risk and look at something different, and now we may have taken the first steps toward finding new strategies to cure type 1 diabetes," he says. "We also may one day find that DE cells are involved in the pathology of other autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis."

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Besides the contributors from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and IBM, the research team includes members from the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Columbia University, Des Moines University and Massachusetts General Hospital.

This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R0 AI099027) and the Norman Raab Foundation.he made a whip and drove out money changers in the temple (John 2:15), and he endured the cross.

Jesus was tough.

But Jesus loved being with little children, he healed the sick wherever he went, he talked about flowers, seeds, and love, and he was affectionate (Phil 1:8). Jesus was tender.

The following are ways that men can be tough and tender:

Tough

A man is tough in the way he handles lots of responsibility.
A man is tough – he doesn’t make excuses.
A man is tough – he works hard and does what he needs to do to provide for his family (1 Tim 5:8)
A man is tough towards anyone attempting to hurt or harm women, children, and the weak.
A man is tough towards the devil and his demons, setting people free


from demonic lying, stealing, killing, and destroying.
A man is tough in the way he perseveres through obstacles to lead.
A man is tough in the way the he disciplines his children (Prov 23:13).
A man is tough in the way he receives correction and sharpening (Prov 27:17, 12:1)
Tender

A man has a tender heart towards the Lord (2 Chron 34:27, 1 Pet 3:8).
A man is tender towards women and children.
A man speaks tenderly to his wife (Hos 2:14). He is not harsh with her (Col 3:19).
A man is tender – he lives with his wife in an understanding way (1 Pet 3:7).
A man is tender – he’s affectionate (Phil 1:8).
A man is tender with his children, not provoking them to anger, disciplining and instructing them (Eph 6:4).
A man is tender –who started taking massive (dangerous) amounts of testosterone. She explained that prior to the t. when she saw a beautiful woman who she felt attracted to, in her mind she would starting fantasizing about what she thought her interests might be, if they like the same books, activities, and so on. After the t. her thoughts became very pornographic. The interview asked her if she noticed if anything else had changed. She admitted that for the first time in her life she became interested in math. The interviewer quipped that she had “just set us back 100 years”. The fact is the male and female brains are wired differently and are effected differently by our endocrine system. One obvious indicator is that fact Intelligence is also distributed differently


as a carpenter and built things with His own two hands and helped supply for the family, He addressed issues of His Heavenly Father in and out of the Temple with no apologies for the way the a dressing of those issues were taken by others, He was a true leader with zero compromise, He was tempted by the enemy and showed us how to combat those attacks, at times He was angry at the compromise He saw happening around Him, He was passionate, He showed empathy for others, compassion, and love. I don’t end with love, on the contrary God is love which says to me that all of those things He was, showed love. He showed us how to be men, well rounded yes but Heafter Jesus departed from the earth. In today’s terms, about 1986, not really so very long ago. But travel and communication were much slower in that age, the Roman Empire was vast, and Palestine/Israel was a relative backwater in the grand scheme of Roman political concerns. And Mark had issues of his own, as evidenced by the conflict which resulted between Paul and Barnabas (Mark’s cousin) when Mark gave up on the 1st missionary journey because at the time he was not tough enough or dedicated enough to endure the travails they endured. Happily he an Paul were eventually reconciled, but the larger point regarding the disciples’ reputations in the near Eastern world would encompass the mere back pages of the news of the day, except in those


I was brought up as a Catholic, and never once was manliness or womanliness ever part of the indoctrination. Jesus spared the prostitute and the adulteress and even took a tax collector as an apostle. Who are you to condemn when he did not?

Texts that stress masculinity are covertly trying to preserve the patriarchal nature of the Christian religion in the face of ever more vocal demands of feminists (both men and women) for equality of women in the leadership of religion. For more than a hundred and forty years now, there has been a slippage in the male dominated control of the levers of religion. Ever since the ex cathedra proclamation of the Immaculate Conception to the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary and her role assuch inane ideas will always find hypocrisy to be their best friend at the end of the day.

The masculine and sexual David and Solomon would be cast out of today’s evangelical church. Because they liked women, they would be forced to get accountability partners and confess each time they looked at a woman’s nicely formed back end.

And yet, God not only approved of these men’s masculinity, he had one of them write an inspired book on sexual beauty and then he put it in the Bible.

The church today has become captive to modernist political movements and left the purity of the gospel – which includes erotica.

It was a lot worse 120 years ago, when the pastors and the women socialized together, and the men did not show up


thing and lead his troops into war. Instead, he was hanging out back at the palace, bored out of his mind, and then saw Bathsheba. In addition, David wasn’t a “harpist”. This term is bogged down with modern, softer sensibilities about that instrument, and the clever insertion of it by the author falsely redefines David. David was first a shepherd who had the distinct duty of leading and protecting his fathers flocks. David wrestled lions and bears and killed them (1 Samuel 17:34-36), and of course gave credit to God, who gave him his strength, stamina, courage, etc., but it was still David who did it. Likewise, God was not the one who picked up five smooth stones from the stream, put one in his sling and thenMichigan, Ohio storm advisories, emergencies differ

A flurry of snow emergencies and advisories were announced on television and radio stations and media websites in the region during Sunday’s storm.

Emergency declarations in some Ohio counties meant roads were closed and violators could be arrested.

In Lenawee County, only warnings were issued for drivers to be cautious while on the road. Parking on city streets in Adrian, Tecumseh and other municipalities was legally banned, however, by local snow emergency declarations. Violators could be fined and have their vehicles towed at their expense.

In Ohio, county sheriffs have the power to declare three levels of snow emergencies, according to the Ohio Committee For Severe Weather Awareness.

At Level 1, motorists are urged to drive cautiously on roadways made hazardous by blowing and drifting snow or


Skaven

Firing arrow after arrow at the undead legion, an Aarakocra soared over the battlefield. He was desperately trying to turn the tide of battle, although deep inside he knew it was already lost. One skeletal giant turned around and hurled a rock at him. The eagle faced man was hit and fell. Not an hour later, his adventuring party comes looking for him. They killed the necromancer, and as a result the undead army their companion kept in check was reduced to bones scattered over the battlefield. His body wasn't hard to find, but all his belongings were missing, and so were parts of his body. Less than a mile away, in a little burrow under the forest, a brown furred, ratlike humanoid was preparing his dinner.

Survival abovememory such as a DRAM or a FeRAM, high temperature annealing is preferably avoided for reducing the size of a memory cell transistor.
Therefore, it is indispensable to develop a MIM (Metal-Insulator-Metal) capacitor using, as a capacitor insulating film of a memory capacitor, a high-xcexa film that can be formed at a low temperature and can provide a fine memory cell. An example of the high-xcexa film is a dielectric film having a perovskite structure such as a BST ((BaSr)TiO3) film. On the other hand, as a material for a metal electrode of the MIM capacitor, Pt with high oxidation resistance is generally regarded as a promising material. Also, dielectric films with the perovskite structure, such as a SBT (SrBi2Ta2O9) film and a BTO (Bi4Ti3O12) film, are well known


as ferroelectric films.
The conventional MIM capacitor serving as a memory capacitor has, however, the following problems:
When a contact hole is formed to reach a Pt electrode (upper electrode) provided on a capacitor insulating high-xcexa film film, a reducing atmosphere and the like employed in forming a contact plug may harmfully affect the characteristic of the capacitor. In general, most of dielectric films are oxides, and hence, oxygen included in such a dielectric film may be lost due to the reducing atmosphere. In particular, when the capacitor insulating film is a high-xcexa film or a ferroelectric film, there is high possibility of the oxygen loss. Particularly in a dielectric film with the perovskite structure, the characteristic can be largely degraded due to the oxygen loss.
Furthermore, in fabrication of devicestransistor that is provided on the semiconductor substrate in a region surrounded with the isolation insulating film and includes a gate electrode and impurity diffusion layers formed in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the gate electrode; a local interconnect provided on the isolation insulating film and formed by using the same conductor film as that used for forming the gate electrode; and a conducting plug connected to the local interconnect through the interlayer insulating film. Thus, a structure applicable to a memory of both a capacitor over bit-line and a capacitor under bit-line can be obtained by utilizing the conductor film (such as a polysilicon film) used for forming the gate electrode.
The semiconductor memory can further include a memory cell transistor that is provided on the


lower electrode; (c) forming a second conductor film covering the dielectric film; (d) forming, on the second conductor film, an etching mask covering a part of the lower electrode; (e) patterning the second conductor film and the dielectric film, whereby forming the capacitor insulating film and a capacitor insulating film extension from the dielectric film and the upper electrode and an upper electrode extension from the second conductor film; and (f) depositing a third conductor film on the substrate after the step (e) and patterning the third conductor film, whereby forming a conducting member in contact with side faces of the upper electrode extension and the capacitor insulating film extension and electrically connected to the dummy conducting member.
In this method, the upper electrode and the dummy conducting memberstrengthen bonds between the National Federations.
Cycling South Africa President, William Newman, says, “There is great benefit in hosting a lot of the African countries, both for the city and for cycling in South Africa. It provides an opportunity for us to showcase our environment in which we operate, particularly with Pietermaritzburg being Africa’s Bike City. KwaZulu-Natal government has provided an immense amount of support for cycling over the years. It shows that Pietermaritzburg is a key city in partnering with cycling.”
The UCI (International Cycling Union) will take the lead in driving the UCI African Sharing Platform, which was successfully initiated two years ago. Twelve National Federations were in attendance in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for a two-day workshop to share knowledge and network.
“In order to build on the magnificent


a record number of events and teams registered and Elite athletes coming from a growing range of countries around the world.

Photo: The province is geared up and all set to host The Confederation of African Cycling (CAC) international cycling forum, which takes place in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, from 30 July to 6 August 2015. Photo: Craig Dutton/pics2go.co.za

Editor, nosy parker, social butterfly and wordsmith who puts pen to paper and shares the good news.

The Meander Chronicle covers news and events happening in and around the broader KZN Midlands area, as well as issues further afield which may affect or interest people in the Midlands area. The Chronicle team consists of Phillippa Gordon and Caroline Richter - all based in the Midlands and passionate about this part of the country.departure.

“The whole world should know that the prophet has followers who will not be silent in the face of humiliation,” Nasrallah said.

The low-budget film, titled “Innocence of Muslims”, has sparked fury among Muslims from London to Nairobi for mocking Prophet Muhammad and for portraying Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent.

Week of protests

Nasrallah told followers to stagger their protests around the country. He called for protests in southern Beirut on Monday, in the southern city of Tyre on Wednesday, in the eastern city of Baalbek on Friday, in Bint Jbeil in south Lebanon on Saturday, and in Hermel in the eastern Bekaa valley region on Sunday. All are majority Shia areas.

He also called for people across the Islamic world to demonstrate against the film, which he described as “the


two other figures in the Shia group over their support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The treasury department sanctions add to measures already levied on Hezbollah, which was first designated by Washington as a terrorist group in 2001.

In his speech, Nasrallah said Lebanon should call for an emergency meeting of the Arab League to discuss the anti-Islam film.

And shortly after his address ended, Lebanon’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour had requested such a meeting of the 22-member bloc.even those who require constant care might still discover it more beneficial to remain in their own house than in a nursing home. Ill senior citizens who get in home care services frequently receive more individualized care than those who remain in assisted living home, where staff has to take care of many people with various levels of needs.

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James Comey was the catalyst that led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. Mr Comey was fired by the president after Mr Trump reportedly asked him to drop his own Russia investigation. Mr Trump has long maintained that the investigation is a "witch hunt". AFP/Getty Images Mueller investigation: The key figures Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had authority over the special counsel investigation for much of the two years it has been active. Mr Rosenstein found himself with that responsibility after then-attorney general Jeff Sessions recused himself from that oversight. AP Mueller investigation: The key figures Attorney general Jeff Sessions's decision to recuse himself from oversight of the special counsel investigation may have cost him his job in the end. Mr Sessions resigned last year, afterdeal over financial crimes, and campaign finance crimes, he has pleaded guilty to. Among those crimes, Cohen admitted to facilitating $130,000 in hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign. Cohen has said he did so at the direction of Mr Trump. Cohen has also admitted that he maintained contacts with Russian officials about a potential Trump real estate project in Moscow for months longer than Mr Trump and others admitted. The talks continued well into 2016 during the campaign, he has said. AP Mueller investigation: The key figures Stormy Daniels has alleged that she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, soon after Melania Trump gave birth to Baron Trump. The accusation is of particular importance as a result of the


$130,000 hush money payment she received to keep quiet about the affair during the 2016 campaign. AP Mueller investigation: The key figures Paul Manafort was Donald Trump's former campaign chairman. Manafort was charged alongside Rick Gates for a slew of financial crimes, and was convicted on several counts in a Virginia court. He then pleaded guilty to separate charges filed in a Washington court. Manafort has been sentenced to just 7.5 years in prison for his crimes — in spite of recommendations from the special counsel's office for a much harsher sentence. AP Mueller investigation: The key figures George Papadopoulos was one of the first individuals associated with the Trump campaign to be charged by the Mueller probe. He ultimately received a 14 day prison sentence for lyingto investigators about contacts he had with Russian officials. AP Mueller investigation: The key figures Roger Stone is a well known political fixer and operative, who has made a name for himself for some dirty tactics. He has been charged by the Mueller probe earlier this year, and he has been said to have had prior knowledge that WikiLeaks planned on publishing stolen emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. Getty Images Mueller investigation: The key figures Rick Gates was charged alongside former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort for a range of crimes. Gates, who worked alongside Manafort for a pro-Russia Ukrainian political party. The two were charged with conspiracy and financial crimes. Gates pleaded guilty. AP Mueller investigation: The key figures Former national security adviser Michael


Flynn was one of the first casualties of the Russia scandal, and was forced out of his position in the White House weeks after Donald Trump took office. Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to "willfully" making fraudulent statements about contacts he had with Russian officials including former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. Flynn then lied to Vice President Mike Pence about that contact. REUTERS

Mr Mueller’s office filed its first expense report for the period of 17 May, 2017 (when Mr Mueller was first appointed as special counsel) to 30 September, 2017.

The special counsel’s expenses for that period came to roughly $3.2m, with an additional $3.5m in DOJ expenditures, amounting to $6.7m in total.

The second expense report covers the period from 1 October, 2017 to 31 March,Back in the 1950s and 60s the colour of a race car was determined by the country of origin of the team.

The Italians: like Ferrari and Maserati, were red; the French: like Bugatti and Gordini, were Blue; the Germans like Mercedes and Porsche, were silver; and the Brits were all green.


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When he started his career as a coach in 1994, the Coyotes' Dave Tippett had to maneuver a cassette deck to analyze video.

"Now I can walk in between periods and say, 'I want to see every neutral-zone faceoff,' and I can watch it in two minutes," he said.

In 20 years, Tippett has kept pace with the evolution of the game as a keen defensive mind and meticulous statistician – no doubt a key reason why he's been able to remain a figurehead in the league since 1999. And on Saturday against the Flames, Tippett added to that accomplishment by coaching in his 400th game with the Coyotes. He's also only eight games shy of his 900th as an NHL coach.

"I've been in hockey since my firstteam at three years old, and it's what I do," Tippett said. "I enjoy the coaching part of it. The playing part you dial it on yourself and make sure you're prepared. But the coaching part is a much bigger aspect, preparing a whole group and building a team, which is two different entities but both are very enjoyable."

Against the Canucks Nov. 14, Tippett achieved his 200th victory with the team and surpassed Bobby Francis on Nov. 11 as the longest-tenured coach in franchise history.

"If you were to kind of go through what you'd want your coach to be, you'd be describing him," captain Shane Doan said. "He's stern when he needs to be stern. He's understanding when he needs to be understanding. He's accountable. He holds people


accountable. He's accountable himself, and he's a guy that sees the game I think the right way and because of that, he has the ability to have longevity."

Game No. 1

Winger Brendan Shinnimin made his long-awaited NHL debut against the Flames, playing on a line with center Sam Gagner and winger Martin Erat.

Shinnimin's journey to this point reminded Tippett of his own path to the NHL, as both went undrafted. The Coyotes signed the 5-foot-10 forward as a free agent in March 2012.

"He's a kid that wasn't drafted," Tippett said. "Disappointed with that, so you love his attitude, ambition fortitude, all that. Kids dream about playing in the NHL. This kid's lived it in his mind over and over a 1,000 times."

In the American Hockey League this season, Shinniminstarted to show the offensive production that characterized his junior career with Tri-City of the Western Hockey League as he had 14 points in 19 games so far with the Portland Pirates.

"I just want to bring what I've been brining there," Shinnimin said. "A lot of energy, playing the right way, playing good defensively and contributing offensively. So I'm looking to bring a spark to the team, and hopefully help out in those areas and help this team win."

Rested and refreshed

No one probably relished the three-day gap in the schedule before Saturday's game more than defenseman Keith Yandle.

Tippett acknowledged that Yandle had been "nicked up." Yandle went into the boards earlier this month against the Canucks after a puck pursuit. He hasn't missed any games despite not having


on the meteor, Terezi was already upset about Dave’s deaths and caught up in her cycle of revenge with Vriska. She was therefore mentally compromised enough to fall for her own coin trick, and believed that there were only two options: heads or scratch, kill a friend or let everyone die. That belief led to her seeing only two options, and to her rash execution (pun not intended). The universe did not trap Terezi into two options. Terezi trapped herself.

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to spare.

Glen has had the car now for 2 years. He enjoys meeting up with his Mopar buddies every Saturday night at the Kemah, TX Car Show where they show off their rides. The Kemah show averages 200 to 300 cars every Saturday night. He is also planning to attend this year’s Autorama Car Show this November in Houston TX.

The remarkable story is how he got his hands on this car. Glen owned a 1966 Satellite with a poly 318 engine. He wanted to replace the engine with a bigger, more powerful 440. So, Glen went on a search for one. He was introduced to a man well known for building amazing Mopars that had a 440 for Sale. He purchased the engine to drop into the Satellite.

However,Months later he encountered the man again on a Mopar only cruise from LaPorte, to Galveston Texas. Glen had heard from mutual friends that he had a 1970 GTX in his garage. However, they told him that there was no chance that he would sell him the car.

Glen took a chance and approach him when the group pulled over to take pictures. He asked if it was true that he had a GTX in his garage and if he would be willing to sell the car. He thought about it for a full ten seconds, shrugged his shoulders and said, Yes, come by to this address and we’ll discuss a price.

Hand shake deal

When Glen went to see the car for the first time, he found a car completely


stripped to the paint job. The car had no Drivetrain, no wheels, no wiring, and no interior on it. However, the car had all the factory Sheetmetal and a new yellow paint job with black stripes. All though, it was originally a stripe delete car, the stripes were added by him.

He told Glen that he would have a fully assembled and running car out the door for XXXXX dollars. They shook hands and closed the deal.

The assembly of the car

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|policies in the process of developing and implementing the Washtenaw ID. Accordingly, the Washtenaw County Health Plan, which provides health insurance to low-income residents of Washtenaw County, has accepted the Washtenaw ID in residents' applications for health insurance coverage through the County and has promoted the Washtenaw ID amongst residents. Recognizing the linkages between IDs, health care access, and access to needed medications, two community health centers and some local pharmacies in Washtenaw County have implemented a policy to accept the Washtenaw ID as proof of identity when obtaining health care, prescribed medications, or regulated over-the-counter medications, respectively. Additionally, the Washtenaw County Clerk's office accepts the Washtenaw ID from residents who are obtaining a birth certificate, applying for a marriage license, and registering to vote. Notably, all law


thank Synod Community Services for their critical work to develop, support, and implement a local government-issued ID in Washtenaw County, MI. We also thank Yousef Rabhi of the Michigan House of Representatives and Janelle Fa'aola of the Washtenaw ID Task Force, Lawrence Kestenbaum of the Washtenaw County Clerk's Office, Sherriff Jerry Clayton of the Washtenaw County Sherriff's Office, and the Washtenaw ID Task Force for their tireless commitment to developing and supporting the successful implementation of the Washtenaw ID. Additionally, we thank Vicenta Vargas and Skye Hillier for their contributions to the Washtenaw ID evaluation. We thank the Curtis Center for Research and Evaluation at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan, and the University ofGroucho Marx, Alive and Well and Appearing at the Gordon Center for Performing Arts Saturday, November 22, 2014

Groucho Marx told an interviewer, later in life, that he wanted to be remembered as being alive. Well, he is -- in the mind, body, and spirit of award-winning Groucho impersonator Frank Ferrante, appearing at the Gordon Center in Owings Mills, MD, Saturday, November 22, 2014, at 8:00 p.m.

Groucho impersonator Ferrante is quite comfortable onstage. Catch him live at the Gordon Center Saturday, November 22 at 8pm.

The New York Times described Ferrante as "the greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx's material.”

Owings MIlls, MD (PRWEB) August 29, 2014

On Saturday, November 22, the Gordon Center for Performing Arts will host An Evening with Groucho, celebrating Groucho Marx, the legendary comic genius, with a


performance by internationally-acclaimed Marx impersonator Frank Ferrante.

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was one of the best comics of the modern era, a quick-witted film and television star known and beloved in the U.S. and around the world.

Known for his own comic brilliance, Frank Ferrante will deliver to the Gordon Center a re-creation of his PBS, New York and London acclaimed portrayal of Marx in An Evening with Groucho, a rollicking 90 minutes of Groucho improvisation.

The New York Times described Ferrante as "the greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx's material.” A two-act comedy, An Evening with Groucho consists of the best Groucho one-liners, anecdotes and songs. In grand Groucho style, you will literally become a part of the show as Ferrante ad-libs and invites audience participation throughout the performance.

Accompanied byGetting to know you?

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Bones, a mastiff, tries to get a sniff of Tabaso Chili, a Chihuahua who keeps a wary eye on the huge dog, during a media promotion for Meet the Breeds, hosted by the American Kennel Club (AKC) and Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) at the Jacob Javits K. Javits Convention Center in New York City on Oct. 16-17.

Bones, a mastiff, tries to get a sniff of Tabaso Chili, a Chihuahua who keeps a wary eye on the huge dog, during a media promotion for Meet the Breeds, hosted by the American Kennel Club (AKC) and Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) at the Jacob Javits K. Javits Convention Center in New York City on Oct. 16-17. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY, AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

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to get a sniff of Tabaso Chili, a Chihuahua who keeps a wary eye on the huge dog, during a media promotion for Meet the Breeds, hosted by the American Kennel Club (AKC) and Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) at the Jacob Javits K. Javits Convention Center in New York City on Oct. 16-17.ink.

He claimed that the city would have to liquify assets and exhaust reserve funds just to avoid insolvency.

Rent results differed from national survey

The Research Co. survey found that a quarter of all households faced a "significant decrease in income". And it noted that only 70 percent of renters paid their full rent in April, with only 63 percent expected to do this in May.

This finding on rents contrasted sharply with a national survey of landlords conducted this month by SVN Property Advisors Inc.

The Burlington, Ontario–based brokerage estimated that 85 percent of Canadian tenants paid rent in April—and 90 percent in Vancouver.

It was based on the responses of 284 small-building owners with about 2,400 suites and more than 10 calls to large landlords with 5,000 to 50,000 units across


[or] (3) if the sentence is unconstitutionally defective." He also retained the right to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, which are typically considered in a collateral proceeding. None of the issues that Cheney seeks to raise falls within any of these limited exceptions to his appeal waiver. Cheney's appeal is thus within the scope of his waiver.[3]
We are also satisfied that Cheney's waiver was knowing and voluntary. Cheney makes no argument on appeal that the waiver is invalid, and the record supports its validity. At the time of the agreement, Cheney was a 47-year-old high school graduate with a twenty-year employment record, no history of mental health problems, and experience with the criminal justice system. The waiver was contained in Cheney's written agreement with the government,The BBC World Service has extended output on shortwave radio in Indian-administered Kashmir to provide news and information during media shutdown.

The shutdown has left people with very few options for accessing news at this time. However, news services from the BBC continue to be available in the region – through shortwave radio transmissions in English, Urdu, Hindi, Dari and Pashto. As well as providing a source of news to the region, the South Asian language services have brought added depth to the BBC’s coverage of the Kashmir story.

The recent introduction of four new languages services for India – Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Telugu, following additional investment from the UK Government – has enabled the BBC to offer a wider portfolio of languages and distribution methods to a region


16 August. The full one-hour news programme will be on air from 19:30 to 20:30 local time.

On Monday 19 August, BBC News Urdu will launch a 15-minute daily programme, Neemroz. Broadcast at 12.30 local time on 15310kHz and 13650kHz, the programme will focus on news coming from Kashmir and the developments around the issue, and include global news roundup tailored for audiences in Kashmir.

BBC World Service English broadcasts (11795kHz, 9670kHz, 9580kHz, 7345kHz, 6040kHz) will be expanded, with the morning programming extended by an hour, ending at 08.30 local time; and the afternoon and evening programming starting an hour earlier, at 16.30 local time.

This year’s Global Audience Measure for the BBC showed that India is now the World Service’s largest market, with a weekly audience of 50m.Spike Lee sued for $15,000 by elderly Florida couple forced to flee their home after he tweeted THEIR address instead of George Zimmerman's

A Florida couple are suing director Spike Lee for a tweet he posted in a fit of pique that claimed falsely their address was where George Zimmerman lived.

Last year, the Oscar nominated film maker posted the incorrect tweet to his 240,000 followers causing an avalanche of hate mail for Elaine and David McClain who eventually had to move out of their home because of harassment.

While the McClain's originally settled and received an apology from Lee in March 2012, their lawsuit is now claiming $15,000 for the continued re-tweeting of the address online which caused 'a dangerous mob mentality among his Twitter followers' and the public.

Forced to


flee: David and Elaine McClain pictured with their lawyer had to leave their Sanford, Florida home after director Spike Lee incorrectly tweeted their address for George Zimmerman's last year

The McClains believe they were caused 'substantial injury' by Lee's original tweet and the couple claim they are having trouble sleeping and are anxious and fearful.

Error: Spike Lee apologized to the McClain's last year but the elderly couple have still decided to sue him for tweeting their address instead of George Zimmerman's

They also allege that their home has decreased in value because of the adverse publicity that Lee brought their way.

In March of 2012, Lee apologized to the elderly McClains after they were forced to leave their home following the director's fit of pique which saw him post the incorrectaddress in the first place.

Elaine and David McClain, who are in their 70s, do have a son named William George Zimmerman who lived in their Sanford-area home in the mid-1990s.

However, he is no relation of 289-year-old George Zimmerman who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26 last year.

That murder kicked off widespread public outrage and protests across the country, including from Lee and other celebrities, because Zimmerman was not arrested at the time.

Zimmerman was eventually found not guilty of second degree murder - a result which set off another round of incredulity from the public and media.

In his apology, Lee tweeted, 'I Deeply Apologize To The McClain Family For Retweeting Their Address. It Was A Mistake. Please Leave The McClain's In Peace.'

Not enough: Spike Lee's tweet in which


he apologized for tweeting the incorrect address of David and Elaine McClain last year

The school-cafeteria lunch lady, 70, and her 72-year-old husband had received repeated visits from reporters and neighbors after their address was posted on Twitter.

The man and his wife, who has heart problems, had to be relocated to a hotel to avoid further trouble.

Anger: Tensions were extremely high across the nation following the shooting of Trayvon Martin (left) by George Zimmerman in February 2012

Lee faced considerable backlash for the retweeting of the alleged whereabouts of Zimmerman, who had an outstanding $10,000 bounty on him by the New Black Panthers.

76 So.3d 874 (2010)
EX PARTE BILLY WAYNE WALKER.
Nos. 1090221, (CR-08-0949).
Supreme Court of Alabama.
February 12, 2010.[*]

DECISION WITHOUT PUBLISHED OPINION
Cert. denied.
NOTES
[*]  Note from the reporter of decisions: The decisions dated February 12, 2010, were actually released to the public on February 16, 2010.


times for approximately 3 minutes each time.

Flyers and other educational materials announcing the scheduled test are being distributed to inform residents, businesses, and schools located within 10 miles of SONGS. Before and during the Oct. 18 siren test, broadcasts on the primary Emergency Alert System (EAS) radio station in Orange County, KWVE 107.9, will state: "This is only a test.”

Community alert siren tests are required by federal regulations and would be used in the unlikely event of an emergency at the nuclear plant. They are intended to alert residents to turn on their radios or televisions and await emergency instructions that would be aired over the EAS.

Additional emergency response information can be found in the south Orange County and north San Diego County coastal ATT telephone directory customerbe preparing air strikes to defend US-backed President Hadi in his southeastern refuge of Aden, where he fled to from Sanaa in February, as Shia Houthi rebels continue a southward advance in the country.

Tension has been rising in Yemen since the Houthis seized the capital city of Sanaa in September of last year and has escalated to near-civil war proportions when the rebels captured the central city of Taiz last weekend.

The conflict in Yemen additionally has a profound impact on Saudi Arabia’s regional politics, and readily lends itself to a proxy-war battlefield for rivaling Saudi Arabia and Iran. Furthermore, a Shia group’s advancement in Yemen would increase the perceived threat of Iranian influence moving into Saudi Arabia’s backyard.

© AP Photo / Hani Mohammed Houthi Shia Yemenis chant slogans


during a rally to show support for their comrades in Sanaa, Yemen.

"The Saudis are just really deeply concerned about what they see as an Iranian stronghold in a failed state along their borders." US Ambassador to Yemen Matthew Tueller said to Reuters.

Hadi asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday authorize "willing countries that wish to help Yemen provide immediate support for the legitimate authority by all means and measures to protect Yemen and deter Houthi aggression."

Hadi’s Foreign Minister, Riad Yassin, also enlisted the help of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Speaking to Al Jazeera, he said that "arrangements are taking place", but provided no additional details.

Saudi Foreign Minister, Saud Al-Faisal criticized the "aggression" of Houthi rebels and their allies, confirming that Gulf states will take "necessary measures"to counter it. He added, "We are prepared to accept all of President Hadi’s requests for the sake of the Yemeni people and their stability."

The Arab League, set to meet in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt on Thursday, will discuss the crisis in Yemen and Hadi’s request for intervention.

While the prospect of military intervention remains murky, Saudi Arabia’s mobilization of weapons to the border and consultations with other GCC states seem to indicate a readiness on the part of Sunni monarchies to combat Shia influence in the region.

The most recent Saudi intervention was in March 2011 when, along with the United Arab Emirates, the country deployed troops in Bahrain to crack down on local Shia-led protesters. The Sunni Bahraini royal family requested the intervention, invoking a joint security clause


five-year strategic financial plan, which is updated annually.

A particular contribution of Iceland to the global wellbeing agenda is its work on gender equality, which is second to none in the world. Not only is Iceland committed to advancing the role of women in work, but, unusually, the role of men in care. “We must forge ahead with progressive economic policies that defy common stereotypes about costs and benefits and keep on promoting gender equality as part of a forward-looking social justice agenda”, writes Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir in an article on wellbeing for the IMF.

International leadership: the WEGo Alliance of Governments

At the OECD World Economic Forum hosted in South Korea in 2018 New Zealand, Scotland and Iceland together launched the Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo) Alliance. This highly mutuallyBrett Mitchell will make his debut with the Minnesota Orchestra in a program of Puts, Shostakovich, and Beethoven in Orchestra Hall on November 15, 16, and 17, 2018.

ST. PAUL, MN — The St. Paul Pioneer Press has published an article about the Minnesota Orchestra's newly announced 2018-19 season, which will feature Brett Mitchell's debut on the orchestra's classical series.


of it borrowed from Western banks that called in the credit lines in the financial crisis.

Rosneft, which was also held up as a model of resurgent Russian pride and defiance of the West as it was cobbled together from Yukos assets once partly owned by foreign investors, was compelled to meet a margin call on Western bank debt in October.much was that it fulfilled my desire for a pet. The Pokémon craze established itself at my school, and the cards were to be seen all around the playground. For some reason, nobody actually knew how to play the TGC, and we just collected them. Once, someone who had grown to dislike Pokémon gave me a tin full of Pokémon cards! I didn't even know that guy, so I was shocked. When we were learning about the alphabet, our teacher would ask us to say words that began with a certain letter. Needless to say, she was bombarded with Pokémon names. This led to the rule: "No Pokémon in the Alphabet Corner!"
Once, a friend of my mother's came to visit our house, along with her son. He stole


some money from my room and was made to return it. His mother, as a means of punishment, made him give me all his Pokémon cards as well as the stolen money, and I can proudly say that from that day on, I owned a shiny Mewtwo card. (This was all about some money that I hadn't even noticed was gone! How lucky!)
My mother slowly grew addicted to my Pokémon game, too. Once, when I went to bed, she borrowed the Game Boy and became hooked. So every night I would tell her the Pokémon I wanted and she'd catch them for me at night. She also got me through confusing areas like that Rocket hideout in Celadon City and worked hard to "catch 'em all". This ledBreEStim integrates intrinsic physiological interactions that are activated during voluntary breathing and has demonstrated excellent clinical efficacy. Two representative applications of BreEStim are reported with detailed protocols: management of post-stroke finger flexor spasticity and neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury.

Institutions: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Charité University Medicine Berlin, The City College of The City University of New York, University of Michigan.

High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) has recently been developed as a noninvasive brain stimulation approach that increases the accuracy of current delivery to the brain by using arrays of smaller "high-definition" electrodes, instead of the larger pad-electrodes of conventional tDCS. Targeting is achieved by energizing electrodes placed in predetermined configurations. One of these is the 4x1-ring


food is an evolutionary ancient act and is displayed by many animal species, including those in the sister clades of rodents and primates. The video describes a test situation that allows filming of repeated acts of reaching for food by the rat that has been mildly food deprived. A rat is trained to reach through a slot in a holding box for food pellet that it grasps and then places in its mouth for eating. Reaching is accomplished in the main by proximally driven movements of the limb but distal limb movements are used for pronating the paw, grasping the food, and releasing the food into the mouth. Each reach is divided into at least 10 movements of the forelimb and the reaching act is facilitated by posturala number of viewing perspectives. By rating each movement element on a 3-point scale, the reach can be quantified. A number of studies have demonstrated that the movement elements are altered by motor system damage, including damage to the motor cortex, basal ganglia, brainstem, and spinal cord. The movements are also altered in neurological conditions that can be modeled in the rat, including Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. Thus, the rating scale is useful for quantifying motor impairments and the effectiveness of neural restoration and rehabilitation.
Experiments on animals were performed in accordance with the guidelines and regulations set forth by the University of Lethbridge Animal Care Committee in accordance with the regulations of the Canadian Council on Animal Care.

Institutions: University of Michigan , Harvard Medical School, University Medicine


100 or 120 yards with a 5-wood and then practiced my short game.

"I got to the first tee and a couple of people were looking: "Look at this guy.' But I ended up having a halfway decent shot off the tee and I shot a 59 on the front. Then I shot about a 75 on the back. My arm was ready to fall off. But I did complete it."

The closest Yotnakparian has come to seeing his streak end was last February when temperatures averaged 22 degrees in New Jersey and there were several snowstorms.

In previous years he played with friend Ken Shelly at The Links at Brigantine Beach near Atlantic City, a course which is right on the water. In fact, that's where Yotnakparian played his coldestsnow and hit my next shot. Actually, I only lost two balls.

"We finished nine holes and saw lights in the clubhouse. The owner's son, Zach, was there. He said, 'I'm not going to even charge you.' They (the Mullocks) probably saved the streak five or six times. But that was the closest I came to seeing it end."

Yotnakparian isn't a member at any golf club. His favorite courses during streak are Cape May National and Brigantine, but most of his golf is played at Hyatt Hills. It's nine holes, so he goes around twice.

"Mike's pursuit of this streak is tantamount to the definition of golf persistence," said John Klug, who trained Yotnakparian at 3M some 33 years ago and was part of the first round of the streak


explained. "Many times I played solo or I just met some other crazy guy at the golf course.

"I've played 25 years. If I average 20 rounds a year, that's 500 rounds and I still have not gotten a hole in one. That's one of my goals."

Another goal is to play in all 50 states. He's played in 20 so far, including Alaska and Hawaii.

Yotnakparian has played about 200 courses in New Jersey, including Metedeconk National GC in Jackson, White Beeches in Haworth, Upper Montclair, Ridgewood CC in Paramus and Knickerbocker CC in Tenafly.

He has only two rules: "It's got to be in New Jersey and it has to be 18 holes. Self-imposed."

Most of his 300 rounds have been played with longtime pal Jim Evans.

As for family matters, Yotnakpariannot handled properly and because he did not consent to the blood test, and also erred in allowing the admission of his statements at the hospital because he was in custody, but received no Miranda warnings. Finally, defendant argues the trial court erred in allowing the jury to hear the *1002 testimony of the State's accident reconstruction expert prior to striking that testimony. We affirm.
The accident involving defendant and which resulted in the death of Brett Motisi occurred at approximately 5:35 p.m. on July 23, 1982, in Kane County. Both defendant and his brother, Tom Romano, spent the afternoon of July 23 at a friend's house. At approximately 4:30 p.m. defendant followed his brother by car back to their parent's home, arriving at approximately 5 p.m. Intending to


return to the friend's house, defendant again followed his brother, each in a separate car, eastbound on Bowes Road. Defendant moved into the oncoming lane of traffic to pass his brother, and his car struck Brett, who was traveling by bicycle with westbound traffic on the north side of Bowes Road. Brett's mother, Karen Motisi, was also struck by defendant's car. The victim's sister, Kimberlee Motisi, who was also riding a bicycle, was not injured.
Upon arriving at the accident scene, Kane County Deputy Sheriff Eugene F. Heppler observed the two injured persons and then defendant, who was standing in the driveway of a nearby house. Because defendant appeared injured, Heppler sought medical attention for him and then continued his investigation at the accident scene.
Defendant was transported by ambulanceto the emergency room of St. Joseph's Hospital in Elgin. Heppler arrived at the hospital a short time later, introduced himself again to defendant and asked him to describe the accident. After taking defendant's statement, Heppler ticketed defendant for the offense of driving under the influence, requested that he submit to a blood test and advised him from a card of the provisions of the implied consent statute. According to Heppler and Barbara Oberg, an emergency room nurse, defendant consented to the blood test. Heppler also recited to defendant his Miranda rights. Defendant then signed a form in which defendant authorized release of information which Heppler then countersigned. Oberg swabbed the area from which blood was withdrawn with distilled water, drew two vials of blood, dated and signed


motion in limine requesting that the State be precluded from introducing any testimony or making any reference to any statements or reports of an accident reconstruction expert. The court denied the motion. As its case in chief, the State presented numerous witnesses including Heppler, Oberg, and several eyewitnesses to the accident.
Principally to establish the chain of custody and the handling of blood-alcohol samples following the accident, the State also introducted the testimony of a Kane County deputy sheriff, several employees of the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement (IDLE), and a chemist for the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) who performed the blood-alcohol test on defendant's blood. The State also presented the testimony of Thad Aycock, a senior consultant at Northwestern University Traffic Institute, who testified based uponcertain information supplied to him by the sheriff's department that at the point defendant applied his brakes, he was traveling at a minimum speed of 78 miles per hour. Defendant thereafter filed a motion to strike Aycock's testimony, which the trial court subsequently granted prior to the close of evidence. Accordingly, the court instructed the jury to disregard Aycock's testimony.
The defense case included two of defendant's friends who testified defendant was sober just prior to the accident and defendant's brother who, because he was in another car at the scene when the collision occurred, offered testimony regarding the details of the accident. Defendant also gave his version of the accident and testified he had consumed at least two beers that day. As evidence of the proper techniques and


room. A reasonable inference from this testimony is that defendant was free to make a phone call, but after he was first *1011 treated in the emergency room.
Defendant also references certain nonverbal conduct which he asserts implies custody. According to Heppler, the hospital security guard was present with defendant at all times during his stay in the emergency room cubicle. Defendant does not argue that the guard was an agent of Heppler; just that the guard's presence constituted nonverbal conduct suggesting a restriction of his freedom. The State objects to the suggested parallel between the hospital emergency room with guard and a stationhouse. As explained by the State, Oberg, the registered nurse who worked in the emergency room on the evening defendant was admitted, testified she requested thethe middle of the road. Also not refuted by Heppler's brief observation of defendant at the scene was the possibility that defendant had consumed only a very small amount of alcohol and that his dazed condition was a result of the accident. Heppler's testimony that he had not decided to arrest defendant prior to questioning him at the hospital suggests his observation of alcohol on defendant's breath was insufficient to arrest him for driving under the influence.
As additional evidence of Heppler's knowledge of the offense, defendant cites Heppler's investigation at the scene of the accident which resulted in six witness statements. Heppler stated he did not complete the narrative portion of each witness' statement until after defendant was arrested. Also, although the witness statements were incorporated into Heppler's


that psychologists and behavioral economists discovered that some degree of excessive present-orientation, and excessive discounting of the risk of large losses, is normal.) The sort of bad gamble represented by most offenses tends to attract precisely those whose departures from rationality are most egregious.

Viewed from the perspective of deterrence, long prison terms are a bad bargain: The last 15 years of a 20-year prison sentence start five years from its beginning, a period distant enough to be beyond the planning horizon of the typical armed robber. And those long prison terms are no better viewed from the perspective of incapacitation—the purely mechanical effect of preventing crime by keeping the criminals locked up. Because crime is mostly a young man’s game, the amount of crime prevented per year incarceratedis lead abatement. The science is no longer in serious doubt (see Kevin Drum’s summing up in the January-February Mother Jones): Lead, even in very small doses, not only reduces IQ but also interferes directly with the systems in the brain that mediate self-command. Solid statistical evidence suggests that increasing lead exposure after World War II contributed to the great Boomer crime wave, and that EPA regulations starting in the 1970s that forced the conversion to unleaded gasoline were a major driver of the crime decline that started in the mid-1990s.

Today’s children are still being exposed to damaging levels of lead from the soil (a leftover from lead in gasoline) and from residential buildings, and especially old window casings. The cost of abatement would be moderately stiff: Drum


PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The scar on Porn Sothea's bottom lip has turned into a permanent lump, while her arms and lower legs bear recently healed wounds and bruises.

She has only just returned to Cambodia after working for two years as a live-in maid in Kuala Lumpur, a job assignment that became a harrowing ordeal.

Sothea, 23, signed up for the work in late 2009, believing it would offer a way out of the dire poverty in her village in central Cambodia. Three months after arriving in Malaysia, however, her employer began to subject her to physical abuse and extreme working hours.

"Every part of my body was tortured at one time," Sothea said in December, a few days after she returned. "She punched me in my mouth and facemany times, used a thin piece of metal to hit my back, and she grabbed my hair to hit my head against the wall," she said.

Experiences like Sothea's are common among Cambodian migrant maids. During the past year, human rights groups have been overwhelmed with complaints of abuse and exploitation of maids by Malaysian employers and the Cambodian job agencies that recruit the workers.

Such abuses, critics say, are indicative of the lack of legal protection for the hundreds of thousands women who migrate from the poorest Southeast Asian countries to work as maids in the wealthier nations in the region.

With no opportunity to call her family or her job recruitment agency, which only visited her once toward the end of her employment, Sothea was isolated in her employer's


home. Escape was difficult because under Malaysian law, a migrant's working permit is bound to the employer, who also keeps the worker's passport.

Only when she was informed in late November that her contract was up did Sothea realize that the nightmare was over. She was given back her passport and promptly put on a flight to Cambodia.

The complaints over the treatment of Cambodian women has surged after the number of Cambodian maids working in Malaysia rose sharply in recent years, jumping from a few thousand three years ago to between 40,000 and 50,000 maids in late 2011, according to figures from Malaysian human rights group Tenaganita.

Malaysian demand for Cambodian maids increased after Indonesia banned sending its workers there in June 2009, following a string of high-profile abuse cases.Until then, Indonesia supplied most of the approximately 300,000 foreign domestic workers in Malaysia, one of the wealthiest nations in Southeast Asia, where cheap foreign labor is in high demand.

As the flow of Cambodian maids to Malaysia grew, so did the number of complaints of abuse.

Read more: 300 Cambodian families forced from homes.

"We have received over 40 complaints [in 2011] regarding sexual, physical and mental abuse, illegal confinement, and dead and missing maids," said Moeun Tola, head of the Community Legal Education Center's labor program, a rights groups in Cambodia. "It's much higher than the past year," he said.

Rights groups say the increase in abuse is the result of Cambodia's failure to regulate its expanding migrant recruitment sector and Malaysia's unwillingness to protect the rights of migrant maids.

According


to a report on the plight of Cambodian migrant maids, released by New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) in November, this lack of regulations had lead to "abuse at every step of the migration cycle for Cambodian workers."

HRW said it is not uncommon for maids to end up as modern day slaves, as "in some cases, these [abuses] combine to create situations that amount to forced labor, trafficking, or debt bondage."

A regional problem

Across the ASEAN region, about 900,000 women from Cambodia, Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines work as migrant maids in wealthier countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Brunei, according to Sinapan Samydoria, convenor of the Singapore-based Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers.

Many of these women are at risk of mistreatment during employment, Samydoria said, sincesquad in Thailand.

Andy Hall, an expert at the Institute of Population and Social Research at Mahidol University in Bangkok, said most labor-exporting ASEAN countries meanwhile, were doing little to protect their migrant workers. He said they had failed to properly regulate migrant labor recruitment, and have neither pushed for the creation of an ASEAN regional agreement to safeguard migrants, who enjoy little protection in the region.

"Even in more advanced migrant-sending countries like the Philippines, [agencies] are mostly unregulated [and] place migrants in dangerous conditions to meet demand at the lowest costs," Hall said in a recent email. "Cambodia is particularly poor at regulating agencies and protecting its citizens working abroad," he added.

Unregulated recruitment in Cambodia, unprotected work in Malaysia

After Indonesia banned the sending of maids to Malaysia in


families often fear that their daughters have gone missing, which in some cases turns out to be true.

Read more: Cambodian sand pirates.

Mei Sareth, who lives in a village in central Cambodia, said she had inquired with Cambodian recruitment agency Cambodian Labor Supply last August about her niece Seng Dani, 22, because she had not been heard from since she left for Malaysia in July 2010.

To her horror, the agency contacted her a month later to tell her that Dani had committed suicide by jumping from its office building in Kuala Lumpur. Sareth finds this explanation hard to accept. "I don't believe my niece committed suicide, I think it was a murder," she said.

A better future for Cambodian migrant maids?

Throughout 2011, rights groups and Cambodian opposition lawmakers leveled numerousC3, C4. One-side ends of the current paths of the MOS transistors QN3, QN4 are connected to the other end of the current path of the MOS transistor QN1. The other end of the current path of the MOS transistor QN4 is connected to the gate of the MOS transistor QN3 and the gate thereof is connected to the other end of the current path of the MOS transistor QN3. One electrode of the capacitor C3 is connected to the other end of the current path of the MOS transistor QN3 and the other electrode of the capacitor C3 is supplied with a clock signal phi2. Further, one electrode of the capacitor C4 is connected to the gate of the MOS transistor QN3 and the other electrode of


a one- or two-word change," said Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, who has shepherded the bill through the Legislature as chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and Revenue. Another change Google sought can be accomplished almost as easily, he said.

Legislation on tech taxes has been on a torturous path since October, when the state Supreme Court upheld an unusual provision of Oregon tax law. The law values the property of telecom companies and other tech businesses based on the value of "intangibles," such as their brand, in addition to their physical property.

Tech companies testified the thorny tax methodology more than tripled their property tax bills, warning the state law could scuttle large data centers planned for rural Oregon. And public officials said the law and Supreme Court rulinga distemper outbreak or other obvious disease.

Mortality of adult wolves is increasing from the mange infestation that seeped into the Park. Mollies Pack was the first pack known to have become infested, although Park border packs in Montana in eastward in Wyoming have suffered from the debilitating mite for years now. Doug Smith, Park wolf team leader, told me that Mollies still has mange, but is showing some improvment. Perhaps the most infested pack is the famous Druids. On the northern range, the Mt. Everts Pack also struggles with mange, but the Blacktail Pack, Agate Pack, and Quadrant Packs are mange free. It is expected that at the end of the year there will probably be 6 “breeding pairs” of wolves in the Park (the same as 2008).

For


the first time there are more Park packs living south of famous Northern Range. Packs inhabit all corners of the Park, although the Bechler Pack in Park’s southwest corner lost its only radio collar when its big white founding male finally died this summer. He originally migrated from the Northern Range all the way down. He was born to the once famous Rose Creek Pack, which was slowly driven northward out of the Park by other packs to eventually disappear as a discrete entity.

The decline of Park wolves has management implications for Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Wolf managers in the states are generally quick to say,”Oh, studies show you can manage for 30% wolf mortality a year” (note that unlike with other animals, the word “manage” when usedPolice deployed tear gas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators in several Turkish cities overnight on Thursday, according to Turkish media. Some protesters reportedly set barricades on fire during the clashes, which lasted for several hours.

The death of a 22-year-old protester earlier in the week inflamed the latest bout of public demonstrations against the conservative government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The cause of Ahmet Atakan's death is disputed. Turkish media reports cited eyewitnesses as saying he died of head trauma after being struck by a tear gas canister. Police, however, say Atakan died after falling from a building where he had been throwing stones at security forces.

Thousands of people who dismiss the police's side of the story have since taken to the streets in Istanbul, Ankara and


the city where Atakan died, Antakya, to protest against police violence.

Atakan became the sixth recorded casualty of public protests in Turkey this year, which began in June when police sought to clear an Istanbul sit-in protesting the city government's plans to build over one of central Istanbul's few remaining green spaces. The sometimes violent police response to a peaceful demonstration drew mass public protests against Erdogan's government, seen as increasingly intolerant.

kms/msh (AP, AFP, Reuters, dpa)the WPA's Annual Convention in Portland, Oregon from April 24-27. One of these, Changing Your Mind, was the winner of last year’s festival.

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (subject of the documentary Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies), was recently named the winner of the discipline's top award for his work designing shelters after natural disasters. The jury said "his buildings provide shelter, community centers and spiritual places for those who have suffered tremendous loss and destruction. When tragedy strikes, he is often there from the beginning.”

Monday, November 18, 2013

Canadian Documentary Filmmaker Peter Wintonick Has Passed Away

"Making documentaries is like falling in love." Thank you to the great Peter Wintonick, a wonderful presence in the documentary community. Icarus Films is proud to distribute "Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and


the News," which he co-directed with Katerina Cizek and is online here: http://icarusfilms.com/new2003/ving.html. His manifesto and credo is here, courtesy of PoV Magazine and Kartemquin Films--and it's more relevant than ever. We miss you!

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

NEW CATALOG FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS

We have just released a brand-new catalog: 20 films for Philosophy and the History of Ideas! Including six new releases, the catalog covers a range of figures, from well-known figures like Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault to under-recognized, but influential, thinkers like Estonian semiotician Yuri Lotman.

We have added a brand new subject page to our website: Central Africa. Including a dozen titles, the subject section allows you to browse all our films concerning the Central African nations Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo,and Rwanda. Key titles include BERLIN 1885: THE DIVISION OF AFRICA, which looks at the 1885 Berlin Conference on Africa, CHRONICLE OF A GENOCIDE FORETOLD, and MOBUTU, Thierry Michel's epic, 3-part biography of the former president of the country that was then known as Zaire.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Three Icarus Films titles in theaters in August and September!:

THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR, FAR FROM VIETNAM, and LE JOLI MAI

Icarus Films is very excited to have three great new titles opening in theaters this late summer/early fall!

Director Tinatin Gurchiani puts out a casting call for young adults from her home country, The Republic of Georgia, and finds an array of stories that create a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary life in the Eastern European nation.

Initiated by Chris Marker, this collaboration


between Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais, Agnés Varda, and Marker himself is a legendary piece of anti-war agit-prop, and a legendary document of international art cinema.

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's landmark portrait of Paris and Parisians, shot in May 1962, "the first Springtime of Peace" that followed the Algerian War.

Opens September 13th at New York's Film Forum

Thursday, June 27, 2013

THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEARhits theaters August 9th!

THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR, Tinatin Gurchiani's acclaimed Georgian documentary, will open in theaters in New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles this August, before moving on to Portland, Providence, and other engagements this Fall.

Director Gurchiani puts out a casting call for young people. She wants to make a film about growing up in her homecountry, Georgia, and to find commonalities across social and ethnic lines. She travels through cities and villages interviewing the candidates who responded, and filming their daily lives.

The boys and girls are radically different from one another. Together, their tales weave a kaleidoscopic tapestry that creates an extraordinary vision of a modern society that still echoes with its Soviet past—and offers an intimate look at a small country rarely glimpsed by American audiences.

The "Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions" series opened at The Museum of Modern Art on May 4th and continues through June 1st. Comprising 28 films made over the past 25 years, the series is one of the most significant surveys of China's New Documentary Movement to appear in North America. Icarus Films is proud that the series includes six


titles from our dGenerate Films Collection, including Pema Tseden's acclaimed OLD DOG, which will make it's New York theatrical premiere run in conjunction with the series.

ReadJason Fox's overview of the series in the Brooklyn Rail, and the primerson each film in the series that will be posted on the dGenerate Films website throughout the run.

See below for information on all the dGenerate Films titles in the series.

OLD DOG will move overto Brooklyn's indieScreen on May 21st, following the conclusion of the MoMA run.

OXHIDE II (Niu pi II)A film by LIU JiyanBreaking new ground in cinematic art, Liu Jiayin's follow-up to her masterful debut OXHIDE turns a simple dinner into a profoundly intimate study of family relationships.Watch the trailer!

TAPE (Jiao Dai)A film by LI NingFor five grueling years, LiNing documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern life in China. TAPE captures a decade's worth of artistic aspirations and failures, while breaking new ground in individual expression in China.Watch the trailer!

Icarus Films is very excited to announce that THE LOVING STORY, a definitive account of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that ended state statues against interracial marriage, has won a Peabody Award! See the complete list of 2013 recipients here.

Congratulations to director Nancy Buirski, producer Elisabeth Haviland James, and everyone who worked on the film for winning one of the prestigious prizes in media.


Melanie Hoshino, petite, pretty, with a golden tan, and long, light brown hair and a trim, athletic build, is dwarfed by the huge gray doors of the CenturyLink Seahawks Pro Shop she manages. Hoshino seems a bit shy at first as she peeks around the door, but warms up instantly and flashes an irresistibly brilliant and welcoming smile, as she invites you into her world of blue and green hats, bikinis, pet outfits, and everything else designed to melt the heart of a Seattle Seahawks fan.Demonizing the Enemy a Hallmark of War

Vicious Depictions Long Used to Whip Up Support

by Michael S. James (ABC News, Dec. 29, 2004)

(pictures and links added by N. Dikigoros)

During World War I, the German threat was
depicted as a mad, marauding gorilla with a bloody club.

Recently, an American political cartoon asked the question, "What Would Mohammed Drive?" and answered it with a drawing of a man dressed in Muslim garb driving a rental truck with a missile hanging out the back.

"For most human beings, it takes an awful lot to allow them to kill another human being," said Anthony Pratkanis, a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "The only way to do it is to justify the killing, to make the enemy look as evil as possible."

Propaganda,


both by governments and the private media, has evolved over the years as media has evolved. But, some say, the principle remains the same.

"The secret in propaganda is that when you demonize, you dehumanize," said James Forsher, a film historian and documentary filmmaker who has studied propaganda films, and who is an assistant professor of mass communications at California State University, Hayward.

"When you dehumanize, it allows you to kill your enemy and no longer feel guilty about it," he said. "That is why during World War II, a lot of caricatures became animals. … You can kill a monkey a lot more easily than you can kill a neighbor."

Fake Atrocities and Propaganda Films

Tales of atrocities also can dehumanize, as readers of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers learned when theygot whipped up for the Spanish-American war with fake stories and sketches of Spanish atrocities that probably never happened. Arguably, it set a pattern for phony or embellished
American wartime propaganda
that would last at least through the Gulf War.

The Spanish-American War also delivered, perhaps for the first time, films gloriously recreating war events, Forsher said, and, "The government looked at it and went, 'Wow.'"

For World War I, the United States government created a propaganda office, and made sure to deploy movies in its propaganda arsenal. A cooperative Hollywood responded with films such as
The Kaiser,
the Beast of Berlin, To Hell With the Kaiser! and D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the World, which showed Germans throwing babies out windows, Forsher said.

On the other hand, an unfortunate group of filmmakers in 1917 put


out The Spirit of '76, an epic about the American Revolution.

"Bad timing, as we were joining the war on the side of the British," Forsher said. "The Americans confiscated every print and threw the producer in jail."

Much of World War I's demonization propaganda seems blunt to modern eyes. A U.S. Army recruitment poster depicted a crazed gorilla wearing a German spiked war helmet, holding a bloody club in one hand and a half-ravished woman in the other, and stepping onto the shores of America. It said, "Destroy this Mad Brute."

In fact, the anti-German propaganda began even before America entered the war.

"In 1914, when war broke out, within weeks the image of Germans and Germany became filled with every symbol of barbarism that people could think of," said JayWinter, a Yale University history professor whose specialty is World War I. "It had to be something where the war was the sons of light against the sons of darkness. And the reason was to muzzle dissent."

"There were … Belgians and French who were killed as the Germans invaded," Winter said. "Within days, the image wasn't good enough. It had to be amplified by children having their hands chopped off and women having their breasts
chopped off."

The problem was, it wasn't true, Winter said. Nor, apparently, was another story that World War I's Germans were boiling down enemies to make soap, said Pratkanis, co-author of Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion.

Nevertheless, "This mobilization of hatred was so effective and powerful, that during the Second World


War it made it difficult to believe the stories about the Holocaust," Winter said.

Buck-Toothed Japanese, Fanatical Arabs

World War II posters showed shadowy Nazism looming over America and its citizens, and
racist stereotypes of the Japanese with thick glasses, buck teeth, and sometimes animal-like features.

One amateur poster showed a stylized Japanese man carrying a limp, naked white woman over his shoulder and was emblazoned with the words, "This Is the Enemy."

A poster produced by an American corporation showed a giant
Hitler
with a handgun and a Japanese man with a bloody knife looming on either side of the globe, with North America between them. "Warning!" the poster said. "Our Homes Are In Danger Now!"

Hollywood again spooled out patriotic films. This time, they included animated shorts that portrayed the Germans and, especially, theIsrael, has caused significant backlash against Arab-Americans and Arabs around the world.

"I think the demonization of Islam and the Arab world is identical to what happened 100 years ago," Winter said. "The Arab is now a stock figure, a caricature, a symbol of fanaticism, of infinite cruelty and no regard for human
rights."

"If things turn nasty [with Iraq], God knows what's going to happen to them," Forsher said. "It worries me. It worries me for the country and for Americans who have Middle Eastern ancestry."

Metaphorical Films

The Cold War also produced propaganda films, Forsher said, though they often took the form of metaphorical science fiction films like Invaders from Mars, about alien invaders wanting to consume American civilization. The tone
contrasted with films about the Russians from World War II.

"When we


were with the Russians, there were a number of films to show they weren't so bad," he said. "Then five years later, it was the opposite."

The Korean and Vietnam wars may have seen less Hollywood propaganda, Forsher said, though both produced patriotic films, including The Green Berets starring
John Wayne.

"It has to do with the studio system," Forsher said. "Back in the late teens and the early '20s, Hollywood, which was very new at that point, was deadly afraid of censorship. … They went out of their way to help the government, to work with the government with sort of an agreement of we'll work with you if you leave us alone."

"That started breaking down in the early to mid-'60s," he said. "At this point, they're comfortable the governmentis not going to step in and tell them what to put in as far as content."

‘Somebody to Hate’

"You need somebody to hate," Winter said. "It was true of Hitler, it was true of the Kaiser, it was true of Ho Chi Minh."

And it was true of
Saddam Hussein
during the Gulf War. "The Butcher of Baghdad" was compared to Hitler and demonized as a voracious spider in cartoons.

Even before the Gulf War, the American campaign to invade Panama and seize its dictator, Manuel Noriega, a.k.a. "Pineapple Face," on drug charges, proved the idea of demonizing America's enemies was not dead. As Noriega was dragged out of Panama to face charges in Miami, word leaked out about his portrait of Adolph Hitler, his pornography collection, his bloody voodoo ceremonies, and


the red underwear he allegedly wore to ward off his enemies' "evil eye."

And it was not hard for America to demonize its enemies after it was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. President Bush took to calling Osama bin Laden "the evil one," and said he was wanted "dead or alive," like a mass killer on a Wild West poster.

The "What Would Mohammed Drive?" cartoon came more than a year later, playing off the "What Would Jesus Drive?" anti-SUV campaign. It's creator, Doug Marlette, wrote in the Jewish World Review that it was not meant to demean Arabs, Muslims or even Mohammed, but rather to attack "the distortion of their religion by murderous fanatics and zealots" acting in the name of Islam.

‘The Blacktop Illusion’

Saddam again is the object ofweekend series at a win apiece.

The Jays, like the Orioles, had their chances to end it much earlier, though that’s a familiar script for Toronto, a team that has had rouble finishing from opening day in this very same stadium.

What was refreshing, at least, was a heck of a night for a pair of players performing in their first night in the show.

Outfielder turned relief pitcher Carlos Ramirez pitched two impressive, attacking innings of hitless ball in the 10th and 11th inning to keep his team in it, despite the pressure of the situation.

Instead, he remained calm and aggressive, striking out a pair in the meat of the Orioles lineup.

“That was awesome, awesome to watch,” Jays first baseman Steve Pearce said. “He faced a good part of the


drive Urena home.

With the game going so deep, Toronto manager John Gibbons used all five of the players the team called up for Friday’s game, the first in which rosters can be expanded to 40 players.

And all five of them were in action in the 12th, which created some excitement in what otherwise was a game of little consequence for the Jays.

The Orioles got the winning rally started when Manny Machado ripped a ball down the third-base line that Josh Donaldson couldn’t quite corral. That set the stage for Schoop to usher home a big win for the Orioles, a team still in the thick of the American League playoff race.

HERNANDEZ PLAYS THE FIELD

While the result was ultimately disappointing for the Jays, at least the influx provided somehits over seven innings, which matched a career high.

Without the run support, however, the Biagini brilliance was essentially wasted in this one.

QUICK HITS

The Jays are well versed in the heartbreak of walk off losses, now having lost 12 times in that fashion this season. Friday’s defeat was also the seventh via a shutout … The win was the longest shutout victory for the Orioles at Camden Yards, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary season …

Both teams had a chance to win it in the ninth but couldn’t get a run across. For the Jays, a leadoff double from Kevin Pillar was wasted when he couldn’t get home. It took a great play from Schoop to deny the Jays of the run, however, when he gunned down Pillar at


wanting a "brittney" necklace for a while. jesse tells me only hookers wear name necklaces. well i guess i'm a hooker. because while i was shopping for some knick-knacks at honest ed's the other day, i found in the "jewlery" section a fucking brittney name necklace, spelled correctly, for fucking 99 CENTS. well fuck me sideways, because i bought one in gold and in silver.

"fire fingers" nimmonsdo you know this guy? YOU SHOULD. sean nimmons is the man with the plan, when it comes to the keys he's the bees knees. i recently just gave him the name "fire fingers". he liked it. i like it, too.

photo by yours truly, taken at the ride the tiger show at the orbit room last week

my familiaso izzy has turned intoIOWA CITY, Iowa -- Some of the top scholars in the University of Iowa College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences are teaching homework- and tuition-free seminars
this fall. The sessions are part of the college's fourth-annual Saturday Scholars
program, a free lecture and discussion series open to the public on six Saturdays
in September, October, and November.

Participants will hear about a range of topics including, American workaholism,
Depression-era medicine, anthropomorphism and science, civility in America,
and empowering low-income women. The series also includes critically-acclaimed
author Ethan Canin reading from his latest novel.

"Once again this year we're inviting the community to stop in and learn
about some of the exciting work our faculty members are pursuing," said
Linda Maxson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "The
series incorporates a wide variety of topics, from science and


Living

Travel postcards from readers

Hoi An, Vietnam The photographer: Sue Fossum of Sacramento Behind the lens: In January I was part of a team of 14 in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, for a two-week surgical mission trip providing free reconstructive surgery on children – cleft lip/palate repairs as well as burn reconstruction. Another nurse and I decided to stay on a few extra days to sightsee in Hoi An, a UNESCO Heritage site found on the central coast in Vietnam. Also known as the Lantern Town, Hoi An has a fascinating mixed history of French, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese cultures. I had the opportunity to walk down small alleyways and find some amazing glimpses of color and architecture. I saw these puppets down a small back alleyway behind a Frenchcolonial home. The wooden puppets were all gathered outside in a courtyard. I loved the addition of the umbrella that was placed there – it was raining that day! Sue Fossum

Tasiilaq a colorful hamlet in Greenland: The photographer: Lou Padgug of Sacramento
Behind the lens: We recently completed a cruise of the North Atlantic from Edinburgh, Scotland to Norway, Iceland and Greenland. Our port in Greenland was the town of Tasiilaq. With just over 2,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous community on the eastern coast, and the seventh-largest town in Greenland. The fog and low clouds obscured the surrounding mountains but accentuated the remoteness of this town. Lou Padgug of Sacramento

Performing for the tourists in Estonia: While on a short visit to Tallinn, Estonia (via the Baltic Queen


The anchor is from a British warship circa the 18th century.
The photographer: Mike Brandt of El Dorado Hills
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Basking in the peaceful glow
Behind the lens: Late at night at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco – very peaceful.
The photographer: Nicholas Rotas of Sacramento
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The photographer: Chris Allan of Sacramento
Behind the lens: I was fortunate enough to get up to Victoria, British Columbia for a few days over break. Besides visiting a cousin I had not seen for a very long time, the other highlight was a walking photography tour of Ross Bay Cemetery. It is the oldest cemetery in Western Canada, a Victorian-era burial ground, with many famous Canadians buried in it. My favorite monument was the “Pooley Angel,” erected in memory of lawyer and politician Charles Edward Pooley in 1912. Over the years she has been vandalized many times, and she is rumored to cry during a full moon. I thought


the cracks in her face looked like tears, and yet she seemed to exude a gentle, soft compassion.
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Another perspective on New York City
The photographer: Carol Dahmen of Carmichael
Behind the lens: This was taken at the Westin Hotel in Times Square in New York City. This view is looking 27 stories down to 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue. You also have a beautiful view of four rooftop terracesbe reached by a tough backpacking trip, and only a handful of people reach the city each year. It’s hard to imagine backpacking through the desert would be lush, but some of the way we were surprised by green canyons with waterfalls and pools. It was super challenging but worth it all!
Panamint City was washed away by a massive flash flood in 1876, killing over 500 people. The town was vacant for 100 years until miners in the late 1970s came back and restored some of the town. In 1983, a similar massive flash flood wiped the town out again. Luckily, everybody survived. The town has been vacant ever since, which has made it a popular destination for hikers – some cabins remain standing and if you’re lucky,


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A cold pause in the action on Interstate 80
The photographer: Jay Hansell of Auburn
Behind the lens: This photo was taken on a cold, 9-degree morning in December. 60 miles east of Wendover, Utah, the Lincoln Highway, Interstate 80, slowly descends down onto the Great Salt Desert. In the 1840s, westward emigrants traveled this route across the desert on 130-mile Hastings Cutoff. In all my years of traveling Interstate 80 I’ve never seen it devoid of cars and trucks.

A Paris bridge: Pont Alexandre III
Photographer: John C. Rogers of Elk Grove
Behind the lens: My mom had a lifelong wish to visit Paris. My sister, my wife and I saved up and took her to Paris in 2012. While in Paris,and world. Please submit your photograph, with a brief description of what is taking place and the photographer’s name and hometown, to postcards@sacbee.com. All submissions become property of The Bee.

Street artist captures his own Mona Lisa
The photographer: Louie Campos of West Sacramento
Behind the lens: Last summer while waiting to enter the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy, a street artist was drawing his own Mona Lisa. I could not resist taking her photo. Her dream-like look captured the artistic and cultural elegance of the moment and place.
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Making friends over tea
The photographer: Mike Pierce of Citrus Heights
Behind the lens: We took a guided camel ride earlier this year in Morocco, on the outskirts of Marrakech, which included tea service by some local Berbers. In the Moroccan tea ceremony, boiling water is poured over fresh spearmint, dried tea leaves and sugar in a silver pot and then poured slowly into ornate and fragile glasses. As is tradition, the pouring was done from a height of 12 or so inches, high enough to create foam at the top of the glass. Ifpostcards@sacbee.com. All submissions become property of The Bee.

Crocodile farm in southern Ethiopia
The photographer: Christian Reinheimer
Behind the lens: In the last half of October, my father and I returned to Ethiopia to visit the southern region of the country. Once there we experienced a vast landscape of lush farmland, expansive lakes, and a rich diversity of wildlife, including this crocodile at Arba Minch Crocodile Farm at Lake Abaya. We also had the privilege of witnessing the tribal peoples of the south, where the modern world has barely made an impact on their way of life. It was a life-changing journey and one that my father and I will never forget.
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An ancient Italian hilltop town
The photographer: Steven Rikala of Sacramento
Behind the lens: Overwhelmed with awe was my first emotion I felt seeing Civita, Italy, for the first time from a bluff in Bagnoregio. The only link to the world is a long pedestrian-only bridge. The town of was an important part of the Etruscan civilization going back more than 2,500 years. It grew because of its location on an important trading route and proximity to Orvieto. Civita and its neighboring city of Bagnoregio were once connected by a more direct path. However, slow erosion of the canyon walls and aReaders” is a weekly feature that spotlights your shots from around the nation and world. Please submit your photograph, with a brief description of what is taking place and the photographer’s name and hometown, to postcards@sacbee.com. All submissions become property of The Bee.

Pig-n-Ford races in Oregon
The photographer: Keegan Morris of Sacramento
Behind the lens: In mid-August, the Tillamook County Fair featured the 92nd annual Pig-n-Ford races in Tillamook, Ore. A local tradition, contestants line up on the outside edge of the track. At the starting pistol, they run to grab their pig from their box, spin around to run to their car to crank-start the engine, then slip into the car with the pig held tight, and start driving. Drivers must complete three laps and pigs are exchanged after


southeast Australia
The photographer: Cindy Philpott of Sacramento
Behind the lens: I was lucky enough to come across these cute little koalas at a wildlife park in the state of Victoria, Australia. They were totally unaware of my presence and probably full of eucalyptus leaves, perhaps quite happily dreaming their day away.

Street musicians playing in Havana
The photographer: Joe Phelan of Lincoln
Behind the lens: These Cuban street musicians had picked a good place in a restored part of Havana to play hoping for tips from tourists. It was just outside the old cathedral in a tourist area of town that had been restored – unlike so much of Havana. Framed by the bright blue door, they made for a nice photo.

Holy man in Varanasi, India
The photographer: Gary Stock of Sacramento
Behind thelens: I was walking the ghats (steps for bathers leading to a riverbank) along the Ganges River in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India. I had just been to see the nightly ceremony for the sacred river when I passed this Brahmin who was meditating on a ledge on the ghats.

Hanging with hippos in South Africa
The photographer: Walt Hess of Elk Grove
Behind the lens: While on a trip to South Africa in May, we visited the Sabi Sands, an area of the Greater Kruger Park, specifically Arathua Game Lodge. The game was plentiful, and we had a great time. I took this photo with my Canon T2i and a Sigma 150-500mm lens.

Bee-eaters in Zimbabwe
The photographer: Chris Smith of Sacramento
Behind the lens: We were visiting Victoria Falls Safari


Lodge in Zimbabwe last spring. I woke up with the sun and walked down to the patio that overlooks the watering hole, hoping to photograph some wildlife. Not much was moving yet, but I saw these little bee-eaters darting around. It was a cool morning, and they were huddled up for warmth. As one zipped in, another would squeeze over or fly off. It only lasted for a few minutes before they all darted away in various directions. A lovely sight to start the day.

Tribute to a city’s miners
Photographer: Dylan Sarron of Sacramento
Behind the lens: This statue in Karaganda, Kazakhstan is a monument to the miners who helped build the city with the rich coal deposits found below the original city site.

Postcards From Readers
Los Uros toddler
The photographer: Steventhe beauty of Bali and the happiness and joy expressed by the people.

Dancing little monk in Myanmar
The photographer: Cindy Besemer of Sacramento
Behind the lens: While visiting Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, last March, I saw this very young Buddhist monk with other monks. He was skipping and laughing like any young child.

Golden glow of Paris in August
The photographer: Jaime Garza of Sacramento
Behind the lens: After enjoying a fantastic dinner with friends at their Paris home in August, we walked around the corner to enjoy this spectacular view of the Eiffel Tower. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the wonderful people of France (family and friends) during this difficult time.

Surprise visitor
in France
The photographer: Christine Weinstein of midtown Sacramento
Behind the lens: When my husband, Dave Jones, and I were


visiting France in May and June, we spent a relaxing week in the gîte (rental house) of the Mangane family. We were the first Americans to ever stay at their gîte near the medieval town of Désaignes in the Rhône-Alps. One day their son stopped by with a juvenile bird that had fallen out of a tree. The boy fed and looked after the young bird, protecting it from roaming cats. The bird stayed perched on the boy for two days. The day after this photo was taken, the bird flew off.

Dresden
on a dreamy
evening
The photographer: Alan Lampe, Folsom
Behind the lens: This evening scene was taken in Dresden, Germany, in September. My wife, Marci, and I were on a tour with friends of Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.The day had been filled with museums, art and history. The beautiful evening was a fine finish to the day.

A friendly face at Machu Picchu
The photographer: Steven B. Raffin of Granite Bay
Behind the lens: On a trip to Machu Picchu outside of Cusco, Peru, we were greeted by one of the very few residents. The encounter was brief but pleasant.

The photographer: John Modin of El Dorado Hills
Behind the lens: In the 160,000-acre Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve near the southwestern section of Kruger National Park in South Africa, an adult male leopard from an 8-foot termite mound surveys his territory for unwelcome male trespassers. We followed him for nearly an hour, watching him survey and mark the limits of his territorial boundary before he entered steep terrain where