Hatch
on custom brackets (as far as I know it's the only 240Z with those
seats fitted). The whole interior upholstery was restored and some
parts like carpets and roof liner were replaced for new ones.

There are a lot of other
small modifications like "FairladyZ" emblems from the Japanese 240Z,
H4 conversion headlights with clear covers, clear lower front
indicators and marker lights, BRE duck tail and Xenon front air dam.
Also the bumpers had their holes smoothed and the rear bumper is now
a one piece unit as it was welded together and smoothed. All the
emblem holes were filled along with a radio antenna hole. Very tiny
and nearly impossible to see touches that change the overall look of
the car dramatically.

I had to sacrifice my
beloved Honda S2000 (there's a quite dramatic story behind it but oh
well)groups, and academic organizations to create their own living community around their particular needs and interests.

The Sustainability Affinity exists as a space where students share in living environmentally just and sustainable lifestyles. This learning takes places in many ways-- from cooking with local food in the affinity's (large!) communal kitchen to attending actions together.

The deadline for applications to live in the Green Affinity are due February 13th.

Sustainability Living and Learning Community on Mount Vernon Campus

The Mount Vernon Campus is home to a growing number of innovative living and learning communities for students who want to combine a small-college experience with the resources and opportunities available at a major university. Programs at Mount Vernon provide guided academic opportunities for students who want to collaborate with other students, faculty, and


post-doctoral fellows on a variety of exciting cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary themes and projects, and who eventually want to chart their own path with individual research projects and other challenges. Mount Vernon also provides special programs for residents, from cultural events to special excursions around the greater Washington metro area.

The Sustainability living and learning community on Mount Vernon campus brings together first-year students and faculty who are passionate about conserving and wisely utilizing the earth’s resources.

Students will live together in a close-knit community of peers who are similarly passionate about protecting ecological health—now and in the future. Together, they will explore major issues in sustainability in a special seminar in the fall semester. In spring, students may choose to pursue independent, faculty-directed research on a sustainability-related topic.

Throughout the year,charging jack; it varies from brand to brand.

Finally, install S1. This is most easily done by first soldering short lengths of solid hook-up wire to the switch terminals, and then inserting these into the holes in the circuit board.

The completed circuit board. The prototype used vertically mounted trimmer potentiometers rather than the more convenient horizontally mounted ones in the parts list. Notice the extra adjusting resistor installed in the R1 group.

Calibration and Testing

Do not install Z1 and Z2 in their sockets yet. Connect a 9V battery to the battery clip. With S1 in its center-off position, nothing should happen.

Turn both R20 and R21 to approximately their midpoints. Clip the black lead from a digital voltmeter to the 9V- lead (the easiest way to do this is to clip


at each hospital which is responsible for the development, conduct, and management of specific clinical trials. All training and audits are coordinated through the CTCF. The Medical Director of the CTCF oversees integration of activities of the consortium member CTUs, with standardization ensured through a single policies and procedures manual and monthly meetings of the Clinical Research Operations Committee (C-ROC) and its subcommittee, the Clinical Trials Working Group (CTWG). In 2011, 1,527 patients were enrolled onto Case CCC interventional trials, including 919 patients on therapeutic studies. Thirty-eight percent of accruals to therapeutic intervention studies were to investigator-initiated trials (peer-reviewed, institutional). The CTCF provides support for all cancer clinical trials, from protocol development through reporting of results. The Core also oversees use of the OnCore clinical trials database, ensuringThe Oregon Ducks on Thursday unveiled their 2014 spring football game uniforms. The new look, as created by Nike, again honors the nation's troops, as the Ducks have for several spring games in recent years.


running from Danbury to Ridgefield. Prior to the collision between the plaintiff's car and the bus, a third car, never identified, had been proceeding easterly in front of the bus for a distance of two to four miles. The defendant, noticing that this car was proceeding in an erratic and peculiar manner as to speed and direction, assumed that its operator was *548 either intoxicated or inattentive. As a consequence the defendant was afraid to pass the car and decided that the safe course for himself and his passengers was to drop back about twelve car lengths. Thereafter he maintained a distance of six to twelve car lengths between the bus and the erratic car, although just before the accident this distance was reduced to between thirty andforty feet. While the bus was staying behind the erratic car, another car overtook the bus and thereafter was between the bus and the erratic car. As the latter reached a point at or near a curve in the road, the lights of the plaintiff's car, which was approaching from the east toward the bus, were seen by the defendant. The erratic car forced the plaintiff's car to veer to its right, strike the fence, and then turn sharply to its left directly in front of the bus. The collision occurred when the plaintiff's car was broadside across the eastbound lane. After the collision, it was headed south, with its front wheels on the south shoulder and its rear end about four feet south of the center line,


blocking the eastbound lane. The bus, entirely on its own side of the road, was on a slight diagonal with the center line, and its left front was six or seven feet south of that line. The road was dry. The plaintiff's injuries were such that he remembered nothing of the details of the accident. The defendant was operating the bus at a speed of about twenty-five miles an hour and did not apply his brakes before the impact.
The plaintiff claimed that the defendant was negligent in failing to keep farther to the rear of the erratic car, in operating at too high a speed, in failing to maintain a proper lookout and to apply his brakes, and in not sooner stopping the bus.
There was no evidence thatmost._

Must be a real privilege for your grandfather to share that bit of vivid
history with you. My grandfather would have been a young adult during WW2, and
the small island that both he and I grew up on has a deep history with the
Japanese which had a direct impact on its indigenous population; he supposedly
spoke fluent Japanese as a consequence, along with Korean (by birth), the
indigenous language (married a local), and eventually English (after American
occupation). Unfortunately, he was unable to speak coherently by the time I
was in my late teens and old enough to be interested, so the only history
lessons I've gotten of the time were second hand, passed down from the stories
he told my father.

~~~
kwindla
If you don't mind sharing, would you say which island? A few months ago


maker, the North of Canada (Quebec,
Ontario) is 'immense forests', in the West you have the Canadian portion of
the Rocky Mountains and then there are the territories. You can spend a
lifetime there and never see the same thing twice.

~~~
arethuza
I remember having a flight from LHR to Calgary and was lucky enough to be in a
window seat and for it to be daylight and clear - only time I've seen
Greenland! What I was prepared for was how big, flat and pretty much
featureless that part of Canada is just his awesome patchwork of lakes,
streams and the occasional esker.

Only thing that has been similar was flying north from Kenya to Egypt and
being similarly amazed at how vast the Sahara is.

~~~
breakbread
Oh man. I was flying ATL to LHR a couple years ago andInstructors can use videos or websites of celebrity psychics such as Sylvia Browne, John Edwards, or James van Praagh, and allow students to investigate the validity of their claims. Sylvia Browne, who passed away in 2013, made many appearances on such programs as the *Montel Williams Show*, *Larry King Live*, and other talk shows. In 2004, Browne appeared on the Montel Williams show and told the parents of Amanda Berry that their daughter had been murdered. In fact, Berry had been kidnapped in 2003, and escaped in 2013 in a high-profile story in Cleveland, Ohio. Sadly, Amanda's mother died in 2006, believing that her daughter had been murdered.

Preeminent skeptic James Randi publicly challenged Sylvia Browne to prove her psychic ability. Randi, who wrote a book exposing Uri Geller


and our European Heritage” and the location in Toledo, are absolutely central to all of these issues. Some may argue, that what we consider as our present day ‘common European culture and heritage’, has an origin earlier than the flowering of the Italian renaissance: that the renaissance had roots in an earlier era of dialogue, tolerance and cultural development that was prevalent in parts of the Al Andalus of the Iberia of the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries. Moreover, it may be no exaggeration to see Toledo as the crucible of the culture and the dawn of renaissance in Europe at that time.

Toledo and the work of the ‘School of Translators’, played a monumentally significant part in the creation of our European scientific heritage. Toledo as a centreof tolerance, was a magnet for leading European scholars of the time, who were able to work without the constraints of the political and cultural divisions of the day, and who were thus able to focus on the pursuit and transfer of knowledge of the significant advances made in the sciences, arts and humanities, medicine, culture, and technology of the wider Islamic world, diffusing these innovations out into a wider European culture.

Our conference in 2007, will seek to expose the most relevant scientific and cultural developments and perspectives of that period in history to a modern dialogue of cultures.

The main conference sessions will cover:

Sunday 2nd September – Music and Musical cultures Monday 3rd September – History & History of Science – Mathematics and Art Tuesday 4th September –


Medicine, Pharmacology and practices – Astronomy Wednesday 5th September – ‘Land and water sciences’ & engineering – Literature

In addition, the following additional session will explore in more detail:

Historical context Toledo and Islamic scientific influence in Europe The Beginning in the Middle Ages, men seeking knowledge would travel to Spain to obtain Muslim science. This may be surprising since we tend to think of the Muslim world as being separated from Europe. But, there were many linkage between these two societies, one being trade and the other, more significantly education. Adelard of Bath, an Englishman in the 12th century, was the first major populariser of Muslim science in the West. He spent a long time in Muslim Spain learning both about Greek mathematics and science as well as Muslimphilosophers. After the fall of Toledo, this city became the focus of a massive translation effort where teams of translators translated the Arabic texts into Latin. Often, this was not a one-step process. Jewish intellectuals frequently served as the translators–translating Arabic into Hebrew for themselves and then into Spanish for the Christians. But, because most of Europe spoke Latin, the works were then translated into Latin (often by priests or monks). One translator, Gerard of Cremona (1114-87) worked for forty years in Spain translating, with a team, over 70 books from Arabic originals including the works of Archimedes, Galen, Hippocrates, and Aristotle (McClellan & Dorn, 1999). In addition to Toledo, Arab work was found and translated in southern Italy and Sicily (reconquered by Norman knights in the 11th


tolerance and cultural development that was prevalent in parts of the Al Andalus of the Iberia of the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries. Moreover, it may be no exaggeration to see Toledo as the crucible of the culture and the dawn of renaissance in Europe at that time. Toledo and the work of the ‘School of Translators’, played a monumentally significant part in the creation of our European scientific heritage. Toledo as a centre of tolerance, was a magnet for leading European scholars of the time, who were able to work without the constraints of the political and cultural divisions of the day, and who were thus able to focus on the pursuit and transfer of knowledge of the significant advances made in the sciences, arts and humanities,medicine, culture, and technology of the wider Islamic world, diffusing these innovations out into a wider European culture. Our conference in 2007, will seek to expose the most relevant scientific and cultural developments and perspectives of that period in history to a modern dialogue of cultures. The main conference sessions will cover: Sunday 2nd September – Music and Musical cultures Monday 3rd September – History & History of Science – Mathematics and Art Tuesday 4th September – Medicine, Pharmacology and practices – Astronomy Wednesday 5th September – ‘Land and water sciences’ & engineering – Literature In addition, the following additional session will explore in more detail: A. On 5th September a workshop on literature of the period and region Speakers include: B. McGuire (Roskilde, Denmark) Doris Abouseief (SOAS,


The Violet of Potsdamer Platz

The Violet of Potsdamer Platz (German: Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz) is a 1936 German drama film directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla and starring Rotraut Richter, Paul W. Krüger and Margarete Kupfer.

Cast
 Rotraut Richter as Mariechen Bindedraht
 Paul W. Krüger as Vater Pietsch - Droschkenkutscher
 Margarete Kupfer as Mutter Pietsch
 Else Elster as Rosa - ihre Enkelin
 Fritz Kampers as Otto Schnöcker
 Anton Pointner as Seidewind
 Paul Westermeier as Knallkopp
 Hermann Schomberg as Schupo Lemke
 Hans Richter as Fritz
 Alfred Beierle as Held - Geldverleiher
 Otto Kronburger as Hansen - Kriminalrat
 Lotte Werkmeister as Blumenfrau

References

Bibliography
 Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.

External links
BBC's 'Call the Midwife’ brings back memories

Blood, tears and fainting husbands – the BBC hit series 'Call the Midwife’ has
evoked so many memories for Monica Fitten.

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BBC's 'Call the Midwife' stars Jessica Raine as Jenny Lee, a midwife who works at a convent in East London

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Monica Fitten, 80: she trained to be a midwife in London in 1955

By Monica Fitten and Anna Tyzack

1:17PM GMT 06 Feb 2012

In 1955, when I was a young nurse working in London, I took a pay cut to train as a midwife. Rather like the girls in the current BBC series Call the Midwife, I was more interested in boys than babies at the time, but in those days nurses were expected to be able to deliver a


President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to issue an executive order that would halt the practice of granting citizenship to the children of unauthorized immigrants and other non-citizens born on U.S. soil.

The potential order, first reported Tuesday morning by Axios, would seek to end birthright citizenship after more than 150 years as the legal basis for determining who is a U.S. citizen and who is not.

Despite its long tradition in the U.S., birthright citizenship is not a settled question in immigration policy circles. If Trump follows through on his order, he will re-ignite the debate in the federal courts.

Where does the concept of birthright citizenship come from?

In the U.S., birthright citizenship traces back to a clause in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, passed just after the CivilWar. The amendment’s citizenship clause states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

The clause itself is based on the legal concept of jus soli, or citizenship by “right of soil,” which contrasts with jus sanguinis, or citizenship by familial descent. It has been widely taken to apply to anyone born within U.S. territorial jurisdiction regardless of the immigration status of their parents, with the notable exception of foreign diplomats.

In its 1898 ruling in the Wong Kim Ark case, the Supreme Court held that the children of non-citizens, when born on U.S. territory, are U.S. citizens by birth. However, the parents in question in the Wong Kim Ark case were legal immigrants, meaning the court


Australia in 1986, India in 1987 and Ireland in 2004.

The Western Hemisphere is a major exception — of the 30 countries that offer birthright citizenship, 29 are in North or South America. The U.S. and Canada are alone among developed nations worldwide that automatically grant citizenship to people born within their territorial jurisdiction.

Why do some immigration reformers want to end birthright citizenship?

Birthright citizenship has long been targeted by reformers who favor tighter immigration laws and lower levels of immigration overall. They argue that the practice encourages illegal immigration and benefit fraud by people who want to come to the U.S. for the express purpose of giving birth to an American citizen.

Between 2000 and 2008, an average of roughly 300,000 children were born to an illegal immigrant mother eachthe dosage was increased again and then a more severe epistaxis episode was reported by his family after just one day of the new dosage. Patient was referred for an otorhinolaryngology consultation, and subsequently underwent heat-coagulation and tamponing. Still, after removing the tampon epistaxis continued. Eventually, the dose of sertraline was reduced, and bleeding ceased without relapsing. Sertraline was not changed to another antidepressant because the patient was satisfied with the medication.

The second patient was a 36-year-old woman who was started on sertraline with a diagnosis of severe generalized anxiety disorder and OCD, complicated by signs of depression. During 8 weeks the dosage was gradually increased to 100 mg twice a day. After achieving the maximum dose, she presented with microscopic hematuria detected by a urine analysis, taking


CTY Prep Camp

SY Academy’s CTY prep program is a short-term program focused on SCAT/SSAT test prep and the American education system. The CTY camp, operated by Johns Hopkins University, is an opportunity given only to the top 5% of talented youth, with students needing to score highly on the SCAT (SSAT) to apply.
Overview
The CTY camp is an internationally renowned camp for talented youth that was founded by Johns Hopkins University that has discovered talented people such as the founders of Facebook and Google. Being accepted to the CTY program gives the student an edge in applying to prestigious high schools.
Schedule Overview
Summer Program (3 weeks/6 weeks),
Winter Program (4 weeks/8 weeks)
Schooling / Summer camp at a prestigious private school
SCAT (SSAT) exam prep sessions
Tour of Silicon Valley, Stanford, UC Berkeley, andFor many years Adam Green and AriesScope Studios have been doling out the goods to horror fans everywhere. As a result of the heavy rains that have hit California, the place where all the magic happens has been badly damaged with some things lost forever.

From The AriesScope Website:

On Friday February 17th, Southern California was pummeled with the worst torrential rain the area has received in many, many years. Los Angeles was hit with flash floods, sink holes, and a massive path of destruction in which homes and vehicles were destroyed. In a few tragic cases lives were lost in the storm. While we are grateful to report that everyone in our family was unharmed by the severe weather, unfortunately we can’t say the same for our beloved studio.


Sweden and Uruguay co-chaired a meeting of the High Ambition Alliance on Chemicals and Waste, with representatives from a number of countries and organisations. Participants agreed on a joint statement to work together for a new, ambitious global framework for chemicals and waste to be adopted in 2020. The meeting took place at the fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) in Nairobi, Kenya.

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International support for new chemicals framework

Today, Minister for Environment and Climate Isabella Lövin and Uruguay’s Minister of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment Eneida de Léon co-chaired a meeting of the High Ambition Alliance on Chemicals and Waste, with representatives from a number of countries and organisations. Participants agreed on a joint statement to work together for a new, ambitious global framework for chemicals and waste to be adopted in 2020.

The Government today appointed 31 state secretaries at the Government Offices. Former state secretaries have been dismissed from their positions. Most of the


The buildup to a college basketball game is a large part of the
overall experience. At UCLA, as well as many other schools,
the student seating is all unreserved, so students
line up
hours or even days before the
game to get the choice seats.

They let you into the arena an hour before game time, which
leaves plenty of time to discuss the last game, and this game,
and the players, and where they'll go in the tournament, etc.
etc.. When they finally let the students in an hour before
game time, there's a mad dash
to get to the best seats.

Once in your seats, you get to watch
warmups for most of an hour. This
is a great time for crowd-watching, and also for dissing the players for the
opposing team, and perhaps buying some
snacks or souveniers
.

About 5 minutes before(in 2000)

WASHINGTON -- It will be a Cinderella moment for the band of researchers who study the hidden history of the U.S. government. At midnight Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many FBI Cold War files on investigations of suspected communist sympathizers. After years of extensions sought by federal agencies behaving like college students facing a term paper, the end of 2006 means the government's first automatic declassification of records.

WASHINGTON -- It will be a Cinderella moment for the band of researchers who study the hidden history of the U.S. government. At midnight Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many FBI Cold War files on investigations of suspected communist sympathizers.


After years of extensions sought by federal agencies behaving like college students facing a term paper, the end of 2006 means the government's first automatic declassification of records.

Newly declassified government documents prove that the United States, after sending hundreds of Vietnamese commandos into North Vietnam during the 1960s, deliberately declared them dead, lied to their wives and then buried their story under a shroud of secrecy.Nearly 200 of those secret agents survived capture, torture and prison and are alive in the United States. They are asking the government for back pay - $2,000 a year, without interest, for their prison time - and help in getting 88 fellow commandos out of Vietnam.

ACCORDING TO an article in the Oct. 10 Sentinel, a newly declassified 410-page Central Intelligence Agency reportdisclosed evidence of links between the President Ronald Reagan-supported Contras and drug trafficking.How appropriate that Florida's Turnpike (Drug Alley) has been renamed The Reagan Turnpike.Sidney WeinbergWINTER PARK

WASHINGTON -- The United States declassified a third and final batch of documents on Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile on Monday, recognizing its role three decades ago in destabilizing the South American nation. The release of more than 16,000 documents, including 1,550 from the CIA, completed a review ordered in 1999.

A declassified government file from 1945 showed a single Swiss bank had $29.4 million in Jewish accounts, according to the World Jewish Congress. But last month the Swiss Bankers Association said there was only $31.9 million in unclaimed accounts for all Swiss banks from 1933 to 1945. Both sums represent what the


all U.S. military records related to missing Americans in Vietnam in time for a Veterans Day deadline.The Defense Department announced that it had declassified and made public an estimated 1.5 million pages of documents related to Vietnam War POWs and MIAs. They include Pentagon reports on interviews with refugees from Southeast Asia, information provided by former POWs and other subjects.In a Memorial Day speech last spring at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Clinton announced he was ordering that the Vietnam POW-MIA documents be declassified and released by Veterans Day.The documents have been given to the Library of Congress and are being transferred to microfilm.

By David E. Sanger and David Johnston, the New York Times, April 10, 2006

WASHINGTON -- A senior administration official confirmed for the first time Sunday thatPresident Bush had ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in an effort to rebut critics who said the administration had exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein. But the official said Bush did not designate Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby or anyone else, to release the information to reporters. The statement by the official came after the White House for three days had declined to confirm Libby's grand-jury testimony that Cheney had told him Bush authorized the disclosure.

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Friday did not dispute assertions that President Bush authorized the leak of classified information about pre-Iraq-war intelligence but described the release of such information as necessary for the "public interest." The statement


appeared to confirm new disclosures in court documents that the White House, despite Bush's frequent criticisms of leaks, secretly provided material to a reporter in early July 2003 -- even though the government did not announce declassification and publicly release the document for 10 more days.

MEXICO CITY -- A leaked draft of a government report on Mexico's "dirty war" alleges the country's presidency orchestrated an anti-insurgency campaign in which soldiers carried out summary executions, raped women and set villages on fire. Based partly on declassified Mexican military documents, the report was prepared by a special prosecutor assigned to investigate alleged atrocities by soldiers. Prosecutors said the report has not yet been officially released and was undergoing changes.

A secret program that has hidden thousands of historical documents from thea declassified version of the report, which the inspector general completed in July after investigating the FBI's handling of intelligence related to the attacks in 2001.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has assembled what it thinks is significant intelligence showing that Iraq has been moving and concealing banned weapons systems and related equipment from United Nations inspectors, informed sources said. After a lengthy debate about what and how much of the intelligence to disclose, President Bush and his national-security advisers have decided to declassify some of the information and make it public, perhaps as early as next week, in an effort to garner more domestic and international support for confronting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with military force, officials said.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- The government said Tuesday that it was analyzing


thousands of documents on Chile declassified by the United States and that the contents could lead to charges against some Chileans. The 16,000 documents released by the U.S. State Department on Monday come from various agencies, including the CIA, the FBI and the State and Justice departments.

The National Security Agency has reversed itself and declassified two cryptography texts it previously had insisted were secret even though they were available in public libraries. The announcement Wednesday came as a result of a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act by a Silicon Valley computer scientist. The agency is in charge of protecting U.S. codes and cracking foreign ones.

KIGALI, Rwanda -- Rwanda said Thursday that all Western powers, not just the United States, turned a blind eye to genocidethereof conveyed to Hutchinson Air Park by Deed recorded July 19, 1977, as Recorder's Fee No. 77-28282, Clackamas County Records.
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shift in the legal profession from a professional conception of the lawyer‘s role grounded in relational self-interest, including an obligation to the public good, to a neutral partisan or hired gun conception grounded in autonomous self-interest and rejecting a particular obligation to the public good.

No matter how lawyers view their role, they serve as civics teachers who explain the appropriate responsibilities of citizenship both in their everyday practice and in their civic leadership. Our contention is that as neutral partisans, lawyers have contributed to the civic malaise, in and outside of the legal profession. Many lawyers today practice and teach the autonomous self-interest approach of the Holmesian bad man — the individual‘s obligations to the spirit of the law and the community are only what he or sheby activities like signing up to receive texts from Hillary's campaign. Get enough stars and you'll also be able to get physical rewards, like having something signed and sent to you by Clinton herself.

The app also calls out Trump in a way that Clinton's campaign often hasn't. On the trail, Clinton has focused on the positive things she could do for the United States, but in her app, she's presented as the only defense against a Republican president. "The only thing standing between Donald Trump and the presidency is us," the app's description reads, calling players to "make history" by downloading and canvassing for Hillary. But just like the US is split into red and blue states, Hillary 2016 also splits its supporters — the app's only out


Sunday, December 22, 2013

Brisbane River from pedestrian walkway on Eleanor Schonell Bridge

Christmas is high summer in Brisbane. The skies are blue, the breezes warm and the birds often raucous. Barbies are more common than traditional Old World feasts, but some insist on sweltering away in the kitchen to produce the ham, turkey or roast they remember from childhood. The native Brush Turkeys have nothing to fear, though, although reputedly they aren't such bad tucker. Well, nothing to fear from cooks, but gardeners are likely to chase them out of the veggie patch when they try to turn it into a mound of compost.

Male Australian Brush Turkey

Surprisingly, although Australia boasts 38 genera of cicadas (32 endemic), and cicada-season runs most of the year (August through June), the City daysthem to blend into the background where they rest during the day - on tree trunks and limbs, among lichens or dead leaves, on the ground, or in a shadow somewhere. Presumably much of the variation in colour and patterns in the wings results from natural selection that improves the survival of moths with patterns appropriately cryptic for the places they like to rest.

Also known as the Large Brassy Plusia, another Diachrysia balluca under the black light

Bird predation is known to have been a primary factor in the classic example of the Peppered Moth (aka Pepper & Salt Geometer) becoming the Carbon Black Moth in industrial England. As the smoke from coal fires coated the bark and branches of light-coloured trees, the white & black patterned Peppered Moth


1830) and the dull as dishwater Double Dart Graphiphora augur (Fabricius, 1775).

Two-spotted Looper Autographa bimaculata

Bright silver spots, squiggles, scripts and autographs are characteristics of many Owlet Moths but especially those in the subfamily Plusiinae and subtribe Plusiina and are reflected in many generic names based on the Greek root grapho (= write) such as Anagrapha, Autographa, Megalographa, and Syngrapha. What the genus Plusia may refer to, however, is a mystery.

A mystery too is why the silver spots and squiggles? Since similar marking occur on unrelated moths, one might think they serve some function. Perhaps they reflect moonlight or sonar to dazzle bats. In any case, the clouds continue to scuttle across the sky, dropping rain, rain, rain and the moths flutter between squalls and hunker down during them.

Tuesday,July 23, 2013

In the Alberta summer one has to take their enjoyment of nature when they can amongst all of the rains, hail, lightening and strong winds. So far, it has rained two out of every three days in June and July and over 10 inches of rain have fallen in the Home Bug Garden (and much of that has flowed through the basement). However, Saturday night at Gopher Hill from midnight until 1:30 am the rains let up and the black light went out to see what might be roaming around the cloudy darkness.

Malacosoma disstria Hubner, 1820 adult of the Forest Tent Caterpillar

As usual when the black light works its magic here, the response of the nocturnal Lepidoptera overwhelmed all other insects. That's probably an Alberta thing


too, at least compared to Queensland and other warmer lands in which I've gone night-lighting - where beetles, wasps, flies and bugs were often almost as diverse as the moths.

Sicya macularia (Harris, 1850) the Sharp-lined Yellow

So, here's a short tribute to just a few of the hardy moths that braved the cool, damp night to flutter around a black-light.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

The start to [Inter]national Moth Week late last night-early this morning was not salubrious in the extended Home Bug Garden. Actually, in the HBG per se it was even wetter and less mothopilic than in the remote site - about 2 km east of Elk Island National Park. Still, through a process of judiciously applied wine, napping, and radar-gazing, I was able to emerge from the cabin,Some in the gaming community may have heard of a Wolfenstein 3D mod that was stirring up some controversy. Elder-Geek reported on it, as did many others. The game was Sonderkommando Revolt, developed by Team Raycast, and it put the player in the role of a Sonderkommando in a Auschwitz during World War II.

For those who don’t know, Sonderkommandos were death camp inmates who disposed of the millions of corpses during the Holocaust, and there were three revolts that took place between 1943 and 1944. The game stars Zalmen Gradowski (identified as Josef Goldenberg in the story synopsis), who, upon escaping execution, goes on a rampage to exact revenge on as many Nazis he can, saving as many Jews he can in the process.

The game was slated for


Update:"Disabled" daughter now murder suspect amid fraud allegations

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A disabled Missouri teen has been found safe and a person of interest is in custody after the teen's mother was found murdered in their Springfield home, reports CBS affiliate KOLR.

Gypsy Blancharde, 19, was found alive in Wisconsin early Monday, officials said in a news release Monday afternoon. She was reported missing after her mother Claudinnea "Dee Dee" Blancharde was found slain early Monday in their home, reports the station.

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Dee Dee Blancharde's death was of a "violent nature," Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott said Monday. He reportedly wouldn't detail her cause of death.

Authorities responded to the home after friends reportedly called police, saying they saw a disturbing post on the mother's FacebookSheriff's officials used emails, social media posts, and interviews with family members in order to find the teen, Ussery told Crimesider. They contacted the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department and requested to a welfare check at a home in Big Bend, saying Gypsy may be in the company of a man who lived in the town, according to the Wisconsin department.

The person of interest "is not necessarily the suspect," Arnott said.

Neighbors told the station they last saw Dee Dee Blancharde on Wednesday, which they said was unusual because the woman was social and often visited with neighbors.

The woman's home was recently robbed, they said. The burglar had reportedly stolen cash and prescriptions.

Investigators say the believe the crime is a "targeted situation."

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But why would an artist unleash his talents on the inside of a common apartment building, where the only people who can admire his works are the inhabitants? Well, because he was asked by the people living there. According to Dumskaya.net, the story of this unique art project started four years ago, when instead of the usual dull repainting , the building’s administration opted for something a little more decorative. One of the building’s inhabitants, Natalia, told everyone about a former colleague of hers who graduated from the Odessa School of Art, and they all agreed to have him paint the first few floors just to see if he was any good. When he was


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Few people did more to help Trump win the nomination than Roger Ailes of Fox News. Now the media mogul who created the most watched cable news network in America, must prepare Donald Trump for the greatest television event in Trump’s career, a debate with Hillary Clinton.

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one Christmas Eve. As he walked he set his gaze heavenward looking through the canopy the trees had created overhead. Luther was awed…amazed by the beauty of millions of stars glimmering through the branches of the evergreen trees. He was so taken by the beauty he saw that he deeply desired to share this experience with his family. In this moment of longing for his family to understand the beauty in God’s creation he decided to recreate the experience for them to the best of his ability. So, he quickly cut down an evergreen tree and took it into his home. He then carefully placed a candle on each and every branch, explaining to his family the wonder he witnessed on his walk through God’s woods that night.

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We thank Dr. Steven Kunkel, University of Michigan Medical School, for his gift of antiserum-neutralizing MIP-1α and critical advice, as well as Dr. Michael Caligiuri, currently at Ohio State University School of Medicine, for generously providing the MIP-1α^−/−^ mice to use in the experiments. The authors also acknowledge Drs. Kim Boekelheide and John Richberg for technical advice and Ms. Nancy Carter for technical assistance.

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A West Michigan police officer was shot Thursday while investigating a domestic assault complaint at a house along Himes Street SE, according to Wyoming (Mich.) Police Chief James Carmody, reports mlive.com.

Officer Frank Hartuniewicz, a 15-year veteran of the Wyoming Police Department, is resting at home Friday, Jan. 30, following his release from Mercy Health Saint Mary's Thursday night, where he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound.

Hartuniewicz was shot once below his protective vest and above his gun belt while responding as backup to a domestic complaint at 232 Himes St. SE.

The woman exited the home and told officers that the man had loaded firearms in the home. About a half hour after police arrived, the suspect came out a backboth enjoyable as light, fluffy filler between more challenging cinematic dishes.

Based on a true story, "The Intouchables" (which, minus the definite article and translated into French, means "untouchable") follows the unlikely friendship between Driss and Philippe. Philippe (Francois Cluzet) lives a life of extravagant wealth, but a paragliding accident has left him without any feeling below his neck. He needs a caretaker, which is where Driss (Omar Sy), an inner-city ex-con, comes in.

The rest of the wildly popular French film's plot will not come as a surprise to anyone. The two struggle to bond at first, especially Driss, who mainly views the job as a paid holiday. As the film goes on, however, the improbable pair grows to respect one another and maybe even teach one another a


few life lessons.

It's all predictably crowd-pleasing, especially the movie's continual amusement with the lifestyles of the rich and famous which comes off as pandering to recession-weary audiences. Thankfully, the movie never tugs on the audience's …

As much as I normally like to feign objectivity in my reviews, there's simply no way I can pretend that I'm intrigued by "That's My Boy." Adam Sandler and I have never seen eye-to-eye when it comes to comedy, save for a few rare, planet-aligning instances.

If "That's My Boy" is to be congratulated for one thing, however, it's that the film's paternal plot caused me to take a look back at five great movies with father-son relationships.

"Field of Dreams"

To call "Field of Dreams" an emotional movie is like calling Joyce's "Ulysses" a complicatedbook. Phil Alden Robinson's Best Picture nominee is the ultimate guy weepie film, capable of pulling even the manliest of bodybuilders' heartstrings. The tale of Kevin Costner's Ray Kinsella and his seemingly absurd quest to build a baseball diamond in his Iowa cornfield based on voices his head could easily be the plot to a psychological thriller (in fact, last year's phenomenal "Take Shelter" is remarkably similar, except with a tornado shelter instead of a baseball diamond ... and terrifying). In the hands of Robinson and Costner's pre-"Waterworld" everyman charisma, "Field of Dreams" is a beautifully sentimental, yet never cloying, slice of warm Americana. And when Costner asks his father to "have a catch," I hope your eyes are prepared for a lengthy rain delay.

"Frequency"

I know I said


that I wouldn't put "Frequency" on this list since I used it on my Best Time Travel Movies piece, but it wouldn't be honest to leave it off. The second half of this 2000 family drama/thriller gets surprisingly dark, so it might not be the best film to top off a Father's Day celebration with the family. The first half, however, is a touching tribute to the connection between father and son. The concept, a son connects with his dead father in the past via a ham radio and a convenient space-time wormhole, could've pushed audiences' suspension of disbelief too far, but nuanced performances by Dennis Quaid and …

You certainly can't say that director Ridley Scott set his sights low with "Prometheus," his long-anticipated return to science fiction.Apparently, it wasn't enough to attempt a prequel to "Alien," arguably the most revered sci-fi film that doesn't feature "Star" in the title. The movie also strives to be more philosophical than the first two "Alien" features.

The result could either be heralded as a cinematic marvel or yet another entry in fanboys' ever-growing file of worst movies ever. "Prometheus" falls safely between both categories. It doesn't quite reach the high bar set before it, but it still works as an intense and impeccably made space thriller.

Noomi Rapace (the Swedish actress who dominated the screen in the foreign "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" films) plays Elizabeth Shaw, an archeologist on a quest through space to find the origins of mankind. A cave painting in Scotland appears to hint at


a far-off planet as the birthplace of our creators, or "engineers" as Shaw and her fellow archeologist/lover Charlie ("Devil"'s Logan Marshall-Green) call them. After a revelatory discovery on the moon, ominous things start happening to the crew, and it becomes clear that our creators, as well as some members of Shaw's crew, may have other motives for their visit.

I tried to keep the synopsis as vague as possible in order to sanitize this review of spoilers. In fact, one of the best attributes of "Prometheus" is the sense of discovery and the invigorating idea that you and the characters are learning about the planet and its inner workings at the same time. It would be a shame to ruin that for the audience (though some recent TV advertisementsIn a small conference room at the Houston Woodlands Marriott in March, a couple dozen young scientists held an emergency meeting to discuss an alarming development. Thousands of other delegates at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference scampered through the adjacent hallways, past faux rock speakers piping birdsong into the complex, rushing to sessions on "isotopic constraints on early solar system chronology" and "planetary hydrology".

Paul Hayne, a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech, called the meeting to order, and explained the situation. The President had recently released his budget proposal for NASA, and it wasn’t pretty, especially for the early career scientists in the room. The space agency’s overall FY2013 budget would decrease slightly – hardly unexpected given the nation’s financial challenges – but the proposed budget for Planetary Science


Within a week, the group had over 300 members; within two weeks, more than 500. With engaged scientists positioned around the country, subsequent letter writing campaigns to members of Congress reached lawmakers across party lines.

Hayne and several other scientists met with Senator Diane Feinstein’s people in mid-April and spoke with Rep. Adam Schiff (who counts the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a part of his constituency) last Friday. Both offices pledged to support the cause, though the Senator’s office admitted that the James Webb Space Telescope has had more vocal, more consistent champions over the last several years, which likely helped its standing in the budget.

The Planetary Science community’s common struggle also seems to have brought various camps closer together according to Hayne. In years past, scientists often closedUganda shines during Solar Eclipse

For years, Pakwach in Nebbi district has been a quiet place. A historical town with a collection of dusty bars and shops lining the road, but often not more than a spot on the map for tourists who visit Murchison Falls National Park.

But not on 3rd November 2013. On this day, Pakwach town turned into one of the most popular places on earth. Where thousands of people from all over the world gathered, where cars found themselves in a long jam and where all the hotels in the vicinity were fully booked.

The cause of this sudden change is when Pakwach was identified by NASA a one of the best locations globally to watch the very rare total Solar Eclipse. Even President Yoweri Museveni joined


the residents and visitors for this rare event at Owiny Primary School as the chief viewer.

On 3rd November, the long awaited solar eclipse swept across the globe, captivating millions of people and plunging parts of Africa, Europe and America into darkness. In East Africa, it happened between 5 and 6.30 pm. The spectacle saw the sun either totally or partially blocked by the moon, lasting for about 15 seconds to one minute, depending on one’s location.

This type of eclipse was last recorded about 150 years ago and the next one predicted to happen again after a century. Thanks to the eclipse, Pakwach town community was given a chance to ‘shine its star’ and to their advantage, they maximized on this once in a lifetime opportunity. We all hopethe creation of a dedicated children’s room in the 1950s. Major interior renovations were done in the 1960s, in an effort to create more interior space and make the building more attractive.

In 1975 the Town tripled the space of the library with an addition that cost $613,000, excluding furnishings. By the 1990s it was apparent that with growing library use and changing services, including public computing, that the Town again needed a library expansion. Town Meeting voters approved plans for a further expansion at the 2000 Annual Town Meeting, contingent upon a state construction grant from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC). Our grant application was approved for $2,171,945. With that grant, local funds and private fundraising, we started construction of the expansion in 2007, moving to


temporary quarters until January 2009. The newly expanded and renovated library opened to the public in March 2009, with more meeting space, program space, and study rooms, as well as various public computing stations. It continues to serve as a community center and a resource for the educational, vocational, and recreational needs of all its citizens.

A Timeline

1792. The first known library in Northborough was established; the original regulations were written in 1791. There was a fee of $3 to belong. There were 30 original members and 100 books. Up to 3 books could be borrowed at a time. The loan period depended on the distance the member lived from the library, which had to be within 1 mile from the Meeting House.

1817. Rev. Joseph Allen founded a youngladies library. In 1824 Dr. Allen founded a juvenile or Sunday school library.

1826. Captain John Davis and others placed a warrant article to see if the Town would purchase the several libraries in town and form a Town Library. The article was passed over.

1827, 1828. Foundation of the Free Parish Library; incorporated the Social Library (formed in 1792); it became known as the free library of the Congregational Society in Northborough. (The catalogue of books gives the name as the Church of Christ.) Though controlled by the church, it was open to any inhabitant over the age of 16.

1843. School libraries established in the town’s six school districts.

1851. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts authorized free town libraries, though some were already in existence. The term “free” meant that there


the Town Hall building. Nine trustees were chosen to serve by ballot to make the rules and regulations for the care and management of the Library. They were authorized to accept donations and to make an annual report to the Town.
The library opened to the public on September 12, 1868.

The Agricultural (Farmers’) Library Association voted to donate their collection of approximately 140 volumes to the Northborough Free Library.

1880s. The library outgrew the original room it occupied, and gradually expanded into more space on the first floor of the Town Hall.

1894. At a special Town Meeting, Cyrus Gale, Jr., offered the land and funds ($15,000) to Northborough to construct a separate library building. The offer was accepted, though by the time the building was completed, the cost was morethan double the original offer.

1895. The “Gale Library Building” was dedicated on June 12th and opened to the public.
The dedication took place at Town Hall with a program including music and many addresses by attending dignitaries.

1904. Children 12 years of age and older could borrow books.

1908-1909. Replaced oil lamps with electric lights.

1917. The library was used to make bandages for soldiers in WWI.

1918. The library closed for one month to help prevent spread of the flu.

1926. Started collecting money for a future children’s room.

1929. Children 10 years of age and older could borrow books.

1937. The library converted a small room into a reading room for children in grades 1-4. A once-a-month storytelling hour started then.

1938. A severe hurricane came through Northborough, and killed an out-of-town visitor whose car


was parked in front of the library. The library sustained damage to the roof, and for nearly 3 weeks the library could not open in the evening because there was no electricity.

1950. Opening of children’s area in a small room of the library.

1942. A letter of invitation was written to the Northborough Historical Society inviting them to occupy and use the basement of the library with periodic displays for the public.

1954. The Trustees requested that the Northborough Historical Society move out so that the library could use the basement space.

1955. Children’s room opened in the basement previously occupied by the Historical Society.

1962. Voted to join the Central Regional Advisory Council in the new regional system.

1962. Major renovation of the main floor.

1969-1971. Additional land was acquired in the rearof the building for library expansion, and with access to Patty Lane also acquired, created a parking lot for the library.
1970s. The Friends of the Library were formed in the early 1970s.

1975. An addition was built on the original library. It was constructed of cinder block and had a cathedral ceiling with whitewashed rafters and ceiling. There was a ramp in the center of the second floor that led to a mezzanine level. The entrance was on the west side of the building; the Main St. entrance was closed. There was a meeting room and a 4-room children’s section off the lobby.

1985. Joined C/W MARS (Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing) network, taking almost a year to enter all the books and other materials into the database. The card


catalogue was not eliminated for several years. Northborough was in the second group of libraries to join the network.

1998. Received approval at Town Meeting to fund $50,000 for schematic designs for an expanded library.

2000. Submitted construction grant application to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners; received approved at the Town Meeting and at the ballot to proceed with renovation and addition to the library.

2007. The 1975 addition was demolished, and construction started on a larger addition, which opened to the public in March 2009. The library relocated to temporary quarters on Lyman St. from the summer of 2007 until January 2009.

2009. The library opened its doors to the newly renovated/expanded library in March.Last updated on .From the section Olympics

Daley and Goodfellow celebrate bronze for GB

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Britain's Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow won Olympic bronze in the men's synchronised 10m platform at Rio 2016.

The pair, who began training together last October, clinched only GB's eighth Olympic diving medal after pipping Germany to third place in a tense finish.

China's Lin Yue and Chen Aisen, the pre-competition favourites, won gold by a comfortable margin.

United States pair David Boudia and Steele Johnson claimed silver.

Daley


is one of Britain's most recognisable Olympians after competing at the Beijing Games in 2008 aged 14 and then winning bronze in the 10m platform under intense pressure in his home Games in London in 2012.

While the 22-year-old is better known for his individual exploits, he and 19-year-old Goodfellow were fancied to win a synchro medal after taking European silver in May.

Chief sports writer Tom Fordyce: Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow may not have been partners for long, but they have both been on fast-forward in terms of their development and rock-solid in their teamwork. There is trust there born of shared living quarters and long training sessions; while Daley might seem like the oldest 22-year-old in the GB Olympic team, he has found fresh enthusiasm and driveat his third Olympic Games in Goodfellow's less storied skills.

They were the last pair to dive in the open-air Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre, meaning they knew what they needed to do to overhaul Germany's former world champions Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein with their final effort.

With a score of over 84 points needed, the British duo waited anxiously before leaping into the pool in celebration when the score of 89.64 came up.

"Going into the last round there's an intense pressure in any competition, but when it's the Olympics it multiplies by a million," said Daley.

Goodfellow added: "I was nervous. But when we first started we knew there would be pressure. And we knew we'd be the last divers to go.

"We just kept our nerve and stayed in the


moment."

British pair keep composure

Daley and Goodfellow claimed Team GB's fourth medal in less than 24 hours

Daley and Goodfellow, who moved in with his older team-mate as a lodger before the Games, put themselves in medal contention from their first dive.

They were joint third in the standings after round one, remaining in the bronze medal position following their second and third dives.

A loose dive saw them drop to fifth after round four, but they moved back into third with a forward four-and-a-half-somersault dive described by BBC Sport expert Leon Taylor at the time as their "best of the day".

They then trumped that with their final effort, keeping their composure to secure a sixth-round score only bettered by the Chinese and Americans.

Chinese domination continues

China's Lin and Chen have dominated thesynchro event since linking up last year, winning the World Championship, World Cup and four World Series events.

They showed why with a masterful display on their Olympic debut together.

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Lin, 25, and Chen, 20, led from the opening round, winning with a total of 496.98 points ahead of Boudia and Johnson (457.11) and Daley and Goodfellow (444.45).

Their victory was China's fourth consecutive Olympic gold in the event and maintains the country's hopes of a clean sweep of the eight diving events.

Lin, pictured on the right, won 10m synchro gold as a 17-year-old at Beijing 2008 before taking a six-year hiatus

'Well done lads!' - social media reaction

Former British heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno praised Daley


and Goodfellow

GB table tennis player Kelly Sibley congratulates her Olympic team-mates

Former GB tennis player Anne Keothavong was glued to her screen during the event

And he always knew it would happen…

Watch a spiky-haired 14-year-old Daley tell Gabby Logan in 2008 that diving from the 10m platform was "like doing loop-the-loops on a rollercoaster" and he was "scared" the first time he jumped from the 10m platform.

Archive video: Meet Tom Daley

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WASHINGTON ― Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the corporate law firm that is advising Donald Trump on how to handle his massive business conflicts before and during his time in office, received industry recognition last year for its work in Russia.

Chambers & Partners, a London-based publication that ranks law firms and lawyers around the world for business clients, gave the firm the “Russian law firm of the year” award for its work in the country.

The firm acknowledged the award in a news release last May. An editor for Chambers & Partners did not respond to a request for comment on the award’s significance.

According to the Morgan Lewis website, the firm’s Moscow office has a healthy practice, with more than 40 lawyers helping corporate clients navigate the Russian legal landscape.York Times. The lawyer also helped prior Democratic presidential candidates, including Barack Obama, select running mates.

Ronald Tenpas, another partner at the firm, joined the landing team at the Department of Justice as part of Trump’s transition efforts.

The firm also once employed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), at the time an appellate lawyer who was considered a rising star among his peers for his experience arguing before the Supreme Court.


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On February 28, 2001, by order to show cause, the plaintiffs moved to hold the defendants in contempt. The basis for the contempt motion was that the defendants allegedly engaged in a "deceptive business practice" in violation of the October 24, 1998 Judgment. In particular, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendants engaged in a complicated scheme by which they formed a domestic charity called "Center for the Blind in Israel" in order to purchase braille typewriters, known as "braillers", from a South African company.
On June 11, 2001, the Court orally denied the motion for contempt with prejudice because the alleged violation did not fall within the terms of the October 24, 1998 Judgment. The Court also directed the parties to submit proposed language modifying thefrom using the phrase "Independent Living Aids". The plaintiffs contended that the defendants were using this phrase in direct violation of these judgments.
As examples, the plaintiffs cited four alleged violations involving the use of the phrase "Independent Living Aids": (1) Maxi-Aids' use on its Internet web page of the phrase "Maxi-Aids  Independent Living Aids for blind, low vision, visually impaired, deaf disable ..."; (2) Maxi-Aids' use on the Internet of the phrase "Maxi-Aids.com Products for Independent Living"; (3) Maxi-Aids' use on its Internet home page of the phrase "Maxi-Aids.com.  Independent Living Aids Catalog with products for blind, low vision, visually impaired, and individuals with special needs"; and (4) Maxi-Aids' use in its search engines on the Internet of the phrase "Independent Living Aids". See Affidavit of


alleged that Maxi-Aids continues to use the phrase "Independent Living Aids" on 20 out of 29 search engines. On April 30, 2002, the Court held a conference to discuss the plaintiffs' allegations. At the conference, counsel to Maxi-Aids argued that after the March 15, 2002 conference, Maxi-Aids removed the phrase "Independent Living Aids" from all of its websites and their metatags. In addition, Maxi-Aids stated that they have no control over the actions of the search engine companies.
In further support of their compliance with the order of the Court, Maxi-Aids submitted an affidavit from one Vladimir Ereshkin, the art director for Maxi-Aids, who stated that he was responsible for eliminating the phrase "Independent Living Aids" from the company's HTMLs and from the Maxi-Aids Super Mall website. The EreshkinJudgment consistent with the jury's verdict. In particular, the Court amends the decretal paragraphs on page 4 of the January 24, 2002 Judgment to read as follows:
ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED: that the Plaintiff Independent Living Aids, Inc. is the owner of a valid common law trademark consisting of inverted triangles with the letters ILA inside of a diamond to the left of said triangles and a valid common law trademark for the phrase "Independent Living Aids"; and it is further
ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED: that Defendant Maxi-Aids, Inc., Mitchel Zaretsky, Elliot Zaretsky and Pamela Zaretsky Stein, and each of them and their respective agents, officers, representatives, servants and employees and all persons acting in concert, or participating with them, be and they hereby are permanently enjoined from using the


During WWII, in the evening of 22nd September 1940, at 11.36pm, a high explosive bomb detonated on 90 Claverton Street in Pimlico. The building, as well as adjacent 94 Grosvenor Road suffered severe damage and eventually total collapse. The street is situated just west of Dolphin Square, which itself was also badly hit during the Blitz. At first, only one casualty was reported, but upon closer inspection rescue crews discovered a total of four casualties in the ruins.

Both buildings also suffered damage to the coal gas main, and because of the debris of the collapsed buildings, Grosvenor Road and Claverton Street were both blocked off for vehicles.ends up inadvertently miniaturizing his offspring and two of their pals. The Canadian actor had been known for his comedic roles in films like 'Ghostbusters,' 'Spaceballs' and 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

Now: A widower, Moranis retired from acting in 1997 so he could raise his children. His 2005 musical comedy record ‘The Acrophobic Cowboy’ was nominated for a Grammy Award. Rumor has it he may return to his Louis Tully character for 'Ghostbusters 3,' but nothing is official yet. In the meantime, his retirement has been the subject of viral video song parodies and Facebook campaigns.

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In the night of July 16-17, 1918, a squad of Bolshevik secret police murdered Russia's last emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, along with his wife, Tsaritsa Alexandra, their 14-year-old son, Tsarevich Alexis, and their four daughters. They were cut down in a hail of gunfire in a half-cellar room of the house in Ekaterinburg, a city in the Ural mountain region, where they were being held prisoner. The daughters were finished off with bayonets. To prevent a cult for the dead Tsar, the bodies were carted away to the countryside and hastily buried in a secret grave. Bolshevik authorities at first reported that the Romanov emperor had been shot after the discovery of a plot to liberate him. For some time the deaths of the Empress and the childrenwere kept secret. Soviet historians claimed for many years that local Bolsheviks had acted on their own in carrying out the killings, and that Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, had nothing to do with the crime. In 1990, Moscow playwright and historian Edvard Radzinsky announced the result of his detailed investigation into the murders. He unearthed the reminiscences of Lenin's bodyguard, Alexei Akimov, who recounted how he personally delivered Lenin's execution order to the telegraph office. The telegram was also signed by Soviet government chief Yakov Sverdlov. Akimov had saved the original telegraph tape as a record of the secret order. Radzinsky's research confirmed what earlier evidence had already indicated. Leon Trotsky -- one of Lenin's closest colleagues -- had revealed years earlier that Lenin and Sverdlov


had together made the decision to put the Tsar and his family to death. Recalling a conversation in 1918, Trotsky wrote: My next visit to Moscow took place after the [temporary] fall of Ekaterinburg [to anti-Communist forces]. Speaking with Sverdlov, I asked in passing: "Oh yes, and where is the Tsar?" "Finished," he replied. "He has been shot." "And where is the family?" "The family along with him." "All of them?," I asked, apparently with a trace of surprise. "All of them," replied Sverdlov. "What about it?" He was waiting to see my reaction. I made no reply. "And who made the decision?," I asked. "We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the presentdifficult circumstances." I asked no further questions and considered the matter closed. Recent research and investigation by Radzinsky and others also corroborates the account provided years earlier by Robert Wilton, correspondent of the London Times in Russia for 17 years. His account, The Last Days of the Romanovs - originally published in 1920, and recently reissued by the Institute for Historical Review -- is based in large part on the findings of a detailed investigation carried out in 1919 by Nikolai Sokolov under the authority of "White" (anti-Communist) leader Alexander Kolchak. Wilton's book remains one of the most accurate and complete accounts of the murder of Russia's imperial family. A solid understanding of history has long been the best guide to comprehending the present and anticipating the future.


Accordingly, people are most interested in historical questions during times of crisis, when the future seems most uncertain. With the collapse of Communist rule in the Soviet Union, 1989-1991, and as Russians struggle to build a new order on the ruins of the old, historical issues have become very topical. For example, many ask: How did the Bolsheviks, a small movement guided by the teachings of German-Jewish social philosopher Karl Marx, succeed in taking control of Russia and imposing a cruel and despotic regime on its people? In recent years, Jews around the world have been voicing anxious concern over the specter of anti-Semitism in the lands of the former Soviet Union. In this new and uncertain era, we are told, suppressed feelings of hatred and rage againstJews are once again being expressed. According to one public opinion survey conducted in 1991, for example, most Russians wanted all Jews to leave the country. But precisely why is anti-Jewish sentiment so widespread among the peoples of the former Soviet Union? Why do so many Russians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and others blame "the Jews" for so much misfortune? A Taboo Subject Although officially Jews have never made up more than five percent of the country's total population, they played a highly disproportionate and probably decisive role in the infant Bolshevik regime, effectively dominating the Soviet government during its early years. Soviet historians, along with most of their colleagues in the West, for decades preferred to ignore this subject. The facts, though, cannot be denied. With the notable exception


of Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), most of the leading Communists who took control of Russia in 1917-20 were Jews. Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) headed the Red Army and, for a time, was chief of Soviet foreign affairs. Yakov Sverdlov (Solomon) was both the Bolshevik party's executive secretary and -- as chairman of the Central Executive Committee -- head of the Soviet government. Grigori Zinoviev (Radomyslsky) headed the Communist International (Comintern), the central agency for spreading revolution in foreign countries. Other prominent Jews included press commissar Karl Radek (Sobelsohn), foreign affairs commissar Maxim Litvinov (Wallach), Lev Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Moisei Uritsky. Lenin himself was of mostly Russian and Kalmuck ancestry, but he was also one-quarter Jewish. His maternal grandfather, Israel (Alexander) Blank, was a Ukrainian Jew who was later baptizedinto the Russian Orthodox Church. A thorough-going internationalist, Lenin viewed ethnic or cultural loyalties with contempt. He had little regard for his own countrymen. "An intelligent Russian," he once remarked, "is almost always a Jew or someone with Jewish blood in his veins." Critical Meetings In the Communist seizure of power in Russia, the Jewish role was probably critical. Two weeks prior to the Bolshevik "October Revolution" of 1917, Lenin convened a top secret meeting in St. Petersburg (Petrograd) at which the key leaders of the Bolshevik party's Central Committee made the fateful decision to seize power in a violent takeover. Of the twelve persons who took part in this decisive gathering, there were four Russians (including Lenin), one Georgian (Stalin), one Pole (Dzerzhinsky), and six Jews. To


direct the takeover, a seven-man "Political Bureau" was chosen. It consisted of two Russians (Lenin and Bubnov), one Georgian (Stalin), and four Jews (Trotsky, Sokolnikov, Zinoviev, and Kamenev). Meanwhile, the Petersburg (Petrograd) Soviet -- whose chairman was Trotsky -- established an 18-member "Military Revolutionary Committee" to actually carry out the seizure of power. It included eight (or nine) Russians, one Ukrainian, one Pole, one Caucasian, and six Jews. Finally, to supervise the organization of the uprising, the Bolshevik Central Committee established a five-man "Revolutionary Military Center" as the Party's operations command. It consisted of one Russian (Bubnov), one Georgian (Stalin), one Pole (Dzerzhinsky), and two Jews (Sverdlov and Uritsky). Contemporary Voices of Warning Well-informed observers, both inside and outside of Russia, took note at the time of thecrucial Jewish role in Bolshevism. Winston Churchill, for one, warned in an article published in the February 8, 1920, issue of the London Illustrated Sunday Herald that Bolshevism is a "worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality." The eminent British political leader and historian went on to write: There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the


States ambassador in Russia, warned in a January 1918 dispatch to Washington: "The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90 percent of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution." The Netherlands' ambassador in Russia, Oudendyke, made much the same point a few months later: "Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately, it is bound to spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole world as it is organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality, and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things." "The Bolshevik Revolution," declared a leading American Jewish community paper in1920, "was largely the product of Jewish thinking, Jewish discontent, Jewish effort to reconstruct." As an expression of its radically anti-nationalist character, the fledgling Soviet government issued a decree a few months after taking power that made anti-Semitism a crime in Russia. The new Communist regime thus became the first in the world to severely punish all expressions of anti-Jewish sentiment. Soviet officials apparently regarded such measures as indispensable. Based on careful observation during a lengthy stay in Russia, American-Jewish scholar Frank Golder reported in 1925 that "because so many of the Soviet leaders are Jews anti-Semitism is gaining [in Russia], particularly in the army [and] among the old and new intelligentsia who are being crowded for positions by the sons of Israel." Historians' Views Summing up the


situation at that time, Israeli historian Louis Rapoport writes: Immediately after the [Bolshevik] Revolution, many Jews were euphoric over their high representation in the new government. Lenin's first Politburo was dominated by men of Jewish origins Under Lenin, Jews became involved in all aspects of the Revolution, including its dirtiest work. Despite the Communists' vows to eradicate anti-Semitism, it spread rapidly after the Revolution -- partly because of the prominence of so many Jews in the Soviet administration, as well as in the traumatic, inhuman Sovietization drives that followed. Historian Salo Baron has noted that an immensely disproportionate number of Jews joined the new Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka And many of those who fell afoul of the Cheka would be shot by Jewish investigators. The collective leadershipthat emerged in Lenin's dying days was headed by the Jew Zinoviev, a loquacious, mean-spirited, curly-haired Adonis whose vanity knew no bounds. "Anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka," wrote Jewish historian Leonard Schapiro, "stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with, and possibly shot by, a Jewish investigator." In Ukraine, "Jews made up nearly 80 percent of the rank-and-file Cheka agents," reports W. Bruce Lincoln, an American professor of Russian history. (Beginning as the Cheka, or Vecheka) the Soviet secret police was later known as the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MVD and KGB.) In light of all this, it should not be surprising that Yakov M. Yurovksy, the leader of the Bolshevik squad that carried out the murder of the


Tsar and his family, was Jewish, as was Sverdlov, the Soviet chief who co-signed Lenin's execution order. Igor Shafarevich, a Russian mathematician of world stature, has sharply criticized the Jewish role in bringing down the Romanov monarchy and establishing Communist rule in his country. Shafarevich was a leading dissident during the final decades of Soviet rule. A prominent human rights activist, he was a founding member of the Committee on the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR. In Russophobia, a book written ten years before the collapse of Communist rule, he noted that Jews were "amazingly" numerous among the personnel of the Bolshevik secret police. The characteristic Jewishness of the Bolshevik executioners, Shafarevich went on, is most conspicuous in the execution of Nicholas II: This ritual actionkilled for the offense. In his 1920 book, British veteran journalist Robert Wilton offered a similarly harsh assessment: The whole record of Bolshevism in Russia is indelibly impressed with the stamp of alien invasion. The murder of the Tsar, deliberately planned by the Jew Sverdlov (who came to Russia as a paid agent of Germany) and carried out by the Jews Goloshchekin, Syromolotov, Safarov, Voikov and Yurovsky, is the act not of the Russian people, but of this hostile invader. In the struggle for power that followed Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin emerged victorious over his rivals, eventually succeeding in putting to death nearly every one of the most prominent early Bolsheviks leaders - including Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, and Kamenev. With the passage of time, and particularly after


1928, the Jewish role in the top leadership of the Soviet state and its Communist party diminished markedly. Put To Death Without Trial For a few months after taking power, Bolshevik leaders considered bringing "Nicholas Romanov" before a "Revolutionary Tribunal" that would publicize his "crimes against the people" before sentencing him to death. Historical precedent existed for this. Two European monarchs had lost their lives as a consequence of revolutionary upheaval: England's Charles I was beheaded in 1649, and France's Louis XVI was guillotined in 1793. In these cases, the king was put to death after a lengthy public trial, during which he was allowed to present arguments in his defense. Nicholas II, though, was neither charged nor tried. He was secretly put to death - along withhis family and staff -- in the dead of night, in an act that resembled more a gangster-style massacre than a formal execution. Why did Lenin and Sverdlov abandon plans for a show trial of the former Tsar? In Wilton's view, Nicholas and his family were murdered because the Bolshevik rulers knew quite well that they lacked genuine popular support, and rightly feared that the Russian people would never approve killing the Tsar, regardless of pretexts and legalistic formalities. For his part, Trotsky defended the massacre as a useful and even necesssary measure. He wrote: The decision [to kill the imperial family] was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this punishment showed everyone that we would continue to fight on mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution


of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and instill a sense of hopelessness in the enemy but also to shake up our own ranks, to show that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either total victory or total doom This Lenin sensed well. Historical Context In the years leading up to the 1917 revolution, Jews were disproportionately represented in all of Russia's subversive leftist parties. Jewish hatred of the Tsarist regime had a basis in objective conditions. Of the leading European powers of the day, imperial Russia was the most institutionally conser-vative and anti-Jewish. For example, Jews were normally not permitted to reside outside a large area in the west of the Empire known as the "Pale of Settlement." Howeverunderstandable, and perhaps even defensible, Jewish hostility toward the imperial regime may have been, the remarkable Jewish role in the vastly more despotic Soviet regime is less easy to justify. In a recently published book about the Jews in Russia during the 20th century, Russian-born Jewish writer Sonya Margolina goes so far as to call the Jewish role in supporting the Bolshevik regime the "historic sin of the Jews." She points, for example, to the prominent role of Jews as commandants of Soviet Gulag concentration and labor camps, and the role of Jewish Communists in the systematic destruction of Russian churches. Moreover, she goes on, "The Jews of the entire world supported Soviet power, and remained silent in the face of any criticism from the opposition." In light


lives and suffering proved to be much higher than Zinoviev's murderous rhetoric suggested. Rarely, if ever, has a regime taken the lives of so many of its own people. Citing newly-available Soviet KGB documents, historian Dmitri Volkogonov, head of a special Russian parliamentary commission, recently concluded that "from 1929 to 1952 21.5 million [Soviet] people were repressed. Of these a third were shot, the rest sentenced to imprisonment, where many also died." Olga Shatunovskaya, a member of the Soviet Commission of Party Control, and head of a special commission during the 1960s appointed by premier Khrushchev, has similarly concluded: "From January 1, 1935 to June 22, 1941, 19,840,000 enemies of the people were arrested. Of these, seven million were shot in prison, and a majority of the othersdied in camp." These figures were also found in the papers of Politburo member Anastas Mikoyan. Robert Conquest, the distinguished specialist of Soviet history, recently summed up the grim record of Soviet "repression" of it own people: It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the post-1934 death toll was well over ten million. To this should be added the victims of the 1930-1933 famine, the kulak deportations, and other anti-peasant campaigns, amounting to another ten million plus. The total is thus in the range of what the Russians now refer to as 'The Twenty Million'." A few other scholars have given significantly higher estimates. The Tsarist Era in Retrospect With the dramatic collapse of Soviet rule, many Russians are taking a new and more respectful look at


their country's pre-Communist history, including the era of the last Romanov emperor. While the Soviets -- along with many in the West -- have stereotypically portrayed this era as little more than an age of arbitrary despotism, cruel suppression and mass poverty, the reality is rather different. While it is true that the power of the Tsar was absolute, that only a small minority had any significant political voice, and that the mass of the empire's citizens were peasants, it is worth noting that Russians during the reign of Nicholas II had freedom of press, religion, assembly and association, protection of private property, and free labor unions. Sworn enemies of the regime, such as Lenin, were treated with remarkable leniency. During the decades prior to the outbreak ofthe First World War, the Russian economy was booming. In fact, between 1890 and 1913, it was the fastest growing in the world. New rail lines were opened at an annual rate double that of the Soviet years. Between 1900 and 1913, iron production increased by 58 percent, while coal production more than doubled. Exported Russian grain fed all of Europe. Finally, the last decades of Tsarist Russia witnessed a magnificent flowering of cultural life. Everything changed with the First World War, a catastrophe not only for Russia, but for the entire West. Monarchist Sentiment In spite of (or perhaps because of) the relentless official campaign during the entire Soviet era to stamp out every uncritical memory of the Romanovs and imperial Russia, a virtual cult of popular


veneration for Nicholas II has been sweeping Russia in recent years. People have been eagerly paying the equivalent of several hours' wages to purchase portraits of Nicholas from street vendors in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities. His portrait now hangs in countless Russian homes and apartments. In late 1990, all 200,000 copies of a first printing of a 30-page pamphlet on the Romanovs quickly sold out. Said one street vendor: "I personally sold four thousand copies in no time at all. It's like a nuclear explosion. People really want to know about their Tsar and his family." Grass roots pro-Tsarist and monarchist organizations have sprung up in many cities. A public opinion poll conducted in 1990 found that three out of four Soviet citizens surveyed regardthe killing of the Tsar and his family as a despicable crime. Many Russian Orthodox believers regard Nicholas as a martyr. The independent "Orthodox Church Abroad" canonized the imperial family in 1981, and the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church has been under popular pressure to take the same step, in spite of its long-standing reluctance to touch this official taboo. The Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Ekaterinburg announced plans in 1990 to build a grand church at the site of the killings. "The people loved Emperor Nicholas," he said. "His memory lives with the people, not as a saint but as someone executed without court verdict, unjustly, as a sufferer for his faith and for orthodoxy." On the 75th anniversary of the massacre (in July 1993), Russians recalled the life,


death and legacy of their last Emperor. In Ekaterinburg, where a large white cross festooned with flowers now marks the spot where the family was killed, mourners wept as hymns were sung and prayers were said for the victims. Reflecting both popular sentiment and new social-political realities, the white, blue and red horizontal tricolor flag of Tsarist Russia was officially adopted in 1991, replacing the red Soviet banner. And in 1993, the imperial two-headed eagle was restored as the nation's official emblem, replacing the Soviet hammer and sickle. Cities that had been re-named to honor Communist figures -- such as Leningrad, Kuibyshev, Frunze, Kalinin, and Gorky -- have re-acquired their Tsarist-era names. Ekaterinburg, which had been named Sverdlovsk by the Soviets in 1924 in honor of the Soviet-Jewishchief, in September 1991 restored its pre-Communist name, which honors Empress Catherine I. Symbolic Meaning In view of the millions that would be put to death by the Soviet rulers in the years to follow, the murder of the Romanov family might not seem of extraordinary importance. And yet, the event has deep symbolic meaning. In the apt words of Harvard University historian Richard Pipes: The manner in which the massacre was prepared and carried out, at first denied and then justified, has something uniquely odious about it, something that radically distinguishes it from previous acts of regicide and brands it as a prelude to twentieth-century mass murder. Another historian, Ivor Benson, characterized the killing of the Romanov family as symbolic of the tragic fate of Russia and,