individual to avoid use of public toilets, limiting movement or participation in activities by the individual away from home.
It is known to provide privacy screens for portable bathroom assemblies or urinals of type designed for outdoor activities such as campouts, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,937,452, 6,374,432, and 7,185,375, but the screens entirely surround the bathroom assembly or urinal, and are not suitable for protecting privacy in a conventional fixed bathroom stall.
It is also known to provide portable screen structures that serve as dressing rooms, the screen structure having a door through which an individual enters, and which either entirely surrounds the individual or encloses three sides of the individual, the fourth side being shielded by a structure or vehicle, to provide privacy when changing clothes, aslight most favorable to Plaintiffs, the nonmoving parties.
The Plaintiffs in this case are Matthew A. McConnell, a minor, his mother Kimberly McConnell, and his father, Michael McConnell. Defendants include Cosco, Inc. ("Cosco"), a manufacturer of high chairs, and Penn Traffic Company doing business as Big Bear/Harts Stores ("Penn Traffic").
On January 3, 1997, the McConnells left their eleven-month-old son Matthew in the care of Lori McClung, their regular baby-sitter. Ms. McClung cared for children in her own home. On that day, she left Matthew unattended in a Cosco highchair for several minutes while she went upstairs with some of the other children at her home. While she was gone, Matthew attempted to slide out of the highchair. Instead of getting out of the chair, Matthew's neck got caught on


Harsh Vardhan said that said PM Modi's goal was to deliver a 'New India by 2022' (File)

Hundreds of scientists working abroad have returned to India over the past three-four years after finding a better scientific ecosystem under the NDA government, Union Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday.

"Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi, people used to talk a lot about 'brain drain'. People talk about 'brain drain' to some extent even now, but they talk more about 'brain gain' now," he said after inaugurating the new campus of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) at Uppal area.

"In the last three-four years, hundreds of scientists have returned... because they find a better atmosphere in the country and a better scientific ecosystem to work. They find better facilities, better state-of-the-artlaboratories, equipment and a government which is receptive to their ideas and which is willing to transform and introduce new modern systems," the Union Science and Technology Minister said.

Harsh Vardhan claimed hundreds of scientists have come back to India and a lot more were willing to come (back), adding "It is a very very happy moment".

He said Prime Minister Modi's goal was to deliver a 'New India by 2022' towards which he was working with a lot of passion,vision and sincerity and dedication.

The Prime Minister, he said, has been extending a lot of support for development of scientific institutions and research in the country.

He said the scientific community would always be indebted to PM Modi for the support received for development of scientific activities, fellowships and new initiatives.

"Ideas


RENTON -- Doug Baldwin parlayed his only Division I scholarship offer into a successful college career at Stanford. And when leading the Cardinal in receiving as a senior wasn't enough for a single NFL team to bother drafting him, he didn't just win a roster spot as an undrafted free agent, he managed to lead the Seattle Seahawks in receptions and receiving yards as a rookie.Yet this past offseason, Baldwin had to face what might have been the toughest challenge of his football-playing life.He had to chill out.Sounds easy enough, right? Well not for Baldwin. Not for a player who has spent so long busting his butt to prove he's good enough that he forgot how to stop and catch his breath. And that desire to prove hisdoubters wrong, that constant belief that somebody is coming along to take this job, that drove Baldwin to work nonstop following his breakout rookie season. The results were hardly what he was hoping for, however. Instead of coming to training camp in 2012 in the best shape of his life, he showed up with a body that was already starting to break down. A hamstring injury limited him for much of training camp, which meant a lack of practice reps, a lack of time to build a rapport with rookie quarterback Russell Wilson, and as a result Baldwin's numbers fell off significantly in year two.So this past offseason, the player teammates jokingly call Angry Doug Baldwin (well, maybe they're only partly joking), realized he had to relax."My body


in 2011, Baldwin gave a simple explanation for how he ended up at Stanford: "They were the only D-I school that recruited me. The only one."But how the Cardinal discovered Baldwin is rather an unlikely story. Had it not been for a former NFL coach and a newspaper publisher, Baldwin's talents may have never been noticed.But back when Baldwin was a little-known receiver at Gulf Breeze High School, Kevin Doyle, a former sports writer who became the publisher of the Pensacola News Journal, was at a game along with friend and former Buffalo Bills head coach Kay Stephenson, whose daughter went to the school. Both were impressed with Baldwin, so Doyle called his son Matt, who happened to be Stanford's director of football operations, and that led to100 fly in 50.71.

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A Southern California senator was reprimanded for playfully putting a woman in a headlock and rubbing his knuckles against her head, according to documents released Friday.Republican Sen. John Moorlach of Costa Mesa did not have sexual intent and didn't mean to make the woman uncomfortable, but he exercised poor judgment by giving her a so-called noogie, investigators wrote.The woman was attending a reception in June for Republican lawmakers held by a health care advocacy organization with which she was affiliated, the records show. The woman told investigators that Moorlach gave her a noogie while they were taking a photo, and she says was bothered by it.The letter of reprimand, dated Aug. 27, says Moorlach told investigators he gives noogies "quite a bit." It also says he was reprimandedone other time for poking an employee in the stomach."I am a fun-loving individual who is guilty of occasional playfulness. I apologize for giving a 'noogie' to someone who requested a photo," Moorlach said in a statement. "It was done during a light-hearted moment with others present. However, I will discontinue this innocent and gregarious behavior in the future."Moorlach is the latest California lawmaker to face accusations of inappropriate conduct or behavior. The state Legislature has been re-examining its harassment policies since last year, when nearly 150 women signed a letter detailing what it said was a pervasive culture of harassment by men at the Capitol.The Legislature hired two law firms to investigate allegations of misconduct and promised to release substantiated allegations against lawmakers and senior staff members.

A


Southern California senator was reprimanded for playfully putting a woman in a headlock and rubbing his knuckles against her head, according to documents released Friday.

Republican Sen. John Moorlach of Costa Mesa did not have sexual intent and didn't mean to make the woman uncomfortable, but he exercised poor judgment by giving her a so-called noogie, investigators wrote.

The woman was attending a reception in June for Republican lawmakers held by a health care advocacy organization with which she was affiliated, the records show. The woman told investigators that Moorlach gave her a noogie while they were taking a photo, and she says was bothered by it.

The letter of reprimand, dated Aug. 27, says Moorlach told investigators he gives noogies "quite a bit." It also says he was reprimanded oneother time for poking an employee in the stomach.

"I am a fun-loving individual who is guilty of occasional playfulness. I apologize for giving a 'noogie' to someone who requested a photo," Moorlach said in a statement. "It was done during a light-hearted moment with others present. However, I will discontinue this innocent and gregarious behavior in the future."

Moorlach is the latest California lawmaker to face accusations of inappropriate conduct or behavior. The state Legislature has been re-examining its harassment policies since last year, when nearly 150 women signed a letter detailing what it said was a pervasive culture of harassment by men at the Capitol.

The Legislature hired two law firms to investigate allegations of misconduct and promised to release substantiated allegations against lawmakers and senior staff members.


Kennedy Unbound

After 40 years in the US Senate, Edward M. Kennedy has transcended the family mythology and become his own man

There's nothing to see out the windows. A dense mid autumn fog has swallowed the view of Boston Harbor from the 24th floor. So, instead, look at him. There's something to see there, framed in gray mist and rain, Edward M. Kennedy, 70 years old now and 40 years as senator and a politician and celebrity and all the rest of it. See how he's not gone all gut-fat but rather squashed, with that Irish hunch that makes the old ones look bowed and slowed, as though their lives collapse inward like stars, all the extraneous material consumed until there's nothing left but the invisible gravity of thecore. See how his right hand quivers until he covers it with his left, a gentle movement that he camouflages by looking at his watch.

His conversation is still erratic, an AM radio stuck on scan, chopped to bits by strategic throat-clearing and by pauses that are long enough to be considered tactical. He's talking about how the Republicans in the House refused to fund fully an education initiative that he'd worked on with President George W. Bush and that Bush had signed with great fanfare early in his term. No Child Left Behind, it had been called. Kennedy had been so instrumental in developing the legislation that some of Bush's more conservative supporters had grumbled that the new president was being played like a tin piano by the


who melted the wall between traditional political power and modern media celebrity. For a long time, they got what they paid for.

However, after the assassinations and after the dead woman in the car, the country started to get exhausted. It stopped treating the Kennedys like a public political treasure and began to treat the Kennedys like a public cultural bauble, not entirely different from Liz and Dick or, most recently, the Osbournes. They still provided the occasional media spectacular - Rose's funeral or John F. Kennedy Jr.'s sudden death. Otherwise, though, they were just a family, famous, surely, but also deeply troubled, full to the gun wales with drunks and lay abouts and public junkies. Edward Kennedy flamed out against President Jimmy Carter in 1980, and the rawmaterial in the next generation was unstable. The country moved on, and the celebrity politics that the Kennedys had invented became so general that the Kennedys were rendered unremarkable in that regard.

"He has epiphanies," a friend told author Adam Clymer, but that's the old mythology talking. On October 25, 1991, Kennedy gave a famous speech at the Kennedy School of Government in which he said, "I recognize my own shortcomings, the faults in the conduct of my private life." By then, the woman in the car had been dead for 22 years, dead because of a situation in which alcohol and recklessness were intimately involved, and if this was an epiphany, it was a damned slow one. What he was on the day of the speech was an


is, rid of most of that now, 70 years old and 40 years a senator, and he stands for all the curdled glory, but most of all, for himself: Legislative lion and failed dauphin; dark prince and heir apparent; Capitol Hill grind and Palm Beach sybarite, talisman, and bogeyman; Camelot and Dallas and Los Angeles and Chappaquiddick. And then you realize the simple fact that he's not a Kennedy anymore, not in the fully mythological sense, anyway, and not as the sum total of his identity. He is the patriarch of a family, no longer of the family, a caretaker of wounded young adults, and not of a gaggle of miscreant royalty. He's the one who remembers all the birthdays.

"It's remarkable," says Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican."He's pretty much the patriarch of all of them, and they love him, and it's plain that he loves them."

Oh, he still uses the name and its attendant lore. "I stayed away from him for a period of time when I was a brand-new guy in the Senate," recalls McCain, with whom Kennedy last year worked on passage of the Patients' Bill of Rights. "You know, he's just one of those larger - than life figures that you tread carefully around."

There's an inner room in Kennedy's Washington office that's chock-full of family memorabilia, a great arc of history that's one of the greatest home-court advantages any senator has ever had. But he uses all of that family lore and legend only in the same way that West Virginia's


Robert Byrd uses all of his honeyed constitutional fustian or McCain his experiences in Vietnam - as another tool with which to get the real work done.

"I think he's the greatest senator of the 20th century," says Senator Russell Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat. "He's an incredibly smart, incredibly hard-working tactician of what goes on here. He understands the issues, and he really understands the institution of the Senate."

He squandered so much of the mythology - turned it into punch lines, really - that he was able to walk away from what was left, walk away and go to work, hashing out legislation, doing the grunt labor in the Senate for which his brother John never had the inclination and his brother Robert never had the time, walking intothe wind, one step at a time, until he came to this point, 40 years on, when the relevant points of historical comparison are not his brothers but Daniel Webster and Henry Clay and Hubert Humphrey. Given the way that we do politics in this country today, he may be the last great senator. And, in the end, that may be enough.

"He's certainly the best legislator in his family," says Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, Kennedy's close friend, and his ideological opposite. "Neither of those two brothers were in his league."

How do you assess it, then, all those many lives and the real one out of which this last one was made? How do you look at the ocean? Do you see the sum of it, or


talks about early childhood education and about the parents he'd met that morning. The significance of the date goes unremarked.

What if his name had been Edward Moore?

It was a great line, a defining line. Against any other candidate, and especially in this age of endless political reiteration, it would've been the knockout line. It became a cheap trope for easy newspaper columns. On August 27, 1962, at the close of their first debate prior to the Democratic senatorial primary, Edward McCormack looked at Edward Kennedy and said, "If his name was Edward Moore, with his qualifications - with your qualifications, Teddy, your candidacy would be a joke."

It bit so deeply because of the essential truth of it - the truth that, among other things, would doom Eddie McCormack.Back then, with Jack in the White House and Bobby as attorney general, Teddy Kennedy's candidacy for the Senate was an act of raw dynastic power. An obscure family retainer named Benjamin Smith held the seat until Kennedy was old enough to be elected to it. Once he was, he was sworn in, not at the beginning of the term in January 1963 but almost immediately after his election in November 1962, which is how he got the jump on seniority over Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who was elected the same year. None of this would have happened if his name were Edward Moore.

If his name were Edward Moore . . .

He would not have served so long, if he'd served at all. He might not have served


with more than 350 other senators. He would not have served with all three men - Everett Dirksen, Richard Russell, and Philip Hart - after whom the Senate office buildings are named. He would not have had his first real fight over the poll tax and his most recent one over going to war in Iraq. None of this would have happened if his name were Edward Moore.

If his name were Edward Moore . . .

If his name were Edward Moore, Robert Bork might be on the Supreme Court today. Robert Dole might have been elected president of the United States. There might still be a draft. There would not have been the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which overturned seven Supreme Court decisions that Kennedy saw asrolling back the gains of the civil rights movement; the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, the most wide-ranging civil rights bill since the original ones in the 1960s; the Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill of 1996, which allows "portability" in health care coverage; or any one of the 35 other initiatives - large and small, on everything from Medicare to the minimum wage to immigration reform - that Kennedy, in opposition and in the minority, managed to cajole and finesse through the Senate between 1996 and 1998, masterfully defusing the Gingrich Revolution and maneuvering Dole into such complete political incoherence that Bill Clinton won reelection in a walk. None of this would have happened, if his name were Edward Moore.

If his name were Edward Moore . . .

His brothers might be


alive. His life might have been easier, not having mattered much to anyone beyond its own boundaries. His first marriage might have survived, and, if it had not, Joan Kennedy's problems would have been her own, and not grist for the public gossips. It might not have mattered to anyone, the fistfight outside the Manhattan saloon, the fooz ling with waitresses in Washington restaurants, the image of him in his nightshirt, during Holy Week (Jesus God!), going out for a couple of pops with the younger set in Palm Beach and winding up testifying in the middle of a rape trial. His second marriage simply would have been a second marriage, and Vicki Kennedy would not have found herself dragooned into the role of The Good Fairy inyet another Kennedy epiphany narrative.

All of this would not have mattered, if his name were Edward Moore.

And what of the dead woman? On July 18, 1969, on the weekend that man first walked on the moon, a 28-year-old named Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in his automobile. Plutocrats' justice and an implausible (but effective) coverup ensued. And, ever since, she's always been there: during Watergate, when Barry Goldwater told Kennedy that even Richard Nixon didn't need lectures from him; in 1980, when his presidential campaign was shot down virtually at its launch; during the hearings into the confirmation of Clarence Thomas, when Kennedy's transgressions gagged him and made him the butt of all the jokes.

She's always there. Even if she doesn't fit in the narrative line, she is so


much of the dark energy behind it. She denies to him forever the moral credibility that lay behind not merely all those rhetorical thunderclaps that came so easily in the New Frontier but also Robert Kennedy's anguished appeals to the country's better angels. He was forced from the rhetoric of moral outrage and into the incremental nitty-gritty of social justice. He learned to plod, because soaring made him look ridiculous. "It's really 3 yards and a cloud of dust with him," says his son Patrick.

And if his name were Edward Moore, he would have done time.

He has spent so much of his professional life draining that line of its meaning - the defining line, what would have been the knockout line if his name hadn't been Edward MooreKennedy. He went to the Senate. He respected its traditions. He learned from its elders; his office today is in the building named after Richard Russell, with whom, according to Adam Clymer, Kennedy first attempted to break the ice by mentioning that Russell himself had entered the Senate when he was 36. Yes, Russell replied, but I'd been governor of Georgia by then, and Kennedy had had the good grace (and the good sense) to laugh.

"At that time, I think, there was less partisanship," Kennedy says. "There was less pettiness, and there were stronger personal relationships that stretched across party lines. Now we're so evenly divided that little things become big things. That demeans the institution and demeans our relationships, and, anyway, I think the public sees through


another senator. "That's the focus."

Washington is as in hos pi ta ble to that legacy as it ever has been. The midterm elections handed Republicans effective control of all three branches of government. Kennedy campaigned all over the country for Democratic candidates; he was with Senator Paul Wellstone in Minnesota the morning of the day on which, later, Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash. On the day after the party's electoral thrashing, Myers called a number of liberal Democratic activists to reassure them.

"Thanks, Mike," one of them replied, "but the senator called an hour ago."

"He'll just keep on doing what he's doing," explains US Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat whose experience with the Kennedys goes back to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. "There's noquestion that he's the embodiment of so much that we hoped for. Sometimes you have politicians come along, and they sort of talk about it, but they don't feel it. This man feels it."

It never was like working for other senators, anyway. "The anniversaries of his brothers' deaths were somber days. No one says anything to him, but it's obvious," recalls one former Kennedy aide. "Occasionally, you'll be sitting around with the senator, and, like a stream of consciousness, he'd tell a story about an interaction with the president or with Bobby, and it's just in passing. At the same time, there's the RFK awards every year, and the guy just can't get through the remarks."

He has not taken the deaths as a mass undifferentiated tragedy - the


Kennedy Curse, which was part of the Kennedys as public property, which he has left behind him. But each of them clearly affects him in a different way. John Kennedy is usually "the president" or "President Kennedy," while his other brother is almost always "my brother Bob."

"In 1965, when my brother Bob came to the Senate, that was a different experience," he recalls. "I was the senior one here. That was kind of a role reversal. But not much of one. He was still the older brother."

So the legislative rec ord is the message, and the staff stays on it. Historically, Kennedy's staff has been a sort of Capitol Hill legend, the New York Yankees of policy wonkery. (Both Gregory Craig and David Boies, lawyers famous for, respectively,defending Bill Clinton's presidency and Al Gore's Florida recount bid, have worked for Edward Kennedy.) Perhaps the most underrated turning point of his career came in 1980. The Democrats had lost the Senate in the Reagan landslide, and Kennedy found himself in the minority for the first time. He had the choice of being the ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee or the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Kennedy chose the latter.

"He felt at that point that there was kind of a challenge to deal with the Reagan agenda and that this was the best place to do that," says Myers. At that point, his staff became not only the Senate's clearinghouse on a whole host of health and welfare issues; it also functioned as


a kind of institutional memory at a time when politics in general seemed increasingly be reft of one.

"This is a guy who, the first thing he did in the Senate was take on the poll tax," says Bancroft Littlefield Jr., who was Kennedy's chief of staff through most of the 1990s. "The first issue he sinks his teeth into is trying to make it possible for black Americans to vote in the South. If he didn't have that passion for the underdog and for dispossessed people in his blood, that wouldn't have been the first thing he went after.

"To me, when you try to figure out Ted Kennedy, you have to understand those things he did early on, before the fancy advisers showed up," Littlefield says. "Then lookat what happened between '95 and '98, when he's in the minority. The House passes the whole Contract With America in 100 days. All 10 bills, and nothing gets through the Senate, because Kennedy, basically, organizes the forces of resistance, and piece by piece, he brings the Democrats back, because he remembered what they stood for."

And he did it, in part, because he had learned the etiquette of the Senate as well as he had learned its rules. "There's one thing you can count on with Ted," says McCain. "He will always keep his word. There are a lot of people in Washington who waver in their commitments, but that's not him. The Patients' Bill of Rights was a tough fight. People were being cajoled by the special


interests and by the White House, and he never wavered."

However, it's not a legislative laundry list that animates Kennedy, although he's made himself a genius at the mechanics of getting legislation passed. It is the ability to connect to the people for whom that legislation is intended ("I met the parents today") and to the people he needs to get done what he is trying to get done. Being a Kennedy comes into play only when it's useful.

For example, he forged a useful relationship with Clinton by dint not only of his legislative expertise but also through his personal charm. "Clinton was a Kennedy junkie," recalls Littlefield. "They got a big kick out of each other, and Kennedy was constantly worried about Clinton's progressive backbone." He shrewdly sizedup Clinton and realized that it was a capital advantage to be the last person to see Clinton before the president made a decision.

In 1995, worried that Clinton was going to cave in to the Republicans on the budget, Kennedy got himself into an event at which Clinton was going to swear in new police officers on the White House lawn. Afterward, he followed the president across the lawn and into the Oval Office through the back entrance, while outside the main doors, Clinton's staff had gathered to keep Kennedy out.

Over the next two years, Kennedy maneuvered in a hostile Senate, mainly by working the system as ably as he worked the senators themselves. He got the Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill passed, and he won an increase in the minimum


wage, even though the Republican leadership in the House had sworn up and down that it would never happen. And he did both of these in a bipartisan manner, because he understood not only how the Senate worked but how senators worked as well.

"There was a lot of self-flagellation at the time," Kennedy recalls. "And it seemed to me that there was a real opportunity to move creatively and aggressively."

This sort of thing effectively demolished Bob Dole. The Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill and the increase in the minimum wage were both enormously popular in the country and deeply loathed within the conservative caucus that was the power behind the Republican legislative agenda. At the time, Dole was running for president and trying to do so as an effective Senate majorityleader, and he was so plainly impaled on the demands of these dissonant identities that he failed to satisfy anyone, including himself. On May 15, 1996, in a speech of breathtaking insincerity, Dole left the Senate. Bill Clinton was reelected that fall.

It takes a thousand little things to get this done: long, grinding sessions, a blizzard of memos and reports, the kind of vigor that John Kennedy never had. Learning the legislation and learning the people you need to pass it. Three years ago, McCain (along with Feingold) was named the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for the work the Arizona senator had done on campaign finance reform. The private dinner the night before the Boston ceremony conflicted with the 11th birthday of


a way to replace defective genes in order to treat patients with enzyme disorders. The genes were delivered by modified cold viruses. By the end of the first day, Gelsinger was ill. Two days later, he was in a coma. Three days after that, his family took him off life support. It soon became clear that Gelsinger had died because the researchers had gone beyond the limits of their protocols. Jesse Gelsinger's name soon found its way to Edward Kennedy's office.

"Jesse Gelsinger - that's the kind of thing that gets to him," says a former aide. "I mean, he's always done this ethics stuff, but then this Gelsinger thing happened, and he got on it like a rocket."

It always makes a difference when there's a person involved, aface on the issue. Kennedy picks it up from his reading, or in conversation with someone in his vast circle of acquaintances, or he reads something that he brought home in his briefcase, which the staff calls The Bag and treats as if it were ambulatory, as in "The Bag is leaving now." Whatever the case, he picks up an issue more quickly if he can put a face to it, if he knows the story behind it.

And this was an issue that was exploding. Genetic scientists and the biotechnology industry had thrown their science so far ahead, and had done it so fast, that the law and the culture were scrambling just to catch up. (In 2001, an estimated 20 million people were enrolled in medical research


studies in the United States.) As a political issue, the protection of human subjects in medical research was the cutting edge of the cutting edge.

One night at about 8, just as he was getting ready to go home, a young aide on the Labor Committee named David Bowen prepared a briefing book to show to Kennedy the next morning. He showed it to his boss, a longtime Kennedy aide named David Nexon. There's only one thing missing, Nexon told Bowen: a legislative history of whatever Kennedy had previously done on the subject. Bowen went back to work.

"At about 3 o'clock in the morning," Bowen recalls, "I came to the realization of the depths of his involvement in these things." Kennedy had held the first congressional hearings into theTuskegee syphilis experiments, and into the involuntary irradiation of patients at the Fernald School in Waltham, and into the CIA -backed LSD experiments in the 1950s that had resulted in the suicide of a researcher named Frank Olson.

"I think what I realized about working here," Bowen says, "was that you get to work for someone who was the original architect of research protections from the get-go and who now has the opportunity to re-engineer that same set of protections for a 21st-century research environment."

Meanwhile, Kennedy had Littlefield organize a dinner at which the experts in the field would come and brief him. "For these things, I might find the five best people in the country on it, and they'd fly in," recalls Littlefield.

"We're moving into these extraordinary breakthroughs,"


Kennedy says. "The rapid expansion of clinical research has put enormous pressure on oversight. It's basically gotten out of hand, in terms of their ability to do the job."

It was a remarkable demonstration of institutional memory, and Kennedy put it to work crafting legislation that was both precise and pragmatic. The regulation of these studies was disorganized piecework done by 15 different federal agencies. So, this fall, Kennedy proposed a new federal agency to regulate medical consent and an in de pend ent commission that would accredit any institution that sought to do medical research using human subjects.

Typically, he sought out a Republican, William Frist of Tennessee, a physician as well as a senator, as his cosponsor, the way he'd found Nancy Kassebaum on health insurance and JohnMcCain on the Patients' Bill of Rights. The two had some differences - Frist wanted the accreditation procedures to be voluntary - but they seemed to be making progress until Frist got caught up in some internal politics within the Republican caucus.

Part of it is an omnivorous curiosity, particularly in the area of medicine and science, which became even more of a cause for him when a son, Edward Jr., lost his leg to cancer in 1973. The other part is his bullheaded insistence on moving forward, one step at a time, head down - of not merely winning, which was the original Kennedy curse, but of finding solutions.

"Curiosity is important," he says. "Maybe it's being curious or whatever the word might be - to be passionate about


the subject matter and to have a combination of emotions and a willingness to listen to new ideas."

And now he's in the minority again, the way he has been for half of his Senate career, and without a Democratic president in the White House this time.

Kennedy is still optimistic, the way he was in 1980, when Ronald Reagan came to town, the way he was in 1994, when Newt Gingrich drove the agenda. "We were making good progress, but we weren't able to get it with Frist," he says. "I think we'll get it next year."

The young history professor came to the conclusion that Eddie McCormack might be right.

In 1962, Merrill Peterson was in his first job, teaching at Brandeis University, and Edward Kennedy went there, campaigning forthe Senate. "He came out and made a talk and looked, frankly, like a lightweight," Peterson says. "He didn't look to measure up to his brother. He didn't seem to have much under him at all." Now a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, Peterson is the author of The Great Triumvirate, a magisterial study of the senatorial careers of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun in the years before the Civil War.

"I said to a colleague recently that he might be the greatest senator of them all," Peterson says. "Not just because of the time served but because of his excellence, and not just because I agree with him on most issues. I can't help with him but recall what a Philadelphia man once


other one still, and the place still moves. Glacially, but it moves. You play for history and you're playing for higher stakes, and fame and celebrity are just the $1 chips.

"I don't know if he'll have a marble head down here" in the Capitol, says Orrin Hatch, "but they'll find a spot for him somewhere."

On April 27, 2001, a bus carrying band members from the Oak Hill Middle School in Newton overturned on a highway in the Canadian Maritimes. Four children were killed. In Washington, a man whose child went to Oak Hill boarded an airplane in order to hurry home. He saw Edward Kennedy on the plane. The man told him what had happened. That's where he was going, the senator had replied.

At the school, volunteers gatheredfrom all over Newton to help out. Along one wall, they'd hung broad swatches of blank white paper so that the children could express their sorrow and say their goodbyes. On the second afternoon of the melancholy vigil, a volunteer looked out and saw Kennedy, alone in the hallway, no aides around him and no cameras in sight. He was slowly, carefully, reading every single message left by every grieving child.

See him there in the hallway, alone, painfully private, and you see him as he is, the basic material of how he's built his career. You see all he's left behind - the life of metaphor and the life of symbol. He survived them both, until there's just the one life, 70 years on, just as if he'd


been named Edward Moore. His tragedies are no greater or lesser than are those of the schoolchildren and their parents - no more important, no longer gilded for public consumption.

He was good with death that day. He's never lost there, not even in the deepest part of that inexhaustible mystery. His compass is true, and his touch never less than fine. And it is, of course, familiar ground. Two siblings killed in airplanes before he was 16 - he is the only Kennedy to survive an airplane crash - and then the garish public deaths, two of them in less than five years. Finally, the herculean effort of celebrating the achievements of the next generation, and of salvaging its sad flotsam - hapless junkies and drifting drunks, soulslost for a while or altogether.

And the dead woman, of course. He wasn't half as good there with dying as he's always been with death.

His best speeches are all eulogies. In 1999, at the memorial service for the six firefighters who died in the Worcester Cold Storage building, Kennedy gave a tribute that left Bill Clinton looking like a third-rate saloon singer condemned to follow Sinatra. He gave his greatest speech from a cathedral pulpit, over the coffin of his brother Robert. It was more than a remembrance. It was a foreshadowing of what would happen and a prayer, sort of, to be relieved of all those burdens that once looked so very much like the most golden advantages.

"My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death


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I stumbled upon the latest work from this amazing songstress yesterday. At which point I questioned the emphatic reviews that repeatedly declared she just might be the next Adele. Well, that was 24 hours ago and I've played this song that many times at least and now I'm ready to agree.

While there are many similarities, she's young, she's British, she's soulful and she can knock those big notes out of the park, I think it's the heart wrenching lyrics that warrant the comparisons. If Adele's Someone Like Youmakes yourheart ache, these lyrics might break it wide open.

Not to place all the emphasis on this one song as the entire album, Is Your Love Big Enough, is a powerhouse of a debut. The duet with Willy Mason, No RoomHuman rights chief urges Davao 'death squad' probe

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MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines' human rights chief called on Friday for a political ally of President Benigno Aquino to be investigated over a vigilante "death squad" that carried out hundreds of killings.

Commission on Human Rights chairwoman Loretta Rosales said Rodrigo Duterte, a powerful politician in the south and a member of Aquino's Liberal Party, had allowed or accepted the killings in Davao city when he was mayor there.

"Obviously, he tolerated it and for that reason, he must be investigated. For him to just wash his hands and say he had nothing to do with it, is hogwash," Rosales told AFP.

Duterte was mayor of Davao, the major trading city in the southern Philippines, from 1988 to 1998 and again from


2001 to 2010.

Hundreds of people were killed during his time as mayor, with rights groups alleging government-run vigilante groups murdered all types of alleged criminals, including street children, in an effort to wipe out crime.

Following an investigation that began three years ago, the commission said it found at least 206 killings of suspected criminals attributed to the "Davao Death Squads" from 2005 to 2009.

"These killings constituted a systematic practice of extra-judicial killings, which can be attributed or attributable to the media-dubbed Davao Death Squad," the commission said.

The commission filed a resolution this week with the government's Ombudsman and the Justice Department, calling for an investigation into Duterte and the killings.

Previous investigations into the killings had been unsuccessful because witnesses were afraid to come forward and local officials deniedany knowledge, the commission said.

New York-based Human Rights Watch welcomed the commission's resolution, saying it was "an important opportunity for the Aquino administration to show that it is serious about holding officials accountable for the worst abuses".

Human Rights Watch said in a major report on the issue in 2009 that there had been almost a thousand extrajudicial killings over the previous 10 years in Davao.

Duterte remains a powerful figure in Davao. He had to step down as mayor in 2010 because of term limits. But his daughter replaced him and he is vice mayor.

Duterte has always denied involvement in the killings.

When asked for comment on the human rights commission's call for Duterte to be investigated, two of Aquino's spokespeople referred queries to the interior ministry. The interior minister


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London, Mauritius 25 June 2018. GMEX Group, a global provider of multi-asset exchange trading, post trade business solutions and technology is pleased to confirm that, through the GMEX Market Advancement Programme (GMEX MAP), the company has taken a leading role in the initial consortium to launch the Mauritius International Derivatives and Commodities Exchange (MINDEX), envisaged to become a multi-commodity and derivatives exchange platform with full regulatory oversight by the Mauritius Financial Services Commission.

Following the opening of its regional headquarters in the Mauritius International Financial Centre (IFC) last year, GMEX has been working closely with the British High Commission Mauritius and Department for International Trade (DIT) Mauritius. The DIT engaged with theAt least 10 people died in a terror attack in Toronto, Canada on Monday and the MSM has released the suspect’s name, but not religion or background.

Kanye West triggered the establishment and most liberals by tweeting support for conservative YouTuber Candace Owens and now saying, “I love Donald Trump.”

Also, one day after former first lady Barbara Bush’s death former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital where he is now fighting for his life.

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DARDANELLE - Dardanelle High School EAST Lab students were present at the district's regular school board meeting Monday night in order to inform the board on the variety of activities and community projects its 60 students have accomplished throughout the year.

EAST (Environmental And Spatial Technology) Lab is a multidisciplinary course in which students use cutting-edge computer software and hardware to engage in service-oriented projects that benefit their school and community.

The students volunteered to speak on some of the lab's many benefits - such as enabling students to be better problem-solvers, see new things throughout the community, work more effectively in a team atmosphere and learn about a variety of technological advancements in today's society.

"I've never been in a situation where I have had to do all the teachingmyself," first year EAST student James Pearrow said. "Through learning on your own, you become more independent."

While instructor Sandy Williams said she does supervise the class and help them when necessary, the majority of students present commented on how the possibility of self-instruction allowed them to gain much needed "real world experience."

"Mrs. Williams opens the door, but she doesn't make us go through it. We have to do it ourselves," EAST student Brittney Ray said.

Both Pearrow and Ray told about a documentary they recently completed in EAST lab about the history of Dardanelle. They explained the documentary was important because the history of Dardanelle is often overlooked by its residents.

EAST student Jessica Doehring told the board about her group's project, titled "StopMethNow." Doehring - along with group members


Mercedes Anthony and Nick George - worked with the Yell County Drug Coalition to promote drug abstinence and eliminate the use of methamphetamine in Yell County. As a part of their project, the group arranged for David Parnell - a motivational speaker and recovering meth addict - to visit the school to discuss the dangers of meth.

In February, the group received the Award of Excellence at the EAST Partnership Conference - an annual gathering of more than 2,000 students from across America. The event spans three days and includes an array of activities such as an exhibition hall showcasing student service projects, student breakout sessions on the latest in technology and an awards banquet.

The board, along with superintendent John Thompson, commended the group on their efforts and expressedSports Briefs

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■ AthleticsFans protest Israel

More than 1,000 protesters burned an Israeli flag outside the stadium where Israeli athletes competed on Monday at the European Athletics Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden. The protesters waved Lebanese flags and demanded an end to the fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. The group also called for a political, trade and sports boycott of Israel and said its athletes should not be allowed to compete in European competitions.

■ Baseball

Matsui up for examination

New York Yankees left fielder Hideki Matsui will have his injured left wrist re-examined on Friday, at which time he could be cleared to intensify his workouts. Matsui is currently hitting off a tee with a mini-bat, one-handed with his right arm. The Japanese star is also throwing in


the outfield, but is having a second person catch the return throws for him. Matsui will be examined in Tampa, Florida, where he is recovering from the broken wrist he suffered while diving for a fly ball against Boston on May 11. "I'm really not frustrated or tired of the situation," Matsui said on Monday through a translator.

■ Soccer

Reggina to face fixing probe

Italian Serie A side Reggina have been ordered to appear before a sports tribunal to answer allegations of match-fixing in the latest twist to the scandal that has rocked Italian soccer, it was reported on Monday. Reggina's case has been referred to legal authorities after the club were placed under investigation at the request of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) last month, ANSA news agency reported.The club's 56-year-old president Lillo Foti, three referees, two assistant referees and another official have been targeted by prosecutors. According to magistrates, these people tried to predetermine the result of six matches involving first division club Reggina last season.

■ Athletics

Kenyan duo falsified age

A Kenyan police officer allegedly helped two runners lower their ages so they could take part in the World Junior Championships, the country's sports minister said on Monday. "We must stop this age cheating habit once and for all," Maina Kamanda said. Emmanuel Chamer had a passport that said he was born in 1988 but he was actually born in 1984, Kamanda said, making him too old to compete at the Aug. 15-20 championships in Beijing. Chamer admitted getting the passport with the help of police


inspector Silas Ruto, the minister said. Thomas Loriongosiwa was also detained last week by authorities. Loriongosiwa was born in 1982 -- not 1988 -- which would have qualified him to run, Kamanda said last week. Loriongosiwa was arrested Friday and charged. He is out on bail and his case will be heard on Oct. 25.

■ NHLRangers hook Hossa

The New York Rangers and Slovakian forward Marcel Hossa agreed to terms on a one-year deal worth US$600,000 on Monday. The 24-year-old left winger posted career highs with 10 goals, 16 points and 64 games played in the last NHL season, his first with New York. Hossa, who represented Slovakia at this year's Turin Olympics, also had a goal,and three assists in seven games at the ice hockey world championships. Duringthe 2004-2005 NHL lockout, Hossa skated in 48 games with Mora IK of the Swedish Elite League and had 18 goals and six assists. He tied his brother, Marian of the Atlanta Thrashers, for second on the team in goals. He was acquired by New York on Sept. 30 last year, for forward Garth Murray.


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looking forward to ever brighter chapters in our Nation’s history book. The 2017 American Liberty Gold Coin is the first in a series of 24-karat gold coins the United States Mint will issue biennially.

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Many hold this as an affirmation of a Christian origin of the American republic. consider a brief history of the minted maxim: The first coins struck by the nascent United States did not bear the.

According to Arendt,even the ideologically hidebound Marx and Lenin realized, if only dimly and fleetingly, that something.

Wright Museum of African American History, where she found success in engaging with the. A floor case, a glass-bottomed.

In 1986 the United States Mint began striking new silver and gold annual coins. Representing the silver side are American Silver Eagles. Through to the middle of 2010, the mintage total for the.

Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender. Coins of interest to collectors often include those that circulated for only a brief time, coins with mint errors and especially beautiful or historically significant pieces. Coin collecting can be differentiated from numismatics, in that the latter is the systematic study of currency.

The new mural also paid tribute to four


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This is confirmed in the Reynolds Family History from the 1970 reunion, which reads: “Joshua Cox undoubtedly was the first American to own the Joshua Coin, a good luck piece highly valued by the Cox.

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New, Old, or Other, Money has always been important, and since the first incident of bartering for coin, Money has been the. to go on a long soliloquy about America’s treatment of black people.

Coin – Coins of Latin America: Spanish colonists carried to the New World the Castilian currency system, which had been regulated as to standard, weight, and size of the coins within a bimetallic pattern by the ordinances of Ferdinand and Isabella issued in Medina del Campo in 1497. The double base of the system consisted of the gold excelente (replaced in 1535 by the escudo) and the silver.

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“Some of these coins are extremely rare and would help fill in gaps when it comes to the history of American coins. We know of 10 gold pieces that were recovered at the site years ago, and they sold.

Money, or the lack thereof, was a persistent problem in colonial America. The colonists were under the control of Great Britain, where the legal tender was both gold and silver, known as a.

The tone, however, is more reflective than hysterical, examining the history of propaganda largely through the prism of art.

The centerpiece of America’s 20th century "gold standard" was The Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, or $20gold piece, which stands above the rest as the single most magnificent coin of this—or any— era in U.S. history.

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In tough economic times when coins were scarce, local merchants issued their own.


twist of fate and timing, be exactly where he needed to be – the right time and place – to lead us through that painful journey. As I think about great leaders I know, I realize hey have

The ostensible reason for all of this is to assure moral clarity — that being the coin of the realm these days. a dozen black players in their 52-year history. Irving Berlin, the author of “God.

And this time, she is an African American woman. “Lady Liberty, as depicted in coinage throughout the years, is modeled after our society’s continued evolution. The Washington Post in a phone.

S.S. Central America Time Line The S.S. Central America carried the most talked about treasure in American history. A book about the ship and its fabulouscargo, Ship of Gold, In The Deep Blue Sea, by Gary Kinder (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998) was on the New York Times Best Seller List, and Warner Brothers has purchased the rights to produce a major motion picture.

When the Lincoln one-cent coin made its initial appearance in 1909, it marked a radical departure from the accepted styling of United States coins, introducing as it did for the first time a portrait coin in the regular series. A strong feeling had prevailed against using portraits on our coins, but.

Ulysses S Grant Impact On Gilded Age Powell’s Blog Original Essays The Year I Thought a Pizza Franchise Was a Breakfast Cereal by Xuan Juliana Wang Someone once told me that before a child acquires language for the first time, their


the receiver to decode the DTMF audio tone and to responsively generate a decoded signal representing dialed information corresponding to the DTMF audio tone during the conversation mode of the wireless telephone. The wireless telephone may be an analog wireless telephone or a digital wireless telephone.
In another embodiment, the present invention is a telephone instrument that includes a receiver to receive a DTMF audio tone transmitted to the telephone instrument during a conversation mode thereof, a DTMF decoder coupled to the receiver to decode the DTMF audio tone and to responsively generate a decoded signal representing a telephone keypad entry conveyed through the DTMF audio tone during the conversation mode of the telephone instrument, a control unit coupled to the DTMF decoder to determine the telephone keypad entryApple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has at last found the person to fill the position left vacant after the company’s former retail chief, John Browett, was fired last year. The company announced on Monday that it has hired Angela Ahrendts, the head of British fashion house Burberry, as its new senior vice president of retail and online stores.

Ahrendts, who will start working with Apple next spring, will be a member of the company’s executive team and will report to CEO Tim Cook. She will have oversight of the strategic direction, expansion and operation of both Apple retail and online stores, according to Apple.

As Apple said in the official announcement, the new "SVP of Retail and Online Stores" position is new to the company’s organizational chart. The new role is likely to


candidates for the position.

“I am thrilled that Angela will be joining our team,” Cook said, in the statement. “She shares our values and our focus on innovation, and she places the same strong emphasis as we do on the customer experience. She has shown herself to be an extraordinary leader throughout her career and has a proven track record.”

Ahrendts, 53, has been CEO of Burberry since July 2006. From 1998 to 2006 she was executive vice president at Liz Claiborne Inc., and earlier in her career, she served as president of Donna Karan International.

In September, Apple and Burberry collaborated with the iPhone-maker giving the luxury retailer early access to the iPhone 5s to capture the company’s runway show in London.AKRON, Ohio -- Tiger Woods hurt his back during the final round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday and withdrew after hitting his tee shot on the ninth hole.

Woods was in visible pain trying to pick up his tee and later at his car in the parking lot, where in brief remarks he said he "jarred it" when he jumped into a fairway bunker on the second hole after hitting a shot from an awkward stance.

The 14-time major winner was in distress at his car as he attempted to take off his golf shoes and change into tennis shoes. He could barely stand, bracing himself at the back of the vehicle, unable to tie his shoes.

"It happened on the second hole when I hit my second shot, I


fell back into the bunker," Woods said. "I just jarred it, and it's been spasming ever since."

The stance outside of the bunker was an awkward one, as he basically swung off his right leg -- the ball too close to the bunker to take a regular stance. He fell back into the steep bunker and then ran to the bottom, and while he didn't show much discomfort at the time, his caddie, Joe LaCava, said Woods was hurting the rest of the way.

"He did a good job of masking it," LaCava said.

Woods hit several poor shots at the fifth, sixth and seventh holes, playing them in 3 over. He parred the 8th, then hit a 315-yard drive at the ninth but could barely bend over to pick uphis tee. He then summoned a golf cart and had difficulty sitting in it.

Tiger Woods withdrew from the WGC-Bridgestone after his "whole" lower back began hurting. AP Photo/Mark Duncan

Woods had surgery on March 31 to alleviate a pinched nerve in his back following just four tournaments in 2014. He withdrew from the Honda Classic during the final round and then played the WGC-Cadillac Championship the next week, shooting a third-round 66 but finding himself in distress during a final-round 78.

According to Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, Woods is "back in Florida, [for] evaluation and then treatment."

Playing partner Bubba Watson didn't see Woods hit his shot on the second hole but knew something was amiss as he played poorly over the rest of the front nine.

"He hit some shots that


we're not used to seeing Tiger hit, even when he's coming back from an injury like this," Watson said. "We don't see shots like that.

"So obviously, something was bothering him, and so you could kind of tell something was going on, and then when he hit the shot [on the ninth hole], hit the draw, he probably wasn't trying to play a draw on 9, and when he came over it like that, his back probably tightened up and caused the draw.

"Again, like I told him when I shook his hand, I said, 'I'm praying for you. Hope everything turns out good. Hope to see you next week.'"

In several interviews since the surgery, Woods said that the pain he felt in his back prior to the surgery leftheart of Trump’s challenge to the foreign policy elites. Since the end of World War II, the US has occupied Japan. In effect, Japan is a conquered nation: and yet it’s an open question as to who conquered whom. As an economic entity, Japan exists to send cheap tariff-free exports to America in exchange for complete subordination to Washington’s imperial diktat. Only a few right-wing Japanese nationalists – and most of the inhabitants of Okinawa – object to that: as for the great majority, they are content to live prosperous lives under the American defense umbrella. Trump is quite right that this is a one-sided agreement: the Japanese don’t have to worry about defending themselves and they also get the economic benefits of having a strictly protected market


Saud in 1945 aboard the USS Quincy. US oil companies captured valuable franchises and the US military followed in their wake, with overflight privileges, military training programs, and a firm commitment by the US to defend the Kingdom against all comers.

Although the relationship has had its ups and downs, it has continued to this day essentially in its original form, due largely to the efforts of a well-funded Washington lobby backed by US oil interests, who are most interested in utilizing the US military to protect their profits.

Trump’s critique of US-Saudi relations threatens a self-interested claque of privileged plutocrats and their lobbyist supporters, just as his threat to cut off our other mostly useless “allies” from the gravy train has induced panic from Paris to the Potomac.

· Onus, but not nearly as much as it affects other countries.”

NATO became obsolete when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union disintegrated. Yet instead of going the way of the horse-and-buggy, it grew until it reached the very gates of Moscow – in spite of a promise by George H.W. Bush that NATO would freeze its membership if Mikhail Gorbachev would allow East Germany to reunify with the West. What Trump is proposing is the dissolution of NATO as we know it – essentially an anti-Russian alliance – and its reconfiguration into an instrument devoted to counterterrorism. Indeed, later on in the interview with the Times, he suggests that NATO could be scrapped, and a new institution devoted to a more current problem – terrorism – would


going here. But please note that my tweets are sometimes deliberately provocative, often made in jest, and largely consist of me thinking out loud.

I’ve written a couple of books, which you might want to peruse. Here is the link for buying the second edition of my 1993 book, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, with an Introduction by Prof. George W. Carey, a Foreword by Patrick J. Buchanan, and critical essays by Scott Richert and David Gordon (ISI Books, 2008).

You can buy An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Prometheus Books, 2000), my biography of the great libertarian thinker, here.Sapna Devi Shukla

When Champa Devi Shukla's granddaughter was born with a raft of facial deformities in the Indian city of Bhopal, she was not left short of advice.

"Many people said you should kill her. They said she is of no use, you should stuff tobacco in her mouth" to suffocate her, said Devi Shukla.

"But I thought, I'm not going to let her die. I've already lost three sons to this tragedy so I'm not going to lose someone else."

When a cloud of highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas blew across Bhopal on the night of December 2, 1984, around 3,500 people were killed in the immediate aftermath and up to 25,000 are estimated to have died in the long-run.

The tragedy didn't end there for locals living around the


Union Carbide chemical plant at the centre of the disaster, with many later giving birth to children with abnormalities.

The government has not confirmed a link, which would have major implications in terms of compensation so far limited to people who were alive at the time of the world's deadliest industrial disaster.

Devi Shukla lost her husband and three sons on the night. One of her daughters, Vidya, was also left partially paralysed after inhaling fumes.

The family was overjoyed when Vidya fell pregnant, but more pain was to come after Vidya gave birth to a daughter, Sapna.

"She was born with a cleft lip and palate. She has had three lots of operations so far" with one still to go to reconstruct her nose, Devi Shukla told AFP.

Sapna, now a happy13-year-old, says she wants to become a doctor when she is older.

Her own family's experience having convinced her of the link, Devi Shukla helped set up a clinic for children of survivors who have health problems.

The Chingari Trust has 705 pupils, many with conditions such as autism or deafness. The centre provides physical and speech therapy along with schooling and sports.

Rasheda Bee, a co-trustee, says she believes most of the illnesses stem from "drinking poisonous water".

Her determination to help began after she saw her sister and then her three nieces die of respiratory illnesses.

It was fuelled by a trip to Japan, where she met children of victims of the 1945 Hiroshima nuclear bombing.


Four big new buildings could rise in the long struggling downtown core if all goes well: a new office/commercial building in Aster’s Hole, a historic remodel of the adjacent Centre Court building, the massive LCC classroom/residential project in the library pit and a new hotel at the 5th Street Public Market.

The city played a role in financing all the projects, sometimes heavily. But the flurry of new building represents the most investment downtown has seen in decades and could make the city center a hot spot amid the chilly local economy.

Here’s a look at the projects:

Aster’s Hole

The hole, named after the developer who bought the old Woolworth’s building in 1994 and then tore it down to a pit, may finally be filled with Bennett Management Company’s proposal forwas subsidized by a $500,000 loan from the city. The market has planned a project unveiling at 5:30 pm, Sept. 24. The building will be the first hotel built downtown in three decades.

BIGLEAF BUMMER

This old maple tree is doomed

Eugene urban foresters plan to remove a large bigleaf maple from Pearl Street, beside the 5th Street Public Market. The Parks and Open Space Division posted a notice of removal, inviting interested citizens to comment on the process.

Mark Snyder, urban forester, says that about 35 percent of the tree’s root system was removed during the construction of the space formerly occupied by the Nike store, a move that would render the tree legally felled under updated city codes. Since then, white rot fungus has developed in the remaining root system


for broadband policy in Oregon in the next few years.

• Breakfast at the Bike Bridges makes its final stop of the season from 7 to 9:30 am Friday, Sept. 24 at the Dave and Lynn Frohnmayer Bridge (former Autzen Footbridge). UO President Richard Lariviere and Jan Lariviere plan to be there. Free breakfast, free “bike stuff,” and Burley Design will demonstrate its urban bicycle trailer system and give one away in a drawing.

• John Kitzhaber will speak on the importance of early childhood education at City Club of Eugene at noon Friday, Sept. 24, at the Hilton. The City Club gubernatorial debate planned for that day was canceled when Republican Chris Dudley declined to show up, but a gubernatorial forum is part of the members-only annual conference luncheonBoard of County Commissioners, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 29. at the Fairgrounds/ Lane Events Center Meeting room #1.

• West Lane County Commission candidates Jerry Rust and Jay Bozievich will be debating at 6:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Community Services Center at 175 W. 7th Ave. in Junction City. The forum is sponsored by the Junction City/Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce.

• The Many Rivers Group of the Sierra Club will sponsor a talk by Lisa Arkin of the Oregon Toxics Alliance on “Environmental Laws Killed and Buried from View: Can Oregon Lead Again?” at 7 pm Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Eugene Garden Club, 1645 High St. Contact sally.nunn@oregon.sierraclub.org

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•• The Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene does remarkable work in protecting the constitutional rights of


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Gatunek: Metal Hardcore

Dziesiąty album w karierze niemieckiego zespołu.

Metalcore.

Energiczne, dobre kompozycje, momentami sztucznie wypada wzniosłość kompozycji.

Dobry wokal, dobre instrumenty.

Kolejne dobre wydawnictwo, zespół utrzymuje wysoki poziom.

Translation by Google Translate:

The tenth album in the career of the German band.

Metalcore.

Vigorous, good compositions, sometimes the band falls in the trap of artificial grandeur.

Good vocals, good instruments.

Another good record, the band holds a high level.could recover from the disaster. Fortunately, the cause was not a design flaw with the hardware, and thus no major design changes were necessary.

An NTSB investigation into the accident concluded that a pilot prematurely deployed the feathering system on the spacecraft. The system is used to increase drag during reentry. Many experts heavily criticised operator Virgin Galactic and manufacturer Scaled Composites for not having a fail-safe in place to prevent an early deployment. In response, a fail-safe was implemented, and a program-wide safety review was conducted.

With the loss of VSS Enterprise, SpaceShipTwo testing came to a halt until a replacement spacecraft was ready. In February 2016, Virgin unveiled a new SpaceShipTwo named VSS Unity. This was the first spaceplane constructed in-house by The Spaceship Company, a sister of


Speaking at the White House Wednesday to follow up on President Donald Trump's surprise announcement that he would order the military to help secure the southern border, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen refused to detail the size, scope or cost of a planned deployment of National Guard troops, but said it was hoped they could be deployed "immediately" – as early as Wednesday night.

Wednesday evening, a senior administration official said the president had signed a proclamation authorizing the National Guard to assist the border patrol.

Trump wants to send the U.S. military to protect the border with Mexico while the new border wall he wants is built and Nielsen also said the administration was "looking into options for the military to build a wall" on military installations on theI could join them? She thought to herself shyly, her face heating slightly at her own thought. Only when she felt another cold breeze of air slide down her back through her night shirt did Ruby decide that she needed heat, no matter how embarrassing it may be. Ruby crawled out of her bed slowly and landed quietly on the ground. As she stood in the center of her and her friends' dorm, Ruby questioned on who she should ask to join. Weiss was almost instantly out of the question since she was naturally cold so no doubt she would freeze Ruby and her attitude was less than accepting when it came to interrupting her beauty sleep. Ruby gave asking Blake some thought but opted out of it


considering when Yang had tried to wake the faunus up in the middle of the night, she ended up with numerous scratches...

That left Yang. Ruby felt slightly awkward at joining her sister in the latter's bed like she used to do when they were younger, but those thoughts were pushed aside when she felt another breath of air push itself down Ruby's night shirt again, and evidently pushed her forward towards Yang and Blake's bunk beds. Upon reaching the snoring blonde's bed, Ruby pushed a tentative arm up to where the figure laid and pushed her shoulder. Ruby got onto her tiptoes and moved closer as she continued to press Yang's shoulder.

"Yang... Yang..." Ruby whispered constantly, trying to wake her oaf of a sister up. Yang let outaura?" Yang asked knowingly with a small smile hidden on her face.

Ruby nodded but realized she couldn't be seen through the darkness, "Y-yes..." She spoke softly, but loud enough for Yang to hear.

The older sister laughed quietly, "Alright you big baby, get up here." Yang said, scooting back to create enough space for Ruby. The latter let out a silly smile before slowly and quietly crawling onto the top bunk to join her sister.

"Turn to face your bunk." Yang ordered when she realized Ruby was on the bed.

"Why?" Ruby curiously asked.

"Because when I let out my aura, your back will catch it faster and transfer the heat through the body faster," Yang mumbled, staring at her sister's innocent face through the darkness, her eyes now adjusted enough to


do so. When she saw Ruby do what she said, Yang inched herself closer and snaked her arms around Ruby's back and linked them at her stomach, pulling the surprised girl in. Ruby let out a small squeak of surprise at the sudden move but calmed when she felt heat radiate throughout her body, relaxing her into a state of pure bliss.

Suddenly she could feel Yang's voice in her ear, "You know, I'm glad you wanted me to heat you up." She whispered in a sensual tone. Ruby took in a deep breath of surprise before realizing Yang's right arm was trailing down her body.

"W-why is that?" Ruby asked with a hiccup.

A chuckle in her ear caused the rose to squirm, "Because now we can do what wehaven't been able to do since we left for Beacon." Yang whispered with a seductive undertone before moving her mouth closer down to Ruby's neck and poking at the bare skin with her tongue. Ruby's breath hitched again before arching her back when feeling Yang's fingers press against her inner thigh. Ruby's legs twisted, trapping Yang's fingers within the bound limbs. Yang giggled against Ruby's skin before moving her free arm, her left one, down to the hem of Ruby's night shirt and slid her fingers under, sliding against her bare belly.

"Y-Yang... D-don't." Ruby pleaded, already out of breath by her older sister's sudden attack. Yang didn't answer with words, instead pressing her lips against the side of Ruby's neck and ground her teeth, eliciting a small noise


from Ruby, who by this point had shut her eyes tightly and was biting her bottom lip. Ruby moved one of her arms down to Yang's right arm and gripped the wrist lightly, trying to pull. When she did, Yang responded by moving her left arm up further towards Ruby's breasts where she slid her index finger up the younger girl's cleavage. Ruby gasped at the sudden jolt and instantly let go of Yang's wrist, ready to melt.

Yang was suddenly at her ear again, "Oh, I think I may have found a new weak point. Let's explore this new region." Yang whispered excitedly, before silencing herself at Ruby's neck again, leaving her hands to do the work. Yang's left arm was circling the rim of Ruby's b-cup breastsin a figure eight with her index and middle finger, every now and then pressing her nails down to create small whimpers from her sister. Ruby knew she was powerless by this point, and let her arms fall limp in-front of her body. Her legs however remained strong, and soon enough, Ruby could feel Yang's right hand move up her thigh at a slow speed thanks to Ruby's iron grip on her hand.

Yang, having enough with teasing the chest, moved her fingers up the side of her sister's left breast up to the nipple, where she could already feel the hardened skin through the slim bra.

Yang, knowing that she had created a hickey, removed her lips from Ruby's smooth skin, and back towards her ear, "Your skin tastes


so delicious. It's so sweet..." Yang moved down to the back of Ruby's neck and pressed her tongue at the bottom of the neck, moving slowly up the skin at the spine, causing Ruby to jolt suddenly as she felt her skin wet from her sister's sly tongue. Once Yang had reached the tip of the neck where Ruby's hairline was, she removed her tongue and moved back to her ear.

"It reminds me of strawberries... And I love strawberries..." Yang uttered sexually before nibbling on Ruby's lobe. Rose let out another whimper. She was trying to stay as quiet as possible in order to not wake her teammates, but her older sister was not helping! Ruby suddenly remembered her sister's left hand that was cupping her left breastthrough the bra and gave it a rough squeeze, to where Ruby finally let out a drawn moan.

"Oohhh..." Ruby let out, tilting her head down at her body where she saw Yang's arms; one through her shirt and the other in-between her legs, inching ever closer.

Yang grinned, "Oh Ruby, I finally got to hear that noise that I've come to love hearing from your luscious lips. You deserve a reward. And I already know what it'll be." Yang giggled before moving to create another hickey at Ruby's neckline. Only then did Ruby realize that Yang's hand was at the arch where her legs connected and stiffened when she felt a finger jam through her pajama pants into the center of that arch.

"Kyaa!" Ruby let out, covering her mouth


in surprise. Yang gave one last possessive bite into Ruby's neck again before she giggled.

"Oh, my cute little sister has some noises that even I haven't heard yet. Can we keep that streak going?" Yang whispered before moving her head next to Ruby's, where she looked down at her younger sister's body, where the blonde saw her own appendages at work.

"Now I get to see what I do that causes you to squirm so adorably Ruby. Just like old times right?" Yang asked in an innocent tone, pressing her head against Ruby's. The younger sister couldn't respond as she was biting her lip and was attempting to keep her eyes open.

Yang was moving the finger at the arch in small circles, sending jolts of electricity up Ruby, "Now,should we go for something classic or try something brand new?" Yang hummed. Still wanting to give the same attention to the girl's breasts, Yang moved her left hand up to Ruby's bra straps and moved each of them down before yanking the flimsy piece of clothing down, somewhat exposing the mounds of flesh.

Yang frowned, saddened, "Something isn't right..." Yang trailed, audibly upset.

"W-what?" Ruby was barely able to speak.

"You have too much clothing on. I need to remedy this." Yang said, removing her right hand from her legs. Yang also removed her left hand from under Ruby's shirt and used both hands to remove her younger sister's top, tossing it onto her bunk. They both stared down at Ruby's exposed chest where the bra lingered below it.

Yang's eyes


were on something else though, "I was right. How long have your nipples been this hard little sis?" When Ruby didn't answer from sheer embarrassment, Yang clicked her tongue before speaking again.

Her arms snaked back to their original positions, "How long have you been itching for this Ruby? How long have you wanted your older sister to violate your body?" Hearing her older sister speak in such a naughty way drove Ruby's brain into overdrive before shutting down finally. As Rose stared down at Yang's arm snake closer to the hem of her pants, her mind finally snapped.

"Just hurry..." Ruby whispered quietly, clenching her fists.

Yang just started humming, "Hm...?" She asked, her left hand already reaching Ruby's breasts and was massaging it while her right hand lingered atRuby's stomach, tracing circles around her belly button. Ruby had had it, she needed it. She wanted her sister's touch.

"Just take me..." Ruby whispered embarrassingly snapping her eyes shut again.

Yang gave a mild, humorous chuckle, before complying, "As you wish my little devil." And with that Yang in almost record time slithered her hand down Ruby's pants and underwear, and felt the fuzz brush against her fingertips.

"Keeping up with your trimming Ruby? That's sweet." Yang commented offhandedly before moving her middle finger up against her younger sister's clit. Ruby felt a large clump of air push itself into her throat and gulped painfully. That painful gulp became the last thing on her mind and was replaced with a sheer sense of pleasure from two sources. One was that


ear. Before Ruby could respond she felt Yang slip two more fingers in, causing a throaty gasp to release from Rose's throat.

Oh god, three fingers... Ruby thought to herself lustfully, feeling a massive tingling sensation where Yang's slick fingers were pumping.

"Faster..." Ruby groaned out, starting to breathe heavily.

Yang was taken aback by the sudden demand, "Hm...?" She asked, moving her left hand off of Ruby's breast.

Ruby let out another deep moan, "Uhh... F-F-Faster... Please... Uhh..." Ruby gasped out, her tongue poked out as saliva dropped. Yang had heard her and grinned at the submissive girl who looked like she was about to go limp. Complying, Yang sped up her fingers and not soon after was hitting places that she didn't remember having.

"Kyaa!" She cried again, feeling a pressurebuild in her belly.

"There's that noise I wanted to hear, Ruby." Yang whispered, quite proud of herself. Ruby suddenly felt Yang's left hand reach her clit and started massaging it, increasing the amount of pleasure and pressure Ruby was feeling.

With that pleasure building, Ruby's voice kept degrading, "Y-Y-... Y-Yang... Oohh... I-I'm..." Ruby trailed off, unable to even keep a stable sentence. The only thing her melting brain was able to focus on were her own sister's slender appendages electrifying her insides.

Yang finished for her, "You're about to cum?" Ruby nodded mutely, her voice taken up by her quiet moans that were slightly getting higher in tone and pitch. As Ruby felt the pressure build to an immeasurable height, Yang was in her ear again.

"Just let it go Ruby..."


Yang whispered slowly, increasing the speed of her fingers and the pressure against her clit. Ruby started bucking her hips, starting to climb to the climax of her pleasure.

"Aah..." Ruby let out another noise, speeding her hips up to meet with Yang's fingers. Yang kept up the speed and after a few seconds, Ruby's hips and Yang's fingers met in unison and when the younger felt her sister's middle finger jam into her core, the pressure finally gave way.

"Kyaa!" Ruby screeched a third time, arching her hips even deeper into Yang's fingers as she felt something spill out of her onto her legs, underwear, and pants. After a few seconds where Ruby was frozen, her mouth ajar as she let her voice trail off, she went limp ontoYang's bed, completely out of breath. Yang removed her sticky fingers slowly, wanting to give Ruby some lasting pleasure before deciding to give her a rest. As Yang's fingers became visible from Ruby's stained pants, they both stared with shock at how much Ruby came. Yang's right hand with the three fingers she used were drenched from tip to base in Ruby's juices.

"Wow Rubes... Maybe we should do this more often so you don't have to stay so pent up..." Yang giggled, admiring her art. Ruby just rolled her eyes, too tired to argue with her sister.

"I didn't hear you say no Ruby~" Yang sang, rubbing her cheek against her sister's. The latter this time gave a small chuckle at her older sister's attitude. Suddenly Yang brought her


fingers up to her mouth and licked her index finger clean, all in Ruby's eyesight.

Oh god too hot. Ruby thought, her face becoming a darker red than its permanent tone from the intimate intercourse that Ruby and Yang had just done. After swallowing the last of the sticky juice ,Yang popped her lips, before smiling.

"You know Ruby, I don't know whether I should tell you to continue devouring those cookies or calm down with those sweets." Yang winked. Ruby's face went pink and lightly moved her left elbow to push Yang backwards. Said blonde giggled before moving the two covered fingers near Ruby's dry lips.

"Want some?" Yang asked casually as if she was offering Ruby some of her ice cream. The latter blinked, a little worried, but alsocurious at how her own cum tasted. Ruby tentatively tilted her head towards Yang's finger and poked her tongue out, licking at the tip of her middle finger. She brought the sticky cum back into her mouth and swallowed. Ruby sat there in complete silence for a few moments before a happy look appeared over her face. She moved back up to Yang's fingers and started licking up her own cum sexually, causing a heavy blush to go over Yang's face.

"W-whoa sis, don't get cum crazy." Yang laughed. Ruby realized what she was doing and removed her mouth from the appendages, turning away from her sister but still tasting her sweet juice.

I should start eating more cookies, Ruby thought to herself, before turning her face permanently pink as


a result. Yang looked at the neon clock and saw it was almost 2:00 a.m.

"Wow sis, we really had some fun didn't we?" Yang purred into Ruby's neck, causing said girl to shiver. She then looked over at the neon clock her older sister glanced at and choked.

Yang giggled, "Don't choke on that cum sis." She whispered seductively. With her hands now cleaned because of Ruby, Yang roamed her sister's bare upper body again, hoping to spark that pleasure again.

"Not now Yang..." Ruby groaned out, "L-let's just sleep." She stuttered, feeling Yang grope her breasts again.

Yang frowned playfully, "Aww... But we just started doing this again..." She pouted, and Ruby could feel her ears melt at how adorable her older sister sounded.

"We can do more of this laterAfter the recent tragic events in Haiti, International child aid is starting to arrive, the earthquake has left 50000 kids under 10 orphaned and alone to fend for themselves.
The USA are sending medicine and doctors, the UK are sending food and shelter whilst Ireland are sending 1000 catholic priests on a holiday of a lifetime.

After the recent tragic events in Haiti, International child aid is starting to arrive, the earthquake has left 50000 kids under 10 orphaned and alone to fend for themselves.
The USA are sending medicine and doctors, the UK are sending food and shelter whilst Ireland are sending 1000 catholic priests on a holiday of a lifetime.

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And a huge waiting list (of Catholic priests) is growing in Germany, Austria and the rest of the


bath and a shrine involving a sheep’s head, according to the Trust.

While the clean-up bill of £200,000 for the year was not as high as at the peak in 2017 - £394,430 - it amounts a 42 per cent overall increase from the £140,616 spent in 2014.

Darren Moorcroft, director of estate and woodland outreach at the Trust, which manages 26,000 hectares across the UK, suggested a squeeze on council spending on refuse sites and charges for picking up some kinds of household rubbish were a factor.On the mounting of interior components in an aircraft, it is customary at present to connect components, such as, for example, dado panels, side coverings, ceiling coverings, light strips, luggage compartments and the like, individually to the aircraft structure. Since each component has to be separately positioned and fastened to the aircraft structure, the mounting of these components is very time-consuming. Similarly, for example, pipelines serving as air-conducting lines of an aircraft air-conditioning system or for water supply in an aircraft cabin, and also electric lines, are at present also fastened individually to the aircraft structure in a time-consuming manner. After mounting, the proper functioning of all the lines must be checked in a final inspection. In particular, all the pipelines have to undergo a tightness check, while


Taylor Carpet One Helps Soldiers Call Home

EnvironmentalHumanitarian

Taylor Carpet One Floor & Home is collecting cell phones at all their Florida locations in Fort Myers, Bonita Springs and Naples to be donated to the nonprofit Cell Phones for Soldiers. They are encouraging Southwest Florida residents to clean out their drawers and bring in their gently-used cellular phone.

The U.S. military has thousands of troops overseas around the world. A donation to Cell Phones for Soldiers will give more soldiers a connection to loved ones back home.

Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by Robbie and Brittany Berquist at the ages of 12 and 13. The charity has since provided more than 168 million minutes of free talk time to servicemen and women stationed around the world. Funds raised from the recyclingChromogranin in bronchopulmonary neuroendocrine cells. Immunocytochemical detection in human, monkey, and pig respiratory mucosa.
Immunoreactive chromogranin A was demonstrated by immunocytochemistry in the cytoplasm of neuroendocrine cells (NEC) and neuroepithelial bodies (NEB) in human, monkey, and pig respiratory mucosa. Three different antisera (one monoclonal and one polyclonal to human chromogranin A, and one polyclonal to bovine chromogranin A) were applied in this study. Chromogranin immunopositivity varied in extent and intensity according to the antiserum applied and the tissue investigated. The monoclonal antibody revealed the strongest immunoreaction. Good correlation between chromogranin immunoreactivity and Grimelius silver staining was observed by comparing adjacent sections, although more cells seemed to reveal chromogranin immunoreactivity than argyrophylia. Chromogranin appears to be a useful histological marker for APUD cells in the respiratory mucosa of several species.


save her. One bighearted vet went with the latter.

Gorshkov made the decision that all four of her paws had to be amputated, along with part of her tail and both of her ears, per the Moscow Times.

Instead of leaving her pawless, the clinic decided to go above and beyond to make this kitty’s life as close to normal as possible with the help of 3D-printed bionic legs.

In collaboration with researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), the team created a set of 3D-printed prosthetics for the cat. They were installed onto Dymka’s body with the help of titanium implants fused to her leg bones, the school said in a statement.

The adorable cat got her first set of legs in July 2019, Fox News says, followed by her hind-leg implantsin December 2019. The clinic shared a video of the cat’s journey last year to celebrate the successful procedures.

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According to The Moscow Times, the cat now lives with the woman who originally found her.

The same clinic performed a similar procedure on another cat Ryzhik, who also suffered from frostbite, in 2016.

The story is an important lesson to all animal owners living in climates with freezing cold seasons.

Last February, a cat was found “essentially frozen” and buried in Montana snow. She was found by her owner in a Kalispell snowbank when temperatures dropped to -13 C, her fur clumped with snow and ice, ABC News reported.

The clinic used warm water and blankets to thaw the cat and after several hours, Fluffy was showing signs of recovery.

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Five transfer targets for Liverpool before the window shuts

With just a year left on his contract, and Walcott failing to sign a new deal, Arsenal may yet cash in on the winger before the close of the transfer window, rather than lose him on a Bosman next summer. Man City and Liverpool have both been linked with the attacker who would cost between £10-15m, but with Liverpool able to offer him first team football, and Manchester City keen on signing Scott Sinclair instead, Anfield appears his most likely destinationKristen Philipps never dreamed that pursuing an undergraduate degree would impact
the lives of so many around her, but it did, and now three of her co-workers will
forever thank her for taking the first step.

In December, Kristen graduated with her business administration degree through the
Accelerated Instruction with McKendree (AiM) program after a 19-year hiatus from college life. Although she expected to gain much
knowledge from her studies, she did not expect three of her co-workers to as well.

All employees of Pacific Cycle Inc.’s financial department - Brandi Foster, Candra
Heindselman and Linda Wade - saw how rewarding Kristen’s endeavor was, and how easy
she made it look. They wanted to do the same – together.

As a credit specialist for Pacific Cycle Inc., Kristen loved her job, and still does,
but she realized career


advancement would require her to advance her education. Then,
one day, two years ago, a McKendree flyer stapled to a work bulletin board caught
her attention, and she knew it was time to finish something she had started but never
finished.

“I wanted to complete the education I started back in 1993, and be a good role-model
to my teenage daughters,” Kristen said. “I also want to provide the best possible
life financially for my daughters, especially when it comes time for them to go to
college.”

Kristen’s three co-workers were considering going back or were already enrolled elsewhere.
She shared her positive McKendree experiences, and they all decided it would be a
“sisterly experience” to work for their business of administration degrees together.

The first year, they took the same classes, studied together during lunch breaks,
and carpooled tolate tillers) as compared to a crop at anthesis or early stages of grain development. Similarly, the crop at boot stage is also more protected from cold temperatures than a crop at or near anthesis. Thus, larger yield losses from the heavy snow and below-freezing temperatures might be expected in parts of the state wheat where the crop is near anthesis as than where the crop was still at boot stage.

According to our latest estimates of crop development across the state (Fig. 6), we expect larger yield losses in the southwest corner of the state due to a combination of floret sterility and stem breaking in fields that were near or at anthesis. Possibly, fields in the northwest corner of the state where the crop was mostly at


Plumas Arts and Plumas County Library welcome California State Poet Laureate Dana Gioia to Plumas County

Plumas Arts, together with the Plumas County Library, presents a poetry reading and a conversation with Dana Gioia, California’s state Poet Laureate, on Monday, April 3, at 4:30pm at the Quincy Branch of the Plumas County Library. Gioia, as part of his mission to visit every county in the state while holding the title of Poet Laureate, has been making extended trips throughout California to promote interest and participation in poetry.

Appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in December, 2015, Gioia serves as the state advocate for poetry and literature in libraries, classrooms and boardrooms across California. An award-winning poet, Gioia is the author of Can Poetry Matter?, which is credited for helping revive poetry’sPath analysis of efficacy expectations and exercise behaviour in older adults.
The benefits of regular exercise for older adults are well documented and include improvements in physical, functional, as well as psychological, health. The purpose of this descriptive study was to test a theoretically and empirically based model describing the factors that influence exercise behaviour of older adults in the United States of America. The hypothesized model suggested that age, gender, and mental and physical health have an effect on self-efficacy and outcome expectations, and that all these variables influence exercise behaviour. Exercise behaviour was hypothesized to have a reciprocal relationship with self-efficacy expectations and mental and physical health. The convenience sample was 187 older adults living in a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Baltimore, Maryland. A one-time