We rerelease, on a triple CD set, the complete OST and in full stereo by Fiorenzo Carpi for the TV drama, directed in 1972 by Luigi Comencini "Le avventure di Pinocchio" (aka "The Adventures of Pinocchio”).

The carpenter Geppetto (Manfredi) makes a wooden puppet, which he names Pinocchio (Balestri). The Blue Fairy (Lollobrigida), his patron, immediately turns him into a real boy, asking him to promise her that he will be a "good boy", obedient and scholarly, a prop for his parents' old age. As the boy, has kept the lively and rebellious character of the puppet, and he gets up to all sorts of trouble, the Fairy turns him back into wood to punish him. The transformations will happen several times, and once, Pinocchio will even become adonkey. The story ends before the end of the book, that is when Geppetto and Pinocchio come out of the belly of the whale: almost a return to life, a final touch with reality.

At the time the C.A.M. issued a 33 rpm (SAG 9038) containing eighteen tracks (38:07 minutes duration) and a 45 rpm single with two tracks (AMP 26). The album material was re-released in France on an LP (EMI Pathé 2C 064-13044) and on another vinyl with music and dialogues narrated by Genevieve Casile (Ades - Le Petit Ménestrel ALB 367). C.A.M. reissued on CD for the first time ever, the content of the vintage 33 rpm in 1991, in its series CAM'S SOUNDTRACK ENCYCLOPEDIA and in 2005 with a brand new music suite of minutes


62:54) continues with many other TV versions and alternate takes, the CD 3 (minutes 69:16) contains TV versions, alternate takes, and test versions sung by Andrea and Nino Manfredi Balestri with the orchestra of the brothers De Angelis (published on 45 rpm It ZT 7031). The magnitude of Fiorenzo Carpi and Bruno Nicolai is highlighted by the impressive number of different arrangements of the main themes (the most attentive audiophiles will notice even the presence of certain sonic atmospheres typical of Nicolai for the Italian Thriller!) That lead the listener into the magical world of Pinocchio, thanks to a popular flavour of music, strong in its extreme simplicity. An absolute masterpiece that wants to pay homage to Nino Manfredi in one of his most intense performances, the directorsure what to make of Specialist McNutcase. Trained first and foremost as a medic, she was assigned to the strike team on its second mission, replacing a convalescing Spc. Vecre. In the field, she has displayed an uncanny eye and steady hand, boasting an accuracy rate rivalling our best snipers, and yet she refuses a transfer in classification, citing her role on the field as support, not offense.

If I could have a team of McNutcases, this war would be over in a month.

Private, First Class Tyler Irridium Ireland Successful Missions: 2 Confirmed Kills: 2

PFC Irridium boasts a popularity far beyond his mission exploits. He has a great rapport with the troops, and his mere presence seems to boost morale, despite other soldiers far outpacing his performance in the


now increasingly done by non-bank institutions, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, bond markets, and the like. While unfortunate for those investors, large COVID-induced losses for end investors will not trigger the same feedback loops as would the same losses taken by a bank because most employ much less leverage. The high levels of capital and more sensible maturity mismatches mean banks are more able to absorb defaults and give the authorities more room to use forbearance to forestall widespread bankruptcies.

Central bank reactions to crisis

The central bankers reacted appropriately in 2008, sharply increasing liquidity. In that, they had learned both from the disastrous consequences of their predecessors in the Great Depression, who refused to provide liquidity, and the Japanese policy mistakes after its 1990s crisis.

However, 2008 was at itsany solution focused primarily on the financial system would fail.

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Jon Danielsson is a co-director of the ESRC funded Systemic Risk Centre at LSE. He has a Ph.D. in the economics of financial markets and his research interests include financial stability, systemic risk, extreme market movements, market liquidity and financial crisis.He has published his research extensively in both academic journals and the mainstream media, and has presented his work in a number of universities and institutions.

Robert Macrae, CFA, has spent the last 25 years applying an


engineering approach to problems in investment, and more recently systemic risk. Areas of interest include value investment in equities, hedge funds, risk control and financial regulation.

Dimitri Vayanos is professor of finance at LSE, where he also directs the Financial Markets Group and the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality. His research focuses on financial markets, and especially on what drives market liquidity, why asset prices can differ from assets’ fundamental values, why bubbles and crises can occur, and what are appropriate regulatory and policy responses.

Jean-Pierre Zigrand is associate professor of finance and co-director of the Systemic Risk Centre at LSE. His research interests are in the areas of systemic risk and asset pricing, in which he has an extensive publication record. His teaching is -- President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that China, North Korea's principal trading partner, has ordered its banks to stop doing business with the rogue regime.

"I'm very proud to tell you that, as you may have just heard moments ago, China, their central bank has told their other banks — that's a massive banking system — to immediately stop doing business with North Korea," he said at the United Nations alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Trump went on, "Again, I want to just say and thank President Xi [Jinping] of China for the very bold move he made today. That was a somewhat unexpected move, and we appreciate it."

Trump spoke after signing an executive order aimed at companies and financial institutions


that do business with North Korea.

"Foreign banks will face a clear choice to do business with the United States or facilitate trade with the lawless regime in North Korea," he said.

Trump argued that his order will "cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea's efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind." Early this month, North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test yet, and last week the country fired a missile over Japanese airspace. Abe welcomed the new sanctions enforced by the United States.

According to Trump, the U.S. Treasury Department will begin identifying new industries that it can target with strong sanctions, like manufacturing, fishing and textiles.

"For much too long, North Korea has been allowed to abuse the international financial system to facilitatefunding for nuclear weapons and missile programs," said Trump.

He said the U.S. seeks a "complete denuclearization of North Korea."

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin affirmed the president's stance, telling reporters this afternoon, "No bank in any country should be used to facilitate Kim Jong Un's destructive behavior." He emphasized that "the action is directed at everyone" and not specifically China.

The new sanctions from the Trump administration come two days after he told the United Nations that the U.S. would "totally destroy" North Korea if its leader, Kim Jong Un does harm to the U.S. or its allies.

"The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," Trump said Tuesday in


his first address to the United Nations General Assembly.

"Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime," Trump said, using an epithet he has recently adopted to refer to Kim.

Trump teased the announcement during his meeting with Moon earlier in the day and told reporters to "stay tuned."

During that meeting, Moon praised Trump's speech Thursday as "strong" and said he believes it will "help contain North Korea."

"North Korea has continued to make provocations, and this is extremely deplorable, and this has angered me and our people," Moon said. "The United States has responded firmly and in a very good way."

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From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of the heartbreak and healing power of family. New to a small town, Jackie and Paula envision a quiet life for their kids: a young adopted son and two teenage foster children, including the troubled Star. However, they quickly butt heads with their neighbor, Clementine, who disapproves of their lifestyle and is incensed when Star befriends her spirited horse, Comet. Haunted by past tragedy and unable to properly care for Comet, Clem nevertheless resents the bond Star soon shares with the horse. When Star disappears with Comet, the neighbors are thrown together- far too close together. But as the search for the pair wears on, both families must learn to put aside their animosity and confront thechoices they've made and the scars they carry. Plumbing the depths of regret and forgiveness, The Language of Hoofbeats explores the strange alchemy that transforms a group of people into a family.

Review: Jackie and Paula move their family, an adopted son and two foster children away from the city to a rural area where Paula will be the veterinarian. They expect some trouble with their different lifestyle, but they find trouble too quickly within their only neighbor, Clementine. Clementine, who disapproves of pretty much everything, does not like that a married lesbian couple now live across the street, she does not like that they have foster kids of varying nationalities and she especially does not like that one of their newer foster kids, Star, has taken a liking


to her daughter's horse, Comet. Clementine's daughter passed tragically, and Comet is Clementine's last tie to her only child. Star has an instant connection with Comet, and instinctively knows that the horse is not well taken care of and does her best to give Comet what she needs. When Star and Comet both disappear, the two families are thrown together and forced to overcome their differences and heal.

A heart-warming and intensive family drama that deals with grief, loss, healing and forgiveness. The Language of Hoofbeats had me hooked from the first chapters. The point of view switches from Jackie to Clementine, the two characters who need to let go of their faults and the faults in others. Clementine is such an interesting character, I just had to knowa young readers' edition of Pay It Forward (8-12).

Newer novels are Becoming Chloe, Jumpstart the World, Love in the Present Tense, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance, Chasing Windmills The Day I Killed James, and Diary of a Witness.

Both Becoming Chloe and Jumpstart the World were included on the ALA’s Rainbow List. Jumpstart the World was chosen as a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards, received a third place Rainbow Award for Young Adult/Coming of Age Fiction and a tie for first place in Bisexual/Transgender Fiction. Love in the Present Tense enjoyed bestseller status in the UK, where it broke the top ten, spent five weeks on the national bestseller list, was reviewed on a major TV book club, and shortlisted for a Best Read of the Year


Award at the British Book Awards. Where We Belong won two Rainbow Awards.

Older works include the story collection Earthquake Weather, and the novels Funerals for Horses, Pay it Forward, Electric God, and Walter’s Purple Heart.

Pay It Forward was adapted into a major motion picture starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, chosen by the American Library Association for its Best Books for Young Adults list, and translated into more than 23 languages for distribution in over 30 countries. The mass market paperback was released in October 2000 by Pocket Books and quickly became a national bestseller. It is still in print, and was re-released in a trade paperback edition in April of 2010.

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But business at “the SJM” (as it was called) was going very well, and the restaurant had developed a reputation for great food and ambience, which helped to pull in many of the office workers from the tenants in the surrounding business park--including the Ohio Department of Taxation.

One Friday evening, Natalie (a sales tax audit senior at the Ohio Department of Taxation) and several co-workers went to the busy steakhouse to celebrate her recent promotion to sales tax audit manager. And interestingly, when she picked up the tab at the end of the evening, ambitious Natalie noticed no tax had been charged. “Gotcha,” she thought to herself.

Sure enough, a week later the SJM Steakhouse received a call from Natalie’s newly appointed underling, and a few days later


that Chris in the first scenario is a woman, and 82% presume that Terry in the second is a man.

However, the gender was not stated in either scenario. It appears that we associate the failures with gender-role reversals, even if unconsciously.

Family as a social support system

For better or worse, our social systems are highly specialised with roles in the home and family remaining relatively unchanged.

Gender role specialisation is changing, but slowly. The participation by women at work and men at home are increasing as roles are apparently more negotiated than presumed.

Perhaps a limiting factor is that complete equality may be unattainable. While greater male-involvement at home could reduce the child-rearing burden faced by women, he cannot reduce a woman’s burden - and privilege - of being able toAnimation. (That and having no idea what to do with the idea next.)

Rediscovering the love of writing in 2007, my epic fantasy debut of Veil of a Warrior came out in 2014, the prequel novel complete in 2015, with many more on the way. Excerpts of the writing are available on my blog where I like to talk about the writing process, books, and other media in the sci-fi and fantasy domain. Occasionally I post some of my art, which runs the gamut from 3D work, to illustrations and more.

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"News that I will not be allowed to participate in the debates. In shock at the moment. I will be in those debates," May wrote on Twitter.

Marco Dubé, a spokesman for the broadcast consortium that hosts the debates, confirmed the group decided unanimously that a formal proposal will only be made to the leaders of recognized parties in the House of Commons — Conservative, Liberal, NDP and Bloc Québécois.

The Green Party has yet to elect an MP to the Commons.

May was initially excluded from the debates in the 2008 election, but a public outcry forced other party leaders to agree to


Fugazi is an American rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band's continual members are guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty. Fugazi are noted for their DIY ethical stance and manner of business practice. Fugazi has been on hiatus since 2002....GODREJ NATURE'S BASKET, WORLD CHEF

Initiated as a packaging project, this task evolved to become systems design for the private label cuisine range for Godrej Nature's Basket. Our scope of work included not just pack architecture, nomenclature and design, but also a complex guideline manual to put systems for introduction of various new products and categories within the range.

The visual manifestation of the pack is understated and premium. The packaging showcases the chef behind the range, who travels around the world collecting authentic recipes and bringing them to the consumer. The concept lends itself for easy adaptation to marketing initiatives centred around a celebrity chef, in both the on-line and off-line space.


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NASCAR: Brad Keselowski signs contract extension with Penske Racing

November 30, 2011

Brad Keselowski has signed a contract extension with Penske Racing. Photo by LAT PHOTOGRAPHIC

Penske Racing on Thursday announced that both driver Brad Keselowski and crew chief Paul Wolfe have agreed to multiyear contract extensions to remain with the team in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Keselowski and Wolfe will continue to lead the No. 2 team in 2012 and beyond. Neither Penske, Keselowski nor Wolfe revealed details of the contracts.

"The winning combination of Brad Keselowski and Paul Wolfe has been terrific for Penske Racing and we are excited to announce that they will continue to work together," said team owner Roger Penske. "With one NASCAR championship and numerous wins in both the Nationwide Series and the CupSeries to their credit, this has proven to be a special pairing. Although Brad, Paul and the No. 2 team fell short of winning the Cup Series title this season, we know they will continue to be championship contenders for years to come."

In their first season of working together in 2010, Keselowski and Wolfe produced six wins and five poles on their way to winning the Nationwide Series championship. That team also established a new series single-season record with 26 top-five finishes and completed all but one lap of competition throughout the 2010 season.

Wolfe was named crew chief of the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge team prior to the start of the 2011 Cup season and the success continued with Keselowski in his first season behind the wheel


of the "Blue Deuce." The team recorded three victories and one pole position in 2011 as it qualified for Chase for the Championship and finished fifth in the final Cup Series standings. Over the course of the last two seasons, Keselowski and Wolfe have worked together to produce nine wins, six poles, 36 top-five finishes and one NASCAR Nationwide title.

"It's great to know that Paul and I will continue to work together to bring wins and championships to Penske Racing and its sponsors," said Keselowski, the native of Rochester Hills, Mich., who first joined Penske Racing for the final three races of the 2009 season. "We've definitely built something special here with this team and we'll continue to get better to reach our goals. I'm already fired upabout 2012 and the future with the 'Blue Deuce.'"

A former driver who accumulated six top-20 finishes in 16 career Nationwide starts, Wolfe first became a crew chief in 2006 with Fitz Racing. He moved on to CJM Racing in 2009 before he joined Penske Racing as crew chief of the No. 22 Nationwide Series team in November 2009.

"We have enjoyed tremendous success at Penske Racing and I'm really looking forward to building on the legacy of the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge team," Wolfe said. "It's been a great experience working with Brad--we just seemed to click right away--and we will continue to build on the consistency and success we've experienced with the team. We're already working hard to get ready for another run at the championship next


Before an unemployed sicko changed tennis history and got away with it; before he walked down through the stands in Hamburg, Germany, and past a crowd distracted by a changeover; before he leaned over a 3-foot barrier and plunged a 9-inch knife between her shoulders, Monica Seles was not only the best women's tennis player in the world. She was also the toughest.

No one knew from where the toughness sprung except Seles herself, who once explained that she so dearly loved the game from such a young age that it never occurred to her to be nervous, or care about who was winning, or even understand how to keep score.

"Mentally she was just so tough, she was right up there with Chris [Evert]," Martina Navratilova said of Selesfor Bloomsbury Children's Publishing, politely turned down an interview on behalf of Seles because of the subject matter.

You can hardly blame her.

Ahead of her time

Turning 40 this year -- a hard fact to absorb for those of us who remember her so well at 15, the year she turned pro, and at 16, when she won her first Grand Slam title -- Seles was always ahead of her time.

Possessing the most recognized and successful double-fisted forehand in tennis, along with a top-flight two-handed backhand, she was also the original grunter -- though tame by today's standards. But that was how Seles used to be defined before becoming the only known professional athlete to be stabbed in the arena of play.

"The most shocking events in my 35 years-plus of


playing tennis was the day Vitas Gerulaitis died; the day it came out that Arthur Ashe was HIV positive and the day he died; and the day Monica was stabbed," said longtime pro and Seles opponent Pam Shriver, like Navratilova a Tennis Channel analyst. "Those were all days where I very clearly remember where I was. . . . What happened to Monica was almost unthinkable."

On April 30, 1993, Seles was playing in the quarterfinals of the Citizen Cup, a tour event in Germany, on an otherwise perfect day. After winning the previous four games, Seles was leading Magdalena Maleeva 6-4, 4-3 and seemingly poised to close out the match.

At 19, Seles was the top-ranked player in the world and in the prime of her career. She hadreached the finals in 33 of 34 tournaments from January 1991 to February 1993, winning 22 singles titles. More astounding? She had won eight Grand Slam tournaments from 1990 to that point, with a match record of 55-1 in Slams.

At 23, Graf had won 10 Grand Slam titles by April 1993, and until '91 had had a four-year stranglehold on the No. 1 ranking. But in '91 and '92, Seles had surged ahead, and defeated Graf in a dramatic three-setter in the '93 Australian Open final, three months before Hamburg.

With Evert having retired and Navratilova nearing the end of her career, Seles and Graf had clearly separated themselves from the rest of the pack and were primed, it seemed, to develop a rivalry on the level of Navratilova-Evert,


Jimmy Connors-John McEnroe and Pete Sampras-Andre Agassi.

Gunter Parche, an out-of-work, 38-year-old German factory worker obsessed with the German-born Graf, would have stabbed Seles a second time that day in Hamburg, but was wrestled away by fans and officials before he could inflict further damage. His motive? Parche admitted he wanted to keep Seles from playing at a high level so Graf would be No. 1.

At first, many in the crowd were unaware of what had occurred. Seles gave out a yelp as the blade plunged a full inch and a half into her upper back, but stayed on her feet for several seconds before slumping, with the help of officials, to the court.

"I remember sitting there, toweling off, and then I leaned forward to take a sip ofwater, our time was almost up and my mouth was dry. The cup had barely touched my lips when I felt a horrible pain in my back," Seles wrote in her book.

"My head whipped around towards where it hurt and I saw a man wearing a baseball cap, a sneer across his face. His arms were raised above his head and his hands were clutching a long knife. He started to lunge at me again. I didn't understand what was happening."

Physically, Seles was incredibly lucky, as the knife barely missed her lungs, spinal cord and other major organs. Miraculously, she needed only a few stitches to close the wound and a short hospital stay. But the pain, she said, remained for months. And the torment?

Depression in aftermath

In her


they had never been manipulated to freeze anybody's or take someone off," Shriver, then-president of the WTA Players Association, said by phone. "They were what they were. But this was a precedent-setting event and we needed to have some different thinking and consider new options."

Graf went onto win the next four Grand Slam tournaments -- the '93 French Open, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the '94 Australian Open – and also agreed to an endorsement deal Seles said she was close to signing before the attack and regained the No. 1 ranking five weeks after the stabbing.

Fall from glory

Seles would never be No. 1 again.

"She had won seven of eight Grand Slams [from '91 to '93] and was on her way to doing even greater things," recalled MaryJoe Fernandez, a 15-year veteran of the tour and Seles' closest friend to this day. "She was robbed. It was one of the most tragic things to happen in all of sports."

"She was dominating Steffi Graf, who, prior to Seles, dominated everyone else," Shriver said. "The sad thing about the whole thing to me was that besides the physical and emotional harm that was done to Monica, one of our great champions, is that this guy, in the end, got exactly what he wanted."

Further hindering Seles' recovery was her beloved father Karolj's cancer diagnosis (the disease led to his death in May of '98) shortly after Hamburg and, less than five months after the stabbing, the trial of Parche.

Despite Parche's confession and the hundreds of eyewitnesses who saw


him stab Seles, an attempted murder charge was dismissed. He was found guilty of the lesser charge of committing grievous bodily harm and was given a suspended sentence and probation. The judge believed a psychiatrist who testified to Parche's diminished capacity and also credited Parche for his full confession and ultimate show of remorse.

Unable emotionally to attend the trial -- "How could they have expected me to go back [to Hamburg]," Seles said later. "I mean, I would have had to sit in the courtroom with my back to him." -- she instead sent a letter that was read in open court.

"I only want proper justice," it read in part. "This attack irreparably damaged my life and stopped my tennis career. . . . He has not beenthey'd have thrown away the key."

The repercussions

It was theorized at first that the crime was political in origin because of what many misidentified as Seles' Serbian roots (in fact, her family, who had lived in Florida since 1986, was Hungarian but came from a village near Bosnia, controlled by Serbs).

In the end, however, it was simply a tragic case of a deranged fan wanting to hurt his favorite's rival.

Seles never played in Germany again.

As for Graf, who has attracted her own share of crazy fans, she went to visit Seles in the hospital days after the attack and hours before winning the Citizen Cup singles title. Graf has seldom spoken of the incident publicly and did not respond to interview requests.

"The whole thing must have been, and still


a great escape to do the thing you love. But either way, you're in a total safe zone in the place you want to be. For this to happen was such a shock. You just felt extremely vulnerable."

Seles' return

After Seles returned to the tour, the WTA reversed its earlier decision and reinstated her No. 1 ranking, to be shared with Graf for six months. And at first, Seles appeared to have regained her old form, reaching the '95 U.S. Open final against Graf.

But Graf won in straight sets, and though Seles won one more Grand Slam title -- the '96 Australian Open -- she would never recapture what she once had. Just as alarming for those who followed her career, she would never again display the same senseyear she became a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars."

In 2009, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Fernandez said today Seles is "doing great. I don't think I'd have ever played again. The fact that she returned to the court was amazing. And then to win a major again shows just how strong mentally she was to put that behind her."

The woman Fernandez describes is still charitably driven, particularly with causes involving children and animals. She is still very close to her mother, Ester, and her older brother, Zoltan, who rode with her in the ambulance that day in Hamburg and held her hand. And she is a thoughtful friend, never forgetting Fernandez's children's birthdays.

"She's a very well-adjusted woman, smart, caring, one of the best


for facing nobody Navratilova must be referring to her own 82-87 where she won almost all her slams as that was by far the most abysmal womens field tennis history has ever seen. An old past her prime Evert, Shriver, a bunch of third rate German and American and British girls (eg- Bunge, Durie, Hanika, Rinaldi, Potter). Other than Hana in late 85-86, Chris in late 84-85, and a developing Graf in 87 she literally faced nothing. Even someone like Kimiko Date or Natalia Zvereva would have given her a tough time than almost anyone those years did. She thrashes Serena's competition too, when she shouldnt be so blind to see she is the last one who has rights to demean others competition.

the article really is kinda stupidmost abysmal womens field tennis history has ever seen. An old past her prime Evert, Shriver, a bunch of third rate German and American and British girls (eg- Bunge, Durie, Hanika, Rinaldi, Potter). Other than Hana in late 85-86, Chris in late 84-85, and a developing Graf in 87 she literally faced nothing. Even someone like Kimiko Date or Natalia Zvereva would have given her a tough time than almost anyone those years did. She thrashes Serena's competition too, when she shouldnt be so blind to see she is the last one who has rights to demean others competition.

Didn't Martina vote to take away her no 1 ranking along with everyone else? It was awful what happened to Monica, but Martina didn't give a rat's ass until after


Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats has returned to San Francisco for a limited two week run at the Orpheum Theatre, billed as the 25th Anniversary Tour. It's a scaled down version of the musical event I have seen many times.

This marks my twelfth time to see Webber's cats parading about the stage. I first saw the original London production during the summer of 1981 at the converted BBC studio on Drury Lane. The studio had been renamed the New London Theatre and I was enchanted with Elaine Paige as Grizabella and Brian Blessed as Old Deuteronomy. The ingenious staging at this theatre, with the first five rows moving on a mechanical device so the cats could come into the audience, was spectacular. I saw the New York production atthe Winter Garden during the winter of 1982 with Betty Buckley taking the role of Grizabella. I found that the charming British production had become "Americanized." It was more of a Broadway event than a fascinating study of T.S. Eliot verses on our feline friends. Over the years I have seen productions in Los Angeles, Columbus and many touring companies.

The current production features a vigorous cast of young singers and dancers with limited stage experience. What some of them lack in singing voices, they make up for in dancing. The bookless cycle of songs set to the poet's verse has lost is gasp-inducing physical production, but the dancers are fiercely energetic.

There seem to be changes in some of the scenes. There is now a scene of tap dancing


cats in the first act that is strictly out of a Busby Berkeley musical. The second sequence of "Growltiger's Last Stand" has been changed to look like something out of the King and I's "Small House of Uncle Thomas."

Ryan Patrick Farrell is excellent as an athletic Mistoffelees with some exciting dance moves. Jeremy Hayes is sexy singing "The Rum Tum Tugger" Elvis Presley style. Claire Blakeley has a good Broadway trained voice as Grizabella, but she has no charisma in the role of the down and out cat. She radiates no sympathy for the character. Philip Peterson has good vocal chops but he seems too young for the role of Old Deuteronomy.

Choreographer Richard Stafford has designed some excellent, vivacious dance moves for the small group of singers anddancers. The small orchestra under director Logan Medland includes two keyboards that are very noticeable through the theatre's sound system. There is also a guitar, bass and drums that give the musical a tinny sound. Sometimes these instruments drown out the lyrics due to a too-loud sound system.

Sets and costumes are left over from prior productions. The set is one long piece of a junk yard with large Christmas tree lights, which occasionally change colors, strung about the theatre. There is a lot of strobe lighting throughout the production.

Cats plays at the Orpheum Theatre through March 5th. Tickets are available on line at www.shnsf.com, through Ticketmaster by calling 415-512-7770, at tickemaster.com and at all Ticketmaster Ticket Center and at the box office at the Orpheum Theatre, located at


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I’d never really tried self portraits until this year. This was an entry for a DEDPXL assignment. My feet and face were photographed in the basement and composited onto a backdrop of the view out the window at work. Reflections and some other adjustments were added in Photoshop.

6. February – Remembering David, Maple, Ontario
My father-in-law enjoyed playing chess, and I’ve placed a photograph I took of him in the background. Another DEDPXL assignment, this time on the theme of “moody black and white”.

7. July – Stephanie Labbé, TO2015 Pan Am Games, Hamilton, Ontario
I spent some time in the summer shooting the 2015 Pan Am Games soccer matches for the host city of Hamilton, Ontario. Canada lost this final qualification match 2-0 to Brazil, but advanced to the semi-finalsto gauge his own feelings; avoid having to make distracting non-important choices by always buying-eating-wearing-doing the same thing; go for lots of pre-crunchtime walks; ensure he's neither sex- nor sleep-starved; and only take decisions on a full stomach and bladder. A potentially problematic requirement for someone whose job entails scores of decisions a day."
Toby Young, for the Mail on Sunday, wrote: "Her aim is to alert us to myriad ways in which irrational factors influence our decisions. Some suggestions fall into the category of the 'bleedin' obvious' - we're told not to follow the crowd and to get second and third opinions on our health - but for the most part, her advice is excellent and surprising." Daisy Goodwin, for the Sunday Times, wrote: "[A]lthough it is written


Larry Fedora introduced at North Carolina

While the news has been official for a few days now, North Carolina was proud to tie up their loose ends and announce former Southern Miss head coach Larry Fedora as their next football coach.

On Friday morning the Board of Trustees approved a seven-year deal with Fedora earning more than $1.7 million annually, with more bonuses for division or conference championships as well as high graduation rates. With the specifics settled, Fedora was officially introduced to the media in a press conference on Friday afternoon.

"Today is the first day in a new era of UNC football," Fedora said as he took the podium for the first time. "It's going to be exciting. You better buckle your seat belts and hold on, because it'sgoing to be a wild ride"

The last two seasons have already been a wild ride for North Carolina football, under the cloud of an NCAA investigation into the football program that began in the Summer of 2010.

Fedora steps into the position with a two-year probation and scholarship reductions already self-imposed by the school, and possibly more sanctions coming from the NCAA in the coming weeks. The scandal, especially the dismissal of head coach Butch Davis just days before the opening of training camp for the 2011 season, has divided the North Carolina football fan base over the last few months. The idea of unifying the North Carolina fans was mentioned by Chancellor Holden Thorp, new athletic director Bubba Cunningham, and driven home by Fedora himself. He described the


"UNC brand" as being recognized nationwide, and needed the support of "everyone who bleeds Carolina blue" to build a successful program.

Fedora was fiery and energetic throughout his first meeting with the North Carolina media. While he has no experience recruiting in the area, he pointed to his wife as an example of what kind of recruiter he is - even using the expression "I out-kicked my coverage" The off-field troubles and discontent within the fan base resulted in some disappointing attendance during the 2011 season, and Fedora offered a message for the fans.

"We need our students and fans to make game day an unbelievable experience in Chapel Hill," Fedora exclaimed. "We need you to pack Kenan Stadium, we need to be here early, and we need you tointerim head coach Everett Withers for leading North Carolina to their fourth consecutive bowl appearance. No decisions have been made regarding Fedora's staff, but he indicated that both members of his staff at Southern Miss and currently in Chapel Hill will be considered.

Fedora also plans to coach the Golden Eagles in the Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 24, his final game with the Conference USA Champions.

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Michael Jackson Rare Interview February 25 1983

Michael Jackson Rare Interview February 25 1983

We're taking a look back at the life of music legend and King of Pop Michael Jackson, and we're taking you back to ET's very first interview with Michael.
It was February of 1983, and Michael's legendary album Thriller, had just gone platinum, and would later become the best-selling album of all time, and a 24-year-old Michael sat down with former ET correspondent Dixie Whatley.
When asked where his gift for music came from, he answered, "God," and when asked whether there was a formula for his success, he answered, "It's my heart, I put my heart in it."
After childhood of fame, Michael told ET, "I'm just beginning to enjoy friendship, which is new to me."
HeBy Brian Martin

This week's defensive spotlight focusing on a new trio of players that are making life difficult for opposing teams on a nightly basis: Toronto's Fred VanVleet, Los Angeles' Alex Caruso and Houston's Clint Capela.

Fred VanVleet, Toronto Raptors

The Raptors enter Wednesday's games ranked fourth in defensive efficiency (102.7 points allowed per 100 possessions) and first in opponent field goal percentage (48.0 eFG%). Even after losing two-time Defensive Player of the Year Kawhi Leonard, the Raptors remain among the league's best defensive teams and the efforts of Fred VanVleet have been key to that success.

In addition to his career-high 18.7 points per game (36th in NBA) and 55 3-pointers made (17th in NBA), VanVleet has established himself as one of the league's top perimeter defenders. He ranks third


in the league in steals (2.0 per game) and fourth in deflections (3.9 per game).

On top of helping the Raptors force the eighth-most turnovers in the league (16.1 per game), VanVleet is one of the best in the league in contesting shots and holding opponents well below their normal shooting percentage.

In 265 minutes of defensive matchup time, VanVleet has held his matchups to 96-231 (41.6%) shooting from the field, while forcing 51 turnovers. While most of his time (191 minutes) have come against fellow guards, VanVleet has shown the versatility to defend forwards as well. In 60 minutes defending forwards, VanVleet has allowed opponents to shoot just 41.2% from the field.

Alex Caruso, Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers enter Wednesday's games tied with Milwaukee for the top recordfamilies with a child or young person with complex multiple support needs and life limiting illnesses. The family can have a break together and siblings are encouraged to take part in activities.

Contact - Tracy Johnstone

One Parent Families Scotland - £20,616

Funding Period: 2015

Awarded funding in 2015 to provide play schemes and after school activities in Aberdeenshire for children and young people with additional support needs. The groups will all run during the Easter, Summer and October school holidays. The groups take place in Ellon, Inverurie and Banff.

Contact - Maureen Rennie

Crossroads Caring Scotland East Banff & Buchan - £10,800

Funding Period: 2015

Awarded funding in 2015 to provide a residential trip to Aviemore for children and young people with additional support needs, to take part in planned activities. Then a further trip


to Aberdeen for 12 young people with additional support needs.

Contact - Debbie Stopper

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Angus Carers Centre - £20,351

Funding Period: 2015

Awarded funding in 2015 to develop their Families Programme to facilitate short breaks for carers, their disabled child or young person and their siblings. The Programme offers practical support, coordinate activities, arrange trips away during school holidays for disabled children and their family, work in partnership with Angus Disability Sports to facilitate a monthly physical activity for families, offer a befriending service supporting young people requiring support to access activities in their local communities.

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Awarded funding in 2015 to continue the work of CLASP in Dunoon and surrounding areas. Providing support to children and young people aged 5-19Ashley Taylor is the modern poster-boy for kids playing rugby league in Toowoomba and surrounding regions with dreams of the big time, but the system that created the Titans star failed hundreds of others.

After 10 years the National Youth Competition will be no more in 2018 and it is the youngsters learning the game in regional centres throughout Queensland that shape as being the major benefactors.

While the NYC has showcased the elite talent of the under-20s age group for the past decade, it put untold pressure on young men not yet equipped to handle it and forced many to leave behind family and friends in order to pursue opportunities in larger cities such as Brisbane and Sydney.

Some, like Taylor, made the progression all the way through to the


NRL but according to Central Queensland regional game development manager Dean Bosnich there are hundreds and hundreds who didn't.

Bosnich coached the Western Mustangs in the abbreviated state-wide under-20s competition run by the Queensland Rugby League this year and said the inclusion of the Mustangs in next year's 20-week competition is already influencing the decisions of talented youngsters not yet ready to leave home.

"For every Ash Taylor that goes through, there are hundreds of kids that come back and walk away from footy or had a really bad experience going to a big city so it messes them up in other areas of life," Bosnich told NRL.com.

"The kids from even Toowoomba struggle to go to the big cities and Toowoomba these days is a decent-sized town in itself. Butfor the kids out west, it is a huge ask for them as a 16 or 17-year-old to go to Brisbane or Sydney which is what has happened in the past.

"The amount of kids that we've got now who are turning away from offers to go to Sydney and Brisbane because they know the pathway is here is amazing."

The admission of the Mustangs into the Hastings Deering Colts competition next season has renewed hope that a team based out of Toowoomba will make an imminent return to the Intrust Super Cup.

QRL managing director Rob Moore hinted as much when he was in Toowoomba on Thursday for the announcement with the reach of the Mustangs securing a key rugby league area in the state that produced three of the


greatest Queenslanders of all time in Arthur Beetson, Darren Lockyer and Johnathan Thurston.

The Toowoomba Clydesdales last played in the Queensland Cup in 2006 but with centres such as Roma, Kingaroy and Goondiwindi to all feed into the Mustangs system Bosnich believes they will have a complete pathway all the way to Queensland's premier competition sooner rather than later.

"Every day you get asked when it's happening," said Bosnich, who now serves as coaching director for the Mustangs with Eugene Seddon to coach the under-20s next year and Brendan Wilson the 18s.

"It's been bandied about for a long time up here that there might be a Toowoomba team back in the Intrust Super Cup but there has never really ever been any progress made.

"Since we switched to the Western Mustangsit off for as long as convenient. It turns out that, this time around, that terminus ad quem was Friday, March 22, at 8:30 a.m. That was when I, together with another hundred or so of the local huddled masses, shuffled into an ugly, box-like “jury assembly room” to be regaled by Barbara, a clerk of the Court, about the privilege of serving as a cog in the great machinery of American justice. A judge joined her briefly to explain such concepts as impartiality, discretion, and the presumption of innocence. Then we were treated to a short (but not that short) video expatiating further on those and kindred themes. The television set was then given over to sports and various left-wing news programs retailing the depredations and backwardness


role of the jury.

For example how many would return a runaway slave legally captured, and required to be returned to his "rightful" owner under runaway slave laws?

The chance to be on a jury is the opportunity to participate in America as it was meant to be.

At least in Texas, an employee of the Legislature or one of its agencies simply needs to invoke that status and through the magic of separation of powers the jury duty call (at the state level) goes away magically.

At least in Texas, an employee of the Legislature or one of its agencies simply needs to invoke that status and through the magic of separation of powers the jury duty call (at the state level) goes away magically.

I was on a jury back inHow to Buy Bitshares

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Bitshres offers the same features that a standard trading platform offers; however, it also has its own form of cryptocurrency and the decentralization of blockchain technology.

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of the crime scene thereby misleading the jury; (4) admitting into evidence a videotape of the crime scene, which contained inflammatory footage of the homicide *617 victims; and (5) denying his motion for declaration of a mistrial after the State's witnesses made two references to his prior arrest and penitentiary sentence. We find no reversible error and affirm the judgment.
During the early morning hours of December 23, 1999, Carolyn and Starla Ellison discovered the bodies of James Ellison, their husband and father respectively, and Carlos Meeks, at Ellison's place of business, Leaders Barber Shop, in El Dorado. When the police officers arrived, they discovered that Mr. Meeks, who was still in the barber's chair and wearing a barber's apron, had suffered a bullet wound underneath his right eyeand one to his right hand. Mr. Ellison's body was found lying on the floor behind the chair, and it was later determined that he too was shot in the head. Jewelry which Mr. Ellison wore was missing. Both men were dead. Police officers further discovered a bank bag on a table near the chair, which contained several one dollar bills, and bloody footprints leading outside of the shop and southward toward the nearby railroad tracks.
At Hamilton's trial, Jerome Powell admitted to shooting both Mr. Ellison and Mr. Meeks and described the events of the evening in question. Powell had previously pled guilty to capital murder and had agreed to testify against Hamilton and Kirun Mendenhall in exchange for a sentence of life without parole. He testified that


while at the home of friends named the Mendenhalls, he met Hamilton, and the two, with others, proceeded to drink gin and smoke marijuana that evening. At about midnight, Hamilton, Powell, and Kirun Mendenhall were at Leaders Barber Shop, where they decided to "get some money." Powell testified that Hamilton told him that Mr. Ellison made large amounts of money, which he kept in a bag, and that he also kept a gun. The three entered the store with robbery in mind. Hamilton spoke with Mr. Ellison and then nodded to Powell, which was the signal for Powell to pull his gun. Powell did so and turned around. He testified that the gun accidentally went off, shooting Mr. Meeks through his hand and face. Mr. Ellison then croucheddownward, according to Powell, as if going for a gun, and Powell shot him and he fell to the floor. Mendenhall fled the shop, and Hamilton grabbed a briefcase and looked in Mr. Ellison's front pocket before leaving. All three men then met at the railroad tracks and began running toward the Mendenhall house. On the way, they stopped by an abandoned house, opened the briefcase, and removed a blue pouch which contained money. At some point, they split the money three ways, with each receiving approximately fifty dollars. Next, they burned the briefcase and continued to the Mendenhall house. After reaching the house, Powell and Hamilton discovered specks of blood on their clothing and decided to burn their clothes in the backyard. On December 28, 1999, Powell


each request by the prosecutor.
We are precluded from addressing this argument on appeal.
III. Diagram.
Hamilton also claims that over his objection, the prosecutor was allowed to introduce a diagram which misrepresented the dimensions of the crime scene. He admits that the jury was cautioned by the trial court on this but asserts that it was only cautioned as to the diagram's failure to be drawn to scale and not as to the misleading placement of evidence and the positioning of the two bodies. Specifically, he takes issue with the positioning of one of the bodies in relationship to the walls of the shop and the bloody footprints. He argues that the interior of the barber shop was considerably smaller than that depicted by the diagram and that the closeAdd ICO to calender

Japanese Regulator Aims to Reduce Crypto Tax to Revitalize the Market

In October, the government of Japan hinted its plans to ease the process of taxing crypto investments to refrain impractical taxation frameworks from negatively affecting the local market.

At the time, a committee of tax experts that is tasked to advise the government on taxation matters encouraged the authorities to simplify the complex process of disclosing taxable amounts that occur in investing in the crypto market.

Prior to that, a local analyst said:

“If the rapid growth of the cryptocurrency sector in late 2017 is considered, 331 is a number that is simply too low to be true. A large portion of cryptocurrency investors probably did not declare their earnings to the government.”

This week, Takeshi Fujimaki, a Japanese


The desire for perimeter weighting in a golf club iron is well known in the art. This desire stems from the fact that as the mass of the iron is distributed towards the perimeter, the trajectory of the hit ball becomes more consistent for off-center hits away from the sweet spot of the golf club face or hitting surface. Consequently, many modern golf club irons have a “cavity back” design. These clubs are made by removing the weight from the center of the club head and redistributing it along the bottom, the top, the heel and toe portions of the club head. Club heads of the latter type have enjoyed considerable success since they effectively enlarge the “sweet spot” of the club head.
The “sweet spot” of the clubhead is generally regarded to be that area on the striking face of the club head immediately surrounding the center of gravity of the club head. By enlarging the sweet spot, perimeter weighted club heads allow golfers of all abilities to realize improved results over conventional club heads when the golfer fails to strike the golf ball in line with the center of gravity of the club head. These improved results translate into “mis-hit” shots that travel farther and straighter than they would if struck with a club having another conventional club head design. The weight saved by creating a rear cavity in the iron, is re-distributed to the perimeter of the golf club head. The greater the volume of the cavity, the larger the mass of metal


Adolescents and violence: "adults are cruel: "they just beat, beat, beat!".
This paper examines the nature of violence as experienced by adolescent African children between the ages of 10-14 years in the South African township of New Crossroads near Cape Town. The longitudinal study focuses on children from a wide variety of family structures and dynamics in an attempt to examine detailed factors shaping each adolescent's development. The study moves from the premise that the impact of violence on individuals is complex, reflecting the interaction between the violent act on the one hand, and coping strategies adopted by the victims on the other. The children identified three spheres as arenas in which violent interactions occur: home, school and street. It was found that not only have the children devisedsystem generally comprises an actuator, a control system, inlet and outlet lines, and a transfer valve. The actuator is operable to control an engine parameter. The control system includes a first electrohydraulic servo valve and a second electrohydraulic servo valve, the first and second servo valves being fluidically connected to the actuator for operating the actuator. The inlet line supplies pressurized fluid and the outlet line drains fluid. The transfer valve is positioned between the first and second servo valves and the inlet and outlet lines. The transfer valve is operable between a first position linking the first servo valve to the inlet and outlet lines, and a second position linking the second servo valve to the inlet and outlet lines.
According to more detailed aspects of this embodiment,


the switching system may further comprise a second actuator and a second control system. The second actuator is operable to control a second engine parameter. The second control system has a third electrohydraulic servo valve and a fourth electrohydraulic servo valve, the third and fourth servo valves being fluidically connected to the second actuator for operating the second actuator. The transfer valve is positioned between the third and fourth servo valves and the inlet and outlet lines. The first position of the transfer valve links the third servo valve to the inlet and outlet lines, while the second position of the transfer valve links the fourth servo valve to the inlet and outlet lines.
Similarly, the switching system may further comprise a third actuator and a third control system.The third actuator is operable to control a third engine parameter. The third control system has a fifth electrohydraulic servo valve and a sixth electrohydraulic servo valve, the fifth and sixth servo valves being fluidically connected to the third actuator for operating the third actuator. The transfer valve is positioned between the fifth and sixth servo valves and the inlet and outlet lines. The first position of the transfer valve links the fifth servo valve to the inlet and outlet lines, while the second position of the transfer valve links the sixth servo valve to the inlet and outlet lines.
Preferably, the actuator is a fuel metering valve for regulating fuel flow to the engine. Alternately, the actuator controls compressor variable geometry or fan variable geometry. Most preferably, the


actuator for controlling at least one engine parameter. The servo valves receive pressurized fluid from an inlet and discharge fluid to an outlet. The switching valve generally comprises a transfer valve assembly including a valve body positioned within a valve sleeve. The transfer valve assembly is interposed between the servo valves and the inlet and outlet to regulate communication between the servo valves and the inlet and outlet. The valve body is moveable within the valve sleeve to a first position linking the primary servo valve to the inlet and outlet. Further, the valve body is moveable within the valve sleeve to a second position linking the backup servo valve to the inlet and outlet. Preferably, the valve body includes at least one annulus for connecting the ata transfer valve is positioned between the servo valves and the inlet and outlet, the transfer valve being operable between a first position supplying the first and second primary servo valves with fuel, and a second position supplying the first and second backup servo valves with fuel.
Preferably, the inlet includes two lines supplying fuel at a first pressure Psf and a second pressure Pc. The first primary and first backup servo valves utilize fuel at Pc, and the second primary and second backup servo valves utilize fuel at Psf The transfer valve includes a first annulus for supplying fuel at Pc to one of the first primary and first backup servo valves, and the transfer valve includes a second annulus for supplying fuel at Psf to one of


Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Legacy and Digital Deluxe Editions Includes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered for the Ultimate Fan Package

SYDNEY, Australia. – May 3, 2016 – Call of Duty® is returning to its roots for a classic, epic battle of two armies unlike anything seen before in the record-setting series. Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare will launch worldwide Friday, November 4, immersing players in a war story that, for the first time in franchise history, extends beyond the reaches of Earth into the vast expanse of our solar system. Published by Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI), and led by Infinity Ward, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will also be available as the Infinite Warfare Legacy Edition, which includes theand she decided to contact DHR because she lacked legal custody. DHR first attempted to place the child in J.W.'s home but determined that J.W.'s home was not a safe place for the child. DHR obtained custody of the child in May 1997.
The mother had had no contact with the child until December 1997 when DHR filed its petition to terminate the mother's parental rights. Between May 1997 and December 1997, DHR attempted, without success, to contact the mother based on the information given it by J.W. Between December 1997 and October 1998, the date of the trial, the mother visited the child about three times. The mother testified that she did not have transportation and had to rely on friends to drive her to Cullman from Mobile.
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your underwear. While showing off his "sexy" briefs, he let Chris in on the power of the glute flex, which lifts and adds volume to your rear-end.

Unfortunately, while Chris takes the suggestion to heart, he botches the subtlety part of the lesson and puts Reagan on the offensive. By offensive we mean she took his suggestion to a ridiculous degree, prompting us to wonder where she unearthed that posh costume. It was certainly a funnier solution than what most couples would do, which is to just fight.

And we caught that little shout-out to Kelly Bundy's hairstyle in the old video she and Ava watched. Nice one!the support of the majority of the people. It maintains this by keeping everything running well and keeping corruption to a minimum.

Importantly, it is able to react very quickly to shifts in public opinion and correct obvious mistakes in policy. Both abilities are rare in history.

Right now I’m reading City of Light, City of Poison. Basically this is a chronicle of the period in Louis XIV’s (I think) reign. At the beginning of his reign, Paris was a shit-hole….quite literally. Crime, excrement, darkness, crime, excrement. It was a horrible place at times or in many places of the city.

The king appoints various officials to clean things up and implement reforms and infrastructure. Funny thing is, when dumping dead carcasses and such outside was outlawed, people simply kept them


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The Jamaica Now Action Plan is already starting to change the landscape of downtown Jamaica and promises to bring even more benefits to the community before it is complete.

The 21-step plan, which was introduced in April 2015, aims to revitalize the downtown area of Jamaica through a bevy of development projects — both commercial and residential — and with an added boost to the community’s already diverse arts and cultural scene, transportation sector, and many more aspects, making Jamaica a true hub of the borough.

City officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio and Borough President Melinda Katz, worked closely with community leaders and organizations such as the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation (GJDC)Telling the story of Sheetz, from dairy to empire

November 23, 2013

For Blair County residents, the familiar red and yellow Sheetz sign is as much a part of Pennsylvania as the mountains that surround them. But few know the story of how the company, founded in 1952 by Bob Sheetz, became the familiar sight we know today.

A new book hitting the shelves on Monday looks to change that.

"Made to Order: The Sheetz Story" is a collaboration between the Sheetz family - particularly Bob and his brother, Steve, and Bob's son, Stan, the company's current chairman - and author Ken Womack, a professor of English and integrative arts at Penn State Altoona, where he also serves as senior associate dean for academic affairs.

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Harshbarger Dairy Company eventually became the leading dairy operation in the area, with a large distribution center and several Sheetz Dairy Stores to serve the community. In 1952, Jerry Sheetz agreed to sell his son Bob the company's unprofitable 2601 Fifth Ave. store and the Sheetz story truly began.

Bob's new store brought the business away from the dairy, adding a large deli and a variety of grocery items. The store thrived and Bob opened another location, Sheetz Kwik Shopper, in 1962. Through the next 40 years, Sheetz added gas pumps, restaurants, car washes and, of course, the company's signature Made to Order food menu. Today, there are more than 400 Sheetz stores in six states.

Not everything was a success.

"The mistakes we've made - I don't even call themme a chance ... to ask really wide-ranging questions and try to help Bob capture his memories about those times.

"I spent about the same amount of time with Steve, capturing those memories and filling in the blanks and extending beyond Bob's day-to-day operation time with Sheetz, and then [did] the same with Stan."

In all, Womack says he interviewed about 25 people who were part of the Sheetz story. Though Steve Sheetz, 65, knew most of the history of the company, he was eager to put it in print to let the story live on.

"Our mother lived til she was 96 and she had captured a lot of history on her side of the family," he said. "So we had pictures and the history that she had told us


about.

"There are now, I think, 80 of us [descended] from my mother and father, with a lot more coming. [The book] was really trying to capture that for the next generation. Not only where the family came from, but how the business got started, going back to our grandfather."

The book is blunt about the company's struggles, including a down period in the 1980s that led to a more customer-friendly business plan and the company's struggle with a breakout of salmonella among its locations in 2004. In the latter case, the Sheetz family came out - against the wishes of their lawyers and public relations people - and admitted that the salmonella outbreak almost certainly came from Sheetz stores.

Despite the hit in business - food sales fell by 40Don’t miss this leadership interview with Denise Lee Yohn, @deniseleeyohn. Denise Lee Yohn is the go-to expert on brand leadership for national media outlets, an in-demand speaker and consultant, and an influential writer. Denise is the author of the bestselling book What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest, the e-book Extraordinary Experiences: What Great Retail and Restaurant Brands Do, and the new book FUSION: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies.

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The purpose of this study was to determine changes in functional status of Japanese community-dwelling elderly, and to identify physical, psychological, and social factors that predict functional change in a 1-year longitudinal study. A cohort of people 65 years of age and over living in two cities in Yamagata Prefecture were followed for one year. The employed degree of independent criteria developed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare had nine levels. Subjects were classified as independent (rank J) and homebound (rank A) and numbered 112 and 53, respectively. Data on demographic, physical, psychological, and social variables were collected in 1997 by mail and interview during house visits. Death and change in functional


plaintiff's liabilities to the stockholders for the proceeds of the sale.
It will be observed that it is claimed that this good will existed on March 1, 1913, which was the date on which the plaintiff was authorized to commence business and the date when it did begin business as a corporation.
The evidence shows that a special feature of the plan on which plaintiff was organized was that of having an insurance company which would be owned and controlled by individuals with Catholic faith and would specialize in writing insurance on property owned by Catholics. A response to the idea was found among Catholics, both lay and clergy, and on July 26, 1911, plaintiff was organized with prominent Catholics as its officers and directors. The promoters of the companyin selling its stock presented an appeal to Catholics generally, referring to the amount of insurance taken out by Catholics and the nature of the organization as showing certain advantages which would accrue to the company, and in the stock selling campaigns it was the practice of the salesmen to secure pledges of insurance to be taken out with the plaintiff. Between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 worth of insurance was pledged prior to December *695 31, 1913, and from one-half to two-thirds of that amount was pledged prior to March 1, 1913, during the sale of the first issue of the stock. These pledges were generally fulfilled. The stock salesmen in addition to being paid a commission on the sale of the stock received a commission on the pledges


section 234 (a) (1) of the Revenue Act of 1921 (42 Stat. 254) was impliedly approved by Congress through the re-enactment of the section in unchanged form in the Revenue Act of 1924, § 234 (a) (1), 26 USCA § 986 (a) (1). If the commission so paid was a capital expenditure, it is obvious that it is not an ordinary and necessary expense of business, and that it cannot be amortized as a part of the cost of obtaining capital, or treated as organization expense for the purpose of allowing a deduction therefor. In the Revenue Acts of 1926 and 1928, section 234 was re-enacted (as section 234 in 1926, 26 USCA § 986 and as section 23 in 1928, 26 USCA § 2023), and as thethen to laminate the plate so formed with another suitable plate to define liquid passages therebetween.
However, in the liquid jet recording head manufactured by the above-mentioned conventional technique, it was difficult to obtain liquid passages having uniform liquid resistance because of the rough surface of the inner wall of the liquid passage worked or finished by the cutting or the distortion of the liquid passage due to the difference in the etching rate, thus causing irregularity in the recording liquid discharge feature of the liquid jet recording head. Further, when the head was manufactured by using the etching technique, a relatively large number of manufacturing steps were required, thus increasing the manufacturing cost of the head. In addition, as a problem common to the conventional techniques, when the


If they could have bet on which footballer was most likely to walk into the headquarters of the International Evangelical Community, a pentecostal temple located in Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo neighbourhood, Frederico Guedes would probably not have been high up on the congregation's list.

But the striker, also known as Fred, has recently become their newest member; the Fred who is almost as famous for his heavy partying and womanising as for his goals for Fluminense and the Brazil national team is now a devout Christian who on 12 March was pictured walking into the temple with a Bible in his left hand.

Even his club manager found it hard to believe. Renato Gaúcho, whose hell-raising antics might have slowed down since his retirement in the 90s but still makehim a famous lothario, did not hold back when commenting on Fred's conversion. "Is he going to church now? Well that would make me a priest then because we are both up to the same shenanigans. That kills me, to hear he's an 'Athlete in Christ' now," said Gaucho, roaring with laughter.

That last phrase gave away more than banter, though. Although religion pretty much drenches every aspect of Brazilian life, its role in sports and politics is mired in controversy. Still the country with the biggest Catholic population in the world (123m out of 190m people), Brazil in the past few decades experienced significant gains from evangelical denominations.

In the past 40 years the number of Brazilians declaring themselves Catholics decreased from 92% of the population to 57%. Evidence


of this swing can be seen in the Brazilian parliament, where 15% of MPs openly defend an evangelical agenda, and football has also become a highly visible arena for militancy.

In 1984, a group of footballers led by Baltazar, a cult-hero centre-forward nicknamed "God's Striker" thanks to his professed faith, founded the Athletes in Christ, an association of protestant sportsmen that would prove to be one of the most influential power groups in Brazilian football over the next decade.

Their grip over the Seleção was specifically felt at the 1990 World Cup, where they would meet regularly for prayer, invariably led by right-back Jorginho, who years later would be the assistant manager in the 2010 World Cup campaign.

Italia 90 ended miserably for the Seleção, amid tales of infighting and amutiny over prize money and sponsorship deals, and did not work as good publicity for the group.

The Seleção has hardly been a secular environment: in 1958, a pep talk about how the blue away kit had the same colour of Mother Mary's shroud worked wonders to calm down Pelé and co's nerves when the team learned before the final game that the hosts, Sweden, would be playing in yellow shirts. Celebrations on the pitch after Roberto Baggio sent a penalty into the Californian sky in 1994 included prayers on the pitch, a ritual replicated in 2002 – in fact, the manager Luiz Felipe Scolari carried around a Mother Mary statue that "blessed" the dressing room and actually followed him to the Portugal job.

However, militancy never went down well


and the issue became thornier when Kaká, a devout Christian who didn't shy away from talking about God and faith, became Brazil's biggest player of the second part of the Noughties. Alongside the defender Lúcio, their effusive use of apparel with religious messages (does anyone remember the 'I belong to Jesus' boots) ruffled feathers at Fifa, which officially told off the Brazilian Football Confederation after the 2009 Confederations Cup final in South Africa.

A year later, the Seleção not only had Jorginho as assistant manager and vocal evangelist who would threaten critics with divine retribution; a preacher was an informal addition to the technical staff. Four years on, the picture could not be more different.

These days, few people outside Brazil know that Neymar is a protestant, alongside the captainThiago Silva and Chelsea's David Luiz, even though it is quite normal to hear them thanking God for achievements and assorted blessings. There are no organised activities while on national duty and even talking about faith became a bit of a hot potato. "Let's say we keep the praying to ourselves, without trying to make a big issue out of it", says one Seleção player, who asked to remain anonymous.

After months of struggling with his fitness, Fred is allowed to resort to any comforts he wants. But his decision to "do God" publicly – the striker has been photographed in the Fluminense training ground with bilingual religious shirts – is certainly something that will send chills down the spines of some Brazilians before the nation stages the World


poverty, and his new work, though significantly more time consuming, showed the number of those living in abject poverty in the East End of London, to be 10% higher than the original figure of 25%. His work led to the founding of the old age pension, free school meals for the poorest children, and government interventions against poverty.

Despite this groundbreaking work done by Booth, which highlighted just how stark the economic disparities were between areas of East London and the elite of Westminster, and the fact that new versions of these maps have been created in the 21st century, the problem still exists in the city of London.

To see this, you need only watch this YouTube video from the popular personality Russell Brand. This is but one ofthe effects of the Global Financial Crisis. We apologize for the inconvenience".

This has all been upsetting to me. I spent a hell of a long time collecting and organizing all the information on my website and for many years it appeared at the number 1 spot on Google searches of 'Mormon history'. It's been a labor of personal conviction, entirely financed by myself and the only compensation I ever received was not in cash, but the satisfaction that maybe it helped a person or two understand some of the more obscure parts of Mormon history.

Thirteen years an active website, and then 3 months before the fist ever Presidential election with a Mormon on the ballot, my site mysteriously disappears, with no valid explanation from the registar, which closes


NASA's Mercury mission comes to a crashing end

Washington: Running out of fuel, NASA's Messenger spacecraft crashed into Mercury's surface on Thursday at 3.26.02 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), thereby putting a historic end to its four years of orbital operations.

The Messenger was the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unravelling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet.

Travelling at 3.91 km per second or 14,000 kmph, the Messenger spacecraft's crash created a crater estimated to be 16 metres (52 feet) in diameter, NASA said.The mission has far exceeded its primary plan of one year in orbit."Today we bid a fond farewell to one of the most resilient and accomplished spacecraft ever to have exploredour neighbouring planets," said Sean Solomon, Messenger's principal investigator and director of the Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Messenger has acquired over 270,000 images and extensive other data sets, NASA said."Among its other achievements, Messenger determined Mercury's surface composition, revealed its geological history, discovered that its internal magnetic field is offset from the planet's centre, taught us about Mercury's unusual internal structure, followed the chemical inventory of its exosphere with season and time of day, discovered novel aspects of its extraordinarily active magnetosphere, and verified that its polar deposits are dominantly water ice," Solomon pointed out.


objectives. I asked the Internal Revenue Service and the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General about this, but both declined to comment on how financially entangled the Broad and Editas could legally become and what, if any, breaches could trigger an investigation.

The privatization of federally funded science could scarcely have been imagined when national funding was first proposed. During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt directed his chief of military research and development, Vannevar Bush, to create a model for funding science after the war. In Bush’s poetic 1945 document, “Science the Endless Frontier,” he argued for robust funding through the NIH and the creation of the National Science Foundation. These and other efforts led to a briskly expanding scientific research base in the US. In thedevelop young academic science into fully-realized medicines.

To address this issue, in 1980 Congress passed the bi-partisan Bayh-Dole Act, which enabled universities that receive government research funding to partner with biotech companies to develop new treatments. Other important, bi-partisan efforts followed, including the Orphan Drug Act (1983), funding of the Human Genome Project (begun in 1990) the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (1992), and a doubling of NIH funding (1998-2003). Along the way, the biotech industry grew, and today the U.S. is the undisputed leader in biomedical research and development. Patients around the world suffering from leukemia, lymphoma, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, and countless orphan diseases, among others, have benefited from this thoughtful, balanced approach.

Building on this tradition of excellence in biomedical innovation, Editas Medicine was founded in 2013


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Category:Insects described in 1773President Donald Trump's top advisors were caught off guard when the president failed to reaffirm NATO's principle of mutual defense during his speech to the military alliance in Brussels.

The advisors – National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – had pushed to have the language included in Trump's speech during his first overseas trip.

Key allies were looking for reassurance that the U.S. would live up to its commitments to defend fellow signatories, after a series of statements by candidate knocking the powerful alliance as expensive and obsolete.

During his speech, Trump instead lectured fellow leaders about living up to their commitments to spend 2 per cent of their GDP on defense.

President Trump lectured NATO allies for not meeting their defense


commitments, but dropped language that would have reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to mutual defense

The language backing up NATO's core principle, meant to reassure allies, was included in a draft speech up until the morning it was given, Politico reported.

'There was a fully coordinated other speech everybody else had worked on,' a White House official told the publication.

“They had the right speech and it was cleared through McMaster,” said a source briefed by NSC officials after the meeting told the publication. “As late as that same morning, it was the right one.”

The top advisors – whose selection by the governing neophyte Trump helped soothe the political establishment – weren't aware of the reversal.

BLINDSIDED: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, and U.S. Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis were amongA concept for improving Atlantic salmon Salmo salar smolt migration past hydro power intakes.
In this study, cost effective (in terms of reducing loss of power production) measures for increasing bypass migration of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar were developed and tested by establishing statistical models for timing of smolt migration and favourable diversion of water to the bypass. Initial tracking of radio-tagged smolts showed very low bypass migration under normal hydropower operations. Bypass migration increased when bypass discharge was experimentally increased and a model was developed that described relationships between total river discharge, bypass diversion and smolt migration route. Further improvements were obtained by installing two strobe lights at the power-production tunnel entrance that increased bypass migration during the night, but not during daytime. According to the behaviour of


The Norse gods have different ways of getting around: Odin and Heimdall have horses, Freyr has a boar, and Thor has two goats to pull his wagon. Freyja’s choice was a little more unusual: she had two cats to pull her chariot.

This may be a little hard to imagine, but Snorri Sturluson mentions it twice in the Gylfaginning section of the Prose Edda, once when he is describing the goddess, and later when he tells how the deities came to Baldr’s funeral:

Sessrumir, her hall, is large and beautiful. And when she travels, she drives two cats and sits in a chariot. (Faulkes: 24) …Freyr drove in a chariot with a boar called Gullinbursti or Slidrugtanni. But Heimdall rode a horse called Gulltopp, and Freyia her cats. (Faulkes: 50)

Later,even bigger: lions. The Near Eastern goddess Cybele had two lions to draw her chariot, which may have suggested Freyja’s cats as travel and trade brought cultures into contact.

Cybele probably descends from an earlier goddess, the Hittite and Hurrian goddess Kubaba. The Hittite king Hattusilus considered her his patron deity, and with the royal boost her cult grew, untiil she was takng on the attributes of the mother-goddess Hebat and the Sun-Goddess of Arinna, including their lions.

Some have traced this imagery back to the Potnia Theron, or Mistress of the Beasts, a figure from prehistoric religion. She is usually shown as standing between two animals, often grasping them, although one from Çatalhöyük (in Turkey) shows her enthroned with two large felines flanking her.

She was the Great Mother goddess


Impact of traditional Chinese medicine on age trajectories of health: evidence from the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging.
Although traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is widely used, its effect on health outcomes is not well understood. This study employed a cohort sequential design to investigate levels and rates of change in health from midlife to older adulthood in TCM users and nonusers. A sample of 1,302 community-dwelling adults aged 53 to 80 was selected from individuals interviewed in the 1999 Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (TLSA) and reinterviewed in 2003 and 2007. TCM users were identified as participants who reported visiting a Chinese medicine clinic in the year before each of the three interviews. Health outcomes included physical function, self-rated health, cognitive function, and depressive symptoms. Approximately one in fiveThe Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica represents a key component in the tectonic history of Antarctic-New Zealand continental breakup. The region played a major role in the plate-kinematic development of the southern Pacific from the inferred collision of the Hikurangi Plateau with the Gondwana subduction margin at approximately 110-100 Ma to the evolution of the West Antarctic Rift System. However, little is known about the crustal architecture and the tectonic processes creating the embayment. During two RV Polarstern expeditions in 2006 and 2010 a large geophysical dataset was collected consisting of seismic-refraction and reflection data, ship-borne gravity and helicopter-borne magnetic measurements. Two P-wave velocity-depth models based on forward travel-time modelling of nine ocean bottom hydrophone recordings provide an insight into the lithospheric structure beneath the Amundsen Sea


went to the Sherwood Oaks Park to practice with his softball team. When he arrived another team was using the softball field, so Kuruzovich and his teammate Kevin Coates warmed up by playing catch outside the first base line. Coates threw the ball high over Kuruzovich's head so Kuruzovich could practice chasing down fly balls. Kuruzovich ran after the ball; when he was almost under it he turned to backpedal the last few steps. As he backpedalled he tripped over a manhole cover which stood approximately nineteen feet from the ball field, and which was approximately nine inches above ground level. Kuruzovich fell flat on his back. He was able to continue practice for awhile, but was forced to quit when his back began to tighten.
When his backproblems did not subside, Kuruzovich consulted with a chiropractor and an orthopedic surgeon. Their examinations revealed he suffered from a spondylitis  a cracked vertebra  and a grade one spondylolisthesis  a slipped disk  as well as some soft tissue damage. Although treatment improved Kuruzovich's condition to some extent, he was unable to continue working as a hod carrier and was forced to accept employment at substantially lower wages.
Sherwood Oaks Park was originally developed by Korn Parchies, Inc. as part of the Sherwood Oaks subdivision of Bloomington. At the time of Kuruzovich's accident Korn Parchies, Inc. was defunct; it had been involuntarily dissolved by the state because it had not engaged in business activities for a substantial period. Eugene Rubeck and Bill Brown, the owners of


Korn Parchies, apparently retained title to the park after Korn Parchies dissolved, but they intended to donate the park to Bloomington when it would be advantageous for them to do so for tax purposes.
Bloomington did not own the park, but it did enter a written lease in the park which ran from January 1, 1976 through December 31, 1981. During this lease, Bloomington mowed the park, removed the trash, and generally maintained the park. Bloomington continued to maintain the park after the expiration of the lease.
The manhole which caused the accident was part of a sewer system originally built by Korn Parchies as part of the Sherwood Oaks subdivision. The sewer was dedicated to Bloomington long before the accident. There is evidence the ball diamond was installed byand “go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else.” She made the remarks during a Jewish Heritage Month celebration event at the White House.

Davis, who served as Clinton’s White House Counsel from 1996-1998 pulled no punches when showing his disaffection for Thomas’ remarks, saying she should be stripped of her White House press pass.

“If she had asked all Blacks to go back to Africa, what would White House Correspondents Association position be as to whether she deserved White House press room credentials — much less a privileged honorary seat?,” Davis asked.

In a written statement issued Friday, Thomas apologized for the comment to Rabbi David Nessenoff, saying, she deeply regretted her comments and they “do not reflect” her “heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle


liked the product. And he began to slowly grow it from that point on,” Harmon said, laughing as he noted he and his five siblings were his father’s first laborers.“We began to help him in business when we got home for school, and on more than one occasional he would get us out of school if he had a big order for tamales and needed some help,” he said.But, the tamales were too good to just sell to neighbors. Harmon said they started selling tamales on Washington Avenue and what is now Stein Mart Square. He said often his mother would be set up at Stein Mart Square and his father at the old Greenville Mall location.“And it took off from there. My brothers and sisters and IMcBride breaks our hearts as the abandoned little blonde powder puff. The larger than life character that steals the show is played by Nickolas Quintell, as the obnoxious, supercilious lummox of a friendless loner with horn-rimmed glasses—who does an unwitting hootchy-kootchy while spelling the words out with his “magic foot.”

Equity actor Stephen Pawley plays the displaced vice-principal as Elmer Fudd on the verge of a nervous breakdown with hilarious timing. Anna Cook is subtly effective as the former bee champ moderator whose hyperrealism portrays a sedate, polite, repressed realtor who is a walking definition of a life unfulfilled. Reggie D. White convinces us as the street-wise parolee doing community service work by being the bouncer—but turns to comforting the losers and wins our hearts in his arc. And


The singer has reportedly earned $185m in the last year in Forbes’ annual list of highest-paid stars, followed closely by Kylie Jenner and Kanye West

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Singer Taylor Swift was named the world’s highest-paid entertainer on Wednesday but was closely followed by two members of the wider Kardashian clan – reality star turned cosmetics queen Kylie Jenner and rapper Kanye West.

The annual Forbes Celebrity 100 list also saw soccer stars Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar among the top 10, along with British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and 1970s soft rock band the Eagles, who embarked on a new tour in 2018.

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West, the husband of Kim Kardashian, returned to the list after a four-year absence. Forbes estimated his pre-tax earnings at $150m, driven mostly by his popular Yeezy sneaker line, putting him in third place. Kim Kardashian ranked No 26 on the list.

Swift, hot off her 2018 Reputation tour and album, earned an estimated $185m to take the No 1 spot. The 29-year-old pop star also topped the list in 2016 after her best-selling 1989 tour and album.

Jenner, 21, the half-sister of Kim, Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian, came in second place after bringing in an estimated $170m thanks to her booming online lip kits and cosmetics company.

Earlier this year Forbes declared Jenner to be the world’s youngest billionaire.

Forbes compiled its 2019 list by estimating pre-tax earnings from


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(A4O, 26 October 2013) Many journalists and diplomats who attend events in Finfinnee’s gleaming new African Union building are probably unaware that it rests on the site of one of Ethiopia’s most notorious prisons. While that prison was torn down in 2007, its legacy of torture and abuse continues today at the heart of the capital.

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Over the past year, I have spoken to dozens of people who were held in a detention centre called Maekelawi in central Addis. They described dire conditions and a range of abusive interrogation methods to extract information and confessions.

Since 2011, scores of high-profile individuals have been detained in Maekelawi under Ethiopia’s draconian anti-terrorism law, including journalists and opposition politicians, and held for months under the law’s lengthy pre-charge detention period as


their “cases” are prepared for trial.

“Getachew,” a 22-year-old ethnic Oromo, was snatched from his university dorm, driven hundreds of kilometres to Addis Ababa, and locked up for eight months in Maekelawi. His parents were never informed of his whereabouts; he was never charged or given access to a lawyer; and never appeared before court. He was ultimately released on condition that he would work for the government.

Like Getachew, many of the people detained in Maekelawi over the past decade are political prisoners — arrested because of their ethnicity, their real or perceived political opinions and actions, or journalism work. Voicing peaceful dissent or criticism of government policy is increasingly risky.

In a new report, ‘They Want a Confession’: Torture and Ill-Treatment in Ethiopia’s Maekelawi Police Station, Human Rights Watchhaving a geometry such that a substantial number of
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