two-tier banana ripening rooms.

The next rooms that Rosenblatt showed us are, he mentions almost as an aside, the first two-tier banana ripening rooms ever built. In 1988, he explains, “this guy called Jim Still came along and offered to build them for free, as an experiment.” They worked, and Jim Still is now known as Banana Jim™, founder and president of ripening industry leaders, Global Logic, LLC.

In addition to increased capacity and improved ripening uniformity, these vertical air-flow banana chambers can be loaded and unloaded using fork-lift trucks in twenty minutes or less.

IMAGE: The world’s first two-tier banana ripening rooms.

IMAGE: In these two-tier ripening rooms, the fans hang on the ceiling, so that air is forced rather than drawn through, allowing for even more uniform ripening.

With minor improvementshis 39 years in the banana trade, he has never seen a snake, and has only come across one spider, which he gave to the Bronx Zoo.

IMAGE: A trailer holds twenty pallets of bananas, or half the capacity of a two-tier ripening room.

We said goodbye as the final trailer was being loaded and shipped out for the day. Nearly two million bananas pass through these ripening rooms on their journey to New York consumers each week — a vital link in the largely invisible, highly specialized architecture of artificial refrigeration that has enabled the banana to become and remain America’s favourite fruit.

[NOTE: Thanks to Darien Williams for introducing me to the Chiquita commercial!]


Fact Check on President Obama's Speech

President Obama spoke of the importance of a strong automobile industry during Tuesday's address to Congress, saying: "I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."

But the Library of Congress says the nation that invented the automobile is actually Germany. Karl Benz built the first true car that used a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine in 1885. France built the first steam-powered self-propelled road vehicle in 1769. The first major U.S. contribution was Henry Ford's development of the auto assembly line and the affordable Model T in 1908.

Party Tricks

Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning says he might sue the National Republican Senatorial Committee if it recruits a primary challenger against him.

Bunning said Tuesday in the Associated Press: "In the bylaws of theWashington D.C. Thursday to show the film.

Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl will host the screening for members of Congress and their staff. The event is sponsored by the International Free Press Society. Kyl says he agreed to do it because, "All too often, people who have the courage to point out the dangers of militant Islamists find themselves vilified and endangered."

Moving Notice

As we mentioned a few moments ago, violence along the Texas border with Mexico has increased dramatically in recent months. It's so bad in fact that the mayor of the Mexican city of Juarez has moved his family to the U.S. city of El Paso for safety.

A local TV station reports anonymous signs appeared in Juarez threatening to behead Mayor José Reyes Ferriz and his family members,


The next time you trek out to the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, situated on the fringes of Shinagawa along Tokyo Bay, look around and you’ll see a giant smokestack by the Konan Ohashi Bridge. The visa-dispensing center, essential for foreign nationals who want to live in Tokyo, stands right by a garbage factory. However, the Minato Incineration Plant plays a key role in efforts to promote sustainable living in the capital: It houses a state-of-the-art recycling plant.

Every week, thousands of plastic crates are placed along the streets of Tokyo to collect recyclable materials. In offices, supermarkets, train stations and other facilities throughout the capital, recyclable bottles, cans and other materials are meticulously separated and placed in the appropriate receptacles. In Minato Ward, for instance, glass jars and bottlesare placed in yellow crates, while cans and tins are deposited in blue crates. Minato crews collect these as well as newspapers, magazines, cartons, cardboard, recyclable plastic and plastic bottles. Everything except paper is trucked down to the Minato Resource Recycle Center, which is located on an artificial island across the Keihin Canal from Shinagawa. Opened in 1999, the three-story building showcases technology that can help reduce the environmental impact of modern consumer lifestyles.

Crates of bottles are emptied onto a conveyor belt at the Minato Resource Recycle Center in Tokyo. | TIM HORNYAK

Bales by the truckload

Crates full of glass containers are placed on conveyor belts and rolled up to the plant’s second floor, where machinery takes over. The line automatically tips the crates over, spilling the bottles and


plastic are put through a crusher machine, which pulverizes them before another machine removes foreign objects such as metal, which is recycled. The plastic begins to resemble a gray, gooey pulp, which is poured into a forming machine that then shapes the pulp into cylinders called refuse plastic fuel. The refuse plastic fuel is moved to a gasification plant where it enters two towering furnaces. In the first, a vortex of sand heated to between 600 and 800 degrees Celsius instantly turns the refuse plastic fuel into a gas, leaving any metallic materials to accumulate at the bottom of the furnace for recovery and recycling.

Plastic bales are stacked at the Showa Denko Kawasaki plant. | TIM HORNYAK

The gas is then shunted to an even hotter furnace silo whereThe Technology-Related Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities Act: relevance to individuals with learning disabilities and their advocates.
Assistive technology (AT) was recognized by Congress as a viable need for people with disabilities when it passed the Tech Act in 1988. The legislation, which was reauthorized in 1994, has resulted in numerous programs and services that have helped people with disabilities access and use AT devices. The Tech Act's implications for people with learning disabilities is discussed in this article.


counsel had pointed out, a pattern of robberies each strikingly similar.
 With respect to count one, on August 18, 1964, at about 8:45 p.m., Frazer entered a grocery store located at 5658 Clara Street, Bell Gardens. He picked up a few items and approached the checkstand. He handed Mr. Gregorio, the proprietor, a one dollar bill in payment for the merchandise. When Gregorio turned back around he saw that Frazer had pulled out a short chrome- plated gun. Frazer ordered him to hand over all the bills. Gregorio complied and Frazer stuffed the money in his pockets. He ordered Gregorio to walk to the back of the store and then left.
 As to count two, the evidence showed that, on August 24, 1964, William Minyard was working ata checkstand in Von's Market located at Paramount and Florence in Downey (about two miles from Gregorio's grocery store). At about 8:15 p.m. that evening, Alvarado approached his checkstand carrying a carton of cigarettes. After he "rang them up" and stated the price, Alvarado pulled out a white-handled gun, told Minyard it was "a holdup" and ordered him to put the money in a paper sack which he produced. Minyard did as directed and Alvarado then ordered him to walk to the back of the store. He did not see Alvarado leave. Minyard indicated that there was "somebody" with Alvarado but he did not get a good look at the person and was not able to make any identification.
 The victim of the third robbery (alleged against both


defendants in count three), was David Burks. On the evening of September 9, 1964, he was employed at the Jolly Market on Florence and Emil, in Bell Gardens. At about 8:20 p.m., Frazer walked up to the checkstand carrying a quart of milk and some lunch meat. He handed Burks a one dollar bill in payment and Burks gave him the change. It was then that Frazer displayed a .32 caliber nickel- plated revolver. He told Burks to put the rest of the money from the cash register in the bag in which the milk and lunch meat *288 had been placed. Burks followed Frazer's orders and the latter then left the store.
 Paul Silva was standing outside the market. Through the front window he saw the robberytake place. When Burks put the money in the paper bag, Frazer left the store and then ran to an automobile parked across the street. Alvarado was the driver of this car. Brady Adams also saw Frazer come out of the store and get into the car driven by Alvarado. Before Frazer came out, the engine of the car was running.
 A .32 caliber chrome-plated revolver with a mother-of-pearl handle was introduced in evidence as People's Exhibit 1. Each of the three robbery victims indicated that the weapon was similar to the one used to rob them. The revolver, together with .32 caliber ammunition, were found on September 10, 1964, in a search of the residence of Frazer.
 In a statement to the police after his arrest, and


after being advised of his constitutional rights, Frazer admitted having committed the robberies charged against him in counts one and three. He further stated that he had used the revolver found in his residence. His statement in no way implicated Alvarado.
 Alvarado testified, denying any involvement in the robberies charged against him. His story was that he was in Ensenada on August 24, 1964, the date of the Von's Market robbery. Frazer was with him at the time. With respect to the Jolly Market robbery, he admitted waiting in the car while Frazer went into the market. He did not know that Frazer was going to commit a robbery. Frazer told him later that he had committed the crime.
 Frazer testified in behalf of Alvarado, supporting the latter'sis the right to a separate trial so fundamental that its denial must occasion automatic reversal."
 While Frazer made an extrajudicial confession of his guilt as to count one, that confession did not implicate Alvarado. The case against Alvarado rested on the positive identification made by the victim of the Von's Market robbery, pointing him out as the man who robbed him; and on the positive identification of two bystanders at the Jolly Market robbery, that he was the driver of the get away car used by Frazer.
 Alvarado raises several contentions concerning the search which produced the revolver. Shortly after defendants were taken into custody, James Wagner, an investigating officer on the case, had obtained a warrant to search the residences of defendants for the gun or


standard revolver; after they were apprehended, a clerk at the Jolly Market identified Frazer as the hold up man, and a customer identified Alvarado as the driver of the 1959 Ford used as the get away car; subsequent investigation disclosed that Alvarado lived at 5727 Clara Street, Bell Gardens, and that Frazer lived in apartment No. 19 at 6021 Muller, Bell Gardens; both residences were less than a mile from the Jolly Market; when arrested Alvarado and Frazer had a total of $94.24 in cash on their persons; Frazer had six 50-cent pieces and forty 25-cent pieces included in this amount; there was also a bag of pennies in their car.
 The affidavit concludes:
 "Due to identification of the suspects individually and combination by two witnesses, due alsothe officers found a toy gun in the car when he and Frazer were arrested, further search was unreasonable. But the victim described a real gun, a ".32 caliber revolver." In addition, the officers found a holster for a real gun in the car.
 [8] Alvarado also argues that only the search of his residence should have been permitted; that since they were not seen at Frazer's residence after the robbery, it was unreasonable to expect that the gun would be found at that location. But both residences were in close proximity to the robbery and the affidavit recites facts indicating there was time enough after the robbery for defendants to go to both residences before they were arrested. While the officer could not, on his own, search


Mitch Richmond never won much at the NBA level. His career win-loss record stands at 432-544, or a win percentage of .442. Compared to his top shooting guard peers Reggie Miller and Clyde Drexler (no one was truly Michael Jordan's peer), Miller's career win percentage was .552 and Drexler's was .612.

Rock Richmond played in 23 playoff games. Miller had 144 playoff games. Drexler played in 145. Richmond does have a championship ring, earned with the 2002 Lakers. But in that playoff run, he played exactly twice. Each appearance was in garbage time, including his solitary minute of Finals action. He earned four minutes of playoff action and retired after the season.

Despite of all of that, Mitch Richmond enters the Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday, and he deservesit every bit as much as Reggie and Clyde.

If you want a lesson in how basketball is a team sport, in how good players can exist on bad teams, in how winning is a function of collective quality over individual greatness, look at Richmond. There's an argument that for a six-year stretch from 1993 through 1998 Richmond was the league's second-best shooting guard behind MJ. (And remember: Jordan wasn't in the league in '94 and entered late in '95.)

Over those half-dozen seasons, Richmond made six All-Star teams and averaged 23.5 points per game (the sixth highest average in the league). Only six players took more threes than him over that span, and only Glen Rice and Miller shot them better among that group. Richmond, taking five threes per


game with a laughable supporting cast around him, shot better than 40 percent in that stretch, and 38 percent for his career.

He could do other things, too. He was big and physical for a two-guard, getting to the line with some regularity, playing solid defense and helping on the glass. He was also a memorable passer. In four of those peak six seasons, he averaged at least four assists per game. He was, in a sense, the Platonic ideal of a shooting guard: an elite scorer who brought the other attributes necessary to be an overall credit to a team.

Unfortunately, his team stunk. In Richmond's seven seasons in Sacramento, which include that six-year run of glory, the Kings went 221-353, a winning percentage of .385, the 10th worstdoes with 3 John 11.
... but much of the Bible was quoted.
On the other hand, we find the early church did quote the New Testament extensively.  Augustine, for instance, gave extensive lectures on the Gospel of John and the First Epistle of John, which were written down.  They serve as a very comprehensive commentary on the two books from which we can extract nearly the entire text (in Latin).  Even better, he preached the text in order, so we can follow along.  His other expository sermons on the gospels probably cover most of the text of those books.
Additionally, allusions to the New Testament permeates the earliest Christian writing (both Orthodox and Gnostic).  The index of New Testament references in  Clement


three weeks to get out the cave, he said. During those last few days, I was forced to keep up with him because he was walking so fast. If I tried to get lost in my thoughts and ignore the rest of the world like I usually did, I fell behind and panicked. So I tried to keep myself focused. I could hear him mumbling numbers over and over as he swiftly made his way through the rest of the cave while simply assuming that we were close behind. Time seemed important to this boy all of a sudden. Before, he was content to come to the school day after day, and he allowed me an entire week to prepare for my departure. Now, he seemed obsessed withhide the glares he gave the nurses who looked at us. Despite his unnecessary anger, they gave us a room with two beds and other standard human things. I watched from the doorway as Sai paced around the room anxiously, and as Kuiora and Senori stared at objects that perhaps only I had seen before—lamps, carpet, indoor plants. They treaded lightly and refused to touch anything, as if it all was sacred and fragile. At one point, a worker from the center knocked on our door and offered us some pokémon food, which they also took as if they were being presented with the greatest gift in the world.

Though curiosity was present, tiredness was overpowering, and the night soon ended. Kuiora and Senori slept together on the bottom


to her and told me he was going to go find someone who would talk to him now, and he was off again. What luck he had, after all, getting one step closer to reaching his goal not even five minutes into his adventure! And what terrible encouragement, I thought bitterly.

The next few people he talked to, though, were trainers who didn’t live in Azalea Town. They offered, however, to give away their phone numbers, just in case he ever wanted to talk or if he needed something. When he explained he didn’t have a phone, he was advised to get one, and to hand out his number whenever he was given the chance. It was extremely helpful among trainers, apparently, to have some kind of back-up helpof. Gathering the gym badges had been his original goal, after all.

Sai opened his mouth like he was about to speak, then decided against it. Soon he agreed to it and said he was sorry he hadn't gotten around to it sooner. Time was running out now. At least he knew it.

We left the well, each of us carrying as many pokéballs as possible. None of us planned on returning, and we ended up leaving a few magikarp behind, but I couldn't bring myself to worry about them. They weren't meant to be with us, and that was for the best.

*

Sai must have been aware of the gym this entire time, since he actually knew where it was. He led us there without problems, declaring all the while


University. And in 2006, she received her M.F.A. in Visual Art from Columbia University.

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Symbolism of the broom
An anthropomorphized broom is a reoccurring symbol in Smith’s works. Patricia Hickson writes, “Leading with humor, she presents a vocabulary of signs and symbols that start with her avatar, inspired by the bewitched broomstick figure from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice sequence in Disney’s animated film Fantasia (1940). This unlikely (…) choice is an astute one as the broom simultaneously alludes to a painter’s brush, a domestic tool associated with women’s work, and the phallus. Smith’s flexible character has continued to evolve across her body of work. By adopting a wide variety of guises, the broom and a stock pile of other coded symbols speak to timely, relevant subjects, including gender, sexuality,Sean Baumgart

Many a fan would have filed into Suncorp Stadium on Friday night hoping for two things: a Roar victory and a masterclass from Sydney FC's Italian star Alessandro Del Piero.

And few would have gone home disappointed after the home team broke a three-game slide to win 4-2 for just their second victory of the A-League season.

Despite Brisbane’s dominance, there was still room for the Del Piero magic the crowd of 22,970 had come to see.

Deft touch and brutal power marked his rare time on the ball and Roar goalkeeper Michael Theo will have nightmares after being outclassed by the veteran striker for goals in the 42nd and 49th minutes.

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Yet it was Brisbane who won the night in comprehensive fashion. Goals to Thomas Broich and Erik Paartalu in


the ball, as per their game plan.

However, after the break the home side’s defence lost its prior resilience and Sydney FC’s star player threatened to take hold of the match.

The 37-year-old’s first-half goal was born of sheer power when, unmarked, he leant into a rare left-foot long-range blast that the whole stadium saw coming yet still left Theo grasping at air.

His second effort showcased his finesse as he spun through defenders, worked a neat one-two with Yairo Yau and then outfoxed Theo from close range.

Vidosic admitted containing Del Piero had taken up a large chunk of time on the training pitch this week and said his side could have made a better job of it.

“There was no-one near him. Del Piero is a go-to man and they areCustomer Reviews

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Ambient dub-techno duo Sounds from the Ground first came to prominence during the mid-'90s with the landmark productions "Triangle" (1994) and "Gather" (1995). After releasing these two successful singles, the duo — London, England-based producers Elliot Jones and Nick Woolfson — crafted their debut long-player, Kin (1996). The singles, as well as the album, were released on the Universal Egg label, while the well-known ambient label Waveform released the album in the States to a warm...


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One of Melbourne's biggest party-hire operators has faced allegations of arson, insurance fraud and launching cyber attacks on competitors during a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court last week.

Awesome Party Hire owner James Balcombe, 53, is accused of inciting and paying two men to torch five rival businesses between December 2016 and February last year.

According to a former employee, Mr Balcombe was desperate to dominate the jumping castle market, which had been flooded by copycats who he accused of stealing his ideas and offering cheaper rates.


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M2i is located in East Village, just two city blocks from Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres. M2i gets its name from the fact that it is located between Market st. and Island ave, or “Market to Island” (M-2-I). The complex takes up one full city block with 10th avenue to the west and 11th avenue to the east. The complex is also just a few blocks from the New Central Library and Thomas Jefferson Law School.

This great building has a very contemporary feel. The two addresses have their very own lobby which are drastically different. All of the condos in the complex have exposed concrete and high ceilings, which gives the building a very uniqueas promised by him during his visit there in 2015.

The aircraft would reach Seychelles before its National Day on June 29, Modi added. He also said that there was a strategic convergence in dealing with maritime challenges between India and Seychelles, which is straddled between one of the important Sea Lanes of Communication (SLOC) and vulnerable to piracy.

“We face dangers of international crimes such as piracy, drugs, human trafficking and illegal explanation of oceanic resources,” Modi noted and assured India’s commitment to augment the island nation’s defence capabilities, maritime infrastructure and increase the capabilities of its defence personnel.

With India’s support, Seychelles will be able to deal with both traditional and non-traditional challenges, Modi said. The two nations also signed six Memoranda of Understanding, including in the area of


infrastructure development in Seychelles, cyber security and white-shipping arrangement that would enable the two countries to exchange data regarding identity and movement of non-military commercial vessels.

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The Hills Times, a largely circulated English daily published from Diphu and printed in Guwahati, having vast readership in hills districts of Assam, and neighbouring Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.27-year-old left-hander possesses. Anderson did have Tommy John surgery back in 2011, but all of his injuries since then have been back, ankle, or finger related (broken right ankle and a finger broken by a pitch). The injuries and recovery times have been enormous, but he showed in Colorado last season (2.91 ERA in his 43.1), though it was just eight starts, that he still has something, and Dodger Stadium could be friendly to him. He just needs to stay on the mound, which has been the same response on Anderson for years.

Pederson could be an offensive force as early as this seasonCourtesy: lockerdome.com

Pederson was an offensive monster in the minors, but he struggled in his brief trial in 2014, posting a .143/.351/.143 line in 38 plate appearances.


He has shown this spring, however, the same type of ability he showed in the minors, posting a .367/.397/.750 line over 63 plate appearances, including six bombs. After dealing Matt Kemp, Pederson appears to have very little competition in center, as Andre Ethier and Chris Heisey are the players who could push him back to the minors if he struggles. Pederson, however, doesn’t look like he is going to. Even in his brief trial last season, Pederson wasn’t overmatched, as his plate discipline will allow him to be a difficult out. With the offensive force around him in the order, Pederson can ease into the production that he is going to be capable of in the future, but he’ll still be quite productive in 2015. Expect a .270/.340/.475continue to reload and spend money, putting out the best team that money can buy, stealing that title from the New York Yankees, who used to take so much more heat for the same type of activity.

The Verdict: The Dodgers are a fantastic group. They have the best pitcher of our generation, Clayton Kershaw, with the best number two pitcher in baseball, Zack Greinke. They have a top ten talent, Yasiel Puig, who has become a superstar and one of the faces of the sport that so desperately needed one. Adrian Gonzalez continues to quietly produce Hall of Fame numbers, while the team has a budding young star in Pederson. If they get production out of OF Carl Crawford and SS Jimmy Rollins as they continue to get


a healthier, productive season; although, a thigh and fractured finger were the primary injuries that allow Zimmerman to play in only 61 games last season. This will the the 11th season in a Nationals uniform for Zimmerman, and this is his age-30 season. Don’t consider him washed up. He is locked in at .280/.350/.480 with about 25 home runs and 85 RBI in a dynamic lineup.

Harper isn’t going to make anyone wait for an eruption this season.Courtesy: CSNWashington.com

Fantasy Player to Watch: OF Bryce Harper

Duh, right? At 22, Harper is ready to continue his assault on opposing pitchers, but THIS is the year that he reaches 30 home runs and stays healthy. What is he capable of when he stays on the field and has Anthony Rendon, Ryan Zimmerman,to .750, aided by the drop in his BABIP from .359 to .318. Carpenter was still quite valuable, leading the NL in walks, which helped his on-base percentage get to .375, and he was able to score 99 runs. With a lot of improving talent around him, the 29-year-old Carpenter is ready to get back to the production levels of 2013, scoring 110 or more runs and 40 or more doubles.

Can Heyward get back on track using the “Cardinal Way”?Courtesy: stltoday.com

Fantasy Player to Watch: OF Jason Heyward

Heyward is entering his age-25 season and he already has five full seasons under his belt. He’s set to become a free agent after the 2015 season, and a huge season would lead to a huge contract. He hasn’t had a very


of a post-hype sleeper after having watched him crash and burn during his age-21 season in 2014. It seems unreal that we hold players to such high expectations today – even Mike Trout hit just .220/.281/.390 in his first 135 plate appearances at the tender age of 19. Still, the Boston shortstop is someone to lookout for as we turn the page to the 2015 season. The positives: he still had 28 doubles, 12 home runs, walked in 6.6 percent of his plate appearances, and wasn’t benched to make room for Hanley Ramirez. The negatives: He hit just .153/.198/.221 over 254 plate appearances from June 1 through August 31. After finishing the season with a .313/.317/.490 in September, so, perhaps, that is a sign of things to come?entering his age-29 season and he’s coming off of his worst career season, a career-worst .724 OPS. He slipped a little defensively, as well, seeing his range factor fall below league average for the first time in his career. Perhaps he was playing hurt, perhaps he is just aging, but Longoria will be asked to fill a major role in 2015, a role that he is familiar with. He will be the biggest bat in the Rays lineup, and, even with a lot of talented players around him, he must improve upon his 2014 season. We will look back at last season as an outlier to his incredible career, as he rebounds to post a .270/.350/.500 season.

Smyly, acquired in the David Price trade last season, has battled some


shoulder soreness this spring, which is always a scary, wearisome injury. He is coming along and will likely have his first start in mid-to-late April, likely missing the first two weeks of the season – if everything breaks right. In seven starts with the Rays last season, Smyly posted a 1.70 ERA and 0.76 WHIP, numbers that he will not duplicate over an entire season, but numbers that show why Smyly and his health are worth monitoring. Over his career, Smyly has a 3.55 ERA and 1.20 WHIP over 43 starts and 241 innings. At 26, he is quite capable of becoming one of the top starters in the American League, joining Alex Cobb, when he is healthy, as well above-average starters.

Offseason Overview: The Rays appeared to giveafter proving to be below-average at the position the last several seasons in Cleveland, prior to being traded to Washington last season; however, at just 29 and on a one-year deal, it was a smart investment. The best move of the offseason by the Rays may have been the recent buy-low deal that brought their injury-ravaged rotation Erasmo Ramirez, a pitcher with great stuff and inconsistent results and opportunities in Seattle, for LHP Mike Montgomery, a flamed out piece of the James Shields trade with Kansas City.

The Verdict: Even with Ben Zobrist and Wil Myers gone, the Rays have a very solid roster. Nick Franklin, acquired in the David Price deal, or Tim Beckham could fill the Zobrist role, as both can handle shortstop and second base, though


the catalyst device.
Advantageous features and further developments and improvements of the invention are described herein and in the claims.
According to a further development of preferred embodiments of the invention, the catalyst device has a first catalyst close to the engine and a second catalyst away from the engine which are arranged behind one another. The ignition takes place between the two catalysts. As a result of the placing of the ignition arrangement behind the first monolith, the heating device is protected from excess fluctuations of pressure and temperature, and the use of the second monolith as the starting catalyst takes into account its thermal stress which is low anyhow. The heating element is used for igniting the combustible air/fuel mixture, which is supplied by the engine, in theBUDAPEST — Long before Hungary’s worst boating accident in at least six decades, Hungarian officials had been warned that traffic on the Danube had soared to dangerous levels around Budapest, but the government did not curb the number of vessels plying the river.

On the night of May 29, in a driving rain, an international cruise ship, the Viking Sigyn struck and sank a smaller sightseeing boat, the Mermaid, killing 28 people. The cause is still under investigation, but the accident has raised concerns that at the municipal and national levels, where tourism has become a major source of revenue, political calculations and the drive for profit outweighed safety concerns.

Either the national government or the city, both controlled by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, could have acted to


task was used to assess the children's avoidance behavior when confronted with a tarantula skin, which they believed to be a real, living spider. The task was identical to the BAT described by Klein et al. \[[@CR35]\]. BAT performance was scored on an 8-point scale: The child was asked to enter a room in which a covered box containing a tarantula was located. The child was asked to stand on a mark visible on the ground 3 m away from the box. The experimenter explained to the child that a real tarantula was in the box. The child's task was to approach the box as closely as he or she liked. The experimenter stressed that the procedure was not a competition, and if the child did not want toAhead of the European elections, the UK Left has a story to tell. And it has the chance to express public anger and to garner support for an alternative, writes Julian Priestley.

Sir Julian Priestley, as the former secretary general of the European Parliament, is the author of several books about the European institution. He also a commentator, writer and speaker on European politics.

The book 'Our Europe, Not theirs,' edited by Julian Priestley and Glyn Ford has just been published. Contributors include David Martin MEP, Linda McAvan MEP, Patrick Costello, Derek Reed and Nick Costello.

The Labour Party faces three choices for the 2014 EP elections: minimal service; keep the powder dry and let the Tories and UKIP slug it out; fight a campaign on national issues- the coalition record,


This stone was set into the pavement of Domshof square to mark the spot where Gesche Gottfried was executed. The spitting stone allows locals to convey their disgust for the notorious poisoner to this day. Between 1813 and 1828, Gesche Gottfried murdered a total of 15 people with arsenic. Her motives remain the subject of speculation. On 21 April 1831, she was executed in Domshof square – the last public execution in Bremen. The story of Gesche Gottfried has been turned into a number of books, and is also told in detail at the House of History in the Schnoor quarter.plate increases the moving mass of the motor, which has an adverse effect on its dynamics.
The magnetic field generated at the drive coils may also be increased by virtue of the drive magnets being arranged in a magnet arrangement configured as a Halbach arrangement. In the case of a Halbach arrangement, between in each case two drive magnets of opposite polarity, there is arranged a compensation magnet, the magnetic field of which intensifies the magnetic field of the drive magnets on the coil-facing side of the magnet arrangement and compensates said magnetic field on the coil-averted side of the magnet arrangement. Document U.S. Pat. No. 8,863,669 B2 describes a use of a magnet arrangement configured as a Halbach arrangement in an electric linear motor. A disadvantage of such


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An influential group of U.S. senators, including possible candidates for the 2020 presidential race Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, is calling on investment firms to take responsibility for deforestation caused…scientific advisory board and consulting: EMD Serono), JL (research support to institution: Novartis and Millennium), and RH (research support to institution: Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, AstraZeneca, and VentiRx; consulting: Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai, Pfizer, and Bayer).

The authors would like to thank all the patients who participated on this study and Ken Berry and ASCO for supporting this work.

**Funding.** Funding Support by Ken Berry to GR and 2010 ASCO Career Development Award.

[^1]: Edited by: Jan Baptist Vermorken, University of Antwerp, Belgium

[^2]: Reviewed by: Kenji Okami, Tokai University, Japan; Wojciech Golusiński, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland; Raphael Catane, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

[^3]: Specialty section: This article was submitted to Head and Neck Cancer, a section of the journal Frontiers in Oncology


(CNN) Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he's not focusing on his upcoming Democratic primary debate this weekend, but instead on backing government workers demanding a $15-an-hour wage.

"We're doing just fine. My debate prep today is to stand with workers who are trying to get a living wage from a contractor with the United States government," Sanders told CNN as he walked back to his Senate office from a rainy rally on the issue at the Capitol. "That's the kind of debate prep that inspires me."

Sanders' appearance standing alongside a few hundred labor protesters in the rain Tuesday morning is only the latest in his history of solidarity with causes deal to labor, including attending a picket line of Verizon workers in Manhattan last month. So far, however, that hasn'tThe prospect of more ice-free water during Arctic Ocean summers has triggered efforts to improve ice and weather forecasts at the top of the world.

Much of the research into the interplay between the ocean, ice, and atmosphere has centered on global warming and the long-term changes it will impose on the Arctic – including a continued decline in summer sea ice. Researchers are exploring the impact that decline could have on seasonal climate and weather patterns at lower latitudes.

Declining summer sea ice, however, is also expected to lead to an increase in commercial fishing, oil exploration, cargo-ship traffic, tourist cruises, and other activities where short-term weather and ice forecasts are vital to reducing the risks of operating in the 5.4 million square mile ocean.

Among those anticipating increased activities


above the Arctic Circle are the US Navy and Coast Guard. But in a report to Congress nearly two years ago, the Defense Department identified "shortfalls in ice and weather reporting and forecasting" as one of several key challenges to future operations there.

Currently, the US National Ice Center – based in Washington and run jointly by the Navy, Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – issues Arctic ice forecasts for conditions expected within a day or two, says Pablo Clemente-Colon, the center's chief scientist.

But in a clear sign that a day or two isn't enough, "one of the requirements we recently received from the Coast Guard is to get seven-day forecasts of sea-ice conditions so they can properly plan operations," Dr. Clemente-Colon says.

All this hasa familiar ring to veteran Arctic scientists.

Ice forecasts were "an important element during the Cold War," says Axel Schweiger, a polar scientist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory in Seattle. Back then, US and Soviet nuclear submarines stalked one another in an ocean basin seen as a prime area for launching sub-based, nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.

But interest in Arctic sea-ice forecasts waned when the Cold War ended, only to return with concerns about the effects of global warming.

In 2007, when the summer melt season ended in mid-September, the extent of summer ice reached its lowest point in the satellite record, which goes back to 1979.

The '07 record didn't last long. In 2012, the melt-back of summer ice broke the '07 record – in the middle of the


melt season. By the end of the season the extent of summer sea ice was 18 percent below the 2007 figure. The surviving ice patch – some 1.4 million square miles of it – had anchored one edge to the northern coasts of Greenland and Canada's Arctic Archipelago, leaving several hundred miles of open water between its seaward edges and the remaining Arctic coastlines of North America, Europe, and Asia.

The extent of melting in 2007 "caught pretty much everybody by surprise, because the retreat of the ice cover that summer was quite extreme," says Martin Jeffries, program officer and science advisor to the Office of Naval Research's Arctic and Global Prediction Program.

Despite the initial shock, however, the record melts of '07 and '12 arrived in the context ofthe pace of ice loss accelerated, reducing the extent of summer ice by nearly 60,000 square miles. The heaviest losses appeared from the Beaufort Sea above Canada and Alaska west to the East Siberian Sea.

A team led by the University of Washington's Jinlun Zhang, a researcher with the university's Applied Physics Laboratory, analyzed the storm's impact via modeling studies.

From Aug. 6 to Aug. 8, the researchers say the ice underwent an "unprecedented" loss of volume of 12.9 percent.

The mechanism? Wind from the storm essentially turned already-thin pack ice into a giant Mix Master as it blew across the pack's rough surface. As floating pack ice slowly moved, the ice's rough underside stirred to the surface relatively warm water typically held at bay by an upper layer of colder


ice forecasts, notes the National Ice Center's Clemente-Colon.

"To get any improvement in ice forecasting, you really have to improve weather forecasting in the Arctic," he says. Among other things, that means more weather sensors in a sensor-starved part of the world.

To help fill that gap, NOAA inked an agreement last year with the oil industry to share forecast-relevant data from instruments on oil and gas platforms, Clemente-Colon says. The agreement is similar to a pact the two have covering for data from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico gathered above and under water as part of the agency's ocean-observing network

Royal Dutch Shell already has begun exploration activities in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Clemente-Colon notes, with ConocoPhillips laying out its own exploration plans.

"They're going to go next," hesays.

Research into operational ice and weather forecasting for the Arctic Ocean – part of a broader Arctic research effort guided by the federal Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee – is moving along three broad tracks: building a long-term network of instrument packages moored, floating, or installed on autonomous undersea vehicles to measure the processes influencing the ocean, ice, and atmosphere; improving weather and ice-forecasting models and their ability to ingest information gathered by the far-flung sensors; and supporting field experiments that aim to answer focused questions on these key processes.

For instance, the Office of Naval Research is supporting two five-year research projects that deal with some of these issues.

Of particular interest is the so-called marginal-ice zone, a region of broken, mobile ice floes that surrounds the older, thicker


ice pack. That zone changes from melt season to melt season. As the zone retreats at the start of the season, it exposes more ocean. This increases the distances wind-driven waves and swells can travel.

"That opens up new possibilities for deterioration of the ice cover as you change floe size, ice-cover concentration," and the water and air temperatures," he says.

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The topic is the centerpiece of a six- to seven-month field study the agency is underwriting for 2014 in the Beaufort Sea focused on setting out a range of high-tech instruments, including some on ice floes to track their evolution and motion.

In addition, researchers will specifically study the origins andFormer New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took himself out of contention for White House chief of staff on Friday as President Donald Trump's chaotic search for a new chief inched forward.

"It's an honor to have the president consider me," Christie said in a statement first reported on Twitter by The New York Times' Maggie Haberman. He goes on to say that "now is not the right time for me or my family to undertake this serious assignment. As a result I have asked him to no longer keep me in any of his considerations for this post."

Christie cited family reasons in a statement saying that he was asking Trump to remove him from consideration. He had met with Trump on Thursday to discuss the job, according to a


person familiar with the meeting who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Jennifer Jacobs, a Bloomberg News reporter, tweeted that "Trump met with Christie last night upstairs in the residence after remarks at one of the White House Christmas parties. I’m told the mtg went very well. (BUT as always, Trump could change mind.)"

Christie was an early Trump supporter who led the president's White House transition until being ousted.

The president's hunt for a new chief reverted to square one over the weekend when Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, took himself out of the running and decided that he would instead leave the White House. The announcement surprised even senior staffers who believed that Ayers' ascension was a done deal.

Trump then turned to a listof other candidates that was said to include Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Other possible options mentioned were U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, though both signaled they were happy in their current roles.

By Wednesday, Meadows was out of the running, with the White House saying Trump thinks he is needed in Congress.

Throughout the week, a number of other names were floated, including former Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, White House communications director Bill Shine and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It was not clear how many of those options were being taken seriously.

Material from The Associated Press and Reuters was used


near Govan, Glasgow.

The footage starts as the dashcam vehicle drives in the outside lane amongst the steadily moving traffic.

A black Renault in the middle lane slams on its brakes as two police motorbikes come into view.

The first bike moves immediately across the inside lane and then shifts across the middle before edging over the lines into the outside.

The driver of the dashcam vehicle is forced to hit the brakes and lets out a sound of shock as they move to the right to avoid a collision with the police bike which pulled out inches in front of them.

The video then cuts to two minutes along the road to show a police convoy travelling along the outside lane, containing six police bikes and two cars, although it is notIn the pharmaceutical, dairy, food, cosmetic, and chemical industries, fluids must be transported between storage tanks, processing vessels and other points of use. Typically, the fluids are pumped through hoses with a number of them connected together along the path of transport.
In sanitary environments, the hoses usually have ferruled ends that are clamped together. These fittings are easily cleaned and are deemed sanitary fittings.
The ferrule ends are susceptible to damage when dropped on hard floors, such as concrete, quarry tile or epoxy finishes. The ends get nicked and abraded and in time must be replaced. The floor is also damaged when the metal ferrules hit the floor. The chipped flooring detracts from the appearance of the area and may require expensive repair.
In a sanitary environment, when the end


By Daria Sito-Sucic

SARAJEVO, March 17 (Reuters) - Unless Bosnia meets terms required for the first review of the International Monetary Fund's loan arrangement by end-March, they will have to be re-negotiated and the disbursement of cash delayed for months, an IMF senior official said on Friday.

A delay in the release of funds under the lender's 553 million-euro ($595 million) loan would strain the budgets of the impoverished country's two autonomous regions, which are the main beneficiaries of the IMF aid programme.

It will also mean that loans from other international creditors, such as the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), would be withheld.

Bosnia is made up of the Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Serb Republic which are linked via a weak central government.

The authorities agreedNational Systems of Innovation

Two features of the firm’s environment have a major influence on its innovation strategy; first the national system of innovation in which the firm is embedded and which in part defines its range of choices in dealing with opportunities and threats and second, its market position compared to competing firms, which in part defines the innovation based opportunities and threats that it faces.

The main thrust of the analysis was that global firms now hardly rely on their home — or any other one — country for their operations since they compete and increasingly produce in global markets. On the other hand, analysts like Porter and his colleagues have shown that business firms –and even the largest ones competing in global markets – are strongly influenced


in their choice of technological strategies by the conditions existing in their home countries. This is because even global firms draw on mainly one or perhaps two countries for their strategic skills and expertise in formulating and executing their innovation strategies. As we shall see about 12% of the innovative activities of the world’s largest 500, technologically active firms were located outside their home countries in the 1990s compared to about 25% of their production and much larger shares of sales. As a consequence we find that the technological strengths and weaknesses of countries are reflected in their major firms.

In the 1990s the largest number of European firms amongst the technical leaders were to be found in the technological fields of industrial and fine chemicals and defense relatedrate of increase in the resources devoted by business firms to innovative activities. It shows, for selected OECD countries trends over 31 years in business funded R&D as a share of GDP (gross domestic product). As we have already seen, R&D captures corporate innovative activities only imperfectly. But it is one of the best available indicators of aggregate innovative investments, and international differences significantly influence national economic growth and trade performance.

Three major conclusions emerge from Table: First, and contrary to what many observers continue to assume, Europe and Japan did not progressively and smoothly catch up with the USA which was the technological leader in the period after the Second World War. Switzerland has always been amongst the leaders and remains so. As early as 1971, Germany and


others.

Chosen Warriors

The investigators of Mountains of Madness are united in their determination to defeat the Ancient Ones, but each has been touched by the horror in a unique way. Four of these men and women were featured in our second preview: the waitress Agnes Baker who is haunted by memories of a past life, the bootlegger Finn Edwards who has unwittingly become involved in a supernatural conspiracy, the violinist Patrice Hathaway whose music forms a bridge between worlds, and the lawyer George Barnaby who seeks revenge for his wife’s murder. Joining this motley crew are the explorer Ursula Downs, the pragmatic handyman Wilson Richards, the rookie cop Tommy Muldoon, and the librarian Daisy Walker.

Their skills are as diverse as their backgrounds. Daisy and Agnes are specialists in arcanemonths. Over that span, however, the public sector has continued to bleed jobs, which has slowed down the economy as a whole.

But while his point was obvious, Mitt Romney and House Republicans are choosing to take it out of context instead of responding on the merits. Romney says the comments prove that Obama is out of touch:

"He said the private sector is doing fine," Romney said. "Is he really that out of touch? I think he's really defining what it means to be out of touch with reality."

And shortly after Romney made his comments, House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor piled on. "Take it from me, the private sector is not doing fine," Boehner said. "Are you kidding?" Cantor exclaimed. "It's not doing fine."

In absolute


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"Defense wins championships" may seem like a tired phrase, but it remains true in college football. And on contending teams, a common theme is having an elite defensive line.

Consider this: Since the 2009 season, every national champion except one has ranked in the top 20 nationally of total tackles for loss. The lone outlier is 2012 Alabama, which still finished 29th.

Dominating the trenches is imperative to national success.

Looking ahead to the 2018 campaign, Clemson boasts the undisputed No. 1 unit. We'll highlight the Tigers, along with nine more defensive lines expected to be among the country's best.

While the order has a subjective element because all players—whether stars or depth pieces—develop at varying rates, considerations included 2017 performance and returning production.

All stats from 2017 seasonNEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a preliminary injunction motion on behalf of Jesús Alonso Arreola Robles today, asking a federal court in California to restore his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals grant after federal immigration authorities unlawfully revoked it. The DACA program provides young immigrants who were brought to the country as children with permission to live and work in the United States.

Arreola is one of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed earlier this month by the ACLU and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California on behalf of young immigrants challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful decision to terminate their DACA grants. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Arreola and others like him as well


in the U.S. since age one. DHS granted him DACA in 2012, 2014, and 2016. At the time that DHS terminated his DACA, Arreola was working two jobs to help support his family — as a cook at the famed Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood and as a driver for Uber and Lyft. Through his earnings, Arreola helped support his parents, both of whom are lawful permanent residents, and his three U.S. citizen sisters — one of whom has significant disabilities.

Despite Arreola’s lack of any criminal history and his valid DACA grant, federal immigration authorities arrested him in February 2017 while he was driving a customer. Authorities falsely alleged that he was trying to help smuggle the customer’s relatives into the United States and placed him in deportationThe origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, central South Atlantic ocean.
The Nesospiza finches of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago and Rowettia goughensis from Gough Island, 380 km distant, are both derived from tanager-finches (Thraupidae) that colonized the islands by crossing more than 3000 km of ocean from South America. Sequences from two mitochondrial and four nuclear genes indicate that the Patagonian bridled finches Melanodera are the closest relatives of the South Atlantic finches. Melanodera typically was sister to Rowettia, although some genes linked it more closely to Nesospiza. There was no evidence that Rowettia and Nesospiza are sister taxa, suggesting that the South Atlantic finches evolved from separate colonization events, as apparently was the case for moorhens Gallinula spp. at the two island groups.


The official images of the final two 2014 LEGO Star Wars sets have been revealed by Brickshop Holland, the Coruscant Police Gunship (75046) and the Droid Tri-Fighter (75044). The Coruscant Police Gunship was seen in the last episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 5 and includes 4 minifigures: Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, and two Shock Troopers. The Droid Tri-Fighter is a remake of the 2014 version (8086) and includes 4 minifigures as well: Chancellor Palpatine, Security Battle Droid, Battle Droid, and Buzz Droid.

I have also updated our main page of the 2014 Star Wars sets with the images.with robo tech, either by building it or partnering with a firm that can. "This definitely is something we want to keep on the radar, but it isn't something that we set our sights on today and have a project plan laid out for," says Jeff Hoffman, senior vice president and head of Bank of the West's private client advisor team.

Likewise, Webster Private Bank doesn't see a place for robo technology in the private banking space where personalized assistance and tailored service are valued. "A robo advisor is basically somebody who's reading from a script and is going to be giving very limited and canned advice," says Daniel FitzPatrick, head of Webster Private Bank. Robo tech is more a concern for discount brokers and more transactional-oriented businesses, he


William F. Cody "Buffalo Bill"

(1846-1917) In a life that was part legend and part fabrication, William F. Cody came to embody the spirit of the West for millions, transmuting his own experience into a national myth of frontier life that still endures today. Born in Scott County, Iowa, in 1846, Cody grew up on the prairie. When his father died in 1857, his mother moved to Kansas, where Cody worked for a wagon-freight company as a mounted messenger and wrangler. In 1859, he tried his luck as a prospector in the Pikes Peak gold rush, and the next year, joined the Pony Express, which had advertised for "skinny, expert riders willing to risk death daily." Already a seasoned plainsman at age 14, Cody fit the bill. During theCivil War, Cody served first as a Union scout in campaigns against the Kiowa and Comanche, then in 1863 he enlisted with the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, which saw action in Missouri and Tennessee. After the war, he married Louisa Frederici in St. Louis and continued to work for the Army as a scout and dispatch carrier, operating out of Fort Ellsworth, Kansas. Finally, in 1867, Cody took up the trade that gave him his nickname, hunting buffalo to feed the construction crews of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. By his own count, he killed 4,280 head of buffalo in seventeen months. He is supposed to have won the name "Buffalo Bill" in an eight-hour shooting match with a hunter named William Comstock, presumably to determine which of the two


Buffalo Bills deserved the title. Beginning in 1868, Cody returned to his work for the Army. He was chief of scouts for the Fifth Cavalry and took part in 16 battles, including the Cheyenne defeat at Summit Springs, Colorado, in 1869. For his service over these years, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1872, although this award was revoked in 1916 on the grounds that Cody was not a regular member of the armed forces at the time. (The award was restored posthumously in 1989). All the while Cody was earning a reputation for skill and bravery in real life, he was also becoming a national folk hero, thanks to the exploits of his alter ego, "Buffalo Bill," in the dime novels of Ned Buntline(pen name of the writer E. Z. C. Judson). Beginning in 1869, Buntline created a Buffalo Bill who ranked with Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Kit Carson in the popular imagination, and who was, like them, a mixture of incredible fact and romantic fiction. In 1872 Buntline persuaded Cody to assume this role on stage by starring in his play, The Scouts of the Plains, and though Cody was never a polished actor, he proved a natural showman, winning enthusiastic applause for his good-humored self-portrayal. Despite a falling out with Buntline, Cody remained an actor for eleven seasons, and became an author as well, producing the first edition of his autobiography in 1879 and publishing a number of his own Buffalo Bill dime novels. Eventually, there would be


some 1,700 of these frontier tales, the majority written by Prentiss Ingraham. But not even show business success could keep Cody from returning to the West. Between theater seasons, he regularly escorted rich Easterners and European nobility on Western hunting expeditions, and in 1876 he was called back to service as an army scout in the campaign that followed Custers defeat at the Little Bighorn. On this occasion, Cody added a new chapter to his legend in a "duel" with the Cheyenne chief Yellow Hair, whom he supposedly first shot with a rifle, then stabbed in the heart and finally scalped "in about five seconds," according to his own account. Others described the encounter as hand-to-hand combat, and misreported the chiefs name as Yellow Hand. Still others saidthat Cody merely lifted the chiefs scalp after he had died in battle. Whatever actually occurred, Cody characteristically had the event embroidered into a melodrama--Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer--for the fall theater season. Codys own theatrical genius revealed itself in 1883, when he organized Buffalo Bills Wild West, an outdoor extravaganza that dramatized some of the most picturesque elements of frontier life: a buffalo hunt with real buffalos, an Indian attack on the Deadwood stage with real Indians, a Pony Express ride, and at the climax, a tableau presentation of Custers Last Stand in which some Lakota who had actually fought in the battle played a part. Half circus and half history lesson, mixing sentimentality with sensationalism, the show proved an enormous success, touring the country for


three decades and playing to enthusiastic crowds across Europe. In later years Buffalo Bills Wild West would star the sharpshooter Annie Oakley, the first "King of the Cowboys," Buck Taylor, and for one season, "the slayer of General Custer," Chief Sitting Bull. Cody even added an international flavor by assembling a "Congress of Rough Riders of the World" that included cossacks, lancers and other Old World cavalrymen along with the vaqueros, cowboys and Indians of the American West. Though he was by this time almost wholly absorbed in his celebrity existence as Buffalo Bill, Cody still had a real-life reputation in the West, and in 1890 he was called back by the army once more during the Indian uprisings associated with the Ghost Dance. He came with someIndians from his troupe who proved effective peacemakers, and even traveled to Wounded Knee after the massacre to help restore order. Cody made a fortune from his show business success and lost it to mismanagement and a weakness for dubious investment schemes. In the end, even the Wild West show itself was lost to creditors. Cody died on January 10, 1917, and is buried in a tomb blasted from solid rock at the summit of Lookout Mountain near Denver, Colorado.


Uber’s board, Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and VC Hemant Taneja, who was already sounding the alarm that these companies were unmanageable at their current scale.

One year later, the tone throughout Techonomy 2017, last November, was downright hostile toward the net giants in general and Facebook in particular. Roger McNamee, Managing Director, Elevation Partners, and an early Facebook investor, declared that Facebook had “destroyed Western civilization.” See the full discussion here.

At the same event, a panel of Mark Mahaney, a top internet analyst at RBC Capital Markets, Dave Morgan, CEO of NY-based ad technology company Simulmedia, and former Federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, now a professor at The University of Alabama, broached the topic of regulating the internet giants. The session was called Reckoning withBritain Releases Bin Laden's 'Right Hand Man'

Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who was once described as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe, was released from a British prison Monday, AFP reported.

Qatada, who is fighting extradition to Jordan, will have to obey a 22-hour-a-day curfew at his home in London. The 51-year-old is considered a serious risk to Britain's national security. He was convicted in his absence in Jordan of involvement in terror attacks in 1998.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Britain cannot deport Qatada to his homeland because evidence used against him in any trial there may have been obtained through torture.


and subsequent administrative remedies were unsuccessfully exhausted by plaintiffs. Plaintiffs thereupon commenced these declaratory judgment actions and have now moved for summary judgment, seeking reversal of the Secretary of Labor's determinations.
Since the facts differ in these two cases and because the applications were denied pursuant to different provisions of the Act, the two cases must be discussed separately.

I
Francis Webson, a native and citizen of Bermuda, was admitted to the United States on January 11, 1969 as a non-immigrant visitor for pleasure. On February 24, 1969, Webson submitted an application for change of status to that of non-immigrant student in order to attend a trade school as an auto mechanic. This request was approved by the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") on January 9, 1970, and Webson was permittedto remain in the United States until January 8, 1971, at which time his course of instruction was to have been completed. He completed the auto mechanic's course on October 17, 1969 and six months later submitted an application for alien employment certification pursuant to Section 212(a) (14) of the Act. Webson sought certification as an automobile mechanic with Yankee Service Corporation, Bronx, New York. Pursuant to the current wage information derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wage Survey for the Metropolitan New York area, the New York State Department of Labor determined that the wage offer of $3.25 per hour did not meet the "prevailing wage" of $4.05 per hour of an automobile mechanic. This action was taken in accordance with the regulations promulgated under Section


the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor can be issued a visa permitting entry into the United States unless the Secretary of Labor has determined that: (1) there are not sufficient workers in the United States to fill the position, and (2) the employment of aliens will not adversely affect wages and working conditions of workers in the United States similarly employed.
The following comment appeared in the reports of both the Senate and House Committees while the amended Act was being considered by Congress:
"The Department of Labor should have no difficulty in adapting to this new procedure [labor certification] inasmuch as the Department [of Labor] through its Bureau of Employment Services agencies, presently determines availability of domestic workers and the standard of working conditions. There is noaliens entering the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor when the economy of individual localities is not capable of absorbing them at the time they desire to enter the country."
It is clear that the primary purpose of the labor certification procedure is to protect the American labor market and to prevent depression of wages and working conditions. Also at least implicit in the Act is the related purpose of eliminating cheap labor or "contract labor" from the American labor market. Senator Kennedy, the principal sponsor of the amended bill in the Senate, stated during hearings that "the function of the Secretary [of Labor] is to increase the quality of immigration, not to diminish it below levels authorized by law." 111 Cong.Rec. 24227. As


have an adverse effect on wages, the Secretary of Labor has abused his discretion.[7] On remand of this case, the Secretary should reconsider his discretion in light of the foregoing.

II
Lusin Ozbirman, a native and citizen of Turkey, was admitted to the United States on December 8, 1969 as a non-immigrant visitor for pleasure. On February 18, 1970, Ozbirman submitted an application for alien employment certification pursuant to Section 212(a) (14) of the Act. 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a) (14). The plaintiff sought certification as a custom tailor whose prospective employer was Martin Brothers, Building S-651, Governor's Island, New York. The New York State Department of Labor determined that there were domestic workers available for this occupation. This finding was based on information supplied to the New York State EmploymentService that qualified applicants for positions as tailors were registered in the Manhattan Apparel Office and actively seeking employment. The Secretary of Labor denied the application because there were sufficient workers in the United States who were available at the "place" where the alien was destined to perform labor. See 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a) (14) (A). Thereafter, the Department of Labor was advised by the State agency that applicants had been referred to this employer, but that he was difficult to please. Subsequently, plaintiff, who is still residing in this country, unsuccessfully exhausted her administrative remedies.
Ozbirman alleges that the Secretary of Labor has established a category of tailors "regardless of individual differences concerning the applications." She argues that such a category constitutes an arbitrary classification and abrogates the


labor certification when their employment background is superior to that of workers in the United States, it is also obvious that further sub-classes within the tailor category would erode the purpose of the statute by denying positions to workers who meet the threshold qualifications.
Ozbirman also argues that the Secretary has misread the statute by promulgating regulations which define the "place" of employment as a geographic region rather than the business situs of a specific employer. The legislative history is not clear on this point; however, there are indications that such a specialized inquiry by the Secretary of Labor is not required. As Senator Kennedy noted in explaining the amended labor certification procedure to the Senate on September 17, 1965:
". . . it was not our intention that allis plausible. As has been stated, one of the purposes of the Act is to prevent aliens from taking jobs away from workers in the United States. The plaintiff was denied certification because there were sufficient workers available in the metropolitan New York area. If none of the available workers in the pertinent geographic region are willing to work at a specific place of employment, the statutory purpose is not well implemented by denying Ozbirman's application. This issue need not be decided, however, for the records of the Department of Labor indicate that qualified workers were referred to the specific place of employment and were deemed unsatisfactory by the employer. The labor certification procedure was not designed to cater to the personal quirks of an employer, and the


third future track,” Mr Crewther said.

He said it was likely that a shorter express track between Carrum and Moorabbin stations could still be built, although it would do less to cut the journey time between Frankston and the city, which takes about an hour in the morning peak. Illustration: Matt Golding Opposition public transport spokesman David Davis accused the Andrews government of leaving no spare room for a third track in their level crossing removals, but refrained from committing to the project if the Coalition wins the November election. Instead, he said that his party would look at the feasibility of creating additional passing loops for the line, “which could provide enhanced capacity for expresses”. A third track was built from Caulfield to Moorabbin in the 1980s, butCarl Martin Comes In On Trial

Wealdstone defender Carl Martin has joined the Alex on trial as Gudjon still looks to bolster the back line.

The 22 year old is highly rated in the lower leagues (according to the official site) claiming the award for young player of the season in 2007 for Wealdstone.

Martin will be assessed in training over the coming week but has already made an impression on Alex assistant manager Steve Davis.

Davis spoke to the official site 'He is quick and strong and has good tricks. He has been really positive with his attitude and hasn't sat back and let anyone get the better of him. He has been aggressive and determined to show us what he can do.'

'He has put himself about and has been very


Interpretive Summary: Identification of air contaminants in controlled environments is difficult because of varied spectrum of problem sources. Propylene glycol (PG) is a chemical that is commonly used in coolants and de-icing solutions for cars, airplanes, and boats. It is also used in equipment associated with controlled environment facilities, such as growth chambers, to regulate temperatures. PG was used as coolant in SPAR (Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Research) chambers. PG leaked from the valve packing system in the air handling unit in some of the SPAR chambers where corn plants were grown. PG vapor was trapped inside the chamber and injured the corn plants. Symptoms of leaf edge chlorosis, later developing into necrosis, were observed on the third day of emergence or on the third day after moving healthy plants into theFAYETTEVILLE -- Records related to a 911 call from the Jim Bob Duggar residence and letters from a judge to Springdale city officials aren't subject to release under a Freedom of Information Act, according to a motion to intervene in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a "Jane Doe" minor.

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sued Sept. 3 in Washington County Circuit Court after Springdale officials refused requests for the documents. They include the recording of the 911 call and supporting documents from May 27 and correspondence between Circuit Judge Stacey Zimmerman and Ernest Cate, Springdale city attorney.

911 Call An account of the 911 recording sought by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and previously released to In Touch magazine has a caller identifying himself as a Washington County case worker for


to argue Department of Human Services and Arkansas State Police investigations into allegations of child maltreatment are specifically exempted from disclosure under the FOIA and 911 calls involving child welfare concerns are exempt under the state's child maltreament law.

Cummins was contacted Thursday and declined comment, citing the privacy concerns of his client.

The newspaper argues the city has "already rung the proverbial bell" by previously releasing the information to the magazine and, further, the recording wasn't created, collected or compiled on behalf of Human Services or the state police. The recording is part of the city's administrative function of providing 911 services to the public, the newspaper says.

The newspaper's FOIA lawsuit is assigned to Circuit Judge Beth Storey Bryan and she hasn't yet set a time to hear it.

"Ilawsuit.

The Duggars were stars of the 19 Kids and Counting television show. The TLC cable network canceled the show after learning the oldest child, Josh Duggar, fondled four of his sisters and a babysitter when he was a teen.

Josh Duggar resigned his position as a lobbyist with the conservative Family Research Council after the admissions. More recently, he admitted being unfaithful to his wife and entered a rehab program after it was revealed he had accounts with an infidelity website that was hacked.

NW News on 09/11/2015


The origins of Clowns International goes back to 1947 when it was known as the International Circus Clowns Club.

In the 1940’s it was at the circus where you would most likely find a clown. Troupes of sometimes a dozen clowns were employed by the larger shows. Each February clowns would negotiate new contracts for the coming season. However in 1947 Billy Smart, (Circus Owner) decided to create some extra publicity for the show by arranging for his clowns to attend Joseph Grimaldi’s grave in the churchyard of St. James’s Church, Pentonville Road, London. There they laid a wreath on the gravestone and decided to meet again the following year. A tradition that is kept alive to this day.

It was circus enthusiast Stan Bult who heard of this anddimension is especially prominent. She sets endometriosis and the devastating effect it has had on her life in the context of her exceptionally difficult childhood. I will suggest that her bodily experiences were shot through with primitive, often unconscious, perceptions of the relationships within her family of origin; whenever she discovered new things about those relationships, she found she had to register the change through her body in some way. She periodically defended herself from her mind by switching off from her body and from other people's bodies, especially her mother's (e.g. not noticing her mother was pregnant). These oscillations took place in the context of her growing acceptance of her female gender identity. There was, moreover, a special category of psychological experience which she connected with the


in detail by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, some version of which must underpin any version of psychoanalysis that sees the projection and introjection of bodily states as the most basic activity subtending all human life (i.e. all British variants). I will contend that the hardest struggle Mantel faced in early childhood was seeing her family of origin through her mother's eyes. An intelligent, perceptive, imaginative child, who loved the rest of her family deeply, could only have been disturbed by what she saw. Developing a hypothesis by André Green concerning somatisation in general, I will suggest that a factor that could have led Mantel to live out so much of her psychic life through her body was she did not feel able to communicate her deepest experiences of family lifeto a new house, on a street named Brosscroft, not far from her grandparents' home. Fairly quickly her mother installed her lover, Jack Mantel, in the new house. Mantel's real father went on living in the house for around five years. During this period of intense domestic strife, Hilary was constantly ill with colics, pains, and fevers. The local GP nicknamed her 'Little Miss Neverwell'. When she was seven, she had an experience in which she believed she could sense the presence of a supernatural creature, as high as a child of two, the embodiment of 'some formless, borderless evil, that came to try to make me despair' (p. 107). As a result of this experience, she was 'never the same ... I was always doomy afterwards'. She became 'a


at the end of the common yard, they have a more tidy and well-arranged plot, with flower beds. Outside our house my granddad has grubbed out a bed for nasturtiums, and trained them up a wall. He calls them storshions ... When I try to put names to their imperial colours, to the scarlet and striated amber, my chest seems dangerously to swell ... (p. 43)"But just as often the proto-symbolic character of her experience is a source of tremendous anxiety to young Hilary. Near the beginning of the *Giving Up the Ghost*, Mantel talks of the 'overwhelming sensory power' of her early memories: 'my early world was synaesthesic', she writes, 'and I am haunted by the ghosts of my own sense impressions, which re-emerge when I try to write, and shiverof her grandmother's piano. The piano in her great-aunt's house makes a 'bronchial, damaged' sound. Whenever it is played, young Hilary stands next to it 'and feels the instrument resonating like a cat purring' (p. 29). The purring in turn reminds her of a cat belonging to Mrs Clayton, a neighbour whose husband had recently died. Mrs Clayton was so distressed by her bereavement that she had to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. The climactic memory in this sequence occurs when young Hilary sits on the stairs eating a marzipan sweet and wonders if she has swallowed a house-fly which can only mean that she will die soon. 'There is another possibility, which I turn and examine in my brain: perhaps the tickling in my throat is


a billycan, a notebook and pencil, his guard's hat and his guard's lamp. It is my ambition to be a railway guard' (p. 35). Her grandfather seems to have encouraged this identification, telling his granddaughter that he was unwilling to send her to nursery as she was too useful to him about the house.

Now identifications take us squarely into the realm of Kristeva's category of the symbolic somatic body because they require the subject to experience her own agency. I want to suggest, however, that in addition to the love of her grandfather, Mantel's early identifications were driven by a need to keep certain aspects of her home life out of focus. More specifically, Mantel used her symbolic body as a buffer between herself and the world ofadult unhappiness.

Young Hilary was aware that her parents were very dissatisfied. They could not afford a home of their own, they could not get social housing because of anti-Catholic discrimination, and her in mother in particular seems to have been frustrated with her life. "Thwarted, unhappy, she stayed in the mill and earned, she said, a wage as good as a man's. The work was hard and took a painful toll on immature muscle and bone. It would be many years before the effects showed; then, with energy to spare, she danced and sang through her evenings, in amateur shows and pantomimes. Cinderella was her favourite part. Her favourite scene: the Transformation. She asked herself, could she really be the child of her parents? (p. 50)"In later years,


the mother complained to her daughter about her parents' 'narrow and unimaginative' nature (p. 49). They had not allowed her to go to the grammar school where she would have thrived or entered her for a scholarship examination. They did not understand her wish to go to art college.

In one of the drafts of *Giving Up the Ghost* that appeared in the *London Review of Books* but which was not included in the book, Mantel describes the day she first met her stepfather, Jack, when she was four years old*.* She had gone with her mother to the primary school where her mother worked in order to borrow a typewriter. On the way home, Hilary turned around and noticed her mother walking with a man. After they goher family from her mother's point of view. She was aware that she needed her mother and she suspected her mother wanted to abandon her. She saw how opposed her grandparents were to her mother's wishes generally. And, once Jack was on the scene, she had to confront her mother's hostility to her father and *vice versa*. If being a boy afforded her a measure of protection from these realities, why would she not seize it?

The conclusion of the scene is remarkable because it appears to hold out the promise of a reconstitution of a new symbolic body. "For a minute or two, I swim up from under the water: clawing. I think, how beautiful she \[my mother\] is. Her face frames a question. It is never spoken.


was her grandfather's. Under his tutelage, she could move about in the world endowed with his power. Even the meals they ate seemed to confirm their connection in her mind: "Grandad and I have special food, at different times from other people. When he comes off his shift he eats alone, tripe, rabbit, distinctive food that is for men. Around noon each day I take a lamb chop, and a slice of bread and butter. (p. 45)"The illnesses she suffered post-Blackpool entailed losing his body as a happy source of representation for her own. She continued to play boyish games though increasingly these now felt like play to her. If Merleau-Ponty's account of the developmental significance of the shared body scheme is correct, it would have been impossible(the phenomenon known as 'telogen effluvium'). And the pains and fatigue mentioned could easily have been caused by excess cortisol in the body. The GP who nicknamed Hilary 'Little Miss Neverwell' appears to have been ignorant of the physiology of stress. But perhaps he was struck by the intense mutual involvement of mother and daughter during illness. Hilary feared her mother's waywardness very much. Through illness, the mother appears to have identified with the daughter. Maybe it was a way of bestowing on her daughter the care of which she had felt deprived. At any rate the sick body was perhaps the first version of the shared *female* body schema.

Hilary's emerging sense of her body as female appears to have turned on two related intuitions: that it was


the point of cutting off from her senses was to blunt her sense of her mother's body. For a time, she could not hear what her mother said to her, forgot the colour of her mother's hair, and failed to notice when her mother was pregnant (p. 65).

The final acceptance of femininity seems to have been occurred for Hilary in the climactic episode of the chapter entitled 'The Secret Garden'. Shortly before her First Communion, Hilary 'carried a simple space for God inside me: a jagged space surrounded by light, a waiting space cut out of my solar plexus'. This space was invaded by the vision of the evil spirit which seems to have come to her not so much through her eyes as through her heaving stomachold.[^27^](#EN0027){ref-type="fn"} The scene is thus fundamentally one in which Hilary identifies with her mother's body. It is about the psychological cost of protecting her mother from knowing how disturbed she (Hilary) had been by what her mother did to her family. More specifically, the intensely curious part of the little girl avoids communicating to her mother how damaging she finds adult sexuality by projecting all her own hatred (and the hatred she believes her mother's sexuality contains) into her sibling. She is relating to her mother but the line of contact is distorted by the projection that turns her sibling into an evil spirit. If on Blackpool Pier she learned that no amount of thinking she was a boy could remedy her parents' unhappiness, in the Secret Garden,


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In 1970, Mantel won a place to read Law at the London School of Economics but transferred to Sheffield the following year, to be near her boyfriend and future husband. There she reported 'a pain which I could not explain; it seemed to wander about my body, nibbling here, stabbing there, flitting every time I tried to put my finger on it' (p. 149). Many years later she established that these pains were almost certainly caused by endometriosis, a notoriously difficult condition to diagnose, especially in 1970, but as her doctors could find no physical cause for them at the time, they concluded that they were probably psychogenic. Her GP put her on tricyclic antidepressants; her pains continued. She was then sent to see a psychiatrist, DrG. Dr G thought she was a hysteric. He said her ailments stemmed from the fact that she was a law student. The law, he told her, was too intellectually demanding a subject for a woman, especially one as conscientious as Mantel. He advised her to give up her studies and to get a job in a dress shop, like her mother (p. 170). (Her mother was in fact a fashion buyer for a major department store in Manchester.) Dr G prescribed Valium; but instead of tranquillising her, Mantel found that the drug made her furious: she wanted to burn down buildings. She admitted herself into the care of a psychiatric unit as a voluntary patient, to reduce the likelihood of committing arson. Dr G thought she was


sliding rapidly into psychosis and he put her on antipsychotics to which she had an akathisic, psychotic, adverse reaction. It took several weeks for her doctors to see that her psychosis was iatrogenic. She resolved to endure her pains and to steer clear of psychiatrists forever. Her endometriosis worsened until she diagnosed it herself some eight years later by which time it was too late to save her womb.

Many of the first reviews of *Giving Up the Ghost* presented this episode as the most significant event in the whole memoir. 'The more I said that I had a physical illness, the more they said I had a mental illness' (p. 171) became the most quoted sentence from the book. Mantel's account of those terrible days is masterly. ButThe mysterious pain, which she could not explain, occurred only *after* the rupture with Jack and her mother. Mantel appears to have experienced her undiagnosed illness as a repetition of some of the most traumatic aspects of her sufferings as a child. At the most basic level, endometriosis revived and amplified the colics and cramps and fevers that afflicted her from the age of five until she was well into her teens (p. 134). Its onset coincided with a collapse in her relationship with her mother and Jack, just as the non-specific illnesses of her childhood began when the conflicts between her mother and the rest of the family broke out into the open. Dr G's response to her pains invited comparison with that of the GP who


called her Little Miss Neverwell. It was bad enough that he was unwilling to explore a physical origin for her complaint. In claiming that her pains were hysterical -- that they had been caused by a refusal to take her mother as her model and to put herself in what he plainly saw as a male gender role (that of a lawyer) -- he was ignoring the highly charged meanings that male and female roles had had for Mantel throughout her childhood.

The relational context also matters because it shaped Mantel's experience of her pains. It can be seen to inflect all the symptoms Mantel attributes to psychiatric medications. Consider this description of her response to Valium. "Valium, however, did work; it worked to damage me ... One day I sather mother says is a changeling, to prevent her mother from taking it away from her. The reason no doctor comes to see her during her pregnancy is that her mother will not allow it. Her mother wants to control the pregnancy herself. Her chief rival is the state as represented by the local authority's department of Social Services. (Muriel Axon goes on to kill her mother.) When Mantel first presented at the Student Health Centre, she and her doctors wondered if she was pregnant. Throughout the chapter dealing with her endometriosis, there are hints that an important but unacknowledged function of psychiatry and gynaecology is to demonstrate that the female body and everything it is capable of can be controlled by overwhelming force. Changelings represent the ultimate


and external reality is harder to maintain as a result. It seems to me unquestionable that Mantel was forced to live out a great deal of her emotional life through her body and that, because of the reign of secrecy at home concerning her parents' living arrangements, she was required to deny reality both in the home and outside it, more or less constantly. Green says it is impossible to understand psychosomatic structures without recourse to the concept of 'negative hallucination' (denial of reality). Mantel's tragedy is that the psychosomatic structure of her early home life robbed her of a standard of normality to apply to her pains. The pain she was left with long after leaving the psychiatric ward became the heir to countless childhood bafflements. ItIn the weeks since 17 people were killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students around the country — following the lead of survivors in Parkland, Florida — have walked out of their classrooms to protest gun violence, lobbied lawmakers to pass gun reform legislation, and planned Saturday’s mass demonstration.

As students and adults gathered in Washington, D.C., on Saturday morning, more than 800 sibling rallies were set to take place in cities around the world, according to the protest website. Protesters in Washington, New York City and Boston lined up early Saturday, braving unseasonably cold temperatures in the low 40s.

The main stage at the end of March for Our Lives, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, featured music superstars including Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande


commitment to ban devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.”

President Trump, at his golf resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, tweeted about Friday’s terrorist attack in France on Saturday morning, but was silent on the march.

Meanwhile, young people took the stage blocks from the White House, calling on elected officials to do more to stop gun violence.

“My grandfather had a dream that his four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” said 9-year-old Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr, to a cheering crowd. “I have a dream that enough is enough. And that this should be a gun-free world. Period.”

In an interview with CNN later, alongside her father Martin Luther King III,at a park near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

"The finish line at the end of the march here today in Parkland…is our beginning line. We are just getting started!" Adam Buchwald, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks at a March for Our Lives Rally in Parkland, Florida https://t.co/UjRVQDPo7Npic.twitter.com/5iHqKMi2b6

Parkland student Autumn McKinney told the Herald what she wants alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz to know: “Even though he did something terrible, it started something amazing. He didn’t win.”

Celebrities join students at the march

While student activists took the stage to deliver impassioned calls to action, celebrities joined the crowd and showed their support for the cause as well. Paul McCartney marched in New York City, honoring fellow Beatle John Lennon, who was shot and killed in the city


Boating the McKenzie River

The headwaters of the McKenzie River begin with the Great Springs at Clear Lake, about 18 miles east of McKenzie Bridge. The navigable reach of the river begins at Olallie Boat Launch, located east of McKenzie Bridge at Olallie Campground.his delight with a fist pump when the party left the restaurant.

Ashley was joined by his wife Linda, as they looked to bring negotiations to a close.

Finalising the deal could stretch into the January transfer window, putting some of manager Rafa Benitez’s transfer plans in jeopardy.

Ashley’s wife was also present at the meal along with key advisors.

Rafa Benitez is adamant he needs backing in January and if progress his made the new consortium could give the green light to spend even if the formalities are not done.


ROSS GARNAUT has lashed out at ''crude'' and ''distorted'' reporting of the government's plans for a carbon tax, calling News Ltd the worst offender.

Speaking at a conference sponsored by The Australian, a News Ltd title, on his last day as the government's climate change adviser, Professor Garnaut said much of the reporting had been "about the crudest and most distorted discussion of a major public policy issue in my long experience of Australian public policy".

"Facts are ignored" ... Professor Ross Garnaut complains about coverage of the carbon tax. Credit:Andrew Meares

"I know from my close friends among the senior journalists at The Australian that there is disquiet about that. And I don't think my feelings are unusual."

Singling out a front-page story which he said implied electricity prices would rise
Opinion issued February 3, 2010

In The
Court of Appeals
For The
First District of Texas

NO. 01-10-00070-CV

IN RE C.A. (TONY) SHERMAN, Relator

Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus

MEMORANDUM OPINION

          In this mandamus, relator C.A. (Tony) Sherman, a candidate in the Democratic
primary for Justice of Peace, Precinct 2, Fort Bend County, contends that Joel
Clouser’s application for the same office does not comply with the Texas Election
Code, and he requests that we compel Elaine Bishop, Chairperson of the Fort Bend
Democratic Party, to omit Clouser’s name from the ballot.

          We dismiss the petition for writ of mandamus as moot.
BACKGROUND
          On January 8, 2010, Sherman delivered to Bishop a challenge to the petition,
which Clouser had filed with his application in lieu of his filing fee, alleging that 394
of the 747 signatures collected by Clouser were invalid and that,


Mia Michaels

Hometown: Coconut Grove, FLStyle: Contemporary

Mia Michaels Bio

Mia Michaels was born in Coconut Grove, Florida on February 22, 1966. She’s a bit out there and brutally honest, but when Mia steps into a studio, there is no denying this woman’s artistic integrity. We all know her from her emotive and inspired contemporary dance numbers on So You Think You Can Dance — which awarded her two Emmy nominations and one win — but her career is expansive. She’s choreographed for: Cirque de Soliel, Madonna, Ricky Martin, Prince, RAW (her own company), and SYTYCD, among others. She is currently choreographing the Rock of Ages movie— directed by SYTYCD colleague Adam Shankman.On 10 November, over two thousand Malaivasi tribals took to the streets of Sittilingi, an Adivasi settlement in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu, to protest an atrocity that was previously unheard of in the village—the gang rape and subsequent death of a 16-year-old teenager. The Adivasi residents mobilised to protest not only the police failure to arrest the perpetrators, but also their acts of negligence and complicity, as well as that of the government hospital where she was taken after the sexual assault. “We trusted the police when they took the girl; we thought they would taken care of her,” one of the protestors, a 38-year-old nurse who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, said. “The police have never cared for us tribals, but we


college student, who resides in Sittilingi, told me.

According to the locals, the police were guilty not only of inaction in investigating the crime, but of a dedicated effort to cover it up and characterise it as an attempt to rape. They failed to ensure immediate medical attention for the 16-year-old, did not alert the necessary authorities regarding the sexual assault and engaged in a series of negligent acts that ultimately led to her death, in the Government Dharmapuri Medical College and Hospital—a government hospital in the district. From the first stage of registering a first information report, the circumstances that led to her death exhibit a string of lapses, which locals believe are characteristic of the government’s treatment of Adivasis.

On 3 November, the 16-year-old teenager returned home fromher boarding school in Dharmapuri’s Pappireddipatti town, where she was studying in the twelfth standard, for Diwali holidays. Two days later, two men of her village and community, S Sathish and T Ramesh, allegedly raped her near a stream behind the village. Amid sobs, her 45-year-old mother described the incident in harrowing detail, as her daughter had recounted it to her. “They removed their lungis, which they forced down her throat to stifle her screaming, choking her. They removed her clothes, which they had used to tie her hands behind her back before taking turns raping her. On hearing her brother calling out and searching for her, both men ran away, leaving my girl to limp back home.”

When she reached home, the teenager was covered in wounds and