cum laude in VX theory in three years. He then attended Berkeley where he was the managing editor of the VX subdivision together with Katherine Yalgeth. Austwurn made his career breakthrough when becoming the the first person to get a conditional post-axial reading from a delta tri-sphere in 1988 during his time at Berkeley.

Austwurn is currently working as a lecturer at Utrecth University (Netherlands).

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On September 29th 2014, Austwurn had a lecture scheduled which he did not show up to[1]. He has not been heard from ever since. It is worth noting that Austwurn is notorious for disappearing, he has however never been gone for this long before. Ashes found near his beam emitter suggest he may have been atomized due to improper calibration, DNA testing showed compatibility.Background {#Sec1}
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Wieser); the IT data manager: Johannes Martin and Daniele Di Domizio (former member: Daniel S. Schmitt); Andreas Wiedmer for his technical support; Larissa De Clauser for IT support and quality controls; Arne Pfeufer and Simon Rauch for helping with protocol development; the administrative collaborators: Vera Amon, Vanessa Leitner, and Marika Fregnan (former member: Andrea Vieider); Massimiliano Pellegrini for the legal support; the members of the CHRIS scientific advisory board: Ettore Beghi, Maria B. Donati, Wolfgang Lieb, Christine Meisinger, and Barbara Parodi; the members of the CHRIS evaluation committee: Dr. Arno Gasperi, Dr. Hermann Brugger, and Edmund Gurschler.

We thank: Drs. Georg Schmidt (Technical University of Munich) and Daniela Berg (University of Tübingen) for helpful discussion; Drs. Markus Nöthen, Per Hoffmann, and Stefan Herms (University of Bonn) for the genotyping;Suicide by self-immolation a rising trend in France

A man burned himself to death in western France on Wednesday after losing unemployment benefits in a suicide that is becoming part of a worrying trend as the country struggles through tough economic times.

At noon on Wednesday, a 43-year-old man got off a bus near a state employment agency in the western city of Nantes. He stopped on a side street around 50 metres from the office, where he discarded his house keys, then doused himself with gasoline. French police waiting at the scene saw the burning man arrive at a sprint and said that, despite efforts to put out the flames, it was too late.

According to Gérard Schmit, a professor of psychology at Reims University, suicide by self-immolation is “not


part of French culture.” However, suicides at the workplace are common in France, like in other Western countries with a strong media culture.

“This man did not have a job, and it is significant that he chose a place where he went in his search for employment,” Schmit noted.

Personal information about Chaab remains limited. According to reports in the French media, he was an Algerian national with a long-term residency permit and a trained metalworker. His death has heightened fears about France’s weak economy and a troubling trend of self-immolations.

Left suicide emails

On February 11, Chaab was informed by Pole Emploi –the name of France’s state employment agency– that he did not meet requirements for monthly cash stipends, and that he needed to reimburse previous payments because of undeclared workhe performed for a company in December.

Pole Emploi staff said Chaab was directed toward a different French welfare agency. While he was angered by the news, the jobseeker initially accepted the information with restrain, they noted. The events that followed took local and state officials by surprise.

On February 12, he called a Pole Emploi hotline and threatened to kill himself by overdosing on over-the-counter drugs. Workers alerted the police, who reportedly visited the man at his home. There, Chaab told police his threat was not serious.

The same day, however, he sent emails to local newspapers declaring his intention to kill himself by self-immolation in front of the state agency. Two hours later he followed up his first email with a second one:

“I went to Pole Emploi with five


in such a state that no helping hand could have stopped him.”

Nevertheless, Chaab is only the latest person to commit suicide over work-related woes in what has become a growing problem for French authorities.

In August 2012, a 51-year-old man died from injuries sustained after he lit himself on fire at a welfare agency in the city of Mantes-la-Jolie, around 50 km west of Paris. Similarly to Chaab, it appeared to be an act of desperation after finding out welfare benefits would end.

While Sapin and other French ministers have defended Pole Emploi, many advocacy groups have decried a worsening situation in which agency branches that are overwhelmed do little more than add to the desperation of French jobseekers.

The psychologist Schmit said this week’s dramatic incident in Nantes sounded likeElise Amendola/Associated Press

The New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts will meet for the first time since the 2015 AFC Championship Game—better known as the "Deflategate" game—on Sunday night, and it's a good bet that the Patriots and their fans would like to see this game turn into a blowout.

Count Tom Brady Sr. as one of those people who would like New England to run up the score.

The father of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady expressed his thoughts on the Deflategate revenge game to Gary Myers of the New York Daily News. Not surprisingly, he is hoping that his son lights up the scoreboard:

The main thing I want is to see them win. As long as they have one point more than the Colts, I'm fine. That being said,


rotor at a higher speed. Thus, a design may be employed, which restricts an amount of magnetic flux produced by the permanent magnets to an amount at which the rotor is allowed to rotate at a sufficiently high speed. However, in this case, there is a possibility that torque will be insufficient in a low-speed rotation region.
In recent years, an electric motor has been proposed, which includes a housing (a magnetic field yoke) having a tubular portion and a top plate portion provided at an open end of the tubular portion, a stator fixed to an inner periphery of the tubular portion, and a rotor arranged radially inward of the stator, and in which a field coil that is wound along the circumferential direction of the electric motorViswanathan Anand is the clear winner of the 2013 New In Chess Yearbook Novelty of the Year . He received 48% of the votes for his dazzling display of fireworks in his win over Levon Aronian in the Tata Steel Chess tournament 2013. The move 12… c5! in a Meran Slav opened up the position and initiated brilliant attack that reminded chess fans of the famous game Rotlevi – Rubinstein.

Magnus Carlsen came second and fourth in the contest with two novelties in the Ponziani! He got his second place for his novelty 9…f6 when he was playing black against Hou Yifan in Tata Steel and he got his fourth place for 12.b4 in the same opening in the same tournament, but playing white against Harikrishna.

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Jeff Cook (basketball)

Jeffrey James Cook (born October 21, 1956) is a retired American professional basketball player.

A 6'10" center from Idaho State University, Cook played in the National Basketball Association from 1979 to 1988 as a member of the Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, and Utah Jazz. He averaged 5.3 points and 4.5 rebounds in his NBA career.

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he discovers that one pre-warp civilization is selling another pre-warp civilization addictive drugs as the “cure” for withdrawal from the addictive drug. He can’t interfere by warning the addicted civilization, but he eventually resolves the situation by refusing to repair the freighters they use to deliver the addictive drugs. (He sure is lucky that the civilizations have lost the tech to repair those freighters for themselves!)

This episode was a clever little inversion of the traditional Prime Directive story, but its success largely characterized the use of the Prime Directive going forward: It was the thing to be obeyed slavishly, usually with a convenient Hand of the Author to set up a convenient series of coincidences to “prove” the rightness of the Prime Directive.

The next major shift in thewas stamped into the sheet metal louver contained high stress points upon extended operation cracking propagated upstream thereof.
Since the "dimple" acts as a blockage to the cooling flow immediately downstream thereof, and as a chuting passage for hot gases generated by the combustor, severe louver burning was evidenced.
We have found that we can obviate the problems noted above by locating the "dimple" spacer on the cooler wall of the liner (the wall furthest away from the combustion chamber) and locating a hole in or adjacent the "dimple" for directing cooling air to discharge downstream thereof.
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Fires occur regularly within 30 kilometers exclusion zone around the former nuclear plant, with one of the biggest taking place in 2015 and covering 400 hectares.

Ukrainian authorities reported on June 5 that a fire had broken out in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. According to the authorities, the fire covered 10 hectares of the so-called "red forest" and began as the result of prolonged drought and high temperatures in the region.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman wrote on his Facebook page that "the situation is fully under control" and that the fire doesn't threaten the nuclear plant. He also notified that radiation levels are within acceptable margins.

READ MORE: Greetings, Stalker: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Portrayed in a New Light

The "red forest" is a forest consisting mostly of pine trees nearthe nuclear plant and took the first and heaviest hit of radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl disaster. All its trees died from the extreme radiation within a day of the incident, turning red and ginger-brown. It was bulldozed, buried and a new forest was seeded in its place.

Despite the burial of the trees, the zone is still heavily contaminated with radionucleotides. According to a Russian scientist from Tomsk Polytechnic University, Leonid Rikhvanov, fires in a forest like this carry the threat of a secondary spread of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere.

READ MORE: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 32 Years Ago: What You Need to Know

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the air. And while I admire what Logan had done in the past, risking her life in war zones, this was a failure of journalistic effort."

"Yeah, well, you know as well as I, some of the best stories have flaky sources unfortunately," Carlson concluded.

Before Kurtz was hired by Fox News earlier this year, he had blasted Carlson's the Daily Caller website after a Dominican law enforcement official claimed that the publication had offered to pay prostitutes to make false claims about Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

Kurtz, a CNN host at the time, insisted that the Daily Caller "owes the senators and its readers an apology."

In 2011, there were calls for Carlson to be fired after he declared that football player Michael Vick "should've been executed" for his dog fighting...

It was dark, with only a dim orange glow separating sight from blindness. Samus woke up breathing heavily, her heart pounding in her ears. She was lying on her side, curled into a loose ball at the bottom of this wide, fabric lined bowl. The glowing transparent lid that lay over it might have been claustrophobic but this place had been made to house someone far larger than a six year old girl. She wouldn't have to wait long. They always let her out soon after she woke.

Samus' chest continued to thud but she didn't move. She just stayed lying on her side, only her open eyes proving that she was awake. Even those eyes didn't move, focused on a single spot of dark purple fabric so near


to her face. It wasn't any articulate thought that held her still, just a fear so pervasive and ill defined that it didn't even register as an emotion anymore. Thought was not relevant to survival, so Samus refused to think. She just shut down.

The glowing energy canopy stretched above her bed. It was orange, and round, like the colony dome at sunset. Her home. But that was gone. Far away.

A dark shape moved in the stone hall outside the nest. Samus saw it in the corner of her eye but she remained still. Then the orange glow blinked out, and the dark shape remained.

The force of watchful eyes pressed down on Samus' back so she sat up. It was hard to rise, everything felt heavier here. With thecanopy gone her lungs were already starting to tingle with discomfort. But there it was, a huge hand with long fingers, holding out a pale green mask. Samus leaned forward and let the hand press the mask against her face. For a moment it cupped her mouth and nose and then something about the mask changed and she could barely feel it anymore, only a slight pressure on her face and she could breath freely again.

The tall dark shape drew back its hand and stood up. It was very tall. Samus' eyes were adjusting to the shadows and she looked up at the looming figure. Dim yellow eyes stared down back at her. She recognized the grey feathers under that hood; like a bird that had gotten old.


The other one of them was more brown.

The old bird made a soft clack with its beak as it stepped back. Samus got onto her hands and knees and crawled up the soft fabric rim of the bowl bed. If she didn't then those hands would reach down and grab her; gentle but so very strong as it lifted her. But she moved on her own and in a moment she sat on the rim with her feet against the far edge of the nest that sloped down to the ground. She was already breathing heavier again. Everything was so hard to do here, it felt like her body was filled with bricks. As she steeled herself Samus noticed her chest was hurting again today, despite the maskon her face. That was bad. That meant they would put her back in the tank soon.

Samus slid down to the floor and pushed herself up into standing. The old bird watched her, so tall that Samus only tended to look at dark brown robes around its knees. Then without a word it turned and walked away down the dimly lit stone passage. Samus followed, her feet awkwardly heavy against the weathered floor. Walking was cold, they hadn't given her back her shoes. Samus looked up at the huge figure walking before her. She couldn't see its legs under the robes, but she thought that it might be taking very short steps to help her keep pace. Samus kept her head down and continued walking through the shadows.

They


passed a room full of machines that Samus didn't understand and then the old bird suddenly stopped. For a moment its tall back was still and then the old bird trembled with a harsh cough. Samus watched it. They had been coughing more lately. She had an idea that it was the air. When they first brought her in here the air had stung her eyes as well as her lungs. Now it was better, but the birds had started coughing sometimes. She wondered if they went into the tank too.

Then the old bird continued on and soon they walked into the bright room. It was only bright in comparison to the other places here but still Samus had to squint her eyes as she took her heavysteps inside. The stone walls were very very tall, and somewhere so far up that it hurt Samus' neck to look that high there was a window, one that let down a thick shaft of warm yellow light.

Samus looked around and saw the other bird standing by the round metal cabinets that filled one wall of the room. The old bird stopped walking near entrance and Samus continued on across the open space. There was a corner of this room that the birds had made soft. There was a cloth-like a rug on the floor, there were small things to sit on, and a thick board set on the ground that Samus could use as a table. Samus reached the little metal block she used as a chair


and sat down on the folded cloth someone had put on top of it. She tried to not look like she was panting as the other bird walked over and set a small deep-walled bowl on the wooden slab in front of her. Then it tapped the green mask on her face and it slid off easily, before being set set down on the low slab next to the bowl. For a moment, Samus didn't move, just feeling the faint burning in her lungs again, but the robed figure standing over her reached out its huge hand again and gestured to the bowl.

"Kektayok'd."

Samus reached out and grabbed the bowl with both hands, bringing it up to her lips so she could suck out some of the warm tanmush inside. The bird above her made another noise, a vague grunt that Samus didn't think was a word even in their language. This one spoke a lot more than the other. In fact for the first few days Samus had thought that only one of them had a voice.

She continued eating as she silently watched them move about the room. Or at least she watched the Voice, the old bird was soon gone again. She rarely saw them both at the same time. At first she had not known how many there really were; before she learned to recognize them it seemed like there could be hundreds of the creatures. It had been terrifying. In those days she'd been trying to escape, imagining finding the ship that


she dimly remembered seeing the inside of when she woke in pain with cold burns on her skin and tears in her eyes. But every time she wandered away here she only found more dimly lit stone rooms or huge metal doors she couldn't open. Then she would turn around and one of the birds would be standing there, silent and strong like statues dressed in robes. It was ok that she failed though, Samus didn't know anywhere else she could go to. Her home was dead.

So she when she finished eating her food and pressed the mask back on her face she just sat on her little seat and watched Voice do whatever tasks occupied his time. These feathers weren't grey like the other bird's but fromwhat Samus could see of his head and forearms there seemed to be fewer, exposing wrinkled grey skin below. She guessed he was a boy, because she knew boy adults went bald sometimes. Well, people did, so she supposed birds could too.

As Samus watched Grey Voice wave his hands on the other side of the room to summon of a glowing web of alien letters floating in the air, she wondered why she didn't feel afraid any more. She just felt tired, and empty. She wondered if fear was something you could use up, and if you spent too much time feeling it then you never could feel it again. She hoped that was true. Then maybe the nightmares would stop soon. She didn't want to dream of


smoke and wind and the shadows of wings anymore.

But then, even if it was hard to walk, Samus couldn't sit still for any longer. She got up slowly, keeping an eye on Grey Voice's back as he continued to conduct the orange symphony in the air before him. Not having shoes was cold on her feet, but it made her quiet. Samus slipped out of the room.

The string of connected stone halls here were tall and they were endless. Samus thought that this place might be underground, she had only ever seen the one window. She walked down empty passages, her feet making soft claps on the smooth floors that echoed off the silent walls. She thought that there were supposed to be more people here. The roomwhere she slept had eight of those nest beds, though all but hers were always dark and empty. Most of the chambers she poked her head into were shadowed and dusty, filled with metal machines that glowed with dim lights like they were in a deep sleep from which they might never awake. Samus touched her hand to a painted wall, tracing her fingers around the feet of a bird person painted there. This wall stretched down into the distance and every inch was covered with those images, an endless row of silent images. There had been a lot more people here once.

Then Samus came up against another one of the metal doors that blocked her way. Her face didn't even come up half way on it. She


lowered her brow as she stared at it and the thin film of glowing white energy covering the metal plates. You couldn't touch it with your skin, it shocked you. Throwing rocks at it didn't work either. But she knew they opened. Days ago she'd seen Old Bird down a hall as Grey Voice was taking her back to bed. He had been standing in front of a door like this, but after Samus passed out of sight she had heard the sound of metal sliding and a brief hiss of pressurized air.

She wandered away from the door, back into one of the many abandoned rooms filled with machinery. It was all so quiet. Grey Voice would notice she was gone soon. Then one item caught her eye,sitting on a table like surface by itself. It looked like a hollow metal hand. It looked like one of the bird people's hands. Samus had an idea.

Then she tried to lift the hand and she began thinking that her idea might not have been so smart after all. Things were so heavy here, and the hand was very big. It toppled to the ground with a loud clang. But Samus was not about to give up just because she realized her genius might actually be stupidity. She discovered that when she managed to lift the gauntlet up by the wrist and planted her feet firmly she could drag it along the floor. It made a horrible scraping noise that echoed down the halls but she could move


it. Walking backwards and straining her tired arms she managed to to bring the hand to the door, always looking up to see if either of the bird people were racing down to grab her. Her panting made the inside of the facemask fill with uncomfortable moisture but the hall behind her was still empty. Then she reached down, got a grip, strained, and lifted the gauntlet up to touch the door.

The energy barrier disappeared and a breeze blew past Samus' hair as the door opened. Outside was something new. Samus stepped through the door.

If the previous places she had seen on this world were empty then this new cavern was certainly abandoned. Cracks had appeared in the stone and the moisture that dripped down had brought withit life, spreading out in waves of colonization. Samus edged around the fungus-like vegetation, looking out at the lawn of tiny stalks which glowed blue at their tips, casting a tint on everything like the tunnel was underwater. It was cold, and the stone sucked heat out of her through her bare feet. Then another color of light added to the milieu and Samus turned back to realize that the energy barrier had sprung back on the metal door. She had left the gauntlet inside. That was bad.

She gripped her hands into little fists at her side. Well, there was nothing she could do about that. If she wanted to get back she'd just have to find another way. Her eyes were starting to sting, like the old


air had done before. It was very cold. Her body began to tremble, shivers rattling her bones as her feet burned where they touched the bare ground. But as she squinted against the pain, her eyes had adjusted just enough to see a faint light further down this tunnel, one that had a comforting warm glow to it. Samus kept her hands clenched as she began to walk.

When she bashed her toes against a sharp rock it only added a deeper pain on top of the numb burning that was already spreading across her exposed skin. When her hair brushed her face it stung. But Samus recognized the color of sunlight whose indirect glow painted that rough wall ahead. If there was an opening to the sun itwould be warmer there and she could plan her next move. She kept her eyes focused on that promise of light as she carefully made her way past a broken fissure in the floor, a dark chasm that led down into some more natural cavern. There were distant noises down there, sounds like clicking scissors. Samus began to move faster.

Her jaw began to hurt from how tightly clenched she kept it to prevent her teeth from bouncing off each other in her building shivers. Shivering didn't make her feel any warmer, it just made important things harder to do. She wished she could stop it once and for all, just like the fear. She'd traveled quite a ways now, this tunnel was longer than she'd thought. The noises


behind her were getting closer; scraping noises like claws on rock, climbing up from below.

Then Samus was running, clumsy bare feet jabbing down on broken rock. She stumbled, scraped, and bled but then she was up again and still running. There were thumps behind her, the sound of something jumping and then scrabbling and then jumping again, all the while filling the tunnel with the echoing sound of its heavy wet breathing. Samus noticed a second, shrill and muffled noise mixing with the air in pulses that timed with her own frantic panting and then she realized that she was screaming. It was a horse, weak scream that clawed its way out with each breath she shoved out of her lungs, a sound born only to strangle inthe space of her little mask. The thing was going to catch her. She hadn't even seen it but it was coming. With every time Samus' foot slammed down onto the rock her mind supplied the imagined feeling of claws cutting into her back, weight bearing her down the the ground, and teeth around her neck. So she ran.

Then she reached the end of the tunnel and her fingertips scraped at the rock as the flung herself around the corner towards the color of daylight. Shafts of blazing light cut down from above and it was so bright it blinded her. Samus threw an arm up over her eyes and in that same moment she tripped. But when she fell it was onto a soft surface, a spongy


mat of course fibers, and when she opened her eyes she lay on green moss in a pool of light. There was a trail of red behind her. She looked down and saw that her feet were bleeding. More blood trickled down from her knees.

A loud thump pounded from the dark tunnel. Samus could barely see though the shadows anymore; the sunlight had stolen her vision. But there was a shape creeping forward there, strange and terrible. She saw two huge legs that arced up like those of spiders, and teeth in a grasping mouth that hung below. Samus sent silent screams at her leaden limbs, pushing herself back as she crawled along the ground. The creature briefly shied away, it didn't like the light. But it washungry and so it took a step forward, claws piercing into the pale shaft of day.

Every muscle in Samus' body ached with tension as they surged like wound springs, but she knew in some primal part of her that she couldn't keep this up. Any of these movements might be the last she had strength for. And then, through the bitter burning cold that surrounded her, a new shiver passed across the back of her neck. Slowly, driven by a sense other than thought, Samus turned her head away from the hungry breast.

A massive metal statue sat crouched at the end of the cavern, a cyclopean watcher amid this mossy ruin. It looked a little like the birds who had captured her. A dimly glowing orb the size


of a human torso was clutched in its long fingered hands but as Samus turned to behold it, a building flame rushed up from somewhere deep within the metal plates. The statue's eyes ignited red. It saw her.

And it was angry.

A trembling spread through the ground as the statue shifted its torso, like the planet itself was quaking in fear. Then, with glacial speed and power, the statue stood up. It was shaped like the bird people, but stronger, plated in armor and a head that was only reduced to a single slit of burning red eyes. Samus knew she needed to move but she was paralyzed in place. Her mouth was open but she didn't even breath. Back at the mouth of the cavern the beast roaredin anxiety, bouncing back and forth across the line of shadow as its stomach fought with its fear. The ground was shaking but it smelled blood and so the decision was made. With a harsh shriek the creature leaped forward.

The movements of the statue were slow but unending. In a single smooth continuum it let go of the precious orb with one hand, and that arm unfolded outwards with curious slowness. But that powerful motion traveled down each joint from shoulder, to elbow, to wrist, building like a wave approaching the shore. The long metal fingers unfolded in the same deceptive grace. They brushed through the air and then met the path of the leaping beast in midair. Viscera splashed against the far wall. A thin mist of


blood sparkled in the sunbeams.

Samus let out a breathless yelping shriek as the predator's body smashed down beside her, green blood pulsing out of the mortal rent as it trashed in the confusion and shock of its final heartbeats. Its other leg fell down across from her, severed. The statue was still moving and its feet slowly crunched against the stone as it turned to face the on the girl before it. Samus rolled and scrabbled away, fingers and toes biting against the stone without any concern for pain of cold. A huge metal hand gently waved through the spot were she had just been lying and the shards of shattering stone exploded out to cut across her legs and back. She couldn't scream if she wanted to.Samus crawled and rushed across broken ground as heavy footsteps fell behind her. But then she was pressed against a corner of heavy damp stone on each side of her. She turned back and before her stood the statue, pure black against the beautiful sunlight behind it.

Samus closed her eyes as it drew back its hand once more.

Then a rushing sound filled the cavern and a blast of wind sent Samus' blond hair flying. The world echoed with the collision of two unstoppable forces. She opened her eyes to see a new shape standing over her, both arms raised to meet the impact of the statue's falling hand. Dark brown robes whipped one last time in the speed of their arrival before they fell down to once more


cover the clawed feet that had scratched the stone on each side of her. Old Bird's powerful limbs trembled with exertion as he held up the weight of an angry planet above a scared child.

A single pale yellow eye was in view to look down at two little blue ones set in red veins irritated from the hostile air. Then, as he looked down at her, Old Bird slowly opened his beak. Samus had only ever heard him say a handful of words in the months they had held her here. He had always seemed content to let Grey Voice be the one to break the silence of their dusty, lonely world. But now he turned his head back to face the terrible burning eyes of the statueand he began to speak. No, he began to sing.

Samus didn't know if it was words. She didn't think it was. But it was a note that spilled out through metal and stone, flesh and bone. In it there was sorrow, and regret, and endless endless years, but under it all there was strength and righteous fury. It was the fire that burned within and knew that even against the vast uncaring universe and impossible odds there was no choice but to stand up against all creation. To throw everything one tiny life had against the might of infinity. With this song it might be an even match.

The statue stood still. Then it drew back its hand and turned to slowly walk back to its plinth, sitting down


once more to clutch that glowing orb. It fell silent and the fire departed from its eyes. Then the only sound in the cavern was Old Bird taking a heavy, shaking breath. For a long moment he stood there, back heaving as his hands trembled with the echo of more exertion than he had made in centuries. Then he felt a small tug at his robes, down below his knee. He turned and saw the small pale human child, weak with fear and cold, exhausted beyond all measure, with blood pooling at her feet. But this child was standing on buckling legs and held his robe tight in her fist as forgotten tears made lines down her face. Her eyes met his.

Old Bird kneeled down to gather upthe child in his hands. As soon as he clutched her, he felt the human go limp. Her eyes closed in sudden merciful sleep, the last tiny reserve of energy depleted. Her injured legs folded against her chest, Old Bird could cradle her in his hands like holding an egg. For a moment he looked down at this tiny creature in silence. Then he stood up and walked back towards the temple halls.

The ancient statue sat alone in the empty cavern as motes of dust danced in the sunlight.

...

The crackling electric screech of a metroid echoed through the halls of the Research Station. Samus ran, her mind leaping through the possibilities as her blood pounded with the familiar beat of fear. A metroid outbreak on the planet. Who'd


brought them here; the Pirates, the Federation? The Pirates had been firing some sort of live cargo in their missiles. The Federation had a history of experiments with metroids. And Samus also remembered a series of ancient empty metal canisters in the labs behind her. The Chozo inscription had mentioned a creation, had that race released those monsters of theirs here as well as SR388? Whose sin was it this time? Whatever the case, Samus was not in any shape to fight anything on that level. She needed to contain it or escape, and right now escape was far preferable.

The glass window of an office flitted by on her right as her orange reflection flashed across it. Samus' heart rate was rising but fear was not allowed totake purchase in her mind. She'd only rebuilt three of her suit's shield emitters so far, once they failed her armor was just metal and carbon. The path through the floor plan still shone in her eyes, an illusionary line traced through walls to the rendezvous point. She needed to contact Aurora, message Nakamura. Let them know that every living being on this planet was in mortal danger. And if those in command already knew, then...

The next office wall she passed lay on the floor as scattered glass shards. It was broken inward, and inside she saw small piles of grey dust. Scan still said that the material was simply unorganized organic molecules, simply another form of normal dirt, but now it sickened her. One part of the


dust pile still retained its shape as a human forearm, fingers outstretched and grasping. Samus kneeled down beside it, boots crunching on the broken glass. She reached out with her gauntleted hand and brushed the grey arm. At the slightest contact the ashy shape lost cohesion and dissolved into the same fine grey dust which covered the rest of the office. A feeding metroid consumed everything. They left only a shadow.

Samus glanced up at the computer terminal still projected up over bashed and gouged desk. There was an alert flashing there. "Emergency procedure A1" Whatever that plan was it hadn't been enough for this victim. Also, this plan of security through obscurity didn't help Samus right now. Aurora would know but that upcoming meeting had just plummeted inpriority. Samus' map had redirected to show her a path straight outside. Right now, she'd prefer to fight the entire Pirate landing force than what was lurking in this laboratory. She started running, following the glowing line that only existed before her eyes.

Around the corner the hallway opened up into some large central room, a kind of hub for the researchers combing through the loot of the Chozo ruins. Samus' eyes were locked on the next exit, only dimly taking in an expanse of clean tiles and circular administrative desks from the periphery of her vision. Then her suit radar blinked in the corner of her mask and she dropped into cover before she had time to process the thought.

She was down on the floor, her armored back


against a kiosk desk, when a shadow washed across the far wall. Other than the sound of her breathing echoing through her skull, the only disturbance to the silence was a faint crackle. Samus could feel her ears straining as she focused on that sound, like tiny sparks and ozone. A metroid barely had anything that resembled biology; their locomotion was an independently generated antigrav field. They didn't walk, or breath, or copulate. But they ate. And they grew.

The numbers flashed on Samus' visor as the suit calculated the size of the creature that cast that brief shadow. It was still on the small side, not yet near the next metamorphosis. That was good news. However, though the metroid hadn't spotted her suit-shielded biological signatures from anything shortMetroids at this growth stage moved in strange, random ways. It hadn't detected her, it was just...

A hungry electric chirp echoed out across the flat white walls of the lab. The dot raced towards her. Well, so much for hiding. Samus sprang up and vaulted over the desk bank with one hand easily lifting her body. Behind her the curious chirping instantly transformed into a furious screech like lightning and tearing metal. However, even as Samus' feet hit the ground in a full sprint a wash of angry light grew in the barrel of her weapon. She reached the far exit in under two seconds, the toes of her boots gouging holds in the industrial strength tiles that lined the floor. The she was at an intersection where


and twitching in the air amid the dust raining down from the blast-cracked ceiling, Samus was gone.

Her boots made a good deal of sound impacting the floor at this pace but right now Samus was more concerned with speed than secrecy. The metroid would be back on her in seconds. She needed a way to fight. Her darting path took her past labs full of disassembled Chozo machines or slabs of carved inscriptions. The her visor flashed as the suit scan offered up a new destination; a little rectangle in the floor plan map labeled Security. That would have to do.

Samus smashed around the corner already firing at where the Security office should be. A charge beam blast hit the armored security glass, followed by a volley ofsmaller shots that propagated the dissentingly thin web of cracks as she ran forward. Really, she had to complement whoever had sprung for the quality of materials in this seemingly low security wing. However, even the resolute glass couldn't stand up to an armor enhanced punch at her full running speed. The gun crunched through the shattering window first. Her suit's main armament was a hyper advance beam weapon of unparalleled adaptability, but it was also thirty pounds of ultra dense alloys strapped the the end of her arm. So sometimes she hit things with it.

Samus rolled up to her feet amid the expanding rain of flying glass. The far walls of the Security station held weapon racks, and Samus was already firing her weapon to reduce them


to base components even as the suit returned its disappointing scan results. She supposed that hoping for a full belt of cryomissiles was a little too much, but still she'd been hoping for more than ten low voltage stun guns when a Metoid was hunting her. As she blasted apart the few more promising looking supplies one of the guns escaped destruction by slipping off the rack. It hit the ground and fired off two little needles with a soft chunk, trailing thin wires. They bounced off Samus' thigh.

Amid the smoke and dust, she swept her gun across the room, the barrel now sucking in the newly aerosolized rubble. Plasma coil components and heavy element shards; better than nothing. Still not really useful against a metroid. Particularly onethat was currently hurtling towards her with the intent to devour. Time to move.

"Basic Missiles Restored"

However, that did open up new possibilities when it came to this floor plan she was navigating from. Scan opened and closed the far security door, letting Samus out just in time for the metroid to smash into the metal as it slammed shut behind her. That should hold it for two and a half second. Then she heard a shattering sound behind her and had to commend the little guy on being stronger than he looked. It was a pity it still wanted to rip her molecules apart.

She took the next corner at a speed that would be illegal in a school zone, her toes briefly denting footholds into the paneling. By


this point in her life she was quite experienced at running for her life but unfortunately metroids were fast and didn't have to worry about things like traction. Her only chance was to keep it uncertain and confused. Her still healing chest strained as she sprinted, the crackling ionization closing behind her. Then she stuck out her hand into a passing doorway and abruptly pulled herself back in a bone jarringly swift change of direction. The suit and her innate enhancements meant she didn't quite dislocate her shoulder as her fingers dug into the metal frame. The metroid missed that turn, but it was still not quite enough. In that same instant an ionizing scream behind her and its lunge scratched against her right shoulder.

Pain shot through Samus'every cell as she screamed, even as she launched back to her feet and kept running. A single point of the metroid's fangs had scraped across her suit's shoulder plate as it hurtled by in its missed strike, but that was enough. The life energy absorption attack didn't care about armor and was barely dampened by shields. No, that crackling spark jolted straight to the core of that mystical essence that defined all life. Identifying that fundamental force had been called the Chozo's greatest discovery. So of course they had made a monster that consumed it.

Samus' lungs spasmed in protest as she still ran through the darkened facility, hearing the telltale sounds of the metroid swooping back around and launching after her trail. It was faster than her


and Samus was uncertain if she could withstand even another glancing blow. However, up ahead a very interesting part of this building's floor plan matched up. Her gun shifted as the metal rearranged itself, and as she ran her right arm thudded three times. Energy shrouded projectiles launched out and downwards, all detonating against the floor up ahead. Right above where the map said a particularly high ceilinged room lay below. Samus jumped and spun in the air, turning her back to the floor as it crumbled and collapsed beneath her path. The metroid screamed as it raced through the air, but the gun thudded again as missiles shot straight up at the ceiling above. Samus fell down through the crumbling floor as the top of the roomfell with her, sealing the way behind her. The metroid's thwarted shriek reverberated in fury and hunger through the shifting rubble as it collided and bounced off.

Samus smirked as she plummeted down into the dark. Then she hit the floor flat on her back and abruptly remembered that her organs weren't done healing yet.

Ouch.

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and in the course of his employment and disallowed
the claim for workers' compensation death benefits.

      On November 3, 2010, David Pittner (hereinafter decedent),
who worked for the St. Gobain Corporation as a Director of Human
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Resources, died inside of his apartment located in Erie County.
Thereafter, a claim for workers' compensation death benefits was
filed. Following hearings, a Workers' Compensation Law Judge
found that decedent's death arose out of and in the course of his
employment while traveling for his employer. UponMassachusetts. Upon accepting a new
position with his employer in 2009, decedent continued to
maintain his residence in Arizona but left his residence in
Worcester to relocate to Erie County, where he leased an
apartment that he furnished as a private residence. When he
stayed at this apartment, decedent was neither reimbursed for his
living expenses nor for the cost of the apartment. While
decedent's job responsibilities required him to travel often to
other locations, the record evidence reflects that he spent
approximately half of his time in Erie County, which afforded him
the opportunity to visit his son who also lived in western New
York. Decedent's son also maintained a bedroom in the apartment
where he stayed when he visited decedent in Erie County.
Significantly, at the time of decedent's death, he had been
working in his new position and maintaining


describes GRAPHIC death of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi

Moscow pointed out that it recorded no US coalition airstrikes in the Idlib area in northwest Syria on Saturday when the raid was held.

It also rejected Trump’s claims that Russian forces opened up the airspace under its control in Syria to American planes to facilitate the operation against the IS leader.

The ministry questioned the very possibility of al-Baghdadi’s presence in Idlib as the area is held by Al-Qaeda offshoot, Jabhat al-Nusra, who have always been mortal enemies of Islamic State.

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Moscow noted that Islamic State was crushed in Syria in early 2018 in a joint effort by the government in Damascus and the Russian forces, meaningin a lawsuit she has filed in Dauphin County Court more than a year after a heavily-armed state police Special Emergency Response Team raided her Hummelstown-area home. The police aren't the heroes of her account. They are the villains, destructive ones at that.

Brooke Mueller is in grave danger of losing her parental rights of her twins with actor Charlie Sheen.

Social workers have determined that the troubled socialite ditched the sober living facility where she was seeking treatment and is now renting a nearby beach cottage in San Clemente, Calif., so her boyfriend can visit, a source revealed. Mueller, 35, has temporarily lost custody of Bob and Max, four, while attempting to get clean.

In 36 years with the Los Angeles police, Sgt. Irwin Klorman faced many dangerous situations, including


one routine call that ended with Uzi fire and a bullet-riddled body sprawled on the living room floor.

But his most life-threatening encounter has been with coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, for which he is being treated here. Coccidioidomycosis, known as "cocci," is an insidious airborne fungal disease in which microscopic spores in the soil take flight on the wind or even a mild breeze to lodge in the moist habitat of the lungs and, in the most extreme instances, spread to the bones, the skin, the eyes or, in Mr. Klorman's case, the brain. The infection, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has labeled "a silent epidemic," is striking more people each year, with more than 20,000 reported cases annually throughout the Southwest, especially in California andArizona...

Egypt's military on Wednesday ousted Mohamed Morsi, the nation's first freely elected president, suspending the Constitution, installing an interim government and insisting it was responding to the millions of Egyptians who opposed the Islamist agenda.

The military intervention, which Mr. Morsi rejected as a "complete military coup," marked a tumultuous new phase in the politics of modern Egypt, where Mr. Morsi's autocratic predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, was overthrown in a 2011 revolution. The intervention raised questions about whether that revolution would fulfill its promise to build a new democracy at the heart of the Arab world. The defiance of Mr. Morsi and his Brotherhood allies also raised the specter of the bloody years of the 1990s, when fringe Islamist groups used violence in an effort to overthrow the military government.

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James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: A handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home.

"Show all mail to supv" - supervisor - "for copying prior to going out on the street," read the card. It included Mr. Pickering's name, address and the type of mail that needed to be monitored. The word "confidential" was highlighted in green. "It was a bit of a shock to see it," said Mr. Pickering, who owns a small bookstore in Buffalo. More than a decade ago, he was a spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group labeled eco-terrorists by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Postal officials subsequently confirmed theyhistorically been a well-supported Test match, and a social event.

"Players enjoy playing in front of big crowds, and it was a terrific atmosphere. What we saw in Adelaide is one aspect of a significant amount of work that needs to go into making the entire game compelling for spectators, players, and commercial partners. The structure of bilateral cricket, and of the game itself need to be addressed globally.

"In trialling day-night Test matches, we are essentially adding another new format to the international cricket structure which already lacks clear and common direction as to the best interplay between formats, and the best way for players to balance the growing conflict in club versus country commitments." Irish said.

"We know players' value playing for their countries, and playing in events that


have meaning and context. We also know how much they value the essence of Test cricket. With the advent of domestic T20 tournaments around the world, there is also now a growing alternative market to international cricket for the worlds best players." Irish continued. "The game must address its structure as a whole, and the players should be an integral part of planning and improving it in its entirety moving forward. Cricket will be in the best position to grow if players are properly embraced as partners in the game."of stone box. It is supposed that the necropolis belongs to the 6-8 centuries.

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on the run.

Snowden himself has said he thinks the auction is bogus and the software release is a shot across the bow of the NSA by Russian intelligence. He guessed that if the NSA seeks to retaliate for hacks against political targets in the US, then more files will be released linking the NSA to hacking attacks.

Meanwhile, some believe it was an inside job by a disgruntled NSA staffer – because there is simply no way the agency would allow this material to fall in hackers' hands. ®The African airline industry creates 6.7 million jobs and contributes 6.8 billion dollars to the continent's GDP. However, various factors are undermining the development of the industry, Kaleyesus Bekele reports from Mombasa, Kenya.

Early this week African airline CEOs and civil aviation authorities gathered in the resort town of Mombasa, Kenya, to discuss the challenges and look at the way forward at the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) annual general assembly held from November 24 to 26 at the Leisure Lodge found in the beautiful south coast town of Mombasa. In the course of the meeting leaders from the African Airlines industry agreed to work closely together to better serve the African air transport market and connect Africa to the rest of the world. To facilitate this, the airlines called


for unrestrained intra-Africa market access (where demand exists), regulatory alignment among African states and an even playing field that encourages fair competition among players. The three-day conference was held under the theme "Challenging times - Africa's strategic alignment" and brought together over 360 high profile delegates from 55 countries across the world.

Opening the Assembly, the governor of Kwale county, Mr Salim Mvurya, lauded the role of African airlines in making travel more accessible to the majority of the people. He challenged African

airlines to be more aggressive and innovative in their service delivery while managing their costs to ensure competitiveness and encourage more people to travel by air. The governor urged airlines to work together and make travel across the continent seamless and affordable. Governor Mvurya called for theimplementation of the key recommendations and resolutions that will emerge from the conference. He further called upon industry stakeholders in Africa to work together and seek partnerships to broaden their network and take advantage of the growing air transport market.

Welcoming delegates to the meeting, the president of AFRAA, MD and CEO of Kenya Airways, Dr. Titus Naikuni, noted that the slow pace of air transport liberalisation is hurting the growth and development of Africa. Though some airlines may not be prepared for competition in a liberalized environment, protecting such airlines sets the whole industry back. He assured airlines of Kenya Airway's support in areas that it has capacity.

In his opening remarks, the secretary general of AFRAA, Elijah Chingosho (Ph.D.) singled out excessive airport taxes, charges and fees, above


industry average fuel prices and poor infrastructure as major challenges confronting airlines. Chingosho said that, "The generally high cost of operations is making African airlines less competitive". He called on African states to take their safety responsibility seriously and together with the African Union engage the European Union on the unfair banning of African airlines.

On the role of government in the development of air transport in Africa, the AFRAA Assembly called upon governments to demonstrate commitment towards liberalizing the air transport industry and creating a favorable environment for airline operations. This will increase regional and domestic traffic and create a bigger Africa-base market for the airlines. Governments should remove barriers to cooperation between carriers and put in place policy and regulatory framework that facilitate beneficial cooperation.

Appointment of officers:

The45th AGA appointed Monwabisi Kalawe, CEO of South African Airways as Chairman of the Executive Committee while Abdehahmane Berthe, CEO of Air Burkina and Abd Elmahmoud Suleiman Mohammed, CEO of Sudan Airways elected First and Second Vice Chairmen respectively of the Executive Committee. The AFRAA Executive Committee has oversight responsibility for the association and crafts policy as well as oversees implementation of projects and programs by the Secretariat.

The Assembly also elected two new members to replace those whose term of office on the Executive Committee expired at the close of the 45th AGA. Abderahmane Berthe was re-elected to represent the West/Central Region while Monwabisi Kalawe CEO South African Airways was elected to represent the Southern Africa Region. Both members will serve for a term of 3 years each


to the close of the 48th AGA.

Host of 46th AGA:

Air Algerie was elected by the 456th AGA in Mombasa, Kenya as host of the 2014 AFRAA AGA. The Assembly announced that the 46th AGA will be held in a yet to be named venue in Algeria from 02-04 November 2014. As a prelude to what delegates should expect next year, a short video on some of the facilities and attractions that will be sampled during the AGA was played by Air Algerie.

AFRAA Awards:

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kenya Airways, Titus Naikuni (Ph.D.), was conferred the coveted AFRAA Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding service to the African aviation industry.

Ethiopian Airlines was crowned Airline of the year for its impressive growth, profitability and partnership with regionalairlines in Africa. Luis Felipe de Oliveira of International Air Transport Association (IATA) was recognized for distinctive contribution in spearheading lobbying efforts in Africa to reduce taxes, charges and fees on aviation fuel and for supporting the development of air transport in Africa through lowering taxes on Jet A1 fuel.

The government of Angola and the Civil Aviation Authority of Ghana both received AFRAA Distinguished Service Provider Awards. Kwame Mamphey received the award on behalf of his organization.

The awards were conferred at a colorful beach front with a gala dinner at the Leisure Lodge Resort. Things to fix

The AGA was not only a stage for receiving accolades. There were genuine and constructive critiques forwarded by concerned authorities. One of the notable dignitaries that was critical of African governments and


the fatalities on Western-built jets occurred in Africa. African governments recognized the need to improve safety in the Abuja Declaration's goal of reaching world-class safety levels by 2015. IATA is actively contributing its expertise and resources to all the Abuja Declaration's commitments," said Mr. Tyler.

Key elements of the Abuja declaration include the completion of IOSA by all African carriers, the establishment of independent and sufficiently funded civil aviation authorities and the implementation of effective and transparent safety oversight systems. To broaden the base of IOSA carriers (outside of IATA's membership), IATA is working with the International Airlines Training Fund to provide in-house training for ten African airlines.

"Governments must also up their game with more effective safety oversight. As of the end of 2012 only 11 African states hadreasonable increase that provides value for money. Dialogue is critical to reach mutually beneficial outcomes," Tyler said.

Future Opportunity

The future of aviation in Africa has the potential to be very bright. The African population of 1 billion people is spread across a vast continent with a wealth of untapped resources. The African economy is rapidly developing, its people are growing wealthier and governance is more stable. "Africa is the continent of opportunity for aviation. The future is still being created. By keeping global standards at the heart of our efforts, I am convinced that the future will be bright," Tyler said.

The CEO forum

African airlines CEOs held a lively discussion at the AGA. Ethiopian CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam, Taitus Naikuni, CEO Kenya Airways, Monwabisi Kalawe, SAA CEO, Inati Ntshanga, CEO SA


Express, and Abdrehaman Berthe, CEO Air Burkina, were the panelists. The CEOs deliberated on the challenges facing the airline industry in Africa. Non-African carries have dominated the African airlines skies. Eighty percent of the passenger traffic on the intra Africa route is carried by non African carriers. How can African airlines regain leadership of African skies were the question the CEOs were asked.

Tewolde said that African carriers were operating under unfriendly regulatory framework. Tewolde said that markets are protected by bilateral air service agreements. "Unfortunately there are African countries that prohibit African airlines not to fly to their countries. There are countries that deny African airline traffic right and grant rights to non-African airlines," Tewolde lamented. According to him African nations should open their skies for African airlines.full implementation of the YD.

Inati called upon the four major African airlines - Ethiopian, SAA, KQ and Egypt Air. "If these big African airline collaborate among themselves there could be a possibility that they might support the small airlines. If the big airline cooperate we, the small airlines will follow suit," Inati said.

Naikuni, who said that it is only once a year that the CEOs of these major airline sit down for discussion during the AFRAA AGA, assured Inati that he would take the initiative to organize a meeting among the CEOs of the four major airlines. After 12 years of service as CEO of KQ Naikuni will call it a day after a year.

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system in a town of about 5000 people. The contaminated water was subsequently distributed to homes and businesses and imbibed by many individuals. About 2000 individuals became ill and 11 died. In addition, various weather conditions, distribution system accidents, and equipment malfunctions require more frequent warnings to boil water for personal use on a regular basis throughout the United States. Water supply problems and contamination in less developed countries are far worse than in the United States or Canada. Further, the invention may be useful in alleviation of illnesses and deaths caused by intentional contamination of water systems and water supplies with pathogenic organisms by terrorist groups.
Additionally, present designs and methods of treatment in municipal and industrial potable water treatment plants do not treat or remove all Cryptosporidiumwith providing thermally conditioned or purified water to a home or business.
The present invention also solves a worldwide problem caused by oceangoing shipping. When the ship enters port and is loaded, its ballast water and/or bilge water is typically pumped out. For oceangoing ships, this means that water is pumped into the ship in one part of the world and pumped out again in another. It has been estimated that for the United States alone about 80 million tons of ballast water are discharged into our ports every year. The water typically contains microorganisms, small multicellular animals and plants, small juvenile forms of various animals and plants, reproductive forms of animals, fungi, or plants such as eggs, spores, and seeds.
One proposed method of overcoming this problem is the


exchange of ballast water in mid-ocean so as to replace all of the original ballast water with seawater. This solution, however, is usually impractical due to safety and stability concerns during this maneuver. Continuous ocean exchange likewise is not practical. The latter procedure would require redesign of ballast tanks and would still leave a portion of the original ballast water in the tanks.
The spread of microorganisms and multicellular organisms, by commercial and military ships, from their usual habitat to sites around the world has become a major problem today. Diseases not usually encountered in other areas can be spread widely by these ships. Likewise, animals and plants native to a particular habitat can be carried by the ships to another ecosystem. Typically, the introduction of non-native plants andLawrence River, the Mississippi River and the Ohio River, including some of their tributaries. The zebra mussels threaten native mollusks and fish. They have already caused great damage to industrial and municipal water delivery systems. Another example, in the reverse, is the introduction of the American comb jelly into the Black and Azov seas that has seriously affected the anchovy and sprat fisheries. A further example includes the possible spread of human diseases carried by water such as cholera and organisms associated with ship-generated waste water.
The above illustrates the problem for only a few species. Many more species can be and are being carried around the world causing local or widespread invasions of nonindiginous species. Therefore, apparatus and methods are needed to prevent the spread of these organisms.


outlet; and a hot treated water inlet and at least one outlet for withdrawing treated water at a reduced temperature; a water heater with an inlet and an outlet, wherein the water heater inlet is connected to the heat exchanger preheated makeup water outlet and the water heater outlet is connected to the heat exchanger hot treated water inlet; at least one mixing valve with an outlet and at least two inlets having a first inlet connected to one treated water outlet of the heat exchanger, for obtaining treated water at a reduced temperature there from, and a second inlet connected to the water heater outlet for obtaining hot treated water, wherein the mixing valve provides treated water at the mixing valve outlet at an intermediate temperature betweentreated water to a tank on the ship and holding the water in the tank; pumping the held water to the heat treatment system; treating the water in the heat treatment system for a second time with heat to provide a thermal dose sufficient to inactivate a selected percent of selected organisms present in the held water; and pumping the second heat treated water outside the ship.
Another embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus for providing treated water including a heat exchanger typically having a first section and a second section located upstream from the first section for exchanging heat, wherein the first section exchanges heat between water from an auxiliary heater and makeup water, and the second section exchanges heat between water from an auxiliary heater to


water from a water tank, the heat exchanger first section having a makeup water inlet and a preheated makeup water outlet; at least one heat exchange surface in the first section between the water from the auxiliary heater and makeup water, the heat exchanger second section having at least one surface between the water from the auxiliary heater and the water from the water tank, the second heat exchanger section having an inlet for water from the auxiliary heater water and an outlet for water to the auxiliary water heater, an inlet for water from the water tank, and the first section has at least one or more treated water outlets; a water heater tank with a tank inlet and a tank outlet, wherein the tank inlet isconnected to receive water from the first section heat exchanger makeup water outlet and the tank outlet is connected to deliver water to a second section inlet for water from the water tank; and an auxiliary heater having an inlet connected to an outlet from the second section of the heat exchanger for receiving water from the water tank that has been preheated in the second heat exchanger section, and the auxiliary heater having an outlet connected to the inlet on the second section heat exchanger for water from the auxiliary heater. In some typical applications a delay line or water tank is connected between the outlet of the auxiliary heater and the inlet on the second section heat exchanger receiving water from the auxiliary heater. The delay


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The majority of the Boards and Commissions in Cuyahoga County are Citizen Policy Making and Advisory Boards and Commissions. All of these boards and commissions are governed by the laws and regulations that have authorized them. Members represent the specific mission of the boards or commission to which they have been appointed.Band saws are a type of woodworking machinery used to cut workpieces of wood, plastic, and other materials. Band saws include two, spaced-apart wheels, and a blade tightly looped around the wheels. The blade is made from a band of metal with teeth on one edge of the band. The blade moves around the wheels when the wheels spin. Band saws also include a table or work surface adjacent the blade and upon which workpieces are placed. A person uses the band saw by placing a workpiece on the table and then sliding the workpiece into the moving blade. Band saws present a risk of injury to users because the blade is exposed when in use. Furthermore, users often must place their hands very close to the blade


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Eric Rosenthal – Travel/Gaming Expert

Brooklyn born and NJ raised, Eric frequents Atlantic City and uses casinos as his summer beach home. He travels to Las Vegas and other warm-weather destinations and pays pennies on the dollar for flights and hotels. He is a contributor to several gambling and travel related websites andpodcasts and discusses all things Atlantic City and his passion for “Comp Harvesting.” By combining his knowledge of miles, points and casino loyalty programs, he teaches people how to travel for free and maximize value for your gambling dollar.

Michele Robson

Turning Left for Less

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Michele Robson – Turning Left for Less

Michele spent 24 years working in the travel industry with a large proportion of that spent working in Air Traffic Control. Her true passion has always been travelling in luxury for the lowest possible price. Following a successful kidney transplant in 2016, she decided to turn her hobby into a full-time job and launched her blog Turning Left for Less – Champagne travel on a Prosecco budget. She is based in the UK but she spends most of


her time flying round the world! Michele travels around 100,000 miles a year and racks up about 70 hotel nights a year, mainly 5* of course!
Her specialist area is all things British Airways, Avios and oneworld, plus of course how to stay in the finest hotels for less.

Heather Ferris

Vegas Aces

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Heather Ferris – Vegas Aces

Heather Ferris is a 2nd generation born and raised Las Vegan. She is the proprietor of the world’s 1st free dealing trade school, www.Vegas-Aces.com and she helps people all around the world in learning how to play and deal casino table games. In addition to that, Heather is an adjunct professor at UNLV where she teaches casino games and is currently writing her first book for the Huntington Press.

Marc Meltzer

Edge Vegas

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MarcMeltzer – Edge Vegas

Marc was born and raised in New York City and currently resides in Las Vegas. His roots in gambling run deep learning how to play poker in grade school. He learned more about gambling at a young age working down the street from a bookie who took action on anything from the mainstream sports to the last three digits of the purse for certain horse races. Today Marc is a freelance writer and social media consultant in Las Vegas. Writing about food, booze, gambling and Las Vegas is a tough job but somebody has to do it.

Catherine Smalfus

CoachKitty

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Catherine Smalfus – CoachKitty

Catherine gravitates towards any activity that has to do with planning and lists. This has served her well while playing optimally in casinos


expert who uses her knowledge to travel the world in first class for free.

Brian Cohen

The Gate

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Brian Cohen – The Gate

Brian Cohen has traveled to greater than 50 countries on six continents and has been to all 50 states of the United States as well as Puerto Rico; and at the top of his travel list is to stay overnight on the continent of Antarctica — preferably, at the South Pole. Although he caught the fever of the obsession of miles, points and elite level status and became a member of numerous frequent traveler loyalty programs, travel has always been important to Brian — a passion which is as strong as ever. As one of the founding writers of The Gate in August of 2006, Brian hasbeen writing about miles, points and travel for greater than eleven years. Along the way, he has also written articles for TravelZork, InsideFlyer, FlyerTalk and First2Board; as well as has been featured on numerous media outlets — such as NBC, CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, to name a few examples. Brian has been a moderator on FlyerTalk since he was appointed in 2004; is a member of both InsideFlyer and FlyerTalk; and enjoys sharing his passion for photography and travel — even when it includes some wacky itineraries…

Edward Pizzarello

Pizza in Motion

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Edward Pizzarello – Pizza in Motion

Edward Pizzarello travels over 100,000 miles a year for business and pleasure. When he’s not playing road warrior for business travel, you can find him


spending time with his wife and two kids. They’re equally comfortable at Disney World, Italy or a thousand places in between.

Jessica Coane

Founder and President, PEX+

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Jessica Coane – Founder and President, PEX+

Jessica Coane founded PEX+, a search engine that helps people and businesses maximize their frequent flyer miles, hotel points, and credit card points. PEX+ has been written up in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Times, and others. PEX+ has also been recognized by travel industry experts as a major component in the future of award search and loyalty big data.

Prior to entering the start-up scene, Jessica provided software development and IT consulting expertise for corporations in various industry verticals, including Hewlett Packard in Technology, Boeing in Aerospace, and Petrofac in Oil and Gas. Additionally, she’s builtother startups in the past that have been featured in major news outlets like CBS (KHOU Houston) and The New York Times.

Cousin Vito

Casino Podcaster

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Cousin Vito – Casino and Gambling Podcaster

Cousin Vito is a casino enthusiast, recreational gambler, and a fun loving foodie. As with many from the east coast, his love for casinos started with childhood trips to Atlantic City with his late grandfather. From enjoying the football games, tossing dice at a craps table or participating in poker tournaments Cousin Vito represents the quintessential recreational gambler. After years of enjoyment Cousin Vito harnessed his enthusiasm for gaming and created Cousin Vito’s Casino podcast. His weekly podcast covers anything and everything the has to do with casinos and gambling. His show can be found at CousinVito’sCasinoPodcast.

"If


the remote, and previously little-explored, southern part of the Mount Read Volcanics at Elliott Bay has revealed a geologic setting and mineralization styles similar to those in the main part of the volcanic belt between Mount Darwin and Que River. The volcanic pile at Elliott Bay is composed dominantly of rhyolitic pyroclastics and quartz porphyry intrusions overlain on the western side by a sequence of epiclastics and marine sediments. The volcanics are dominantly quartz porphyritic whereas feldspar porphyritic assemblages are dominant in the central volcanic sequence which hosts the polymetallic massive sulfide ores to the north.A combination of geologic mapping (with particular emphasis on alteration styles), gold distribution in stream sediments and pan concentrates, and base metal soil geochemistry has proved successful in locating several types of mineralizationby Reuters as saying it was possible that she was simply lost. Krashevsky said that the emaciated bear had watery eyes and could not see well. He said it looked too weak to be returned to its natural habitat.

Officials said it was the first time a polar bear had been spotted in Norilsk in four decades.

The incident is reminiscent of a similar occurrence earlier this year. In February, regional officials declared a state of emergency in Belushya Guba after more than 50 polar bears invaded the Siberian island settlement, causing a panic among its 2,000 residents. Officials described the situation at the time as unprecedented.

Polar bears spend most of their lives on sea ice, where they hunt seals. Climate change has been blamed for a marked decline in


sea ice and bears are reportedly moving to land earlier in the season due to a lack of ice.

The report of the bear at Norilsk comes as a team of University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers published findings in the journal Geophysical Research Letters indicating that permafrost in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than previously predicted.

"What we saw was amazing," Vladimir E. Romanovsky, a professor of geophysics at the university and a co-author of the study, told Reuters. "It's an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last 5,000 or more years."the open position, with the result that it is not possible to leave the latter.
U.S. Pat, No. 4,075,594 furthermore describes a switch in which a catch slips under a spring, as a result of which a contact is held in the open position after switching to the latter.
A solution is also furthermore known in which a spring slips underneath a bimetallic disc as soon as the latter has snapped out of its quiescent position. Under these conditions, said spring prevents a return of the bimetallic disc to its quiescent position.
Solutions are also furthermore known in which the transmission component is immobilized after the temperature sensor has been tripped.
The disadvantage of these known solutions is that, to immobilize the temperature sensor, the contact carrier or the transmission component, a


can reveal

Police were called to reports of a “triple stabbing” in Liverpool

A Mersey motorist had a lucky escape after his new BMW X5 burst into flames at 70mph on the M57

Tributes have been pouring in to “passionate and committed” cyclist Terry Brown who was killed in a hit and run near the Merseyside-Cheshire border

A 15-year-old boy was wrestled to the ground by police and sprayed with tear gas as horrified shoppers looked on, a court heard - watch the shocking CCTV here

Everton FC have made a "bit of progress" and are "putting together the financial jigsaw" to move to a new stadium , according to senior advisor Sir Terry Leahy

Read our review from one of the gigs of the year: Prince at the Manchester AcademyHulu has canceled the drama series “Shut Eye” after two seasons.

Series star Jeffrey Donovan shared the news on Twitter. He wrote, “Enjoyed Shut Eye. But all good things must end. I’m grateful to Hulu and Sony. They were great places to work at. Onward and upward.”

The series starred Donovan as Charlie Haverford who, along with his wife Linda (KaDee Strickland), run a chain of fortune-telling parlors, one of which occupies a room in their Los Angeles home. A lot of their time is spent chafing at the oversight of the Marks family, a Roma clan that strictly enforces its dominion over all the fortune-telling places within a large section of the city. But Charlie’s world view is thrown into chaos when he starts experiencing visions that may or


may not be real.

John Shiban took over as showrunner on Season 2, serving as an executive producer alongside Mark Johnson, Melissa Bernstein, and series creator Les Bohem. Sony Pictures Television Studios produced.

The streaming service also recently canceled the Hugh Laurie-led drama “Chance” after two seasons, and has ordered an adaptation of “Catch-22” to series. Back in September, Hulu took home a record Emmy haul thanks to the series adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The company also ended 2017 with more than 17 million U.S. subscribers for its subscription on-demand and live TV packages.He Was 'Night' In Front Of Your Eyes: Did You Spot M. Night Shyamalan's 'Split' Cameo?

tweet: tomtomchap Warden of the North - bearded, tattooed and square eyed 'til the end

Warning: Spoilers ahead for M. Night Shyamalan's Split.

When you have finished picking your jaw up off the floor following that shock ending from Split, let's look back at what great Easter Eggs you might have missed. Critics certainly aren't "split" on their opinion of the film, calling it Shyamalan's greatest work in years and a return to form for the 46-year-old director, but did you spot the man himself in there too? What elevates #Split from your standard abduction #horror is its shocking, and frankly amazing, ending, including that cameo from Bruce Willis. Willis returns to his role as


isn't the first (or probably last) time that Shyamalan has had a cameo in one of his films, starting as Dev Raman in 1992's Praying With Anger and taking small roles in The Sixth Sense and Signs. They may only be small parts, such as"Guard at Desk" in 2004's The Village, but spotting Shyamalan is like finding Tarantino hiding in his films; in fact, out of Shyamalan's 14 films, he has only not appeared in five of them.

The Unbreakable Mr. Shyamalan

'Unbreakable' [Credit: Buena Vista]

One of his most notable cameos was alongside Willis in Unbreakable as "Stadium Drug Dealer." With Unbreakable and Split clearly linked, Empire asked Shyamalan if Jai and "Stadium Drug Dealer" could be the same man, prompting this typically Shyamalan response:

"It’s possible. Our joke on set"patience and force of will" required to get through.
The linked article refers to the German 1916 publication of Über die spezielle und allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, 1920 reprint is available on the Internet Archive. The first English translation, by Lawson, Relativity: the Special and the General Theory, first appeared also in 1920, and is available on ibiblio.org. Here is Einstein's preface in full:

"The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the


shortness of the book, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the part of the reader. The author has spared himself no pains in his endeavour to present the main ideas in the simplest and most intelligible form, and on the whole, in the sequence and connection in which they actually originated. In the interest of
  clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist, L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler. I make no pretence of having withheld from the reader difficulties which are inherent tocarry in the first half, but he did have four receptions. In fact, Samuel, Mike Weber and Marcus Baugh caught 10 of Barrett’s 13 completions in the first half.

2nd Quarter Key Plays

Marcus Baugh made a man-sized play for a 26-yard touchdown. He flashed the athleticism that has had coaches raving about him physically for years.

A missed extra point for the Buckeyes, which is never not a harbinger of doom, was flat-out ugly.

Ohio State, ahead 9-0 and with first-and-10 from the Penn State 13-yard line with under two minutes left in the half, threw the ball three times, all incomplete, and settled for a field goal, again.

Third Quarter

When the Buckeyes opened the second half with Mike Weber rushing twice for nine yards, one might have thought he understood how


pressure, McSorley hit a wide open Mike Gesicki for 16 yards. Then Saquon Barkley burst up the middle for 37 yards. Then Ohio State forgot to cover Saeed Blacknall, who picked up 35 yards to the 2-yard line. Two plays later, McSorley outraced Chris Worley to the corner and, just like that, the score was 21-14 and the once-dead crowd was as loud as ever. Five plays, 90 yards. Inexplicable.

When the Buckeyes took the field after that touchdown, the players appeared as though they’d seen a ghost. The first play was blown up in the backfield almost before it started and Mike Weber fumbled, losing five yards, but, fortunately, recovering the ball himself. Ohio State was forced to take a timeout a play later. A play after that,Meyer and the Buckeyes had no idea what they wanted to do. The offensive stayed on the field looking toward the sideline until about 12 seconds remained on the play clock before the field goal unit scrambled into action. Ohio State ran them to the line, hurried a snap to avoid a delay of game penalty (which would have certainly led to a punt from the 36-yard line, which Meyer said postgame he was considering anyway) and a low kick was blocked and returned for a Penn State touchdown. Once more, despite doing nothing on offense, the Lions had stolen momentum from Ohio State and now led, 24-21.

Game over.

Ohio State had two timeouts left when they hurried the kick that should have never been attempted. Curtis Samuel had


most, as a female who has played games for a very long time, as the one who has been kicked off games or knocked out of line because I must not really want to play this thing, was the little girl who existed outside of the arcade system.

To me it shows a very large step forward in the video game industry of actually admitting that girls play games. What a thought, right? More importantly, she seems to play a wide array of games and doesn’t really care if they aren’t meant for girls. She plays the first person shooter(which Jane Lynch as the lead character is awesome as well), she wants to play the racing competitive game, and she plays the classics.

Yet, as with what happens in games,An Irish television channel has admitted it “was not correct” in its coverage of Ariel Sharon, after reporting that the former Israeli prime minister led the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut in 1982.

RTÉ News and Current Affairs, the largest news source in Ireland, had broadcast a report after Mr Sharon’s death last month, stating that he was at the helm of the massacre, which saw the murder of over 3,000 civilians in Lebanon by the Christian Phalangist militia.

But following complaints made to the channel by Zionist Federation members Stephen Franklin and Elliot Davis, and Frank Baigel, director of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester, the channel retracted its statement.

Mr Franklin wrote to RTÉ: “Sharon neither led nor participated in nor desired a massacre in Beirut. An


Israeli investigation into the massacre found that he was responsible ‘for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge when he approved the entry of the Phalangists into the camps’.”

Following the complaints, the channel broadcast a retraction at the end of an evening news bulletin last weekend.

It said: “In a recent RTÉ news report on the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, it was stated that Mr Sharon led the 1982 massacre in Beirut at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.

“A subsequent inquiry found that Mr Sharon bore indirect responsibility. We were not correct to report the massacre was led by him.”Unusual suspects – women and gangs in South Africa*

The Hanover Park Ceasefire team – helping men and women quit gang life

HANOVER PARK, CAPE TOWN, 11 June 2014 (IRIN) - Gangsterism has a long tradition in South Africa’s Cape Flats. But the popular image of swaggering, macho young men is incomplete: women have always had a role, albeit overlooked, in that history.

At the age of 15, Charmaine Debruine became one of three female members of the Backstreet Kids, a Hanover Park gang. Like most adolescent girls involved in gang life, she joined through her boyfriend. But the gang crucially also provided a sense of identity and security in the face of domestic problems. “I had a tough life at home. There was no mother. There was no father… I


that – in such a situation –then I will do my best to see that that female won’t get involved.”

Unusual suspects – women and gangs in South Africa*

The Hanover Park Ceasefire team – helping men and women quit gang life

HANOVER PARK, CAPE TOWN, 11 June 2014 (IRIN) - Gangsterism has a long tradition in South Africa’s Cape Flats. But the popular image of swaggering, macho young men is incomplete: women have always had a role, albeit overlooked, in that history.

At the age of 15, Charmaine Debruine became one of three female members of the Backstreet Kids, a Hanover Park gang. Like most adolescent girls involved in gang life, she joined through her boyfriend. But the gang crucially also provided a sense of identity and security in the faceliquidated damages, reasonable compensation for plaintiff's attorney, and costs, under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq."
It is alleged that at all times within the period above set forth defendant was engaged in the production of lumber in interstate commerce, and that during the work weeks beginning October 24, 1938 and ending July 3, 1940 defendant employed "plaintiff and a great number of other men" in interstate commerce "there being an average of fifty or more men so employed," and failed to compensate them at the statutory rate "but has paid them at rates not in excess of twenty cents an hour, and in many instances not in excess of twelve and one-half cents an hour."
That during said time plaintiff and defendant's


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Thursday, 26 January 2012

Why January 26: the history of the day

Why January 26: the history of the day

RADHIKA RAMASESHAN

Jawans rehearse for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on Monday. Picture by Ramakant Kushwaha

Freedom came to India on August 15, 1947. But patriotic Indians had celebrated their first “Independence Day” 17 years before, wrote historian and columnist Ramachandra Guha in India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy.

The symbolic day Guha alluded to was January 26. Its choice was serendipitous. The long march to India’s Independence and its formal emergence as a “sovereign democratic Republic” was signified by several totems, icons and symbols. January 26 was one of them.

The Indian National Congress held its annual session in December 1929. It voted for “purna swaraj” or completeindependence as against a dominion status for India and passed a resolution fixing the last Sunday of January 1930 — it was coincidentally January 26 — as Independence Day. It resolved to hold countrywide demonstrations in support of the goal. An official draft by Mahatma Gandhi said: “The British government in India has not only deprived the Indian people of their freedom but has based itself on the exploitation of the masses and has ruined India economically, politically, culturally and spiritually….Therefore, India must sever the British connection and attain ‘purna swaraj’ or ‘complete independence’. ”

The passage to the Lahore declaration was marked by a debate which saw the All India Home Rule League and the All India Muslim League favouring a dominion status while leaders like Bal Gangadhar


Tilak, Aurobindo and Bipin Chandra Pal argued for a complete separation from British rule. The latter’s view prevailed.

Jawaharlal Nehru was chosen the president of the Congress. On the midnight of December 31, 1929, he raised the first “swaraj” flag that was later adopted as the national flag.

In order to build a tempo to attain its objective, the Congress, under Gandhi’s tutelage, decided that the first January 26 celebration would begin with the hoisting of the flag and the remaining day would be spent on constructive work like spinning, “service to the untouchables”, “reunion” of Hindus and Muslims and prohibition.

However, when the events happened, Gandhi and Nehru were taken aback with the response. In his autobiography, Nehru recalled how “Independence Day came, January 26th 1930, and it revealed toentirely on the amended colonial Government of India Act, 1935. It still owed formal allegiance to the British Crown.

The process for the evolution of a Sovereign Republic kicked in soon thereafter. A Constituent Assembly of elected members of the Provincial Assemblies was set up. It included Nehru, C. Rajagopalachari, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Shyama Prasad Mookherjee and Nalini Ranjan Ghosh. There were jurists like B.R. Ambedkar, Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer and K.M. Munshi.

Dr Ambedkar was asked to chair the drafting committee of the Constitution. It met for 166 days over two years, 11 months and 18 days. The final document that enshrined 345 Articles and eight Schedules was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on November 26 1949. The Constitution came into force on January


26, 1950, when India officially became a Sovereign Democratic Republic, 894 days after the British rulers withdrew.

On that day, Rajendra Prasad was sworn in as India’s first President, replacing the King as the head of the state.

In Delhi, the ceremonies began with the 34th and last governor general Rajagopalachari reading out a proclamation, announcing the birth of the Republic. The new President took the oath of office at the Durbar Hall of the Government House (Rashtrapati Bhavan) and addressed the crowd, first in Hindi and then in English.

Dr Prasad drove through the streets in his state coach to the Irwin Stadium (renamed as Dhyan Chand Stadium) and hoisted the national flag.

The government declared a two-day national holiday to a jubilant nation.Composer Sergio Cervetti has cemented himself into the contemporary classical scene, earning notoriety for his ability to present orchestral, opera, chamber, vocal, and electronic under a single classical umbrella that is distinctly individualistic. With works lauded as "truly novel and genuinely intriguing" (Washington Post), "noteworthy in the sea of fluff that passes for electronic music" (Option Magazine), and "a listener's joy" (New York Times), Cervetti has proven himself a worthy contender in the world of contemporary classical.

With NAZCA AND OTHER WORKS, his second release on Navona Records, Cervetti draws from his South American heritage to present four orchestral works on scale with the wondrous Nazca Lines in Peru. The Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors Vit Micka and Petr Vronský interpret the works with aplomb, and sopranos Alena Hellerova