The impact of John Henryism on self-reported health behaviors in African American men.
African American men have poorer health and higher disease-related mortality as compared to non-African American men. John Henryism refers to the predisposition to engage in active high-effort coping with environmental stressors. Little is known about relationships between John Henryism and personal health behaviors in African American men. The study purposes were to examine predictive relationships among John Henryism, marital status, age, education years, and health insurance on health behaviors in African American men. Cross-sectional descriptive study. The convenience sample included 60 African American men (mean age 54.8 + 10.13) recruited from a large urban area in the Midwestern United States. John Henryism significantly predicted self-reported health behaviors accounting for 12% of the multiple regression model variance.THE new two-wheel drive Yamaha on show at Sam Laws Motor Cycles in Orange is expected to revolutionise off-road racing. The $25,000 bike has been supplied to the top six dealerships in NSW, with only 20 of the 250 produced worldwide, for sale in Australia.

Sam Laws is excited by the new technology "It's a pretty impressive piece of technology and with Yamaha only supplying the top six dealerships, we're lucky to have it in Orange," he said.

The Yamaha WR450 Two Trac has been fitted with a new hydraulic system that will drive the front wheel as well as the back.


foundation’s donations, the records show she gave heavily to her own charities, plus anti-Israel website Mondoweiss and Democracy Now.

Related coverage Report: Trump Administration Seeking Direct Israel-Lebanon Talks on Maritime Border The Trump administration is once again seeking direct talks between Israel and Lebanon on setting their maritime border -- which...

The blog post also flagged a report by Max Samarov about a former Benjamin employee, Dalit Baum — previously the Director of “Economic Activism for Palestine” at Global Exchange — who now works for American Friends Service Committee.

Baum, described as “a professional agitator,” was found to be the actual author of a divestment referendum recently put to vote at Loyola University.

“Rather than being a student led, student organized and student written initiative, it was the work of a paidoperative,” Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers wrote.

Since 2006, Benjamin, a Jew, has been one of the leading organizers of international protests against the Israeli government for the people of Gaza, who that year elected Hamas, considered an international terrorist group.


This is the name of the first book in the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness, and also a new television series. I’ve read the first book in the series and enjoyed it, but haven’t had time to get to the rest of it. Nevertheless, I’ve had my eye on the show since I first heard about it.

This panel was a viewing of the first episode of the show, followed by a brief question and answer session with the author. I liked the characters in the show and the details of the book instantly started to come back to me as I watched. It was a little slow to get started, but I was interested enough in the series that I wanted more. The series has already premiereddirect interactions with other characters.

The story follows Jasmine (Jazz) Basheera, a young woman who has lived on the moon base of Artemis for almost her entire life. After an incident with her father and law enforcement, she is on her own, working as a type of courier, transporting goods around the base. Jazz is innovative and smart and has also set up a smuggling operation to help net her some extra cash.

When an eccentric billionaire asks her to destroy important equipment in return for a fortune, Jazz cannot refuse. Of course, her caper does not go as planned and there is more to the billionaire’s plan than she was told. The plot accelerates from there as Jazz is hunted by a vicious enforcer while trying to escape discovery


by officials on the moon. Her personal life is also a disaster, and all of these aspects come together in a fast-moving and unpredictable conclusion.

I enjoyed the book quite a bit, and I particularly appreciated the scientific rigor of the moon base and the elements vital to the plot. The opening was slightly slow to set the stage for me, and everything kept going right for Jazz for a bit too long. However, her sarcastic personality kept me reading, and once things go wrong for her, they went massively wrong.

The book is structured with short letters between Jazz and her childhood pen pal interspersed with the rest of the narrative. These weren’t very interesting at first, but became a clever way to explain some of Jazz’s personal history,fest costume to anything like this.

Entrance to the main floor.

Comic Con is held at the Javits Center, a massive conference facility on the west side of Manhattan. I rode the train in from New Jersey, arrived at Penn Station, and stumbled out into daylight, hoping that I could find my way through the city streets. Fortunately, Batman was there to guide me. In fact, there were many cosplayers assembled outside of the train station. I knew that we were probably headed to the same place, so I followed Batman and friends.

The workers at the con guided everyone through the entrance lines, and I passed through prop check and into the Javits Center. I began my exploration by wandering like a lost puppy. There were overhead signs to guide


to do with the routine."

Video: The guys give their Western Conference picks

Not every ritual has a correlation with on-ice performance, though. It may be a habit a player picked up during his career and it's stuck with him.

Take Tampa Bay defenseman Victor Hedman for example. He's played "five-finger fillet" with assistant equipment manager Rob Kennedy for five or six seasons. Kennedy puts his hands flat on the bench and Hedman uses the blade of his stick to hit the spaces between Kennedy's fingers.

"I've hit his fingers a few times and maybe his face once, but Rob's a tough guy. He can take it," Hedman said. "I'm not really superstitious. It's just something I like to do before the game."

Hedman may be among those who don't subscribe to superstition,HORRIFYING

07.01.13

Dutch Reporter Raped in Cairo

‘By men who dub themselves revolutionists.’

A Dutch reporter was raped while covering the ongoing protests in Cairo, reports Egypt 25 news service. According to Egypt 25’s reporter Dina Zakaria, the Dutch woman was allegedly raped “by men who dub themselves revolutionists,” while a state hospital issued a statement saying the woman was allegedly raped by five men. She reportedly underwent surgery and has since been released. The hospital also said that Egypt’s Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah ordered his staff to take a statement from the woman. The horrifying rape is reminiscent of the violence at Tahrir Square in 2011, when American journalist Lara Logan was sexually assaulted covering Egypt’s revolution. Sexual assault against women in Tahrir Square was common during the revolution, and the


The Vatican has been forced to deny that former Pope Benedict XVI is close to death after rumours about his ill health were circulated on social media

The reports claimed the former pontiff's personal secretary, Georg Ganswein, had said described the former leader of the Catholic Church as "like a candle that fades slowly".

The Archbishop was also alleged to have said: "He is serene, at peace with God, with himself and the world. He can no longer walk without help and can no longer celebrate Mass. Please pray for our beloved Pope Benedict 16th."

However, Father Ganstein said the report was “pure invention” in a statement to the Catholic News Agency.

“I have received in the last two days many messages that refer to this note, and people are worried”, hesaid. “It is false and wrong”.

The quotation which has been circulated was actually taken from a 2016 interview with Mr Ganstein, published in Italian magazine BenEssere.

Pope Benedict, born Josef Ratzinger, became the first Pope in almost six hundred years to resign his post when he stepped down in 2013.

At the time of his resignation, the Pope said he felt a duty to resign because of his declining health.

Since stepping down he has continued to live in a former convent within the Vatican as a pope Emeritus, spending his time praying, reading or writing.


on various pop cultural themes (Hipster Haiku, for example) abound, and the form remains a staple in elementary schools even at a time when public school curricula, for one reason or another, are bereft of poetry in general. In one Beavis and Butthead episode, a frustrated English teacher goes into paroxysms of joy when the snarky duo inadvertently heh, heh, heh their way into an impromptu haiku.

There can be no denying, however, that a good haiku possesses an inimitable power, even in its myriad and loose adaptations, and it makes sense that Mark Jarman, perhaps the most traditionally formally adept poet writing in America since the passing of Donald Justice, would choose it for an exploration of oblivion [<L oblivion, oblivio, to forget, perhaps from ob ("the way")Show caption Entrepenas reservoir on the Tagus river in Guadalajara, Spain. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Rivers Tagus river at risk of drying up completely Climate change, dams and diversion bring Iberian peninsula’s longest river, on which millions depend, to brink of collapse Stephen Burgen Mon 14 Aug 2017 15.39 BST Share on Facebook

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The Tagus river, the longest in the Iberian peninsula, is in danger of drying up completely as Spain once again finds itself in the grip of drought.

Miguel Ángel Sánchez, spokesman of the Platform in Defence of the Tagus, says “the river has collapsed through a combination of climate change, water transfer and the waste Madrid produces.”

The Tagus, known in Spanish as the Tajo and Portuguese as the Tejo, rises


in Aragón in northern Spain, passes close to Madrid and forms part of the border with Portugal before flowing into the sea at Lisbon. En route, it is dammed no fewer than 51 times in Spain alone.

But its troubles begin at the headwaters in Aragón. In 1902 a plan was conceived to siphon off water from here and divert it to the Segura river to irrigate farms in the arid southeast in what is known as the Tajo-Segura transfer. Construction began in 1966 and water started flowing out of the dammed Tagus headwaters to the Segura in 1979.

However, the amount of available water was miscalculated and Spain’s cyclical droughts were not factored in. Today only 47% of the predicted water resources exist and levels in the two headwaterwaste treatment plant close to the river and the Portuguese border.

A forest fire rages on hills across the Tagus river on 27 July, near Vila Velha de Rodao, central Portugal. Photograph: Armando Franca/AP

Spain’s water management has been driven by economics, not environmental considerations, says environmental lawyer María Soledad Gallego. “A river isn’t just a water resource, it has a cultural, social, historic and aesthetic value.”

In terms of water, Spain is living beyond its means. Agricultural demand in the Segura basin has been rising for decades, says Hernández-Mora, resulting in the over-exploitation of both ground and surface water. Water will always be a scarce resource in Spain, she says, and what needs to be controlled is demand.

While much is made of the transferred water being used to irrigate golf


of the drop in sales volume.

Sales of Japanese anime now account for 23% of the market, down from 24% last year. In addition, the anime home video market alone has seen at least a 10% decrease from last year. Japanese anime is the second-largest category of home video sales after music, and it is the largest category of Blu-ray Disc sales, accounting for 33% of the total.

The chart below shows the breakdown of the total home video market by category for 2016 (left) and the first half of 2017 (right). The categories, in order from top to bottom, are 'other', hobby/instructional, music, sports, Japanese drama series, Western drama series, Asian drama series, Japanese animation, Western animation, Japanese films, and Western films.

Home video revenue in Japan has gradually declinedon •

THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — [UPDATE April 2, 2012 – Talackova might be back in the pageant. See below.] Jenna Talackova, a 23-year-old A transgender contestant in the Miss Universe Canada competition got the boot for ‘not meeting requirements.’ Jenna Talackova of Vancouver, BC began hormone therapy at 14 underwent SRS at 19 and is now 23. Reportedly the organization’s rules state contestants must be ‘born female’. Talackova is said to be consulting a lawyer soon. Stay tuned.

Transsexual beauty contestant booted from pageant | Hot Topics | an SFGate.com blog.

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Miami University of Ohio told trans man Kaeden Kass, a junior at the university that his attempt to be a resident adviser in an all-male dorm is a no-go. They did say he could be a RA in


that the G.I.R.L. platform is designed to address. “Look at the Girl Scout alumnae: over 90 percent of female astronauts were Girl Scouts; every woman secretary of state; and 75 percent of congresswomen. How do we tell that story?”

Pitter-Armand is bringing the lessons she learned at HBS and in the for-profit sector to that question. After graduating from the School, she spent more than a decade at PepsiCo, for the most part undertaking brand management for well-known products such as Aquafina and Starbucks Bottled Frappuccino.

During her time at the company, she was also tapped to work on a PepsiCo initiative to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. “I had that rare instance where my skill set as a marketer was being called on to meet a greater10th Cir. R. 32.1.
through their energy and fuel supply companies. The government alleges that

Dermen and the other defendants laundered and transferred most of the money to

Turkey, where he owns property.

      Dermen was arrested in California in August 2018 and has been detained since

then. He was removed to Utah, where the charges are pending and where two other

defendants were also being detained. His initial appearance was on September 24,

2018. After a hearing in October, the district court found that Dermen is a flight risk

and upheld the magistrate judge’s order detaining him pending trial. Specifically, the

court found that he “has both the motive and ability to exit the United States without

detection and abscond to a country [Turkey] that presently refuses to extradite to the

United States,”


and that no condition or combination of conditions would reasonably

assure his appearance at trial. Aplt. App. Vol. II at 520-21.

      The court’s flight-risk finding was based on evidence that, among other things,

Dermen owns property and a yacht and has access to large bank accounts in Turkey;

for several years before his arrest, he spent significant time in Turkey and funneled

millions of dollars into its economy; he told several government witnesses that if he

were ever criminally charged, he would flee to Turkey; and in 2017, after a

California court issued a warrant to search his home in an unrelated case, he flew to

Turkey the next day in a private plane owned by a Turkish bank and stayed there for

several months, and he entered and exited thewhom the time for trial has not run and no motion for
     severance has been granted”).

    The time between May 13 and July 29, 2019, because the court continued the
     May trial date both to give counsel for the two new codefendants adequate
     time to prepare for trial and to accommodate a continuance of the New York
     trial. The court noted that Dermen’s own counsel also was involved in the
     New York case, having accepted a defendant in that case as a new client
     despite knowing that trial in the New York case would conflict with the May


yards on 10 targets. Cribbs’ first down catch on the final drive gave Seneca Wallace a chance to put the ball in the end zone one last time. Cribbs also appeared to be on nearly every single special teams tackle in kick coverage, including one especially big hit on Antonio Brown.

For Jabaal Sheard it was another sack to bring his season total to 8.5 to lead the team. Great stuff from the rookie. Phil Taylor had a more uneven season on the line, but it is worth noting that Sheard and Taylor starting every game is the first time that’s happened since Tampa had two rooks do it in 1992. That just goes to show how young this Browns defensive line is and how much better they couldCasa de Campo in Dominican Republic named Golf Resort of the Year 2014 at IAGTO Awards

Casa de Campo, a 7,000-acre luxury resort in La Romana, has been recognised as the "Golf Resort of the Year" in the 2014 IAGTO Awards. The Dominican countryside resort boasts three diverse courses that have been designed by renowned golf course architect Pete Dye. They are: Teeth of the Dog, Dye Fore and The Links.

The 2014 IAGTO Awards have named Casa de Campo as “Golf Resort of the Year” in the “Rest of the World” category.

The 7,000-acre luxury resort in La Romana in the Dominican Republic has three diverse golf courses that have been designed by Pete Dye, the famous golf course architect.

IAGTO is the global trade organisation for the golf tourist industry


and the annual awards honour the best golf resorts in North America, Europe, and the Rest of the World.

The award winners are decided when more than 500 specialist golf tour operators in 62 countries across the world vote for various golf resorts based on criteria including customer satisfaction, quality of golf courses and accommodation, and value for money.

"On behalf of the entire resort, Casa de Campo is honoured to receive the ‘Golf Resort of the Year’ award from IAGTO,”

“We are proud to have such a renowned organisation recognise our 90 holes of Pete Dye-designed golf."

“Each of the three courses -Teeth of the Dog, Dye Fore and The Links – presents unique challenges for golfers, whether it is playing the seven oceanfront holes on Teeth against strong seaside winds,or Dye Fore’s signature shots edging 300-feet cliffs dropping to the Chavon River below. Additionally, Casa de Campo’s attentive staff and upscale amenities make for great vacation experiences on and off the greens.” stated Peter Bonell, the Chief Marketing Officer for Casa de Campo.

Casa de Campo is located on the south-eastern coast of the Dominican Republic and it features spacious accommodation comprising high end three-to-ten bedroom villa mansions.

The luxury resort is a member of Leading Golf Resorts of the World, Leading Hotels of the World and Preferred Hotels & ResortsLa Romana is located in the south east of the Caribbean island nation opposite Catalina Island. The province is becoming a popular destination for travellers thanks to tourist resorts such as Bayahibe, Dominicus, and Casa de Campo that offer


a collection of pristine beaches, all-inclusive resorts, and world-class golf courses.

The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean nation that occupies the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola, whose western third belongs to the nation of Haiti. There are plenty of things to do and see on the island such as relaxing amid tropical surroundings made up of white sand beaches fringed with turquoise ocean waters; hiking across the rolling green hills or up the island’s majestic mountains; visiting historic and cultural attractions; and enjoying exhilarating water sports including surfing, windsurfing, fishing, snorkelling and scuba diving.

Soak up the fabulous Dominican sunshine at this superb five star resort on the South East coast

Rooms have recently been refurbish and modernised while still respecting the historical character and charm the resortUnion).  On February 4, the Union was found in contempt of the temporary restraining order which was continued from that date as a preliminary injunction.  The court established a schedule of fines to be imposed if the strike continued beyond February 7.  The employees resumed work.  No appeal was taken from either the January 27 or the February 4 injunctions.

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Thirty-four days later, on March 13, the employees again went on strike.  By this time the two employees were back to work and any grievance concerning their suspension had been settled.  In an order issued on May 25, the court enforced the February 4 contempt adjudication against the strikes after March 13, imposing fines pursuant to the schedule totaling $143,878.

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COLUMBUS, OHIO -- The Columbus Blue Jackets have placed right wing Jared Boll on Injured Reserve and recalled center Michael Chaput from Cleveland’s Lake Erie Monsters, Columbus’ American Hockey League affiliate, club General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen announced today.

Boll, 29, will be sidelined at least a week after suffering a foot injury while playing in his 500th career NHL game vs. the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday. He has registered 18 penalty minutes and a -1 plus/minus rating in 12 games this season. The club’s fourth pick, 101st overall, in the 2005 NHL Draft, he has posted 26-33-59 and is the Blue Jackets’ all-time leader 1,152 penalty minutes.

Chaput, 23, is tied for second on Lake Erie in scoring with five goals and three assists for eight points. He hasalso recorded four penalty minutes and a +1 plus/minus rating in 13 games. The Ile Bizard, Quebec native has collected 1-5-6 in 50 career NHL games with the Blue Jackets, including 1-4-5 in 33 games in 2014-15. Acquired from Philadelphia via trade on February 28, 2011, he has registered 47-59-106 and 134 penalty minutes in 186 career AHL games with Lake Erie and the Springfield Falcons. He was selected by the Flyers with their first pick, 89th overall, in the 2010 NHL Draft.

The Blue Jackets return to action on Thursday when they visit the Ottawa Senators. Game time from Canadian Tire Centre is 7:30 p.m. ET. Live coverage on FOX Sports Ohio begins with the Blue Jackets Live pre-game show at 7 p.m. The game will also be


(her parents don't want her actual name or face on the internet) and her friend play Just Dance 4 every morning before school and they LOVE it. The mix of current and classic music was apparently a very big hit - Miss M has been constantly singing Rick Aston, highly amusing! They really liked the chance to move and wake up in the mornings. It is apparenly a wonderful way to start the day!

I managed to get some video of Miss M dancing and asked her some questions about the game.

After I stopped rolling, Miss M told me that one of her favorite songs in the game is Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Aston. Why? Because the avatar is dressed as a lame super hero andby type such as Mergers and Acquisitions, Equity/Debt Offering etc.- Deals by Region - Chart and table presenting information on the number of deals and value reported by the company by region, which includes North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa and South and Central America.- Deals by Sub-sector - Chart and table showing information on the number of deals and value reported by the company, by sub-sector.- Major Deals - Information on the company's major financial deals. Each such deal has a brief summary, deal type, deal rationale; and deal financials and target Company’s (major public companies) key financial metrics and ratios.- Business Description - A brief description of the company's operations.- Key Employees - A list of the key executives of the company.-


their children to private or religious schools.

In recent weeks since the Texas Republican narrowly secured his "Student Opportunity Amendment" in the GOP tax bill – with an assist from Vice President Mike Pence, who cast the tie-breaking vote – Cruz's 2018 Senate campaign has been heralding the measure to a key Texas constituency: Religious conservatives.

In a soaring campaign-style video and a series of email testimonials, Cruz and his backers have described the measure as a turning point in the conservative struggle to allow public funds to open the doors of private schools.

In an email to supporters last week – the latest of at least four this month – the Cruz campaign highlighted a recent opinion piece by Drew White, a senior policy analyst for the conservative Texas PublicPolicy Foundation, calling the Cruz measure a "game changer."

The amendment would allow $10,000 per child to be taken from tax-privileged 529 savings plans each year. In a significant policy win for Cruz as he heads into an election year, it was included in Friday's joint House-Senate conference bill, now headed for final passage this week.

According to Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation, it would cost the Treasury about $500 million over 10 years, representing a major win for conservative advocates of school choice, which Cruz has called "the civil rights issue of our time."

Many Democrats and some Republicans have opposed the tax benefit as a sop to affluent families that can afford to send their children to private schools. But the issue has received far less debate than the


it would deepen class inequality in education.

The Not One Penny campaign, which has fought the entire GOP tax bill, cited a recent paper by Harvard University's Richard Murnane and Stanford University's Sean Reardon showing that enrollment in private schools has remained stable for the past half-century while middle class students increasingly rely on public schools.

The study also found that between 1972 and 2010, wealthier parents spent increasingly on the education of children under 6. The gap between their spending and those of poorer families has increased four-fold since 1972, and has appeared to widen since 2010.going south on Figueroa. Figueroa is 66 feet wide and is divided in the center by double white lines. At the time of the accident no other vehicle was in the immediate vicinity. The only conflict in the evidence is as to where plaintiff was standing at the time he was injured.
 Plaintiff's evidence tended to establish that he was crossing at a point approximately 200 feet south of the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Figueroa Street; he was walking at a normal gait; as he approached the center of the street he observed the traffic signal at Washington Boulevard had changed so he decided he "couldn't get across"; he stopped "a foot to two feet" east of the double white line for five to eight seconds to


so on the west side of the center line; he was then about 5 or 8 feet away from plaintiff; he immediately applied his brakes, but he had already struck plaintiff. Romero testified, "When I first saw him--well, I had no warning at all. I mean it came all of a sudden. I didn't have any chance of doing anything to prevent it." After he struck plaintiff he swerved to his left, to a point about one feet east of the center line. Plaintiff was struck by the left front headlight and fender of the car. There were 34 feet of skid marks made by the left wheels of the car beginning one foot east of the double center line and ending at a point four feet eastof Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA; Brian A. Jackson, physical scientist,
RAND Corp.; and Lieutenant Steve Lambert, Virginia Fusion
Center, Virginia State Police.............................. 69
Brennan, John............................................ 69
Jackson, Brian A......................................... 89
Kettl, Donald F.......................................... 75
Lambert, Steve........................................... 101
Wells, Linton, II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Networks and Information Integration, U.S. Department of
Defense; Peter F. Verga, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Homeland Defense, U.S. Department of Defense;
and Vance Hitch, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department
of Justice................................................. 21
Hitch, Vance............................................. 51
Verga, Peter F........................................... 37
Wells, Linton, II........................................ 21
Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by:
Brennan, John, president and chief executive officer, the
Analysis Corp., McLean, VA, prepared statement of.......... 72
Cummings, Hon. Elijah E., a Representative in Congress from
the State of Maryland, prepared statement of............... 16
Davis, Chairman Tom, a Representative in Congress from the
State of Virginia, prepared statement of................... 4
Hitch, Vance, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of
Justice,


prepared statement of............................. 54
Jackson, Brian A., physical scientist, RAND Corp., prepared
statement of............................................... 91
Kettl, Donald F., director, FELS Institute of Government,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, prepared
statement of............................................... 77
Lambert, Lieutenant Steve, Virginia Fusion Center, Virginia
State Police, prepared statement of........................ 103
Verga, Peter F., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Homeland Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, prepared
statement of............................................... 39
Waxman, Hon. Henry A., a Representative in Congress from the
State of California, prepared statement of................. 11
Wells, Linton, II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Networks and Information Integration, U.S. Department of
Defense, prepared statement of............................. 00
THE NEED TO KNOW: INFORMATION SHARING LESSONS FOR DISASTER RESPONSE
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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2006
House of Representatives,
Committee on Government Reform,
Washington, DC.
The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:13 a.m., in
room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Tom Davis
(chairman of the committee) presiding.
Present: Representatives Tom Davis, Platts, Miller,
Marchant,now, across the river in Alexandria, admitted al
Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui is on trial, facing the death
penalty for his role in the September 11th attacks. As we all
now know, Mr. Moussaoui was in custody weeks before September
11th. His attendance at flight school raised alarms among some
experienced law enforcement and intelligence professionals
about a possible hijacking plot. But as the 9/11 Commission
documented, the Government never pulled together the various
threads of information that could have detected the September
11th plot. Better information sharing was one of the key
recommendations that the 9/11 Commission made.
Hurricane Katrina showed us that serious flaws remain in
the Government's crisis prevention and response communications
capabilities.
The Katrina investigation revealed that President Bush,
Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff, and other top officials
were unaware of the magnitude of the disaster facing New
Orleans until Tuesday, August


30th, a day after the levees
broke. They were unaware of this even though the first reports
of levee breaches came as early as 8 a.m. on Monday, and the
levee breaches were confirmed by late afternoon that day.
In fact, as late as 2 weeks after landfall, President Bush
continued to insist that the levees had not breached until
Tuesday and that there was a sense of relaxation at the White
House on Monday night and Tuesday morning because he and other
top officials believed that New Orleans had ``dodged a
bullet.''
This was an inexcusable failure of the most senior
officials in our Government to comprehend and act on urgent
warnings and vital information.
The second problem causing a lack of information was
technological. Katrina was such a powerful storm that it
knocked out phone lines and radio towers throughout aforces, DOD civilian
personnel, and contractors at the strategic, operational, and
tactical command echelons. This unity of command ensures both a
unity of effort and an economy of force, that is, the right
capabilities and forces in the right numbers.
Within the Department, DOD's command and control structure
facilitates effective information flow between command
echelons, whether the contingency is at home or abroad. When at
home, a joint task force is established to command and control
the Federal military forces, guided by the Commander of U.S.
Northern Command in the joint operations area of a disaster.
The NORTHCOM Commander in turn is responsible for ensuring that
the joint task force receives the information it needs and
provides information reported by the joint task force to the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of
Defense.
Outside of DOD, several venues exist


working on new
standards to make this sharing even more timely and efficient.
As this committee is analyzing post-Katrina issues, I
thought it was appropriate to mention two of the successes we
had in the time immediately following the hurricane. As the
Marshals Service moved prisoners from the New Orleans area,
they faced the challenge of coordinating buses and new prison
space. To complicate matters, the prisoners switched arm bands
in hopes of confusing their guards. The Marshals used online
photos and other descriptive data, such as scars, marks, and
tattoos, from the joint automated booking system to ensure that
valid identities were maintained. Another success story was the
development and implementation of the National Sex Offender
Public Registry through the support of the Bureau of Justice
Assistance. This Web site was invaluable to law enforcement as
it helped cities like Houston andfor us the
military, doctrinal issues needed to overcome some of the
information sharing.
One of the things in tsunami, for example, that we learned
which applied to Katrina was we sent some people down there--a
military doctor, a civilian doctor, and a retired Navy pilot--
and what happened when they got to Jakarta is the two doctors
were welcomed with abrazos by the nongovernmental organizations
there because they had experience working together in Kosovo
and Africa and places like this. The Navy pilot could go on
board the carrier ``Lincoln'' and fit right into the aviation
community.
What they found a few days later when they got together was
that the military was prohibited by policy from sharing
information outside the military boundaries unless asked. The
nongovernmental organizations didn't know they had to ask and
didn't know how to ask. Once those two


not mention but that is in
the written testimony called the IWN, Integrated Wireless
Network. That is where law enforcement officers across the
country still use radio communications. In the near term, in
the not-too-distant future, it will be other forms of
communication, but right now it is a lot of radios.
So we have a major program called IWN to set standards and
to establish a nationwide network for law enforcement across
the country. It is a cross-departmental effort between the
Department of Justice in the lead, Department of Homeland
Security, Department of Treasury, where between those three
departments that is most of the law enforcement in the United
States, to get them all on a common network with common
equipment and common standards and all that kind of stuff. So
that will help a lot.
So there are efforts, and onare informed by 25 years of
experience as a CIA official as well as by my tenure as head of
the Terrorist Threat Integration Center and of its successor
organization, the National Counterterrorism Center.
The term ``information sharing'' has become one of the most
frequently used phrases in Government since the devastating
terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. Members
of Congress as well as senior officials in the executive branch
have railed against the lack of sufficient sharing of critical
information among Government agencies. The problem has been
attributed, at various times, to institutional stovepipes,
bureaucratic malaise, turf battles among agencies, excessive
security requirements, mismanagement of IT resources and
budgets, and a lack of strong and visionary leadership. I do
not disagree that these factors have played a role in
preventing the flow of relevant information in a timely fashion
to departments,


both from Members of Congress and from senior
administration officials to define that, in some cases to
provide some additional resources, but then to provide a lot of
extra support and leadership essentially to make Lieutenant
Lambert's job easier. FEMA's job ought to be to make Lieutenant
Lambert's job work better, to try to provide better response in
situations like New Orleans.
Chairman Tom Davis. In the case of Katrina, Michael Brown
was not just the head of FEMA. He was the Federal officer in
charge. He was designated--he took it as a demotion, by the
way, when it was given to him. And there probably should be
that overlap between FEMA and the people being in charge on the
ground, but it may be new to FEMA in the sense that they are
not necessarily used to this. They werepoint.”

One of the first photographs is of a young woman with an enormous smile and a small tiara. The artists get to work forming the diamond shape of her head and the slits of her eyes, filling at least a third of the page with her ballooned cheeks or neat rows of towering teeth. From the front of the room, Bauer shouts, “No cheating. No looking on someone else’s paper.” One participant adds a halo of stars around the drawn face. In Brian Oakes’ caricature, the woman has a small head and a giant breast tumbling out of her shirt. An artist named Daniel Almariei, originally from Romania and now living in West Nyack, New York, soon attracts a crowd of onlookers—both for his picture, which is shaping


up as masterful, and for the sheer entertainment value of his performance. He abruptly flips the page sideways to shade or to get a curved line just so; he holds the drawing above him, as if to the light, studying it with a squint and a single raised brow, his dramatic frown forming an upside-down U. Almariei says of his art at one point, “I work with a lot of expression,” which seems a description as much of his sketching as of his sketches.

The next photo is of the hotel’s chef, and the best likenesses all capture the longness of his face, its rectangular shape, and the way his features are crowded down toward the bottom of it. An artist known as Big Al curses what he’s committedcan think of with a face-recognition system open up.”

On a visit to MIT a few weeks after the convention, I bring along some footage of the Las Vegas gathering to show Sinha and a few of his students. They are particularly interested in the speed competition, an even more intense and raucous affair than the likeness contest. In half a dozen heats, groups of artists scramble to see who can draw the greatest number of recognizable caricatures in a five-minute span. The artists’ hands flutter like hummingbirds over their pages, and quick-sketched faces pile up on the floor. A diminutive Japanese woman in some sort of vintage Pinky Tuscadero biker-chick outfit draws Freddy Krueger-style, with special ink extensions on all five fingers of one hand. Toramaru, among the


fastest eight to reach the final round, tilts his head back at the three-minute mark and emits a tigerly roar. Steve Dorris, the event’s 2008 winner, who has a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt stretched over his protruding belly, breathes heavily from the exertion. Another competitor, Beejay Hawn, increases her speed by drawing according to a strict regimen, starting with a single, counterclockwise line to represent one side of the face, then depicting eyes, nose, and mouth, in that order, unless one of the features is so large that it allows her to skip another altogether and save a valuable second. The eventual winner, to be announced at the convention’s closing banquet, is Yonie Woo, the Usain Bolt of caricaturists, who whips off 21 drawings in five minutes,ballerina but due to WW2 and her height, she could not; instead she wore her ballet slippers.

- Improve your posture - everything looks good with head up and shoulder back.

- Lower your voice - think of Audrey singing "Moon River" on the fire escape at the set of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

"A girl can't read without her lipstick." - Audrey as Holly Golightly, in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Sabrina, Funny Face and Breakfast at Tiffany's are my favourite Audrey films, I can watch them over and over. Sabrina for the script (and Humphrey, of course!), funny face for the fashion and Breakfast at Tiffany's for sweet Holly. I'll never be bored of Audrey.

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

I have loved up-cycled furniture ever since I first saw it, it goes hand in hand


scientists of all disciplines on a key period in American history: a time when the Western frontier was still being settled, when the transformation of the country from an agricultural to an industrial economy was only beginning, when African Americans had only recently been released from slavery, when cities like Chicago were in their infancy and older cities like New York were still receiving their first waves of German and Irish immigrants, and the nation was on the verge of the next great wave of population movements - of blacks from South to North, of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, and Chinese and other groups from East Asia.to the ocean. At somewhere around 250 species (and counting), the cichlids of Tanganyika are remarkable in their diversity, complexity of behavior, colour and breeding habits. Almost all are found nowhere else.

Tanganyika Cichlids

Cichlids of all shapes, sizes and colours!

The largest cichlid in the world is the aptly named emperor cichlid (Boulengerochromis microlepis), a stunning fish that has adapted to almost all habitats in the lake. Adult emperors pair up at breeding time and remain with their eggs and then free swimming fry for up to months, their entire being concentrated on ensuring the safety and maximum survival of their offspring. The male and female will take turns guarding their young, aggressively chasing off any threat and in the process taking on breathtaking hues of blues and golds to


signify their status. In comparison nearly all species of ocean dwelling fish spawn millions of eggs and sperm into the water column and let nature take its course, no parental care being given whatsoever. Parent emperors on the other hand have been suspected of guarding their young so diligently that they themselves become emaciated and possibly never recover.

Living its entire life in the vicinity of empty snail shells that make their homes, the tiny zebra shell fish ( Neolamprologus multifaciatus) is amongst the smallest of the Tanganyika cichlids, growing to no more than 5cm in length, these tiny fish live in huge colonies of empty shell beds in their thousands, the young fry moving freely between different shells , tolerated by all fish in the colony in anThere's a battle brewing in the South China Sea. Ownership of territory near the Paracel Islands is disputed, and after China moved an oil drilling rig into the area, Vietnam sent ships to investigate.

The Chinese rammed the Vietnamese crafts and shot them with water cannons, but this fight is a lot bigger than one Chinese oil rig.

"It involves not just China and Vietnam, but also Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia," says Taylor Fravel, a professor of political science at MIT. Fravel notes that border disputes in the area have been going on for decades and this is China's way of trying to demonstrate its claim to the territory.

"China is desperate for domestic sources of energy," says Ernie Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center


The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy

In The Crying of Lot 49, a scientific approach to the plot, through the exploration of entropy in thermodynamics and information theory, helps to clarify the ambiguous relationship that Oedipa Maas, Maxwell's Demon and the Tristero system have with one another. Through a convoluted, chaotic adventure that eventually ends up in disorder, Oedipa searches for the truth about Tristero, hoping it will save her from her tower of imprisonment. Pynchon dangles this elusive message over Oedipa's and the readers' heads, until the end of the novel, when we hope to find out Tristero's true identity. However, the interference of thermodynamic and information theory entropy prevents the message from ever being transmitted to the receiver.

Thermodynamics is the science of the relations betweenthat Oedipa may have based her life around. "Oedipa wondered whether...she too might not be left with only compiled memories of clues, announcements, intimations, but never the central truth itself, which must somehow each time be too bright for her memory to hold; which must always blaze out, destroying its own message irreversibly"(pg.95). The light the Demon uses when he acts as "gateskeeper" to identify the molecules is too bright for Oedipa's system. And truth, like the entropy of information theory, irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message, just as the Demon destroys the knowledge that the sensitive passes on to it in order to create power. In this paradoxical state, Oedipa's quest for the truth about Tristero, and her subsequent attempt to escape from her tower


Scientific Uncertainty, and Information. Academic Press, New York: 1964.

Hawkins, David. The Language of Nature: An Essay on the Philosophy of Science. W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco: 1964.

Klapp, Orrin. Overload and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society. Greenwood Press, New York: 1986.

Shannon, Claude. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. The University of Illinois Press, Urbana: 1959.

Zemansky, Mark. Heat and Thermodynamics. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York: 1943.

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car to the store, a man *179 wearing a ski mask and brandishing a gun approached him in the parking lot and demanded that he get back in his car. The masked man got into the car with Maynard and told him that together they were going to rob the store. During this conversation, the man removed his ski mask, allowing Maynard to get a good look at his face. Maynard later identified the assailant as the appellant.
Maynard then entered the store with the appellant. After looking around briefly, the appellant put his ski mask back on. Brandishing his pistol, he announced his intention to rob the store. He first ordered Maynard to collect the money from the cash registers in a paper bag and then demanded the


money from the office. Over $2500 in cash, checks and food stamps was taken. The robber took the bag and backed out of the store, shaking hands and wishing all a Merry Christmas.
At this point Maynard dashed out of the store, escaped in his car, and headed directly to the Logan County State Police Detachment where he reported the robbery. As he was driving away, Maynard narrowly avoided a collision with a truck driven by Steve Slate, another Kroger employee. Slate parked his truck in the spot just vacated by Maynard, got out and locked the vehicle.
As Slate started toward the store, a man wearing a ski mask came out, pointed a pistol at him and told him to get back in the truck. When Slate hesitated fora moment, the man threatened to shoot a bystander. Slate opened the door to the truck and the masked man got in on the passenger side. He then moved over towards the driver's side of the cab where Slate was sitting, pointed the pistol at Slate and ordered him to drive away.
At his abductor's instruction, Slate drove first toward Holden then toward Williamson at a high rate of speed. A bystander in the Kroger parking lot followed Slate's truck in his car long enough to get the license number of the vehicle which he reported to the State Police. After a while, the masked man fired one shot into the glove compartment area of the dashboard of Slate's truck and another shot out of the truck window for


effect. The man then removed the ski mask from his face and began conversing with Slate, who later identified him as the appellant. Slate eventually convinced the appellant to put the pistol in the glove compartment.
About fifteen minutes later the appellant ordered Slate to stop at a tavern in Delbarton to buy beer and gas. The appellant took a twenty dollar bill from the paper bag he had with him and got out of the truck with Slate. Slate knocked at the door of the tavern and when the owner appeared, the appellant began talking with him about buying a case of beer. On the pretext of going to the bathroom, Slate slipped out the side door of the tavern and ran to his truck. As Slate droveaway, the appellant remarked to the tavern owner, "That feller stole my truck and everything I had."
The appellant then bought a six-pack of beer and left the tavern. Slate drove to a nearby mine and had the night watchman call the State Police. The officers who responded searched the truck and recovered the pistol the appellant had placed in the glove compartment and the bag containing all of the stolen money, checks and food stamps, with the exception of twenty dollars.
Warrants were issued for the appellant's arrest in Logan County on December 20, 1978. The following day, the appellant was arrested in Mingo County and transported by the State Police to the Logan County Jail. The appellant was taken before a Logan County magistrate and was informed of


Chief Justice found no prima facie grounds sufficient to warrant recusal and ordered Judge Stevens to proceed in the case.
A hearing on pretrial motions was conducted on April 17, 1980. At the request of defense counsel, another hearing was held on May 2, 1980, at which time the appellant's court-appointed attorneys moved to withdraw from the case, and the appellant requested appointment of other counsel. These motions were denied and the case moved to trial.
The appellant's trial was conducted on May 5 and 6, 1980. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on all three charges and the appellant was subsequently sentenced to three consecutive thirty-year terms of imprisonment in the penitentiary.
In this appeal, the appellant, by counsel, raises twelve assignments of error. The appellant, pro se, raisesan additional nineteen assignments of error. The errors upon which the appellant primarily relies concern the admission of testimony relating to the out-of-court identification of the appellant at the lineup, the trial court's refusal to permit withdrawal of the appellant's court-appointed attorneys and the trial court's refusal to allow the appellant to represent himself at trial.[1]

I

The Out-of-Court Identification
A lineup was conducted at the Logan County Jail on December 21, 1979, two days after the robbery and shortly after the appellant's arrest in Mingo County on an unrelated charge. The appellant was transported to the Logan County Jail and was taken before a magistrate who informed him of the charges against him in Logan County. Although the appellant refused to *181 sign the acknowledgement of rights form typically used


in such proceedings, a check mark appears in the box next to the phrase "I want counsel appointed for me," and an attorney was appointed to represent the appellant.
The lineup consisted of eight men, in addition to the appellant, who were selected from the jail population for their physical resemblance to the appellant. Three witnesses, Steve Slate, Jeff Hill and Martin Shell, identified the appellant as the perpetrator of the crimes. Counsel for the appellant was not notified of or present at the lineup.
An in camera hearing was conducted at trial to determine the propriety of the identification procedure. At the conclusion of the hearing, Slate and Hill were permitted to testify as to their out-of-court identification of the appellant. They also identified the appellant from a photographwhich was properly admitted into evidence, contained the same information as did his statement at the preliminary hearing.[5] We concluded that the error was not prejudicial to the defendant in that it was not crucial to the conviction.
In the case at hand, we are of the opinion that the erroneous admission of the out-of-court identification was harmless. At trial, two witnesses who did not view the lineup independently identified the appellant. Paul Maynard, the first kidnapping victim, positively identified the appellant as the man in the ski mask who forced him at gunpoint to assist in the robbery of the Kroger store. Maynard testified that the appellant removed his ski mask while he was still in Maynard's car and did not replace it until after they entered the


store. Maynard stated that he had a good view of the appellant's face for approximately ten minutes.
The other witness was Clifford Mahone, the owner of the tavern where Slate testified the appellant ordered him to stop for gas and beer and where Slate eventually escaped from his abductor. Mahone positively identified the appellant as the man who was with Slate that night and testified that he knew the appellant from a previous occasion when the appellant had been in his tavern and had spoken with him.
*183 The independent in-court identifications of the appellant by these two witnesses were given with a high degree of certainty and the testimony was uncontradicted. When this testimony is coupled with the fact that all of the stolen money, with the exception ofon the eve of trial. The motion was tendered on May 2, 1980 by the appellant's attorneys and alleged a complete breakdown of communications between the appellant and his counsel. The circuit court conducted a hearing on the matter at which the appellant explained that he did not trust his attorneys to represent him because they had refused to file motions on his behalf or to provide him with documents he had requested and because one of them was a friend of the assistant prosecuting attorney who was representing the State at trial. The circuit court found no merit in the appellant's allegations, concluding that his refusal to cooperate with his court-appointed attorneys was a deliberate attempt to delay the proceedings, and denied the motion for substitution of


SANTA MONICA (CBSLA.com) — A teacher and wrestling coach at Santa Monica High School was placed on leave Friday after he got into a brawl with a student, which was caught on cellphone videos, the school district superintendent said.

In a letter to parents, Sandra Lyon, the superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, said the altercation happened in a classroom Friday morning.

“A deeply disturbing incident involving a teacher and student occurred in a classroom at Santa Monica High School, resulting in the Santa Monica Police Department being called to the campus. A number of videos capturing at least a portion of the incident are circulating, and I can tell you that what I witnessed on one of those videos is utterly alarming,” Lyon wrote.

Lyon added, “Based onengineer at John M. Campbell & Co., Norman, OkJa. Before joining JMC, he was professor of chemical engineering at Shiraz University, Iran, where he served as department head and associate dean of research in the college of engineering. He was previously professor of chemical engineering at the University of Qatar and a senior research scientist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. Moshfeghian holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Oklahoma State University. He is a member of AICHE.

Joan C. Bourdon is vice-president of the John M. Campbell &. Co. He has more than 30 years'experience in hydrocarbon processing. Bourdon is a Campbell gas instructor for "Gas Conditioning and Processing" and consultant specializing in sour aas processing. He has been involved in the development of


several sulfur-related technologies and mechanical innovations. Bourdon holds a BS in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and advanced degrees in other fields. He is a registered Professional Engineer and member of AIChE, SPE, and Chi Epsilon Sigma Honor Society.

R.N. Maddox

Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, Okla.

Robert N. Maddox (rmaddox @okstate.edu) is the Sheerar Chair emeritus professor of chemical engineering at Oklahoma State University. He served as head of the chemical engineering department from 1958 to 1978. He is a fellow of AIChE and a member of GPA.the cut fibers, and these reactions cause the appearance of appreciable friction between the slide walls and this friction prevents the exit of the cut disc from the die and the removal of the punch from the hole of the metal sheet.
For the purpose of avoiding these drawbacks, a blank-holder is used which, by acting by compression in the vicinity of the edge to be cut, from the time prior to the action of the punch and until the latter is completely retracted, prevents the deformation of the cut fibers.
In the current state of technology, the industrial machines which perform the cutting of metal sheets by means of punching are so equipped as to have a punching assembly essentially constituted by the punch itself, the die underneath and


once by using the side oven while cooking something else in the main oven! I know, it's too much.

Remember all those blackcurrants I grew and lovingly picked in the back garden, and how I was going to make blackcurrant liquorice ice cream with them? Well it got cooler and I didn't fancy ice cream so I made them all into compote.

The last few mornings have definitely felt like porridge mornings.

I went blackberry picking with the kids and my parents on Sunday in the grounds of Stansted House (pictured at the top, with the cricket match happening in front - such an English scene!) It's a favourite local walk and excellent blackberry hunting ground, and I have two kilos washed, bagged and frozen. This makes me feel very happycylinder. After the first 5 minutes has elapsed the divers enumerate each species starting from the beginning of the list. The quantity and size of each species is recorded during a "snapshot" in time (attempting to generate near-instantaneous counts per species). While this quantification process is occurring, if a new species enters the cylinder, the quantity and size are noted in addition to the time period it entered the cylinder (5--10 min, or \> 10 min). The survey is complete when the initial species list has been exhausted and all the species have been quantified, typically around 30 minutes after starting the survey.

In order to replicate the methodology used by RAMP, the divers were deployed in the exact same manner. The divers prepared to enter the water, the


been idle since March 11, when the Flames played in three events in Florida to open the spring season. The Flames have been paced by sophomore transfer Ryann Gilley, who has posted three rounds in the 80's this spring. In five combined tournaments in the fall and spring seasons, Gilley has recorded a team-best scoring average of 82.89. In the final round of the Sunshine Classic in Orlando on March 11, she shot a six-over-par 78, UIC's best individual round in Florida.

As a team, the Flames significantly improved their score in each round last month. UIC shot 340 in the final round of the Sunshine Spring Classic, just two days after carding a team score of 348 on the same course (Rio Pinar Country Club).

This week's tournament willbe played at a yardage of 6,092, with a par of 72. Both rounds will be shotgun starts. The women's field will feature host Bradley, Indiana State, Northern Iowa, South Carolina-Upstate, UIC and Western Illinois. Northern Iowa captured the team championship with a collective score of 908, extending a four-year streak of Missouri Valley Conference schools winning the team title.


the cable news execs would have gotten wind of the story and broken into regularly-scheduled programming. No such luck: CNN was re-running Piers Morgan, MSNBC was re-running Rachel Maddow, and Fox was re-running Hannity.

There was one hour to go. Sen. Davis was still standing by her desk, in filibuster limbo.A Republican senator moved to table Sen. Watson’s motion to appeal, and they squabbled about whose motion was on the floor. Other Senators from both sides made other motions. Dewhurst swapped out with another Republican, Sen. Robert Duncan, while they debated his ruling. There were many points of order, followed by long silences on the livestream while the chairs scratched their heads and tried to remember which motion happened when. It was a little like Lord of the Flies,women of Texas won.”

This woman of New York sort of felt like she’d won, too. Though by now I was in my sixth hour with my nose up to the glass and frankly, sort of felt Texan (particularly when Richards led the rotunda in “The Eyes of Texas”).

As Senator Wendy Davis finally walked out, elated, I felt elated for her, for everyone there, and for the women who would never know how close they came to losing the operative part of their fundamental right to choose.

Instead it was a victory for the collective who were willing to do something, stand for something, stand with something, #standwithwendy.

Rachel Sklar is a writer and the co-founder of TheLi.st. She still can’t believe that last night happened. If you want more information,


Midsize SUV Sales In America - July 2016 YTD

After a first half in which U.S. sales of the often supply constrained Honda Pilot fell 10%, Pilot volume over the last two months jumped 13%, year-over-year.The Pilot was nevertheless roundly outsold by a handful of top-tier three-row crossovers: Chevrolet Traverse, Toyota Highlander, and America's favourite three-row, the Ford Explorer.

The Explorer's sharp decrease was by no means the only sudden July decline among mainstream three-row crossovers.Nissan Pathfinder volume took a 30% dive as Nissan readies the launch of an updated 2017 model. The GMC Acadia is coming to the end of its Lambda platform run, as well, and sales slid 30% in July with the new Acadia set to take over in the coming weeks. You can click any modeluniversities nationally and is 16th among all New England institutions. Among public institutions in New England, UMass Lowell ranks second in average mid-career salary and is the only one that is a doctoral-granting university with a full range of academic programs from engineering to humanities.

UMass Lowell is ranked No. 170 by U.S. News & World Report, putting it in the top 100 public institutions and top 200 national universities in the U.S. of approximately 3,000 four-year colleges and universities. UMass Lowell’s ranking has climbed steadily in recent years, including jumping six spots from 2012 to 2013.

The top Business Insider ranking follows a report that a UMass Lowell education provides the 10th best return on investment among 437 public universities in the nation and 50th of all 1,060 colleges


humanity’s number one focus at the present time, they represent enormous risk.

HighlightsThe employment picture may not be robust yet but at least it appears to have moved up one or two notches. Payroll employment has sustained somewhat stronger gains, the unemployment rate is still below 9 percent. However, wage growth is lagging and anemic. Overall payroll employment in March gained 216,000, following a revised 194,000 increase in February and a 68,000 rise in January. The March boost came in higher than the consensus forecast for a 200,000 increase. The January and February revisions were up net 7,000. Private nonfarm payrolls posted a 230,000 increase in March, following a 240,000 rise in February. Analysts had projected a 190,000 boost for March.

The earnings picture in March is disappointing as averageis attached to an applicator, in substantially the same way a magazine is attached to a weapon; the cartridge is spring-loaded to urge one seed at a time into a seed discharge chamber that holds a single seed at a time. A special hollow needle is connected to the leading end of the applicator. A plunger rod is inserted into a trailing end of the applicator and pushed forwardly, i.e., in a trailing-to-leading direction. The leading end of the plunger rod engages a seed in the seed discharge chamber and drives the seed into the hollow interior of the special needle and then out of the leading end of the needle into the prostate. The surgeon then withdraws the needle a predetermined distance, withdraws the plunger rod to


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In addition, the necessary replacement of the parts of the mold between two phases of the manufacturing of different versions of the same piece leads to a fall in the efficiency and productivity of the equipment and the personnel and requires the acquisition of specific means permitting to make a rapid change in the parts of the mold.parade to help the town celebrate its farming heritage. ... more

SPECTRUM/The honorary color guard is closely followed by Sherman Veterans banner bearers and Sherman residents Kimberly Muirhead, attending the United States Naval Academy, and Roberts Butz, a member of the Marine Corps ROTC at Norwich University, Sunday in the Sherman Memorial Day parade. May 29, 2011 less

SPECTRUM/The honorary color guard is closely followed by Sherman Veterans banner bearers and Sherman residents Kimberly Muirhead, attending the United States Naval Academy, and Roberts Butz, a member of the ... more

SPECTRUM/Kimberly Muirhead, a Sherman resident and Canterbury School graduate now attending the United States Naval Academy, offers a passionate reminder Sunday that service to our nation very much includes community service. She was her town's Memorial Day guest speaker. May 29,


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SPECTRUM/Kimberly Muirhead, a Sherman resident and Canterbury School graduate now attending the United States Naval Academy, offers a passionate reminder Sunday that service to our nation very much includes ... more

SPECTRUM/Jed Orosz of Sherman performs "Taps" Sunday in front of the old town hall in the village center of during the town's Memorial Day parade as U.S. Naval veteran William Butz extends a heart-felt salute. May 29, 2011 less

SPECTRUM/Jed Orosz of Sherman performs "Taps" Sunday in front of the old town hall in the village center of during the town's Memorial Day parade as U.S. Naval veteran William Butz extends a heart-felt salute. ... more

SPECTRUM/Youths led by brothers David Kuhn, left, and Andrew Kuhn portray the Sherman Historical Society's "Artists & Writers of the 20th Century" duringthe May 29, 2011 Memorial Day parade in Sherman.

SPECTRUM/Youths led by brothers David Kuhn, left, and Andrew Kuhn portray the Sherman Historical Society's "Artists & Writers of the 20th Century" during the May 29, 2011 Memorial Day parade in Sherman.

SPECTRUM/First Selectman Andrea O'Connor and Selectman Ed Hayes wave to the crowd as they pass the newly expanded and refurbished Sherman firehouse along Route 39 North during the town's Memorial Day parade. May 29, 2011 less

SPECTRUM/First Selectman Andrea O'Connor and Selectman Ed Hayes wave to the crowd as they pass the newly expanded and refurbished Sherman firehouse along Route 39 North during the town's Memorial Day parade. ... more


and people who reside in rural and remote locations.[@R1] Rural and remote mothers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and socioeconomically disadvantaged women experience higher rates of maternal[@R3] and neonatal[@R4] mortality. This can result from problems in accessing necessary healthcare services.

Access to prenatal screening tests is lower for women living in rural and remote areas, those in the lowest quintile of the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) and Aboriginal women.[@R5] Data from Western Australia show that health services that provide antenatal screening are generally located in high socioeconomic areas and few are located in rural and remote areas.[@R5] Supportive of this is a decreasing trend in Down syndrome birth rates for women residing in metropolitan areas or those who receive prenatal care from a private obstetrician. However, thisdecrease is not evident among women living in rural and remote areas or those who received prenatal care in a public hospital.[@R6] Aboriginal women and those in rural or remote areas are less likely to attend their first antenatal visit during the first trimester of pregnancy and on average attend less antenatal appointments than non-Aboriginal women and women in metropolitan areas.[@R7]

A trend of population movement towards urban areas in Australia has seen a decline in the number of healthcare facilities that are able to provide perinatal care for women in rural and remote areas.[@R1] Current maternal healthcare supports and services in Australia, including travel and communication, are insufficient for families living in rural and remote areas.[@R9] Mothers and babies require access to an appropriately skilled workforce and necessary


The world’s largest laser, a machine that appeared in a Star Trek movie, has attained a powerful result: It's squeezed diamond, the least compressible substance known, 50 million times harder than Earth's atmosphere presses down on us. The finding should help scientists better understand how material behaves at the great pressures that prevail deep inside giant planets.

Physicist Ray Smith of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, and his colleagues achieved the feat at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), also in Livermore. Spanning 10 meters and armed with scores of lasers, the instrument is so sci-fi–looking that it appeared as the "warp core" of the starship Enterprise in the 2013 movie Star Trek Into Darkness. NIF has a practical purpose, however: to trigger nuclear fusion, the samebefore." The blast pulverized the diamond into dust, but before the mineral's destruction the scientists successfully measured its density as the pressure rose. For a billionth of a second, the diamond, which is normally 3.25 times denser than water, became denser than lead and 12.03 times denser than water.

"This is an impressive accomplishment," says David Stevenson of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, a planetary scientist who was not involved in the experiment. "This is high-quality data at very high pressures." Such great pressure is comparable to that at the center of giant planets: Jupiter's core has a pressure between 40 million and 90 million atmospheres, while the pressure at Saturn's center is about 40 million atmospheres.

Neither world has a diamond core, however. Diamond consists of carbon,


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Baroness Hale is to become the first female president of the UK's Supreme Court, Downing Street has said.

The 72-year-old will succeed Lord Neuberger, who is retiring in September, having been his deputy since 2013.

Lady Hale, who will be sworn in on 2 October, said: "It is a great honour and a challenge."

Lord Neuberger said her appointment was "a fitting pinnacle to a truly ground-breaking career".

Baroness Hale: The legal trailblazer

Born in Richmond in North Yorkshire, Lady Hale's other career highlights include becoming the UK's first woman Law Lord in 2004, and then the first woman Justice of the Supreme Court in 2009.

She has previously criticised the judicial appointments system for selecting from a pool of predominantly white men from similar economic and academic backgrounds.

High-profile cases

During her timeas deputy president of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale has ruled on many high-profile cases, including the government's Brexit appeal and the appeal from the parents of the sick baby Charlie Gard.

She was recently on the panel of justices who ruled in favour of a gay man who won a landmark ruling to give his husband the same pension rights as a wife would receive.

The Supreme Court is the final court of appeal for civil cases in the UK, and criminal cases from England, Northern Ireland and Wales, which means it considers cases where an order has already been made in a lower court and is being challenged.

A family law expert, Lady Hale said: "I look forward to building upon (Lord Neuberger's) pioneering achievements, including developing closer links


with each part of the United Kingdom, for example by sitting outside London, and improving the ways in which we communicate our work to the public.

"Recent high-profile cases mean that more people than ever before have heard of the Supreme Court, and we hope that this will help to create a broader understanding of how the judiciary serves society."

'Encouragement to all'

The Bar Council said the appointment will "serve as encouragement to all" for greater diversity in law.

Andrew Langdon QC, chairman of the Bar, described Lady Hale as "most distinguished" and said she "has long been at the forefront in the task of arguing for a properly diverse judiciary".

Lady Hale will be officially sworn in as president in October, along with three new justices, including a second female judge,Lady Justice Black.

"While I of course look forward to working alongside all my colleagues, it is a particular pleasure for me to be taking up the post at the same time as we welcome only the second ever woman to sit on the UK's top appeal court," Lady Hale added.

Who is the first lady of the law?

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Baroness Hale of Richmond began her career teaching law at the University of Manchester, becoming Professor of Law in 1986.

In 1984, she became the first woman to be appointed to the Law Commission - the statutory body which promotes the reform of the law.

She spent 10 years redefining the face of family law, and was instrumental in legislation such as the Children Act of 1989.

She was the founding editor of


the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, and authored a pioneering case book on the family, law and society.

Lady Hale was made QC in 1989, and a High Court judge in 1994. She went on to become the UK's first woman Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in January 2004, and then the first woman Justice of the Supreme Court in 2009 - and the first family lawyer to fill the post.

She once said: "I have had such an unusual career, my colleagues don't compare themselves to me in the way that they otherwise might."

Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality, said she was delighted by the appointment.

She added: "Not only because she is a woman but because her judgements often reflect aA request by UKIP MEP Gerard Batten (pictured) for a minute's silence to be held in the European Parliament in memory of the July 7 victims was rejected by the Deputy President, it was claimed

The European Parliament snubbed a request for a minute's silence to be held for victims of the July 7 bombings, it was claimed today.

Britain fell silent at 11.30am this morning to mark the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks in which 52 people were killed in four suicide bomb blasts on the London transport network.

A similar tribute was requested during a session in the European Parliament in Strasbourg by UKIP MEP Gerard Batten.

But he was 'ignored' by the Deputy President, who continued on with proceedings, two fellow MEPs said today.

Tim Aker, a UKIP MEP


deputy president

Mr Aker's tweet claiming Mr Batten's request had been snubbed. The MEPs said a minute's silence was held later in the session after a request from a Spanish MEP

It was only when a Spanish MEP made another request 15 minutes later that the chamber was finally made to stand to pay tribute.

Mr Woolfe, a UKIP MEP for North West England, tweeted: 'Spanish MEP raises 1 minute for London victims and finally the chair relents.'

Mr Woolfe told MailOnline that even then the 'minute's' silence only lasted 27 seconds.

A spokeswoman for the European Parliament told MailOnline: 'The minute of silence had not been requested on Monday, when the week's agenda was set.

'However, in view of the momentousness of the occasion and the requests by some MEPs, the presiding chairdecided on the spot to have a minute of silence for the victims of the 7/7 attacks.'

Families of the victims joined survivors of the horrific attack, members of the emergency services and politicians at two special services to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the atrocities in 2005, while a national minute's silence was observed at 11.30am.

George Psaradakis (centre), the driver of the number 30 bus which was blown up in Tavistock Square, looks at floral tributes left close to the scene of the attack as Britain remembered the 7/7 atrocity today

And across London, commuters and grieving families left poignant floral tributes close to where each of the four bombs exploded, at Aldgate, Edgware Road and Kings Cross stations, and at Tavistock Square, where the fourth bomb was detonated


on board a bus.

The 2005 attack was the worst terrorist atrocity on British soil, and today the names of each of the 52 victims were read out at a poignant service at St Paul's Cathedrals, attended by many relatives of those killed in the blasts, and those who desperately tried to help them.

After the silence, petals fell from the dome and four candles were lit – one for each of the four blast sites.

Two Londoners embrace outside Edgware Road tube station as they bring flowers to leave in memory of the six people who died there

The victims of 7/7. Top row from left: Helen Jones, 28; Ciaran Cassidy, 22; Gamze Gunoral, 24; Christian Small, 28; Karolina Gluck, 29; Fiona Stevenson, 29; David Foulkes, 22; Jonathan Downey, 34; LauraColin Morley, 52; Ojara Ikeagwu, 55; Shelley Mather, 26; Philip Beer, 22; Anna Brandt, 42; Anne Moffat, 48 (not pictured)

Tube trains and buses stopped as the silence was observed, while tennis was delayed at Wimbledon.

Giving an address at the service – attended by dignitaries including David Cameron, Tony Blair and the Duke of York – the Bishop of London Richard Chartres said: 'Soon after 7/7 the families and friends of the victims compiled a book of tributes.

'It is a taste of the ocean of pain surrounding the loss of each one of the victims.The tribute book is also very revealing about the character of the London which the bombers attacked.


- Welcome everybody to this beautiful room
on this beautiful day.
Thank you for coming.
I'm Alan Tansman, director
for the Townsend Center
for the Humanities, and we're here
for this year's endowed Avenali Lecture,
and our lecturer and
resident for this week
is Christopher Bollas.
In a few minutes, Whitney Davis
from the History of Art Department
will be introducing him,
so let me say something
about Whitney.
He's the author of seven books
including "The Canonical
Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art"
and "Queer Beauty:
Sexuality and Aesthetics
from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond,"
and "The General Theory
of Visual Culture."
I should also say that Whitney,
out of the goodness of his heart,
sheer intellectual passion,
and a long time passionate
engagement with Bollas's work
has been convening a seminar with students
reading his work before his visit here,
and I should say also
that I, too, have been
a long time recipient of the gift
of Christopher Bollas's
thinkingthe Great Depression.
His Berkeley education
cost him $25 a semester,
a price that included tickets
to Cal football games.
He was the son of an Italian immigrant.
He graduated from Berkeley with a degree
in English literature,
and he went to Harvard Business School,
and then he went to war.
He spent four and a half years in the Army
serving time on the front lines
including at the Battle of the Bulge,
in which some 19,000 Americans died.
Joan, a graduate of
Sarah Lawrence College,
was in the Navy working
as a radio operator
in Madison, Wisconsin when she met Peter.
They married after four dates in 1945
during Peter's 30 day leave from the army,
and they honeymooned in Lake Tahoe,
and the rest of the story I
leave to your imaginations.
With that, let me have Whitney come up
and introduce Christopher.
Thank you.
(audience applauding)
- Good evening everyone.
I'm not going


the human mind
and its symbolic expressions and adaptions
and immediately discovered
a host of connections
and overlaps between Christopher's thought
and the kind of projects that
I'd been wanting to pursue,
which I think of, I guess, as a kind of
inchoate mash up of "The
Interpretation of Dreams"
and "On the Origin of Species."
Christopher moves fluidly
between the outer object world
with its psychically constructed
and partly unconsciously
constituted actual material things
like paintings and buildings and texts
written and spoken in the public context
and inner object worlds
with special interest
in their interface in what he calls
the receptive unconscious
where original traumas
in the subject's past
meet evocative objects
in the subject's environment
triggering and elaboration and nucleation
of the newly constellated object universe
that potentially provides the subject
with a new vision of self and world,
a transformative form one might say.
As what's essentially an aesthetics
in which unconscious
work, play, intelligence,
and intuitiongot to make it to sex,
I've got to make it to sex."
I wonder why I remember that.
He also kept comic books.
They were really more like
daily accounts that he kept.
He would be composing them during the day,
and when he was either
composing his comic books
or when he was writing his poetry,
or actually songs because
he would actually sing them,
he was really experiencing
sort of peace of mind.
He enjoyed it.
It was helpful.
He had a wonderful habit
of licking his index finger
and walking up to someone
and putting it right on their forehead,
and the other kids
would sort of accept it.
This was at the East Bay Activity Center,
which no longer exists, but was in Oakland
just below the Mormon temple.
And so, the kid would know at that moment
that he was going to be put into the book,
that comic


book of the day, and this child
who was composing this book
and who wrote the poetry, would say,
this is the fickle finger of fate,
and indeed, the children
would be fated to be put
into the book.
Now, when he wasn't writing or thinking
because when he was
walking around the school
licking his finger and
putting it on people,
he was actually composing his book
before he actually sat down to write it
at the lunch table, but when he wasn't
engaged in the active composition,
one way or the other, he
was in great great pain.
When he was writing,
he would sometimes say,
"I'm the master of the universe.
I'm the master of the universe."
When he was crushed and
devastated, he would say,
"I'm a shrimp at the bottom of the sea.
I'm a shrimp at the bottom of the sea."
And he said it with such conviction
thatall of us around him felt his pain,
so I learned something from him
without entirely knowing what it was,
which is kind of the story of the life
of most psychoanalysts and clinicians
who have a sort of monastic
contemplative life.
You sit behind somebody,
or you work with somebody
for hours a week, months, years pass,
and you're learning something
although you don't quite
know what you're learning,
but he helped me with another kid there
who was my primary child to help,
who would come out of autism.
He was nine, he was strong,
he was very, at times,
quite violent, and heck of a challenge,
but he was wonderful, and
anyway, he was my kid.
I would look after him.
He would come through the
gate to enter the school,
and well depending upon
the look on his face
or certain gestures, I would
know whether the entrance
was going to be


was a relief pitcher,
went into the windup,
and as he was about ready
to deliver the ball,
he looked over his left shoulder,
and the batter and the strike zone
were 50 feet behind where
they should've been,
and they were very small,
and he threw the ball,
and it went over the batting cage.
So he was disturbed, and
he went back to the mound,
went into another windup,
same thing happened.
They got small, they disappeared,
and he threw the ball over
the batting cage again.
Coach comes out, says,
begins to talk to him
about what went wrong, and
he can see clearly the kid
is distressed, takes him off the mound,
and so we're talking about this,
and I said, gee, how's your team doing?
One of the things you
learn is you cannot ask
abstract questions to somebody
who's had a breakdown.
You don't say how are you feeling.
No, you trythe everyday.
You're taking a history.
Going to try to find out what happened.
He said that just before
he went into the windup,
he heard someone laughing in the stands,
and I said, right, laughing.
Now, he wasn't saying who was laughing,
so I said, so you could
hear somebody laugh?
Yeah.
So, you know who that was?
Yeah.
So, who was laughing?
Uh, and he named a girl
I said, wow, oh geez, she laughed.
You know her?
Sort of.
Which to make a longer account shorter,
this was the girl he was in love with,
but she didn't know it
because he hadn't had
the courage to tell her that
he was in love with her,
but she'd laughed, and that was enough
to take him out of himself.
That was so shocking he couldn't recover,
and he had a transient psychotic episode.
This is the first stage of
the schizophrenic process.
I mention process


Kristin Baver is a journalist who loved science fiction before she could even write her own name. (Seriously, she was a card-carrying member of the Star Wars Fan Club when she had no other real reason to own a wallet.) Now she gets paid to pen stories and book reviews, interview fellow fans, writers, and other interesting people, and aspires to one day craft a Boushh disguise and join the ranks of the 501st Legion.

The latest in the Jedi Academy series will transport readers and Padawan learners to Jedha City for new adventure in the Starspeeder family saga.

This time, the focus is on star pupil Christina Starspeeder, in Jedi Academy: Revenge of the Sis, the new book by Jarrett J. Krosoczka and Amy Ignatow hitting shelves in March.Told through a mix of doodles, drawings, journal entries, and comics, the story takes on the trials of starting a new school and meeting new kids and famed Jedi Masters.

StarWars.com recently sat down with the authors to talk about the importance of female characters who are multi-faceted and formidable, the humor in duck-faced selfies, and the transcendent power of truth in storytelling.

StarWars.com: This is the first time Christina Starspeeder of Naboo has the spotlight without sharing the story with her brother, Victor. How would you describe Christina and why was it important to you to shift focus to her trials and tribulations at the Jedi Academy at Jedha City?

Jarrett J. Krosoczka: We learn so much about Victor in his story arc, and his sister is seemingly unflappable. But


test systems for rubber.
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Facing the global opportunities and challenges, we are sincerely looking forward to cooperating and developing with international customers.
Our mission is "Customer satisfaction".New York (AFP) - Veolia's hopes of taking advantage of municipal privatizations and promised Trump administration public works projects to expand its US presence, are being strained by its role in water crises in Flint, Michigan and other cities.

The French water and waste management giant has targeted five percent revenue growth in North America in 2017, with the United States expected to lead the way. In 2016, North American revenues rose just 0.6 percent.

"The growth will be stronger," chief executive Antoine Frerot vowed this week in an interview. "We won't be far from five percent."

A push by more US local governments to privatize water systems and promises by President Donald Trump of a $1 trillion public infrastructure investment are seen as opportunities to Veolia to expand.

After four years


of belt-tightening, Frerot last year unveiled a strategic plan to boost growth.

The company which currently has about three to four percent US market share in its three businesses, water, waste and energy.

The much-discussed Trump infrastructure plan, the details of which remain scant, "is especially promising," Frerot said.

"We see the potential for at least five percent growth per year in the US."

- Growth market -

Revenues in North America came in at around $2.2 billion last year, about 10 percent of the French company's total sales. Veolia employs about 8,000 in the United States and has about 30,000 industrial clients.

Part of the US market's appeal is the dry climate in key states such as California, where water scarcity offers an opening to provide water treatment and recycling services.

Other prospects includeleads to the jeopardizing of public health and safety," said Lauren DeRusha Florez of the non-profit Corporate Accountability International, which plans to gather with other advocacy groups in Flint later this month.

Veolia continues to face numerous investigations and class-action lawsuits connected to the crisis, but has fought charges that it was responsible.

"Investigations are ongoing," Frerot said. "We don't want to preempt their conclusions."

- Problems in Pittsburgh -

Veolia also has run into controversy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which also suffered from elevated levels of lead in its water system.

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has accused the French company of mismanaging the infrastructure system, including botching a shift in chemicals used in corrosion control.

The Pittsburgh authority is in mediation with Veolia, according to two people familiar with the matter, but


a playmaker in the midfield. Their status for Saturday’s match depends on their international clearances being granted in time.

On the defensive side of the ball Jacksonville made one impressive acquisition, picking up MLS veteran Karl Ouimette on a season-long loan from the New York Red Bulls.

With defender Mechack Jerome and winger Pascal Millien both returning from international duty with Haiti, Jacksonville should be ready to absorb the pressure and play for the counter attack on Saturday at Al Lang.

What to Watch For

Protecting Al Lang: The Rowdies had a positive start in the spring, but one area in need of slight improvement is capitalizing on home field advantage. They only came up with two wins at home, giving up a handful of soft goals to allow opponents to stealsleep. She would find it difficult to reinitiate sleep after an awakening and pace around or do squats in order to help with the symptoms. This was very distressing, and she endorsed crying for hours in the middle of the night. She felt that the stress and lack of sleep caused by RLS contributed to preterm labor in her previous pregnancy.

The patient reported RLS symptoms in her arms occurring earlier in the day. The worst symptoms were at bedtime, noted in both thighs and lower legs, which she described as a creepy-crawly sensation. She had read about the condition and tried moderate physical activity, avoidance of salt and caffeine, massage, warm and cold water baths, and had even purchased a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) unit, all of


which were minimally effective in alleviating her symptoms. There were no leg movements in sleep noted by her or her husband and the bed covers were not messy in the morning. Sometimes she would get up and eat a snack in the night and was aware of doing that. She denied significant daytime sleepiness and her Epworth Sleepiness Scale score was 3/24. The remainder of the sleep history was negative.

There was no history of smoking, alcohol, or recreational drug use before or during pregnancy. She drank one soft drink per day. There was no family history of sleep disorders. Past medical history was significant for generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, irritable bowel syndrome, and preterm labor at 35 weeks gestation 2.5 years ago. She had been takingmade by the patient and the medical teams to proceed with a trial of up to 4 weekly iron sucrose infusions. The patient was also advised to continue with oral iron supplementation and nonpharmacologic measures for RLS.

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After the first infusion, symptoms improved; the patient reported using clonazepam only on 2 nights. She was seen in the outpatient setting with a rash at the infusion site after the second infusion and was advised to hold off on further infusions. The patient had noted RLS symptoms the preceding night and was concerned since she was planning a long airplane ride. Serum ferritin at that time was 95 µg/L. Reassurance was provided and a decision was made to take a wait-and-watch approach. A week later, when she returned from her


Fresno State President Dr. John Welty to retire

Fresno State President Dr. John Welty announced Friday that this will be his last year at the university.

The news was delivered Friday at a fall address to faculty Friday morning.

"I've had a great opportunity to serve this university for over 21 years, together we have accomplished a great deal. Now I've decided This will be my last year as president of Fresno State," Welty said.

At the end of his annual fall speech President John Welty surprised a packed room that his long tenure at Fresno State is coming to an end effective at the end of the year.

Staff members were visibly shocked as they stood to thank Welty for his 21 years of leading Fresno State. As Dr. Welty leaves, heincluding several discrimination lawsuits. In the end, for Welty the key to success at Fresno State remains access to education.

"As the first in the family to graduate from college, I've been able to live the American dream. The most important thing that we can do this year is to make sure we keep the dream of a college education for thousands of students in Central California," he said.


A British consulate employee has been released after 15 days of detention in mainland China.

Police in Shenzhen said Simon Cheng Man-kit was released as scheduled on Saturday, having been detained for violating public security management regulations.

The Global Times, a Communist Party-owned newspaper, said he had been detained for "soliciting prostitutes".

Image: Simon Cheng Man-Kit failed to return to Hong Hong from Shenzhen in China

China often uses such charges against political targets.

In a statement on Facebook, Mr Cheng's family thanked the public for their support, adding that he and his family "wish to have some time to rest and recover and will not take any interview for the moment".

The 28-year-old is a trade and investment officer in the Scottish Development International government agency, inside Britain's consulate in Hong Kong.

He failedto return to work on 8 August after a business trip to Shenzhen, which links Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland.

Unconfirmed reports suggested he was detained in China while returning to the territory, where there have been mass anti-government protests.

Those protests are set to continue this weekend, with demonstrators reportedly planning to "stress test" transport links to the airport early on Saturday.

Hong Kong's authorities have taken out a court order to prevent protests at the airport, which had to close last week due to demonstrations, grounding about 1,000 flights.

People entering the airport are being asked to show boarding passes and passports, witnesses said, but train and road links are mainly clear for now.

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Protests are also planned on


Saturday in other districts including Kwun Tong on the Kowloon peninsula.

The city's train operator, the MTR Corporation, warned train services could be stopped immediately if "fights, vandalism or other acts of violence occur".

Image: Hong Kong has been gripped by the protests for several weeks

Hong Kong has been gripped by the protests for several weeks, initially over plans for a law that would allow people from the territory to be extradited to mainland China.

But broader concerns about claims of police brutality and the erosion of freedoms under the "one country, two systems" formula - enacted after Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997 - have now come to the fore.

The protesters want democratic reforms and the city's Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, to resign.

Officials have so far refusedResearchers discover ancient symbiosis between animals, bacteria

Marine shallow water sandy bottoms on the surface appear desert-like and empty, but in the interstitial space between the sand grains a diverse fauna flourishes. In addition to bacteria and protozoa numerous animal phyla have been found here, some only here. One of the strangest members of this interstitial fauna is Paracatenula, a several millimeters long, mouth and gut-less flatworm, which is found from tropical oceans to the Mediterranean. These worms are the focus of a research project led by Jorg Ott at the Department of Marine Biology of the University of Vienna with funding from the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). The surprising results of this research have now been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).


Kibum Kang

Kibum Kang

Making thin films out of semiconducting materials is analogous to how ice grows on a windowpane: When the conditions are just right, the semiconductor grows in flat crystals that slowly fuse together, eventually forming a continuous film.

This process of film deposition is common for traditional semiconductors like silicon or gallium arsenide – the basis of modern electronics – but Cornell scientists are pushing the limits for how thin they can go. They have demonstrated a way to create a new kind of semiconductor thin film that retains its electrical properties even when it is just atoms thick.

Three atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide were cooked up in the lab of Jiwoong Park, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology and member of the Kavli Institute at Cornellof Scientific Research, the National Research Foundation of Korea and the Cornell Center for Materials Research funded by the National Science Foundation, as well as the Samsung Advanced Institute for Technology. Devices were fabricated at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, also supported by NSF.