party included Lloyd Morrisett, then-vice president of the Carnegie Corporation.

The concept for Sesame Street was shaped by the social movements of the 1960s and growing progressive politics that, on a national scale, had seen the implementation of the Johnson administration’s “War on Poverty.” The resulting 1965 Head Start program would target low-income pre-school aged children for early intervention with educational, health and nutritional assistance and other social services.

In 1968, the Children’s Television Workshop was founded, with money from Carnegie, the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting–a creation of the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act, which, for the first time, authorized federal funds for the production of culturally enriching content for public television. The Workshop’s first project was Sesame Street, which would debut the following year.

When it premiered,Spock predicted early on that Sesame Street would result in “better-trained citizens, fewer unemployables in the next generation, fewer people on welfare and smaller jail populations.”

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THAT MAY be a more than a slight overstatement, but the show struck a nerve from its debut on November 10, 1969. Nearly 2 million households tuned into the first episode. By the end of its first season, 7 million children a day were watching the show. Ten years after it began, according to Davis, some 9 million American children under the age of 6 were watching Sesame Street daily–and 90 percent of children from low-income inner-city homes regularly viewed the show.

Sesame Street was unique in the approach


it took: geared toward urban kids, the “street” was set in an urban landscape, complete with graffiti, peeling paint and trash cans (the street has a more “cleaned-up” look today) and a multigenerational and multiracial cast.

This ruffled some feathers. In 1970, a state commission in Mississippi briefly banned the show because of its integrated cast. “Mississippi was not yet ready” for the multiracial cast, one member of the commission told the New York Times. The vote was reversed when the story made national news.

Linda (actress Linda Bove) was the first regular deaf character on American television. And today, Leela (Nitya Vidyasagar) is one of the only Hindu characters.

Much of the joyous nature of the show is due, of course, to late-puppeteer Jim Henson and his Muppet monsters. (Cooneyhad insisted that either Henson create the puppets for the show, or no puppets be used at all.)

Initially, the humans and monsters were never supposed to interact–the “street” scenes were for humans only, while the monsters would appear in various skits or interspersed segments. Child psychologists had advised the show that young children would be confused by the combination of the real world and Muppets. But when producers tested early episodes, they found that children were fascinated by the monsters and utterly bored by the human scenes.

The decision was made to create Muppets to interact with the humans–and Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch were born. Big Bird remains, in many ways, the heart of the show: a 4-year-old trapped in an eight-foot-tall yellow-feathered body. He has the


Will Lee, who played shopkeeper Mr. Hooper–the most popular character on the show.

Lee was an amazing figure in his own right–an early proponent of Method acting and a member of the left-wing Worker’s Laboratory Theater and the Theater of Action during the 1930s. He was also a victim of the McCarthy blacklist after he refused to testify when called before the anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee in 1948.

After Lee’s death, it was decided that a new actor would not be hired to replace him, Instead, the show dealt with his death on air, in a famously poignant episode [1], that included the grown-ups explaining to Big Bird that Mr. Hooper would not ever be coming back, and that people die “just because.” In other words, Mr. Hooper’s death– – – – – – – – –

THE IMPORTANCE of the show extends far beyond the U.S. It “has arguably had an even greater impact overseas, especially in places like Kosovo and South Africa, where the show is made in partnership with local TV producers and tailored to local concerns,” noted the New York Times.

In 2002, Takalani Sesame, the South African version of the show–in which Bert speaks with a black South African accent and Ernie with a white one–debuted a Muppet named Kami, an orphan who was infected with HIV. At the time, one in every nine South Africans was infected with HIV.

Yet people with AIDS still faced tremendous prejudice, and the government of Thabo Mbeki openly denied the value of medication to treat the virus.


their dialect, reflect their own communities, and deal with issues they face daily will give them a smile–and ultimately hope.

Although the show is careful to avoid direct references to political conflict, it consciously explores the trauma that Palestinian children experience through metaphorical avenues–showing the community working together to repair damage after a storm, for example.

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AS THE New York Times noted, “The show’s original intent was to present enjoyable and beguiling preschool education to poor children who did not have access to decent preschools while bringing diversity to children’s programming. Sesame Street wasn’t the only children’s show with a social message…But it was the mixture of whimsy, pop music and didactic rigor that distinguishedgives designers and design studio teams the ability to use 3D sketched curves to create a model with surface modeling or subdivision surface modeling tools within CATIA. By directly transforming a 2D sketch into a 3D digital product, inconsistencies between the design intent and reality can be avoided, resulting in dramatic improvements in design quality.

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smaller animals, and Florida residents – in Cape Coral in particular – have blamed it for their murdered pets as well.

A cousin of the Komodo dragon, the Nile Monitor is a threat to small mammals, reptiles, fish, owls and tortoises. And officials are trying to mitigate that threat with an aggressive campaign to rid the Sunshine state of the prowling, five-foot lizard.

Patrols go out up to six times a month – any lizard spotted is shot. They’ve killed about 20 of them, The Week reported, and want to kill as many as they can before they start to procreate. And there’s likely a ton of them out here.

The five-foot lizard’s favorite spots are along the waterways and canals of Palm Beach County. They’ve flourished in the Florida heat,The transformation of southern agriculture and the migration of blacks and whites, 1930-1940.
The causes of the migration of both blacks and whites from the U.S. South between 1930 and 1940 are examined. The author challenges the hypothesis that the root cause of this migration was the mechanization of agriculture and suggests that the primary cause was the crisis in cotton farming that occurred during the depression of the 1930s. "Large farm owners secured aid from the federal government in the form of agricultural subsidy payments. In response to this program, they reduced their cotton acreage, bought tractors, and displaced their tenants. This transformation drastically reduced the need for tenant labor and brought about the large-scale migrations. Regression analyses of relevant data confirm this interpretation."


The “Watergate Scandal” And Constitutional Crisis

The “Watergate Scandal” and constitutional crisis that began on June 17, 1972 with the arrest of five burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee (DMC) headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington D. C. It ended with the registration of President Richard M. Nixon on August 9, 1974. (Watergate) At approximately 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972 five men were arrested at the Watergate Complex. The police seized a walkie talkie, 40 rolls of unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock picks, pensized teargas guns, and bugging devices. (Gold, 75)

These five men and two co-plotters were indicated in September 1972 on charges of burglary, conspiracy and wire tapping. Four months later they were convicted and sentenced to prison termsby District Court Judge John J. Sercia was convinced that relevant details had not been unveiled during the trial and offered leniency in exchanged for further information. As it became increasingly evident that the Watergate burglars were tied closely to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Committee to re-elect the president. (Watergate) Four of these men, that were arrested on the morning of June 17, 1972, ame from Miami, Florida.

They were Bernard L. Barker, Frank A. Sturgis, Virgillio R. Gonzalez, and Eugenio R. Martinez. The other man was from Rockville, Maryland named James W. McCord, Jr. The two co-plotters were G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt. (Watergate) The senate established and investigative committee headed by Senate Sam Ervin, Jr. , to look into the growing scandal. As


they were investigating, they related that the famous break-in was far more involved than what everyone had expected. (Watergate) The White Houses involvement of that morning first became evident when James McCord rote a letter to Judge Sirca.

In this letter McCord explained that he wanted to disclose the details of Watergate. He made it apparent that he would not speak to a Justice department official of an FBI agent. Although his letter did unveil details, it made server chargers. McCord justified that “Political pressure” (Westerfled 36) had generated many defendants to plead guilty and remain silent. He also claimed that there had been whiteness at the trail who had committed perjury in order to protect the people who headed the brake-in. McCord declared that he, his family, andhis friend may be n danger if he spoke out. Westerfled 36-37)

The Senate Watergate Committee saw their chance to unravel the mystery of this scandal. The offered James McCord a chance to speak publicly. In his first meeting with representatives of this committee he named two more people that he claimed were involved in the burglary and cover-up. Theses two men were John Dean and Jeb Margruder. Margruder was the second-in-charge of the CRP and Dean was a White House aid. After hearing these substantial accusations the Senate Watergate Committee promptly subpoenaed John Dean and Jeb Margruder.

After the next session with James McCord he took the whiteness stand and explained how Liddy had promised him an executive pardon if he would plead guilty. This began to question the


House they would be singled out for tax investigations. The White House also kept an “Enemies List” (Westerfled 43) of people that the presidents men wanted revenge on.

After being fired, dean kept official documents that supported his statements. (Westerfled 43-44; John Dean said, is his opening statements, that he had discussed the cover-up with president Nixon in several meetings. At the first meeting, in September 1972, he told the president how he and other members of the White House had handled the cover-up so far. Dean claimed that in another important meeting with Nixon, on March 21, 1973, the president agreed $1 million should be raised to silence the burgalers.

However Dean said that he dealt with the president mostly through H. R. Haldman and John Ehrlichman. (Gold 266-308;Westerfled Dean faced the committee for four days of Questioning, after his pening statement. During these four days the republicans focused on what happened in these meetings between Dean and the president, which was the only evidence the president. The question that Senator baker asked and was being wondered throughout the nation was, what did the president know and when did he know it? (Westerfled, 43) The Nixon administration tackled Dean’s reports of the two meetings.

They claimed that the March 21, 1973 meeting was the first Nixon had heard of the cover-ups. The White House’s version was they the president had rejected the burglars’ blackmail. (Hearings 02) For the first time in this intriguing scandal the president himself had been accused. This was the greatest blow the Nixon


White House had sustained. “polls showed that 70 percent of TV viewers believed Deans version of the event” (Westerfled, 43). But who was to be believed? It was John Deans Word against Richard Nixon’s. Gold 669-670; Westerfled, 43) The committee then made a shocking discovery, only a few weeks after Deans testimony.

As the committee was managing a routine aid, they asked him how the White House administration came up with their version of what happened in the meeting s of Dena and Nixon. His response was that the meetings had probably been recorded Alexander Butterflied explained that the White House had been equipped with a recording system. They were installed in his two offices, the Oval Room “The taping device was spring load to a voice actuation situation.(Gold 436)

In Alexander Butterfields testimony he said that the recording system was installed to help preserve all documents. The only people who knew of these recording devices were the president, Haledman, Kigbe, Butterfield, and the secret service Now the committee had stumbled across exactly what they were ooking for, a way to prove the presidents innocence of guilt. The tapes of the meeting s between Dean and Nixon were lying some where in the White House. These tapes would show which of these men were lying and if the president of the united States had been involved in a criminal conspiracy.

Although when the senate asked him for the tapes On July 17, 1973 the Senate Committee went directly to the president about their request. Congress wanted the tapes


of all the important meetings. President Nixon refused. The Committee decided to subpoena the tapes that afternoon. (Westerfled 45) On the same day, July 17, 1973, special Prosecutor Archibald Cox had also subpoenaed the tapes. He declared that they were significant for the grand jury’s criminal investigation. This was the first time anyone had ever subpoenaed the president of the United States, and Nixon has two subpoenas in one day.

Although the White House claimed that neither Congress nor the special prosecutor had the right to demand evidence from the executive branch and refused to obey. (Westerfled 45) This started a powerful struggle. The Senate Committee wondered if they could find the president in contempt of congress which would e a serious legal charge. But they didn’t know whowould be a serious legal charge. But they didn’t know who would arrest him since the president controlled the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Armed Forces.

The committee had to think quick and come up with another way to get the tapes. Cox and the grand jury was going to sue for the tapes in federal court. The committee decided to follow the special prosecutor’s lead. (Westerfled 43) Both lawsuits went to Judge John Sirca, the same judge who presided the trials of the Watergate burglars. Judge Sirca charged the president to turn over the tapes to he special prosecutor. When the White House Appealed the decision the case went to the Federal Court of appeals. (Westerfled 43) Another scandal in the White House shocked the nation.

The


Department of Justice announced that they had been investigating Vice President Spiro T. Anew for taking large bribes in return for government contracts. He then resigned from office October 10, 1973. (Westerfled On October 15, 1973 the court of appeals sustained Judge Sirca’s ruling and demanded that the president give the subpoenaed tapes to the Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox. Nixon ordered Cox not to ubpoena any more tapes, although Cox said he would do so. Cox also told him that if he refused he would find him in contempt of the court. Westerfled 45)

Nixon was beyond furious. Cox was a employee of the executive branch and questioning the authority of the president. Nixon ordered Richardson’s deputy attorney general William D. Ruckelshavs to fire Cox. He also refused andwas fired. The third-ranking Justice Department official, Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, was now acting as Attorney General. He agreed to fire Cox. This event was called the “Saturday Massacre. ” (Westerfled 48) The nation raged in anger. So Nixon agreed to hand the tapes over to Sirca’s court and appoint a new Special Prosecutor.

The new prosecutor was Leon Jaworski. Jaworski was a very well known lawyer and accepted the offer on the one condition that Nixon could not fire him. (Westerfled 48-49) As the presidents lawyers were going over the tapes preparing them for the special prosecutor they made an alarming discovery. During a conversation between Nixon and Haldman there was an 18-minute gap. This made the nation lose even more faith in their On April 11,


1974 Special Prosecutor Jaworski demanded the White House turn over 69 more tapes.

Once again the Supreme Court ruled that Nixon had to supply the subpoenaed tapes. (Westerfled 51-54) “On July 27-30, the House Judiciary Committee, whose public hearings had disclosed evidence of illegal White house activities, recommended that Nixon be impeached on three charges: obstruction of Justice, abuse of presidential power, and trying to impede the impeachment process by defying committee subpoenas. ” (Watergate) Millions of people watched the committee vote on television. There were twenty-seven votes for the impeachment and only eleven against it.

He was accused of misuse of his authority and also violating the constitutional rights of citizens by ordering the FBI and Secret Services to spy on American citizens. The last thing he was chargedwith was refusing to obey congress’s subpoenas. Nixon had broken his oath to up hold the law. (Watergate) With the impeachment vote against him, Nixon would have to stand trial before the U. S. senate. Two-thirds of the senate would have to vote for impeaching the president. Nixon would be removed from office. (Westerfled 46) On August 5, 1974 the White House released an verdue transcript of the tapes.

The recording was from June 23, 1972, only a week after the break-in. This tape told how Nixon ordered Haldeman to tell the CIA to cease the FBI”s investigation of Watergate. These tapes made it clear that Nixon was involved in the cover-up from the beginning. (Westerfled 56) At nine o’clock August 8, 1974 Nixon made his last speech as


president Richard M. Nixon. He only admitted loosing the support he had from Congress. He said “I have never been a quitter, to leave office before my term is complete is abhorrent to ever instinct in my body.

But, as president, I must put the interest of America first. America needs a full-time president and a full-time Congress. Therefore, In shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. ” The next morning Nixon addressed a tearful White House staff. He then boarded a helicopter and began his journey home to San Clemente, California. (Westerfled 57) At noon the Vice President, Gerald R. Ford, was inaugurated. He became the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He told the American people in his first speech “Our long national nightmare is over.of the ocular examination was normal. There was no strabismus. Based on inspection of photographs taken prior to eyelid surgeries, the typical signs of BPES were also present in a son and a nephew of the proband. Photographs of the affected brother were not available, but family history indicated that he had BPES and underwent in his childhood two eye lid surgeries. Atypical ocular phenotype of the probands mother has been published previously. Ophthalmologists need to be aware about the phenotype of BPES, with the potential for visual impairment, and the need for personalized management in the affected families.Key words: blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus, phenotype, FOXL2.


Image copyright AP Image caption If firms are targeted, Gazprom would probably be high on the list

The European Union and the US have been imposing sanctions on Russian and Ukrainian individuals. As the diplomatic crisis intensifies, further economic action could happen.

What action has been taken so far?

On 6 March, the European Union and the US agreed a staged approach. It started with the immediate suspension of talks on closer economic cooperation between the EU and Russia, and on preparations for the forthcoming G8 Summit in Sochi.

The EU is also putting into place plans for closer financial and political cooperation in support of the new Ukrainian government.

Following the Crimean referendum on 16 March, the EU and US carried out their threat to target individual Russians and Ukrainians.

The US orderedthe freezing of assets and travel bans on 11 individuals, while the EU imposed such sanctions on 21 people.

The EU later added another 12 individuals to its sanctions list, and the US announced further sanctions on individuals and against the Rossiya bank.

But are these just sighting shots?

Political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic made it clear that further action would follow after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty to annex Crimea from Ukraine.

The EU's potential sanctions list is thought to include more than 100 people.

When the sanctions were first introduced, mainly politicians and officials were targeted by the EU and the US.

But the effects of new sanctions on individuals such as Russian businessmen have started to ripple out.

Visa and Mastercard are reported to have stopped processing


includes alloy wheels, nuts and bolts for armoured vehicles, handheld radios, and visors for pilots' helmets.

The UK, along with France and the US, has suspended joint naval exercises, which would have included a Royal Navy ship visit to St Petersburg.

Could more sanctions be imposed?

The EU and US could seek to isolate Russia by severing diplomatic links.

Another option might be to attempt to remove Russia from international bodies such as the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund or World Bank.

Also, President Vladimir Putin has been very keen to bolster co-operation on investment, research and education.

Marginalising him on the international stage could be a blow to Moscow's prestige, although it is unlikely to do much damage economically.

That said, the EU and US will not want to cut off dialogue withMedia playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The many faces of David Bowie

Singer David Bowie, one of the most influential musicians of his era, has died of cancer at the age of 69.

A statement was issued on his social media accounts, saying he "died peacefully, surrounded by his family" after an "18-month battle with cancer".

Tributes have been paid from around the world to the "extraordinary artist" whose last album was released days ago.

Sir Paul McCartney described him as a "great star" who "played a very strong part in British musical history".

Bowie's son Duncan Jones, who is a Bafta-winning film director, wrote on Twitter: "Very sorry and sad to say it's true. I'll be offline for a while. Love to all."

Image copyright AP Image caption Crowds of


fans have gathered in tribute to Bowie at a mural in his birthplace of Brixton, south London painted by street artist James Cochran, aka Jimmy C

The artist's hits include Let's Dance, Changes, Space Oddity, Starman, Modern Love, Heroes, Under Pressure, Rebel Rebel and Life on Mars.

He was also well known for creating his flamboyant alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

The singer, who had been living in New York in recent years, released his latest album Blackstar only last Friday, his birthday.

The album has been well received by critics and was intended as a "parting gift" to the world, according to long-time friend and producer Tony Visconti.

Visconti wrote on Facebook: "His death was no different from his life - a work of art."

He added: "He was an extraordinary man, full oflove and life. He will always be with us."

Blackstar is on course to be number one in the UK this Friday, according to the Official Charts Company, with combined sales of more than 43,000.

Hundreds of fans have gathered in his birthplace of Brixton, south London, to pay tribute to the singer, laying flowers and candles at his mural and taking part in an impromptu sing-along of his hits.

There have also been crowds outside his New York home and in Berlin where he lived in the late 1970s.

David Bowie in numbers In a career spanning 51 years £135m estimated net worth* 140 million albums sold since his first release in 1967

111 singles - averaging more than two a year during his career

51 music videos, along with a number of


film roles including The Man Who Fell to Earth and Labyrinth

25 studio albums, including Blackstar, which was released two days before his death Getty

Sir Paul McCartney said he would "always remember the great laughs" the pair shared, saying in a statement: "David was a great star and I treasure the moments we had together.

"His music played a very strong part in British musical history and I'm proud to think of the huge influence he has had on people all around the world."

Friend and collaborator Brian Eno said: "David's death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now."

'Light of my life'

The Rolling Stones paid tribute to "an extraordinary artist" and a "true original".

Brian May, guitarist with Queen - withwhom Bowie collaborated on Under Pressure - described him as "a fearsome talent".

Friend and collaborator Iggy Pop wrote on Twitter: "David's friendship was the light of my life. I never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there is."

Madonna said she was "devastated", writing on Facebook that Bowie "changed the course" of her life after she saw him perform - her first ever concert.

"I found him so inspiring and innovative," she wrote. "Unique and provocative. A real genius."

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption David Bowie spoke about music, drugs, and the internet in this BBC interview in 2000

Comedian and actor Ricky Gervais, who convinced Bowie to star as himself and ridicule Gervais in an episode of 2006 sitcom Extras, simply wrote: "I just


lost a hero. RIP David Bowie."

Midge Ure, who helped organise the Live Aid concert in 1985 - at which Bowie performed - said: "He wasn't just a brilliant songwriter and an amazing creator, he excelled at everything."

Will Gompertz, BBC Arts editor

David Bowie was the Picasso of pop. He was an innovative, visionary, restless artist: the ultimate ever-changing postmodernist.

Along with the Beatles, Stones and Elvis Presley, Bowie defined what pop music could and should be. He brought art to the pop party, infusing his music and performances with the avant-garde ideas of Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Andy Warhol.

He turned pop in a new direction in 1972 with the introduction of his alter ego Ziggy Stardust. Glam rock was the starting point, but Ziggy was much more than aneyeliner-wearing maverick: he was a truly theatrical character that at once harked backed to pre-War European theatre while anticipating 1980s androgyny and today's discussions around a transgender spectrum.

He was a great singer, songwriter, performer, actor, producer and collaborator. But beyond all that, at the very heart of the matter, David Bowie was quite simply - quite extraordinarily - cool.

Read more: An ordinary chap who did extraordinary things

Chris Hadfield, the former commander of the International Space Station who recorded a video of a version of Space Oddity during his final mission, said his "brilliance inspired us all".

Yoko Ono said Bowie was "as close as family" for her and late husband John Lennon, describing him as a "father figure" for their son Sean.

Image copyright 2016: mark.harward53@hotmail.com Image caption This picture,


showing Bowie performing on saxophone at a youth club at Biggin Hill in May 1963, is believed to be one of the first images of him on stage

Bowie was born David Jones in Brixton, south London, on 8 January in 1947. He changed his name in 1966 after The Monkees' Davy Jones achieved stardom.

He was in several bands before he signed with Mercury Records, which released his album Space Oddity in 1969, with the title track becoming his first UK number one.

His breakthrough came with 1972's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.

Image copyright AP Image caption Bowie performing at Live Aid alongside Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney and Bob Geldof

Mark Savage, BBC Music reporter

David Bowie changed music forever. Throughout his career, he reinventednot just his sound but his persona over and over again.

He was a proudly progressive composer, drawing on any genre that came to mind - from the hippy folk of Space Oddity to the crunching industrial rock of 1995's Outside album and his ambitious, jazz-flecked swansong Blackstar, released just last week.

His style shifted with the sands, but he was always recognisably David Bowie.

That powdery voice - vibrating off the back of his teeth - is unmistakable; while his impressionist lyrics had a constant theme - he was an outsider, an alien, a sexually ambiguous spectre.

Read more: A career that shaped modern pop

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption In this archive documentary clip, David Bowie explained how he used 'cut ups' to create lyrics

Bowie also carved


out a successful acting career, including his role as an alien seeking help for his dying planet in Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1976.

Other roles included Labyrinth, Cat People, The Last Temptation of Christ and The Hunger.

The late 1980s were dominated by Bowie's involvement with his new band, a postmodernist heavy metal outfit, Tin Machine.

The 1990s saw him flirting with drum-and-bass on the Earthling album, while his 2002 album Heathen saw a long-awaited return to form for the singer.

Image copyright Photoshot Image caption Bowie attended the Theatre Workshop in New York last month for the premiere of Lazarus

He headlined Glastonbury in 2000 - his first appearance there since 1971.

Festival founder Michael Eavis told the BBC: "He's one of the three greatest in the world,ever - Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and David Bowie. There's no-one else even close."

Bowie was thought to have suffered a heart attack in 2004, after which he largely stopped making public appearances. His last live performance was at a New York charity concert in 2006.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Was Lazarus David Bowie singing his own epitaph?

But after a decade without a studio album he released The Next Day in 2013, surprising fans who thought he had retired. It became his first UK number one for 20 years.

He co-wrote Lazarus, a musical featuring his songs and inspired by his role in The Man Who Fell to Earth, which opened in New York last month.

And a truncated version of Blackstar, the title track of his


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UEFA fined AS Roma and warned their forward Adem Ljajic on Wednesday following incidents during last week's Europa League last-32 game against Feyenoord. Roma were fined 10,000 euros ($11,000) for......

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Montgomery Circuit Judge Ronan Shaul last week denied Moore’s request to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Leigh Corfman. Shaul also recently denied a request by Moore to move the lawsuit from Montgomery to Etowah County, Moore’s home county. Etowah is also the county where the misconduct accusations raised by Corfman were said to have occurred in 1979.

Corfman is among several women who said Moore sexually pursued them decades ago when they were teens and he was a prosecutor in his 30s. The claims became a central issue in a special U.S. Senate race in Alabama. Moore, a Republican, denied the


plus a single green 0 slot. These wheels were predominantly used in Europe, hence the name and offer the player the lowest house edge compared to the American wheel. This is also sometimes known as French Roulette due to the fact that the game originated in France.

Column Bet – An outside bet which is placed at the end of one of the three rows of numbers on the layout and which covers all the numbers contained within that column. This bet offers a payout of 2/1.

Corner Bet – An inside bet which is placed on the corner at which four single numbers on the layout meet. If any of the numbers connected to the corner comes up, you win the bet at odds of 8/1.

Dozen Bet – Anmoney bets. This is also known as the Surrender rule.

Layout – The layout is the grid where all roulette bets are placed.

Street Bet – A line bet is when a player places their chip at the top of a line of three numbers on the layout. The bet then covers these numbers and is won if the ball lands in the slot of any of the three numbers covered by the bet. A Line bet pays out at 11/1 and it is an inside bet.

Odd Bet – An outside bet placed on an odd number being selected on the next spin of the reel. This pays out at even money.

Outside Bet – Outside bets are bets on the layout that are at the edges of the layout, hence


pays out at odds of 35/1.

Six Line/Double Street Bet – An inside bet placed at the top or bottom of the line that divides six adjacent numbers on the layout. This bet covers those six numbers, three each side of the dividing line and it pays out at odds of 5/1.

Surrender – A rule also known as La Partage, where the player who makes an even money bet will receive half their stake back to them if the ball lands in the green zero or double zero slots.

D’Alembert System – A betting system used in roulette and other casino games where the player adds one chip to their bet after a losing bet, but removes one chip from their bet following a successful bet. It is based onthey would like to win and then writes down a list of positive numbers which add up to the desired sum. With each bet the player stakes the amount determined by the two numbers at the start and end of the list. If the bet is successful, the two numbers are crossed off the list. If the bet loses, the total loss is added and this amount added to the end of the list. The process is then repeated until either all numbers are crossed off – and the player wins the stated amount – or the player runs out of money.

Martingale System – An exponential betting system where the player starts off betting at the lowest unit and upon losing, makes their next bet double the size


Armstrong story dampens Froome’s achievements

AFP, PARIS

From left, Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme, Monnaie de Paris CEO Christophe Beaux and French Ambassador to the UK Bernard Emie present a set of coins to British cyclist and last year’s Tour de France winner Chris Froome at a Tour de France event at the French ambassador’s residence in London on Dec. 16.

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Almost every year cycling reaches peak interest at the end of July with the culmination of the Tour de France, but last year was the year in which Lance Armstrong ensured January saw the sport’s defining moment.

Armstrong took to the US airwaves to finally admit what everyone already knew; that he had been a drugs cheat throughout his career.

Accepting an invitation from the queen of US chat-show hosts,Oprah Winfrey, whose inexperience as an investigative reporter — or perhaps due to contractual obligations — made for a rather shallow and unrevealing admission, Armstrong began the quest to rebuild his reputation by coming clean.

He admitted to have taken doping products, notably the blood-booster EPO, throughout all seven of his record number of Tour de France successes, of which he had already been stripped by the US Anti-Doping agency (USADA).

However, he stopped a long way short of lifting the lid on the hows, whys and who were involveds of his sordid past, leaving many viewers feeling a sense of frustration at having been told no more than was already widely suspected.

However, the end of that long-running saga, which had seen Armstrong relentlessly pursued by journalists aiming to uncover


his dodgy dealings throughout his career, and then by a subsequent federal inquiry followed by a USADA investigation, promised to cast a shadow over the entire season.

And so it proved as Briton Chris Froome’s excellence and domination of the greatest race of them all was accompanied by a steady stream of unsavoury speculation.

Time and again Froome was forced to answer questions about doping, about whether he was involved and about whether cycling could emerge from its tainted past into a clean, future.

Froome was majestic, winning the Grand Boucle by more than four minutes from Colombian climber Nairo Quintana.

He also did so without the dominance from Team Sky that his teammate and predecessor Bradley Wiggins had the previous year.

He crashed in the neutral zone on the very first stagein Corsica, effectively lost two teammates to crashes early in the race and was left isolated on stage nine, the day after his imperious victory up Ax 3 Domaines had put him in yellow.

Only gritty determination ensured he lost no time to the relentless attacks launched by a particularly sprightly Movistar team, whose leader, Alejandro Valverde, would eventually be eclipsed by younger statesman Quintana.

Froome’s super-domestique Richie Porte had cracked that day, but he came back to form in the final week to help his leader extend his lead with victory on Mont Ventoux.

It capped a fine year for Froome in which he won the Tour of Oman, Criterium International, Tour de Romandie and Criterium du Dauphine, while finishing second in the Tirreno-Adriatico.

It was a polar opposite year for


Wiggins, who had decided to take on the Giro d’Italia only to be forced to withdraw after stage 12 following a miserable race in which a crash and puncture had lost him time before he then lost his bottle on wet descents and eventually caught a cold to boot.

He pulled out of his Tour de France defense due to injury and refocused on the World Championships time-trial, but although he was dominant in that discipline the previous year, winning Olympic gold, this time he finished second to Tony Martin, who won for the third year in a row.surrounded Montgomery Regional
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The City of Brantford has declared a state of Emergency due to the ongoing flooding crisis impacting the neighbourhoods of Holmedale, Old West Brant and Eagle Place. Public in those areas are STRONGLY URGED to evacuate immediately. Evacuation Details: https://t.co/HfpxaZ3q86 — City of Brantford (@CityofBrantford) February 21, 2018

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Mayor Friel said pets can be brought to the centre where they will be picked up andJanet Jackson eying independent music career

London, Sep 4, Pop queen Janet Jackson is considering shunning record labels to release her own music, after finding herself without industry backing for the first time in her career.

The singer signed a contract with A&M Records at the age of 16 in 1982 before moving to Virgin Records in 1991 as part of a record-breaking deal. She left the company in 2007 to sign another multi-million agreement with Island Records, which came to an abrupt end a year later after the release of just one disc.

Express.co.uk reports, Janet, who is as of now taking time away from the music scene to concentrate on her movie career, is hoping that when she returns, the singer is open to taking complete control of her


operating system that the Milestone contains, a better screen and a sexier look.

It's also easy to see why Google has got fed up with mobile phone manufacturers putting its increasingly elegant Android software into a bunch of ugly bricks and decided that it needed to be in complete control of its own handset in order to stop the iPhone stealing the smartphone show. From the uninspiring T-Mobile Pulse and the chunky Motorola Dext to the HTC Hero, with its weird "chin", and the temperamental Samsung Galaxy i7500, Android devices have hardly been trend setters.

The Motorola Milestone continues disappointingly in that vein. It is a similar size to the iPhone, though slightly heavier and when placed on its side so that the qwerty keyboard slides out – in anhis last regular essay on the CBS newsmagazine.

CBS said he died Friday night in New York from complications from a recent surgery.

Rooney, also a syndicated newspaper columnist, talked about what was in the news. But he was just as likely to use his weekly television essay to discuss the old clothes in his closet, why banks need to have important-sounding names or whether there was a real Mrs. Smith who made Mrs. Smith's Pies.

He won three Emmy Awards, including one for his story revealing there was no Mrs. Smith.

Rooney began his "60 Minutes" commentaries in 1978 and was still at it three decades later, railing about how unpleasant air travel had become. "Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week


next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days," he told viewers.

"I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought," Rooney once said. "And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that."

In early 2009, as he was about to turn 90, he looked ahead to Barack Obama's upcoming inauguration with a look at past inaugurations. He told viewers that Calvin Coolidge's 1925 swearing-in was the first to be broadcast on radio, adding, "That may have been the most interesting thing Coolidge ever did."

Rooney wrote for CBS stars such as Arthur Godfrey and Garry Moore during the 1950s and early 1960s, before settling into a partnership with newsman Harry Reasoner. With Rooney asthe writer, they collaborated on several news specials, including an Emmy-winning report on misrepresentations of black Americans in movies and history books. He wrote "An Essay on Doors" in 1964, and continued with contemplations on bridges, chairs and women.

"The best work I ever did," Rooney said. "But nobody knows I can do it or ever did it. Nobody knows that I'm a writer and producer. They think I'm this guy on television."

Rooney angrily left CBS in 1970 when it refused to air his heated essay about the Vietnam War. He went on TV for the first time, reading the essay on PBS and winning a Writers Guild of America award for it.

He returned to CBS three years later as a writer and producer of specials. Notable among them


was the 1975 "Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington," whose lighthearted but serious look at government won him a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting.

"A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" aired on "60 Minutes" for the first time on July 2, 1978. Rooney complained about people who keep track of how many people die in car accidents on holiday weekends. In fact, he said, the Fourth of July is "one of the safest weekends of the year to be going someplace."

The segment of Rooney's musings quickly became a favorite feature of television's oldest and most successful newsmagazine. Comic Joe Piscopo satirized Rooney's squeaky voice with the refrain, "Did you ever wonder ..."

Rooney's words occasionally got him in trouble, too. CBS suspended him for three months in 1990 for allegedlyracist remarks in an interview, which he denied making. Gay rights groups were mad during the AIDS epidemic when Rooney mentioned homosexual unions in saying "many of the ills which kill us are self-induced." Indians protested when Rooney suggested that Native Americans who made money from casinos weren't doing enough to help their own people.

The Associated Press learned the danger of getting on Rooney's cranky side. In 1996, AP television writer Frazier Moore wrote a column suggesting it was time for Rooney to retire. On Rooney's next "60 Minutes" appearance, he invited those who disagreed to make their opinions known. The AP switchboard was flooded by some 7,000 phone calls.

"Your piece made me mad," Rooney told Moore two years later. "One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive.


boy on the Albany Knickerbocker News while in high school. College at Colgate University was cut short by World War II, where Rooney worked for the GI newspaper Stars and Stripes. With another former Stars and Stripes staffer, Oram C. Hutton, Rooney wrote four books about the war. They included the 1947 book, "Their Conqueror's Peace: A Report to the American Stockholders," documenting offenses against the Germans by occupying forces.

Rooney and his wife, Marguerite, had four children and lived in Rowayton, Conn. Daughter Emily Rooney is a former executive producer of ABC's "World News Tonight."another option in order to arrive at a purchase decision. This view tended to manifest itself in a couple of conspicuous ways. The first was a model of buyer behavior introduced by John Howard in 1963 in the second edition of his marketing textbook and quickly adopted by virtually every theorist working in our field---including, Howard and Sheth (of course), Engel-Kollat-&-Blackwell, Franco Nicosia, Alan Andreasen, Jim Bettman, and Joel Cohen. Howard's great innovation---which he based on a scheme that he had found in the work of Plato (namely, the linkages among Cognition, Affect, and Conation)---took the form of a boxes-and-arrows formulation heavily influenced by the approach to organizational behavior theory that Howard (University of Pittsburgh) had picked up from Herbert Simon (Carnegie Melon University). The model represented a chain of


Cruise Nite wins Outstanding Event Award

NEBRASKA CITY — Nebraska tourism industry members on Wednesday night handed out annual awards, including one for Kearney’s Cruise Nite.

The Celebrate Nebraska Awards Banquet event closed out the annual Nebraska Tourism Conference organized by the Nebraska Tourism Commission and hosted by Nebraska City Chamber of Commerce. General Manager/CEO of the Nebraska Rural Radio Association Craig Larson with help from Gov. Pete Ricketts and Nebraska Tourism Executive Director John Ricks announced the following 2018 Nebraska Tourism Industry Award winners:

The Outstanding Event Award for communities with populations 10,000 or greater was awarded to Cruise Nite in Kearney. Every year, during the third week of July, visitors from all over Nebraska and adjoining states flock to Central Avenue in Kearney for Cruise Nite. Visitors experience sixfull days of activities, including 500 vehicles lining the streets of downtown Kearney, a parade with cars from every decade, drag races and more. The event is an economic boon for the city, bringing the entire community together and supporting local attractions and businesses. This year’s event saw record participants and spectators with an estimated 38,000 people.

The 2018 Henry Fonda Award, the state’s highest tourism award representing leadership, vision, and dedication to the tourism industry, went to Pat Coldiron of Seward. She is the current owner and operator of the Liberty House Bed and Breakfast in Seward, a historic 129-year-old house with an attached antique store and gift shop. She began her tourism career as the administrative assistant at the Seward Chamber of Commerce, advancing eventually to the


position of chamber executive. She promoted tourism while serving as the Seward Chamber of Commerce executive director for decades and upon retiring, she continues to participate in the tourism industry. Pat continues to guide and direct the local Seward County Tourism Committee, owns and operates “Tall Grass Prairie Tours,” has served on the Seward Fourth of July Celebration Committee, served as the co-chair of the Holiday Christmas Festival in Seward and personally took on the task of revamping the Seward County tourism brochure. Pat has dedicated more than 30 years to promoting and growing the tourism industry in her state and community.

The Friend of Tourism Award went to the Omaha World-Herald and the Nebraska Community Foundation for the Better Half Series. Omaha World-Herald writers Sarah Baker-Hansen and MattHansen in collaboration with the Nebraska Community Foundation traveled the state of Nebraska, writing about the amazing discoveries they found along the way. Their articles were published in the Omaha World-Herald and eventually were made into a book in 2017. The Nebraska Community Foundation provided support for this collection of stories that celebrates the intriguing, fascinating and often surprising treasures that make Nebraska such a special place.

The Outstanding Event Award for communities with populations up to 9,999 went to the 97th Annual Nebraska’s Big Rodeo in Burwell.

The Outstanding Marketing Campaign Award for communities with populations up to 9,999 went to Knox County Visitors Committee.

The Outstanding Marketing Campaign Award for communities with populations 10,000 or greater was awarded to the North Platte/Lincoln County Visitors Bureau for the Group Tour


Viewmaster Campaign.

The winner of the Outstanding Agritourism & Ecotourism Entity Award was given to the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln.

The Outstanding Tourism Attraction Award was given to the Oregon Trail Ballpark – Home of the Western Nebraska Pioneers in Gering.("R+"). R+ monitors, analyzes and reports on computer hardware failures. In 1979, Reliability entered into a License and Marketing Agreement with University Computing Company ("University Computing"); in 1984, Reliability and University Computing modified the 1979 Agreement and replaced it with a new License and Marketing Agreement ("the 1984 Agreement"). The 1984 Agreement granted University Computing the right to use, sub-license, market and distribute R+ for a period of 99 years within the territory of North America, Central America and South America ["the Territory"]. In August 1987, University Computing was acquired by Computer Associates, which assumed University Computing's rights and obligations under the 1984 Agreement.
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A St. Louis County police sergeant alleges in a lawsuit against the department that he was told to "tone down" his gayness if he wanted a promotion.

Sgt. Keith Wildhaber St. Louis County Police

Sgt. Keith Wildhaber, a 22-year veteran of the department, also alleges he was passed over for promotions and reassigned after he filed a discrimination complaint in April 2016, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Wildhaber said in the lawsuit that nearly all of his peers were promoted even though he ranked third in promotions tests and received "superior" ratings in all categories in performance reviews.

"(The department) believes plaintiff's behavior, mannerisms, and/or appearance do not fit the stereotypical norms of what a 'male' should be," according to the lawsuit.

The sergeant alleges that John Saracino, a member of the department'scivilian police board in 2014, told him that his being gay was a problem.

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"The command staff has a problem with your sexuality. If you ever want to see a white shirt (get a promotion), you should tone down your gayness," Saracino allegedly told Wildhaber.

On Wednesday, Saracino denied that allegation.

"I never had a conversation like that," Saracino said. "I would never say anything like that. That's not me."

Saracino later resigned from the board amid criticism for asking Police Chief Jon Belmar to write a letter of support to a federal judge who was sentencing Saracino's nephew in a marijuana ring.

A St. Louis County police car Lucas Jackson / Reuters

Wildhaber filed a discrimination


complaint in April 2016 with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Missouri Commission on Human Rights. He said a short time later he was reassigned from afternoon shifts to midnights in a precinct about 30 miles from his home.

A Justice Department report critical of the St. Louis County police response to protests of a police shooting in 2014 in Ferguson suggested that the department create a diversity council to advise commanders on issues regarding a variety of people — including ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and linguistic minorities.

The department has not acted on the recommendation, said Sgt. Shawn McGuire, a spokesman for Belmar.

"Our main focus in recruiting is attempting to recruit outstanding candidates who want to become part of our organization, no matter what their status, race,In this episode:

In this episode Deb and Lisa engage in a thoughtful conversation about body image, the mind-body connection, the transformational effect athletics has on girls of all ages. As a teen coming-of-age on the cusp of the passage of Title IX, Lisa shares how her life-long love of sport has served to be salvation for dark times in her life.

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conceive something. Fact that these things had been conceived in those days, proves there was something of this nature: Tripura Guv on Tripura CM's statement 'internet existed in Mahabharat era' pic.twitter.com/AcgzLhUfHS — ANI (@ANI) April 18, 2018

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has claimed that the Internet and sophisticated satellite communication system existed in the days of Mahabharata, drawing criticism from various quarters.

In the Mahabharata, it has been mentioned that Sanjay gave a live relay of the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas to the blind king Dhritarashtra, Deb said at a regional workshop on public distribution system (PDS) computerisation and reforms last evening.

"Communication was possible because our technology was sophisticated and developed during those times. We had the Internet and satellite communication system. It is notlike the Internet or media wasn't available in the age of Mahabharata," the chief minister said.

"I do not know what happened in the middle age though, between the Mahabharata era and now," Deb said.

Some European countries and the US claim that the modern communication system were their invention, but "we had all these technologies in ancient times", he claimed.

The CM said he was proud that he was born in a country which had the "best communication system" and "best culture" in the whole world.

"Modern technology and digitisation should be used to check corruption and protect secrecy in the administration," he asserted, adding that his government will dedicatedly work to ensure welfare of the poor and backward people.

BJP leaders have often come up with bizarre theories about ancient India


and Hindu traditions.

Union minister Satypal Sing had a few months ago debunked Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, saying it was wrong and the changes need to reflect in the school and college curriculum.

"Nobody, including our ancestors, in written or oral, said they saw an ape turning into a man, the minister had said.First published by Viking in 1967, The Outsiders immediately resonated with young adults. This groundbreaking novel was like nothing else out there?it was honest and gritty, and was a deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy, a young man who finds himself on the outside of regular society. Forty years later, with over thirteen million copies sold, the story is as fresh and powerful to teenagers today as it ever was.

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According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A


greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. This classic, written by S. E. Hinton when she was 16 years old, is as profound today as it was when it was first published in 1967.

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Ponyboy is fourteen, tough and confused, yet sensitive behind his bold front. Since his parents' death, his loyalties have been tohis brothers and his gang, the rough, swinging, long-haired boys from the wrong side of the tracks. When his best friend, Johnny, kills a member of a rival gang, a nightmare of violence begins and swiftly envelops Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events.

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NEW YORK — More than half a century after he died in the flaming crash of a CIA-owned cargo plane and became one of the first two Americans to die in combat in Vietnam, a legendary soldier of fortune known as “Earthquake McGoon” is finally coming home.

The skeletal remains of James B. McGovern Jr., discovered in an unmarked grave in remote northern Laos in 2002, were positively identified on Sept. 11 by laboratory experts at the U.S. military’s Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii.

They will be flown back to the mainland next week for a military funeral in New Jersey on Oct. 28, said McGovern’s nephew, James McGovern III, of Forked River, N.J.

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28, and a French crew chief. Two cargo handlers, a Frenchman and a Thai, were thrown clear and survived.

Ho Chi Minh’s communist forces captured Dien Bien Phu the next day, ending a 57-day siege that had captured the world’s attention. It signaled the end of French colonial power in Indochina, and helped set the stage for the 15-year “American war” that ended with the fall of the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government in 1975.

Although civilians, the swashbuckling McGovern and Buford, an ex-World War II bomber pilot, were the first Americans to die in combat in the Asian country where war would later take nearly 60,000 American and more than a million Vietnamese lives.

Flying for spooksIt was no mystery in 1954 that the United States was supporting colonial France againstVietnam’s communist-led rebellion, and “McGoon” was already famous for his exploits when he was killed.

The only secret was that his employer, a charter airline called Civil Air Transport, or CAT, “was owned by the CIA — lock, stock and barrel,” Felix Smith, a retired CAT pilot and McGovern friend, said in an interview in 2002. (It was not until the 1990s that the CIA-CAT connection was finally declassified.)

The CIA is arranging for James McGovern III to fly to Hickam Air Force Base near Honolulu and escort his uncle’s remains home, he said.

The CIA did not immediately return a call for comment.

Dr. Thomas Holland, director of JPAC’s Central Identification Laboratory, said McGovern was the only the second person ever identified through “nuclear” DNA from a male relative — a


Taiwan after Chiang’s 1949 defeat. In 1950 it was secretly acquired by the CIA, and continued to fly commercially as a cover for clandestine activities. Three years later it was detailed by the Eisenhower administration to Indochina, flying supply missions for the French with its planes’ insignia painted out.

Ultimately, CAT morphed into Air America, the “CIA airline” that operated in Laos and South Vietnam during America’s Vietnam War.

CIA compelled to join in searchMcGovern’s exact fate was unknown until a French visitor learned of the crash during a 1959 visit to the Laotian village of Ban Sot. That report was suppressed by the CIA, Smith said, but after a private historian found it in French files years later, a group of former CAT pilots led by Smith persuaded theCIA to back a search effort.

In 1997, an American MIA team investigating an unrelated case found a C-119 propeller at Ban Sot, and a JPAC photo analyst spotted possible graves in aerial photos. Excavation in 2002 uncovered remains that turned out to be McGovern’s.

JPAC experts are still seeking the remains of co-pilot Buford, one of 35 civilians among 1,797 Americans still unaccounted for in Indochina.

James McGovern III said his namesake uncle will be buried with military honors in Basking Ridge, next to his brother John, a former sportswriter who died in 2001.

James McGovern III said that as a Purple Heart recipient in World War II, his father was eligible for burial at Arlington National Cemetery, but had expressed hope of one day lying next to his long-lost brother.


Metromedia Plus, which handles the advertising for Montreal’s buses and metro (subway) system and metro stations, Central Station, Place Bonaventure, and Quebec City’s transit shelters, has made another key appointment, naming Claude Lamoureux as vice-president and general manager.

Lamoureux is a long-standing media executive who recently held the position of vice-president, account services and media, at Montreal-based advertising agency bleublancrouge.

He has sat on the board of the Media Directors of Quebec as well as on various competition juries, and has headed the media planning courses within the Applied Communications Program at the University of Sherbrooke.
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Metromedia Plus is now owned by Cogeco Inc. which acquired the out-of-home advertising firm earlier this year, placing it in its Cogeco Diffusion subsidiary through which it also owns and operates radio stations.

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Lopez announced during a news conference with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday that she would give money from her ongoing Las Vegas residency to various charities in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Lopez says she's also enlisting the help of her boyfriend, former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, and her ex-husband, Marc Anthony.

The 48-year-old Lopez was born in New York to Puerto Rican parents. She says she still has family on the island that she has yet hear from.

Fellow singer Ricky Martin has donated $100,000 to the relief effort and launched an online fundraiser. Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee is sending four truckloads of supplies donated by his fans.The Army’s internal study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the invasion.

As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein. It was a Marine colonel -- not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images -- who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said. And it was a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi undertaking.

After the colonel -- who was not named in the report -- selected the statue as a “target of opportunity,” the psychological team used


law that has recently changed in this Circuit, we REVERSE and REMAND for reconsideration.

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Plaintiff-appellant William T. Erwin, Sr., a warehouseman at the Anniston Army Depot in Anniston, Alabama, was injured on February 9, 1984, by workplace exposure to toxic soda ash.  Some of the ash, which was stored in appellant's warehouse, had spilled from its containers.  Erwin inhaled a quantity of the ash, allegedly suffering chemical burns to his eyes and throat, permanent injury to his vocal cords, and emotional and mental distress.  His co-plaintiff and wife, Emely Erwin, suffered a loss of his consortium.

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Charging that his injuries were proximately caused by the negligence of certain co-employees and supervisors, Erwin brought suit in Jefferson County Circuit Court on February 7, 1985.  The action wasnot a breed: When people identify a dog as a "pit bull,” they are typically referring to a dog with a short coat, medium build and blocky head. In fact, that umberella term can encompass up to 20 different breeds—including American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Bully and even the American Bulldog—not to mention those breeds mixed with others. Breeds like Olde English Bulldog, Presa Canario, Boxer and Bull Mastiff often get mistaken for "pit bulls" in the media, in police reports and even in shelters across the country. Visual breed identification is widely innacurate, so the only way to know if the dog sitting right in front of you is a "pit bull type dog" is through a DNA test. Which is


and spread. Sherwood refers to the hands as being in a prayer-like position. Sherwood teaches that in this position, the putter is stroked using only the golfer's wrists in a manner similar to a croquet mallet: the golfer, facing the hole, pivots the wrists to draw the club back between the legs and then pivots the wrists forward to move the club forward and through the ball toward the hole. The putter face is substantially perpendicular to the flat planar grip when stroked in this manner. Sherwood's method and putter is contrary to the accepted norm that the upper body muscles are preferred in stroking a putt and its use is contrary to the rules of golf. Specifically, a golfer is not permitted to stand astride the intendedSaturday, March 30, 2013

With too much awesome realness to spend overmuch time with an iPad, limited internet, and 1000s of photos to organize, I've decided to post highlights of my time in San Pedro now and add specific event-based posts from home in the coming weeks.

It was a painful joy to select down to the photos below - ¡disfruten!

San Pedro from the road to San Juan

Street near my homestay

I am charmed by so many people here, including this old guy

and the staff at the Cooperativa Spanish School, represented here by the gardner, Delfino.

This is the home where I'm living this visit, belonging to María, José, and their 7-year-old son Felix (both sides and the story below the black water tank).

The dining room and kitchen on the roof (note


and made an apron for me.

Here I am in my new traje after 6am Easter mass.

The true highlight of every trip here is time spent with the Beca kids and their families - nothing else comes close. Here you see Mynor leading the way to to the next house. With labyrinthine lanes, no street names or house numbers, and parents who speak only Tz'utujil, I would literally and figuratively be lost without him.

I enjoy sharing photos of my family, town, and favored activities with the students and their families. I also print photos to give to each student along with small gifts, an agate from Oregon, and an 8 gig flashdrive for their studies.

With Rosario and her mother

Lucia Adamari and her mother

Sometimes there are bonuses like Beca sponsorswho are visiting,

(Adam and Lissa and daughters with Rosario's family, Mynor, and me)

and babies,

(Candelaria's mom and new brother William)

(the hand of Eneyda's baby niece)

and livestock gifts which I unfortunately must refuse. I love the look on Ana Petronila's face.

I also love seeing the kids and their families around town. Here is Petronila working in her aunt's shoe booth at the market,

Candelaria at her father's jewelry stall,

Emilson at the typing school,

María Concepción and her father,

acolyte Francisco in a night procession,

Miguel's great grandmother in the park,

and María Ujpan Tuch (left) launching a 3 pointer - swish!

I was overjoyed to visit the recently completed home of our very 1st Beca student, Andrea Guadalupe Navichoc Pacay. This is the 2nd home completed by the Cooperativa School's Kamoon home building project, an incredible


upgrade from corn stalks.

I also visited the home of Petronila and her 4 kids; they are next in line for a new home and funding is nearly 80% complete.

I have loved the beautiful garden and rustic fixtures at the Cooperativa School since 1st studying there with my amiga Sylvia in 2007. In the next few weeks, the school will move to these gorgeous new digs.

There was not enough time this visit for a big all-in celebration dinner for the students and their families. Instead, I took the kids out for pizza, 1 group at a time. The groups were delineated by the school year the kids became Beca scholarship recipients: 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

San Pedranos don't like ketchup on their fries but they love it on pizzaand invited the other families to meet me in the park Monday or 2sday evening.

José Antonio and his parents - note the new shoes

Juana Micaela and her family

The family of María Cecilia, in orange

Evelin Elena with her baby daughter, not so happy brother, and mother

Aside from the Beca Project, the big focus this week has been celebrating Semana Santa - Easter week.

Leaving the church after Palm Sunday mass

Workers decorating the church with fruit

Mynor explained to me some traditional games he played as a child. The woody husks of these palm pods house fragrant strands of seeds used in decorating

and make great sleds.

Here a group of boys plays a traditional game using bees wax while the local fife and drum guys provide the soundtrack.

There has been at least 1


Semana Santa procession every day and sometimes 2. Here's a station on the route of a night procession

and a dawn procession arriving at the church.

These women are transporting the fruit that will decorate the church and the streets around it

and these kids are participating in their own special procession, host kiddo Felix in white.

Sometimes watching the watchers is as interesting as watching the parade - lovely old woman with sweater that matches the decorated lamp post.

Beginning at around midnight on Good Friday, groups from the Catholic church decorated the streets of the procession route with alfombras (carpets) made of fruit, flowers, pine needles, and brightly-colored sawdust.

I got to help. :-)

The largest procession was the morning of Good Friday. Large andas (heavy wooden barges) are slowly carried by groupskids - Felix and cousins make their own procession complete with a plastic representation of a swinging incense burner, overhanging fruit, and stuffed animals on a home made anda.

About Me

I've been a teacher for more than 34 years, recently retired from directing Structured Learning Centers for kids with autism and multiple disabilities in The Dalles, Oregon. I did my undergraduate work at Lewis & Clark College and my SpEd Masters at Portland State University. Gaining conversational ease in Spanish is an important professional and personal goal for me and I find attending Spanish schools in Latin America and volunteering with local organizations both productive and addictive. I'm hoping to help others with their goals along the way and have developed the Live and Learn in Latin America program


to provide credit for immersion, volunteer, and cultural learning projects.
ALSO...In the course of my immersion studies in Latin America, I fell in love with the people of San Pedro La Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala and am working in cooperation with the Cooperativa Spanish School to match scholarship sponsors with promising students who would otherwise be limited to 6 years of school: BecaProject.orgfor Globus and Cosmos, Worldstrides and Educational Field Studies.

Gradually he started forming his own groups. Even though his break-even point was 30 passengers, he would often travel with only 10, losing money but working to gain traction as an operator.

Selinka was still working in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. He was 20 minutes late coming into the office that day and when he came up from the subway the North Tower had already been hit, but the South Tower, where his office was, had not been hit, and the Port Authority was telling people to go back to their desks because everything was under control. Of course he did not return to his desk.

Selinka’s Wall Street career didn’t last much longer after that. After six


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By 1954, Christiansen's son, Godtfred, had become the junior managing director of the Lego Group.[13] It was his conversation with an overseas buyer that led to the idea of a toy system. Godtfred saw the immense potential in Lego bricks to become a system for creative play, but the bricks still had some problems from a technical standpoint: their locking ability was limited and they were not versatile.[3] In 1958, the modern brick design was developed; it took five years


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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Malin to Mizen - 15 marathons in 15 days...15th-29th May 2015

Starting on the 15th of May, Michael Minehane from Clonakilty plans to run the length of Ireland over the space of 15 days. This is his itinerary...

15th May – Malin Head to Muff16th May – Muff to Letterkenny17th May – Letterkenny to Donegal 18th May – Donegal to Grange 19th May – Grange to Tobercurry20th May – Tobercurry to Knock21st May – Knock to Tuam22nd May –Recently I had the misfortune to be in a Days Inn, and, on CNN, which I’d turned on for the sake of companionship, was non-stop coverage of the horrible things Ariel Castro had done to his captives in Ohio. When I turned to online news sources, I read updates on a limo fire that killed a Bay Area newlywed and four of her friends, of whom two were mothers of young children. Meanwhile, the wire services informed me of more common horrors: an entire family killed in a car crash except for the dad, a toddler shot by a 5-year-old, a teen who died in a rolled-up gym mat.

Good thing I stay informed.

Confronted with such terrible stories, most of us, I suspect, have a reaction similar to the


Greek bonds at current depressed prices and retiring them; or striking a deal with the European Central Bank not to take profits on the €55bn in Greek bonds it holds. Officials said the eventual solution was likely to be a combination.

After the call, Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister who chairs the eurogroup, said he aimed to have the deal completed for the next formal meeting on November 12, though officials said it could be decided as early as next week if agreement was reached earlier. Staff for the "troika" of international lenders are due to present a detailed plan for closing the financing gap in a matter of days.

"We still have to decide on how to reduce the debt burden," said Olli Rehn, the EU's top economicthan 100 years, a rickety iron fence separated the black graves from the white ones at a cemetery in this East Texas town. Months after the brutal murder here of James Byrd Jr., a black man chained to a pickup truck and dragged to death by three white men on June 7, 1998, the fence was torn down by residents as a sign of unity and reconciliation.

Fourteen years later, Jasper City Cemetery remains segregated: Blacks, including Byrd, are buried near the bottom of the hill, while whites are buried at the top.

“It's our custom, here in the South, here in Jasper,” said Albert Snell, 80, a retired teacher who is white and a member of the cemetery's board of directors. “We have the same cemetery, but we don't


from last year, when the majority-black, five-member City Council voted to appoint Pearson, first as the interim and then the permanent chief.

Pearson had been a longtime state trooper in the area and was a former Jasper volunteer fire chief. But Pearson's selection was opposed by a number of white residents, who believed the council passed over more qualified candidates, including Gerald Hall, a white police captain at the time and a veteran of the department.

A group calling itself the League of Concerned Citizens circulated petitions to recall three of the four black council members who voted to hire Pearson, accusing them of “incompetence, misconduct and malfeasance in office.” Hundreds of people signed the petitions, and it appeared that all of them were white, according to a ruling ina lawsuit filed in connection with the recall effort.

Two of the three council members were recalled in November. When the new City Council was elected in May, it became a 4-to-1 white majority. Recently, one of the council's first acts was to vote, 4-1, to fire Pearson at a public meeting after council members and Mayor Mike Lout, who is white, questioned Pearson about his handling of the Police Department. Alton Scott, the black councilman, opposed the move.

“The whole thing is racist,” Scott said of Pearson's firing. “It's based on race. It has nothing to do with qualifications.”

Lout, who in May retained his seat after surviving a recall election, did not respond to requests for comment.

White residents opposed to Pearson said their concerns had never been about race,


but about his failure in his employment application to disclose bad checks he had written, including one that led to a 1990 misdemeanor arrest. They said Pearson and his supporters had unfairly labeled any criticism of him as racist, and that Jasper had had a long history of black leadership.

Three white council members — Mitch McMillon, Randy Sayers and Raymond Hopson —said their votes to fire Pearson stemmed from what they saw as his lackluster performance as police chief, and that firing him had nothing to do with race, though they believe the decision to hire him did.

“The chief of police needs to be someone of impeccable character, to demand the respect of his employees and officers and really the town,” said McMillon, who runs a senior centerof our family when his mother was married to my brother. I personally knew Rodney for many years, and I liked him. It's strictly based on performance. It had nothing to do with race.”

At the cemetery, one fence, the one separating the white and black graves, came down in January 1999, but a different one went up years later. A cast-iron fence surrounds Byrd's grave. In 2004, two white teenagers desecrated the grave with racial slurs and knocked over the headstone.


do get rain, that means soil erosion."

'It's cheered me up a lot'

Local grazier John Gross said when work was being done on his property, he had never seen so many rabbits before.

John Gross said rabbits have had a severe impact on his livelihood. ( ABC News: Stuart Bryce )

"I've been in Queensland all my life and rabbits are not supposed to be in Queensland," Mr Gross said.

"These rabbits have come in and just decimated the place and it's affected my income.

"One paddock where I used to run 40 cows, I can only run about 30 now."

Mr Gross said the work carried out on his property had provided a big morale boost.

"It should improve the carrying capacity a hell of a lot I reckon," he said.

"As soon as someWe are proud of our work

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beam bolt and tack welded to a weld plate coupled to the beam to provide a force resistive to rotational movement of the beam bolt.
Several problems with existing jet pump hold down beams in boiling water reactor plants have been discovered during the course of routine reactor servicing, such as during refueling outages. One problem has been the occurrence of cracking of the tack welds of the beam bolt keepers. Tack weld cracking necessitates re-welding of the keeper to the beam, a difficult procedure to perform under water and in the narrow confines of the reactor annulus. A more serious problem has been the discovery of hold down beam cracks and fissures. Metallurgical studies have revealed the cause of the beam failure to be the result of intergranularstress corrosion cracking, arising from chemical interaction between the beam alloy material and the moderator fluid. These cracked beams must be removed from the jet pump and replaced with new beams. In order to minimize reactor down time, it is desirable to conduct hold down beam replacement during reactor fuel changeovers. However, because the hold down beams are positioned in a relatively narrow annulus between the core shroud and the reactor vessel wall and are submerged in radioactively contaminated moderator fluid at a depth of about 10 meters (30 feet) below the level of the reactor vessel flange, jet pump hold down beam replacement has heretofore been a labor-intensive, time consuming, expensive, and hazardous procedure.
Many of the difficulties associated with jet pump hold down beam replacement arise from


the considerable health and safety considerations associated with the design and construction of power generating nuclear reactors. For example, the reactor vessel of a conventional boiling water reactor is submerged in the concrete floor of a floodable refueling cavity and is covered by a vessel head detachably mounted to the vessel flange. In order to obtain access to the jet pump hold down beams of the boiling water reactor, the refueling cavity must first be flooded with moderator fluid such as water so that the vessel bead is immersed in about 15-20 meters of moderator fluid. Only after the refueling cavity has been flooded can the vessel head be safely uncoupled from the vessel flange and various reactor components removed therefrom. Removal of the vessel head and reactorcomponents is accomplished from a refueling platform extending across the top of the refueling cavity. Thereafter, in known servicing techniques, the fluid is drained from the refueling cavity and the cavity walls and floor are scrubbed and decontaminated. A service platform from which hold down beam servicing is to be effected is then assembled across the reactor flange, and designated hold down beams are then removed and replaced. A bolt keeper is tack welded to the top of the beam, and proper moderator fluid chemistry and clarity is restored. The service platform is then removed, and the vessel head is re-installed on the vessel flange. Due to the difficulties presented by this known servicing procedure, the time required to replace the hold down beam of a single jet


by a separate apparatus. A principal drawback to this arrangement is that the beam retainer assembly remains bolted in place to the upper end of the jet pump. Therefore, in order to install a replacement hold down beam, the lower end of the beam bolt of the replacement beam must first be inserted into the retainer plate in order to properly position the beam with respect to the upper end of the jet pump and the opposed bracket members extending therefrom. Because of the narrow dimensions of the jet pump annulus, manipulation of the replacement beam so as to properly fit within the retainer assembly is difficult to accomplish.
In an effort to expedite hold down beam replacement, apparatus for cutting the beam retainer plate from the jet pump(May 7, 1931-April 14, 2019)
Born in New York City, New York
Science fiction/fantasy author
Book series include ‘Book of the New Sun’ (four titles, 1980-83), ‘Book of the Long Sun’ (4 titles, 1994-96), and ‘Book of the Short Sun’ (three titles, 1999-2001)
Also wrote ‘The Fifth Head of Cerberus’ (1972) and ‘Peace’ (1975)

Why he might be annoying

Isaac Asimov mistakenly announced him as the winner of the 1971 Nebula Award for best short story. (Actually, no winner was chosen for the category that year.)
A critic said of his magnum opus, ‘Book of the New Sun,’ ‘far more people own a copy than have read it all the way through.’
He throws incredibly obscure words into his writing: cataphract, fuligin, metamynodon, etc.

Why he might not be annoying

He was married to his wife Rosemary for