More fascism from the left.

They can only win when they lie and silence their opposition.

Elizabeth Warren made headlines last year for lying about her own heritage for decades.

Warren lied to employers for years saying she was Native American so that she could land prominent positions in academia.

DNA testing later revealed she is only 1/1024th Indian, less than the average white American.

On Saturday Elizabeth Warren called on tech giants to eliminate vile lies against Kamala Harris following the debates this week.

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It’s not clear what she was talking about from the tweet.

But this was rich coming from the woman who lied her way into Harvard.

The attacks against @KamalaHarrisPresident Obama is pushing congressional leaders to authorize a $5 billion counterterrorism fund that could be used to support

operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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Approving the fund could allow the White House and congressional leaders to escape a tougher vote on authorizing or funding military action before the midterm elections but still achieve the “buy in” the president has said he wants from Congress.

At the same time, the request risks opening the White House up to attacks that it is asking for a blank check from Congress to carry out military action. It’s also unclear whether the counterterrorism proposal would be enough for the administration to decimate ISIS.

The president first suggested the fund during a foreign policy address earlier this year at the West Point


Hyundai Launches Redesigned HYUNDAINEWS.COM Media Website

HYUNDAI LAUNCHES REDESIGNED HYUNDAINEWS.COM MEDIA WEBSITE

COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 6, 2011 – Making it easier for media to access information about Hyundai and its vehicles, an all-new redesigned www.hyundainews.com website goes live today. Hyundainews.com is the official site for media releases, photos, videos, public relations contact information and more. The new site now features social media tools, a news alert subscription service, multiple image downloading, live @Hyundai.com Twitter feed and the new Hyundai Like Sunday blog. The new site is for time-pressed writers, editors and producers covering the auto industry.

“The new design was extensively researched with direct feedback from auto journalists and crafted for speed and ease of use,” said Jim Trainor, senior group manager, product public relations. “The wide range of newcustomers while improving lead management, customer relations management and their related business processes. A pioneer in creating what the industry has come to call “PR sites” for automakers, DMT has created facilities for companies in the U.S., Canada and Europe. A privately held company, DMT has its head office in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is opening a branch office in Paris.

HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA

Hyundai Motor America, headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., is a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co. of Korea. Hyundai vehicles are distributed throughout the United States by Hyundai Motor America and are sold and serviced through about 800 dealerships nationwide. All Hyundai vehicles sold in the U.S. are covered by the Hyundai Assurance program, which includes the 5-year/60,000-mile fully transferable new vehicle warranty, Hyundai's 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty


and bouquet of the product and strike a perfect balance between them.

ORGANOLEPTIC CHARACTERISTICSPerlage: very fine and persistent. Colour: straw yellow with greenish reflections.Bouquet: ethereal, delicate, very personal due to the synergy of the variety aromas and the yeast perfumes; with a clear-cut aromatic note. Taste: full, harmonious and dry.This article was originally published on Monday, April 27, 2015.

The City of San Antonio, Weston Urban, and Frost Bank have reached a far-reaching development agreement after months of study and negotiation that will give the San Antonio skyline its first new office tower in more than 25 years and set in motion the biggest real estate play in the central business district in decades.

The public-private partnership deal will keep Frost Bank, founded on Main Plaza nearly 150 years ago, anchored downtown in a distinctive new headquarters tower to be built on the site of its motor bank, and allow the City to consolidate 1,200 civilian employees working in eight different locations into the existing Frost Bank Tower, completed in 1975, which will undergo $30 million in upgrades and


Bank Tower several years from now, Houston said.

Frost will sell its existing office tower and its 732-space parking garage to the City for $51 million, three million less than it asked for in the original proposal. The City will finance the sale and improvements by issuing debt that will be serviced with the annual rental savings of $3.5 million it now pays to house staff in other locations. The City will occupy 12 floors of the building and lease out the remaining six floors.

Weston Urban will construct and own the new office tower with Frost Bank as the named tenant, to be built on the site of the Frost Motor Bank and a parking lot at the corner of North Flores and East Houston streets.

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Thewouldn’t have kept Frost Bank downtown,” Sculley added.

Frost Bank Properties Acquired by Weston Urban

Weston Urban also will acquire the vacant square block of green space one block north of the current Frost Bank, unused property that Weston Urban will activate as a park open to the public and available for private events once the new office tower is completed.

Weston Urban also consolidates another entire square block farther north along the future San Pedro Creek by adding to its 2013 purchase of the S.X. Callahan Building at 425 N. Flores St., a onetime auto service center, by acquiring both City and Frost Bank parking lots in a block bounded by Cameron Street to the west, West Martin Street to the north, and North Flores Street to the east.

Smith said


Skeletal remains found below Washington Square Park

A second burial vault has been foundunder Washington Square Park after workers upgrading water pipes on Tuesday discovered a 19th century burial vault containing skeletal remains.

Department of Design and Construction officials said the first vault, measuring 8 feet by 20 feet, contained the remains of about a dozen people, ABC 7 reported, adding that as archaeologists, anthropologists and the Landmarks Preservation Commission gather more information at the site near Waverly Place, vehicles and pedestrians will be restricted, and the impacted area will be blocked off until further information is developed.

While archaeologists and anthropologists were at the site on Thursday, they uncovered a second, 15 foot by 18 foot long vault, according to ABC 7, whichcontains coffins with name plates and dates onunder the park will likely have to be redesigned, the CBS article claimed beforeadding that this was not the first time human remains were discovered beneath Washington Square Park — it also happened in 2008 during a soil testing project by city crews.

In addition to a burial ground, the Daily Mail stated in a related report, legend has it that the area was also the site of public executions.


8th from 5-7pm in the Prim Library in an informal program open to the public. She will have a few books on hand to sign. Born in Iran, Wolpe has lived in England, Trinidad and the United States. She is the author of Rooftops of Tehran, The Scar Saloon, and Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad for which she was awarded the Lois Roth Translation Prize in 2010.

Sholeh is a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East edited by Reza Aslan (Norton), the editor of 2010 Iran issue of the Atlanta Review which became the journal's bestselling edition, and the editor of an upcoming anthology of poems from Iran, The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its exiles (University of Michigan State Press,2011.) She is also a contributing editor of Los Angeles Review of Books and the poetry editor of the Levantine Review, an online journal about the Middle East.

Sholeh's poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in scores of literary journals, periodicals and anthologies worldwide, and have been translated into several languages. She has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and been featured on NPR, Voice of America and Dodge Poetry Festival. Sholeh holds Masters degrees in Radio-TV-Film (Northwestern University) and Public Health (Johns Hopkins University). She lives in Los Angeles.


JACKSON HEIGHTS — There's a new halal champion in Jackson Heights.

A group of Queens foodies awarded a lamb-topped trophy to the halal food cart on the corner of 74th Street and 37th Avenue, declaring it the winner of the first-ever "Halalathon," a search for the best halal in a neighborhood loaded with options.

Three judges were joined by 10 lucky volunteers to try food from 11 different spots within a mile radius of the Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street stop in Jackson Heights.

One of the judges, Jeff Orlick, 31, who runs food tours through his Queens food blog Jeffrey Tastes and helped organize Woks and Lox in December, said he'd always avoided the carts, thinking they were nothing more than plain street food.

But since trying all of the neighborhood's options toprepare for Halalathon, he's come to appreciate the cuisine, he said.

"It's a New York thing," said Orlick, a Jackson Heights resident. "People want their food cheap and quick, on the way home from work."

Orlick was joined by Rachel Antonio, 34, a contributor to the blog Queens Love who writes the blog Spam is Better Fried and lives in Sunnyside, and Desmond Chow, 37, a friend who lives in Bay Ridge, to find the best of the best in Jackson Heights.

The nameless winning cart was presented with the Halalathon trophy after beating out storefronts like American Chicken at 78-07 37th Ave., and former Vendy award-winning cart Sammy's, at 73rd Street and Broadway.

Ultimately, Antonio said, the taste of the winning cart's food was less greasy and better-cooked than the other


of voting, they tried food from around 82nd Street. Finally, they narrowed the choices down and crowned a winner.

Orlick's expectation was that Sammy's would come out victorious in the Halalathon, and he was surprised to discover that the cart he calls "the TD cart" because of its close proximity to the bank was the unanimous favorite.

"These guys won hands down," Orlick said.CNN: Trump joked about Canada burning White House in War of 1812 in call with Trudeau

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Show Caption Hide Caption Kudlow: Trade tensions 'like a family quarrel' Top White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow downplayed trade tensions between the US and key allies ahead of the G-7 Summit in Canada, saying it's "much like a family quarrel." (June 6)

President Trump blamed Canada for the burning of the White House in the War of 1812 during a call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the administration's tariffs in Canadian steel and aluminum imports, CNN reported.

Citing unnamed sources, the cable news network reported that Trudeau asked Trump how he could cite national security as a justification for the tariffs, during a "testy" May 25 phone


call.

"Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" Trump reportedly retorted.

When asked if Trudeau took it as a joke, CNN's source said, "To the degree one can ever take what is said as a joke. The impact on Canada and ultimately on workers in the U.S. won't be a laughing matter."

The president was evidently referring to the Aug. 24, 1814, burning of Washington by British troops. After defeating American troops in Bladensburg, Md., British soldiers invaded the city in the only occupation of Washington in American history. The soldiers burned several federal buildings, including the U.S. Capitol and White House (then referred to as the Presidential Mansion).

The attack was in response to an American assault on York, Ontario, but Canada did not yet exist as an independent countryand was still a colony in the British Empire during the War of 1812. So, the troops who burned Washington were British, not Canadian.

"His statement was completely inaccurate," said Maj. Tanya Grodzinski, an associate history professor at the Royal Military College of Canada.

"This was exclusively a British operation," Grodzinski said of the occupation of Washington. "There were no Canadian troops involved whatsoever."

Grodzinski said she reacted to the CNN report with disbelief.

"To claim that some incident from 200 years ago is the rationale behind the tariffs is completely unjustified, and it makes me question the basis of his policy and if there's any thought to it whatsoever," Grodzinski said.

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Trudeau called it "inconceivable" that national security concerns could be a legitimate reason to impose the tariffs during a press conference last week and said it was "an affront" to Canada, whose soldiers have fought and died alongside Americans in several international conflicts.

In response to the Trump administration's 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminum, Trudeau intends to hit the U.S. with his own 25% steel tariff as well as a 10% tariff on consumer goods from the U.S.

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Cooper's three week trial began on November 3, 1987.  The government introduced evidence to prove that Cooper was part of a wide-ranging, decade-long conspiracy to engage in fraudulent insurance company billing, controlled substance violations and mail fraud by more than twenty pharmacies.  The conspiracy was directed by the principals of the Unarex/Motor City chain of retail pharmacies--Melvin Boyer, Nathan Pack, and Paul Mittleman.  Specifically, the two alleged schemes involved (1) filling customers' prescriptions with generic drugs, but billing the insurance companies for higher priced brand name drugs;  and (2) filling large quantities of forged and illegal prescriptions for controlled-substance Schedule II drugs presented by dealers of "street drugs."

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Cooper's involvement with Unarex began in late 1981, when the Unarex principals purchased Karp Pharmacy.  In


January 1982, Cooper was approached on their behalf by Gary Ingram, who offered to make Cooper a loan to enable Cooper to purchase 25% of Karp;  Karp's other owners were the Unarex principals and Ingram.  The loan was to be repaid out of the pharmacy's profits.  Cooper managed the pharmacy, with Unarex handling Karp's payroll, corporate checkbook, paying the invoices for generic drugs, and receiving the insurance company checks sent through the United States mails.

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The first of the two schemes, fraudulent generic substitution, involved substituting cheaper generic drugs for more expensive "brand name" drugs.  The Government presented evidence that a customer would receive the cheaper generic drug, but the insurance company would be fraudulently billed for the brand name drug.  Cooper, or oneof his employees, would place a "double slash" mark on the prescription to indicate that a generic had been dispensed, but a brand name billed.  Two of these employees, Shirley Bogoff and Grayce Alfonsi, were hired to replace experienced pharmacy technicians when Unarex purchased Karp Pharmacy.  They testified that Cooper personally taught them the "double slash" mark system.  A third employee with 12 years of experience as a pharmacy technician, Deborah Garver, testified that she did not engage in generic substitution, but that specific billings, including those in Cooper's handwriting, involved such substitution.  Insurance companies, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan, would pay Karp Pharmacy for the more expensive drug, sending payment through the United States mail to Unarex headquarters.

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The second scheme involved the


Court may neither make credibility determinations nor weigh the evidence.  As to the surprise witness argument, the defendant was not entitled to a witness list.    See United States v. Carter, 621 F.2d 238, 240 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 858 (1980).  Moreover, the witness was not a "surprise" in light of the fact that Cooper's attorney was attacking the government for not producing Gentry at trial.  The government subsequently located and subpoenaed her as a witness, with no objection or request for a continuance from Cooper's attorney.

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The last two counts, violation and conspiracy to violate the mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. Secs. 371 & 1341, were supported by the evidence of the generic substitution scheme discussed above.  The insurance companiesA very scary scene at TD Garden on Friday night appears to have been resolved without major incident.

During overtime of Milwaukee's 99-94 win over Boston, Celtics forward Jeff Green took an elbow to the head from Bucks forward Ersan Ilyasova. The blow occurred as the two grappled for a rebound after a Monta Ellis missed free throw with less than 30 seconds remaining in the game. Ilyasova tapped the ball out of Green's possession and then, as he tried to secure the ball, his right elbow swiped down hard across the left side of Green's face.

Green fell immediately to the baseline and held his face until play stopped. Celtics medical personnel rushed to his attention, exercising extreme caution in moving him as they examined his face. Green, his


face bloodied, eventually departed the game and did not return.

After the game, CSNNE.com reported that Green suffered a bruised left cheek and multiple chipped teeth but would be listed as day-to-day. The site further reported that Ilyasova apologized to Green for the unintentional blow.

Boston, now 14-13, will play next on Christmas against the Nets at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

Green finished with 14 points, three rebounds, two assists, four steals and two blocks in 28 minutes for the Celtics on Friday. Forward Paul Pierce scored a team-high 35 points and registered a team-high 12 rebounds. The Bucks were led by 27 points from guard Monta Ellis. Center Larry Sanders added 17 points, 20 rebounds, three assists, two steals and one block in 39 minutes.

Green, 26, is averaging 9.4 points andRecent downpours have brought chaos and destruction to towns and cities along the eastern seaboard

Dams near Sydney overflowed Thursday after days of torrential rain, as Australia braced for more storms expected to bring dangerous flash flooding to the country's east.

Recent downpours have brought relief to areas ravaged by bushfires and drought—as well as chaos and destruction to towns and cities along the eastern seaboard.

On Thursday, Nepean Dam south of Sydney was at full capacity and spilling over, with video footage showing excess water cascading over the dam wall and downstream.

Two other dams in New South Wales, Tallowa and Brogo, were also overflowing and more dams could reach capacity in the coming days, a WaterNSW spokesman told AFP.

Sydney's dams have seen water levels spike dramatically—the Nepean was just a


third full less than a week ago—though many inland areas are facing severe water shortages missed out on the flows.

A devastating months-long bushfire crisis that killed 33 people has effectively been ended by the downpours, with just one blaze yet to be brought under control in New South Wales.

Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters in recent days.

Police said a man's body was discovered in a flooded river on Queensland's Sunshine Coast on Thursday, though the cause of his death was not immediately clear.

Wild weather is set to ramp up again from Friday, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting ex-Tropical Cyclone Uesi would bring "damaging to destructive winds" and heavy rainfall to remote tourist destination Lord Howe Island.

Senior meteorologist Grace Legge said storms were also expected forQueensland and New South Wales—with areas still recovering from bushfires likely to be hit again.

"Any showers and thunderstorms that do develop are falling on already saturated catchments, so there is a risk with severe thunderstorms of flash flooding," she said.

Emergency services have warned residents in affected areas to be cautious in the dangerous conditions.

Explore further Downpours to end Australia bushfires within days

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The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election — but never told the states involved, according to multiple U.S. officials.

Top-secret intelligence requested by President Barack Obama in his last weeks in office identified seven states where analysts — synthesizing months of work — had reason to believe Russian operatives had compromised state websites or databases.

Three senior intelligence officials told NBC News that the intelligence community believed the states as of January 2017 were Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin.

The officials say systems in the seven states were compromised in a variety of ways, with some breaches more serious than others, from entry into state websites topenetration of actual voter registration databases.

While officials in Washington informed several of those states in the run-up to the election that foreign entities were probing their systems, none were told the Russian government was behind it, state officials told NBC News.

All state and federal officials who spoke to NBC News agree that no votes were changed and no voters were taken off the rolls.

After NBC's report on the compromised states aired Tuesday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Press Secretary Tyler Houlton challenged its accuracy in a series of tweets. "NBC's reporting tonight on the 2016 elections is not accurate and is actively undermining efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to work in close partnership with state and local governments to protect the nation's elections systems


at the end of the Obama administration, told NBC News that the government's assessment when he left the White House in January 2017 was that networks in seven states were compromised. He said he could not account for whether that assessment had changed in the past year.

Daniel, who is now president of the Cyber Threat Alliance, an industry group, said it was the intention of the Obama administration to inform those states, "but clearly it didn't happen the way that we wanted it to."

He said he could not name the states because some of the assessment was based on classified information.

"This continued debate about whether or not the states were notified is actually distracting from the larger point, which is that we need to build the relationship betweenthe federal government and state governments in the electoral area to improve cybersecurity," he said.

"It is also easy to get lost in the cybersecurity industry's ability to parse words, and the differing definitions of malicious cyber activity. But between what the states themselves detected and what the federal government detected through law enforcement and intelligence, it clearly showed a really broadbased Russian campaign to probe and figure out how they could gain access to different components of our electoral systems."

According to classified intelligence documents, the intelligence community defines compromised as actual "entry" into election websites, voter registration systems and voter look-up systems.

NBC News reached out to all seven states that were compromised, as well as 14 additional states that DHS says were probed during the 2016 election.

To this


day, six of the seven states deny they were breached, based on their own cyber investigations. It's a discrepancy that underscores how unprepared some experts think America is for the next wave of Russian interference that intelligence officials say is coming.

Eight months after the assessment, in September 2017, the Trump administration's DHS finally contacted election officials in all 50 states to tell them whether or not their systems had been targeted. It told 21 states they had been targeted, and U.S. officials acknowledged that some of those attempts had been successful.

"I think the Obama administration should have been doing much more to push back against the Russians across the board," said Juan Zarate, an NBC News analyst who was deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism under PresidentGeorge W. Bush. "I think the U.S. was very meek and mild in how we responded to Russian aggression."

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Denis McDonough, who was Obama's last chief of staff, strongly disagrees, arguing the administration acted to thwart the Russians before and after the election. Obama administration spokespeople also say they transmitted sensitive intelligence regarding state compromises to congressional leaders.

"The administration took a series of steps to push back against the Russians to include far-ranging sanctions, diplomatic steps to push people associated with the Russian effort out of this country and also warning our friends and allies," he said.

The Trump DHS, like under the Obama administration, has declined to share the intelligence assessment of which states were actually compromised, according to state election officials.

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future attack.

"We have an extreme sense of urgency on insuring security of the 2018 elections, because you don't get a chance to do it over," said Alex Padilla, California's secretary of state, who said there was no evidence of a successful hack in California.

Several state election officials, including Padilla, told NBC News they think they should have been told that U.S. intelligence agencies believed they'd been breached whether or not that turned out to be true.

"It is hugely imperative that intelligence be shared with state elections officials immediately in order to protect our election infrastructure and the integrity of election results," Padilla said.

Voters cast ballots for the presidential election at an early voting site in Chicago on October 18, 2016. Scott Olson / Getty Images file

Reluctance to shareSarewitz’ paper as my point of departure, but use it to reflect on the state of the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon2020.

The pride of modernity has lost its mojo

Science is in deep trouble. It is “Trapped in a self-destructive vortex; to escape, it will have to abdicate its protected political status and embrace both its limits and its accountability to the rest of society. (p.6)

That is the essence of Sarewitz’ diagnosis, but how did the patient end up in such a wrecked state of affairs?

The beautiful lie

Sarewitz blames Vannevar Bush. An icons of postwar american research policy, Vannevar Bush was a driving force in US research during the second world war where he headed the US Office of Research and Development that initiated, among


recklessness and indicates false promises. But moreover, the Knight of Cups is a person who is a bringer of ideas, opportunities, and offers, and who is constantly bored and in need of stimulation. This person is intelligent and full of high principles, but he is also a dreamer who can be easily persuaded or discouraged.

The knight of Malick’s film is Rick, a Hollywood screenwriter played by Christian Bale. When we first meet Rick, he looks to be living the high life as he attends parties in Los Angeles which look as decadent as they come, but while he looks to be enjoying himself, those famous Malick voiceovers reveal him to be a lost soul who finds he is not living the life he was meant to. From therehe goes on a journey to find an escape from the emptiness he feels and discover more about himself.

The film is divided into chapters named after tarot cards as Rick engages in relationships with different women as he searches for love and a sense of self. We also get to see the troubled relationships he has with his father Joseph (Brian Dennehy) who looks to have been driven insane by the hardships of life, and his brother Barry (Wes Bentley) whose life had been derailed by a drug addiction he has since gotten clean from. Throughout we get the usual Malick-isms of voiceovers, characters staring out into space and wanting to speak truthfully to those closest to them, and it’s all captured with a poetic beauty which continues


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Glory of Heracles features the eponymous Greek hero in a pick-up-and-play role-playing game that has a rich storyline in a Greek motif and a deep battle system.

The story begins when Heracles washes up on a beach with amnesia. Players must journey far and wide to figure out Heracles' story and unravel the mysterious pasts of the other main characters in
this new adventure. The game uses ancient Greece as its backdrop, and players can visit cities like Sparta and Athens on their travels.

Strategy is key during battle, but once the fighting is over, players can gather the spoils of war. Some items might be rusty and in need of polishing at a shop in town,Over Six Million HIV Infected People In South Africa- Finds A Survey

Johannesburg: In South Africa over six million people were infected with HIV by 2004. This puts the prevalence of AIDS in the country at a high of 14 percent. South Africa 's total population is 46.9 million.

The latest figure announced by South African Health Department is far higher than the estimate of 4.5 million given by the official state statistics agency, Statistics SA, reports Xinhua.

The health department said that between 6.29 million and 6.57 million people in the country had been infected with HIV by last year.

The figures, attributed to the department's HIV and Syphilis Antenatal Sero-prevalence Survey, are likely to stir political controversy and cast unflattering light on the accuracy of official statistics, local daily Business


department to speculate that the pandemic might be slowing, but the latest data suggest this is not happening.

In fact, the prevalence rates of HIV measured among pregnant women rose in all age groups from 2003 to 2004.

According to the report women in their early 20s and 30s are the most vulnerable, with 38.5 percent of pregnant women aged 25-29 infected with the HI virus.

The survey found wide provincial variations, with HIV prevalence among pregnant women increasing in all the provinces except Free State , North West and Mpumalanga . KwaZulu-Natal had the highest figures (40 percent) and Western Cape the lowest (15.4 percent).

The report was published on the department's official website Friday just days after the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party tried to obtain the report using theRussian parliament has approved an amnesty law which could lead to the release of some of the country's best-known prisoners, including Pussy Riot and the Greenpeace Arctic protestors.

The law is being seen as an attempt to ease Western concerns about Russia's human rights record, with the Winter Olympics in Sochi coming up early next year.

But critics point out that it does not change the underlying system, which allows for the jailing of protestors in the first place.

Daniel Sandford reports.


of past promises Boris Johnson's support for Brexit took many by surprise before the EU referendum. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises The UK and EU are yet to agree on a withdrawal deal. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises This was taken from a 2012 speech delivered by Mr Davis. He does not currently support a second Brexit referendum. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises Boris Johnson now supports a hard Brexit and resigned from the cabinet in 2018 over Theresa May's strategy. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises The US recently issued trade negotiation objectives for future talks with the UK. The country made clear thatit expects access to the UK's agriculture industry, reviving the debate about chlorinated chicken. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises Nigel Farage does not support the current campaign for a second Brexit referendum. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises Despite this quote, in February 2019 Boris Johnson said a no deal Brexit "may yet be the best option for the UK". Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises The UK and EU are yet to begin negotiating a deal regarding their future relationship. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises Theresa May announced that the UK would be leaving the Single Market in her Lancaster House speech in January 2017.


Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises Theresa May triggered Article 50 on 29 March 2017. Her withdrawal deal is yet to be passed. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises A classic from the 2015 general election campaign. David Cameron resigned on 24 June 2016, following the EU referendum result. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises David Davis resigned from his post as Brexit secretary in July 2018 after disagreeing with Theresa May's negotiation strategy. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises Michael Gove was one of the most influential Leave voices during the EU referendum campaign. Twitter/Led By Donkeys Brexit billboards: Campaigners remind MPs of past promises Jacob Rees-Mogg,A poetic road narration inspired by the cult road movie the idea of the accident blackspot as an instance of transcendence. Our film will tell the story of a vehicle of displaced persons (refugees? exiles?) condemned by the authorities to travel the roads of a coastal city in an endless voyage of the damned. Their transit will mimic the effect of being trapped in an infinitely branching, web-like loop with no end and no beginning.

The voyagers receive a daily itinerary from the authorities which compels them to pass designated ANPR cameras at specified times. This, combined with the close confinement, creates great stress. The voyagers become haunted by the idea of the accident blackspot as a symbol of escape.

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A friend of mine got a mechanical engineering degree from BU. Went to Detroit to build cars. In five years he'd been laid off by Ford, laid off by Chrysler, laid off by GM, and irony of ironies, was last laid off by Mike Milken.

Before he had given up, there were eighteen families left on his street. There were 30 empty houses. Two people had jobs.

He now lives in his parents' basement in Santa Fe. The career he retrained for? Real Estate.

I disagree. The Michigan legislature keeps raising taxes on small business and giving tax breaks to the Big Three. That drove away small businesses and kept the Big Three here. Except now they are dead and the small businesses are all gone. So now we


Helminth parasitism of domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus L.) in a subtropical high-rainfall area of India.
An investigation into the helminth parasitic infections of domestic fowl in a subtropical area of India, based on an autopsy of 532 chickens, revealed a 90.9% prevalence of infection. 10 species of helminths were encountered, of which Capillaria contorta was recorded for the first time from fowls in India. Ascaridia galli was the most prevalent species, followed by Raillietina spp. and Heterakis gallinae. The infection by trematodes appeared to be very rare. The helminth fauna of fowls in this climatic area was compared with that of fowls in other areas of the world and found to differ in respect of prevalence and incidence of various parasitic species. The role of the climate in theREPORT: Fleetwood Town 2 Walsall 1

Goals from Ash Hunter and Bobby Grant earned Fleetwood Town victory against Walsall this afternoon.

The pair struck either side of the half-time break to continue Town's excellent run of six games unbeaten.

Head Coach Uwe Rosler made one change from the FA Cup draw at Shrewsbury last weekend with Ash Hunter coming into the side ahead of Devante Cole.

The game started with much intensity with penalty claims from both sides being waved away by the referee in the opening five minutes - David Ball was bundled over in the area at one end, a handball shout from Walsall at the other.

Chances were few and far between as both sides battled to take a foothold in the game, but the first clear opportunity fell to


Amari’I Bell as he connected with a smart corner and thundered his effort towards visiting keeper Neil Etheridge, who saved brilliantly.

The Cod Army then should have taken the lead, as George Glendon’s corner was floated toward Cian Bolger, but the defender’s header sailed just wide.

It took until just three minutes before half time for the opening goal to come. It was to take a screamer to break the deadlock. As Fleetwood broke on the counter, the ball found its way to Hunter who burst forward, shimmied his way past a defender and fired into the top corner from the edge of the box.

Moments into the second half, Walsall had a chance to be clear on goal, but a last ditch challenge by captain Nathan Pond denied Amarou Bakayogoan effort. The visitors controlled the opening proceedings of the second half, but failed to create chances, and this gave Town a chance to push for a second goal.

David Ball spurned a golden opportunity to double the lead as he was put through on goal. His effort from just inside the box was pushed away by Walsall stopper Etheridge.

Ball then had another chance to score, but this time the offside flag was raised as his effort was deflected away.

The action wasn’t all one way though, as Walsall threatened to make Town pay for missed chances. Scott Laird crossed the ball towards Bakayogo who took the ball down and turned in the box, but his shot flew well over the bar.

The Cod Army did find a second goal though,


About Voices of NY

In the days following the September 11th attacks, when Muslim communities felt their perspective was invisible, an association of the independent and ethnic press founded “Voices That Must Be Heard.” It is one of only a handful of online publications in the country — and the only one in the New York region – that serves as a bridge between mainstream society and immigrant communities and communities of color.

In the spring of 2011, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism assumed ownership of the site from the New York Community Media Alliance, and redesigned and re-launched the publication as “Voices of NY.” The site curates the best journalistic work being produced by scores of community and ethnic publications and where necessary translates the work into English.Carlson who reported on the issue for Fox, candidates who received their lowest high school grade in science and candidates who have been unemployed for three years received 10 points. Conversely, candidates who said they knew a great deal about aircraft control received only five points and trained pilots received only two points.

Previously the FAA gave preference to candidates who completed air traffic controller training courses or had relevant military experience; under the Obama program, these candidates were rejected if their biographical questionnaire does not earn them enough diversity points. By focusing on diversity instead of competency, the Obama administration placed millions of lives at risk by not just allowing, but encouraging, unqualified personnel to control our air traffic.

William Perry Pendley of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a


The robbers used a drill machine to cut the roof of the strong room and enter inside bank.

A gang of robbers entered the strong room of a Haryana bank and looted jewellery by breaking in six lockers, reported news agency ANI.

The robbery took place in Punjab and Sind bank of Panipat on Sunday.

The bank, located on the ground floor of a gurdwara complex, was accessed by the robbers from the first floor where a school has been built. The school's classroom was reportedly under-construction and the robbers, well-versed with the layout of the bank, took advantage of that to gain access. They used a drill machine to cut the roof of the strong room and enter inside the bank.

The authorities are yet to quantify the loss, however, eyewitnessesDesigned by the late Italian architect Ettore Sottsass, the Woodside, Calif., property consists of a collection of buildings, each a different shape and material

It may be the epitome of geek chic: David Kelley, founder of the influential design firm IDEO, is listing his Silicon Valley home—a collection of buildings designed by the late Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass—for $14.995 million.

On approximately 5 acres in the affluent woodsy town of Woodside, Calif., the roughly 7,000-square-foot residence consists of six separate pavilions, each a different shape and material, “like a little Italian village,” said Mr. Kelley, 66. One is a wood-shingled home office with a...


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Cuyperspassage

Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2018

A new underground tunnel, more than a hundred metres long and decorated with Delft Blue tiles representing fragments of Dutch naval history, provides cyclists and pedestrians with a connection from the old city centre to quays on the IJ River waterfront.

Previous state

With 162,000 passengers every day and fifteen international railway connections, the Amsterdam Central Station is the second largest in the Netherlands. It is situated between the old centre of the city and the south bank of the IJ River where there is a quay for ferries crossing to Amsterdam North. Opened in 1889, the railway station is one of the country’s most visited heritage buildings. The neo-renaissance vestibule opening out to the city is the work of the architect Pierre Cuypers, who alsodesigned the Rijksmuseum. The roof sheltering the platforms, which are situated along the river bank, is a cast-iron structure forty metres high. For decades, the station’s location parallel to the river and the construction of a highway along the bank complicated the connection between the old city centre and the quay. Cyclists and pedestrians were obliged to go around the building and face heavy traffic, or cross through the bustling vestibule spaces which are full of kiosks, cafeterias and restaurants.

Aim of the intervention

Since 1997, the station has been undergoing major renovation work in order to provide platforms for tracks that still do not have them, and to make space for a new underground line crossing the city from north to south. The project aims to transform the station


into a major multimodal transport hub which would integrate the old building into a new complex consisting of a city and intercity bus station, the ferry terminal, three underground lines, and footbridges connecting travellers with an existing tunnel for vehicles. In 2008, taking advantage of the scale of the operation, the Amsterdam City Council commissioned the construction of a direct, safe connection overcoming the barriers presented by the station in order to expedite pedestrian and bicycle traffic, which constitutes a very important part of the city’s mobility. This meant adding to the complex work of renovating the station an underground tunnel for slow traffic, a project with a budget of nearly twelve million euros which, open twenty-four hours, would accommodate some 15,000 cyclists every day.

Description

Named “Cuypers Passage” inhomage to the designer of the old station, the new underground tunnel is rectilinear in shape, 110 metres long, ten metres wide and three metres high. The tunnel section is divided into two approximately equal halves. One is occupied by a slightly raised footpath for pedestrians where the ground, the side wall and the roof are rounded off in such a way as to create a continuous surface covered with Delft Blue tiles which, forming an artistic mural created by the graphic designer Irma Boom, represent scenes from Dutch naval history. As the tunnel approaches the river, the classical lines of the images dissolve into pixels breaking them down to become an abstract design in colours ranging from sky blue to navy blue. The mural thus suggests movement


from the old city to the new developments of Amsterdam North. It took five years for the supplier to produce—manually—the eighty thousand tiles needed for the passageway.

The other half of the tunnel is occupied by a two-way cycling track. This has a rougher finish with black, sound-absorbing asphalt. Both the side wall and the ceiling are finished with steel gratings which discourage the hanging of posters and graffiti. Round lights embedded in the false ceiling suggest rhythm as cyclists pass through the tunnel. The raised edge of the footpath separating it from the cycling lane has a continuous strip of LED lamps, throwing ground-level light onto the asphalt.

Assessment

Intensively used all hours of the day, Cuypers Passage is a considerable improvement in the urban infrastructure of a city withwith various themes ranging from Americana to fairy tales, children’s books and Bible stories.

It takes more than a million lights to illuminate Koziar’s Christmas Village.(Photo11: Photo courtesy Discover Lehigh Valley)

Pottstown resident Frank Buttaro recently took his wife, their two adult sons, their wives and his grandchildren to the popular holiday attraction. “As we approached the top of the hill, everyone’s eyes lit up. It was their first visit and they were just in awe. When we reached the gate, characters greeted us and the grandkids ran up, gave them a high-five and posed for a picture,” he said.

Sonia said the family friendly destination appeals to all ages, many who return year after year. “We have one gentleman who has been coming here every year for 57 years now.


New Video Melanie Fiona – Bite The Bullet

After releasing the very powerful and amazing record back in May, Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Melanie Fiona finally gives us the much anticipated new video for the lead single, Bite The Bullet, off her upcoming new album, Awake. You can see the Caribbean influence from the record in the black and white Carmen Murray directed visual, which finds Melanie performing the record with a mic shaped as a loaded gun and laying with bullets in a bathtub of the sexy, sultry, stylish and conceptually well put together video. The theme and concept of the video really fit the song so well and really bring it to life to make it well worth the wait. Melanie always puts together some of therun the search here.)

Major events include:

November 2017 — Early publicity about Russian election interference using Facebook

Jan 2018 — Zuckerberg’s personal goal for “Fixing Facebook” mentions experimenting with cryptocurrency and encryption

March 2018 — NYT and the Guardian publish coverage on the Cambridge Analytica scandal , working with Christopher Wylie

May 2018 — Facebook announces its largest reorganization ever, creating the blockchain group run by former Messenger boss (and ex-PayPal president) David Marcus, while also moving Instagram VP of Product Kevin Weil to the project

June 2018 — Facebook reverses ban on cryptocurrency ads

August 2018 — David Marcus steps down from the Coinbase board, citing a conflict of interest

December 2018 — Bloomberg reports that Facebook is developing a stablecoin , or a cryptocurrency pegged to a basket of currencies, for transfers within


[Successful treatment in a patient with a focal form of stiff-person syndrome using plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy].
We report a 42-year-old female with continuous muscle stiffness and painful muscle spasms of the right leg. The symptoms developed suddenly and worsened over the week after onset. At hospitalization, the right leg had a fixed posture of extension and the foot was plantar-flexed and internally rotated. Neurological examination revealed hyperreflexia of the right knee with positive Chaddock's sign, and stiffness and painful spasms located in the right leg, exaggerated by sudden auditory and tactile stimuli or by emotional stress. She could not walk due to her stiffness. There were no signs of rigidity in the left leg, upper extremities, or truncal muscles. Electrophysiological examinations revealed continuous muscle discharge. Highthe titles. Without Jack or Tiger in the mix, the other contenders might have hit different shots with different results.

Of those who were or shared second, Arnold Palmer would have benefited the most. He was runner-up to Nicklaus at the 1962 and 1967 United States Opens, and tied for second with Gary Player in the 1965 Masters. Over all, Palmer would have won three United States Opens and maybe a fifth Masters in a playoff with Player, to accompany his two British Opens for 9 or maybe 10 majors.

Had Player won a 1965 Masters playoff with Palmer, he would have had 10 majors: four Masters, one United States Open, three British Opens and two P.G.A. Championships.

Without Nicklaus and Woods, Jones would be the career leader with 13 majors:


four United States Opens, three British Opens, five United States Amateurs and one British Amateur in an era when those amateur events were majors. Walter Hagen, a Jones rival, would be next with 11 majors: two United States Opens, four British Opens and five P.G.A. titles.

Had Raymond Floyd won a 1978 British Open playoff with Ben Crenshaw, Tom Kite and Simon Owen, instead of losing to Nicklaus, he would have completed a rare career Grand Slam with his 1986 United States Open for a total of five, including the 1976 Masters and two P.G.A. titles.

Of the other Nicklaus challengers, Bruce Crampton would have had three majors, if not four. He was second in the 1972 United States Open, second at the 1973 and 1975 P.G.A.’s, and shared secondwith Tom Weiskopf and Bobby Mitchell at the 1972 Masters.

Weiskopf, who won the 1973 British Open, also tied for second at the 1975 Masters with Johnny Miller, who won the 1973 United States Open and the 1976 British.

Doug Sanders, who never won a major, was second in the 1970 British Open and shared second at the 1966 British Open. Billy Casper, who won two United States Opens and the 1970 Masters, would have added the 1971 P.G.A. Greg Norman, who won two British Opens, shared second with Kite at the 1986 Masters, which Nicklaus won at 46.

Of those who have challenged Woods, Chris DiMarco, who hasn’t won a major, would have won the 2005 Masters and the 2006 British Open.

Ernie Els, with two United States Opens and two


British Opens, might have won two others for a total of six. He shared second twice in 2000, with Miguel Ángel Jiménez at the United States Open and with Thomas Bjorn at the British.

Kite bridged the two eras. He shared second behind Nicklaus at the 1978 British Open and the 1986 Masters before winning the 1992 United States Open; he was second to Woods at the 1997 Masters.

Oddly, Phil Mickelson, with three Masters and one P.G.A., finished second five times in the United States Open, but only once to Woods, in 2002 at Bethpage Black. Another quirk: two of Nicklaus’s most persistent rivals, Watson and Trevino, never finished or shared second behind Nicklaus in a major.

Others who haven’t won a major but finished second to Woods include SergioAs last weekend's Reason Rally on the National Mall showed, the secular movement in America is reaching a critical mass. When 20,000 enthusiasts show up on a rainy day to celebrate secularity, joining together to oppose the unquestioned exaltation of religion in American public life, there can be little doubt that change is coming. As president of the American Humanist Association, one of the rally's major sponsors, this left me exhilarated, that the destructive anti-intellectualism of the religious right might finally be meeting its match. Those rallying for reason were a diverse group, across all lines of race, age, and class, and they hopefully represent a movement that will escort the religious right off center stage, into the history books.

As I looked out at all the young people


in that the bead ring can be sufficiently properly held without causing any deformation or the like.
However, when the bead ring is delivered onto the band at the boundary position between the expanded portion and the remaining portion of the band on a tire building apparatus, the bead ring is likely to move to be eccentric to the axis of a forming drum due to wrinkles occurring at the boundary position of the band. Moreover, reinforcing cords in the band become nonuniform in circumferential directions due to the wrinkles, and an extra process step is needed for expanding the band at the center portion of the length to complicate the production processes.
With the negative type bead lock apparatus, on the other hand, as a bead ring is deliveredIvan Stryder says he has lost his job and his life in his battle with ACC over a back injury.

ACC is spending millions each year spying on claimants it suspects are committing fraud. CATE BROUGHTON reports.

ACC spent $5.1 million in the last year on investigating suspected fraud, including internal and contracted staff, surveillance, and lawyers for prosecutions, but claims it saved taxpayers about $7.3m in weekly compensation payments for fake claims.

One of those ACC has spied on is self-employed Christchurch landscaper Ivan Stryder, who has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with ACC since he injured his back at work in April 2014.

The 44-year-old, who featured in a Stuff series about ACC in July, suffered a severely bulged disc in his lower back and the subsequent surgery in


month revealed his case manager requested surveillance in August 2016, based on suspicions Stryder may try to stay on weekly compensation long term without medical justification.

The Privacy Act permits ACC investigations as long as they are conducted for lawful, relevant purposes, including the protection of public revenue, and are done in a lawful, and not overly intrusive way.

Stryder was watched for up to six hours on three days from August 18, 2016.The "operative" was to get video footage of Stryder lifting something heavy, and record his work hours over a day.

SUPPLIED Part of a report by an operative hired by ACC to spy on Christchurch claimant Ivan Stryder. The investigation was closed when no substantial evidence was found that Stryder was working more hours than he was medicallycertified to work.

On August 18, a man who resembled Stryder was tracked for "a number of hours" during the surveillance, but later "discounted from the inquiry". Another day Stryder was seen bending down to lift a red bag. He was not seen doing heavy lifting, but "was seen to walk, or even run freely".

The investigator concluded that the hours Stryder was seen working "more or less" matched the hours he was medically certified for. The inquiry was closed after finding little evidence of fraud, though the investigator noted there was a "possibility that future investigation will be required".

An ACC spokesman said the agency "decided not to pursue the matter further".

Stryder said he was annoyed when he found out about the surveillance because he had done nothing wrong. ACC


Paddle sports fatalities--Maine, 2000-2007.
In 2006, approximately 70 million persons in the United States participated in recreational boating, and paddle sports vessels (i.e., canoes, kayaks, and inflatable rafts) made up the fastest-growing segment of the boating market. From 2005 to 2006, canoe sales in the United States increased by 23%, and kayak sales increased by 11%, while powerboat sales decreased by 5%. To analyze the trends and characteristics of deaths associated with paddle sports, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services examined data on fatalities that occurred during 2000-2007. The results of this analysis determined that paddle sports deaths were associated with inexperience, alcohol use, and not using a personal flotation device (PFD). To reduce the risk for paddle sports fatalities, boating organizations and water-sport enforcement agencies shouldwon within the union, so whilst it continues to give part of my subs to the Labour party, I believe that I have a right to exercise my democratic rights in voting in this election.

On the TUC anti-austerity demo in October 2012, I was talking to two trade unionists who were members of the Labour Party. They had voted for Ed Milliband to become leader, but now wished they had voted for his brother David instead.

That wasn't because in hindsight they decided that the political agenda he put forward was now the correct one. No, it was for one reason - they were frightened that the Tories would get re-elected.

Everything was driven by that fear. That's why ordinary party members may look towards Yvette Cooper or Andy Burnham


job. If that job is there, and their income doesn't change when elected, they will be a lot less likely to take the side of the bosses.

When Tony Blair was elected with a massive majority one of the reasons he was able to do so was because he had over 60,000 activists campaigning on the streets. He offered a vision that was clearly different to what the Tories had to offer.

Yes, he was a fucking abomination, but those were the reasons he was able to win so convincingly. In the years that followed, the more he moved the party to the right, the more it appeared to be similar to the Tories, the more his majority fell.

Jeremy Corbyn stands up for policies that are right, and are whatIn 1997, Nazarbayev moved the country's capital from Almaty to the remote northern city of Astana in what was widely considered a way to fuse the ethnic-Russian minority in the north to the new Kazakh state. The new city was filled with post-modern architecture including the soaring glass pyramid of the Palace of Peace and Accord, dedicated to harmony among religious and ethnic groups.


sets that are fairly
small by KDD standards. But we're now rapidly scaling to larger and
messier data, so expect to see more KDD papers from my group in the
future.

BIO:Pedro Domingos is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
at the University of Washington. His research interests are in machine
learning, artificial intelligence and data mining. He received a PhD in
Information and Computer Science from the University of California at
Irvine, and is the author or co-author of over 200 technical publications.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Machine Learning journal,
co-founder of the International Machine Learning Society, and past
associate editor of JAIR. He was program co-chair of KDD-2003 and SRL-2009,
and has served on numerous program committees. He is a winner of the
SIGKDD Innovation Award, the highest honor in the data miningcan then be statistically analysed with tools like R to draw conclusions.
 Graphical Visualization: Raw or processed data collected in a simulation can be graphed using tools like Gnuplot, matplotlib or XGRAPH.

See also
 GloMoSim

References

External links
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Category:Computer network analysis
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whole day. (well, ’till Franz Joseph anyway)

And then they shot off on the bike while Harry tuffed tuffed away on his and I started peddling mine.

It was that evening the clouds started showing and a few drops fell just when I ran into a young girl from Germany who invited me to stay at her place. It was the next morning the heavens seriously broke and it poured down the whole next day. The girls let me stay and showed me how to milk cows, as this is their job for the time being.

I thought it was (stereo)typical to stay with two German milkmaids.

That was the only day of rain I experienced in the last weeks.

It was great camping at various DOC-camping areas. One evening I stayed atsided with County Executive Steve Stenger by firmly killing off a proposal to increase the county’s minimum wage to $15 within five years.

The bill’s sponsor, Councilwoman Hazel Erby, D-University City, failed to get a “second’’ from any of her four colleagues when she attempted to bring up the measure for discussion. As a result, the bill died.

St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger came to prominence by being a critic.

From his perch as a county councilman, Stenger aimed unrelenting salvos at then-St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley. That served as the backbone of a campaign that ultimately ousted Dooley in a Democratic primary — and narrowly outflanked state Rep. Rick Stream, R-Kirkwood, in the general election.

For the most part, the St. Louis County executive’s contest between Democrat Steve Stenger


agenda.

The St. Louis County Council melted down on Tuesday during consideration of minority participation legislation.

It was the latest sign of boiling election year tensions between St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley and members of the council aligned with Councilman Steve Stenger, a fellow Democrat vying for county executive.

The "Complete Streets" legislation under consideration on the St. Louis County Council still faces plenty of roadblocks to final passage. One of the sponsors, Councilman Pat Dolan, D-Richmond Heights, held up the bill again last week, which he’s done since late November, and announced he wants to rewrite parts of it.

Dolan also said that he’s going to meet with groups affected by the bill and come back to the matter early next year.knew that Bill O’Reilly is a blowhard who shuts down people who articulate liberal or left points of view (although the O’Reilly “shut-up montage” was very funny).

Perhaps the most powerful segment in the film, in my experience, was the section that told the story of Jeremy M. Glick, a signer of the “Not in Our Name” petition, whose father died in the 9/11 attacks. When Glick appeared on O’Reilly’s show, he knew that the Hard Blowing One would treat his views with hostility, and Glick prepared by timing out short soundbites in order to get his message across, which he was able to do with some success. On a subsequent program, O’Reilly suggested that Glick had been “out of control and spewing hatred” and that Glick had claimed


it came to him. This room was the twin to Valestra’s great temple in the capital.

A sea of people filled the room. Naked people. Naked people doing things he had only ever heard about in late night tavern brag sessions, and a few he had never even imagined. Not just mortals. Some glowed. Immortals, scattered throughout the crowd. Halren heard tales of unions between gods and mortals, but he never imagined anything like this.

And there… Could it be? There, entwined with Lynara, the goddess of sorrow, lay old King Amullon. Tears streamed down his smiling face as he…

Halren averted his eyes and they settled on Valestra. She sat reclined atop the altar at the temple’s far end, naked except for the strange glow all the immortals gave off.

“Itthe exciting exploration of the metal world Psyche, "I find both the solar electric propulsion and the Deep Space Optical Communications to feel futuristic in the extreme. I'm proud of NASA and of our technical community for making this possible," Elkins-Tanton concludes.

Biswas explains that DSOC is a pathfinder experiment. The future is indeed bright for the technology, he suggests, such as setting up capable telecommunications infrastructure around Mars.

As a "game changing" technology demonstration, DSOC is exactly that. Work on the laser package is based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.


Blockchain technology has emerged as a tool for addressing an important global issue: the growing complexity of the food supply chain and the increasing amount of wasted food, according to a senior research fellow at the University of Surrey.

Writing in The Conversation, an online source of information from the academic and research community, senior research fellow, Phil Godsiff said that a recent analysis suggested that half of U.S. food production is wasted, with global estimates above 30 percent.

The growing use of sensors in the food supply chain, paired with blockchain technology, could reduce food waste and make food data more transparent through the supply chain.

Food Supply Chain in Crisis

Retailers want perfect produce, leading to waste throughout the food supply chain. They also seek low prices, which has resultedSunday in October. Most European countries had long used some form of daylight saving; the rule was primarily about harmonizing the dates when clocks were adjusted, officials said.

In recent years, however, opposition to regular clock changes has grown. Several member states, including Finland, Poland and the Baltic States, have expressed a desire to abolish them. Earlier this year, the European Parliament voted 384 to 152 in favor of a resolution calling for a re-evaluation of the system.

The European Union’s online “public consultations” might or might not reflect public opinion — people choose whether to reply, and most do not — but the question on daylight savings received 4.6 million responses, the most ever, the commission said, though the number still represents less than 1 percent of the European


President Isaias Holds Talks with Chinese Delegation

Asmara, 19 July 2017 - A high-level delegation from the People’s Republic of China Communist Party headed by Mr. Cui Shaopeng, Deputy Minister of State in the Commission Office of Public Sector Reforms, held talks with President Isaias Afwerki and senior PFDJ officials in Sawa.

During the meeting held on 14 July, President Isaias underlined the significance of developing the existing relations between the Chinese Communist Party and the PFDJ as well as the two governments to the highest level.

President Isaias further underscored the PRC’s responsibility to work for the realization of justice, peace and stability in the region and at global level.

Noting that relations between Eritrea and the PRC is strategic and based on mutual understanding and cooperation, the PRC delegation expressedresolve to work for higher cooperation in all sectors.

In the second day of the meeting, Mr. Hagos Gebrehiwet, Head of PFDJ Economic Affairs, gave briefing on the political and economic situation in Eritrea as well as front and government relations.

Following exchange of views and experiences, the two sides reached understanding to develop relations between the two countries. Present at the meeting were Mr. Yang Zigang, PRC Ambassador to Eritrea and other Embassy members.


that due to the interactive movie elements of the gameplay, it didn't feel much like a game at all. However, Roy Bassave, writing for the Knight-Ridder media group and published in The Buffalo News praised the game and said that it had superior production values to the First Contact film.

Barbara Krasnoff, of Computer Shopper, found fault with the game's interface, saying that it was hard to get the game to accept mouse clicks when you needed to select a series of numbers. She overall found it lacked challenge as if you were to die, then you are resurrected without penalty, but thought that it would be well received by fans of the franchise. The review in The Boston Herald made it clear that the game would only beMUSIC & DANCE

From both sides now

R. Kelly is a gear-shifter, writing lustful jams for the ladies as well as words of comfort about Virginia Tech's tragedy.

On R. Kelly's new single, "I'm a Flirt," the R&B lothario refers to himself as "a dog on the prowl" as he warns the world about his wanton ways. The buoyant song, whose lyrical content is somewhat tame by the singer's legendarily lascivious standards, has been creeping up the Billboard charts and just might become one of the defining summer jams of 2007.

But "I'm a Flirt" isn't R. Kelly's most noteworthy new single: The mercurial artist has just released a Virginia Tech tribute, "Rise Up," on the Internet. Written, performed and produced by Kelly shortly after the April 16 massacre in Blacksburg, "Rise


side in the past, writing such sweeping anthems as "I Believe I Can Fly," a Grammy-winning hit from 1996. More recently, he has written and recorded songs about Hurricane Katrina ("Let Your Light Shine") and American troops in the Middle East ("Soldier's Heart").

"There are two R. Kellys," says the singer's spokesman, Allan Mayer. "There's the spiritual, inspiring side, and there's the more carnal side. One is fun, entertaining, sexy, and the other is more uplifting. They're both part of life. The way Robert thinks about it is that he's neither all of one or the other. He's very aware of how sharp the dichotomy can seem, but it's just who he is."

Kelly is "a complicated soul," says Danyel Smith, editor of Vibe magazine, which has Kelly on itslong as we're convinced the money that's coming to us has been gained legally and ethically, we welcome it."

Kelly isn't the first musician to write a song about the Virginia Tech shootings. The Internet has been flooded with tribute tracks, including "Forever Changed" by the Season, whose principal members graduated from the university. And Houston rapper Lil' Flip whipped up a rambling song set to Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Ironically, Lil' Flip's untitled song appears on his MySpace page alongside "Bust a Clip," which glorifies guns and includes the sound of 22 gunshots.


In New York, a day before his team are set to play their second league game of the season, Cristian Cásseres Jr. starts to talk about his first year at the New York Red Bulls (NYRB).

Cásseres’ agent Gerardo Hernández had arranged the interview and he willingly obliged with an immediate warmth to his words. Preferring to chat in his native Spanish – although Red Bulls boss Chris Armas insists he is the first to his English classes – Cásseres referred to me as his little brother throughout our conversations.

Cásseres left Venezuelan side Deportivo La Guaira for NYRB two weeks after his 18th birthday and, 13 months later, he is starting to feel settled in his new surroundings, where he shares an apartment with three of his teammates –Allen Yanes, an American-born Guatemalan international, Tom Barlow, a striker in the reserve team, and Omir Fernández, who made his league debut this season. Cásseres is the youngest by a year, but his coach believes he’s ahead of his time.

His move was the culmination of a youth spent dedicated to making a career in football happen. He tells me of long and difficult days, when he would have to get up at 5am and catch a train and then a bus to complete a two-hour journey just to get to training. When the session had finished, he would head straight to afternoon classes to study. At times he would have training in the evening, not starting his homework until 7 or 8pm. “It was a good life in


Venezuela,” he says, “but a little difficult – it is what I wanted and what I liked.”

When asked what his back-up plan was, in case he wasn’t successful in his pursuit of a footballing career, he says he didn’t have one. There is a conviction in his simple replies that made the realisation of his dreams seem an act of endeavour, rather than a naiveté that went unpunished.

Studious in his football as well as his academics, Cásseres spent any free time he had watching his father train and play. A former international in his own right, Cristian Cásseres Snr. had a 20-year career spanning his homeland, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, even overlapping his son in 2012. When both father and son were at Atlético Venezuela, albeit withthe best player he has played with.

It was at the South American under-17 Championship in Chile in 2017 that NYRB first came calling, but as a 16-year old he would have to wait eight months before he could sign for them. Once he did, it would mark a drastic change in his life and one that was not always easy for him. “It was a very difficult change because I had to travel alone, live without my family, and be in another country where they spoke another language. It was a new team and new tactics. The unique way Red Bulls play is a bit complicated, but with the support of my teammates and the coaching staff, it was all made a little easier.”

Undoubtedly, Cásseres’ hunger to learn


helped him through his first few months at the club, but he says it was the welcoming nature of his fellow players that enabled him to quickly grow in confidence and feel part of the group.

An injury soon after joining RBNY meant his impact was delayed, but perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, allowing him time to adapt to a considerably different environment. Other than international duty for Venezuela’s under-17s and 20s, Cásseres had not been outside of his homeland.

“When I arrived last year, I could not do pre-season because I had an injury, and I couldn’t train for a month, but then I joined up with the second team and I was gaining experience and learning new things both on and off the pitch. It hasthe player he deems the best in the world – Lionel Messi.

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If the tournament comes too soon for the 19-year old, he will certainly be ready for Qatar in 2022. Should they make it – and they may well have an increased chance should FIFA expand the tournament by 16 teams to 48 – it would be their first appearance on the global stage. “We are a nation that has never been able to go to a World Cup finals, but we have been working well for five years now, where we have been able to go to the youth World Cups, such as the under-17s in 2014 and recently the under-20s in 2017. We have good players


and good coaching staff. I am sure that the 2022 World Cup will be the first for Venezuela.”

In 2017, Venezuela reached the under-20 World Cup final. Facing them that day was England. Neither nation had reached the final before, so both had already made history, but only one team could win it and it was the Three Lions that did so. Yet it was incredibly close.

In the 74th minute, Adalberto Peñaranda missed a chance to level the score from the spot. Golden Glove winner Freddie Woodman saved the penalty and England held on to their 1-0 lead. For a country that has never seen their senior side compete at a World Cup, Venezuela’s performance in the tournament gave them hope for the future.

In the months that followed, anumber of Venezuela’s side made the move to Europe: Sergio Córdova, who won the goal of the tournament and finished second in the Golden Boot, moved to Bundesliga side Augsburg on a five-year deal; Williams Velásquez joined Watford on loan, later joining permanently; and Josua Mejías made the journey to Spain, impressing at Cartagena who loaned him from Leganés.

Traditionally a baseball nation in a continent rich with footballing history, Venezuela rarely threatened to make a dent on the annals of international football until recently. In 2007, they hosted the Copa América and reached the quarter-finals. The team included just one player plying his trade in one of Europe’s big five leagues – Juan Arango of Mallorca, who would go on to become his country’s record holder for both


goals and appearances, with 23 in 129.

As is so often the case, hosting an international tournament galvanised the country in support of their national side and, four years later in Argentina, La Vinotinto earned their highest ever finish in the Copa América. In fact, only a penalty shootout denied them a place in the final with Uruguay.

After a goalless 120 minutes, Paraguay scored all five of their penalties, meaning Franklin Lucena’s saved attempt – likened to Gareth Southgate’s effort at Euro 96 by Guardian writer Jacob Steinberg – was all it took for his country to miss out. Paraguay reached the final without winning a single game and duly lost 3-0, while Venezuela, undoubtedly hurt by such a tragic exit, were hammered 4-1 by Peru in the third-placefever through adolescence and brought home the bronze from the South American Youth Championship and the runners-up medals from the under-20 World Cup in 2017, they now arrive at the precipice of the senior team.

Overseeing that rise was Rafael Dudamel, the former Venezuela goalkeeper who played alongside Cásseres Snr for the national team. Dudamel took charge of the under-17s a year after the 2011 Copa América and has worked his way up, alongside that same age group, through the under-20s and to the senior team.

His holistic approach has reaped its rewards and he still retains control of the under-20s alongside his position of head coach of the senior team. It is he who was in charge of 2017’s successes, four years on from his first triumph with Venezuela’s


youth sides – the runners-up at the South American under-17 Championship in 2013.

To discuss the accomplishments and potential of the country’s football, I spoke to Carlos Tarache, CEO of Solovenex, the leading website on Venezuelan football. “The domestic competition has greatly enhanced the technical level, producing the remarkable growth that has taken place in recent years. One of the factors most influencing the rise is the Juvenile Rule.”

Introduced in 2007, the Juvenile Rule stipulates that teams must field at least one player under the age of 20 in their starting line-up. This simple but effective introduction is also responsible for the international teams’ achievements at youth level, according to Tarache. “Having given that extra incentive to develop talent, it has manifested itself with achievements of high magnitude. Forof technique, and this is turning us into a fertile ground for many important leagues in South America too, and that is without mentioning some [players] renowned in Europe. Players like Christian Makoun came straight out of our league to join the ranks of one of the biggest clubs in Europe, Juventus.”

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Makoun is fresh from captaining Venezuela’s under-20s at the 2019 South American Championship. The defensive midfielder is a player Tarache believes the world should know about. “He is another of our great bastions, a sensational player: strong in the tackle, great in the air and hardworking. His dual-nationality [Belgian] could open the doors to any other large European country soon.”

Elsewhere in Europe, Tarache was


scouting network has stumbled in recent years, and Athletic Club have widened their net and loosened their strict transfer policy in the past few seasons to counter the slowing down of their conveyor belt.

“I’ll throw you three names that I think are up to the leap of foreign football soon. Jorge Fereira, an 18-year old right-back at Caracas Fútbol Club – a strong tackler and an interesting player; Ericksern Gallardo, a 23-year old left winger at Zamora, the league champions, who is fast, strong in the tackle, and crosses well. Another interesting player at Zamora is António Romera, a right-winger who can also play as a 9. He is very fast and has enviable control.”

Despite Dudamel’s responsibility for the growth of the current crop of young stars, Tarachehave attempted to piggyback the successes of a national team, but for a country in the midst of an existential struggle, where football has been one of the only beacons of hope, to lose it to governmental feuding would be a crime against the sport.

Both Carlos Tarache and Federico Rojas, a Venezuelan football journalist for DIRECTVsports, believe he will remain in charge, with the latter tweeting that “the plan remains the same” in regard to their Copa América preparations, and the former telling me it is simply too close to the tournament and too long in planning for the man responsible for so much of the development to fall on his sword. Venezuelan football fans will be hoping that proves to be the case.

The final words belong to


While the Apocalypse-theme has essentially become a pop culture cliché, it remains endlessly fascinating.

Case in point: the Christian-focused "Left Behind" books, which have made authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins very rich thanks to sales numbering 65 million and counting.

Likewise, there's the Mayan prediction that 2012 will mark the end of the world.

While the myth entered the public consciousness in the 1970s, today, even the descendants of the Mayans have grown tired of the damned prophecy: Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute went out of its way this month to say the entire theory was dreamed up by a writer named Frank Waters and his "mishmash of beliefs."

But much like our own obsessive and personal ponderings of mortality, it seems we can't get enough of the Apocalypsehis life preaching this frighteningly plausible vision of the Apocalypse.

That EMP blasts have occurred in 1859, 1909 and 1921 -- times that pre-date our present reliance upon power-hungry electrical devices -- only seems to affirm Joseph's warnings of a slow-churning disaster that could eventually destroy modern society as we know it.

"That storm would essentially be the worst-case scenario," Joseph told me in a recent telephone interview. "The possibility is that solar storms and solar flares could knock out our electrical power grid for months, or for years," he says.

Joseph isn't alone in his theories.

In 2008, the National Academy of Sciences published a paper called "Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," which plainly states that electricity is "society's cornerstone technology, the technology on which virtually all


are provided on the floor of the house for enabling wires external to the house to be inserted into the house. These outside wires are mounted to one of the terminal blocks on the terminal board. The equipment that are inside the house are placed on shelves which are secured to the house. The signal leads or wires that are provided to and from the equipment are also mounted to the terminal board, preferably at another terminal block or strip coupled to the terminal board. There is also coupled to the terminal board at least one conductive terminal strip that is electrically grounded. The wires from outside which are mounted to the terminal block on the terminal board each in turn are connected to the grounding strip bysocial backgrounds but who interconnected, creating a structure that was independent of each agent considered individually. One of the components of this establishment was the joining of theoretical production and the implementation of health reforms that resulted in the organisation of a universal health system. This study attempts to show how the international political situation and the contradictions of the national crisis created a universe of possibilities, allowing for the genesis of this sui generis space in Brazil.


building they work in; we’ve already increased the workforce by more than 1,000 people at that work site,” he said.

Fab 42 was a massive project for Intel, built using the world's largest land-based crane and touted by US President Barack Obama as a beacon of domestic manufacturing when he visited the site two years ago.

But Intel is likely to have full capacity with its existing semi-conductor fabs in Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico, Ireland and Israel, as beancounters continue to spell out doom and gloom in the PC market, where Chipzilla makes most of its revenue. Gartner's latest figures showed a ten per cent drop in PC shipments in 2013. ®Art In The Park

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Rochester Lilac Festival has been the harbinger of spring in Rochester for over 100 years. The festival runs for ten days from May 10th-May 19th, 2019, with two weekends of Art in the Park art and craft shows on May 11th and 12th and May 18th and 19th.

The festival is held in the renowned Highland Park, which features the largest variety and display of lilacs in North America. In addition to the flowers, the festival features a wine tasting, craft beer expo, a parade and 5k and 10k races on different days of the festival. There are also local, regional and national bands performing every day.

Art in the Park takes place along Reservoir Avenue, a shaded street adjacent to the lilac gardens


and the main festival site. Booths are set up on the curb back across the sidewalk, leaving the street open for shoppers. The street is closed to traffic during the festival hours of 10-6 on Saturday and 10-5 on Sunday and open to artists only during set-up and tear-down. Free parking for artists is on adjacent streets, with staff on golf carts providing rides. Shoppers may access Art in the Park on paths through the lilacs or the shuttle stop at the end of the show.

A panel of respected local artists selects the participants for the show in March in a blind jury. New artists are required to send a photograph of themselves in their workshop creating their art. There is a mixture from fine art to crafts,More than $ 100,000 was raised for a young girl from Massachusetts who contracted a potentially deadly Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus earlier this month, according to an online fundraiser for the girl's name.

As of this writing, $ 146,133 was raised for Sofia Garabedian, a 5-year-old Sudbury girl who was admitted to a children's hospital in Boston with sudden and severe flu-like symptoms, including headaches, on September 3. The goal of the fund is $ 200,000.

FIFTH CASE OF A DEATH-STUDY VIRUS VIRUS IN MASSACHUSETS, 3 COMMUNITY DOSAGE AT "CRITICAL RISK"

The girl who suffered from brain swelling is a medical diagnosis such as eutheremia. a woman under 1

8 was later confirmed by the Massachusetts Department of Health, with local shopping malls reporting that she was a 5-year-old girl from


Middlesex County.

"Her parents were in a children's hospital with her time, and it was really heartbreaking for their whole family and friends. She stays at the ICU and as long as the family has a full health insurance plan through her employer, the out-of-pocket medical expenses will be high, "the fund said, noting that the Garabedian family" will be named a beneficiary on that account and

"Prior to this sudden illness, she was a happy, loving girl who loved to play with her friends and do gymnastics."

– GoFundMe for 5-year-old Sofia Garabedian

"These costs include support for neurologists. because the brain n and Sofia heals, physical therapy, when it regains its use of the body, and cares for patients for an extended period of time, "he adds. [19659005] An updatewith supportive therapy, which may include hospitalization, respiratory support, IV fluids, and prevention of other infections," the federal health agency says.

MASSACHUSETTS WHO MESSAGES A WOMAN DIES FROM THE RARE MOSCOW-BORN VIRUS: "She was such a beautiful soul"

"Before this sudden illness, she was a happy, loving girl who loves friends . She had just graduated preschool and had her first week of kindergarten before this horrific tragedy began, "says Sophie's GoFundMe." She loved playing with her dolls, spending time at the beach, and playing with her dog Rocky. "

Nine EEE cases were confirmed in Massachusetts this year, according to state health officials. Five to 10 cases of the virus are usually reported in the US each year.


of 3,250,000 Belgian Francs (approximately 80,565 Euros)

In 1930, Ekeren named a street in his honor and installed a memorial stone.

References

Further reading
 Marcel Bollen : Ferdinand Pauwels en de muurschilderingen in de Ieperse Lakenhallen; 22nd Yearbook of the Heemkring Ekeren (2004)
 Ariane De Croo : Kunstschilder Ferdinand Pauwels; 21st Yearbook of the Heemkring Ekeren (2003)
 Jan Dewilde: Ferdinand Pauwels. Stedelijk Museum, Ypres 2001.
 Holger Fischer: Professor Ferdinand Pauwels und sein Schülerkreis. "Haus der Heimat", Freital 1990 (Companion book to the exhibition).
 Regina Wesche: Die Ausmalung der Tuchhalle in Ypern durch Ferdinand Pauwels 1870-1881. Eine Studie zur belgischen Geschichtsmalerei des 19. Jahrhunderts; Masters thesis, Universität Kiel 1997.

External links

 19th Century Realism: works by Pauwels
 Ferdinand Pauwels on Stadtwiki Dresden

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DOOM is a reboot of the first-person shooter series and it consists of three parts, accessed and loaded separately from the main menu: a single-player campaign, multiplayer with different game modes, and the SnapMap editor where custom maps and game modes can be created and shared. While many elements of the series are revisited, the focus for this entry is on fast gameplay based on movement, fights switching between different weapon combinations, and violent gameplay with brutal finishers, more akin to the first games. Compared to DOOM³ the areas are wider with more focus on verticality and rewarding an offensive approach, doing away with the slower horror aspect based on scares.

The single-player campaign consists of thirteen levels. It is set on Mars on a research facility of Union


Aerospace Corporation (UAC). The facility has been able to solve an energy crisis on Earth by channeling energy from Hell into a renewable power source called Argent energy. The flow is controlled through the construction of an Argent Tower, both harnessing the energy and providing a portal directly to Hell. When the player's character, referred to as the Doom Marine, wakes up in a sarcophagus-like prison, a full invasion from Hell is already in progress. The initial goal is to push back the invasion with the assistance of UAC research chief Samuel Hayden. Later on the focus shifts to stopping Olivia Pierce who heads a cult that wants to use the energy of the Argent Tower to bring all demonic armies through the portal. The game takes placeLanguages

Clarke: Reading to pick up the underdog tag

Reading coach Steve Clarke said the Championship outfit will look to pick up the underdog tag from Bradford City following Monday's 3-0 victory.

Published

17 March 2015

Arsenal stand in the way of Reading and an unprecedented FA Cup final appearance after the Berkshire club won through to their first semi-final since 1927 courtesy of a comprehensive replay win over Bradford at Madejski Stadium.

Bradford claimed the scalps of Premier League duo Chelsea and Sunderland en route to the quarters and Clarke will take hope from the League One side's giant-killing run as Reading attempt to upstage Arsenal at Wembley next month.

"You see tonight what it means to us," Clarke said afterwards.

"We go to the semi-final and a difficult game against Arsenal but we go


there with hope and belief that maybe we can continue the good work of Bradford.

"Bradford have been fantastic underdogs in this tournament this year and we look to pick up the baton now and do it in the semi-final."

A goalless draw at Valley Parade forced a replay but Bradford had no answer to Reading's fast start on Monday.

Reading stormed out of the blocks via goals to Hal Robson-Kanu and Garath McCleary before the 10-minute mark.

Bradford saw their hopes of a comeback extinguished when Filipe Morais saw red in the 63rd minute and Jamie Mackie completed the scoring five minutes later.

"Reading were the better team on the night and we gave ourselves a mountain to climb," said Bradford coach Phil Parkinson.

"They played with a spring in their step afterSen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Saturday that he will vote to block President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border—potentially providing the tipping-point vote that would allow Congress to block Trump's attempt to use the declaration to obtain funding for a border wall.

"I can't vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president," Paul said during a speech at a Republican Party dinner in his home state on Saturday night, the Bowling Green Daily News reported. "I can't vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn't been appropriated by Congress."

Trump declared a national emergency along the southern border on February 15, shortly after the conclusion of a weeks-long government shutdown that failed to convince Congress to grant his request for $57


passage. With a number of other senators on the fence, it seems likely the final tally will be higher than the 51 votes necessary for passage.

That likely will not be the end of the drama over the border wall funding, as Trump has promised to veto the disapproval resolution. Overriding that veto would require 290 votes in the House—45 more than the resolution received last month—and 20 Republican votes in the Senate to reach the 67-vote threshold.

Even so, congressional opposition to the emergency declaration is a welcome rebuke to the Trump administration's executive overreach in this instance. The emergency declaration is an obvious end-run around Congress and could set a precedent to be exploited by future presidents eager to spend money on projects not approved by Congress.

Leaving asidethose broader issues, the emergency declaration is deeply flawed on its own. The president may have the authority to redirect spending due to the emergency declaration, but he does not have the authority to seize private lands or to use military funding for a civilian construction project—even under the vague and broad powers granted to the executive by the National Emergencies Act.

It remains to be seen how Paul's opposition to Trump's emergency declaration will affect the senator's relationship with the White House. In recent months, Paul has made a concerted effort to bend the president's ear on foreign policy and has praised Trump's efforts at ending America's decades-long conflicts in the Middle East—though he also broke with the White House by voting against the confirmation of Attorney General


the relentless pace of the indifferent urban jungle, what are the most common remedies to recharging a toiling body, mind and soul? According to a short poll conducted by JobsCentral, the most popular solution to dealing with a burnt out, would be to put away the mundane stress from work and go on an overseas trip.

The poll which was conducted between 3 January to 26 January, 2012, garnered a total of 186 votes.

It is the year of the Dragon and for the Chinese, as well as anyone who believes in the mystical qualities of this flying leviathan, 2012 is the perfect year to get married, give birth to a kid or if they’re feeling particularly productive, achieve both at the same time.

According to Ken Koh, Director of HouseQ:

Citywide Abandonment of Law Enforcement at World's End?

Building out a place less than 100 years in the future where the world is finally in agreement that it's coming to an end, in about 10 years or less. The air is trash, high government people are in space or in their little safety castles in New Zealand, and most citizens are trapped within city limits due to the scarcity of resources. In this specific city, people on the ground level live in constant threat of violence disease and starvation.
I'd love to make it possible for law enforcement to be an outright abandoned position with 10 years to go for the world, with a little logic tied in. Currently in Chicago (throwing police under the bus here of course) I


source of shelter, source of weapons, source of medicine, etc. Various deals and alliances develop. Whacky people last for a while doing whacky things. Then people get sick of them, and some event occurs to change things, maybe not for the better.
Lots of movies and TV shows. The Walking Dead is big on this theme. So are many westerns. As mentioned in a comment, Somalia is in the process. The parts of the former USSR provide many examples of possible paths.
Depending on the level of available tech, a new political structure will develop. Probably after a lot of people die due to violence, starvation, exposure, and disease. You will get local strongmen who hold together a city block or two. Or set fire to a city blockTuesday, November 15, 2011

Virginia's Historic Halifax Lodge No. 96

The 1828 Federal style home of Virginia's Halifax Lodge No. 96 will be open for tours this Sunday as part of the Halifax County Historical Society’s Fall Foliage Homes Tour. Theirs is the oldest existing building in the town.

The Halifax Hiram Lodge, or Masonic Lodge as it is more often called, is the oldest structure in the Mountain Road Historic District and the oldest public building in the Town of Halifax. The lodge has been owned and maintained by the Masons since being built in 1828.

Its most distinguishing feature is a late Georgian entrance, original to the date of construction. The exterior of the lodge is brick, with Flemish bond laid with occasional glazed headers on the front, while on