Azapirones for generalized anxiety disorder.
Azapirones are a group of drugs that work at the 5-HT1A receptor and are used to treat patients suffering from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). However, several studies have shown conflicting results. Whether azapirones are useful as first line treatment in general anxiety disorders still needs to be answered. To assess the efficacy and the acceptability of azapirones for the treatment of GAD. Initially the Cochrane Collaboration Depression, Anxiety and Neurosis Controlled Trials Register (CCDANCTR) and The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) were searched, incorporating results of group searches of MEDLINE (1966 to June 2005), EMBASE (1980 to June 2005), CINAHL (1982 to June 2005), PsycLIT (1974 to June 2005), PSYNDEX (1977 to June 2005), and LILACS (1982 to June 2005). Subsequently theVideo shows police Tasering, stomping suspect

Daniel Tepfer

Updated 10:34 pm, Friday, January 25, 2013

The fuzzy video uploaded on YouTube shows Bridgeport cops using a stun gun on a man in Beardsley Park as he tries to run from them.

There is a pop and a sizzle from the electric stun gun, then a shout of "nice shot" from off camera as the man lies face down in the grass. Within seconds, two police officers are on him, kicking and stomping him as he writhes on the ground.

Moments later, a police cruiser speeds into the frame, sirens screaming, and stops short. The driver's side door bursts open and a third cop leaps out, runs over, and joins in the kicking.

The video was posted Jan. 18 by an anonymous witness to the


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A screen grab from a video, posted on YouTube on Jan. 6, 2013, showing three Bridgeport, Conn. police officers kicking a man in Beardsley Park on May 20, 2011. Officers Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins were put on the paid administrative leave Jan.18, 2013 pending an investigation of the incident by the cityâÄôs Office of Internal Affairs. The man, who has not been identified, is lying on the ground after being Tasered by one of the officers when two of the officers begin kicking him. A third officer then gets out of his patrol car and walks over to where the other two are still kicking the man and then he too begins kicking him. less

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A screen grab from a video, posted on YouTube on Jan. 6, 2013, showing three Bridgeport, Conn. police officers kicking a man in Beardsley Park on May 20, 2011. Officers Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins were put on the paid administrative leave Jan.18, 2013 pending an investigation of the incident by the cityâÄôs Office of Internal Affairs. The man,who has not been identified, is lying on the ground after being Tasered by one of the officers when two of the officers begin kicking him. A third officer then gets out of his patrol car and walks over to where the other two are still kicking the man and then he too begins kicking him. less

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A screen grab from a video, posted on YouTube on Jan. 6, 2013, showing three Bridgeport, Conn. police officers kicking a man in Beardsley Park on May 20, 2011. Officers Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins were put on the paid administrative leave Jan.18, 2013 pending an investigation of the incident by the cityâÄôs Office of Internal Affairs. The man, who has not been


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from a video, posted on YouTube on Jan. 6, 2013, showing three Bridgeport, Conn. police officers kicking a man in Beardsley Park on May 20, 2011. Officers Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins were put on the paid administrative leave Jan.18, 2013 pending an investigation of the incident by the cityâÄôs Office of Internal Affairs. The man, who has not been identified, is lying on the ground after being Tasered by one of the officers when two of the officers begin kicking him. A third officer then gets out of his patrol car and walks over to where the other two are still kicking the man and then he too begins kicking him. less

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A screen grab from a video, posted on YouTube on Jan. 6, 2013, showing three Bridgeport, Conn. police officers kicking a man in Beardsley Park on May 20, 2011. Officers Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins were put on the paid administrative leave Jan.18, 2013 pending an investigation of the incident by the cityâÄôs Office of Internal Affairs. The man, who has not been identified, is lying on the ground after being Tasered by one of the officers when two of the officers begin kicking him. A third officer then gets out of his patrol car and walks over


to where the other two are still kicking the man and then he too begins kicking him.

A screen grab from a video, posted on YouTube on Jan. 6, 2013, showing three Bridgeport, Conn. police officers kicking a man in Beardsley Park on May 20, 2011. Officers Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins were put on the paid administrative leave Jan.18, 2013 pending an investigation of the incident by the cityâÄôs Office of Internal Affairs. The man, who has not been identified, is lying on the ground after being Tasered by one of the officers when two of the officers begin kicking him. A third officer then gets out of his patrol car and walks over to where the other two are still kicking the man and thengun. When the officers finally subdued him, no gun was found, but the man was wearing a holster, the source said.

The man was charged in the incident and did not file a complaint against the police officers. The sources said he is now serving prison time on unrelated charges; they said he was not seriously injured by the officers.

It is standard procedure for city officers to use stun guns on fleeing suspects, and most officers are armed with the yellow-handled electric device.

But in November 2011, 51-year-old Ronald Cristiano died after being stunned by two city police officers following a struggle with them outside a home on Wilkins Avenue.


Front Office

Chris Toltzman

P.A. Announcer

This is Chris Toltzman’s 16th season as Public Address Announcer for the IceHogs and 13th season as the Music Director for the team. This dual role of announcing and playing the in-game music is extremely rare at any level of professional sports. Toltzman is a native of Greendale, Wisconsin- a Southwest suburb of Milwaukee- and attended the University of Wisconsin-Platteville where he studied Radio and Television Production and Management.

Toltzman got his start in announcing as a student at UW-P when the Men’s Basketball coach, Bo Ryan (former Head Coach at Wisconsin), hired him to announce the Pioneer Men’s Basketball games. When not delivering his signature “Wooo” after IceHogs goals, Toltzman is the Public Address Announcer for the Northern Illinois University Football team (since 2002) andannounces Hononegah High School Boys’ Basketball games (since 2001) when his schedule allows. Other notable announcing jobs he has worked include a Chicago Bulls exhibition game at the then Rockford MetroCentre and three Soldier Field Showdown games for the HIU Huskies Football team at the Chicago Bears’ home stadium.

Outside of announcing, Toltzman is a freelance video producer for his company Seven11 Productions where he has won numerous awards for his work, including 2 Emmy Award wins and an Emmy Award nomination. You can view his work at the website www.seven11productions.com. Chris is married to Anna and has two daughters, Lindsey and Monika. He likes to cook, travel and spend time with his family in his free time.


Anjaneya Prasad
 Roja as Chamundeshwari
 Naresh as Shankar Rao
 Ahuti Prasad
 Venu Madhav
 Krishnudu
 Praveen
 Narsingh Yadav
 Maharshi Raghava as Lawyer Sridhar
 Harsha Vardhan as Dr. Sagar
 Geethanjali
 Lakshmi Bhargavi as Sarada
 Jaya Lakshmi as Dr. Gauthami
 Ramya Nittala as Bhagamati
 Sarayu

Soundtrack

Music composed by Babu Shankar. Music released on Aditya Music. The audio was launched at Rock Heights, Hyderabad for which several film stars attended. D. Suresh Babu unveiled the logo of the film. Rajendra Prasad released the first look trailer of the flick. NTR unveiled the audio CD and presented the first album to VV Vinayak.

Critical reception
Oneindia.in stated "Mogudu is a film that shows the values of a joint family, friendship, responsibility, love, and affection etc. Krishna Vamsi succeeds partly in his mission. Theon for seemingly forever, and is padded out with lengthy filler and songs that don’t serve much of a purpose than to take up dead air. Sleepy Kitty shows some promise, but Infinity City feels like a band trying to figure out how to make a full-length album. All in all, Sleepy Kitty could use an editor.

Infinity City

Zachary Houle is a writer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee for his short fiction, and the recipient of a writing arts grant from the City of Ottawa. He has had journalism published in SPIN magazine, The National Post (Canada), Canadian Business, OttawaShowbox.com and more. He also reviews books for bookwookie.ca.


"Home taping is killing music," the record labels chanted almost 30 years ago. The plea fell on deaf ears: the techniques for getting something for nothing have become ever more complex with the universality of the internet over the past 10 years.

Napsterwas a piece of software that allowed people around the world to swap songs with each other by clicking a button on their computer. The company was eventually sued in 2000, leading not only to Napster's closure but also heralding a sequence of court cases against the multitude of filesharing services that were springing up.

One of the most popular, Grokster, was closed in 2005 after a US supreme court ruling, while Australia forced another well-known service, Kazaa, to agree a settlement with the music industry worth morewhere a car almost hit him. Archer went back to Ahmad’s
car and drove it away.
       Approximately half an hour later, Jon Murga was withdrawing cash from an
automated teller machine. As he drove to the loading dock of a produce distributor to
pick up some produce for a grocery store he owned, he noticed a car following him.
Murga parked near the loading dock and was putting down the seats in his car when
Archer approached. Archer was very animated and was trying to engage Murga in
conversation, but Murga ignored him. Archer then demanded Murga’s car keys. He
grabbed a crowbar that was on the backseat of Murga’s car and started chasing Murga
with the crowbar. Archer approached Murga swinging his fists, and Murga ran into the
middle of


the middle term of three years plus eight
months for personal use of a deadly weapon); two years on count 5, assault with a deadly
weapon (Ahmad) (one-third the middle term of three years plus one year for infliction of
great bodily injury); one year on count 6, assault with a deadly weapon (Murga) (one-
third the middle term of three years); two years on count 7, assault with a deadly weapon
(Skaden) (one-third the middle term of three years plus one year for infliction of great
bodily injury); and four years for four prior prison terms. Under the plea agreement, the
court would dismiss counts 8 and 9.

                          Outdooring new babies is a ceremony typical amongst almost all tribes in Ghana and involves the practice of formally presenting a new-born child to the gods, society and dead ancestors. It usually takes place on the 8th day after birth, when it is thought that enough time has elapsed for the child to prove that it is healthy and has the will to continue living. Until then, custom does not permit the new-born to be brought outside the threshold of its abode. In days gone by; and even now in many communities, evil spirits, ghosts and other negative influences in the elements were believed to adversely affect the health of the child. The 8th day is thus the time to give thanks to all those who deserve it.


Heisman award winner and his teammates.”

“1988 was such a special year for OSU football,” Sanders said. “The fact that I get to celebrate the 30th anniversary at Homecoming with my coaches, teammates, and of course our fans, is very special to me.”

During the 1988 season, Sanders set 34 NCAA records on his way to winning the Heisman Trophy. He averaged 238.9 yards per game during the regular season and racked up 42 touchdowns over the season’s 12 games.

Sanders, who is known for his humility, credits much of his success to his teammates on the offensive line, the “War Pigs.” After accepting the Heisman, Sanders was quoted as saying, “The Heisman trophy really is a big deal, but I play with a bunch of great teammates and they madeit happen."

Sanders was drafted in 1989 by the Detroit Lions and was named the NFL’s Rookie of the Year following his first season. He would go on to earn MVP honors three times in addition to being a ten-time Pro Bowl selection.

Sanders and his teammates will participate in several Homecoming events, most notably the Sea of Orange Parade the morning of the football game.

Homecoming events for alumni and fans begin on Sunday, October 21 with the Sign Competition on library lawn followed by the dyeing of the Edmon Low Library fountain orange at 5:30 p.m.

Homecoming will conclude with the Texas vs. OSU football game, and Alumni Association members can take advantage of a special $75 ticket offer.

Details about OSU Homecoming events and the member ticket offer can be


down 40 Japanese aircraft in World War II and conducted all of his aerial victories in a P-38 Lightning. He eventually became a test pilot for Lockheed, and died in 1945 while conducting a test flight of a P-80 Shooting Star. Suggested by Doug (no last name).

Col. John Boyd. An Air Force fighter pilot and later a Pentagon consultant, Boyd was dubbed “Forty Second Boyd” because, as an instructor pilot, he had a standing bet that, beginning from a point of disadvantage, he could beat any opposing combat in air combat maneuvering in fewer than 40 seconds. Suggested by Randall Tilley.

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington. The World War II Marine Corps officer was a fighting ace who flew a Vought F4 Corsair. During his squadron’s first tour of combat duty,he shot down 14 enemy aircraft in 32 days. Suggested by Randall Tilley.

Gen. James “Jimmy” Doolittle. I could easily devote an entire blog to Doolittle, but here are a few of his accomplishments: test pilot, record setter, aeronautical engineer, air racer. He was the first to perform an outside loop (previously thought to be a fatal maneuver). He developed instrument flying. Oh, and during World War II, he carried out a successful bombing raid on Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama, Osaka, and Nagoya utilizing 16 B-25 bombers. That raid was considered a major morale-building victory for the United States. Suggested by Kayak Jack.

Amelia Earhart. I could devote another entire blog to Earhart, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The 16th woman to be issued


a pilot’s license, Earhart was a founding member of The Ninety-Nines, the International Organization of Women Pilots. (She and several other competitors in the first Women’s Air Derby formed the Ninety-Nines because they enjoyed the opportunity to meet and commune with other women pilots.) She was a huge promoter of aviation and the role of women in flying. In 1937, during her second attempt to fly around the world, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared en route to Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra. Suggested by Gena Gonzales and Kayak Jack

Carl Ben Eielson became a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917. The war ended while he was still in flight training, and he wasn’t willing to stop flying, so he and some friends formedthe Hatton Aero Club and later flew air mail in Alaska. He is credited with flying the first airplane across the Arctic Ocean, with Australian explorer Hubert Wilkins in 1928. Suggested by Doug (no last name)

Roger Fernandez. Don’t look for Roger in Wikipedia–he’s the CFI who signed off Steven Warren for his private pilot checkride at Tullahoma Airport 20 years ago.

Gen. Roy S. Geiger. Geiger has the distinction of being the first Marine to lead an army during World War II. He became a naval aviator in 1917, and commanded a squadron of the First Marine Aviation Force during World War I.Suggested by Randall Tilley

Heli-rescue pilots. As Darrell O’Sullivan says, “They fly at all hours and in weather that is best observed from an armchair on the front


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Inspiring poem from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring". Music by The Tolkien Ensemble ("The Complete Songs & Poems"). Performed by Sir Christopher Lee.
Quote:
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

DEVIL'S ISLANDS • A Jules Verne Adventures production • A film by Jean-Christophe Jeauffre (1999) • With Jean-Christophe Jeauffre, Frédéric Dieudonné, Jean Galfione • Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands riseAMD has reached its biggest marketshare milestone in over a decade, overtaking Intel in both units sold and revenue at Germany's largest online retailer. The data pulled from the "Newegg" of Germany, Mindfactory.de, shows AMD's Ryzen and Threadripper CPU sales growing over several months to finally overtake Intel in August.

AMD's Threadripper CPUs in particular have done exceptionally well, generating a significant amount of revenue for the Sunnyvale California based chipmaker. The Ryzen Threadripper family was introduced just a month ago to great critical acclaim. The Ryzen Threadripper 1950X was AMD's first processor in over fifteen years to be crowned the world's fastest, outpacing Intel's best by over 45%.

NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Card Prices Drop by up to 18% Across the Board

A Historic Milestone For The Perennial Underdog

The sales


year.

“We want a flawless president. We want him strong, just, respectable, clean, someone who feels for the poor. We basically want a superman,” said Heba el-Sayed, a 42-year old teacher who was asking her colleagues outside a polling station in the popular neighborhood of Sayeda Zeinab who they voted for.

Egyptians have never had the chance to pick a leader. Mubarak, who was often derisively labeled as “pharaoh” by Egyptians, came to power in 1981 after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat at the hands of Islamic militants, mostly because he signed a peace treaty with Israel. He was re-elected multiple times after that, mainly in yes-or-no referendums in which he was the only candidate.

The pent-up anger that exploded against Mubarak’s reign on January 25, 2011 built up overA Devon man is planning to sue the county council after he became the victim of a pothole in Exeter that had already put two other riders in hospital.

Lee Bingham, 43, was on his way to collect his son from school in October last year when he went over the handlebars after hitting the hole on Pinhoe Road.

He was knocked unconscious by the crash and woke to find himself surrounded by paramedics in an ambulance, according to Adam Walmesley of the Express and Echo.

He was treated for minor head and shoulder injuries at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and his £1,000 road bike was declared “unrepairable” by a local bike shop.

Devon County Council has refused to accept liability for the crash.

But on August 20 two other cyclists


automaker like GM?

Based on Tesla's emerging dominance of the electric-car market, I think the answer is yes. In the U.S., the Model S is already outselling GM's Chevy Volt, Nissan's LEAF, and Toyota Motor's (NYSE: TM) Prius plug-in. Meanwhile, Tesla's fellow electric-car start-up, Fisker, is on the verge of liquidation.

Tesla already has an edge over its larger competitors in terms of electric powertrain and battery technology: that's why Toyota and Mercedes are paying to share that technology for their electric vehicles. Production of the Model S will allow Tesla to improve its operational expertise and pave the way for new models, potentially including a lower-cost (and higher-volume) car.

Tesla's growing network of Supercharger charging stations will provide another long-term competitive advantage. Toyota, GM, and others have largely shied awaythe mistakes that really help polish us.

On September 6th, 2017, Christine was alone in her home in the British Virgin Islands, which got hit by the biggest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic base. It was the second largest weather event in the history of recorded weather and it destroyed everything around and left them without infrastructure, running water, electricity, you name it.

Christine had done all the preparations from her training before the hurricane, and she discovered she felt a sense of complacency. She had weathered other hurricane seasons before and her home, in particular, was very well protected. She thought that she was so well protected, that she spent the day before helping others.

We should never be complacent

Her mentality in approaching preparation was the mentality of a


In the weeks since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, celebrities, athletes, artists, and politicians in the diaspora have come out in droves to support the battered island. The reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee pledged a million dollars to relief efforts, and the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez donated another million. The rapper Fat Joe led a donation drive in New York City, in partnership with Governor Andrew Cuomo, and chartered two planes to fly goods to the island. And on Friday, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Puerto Rican playwright and creator of the hit musical “Hamilton,” released a new song, “Almost Like Praying,” gathering the voices of mostly Puerto Rican stars for a heartfelt tribute to the island. Proceeds from sales of the song will go toward the Hispanic Federation’s HurricaneRelief Fund for Puerto Rico.

The artists featured on “Almost Like Praying” span genres of generations. There are the salsa legends Ruben Blades and Gilberto Santa Rosa; the American rap artists Fat Joe and Joell Ortiz; the pop artists Marc Anthony, Camila Cabello, and Luis Fonsi (fresh off a year of “Despacito” domination); and the actors Rita Moreno, John Leguizamo, and a rapping Gina Rodriguez. The rhythms of the track are made up of sounds familiar to the island: the distinct chirp of the native tree frog known as the coquí, the high-pitched ting of the cowbell, and the sharp notes of the steel drum. A sample from the song “Maria,” from the Puerto Rican-centric musical “West Side Story,” is cut in, too—“Say it soft and it’s almost like


he level-headedly explained, "hey guys im quitting rap. no more bbg music. decided to move on," and announced that he was headed back to school to get his degree in hopes of becoming a pharmacist. When we caught up with him not too long ago (after releasing a mixtape of previously unreleased freestyles via his Bandcamp), he expanded a bit on his untimely retirement:

"Retiring from rap was a practical decision for me. I looked at how bankrupt the music industry was and the evaporation of social mobility and decided that it wasn't the way to a better future. I'm trying to be a man, and a man is an adult, and an adult is responsible for themselves and the people they love. So many rappers have nothing else,but I have pharmacy school and that's where I'm going to refocus my energy. I do take solace in the fact that I'll be able to release all the material that I've recorded over the past year and a half. This includes this EP and a debut solo album I plan to put out later this year."

So, in a continued rollout of previously recorded music, he and producer Yuri Beats have decided to premier their new five-track EP - America Eats Its Babies - with XXL. Reminiscing on the duo's creative collaboration and artistic outlook, producer Yuri Beats had this to say:

"The first track we did together was 'Madonna's Kids.' I sat in one room and worked on the beat while Gandhi went in the other room to


of the Bible - the woman revered for her beauty and bravery by Christian and Jewish women, alike - was a victim of sex trafficking.

What?I read that in a book recently, so I had to go back and look for myself. Sure enough. Esther chapter 1, describes a ridiculous party thrown by King Xerxes, the guests being "all the military officers of Persia and Media as well as the princes and nobles of the provinces." The purpose of this party was to display all the wealth and opulence of the kingdom. The party went on for days, and when it was over, he threw yet another shindig. To prove he was a generous soul, "by edict of the king, no limits were placed on the drinking, for theking had instructed all his palace officials to serve each man as much as he wanted."During this party, while the king was drunk off his butt, he decided to send for Vashti (the current queen), so he and all his three-sheets-to-the-wind buddies could "gaze on her beauty." How nice. He wanted to share. After all, he was trying to prove his generosity.But, guess what! Vashti refused to stand before the king and his minions to let herself be gawked at (and who knows what else). REFUSED. Boom! She just did that.My personal guess is that if those men hadn't been too drunk to stagger their way to her quarters, she would have suffered much. But, as it was, the king just decided to banish her from his presence.


brought to the king's harem at the fortress of Susa and placed in Hegai's care."

Do you think this image of a group of Jewish girls is too "modern" to illustrate my point?I don't. Cuz sex trafficking still happens, my friends.

She, along with many other young women, were taken from their families and trafficked for the sexual pleasure of the king. I somehow missed that part of the story in Sunday School. We always skipped over the how-she-got-there-in-the-first-place part and went right to the part where her people (the Jews) were in danger of mass extermination and her cousin, Mordecai, tells her, "Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?"Most of us know that, in the end, Queen Esther chose to riskfor us to get on out of South Africa with as few stops as possible.As we were crossing the border into Swaziland, an officer confiscated, um, I mean, was "gifted" a flat of seedlings that were intended for the community garden. And about 15 minutes inside the border of Swaziland, we were pulled over on the highway by un-uniformed officers and had to get out of the car while it was searched for (presumably) drugs. I have to say, that as intimidating as that may sound, it was actually not a big deal and the officer was quite quick and polite.The rest of the drive was uneventful, aside from the fact that they drive on the left side of the road and our host is a confident driver


(of course, meaning he drives kind of fast). There were more than a few gasps heard coming from the back seat...especially when we hit that large plastic tub that was sitting in the middle of the highway...but that's all really beside the point. We made it. That's all that matters. My Take on How the Boehrig's Are Different From Other MissionariesTypically, when an American missionary goes to Africa, they will hire Africans in the local communities to work for them as housekeepers, gardeners, guards, etc. Even though this might seem degrading in the States, it's expected of American missionaries because it provides jobs for Africans. It gives the American Missionary good standing in their African community.Sean and Nicole Boehrig have bucked that thinking. They surprised us, frustrated andconvicted other American missionaries/white people, and confused the Swazi's when they chose to live in the 1 room servants' quarters of a white family's house. They insist on living in many of the conditions of their Swazi neighbors, use public transportation or walk much of the time, and do menial tasks such as yard work, cleaning, and cooking, for themselves.Here's where they live:

(The trampoline belongs to the children of the family that live in the main house.) The door on the right is their bedroom where they have just enough space to loft a double bed, sit on the floor underneath the bed on a rug made of woven grass, put their clothing in a small trunk, and they also have a small sink (with running water!) and


way of supplementing their food supply and to teach about selling produce as a way of increasing income. She is also experimenting with some new methods of gardening she just learned from attending a permaculture workshop. (One thing Nicole said that really stood out to me was that "When you consider that we were originally created to live and work in a garden, the whole act of caring for your garden takes on a deeply spiritual nature.")It turned out that we divided on gender lines and the guys, Jeff and Mike, chose to go with Sean to learn about the water pump, while Alex and I went with Nicole to work in the garden.

That's Alex, talking to Glorious, one of the ladies who share this garden plot withNicole. Glorious works at a company that builds roof trusses. She answers the phone and places orders. The thing is, it wasn't keeping her busy; she found herself sitting around quite a bit. So Nicole encouraged Glorious to approach her boss and ask if they could use a bit of unused land by the shop to plant a garden. Her boss agreed, so she and Nicole got busy turning an unused bit of ground into a garden that is now supplementing the diets of 3 households! Here's another interesting fact: Glorious actually lives at the shop. She has a home where her children live, but she doesn't have a car and it's too far to walk everyday. So, she lives at the shop during the week and goes


in magazines with decorative borders and pebbled pathways, in order to be beautiful.

In the afternoon, when we returned from gardening and the guys got back from their amazing day with Sean (where Mike reports he met the poorest person he's ever seen in his life, but doesn't feel sorry for him because he's also the happiest person he's ever met), the Boehrig's had a surprise for us.They had arranged for their language tutor, Nawazzi (I'm sure I spelled that wrong), to give us a beginners lesson in Suswatti (probably spelled that wrong, too). Nawazzi works as a maid for Glorious's boss. She is young, doesn't have children, and just got married about a week ago.Now, Nawazzi looks like a modern young woman and she'd been dating her guyfor a couple of years, but the wedding was apparently a "traditional" Swazzi ceremony. We don't know exactly what Nawazzi experienced, but in general, this traditional ceremony would involve the woman being taken to her husband's family and locked in a room with him for 24 hours (kind of like being kidnapped). Then the family might strip her of all her clothing and send her outside in the night to present herself to the family ancestors/spirits to see if she meets their approval. It is reported that sometimes the male family members will rape the bride, I guess as a way of claiming her and making her submit to her new family. The next weekend, the husband must go to the new wife's family and ask forgiveness for


And, Holy Cow, was she right! So we walked from her house to the side of a 2 lane highway and stood in the rain at a crumbling brick structure to wait on a bus. She said usually a bus comes right away, but she did once have to wait 40 minutes for one to come by. Fortunately, we only had to wait about 5 minutes.Where I live, a bus might start out it's shiny new life as a school bus. It would do it's duty being abused by small children on field trips and transporting sweaty football players to away games. After a few years, it might be sent to the county to be used as transport for prisoners who have been convicted of non-violent crimes aswho (maybe) thinks she is leaning on the back of my seat, is, in reality, sitting on my shoulder.And did I mention it's raining? Well, it was. And I watched with slight uneasiness as the bus driver controlled the vehicle with one hand while using his other hand to reach out of the window to wipe the rain off of his side view mirror.This is when Jeff reaches into his shirt pocket, pulls out an index card, looks a Swazi boy (who was about 7 years old) in the eye and says, "Sow-oo-bone-ah." (traditional greeting)The poor little boy, who may or may not have ever even seen a white man, especially not one with a giant beard like Jeff's, panicked. His eyes got huge and he covered his


mouth with his hands. A few people around him giggled, some gasped when they realized Jeff was trying to speak Suswati. And Jeff, being Jeff, took this as encouragement and tried again: "Sow-oo-bone-ah." The boy peeked out from behind his hands, but still didn't answer, so Jeff pointed at him and told the little boy, "You say, yay-bo." At this, the entire busload of Swazis burst out laughing! They began to talk to us in English and let us practice our very limited knowledge of the greeting we had learned. They were so delighted to meet some white people who were making an attempt at speaking their language. Jeff was quite the hero that day!So, thank you, Nawazzi, for giving us the language tools to experience this joyfulmonty...I mean...ensemble. I wasn't brave enough to take a picture of the guy, but noticed he was also wearing a random feather in his hair. Nicole said that feather indicated he was a member of the extended royal family. Sounds exciting, but we were also told that since Swazi men are allowed to have as many wives as they want, there's no shortage of people who are related to the royal family. According to Sean, the U.N. has pressured the current king to maybe not take as many wives as his predecessors did, so he only has, like, 8. Progress.Another interesting note about the whole multiple wives thing: If a man marries a woman who already has a child, he is not required to accept that child into


his home. This means many women leave their children with grandmothers, aunts or sisters, when they get married. On the contrary, if a man, for example, has a wife and children in the "country", and another wife, with more children in the city, his wife in the city is required to care for his country wife's children (and vice-versa) when they come to town.

This is a picture of a roadside market selling fruit and used clothing. I snapped this one when we were waiting for a bus to take us back to the Tricash village where Sean and Nicole live.

And this is a picture of the hospital in Manzani where Nicole works as a duela (sp?). Women from all over the rural areas, will walk or ride theoperated this boat was the guy handling the throttle had to yell instructions to the guy who was holding the motor in both hands and manually turning the engine to steer.Jeff said they had to do donuts in the water to stir the crocodile to the surface. After 20 minutes of this, Jeff was "ready to hurl" and was starting to think they were just playing a joke on the naive Americans, when they spotted the crocodile. Jeff says he's not exaggerating in saying it was probably 9 feet long. The plan, of course there was a plan, was to get close enough to hook it in the neck, drag it into the boat, duck tape its mouth, load it in the back of one guy's truck, drive


it to another pond, and set it free. Easy. Not dangerous at all.After a couple of hours and nearly pitching one guy into the water on top of the croc (slight miscommunication between the throttle guy and the engine guy), they decided they didn't have the right tools for the job, and called it a night. The end.Day 3: The Day We Built a Cob Oven and My Life Changed...No BiggieI haven't told you much about what Sean does, because, up until Saturday, I had spent most of my time with Nicole. Just to clarify, Sean and Nicole moved to Swaziland to join one other missionary couple (not a big organization, or whatever) in an effort to reach people with the hands-on Good News of Jesus. The Goodsticks and twigs, that can be gathered by children without sacrificing entire trees, to burn as fuel. And, get this! He isn't giving away these stoves. But, instead, he has taught a man to build these stoves, and now that man is turning his new skill in to a business that will help his community, lessen the impact on the environment, and improve his life with more income!Sean has also located a company in South Africa that makes a very simple, and extremely durable, water pump that works like a StairMaster. (I'll post pics in a minute.) This simple pump will give women hours in their day...time, and difficult labor, that they would normally expend walking down to the river and lugging up 5 gallon buckets, over and


our arrival, he told the family he would be happy to teach them to build the oven for free, but they would have to provide the materials and labor. They would need bricks for the base, and sand, clay and grass for the cob. They walked to the river and hauled up sand by the bucket loads, until they had a large pile. They found another source from which to dig and haul clay. For the cob, the women took machetes and feed sacks and hiked up a nearby mountain to cut grass. We aren't exactly sure where they got the bricks, but the ones we used looked suspiciously similar to the ones at the crumbling bus stop in town.With all the supplies gathered, they only lacked labor...whichwas also invited for coffee. Candidate Martin Hewitt was not present.

Ghee said he considered the offer a possible violation of law and drafted a letter to county, state and federal authorities asking them to investigate.

The accusation by Ghee certainly spices up what already had been an interesting primary battle among five candidates for a seat being vacated by the retiring Rodney Frelinghuysen.

The only candidate among the five to now hold elected office is Assemblyman Jay Webber of Morris Plains. That suggests he’s the favorite, but there are other factors involved.

Ghee of Totowa has Republican organizational support in Essex and Passaic counties – about 40 percent of the district – and DeNeufville of Mendham has been spending heavily on TV advertising. He also has suggested that Webber may not


Sir,

Recently, responding to a 911 call of 'gunshots fired', two law-enforcement officers arrived within a minute and found an unresponsive victim but were unable to allow Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on the scene as a crowd of approximately 30 bystanders became increasingly hostile, both threatening and physically assaulting the officers. Within seven minutes, approximately 20 officers had arrived and the crowd was dispersed.

Once the scene was secured, paramedics found a 31-year-old male with three gunshot wounds to his chest. The patient maintained palpable pulses until just prior to arrival in the hospital. In the emergency department, the patient remained pulseless and unresponsive. Bilateral thoracotomies were performed and the patient was found to have penetration of the superior vena cava without injury to the heart. Open cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)recognized the efficacy of harm reduction and supported its implementation and promotion amongst medical professionals. “Always aim at reducing health problems associated with drug abuse, with an emphasis on infectious diseases,” reads one of its Google-translated guidelines.

This article was originally published by Filter, a magazine covering drug use, drug policy and human rights. Follow Filter on Facebook or Twitter, or sign up for their newsletter.

Nicola Worcman, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction who formerly worked at a government-run Psychosocial Care Unit in Rio de Janeiro, attests to the harm reduction-centered policy Brazil once had. During the the HIV/AIDS crisis in the late 1980s, harm reduction programs were launched to address the use of injectable cocaine. (Opioid use is not as prevalent in Brazil as it is in the United


Cohrs (“Cohrs”) was visiting the Londonderry
Oaks Apartments in Denton, Texas, when she met and had a brief conversation
with Harris.  Harris lived at the apartments and was employed as a maintenance
man for the apartment complex.  Approximately five days after her initial
conversation with Harris, Cohrs called Harris and agreed to visit him at his
apartment.  After Cohrs arrived at Harris’s apartment, Harris and Cohrs
watched television and subsequently engaged in consensual sex.  Cohrs also
engaged in consensual sex with Harris on at least one more occasion.
However, during the course of the third sexual encounter, the sex became
nonconsensual when Cohrs voiced her opposition to Harris by “crying and
saying no.”  Approximately five days later, on or about October 14,“no.”  Subsequent to the assault, Harris called Cohrs on
several occasions, but Cohrs never saw Harris in person again.  On or about
November 7, 2001, Cohrs reported the assault to the police upon the insistence
of a friend.
        Meanwhile, in October 2001, Cassie Hayes (“Hayes”) moved into the
Londonderry Oaks Apartments and became acquainted with Harris through a
mutual friend, Joe Rodriguez (“Rodriguez”).  Thereafter, on occasion Hayes and
Rodriguez would go to Harris’s apartment to talk and to hang out.  On
November 15, 2001, Hayes and Rodriguez went over to Harris’s apartment for
a short period of time, wherein Hayes mistakenly left her purse on his couch.
Later that evening, Harris telephoned Hayes on her cell phone to tell her that
she had forgotten her


purse, and she walked across the complex to his
apartment.  As Hayes entered the apartment, Harris shut the door behind her
and locked the deadbolt.  Hayes immediately asked Harris, “What the hell are
you doing?”  Harris responded, “Just relax, girl” as he pushed her down on the
couch by her shoulders and positioned himself on top of her.  Although Hayes
repeatedly told Harris to stop and get off of her, Harris continuously kept telling
her to relax.  Harris pinned Hayes by holding her down with his entire body
weight, and sexually assaulted her.  Eventually, Harris received a call on his cell
phone and sat up on the end of the couch to talk.  While Harris was on the
phone, Hayes gotup and went to the door.  As Hayes was unlocking the
deadbolt, Harris put his hand in front of her and said, “Wait, girl,” but she was
nonetheless able to leave his apartment.  For several weeks, Hayes did not
report the assault to the anyone, including the police, but she constantly feared
Harris because he was the maintenance man and had access to a passkey to
her apartment.  After receiving a late-rent notice inside her apartment, Hayes
reported the assault to Brendan Durkin (“Durkin”), the head maintenance man,
and Emily Bell, the apartment manager.  Thereafter, in December 2001, Hayes
reported the assault to the police and identified Harris as her assailant.
III.  Improper Commitment Questions During Voir Dire
        In his first point, Harris contends that


Trust, the undersigned, RICHARD J. MYERS, will by virtue of the power and authority vested in him as Substitute Trustee, on TUESDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2012, commencing at TEN O’CLOCK A.M., at the Overton County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Livingston, Tennessee, sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property in Overton County, Tennessee, to wit:

A CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN THE 6TH CIVIL DISTRICT OF OVERTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING ON A STEEL STAKE IN THE WESTERN LINE OF THE ORIGINAL COPELAND 115.20 ACRE TRACT OF WHICH THIS TRACT IS A PART; THENCE S-75-09-07 E 1661.80 FEET TO A METAL STAKE; THENCE N-69-53-22-E, 1551.81 FEET CROSSING A ROAD TO A METAL STAKE IN THEGreen light for £330 million Northampton Waterside Enterprise Zone development

Northampton will benefit from a £330 million programme of development within its Enterprise Zone.

Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles has approved a vital Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) covering land for a new road through Avon Nunn Mills – the largest site in the Northampton Enterprise Zone.

West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC) is leading on the project. WNDC’s Chief Executive Peter Mawson said:

“The University campus will be an unprecedented development for Northampton, breathing new life into its town centre. It is the jewel in the crown of an exciting regeneration programme, with nearby projects ranging from a new railway station to riverfront offices starting construction this year.”

Professor Nick Petford, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Northampton said:

“As the


TV series. From the dedicated cast that breathed these characters to life, led by Matt Ryan as the comic-made-flesh embodiment of John Constantine, to the exceptionality talented crew that put unreal images on screen, to the original Hellblazer writers and artists who gifted us a universe.

As a general principle, writers don't choose a writing career to achieve stardom. Whatever demons or insecurities drove them to find freedom of expression through written words generally keeps writers comfortably obscure behind their words. Nor do people choose writing as a means to financial freedom. I'd venture to guess that most who set out to write professionally never receive a paycheck for their hopeful scribbles or key strokes.

In fact, nobody I know ever chose a writing career -- it chose them. Youwas put into a difficult Friday night time slot, where many shows go to die. Not exactly the best spot to debut a show, but it was put right next to Grimm which is another supernatural television series that has flourished on that night. Constantine never had a large audience, but it did develop a cult following in its short stint.

If you want to look for a silver lining, there's a chance the character could appear in Guillermo del Toro's Justice League Dark film whenever he gets around to putting that together.


On Maj. Gen. David Furness' last combat deployment to Afghanistan as commander of the Marines' Regimental Combat Team 1 in 2010, the unit sustained 31 casualties. Nineteen of those, he says, were "the fault of the Marine either doing something he was told not to do and trained not to do or not doing something he was trained to do."

Now the commander of 2nd Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Furness appeared as a guest on the internet-based All-Marine Radio Friday to discuss a controversial new policy letter he wrote in an effort to curtail a trend he observed of sloppy, undisciplined Marines in the division.

"There are weeds growing around our buildings and work spaces and trash everywhere but the dumpsters where it belongs," he wrote.right."

And for those who can't do it, he added, "I'll get you orders somewhere else."

Furness said his policy letter hadn't been created in a vacuum; rather, he said, he had created a "council of sergeants" featuring outstanding young enlisted leaders from around the division shortly after taking command in 2018. They were the ones, he said, who came up with the daily routine published in his policy letter, and each of them said they agreed with Furness' plan to institute it.

In his combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, Furness said he had repeatedly observed that the most disciplined units were the ones who fared best in combat.

"I was presented right up front with, the more disciplined a unit is, going into a fight, the less it bleeds," he


said.

With regard to the 19 Marine Corps casualties he said could have been avoided, he still thinks about small adjustment that might have been made, such as the reminder that could have been given to a vehicle's driver to fasten his seatbelt before he hit an improvised explosive device in the road.

"These basic breaches of attention to detail are a direct result of not habituating yourself to the small details we learn to do in garrison activities," he said.

Furness' letter hit the internet almost immediately after circulating around the division. While some have spoken supportively of his policies, many in the military community have criticized the measures as unnecessary or expressed and borne of a tendency to create busywork for a force no longer deploying at a highUSF, Cincinnati

Bottom Line: The Rams were somehow able to do it again. They found a way to fill out another very solid recruiting class, securing a few players who held power 5 offers. As can be seen by the list above, they were right in line with many AAC teams, which often recruit better due to their locations in the southeast football hotbeds. They recruited in the top of the group of 5 this year.

Fresno State

2019 Ranking: 87

Closest Comparisons: Louisiana Tech, Western Michigan, Miami (OH), Utah State

Bottom Line: The Bulldogs are still lagging a bit in recruiting compared to their success on the field the past two seasons. However, they the top of their recruiting class can compete with many other schools in the Group of 5. They


make great use being in California and fall more or less in the middle of Group of 5 schools.

Hawaii

2019 Ranking: 119

Closest Comparisons: New Mexico State, Massachusetts, Georgia Southern, Eastern Michigan

Bottom Line: It isn’t easy to recruit to the Islands, but Hawaii does pretty well overall. The coaching staff is still rebuilding their efforts, and were more selective in who they offer given their unique offense.. All of that taken into consideration, the Rainbow Warriors lagged a bit in their recruiting efforts this season, ranked near the bottom of the FBS.

Nevada

2019 Ranking: 92

Closest Comparisons: Utah State, Western Kentucky, Arkansas State, San Diego State

Bottom Line: The Wolf Pack turned in a very nice recruiting class this year, on par with many other MWC teams. Their class was pretty solid topto bottom and that helped them to basically be middle of the pack (pun intended) Group of 5 class.

New Mexico

2019 Ranking: 113

Closest Comparisons: UTEP, Akron, Old Dominion, Rice

Bottom Line: The Lobos would of course rather be on the other side of 100, but they have to be happy with where they stand considering their approach. New Mexico, like Air Force, recruits more unique players in the sense that they bring in loads of JUCO players. They aren’t in a fertile recruiting state and overall recruit like a bottom tier Group of 5 school.

San Diego State

2019 Ranking: 94

Closest Comparisons: Nevada, Arkansas State, Tulane, UTSA

Bottom Line: The Aztecs had a down year on the field, but still ended up with a class that was in the top half of the


In Gene Roddenberry's first television production, the 1963-64 NBC series The Lieutenant, Koenig played a significant role as noncom Sgt. John Delwyn, who is recommended for Officer Candidates School by the series protagonist, Lt William T. (Tiberius) Rice, played by Gary Lockwood; (in episode 27, "Mother Enemy", aired on 4 April 1964). The plot twist, at the height of the US-Soviet Cold War, is that Sgt Delwyn's visiting mother is a prominent, and politically active, American Communist Party member. This sets up various interesting plot tensions involving Delwyn, Rice, and Rice's CO, Capt. Rambridge, played by Robert Vaughn.

I was only one of two people who auditioned for the part, which is quite extraordinary. Considering that this has so materially affected the last 35 years of my life ...a couple of hours after I auditioned I heard that I had gotten the role.

Koenig played Ensign Pavel Chekov, navigator on the USS Enterprise, in the original Star Trek television series (starting in Season 2) and in all of the films featuring the original cast (including Star Trek: Generations). One of only two actors to audition, he was cast as Chekov almost immediately primarily because of his resemblance to British actor/musician Davy Jones of the Monkees. Show creator Gene Roddenberry hoped that Koenig would increase the show's appeal to young people.[5][6] As the 30-year old's hair was already receding, costume designers fashioned a Davy Jones-style "moptop" hairpiece for him. In later episodes, his own hair grew out enough to accomplish the look with a comb-over.[7] (The studio's publicity


department, however, falsely ascribed the inclusion of Chekov to an article in Pravda that complained about the lack of Russians in Star Trek.[5]) Roddenberry asked him to "ham up" his Russian accent to add a note of comic relief to the series. Chekov's accent has been criticized as inauthentic, in particular Koenig's substituting the "w" sound in place of a "v" sound (e.g., "wodka" for "vodka"); Koenig has said the accent was inspired by his father, who had the same difficulty with the "v" sound.[4]

Most of Koenig's fan mail indeed came from children, and the high volume of letters contributed to him soon receiving a contract as a regular cast member; this surprised Koenig, who had been told that Chekov would be a recurring role.[5][6] When the earlySeason 2 episodes of Star Trek were shot, George Takei (who played Sulu) was delayed while completing the movie The Green Berets, so Chekov is joined at the Enterprise helm by a different character. When Takei returned, the two had to share a dressing room and a single episode script. This reportedly angered Takei to the point where he nearly left the show, but the two actors have since become good friends, to the point that Koenig was the best man at Takei's wedding in 2008.[8] The image of the two characters at the helm and navigation stations of the Enterprise became iconic.[9]

Koenig's Chekov character never appeared in the animated Star Trek for budgetary reasons; however, he is credited with writing an episode of that series titled "The


Infinite Vulcan", making him the first cast member to write a Star Trek story for television.

After Chekov, Koenig had a recurring role as Psi CopAlfred Bester on the television series Babylon 5. He was a "Special Guest Star" in twelve episodes and, at the end of the third season, the production company applied for an Emmy nomination on his behalf. He was slated to play Bester on the spin-off series Crusade, but the series was cancelled before his episode was filmed. The character name of "Alfred Bester" was an homage to the science-fiction writer of the same name.

Koenig's film, stage, and TV roles span fifty years. He has played roles ranging from a teenage gang leader (Alfred Hitchcock Presents) to Scandinavian fiance Gunnar in the Gidget episode entitled"Gidget's Foreign Policy": COMBAT! s.1 ep.12: "The Prisoner" (1962) Minor role as soldier on guard duty, to a Las Vegas entertainer (I Spy), and a minor role in the TV series Mannix, in a 1968 episode called "Delayed Action". He also had a short role in the 1976 Columbo episode "Fade in to Murder". He returned to space with a starring role in Moontrap and played a futuristic dictator in the video game Maximum Surge.[10] The game was later cancelled, but considerable footage from it was recycled for the film Game Over, with Koenig's dialogue dubbed over in order to retrofit his performance into the role of a computer hard drive. During the early 90's he starred in a touring production of the play "The Boys in Autumn",


playing a middle aged Tom Sawyer, who reunites with childhood friend Huckleberry Finn. Fellow Trek actor Mark Lenard played Finn. In addition to acting, he has written several films (Actor, I Wish I May, You're Never Alone When You're a Schizophrenic), one-act plays, and a handful of episodes for TV shows: Star Trek: The Animated Series, Land of the Lost, Family and The Powers of Matthew Star. He has also written several books, including Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe (an autobiography), Chekov's Enterprise (a journal kept during the filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot (a science fiction novel), which was re-released in 2006. He created his own comic book series called Raver, which was published by Malibu Comicsin the early 1990s, and appeared as a "special guest star" in an issue of the comic book Eternity Smith, which features him prominently on its cover.[11] In 2013 he released the graphic novel "Walter Koenig's Things To Come" with artist J.C. Baez, published by Bluewater Comics, which compiled the 4 issues of the mini-series of the same name.[12]

In 1989, Koenig starred in the science fiction film Moontrap as Mission commander Colonel Jason Grant.

In 1997, Koenig starred in Drawing Down the Moon, an independent film about a Wiccan woman who attempts to open a homeless shelter in a small Pennsylvania town. Koenig played Joe Merchant, a local crime lord obsessed with chaos theory who sends his thugs to intimidate her into shutting down the shelter.

In 2004, Koenig co-starred


in Mad Cowgirl, an independent movie about a meat-packing health inspector dying from a brain disorder in which he played televangelist Pastor Dylan. The movie played the SF Indiefest and the Silverlake Film Festival, followed by a limited release in major cities. Mad Cowgirl was released on DVD on December 5, 2006.

In 2007, Koenig was asked by the human rights group U.S. Campaign for Burma to help in their grassroots campaign about the humanitarian crisis in Burma. As detailed on his official website, he visited refugee camps along the Burma-Thailand border from July 16 to July 25, 2007.percent on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange late Friday after news of the Canadian incident leaked out. The spike, however, is for live cattle contracts scheduled for delivery beginning this spring, and economists say if the incident is contained and limited to the one animal, prices should stabilize again.

Canadian officials are reporting that mandatory ear tags on the diseased cow have provided information on where the animal was born, on a farm in Alberta. But the cow was not tested or diagnosed for the disease until after it was delivered to another farm. The Canadian Cattlemen's Association (CCA) report the animal was a breeding cow.

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CCA spokesman John Masswohl


be seriously affected, data from Canada's Agriculture Department and Agri-Food Canada show that year-over-year beef and veal exports plummeted more than 17 percent the last time an infected cow with BSE was identified in 2011.

Canadian food inspectors were able to trace back the place of birth from the cow's ear tag because ID tags on cows have been mandatory since 2009 to help contain a wide spread outbreak of animal diseases. The tags are designed to help contain and eradicate animal disease by making it easier to trace individual livestock animals from birth to death.

CFIA officials report the farm where the cow was discovered and a second farm where the animal was born are under quarantine until inspectors can conduct testing of all other animals on the premises.A. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a stator of a torque converter, and particularly a stator of a torque converter having thin blades.
B. Description of the Background Art
A torque converter typically includes an impeller, a turbine and a stator, and is operable to transmit torque via a working fluid that fills an interior thereof. The working fluid operates for transmitting torque in a radially outer region of the torque converter flowing from the impeller to the turbine, and then flows from the turbine to the stator, and subsequently flows back to the impeller.
The stator is disposed between the impeller and the turbine in a radially inward portion of the torque converter. The stator is usually supported on a one way clutch mechanism. The one way clutch


step down after a Brexit vote next month, few Conservative MPs expect the Prime Minister to survive for long if that happens. Johnson would be the clear frontrunner to succeed him.

Immigration is not the only issue on which Johnson has changed his mind. I remember when he used to say the EU was good for the City of London. After his unexpected last-minute conversion to the Brexit cause, he insisted the City would “flourish mightily” outside the bloc. Johnson admits he has changed, but claims the EU has changed more.

Many Conservative MPs are convinced that Johnson made a calculated decision that, with two out of three Tory party members backing Brexit, backing a Leave vote would enhance his leadership prospects more than sticking with Cameron, as the PrimeYurie Nagashima has won great acclaim for her startlingly intimate self-portraits and portrayals of family life, in which she has photographed herself and her family in the nude. Sure, such subject matter and approach are common enough these days, but for a Japanese woman in the mid-nineties these strategies created quite a sensation. She received the prestigious Kimura Ihei award (sharing it with Mika Ninagawa and Hiromix) in 1992 and the Parco Award a year later, both while still in college. She and Hiromix were acknowledged as the first "girl photographers" (onna no ko shashinka) and went on to inspire a new generation of young female image makers (following their success, enrollment of women in photo programs rose to about 50%!). Though both Hiromix and Nagashima work in


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September 1989 Comic Book Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Comics Preordered by North American Comics Shops

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September had a reputation as a sales-killer of a month in previous years of the 1980s, particularly in 1986's "Black September"; it was a familiar enough phenomenon that Diamond Comic Distributors owner Steve Geppi wrote retailers in August 1989 cautioning them to "not accept the thought that sales may go soft when school reopens." The market did indeed weaken, but not by as much as feared: Capital City Distribution's retailer magazine called it "Gray September," a "soft landing" after robust growth in the summer. "There are more customers spending money in comics shops than there were six months or a yearago," Milton Griepp wrote, and that fact definitely helped.

The theatrical run of Batman was finally winding down by September 1989, but Batmania in comics shops was still going, in part because retailers were only then receiving comics ordered after the movie's June release. "A Lonely Place of Dying" continued in the main Batman title, keeping the book's sales ahead of Uncanny X-Men. But it was a different Batman comic book in the July-for-September distributor catalogs that would — inadvertantly! — change the future of comics.

Keeping to its pre-1995 month-overlapping solicitation practices, DC solicited in the July-for-September catalogs the October 10 launch of Legends of the Dark Knight #1, the first new Batman title in years (although it wouldn't actually have "Batman" in the title until issue #37). Aimed


copy stock in less than a week.

So it was that the most successful single-issue comic book release of the 1980s, with preorders over 750,000 copies in the Direct Market alone, also was one of the first major variants — although, again, the four-cover element came along after all the orders were already in. (Nothing was mentioned about it in Previews, naturally.) But ultimately, the comic book provided a template for more deliberate variant cover programs to follow, ones which were marketed well in advance to target collectors.

The other major release of the month was also a Batman product — and it, too, had significant future impact. Priced at $24.95, Batman: Arkham Asylum — solicited in the catalogs for September but apparently not out until October 3 — hadmore than twice the dollar volume of Legends #1, meaning that both the highest-circulation comic book and the highest dollar product for any single month in the 1980s were both solicited in the July-for-September catalog. The book showed clearly what an original graphic novel could potentially earn.

So September 1989's comics orders had two different lessons: That some consumers would try to collect all versions of a comic, no matter how minor their differences; and that there was an appetite for quality hardcover releases. Both lessons were still impacting the industry decades later.

The raw version of the chart below was published in the August 28, 1989 Diamond Dialogue. It was still a newsletter, at that point; only issue names and prices appeared. We've added publishers and ship dates, and


worth of DC comics from September — and are missing the first two weeks' comics, which appeared in Diamond's June charts. This would continue until March 1995, when DC would realign its solicitations with the Direct Market's calendar month (that chart only included three weeks of DC sales). Because Diamond did not report indexed sales, there is no way to know where those comics would have landed in this month's chart.

Click to skip to the Top Graphic Novels for the month.

—John Jackson Miller

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 100 chart, plus items that appeared in Diamond's dollar sales table.

Items marked (resolicited) were offered in an earlier month but never shipped; disregard any previously reported figure, as earlier orders were canceled when the books were resolicited.

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A Saturday Night to Remember

I had been battling the early stages of a cold since Wednesday night, so by the time we got to New York City, I was a congested, snotty mess. That evening, however, we had reservations to WD-50, a popular restaurant on the Lower East Side owned by whimsical chef (and sometimes Top Chef guest judge) Wylie Dufresne, so I put on my game face and a nice outfit despite not feeling 100% healthy.

During the middle of our meal, Jason excused himself to find the bathroom. He disappeared for several minutes, prompting me to text him with “Did you dine and


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Previous winners of the Notre Dame Award, which recognizes dedication to faith, peace, justice and care for the vulnerable, have included Mother Teresa and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. This is the first time the award has been given to a group or individual in Mexico.

Father Jenkins compared the mothers’ grief


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The Colectivo and workers they hire with their own money —raised through food sales, raffles and donations —started with no outside help. They now have the support of a university archaeologist and forensic experts from the federal police, who excavate and process evidence once members of the Colectivo have located a potential criminal burial site.

The group was formed in 2014 in the face of government inaction on cases of missing persons, some of the casualties of a 12-year government war with drug cartels. Estimates include over 130,000 homicides related to criminal conflicts; more than 30,000 disappearances, some forced; and more than 320,000 displaced people to date.

The mothers decided to dig in areas rumored to be mass graves on their own. As a result of theirlabor, they received an anonymous tip in 2016 — a map showing the location of graves in Colinas de Santa Fe, the undeveloped, secluded hillside behind a housing subdivision.

Father Jenkins will formally present the award to the Colectivo at breakfast in Mexico City on Tuesday. He led a Notre Dame delegation to Mexico that including Chief of Staff Ann Firth, the Rev. Gerard Olinger, Vice President for Mission Engagement and Church Affairs, Michael Pippenger, Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization, and Paul Browne, Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications.

Originally published by Kathy Corcoran at news.nd.edu on October 15, 2018.


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with political and military prowess only.

One must also refer to some well-known authors who dealt with the study of heroes, such as Joseph Campbell and his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a book still serving as a primer in religious science courses at universities in the USA, but also a book which influenced many Hollywood moguls. Although Campbell never addressed the notion of the hero from a racial perspective, the fact that he sat on the editorial board of the Mankind Quarterly and that he had once upon a distant time allegedly cracked a small joke in front of his colleagues about the Jews earned him the title of “anti-Semite,” , a label not usually associated with heroism.

Also worth mentioning is the book On Heroes, Hero-Worship,and the Heroic in History by the 19th-century Scottish author Thomas Carlyle in which he sorts out heroes according to their religious, poetic and military endowments. Carlyle’s rejection of liberal democracy and his good knowledge of German culture predictably earned him a century later, in the aftermath of World War II, the label of “an early fascist thinker.” Moreover, one must emphasize that historically, the notion of the hero has been differently internalized by thinkers and masses in continental Europe and differently in Great Britain or in the USA. According to the German sociologist Werner Sombart, who was often quoted in anti-liberal and later on in nationalist academic circles in Germany prior to World War II, the Germans are the “people of heroes”, as opposed to the English


the Russian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, can be tentatively described with the triple label: heroes-rebels-heretics. They both fought the System, whether in its liberal or its communistic form. Solzhenitsyn, after having denounced Soviet communism — an act which earned him briefly a calculated praise from the US ruling class — did not hesitate to denounce in turn the so-called freedom-loving USA. He returned from America to his post-communist Russia. Similarly, Pound, after having been sequestered for several years in an American lunatic asylum for his earlier rebel Fascist stance, when returning in 1958 to Italy declared upon his arrival that he had left America because “all America is an insane asylum.

One must make an additional distinction, this time between the mythical heroes in Western literary heritage and the real heroesyou/.

By contrast, in National Socialist Germany the same Schiller was praised to the skies, albeit through differently worded official eulogies and different academic interpretations. In his drama The The Robbers (1781), Schiller depicts an armed gang’s leader Karl Moor who is always eager to first dispense the stolen goods to the local poor, yet who by his sheer association with other violent gang members could easily pass off today as a modern terrorist — or, short of that, fall short of some folkish road warrior Mad Max. Schiller’s other medieval hero, widely praised in academic circles all over Europe and whose name is used as an official state symbol of Switzerland, is the crossbow-toting hero from the same drama, Wilhelm Tell (1804) who could also be described as


become a pattern for incessant inter-Christian, inter-White wars, Inquisitions and barbarism. At the moment when Corneille was in the process of finishing his play Polyeucte, a gigantic inter-Christian, inter-White carnage, known as the Thirty Years War, was taking place in the heart of Europe, resulting in millions of the German dead. Well, what counted for the poet Corneille was cozying up to his pious protector, the Christian King Louis XIII, and thus secure his literary fame on the winning side of the theological and political barricades in Europe.

The morale one can deduce from Polyeucte’s iconoclastic behavior, irrespective of his love for his hidden Semitic mentors Yahweh and Jesus, may be a lesson for all contemporary self -proclaimed “White heroic leaders” tapping incognito on their computer boards, waiting fora miracle to happen without incurring any personal risk. Their alibis must be always ready. If a White hero hopeful goes viral with the display of his heroic insignia, his mama can raise hell, his lady can ask for divorce, or worse he may get fired, or even much worse his mugshot can be posted at a local police precinct. The seventeenth-century author Pierre Corneille was on the safe ground with his narrated hero Polyeucte, being himself already on secure Catholic turf in France. This was not the case with his cherished Christian hero model, the early third-century Polyeucte who had dared to rock the boat of political correctness and paid a heavy price for it in the pagan Roman Empire.

A bit later, in the eighteenth century, with


System to clamp-down on free speech.

Hero’s Genie Unbottled

With all heroes’ gods and home-grown spirits being well stored and secured, nobody can guarantee a hero that his invisible ghostly protectors may not take a sudden revenge on him. Even if a hero is absolutely devoid of hubris and truly thinks of himself as a man of character, his unbottled spirits may act out in an unpredictable fashion. And then the hell breaks loose — which can last for eons. Even his best insights into the secrets of the stars, which the Habsburg warlord Albrecht von Wallenstein excelled at during the Thirty Years War in Europe, could not prevent him from getting assassinated by the very same people who days earlier had pledged to protect him from all political vagaries.

Inhero model as put forward by the earlier Marxist mystique and its subsequent political institutionalization in Bolshevik Russia. By the late twentieth century, after the collapse of communism, few would take those heroes seriously today and even less people would bother reading Marx’s books now.

Similar is the case with thousands of American and European intellectuals who thought that heroic life could be best achieved by embracing National Socialism or Fascism. Many outstanding authors projected their own autobiographic examples on a future world-improving hero. Many of those White writer heroes could masterfully handle both the pen and the gun. The authors George Orwell and Ernst Hemingway are still viewed by many liberal and leftist commentators as outstanding heroes who combined the soldier’s prowess with literary talent in their fight


against what were alleged to be the fascist dark ages. Conversely, the ideal of the heroic man was equally a trademark of thousands of talented nationalist writers and warriors, such as Léon Degrelle or Ernst Jünger, with each in his own peculiar way, depicting the coming end times of the European White man.

A renowned communist, the French novelist Henri Barbusse, the author of the novel Inferno, is an outstanding visionary source for a better understanding of the spiritual drama faced by a young couple on the treadmill of a merciless capitalist system. Barbusse, with his former soldier’s skill and his literary background placed therefore high hopes in the communist super hero Stalin:

This is an iron man. His name depicts him: Stalin — steel. He is as unflinching andProtection from secondhand smoke in countries belonging to the WHO European Region: an assessment of legislation.
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in 19th-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox. The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection of netsuke. Entranced by their beauty and mystery, he determined to trace the story of his family through the story of the collection.

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of modernistart as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic talent ever assembled. It begins in October 1900, as a teenage Pablo Picasso, eager for fame and fortune, first makes his way up the hillside of Paris' famous windmill-topped district.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.

The Nightingale

Audie Award, Fiction, 2016. From the number-one New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah’s next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn


of World War II. She is the author of twenty-one novels. Her previous novels include Home Front, Night Road, Firefly Lane, Fly Away, and Winter Garden.

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation

Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind, where they would come face-to-face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became partof everyday life.

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world and are among the most beloved works of art of the past century. Yet, ironically, these soothing images were created amid terrible personal turmoil and sadness.

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to


the North Atlantic.

Commonwealth

One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly - thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.

The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

When John Snare, a 19th-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young - too young to be king - and yet also too young to be painted by the Flemish painter to which the work was attributed. Snare had found something incredible - but what? His research brought him to Diego Velázquez, whose long-lostportrait of Prince Charles has eluded art experts for generations.

Circling the Sun: A Novel

Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe, who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships.

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

In the tradition of John Richardson's Picasso, a commanding new biography of the Italian master's tumultuous life and mysterious death. For four hundred years Caravaggio's (1571-1610) staggering artistic achievements have


thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory - the murder of Ranuccio Tomasini, the doubt surrounding Caravaggio's sexuality, the chain of events that began with his imprisonment on Malta and ended with his premature death - has long confounded historians.

The Wright Brothers

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel

In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted asa master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain - a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her.

The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)

The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into


womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Parisand father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures

What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The Art Detective, Philip Mould, one of the world's foremost authorities on British portraiture and an irreverent and delightful expert for the Roadshow, serves up his secrets and his best stories.

Go Set a Watchman: A Novel

An historic literary event: the publication


of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, best-selling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.

The Japanese Lover

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender loveaffair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart.

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939 - and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement.

A Man Called Ove

Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short


fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell". But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness.

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary - one who was equally ambitious but who possessed sharply contrasting strengths and weaknesses.

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.

A Great Reckoning: A Novel

When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older


adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But must. And there he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map.

The Marriage of Opposites

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's belief in her strengths and her deep, lifelong friendship with Jestine, Adelle's daughter. But Rachel's life is not her own.

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"The Lady in Gold", a portrait considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the 20th century's most recognizable paintings, made headlines all over the world when Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt, the most famous Austrian painter of his time, completed the society portrait.

Anne-Marie O'Connor, writer for the Washington Post, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, tells the galvanizing story of the Lady in Gold, Adele Bloch-Bauer, a dazzling Viennese Jewish society figure; daughter of the head of one of the largest banks in the Hapsburg Empire, head of the Oriental Railway, whose Orient Express went from Berlin to Constantinople; wife of Ferdinand Bauer, sugar-beet baron.

The Bloch-Bauers were art patrons, and Adele herself was considered a rebel of fin de siècle Vienna (she wanted