Scrubbed from Textbooks — The U.S. Government’s National Experiment in Extermination*

Scrubbed from Textbooks — The U.S. Government’s National Experiment in Extermination*

By Claire Bernish

In desperation to make effective the floundering Prohibition on alcohol, the U.S. government — unable to convince the public consumption of booze constituted a moral transgression — intentionally poisoned the supply in a last-ditch attempt to enforce State-mandated sobriety.

This “chemist’s war of Prohibition” became, as outspoken opponent and New York City chief medical examiner in the 1920s, Charles Norris, hauntingly described, “our national experiment in extermination.”

Rather than keep people away from bathtub gin and the constant flow of liquor in hidden speakeasies — the State-sanctioned toxic experiment killed thousands of people who simply wanted to imbibe.

Alcohol poisoning in the time of Prohibition had become commonplace —long years of effort. …”

The Chicago Tribune strikingly editorialized in 1927, as cited by Slate,

“Normally, no American government would engage in such business. … It is only in the curious fanaticism of Prohibition that any means, however barbarous, are considered justified.”

Myriad ruinous government programs, in particular prohibitions on alcohol and cannabis, have been implemented under the premise of protecting the people from some misbegotten ill — but, in practice, these efforts too often play out more disastrously than if the State had never intervened in the first place.

Ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1919 meant a ban on the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcoholic beverages — and the subsequent passage of the Volstead Act provided the rules for enforcement of Prohibition when it went


into effect in 1920.

Anti-alcohol organizations constantly sermonized on the evils of drinking, and though the notion seems almost quaint in 2017, the post-war atmosphere in the U.S. welcomed any movement to prevent further degradation of morals — or, more accurately, the morals of a specific group of people whose grandstanding centered around alcohol.

Unsurprisingly, vocal support for the platform overrepresented the reality — the business of banned booze immediately and decisively boomed. Blum wrote,

“Alcoholism rates soared during the 1920s; insurance companies charted the increase at more than 300 more percent. Speakeasies promptly opened for business. By the decade’s end, some 30,000 existed in New York City alone. Street gangs grew into bootlegging empires built on smuggling, stealing, and manufacturing illegal alcohol. The country’s defiant response to the new lawsThis article was originally published by The Influence, a news site that covers the full spectrum of human relationships with drugs. Follow The Influence on Facebook or Twitter.

The long subway ride from DC’s airport to Silver Spring was unusually pleasant. It had been about an hour since I had taken a low dose of methamphetamine. It was my 40th birthday—Oct. 30, 2006—and I was headed to a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-sponsored meeting.

A friend who had a prescription for the drug had given me a couple of pills as a gift, knowing that I was an expert on amphetamines but had never actually taken any myself. I sat on the train feeling alert, mentally stimulated and euphorically serene.

When the effects had worn off after a few hours,


open celebration by everybody else.

Francis told thousands gathered in the rain for his weekly Sunday blessing that he would visit Amman, Bethlehem and Jerusalem on May 24-26.

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Francis will be joined in Jerusalem by the current ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew, who became the first ecumenical leader to attend a papal installation since the schism when he traveled to Rome for Francis’ inaugural Mass in March. They will celebrate Mass together at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the faithful believe Jesus was crucified and buried.

In a recent synodal decision,[1] the Church of Russia seems once again[2] to choose its isolation from both the theological dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church and the communion of the Orthodox Churches. Two points are worth noting from the outset, which are indicative ofis what is eating away at the Orthodox Church, and in particular the OCA.

When a man who has lived a gay life is now being considered as an Auxiliary bishop in the DOW, when a bishop on the current Synod was barred for decades from being considered as a bishop because of his homosexual life when a student at SVS, when an Archbishop on the Synod was caught with hundreds of hours of gay porn on his computer, when Archbishops protect their Florida friends, a retired OCA bishop and his lover/partner Archdeacon, who himself continues to serve in good standing even though he deposed himself by marrying another man in California. How about the gay retired priest, the mentor to the OCA Chancellor, this icon of the priesthood


who divorced his wife and has lived an open gay life with his partner for decades, on open secret in his parish, yet, the OCA and Syosset turns a blind eye with a wink and the Chancellor holds this man up as the priest he modeled his priesthood after?

The OCA will do nothing to censure Fr. John Tkachuk, he by marriage and part of the OCA First Family. I know of at least one letter of protest sent to Canada and SVS by an OCA priest, a convert, who is sick of what he is starting to see in the OCA because it resembles what he left his former confession over. It is difficult to preach the missionary imperative of the Church when your own jurisdiction is decaying.posts is a congratulation. A married senior officer, Father Milton, reminds him he is a priest forever, that he has support (but that does not necessarily mean for his actions and decisions) and that he can come talk to him about options. What these options might be, and one can assume they are for the good of the Church, is only speculation.

His most recent translation is here:
Posted 03 March 2013 – 06:41 PM

Title: Therapy of Spiritual Illnesses: An Introduction to the Ascetic Tradition of the Orthodox Church

A vast synthesis of patristic and ascetic oriental teachings from the 1st to 14th centuries, this study presents a renewed vision of the Christian doctrine of salvation and constitutes a veritable treaty, both theoretical and practical, of spiritual psychology and medicine, as


well as a summation of Orthodox spirituality that has no equivalent. The notion of human health held by Orthodox anthropology is inseparable from that of the ideal human nature possessed by the original Adam. Before being led astray, this nature was a synergy of Adam’s free will and of divine grace unto his perfection, i.e. deification. That is to say, human nature has a direction found in its different components: it is naturally oriented towards God and is destined to find fulfilment in Him. Dr Larchet shows how, according to Orthodox ascetical anthropology, man is in a healthful state when he achieves his destiny and when his faculties exert themselves in accordance with this natural aim. He shows, also, how sin, thought of as separation from being withof Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born. Matthew 26

And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven. Luke 12

From the Epistle of Jude:
Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their


resulted in there cancellation to protect the lives of those that would participate. If there is a gay Serbian priest out there he has to be very good at hiding. To further drive this point home one of our bishops that chose to engage in this sin was removed from his diocese and removed from active ministry by the Holy Assembly of Bishops in May. There is no tolerance for homosexual behavior by the Serbian people. Think before you write next time

one of our bishops that chose to engage in this sin was removed from his diocese and removed from active ministry by the Holy Assembly of Bishops in May

wow, amazingly rapid response, about 10 years after the first info surfaced !!!

They only removed him when the scandalneed to get your head out of the sand.

As early as Dec. of 2013 Fr. Kilian Sprecher was being published on OCA Wonder. Same venue where Inga Leonova and other Orthodox progressives and pro-gay liberals are invited to post their writings. God help us!

Shortly after he was awarded the schema i and on his way to seminary, he stopped by a Maryland parish. We got to know him. He sang in the choir with us with his great voice, baritone. After the service, he showed his schema to us and explained it, for some people sitting at the coffee table did not understand one. He discussed a little about the strangeness between seminary and military. He seemed focused on the true path and light of faith. The chaplaincy


was something that would afford him the ability to attend seminary but he came from a military family and the chaplaincy made sense.

I am very sad at the loss of this person to the priesthood. He had much to give the Church and much love for the Church from what I saw. I called on him to help someone a year and a half ago. Although he probably did not remember me, he responded and was able to help. Something does not compute.

You are absolutley correct about his character. While I lament that he did not go about this more quietly (Theopany for goodness sake!) and lessen the scandal to the Church, at least he had the decency to leave the priesthood and monastic tonsure (to the degreenormal parish clergy.

Thank you for the braveness of your clarification and thank you for pointing out the proper love for a brother in Christ. I hope you continue to provide moral support and guidance to Killian, formerly Christopher in the world, and that he continues to know that many of his brothers and sisters in Christ love him and care about him, whatever his sin or temporary failings. He is still a precious soul.

Is this creeping movement towards acceptance of sexual perversions really limited to OCA? As one can see from your screenshot, George, the other priest who congratulated the couple is Fr. Milton Gianulis. Is not he in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese?

Or join the Presbyterians, from whose sinking ship I have been swimming, but I suppose if


to have been a myriad of clues suggesting that he was homosexual, and he was quite public about this. His blog is replete with references to homosexuality: http://aaronoliver.blogspot.com

He was yet another OCA military chaplain and a former priest in Las Vegas who then abandoned Orthodoxy to the ECUSA becase he suddenly discovers that Orthodoxy is oppressive to his sexual orientation? Come on — anyone with half a brain could have seen this coming from a mile away, yet he is still ordained an Orthodox clergyman? Who is in charge? Who’s running the show? Will they ordain anyone who shows up?

Fr Tom Hopko in his podcasts often mentions how in the 1950s the line at the fledgling SVOTS about seminarians was that “few are called and all are chosen,”while he was gone Manton became a source of scandal? Luckily, that blew up in everybody’s face when Fr Martin led a justifiable exodus from there and into the pastoral embrace of the Serbian Church –things being so bad that they were received without getting a formal release.

2, In the South, the locum tenancy was taken from Jonah and we still have the problem in Miami which our locum tenens still refuses to address.

3. In the Midwest, a bishop who published the false accusations against Jonah was later caught texting a young lady.

4. St Luke’s Institute, the “institute” of choice for the Syosset Set was exposed as a racket whose sole purpose is to rake in the big bucks. And oh yeah, it’s director was forced to resign


Bishop Benjamin of San Francisco at St. Paul the Apostle Church, Las Vegas, NV. He is under the omophorion of Bishop Benjamin and attached to the Diocese of the West.”

“(SPRECHER), Hieromonk Kilian is released from his duties at St Nicholas Cathedral and from the Diocese of Washington and the omophorion of Metropolitan Jonah. He is transferred to the omophorion of Bishop Michael of New York, effective September 4, 2011. He awaits assignment. (Diocese of New York/New Jersey)”

Homosexuality is not “chosen” as the “unforgivable sin” over other sins– homosexuality is “choosing itself” as non-sinful.

This is how it differs from other sexual sins in particular, as we all recognize: we do not excuse adulteries because of the powerful opposite-sex attraction that can drive them.

What is the “rite” that someone professesthe most effeminate men I’ve encountered in my 81 years was a Master Sergeant, allegedly the most decorated soldier in the Far East, who visited the Far East Command/ United Nations Command Comm Center at Camp Zama in 1956. At the time I was ncoic of the Toll Network Control office of Company A Japan Signal Battalion, which was just outside the UNC/FEC Comm Center. This Master Sergeant in his dress uniform of the time, had stripes up and down both sleeves and chest plastered with ribbons. He was, I was told by an old-timer civilian there, one of the leftovers from the MacArthur days. General MacArthur’s staffs were notorious for the heavy “gay” clique that hung around and supported that General throughout his career.
I, frankly, was flabbergasted


many of the wonderful village priests on the Kuskokwim Delta would struggle with an Antiochian suburban Detroit parish?

A strange statement, that about Seattle. I know little of Greenwich Village.

While I first attended an Orthodox service at the local Greek church in about 1979, most of my ocassional attendance at orthodx services thereafter were at Holy Trinity, in the hamlet of Wilkeson in the foothills of the Washington Cascades. This church was one of those founded by Carpatho-Russian miners.

In those days, the priest from St. Spiridon’s in Seattle would come down twice a month on Saturdays for liturgy at Holy Trinity (which is about 40 miles or so from Seattle). This was Fr. Vadim Pogrebniak, a very fine priest indeed. Eventually, with his tireless work, Fr. John Pierce becamepoint then an openly gay member of the OCA who along with his husband presented themselves to their parish priest in Dayton, OH?

You see, there are priests and bishops in the OCA who privately see nothing wrong with men or women of the same sex living together, loving together and quite frankly taking their “rightful” place amongst the laity (and some clergy) of the Orthodox Church in America.

One has to regard their actions as sinful before repentance can even be considered. The ever-widening circle that does not consider the actions of the former SVS student and his former monk-priest husband as wrong is what is eating away at the very fabric of the OCA.

I was completely shocked by this announcement. I saw it on Facebook, and gaped “Father


torturous struggle that went on in his soul. He fled his family nest, Yasnaya Polyana—not to his like-minded friends, the ”Tolstoyans,” but to the most famous Russian monastery, Optina Hermitage, where ascetic elders were living. He wanted to meet with them, but at the last minute he lost his resolve, about which he regretfully told his sister, a nun of Shamordino Convent near Optina. When at Ostapovo station he felt his approaching death, he asked that a telegram be sent to Optina Hermitage with the request that they send him Elder Joseph. However, when two priests arrived in Astapovo, the writer’s followers would not allow them to meet…

The Church related to the writer’s spiritual fate with enormous compassion. There were no ”anathemas or curses” pronounced either before orof the great Moscow Theological Academy (whose name escapes me) wrote that the corruption and heresy was so endemic to the faculty and students that simply closing the school would be insufficient; he believed the buildings needed to be razed to their very foundations, and rebuilt and everyone, including himself, replaced. And apparently, in hindsight, it was prophetic. Sure, there was no CNN, no Facebook, but Google the glorious buildings of the Moscow Theological Academy and imagine the grief that moved a bishop of the Church to speak such words. Only in the world of internet whining & bitching is this the “core of corruption at the center of the church” driving us to the brink of the catacombs, blah, blah, blah. The bottom line: two men have


Calendar Published by Orthodox Church
08 January 2014 | Issue 5286
By Anna Dolgov

A publishing house run by the Russian Orthodox Church has released a 2014 calendar devoted to Josef Stalin, unleashing a flurry of indignation among Russian bloggers and a discussion about the Church’s ties to the former Soviet dictator.

The calendar, published by the Moscow-based patriarchal printing house of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius monastery, presents pictures of Stalin, accompanied by excerpts from his biography. The photographs show Stalin gradually ageing as the months roll on from a young man on the January page to a gray-haired Soviet leader in December.

The calendar, on sale for 200 rubles ($6), “would be an excellent gift for veterans and history buffs,” according to the website of Dostoinstvo publishing house.

Public outcry wasthe Orthodox Church was a complex and tumultuous one. Born in Georgia, Stalin attended a Georgian Orthodox seminary in his youth, but was expelled for reasons that are still debated by historians. Russians occasionally remark that his dismissal from the seminary, which stemmed his budding religious career, turned the course of Russia’s history.

The Russian Orthodox Church was heavily persecuted in the initial years Soviet rule, with many of its temples being razed to the ground while others were turned into warehouses. Stalin presided over the destruction by dynamite of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, having picked its site for the Palace of the Soviets monument to socialism. The cathedral was rebuilt after the 1991 Soviet collapse.

But Stalin appeared to have had an about-face during World War II, supposedly


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Jack Thompson is a master of self-promotion. The Florida resident has made a career out of talking to anyone who will listen about the evils of video gaming, the violent ideas and passions that gaming puts into the minds and hearts of children, and the soulless industry that cranks out these terrible games. Whenever there is a tragedy he's there to jump in front of the camera and find a tenuous link between real-world violence and gaming. The legal system finally decided the man went too far, however, and has made it official: Thompson has been disbarred.

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Read more Off by himself, Jürgens dropped down to his knees. He sank his well-tanned arms in the sand up to the elbows. As he rooted around, he told me later, he had a revelation. At the time, I was watching from the top of Leopard Rock, which offered a bird’s-eye view of both Jürgens and his expedition’s quarry. Across the plain, seemingly stamped into its dry, stubbly grass, were circles of bare ground, each about the size of an aboveground pool. Jürgens, a professor at the University of Hamburg, was digging—and pondering—in one of these bare patches.

The patches are Namibia’s enigmatic fairy circles, and for decades they have drawn visitors, including our convoy, into the desert. In recent years, Jürgens and other researchers have argued bitterly over


his first fairy circles in 1980, as a graduate student who had traveled to South Africa’s Richtersveld to study desert-adapted “living stone” plants. But the mystery didn’t really hook him until two decades later.

In 2000, he began working as the scientific coordinator for BIOTA, a sprawling network of environmental measuring stations across southern Africa. (That led to SASSCAL, the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management, a massive EU-funded project that, along with the University of Hamburg, supports his field work.) Jürgens began watching the fairy circles year after year, islands in the flood of data coming back from the environmental observatories. His curiosity grew. In the mid-2000s, he sampled sites throughout the fairy circles’ range, hoping to make his own sense ofpeople bury their loved ones in abandoned termite mounds. But Psammotermes allocerus is unsung and understudied, and when I first met Jürgens, I had very little idea of what to expect. Our expedition numbered 13. In addition to Jürgens and myself, our group included three members of Jürgens’ lab, a Namibian research assistant named Vilho Mtuleni who goes by the nickname Snake, and a gaggle of University of Hamburg masters’ students. We gathered at the end of February in Namibia’s capital Windhoek, a city still shaking off the legacy of colonial rule by Germany and, later, apartheid South Africa.

After buying supplies, we left in a caravan of 4x4s, kicking up a cloud of dust. As we drove west from central Namibia toward the Atlantic, the land got drier


in the face of impossibility. We kept driving. And suddenly, there they were. Jürgens, at the head of the caravan, pulled over and the rest of us followed suit. He walked out into a field at the foot of a hill, me racing to follow him and his flock of students straggling behind. “Your first fairy circle,” Jürgens said to me when we assembled. We stood in our own circle near the taller grasses at the edge of a bare patch, and Jürgens surveyed the patch like an astronomer dissecting a spiral galaxy. He pointed out the clearest fingerprint of his sand termites: a clump of grass coated in tubes of sand. The termites build the tubes around the stems they eat, he said, crumbling some of thesaid. He flagged down the herder, who stopped to wait for us while his cows strayed ahead.

Up close, I realized the herder was just a teenager, a boy from the Himba tribe. He wore sandals, salmon-colored shorts, and a pink, American-style hoodie under his grey jacket. Snake ran through his Rolodex of languages, searching for a match. Afrikaans? English? Oshiwambo? No hits. So Snake spoke Herero, the boy answering in Himba. “He just says that it’s a formation from above,” Snake said. The boy referred to the fairy circles as okarupare, a sort of antechamber or group meeting place for men in Himba compounds, Snake explained. The next day the boy came back to the research site, this time bringing two friends. They were skeptical that a little


of then-postdocs met for dinner to discuss collaboration. Tarnita, who grew up acing math competitions in Romania, had switched from math to ecology halfway through graduate school, directing her mathematical firepower into a headline-grabbing critique of traditional evolutionary biology. Now she was looking for a new project. And Pringle was looking for a mathematician. At a research site in Kenya, he had found termite mounds tiled across the savannah in an ordered pattern. Because the mounds, built by fungus-farming termites, contained more nutrients than the surrounding soil, they became little islands of plants, spiders, insects, and lizards. The even spacing of the mounds ensured that this benefit was spread around, too. Pringle suspected that competition among the termite mounds explained the pattern, but he didn’t have the mathematicalit deader. According to daily pictures taken by the SASSCAL station, the prolonged drought had forced local cattle up to Leopard Rock for the first time, then pushed them farther and farther into the plains to graze. Desperate for a mouthful of living vegetation, the cows had mowed the perennial belts of tall grass around the fairy circles almost to the ground. “I have some ideas ... but maybe I better write them down in a proper publication.” For Jürgens, this trend is hard to ignore. On the evening after he wandered off to dig in a circle and I watched him from afar, I asked him about the beginning of his career. In 1980, when he went to South Africa’s Richtersveld as a student, he met some


local Nama shepherds. Jürgens himself had tended sheep while growing up on farm country in northern Germany, so they understood each other. Later that decade, an anti-apartheid group based in Cape Town called Jürgens with a request. South Africa wanted to make the Richtersveld a national park, and in the process, they wanted to kick the locals out. Jürgens agreed to testify on behalf of the shepherds at a small trial in the remote desert. His argument—that the locals were causing minimal harm to the environment—won the day, and when the Richtersveld later did become a park, the people stayed. But now the shepherds he fought for are all gone to nearby towns. With the climate against them, agriculture has become impossible, echoing larger trends that SASSCAL ishe said, “but maybe I better write them down in a proper publication.” Although Giribesvlakte was dry and dead this year, the expedition’s visit wasn’t a wash, either. Ants were surveilled, termites captured, dirt excavated. Additional fairy circles were poisoned. And then there was that moment of insight for Jürgens in the waning light, as he scrabbled in the sand of a megacircle right next to Leopard Rock. The next day, I met him in the place he had been digging. There was a particular grass species there, a plant he had noticed when he first introduced us to the mysterious megacircles. He had me kneel and sink my hands into the sand, as he had, and feel the roots inquiring downward. The megacircle problem, as he had


657 P.2d 1163 (1983)
Alonzo F. MYERS, Doris Fry, and Sierra Land Title Company, Appellants,
v.
David P. JONES and Donna Jones, Respondents.
No. 12024.
Supreme Court of Nevada.
February 15, 1983.
C. Nicholas Pereos, Reno, for appellants.
Smith & Gamble, Carson City, for respondents.

OPINION
LEGAKES, District Judge:[1]
Alonzo F. Myers, Jr., acquired a one acre parcel in Carson City between 1960 and 1962, built a house on it, and encumbered it with a $15,500 note secured by a second deed of trust held by his parents. This parcel is hereafter referred to as the front one acre parcel. An adjoining one acre parcel was acquired by Myers shortly thereafter, and hereafter is referred to as the back one acre parcel. In 1968, Myers quitclaimed the back one acre parcel to his sister and brother-in-law, the Zimmermans, andthe deed was recorded.
Myers vacated his house on the front one acre parcel and moved out of state in 1969. In 1971, respondents David and Donna Jones took possession of both the front and back one acre parcels under a lease option purchase agreement prepared by a realtor.
At the trial, the realtor testified that he had a written listing agreement from Mr. Myers which he believed included both the front and back one acre parcels. The listing agreement was not produced at trial and Mr. Myers disputed the fact that the listing agreement covered both parcels of land. Respondents timely exercised their lease option purchase agreement and attempted to close escrow with Mr. Myers. As a result of a foreclosure proceeding brought by a collection service on the


front acre, escrow never opened. Ultimately, respondents received title to the front one acre parcel, subject to the encumbrance of $15,500 secured by the deed of trust then held by Myers' mother, and to a second encumbrance which the Joneses eventually paid.
In 1976, Myers' mother assigned her deed of trust on the front one acre parcel to appellant Doris Fry, Mr. Myers' second wife. Fry in turn commenced foreclosure proceeding on the note, which was by its terms due in full on or before August 5, 1975, with interest. Respondents commenced proceedings to enjoin the foreclosure and to determine what amount was due on the note. Respondents also sought a decree of specific performance on the back one acre.
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writing simple and straightforward articles with relevant accompanyingQ:

Where does the archetypal image of the 'Grey' alien come from?

As I show below, typical alien depictions include an elongated, pale face, two dark elliptical eyes, and a small mouth.  Who first used this design for an alien?  Where does this design come from?

A:

Arguably it all started with the Outer Limits episode "The Berrello Shield" from october 1964.
According to wikipedia, the grey aliens, also known as "Zeta Reticulans" rose to fame following the alleged abduction of Barney and Betty Hill in New Hampshire in 1961. The couple underwent hypnosis in 1964 to retrieve memories of the abduction and it was from these sessions that the following sketches were produced:

The topmost sketch is Barney's own, while the lower two were performed by David Baker based on Barney's


description. In 1990, abduction-debunker Martin Kottmeyer remarked on the resemblance between the alien described in the 1964 hypnosis session and the alien in the Outer Limits episode that had aired two weeks before the session:

The Barney and Betty Hill abduction received great publicity and is acknowledged as the start of the grey alien trope, but it was probably this character from a TV show that was the original inspiration.
We can see how artists, from the very first second-hand sketch, have made free associations from the descriptions, bringing in their own visual memories. The David Baker sketches for instance, lack the completely black eyes, thin body and oversized heads that later foetus-inspired artists would use. Note that not even the abductee himself drew eyes like that! The artistDavid Baker instead seems to lean toward the face of a burn-victim.

Lasse Gustavsson, former firefighter and present motivational speaker, is probably fine with illustrating "face of burn-victim". Note how the nose resembles just two slits, like in the modern grey alien.

A:

While @Abulafia's is wonderful, the Outer Limits was not the origin of the archetypal "grey alien".  The Outer Limits simply helped to proliferate a pre-existing image.
Grey aliens in The Unknown Danger (1933)
The first description of such extraterrestrials appeared three decades earlier in Swedish author Gustav Sandgren's novel Den okända faran: En framtidssyn (The Unknown Danger: A Vision of the Future).  It was written under Sandgren's pen name "Gabriel Linde".
In Sandgren's novel, we find the following familiar description of a race of extraterrestrials:

"...the creatures did not


Million", in which he projected that humanity would evolve into a race of short, grey-skinned beings with enlarged heads and eyes.

Wells reinforced this with the Morlocks in The Time Machine (1895), through which this image became synonymous with "highly evolved".  However, since it was Sandgren who made the leap of applying this to extraterrestrials, I contend that the credit for introducing the "grey alien" should lie with Sandgren.

The experience of laughing at oneself in older couples.
An exploratory study was undertaken to investigate the experience of laughing at oneself as described by older couples. The descriptions generated were viewed through the perspective of Rogers' science of unitary human beings. Laughing at oneself, described in the literature as a liberating, transcendent experience, was proposed as a form of knowing participation in the process of health patterning. Using guide questions developed from the study's objectives, the researcher interviewed twenty English-speaking couples, ages 52-82 who were living in their own homes. Transcribed interviews were searched for themes following the analysis-synthesis procedure outlined by Parse, Coyne, and Smith (1985). Themes were identified in the language of the participants then synthesized into the language of the researcher. The hypothesis that flowed


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Rangitikei's Labour nominee was the first of the party's candidates to be announced ahead of the 2014 general election.

Deborah Russell, a Massey University taxation lecturer, was named on Saturday after being selected unopposed when two other candidates for the seat pulled out.

She will challenge National MP Ian McKelvie, the former Manawatu mayor who joined Parliament in 2011.

Born in Taranaki, Dr Russell started her career as an accountant working for Deloitte and the Treasury. She gained a PhD in Philosophy at the Australian National University.

Having returned to New Zealand in 2011, she now lives with her husband and three children in Palmerston North and works as a senior lecturer.

She has also made a name for herself through social media and as a Left-wing commentator andof rural people directly, access to services for rural people, particularly healthcare, issues of unemployment in Taihape, and the current Government "abandoning the regions", were all on her agenda.

Dr Russell is undaunted by her opponent, Mr McKelvie. "He's certainly well known to the local community, but it's not clear what he's done in Parliament.


‘We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: it may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it,’ – Philip Condit, former president, chief executive and chairman of Boeing.

Over two-thirds of the world economy is concentrated in just ten countries, making them key to international markets and global growth. The rapid development in emerging markets is hastily changing the landscape so that nations like China and India are overtaking the developed nations, such as the US and those in Europe, who have established themselves as integral cogs in the world engine.

Having compiled data from the International Monetary Fund(IMF), the World Bank, the Index of Economic Freedom, the Observatory of Economic Complexity and national databases, we have a look at the top ten economies:

What are the top ten economies in the world?

According to the IMF, the top ten world economies according to gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices in 2017 were as follows:

1. The US economy

Although the US economy is dominated by the services sector, accounting for about 80% of GDP, the country is still one of the biggest manufacturers in the world and known for expertise in medical, aerospace and military equipment. It is also one of the leaders when it comes to research and development.

Economic growth in the US has been steady in recent years, comfortably outperforming the UK and eurozone. Real estate,


engine of the country, followed by the manufacturing of machinery and chemicals.

Although Chancellor Angela Merkel has remained the country’s long-standing figurehead, her position has been weakened since her party failed to secure a majority in the 2017 elections, leading to a coalition with the opposing Social Democrats.

5. The UK economy

The UK economy has proven more resilient than most expected following the EU Referendum vote in June 2016, but Brexit will continue to be the dominant feature of the country’s economy in both the short and medium term.

The UK economy is heavily centred on services, accounting for about 80% of its entire economic output. This includes sectors like hospitality, distribution, transport, communication, and business services and finance (the latter of which has accounted for the bulk of growth inNow entering its seventh season, the animated sci-fi series Voltron: Legendary Defender is a consistent hit for Netflix. It also inspired one of the most contentious fandoms currently in existence. While the show is mostly aimed at kids, its adult audience arguably replaced Teen Wolf as the go-to fandom for ship wars and controversy about queer representation. This all came to a head at San Diego Comic Con this weekend, when the showrunners finally revealed one of the lead characters is queer.

Aside from being exciting news for Voltron fandom, this is a huge deal for children’s TV in general. The character in question isn’t a member of the supporting cast, he’s the team leader, Shiro. He’s already had a complex story arc over the first six seasons, and


news broke at Comic-Con, unleashing a deluge of Shiro fanart online. Many fans had spent years hoping that the show would include queer representation, and this feels like a groundbreaking moment. It’s still very unusual for queer characters to take center stage in family entertainment, as evidenced by big franchises like Star Wars and Marvel, where we see some LGBTQ representation in spinoff books and adult-rated content (ie. Jessica Jones), but never in the lead roles aimed at kids. By contrast, straight characters and relationships are ubiquitous in children’s media.

This seems like the next step after Avatar: The Legend of Korra, which saw its lead character fall in love with a woman in the final season—but their relationship remained pretty ambiguous on-screen. With Voltron, Shiro will come outCal., on the brief for American Hospitals, amicus curiae.
Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, CLARK, Associate Justice, Retired,* and BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

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These appeals follow an action brought by St. Louis University challenging certain HEW-mandated procedures and seeking to recover alleged overcharges repaid to HEW by appellant pursuant to an administrative determination by appellees Blue Cross Hospital Service, Inc. of St. Louis and the Blue Cross Association.  The dispute arises from services rendered and payments made during appellant's fiscal year ending August 31, 1966, pursuant to the Medicare provisions of the Social Security Act of 1965.1  In response to cross motions for summary judgment, District Judge John F. Nangle, on February 18, 1975, dismissed counts I and III of the University's complaint but granted relief on count


II.  The University appealed the dismissal of counts I and III and defendants cross-appealed the judgment on count II.2

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I. Background.

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In order to place this case in the proper perspective, the internal organization of St. Louis University must be examined.  St. Louis University, as part of its program in the school of medicine, owns and operates a general hospital known as Firmin Desloge Hospital and a psychiatric unit known as the Wohl Institute.  These two institutions are known as the St. Louis University Hospitals.  The hospitals serve as a teaching and training facility for the school of medicine and provide medical services to both Medicare and non-Medicare patients.

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Various types of medical care are provided by the hospital.  The category of care involved in thisan internal accounting procedure which segregated the provider and professional services components on the hospitals' books but not on the patient's bill.  Despite this new accounting procedure and even though the professional services component was no greater than the admittedly reasonable charges made by physicians in other area hospitals, the University's claim for reimbursement was disallowed to the extent that the professional services component exceeded the actual cost of the service to the hospital based on a pro rata allocation of the salary of the physicians in question.  The University was required to refund to HEW all amounts received under part B which exceeded the salary amount.

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Not all physicians on the teaching staff of the University hospitals bill patients through the hospitals.  Teacher-physicians in certain


specialties traditionally have made charges directly to the patient for their services.  For example, surgeons bill the patient directly for an operation, notwithstanding that the surgeon is also a salaried member of the University's teaching staff.  The surgeon's bill is paid directly to him by the Medicare carrier, and the surgeon turns the payment directly over to the University.  In turn, the University pays the surgeon a salary.  Where billing is done in this manner, Medicare pays the surgeon's entire bill, provided it is reasonable, even though it exceeds his salary.

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In some other hospitals radiologists and related specialists customarily bill the patient directly.  In those cases, Medicare pays the full reasonable charge even though it exceeds the radiologist's salary.  This also istrue even if the hospital does the actual billing so long as a separate charge for the physician's service (including radiological and similar services) is set out on the patient's bill and provided that this practice was followed prior to the enactment of Medicare.  However, if a hospital did not identify a separate professional services component on the patient's bill prior to Medicare, it cannot obtain full reimbursement by now adopting such a procedure.3

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Some explanation must be made of the system by which disputes with regard to Medicare payments are resolved.  The Blue Cross Association (BCA) was nominated by the University Hospitals to serve as their fiscal intermediary with HEW.  BCA delegated its duties as intermediary to the Blue Cross Hospital Service, Inc.  (the


Plan), which is a local Blue Cross group in St. Louis.  Part B of the Medicare Act is administered through an insurance carrier under the part B supplemental program.  That insurance carrier in this case is General American Life Insurance Company.  BCA entered an agreement with the Secretary establishing a five-member Provider Appeal Committee (the Committee).  The Committee was to hear appeals by providers who were dissatisfied with the reimbursement allowed by BCA.  The agreement required that three of the Committee members be BCA employees one a BCA vice-president.  The other two were appointed by the BCA president from nominees of various national associations of providers.  Decisions of the Committee were by majority vote.  The agreement specified that decisions ofthe Committee would be absolutely final.4

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The University's claim for reimbursement under part B of an amount which its internal bookkeeping identified as the charge for professional services such as those of radiologists, was accepted and paid by the insurance carrier, General American, but later, after an audit, was disallowed by the Plan.  The Plan has the responsibility for auditing Medicare payments approved by the carrier.  The Plan determined that the University's right to reimbursement under part B for services provided by those specialists who bill through the hospital was limited to the pro rata salary paid to those physicians.

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The University appealed to the BCA Provider Appeals Committee.  The Committee unanimously affirmed the Plan's decision.

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When the University lost its appeal before the Committee, it brought this


Why is there a Putnam City school district in Oklahoma but no Putnam City?

KGOU listener Tim Spindle fielded this exact question a while back. He operates a hotline for Oklahoma libraries, where he and a team answer thousands of customer questions, from “What library book should I read next?” to “What is the Mayan word for squirrel?”

Spindle, who’s from the Putnam City area, reached out to How Curious for more information on its history.

A Man With A Plan

Israel Mercer Putnam moved to Oklahoma City in July 1901, after earning a law degree from the University of Georgia. Putnam opened a law firm, but he found greater success in real estate.

In 1902, he formed the Putnam Company and developed several projects, including the Putnam Heights and Military Park neighborhoods.The company bought 2,000 acres of land northwest of Oklahoma City in 1910, where Putnam planned to build his dream metropolis--Putnam City.

At the time, the state's first legislature was debating where to put Oklahoma's capitol building. Putnam, who served in the legislature as a Democrat, offered up his 2,000 acres.

A proposed layout shows Putnam City Loop, a large road curving around commercial and residential properties and into an open green space, “Putnam City Grove,” where Putnam hoped to build the capitol.

According to the Oklahoma History Center, the state House of Representatives accepted Putnam’s offer, but the Senate objected. Several Oklahoma City leaders felt the site was too far from downtown and the central business district.

Another real estate firm offered 40 acres at Northeast 23rd Street and North Lincoln


Boulevard--where Oklahoma’s state capitol sits today.

Independent School District No. 1

Following the failed state capitol deal, Putnam found another use for his property. In 1914, when leaders of four one-room schools decided to consolidate under a new Oklahoma law, Putnam gave them the land. The first classes were held the same year in what is now Putnam City Schools' Arnett Building. Five years later, in 1919, the district graduated its first three students.

“The first few years, the school buses were horse-drawn here,” said Mike Brake, who runs the Putnam City Schools Museum, a building crammed with yearbooks, sports uniforms and other memorabilia from the district’s history.

“People rode their horses to school and they had a hitching post out front. It was country out here--really country.”

Putnam remained in the landbusiness in Oklahoma before eventually moving to Texas, where he died in 1961.

Today, Putnam City Schools consists of 27 schools across Bethany, Oklahoma City and Warr Acres. Despite Putnam’s vision, there is still no Putnam City municipality.

How Curious is a production of KGOU Radio. It's produced by Claire Donnelly. This episode was edited by Jacob McCleland and Caroline Halter. David Graey composed the theme music. Email your questions about Oklahoma to curious@kgou.org. Subscribe to the How Curious podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcast app.

As a community-supported news organization, KGOU relies on contributions from readers and listeners to fulfill its mission of public service to Oklahoma and beyond. Donate online, or by contacting our Membership department.


a single round exploded. the marine corps has ordered an immediate halt worldwide until an investigation is finished. a new effort to health veterans is being launched today ten years after the iraq war began. details are being discussed right now. ktvu's sal castanedo joins us live from san francisco to show us how some marking this day. >> reporter: you could use the word "marking," tori. the sidewalks are filled with a memorial of sports on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of u.s. armed forces fighting in iraq. >> it's been ten years which is why we're out here on this date march 19th since we invaded iraq ten years ago. i was going into iraq with the 101st and since then, there have been hundredsof thousands of iraqi civilians including thousands of american soldiers. >> reporter: today aaron hands

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and other veterans are writing the names at the federal building here on golden gate avenue. organizers have timed this to coincide with a similar protest at the white house. many say they were opposed to u.s. participation in the war to begin with. others say they were misled. >> a lot of us feel that a lot of us were pretty much lied into -- into our involvement with this war and pretty much we're trying to highlight the effects of the war by chalking the dead. >> reporter: people started chalking after 9:00 and have filled up large areas of the sidewalk here. in just a few hours, the veterans had help


along with others who want to call attention to veterans on this 10th anniversary of the iraqi war. live in san francisco, sal castanedo, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, sal. it's a bay area memorial honoring troops killed in iraq and afghanistan. you may have seen this la fayette hillside covered in white crosses. mum, what the creator says about the fate of this memorial. sheriff's deputies are investigating what led up to a deadly police shooting near the east foothills of san jose.

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this happened in an unincorporated san jose neighborhood off south white road. janine de la vega joins us live now and janine, i understand you just heard from an upset family member of the man whop was shot. >> reporter: yeah, that's right.the upper and lower decks. the general manager says damage is more extensive, including damage to wiring and plumbing. it could take another three months for repairs. she opened to take reservations yesterday for an april 15th reopening but she says those plans are now on hold. the world welcomes the new leader of the catholic church as hundreds of thousands gather for the installation mass of pope francis. ♪ >> reporter: i'm lauren green in rome. and rosemary is here in minutes with more on the rain moving into the bay area. she'll tell you if it will amount to much. and the dramatic scene that brought down a bridge and a lot more.

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here we go! >> in the blink of an eye explosive charges raced across


a bridge in texas demolishing a bridge across a lake about 45 miles from the city of austin. a woman living 26 miles away said the blast made her house shake. there's word that detonation was so powerful, it knocked out phone service including 911

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plus tv and internet coverage in parts of three counties. witnesses tell the highway patrol a wrong-way driver caused an injury crash this morning. it happened on westbound highway 4 near willow road in concord. it happened around 6:30, the highway patrol says at least two people were hurt in the accident which involved a big rig truck. the lanes reopened about 7:15 but it took traffic a long time to recover. plans are underway for a special school assembly for the teenager killedat marysville raceway park. the assembly will happen next week when school resumes after spring break. marcus johnson was in the pit area watching his cousin race when the cousin's car slid off the track. the santa rosa 8th grader and another spector re hit and killed. the principal at rincon valley middle school plans to hold the assembly on the 29th. the teen's funeral is this sunday at santa rosa baptist church. the family has set up a

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memorial fund to help with funeral exex-- ex-- expenses. the worldster welcome, the new pope. as lauren green report, the new pontiff had a message -- reports, the nut pontiff had a message -- the new pontiff had a message -- >> reporter: in his homily to the crowd, he


pope francis greeted the faithful from the pope mobile for nearly half an hour. he signaled the jeep to stop as it approached a group of people in wheelchairs so he could step out and bless a man being propped up to the barricade. the spontaneous gesture becoming a hallmark, he made it clear, he wants his papacy to be phone cussedden 0 the poor around the dis-- focused 0 the poor around -- to be focused on the poor and the disadvanced.

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in the courtroom -- my brother in the courtroom and the man who did this is not the brother i knew. >> he took off a blue-collared t-shirt to reveal a t-shirt that revealed the word "killer" and he made obscene gestures to the victim's family.>> we were not expecting that. it's been our position all along. he knew what he was doing. what he did said is consistent with what we thought of him all along. >> the 18-year-old pled guilty last month to the killing of three students at the school in cleveland. he was 17 and he's ineligible for the death penalty. in iraq, 200 people were wounded, some died, because of

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attacks targeting restaurants and gathering places in a shiite neighborhood. one explosion outside of the gates in the so-called green zone killed six people in a restaurant. so far, no one has claimed responsibility for the bombings. the prime suspect is the group called al qaeda in iraq. ten years after the u.s. launched its invasion of iraq, a


huge montgomery still canadian. the -- still -- a huge memorial still stands. memorial creator, jeff heaton, ran out of room and now keeps a tally of those killed on the board here, 6,702 total casualties. he wants to keep the crosses on the hillside as long as troops remain in harm's way in the middle east. >> we seem to be in a situation where there's a perpetual war going on in the middle east. there's this feeling of -- there's not really an end date. and so we keep the process up here to remind people of that.

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>> reporter: a friend who owns the property let heaton construction the memorial. it's thought to be the largest of its kind in the u.s. a relatively mild dayi again, the rain -- again, the rain movingin tonight. it will be light rain on and off for most of wednesday. drying out for thursday and temperatures do a nice rebound in time for the weekend. upper 60s near 70 for the afternoon. and tomorrow the first day of spring. it arrives at 4:02. spring showers in the forecast. >> thank you. the santa clara city council set to vote on several

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resolutions aimed at evacuate the super bowl play at the number 49 -- having the super bowl play at the new 49ers' stadium. they don't want employees to be charged a hotel tax. the decision will be made between san francisco and miami for the super bowl l. a bay area college basketball team is about


last year’s 1,205. Usually drop-outs, irregulars and over-aged students are enrolled under this board. Under the Dhaka board, the Rajuk Uttara Model College secured the first position for the third consecutive year among the list of top 20 institutions. The Shamsul Hoque Khan School, Demra, was second, while the Motijheel Ideal School and College and the Viqarunnisa Noon School ranked third and fourth, respectively.[Health-related quality of life in asthma patients from general practice].
This study investigates health-related quality of life in asthma patients from general practices in comparison with a general population sample. It further examines the association between health-related quality of life, socio-demographic characteristics and smoking behaviour. 838 asthma patients with a mean age of 47.8 +/- 16.3 years AND 66 % female participants from 83 general practices in the region of Göttingen and Freiburg/Germany completed the St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ), an instrument to assess health-related quality of life, and they completed questions on socio-demographic variables and smoking behaviour. SGRQ values were compared with estimates for the general population generated in Spain. The association between SGRQ and socio-demographic characteristics and smoking behaviour was analysed by multivariate linear regression models. The


second highest across England and Wales - only Blackpool was higher.

Neighbouring Neath Port Talbot had the third highest.

In Scotland, drug-related deaths have reached record levels. Figures released last month showed its death toll had increased by 27% over the past year to a high of 1,187. It meant Scotland has the highest drug death rate in the EU.

Deaths related to drug misuse in England and Wales in 2016-2018

Earlier this month, a woman from Swansea spoke in detail about her crack cocaine and heroin use, saying the £210-a-day habit had taken over her life .

Just last week, a grieving mother talked to us about her son , who died after a heroin overdose in a locked Marks and Spencer toilet.

And last year heroin users in Neath Port Talbot -a county which also has one of the UK's 10 worst heroin death rates - told us how they struggled with their addictions.

(Image: Jonathan Myers)

These latest figures show drug-related deaths in Wales are at their highest since records began in 1993 .

In 2018, there were 327 drug poisoning deaths, of which 208 were related to drug misuse. In comparison, in 1993, when records began, there were 94 drug poisoning deaths, of which 33 related to drug misuse.

Drug poisoning deaths involve a broad spectrum of substances, including controlled and non-controlled drugs, and, as well as deaths from drug abuse and dependence the figures include accidents and suicides involving drug poisonings.

A drug misuse death is one where either the underlying cause is drug abuse or drug dependence.

The reasons for Swansea


and Neath Port Talbot's unwanted label as hotspots for drug misuse deaths are complex and varied, ranging from the decline of industry and employment to the services available for drug users.

Looking at today's figures, Professor Alex Stevens, from the school of social policy, sociology and social research at the University of Kent, said the numbers keep rising because the same factors and policies are in place - an increase in the the supply of drugs, an ageing population, austerity and poverty.

The professor said drug-related deaths are higher in working-class, de-industrialised areas which now have high unemployment rates.

"This latest jump shows how wrong the path we are following is," he said. "We have a criminal justice led approach which is based on the idea that you can threaten peopleTwo new species of Mexican Rhinotragini and transference of Odontocera josemartii Zayas, 1956 to Stenopseustes (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Two new species of Rhinotragini are described from Mexico: Odontocera argenteolineata; and Stenopseustes transversus. Odontocera josemartii Zayas, 1956 is transferred to Stenopseustes Bates, 1873.


(CNN) He's one third of the world's most deadly strike force -- but it's not all about flicks, tricks and goals for Neymar and his partners in crime.

Playing alongside Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi, Neymar has terrorized defenses across Europe.

At the age of 24, the Brazilian is the junior partner in a strike trio which scored 131 goals between them last season -- nine better than the 122 the previous term.

But if you want the real secret to the trio's success, you have to dig a little deeper.

'Making history'

"I think it's about the care, respect, friendship and happiness that we have for being together," Neymar told CNN in an exclusive interview.

"Training together every day, helping one another on the pitch -- we're making history and I hope itcan continue for many more years.

"We have a great friendship. The only difference is three footballers, three star footballers in their respective countries, are here together at Barcelona.

"It's difficult for this to happen ... three South Americans. It's something that we've changed."

Since moving to Barcelona from Brazilian club Santos in 2013, Neymar has won two league titles, two domestic cups, the Spanish Super Cup, the Champions League and the World Club Championship.

Playing alongside Uruguay's Suarez, who finished top scorer in La Liga last season, and Argentine Messi, a five-time world player of the year and the club's record goalscorer, he has established himself as one of the outstanding players on the planet.

While there have been testing times, such as injury, and the recent announcement by Spain's public prosecutor


He's a person who I admire a lot. He told me this and he helped me a lot at that moment in time."

Neymar and Messi embrace after Brazil's 3-0 win over Argentina in Belo Horizone.

While the front three have flourished since Suarez's reported $128.5 million arrival from Liverpool in 2014, they have not had it all their own way.

Last season, Barcelona lost out on retaining the Champions League, losing to Atletico Madrid in the quarterfinals, as arch rival Real Madrid won the competition.

Ronaldo (right), Benzema (center) and Bale are the other top trio in Spain.

In Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo -- collectively known as "BBC" -- Real has its own fearsome front line.

And Neymar is wary of writing off the competition -- despite the great rivalrybetween the two clubs.

Photos: Which club will be crowned European champion? Real Madrid – Gareth Bale's Real Madrid is hoping to make history by becoming the first club to successfully defend the Champions League title. No team has managed the feat since Europe's top tournament was revamped in 1992. Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: Which club will be crowned European champion? Barcelona – Last season, Lionel Messi and co.'s title defense ended at the semifinal stage. The Spanish champion will be one of the favorites again this time. Luis Suarez, Neymar and Ivan Rakitic were all outstanding last season -- and don't forget a certain Andres Iniesta. Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: Which club will be crowned European champion? Bayern Munich – Always in the mix,


the German champion will hope to improve on last season's semifinal performance. New manager Carlo Ancelotti, who has won the competition three times as a coach, has added to his squad with the acquisition of teen midfield star Renato Sanches -- who helped Portugal win the Euro 2016 title. Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos: Which club will be crowned European champion? Atletico Madrid – The Spanish club suffered heartbreak in May's final -- losing out to rival Real on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Milan. It was the second time in three years that Diego Simeone's side had gone close to winning the competition. He'll be hoping France star Antoine Griezmann returns from Euro 2016 all fired up. Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: Which clubwill be crowned European champion? Juventus – It might have lost Paul Pogba to Manchester United, but Italy's "Old Lady" is still a team to be feared. The perennial Serie A champion splashed out $99 million on Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain in the off-season, while its impressive defensive core remains. It will be a tough nut to crack under coach Massimiliano Allegri. Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: Which club will be crowned European champion? Paris Saint-Germain – The French champion reached the quarterfinal stage last season before being beaten by Manchester City. Its iconic striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has left to join Manchester United, but new coach Unai Emery has brought in Real Madrid's Jese and Poland midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak from his former club Sevilla. Hide Caption 6


of 8 Photos: Which club will be crowned European champion? Borussia Dortmund – Back in the competition after spending last year in the Europa League, Dortmund will be one of the teams to fear. Its style of fast, free-flowing football has been one of the most exciting on the continent over the past year and, led by the likes of Marco Reus and top scorer Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, it could reach the knockout stages. Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: Which club will be crowned European champion? Manchester City – The English team reached the last four for the first time in its history before somewhat meekly losing to Real Madrid. New coach's Pep Guardiola first task was to bring the club through the qualifying stages. The former BayernBen Padgett, 32, was taken into custody in Naples, Florida, at around 3.30pm

A drunk, shirtless man has been arrested outside a Florida Olive Garden while shoving pasta into his mouth after harassing customers inside.

Ben Padgett, 32, was taken into custody in Naples, Florida, at around 3.30pm Saturday.

Before arresting him, officers gave him paper towel to wipe his mouth.

Padgett allegedly walked into the Olive Garden, shouted at staff and customers and ranted, according to The Miami Herald.

He also allegedly screamed profanities at patrons as they entered the restaurant while he was sitting outside.

It is unclear how he obtained the pasta he was eating when police arrived.

Witnesses said he had been shouting at patrons asking them for money beforehand.

One staff member said he taunted him by asking him whether he


had male or female genitalia.

Padgett was booked into county jail for drunken disorderly conduct.

In his mugshot, he has scratched and cuts to his face but it is unclear how he sustained them.

It was not his first arrest. The 32-year-old has a lengthy rap sheet for minor crimes including public intoxication and marijuana possession,

He has also faced more serious charges including assaulting a pregnant woman.4.7 lakh (43.63 per cent) votes.

The second richest candidate in 2019 elections was Konda Vishweshwar Reddy (Congress) with Rs 895 crore assets. He gave a tough fight in the Chevella constituency, Telangana, but lost to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate G Ranjith Reddy by 14,317 votes.

The third richest in this Lok Sabha race was Nakul Nath, son of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, with assets worth Rs 660 crore. A Congress candidate from the Chhindwara constituency of Madhya Pradesh, he won the seat by over 35,000 votes.

The fourth richest, also from the Congress, was Vasanthakumar H with over Rs 417 crore assets. He won the Kanyakumari seat in Tamil Nadu with about three lakh votes.

Fifth richest candidate, Jyotiraditya Scindia of the Congress, declared assets worth over Rs


visiting the northern part of North Kivu (Beni-Butembo axis) for seven years. We began with a simple idea: start plant health clinics in market places using local extensionists to diagnose and advise on problems. The clinics are still running every week in Butembo, held by the university, with new sets of students attending to farmers' needs. The students' technical knowledge is weak and relatively few farmers use the clinics compared to the many who need wide and varied support - including seeds and tools. But the clinics are still running six years later, they've had little outside support, thus suggesting the stirrings of sustainability, and overall we've demonstrated that the solution to problems lies in local efforts.
The plant health clinics began when I was Director of the Globala seventh and eighth.

The fight in Arkansas centers on medication abortions, which currently account for nearly a third of all abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Medication abortions enable women up to 10 weeks pregnant to take two pills, the first supervised by a doctor and the second at home, to terminate a pregnancy without surgery. It was approved for use in 2000.

When the medication abortion law went into effect in Arkansas, it left only one clinic for a state of three million. That meant women from northwest Arkansas, where Dr. Ho practices, had to either go out of state or make a 380-mile round trip to Little Rock for a surgical abortion.

Now the number of clinics is back up to three. But many other barriers remain: a


Image caption Fast-food workers protested for higher wages across the country last month

The number of Americans in poverty rose slightly last year to 46.5 million, according to US Census data, despite a stock market recovery.

The figure edged up from 46.2 million in 2011, meaning the national poverty rate remains unchanged at 15%.

It is the sixth year in a row that the rate failed to improve, despite the US being out of recession since 2009.

The poverty threshold last year was income below $23,492 (£14,700) for a family of four.

Some analysts blame the lingering poverty on changing employment patterns and tightening of the social safety net.

Many jobs added since the recession have been in the lower-paying services industry, including retail and restaurants.

Americans in poverty Rate among blacks highest at 27.2%;disrepair. Yellowstone’s backlog alone is $603 million, facing crumbling roads, buildings and wastewater systems. Congress has declined to provide funding needed for fixes that have lingered for more than a decade.

Another looming challenge lies in who comes to the parks. The average age of its visitors is as high as 63 years old at some sites, and the Park Service is unsure how to entice younger people away from cities and the Internet.

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Assateague Island National Seashore. A decrease in snow and rain has stunted the growth of vegetation in several parks, including Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and Mojave National Preserve in California, leaving bighorn sheep with little to eat.

It is projected to be a banner year for the Park Service, with attendance topping 330 million for the first time — a 23 million increase over last year. The top national park draws are Great Smoky Mountain National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, with 10.7 million visitors in 2015; Grand Canyon, with 5.5 million visitors; and Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and Yosemite National Park in California, both with about 4.15 million visitors.

The most stalwart park visitors are disappearing, though, because of aging and death. The questionIn recent years, electric vehicles in which an electrical storage apparatus and a rive apparatus as a motor are installed, and, in which the motor is driven using charge power of the electrical storage apparatus, have attracted attention as environment-friendly vehicles. With a vehicle of this kind, power has been supplied by an external charging apparatus. That is to say, power has been supplied in the vehicle from a charging apparatus outside the vehicle body via a power line, and the supplied power has been stored in the electrical storage apparatus (see Related Art 1, for example). Also, with a conventional vehicle, power has been supplied from the electrical storage apparatus to various in-vehicle devices.


This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. Background: Many microorganisms produce low-molecular-weight, iron(III) specific binding compounds called siderophores to compete for iron. Microbes are thought to produce unique siderophore structures to successfully compete for iron against other organisms in their environment. The siderophores isolated from terrestrial bacteria and fungi and from marine bacteria show promise as biomedical agents and for control ofQueen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrived in Estonia, where they visited the official residence of the President (Kadriorg palace), our new art gallery (KUMU), and then attended an official dinner at Mustpeade Maja. This very moment the royal family should be meeting and greeting people at Raekoja plats, before returning to the UK later this afternoon. I even got a glimpse of the royal family yesterday, as the royal cortege passed me when I was walking to my office (to be really honest, I only saw Prince Philip, as HRH must have been sitting on the other side of the car:)

I thought I'd share the menu with you. The rumour has it that the meal was prepared by Tõnis Siigur, Chef of Stenhus - a truly enchanted


restaurant that I had a pleasure to visit in July.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Indeed. All of the sudden, my seven years in Edinburgh have come to an end. When I first arrived in Scotland to do my Master's degree back in 1998, I came for a year. When I returned for my PhD in 2000, I came for three. But some things take time, sometimes you do things you didn't intend to, and one thing leads to another. My PhD led to a post-doc and then to another. In January I began another three-year research post here in Scotland, so I would have had to be here until the end of 2008. Yet, once more, things took an unexpected turn. Out of the blue (well, almost) I got homesick,London for 16 years, where he worked 9 years with Sir Terence Conran at his Quaglino's Restaurant in St James. But as his wife was Scottish, it was inevitable that they'd move back to her homeland at one point.

Few months after befriending the chef over my breakfast coffee, I decided to pay his new eaterie a visit. I liked the food, and alongside with my other local restaurant, the Jamaican Coyaba, it quickly became my regular haunt. It was there that I took my parents, sister and nephew to celebrate my graduation last summer. I've had numerous meals there since, most recently last Saturday with my friends Michael & Emma. Hanedan has a lovely and inviting atmosphere, being obviously popular both with local Southsiders, as well as others,


of Brossard resident Kathleen Livingstone, 78, was hard news to hear, said Sharon Share, whose father died in the fire.

Livingstone lost her daughter, Linda, on Sept. 1, 1972, when arsonists burned down the Blue Bird Club, killing 37 people.

Police found Kathleen Livingstone's body in her home on June 25 and three days later a registered nurse, Ellen Dennett, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death.

The homicide seems to have made the group of survivors, friends and family members, who refer to the club as a café, even more determined to get a monument erected. In February, the group started a petition asking the city to erect a monument in memory of the victims by 2012 and it had gained 97 signatures as of Thursday.

Share createda Facebook group where much of the planning takes place. She said her father, Jerry, died in the fire three months before she was born.

"These people have been forgotten," she said of the victims.

Kevin Erskine-Henry, who knew Livingstone, said the project gave her a sense of purpose after many years of mourning. "She basically withdrew after the fire, from the world around her."

A 1973 Gazette story said Livingstone rarely left the house after the tragedy and spent most of her time crying about losing Linda.

"When you go out, you look for her so I can't seem to get up the initiative to go out. It's never out of our thoughts," she is quoted saying.

Her son, Robert, was 14 at the time.

A user under the name Robert Livingstone in


the Facebook group "Remembering the Café Fire of 1972 in Montreal, QC, Canada," posted that Linda Livingstone was his sister.

"I remember so well saying to my sister, 'See you later, have fun.' Not knowing the next time I would stand at her side I would actually be standing beside her coffin," he wrote.

Darrel Perrin, 65, survived the fire and he describes the scene with vivid detail. He, his brother and a friend went to the Wagon Wheel, above the Blue Bird Club, and took a seat by the stairs, he said. Just before the fire started Perrin's brother and his friend left to go to the bathroom.

"I could see the flames coming up the stairs, across the ceiling and the smoke and I said 'Well, it's time toleave,' and I took off like a bullet for the back door."

But the door was bolted shut.

"We started to kick that door but people started to jump on our heads from upstairs and push down the stairs and we couldn't even do anything because we were being crushed," he said.

Eventually the crowd kicked the door down and Perrin started pulling as many other people out of the club as possible, he said.

People jumped out of the upstairs bathroom onto parked cars and just as he looked up, a woman was about to jump right onto another woman's head, he remembered.

"I just grabbed her by her arm and threw her onto the street."

Perrin says he is "a lucky one" for surviving the fire - his brother and friend survived


too. He said it was part of what led him to become a firefighter in Roxboro, eventually becoming director of the fire department.

Marlie Wirtanen, whose sister in-law Kathryn died in the fire, said she thinks a vigil, planned for Sept. 1, 2011 at the parking lot where the club once stood on Union Ave., will bring closure to many who are still suffering.

Wirtanen's voice broke as she talked about her sister inlaw, who she said was also her best friend.

"She was the one who got me to marry her brother and we used to tease him and say, I only married you because Kath and I wanted to be sisters," she said.

She said Kathleen Livingstone will be on her mind Sept. 1.

"She was so excited about this vigilin September. She wanted to be there so badly."

She said Livingstone, like many others, found a community on Facebook that shared her grief.

"We've all been able to bare our feelings and find people that still felt the anger and the terror of what happened," she said.

"What a way to die."

Wirtanen said the group felt their loved ones were never recognized.

"There was never anything done for these 37 souls, nothing."

But so far, the city has not granted their request for a monument. Wirtanen said several people have emailed Jean-Robert Choquet, the director of cultural development and heritage at Montreal city hall, but no one has received a response.

"It's never ever been acknowledged by the city," Wirtanen said. "Even now, this minister should at least reply to one of us.


leaving to go downtown around 11pm,when we heard on the news that there was a fire at the Wagon Wheel...that's where we were going to head to. The news on the radio hadn't said anything about victims.just that there was a big fire..in retrospect this was only about a half hour after the start of the fire. The wagon wheel was popular because of all the gals that were there to dance etc etc ....I cannot imagine the sheer terror that those poor kids were thinking as the place was engulfed & they had limited or no escape..... very sad.for a bunch of young people,who were only out to have fun.click to enlarge File: TERRI HALLENBECK

Christine talking to WDEV radio host David Goodman

Last November, Danica Roem of Virginia became the first openly transgender person in the nation to win a state legislative seat. This November, Vermonters may get the chance to elect the first openly transgender governor in American history.

Christine Hallquist, CEO of the Vermont Electric Coop, will only say she is "seriously considering" a run for governor as a Democrat — but she talks as though her mind is already made up.

The 61-year-old Hyde Park resident is nationally known in electric cooperative circles and is a respected expert on energy matters in the Vermont Statehouse. But she'd never been a go-to person on politics ... until President Donald Trump took office.

"There are strong headwinds from Washington that


threaten [Vermont's] way of life and finances," she said. "I'm a strong leader. I can handle headwinds. I wouldn't be running otherwise."

And now she is on the cusp of challenging the popular incumbent Republican Phil Scott. That is, if she can win a primary against 13-year-old Ethan Sonneborn and environmental advocate James Ehlers — which, at first glance, seems like a pretty good bet. Party leaders welcomed Ehlers' candidacy but have also continued to beat the bushes for candidates with a better shot at winning.

"We're extremely excited about Christine's potential candidacy," said Conor Casey, executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party. "It's a matchup the governor should be nervous about." Casey cites Hallquist's business success, her deep ties to the state and her personal qualities: "She's charismatic, intelligentand she has heart."

Hallquist was known as "David" until late 2015, when she began living openly as Christine. Since then, she has confronted the implications of living as a woman.

"I had no idea of the gender hierarchy in our society," she said, reflecting on her nearly six decades of living as David. "As a man, nobody ever told me to smile. Within a few days of my transition, a stranger on the street told me to smile. It happens a lot. Something about that really bothers me."

Hallquist had been approached about running for governor by "a number of people over the last year or so," she said. But it was a recent experience that brought her to the brink of candidacy — the January 20 Women's March in


It was in financial distress when she arrived.

"They were in bankruptcy," she recalled. "The state was ready to pull its certificate of public good. It had fallen to junk bond rating." Hallquist stabilized its finances and built a renewable energy portfolio; by 2016, only 3 percent of VEC's power came from fossil fuels.

Politically, Hallquist is a little tough to pin down. She's in favor of single-payer health care and full legalization of cannabis and believes in a robust social safety net. But when asked if she identifies with a particular party, she cited the Republican former governor and senator George Aiken as "my favorite Democrat. He's the kind of person I want to emulate."

She's a fiscal disciplinarian with an emphasis on efficiency. "I was one of the firstAmerican experts in lean manufacturing," she says of the waste-minimizing, production-maximizing approach pioneered by Toyota — and touted by Scott as a way to reinvent state government. "Lean has been part of my whole life."

That hint of ideological polymorphism doesn't bother Casey. "I hear her talk about economic justice," he said. "It will resonate with all members of the party. She's not wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, but she's definitely a Democrat."

Even if some progressive Vermonters are skeptical of an efficiency-minded corporate type, it would be awfully tough for them to actively oppose the first transgender gubernatorial candidate for a major American party. Moderates, who might otherwise be skeptical of a transgender candidate, would be heartened by her business credentials.

"She will help us up and down the ticket,"


place," he said. "How Christine identifies won't have much bearing."

Before Hallquist makes an official commitment to running, she'll hold a family meeting this weekend. And she'll seek the VEC board of directors' permission to take a leave of absence; they next meet on February 27.

But make no mistake: Hallquist is on the launchpad. And living through a very public transition has prepared her for the inevitable uproar over her candidacy.

"I'm ready for the circus to come to town," she said. "That's how we make change."

Dollars for Scholars

Last year's legislative session closed with a protracted sputter as the administration and the legislature wrangled over public school financing. But since then, lawmakers have been quietly working toward a reform plan that could attract support across party lines.

And by gum, they'reto take an active role. "I told the governor, 'We're serious about this. We need your feedback before the committee votes.'"

The administration seems to be tapping the brakes.

"Discussion of a new funding formula must be coupled with cost-containment strategies," wrote Scott spokesperson Rebecca Kelley in an email. "It is premature to offer reaction to any one idea until it has been fully vetted."

So they're waiting to see what happens. Maybe that will work — or maybe it'll set the stage for another unproductive standoff.

Vets Against Trump

Dr. Dan Barkhuff is an impressive guy. He's young, articulate and athletic, and his eyes practically drill holes through you. Barkhuff is a former Navy SEAL who's now an emergency room doctor at the University of Vermont Medical Center. He and his wife,


Whitney, have three children ages 5 and younger. And in his spare time, he's trying to launch a movement to counter the Trump presidency

Barkhuff is president of Veterans for Responsible Leadership, a new organization that wants nothing to do with Trump.

"It's less about policy issues," he explained. "We feel he embodies none of the traits of leadership that, when we were 19 years old in boot camp, we were taught. Honesty, integrity — he doesn't have any of that."

It all started shortly after Trump's election. "There was a nucleus of guys who I knew from the Naval Academy or SEAL teams who expressed frustration and decided to form a Facebook group," he said. They realized the concept was resonating and formed a political action committee with a boardI also have a lot of free time to think about eating haha.

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The intrinsic motion of the parton in the nucleon is a fundamental ingredient in a complete description of the nucleon structure, which has to consider not only its projection along the nucleon momentum but also its transverse component in both momentum and coordinate space. The momentum distributions of the partons in the transverse plane is described by the Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Parton Distribution Functions (TMD-PDFs). Analogously, Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Fragmentation Functions (TMD-FFs) are necessary for a complete treatment of the hadron production. In this respects, the Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) is a powerful toolLate power-play goal lifts Blues over Jets

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now a woeful 3-10-2 against Central Division foes.

The one that got away

The Blues opened the scoring in the second period on a bit of a fluky goal by forward Alex Steen, who notched his 21st of the season in memorable fashion by firing from behind the goal-line and banking the puck in off the back of Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec at 4:44.

The goal came on just the fourth shot of the game by the Blues and could have been deflating for a Winnipeg team that had put together a strong defensive effort to that point.

But the Jets kept grinding and were rewarded three minutes into the third period when Bryan Little beat Blues netminder Brian Elliott from the slot for the equalizer on what was Winnipeg’s first power-playgoal in eight games.

But it was St. Louis who got the best bounce of the night when — with under four minutes to play and Dustin Byfuglien off for hooking — Shattenkirk fired a knuckle-puck from the point that went off Little in front and beat Pavelec for the game-winner.

"I was trying to get in the way but it hit my stick and might have hit something else," explained Little. "It was disappointing, just because we worked to get back into the game and tied it up and they get one that bounces off a couple of things and goes in right at the end of the game. To lose that way is definitely frustrating."

Jets defenceman Jacob Trouba said there was no questioning the fact his team went


tact she addressed herself to the faults of others, she
remained in melancholy blindness to her own; and that the
transient strength which the morning restored to her mind, could
not reach her more than childish improvidence in regard to her
most important concerns? But her powers were soon exhausted;
before the letter was finished, her thoughts wandered, and she
lay for some hours as if in a sort of waking dream.

How little do they know of a death-bed who have seen it only
in the graceful pictures of fiction! How little do they guess the
ghastly horrors of sudden dissolution, the humiliating weakness
of slow decay! Paint them even from the life, and much remains
to tell which no spectator can record, much which no language
can unfold. "Oh, who that could see thee thus," thought I, asI
looked upon the languid, inexpressive countenance of the once
playful Juliet,--"who that could see thee thus, would defer to an
hour like this, the hard task of learning to die with decency?"

I was sitting by the bed-side of my companions, supporting
with one hand her poor deserted baby, and making with the other
an awkward attempt to sketch designs for the ornaments which I
had undertaken to paint, when the door was gently opened; and
the lady for whom I was employed entered, followed by another,
whose appearance instantly fixed my attention. Her stature was
majestic; her figure of exquisite proportion. Her complexion,
though brunette, was admirably transparent; and her colour,
though perhaps too florid for a sentimental eye, glowed with the
finest tints of health. Her black eye-brows, straight but flexible,
approached close to a pair of eyes so


lover; yet in her mien, in her gait, in every
motion, in every word, Miss Graham showed the unsubdued
majesty of one who had never felt the presence of a superior; of
one much accustomed to grant, but not to solicit indulgence.

Such were the impressions which I had received, almost as soon
as Miss Graham's companion, with a polite apology for their
intrusion, had introduced her to me by name. I was able to make
the necessary compliment without any breach of sincerity; for
feebler attractions would have interested me in the person with
whom Cecil had already made me so well acquainted. But when
Miss Graham spoke, her voice alone must have won any hearer.

"If Miss Percy excuses us," said she in tones, which, in spite of
the lively imperative accents of her country, were sweetness itself,
"mymy
efforts ended at last in retouching the pictures which I had
accustomed myself to embody of this same Henry Graham.
I imagined him with more than his sister's dignity of form and
gesture,--with all her regularity of feature, and somewhat of her
national squareness of contour,--with all the vivacity and intelligence
of her countenance, strengthened into masculine spirit and
sagacity,--with the eye which Cecil had described as able to quell
even the sallies of frenzy,--with the smile which his sister could
send direct to the heart. At Charlotte's next visit I obliged her
to describe her brother, and I had guessed so well that she only
improved my picture by adding some minuter strokes to the likeness.

At the same time she removed all my scruples in regard to appropriating
the sum which he had obtained for me, by assuring
me,


that he had undertaken the recovery of the debt only upon
this express condition, that half the amount should belong to me;
and that to this condition the creditors had readily consented.

The possession of this little fortune soon became a real blessing;
for Juliet's increasing helplessness loaded my time with a
burden which almost precluded other labour. She was emaciated
to a degree which made stillness and motion alike painful to her;
a restless desire of change seemed the only human feeling which
the hand of death had not already palsied; and a childish sense
of her dependence upon me was the sole wreck of human affection
which her decay had spared. Even the fear of death subsided
into the listless acquiescence of necessity. Yet no nobler solicitudes
seemed to replace the waning interests of this life. Feeble
as itI felt the
intermitting pulse,--I watched the failing breath; yet so gradually
and so complete was her decay, that I knew not the moment of her
departure. All suffering she was spared; for suffering would to
human apprehension, have been useless to her. I did not commit
her remains to the cares of a stranger. The hand of a friend
composed her for her last repose; the tears of a friend dropped
upon her clay; but they were not the tears of sorrow. Poor Juliet!
Less ingenuity than that which led thee through a degraded life to
an unlamented grave would have procured for thee the best which
this world has to give, an unmolested passage to a better.

Two days after her death, I received from her brother a promise
of protection to the heir of Lord Glendower, and


permission, in
case of that event, to send the boy to his uncle, together with the
pledges of legitimacy, which constituted his sole hold upon the
justice or compassion of Mr. Arnold. Fortunately for the poor
infant, the question upon which depended the tender cares of his
uncle was decided in his favour. Juliet's marriage was sanctioned;
and though her death left Lord Glendower at liberty to repair, in
some sort, the injury which he had done to Lady Maria, the rights
of his first-born son could not be transferred to the children of his
more regular marriage.

When my cares were no longer necessary to my ill-fated companion,
I yielded to the kind persuasions of Miss Graham; and
suffered her to introduce me to whatever was most worthy of
observation in a city which I had as yet so imperfectlywonder what
strange fatality had forbidden Maitland to return the affection of a
woman so formed to satisfy his fastidious judgment. But I was
forced to wonder in silence. Charlotte, open as day on every
other theme, was here as impenetrable, as unapproachable, as
virgin dignity could make her. Notwithstanding the recency of
our friendship, it was already strong enough to render every other
interest mutual; and Charlotte easily drew from me the little story
of my life and sentiments, while I listened with insatiable curiosity
to the accounts she gave me of her home, of her family, and, above
all, of her brother Henry.

This was a theme in which she seemed very willing to indulge
me. She spoke of him frequently; and the passages which she
read to me from his letters often made me remember with a sigh
that