character with an equally lengthy answer:

Yeah, her duty to her father and her duty to her boyfriend, because she's a real confidant for him. Their intimacy is such an incredible element, and I think that Gwen has been in control her whole life. She's the oldest daughter of a police chief, who is constantly terrified that her father is going to die everyday. She has to have an element of being smart because she has to be. She's a valedictorian because she has to be. She has to take care of things and be responsible for her family and I think that being able to let go and trust somebody who puts themselves in the face of death of everyday, too, that's like, great, now she's drawn toanother person that could die at any moment and she has to keep his secret and pick and choose between her first love which is her father, of course, like every girl. That's the first man in your life and then her first boyfriend. So, it's a pretty complex situation for Gwen, and there's a lot of, I think, sadness and fear in her life combined with the fact that she's outwardly confident and strong and smart and takes no bullshit. She's soft and 17 underneath it all. There's a great source of drama, and Gwen is at the center of this in a lot of ways – there's competing ideas of what's good. These people, everybody's heart is in the right place, but they execute their plans


we'll just have to see."

Prometheus

Here's a new TV spot.

This new cover of Empire shows star Noomi Rapace in her full spacesuit, complete with the just asking to be misinterpreted declaration that she is "The New Ripley!" Just in case there's any uncertainty at this late stage, Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw is just fulfilling the Ripley role in the movie but not actually reprising Sigourney Weaver's character. Check out the link for the photo. [Shock Till You Drop]

Lockout

Here's a new TV spot for the movie in which loose cannon federal agent Guy Pierce saves the President's daughter (Lost's Maggie Grace) from rioting inmates on an outer space prison. [Coming Soon]

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Here are some photos for the pre-apocalyptic comedy starring Steve Carell and Keiracharacter and of a few surprises, but I don't know her name or where she's from. I just told Steven [Moffat] and [producer] Caroline Skinner, 'Don't tell me anything until I need to know it.'"

The titles for episodes twenty through twenty-two, the season's final three episodes, are reportedly "World Apart" and then "End Game" parts one and two. [SpoilerTV]

Game of Thrones

Joffrey actor Jack Gleeson — who I feel it's worth pointing out is by all accounts one of the nicest guys in the world, even though he's phenomenally good at playing an utter creep — reveals what's ahead for the teenage king this season:

"With his coronation, his malicious deeds amplify tenfold. He thinks everyone should say yes to him 'cause he has the right to be where he


device inserted into his neck that leads to his mental breakdown." [TV Line]

Joining him in the episode will reportedly be Revenge actor Roger Bart, described as a fellow Wildermann who looks like Grizzly Adams.

Touch

Here's a sneak peek for this Thursday's episode, "Safety in Numbers."

Here are some promo photos for episode five, "Entanglement", which is due to air April 12. [SpoilerTV]

And here's the official description for the episode:

MARTIN CONNECTS WITH A WOMAN AVENGING THE DEATH OF HER FAMILY ON AN ALL-NEW "TOUCH" THURSDAY, APRIL 12, ON FOX

Martin gets his laptop stolen on the day Jake is scheduled for an important evaluation. As a result, he becomes ensnared in a young Salvadoran woman's quest to avenge the death of her family. Meanwhile, Teller (guest star Danny Glover) tries to reconnectwith his estranged daughter. Also, a spirited Saudi Arabian girl tries to break free of the societal constraints imposed on her and a Montreal doctor attempts to meet a stranger on a train

Revolution

David Lyons, who I don't have to tell any of you was The Cape on The Cape, will reportedly take time out from getting the show those remaining five seasons and a movie to star in J.J. Abrams and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke's show set in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously vanished. He will reportedly play Bass, a role originally meant for Twilight's Billy Burke before Burke was given the lead role instead. I should point out that the show is actually no longer called Revolution, but it's as good a placeholder


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English"Look up to the skies" is a Festive Overture for Wind Band by Michael Zeh. This was commissioned by the Youth Wind Band of the Bietigheim Music School on the occasion of the orchestra trip to the USA in April 2011. Prior to the trip, conductor Ralf Janßen asked his music school teacher and composer Michael Zeh for this solemn composition to open the concert program. The concert piece begins with radiant timbres in a calm and majestic introduction which shows the image of the endless sky. From the point of view from the Earth, the human eye cannot grasp the heavens as a whole - whoever is in space, nor dimension. Michael Zeh used this fascinating fact


as the basis for his composition. He created a constant alternation of powerful, but also light and playful melodic images, which he combined with his conceptions of celestial images: The sight of the night sky, which extends into boundless space and different colours of the daytime sky.The UK public's concern over genetically modified food has softened in the past decade, according to a new survey.

A quarter of Britons are now unconcerned by GM food, compared with 17% nearly a decade ago, when supermarkets debated whether to introduce GM products following widespread public opposition and attacks on GM test fields in the 1990s. The number of people "concerned" about GM has also fallen by 5%, said the Populus survey, commissioned by the British Science Association and published on Friday.

The poll comes as the EU prepares to vote on a Danish-led proposal to allow member states to ban the cultivation of GM crops on a country-by-country basis, with the UK concerned that the proposal will not achieve its aims.

British political support for a new push on


GM is currently at a high watermark, with both agriculture minister Jim Paice telling farmers in January that GM crops could massively help food production, and Labour's shadow environment minister, Mary Creagh, calling for more money for GM research. Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary, said last month that growing GM crops was likely to be considered as part of the solution to the drought currently engulfing much of south-east England. In her first interview when appointed secretary of state in 2010, she signalled the government would be pro-GM, saying "the principle of GM technology is [OK] if used well."

But in 2003, a nationwide debate involving 650 public meetings on whether to introduce GM crops to the UK showed more than half of the population never wanted to seethe crops grown in the UK. The backlash put a brake on hopes by biotech companies and then-prime minister Tony Blair to exploit the technology in the UK.

The new polling shows opposition has weakened, with 15.2% of 2,058 people being "fairly unconcerned" now compared with 6% of 1,363 citizens in 2003. The "very unconcerned" count has remained largely the same, while the proportion of "very concerned" people has dropped from 23.8% to 17.2%.

Europe has had what is effectively a ban on GM crops since 1999, but last year the European Commission paved the way for countries to impose country-by-country bans on the cultivation of crops. As part of the proposal, governments will be asked to be more flexible in authorising crops at EU level. But despite the new


fine (món tiền phạt lớn).

He described the relationship in a book titled “Forbidden Love”, which hits the shelves on Thursday.

“I told myself repeatedly that what I was doing was an act of idiocy (hành động điền cuồng),” wrote Goncalves of his growing affection for the woman, known only as “Emma S” because she was 17 years old when convicted (bị kết án).

“And yet today I have no regrets about that idiocy, despite all the suffering and damage it has caused.”

The affair was exposed (bị lộ ra) in early 2011 and Goncalves was immediately suspended from his job. His partner, who is the mother of their daughter, left him soon after.

But when his illicit lover () was released on bail in September 2011, Goncalves had to come to termswas sentenced to life in prison after judges ruled that (kết luận rằng) the murder was racially motivated (có động cơ kỳ thị chủng tộc).

Emma, who arrived in France in 1998 as an 11-year-old refugee from Iran and was living with her mother, found herself incarcerated (bị tống giam) at a prison in Versailles, south-west of Paris, where Goncalves was governor.

According to Goncalves’s book, the relationship started in 2009, when he began a clandestine correspondence and gave her mobile phone SIM cards, which are illegal in prison.

He went on to describe how the pair fell headlong into a relationship “marked by passion and jealousy” and that they had sexual relations twice while she was incarcerated.

‘Profound personal humiliation’

Despite the relationship’s abrupt end, Goncalves insists that he had acted out


Hollywood baby boom | Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Catriona McGinn

Hollywood baby boom | Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Catriona McGinn

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Mark-Paul Gosselaar and his wife, Catriona McGinn, are now second-time parents. This is the former "Saved by the Bell" star's fourth child and the second for the advertising exec, whom he married in July 2012.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and his wife, Catriona McGinn, are now second-time parents. This is the former "Saved by the Bell" star's fourth child and the second for the advertising exec, whom he married in July 2012. (Jason Merritt / Getty Images for Nintendo)

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and his wife, Catriona McGinn, are now second-time parents. This is the former "Saved by the Bell" star's fourth child and the second for the advertising exec, whom heVicki Caruana

Vicki Caruana's Bio:Vicki Caruana is an educator at both the high school and college level. She is a professor for the college of education at St. Petersburg College and a learning specialist at The Collegiate High School in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has written more than twenty books about education for parents and teachers and is a frequent educational and homeschooling conference speaker. Vicki authored the best-selling book Apples & Chalkdust: Inspirational Stories & Encouragement for Teachers.


CEO Anthem Properties Eric Carlson, and Anthem Construction Kevin Beck. (CNW Group/Anthem Properties Group)

Waterfront is one of Calgary's largest master-planned communities. It is a collection of 10 buildings with more than 1,000 homes. (CNW Group/Anthem Properties Group)

Waterfront is located in Calgary's Eau Claire neighbourhood along the Bow River. The community will be completed in 2018. (CNW Group/Anthem Properties Group)

CALGARY, Oct. 1, 2015 /CNW/ - With Statistics Canada reporting Calgary's unemployment rate is at a five-year high, Western Canadian developer Anthem Properties announced today it is creating valuable new job opportunities by more-than-doubling its workforce for the upcoming phase of Waterfront, one of the city's largest master-planned communities.

"We will create more than 250 direct construction jobs for our next phase of Waterfront in Downtown Calgary," said Eric Carlson, CEOMilitants from the Islamic State parading down a main street in Mosul, Iraq, in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle. AP Reports have emerged that ISIS has executed one of its top administrative officials in Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul for planning a coup against the extremist group.

The Iraq Press news outlet first reported the incident on Monday, saying ISIS had executed Abu Usman al-Hassan — one of the group's commanders and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's representative in the city — on charges of conspiracy, prompting a number of Syrian and Arab fighters to withdraw toward Raqqa in protest of the execution.

"ISIS executed the commander inside Mosul after severe disagreements between him and a number of other commanders," an eyewitness told the outlet.

"He was accused of conspiring against


the 'caliphate state.'"

Meanwhile, a Kurdish official responsible for Mosul affairs described Hassan as a member of ISIS' Mosul Shura Council and one of the top commanders in the city, which the group seized in June 2014.

"He was accused of conspiracy and the ruling against him was put in to action in the Ghazlani Base to the west of Mosul," Saad Mamuzin, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's (KDP) branch for Mosul said.

Mamuzin added that disagreements over distribution of posts and money in the city were the reason behind the execution and had caused confrontations between members of ISIS.

The Erbil-based ARA News also covered the story, reporting that the Mosul official was executed "following rifts between foreign and local [ISIS] militants."

The outlet quoted local sources as saying hewas a "prominent leader and close friend to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi."

ARA news echoed the Iraq Press account that Hassan had been killed for "plotting against the Caliphate"; however, the report said the men under the official's command had been transferred to Raqqa and had not left in protest of his execution.

"Subsequent to the execution of the senior leader Abu Usman Hassan, the group sent nearly 250 fighters, mostly Syrians and from other Arab nationalities, to Raqqa — IS' de facto capital in Syria," a source told the outlet.


Trump accused him of failing to be tougher on leakers.

The creation of rogue Twitter accounts purported to be by employees at the EPA may have also rattled the president.

In the interests of conforming with the latest anti-leak protocols, we can neither CONFIRM nor deny the seemingly well founded allegations. — altEPA (@altUSEPA) September 21, 2017

EPA HATE

The EPA has long been under threat from the Trump administration. As a presidential candidate, Trump claimed he would get rid of the EPA in “almost every form.”

He then appointed climate change denier Scott Pruitt to head the agency. Pruitt sued the EPA in 2015 an effort to block Obama’s Clean Power Plan, one of many times he filed suits against the environmental agency.

Trump's nominee to lead EPA, Scott Pruitt, is a climate

It was early-morning rush hour in London on Thursday, July 7, 2005, when a series of explosions shut down the city’s transport network. At first, the authorities suspected an electricity fault was to blame. But it soon emerged that four Islamist suicide attackers had detonated bombs on three underground trains and a bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700. rush hour in London on Thursday, July 7, 2005, when a series of explosions shut down the city’s transport network. At first, the authorities suspected an electricity fault was to blame. But it soon emerged that four Islamist suicide attackers had detonated bombs on three underground trains and a bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700. The incident, one of the worst terrorist atrocities in


British history, resulted in a major overhaul of policing across the United Kingdom. The government beefed up security, introduced new counterterrorism measures, and retrained first-responders to handle major crises. The attack also reshaped British spy agencies’ tactics and led to a more aggressive use of electronic surveillance – details of which are revealed for the first time in classified documents published today by The Intercept. The documents – from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ – offer a unique insight into how U.K. and U.S. intelligence agencies responded in the aftermath of the London bombings. They reveal how the attackers may have been able to evade detection and disclose the existence of a secret intelligence-sharing agreement designed to enable “unfettered” sharingfrom [Thuraya satellite] handsets that had dialed into London from Iraq.”

The radar domes of RAF Menwith Hill in north Yorkshire dominate the skyline on Oct. 30, 2007, Harrogate, England. Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Analysts at Menwith Hill discovered that “high priority targets … had phoned specific areas in the U.K. from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iraq.” They identified particular calls of interest that appeared to be coming from a compound in the self-governing Azad Kashmir region of northeastern Pakistan. The documents do not state whether a link was proven between these calls and the bombings. However, it was reported in 2012 that a British-born Al Qaeda operative named Rashid Rauf – who lived in Pakistan – helped direct the 2005 attack, which was carried out by four men, three


of whom were born and raised in England, and one of whom was born in Jamaica and brought to England as a young child. The NSA worked closely with GCHQ through the investigation, providing analysis and technical advice on surveillance methods. Twenty-two NSA employees were transferred to a specialist unit to help with the effort, alongside a department called the Counterterrorism Primary Production Center. After three months, the 22 analysts moved on to other operations. But the impact of the London attack continued to be felt across the Western intelligence community. In June 2004, the Five Eyes had negotiated a secret treaty called the Alice Springs Resolution. The arrangement laid out plans for a single surveillance system that each of the five countries’ spies would be able toaccess. The system would be used to share metadata, which reveals information about a communication – such as the sender and recipient of an email, or the phone numbers someone called and at what time – but not the written content of the message or the audio of the call. Analysts would be able to search across all available metadata with a single query. The aim of the Alice Springs Resolution was to “enable unfettered access to metadata repositories among our five agencies,” according to an NSA document. The agreement was personally signed off by the director of each agency, presumably during a meeting held in the Australian town of Alice Springs, which hosts a large surveillance facility. The text of the resolution stated that the new arrangement


F1 - Jean-Eric Vergne reprimanded after missing weighbridge

Lucky to avoid a grid penalty after qualifying

21 April 2012 - 18h24

French rookie Jean-Eric Vergne has been lucky to get away with only a reprimand from the FIA after missing the weighbridge after his qualifying effort in Q1. The Toro Rosso driver suffered an overall disastrous qualifying session for the Bahrain Grand Prix tomorrow, and only managed 19th overall.

After completing his run in Q1, the Frenchman was signaled to enter the weighbridge so the FIA could weigh his car before returning it to the pits. However, Vergne missed the gesticulating FIA official and red light and drove straight on towards his garage.

Luckily for Jean-Eric Vergne, the FIA decided to only reprimand the Toro Rosso driver, with the FIA stating that "uponas a girl. After all, I've played as girls before. In a real way, in my real life, I've been playing as a girl all this time.

Illustration: WIRED, original images courtesy of vgmuseum.com

There weren’t many female characters when I started playing games back in the ’80s, either. Most of them were damsels in distress, like Princess Peach and Zelda, women created to be dangled at the end of levels like 8-bit carrots. But Samus Aran, the armored hero of Metroid, was different. A predecessor of sorts to the countless female gamers who hide their gender online to avoid abuse, the robo-suited Samus was presumed to be male by most players until the twist ending, when she took off her helmet and revealed that she was female.

Samus seemed, to


Raptr recently released its most played games list for October 2015. MMOish titles featured heavily in the list, with Star Wars: The Old Republic posting big gains and World of Warcraft maintaining a comfortable position in the top five. Guild Wars 2 climbed by 10.87% over the previous month, securing the 12th spot in the rankings, while Final Fantasy XIV dropped five spots and 24.31% of monthly game time.

MMO-likes ARK: Survival Evolved and Warframe are also present and accounted for, while MOBAs Dota 2 and League of Legends continued their world domination.

As always, the stats represent only users of the Raptr service, and percentage playtime is calculated relative to other games, so it is possible for a game to sink in relative rankings while actually improving in overallabandoned during development, hence the name orphan. The patient populations were simply too small for the drugs to be financially viable for companies, they said.

Grassley, the senior senator from Iowa, is well positioned to call for changes in the law's incentives. The Judiciary Committee he oversees has jurisdiction over anticompetitive and patent-related issues. Grassley made headlines late last year calling for hearings to demand that drugmaker Mylan justify its price hikes for the lifesaving EpiPen.

Grassley's office has reached out to staff members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, which has jurisdiction over the FDA. When asked this week about a possible update to the law, the committee lauded the Orphan Drug Act for helping millions of families and said it "will continue oversight of the


law to ensure it is working as intended."

But there are questions over whether the law is working as intended. Dr. Robert Califf, who left his post last month as commissioner of the FDA, said it's time to review the orphan drug program and the incentives offered to corporations.

While the law has been very successful in bringing effective treatments to patients with rare disease, Califf said, it's also the case that when a program "reaches a mature phase it's important to reassess it."

Califf went on to say, "It's understandable that whenever you put a financial incentive in place in the United States, people will try to figure out how to take advantage of it — almost all of them within the law. So, I'm not talking about illegal activitybut ... there is a game of cat and mouse that goes on."

Government incentives for orphan drug development are needed because the research involved is costly, risky and uncertain, Anne Pritchett, vice president of policy and research at PhRMA, the drug industry's lobbying group, said in an interview in late 2016. This week, a PhRMA spokeswoman said the group hadn't heard of any movement on changing or updating the Orphan Drug Act.

Dr. Martin Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a vocal critic of the high prices of orphan drugs, has suggested that drugmakers should repay some of the federal incentive money once a drug reaches a $1 billion in annual sales.

Former U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who pioneered the Orphan Drug Act in


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Mayor John Linder on education forum

Hon. Mayor John Linder followed a tight schedule Saturday morning, heading straight from Tree Planting at Sun Village Park, to Eastside Ministries for their Education Collaborative Forum for local residents.

Among the elected officials were CUSD School Board Members Charlie Warren II, Anthony Johnson, and Bettie McClairen, whom all spoke on the importance of community involvement in impacting education legislature on a state level.

Paul Gottlieb, representing the Pennsylvania State Education Association, made a pronounced call to action for the entire audience to create an undeniable presence at the federal courthouse at 6th and Market Streets on May 7th, for the purposes of demonstrating to Judge Baylson the severity of Chester’s financial crisis as it pertains to the school district.

All Board MembersTwo teenagers were fatally stabbed this weekend, and The Sun used their deaths to make a bizarre dig at Premier League footballer Raheem Sterling.

The paper has been waging a strange campaign against Sterling over the last couple of years, along with many other British tabloids. As pointed out by a couple of Twitter users, The Sun in particular seems to have taken an intense dislike to the Manchester City midfielder, publishing various stories criticising him for such inexcusable offences as "earning a lot of money" and "shopping at Primark".

The paper's latest attack is today's front page: a photograph of Sterling's new leg tattoo – a gun – under the heading "Raheem shoots himself in the foot".

In the accompanying front page article, we hear from anti-gun campaigner Lucy Cope,


point home. This weekend, 15-year-old Samuel Baker was stabbed to death in Sheffield, and 17-year-old Louis-Ryan Menedes died after being stabbed in the chest in Northampton.

Clearly, neither of these deaths had anything to do with a footballer getting a tattoo, and the tattoo has nothing to do with knife crime. Still, that didn't stop The Sun from opening their story about the deaths with the sentence: "Two more teenagers were killed over the weekend as Sterling revealed his controversial gun tattoo."

Understandably, all this has provoked a number of responses on social media.

Poet and journalist Musa Okwonga tweeted, "The Sun and the Daily Mail seem to take it almost in turns [to] go after Raheem Sterling, apparently for no reason other than he is black and successful," while GaryAbuja, 4 October, 2019 - In a bid to bolster immunity of eligible children, the Federal Government of Nigeria supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners immunized over 51 million children during the annual national immunization campaigns.

The intervention, conducted in phases, from 30 July-30 August 2019, reached 51,151,924 eligible children across 36 Nigerian states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The campaign was integrated with Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (bOPV) and fractional Inactivated Polio Vaccine (fIPV). While 0-59 months’ children received bOPV only in selected local Government Areas (LGA) of 15 Nigerian states, namely, Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Niger, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara States, a total of 12,020,045 children 14 weeks to 59 months were given both fIPV and


the progress, challenges – including inaccessibility due to conflict and insecurity in some areas, variations in campaign quality, massive mobile populations and, in some instances, parental refusal – have prevented health workers from reaching all children everywhere with polio vaccines in Nigeria.

Working through the National Emergency Operations Centre, WHO and partners continue to support the Government of Nigeria to surmount these challenges to ensure all children are vaccinated against polio until the virus is eradicated everywhere in the world.

Support for immunisation to the Federal Government of Nigeria through WHO is made possible with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Department for International Development (DFID – UK), European Union, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Government of Germany through KfW Bank, Global Affairs Canada, United States Agency for InternationalGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested Friday after he allegedly roughed up another man in a fight over a parking spot in New York, police said.

The incident happened about 1:45 p.m. in front of his East 10th Street building, the NYPD said. The 49-year-old victim told police he was injured in a tussle with Baldwin.

"He's not sure if he was punched or exactly how he was injured in the altercation," an NYPD spokeswoman said.

The victim, in a black Saab Turbo X, allegedly took a parking spot that Baldwin had been waiting for, touching off the altercation, according to NBC New York. He complained of pain and was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, law enforcement


sources told NBC New York.

The "Saturday Night Live" regular was expected to be charged with misdemeanor third-degree assault and harassment, charges that could possibly land him in jail for a year.

Baldwin was taken to the 6th Precinct station house in Greenwich Village and then released shortly after 4 p.m. He did not answer reporters' questions as he left.

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But a tweet on the Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation account Friday night, apparently from Baldwin, said "the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false" and that "I wanted to go on the record stating as much."

He's due to appear in a Manhattan courtroom on Nov. 26.

Baldwin,officer. The case was later dismissed.

Back in 2013, Baldwin was photographed throwing photographer Paul Adao into a car after the man filmed the actor and his wife Hilaria in Greenwich Village. Baldwin was never charged in that incident.

"He has a temper," Adao said on Friday. "This doesn't surprise me."

In 1996, he was acquitted of misdemeanor battery in a case where he was accused of striking a celebrity photographer who tried to videotape him and his family in Los Angeles.


actually make the shoes she has designed. A new found self-confidence allows her to emerge from her solitude and embrace her friends' happiness.

While on a walk with her mother, she learns that her mother was the one whom Gerry asked to deliver his letters after his death. Her mother hands her the last letter and she takes it home where she gets a voicemail from Daniel asking her to forget everything he said about not wanting her. She meets him at Yankee Stadium and asks him to read the last letter from Gerry, who tells her not to turn away from new love. Daniel and Holly kiss but decide they are better off as friends.

As the film ends with Holly taking her mother on a trip towas clearly more suited to the high salinity environment than other yeast species, even at high salinity the number of species was diverse. This suggests the potential to use a number of yeast species for high salinity wastewater treatment.


Australian politiciansArson investigators took a person into custody after a string of small fires that appeared to be intentionally set in North Long Beach on Tuesday, according to authorities.

Firefighters doused three of the fires around 10:30 a.m. after they found them burning near the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Del Amo Boulevard, Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Pete Kusel said.

All three of the fires were burning a short distance from each other, according to Kusel. One was burning a mattress, the second was in some brush and the third was consuming a small tree, he said.

About four hours later, a fourth fire burned through a palm tree and some electrical wires in the same area, according to the fire department.

The fourth blaze briefly caused a power outage to a


estate and timeshare company. He and his wife were also the subject of the recent documentary "The Queen of Versailles" about their desire to build the largest home in America. According to Gawker, they were worth over a billion dollars in 2007,
but that could be less now as a result of the real estate bust.Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren in the first round of the second Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by CNN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on July 30, 2019.

Warren said she would create a federal Office of Broadband Access to manage an $85 billion grant program. The grants would be awarded to electricity and telephone cooperatives, nonprofits, tribes and municipalities that pledge to bring high-speed internet to underserved areas.

"I will make sure every home in America has a fiber broadband connection at a price families can afford," the senator from Massachusetts wrote in a post on the blogging platform Medium. "That means publicly-owned and operated networks — and no giant [internet service providers] running away with taxpayer dollars."

Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren


unveiled a proposal to guarantee universal high-speed internet access on Wednesday as part of a new plan to invest in rural communities.

And, she wrote, her administration would "preempt" laws on the books in 26 states that discourage or prevent municipalities from building their own broadband infrastructure.

"The federal government will pay 90 cents on the dollar for construction under these grants," Warren wrote. "In exchange, applicants will be required to offer high-speed public broadband directly to every home in their application area."

Applicants would be required to offer internet speed at 100 megabits per second — fast enough to download a two-hour movie in a little over two minutes — in addition to at least one discount internet plan.

Five billion dollars would be specifically earmarked to expand broadband access onNative American lands.

Warren, who as part of her rural investment plan also calls for new antitrust action against hospital mergers, is the latest Democrat running for president to specifically address broadband access in rural communities.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner, put forward a plan last month to invest $20 billion in rural broadband infrastructure. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, has pledged to bring "high-speed Internet access and broadband services to every American."

Warren's proposal cites low rates of internet access in rural communities.

About 1 in 4 people living in rural areas, and 1 in 3 living on tribal lands, did not have access to minimum speed broadband, the proposal says, citing an FCC report released earlier this year. And in urban areas, Warren wrote, many low-income residents


Parentage: ‘BJ2013’ originated as a naturally-occurring branch mutation of Forsythia x intermedia (unnamed and unpatented) at a commercial office building complex in Mechanicsburg, Pa. In 2013, the inventors discovered a branch mutation of Forsythia x intermedia which exhibited green and white leaf variegation in an irregular mottle pattern with white zonal coloration. Cuttings were taken from the mutated branch, rooted, and then grown to a mature size to confirm the distinctness and stability of the traits first observed. In April of 2017, the unique variegation of the claimed plant was determined to be stable and suitable for commercial introduction. The plant was given the name, ‘BJ2013’.
Asexual Reproduction: Asexual reproduction of ‘BJ2013’, by way of softwood stem tip cuttings, was first performed in 2013 in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Through twofew hours after Starnes had been ordered off the premises, the insurance company report came through; it was negative; and Starnes — who had misrepresented his driving record, stating that he had only one speeding ticket (he had two) — was immediately discharged. The Board ruled that the discharge was proper because it was done pursuant to a company policy that was applied across the board and thus without regard to an employee's attitude toward unions. That is why the Board didn't order Hartman to offer reinstatement to Starnes, as opposed to Till.

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But the Board did order the company to pay Starnes backpay, albeit limited to the few hours between his hiring and his termination, the hours after he was ordered off the premises and before he was


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My mom was in Germany under Hitler (she was half-American), and yes – there were lots of Jews who tried to warn both Germans and the world. Many who could see it coming were like my great-aunt’s lover, who felt there was nothing to do but run. He fled the country before it was too late – he survived the war. Some tried to fight – most of them died, but a few survived, like a prof I had. We have to learn from their mistakes. Any resort to violence while the fascists still control the media will basically boomerang. Jews who did things like violently protest or attack Nazis were used as propaganda to support tighter controls. This is why Ted Nugent is so spot-on with hisMitchell had made the Supermarine design riskier.

To offer the greater use of possible engines, Supermarine continued with design work for a Merlin engined version – the Type 318. In July 1937 Supermarine were told to stop work on the 318 to concentrate on the 317.

While still under construction, the two prototypes and the construction plans were effectively lost when the Supermarine Works at Woolston was bombed by the Luftwaffe on 26 September 1940. The Air Ministry formally cancelled the order in November.

The Short S.29 was accepted into service as the Short Stirling and was the principal British four-engine heavy bomber until eclipsed by the Handley Page Halifax and Avro Lancaster, both adapted from prototypes built to specification B13/36 for a twin-engined bomber.

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The New York Yankees Off-Season Update 1

Well, here we are in November. The San Francisco Giants deservedly won the World Series and the Kansas City Royals made a very creditable run from a wildcard slot to fall at the last hurdle. It was a great season and a fascinating season to follow and write about the Yankees who overcame adversity to finish with a reasonable record.

The question now is, can they turn those problems and strengths into a team that can challenge for the post season in 2015? Let’s take an overview of their roster at this moment in time and see where it looks like they’re going.

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Wilson in – Cervelli out

Well, the big news is that the Yankees traded Francisco Cervelli to the Pittsburgh Pirates...Snow Depth Totals from Jan. 2-3 Storm...

The storm that brought snow to the region Saturday and Sunday, left a blanket of white across southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas. Total snow accumulations ranged from a trace to around 5 inches, with lower amounts generally to the east near Rolla and higher totals further west. Cold temperatures that settled in ahead of this system prevented melting of the snow as it reached the ground, causing accumulations on roadways and difficulties in travel across the area.

Total Snow Depth as of Monday Morning:

Snow cover as seen from satellite imagery at 1:00pm on Monday, Jan. 4th:


for Trophoblast Research at the University of Cambridge, the MRC and the Wellcome Trust.

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The Babraham Institute undertakes world-class life sciences research to generate new knowledge of biological mechanisms underpinning ageing, development and the maintenance of health. Our research focuses on cellular signalling, gene regulation and the impact of epigenetic regulation at different stages of life. By determining how the body reacts to dietary and environmental stimuli and manages microbial and viral interactions, we aim to improve wellbeing and support healthier ageing. The Institute is strategically funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, through an Institute Core Capability Grant and also receives funding from other UK research councils, charitable foundations, the EU and medical charities.

The Biotechnology andBiological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the UK funding agency for research in the life sciences. Sponsored by Government, BBSRC annually invests around £450 million in a wide range of research that makes a significant contribution to the quality of life for UK citizens and supports a number of important industrial stakeholders including the agriculture, food, chemical, health and well-being and pharmaceutical sectors. BBSRC carries out its mission by funding internationally competitive research, providing training in the biosciences, fostering opportunities for knowledge transfer and innovation and promoting interaction with the public and other stakeholders on issues of scientific interest in universities, centres and institutes.

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The Centre for Trophoblast Research is an inter-departmental initiative that aims to promote the study of placental biology, with special reference


to the trophoblast, both within and outside Cambridge. The centre, which draws together researchers from Babraham, The Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, The Gurdon Institute and Addenbrookes Hospital, was officially launched in July 2008 and aims to facilitate interactions and collaborations between established researchers, both nationally and internationally. The Centre aims to promote research and teaching in placental biology and the developmental origins of the trophoblast within the University of Cambridge and affiliated institutes through Next Generation Research Fellowships, Graduate Studentships, seminars, workshops, and infrastructural support. One of the Centre’s principal aims, however, is to encourage young investigators into the field and foster their careers. http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/

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to promote women's careers in science and advance equality and diversity. We are veryfor the TAC-338 that looks virtually identical to the photos of Kyle’s rifle from his autobiography. From the scope, to the rings, to the stock, to the MIRS rail, to the muzzle brake, to the bipod, to the bottom metal and magazine, and even the leather sling! I’m going to go out on a limb and say he had the McMillan TAC-338 Rifle Package.

Here are the specs that are on the McMillan TAC-338 Rifle Package, and likely what was on the Kyle’s .338 Lapua rifle as well:

In the movie, American Sniper, they tried to stay true to the rifles and techniques Kyle actually used. Bradley Cooper went to multiple training sessions with Scott Reitz of International Training Seminars to learn basic techniques on breathing and marksmanship before they


and veteran charities. Kyle started Craft International after he retired from the service, a training company for elite military and law enforcement professionals. Kyle understood the difficulties a veteran goes through adapting back to civilian life, and he tried to help fellow veterans make that shift. Kyle was at a range with a 25 year old veteran suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), when the young man turned a weapon on Kyle.

Kyle’s years of service, and admirable character attracted thousands of people who lined the highways during his funeral procession to pay honor to the fallen hero and his family. More than rifles, and even his military campaigns, Chris Kyle is a man worth celebrating. Sure, he had flaws like you and me. But Kyle was a manAs curators of this language and culture, we at Go Sheng hope to preserve this urban language and provide a platform for social dialogue among its speakers.”says Go Sheng PR and Projects Officer Kelvin Okoth in a press release.

Go Sheng has developed a dictionary and runs various social media channels in an effort to make the language more accessible. In this way, Go Sheng mirrors the development of South Africa’s Scamto and which was championed by business man Lebo Motshegoa as far back as 2002. Scamto remains popular among young South Africans. The Sheng dictionary contains 3900 words.

The most popular constructed language in the world is Esperanto, which is spoken by around two million people and was invented in the late 19th century as an easy to learn


By Antonio L. Colina IV and Armando B. Fenequito Jr.

DAVAO CITY – The University of the Philippines-Mindanao (UPMin) plans to open a College of Human Kinetics in two years to boost the skills of the Mindanawon players who have the potential to excel in sports, UP President Danilo L. Concepcion.

Concepcion said they have already started planning for the offering of the new course, as they wanted to complement the establishment of the world-class, P8-billion Davao City-UP Sports Complex at the UPMin campus in Tugbok district here.

“We have observed very few athletes are being recruited from Mindanao maybe because there are not many sports facilities in Mindanao where the students in Mindanao can train in,” he said.

He said they wanted to position UP as one of the leading schoolsng pagsasanay ang mga estudyante natin dito sa Mindanao (You know the secret to becoming a strong team, for example, in sports event is in the quality of the players. But we are not able to recruit many players from Mindanao because of lack of facilities where the players can do their trainings)” he said.

He said they hope more Mindanawon athletes could be recruited in the next three to four years to compete in the national leagues such as the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP).

He said the sports complex could drastically boost the skills of the potential players.

“Kung wala kang training hindi ka rin gagaling na athlete, hindi ka rin marerecruit to compete in leagues such as the UAAP (If you lack training you will not


become a good athlete, you will not be recruited to compete in leagues such as UAAP),” he said.

The sports complex worth P8 billion broke ground in 2015 after then mayor and now President Rodrigo R. Duterte struck a deal with the university for the donation of 20 hectares for the sports facilities.

The sports complex has a training gym, multipurpose building, football field, track oval equipped with FIFA-tested and certified artificial turf, and Aquatics Center.

Mayor Sara Duterte said the city will use the sports complex as it hosts the Davao Regional Athletic Association (DAVRAA) Meet 2019 from January 27 to February 2 and Palarong Pambansa 2019 in April.International community racism in dealing with issues related to Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Countries of the whole Great Lakes region of Africa, but mainly and in a particular way, Rwanda and DRC, have been the theater of ongoing suffering of populations and million lives wasted, for almost two decades. The pursuit widely documented of strategic minerals by multinationals has continuously fuelled these tragedies.

Parties to the misery of citizens of the region have in many respects portrayed racist attitudes. Michael Fairbanks, in his article in The Huffington Post dated May 3, 2010 Nothing Good Comes out of Africa defines what being racist means, ‘It can mean the subtle, pernicious accumulation of unconscious prejudices against those who see the world differently.’

The Oxford encyclopedia goes along similar lines when


that ongoing and aftermath tragedies in the two countries have taken away unduly. The question he highlighted was whether such apathy towards the misery of their populations was due to the color of their skin.

The indifference, – no I would rather say deep involvement, which fails to notice value in African humanity being spared day and night for so long, exceeds what I would’ve expected from the West. It somewhat explains the value the latter puts in its material pursuits. DRC has plenty of raw minerals which provide essential components in many global industries led by Western multinationals.

The past embedded in the present

As for the exploitation of the precious resources, strategies King Leopold II used after the acquisition of Congo as a private property have slightly changed since1885. Indigenous people died in millions, starved to death, from diseases, being forced to get required quota of rubber vines, or rebelling against forced labor.

Areas of DRC that mining companies with international ramifications are currently interested in have an acute presence of rebellion groups. UN reports have in recent years recorded an average of twenty five such movements. Among these there is FDLR – Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda, that the Rwandan government has linked Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza to in its accusations against her.

Weighing up the accusations as fabrications aimed at rather destroying Victoire and her party political ambitions, than searching for any truth there, the important side of the story is how such allegations enable to maintain the status quo for illegal exploitation of DRC resources,


continuous abuse of human rights and systematic repression of populations in Rwanda.

For many years, the international community namely and mainly US and Britain have been turning a blind eye on the attitude of Paul Kagame’s regime despite its totalitarian rule against its people and involvement in DRC. It’s like masters looking away when their agent is working abusively the labor force to get profits they are fiercely after.

Lessons from elsewhere

In the Balkans, when in the early 1990s ex-Yougoslavia and other countries of this European region disintegrated further to the fall of Communism, the whole West uses its forces and resources: military, economic and judiciary, to stop tribal like social unrests taking over. Maybe it was because this was happening very closely to home, with risks of contagion.

Another explanationcould be remembrance of past conflicts, not far away in the region which started there and engulfed the whole world with damages and consequences that are today not fully extinct from the collective memory of humanity.

It surprises to observe that what worked in the Balkans, or other places like Northern Ireland, South Africa, or Burundi to solve continuous and social tensions cannot be applied to DRC and Rwanda situations, particularly by bringing around a table antagonist parties in the latter country.

During King Leopold II rule over the Congo (today DRC), estimates from scholars such as Jan Vansina suggest that local populations halved further to causes already highlighted. In the last twenty years, ill-conquest of political power of current Rwandan leader, Paul Kagame, combined with the greed and insatiable


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Explore the Stories of Maple Ridge: Community. Past, Present & Future

Maple Ridge Museum

Located in Maple Ridge between the Lougheed Highway and Haney Bypass at 22520 116th Ave. The museum is housed in the former Manager’s home for Port Haney Brick & Tile. The museum features First Nations prehistory, history of settlement and prominent families of historic Maple Ridge and a world-class model railway diorama of the Port Haney area.+ read more

Haney House

This gracious family home was built on the brow of a hill overlooking the Fraser River by pioneer Thomas Haney for his wife Anne and family in 1883. It was patterned after the Haney family home in Ontario. The Haney family and their descendents occupied the house until 1979 when the last occupants donated the home and


property to District of Maple Ridge as a museum of family life. + read more

St. Andrew’s Heritage Church Hall

Built in 1888 as a Presbyterian Church on land donated by Thomas Haney, it was outgrown by St. Andrews United Church in 1957 and the congregation moved on. The building was rescued from demolition and became municipal property. It is managed by the Maple Ridge Historical Society as a rental for meetings, parties and small weddings. + read moreFlight attendants are the latest group looking to put the kibosh on in-flight porn, which they say is polluting the airways thanks to the new American Airlines in-flight wireless network. Taking a page from Focus on the Family, the 19,000-strong union is looking to filter the content web surfers can access in the air. But is the air really getting polluted with porn? As is the case most of the time, Association of Professional Flight Attendants reps couldn't produce specific examples of "alternative" in-flight entertainment, but did say "a lot of complaints" were raised by attendants and passengers alike.It's also worth noting there's nothing new about passengers viewing offensive materials during a flight. Said Tim Smith, a spokesman for AA, "Customers viewing inappropriate material on board a flight


to premiere in Japan June 15th 2013. Enjoy the newest trailer below featuring Sashihara Rino discussing her roll of blunt manga editor Unami Aya.

SCANDAL is performing along with many other artists at the KAWAii!! MATSURi pop culture festival. Other artists – T.M.R., Negicco, Luna Haruna, Aoi Eir, May’n, Shoko Nakagawa, and more. The event spans April 20th & 21st at Tokyo metropolitan Gymnasium, SCANDAL plays on the main stage on April 21st (more details link at bottom).Grave towards the south-east corner of New Calton Burial Ground in Edinburgh, about  south of Port Leith.

Convoy PQ 18
Later in the Second World War Atheltemplar was used on convoys to carry fuel oil and supplies to the Kola Inlet and the northern Soviet ports of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk. The first of these was Convoy PQ 14 which arrived in Murmansk on 19 April 1942. On this voyage Atheltemplar was damaged by ice and she was repaired in Murmansk before sailing for the return journey with Convoy QP 11. This Convoy was attacked by German destroyers, U-boats and torpedo bombers; once again Atheltemplar was damaged but it is not clear whether the cause was ice, enemy action or both. After reaching Iceland on 7 May 1942, Atheltemplar then


Pedobear! You know him as the internet superstar who brings joy to millions as a cuddly harbinger of child predation. But not everyone finds the concept of a pervy virtual Easter Bunny to be utterly delightful. In 2010, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department issued a warning claiming that Pedobear had been "adopted as a mascot" by pedophiles. (It was a perfectly logical assumption, seeing as how child molesters have long sought a highly recognizable cartoon symbol to align themselves with, that they might be more readily identified amidst the general population.) Now, the New Mexico Attorney General's Office has made it a top priority to alert parents to the furry, lollipop-wielding menace in our midst.

In this report from New Mexico's KRQE, spokesperson Lynn Southard offers aSamuel Eto'o for their Champions League quarter-final first leg against Paris St Germain on Wednesday after the striker failed to recover from a hamstring strain, the Premier League club said on Tuesday.

BJP's San Andre MLA Vishnu Wagh was stripped by the government on Monday of two posts he was holding - chairman of Kala Academy and vice-chairman of Entertainment society of Goa. This comes in the wake of bitter criticism of the Manohar Parrikar government on medium of instructions issue. He also challenged the BJP to expel him on the issue.


A fun and interesting perspective on history, historic preservation, urban planning, and pretty much all things Kentucky. A clear focus on Lexington and the Bluegrass region, the Kaintuckeean explores history, people and places throughout Kentucky.

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No Destination: Pleasureville

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Pleasureville Christian Church. Irony in the name? Perhaps.

Straddling the line of Henry and Shelby counties is the community of Pleasureville. The community first began under the name Bantaville when the area was settled by Dutch Huguenot families, including that of Abraham Banta, leaving Mercer County.

The source of the current name, Pleasureville, is believed to come from the presence of the community's popular bordello (a source of pleasure, and likely of disease, for many).

I saw Pleasureville on the map and had to stop. Not since Preachersville have I found the name ofR. Kelly was on the set of HuffPostLive for an interview today and things did not go according to plan. From the jump, the whole thing was uncomfortable as host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani attempted to question Kelly about past accusations of sexual assault , which he found to be "disrespectful." Tehrani was simply asking fan-submitted questions and Kelly was not cooperating.

Things got to the point where Kelly spoke over everything Tehrani attempted to say. The interview then abruptly ended after only a few minutes with Kelly walking off of the set while she continued to ask him about his past. He said he thought the interview was an interrogation and that he wanted to talk about his new album, Buffet, which dropped earlier this month.

Kelly even began to directly


enrolled all patients with spinal fracture, after car accident admitted to the trauma center of KAUMS and had a hospital stay of more than 24 h between March 2004 and March 2009. The analysis was focused on patient-related data (general characteristics), mechanism of accident (car collision and car rollover), place of accident (city streets and freeways) car occupant\'s position (driver and passenger), spinal fracture anatomic location (categorized into cervical, thoracic, and lumbar regions), SCI, associated nonSCIs, prehospital time intervals, duration of hospital stay and final outcome. The prehospital time intervals were defined as the sum of the following time intervals including; response interval (time from alarm activation to arrival of the first responding vehicle on the scene) on-scene interval (time of arrival of the emergency medical services vehicletubes, which can block the tubes and prevent fertilization from taking place. An estimated 100,000 women each year become infertile as a result of PID. In other cases, scarring may interfere with the passage of the fertilized egg down into the uterus. When this happens, the egg may implant in the fallopian tube, causing an ectopic or tubal pregnancy. This condition may be life threatening for the mother and may result in the loss of the fetus. PID is the most common cause of pregnancy-related death among poor teenagers in the inner cites and rural areas of the United States. The annual cost estimates exceed seven billion dollars.
What is needed are rapid and accurate tests that can differentiate the different species of Chlamydia. At the present time, though


The Detection and Species Identification of Blood $mdash; A Bibliography of Relevant Papers from 1980 to 1995.
The comprehensive review of the biochemical forensic literature by Gaensslen covered much of the subject until about 1980. This review focuses on two aspects of forensic serology and reports on the progress and research in the identification of blood and its species determination during the period 1980 to 1995. The development of ELISA techniques and the explosive developments in DNA technology have and will change the course of forensic science. The usefulness of these and other techniques has been extended to archaeology as well as other disciplines. While borrowing heavily from the forensic literature, these researchers have produced their own literature which, in turn, is of interest to the forensic scientist.President Obama nominated an American Indian who had been the attorney general of Idaho to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The nominee, Larry EchoHawk, is a law professor at Brigham Young University and a member of the Pawnee tribe. The agency manages 66 million acres of land and oversees Indian schools and other programs. Mr. Obama last month nominated Yvette Roubideaux as director of the Indian Health Service, a part of the Health and Human Services Department.


civil war in Syria, Iran has maintained contact with the group. In their statements, Hamas and Islamic Jihad both echoed similar statements by Iranian officials saying that the move has removed any doubt about US impartiality regarding the Israel-Palestine issue. Ahmad Al Mudallal, a member of Islamic Jihad, which has stronger ties to Iran than Hamas, called on the Palestinian Authority to end peace negotiations being mediated by the United States, saying, “America cannot establish peace in the world because it is the cause of instability in the region.”

Iran has had success in setting up armed groups throughout the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Iraq, in recent years. Iran’s support for Palestinian groups, however, dates back to the early days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and hasWeinstein defense witness To testify that accuser turned up drunk on the set of a romantic comedy

A forsenic examiner has revealed that Harvey Weinstein accuser Mimi Haleyi crossed out a line in her personal calendar about calling Weinstein’s assistant for a plane ticket.

The media mogul’s defense called on Jeffrey Luber, a documents expert to work out what was written under a number of entries that Haleyi crossed out.

It covered the period of the summer 2006, the same period in which Haleyi claims Weinstein attacked her.

The calendar – which was used as evidence in court – showed an entry for August 31 in which Haleyi wrote then scribbled out: ‘Call Dan and see if I can go’.

Dan refers to Dan Guando, Weinstein’s assistant, and the trip was a flight


from New York to London she took on September 2, which was paid for by The Weinstein Co, his film production company.

Weinstein has been charged with raping a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on a different woman in 2006.

The 67-year-old however, has maintained any sexual encounters were consensual.

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Mimi Haleyi (pictured) has accused Harvey Weinstein of forcing oral sex on her in 2006. A forensic expert revealed she crossed out an entry about calling Weinstein’s personal assistant to book her a plane ticket and another to call Weinstein

Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus testified for the defense that people can create false memories as a result of therapy or leading questions from police. Pictured: Loftus arrives to testify at Harveyup for Weinstein, telling him: ‘I think the dog pile of actresses who are suddenly brave and recalling repressed memories is hideous.’

The defense had hoped Feldsher would discredit Sciorra by recounting a conversation he had with her in the early 1990s in which she supposedly told him she had ‘done this crazy thing with Harvey’ but didn’t say she had been assaulted.

‘My understanding was that she fooled around with him,’ Feldsher testified.


A fire ravaged the iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday.

The cathedral was a centerpiece of the 2014 video game "Assassin's Creed Unity."

To re-create the cathedral virtually, a level artist at the game's studio spent years cataloging its structure "to make sure that each brick was as it should be."

While the effort to rebuild the iconic cathedral could benefit from the game designers' work, it's unclear whether their work will be referenced.

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A fire on Monday devastated the iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The structure, including its two main towers, remains intact, but its spire collapsed before firefighters could contain the blaze.

French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild the famous cathedral, tweeting in French: "We will rebuild it. All together."

One potential source of help inthose efforts is the 2014 video game "Assassin's Creed Unity," which is set in Paris.

Notre-Dame Cathedral in the 2014 video game "Assassin's Creed Unity." Ubisoft

As detailed in a 2014 feature published in The Verge, Caroline Miousse, a Ubisoft level artist, spent two years poring over details of the cathedral to create as accurate a depiction as possible in the game.

"I made some other stuff in the game, but 80% of my time was spent on the Notre-Dame," she said at the time.

That's because the cathedral is a centerpiece in "Unity" that players can explore inside and out. The "Assassin's Creed" series is known for its lovingly detailed re-creations of historic places, and the Notre-Dame Cathedral in "Unity" is no exception.

The Verge's Andrew Webster wrote of Miousse's work on


first time in 6 years, our Camry is finally getting 33 mpg on the highway, the EPA's estimate.

The current testing methods that EPA uses to calculate estimated mileage was last updated in 2008. My Camry is a 2007 model year that was sold in late 2006. The 2007 model year attained 24 city/33 highway estimates, and after the updates it was changed to 21 city/31 highway. So back to you!

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After a horrific accident involving a radioactive housecat, Davejohnsan becomes “THE CAT YODALER!” By day, mild mannered veterinary supplies salesmen, but by night, daemon feline scourge of the swiss alps! Swiss cheese production falls sharply in the first quarter as lack of sleep slowly drives everyone in Switzerland insane

It's against the lawAt least 1,180 stranded Pakistani nationals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were repatriated on Tuesday.An Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai carrying 250 passengers arrived in Peshawar and 200 others from Sharjah arrived in Multan.Three flights carrying 733 Pakistani citizens reached Karachi and Lahore early morning today.The passengers were screened and shifted to quarantine centres for 7-14 days to test them for the virus that has already affected more than 9,200 people across the country.Some of the passengers travelling had been deported and were stranded after overseas flight operations were suspended.Civil Aviation Authority sources said more flights will be sent to the UAE to rescue the remaining Pakistanis.Earlier this month, a special flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) repatriated 136 stranded Pakistani citizens in Iraq.Flight PK-9814 reached Islamabad


Efficient transformation with regeneration of the tropical pasture legumeStylosanthes humilis usingAgrobacterium rhizogenes and a Ti plasmid-binary vector system.
Agrobacterium rhizogenes carrying the binary Ti plasmid vector pGA492 was used to transform leaf and stem explants of the tropical pasture legumeStylosanthes humilis. Conditions which yielded kanamycin resistant roots at a frequency of up to 86% and subsequent plant regeneration at a frequency of 23% were defined. Transgenic plants were fertile and either grew normally or had stunted growth but otherwise showed only minor morphological abnormalities. Transgenic plants with normal phenotypes were obtained in the progeny of the primary regenerants. The presence of active neomycin phosphotransferase enzyme activity and binary vector DNA and TL-DNA was demonstrated in the regenerated plants. Evidence for the independent transfer of binary vector and TL-DNA wasBy Kang Seung-woo

North Korea watchers said Sunday that Pyongyang's series of conciliatory offers are aimed at solidifying its rule over its people as well as chipping away at South Korea's strong North Korean policy.

The Stalinist country formally proposed Thursday halting all cross-border "slander" starting Jan. 30 and called for mutual action to prevent a "nuclear holocaust" on the Korean Peninsula, only to be snubbed by the South the following day.

However, the Rodong Shinmun, the country's mouthpiece, said Saturday that the secretive state will take the first steps to fulfill its proposal to end inter-Korea tension, calling on the South to follow suit.

"Given that South Korea believes there will be no improvement in inter-Korea relations without a change in North Korea's attitude, the North is insinuating that the current


tension on the peninsula are due to the South's policy toward them," said Park Young-ho, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification.

The unification ministry said Friday that North Korea should immediately take substantial steps toward denuclearization if Pyongyang wants peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Dongguk University Professor Koh Yu-hwan expected that the North will continue to come up with conciliatory offers for the present as part of pressuring the South, as well as creating a perceived "friendly atmosphere" for the country.

"Although Seoul will not accept the proposals, Pyongyang will take unilateral action," Koh said.

Since taking power in December 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has set his sights on economic growth and improvement in living standards for the people to strengthen his reign, and the recent proposalsare part of that plan, analysts said.

"In order to improve the people's livelihood, there is the need for sanctions by the United Nations (U.N.) as well as the South to be lifted," Koh said.

Angered by North Korea torpedoing the South's naval ship Cheonan in March 2010, former President Lee Myung-bak suspended all trade and investment with the North on May 24 the same year. The U.N. also slapped the North with sanctions after its third nuclear test in February last year.

"As joint Korean-U.S. military exercises are scheduled for February through April, the North will have to prepare for them and the preparation will result in it funneling resources to the military, with the people more likely to struggle," Koh added.

President Park has said that although there will not


For good reason, Sviatoslav Richter is a giant of the art music world. Born in Russia in 1915 (now Ukraine), Richter was a complicated artist with a notorious stage persona. There are few more iconic scenes in piano culture than Sviatoslav's shining bare head and miserable, aggressive face digging into a Beethoven sonata under the weak light of a lamp on a dark stage. His aura was cripplingly romantic and heroic. Rubinstein bounced in a courtly fashion, Gould bobbed up and down drastically (and did bizarre things with spear hands when they weren't required on the piano), Richter attacked the piano, like an annoyed Victorian headmaster he commanded his body with vicious force and intent, threw about his head in despair. This translated into his sound which washuge and piercing, however as I will go on to explain, Richter was capable of a remarkably melodic and delicate sound.

Contrary to Richter's common stage persona, his recordings of gentler repertoire such as Debussy and Mozart sonatas are some of the most profoundly beautiful and touching interpretations of art music in recorded history. Recently I came across his recordings of the Mozart k 282, k545 and k310 sonatas. Paying particular attention to the k545 (as it's one of the few pieces I can play, therefore I'm a decent judge of what is a 'good' or 'bad' rendition of it) I was blown away by the lightness of his tone. It's probably fair to say Sviatoslav Richter is a better pianist than me, but I cannot, for the life


After Rebel Media reporter Sheila Gunn Reid was punched by a thug at the Women's March in Alberta, a $1,000 bounty was put up to identify the assailant.

Internet sleuths discovered the assailant is reportedly Dion Bews of Edmonton.

Since being identified, Bews proceeded to shut down his guitar selling website, Facebook page and Instagram.

Rebel Media told Bews to "please turn yourself into the nearest police department, and prepare for a massive civil lawsuit."

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It was a spectacle unlike anything else seen here in Geneva while I was attending the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Philippine delegation, led by Undersecretary Severo Catura, walked out during an informal session on June 25 to discuss the Iceland-initiated resolution on the Philippines. Catura had just delivered a long, blistering attack against the resolution, in which he accused Iceland and others of bullying the Philippines.

Three days later, inside the same room for another round of informal discussions on the resolution, Rosario Manalo, a former top Philippine diplomat to the Asean, accused Iceland and other countries that support the resolution of hypocrisy and interfering in the affairs of the Philippines. She lambasted Philippine human rights groups, calling them treacherous and accusing them


The present invention relates to improvements in extended nip presses pressing water from a traveling fibrous web wherein the nip is formed by a sliding shoe having a hydraulic film of lubricating fluid between the shoe and the belt and more particularly, the invention relates to improvements in controlling the lubricating fluid for removing it from the belt downstream of the shoe and preventing the fluid from being carried along with the belt and preventing it from migrating around the edge of the belt onto the web side.
In a conventional paper making machine, after the web is formed, it is carried through a press section where the water is mechanically expressed from the fibrous web. Improvements in press sections have changed from the conventional two roll press toxe2x80x9cdouble-rackxe2x80x9d configuration. Thus, the phrases xe2x80x9cdouble-rackxe2x80x9d and xe2x80x9cdouble deckxe2x80x9d have the same meaning and are used interchangeably. For purposes of brevity, the term xe2x80x9covenxe2x80x9d is used to refer to the double deck toaster oven of the present invention.
The oven of the present invention comprises a cooking chamber having a pair of opposing sidewalls and a rear wall member having a pair of end portions and a protruding portion between the end portions. The cooking chamber has lower and upper portions. The oven further comprises first and second stationary heaters located within the lower and upper portions, respectively, of the cooking chamber. The oven further comprises a pair of movable heaters located between the first and second stationary heaters. Each movable heater is movably attached to a corresponding one


of the end portions of the rear wall member and movable between a resting position and a heating position. Each movable heater is adjacent to a corresponding sidewall when the movable heater is in the resting position. The oven further includes a manually operated mechanical drive system for moving both movable heaters simultaneously between the resting position and the heating position. The oven further includes a first pair of rack support members. Each rack support member is attached to a corresponding one of the opposed sidewalls so as to support a rack within the cooking chamber such that the rack is below the movable heaters. The oven further includes a second pair of rack support members. Each rack support member of the second pair is attached to acorresponding one of the opposed sidewalls so as to support an additional rack within the cooking chamber such that the additional rack is above the movable heaters.
The protruding portion of the rear wall member forms a portion of the cooking chamber. Due to the shape and configuration of the protruding portion of the rear wall member, the cooking chamber can accommodate relatively large sized food items. For example, when two racks are placed in the cooking chamber, one above the other, each rack can receive a twelve inch pizza.
A feature of the oven of the present invention is the use of a manually operated mechanical drive system to move the movable heaters between the resting and heating positions thereby eliminating the need for electrical motors or other electrical


are hailed as "The world's biggest cult band", and it even now seems weirdly fashionable for rock luminaries to include one of their albums in their 'favourites' list - see Nicky Wire.

Whatever your personal history with their music, one thing cannot be denied: through an impressive legacy that only offers the occasional dud, Rush have virtually redefined the concept of the concept, adding a freshness and vigour that echoes back to the golden days of Gabriel's Genesis and yet settles so firmly in the contemporary. Clockwork Angels, which build on the band's steam punk fixations, is a case in point. The album, which edges close to fiction - and, indeed a book version will surface - is based around the vivid lyricism of drummer Neil Peart and, inVieta, and bent down to pick him up and bundle him into the back. He swept him up, and the moment he did the dog turned from a listless mound into a flailing, yapping whirl of claws and teeth. The Bosnian dropped him. Timoleon Vieta retreated to a safe distance, where he growled and raised his hackles at his master's new friend, who was wiping the dog's saliva on to his jeans, and checking his hand for punctures.

'Let's go,' said the Bosnian. He hadn't wanted to make the trip but had started to be bothered by his own stench, so he had decided to go along with the old man's plan. 'We leave the dog here. He is surviving here no problem.'

'Oh, please let him sit in the


kissed the old man's lips, and played with his beard for a while.

'And how are Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego?'

'They're very well. They send their regards.'

'Do they?'

Cockroft looked at the ground. He loosened his grip on the boy. 'You know what I mean.' His grandchildren were three of the many things Cockroft spent all his time trying not to think about. He hadn't seen them for a long time. His son-in-law hated him, and blamed him for all the bad things that had happened, and wanted him to stay out of the children's lives. Christmas and birthday cards went unacknowledged, even when they were stuffed with lira for them to enjoy changing at Thomas Cook. Cockroft wasn't even sure of their address any more.

'I know what you mean,' saidThe religious group has been under fire for its widespread practice of having numerous sexual abuse cases adjudicated by the so-called "elders," who apparently often fail to report them to officials.

Samet G, 31, a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses in the Netherlands, got a suspended 9-month sentence and a fine last week for the sexual abuse of his niece when she was between 4 and 14 years old, RTL Nieuws reports, citing court documents.

During the investigation, Jehovah's Witnesses had reportedly refused to give Dutch prosecutors a copy of a confession that the suspected perpetrator made in 2011, citing privacy concerns and claiming that its elders cannot be forced to disclose it.

This refusal to cooperate has provoked a backlash from human rights advocates and officials. "If we can't get


The students — conservatives, progressives and libertarians — sat around a bank of television sets, often cheering after key lines of the speech right along with members of the Legislative branch.

They seemed most enthusiastic about the President’s call for support for teachers, and his backing for the people of Tunisia in their quest for fundamental freedoms. Susanna Grove, a second-year student, said the entire speech merited applause.

"More than any specific issue is the tone. I feel that president Obama returned to what drew people in the campaign," Grove said, referring to the president's unifying rhetoric.

But Harvard junior Anthony Bonia, found the speech lacking in one key respect.

"I wish he had spoken more about the war in Afghanistan. We are at war and he just sort of glanced overthe movement once people had reclaimed their sense of political agency and collective power. There was an assumption that those encamped in Zuccotti would have plenty of time to develop their message. However, shortly after the fledgling group in New York came to consensus on the Declaration of Occupation, the movement spread nationwide, and they began to lose control over the conversation they had started.

Environmentalists continue to work inside the movement, however, many of them in well-organized “working groups.” In New York, the sustainability working group powered Zuccotti with energy bikes. The environmentalist solidarity group led a climate justice day of teach-ins and got the general assembly to issue a public statement condemning a bizarre campaign to support the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline that used the rhetoric of


From the forthcoming book Tribal Stories of the Willamette Valley

The Kalapuyans originally occupied over a million acres in the Willamette and the Umpqua valleys. They have lived here for over 14,000 years and have endured enormous changes to their traditional life-ways during the past 200 years. The Kalapuyan peoples created the amazing fecundity of the Willamette Valley by practicing a form of land management or horticulture where they annually set fire to the valley, and in so doing cleared the land of excess vegetation, renewed food plants, and deposited nutrients in the soil, as well as other benefits. They were a stable society who harvested the fruits and vegetables of the valley, and hunted and fished the terrestrial and aquatic animals to provide their primary food sources.

The Kalapuyantribes were about nineteen tribes and bands in three distinct areas, organized linguistically north, central, and south. They occupied the majority of the Willamette Valley with villages scattered along the rivers and streams of the valley. They had a seasonal lifeway, where the tribes would harvest vegetables, hunt and fish at specific times of the year throughout a wide expanse of the valley and into the foothills and mountains bordering the valley. The northern Kalapuyans are the Tualatin, also known as the Atfalati, who live along the Tualatin River, and the Yamhill or Yamel, who live along the Yamhill River. The central tribes were the Pudding River or Ahantchuyuk, who lived along the Pudding River; the Luckiamute, who lived along the Luckiamute River, the Santiam, who lived along


and between the north and south forks of the Santiam River; the Mary’s River or Chepenefa; who live along the Mary’s River, the Muddy Creek or Chemapho, who live along Muddy Creek. Other Central Kalapuya tribes in the Eugene area were the Tsankupi, who lived along the Calapooia River and Mohawk who lived along the Mohawk River; the Chafan, at where Eugene City is; and the Long Tom or Chelamela, who lived along the Long Tom River; the Winefelly, who lived along the Mohawk, McKenzie and Coast Forks of the Willamette River. The southern Kalapuyans were the Yoncalla or Kommema, who lived along the Upper Umpqua River.

Kalapuyan early historic history can be divided into four periods, the first being the period of first contact and early influences ofintroduction of the horse, exotic trade goods from coastal trades with Europeans, and early diseases, roughly dating from 1700 to 1906. The second period is from 1811 to 1829, encompassing the early fur trade and the changes to tribal economies that the enterprises of the British and Americans brought to the Oregon territory. The third period begins in 1829 with the introduction of Malaria causing within a few years massive death of the peoples, vast changes to the culture and invasions by colonizers from the United States, French Canadian settlement, and tribes like the Klickitat who invade the Kalapuyans homelands and begin taking their lands and resources. This third period ends at 1850 with the passage of the Oregon Donation Land claims act. The fourth period is from


1851 to 1887 which includes treaties, removal to the reservations, and reservation life, all with significant changes to the tribes. After 1887 and the passage of the Dawes Act, there is a melding of tribal peoples and disintegration of individual tribes, if not individual identities in the reservation.

The Kalapuyan bands and tribes were more numerous in the early historic periods for the tribe, and after the malaria period, the numbers of villages and diversity of the tribe radically declined. The originally estimated 19 band and tribes declines to about a dozen primary villages in all areas of the valley, too few to resist settlement or invasion. Settlement eliminated primary resources cause economic changes, and caused further declines due to starvation and diseases. The numerically lessened Kalapuyans were by1840 a trivial annoyance to settlers who took their lands and employed them as laborers but did not preserve for them any of their traditional homelands for their villages or for their resources needs. By 1851 there was no land in the Willamette Valley unclaimed by American settlers, who also called for the removal or genocide of all Indian peoples.

Beginning in about 1790 the Kalapuyans began suffering from the plagues of the newcomer explorers and fur traders to the region. the first plague was likely small pox which had a lessening effect. The second large plague was malaria which took hold in 1829 and within five years decimated some 90% of the population of Kalapuyans. By 1850 their populations declined sharply from an estimate of over 20,000 people


to about 1000. Due to the pressures of American settlement the Kalapuyans signed treaties with the United States Government, ceding away over one million acres, and in 1856 were removed to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation and continued to decline in population. The Kalapuyans signed treaties with the United States on at least four occasions. In 1851, the tribes of the Willamette Valley signed treaties which allowed for the creation of permanent reservations within their homelands. These treaties were not ratified by Congress.

In 1854 the Yoncalla and the upper Umpqua signed a treaty which removed them to the Umpqua Reservation,. This same year a treaty was signed with the Tualatin, which was never ratified. In 1855 the tribes of the Willamette Valley, Kalapuyans, Molallans and Clackamas-Cascades-Wappato Island (Multnomahs),signed the Treaty with the Kalapuya Etc. which removed them to temporary reservations.

The Temporary reservations were established in about 11 locations, likely close to the original tribal villages. The tribes were hosted by local farmers, who made them work for their keep. They built fences, helped develop the farms, and worked in agriculture for the farmers for about 12 months. In January the Kalapuyan chiefs visited Grand Ronde valley upon invitation of Joel Palmer to get them to agree to removal. By March 1856 all of the Kalapuyans had been removed to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation. The Kalapuyans then integrated with the other tribes and became an important part of the genealogical heritage of the Grand Ronde Tribe.

Today the majority of Kalapuyan people are members of the


Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. During the reservation period, the Kalapuyan peoples integrated with at least 29-35 other tribes at the reservation and at other reservations, and by 1900 there were about 300 of the Kalapuyans remaining. Kalapuyan descendants continued to be important leaders at the reservation, serving on tribal councils, and integrated with the surrounding Oregon rural population. Many were loggers in the logging boom of the 1920s, and generationally into the 1990’s.

In the 1950’s, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation were termination by the United States. During the termination period, even thought he Kalapuyan languages went extinct, the Kalapuyan people continued to follow their traditions, and elders in the 1970’s began working for restoration of the Grand Ronde Tribe. Today, the Kalapuyan descendantsRaise the Stakes #11

Not a day goes by anymore without another environmental disaster appearing in the news. Even while I was working on this article, a Shell Oil refinery not far from San Francisco dumped several hundred thousand gallons of oil into the S.F. Bay. Ironically, the site of this dumping was an ecologically restored wetland, an abatement project for the years of destruction wrought by Shell and other oil companies in the north bay marshes.

This incident puts in stark relief the typical relationship between environmental restoration and its destruction: token efforts are wiped out in just a few hours of careless �business as usual.�

In March 1988 the news broke that atmospheric ozone loss is already much worse than was projected. Dupont Corporation, producer of over half of


niches requires human intervention and active management (stewardship).

At a January �88 �Restoring the Earth� symposium held at UC Berkeley, two of the stated objectives were to:

� Document the ways investments in environmental restoration can stimulate economic development and provide new employment opportunities.

� Contribute to a consensus on strategies for creating the educational, organizational, financial, and political structures necessary for building a major restoration movement.

Not many people would argue against restoring environmentally devastated places. But when it comes to achieving a social con�sensus to halt hazardous production, the issue mutates to one of survival� the economic survival of the polluting business, and the jobs it provides. To appear realistic, restorationists argue according to the twisted logic imposed by The Economy. Instead of a public discussion on the direct humanand control.

Accepting human intervention and facing up to the responsibility of managing the environment is crucial: with a global population soaring towards 6 billion, human society cannot go on without some form of self-conscious relation to the biosphere. Even the bottom-line world of capitalism will have to adapt to the new imperative of biological sanity. This implies a new round of capitalist planning�after the last decade or so of deregu�lation and restructuring, which in turn followed four decades of Keynesian quasi-planning.

The last time society faced the kind of global crisis we face now (economically, if not ecologically) was in the 1930s. A common solution to that epoch�s �anarchy of the marketplace� was massive state intervention in the economy. From Hitler to Stalin to Roosevelt to the Popular Front


revitalized downtowns throughout the U.S.), but remain cosmetic. As such, they would be jobs programs foremost for the scien�tists and technicians specializing in re�storation. There are a number of talented and well-intentioned people occupying this niche already.

EXPERTISE AND SOCIAL POWER

The environmental movement has al�ways depended on the information and advice of �counter-experts,� usually scientists with a social conscience. People in this role are in an odd position. Either they look for a relatively low-paying job with an �oppositional� organization, or else they work in corporate or academic slots, and provide expert services to ecological campaigns as concerned citizens. In either case they depend on their expertise to make a living, and hence have a hard time seeing the outside of the box they�re in. Rarely do such expertstechnologies have been deployed to break. As Marx pointed out, the history of industrial innovation since the end of the eighteenth century has been a history of capital�s attempts to establish a more complete domination over the worker.

But before technologies could erode workers� skills, workers largely lost their voice in consciously deciding �what�s worth doing.� By generally acceding to the logic of the wage contract (and, one might argue, because of the difficulty of democratic planning as an alternative mode of social organization), workers have lost all say over the purpose of their work. From military contracting to banking to toothpaste production, workers don�t decide what to do, they just go to work and get paid. To imagine a social movement concerned with the purposes of arcane scientific


research seems far�fetched if people aren�t even particularly concerned with the purpose of what they do themselves day in and day out.

A movement restricted to calling for democratic participation in science fails to recognize the larger, more fundamental social relation of which scientific expertise is only a small, though powerful, branch. Wage labor and the logic of the marketplace impose a dualism on all human endeavor between what is useful or pleasurable and what makes money. As long as an activity generates money, its social results are of little consequence.

The environmental movement is vacillating now between two contradictory pulls: On one side are certain radical impulses implied by really restoring the earth (and transforming science, expertise and work itself). On the other side, mere reformism is insufficient. Inseem to prefer the role of capitalist planners, setting up new companies and govern�ment programs that will ostensibly pro�vide meaningful, well-paid work. Rather than freeing the subjective sensibilities and knowledge of average people, urging a new form of radical direct democracy in social and economic life, large parts of the still-evolving eco-program treat peo�ple as passive cogs to be fitted into the new Green Machine. The uncommitted citizen is confronted by the contending programs of incipient elites and existing elites. But as long as the logic of the market remains unchallenged, the busi�ness and propaganda organizations in power now will remain there, as will their methods of production/destruction.

GREEN CITIES & BIOREGIONALISM

The ecology movement is at the forefront of imagining and sketching out al�ternative urban and rural arrangements. At


first sight, it is exciting to find concrete visions of alternatives. One example is Richard Register�s Ecocity Berkeley, which is a primer on the greening of cities. He is quite explicit about the principles around which life should be organized, the shape urban landscape should take (denser, more three-dimensional� up rather than out� less sprawl, new transit systems, solar energy, and so on), and goes on to offer a 150-year conversion plan for Berkeley, California. He shares other eco-activists� abhorrence of consumerism, though he tempers his moral impulse with a certain pragmatism:

�If cities are built for maximum profit for the powerful and financially clever, or to confer maximum material wealth on all citizens equally, or to find some midpoint on the materialistic continuum between those extremes, the ecocityCA 90733

ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM: The Biological Ex�pansion of Europe, 900-1900 by Alfred W. Crosby, Cambridge University Press (New York: 1986)

TO GOVERN EVOLUTION by Walter Truett Anderson, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (San Diego: 1987)

THE GENE BUSINESS by Edward Yoxen, Harper & Row (New York: 1983)

THE GREEN MACHINES by Nigel Calder G.P. Putnams&Sons (New York: 1986)

ECOCITYBERKELEY by Richard Register North Atlantic Books (Berkeley: 1987)


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