cities across Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh (central) and Jeddah (western coast), and cities in the Eastern Province, including Dammam, Khobar, Jubail, and Ras Tanura.

A total of 45,532 cancer cases (22,930 males and 22,602 females) were diagnosed among Saudi Nationals between January 1998 and December 2004. In Saudi Arabia, the overall CIR between 1998 and 2004 was 42.41 per 100,000 people in the population (42.61 among males and 42.22 among females) (Figure 2), which indicates that cancer incidence is low among Saudi nationals. In a comparison of the CIRs of overall cancers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries [25], the rate observed among Saudis was lower than that observed in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman (51–93 among males and 47–98 among females) between 1998 and 2001 and lowerU.S.C. Sec. 1332.  Lontz and Corson seek $750,000 in damages from the defendants, Bruno and Carolyn Kosinski.  The Kosinskis filed a motion for summary judgment, which the district court granted.  801 F.Supp. 75 (1992).  Lontz and Corson appeal.  We affirm.

I.

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Ten-year-old Kenneth Corson, who lived with his mother in Texas, was in Chicago to spend the summer of 1989 with his father.  One day, eleven-year-old Evelyn Benitz invited Kenneth and three other children over to play.  Evelyn lived in an apartment in a three-story building on North Hoyne Street in Chicago which was owned by Bruno and Carolyn Kosinski.  She was the only child who lived in the building.

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Like many in Chicago, the building Evelyn lived in is attached to another,


similar building which is also owned by the Kosinskis.  The buildings share a fire wall that extends from the foundation to approximately one and a half feet beyond the roof.  Both roofs are the same height, but the perimeter of the adjoining roof does not squarely abut the fire wall.  Instead, eighteen feet of the wall that starts at the front of the building borders an open shaft designed to allow light to reach the ground.  (R. 91, Exh.  A).

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Evelyn, Kenneth, and the other boys were riding bicycles and went to the basement of Evelyn's apartment building for a drink of water.  The children entered the basement through a locked door for which Evelyn and the other tenants had keys.  Afterdrinking, the children left the basement via a stairwell which connects the basement to the apartments.  The stairwell extends beyond the apartments and adjoins an additional stairway that leads to the roof.  One of the boys ventured all the way up the stairs and found an unlocked roof door.  The children went out on the roof unnoticed, played, and left.  They returned later the same day and played a game that involved jumping over the fire wall that sticks out of the roof.  The children jumped over the center of the wall, but Kenneth moved towards the front of the building, not knowing that the light shaft, not the roof, was on the other side of the wall.  When he jumped over


was the roof, not the building as a whole.  The court found that the plaintiffs produced no evidence that any child ever ventured onto the roof prior to the day in question.  The court then gave the plaintiffs the benefit of the doubt and extended the "premises" to include the back stairwell leading to the roof door.  Even under those circumstances, the district court held there was no evidence that children frequented the area.

1. Premises:

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Initially we must determine what constitutes the premises in this case.  The plaintiff argues that the basement, back stairwell, yard, and roof should be considered part of the premises because the stairwell opens to the yard and connects the basement, the apartments, and the roof.  They further argue thatto the roof.  Also, the other areas of the building, such as the front porch, the yard, and the stairwell were common and accessible to all tenants, unlike the roof.  We believe that the roof was effectively separated from the rest of the apartment building.

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An Illinois court recently considered a similar case.  In Smallwood v. Fornaciari, the plaintiff, a minor, fell off a third-story roof of an apartment building while playing with other children.  A trap door leading to the roof was unlocked.  The plaintiff alleged that the owner knew or should have known that the children habitually went onto the roof.  The plaintiff alleged that barring access to the roof was a small cost in relation to the risk in leaving


 In that case, the plaintiff fell four stories down an air shaft while playing on the roof of her apartment building.  The evidence showed that children regularly went up to the roof via a ladder propped against the building.  The court held that under the facts, the landowners knew or should have known the children played on the roof.  Id.  Although the court addressed the attractive nuisance analysis, it also performed the foreseeability inquiry we face here:  whether the children frequented the roof sufficiently to put the landowners on notice of their presence.  Unlike the children in Plotkin who regularly played on the roof, the children in this case had never been on the roof before the day of the accident.from, inspired by or in direct response to the oeuvre of David Lynch. The world of David Lynch is by and large a complex one, in which the darker recesses of the human psyche reveal themselves and confront the audience with glimpses of their own subconscious desires, psychological abnormalities and sexual perversions.

Utilizing the anachronistic architecture of HBC (the former Hungarian Cultural Center) as an integral part of the exhibition experience, with its veneer wood paneling, a labyrinth of rooms & hallways and an exquisitely Lynchian red-lit theater, LYNCHMOB recreates and refers to settings from Lynch's best-known films using painting, sculpture, photography, live performances and video, such as an early "bootleg" work by Douglas Gordon and Oliver Pietsch's montaged vingetts of Hollywood film footage, borrowed from movies like Blue


Showtime Picks Up TV Series Based on World of Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle

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From page to screen: Showtime is developing a television series based on #1 New York Times-bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy series The Kingkiller Chronicle, published by DAW. Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Hamilton (based on Ron Chernow’s book, ALEXANDER HAMILTON) will executive produce and also compose music for the series, which is being produced by Lionsgate.

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10 million copies.The Showtime series will be set a generation before the events of THE NAME OF THE WIND, the first novel in The Kingkiller Chronicle. The series showrunner and executive producer John Rogers previously created and executive produced such TV series as Leverage, TheLibrarians, and The Player. His feature film credits include Transformers,The Core and American Outlaws.

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Car wreck alters Williams' outlook

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Jul 5, 2009 at 12:01 AM

Holly Williams had one of those days recently. Her iPhone fell in the toilet, her air conditioner broke and her thermostat soared.

But Williams kept her cool.

"Three years ago that would have been a big issue," said the 28-year-old singer-songwriter, whose new CD, "Here With Me," was released this month. "It was 85 at my house and I'm thinking, 'Hey, you know what? I still have my health.'"

Williams' perspective changed after she and her older sister, Hilary, were nearly killed in a car crash near Memphis in 2006.

Headed to their grandfather's funeral in Mississippi, her sister was driving, and only a mile before the wreck she told Holly to put on her seat belt. Holly said it saved her life.

Aboutall she remembers is Hilary looking down to change the song on her iPod and the car veering into some gravel on the side of the road. The wreck crushed Holly's right arm -- she couldn't play guitar for five months.

"It made me appreciate the simple things, like taking a shower," she said of her recovery. "Professionally, my work ethic changed. My songwriting became more serious."

Her new CD includes a song inspired by the accident, "Without Jesus Here With Me," in which she sings, "I don't know why I'm still here, or why I lived that Wednesday morn'."

"Here With Me" is the second CD for Williams, the daughter of Hank Williams Jr. and the granddaughter of Hank Williams Sr. Growing up, she was largely sheltered from her father's


well-documented rowdy life on the road.

She was even less connected to her late grandfather's legacy, even though he is enshrined in both the country and rock halls of fame.

"My dad was so famous that, for me, it overshadowed Hank Sr.'s legacy," said Williams, whose half brother is alt-country singer/punk rocker Hank Williams III. "I knew my grandfather was a singer and I knew he wrote a couple of songs."

It wasn't until she discovered singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bob Dylan that she realized the full extent of his influence.

"Even Stevie Wonder said he was influenced by my grandfather," she said.

"I met him and he mentioned Hank Sr. So I was really brought back to Hank Williams' music. It turned out artists who were influencing me wereinfluenced by my grandfather."

Her parents divorced when she was only 3, leaving her mother, Becky, to raise her and her sister (Williams is quick to credit her father as a good dad who was involved).

She said it was her mother -- to whom she pays tribute on the new CD with the song "Mama" -- who had the most musical influence on her.

"She was more key becausemy dad did not play music around the house at all," she recalled, explaining he wanted to be dad at home, not a performer.

"He never played songs or played guitar, and my mom every night of my entire life played piano. She'd sit down every night and sing and play piano for two hours."

The album has more of a country feel than


her first collection, "The Ones We Never Knew." Williams isn't sure why. But it's apparent enough that Universal Music Nashville President Luke Lewis geared promotion toward mainstream country radio instead of an alternative format.

The first single, "Keep the Change," peaked at No. 48. "Mama" was recently released as the second single.

"It's having a really difficult time getting through the gatekeepers at country radio," Lewis said of the CD. "Thankfully, most critics have been really kind to it."

Williams, who also owns a designer clothing store in Nashville, says she doesn't feel pressure to try to match her family's success. Her goals are more modest.

"I seriously doubt I'll ever be headlining an arena," she said.

"My goal is to be playing the Ryman (Auditorium) when I'm 50 with a guitar andsaid that social interactions with their classmates online, although quite good, naturally can’t fully match the social life of a real-life high school. But many OHS students do get to meet classmates face-to-face in occasional get-togethers in their region.

For gifted students, building strong friendships is as important to their personal growth as academic achievement. In San Francisco, Saret said that finding communities for her son and their family, and keeping those social circles going, has been one of the biggest challenges. For him, attending Epsilon Camp, a two-week summer program for 8- to 11-year-olds who are profoundly gifted at math, was life-changing: At the camp held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2011, he met kindred spirits sharing an intense passion for math, a community where he felt he


from Gallant reflect her frustration over the
foot-dragging.

The trove of potential evidence still sits on 3,400 tapes stored in a
White House basement. A federal judge hearing a Judicial Watch lawsuit
against the White House is weighing how to retrieve the data.

“I was told on a weekly basis that Mark was on top of it,” she said.
“I didn’t understand the delays.”

Gallant says she had several run-ins with Lindsay in 1998. Finally,
after one heated exchange in September 1998 — during which Gallant told
Lindsay “to go to hell” — she quit.

Gallant left the White House Oct. 12, 1998.

Lindsay, on the other hand, was put on the White House fast track
after the e-mail debacle.

He went from Office of Administration’s general counsel and chief of
staff to OA director to his current senior position as assistantthe player's Bag... The number of Pokémon that participated in the battle and have not fainted If Exp. All is in the player's Bag... Twice the number of Pokémon that participated and have not fainted, when calculating the experience of a Pokémon that participated in battle Twice the number of Pokémon that participated and have not fainted times the number of Pokémon in the player's party, when calculating the experience given by Exp. All In Generations II-V... If no Pokémon in the party is holding an Exp. Share... The number of Pokémon that participated in the battle and have not fainted If at least one Pokémon in the party is holding an Exp. Share... Twice the number of Pokémon that participated and have not fainted, when calculating the


most high-profile Jewish appointee, Lew has served as the White House’s point person for outreach to the Jewish community. When the president decided to tap controversial former Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next secretary of Defense, Lew was reportedly dispatched to call AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr and defend the pick. In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Lew met regularly with Jewish leaders on the campaign trail to reassure them about Obama’s intentions toward Israel, and even publicly debated former Bush Jewish liaison Tevi Troy on that and other subjects.

This past summer, while serving as chief of staff in the White House, Lew hosted the leaders of the country’s different Jewish denominations. And when the White House began blogging the High Holiday recipes of its Jewishstaffers in September, Lew contributed his family’s tzimmes recipe. (The New York Times would later report that Lew makes “a mean potato kugel.”) It’s not the only culinary contribution Lew has been responsible for while serving in the administration: The White House added a kosher option to their takeaway lunch menu to accommodate his dietary restrictions.

Over the course of his career in government, Lew has built strong relationships with Jewish politicians on both sides of the aisle. Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has spoken highly of him, telling Politico in 2011 that “no one was more prepared and more in tune with the numbers than Jack Lew. He was always very polite and respectful in his tone and someone who I can tell is very committed to


his principles.” And when Sen. Joe Lieberman’s retirement party was held this past November, Lew was the Democrat who toasted him—citing a saying from Pirkei Avot—alongside Republican Sen. John McCain. (Lieberman then thanked Lew and jokingly explained how he’d always been envious that Lew managed to “be Jewish and convince people by your name that you’re actually Asian-American.”)

Lew’s ties to the American Jewish community run deep. On Hanukkah in 1998, he was one of the first federal officials to light the Chabad menorah in the nation’s capital. During the height of the efforts to free Jews under Soviet rule, Lew worked with Natan Sharansky and his current Riverdale synagogue rabbi, Avi Weiss, to advocate for the cause. (Weiss, rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, calls Lew “onePresident Obama, he was asked on the Sunday talk shows why the Senate could not pas a budget for three years. Lew replied that you needed 60 votes and bipartisan support to get it passed in the Senate. That is a lie. For the budget, you only need a simple majority of senators present. Lew was Director of OMB twice. He knows this, so when he went on television and said what he said, he lied to the American people. Jack Lew is not a mensch. He is not a banker either. A career spent as a government wonk, he worked for two years at Citicorp not for his banking expertise, but because of his experience in government. He will serve Obama. Just a suit feeding the Leviathan.


of the Clinton administration, and both are acolytes of Robert Rubin, the former Clinton Treasury secretary who unfettered Wall Street greed and then took his own considerable cut of the action.

Rubin went to work at Citigroup, the world’s largest financial conglomerate whose legality was enabled by legislation he advanced while in government. He made off with a salary of $15 million a year during his decade at that bank, which specialized in toxic mortgage derivatives and had to be bailed out by taxpayers to avoid bankruptcy.

Lew’s association with Citigroup was a far briefer and less rewarding three-year stint, but then the alternative investments unit of which he was chief operating officer in 2008 didn’t do so well with its hedge fund and private equity investments. As Jia Lynnderegulation was the proximate cause.”

Really? That is a statement of such deliberate ignorance that one must marvel at Lew’s audacity in uttering it. He was one of the top economic officials in the Clinton administration when the president signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act into law that declared all of those “derivative products” exempt from the reach of any existing government regulation or regulatory agency. It was aimed at silencing the warning of Brooksley Born, who, as head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, attempted to control the burgeoning market in the toxic assets that have carried such a huge human price in foreclosed homes and lost jobs.

Not only did Lew go along with the Clinton administration’s policy, he continued to endorse a radical deregulatory approach to financial


Obama whos mentor he was is fellowing that style of running the government.
Oh! Am I going to get killed for that statement!!

FifthHorsemansays:

January 19, 2013 - 3:17 pm

Remember that President Obama gave the Muslim Brotherhood a Billion and a half dollars to their cause.
I wonder how Lew looks at that?

Al Einsteinsays:

October 10, 2013 - 11:17 am

Since the murder of JFK has there ever been a Treasury Secretary or Fed Chairman who was not jewish? Were any non-Israeli citizens allowed in these positions?

Our government has been hijacked and the criminal Federal Reserve/Israel is where the power resides.

The zionist banksters are the shadow government headed by the Rothschild Mafia who created Israel for their personal military force.

Now they have created DHS as their domestic military to enslave America, just as zionistsfor personal use of a deadly
weapon. It was further alleged that Roque had inflicted great bodily injury for purposes
of section 1203.075 (ineligibility for probation). The charges were tried before a jury in
November 2011.
Prosecution Evidence
       Maxine Barfield had a brief encounter with Mr. Farkas before he died. He
approached her as she was walking to a gas station and asked if she had seen two
prostitutes. Ms. Barfield said that she had not seen the women he was looking for and
continued on her way. Mr. Farkas walked in the opposite direction towards the
Manchester Motel on Blackstone Avenue.
       After making a purchase inside of the gas station, Ms. Barfield exited the premises
and observed Mr. Farkas moving hurriedly away from the


of his chest as Roque swung at him. She
watched Roque land several blows but never saw Mr. Farkas strike back. Mr. Farkas
eventually fell to the ground, at which point Roque knelt down on his chest and continued
to swing at him until the victim stopped moving. Roque stood up and ran away as a car
drove up to the scene.
       Mario Gonzalez witnessed the incident while driving on Blackstone Avenue. He
saw Roque approach Mr. Farkas on the sidewalk and hit him from behind. Mr. Farkas
tried to push Roque away and held his hands up in front of his chest as Roque continued
punching him. The men eventually moved into the middle lane of traffic and in front of
Mr. Gonzalez’s vehicle.
      Mr. Gonzalez described the fight as one-sided. Roque overpowered his opponent,
who “was never really trying to fight back.” Although Mr. Farkas appeared motionless
after falling to the ground, Roque got on top of him and struck him approximately ten
more times. When Mr. Gonzalez saw this happening, he got out of his car, yelled at
Roque, and tried to intervene. Roque took off running. Mr. Gonalez looked down at the
victim and saw that he appeared to be choking on his own blood.
       Alejandra Lopez was a passenger in the vehicle driven by Mario Gonzalez.
Ms. Lopez witnessed part of the incident in between sending text messages on her phone.
She remembered seeing two individuals trading punches with each other and one of the
men running away afterward.


      A fourth witness named Sigrid Manjarrez had been driving behind Mario
Gonzalez. She testified that from her vantage point she could see Roque running towards
Mr. Farkas before the physical confrontation began. She further recalled seeing Roque
hit the victim several times and Mr. Farkas returning only a single punch. Ms. Manjarrez
turned away momentarily after Mr. Farkas fell down. When she looked back, the victim

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had stopped moving and she saw “a whole bunch of blood.” She later told police that
Roquehad continued to hit Mr. Farkas while he was lying motionless on the ground.
       Dr. Venu Gopal, chief forensic pathologist for the Fresno County Coroner's
Office, performed an autopsy on the victim. He determined the cause of death to be
perforation of the left internal jugular vein and left common carotid artery due to multiple
stab wounds. Dr. Gopal testified that Mr. Farkas suffered five different stab wounds on
his neck, chest, and left hand, the latter of which was characterized as a defensive wound.
       The general manager of the Manchester Motel, Shantilal Desai, also testified at
trial. Roque had paid for lodging on the night in question but promptly asked for a refund
after seeing the condition of his room. After


Mr. Farkas suddenly
appeared and said, “What’s up now, bitch?” He proceeded to hit Roque on the top of his
head and across the bridge of his nose. Roque’s eyes watered up, mixing with blood
from his “busted nose.”
       Roque panicked as he tried to block additional punches. The initial blows had
impaired his vision and left him dazed to the point where he feared he might lose
consciousness. In an effort to stop the attack, Roque pulled a knife from his pocket and
swung the blade across the front of his body. His assailant was undeterred by the
weapon; he held on to Roque’s shirt with one hand and continuing punching him with the
other. Roque swung his knife upwards several times until he felt an impact. He

 Blues At The CrossroadsWhat form will America's indigenous music take in the 21st century?

On a frigid night late last December, the familiar howl of Mississippi Delta blues was heard within the upscale confines of Torontos premier acoustic music venue, Hughs Room. At a casual glance, the performer seemed to perfectly fit the image of what most people would call a bluesman  a stereotype that has been a part of popular culture since young middle-class white audiences "discovered the blues in the 1950s. But at age 92, popular culture is a concept that David "Honeyboy Edwards never fully grasped. True, his smart, Navajo-print shirt and matching flat-brim hat suggested he recently took wardrobe advice from someone, but as he barrelled through his set of simple, common blues variations,


it was soon evident that the packed house consisting of mostly middle-aged white men (picture a roomful of Steve Buscemis from Ghost World) was there to connect to a small piece of modern mythology more than anything else.

The fact is that Honeyboy Edwards is among the last of a dying breed, and surely the most well-known, having been a contemporary of Robert Johnsons, and allegedly present on the night in 1938 when Johnson drank the poison whiskey that would forever cement his status as the bridge between the blues primitive origins and its modern evolution. Like others who have had their careers essentially built upon the foundation of Johnsons legend, Edwards has been served well over the years by the undiminished loyalty of blues aficionados. Yet, the unstoppableSon House via Led Zeppelin speaks volumes about how the music of Honeyboy Edwards time has continually transcended notions of authenticity. Fortunately, having him around for the time being provides an important reference point, but the question remains as to whether his music will remain a reference point in the future, or will the blues ultimately retain its popularity in another guise?

This guise has begun to reveal itself not only through bands like the White Stripes, but more prominently in their fellow two-piece rivals the Black Keys and others that have consciously shed the "guitar hero approach epitomised by Stevie Ray Vaughan during the last great mainstream blues resurgence of the 1980s, remnants of which still exist in countless bars around the world where tortuous versions of "Red


House and "Sweet Home Chicago are mandatory during any given weekend jam session.

Instead, many members of this new blues school were drawn in by the heavy beat and groove-driven sound that was introduced to most ears for the first time by Fat Possum Records of Oxford, Mississippi, beginning with its first release in 1992. From there, the label quickly made unlikely international stars out of a roster consisting of aging artists from the immediate surrounding area, most of whom had rarely, if ever, recorded their music before. Chief among them were R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough who, despite having markedly different styles, exemplified for many the essence of Mississippi blues culture in a contemporary context. And as has been the case throughout blues history, these recordings inevitably hada crossover impact with white musicians, becoming a major touchstone for bands like the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and the North Mississippi Allstars.

That exchange was not lost on Fat Possums young, white founder Matthew Johnson who, with Burnside in particular, attempted to branch out by adding samples and other hip-hop elements to his records, raising the ire of blues purists in the process. Yet for Johnson, such a decision seemed as crucial to the survival of both the label and its individual artists, as much as it was a musical statement. "I think the stereotypical image of a record guy, especially a white guy, running a blues label is, oh, hes ripping them off, Johnson stated in the 2003 Fat Possum documentary You See Me Laughin. "In all


of how fragile the labels roster was, and Burnsides passing in 2005 seemed in many ways the end of the last great push to bring traditional blues artists to the mainstream. Although Fat Possum continues to work with a handful of blues and soul artists, it has been steadily shifting its focus to rock by working with the likes of Paul Westerberg and the reunited Dinosaur Jr., as well as obtaining American rights this year to Haydens latest album, In Field & Town. Perhaps more significantly, the label has begun attempting to break new bands, among them the Fiery Furnaces, the Heartless Bastards, and Thee Shams.
One of the first bands to cross the age barrier at Fat Possum was the Black Keys, who signed in 2003 for theirsophomore effort Thickfreakness. However, they had already made a mark the year before with their debut album, The Big Come Up, released on L.A.-based label Alive Records. Although largely an offshoot of the late garage rock guru Greg Shaws Bomp! label, the success of the Black Keys quickly opened Alive founder Patrick Boissels ears to other young bands from the Midwest playing their own version of blues. Alives roster now includes other guitar/drum duos such as Black Diamond Heavies and Left Lane Cruiser, along with Detroit raw soul singer Nathaniel Mayer, who jumped ship from Fat Possum last year for Why Dont You Give It To Me, which prominently featured the Black Keys Dan Auerbach.

Boissel had been navigating his way through the treacherous indie music waters before he


 have never received the same respect as their American counterparts, largely due to their heritage. However, one band that has become perfectly at home within this new blues scene is Winnipegs the Perpetrators. After several years of playing their hometown circuit, where they would often back up visiting luminaries like Howlin Wolfs guitarist Hubert Sumlin and Fat Possum artist Paul "Wine Jones, the trio finally hit the national touring scene in a big way in 2007 with their excellent third album, Tow Truck, promoted quite correctly as "blues for people who hate blues.
Guitarist/singer Jay Nowicki says that the bands vision has always been clear; that playing blues in their own style  and more importantly, writing their own material  is the best way to pay tributeshowing off your skill.

While it is fair to say that most of the current generation of blues musicians like Nowicki came to the music through what is now labelled classic rock, a few did bypass it completely and went straight to the source. Case in point is multi-talented Toronto pianist/guitarist/singer Julian Fauth, whose devotion to the rough-edged barrelhouse styles of the 1920s and 30s has kept him largely under the radar in terms of mainstream acceptance, yet with each release he is fast becoming one of the most compelling voices within the Canadian blues scene. Fauths new album, Ramblin Son, is yet another shining example of his effortless ability to mix the past and present in his songwriting, a trait he has been perfecting ever since becoming entranced


at age six by a compilation album featuring Big Bill Broonzy, John Lee Hooker, and Lightning Hopkins. Not long after, Fauth gravitated to the piano and started imitating Memphis Slim. Yet, once becoming proficient under the wing of mentors such as Mel Brown, Fauth immediately shifted to putting his own stamp on the music. He admits its an ongoing challenge, but one he has unflinchingly embraced.

"Part of the dilemma of doing blues is that it comes from a particular historical context, and that context now is no longer early 20th century black America, he says. "So, in a way, the era of classic blues is over. But to me, the quality of singers at that time has never been surpassed, and I think thats whats kept me hookednever fully overcome, especially in the cradle of the blues  Mississippi and Louisiana  struggles that were recently compounded by the impact of Hurricane Katrina. While that disaster shed some long overdue light on the struggles of musicians in that region, at least one organisation was already aware of the plight that aging rural blues artists faced, and in the process of providing them some much-needed financial assistance, was bent on bringing their music to wider audiences for the first time, although in a much different way than Fat Possum.

Tim Duffy started the non-profit Music Maker Relief Foundation in the early 90s after befriending many little-known blues artists living in the vicinity of his hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A list of high-profile donors that included Eric


Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, and Taj Mahal put the foundation on solid ground after several years, allowing Duffy to embark on his true mission, to have his artists make records and support themselves. Although this egalitarian approach hasnt given Music Maker the same profile as Fat Possum, Duffy (who sold Matthew Johnson the collection of 1960s field recordings by archivist George Mitchell that Fat Possum subsequently released) says he is more concerned about preserving a musical culture that he believes still has much to offer.

"The white bourgeois critics of the 60s were proclaiming that country blues was dead when guys like Mississippi John Hurt and Son House passed away, so there werent many people out there looking for these artists after that, Duffy says. "But when I was introducedto this unseen world of about 30 musicians just near where I lived in North Carolina, it made me realize that even though musicians die, the music never does. These were guys who played these often really archaic and personal styles, and I immediately saw that my task was to make sure that this stuff was passed on.

Once word started circulating of Duffys field recordings, he began receiving scores of tips from outside his region until he says he had much more than he could handle. Still, he remained committed to follow up on as many of them as he could. "I can count on two hands the number of people like me in the last hundred years that have taken this stuff seriously, he says. "It takes


the interest it has generated in younger musicians to explore their roots. In fact, the act associated with the foundation currently getting the most attention is the Carolina Chocolate Drops, comprised of three 20-somethings who assembled under the tutelage of Joe Thompson, said to be one of the last practitioners of the string band sound specific to the Piedmont region of North Carolina. The groups 2007 album, Dona Got A Ramblin Mind, was an instant hit among both blues and folk fans, and led to them having several songs included on the soundtrack for Denzel Washingtons film The Great Debaters.

With an audience for this music still out there, it begs for the possibility of Duffy organising a kind of Buena Vista Social Club-style show with his artists. Hessays its already happening on a small scale through the foundations annual tours of Europe, Australia, and South America, but its the kind of thing hes doubtful would ever take off at home. "The difference with Buena Vista Social Club was that it was about music basically cut off from the rest of the world, and that was a big part of its appeal, Duffy says. "The problem with country blues is that theres never really been a big audience for it. Most of the time it takes a brilliant idea like getting Jon Spencer to record with R.L. Burnside to get people interested, so we just keep pushing ahead and try to make the most of all the opportunities that are presented to us.
While Duffy is realistic


in knowing that, as with Fat Possum, running Music Maker will inevitably have to change in accordance with the different artists the foundation will come to represent in the future, he is sure that others will also continue the spirit of discovering and reinvigorating music that most people have long forgotten about, unbelievable as it may seem today.

"Its like, in 1960, Sam Cooke was pop music, and now thats considered folk music, Duffy says. "Its just a matter of perspective. I can totally conceive of someone writing 50 years from now asking why Music Maker put out a hundred records and none of them were by the unknown rap artists living in North Carolina. Believe me, someday there are going to be people searching out all the greatYamatosa

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 Yamatosa kabakovi R.T. & J.R.Bell, 1985
 Yamatosa kryzhanovskyi R.T. & J.R.Bell, 1985
 Yamatosa longior (Grouvelle, 1903)
 Yamatosa niponensis (Lewis, 1888)
 Yamatosa peninsularis (Arrow, 1942)
 Yamatosa phuka R.T. & J.R.Bell, 2009
 Yamatosa reitteri (R.T.Bell, 1977)
 Yamatosa schawalleri R.T. & J.R.Bell, 2002
 Yamatosa sinensis R.T. & J.R.Bell, 1987
 Yamatosa smetanorum R.T. & J.R.Bell, 1989

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children with low-grade reflux (grade I, II, III) were enrolled in this study. The follow up ranged from October 2002 till February 2007. The children who have not attained bladder control received antibiotic prophylaxis. This treatment was stopped as soon as they became toilet-trained. The presence of urinary tract infection (UTI) was considered in case of unexplained fever and urinalysis and urine culture were performed. VUR, mainly grade II, was discovered at a median age of 16 months. The prophylaxis was stopped at a median age of 40 months. The follow up after stopping the antibacterial prophylaxis was 27 months. Under treatment 2 pyelonephritis occurred, without treatment 2 pyelonephritis and 3 cystitis were diagnosed. At the end of the follow up, the grade of reflux decreased in half    I.

                  FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

A.     The District and Its July 2011 Deficit Elimination Plan

       The District is a public agency with a billion dollar infrastructure that provides

water, wastewater, recycled water and recreation services to residents in certain suburbs

of San Diego.

       An elected five-member board of directors (Board) is responsible for adoption of a

budget and setting reserves for the District. Typically, the Board adopts a five-year

budget, which approximates $53 million annually, and the Board is presented with an

updated budget for approval each year. The Board, which hires and has delegated the

day-to-day operations


confidential, who are represented by a different association).

       By mid-2011, near the end of the District's 2010-2011 fiscal year, the District was

facing what its general manager described as "unprecedented financial and operational

challenges." In part, these challenges included a 34 percent decline in water sales

compared to budget projections ($28.4 million over five years) combined with significant

deficit spending. We do not need to go into further detail, given that Durant's counsel

"stipulate[d] that the . . . District had financial problems, and they had to save money and

they put out a layoff plan." We understand this "layoff plan" to be part of the formal

14-page Deficit Elimination Plan (Plan), which the Board unanimously approved in July

2011 following a period of significant deficit spending.

      Among other actions, the Plan included payroll reductions of $776,000 in the first

year (by the end of June 2012) and $2.5 million in the second year (by the end of June

2013). To this end, the Plan called for the elimination of 26 positions District-wide (for a

19 percent reduction in staff positions) by the end of June 2013, as follows: the District

had six and a half vacancies that would remain unfilled; by July 2012, the District would

eliminate ten and a half positions; and by July 2013, the District would eliminate another

nine positions.

       The Plan also proposed a deferral in capital improvements of approximately

$12.6 million, which would significantly reduce the workload in the engineering

department. Based on input from a management team,


including the director of

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engineering and the manager of engineering, the District determined that only one of the

four existing engineering technician positions in the planning and design division was

necessary.2 Then, based on input from the District's human resources director, who

negotiated with both of the District's employee associations and who accepted the

PDEA's interpretation of the pertinent provision in the applicable MOU, the District

decided to base the layoffs on seniority.

       Meanwhile, also in July 2011, the District instituted what itcalled an "Exit

Incentive Program," pursuant to which any employee could voluntarily resign and receive

a severance package that included six months' pay and benefits. The District had hoped

that, through voluntary attrition, there would be fewer layoffs under the Plan. In the end,

any employee the District intended to lay off during the first year was expressly notified

of the impending layoff and offered the exit incentive.

B.     Durant's Employment with the District

       The District hired Durant in 2005 as an engineering technician. The District's

engineering department has two groups: (1) the planning and design division (see fn. 2,

ante); and (2) the development services and field engineering group. Durant was hired to

work in the planning and design division, commonly referred to as the CIP


Group.

       In September 2010, Durant filed an EEOC (and related DFEH) complaint, alleging

that she had been denied a merit increase in pay based on her gender. In April 2011,

2      The planning and design division primarily focused on the District's capital
improvement plan (CIP), the foundation of the District's long-range capital investments
and financial planning.

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Durant filed a second EEOC (and related DFEH) complaint, alleging she had been

harassed by her immediate supervisor in retaliation for havingfiled the September 2010

EEOC complaint.

       In relevant part, effecting the Plan in July 2011 resulted in the September 2011

layoff of the least senior technician in the CIP Group, Durant.3 In July 2011, the District

met with Durant and offered her the same exit incentive of six months' benefits and pay

that was offered to all employees who faced the possibility of being laid off pursuant to

the Plan.4

C.     Durant Sues the District for Unlawful Employment Practices

       In one cause of action, Durant alleges that she suffered damages as a result of the

District's retaliation against her for having filed the two complaints with the EEOC and

DFEH (together, the EEOC complaints), in violation of Government Code section


As relevant to the issues in this appeal,

the District argued that it had legitimate nonretaliatory reasons for approval of the Plan,

which resulted in Durant's layoff — namely, the District's "unprecedented financial and

operational challenges."

       Durant filed an opposition consisting of a memorandum of points and authorities,

a response to the District's separate statement, a lengthy declaration (and a notice of

erratum) and eight exhibits. As relevant to the issues she raises in this appeal, Durant

argued that the District's stated reason for the layoff — namely, "lack of work" — was a

pretext, and in fact the layoff was in retaliation for the filing of the EEOC complaints.6

In particular, Durant relied on seven lines of what appears to be four nonconsecutive

pages from a partial transcription of athis end, an informed Board unanimously

approved the Plan that required payroll reductions of $776,000 in the first year and

$2.5 million in the second year, which translated to the elimination of 26 positions

District-wide (for a 19 percent reduction in staff positions) by the end of the second year.

Following input from a management team, the District determined that only one of the

four existing engineering technician positions in the CIP Group was necessary; and based

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on a pertinent provision in the applicable MOU, the District decided to


 As background, the District hired The HR Agency to conduct an independent

investigation of a March 2011 claim of harassment (hostile work environment) filed by

Durant as a formal grievance under the applicable MOU, alleging retaliation by one of

her superiors for the filing of the first of the EEOC complaints. According to The HR

Agency's written report, one of the people interviewed was Mael, identified by the

agency as the "Lead Engineering Technician/Plan Checker" in the development services

and field engineering group. The HR Agency recorded the one-hour interview, but never

transcribed it. According to Durant's attorney (at oral argument in the trial court and in

9      We will assume, without deciding, that Durant's attempt to establish a pretext was
responsive to the District's stated reason for the layoff. (SeeThe writing was
made at or near the time of the act, condition, or event; [¶] (c) The custodian or other
qualified witness testifies to its identity and the mode of its preparation; and [¶] (d) The
sources of information and method and time of preparation were such as to indicate its
trustworthiness." (§ 1271.)

20     "Evidence of a statement is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when
offered against the declarant in an action to which he is a party in either his individual or
representative capacity, regardless of whether the statement was made in his individual or
representative capacity." (§ 1220.)


tech companies, GPS manufacturers and other organizations it reached out to in December 2016.

The NTSB, which investigates accidents but has no regulatory power, requested the safety improvements as part of a probe into the Oxnard crash. In that accident, a truck driver following directions from his Google Maps app mistakenly turned onto the railroad tracks and became stuck, leading to a collision that killed a train engineer and injured 32 passengers and crew members.

Adding information on railroad crossings to mobile apps would “provide road users with additional safety cues and ... reduce the likelihood of crashes,” the NTSB wrote to the leaders of the 14 organizations, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. Last year, 270 people died in accidentsBooks-A-Million Superstores average over 20,000 square feet and provide an expansive selection of books, magazines, bargain books, collectible supplies, extensive card and gift departments, as well as special category shops with the store. Our "Testaments Shoppe," for instance, features the best of references and writings for the Christian market. Books-A-Million stores also feature the Joe Muggs Café — a full line coffee and espresso bar offering a wide selection of gourmet coffees, teas, desserts and brewing supplies.

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sequences were distributed in five different lineages. The Bayesian phylogeographic analysis of the Brazilian and their most closely related African sequences (n = 212) placed the origin of all Brazilian lineages in West Africa, probably Ghana, Senegal, and Nigeria. Two monophyletic clades were identified, comprising only sequences from Rio de Janeiro, and their date of origin was estimated at around 1985 (95% highest posterior density: 1979-1992). These results support the existence of at least five independent introductions of the CRF02_AG lineage from West Africa into Brazil and further indicate that at least two of these lineages have been locally disseminated in the Rio de Janeiro state over the past 30 years.Team Sites

Player Profile: Josh Donaldson

A prolific high school athlete, Donaldson took his catching talents to Auburn, where he posted solid if unremarkable freshman and sophomore campaigns before busting out in the Cape Cod League and carrying the production forward into a monster junior season. The production in his draft spring lifted him into the supplemental first round, where the Cubs grabbed him at slot, 48th overall. He profiled as an interesting bat-first catcher with enough athleticism and arm that he might just develop into an everyday guy back there. But after obliterating the Northwest League in the weeks following his signing, what followed subsequently were five years that – bracketing their culmination in a big-league debut – generally disappointed for their modest production and move down the defensive


spectrum.

But along the way he got pretty good at playing third. And he added a leg kick. And his timing improved dramatically. And both his approach and contact skills, which had remained quite solid throughout, continued to remain quite solid as he started mashing the ball with much greater authority. And then, starting at age 27, he embarked on a run of four consecutive seasons (and counting) in which he has won an MVP, finished in the top-ten in each of the other three campaigns, and posted a TAv north of .300 in each. He was the top-earning third baseman in standard 5×5 leagues in 2015, and has been among the top four at his position in each season of the run.

What Went Right in 2016

Donaldson took hisapproach to the next level last year, boosting his walk rate by 50 percent. He took more pitches, staying patient when pitchers tried to take him out of the zone later in counts. He went from seeing 3.96 pitches every plate appearance in 2015, a rate that was 46th among qualified hitters, to seeing 4.22, good for 14th. Interestingly, most of those extra pitches were strikes, and his chase rate stayed constant. The extra strikes were overwhelmingly outside-corner strikes, and he rewarded his own discipline by absolutely pummeling elevated pitches and balls farther down in the zone, middle-in. His quality of contact was among the best in baseball, especially when he lifted the ball; he posted the fourth-highest exit velocity in the air of any hitter to log


lands.

Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state, the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said she is not convinced that Zinke will be able to “stand up” to Trump and prevent oil, gas and mining companies from unduly exploiting public lands.

Cantwell also said Zinke appears willing to support transfer of some federal lands to states, citing his vote for the GOP-sponsored rules package. She worries that Zinke may weaken or repeal recent designations by President Barack Obama of national monuments, including Utah’s Bears Ears monument.

Senate Energy Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski of Alaska called Zinke an excellent choice, noting that the fifth-generation Montanan is an avid hunter, fisherman and skier.

“He was born in the West. He lives in the West. He understands it, he understands its people,”of which is land, and the remainder is water of Lake Superior." 43 Fed. Rep. 270, 274.
The specific description by metes and bounds of the land conveyed by the Armstrong deed to Prentice, namely, "one undivided half of all the following-described piece or parcel of land, situate in the county of St. Louis and Territory of Minnesota, and known and described as follows: Beginning at a large stone or rock at the head of St. Louis River Bay, nearly adjoining Minnesota Point, commencing at said rock *174 and running east one mile, north one mile, west one mile, south one mile to the place of beginning," does not, it is conceded, embrace the land in dispute. Indeed, the plaintiff insists, on several grounds, that that description should be


indicates any such construction of it. Both clauses of the description are definite as to the land conveyed, and treat it as a piece of land well described, well known, and well defined. Of course, any man endeavoring to ascertain what land was conveyed under that grant would suppose that, when he found the stone or rock, which we now as a matter of fact find to have an existence, and can be well identified, he had bought a mile square according to the points of the compass, the southwest corner of which commenced on that rock. He would not suppose that he had bought something that might be substituted in lieu of that mile square by future proceedings of the government of the United States. And solands here in dispute.
Another matter deserves notice. It is found as a fact that if the lines of the course called for as east and west in the deed of Armstrong to Prentice, under which the plaintiff asserts title, were exactly reversed, the description in the deed would include a large part of the land actually selected by Buffalo Chief, and also included in the patents from the United States. But this fact is immaterial, for it is found that if the course were reversed, as suggested, it would not include the particular lands here in controversy.
The case then is this: Looking into the deed, under which the plaintiff claims title, for the purpose of ascertaining the intention of the parties, we find there a specific description, by


This cult favorite features a razor-sharp cast and original songs written by Jim Steinman, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and Ry Cooder and performed by The Blasters and The Fixx. Directed by cult filmmaker Walter Hill (The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs.), Streets of Fire is a rock & roll shotgun blast to the senses.

Shipping starts on November 20, 2018

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Director: Walter Hill

Starring: Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis

Country: USA

Production Year: 1984

Discs: 2 Blu-ray Discs

Region: A

Run Time: 93 minutes

Formats: Color; 1.85:1

Audio: English

Subtitle: English

Studio: Shout Factory

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NEW DTS-HD Master Audio 4.1 Created From The 70mm Six-Track Magnetic AudioKampala, Uganda (CNN) -- A fugitive Rwandan clergyman wanted for his role in the 1994 genocide has been arrested in Uganda, a police spokesman told CNN Friday.

A 2001 indictment from the U.N.-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda alleges that Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi, now 59, led a group that sought out and killed Tutsis in the genocide. Some 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in 100 days, many of them brutally bludgeoned or sliced open with machetes.

The indictment says that about 2,000 bodies were found near Uwinkindi's church after he fled the country in July 1994.

Ugandan police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said Uwinkindi is being extradited to Arusha, Tanzania, where the tribunal is located.

Uwinkindi, a Pentecostal pastor with a $5 million reward on his head, was among 11 top genocide suspects at large


and was picked up by Ugandan police in the town of Mbarara, Nabakooba said. He had crossed the border into Uganda from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, where other genocide suspects are thought to be in hiding.

Uganda's independent Daily Monitor newspaper reported Friday that Uwinkindi entered the country using the alias Jean Inshitu and was attempting to buy land and settle under that assumed name.

Journalists Samson Ntale in Kampala, Uganda, and Ignatius Ssuuna in Kigali, Rwanda, contributed to this report.China issued another strong signal on Sunday that its stock and bond markets have been given the green light for fast growth to provide the economy with more efficient means of investment.
The official Shanghai Securities News said the stock and bond markets must be developed vigorously to provide a stronger foundation for national economic development.
The newspaper quoted a report from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a think-tank, as saying the efficiency of investment channels was a key question affecting the long-term development of China's economy.
"The sluggish development of the direct investment markets is one of the factors affecting the long-term development of the national economy, so it is necessary to speed up the development of stocks, bonds and other direct investment markets," it said.
The report was the


U.S. households. The notices can lead up to a home eventually being lost to foreclosure.

The number of homes receiving an initial notice of default fell to 58,797, the lowest level since December 2006. The notices fell 7 percent from April and 39 percent from a year earlier, the firm said.

Underscoring the scope of the foreclosure delays, initial notices of default, which mark the start of the foreclosure process, have posted annual declines the past 16 months, even though there are some 4 million U.S. homeowners who are at least three months behind on their mortgage. Ordinarily, most of them would already be in foreclosure.

The pace of bank repossessions slowed in May to 66,879 properties, down 4 percent from April and down 29 percent from May 2010, the firmsaid. In the past eight months, bank repossessions have posted three annual increases and been down the other five.

Still, lenders did take back more homes last month in several states, including Georgia, New York, Virginia, New Jersey and Michigan.

Going by the pace of home repossessions so far this year, Sharga estimates banks will take back 800,000 homes this year, down from more than 1 million last year.

Despite the drop in foreclosure activity last month, several states continue to have outsized foreclosure rates.

Nevada led the nation, with one in every 103 households receiving a foreclosure notice in May. Bank repossessions fell 21 percent from April, but initial notices of default rose 8 percent.

Rounding out the top 10 states with the highest foreclosure rate in May are Arizona, California, Michigan,


Titan Comics announced at the ComicsPRO retailers summit in Portland, Oregon on Friday that it will publish the Japanese manga adaptation of the BBC series Sherlock episode "A Study in Pink" in the United States and United Kingdom. The company will offer the manga both digitally and in print this June.

In addition to the main manga, Titan Comics' release will have new covers and additional pages by artists such as Alice X Zhang.

Kadokawa has also published a bilingual edition of the manga aimed at Japanese students studying English.

In the BBC series, several Doctor Who scriptwriters (Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, and Stephen Thompson) takes Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant yet idiosyncratic detective and re-imagines him in modern-day London. Benedict Cumberbatch ( Atonement, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , Star Trek IntoDarkness, The Fifth Estate ) and Martin Freeman ( The Office, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit, The World's End ) star as Sherlock and his friend Dr. Watson, respectively. There have been three seasons of three 90-minute episodes, and a fourth season is in the works.

The artist "Jay." drew the manga in 2012. A second run of the manga adapted the second episode, "The Blind Banker," in 2013. A third run adapted the third episode, "The Great Game," beginning in December 2014.

Source: Entertainment Weekly; Andrea Towers via Comic Book Resources


as the person with whom he had dealt. In this identification, Knight was corroborated by two other witnesses. Knight had previously left his car at a service station with the direction that it be offered for sale. And the service station attendant identified Lacey as the one who made inquiry of him about the car, and the attendant testified that he in turn then referred him to Knight. Also, a girl friend of Lacey's testified upon rebuttal that she recalled "driving around" with Lacey in a "'55 Dodge," which was the year and make of car which Knight had sold.
Lacey now contends that Knight's testimony is "incredible" and the conviction should therefore be reversed. Whether Knight and the two corroborating witnesses should be believed, or on the otherhe then opined that the signature on the check under consideration was not Croswell's and that the signature on the the signature card was that of Croswell. He then explained the manner in which the signature cards were obtained and kept by the bank and added that he was the bank official "in charge" of all signature cards. This, to us, is a sufficient foundation to justify the reception into evidence of the signature card here under attack, and accordingly we perceive no error in this regard.
The real issue raised by this writ of error concerns the use of prior felony convictions by the district attorney in his effort to attack the credibility of Lacey. As above noted, Lacey elected to testify and upon cross-examination the district attorney


propounded a series of questions relating to Lacey's prior convictions. In response to a leading question, Lacey admitted that in 1965 he was convicted of forgery and that in 1956 he also suffered another conviction for forgery. Then he was asked if he had not also been convicted of "criminal assault of a minor child" in 1948. To this question objection was voiced, the specific objection being that "this is not going to scheme or anything elseI don't think this type of offense has anything to do with it." This objection was overruled and Lacey then stated that he had entered a plea of "non vult" to the assault charge and that as a result of the "non vult" plea he "did time in the state pen."
The objectionhe wasn’t interested in fancy lighting or equipment – than in the effectiveness of a disarming approach in capturing hip Manhattanites at play. Armed only with an instamatic his intimate images of eighties’ confidence record a time when Wall Street, the art world and the club scenes all exploded together.

After partying at Studio 54 in the Seventies, McMullan got cancer at the beginning of the next decade. Convalescing at David Hockney’s LA home, so the story goes, he became interested in the artist’s personal photographs, and on returning to New York trained a lens on his own world: the nightlife of the city. Shortly afterwards his interest was validated by a job at Details magazine working alongside the writer Stephen Saban. Significantly, this book begins with an image


of Andy Warhol. Warhol was one of the people that encouraged McMullan: “If you don’t know Patrick McMullan you ought to get out more”. A catalyst for the celebrity party scene, he was still at its epicentre in the eighties and in many ways its source of validation. The celebrity media took off during this decade and McMullan was one of the pioneers of this kind of photography.

Reflecting the atmosphere of equality in the clubs, his was a non-discriminatory eye, placing the beautiful beside the powerful and the downright outrageous. This was a pre-Giuliani era in which nightclub goers were positively encouraged to misbehave. In venues such as Area, the Mudd Club, Limelight, Danceteria and the Palladium, celebrities of the art and music world mixed with actors andof them, own and are legally and equitably entitled to receive from each defendant in respect to every shipment of which such defendant is the delivering and settling road, a just and equitable share or part of the net land grant rate paid by the Government on each said shipment of the traffic described in paragraph 7 hereof, and such part is a sum equal to the amount which plaintiffs would receive for like transportation performed for the public at large, reduced only by the deductions on account of land grant mileage located in Central Freight Association Territory equalized by the respective [plaintiff] roads, and all such unpaid sums are held in trust for the several plaintiffs by the respective defendants."
Defendants join in a position to support their


under land grant equalization agreements. Whether the shipments travel east or west, they travel, with respect to the various roads of the parties, under the same land grant agreements of those carriers. This action will determine how all such revenue shall be divided under the individual agreements. The counterclaim of Frisco of Texas is based on traffic that moved east under its land grant agreement, and the claim of plaintiffs against it, while founded on their individual agreements, yet the traffic in so far as Frisco of Texas is concerned moved under its agreement when it reached its line, and that agreement is the heart of its defense. The question is close, but we are unable to escape the conclusion the subject matter of the defendant's counterclaim isequalization agreements contained various restrictions and limitations of the land grant mileage equalized by them. These restricted agreements, by equalizing only specified portions of land grant mileage, foreclosed plaintiffs from participating fully in the transportation of Government traffic. In 1934, or thereabouts, plaintiffs, for the purpose of participating fully in the carriage of Government traffic over all routes, removed the aforesaid restrictions and limitations from their equalization agreements, and thereby joined with these defendants in creating the interterritorial equalization routes to which the traffic involved in this suit was diverted from the competitive land grant routes. In respect of each such equalization route, plaintiffs, in order to meet the competition of all carriers comprising the land grant route, joined with defendants in making available to the Government a


single-factor rate equal to the land grant rate available over the competitive land grant route. This single-factor rate in each instance equalized all deductions for land grant mileage on the governing land grant route in both Central Freight Association and Southwestern Territories. Every equalization route over which the traffic here involved moved was a joint route so created for the purpose of attracting traffic from the lines of other railroads comprising the governing land grant route. *577 The freight charges paid and collected for transportation over these equalization routes were in all instances joint revenue for transportation jointly performed by the two or more railroads participating in the movements." Joint and Several Answer, and Counterclaims, of Guy A. Thompson, Trustee, etc., to the Amended Complaint as Supplemented, pp.land grant mileage, if its lines were located so it had to compete with railroads having land grant mileage. To meet this competition, proceeding under Section 22, non-land grant roads nearly half a century ago started making agreements with the Government. These agreements are between the individual carrier and the Government; never between carriers. Each carrier fixes the terms as to what land grant mileage it will equalize. Plaintiffs confined their equalization in all cases to "C.F.A." (Central Freight Association) Territory, and defendants (with some exceptions) to Southwestern Territory. Plaintiff roads operate only in "C.F.A." Territory  sometimes referred to as Official Territory. Generally it includes States east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River. Defendants operate in what is called Southwestern Territory. Generally this


plaintiff attempted to compete with any land grant mileage of the Illinois Central South of Kankakee through Chicago, and "some" land grant mileage in Michigan. In 1932 all plaintiffs executed new equalization agreements with the Government to equalize the land grant of the Illinois Central to Gilman "only," South of Kankakee. Next one of the plaintiffs agreed to equalize to Gilman on the Illinois Central. Each step in changing equalization agreements by the plaintiffs was caused by a decision by the individual carrier to meet some specific competition in "C.F.A." Territory. For example the action of the Pennsylvania in equalizing to Gilman resulted from the Nickel Plate road operating in "C.F.A." Territory executing such an agreement some two years prior to the action of the Pennsylvania. The actionof the Nickel Plate made it competitively possible for it to obtain traffic from the East to East St. Louis, thus diverting traffic that had gone by way of Chicago, also diverting such traffic from the Pennsylvania. The action of the Pennsylvania caused the New York Central to take like action as soon as they felt the competitive effect of the Pennsylvania's action. Without going further into the expansive web of equalization agreements of plaintiffs and "C.F.A." carriers, we pass to the period just prior to execution of the 1934 agreements. Prior to 1934 neither of the plaintiffs equalized the Illinois Central land grant mileage to Cairo, Illinois. As long as neither of the plaintiffs did so there was no competitive advantage or disadvantage to either of the


"C.F.A." Territory. This combination of circumstances  but with competitive reasons appearing as the moving cause  brought the matter to a head in 1934 when the Nickel Plate, a "C.F.A." carrier, signed an equalization agreement by the terms of which it met competition of all land grant in Central Freight Association Territory. The other "C.F.A." roads had no choice if they were to compete in their territory with the Nickel Plate for Government business. The Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio made their new agreements in September, 1934. The New York Central in October of the same year. By them they equalized all land grant mileage in "C.F.A." Territory. These agreements constitute the crux of this case.
Evidence on this phase of the case includes innumerable communications between theserved Cairo, Illinois, and could there meet the defendant Missouri Pacific for transportation from Cairo to Texarkana, Texas. On the line of the Missouri Pacific described, part of the track was over statutory land grant. On traffic moving through St. Louis the plaintiffs were able to make delivery to the Frisco, which also had statutory land grant mileage. Other carriers operating in Southwestern Territory, such as the Cotton Belt and land grant carriers competing with one another, had a competitive problem in their territory  such as the plaintiffs had  and had met in "C.F.A." Territory.
The fact that operating under the 1934 agreements plaintiffs were able to make delivery to the defendant carriers, and defendants to plaintiff carriers, at the gateways mentioned, with the result that the


Government by taking advantage of the land grant agreement, or land grant agreement with actual land grant, of each of the parties, could route its freight from points in "C.F.A." Territory into or from Southwestern Territory and such freight would move over the same routes as the parties used on some commercial traffic, cannot change the intention of the parties in executing their equalization agreements with the Government, nor impose on them a burden not intended. The parties did not make such routes in the sense "joint routes" are made by carriers, that is by mutual agreements. The Government shipments moved in each territory at the reduced rate, resulting from and based on land grant, or land grant agreements, with carriers in that territory, and no other, andparticipation in equalization of the land grant mileage of the Illinois Central Railroad Company in the State of Illinois to specified portions thereof, and of the land grant mileage in the State of Michigan to the specified portions thereof."
The equalization agreements of 1934 signed by the plaintiffs were standard forms used by the Federal Government. Those provisions involved in the present question are alike in all three contracts of the plaintiffs. We choose the contract of the Baltimore & Ohio:
"1. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company hereinafter called this carrier, hereby agrees, subject to the conditions and exceptions stated below, to accept for the transportation of property shipped for account of the Government of the United States and for which the Government of the United Sates is lawfully


read in light of the history of prior settlement of land grant deductions as between connecting carriers, that it had always been on a territorial basis, it cannot be held to be subject to the construction, authorizing a change to a pro-rate method of settlement as now claimed by defendants.
It was a long time, many years in fact, before either of the defendants reached the point of urging such a construction.
Mr. Dunham for the Missouri Pacific started the new system of pro-rating land grant deduction in making settlements some time after February, 1935. The record is silent on circumstances of change by the Cotton Belt. The Frisco continued to settle with plaintiff roads on the territorial basis until September, 1942, or approximately eight years after filing by plaintiffsthey considered the land grant they were equalizing and contracted with the Government accordingly and solely as they willed. There is no inequity or injustice in such parties absorbing that land grant in the territory served by them to which they are competitive, and which is covered by their agreements.
We find according to the weight of the testimony the territorial basis of settlement has been recognized by the railroad industry generally for over a quarter of a century as the fair and equitable method of division of land grant revenue on traffic between territories. It was the settled custom and practice of the industry until two of the defendants started the pro-rate method in 1934.
A number of Southwestern lines[5] competitive with defendants settled on the territorial basis after


1934 until repeal of the Land Grant Statute.
The railroads operate the Railway Express Company. In 1943 they unanimously agreed that on carload shipments the territorial basis of settlement (as maintained by plaintiffs) would be followed by all roads in settling for Government shipments over land grant or equalizing routes. So far as this record shows this agreement was carried out. The agreement was originated by the carriers "to insure equitable treatment to all carriers * * *." Two of the defendants had a representative on the Committee that formulated the plan.
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FALLIS - FOLLIS Families

This is a simple outline of my FOLLIS family, their children are linked on individual family pages

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My grandparents Milo FOLLIS 1890 Delphos, Van Wert County, Ohio to 1944 Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana and Elizabeth SCHNEIDER 1890 Massillon, Stark County, Ohio to 1932 Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. They were married in the Most Precious Blood Catholic Church. Elizabeth's SCHNEIDER family was Catholic, FOLLIS' were most likely Protestants or Methodist like the Timmons, with Churchof the Brethren the previous generation from the EIKENBERRY families. When Milo died his son Frank was in New Guinea and Louis was in the Hawaiian Islands serving during World War II. This left the mostly minor children orphans who had already spent some time in the Catholic St. Vincent Villa Orphanage after mother Elizabeth died in 1932. Both are buried in the Catholic Cemetery Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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My great-grandparents Thomas Jefferson FOLLIS 1856 Somerset, Wabash County to 1923 Fort Wayne,


Allen County, Indiana and Matilda TIMMONS 1866 Delphos, Van Wert County, Ohio to 1949 Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. Thomas' obituary says he was a member of the Methodist Church which was also wife Matilda's church whose nephew Kenneth Timmons, eventually had 50 years service, was a Methodist minister who performed her funeral service. Thomas' mother Catherine EIKENBERRY was Church of the Brethren as were all of her family before her. Both are buried in Lindenwood Cemetery Fort Wayne, Indiana.

2nd great-grandparents Thomas Jefferson FOLLIS 1823 Greene County, Ohio to Union County, Indiana to 1882 Somerset, Wabash County, Indiana and Catherine EIKENBERRY 1822 Preble County, Ohio to Union County, Indiana then 1864 Somerset, Wabash County, Indiana. Thomas married CatherineNovember 11, 1841 in Union County, Indiana and his brother WilliamMartin Follis married Mary WrightApril 13, 1843 in Union County, Indiana. Catherine is buried in the Mississinewa Memorial Cemetery Somerset, Indiana and Thomas is assumed to be buried there.

3rd great-grandparents were Jacob FALLIS born between 1798-1800 Virginia to 1824 Greene County, Ohio. The tombstone for Jacob FALLIS in the FALLIS Pioneer Cemetery has an age of only 17 years making Jacob 13 when his first son was born. Most likely the age is wrong, he was actually 27 years old, in 1818 married his wife Hannah KINGERY 1801 of Virginia to Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio to 1858 Somerset, Wabash County, Indiana. Hannah remarried in 1832 to Ginnethon KELLEY, then moved to Miami County and Wabash County, Indiana. Hannah and Ginnethon KELLEY are buried in Mississinewa Memorial Cemetery with


her FOLLIS grandchildren, daughter-in-law Catherine EIKENBERRY, near Catherine's parents and sister Lucy KINGERY WHITENECK's family.

4th great-grandparents were Isaac FALLIS 1779 Shenandoah County, Virginia to Lincoln County, Kentucky to 1858 Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio and Mercy VAUGHAN 1774 probably Virginia to Lincoln County, Kentucky to 1834 Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio. Married October 10, 1797 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Both are buried with Jacob in the FALLIS Pioneer Cemetery on their 160 acre pioneer farm east of Dayton, Ohio just across the county line. Notice in map below that Vaughn Summit is south of and Vaughn Summit Road is just to the west of Jacob Fallis' land in Shenandoah (now Page) County, Virginia. Have to assume it is connected with Mercy Vaughan's family thought to be from Culpepper County nextcounty southeast. October 10, 1797 Isaac FALLICE chose Benjamin WOOD as his guardian in the Shenandoah County, Virginia Minute Book 1795-1798. This confirms Isaac was an 18 year old minor when his father Jacob died.

5th great-grandparents were Jacob FOLLIS born after 1742 New Jersey to Frederick, Stafford, then 1797 Shenandoah now Page County, Virginia and Sarah SPRINGER about 1746 daughter of Isaac SPRINGER of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to 1809 Shenandoah County, Virginia.

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6th


great-grandparents were Thomas FOLLIS born before 1710 probably Ireland or Wales to New Jersey to 1755-1756 Frederick County, Virginia and Elizabeth of Frederick County, Virginia now Berkeley County, West Virginia. Elizabeth was the name of his wife in his 1755-1756 will. It is possible Elizabeth was a second wife and a first wife may have been Jane CHELDON. No confirming information has been found, not even the name Cheldon, but many Sheldon's are found. Montana Samuel FALLIS supplied Jane CHELDON's name. Johanna FALLIS believes Montana, an architect in Denver, Colorado in the late 1800's, was very detailed and would not make mistakes as described in my FOLLIS Information page.

The SHELDON Family Association had no information on anyone named CHELDON several years ago when I met their secretary whowhich was completely suspicious and irregular

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a picnic shelter, and a petanque court. Saddlebrook Local Park,  in area, includes a rectangular field, playground, and a basketball court. Glenmont Greenway Urban Park encompasses  of land, and includes an -wide asphalt trail, and sitting areas. The land is owned by WMATA, but operated and maintained by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M‐NCPPC) as parkland.

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As we made our way across the back row, I learned that the gentleman I was stepping over was a festival juror. I asked him if he was comfortable and could I get him anything. Fortunately, he chuckled at my little joke.

As one of the festival organizers gave her welcoming remarks, several more people came in. Sure, this was a screening room of 35 seats, but given that I had seen anywhere from zero to a dozen or so in the screenings I had attended yesterday, it was good to see heads in the seats in front of me. Soon, the only seats left together were in the front row, and even those got taken.

Finally, the lights dimmed. In the moments of darkness, I prayed the


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The Laboratory of C.H.U.N.K. 666

Saturday, August 6, 2005

2 Dum 2 Die in PDX

I.In Which Cyclecide and CHUNK 666 Return to Portland.

After a few hours of post-intoxication slumber following the evening's festivities in Seattle, CHUNK 666 and Cyclecide loaded the last of the rides and bikes on the bus and headed back to Portland. In the preceding month I had wrangled a location for the Bike Rodeo at ACME, a new(ish) bar in the hinterlands of southeast industrial, at the corner of 8th and Main.

ACME's parking lot wraps completely around its not street facing sides, but about two months before had walled off the western portion with steel siding, creating a giant patio area. This patio was desirable for the Cyclecide show but also made what had previously beena reasonably sized parking lot quite cramped. The cyclofuge barely fit in the back, with a little tiny corridor for people to walk by, with the legs of the people in the chairs whooshing by a few feet from their heads. I was a little stupefied at how people would continue to stand around in this dangerous area.

The two-person ferris wheel was just big enough to slide into the far southwestern corner.

II.Wherein Los Banos Delight the Denizens of Portland.

The shortage of open space meant that for the show Cyclecide had to shut down the 'fuge and perform behind it, with the crowd on the other side and ride their bikes and do their skits around the 'fuge. Additionally, with four Cycleciders in the band, this left only three


available to do the Rodeo Clown stuff. In front of a healthy crowd of 200 or so, packed to one side of ACME's back patio, the show began with Big B. singing the national anthem whilst riding the "aversion therapy bike."

Thereafter followed the Parade of Bikes sequence. Thud was eating his dinner but was couldn't resist, and joined the fray astride Sproing, all the whilst never setting down his burger.

Then the bridge fell out of Jarico's guitar. This resulted in a rather uncomfortable period of ad-libbing while the entire Los Banos band tried to fix it. Hastily they recovered, and went on with the Pinata-bike sequence. The volunteer did a nice job almost whacking fellow audience members.

III.In Which Moses Scales the Very Summit of High Comedy.

A longtime favoritehad only seen the show once before, last night in Seattle, so I sort of elbowed him and said "this part is great," anticipating the spray-down of the crowd.

Par for course, he set the extinguisher tank on the ground, leaned over it, and instead of suddenly standing upright and spraying the crowd, he pointed the nozzle straight up and shot himself in the face with the extinguisher and staggered backwards, as if to keel over. THAT was funny.

Except for later, when we were talking to him later after the show, we found out this variation was accidental. His eye was tearing up really bad, even swelling a bit, for about 20 minutes afterwards, and he was worried he'd have to go the hospital. I told him I thought


he was mimicking a gag John Cleese had done in Fawlty Towers. He seemed to recollect said episode and then had to admit, "yeah, that was pretty funny."

IV.Wherein Big Daddy Succumbs to Road Rage.

Cyclecide spent the night on the bus in the ACME parking lot, so the next morning we rode over there and took them to a breakfast joint. They went absolutely ape shit when they saw the headline on the front page of the Oregonian sports section: "Beavers need to fill holes at three positions."

Afterwards, when the seven or so of us were riding back to ACME to pack up the rides, these two cyclists ended riding with us. They were all like "whoa, cool bikes" and "isn't this neat?" Paul, Ranessa, and Big Daddy hadinstalled a wall of steel siding to create their gigantic patio. Jarico walked over to a corner and picked up a leftover scrap of said steel siding. He laid down on the ground spread-eagled, pulled the steel siding up onto his back, with it touching the ground between his spread legs, and yelled at Paul to "jump" a bike of the Jarico ramp.

Paul selected my sidecar bike, backed up and ran over Jarico such the front and back wheel went right over Jarico's poor skull!

[Photo by Laird.]

The Sidecar Bike touched down safely after making a good racket of the steel siding bouncing and bending on the pavement, and then Jarico LEPT to his feet!

Friday, August 5, 2005

Race Day IX

Ever since we went to San Francisco for Pedal Monster


in July, there had been a lot of back and forth about Cyclecide journeying to the Pacific Northwest. A small contingent of Cycleciders, along with their 2-person ferris wheel and "dizzy toy" went to the Dead Baby Bike Club's eighth annual Downhill Race and Messenger Challenge in Seattle last year. This year they went back in force with two more rides and twice as many clowns.

On Wednesday they arrived in Portland in their new bus, a de-commissioned '70s Oakland City Bus. We then proceeded to drink beer 'til 2:00 in the morning. The original idea was that on Friday morning they, along with a handful of CHUNK 666 raiders, would head up to Seattle together, set up the rides, do the race, do the party, break down theit was the usual. Drink. Eat. Ride the rides. Namely the two-person ferris wheel.

And the cyclo-fuge.

Cyclecider Paul the Plumber had built a new ride on commission for New Belgium, originally called "Ride to the Moon" but renamed "the Grasshopper" after it received its coat of dark green paint. The Grasshopper consists of a long beam on axis, but centered on said axis at about the 3/4ths mark of the beam.

One rider sits in a seat at the end of the longer portion of the beam and pedals, which makes the beam go round and round. Whenever the rider feels like it they can throttle a lever which controls a tank of compressed air, causing the seat to rise up in the air. I’d guess the arm raised about