whole week if we wanted. Didn't
sound like a bad idea to me, because I didn't have anything to do, and
Derrek was going to be working a ton of hours this week and not have much
free time, well free time he wasn't sleeping.
I couldn't stop secretly watching her.
I watched her walk down the hallway to her room, staring at the
tightness in the back of those jeans. I watched her talk, looking into her
eyes and watching her cute facial expressions, like this cute thing she
does with her bottom lip. I watched her curl up into the cornerof the
couch, and dreamt that I could curl up right next to her and just hold her,
comfort her and be there for her.
Zack sat at the other end of the couch, Alex and I were on the futon. We
talked and horsed around, she ordered pizza. Pizza Hut is the greatest. I
loved her for that, no, I love her in general. But it helps.
So many times I just wanted to walk up to her, put her hair behind her ear,
lace my hands into hers, look her in the eyes and kiss her. Bring her hands
back down around me and rest mine on her lower back, look her in the eyes
again and kiss her, and kiss her, and kiss her.
The thought gave me chills, and I completely lost track of


leave that spot, I just wanted to stay there with her, and hold her.
She pulled away, her lips still pertruding, and her eyes closed. It
was so adorable. I kissed her on the cheek and smiled.
"Was that okay? I'm sorry." She pulled me back in for a longer
deeper kiss. I felt chills, I don't know if they were mine or hers. I was
hoping both. I rested my hand on her side and slowly moved it up under her
tang top, caressing her side and stomache ever so gently. She didn't stop
me. I ran my fingers along her back and resisted the urg to take her top
off. She was braless under there, and I so badly just wanted to touch
them. But I didn't. I got this far, I didn't want topiss her off.
We kept kissing, I'd pull away for a moment and kiss her neck, and
shoulders then her hands. She'd pull me back into the kiss if it was taking
too long for me to get back up there. She pulled me back and kissed then
nibbled my ear, a weak spot. I wanted her, all of her, right there. I
started kissing her lower neck, and upper chest without seeing too
much. Though, I wanted to, I wanted to see them, I wanted to feel them, and
most of all I wanted to taste them.
She pulled me back into the kiss when Alex knocked slightly and
opened the door.
"Jai, you awake?" I know he saw us in a kiss before we pushed
apart. I could see a slight smirk on his moonlit face. "Oh,


nevermind, I'll
let you sleep." He was not hiding the saracasm and the smile in his
voice. He shut the door, and walked out. Jai and I giggled, and the next
thing we heard was, "Yeah, she was sleeping."
We laughed a little again. And I kissed her one last time, for the
night. "We should go to sleep" she said.
"Yeah, I guess so." I agreed, slightly disappointed but still in
awe. She rolled back over, her back to me, and I put my arms around her and
hugged her close. I thought to myself, "I'll be dreaming well tonight." I
smiled, and we both drifted off into peaceful sleep.
CHAPTER 3
I awoke to sunlit room around nine thirty, Jai still in my arms,
sheets still at the bottom of the bed. She's even more adorable when she
sleeps,I
sadly knew this had to end, at least for now. I kissed her cheek. "Jai?" I
moved my hands to her shoulders, "Jai, hun, it's almost ten, I know you
mentioned you wanted to go out to breakfast this morning."
"Mmm?" She had awaken, kind of.
She rolled over and looked me in the eyes. I wanted to kiss her. I
was at a perfect spot to do so, her on her back, me on my side propped up
with my right arm, god. "Morning beautiful" I said with a smile. She smiled
back and closed her eyes. I moved in slightly to see if she would let me
kiss her.
She opened her eyes tilted her head in my direction, said in a
tired soft voice, "Hey, adorable." I smiled and got closer, slightly
parting my lips, I


kissed her very softly, lovingly. I slowly pulled up and
away. She smiled, she welcomed it. Last night wasn't the only chance I
had. I was excited now, more than earlier, with hopes of what could happen.
When we walked out of the bedroom, all was quiet, well except for
the sound of the tv left on a low volume. Alex and Zack were still asleep,
or so I thought. We went into the kitchen, to get something to drink. I
walked up behind her and put my hands around her waist, and kissed the back
of her neck while she was getting glasses for us. "Ali, that tickles" she
giggled, "Maybe we should hide what happened."
"Jai, Alex already knows and he won't say anything, other than that
I agree with you."
Alex walked through the doorway,"Yes Iwrite more here later.)
We got back to the apartment around 2:30, chilled out, talked,
played guitar hero watched tv. At one point me and Jai started wrestling,
because Alex wanted to know who was stronger. This was not girl wrestling,
but we weren't trying to hurt each other. Jai and I are tough girls.
We were basically all around the apartment, Zack and Alex
laughing. I got up behind her, grabbed her hands turned her around, pushed
her to the ground forceful but gentle and pinned her. I was sitting right
below her stomache, she bit her lip and flipped me over catching me off
guard. But if I didn't know better she enjoyed me pinning her as much as I
enjoyed her pinning me.
I wanted so bad to grab her, with her legs wrapped around my


Jai. She's done similiar things to
me before.
She pulled a cover over us, because she was cold. Yes!, i
thought. I put my arms around her waist, and she scooted lower resting the
back of her head on my upper chest.
We watched two movies, I don't recall the titles and it's not like
it matters. I was daydreaming about her most of the time anyway. Zack had
passed out in the middle of the second one. Which doesn't make sense, Zack
doesn't sleep and it was only 10ish. A little after realizing that, she
pulled her legs up against her chest and I ran my fingers down her
hamstrings. I pulled my legs up around hers also, so we were pretty much
wrapped in each other.
Alex was yawing, "I'm tired"
"Alex its only like 10 o'clock" I said.
"Yeahbut we stayed up late last night playing a game, and I don't
want to waste medicine and stay up that much longer. I think I'll pass out
when this movie is over.
Jai, said "Aw, okay, well you can have the couch, since Zack passed
out on the Futon. Here we will switch you."
Sure enough by the end of the movie he was out like a light. Part
of me thought he was just making excuses so me and Jai could be alone
longer, but he was actually passed out. Jaiden turned the tv to comedy
central after the movie was over, and turned the tv down slightly. "You
wanna watch TV?" She whispered.
"No not really"
"Wanna head to my room, and talk?" I nodded.
Again, I watched her head to the room and I followed in


word?"
"Uh, Yes."
"Kay"
I scooted up behind her, and put my hands on her shoulders, rubbing
them. then i started bringing both of my hands in a line one over the
other, then back up. I massaged her neck, upper and lower. I moved my hands
to her shoulders and upper arms, then down the small of her back, which was
slightly showing. I put my right hand up the the back of her shirt. Skin to
skin massages feel better. She indeed was not wearing a bra. I continued
massaging for about a half an hour, when she turned to look at me.
"Damn that feels so good."
I smiled, "Now if only I can get you to say that during sex."
"You brat" I got softly smacked.
"You thought it was funny." She kissed me. I pulled back,turned on and irritated at that statement, she
flipped me over. She started going down my body, sliding her teeth along my
chest and stomach. She bit my right nipple softly and that made me arch.
She reached between my legs, and when she pressed I realize how wet I
really was. "Wow" is all she said. She pulled my pajamas off, and revealed
that I too, was wearing black. Those came off as well. She said, "I'm not
as beautiful as you."
"Bull crap Jai." She licked it up and down, me grasping the sheets
with my hands out to the side. I was trying to not make a noise. It's
usually easy for me. My head was going back, my back was arching. "Jai, uh,
I hope you're, Ohh, having fun, because, god, I'm lost in


bliss." I tried
to look down but couldn't, she pushed her tongue inside like I had before,
and my head was thrown back immediately.
She started gently licking, and slowly teased her finger on the
outside of the opening. "Hey Ali?"
"Hmm?" I said biting my lip hard. She didn't say anything, and the
next thing I know I'm struggling to keep quiet as she pushed two fingers
inside. In and out, in and out, as she continued to lick the outer part.
"Fuck" I said in a hard to contain whisper. She sucked at it for a little
bit, then crawled back up my body.
She went right to my ears, and sucked at the left ear lobe. "Ali,
are you ready to cum yet." She whispered "Cus, I'm not ready to let you."
She backed away slightly andThat image before sleep
would be so incredible.
I kept going, I heard my name muffled through the pillow. I slowed
down a little bit to tease her. I reached my hands up to rub her legs,
while I buried my tongue inside. Her leg muscles tightened extremely. I
moved it in and out and wrapped her legs around my shoulders. I scrunched
her body up a little bit, and reached up for the soft mounded beauty that
is her chest. I thumbed her nipples gently.
I looked up, the pillow was gone. She was biting her lip now. I let
her legs go back down on the bed, and went up to kiss her, then the middle
of her chest, and stomache, inner thigh then back to the other lips. I
pushed 3 fingers inside, as I watched


Now at that point I didn't
know if she was mocking me from the massage or it really felt that damn
good. I think it was both. And I had no problem with that.
"Oh, Jai," I was getting close, "Cum for me Jai." Her breathing was
getting harder, she was close too. She was moaning, shallow breath. I was
sighing.
It was getting hard for me to keep my hand moving. She started
bucking her hips to meet me. I felt her muscles, she was going to.. "Fuck!,
Ali, uh, oo, god." She kept trying to look at me, but couldn't, her head
kept going back.
"Oh, Jai" I sighed. I was cumming too. I bit her inner thigh softly
containing my sounds.
I watched her chest rise and fall, and went up there to hold her
while our breathingwent down. I kissed her forehead. "Any good?"
"Damn Ali, that's what I've been missing?"
I smiled, and nodded. "Apparently"
We laid there for a while, naked in each others arms, when she
decided we should get dressed. I didn't want to, but I knew we had to. We
both had gotten our lower clothes on and as she reached for her shirt, I
walked up to her, and put her hair behind her ear. I laced my hands into
hers, looked her in the eyes and kissed her. I brought her hands back down
around me and rested mine on her lower back. I looked her in the eyes again
and kissed her, and kissed her, and kissed her.
I pulled her into a tight hug, and held her. Without saying
anything, I let her get back to


and characteristics of planets around other stars.

"We're ecstatic," says David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and leader of one of the research teams. "We've been hunting for this light for almost 10 years."

Charbonneau's group used the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Array Camera to home in on the light from TrES-1, a "hot Jupiter" zipping around a Sun-like star about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. The astronomers tracked the intensity of two infrared "colors" as the planet passed behind its star, an event called secondary eclipse. The team subtracted the star's radiation from the total seen when the planet was not eclipsed by the star.

Measuring the gas giant's infrared radiation allowed the team to calculate its temperature — a sizzling 1,450°Jupiter in a tight orbit. "Spitzer has done some wonderful and amazing things," Boss says.

Boss sees a glowing future as observers using Spitzer and next-generation space telescopes, such as the Terrestrial Planet Finder coronagraph, gain the ability to detect light not just from gas giants but from Earth-size planets as well. "This discovery shows that we are well along the way to combining astronomy and biology into the new science of astrobiology," Boss says, "with the ultimate goal being to search for life beyond Earth."

Robert Adler is a freelance science writer living in Santa Rosa, California. He is the author of Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation (Wiley & Sons, 2002).


The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Spathiphyllum plant botanically known as Spathiphyllum Schott. and hereinafter referred to by the cultivar name ‘Sweet Roberta’.
‘Sweet Roberta’ is a hybrid that originated from the hybridization of the female or seed parent a proprietary Spathiphyllum Schott. identified as 96338-63 (not patented) and the male or pollen parent a proprietary Spathiphyllum Schott. identified as 96361-5 (not patented). The cultivar ‘Sweet Roberta’ was selected by the inventor in September of 1999 as a single plant within the progeny of the stated cross in Honselersdijk, The Netherlands.
Asexual reproduction by tissue culture of the new cultivar ‘Sweet Roberta’ was first performed in 2000 in Honselersdjik, The Netherlands. Since that time, under careful observation, the unique characteristics of the new cultivar haveillumination profile, depends on a number of variables, the most important of which is the mercury vapor pressure within the lamp. The internal aggregate mercury vapor pressure is controlled by the coldest spot in the lamp referred to as the cold spot. Spatial illumination changes occur as mercury responds to localized temperature changes by moving back and forth between the cold spot and the internal walls of the lamp. In addition to the cold spot temperature, there are other operating conditions which cause a fluorescent lamp to exhibit a large and unpredictable temporal and spatial variability in its illumination output profile. Factors contributing to the instability directly or indirectly influence mercury pressure stability and are caused by: temporal variations in the cold spot temperatures, changes in the mercury/phosphor


states. Following a normal operation, and a return to standby, the mercury in the lamp tends to stick to the interior walls of the lamp rather than return to the desired cold spot location. The greater the difference between the operating temperature profile and the lower standby temperature profile, the greater is the tendency for the mercury concentration at the envelope walls and in the discharge area of the lamp envelope to change. These changes correlate directly with the deleterious time-varying changes in the illumination output of the lamp. While in the prior art, heat is supplied by a heater blanket to maintain the lamp above the temperature of the cold spot in standby, there is no provision to insure that the heater blanket does not turn offwhen the lamp is fully powered up since in the power-on mode, the lamp typically runs much hotter than in standby. This is especially true for high power lamps. In such cases the temperature exceeds the blanket temperature control point and electrical energy to the blanket is shut off. This produces a significant difference in the temperature profile along the lamp wall between the standby and run operating states. In standby mode, the profile and upper temperature is defined by the blanket; in the run mode by the lamp. There is a time varying temperature change during critical periods when changing between the standby and power-on states. The resulting changes in lamp wall temperature causes changes in localized mercury vapor pressure and a corresponding change in localized illumination.
It


of heat for the right and left sides of the lamp measured from the center point. Compensation for the increased lamp temperature load caused by the filaments is provided by a separate thermostat located on the heater blanket over the filament zones which is designed to shunt the current and therefore, the heat being applied to the heater blanket adjacent the filament areas in an over temperature condition. Use of a shunt rather than a separately powered heater element allows localized over temperature control of the extreme ends of the heater blanket without a separate or special power source to power the small end segments. The need for a special or separate low voltage power source is then eliminated even though the small heaters at the extreme endsMichael Bay explains just what's going on with the umpteenth Ninja Turtles controversy. Tom Hiddleston discusses Loki's future. Jack Gleeson reveals what's ahead for Joffrey on Game of Thrones. Plus Prometheus, Lockout, Awake, Once Upon a Time, Grimm, and more!

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